1. Recognize the social injustice. Don’t deny its existence simply because you haven’t experienced it directly. If there is a situation whose outcome would have different simply by changing the victim’s skin color and nothing else, that evidence of a major problem.
2. Educate yourself. Seek to listen to others who have been harmed, seek to learn about matters that may be foreign to you, things you may never even have thought of, then take action.
3. Morality is not doing what is wrong. If you’re not racist, that’s great! You’re not participating in evil acts. But it’s not enough.
4. Develop character: not only should you avoid doing what is wrong, you should actively do what is right. Speak up, speak out against evil.
5. Each step requires courage. Each step takes you out of your comfort zone. Each step demands that you overcome fear: fear of what your family might say, what your friends may do, and what others may think. Real lives hang in the balance.
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Wearing a mask for many hours can increase your chances for infection and irritation, creating a favorable environment for yeast.
To avoid any facial irritation, dermatologist Dr. Peterson Pierre said it’s helpful to take breaks whenever you wear a mask.
“The more breaks you can give yourself from wearing a mask, the better,” he told HuffPost. “You will decrease heat, sweating, humidity, irritation, while also improving airflow, all of which should decrease your infection risk.”
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July 2nd is the anniversary of my dear friend of 32 years Lee Iacocca’s passing. He is missed and beloved. It was a privilege to know him, experience his sharp wit, wisdom and great sense of humor, but most of all his humanity. He was my mentor which is a badge of honor for me. May he R.I.P. knowing he left such a positive imprint on the world. His memory will live on.
Wearing a mask for many hours can increase your chances for infection and irritation, creating a favorable environment for yeast.
To avoid any facial irritation, dermatologist Dr. Peterson Pierre said it’s helpful to take breaks whenever you wear a mask.
“The more breaks you can give yourself from wearing a mask, the better,” he told HuffPost. “You will decrease heat, sweating, humidity, irritation, while also improving airflow, all of which should decrease your infection risk.”
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What to know: “Hawaii Five-0” actress Michelle Borth shared in a new interview with People that she has a history of self-harm and suicidal ideation. Borth said she worked through her mental health issues thanks to treatment, but she struggled with the scars that reminded her of her past.
It really does have an effect on you. You get a look. I always felt that it was a look of someone feeling bad for me, of someone feeling sorry for me. Or sometimes nasty looks of someone judging me. — Michelle Borth
Eventually, Borth showed Dr. Alexander Rivkin her scars. A cosmetic doctor who specializes in non-surgical treatments, Rivkin experimented with injections. By filling in the areas around her raised scars, he was able to make them almost disappear. Rivkin said he can use steroid injections to flatten the look of raised scars and lasers to reduce the redness of scars with his treatment.
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Quarantine seems to have done Maria Shriver some good! The journalist, 64, was recently spotted looking spectacularly well rested stepping out as lockdown restrictions eased in California. But some suspect the mom of four’s newly smooth face may be due to something other than time out of the spotlight.
“In addition to Botox and filler, you can see the texture of her skin is a lot better,” notes Dr. Peterson Pierre, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Pierre Skin Care Institute in Thousand Oaks. (Pierre does not treat Maria).
“She’s probably had laser resurfacing and skin-tightening procedures.” Maria, whose digital newsletter, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, has been highlighting the work of helpers during the pandemic, might want to extend the treatments to her neck and decolletage, adds Pierre, “so the contrast is less apparent.”
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Goldberg is a steady chronicler of her family history and the years of her childhood and adolescence. As one would expect from a mob-focused memoir, the names of fringe characters are delightful, and might be hard to believe if not for the American familiarity, through film and television, with Mafia nomenclature. In these pages, readers meet Dom, Funzi, Tony Lunch, Johnny Sausage, and Benny Eggs. Though the author’s memoir delivers on its promise to present a realistic look at her father’s ties to the Genovese crime family, the true success of the work is how well it encapsulates a time and place: New York of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. Goldberg peppers the lively book, which includes family photographs, with mentions of bygone places: Schrafft’s; the Jade Cockatoo in Greenwich Village; the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing, Queens; Lundy’s Restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She also powerfully evokes her suburban childhood, which, despite her father’s dealings, occasionally seems idyllic, as when she and some neighborhood kids played in the Valley Stream dump on Long Island: “We climbed on hills of dirt scattered with junk that included old bottles, rebar, shoes, and an occasional appliance.” Throughout the memoir, the author’s fondness for the past helps her soberly assess a sometimes chaotic, sometimes comical, and sometimes painful family life.
An honest, funny, and thorough reflection on a complicated family.
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Borth first began seeing Dr. Alexander Rivkin, one of the leading experts on non-surgical aesthetic procedures, when she was dealing with acne in her 20s, but it took over a decade until she felt ready to bring up her scars.
By that time, the actress had “come through the storm,” sought treatment and accepted her mental illness as a disease. But because of the scars she carried on her wrist, she was forced to “relive the trauma over and over again” — both at work, in the conversations she had to have before going on camera, and in her professional life.
“It really does have an effect on you,” she says. “You get a look. I always felt that it was a look of someone feeling bad for me, of someone feeling sorry for me. Or sometimes nasty looks of someone judging me.”
Finally, after trying “anything you can think of” to lessen the appearance of the scars, several years ago Borth showed them to Rivkin and asked him if there was anything he could do to help.
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Growth factors activate different mechanisms in the skin that allow it to repair itself; for instance, “growth factors turn on the collagen-making factory in the skin and also boost elastin production,” says Dr. Peterson Pierre, a board-certified dermatologist at the Pierre Skin Care Institute in Thousand Oaks, CA. “This results in significant improvement in fine lines, wrinkles, tone, texture and discoloration.” Yes, that’s a lot.
Who should use skin care products with growth factors?
Anyone is welcome to dip into these products, as Dr. Pierre explains, because “growth factors are universally well-tolerated, which makes them accessible to every skin type.”
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Perhaps the most empowering lesson that I would like to impart to my readers is that most of us have to have the strength, the ability, and the resilience to change the parts of our life that consistently hold us back from reaching our best selves. I always say, “our past explains who we are, but our past doesn’t define us.”
Another empowering lesson is that we all have our special story to tell. I encourage my readers to capture their memories in writing… the good, the bad, the happy, the sad. Your life story is your gift to your children and in some cases, to the world. There is no need to be concerned with the quality of your writing, just open your heart and a journal to those feelings and stories and messages that are uniquely you. The result can be liberating!
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