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When I arrived in Lisbon, one of the first places I visited was a historic shop right in Rossio square. This is the Madeira Shop.
I remember that when I entered in this shop there was an elderly couple who welcomed me with extreme kindness. They were the owners of this place which, for generations, has been in the hands of the Abreu family.
And so, to tell you our next story, we decided to go right there.
On one side of the Rossio square, to the right of Pedro IV, which dominates the square from the top of a column, among modern shops and international brands, stands the Madeira shop, opened in 1959.
And to welcome us this time is Ana, daughter of that couple who welcomed me years ago during my first visit.
Ana begins to talk to us about how this place was born, but above all about her family because, we will soon discover, the two stories are closely linked.
Ana begins to tell and we discover that it all begins with her grandfather, Antonio Abreu, a native of Madeira island who moves to the "continent" with five of his seven children (other two are born in Estoril) Ana tells us she never met her grandfather, because she was born when her parents were already 41 and 39 years old, and her grandfather had already disappeared at the time. But the memory of those times and how it all began, Ana received as an inheritance from her parents and today she helps us to reconstruct their history.
When her family moves to the "continent", she arrives in Estoril. Probably to stay close to the sea. After all, you know, when you grow up on an island, surrounded by the sea, it is impossible to stay too far from it.
The great change came in 1916 with a person who was responsible for an important change in Portuguese tourism: Fausto Figuereido, who, in addition to launching the construction of the casino of Estoril, also gave rise to the railway line that, over time, will connect Estoril to Lisbon. The consequence of this important change will be an important tourist increase that will bring new international customers to the shop opened in this coastal area.
The Abreu family begins to open more shops, in Estoril, Lisbon, in Sintra and finally two more in Lisbon.
It is the latter that will be managed by Ana's parents. A commercial activity but above all a family inheritance. Starting with her grandfather, then Ana's father and now with her and her husband João.
Ana tells us that their business has had to go through various crises, starting with the one that followed the carnation revolution of 1974 which ended the dictatorship, passing through the stock market crisis in the United States, the economic crisis of 2008 and, finally, the pandemic of the last period. There are so many trials and moments of crisis to overcome, but each time they have managed to move forward, above all out of pride, in order not to lose this tradition that is so important to their family.
Ana clearly tells us that the main reason they continue with the tradition of their shop is not the financial gain, but above all the desire to not interrupt a family tradition that has lasted for many years.
There are several products that we can find in the shop and from different regions of Portugal, but above all an excellent product which is what also gives the shop its name: Madeira embroidery.
The origin of Madeira's embroidery (Bordado) dates back to antiquity and the need to decorate spaces. The art of embroidery was for a long time an activity to which women of the wealthier classes as well as religious were destined and the great impulse came in the 1950s.
Even this tradition do crafts participated in the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in London in 1851, enjoying enormous success.
It is an embroidery on linen, which, due to its delicacy and tradition, was always a luxury product that was found in aristocratic homes. And today it is considered the best embroidery in the world.
Ana's family always dedicated themselves to the "bordados da Madeira", first selling it in their shop and then in the production in Madeira. Today no more, since following the production at a distance was becoming complicated.
Today these are still expensive products and objects of great value, which have mainly tourists as buyers, who have always been part of their regular customers, since the time of the first Estoril shop. But Ana says that many Portuguese families also buy embroidered linen to enrich the family kit or, for example, a tablecloth to use for special occasions. These are objects that are then handed down from mother to daughter and which often remain in the family for several generations, ending up becoming custodians of memories and memories, special moments to remember, family celebrations not to be forgotten.
And in an era where there is so much talk of sustainability, the artisanal products of this quality are certainly an important support.
And the memory handed down through the objects purchased means that Ana and her family somehow end up being part of this memory too.
Ana shows us a notebook where regular customers, foreigners and Portuguese, customers who have returned several times to the store, leave a memory, a story, a thank you for something that, purchased in the Madeira Shop, has then become part of the family history . Ana tells us that she has received calls and messages during this pandemic period from customers who are worried about her and her parents, sincere expressions of affection.
Ana started working with her family in 2003, but since 2008 she has been actively involved in the family shop and with her with the active help of her husband João.
Ana's parents, Joaquim e Maria Antonia, are now 86 and 84, but it was not because of the age that they left the work, but because of the pandemic. Anyway Ana tells us that from time to time they can't resist and go back to the shop, and when they can't, they demand a full report of everything that happened during the work day from Ana at the end of the day.
Until 2019, their presence in the shop was never lacking, while Ana and João supported him in the shop and, at the same time, took care of traveling around the country in search of unique handicrafts.
A glance at the shop immediately makes us understand that it is not a common shop or even ordinary objects. Ana knows the history of each object, listening to her is like a journey through the history of Portuguese traditions, she knows how to show us each different school or artist behind each single object. Because she chose them one by one, she met the artisans, she saw them work.
And the more fragile objects, Ana and João carried them personally.
Because this work is also a way to preserve and pass on the family tradition and the love that her parents have always had for this work.
Ana guides us among the ceramic objects of Coimbra inspired by works of the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the classic hand-painted Rooster of Barcelos, a symbol of faith and justice and lucky charm, and today also one of the symbols of the country, the "Figurados" represented by more modern and refined artists and other older ones who still hand down an ancient art of sacred representations and daily life in the field. The romantic tradition of lovers' handkerchiefs is inevitable, which in ancient times women embroidered by hand for the beloved man and that the man had to use on Sunday at Mass to show that he reciprocated the feelings of the woman in question.
And there is no shortage of traditional azulejos, painted furniture from the Alentejo, and many other objects, extraordinary works of craftsmanship.
The embroideries of Madeira are joined by those of Viana do Castelo, equally beautiful but less expensive, to allow to reach other customers as well.
And there are also traditional clothes from Madeira and Viana, which are often bought by tourists but also by Portuguese emigrants to bring a piece of their country with them. For children they are also bought as carnival dresses, while northern families still use them in traditional festivals, such as the one dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows (August 20, editor's note) or for some special events.
In short, a place where on each shelf, there is a new world to discover.
Ana's shop, recognized by the city of Lisbon as a "loja com historia", an historical shop, is actually not very protected by the city itself.
Times change, the city of Lisbon evolves, modernizes itself, and over the years international brands have increasingly replaced the old small local shops.
But basically it is these shops that contribute to making Lisbon a special city different from the others.
Together with the increase in tourism which, Ana tells us, is obviously welcome, it would be desirable to be able to protect in some way these ancient shops in the city to ensure that they do not disappear.
After all, it is no longer just a commercial place, but a space that day by day tries to preserve the memory of a past that at times it is difficult to recognize, the memory of a place and, in this case, of a really special family.
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The Figurado of Barcelos is an unavoidable art, constituting itself as one of the greatest traditional productions in Portugal, due to the relevance that work in clay has acquired over the centuries and its connection to people and the region.
This art was mainly concentrated in the north-eastern part of the city, which was richer in clay and water
Figurado is a certified production since 2008. This fact makes Barcelos the first municipality to certify this popular artistic expression, which is the identity root of a territory that sought to enhance and affirm its unique art.
Assorted figuration was the designation adopted for the statuary pieces of popular expression, produced in the pottery tradition region of the current municipality of Barcelos, where they fit from small pieces entirely modeled by hand, to pieces produced in small molds or through mixed techniques used in this production. This group also included pieces modeled by hand, without mold, such as pitas, harmonicas and some roosters. Pieces started in mold and finished by hand, such as musicians and oxen, belong to the same universe. In the same way, pieces produced from a base form, raised on the potter's wheel and which were also finished by hand, such as wheel cocks, nightingales and bugles, are included in this group. With the same designation of figurative, the pieces produced in mold were still known, but with a naive or primitive finish.
The diversity of this production is born from the skilled hands of baristas who reproduce everything they see and feel. The themes on which this production is mirrored are, in turn, religion and festivals, bestiary, daily life, various figures and miniatures. In this context, it is important to highlight the most characteristic pieces within each theme. In the theme of religion and festivals, representations of Christs and Saints predominate, as well as religious practices. The world of the fantastic, represented by the bestiary presents monsters, devils and deformed figures that unite the sacred and the profane in the Figurado. Representations of scenes from rural life, crafts, professions and dolls dominate the range of Figurado pieces, showing the importance of everyday life as inspiration for this production. In the category of single figures, emblematic pieces appear, such as roosters, hedgehogs, doves, oxen and goats. Among others, the famous Rooster stands out (you can read my post on September 1, 2020 https://lisbon-a-love-affair.com/2020/09/01/the-rooster-of-barcelos-how-was -this-portuguese-symbol-born /)
As for the mode of production, modeling, molding and turning are the techniques used in the production of the Figurado de Barcelos, used alone or combined with each other, with modeling being the most important and most valued, since the personal intervention of the craftsman is totally or practically total.
Finally, considering the identity of the Figurado, it will be impossible not to mention one of the most charismatic names of this art: Rosa Ramalho, the figure that drew the attention through which this unique art spread in the most urban and elitist environment.
Rosa Ramalho learned to work with clay very early, but abandoned this art to dedicate herself to her family. It was when she was a widow, aged 68 and illiterate, that she began to produce the pieces that made her famous. Discovered in 1950 for the collector Alexandre Alves Costa during his research on popular art. His works are dramatic and creative and show great imagination at the same time.
The Figurado de Barcelos, certified artisanal product, is currently one of the largest artisan productions in the county. This production started as a subsidiary activity of pottery, in their spare time and using small portions of clay, small pieces were made for children to play, namely figures of people or animals where a whistle or musical instruments were placed at the base of them (ocarinas, nightingales, cuckoos, harmonicas, among others). The Figurado de Barcelos is distinguished from any other production, assuming unique characteristics, both in shapes and colors. If you want to watch the making of a figure, I leave this video here.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KcAB8Df6s8U
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The Cantarinha of Guimarães' is a gift widely offered by the time of São Valentim, thus keeping an old tradition alive which is currently fed by the hands of masters of the pottery.
According to tradition, when a boy was ready to make the official marriage proposal, he first offered his girl a cantarinha, molded in clay. If the gift was accepted, the private request was formalized, and the announcement of the engagement depended only on the parents' wishes. Once the consent was given, the cantarinha then served to keep the gifts that the groom and the bride's parents offered, namely gold pieces.
Currently, the cantarinha are no longer properly used to ask someone for a hand or to store jewelry, but are assumed to be "guardians" of secrets and love stories. "Whoever offers them, does so because of the symbolism they contain", is made of red clay sprinkled with white mica.
There are the big Cantarinhas, symbol of abundance, of the future, of hope. And the small Cantarinha, symbol of real life, of the uncertainties of the future and the small happiness of everyday life.
The Cantarinha was used, as well as valentine's handkerchiefs, (October 14th article) as a symbol of acceptance or rejection of a dating / engagement request. If there was parental consent, the engagement was announced and the dowry treated, and the gifts offered to the bride and groom were placed in Cantarinha (gold cords, trancelets, crosses, hearts). Another version says that raffles were placed inside Cantarinha. The girl then took one at random that corresponded to a gift. Cantarinha of lovers is the most common name, but two more are added: Cantarinha of the gifts and Cantarinha of Guimarães.
In addition to its significance as a matchmaking object, which is its great attribute, Cantarinha dos Namorados is also a pottery product of excellence in terms of Portuguese handicrafts. Made of red clay baked for seven hours, and ornamented with small flourishes, there is an undeniable elegance when we look at it, and we understand why the girls who received this artifact in their hands melt.
It is made up of three parts: the base singlet, clearly larger, representing the couple's prosperity; the little song that overlaps this one, noticeably smaller, symbolizing the problems that any pair of newlyweds or couples have to face; and finally, the shot is made with a bird, which some say is the secret keeper of the relationship.
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The origin of the filigree dates back to the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia. The oldest pieces date back to 2500 BC and were discovered in the, today, Iraq. Other pieces, discovered in Syria, date from approximately 2100 B.C.
It arrived in Europe via trade routes in the Mediterranean Sea, where it became relatively popular in the Greek and Roman civilizations. The oldest discoveries of filigree jewellery were made in modern Italy and are estimated to be from the 18th century. However, the filigree continued its journey and crossed borders to India and China. In the Far East, it was used mainly as a decorative element and not as jewellery.
But how does filigree differ from other jewellery arts?
In the way different fine threads draw patterns and are welded together in order to create a much larger piece. No other jewellery art uses a similar fusion technique to join gold threads. Today – as thousands of years ago – the different threads that make up each piece come together only by heat, without resorting to any other material or alloy.
The oldest filigree pieces discovered in the Iberian Peninsula date back to 2000 – 2500 BC, but their origin is unclear. Possibly, these pieces belonged to traders or navigators originating in the Middle East and were not manufactured here.
Only during the rule of the Romans, during the century. II BC, began to exist in the Peninsula.
But only thousands of years later, in the century. VIII, we were able to ensure with certainty that the filigree was being developed and produced in Portugal. It was with the arrival of Arab peoples that new patterns emerged and that, little by little, the filigree of the Peninsula began to differentiate itself from the filigree of other parts of the world.
The Portuguese filigree mostly represents nature, religion and love:
– the sea is represented with fish, shells, waves and boats;
– nature is the inspiration of flowers, clovers and wreaths;
with religious motifs, we find crosses, like the Maltese cross, and reliquaries.
love, of course, is the inspiration of all hearts in filigree.
Other iconic symbols of Portuguese filigree:
– The heart of Viana: a symbol of dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Queen Maria I was the one who, thankful for the "blessing" of having been given a male son, ordered a heart to be executed in gold.
Over time, the heart started to be related to "profane love", a symbol of the connection between two human beings. It became so popular that the cornucopias and the lines of Coração de Viana began to be reproduced on handkerchiefs and embroidered on all types of fabrics. Eventually, this brought the recognition and popularity of Coração de Viana to the present day.
– Queen's earrings: it is almost unanimous that queen earrings appeared in Portugal during the reign of Queen D. Maria I (1734 – 1816). The origin of the name, this, seems to go back to the reign of D. Maria II (1819 – 1853), who wore a pair of these earrings on a visit to Viana do Castelo in 1852. After this visit, they became popular as a symbol of wealth and status and won the name "queen earrings".
– The arrecadas: they started being the earrings of the most humble population and that the most privileged classes started to imitate. At its origin were the Castrejas stonework, inspired by the quarter moon.
Today, filigree manufacturing in Portugal is mainly concentrated in the areas of Gondomar and Póvoa do Lanhoso. The proximity of the raw material – coming, for example, from the mountains of Pias and Banjas – made the region one of the most notable nuclei of the Portuguese jewellery. Even today, in 2018, Gondomar is responsible for 60% of the national jewellery production.
A curiosity: Portuguese gold is 19.2 carats (pure gold is 24).
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The tradition of tiles in Portugal is not only old but also the most representative of the country. The story tells that it started when, in 1498, D Manuel I King of Portugal made a trip to Spain and marvelled at the splendour of the Moorish interiors and the colours of the wall coverings and murals.
Following his desire to build his residence in the image of the palaces visited in Seville, Toledo and Zaragoza, the tile arrived in Portugal. The National Palace of Sintra, which was used as his residence, became one of the best and most original examples of early Portuguese tiles, at that time still imported from factories in Seville.
Despite the archaic techniques coming from abroad, as well as the tradition of Islamic decoration in the decorative exaggerations of complex geometric patterns, its entry into Portugal denotes an influence of European taste due to the Gothic vegetable motifs and a particular Portuguese aesthetic.
But we start with order: where does the word azulejo come from? It is an Arabic term, azzelij, which means small polished stone and is the designation given to a ceramic artefact with little thickness, usually square, being one of the surfaces glazed as a result of firing the coating, called enamel, becoming this way bright and waterproof. This surface can have a single color or have several colours, be smooth or embossed.
The motifs represented vary between the narrations of historical circumstances, mythology, religion and various decoration motifs. The Portuguese overseas empire had an important influence on the diversity of forms; assimilated shapes and decorations of other civilisations.
Portuguese tiles represent the imagination of Portuguese people, their attraction to real history and their complicity in cultural exchange.The new tile industry is flourishing with orders from the nobility and clergy. Large panels are custom made to fill the walls of churches, convents, palaces, manors and gardens. The inspiration comes from decorative arts, textiles, jewellery, engravings and travels of the Portuguese to the East. Large scenographic compositions appear, a striking feature of the Baroque, with geometric, figurative and vegetal themes of exotic fauna and flora.
At the end of the 17th century, the quality of production and execution is higher, there are whole families involved in this art of making tiles, and some painters begin to assert themselves as artists, starting to sign their works, thus beginning the Masters Cycle .
After the 1755 earthquake, the reconstruction of Lisbon will impose another rhythm in the production of standard tiles, today called pombaline, used to decorate the new buildings. The tiles are manufactured in series, combining industrial and artisanal techniques. At the end of the 18th century, the tile is no longer exclusive to the nobility and the clergy, the wealthy bourgeoisie makes the first orders for their farms and palaces, the panels sometimes tell the story of the family and even of their social ascension.
From the 19th century, the tile gains more visibility, leaves the palaces and churches to the facades of the buildings, in a close relationship with architecture. The urban landscape is illuminated by the light reflected on the glazed surfaces. The tile production is intense, new factories are created in Lisbon, Porto and Aveiro. Later, already in the middle of the 20th century, the tile enters the railway and metro stations, and some are signed by renowned artists.
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Thinking about the typical products of Portugal, we immediately think of the wine, such as the Port or the Madeira wine, or the splendid ceramics, the azulejos, hand-painted that decorate houses and gardens.
However, not everyone knows that Portugal is in first place in the world for cork processing with 53% of world production. In the Alentejo area, between Lisboa and the Atlantic coast, 72% of the total production of the entire country is concentrated and skilled craftsmen work cork here.
What do you get from cork processing? Virtually everything: caps, home accessories, fashion accessories, clothes and shoes, but also bags, furniture and floor or wall coverings.
Cork is a 100% natural product, it is soft, resistant, versatile, recyclable, hypoallergenic and has thermal properties keeping both heat and cold.
Cork is an element so important in the history of Portugal that we find traces of it in many monuments:
– The Convent de Santa Cruz do Buçaco and the Convent dos Capuchos of Sintra, for example, where the monks used cork to cover the walls and make the environment more comfortable and this is how we find some cells and some common areas with the walls covered cork.
– In the basilica da Estrela in Lisbon, you can admire the 18th century Nativity with terracotta figures on cork scenarios.
– The door jambs, windows and portholes of the Chalet of Countess of Edla in Sintra are decorated with cork elements.
– São Brás de Alportel (Algarve), owes its development to the cork industry and today is located in the center of the Rota da Cortiça (The Cork Road) through beautiful cork forests.
The cultivation of cork oaks is an art that requires time and a lot of patience. A cork oak takes 25 years to be productive and to be able to make the first extraction of cork. Between one extraction and another we have to wait 9 years and only after the third one we will have a fairly compact and usable cork. The cork boards are stacked outdoors, then they are boiled and divided according to thickness and quality. With the best boards, natural corks are obtained while the lower boards are used for soles for shoes or corks for common wines. Trees can live up to 400 years and ensure crops for 200 years.
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Kanye West Wanted To Be On Tyler, The Creator's "IFHY"
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According to Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator, Kanye West wanted to be on a track off of his latest album, Wolf. When a fan recently asked him why he didn't give West the "48" beat, Tyler explained that West also asked to be on "IFHY." The conversation took place on Tyler's official Formspring page. Below is Tyler's response:
cause it was mine. he wanted to be on IFHY too! but i was like, nah hahaha. ye is soo awesome, i talk to him almost everyday it seems like. its cool to have someone you can level with about art and everything else.
The video for "IFHY" can be seen below.
In a separate response to a fan, Tyler also explained that he is not currently on Kanye's album, Yeezus.
Tyler released Wolf this year to critical praise. HipHopDX's Jesse Fairfax rated the album a 4/5. 5 was also the most popular rating given to the album by readers.
Back in March 2011, Tyler shared that he viewed West as his competition because he was such a big fan of his.
"I'm coming for Kanye West's head because he's my competition," Tyler said. "I'm a big Kanye West fan, and I also compose music and I rap and I direct videos, and I don't want him to think he's the only person that could do that… My competition isn't other upcoming rappers and shit. It's him."
In 2011, West also shared that he was a Tyler, The Creator fan. He tweeted that "Yonkers" was his choice for video of the year. That video can be viewed below.
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  virtual Status NewSequentialFile(const std::string& fname,
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    return EnvWrapper::NewSequentialFile(fname, result, options);
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  virtual Status NewRandomAccessFile(const std::string& fname,
                                     unique_ptr<RandomAccessFile>* result,
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  virtual Status NewWritableFile(const std::string& fname,
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'This is me. This is endometriosis'
If you're one of the many women who suffer from exceptionally painful periods, you really need to read this post.
Donné Restom | July 24, 2017
What is endometriosis?
Fashion designer, Thessy Kouzoukas never thought she would be sharing the photos below. They show her naked and she took them for her own documentation. She's not showing off - and she's certainly not championing the latest diet. But she's decided that other women need to see them, because they reveal a painful truth: since puberty, Thessy has suffered from endometriosis. Now she's doing something to change it.
"This is me. This is endometriosis."
"This is quite shocking to people," she wrote in the comment. "This is me. This is endometriosis. I never intended to share these photos hence why I'm naked, but my god I can't believe the amount of DM's I've received from girls who have endo too and feel alone. The left is my stomach three weeks after a ruptured cyst (five weeks ago). The right is me now, on a drug called "synarel" that has stopped all my hormones and sent me into menopause at the age of 27."
This is quite shocking to people. This is me. This is endometriosis. I never intended to share these photos hence why I'm naked, but my god I can't believe the amount of DM's I've received from girls who have endo too and feel alone. The left is my stomach 3 weeks after a ruptured cyst (5 weeks ago). The right is me now, on a drug called "synarel" that has stopped all my hormones and sent me into menopause at the age of 27. My upcoming trip to Greece along with this drug is in hopes to get me prepped and in the best condition both physically and mentally for an operation I'm receiving in late August. Endo is no joke. I'll be operated on for 7+ hours and hospitalised for a week. Please, spread the word about endo. And If you know anyone with bad period pain PLEASE tell them to get checked for this. And to my girls with endo.. you're not alone ❤
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The unspoken struggle
One in 10 women are affected by endometriosis, a condition that occurs when the tissue that is similar to the lining of the uterus (womb) occurs outside this layer and causes pain and/or infertility.
Despite it's potentially devastating effects, many women carry it for seven to ten years before being properly diagnosed. Both patients and their doctors tend to normalise symptoms, writing them off as 'painful periods'.
While early diagnosis and treatment can reduce the long term impacts of endometriosis and the frequency of invasive treatments and fertility treatments, the delay means many women who are eventually diagnosed, are in for a brutal ride if they want to get their health back on track.
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Becoming #endostrong
Thessy is one of many women who have suffered from symptoms that others brush as weakness.
"When I first got my period as a young teenager, I got labelled 'lazy' when I couldn't participate in certain sports at school, or 'drama queen' when I would take days off school because I was doubled over in the shower trying desperately to find relief from abdominal pain," she wrote for Huffington Post.
"Why didn't they tell us that debilitating pain isn't normal? If I had known this 14 years ago when I started to get my period, I could be in a much better position in terms of controlling the disease, and its effects on my fertility."
But like so many other women, it wasn't until over a decade later that the reality of her painful periods made itself known.
"I decided I'd had enough of these period pain-like killer cramps (which I thought were normal) that I was experiencing every day, even when I wasn't on my period." Thessy wrote. "I got myself to a specialist who sent me for a scan to check for cysts."
Doctors found a nine centimetre cyst in her right ovary and after surgery to have it removed, Thessy was told what endometriosis was.
Doing the @fitazfk 28 day challenge in preparation for Greece. I feel so lucky to be going to Greece this year, with my rupturing cysts I was too scared to travel. It's been a rough couple of months with a lot of uncertainty with my endo, a failed IVF cycle, 2 ruptured cysts but with healthy eating, exercising, a hormone suppressing drug and a bit of hope I have convinced myself I'll be fine to travel ?? yolo bitches!
Why did it take so long?
It seems crazy that something so common and so painful, something so devastating to the future of the physical, mental and emotional health of women and their potential children, is so regularly ignored.
Thessy was suffering for 14 years and yet the pain was just taken for granted.
She wasn't told that we're not meant to be completely debilitated with every period.
Her pain had no barometer - how high must a woman's pain threshold be before she is considered (and considers herself) worthy of saying, "I'm not OK; something is wrong; I'm not just a 'weak' woman"?
And most importantly, despite being given the pill to help ease that pain as a young girl, why was she not informed by her doctors of the existence of endometriosis?
The lack of awareness around this condition is so sad, which is precisely why stories told by brave women like Thessy, need to be shared and read - by all of us.
Support Endometriosis Australia by joining Luminosity. Held on July 30 2017, Luminosity is a vibrant, fun two hour yogathon to raise awareness and funds into research of Endometriosis. For more info, go to luminosity.org.au.
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DAY SEVEN: When Bessie Guthrie met the Women's Liberation Movement
Writer and Director Catherine Dwyer reflects on the Women's Liberation Movement and the making of her film, Brazen Hussies.
Catherine Dwyer
Featured image: Bessie Guthrie: Fighter for Underprivileged Girls, Tribune 2 Oct 1973
I first came across the story of Bessie Guthrie and her campaigns for child welfare reforms in an essay by Suzanne Bellamy about MeJane, a Sydney Women's Liberation Newspaper that ran from 1971-1974. I found it in a book called Things that Liberate An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer (2013) edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson. The book is a collection of essays by various women centered around objects from the Women's Liberation Movement. It became an object in my own 'Wunderkammer', acquired during the five years I spent researching and making the documentary film, Brazen Hussies.
Image above: Things that Liberate An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer, edited by Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson (2013, Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
In Suzanne's essay I discovered the hilarious story of Vera Figner, a 19th century Russian revolutionary, whose name was used as MeJane's 'Publisher'. As a result, Vera Figner was later found to be a "New South Wales Person of Interest" in ASIO's surveillance on the Women's Liberation Movement. This story made it into the film where we also combined ASIO surveillance footage with the pop song 'Girl Watcher' by the O'Kaysions – putting an ironic twist on the sexist pastime of ogling women.
'Girl Watcher' ASIO Spy story featuring Vera Figner in Brazen Hussies (Film Camp, 2020)
But it was difficult to capture all of the facets of the women's movement in one 90 minute film, and one of my favourite stories ended up on the cutting room floor. It was the story of Bessie Guthrie's arrival one day at the MeJane Headquarters. She was armed with folders of documents from her one-woman crusade for child welfare reform that she had amassed over 20 years. She announced to the MeJane collective of radical feminists "I've been waiting for you girls all my life."
Image Details: Bessie Guthrie at Sydney Women's Liberation House, 1974. Photo by Anne Roberts courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Tribune / SEARCH Foundation
One of the most significant campaigns [from MeJane] in terms of its success and coverage came in the wake of the arrival of the grand dame Bessie Guthrie … She was in her 60s when she arrived, a tall, elegant woman who came with piles of folders about her campaigns for child welfare reform. It was an astonishing amount of work and took us time to really process.
Suzanne Bellamy, during her interview for Brazen Hussies
Bessie was a local Glebe woman, concerned about the plight of runaway teenage girls and their horrific treatment in state institutions. She would often take them in, her home becoming a makeshift halfway house for runaways.
She fashioned this campaign through MeJane and she gradually allowed us to explore her material and shape it, and then to access what we had, which was the power of numbers. And so we had really important demonstrations outside the Bidura children's prison in Glebe in which women climbed up on the roof.
Suzanne Bellamy
Image details: Women's liberationists storm the roof at the Bidura Shelter for Girls in Glebe on International Women's Day 8 March 1974. Courtesy of Australian History Museum at Macquarie University [Image 42000127]
With the power of numbers, they were also able to attract the attention of ABC journalist Peter Manning, who reported an exposé on the abuse of girls in state care and the barbaric act of forced virginity testing. It was in watching this report that I was struck by how absolutely horrific the treatment of these girls was.
Video: Parramatta Girls Home and Hay Institute for Girls – This Day Tonight (1973)
In a report for the ABC on the Paramatta Girls Home in 1973, Peter Manning discussed the 'exposure to moral danger' laws which could be used against girls up until the age of 18:
Annual reports of the child welfare department state that no young men or boys are ever picked up on the charge of exposure to moral danger. It is the section of the Child Welfare Act used exclusively on girls … They are made to scrub the floors of the shelter on their knees every day, ordered to wear a uniform, and they are given a medical examination.
The medical exam included a pelvic examination to determine whether or not they were 'virginal'. For this white, middleclass, Australian millennial -at least-the idea that the state could compel teenage girls to be physically violated to assess whether they were virgins or not, sounds like something from medieval times, rather than a common occurrence in 1970s Australia. A pelvic examination is not at all a scientifically sound means of testing 'virginity'.
Image details: Protest at the Parramatta Girls Home, December 9th, 1974. Photo by Anne Roberts courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Tribune / SEARCH Foundation
The exposure to moral danger law was designed to 'protect' teenage girls from having sex out of wedlock, but the punishment was far worse than the crime. Only recently the 2014 The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in institutions revealed horrific stories of physical, sexual and mental abuse of the girls who were taken into state care and put into homes such as Parramatta Girls Home.
Just like the criminalization of abortion, the lack of financial support for single mothers and the pressure on them to give their babies up for adoption, the 'exposure to moral danger' law was all part of the gendered violence that controlled women's bodies, and subjugated them under a patriarchal society. Exposure to moral danger was a crime only committed by poor, often Aboriginal, young women, for no other reason than being born female.
Images Details: Bessie Guthrie (second from right) with members of Women's Liberation, photo by Pat Fiske in Cauldron vol. 1, no.1, September 1974
Because of Bessie Guthrie's collaboration with the Women's Liberation movement, a group of women also made a short film exposing the plight of girls charged with exposure to moral danger. Home, made by Leonie Crennan, Margot Knox, Barbara Levy, Robynne Murphy and Susan Varga features testimony by Toni Wilson, a young woman who spent much of her adolescence in girls homes. The film shows a reenactment of legs going into stirrups from the patient's point of view. She recounted the following:
The doctor sticks his finger up you. So you can imagine the effect that would have on a thirteen year old child. And a virgin at that. And the doctor saying you know when I resisted purely out of embarrassment, 'Oh if you don't lie still we'll take you to Parramatta and tie you down.' Completely misinterpreting my attitude, that's what shits me. An air of defence is just born of fear and bewilderment and you're penalised for it.
After the episode of This Day Tonight aired compulsory virginity testing was stopped virtually overnight. Eventually the charge of 'Exposure to moral danger' was also dropped.
For more information about the "Exposure to Moral Danger" laws and the girls institutions listen to Ann Arnold's award winning ABC radio documentary from 2009, Exposed to Moral Danger.
For more info on Brazen Hussies:
Web: brazenhussies.com.au
Facebook: brazenhussiesfilm
Twitter: Brazen_Hussies
Instagram: brazenhussiesfilm
Catherine Dwyer is the Writer and Director of Brazen Hussies– an historical dive into the Australian Women's Liberation Movement 1965-1975. She was inspired to make the film during her time as an Associate Producer on Mary Dore's She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014) – about the Women's Movement in the United States. During this experience she realized how little she knew of her own country's feminist history and how easily it was being forgotten. Catherine was nominated for an Australian Director's Guild Award for Brazen Hussies as well as an AACTA award for Best Direction. Brazen Hussies was nominated for the 2020 AIDC and AACTA Awards for "Best Feature Documentary" and is listed as one of The Guardian's top 10 Australian films of 2020.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens had its big glitzy Hollywood premiere last night and will be released to the general public on December 18th.
It has been ten years since the last Star Wars installment, so hard-core fans are already lining up to get the first tickets for midnight showings. There are also two new groups of folks getting ready. The first is like me: people who never really "got it" the first time around. The second group is made up of the grandkids of people who were in their late teens and early twenties when the first Star Wars movie hit the screens in 1977.
Regardless of whether you are a current Star Wars fan, or a newly indoctrinated one, here is my countdown of the top four ways to get yourself ready for this event.
4. Find a great theater – and be prepared to wait.
If you have an IMAX 3D cinema nearby, you will be able to get the best viewing experience. Believe it or not, most of the tickets for these showings have already been scooped up, so be prepared to wait until tickets are available a few days (or weeks) after the insanity has passed. Or settle for a "regular" screen. Personally, I'll wait it out to get a ticket for the IMAX 3D with recliners – pricey for a movie, but I rarely go out, and my herniated discs will thank me!
If you are one of the newbies, you'll be lost if you don't have a decent grasp of the story. Even the most hard-core Star Wars fans will admit that some are better than others : Episodes I through III, aren't great, but the payoff is the next three that start with the original 1977 film. If you cannot find them to stream for free, Amazon has a bunch of options to buy single or sets of the movies, If you don't have the time to "invest," starwarswars.com has pulled together what they are calling an "art installation" showing all six movies at once – either in grid form (see below) or in a stack of all six of the films on top of each other.
Part of the fun of franchises like Star Wars is the community. Some folks are more gung-ho than others, but they will all try a bit of dress-up, which is called "cosplay" (a combination of the words costume and play). There are "levels" of cosplay options from a basic t-shirt to full-out costumes. Note that if you go full-on and get a costume, stay away from masks when you go to the movie – most theaters have banned them. Also recommended: keep the light sabers and other fake weapons at home.
Of course! Star Wars: 100 Images to Inspire Creativity and Relaxation features a variety of illustrations for beginner and experienced colorists alike. Subjects include characters, patterns, mandalas, and landscapes.
The drawings range from simple mandalas to more challenging characters. The book has a sturdy cardboard cover that gives enough stability without needing a clipboard when coloring on the couch. The illustrations are printed on both sides of each page, so if you want to use all of them, alcohol-based markers are out of the question.
Four designs span across two pages. And as the book has a sewn binding, be careful if trying to remove individual pages as they may tear.
In this coloring book there are a lot of the elements from the first three Star Wars films, and there are not any from the new movie – the studio has done quite a job keeping all details about this movie under wraps.
The book has 120 pages and is approximately 8″W x 12″H. It is available on Amazon.com for US $11.53 and Amazon.ca for CD$ 12.63.
There is a second adult coloring book coming out in February which we are hoping will have some illustrations from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You can preorder the Star Wars Art Therapy Colouring Book on Amazon.com for US$12.09.
Preorder is not yet available on Amazon.ca, but you can ask to receive an email when it is ready – simply go to its Amazon.ca page and ask to be notified when it is ready by clicking the "Email to Me" button.
What about you – are you a Star Wars fan? Let us know in the comments below!
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Q: Need help integrating $\tan x$ and $\tan^n x$ using reduction I have tried to use integration by parts taking $u$ as $\tan x$ and $v$ as $1$:
$$\int \tan x \,dx = \int \tan x \cdot 1\; dx = \tan x \cdot x - \int \sec^2 x \cdot x\; dx$$
then by taking $u$ as $x$ and $v$ as $\sec^2 x$:
$$\implies\int \tan x\;dx = x \cdot \tan x - \Bigg(x \cdot \tan x - \int 1\cdot \tan x\;dx \Bigg)$$
I have also tried taking $u$ as $\sec^2 x$, $v$ the other way around but that increased the complexity.

I'm actually trying to solve $I_n =\displaystyle\int^\frac\pi4_0 \tan^n x\;dx$ using reduction.
I have to show that for $n\geqslant 2$:
$$I_n = \frac1{n-1}-I_{n-2}$$
I rewrote the equation to $I_n = \int \tan^{n-2}x\cdot \tan^2 x\;dx = \int \tan^{n-2} x(1-\sec^2 x)dx$
But when I integrate the term of $\int \tan^{n-2} x\cdot \sec^2 x\;dx$ I'm getting a $\frac10$ value:
$$\int \tan^{n-2} x\cdot \sec^2 x\;dx = \bigg[ \tan^{n-2} x\cdot \tan x\bigg]^\frac\pi4_0 - (n-2)\int \tan^{n-3}x\cdot \tan x\;dx$$
$$\implies I_n = I_{n-2}-\bigg( (1-\infty)-(n-2)I_{n-2}\bigg)$$

A: You should use anti-differentiation for this particular approach.
$$
\begin{align*}
\int \tan x \,dx &= \int \frac {\sin x}{\cos x} \,dx
\\&= -\int \frac {-\sin x}{\cos x} \,dx\,\,\, \spadesuit
\\&= -\ln |\cos x| +C
\end{align*}
$$
At $\spadesuit$, it works because it utilizes the idea that $\frac{d}{dx} \ln f(x) = \frac{f'(x)}{f(x)}$.
Understand that in that example, $f(x) = \cos x$ and, by differentiating, $f'(x) = -\sin x$. Hence, with that form, just integrate. Note that $\ln$ can only take positive values. Hence, the $||$ modulus notation around the function.

Now, observe that
$$\tan^n x=\tan^{n-2}x \times \tan^2x =\tan^{n-2}x \times (\sec^2x-1)\,\,\,\forall \,x\geq2 \,\,\,\heartsuit$$
Consider that
$$
\begin{align*}
\int \tan^n x \,dx &=
\int \tan^{n-2}x \times (\sec^2x-1) \,dx
\\&= \int \tan^{n-2}x \times (\sec^2x-1) \,dx\,\,\, \text{using} \, \heartsuit
\\&= \int \tan^{n-2}x \times (\sec^2x) \,dx - \underbrace{\int \tan^{n-2}x  \,dx}_{I_{n-2}}
\end{align*}
$$
You should be able to solve it from here.

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Clockwise from top: Irvine Civic Center, San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, University of California, Irvine, Balloon ride at Orange County Great Park, "Giant Wheel" at Irvine Spectrum Center
Location of Irvine in Orange County, California.
December 28, 1971[3]
Council-Manager[4]
Donald P. Wagner
• Mayor Pro Tempore
Lynn Schott
• City council members[6]
Melissa Fox
Jeffrey Lalloway
Christina Shea
Sean Joyce[5]
65.92 sq mi (170.74 km2)
0.34 sq mi (0.89 km2) 0.52%
56 ft (17 m)
3rd in Orange County
75th in the United States
4,211.28/sq mi (1,566.75/km2)
Irvinite
UTC−8 (Pacific)
UTC−7 (PDT)
ZIP codes[9]
92602–92604, 92606, 92612, 92614, 92616–92620, 92623, 92650, 92697
949, 657/714
06-36770[10]
74 miles[11]
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Irvine (pronounced /ˈɜrvaɪn/) is a city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mostly made by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. The city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971. The 69.7 square mile (180.5 km2)[source?] city has a population of about 212,793 (as of January 1, 2009).[12] It has united in the past a green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped area to the north, and has also united the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, most of which is planned to be converted into the Orange County Great Park.
The University of California, the highest level of the state's public higher education system, has a campus in Irvine.
Irvine is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area.
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Cognitive Development Versus Social Learning Approaches to studying Legal Socialization
Susan O. White, University of New Hampshire - Main CampusFollow
The purpose of the present study was to compare the relative influence of social learning versus cognitive developmental factors as predictors of legal reasoning. The sample included 87 men and 132 women who lived in four residence halls. The two experimental residence halls included one in which residents ran their own judicial system and one in which the residence hall staff strictly enforced the rules. Participants reported responses on the following legal reasoning measures: the normative status that a particular behavior had for each individual, the enforcement status (the individual's willingness to accept enforcement of a rule against that behavior), and the frequency of rule-violating behaviors. The results provided stronger support for a cognitive developmental rather than a social learning explanation of normative status and enforcement status of rule-violating behaviors. Because this simple finding could mask a full explanation of legal socialization as suggested by some cognitive developmental theorists, we introduced the interaction between these two factors into the analysis. The interaction was significantly correlated with the frequency of engaging in disorderly behavior, the normative status of destructive behavior, and the enforcement status of all rule-violating behaviors. The implications of the interaction for future theory is discussed.
Basic and Applied Psychology
10.1207/s15324834basp0703_3
Cohn, E. S. & White, S. O. (1986). Cognitive Development Versus Social Learning Approaches to Studying Legal Socialization. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 7.3, 95-209. doi: 10.1207/s15324834basp0703_3


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European Girls Olympiad in Informatics 2021
What is EGOI?
Video Challenge
Swiss Team Portrait
Call for tasks
Practice Contest
Contest Environment
EGOI is over. The Closing Ceremony, Goodbye Blogpost and Final Report are online.
Portrait: Ema
Ema's story starts as one of contrasts and of challenging stereotypes. She is an athlete as well as a seasoned and accomplished (Science) Olympian, having won a bronze medal at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad and a silver one at the Swiss Olympiad in Informatics (SOI) last year alone. "Especially when they [people] get to know me as the girl who plays soccer, and then they hear that I also do maths and computer science, they sometimes get confused". This year, she has her sights set on closing the few points' gap that kept her from the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in 2020. Her goal is to be part of the Swiss delegation at both EGOI and IOI.
Guided by innate talent and enjoyment for mathematics, Ema found her way to SOI by first participating in the Mathematical Olympiad. The experience appealed to her, so she set out to find other Olympiads she could participate in. "[...] I found out about informatics. I had been programming a bit in my free time already, so I thought I'd try it". Mathematics is also what continues to fuel her programming exploits "I really enjoy maths and I see programming as an application of it, it's like the closest thing that could be useful for everyday problems. I also like the potential that programming has or just technology in general, for the future", along with the puzzle-solving aspect that comes up during the Olympiad.
When first starting out in SOI, she was able to rely on her already rich mathematics knowledge to help her along: "In the beginning it wasn't very hard to find the solutions to the problems, just because they are quite mathematical, or they require a lot of logic, and I had trained that". However, it wasn't all effortless. A few missing pieces were standing between her and her desired performance. "I knew which algorithm to use, but I didn't know every detail of how to write that algorithm down. So in the first year, before every competition, I was really scared that I would solve a problem in my head, but then I wouldn't know how to program it". After the first year, as her programming skills improved, it all started to come together. Her confidence also saw a large shift, which she considers to be the biggest general improvement, as well as an accurate indicator of her progress over time.
The challenges of SOI go beyond programming. Ema admits, laughing, that her biggest challenge was in fact "getting used to really struggling with the things I thought I was good at and getting used to asking for help". At the same time, this helped her get a glimpse of the world outside the classroom and put her abilities into perspective. "If you're just at the top of your class, and you know there's twenty people there, you never really know how much that means outside the class". As a result, she learned to focus on her individual progress and avoid comparison: "I feel like you can see much more progress if you only look at yourself, and it has been very helpful".
The highlights of her SOI experience are the people and the community. She appreciates the atmosphere of camaraderie that the shared enthusiasm for informatics creates. The volunteers serve as role models to the participants, and the other participants feel like friends rather than competitors to Ema. To encourage more girls to participate, she would say "[...] definitely try it, and also don't give up if it doesn't work from the beginning [...] you can participate another year, at least you've learned a lot, and you've met a few people". She points out that the only prerequisite is interest; prior knowledge is not required and the preparation events that the SOI team diligently puts together each year do a great job of teaching all the basics one would need for the competition.
She'll be off on a new adventure next year, as she finishes high school. What does she hope the next years to bring? "I'd like to study maths. I don't think I have a specific goal, but I would like to make a small difference with maths somehow.(...) maybe just proving some small thing that no one has proven before, it might be completely insignificant but I'd really like that, or I've been considering teaching maths as well, helping students who felt they couldn't do maths understand that it's not that bad". I truly hope teaching will find a place in Ema's future. Her talent, passion, her outstanding achievements, and the lessons she takes away from her SOI journey are an inspiration.
About EGOI 2021
EGOI 2021 is the first edition of a european programming competition for girls in high-school. It promotes young scientist and supports the social and cultural exchange between European countries.
"I hope the EGOI experience encourages you to follow your passions!"
The scoreboard has spoken
Life after school and EGOI after dark
Cookies for twins and Christmas presents in June
Switzerland, near and far
"At EGOI, women rule!"
Humans of Girls Camp
The Swiss EGOI Selection has started
Portrait: Logic and Passion
Interview: «Make the first step!»
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Whilst the Australian Government maintains its stance on Lyme disease not being a notifiable disease in Australia we at the Lyme Disease Association of Australia (LDAA) are contacted on a regular basis by individuals who have been bitten and now have a chronic condition. Don't let this happen to you.
In an article "Methods of tick removal: A systematic review of the literature" published in the Australian Medical Journal, Stephen and Nikki Coleman studied peer-reviewed literature to determine which was the best method of removing ticks to prevent future health complications, from a scientific perspective.
The Colemans performed a systematic review of the published literature based on scientific and medical studies conducted between 1985 and 2016 on tick removal. Their conclusion was to endorse what is the current accepted medical practice – also endorsed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) – to remove the tick by mechanical means as soon as possible after the tick is detected. Gripping the tick around the mouthparts using either fine-tipped tweezers or a 'claw-like' tick removal tool to pull the tick away from the site of attachment is best. The area around the tick bite should then be thoroughly disinfected.
Some Doctors recommend freezing the tick in place as a method of tick removal, but the Colemans found that there is, at this point in time at least, insufficient scientific evidence to support such a method of removal; the same conclusion was also reached by the WHO and the CDC.
Rev'd Dr Nikki Coleman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and a Research Associate at the College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, Australian National University, and was previously a member of the Chief Medical Officer's Clinical Advisory Committee (CALCD) on Lyme Disease. Dr Stephen Coleman, is the Associate Professor of Ethics and Leadership in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales in Canberra.
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Yesterday afternoon when I was thinking what I wanted for dinner, stuffed peppers popped in my mind. I had some Italian Chicken Sausage on hand as well as brown rice.
I cooked the sausage in a covered pan with some water on medium low heat. This took about 40 – 50 minutes min (check often to make sure there is still water in the pan and add when needed). I also cooked the brown rice according to the package which also took about 40 minutes.
Cut out the stem of the peppers and clean out the seeds. I like my peppers kind of soft so I put them in a covered dish with some water and placed them in the preheated oven to steam them and soften them a little while the other ingredients are cooking.
Once the sausage was done I cut it into little pieces and mixed it with the rice, tomato sauce, and chopped onion. Use your own desired amounts but enough to fill up the four peppers.
I stuffed the peppers with the ingredients and baked them uncovered in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes.
They came out great. You can eat them alone or add any additional sides.
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We are thoroughly satisfied with the development of our investments. While the year under review was again a challenging one in view of the sustained low interest rate level and global economic movements driven by a range of uncertainties and risks, we had virtually no impairments to recognise in our equity portfolio or fixed-income securities. Our exposures to the credit risk and emerging markets were also rewarded with a good performance in these sectors and delivered stable results. This is similarly true of our private equity and real estate holdings, the income from which – thanks to their higher weighting in our portfolio – helped to push our ordinary investment income (excluding interest on funds withheld and contract deposits) to a very gratifying EUR 1,289.0 million, a level that once again improved on the previous year (EUR 1,162.0 million). Despite the difficult interest rate environment, our returns on fixed-income securities even came in slightly higher than in the previous year.
Net realised gains on disposals totalled EUR 377.1 million (previous year: EUR 206.3 million) and can be attributed in part to regrouping moves in the context of regular portfolio maintenance but primarily to the liquidation of our portfolio of non-strategic listed equities at the end of the third quarter. We report further on this in the following section "Financial position and net assets" under the subsection "Investments".
We recognise a derivative for the credit risk associated with special life reinsurance treaties (ModCo) under which securities deposits are held by cedants for our account; the performance of this derivative in the year under review gave rise to positive fair value changes recognised in income of EUR 3.7 million (EUR 0.5 million). Altogether, the positive changes in the fair values of our financial assets recognised at fair value through profit or loss amounted to EUR 38.6 million (EUR 26.1 million). The principal items recognised here are various derivative financial instruments relating to the technical account or taken out as currency or interest rate hedges as well as fixed-income assets for which the fair value option provided by IAS 39 was applied.
Impairments and depreciation totalling EUR 71.9 million (EUR 76.3 million) were taken. The impairments were attributable in an amount of EUR 15.6 million (EUR 0.0 million) to two real estate properties in the United States. Equities accounted for an amount of EUR 3.7 million (EUR 30.1 million). Impairments of EUR 8.4 million (EUR 11.7 million) were recognised on alternative investments. The write-downs taken on fixed-income securities amounted to just EUR 0.3 million (EUR 0.7 million). Impairments were also taken on our portfolio of equity investments in an amount of EUR 10.4 million (EUR 1.9 million). Scheduled depreciation on directly held real estate rose to EUR 31.0 million (EUR 28.9 million), a reflection of the further increase in our involvement in this sector. These write-downs contrasted with write-ups of just EUR 0.9 million (EUR 0.3 million).
Despite the challenging interest rate environment, we were able to generate investment income of EUR 1,773.9 million that was clearly in excess of the comparable period (EUR 1,550.4 million) on the back of stronger ordinary income from real estate and private equity as well as higher realised gains. Income from assets under own management accounted for EUR 1,539.0 million (EUR 1,218.3 million), producing an average return (including effects from ModCo derivatives) of 3.8%. We thus clearly beat the 2.7% goal that we had originally set ourselves for the full financial year and comfortably outperformed the minimum target return that we had revised upwards to 3.0% in the fourth quarter. This can be attributed first and foremost to the substantial gains realised on the liquidation of our portfolio of non-strategic listed equities, but was also made possible by the pleasing ordinary income booked from private equity and real estate funds, which came in higher than anticipated.


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500 million Facebook user phone numbers sold for $20 each
By Jeff Ehling
Old Facebook glitch exposes users' phone numbers
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you use Facebook, your phone number and user ID information may be available to anyone willing to pay for it.
The trouble started in 2019 when a security flaw allowed hackers to grab Facebook ID information and phone numbers of users who linked them to their account. Now, we are learning that the information is reportedly for sale.
Facebook knows all about the problem. The company even sent out a fix to make sure it does not happen again.
Internet security experts tell us the damage is done.
RELATED: Consumers seeking insurance due to growing number of cyber attacks during COVID-19
According to a report from Motherboard, researchers recently learned information from more than 500 million users that was previously hacked by cyber criminals can now be bought on the web for $20 a pop. $5,000 can buy 10,000 numbers.
It is being reported by Motherboard that the bot has been running since Jan. 12.
IT experts say, at this point, it's too late to get that information back. However, this is a perfect time to take a look at the information you have entered in any app on your phone. Make sure you are OK with private companies having access to that information.
"It is always good to go back to the sources (where) you have put some of this information, and make sure it is information you still want them to have," said University of Houston Chief Information Security Officer Mary Dickerson.
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We asked Facebook about the bot selling information. Company representatives said they tested it and found the information from users who created profiles after 2019 is not available.
"This is old data," a company representative said. "We found and fixed the issue in August 2019."
The company has removed the ability to find others using phone numbers and Facebook ID information.
However, that leaves everyone who signed up prior to 2019 potentially vulnerable.
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Q: Customizing map.resources in Rails Suppose I have a Book model, which contains many Page models.
The routing for this would be as so:
map.resources :books do |book|
    book.resources :pages
end

Following the Rails default on this quickly leads to problems. Suppose Book #1 has 10 pages. The first Page in Book #2 will have this route:
/books/2/pages/11

This is a pretty bad route, what would make more sense is this:
/books/2/pages/1

Or even this:
/books/2/1

Is there a way to still use map.resources, but get a result like this:
/books/{book.id}/pages/{page.page_number}

A: No. You have to use custom routing for that.
Feel free to get inspiration from http://github.com/augustl/kii/blob/master/config/routes.rb

A: As August says you need to use custom routing for that.
But for the pages, you don't need the full resources routes. Only show will be necessary.
So something like :
map.resources :books do |book|
    book.page ':page_id', :action => 'index'
end

Will map the default books url for displaying the index, one book and adding/editing them.
But also a page

/books/{book.id}/{page_id}

Which maps to the index action with the parameter "page_id". You only have to display the appropriate books page ;)

A: You could also try the shallow-option for your routing!


Add the rice and chicken stock to the 2 qt saucepan. Cover, whistle open and cook on medium heat. When the whistle sounds, close the valve to "V" for vent and reduce the temperature to low.The rice will need to cook for about 20-25 minutes.
Meanwhile, toss the green beans, shrimp, cannellini beans, and all other ingredients to coat evenly. Add to the large skillet; cover, whistle open, and cook on medium heat. When the whistle sounds, uncover and reduce the temperature to medium low. Continue to saute the mixture until the rice is done. Season the shrimp mixture with freshly ground salt and black pepper to taste and divide into four portions. Serve each portion with a 1/2 cup serving of brown rice.


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