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By Michael Pearson (CNN) - The man suspected of shooting up an Aurora, Colorado movie theater screening the new Batman film early Friday, killing 12 and wounding 59, also left his apartment rigged with traps, police said.
"It's booby-trapped with various incendiary and chemical devices and trip wires," Aurora police chief Dan Oates said, adding that it could take days to work through the apartment safely.
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Five buildings around suspect James E. Holmes' Aurora apartment were evacuated, Oates said.
Police say Holmes, 24, dressed head-to-toe in protective tactical gear, set off two devices of some kind before spraying the theater with bullets from an AR-15 rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and at least one of two .40-caliber handguns police recovered at the scene.
Oates said investigators are confident that Holmes acted alone.
The shooting unfolded inside a darkened theater packed with Batman fans, some in costume for the premiere of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises." Screaming, panicked moviegoers scrambled to escape from the black-clad gunman, who wore a gas mask and randomly shot as he walked up the theater's steps, witnesses said.
It was a scene "straight out of a horror film," said Chris Ramos, who was inside the theater.
"He was just literally shooting everyone, like hunting season," Ramos said.
Holmes surrendered without resistance within minutes of the first calls from panicked moviegoers reporting a shooting inside the Century 16 theater, Oates said. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, court officials said.
Police officers swarming to the theater encountered bloody, groaning victims streaming out of the theater. Others remained inside, many with gruesome injuries, according to recordings of emergency calls with dispatchers.
Victims flooded overwhelmed hospitals. One of the injured was just three months old, hospital workers said.
"I don't know how else to explain it. It's horrific," said Tracy Lauzon, director of EMS and trauma services at Aurora Medical Center.
Holmes is scheduled to appear in an Arapahoe County, Colorado, courtroom on Monday morning, Rob McCallum, spokesman for the Colorado Judicial Department, said Friday. The court file was sealed, according to a court order.
The FBI is assisting in the investigation, officials said.
FBI spokesman Jason Pack said it did not appear the incident was related to terrorism.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said the attack was the work of a "very deranged mind."
"Obviously no words can express the intensity of this tragedy," he said.
President Barack Obama canceled campaign events Friday, telling supporters at what had been scheduled as a rally in Fort Myers, Florida, that "there will be other days for politics."
"This will be a day for prayer and reflection," he said, calling for the country to unite as one and support the victims.
"Such violence, such evil is senseless. It is beyond reason," he said before ending the event to return to Washington.
Chaos broke out during the showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" at the Century Aurora 16 theater when the shooting began, police and witnesses said.
The gunman went to the rear door of the theater and propped it open, then tossed in a canister before starting to shoot, according to a federal law enforcement source involved in the investigation.
A federal law enforcement official told CNN the man used tear gas, but Oates said Friday afternoon that it was not clear what the substance was.
Oates said the man was wearing a ballistic helmet and protective gear for his legs, throat and groin, black gloves and a gas mask.
Jennifer Seeger, who survived the attack, said she had seen the man and thought his get-up was part of the entertainment for the film's début.
She said the man first shot toward the ceiling, then began shooting at people. He reloaded during his attack, she said.
"He was just literally just massacring anybody that got up that was trying to run away," Seeger said.
The smoke smelled like a Fourth of July firework, said CNN iReporter Adam Witt. It took a few gunshots before he figured out what was going on.
"I hit the floor and hid behind the seats in front of me, pulling my wife down to hide with me," Witt said. "It was the longest minute of my life. The gunshots just kept coming. I knew it could be over any second. I knew my wife could be gone any second. It was absolutely surreal. I felt something hit my left arm, and my first thought was, 'At least it's just my arm.'"
"There were so many people running," he said. "I didn't look back. I just remember getting up from the floor and shouting, 'We have to run.'"
Witt said he held his wife's hand as they rushed out of the theater.
"There was a moment where I lost her hand, but I grabbed her shirt," he said. "We didn't let go of each other."
Quentin Caldwell, who was attending a screening in the adjacent theater, said he wasn't sure at first what was going on, despite hearing a "pop, pop, pop, pop" sound.
"We really didn't know something was happening until someone came from the left entrance and said we should not go outside because somebody with a gun was out there," he said.
Armed guards appeared at the theater exit and demanded audience members raise their arms to make sure they were not carrying weapons, then told them to run, Caldwell said.
"Outside was chaos. There was wounded everywhere," he said.
Officers rushed many of the wounded to hospitals in their patrol cars.
Police initially said 14 people had died -- 10 in the theater and four at area hospitals -- but revised the death toll to 12 later Friday morning, according to Aurora Police Lt. Jad Lanigan. The initial injury count of 38 was revised upward to 59 Friday afternoon.
Several people remained in critical condition at area hospitals.
Of the wounded, the University of Colorado Hospital said it had treated 22 people, including nine who were seriously injured. All of the wounded suffered from gunshot wounds, which ranged from minor to critical, spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said.
The victims being treated there ranged in age from 3 months to 45, the hospital said.
Denver Health Center had six patients from the shooting, one in critical condition and five in fair condition, said Shelly Davis, house supervisor.
Swedish Hospital in Denver was treating three people, two of them in critical condition and one in fair condition. A fourth patient with minor injuries was treated and released, spokeswoman Nicole Williams said.
Children's Hospital Colorado said it had treated six adult victims, one of whom died. And Parker Adventist Hospital was treating two people for minor injuries, according to a spokeswoman.
It may take hours or even days to clear Holmes' apartment, Oates said.
Investigators looking into a window with a camera have seen a sophisticated booby-trap with trip wires connecting incendiary and chemical devices, he said.
Oates said he has never seen anything like it.
A woman who lives across the street from where the suspect's apartment said police evacuated her building around 4 a.m.
"They told us there was a bomb or bomb material located in the house across the street from us." Rebecca Bradshaw said.
Law enforcement officers who searched the suspect's apartment found "items of interest," a federal law enforcement source involved in the investigation told HLN. He did not elaborate.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents were involved in the apartment search, agency spokesman Tom Mangan said.
In addition to looking into the possibility of explosives, ATF agents also are conducting emergency traces on the weapons to see how they were obtained, Mangan said.
Authorities also searched the suspect's car in the parking lot of the movie theater.
In addition to canceling his Florida campaign appearances, Obama pulled some advertising in Colorado.
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney also pulled advertising and issued a statement, saying he and his wife Anne were "deeply saddened by the news of the senseless violence."
Warner Bros., the studio behind the movie, said the company and filmmakers were "deeply saddened" to learn of the incident. The studio canceled the movie's Paris premiere, while New York police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said his officers would watch over screenings of "The Dark Knight" to prevent copycat shootings.
The National Theater Owners Association said in a statement that its members would be reviewing security procedures in the wake of the shooting.
The movie theater where the shooting took place has not been the site of any security incidents, said Timothy Warner, CEO of Cinemark Theaters, which owns the complex.
"You know, obviously you know, the person made a well-organized ... and had an assault weapon that would probably overpower any security that we would've had," he said. "I mean, this is obviously a very deranged gunman that had access to very high powerful weapons."
Aurora, a Denver suburb, is about 13 miles from Littleton, Colorado -- site of the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
In that incident, two teenage students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, armed themselves with guns and bombs and opened fire inside the high school. They killed 13 people and wounded 23 others before killing themselves.
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Local Food System Development in Mississippi: How Local Governments Can Support Farmers Markets
Creating a vibrant, local food system in Mississippi is an important economic development strategy. A significant part of that is recognizing the growing demand for fresh, local foods and then working to support the development of markets to bring local food producers together with consumers. Recently, increased demand for fresh, local food has boosted efforts of businesses and communities to coordinate easier access to local food markets. One of those markets in Mississippi communities is farmers markets. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of farmers markets increased from 54 to 95 (Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, 2017).
The purpose of this report is to document the benefits associated with establishing farmers markets and describe the success factors that contribute to strong farmers markets in Mississippi. Additionally, we present nine ways that local governments can support farmers markets based on a statewide focus group-type meeting with farmers market managers in April 2017. Finally, we describe a new approach within the Mississippi State University Extension Service that supports local food systems using a cross-disciplinary, statewide team through an initiative called Local Flavor.
Farmers Markets Are Important to Economic Development
Economic development is a broad term related to the benefits communities acquire from the recruitment and retention of businesses and industries. In this report, economic development refers to the benefits to a community from establishing a farmers market. Hughes et al. (2008) concluded that farmers markets have several benefits to communities, including these:
- Consumers have access to local food products that they might not otherwise have.
- Food products are often high-quality in terms of freshness.
- Consumers like having access to and interaction with local producers, which facilitates discussion about pesticides, herbicides, and other production topics.
- Consumers enjoy knowing they are purchasing locally, which benefits local food-based producers.
- Small farms that supply farmers markets can attract affluent in-migrants to the local area.
Capturing these benefits requires significant planning and consistent management of the farmers market. Often, market managers in Mississippi share best practices and learn from one another. Local governments often play a key role, as well. Collaboration among local governments and farmers market managers is key to market development.
Improving farmers markets was a key topic at the recent Mississippi Farmers Market Managers Annual Conference held in Jackson in April 2017. The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) hosted the event. At this event, MSU Extension facilitated a group discussion among managers to identify areas that continue to be challenging and ways to overcome those challenges. In the following sections, we describe the process of improving farmers markets, look at results from the statewide discussion, and discuss nine ways local governments can encourage development of farmers markets in Mississippi.
Improving Farmers Markets Is a Process
The evidence we collected can be best explained as it relates to a market-improvement model. The market-improvement process model is a series of steps—collaboration, organization, communication, building partnerships—with each step leading to the next and resulting in successful markets.
Improvement begins with collaboration. Sharing best practices for farmers markets is a necessary part of improving all markets. Market managers can implement ideas that work and make changes to those that do not. This type of sharing is the first step toward improvement.
Market managers can adopt new best practices and implement them with the support of their advisory councils or others who govern the work of local farmers markets. This process builds partnerships among institutions, consumers, and producers. The implementation of new ideas across the local food-supply chain can create innovative approaches to improving farmers markets.
Successful farmers markets tend to move quickly on new ideas and learn how consumers respond. This process can be repeated each time market managers collaborate to examine threats, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses they have observed while working to develop farmers markets. Online tools (e.g., email, social media) also can serve to increase collaboration in terms of frequency of interactions and quality of those interactions.
Farmers Market Success: 9 Factors
Within the farmers market-improvement process, several success factors have emerged. The following list was developed from the group discussion among farmers markets managers at the MDAC meeting in April 2017. Each issue relates to one of the market-improvement process steps described in the previous section. Here are some of the success factors identified by market managers:
- Farmers markets should focus on dedicated hospitality toward all shoppers and maintain a safe and clean environment at all times.
- Managers indicated that one of the important success factors was location and easy access for consumers, including ample parking.
- Success was also related to offering a wide variety of such products as baked goods, produce, and crafts to attract a larger pool of consumers.
- Involving young people in events held at farmers markets was seen as a contributing factor to increased engagement, especially when combined with educational or entertainment events. In some cases, young people volunteered to assist consumers with their purchases.
- Managers stated that focusing on customer service at the market was critical to success and recommended that vendors understand how to effectively manage customer relations to build connections with their buyers.
- Several market managers indicated that they stay on-site during the market to welcome newcomers and to create activities for attendees.
- Managers agreed that highlighting a particular commodity gave their markets a focused theme on which to build children's activities and other entertainment options. Dairy Day was one example provided.
- Managers also stated that having a unique mascot or character helped in marketing their farmers markets using websites and social media.
- Providing nutrition education, healthy recipes, and cooking ideas can be beneficial to consumers.
Farmers Markets Assistance: 9 Needs
In our time with the market managers, we also facilitated discussion of existing issues and needs, and how we might make progress toward improving farmers markets. Following are some of the unmet needs we discovered:
- Training for social media management, signage, business card design, and visual merchandising were among the most needed educational programs noted by managers.
- Attracting a diverse set of vendors to increase the appeal to more consumers is a high priority.
- More training is needed on using websites, blogs, and other online marketing tools.
- Managers cited the need for more information to help young people understand local food production.
- More training is needed on nutrition and healthy eating habits.
- More information is needed about federal nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). SNAP works with limited-resource populations to provide nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, cooking classes, school and community gardens, and assistance in making the healthy choice the easy choice through policy, system, and environmental changes. SNAP issues EBT cards, which can be used at some markets. EFNEP provides direct nutrition education to limited-resource families to help improve diet quality and physical activity.
- Managers cited limitations at each market, including a need for increased cold storage for meat and dairy products. Managers indicated grants would be a feasible vehicle to provide this type of equipment.
- Managers indicated a need exists to have local and state regulations explained to vendors, especially regulations about food safety labeling and processing.
- Vendors noted local foods such as muscadines, organic vegetables, eggs, fruit, butter beans, and some meats continue to be in high demand.
- Managers indicated future work and training needs should focus on food hubs and understanding branding requirements or other regulations.
Local Governments Can Help
Demand for local foods is a growing trend in Mississippi, and the number of farmers markets continues to increase. Local government organizations can play a vital role in the creation and growth of farmers markets. Here are some steps local governments can take:
- Determine if a farmers market is needed in a specific local area.
- Create a plan regarding the services the city/county can provide before the market opens.
- Work with emergency managers to ensure facilities are kept safe and accessible.
- Provide legal assistance to determine any liability that needs to be addressed, and provide options for liability coverage.
- Facilitate dialogue between state agencies and the local planning committee, especially when it comes to understanding regulations about food safety and processing.
- Provide a facility or space for the farmers market. The facility needs to be easily accessible and affordable to sustain a farmers market.
- Provide free garbage collection, parking, and police support.
- Provide access to public restrooms either directly on-site or adjacent to the market.
- Provide funding for staff members to assist the farmers market manager.
- Provide advertising by creating a link on the city or county website to the farmers market website and social media channels.
- Support educational programs on preparing healthy foods, growing vegetables, or other relevant topics.
The Next Two Steps
In this report, we documented a discussion among Mississippi farmers market managers to highlight some success factors, existing needs for growth, and ideas for local government support of farmers markets. Providing such information can generate increased collaboration between farmers market managers and local elected officials. This is an important aspect of market development as it can lead to sizeable benefits for consumers, local governments, and local food producers. To further economically develop farmers markets and local food systems in Mississippi, MSU Extension is actively working to bring about new programs and efforts in a two-step process.
The first step is to find new ways to support the collaboration between farmers markets and local governments. One of the best ways to facilitate this type of collaboration is to identify the benefits that could accrue from greater collaboration. By benefits, we mean the economic impact of farmers markets. Some work has been done measuring the economic impact of farmers markets in Mississippi as a way of documenting the benefits of developing local food systems.
Myles and Hood (2010) estimated the economic impact of farmers markets in Mississippi by collecting sales data from 26 of the 52 farmers markets that existed in 2010. Results indicated approximately $950,000 in sales. These direct sales generated another almost $670,000 in indirect benefits. As a result, the total economic impact of these 26 farmers markets was more than $1.6 million. With only 50 percent of markets reporting in this study, $1.6 million serves as a conservative estimate of the total economic impact of farmers markets in Mississippi in 2010.
Fast-forward only 7 years, and Mississippi now has more than 90 farmers markets. What is the economic impact of this increased number of farmers markets on the state's economy in 2017? We plan to examine the economics and management of local food systems more broadly, as well.
The second step is about organizing and aligning resources. To do this, we have begun the task of organizing all MSU Extension educational programs aimed at assisting producers, farmers markets, food hubs, consumers, local governments, and institutions—all stakeholders—into a virtual front door for anyone who needs assistance within the local food system in Mississippi. This virtual front door will include all resources and educational programs that MSU Extension currently offers on its website and through social media. New Extension educational programs will emerge focused on supporting local food systems, and those programs will provide businesses, communities, and institutions with online tools to grow Mississippi's local food system and, therefore, its economy.
To see more about the new work that is developing to support local food systems in Mississippi, follow MSU Extension's local foods initiative (Local Flavor) on Twitter @LocalFlavorMS or search for #LocalFoodsMS.
Hughes, D.W., C. Brown, S. Miller, and T. McConnell. 2008. "Evaluating the Economic Impact of Farmers Markets Using an Opportunity Cost Framework." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 40, 1(April 2008): 253-256.
Myles, A. and K. Hood. 2010. "Economic Impact of Farmers Markets in Mississippi." Mississippi State University Extension Publication 2582. Available at: http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/publications/economic-impact-farmers-markets-mississippi
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On March 11, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked the Tohoku region of Japan. The earthquake and resulting tsunami killed more than 14,000 people, but humans weren't the only ones affected by this disaster. Animals, including horses, have been struggling to survive after losing or becoming separated from their owners.
Local equestrians and rescue teams from around the world have been doing their best to help horses affected by the disaster. The Japan Equestrian Federation (JEF) and National Riding Club Association of Japan led a cooperative effort with local riding clubs to collect feed and fuel (for trucks and heaters) for horse facilities in need, since there were shortages of electricity and fuel in those initial weeks.
JEF cancelled all equestrian events through the end of March in the areas reliant on damaged eastern power plants, to avoid using power and fuel while both were still in short supply. Until April 10, organizers were asked to hold competitions at their discretion, but they have slowly resumed.
At The Epicenter
The Tohoku region, where the earthquake's epicenter was located, is known to be one of the most agricultural areas in Japan. As is the case elsewhere in the world, most of the plowing is done by machinery, but there are still some farms that have horses, and a rich history of people living with horses remains.
There are also many historical festivals—to thank the horses, keep the culture alive, and live the history where the horses were once used both for work and war. There are also horses that are considered a "god's blessing," which live at shrines. Much of this historical culture was affected by the March 11 tragedy.
Iwate, one of the affected prefectures, is home to a public horse park, and also Tono Umanosato, one of the few facilities in Japan that breeds horses specifically for sport/leisure riding. (Most riding horses in Japan are Thoroughbreds.) It also is one of the few facilities on the main island that has a large pasture where horses are brought to graze during the summertime. The farm sustained minimal damage from the earthquake.
Each year, the facility hosts an auction of Japanese-bred horses, from yearlings to 4-year-olds, most bred at the facility. A recent successful horse is Harry Bay, a Selle Francais (Flo dela Gervaise—Artichaut) show jumper ridden by Daisuke Fukushima. The pair won the 2009 Roeser (Luxembourg) CSI** 1.30m class, a great achievement for a domestically bred horse.
In Sendai, the capital of Miyagi prefecture, Riding Club Sendai Kaigan-Koen suffered extensive damage. The stable, located near the seaside, was one of 29 around Japan that belong to the Riding Club Crane group. It housed 55 horses at the time the tsunami hit—seven died in the disaster and 11 are still missing. (Fortunately, all of the human staff, as well as the clients who were on-site, were safe.) Staff members scrambled to rescue the 36 horses out of 55 that survived (final reported number as of April 9), evacuating them to another riding facility in the Sendai area to check their health and provide feed right after the disaster. Riding Club Crane has said that they will care for these horses for the rest of their lives.
At Natori Jobaen Bell Seaside Farm, located in Natori, the whole stable was swept away and 39 horses and three dogs lost their lives. One staff member is still missing, but the two horses that survived helped the rest of the team to keep their spirits up. They are now looking towards the future and have started to look for a new location away from the ocean to start a stable once again.
Ongoing Concerns In Fukushima
It's not just the areas damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that are having an extremely tough time since March 11, however. Horses in Fukushima have been drastically affected by the ongoing nuclear plant disaster. Soma is the home of Soma Nomaoi, a traditional festival that has been held for more than a millennium. The event includes a parade in samurai armor and an armored horse race. It also includes a cultural ritual where horses are chased into the shrine's property, and the first horse caught becomes the horse that is dedicated to the god. The annual event occurs every July 23 -25.
The horses that participate in this event come from cities around Soma, and there have been over 1,000 horses participating at one time, of which approximately 400 were kept in Soma. About two-thirds of these horses were kept near the seaside, so most were swept away in the tsunami. Most of the remaining horses were within the evacuation zone around the nuclear power plant, so many owners had to leave their horses to starve, or let them out of their stalls to be free.
Veterinarian Shinobu Murata was one of the first to enter the disaster areas with her search and rescue dog. She has been treating injured horses, arranging horse transport and bringing in supplies. As she moved to the Soma area, she was awestruck.
"An earthquake and tsunami are natural disasters, so we can at least feel that it could not have been avoided. But the animals left to roam around or starve should not have been in that position. This is a disaster created by humans. The owners did not leave them because they wanted to; it was unavoidable. After all, they could not have taken them to the temporary housing. " At the time, she went into Soma with a trailer full of human supplies and came back out with the horses.
Another group working in Soma is the Retired Horse Association. They are a non-profit group that fosters and provides retirement homes for horses, and set up a website to collect information on horses and owners so they could figure out the best way to assist them. They have helped rescue horses, provided feed and medical assistance, helped to find new owners for homeless horses, and acted as a bridge to temporary stabling. The group also coordinated with local government officials.
The horses rescued by the RHA are currently housed at a stable in an area that was not badly damaged. Going forward, the plan is to help people who need to sell their horses find a buyer, continue feed and medical assistance, provide financial aid for transportation, find areas for temporary housing when and if the evacuation zone becomes larger, and create a sanctuary for those horses that have nowhere else to go.
"Japan is experiencing extremely tough times. It is right that help goes to people, considering the damages. Horses must be taken care of by people who love them," said Megumi Kato of the RHA. "The Japanese are trying hard, but it is inevitable that people come first. To all that love horses and other animals, we need you. Please help us."
Japan is a small country, where horsekeeping is very expensive. But it does not matter where people are from; horse lovers are horse lovers. This is going to be an ongoing struggle. Help is needed, for the people who lost horses and facilities, or for the horses that survive and are suffering.


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- Puberty, menopause
Genetics may cause enlargement of the pores since people with combination or oily skin tend to have larger looking pores. If your mother or father have large pores this simply means that you are more prone to have them too.
Sun damage may also cause them. The sun's harmful rays cause the skin to thicken and the skin cells may collect around the pores which makes pores appear larger. Also as we know the sun damages the collagen and elastin in the skin and as a result the skin loses its elasticity and the pores enlarge because there is no collagen to keep them tight and small. Once the collagen and elastin in your skin is damaged the pores will begin to enlarge.
Improper skin care – in 78 percent of the cases the pores enlarge due to improper skin care. If you don't remove your makeup in the evening, don't cleanse your face twice a day, don't use moisturizers and don't exfoliate your skin regularly you are more likely to have enlarged pores. It's essential to exfoliate your face at least twice a week to remove the dead skin cells, otherwise the surface oil and the dead cells may collect around your pores and make them appear large.
Blackheads and pimples may cause large pores if not treated properly. For example, if you squeeze a blackhead or a pimple you may stretch the pore.
Excessive oil production is another cause because if the oil glands produce large amounts of sebum the pore will be forced to expand itself in order to release the oil. Excessive oil production usually appears on the T-zone as these areas contain more oil glands than other areas.
Puberty because as we know during puberty the skin begins to produce more oil and the pores have to enlarge in order to be able to handle the increased output.
Pores appear enlarged when they are clogged, dilated, infected and that's why the best way to keep your pores small and less visible is to keep your skin clean all the time. Often the pores get clogged with dead skin cells, dirt, oil which makes them appear more prominent and that's why regular skin exfoliation is essential in order to remove the dead skin cells and to allow your skin to produce new, healthier cells.
Unfortunately there is no way to make them invisible and to shrink them for ever but there are a few things and procedures you can do to minimize their appearance.
Available treatments
Microdermabrasion is a non-chemical procedure designed to exfoliate and rejuvenate the skin by using a tool that sprays tiny microcrystal particles on the skin. Microdermabrasion is an ideal procedure for shrinking enlarged pores – it lessens the appearance of pores by roughening up the skin, loosening the dead skin cells that clog the pores. Microdermabrasion performed by a professional can stimulate collagen production which is essential for healthy-looking skin. The treatment removes the upper layer of the skin and reduces not only the size of the pores, but also wrinkles, fine lines, dark spots, acne scars, blemishes. In most cases 2/ 3 treatments are enough to minimize the appearance.
Chemical peels are also effective for reducing the size, look and appearance. Chemical peel with Trichloreacetic acid (TCA) is the most appropriate peel as the acid penetrates more deeply into the skin and removes the damaged layers of the skin, allowing new cells to form.
Laser resurfacing is another procedure that is effective in treating. Laser resurfacing treatment treats not only large pores but also wrinkles, discolorations caused by sun damage, post-acne scars and the best thing is that it boost collagen production which is essential for the skin's elasticity and healthy look. The procedure tones, lifts and tightens skin on the face and stimulates long-term collagen and elastin rebuilding.
Chemical peels, Microdermabrasion, laser resurfacing all work to reduce the appearance not only of large pores, but also improve the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, brown spots, age spots, scars, discolorations and other imperfections.
Deep pore cleansing treatment – the facial includes exfoliating, toning, cleansing, moisturizing, extractions. It's the best treatment caused by puberty as it balances oil (sebum) production, removes congestion and encourages healthy new cells to form. Deep pore cleansing should be performed by a beautician or by a dermatologist to achieve best results.
Topical vitamin A treatments
These include: Retin A, Renova, Avage, Tretinoin. Vitamin A is believed to help minimize pores' size. They all unclog pores by loosening blackheads and speeding up cell turnover.
Alpha and Beta Hydroxy Acids
AHAs and BHAs are effective in preventing enlargement of the pores as they exfoliate the skin and unclog pores. Both AHAs and BHAs stimulate the production of collagen and elastin and provide smoother, brighter-looking skin. Common use AHAs in products are: Glycolic Acid, Citric Acid, Salicylic Acid, Malic Acid.
At home remedies
- Exfoliation
Exoliation is essential for keeping your skin clean and to prevent enlargement of facial pores. Use a mild exfoliator to remove the dead skin cells twice a week, but make sure it's appropriate for your skin type. Another alternative for at-home exfoliation are the Microdermabrasion kits such as: L'Oreal Dermo-Expertise Microdermabrasion Kit ($23), SPA Sciences Acne Microdermabrasion Kit ($50), Vita K Solution Microdermabrasion Kit ($20), Nivea Visage Micro-Dermabrasion Kit Q 10 Gentle SPA ($20). These kits usually include gentle exfoliator and post-treatment moisturizer. These products not only refinish skin's texture but also erase sun damage, reduce discoloration, smooth signs of aging, refine pores and even out skin tone.
- Reduce the excess oiliness
As we said these pores can be caused by excess oil (sebum) production and that's why it's essential to control the sebum production. Fortunately there are some products, specially designed for this aim. They reduce and control the excess surface oil and prevent clogging of the pores and pore plugging which usually contributes to pore visibility. Such products are: Clearasil Daily Control Cream Cleanser with green tea and peppermint ($8), Phytomer Oligopur Shine Control Moisturizing Fluid ($35), Biore Shine Control Moisturizer ($7), Lancome Pure Focus Shine Control Moisturizing Fluid ($35), Clinique Pore Minimizer T-Zone Shine Control ($17.50). Look for products containing Nordihydraguaiaretic Acid as it reduce the sebum production.
- Use pore minimizing lotions and creams
Using a pore minimizing (refining) products should be an essential part of your skin care regimen to keep your facial pores under control. These products target the production of sebum deep in the pores, clear away debris and reduce the size of the large pores. One of the best pore minimizing products are: Lancome Pure Focus Matifying Purifying Lotion ($35), Clinique Pore Minimizer Refining Lotion ($18.50), Neutrogena Pore Refining Cream ($11.50), Yves Rocher Pore Refining Moisturizer ($15), DermaDoctor Picture Perfect Pore Minimizing Solution ($40).Look for moisturizers containing natural ingredients, vitamins, retinol to increase the collagen production.
- Do a tightening face mask
Do a pore refining mask once or twice a week to keep your pores clean and under control. These masks deeply cleanse pores and draw out the impurities while refining the skin's texture. Such pore refining masks are: Burt' Bee Pore Refining Mask ($9), Neutrogena Pore Refining Mask ($11.50), Estee Lauder So Clean Deep Pore Mask ($19.50), Avon Pore Minimizer Mask ($9.50), Biore Pore Perfect Self-Heating Mask ($7).
- Steam your face
Steam your face once a week to thoroughly deep clean your large pores, to loosen debris and to open the pores. The high temperature helps the pores to open and this way the skin will clear itself from the toxins. Apply a deep cleaning face mask after steaming your face.
- A mild exfoliation will help keep your pores clear and less apparent.
- Treat enlarged pores at early stage to prevent future problems.
- If untreated properly they may lead to acne, skin infections and frequent breakouts.
- Remember: the best way to prevent enlarged facial pores is to keep your skin clean and well moisturizer.
- Daily usage of oil controlling products will prevent formation.
- Do a deep-pore cleansing once or twice a month to keep your pores clear and to prevent clogging.
- Use products containing alpha hydroxy acids.
- You can improve the appearance of your pores by regular exfoliation.
- Use pore minimizing products every day.
- Always cleanse your face twice a day to keep your skin clean and fresh.
- Never skip to remove your makeup in the evening to prevent clogging of the pores.
- Make sure all your makeup products are noncomedogenic.
- Remember: any irritation can cause the pores to overreact.
- Use lukewarm to rinse your face, hot water can enlarge facial pores.
- Never use harsh soaps and astringents to cleanse your face.
- Don't squeeze blackheads or pimples cause your may stretch the pore.
- Use strips to remove blackheads on your nose, chin and forehead.
- Always wear sunscreen with SPF at least 15 because the sun may cause large pores.
- Eat many fruits and vegetables.
- Drink lots of water every day to keep yourself hydrated.
- Avoid applying any irritants to your skin because if your skin is irritated the pores will appear larger.
- Keep your makeup tools clean to avoid inflammation.
- Rub your skin with an ice cube as it closes your pores and keeps any dirt out.
How To Hide Them With Makeup
Follow these simple steps when applying makeup to hide large pores and to achieve a flawless look:
- Cleanse and tone your face
- Use an ice cube or cool water to "shrink" them
- Apply moisturizer
- Apply Oil-controlling product
- Apply pore minimizing product
- Apply makeup primer
- Apply foundation
- Apply loose powder
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Using environment modules
To see what modules are available, run
$ module avail.
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Image: "This detailed annotated map shows the structure of the Milky Way, including the location of the spiral arms and other components such as the bulge. This version of the image has been updated to include the most recent mapping of the shape of the central bulge deduced from survey data from ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory. The original image was published in 2008 by NASA/JPL-Caltech (author R. Hurt)," by NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt, 12 September 201, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_the_Milky_Way_(updated_-_annotated).jpg … public domain
- About the Light
- About the Dark
Dear Ones,
Among the darkest, densest noospheric energies on Earth are Reverse Kundalini or Black Tantra nightmares at night, vivid waking dreams, or clair-sensing of astral stories that involve these energies.
These may include visions or clair auditory experiences of Slave Planet Blues … of men raping women; men sodomizing men; people obsessed or possessed by the Demon Realm or made into human 'donkeys' by voodoo cults; people overdosing on hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and morphine; conspiracy theory marijuana day dreams ('pot dreams'); visions of child trafficking or child abuse, pariah or shunning or expiation, torture, genital mutilation, mafia 'hits' or murder of the innocent, cannibalism or blood sacrifice, or other Satanic practices.
I have discussed priorly the Reverse Kundalini exercises that I feel to be the cause of these dense noospheric energy strands …
Link: "Reverse Kundalini Syndrome," a new psychological term by Alice B. Clagett … Excerpted on 25 August 2020 from a blog written and published on 25 July 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-jGC ..
These noospheric strands are not caused by Lightworkers, Wayshowers, Pathfinders, Gatekeepers, and healers, whose noospheric energies are of fast-pulsating, un-dense Light, such as the 'ultraLight' spoken of by Judy Satori …
Video: "Judy Satori's UltraLight Rose Fr4equency Transmission," by Steve Hutchinson, 6 August 2019, in YouTube … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OsAjgDLUv8 ..
But in this world of Duality, dense noospheric strands are naturally attracted to ultraLight noospheric strands. In other words, noospheric opposites … thought forms of opposing energies … attract.
For people who are not Lightworkers … who are just going about their jobs and their lives, without much thought about spiritual development … the quality of their thought forms is both middling Dark and middling Light. They are in the Purgatory thought form domain, where their own thought form of middling Light will find as its noospheric 'opposing force' someone else's thought form of middling Darkness.
For the average person, the experience of Duality is therefore not too shocking. They may have a middling upbeat thought; then in their dreamtime or daydreaming realm a thought of middling sadness, fear, or irritation swoops in as countering opposite. Or vice versa: They may have a middling upset thought; then someone else's middling upbeat thought form swoops into their 'mini-noosphere' … the portion of the noosphere of Earth that is 'heard' or 'seen' by their own brain.
But for the Lightworker, the contrasts of the world of Duality are much more stark. All day long, the Lightworker may put forth into Earth's noosphere thought forms that are ultralight. Then at night, or during a daydream, the Lightworker may encounter the dense energies of Reverse Kundalini and Black Magic.
The sensitivity of a Lightworker is that of healing and upliftment of humankind, of perfection of Soul wisdom and experience of Christ Consciousness … the experience of Heaven on Earth. For that reason, I feel, our glimpsing of the dark underbelly of Earth's noosphere … the hellworlds of Earth … through the law of attraction of noospheric opposites can be uncomfortable, unsettling, even repugnant.
Repugnance for the densest energies of Earth can cause a Lightworker to tumble headlong from the Higher Dimensions into the realm of cause and effect, whose laws characterize the fourth dimension … the astral realm … and the third dimension … the physical realm beloved by all humans as God's gift of the experience of life in physical form.
I feel this tumbling down of Lightworkers to be more likely during the 5 years of Solar Minimum that take place during each 11-year Solar Cycle. It is during the Solar Minimums … such as that from which Earth is just now emerging … that there is greatest influx of Cosmic Rays into Earth's magnetosphere. These Cosmic Rays pierce the Lightworker's energy field like barbs or darts, inserting tiny pricks of Darkness in our fields of Light …
Link: "Health Risks of Space Weather," by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 11 May 2017; revised …https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=27634&action=edit&classic-editor … See the section: Health Dangers of Cosmic Rays
When we Lightworkers fall from the Higher Dimensions into trying to cure the ills of the physical world, then the Dark lays hold on us.
Attempts at whistleblowing make it clear that law enforcement, for instance, is enmired in the survival of the criminal world, of the mafia, confidence men, and drug lords, because the survival of law enforcement groups depends on the existence of criminals. In other words, without the existence of criminals, the jobs of law enforcement personnel would be at risk. In a way, there is an easy camaraderie amongst these two opposing noospheric energies: the protectors of humankind and the antisocial personalities whose Soul purpose is to devolve to a state of shared consciousness as members of an animal Group Soul … a state of Awareness that lacks individuation through retention of an individual Soul as one of its subtle energy bodies.
In the world of Duality both types of Souls exist: Souls intent on Soul evolution towards God Awareness, and Souls intent on Soul devolution, towards animal consciousness, and eventually towards that innate but not unfolded consciousness of the mineral world. There are also Souls newly born … as it were, just now awakening … just emerging from their protective shells, and not yet sensing the pull of God's love for them.
There are groups of people experiencing denser energies of the Light here on Earth as a kind of Satanic dance or 'Dark Tango'. These include law enforcement officers, who dance the Dark Tango with crime gangs. As well they include secret service men, who dance the Dark Tango with international conspirators. And they include military men and women, who dance the Dark Tango with international terrorists.
When Lightworkers attempts to upgrade these denser energies through whistleblowing, I feel it likely they will find both members of a Dark Tango … both the protectors of humankind and the antisocial personalities involved in the dance … will turn upon them and attempt to change the energy of the Lightworker into an energy more like their own.
This may be, for instance, through accusation of crime gangs that a Lightworker is a prostitute hooked on drugs, and affirmation by law enforcement through imprisonment, gang banging, and death in prison. Or it might be by assassination, as was the case with President John F. Kennedy and of many human rights activists worldwide …
Link: "List of Assassinated Human Rights Activists," in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_human_rights_activists ..
Why would this scenario take place for whistleblowers, over and over again? I feel it takes place because there are Souls which incarnate on Earth with intention to experience the denser realities. I feel that God has agreed to allow them these denser Light experiences, through His creation of this Free Will planet on the far reaches of this, the Milky Way galaxy, which is our home turf.
Were it not possible for Souls to chose Soul devolution on Earth, then how might it be said that we experience the illusion of Free Will? Of course, all Creation is of God and within God, so the struggle is simply that some spark of Divine Awareness … His own creature … we ourselves, for instance … desires to experience His all-encompassing love; or else has forgotten that it is His creature; or else wishes to experience Self without the experience of the All.
No matter what our choice, yet we allow God the experience of love of Other, which, when you are Everything, can only be accomplished through creation of the illusion of Duality. That is pretty good sleight of hand on God's part, and fun for the Lightworker to view 'from afar', so to speak.
Some, for instance, have incarnated as Victims, and others as Victimizers …
Link: "Victim-Victimizer," in the Ascension Glossary … https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Victim-Victimizer ..
See also my blog category: Patriarchal domination mental filter / victim-aggressor / V— D—
The Earth reality experienced by Victims and Victimizers is worlds away from the Earth reality experienced by Lightworkers, Wayshowers, Pathfinders, Gatekeepers, and healers. Yet, from the Higher Dimensional Realities we can peer down into the denser realms … the Purgatory realms and the Hellworlds … and, through the quality of empathy we can experience their suffering, or their anguish.
The truest experience of the Lightworker on Earth is that of neutral observer of the anguish of the lower realms, and of experiencing, within our own physical and subtle bodies, the highest energies of Light. The catastrophic experiences of our fellow Lightworkers with regard to whistleblowing confirm this.
Are we here in physical form to embark on a course of action that will inexorably lead to our physical destruction? No, we are not. We Lightworkers are here on Earth to serve as beacons of the higher Light, to light the way for those who wish to take on such a Soul purpose as their own. We are here to show the way, in case others might also wish to walk such a path.
We are not here to save the world, but to be the Light of Higher Consciousness, within our own energy fields. Let us then be that Way and that Path and that Light. Let us faithfully do those spiritual practices that uplift and preserve our experience of the Higher Realms, knowing that our personal experience of the highest Light is all the good we need to do here on Earth.
Let us allow God, in His own good time, to transform the densest energies of our noosphere, and to inspire those in the Dark Tango to transform their energy fields to the Light, through their own Free Will, in accord with the Divine plan for the return of the physical realms to God consciousness. His open arms beckon everyone to come home to Him, in this the time of Ascension, of the awakening of humankind to New Life on New Earth.
In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars
Written and published on 27 November 2020
About the Light
Link: "Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF," by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 15 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-56Y ..
Link: "How to Perfect the Forces Within Our Bodies," by Alice B. Clagett, excerpted and rewritten on 2 February 2017 from a blog published on 18 May 2019; revised on 18 June 2020 and 13 November 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-cOY ..
Link: "Enlightenment I: On Mastering the Subconscious and Conscious Mind," by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 17 June 2016, revised … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5zc ..
Link: "Enlightenment II: Raising the Kundalini to Heal the Human EMF and Alleviate Ascension Symptoms," by Alice B. Clagett, written in April 2014, published on 15 June 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5yX ..
Link: "Compendium: Life on Earth," by Alice B. Clagett, compiled and published on 20 March 2020; republished on 29 March 2020; updated … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-haG ..
About the Dark
Link: "Satanic," in Ascension Glossary … https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Satanic#Satanism.2C_Deception_and_Lies ..
Link: "Intelligence Community Whistleblowers," in Ascension Glossary … https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Intelligence_Community_Whistleblowers ..
Link: "Elite Pedophile Agenda," in Ascension Glossary … https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Elite_Pedophile_Agenda ..
Link: "Archontic Deception Strategies for Sexual Abuse," in Ascension Glossary … https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Archontic_Deception_Strategies_for_Sexual_Abuse ..
Or see my blog categories on Satanism … Disclosure … Child Molestation … Sexual Abuse … and so on.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget passed the Chicago City Council unanimously today, handing the mayor a major victory in his first year on the job.
The 50-0 vote sets the city down a path next year of fee increases, layoffs of city workers and other belt-tightening measures.
Aldermen time and again said they appreciated the fact Emanuel's $6.3 billion plan deals honestly with the city's financial situation rather than "kicking the can down the road." They commended the new mayor for showing a willingness to work with them and compromise not often seen during the later years of Mayor Richard Daley's tenure.
Many council members groused about particular parts of the budget during nearly two hours of testimony -- Emanuel's plan to close six city mental health clinics and reduce library hours were frequent targets -- but in the end all lined up behind the $6.3 billion deal.
Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, a sometime Emanuel antagonist, went so far as to say this budget process was the most cooperative he had seen in 42 years on the council.
Emanuel thanked aldermen for making his budget better and for putting "city taxpayers before the city payroll."
"We have a bright future, we have a strong future, this budget does not run away from that, it shapes it," Emanuel said.
Henry Bayer, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, expressed disappointment in the budget approval.
"We're very disappointed that aldermen have voted to reduce access to libraries, cut mental health services, privatize health clinics and cut hundreds of good jobs," Bayer said in a statement. "Many aldermen voiced serious concerns about these cuts today. While the vote is over, the work of minimizing these harmful cuts is an ongoing process in which AFSCME and our labor and community allies will be fully engaged."
Emanuel's budget passed without dissent despite "bad news" like fee increases and City Hall layoffs, and testimony from aldermen early on in the meeting indicates they are on board.
While crafting the plan, Emanuel promised to no longer "kick the can down the road," a reference to recent budgets by Mayor Richard Daley that relied heavily on one-time revenue.
"It's obvious that when you we're a kid, you never learned the game of kick the can," said Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd. "Everybody felt the pain. The only way you are going to make the gain is to feel the pain."
Mell said Emanuel did a good job of spreading the pain around. "To vote against this budget because of one item you thought is wrong would be a real mistake," he said.
Ald. Michelle Harris, 8th, said the city is "going to have to give to get where we want to go," but noted Emanuel worked to continue funding public safety at a high level, and to "spread the pain."
Ald. Joseph Moore, 49th, noted he frequently voted against Daley's plans, but said he would support this one because it addresses the city's difficult financial situation. "It is an honest budget," Moore said.
In a point many longtime aldermen touched on over the past several months of budget discussions, Moore also mentioned Emanuel "has had an open door" to work with council members to tweak the plan, unlike Daley.
While Ald. Ariel Reboyras, 30th, said the budget includes tough cuts, he applauded the administration for raising fines for people who don't cut grass on vacant lots and other beautification issues.
"We have to keep our neighborhoods in order, and you will pay," he said.
In recent weeks, the mayor compromised with aldermen to soften the blow of library cuts, spread out the pain of vehicle sticker fee price increases and keep more graffiti-erasing crews on the streets.
Emanuel also agreed to reduce the hit of water bills on non-profit groups and phase out, instead of immediately eliminate, rebates to condo owners whose garbage the city does not pick up.
But the mayor still plans to close three of the city's 25 police stations. And job eliminations would still top 500 by mid-year. And more than 2,000 vacancies would be removed from the books.
And Emanuel's plan to more than double water and sewer fees during the next four years remains intact. Those fee increases, expected to generate $147 million in the first year, would be used to upgrade the city's aging water and sewer lines, he said.
Emanuel also did not back off on his plan to boost weekday parking taxes by $2 a day when the garage or lot tab is $12 or more. The $28 million raised from that would be used to build two CTA "L" stations downtown and launch a long-planned bus rapid-transit system.
Also going up are fees paid by alleged criminals whose cars are impounded, some parking fines and the fines paid by people caught not buying vehicle stickers.
Emanuel has repeatedly said he's making the difficult choices needed to stop using one-time revenues to plug the city's budget hole. In recent years, former Mayor Richard Daley drew down hundreds of millions of dollars in longtime reserves to plug those holes.
For his efforts, Emanuel has won praise from the Civic Federation, a non-partisan budget watchdog group funded by business interests.
But the group also has warned that much more work has to be done to get the city's fiscal house in order. The biggest issue not addressed in the budget is unfunded pension liabilities, which will expand the city budget hole by more than $500 million a year during the mayor's first term if nothing is done.


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I don't think I've ever laughed harder in a movie than I did when I first saw Dumb and Dumber. It was a perfect convergence of comedy: I was twelve, Jim Carrey was at the top of his game, and the Farrelly Brothers' gross-out aesthetic was brand new. Dumb and Dumber felt less like a movie and more like a collection of related skits. Suddenly you didn't need a real plot for a comedy movie, just a good premise from which to launch a hundred mini-sketches loosely linked by character and theme. It was like watching a Harold happen as a movie.
In retrospect, that was not good for comedy. That free-flowing style covered up a lot of sins—for instance, the Farrelly Brothers are not particularly good filmmakers. But they made several good comedies in a row, peaking with There's Something About Mary, so no one really thought much of the fact that they were not doing anything particularly interesting or cinematic as directors. All of their movies look pretty much the same, but we as an audience continue to evolve. Which is why, over time, it seemed like they stopped making funny movies.
Comedy is a constant evolution, and by the time Zoolander came out in 2001, we'd left the gross-out aesthetic behind. Sure, it still has a place as a bit, but as a style? No. We're in a parody phase now, and have been since Zoolander. Everything is about pop/cultural references, call backs, and in-jokes. Judd Apatow's style is the closest thing we have to Farrelly-esque gross out comedies now, but Apatow (and also his protégés Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg) is a considerably more sophisticated filmmaker. Looking back on Farrelly movies of the 1990s, they seem quaint and simple.
Even Dumb and Dumber, which I love and which holds up surprisingly well given that almost nothing else from that era does, is more charming than funny these days. It still makes me laugh in places—the most annoying sound in the world never gets old—but I watched the whole thing a few months ago and yikes. I winced a lot, mostly at Carrey's spastic, hyper performance. His facial gymnastic and yelling seems out of place now.
His characters aren't real people, they're collections of tics, and comedy has moved past that point. The best comedies of the last fifteen years are defined by sharply drawn, fully realized characters, such as Andy in The 40 Year Old Virgin, or Kirk Lazarus and Ron Burgundy—people who are absurd but who have identifiable wants, needs and desires, and who act accordingly to those things. Carrey's characters, on the other hand, only ever have one identifiable trait—this one's an idiot, that one's a liar, another idiot—and those traits function as plot devices, not as engines of character development. Comedy today is almost entirely about character development.
So it's with some trepidation that I watched the first trailer for Dumb and Dumber To. And…it's pretty bad. Carrey is cringe-worthy, the gross-out gags fall flat—that dusty vagina joke made me say "Oh come ON" out loud—and the plot is basically exactly the same as twenty years ago: A woman tears Harry and Lloyd apart. It's recycled, and worse, it's stale. Comedy is past this—WE are past this. If there's any saving grace in Dumb and Dumber To it'll be the same surprising thing as Dumb and Dumber, and that's Jeff Daniels. Harry feels like a real person. Harry is on an emotional journey, and comedy can emerge organically from the changes he undergoes on that journey. Hopefully the movie is more about Harry and less about Lloyd, because I don't think I can take two hours of Jim Carrey screeching in my face.


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On Monday GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza announced the purchase of BTC.com for $1 million. The domain, which now points to a landing page, is to be a beachhead on the war to make bitcoin a household name and, like sex.com before it, the purchase garnered a lot of attention.
But why BTC.com? And why $1 million? I spoke with Garza about his purchase.
TC: $1 Million, huh? Where'd you get all that money?
Garza: I launched my first company while I was in still in high school, and sold it when I turned 19. I sold my first company, Great Auk Wireless, a broadband ISP that delivered hi-speed internet to rural households using wireless signals instead of coaxial cables, when I was 22.
TC: Tell me about GAW Miners. How did you guys start?
G: GAW Miners was born after someone ripped me off during an ASIC purchase. I already owned the successful GAW.com, and decided to quickly launched GAW Miners in March 2014 to sell ASICs with fast shipping, reasonable prices, and compensation for any delays or downtime. The company was an overnight success and achieved over $10M in sales during its first month and is on schedule to do $100M in this first year.
TC: Is there still money to be made for the average user in bitcoin?
G: I think so, just not the "easy money." Now it just takes some planning and math. But, like with most things, with hard work there is a ton of money to be made. But small-time miners hitting positive ROIs are a thing of the past.
Mining will always be profitable (that's how the network difficulty algorithms adapt) but as more people and investors pour into the space, only the bigger dogs will win. You can still make money at home with the right hardware, but not for long. Soon, you'll have to buy (or buy into) large hyper-efficient ASIC units run in data centers where electric costs are cheapest.
Mining is following the same path the Internet took. At first the world wide web existed mostly in desktop units people ran in their basements. Now the internet is mainly housed in servers that are run in massive data centers where management, storage, and electricity costs are low. It's simply uneconomical to run a server at home anymore. The same is happening here.
TC: What's the future of mining?
G: Cloud-hosted miners. Data centers cut energy costs in half, maximize uptime, and don't take up premium residential space in homes. People are already buying their hardware from distributors like us and running their units remotely with a service like ZenMiner (which we are acquiring this week).
TC: Did you buy this domain to encourage mining or exchanges?
G: We're bringing the two together for the first time and making it much easier for merchants and consumers to interact with cryptocurrencies. Its got to be simple.
TC: Why did you buy BTC.com? Was there a lot of brand awareness there?
G: There wasn't much brand awareness behind the domain itself. But if your mission is bringing crypto currency to the world, owning the domain name that stands for the currency is a natural extension.


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Today marks the 67th anniversary of the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian who was a member of the German resistance movement against Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s and a founding member of the Confessing Church in Germany, which represented a major source of Christian opposition to the Nazi government in Germany.
An outspoken critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, Bonhoeffer was arrested in 1943 and hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp 9 April, 1945 – just a month before Germany surrendered and the War in Europe ended.
One of the most influential Christian thinkers and writers of the 20th Century, Sojourners today honors the memory of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." – Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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As I wandered down the alleyway to his home, I knew I was about to meet someone special. I heard about him from my guide and friend Ms. Thuy. The special man is Nguyen Trung. Born in Central Vietnam in 1949, today he lives in Hanoi with his wife and their eight-year-old son.
At the age of two, Trung developed polio. At that time only basic medical treatment was available. Wanting to improve his sons mobility, Trung's father ordered a custom made tricycle from a local blacksmith. His first wheelchair came from Germany in 1975, which he found awkward and uncomfortable. After using several poorly designed wheelchairs, Trung began to think he could produce a better model himself. In 1995 he was chosen to participate in a welfare project and impressed the organizers with the small home workshop.
After two years and using most of his personal funds, he completed his first wheelchair. At first people were wary of a wheelchair built by a disabled man, but as people saw him using the chair, his first orders started to come in. Trung has now completed over 30 wheelchairs. He has 5 different designs which he builds after seeing photos of the recipiant. The Hanoi handicap society as well as friends like Ms. Thuy inform Trung of potential recipients. One wheelchair costs $100 U.S. Trung often donates the wheelchairs, as his aim is to help those less fortunate. He continues to work fulltime to help subsidize his operations.
I was delighted to order 4 wheelchairs from Trung with funds raised through the sale of Vietnamese handicrafts and generous donations made by my mother Doreen Burrows and her friend, Audrey Cinar. As part of Eldertreks ongoing commitment to helping others throughout the world, I am pleased to announce that for each Vietnam departure Eldertreks will purchase a wheelchair on behalf of the group.
Thank you Trung for fulfilling your vision and improving the quality of life for so many.
Story by Roger Burrows, ElderTreks Tour Leader


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Total of 100, 5/8" clam shaped brass bells. 50 bells are braided into each cord. Cord color may vary. The northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh is well known for quality brass manufactories. Once cast, these solid brass bells are transported to Mumbai (Bombay) on the west coast, for assembly and export. Bells are primarily worn by Indian dancers on their ankles or wrists to accent their movements. You can also hang them on your drums. They will add just the right sound to lots of activities.


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The Walt Disney Company has announced it is raising one-day ticket prices at its domestic parks starting Sunday. This change had been rumored online for almost a week now, so I hope you took advantage and ordered your tickets for future vacations already.
At Walt Disney World tickets for those aged 10 and older will rise from $71 to $75, while tickets for children aged 3 to 9 will go from $60 to $63. Magic Your Way tickets are increasing about the same percentage. The park hopper option will also increase from $45 to $50.
At Disneyland one-day prices will rise from $66 to $69 for those aged 10 and older, and from $56 to $59 for children aged 3 to 9.
It's assumed that annual pass prices will rise as well. As usual the more tickets you can afford to buy at once, the more affordable each day is. Just don't forget the non-expiring option.
It seems to be an odd move to raise prices while at the same time cutting back on what you're offering. For instance, at Walt Disney World, Fantasmic will go to weekends only, labor hours are also likely to be reduced resulting in longer lines at stores, attractions, and restauraunts. But it's a tight economy for everyone. If yogurt can rise prices by 25% when they switch from 8 ounce to 6 ounce containers for the same price, then Disney should be allowed their slight increase.


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Berner Low Profile Air Curtain 48 inch 480V 3 Phase 1340 CFM CLC08-1048AZ
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Low profile air curtain with white or black powder coated cabinet, requires a minimum of 9.5" clearance above the door. Available in single lengths from 2 ½' to 10'. Custom Colors or Stainless Steel available.
Designed to meet the functional needs of the application and to integrate into the space. Simple to install, operate, and maintain. Ideal for Service / Employee Doors, Main Entrances, Concessions / Drive-Thru, and Shopping Carts.
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20th Century Fox has released a new clip from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, showing off a confrontation between man and ape. Check it out in the player below!
Hitting theaters on July 11, 2014, the Matt Reeves-directed sequel also stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Enrique Murciano, Kirk Acevedo and Judy Greer.
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.


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