When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism | Life and style

 Posted on June 21, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2896 words  |  Kary Bruening

Tara Brach at her home in Great Falls, Virginia. Photograph: Alyssa Schukar/The GuardianSince suffering a miscarriage at a women’s retreat, Tara Brach has tried to reform the world of meditation by arming its practitioners with a single weapon: self-compassion by Rachel MabeTara Brach was four months pregnant when she miscarried at a women’s retreat in Española, New Mexico. She was 30, and had spent the last eight years as a devoted member of 3HO, a community promising spiritual awakening. [Read More]

'Many suffer but no one talks about it': the rise of eating disorders in Japan

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1309 words  |  Valentine Belue

Diners eating in Toyko, Japan Photograph: AlamyDiners eating in Toyko, Japan Photograph: AlamyWorld newsEnormous cultural pressure to be thin and a lack of support for mental health issues has left people struggling Akira, 37, lives in the heart of Tokyo, a metropolis that lights up like a fluorescent fairground at night. She shares the city with 13.35 million other residents, but had no one to turn to when she was suffering from anorexia and bulimia. [Read More]

Anne Frank's 'dirty' jokes found on diary pages she covered over | Anne Frank

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  586 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Anne Frank This article is more than 5 years oldAnne Frank's 'dirty' jokes found on diary pages she covered overThis article is more than 5 years oldDigital technology helps decipher hidden passages on two pages masked with brown paper Researchers using digital technology on two pages of Anne Frank’s diary covered over with brown masking paper have discovered passages featuring four risque jokes and candid explanations of sex, contraception and prostitution. [Read More]

Blow for West Ham as Lucas Paquet to be ruled out for four weeks | West Ham United

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  416 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

West Ham UnitedBlow for West Ham as Lucas Paquetá to be ruled out for four weeks Midfielder to see specialist for further assessment on calf injuryAntonio and Bowen also injury concerns for David MoyesLucas Paquetá will see a specialist for further assessment on a calf injury that will keep the West Ham midfielder out for four weeks. David Moyes is dealing with a selection crisis in attack after Michail Antonio suffered a setback in his recovery from a knee injury and Jarrod Bowen and Paquetá limped off during West Ham’s 1-1 draw with Bristol City in the FA Cup. [Read More]

Copenhagen 1 - 1 Rakow Czestochowa | Football

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  164 words  |  Valentine Belue

Copenhagen 1 - 1 Rakow Czestochowa

Copenhagen

Home team scorers Denis Vavro 35

Rakow Czestochowa

Away team scorers Lukasz Zwolinski 87 Aggregate 2-1 FC Copenhagen win 2-1 on aggregate

Match stats

Possession

RAKCOP
5050

Goal attempts

11 Copenhagen Off target 4 Rakow Czestochowa 1 Copenhagen On target 4 Rakow Czestochowa Corners 6 5 Fouls 8 9

Lineups

Copenhagen

  • 1 Grabara
  • 19 Jelert
  • 3 Vavro
  • 2 Diks
  • 24 Meling
  • 12 Lerager
  • 33 Jensen
  • 7 Claesson
  • 10 Elyounoussi
  • 25 Larsson
  • 9 Goncalves

Substitutes

  • 6 Sorensen
  • 14 Cornelius (s 61')
  • 18 Oskarsson
  • 21 Sander
  • 22 Ankersen
  • 27 Lund Jensen (s 88')
  • 30 Achouri (s 60')
  • 36 Clem
  • 39 Hojlund
  • 40 Bardghji
  • 41 Dithmer

Rakow Czestochowa

  • 1 Kovacevic
  • 15 Kovacevic
  • 24 Arsenic
  • 3 Rundic
  • 7 Tudor
  • 5 Berggren
  • 66 Papanikolaou
  • 22 Sorescu
  • 77 Cebula
  • 30 Kochergin
  • 99 Piasecki

Substitutes

  • 8 Lederman (s 59')
  • 9 Zwolinski (s 84')
  • 11 Yeboah (s 76')
  • 12 Tsiftsis
  • 14 Plavsic
  • 25 Racovitan (s 76')
  • 27 Nowak
  • 93 Kittel (s 59')

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Einstein's general theory of writing | Books

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1573 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

BooksEinstein's general theory of writingAphorist, poet, diarist - the physicist was a man of many talents, says Alice CalapriceAlthough Albert Einstein was a prolific writer, he did not think of himself as one. "In the past, it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell," he wrote in a fit of frustration to his biographer, Carl Seelig, in 1953. [Read More]

John Matshikiza | South Africa

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  876 words  |  Valentine Belue

South AfricaObituaryJohn MatshikizaActor, journalist, poet and political activist who returned to South Africa in 1991John Matshikiza, who has died aged 54 following a heart attack, was one of those polymaths who South Africa has an odd way of throwing up: film and stage actor, poet, journalist, broadcaster and political activist, he seemed equally comfortable in each of these roles. Though he could be critical of the way the country was run, his presence was somehow reassuring, so that in his company it was tempting to focus on the healthier aspects of post-apartheid South Africa. [Read More]

Leonard Weinglass obituary | Law

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1138 words  |  Aldo Pusey

LawObituaryLeonard Weinglass obituaryLeading US defence lawyer and civil rights campaignerFew lawyers could have boasted a more remarkable client list than that of Leonard Weinglass, who has died of pancreatic cancer, aged 77. Not that boasting was ever the style of the quietly spoken New York attorney who, in the course of the past half-century, acted for such major figures of radical American life as Angela Davis, Daniel Ellsberg, Jane Fonda and the Chicago Eight. [Read More]

Man claims killing Dutch health minister was an 'order from God' | Netherlands

 Posted on June 20, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  273 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Netherlands This article is more than 7 years oldMan claims killing Dutch health minister was an 'order from God'This article is more than 7 years oldSuspect reportedly reveals motive behind 2014 stabbing – former health minister Els Borst drafted the Netherland’s 2002 landmark law legalizing euthanasia A man accused of killing a former Dutch health minister has admitted responsibility at a court hearing, claiming it was an “order from God” because she was responsible for the Netherlands’ euthanasia law. [Read More]

A dominatrix laid bare

 Posted on June 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  770 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The ObserverMoviesThe real Bettie Page was a far cry from the scandalous pin-up model of Fifties America'Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden,' said the notorious Fifties pin-up Bettie Page. 'When they sinned, they put clothes on.' Page, who had a religious conversion on New Year's Eve 1958, was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency when the father of a Florida boy scout who had committed suicide found bondage photos in his son's room. [Read More]