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Evrysdi (Risdiplam)
Evrysdi (risdiplam) is an oral daily therapy developed by Roche and its subsidiary Genentech, in collaboration with PTC Therapeutics and the SMA Foundation. Roche and Genentech market it.
It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 2020 to treat adults and children ages 2 months and older with all types of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) — making it the country's third disease-modifying treatment for SMA within four years and the first to be taken orally and at home.
Evrysdi was also approved by the European Commission in March 2021 for patients of the same age group with a clinical diagnosis of SMA type 1, 2, or 3, or not yet showing symptoms (pre-symptomatic) but carrying up to four copies of the SMN2 "backup" gene. The presence of that number of copies suggests the future development of any of those three disease types.
One month later, Health Canada approved the treatment for all patients ages 2 months and older.
According to Roche, the therapy is available in more than 50 countries, including Brazil, Chile, Georgia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, U.K., and Ukraine, and it's being reviewed for approval in 30 others.
How does Evrysdi work?
Evrysdi is a small molecule that works by addressing the underlying cause of SMA, which is a low amount of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. This protein is essential for the health of motor neurons, the specialized nerve cells that control voluntary movement. SMN deficiency leads to motor neuron death and to the muscle weakness and atrophy that characterizes SMA.
SMA patients produce no to low SMN levels due to mutations in the SMN1 gene. While humans have a "backup" SMN gene, SMN2, a slight difference in its DNA sequence results in an event called alternative splicing, which limits the amount of working SMN it produces to 10–15%. Still, for this reason, the number of SMN2 gene copies a patient has helps to determine SMA severity, as a higher number is associated with the development of milder forms of the disease.
Alternative splicing is a natural process that allows for a single gene to give rise to many different proteins. Much like in a recipe, adding or removing certain key ingredients — in this case, pieces of genetic information called exons — can change what results: the mature messenger RNA (mRNA) and final protein. (mRNA is a molecule derived from DNA that guides protein production.)
In SMN2, this splicing event results in the exclusion of exon 7 from most of its mature mRNA molecules, leading to the generation of a shorter, less stable, and poorly working SMN protein.
Evrysdi, whose small size allows it to cross the blood-brain barrier and reach the brain and spinal cord, works by binding to SMN2's premature mRNA molecule and preventing the removal of exon 7 from the subsequent mature mRNA molecule. (The blood-brain barrier is a semipermeable membrane that shields the brain and spinal cord from the external environment.) By correcting the gene's splicing, the therapy has the potential to restore the production of functional SMN throughout the body.
Evrysdi in clinical trials
Evrysdi's safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (movement into, through, and out of the body) and pharmacodynamics (effects on the body) were first investigated in almost 60 healthy volunteers within two Phase 1 clinical trials (NCT02633709 and NCT03920865).
Based on Evrysdi's favorable safety profile and biological effect in healthy volunteers, Roche launched a clinical program of four Phase 2 or Phase 3 trials — FIREFISH, SUNFISH, JEWELFISH, and RAINBOWFISH — to further test the therapy's safety and efficacy in a wide range of SMA patients.
The open-label, two-part Phase 2/3 FIREFISH study (NCT02913482) is following 62 children enrolled at ages 1 to 7 months and with SMA type 1, a severe form of the disease. Part 2's top-line, one-year data showed that treatment with the now-approved dose of Evrysdi was generally safe and defied SMA's natural progression, allowing the then-toddlers to reach normal motor milestones and prolonging their survival.
After two years of treatment in part 2, the toddlers continued to attain and maintain motor milestones. Also, most of them were alive (93%), free from permanent ventilation (83%), and were able to swallow (95%) and to be fed orally (92%).
Untreated type 1 infants typically require feeding support by 12 months and need permanent ventilation, or die, at a median age of 13.5 months.
The two-part Phase 2/3 SUNFISH trial (NCT02908685) is following 231 children and young adults, ages 2 to 25, with milder SMA type 2 or 3 — the broadest population in terms of age and disease severity included in an SMA trial to date.
Top-line, one-year data from the study's part 2, testing the therapy against a placebo in 180 patients unable to walk unaided, showed that Evrysdi significantly improved or stabilized motor function relative to a placebo. Greater gains were observed among younger patients, while older patients mostly showed motor function stabilization.
Two-year results, including one year of Evrysdi treatment in patients originally assigned to a placebo, highlighted the importance of early treatment, as initiating the medication one year later was associated only with stabilization or slight motor gains.
FIREFISH and SUNFISH participants have the opportunity to enter an open-label extension study in which they all will receive Evrysdi for a longer period.
The open-label Phase 2 JEWELFISH study (NCT03032172) is evaluating Evrysdi's safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics in 174 SMA patients, ages 6 months to 60 years, who previously received other SMA-targeting therapies.
These include Genentech's investigational compounds, Biogen's Spinraza (nusinersen) — the first approved SMA-targeted therapy — and Novartis' one-time gene therapy Zolgensma.
Interim data showed that the therapy was generally well tolerated and led to rapid and sustained increases in SMN levels, highlighting Evrysdi's potential to complement other SMA therapies.
The open-label Phase 2 RAINBOWFISH trial (NCT03779334) is testing Evrysdi in up to 25 newborns and babies up to 6 weeks old with a genetic diagnosis of SMA but not yet showing symptoms. Infants participating in the study will receive the oral therapy for two years, followed by a three-year extension trial.
Preliminary data from the five infants who had completed one year of treatment showed that all or nearly all reached motor milestones within the window of normal development and similar to healthy, typically developing children. All five toddlers also maintained the ability to swallow and to be fed exclusively by mouth.
Roche is also evaluating the safety, food effect, bioavailability, and bioequivalence of two dispersible tablet-formulations of the therapy against its approved liquid formulation in up to 268 healthy adults ages 18 to 55 within a Phase 1 trial (NCT04718181).
Evrysdi, given as a flavored liquid, is administered daily after a meal by mouth or feeding tube at a recommended dose of 0.2 milligrams (mg) for children under 2 years and 0.25 mg for older patients weighing less than 20 kilograms (kg), which is about 44 pounds. Those weighing 20 kg or more should be given 5 mg of Evrysdi per day.
The therapy's most common side effects include fever, diarrhea, and rash. Upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonia, constipation, and vomiting are also common among type 1 patients. Its use should be avoided in patients with liver impairment.
In the U.S., Evrysdi can be shipped directly to patients' places of residence through Accredo Health Group, an Express Scripts specialty pharmacy.
More information can be found in the therapy's label.
Last updated: Jan. 12, 2022, by Marta Figueiredo PhD
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From Countryside to City: Chinese Architecture Now
Rurality
Huiming Tea Space. Photo: Wang Ziling. © DnA_Design and Architecture.
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The Royal Academy's awards programme seeks to foster year-round discussion and cultural exchange on architecture. We are starting our awards cycle with an online conversation taking place on Friday, April 22, 12:30–2pm GMT, which looks at how Chinese architects have been rethinking the countryside.
Our panel, Xu TianTian (DnA Architects), Austin Williams (Future Cities Project), and Dr. Xiangning Li (Tonji University) will join Vicky Richardson to discuss how these projects go beyond fuelling urbanite nostalgia and foster meaningful relationships that serve local communities.
Book and join the discussion here.
We've invited Austin Williams, director of Future Cities Project and course leader at Kingston School of Art, to give a brief preview. Read the full text here or explore his take via the excerpt below:
"Every year, 14% of China's 1.4-billion population migrates from rural areas to the cities in search of a better life and a bit of economic and social action. As the Chinese economy boomed, many cities, especially those on the eastern seaboard grew exponentially.
A city like Shenzhen is a case in point; a sprawling collection of fishing communities of around 30,000 villagers in the 1980s. Forty years later, it is a metropolis of around 18 million people, 11 million of whom are an unofficial floating population of migrants, unregistered workers, and those with temporary residency permissions. This swirl of humanity has created one of the most dynamic urban economies in the world, but also stirred up a sense of uncertainty and overcrowding.
The situation in the migrants' hometowns has been the equal and opposite of the urban experience. Professor Wu Fulong suggests that left-behind villages require significant infrastructural improvements and that villagers have been ill-served by the urban experiment. Cities like Shenzhen have drained villages of their working-age generations, who travel from the countryside to find work, leaving rural China peopled by the elderly, frail, ill-educated and poor.
As a result, there has developed a renewed focus on the well-being of villagers and seeking to provide opportunities and facilities within their villages to address population flight. It is a pragmatic policy to confront the rural infrastructural deficit under the slogan of "common prosperity"; a kind of levelling up initiative with Chinese characteristics. It is intended to improve the lives of the poor, while cracking down on exploitative, multi-billion-dollar tech companies.
To this end, many new state-funded development projects are in the countryside with architects encouraged to protect, regenerate, and renew rural life. Architects are as likely to be found in remote settings, constructing small-scale vernacular homes and barn conversions, as providing high-rise masterplanning interventions in the city.
This is of course, part of a top-down mandate by the state to fulfil its desire to make the countryside appealing for returnees and to encourage people not to leave in the first place. At a time of Covid, global uncertainties and economic stagnation it is also an attempt to encourage the patriotic essence of the noble peasant farmer, to laud the simple life and to encourage a sense of place and resilience.
China is still designing urban agglomerations, constructing towns, and building thousands of new buildings, so this is not to suggest that China has had a complete change of heart. It simply confirms that there are contradictory pressures acting upon it at this particular moment in its development. But reconstituting "the rural" is part of a political narrative of broader social engagement that might just help unify the nation and heal some of the rifts that developed over the years of hardnosed economic migration. That's the idea, at least."
Read the full text here.
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«Пальми в снігу» () — іспанський фільм 2015 року, романтична драма. Режисер: Фернандо Ґонсалес Моліна. Сценарій написаний на основі одноіменного роману Лус Габас.

У головних ролях: Маріо Касас, Адріана Угарте, Макарена Гарсія, Ален Ернандес, Берта Васкес, Джедже Полягли, Даніель Грао, Фернандо Кайо, Сельсо Бугальо.

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Перебираючи старі папери, дівчина на ім'я Кларенс знаходить уривок старого листа свого нещодавно померлого батька. Провівши невелике розслідування, вона дізнається, що її батько Джеймс і дядько Кілліан провели більшу частину своєї бурхливої юності на тропічному острові Фернандо-По, який тепер має назву Біоко. Героїня не може дізнатися у дядька необхідну інформацію, адже у нього складна форма хвороби Альцгеймера. Кларенс боїться втратити необхідні деталі і хоче якомога більше дізнатися про минуле рідних людей, тому приймає відчайдушне рішення покинути засніжене село і відправитися на острів у сонячну Екваторіальну Гвінею. Вирушаючи в цю дивовижну подорож, дівчина й уявити собі не могла, які неймовірні події свого часу пережили її батько і дядько.

Кілліан, Джеймс та їхній батько, прибувши в 1954 році на острів, влаштовуються працювати на плантації какао. Вони буквально починають нове життя в дивовижному і ще незнайомому для себе місці, яке подарує їм чимало хвилин щастя і розчарування. Кілліан виявляється в самій гущавині неймовірних подій, і йому за двадцять років, проведених на Фернандо-По, належить багато чого пережити і переосмислити. Герой не тільки зустріне тут любов, але й дізнається, що таке справжній біль. Він навіть стане учасником неймовірних подій, що вплинули на всю світову історію. Йдучи слідами своїх рідних, Кларенс через багато років зможе, нарешті, відкрити всі сімейні таємниці, навіть ті, про які їй краще було не знати.

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Фільми 2015
Фільми Іспанії
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Q: Application mixing QWidget and QML for embedded linux I wrote an application mixing some QWidget and QML code with Qt 5.5.1.
I'm now trying to deploy it for my linux target. (linux kernel on imx6)
No error occurred during the cross-compilation.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the Vatican's online news portal with a click, and then announced the launch with the first-ever papal tweet.
His 117- haracter tweet went viral, and within 24 hours, the pontiff had more than 35,000 followers.
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Dr. Carson Falls Among Bad Companions
by Anne Laurieat2:55 am on May 5, 2015 . It has 89 Comments.
Crowd for Ben Carson presidential announcement currently hearing a choir sing Eminem's "Lose Yourself." pic.twitter.com/BHHxbgkkme
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 4, 2015
I usually take glee in the antics of every new candidate added to the GOP clown car, but today's announcement in Detroit just makes me cringe. Dr. Carson is a genuinely gifted pediatric neurosurgeon, and his story has been an inspiration to a great many young people — "a Black man who became known for his intellect, not for telling jokes or shooting basketballs." It's not that he doesn't "deserve" to run, or to be considered as a respectable candidate; it's just that I can't understand why the game is worth the candle to him. It's not a career step up (insert old Pearly Gates joke 'on the weekends, God entertains himself up by pretending he's a neurosurgeon'), he doesn't need the money or the social validation, he doesn't have to prove himself against a family legacy of wealth and power. He doesn't even have a book to sell — if anything, this campaign has already damaged his public standing:
… Some black pastors who were Carson's biggest promoters have stopped recommending his book. Members of minority medical organizations that long boasted of their affiliations with him say he is called an "embarrassment" on private online discussion groups.
"Has he lost his sense of who he is?" said the Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent black pastor in Baltimore, where Carson lived for decades when he was director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. "He does not see he is the next Herman Cain."…
Time calls him "The GOP's Accidental Candidate for President":
… Candidates often profess ambivalence about seeking the presidency as a way to mask their ambition. It seems reasonable to take Carson at his word.
Running for office, Carson told TIME early last year, "has never been something that I have a desire to do." In the months since, he's been repeating this disclaimer to anyone who asks, even as he crept closer and closer to jumping in. "It continues to be something that I don't want to do," he told Newsmax last spring. Asked a few weeks back how he'd feel if his campaign failed, Carson told the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons: "Actually, I would say 'Whew!', because it's not something I ever really wanted to do, and the only reason I'd consider it is because there's so many people across the nation clamoring for me to do it."
The most striking thing about Carson's candidacy is the sense that he is an accidental candidate, a man living out someone else's fantasy… A few months after the prayer breakfast, John Philip Sousa IV—the great-grandson of the composer—asked the veteran GOP fundraiser Bruce Eberle to test Carson's support among conservative donors. The first solicitation for Carson was sent out Aug. 16. It quickly became clear the group had a direct-mail superstar on their hands. During the 2014 cycle, the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee netted more than $13.5 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics—more than Ready for Hillary raked in from Clinton supporters. It paid out healthy sums to staffers in the process….
As Buzzfeed's Rosie Gray reported last year, "The Ben Carson Super PAC Is Pretty Lucrative If You're Running It":
…[T]he National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee is spending as much as it's taking in: $10,757,609, to be exact, according to Federal Election Commission data. The money is mostly being spent on fundraising efforts and for a digital campaign that the group's campaign director told BuzzFeed News is modeled on the vaunted Obama operation. It's also providing a salary for Vernon Robinson, the campaign director, who has made nearly $236,000 from his work so far for the PAC, according to FEC filings…
John Philip Sousa IV, the PAC's chairman and a descendant of the composer John Philip Sousa, said he was fine with the amount of money Robinson is making from the PAC. Sousa himself has made close to $100,000 from it so far…
Sousa, who has questioned where Obama was born and was behind the Americans for Sheriff Joe super PAC that supported anti-immigration Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has employed other conservative activists in the fight to get Carson in the race, including Allen Brandstater, who is doing advertising work, and Bill Saracino, who is the western regional director…
The campaign has also spent $250,000 on advertising work from conservative consultant Rebecca Hagelin, who Sousa says bought airtime for the PAC on Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh's shows…
Back in Feburary Mother Jones had a profile on Vernon Robinson, "a notorious, perennial candidate with a history of rabid anti-immigrant rhetoric":
… An African-American, ex-Air Force officer from North Carolina, Robinson has repeatedly run unsuccessful campaigns for Congress. He calls himself "the black Jesse Helms"…His congressional campaign ads—one of which characterized undocumented immigrants as flag-burners and sex offenders—are so out-there that political science professors use them to illustrate mudslinging at its dirtiest… But win or (almost always) lose, the common thread in his political career has been remarkable fundraising success, with a big chunk of the proceeds Robinson has raised flowing to a small camp of conservative fundraisers, and sometimes, himself…
The practice of spending money to raise money is nothing new, but Robinson has been so reliant on this tactic that some political observers wonder whether his intention is to do much more than draw in donations. "Obviously, his great skill was in pushing the right buttons to raise money," says Steven Greene, a state politics expert at North Carolina State University. Greene says Robinson was a "strategic loser"—so extreme in his positions that he'd never have a serious shot at office, but an appealing target for the fundraising dollars of ideologues…
… Robinson's reaction, when asked about his high salary, was candid: "People get paid to do politics," he said.
Seems like Dr. Carson may just have fallen for the hype machine behind the Wingnut Wurlitzer:
… Carson, 63, burst onto the political scene in 2013 when — addressing the typically nonpartisan National Prayer Breakfast — he spoke about the dangers of political correctness, put forward the idea of a flat tax, and criticized President Obama's health-care law. What made it stand out: He did it right beside a steely-faced Obama.
That week, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled "Ben Carson for President." He made the rounds on Fox News, where at one point Sean Hannity told Carson that he would vote for him "in a heartbeat." By August of that year, there was a "National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee."…
As a cherry on the narrative sundae, just before his big annoucement, Dr. Carson found out that his beloved mother — "'I grew up to who I became because I had my mother, Carson said at the Detroit Music Hall, where he had come to watch a rehearsal of his announcement day festivities" — is dying, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's. I know from experience that people do crazy, uncharacteristic things when they're grieving, so perhaps Dr. Carson's quixotic campaign is partially a reaction to her long sad decline.
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Quaker in a Basement says:
John Philip Sousa IV, the PAC's chairman and a descendant of the composer John Philip Sousa,
What a coincidence. Same name and everything.
Carson is such a disappointment. All that success and intelligence and still at the end of the day he can't help but seek the approval of a certain section of white America.
sharl says:
Not that I'd vote for him anyway, but the fact he's never used a Demon Sheep in a political campaign rules him right out for me.
I wonder if Carly could win over some of Christie's supporters by yelling at a public school teacher while the cameras were rolling? Makes you think…
Oooh, better yet, get someone dressed as a Demon Sheep to yell at a public school teacher. That kind of edgy, out-of-the-box campaigning would certainly get MY attention.
To audition people who want to be the Demon Sheep, they should have them read for the role. I'm thinking something like
My name is Freddie Kruger, and I live in a vaaaan down by the river!
Whoever shouts this in the loudest and creepiest fashion should get the gig.
Free advice there Carly; suggest you jump on it before one of your competitors does.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym says:
Can we call this an open thread, since Carson doesn't really deserve this much coverage?
I'm almost there. $290 to go with 14 days to do it. Once it reaches $8,000, I post the stretch goal of $10,000 to hopefully afford a print edition.
Amir Khalid says:
Walmart has denied any involvement in the, um, alleged federal military takeover of Texas. Which Chuck Norris insists is a perfectly possible thing.
Ah, Chuck Norris. Take away his aura of awesomeness, and all that's left is a silly old man.
Just because you're smart doesn't mean you have any sense.
David Koch says:
You don't see blacks saying, "we need to vote for Ben Carson because he's black", you don't see gays saying "we need to vote for Lindsey Graham because he's gay", yet you see women saying "we need to for vote for a woman because she's a woman".
Funny that.
@Mary G:
Maybe Dr Carson feels his awesomeness is insufficiently challenged by what he's doing now, and he needs to aim higher to achieve his True Potential. Or, to put it more kindly, he's at that point in life where he's wondering: "Okay, I've arrived. So now, where do I go?"
jrockoford says:
I do not get it.
If he's so intelligent how come he is a creationist, a homophobe and so benighted that he thinks Obamacare is the "worst thing to have happened in this nation since slavery" and Obama is a "psychopath."
He may just be clever but nuts. In any case, I'd never allow a surgeon who doesn't accept Evolution to treat a cuticle. His mechanical skills may be solid but you can't be both anti science and practice competently in a scientific field. The Guardian has a story claiming he may not have been a careful surgeon after all.
Jay C says:
I've always been somewhat amazed at Dr. Ben Carson: obviously highly intelligent and talented, yet, when he turned his attention to the political sphere, seems to have instantly turned into a sloganeering simpleton. And also, apparently, the stooge for a bunch of sophisticated political grifters, who are probably going to raise millions off his name, and most likely leave him holding the bag when he loses. For which he will blame Obama or liberals, of course….
Zinsky says:
Why wouldn't wealthy people be in favor of a "flat tax". Help me pay less, while you pay more! Makes perfect sense to me. I wonder why the wealthy never advocate for a flat Social Security tax? Hmmm….
@David Koch: It's because they vote for white male Christian men because they're white male Christian men. They therefor assume somebody is voting for a black or a women (or Asian or Hispanic or…) because somebody is black or a woman or….
Anne:
I know from experience that people do crazy, uncharacteristic things when they're grieving, so perhaps Dr. Carson's quixotic campaign is partially a reaction to her long sad decline.
That is too generous to a fault. When my father was suffering the long sad decline, I didn't even feel the need to run for dog catcher. This is about getting his Texas sized ego stroked, nothing else.
Then again, maybe it was his mother stroking that ego all those years?
Mustang Bobby says:
@Amir Khalid:
And he was totally robbed at the Oscars.
NotMax says:
@Zinsky
Don't remember Steve Forbes' ill-starred campaign?
Schlemazel says:
Allen Brandstater, who is doing advertising work,
Seriously? "BRAND STARTER" is doing the ad work? Thats the only funny bit in this whole dreadful affair.
Baud says:
His nomination would be "liberals are the real racists" personified. That may be enough to put him over the top.
PurpleGirl says:
@Amir Khalid: Norris: we must question, verify and vet everyone and everything
Does he mean to include himself; probably not but I think that's a fine sentiment if applied to everything.
(And yes, he's a silly old man, he was also a silly young man.)
@Baud:
Not gonna be a problem. The conversation at the RNC would be exactly like the one the Randly and Morty Duke had in the bathroom when they thought they were alone.
Randolph Duke: [Valentine overhears the Dukes talking in the bathroom] Pay up, Mortimer. I've won the bet.
Mortimer Duke: Here, one dollar.
Randolph Duke: [chuckling] We took a perfectly useless psychopath like Valentine, and turned him into a successful executive. And during the same time, we turned an honest, hard-working man into a violently, deranged, would-be killer!
Randolph Duke: Now, what are we going to do about taking Winthorpe back and returning Valentine to the ghetto?
Mortimer Duke: I don't want Winthorpe back, after what he's done.
Randolph Duke: You mean, keep *Valentine* on as managing director?
Mortimer Duke: Do you really believe I would have a *nigger* run our family business, Randolph?
Mortimer Duke: [Valentine's eyes widen with outrage] Of course not. Neither would I.
ThresherK says:
@Jay C: He got in the short line. What else could it be?
msdc says:
The post is admirably charitable, but this bit is too charitable by far:
It's not that he doesn't "deserve" to run, or to be considered as a respectable candidate
Yes, why wouldn't we consider a neurosurgeon who has never even run for (much less held) political office as a respectable candidate for the most important office in the world?
@Amir Khalid: I've always thought that the death of Chuck's brother, Wieland, in a particularly stupid battle in Vietnam forever scarred him. I don't like him but I can see the trajectory.
Walmart has denied any involvement in the, um, alleged federal military takeover of Texas.
Just what I'd expect someone who was involved to say.
BillinGlendaleCA says:
@Schlemazel: Baggage handler #2 made that movie.
@Baud: Yes, but did they also deny the existence of the tunnels between their stores?
BruceFromOhio says:
"It continues to be something that I don't want to do,"
Then stop doing it. Otherwise, pants on fire.
It's also providing a salary for Vernon Robinson, the campaign director, who has made nearly $236,000 …
Sousa himself has made close to $100,000 from it so far…
If you can't spot the mark at the table, the mark is you.
dmsilev says:
He calls himself "the black Jesse Helms"
He hates himself?
MattF says:
I don't have a lot of sympathy for Carson. He blames all those other people who just keep insisting, despite his humble disavowals, that he become a candidate. At best, this is a woeful combination of being a sucker for flattery and self-deception.
Woodrowfan says:
and he has more than a few malpractice suits in his past. The ones I read about seemed to be caused by a cocky carelessness "I am awesome so I don't need to do my homework before this operation."
@Woodrowfan: Name a surgeon who doesn't.
@raven: Beat me to it.
Heh:
A popular website for the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina went live on Monday morning, as she announced her candidacy for president.
Except it wasn't a campaign site at all.
CarlyFiorina.org is not much more than a listicle of frowny emoticons – one for every employee laid off during Fiorina's six-year tenure at HP. (You have to scroll down quite a ways to find the final tally: 30,000.)
The Thin Black Duke says:
Jeb Bush worries me.
Ted Cruz worries me.
Huckabee, Rubio, Santorum and the other mean stupid ugly lunatics from the GOP asylum running for president worry me because there's always a possibility, no matter how remote or unlikely, that they might win.
Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush won twice, after all. And any compliant sock puppet is guaranteed a least 46% of the vote jus as long as there's a "R" next to his name.
Except for Dr. Ben Carson. His quixotic and doomed presidential campaign is a sick joke.
Because in spite of his intelligence and his impressive hisory as a neurosurgeon and his disgusting willingness to be a useful tool for whatever atrocities the Republican pary will command him to do, Dr. Carson will never be President of he Unied States.
Becaause to all of the morans who obediently vote for the Republicans, Dr. Ben Carson is still a nigger.
As I said, Carson a sick joke, and he's the punchline.
brantl says:
He doesn't even have a book to sell — if anything, this campaign has already damaged his public standing:
He's running as a black Rethuglican. This is a reason for most people (especially black people, to doubt your sanity. Self-hate is always an indicator of insanity.
What awesomeness? He used to injure his stunt people, frequently.
Chyron HR says:
"Once we nominate Herman Cain Ben Carson, the Democrats will be doomed!"
@raven: Lots of them.
Erehwon says:
@The Thin Black Duke:
But don't you remember that "… our blacks are so much better than their blacks …"
Just One More Canuck says:
@Amir Khalid: Idiocracy is beginning to look more and more like a documentary
An Internet search may turn up patient complaints or lawsuits that are still pending, but keep a skeptical eye about such reports, says Daniel Spogen, a physician at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and a member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Sometimes a doctor does everything right but the patient fares poorly anyway, through no fault of the physician, and the patient or his family sues. The average physician is sued for malpractice once every seven or eight years, but not every lawsuit has just cause, Spogen says.
Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars
Cache shows Twain working at a San Francisco newspaper as a young man
Berkeley archivists describe stash 'like opening up a big box of candy'
henqiguai says:
@Mary G (#6):
Hmm, idiot savant, perhaps?
I have to report that I have at least 3 facebook "friends" who are delighted about Dr. Carson's decision. He does have his audience – same people who were upset at the Baltimore protests. I think there's a connection- a deeply conservative Black man strongly criticizing the Black community.
I think the RNC's hopes of fewer, "saner," debates is dead. No way will they be able to exclude all of the fringe candidates.
@debbie: Yeah, Repubs seem to take "Anyone can be President" quite literally. And there's a feeling that the Establishment candidates are losers, so why not give it a go?
Germy Shoemangler says:
@jrockoford:
The Guardian has a story claiming he may not have been a careful surgeon after all.
And I've been wondering about that. Not just about Carson. Whenever the GOP pukes up a surgeon or an eye doctor, everyone assumes they're brilliant, talented and supremely competent. But then if you dig a bit deeper, you learn that Rand is self-certified.
Is there really proof that Carson and Rand are brilliant physicians? Or are they just blowhards with medical degrees? I've certainly encountered a few in my life. The young doctor who treated my mom during her final illness. Arrogant, "smart" but the nurses whispered that they didn't trust him. The pediatrician who delivered my son and broke his collar bone.
brettvk says:
So this is what Citizens United leads to — a permanent infrastructure of political fundraising that slaps a (barely) plausible face on its ads, pushes all the lizard-brain buttons, and reaps millions in unaccountable cash. It's televangelism without having to spend on videocams or a big church, but with the same advantage of selling absolutely nothing for lots and lots of money. Maybe when the Fox generation dies out it'll be less lucrative; the olds of the future will have less SS and no pensions to waste on this dreck.
@Germy Shoemangler: I think a 'good' doctor has an unusual combination of talents– technical ability, medical knowledge, and 'doctorness', whatever that is. You can often find two out of three, but all three is rare.
@MattF: I agree. I've seen some good ones, I've seen a few that weren't that great.
I keep reading here about Carson's "brilliance" as a doctor, and his supporters use that as evidence of how great he is and how great he'd be as president.
I've seen Rand supporters tout his doctoring skills as proof of his competence.
Is there any proof these men are above average physicians? Because that's the image that's being put out there.
@Germy Shoemangler: Medically, the two are not in the same class. Probably not even the same continent.
@Germy Shoemangler: Who cares? How does "being a good doctor" equate with "being a good President"?
I know little about Carson, but I think I agree with you.
Absolutely this.
The Herman Cain campaign should dispel all doubts otherwise. He got his month in the sun as the collective Republican Party's Black Best Friend. Then he dared to forget his place by objecting to the use of the N-word in Rick Perry's ranch; and then it turned out that he might have not only sexually harassed black women (which is all in good fun) but cheated on his wife with a white woman; and all of a sudden, out he went.
The Republican Party will never vote for a black president. Period. This is the same party that's been in utter derangement mode since Obama's election. It's the same party one of whose main leaders eulogized Strom Thurmond by saying that if only he'd been followed when he ran in 1948, we wouldn't have "all these problems." It's the same party that rejected John McCain in 2000 at least partly based on the Bush campaign's rumors that he'd fathered an "illegitimate black child." Never happen.
Kay (not the front-pager) says:
@David Koch:
yet you see women saying "we need to for vote for a woman because she's a woman"
What women? I've heard exactly zero women saying anything even close to that. Sure, we may be pleased that a woman has a possibility to finally become a president we can support, just as members of the other "out-groups" you mention would be pleased to be able to support a member of their group. But do you really think 96% of African American voters would vote for Ben Carson as the first African American president? Do you think 96% of women would vote for Carly Fiorina because she's a woman? Sheesh, do you even think 96% of women would vote for Hillary Clinton because she's a woman? Or even 75%?
What do you get when you cross Simon Pegg with Robin Williams and flavor liberally with Monty Python?
Absolutely Anything
I fear it might be too much of a good thing, but I'm still excited.
@debbie: It has gotten so that being a Republican candidate is, ipso facto, to be a fringe candidate.
just before his big annoucement, Dr. Carson found out that his beloved mother…is dying, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's.
You know, there's a cause where a major conservative celeb like Ben Carson could really do some good. We already have more than enough elderly people with Alzheimer's and other forms of senior dementia to overload our nursing homes – and that's gonna get worse real fast when the Baby Boom generation gets into its 80s in the late 2020s.
It's going to be a national public health problem unless we act fast, and so far, we aren't.
Here's a guy who could really lean on conservative Congresscritters to increase government funding of Alzheimer's and dementia research, and has an undoubtedly powerful personal story to tell about it. But instead, he's becoming this cycle's Herman Cain.
What a waste.
@The Thin Black Duke: Who cares? How does "being a good doctor" equate with "being a good President"?
It doesn't. Just like being a CEO doesn't either.
But Rand and Carson supporters push that myth of the brilliant physician who will cure our country's ills.
The impression I get is that the GOP (while keeping the same policies of tax cuts for the wealthy, gutting regulation, and shrinking government) is saying "You like a black president? OK, here's a black guy. Oh! You want a lady president? Well look here, we got a lady, too. Hispanic? No problemo."
@Jay C: "I've always been somewhat amazed at Dr. Ben Carson: obviously highly intelligent and talented, yet, when he turned his attention to the political sphere, seems to have instantly turned into a sloganeering simpleton. "
Think of somebody becoming one of the best martial artists in the world in your art. They spent 16 hrs/day learning and practicing from their mid-teens through their mid-forties.
You wouldn't be surprised if they really didn't know jack about the world.
We think of surgeons as learned persons, rather than incredibly intensively trained technicians.
@Germy Shoemangler: The right saw Obama and their takeaway is "We could nominate one of them".
Totally missing what PBO brought to the table.
gelfling545 says:
@David Koch: You certainly did not see that where Sarah Palin was concerned.
@brettvk:
So this is what Citizens United leads to — a permanent infrastructure of political fundraising that slaps a (barely) plausible face on its ads, pushes all the lizard-brain buttons, and reaps millions in unaccountable cash.
It's an industry and it gets bigger every year. I think we spend way too much time on the money coming in and too little on where it goes. Every time you read about a huge donation what you're really talking about is thousands of people getting paid. Every dime of that Koch money gets spent. Media companies are huge beneficiairies of Citizens, for one example. The longer it goes on the more there will be an entrenched industry that is wholly reliant on donations coming in.
lowercase steve says:
I am amazed at how compartmentalized intelligence and insight can be. He may be a brilliant neurosurgeon but he has never said anything even remotely insightful or intelligent in his political and economic proclamations/diagnoses. In fact, he sounds downright uneducated.
El Caganer says:
He's the political version of Dr. Oz.
@El Caganer: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
dr. luba says:
@Germy Shoemangler:
The pediatrician who delivered my son and broke his collar bone.
There's your problem. Should have had an obstetrician doing the delivery.
That being said, a very big baby or a shoulder dystocia, or a tight birth canal can result in the sort of birth trauma that causes a clavicle fracture. They heal well, luckily, and leave no long term sequelae. Stuff happens. I'd rather have a baby with a fractured clavicle than one with an entrapped head or Erb's palsy.
I've been lucky, haven't seen this in any of the babies I've delivered…..yet.
@Barry:
incredibly intensively trained technicians
I've been pondering this lately as I have unfortunately had numerous opportunities to use the varied services of the medical community. It started with me enrolling as a patient at the local dental school. It gave me an opportunity to view the unique skill set necessary for a Dentist, Oral Surgeon, etc. i.e. academic ability within certain parameters, manual dexterity & upper body strength. Other medical specialties have different skills that are related to few other professions. Even being at the top of one medical specialty doesn't necessarily transfer to another medical discipline, much less to areas outside one's field.
J R in WV says:
A friend of ours named their dog Chuck Norris, which makes it easy to remember Andy's and Ally's dog's name. It weighs in at about 3 pounds, after a big dinner! Very nice guy, polite to everyone, friendly too.
The dog, not the human…
Jeeze louise! Can't your guys take a joke at all?
schrodinger's cat says:
I think Dr. Carson is suffering from the Clint Eastwood malady. He thinks if that young whipper snapper Obama can become President, so can he. After all he was beloved by the black community when the President was a nobody. Me thinks, he is jealous and has lost perspective because of it.
See also, Cornell West.
As you noted, neurosurgeons already have huge egos, and the GOP has flattered and feted Carson so much that he probably by now thinks only he can save the country. That's my guess.
Frankensteinbeck says:
he doesn't need the money or the social validation
Ego, even more than greed, does not have limits and does not need a logical reason. John Schnatter, whose get-rich-then-turn-into-a-flaming-asshole-betraying-everything-he-originally-stood-for story is a beautiful match for Carson's, shows that clearly. He spends millions on decorating his favorite stores, which achieves no business purpose but making him feel awesome. He got rich treating his workers well, and has ample personal experience to prove it's better practice. Now that he doesn't need the money, he just loves the feeling of being a godlike Galtian genius he gets from shitting on them.
He set himself up for that hype. This is what he wanted, to be 'the good nigger' and complain about how all the others are lazy and would be successful neurosurgeons if only they were as awesome as him.
So this is what Citizens United leads to
Thank goodness, yes. We'd be in serious trouble if it didn't, but encouraging lunatic billionaires to pour endless, uncounted money into unmarked boxes in companies that don't have to show how they're spending it and are forbidden to work with the only people who can watch over their shoulder… well, can you say 'grifter paradise?' It contains the seeds of its own destruction.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Forget Carson. This news is amazing and wonderful and I can't wait to read them. I've read a couple of his editorials, and they are hilarious.
@lowercase steve:
This is what I was trying to say the other day. Some can focus and learn specific things that many others have no possibility to do. And be brilliant at that thing. But intelligent? They can so totally suck at the rest of the world, even simple things that one should wonder how they ever got to be considered intelligent. They are gifted, they are not necessarily intelligent.
He could be the second coming of Christ as a surgeon but that doesn't qualify him to be President. In fact, if anything, it disqualifies him. Surgeons are gods in their own little kingdom, and they have little idea of the muck you must be willing to wade into as President; all the compromising with people you 'd rather use for shishkebab, all the smiling at foreign leaders that are dirtier than a pig in a wallow, all that stuff, surgeons don't have to do that. They issue orders and people jump.
NOT president material.
Tenar Darell says:
@OzarkHillbilly: Nom, nom, nom.
That is very cool, really!
hoodie says:
My mom worked with surgeons for forty years and that was her general impression. She also felt that of all docs, who tend to be highly confident as a group, surgeons had the greatest tendency to be unaware of their incompetence outside their field. She said that the most intellectually adept docs tended to be internal medicine specialists.
Cacti says:
Ben Carson's political story is not unusual at all.
Racial or ethnic minority, who grew up in humble circumstances and used public assistance programs to escape a life of poverty…and now wants to pull the ladder up behind him after making it to the top.
@low-tech cyclist: j
ust before his big annoucement, Dr. Carson found out that his beloved mother…is dying, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's.
I wonder if he's paying for her care out of pocket — like a good, ruggedly individual wealthy conservative ought to — or letting the socialist Medicaid program and taxpayers pick up the tab.
Thus confirming what I've thought for a long time, that the only really useful marker of intelligence is whether someone is smart enough to know what they don't know.
All of us are ignorant about the vast majority of things – there's just too much information in the world. That's why we specialize and have some of us go into medicine, some of us become car mechanics, some of us become astronomers, whatever. There's no shame in being ignorant, but once you refuse to acknowledge it and act accordingly, then you're an idiot.
Elie says:
As a surgeon — and a neurosurgeon specifically, Carson was enculturated to a plantation like, hierarchical mindframe. Docs basically do what they want to do and are difficult to manage to work together. Ask any hospital administrator. Add to it, during their student and residencies, they are treated with episodic, and sometimes frivolous, cruelty by their superiors. This world view, that where the elite do what they want and that you are the elite, fits exactly with the Republican and fascist ethos. Since retiring, he definitely has no outlet for that in his day to day life. He is too young to hit the links.. (by the way, why did he retire and how old is he?) My guess is that he thinks he is the answer. The problem for him is that there is no question that fits what he can answer.. He is floundering around — a big, unhappy fish without a pond to dominate or call home…
karen marie says:
@David Koch: That's why Hillary is about to finish her second term. Oh, wait, no, that's right, she lost in 2008. Silly me. Being a woman, I am not very smart.
@Elie:
I found out he is 64 years old… not THAT young but young enough to have time on his hands and no similar outlet. His wikepedia says that he had problems with anger as a boy, almost killing a friend over a minor incident…. said that he started reading the bible and had no future incidents of violence. He was clearly a gifted surgeon and there is nothing that heroic out here in the world that he can bring his talents to. He COULD go volunteer in a service for the needy somewhere in the world… Obviously, that is not something that pulls him…
BTW — he is a Seven Day Adventist per Wikepedia. That has a pretty strict, authoritarian culture. Also, the following quote in that piece I thought was amazingly opposite of what he is actually doing:
Carson had said he was not a member of any political party.[28] However, he joined the Republican Party on November 4, 2014, the day the 2014 midterms took place, as "truly a pragmatic move" because he may run for president in 2016.[29] In his book America the Beautiful, he explained the decision to enter politics thusly: "I believe it is a very good idea for physicians, scientists, engineers, and others trained to make decisions based on facts and empirical data to get involved in the political arena
The man is a mixed up set of contradictions and authoritarian impulses…
@karen marie: But it's gonna be Fiorina in a landslide!
@dr. luba: There's your problem. Should have had an obstetrician doing the delivery.
We did. I used the wrong term in my previous comment.
This was over twenty years ago. My wife had a group of obstetricians she liked. Two woman… and a guy. The women were great. The guy? I remember him standing outside the exam room one day having what looked to me like an anxiety attack. Then he went in to consult with my wife. My gut instinct told me there was something wrong there. I remember thinking "when the time comes, I hope HE isn't on duty."
Sure enough, she went into labor late at night. Guess who shows up to deliver our son. And our son was a TINY baby, barely five pounds something.
Tree With Water says:
@Jay C: I feel much the same way about Jon Voight. How did such a fine actor become such a political ding-a-ling? It's as if Joe Buck banked off a northeast wind, sailed on a summer breeze, returned to NYC from a place where the weather suits his soul, only to change his name to Donald Trump.
If we lived in other times without the access to media and sophisticated abilities to penetrate the populace with any kind of message, these people would not be the problem that they are. They make it extraordinarily difficult to lead and to manage our increasingly intertwined existence… These are truly the 1 – 2% crazy people who are still mentally organized enough to produce some sort of message and campaign. Our media gives their message exposure that in another time, would not exist and its scary… their craziness gets amplified and echoed in the many unfortunately truly crazy people who act on the delusions these people manufacture. I don't know what this means for our country and its future —
MCA1 says:
@msdc: This. There are literally millions of talented, well-educated doctors in this country with zero political, executive, legislative, diplomatic or any other experience that would in the slightest bit qualify them for POTUS (and likely plenty of them suffer from the same god complex and misbelief that their success as a doctor has fuck-all to do with success in any other arena of life that obviously plagues Carson). The are but three things about Ben Carson that distinguish him from those other millions: (i) he's a black Republican, (ii) he's declared himself interested, and (iii) he's crazy enough to loudly espouse the most feverish, cretinous lunacy peddled by the far Right. None of those things should, of course, make him someone with a platform to announce a candidacy. Which is why the fact he has a platform from which to announce a candidacy is so very sad. That a guy who's said some of the idiotic things Carson has is treated as respectable, is pretty indicative of how much our system has deteriorated. We are all worse off for having to listen to this guy and have him taken seriously by the press for the next however many months, when he should have been relegated to the sidelines long ago.
@Tree With Water: Harry Nilsson, always with us.
@opiejeanne: I remember seeing Harry on "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" when I was a tiny lad. He was a great songwriter, and yet he is most remembered for two cover versions: "Without You" and "Everybody's Talkin'"
Roy G. says:
His natural pick for VP is of course, 'Dr.' Keith Ablow.
Carson is a sideshow. If he somehow makes it past Iowa, then we've already won the election.
Monday Evening Open Thread: May the Farce Be With You How Do You Collar a Collared Dove? UPDATED!


Last week we took a peek inside the new bestseller, Designing Your Life. I heard from many of you in the comment section that you were at an open point in your life, waiting to discover, but wanting to design, what's next in your life. Today's exercise from the book will help you push aside the negative, hyper-realistic thoughts that crush ideas as they come up in your brain while you're wishful thinking or daydreaming. This exercise is built around ideation and you are expected and encouraged to come up with fantastic ideas, so bring on the wishful thinking and the daydreams.
At my last corporate job as the Marketing Director for a legacy newspaper, we called these type of exercise sessions BHAG meetings — BHAG standing for Big Hairy Audacious Goals. The gloom and doom of being a print publication in the digital age was especially heavy in this outfit at the time because they had recently retired an onsite printing press that had been operating since the 1950s. It was more cost effective to outsource the printing process to another location with a newer press than to keep this huge, beautiful, but aging, machine in operation. In fact, the modernist building that housed the newspaper was built around the press, with two-story glass windows facing the street where the press could be seen and admired by passing cars and pedestrians. When the press was in operation, you could hear the steady hum of the machine throughout the building. It was the sound of success, of pride and of freedom. Needless to say, when that sound disappeared, morale went with it.
I loved BHAG meetings. I was always the annoying one that would arrive early, grab a spot next to the white board and get pumped up with game show glee. After the press stopped, we met to brainstorm about how to boost morale and community interest in the company, and to just fight our way out of the grave. I suggested we start a TV station. And I suggested that we place it exactly where the press had been, where it would be visible from the street. You can imagine the looks around the conference table and the silence in the room.
Cut to a year later — the TV station is thriving, providing a welcome alternative to the local TV news station who produced all of their news from the newspaper's stories. They've built a local audience, gained market share, successfully boosted their advertising all while having quality digital content for their website. Boom. And all because some annoying lady began to scribble on the whiteboard.
This post is brought to you in collaboration with Designing Your Life. All words and experiences are my own and I highly recommend this book as a tool for moving forward into a thoughtful, considered life that you've designed.
Designing Your Life smartly points out that that there is no perfect idea and that no one big idea will be the answer. I used the story above to illustrate that exploring big, fantastic ideas without your inner self-saboteur can be a great way to gain some momentum when setting forth on a life design adventure. The TV station was only one of my Big Hairy Audacious Goals. I didn't mention the countless other ideas that did not come to fruition, but that paved the way for our committee to dream big, fail and start all over again with better ideas.
In this exercise from the book, we're going for quantity, not quality. It's simple math and probability — the more ideas you write down, the more you'll make connections to new and perhaps better ideas. The more ideas you're able to create, the more confidence you'll gain because you will have solid proof that you are stepping outside of the realm of premature judgement that pretty much guarantees you'll stay stuck.
So without further ado, let's Mind Map.
Make the Mind Map, with the center being one thing that brings you joy or is pleasurable and positive in your life.
Make secondary connections and create concepts. This is basically coming up with a mash-up of the ideas you have written down.
To make the Mind Map from that center circle, you simply jot down five or six things related to that idea. In the example above, you'll see Travel, Camping, Hiking, etc. spiking off the center circle Being Outdoors. This whole process of creating word associations and layers takes about three to five minutes. Definitely worth your time.
The last step, creating concepts, is done by taking a few words that stick out at you or that might be especially interesting to you and mash them together into a few concepts. In the example above, the outer circled words were chosen to create some concepts that may be worthy of real-life exploration. You want to choose from the outer layer because this is the stuff that is two or three steps away from your conscious thinking.
Try out working at an Explorer camp for kids who like the outdoors.
Maybe even a Pirate Camp at the beach?
Hmmm, how about I accept the promotion only if they let me move to a rental office near the beach?
Maybe the company has a presence in a really exotic place like Hawaii where I could coach a Pirate surf camp for kids.
Perhaps the additional income from the promotion might allow me a four-day work week so I'd have some time to explore some of these new ideas.
You can see how each concept eventually trickles down to number 5, which is a bit more based in the maker's current reality. Now most of us probably aren't thinking of the perfect job while being offered a promotion, but the idea that innovation is happening when we do this exercise is true and solid. Try it. The person who was doing the map above realized that it actually wasn't about finding the perfect job. It was more about maximizing her current job with a company that did, indeed, have locations all over the country. She had some options right where she was in life.
Now it's your turn to mind map. As an incentive, we'll being giving away another copy of Designing Your Life to one reader who leaves a comment with the words they've come up with for their center circle in their mind map. I'm doing this exercise too, and my center says "Be more social." What's yours?
**UPDATE** After I wrote this post yesterday afternoon and identified my center circle topic, "Be more social," my former neighbors showed up at my new house with brownies and lots of great conversation! They say that when you identify what you want, the universe provides it. I think it's true.
Meeting more like minded spirit people.
I think it's too broaden, I'll have to practice the mind mapping a bit!
And then those words, in turn, would produce others!
I am not even kidding…. the day has not ended yet and I have literally found a way forward… meaning a place that I can study graphic design at, much cheaper than the original choice, and in a gorgeous, gorgeous city!!! I think it somehow has to do with the magic of commenting "find a way forward" earlier today!! :) just had to come back here and put this out there.
Totally wanting to buy this book now by the way. !
Thanks so great to hear :). The same thing happened to me with my "Be more social" declaration. Old neighbors showed up with brownies that night.
Design my life routine to rise early.
This is practical and mundane but mine is "increase my income stream from my Etsy shop". Having made a commitment to become an artist as a late career move, I really have to do mind map to achieve it.
The fact that you came back to add the capitals is awesome :) This is going to happen for you.
Have the courage to quit my job and live my dream!
Yes! I LOVE THIS! My center would be "Travel and Connect" I was actually doing this in my brain over the past few days on how I would like to create a new position in my current job that would benefit the company and is a strength and joy of mine. I am ordering this book right now!!
Find (and accept) the freedom to express myself through cathartic writing!
Marital Bliss. Just simple loving martial bliss steeping in gratitude.


The Moog House of Electronicus online sale has ended. Connect with your local Moog Dealer to order Sirin worldwide starting February 1st.
A limited production run of Sirin are being produced by the employee-owners at the Moog Factory in Asheville, NC--after which no more will be available.
Sirin is available to purchase right now through Authorized Moog Dealers in your region.
Seclude yourself and let the music sweep you away.
In this video, Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso, Made Of Oak) explores the power of sound using Sirin and DFAM analog synthesizers. Sanborn weaves multiplexed patterns of sound waves--translating the thoughts and feelings of the collective individual into a shared musical experience. With the exception of the DFAM's percussive analog backbeat, all sounds in this video come from Sirin.


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Director James Cameron says he thinks Kate Winslet was 'traumatised' by Titanic
After more than two decades, the actress and Cameron are reuniting for the upcoming Avatar sequel The Way Of Water.
Titanic director James Cameron has said he thinks Kate Winslet was "a bit traumatised" after filming the blockbuster due to the scale of the project.
Winslet rose to international stardom after starring in the 1997 epic romance alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and went on to have an impressive acting career.
After more than two decades, the actress, 47, and Cameron, 68, are reuniting for the upcoming Avatar sequel The Way Of Water which the director feels they are both "eager" for.
James Cameron (Ian West/PA)
He told Radio Times: "I think Kate came out of Titanic a bit traumatised by the scale of the production and her responsibility within it.
"We've both been eager over time to work together again, to see what the other is about at this point in our lives and careers."
The director added: "She's very large and in charge on set. You'd swear she was producing the film!"
Winslet plays Metkayina matriarch Ronal in the much-anticipated return to the planet of Pandora nearly 13 years on.
The original sci-fi epic from 2009 became the highest-grossing film of all time and went on to win three Oscars for its stunning visual effects, cinematography and art direction.
It was set in 2154 and followed paraplegic marine Jake Sully dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission which becomes challenged when he falls for Zoe Saldana's other-worldly blue princess Neytiri.
The sequel is set more than a decade after the events of the first film and sees Jake settle down with Neytiri and their three children in the Na'vi's rainforest home.
Once a familiar threat returns, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet.
Cameron has planned out a further three films, which would bring the Avatar franchise to five in total.
The director, who admits he is "a lot more mellow now" than he once was, has said he is "absolutely realistic and sanguine" about the future of the movies.
The Terminator filmmaker told Radio Times: "It's simple. If Terminator 1 had failed, there wouldn't have been a Terminator 2.
"It's possible, maybe even probable, that in our post-Covid streaming marketplace we won't be able to achieve the levels that make (four more Avatar movies) a sound business proposition."
Cameron has confirmed that for the sequel to be profitable, it would have to be "the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history" and if it is not he will have to rethink the future films.
However, he admits he is keen to make the other movies, saying: "I want to go big or go home".
Avatar: The Way Of Water is due for release in cinemas on December 16.
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The Ingredient of the Month presentation offers downloadable tools featuring a different nutritional ingredient each month for chefs to incorporate into their menus and use in community events. The presentation provides an in-depth look at the ingredient, a delicious recipe, and a content-based quiz. Recipes range from simple recipes that kids can make to more detailed recipes for chefs. Download these tools, share with colleagues, and start creating your IOTM recipe collection.
New Ingredient of the Month
January 2023 - Plantains
Although they grow in bunches and may look like bananas, they're not! Native to Southeast Asia, plantains are grown in tropical regions and when fully ripe they taste like a slightly less-sweet banana. Plantains are an important part of many cuisines, but unlike technically being a fruit like bananas, they are most often cooked before consuming due to their starch content. No matter their stage of ripeness, chefs have created an imaginative list of uses for plantains. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
December 2022 - Garlic
Records show that garlic has been cultivated in Mesopotamia for at least 4,000 years. Garlic is a perennial flowering plant grown from a bulb sometimes producing pink to purple flowers. Raw garlic has a characteristic pungent, spicy flavor that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking. With the use of garlic on the rise, in both savory and some sweet dishes, the average person eats about two pounds of garlic each year. That equates to over 300 cloves! Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
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November 2022 - Mulberries
Contrary to the childhood song, mulberries grow on trees, not bushes. These fast-growing trees produce a massive amount of fruit each season, ranging in color from white to deep red to almost black. The berries have a mild flavor that is both tart and sweet. In most recipes, blackberries can be substituted for mulberries as they have similar flavor profiles. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
October 2022 - Kiwi
The kiwifruit, or kiwi, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia. Kiwi has a refreshingly citrus taste, with a touch of sweetness. The flesh has a creamy consistency with crunchy edible seeds. Although not commonly consumed, the skin is edible. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
September 2022 - Pecans
Pecans are the product of a species of Hickory trees known as Carya illinoinensis. The United States produces 80% of the world's pecan crop. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
August 2022 - Watercress
Watercress has a unique peppery flavor but once cooked, the sharpness of watercress diminishes. Watercress is available year-round, but its peak season is from April until September. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
July 2022 - Capers
Capers are the un-ripened flower buds of the caper bush. To make them palatable, the immature buds are either cured in salt or pickled in brine. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
June 2022 - Cherries
Cherries are classified as drupes or stone fruits. Their color ranges from yellow to deep red-black. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
May 2022 - Tea
The term tea refers to both the leaves of the camellia sinensis plant and the beverage made from those leaves. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
April 2022 - Lamb
Sheep are one of mankind's oldest domesticated animals, raised for meat, fiber and milk. Lamb is meat that comes from sheep that are less than one year old. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
March 2022 - Oats
Oat is one of the major cereal grains produced worldwide. Oats are grown for both human and animal consumption. While oats have a bland, slightly earthy taste they also have a great ability to absorb the flavor of other ingredients. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
February 2022 - Cardamom
Cardamom is considered to be one of the world's oldest spices. They are recognized by their small seed pods: triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery outer shell and small, black seeds. The spice can be found as a whole pod, shelled whole seeds, or ground powder. Complete the quiz by logging on to the ACF Online Learning Center to earn one hour of continuing-education credits toward ACF certification.
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As you navigate the Company's Web sites, MySkillChart.com may also collect information through the use of commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and Web beacons ("Web Site Navigational Information"). Web Site Navigational Information includes standard information from your Web browser (such as browser type and browser language), your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, and the actions you take on the Company's Web sites (such as the Web pages viewed and the links clicked). For additional information about the collection of Web Site Navigational Information by MySkillChart.com and others, please click here.
The Company uses Data About MySkillChart.com Customers to perform the services requested. For example, if you fill out a "Contact Me" Web form, the Company will use the information provided to contact you about your interest in the Services.
The Company also uses Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees to plan and host corporate events, host online forums and social networks in which event attendees may participate, and to populate online profiles for Attendees on the Company's Web sites. Additional information on the Company's privacy practices with respect to Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees may be found in additional privacy statements on the event Web sites, as the case may be. Please see here for more information on bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms provided by MySkillChart.com in connection with its corporate events.
The Company may also use Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees for marketing purposes. For example, the Company may use information you provide to contact you to further discuss your interest in the Services and to send you information regarding the Company, its affiliates, and its partners, such as information about promotions or events.
MySkillChart.com uses credit card information solely to check the financial qualifications and collect payment from prospective Customers and Attendees.
MySkillChart.com uses Web Site Navigational Information to operate and improve the Company's Web sites. The Company may also use Web Site Navigational Information alone or in combination with Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees to provide personalized information about the Company. For additional information about the use of Web Site Navigational Information, please click here.
MySkillChart.com uses commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and Web beacons, to collect information as you navigate the Company's Web sites ("Web Site Navigational Information"). This section describes the types of Web Site Navigational Information used on the Company's Web sites and how this information may be used.
Required cookies enable you to navigate the Company's Web sites and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Web sites and using MySkillChart.com Services.
From time-to-time, MySkillChart.com engages third parties to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit the Company's Web sites. MySkillChart.com may also utilize Flash cookies for these purposes.
Functionality cookies allow the Company's Web sites to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as your username, language, or your region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies also enable you to optimize your use of MySkillChart.com's Services after logging in. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
MySkillChart.com uses local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our Web sites to personalize your visit.
To learn how to opt out of functionality cookies using your browser settings click here. Note that opting out may impact the functionality you receive when visiting MySkillChart.com.
MySkillChart.com uses Web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about Customers and Visitors' usage of the Company's Web sites and interaction with emails from the Company. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Web site tied to the Web beacon, and a description of a Web site tied to the Web beacon. For example, MySkillChart.com may place Web beacons in marketing emails that notify the Company when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of the Company's Web sites. MySkillChart.com uses Web beacons to operate and improve the Company's Web sites and email communications.
When you visit MySkillChart.com's Web sites, the Company collects your Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses to track and aggregate non-personal information. For example, MySkillChart.com uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which Customers and Visitors navigate the Company's Web sites.
MySkillChart.com also collects IP addresses from Customers whey they log into the Services as part of the Company's "Identity Confirmation" and "IP Range Restrictions" security features.
Currently, various browsers – including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – offer a "do not track" or "DNT" option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header, which sends a signal to Web sites' visited by the user about the user's browser DNT preference setting. MySkillChart.com does not currently commit to responding to browsers' DNT signals with respect to the Company's Web sites, in part, because no common industry standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators, including no consistent standard of interpreting user intent. MySkillChart.com takes privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard.
MySkillChart.com may provide bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms on the Company's Web sites. Any personal information you choose to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. MySkillChart.com is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums.
Customers and Visitors may elect to use the Company's referral program to inform friends about the Company's Web sites. When using the referral program, the Company requests the friend's name and email address. MySkillChart.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Company's Web sites. MySkillChart.com does not store this information.
MySkillChart.com posts a list of Customers and testimonials on the Company's Web sites that contain information such as Customer names and titles. MySkillChart.com obtains the consent of each Customer prior to posting any information on such a list or posting testimonials.
MySkillChart.com may share Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees with the Company's contracted service providers so that these service providers can provide services on our behalf. Without limiting the foregoing, MySkillChart.com may also share Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees with the Company's service providers to ensure the quality of information provided, and with third-party social networking and media Web sites, such as Facebook, for marketing and advertising on those Web sites. Unless described in this Privacy Statement, MySkillChart.com does not share, sell, rent, or trade any information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
The Company may share Data About MySkillChart.com Customers with other companies in order to work with them, including affiliates of the MySkillChart.com corporate group. For example, the Company may need to share Data About MySkillChart.com Customers for customer relationship management purposes.
From time to time, MySkillChart.com may partner with other companies to jointly offer products or services. If you purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly-offered product or service from MySkillChart.com, the Company may share Data About MySkillChart.com Customers collected in connection with your purchase or expression of interest with our joint promotion partner(s). MySkillChart.com does not control our business partners' use of the Data About MySkillChart.com Customers we collect, and their use of the information will be in accordance with their own privacy policies. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may opt not to purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly offered product or service.
MySkillChart.com does not share Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees with business partners unless: (1) you specifically opt in to such sharing via an event registration form; or (2) you attend a Company event and allow MySkillChart.com or any of its designees to scan your attendee badge. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may choose not to opt in via event registration forms and elect not to have your badge scanned at Company events. If you choose to share your information with business partners in the manners described above, your information will be subject to the business partners' respective privacy statements.
This Privacy Statement sets forth the information MySkillChart.com collects on the Company's Web sites and the information we share with third parties. MySkillChart.com does not authorize the collection of personal information by third parties through advertising technologies deployed on the Company's Web sites, nor do we share personal information with any third parties collected from the Company's Web sites, except as provided in this Privacy Statement. Section 4 of this Privacy Statement, Web Site Navigational Information, specifically addresses the information we collect through cookies and web beacons, and how you can control cookies through your Web browsers.
MySkillChart.com uses a third-party service provider to manage credit card processing. This service provider is not permitted to store, retain, or use Billing Information except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on the Company's behalf.
MySkillChart.com reserves the right to use or disclose information provided if required by law or if the Company reasonably believes that use or disclosure is necessary to protect the Company's rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
The Company primarily stores Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees in the United States. To facilitate MySkillChart.com's global operations, the Company may transfer and access such information from around the world, including from other countries in which the Company has operations. A list of the Company's global offices is available here. This Privacy Statement shall apply even if MySkillChart.com transfers Data About MySkillChart.com Customers or Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees to other countries.
MySkillChart.com offers Visitors, Customers, and Attendees who provide contact information a means to choose how the Company uses the information provided. If you provide MySkillChart.com with contact information, you can manage how the Company uses your information by accessing our Preference Center. You may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link located on the bottom of the Company's marketing emails. Additionally, you can unsubscribe here.
Customers may update or change their registration information by editing their user or organization record. To update a user profile, please login to http://www.MySkillChart.com with your MySkillChart.com username and password and click "Setup." To update an organization's information, please login to http://www.MySkillChart.com with your MySkillChart.com username and password and select "Organization Setup." Attendees may update or change their registration information on the event's Web site after logging in. To update Billing Information or have your registration information deleted, please email support@MySkillChart.com. To discontinue your account and to have information you maintained in the Services returned to you, please email support@MySkillChart.com. Requests to access, change, or delete your information will be handled within 30 days.
MySkillChart.com Customers may electronically submit data or information to the Services for hosting and processing purposes ("Customer Data"). MySkillChart.com will not review, share, distribute, or reference any such Customer Data except as provided in the MySkillChart.com Master Subscription Agreement, or as may be required by law. In accordance with the MySkillChart.com Master Subscription Agreement, MySkillChart.com may access Customer Data only for the purpose of providing the Services or preventing or addressing service or technical problems or as may be required by law. Additional information about the Company's privacy and security practices with respect to Customer Data is available here.
MySkillChart.com uses robust security measures to protect Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees. Because the Company uses the Services to maintain Data About MySkillChart.com Customers and Data About MySkillChart.com Attendees, this information, which is stored in the Services, is secured in the same manner as described here.
Without limiting the generality of this Privacy Statement, in addition to information gathered through its Web sites or submitted to its Services, MySkillChart.com may obtain information through applications ("Mobile Applications") that Customers or their authorized individuals ("Users") download to, and run on, their mobile devices ("Devices"). Mobile Applications provided by MySkillChart.com may obtain information from, or access data stored on, Users' Devices to provide services related to the relevant Mobile Application. For example, a Mobile Application may: access a camera on a User's Device to enable the User to upload photographs to the Services; access the call history on a User's Device to enable the User to upload that information to the Services; access calendar information on a User's Device to enable the User to match meeting attendees with contacts submitted by the User to the Services; access the geographic location of a User's Device to enable the User to identify contacts submitted by the User to the Services who are nearby; or access contact information on a User's Device to enable the User to sync contact information between the information that is stored on the User's Device and the information that is submitted to the Services. Information obtained to provide Mobile Application services may include information obtained in preparation for anticipated updates to those services. Mobile Applications may transmit information to and from Devices to provide the Mobile Application services.
Mobile Applications may provide MySkillChart.com with information related to Users' use of the Mobile Application services, information regarding Users' computer systems, and information regarding Users' interaction with Mobile Applications, which MySkillChart.com may use to provide and improve the Mobile Application services. For example, all actions taken in a Mobile Application may be logged, along with associated information (such as the time of day when each action was taken). MySkillChart.com may also share anonymous data about these actions with third party providers of analytics services. In addition, if a User downloads a MySkillChart.com Mobile Application after clicking on a third-party mobile advertisement for the Mobile Application or for MySkillChart.com, the third-party advertiser may provide MySkillChart.com with certain information, such as the User's Device identification information, which MySkillChart.com may use to track the performance of its advertising campaigns.
Customers may configure MySkillChart.com Mobile Application services, and the information accessed or obtained by the Mobile Application on a User's Device may be affected by the Customer's configuration. In addition, if a Customer purchases more than one Service from MySkillChart.com and its affiliates, a Mobile Application may be designed to interoperate with those Services; for instance, to provide a User with access to information from any or all of those Services or to provide information from a User's Device to any or all of those Services. Information accessed or obtained by the Mobile Application on a User's Device may be accessible to the Customer and its organization, depending on the intended functionality of the Mobile Application.
In addition to Mobile Applications offered by MySkillChart.com, the Company may offer platforms for the creation of third-party Mobile Applications, including but not limited to the MySkillChart1 platform. Third parties may obtain information from, or access data stored on, Users' Devices to provide services associated with any third-party Mobile Applications that Users download, install, use, or otherwise interact with over a MySkillChart.com platform. MySkillChart.com's Mobile Applications may also contain links or integrations to other Mobile Applications provided by third parties. Third parties' use of information collected through third-party Mobile Applications is governed by the privacy statements of such third parties. The Company encourages you to review the privacy statements of third-party providers of Mobile Applications to understand their information practices.
Notices and contractual terms related to a particular Mobile Application may be found in the End User License Agreement or relevant terms of service for that application. The Company encourages you to review the End User License Agreement or relevant terms of service related to any Mobile Applications you download, install, use, or otherwise interact with to understand that Mobile Application's information practices. The Mobile Application's access to information through a User's Device does not cause that information to be "Customer Data" under MySkillChart.com's Master Subscription Agreement with the Customer or under this Privacy Statement, except as follows: To the extent that a User uses a Mobile Application to submit electronic data and information to a Customer account on our Services pursuant to the Customer's Master Subscription Agreement with MySkillChart.com (or a similar agreement that governs the Customer's subscription(s) to MySkillChart.com's Services), that information constitutes "Customer Data" as defined in such agreement, and the provisions of that agreement with respect to privacy and security of such data will apply. Additional information about the Company's privacy and security practices with respect to Customer Data is available here.


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Mana Gea Olive Oil is an heirloom variety with thousands of years of history and YES Greek olive oil is indeed different. Try it and give yourself a treat.
Mana Gea Extra Virgin Olive Oils are produced in Greece on small traditional farms, using practices that are passed from generation to generation for more than 200 years. All oils are made by artisans, and first cold pressed by only mechanical methods. Mana Gea means " Mother Earth" in ancient Greek and the company promotes an alternative way of living, non-GMO and based on pure agricultural products, far away from dangerous and suspicious additives.
The olives come from the land of Monemvasia in Greece; a region well known for its exceptional soil and ideal weather. The acidity level of 0.2% is almost 4 times lower than what is regulated for Extra Virgin Olive Oils. And as you know; the lower the acidity, the better the quality!
Mana Gea Extra Virgin Olive oils are produced from the "Koroneiki" and "Athinoelia". Blending these two different types of olives results in a strong fruity flavor and the subtle aroma of freshly cut olives. The taste is well balanced, mild and fruity with a slightly pepper finish and very low acidity.
Mana Gea Extra Virgin Olive Oil of Organic Farming is produced from the "Koroneiki" olive variety, giving a characteristically mild unique taste and aroma with low acidity. A nose of green olive and hints of green grass are as enticing as the brilliant green color of this medium weight oil. It opens smoothly with plenty of green and ripe fruit before revealing hints of nuttiness and green apple before it moves on to a sharp finish with a modest amount of pepper. The oil comes from groves where strict rules are applied to organic farming. There is no place for fertilizers or sprays, nor any kind of treatment used in the pressing of the olives, the preservation and bottling of the organic olive oil.
Much of the healthy properties (such as polyphenols and antioxidants) are at its highest when the olive oil consumed within 12 months from being bottled. Mana Gea chose to clearly indicate the Harvest time on each bottle and ship products as soon as they are bottled, to ensure the best health benefits and above all, the oil's fresh superb flavor!
It's so mild and perfect for both in sallads and cooking. If you don't like olive oil due to its burning taste then you haven't tried this one. We absolutely love it!


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Q: Altium Designer project version control I am learning Altium Designer and I've controling the project with Arch Linux Subversion server. I've made some changes in the project's sheets and when I try to Commit Whole Project, I get following situation:

Now, as we can see, there is unversioned 'PCB_Project1.Dat' file. Is this file mandatory for non-error project import from Subversion or it must be added to version control?

A: In my experience the .dat file does not need to be placed in version control. I believe it's just basic component information and is updated whenever you generate a BOM.
Take a look at this question for more information about what files you can ignore when committing a project to version control.


The Color you see in the compact is the color you get upon application. All our eye shadows are enriched with three times the pigment.
Ingredients and Key Benefits listed below.
A micro bubble triple milled silky mineral powder shadow go on ultra-smoothly, stays put for hours without creasing, no pulling or dragging the delicate eye area.
Designed for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers.
Our loose shadow powders are ultra shimmering. These finely milled mineral eye shadows are high-impact and long lasting.