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İZMİT – In 2021, the Marmara Sea was invaded by sea snot, a thick mucilage that suffocates marine life. The Turkish government responded by scooping up the substance and adopting an action plan to reduce pollution in the sea.  Experts say minimizing the flow of new organic materials into the sea – like phosphorus and nitrogen which constitute fertilizer for phytoplankton and algae – is the most important factor in preventing future outbreaks.

I didn’t even get a week to enjoy it. That was what I was thinking when I saw Marques Houston trending on Twitter. I’d been all giddy seeing an interview with one-third of my favorite boy band group on “R&B Money” and was reliving my childhood music memories about Immature. I’d heard the uproar here and there about him meeting his wife when she was 17 years old. Recommended Read: “‘R&B Money’ podcast brings back my fangirl days of Immature~ The podcast I didn’t know I needed to show respect to R&B legends”

Yes 👏🏻 yes 👏🏻 yes 👏🏻 !! I saw this cover and I thought, good for her, but what about all the airbrushing, and wild privilege that makes it possible for her to look this way? Not groundbreaking at all for any of us normal aging people. As I navigate my mid-40s, perimenopausal body shifting and slow growing invisibility, it’s exhausting to hear the message that I should just go grey!

Pascal Laugier’s 2008 vile torture porn nightmare, Martyrs — which turned 15 earlier this month — begins with a beaten-up girl running out of an industrial building and screaming for help. It’s an apt cold open because nothing could insinuate (or prepare the viewer) what's about to come in the next 90 minutes more viscerally than the universal reaction to fear and desperation. This brief yet effective sequence is a perfect segue into the film's central story and its main themes of pain, suffering, and trauma.

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books and now writer/director of award-winning films. He was also a longtime editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. The NBA All-Star Game is on tap again and some have noted that it’s now four decades since Marvin Gaye took a few liberties (including the use of version of a beat box) with the National Anthem, changing things forever, more or less, for future high-profile enactments.

A couple of days ago [written in February 2019], I was writing a section of my forthcoming book dealing with war. You have to have a section on war in today’s books because all of your stories about convergence, divergence, global middle class, r>g and the like can be totally swept away by war, and especially by a world war. I then remembered a small episode in my life, from much earlier times when the threat of nuclear war really loomed large in everyday life.

This idea failed to convince me last year, and it fails again. It is somewhat ironic that in the Orthodox Church, Mary Magdalene’s official designation is “Mary Magdalene, Equal to the Apostles” (Isapostolos in Greek). I say ironic, because the official line against female clergy is that all the apostles were males. Well then, why does the Church call her “Equal to the Apostles” but continue to deny any kind of church leadership to women?

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🇵🇰 PAKISTAN 📍 25227 Redlands Blvd., Loma Linda, San Bernardino County. 🅿️ Small plaza with parking 🥤 No Alcohol 🌱 Vegetarian Friendly 📸 All photos by Jared Cohee for Eat the World Los AngelesNowadays when you read milquetoast chunks of text there is always something in the back of your mind wondering if AI created such blandness. One might think this method was used when coming up with the ho-hum name of this restaurant, but thankfully the food here has been served and enjoyed for years before AI was ever close to market.