Clusterfuck Nation For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page At least in wartime, the bars stay open. That’s how you know this is a different thing altogether from whatever else you’ve seen in your lifetime. Even those of us who signed up for this trip — that is, more »

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We bowed our heads in prayer to mourn yet another loss. It was the third murder in a week. The police captain called a meeting together to develop collaborative alternatives to enforcement so the mostly Black and Latino civilian volunteers could get more involved in promoting crime control. Lakeside, where I was conducting research, is […]

I don’t know about you, but giving daily make-up a rest has been doing wonders for my skin. But in case we’ve never met before — hi, I’m Gala! — I like to maximize things. My train of thought goes something like, ‘Sure, my skin looks good… But what if I came out of quarantine looking better than […]

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Note from OBOS co-founder Judy Norsigian: After publication of my reflections piece in the June 2019 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), I received this wonderful email from Kay Johnson. Her story reminds us all once again of how ONE life experience (reading a book/having a terrific teacher or mentor/participating in an eye-opening social justice action/etc.) can change the course of our lives and bring us into partnership with others also committed to racial, economic and social justice for all.

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  The ongoing push toward sustainability of refrigeration systems requires the adoption of low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants to meet the shift in environmental regulations. In 2016, nearly 200 countries signed the Kigali Agreement, a

I was just working on a series of packages and tins in my kitchen that I hadn't drawn during the Pantry Art Project in January, when you came up with Wanna Play Along - this is the work I love most, so yay, I'm playing along!

As the novel coronavirus spreads through the U.S. during presidential primaries, election and government officials are scrambling to figure out how to allow voters to cast their ballots safely ― or postpone primaries altogether. Managing in-person voting during an unprecedented pandemic has forced authorities to overcome new virus-related hurdles: providing sufficient cleaning supplies to polling […]

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That's Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen having a rather... unfortunate encounter with some peppers. That final photo? The result of some of her Instagram and Twitter followers telling her that milk would help neutralize the burning - which by all accounts it did!

Do you want some powerful article tips? How about some tips for quick article writing? Well, I have some great techniques to get better results.

This week’s deal is on a deck of cards that will make you a better designer! 

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My department manager was looking for an intern:

Boss: It doesn’t have to be a graphic designer, just someone that can use Adobe Illustrator efficiently and has an eye for detail and composition.

Me: So… a designer?

DIY meatball recipe till the day we can go to IKEA again. If you’ve been missing the whole IKEA experience, you can now have a slice of it at home, in the form of its famous Swedish meatballs. IKEA recently released its signature recipe via Twitter, the cooking steps depicted in its usual assembly instruction […]

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Mentors provide a wealth of knowledge and experience to us, they guide us through challenges and increase our likelihood of success, they lift us up and take our success personally. They are invaluable. So why do only 37% of professionals have one?

What happens if you want to create a list of items, but don't want to start counting from 1 (eg, you want the list to start from item 4)? This article shows you how to do it, and still use the HTML ability to automatically number the list, and keep the numbers up-to-date even when you add items to (or delete them from) the middle.

Gabby the virtual motorhome is on her virtual tour having now reached the lovely Lubeck . Lubeck was one of those places we first saw and read about in blogs. Other peoples blogs. Stories of parking up and wandering through its quaint walls into its equall

Around the main island of Lombok there are many many Gilis islands. Some of them inhabited some just some rocks bushes but all having wonderful white sands turquoise waters and stunning views. Being on search for a nice Gili we finally decided to

Today should have been the day. It is going to be a day of would have could have and should have again. We would have been waking up on the park and ride paid our fee to exit and driven the M2 down to the tunnel . We should have been sitting in the car

Reaching Blog 100 on Chesterfield who would have believed it Not me. Sometimes I would write something about my home town. Most of the time though blogs were about somewhere else . Covid 19 has scuppered any chance of a blog from out of town for a whil

While I was upset that I was unable to lockdown travel plans for the weeklong National Holiday...staying in Guilin has given me the opportunity to learn a little bit more about the city and the culture and a few other things as well.1. They save th

The corona crisis has hit the German economy at full force. Already, 470,000 applications have been filed for a German government subsidy that prevents employees from getting laid off, 20 times more than the previous record during the 2009 financial crisis.

Fox News pundit mocks 'experts,' encourages Americans to get out there and 'have some courage'

Over the next 20 years more than a quarter of the nation’s currently owner-occupied homes will be on the market as owners pass on with Orlando being one of the top impacted areas.

The Cheltenham horse racing festival should probably not have been allowed to go ahead last month shortly before Britain went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Horse Racing Ireland CEO Brian Kavanagh has said.

Cops are looking into the possibility a man who stalked through a Brooklyn home with a knife may have trespassed through another nearby location the night before.

Students normally must pass five of the end-of-course exams to graduate from state high schools, but officials scrapped the exams Monday amid statewide school closures triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.

The COVID-19 deaths included 22 paraprofessionals, 21 teachers, two administrators, two central office staffers, a facilities employee, a guidance counselor and a school food worker.

A business’s brand is the way people perceive that business – in essence your brand is your business. Brands and perceptions of brands are created in a number of manners – from your messaging on social media, to your website design and content.
A holistic approach is a winning approach when it comes to branding, however not all businesses succeed in accomplishing this all-inclusive methodology. Branding that doesn’t match internal and external audiences’ perceptions can cause conflict, problems and ideally ...

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Clare football boss Colm Collins believes players should not be pressurised into returning to competitive action in any way, stressing their amateur status gives them the right to refuse to take to the field if they're uncomfortable.

A new study suggests a half-ton bird roamed Europe nearly 2 million years ago, around when our Homo predecessors were first entering the region.

A study finds that close to a trillion trees could potentially be planted on Earth—enough to sequester more than 200 billion tons of carbon. But environmental change on this scale is no easy task.

A new analysis of a skull found in Greece decades ago suggests that early humans may have been in Eurasia as early as 210,000 years ago.

The new material could have applications in robotics and medicine.

Two kinds of glow-in-the-dark catsharks convert blue light to green, and now we know how.

The LIGO and Virgo observatories appear to have picked up gravitational waves from a first-of-its-kind astronomical observation.

It’s almost too dense to exist. Almost.

There's never a good time for a pandemic, but it's hard to imagine a worse time than in the middle of the decennial census.

The Clippers have their sites set on a championship run with the addition of forward Marcus Morris, but his debut might have to wait.

LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard were all wearing the same uniform, Frank Vogel coaching on the sidelines and thought of what might have been.

His former teachers remember Clippers star Kawhi Leonard just as he is now: quiet, focused and successful.

Clippers coach Doc Rivers checks in daily with players and reminds them of their championship goal and not to use hiatus as a reason they can't win.