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McCall salutes Sarries' England stars as they shoot down Quins
PUBLISHED: 19:30 24 March 2013 | UPDATED: 11:36 26 March 2013
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Saracens boss Mark McCall paid tribute to his England players who bounced back from the crushing Six Nations defeat by Wales to help the Premiership leaders comprehensively beat defending champions Harlequins 27-12 at Allianz Park.
Owen Farrell contributed 17 points, while Alex Goode, Chris Ashton, Brad Barritt, and Mako Vunipola all played their parts in a victory which was more convincing than the scoreline suggests.
"I've got to take my hat off to our English guys who had a difficult weekend last weekend. All of them, to a man, wanted to play today," said director of rugby McCall.
"It says a lot about the the environment and the general group that they are so keen to come back and enjoy it so much - but some of our non-internationals were pretty good today as well."
McCall added: "We know our season didn't hinge on today.
"But as a team we played really well. Our tackling game caused them some problems and we scored our tries at the right times."
The Saracens boss was delighted with the performance of under-pressure England winger Ashton.
He said: "Chris had a really top game and got himself involved, for a guy who has taken his criticism over the last few weeks.
"Two years ago we thought Chris Ashton was the best player in the world and he just needs to have the confidence that his coaches believe in him."
Ashton was yellow-carded in the closing stages for a high tackle on Harlequins' replacement flanker Maurie Fa'asavalu but McCall said: "He mis-timed the challenge. There was no intent to cause any harm, It was just one of those things."
McCall also had words of praise for the way man-of-the-match Vunipola, the 22-year-old recently-capped England prop, took on opposite number James Johnston, who is joining Saracens from Quins in the summer.
"The best thing he did today was scrummage against James Johnston. For a young prop, with only 12 months in the Premiership behind him, we all know he can do incredibly special things in the loose but he knows what he does in the tight is very important and he did it well today," McCall said.
"We all know, from watching his performance today, how far he can go - and will go."
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ANANTNAG(Shabir Ahmad): The family members of the victims of the infamous Pathribal fake encounter regret their decision to appear before the Army's Court Martial that exonerated its soldiers from involvement in the carnage. On the 16th anniversary of the cold-blooded murders, the family members of the victims said that they would continue their fight for justice.
On Friday, the villagers will organise a meeting to pay tributes to the slain civilians. "We regret our decision to appear before the Army's court. Our apprehension was if we did not appear, they would decide the case unilaterally. But despite our appearance, they did the same," Abdul Rashid Khan, son of one of the five victims of the Pathribal fake encounter, Juma Khan, told Kashmir Reader.
"The army might think that they have closed the chapter but we will not give up our fight for justice. We will fight till the last breath", Khan said at his Sonabrari village residence.
Five civilians — Juma Khan and his namesake fellow villager, both belonging to the Gujjar community, Zahoor Ahmad Dalal, Bashir Ahmad Bhat and Mohammed Yousuf Malik—were killed by police and army in a joint operation at Pathribal on March 23, 2000, two days after the massacre of 35 persons belonging to the minority Sikh Community at Chattisinghpora by unknown gunmen. The government claimed that the five persons killed at Pathribal were "foreign mercenaries" involved in the Chattisighpora massacre.
However, the claims became suspicious when five persons went missing in the adjoining areas. The charred bodies passed off as those of foreign militants were exhumed on April 6, 2000. There was circumstantial evidence that the bodies were of the missing civilians. A prolonged scientific process, which was even fudged by the police at one point, ultimately confirmed the identity of the civilians killed in the staged encounter.
An inquiry conducted by India's premier investigating agency, Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) later sought exemplary punishment against five officers of 7 Rashtriya Rifles — Brigadier Ajay Saxena, Lt Col Brajendra Pratap Singh, Major Sourabh Sharma, Major Amit Saxena and Subedar Idrees Khan — when a chargesheet was filed in a designated court in Srinagar in 2006. The CBI held the five army men guilty of "cold-blooded murder" of these five innocent civilians.
In 2014, the Supreme Court of India on the basis of the CBI report asked the army to decide whether the indicted officers be tried in the civil criminal court or army court. The army chose the latter and ordered a Court of Inquiry that held hearings at Nagrota in Jammu and Awantipora headquarters of Victor Force. The CoI closed the case in January 2014 and exonerated its officers.
"I am not a coward. I will never give up my fight for justice. The verdict of the army court was no surprise for me because you cannot expect justice from the killers", he said. "If I stop raising a voice for punishment to the killers, it will be grave injustice", Khan added.
Shakoor Ahmad, son of another victim, Juma Khan said that they have been organising remembrance meetings every year to pay tribute to their loved ones. "This year too we have decided to organise a meeting on Friday. We recall the innocents on this day and convey to their killers that no lies and cover ups are going to break our resolve (for seeking justice)," Shakoor said. "Our wounds are fresh and we will not rest until the killers of our beloved ones are brought to justice", he said.
Interestingly, the then-Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had promised that his government would find out legal means to counter the army's verdict on Pathribal encounter. However, the government did not take any measure. "I will be asking my law department and my advocate General to examine what options are available to us in the state. We will approach the highest courts in the land as far as the legality is concerned. On the political administrative front, I will knock on all the doors, whether it will be the defense minister or the prime minister because it is too serious a matter to be closed like this," Abdullah had told a television channel.
Kin of Pathribal fake encounter victims vow to continue fight for justice
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ANANTNAG(Shabir Ahmad): The family members of the victims of the infamous Pathribal fake encounter regret their decision to appear before the Army's Court Martial that exonerated its soldiers from involvement in the carnage. On the 16th anniversary of the cold-blooded murders, the family members of the victims said that they would continue their fight for justice.


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Dear Healthcare at Home Colleague,
One of things public and private payers are trying to get post-acute care providers to do is coordinate patient care with other healthcare providers. Government officials and independent healthcare consultants have determined that assigning case managers to coordinate care as patients move from venue to venue has the twin benefit of improving patient outcomes, avoiding medical errors, and controlling costs.
We at The Rowan Report have heard of efforts around the country to create care coordination programs, going back as far as our 2011 coverage of the Community Health Initiative Network in Las Vegas. Rarely, however, have we seen a program as efficient as the one we feature this week.
Whether you provide services to Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries, dual-eligibles, or patients who pay you directly or through their insurance policies, please take a look at "Hospital-to-Home Program Saves Lives, Slashes Costs." This care coordination program can serve as a national model; the home care agency CEO who helped design the program is open to speaking with colleagues about it.
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As every post-acute provider continues to struggle with staff recruiting and retention, we found a useful report from researchers at PHI and Caring Across Generations. Together, the organizations have released a report outlining nine areas where LTSS social insurance programs at the state level can improve the quality of direct care jobs.
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In the Nusa Dua area of Bali is the famous Tanjung Beach, which is also home to the region's first "all inclusive" resort property, the Club Mirage Hotel. As an all-inclusive resort, the Club Mirage Hotel seeks to provide guests with all of the amusements, services and activities they would need for a satisfying vacation or journey. To that end there is a comprehensive range of items included in the cost of accommodation, including most meals and beverages as well as many activities. Guests can dine in four restaurants or lounges, take a dip in the pool, learn how to sail, kayak, wind surf, snorkel or dive, or they can play billiards, darts and backgammon in the game room among many other things. Kids are encouraged to join the activities club and have "parent-free" fun all day long! There are 98 rooms and suites in the hotel, and all feature full marble bathrooms, private balconies or terraces, direct dial phones, satellite TV, personal safes and full climate controls among other amenities. The Club Mirage Hotel is located at Jalan Pratama 72 Tanjung Benoa 43, Nusa Dua.
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(CNN)A Scottish nurse who fought off Ebola has given birth to twins, telling those who have suffered that "there is a future" after the disease.
Pauline Cafferkey, 43, delivered two boys in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday.
She became ill with the viral disease in 2014, during the epidemic that killed tens of thousands of people in West Africa.
After spending weeks in an isolation unit, Cafferkey was cleared of the disease, but she has been readmitted to hospital on a number of occasions since.
"I would like to thank all the wonderful NHS staff who have helped me since I became ill in 2014 right through to having my babies this week," Cafferkey said in a statement.
"This shows that there is life after Ebola and there is a future for those who have encountered this disease," she added. The mother and her babies are "doing well," a spokesperson for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said.
The arrival marks a happy development in a long and difficult journey for the public health nurse, who caught Ebola while working in Sierra Leone with the charity Save the Children.
The devastating Ebola epidemic was in full swing during her stint, though Cafferkey did not learn that her own life was at risk until she fell ill shortly after touching back down in the UK.
She was then diagnosed with Ebola and was moved for intensive treatment to London's Royal Free Hospital, which has an isolation unit tended by trained medical staff and a tent with controlled ventilation set up over the patient's bed.
At one point during that initial stay, the hospital said Cafferkey's condition had "gradually deteriorated" and that she was in a critical condition. Nonetheless, she rallied and weeks later was allowed to go home.
Around 11,000 people died during the epidemic, according to the World Health Organization, and new vaccines and treatments have since been introduced to stem the spread of the disease.
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I've recently been trying to transfer away from traditionally yeasted breads to sourdough, mainly because I like the taste, and since I don't eat a lot of bread, traditionally yeasted breads often get mould before I finish a loaf.
For some reason, whenever I keep a culture in the fridge it seems so require 2-3 days to get over the shock, so I'm trying to keep a culture bubbling away on the counter top, but this requires feeding once or twice a day... which is now at a risk of taking the whole house over, somewhat akin to 'The Blob'
Out of interests in sustainability, the idea of 'throwing out' excess starter culture doesn't work for me. I've tried offering it to people are work, but many of them have never even heard of sourdough, and seem to think they will die should they ingest any of these wild yeasts that live all around them...One of them even cautioned me it would give me thrush!
Anyway, at risk of my culture either generating its own gravitational pull, or developing some form of primative sentiency, I thought it best to use up some of it as a preventative measure ;)
So far, I've come up with the following uses
I'm going to try making Yorkshire Puddings with them too, but I've not tried that yet.
- Making sourdough wraps for sandwiches to take to work
- Pouring off the hooch and using to make 'bakers clay/playdough'
- Cooking in the skillet after a messy dish to clean the pan... then feeding this to the birds (This cleans cast iron very well!)
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A couple of weeks ago, Ester Dean shared that one of the driving forces behind her success in her belief in the Law of Attraction. The songwriter was exposed to this principle after reading Rhonda Byrnes' The Secret.
"I get obsessed with what I want. When I read 'The Secret' on the law of attraction, I got obsessed," she revealed during an episode of Madame Noire's "In This Room." "I didn't understand why it was working. And then I'd pass it on to my family and friends and it didn't work for them. I didn't understand why not so I started doing more research."
As it turns out, the "Drop It Low' singer is an avid reader and she offered us a sneak peek into her life-changing book list.
"This is going to be crazy because I have a lot of books," shared Dean. "Right now, I'm reading 'Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life.'
Instead of leafing through traditional paperbound texts, the 37-year-old swipes her way to self-improvement using the Audible app.
"Anytime I pick up my phone, I'll be going straight back to my books. I have a library," she explained before going on to list some of her favorites. "'Your Most Valuable Asset' by Brian Tracy, 'Ten Percent Happier,' by Brian Tracy. Everything about me is Brian Tracy," she went on. 'Flight Plan' by Brian Tracy. You know, when you're in a place and you don't know how to get out. It's the fight or flight. It helps you to strategize on how to get out of the bad part."
Previously, Dean shared with us that her obsession with knowledge is the key to her success.
"I get obsessed with knowledge. I get obsessed with thoughts of how I can get something that everyone thinks I shouldn't have," she confessed.
Check out her full book list below.
Your Most Valuable Asset – Brian Tracy
Ten Percent Happier – Dan Harris
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life – Brian Tracy
Flight Plan: The Real Secrets of Success – Brian Tracy
The Luck Factor – Richard Wiseman
Come to Win – Venus Williams
Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance – Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Earn What You're Really Worth – Brian Tracy
The Game of Life and How to Play It – Florence Scovel Shinn
Full Engagement! Brian Tracy
The Master Key System – Charles F. Haanel
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
Awaken the Giant Within – Anthony Robbins
The Five Second Rule – Mel Robbins
The Four Disciplines of Execution – Chris McChesney
Visualization: Directing the Movies of Your Mind – Adelaide Bry
What are some of your self-help favorites?
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You must have noticed that articles with a title in the form of a question do not really provide answers. I am very conscious of this but I wrote few articles with titles in the form of a question anyway:
What is devotion?
How do I know?
Why is uncertainty intrinsic in the Cosmos?
What is Spin?
Why so many fields?
In those articles I tried my best to provide some answers and some original thoughts. This short article is written in the same spirit.
If intuition is a brain function then
- entire spiritual philosophy collapses
- spiritual practice becomes meaningless
I assure you that intuition is more – much more – than a brain function
- Intuition is a divine gift to humans
- Intuition is inversely proportional to ego
- Meditation improves intuition
- Intuition is receptivity to divine inspiration
- Intuition is like information leak from the Cosmic Mind
In Sanskrit the intuitional faculty of the human mind is known as Vigyanamaya Kosha. Human beings attain true knowledge through the intuitional faculty when their ego is perfectly transparent. Intuitional knowledge grows as the ways of ego are known and its demands are controlled. The human being who is established in true knowledge is not egoless but the ego is perfectly transparent. You cannot see the ego but it is still there to hold the knowledge.
The Vigyanamaya Kosha is part of the "causal layer" of the human mind. A portion of the mind is called the "causal mind" because this is the layer that orders and organizes life. The "causal mind" is always active in the life of a human being. During waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep the "causal mind" is active. The long sleep in the causal mind is called death because without an active "causal mind" life is not possible.
The 3 layers Atimanas Kosha, Vigyanamaya Kosha and Hiranmaya Kosha which are the innermost (highest if you like) layers of the human mind are collectively known as the "causal layer." The causal layer of the human mind is the same as the causal layer of the Cosmic Mind. This means that we are all connected to each other and to the Cosmos. When ego becomes transparent we become aware of this cosmic connection and start receiving intuitive knowledge.
The life-giving core of our being – the soul – is a reflection of the life-giving core of the Cosmos. The life-giving sun at the heart of Cosmos is known as the Cosmic Soul (Parama Purusha, Purushottama, Atman, Divine Center). Being a reflection of that infinite brightness our souls multiply infinity by infinity. The only problem is that the soul is covered and darkened by the thick walls of ego. This is why I use the concept of transparency. By spiritual practice we slowly make the walls of ego transparent. Then the light of the soul reaches the mind. This is intuition.


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Aztec, New Mexico, UFO incident
The 1948 Aztec, New Mexico, UFO incident (sometimes known as the "other Roswell") was a hoaxed flying saucer crash and subject of the 1950 book "Behind the Flying Saucers," by Frank Scully.[1]
In early March 1948, an unidentified aerial craft was reported hovering over Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.[2]
Approximately two weeks later, on March 25, 1948, in Hart Canyon, a similar UFO was said to have made a controlled landing after being shot at by the military.[2] Supposed witnesses claim that 16 dead humanoid figures were found near the craft and that the craft itself was said to be 99 feet (30 m) in diameter, the largest UFO to date.[2][3] The craft was alleged to be made of a material impervious to all heat.[1] Every account noted a hole in the craft's portal and described the humanoid figures as 'childlike' in size.[2] Other reports were more detailed, describing the creatures as between 36 inches (91 cm) and 42 inches (110 cm) in height, weight around 40 pounds (18 kg).[1]
It was alleged that shortly after the craft was downed, the military cleared the area of evidence, including the bodies - subsequently taking it to Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.[1] Indeed, the belief in Hangar 18, which is said to house every downed UFO captured in the US, was spawned by the Aztec incident.[4]
The incident gave birth to the Aztec UFO Symposium, which was run by the local library as a fundraiser from 1997 until 2011.[3][5]
Notable people who have come forward as witnesses include NASA engineer, Bob Oechsler and Fred Reed, an employee of the Office of Strategic Services.[6]
Silas Newton and Leo A. Gebauer had travelled through Aztec, attempting to sell devices known in the oil business as "doodlebugs."[7] They claimed that the devices could find oil, gas and gold, and that they could do so because they were based on alien technology. To substantiate their claim they reported the UFO crash to Frank Scully for Variety. At the time the article was published, nobody else had come forward as a witness.[7]
When J. P. Cahn of the San Francisco Chronicle asked the con-men for a sample of the 'alien technology', they provided him with a sample, which turned out to be aluminium.[7]
Four years later the hoax was exposed in True magazine. After the article was published, many victims of the pair came forward. One of the victims was the millionaire Herman Glader, who pressed charges. The two were convicted of fraud in 1953.[1][7]
FBI memo[edit]
In April 2011, UFO enthusiasts discovered what has come to be known as the "Hottel memo", which was available for viewing on the FBI's 'Vault' website.[7] Though the memo had never been classified, and had been making the rounds online for some years, it was seen as 'proof' of an official cover-up by the US government.[7] The memo contained the testimony of a man named Guy Hottel, who was the FBI agent in charge of the Washington field office at the time.[8] It was addressed to J. Edgar Hoover and indexed in the FBI records, but this was standard practice at the time.[8]
It was later discovered that Hottel's story was a retelling of a retelling of a 6 January 1950 article published in the The Wyandotte Echo, a Kansas City, Kansas, legal newspaper. The Wyandotte Echo article itself was a retelling of the account of a local car-salesman and radio station advertising manager.[7]
Ultimately the details within the FBI memo can be traced directly back to the hoax.[7]
After the memo was posted on the FBI Vault, it received over a million views within 2 years.[8]
In 2013, the FBI issued a press release concerning the memo. In addressing the memo's context and possible connection to a hoax, the Bureau wrote, "Finally, the Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau's files have no information to verify that theory."[9]
Developments since the 1950s[edit]
Through the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, most UFO investigators considered the subject thoroughly discredited and therefore avoided it. However, in the late 70s, Leonard Stringfield purported that not only was the incident real, but that the craft involved was one of many captured and stored by the US military.[10]
William Steinman and Wendelle Stevens later wrote a book about the incident entitled UFO Crash at Aztec: A Well Kept Secret,[11] published in 1986. In 2011's The Aztec Incident, authors Scott and Suzanne Ramsey combined their own research with newer witness testimony and argued that the crash—more accurately, an uncontrolled landing with minimal damage—may indeed have occurred more or less as originally described by Scully.[12]
It has been noted that in later years supposed 'first hand' accounts of the Aztec crash have been seen in 'first hand' accounts of Roswell, repeated verbatim.[10]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Conley, Mike (18 March 2009). "Mike Conley's Tales of the Weird: Was 'other Roswell' real or hoax?". The McDowell News (Marion, North Carolina: Lamar Smitherman). Retrieved 1 April 2013. Article reprinted by the UFO Casebook website, B J Booth (William Booth) owner and webmaster.
- ^ a b c d Irvin, Leigh (28 March 2012). "Aztec UFO landing subject of new book". Farmington Daily Times (New Mexico). Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ a b Saunders, Rhys (26 March 2006). "Sharing stories of unexplained phenomena". Farmington Daily Times (New Mexico). p. 1A. Article ID: fdn29283847. Article available via Farmington Daily Times Online Archive, (fee based).
- ^ Donovan, Barna William (2011). Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-786-43901-0.
- ^ Mayeux, Debra (25 March 2005). "OFF HOURS: UFO symposium enters 8th year as Aztec residents search for truth". Farmington Daily Times (New Mexico). p. OH-13. Article ID: fdn16000832. Article available via Farmington Daily Times Online Archive, (fee based).
- ^ Triggs, John (29 August 2006). "Inside the great UFO cover-up". Daily Express (UK). p. 24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Emspak, Jesse (11 April 2011). "FBI Hottel Memo Reveals UFO Hoax". International Business Times (New York: Etienne Uzac). Retrieved April 1, 2013.
- ^ a b c "UFOs and the Guy Hottel Memo" (Press release). Federal Bureau of Investigation. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ "UFOs and the Guy Hottel Memo" (Press release). Federal Bureau of Investigation. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ^ a b Greer, John Michael (2009). The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation (1st ed.). Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN 978-0-738-71319-9.
- ^ Steinman, William S.; Stevens, Wendelle C. (1986). UFO Crash at Aztec: A Well Kept Secret (Limited 1st ed.). Tucson, AZ: UFO Photo Archives. ISBN 978-0-934-26905-6.
- ^ Ramsey, Scott; Ramsey, Suzanne; Thayer, Frank; et al. (2011). The Aztec Incident: Recovery at Hart Canyon. Mooresville, NC: Aztec.48 Productions. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-985-00460-6.
Further reading[edit]
- Scully, Frank (1950). Behind the Flying Saucers. New York: Henry Holt and Company. OCLC 1467735.
- Reece, Gregory L. (2007). UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture. London; New York: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-845-11451-0.


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Acne flare ups cannot be solely considered as a teenage disorder as adults too suffer equally from this botheration. The underlying cause behind acne is the same both in case of teens and adults. Excessive secretion of sebum from the oil glands (also known as "pilosebaceous glands") of the skin causes acne in the form of blackheads or white pustules. Women are more prone to acne attacks than men and often they have to go through trying times in order to get rid of this common skin disorder. Teens experience this disorder during the onset of puberty due to a sudden hormonal imbalance. As you age, your body undergoes many stressful conditions externally and internally, creating suitable conditions for acne flare ups.
You should be sure that skin condition you are suffering from is in fact acne, as you could easily get it confused with similar conditions such as rosacea. If you are unsure, book in to see a dermatologist, for example those in the UK can get rosacea treatment London, where you will be able to get an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
Oily skin is prone to acne due to the presence of excessive sebaceous glands, which produce more sebum. Therefore, treating acne in oily skin becomes more difficult than in case of normal skin.
Follow a nutritious diet
Tips to get rid of adult acne
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Follow a nutritious diet
Watch what you eat daily. Your food habits may be the undetected culprits behind your acne flare ups. Make sure your daily diet is packed with enough vitamins, minerals and fibers in order to maintain a healthy physique. Fruits and vegetables must occupy a major portion of your diet. Nuts and whole grains will provide adequate minerals. Say no to processed and junk foods. Sufficient calcium intake is necessary for women to maintain the hormonal balance. Low fat dairy products in measured quantities are good sources of dietary calcium. Try to have more yoghurt as the organic probiotics present in it keeps your digestive system healthy. A healthy digestive system helps in flushing out the toxins from the body thus reducing the intensity of adult acne. Whatever you eat is ultimately reflected through your skin.
Get enough antioxidants
Antioxidants are magic ingredients that can keep acne at bay. They prevent and treat acne breakouts by destroying the free radicals produced in our body. Moreover, they also protect the skin from harmful toxins that often penetrate the dermal layer causing acne. Colored fruits and vegetables are the best sources of antioxidants. Citrus fruits like lime and oranges and green bell pepper are rich in Vitamin C, which is the most important antioxidant. Watermelon, tomato, red and yellow bell pepper and deep green vegetables are other vital sources of antioxidants that can protect your skin from acne. Therefore, add more color to your diet for acne free skin.
Regular skin care
Proper skin care is equally important along with your diet to protect your skin from adult acne. Wash your face twice a day with cold water if your skin is prone to acne. You can use an acne wash to treat this condition. Make sure that your acne wash contains salicylic acid or benzoyl peroxide, the essential chemicals to fight acne sores. Avoid extensive scrubbing as this may worsen the condition. Apply gentle circular motions on your face, neck and other affected areas with your finger tips while cleaning. Avoid using harsh towels while wiping. Pat your skin dry with a soft wash cloth. In case of mild acne break outs, you can use a face wash containing mild exfoliating agents. Never forget to apply a light moisturizer after skin cleansing.
Try homemade facial masks
You can apply some home made facial masks once or twice a week to treat your acne problem. Mix half cup of oatmeal with two tablespoons of honey and apply generously on your face. Keep it for twenty minutes and wash your face with water. This is very effective for acne prone oily skin. For dry skin, mix half cup of grated cucumber, one tablespoon of fresh yoghurt and two tablespoons of milk. Apply this mixture on your face and leave it till dry. Yoghurt helps to reduce inflamed acne and cucumber keeps your skin hydrated. Milk controls the secretion of sebaceous glands. Avoid applying these masks more than twice a week.
Select your skin care products
Acne prone skin requires special care. Therefore, you must pay equal importance while selecting skin care products. Your skin care creams or lotions should contain 2.5- 10 percent salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide. These two chemicals are very effective in fighting acne. Salicylic acid prevents clogging of pores and benzoyl peroxide reduces inflammation and clears the clogged pores. Look for those skin care products containing Niacin (Vitamin B3), Retinoids (Vitamin A derivative), sulfur and resorcinol. Niacin helps in cell regeneration and improves blood circulation. Retinoids prevent clogging of pores by removing dead cells. Sulfur fights bacterial infection and reduces sebum production. Resorcinol reduces the roughness and scales of the skin.
Take oral medications
Extra oral medications are required if the above tips to cure adult acne fail. Doctors often prescribe oral contraceptives to treat acne caused due to hormonal imbalance. Many women avoid taking these medications fearing possible side effects. You may need to take antibiotics like erythromycin, tetracycline or doxycycline in prescribed dosages. Antibiotics treat infection caused by P bacteria reducing inflammation of the acne pustules. Most of these antibiotics are inexpensive and do not produce significant side effects. You should complete the course of antibiotics as prescribed and never stop the treatment midway. Pregnant and nursing women should consult their gynae before taking the antibiotics for treating adult acne.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and following a good skin care regime is the key to get rid of acne attacks. Men too suffer from frequent attacks of adult acne. Leading a stressful life often triggers breakouts of adult acne. Practice deep breathing exercises and yoga postures to reduce your stress levels. Eat healthy to maintain a healthy bowel movement. Irregular bowel movement is one of the vital causes for adult acne. Avoid eating junk foods low in nutrients as these are detrimental for your skin's health. Be cautious while applying make ups and cosmetics. Avoid wearing too much make up as it clogs the pores creating favorable conditions for acne breakouts. Lastly, drink 2-3 liters of water throughout the day to keep your body and skin hydrated. Water prevents toxin build up in your body. You will be amazed by the healthy glow of your acne free skin.


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With the closing of the chapter that was 2012, and the promise of new beginnings that always come with the New Year, you don't have to look far to see plans being laid and resolutions made. I love the excitement that comes this time of year as people around the world prepare for the "re-start" button. Whatever happened in the previous year, we all carry with us the idea that we can do better this next year.
When You think about it, that's really all Resolutions are, the things we want to improve in our lives. We want to be better at being charitable, better at staying in shape, better at saving. But by the end of the year, we lose interest, or we lose motivation, or circumstances change in our lives, and for the vast majority of us, our resolutions fail to come to fruition.
I love the word Resolve, but I hate the term resolution. Resolution, to me, has come to be associated with failure. But Resolve, that's something you set your mind to do with all your power.
When I was in college at Liberty University, I was on the Debate Team, and this is one of the first images that comes to mind when it comes to the word Resolve. Every Year the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) and National Debate Tournament give a set of resolutions that are to be debated, but when it comes time for the actual debate, you Resolve to do something.
It's a small difference in the word, but it illustrates to me the difference between something you would like to do and something you are actually doing. This is what I love.
I'm a firm believer that things get done better when you have others supporting you, and that's one of the reasons we started our Facebook Communities. I'd love for Youth Pastors to share our big changes we hope to see accomplished in the comments of this post, and then throughout the year, those who comment will help each other succeed in these things we Resolve to do.
So what is it that you Resolve to do in 2013?
- Lead a more attractional Youth Ministry?
- Spend more time in the word?
- Spend more time in prayer?
- Grow a deeper knowledge of Theological Doctrines?
- Live a healthier lifestyle?
Whatever it is, we'd love for you to share it and let's keep each other focused with resolve this year.


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Mangaluru, Apr 15, 2019: Everyone wants to see the report card of MP and BJP candidate Nalin Kumar Kateel. He should reveal his contributions to the district during his two terms as MP," demanded senior Congress leader and Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar.
Addressing press persons at the Congress office here on April 15, Monday, he also accused MP Nalin Kumar of not striving to stop the merger of Vijaya Bank. Lashing out at the Union Government, he said the government has not only failed to fulfill the promises it made, but also did not succeed in bring Achhe Din.
He said the people of the constituency must elect Congress candidate Mithun Rai for the development of the region.
He also said though he was told to hold press meet in various districts, he chose to hold a press meet only in Mangaluru for the reason that it had an intelligent and educated populace.
He said the Congress has this time given an opportunity for a Bunt candidate, who is a Hanuman Bhakt and is also educated. D K Shivakumar also appealed to everyone to support Mithun Rai.
District Congress President Harish Kumar, former mayors Shashidhar Hegde, Mahabala Maarla, Corporator Naveen D'Souza and others were present.


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I have a pile of finished objects to show. A few of them have been done for a while but I haven't updated them on Ravelry or shown them off here. I have been so delinquent about posting I decided to do a few separate posts rather than flood you with pictures and information. I'll put a couple up today and couple tomorrow.
Up first is Vasa. I started this last summer and finished it up this past winter, and have worn it quite a bit. I hope to get some pictures of it on, because it looks much better on a body.
The pattern is written for two stockinette rectangles that are seamed at the sides and pieces of the top. The result is a loose, boxy top. I knit it in the round instead of flat, and separated at the armpits. It was a pretty easy knit and the random striping was really fun. These aren't colors I would typically put together–they are what I had leftover from various projects. I actually really like the outcome and I wear it a fair amount. I knit the 41 inch size which is quite a bit larger than my actual size, and I like the flowy sort of vibe it has going on. If I were to do it again I would knit it at least an inch longer.
Finished object number two is my Color Affection Shawl. I have wanted to make this for a long time, the stripes looked so intriguing. I decided to make it with obnoxious color choices, because most of what I wear is neutral-ish.
It ended up a little smaller than it was supposed to because I knit so tightly. I like it the size it is though, I think if it were a lot bigger it would overwhelm my tiny, tiny head.
Stripes today, purple tomorrow!


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South African President Jacob Zuma has denied reports quoting him as telling religious leaders to stick to religion and not to get involved politics.
Several religious leaders, including Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, have attacked the president over the media reports, saying the quote reminded them of apartheid leaders making similar statements.
Zuma was reported to have cautioned religious leaders at a Twelve Apostles' Church in Christ thanksgiving meeting to avoid being drawn into divisive party political squabbles.
Presidential Spokesperson Bongani Ngqulunga said here Wednesday that the president valued the contributions made by religious leaders.
President Zuma understands, appreciates and commends the role that the faith-based community played in the struggle for liberation which led to the dawn of freedom and democracy in our country. The government also values the role that that the faith-based sector continue to play in the reconstruction and development of our country and in promoting national unity, said Ngqulunga.
Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK


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- At January 19, 2020
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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A Week of Being Snowed In
Here in Seattle, we don't get snow very often, but this last week brought a bination of freezing temperatures, a ton of snow over four days, black iced roads (including a 30 car pileup on the Floating Bridge) – that kept us mostly indoors all week. Root canal? MRI? Running errands? No dice.
So I got a lot of reading done. I started watching Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon adapted on PBS (and read the original 11 chapters, which took me 45 minutes and renewed my appreciation for Austen's funny asides.) We also had a modem go out, so one whole day we didn't have phone, internet, or cable. So, yes, if you're asking, I am going a little stir crazy.
An Art Date at Seattle Art Museum
So, periodically, and especially after a week of being trapped in my house AND awaiting a Monday root canal, I take myself on an art date. Today we went down to SAM and waited for four different elevators (SAM could use a little work on the accessibility front – we had to wait for a staff member to call someone else to get one elevator that was the only way to access the actual Flesh and Blood exhibit we'd paid to see and that cost us fifteen precious minutes. We got there an hour and fifteen before close, but it literally took me twenty-five minutes to get to the exhibit because I'm handicapped. Not cool, SAM – not everyone can climb a bunch of different confusing stairways to get to everything!) We enjoyed the art, but not the frustratingly designed for only able-bodied journey to getting to see it. My favorite things were the Titian, Parmigianino's portrait of a young girl named Antea, and discovering a new local artist's work at the end of the show. Oh, and the whole reason I went to the show – this amazing and disturbing painting!
Anyway, there was a Titian, a Raphael, and several El Greco paintings, but that painting is one I had been obsessed with since I saw a slide of it in in Art Appreciation Class when I was 19 – a painting of Judith Beheading Holfernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting itself is striking, the portrayal of the female body in struggle amazing,? but the story behind it even more so – Artemesia was seventeen and an apprentice to another painter who violently raped her. Her father, also a renowned artist, took the rapist artist to court, but it was a strung out procedure and Artemesia did not find justice. She did, however, find the inspiration to paint her new subject – female saints and Biblical figures, usually unfairly attacked or in the middle of attack.? My art history teacher said that Judith is modeled on Artemesia and Holfernes on her rapist. The dark and light, the shadow, the blood, and the odd muscularity of the action would all make this a fascinating piece even without the history. They recently discovered a self-portrait of the artist and she did, indeed, resemble this Judith very much. I just ordered a book about her history because it deserves more study, don't you think? Fascinating?
A Little Poetry Catchup – and the Benefits of Downtime
So, I've been writing, sending out work, sending my book manuscripts out to publishers, you know, the usual. I didn't finish a book review I meant to do during the "snow days." I got the proofs for my poem uping in Ploughshares (!!) about which I'm tremendously excited. I also found an e-mail in my junk folder that was the editors letting me know they were passing on my poems to the featured editor – but I never got the e-mail so I missed being nervous about it for months! Ugh. Technical glitches (Submittable? My e-mail service?) can make getting and receiving poetry news a tense uncertain situation.
January seems like a good time for sending out work, and I find I tend to write a lot in January too. How about you? It's also a good time for finishing reading projects. I finally saw the new Star Wars movie too, on one of the snowy afternoons we were able to get down the street to the virtually empty theater, and am happy to report I was pleased that they showed the porgs again, albeit briefly. I read some "for fun" fiction and it felt good! I need to remember to read sometimes for fun more often. That's what downtime is for!
I was reminded, during this week of snow days, of the importance of "poetry downtime." The time when you don't feel like anything is happening – you're not actively inspired for a new series of poems, you're not hearing back from anyone – can be the most important times for your work. These are the times when you get a chance to look at your poems without the rush – you may find the typo, or adjust your line breaks, or decide one of your poems needs a new ending. If you're working on a manuscript (or two) like I am, this is a good time to re-check that your manuscript order still works – maybe there's a new poem you need to put in to give the book more momentum, or something you need to take out or shift around. If you lack downtime, you never get that truly relaxed time to revise and reshuffle, to do the things that might take your work from "pretty good" to "excellent." You can't rush revision – for me, it happens a little at a time, usually on a poem after a week or a month after I've written it, when you re-read it and notice the little things that make the poem happen or slow it down. It's also the time to research new journals or publishers you might have overlooked – poetry journals are continuously being born and closing down, so it's hard to keep your finger on the pulse of things. Check your subscriptions – do you want to try a new journal for a while? And check the submissions times of your favorite publishers – they can shift from year to year. See? Now you're caught up, you've had a little time to breathe, and you can make all those little tweaks that you might otherwise overlook. The importance of downtime, whether snow-day-induced or not! Wishing you a great writing week.
Sharing a Little Good News, The First Reading of 2020, and Learning to Balance with MS
- At January 12, 2020
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Some Good News, Finally, in 2020
Hello my friends! After a very rough beginning to the new year, the metaphoric rainbow has appeared (and also the first real rainbow!)
This week I can finally share with you a little good poetry news, and I had a wonderful time catching up with poetry friends and has my first reading of 2020 – in fact, the first reading I've done since last year's AWP in Portland.
Two Poems in an Uping Issue of Poetry Magazine
Remember that good news I vaguely referred to last month? This is really exciting to me, because I remember sending out my first poetry submissions at nineteen, and Poetry Magazine was one of them. I even think the editor sent back a sweet encouraging rejection note. Now, at 46, my first acceptance – and two poems! I am over the moon. And my mother-in-law bought me a new subscription to Poetry Magazine. Isn't that sweet?
Speculative Feminist Poets at Open Books
January, usually a dismal month here (we have a week of snow ing up in the forecast, odd for us) was also the Seattle's MLA Conference, and so I got the chance to visit with long-time friend (but seldom seen, as she lives in Virginia) Lesley Wheeler. We hung out and caught up at the Bookstore Bar at the Alexis (after being turned away from the Sorrento's Fireplace Room because of "silent reading night." That's fine! We've got multiple great meeting places for writers in this time. But I will hold a grudge!) Then tonight we got together with another local speculative poet, Jessica Rae Bergamino, to do a Feminist Speculative Poetry night at the lovely local bookstore Open Books. (I came home with three books on top of Jessica's terrific Unmanned – and I'm really looking forward to Lesley's new book due out in two months.) I was worried people would stay away because of the unweling weather, but we had a great crowd, not only a good sized crowd but a warm and appreciative crowd, and listening to Lesley and Jessica read was a real pleasure. There were poems about space, robots, foxes, Nancy Drew, apoclaypses, Princess Leia, David Bowie…let's just say this was not your grandmother's poetry night.
Learning to Balance with MS
One thing the beginning of 2020 is bringing home to me that I need to learn to balance my life with my MS. When my dad was in the hospital and my grandfather passed away, I hated that I couldn't just jump on a plane to be with my mom in Missouri or my dad in Ohio. Unfortunately, with MS (and I had the flu and was awaiting an emergency root canal), I'm just not able to do the kind of spontaneous last minute travel – or the caretaking – that I used to be able to do. I would have to book an accessible flight, accessible rooms at hotels, which is not always easy at the last minute. And I've learned if I push myself when I'm sick, MS will raise it's ugly head in unexpected ways, and I can end up in the hospital. So I don't want to live an overly limited life but I also have to learn where my limits are.
It's the same with readings – I don't do as many as I used to because asking my brain to stand, read, and breathe at the same time is asking a lot. Within a few minutes, I start to shake, my breath is hard to catch, and every word sounds a little wobbly. That didn't used to be the case. I still love to do readings, but I have to limit them to when I have the physical energy to do them, and I have to take a down day before and after just to be able to do that. It kind of sucks. I still love seeing other people read, and enjoy sharing my work, but I just don't have confidence the way I used to. On the other hand, visiting with friends one on one, even in a crowded area, is still fine, as long as I put my whole focus on my friend and not the surroundings. So, yay to the things I can still do pretty well!
So I've lost the ability to travel easily, or appear effortless at readings. I have to plan things in advance, and literally put "rest" on the schedule. It's an adjustment, still, even two years after my diagnosis. I still walk with a cane, and wobble if I try to walk across the room without it. Lack of balance is a well-known MS symptom and it's also a metaphorical problem – how do you balance a "normal" life with MS? I had a friend at the reading who told me it was helpful to read my writing about these things, because it's hard to understand MS and it hits everyone differently. So I hope this has been helpful! I hope the rest of 2020 is kinder to us all.
Wishing for a Better 2020: a Death in the Family, What to Write When WWIII is Trending, and Speculative Poetry Reading This Saturday
- At January 05, 2020
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Wishing for a Better 2020
After a quiet, uneventful, and thoroughly happy New Year's Eve (see: pictures)? I woke up on New Year's Day to the news that my grandfather had passed away at 99 and "Death to America" was trending. My father had just gotten out of the hospital for pneumonia and I broke off a piece of tooth in my sleep. In addition, it's been cold and blustery here, too miserable (40s and rain) to do much outdoors, but Australia in midsummer is on fire, and its distressing news (the koala population might be functionally extinct! Here's a picture of the red air in New Zealand right now!) keeps surfacing as well.
I am one of those people who tries to find the positive but it's been a rough beginning to 2020 for me. My MS neurological symptoms have been acting up a bit – stress definitely plays a part in that – so I've been trying actively to avoid any extra bad news (except when I go on Twitter, which I'll get to later.)
I've been writing a ton and even got an acceptance or two in the new year but it's been hard to focus on that in the middle of everything else. Are you having the same issue? Are you still feeling hopeful for 2020?
What to Write When WWIII is Trending
So, the day after New Year's day, I woke up to "WWIII" trending on Twitter. How to address the world like this? What can you possibly do or say to help the situation? I can't do much when it es to world politics, I can protest, I can vote when the vote es around, I can call or write letters to my local congress people, but I cannot create peace on earth on my own.
It was hard already trying to help my mom when she's in a different state (and her father was in a totally different midwestern state) and this tooth that's due for a root canal is just shredding itself for some reason in preparation. I can't control any of those things. Small acts of love, kindness, and peace? Yes. I can try to breathe. I can try to focus on the little everyday beauties around me.
My Twitter feed usually has very little politics, a range of writing news and announcements, nature pictures, and definitely no hellscapes, but this week has been different. I must have a lot of friends in New Zealand and Australia, because pictures of Hell-colored red air and smoke have been prominent on my timeline, along with fights about Iran and war. I've been writing about apocalypses for a while (see: Field Guide to the End of the World) but it's always surprising to see how fast the apocalypses might be approaching on the horizon.
So what do you write when WWIII is trending? It's not wise to get your news solely from social media, so I've been avoiding social media for things like reading and I've been checking in with my mom and dad back in Ohio to. I'm tackling my reading stack from the books I got for the holidays. I've been writing poems that try to make sense of the chaos.? Which is impossible, of course.
I went back to some older books, books by older authors like Stella Gibbons and Karen Blixen, which helped me remember that in the 1920s, there was irrational exuberance in the stock market, decadence and flappers and a wonderful proliferation in the art and writing world, and they were about to face World War II and the Great Depression. I went back to some of the books that helped me bee the writer I am today, fairy tale and mythology writings that talk about how we tell stories, and why they're important.?
As writers, we can do one thing: we can document the world, our world, the specifics – the moods, the visuals, the attitudes. We can try to capture the moment, whatever that moment entails. That doesn't mean we contain or control it – but at least we can offer perspective, a point-of-view, an account from the ground, so to speak.
Speculative Women Writers and Dinner with Friends
The MLA Conference is taking place in Seattle this uping week, which means Seattle folks can catch up with their friends who are fancy faculty in other states and that there are great readings all around the city this week. I am lucky enough to have a dinner scheduled with Lesley Wheeler, who is a great speculative writer and all-around motivated, hard-working, kind and thoughtful human (she has a novel and a poetry book ing out!) and then a reading with Lesley at Open Books and Seattle-based writer Jessica Rae Bergamino this Saturday January 11th at 7 PM!
I can prove that though I've known Lesley for years, because she lives and teaches on the East Coast, we rarely exist in the same space or even time zone – note the sole picture I could find of us together to the left was taken several years ago – so I'm excited for the opportunity! And I haven't done a reading at all in a while, so I hope you e out and see us.
It's actually a perfect time to celebrate speculative poetry, during a time period that is often described as possibly an embodiment of the futuristic dystopias written years earlier, a time of apocalyptic fires and conflicts. What better time to imagine the future? I'll be reading a bit from Field Guide to the End of the World, but also a bit of new work, which has a fiercer, but more hopeful, apocalyptic mood, from one of my manuscripts that has been circulating. I hope it will lift your mood, and mine. Here's to a better 2020!
Last Days of the Decade, Post-Christmas, What to Do with Long Cold Nights, Looking Forward to 2020, and Grateful for Artist Friends
- At December 28, 2019
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
- 2
The Last Days of the Decade
Can't believe I'm writing that, in the last days of the year, in the last days on the decade. We've made it through the holidays except for New Year's Eve. For a girl who remembers her halcyon days in the 1990s, it can be strange to think about going into the third decade of the new millennium.
Facebook and Twitter had a thing going around talking about major events/acplishments/things lost-and-gained during the past ten years.
The last ten years have been…a lot. Here's mine:
- We moved from Washington State to California (first San Diego, then Napa,) and back again. This inspired a lot of apocalypse poetry.
- Caught severe double pneumonia while in CA and almost died. Made a resolution in the hospital that I would not die until I published another poetry book.
- I published four poetry books (Field Guide to the End of the World, Robot Scientist's Daughter, Unexplained Fevers, and She Returns to the Floating World) and one non-fiction book for poets (PR for Poets.)
- I tried adjunct teaching in a graduate program for four years. Decided it was not for me, due to lack of benefits and very low pay.
- I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, then a different, rarer kind of cancer. Made a funeral playlist. Took in a "re-homed" lucky kitten. Now the tumors in my liver have been deemed "indolent," at least for now.
- I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
- I was told I would never walk again, due to the severity of my brain damage, by several different neurologists, but thanks to physical therapy (and some stubbornness on my part), I am walking with a cane.
- We bought a condo, then sold a condo. Then my husband and I bought a house and – quite the undertaking – made it handicapped-accessible – mostly. (And in a neighborhood I am still loving.)
- Glenn and I celebrated our 25th anniversary.
- Just in the last month, had acceptances from several "dream" journals that I had been sending to for more than a decade.
Now I am alive, waiting for my first root canal to be scheduled, and shopping around two more poetry manuscripts. I have learned several things: the Washington State real estate market is bonkers, kittens have healing powers, always get a second opinion on any serious diagnosis, and never give up on things you care about.
Christmas, Lights, and Other Bright Things
We were lucky to have a quiet, happy, uneventful Christmas, FaceTiming with four sets of families and eating Christmas dinner with classic movies on in the background. We even got out briefly to see the Bellevue Botanical Garden Lights (see top of page and the gallery below) and take pictures of some of the local festive scenes in Woodinville.
Festive Woodinville Scenes
Post-Christmas: Long Dark Winter Nights and Grateful for Artist Friends
One way to feel better during our long dark Northwest winter nights, besides going to see some festive lights, is spending time with your artist-type friends. We were lucky enough to see our artist friend Michaela Eaves on Boxing Day and had a great time catching up over Glenn's port and chocolate ricotta cheesecake.
I also learned about the tradition from Iceland of the frightful Yule Cat, who terrorizes anyone not wearing new clothing on New Year's Eve. In an equally delightfully disturbing vein, one of my favorite presents from my husband was this piece of "Calamityware," which looks like Willowware but depicts apocalyptic scenes of robots, aliens, and capybaras. We're hoping I can bee officially sponsored by them at some point.
Looking Forward to 2020
Today, at almost the end of the year, I'm trying to stay healthy, battling off various bugs, worried about my father in the hospital for pneumonia (a lot of bad germs going around this year, folks, so be careful!) and still awaiting my first root canal, it's easy to feel anxious about what the next year will bring. My manuscripts are making the rounds. I have 45 active poetry submissions out right now. I'm trying not to worry about what kind of havoc multiple sclerosis might wreak in the ing years, on my life, my body, my work, my marriage, given that we don't have a lot of good treatment options or a cure. But I try to continue to have hope.
As for politics – as it surely a politically fraught year ahead – I was talking to a young person (21) today who I mentioned the – to her, horrifying – thought that Trump might get re-elected. Yes, I said, Millennials outnumber Boomers, but Boomers are much better at voting. That said, if the young people vote in big numbers, maybe he won't get re-elected. That's the hope, anyway. I certainly am tired of seeing environmental destruction and the worst impulses of Americans – greed, hatred, prejudice – being played out into apocalypse scenarios. It would be nice to have a little bit of hope. It would also be nice to have a woman in the office of President for the first time. I am still hoping for one in my lifetime.
On that note, here is my finished version of the Vision Board I made for 2020. Note there are three deer, one fox, one peacock, and several hummingbirds. I'm not sure what the significance of this is but I'm sure some subconscious symbolism is at work. Wishing you all a happy New Year's and a hopeful, inspired 2020!
Happy Solstice, Feeling a Little Under the Weather on the Darkest Day of the Year, Imagining 2020, and Manuscript Redux
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Happy Solstice!
Yes, from here on out our nights are getting shorter, and our days are getting longer. It definitely doesn't feel like that can be true here in Seattle, but we light our candles anyway, read poetry, and Glenn is baking, so I basically feel like we've covered all the important Solstice traditions, anyway.
I'm working on a vision board for 2020 and on both of my poetry manuscripts to send out in the new year. I've been sick, so extra downtime on my hands has meant a little more time for projects like this. I find it's very hard to revise a whole poetry manuscript without a pretty significant amount of quiet time to think about it, and like a lot of writers, I like to put out all the poems on the table or floor or wall and see how they work together, or if they don't. I'm not good at craft-type projects but I continue to try to do a collage project for each year, the idea being to set your inspiration/aspiration for every year. Also very Solstice-y, right?
A Little Under the Weather on the Darkest (and Rainiest Day of the Year)
I've been sick this week, and Friday, though not technically the Solstice, was the darkest day of the year in Seattle, as well as the rainiest. Tiny streams became rivers, landslides and floods threaten, and every time I ducked outside I felt more like a drowned rat. Sometimes I think it's important to show the good and the bad days in the life of a writer with a chronic illness like MS, not just the good.
That's why I included this picture Glenn snapped of me yesterday, in my "Mistletoe and Mimosas" t-shirt, mustering all the holiday spirit I could. I felt sick to my stomach (thanks to the new medications the doctors have me on), I hadn't slept more than two hours in a row for three nights, and just wasn't feeling my usual upbeat self. Sometimes being sick slows you down, and keeps you
from doing the things you'd rather be doing. I'd certainly rather be healthy for Christmas (and not getting an emergency root canal on New Year's Eve Eve), but sometimes this is the reality – I'm not my shiniest, happiest, self.
Looking Forward to a New Decade
But I'm hoping 2020 includes plenty of healthy days, more wins than losses, more time for friendship and less time resting and recovering. Turning into a new decade reminds me that we have to look forward to the future with more than fear in it, even when you have a chronic illness that tends to worsen over time, and has no cure (yet). I have to hang on to hope. Hope that they will find more effective treatments for the things that are wrong with me. Hope that I will get good news about my next book manuscripts, or even an unexpected fellowship, maybe. Hope that I will love more new books and make more good friends and get to discover beautiful things around me. Even the days when I am sick and the day is cold and gloomy, I want to be able to discover new things.
We only have the days we have, and I want to spend as many of them filled with things that give me joy – poetry, spending time with friends, spending time in nature, and trying to appreciate the little things—a new song or book to love, the way the light reflects off a streetlight, or even a cat hiding in a box of presents—along the way. I laughed tonight watching Eddie Murphy on SNL and enjoyed Lizzo singing with so much joie de vivre. I sat by the fireplace and drank herbal tea and looked through pictures of the last year. We can live in fear of the unexpected tragedies and misfortunes that await us, but we can also expect unexpected beauty, humor, and happiness.? May your days have more light than darkness!


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Well, I for one am glad to see a discussion of immigration reform and
skiing. As far as I am concerned the immigration problem has wrecked
skiing. Years ago you could ski anywhere you wanted up here and have
it all to yourself. In the last few years there have been so many
immigrants to the holy lands, the hallowed ground, the mother lode
that everything has been bumped up and trashed. All these immigrants
have led to moguls, but that is another issue.
Yes, most of these immigrants have been illegal, and very lazy. They
don't cut the trails, they don't contribute to the annual maintenance
and upkeep of the fatherland, and they pollute the pristine
environment with trash and blue smoke. Some of them even bring their
dogs along who further foul the sacred lands with poop (I spelled
that backwards BTW in case you couldn't tell).
And even worse is that they bring their friends along!! Some people
even charge to bring these immigrants to the mountains! Isn't that
illegal? Even more immigrants, and some of them are breeding here
and bringing their CHILDREN further insuring that they will overrun
the hallowed ground, and drive us true sons of the land further and
further away.
Like everyone else, I hoped the congress would deal with this huge
problem of immigration and skiing, but they don't even seem to
realize the tremendous problems us skiers have. For some reason all
they seem to think about is jobs, and borders. I say give all these
illegals jobs, plenty of jobs, so they are so busy they don't have
time to ski. that's the ticket!
Yes immigration and skiing is a huge problem. I hope that I live
long enough to see the day that all those pesky immigrants are
shipped back to wherever they come from, and the skiing will be back
to the way it was, pure and uncrowded like when I moved here.
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Anyone who knows me will know that I like cameras; but not in an obsessive, collecting way, I just don't like to get stagnant by using the same equipment all the time. Having said that, for commercial work I am pretty much set in my ways, I know what I like and know I like the Nikon D800E and 35mm 1.4G combo'. For personal work, it's different – I've got a couple of compact 35mm film cameras on the go at the minute and a stack of film waiting to be set off, I also have two Holgas loaded and ready for action. However, what I always find myself coming back to, time and time again, is instant film – Fuji Instax Wide and Impossible Project 600 (I shoot colour and mono, but I much prefer the IP colour)
I love the brutal rawness of instant film. Here's some of my favourite shots from the last few months.


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Three French policemen are being questioned for allegedly leaking security footage of an incident in which a presidential aide beat up a demonstrator in May, French media say.
This week Alexandre Benalla was exposed as the attacker shown on a video of the assault taken by a protester.
The officers are suspected of releasing security images to Mr Benalla to try to prove his innocence, the reports say.
The French presidency has been accused of failing to act swiftly against him.
Interior Minister Gérard Collomb has been summoned to answer questions in the National Assembly on Monday.
The three policemen taken into custody on Saturday are senior members of the Paris public order directorate, AFP news agency reports.
They were suspended on Friday.
What about Mr Benalla?
He has been sacked by the presidency. On Friday, President Emmanuel Macron's office said it had made the decision after "new facts" emerged in the case.
Mr Benalla is being questioned over the footage of a woman and a man being beaten during May Day protests.
The video was posted on social media at the time. But the case became a political scandal after Le Monde newspaper revealed that the attacker, who is shown wearing a police helmet, was Mr Benalla.
A former bodyguard of Mr Macron, he was hired as an aide to the president's chief of staff after last year's election.
Mr Benalla faces accusations of assault and impersonating a police officer.
In May, a few days after the incident, he was given a two-week suspension, but nothing was reported to prosecutors.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says this suggests that Mr Macron's office may have already been aware of his actions.
What happened on May Day?
The incident took place in a popular tourist spot in Paris's Latin Quarter where about 100 people had gathered.
The original video shows a man wearing a police helmet, but not in uniform, joining CRS riot police after clashes erupted.
He grabs a woman by the neck, charging her down the street, before both disappear off camera.
Shortly afterwards he returns to the scene, attacking another protester who had been carried a short distance by police before being left alone on the ground.
The man in the helmet can be seen grabbing the young protester around the neck, hitting him on the head and apparently stamping on his stomach when he falls to the ground.
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An 87-year-old woman thought her grandson was in trouble and needed her to send gift cards to help him avoid jail. A Quincy cab driver knew better.
QUINCY — Taxi driver Richard Spencer said he quickly sensed something was wrong when an 87-year-old woman he was driving Wednesday afternoon told him she was headed to Walmart to purchase thousands of dollars in gift cards. Instead of taking her to the store, he drove her to the Quincy police station instead.
Spencer, who drives for Yellow Cab of Quincy, said he has seen scammers prey on seniors more than once during the course of his 25-year career and it took him only a few minutes into his conversation with the woman to realize she was being targeted.
The woman told Spencer she had already purchased $4,000 in gift cards at the Willard Street Home Depot earlier in the day after her grandson had called her and said he needed the money on the gift cards in order to stay out of jail.
"I said to her, I think your being scammed and I'm going to try to save you some money," Spencer said.
Quincy police quickly determined it wasn't really the woman's grandson who had called her. The woman, they said, was the latest victim of what law enforcement officials call the "grandparent scam," a common con in which thieves target an elderly person and pose as a family member in desperate need of money, giving their victim detailed instructions on how to buy and transfer the gift cards.
"This, ladies and gentlemen, is a text book," Quincy police said in a statement. "While the victim in this scam may be out $4,000, which is a substantial amount of money, it could have been much, much worse."
Police thanked Spencer for caring enough to help the woman.
"I have an 87-year-old mother and I would hate if someone didn't look out for her like this," Spencer said in an interview on Thursday. "These are senior citizens — your mothers and your fathers, your grandmothers, your grandfathers. I think it's one of the scummiest things that you can do."
Spencer said he's surprised at all the attention his good deed has earned.
"I was just paying attention and looked out for her, that's all," he said.
Quincy police asked cashiers at stores that sell gift cards to be vigilant and ask whether it makes sense for older customers to be making such large gift card purchases.
"Sure, there may be a legitimate reason, but if you take the time and ask the questions, you just might prevent someone from falling victim," Quincy police said.
Reach Erin Tiernan at firstname.lastname@example.com or 617-786-7320. Follow her on twitter @ErinTiernan.


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Meet Becky
Hi, I'm Becky, the designer behind Bouquets by Becky. I love flowers and have for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of picking daisies growing wild on the hills of the Adirondacks and arranging dandelions in a juice glass. Suffice to say, I have a more elegant style and medium these days, but all my designs are infused with that same joy and delight in blooms.
With a formal start in floral design over a decade ago–learning from four senior designers along the way–I draw from a wide knowledge of expert techniques and various styles to personalize the flowers for your wedding or event. Every arrangement of every event is carefully designed and delivered with the freshest flowers (and whenever possible–American and locally-grown blooms). Thank you for stopping by!
Stick around and check out the gallery to see Bouquets by Becky's prior work tailored to each individual client's flare and imagination.
Based in Wheaton, Becky serves clients throughout Chicagoland. To book a consultation, please inquire.


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13.03. - 03.04.2020 Cancelled!
VJF 3.1 Berlin Deutsch-Camp #1: explore language and capital
12.10. - 23.10.2020
VJF 3.2 Berlin Deutsch-Camp #2: explore language and capital
Typ: LANG Plätze: je 12 Teamer: je 2
Ort/ Naechster Flughafen/ Bahnhof: Berlin Schönefeld
Sprache: Deutsch
Zugang: geeignet für Rollstuhlfahrende
Teilnahmegebuehr: 120 € für das Honorar der Lehrkraft (zu zahlen in Euro am Anreisetag -> nicht für die Campleitung)
Info: www.vjf.de/Begegnungsstaette
Studienteil: Die Gruppe wird von einer ausgebildeten Lehrkraft 3-4 Stunden am Vormittag Deutschunterricht erhalten. Es werden Grammatik und Kommunikation vertieft, je nach Wunsch und Bedarf der Teilnehmer. In der Freizeit sind Exkursionen durch Berlin und in die naehere Umgebung geplant. Es ist vorgesehen, dass die Teilnehmer auch in der Freizeit Deutsch miteinander kommunizieren werden, um den Unterrichtsstoff zu vertiefen.
Unterbringung: Die Teilnehmenden werden auf dem Gelaende der Projekt- und Begegnungsstätte Krimnitzer Weg schlafen. In den beheizbaren Bungalows gibt es ein separates Bad mit Dusche und WC. Es werden maximal 6 männliche oder weibliche Teilnehmende in einem Bungalow wohnen. Bettwäsche bekommst du im Objekt, du brauchst keinen Schlafsack mitbringen. In einer kleinen Küche bereitet die Gruppe ihr Essen selbst zu.
Hinweis: Dieser Kurs ist für absolute Beginner ungeeignet, es sollten bereits Sprachkenntnisse (Minimum: A2) vorhanden sein.
Location/Terminal: Berlin
Accessibility: appropriate for wheel chair user
Fee: 120 € for the duty of the teacher (to be paid in Euro on the arrival -> not for campleaders)
Study part: The Group will have German lessons by a German teacher 3-4 hours in the morning. You will get the opportunity to deepen your knowledge in communication and grammar, depending on your needs and wishes. In the free time excursions to Berlin and its surrounding area are planned. You are asked to communicate only in German in your leisure time to deepen your new learned skills.
Accommodation: You will live in our Projekt- und Begegnungsstätte Krimnitzer Weg, a seminar center, in heated bungalows with up to 6 girls or boys on the ground of the place where you will have the language course. In the bungalows you will find your own bathroom with a shower and WC. You will get bed linen, there is no need to bring a sleeping bag with you. You will have the chance to prepare your own meals in a small kitchen at the centre.
Special Remarks: This course is meant for participants who have already some German skills (minimum A2).
VJF 3.3 Berlin Spring: Winter sleep is over-wake up our lakeside seminar center
VJF 3.4 Berlin Still Spring: Winter sleep is over-wake up our lakeside seminar center
Type: MANU/RENO Places: 10 each Teamer: 2 each
Location/Terminal: Berlin Schönefeld
Accessibility: appropriate for wheel chair user
Info: www.vjf.de/Begegnungsstaette
Work: During this camp, we need to prepare our centre for the next workcamp season. The centre needs cleaning works like raking dead leaves, cleaning the yard or piling up the leaves. In case of bad weather, the dining hall also needs some renovation. Other small tasks during the camp may include maintaining or renovation works inside and outside.
Accommodation: You will live in our Projekt- und Begegnungsstätte Krimnitzer Weg, a seminar center, in heated bungalows with up to 6 girls or boys on the ground of the place where you will have the language course. In the bungalows you will find your own bathroom with a shower and WC. You will get bed linen, there is no need to bring a sleeping bag with you. You will have the chance to prepare your own meals in a small kitchen at the centre.
VJF 3.5 Berlin Drum Festival RAKATAK & youth club MAXIM
Type: FEST/RENO Places: 15 Teamer: 2
Location/Terminal: Berlin
Infos: www.rakatak.de, www.im-maxim.de
Work: During the first week, you will help to prepare and run an international drumming festival for children, youngsters and families called RAKATAK. In the previous years, 7000 visitors were present at the festival, which runs on Saturday, 20.06.2020. Your help will be needed to prepare, to run and afterwards to clean the site. Another task of this project will take place during the 2nd week in the youth club MAXIM. The main work will be designing the façade of the youth club. Your help will be also needed to renovate and maintain the building and its surrounding grounds, like painting inside or outside, digging, gardening in the climate garden or re/constructing. Please be prepared for hard physical work from time to time!
Accommodation: During the festival time you will sleep on your foam mattress in your sleeping bag, so please do not forget them! In the youth club, there will be 2 rooms available. You will sleep on the floor on a mattress in your sleeping bag. Your quarters will be very modest, but of course, there is a kitchen and bathrooms. However, the youth club is a nice place to work, live and party.
Special requirements: You must be able to ride a bike! A motivation letter is required.
23.08. - 04.09.2020
VJF 3.6 Berlin Remembers the Spanish Civil War 1936-39: silent restauration at the graveyard
Type: RENO/STUDY Places: 12 Teamer: 2
Location/Terminal: Berlin
Info: www.kfsr.info
Background: You will work and spend your free time closely together with the Kämpfer und Freunde der Spanischen Republik 1936-1939 e.V. (KFSR), an Association of Survivors of the Spanish Civil war, their children, grandchildren and their friends. The International Brigades in Spain in the time 1936-39 were supported by many nationalities and the KFSR is active to foster and cherish the memories of the volunteers from different countries, who travelled to Spain in order to fight for the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War.
Work: You will work on Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery, where, among many others, survivors of the Spanish Civil War and their families are buried. Your first task is writing down the names, which can be read on the gravestones. If they are not readable anymore, you will help to clean them and to paint over the names under professional guidance. Besides the work on the cemetery, you will go on a guided tour through the Cemetery, which is not only a cemetery, but also a park. You will meet and talk to descendants of former Brigadists, go on a guided antifascist city walk, have a reading and discussion with Victor Grossman and other persons. We ask you to be open to the topic.
Accommodation: You will live in heated bungalows with up to 6 girls or boys. The bungalows are equipped with a bathroom. You will get bed linen, there is no need to bring a sleeping bag with you.
Special Remarks: A motivation letter - specific to this project - is required.
02.06. - 12.06.2020
VJF 3.7 Nature and Photography about Environmental Changing
Type: ART/ENVI Places: 12 Teamer: 2
Location/Terminal: Berlin
CORONA-UPDATE: We will inform about the project on 04.05., after German government will have publish future measurments concerning Corona. The project partner is still working on the programme, thinks about digital solutions and new dates, as well.
Work: In this project volunteers will be part of the project -Meine (Um)Welt im Wandel- about environmental cahnges. Other local groups of kids, teens, students and professional photographers will also participate in this project. In exciting workshops theywill learn about photography and environment. In the end 4-5 exchibitions will be created, one will be done by the workcamp. volunteers will support our project partner -gruen berlin, umweltbildungszentrum kienberg- to run a festivity on 6th June and to promote it. In the past a similar workcamp was done there. Get an impression here: www.youtu.be/pDneAQELBVM
20.11. - 04.12.2020
VJF 3.8 Logisitik Support for international CCIVS Event
Type: MANU Places: 6 Teamer: 2
Location/Terminal: Berlin
Background: VJF is hosting a big international Event of Clobal Coordinating Body for International Voluntary Service Organisations - CCIVS (www.ccivs.org). We will welcome around 150 people from all over the world, who will meet in Berlin for exchange in a conference and making decisions in the general assembly of CCIVS. On 27.11.2020 will be the VJF day, because our organisation celebrates its 30th birthday.
Work: The volunteers will be part of our logistic team, which supports us to prepare the event, care about our guests during the conference, VJF day and general assembly, help to evaluate after departure of CCIVS participants. Please be aware, that there will be many different tasks to do, which cannot be planned in detail before. Work can be office works, preparation of conference material, photo and video dicumentation (producing material and e.g. cutting an after movie) support social media team, pick up service for participants.
Accommodation: Will be announced soon.


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Earlier today we reported that superstar singer Kiss Daniel who left his former record label, G-Worldwide Entertainment to launch his own record label 'Flyboy Inc', was dragged to court by his former record label.
However Kiss Daniel's camp said they 'have not received letter or court papers from anyone', following G-Worldwide's public notice and obtaining a court injunction dated November 30, 2017.
Kiss Daniel who has also reacted to the report on Instagram wrote;
"Oluwatobiloba Daniel Dhikrullah Anidugbe ? this is gonna be a sweet victory for you young man ?#Nodo#warning #sense"


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What Makes "Dragon Age: Origins" Different
Some of you may know that Dragon Age: Origins is my most cherished video game. It is one of the very first games I played as an adult -- back when I was not a gamer -- and it made me fall in love with video games. Especially RPGs, because they had characters to get to… Continue reading What Makes "Dragon Age: Origins" Different
"Titanfall 2" Review: The Most Fun I've Had with a Giant Robot
I'm not that into multiplayer games. I don't have a particular fascination with big fighting robots. Since the original Titanfall game was a multiplayer-only FPS game with giant mech combat, I wasn't instantly enamored with the idea of playing either it or the sequel. But Titanfall 2 features a campaign, and I started hearing that it was an amazing… Continue reading "Titanfall 2" Review: The Most Fun I've Had with a Giant Robot