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Catalog > Photo & Video > Wedding > Editorial Wedding Photography > Styled Shoot Mistakes
This next section is going to be the start of many mistakes, the entitlement, the marvel on photo shoots so we talked about that a little bit a little about this yesterday, so I got to a point in my business where I realized that I didn't necessarily have an abundance of people to collaborate with, which is where I feel a lot of people are. I luckily had the opportunity to collaborate with korisa and brandon, christa and melody brandon, but nothing really transpired after that because we all knew that it was our time in comedy was great and we still do collaborative shoots now, but you're not doing them with much frequency because they're expensive. They take a lot of time, things in nature, so when I realized ok, I want to do a style shoot and I really don't I know who to collaborate with, and I still feel like the new kid on the block and industry, so I felt like I couldn't or didn't want to even start collaborating with the same team because I felt like I would be calling on multipl...
e fevers and not having it be an equitable relationship, and I didn't want them to make him feel like I was taking advantage of what they were doing, so I decided to have what I considered. Uh and edgy photo shoot when it came to bridal fashion because I was tired of saying, like the brides and nothing's wrong with I love brides and fields, and I want to shoot brides and fields day in, day out, but I wanted to do you think, do something different, give people something to talk about and the way that it would look for, you know, a fashionable bright. So we we, as in just me and j d as in actually just me planned a shoot, and I didn't necessarily have clint collaborators, so I booked and paid for a venue on my own. I booked and paid for a professional stylist on my own, and I booked any paid for a makeup artist on my own, and they booked and they paid for flowers on my own, and I talked to jd about what I thought the chute could accomplish, but tragically, I did not define the theme. I did not define the goal, it didn't define the story. I wish I would have known those things in advance, and I felt like I was becoming mohr invested in a photo shoot because it was my own, and furthermore, I didn't even know how styled photo shoots were done when I had collaborated with the people in the past, they had done everything that they were responsible for and I showed up in a shot. It when I reached up to the floor, is a master for two or three bouquets. She all of us and we start talking. And all of a sudden she really understood the gravity of what I have got myself into. And she asked me point blank if I was doing okay, and if I was all right doing it on my own, and I did what any other red blooded girl would dio alive. And I said, yes, it's fine. Everything is wonderful. And on the inside I was melting because I was realizing, yeah, I was completely alone. Once I got into the process, I realize the gravity of my investment and I became so depressed because I told you he was in a cost. One thing and the minute you get in to a project, you realize it's probably going to cost at least a third more than what you anticipate. They felt like I made a huge mistake. I've come to realize that creative teams should be coming together to collaborate, not merely to get hired and if that's the one thing that I could pass on to you because what resulted wass me carrying the responsibility about having an opinion about styling? About designing about producing, about organizing, about creating and what I really should have been concerted, what I really would have been concerned with was playing to my strengths and my strength was photography and I don't even know if it was a strength at this particular time this happened in two thousand nine I was still learning I should not have been eating the entire pie when my spoon had just entered into the centre collaboration, I think forces of creative team to become in just as invested in that shoot as you are instead of you being like this's my money my time can you please make it work? Which is what? It's, not how I acted, but that's how I felt I can't say for sure, I don't know, but I feel like when people collaborate, it produces better work because everybody is as equally as invested. Everyone on the team should be inspired because the wait shouldn't should be disseminated between four to six people three to six people instead of just one person having I mean having feelings that you're hiring a contracting team to come in and do things with when they're not on board with what you want. I mentioned yesterday that models were the hardest thing to procure I had. Three guys and three girls two of the guys didn't show up at the last minute one of the girls in children's minute one of the bride said oh my friend can come along and she can model and I still question whether or not should model you know I mean it's just it is what it is that's how it unfolded and when I got you know after the shoot and after we paid everybody in ordinate amount of money that I'll be honest with you we probably didn't have but once I got in it what was going to cancel I felt like I had my pride to maintain and then we went to this completely dive mexican restaurant in downtown l a and I got like a vegetarian burrito and a cried because it just was such difficult day and to know that I paid for frickin headache that's what I caution from from statutes but what I will say that at the end of the day was that you could take mistakes and you could turn them around and that I think is like the bigger picture I learned what not to do for future shoots and that's not to pay for play I built my port foil paid to practice whatever whatever I'll own it I'll take it I'll still run with it one thing tio was that a knowledge that I was supported and maybe up until that point I didn't maybe I didn't look j d in the face meeting I didn't trust him to that degree because he was still hey was a time still working with his startup company and maybe I wasn't appreciating him as much as I should have and here he was ing with whatever little money we have, we're going to do this so that you would never have to look back on your life and say I wish something would happen and at the end of the day he allowed me to make a mistake and pay for that uh lastly it made me determined to never repeat that mistake because it's done a lot and it hurt your ego to know that you felt there was people on the team who were just like oh, makeup okay and that hurts that really hurts just being really ashleigh I'm sorry I thought you had a question way do have we do internet question great. Um question from so from priscilla longshore is this your first style? I shoot I know just the first one they there was the first one that I did with the first and last one that I did entirely on my own right? And so um so from to russia torch ajay captiva kept evita start about that how did you how do you get collaboration? Do the collaborators invest monetarily? Sometimes they dio yeah um but the way that they itemize it is they I'm guessing that the way that they look keep it as marketing expenses so when a designer comes and picks up so like elements, I'm guessing she's either renting them or buying them if she's buying them she's going to market off his inventory as it appreciable asset and can every year she could markoff a depreciation to a certain extent it also used it off as a write off and you can incorporate in future in future work yesterday it appears from what I can kind of guess kelsey rented most of everything, so if they charged her feet it was probably a minimal fee, but if she paid for it, it was probably out of pocket given that the consideration that creative alive was important pretty darn sure that creative live was taking those expenses, but if creative life wasn't filming and create and mean kelsey ones collaborate, if there was a rental fee she would be the one absorbing those costs thank you, thank you cool great! Did you question? Yes, yes, jolene willis's has a question, she says. I have my first stylized coming up collaborating with many other artists jasmine has me thinking about the theme goal story, and my question is if I'm using models who don't know each other and my making up their story to go with my theme I think that's in regards to like their relationship is good, I think it's really good. I always think in situations where if I was in that situation, how would I want to be spoken to so one? I would probably not ever want tio model for him another photographer at this point in my life, however, I will say that if I had to model with a stranger and somebody said this is how you guys met, this is your story I would have a better understanding if somebody gave me a profession because what we're seeing on the style I shoot is you essentially have to act what we gave monica yesterday, right? Give a speech each, you know, it's like you're acting on a photo shoot. If somebody gave me the plot of the story, I would I would be able to approach it more confidently. So yes, that would be a good thing, I would think. And even if the models think it's the worst idea, who cares nothing, you didn't lose anything from it whatsoever. Cool, but you have a few more questions are you don't mind um, from from rene rene arlene, do you typically contact designs and dina designers and stylists to collaborate with or do they sometimes contact you? How much do you work with each other on the theme or idea um if somebody approaches me they're usually coming with the idea and so it's more my input from a photographic perspective of what would work if I'm approaching somebody I essentially have to become the pitch person you could be the don draper you know it's like you have to sell them on this idea so I think it would be best in if you're going to approach somebody about a style to it would be good for you to have ah goal theme story and see how they would kind of work it out john on the note of the pitch where my favorite quotes is if you want get people to build a ship I don't give him a hammer nails instructions give him an endless desire for the sea and so you're sharing your vision with them to get a ship built so that was your on draper that was so draper esque give him an endless passion for it's not my quote that some french a person that had a passion for the sea I'm so running with that so lord have mercy amen to instill that vision for your style I shoot would you recommend or do you have anything in your arsenal other than the goal theme and story to communicate with the vendors? Because florist obviously knows they have to design flowers the designer those they've got to put together a design for it how deveney suggestions other than gold thing story I think, uh, not at this point, I do think that what you don't want to do is to come in because we have too much you become controlling of every aspect of the chute, like you don't want to come to the floors and be like. So these were the flowers I thought would be great, because all of a sudden you're telling her what to do and she comes a hired hand and a collaboration is this is the idea. How do you interpret this? And so, yeah, you don't want to be, you don't give too much information. Can you explain the balance between the designer comes up with this great design is to some extent are they speaking into the roles of the other players? Absolutely. Okay, absolutely for sure. Yes and later on me, you may be talking about your idea, too, and flesh that out on dh use as like a real life example of how to approach a stout shoot and make it happen.


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Rob Jacobs
Bio + CV
Rob Jacobs was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles from the age of five with his father, Harry, mother, Grace and his brother, Ray. Much of his life has been centered around the areas of music, art, health, meditation and the study of Eastern thought and philosophy.
His work, in the field of commercial art, was, in his own art business, as a photo retoucher to the advertising and entertainment industries. This was before the digital age. During the last twenty years of his retouching business, he was located across from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Rob's dream, however, was to produce his own images, and this was implemented in 1990.
Since then he has produced a number of series of art, including presently: Angels of Protection, The Surfing Series, The West Series, The Western Haikus, The Lakota Spirits, The Art of Poetry, The NuWest and Dreams Above the River (photography by Jayme Odgers). The book, Angels of Protection / True Angels Stories in the Modern Age was published in 2010. This book, compiled by Rob and his writing partner, Angela Taylor, was published by Creative House Press in Austin, Texas.
Rob's work is mixed media, including the use of photographic dyes, paints, sand, glitter, airbrush, gels, collage and other materials. His work utilizes the palettes he created from his days as a retoucher. These are pieces of tracing paper in which he mixes colors – paints, dyes, gels, and which he cleans out his brushes and airbrushes.
Rob has participated in many shows in the Los Angeles area, including, the LA County Museum of Art Rental Gallery, (where most of his pieces were either sold or rented before the opening of the show). His work is in a number of collections in the United States. In 2005 he was the featured artist during the Angel Fest, held at the Learning Light Foundation in Anaheim, California.
As a former music major, Rob is also working on a music project with fine artist/illustrator/musician Greg Spalenka.
Rob lives in the Los Angeles area and has two sons, Seth and Ethan.
Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles – Art
University of California at Los Angeles – Music/Art
Los Angeles City College – Music
Selected Art Exhibitions
2015 Group show, Councilmember Mitchell Englander's 2015 Art Show, 12th District, City of Los Angeles, Community Service Center, Chatsworth, CA, January 22 – June 2016
2014 Peace Project, sponsored by The Whole 9 Gallery, Culver City, Ca, award winner – COLOR AWARD for painting, Sunrise, October – November
2014 Group Show, Autumn Festival of Art, Holy Spirit Retreat Center, Encino, CA, Oct. 18-19
2013 Group Show, images from The Lakota Spirits Series, Neon Venus Art Theatre, Hollywood, CA, March 22-June 15
2012 Group Show, Portals Exhibition – Art created as Ritual, Interpersonal Transformation, and or Gateways of Consciousness, Art 4 All People Gallery, Malibu, CA, Sept 7-Oct 12
2011 Group Show, Peace Project, sponsored by The Whole 9 Gallery, Culver City, CA, opening Oct 22
2011 Group Show, Sacred Memories: Honoring the Dead Across Cultures, sponsored by the city of Los Angeles, Pico House Gallery at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, Los Angeles, CA, Oct 29-Nov 22
2011 Angels of Protection Series, Autumn Festival of Art, Holy Spirit Retreat Center, Encino, CA, Oct 16
2011 Lakota Spirit – Hogan, selected for group show, Dreams onCanvas, Four Seasons Hotel, Westlake Village, CA, Apr 20 – May 20
2009 The Lakota Spirits Series, solo show, Cabots Pueblo Museum, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Apr 11 – June 30
2009 "Angels of Protection," solo show, Mystic Journey Bookstore, Venice, CA., February 27 – April 30
2009 The Lakota Spirits Series, solo show, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, January 5 – March 31
2007 "Angels and Abstracts +2" Schomburg Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 17 – Dec. 15
2007 group show, Bridging Heaven and Earth Art Project, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Jan – March
CD/Music
2015 art for CD cover, Richard Amromin, Found in a Shoebox, The Lost Field Recordings
2012 painting Wiyohiyanpa, The Spirit of the East, cover art for Gopher Gods CD "Are you Listening?"
2013 Book – Peace, Love & Understanding, published by the Peace Project and the Whole 9 Gallery, Culver City, CA
2012 Book – Make Peace, published by the Peace Project and The Whole 9 Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 Book – The Peace Project / Peace Rises, published by the Peace Project and The Whole 9 Gallery, Culver City, CA
2011 Book – Angels of Protection / True Angel Stories in the Modern Age, compiled and written by Angela Taylor and Rob Jacobs
2009 Article, "Art: Rob Jacobs at Cabot's Museum," Desert Entertainer, week of April 23 – April 29, Desert Hot Springs, CA
2005 Painting for story, "The Witness," Mystic Pop Magazine, Warrior 10/Attainment from The Warrior Series, Sept/October 2005 issue
2005 Painting for magazine cover, Mystic Pop Magazine, Angel 12 from Angels of Protection series, July/August issue
1996 Painting for book cover, The Experience of Nothingness, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Blue Dove Press, San Diego, CA
1995 Painting for book cover, Dialogues on Reality, Robert Powell, Blue Dove Press, San Diego, CA
2009 Article on Rob Jacobs' exhibit, The Lakota Spirits, Casa Magazine, Santa Barbara, CA
Movie/Television
2007 "Life," NBC
2006 "Stand Off," television
2006 "Medium," television
2005 "Huff," television
2005 "Sex and Lies," television
2005 "Wild Life," television
2005 "Must Love Dogs," television
2005 "Arrested Development," Fox
2001 "Dinner With Friends," HBO
2000 "Family Law," CBS
2000 "Boston Public," Fox
Commercial Collections (partial)
Home Savings and Loan, Los Angeles, CA
Finish Line, Los Angeles, CA
W.E. Construction Company, Moorpark, CA
Dr. Afsheen Nehoray, Beverly Hills, CA
Hi Road Productions, Chicago, Ill
Private Collections (partial)
Ms. Barbara Sultan, Simi Vallely, CA
Ms. Hadia Haaj, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Karasick, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Bruce Eliman, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Textoris, Portland, OR
Mr. David Joyce, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Moshe Brakha, Los Angeles, CA
Ms. Sharon Pyne, Culver City, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Markowitz, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. John Neufeld, Los Angeles, CA
Ms. Rain Heron, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ragno, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. And Mrs. Phil DeCardo, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Peter Winderman, Los Angeles, CA
Ms. Lindy Franklin, Los Angeles, CA
Ms. Çheryl Woodard, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Philip Chiang, Los Angeles, CA
Ms. Dottie Zold, Hollywood, CA
Ms. Regina Barton, Culver City, CA
Mrs. Susannah Forest, Carpenteria, CA
Ms. Nancy Sanford
Ms. Janice Bordeaux
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The Madness of March (Part I)
Well, here I sit, watching the Kentucky-Kansas game on my computer. Currently it's 15-14 for the good guys.
Historically, of course, this series has not been a lot of fun for KU. However, the last two years have been OK. Of course, during the last two years the season ended before this weekend.
(19-19 at the 8 minute TV timeout.)
Anyway, I want to take this opportunity to continue to break all the basic rules of blogging, go completely off topic, and give you one of those bullet-lists of thoughts about the tournament:
The ACC, as even Billy "Duke University" Packer, admits today, was over-rated. Duke especially. Seven teams in, only one remains. Of course, if I had my druthers, no league would get more than four teams into the tournament. I mean, really, if you can't finish in the top three/four or win you conference tournament, why should we think you can win the Big Dance?
28-25 KU at the four minute timeout
The other 3 number-one seeds had some nervous moments getting out of the second round. Eventually we'll see a number 16 seed beat a number one, and even get into the final four. Things are that balanced.
CBS's March Madness On Demand (MMOD) works well on the Linux box, using the mplayer plugin. Oddly, it doesn't work on the Mac, because OS X doesn't support Windows Media Player, and I'm not going to search around for the appropriate plugin. So I'm typing this stuff up on the Mac while I watch the game on Hal. This also allows me to avoid watching when it gets too tense: I just work on this entry.
Sports Illustrated picked KU to win it all. Well, I guess I won't have to worry then.
36-30 KU at the half. Kentucky's basically keeping KU from running, and KU had some early frustration charging fouls. Nevertheless, KU isn't playing badly, and Billy thinks UK is getting tired. We'll see. Hopefully KU learned enough from the two Texas games so they don't fold (see the Texas A&M game) if the 'Cats make a run. If you asked me at the beginning if I'd take a 6 point lead at half, I'd have said "hell yes", of course.
KU 54 UK 42 with 14:11 left in the half. No idea how. I spent halftime and the first few minutes of play vacuuming rabbit-droppings off the back porch — don't ask.
Irritatingly, the CBS live scoreboard and play-by-play are now about 80 seconds game-time ahead of the video. So I know what's about to happen. Actually, when I think about it, this is a good thing, since I know when not to look.
If I was going to really reform the NCAA tournament, I'd let everyone in. Make it like a state high-school tournament. It's almost that way now. Is there a conference that doesn't have a tournament? If not, then the only teams that don't have a final chance at the dance are independents. Even Notre Dame, the most famous independent of them all, plays in the Big East for the basketball tournament.
56-43 at the 12 minute timeout.
Another thing I'd do is take the money out of the equation. Teams should only get expenses for the players (plus parents and siblings), coaches (ditto), cheerleaders, band, and a few VIPs (A.D., President, Governor, etc.). All the other money goes into the NCAA pot, and it's divided equally among all the teams in Division I. That way there's not as much pressure to cheat to win. Of course, this has about as much chance of happening as Arnold has of becoming President.
One of the irritating things about MMOD on the Linux box is that the mplayer-plugin doesn't play unless it's visible. So I can't move to another area of FVWM's virtual desktop, nor can I completely cover the video part of the browser window. Which is why I'm typing this on the Mac.
64-51 at the 7:38 TO, but Kentucky's at the line. Still waiting for them to make a run.
In baseball, it's often the case that the winning team will score more runs in one inning than the losers score in the whole game. Basketball, too, is a game of streaks. I haven't seen a study of it, but I'd guess that in most games the winner has one or more runs where they score 8+ points in a row. It's partly talent, partly luck. The example is the Syracuse-KU title game in 2003, where KU was the superior team, but Carmelo and company kept running off streaks that force Kansas to keep coming back.
Scoreboard says that Kentucky only has 6 team fouls to KU's 8, which is a bit surprising, considering UK has so many players in foul trouble.
In other games, looks like Texas is going home, which means that Kevin Durant is playing his last college game. He's going to be a great one in the NBA if he gets on a team with some support.
71-56 at 5:46. KU now has 10 team fouls, which Billy and Jim somehow haven't noticed. If Kentucky gets on a run, they get two shoots on all fouls. Of course, the 'Cats show no sign of making a run, but that doesn't mean they don't have one in them. KU hasn't exactly broken away, and a 15-point lead is only a five-possession game.
Speaking of Billy and Jim, who decided that Chicago was the prime site this weekend? Not that I don't think so, but doesn't Billy ACC really belongs in Carolina. They aren't really talking about the game, anyway, just the tradition of the teams. Which is fine, but there's a friggin' game going on, and it's not totally out of reach for UK, at least not yet: 76-61 at 4:12, and Randolph Morris has 18 points to go with his three fouls.
KU stops a 7-0 Kentucky run (see?) with a Collins FG. 78-63 with 2:52 left. Maybe? I keep flashing back to the 1978 game at Lexington, where KU was ahead by about 6 points with a minute to play, no three-point shot, no shot clock, clock keeps running after a basket — and lost anyway. 6 points/1 minute/old rules < 15 points/3 minutes/new rules. It's still a five possession game, and I don't like KU's historic freethrow shooting.
OTOH, now it's 81-66 with 1:50 left. KU basically blew a minute off the clock without losing ground. Not bad.
CBS, having learned nothing from the 2000 election, has put KU into the regional finals with 1:32 left. Of course, now it's 83-66.
The Chant is going through the crowd. Funny, when I was at KU we never did this during the game. I guess it's sort of like Red Auerbach's cigar.
Finally, it's over: KU 88, UK 76. And KU's now 6-19 in the series, with the last three in a row.
And they're waving the wheat. Nor more than four more nights of agony left this year.
Well, thanks to all of you that stayed through the whole entry. Sometime next week we'll get back to the Linux part of the blog.
Labels: Basketball, Kansas, Sports
Broken Windows (XP)
Adding a Hard Drive
The Madness of March (Part III)
The Madness of March (Part II)
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International Day of Friendship an occasion to inspire peace, build trust –UN Chief
Marking the International Day of Friendship, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the global community to use the potential of friendship to strengthen common bonds and inspire efforts for peace and sustainable development.
FAO/Roberto Faidutti
UN food agency says 38 countries have met international target on hunger eradication
Thirty-eight countries have already met internationally-set hunger eradication targets set for 2015 to halve the percentage of hungry people, the United Nations food agency today said.
Partnering for new global development agenda tops discussion at UN forum in Ethiopia
A global partnership for development is critical to underpin the post-2015 development agenda, a senior United Nations official today said at an international forum in Ethiopia to discuss poverty eradication and sustainable development after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
UNISDR/Thomas Williams
Disaster risk reduction central to post-2015 development process – UN official
The head of the United Nations office for disaster risk reduction today welcomed the link between poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction emphasized in a key report outlining a new framework to build on the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
World Bank/Arne Hoel
Ban appeals to philanthropists to help fight five deadly diseases, curb cholera in Haiti
Secretary-General ban Ki-moon today appealed to philanthropists to "make a smart investment in the world's future" by joining the United Nations in accelerating the fight against five of the most deadly infectious diseases which kill millions of people every year.
At development conference in Japan, Ban urges integration of Africa into the global economy
To open the way for progress, African countries must adopt proactive policies, and their partners must help forge an enabling international environment, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told a panel in Tokyo on investment and development.
UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras
UN chief urges African development forum to focus on economy, society and environment
Lasting solutions in Africa must address the links between peace, security and development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging participants at an international conference to work through global dialogue to address the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability on the continent.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
Post-2015 development agenda an 'historic' opportunity to eradicate poverty – UN chief
The world has an historic opportunity to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve sustainability and equality for all through the new post-2015 development agenda, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, launching a report that outlines a new framework to build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
WFP/Rein Skullerud
Senior UN officials spotlight women's health rights to accelerate global development
Investing in the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls will help accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, United Nations senior officials said on the final day of the Women Deliver Conference.
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Greater attention needed for safe childbirths, UN urges on inaugural Day to end obstetric fistula
The prevalence of obstetric fistula – a preventable and treatable condition linked to women's reproduction – among women and girls in developing countries is a denial of their human rights, senior United Nations officials today said urging global action to make childbirth safer.


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package com.bayakala.funda.fdasources

import com.bayakala.funda._
import fs2._

/**
  * produce a static view source from a Seq[ROW] collection returned from
  * running a fda_typedRows function. provide error handling and cleanup
  */
trait FDADataView {
  /**
    * return a fs2 stream by closing a Pull object
    * @param h       a Seq[ROW] type collection
    * @tparam ROW    type of element inside collection
    * @return        an effectful stream
    */
  private def streamSeq[ROW](h: Seq[ROW]): FDAPipeLine[ROW] =
    pullSeq(h).close

  /**
    * emit a collection of rows one by one through a Pull object.
    * could use fold to reduce Seq[ROW] to Stream[Task,ROW] like this:
    * foldLeft(Stream[Task,Int]())((s,a) => s ++ Stream.emit(a))
    * but since h could be huge and recursion safety could not be guaranteed
    * streaming through Pull object is a much safer option because
    * Pull is a free monad
    * @param h        a Seq[ROW] type collection
    * @tparam ROW     type of element inside collection
    * @return         Pull in new state
    */
  private def pullSeq[ROW](h: Seq[ROW]): FDAPipeJoint[ROW] = {
    val it = h.iterator
    def go(it: Iterator[ROW]): Pull[Task, ROW, Unit] = for {
      res <- Pull.eval(Task.delay({ if (it.hasNext) Some(it.next()) else None }))
      next <- res.fold[Pull[Task, ROW, Unit]](Pull.done)(o => Pull.output1(o) >> go(it))
    } yield next
    go(it)
  }

  /**
    * produce a static view source from a Seq[ROW] collection using famous 'bracket'
    * provide facade to error handling and cleanup
    * @example {{{
    *     val source = fda_staticSource(dataSeq)()
    *
    *     val safeSource = fda_staticSource(dataSeq)(
    *        println("the end finally!"))
    * }}}
    * @param acquirer       the Seq[ROW] collection
    * @param finalizer      cleanup callback
    * @tparam ROW           type of row
    * @return               a new stream
    */
  def fda_staticSource[ROW](acquirer: => Seq[ROW])(
                            finalizer: => Unit = ()): FDAPipeLine[ROW] = {
     val s = Stream.bracket(Task.delay(acquirer))(r => streamSeq(r), r => Task.delay((): Unit))
     s.onFinalize(Task.delay(finalizer))
    }

  }

/**
  * for global imports
  */
object FDADataView extends FDADataView

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WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwired - April 15, 2015) - Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:AX.UN) ("Artis" or the "REIT") announced that its trustees have declared its regular monthly cash distribution of $0.09 per trust unit ("Unit") of Artis for the month of April, 2015. The cash distributions will be made on May 15, 2015 to Unitholders of record on April 30, 2015.
As at the date hereof, there are an aggregate of 136,970,592 Units issued and outstanding.
Artis is a diversified Canadian real estate investment trust investing in office, industrial and retail properties. Since 2004, Artis has executed an aggressive but disciplined growth strategy, building a portfolio of commercial properties in Canada and the United States, with a major focus on Western Canada. As of today's date, Artis' commercial property comprises approximately 25.8 million square feet of leasable area.
At December 31, 2014, actual year-to-date Property Net Operating Income ("Property NOI") by asset class was approximately 24.5% retail, 51.9% office and 23.6% industrial. Property NOI by geographical region was approximately 8.1% in British Columbia, 39.0% in Alberta, 5.6% in Saskatchewan, 12.3% in Manitoba, 12.1% in Ontario and 22.9% in the U.S.


This build is for me celebrating my own graduation from high school to university with mostly my own parttime money and some of my parents' money such as CPU and RAM.
I have been looking into upgrading from my i5 6600k for a long time and i7 8086k 6C12T seems to be a good choice for my workload. I do like to play games but I do some amateur photography and video editing with my friends as well.
Building this PC takes around 8 hours to build since we have a lot of problems with ModMesh and cable combs. However, overall build looks really good with not over used to RGB.
Looks nice and CAM is a good software to tune the lighting, however, the cooling itself can be much better and CAM doesn't support Asus aura sync so that is a slight disappointment.
Great motherboard for the price with good performance and white/black look to it. Handle OC pretty well with decent amount of feature, just with there are more USB headers to plug into though, but it doesn't really effect my daily use for now.
G. Skill Trident Z RGB amazes me when it comes to that fantastic lighting, 3000MHz is a fast enough speed for me and my use anyways. Asus Aura Sync works perfectly and I am looking forward to buy another set for 4x8GB.
This fan is my alternative for the more expensive Riing from Thermaltake, and this performs really well in my H700i and Asus Aura Sync. Everything is adjustable and I have no complains over it.
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Hong Gi-hoon, the 9th president of the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), officially began his duties after an inauguration ceremony at the auditorium of the main KIOST building in Ansan at 10:30am on August 19 (Tue).
The new KIOST president, Hong Gi-hoon, graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in oceanography, and obtained a doctorate of science at the University of Alaska. He is an insider who joined KIOST in 1986 and, over the years, has worked as the head of biogeochemical research and director of policy development. Hong was appointed as the president of KIOST during his incumbency as a senior researcher at the Marine Environmental Radiation Research Center.
As an expert in marine environments, President Hong concentrated on studying technology and policy development with the goal of preventing marine pollution caused by the ocean disposal of land waste. His other research concerns the movement of carbon dioxide into the ocean, which is a leading study in the field of climate change. Currently, he is serving as the president of the Korea Environmental Dredging Society, which works toward technological development in the field of sediment engineering. Altogether, he has contributed to the development of marine science in Korea by participating in various national and international events.
In 2011, President Hong was elected as the chairman of the Meetings of the Science Group at the London Convention and Protocol, which is an international agreement on the prevention of marine pollution caused by the ocean dumping of waste and other matter. While serving as chairman of the meetings for four consecutive years, he established the standards for the geoengineering project to counter climate change, and continues to make remarkable contributions to enhancing Korea's position in the field of marine environment conservation.
Hong has published more than 160 articles in major academic journals in Korea and abroad, and has also published about 20 books. He has registered and applied for a total of nine patents. In 2008, he received a Presidential Citation.
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How do I install Adobe Flash on Fedora?
Adobe Flash is proprietary software and hence Fedora does not include it by default.
As of 2017, most websites don't need Adobe Flash any more (actually in 2018 less then 5% of websites uses it). Videos should play fine by default e.g. on youtube.com, vimeo.com, imdb.com or any social media. If they don't, try installing additional video codecs.
Please note that Flash and all its replacements are very broken and risky to use for stability, security and safety reasons. Here you can find statistics about vulnerabilities found and published for Adobe Flash: https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-pro... - yep, it's the worst, it has the biggest amount of the most severe bugs and the highest weighted average of vulnerabilities and their severity (simple rating of how unsecured it turned out).
Google provides newer features in Pepper Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player can currently be used with Chromium (and with Chrome); and Firefox with Freshplayer Plugin. Chrome dropped support for 32bits (March, 2016); therefore the support with Pepper Flash Player for 32bits.
Note that this plugin is not supported by Adobe very well, it did not receive even critical security updates for a long time. You should not use it. This is one reason why Firefox will remove any support for Flash (and similar plugins) in the end of 2017.
Adobe Flash is known to be horribly insecure by design, so be very careful where to use it. Except for some very old or shady websites you probably don't need Flash at all. Especially on shady websites, please note that Adobe Flash is used as a primary target for malware, that is software attacking your computer and trying to take control over it.
Note that the download links below are insecure, since data transmission is not signed or encrypted. Make sure that the files are not manipulated. If you don't know how to do that, don't install them.
You need to set up Adobe repository first. This is used for automatic updates.
Since Chromium 34 does not include support for NPAPI. Therefore, you need to use Pepper Flash to be able to use Flash.
Does this method for installing flash sudo dnf -y install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm add the package to the list that is maintained by the dnf package manager, so that a future dnf install update will also look for the flash player updates?
Yes it does, but Adobe dropped support for Linux, so don't expect to receive any updates.
I use flash-plugin and it still receives security updates. The Linux version 'flash-plugin' still gets patches every month like the Windows version. I'm not complaining about that, but it is very confusing. These may be patches that are not promised by Adobe, but they are regular and frequent. I agree, that could stop any moment, but way too many sites still only work with it. It wasn't safe when Adobe did support it, so that's not really a change.
This simply isn't true! Adobe never dropped security update support for the NPAPI version.
Adobe said they would stop updating the NPAPI version for Linux, but backtracked in August 2016. The cautions under Now and Flash plugin are untrue and should be removed.
Actually; Adobe Flash is only available in Chrome, Under the name "Pepper Flash Player" Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google, and is newer than Adobe Flash Player.
Note that this plugin is not supported by Adobe any more, it doesn't receive any security updates at all. You should not use it.
In the past, we communicated that NPAPI Linux releases would stop in 2017. This is no longer the case and once we have performed sufficient testing and received community feedback, we will release both NPAPI and PPAPI Linux builds with their major version numbers in sync and on a regular basis.
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The fedora people say "We do not like flash in our OS. Here use a VP8 player from google. That means that x263 codec that flash people love so much has a problem with open source." "Here this will play MKV content just fine. Flash is not the only system to play it." Flash is NOT supported under linux anymore. It is at v16 now in Windows.
Why not follow this simply way?
As yet another alternative way to install Adobe's Flash plugin I have been using the repositories maintained by negativo17.
There are individual repositories for a limited set of proprietary packages that can't be included in Fedora straight away. The site has clear installation instructions and the packages are updated regularly.
After a long time waiting for adobe to support again flash on linux finally is here.
Open Mozilla Firefox and write about:plugins on address bar.
NOTE : You can also go to adobe flashplayer page, get download there and install it via terminal session.
Don't use Flash!!! I am sure you don't need it.
What about Linux Package Factory flash-plugin package that is included with fedora?
I wish I could give a more definitive answer, but I just noticed it. Could be new to F20; I haven't seen it before. I just found the LPF-ized Skype package and it worked much better than the official pkg I downloaded from the Skype web-site. I'm hoping the same for flash-plugin, but haven't got around to trying it.
P.S. Gnash really seemed to not work at all for a couple years. I'm using it now, again, but doesn't work in a lot of cases.


Over the next decade, football had become so popular that it was included in the 1900 and 1904 summer Olympic games but these were contested by various clubs and scratch teams. Although the IOC considers the 1900 and 1904 tournaments to be official Olympic events, they are not recognised by FIFA.
The 1908 games held in London saw the first time a proper international tournament was organised by FIFA and the IOC.
The decade started with plenty of praise for the Fivemiletown Football Club with several reports in the local papers reporting on how successful Fivemiletown has become, well able to take on and beat any team in the surrounding areas, this decade also seen the start of competition football with two tournaments being organised, Clogher Valley Cup and the Mercer Cup run by the new Fermanagh and South Tyrone league.
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Dr Sinno Jialin Pan is a Provost's Chair Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2011. Prior to joining NTU, he was a scientist and Lab Head of text analytics with the Data Analytics Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore from Nov. 2010 to Nov. 2014. He joined NTU as a Nanyang Assistant Professor (university named assistant professor) in Nov. 2014. He was named to "AI 10 to Watch" by the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine in 2018. His research interests include transfer learning, and its applications to wireless-sensor-based data mining, text mining, sentiment analysis, and software engineering.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence, especially transfer learning and its applications to NLP, IoT, and computer vision.
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A Geo-Distributed Multi-task Learning Platform for Big Data Analytics
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Joey Tianyi Zhou, Ivor W. Tsang, Sinno Jialin Pan and Mingkui Tan. (2019). Multi-class Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 20, 51:1-51:31.
Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Daniel Dahlmeier. (2018). Memory Networks for Fine-grained Opinion Mining. Artificial Intelligence, 265, 1-17.
Xin Dong, Shangyu Chen and Sinno Jialin Pan. (2017). Learning to Prune Deep Neural Networks via Layer-wise Optimal Brain Surgeon. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS-17) (pp. 4860-4874).


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Q: Connecting Glue Pyspark to oracle using SSL certificate I am using Spark readwrite operations for reading/writing to oracle database
Below is the code snippet:
empDF = spark.read \
.format("jdbc") \
.option("url", url) \
.option("driver", "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver") \
.option("ssl", True) \
.option("sslmode", "require" ) \
.option("dbtable", query) \
.option("user", "******") \
.option("password", "******") \
.load()

But I need to add oracle ssl certificate for connecting to the data base.I tried using wallet which I added to /tmp location along with the tnsnames.ora file. I have added in the URL in the below format.
url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@apm_url?TNS_ADMIN=/tmp"

But still am getting the below error and not able to connect
An error occurred while calling o104.load. IO Error: IO Error PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target, connect lapse 30 ms., Authentication lapse 0 ms.

A: What is the version of the Oracle JDBC driver that you are using? Check out QuickStart guide for using Oracle wallets. You need to have oraclepki.jar, osdt_core.jar, and osdt_cert.jar in the classpath.

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Hiking the White Lake Trail
The White Lake Grasslands Protected Area and the White Lake Basin Biodiversity Ranch are neighboring conservation areas that protect a combined 4,647 hectares of land located southwest of Okanagan Falls in the South Okanagan of British Columbia. The combined conservation area is unique in that it contains open grasslands, ponderosa pine forests, large outcroping of rocks and small alkaline lakes. It is also the home of various threatened and endangered species including the Whiteheaded Woodpecker and the Western Rattlesnake.
The White Lake Trail wanders through these conservation areas and starts at the south end of White Lake. Look for a small gravel parking area, metal gate and information kiosk located off Fairwiew White Lake Road. The trail begins as a two track trail and descends towards White Lake. The lake itself is fenced off which disappointed my children, but they were quickly distracted by clambering up the steep rocky banks on the opposite side of the trail. The trail continues on to the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) and then begins to veer towards Kearns Creek Canyon. There is an entire 10 km loop that can be hiked from White Lake to Mahoney Lake and back again. The details of this hike can by found on Sweet Single Tracks.
I have been itching to complete the entire ten kilometer loop for some time. For now, however, I am content exploring portions of this lovely trail with my children and our friends. The first portion of the White Lake Trail is very easy going. We enjoyed a leisurely 3.8 km walk out-and-back from the parking lot in two hours which included many stops for exploring and snacking. I must mention, however, that this portion of the trail is very exposed and would be extremely hot during the summer. It is best to explore this trail in the spring, fall and winter. Also, there is no cell reception here because its proximity to the DRAO which is a cellular-free zone. And one more tidbit, it is possible to push a good off-road stroller (single-wide) along the trail if there is the need and the determination. To get a better idea of where this hike is I have included a picture of our tracks below.
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South Dakota State University was established as a result of the 1862 Morrill Act, which granted federal land to states to be used for land-grant colleges. Founded in 1881 as Dakota Agriculture College, the university received its current name in 1964. The school now offers more than 200 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as several dozen master's and doctorate degree programs. The university's graduates have a history of success, with about 95 percent of students moving into jobs, graduate school, fellowships or internships after graduation.
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Building on a full year's worth of testing and more than 85 hours of flight time, Bell's V-280 Valor reached its namesake cruising speed of 280 knots true airspeed this week.
Bell and Team Valor continue to methodically and very successfully expand the flight envelope. The aircraft continues to prove its performance is well beyond legacy rotorcraft and will deliver revolutionary capability for warfighters as part of the Future of Vertical Lift (FVL) program.
It is a remarkable achievement to hit this airspeed for the V-280 Valor in just over a year of flight testing. Beyond the exemplary speed and agility of this aircraft, this significant milestone is yet another proof point that the V-280 is mature technology, and the future is now for FVL capability set 3. Keith Flail, vice president of Advanced Vertical Lift Systems at Bell
Purpose-built to conduct long range assault at twice the speed and range of existing medium lift helicopters, the V-280's technical maturity demonstrates that close collaboration between government and industry can deliver transformational capabilities in a rapid and sustainable process.
Cruising at twice the speed of legacy helicopters, with double the range, really changes the way the U.S. military can enable multi-domain operations. By eliminating forward refueling points alone, leaders can focus on operational goals while minimizing logistical burdens. Ryan Ehinger, V-280 program manager at Bell
Additionally, Bell's digital design and design-as-built methodology for the V-280 focused on creating a sustainable and affordable aircraft. The team took great care to simplify designs and advance technology readiness to inform requirements for FVL CS3.
As the program moves into 2019, V-280 flight testing will continue to prove out Bell's key performance parameters and reduce FVL risk in the U.S. Army led Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) program. The next stages will expand the performance envelope highlighting further low-speed agility maneuvers, angles of bank and autonomous flight.
These milestones continue to demonstrate that the V-280 Valor is ready and that the Future of Vertical Lift is now.
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Forward flight at 280 knots true airspeed
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1:51 pm March 14, 2013 By Shane McGlaun
If you're a heavy iPad users looking for a case to protect your device and extend the runtime of your tablet, a new offering has launched from Digital Treasures. The case is called the Props Power Case and is designed to fit the iPad 4, iPad 3, iPad 2, and the iPad mini. The version for full-size iPad comes in two different styles.
The only difference in the styles is the size of the internal battery with one offering 12,000 mAh. The other style offers a smaller 8000 mAh battery. The case has a LED battery status indicator on top showing how much power is left in the battery before it needs recharged.
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This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration by Harlequin Books.
Gia Andrews chases and helps with disasters all over the world- no disaster is too large, too intimidating for Gia. Except one…. And no matter what, Gia does not think she can fix the one- the one that tore her family apart.
Gia's dad is in prison for killing her step-mother. A crime that shocked and horrified the small Southern town that Gia and her family grew up in. Let's set the scene- the nice man, the town pharmacist, the man who helps the town with fundraisers and more- kills his wife. Or did he?
His own children seem to think so- Gia can't quite believe that he killed Ella Mae and yet can't quite believe that he didn't. The evidence was there. But is her dad a killer- or is there more to the story?
When a professor comes to town writing a book about wrongfully convicted men- some of the things he says gets Gia thinking and asking questions. Because, while her dad is out of jail; his time is drawing near as he was sent home to die.
While at first, Gia had no desire to be back in the same town- the town that had shunned her and her family after her father was convicted of killing Ella Mae- between the professor, her Uncle Cal's behavior and the neighbor, Dean (aka the prosecutor's star witness)- things are not adding up. And Gia is going to do everything in her power to reunite her family and to find out what really happened the night Ella Mae died. And if she can do all that with the local sexy restaurant owner/bartender by her side- well, even better.
Traveling With T's Thoughts:
Secrets. Secrets GALORE. Kimberly Belle's debut opens with a bang- Ella Mae revealing her husband had found out about her affair with Dean. Then it begins to reveal how Ella Mae spent the final minutes of her life- how she had known death was coming for her.
With most of the book told in present time- with Gia coming back home to watch her father die, with her struggling with her feelings over his guilt or innocence- it's interesting and enjoyable. But, as the reader gets in the book- already armed with the knowledge that Ella Mae is dead- getting a glimpse of Ella Mae's story- the story of how the affair began, how she did not love Ray anymore- all adds up to be the most intriguing part of the book for me. I would read an Ella Mae section and then flip forward trying to see how long before I would get another piece of the story via her journal. And boy, does her journal paint a picture!
The reactions of Ray's children in the book felt very real- they were dealing with finding out that their father was considered a cold-blooded murderer- and each child dealt with that news in their own way.
While I did enjoy the secrets and the intrigue- there was one secret that just felt like it was too much for "shock factor"- and then Gia's reaction kind of made me want to pinch her.
Overall thoughts: If you like mystery/suspense (especially if you like a side of romance thrown in)- then give THE LAST BREATH a try. It's a strong debut from Kimberly Belle- an author that I look forward to reading more from in the future.
*THE LAST BREATH was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration by Harlequin Books. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.
Happy Reading and Bookishly Yours,
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erinzbass says:
I was also flipping forward to see when we'd hear more from an Ella Mae! She's an intriguing character but one Kimberly Belle says was tough to write. Find out why in the Deep South interview with her: http://deepsouthmag.com/2014/11/the-murderers-daughter/.
travelingwitht says:
YES! I could see where Ella Mae would be tough to write-it must be hard to write a character that is headed for disaster- and yet can't quite see it… till it's too late. Great interview, Erin!!
momssmallvictories says:
Oh we had Kimberly on our Be Our Guest Feature a couple weeks ago and The Last Breath sounded fabulous. Helen read it and I totally added it to my TBR. Here's what Kimberly had to say about how growing up in TN influenced her writing over at The Novel Opinion: http://mynovelopinion.com/2014/10/be-our-guest-fridays-author-kimberly-s-belle/
I remember Helen posting the link- I tweeted it around to Deep South Mag since I knew our Twitter chat was fast approaching. Great interview with Kimberly- and I LOVE this new feature!
Helen @ My Novel Opinion says:
Thanks T, she was a wonderful guest. Sad I'll miss the chat. Birthday day out with my not so baby boy on Friday 😦
We missed you! But that's a good reason to miss!
I'd love to know which secret you are referring to that was too much for shock factor 🙂
I'll email you why- but it's the one abt the child!
Ohhh if its what i think it is. I guessed about that one.
Crap! I forgot to email you- The A was in town this past weekend- & she kept me walking all over the house chasing her while she crawled EVERYWHERE. I didn't necessarily see that secret coming- I knew there was something not being revealed. IDK, I just was like REALLY?!!!!!!!
Pat @ Posting For Now says:
I enjoyed your review T. This sounds like a great suspense debut.
Thanks so much! And it was!!!!!
ondbookshelf says:
I've been hearing a lot of buzz about this book, and all of it is positive. Sounds like one I'd like to read for sure.
It's VERY good!
DoingDewey says:
Ooh, this sounds like my kind of book! Great review 🙂
Thanks so much! It was so good! SOOOOOOOOO good!
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Sigh … I'm A Makeup Snob.
I was running late, per usual, rummaging through my makeup drawer, desperately looking for my MAC bronzer, about to throw a fit when I realized, holy hell, everything in my makeup drawer, besides one awful Revlon Very Red lipstick mistake, was all designer makeup. What had become of me?!
We may be living in a material world, but I am certainly NOT a material girl. I'm more of a whatever looks good and makes me feel good, kind of gal, no matter if it comes from Walmart of Barneys. I don't discriminate. I was brought up to embrace and run wild with personal style and not bow down to all-mighty labels … even though you may find me drooling over them here and there. I get more excited over a good deal then exercising my credit card, but hey, that's just me. Okay maybe I have a few designer pieces in my closet, but all of them I covet simply because I scored them for a ridiculous deal.
So realizing my makeup drawer was swimming in designer makeup was a bit unnerving to me. Like why? It was only :::mumbles::: year's ago that I was a broke college student digging through the clearance makeup section at Target praying that I could find a decent foundation that, somewhat, matches my skin tone. And now I like ball out at Sephora.
Yes, I have a big girl job, and I have HAD a big girl job for :::mumbles::: years now, but I also have big girl bills. And clearly grown into big girl tastes for makeup. But my question is, why? I think it is because some glamazon who works behind a makeup counter knows the right tricks to make me look and feel fantastic. It puts me in a trance and then all of a sudden I'm out $100.
Sephora, Ulta, and department stores are the modern day woman's candy store. The pops of branding, the colors, the deliciousness of the packaging. Just as I once ran to the candy store to lift my mood, I now wander through the aisles of Sephora until something shiny catches my eye. Do I need it? Absolutely not. But my bad mood CRAVES it.
"Generic" brands like Rimmel, Revlon and Covergirl spend MILLIONS getting these actresses to sponsor their makeup. But I always wonder, does Kate Moss REALLY get the London look. Is Katy Perry REALLY easy and breezy? My gut is telling me no because why would they buy makeup that is sometimes next to BenGay, Advil and Cheetos when you can frolic in the land of pure beauty with people who can put the right kinds of makeup on their skin so they can look their part. And let's be honest, they can afford it.
The only time I buy makeup at the drug store is if I'm desperate, sick and indulging in impulse shopping as I wait for my prescription to be ready, or if I read online that something got an amazing review. But a part of me wonders if I'm just getting blinded by fancy names, beauteous colors and shiny packaging, when I could be saving some cash and getting the same bang for my buck at the drug store.
Ponder THAT, my friends … ponder THAT.


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Vaping Lung Disease Less Likely In These States, Finds New Study
In what feels like another lifetime, before the COVID-19 outbreak, there was a different type of lung disease affecting a majority of people. Vape consumers, primarily those who consumed cannabis, were suffering from a disease called EVALI, which caused respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. The disease could result in long-lasting damage to the lungs and even in death.
And now, a recent study reveals that states with legal marijuana programs had fewer reports of the illness.
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Published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, and conducted in conjunction with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the study demonstrated that in states where cannabis was medicinally or recreationally legal, EVALI was much less available. In 2019, states with marijuana laws had 42% fewer cases of EVALI.
"Marijuana policy attributes linked to lower EVALI incidences were also associated with reduced likelihoods of vaping as one's primary mode of use," concludes the study. "As additives in informally-sourced vaping concentrates could drive future EVALI cases, marijuana policy design should account for effects on mode of use in licit and illicit markets, to limit the scope of future outbreaks."
RELATED: The Dark Truth Behind The Recent Outbreak Of Vaping Related Illnesses
EVALI first appeared in 2019, creating a sort of panic within the vaping community, especially since vape pens were becoming increasingly common. After some study and research, the disease was linked to an element in cannabis vapes known as vitamin E acetate, although other compounds and elements might also have an influence.
This study is a great example of the importance of legal cannabis. Aside from the standard reasons, such as reducing the effects of the war on drugs and providing new avenues for medical relief, legal cannabis significantly reduces the extent and harm of illicit and black-market cannabis. As long as cannabis remains illegal on a federal level, unsuspecting people will continue to be harmed by these preventable situations.
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Alessio Di Giovanni (Cianciana, 11 d'octubre de 1872 – Palerm, 6 de desembre de 1946) fou un dramaturg i poeta en italià i sicilià. De joves es traslladà a Palerm i després a Noto, on va compondre les seves primeres poesies vers el 1892. El 1908 va publicar la comèdia en sicilià Scungiuru, que va agradar molt Giovanni Verga i que va tenir un gran ressò a l'estranger, on fou representada per la companyia de Domenico Aguglia, però que no va tenir gaire repercussió a Itàlia.

El 1910 va publicar Gabrieli lu carusu i els poemes més característics i premiats, Voci del feudo i Sonetti di la surfara. A Cianciana cada any es convoca el 30 de juny un premi literari en honor seu. L'asteroide 17435 di Giovanni va rebre aquest nom en honor seu.

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