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Patricia Piccinini uses her art to explore the science and ethics of genetic engineering. Patricia interest in medical science began early, when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Her mother went through many years of experimental treatments, but doctors were unable to save her. The disappointment she felt towards the medical community sparked a lifelong desire to understand the impact of science in our lives. Learn more about her journey in pictures and words.
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Alice Gurschner (née Pollak, 8 October 1869, Vienna – 26 March 1944, Vienna) was an Austrian writer. She wrote largely under the masculine pen name Paul Althof.

Biography
Pollak grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, and received private lessons in her secondary school subjects, music and modern languages. In 1897 she married the sculptor Gustav Gurschner, a co-founder of the Vienna Secession, and had three children by him. Some of her work was published in the Secession magazine Ver Sacrum. Her family did not approve of her marriage to a Catholic. After the marriage, the Gurschners lived in Paris for two years. After her father's death in 1905, she converted to Catholicism and became a monarchist and an Austro-Hungarian nationalist.

As 'Paul Althof', she had newspaper and magazine articles published in the Neue Wiener Journal, the Illustritre Wiener Extrablatt, the Wiener Fremden-Blatt, the Österreichische Volks-Zeitung and the Berliner Börsen-Courier.

She was a member of the Austrian Association of Women Artists.

Works

 Paul Althof: Drei Häuser: Roman aus Alt-Österreich (Three Houses: A Novel of Old Austria). Europa-Verlag, Vienna, 1938
 Paul Althof: Semiramis: Ein Märchen für Könige (Semiramis: A Fairy Tale for Kings). Vienna: Heller, 1914
 Paul Althof: Der heilige Kuß (The Holy Kiss). Dramatic poem in three acts, Stuttgart & Berlin: Cotta, 1911
 Paul Althof: Die wunderbare Brücke und andere Geschichten (The Wonderful Bridge and other stories), Stuttgart: Cotta, 1908
 Paul Althof: Das verlorene Wort (The Lost World). Novel, Stuttgart & Berlin: J.G. Cotta Nachf, 1907
 Kunsthyänen (Art Hyenas). Drama in three acts (manuscript), Berlin: Bloch, 1903
 Paul Althof: Die schlafende Seele (The Sleeping Soul). Short story, Berlin 1900
 Paul Althof: Coghetta, Berlin: Freund & Jeckel, 1894
 Paul Althof: Die Asolanen (The Asolan), Vienna: C. Daberkow, 1893
 Paul Althof: Gernrode. Poetische Erzählung aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert (Gernrode: Poetic Tale of the Tenth Century), Leipzig 1890

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1869 births
1944 deaths
19th-century Austrian women writers
20th-century Austrian women writers
Jewish Austrian writers
Roman Catholic writers
Writers from Vienna
Pseudonymous women writers
19th-century pseudonymous writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers

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Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman, explained that the hasty evacuation of our embassy in Yemen was not an evacuation but "a reduction in staff." This proved a problem because the Yemeni government already had announced (and denounced) the "evacuation" -- the word normal folks use for the panicky ordering of people onto planes headed out of country.
Jen Psaki, blameless State Department spokeswoman, explained that the hasty evacuation of our embassy in Yemen was not an evacuation but "a reduction in staff." This proved a problem because the Yemeni government already had announced (and denounced) the "evacuation" — the word normal folks use for the panicky ordering of people onto planes headed out of country.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others are killed in an al-QaIda-affiliated terror attack — and for days it is waved off as nothing more than a spontaneous demonstration gone bad. After all, famously declared Hillary Clinton, what difference does it make?
Well, it makes a difference, first, because truth is a virtue. Second, because if you keep lying to the American people, they may seriously question whether anything you say — for example, about the benign nature of NSA surveillance — is not another self-serving lie.
The word "extremism" is meaningless. People don't devote themselves to being extreme. Extremism has no content. The extreme of what? In this war, an extreme devotion to the supremacy of a radically fundamentalist vision of Islam and to its murderous quest for dominion over all others.
But for President Barack Obama, the word "Islamist" may not be uttered. Language must be devised to disguise the unpleasantness.
Result? The world's first lexicological war. Parry and thrust with linguistic tricks, deliberate misnomers and ever more transparent euphemisms. Next: armor-piercing onomatopoeias and amphibious synecdoches.
This would all be comical and merely peculiar if it didn't reflect a larger, more troubling reality: The confusion of language is a direct result of a confusion of policy — which is served by constant obfuscation.
Obama doesn't like this terror war. He particularly dislikes its unfortunate religious coloration, which is why "Islamist" is banished from his lexicon. But soothing words, soothing speeches in various Muslim capitals, soothing policies — "open hand," "mutual respect" — have yielded nothing. The war remains. Indeed, under his watch, it has spread. And as commander in chief he must defend the nation.
He must. But he desperately wants to end the whole struggle. This is no secret wish. In a major address to the National Defense University just three months ago, he declared "this war, like all wars, must end." The plaintive cry of a man hoping that saying so makes it so.
The result is visible ambivalence that leads to vacillating policy reeking of incoherence. Obama defends the vast NSA data dragnet because of the terrible continuing threat of terrorism. Yet at the same time, he calls for not just amending but actually repealing the legal basis for the entire war on terror, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
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This incoherence of policy and purpose is why an evacuation from Yemen must be passed off as "a reduction in staff." Why the Benghazi terror attack must be blamed on some hapless Egyptian-American videographer. Why the Fort Hood shooting is nothing but some loony Army doctor gone postal.
In the end, this isn't about language. It's about leadership. The wordplay is merely cover for uncertain policy embedded in confusion and ambivalence about the whole enterprise.
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Antoni Novellas i Roig. Barcelona 1879-1951, fue un farmacéutico español impulsor de la farmacognosia e introductor en España de la opoterapia en el año 1906.

Se licenció en el año 1901 y el 11 de enero de 1902 abría la farmacia Novellas (farmacia Bolós) en la Rambla de Cataluña de Barcelona, decorada por el arquitecto modernista Antoni Falguera i Sivilla quien, años más tarde se convertiría en su cuñado. El 11 de enero de 1927, exactamente 25 años después, la vendió a la familia Bolós, que actualmente la regenta y que ha mantenido la exquisita decoración y vitrales modernistas.

Se dedicó al «Laboratori d'especialitats farmacèutiques Antonio Novellas», situado en la calle Alfonso XIII, 456 (actual avenida Diagonal), que más tarde se trasladaría a la calle Bruc, 172.

Fue un investigador inquieto que estudió y pasó largas temporadas en Alemania, Suiza y Francia. Perfeccionando sus conocimientos de farmacognosia en Montpellier.

Se le considera el introductor de la organoterapia en España en 1906 con la publicación de su trabajo: «Nuevos métodos de preparación de medicamentos opoterápicos» y con la preparación de especialidades opoterápicas en su laboratorio.

Implantó la  en 1927 y comercializó preparados fitoterapéuticos. A pesar de no ser homeópata, mostró gran interés por esta especialidad y le dedicó algunos de sus trabajos.

Contaba con una biblioteca con más de 2.000 volúmenes y un pequeño museo de ciencias naturales, mineralogía y farmacia con piezas de cerámica y vidrio antiguo.

Fue fundador y primer presidente de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural, filial del Instituto de Estudios Catalanes.

Escribió unas setenta obras, entre artículos, estudios y conferencias.

Farmacéuticos de España del siglo XIX
Farmacéuticos de España del siglo XX
Miembros de la Real Academia de Medicina de Cataluña
Nacidos en Barcelona


Communication of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) on its measures and priorities, regarding the obligations of non-financial counterparties to derivative contracts under the Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (EMIR).
Pursuant to the law of the 15 March 2016 on Over-The-Counter (OTC) Derivatives, Central Counterparts, and Trade Repositories, the CSSF has to ensure that non-financial counterparties (NFCs) to derivative contracts comply with EMIR requirements.
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NFC obligations under EMIR are triggered by exceeding a clearing threshold.
The CSSF has set three priorities for 2017, in order to strengthen its supervision of NFCs active in the derivative regulated and OTC market.
The EMIR II regulation will induce some change to the obligations of NFCs under EMIR.
1 Please refer to the Deloitte Alert "EMIR II – What does the future look like?" of the 5th of May 2017.
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Pocket-weary, scuffed, and battered, Roger Maris gazes skyward in defiant optimism. More than anyone, he should know how pinstripes can suppress the ecstasy of flight. At age 29, the navy blue cap sits atop a ravine-furrowed brow, conceals bald patches and tufts of gray—distressed vestiges from 1961. An expanse of black netting looms behind his back. In high, deserted tiers, no crowd of a thousand empetalled faces quivers with applause. But even bold trajectory always dips eventually. So Roger plays with bone chips, a broken hand; he wracks his knees on grandstand dives; and, come retirement, he combats the Hodgkin's lymphoma whose cytology reveals periwinkle profusions among white blood cells. What history has since transpired: wrinkles extend in cellulose varicose veins from center to edges frayed. Yet still he stares through folds of time; he lifts his head, as if to trace the measured beat of ash wood—its resonant, aerial song arcing through the pale-blue down above.
*Previously appeared in Harpur Palate 13.2 (Winter/Spring 2014), page 63.
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Best Worst Mickey Mantles, Part II
April 15, 2014 by pulpephemera
It's time to expand the digital collection of the best worst Mickey Mantles. Some of these appear just mildly, colorfully marred–while others belong in a category specially reserved for the utterly wretched, shipwrecked, and weather-wracked. . . . And, again, if you happen to have a beautifully ruined Mickey Mantle that you'd like to share, then by all means please feel free to comment to this post with a link to your own poor Mickey Mantle.
Tagged 1952, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, All Star, baseball, baseball cards, bazooka, Best Worst, Best Worst Mickey Mantles, Bobby Richardson, bombers, Bowman, Bronx, bronx bombers, Mickey Mantle, New York, New York Yankees, NY, poor, poor Mickey Mantle, pulp ephemera, pulpephemera.wordpress.com, Tom Tresh, topps, very poor, Willie Mays, Worst, Yankees | Leave a comment |
Best Worst Mickey Mantles
December 8, 2013 by pulpephemera
Here follows a collection of the best worst Mickey Mantles that I have ever laid eyes on. I think this should be a post in-progress. And if you happen to have a beautifully wrecked Mickey Mantle that you'd like to share, then by all means please feel free to comment to this post with a link to your own poor Mickey Mantle.
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A Tale of Two Sams
November 1, 2013 by pulpephemera
"Who are these people? Where do they come from? What do they do? What's in a name?"
—Harvey Pekar in the film adaptation American Splendor (2003)
Harvey Pekar's quasi existential musings in his now famous "What's in a name" monologue felt like an appropriate start here. I recall feeling the same vaguely pensive sentiments about identity, chance, and fate not long after I first encountered pitcher Sam Jones and his salient, doleful visage. To this day, Sam's lachrymose expression seems to cause the very cardboard to warp and sag on his contradictorily brightly colored 1958 Topps card. Printed in typical four-color halftone on customary compressed cellulose, his portrait exhibits a poor imitation of a happy ballplayer; indeed, the tortured smile that drags his eyes down appears to be more grimace than grin. This is the illustrated definition of a long face. One compatriot baseball enthusiast whom I know even jokingly suggested a more than suitable nickname, "Sad Sam." Actually, it turns out that Sam's teammates and fellow players similarly christened him: "Sad Sam Jones."
Sad Sam it would be. Naturally, curiosity next propelled me to do some casual research (as if the baseball almanacs, biographic blurbs, and statistical ebbs and flows would so easily illuminate some secret tragedy in Sam's past). I was but barely on my way to discovering the origins of Sad Sam's woes and melancholy when I soon confronted a wall of confusion in the form of another pitcher—named Sam Jones. At first I assumed an error had somehow occurred in the annals of ash wood and leather. In fact, I swore that some editorial oversight was culprit for the following, more startling duplication: that this other, early prototype (highly regarded by players and fans in his time) was also infamously hailed as none other than "Sad Sam Jones."
Two Sam Joneses. Two "Sad" Sam Joneses. Both pitchers. But wait: the coincidental or preordained links in the chain do not end there—not by a long ball. For while each Sad Sam clearly lived his own individual life, possessed no shortage of inimitable eccentricities, and earned some fine distinctions in the game, some additional and curious parallels exist. . . .
Sams converge
The Sad Sam Jones who lived from 1892 to 1966 (henceforth Sam Jones I) was a pitcher who threw right and batted right.
Likewise, the Sad Sam Jones who lived from 1925 to 1971 (henceforth Sam Jones II) was a pitcher who threw and batted right.
Sams diverge
Sam Jones I played in the MLB from 1914 to 1935—near the end of the dead-ball era and into a new chapter for pitchers.
Sam Jones II played first in the Negro leagues and then in the MLB from 1951 to 1964—near the end of the era of exclusion of African Americans from baseball and into a new chapter for black ballplayers.
Among other teams, Sam I played for the Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Browns.
Among other teams, Sam II also played for the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Baltimore Orioles (formerly known as the St. Louis Browns).
Cleveland was the first team for both Sams.
Sam I's achievements include winning three World Series Championships (with the New York Yankees).
Sam II's achievements include appearing in two All-Star games.
Sam I was born in Woodsfield, Ohio.
Sam II was born in Stewartsville, Ohio.
Approximately forty miles apart, Woodsfield is less than an hour drive from Stewartsville.
Sam I earned his nickname on account of his "downcast" exterior when on field, no doubt exaggerated by the style in which he wore his baseball cap very low over his eyes. (While other players wore their caps high so they could more easily admire the female fans, or so he jocularly criticized, Sam defensively attributed his peculiar cap-donning fashion to the desire to play with focus.)
Sam II earned his nickname due his shy nature and "mournful-looking" appearance (often with a toothpick in his mouth, which earned him a second moniker).
Sam I threw a no-hitter in 1923 but with the dubious distinction of failing to make a single strikeout (a first for a pitcher with a no-hitter).
Sam II threw a no-hitter in 1955 (making him the first black pitcher to accomplish this feat in the MLB).
Sams meet
After his time playing major league ball was over, Sam I remained involved in baseball. Whether by kismet or serendipity, his charitable work among youths in baseball would bring two paths to a cross, as SABR reports:
He kept busy, teaching kids in Woodsfield how to play ball (and securing donations of major-league equipment from some of his old teammates), according to his friend, Ronald Turner; one of those children, from nearby Stewartsville, Ohio, was another Sam Jones, nicknamed "Toothpick Sam."
Credit: 1958 Topps Sam Jones courtesy of COMC.com.
Tagged 1933, 1958, baseball, baseball cards, dead ball, dead-ball era, Goudey, Negro leagues, Sad Sam Jones, Sam Jones, Toothpick Sam, topps | Leave a comment |
Commentary Classics, Part 3: "Faúl Raúl," or "the Ancient Mariner"
July 5, 2013 by pulpephemera
During the Cubs vs. Mariners national game broadcast on Friday night (6-28-13), I felt my brain do an odd, auditory version of a double take. It was a reaction to WGN's commentating duo of Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies and something they said: "Faúl Raúl," Len (or was it Jim?) mused after Seattle's Raúl Ibañez hit a foul ball. "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner," chimed Jim (or was it Len?).
"Ding!" went the culture couch critic lounging in my heart who leapt from his Cairn Terrier's hair-covered chair. Led by my heart's excitement, I followed suit and heedlessly jostled a drowsy pup. I was astounded. Something awoke within the former, mediocre college student of "English Language and Literature." (That's what my dusty B.A. degree says I studied, implying lofty tomes of Shakespeare and Chaucer, though in truth I partook of a far stranger, less canonical cocktail of Michael Chabon, Dawn Powell, and John Fante.) Did I just catch a literary reference from the professional sports expositors and scriveners, the loquacious appreciators of all things baseball? Hotdogs, sabermetrics, and Coleridge–oh my! What sounds from out of the mouths of babes!
But I'm veering towards the facetious–indeed, the mean-spirited. In fact, upon further analysis, this brief and jocular exchange between Kasper and Deshaies proves even more surprising and complex, especially considering its spontaneity.
Whether intentional or not, Len (or was it Jim?) seemed to intuit the double meaning or at least pun in the title of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lyric epic, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (emphasis added). For the now somewhat archaic word "rime" alludes not only to the frost that Arctic seafarers experience but also to the homophone, rhyme–of course a popular literary device, and one which Coleridge's poem utilizes.
So Jim's comment (or was it Len?) feels all the more appropriate and even remarkably erudite. Remarkable, I say, not because of any elitist prejudices against sportscasting but, quite the contrary, due to the utterly impromptu and often challenging nature of its quick-witted business and craft. Consider first the very occurrence and circumstances of this unlikely literary reference; remember this is a nationally televised broadcast of a baseball game. Next understand how the reference draws on at least a passing familiarity with late 18th-century British literature, romantic poetry at that. Now please don't mistake my meaning: I believe that most baseball fans possess all of the same intellectual capacity and potential to literary pursuits as anyone else, insomuch as they desire, and the Ken Burns PBS Baseball series (1994-2010) with its sample social strata of varied interviewees can attest enough to that. Nevertheless, I hazard to guess that British romantic poetry is about as endemic to baseball crowds as ballerina slippers in the NFL.
Finally, in addition to the previous rime vs. rhyme distinction, observe the playful manipulation of the off-rhyme word, foul, for the preferred perfect rhyme of "Faúl" to better agree with Raúl. And compared to Coleridge's own pun on "rime," the WGN commentary offers two further puns in the employment of this specific reference: not only is Ibañez a re-returning deckhand (ha, there's one of my own!) for the Mariners–this being his third stint with the team–he is indeed quite the veteran of professional baseball at age forty-one.
While I won't go so far as to call Ibañez ancient, his grizzled and frosty visage today certainly offers a stark comparison next to the striking fresh face on his minor league card issued during his time with the Appleton Foxes. . . .
Raúl now:
Raúl then:
Images courtesy of COMC.com.
Tagged 1993, 2013, Appleton Foxes, baseball, baseball cards, Chicago Cubs, commentary, Fleer, Gypsy Queen, Jim Deshaies, Len Kasper, literature, ProCards, Raúl Ibañez, romantic poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seattle Mariners, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, topps, WGN | Leave a comment |
Holy Cardboard & Kryptonite, Batman! Superman trading cards go back to the 1940s?
April 3, 2013 by pulpephemera
Last night I interrupted what may well have been my 100th viewing of Superman II (which yields feelings of both joy and shame) because something suddenly, seemingly miraculously occurred to me during the scotch o'clock witching hour. The impetus was a typically cheesy, Salkind-produced sequence—completely overblown yet at the same time touching—when a limpid-eyed Christopher Reeve halts an elevator in freefall on the Eiffel Tower just in time to save none other than Lois Lane. For a brief moment, rescuer and rescued stare deeply and smile before Superman flies off to hurtle the elevator's hidden hydrogen bomb into outer space. Something about that shared, intimate instant amidst chaos compelled me to freeze the frame on Reeve's charismatic, young face. Then as if I was the very first to ever contemplate it, I felt struck with wonder by the power of the still image: if profiteering manufacturers of 1980s pop culture schlock managed to mass-produce and circulate trading cards of trendy franchises like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and ThunderCats, then at some opportunistic, product tie-in juncture surely someone did the same with Superman trading cards (and many times over). Oh boy, did they ever.
Check out the listings on the PSA registry for "Non-Sports" trading cards. You will see that their records include over half of a dozen company sets for Superman listed between 1940 and 1978. And as PSA maintains some stricter standards, doubtless more card issues exist. Certainly, the individual "1940 Gum Inc. Superman R145s" come with the higher price tags in online auctions, but they nevertheless remain vastly more affordable than individual comics of the era.
For example, this raggedy #1 card of the 1940 Gum Inc. series went for nearly $30 in an online auction. That cost still pales in comparison to a $300, poor-condition Superman comic book (likely sans cover) from this year.
But personally—and wallet-wise—I prefer something more along these lines. . . .
Typical low-ball asking price for a similar 1978 Topps (US) or "Trebor" (UK) issue: $12 plus shipping—and that includes an entire set of more than 60 pulpy specimens from the Carter-era!
Tagged 1940 Gum Inc., 1940s, 1978, Christopher Reeve, Lois Lane, Non-Sports trading cards, PSA, PSA registry, Superman, Superman II, topps, trading cards, Trebor | Leave a comment |

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Q: Conditionally defining functions Is there any advantage to conditionally defining functions in PHP? For example, if I have a script similar to this
function abc() {
    ...
    }

function xyz() {
    ...
    }

if (user_is_logged_in()) {
    ...
    abc();
    ...
    xyz();
    }
else echo 'Not logged in.';

Would there be any advantage, and would it be legal, to move those function definitions inside the if statement? I don't know much about the back end of PHP, but it seems like the server could potentially have to do a lot of work defining the functions, and then have them never be used.

A: I wouldn't worry about "the server having a lot of work to do" with defining a lot of functions.  In all likelihood, this is not going to be a bottleneck in your application.
I would advise against the design of conditional function definition, in PHP or any language.  Rather, you can define the logic within the function.  For example, within the abc() function, you can provide if/else logic that checks to see if the user is logged in.
Alternatively, you can use class methods and objects to make your code cleaner and easier to understand.  If you understand OO, that would be the way to go.

A: It is definitely legal, but I would recommend against it, because it will decrease the readability/maintainability of course code considerably.
Use a op code cache (like APC) instead, this will reduce the load on the server.
Drupal devs did a benchmark for different op code caches, and also compared PHP without op code cache, You can see the results at http://2bits.com/articles/benchmarking-drupal-with-php-op-code-caches-apc-eaccelerator-and-xcache-compared.html

A: I learned very quickly not to optimize PHP before parsing like I would optimize C before letting gcc dig into it.
Don't worry about functions defined in PHP that are never used. Rather, put your effort into optimizing the functions that are actually reached. Of course, avoid duplicating code in 20 functions that do almost the same thing ... but that's a given in any language.

A: I think, but might be wrong, that you would need to adjust the syntax to create anonymous functions, e.g.:
<?php
if(a) {
abc = function {
function stuff
}
} else if (b) {
xyz = function {
function stuff
}
}
?>

A: Conditional definition shouldn't be used as an optimization, but can be used in combination with function_exists to provide alternate implementations or to create fall-backs in case an extension isn't available. Wordpress does the former with many functions (e.g. wp_hash_password) to allow plug-ins to replace them.

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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Working may refer to:
Working (musical), a 1978 musical
Working (TV series), a situation comedy
Working (book), a book by Studs Terkel
Working!!, a manga by Karino Takatsu
Holbrook Working (1895–1985), statistician and economist
Working the system, using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome
Cold working, the strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation
Hot working, processes where metals are plastically deformed above their recrystallization temperature
Multiple working, having more than one locomotive hauling a train under the control of one driver
Live-line working, the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energised
Single-line working, using one train track out of two
Workin' (disambiguation)
Work (disambiguation)
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Working!!, released in English territories as Wagnaria!!, is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga series written and illustrated by Karino Takatsu, which follows the activities of the unusual employees at the Wagnaria family restaurant. The series was serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan seinen manga magazine between January 2005 and November 2014. Square Enix released three drama CDs between 2007 and 2009 with scripts written by Shōgo Mukai. An anime television series was produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike, airing in three seasons in 2010, 2011, and 2015, respectively. In North America, the first two anime seasons are licensed by NIS America while the third is licensed by Aniplex of America.
Wagnaria employees
Takanashi family
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do is a 1974 nonfiction book by the noted oral historian and radio broadcaster Studs Terkel.
Editing Working is a book which investigates the meaning of work for different people under different circumstances, showing it can vary in importance. The book also reflects Terkel's general idea that work can be difficult but still provides meaning for workers. It is an exploration of what makes work meaningful for people in all walks of life, from Lovin' Al the parking valet, Dolores the waitress, the fireman, to the business executive. The narrative moves through mundane details, emotional truths, and existential questioning.
Following a preface, a foreword, and an introduction, the volume is divided into nine "books," each of which contains one or more subsections that provide several accounts of working people's jobs and lives. These books tie their diverse content together with themes. These themes take the form of subtitles. Some books have only one theme (the theme of Book One is "Working the Land"); others have several.
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Whitmer says Covid directives will stay in place despite Michigan court ruling
Gov. Whitmer, masked up (Photo: State of Michigan)
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The high court on Friday ruled that a state law allowing the governor to declare emergencies without legislative input is unconstitutional. The 4-3 decision split along party lines.
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After the ruling came down, Whitmer suggested it would not take effect for 21 days — an apparent nod to the time she has to request a re-hearing by the court — and said her directives would remain in place through "alternative sources of authority."
From the Freep:
Whitmer did not specify which alternative sources she meant. But Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan, noted in a tweet Friday that state departments have issued rules and taken actions that essentially mirror some of the requirements included in Whitmer's orders.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has *already* issued emergency orders that incorporate the terms of the mask order, the worker safety order, and the Safe Start order. Nothing changes with respect to those. https://t.co/6mQVExSuHx
— Nicholas Bagley (@nicholas_bagley) October 2, 2020
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Some are also backed up by epidemic orders from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that tie back to a different statute allowing the director of that department to establish procedures to be followed during an epidemic.
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Read more: MLive


Langston Hughes was an African American writer who published his first works of poetry during the Harlem Renaissance. The Panther and the Lash was published posthumously in 1967. The title of the collection is a representation of the power dynamics Hughes is trying to expose. "Panther" stands for the America's currents political system and "Lash" is its oppressive power. Langston Hughes' poetic vision is to depict the racial inequality, violence, and oppression experienced by African Americans. Hughes is not concerned with a regular meter and rhyme scheme, but he is interested in rhythm, which he achieves through the repetition of words and/or lines as well as the use of other formal devices like alliteration, rhetorical questions, and internal rhymes. The poems are in open form, and stanza breaks, when present, are not constant.
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In The Panther and the Lash, Hughes uses repetition to achieve rhythm and create an echo effect. For example, in the poem "Harlem", Hughes uses a first person plural speaker to stress the communal and Harlem as a whole. Another important literary device present in the book is the rhetorical question. For instance, in "Merry-Go-Round," rhetorical questions serve to mock the efficacy of the Jim Crow laws and the lack of answers make the reader experience the uncertainty and confusion of the young female speaker. Through the collection, Hughes uses the voice of different speakers (male, female, old, and young) and the tone changes from poem to poem, the speaker can be angry, confused, show innocence, feel pain, be ironic, pessimistic, and optimistic. Through these shifts in tone and speaker, Hughes shows different flavors of the same experience. He also employs vivid and powerful imagery of death, blood, and suffering that when contrasted with his simple diction and clear lines, these images have a shocking and lasting effect on the reader.
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Hughes, Langston. The Panther and the Lash. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.


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BOOK REVIEW – Beautiful Users: Designing for People
May 5, 2015 | By Elle Ziegler
Beautiful Users: Designing for People is the latest work by writer, curator, and designer Ellen Lupton, which explores the evolving relationship between designer and user through a discussion on design practices and methodologies. Given the complexity and scale of the relationship she's investigating, her study is impressively concise, thorough and an enjoyable read.
Lupton begins with a survey of design process history, focusing her discussion on well-known household items, such as the telephone and the thermostat. Through these familiar design examples, Lupton is able to emphasize that the relationship between users and designers is constantly evolving, and how simple ideas of architecture and ergonomics have naturally led the way to new, more complex, design practices, such as interface design and user experience design.
For example, ergonomic design combines the knowledge of bodily dimensions with an understanding of psychology. This body of knowledge became more and more refined and eventually evolved into interface design, which focuses on the relationship between the object and the user, looking specifically at the "the plane of connection between human and machine."
Lupton continues along this historic journey by highlighting the natural evolution from interface design to interaction design (a deeper look at the point of contact between humans and machines), to experience design (using narratives to script the experience between user and a product or service), and finally to open source or maker-culture (the final shift away from passive user). She manages to distill a very complex story into a few vital points – explaining not only what the relationship between user and designer looks like at each point, but how it came to be, and where it might go next.
Quoting Bill Moggridge, she implies that the next level of design goes beyond the individual and extends to all living things: "we are moving towards a more holistic view of design and its impact on the larger person, community and world."
To further support her argument, Lupton selects a small number of appropriate and compelling case studies and catalogues them as 'Measures of Man,' 'Handles,' 'Mobility,' 'Interface' and 'Revenge of the User.' Arguably, these categories are where the relationship between designer and user has seen significant changes.
The Measures of Man case study, a project created by Thomas Carpentier at the Ecole Speciale d'Archietcture Paris, challenges traditional approaches to design and the body by de-standardizing previously accepted norms. By designing spaces for users such as a vampire, a body builder, a Borg Queen, and a genie in a bottle, Carpentier's project pokes fun at the idea of normal, while brilliantly designing creative solutions for the most unexpected challenges. Lupton also includes Carpentier's design for a man who has had a translumbar amputation–a more serious example of how simple and thoughtful design changes based on the unique needs of a user has the potential to positively influence his experience.
The Handle and Mobility case studies also support the idea that the changing relationship between designer and user has led to design that better suits human need. She pays particular attention to medical devices such as wheelchairs, grab bars, 3D printable prosthetic limps and the possibility of bionic arms.
The most compelling aspect of Lupton's latest work is the clear path that she draws between the traditional hands-off approach to design, and the contemporary nature of design in which the designer and the user play a more equal role in the design process. She concludes quite cleverly and elegantly, by introducing the reader to the new lexicon of the relationship between user and designer. Through this small gesture she empowers the reader–much in the way that design can empower a user–by creating a short glossary of key terminology, breaking down language barriers and further strengthening the conversation between user and designer.
Ellen Ziegler has a Masters in Advanced Studies of Architecture. She lives in Toronto and spends most of her time biking, exploring the city, drinking coffee, and writing book reviews.
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Q: SwiftUI: How to dynamically adjust ForEach elements? I have a List() containing rows of expenses (from CoreData). Like this:
                            ForEach(expenses) { expense in
                                ExpenseRow(e:expense, cv: self)
                                }

Here's the struct ExpenseRow:
struct ExpenseRow: View {
        var e: ExpenseEntry
        var cv: ContentView
        var body: some View {
            NavigationLink {
                NewExpenseCard(existingExpense:e)
            } label: {
                HStack{
                    Text(e.amount.description.abs() ?? " ")
                        .foregroundColor(e.amount < 0 ? .green : Color(UIColor.label))
                    Text(e.note ?? "")
                        .font(.system(size: 14))
                        .lineLimit(1)
                    Spacer()

                    Text(shortDateString(date: e.timestamp!))
                        .padding(.all, 5)
                        .font(.body)
                        .opacity(0.5)
                        .cornerRadius(5)
                }

            }
        }
    }

So each row is an HStack of amount - note - date.
The date portion of the list now looks like this:

*

*Jan 1

*Jan 1

*Jan 2

Instead, I'd like a date only to be shown if it hasn't been displayed previously, to avoid duplicate dates being shown. Like this:

*

*Jan 1

*

*Jan 2

But I can't find any way of doing this. I tried a state variable to track the last displayed date (Jan 1) and then only display the next one if it differs from this, but that leads to an infinite loop where Swift keeps going through the rows forever trying to update them.
How can I do this properly?


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Tim Freke – The Mystery Experience
Posted April 12, 2011 By Tim Freke in Archives With | 2 Comments
Tim is a philosopher or 'lover of wisdom' who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakening, which fully embraces our everyday humanity. He has spent his life exploring the awakened state he often simply calls 'The Mystery Experience'.
Tim has articulated his own revolutionary 'philosophy of lucid living' designed to help people go beyond ideas and actually experience a 'deep awake' state, which replaces out-dated spiritual jargon with clear new concepts which are simple to understand.
He has also developed a profoundly simple 'Mystery of the Moment' attention technique and a number of powerful 'I to I' practices, which quickly awaken practitioners to 'The Mystery Experience' and help them commune with others in oneness and 'Big Love'.
Tim is also an innovative 'stand-up philosopher' – a concept he developed from the ancient idea of a philosopher as a traveling 'spiritual entertainer' who transformed people's consciousness.
He is a passionate and playful communicator, whose enthusiasm for life is contagious.
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L'Henriade és una epopeia en deu cants, obra de Voltaire. Voltaire va escriure l'Henriade en honor del rei de França Enric IV i de la tolerància. L'assumpte gira al voltant del setge de París, començat per Enric III i per Enric de Navarra, futur Enric IV de França. L'escena es desenvolupa entre París i Ivry-la-Bataille, on es lliurà aquesta famosa batalla que va determinar la sort de França i de la casa reial. El poema està fonamentat en una història coneguda, de la qual s'ha conservat la veritat en els esdeveniments principals. Els altres, menys respectables, han estat retallats o arreglats seguint la versemblança del que exigeix un poema.

L'Henriade es compon de dues parts; esdeveniments reals i ficcions meravelloses, tals com la predicció de la conversió d'Enric IV, la protecció que li donà el rei sant Lluís IX de França, avantpassat de la Casa Reial de França no només la branca dels Valois a la qual pertanyia Enric III sinó també la dels Borbons dels quals descendia Enric IV, Lluís XV i el Regent: la seva aparició, el foc del cel, etc. Els altres temes, com el viatge de la Discòrdia a Roma, la Política, el fanatisme personificat, el temple de l'amor, en definitiva, les passions i els vicis, són purament al·legòrics.

L'edició de 1728
Voltaire, aquell any, es trobava a Anglaterra i acabava d'eixugar una terrible bancarrota. El rei Lluís XV, ja adult i pare de família, quan se'n va assabentar. Ja que Lluís XV havia rebujat la dedicatòria, Voltaire, en vista de les circumstàncies, en va fer llavors l'honor a la reina Elisabet I d'Anglaterra.

L'edició de Londres, 1728, in-quarto de 3 ff. 5 ff. (llista subscriptors) i 202 pàg. és la primera que porta el títol de Henriade, qui sigui completa, és a dir en deu cants i que va ser feta completament sota la supervisió de l'autor.

Iconografia de l'edició de Londres in-4° de 1728:

La il·lustració d'aquesta edició serà represa (la majoria del temps en reducció) per a la majoria de les múltiples edicions posteriors.

Il·lustracions per a l'edició de Kehl in-4
Iconografia de l'edició de Kehl in-4°; de 1789:
Dibuixades per Jean-Michel Moreau, gravades per Triera, Patas...

Addicions al poema
L'Henriade va fer objecte d'un gran nombre d'addicions al fil de nombroses reimpressions successives, sota formes de notes i observacions, de prefacis, de cartes o ben encara de crítiques. Aquestes van ser en part redactades per Voltaire ell mateix però també per bé d'altres tal com Faget, Linant, Gandouin, Lenglet Dufresnoy, Marmontel, Frederic el Gran, La Beaumelle o fins i tot Bidaut.

Woodman & Lyon a la seva edició de 1728, afegeixen els Pensaments sobre l'Henriade escrita per un tal Faget. Aquesta referència serà reproduïda per GOsse & Neaulme, sempre el mateix any, sota el títol de Crítica de l'Henriade. El 1730, apareixen per primera vegada, La Història abreujada dels esdeveniments, etc. i La idea de l'Henriade, Voltaire afegeix d'altra banda a aquesta edició, un gran nombre de notes. El 1733, La prova sobre la poesia èpica és imprès de resultes de L'Henriade, això ja no és la traducció de l'abat Desfontaines que Voltaire havia estat obligat a corregir, sinó una nova obra «retreballada en francès i ampliada significativament pel mateix autor de L'Henriade».

Linant, a la seva edició de 1737, afegeix un prefaci de la seva mà i hi ajunta una Carta d'Antonio Cocchi, lector de Pisa, al Sr. Rinuccini, secretari d'Estat de Florència, traduïda pel baró Elderchen, camarlenc del rei de Suècia. El 1741, Gaudouin afegeix a la seva edició, els canvis recollits per l'abat Lenglet Dufresnoy (als quals adjuntarà les seves observacions), a les edicions anteriors del poema (sobretot aquelles de 1723 i de 1737) amb l'objectiu d'ajuntar-los a l'edició in-4°; de 1728.

El 1746, l'edició de Prault, va ser objecte d'un nou prefaci escrit per Marmontel. Aquest prefaci serà reproduït a la majoria de les edicions següents. Es troba en aquesta edició, la nota que s'anomena «la nota dels condemnats» perquè conté una estimació sobre el nombre d'homes destinats a les penes eternes de l'infern. Se la sobrenomenarà, per això «L'Henriade dels condemnats», aquesta nota ja no serà reimpresa i es troba de manera única amb la nota sobre Colbert al primer tom de les Obres de Mr. Voltarie, Londres (Trévoux), Jean Nourse 1746. El nou prefaci preparat per a aquesta edició és interessant sobretot en el fet que ens ensenya sobre l'édification edició in-4°; de 1728, tanca també en algunes notes pàg. 316, 344, 359, 360, 367, 371, 379, 381, 385, 388), la refutació de certes observacions de Lenglet Dufresnoy.

El 1756, apareixia un Pròleg de Frederic el Gran (del qual Marmontel ja havia inserit anteriorment un fragment al seu prefaci) que estava destinat a una edició per a lliurar-li al rei de Prússia, però que mai ha aparegut. A més a més, Voltaire en aquesta edició va treure el cant V. La Beaumelle el 1769 va afegir noves observacions a les quals Bidaut el 1780 aportarà, a les principals, una resposta.

A l'edició de l'Henriade, de 1770, es llegeix, al capdavant, una carta adreçada per Voltaire a Eisen, on s'expressa en aquests termes: «Em penso, senyor, que l'Henriade passarà a la posteritat veient les estampes amb què vós l'embelliu. La idea i l'execució també us fan, igualment, l'honor. Estic segur que l'edició on es troben, serà la més buscada, ...»

Notes

Edició moderna
 L'Henriade, O. R. Taylor, edició, Ginebra, Inst. & Museu Voltaire, 1965

Bibliografia
 Georges-L Bérubé, «Le Voyage dans La Henriade et La Pucelle : un outil rhétorique», Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1992, n° 305, pàg. 1589-93.
 Françoise Bléchet, «Deux lettres inédites de l'abbé Bignon, bibliothécaire du roi, à Voltaire»,  Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1982, n° 208, pàg. 315-322.
 Hélène Charpentier, «Jean Le Blanc : De la Henriade et de quelques autres Poèmes»,  Nouvelle Revue du siècle XVI, 1997, n° 15 (1), pàg. 119-33.
 Pierre Christophorov, «Un Chapitre de la Poétique du Christianisme: La Henriade»,  Poetica, 1967; 1, pàg. 534-55.
  John R. Iverson, «Putting Voltaire's Henriade in the Hands of the Young», French Review, Feb 2003, n° 76 (3), pàg. 522-33.
  John Leigh, Voltaire: A Sense of History, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2004.
 Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian, «La Henriade de Voltaire: Horreur épique et horreur historique», Formes modernes de la poésie épique: Nouvelles approches, Judith Labarthe, Éd. et intro., Brussels, Peter Lang, 2004, pàg. 99-109.
 Helena Mandic-Pachl, «Une traduction de la Henriade de Voltaire»,  Studia Romanica Zagrabiensia, 1957, n° 4, pàg. 45-52.
  Norma Perry, «Voltaire's London Agents for the Henriade: Simond and Benezet, Huguenot Merchants»,  Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1973, n° 102, pàg. 265-99.
 Juliette Rigal, «L'Iconographie de la Henriade au siècle XVIII ou la naissance du style troubadour», Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Theodore Besterman, Éd., Genève, Inst. & Musée Voltaire, 1965, pàg. 23-71.
 Jean-Marie Roulin, L'Épopée de Voltaire à Chateaubriand : Poésie, histoire et politique, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2005.
 Jean-Marie Roulin, «Le Grand Siècle au futur : Voltaire, de la prophétie épique à l'écriture de l'histoire», Revue d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, Sept-Oct 1996, n° 96 (5), pàg. 918-33.
  James L. Schorr, «La Henriade Revisited», Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1988, n° 256, pàg. 1-20.
  Geraldine Sheridan, «Voltaire's Henriade: A History of the 'Subscriber' Edition, 1728-1741», Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1982, n° 215, pàg. 77-90.
  O. R. Taylor, «Voltaire's Apprenticeship as a Historian: La Henriade», The Age of the Enlightenment: Studies Presented to Theodore Besterman, Edinburgh, Court of the Univ. of St. Andrews, 1967, pàg. 1-14.
  Norman L. Torrey, «A Note on Voltaire's Commentaire historique», Modern Language Notes, Nov 1928, n° 43 (7), pàg. 439-42.
  David Williams, «Voltaire's Advertisement for the Henriade: A Calculation for the French Meridian», Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century'', 1992, n° 303, pàg. 471-75

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Q: Is proxy a good fit to create demo mode? A lot of times we need a demo mode in certain projects which usually involves hardware with the purpose that the software can run/simulate without the hardware actually connected. The functions in demo mode simulate the hardware somewhat but don't obviously operate on it.
My question is, is the proxy design pattern (or any other for that matter) a good fit to create demo modes in software?
Consider the example below which is simplified to be short.
class Arm
{
public:
    int _x = 0;
    int _y = 0;

    virtual void move(int x, int y) = 0;
};

class RobotArm : public Arm
{
    virtual void move(int x, int y)
    {
        /* assum we have actual hardware coommands here which updates variables */
        //_x = x;
        //_y = y;

        std::cout << "hardware is not connected, can't move" << std::endl;
    }
};

class RobotArmDemo : public Arm
{
    virtual void move(int x, int y)
    {
        /* no hardware commands here, just update variables */
        _x = x;
        _y = y;

        std::cout << "Demo Arm moved to " << _x << "," << _y << std::endl;
    }
};

class Robot
{
public:
    Arm *leftArm;
    Arm *rightArm;
};

int main()
{
    Arm * leftArm = new RobotArmDemo; // creating an arm in demo mode!
    Arm * rightArm = new RobotArm; // this arm is the real one

    Robot * robot = new Robot;

    robot->leftArm = leftArm;
    robot->rightArm = rightArm;

    // perform action
    robot->leftArm->move(3, 3); // this is on demo mode
    robot->rightArm->move(1, 2); // this is real mode

    return 0;
}

In the code above, I created one demo arm and one real arm for the robot just to show how each will work. Obviously in real demo mode, all derived objects will have the demo implementation. Is this a good way to implement demo modes in software?
Can this be applied to real large/medium size application? I tend to like this approach because exactly same functions are called in both real and demo applications which makes life easier and understand the flow. Alternatively a seperate 'demo' path can become almost a seperate application/module which grows apart and loses close resemeblence with real application.

A: Yes this looks like a good approach.
What you can also consider beyond your design, is a abstract factory class creating the robot, which creates the correct objects (either demo or real classes). So the first 5 lines of the main function will end up in the factory class.


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Q: Can I extract skills from my weapons? I have an Iron Maul of Flame.  It "Deals 40 Flame Damage".  I can destroy it for plain materials at the blacksmith.  Is there any way I can get something special out of an item like this?  For example, at the enchanting station?  (Although, I saw no option for this at the enchanting station.)

A: No. You can't get the weapon enchantment or other extras back from weapons and armors.
You can get three types of items back by deconstructing one:

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*base material: like wood, metal or cloth

*the style material: and only the one being used, limited to only those who can be crafted. Yokudan, for example, can't be extracted.

*enhancement material: only the ones fitting to your item enhancement level. So out of a fine (green) sword you are only able to draw out one Honing Stone; a orange (legendary) one may give you one Tempering Alloy.


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To go along with the new account creation feature, site admins can now just as easily create a new team, and assign the new team's admin. Only the team name and team abbreviation/tag are required, so if the team admin is unknown at the time, those team details can be updated later. With the new team creation feature, site admin control over an already created team's details has also been boosted.
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If your skin is on the oily side, you've probably been fleeing from putting more facial oils on your skin for years. However, it's not that simple. Many facial oils actually contain plant oils that act as a barrier against the elements, as well as replenishing any essential oils you may have stripped from your skin during cleansing. Remember, your skin does need oil and if you deny it what it needs, it will actually produce even more to compensate, which will cause breakouts.
We're all guilty of letting our make up brushes get a bit too dirty from time to time, but it's important to drill into your head that they harbour so much bacteria even from one week to the next. Powder brushes should be cleaned every 2-3 weeks and liquid make up brushes (particularly your concealer or foundation brush that you've been using to cover your breakouts) should be cleaned once a week. Simply give your brushes a swish in a glass with small bit of lukewarm water and some make up brush cleanser (or even just baby shampoo), pat dry and leave out to air dry. That last step is important – don't put your brushes away as soon as they're clean. Damp brushes are almost as bad as dirty ones!
Naturally, drinking eight glasses of water a day will clear your skin but we're all sick to death of hearing that, and you often end up going to the bathroom every ten minutes and not retaining much water anyway. A more effective way to stay hydrated and retain water for its facial benefits is to eat foods with a high water content. Celery, cucumbers and watermelon are just a few examples you can snack on for clearer skin.
Similar to the idea behind using oils, you might think your face needs a bit of drying out but the opposite is true. If your skin is deprived of moisturiser it will over produce oil and sebum, which is responsible for clogging your pores and causing breakouts. Everyone's skin is different, and some might find oil-based creams too heavy, in which case you can opt for a water-based moisturiser, which you can still combine with a facial oil.
Okay, so most of us know that chocolate doesn't exactly cause breakouts . That myth has definitely been disproven. However, a bad diet in general will cause problems for your skin. What you get out of your body (and your skin) has a lot to do with what you put into it, and if your diet is lacking in essential nutrients and vitamins, your skin is going to suffer. In short, there's no point in putting down the chocolate bar if you're shovelling takeaways and instant foods into your body.
It's not just about what you put on your skin, it's about the way you put it on. Cleansing obviously comes first, but what next? If you're using products that specifically target blemishes and problem skin, then use the ones with active ingredients first. These would include salicylic acid or glycolic acid. You want these to come in direct contact with your skin to work. Next would be the lighter products, like facial oils, and finally, heavier creams or moisturisers would go last. You don't want the heavy products blocking the active spot-fighting treatments.
I don't use these all at once, and I use them for different stages of a breakout or different skin situations. Everyone's skin is different so what works for me might not work as well for you, these are just the ones I found the most effective for me. If you have found your own miracle worker for blemishes, let me know in the comments.
I find the La Roche Posay Effaclar range particularly excellent for problem skin, so this is definitely one of my favourite cleansers.
Another favourite cleanser of mine for breakouts, I discovered this when I went for a facial in Carton House and this was the cleanser they used on me to help with my breakouts. The results were some of the fastest I've experienced.
These little miracle workers were originally for post-waxing treatment to prevent ingrown hairs, but with salicylic acid, they've proven fantastic for a number of other things, including taking redness down on blemishes. I use these directly after cleansing if I'm suffering a breakout. Plus, Waxperts is an Irish brand, which I love.
This French brand owns one of the original micellar waters, and I can definitely vouch for it's pore refining treatment. I use it as a serum, after cleansing, and after my Waxperts pads. I use it pretty much all over my face, focusing on anywhere I'm having a breakout.
This stuff is amazing for acne scaring, and for generally taking down redness from blemishes that are new. It smells amazing too, and it's a wonder product for a number of other things, like dehydrated skin or uneven skin tone.
For particularly angry spots, I use this. I find most spot treatments don't really work fast enough for me and I always find myself wondering if the spot would have gone just as fast with or without the product. However, this one I do find effective, and if I have single spots I can target, I use this.
I find these touch and go, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I think it depends on the kind of spot you have, and it really should be individual spots and not a whole breakout because these can only be applied to one spot at a time. However, I find them useful for flattening big spots with no head, and reducing redness. I often find other products don't work as well on this kind of blemish so these help.
These are relatively new, with Benefit maximising on its Porefessional range (hey, if it ain't broke…) These are sheet masks and they cover about a third of your face, which I find useful for my breakouts because I rarely need it on my forehead. I mostly use them on my chin and jaw line area and I can feel it working. It also doesn't need any rinsing.
Like I said, Benefit are capitalising on their best-selling range, and who am I to complain? I find this good for the morning, because breakouts aside, my oily skin usually leave me with a shiny face, no matter how much powder I use. I was skeptical when I first tried it but it really does reduce that shine, especially on my forehead.
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