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Rashi's Daughters, Book I
Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France (Rashi's Daughters Series)
Maggie Anton
The first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
Joheved, the eldest of his three girls, finds her mind and spirit awakened by religious study, but, knowing the risk, she must keep her passion for learning and prayer hidden. When she becomes betrothed to Meir ben Samuel, she is forced to choose between marital happiness and being true to her love of the Talmud.
Rich in period detail and drama, Joheved is a must read for fans of Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Praise For Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France (Rashi's Daughters Series)…
"Anton delivers a tour de force . . . [Readers] will fly through the pages and come away wishing for more."—Library Journal (starred review)
"A compelling combination of drama, suspense, and romance."—Lilith magazine
Plume, 9780452288621, 384pp.
Maggie Anton was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los Angeles, California. Raised in a secular, socialist household, she reached adulthood with little knowledge of her Jewish religion. All that changed when David Parkhurst, who was to become her husband, entered her life, and they both discovered Judaism as adults. In the early 1990's, Anton began studying Talmud in a class for women taught by Rachel Adler, now a professor at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. She became intrigued with the idea that Rashi, one of the greatest Jewish scholars ever, had no sons, only three daughters. Slowly but surely, she began to research the family and the time in which they lived. Legend has it that Rashi's daughters were learned in a time when women were traditionally forbidden to study the sacred texts. These forgotten women seemed ripe for rediscovery, and the idea of a book about them was born.
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What tone does the opening scene set? What does it tell you about Joheved's character?
Describe how the bond between Joheved and Salomon develops and changes with time? Discuss the pros and cons of Jewish childhood in medieval France.
Rashi's Daughters is filled with carefully researched historical anecdotes that the author uses as inspiration for her own imagined scenes. Discuss this interplay of fact and fiction.
Rivka is upset with her daughters learning Talmud. Are her objections reasonable? Why would men not want women in a position of knowledge? What is threatening about educated women? Discuss the role of women in medieval society versus their role today.
Joheved and Meir have an arranged marriage, as do Salomon and Rivka. Compare Joheved and Meir's relationship to Salomon and Rivka's? To Miriam and Benjamin's? Discuss the pros and cons of arranged marriage versus marrying for love. Why would Sarah prefer widowhood to remarriage?
Salomon's decision to write down his kuntres is a controversial innovation. Discuss how a society is changed in a shift from oral to written tradition.
Relations between French Jews and Christians were fairly tolerant during this time. Was this lack of overt anti-Semitism surprising? What other myths about medieval times did Rashi's Daughters debunk?
Which characters resonated the most powerfully for you? Were there others you would have liked to have known more about? Why?
What do you see in the future for Rachel? Are there any clues that indicate what might happen?
Religion was a powerful force for both Jews and Christians in medieval times. Is religion as powerful now? How does your religion, or lack of one, influence your life?


presumably laid down onto a modern card as the museum gives further dimensions of 406 x 559mm.
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne's residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale's granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP189). In 1933 Judith Merivale sold it for £6 10s., to Squire Gallery, from whom it was presumably acquired by the Fine Art Society, where it was on sale from 1936. On 14 May 1937 it was purchased by Joseph de Carle Smith of Norwich (d. ca. 1980) for £21. It is thereafter untraced until it was sold at Phillips on 21 November 1988, lot 23, for £5,800 to Agnew's, with whom it remained until at least 1993. In 2001 Donald Stone of New York gave it to the current owner, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2001.135.1).
1 This information was provided by Brian Pearce of the Exmoor National Parks Authority in email correspondence with the author, December 2005.


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Award-winning author talks about importance of football to civil rights movement
TCU 360 Staff
When history looks back on the civil rights movement in America, it is not often through the lens of college football.
Samuel Freedman, a New York Times columnist and award-winning author, however, sees it through that lens.
Freedman visited TCU's campus Monday night to talk about the significance of black players in college football and their role in the civil rights movement.
Freedman's latest book, "Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football that Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights," lead the lecture about a 1969 football game between the Florida A&M Rattlers and the Tampa Spartans and the events preceding it.
"There is no civil rights movement without the HBCUs [historically black colleges and universities]," Freedman said.
Freedman referred to the "James Harris Experiment" (the efforts of Coach Eddie Robinson to make Harris a successful quarterback) as the precipitator to desegregated college football.
Harris is known for becoming the first black quarterback to play in the NFL.
Melita Garza, assistant journalism professor, wrote in an email that the Schieffer School Faculty's Diversity Committee is working to develop new initiatives to highlight diversity and the media.
"One of these [initiatives] is to bring high profile journalists and strategic communicators to campus," Garza wrote.
Freedman said that it is an "honor" to write about black college football and its' significance to the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Freedman is a tenured professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The Society of Professional Journalists named him the nation's outstanding journalism educator in 1997, according to his website.
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Melville House Books
The TA Translation Prize hopes to shed light on the tireless work that sustains translated literature
by Alex Primiani
I don't know where you were last Thursday, March 1, but we here at Melville House were eagerly following the new TA First Translation Prize on Twitter for the announcement of their inaugural winner. Our very own break-out novel The Queue—and its writer and translator, Basma Abdel Aziz and Elisabeth Jaquette, respectively, as well as editor Taylor Sperry—was one of the finalists. Alas-but-also-hooray, the award went to another deserving team, and its creator, Daniel Hahn, went to the Guardian to discuss just how much we need an award dedicated to the art of translation.
Hahn writes:
Literary translation is a difficult profession to break into. Plenty of people want to do it, but in the insular English-speaking world, there's regrettably little work to go around, and it's easier for publishers to entrust their books to already-known translators who are seen as less of a risk. But there are many benefits to widening our pool of working translators, not least because new translators often lead us to meet new writers. More than half of the books submitted for the TA first translation prize are debuts for their translators as well as English-language debuts for their authors, showing that translators are in the vanguard of literary change.
Hahn also (rightfully) acknowledges all the collaborative partnerships that come together to help bring new works to a global audience. From agents championing their writers' work, to the editors who help direct the process, to the translators who actually bring the work to life, this prize hopes to honor all of them.
In 2017, Hahn partnered with the Society of Authors and the British Council to launch the prize, using half of the International Dublin Literary Award money he received for his own work translating José Eduardo Agualusa's A General Theory of Oblivion. What a saint!
At the Bookseller, Katherine Cowdrey includes Hahn's reasoning behind this decision: "I was very fortunate to have been named as one of the winners of the International Dublin Literary Award, alongside my friend José Eduardo Agualusa (the first writer I ever translated). Obviously, I'm as broke as the next translator, but the prize pot of the IDLA is so generous that even half of it is a sizeable amount to keep; so, I'm giving the other half to support the first few years of a new prize, which will be run by the Society of Authors."
Svetlana Alexievich.
The TA Translation Prize is in its first year, and the committee's selection is impressive: Five out of the six shortlisted titles were by women, and one title, The Sad Part Was, is the first translated work of modern Thai to be published in the UK. Of course, we were delighted and honored to see The Queue included in the shortlist, and we send our heartfelt congratulations to the winners: Svetlana Alexievich, translator Bela Shayevich, and editor Jacques Testard, for Second-Hand Time, Alexievich's first book to be published in English after her 2015 Nobel Prize win.
Alex Primiani is the associate director of publicity at Melville House.
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Desiree Llaguno, a Cuban attorney and member of the Society of International Law of the National Union of Jurists of Cuba, claims that Cuba has one of the best human rights records in the world. This assertion was published in Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, on May 14, the day before Cuba's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the U.N. Human Rights council in Geneva, Switzerland.
The foundation for this claim is Cuba's ratification of 44 of the 61 international human rights instruments. In so doing, Cuba adopts and incorporates those obligations to "the national reality." In at least one instance (the Convention on the Rights of the Child), Cuba exceeds the obligations of the treaty.
In contrast, Cuba says, the U.S. has ratified only 18 of these 61 international treaties.
 Cuba, among the countries most committed to human rights, Granma (May 14, 2018) Other details about the upcoming UPR of Cuba are set forth in (a) What do you know about the presentation of Cuba in the Universal Periodic Review on Human rights (+PDF), Cubadebate (May 15, 2018); and these posts to dwkcommentaries: Cuba's Human Rights Record Being Subjected to Universal Periodic Review by U.N. Human Rights Council (April 30, 2018); Advance Questions for Cuba's Universal Periodic Review by the U.N. Human Rights Council (May 11, 2018).
 The U.S. record of acceptance of multilateral human rights treaties is discussed in these posts to dwkcommentaries.com: Multilateral Treaties Ratified by the U.S. [Nineteen] (Feb. 9, 2013); Multilateral Treaties signed, But Not Ratified, by the U.S. [Nine] (Feb. 12, 2013); Multilateral Treaties Not Signed and Ratified by the U.S. [Seven] (Feb. 16, 2013).


In the year 1975, when I returned back home from my first ever tour of Europe, I knew that my son, then just 6 years old, would be eagerly awaiting my arrival for his first ever foreign gift of chocolates and toys. I had already purchased from the prestigious Harrods store in London, a grand gift for him, which fitted my meager budget and crippling import restrictions, India had in those days. After I reached home, I had opened my bags and had seen my son's face lit up as I handed over the gifts to him.
After so many years, I still see the same scene repeated again, whenever my son, now a businessman, returns home from one of his frequent trips abroad and hands over gifts to his 9 year old son. Though, so many years have passed in between and there are no more import restrictions, there is something that is surprisingly the same. It is the gift that has remained the same through all these years. By now, many of the readers might have correctly guessed the gift. It surely is a brand new LEGO set.
LEGO remains even today, one of the top favourites of children from all over the world. LEGO's flagship product still remains its famous 8 legged interlocking plastic brick. These LEGO bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects. The child's imagination is the limit here, nothing else. As of 2013, around 560 billion Lego parts had been produced.
In 1978, LEGO produced its first minifigures, which resemble humans as well as animals and have since become a staple in most sets. These minifigures, many a times called as "minifig" are small plastic articulated figurines that have become hugely successful with over 3.7 billion produced. Some of the figurines are named as specific characters, (such as from Star Wars) or are of LEGO's own creation. Most are unnamed and are designed simply to fit within a certain theme such as police officers, astronauts and pirates. Even simple everyday figurines of babies, girls and boys, moms and pops, grandparents are also supplied with suitably named sets. They are highly customizable and parts from different figures can be mixed and matched, resulting in a large number of combinations.
Over the years, LEGO figurines have become collectibles and are also sold separately as keychains and magnets. LEGO executives have been using personalised minifigures in place of business cards, with email and phone details on the front and back of the torso, and hair and facial features designed to resemble each executive. They also appear in video games and short films.
Considering the immense international popularity of LEGO figurines, it was no wonder that they appeared in advertisements. But now they are also being used to deliver a powerful political message to the viewers very effectively. A photo of a LEGO man stopping a line a LEGO tanks was published by China's Netease Web site as a part of a slide show to mark Children's Day on June 1. 2013. It was perhaps the most powerful pictorial commentary that commemorated the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre crackdown in Beijing of June 3–4, 1989, when troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted thousands of casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance on Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
This week, LEGO figurines have appeared on the walls in Malaysia delivering a powerful message. The original mural first appeared on a wall in the southern Malaysian city of Johor Baru, just across a narrow strip of sea from Singapore. The mural depicted a woman drawn in the style of a LEGO figurine walking towards a street corner, where a black-clad, knife-wielding LEGO figurine robber waited to pounce. The mural, by 27 year Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic, who lives in Penang, was intended as a commentary on the city's reputation for crime. The very fact, that only last year, a Legoland theme park has opened not very far from this city and many tourists from Singapore and other places are visiting Johor Baru, to visit the amusement park, makes the use of LEGO figurines in this mural much more significant.
Angry city officials quickly painted white paint over the figurines, but the image has struck a chord in the minds of the people concerned over crime. Within next few days, the images of the street mural have gone viral on the net. Across Malaysia, many versions of the mural have popped up. Copies of the mural by other artists as well as paper cut-outs featuring the figurines have appeared at sites in Johor Baru, the capital Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere. Social media web sites are filling with photos of the copies.
A new Facebook page has appeared in Chinese ( Malaysia has a large Chinese minority) that is dedicated to the phenomenon and has drawn more than 16,000 "likes." Advertisements for sale of Tee shirts with the figures of figurines printed on them have appeared on Facebook with 20 ringgit ($6) apiece, as the price. One posting in Chinese declared Zacharevic "Malaysia's Banksy," after the British street art superstar.
Malaysians have been expressing increasing alarm over a perceived rise in crime in recent years, with gang wars being played in the cities. Effective use of LEGO figurines just proves how efficacious they can be.
Those of my readers, who are from India, can easily remember how effective the advertisements from the Milk products co-operative 'Amul' are, which always show a neatly turned out small chubby girl along with other characters and a catch line that relates to any news worthy event. The LEGO figurines are proving to be efficacious in a similar fashion. It is clear that the international media have found a new powerful tool to address concerns of the people; The world of LEGO figurines.


October 15, 2014 I received my last chemo treatment - I am a 3 year survivor. Praise God!!
駱 I'm here 駱亂 I was dx'd with triple negative cancer April 2008. I had lumpectomy, chemo & radiation. I'm still cancer free. Not a day goes by that I don't fear recurrence, but I do try not to get depressed & scared like I used to. I was diagnosed on my 44th birthday  woohoo what a birthday present, right? Don't get too down, I think there are way more triple negative survivors out there than we ever hear about.
Happy to report that my daughter, diagnosed at age 36 with TNBC, will turn 50 in May, and is NED.
Can others please post. Your stories offer much needed hope/encouragement!
I don't come on this forum very often anymore, but when I was diagnosed, and all through my first two years following diagnosis, this site was a lifeline for me.
I am currently 3 years and 9 months since my diagnosis!
delighted you are doing well!!!!
I am now 5 years since dx with stage 2A. 2.5 cm multifocal tumor in my right breast. I was dx November 2012, mastectomy and immediate implant January 21, 2013. 4 doses of adrymyicin and cytoxin, then 12 weekly taxol. I'm doing great no setbacks other then still trying to lose 20 pounds! I had my checkup yesterday at Duke Cancer Center in Durham NC. I moved from Ohio to Durham after I finished treatment to pursue my career as a licensed nursing home administrator. I didn't want to wait. I'm still nervous about cancer but each day and month then year it gets better! Duke also told me to come back in a year! First time I've heard that since the journey began!! God Bless you all.
DX age 41 on 11/14/12, multi focal medullary carcinoma features 2.5 cm, simple mastectomy right breast 1/21/13, Grade 2, 0/3 lymph node, 4 AC DD and 12 wkly taxol.Finished 6/26/13.
I have great news. I finished all treatments and headed back into my "annual" mammogram last week. They used the 3D bilateral imagery. To be honest, the mammogram process did not hurt as much as I thought it would. I received my letter in the mail over the weekend with the words "normal mammogram result". I met with my PCP and she completed my "MD breast exam" which my medical oncologist said I must have done by a doctor every six months. All good. My blood work (all the normal stuff) came back great with the exception of a low white blood count (they said that would be the case for the first 18 months post chemo). I head to my medical and radiology oncologist in January for my six month "oncologist" check up. I will be requesting a plastic surgeon consult as I have decided to reduce the unaffected breast down to the same size as my affected breast (leveling them out). I have opted not to have surgery on my affected breast because of the extensive radiation.
I am posting this because I needed to see something like this last year when I was diagnosed. Last Christmas I was in surgery, petrified and heading into this chaos. Most of 2017 I was in treatment from surgery, chemo, RADS, port removal, CT scan and check ups. I was afraid at the front end of this journey and once the plan was put into motion, I settled down. My hair is growing back and I have learned to simplify my life. I don't worry about all the things I used to. Am I better from this experience? yes is the honest answer. I don't know if this helps anyone at all but I wanted to post on the off chance that someone needed to hear this today.
May God bless you during this time - I know He has blessed me.
10 years later... I am doing fine just fine! I hope this helps! There is life after tnbc.
I was diagnosed in May of 2010.Still here 7 1/2 years later I still worry but it gets less.
Haven't been on the blog in a while, hello all!
Diagnosed 2011, 6 years & still here. continued MRIs annually, just had whole body bone scan all clear.
Did have a PET scan November of 2015 which showed I had something in my colon that took up a lot of isotope, was precancerous and 1 foot of colon came out but all clear nodes clear. I delayed going for colonoscopy because I didn't want to drink the sludge, turned out i didn't have to drink the sludge.
What is that?! Been through a war with cancer & other challenges and was afraid of that. Shellshock maybe.
I know the feeling of shellshock. Did they test you for Lynch Syndrome? Do you have to get more frequent colonoscopies?
I just scheduled my first colonoscopy for early February..I could've done it now, but I'm dreading the prep so much. And my December last year was so awful...and..and I'm making up excuses left and right, lol. Thanks for posting, it's made me stiffen my spine and commit to the damn test So glad you're doing well!
First, I'm delighted to read your daughter is a strong survivor for many years, Steve! That's true awesomeness and inspiration for many!
It will be 6 years since my bilateral mastectomy, which you can see in my stats was in March. My doctor counts it differently and says I've already bypassed 6 years. I look at it as the end of chemo which wiped out what Taxol did not.
My very best to all.
I had to look up lynch syndrome, honestly I don't know if I was ever tested. Since it appears to be genetic would that have been one tested with the bread? I know they tested a number of things.
Guess I need to ask huh? But then what preventative would there be anyway?
Also getting epidural shots this Thursday for herniated disc in my neck. Scared!
Not all gastro docs make you drink the Go-lighly, or whatever that huge jug of tear/sea water is called. Due to some flat and precancerous type polyps versus the more benign that grow on stems, I'm on an every 3 year schedule. On my 2nd 3-year colonoscopy my oncologist recommended her new gastro who uses purely OTC prep. Miralax, Metamucil and Dulcolax. He does recommend if you're constipated badly to start with a bottle of Magnesium Citrate, but the lemon flavor tastes fine over ice and there's no RX involved.
You might ask your doctors if you could do a similar type of prep. I understand more gastrointestinal doctors are going this route, at least in my area.
Hope all turned out well for you both!
I had the Mira lax/ ducolax prep.


Although we may know her best for the magnificent mangoes she grows at JJ's Farm, Jill Wilson from Karakin, has been recognised in the recent Australia Day Awards with a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service to conservation and the environment.
Even before she and John Reymond bought their farm 20 years ago, Jill worked in the region for the Department of Agriculture, after completing a PHD in Plant pathology and soil microbiology at UWA in 1984. She was an early pioneer in sustainable agriculture (before it became trendy) and was the Sustainable Rural Development Manager, Northern Agricultural Region, Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, based in Geralton for many years.
She was a founding member of Northern Agricultural Catchments Council ( NACC) back in 1996 and contributed hugely to the organisation as Board Member, Director and Chair until 2017. Around the same time she was one of the founders of the Rural, Remote and Regional Women's Network, a not-for-profit communication network for inspiring and connecting regional women, with a 21-year history of championing the role of women in our communities and advocating on their behalf.
She has been involved in countless organisations supporting regional growth, including WA Landskills, Moore Catchment Council, West Midlands Group, Dorper Sheep Society of Australia, WA Livestock Research Council and Southern Mango Grower Group.
Although her contributions to these organisations is most worthy of acknowledgement, it is perhaps her support of the next generation that has earned her this recent recognition.
Grain and potato grower Bronwyn Williams Fox worked with Jill at West Midlands Natural Resource Management Group ( now West Midlands Group) during her early days living in the region and says Jill was a reliable source of encouragement. "Jill has a wonderful leadership style that makes you feel valued. She is always supportive, yet can be relied upon for her honesty and constructive criticism," said Bronwyn.
Jill has always loved caring for the environment and describes herself as an outdoorsy person. Her 'semi-retirement' project alongside John has been the development of their 80 ha property 15km east of Lancelin where they tend to their 2000-odd mango trees and a select breeding flock of White Dorper sheep.
You'll find Jill busy picking mangoes this month as their crop is on the cusp of ripening in the next two weeks. Local mango lovers can buy their fruit direct from JJ's Farm at 407 Sappers Rd, as well as from the back of John and Jill's ute as they join other local growers at the Bindoon Primary School Fete and Mango Festival on 16 March. They are looking forward to sharing their love of mangoes with the local community. "People do love mangoes and we love them too!" says John.


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stop on the entrance ramp and wait for an opening in traffic.
check for cars, increase speed to match the flow of traffic and merge when the way is clear.
4. If a vehicle suddenly cuts in front of you creating a hazard, which of these actions should you take first?
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Stop and yield the right of way.
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Remembered mostly for his poetry, in his own day he was also celebrated—and maligned—for his scathing manifestos, outrageous remarks in interviews, and polemical essays, several of which sharply criticized the opinions of his creator, Fernando Pessoa —Portugal's greatest modernist writer.
On the heels of Caeiro, two further poets follow in rapid succession: He killed some off and let others live.
De Campos, the most interesting of the group, begins with the dynamic 'Triumphal Ode': His father, Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa, died of tuberculosis when Pessoa was young. That he was so obsessively drawn to Shakespeare's Hamlet was more telling than he may have realized.
The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races. He smoked eighty cigarettes dell v520 printer wireless hook up for laptop and drank a lot.
Smell is a strange sight. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside. English note heteronimos fernando pessoa yahoo dating the hand of the poet in the same paper sheet: Pessoa's first book Antinous appeared in and was followed by two other collection of poems, all written in English.
It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. Pessoa argued that just as a novelist becomes annoyed when readers assume that his characters' feelings and experiences are mere stand-ins for his own, so too should people respect that Pessoa's heteronyms were utterly separate from him.
Like Cioran re-writing Hopscotch, it is a monumental treatise on dejection, consisting of stray aphoristic fragments composed over decades, for which no satisfactory order has ever been deduced.
He once wrote that he wanted to be loved, but never to love: It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten.
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. What do you get out of it besides the dubious pleasure of making fun of me? On a strictly intellectual life. The heteronyms dialogue with each other and even with Pessoa in what he calls "the theatre of being" or "drama in people".
I was only content with activity just enough to stimulate me, not to let myself be forgotten. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. Pity him who is happy! It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as. Pessoa once described his oeuvre as "a drama divided into people instead of into acts.
Here lies, on the small farthest beach, the Captain of the End. Whose the keels I see and hear?
Caeiro is the father in the Pessoan family romance, the original vessel, of which Campos, Reis and Pessoa himself are fallen shards. He became a respected intellectual figure, if not quite a celebrity, but his literary genius was not widely recognized until after he died.
As the scholar Jorge de Sena noted at the first international symposium on the author's work held at Brown University inPessoa was hardly the first to eradicate any trace of autobiographical feeling and experience from his writing.
Some of them are relatives or know each other; they criticise and translate each other's works. Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. At first it was ridiculed, but soon the publication won respect, and the criticism that appeared in Orpheu became highly influential. He was five when his father, the music critic Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa, died of tuberculosis.
Then there was Jean Seul, who wrote only in French. It began in the spirit of playfulness "I thought of playing a joke As Richard Zenith has written, the work stands "like variously sized building blocks—some rough, others exquisitely fashioned—of an impossible but marvelous monument.
He looked about thirty, thin, rather above average height, exaggeratedly bent over when seated but less so when he stood up, dressed with a certain negligence, which was not entirely negligence. He lives because life lasts.
Because "true" biographical information about him is so limited, it is difficult to say. From an early age he would compose letters to himself from imaginary correspondents.
The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other. He annihilated himself in the name of artistic creation. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
Like a Greek god, or a Flann O'Brien narrator, characters spring from his brow, fully-formed, to embark on mundane careers and marvellous voyages.
He is also regarded as one of the greatest modernists in any language and is surely one of the most fascinating literary figures of any era. These diverse personae—or, Pessoae, you might say—wrote thousands and thousands of pages, and most of those texts were left behind as fragments to be transcribed and translated after Pessoa's death.
He had "no profession or any sort of education," was of medium height, pale, with blue eyes, and died consumptive.
He elaborated horoscopes of his main heteronyms in order to determine their personalities. The monumental task of deciphering, organizing, and translating his work is still in progress, and perhaps always will be. Later he worked as a bookkeeper. Anon was supposedly English, while Search, although English, was born in Lisbon.
He dressed formally, with a bow tie and homburg hat. Nothing within him whispers More than the primeval law: He had produced what is believed to be his first poem in the summer ofwhen he was seven years old, in response to learning that the family would be moving to South Africa.
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package lila.api

import chess.format.FEN
import play.api.i18n.Lang
import play.api.libs.json._

import lila.analyse.{ JsonView => analysisJson, Analysis }
import lila.common.ApiVersion
import lila.game.{ Game, Pov }
import lila.pref.Pref
import lila.round.JsonView.WithFlags
import lila.round.{ Forecast, JsonView }
import lila.security.Granter
import lila.simul.Simul
import lila.swiss.{ GameView => SwissView }
import lila.tournament.{ GameView => TourView }
import lila.tree.Node.partitionTreeJsonWriter
import lila.user.User

final private[api] class RoundApi(
    jsonView: JsonView,
    noteApi: lila.round.NoteApi,
    forecastApi: lila.round.ForecastApi,
    bookmarkApi: lila.bookmark.BookmarkApi,
    gameRepo: lila.game.GameRepo,
    tourApi: lila.tournament.TournamentApi,
    swissApi: lila.swiss.SwissApi,
    simulApi: lila.simul.SimulApi,
    getTeamName: lila.team.GetTeamName,
    getLightUser: lila.common.LightUser.GetterSync
)(implicit ec: scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext) {

  def player(pov: Pov, tour: Option[TourView], apiVersion: ApiVersion)(implicit
      ctx: Context
  ): Fu[JsObject] =
    gameRepo
      .initialFen(pov.game)
      .flatMap { initialFen =>
        implicit val lang = ctx.lang
        jsonView.playerJson(
          pov,
          ctx.pref,
          apiVersion,
          ctx.me,
          withFlags = ctxFlags,
          initialFen = initialFen,
          nvui = ctx.blind
        ) zip
          (pov.game.simulId ?? simulApi.find) zip
          swissApi.gameView(pov) zip
          (ctx.me.ifTrue(ctx.isMobileApi) ?? (me => noteApi.get(pov.gameId, me.id))) zip
          forecastApi.loadForDisplay(pov) zip
          bookmarkApi.exists(pov.game, ctx.me) map {
            case (((((json, simul), swiss), note), forecast), bookmarked) =>
              (
                withTournament(pov, tour) _ compose
                  withSwiss(swiss) compose
                  withSimul(simul) compose
                  withSteps(pov, initialFen) compose
                  withNote(note) compose
                  withBookmark(bookmarked) compose
                  withForecastCount(forecast.map(_.steps.size))
              )(json)
          }
      }
      .mon(_.round.api.player)

  def watcher(
      pov: Pov,
      tour: Option[TourView],
      apiVersion: ApiVersion,
      tv: Option[lila.round.OnTv],
      initialFenO: Option[Option[FEN]] = None
  )(implicit ctx: Context): Fu[JsObject] =
    initialFenO
      .fold(gameRepo initialFen pov.game)(fuccess)
      .flatMap { initialFen =>
        implicit val lang = ctx.lang
        jsonView.watcherJson(
          pov,
          ctx.pref,
          apiVersion,
          ctx.me,
          tv,
          initialFen = initialFen,
          withFlags = ctxFlags
        ) zip
          (pov.game.simulId ?? simulApi.find) zip
          swissApi.gameView(pov) zip
          (ctx.me.ifTrue(ctx.isMobileApi) ?? (me => noteApi.get(pov.gameId, me.id))) zip
          bookmarkApi.exists(pov.game, ctx.me) map { case ((((json, simul), swiss), note), bookmarked) =>
            (
              withTournament(pov, tour) _ compose
                withSwiss(swiss) compose
                withSimul(simul) compose
                withNote(note) compose
                withBookmark(bookmarked) compose
                withSteps(pov, initialFen)
            )(json)
          }
      }
      .mon(_.round.api.watcher)

  private def ctxFlags(implicit ctx: Context) =
    WithFlags(blurs = ctx.me ?? Granter(_.ViewBlurs), rating = ctx.pref.showRatings)

  def review(
      pov: Pov,
      apiVersion: ApiVersion,
      tv: Option[lila.round.OnTv] = None,
      analysis: Option[Analysis] = None,
      initialFenO: Option[Option[FEN]] = None,
      withFlags: WithFlags,
      owner: Boolean = false
  )(implicit ctx: Context): Fu[JsObject] =
    initialFenO
      .fold(gameRepo initialFen pov.game)(fuccess)
      .flatMap { initialFen =>
        implicit val lang = ctx.lang
        jsonView.watcherJson(
          pov,
          ctx.pref,
          apiVersion,
          ctx.me,
          tv,
          initialFen = initialFen,
          withFlags = withFlags.copy(blurs = ctx.me ?? Granter(_.ViewBlurs))
        ) zip
          tourApi.gameView.analysis(pov.game) zip
          (pov.game.simulId ?? simulApi.find) zip
          swissApi.gameView(pov) zip
          ctx.userId.ifTrue(ctx.isMobileApi).?? {
            noteApi.get(pov.gameId, _)
          } zip
          (owner.??(forecastApi loadForDisplay pov)) zip
          bookmarkApi.exists(pov.game, ctx.me) map {
            case ((((((json, tour), simul), swiss), note), fco), bookmarked) =>
              (
                withTournament(pov, tour) _ compose
                  withSwiss(swiss) compose
                  withSimul(simul) compose
                  withNote(note) compose
                  withBookmark(bookmarked) compose
                  withTree(pov, analysis, initialFen, withFlags) compose
                  withAnalysis(pov.game, analysis) compose
                  withForecast(pov, owner, fco)
              )(json)
          }
      }
      .mon(_.round.api.watcher)

  def embed(
      pov: Pov,
      apiVersion: ApiVersion,
      analysis: Option[Analysis] = None,
      initialFenO: Option[Option[FEN]] = None,
      withFlags: WithFlags
  ): Fu[JsObject] =
    initialFenO
      .fold(gameRepo initialFen pov.game)(fuccess)
      .flatMap { initialFen =>
        jsonView.watcherJson(
          pov,
          Pref.default,
          apiVersion,
          none,
          none,
          initialFen = initialFen,
          withFlags = withFlags
        ) map { json =>
          (
            withTree(pov, analysis, initialFen, withFlags) _ compose
              withAnalysis(pov.game, analysis)
          )(json)
        }
      }
      .mon(_.round.api.embed)

  def userAnalysisJson(
      pov: Pov,
      pref: Pref,
      initialFen: Option[FEN],
      orientation: chess.Color,
      owner: Boolean,
      me: Option[User]
  ) =
    owner.??(forecastApi loadForDisplay pov).map { fco =>
      withForecast(pov, owner, fco) {
        withTree(pov, analysis = none, initialFen, WithFlags(opening = true)) {
          jsonView.userAnalysisJson(pov, pref, initialFen, orientation, owner = owner, me = me)
        }
      }
    }

  def freeStudyJson(
      pov: Pov,
      pref: Pref,
      initialFen: Option[FEN],
      orientation: chess.Color,
      me: Option[User]
  ) =
    withTree(pov, analysis = none, initialFen, WithFlags(opening = true))(
      jsonView.userAnalysisJson(pov, pref, initialFen, orientation, owner = false, me = me)
    )

  private def withTree(pov: Pov, analysis: Option[Analysis], initialFen: Option[FEN], withFlags: WithFlags)(
      obj: JsObject
  ) =
    obj + ("treeParts" -> partitionTreeJsonWriter.writes(
      lila.round.TreeBuilder(pov.game, analysis, initialFen | pov.game.variant.initialFen, withFlags)
    ))

  private def withSteps(pov: Pov, initialFen: Option[FEN])(obj: JsObject) =
    obj + ("steps" -> lila.round.StepBuilder(
      id = pov.gameId,
      pgnMoves = pov.game.pgnMoves,
      variant = pov.game.variant,
      initialFen = initialFen | pov.game.variant.initialFen
    ))

  private def withNote(note: String)(json: JsObject) =
    if (note.isEmpty) json else json + ("note" -> JsString(note))

  private def withBookmark(v: Boolean)(json: JsObject) =
    json.add("bookmarked" -> v)

  private def withForecastCount(count: Option[Int])(json: JsObject) =
    count.filter(0 !=).fold(json) { c =>
      json + ("forecastCount" -> JsNumber(c))
    }

  private def withForecast(pov: Pov, owner: Boolean, fco: Option[Forecast])(json: JsObject) =
    if (pov.game.forecastable && owner)
      json + (
        "forecast" -> {
          if (pov.forecastable) fco.fold[JsValue](Json.obj("none" -> true)) { fc =>
            import Forecast.forecastJsonWriter
            Json toJson fc
          }
          else Json.obj("onMyTurn" -> true)
        }
      )
    else json

  private def withAnalysis(g: Game, o: Option[Analysis])(json: JsObject) =
    json.add(
      "analysis",
      o.map { a =>
        analysisJson.bothPlayers(g, a)
      }
    )

  def withTournament(pov: Pov, viewO: Option[TourView])(json: JsObject)(implicit lang: Lang) =
    json.add("tournament" -> viewO.map { v =>
      Json
        .obj(
          "id"      -> v.tour.id,
          "name"    -> v.tour.name(full = false),
          "running" -> v.tour.isStarted
        )
        .add("secondsToFinish" -> v.tour.isStarted.option(v.tour.secondsToFinish))
        .add("berserkable" -> v.tour.isStarted.option(v.tour.berserkable))
        // mobile app API BC / should use game.expiration instead
        .add("nbSecondsForFirstMove" -> v.tour.isStarted.option {
          pov.game.timeForFirstMove.toSeconds
        })
        .add("ranks" -> v.ranks.map { r =>
          Json.obj(
            "white" -> r.whiteRank,
            "black" -> r.blackRank
          )
        })
        .add(
          "top",
          v.top.map {
            lila.tournament.JsonView.top(_, getLightUser)
          }
        )
        .add(
          "team",
          v.teamVs.map(_.teams(pov.color)) map { id =>
            Json.obj("name" -> getTeamName(id))
          }
        )
    })

  def withSwiss(sv: Option[SwissView])(json: JsObject) =
    json.add("swiss" -> sv.map { s =>
      Json
        .obj(
          "id"      -> s.swiss.id.value,
          "running" -> s.swiss.isStarted
        )
        .add("ranks" -> s.ranks.map { r =>
          Json.obj(
            "white" -> r.whiteRank,
            "black" -> r.blackRank
          )
        })
    })

  private def withSimul(simulOption: Option[Simul])(json: JsObject) =
    json.add(
      "simul",
      simulOption.map { simul =>
        Json.obj(
          "id"        -> simul.id,
          "hostId"    -> simul.hostId,
          "name"      -> simul.name,
          "nbPlaying" -> simul.playingPairings.size
        )
      }
    )
}

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All Time Low Team Up with Demi Lovato for Latest Version of "Monsters"
by Macie Bennett December 4, 2020, 11:32 am
All Time Low released their eighth studio album Wake Up Sunshine earlier this spring. It featured hits like "Some Kind of Disaster" and to-die-for radio collabs like "Monsters" featuring blackbear and "Favorite Place" featuring The Band CAMINO. And today they are adding another partnership to the list with pop icon Demi Lovato.
"Monsters" featuring blackbear gave the band their first radio No.1. The single peaked on Billboard charts holding the position for nearly three months. And with the newest version the song featuring added vocals by Lovato, the song is sure to see another peak.
"Demi's been a friend for a long time and we're really excited that she was down to lend her absolutely incredible voice to this song as we reimagine it and continue to celebrate all the ways it's connecting with fans around the world," All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth said.
The new version of "Monsters" is accompanied by a new animated lyric video available here on American Songwriter. Wake up Sunshine was originally debuted on ABC's Good Morning America here. The tracklist and performance was praised by Forbes as "an album that crackles with youthful exuberance and the energy of a live show." You can watch the original performance here before checking out the latest installment, a resurgence of the bands Basement Noise concert series.
The series initially aired in Nashville on October 9. And was the first of a five-night streaming event and will be picking back up tonight with Gaskarth's set and then on December 18 with a set chosen by guitarist Jack Barakat. Tickets to the event can be found here.
In addition to the new collab with Lovato and the latest streaming event, All Time Low released a wine, Summer Daze Rose in partnership with Wines That Rock. Be sure to garb your own bottle here on the band's webstore after checking out the new "Monsters" featuring blackbear and Demi Lovato here on American Songwriter.
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During this period, Superintendent of Police, Shri T.R. Kosima told representatives of political parties that if the candidates who contest the elections are required to have security arrangements then they can apply through District Election Officer. They will be provided security by the Police Department, whose expenses will be added to the candidate's account. Expenditure Observer Mr. Parag K Singh instructed the representatives of political parties to accurately calculate the expenditure incurred by the candidates during the election.


An ambient album full of layers of strange sounds and music that has a distinct sound that reminds me of the Metroid Prime soundtracks for some reason (especially track 2, "14 31"). Some of thr tracks have a slow beat to them, but not all. My favorite tracks are 2, 4, 8, 9, and 10.


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In the Bleachers
Find sources: "In the Bleachers" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Steve Moore (1985–2018)
Ben Zaehringer (2018–present)
www.gocomics.com/inthebleachers
Current status/schedule
Current daily gag panel
September 1, 1985; 34 years ago (September 1, 1985)
Syndicate(s)
Tribune Media Services (1985–1995)
Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (1995–present)[1]
Warner Books
Sports, Humor
In the Bleachers is a comic strip that comments on, and lampoons, sports. It was created in 1985 by American cartoonist/filmmaker Steve Moore and is currently syndicated internationally by Andrews McMeel Syndication.[2]
3 In other media
The single-panel cartoon appears in about 200 newspapers worldwide, including the Washington Post.[3] Moore got the idea for In the Bleachers while working as sports editor at The Maui News. The comic was launched in 1985,[2] shortly after Moore was hired as an editor at the Los Angeles Times.[1]
In a July 2018 interview, Moore said that because of his condition of essential tremor, he could no longer create the comic strip.[4] The current writer is Ben Zaehringer.[5]
In the Bleachers has been published in six book collections, including The Best of In the Bleachers by Warner Books.
In 2006, Sony Pictures Animation released the movie Open Season based on In the Bleachers hunting-related cartoons. Moore was executive producer, along with partner and producer John Carls. The movie grossed nearly $200 million worldwide. There were also sequels called Open Season 2, Open Season 3 and Open Season: Scared Silly.
On November 4, 2002, 15-second animated shorts by Ed Wexler and Gary Katona of Disney Television Animation began airing on ESPN. Voices included April Winchell, Kevin Michael Richardson and Jeff Bennett.[6][2]
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Golden Mile Tower: The old and new
27 Jan, 2016 in news by Team Golden Mile Tower
A great number of the shops are closed, and the paint is flaking, leaving only the eateries and KTV lounges in Golden Mile Tower continue their normal business.
Meanwhile, since last year, a different type of crowd has been visiting the tower, adding a fresh colour to a complex that has been existing since 1973.
With lattes and film brochures in hand, visitors could use the lift to the fifth floor to the formerly famous Golden Theatre, now home to independent art-house cinema, The Projector.
The Projector uses two halls on the fifth floor, renamed the Green Room and the RedRum.
The Green Room is a cinema hall with 220 seats, and the RedRum – "murder" when reflected in the mirror a la Stanley Kubrick's 1979 movie The Shining – is a multi-purpose hall with 150 seating capacity.
Started officially in January, The Projector was conceived by Pocket Projects, a development consultancy specialising in redevelopment of old areas for reuse.
Its founder, Ms. Karen Tan, 34, was informed about the availability of the cinema halls by Mr. Randy Chan, principal of Zarch Collaboratives, an architecture firm on the fourth floor of the building.
Her team visualize the possibility of offering a different experience from other cinemas, by creating an avenue for people to watch films and interrelate with other people.
Her sister, Ms. Sharon Tan, 30, a former urban planner with the Urban Redevelopment Authority, now manages The Projector.
She said that they chose the area because of their interest in the difficult areas, and wished to make old areas significant, a place where people would feel free and enjoy themselves.
She mentioned their former project, The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series, where they revamped shop houses in Geylang, notorious for being a supposedly danger zone.
Golden Mile Tower, too, had a reputation issue, as anchor tenant Golden Theatre previously screened adult films and Chinese blockbusters.
Started in 1973 by Chong Gay Theatres, Golden was the biggest cinema when it was opened with 1,500 seats.
The main hall was split into three halls in the 1990s.
Nowadays, the single hall of 1,000 seats in the Golden Digital Theatre on the third floor screens Tamil and Hindi films while The Projector screens films curated by Mr. Gavin Low of Luna Films daily. Indie, local, foreign, classic, and cult favourites are shown.
The Projector's redesign was handled by FARM, a cross-disciplinary practice that upheld several elements in the past.
These are evident in the old signage of the two halls, Golden 1 and 2, and the painted wall drapery in the cinemas- all preserved.
Although the reupholstering of the seats was done, the old numbers, steel frames and chipped paint remained.
Ms. Sharon Tan declared that they did not want the place to look totally new, but just restored.
The new cinema has attracted many film buffs to the boxy building, which has the "brutalist" style of architecture common in the 1970s, containing an visible concrete exterior.
Many people may not have noticed the 24-storey tower typically eclipsed by Golden Mile Complex nearby, referred to as "Little Thailand" for several Thai restaurants, supermarkets, and massage parlours.
Mr Andrew Ang, 21, an undergraduate who viewed a picture in The Projector through the Singapore International Film Festival last December, said: "I was seeing a picture called As You Were, which featured its characters being transported back in time, and that I felt the exact same manner seeing it in this kind of historical place."
Although The Projector has made the building popular, the new crowd has not translated into increased sales for businesses there. Many were not even cognizant of the new tenant.
In his late 60s, Mr. Yong Guan Heng, and the owner of Loong Siang Coffee House, said that "There has been no change in business. I didn't even know about the new cinema."
The eateries depend on their regular customers, commonly office workers, to patronize them.
Golden Mile Tower has an isolated feel. Most shops are closed, the owners having left or not opening regularly.
A tenant that opens his shop regularly and who has been using the shop since 1974 is Mr. Steven Aw, the owner of Happy Philatelic Agency.
His basement shop is filled with collectibles like the first stamp ever issued in the world, the British 1840 Penny Black.
Mr. Aw who is in his late 60s said that the placed has not changed but has gone done recently because the owners have been renting out their shops to other tenants. The place is not well taken care of, and they dump refuse everywhere.
Ms. Shinn Teo, 24, a hotel company executive, has visited the famous Golden Mile Thien Kee Steamboat Restaurant in the basement close to 10 years. Even though her family eats there regularly because her grandma enjoys it, but she has not explored the building. She further stated that the building felt so empty at night that she dared not walk around after her meals.
But Mr. Ang, an undergraduate, felt the place is written off by many younger Singaporeans as it is old. He, therefore, urged them to give the building a facelift and the result would be awesome.
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Dry Winter Skin Fixes: 9 Expert Tips For Healing Itchy, Flaky Skin On Your Face and Body
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Between freezing temperatures, biting winds and blasting heaters, winter weather can wreak havoc on our skin. But don't worry — we called on Rachael's dermatologist, Dr. Anne Chapas, to help put an end to dry, itchy skin and flaky patches once and for all.
"The skin really likes consistency, so when the weather changes, it can really wreak havoc with our skin," Dr. Chapas explains. "When the humidity lowers [and] the temperature drops, water evaporates from our skin and skin dries out."
"When our skin dries out, it's no longer a great barrier to the environment," she continues. "It's more prone to inflammation and irritation."
DRY SKIN FIXES FOR WINTER
1. Exfoliate!
If you think you don't need to exfoliate when your skin is dry, think again. You need to get that dead skin off to clear up your pores, Dr. Chapas says.
"You gotta get the dead [skin] off before you can get the water in," she explains. But you don't want to exfoliate with scrubs and acids during this time of the year, because that could be irritating.
Dr. Chapas likes to use microfiber wash cloths to exfoliate once a day in the shower. It's actually similar to a version you might use for cleaning your house, she says, but there are really gentle versions for the face and body.
2. Take Shorter Showers (and Lower the Temp a Tad)
"A lot of people in the winter want to jump into a nice warm shower and spend hours in there, and they don't want to get out — but that's the worst thing you can do for your skin."
"Take a tepid, warm, short shower," she suggests.
3. Moisturize ASAP After Showering
"And then when your skin is still you wet, you want to try to apply moisturizers to seal in that water," the derm says. You'll want to do that within 60 seconds of coming out of the shower.
4. Switch to a Thicker Moisturizer With 3 Key Ingredients
This is the time of year you should switch to a thicker lotion—look for ingredients like glycerin, ceramides and hyaluronic acid, she suggests.
5. Soothe Inflamed Red Skin With Calming Ingredients
"If your skin is dry, it's then going to be more prone to irritation and inflammation — and that shows up as redness," Dr. Chapas says. She recommends looking for moisturizers with anti-inflammatory ingredients, such as feverfew and calendula, to help calm your red and inflamed skin.
And no matter what moisturizer you choose, make sure to wear sunscreen too. "Don't forget that sun damage happens all year round," she says. "It's also a good time to treat sun damage, because people aren't in the sun as much, so it's a good time to try to fade those sun spots, treat the wrinkles — but also get into a good skin routine by summer by wearing that SPF 30 every day."
6. Apply a Balm With Lanolin + Glycerin Before Bed
Nighttime is the time to apply really "goopy and greasy" ointments onto your lips and nails, the dermatologist explains. Her favorites have lanolin and glycerin. "I leave [mine] next to my bedside," the derm says. "It's a great sealant, and that's why it's important to put it on at nighttime."
7. Get a Humidifier (or 2)
Hydrate your space — not just at home, but wherever you spend the bulk of our day (like in an office). Just remember to clean and refill it.
Keep water on your bedside table and drink it frequently throughout the day, the dermatologist says. Plus, "If your nasal passages dry out [and] your throat dries out, you're going to be more susceptible to colds and flus," she explains.
9. Prevent Winter Breakouts (Which Can Be Caused By Dry Skin—UGH)
Winter can be a surprisingly bad time for breakouts because the cold air dries out skin causing an overproduction of oil, ultimately leading to more breakouts, Dr. Chapas says.
Acne treatments can further dry out the skin, so the order you apply them matters, she continues. Apply any acne products first, followed by a serum then moisturizer.


Epicuticular wax crystals are typically formed by pure lipid compounds when they are present as the predominant component in the wax mixture. In Macaranga, the threadlike crystals (Figure 8.2B) are composed of triterpenoids . Plant surfaces covered with wax crystals are mostly slippery for insects (see, e.g., [46-52]). Several hypothetical mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon.
1. Wax crystals form substrates with a microscopic surface roughness. Surface roughness may effectively prevent attachment of insect tarsi if (a) the roughness height and width are too large for surface minima to be filled completely with adhesive secretion, (b) the roughness width is too small to allow the soft adhesive pad cuticle to deform and make sufficient contact between asperities (which leads to a strongly reduced area of real contact), and (c) the surface texture is too fine to allow the claws to interlock with surface protrusions . These criteria are met for intermediate surface roughnesses in the micron and submicron range, which correspond to the order of magnitude found in natural waxy plant surfaces. Evidence in favor of microscopic roughness reducing insect attachment forces is given by Gorb .
2. Wax crystals can be easily detached so that insect tarsi become contaminated when walking on a waxy plant surface [47,48,50,53-55]. Wax crystal particles not only contaminate insect attachment structures, but they can form an amorphous substance on the surface of adhesive pads when partly dissolved by insect adhesive secretions [49,50]. Both forms of contamination impede attachment.
3. The hydrophobic microrough wax crystal substrates may absorb and deplete insect adhesive secretions necessary for capillarity-based adhesion .
In the Crematogaster-Macaranga system, both (1) surface roughness and (2) wax crystal detachment and pad contamination contribute to the slipperiness of waxy Macaranga stem surfaces. We measured in-plane detachment forces of Cremato-gaster (Decacrema) msp.2 wax runners on nonexfoliating aluminium oxide substrates of different roughness using the centrifuge method  (Figure 8.3). Forces were large on smooth and on coarse rough surfaces, but were minimal on the intermediate microrough substrate (0.05-^m particle size, Figure 8.3B). Second, tarsi of ants freshly collected after locomotion on waxy Macaranga stems were clearly contaminated with wax crystals (Figure 8.4). Similar to the interaction between fly tarsi and wax crystal surfaces of the carnivorous plants Nepenthes ventrata (Nepenthaceae) and Brocchinia reducta (Bromeliaceae) , the crystal material appeared to be partly dissolved and amorphous on the surface of the arolia but less so on the claws and other parts of the tarsus (Figure 8.4).
FIGURE 8.3 (A) Centrifuge method (Federle et al., J. Exp. Biol., 203, 505, 2000) used to measure in-plane attachment forces of ants on artificial substrates and waxy Macaranga stems. (B) Attachment forces of Crematogaster (Decacrema) mspp.2 and 4 ants on substrates of different surface roughness. For each ant, the mean of three consecutive force measurements was used (n = 16 to 41 ants per species and substrate). The labels "0.05 ^m" and "12 ^m" on the x axis denote rough aluminium oxide substrates with the given particle sizes.
FIGURE 8.4 Tarsus of Crematogaster (Decacrema) msp.4 after climbing on a vertical waxy M. hypoleuca stem for 5-8 min. The ants were anaesthetized by cooling at 4°C and prepared for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) by freezing and drying overnight in a lyophilizer. (A) Lateral view of the tarsus. (B) Frontal view of the pretarsus. Note the threadlike wax crystal material typical of Macaranga (Figure 8.2B) on the claws and on the hairs at the ventral side of the tarsus. In contrast, the crystal particles are apparently dissolved by adhesive secretion on the arolium surface. Scale bars: 50 ^m.


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Thousands of Central American migrants were back on the move toward the US border after dedicated Mexico City metro trains whisked them to the outskirts of the capital and drivers began offering rides north
At the Line 2 terminus, migrants began making their way to a main highway to resume walking and hitchhiking with the tacit approval of Mexican officials. Near a major toll plaza about 19 miles north of the city, Mexico state police and human rights officials helped load men, women, and children onto eighteen-wheelers and asked passing buses and trucks if they would carry migrants. Maria Yesenia Perez, a 41-year-old who left La Ceiba, Honduras nearly a month ago with her 8-year-old daughter, said she was prepared to wait to gain entry at the US border. "I decided to come (with the caravan) to help my family," she said, before she and her daughter were hoisted onto the back of a semitrailer. Perez is now one of roughly 4,000 migrants who plan to proceed to the city of Queretaro — a state capital 124 miles to the northwest — and then possibly to Guadalajara, Culiacan, Hermosillo, and eventually Tijuana on the US border. Whereas migrants like her carried tiny knapsacks with bare essentials in Mexico's tropical south, their belongings swelled noticeably after a multiday stop in Mexico City. Many are now hauling bundles of blankets, sleeping bags, and heavy clothing to protect against colder temperatures in the northern part of the country.
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A German economist has suggested that the only way for Northern Ireland to avoid negative economic impacts of Brexit is to unite with the Republic of Ireland
Kurt Hubner's conclusion is in a report examining the impact of different Brexit scenarios on Ireland. It suggests unification would mean that by 2025 Northern Ireland's economic output would be almost £16 billion higher than it otherwise would have been. Economists do not agree about the potential benefits of unification. The major issue concerns the subvention that Northern Ireland receives from Westminster - the shortfall between what Northern Ireland spends on services and raises in taxes. Hubner's economic model effectively suggests that unification would lead to major productivity and output gains which would more than cover the subvention. His report is a revision of a previous paper published in 2015 called "Modeling Irish Unification" which suggested that unification would boost economic output per head by up to 17,000 euros (£14,845) by 2025. The latest version is updated with new official data and Brexit impacts. It continues to suggest a positive, albeit smaller, impact of about 10,000 euros per head by 2025 in event of reunification. By contrast, Hubner suggests that a hard Brexit, on World Trade Organization terms, would mean output per head would be by about 10,000 euros (£8,732) less by 2025 compared to what it would be in a no-Brexit scenario. Even with a scenario in which Northern Ireland remained in the single market both parts of Ireland would suffer losses in comparison to a no-Brexit scenario. He states: "Compared to a hard-Brexit, unification is by far the better option. As a matter of fact, it is the only option with positive net effects." Hubner's model suggests that the the adoption of the Irish tax system, greater openness to foreign direct investment and reduced trade barriers would see Northern Ireland enjoy a period of "economic catch up."
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The economy is great in Trump's America
The last unemployment report before the midterms is a strong one. Employers added 250,000 jobs in October 2018, above the forecast of 188,000. The unemployment rate itself remained at a five-decade low of 3.7%. The influx of new job-seekers in October 2018 increased the proportion of Americans with jobs to its highest level since January 2009. What's more, wages rose 3.1% when compared to October 2017, the best such gain since 2009. It's the first time since the recession ended that wages rose more than 3% over a year. Average hourly earnings in the private sector increased 5 cents to $27.30.
Geneticists have assembled the largest sets of African genomic data available to date, creating a resource that will help researchers understand the genetic structure of Africa as well as the effects of genetic variation on protein function and disease
The findings underscore the importance of including globally diverse participant cohorts in genetics research. The researchers collected and analyzed genome-wide data from 6,400 individuals from rural Uganda, including the whole genome sequences of 1,978 people within that group. They combined this with data from an additional 7,784 individuals from other African countries, in the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) to analyze multiple traits across Africa. "This study represents one of the largest and most comprehensive efforts to identify genetic associations with disease within African populations, and will provide a roadmap for large-scale GWAS across the region," said Ayesha Motala, MD, FRCP, a leader of the study and professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. "Prior to our work, there were only a few hundred whole genome sequences available from Africa," said Deepti Gurdasani, MD, PhD, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute. "Most of the information we had was from African-American populations, which didn't capture the full diversity of the continent." After compiling the data, Dr. Gurdasani and her colleagues assessed genetic similarities and differences within the cohort, identifying commonalities among those who migrated to Uganda from the same regions. They also found a complex mixture of similarities between the Ugandan genomes, ancient East African populations, and Eurasian genomes. These findings suggest that modern Ugandan genomes represent the complex history of migration in the region, and that they have been shaped by multiple mixture events over thousands of years, including mixture with genomes resembling those in modern Europe. In addition, the researchers examined genetic influences on a variety of traits and diseases in the larger GWAS cohort, identifying 10 new associations specific to African populations. For example, they discovered an association between a deletion in the HBA1/HBA2 gene, known to cause the blood disorder alpha thalassemia, and blood bilirubin levels. This deletion is common among Africans, found in approximately 22% of individuals, but rare among previously studied Europeans. "Although it correlates with disease, this variant has been shown to protect people from severe malaria, which presents a stronger advantage in Africa than in Europe and has enabled the variant to rise in frequency within Africa," Dr. Gurdasani explained. The study also found an association between HBA1/HBA2 deletion and the blood's level of the protein HbA1c, high levels of which are often used to diagnose diabetes. "The high frequency of thalassemia in some African populations may affect the accuracy of this test, as it can modify HbA1c independently of glucose levels," Dr. Gurdasani said. Beyond their own analysis, the researchers hope their data will help other scientists better understand the genetic diversity of African populations and develop cost-effective tools to capture genome variation for future studies. Future work will also include detailed mapping of the cause-and-effect relationships between genetic variants through examining functional impact of variants on gene expression. As next steps, the researchers plan to expand their genomic data set to populations across Africa, by sampling diverse indigenous populations, and expanding the GWAS to about 75,000 individuals.
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Listen: The Reverberations of Gun Violence In Baltimore - Baltimore Independent
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By Chaseedaw Giles August 24, 2020 No Comments
Antoine Dow has been cutting hair for 24 years. He started at age 19 giving haircuts to friends in his father's basement. (Nate Palmer for KHN)
Chaseedaw Giles discussed her story about the West Baltimore barber who cares for his clients in life and death on Baltimore's news radio station, WBAL, on March 20.
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When a good friend in Baltimore said he was offering a final haircut to a client who had been killed by gun violence, Chaseedaw Giles knew she had to write the story. Her article appeared in The New York Times, and Giles, the social media manager for KHN, later spoke with WBAL News Radio.
"There was no one in the barbershop who hadn't either been shot themselves, including the barber who had been shot before, or known someone that had been shot. And it was just kind of this sense of acceptance that, you know, this is what life is like in West Baltimore," Giles told WBAL radio host Bryan Nehman.
When barber Antoine Dow went to the funeral home to give a final haircut to one client, the trauma to the young man's skull was so severe Dow didn't recognize him.
"He didn't look like himself. I had to ask was this the right person, and they said, 'Yes, this is the right person,'" Dow said. "There wasn't much I could do. So I did the best I could."
Dow is committed to running his business as a safe space for the neighborhood.
The article was published at The Reverberations of Gun Violence In Baltimore
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Enigmatic London ElectroPop duo Avec Sans are back with a new tune. We've been eager for more since they dropped their first original tune, Heartbreak Hi, we've had our fingers crossed for these guys that it wasn't a one-off, or a fluke. Those fears have just been assuaged.
The Answer is Avec Sans new tune, and with it came a press release that finally gives us in insight into who these two are. Alice Fox and Jack St James. A Trinidadian international man of mystery and a Mancunian ex-badass, both of whom have done the rounds, and paid their dues, in various bands and musical projects, make up Avec Sans and the background in gigging bands shines though in The Answer. If you said to me that this was a track created by a guy who has experimented with many different forms of electronic music and a vocalist who cut her teeth on the Indie band circuit, I would say that's exactly what it is. Intricately crafted dance music with a passionate, live, vocal. It's an anthemic slice of ElectroPop with a real rush of energy for the chorus. The single is flipped with a reMix from Bill Posters and Will Power, why more and more electronic artists feel the need to get uninspired lowest-common-denominator dance music reMixes done I'll never understand. the reMix is good at what it does, I suppose, but what it does is a bit blah and by-the-numbers. Skipping to the end; Heartbreak Hi definitely wasn't a fluke, and Avec Sans are definitely amazing..
You can download the tracks now on Facebook and The Answer will get a proper release 10th December.
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me asking me to create a graphic for them, now usually I don't take requests, but considering I owed them a favor and the reference was stunning - I had to accept!
The reference was of the Olsen twins, and I just fell in love.
I really love pretty much everything about this graphic, it was so fun to make too! I had a little trouble with the lighting but I think I got it eventually.
I used the same hairstyle but styled differently on both models because I wanted to stay with the "matching" theme.
Let me know what you think! Leave a comment! Tick a box!
I also wanted to say that I'm in the process of emailing out invites to new writers, so please keep your eyes peeled for a message from me if you have applied to write for this blog - if you still wish to apply, you can do so by clicking the "JOIN US" tab on the top of the blog.
Furthermore, I know I promised a banner quite a while ago, but I've been up to my neck in other work and it's been crazy trying to prioritize anything. That being said, though, I do hope to get us a flashy new banner by the end of this month (although I'm not making any promises). If any of you have any ideas for what the banner should look like, I'd love to hear them! Part of what makes this blog special is the massive input from the readers, so to have your help in creating our new banner would be just lovely.
Also I think those graphics you made are just perfect!
This is simply perfect and I know the reference which is indeed very beautiful and from what I could see it's e quite the challenge with the lighting. You did great with it, Jack!


The World Health Organisation ranks sedentary behaviour among the 10 leading causes of death worldwide.
Fitt-in aims to play its part to instil good movement habits, starting with primary school pupils.
Fitt-in provides an online solution to help teachers reduce pupil sedentary time, without the need to leave the classroom.
With no teacher training required and one click access to videos, a teacher can choose from calming to high energy movement breaks that increase activity levels in the classroom.
Each school purchases an annual Fitt-in licence, then teachers sign up with their school email address and are ready to start using the Fitt-in videos.
On screen graphics, music and choreographed routines, immediately engage pupils. With videos regularly added to the play list, this is a tool that schools can use for years to come. Weekly reports highlight levels of activity and provide evidence of impact.
Are you ready to assess your pupils against the new National Curriculum Programmes of Study?


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Hollywood Rose foi uma banda norte-americana de hard rock, formada em Los Angeles, Califórnia, em 1983. É mais conhecida como o grupo precursor do que viria a se tornar o Guns N' Roses. O grupo foi fundado por Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin e Chris Weber, enquanto Rick Mars, Johnny Kreis, Steve Darrow e Andre Troxx deram suporte à banda durante os shows. Rose, Stradlin e Weber, juntamente com Kreis, gravaram uma demo de cinco músicas em 1984. No entanto, após uma série de mudanças na formação, incluindo Weber e Kreis sendo substituídos por Slash e Steven Adler (ambos então do Road Crew), respectivamente, bem como a partida de Stradlin, o grupo se desfez no mesmo ano.

O grupo se reuniu rapidamente em 1985 com Rose, Stradlin, Weber e Darrow retornando e agora com a entrada do ex-baterista do L.A. Guns Rob Gardner para o grupo. O fundador do L.A. Guns Tracii Guns eventualmente substituiu Weber. Eles mudaram o nome para Guns N 'Roses (que é a junção dos nomes de L.A Guns e Hollywood Rose) com o baixista do L.A. Guns Ole Beich substituindo Darrow. Eventualmente Guns, Gardner e Beich foram substituídos pelos ex-membros do Hollywood Rose Slash, Adler e por Duff McKagan da banda Road Crew, com essa formação se tornando conhecida como a "formação clássica" do Guns N 'Roses.

A demo de cinco músicas, gravada em 1984, foi lançada em 2004 com o título The Roots of Guns N' Roses. Um certo número de materiais do Hollywood Rose foram incluídos nos álbuns Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide (1986), Appetite for Destruction (1987), Live from the Jungle (1987) e G N' R Lies (1988) lançado pelo Guns N' Roses.

História

Formação (1983)
Antes de formar o grupo, o guitarrista Chris Weber foi apresentado ao nativo de Lafayette Izzy Stradlin, no estacionamento do Rainbow Bar and Grill pelo amigo Tracii Guns, que conduzia a primeira encarnação do L.A. Guns na época, depois Weber manifestou interesse em formar uma banda. Logo depois, Weber e Stradlin começaram a escrever material e, por sugestão de Stradlin, recrutou seu amigo de infância, ex-Rapidfire e L.A. Guns, o vocalista Axl Rose, conhecido então como Bill Rose. Por sugestão de Rose, o grupo chamou-se AXL, com Rose adotando Axl como seu primeiro nome. Eles fizeram seu primeiro show no The Orphanage em North Hollywood e fez mais algumas apresentações antes de mudar o nome para Rose. O grupo logo mudou o seu nome, pela última vez, para Hollywood Rose quando Weber descobriu que o nome Rose já estava sendo usado por uma banda de Nova York.

Durante os shows do grupo, eles foram ajudados pelos baixistas Rick Mars, Andre Troxx e Steve Darrow juntamente com o baterista Johnny Kreis que continuou a ser o único membro consistente do grupo, fora Rose, Stradlin e Weber.

Mudanças de formação e Guns N 'Roses (1984–1985)

Depois de pedir dinheiro emprestado do pai de Weber, o grupo gravou uma demo de cinco músicas em Hollywood em 1984. Depois de uma série de shows, Rose demitiu Weber da banda com o ex-guitarrista do Road Crew Slash substituindo-o. Descontente com a demissão de Weber, Stradlin deixou o grupo quando Slash veio pela primeira vez ensaiar, indo se juntar ao London. O companheiro de Slash na banda Road Crew, Steven Adler, também substituiu o baterista Kreis durante este tempo. O grupo continuou a fazer mais shows antes de se dissolver, fazendo seu último show no The Troubadour, em 1984. Rose continuou à frente do L.A. Guns enquanto que Slash fazia um teste para o Poison por sugestão do ex-guitarrista Matt Smith.

O grupo se reuniu, rapidamente, com Rose, Stradlin, Weber e Darrow retornando, tendo agora como membro fixo o ex-baterista do L.A. Guns Rob Gardner. Weber, que deixou banda, foi embora para Nova York, foi logo substituído por Tracii Guns. O grupo mudou seu nome para Guns N' Roses (que é a junção dos nomes de L.A. Guns e Hollywood Rose) com a formação consistindo em Axl Rose, Tracii Guns, Izzy Stradlin, Ole Beich. (também ex do L.A. Guns) e Rob Gardner. Beich foi substituído por Duff McKagan (ex-Fastbacks, The Fartz, 10 Minute Warning e Road Crew) enquanto que Guns deixou o grupo (depois de uma briga com Rose), sendo substituído por Slash. Depois de um tempo, Gardner deixou o grupo e foi substituído por Steven Adler com essa formação se tornando conhecida como a "formação clássica" do Guns N' Roses.

Um certo número de material do grupo foi incluído em uma série de lançamentos do Guns N 'Roses, tal como "Anything Goes" (de Appetite for Destruction), "Reckless Life" e "Move to the City" (ambos de Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide e G N' R Lies), bem como "Shadow of Your Love" (de Live from the Jungle). Em 1998, o ex-guitarrista Weber processou Axl Rose, alegando que ele co-escreveu duas músicas em que ele não foi creditado, sendo elas:  "Shadow of Your Love" e "Back Off Bitch" (do Use Your Illusion I).

The Roots of Guns N' Roses (2004)

Em 2004, Weber, que tinha desde que deixou o grupo U.P.O., vendeu a demo cinco músicas que o grupo gravou em 1984 para Cleopatra Records. Eles lançaram o álbum, que incluia, junto com as gravações originais, remixes do ex-guitarrista do Guns N' Roses Gilby Clarke (que contou com a adição de overdubs de guitarra de Tracii Guns) e do ex-baterista dos grupos London e Cinderella Fred Coury (que substituiu algumas vezes durante os shows o baterista Steven Adler enquanto estava no Guns N' Roses) em 22 de junho com o título The Roots of Guns N 'Roses. A edição japonesa do álbum incluiu um DVD com imagens do grupo.

No início do ano, em 21 de junho, o ex-vocalista Axl Rose tinha procurado uma liminar contra o lançamento do álbum, processando a Cleopatra Records por infração de marca registrada, violação dos direitos em seu nome e imagem, e de concorrência desleal. Os ex-membros Slash e Duff McKagan também foram nomeados como autores com Rose. No entanto, em 6 de julho, o Juiz Gary A. Fees do Tribunal Distrital dos Estados Unidos negado a moção de Rose e seus ex-companheiros de Guns N' Roses em relação ao pedido da liminar contra a gravadora independente. Weber também, durante este tempo, foi entrevistado pelo programa "Behind the Music" do canal VH1 onde falava do início do Guns N' Roses.

Discografia
 The Roots of Guns N' Roses (2004)

Membros
 Axl Rose - vocal (1983-1984, 1985)
 Izzy Stradlin - guitarra rítmica (1983-1984, 1985)
 Chris Weber - guitarra solo (1983-1984, 1985)
 Johnny Kreis - bateria (1983-1984)
 Rick Mars - baixo (1983)
 Andre Troxx - baixo (1983)
 Steve Darrow - baixo (1983-1984, 1985)
 Slash - guitarra solo (1984)
 Steven Adler - bateria (1984)
 Rob Gardner - bateria (1985)
 Tracii Guns - guitarra solo (1985)

Ligações externas
Entrevista com o guitarrista Cris Weber (em inglês)
gnrontour.com (lista os shows da banda desde 1984, em inglês)

Bandas de hard rock
Bandas da Califórnia
Guns N' Roses

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People with psoriasis share what is important to them about this disease.
I've lived with psoriasis for 20 years — and I'm not alone. Around 7.5 million people in the United States (2.6 percent of the population) are affected by psoriasis, which is characterized by red, inflamed patches of skin (fun, yeah?). While I've witnessed awareness of the disease improve in recent years, many frustrating (and often ridiculous) myths and misconceptions still exist. Here's what I, as someone who lives with psoriasis, want you to know.
Psoriasis might look like a skin condition, but it's actually an autoimmune disorder that can affect the entire body. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, psoriasis develops when a person's immune system sends faulty signals that tell skin cells to grow too quickly. This results in the formation of new skin cells in days rather than weeks. Because the body doesn't shed these excess skin cells, they pile up on the surface of the skin, leading to those raised, red, scaly patches of psoriasis.