Grandfather Mountain looms over the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, frosted in the white and blue shades of winter. Thought to be one of the oldest mountains in the Appalachians, Grandfather Mountain’s imposing size forced engineers to develop a difficult solution to completing the Parkway. Linn Cove Viaduct carries the road over the shoulder of this wonderful mountain, preserving its unique geology and providing stunning views. Photo courtesy of Jim Ruff.
In Spain, as in Poland, Jewishness is a protean concept, and a Jewish legacy is felt. But the Fiesta de la Vaquilla practices and lore, transmitted orally through countless generations, tend to be shrugged off, unquestioned, as givens. Of more interest to villagers than the origins of ethnic tropes about “Judíos” is pulling off the endlessly complex event itself.
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After 12 years of personal training, I can confidently say that there isn’t a standard method of motivation that works for everyone. To make life more challenging, all tools of motivation are only effective 3-6 weeks even if the strategy is perfectly in-line with the person’s drive, wants, needs, schedule, and personal/professional demands (a lot of factors to consider…always).
So, how can YOU motivate yourself and maintain motivation and sanity while trying to achieve your neverending list of goals? First, understand yourself. Are you the ambitious, self-driven person that is self-employed or self-directed at home or in the office? You’re always focused on something, but you haven’t figured why another important goal is a priority. You don’t always need someone to tell you to show up; you just need her or him to tell you how to do efficiently and effectively.
Or are you more effective and efficient under the direction of someone else? You’d rather focus on what you need to do and allow other people to take on the burden of the big picture (no problem with specializing, though). While doing something effectively and efficiently is important, you need a leader to keep your sights on the target.
Either way, both personalities need to add value to a goal to justify its course. Do you truly value the goal? Why do you want to achieve this goal? Is it your choice to pursue this goal? Do you believe in this goal?
They must also recognize the potential obstacles: The perceived demands, real personal and professional demands, lack of education or guidance, etc.
Your personality and the potential obstacles will definitely steer whatever approach you integrate into life. Keep them in mind while you choose a strategy from the list below:
JK keeps a calendar of the current month on her fridge. If she exercises, she describes the activity on that day. If JK can’t workout, then she draws a big X in the box instead. Seeing multiple Xs within a given period is motivation to start moving again!
CK sets two hardline rules to keep herself from overworking. No matter the professional demand, she never touches work-related projects on Saturdays and cuts out all electronic work-related activities in the evening as well. As a self-employed producer, CK could work around-the-clock. These rules help her maintain sanity while allowing ample time for creative thought and other personal focuses.
MJ routinely does a check-in with himself to see if his current habits are aligned with his ideal self. Common questions he may ask himself: Does this activity help me achieve my overall goals? Am I on the correct path to my goals? Are my habits conflicting with who I am or my most important goals? What new goals do I need to create to achieve or maintain my ideal self again?
“Always carry a real book that either:
a) is part of the research for a current project
b) is part of the research for a future project
c) has nothing to do with anything, is just for fun and allowing the mind to make new connections
Instead of looking at your phone while waiting in line or being bored while your date is in the bathroom, look at this book. Even better, from my fave comic writer Keiron Gillen–he recommends to always be reading three books that fall into these different categories at once. Most important! Tablets do not count. These must be actual paper books–your mind doesn’t think in the same ways connected to the internet, and you will also be tempted to just look at social media.” – DK
“I find that preventative measures are effective. By staying in touch and involved with family (throughout the country even) and friends, I keep a balanced life and outlook where it becomes more difficult for any one thing which comes up to cloud my perspective on what is truly important. As such, any one thing, which may want to unnecessarily steal time and energy from other goals, becomes much harder to have an affect on me.” – RA
Simplify to pursue. Eliminate your decision fatigue by creating a consistent routine on how you wake, how you eat, how you work, and how you prepare for bed. It will free up the important mental energy to focus on your new goal.
I always plaster post-it notes with my goals on a wall that I see every day…like the inside of my closet (we don’t need the world to see my goals!). Every time I grab my clothes I consciously and unconsciously see them, and the more I see them, the more likely I will live consciously and unconsciously in line with these goals. I’ve also posted a picture of an important written goal on the wallpaper of my phone to remind myself every time I open it. Although I don’t consciously take the time to read it every time, my mind will certainly recognize it as a reminder.
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Established in 1915, Rocky Mountain is one of the nation’s highest national parks. With elevations from 7,860 feet to 14,259 feet, the park makes you feel like you are on top of the world. It is home to 77 mountain peaks over 12,000 feet high and the Continental Divide, which runs north to south through the park. Explore more cool facts about this Colorado park: https://on.doi.gov/2DwCfZ8. Photo of Longs Peak reflected in Bear Lake by Steve Perry (www.sharetheexperience.org).
Foreign intervention and technocratic governance: these are very contemporary issues, and ones with which liberals wrestle as much as reactionaries. Liberals may despise empire nostalgia, but many promote arguments about intervention and governance that have their roots in an imperial worldview. We should not imagine that apologists for empire are simply living in the past. They seek, rather, to rewrite the past as a way of shaping current debates. That makes it even more important that their ideas and arguments are challenged openly and robustly.
Your skin gets exposed to harsh conditions every day. There’s pollution, UV rays, dirt, and harsh weather conditions. If you don’t take care of your skin the right way, you can end up with a lot of skin issues, like acne, wrinkles, and sunspots.
So, how to get flawless skin?
On this article, you will learn ten easy beauty tips to keep your skin smooth and elastic.
Cleansing is one good way to make sure no dirt, dead skin cells, and makeup residues can clog your pores. In choosing the right cleanser, it’s a good idea to consider your skin type.
If you have oily skin, go for oil-free cleansers. In case you are dealing with acne, you can use medicated soaps but make sure that they aren’t strong enough to irritate your skin. As much as possible, avoid cleansers with perfume, artificial colors, and chemicals as they can cause allergic reactions.
Wash your face twice a day. Do it in the morning and before you go to sleep.
Most people tend to forego moisturizers, particularly those with oily skin.
The truth, however, is that moisturizers are essential in making sure your skin doesn’t get dry and dehydrated. Once that happens, your skin will produce more oil than necessary and that can spell problems for your skin. Excess oil can cause acne, clogged pores, and dull skin.
Apply your moisturizer right after cleansing, while your skin is still damp. This will ensure that you seal in as much moisture as possible.
This is another important beauty tip that you should include in your skincare routine. Having too much dead skin cells can make your skin look dull and it can also make you prone to clogged pores. It can even lead to acne.
When exfoliating, make sure to use something light. Skip exfoliators that contain highly abrasive ingredients as they can only cause more problems. Use gentle, circular motions when scrubbing and limit exfoliation to once or twice a week.
Every time you take your skin through the exfoliation process, follow up with a good face mask. However, since they can be expensive, you can try creating your own natural face mask. You can use papaya, lemon, or even honey to bring back your skin’s natural glow.
If you’ve been skipping sunscreen because it feels greasy, you’re probably using the wrong product. The right sunscreen should feel light and natural on the skin without compromising protection.
Apply it every single day. Even if it’s a cloudy day, UV rays can still cause damage to your skin. It can make you prone to wrinkles, sunburn, and even skin cancer.
Healthy eating can benefit your skin, too.
If you have oily skin, then you must avoid eating too much junk foods and sweets. Eat one fruit a day and drink at least eight glasses of water to flush out toxins. Include veggies in your meals, too.
Observing this kind of diet will eventually regulate the amount of oil produced by your skin. This is one of the ways to remove warts as well.
See Also: 10 Best Skin Foods For Healthy Glowing Skin
Alcohol-based toners can work on any skin type. Daily toning eliminates dirt and excess oil from your skin. If you can’t access rosewater, you can use other alcohol-free toners to regulate sebum.
Ice cubes help to shrink pores, hydrate your skin, remove puffiness, and improve blood circulation. Rubbing ice cubes on the oiliest parts of your skin will regulate the oil generation and tone saggy skin temporarily.
Steam is another beauty tip you shouldn’t miss. It helps open skin pores, making it easy to free your pores.
Steaming your skin daily with mint leaves or margosa leaves in hot water for approximately three minutes allows minerals from the leaves to penetrate through the pores and extract extra oil.
Bonus tip: Choose the right serums and makeup
Use the right skin serums for your skin type as they can guarantee dramatic results. You can apply them after toning and before you apply your face creams and moisturizers.
Wait for your serum and other skin care products to dry or get absorbed by your skin before you do the rest of your makeup. This way, you’ll be able to prep your skin, leaving it glowing and free from breakouts.
See Also: Unlocking Japan’s Secrets to Healthy Skin
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Photo: University of Haifa
Researchers have deciphered one of last remaining Dead Sea Scrolls from over 900 that were originally found in the Qumran Caves more than 60 years ago. Since their discovery, these ancient religious texts—which date to at least the 4th-century BCE—have shed new light on how the Jewish religion was practiced and include the oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible.
Now, Dr. Eshbal Ratson and Prof. Jonathan Ben-Dov of the Department of Bible Studies at the University of Haifa have restored and deciphered one of last two scrolls that had remained unpublished. This came after testing helped them discover that small fragments thought to belong to numerous different scrolls were, in fact, from one document. The Israeli researchers then spent more than a year painstakingly piecing together more than 60 fragments—some smaller than 1 square centimeter (0.155 square inches)—in order to reveal the ancient code.
What they found were references to a 364-day calendar, unique to the desert sect that would have written the scrolls, and several important festivals that are not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Referred to as the festivals of New Wine and New Oil, they helped herald the changing of seasons and were an extension of what is now known as Shavuot. This discovery is important, as until now researchers were aware of the festivals but did not know the names for these celebrations.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in the Qumran Caves, which are located in the Judaean Desert of the West Bank. (Photo: Dennis Jarvis)
The authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls remain a mystery, though experts have traditionally attributed them to a desert sect called the Essenes. The work of the University of Haifa researchers provides interesting insight into the authors of the scrolls—including their mistakes. It appears that one scribe forgot to include several noteworthy dates, leaving a second scribe to correct the oversite with annotations in the margins.
“The scroll is written in code, but its actual content is simple and well-known, and there was no reason to conceal it,” the researchers explain. “This practice is also found in many places outside the Land of Israel, where leaders write in secret code even when discussing universally-known matters, as a reflection of their status. The custom was intended to show that the author was familiar with the code, while others were not. However, this present scroll shows that the author made a number of mistakes.”
Interestingly, these mistakes are what assisted the researchers in solving the puzzle. Dr. Ratzon spoke to Haaretz, Israeli’s longest-running newspaper, admitting: “What’s nice is that these comments were hints that helped me figure out the puzzle—they showed me how to assemble the scroll.”
h/t: [Mental Floss, BBC]
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The woman who inspired Rosie the Riveter has passed away at age 96. Naomi Parker Fraley was just 20 years old when she went to work at a Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, after the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941. She was just one of the millions of women who entered the workforce, many for the first time, filling gaps left by men on the frontlines and, in many cases, outperforming them at their old jobs. In fact, over the course of World War II, the percentage of American women working outside the home went from 29% to 36%. Increasingly, being a working woman was seen not only as respectable, but patriotic, a far cry from stereotypes of female workers as unskilled and unfeminine.
But it would take over 70 years for Fraley to receive the credit she deserved as the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter depicted in the “We Can Do It!” poster created by J. Howard Miller in 1942. In the interim, her image served as a beacon of inspiration for all women looking to shatter the glass ceiling and bridge the gender gap. As such, it seems only fitting that she passed on January 20, the same day as the Women’s March.
A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. 1942. (Photo: Albert T. Palmer / Library of Congress)
The answer isn’t as straightforward as one would think, only because Rosie the Riveter appeared in more than just Howard’s poster. Riveting was one of many factory jobs that women excelled at during the course of World War II, with three million women entering the workforce for the first time. Indeed, the U.S. government encouraged women to work and spent large sums of money on campaigns to push the idea and change cultural norms.
Rosie the Riveter first appeared in song, in a hit written in 1942 by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. The lyrics depict Rosie as a strong assembly worker showing her patriotism by working tirelessly. Rosalind P. Walter, who worked a night shift helping build fighter aircrafts, inspired the song. And from that moment forward, Rosie the Riveter was seen as a symbol for women in the workforce.
Later, in 1944, Rosie the Riveter was released in cinemas. The film was inspired by Rose Will Monroe, a riveter who worked at an aircraft factory in Michigan. And in 1943, Norman Rockwell interpreted the Rosie the Riveter theme for his iconic cover of the Memorial Day issue of the Saturday Evening Post. His model was known to have been Mary Doyle, a telephone operator who lived close to Rockwell, and the pose was inspired by the Prophet Isaiah as depicted on Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling.
All this brings us to the most iconic of all Rosie the Riveters. A 1942 photograph distributed by the Acme photo agency, and published in several newspapers at the time, showed a young woman—polkadot bandana in place—leaning over an industrial lathe. It was one of many photographs that circulated at the time, all showing the power of women taking charge and working to aid in the war effort.
RIP to a true icon Naomi Parker Frayley aka Rosie the Riveter. She passed away today at 96 #WeCanDoIt pic.twitter.com/Y2gROuUK46
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Picked up by Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller, the photograph inspired the look of Rosie the Riveter on the “We Can Do It!” poster, but for most of Fraley’s life, she had no idea about the role she’d played in American feminism. In fact, until 2016, it was commonly accepted that Geraldine Hoff Doyle was the model for Rosie. Doyle, who passed in 2010, saw the photograph in a magazine in the mid-80s and felt she recognized the young girl as herself. After reporting this to a historian, it became the accepted truth for the rest of her life.
Fraley’s connection only came into focus when she happened upon the original image at a convention for women who worked during the war. The only problem was, the caption labeled the girl as Geraldine Hoff Doyle. With no way to correct the error, Fraley let it be, but at the same time, a professor from Seton Hall was digging deeper into the history of Rosie the Riveter. When he came across the original photo in an archive, with Fraley’s name written clearly, he tracked her down and made sure she got her rightful credit.
“I didn’t want fame or fortune,” she told People magazine in 2016, “But I did want my own identity.” It was an identity she was proud to have rediscovered. “The women of this country these days need some icons, if they think I’m one, I’m happy.”
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And while Rosie the Riveter is most closely associated with the “We Can Do It!” poster, it’s interesting to note that this symbol of female empowerment wasn’t originally seen by the public. In fact, it wasn’t widely distributed at all during World War II. Though many propaganda posters focused on how women could contribute to the war effort by working, “We Can Do It!” was commissioned by the Westinghouse Electric Company to help boost internal morale. As such, it was only hung at a few factories.
So how did the poster enter into pop culture? In the 1980s, the image was rediscovered and often called Rosie the Riveter due to that figure’s popularity during World War II. From the 1980s, the poster became synonymous with female empowerment and American feminism, even becoming a stamp in 1999.
Photo: EdelweissPost
To this day, Rosie inspires women around the world through her style, strength, and determination. More than a single person, she symbolizes a new way of thinking and a movement toward gender equality.
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Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking about.
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is the book of the week, the month, and perhaps the year. Its intimate look at the personalities of the administration makes for riveting reading — and has fueled its own conflagration of debate and speculation across the political spectrum. In this episode of the podcast, Michael Wolff sits down to talk with Jim Mustich about how he got his story — and what he believes it tells us.
With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time
The first nine months of Donald Trump’s term were stormy, outrageous—and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself.
In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations:
— What President Trump’s staff really thinks of him
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— Why FBI director James Comey was really fired
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— Who is really directing the Trump administration’s strategy in the wake of Bannon’s firing
— What the secret to communicating with Trump is
— What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers
Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.
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