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Dislocation [Triple Wide]
Thirty-two years after Eternal Hotfire rewired the Scottish rock'n'roll scene with its hot outlaw sound, the Glaswegians are back with their tenth album, and three years on from the well-received Tales Of Endless Bliss. They haven't ever moved too far away from their trademark sound from the 1980s, and when it sounds this good why would they.
Still there since 1983 are vocalist Michael Rooney and guitarist Tom Rafferty. Frankly it's hard to imagine the band without either of the mainstays, such is the ferocity of their delivery. Rooney is still in fine voice [which cannot be said for many of his contemporaries]. Dislocation delivers many shades of gut-led-rock, where instinct and feverish metallic KO are favoured over finesse. 'Fever Zone' and 'I Got Fever' open the album in their usual onslaught manner, i.e. a Gun Club-indebted psychobilly garage blues squall.
Rooney goes full Iggy freak-out mode on 'The Jump From Real To Weird' and it's simply exhilarating to hear the whole ensemble manage to hit these heights. There's a welcome touch of the psychedelic on some of the more mid-paced numbers like 'The Heebie Walk', and trumpeter Robert Henderson puts in a soothing guest appearance on the jazzy introduction to 'East Campbell Street Breakdown' [which itself is a more than solid rocker that shows their occasional debt to the MC5] and the proggy(!) sound of 'Tears'. Also more than worthy of a mention is the fraught drama of piano-led 'Let It Happen', which pound for pound sits easily alongside the similar sounds of Nick Cave or the Jim Jones Revue, and either of those parties would be very happy to call it their own.
Overall then, impressive stuff. Since their return in 2007 they really have shown no signs of let up with their quality and energy, which is something to admire and celebrate. They are the house band William S. Burroughs would choose. So should you, punks.
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We had the pleasure of meeting Danny Espinoza the winner of CNY Alive's Favorite Bartender contest at Pizza Man in Baldwinsville. We quickly saw why so many people voted for him. We awarded Danny the $100 prize and he told us that he was donating it to Maureen's Hope, as an added surprise, the owners of Pizza Man are matching his donation. Cheers to Luke and Jim, by the way, the pizza and service were great!
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American Connector Co. is compelled to reevaluate operations at its Sunnyvale plant when a Japanese contender declares arrangements to fabricate an "extreme" plant in the United States. Case looks at issues identified with benchmarking a contender's assembling capacities and efficiency. Permits students to look at two organizations' assembling systems and their suggestions for efficiency and adaptability.
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The Caddo Nation is a confederacy of several Southeastern Native American tribes, who traditionally inhabited much of what is now East Texas, northern Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma. Today the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma is a single federally recognized tribe with its capital at Binger, Oklahoma. The different Caddo languages have converged into a single language.
The Caddo Nation was previously known as the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma. A tribal constitution provides for a tribal council consisting of eight members with a chairperson, based in Binger, Oklahoma.[1] The tribal complex, dance grounds, and the Caddo Heritage Museum are located south of Binger. 5757 people are enrolled in the tribe, with 3044 living within the state of Oklahoma.[2] The tribe operates its own housing authority and issues its own tribal vehicle tags.[2] It maintains administrative centers, dance grounds, several community centers, and an active NAGPRA office.
Several programs exist to invigorate Caddo traditions. The tribe sponsors a summer culture camp for children.[3] The Hasinai Society[4] and Caddo Culture Club[5] both keep Caddo songs and dances alive, while the Kiwat Hasinay Foundation is dedicated to preserving the Caddo language.[6]
The Caddo are thought to be an extension of Woodland period peoples, the Fourche Maline culture and Mossy Grove cultures who were living in the area of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas between 200 BCE to 800 CE.[7] The Wichita and Pawnee are related to the Caddo, as shown by their speaking Caddoan languages. By 800 CE this society had begun to coalesce into the Caddoan Mississippian culture. Some villages began to gain prominence as ritual centers, with elite residences and temple mound constructions. The mounds were arranged around open plazas, which were usually kept swept clean and were often used for ceremonial occasions. As complex religious and social ideas developed, some people and family lineages gained prominence over others.[7] By 1000 CE a society that is defined as "Caddoan" had emerged. By 1200 the numerous villages, hamlets, and farmsteads established throughout the Caddo world had begun extensive maize agriculture.[7] Their artistic skills and earthwork mound-building flourished during the 12th and 13th centuries.[8] Spiro mounds, some of the most elaborate in the United States, were made by ancestors of the Caddo and Wichita.[9] The Caddo were farmers and enjoyed good growing conditions most of the time. However, the Piney Woods, the geographic area where they lived, was affected by the Great Drought, from 1276–1299 CE.[10]
Archeological evidence that the cultural continuity is unbroken from prehistory to the present, and that the direct ancestors of the Caddo and related Caddo language speakers in prehistoric times and at first European contact and the modern Caddo Nation of Oklahoma is unquestioned today.[11]
Caddo oral history says the tribe emerged from an underground cave, called Chahkanina or "the place of crying," located at the confluence of the Red and Mississippi Rivers in northern Louisiana. Their leader, named Moon, instructed the people not to look back. An old Caddo man carried with him a drum, a pipe, and fire, all of which continued to be important religious items. His wife carried corn and pumpkin seeds. As people and accompanying animals emerged, the wolf looked back and the exit was closed to the remaining people and animals.[12]
The Caddo peoples moved west along the Red River, or Bah'hatteno in Caddo.[13] A Caddo woman, Zacado, instructed the tribe in hunting, fishing, home construction, and clothing. Caddo religion focuses on Kadhi háyuh, translating to "Lord Above" or "Lord of the Sky." In early times, the people were led by priests, including a head priest, the xinesi, who could commune with spirits residing near Caddo temples.[12] A cycle of ceremonies corresponded to corn cultivation. Tobacco was and is used ceremonially. Early priests drank a purifying sacrament made of wild olive leaves.[14]
The Caddo lived in the Piney Woods eco-region of the United States up to the foothills of the Ozark Mountains and often near the Caddo River. The Piney Woods is a dense forest of deciduous and conifer flora covering rolling hills, steep river valleys, and intermittent wetlands called Bayous. Several Caddo villages were resettled, including the community of Elysian Fields, Texas, and Nacogdoches and Natchitoches, both of which have kept their original names. The Caddo were progressively moved further west until they reached what is now western Oklahoma. The geography of the drier plains was quite a contrast to the lush hilly forest that were formerly their homeland. The Caddo's food varied in many types, the most common being dried corn. Sunflower seeds and pumpkins were also important staples with cultural significance, as were wild turkeys.
The Caddo first encountered Europeans in 1541 when the Hernando de Soto Expedition came through their lands.[15] De Soto's force had a violent clash with one band of Caddo Indians, the Tula, near Caddo Gap, Arkansas. This event is marked by a monument that stands in the small town today.
The Caddo tribes were divided into three confederacies when first encountered by the Europeans, the Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and Natchitoches, and loosely affiliated with other tribes. The Haisinai lived in East Texas, the Kadohadacho lived near the border of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, and the Natchitoches lived in now northern Louisiana.[16]
With the arrival of missionaries from Spain and France, a smallpox epidemic broke out that decimated the population. Measles, influenza, and malaria also devastated the Caddo, as these were Eurasian diseases to which they had no immunity.[13]
Before extensive European contact, some of the Caddo territory was invaded by migrating Osage, Ponca, Omaha and Kaw, who had moved west beginning about 1200 CE because of years of warfare with the Iroquois in the Ohio River area of present-day Kentucky. The Osage particularly dominated the Caddo and pushed them out of some former territory, becoming dominant in the region of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma. The new tribes had become well settled in their new traditional grounds west of the Mississippi by mid-18th century European contact.[13]
Having given way over years before the power of the former Ohio Valley tribes, Caddos later negotiated for place with Spanish, French, and finally Anglo-American settlers. After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the United States government sought to ally with the Caddos. In 1835 the Kadohadacho, the northernmost Caddo confederacy, signed a treaty with the US to relocate to then Mexico. This area had been rapidly transformed by greatly increased immigration of European Americans, who in 1836 declared independence from Mexico with the Republic of Texas.[13] "Texas" comes from the Hasinai word táysha?, meaning "friend."[17]
In 1845 when Texas was admitted to the US as a state, the government forced the relocation of both the Hasinai and the Kadohadacho onto the Brazos Reservation. In 1859 many of the Caddo were relocated to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. After the Civil War, the Caddo were concentrated on a reservation located between the Washita and Canadian rivers.[13]
In the late 19th century, the Caddo took up the Ghost Dance religion, which was widespread among American Indian nations in the West. John Wilson, a Caddo-Delaware medicine man who spoke only Caddo, was an influential leader in the Ghost Dance. In 1880, Wilson became a peyote roadman. The tribe had known the Half Moon peyote ceremony, but Wilson introduced the Big Moon ceremony to them.[18] The Caddo tribe remains very active in the Native American Church today.
After the turn of the century, the Curtis Act dismantled tribal institutions. The Dawes Act was directed at assimilation by breaking up tribal common landholdings into allotments for individual members. The Caddo vigorously opposed allotment. Whitebread, a Caddo leader, said, that "because of their peaceful lives and friendship to the white man, and through their ignorance were not consulted, and have been ignored and stuck away in a corner and allowed to exist by sufferance."[13]
The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936 provided the opportunity for the Caddo to reform their tribal government. They organized in 1938 as the Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. They ratified their constitution on 17 January 1938.[1] In 1976, they drafted a new constitution. During the 20th century, Caddo leaders such as Melford Williams, Harry Guy, Hubert Halfmoon, and Vernon Hunter have shaped the tribe.[13]
In a special election on 29 June 2002, six amendments were made to the constitution. Tribal enrollment is open to individuals with a documented minimum of 1/16 degree Caddo blood quantum.[19]
In August 2013, a group led by Philip Smith attempted to recall Brenda Shemayme Edwards, the Chairman of the Tribal Council. After that attempt failed, in October 2013, Philip Smith and his supporters broke into the Caddo Nation headquarters. They chained the front doors from the inside and blocked off the entrance to the administration building. The Bureau of Indian Affairs Police were called. [20]
John Wilson (1840-1901), Caddo peyote roadman
Sho-e-tat (Little Boy) or George Washington (1816-1883), Louisiana Caddo leader
A stirrup dance by the Caddo Culture Club, Caddo National Complex, Binger, 2008
Caddo dancers, members of the Caddo Cultural Club, Binger, Oklahoma, 2008
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Our chickens are some of the hardest workers on the farm. They lay fresh eggs every morning then get to work scratching and scavenging the yard. We have a variety of chicken breeds with varying plumage as well as egg colour.
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Spontanenous Tooth Pain Symptoms, Causes & Common Questions
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4 Possible Spontanenous Tooth Pain Causes
The list below shows results from the use of our quiz by Buoy users who experienced spontanenous tooth pain. This list does not constitute medical advice and may not accurately represent what you have.
Temporomandibular joint (tmj) dysfunction disorder
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction is often caused by a variety of factors, including daily habits, your teeth alignment, and even stress. It usually affects one side of the jaw, but in some people it can affect both sides. People with TMJ dysfunction will typically experience pain on one side of the face that is worse with chewing, yawning, or other movements of the jaw. With some simple changes in your daily habits and other at-home treatments, most people with TMJ dysfunction will experience relief of their symptoms within weeks.
Treatment for temporomandibular joint dysfunction usually includes avoiding eating hard foods or foods that require a lot of chewing. Good posture and relaxation techniques may help relieve tension in the muscles that connect to your temporomandibular joint. In people who clench or grind their teeth, a mouth guard worn at night (and fitted by your dentist) may also help relieve your symptoms. Pain relievers, like ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), can also help.
Rarity: Common
Top Symptoms: dizziness, pain, restricted movement, and clicking sounds from jaw, history of headaches, jaw pain, pain in the back of the neck
Symptoms that always occur with temporomandibular joint (tmj) dysfunction disorder: pain, restricted movement, and clicking sounds from jaw
Urgency: Primary care doctor
Severe cavity
Dental cavity requiring a root canal or tooth extraction.
Rarity: Uncommon
Top Symptoms: dry mouth, toothache, spontanenous tooth pain, tooth pain that makes chewing difficult
Symptoms that always occur with severe cavity: spontanenous tooth pain
Urgency: Primary care doctor
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Acute bacterial sinusitis
Acute bacterial sinusitis, also called bacterial rhinosinusitis or "sinus infection," has symptoms much like viral rhinosinusitis but a different treatment.
Any sinusitis usually begins with common cold viruses. Sometimes a secondary bacterial infection takes hold. Like cold viruses, these bacteria can be inhaled after an infected person coughs or sneezes.
Anyone with viral sinusitis, upper-respiratory allergy, nasal passage abnormality, lung illness, or a weakened immune system is more prone to bacterial sinusitis.
Symptoms include thick yellowish or greenish nasal discharge; one-sided pain in the upper jaw or teeth; one-sided sinus pain and pressure; fatigue; fever; and symptoms that get worse after first improving.
See a doctor right away for severe headache, high fever, stiff neck, or vision changes. These can indicate a medical emergency.
Diagnosis is made with a simple examination in the doctor's office.
Bacterial sinusitis can be treated with antibiotics, but this is not always necessary. Often rest, fluids, and over-the-counter pain relievers and decongestants are enough.
Prevention is done through good lifestyle and hygiene to keep the immune system strong.
Rarity: Common
Top Symptoms: fatigue, headache, cough, sinusitis symptoms, muscle aches
Symptoms that always occur with acute bacterial sinusitis: sinusitis symptoms
Symptoms that never occur with acute bacterial sinusitis: clear runny nose, being severely ill
Urgency: Primary care doctor
Tooth abscess (infection)
A tooth abscess is a collection of infected material (pus) in the center of a tooth. It is due to bacterial infection.
Rarity: Uncommon
Top Symptoms: severe jaw or tooth pain, swollen jaw, jaw stiffness, tooth pain that gets worse with hot, cold, or sweet beverages, warm and red jaw swelling
Symptoms that always occur with tooth abscess (infection): severe jaw or tooth pain
Urgency: Primary care doctor
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Questions Your Doctor May Ask About Spontanenous Tooth Pain
To diagnose this condition, your doctor would likely ask the following questions:
- Were you hit or injured anywhere on your face? If so, where?
- Do you take good care of your teeth?
- Is your mouth very dry?
- Are you around cigarette smoke on a frequent (daily or weekly) basis?
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Spontanenous Tooth Pain Symptom Checker Statistics
People who have experienced spontanenous tooth pain have also experienced:
- 7% Headache
- 2% Jaw Pain
- 2% Gum Pain
People who have experienced spontanenous tooth pain were most often matched with:
- 36% Severe Cavity
- 36% Acute Bacterial Sinusitis
- 27% Temporomandibular Joint (Tmj) Dysfunction Disorder
People who have experienced spontanenous tooth pain had symptoms persist for:
- 41% Less than a week
- 31% Less than a day
- 11% Over a month
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Nick Dowling is the president and CEO of IDS International, which he founded in 2006 to provide military and civilian customers with innovative solutions to anticipate and prepare for today's complex and multidimensional national security challenges. Since that time, IDS has emerged as the leading provider of training, research, and other civil-military services that equip a wide range of clients with the tools that they need to compete in an increasingly multifarious world. Dowling is responsible for all aspects of the company's business, including strategy, business development, and operations.
Under Dowling's leadership, IDS has grown more than 300% in the past three years alone, and comprises a talented team of subject matter experts across the world. IDS offers a variety of innovative solutions and capabilities, including training, expeditionary services, field research, and cyber and social media. The company is the developer and exclusive provider of SMEIR, a scenario-based capability that provides social media inputs and cyber attacks to help training units better understand the virtual human domain and its relevance to planning and operations. Since its creation, SMEIR has been used by US Army Special Operation Forces (SOF), Psychological Operations (PSYOP), and Civil Affairs (CA) units, from the team to the battalion level at the Joint Readiness Training Center, National Training Center, and at civilian locations hosting mission readiness exercises.
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HYATTSVILLE – Following a tough 87-63 loss on June 10, St. Vincent Pallotti High School Assistant Coach Dennis Kirkland stood in front of his defeated team and addressed them. After Kirkland's speech, his players understood that it would take time to work together as a unit. However, a lack of focus and energy was missing, […]
HYATTSVILLE – Following a tough 87-63 loss on June 10, St. Vincent Pallotti High School Assistant Coach Dennis Kirkland stood in front of his defeated team and addressed them.
After Kirkland's speech, his players understood that it would take time to work together as a unit. However, a lack of focus and energy was missing, Kirkland said.
"We have a lot of young guys on the team, and we are trying to learn who does what and we have to play with a sense of urgency through the whole game," Kirkland said. "We had ups and downs, and they played, and we didn't. But we are going to get better."
After defeating Blair High School 79-59 on June 7, Pallotti could not keep up their positive play as they ran into the tandem of Makhi and Mahkel Mitchell. The six-foot-nine twins towered over the Panthers, muscling their way to a combined 33 points for D.C. Evolution's victory on June 10 at DeMatha Catholic High School. That was Pallotti's (1-2) second loss in summer league play.
Coming into the summer months, Pallotti looked to rebound after ending their 2017-18 season losing in their first games of both the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) Basketball Championships and the Independent Schools Tournament.
The Panthers were coming off a successful regular season where they finished winning five of their final six games before their postseason failures.
Also, with the loss of three seniors, including leading scorer Stephen Cannady, Pallotti focused their time cultivating younger talent during the summer as they compete for starting roles on the varsity squad this upcoming season.
One of those players is rising sophomore Stalin Oaks. The five-foot-nine point guard was a bright spot in Pallotti's loss. Despite an early turnover on an inbounds play, Oaks bounced back to get three first-half assists. Once he gets used to the varsity level, his ball-pressure skill will get better, Kirkland said.
"I am on a bigger stage now than last year," Oaks said. "But I have to be still aggressive and look for my shots while finding opening shots for my teammates as well."
Midway through the first half, it looked as though Pallotti would catch their rivals after a quick 4-0 run coming off a timeout. Even as D.C. Evolution continued to pound the ball to the Mitchell twins for quick dunks, Pallotti stayed close with quick jumpers by rising senior Miles Mallory. His 12 first-half points pulled the Panthers within three with four minutes before halftime.
Even though the Panthers pulled away late in the first half, they were no match to the size advantage that the Mitchell twins presented. The University of Maryland commits covered the paint and limited Pallotti's post play. Both combined for six blocks and six assists from fast break opportunities they set up with their defensive prowess.
In the second half, D.C. Evolution ran away with the lead, going 17-for-25 in field goals for the lopsided win. Four players scored in double-figures, including shooting guard Jay Heath Jr., who completed a 23-point, game-high scoring performance.
Mallory finished the game leading all Pallotti shooters with 17 points. Rising senior Gilbert Otoo praised the center's performance and dealt with the pressure inside the painted area that came from the Mitchell brothers. After playing with the junior varsity last season, Mallory is ready to add another layer to the Pallotti offense, Otoo said.
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After the Engineering organization at Bigcommerce embraced service-oriented architecture (SOA), it made the decision easy for us to start new projects with independent parts. Since old habits are difficult to break, we started our Theme Engine project, Stencil, by placing all our code in a single repository. We quickly realized we were traveling down the same road of a monolithic code base, so we began splitting the project into smaller components so it would be easier for us to digest. We didnt want a single entity to do too much, and this help simplify the responsibility of each service. Towards the end of the project, we ended up with four services.
Everything was dandy inside our development environment -- all the codebases were synchronized with all the moving parts. As we began preparation for shipping our product, we quickly realized a big problem: What happens when we push the different parts to production? How do we safely upgrade one piece without affecting the other?
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We took the same approach as any other public API by applying a versioning mechanism to our internal APIs which gets communicated between the services. Each service sends a "version" tag as part of its payload and we use the tag to help the services communicate with each other. When two parties negotiate for a request, they would read each other's "version" tag and from that determine the appropriate code path. If the version is a mismatch or no longer supported, an error will be thrown. Let's walk through two scenarios, one with versioning in mind and the other without. Here's how an API endpoint is typically implemented without versioning:
// service requesting user data
data = request('/user/1')
// user endpoint api service
return {'user_name': 'steve', 'balance': '25'}
After releasing this API to the public, you receive a request from a developer to add currency information along with the balance. With versioning, you can easily make the improvement and won't affect existing developers who haven't switched to the new API yet. Here's what the improved version looks like:
// service requesting user data
data = request('/user/1', {
'api_version': '1' // specify api version
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if (request.api_version == 1) {
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return {'user_name': 'steve', 'balance': '25', 'currency': 'USD'}
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Furthermore, we took a simpler approach than the traditional api versioning. Instead of using major, minor and bug fix numbers, we decided to split versioning into two categories. The first category is for simple upgrades between the two services that will not affect any public APIs. For example, we would change the service were upgrading from version 1 to 2 and we would update the code for all dependent services to utilize the new version. The second category is used for long term, where little to no change will be made to the API. In this case, we used the date as the version number so it can help us identify the time we implemented the API and we can also use it in our logical comparisons by converting it to unixstamp. For example, you can do an if statement by comparing the dates:
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MY BLOG IS BACK. I wrote about my full-time RV life, my time-travel excursions to other centuries, and whatever else came to hand, for a decade. Took 2017 off from blogging completely. OK, vacation's over. New crafts. New states colored in on the map. Retired. Sold the big motorhome. Traveling light and lean (for me ;) ) in a minivan. Still changing yards regularly. So hello - listen to some music, read some adventures. ~ Gypsy Jane
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From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 26 December 1793
To Philip Schuyler
Treasury Department Decemr 26. 1793
It being intended to establish immediately a recruiting rendezvous at Albany, I take the liberty to request you, to engage a Person who will furnish the necessary Supplies; informing me of what has been done.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following Articles Vizt—
1 lb of Bread or flour
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Hale had supplied the recruits at Albany from April through September, 1792, under an arrangement with the War Department, and he continued to supply forces at Albany for several years (D, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Accounts No. 2848, 3079, 5423, 5806, 6552, 6662, 6799, 7716, 8231, 8648, National Archives).
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It can feel isolating when it's so rarely discussed, says Lex Gillies, but since developing the condition at the age of 21, she's worked out some tips to keep flare-ups at bay.
When I was diagnosed with rosacea, I had never even heard of it. I had always been fair-skinned, pinky-toned and blushed easily. Most of the photos of me in my late teens are guaranteed to include two things: a sickly alcopop clutched in one sweaty hand and (what I would affectionately refer to as) my Big Red Face. But as time went on, the flushing got worse and the redness would take longer to go down. My face would swell and itch, feeling similar to prickly heat or sunburn. When I developed pustules on my cheeks, I finally went to my GP, thinking he'd give me an acne cream and I'd be on my way. I was 21, trying hard to make friends at university and just wanting to blend in… and my face responded by glowing a bright red-purple, then the skin on my cheeks swelled, then cracked and bled. I couldn't bear to look in the mirror and made excuses to avoid leaving the house, as my self-esteem was non-existent.
Rosacea tends to be more common among fair-skinned folk and diagnosis is higher among women and those over 30. There are many theories on what causes it (genetics, Demodex mites and a leaky gut, to name a few) and there is currently no cure. It's often thought of as "harmless blushing", which can be frustrating to hear, as it's hard to explain the emotional impact this condition can have to someone who has never experienced it.
After diagnosis, I felt completely helpless and the stress of this made my skin even worse. After a fruitless appointment with my GP, I turned to the internet and found a few US-based forums. They were filled with people like me sharing their experiences – what worked, what didn't and – most importantly – simply supporting each other through a really difficult experience.
When I started my own blog, Talonted Lex, in 2011, I initially focused on nails because my self-esteem was so low that I couldn't bear the thought of sharing photos of my face. But as I started talking more about beauty, I finally worked up the courage to talk openly about my rosacea. As soon as I did, there was an outpouring from others who suffered, but had no one else to talk to who understood what they were going through. Rosacea can be an isolating experience, as you just want to hide away to avoid the stares and ignorant jokes or questions. In the past, I've cancelled plans with friends, avoided speaking up in meetings and doubted my place in the beauty industry, all because of the way I look and how that makes me feel. Even when I am wearing a full face of make-up and may appear confident, my rosacea is always on my mind. There will be a small voice wondering if my make-up has smudged to reveal the bright pink skin underneath, or whether the person I'm talking to is judging the amount of foundation I'm wearing.
There is still a lack of conversation around rosacea. It's rare to hear it mentioned by brands, make-up artists and in the media, so it's understandable that even those who have it are confused about where to find information. The only way for awareness to increase and for more products and treatments to become available is for us to talk about it more. I use my social media and blog to explain what rosacea is and how it affects every part of my life, and I am constantly contacting brands to ask what products they have that are suitable for my reactive skin.
There are lots of great online resources for support and information including the National Rosacea Society website (where you can stay up-to-date on research and in-depth articles on the condition), the Talk Health rosacea forum for support and advice from other sufferers, some wonderful Facebook groups filled with people who know what you're going through, and (shameless self-promotion alert) my blog, which has a lot more information than I have room for here.
This is the hardest and most time-consuming step, but the one that will have the biggest impact. Write down every time you have a flare-up and make a note of anything that could have influenced it (diet, time of the month, temperature, emotional state, amount of sleep).
Once you know the things that your skin hates, you can remove or minimise them. This is easier said than done. For example, I would say that I'm 99 per cent dairy-free, but every so often I need cheese and woe betide the person who stands in my way. But I've learnt to weigh up the consequences: how much do I want that cheesy pizza? Enough to deal with the inevitably gigantic red face the next day? Your triggers are individual and what you choose to alter in your lifestyle and diet will be individual as well.
It could be your partner, your doctor or therapist, or the internet. The emotional effects of rosacea are severe and often overlooked, because people feel too embarrassed or vain to admit that they are struggling with a face they no longer recognise. One of the biggest triggers for rosacea is stress, so you need to look after your heart and your brain in order to gain control of your skin.
When it comes to skincare and make-up, there has been a lot of trial and error over the past 12 years, but I have a few recommendations that I pass on to everyone I meet who is struggling with their skin.
I always return to the Avène Tolérance Extrême skincare range. These products are extremely gentle and soothing, and don't contain any fragrance or preservatives, which are main culprits for irritation. I also love the La Roche-Posay Toleriane range, which is also free from perfume, alcohol and colourants.
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The Avène Eau Thermale water spray is a fantastically simple product – I think I've been through 10+ bottles since I've discovered it. In warmer months, I keep the mini spray in my handbag and it's wonderful on flights. It instantly soothes my skin, calming any itchy or tight feeling. It also has a nozzle that lets it come out as a fine mist, so it can be applied throughout the day without ruining your make-up.
Avène Eau Thermale Water Spray 50ml, £3
When I look for make-up, I want high coverage without heaviness or a mask-like appearance. I have a classic combination skin type (an oily T-zone with dry patches around my hairline and brows), so my favourite foundations keep me matte without drying me out. I love the DiorSkin Forever foundation if I need to look flawless all day, while for everyday I love the L'Oréal Paris True Match or Infallible Matte foundation.
Dior DiorSkin Forever Foundation, £35
I always apply my make-up with a Beauty Blender. When used damp, it gives great coverage and – because you use a soft bouncing motion to apply the foundation – it doesn't aggravate the skin in the same way that buffing with a brush can.
Beauty Blender Beauty Blender, £16
As I'm oily, I carry blotting paper in my handbag and some loose powder to touch up my make-up if necessary.
DHC Oil Blotting Papers, £4.50
Another great tip that I use to distract from my skin if I'm feeling less than confident is lipstick – the brighter, the better. I go a bit OTT and have a penchant for grey, purple and blue shades, but I find a bold red can do wonders for drawing the eye away from the areas you'd rather hide.
Kat Von D Bachelorette Everlasting Liquid Lipstick, £17
I'm still working on my confidence and learning to live with my rosacea, but writing my blog and using that platform to help others has been a wonderful step towards accepting the skin I'm in. Facing the world with a skin condition is a hard thing to do, but please remember that your rosacea does not define you – it's just another thing that makes you who you are.


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You may have heard about payday cash advances and how they can give you cash immediately when you need it but if you're like many people who have never gotten a payday loan before, you may want to know how they work. Payday cash advances are actually pretty simple. There are some minimal requirements to qualify for the loan and if you meet these requirements, you can be approved in a matter of hours and be on your way to getting your financial problems solved.
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Dbanj has dropped the official video for his highly anticipated single, Frosh featuring Konvict Music king, Akon.
Frosh is featured on Dbanj's soon to be released Visual EP, An Epic Journey that will be released in a few days actually. It's available for pre-order on itunes already so all of you Dbanj fans go cop it.
This is the 2nd song where Akon is featured on Dbanj's album. The first one released earlier this year, Feeling The Nigga. The EP also features the likes of Ice Prince, Idris Elba, and more.
Just yesterday, Dbanj made headlines after he was announced as a brand ambassador for mobile technology retailer, Slot.
Check on this one! Dbanj Frosh feauting Akon. Enjoy, and of course share your thoughts.


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Anti-Establishment is Fun. Work is Not.
i want to say first that i really enjoy raph's big picture, academic-style takes on game design. however, there are times where this gets him in trouble.
exhibit 'a' is the original star wars galaxies. i think the new version is what the old version should have always been. unfortunately, the kind of folks populating the original game are the diametric of the audience that would adhere to the latter. more on this later.
over on raph's site, he talked about making a healing game. a gentleman over on the cesspit has taken up the flag in argument against it. while his argument reflects some of the same feelings i have, i don't think he's conveyed it very well.
here goes.
games, in and of themselves, are about escapism. doing things you normally can't do in real life. raph really says that as long as there's a valid, compelling narritive you can attach to your fine-tuned game mechanics you can have a good game. it's a balancing act between the two.
and, from an academic standpoint, i agree.
however, from a realistic standpoint, i don't. it ends up being sort of a sterile 'theory of fun.'
it's not only metaphor vs. narrative but also sandbox vs. narrative. (sandbox representing the barest close-to-the-metal form of a metaphor-strong game) single player vs. multiplayer. the player needs to feel like they can affect change on some overall storyline bigger than just themselves. in a sandbox game, that doesn't exist. it doesn't have to.
the sims is a great example. it's a strong sanbox game vs. a strong narrative game. this game works because it allows the player (it's important to note that's 'mainstream player') to step out of their normally grounded self into a world they can relate to, but don't have to. in the sims, people love it because they can be anti-establishment and it's fine. it scratches that anarchist itch in all of us.
gta is the same way.
it's about doing things you can't really do. escaping. however, you can't really do a sandbox game with an mmo. with your actions affecting other people, consequences come in to play. if everyone in a realistic world ran around in anarchy, nobody would have fun. if there are rules and everyone can relate to the context, it's not fun either. it's just like real life.
that's why the sims as a single player experience works, but sims online doesn't. you can't have a strong narrative and a strong sandbox game at the same time.
that's why second life will be stagnant forever. it's sales curve will reflect that of the original swg. it's for people who are primarily social creatures. the second the escapism becomes work, they quit. it will turn into a giant irc channel.
narrative needs this sense of escapism. metaphor heavy content works well with a passive medium like television or movies because watching people do spontaneous superhuman feats for good (or evil) is thrilling. you end up empathizing (both with context and effort required) as opposed to actually working your own way up through the veritable ranks in order to accomplish a similar feat. especially in something largely regarded as taking huge amounts of boring work to get there — i.e. medical, law, politics, etc.
through this emotional connection, you get all the fun and suffer none of the work.
you can't achieve that level of drama in a 'work related' narrative in an mmo, tho. why? because the very nature of games makes it a slow grind to get to that point. you take away the 'high' in 'high fantasy' and you have something similar to the brokenness that was the original star wars galaxies. you'll have a core of min/max types and a core of irc folks.
you could make the game, but it wouldn't be considered fun by the majority of the people. it wouldn't reach out to the populace at large because it'd just be work to them. you've taken something folks relate to as effort and put a happy face on it.
meaning, i guess this: if players can relate to it in the real world, yet, are unable to step outside their normal boundaries because it's on a large social scale, it's not fun.
killing monsters is fun. flying spaceships is fun. playing doctor by the rules is not. playing lawyer by the rules is not. a simulation where you are not allowed to 'go wacky' is not fun.
it's the intersection between mechanics and narrative where a game like that breaks down.
academically, goal progression and character growth will dictate the game is fun. realistically, you really need that escapism component in there. and, saying it's just a matter of wrapping imagination around it doesn't cut it. (kind of like an educational game breaking into the top 10 mainstream games. if only they'd be more imaginative!) it's more of a matter of rewiring the entire population that needs to happen — that is to say: it's not going to happen.
now, back to swg.
so, with his argument about a good game designer blending game design from the narrative end as well as the metaphor (that chocolate coating over the top of the mechanics) into something lovely in the middle, where does the original swg stand?
it was birthed strictly from the underlying mechanics. worked up and out, layered with the star wars mythos. not a bad way to go, but you end up taking the fantasy out. taking the escapism out. making it a grind for everyone — not just the min/maxers. it turns into the pinball game that is themed for star wars.
the updated swg, however, goes far and wide to bring the narrative back into the game world. it's a fantastic thing. more attune to escapism. more attune to fun and less work. you can still do some of the wrote tasks that encourage socializing, but it's not the crux of the game. it's much better balanced.
i'm thinking this is what cemented the narrative v. metaphor concept with raph.
unfortunately for raph, it didn't come out first. it took the giant experiment to get the proper insight. by then, all of the early adopters, the aggranders, the real world prophets of the game are indoctrinated. you change that and everything goes to hell. change is bad. pissing off your early adopters is bad.
which is a total bummer because swg is turning out to be a great game. i only hope it will weather the initial fury and come out battleworn but unscathed on the other side.
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Actually, MANY systems in SWG originated with the narrative, including the much-maligned dancing, the TEF system, and so on. Systems that originated with mechanics were things like the economy and crafting.
Great read m3noch. I\'m sorry I hadn\'t ever been here before now.
Having said that, I disagree 🙂
I cannot point to a strong narrative-driven MMO experience, but I don\'t think it\'s because they are diametrically opposing concepts. Rather, I think it\'s because they haven\'t really been tried. To date, \"narrative\" is the occasional quest text or even more rare cut scenes people generally breeze through in order to pull their objectives. Further, those objectives are decidedly personal. You may need 40 to 60 other people to achieve the objective, but it\'s for your own reward only, for you alone to effectively turn the page in the proverbial book.
To me, that\'s the growth opportunity for game-directed objective-based experiences. Instead of making the games about singular heroes achieving singular goals with other poeple, make it about singular heroes achieving meta goals on higher levels.
In a sense, EQ2 tries this with their Guild Levels system. This allows core groups to rise the ranks of a city for honor and benefit (and a big huge friggin house in South Qeynos 😉 ). This is effectively a group of people building their own story within a much larger narrative of NPC/Player society building.
And this leads to the next point.
SWG is entirely player narrative. I created an Energy business. From scratch. My guild helped get me started, but eventually the thing got so big I had to start a Cartel. This is all while I was a 0-0-3-4 Artisan, just enough for max surveying and to host one of the five vendors we had around the galaxy.
Now that\'s a story. The big difference between that and insert-random-quest-here is that I created it. I owned it. I wrote the pages and closed the book. And the reward was that customization of experience and so many game credits I never wanted for anything again.
So there\'s two elements here to consider:
1. The goal of narrative- To drive traditional mechanical game goals or to drive a long path of self-actualization.
2. The source of narrative- The game or the player.
m3mnoch, you're not on the Kargath realm in WoW by chance? Our guild had this same exact discussion/dissection of the massive failure known as Star Wars Galaxies.
I haven't played SWG so I honestly cant give any feedback on it, but several of the hardcore players in our guild swore they would never play it again even after the redesign because of their overwhelmingly negative impressions
[…] note the descriptor "recreational" there. that means that hanging out and working is not fun. well. not unless you enjoy the work. some of us do, but the large majority of the world thinks work is… well… work. […]
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I know I'm coming to this post late, but I agree with it wholeheartedly.
The problem with SWG's "sandbox" approach is was twofold, in my view:
1) Yes, you're right, it ruined other players' experience. On my server, most of Naboo was taken over by Alliance and Lok was taken over by Imperials. It was fun for those of us in the PvP storyline we had created, but it ruined the experience for everyone else. A new player getting out of the very short tutorial was no doubt perplexed and wondering what any of his nonsense had to do with Star Wars.
2) Players' imagination and ability to create fun is not as great as the game designer's. Players are paying designers to create fun for them, and generally they can do so better than the players can do themselves. Sure, there is always room for player-created fun even in the least sandboxy MMOs (like WoW). The difference is that the majority who aren't creating their own fun have fun provided by the developers and that their fun is not ruined by the imaginative minority.
P.S. I totally agree re Second Life.
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