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There is no better time to set reading resolutions than at the beginning of the year, and as we start 2023, I am most certainly arranging and rearranging my TBR. As an adventurous reader, this year I am seeking inspiration from reading challenges across the internet to build my own personalized reading goals and to determine which books on my TBR I should prioritize. From books I have been meaning to read and still haven’t picked up, to stories that wouldn’t have previously been on my radar if these challenges hadn’t helped me discover them, here are seven reading challenge prompts I am aiming to fulfill in 2023.
I have made it a personal mission to diversify my TBR and pick up books that aren’t traditionally considered among “the classics” by reading books set around the world and translated works of fiction. Luckily for me, the 52 Book Club’s 2023 Reading Challenge includes a prompt that slots in perfectly with this goal: read a book by a Caribbean author.
THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY by Maisy Card is the perfect book to fulfill this challenge. Charting a course from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem, the novel follows the Paisley family over multiple generations—specifically, how they grapple with the consequences of patriarch Abel Paisley’s death . . . and the subsequent, sudden revelation that he was alive the whole time.
Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
*An Entertainment Weekly, Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 Pick and Buzz Magazine’s Top New Book of the New Decade*
Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley.
And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead.
These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions.
This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.
The Book Riot Read Harder challenge is one of my favorite reading challenges due to its wide-ranging prompts that encourage readers to try books outside of their comfort zone. One prompt I was particularly excited to see on this year’s challenge is to finish a book you did not finish last year. As someone who tends to read a lot of books at the same time, I have fallen victim to picking a book up, only to be sidetracked by another one.
This year, I am making it a personal mission to finish WE PLAY OURSELVES by Jen Silverman, which I started in 2021 and, sadly, had to return to the library before I could complete it. The book follows Cass, a young playwright on the rise who is brought down by an intense public shaming. When she flees to Los Angeles in an attempt to reinvent herself, she meets Caroline, her enigmatic filmmaker neighbor. As Cass is slowly brought into Caroline’s orbit, her curiosity develops into fear as she questions the ethics behind Caroline’s devotion to her craft.
When I saw that one of the prompts for PopSugar’s 2023 reading challenge is “a book with just text on the cover,” I knew immediately that my pick for this prompt would be WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT, an essay collection edited by Michele Filgate. The genesis for this book arose from a viral essay Filgate wrote that details how her stepfather’s abuse of her impacted her relationship with her mother, and each essay in the collection expresses the dynamic of love, loss, and trauma between the writer and their mother. As an additional bonus: you can utilize WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT for another prompt from the PopSugar challenge, “a BookTok recommendation,” as this book has gained widespread acclaim across BookTok.
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.
As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything.
As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves.
Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
The reading tracking app The StoryGraph traces so many different stats in one’s reading habits, including your top moods, that it has led me to discover I do not read many happy books. In fact, some of my least popular moods are relaxing, hopeful, and inspiring. As much as I love deriving catharsis from books, in 2023, I’m going to go out of my way to try to read books that will actually leave me in a more positive mood than when I started.
The StoryGraph’s Stat-Buster challenge is perfect for me to incorporate some more hopeful books into my 2023 reading, as one of the challenge’s prompts is to read one of your least-read moods. Fredrik Backman has a track record for writing cozy reads, and I can think of no better choice to fulfill this prompt than reading ANXIOUS PEOPLE. One wouldn’t expect a story about an apartment viewing hijacked by a failed bank robber who takes everyone hostage to be particularly hopeful, but Backman infuses ANXIOUS PEOPLE with his trademark humor and heart to create a universal, optimistic story about humanity.
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel….Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure” (People).
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.
Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.
Proving once again that Backman is “a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives” (USA TODAY), Anxious People “captures the messy essence of being human….It’s clever and affecting, as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry” (The Washington Post). This “endlessly entertaining mood-booster” (Real Simple) is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times.
I feel like this prompt from The 52 Book Club’s 2023 Reading Challenge is directly targeting me. There are multiple books on my TBR that I have intended to read not just in the last year, but in the last TWO years. I have been telling myself that I will pick up TENDER IS THE FLESH since August 2020, and yet it sits on my shelves, unread, mocking me.
There is truly no good reason why I haven’t picked up this book yet, especially since I am a massive fan of dystopian fiction. Set in a world where animal meat is poisonous, eating humans, now called “special meat,” is made legal. The ramifications are explored through Marcos Tejo, who works in the business of slaughtering humans at a processing plant. When he is given a live specimen of the finest quality, he develops a forbidden relationship with her and must reconcile with the consequences.
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.
Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
Similar to TENDER IS THE FLESH, Emily Austin’s debut novel EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD is a book I was immediately excited to read when it first came out in July 2021, and since then I have still not picked it up. My excitement to read this story has only grown as I have seen it pop up all over social media, and when I saw that one of the prompts for PopSugar’s 2023 Reading Challenge is to read a book by a first-time author, I knew that this would be my top choice.
Twentysomething atheist lesbian Gilda cannot stop ruminating on death. In an attempt to ease her mind, she responds to a flier for free therapy posted by her local Catholic church. When the priest assumes she’s there for a job interview to replace the recently deceased receptionist, Gilda is too embarrassed to correct him and is hired. As she stumbles into increasingly absurd situations, Gilda attempts to find what is worth living for in a world where death is the only certainty.
In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.
In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.
With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
I have read several fantastic books of dystopian fiction in 2022, and luckily, I can explore the genre more in 2023. The 52 Book Club has included a dystopian fiction prompt in their 2023 reading challenge, and I’m fully prepared to utilize this reading challenge prompt to pick up one of the highest priority books on my TBR: THE IMMORTAL KING RAO by Vauhini Vara.
Athena Rao has had to contend with her father’s legacy in more ways than one. Not only does she sit in a prison cell accused of her father’s murder, but thanks to a biotechnological innovation, she literally possesses all of her father’s memories.
In his lifetime, King Rao was a brilliant, if damaged, visionary. With the help of his wife, Margie, he created the personal computer known as the Coconut, setting into motion the contrivance of a new world order led by a corporate-run government. Athena’s fate now lies in the hands of this government’s Shareholders—unless she can escape and rejoin the resistance group known as the Exes.
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Born and raised in the east of London, I grew up in the 80’s listening to, and drawing inspiration from, the legendary bands Alaap, Heera, and DCS, the true pioneers of modern day Bhangra music, along with a keen ear for western musical influences in that era.
With music as my passion and remixing my art, we changed the face of the Asian music scene in 1996, forming the award winning Dhol n Bass (DnB).
Leading the way as one of the first DJ / Music Producers, I was signed up in 2002 by the internationally renowned Moviebox label, I received recognition as a producer of mainstream Asian beats, with a style identical to none. I’m now a mainstay within the Moviebox camp, widely considered one of it’s most successful artists, and receiving deserved recognition by working alongside the likes Malkit Singh MBE, Sukhshinder Shinda Kumar Sanu, Miss Pooja, Jassi Sidhu & many more.
Producing super hits and dancefloor anthems such as ‘Chit Karda’, ‘Ah Chak Bottle’, ‘Ek Hor La De’, ‘Desi Beat’, ‘Gidha Pao’ and the melodic heart warmer ‘Har Pal’.
Guest mixes and shows on the Asian radio scene have included for the likes of Kiss FM, BBC Radio 1, BBC 1xtra and BBC Asian Network.
Having dazzled the music scene with my deck skills and ability to rock the crowd for over 20 years, I am now a permanent fixture both in the UK and abroad for DJ tours, international shows, A-List Bollywood events, and an ever-popular choice for Destination Weddings worldwide.
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Man in hospital after stabbing in St. James Town
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Published Monday, March 20, 2017 5:09AM EDT
One man was hospitalized following a stabbing in St. James Town late Sunday night.
It happened shortly before 11:45 p.m. near Sherbourne and Earl streets, near Wellesley Street.
Paramedics say the male victim, who is believed to be in his 40s, was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police have not yet released any information on possible suspects.


[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/12/art.senor.file.gi.jpg caption="Dan Senor will announce within the next month whether he will run for Senate."](CNN) - Dan Senor, a Defense Department adviser to former President George W. Bush, will announce within the next month whether he will run for the U.S. Senate in New York, multiple sources confirm to CNN.
Three sources, all prominent New York Republicans, also say that Senor is being encouraged by state party leaders to challenge Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Another source familiar with the situation tells CNN that Senor "is talking with state Republican leaders and that there are a lot of people pushing him to do it." The source adds that Senor "will make an announcement, either way, within a few weeks."
National Republicans are open to a potential Senor candidacy, but are not yet getting behind any specific candidate at this point in time, two additional sources tell CNN.
Senor, 38, is currently a private equity executive and author. He served as an adviser to Sen. Spencer Abraham of Michigan in the 1990's and worked for the Defense Department during the buildup to the Iraq war. After the invasion, Senor became an adviser and chief spokesman for Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
Senor is married to CNN anchor Campbell Brown, who is not commenting on the speculation about her husband's plans.
Gillibrand was appointed to the Senate last year by New York Gov. David Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton, who stepped down to become secretary of state. The Democratic establishment has lined up behind Gillibrand, effectively clearing the field of any primary challengers who might have been thinking about taking on the freshman senator.
Republicans are currently without a big name candidate in the contest. Former New York City Mayor and 2008 GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has said no to a Senate run, as has nine-term Rep. Peter King. Former New York State Gov. George Pataki has expressed no interest in wanting to make a bid. Earlier this month, magazine editor and publisher and real estate billionaire Mort Zuckerman, after expressing interest, also declined to run.


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Icewind Dale Complete [FullRip-GoG] PC | Windows | EN | Black Isle Studios | 1.73 Gb Genre: RPG
In the northernmost reaches of the Forgotten Realms lies the frozen and untamed region known as Icewind Dale. Journey deep into the Spine of the World Mountains, a harsh and unforgiving territory teeming with fearsome and merciless beasts. There you must confront an ancient evil that threatens to unleash an unspeakable horror upon the face of Faerun.
Just then a new war begins between people of the Ten Towns and the barbarian tribes united under a new king. Journey to the secluded town of Loneywood to forestall the invasion and discover the secret that lies locked within he frozen Heart of Winter in an awesome adaptation of the Advanced of Dungeons and Dragons system.
Features: • Includes the original Icewind Dale and its two expansion packs- Heart of Winter and Trials of The Luremaster • Epic music composed by multiple award-winning composer Jeremy Soule • Experience an exciting action RPG set in the famous Forgotten Realms campaign setting
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Today, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif sounded a grave warning to the world noting that Iran would resume its nuclear programme "at much greater speed", if the US withdrew from the accord.
Iranian President Rouhani has said that the West has “no right to renegotiate the deal.”
French President Emmanuel Macron met with US President Donald Trump and has urged his counterpart to support the Iran nuclear deal. If the US does not re-certify the deal by May 12th 2018, Iran has warned it will resume its nuclear program.
Iran’s current nuclear program involves several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities. The country ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970. Thus, its nuclear program has to be subjected to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verification.
In the 2000s, reports began emerging on Iran running a uranium enrichment program in secret. An investigation by the IAEA revealed that Iran had not declared a number of its nuclear activities to the group. Thus, the nation was subjected to multiple harsh sanctions from the international community. This has cost the nation billions of dollars (estimated $100 billion in oil revenues alone till 2015). It has also lost out on foreign direct investment.
On 2 April 2015, the P5+1 and Iran reached a provisional agreement that sought to lift most of the sanctions in exchange for limits on Iran's nuclear programs extending for at least ten years. When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) certified that Iran had restricted its sensitive nuclear activities, the UN sanctions were lifted on January 16, 2016.
The United States and Iran do not have any formal diplomatic relations or ties. The two nations share an acrimonious relationship. In 2002, US President, George W Bush, referred to Iran as being part of the “axis of evil.”
US President Trump refused to certify Iran’s compliance with the deal in October last year. He directed his administration to “address the deal’s many flaws so that the Iranian regime can never threaten the world with nuclear weapons.” Additionally, in January this year, Trump announced that he would extend the waiver of sanctions until Europe and the US could fix the deal. Washington hopes for the European allies to commit to improving the deal by May, in return for which it would renew sanctions relief.
European powers have repeatedly affirmed their support for the nuclear deal in the recent months. Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel released a joint statement in support of the deal. Federica Mogherini, the Foreign Policy Chief of the European Union, has also been in favor of the JCPOA. Mogherini said, “We cannot afford as the international community to dismantle a nuclear agreement that is working. This deal is not a bilateral agreement ... The international community, and the European Union with it, has clearly indicated that the deal is, and will, continue to be in place.”
In January 2018, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his French and German counterparts in Brussels to discuss the nuclear deal. The meeting took place at the request of the European Union.
In April 2018, French President Macron met with US President Donald Trump and urged him to continue the deal. He said that there are no better alternatives. “Is this agreement perfect and this JCPOA a perfect thing for our relationship with Iran? No. But for nuclear — what do you have? As a better option? I don’t see it,” he said. He also noted that this would prevent Iran from turning into another North Korea-like rogue state.
“This will be a chance to persuade Trump before May 12,” said one EU diplomat, hailing the “nice” coincidence of the sequential trips by the bloc’s two most influential leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also scheduled to visit Trump in Washington before May 12th. EU leaders are concerned that without US, the deal will be essentially null and void. European nations that have continued to work in the region are also concerned over the future of the nuclear deal. Diplomats have noted that rather than dissolving the nuclear deal, European leaders are seeking to impose more sanctions in Iran, especially for its actions in Syria.
Steffen Seibert, who is Merkel’s spokesman, said last week that Germany was “concerned about Iran’s ballistic missile programme and about Iran’s regional activities, because those, too, touch on European security interests”.
Our assessment is that barring Washington, the nuclear deal has international support especially from the European Union. There are concerns that if Iran backs away from the nuclear deal, it will be difficult to regulate its nuclear programme. We believe that it will be necessary for Washington and its allies to come to a decision that ensures that the JCPOA remains in place. Given that the EU member states and Russia are in favor of continuing the agreement, it would be hard for the US to delegitimize it.
If the United States retracts from the Iran deal, Russia and China can be counted on to pursue their respective security and commercial interests to block any attempts to reinstate effective sanctions.
Read more: A new nuclear deal?

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You can choose which 5 cards you want (I only have 5 at the moment, so this is pretty irrelevant).
I played Charmeleon in the middle.
Now, "Lady X", my opponent, played Jolteon to the right. Because Jolteon's left value (4) was higher than Charmeleon's right (3), and they were touching, Charmeleon is turned over to the red side.
Whomever has the most cards of their colour in the end, wins.
The winner gets a random card of their opponents. In this case, I lost, so I had to give away Charmeleon.

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Discuss how George was morally justified in shooting Lennie.My thesis is "In Of Mice and Men, George was morally justified for shooting Lennie for the reason that his motives were acceptable....
My thesis is "In Of Mice and Men, George was morally justified for shooting Lennie for the reason that his motives were acceptable. George may have taken Lennie's life but he did it for the greater good of his friend. He knew that Lennie would never truly be happy again if he was locked in jail and therefore decided that Lennie would be better off this way."
I think that there are some elements from the novella that can be used to help justify your thesis. I would point out how George understands Lennie's dependence on him. Part of your thesis is making the argument that George's care for Lennie is what compels him to shoot him. This indicates that George recognizes that no one else will care for Lennie as he will. He speaks of this to Slim in chapter 3, where George tells him that Lennie would do anything he says. As a joke, George told Lennie to jump in the lake, and he did. George conveys to Slim that he understood the importance he has to Lennie and he would not abuse that again. That demonstrates how George recognizes that the bond between them is on him to maintain. At the same time, I would also point out to the ending. Steinbeck goes through an intense level of discussion in terms of the pain George undergoes in raising the gun, telling Lennie about the farm, and pulling the trigger. It does not seem consistent that George would endure this agony on an almost intestinal level if he did not feel that there was no other option for his friend. Finally, I think that you could point to the end of Chapter 5, when George recognizes the truth of Slim's words when he says that Curley is looking for Lennie strictly to kill him. George tries to mount a defense, but he recognizes its frailty. The fact that he takes Carlson's gun proves that he understands that killing Lennie is the only option he has out of mercy, love, and compassion for him.
Long ago there was a movie whose setting was, like Mice and Men, the Great Depression. The title of this movie was They Shoot Horses Don't They? and the plot centered around the desperate lives of people duringthe depression of the 1930s. The central action of this film revolved around the marathon dances held at the time in which people could win money if they were the last couple standing. Poor people endeavored, therefore, to dance for hours and hours in the hope of attaining money with which they could eat. However, many of them collapsed and suffered greatly in their efforts. Their pitiful actions and miserable lives were portrayed in detail; their situations were so painfully tragic that, finally, one dancer, weakened and sick from hours on her feet asked the man who held the money, "They shoot horses, don't they?" But, people must bear their terrible misery.
Is he morally justified? Would a man not shoot any other animal that suffers? It is no coincidence that Steinbeck uses animal terms for Lennie, and that he precedes Lennie's death with the death of Candy's old dog.
George chose to keep Lennie from bearing a terrible misery. Lennie, who has been described in animal terms, is shot as a horse is shot: to put him out of his misery.
Discuss how George was morally justified in shooting Lennie.
Lennie could be justified in a number of ways to shooting Lennie. First, George knew that the other ranchers (namely, Curley) were going to kill Lennie themselves. George was not comfortable in the fact that another man was going to take Lennie's life. He had taken care of Lennie to this point and he was going to continue too, even if it meant killing Lennie himself. Secondly, Lennie had taken the life of another person, Curley's wife. George had justification in taking Lennie's life as retribution for the murder Lennie had committed. Lastly, Lennie would not be able to survive on his own. Curley had told George to "stick with us so we don't think you had nothin' to do with this". George had no choice. He had to take Lennie's life so that blame did not fall on him as well.
As post 6 points out, the second half of the opening sentence is a bit redundant.
You suggest that Lennie may have been put in jail if he were captured, but the characters in the novel clearly state that Lennie would be put in a "boobie hatch", a home for the mentally ill or mentally incompetent.
With this aside, you have chosen a clear and interesting thesis.
One question that might lend another side to your essay is one that asks if George was acting for the benefit of the community (and not just Lennie's best interests) when he kills Lennie. After all, Lennie is dangerous.
Just think about what would have happened to Lennie if George didn't kill him. Would things have been better for Lennie? I doubt it.
So what George is doing is saving his friend. He knew that Lennie was going to be killed and probably in a way that would be really painful both physically and emotionally for Lennie. (I'm assuming that Curley would have beaten/tortured Lennie.) So instead, George kills him before he knows it, and he makes sure that Lennie is happy before he shoots him. It's the best possible thing for Lennie in that situation and so it's the morally right thing to do.
I don't think George killed Lennie to achieve "the greater good for the greater number of people." I agree with the others who recognize that George understood he could not save Lenny from this last tragedy. There was no escaping the consequences. George was not so much concerned with what the law would do and how that would affect Lenny as much as he was what the men would do to Lennie.

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The French president is making overtures to present Paris as an alternative global power, which can challenge Washington’s leadership, angering countries from the US to Germany and Turkey.
Ahead of the NATO summit on December 3-4, which also marks 70 years of the world’s most enduring military alliance, French President Emmanuel Macron made a series of comments that revealed a number of divisions among the alliance.
At the summit, Macron, who previously argued that the alliance is “brain dead,” has continued to make comments in a similar vein, saying that he stands by his words, angering US President Donald Trump, who has found them “very insulting” and a “very, very nasty statement essentially to 28 countries” referring to the rest of NATO’s members.
Macron’s assertiveness before and during the summit surprised a few as the young leader seems to want to stamp France’s authority in Europe, which has been exhausted by quarrels among the EU partners as Germany’s most influential leader is on her way out and Britain is preoccupied by Brexit.
“President Macron is seizing that moment, seeking to be disruptive in his own way, and so we will see how that works,” Heather A. Conley, Director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told The New York Times.
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“Since I took office I’ve championed the notion of European military and technological sovereignty,” Macron said in an Economist interview.
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His German partner, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is set to leave politics in 2021 and left her party’s leadership post last year, is not so sure about Macron’s strategy.
She criticised Macron’s “brain dead” comment as “sweeping judgments” and found them unnecessary under current circumstances.
Ahead of the summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded to Macron’s criticism of Turkey’s operation in northern Syria targeting the YPG, the Syrian wing of the PKK. The PKK is recognised as a terrorist organisation by NATO, the EU, the US and Turkey.
The US and France have partnered and supported the YPG in their efforts to Daesh in Syria.
“You have an uncoordinated aggressive action by another NATO ally, Turkey, in an area where our interests are at stake,” Macron told the Economist before the summit.
Erdogan responded with: “What is your business in Syria?
Jump up and down as much as you like ... you will respect Turkey’s right to fighting against terrorism sooner or later. There is no other way.”
Relations between France and the PKK have a long history going back to the 1980s and 1990s when the late Danielle Mitterrand, the wife of former French president Francois Mitterrand, publicly voiced her support for Abdullah Ocalan, the terrorist group’s founding leader, who has been in prison in Turkey since 1999.
“You know how to show off but you cannot even properly pay for NATO. You are a novice,” the Turkish president said of Macron’s NATO commitments, touching on the issue of defence spending among the NATO allies.
Turkey contributes a greater share of defence spending with respect to its GDP than France. The latest numbers show that Ankara spends 1.89 percent expenditure toward its GDP while France allocated 1.84 percent of its GDP to the NATO budget.
Trump has previously accused NATO partners of not accepting their share of the NATO financing burden, which the US has demanded should be at least two percent of their GDP.
Turkey has recently increased its defence spending significantly to keep in line with NATO defence spending requirements.


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Luckily former co-worker Mike McCombs had posted a snippet about Bolin in his old blog “The Next Level.” The blog entry was about the seven local players on the 1991 ACC championship team. Here’s a link to Mike’s blog.
Here’s what Mike wrote about Bolin:
“A redshirt senior from Blacksburg High School, Bolin played in seven games in 1991. He carried the ball 24 times for 108 yards a touchdown. His score came in a 28-10 win over Wake Forest. He was a two-time 1,000-yard rusher for the Wildcats and was a 1986 Shrine Bowl selection.”
Bolin set the Blacksburg school record for rushing yards in a season with 2,012 in 1988. The mark was snapped in 2012. Chase Hames won the HJ’s Offensive Player of the Year that season when he ran for 2,157 yards and 26 touchdowns. Bolin also received a postseason honor from the HJ, but back then the paper simply named a “Player of the Year” and Bolin deservedly won it.
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Hello, My Writing Colleague,
Yay, you’ve written a piece that gets eyeballs on your work, and now you have to write an author’s bio, ugh. We all feel this way when it comes to writing about ourselves (okay, maybe, there’s someone out there with full confidence), for the rest of us, here is how you do it.
You only have a small paragraph to tell people who you are, what you do and where to find you and possibly more of your stuff.
You should have more than one author’s bio. A general one for everything isn’t the best way to serve your reader or your writing career.
Here are a few good examples (me first, of course):
About Melissa Abbott
Melissa Abbott is the lead writer at Essentials for Writers.com. Her passion for helping writers achieve with their writing flows through in the expert industry coverage she provides. Melissa has been writing historical/suspense stories with ghosts and past lives in them since 2012. Her debut novel, This Time, can be found on Amazon.com
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Chris Atkinson joined ReelSEO in 2011. He is a longtime film and television reviewer and has almost two decades of experience in the theater industry. He also writes on his personal blog-http://nymoviereviews.com. View all posts by Chris Atkinson.
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The SharewareRadio.com interview for May 1 is with Peter and Michael Burford of Headlight Software.
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My Heart is a Compass written and illustrated by Deborah Marcero is an empowering picture book full of enchanting details that beckon the reader to explore this story over and over again. This book takes the reader on an adventure inspired by Rose’s unbridled imagination. Rose has a burning desire to be an explorer and a trailblazer. She is driven to use her spirit of adventure and exploration to discover something new and unheard of to share at school for show-and-tell. To achieve this, she decides to explore unchartered territory. “Her imagination becomes a blueprint, with her heart a compass” on her voyage of discovery. Her true north is guided by her imagination to explore the unknown and determine her course in a quest to make a discovery. Rose is accompanied by an adventurous black cat. Rose creates a map for each destination, these maps are captivating, creative, clever and full of details that capture the reader’s attention. Rose’s adventure begins at the beach in search of never-before-seen treasure, but none is found. The journey continues into the cosmos with the most fantastical map, complete with whimsical constellations and fanciful additions to the layers of the earth’s atmosphere. From there, Rose finds herself on an island where another wildly imaginative world awaits her. Rose then plots train tracks into the mountains which depicts beauties such as Cat Ear Ridge. At the end of a creative filled day, where Rose’s imagination conjures up all these vivid and intricately detailed landscapes, she feels disappointed that she doesn’t have a tangible object to share with her class. Has Rose’s mission been unsuccessful? What will she share with her class and what revelations will come to light? This is an inspiring story about the importance of a journey and highlights how sometimes when you are searching for something, you may end up discovering so much more than you set out to, often in places and ways you never expected.
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Shape Up Somerville: Eat Smart. Play Hard.? a community-based environmental change intervention to prevent obesity in culturally diverse, early elementary school children reduced weight gain over one school year.
A survey of restaurant and food establishment personnel reveals that for food-allergic consumers, dining out may be a greater risk than they realize.
HFX Corp. announced that the company has issued a voluntary recall for 259,230 pounds of beef products due to a possible contamination with E. coli 0157 bacteria. The United States Department of Agriculture announced the recall late Friday.
With obesity, diabetes and other diet-related maladies on the rise in the United States, are healthy choices available when eating out? In an interview study of top executives at major U.S. restaurant chains, researchers found that the message is mixed.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF) joined Toronto Public Health to release two new reports and urge the federal government to eliminate deadly processed trans fats in our food supply.
Souplantation announced it is cooperating with the Orange County Health Care Agency in an investigation of a confirmed E.coli outbreak at its Foothill Ranch restaurant located at 26572 Towne Center Drive, Lake Forest, CA 92610.
High consumption of trans fat, found mainly in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and widely used by the food industry, has been linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
A Roundtable of Australian Quick Serve Restaurant industry representatives agreed to a September timetable to draft plans to remove artificial trans fats from their products.
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In a sun-baked, grassy clearing on the east side of the Cascade Range in central Washington, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station landscape ecologist Miles Hemstrom and a group of ecologists and land managers from the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) gather in the shade of a ponderosa pine. Hundreds of years old, this ancient pine has withstood temperature extremes and droughts. It’s now the lone tree in the clearing.
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Sports bars are called sports bars for a reason. They’re hubs for sports fanatics to hoot and holler while chowing down on chicken wings and guzzling beer, all while watching whatever game happens to be on TV. And with the Olympics, sports bars are anticipating a steady flow of traffic over the 17 days of global games.
The larger chains, including Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD), Chili’s (EAT), Applebee’s (DIN), and Dave & Buster’s, are not offering Olympics-specific deals but will be playing the games at their locations.
In a recent note to clients, Stifel said Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) will benefit from the Summer Olympics. Another bright spot is the growth of the chain’s takeout business, which currently accounts for 16% of the company’s sales, according to Stifel.
Buffalo Wild Wings Times Square will broadcast the Olympics over the next two weeks, but the restaurant isn’t offering any special offers or promotions tied to the games. A manager at the location told Yahoo Finance it will continue to offer weekly discounted wing promotions — “Wing Tuesdays” and “Boneless Thursdays.”
Similarly, sports arcade chain Dave & Busters is offering its regular variety of promotions — eat & play combos — that are available every day of the week. Though there are no unique Olympics offerings, it plans to broadcast the Olympics during business hours.
Chili’s and Applebee’s aren’t offering grub or booze for cheap, either. You’ll be able to watch The Olympics at their locations, but don’t expect any special deals. A Chili’s Grill and Bar spokesperson told Yahoo Finance: “We typically broadcast popular sports games because our guests enjoy cheering on their favorite athletes and teams while snacking on their favorite dishes.”
Meanwhile, Bounce, a popular sporting club in Manhattan, is offering several specials pegged to the Olympics and Rio de Janeiro. The bar is offering Brazil’s national cocktail, the Caipirinha, for $10 and a $25 “Notorious Phelps” burger made with three patties, smoked pork belly, truffle hash browns, cheddar cheese, hollandaise sauce and an egg. (It’s unclear how anybody but the swimmer Michael Phelps could metabolize such a creation.)
A manager at Bounce told Yahoo Finance she’s expecting larger crowds whenever the US team is competing in all 42 sports. “The Olympics will draw a group of people that aren’t normally sports focused; they come because it’s a social and global event,” she said. “However, a lot of our regular clients go away for the summer so we’re not expecting a surge in traffic.”
Because franchises are anticipating an increase in foot traffic anyway, they don’t feel compelled to entice consumers with additional deals. This Olympics season, your best bet will be to stake out a local sports pub for unique deals that’ll satiate your stomach and your wallet.
Melody Hahm is a reporter at Yahoo Finance.
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Trumbull officials take steps to convert county vehicles to compressed natural gas
The Trumbull County commissioners and county engineer’s office have committed to spending $250,000 each over the next two years to convert county vehicles from gasoline to compressed natural gas.
They have also authorized Randy Smith, engineer, to apply for a $750,000 grant through the state’s 2014 Capital Budget to construct a county-owned compressed natural gas fueling station at the county engineer’s facility on North River Road.
The county has a vertical gas well at the engineer’s office that can be tapped to provide the fuel, said Commissioner Paul Heltzel.
“We know there would be substantial savings” if county vehicles were converted to compressed natural gas, especially if the gas came from a county-owned well, Heltzel said.


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It is known news that Victory Venkatesh has teamed up with director Teja for the upcoming film, which is believed to be a sleek action entertainer. Venky was last seen in Sudha Kongra’s sport based drama Guru. The upcoming drama has been titled as Aata Nade Veta Nade. Bollywood beauty Aditi Rao Hydari, who was recently seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s magnum opus Padmaavat starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Sahid Kapoor, was roped to play the female lead. In Padmaavat, Aditi essayed the role of Mehrunisa, the first wife of Alauddin Khilji and Queen of the Delhi Sultanate. According to the latest buzz in the film Industry, Cheliya actress is unable to accommodate dates for Teja’s film.
The sources say that the actress had a chock-a-block schedule, apart from being in talks for Mani Ratnam’s film, to which she had already committed. Now she is not able to allot the dates for Venkatesh’s film. The film unit has also confirmed that she walked away from the film due to her packed schedule.
Venky will be seen as a professor in the movie which is rumoured to have several high-octane action sequences. Suresh Productions and AK Entertainments will co-produce this upcoming project Aata Nade Veta Nade and it is expected to release during the summer of 2018.


The Fair Trade Commission functioning in South Korea has imposed application stores over the country to eliminate all their non-refundable policies. The Commission hopes that its moves will have influence in other countries as well.
The FTC (abbreviation for Fair Trade Commission) in South Korea has imposed to both Apple and Google to exclude all the clauses referring to the non-refunding terms applies in their Google Playa and Apple Applications Stores. The Commission considers the clauses as being unfair towards the clients.
After this action of the Korean FTC, all Android type applications have canceled their clauses referring to the non-refundable aspect of their products. As a consequence the sellers have to put up new refund policies for their customers. Thus, the applications that automatically took money from the users after the expiring date of the free trial will not be allowed to called “free trails” anymore.
They will now be referred to as paid applications which can be used for free for a short period of time. When this period comes to an end the user has the possibility to decide if he/she wants to prologue the usage period by paying money to the producing company. The users who have managed to download applications that are faulty will have the possibility to recover their money.
The Commission specifically asked suppliers to inform customers of Applications Store about the modification of terms and about the conditions. They have to do this beforehand and thus, give the customers the chance to cancel their actions and receive some sort of refund if they are against the terms. Moreover, the in applications buying can be recovered as well.
The Korean Commission had high hopes that all these actions will definitely be an example for many other countries world-wide, which will take the decision to follow their example of fair trade.
The head of the Fair Trade Commission, Hwang Won-Chul, in Korea declared for the Korean Herald that Google decided to use this policy on the Korean territory only, while Apple is taking into consideration of applying it in all its stores, regardless the country.
The new policy created problems for the suppliers but also for the customers. Thus, if the later somehow brake the terms and conditions accompanying the applications, they will be considered guilty of the damage done. The violation has to be evident and the developer is the one who has the right to complain about the damages done.
Before this action of the FTC, the employees working for the developer were not considered responsible for the damage. With the new law they have to face the consequences of their actions whether they did the damages on purpose or just because they were negligent.
In early spring 2014, the Korean FTC applied corrective measures as such for the applications stores being part of SK Telecom, LG Uplus and KT.


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The Latest: Carson says long surgeries evidence his stamina
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the presidential candidates continued to put their messages out on Sunday morning. Here's the latest in the presidential campaign. All times are local:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) is climbing in the Republican presidential race, but he says he's still largely unknown nationally, so there's really no point in getting tangled up with Donald Trump at the expense of promoting his own campaign.
Some candidates have gotten involved in a back and forth with the billionaire businessman over his incendiary comments. Kasich is having none of it.
He tells "Fox News Sunday" that he needs to introduce himself to voters, and to achieve that, he says it "doesn't make any sense" to spending time talking about Trump or others, or their campaign strategy.
Kasich is promoting his experience as governor and long service in Congress, where he once led the House Budget Committee.
Kasich explains his campaign pitch this way:
"We need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane and I've landed quite a few planes. ... A lot of passengers have been happy and I haven't served any drinks. Maybe a peanut or two."
Dr. Ben Carson says he has plenty of energy, no matter what his chief rival in the Republican presidential race claims.
Carson tells ABC's "This Week," ''You don't have to be loud to be energetic," in a direct swipe at front-runner Donald Trump.
While campaigning in Iowa Saturday, Trump said Carson is a nice man but doesn't have the energy to be president.
Carson retired as head of the pediatric neurosurgery unit at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. He pointed out on Sunday that some of his operations took more than 20 hours and he was able to make "critical decisions after many hours of intense work."
Carson also pointed to nearly 20 years' service on corporate boards for international corporations as evidence of his business experience.
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Does diet affect hairline? David Kingsley, an expert on hair loss, stated, “The consensus is that diet influences hair loss.” While the extent of this relationship remains unclear, one thing is certain: eating well won’t reverse the balding process. However, it is possible that a low-carb, low-sugar diet will slow down a receding hairline.
There may also be a link between receding hairlines and diet. For example, people who do not get enough protein in their diets may lose more hair than people who eat enough protein.
Regularly performed scalp massage may help you grow thicker, healthier hair, research suggests . Increased blood circulation at the site of your hairline could be why scalp massage works to stimulate hair follicles. Try massaging your scalp manually for at least 4 minutes each day.
In many cases, a thinning hairline can regrow if you start treating your scalp and hair better. Reverse the damage already done by using shampoos and commercial products that encourage hair growth. It’s important to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle habits to encourage hair along your hairline to grow.
Can diet cause receding hairline? There may also be a link between receding hairlines and diet. For example, people who do not get enough protein in their diets may lose more hair than people who eat enough protein.
What foods help with hairline? Regularly performed scalp massage may help you grow thicker, healthier hair, research suggests . Increased blood circulation at the site of your hairline could be why scalp massage works to stimulate hair follicles. Try massaging your scalp manually for at least 4 minutes each day.
Can you improve your hairline? In many cases, a thinning hairline can regrow if you start treating your scalp and hair better. Reverse the damage already done by using shampoos and commercial products that encourage hair growth. It’s important to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle habits to encourage hair along your hairline to grow.
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Can your hairline improve naturally?
In a word, no — there is no scientific evidence that masturbating causes hair loss. This myth may come from the idea that semen contains high levels of protein, and so with each ejaculation, the body is losing protein that it could use for hair growth.
Does masturbation cause Hairfall?
Some people opt for a quicker, more drastic solution: crash dieting. These diets, otherwise known as total diet replacement (TDR) programmes, involve drastically reducing calorie intake to between 800-1,200 calories per day. (The usual calorie intake for a woman is 2,000 calories, and for a man it’s 2,500 calories.)
What is considered crash dieting?
To prevent hair loss, avoid crash and restrictive diets, fuel your body properly, and supplement before and after weight loss surgery. Work with a qualified healthcare provider to identify the cause of hair loss and to find a plan to facilitate hair regrowth.
Can diet prevent baldness?
Stress. Physical and psychological stress can cause hair loss. Surgery, high fevers, and blood loss can cause enough stress to result in excessive shedding. Childbirth can result in hair loss for several months after delivery.
How can I reduce my hair fall by dieting?
As you age, it’s normal for your hairline to move slightly higher above your forehead. For men, this typically starts happening between the ages of 17 and 29. Once your hair reaches what some people call your “mature hairline,” your hair thinning may stop or slow down.
Why is lots of my hair falling out?
Unfortunately, you can’t stop a receding hairline completely. For most people, a receding hairline isn’t related to a health condition that needs to be cured. But, there are treatments that could slow a receding hairline down or even encourage some hair to grow back.
Can your hairline recede at 17?
Since your levels of testosterone and DHT increase during your teens, you may notice the first signs of DHT-related hair damage as a teenager in the form of thinning, shedding or a receding hairline.
Does receding hairline stop?
You can check for this sign by looking at the corners of your hairline, your crown and the other areas of your scalp when you style your hair. If you spot an area that looks thinner than normal, it may be an early warning sign that you’re starting to develop a receding hairline.
Why do I have a receding hairline at 15?
Another trigger for hair loss in women is an inflammatory condition affecting the scalp. That might be eczema, psoriasis, or a condition called frontal fibrosing alopecia, which typically causes scarring and hair loss — sometimes permanent — at the front of the scalp above the forehead.
How can I tell if my hairline is receding?
Semen contains properties and vitamins that act as a hair mask. It may have the ability to moisturize your hair much like a leave-in conditioner. These nourishing properties can help protect the hair shaft while promoting healthy hair strands in the process.
How can I fix my hairline?
Insufficient amounts of sleep have been shown to have significant negative consequences on the body, which can lead directly and indirectly to conditions of hair loss and thinning hair. The lack of sleep can result in higher levels of stress which is shown to cause hair loss.
Why is my hair thinning at the front?
The scalp protects the head, and the hair helps conserve warmth. However, all the hair follicles on the scalp make it vulnerable to infections and other problems that cause pain. Some people may experience pain in the area when the hair moves. In other cases, the pain may also persist at other times.
Can I apply sperm on my hair?
BOTTOM LINE: A balanced 1,500-calorie diet rich in nutritious foods fits the needs of many people who want to lose fat and improve health. Still, while 1,500 calories may be a good guideline for many people, it may not be enough for some.
Does sleep affect hair?
Healthful weight loss diets usually include lots of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. These are all high in fiber. Including more fiber in the diet can increase stool weight and encourage more regular bowel movements. Because of this, a person following a weight loss diet may have bowel movements more often.
Does scalp growing hurt hair?
A ketogenic or keto diet is a high-fat but very low-carbohydrate diet, as low as 30 grams of carbohydrates per day or even less. In a way, a keto diet may be similar to a crash diet with extreme restriction of carbohydrate intake.
Is 1500 calories a day enough?
Hair grows from a root at the bottom of a follicle under your skin. The blood in your scalp goes to the follicle and supplies oxygen and nutrients to the hair root, which helps your hair grow. According to the AAD, it’s the oil from this gland that makes your hair shiny and soft.
Do you poop more when you lose weight?
Slow, gradual weight loss doesn’t cause any problems with hair growth. However, suddenly losing lots of weight can cause hair loss. In addition, crash dieting often causes hair loss, especially if you’re losing lots of weight and quickly regaining it.
Is keto crash diet?
Hair loss in your 20s and 30s
Few people expect hair loss to happen as early as their 20s or 30s. But the good news is hair loss during these decades is usually caused by a specific trigger that, when addressed, will likely stop the hair loss. Three of the most common triggers are stress, dieting, and hormonal changes.
How can I thicken my hair?
If it’s receding onto your scalp, it may mean balding. The shape is an M or a widow’s peak. An M-shaped hairline removes the round curves of the young hairline and makes a more defined hairline. A widow’s peak is when there is a V of hair that remains farther down while the hair alongside it recedes more.
Can losing weight help hair growth?
Is Forehead Reduction Without Surgery Possible? Unfortunately, there are no non-surgical options for achieving forehead reduction. Patients’ choices are limited to hair transplants, hairline lowering surgery, or a combination of hairline lowering and hair transplants.
Does hair grow back after falling out from roots?
As you age, your hairline will naturally recede. This happens to nearly all men – and some women – and usually starts in the late teens or early twenties.

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Toyota Motor Co. is continuing its reign at the top of Consumer Reports’ reliability rankings, a reward for its conservative approach to new technology.
The Toyota brand came in first in this year’s rankings, followed by the company’s luxury Lexus brand. It’s the fifth year in a row that a Toyota brand has topped the survey. Kia, Audi and BMW rounded out the top five.
Cadillac, GMC, Ram, Dodge and Volvo got the poorest reliability scores, dinged by buyers’ problems with their infotainment systems and transmissions.
Consumer Reports predicts reliability of 2018 vehicles based on a survey of its subscribers, who owned or leased 640,000 vehicles from the 2000-2017 model years. Consumer Reports forecasts how a model will perform based on recent data for that model. The magazine gives more weight to mechanical and safety issues than minor problems like wind noise.
The magazine’s rankings are closely watched in the industry, since many buyers seek advice from Consumer Reports.
Jake Fisher, Consumer Reports’ director of auto testing, says Toyota’s strategy of adding new technology gradually — instead of all at once — helps make its vehicles more reliable. Toyota’s new Camry sedan, for example, has an eight-speed transmission that was first tested on the Highlander SUV.
Kia has also steadily climbed in the rankings because it uses proven technology that has already been tested by its sister brand, Hyundai, which slipped in the rankings. Consumer Reports found that the Kia Niro hybrid, which went on sale earlier this year, was the most reliable vehicle in its entire survey.
Audi and BMW also have better-than-average infotainment systems because they were some of the first to market with them more than a decade ago.
“They’ve had all those growing pains,” Fisher said.
By contrast, Buick dropped from third to eighth in the rankings because of troubles with its new 2017 LaCrosse sedan, which has a new eight-speed transmission, new engine and new electronic shifter, among other features. Fisher said other recent Buicks, like the Envision, went on sale in China or Europe first and got some kinks worked out before heading to the United States.
Source ,The Associated Press.