When Byron Harmon got his job running the 10 O’Clock News at Fox 5 New York (WNYW-TV) six years ago, his marching orders were clear: “My CEO said, ‘I don’t want to see the same thing that I’m seeing on other TV stations.’”
Easier said than done, especially when you have a loyal audience that likes things the way they are and a newsroom used to replicating the tried-and-true. Harmon remembers suggesting a story early on about his new umbrella, which looked exactly like a samurai sword when closed and got him a lot of strange looks, even in New York City. “No reporter wanted to do the story,” he says. “They were like, what is this story? This is crazy. This is not news.”
Harmon is the news director now, and the mantra remains the same: go your own way. “On a good day, I would say we create maybe seven to eight totally enterprise stories that no other station will have.” You may not think of distinctive story selection and storytelling as bold. But you should. For Harmon, who previously worked at both the NBC and CBS stations in town, stretching the familiar formulas is the way to break away from the pack without breaking the mold. Like other news leaders on the broadcast side, he walks a fine line between innovation and expectation.
Harmon created something he calls the ICU, which stands for the Innovation and Creativity Unit (not the Intensive Care Unit as I secretly hoped), charged with generating longer stories, franchises, and specials. Lisa Evers is a well-known New York radio personality who also does reports for the station, and her radio show Street Soldiers has been adapted into a weekly TV program that replaces the last half-hour of the 10 PM newscast every Friday. Reporter Dan Bowens started digging through true-crime cold cases in the station’s files to create a new podcast; that’s become a TV special called The Tape Room. A globe-trotting videographer and model showed up with a trove of footage that became World Citizen with Fitz Henley. A mis-diagnosed case of Lyme disease spawned an ongoing series of reports and specials called Lyme & Reason. While digitizing the station’s film and tape archive, Harmon’s team was inspired to create a new project called Fox 5 Flashback that resurrects decades-old stories from the station’s past, such as its reporting on New York’s notorious 1970’s dance club, Studio 54. (This hit home for me, as I worked for “Channel 5” a million years ago in my first job out of college, when it was a proud and gritty independent station.)
Harmon calls the typical morning editorial meeting, in which the assignment manager reels off items from the daybook and the morning papers, “the bane of any local newsroom.” (Our Lab colleague Frank Mungeam recently wrote about this problem in his essay, “Want Newsroom Innovation? Start With a Stop List.”) At Fox 5 New York, anyone who wants to come is invited to the morning meeting. “My whole goal is to have absolute total contribution by everybody in the newsroom,” says Harmon.“I started bringing a gong to the meetings. And I would pitch a story. Even if people didn’t want to do my story, I’d say ‘Gong or not?’ And they’d say ‘Gong!’ It was really difficult at first. Now, so many people contribute in our meetings, I can’t even get my stories in sometimes.”
Despite the theatrics, Harmon admits he had to be “part coach, part guru” to drive change at the station. “Why are you even here? We don’t work at an assembly line. We get to sit in this room, and think about something amazing. And at five o’clock, our thoughts are on TV. That’s an amazing responsibility. It’s an amazing job.”
Harmon encourages his team to come up with stories that reflect the richness and diversity of everyday life in New York. He doesn’t like the word “feature” and claims the newsroom has stopped using the term. “Because news is news. Any story we put on the air is news. If you don’t know about it, it’s going to spark a thought that you’re going to learn something, or be entertained by it. It’s information. We won’t call it a feature. They’ll say ‘It’s a Fox 5 story’ or ‘This is the kind of story that we do.’ When I started to hear that, I started to feel like, wow, we have definitely changed the culture here.”
But to change the culture, Harmon first had to fight the fear of experimenting and taking risks that’s all too common in newsrooms. “There’s some mythical journalism police out there that prohibits people from taking these chances,” he says. “People think ‘Oh, this isn’t how it was done before. So if we do it, we’re going to get in trouble.’ Who are you going to get in trouble with? I’m the news director, I’m telling you, you’re not going to get in trouble. I’m going to absorb any heat that’s going to come from above, which it won’t because we’re experimenting, as long as we’re not damaging the brand. So let’s go for it.”
In fairness, Harmon does have supportive bosses in General Manager Lew Leone and Fox’s top station brass. Moreover, Harmon blends his experiments into familiar-looking formats that won’t chase away viewers expecting, well, a newscast. “We don’t want it to be jarring to you,” he says, “I don’t want you to come in and say ‘Oh my God, this is crazy, it’s all over the place.’ But when you take a look at how the story was written, the story selection, where we place it in the show, there’s a lot of care and a lot of thought taken into consideration for that. And therein lies the magic.”
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New Years Eve Treat – Chocolate & Caramel Popcorn Lollipops!
Well, it is almost the new year and boy did this year fly by fast! :) I always like to throw a small get together on New Years Eve instead of fighting the madness and crowds of the city. This year instead of doing a fancy desert I decide to melt chocolate ( because I always do ) :) and add some crushed up caramel popcorn I got as a gift for Christmas and turn it into a easy desert. Here is what I did and what you need!
1-2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips ( depending on how may pops you need )
Caramel popcorn – any kind ( place in plastic bad and crush with the back of a spoon )
Paper straws – I got these at Target they had gold and black ( cut them in half )
Parchment paper – unbleached ( they have it at Target )
So easy, just melt the chips in a microwave safe bowl – 15 seconds at a time stirring until it is all melted – should take 3 times. Then place parchment paper on a baking sheet and with a teaspoon scoop up some melted chocolate and make a circle on the parchment paper . ( this does not have to be perfect ) Then immediately put the paper straw in the middle and turn it into the chocolate and top with a few pieces of the crushed popcorn. Do this for each one and then place the whole baking sheet in the refrigerator for a few hours to set. Then you take them out they will easily lift right off the paper and you can display them on a tray for the festivities!
I hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Years from my family to yours!!!!

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PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Obama is being blasted for using American children as “human shields” to announce his new gun-control proposals.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden plan to unveil their ideas on Wednesday.
White House spokesman Jay Carney noted, “They will be joined by children from around the country who wrote the president letters in the wake of [the Newtown, Conn.] tragedy, expressing their concerns about gun violence and school safety, along with their parents.”
The announcement brought swift condemnation from top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh, who said, “He’s using these kids as human shields. Obama uses kids as human shields. The Democrats use kids as human shields.”
Limbaugh continued: “He brings these kids who supposedly wrote letters to the White House after Newtown, bring them up there to present a picture of support among the children for the president to do something about guns. It’s gonna be very difficult, very difficult to oppose it. You got these little kids there. They don’t want to die. ‘How can you not listen to them? We’ve gotta do something.’ That’s the picture. That’s the image that the presence of the kids is designed to create.”
Carney said Obama will unveil a “concrete package” of ideas including bans on so-called “assault weapons,” bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines, and closing loopholes on background checks.

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This iced golden milk turmeric latte is paleo and vegan, loaded with anti-inflammatory turmeric and different historical, therapeutic spices. It comes collectively so rapidly and is of course sweetened, tremendous refreshing, and ideal for hotter climate. #ayurveda #turmeric #antiinflammatory
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Talk about the time when you accepted Jesus as your Savior. How did you feel? Did you feel the weight of your sin? Did you feel as if God was judging you, or did you feel God’s grace?
My Story and the Bible Story
There have been times in my life when I have done the wrong thing. And most of the time, I have gotten in trouble (see my story last week about talking during the fire drill). But sometimes, even though I really deserved to get in trouble, I didn’t. There were times when my mom or my teacher gave me grace instead of judgment, and instead of being punished, I was simply forgiven. Read John 3:14-21. From the NIV: Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been through God.
“God so loved the world…” you can probably say the rest. We learn that verse and remember how much God loves us. Why did Jesus come? Jesus came because God loved the world so much that God couldn’t sit by and watch us move farther and farther away from God. God loved the world so much that God sent Jesus to us, so that whoever believed in him would have eternal life.
Here’s the thing: we do things that are wrong. We sin. We make the wrong choices. We are sometimes mean to others. We sometimes say nasty things. We hurt each other. And sometimes we hurt ourselves. Jesus is perfect. It would have made sense for Jesus to come and judge the world. After all, there’s nothing we could do to ever be perfect. There’s no way we can ever be perfect simply by trying hard enough. But John says that Jesus didn’t come to judge the world. “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” Jesus came to save us, not to condemn us. Jesus sees what we have done and God forgives us.
We deserve to get in trouble with God. After all, we sometimes do the wrong thing. But instead of punishing us, God sent Jesus to save us. So when someone asks you why Jesus came, you can say because God’s loves us so much that God wanted to be our friend forever. God loved us enough to forgive all the things we do wrong. Jesus came, not to judge us, but to save us. Jesus came so that we could always be with God. And that is great news!
• Has there been a time when you did something wrong, but instead of getting in trouble, you were simply forgiven? How did that make you feel?
• Have you ever forgiven someone who hurt you when they thought you would be angry with them? How did you feel forgiving someone who didn’t really deserve it?
• Think about ways that God has forgiven you. Write them down. Thank God for forgiving you, and then throw your piece of paper away.
Thank God for always forgiving us. Thank God for sending Jesus, not to condemn the world, but to save it. Ask for help in looking at the world through God’s eyes.
Jessica Asbell is currently serving as the Minister to Children at First Baptist Church of Roswell, GA. She has worked with children in various capacities at several churches, including Winter Park Baptist in Wilmington, NC, First Baptist of Decatur, GA, and Highland Hills Baptist in Macon, GA. She has a Master of Divinity from McAfee School of Theology and a BBA from Mercer University. In her spare time she loves to read, watch movies, and of course spend time with her sweet kitty, Lucy.

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FTSE 100 little changed after BoE’s rate hikewritten by Bella Palmer
The BoE's move weakened the pound and helped lift the blue-chip FTSE 100 index to session highs moments after the decision, but the index closed the day flat
The FTSE 100 stock index was little changed on Thursday as investors weighed the biggest interest rate hike from the Bank of England in 27 years, which raised fears of a looming recession even as it weighed on the pound.
The British central bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted 8-1 for a half percentage point rise in Bank Rate to 1.75% - the highest level since late 2008.
The Bank of England has clearly decided that now is the right time to bring out more firepower and raise rates by 0.5% for the first time since 1995, said Paul Craig, portfolio manager at Quilter Investors.
It has clearly taken note of what the Federal Reserve is doing in the U.S. and feels it could be running out of time to grapple inflation and get it under control, he said.
The BoE's move weakened the pound and helped lift the blue-chip FTSE 100 index to session highs moments after the decision, but the index closed the day flat.
The domestically focussed midcap index was up 0.7%.
The pound's slump in the wake of today's MPC decision underlines the caution investors have regarding the UK economy, said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at online trading platform IG.
Even as recession fears mount across the world, UK stocks have fared better than their peers so far this year.
Shares of Unilever Plc slipped 0.7% after Ben & Jerry's independent board said the company had frozen its directors' salaries last month as a pressure tactic.
Rolls-Royce dragged down the aerospace and defence sector, tumbling 9% even as the aero-engineer said it would see its squeezed operating profit margin improve in the second half.
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John Woo has a Stranglehold on E3
Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 3:02AM EST
Director John Woo talks about his next-generation videogame, Stranglehold, which is on display at Midway's booth. The game is a sequel to his film Hard Boiled and stars Chow Yun-Fat.
Why did you decide to get involved in videogames?
I went to E3 several years ago and saw my action style imitated in a lot of other games, and they were not even well done. I thought I should protect my trademark and produce my own videogames. I can bring stronger characters and better storytelling to the games. I want the gameplayer to feel like they are watching a movie, except that they are in the director's seat.
What were your goals with Stranglehold?
With Stranglehold, I wanted to go back to my roots and do a gritty, emotional, and sensational game. It's kind of like my Hong Kong movie Hard Boiled, but in a more updated environment. I never believed I could have topped my action in that film, but Stranglehold will bring the action to an even higher level.
Will there be a Stranglehold movie?
I definitely want to do a Stranglehold movie. Toys and graphic novels would follow immediately.
Why are Hollywood directors getting involved in games?
I heard there are other directors who want to develop movies and games at the same time. Stranglehold is a first for me and I definitely want to do more.
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Café Meijerinliiteri – more than a summer café!
Café Meijerinliiteri +358505489428 firstname.lastname@example.org website
Café Meijerinliiteri is a unique, family owned summer café located in the heart of the beautiful Finnish Lakeland. We serve fresh coffee, mint tea, berry juices and homemade sweet and savory pastries. The ingredients of our freshly baked slow-food delicacies are locally sourced, and all the recipes and flavors follow the rhythm of the seasons and the surrounding nature. Our seasonally varying selection includes pies, waffles, cakes and fresh homemade juices – all served in our beautiful summer garden.
Café Meijerinliiteri is not only a coffee shop, but also an interesting location in which to spend time and to see Finnish history and traditions. The Kokko homestead was founded at this very location centuries ago, and the recent owners, Juhani and Maija, have turned the residence into a place where everyone can enjoy the beauty of the Finnish country life.
In addition to sipping a coffee under the birch, one can visit the art gallery ”Galleria Jäähuone”, explore our second hand dress shop or buy Finnish design from local Design Pylsy summer pop up store.
During the summer season we organize concerts at our unique venue ”Jäähuone” (Iceroom).
At Café Meijerinliiteri yard area there is also plenty of room for kids to gambol around!


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This may be the year that 3D television sets flood the market, but some engineers have turned to aircraft in search of a viewing experience that is still more immersive.
Two teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a unique 3D display dubbed Flyfire, in which a flock of tiny aircraft carrying multicoloured LEDs hover in front of the viewer to form an image. As pixels that can move through space, the free-flying LEDs could form a shape-shifting 3D display (see video). As well as the pixels displaying moving images like a normal screen, they could change their position to add real depth.
“We’re fascinated by the idea of flying pixels,” says E. Roon Kang at the SENSEable City Laboratory. “It’s a 3D display with a dual aspect – it can show an image like a traditional display, but then those pixels can move and transform into another shape.”
Ten tiny copters
Emilio Frazzoli, head of MIT’s Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems lab, coordinated the initial proof-of-principle experiments using quad-rotor helicopters, each a few tens of centimetres across. “We have run experiments with up to 10 quads,” he says.
Frazzoli’s team can precisely control each helicopter’s altitude to within 3 centimetres. “Horizontal positioning is harder – I would say to within 10 centimetres,” he says, “We’re working on it.”
The ultimate goal is to make a Flyfire display containing 1000 or more much smaller flying pixels, says Kang. “If, when that happens [in five years or more], there are other smaller-scale technological or even biotechnological solutions, we should use those instead of the helicopters,” he says.
Air traffic control
With that number of pixels flying around, manoeuvres will have to be carefully choreographed to minimise collisions, says Frazzoli. A combination of onboard controls and a central control system that communicates with all the aircraft will be needed to coordinate pixel movement, he says.
Within five years, the researchers plan to showcase their ongoing progress in an exhibition space. Because the technology is scalable, they are confident that there will be something to see by then, but whether that prototype display comprises tens, hundreds or even thousands of flying pixels is difficult to predict. “We’re still in the process of solving technical challenges,” says Kang. In the immediate future, he will be working on flying small numbers of the quad-rotors in tight formation.
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First we had John Ashcroft, whose tenure was marked by disdain for the Constitution he had sworn to uphold: the abuse of prosecutorial discretion; the politicization of the Department of Justice; the withholding of information from Congress, the public, and the courts; the systematic violation of the civil liberties of Americans; the indefinite detention of many hundreds of non-citizens with no connection to the 9/11 attacks; and, perhaps worst of all, the scurrilous attacks on the patriotism of those who dared to disagree.
Who could have imagined that things could get worse?
Yet Ashcroft’s successor often seemed more a White House functionary than the attorney general of the United States. Alberto Gonzales was ever-willing to subordinate the needs of justice to the demands of his political masters—crossing lines that even his predecessor had refused to cross. His cavalier disregard for the rule of law and his tenuous grasp of the responsibilities of his office were an embarrassment to the Department of Justice and an insult to the American people.
Now Gonzales is gone, but the department he headed lies in ruins—its morale shattered and its credibility at an all-time low. If the damage is to be repaired, there must be not only a change in leadership but a change of heart. If Americans are to regain their confidence in the administration of justice, we must have an attorney general of unimpeachable integrity who understands his (or her) duty to uphold the Constitution and is prepared to carry it out.


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CENTURION, South Africa – 20 February 2017 – Residents and businesses of George will soon be benefitting from high-speed connectivity as national telecommunications provider Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) plans to deploy its world-class optical fibre network in the coastal town starting March 2017. DFA subsidiary MCT Telecommunications will be trenching the fibre along allocated pavements. The project is expected to be complete within two months.
Affected roads will include Fortuin Street, Blanco Road, Saagmeul Street, and Airway Road, and residents can rest assured that all interruptions will be kept at a minimum. “With a strict mandate to preserve pre-existing structural elements and repair any damage quickly and efficiently, DFA and MCT Telecommunications can assure residents that the trenching process will be handled professionally”, states Wesley Nash, Acting Chief Operations Officer at DFA.
The deployment of an open-access network model will also mean that residents will be spoilt for choice as far as Internet service providers are concerned. Small and medium ISPs can compete with larger players in the market without needing to build their own expensive infrastructure.
Since DFA’s inception in October 2007, the company has constructed a national fibre network of over 10,000 km in major metros and smaller towns, representing an investment of more than R7 billion.
DFA offers a range of fibre-based solutions to ISPs and other telecommunications providers, from dark fibre to Ethernet-based connectivity. Whether the DFA clients are big or small, they all have access to the same robust fibre connectivity and industry-leading reliability of DFA’s fibre infrastructure and services.
DFA is the premier wholesale, open-access fibre-infrastructure and -connectivity provider in South Africa. We finance, build, install, manage, and maintain a world-class fibre network to transmit metro and long-haul telecommunications traffic. We started rolling out our fibre network in 2007, and to date, we have deployed over 13,000 km of ducting infrastructure in major metros, secondary cities, and smaller towns. Our network runs with an industry-leading uptime of 99.98%. We lease our secure transmission and backbone fibre infrastructure and provide associated connectivity services to telecommunications operators, Internet service providers, media conglomerates, tertiary education institutions, municipalities, government organizations, and other businesses, large and small, on equal terms. DFA is a Level 3 B-BBEE Contributor on the ICT Sector Codes.


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September 28, 2016
When most executives think of preventing workplace incidents, the first thing that comes to mind is identifying and stopping a violent situation.
LiveSafe is a great tool for security officials to gather intelligence about violent incidents, but its implications go beyond that. Facilities issues can also be a pain point for security officials looking to prevent incidents.
When it comes to facilities issues, employees may see a problem but will they take the time to report it?
Imagine an employee notices a spilled beverage on a tile floor in a hallway, which is clearly a hazard. Employees without LiveSafe may be content to just walk past and do nothing. For those with the LiveSafe app in their pocket, they feel empowered to do something about the problem.
The employee can take out their phone, snap a picture of the spill, send a short text to security officials and have the feeling of being a part of something bigger.
Everyone wins in this scenario. The facilities team gets a quick heads-up to clean up the spill, the security team has been given notice to prevent an incident before it happens and the employee has provided valuable crowdsourced data.


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Melanin is a complex pigment that provides colour and photoprotection to the skin, hair, and eyes of mammals. Melanogenesis, the process through which melanocytes synthesise melanin, can be altered, producing pigmentary skin disorders such as melasma which result in hyperpigmentation. Melanocytes are highly specialised dendritic cells that transfer melanin to keratinocytes in subcellular lysosome-like organelles called melanosomes, where melanin is synthesised and stored.
Melanin is a complex pigment that provides colour and photoprotection to the skin, hair, and eyes of mammals. Melanogenesis, the process through which melanocytes synthesise melanin, can be altered, producing pigmentary skin disorders such as melasma which result in hyperpigmentation. Melanocytes are highly specialised dendritic cells that transfer melanin to keratinocytes in subcellular lysosome-like organelles called melanosomes, where melanin is synthesised and stored. Fitzpatrick and Breathnach proposed in 1963 the “epidermal melanin unit”. This concept consisted of the interaction of 1 melanocyte and approximately 36 keratinocytes to produce pigmentation. More recently, the keratinocyte–Langerhans–melanocyte (KLM) unit has been proposed, which does not exclude the possibility of including other epidermal cells .
Several studies have suggested different mechanisms for the melanosome transfer such as cytophagocytosis, membrane fusion, shedding–phagocytosis, and exocytosis–endocytosis . Melanogenesis can be regulated by genetic, environmental (ultraviolet (UV) radiation) and endocrine factors (pregnancy and ageing) . Knowledge of the pigmentation process is important for designing bleaching products to treat skin hyperpigmentation.
The SCF-c-KIT receptor tyrosine kinase pathway is also involved in pigmentation. Stem cell factor (SCF), a paracrine factor located in fibroblasts, binds to its tyrosine kinase receptor c-KIT, which is produced by melanocytes, leads to the activation of the Ras-MAP kinase signalling pathway and the regulation of MITF by phosphorylation .
Protein kinase C (PKC)-dependent signalling regulates melanogenesis by activating the PKCβ isoform via calcium and diacylglycerol (DAG), its endogenous activator. UV radiation (UVR) induces DAG formation in melanocyte membranes, causing its translocation from the cytoplasm to the membrane, where it upregulates PKCβ, which then phosphorylates and activates tyrosinase. The receptor for activated C-kinase (RACK) controls the translocation of PKC isoforms to specific cellular compartments. The translocation of the PKA/RACK complex to the melanosome membrane leads to tyrosinase activation in human melanocytes . Furthermore, the MITF-M isoform has been proposed as a key transcription factor for PKCβ, linking PKC- and cAMP-dependent signalling in the regulation of melanogenesis .
Hyperpigmentation is common after inflammation, although the mechanisms involved are not clear. Keratinocyte-derived paracrine factors such as interleukin (IL)-18, IL-33, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), prostaglandin E2 and prostaglandin F2α stimulate melanogenesis, while tumour necrosis factor (TNF), IL-6 and IL-1α can inhibit melanogenesis. Fibroblasts also secrete paracrine factors that can induce melanogenesis, such as IL-33, prostaglandin E2 and prostaglandin F2α, as well as inhibitors of melanogenesis, such as TNF and IL-6 .
Eumelanin and pheomelanin bind to cations, anions and drugs, among other things, providing protection to melanocytes .
It is well known that the main inducer of melanogenesis is ultraviolet radiation (UVR). In keratinocytes and the photoreceptor cells located in the external layer of the epidermis, different paracrine factors such as fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), nerve growth factor (NFG), ET-1 and POMC-derived peptides, such as MSH, ACTH and beta-endorphin, are activated by UVR, starting the main signalling pathway of melanogenesis . UVR can induce and activate p53 on melanocytes, a tumour suppressor protein and transcription factor that upregulates tyrosinase mRNA and protein expression . Furthermore, the UVR-mediated activation of p38, a stress-response protein, activates the transcription factor upstream stimulatory factor 1 (USF-1), which induces the transcription of tyrosinase . Melanogenesis can be stimulated by the binding of α-MSH to its receptor, MC1-R, promoting the synthesis of more eumelanin than pheomelanin and increasing tyrosinase activity . Moreover, α-MSH induces the proliferation of melanocytes . UVR has been found to decrease levels of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) .
Melasma is caused by different exposure factors affecting genetically predisposed individuals. Thus, genetics is one of the most important causes of hyperpigmentation, as demonstrated by its occurrence within families (40–60%) . Almost 279 genes are involved in the development of melasma .
In melanocytes and keratinocytes, the binding of oestrogen to its receptors can activate the tyrosinase and MITF pathways. Sex steroids increase the transcription of the DCT and TYR genes, thereby promoting melanogenesis in normal human melanocytes. Other studies have shown an oestrogen-induced increase in the mRNA expression of tyrosinase, TYRP1 and TYRP2, as well as increased activity of tyrosinase in normal human melanocytes . The oestrogen-mediated upregulation of PDZ domain-containing protein (PDZK1) stimulates melanosome transfer to melanocytes and increases MITF and TYR expression in melanocytes .
Wnt signalling plays a critical role in melanocyte development, melanogenesis and dendritogenesis . The presence of Wnt ligands prevents β-catechin degradation, which stimulates MITF. WIF-1 is an important secreted antagonist of Wnt signalling. It inhibits Wnt signalling by preventing the binding of the ligands to their cell surface receptors . WIF-1 downregulation occurs in dermal fibroblasts and epidermal keratinocytes of melasma lesions, stimulating the melanogenesis and melanosome transfer. Although WIF-1 is not expressed in melanocytes , one study has reported the upregulation of WIF-1 in melasma skin lesions .
Arbutin, a natural tyrosinase inhibitor and HQ derivative, has been used in the treatment of melasma in combination with lasers or ellagic acid, as well as in hydrogel masks, all without undesirable side effects, thus demonstrating less toxicity than HQ . It competitively and reversibly binds to tyrosinase without affecting the mRNA transcription of tyrosinase . Deoxyarbutin, a synthetic derivative of arbutin, is a safer and effective skin-lightening agent, with similar inhibitory effects on tyrosinase activity as those of HQ and arbutin .
Azelaic acid is a saturated dicarboxylic acid used as a treatment for skin pigmentation in several conditions such as acne and rosacea due to its anti-inflammatory property . It was described that azelaic acid may directly or indirectly inhibit tyrosinase through the reduction in intracellular thioredoxin which inhibits tyrosinase by forming a bys-cysteinate inhibitors complex .
Chemical peelings are used for several skin disorders despite causing skin irritation and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Glycolic acid is the most widely used for chemical peelings, with salicylic acid representing a safer option for sensitive and dark phenotypes .
Oral treatments with systemic agents have emerged as potential therapies for melasma, such as tranexamic acid and plant-based supplements (e.g., polypodium leucotomos extract, carotenoids, and melatonin). Oral tranexamic acid is successfully used in Japan and seems to be more effective than topical therapy with tranexamic acid, although its mechanism of action is unknown . Good results have been observed with the combination of tranexamic acid and laser irradiation

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Haggis Address: Did you know 2009 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of our Nations Bard, Robert Burns? One of his most famous works was The Address to a Haggis. This is a poem written about Scotland’s national dish: The Haggis. Described as the ‘Great Chieftain of the Puddin Race’.
What is the Haggis?
For the uninitiated, Haggis is a massive sausage. It varies in size from a small football, to giant Chieftain Haggis which can be as long as your arm.
Roddy performs a lively theatrical recitation of The Address to the Haggis as during dinner entertainment, usually before the haggis course is served. The poem lasts about 7 minutes and is a great spectacle for any genuine Scottish banquet.
Usually the haggis procession is led by the piper, followed by the chef with a whisky bearer as well. Often a VIP guest can join this show and present drams to the piper and chef and join them in the Toast to the Haggis.
If you are still unsure then please view our video.

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Construction will start soon on the first stage of a $17.6 million terminal improvement project at Fayetteville Regional Airport.
Local government officials, dignitaries and members of the Fayetteville Regional Airport Commission participated in a “wall-breaking” ceremony on Nov. 14 near Concourse A, which is being replaced.
“It’s a great start for our airport today,” the commission’s Jay Wyatt III said in a report published by the Fayetteville Observer.
Airport Director Bradley Whited said construction would begin “any day now.”
“We’ve been planning this project seven years,” Whited said.There will be a new elevator; a connector to a new second-level main terminal, with two new walkways to the planes, and a new restaurant and kitchen space.
This first phase will take an estimated 18 months to complete and the work is projected to be finished in July 2019, he said. The work is part of an overall project originally budgeted at $30 million over the next three to five years.
Fayetteville Regional’s original sections of the Terminal and Concourse A were built in 1969.
“It’s time for an update,” Fayetteville Mayor Nat Robertson said after the ceremony. “I appreciate the Airport Commission being on top of the grants, where the city of Fayetteville shares a percentage of the costs.”
The FAA is providing about $13.9 million, the N.C. Division of Aviation is contributing about $2.28 million, and an additional $1.4 million is being allocated from airport funds through the city of Fayetteville’s budget.
The second phase of terminal improvements is planned to begin in the fall of 2019.

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Military Bowl: Bowling Green (8-4) vs. San Jose State (10-2)
When: Dec. 27
Time/TV: 3 p.m., ESPN
This game features two teams that bounced back from 5-7 seasons in 2011. Both defenses like to get after the quarterback—San Jose State is tied for fifth in the country in sacks (40), while Bowling Green is ninth (37). MAC defensive player of the year Chris Jones, a tackle who is tied for third in the nation with 121/2 sacks, leads a BGSU defense that is seventh in the nation in total defense. The difference, though, could be Spartans junior QB David Fales, who leads the nation in completion percentage (72.1). He has 3,798 yards passing and 31 touchdowns, helping the Spartans average 35.3 points per game. San Jose State enters having won six straight, and both of its losses came to current ranked teams, including a 20-17 heartbreaker in the season opener at Stanford.
NFL prospect to watch: Ryan Otten, TE, San Jose State. Although there are prospects ahead of him, Otten, with his good hands at 6-6, 245 pounds, has the potential to develop into a consistent big underneath target.
SN’s pick: San Jose State. The Spartans’ offensive firepower should ensure that their winning streak is extended to seven.
Instant replay: In the fourth edition of this bowl, in 2011, Toledo and Air Force put on a show. The Rockets beat the Falcons, 42-41, when Air Force faked an extra point but failed to convert the 2-point play with 52 seconds left.


Have you considered letting your children been talking about wanting to learn guitar playing? Are you more interested in playing for yourself? Use these ideas when learning how to play the guitar.
Try to practice with a guitar teacher. You can learn how to play on your own, but it’s to your benefit to have one objective observer listening. They can also improve the leaks in your game. Asking questions of them can also help.
Get comfortable with the guitar basics.You have to walk before running. You may want to learn your favorite song right out of the gate, but you need a foundation first. Learn positions for the chords. Practice scales and chords.
Learn guitar tabs and musical notation. Musical theory will help you comprehend each scale as well as the way different chords function. Spend time learning each string’s note name, and also the note names for every fret. This knowledge is especially helpful when you are playing melodies and riffs.
Don’t feel like you have to figure out all at one time. You will be more successful if you take your time.
A metronome is a good device to buy. Using a metronome will allow you to get better at timing and your rhythm. A metronome helps beginners learn to keep a pace. A metronome is a valuable tool to use when you want to play chords or songs correctly.
Try to practice with a teacher. You can learn how to play on your own, but you can also benefit from learning from a teacher. They can also improve the leaks in your style and show you ways to improve. This will also give you the chance to get your questions answered.
Always begin slowly. When you want learn a song, take your time and learn it completely before trying to play it at tempo. Begin slowly and perfect your execution of the song. Then, you can pick up the pace. If speed is your main focus, you may get frustrated at the mistakes you make. Begin at your own pace and master the notes before trying to play more quickly.
See if you have any friends that also interested in learning and playing guitar together. Reward yourself at the week’s end after successful daily practices. Keep in mind that anything worth doing takes real practice.
Do some finger-strengthening exercises. Certain chords require some fancy handwork, and they are only possible with good control of the strings. Make sure you learn a few simple techniques and exercises to strengthen your hands so that you can play even better than before.
While this sounds obvious, you need to get yourself a guitar in order to learn to play one. It’s hard to practice often without your own a guitar.
Chord switching is important when learning to play guitar. Practice making a smooth transition from chord to chord for a minimum of 15 minutes of every practice session. Having the ability to transition from one chord into another will ensure that your music always sounds pleasant and crisp and not noisy or squeaky.
Enjoy yourself while you practice the guitar. Remember that you’re only learning to play because you wanted to. Don’t make it into a stressful activity that you dread.This can make you to become jaded with the process. Continue to play and practice the music you like.
Do not spend a lot of money on your first guitar. While you may be tempted to pick up something fancy and expensive, you really don’t want to do that. You may not even enjoy playing the guitar. Not only this, but good sounds can be made with cheap guitars if you’re good enough. You cannot just guess when making an investment like this; you have to know that it’s something would like to do it.
Calluses can help the pain you get on your fingers from regular practice disappear. It takes a while to build up good callouses, but practicing frequently will help build them faster. You can also buy products that will help you build up calluses.
Take breaks. While practice is very important, burn out should definitely be avoided. You will want to stay fresh and strong. Take a break from practicing from time to time. Taking a break is likely to renew interest. You just need to guard against taking too many breaks.
Learn the different parts of a guitar and what each does. Knowing this information will help should you read teaching materials for learning. This will make you a guitar player.
Practice strumming your guitar. This will make it easier to learn and combine chords. It will also facilitate smooth transitioning between chords. So, take the time to simply strum because it has many benefits that will help you become a better player.
No matter what sort of music you like, you need to begin learning with the simplest of songs. Start with simpler songs instead of going after the fancy licks or difficult music. It may seem silly to start with “Three Blind Mice”, but often those simple songs will have single-note melodies that are easy to play.
After buying a guitar and starting to play, you need to keep it in great shape. A well-maintained guitar will be easier to learn on and will last a long time. Figure out how to change strings, tune it, and clean it. You should be proud of your guitar!
One thing to keep in mind while learning the most important things to learn when it comes to a guitar is how you can switch between various chords. Practice making a smooth transition from chord to chord for a minimum of 15 minutes every time you practice. Having the ability to transition from chord to chord skillfully is a good way to keep your music fresh.
When learning guitar, obtain instrumental music to inspire your practice sessions. You may be able to pick up some helpful techniques by watching professionals play their guitars. Pay attention to the playing and strumming styles and try to find things you enjoy enough to learn. When you pick a style to call your own, you’ll get more enjoyment out of practicing.
Find a friend who plays or wants to learn to play with. They can show you learn some techniques that you may not know yet. Find someone who has a lot of skill; they will help you can assist each other.
Think about playing a duet together with another person as you are learning. One person can play the melody as the other person plays the chords. This is a fun way to develop better technique. This helps you keep a steady tempo and rhythm when playing with another person.
Know when it’s time for you to take a break. Practice is key, but it’s not a good idea to get burned out when playing guitar. Take a break if you have been practicing from time to time. A short rest can renew your interest. Just remember not to take too many breaks.
Join in with your friends to learn guitar playing techniques. Check if your friends and family want to learn as well. It makes learning more fun, and you’re less likely to give up, if you have “learning buddies.” You can motivate each other.
Try to figure out songs on your own before looking up the tabs online. The world wide web puts information at your fingertips, but try to use your ears and listen for yourself and see if you can figure it out before you do an online search.
Try changing the strings on your own guitar. Online tutorials can be helpful for this very purpose. This is just one part of playing the guitar that you need to know. It’s not hard, but it’s something you need to know.
Learn how to strum the guitar and practice this method. This will help you learn and combine chords. It will also help out when you’re able to make a smooth transitioning between chords because you practiced them quite a bit. Take time strumming and its various benefits for better guitar playing.
Learn the proper way to handle your guitar pick. Spending time learning to properly use your pick is key. If you do not use one properly, your music will not be as good. Holding the pick correctly is basic. Using a variety of picking patterns will keep you motivated by challenging your abilities.
Listen to professional instrumental guitar music to inspire you. Hearing a professional play can help motivate you to learn even faster. Listen to the different strumming rhythm and styles and see which one you would like to focus on.
If you are thinking about learning guitar, think about what style of music you like to play. Your music style is going to impact which guitar you should purchase. For instance, you can play classical music on acoustic guitars, and then you can play metal music on an electric guitar.
Try asking someone to play a duet with others while you learn. One of you can play chords while the melody as the other handles the melody. This is a pleasant way to get practice in while learning the techniques of guitar. It can also help you to keep your rhythm and tempo steady because you’re able to play with others.
Practice as much as you can. Practicing every day will help you build finger memory. After a while, your fingers will know what to do before your brain has time to think about it. This allows faster, more precise movement on the strings.
You need to practice if you truly want to become better at the guitar. This helps you to play faster and more precisely on the strings.
Learn the different grips when holding a guitar. This should help you to view it as a part of who you are. Make sure that you are comfortable while playing.
As you have read, there is a lot to learn when first playing the guitar. This article is a good guide through this process. No matter if you plan to play yourself, or you want to help someone else, great information is close at hand. Retain this information as you progress.
If you enjoy using a computer, there are instructional guitar programs. Your guitar is connected to your computer through an input device. There will be lessons via the screen that you can follow. It is a nice change from reading a book or learning from a person.


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Q: I somehow missed a couple of election results -- 1) the North Little Rock perv trying to get back in the state ledge and 2) the dead county judge down in South Arkansas, Chicot County as I recall.
A: Dwayne Dobbins, who resigned from the legislature after a plea bargain to sexually molesting a teen and who turned up as an 11th-hour filer this year for a House seat his wife held, was unopposed in the Democratic primary and faces no general election opposition. The Green Party may still be searching for a candidate.
Fred Zieman, who died in March after filing to run for re-election for Chicot County judge, didn't do so hot in the election either, though people opposing the remaining choice had run ads urging a vote for Zieman. Mack Ball Jr. beat the late Zieman about 1,350 to 730.


Harrison tells court of Beatles `junk'
Thursday 07 May 1998
Harrison, 54, donned reading spectacles to pore over large bundles of court documents as he gave evidence to stop an amateur recording of the group made at the beginning of their fame 36 years ago.
"Unlike the experts who wallow in Beatle trivia I spend a lot of time getting the junk out of my mind through meditation so I don't know or remember - I don't want to know or remember - every last detail because it was trivial pursuit," he said at one point.
Mr Harrison, Ringo Starr, Sir Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono, who is executrix of John Lennon's will, are asking a High Court judge to ban sales of a CD produced from the recording made at The Star Club in Hamburg in 1962.
In his evidence Mr Harrison told of the "wild early" days which involved "a lot of teenagers getting drunk playing rock'n'roll". He said: "That's how it was. It was just a wild thing."
The ex-Beatles and Yoko want the original tape at the centre of the case, or proof that it has been destroyed. It was made by Edward Taylor, leader of obscure Sixties band King Size Taylor and The Dominoes, on his own reel-to-reel machine when he was playing a double bill with the Beatles.
Mark Platts Mills QC, representing the Beatles, told Mr Justice Neuberger at the start of the case that there had been "various attempts to exploit" the tape by people associated with the defendants, Lingasong Music Ltd, of Waltham Abbey, Essex.
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Harrison said the record at the centre of the case was the "crummiest" ever made in the group's name. "The only person who allegedly heard anything about it is the one person who is dead, who can't actually come here and say it's a load of rubbish."
He said John Lennon would have said something about the tape if he had known about it: "He never said anything to anyone. He didn't say anything to Brian Epstein or to Paul McCartney."
Even if anything had been said between John Lennon and Ted Taylor it did not constitute a business deal: "One drunken person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute business deals."
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Ri Sol Ju, wife of Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), watches a ballet performed by the Chinese art troupe in Pyongyang, the DPRK, April 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)
PYONGYANG, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, pledged on Saturday to jointly write a new chapter of the country's friendship with China during a meeting with a senior Chinese official in Pyongyang.
Kim, chairman of the Workers's Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, met with Song Tao, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee at the headquarters of the WPK Central Committee on Saturday.
During the meeting, Kim extended his greetings to General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping and welcomed the Chinese art troupe headed by Song that will attend the "Spring of April" International Friendship Art Festival held in Pyongyang.
Kim said that not long ago, he made a historic visit to China, during which he had long-time and meaningful talks and exchanges with Xi.
The two leaders reached important consensus and the meeting achieved fruitful results, he said.
At the moment when the DPRK-China friendly relations are moving towards a new and higher stage, General Secretary Xi sent a high-level and large-scale troupe to the DPRK, showing that Xi highly values the implementation of the consensus and revealing his friendly feelings of the DPRK people, he said.
Kim said he hopes that the two countries will take this opportunity to consolidate the basis of friendship between the two peoples and jointly write a new chapter of the DPRK-China friendship.
For his part, Song conveyed Xi's greetings and wishes to Kim.
Song said that the two leaders held a historic meeting in Beijing and reached important consensus, which opened a new chapter of the China-DPRK relations.
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China is willing to work with the DPRK to implement the important consensus reached between the top leaders of the two parties and jointly contribute to promoting the development of bilateral relations in the new era, improving the welfare of the two peoples and safeguarding peace on the Korean Peninsula, Song said.
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Multi-talented barely seems to cover the depth and breadth of Dr. Maya Angelou's accomplishments. She is an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson, Dr. Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Her parents split up when she was very young, and she and her older brother, Bailey, were sent to live with their father's mother, Anne Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas.
As an African American, Dr. Angelou experienced firsthand racial prejudices and discrimination in Arkansas. She also suffered at the hands of a family associate around the age of 7: During a visit with her mother, Angelou was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Then, as vengeance for the sexual assault, her uncle killed the boyfriend. So traumatized by the experience, she stopped talking, and returned to Arkansas and spent years as a virtual mute.
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In 1944, a 16-year-old Dr.Angelou gave birth to a son, Guy (a short-lived high school relationship had led to the pregnancy), thereafter working a number of jobs to support herself and her child. In 1952, the future literary icon wed Anastasios Angelopulos, a Greek sailor from whom she took her professional name a blend of her childhood nickname, "Maya," and a shortened version of his surname.
In the mid-1950s, Angelou's career as a performer began to take off. She landed a role in a touring production of Porgy and Bess, later appearing in the off-Broadway production Calypso Heat Wave (1957) and releasing her first album, Miss Calypso (1957). A member of the Harlem Writers Guild and a civil rights activist, Dr. Angelou organized and starred in the musical revue Cabaret for Freedom as a benefit for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, also serving as the SCLC's northern coordinator.
In 1961, Dr. Angelou appeared in an off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks with James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr. and Cicely Tyson. While the play earned strong reviews, Dr. Angelou moved on to other pursuits, spending much of the 1960s abroad; she first lived in Egypt and then in Ghana, working as an editor and a freelance writer. Dr. Angelou also held a teaching position at the University of Ghana.
After returning to the United States, Dr. Angelou was urged by friend and fellow writer James Baldwin to write about her life experiences. Her efforts resulted in the enormously successful 1969 memoir about her childhood and young adult years, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. The poignant work also made Dr. Angelou an international star.
Since publishing Caged Bird, Dr. Angelou has continued to break new ground not just artistically, but educationally and socially. She wrote the drama Georgia, Georgia in 1972 becoming the first African-American woman to have her screenplay produced and went on to earn a Tony Award nomination for her role in the play Look Away (1973) and an Emmy Award nomination for her work on the television miniseries Roots(1977), among other honors.
Dr.Angelou has written several autobiographies throughout her career, including All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), but 1969's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings continues to be regarded as her most popular autobiographical work. She has also published several collections of poetry, including Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize One of Angelou's most famous works is the poem "On the Pulse of Morning," which she wrote especially for and recited at President Bill Clinton's inaugural ceremony in January 1993 marking the first inaugural recitation since 1961, when Robert Frost delivered his poem "The Gift Outright" at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. Angelou went on to win a Grammy Award (best spoken word album) for the audio version of the poem.
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Dr.Martin Luther King Jr., a close friend of Dr. Angelou's, was assassinated on her birthday (April 4) in 1968. Dr. Maya Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to Dr. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta's death in 2006.
Dr. Angelou was good friends with Oprah Winfrey, who has organized several birthday celebrations for the award-winning author, including a week-long cruise for her 70th birthday in 1998.
After experiencing health issues for a number of years, Dr. Maya Angelou died on May 28, 2014, at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The news of her passing spread quickly with many people taking to social media to mourn and remember Dr. Angelou. President Barack Obama issued a statement about Dr. Angelou, calling her "a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman." Angelou "had the ability to remind us that we are all God's children; that we all have something to offer," he wrote
Author of books: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970, memoir) Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971, poetry) Gather Together in My Name (1974, memoir) Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975, poetry) And Still I Rise (1978, poetry) The Heart of a Woman (1981) Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983, poetry) All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986, memoir) The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994, poetry) A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Random House (New York, NY), 1970, many reprintings.
Gather Together in My Name, Random House (New York, NY), 1974, many reprintings.
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry like Christmas, Random House (New York, NY), 1976.
The Heart of a Woman, Random House (New York, NY), 1981.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Random House (New York, NY), 1986, many reprintings.
A Song Flung up to Heaven, Random House (New York, NY), 2002.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou (omnibus edition of all six autobiographies), Modern Library (New York, NY), 2004.
Mom & Me & Mom, Random House (New York, NY), 2013.
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, Random House (New York, NY), 1971, many reprintings.
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, Random House (New York, NY), 1975, many reprintings.
And Still I Rise, Random House (New York, NY), 1978, new version published as Still I Rise, illustrated by Diego Rivera, edited by Linda Sunshine, Random House (New York, NY), 2001, many reprintings.
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, Random House (New York, NY), 1983, many reprintings.
Poems, four volumes, Bantam (New York, NY), 1986.
Now Sheba Sings the Song (illustrated poem), illustrations by Tom Feelings, Dutton (New York, NY), 1987.
I Shall Not Be Moved, Random House (New York, NY), 1990, many reprintings.
On the Pulse of Morning, Random House (New York, NY), 1993, many reprintings.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, Random House (New York, NY), 1994, many reprintings.
A Brave and Startling Truth, Random House (New York, NY), 1995.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women, Random House (New York, NY), 1995, new edition published as Phenomenal Woman, paintings by Paul Gaugin, edited by Linda Sunshine, Random House (New York, NY), 2000.
Amazing Peace, Random House (New York, NY), 2005.
Also author of The Poetry of Maya Angelou, 1969. Contributor of poems in The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets and to Mary Higgins Clark, Mother, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1996.
Lessons in Living, Random House (New York, NY), 1993.
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Random House (New York, NY), 1993.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome, Random House (New York, NY), 1997.
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Random House (New York, NY), 2004.
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me, Random House (New York, NY), 2006.
Letter to my Daughter, Random House (New York, NY), 2008.
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Mrs. Flowers: A Moment of Friendship (selection from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) illustrated by Etienne Delessert, Redpath Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1986.
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (poem), edited by Sara Jane Boyers, illustrated by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Stewart, Tabori & Chang (New York, NY), 1993.
(With others) Soul Looks Back in Wonder, illustrated by Tom Feelings, Dial (New York, NY), 1993.
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me, photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Crown (New York, NY), 1994.
Kofi and His Magic, photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Crown (New York, NY), 1996.
Angelina of Italy, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell, Random House (New York, NY), 2004.
Izak of Lapland, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell, Random House (New York, NY), 2004.
Renie Marie of France, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell, Random House (New York, NY), 2004.
Mikale of Hawaii, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell, Random House (New York, NY), 2004.
(With Godfrey Cambridge) Cabaret for Freedom (musical revue), produced at Village Gate Theatre, New York, 1960.
The Least of These (two-act drama), produced in Los Angeles, 1966.
(Adapter) Sophocles, Ajax (two-act drama), produced at Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1974.
(And director) And Still I Rise (one-act musical), produced in Oakland, CA, 1976.
(Author of poems for screenplay) Poetic Justice (screenplay), Columbia Pictures, 1993.
(Author of lyrics, with Alistair Beaton) King, book by Lonne Elder, III, music by Richard Blackford, London, 1990.
Also author of the play Gettin' up Stayed on My Mind, 1967, a drama, The Best of These, a two-act drama, The Clawing Within, 1966, a two- act musical, Adjoa Amissah, 1967, and a one-act play, Theatrical Vignette, 1983.
(And director) All Day Long (screenplay), American Film Institute, 1974.
(Writer of script and musical score) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, CBS, 1979.
Sister, Sister (television drama), National Broadcasting Co., Inc. (NBC-TV), 1982.
(Writer of poetry) John Singleton, Poetic Justice (motion picture), Columbia Pictures, 1993.
Composer of songs, including two songs for movie For Love of Ivy, and composer of musical scores for both her screenplays. Author of Black, Blues, Black, a series of ten one-hour programs, broadcast by National Educational Television (NET-TV), 1968. Also author of Assignment America, a series of six one-half-hour programs, 1975, and of The Legacy and The Inheritors, two television specials, 1976. Other documentaries include Trying to Make It Home (Byline series), 1988, and Maya Angelou's America: A Journey of the Heart (also host). Public Broadcasting Service Productions include Who Cares about Kids, Kindred Spirits, Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds, and To the Contrary. Writer for television series Brewster Place, Harpo Productions.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Frost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin which later merged with the San Francisco Examiner, and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. After his death on May 5, 1885, the family moved across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts, under the patronage of his grandfather William Frost, Sr., who was an overseer at a New England mill. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892.
Although known for his later association with rural life, Frost grew up in the city, and he published his first poem in his high school's magazine. He attended Dartmouth College for two months, long enough to be accepted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost returned home to teach and to work at various jobs including helping his mother teach her class of unruly boys, delivering newspapers, and working in a factory as an arclight carbon filament changer. He did not enjoy these jobs, feeling his true calling was poetry.
His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medallion 1960 for his poetical works.
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, whom he'd shared valedictorian honors with in high school and who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after they tried and failed at farming in New Hampshire. It was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.
Robert Frost delivered a poem at President John F. Kennedy inauguration who said about Frost that, "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
In the Clearing (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1962) Hard Not to Be King (House of Books, 1951)
Steeple Bush (Henry Holt and Company, 1947)
Masque of Reason (Henry Holt and Company, 1945)
Come In, and Other Poems (Henry Holt and Company, 1943)
A Witness Tree (Henry Holt and Company, 1942)
A Further Range (Henry Holt and Company, 1936)
From Snow to Snow (Henry Holt and Company, 1936)
The Lone Striker (Knopf, 1933)
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers (Random House, 1929)
West-Running Brook (Henry Holt and Company, 1928)
New Hampshire (Henry Holt and Company, 1923)
Mountain Interval (Henry Holt and Company, 1916)
North of Boston (Henry Holt and Company, 1914)
A Boy's Will (Henry Holt and Company, 1913)
Rise with the hour for which you were made.
"The heart of the woman falls back with the night and enters some alien cage in its plight, and tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars, while it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars".
Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson was born September 10, 1880 was an Americanpoet and a member of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was born inAtlantato Laura Douglas and George Camp(her mother's last name is listed in other sources as Jackson).Her mother was of African andNative Americandescent, and her father was ofAfrican-AmericanandEnglishheritage.Much of Johnson's childhood was spent in Rome, Georgia. She received her education in both Rome and Atlanta, where she excelled in reading, recitations and physical education. She also taught herself to play the violin, which developed into a lifelong love of music.
She began to submit poems to newspapers and small magazines. She published her first poem in 1916 when she was thirty-six. She published four volumes of poetry, beginning in 1918 with The Heart of a Woman. Johnson also wrote songs, taught music, and performed as an organist at her Congregational church.
There Johnson lived for the last fifty years of her life. Johnson's husband died in 1925. She struggled at first with some temporary jobs. As a gesture of appreciation for her husband's loyalty and service to the Republican party, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Johnson as the Commissioner of Conciliation in the Department of Labor.

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Sen. Mark Pryor is doing a delicate dance over congressional Democrats’ upcoming push to boost the federal minimum wage. The Democrat from Republican-leaning Arkansas says he’ll vote against the bill, but on the key roll call may oppose GOP efforts to filibuster it to death.
Democratic Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska, another red state where President Barack Obama is deeply unpopular, has no such qualms. He not only backs the legislation to gradually raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour by 2016 but is co-sponsoring it.
The two Marks, both seeking re-election this fall, exemplify how local politics is complicating Democrats’ push on what most of them consider a can’t-miss campaign-year issue.
Tentative plans to debate the bill have slipped several times since late last year, and Democratic leaders delayed Senate debate on the proposal yet again Tuesday, saying it would come up after lawmakers return from a recess in late March.
Top Democrats blame GOP obstruction on nominations for hindering the Senate from addressing minimum wage, one of Obama’s top priorities. But one Senate aide and a union lobbyist said Democrats prefer to refocus in coming days on extending benefits for the long-term unemployed, which they have tried passing repeatedly this year.
Though solid Republican opposition is the chief stumbling block to a minimum wage boost, Senate Democrats‘ long-shot prospects of prevailing hinge on getting virtually every Democratic vote. Even if they’re defeated, many Democrats see minimum wage as a political winner because it lets them focus on income equality, motivate their most loyal voters and cast Republican opponents as uncaring.
Sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and backed by Obama, the minimum wage increase likely would get enough support from the Senate’s 53 Democrats and two independents to win final approval.
But first it would need 60 votes to overcome GOP procedural delays aimed at killing it, including support from at least five Republicans — a tough election-year lift.
Leaders of the GOP-run House seem unlikely to even stage votes on the measure, wounding its prospects further.
An Associated Press-GfK poll last month found supporters of a minimum wage increase outnumbering opponents 55 percent to 21 percent, with 23 percent neutral. Yet Pryor, expecting a tough re-election challenge from GOP Rep. Tom Cotton, is treading gingerly.
Pryor favors a proposed Arkansas ballot initiative to gradually raise the state’s $6.25 an hour minimum wage — one of the nation’s lowest — to $8.50. He says the Senate bill’s $10.10 is “too fast” for Arkansas and will be defeated anyway, while his state’s ballot initiative “is going to pass, and that’s the difference.”
Labor has little clout in Arkansas, where unions represent 3 percent of workers, one of the country’s lowest rates. The state’s weak economy produced an unemployment rate of 7.4 percent in December, higher than most. Those factors leave unions reluctant to push Pryor aggressively to back the Senate bill.
“We’re a state of low income, and our business is not the best in the world,” said Alan Hughes, president of the Arkansas AFL-CIO. “I think he understands the need for a compromise.”
Said Randy Zook, president of the state’s Chamber of Commerce, “I think he recognizes we have a terrible unemployment problem now, and this will aggravate it.”
Just 35 percent in Arkansas approve of Obama’s performance as president, according to Gallup polling last year, one of his worst ratings anywhere. That means opposing the bill could help Pryor by letting him separate himself from Obama and national Democrats.
“It’s more about divorcing himself from President Obama than it’s even about wages,” said Janine Parry, political science professor at the University of Arkansas.
The senator says such distancing is “not the intention.”
Things are different in Alaska, making Begich happy to back the Senate bill.
The state had a more moderate December jobless rate of 6.4 percent and has a potent labor movement, with 22 percent union membership, one of the nation’s highest rates.
Alaska has a state minimum wage of $7.75, which exceeds the federal level and is expected to rise further with a ballot initiative this summer increasing the state minimum to $9.75 in 2016.
And though Obama is as unpopular in Alaska as in Arkansas, Alaska has many independent voters and an entrenched working-class ethos.
“I listened to a whole lot of diatribes against Obama,” said Ed Flanagan, a former state labor commissioner who said he gathered signatures for the minimum wage ballot initiative in conservative areas. “But they signed the petition.”
Begich seems unconcerned about backing Obama on the minimum wage.
“I’ve got plenty to separate myself from the president” on higher-profile issues, Begich said, citing differences over federal curbs on energy development and his opposition to expanding gun buyers’ background checks.
Other senators facing voters this year who must also gauge home-state sentiment include Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, who must be careful to not tie herself too closely to Obama in conservative Louisiana. She said she supports an increase, but $10.10 would be “a pretty significant jump” for Louisiana, which has no minimum of its own.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she worries about the size of the $10.10 proposal. She said she was working with other Republicans on an alternative with incentives to keep small businesses from cutting jobs.
The $10.10 proposal got mixed reviews last week from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It said the increase could cost the economy 500,000 jobs in 2016, while lifting 900,000 people over the poverty line.
That hasn’t deterred Democrats from seeking Senate votes.
“Bring it up. And when you don’t get 60 votes, bring it up again,” said Brad Woodhouse, president of the liberal Americans United for Change. “It’s one of those things where the politics are so good for Democrats.”
“Democrats are trying to refocus the national conversation around anything but the two major issues that have plagued them for the last several years” — Obama’s 2010 health care overhaul and the economy, said Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the party’s Senate campaign arm.
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Melissa Gorga has kept her silence since returning to The Real Housewives of New Jersey as she wanted to work on her relationship with Teresa Giudice. Melissa knew that she needed to make an effort to get her relationship back on track with Teresa as the two of them had faced some hardships before she went to prison. Giudice had questioned her family members as they were speaking out about her legal problems and her time in prison. And clearly, she wasn’t happy about it. Melissa did her best to be supportive, which is why they have been able to get along ever since Giudice was released.
According to a new tweet, Melissa Gorga is getting support from The Real Housewives of New Jersey fans for being genuine and open about her support for her sister-in-law. Melissa’s husband, Joe Gorga, has also tried to be there for Teresa, and fans appreciate that they are working hard to keep the relationship strong despite outside influences.
— AllThingsRH (@AllThingsRH) September 20, 2016
“From the heart,” Melissa Gorga wrote on Twitter after writing a heartfelt blog, to which one person added, “I agree. You are very human — genuine and thoughtful — and it completely comes across on screen and off.”
“Ty. I’m glad it does,” Melissa revealed on Twitter, thanking her followers for recognizing that she’s trying.
— Bravo WWHL (@BravoWWHL) September 19, 2016
But it sounds like Melissa Gorga couldn’t manage all her relationships at once. When Gorga visited Watch What Happens Live this week, a person asked Gorga why she was dropping Kathy Wakile and Rosie Pierri as friends to stick with Teresa Giudice. Melissa Gorga denied dropping her former co-stars for the sake of Teresa, but she did reveal that they had grown apart, according to Bravo.
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“You know what, I’m not dropping them. I feel like we have grown apart. I’m not gonna lie about that. They actually stopped calling to start that off. I don’t know. Sometimes people grow apart. We didn’t have a big fight. I love them very much. They are family to us,” Melissa Gorga told Andy Cohen during her visit to the Watch What Happens Live studio, adding, “I feel like what goes on between them and Teresa, though, runs deep down the line before I was even around, generations.”
Gorga and her husband did visit Kathy Wakile and her husband Richie during Sunday’s episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and they were shocked by how they were talking about Teresa and her husband. It’s no secret that Kathy and Rosie are upset about how they have been treated by Giudice since she has returned from prison. During their sit-down with their cousin, they were shocked to learn that Teresa had ignored them on purpose, saying that she wanted to cut out the cancer.
— All About The Tea (@AllAboutTheTea_) September 19, 2016
And while Melissa Gorga wasn’t present for the conversation, she understands why her sister-in-law is seeking some peace and quiet. Her husband turned himself in shortly after they started filming The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Teresa just wanted to get as much out of their time together as possible.
But, it is interesting that Gorga blames Kathy and Rosie for not reaching out to her. A relationship does go two ways, and she hasn’t heard from them either, so they naturally grew apart.
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) September 12, 2016
What do you think of Melissa Gorga’s genuine comments about her family members? Do you think she’s right in distancing herself from Kathy and Rosie?
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The Paris World Health Organisation (Paris WHO) announced the #pariswho2022 conference and simulation will be held online and will take place over three days on 10, 17, and 24 September 2022. There will be participation from public health specialists to discuss the risks of misinformation when using social media and how we will cope with it moving forward. This year’s topic will be “Social Media and Public Health: Friend or Foe?”.
Join us as we explore the impact of social media on public health messaging and communication while taking part in the unique experience of simulating a World Health Assembly. We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for this year’s online event!
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Armond Budish wins Cuyahoga County Executive Race
Armond Budish thanks his many supporters after winning the Cuyahoga County Executive race, in the Lakeside Meeting Room at the DoubleTree Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 4, 2014.
(Chuck Crow, The Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County executive-elect Armond Budish received a total of $26,350 in campaign contributions from people he later appointed to unpaid advisory posts on his transition team, an analysis of campaign finance records shows.
The 14 donors' contributions ranged from $100 to $5,000. Budish reported them between July 1, 2013 and Oct. 15, 2014 en route to his Nov. 4 defeat of Republican County Councilman Jack Schron.
Since then, Budish has announced the names of 45 advisers who will help set his policy agenda for when he takes over for outgoing Executive Ed FitzGerald in January.
- Search database to find all donations to Armond Budish
The contributions are legal and there is no appearance that any of the advisers are benefiting financially from the arrangement. But they do offer a glimpse into who might have access to the new county administration.
To report this story, the first in a periodic series examining Budish's campaign activity, Northeast Ohio Media Group analyzed nearly 1,300 individual contributions totaling nearly $1.4 million contained within Budish campaign reports.
NEOMG used the information in the county reports to create the searchable database.
A Budish spokesman declined to directly address whether the contributions influenced Budish's appointment of a transition team.
But the spokesman, Dennis Willard, said in an email: "We are thankful to our supporters. In fact, one in every three contributions was for $100 or less and we are grateful for that kind of strong grassroots support."
Here are the transition advisers and the amounts they donated:
Jerry Sue Thornton ($5,000)
Thornton is a retired president of Cuyahoga Community College. She is a co-chair of Budish's transition team.
Michael D. Siegal ($5,000)
Siegal is chairman and CEO of Olympic Steel. He is a member of a group studying economic growth and opportunity-related issues.
Beth Mooney ($4,500)
Mooney is chair and CEO of KeyCorp. Budish named her as chair of the economic growth and opportunity study group.
Richard W. Pogue ($2,500)
Pogue is a retired managing partner with Jones Day, a Cleveland-based law firm. He is a member of the economic growth and opportunity study group.
Mark D. Griffin ($2,500)
Griffin is a shareholder in Thorman Petrov Griffin law firm, and is the former 2008 state deputy director for the Ohio Democratic Party. He is the executive director of a group studying quality of life issues.
Len Komoroski ($2,000)
Komoroski is CEO of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena. He is a member of the economic growth and opportunity study group.
Dominic L. Ozanne ($1,500)
Ozanne is president and CEO of Ozanne Construction. He is a member of the economic growth and opportunity study group.
Marc S. Byrnes ($1,300)
Byrnes is the chairman of Oswald Company, a Cleveland-based insurance company. He is a co-chair of Budish's overarching transition team.
Bill Mason ($1,000)
Mason is a partner for Bricker and Eckler, a law firm, and is a former Cuyahoga County prosecutor. He is a member of the group studying quality of life issues.
David T. Abbott ($500)
Abbott is the executive director of the George Gund Foundation. He is a member of the group studying economic growth and opportunity-related issues.
Helen Forbes-Fields ($200)
Forbes-Fields is a partner of Forbes, Fields and Associates, a local law firm. She is a member of the group studying quality of life issues.
Lee A. Trotter ($150)
Trotter is a former deputy Cuyahoga County administrator. He is a member of the quality of life group.
Tim DeGeeter ($100)
DeGeeter is mayor of Parma, and is a member of a group studying government efficiency-related issues.
Brad Sellers ($100)
Sellers is mayor of Warrensville Heights and is leading the group studying government efficiency-related issues.
Budish also appointed the leader of the Cleveland Building Trades Council, which donated $385 in food to a Budish event. Executive Secretary Dave Wondolowski is a member of a group studying economic growth/opportunity-related issues.


So, we’re at war?
House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) complained about Americans attacking Joe Biden during wartime.
The United States of America is at war?
“It is unfortunate that in a time of war, we spend all the time blaming our own president,” said Hoyer.
House Majority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer:
"It it unfortunate that in a time of war, we spend all the time blaming our own president." pic.twitter.com/iOUocSBX52
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So far we’ve seen retros of Nike’s Air Max Plus IIIs wearing vibrant 90s hues that suffuse over its uppers. Now, we’re seeing the model’s darker side. This edition has a greyscale panning from heel to toe, and small pops of colour coming from TN branding. Given the III’s menacing appearance, the shady make-up looks right at home.
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