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Friday, 22 July 2011
Mamarazzi Made Salted Eggs Prawns
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hahaha, eh, SK, dont like that lah, Mamarazi already so penat hor, cook up a storm, should have give her some face mah, at least taste 1 ekor udang...aunty Ivy mau makan pun tarak ada ler...ur mama cooking skills getting better from day to day...ReplyDelete
Mamarazzi so rajin, tried cooking twice. Mmmm... I'm sure it's yummy :-).ReplyDelete
Hmmm... looks like auntie needs to sumbat ur mamarazzi more salted egg la... since she got use alot of salted eggs lately. Mau satu kotak or not? Auntie kasi next round.ReplyDelete
sounds tasty enough to me!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 July 2011 at 06:09
Looks good. Burnt a bit no problem, more wangi...as long as not like Aunty Lizard's negro chicken... LOL!!!ReplyDelete
like they always say, if not successful first round, try again. And glad to hear it was better the 2nd time you tried.ReplyDelete
I like the fact you're ambitious enough to try new recipes XD nice!
Prawns, prawns, my favourite!!!ReplyDelete
Good try, Mamarazzi.ReplyDelete
wow, mamarazzi really very brave to try this difficult dish huh, hahahaha!! hey, since you're successful this round, the next level up is salted eggs crab!! :pReplyDelete
seem like ur cooking skill getting better,can cook such a "restaurant dish" :)ReplyDelete
Well done on Mamarazzi's 2nd attempt. Looks like she can cook just about anything :)ReplyDelete
Kesian mamarazzi ler...cook so nice...you duan to eat meh? give face lar...eat some k...mamarazzi trying very hard to cook for you n paparazzi. Mamarazzi, try to cook another time, I'm sure it will be better.ReplyDelete
yummy..I love big prawns!ReplyDelete
the serving looks like 'Tai Zhao Lao' (big dining place) dish.ReplyDelete
Sorry lar didn't let you know to use the same recipe as salted egg chicken for the prawns.ReplyDelete
That looks good. I'm bad at cooking, not to say I can't cook, but probably only I can eat them :p. I love prawns, infact I love seafood, and the dish you made looks tasty.ReplyDelete
I quite like it as I am quite used to food with garlic for the lovely fragrant. Salted eggs can also be added in crabs and fried chicken.ReplyDelete
Looks good la. Maybe I'll try prawn with salted egg next. Cheers!ReplyDelete
but hangus and have cili wor
Boey JoeyReplyDelete
Coz Mamarazzi geram lo
Auntie CleffReplyDelete
Not as good as Elin's
LOL....she just made negro springrolls :p
Must try new recipe lo..bored liao with the same old recipe
Shenny's MommyReplyDelete
Thank you :P
ya ya...salted eggs crabs..yumm
Choi YenReplyDelete
copy copy here and there one lo
Chloe's MommyReplyDelete
Still L-licence leh
Tarak layan coz got cili :(
yup...Mamarazzi too
Not that standard yet ...still long way to go
Mamarazzi saw that recipe but not very sure it applies for prawn or not. :p
looking forward to your Pulau Ketam post
Ya garlic makes it smell nicer
LOL good luck . Bet yours will be better
Hi SK, I guess I'll take a rain cheque on this....ReplyDelete
I love salt fish, but not keen on salted eggs or that black ones.....pregnant women eats, ha ha.
Nice pics.....
Have a nice weekend.
wow drooling mamarazzi so good in cooking!ReplyDelete
LOL! So cute this post! Kebuluran pulak! :P I see the second time really look successful!! I feel like cooking it too. but when you meant a lot of'bubbles' means very oily and smoky lor afterwards? :(ReplyDelete
wow... looks nice. ;)ReplyDelete
Can send Joshua for child star audition liao, he is so expressive! LOL, I reckon burnt garlic gave extra fragrant to the dish, well done mamarazzi!ReplyDelete
Uncle LeeReplyDelete
aiks...dont like salted eggs ah...hmm...there are many more recipe
Mars MellReplyDelete
still L-lesen :p
Lenglui witchReplyDelete
Not smokey. The Salted Eggs seems to "fatt" like popcornbut not jumping like popcorn la. It bubbles.
still need to improve :D
LOL...burnt garlic tasted bitter lo.
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Today millions of tourists flock to museums, crowding in front of van Goghs like The Starry Night (1889) and Sunflowers (1888). The art has been reproduced en masse, on posters, prints, calendars, key chains, tote bags, coffee mugs, umbrellas, fabric covers and even bathing suits. Yet the artist's struggles with mental illness in the last year or so of his life have been magnified into cautionary tales about art, feeding a toxic popular myth that artists are insane, antisocial, and self-destructive. He is a wide-eyed messianic savant in Vicente Milleni's Lust for Life (1956), an irritable and immature malcontent in Robert Altman's Vincent and Theo (1990), and an institutionalized and emaciated victim in Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh (1991). Having exhausted van Gogh's biography, filmmakers have turned the art-as-madness propaganda campaign on to other artists' lives, from Mr. Turner (2014) and Pollock (2000) to Basquiat (1996), and Edvard Munch (1974). The message — unfailingly negative and absurdly reductive — is that artists are quasi-mystic misfits whose charming works were the byproduct of sick souls. In addition to further stigmatizing mental illness, these misrepresentations reinforce the lie that such illnesses strike painters in disproportionate numbers compared to the rest of the population. Armed with psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, curators, critics and academics pile on, framing an artist's work in spurious speculations about their inner lives and secret agendas. This insulates both academe and mass culture from engaging with art as complex and subversive forms of knowledge. Admire it, get its "messages," but don't take art too seriously. In turn, foundational principles from art like "creativity," "imagination," and "vision" get emptied of subversive meanings, appropriated for TED Talks and marketing campaigns while bungling inventors and venture capitalists become our modern-day Leonardo da Vincis. If the hijacking of van Gogh's biography started us down this road, then revisiting van Gogh through the prism of newly published books about his life and aesthetics can chart a new course toward understanding the achievements buried beneath the myth.
After all "geniuses," like "stars," come and go with every news cycle. What makes van Gogh great was an ingrained mission he adopted, one that would test whether painting could expand the very phenomenon of experience itself. Judicious, well-read, focused, resourceful and unremitting, he learned and then rejected numerous conventions in order to break down the supposed distinctions between nature and art, between the world as it is and the world as it is painted. To this end, more radically than his equally talented and industrious Post-Impressionist peers, van Gogh undid long held Western assumptions about spatiality, color, and composition. Dispensing with three-dimensionality and chiaroscuro, he remade canvases into allover fields of undiluted, sharply contrasting colors and unpredictable densities of brushwork. Seemingly hurried and unrefined, his paintings helped advance abstraction in art by revealing how an object's details can stand alone as self-contained exemplifications of the picture's whole, as if painting itself had harnessed the ocular magic of telescopes, microscopes and zoom lenses. In all these respects, van Gogh discovered and mapped out unknown interrelationships between psychological depth and frank intimacy, audacious color and pure spatiality that guided much of 20th century art, from Pablo Picasso's flattened planes of Cubism to Pierre Bonnard's lushly colored interiors and into the art scenes across the Atlantic, from Frida Kahlo's high-keyed probing self-portraiture to Joan Mitchell's lyrical Abstract Expressionist evocations of nature.
Vincent Van Gogh came out of nowhere. Born in Zundert in The Netherlands in 1853, he was the eldest son of a caring, censorious reverend in the Dutch Reformed Church and an equally protective and often judgmental mother. To appease his parents, in his early 20s, he went to work for the international art dealer Goupil & Cie. Goupil posted him first in The Hague, then in London, and, briefly, in Paris. Though enthralled by the range of European art he handled, the art-dealing career which so suited his younger brother Theo did not suit his intrepid temperament. After Vincent was laid off by Goupil he studied theology for a time, working as an evangelical preacher. A churchgoer in England around October of 1876 would have heard a rare Sunday sermon by van Gogh, a speech which he transcribed in a letter to Theo. In it he echoes a long-standing motif among Protestant evangelicals that defines human beings as "pilgrims in the earth and strangers." This formulation, reiterated in his early letters, reflects a kind of enlightened nihilism that may eventually have been his unspoken credo. On the one hand, the stark phrase "pilgrims and strangers," enshrines a sort of tranquil alienation as being endemic to the natural world and to humanity. But in its secular or existential associations, about which van Gogh often ruminates, the formulation levels class hierarchies and incites fellowship between humans and a kinship between humanity and the nonhuman world.
Ultimately, promoting Christianity to congregants suited van Gogh as poorly as had selling other people's art. Writing in 1882, as he began drawing in earnest, he assures Theo, "Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me." And, contrary to the then fashionable belief in supernatural inspiration, he defines art as a patient effort, trial-and-error, and, most interestingly, as an ongoing act of nonconformity. "Art demands dogged work, work in spite of everything and continuous observation," he tells Theo, adding that, "by dogged, I mean in the first place incessant labor, but also not abandoning one's views upon the say-so of this person or that." In his letters to Theo he names himself a "painter of peasant life" mainly because he saw everyone, including himself, as peasants tilling the earth as if it were a fief run by an absent overlord.
Once he decided to make art, he studied, drew and painted laborers — diggers and sowers, miners and weavers. In this respect, he learned from social realists and magazine illustrators while, unbeknownst to the young van Gogh, the Impressionists in France were already remaking the rules for painting. For his part, as he began to paint he did so in earth tones and dim interiors brightened here and there by relatively muted light, and held what he witnessed as the only criterion for choosing subject matter. " I see [potential] paintings and drawings in the poorest cottages, the dirtiest corners," he tells Theo, "And my mind is driven toward these things with an irresistible momentum."
This creative upsurge kicked into full gear around the time he turned 30, an activism through art fueled by reading social realists like Charles Dickens and Émile Zola and studying his favorite painter, Jean-Francois Millet, as well as rereading Shakespeare, the Gospels, and Victor Hugo. Newly animated and bankrolled by Theo, he formulates visual perception as an interpersonal dynamic connected to drawing. Against his brother's advice and alarming his parents, he briefly shared a home with Clasina (Sien) Maria Hoornik, a pregnant prostitute, all the while delving into landscape drawing. "Picture me sitting at my attic window as early as 4:00 in the morning," he writes to Theo, "studying the meadows & the carpenter's yard with my perspective frame." He was sure that disciplines of close observation and social realism would yield art reflective of that diligence. But an autodidactic approach would only get him so far. He enrolled for a short time in the Art Academy in Brussels and apprenticed with two successful artists — esteemed Dutch painter Willem Roelofs as well as his own second cousin, Anton Mauve. But his time living with his brother Theo in Paris from late 1886 to early 1888 would completely alter his art and produce the Van Gogh we know.
In the French capital, the two bachelors resided first on the Rue de Laval before moving to a bigger studio-friendly third-floor apartment at 54 rue Lepic in Montmartre. The just republished A Memoir of Vincent van Gogh (Getty Publications, 2018) by Theo's widow, Jo van-Gogh Bonger reports that Vincent and Theo argued often. Vincent implored his younger brother to quit Goupil and open his own gallery. In turn Theo bristled at what he viewed as his older brother's shoddy housekeeping, poor hygiene, and general vehemence. Theo's network was pivotal. He knew the leading Impressionists and many vanguard artists. Other artists like Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Louis Anquetin befriended Vincent and encouraged a more experimental and freer attitude to making pictures.
The most decisive influence was the sudden infusion of Japanese art into Paris in the form of ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints. As documented in a recent blockbuster exhibition held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and in the newly published Japanese Prints: The Collection of Vincent Van Gogh (Thames & Hudson & Van Gogh Museum 2018), these reproductions of Japanese art — ranging greatly in quality — were made available by the recent opening of Japan to the West. The cultural excitement over what the writer and theater impresario Jules Claretie labeled japanisme helped transform French art of that period, persuading established artists like Camille Pissaro and up-and-coming figures like Paul Gauguin to emulate the techniques and topics as handled by Japanese painters like Hiroshige and Hokusai.
More acutely than most artists, van Gogh was caught up in this fascination. Partly hoping to make money by selling them, he bought "no fewer than 660 sheets" of Japanese art, mainly from dealer Siegfried Bing, including reproductions of Japanese chirimen-e art — known in French as crépons — creped prints in which the artist's paper was artificially manipulated to create a crinkled surface and a textile-like appearance. Though his attempt to sell his collection flopped, the prints he kept in his studio offered new technical strategies for landscape painting, including cropping out depicted objects in unusual ways, experimenting with zooming and aerial views, working with high horizon lines, and allowing intrusive structures to dominate a picture's foreground. His paintings began to feature abrupt flattening effects, much bolder coloration and schematized arrangements. In two paintings that copy Japanese models, Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) (1887) and Courtesan (after [Keisai] Eisen) (1887), he extends the original's florid colors, stylized poses, and sinuous costumes to the images and colors he added to the paintings' actual frames.
Other changes were more subtle but far-reaching. He was particularly drawn to certain Japanese genres like kacho-e, featuring birds and flowers, and bijin-ga, portraits of women and kabuki actors. These interests led to a shift in how he approached realism. The natural world remains a central fascination. In presentation, nature becomes an unpredictable genus alive with organic ornamentation. His portraiture changes in a corresponding manner. Van Gogh's sitters, including himself, take on a theatricality normally associated with actors, priests, and courtesans.
But this adoption of Japanese techniques was not without struggle. Writing to his fellow Japanophile and close friend Émile Bernard, he notes that "the Japanese disregards reflection, placing solid tints one beside the other — characteristic lines naively marking off movements or shapes." Concision and succinctness, two Japanese artistic traits he wished to adopt, did not come easily. But when it did, his painterly language expanded exponentially.
If Paris offered him an ongoing cultural reeducation, it also stifled him. van-Gogh Bonger reports that the gray city "did not agree" with Vincent and "overstrained his nerves." He decided to leave for the south. On the road, he envisioned himself as a Japanese monk, translating, in his mind, the sunny expanses of rural France into a utopian Japan where, the painter believed, art "makes us return to nature, despite our education and our work in a world of convention." The idealized Japan infused him with optimism. In Self Portrait as a Bonze (1888), a painting he gifted to friend Paul Gauguin, he alters his physiognomy to match the face of a Japanese monk. He depicts himself standing upright with his hair shorn, his angular face drawn and gaunt, concentrated and poised, his domed head haloed in luminescent greens.
In tone and subject, van Gogh broke with somber, salt-of-the-earth melancholy to turn toward coincidental dramas of color, sunlight, jarring angularities, and unexpected collocations. He dispensed with the Western-derived technique of point perspective. The result, as in Japanese paintings, is that any given represented space, be it a cramped bedroom or a sweeping valley, implicitly suggests its surrounding context even though those elements exist in the viewer's visual imagination, beyond the picture's frame. The pictorial content seems to be bursting beyond its limits. German painter August Endell notes that van Gogh "master[s] even the boldest colour combination, [and] he finds the right tones so convincingly that in spite of the heavy outlines that for every other painter would tear the picture apart, he achieves formal unity."
Van Gogh evolves as a draughtsman, too. Drawn to what scholar Louis Van Tilborgh calls "the stenographic vocabulary" of nanga —"Japanese ink paintings in the Chinese tradition"— his earnest naturalism meets a refined and assured elegance. His side view Barn Owl (1887) diptych drawings simultaneously captures the bird of prey's menacing physiognomy and its exotic, almost doll-like otherworldliness. Similarly Giant Peacock Moth (1889, pictured below) describes the insect's physiognomy and renders the contours and ornamentation on its wings with the exactitude of a milliner, while Three Cicadas (1889) looks like an illustration for a science manual and a jeweler's calligraphic diagram.
No longer merely imitating nature, his art channels the suddenness inherent in seen faces, objects and scenes, a truthful strangeness that puts the natural and the artificial on equal footing. The paintings preserve a spontaneous materialization within what is seen. In the dreamlike portrait Père Tanguy (1887) housed at the Rodin Museum in Paris, the bearded Tanguy wears a green and yellow straw cap that intimates the colors of pastureland or sunflower fields; his blue coat is colored like a midday sky in peak sunshine; his heavy, golden white hands are clasped, completing a contemplative pose.
He experiments with diagonals in Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1888) as the horizon appears to bend from weighty yet placid color fields across an ever-widening sky. In Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes (1888), pale green bands intertwine with blues and whites in the sky, setting into relief the boats' varied colored masts that seem to levitate near an irregular waterline. The colors of the boats and sky recur as assorted figurations in the wind-driven sea and across smooth sand. Meanwhile in the waning daylight, the cresting and breaking sea waves stir up correspondingly unpredictable colors — greens, blues, whites — creating a kind of soothing restlessness between and among their crosswise motions. The border between sea and sand juts out and then suddenly recedes, not quite bisecting the picture plane but denying a stable or "correct" perspective for the viewer.
Birds, flowers, and grass also increasingly become subjects of large-scale paintings in which an aura of sudden dizzying astonishment saturates the ordinary. In Ears of Wheat (1890) the plants resemble a torrential green waterfall and the extensive farmland in The Sower (1888, pictured next page) mimics painting itself as the sun, tree, farmer, and fields compose themselves into yellow, green, blues, and pink vertices and horizontals.
As he passed from strength to strength in the French countryside, his writing narrates a gradual philosophical transformation so serious that even the most unexpected subjects take on autobiographical overtones. An homage to Japanese master Utagawa Kunisada's yields van Gogh's still-life A Crab on Its Back (1888), a rough hewn tour-de-force. The crustacean's upturned body, portioned into endless browns and reds, seems consumed and buoyed by the field of greens around it. Given how physically engrossed the artist is during his "Japanese" pilgrimage in the green fields of southern France, Crab on Its Back, might best be read as a veiled self-portrait. The crab's capsized pose, revealing its underbelly, marks a helpless exposure, a nakedness, that van Gogh is tracking in his letters to Theo as art and nature somehow converge in this new way of thinking. "I am in Japan here," he writes, describing the Japanese thriving "in nature as if they themselves were flowers, almost a true religion." For van Gogh, "Japan" means a heightened form of consciousness in which the discoveries of art and the things in the ordinary world interpenetrate each other. "One cannot study Japanese art," he writes to Theo, "without becoming merrier and happier and we should turn back to nature in spite of our education and our work in a conventional world." He obliquely describes being at a crossroads that was to take his art to new levels and to challenge what his mind and body could endure in order to execute the mission. His former gloomier worldviews about alienation and isolation fade. Still, the features in his seen reality are both "far and near." He hopes to make nature and human life look like what he thinks they actually are, namely, contiguous with art, not a subject or object of art. "Everything there [in Arles] is small, the gardens, the fields, the gardens, the trees, even those mountains, as in certain Japanese landscapes."
If van Gogh's life-as-art dictum were to be proven real by his painting, then, he envisions old barriers separating everyday life and aesthetic experience will fall away, for good. Painting was now an exercise in revelation and revolution, what he calls a "new religion," to end human estrangement. Everyone will become artists participation in this liberation.
Tim Keane teaches creative writing and literary modernism at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York City. Read Part 2 of this article in the Winter 2018 issue of Utne Reader.


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Dealing with diabetes: Kids attend special camp at the Marco YMCA
Happy to show his silver "dog tag" identifying him as a Type 1 diabetic, 11-year-old Maximus Collins of Everglades City was matter-of-fact about the disease.
"At my school, we don't have any other students with diabetes," said Collins. "It's only me. I check my sugar. If it's low, you can pass out, so you get some juice to get your sugar up because you feel tired and don't want to do anything. When I have a (sugar) high, I'm hyper."
Collins injects himself with what is essentially lifesaving insulin when necessary.
"The first few times it hurt, but now I'm used to it," said the friendly youngster.
Earlier at the beginning of the week, Collins had joined a group of diabetic youngsters at a summer camp hosted by the Greater Marco Island YMCA, the Help a Diabetic Child Foundation and Core Health Partners.
It was the first camp of its kind at the Y, and Help a Diabetic Child Foundation founder Tami Balavage said the aim is to build on this initial camp innovation.
"It's a non-profit organization with the goal of purchasing diabetes supplies and insulin for children and young adults because these lifesaving medical supplies are so expensive," said Balavage.
She, like other adult volunteers at the camp has direct links to the disease, either through themselves or their children.
The volunteers were nurses Moira Roggia, Rene Couch and Monica Ramos, bolstered by Lely Elementary School teacher Pam Rivera.
The camp, Balavage said, has many aspects that include education and also friendships.
"We want to create an atmosphere for the children to feel free and bond with others," she said. "Some sleep away camps are extremely expensive, so the Y opened its doors and welcomed us in."
Nurse Monica Ramos of Core Health Partners is diabetic herself, and is totally committed to the cause.
"The goal is to make kids think and feel that they're normal," she said. "One kid (on this day) was a bit nervous, but he soon settled in."
"You become distraught with the number of children who have Type 1," said Core Health Partners' vice president Paul Thein.
"The hope is to find a cure, but in the meantime there's a need to find a way and means for these children to live as normal a life as possible."
Pam Rivera is mom to 11-year-old Sabine, one of the campers, and said she is indebted to the Help a Diabetic Child Foundation.
"Sabine was diagnosed on Jan. 27 last year, and was in the ICU for five days," Rivera recalled.
"Before she could be released, we needed the deductible for her meds, which was $1,500. I didn't have that kind of money, so I was panicked. We were just learning about insulin, pens and cartridges. It was all new to us.
"Then, in comes Tami all of a sudden, and the Foundation was at Publix paying the deductible. You can't imagine the gratitude I have for these people, going out of their way to help diabetics because of their own stories. I'm eternally grateful. We couldn't have done it any other way."
Summing up coping with the disease, and perhaps with a touch of humor, young Maximus Collins remarked:
"You can't, like, sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and go get a snack," he said, smiling.
For more on the Greater Marco Family YMCA's wide variety of activities for youth and adults, visit marcoymca.org or call 394-3144.
To get in touch with Balavage, e-mail her at email@example.com or call 821-5051. The Foundation website is helpadiabeticchild.org.


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Korn Reveal Plans for 2013 Family Values Festival
'Are you reeeeeeeaaaaaaady?' That's exactly how the brief 30-second clip teasing the 2013 Family Values Festival kicks off, with Korn's Jonathan Davis growling the line at the top of his lungs.
While it's been a long time since a Family Values tour has kicked up some dust, this 2013 event will be a one-off gig headlined by Korn and set to take place Oct. 5 at a yet-to-be-revealed location.
If the clip above is aimed to foreshadow the bands performing at the upcoming festival, fans will get to see Rammstein, Stone Sour, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Deftones and of course, the main attraction, Korn. All of the aforementioned acts have that date open on their schedule except for Deftones, who are scheduled to perform on Avenged Sevenfold's tour that day in Indianapolis. So that raises the question if this clip is a preview of what's to come or a celebration of past acts.
Rock fans may remember the annual Family Values tour, which was the brainchild of Korn. The trek kicked off its inaugural run back in 1998, combining the best of rock and hip hop with additional treks in 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007, making it one of the most anticipated rock tours each year. Throughout its existence, the Family Values tour offered up bands like Rammstein, Limp Bizkit, Primus, Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park, Evanescence and DMX, just to name a few.
While the video teaser is short on details, it definitely raises a lot of excitement over the new festival. The festival date falls on an off day mixed in with the string of intimate club dates the band recently revealed. Stay tuned as the festival details develop.
Korn's new disc 'The Paradigm Shift' is due out Oct. 8, so the Family Values Festival will serve as the perfect record release party.


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Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Book Blast: Jade by Skylar Wood
Author Bio: Skylar Wood lives in the very beautiful, lively and fun filled City of Edmonton, Alberta Canada, where there is always something going on, summer or winter. She feels it's a great place to be.
Skylar is a reading fanatic and only wishes she had more time to do it. Jade is her first venture into the writing arena. She says that writing is hard work but it's a refreshing change from her nine to five job. It provides fantasy and escape. She truly enjoyed writing Jade, a lesbian romance novel, stating it was a neat sexual fantasy to explore through the pages of a book and that writing Jade and seeing it publication has been one of the best experiences of her life.
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A secret sexual fantasy life begins as she starts chatting online with a beautiful young escort named Twylla Star. Becoming deeply immersed in this fantasy world, her desire to meet this woman soon becomes so overwhelming that Jade finds herself booking a date with her.
Meeting the delectable Twylla in Las Vegas, Jade is unprepared for the impact Twylla has on her the moment she holds the other woman in her arms. What started out as an unfettered sexual weekend with someone she'd never seen again, suddenly turns into something more.
When lust turns to love, are they strong enough to let go of the past to build a future together? And what will happen when the real world comes crashing back in?
Categories: Contemporary, Lesbian Romance
"Morning," she said, reaching her arms around Jade and kissing her neck.
"Morning, beautiful," she replied, then kissed Twylla on the lips.
Pulling apart, she glanced at the computer screen. The name on the email was Jade Tanner. Twylla's heart almost stopped in her chest.
Could this be the Jade Tanner, the founder of Jade Cosmetics and Tanner Enterprises? If so the woman she had spent the night with was a multi-billionaire. She kept a very low profile, so Twylla didn't know what she looked like and hadn't connected the name with the cosmetics tycoon. She knew Jade was very publicly against porn, and the sex industry in general. It didn't make sense that the Jade Tanner would hire her for sex. Maybe the name was a coincidence.
She thought of all the times she had dated older gross men hoping they would take her as their mistress or possibly even see her as a wife. All of them saw her simply as a whore they had purchased. With Jade it had felt different. They had connected immediately. Their lovemaking had been erotic, sensual and blissful. She had enjoyed Jade's body just as much as Jade had seemed to enjoy hers.
Jade closed her computer. "I've made coffee if you want it."
She most definitely did. Walking away from her, she was aware of Jade watching her. She knew the power of her beauty and sexuality. Leaning against the counter, she turned so her robe fell partially open giving a teasing glimpse of her breasts.
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VLP Lawyers Achieve $53 Million Judgment for Technology Client
After five years of litigation, VLP client Electronic Transactions Consultants Corporation was awarded a judgment of $53,298,717.27 against the Miami–Dade County Expressway Authority, with which ETC contracted to develop and implement a backoffice software system for an all-electronic, open-road toll system. That amount represents approximately 85% of the total claim. The judgment followed a three-week trial conducted by VLP partners Mike Piscitelli and Brad Copenhaver. Miami–Dade Judge William Thomas found that MDX materially breached the contract, materially breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and wrongfully terminated ETC. Judge Thomas also denied MDX any recovery on its counterclaim and determined that ETC was the prevailing party and, as such, was entitled to recover its attorneys' fees and costs from MDX. This result vindicates ETC's contention throughout performance of the contract that MDX was interfering with its ability to perform by, among other things, untimely changing the requirements, failing to approve the design, and failing to accord ETC the design freeze it required and contracted for to develop and implement its backoffice software system.


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Arborlawn's Young Professionals group is kicking off on Tuesday, Apr. 10 at 7 p.m. with dinner at Uncle Julio's. Please RSVP by Monday, Apr. 9 to Bryan Bellamy (or 817-731-0701).
Are you new to the area, a recent college graduate, or looking to network with other young professionals? If so, check out Arborlawn's Young Professionals group. This ministry is dedicated to young adults who want to grow in their relationship with Christ, meet other young professionals, and have fun!
Starting April 10, we'll meet every Tuesday at 7 p.m. We alternate the program, so some weeks we meet at the church and other Tuesdays we meet in town for a social activity. If you are interested, we would love to have you participate in our group.
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Schwarzenegger's Blinders
by David Prentice
September 30, 2008
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed S.B.1565, the Stem Cell Affordability Bill. The bill would have guaranteed accessibility for uninsured Californians to any stem cell therapies developed through the state taxpayer-funded $6 billion stem cell program, given more flexibility for approval of projects by the grants review working group, and provided for an audit of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) governing board. The bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Sens. Sheila Kuehl and George Runner, had passed through the California legislature with very little opposition (64-7 in the House, 37-1 in the Senate), despite vociferous attacks (including personal attacks on Sen. Kuehl) by CIRM surrogates. Schwarzenegger, with blinders firmly in place, said in his veto statement that voters specifically wanted to fund embryonic stem cells, and that requirements to make state-funded treatments affordable would unnecessarily restrict the agency's authority to balance patient need with essential research.
According to CIRM's website, their mission supposedly is to "support and advance stem cell research and regenerative medicine under the highest ethical and medical standards for the discovery and development of cures, therapies, diagnostics and research technologies to relieve human suffering from chronic disease and injury." But apparently the only part of the statement that is true is to support [embryonic] stem cell research, without any real dedication to the patients. Apparently the scientific committee can't be trusted to choose the most promising science for patients. California taxpayers were sold a bill of goods in Prop 71, led to believe they would receive affordable therapies from their investment in this research. Yet embryonic stem cells and cloning, preferred by Proposition 71, have yielded not a single treatment for any patient nor any return on the huge investment of taxpayer funds, and CIRM has admitted that after 10 years and all of the money spent there will still be no treatments and no return on the investment. By contrast, other scientists have shown that the new iPS cells are much more promising and easier to produce, and that real treatments are already coming from adult stem cells (CIRM has also denied funds to promising adult stem cell research that is already treating patients.) Sadly, the veto means California taxpayer money will continue to be spent on the least successful, least promising research.
The audit of the stem cell institute's governing board, which had also been requested by Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit organization in Santa Monica, will proceed despite the veto.


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Soybean Futures Rebound to Two-Week High
U.S. lean-hog futures ended lower, declining amid expectations that pork prices are poised to decline along with demand. July lean hogs ended down 8 to $100, while August lean hogs were down 32 cent to 97.70.
U.S. live-cattle futures were mixed Tuesday as sluggish beef demand continues to hang over the market. June live cattle ended up 2 to $121, while August live cattle were down 5 to $121. August feeder cattle ended up 2 at $147.
U.S. soybean futures closed at a two-week high Tuesday, supported by strong demand for tight domestic stockpiles of the oilseed and lagging planting progress. U.S. corn futures ended mixed, with tight supplies buoying contracts for near term delivery. U.S. wheat futures finished mixed, with most contracts pressured by an advancing U.S. harvest that will bring fresh supplies to the marketplace.
July soybeans finished up 13 1/4 at $15.25, July corn finished up 3 1/2 at $6.56, July wheat in Chicago ended down 3 1/4 at $6.75 and Kansas City Board of Trade July wheat dropped 11 to $7.04.
Cotton futures rose Tuesday after settling at a three-week low last session, which drummed up some buying interest. October cotton gained 193 to 85.95, and December new crop gained 177 to 84.95.
Gold futures extended recent losses to set a 33-month low on Tuesday, as a string of stronger U.S. economic data bolstered equities and dampened interest in safe-haven assets like precious metals. August gold fell $2 to $1,275.10, and July silver closed at $19.52, up 3.3 cents.
Natural-gas futures fell for a fourth day amid forecast showing hot summer temperatures will be limited to the Western U.S. in coming weeks — reducing the demand for natural gas-fired air conditioning. July Natural gas fell 9.2 cents to $3.64.
Crude-oil futures settled slightly higher Tuesday along with broader markets, as traders await weekly government data that is expected to show a decline in domestic oil stockpiles. August crude gained 14 cents to $95.32 a barrel, July gasoline fell a fraction to $2.73 a gallon, and July gained a fraction to $2.85 a gallon.
On Wall Street, stocks rose the most in nearly two weeks after strong housing and durable goods data reassured investors worried about the Federal Reserve's plans to wind down its economic stimulus. The Dow gained 100 to 14,760, the Nasdaq closed at 3,347, up 27 and the S&P 500 gained almost 15 to close at 1,588.


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Volcanic processes
Styles of eruptions at hot spot volcanoes
The eruptive styles of Hawaiian volcanoes change as they evolve. During the shield building stage, large volumes of fluid, tholeiitic lava erupt and build broad, shield-shaped mountains. Fire fountains, surface flows of pahoehoe and 'a'a lava, and flows within lava tubes are typical of the eruptions. An example is Mauna Loa on the Big Island. As the volcano ages and moves away from the hot spot, the magma fractionates and eruptions of the post-shield stage contain more alkalic lavas. The summits become peppered with smaller cinder and spatter cones. An example is Haleakala on Maui. The final eruptive phase is the rejuvenated phase. The lavas are strongly alkalic and the eruptions are often violent and build more steep-sided cones of layered ash and pyroclastic debris. Examples are Diamond Head (see photo on the Volcanic Hazards page) and Hanauma Bay on Oahu.
Discoveries of submarine lava ponds and flood basalts, such as produced on the North Arch, imply that lava may stay molten for a long time, despite the almost infinite heat sink of the ocean. Fragmental rocks (ash, hyaloclastites, and volcaniclastic rocks), limu o Pele, and spatter imply that explosive eruptions take place even in the deep sea, where hydrostatic pressure is so great that steam bubbles should not be able to expand. These observations indicate volcanic processes that contradict conventional wisdom.
Hot spot volcanoes often have long rift zones that radiate from a summit caldera, along which smaller vents and fissures occur. Pu'u O'o, which has been erupting for more than 20 years, is a vent along Kilauea's east rift zone. The minerals found in the erupted lavas offer clues about processes within the rift zones of the volcanoes.
Our research on volcanic processes at hot spot volcanoes
Loihi Seamount structure and morphology from high-resolution mapping
LOIHI – The early development and growth of oceanic volcanoes that eventually grow to become ocean islands are poorly known. In Hawai'i, the submarine Lo¯ 'ihi Seamount provides the opportunity to determine the structure and growth of such a nascent oceanic island. High-resolution bathymetric data were collected using AUV Sentry at the summit and at two hydrothermal vent fields on the deep south rift of Lo¯ 'ihi Seamount. The summit records a nested series of caldera and pit crater collapse events, uplift of one resurgent block, and eruptions that formed at least five low lava shields that shaped the summit. The earliest and largest caldera, formed 5900 years ago, bounds almost the entire summit plateau. The resurgent block was uplifted slightly more than 100 m and has a tilted surface with a dip of about 6.5 toward the SE. The resurgent block was then modified by collapse of a pit crater centered in the block that formed West Pit. The shallowest point on Lo¯ 'ihi's summit is 986 m deep and is located on the northwest edge of the resurgent block. Several collapse events culminated in formation of East Pit, and the final collapse formed Pele's Pit in 1996. The nine mapped collapse and resurgent structures indicate the presence of a shallow crustal magma chamber, ranging from depths of 1 km to perhaps 2.5 km below the summit, and demonstrate that shallow sub-caldera magma reservoirs exist during the late pre-shield stage. On the deep south rift zone are young medium- to high-flux lava flows that likely erupted in 1996 and drained the shallow crustal magma chamber to trigger the collapse that formed Pele's Pit. These low hummocky and channelized flows had molten cores and now host the FeMO hydrothermal field. The Shinkai Deep hydrothermal site is located among steep-sided hummocky flows that formed during low-flux eruptions. The Shinkai Ridge is most likely a coherent landslide block that originated on the east flank of Lo¯ 'ihi. MBARI news story
Reference: Clague, D.A., Paduan, J.B., Caress, D.W., Moyer, C.L., Glazer, B.T., & Yoerger, D.R. (2019). Structure of Loihi Seamount, Hawaii and lava flow morphology from high-resolution mapping. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00058.
Sugarloaf Flow – high fountains yet high viscosity
OAHU – The Sugarloaf flow is a melilite nephelinite erupted from the Tantalus rift during rejuvenated-stage volcanism on O'ahu, the Honolulu Volcanics. The flow ponded in Mānoa Valley forming a ∼15 m thick flow which was cored and sampled in a quarry. Nepheline from a pegmatoid segregation in the flow yielded a 40Ar–39Ar age of 76 ka. This age, combined with others, indicates that the Tantalus rift eruptions are some of the youngest on O'ahu. Honolulu Volcanics erupt on average about every 35–40 ka indicating that future eruptions are possible.
We evaluated the compositional variability of 19 samples from the flow, including 14 from the core. Twelve samples are representative of the bulk flow, four are dark- or light-colored variants, one is a heavy rare earth element (REE)-enriched pegmatoid, and two visually resemble the bulk flow, but have chemical characteristics of the dark and light variants. Our objective was to determine intraflow heterogeneity in mineralogy and composition. Variable abundances of Na2O, K2O, Sr, Ba, Rb, Pb and U in the flow were caused by post-eruptive mobility in a vapor phase, most likely during or soon after flow emplacement, and heterogeneous deposition of secondary calcite and zeolites. Relative to fine-grained samples, a pegmatoid vein that crosscuts the flow is enriched in incompatible trace elements except Sr and TiO2. Element mobility after eruption introduced scatter in trace element ratios including light-REE/heavy-REE, and all ratios involving mobile elements K, Rb, Ba, Sr, Pb, and U. Lavas from some of the 37 Honolulu Volcanics vents have crosscutting REE patterns in a primitive mantle-normalized plot. Such patterns have been interpreted to reflect variable amounts of residual garnet during partial melting. Previous studies of lavas from different vents concluded that garnet, phlogopite, amphibole, and Fe–Ti oxides were residual phases of the partial melting processes that created the Honolulu Volcanics (Clague and Frey, 1982; Yang et al., 2003). However post-eruptive processes in the Sugarloaf flow also produced crossing REE patterns.
Eruptions on the Tantalus rift, including the Sugarloaf flow, produced volatile- and crystal-rich ash with interstitial glass and melt inclusions in olivine containing 4.2–6.4 wt% MgO compared to the flow average of 11.8 wt%. This flow erupted as a partially crystallized viscous magma at least 100 °C below its liquidus. The slow advance and cooling of the 15-m thick 'a' ā low promoted the segregation of pegmatoids, formation of light and dark bands with differing proportions of melilite and clinopyroxene, and induced volatile-enhanced mobility of incompatible elements.
Reference: Clague D.A., F.A. Frey, M.O. Garcia, S. Huang, M. McWilliams, M. Beeson (2016) Compositional Heterogeneity of the Sugarloaf Melilite Nephelinite Flow, Honolulu Volcanics, Hawaii, Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta, 7016-7037. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.034
Ka'ena Volcano – precursor volcano of O'ahu
OAHU – Ka'ena and Wai'alu Ridges form prominent submarine ridges NW of the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i. We evaluate whether or not either one of these ridges represents a submarine extension of Wai'anae Volcano on O'ahu using new bottom observations, geophysical surveys, and geochemical data acquired on new samples from the region. Wai'alu Ridge has the morphology of a submarine rift zone but is too shallow for its distance from the O'ahu shoreline; Ka'ena Ridge also is unusually shallow and is surmounted by two topographic shields. Ka'ena and Wai'alu Ridges have similar magmatic and volcanic evolutionary histories, beginning ca. 5 Ma with a submarine, shield phase of volcanism that produced high-SiO2, low- FeO* tholeiites with higher 208Pb/204Pb than in the adjacent Wai'anae Volcano. Late-shield volcanism included transitional and alkalic rock types, with lower SiO2 and enrichment in incompatible elements, especially P2O5, Nb, Zr, Ti, and light rare earth elements. The transition from shield to late-shield stage occurred as the edifice was beginning to emerge from the sea. Geological observations and K/Ar ages indicate that Ka'ena emerged above sea level ca. 3.5 Ma, reaching a maximum height of ~4000 m above the abyssal ocean floor and 1000 m above sea level. Relatively weak gravity anomalies, topographic lineaments, and the orientation of dike complexes indicate a volcanic structure that is independent of Wai'anae Volcano. Thus, volcanic structure, geochemistry, and age all indicate a precursor volcano to the island of O'ahu, which we call Ka'ena Volcano. After emergence, Ka'ena Volcano tilted ~2° to the south. We estimate a total volume of 20–27 × 103 km3 for Ka'ena Volcano, taking into account overlapping geometry of concurrently active volcanoes. Sample compositions from the Ka'ena landslide deposit are entirely consistent with derivation from Ka'ena, whereas most samples from the Wai'anae slump are likely derived from Wai'anae Volcano. Uniformly oriented dikes in the Wai'anae NW rift zone likely reflect buttressing by a preexisting Ka'ena Volcano. Unusual isotopic compositions of some Wai'anae samples, including unique hydrous silicic lavas, probably reflect interaction with underlying Ka'ena crust. A newly recognized lava flow field on the southern flank of Ka'ena Ridge extends the previously known distribution of secondary volcanism in the Kaua'i Channel. Putative submarine volcanic activity in the region in 1956 cannot have built a large edifice and is unlikely to have produced pumice that was found on O'ahu shores. This eruptive activity therefore remains unconfirmed.
Reference: Sinton, J.M., D.E. Easton, M. Tardona, D. Pyle, I. van der Zander, H. Guillou, D.A. Clague, J.J. Mahoney (2014) Ka'ena Volcano – A precursor volcano of the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 126 (9-10): 1219–1244. doi: 10.1130/B30936.1.
Postshield stage volcanism at Mahukona Volcano
MAHUKONA VOLCANO – Age spectra from 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating experiments yield ages of 298+25 ka and 310+31 ka for transitional composition lavas from two cones on submarine Mahukona Volcano, Hawaii. These ages are younger than the inferred end of the tholeiitic shield stage and indicate that the volcano had entered the postshield alkalic stage before going extinct. Previously reported elevated helium isotopic ratios of lavas from one of these cones were incorrectly interpreted to indicate eruption during a preshield alkalic stage. Consequently, high helium isotopic ratios are a poor indicator of eruptive stage, as they occur in preshield, shield, and postshield stage lavas. Loihi Seamount and Kilauea are the only known Hawaiian volcanoes where the volume of preshield alkalic stage lavas can be estimated.
Reference: Clague, D.A., Calvert, A.T. (2009) Postshield stage transitional volcanism on Mahukona Volcano, Hawaii, Bulletin of Volcanology, 71: 533–539. doi: 10.1007/s00445-008-0240-z.
Honolulu Volcanics: rejuvenated stage cones
OAHU – Lavas and volcaniclastic deposits were observed and collected from 4 submarine cones that are part of the rejuvenated stage Honolulu Volcanics on Oahu, Hawaii. The locations of these and a few additional, but unsampled, vents demonstrate that nearly all the vents are located on or very close to the shoreline of Oahu, with the most distal vent just 12 km offshore. The clastic samples and outcrops range from coarse breccias to cross-bedded ash deposits and show that explosive volcanism at depths between about 350 and 590 m depth played a part in forming these volcanic cones. The eruptive styles appear to be dominantly effusive to strombolian at greater depths, but apparently include violent phreatomagmatic explosive activity at the shallower sites along the submarine southwest extension of the Koko Rift. The compositions of the recovered samples are broadly similar to the strongly alkalic subaerial Honolulu Volcanics lavas, but the submarine lavas, erupted further from the Koolau caldera, have slightly more radiogenic Sr isotopic ratios, and trace element patterns that are distinct from either the subaerial Honolulu Volcanics or the submarine North Arch lavas. These patterns are characterized by moderate to strong positive Sr and P anomalies, and moderate to strong negative Cs, Rb, U, Th, Zr, and Hf anomalies. Most samples have strong negative K and moderate negative Ti anomalies, as do all subaerial Honolulu Volcanics and North Arch samples, but one group of samples from the Koko Rift lack this chemical signature. The data are consistent with more garnet in the source region for the off-shore samples than for either the on-shore Honolulu Volcanics lavas. New Ar–Ar ages show that eruptions at the submarine vents and Diamond Head occurred between about 0.5 Ma and 0.1 Ma, with the youngest ages from the Koko Rift. These ages are in general agreement with most published ages for the formation and suggest that some much younger ages reported previously from the Koko Rift are probably erroneously young.
Reference: D.A. Clague, J.B. Paduan, W.C. McIntosh, B.L. Cousens, A.S. Davis, J.R. Reynolds (2006) A submarine perspective of the Honolulu Volcanics, Oahu, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 151: 279-307. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.07.036. [Supplementary Materials]
Flat-topped and pointed cones
HAWAII, MAUI, NI'IHAU – High-resolution bathymetric maps show that submarine flat-topped volcanic cones are common on the submarine rift zones of Kilauea, Kohala, Mahukona, and Haleakala volcanoes. Samples show these cones are tholeiitic basalt erupted during the shield-building stage. Similarly shaped flat-topped cones off of Ni'ihau are alkalic basalt erupted during the rejuvenated stage. These flat-topped cones appear to have formed during effusive eruptions lasting years to decades, and apparently form as continuously overflowing submarine lava ponds. There is a delicate balance between lava supply and cooling of the floating crust to sustain these ponds. Pointed cones of alkalic basalt and hawaiite erupted during the post-shield stage are found on Hilo Ridge, Mahukona, Hana Ridge, and Ni'ihau. Lava that is volatile-rich or erupted in shallow water will produce fragmental and highly vesicular lava that will accumulate to form these steep, pointed cones.
Reference: D.A. Clague, J.G. Moore, and J.R. Reynolds (2000) Formation of submarine flat-topped volcanic cones in Hawaii. Bulletin of Volcanology, 62: 214-233. doi: 10.1007/s004450000088.


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There's good news and there's bad news for horror những người hâm mộ today, folks. The bad news is that Rob Zombie has signed to write and direct H2, the sequel to his godawful remake of Halloween.
The good news is... erm. Erm. We'll get back to bạn on that one.
Zombie has long đã đưa ý kiến that he would never make a sequel to his 2007 film, which spent thêm time on the origin of stalker and slasher extraordinaire Michael Myers than it did on the actual stalking and slashing, despite the fact that it grossed a nice, sequel-friendly $78 million worldwide.
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So this 12 năm old girl, Tatiana, decides to invite her yêu thích horror movie star, Jason, to her house for tea. Jason is so baffled bởi the invitation, he decides to go, just to meet the girl who sent it. He gets ready, goes to the address, and sees a little girl and her tiny friend waiting at the door. Now the two kids have the biggest grins on their faces, because they just can't believe that he actually came. He doesn't even make it to the doorbell before he's yanked through the door frame, greeted bởi screams and hugs and blinded bởi camera flashes!!! he decides to stay, and the only thought in his mind the whole time is,"Holy crap! these girls are lunatics!"
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Clive Barker responded to the film on Twitter saying, "I want to put on record that the flic out there using the word Hellraiser IS NO FUCKIN' CHILD OF MINE! have NOTHING to do with the fuckin' thing. If they claim its from the mind of Clive Barker, it's a lie. It's not even from my butt-hole."
This is not a remake of the first one, it's the ninth one. And boy, it's a doozy.
The film stars Stephan Smith Collins as Pinhead, and Fred Tatasciore as the voice of Pinhead. It also has a female version of Chatterer. The only good actor is Collins and Tatasciore.
Words can not describe how craptastic this movie is. Just watch the trailer.
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Russian consumer watchdog slams Google over suicide content
Russia's consumer rights watchdog has lashed out at Google and YouTube for hosting what it calls suicide instruction videos and neglecting possible harmful consequences. The organization is in legal action with YouTube over a blocked video.
"Google Russia and YouTube LLC express their position based
solely on a threat to the freedom of access to information on the
internet," watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said in a statement coming
after the first court hearing in the case of YouTube against the
body over blocked video content allegedly propagating suicide.
The video posted in January 2012 instructed how to create the most realistic cut wrist make-up for Halloween. The Rospotrebnadzor found the content to be suicide propaganda and blocked it. YouTube LLC filed a lawsuit asking to remove the blockage.
The Rospotebnadzor also expressed concerns that web pages containing ambiguous information which is hard to interpret are sprouting all over the Russian internet.
As of today the watchdog has reviewed 1,309 websites that had been reported to contain harmful content. In over 1,164 cases the watchdog found enough grounds to block websites.
In more than 40 cases the YouTube videos were blocked over containing information about ways to commit suicide or self-harm propaganda
In November 2012, Russia introduced a new law, so-called 'blacklist law,' aimed at the protection of children from harmful web content and authorizing regulators to block access to data considered "harmful to the health and development."
Following the introduction of the legislation, access to YouTube in Russia was briefly blocked. However, the embargo was soon lifted and the authorities explained that it was a misunderstanding.
Rights advocates and some popular Russian websites have largely criticized the law, saying it could lead to widespread censorship on the web.
Russia has the highest teenage suicide rate in Europe, Rospotrebnadzor reports. In recent years the numbers have dramatically increased, by 35-37 per cent, it argues.


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Postraduate Admissions in the Department of Pathology
You will need to apply online using the University's Applicant Portal. Each application will cost you £75 (if you cannot apply online, you may apply on paper, but the fee is £100). An application is only complete when all supporting documents, including the 2 academic references, are submitted. It is the applicants responsibility to ensure their referees submit their references before the closing date.
Full instructions on how to apply online can be found in the Course Directory and the Postgraduate Admissions website.
Unless applying for a Departmental studentship, students must identify a supervisor who will support their application prior to applying. Please see the Research Group Leaders page on the Department of Pathology website for a list of research supervisors.
The online application is required if you:
- wish to apply for University-wide funding competitions (e.g., Gates, Cambridge Overseas & Commonwealth Trusts, Cambridge Home and EU Scholarships, etc.) – N.B. these funding competitions all have very early deadlines
- wish to apply for a specific studentship advertised by the Department of Pathology
- wish to apply for a College studentship
- have an external scholarship (e.g., from your home country)
- have your own funding.
Before submitting an application, please consider the following points:
A1: Are you eligible to apply for admission to our programmes
Competition for admission to the University of Cambridge postgraduate programme is intense. Like all departments in the Posgraduate School, we require all our postgraduate entrants to have:
- at least a good 2.1 in an Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject
- in some circumstances an MSc plus an Honours degree 2.2 class will be a satisfactory qualification
- two outstanding references from senior University staff at your most recent University
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Sean Van
From Bywpedia
| Sean Van
|Ring name
|Sean Van
|220 lbs.
|North Myrtle Beach, SC
|October 2, 2009
|Trained By
|Josh Chilton & Brice Anthony
Sean Van (born June 23, 1987) is a independent wrestler, and former backyard wrestler, who currently wrestles for South Carolina Wrestling. He is a second generation wrestler as he is the grandson of, pro wrestling legend, "Mr Wrestling" Tim Woods. Sean is the founder and current creative writer of South Carolina Wrestling.
Backyard Wrestling Career
Championship Wrestling League
Sean Van started his backyard wrestling career in North Myrtle Beach, SC in the CWL (Championship Wrestling League) on December 27th, 1999. Sean, having limited training at the time, began in the Hardkore Division. While in that division he won the CWL Hardkore Title a record breaking 17 times. Van would then find a very suited tag team partner in The Offspring. Sean's grandfather is Mr. Wrestling 1, The Offspring's grandfather was Mr. Wrestling 2... the match was perfect. The team would win CWL Tag Team gold on 3 occasions. As the team split, Sean decided that he was ready to go for the Heavyweight Title. After many failed attempts, he would finally defeat Killboy Powerhead to win the CWL Title only to loose it a month later back to Killboy. His title loss was officially his final CWL contest, this was on his birthday (June 23, 2001). Sean then moved from North Myrtle Beach, SC back to his hometown of Greenwood, SC.
Ghetto Championship Wrestling
Upon moving back to Greenwood, Sean met up with old friends and convinced them to open a backyard fed of their own, this fed would be called GCW. The name was from the fact that the matches took place in a dangerous, ran down neighborhood. Little did Sean know that this fed would be where he spent most of his career. GCW opened it's doors on June 29, 2001. During his first run in GCW, he would win the GCW Heavyweight Title, GCW Television Title, GCW CT Title, GCW Continental Title, GCW Xtreme Title, and GCW Light-Heavyweight Title. His feud for the GCW Championship with Bull McBride in the early days of the company is considered the launching point of the fed's success. In August of 2002, GCW would fold for the first time. Sean would be inactive in the byw world until GCW reopened in November of 2003. During this second run, Sean was once again a key player but felt as if newer competitors should have a push. His feud with Blake pushed Blake to the top of the roster. The 2nd run would be short lived as the fed would fold once more in May of 2005. GCW would reopen for one final season in January 2008. This time former bitter enemies joined together when Sean and Blake became "Revolution." They would destroy the GCW roster and even invite other feds to stop them. It was during this time that Sean created the SCBYWA. Revolution would be the first and only co-holders of the GCW Championship. When they finally lost the title, they split ways and began, arguably, the most personal feud in byw history. GCW would culminate with Sean Van defeating Blake in the main event at the final show in September 2008.
Crucial Territory Wrestling
After the supposed end to GCW in 2004, Sean joined up with the remaining GCW wrestlers to unite with another fed by the name of TWF (Teenage Wrestling Federation). The combined feds of GCW and TWF would be called CTW. The 2 Heavyweight Titles were unified and the GCW Tag Titles were renamed the CTW Tag Team Titles. The first show was in October 2005. While in CTW, Mr. Van would become Heavyweight and Tag Team Champion there. It was also here that Van would receive a shoulder injury that bothers him to this day. Sean would reignite the feud that took GCW by storm with Bull McBride. They would fight for the CTW Title through most of 2006. In November of 2006 it was decided that CTW would split back in to GCW and TWF.
Teenage Wrestling Federation
Sean knew that he would return to the rebirth of GCW, but it was months away from happening. So in the meantime he decided to work in TWF in Hodges, SC. He began with TWF in March of 2007. His Heavyweight Title reign here was short lived but gave us 2 matches with Hunter Holtzclaw that will not be forgotten. Many say Sean came into his own during this time period. Sean Van left TWF in June of 2007.
Backyard Championship Wrestling - The Now Generation
When GCW folded for good Sean knew he wasn't ready to hang it up, so he began looking into a nearby fed located in Donalds, SC called BCW-TNG. He meet with and joined them in November of 2008. Sean would become a main event competitor quickly in BCW-TNG, winning the TNG Title on 3 occasions, becoming 2009 BCW-TNG King of the King, and winning the 2010 BCW-TNG Royal Massacre. His tenure here would contain some of his best matches but also the most politics. Van organized the first SCBYWA event at this point, it was called SCBYWA WrestleFest 2009 and held on October 18, 2009. A follow up show was inevitable, so SCBYWA Blaze of Glory 2010 took place April 18, 2010. The SCBYWA events are considered the greatest byw shows in state history. Sean officially retired from byw in December 2009 at BCW-TNG Annihilation. However, he did not leave the byw scene. He became the General Manager of the TNG brand and a commentator as well. His retirement did not last long. He returned to wrestling in April 2010 due to dates he promised to make in 2010 and the SCBYWA calling for his return in general. Van decided to return only to fall out with BCW-TNG's owner Mr. MVP and others in the company. Sean, Mizery, Malice, & Bull McBride left the fed in June 2010 to create a "New Age."
Elite Modified Wrestling
During the expansion of the SCBYWA, Sean began traveling the state more. He found himself in Greenwood, SC in the EMW feuding for the EMW Title with Tk. At EMW Hardcore Heaven 2010 Sean Van would pin Tk in a triple threat match, also involving James Hall, to become EMW Champion. A month later EMW would be sold and renamed NAX. During the fall of the same year, NAX sold the EMW rights back to its original owners. Sean agreed to compete there once again, he was reinstated at EMW Champion as he was the last. This would mark Van's 19th overall backyard heavyweight title.
Underground Wrestling Organization
After the immense success of the SCBYWA's relationship with the UWO, Sean and many other wrestlers would begin to work shows with the UWO. Van was involved with the Underground Wrestling Organization throughout UWO 13 - UWO 16 and also held SCBYWA Chaos Theory 2010 at UWO.
Greenville Wrestling Alliance
Sean makes appearances for GWA in Greenville, SC also. Currently, he is undefeated in singles competition there.
New Age Xtreme Wrestling
Tanner Stone, owner of EMW, sold the fed to Joshua Chilton. It was then re branded as NAX Wrestling. It would be based out of Greenwood, SC just as EMW had. NAX was considered a backyard AND independent wrestling promotion. Sean, being was the last EMW Champion, was awarded the NAX Heavyweight Championship. At NAX's first official event, NAX Ashes 2 Gold (held at an indoor venue), Sean would loose the title to James Hall. SCBYWA WrestleFest II (2010) was held at NAX. NAX Wicked Nightmare featured a match between Sean Van and Bull McBride, a match that fans had not seen in over 3 years.
Independent Wrestling Career
Southern Championship Wrestling Xtreme
While in BCW-TNG Sean would try his hand at independent wrestling for the first time. Joshua Chilton invited him to SCWX (in Laurens, SC) where Sean had one match with Malice. The promoter of SCWX, Charlie Lane, saw Van's yard work and suspended him. Sean would then quit SCWX, citing his loyalty to the practice of backyard wrestling.
South Carolina Wrestling
After the SCBYWA was shut down by the LLR, the result was the licensed and legal promotion known as SCW. All of the lineage and history carried over into this new venture.
In Wrestling
- Finishing Moves
- Iron Lotis (Capture Suplex)
- Epic Win (Front-flip neckbreaker, done from top rope or with opponents feet on ropes)
- Rings of LeBell
- Signature Moves
- German Suplex
- MMA Elbows
- 2 Vertical Suplexes followed by Face-plant Suplex
- Saito Suplex
- Snapmare followed by dropkick to head or flipping neck wrench (Backward or Forward)
- T-Bone Suplex
- Inverted Sharpshooter Surfboard
- Gutwrentch Suplex
- Belly-to-belly Suplex (Over head or Side)
- Nicknames
- "Mr. Backyard Wrestling"
- "The Xtreme Dream"
- Entrance Themes
- "Stupify (Fu's Forbidden Little Nicky Remix)" by Disturbed (1999-2001)
- "Sinner" by Drowning Pool (2001-2002)
- "96 Quite Bitter Beings" by cKy (2002-2004)
- "Puritania" by Dimmu Borgir (2004-2010)
- "Show Stopper" By Toby Mac (2011)
- "Don't Stop" by Innerpartysystem (2011-Present)
Championships and Accomplishments
- CWL (Championship Wrestling League)
- CWL League Championship (1x)
- CWL Tag Team Championship (3x)
- CWL Hardkore Championship (17x)
- GCW (Ghetto Championship Wrestling)
- GCW World Heavyweight Championship (8x)
- GCW World Television Championship (2x)
- GCW World Tag Team Championship (1x)
- GCW Continental Championship (3x)
- GCW Xtreme Championship (7x)
- GCW CT Championship (1x)
- GCW Light-Heavyweight Championship (1x)
- GCW World War Winner (2002)
- GCW World War Winner (2004)
- TWF (Teenage Wrestling Federation)
- TWF Championship (2x)
- TWF Tag Team Championship (1x)
- BCW-TNG (Backyard Championship Wrestling - The Now Generation)
- BCW Championship (1x)
- TNG World Championship (3x)
- BCW-TNG King of the Ring (2009)
- BCW-TNG Royal Massacre Winner (2010)
- SCWX (Southern Championship Wrestling Xtreme)
- SCWX Heavyweight Championship (1x)
- GBYWN (Global Backyard Wrestling Nation)
- South Carolina Wrestling
- SCW Tag Team Championship (2x) [Current]
- EMW (Elite Modified Wrestling)
- EMW Championship (2x)
- NAX (New Age Xtreme)
- NAX Heavyweight Championship (1x)


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What started out as a co-op class has developed into its own soccer school at Ballenas Secondary, giving students a chance to hone their skills on the pitch.
As a program of choice, the Ballenas soccer school features two groups: grades 8-9 and 10-12.
"It's a great way to help develop kids in the game of soccer," said instructor Larry Stefanek of the course. "We get a chance to help these kids get better with playing soccer, that's all there is to it. We want to get the most out of everyone that comes into this program and we've seen some great results from house teams right on through to our teams here at Ballenas."
The school runs through every aspect of the game, with on and off field preparation along with the skills and drills. The school has been a work in progress for a few years and has finally come around for Stefanek.
"We're happy that it's where it's at right now," Stefanek said. "Being very involved in all levels of soccer in the Oceanside area myself, it's exciting to have something like this to offer at our school."
"When I was younger, there wasn't anything like this around for anyone to be a part of. It's something that these kids are very fortunate to have and the ones that are taking part in it are realizing just how special something like this really can be."
Earlier on in the school year, students would bus to Springwood Park to make use of the field. With the weather turning and the BSS field taking a turn in the wrong direction, the soccer school has shifted to the indoor Arbutus Meadows facility in Nanoose Bay.
"That's a nice thing for us," Stefanek said. "To be able to have a facility like that to use for our class, it's an amazing thing for us. There are lots of other groups that get to use the pitch in there too so it's pretty handy."
"Being able to come inside when the weather isn't the nicest out there, playing on a dry surface without the elements is great. The kids are pretty excited every time we hop on the bus and head out to Arbutus Meadows, so that really just adds to it all."
Stefanek runs the course with Ballenas alumni and former UVic Vikings soccer star Alli Bach, who was named a CIS All-Canadian (2007) and a Canada West All-Star (2007, 2008).
"It's great to have her on board here," Stefanek said. "We've both got extensive backgrounds in the soccer world, Alli had a tremendous career at UVic and brings a lot of experience to our program here. It's nice to see her come back to her roots and give back to the students after being a student here too."


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Anyone charted the use (or the none use) of public open space in a city's downtown (inner core) and/or waterfront? ANd if so - any results to see?
-- Harry Pasternak (email)
William H. Whyte (1917-1999) is considered the mentor for Project for Public Spaces because of his seminal work in the study of human behavior in urban settings (source: PPS).
His book, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, 1980, has 5 charts about public spaces in New York City:
1. Plaza Use - Average number of people sitting, 12:30 - 1:30, in good weather
2. Amount of Open Space
3. Amount of Sittable Space
4. A Day in the Life of the North Front Ledge at Seagram's
5. Density of Use
My office is in midtown Manhattan, and I enjoy this book immensely, especially his use of time lapse photography, and observations of human behavior.
It is still available, from Project for Public Spaces at:
-- David Cerruti (email)
It is a superb book, like anthropology/sociology in its intense observations.
-- Edward Tufte
The following text, which I drafted for a municipal Plan of Conservation and Development, briefly discusses some functions and uses of open space in suburbia.
There is an increasing realization that the operation and livability of a community is equally dependant on its developed and undeveloped portions. In terms of appeal, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt once characterized open space as equivalent to "beachfront" property.
For planning purposes, open space has three basic functions: establishment of an attractive community, preservation of natural processes(e.g. wetlands and wildlife), and recreation.
A possible fourth open space function is tax relief. Studies by the Trust for Public Land, the Southern New England Forest Consortium, and others suggest that when compared to developed land, preserved open space generates no taxes, but also requires far fewer municipal services than industrial, commercial, and residential uses.
Open space is a unique land use in that it can increase the livability of all other land uses, and smooth the transitions between them. For example, the buffering abilities of open space are useful for aesthetics and noise. Residential property values and desirability can increase when adjacent to protected open space. Flood storage capabilities of protected wetlands and lowlands can insure against property damage.
Some suggestions...
New York Regional Plan Association: 25% of all land
The National Recreation and Park Association: 10 acres per 1000 people (based strictly on recreational needs)
Ian McHarg (landscape architect and teacher): natural processes, not acreage, should be the basis for both open space and general planning decisions reflecting prohibition against certain types of land uses.
Other studies recommend that a community have 78 acres of open space of all kinds for every 1000 population. This figure would break down as: 42 acres per 1000 as regional open space (state park, watersheds, etc.) 36 acres per 1000 for local parks (private recreation, golf courses, green spaces)
Discussions regarding open space planning routinely raise the question "how much is enough?" A community cannot honestly or accurately answer this without also asking: "How much development is enough?"
The total amount of open space desired/needed by any community or region depends on, and is proportionate with, the amount of development desired, needed, and possible in the community.
The landscape available to a community for land-use decisions contains developed, preserved, and uncommitted land. The public's desire to maintain existing community character and "sense of place" requires some balance of these three components. Therefore, as long as development continues, so will a public desire/need for additional open space acquisition. Further, as potentially developable land decreases, the desire/need for additional land preservation is expected to proportionately increase.
-- Mark B. Kasinskas (email)
An article in the New York Times has comments by Fred Kent on human behavior in public spaces.
". . . Mr. Kent, 64, is an urban anthropologist and space doctor, and as founder of the Project for Public Spaces, a 32-year-old nonprofit group with offices near Washington Square Park, he spends his days observing homo sapiens in one of its favorite habitats: cities.
Mr. Kent learned his trade from the anthropologist Margaret Mead and the urbanist William H. Whyte, affectionately known as Holly, and he assisted Whyte with the research that culminated in his remarkable 1980 book, "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces."
-- David Cerruti (email)
And now for something completely different
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.
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Don't forget! Washington Square Park Blog hosts a Walking Tour of Washington Square Park this Saturday, September 20th, 1 p.m..
Learn what the redesign of this famous park (currently in progress) really means as well as some of the Park's and neighborhood's illustrious history. Come on out!
WALKING TOUR: WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE — A Guide to New York City's Redesign of a Perfect Public Space * Saturday, September 20th, 1 p.m.
Meet Up at Washington Square Arch, Washington Square North @ Fifth Avenue ; $5 donation
Recommended! by Time Out NY: "In the 1950s, Jane Jacobs helped keep cars out of Washington Square. But a new redesign – which will entail dismantling the fountain, removing the chess tables and cutting down decades-old trees – puts the beloved green space in jeopardy all over again." 7/24/08
Trains: A,B,C,D,E,F to West 4th Street/Washington Square
Raindate: Saturday, September 27th, 1 p.m.
Co-presented with the Washington Square Community Improvement District.
The Community Improvement District(CID) is a new concept. We want our communities to be empowered to make decisions that are best for the community as a whole, not just (as the Business Improvement Districts – BIDs – are oriented to do) for real estate and business interests. The goal is quality of life as opposed to quantity of business. We believe that without community, there is no democracy.
At Washington Square Park, the neighborhood BIDS, along with NYU, the Tisch Family (Tisch Fountain, anyone?), and Mayor Bloomberg have played a role in a redesign plan that is destroying the very heart of this renowned park.
Come find out more — and maybe something you can do!


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Hello! I have our November Simply Paper Design Challenge cards. Here was our sketch and color challenge:
Here we have Michelle's card. I love the little additions she chose to place on this card. It adds that little extra something. The angled frame piece behind the sentiment is brilliant! I'll be copying that ;) The textured background stamp gives the card a nice depth and fills in the blank space nicely! Great job, Michelle - love it! Please visit Michelle's blog here.
Here is my card. This was a fun layout, but I had to completely change my plans as the stamp that I thought I'd used just didn't work with this sketch. It was too big. But, I'm happy with the end product. I originally thought I'd do a Thanksgiving/Fall card, but after having to change the main image, I decided to do a male birthday card. I think the colors work nicely. I have a hard time not using ribbon on any card and I know that it isn't too masculine, so I added some metal hodgepodge to help keep it more masculine. I colored in the stamp image with my markers to get the different colors on the image. It was a fun sketch and I think I'll use it again!
Debbie is working on her card, so I'll post when she's ready.
Have a very happy day and thanks for looking!


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J'lem Post: "Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. An emotional Musharraf said he wanted to spare Pakistan a dangerous power struggle with opponents vowing to impeach him. He said he was satisfied that all he had done "was for the people and for the country." "I hope the nation and the people will forgive my mistakes," Musharraf said in a televised address, much of which was devoted to defending his record.
His political exit robs the West of a stalwart ally who echoed its concern about how Islamic militancy is destabilizing Afghanistan and Pakistan, where al-Qaida and the Taliban have regained strength. However, his influence has faded since he stepped down as army chief last year."
So Pakistanis democratically vote in the Islamists, who get to control the nukes. This is the worst case scenario. More here. KGS


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FAIRBORN — As part of National Endometriosis Awareness Month in March, doctors at Wright State Physicians Obstetrics and Gynecology are encouraging women to talk to their physicians about endometriosis — a condition that causes chronic pelvic pain, infertility and other problems.
"In endometriosis, tissue normally found inside the uterus is located outside of the uterus and develops into growths that cause pain before and during menstruation," said Jerome Yaklic, M.D., an obstetrician-gynecologist with Wright State Physicians Obstetrics & Gynecology and chair and associate professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. "Women may experience painful periods, pain during or after sex, and infertility."
An estimated 6.3 million women and girls in the United States are affected by endometriosis, according to the Endometriosis Association. About 40 percent of women experiencing infertility have endometriosis. Endometriosis can damage the sperm or egg and interfere with movement through the fallopian tubes and uterus, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Yaklic encourages women experiencing chronic or severe pelvic pain to contact their physician. "While there is no cure, we can effectively treat endometriosis through medication, hormone therapy or surgery," Yaklic said. Wright State Physicians Obstetrics & Gynecology is enrolling patients with endometriosis in several clinical trials for new endometriosis treatments. For more information, call 937-208-6810.
Story courtesy of Wright State Physicians.


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Jazz Plaza Starts Today in Havana
HAVANA TIMES — The 28th annual Jazz Plaza International Festival will begin its performances starting today and continue through Sunday December 23 at several institutions in the capital.
The official opening of the event will take place at the Mella Theater, where the audience at this traditional celebration can enjoy a concert by award-winning Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes.
At the same time, being presented at the Vedado district's "Casa de Cultura" is the Brazilian duo Caramuru-Balance, the US group Wild Magic Trio and saxophonist Jimmy Sommers, along with Cuban artists Achy Lam y Afrocuba, Carlos Averfoff hijo and Wil Campa y su banda.


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Beauty might only be skin deep, but in South Korea it is big business, especially in the narcissistic world of K-pop. When it comes to individual spending, this obsession with skincare brands has made the men's market the biggest in the world.
Inspired by the Korean music scene and the passion for television soap operas, male preening products are just as important as shaving cream for today's bright young things.
Last year, a survey released by Euromonitor International showed that the industry in South Korea was worth about US$10 billion, with 10% coming from the men's sector, which accounts for one-fifth of the global market.
Driving the trend is an infatuation for having the "perfect" image and an online millennials subculture.
Vlogger Kim Seung-hwan is at the forefront of this style revolution. His YouTube "tutorials" on the art of applying makeup attracts a young, vibrant audience.
At just 16, he has become one of South Korea's facial fashion gurus when it comes to cosmetics. In one "show", Kim went through the various stages of toner and makeup used by boy band Exo for the video to promote their hit song Ko Ko Bop in 2017.
Pretty boys feeling manly
"Hello, it's Hwan [here]. As you've already seen from the title, today I'm going to be doing Baek-hyun's makeup [a member of the band] in Exo's new teaser [record promotion]," he said on his YouTube channel.
"Baek-hyun's makeup looked so pretty. His eye shade is awesome. So, this time I prepared Baek-hyun's look . . . let's go."
During the past 12 months, makeup has helped give the sector a glitzy makeover and attracted a booming customer base, which includes Heo Jeong-nam, a thoroughly modern man about town.
"Celebrities, especially famous male celebrities, wear a lot of makeup, so I'm OK with putting it on," Heo, who works for a recruitment agency, told The Sydney Morning Herald. "But I still feel manly."
While Kim and Heo might be at the cutting-edge of the beauty business in South Korea, male grooming products have become part of the country's retail DNA.
Cosmetic chains have a vast array of items for men, including cleansers, face cream, anti-ageing gels, blushers and lipsticks. "In Korean beauty stores, there's an entire section, a huge section dedicated to men's skincare products," said David Yi, the founder of Very Good Light, a men's grooming and beauty site for Generation Z and millennials.
"[South] Korea is between five to10 years in the future of where the US will be. They're always kind of projecting trends," he added.
"There's a Korean saying that a beautiful rice cake is also delicious to eat," Nam Hyeong-woo, the marketing manager of Truefitt & Hill in South Korea told Korea Exposé, an online English-language news and culture magazine. "I think this is a new era in which men openly groom themselves."
Although this infatuation with cosmetics is aimed at the 20 to 30 something market, male grooming as a business is firmly rooted in Korean society.
High-end barbershops, such as Truefitt & Hill, have moved into Seoul's upscale Cheongdam district, in the heart of Gangnam.
With a 200-year history, the company is reported to be the oldest barbershop in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Most of Truefitt & Hill's clients are high-level executives and are usually in their late 30s to 50s. All of them are keen to project the right look.
"There's a Korean saying that a beautiful rice cake is also delicious to eat," Nam Hyeong-woo, the marketing manager of Truefitt & Hill in South Korea told Korea Exposé, an online English-language news and culture magazine. "I think this is a new era in which men openly groom themselves."
Another key player is the Korean barbershop franchise Herr, which was created by Lee Sang-yoon.
The company was founded nearly four years ago and now has three branches in Seoul and Hong Kong. There are also tentative plans to set-up shop in Beijing, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur.
Financial sector
Before moving into the business, Lee worked for Goldman Sachs and UBS in the financial sector and came up with the idea for Herr after visiting the barbershops at Freemans Sporting Club, a men's retailer specializing in handmade goods and customized suits in New York.
"What was so special about the experience was being able to spend time with other men," Lee told the South China Morning Post. "There are customers who go to a barbershop every 10 days, and these customers really feel a sense of community and belonging.
"It's in this kind of space that men can talk about their personal life, how they would like to look, personal problems, etc. I really loved that experience, and wanted to recreate that in Seoul. That is why we encourage our barbers to build a true friendship with all their clients," he added.
With the summer fast approaching, looking cool, it appears, has become a national pastime for men in South Korea.