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Please join me in welcoming Liz Jacob to Gay Book Reviews talking about her favorite M/M books! Leave your OWN favorite M/M books in the comments section for a change to win the ebook of your choice!
Recs: London & Immigration & Coming Out, Oh My!
ABROAD explores several college students' journeys of self-discovery against the backdrop of one of my favorite places, London. It also tackles something that has been a huge part of my life since the age of eleven—immigration. So I wanted to rec several books that I thought did all of this particularly—in fact, spectacularly—well.
Let's start with London: Alexis Hall's masterful FOR REAL is not precisely a coming-of-age story. However, one of its heroes, Toby, is young enough that, had he not dropped out of school, he would be at university. His journey is different, but no less important. In fact, amid his May-December romance with Laurie, who is established in his profession if not his private life, Toby learns a lot about who he is. He discovers, bit-by-bit, what drives him, what he is capable of, and how to stay true to himself while growing up. And all of this gorgeousness takes place in London, which comes to full life in Hall's stunning prose. We see London both through Toby's young eyes and Laurie's privileged gaze. We see it as the only place this book could have been set in; we see it as another character. Their romance takes them all over the sprawling city, and everywhere they go, it turns just that much more clear and beautiful to the reader's eye.
For a wonderful portrayal of college life, we first turn to Amy Jo Cousins' OFF CAMPUS. Here, too, the main characters grow and learn about both themselves and each other. For Tom, part of it is discovering his sexuality in ways he never expected; for Reese, it's coming into his power and learning about his own strength. All of this is set against a realistic and engaging college setting, which almost makes you want to go back to college—almost. It's a very tender and honest book about the growing pains of finishing school and knowing that adulthood is just around the corner, and you can't slow down time.
My other favorite college-age story is Roan Parrish's WHERE WE LEFT OFF. Similarly to FOR REAL, only one of the characters is of college age, while the other is long past it. Unlike in OFF CAMPUS, Leo, our intrepid main character, is just starting college. He is certain of himself in the way of the very young, but also wise beyond his years. His struggles with love and wanting to be loved by a man who should, by all accounts, set Leo free but isn't able to, are incredibly relatable and almost heartbreaking in their genuineness. Leo is open—to everything, to anything, but especially to love and his newly found NYU family. It's an absolutely delicious take on a May-let's say-September romance, as well as an authentic portrayal of college life.
When I was first told by a friend to read Courtney Milan's TRADE ME, it was because of the thoughtful and nuanced way that Milan examines privilege of all kinds. What I hadn't expected was the gut punch of a truly incisive portrayal of immigration. Tina's Chinese family is drawn in the most tender, heartbreaking ways. There were moments where it hit so close to home, I had to put the book down and just breathe, because it made me feel so much. I had never before felt such a kinship with an immigrant story, for all that my family's history is quite different to Tina's. It's a testament to Milan's skills and ability to thread the needle of a topic that can quite often be difficult to pin down (to mix my metaphors). It's painful, and it's beautiful, and it's very, very true.
Title: Abroad (Hellum & Neal #1)
Author: Liz Jacobs
Publisher: Brain Mill Press
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Genre(s): Contemporary/College Aged
Page Count: 362
Nick Melnikov doesn't know where he belongs. He was just a kid when his Russian-Jewish family immigrated to Michigan. Now he's in London for university, overwhelmed by unexpected memories. Socially anxious, intensely private, and closeted, Nick doesn't expect to fall in so quickly with a tight-knit group of students from his college, and it's both exhilarating and scary. Hanging out with them is a roller coaster of serious awkward and incredible longing, especially when the most intimidating of the group, Dex, looks his way.
Dex Cartwell knows exactly who he is: a black queer guy who doesn't give a toss what anybody thinks of him. He is absolutely, one-hundred-percent, totally in control of his life. Apart, maybe, from the stress of his family's abrupt move to an affluent, largely white town. And worrying about his younger brother feeling increasingly isolated as a result. And the persistent broken heart he's been nursing for a while…
When Nick and Dex meet, both find themselves intrigued. Countless late-night conversations only sharpen their attraction. But the last thing Nick wants is to face his deepest secret, and the last thing Dex needs is another heartache. Dex has had to fight too hard for his right to be where he is. Nick isn't even sure where he's from. So how can either of them tell where this is going?
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Nick didn't feel better in the morning. At three am, his anxiety had been a shapeless thing, with weight and texture but part of dreams, too. A sort of terrifying unreality he had to breathe through.
At eight am, as his alarm shrieked at him to wake the fuck up, the shapeless, textured thing coalesced into something more terrifying than the nightly ghosts. If, at ten years old, he'd been aware that being unable to answer the kids on the bus who asked him why his teeth looked the way they did would someday end, at twenty, he knew better.
He wanted men. He hadn't really wanted Lena, in all the years they'd been together. He hadn't really wanted Ashley during sophomore year when they'd kissed in the art classroom, her hair tickling his palms where his hands had trembled on her shoulders, and later humped fruitlessly in her sunroom, sweaty and shaky and half-hard.
He wanted Dex. Of all people, of all the people he had met, he wanted him so much, his hands ached with it. Nick was past denying anything. All he knew now was the whine in his chest that told him truth frightened more than denial.
Author Bio
Liz Jacobs came over with her family from Russia at the age of 11, as a Jewish refugee. All in all, her life has gotten steadily better since that moment. They settled in an ultra-liberal haven in the middle of New York State, which sort of helped her with the whole "grappling with her sexuality" business.
She has spent a lot of her time flitting from passion project to passion project, but writing remains her constant. She has flown planes, drawn, made jewelry, had an improbable internet encounter before it was cool, and successfully wooed the love of her life in a military-style campaign. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her essay on her family's experience with immigration.
She currently lives with her wife in Massachusetts, splitting her time between her day job, writing, and watching a veritable boatload of British murder mysteries.


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Veal Stew with Mushrooms Recipe
Hot to Make a Delicious Veal Stew with Mushrooms
Sunday was a rainy dreary day, perfect for cooking and watching football. It was one of those days I didn't mind chopping, mincing and dicing while watching the Eagles beat up on the Washington Redskins.
When I asked my wife what kind of stew she'd like me to make, she immediately responded, "Veal!"
So we went to the market and picked up some cubed veal meat for stew and one of our favorite stewing vegetables, leeks.
This is really a very simple recipe and the results are fantastic. I used a cup of demi-glace because I always have it on hand in the form of Demi Glace Gold but you can substitute 1 cup of homemade beef stock or even try homemade chicken stock.
As good as this meal is the night you serve it, it's even better as leftovers after all the flavors have a chance to meld together.
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 pounds of cubed veal stew meat, most likely from the shoulder or leg
3 leeks
10 oz golden pearl onions
3 cloves garlic
½ cup Ruby Port (you can substitute any Port or even try Sherry or Marsala wine)
1 - 14½ oz can of plum or diced tomatoes
1 cup demi-glace (check out GatewayGourmet.com)
5 fresh sage leaves or 3 dried
3 tablespoons fresh parsley
Salt & freshly ground pepper
8 oz package of fresh white mushrooms
How To Prepare At Home
Leeks are usually loaded with sand and grit so it's important to clean them well. I like to chop the white and tender green parts and wash in my ancient salad spinner.
The pearl onions are the most tedious prep in this recipe. You have probably seen recipes that say to pour boiling water over the pearl onions and the skins will just fall off. No way. Doesn't happen. Yes, it does help some, but you're going to end up peeling them with a knife and your fingernails so be patient.
Peel and mince the garlic and if you are using whole plum tomatoes, pour them into a bowl and cut up into pieces.
Chop the parsley and slice the mushrooms.
Make the Veal Stew
Preheat the oven to 300°F. Put some flour into any bowl (I used a soup bowl) to dredge the veal cubes with flour. You can season the flour if you like with a little salt and pepper or your favorite dried seasonings. Be sure the veal is dry before dredging.
Heat your sauté pan over medium-high heat; add 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 tablespoons of oil to the pan. When the oil is hot but not smoking, shake off any excess flour from the veal pieces and add them to the sauté pan. Most likely you'll sauté the veal in batches unless you have one giant sauté pan.
All we are trying to do is brown the veal on all sides. The cooking will be done in the liquids. The browning will add color and add flavor to the pan that will result in a very tasty stew.
When one batch of veal is browned, remove it to a plate and start the next batch. When all is meat is browned and reserved, add another tablespoon of butter and oil to the pan and add the leeks, pearl onions and garlic. Sauté the vegetables for about 5 to 7 minutes until the leeks become translucent & slightly brown.
Next add the port wine and deglaze the pan by scraping from the bottom any meat or leeks that may be stuck to the pan. Continuing cooking until most of the port is cooked off, then add the meat back to the pan.
At this point you want to add the cut up tomatoes with juice along with the cup of demi glace. Add the sage, parsley and season with salt and pepper.
Cover and place the pan in the preheated oven and cook for about 1 hour.
While the veal stew is cooking, it's time to sauté the mushrooms in a smaller sauté pan. You want to sauté the mushrooms separately so they release their liquid before adding to the stew.
Here's How
Heat your smaller sauté pan over medium-high heat until hot. Add the remaining tablespoon of butter and oil. When the butter and oil are hot, add the sliced mushrooms and sauté until most of the liquid has been released and evaporated. Remove the pan from the heat and reserve.
After the stew has cooked for one hour, add the mushrooms to the stew and continue cooking for an additional 30 to 45 minutes until the veal is for tender. I turned off the oven and let the stew cool a bit before serving with a combination mashed parsnip, turnip and potatoes. It was delicious and I can't wait for the leftovers.
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Hey RG, great recipe but it can be better. Fresh thyme and a couple of bay leaves go very well veal stew. But all in all very good!!!!
served with the mashed root veggies…in a bowl with the stew on top or on a plate? Sounds delicious, but want to make sure the plating looks as appetizing as the recipe sounds. Thanks
Do you have to keep an eye on it while stewing?
When cooking anything on the stove or in the oven, I want to be around to keep an "eye on it" but it is not one of those dishes you have to check every so often. In fact, there is nothing to really see while it is in the oven cooking and everytime you open the oven door you let out a lot of heat slowing down the cooking process.
Boiling the onions for two minutes does work very well. after boiling, rinse in cold water then cut the root end, squeeze from the other end and they pop right out.
Thanks for this recipe! I had just scored some veal stew meat from Bristol Farms and the leeks were fabulous at the farmer's market today. The mushroom vender had King oyster and portobellos, so I used those intead of white mushrooms. Didn't have any pearl onions but I had some left in the freezer and used those (much easier). I also sauteed about a 1/2 cup of shallots along w/ the garlic and added a couple of bay leaves per another suggestion. Lucky I keep Demi Glace on hand. As for the Port, I had none, but Madera works just as well. The result was spectacular. This recipe is a keeper.
Very good. Never changed a thing was tender crazy. Not lucky like you…no left overs 4 people eating. Rats!


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Topic Page: Jung, Carl (1875 - 1961)
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. His influence continues to grow in many areas, such as psychological types, dream work, play therapy, and the role of spirituality and religion.
The positive psychology of Viktor Frankl and Jung can be classified as depth positive psychology, because both of them emphasize the need to integrate the unconscious realm. Both can be considered fathers of contemporary positive psychology because of their focus on the innate human potential for growth through meaning and spirituality.
Graber (2004) wrote about Carl Jung: "He, like Frankl, saw the therapeutic possibilities of the human spirit – that is their strongest theoretic possibilities of the human spirit – that is their strong theoretic link" (p. 179). Thomas Peterson correctly pointed out that both Frankl and Jung emphasized the connection between meaning systems and mental health.
Jung (1933) stated:
Like Frankl, Jung (1964) also recognized the value of meaning in suffering: "Man can stand the most incredible hardships when he is convinced that they make sense" (p. 76).
A psycho-neurosis must be understood as the suffering of a human being who has not discovered what life means for him. . . . The patient is looking for something that will take possession of him and give meaning and form to the confusion of his neurotic mind.(p. 225)
Probably influenced by Eastern philosophies and religions, Jung adopted a dualistic framework of psychology. Jung (1933) recognized that duality is the fact of human nature: "Every good quality has its bad side, and nothing that is good can come into the world without directly producing a corresponding evil. This is a painful fact." (p. 199). One example of this duality is that we cannot achieve wholeness without integrating the dark side of the self.
The archetype of the self represents the center of the psyche and is commonly expressed by the symbol of a Mandela. The self signifies wholeness, the product of integrating the consciousness and unconscious aspects of the psyche through individuation. One cannot actualize selfhood without getting in touch with the shadow, the archetype of the dark and rejected parts of the self.
The shadow contains the libido, forbidden feelings such as lust and rage. The shadow wants to be acknowledged and brought into consciousness. Jungian analysts Zweig and Wolf point out if we embrace and "romance" the shadow, we will channel it to productive use and gain access to vitality and creativity.
It takes courage to undertake the "shadow work" because it can be painful to come to terms with one's negative emotions and painful aspects of life, such as personal traumas and family secrets.
The process of individuation is to reconcile and integrate the various differentiated components into a coherent and balanced whole. Thus, it integrates the ego (center of consciousnesses) with the shadow, anima (the feminine personality characteristics) with the animus (the masculine characteristics), the rational (thinking and feeling) and irrational (sensing and intuition) psychic functions. This is an innate and natural process of human growth.
Individuation is essential for fulfilling one's full potentials and flourishing, but it is a painful process. One of the common themes in Jungian analysis is that just as there is no rebirth without death, there can be no wholeness without realizing our brokenness, and no self-actualization without suffering.
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A visual perception puzzle
RGBquick is a fast paced challenge against the clock to match a target color by modifying a randomly generated color's Red, Green & Blue components.
You have under one minute to solve the RGBquick puzzle with the puzzle's score being based on speed, accuracy of color and gameplay difficulty level. The fastest you tap the 'complete' button with the most accurate color match and the highest gameplay difficulty level, the higher you score.
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Difficulty levels
There are three challenging difficulty levels to RGBquick.
In easy, the target color, current RGB value, actual color these RGB values represent and a color match percentage to the target color are displayed. With all this information, making a match should be easy, right? (the answer is no, color theory is not straight forward to a lot of people).
In medium, only the target color, current RGB value and the actual color these RGB values represent are displayed. Without seeing the match percentage, making a color match is a lot difficult, you must truly have a skill for color theory.
In hard, only the target color and current RGB value are displayed, requiring you to mentally envision what RGB color values represent. To make a match at this difficulty level, you must have a masterful control over color theory, the ability to mentally imagine how a series of numbers representing millions of color combinations can translate into a single specific color.
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While RGBquick is a fun game to play, it is also a brain teaser and the perfect educational game to teach you about color theory, an important skill for anyone aspiring to work in graphic design. Having mastered the game, you will easily be able to discern the true structure of color and extend this knowledge to real life scenarios.
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Room To Grow started out as a competition between my friend and I, but escalated into a simple interesting puzzleish game. You start out extremely zoomed in and on level 1, with 0 points and 300 health. Your goal is to get the required score for the level and move on, but along the way you will need to attempt to collect zoomer orbs; purple orbs that zoom out the camera slightly. Currently I update the game ever 2~3 days, and with each updates usually comes a new level.
Shabda is an early prototype of a upcoming game that relies completely on spatial 3d(binaural) sound for navigation. There is a difference between 3d audio and spatial(binaural audio). Binaural audio uses special sounds to trick your brain to position sounds in 3d space as if they were real. With that, you can actually understand how close, far, up or down something is in relation to your head. A first prototype demo is also available with a simple demonstration of game mechanics. In order to run and play it with spatial sound, you need to enable HRTF in your sound system. Please note that without HRTF enabled, it will be close to impossible to play Shabda, as the sounds will just be regular stereo.
RePete is a 2D puzzle platformer about time travel and self-cooperation. You are Pete, a normal guy with abnormal abilities. Loop back in time and help your past self collect gems, solve puzzles, and reach new heights! RePete features four worlds, each introducing new gameplay elements, with over 60 challenging levels to test your ability to work with yourself. The demo version features the first two worlds so you can try before you buy!
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Tamara was born on a Thursday as the only descendent to her parents and grandparents. She studied in Bavaria and England to become a rather decent light lyrical coloratura soprano, preferring comedy operatic roles and songs. Tamara is equally at home at your best friend's sister's wedding as at your auntie's funeral or your birthday bash. Follow contact to book her. Currently she can be seen in cabaret in the South East and the odd serious recital. As well as singing she has studied a bit of acting and dancing, done a spot of TV presenting as well as play writing and directing. If time permits she works as a art model for painters and photographers.
She also won several first prizes with distinction and trophies in minor competition around London, where her voice has been described as "promising" and "exciting"
Tamara performed at venues as varied as a circus tent (Walthamstow), Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank), Quaker Meeting House (Bury St Edmunds), a private drawing room (Cheltenham), The Rookery (Streatham Common), Hylands House Manor (Chelmsford) and of course countless churches, pubs and clubs from Berkshire to deepest Kent, from Essex to Sussex.
Tamara lives in a gaily painted shoebox on the Kent-London border with her old fat tabby cat Oishi, also known as Sir. When she is not tiling the bathroom and failing to fix the electric, she becomes Donna Quixotte and fights brambles and bind-weed in a teenage jungle commonly referred to as 'the garden'.
As she sadly has no children of her own, she tries to support other children by fundraising for various charities. Although totally unathletic she has done a few charity runs, including the London Marathon in an unexciting time in 2011 and warmed up the track at the new Olympic Stadium in Stratford in her first ever relay race in April 2012. Other sports she is lousy at but still enjoys doing are static trapez, fencing, archery, swimming, cycling and horse riding.
Tamara is also a rather decent cook, adequate dress maker and a theatre lover. She is severely dyslexic and keeps torturing unsuspecting teachers by her ingrained wish to communicate with the world in the world's mother tongues. So far she has tried to study ten languages in three different scripts, but only admits to four (English, German, Swedish and French).
Tamara loved the London Olympic Games and Para Olympic Games. She enjoys watching polo and is willing to hike for hours and stand in the pouring rain to see a good match. She absolutely hates football, but still knows the off-side rule and loathes South Eastern Rail, but is forced to use their unpunctual trains far too frequently. One day she would love to have a small holding with Red Devon or spotted Jersey cows, a Friesian or Haflinger horse, Nubian goats, a Golden Pheasant couple and a few Brahma Bantam or Polish hens.
Tamara can be contacted and booked via www.OperaLapDiva.com/contact
Hochschule für Musik, Munich (classical singing, student with Gabriele Kaiser)
Rose Bruford College (Opera Studies)
RADA at The Old Vic (Skill Development Through Shakespeare)
Globe Education in association with Morley College (Acting Shakespeare)
City Lit (Acting For Radio, Accents for Actors)
Birkbeck College (Foundation Course: Contemporary Dance)
Further Studies
Voice, Stage Craft:
Ellen Newman, Eileen Benskin, Sue Meadows
Sandra Porter, Angela Hickey, Arlene Randazzo
Coaching (opera):
Fran Hills, Mark Packwood, Annette Saunders, David Harper, Lyndall Dawson, Siobhain O'Higgins, Jonathan Gale, Phil Richardson
Coaching (Languages):
Rosalba LoDuca and Emma Abate (Italian), Andre Jarema (French), Johanna Nordström and Carola Siffren (Swedish), Flemming Vinter (Danish)
Pauline Tinsley, Richard van Allan, Brian MacKay
Residential Summer Schools:
Opera Masterclass-Stretch Your Abilities,Chelmsford (Essex)
Irish Vocal Masterclasses, Dublin (Ireland)
Prizes Singing:
Canon Trophy for Vocal Music (overall most outstanding vocalist - Croydon Music Festival, 2012)
First Prize Grand Opera - Outstanding (The Compton Memorial Trophy & Kentish Opera Prize - Croydon Music Festival, 2012)
First Prize Light Opera - Distinction (The Edward Shakespeare Shield - Croydon Music Festival, 2012)
First Prize Light Opera - Distinction (George Green Cup - Bromley Festival of Music and Speech, 2010)
First Prize Vocal Recital (Arthur Colins Cup - Bromley Festival of Music and Speech, 2010)
Second Prize Operetta (Ealing Festival, 2012)
Third Prize Song Recital - Distinction (Croydon Music Festival, 2012)
Third Prize Recital - Distinction (Ealing Festival, 2012)
London unless stated otherwise: The Blue Stockings, Bete Noir, The House of Burlesque, The Opera Diva's Boudoir, Tease me, please me (Rochester), The Gypsy Hotel, Voluptoscope, Femmes Fatale (Maidstone), Ivy Paige Scandalous, Dickens World (Rochester), The Volupte Lounge, Ivy Paige's Curiosity Cabaret (Maidstone), The Oakford Social Club (Reading), Head over Heels at The Paradise by the Way of Kensal Green, The Finger in the Pie Cabaret at Madame Jojo's, TheWhatWorks , Proud
"The coloratura was very impressive"
"a very exciting voice"
"sung with great commitment and polish"
"this performance was splendid, with some very exciting fireworks"
"I have never heard Glitter and Be Gay performed like this before"
Marilyn Hill Smith - Adjudicator Ealing Festival 2012 (opera, recital, operetta)
"you are completely in control of this aria"
"this was fiery accurate and completely in control! Well done"
"a very promising voice"
Gaynor Keeble – Adjudicator Croydon Music Festival 2012(light opera, opera, recital)
"The high E-flats seemed to hold no fear for this brave performer"
Neil Jenkins – Adjudicator Bromley Festival of Music and Speech 2010 (light opera
"one of the livelier acts and very funny"
"did a great job of intimidating the audience whilst educating them in opera singing"
Sin Bozkurt - photographer
"puts the crowd through the wringer"
Hugh Leech – photographer
"effortlessly expelling operatic notes"
"instantly invoking a smile"
"a truly comical experience for everyone"
Oxjam Takeover Camberwell 2011: Review - Venue: Crocked Well
"part stand-up and part TV confessional"
"her mix of charm and bossiness ensured that she persuaded everyone to take part"
Review: The Opera Diva's Boudoir at The Camden Head, Lucy Jones for Camden Voyer
"Her voice was absolutely beautiful and extremely powerful"
Ella Emerald for Peep Toe Magazine
"Highpoints of the evening included Tamara von Stein and her vocal solo where she combined coquettishness with coloratura"
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Mar 29, 2014 - 9:30 am
Since I was dx with stage 4 vaginal cancer in Sept. 2011, I have seen my daughter graduate with her master's degree, pass her board certification (she's now a Board Certified Behavior Analyst), get her 1st great job and helped her move to Nashville. I wasn't sure if I would ever see this during my treatment, but by the grace of God and much support from family & friends, I made it through to the other side & currently NED. Cancer may have knocked me down for a while, but it also showed me how sweet & wonderful life can be, how to savor these moments. If you are currently fighting this b@st@rd of a disease, keep your faith, your sense of humor & find something to laugh about each day. (I know that last one is hard, but it does help!!). I try to check in the boards often & I keep all of you in my thoughts and prayers.
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The Artist Pursuit of Being Yourself 2008 was a wrestling event produced by CHIKARA (CHIKARA). It took place on September 20, 2008 from the Streamwood Park District Community Center in Streamwood, Illinois. The event was CHIKARA's first event ever in Illinois.
Show events
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Dark NWA Midwest Heavyweight Title Match: Silas Young defeated Egotistico Fantastico to retain the NWA Midwest Championship
- Silas Young retains the NWA Midwest Heavyweight title after landing the Zero Gravity.
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- Singles Match: Buck Hawke defeated Tim Donst (6:30)
- Buck gets the win with a cradle, pulling the tights to get the cheap win.
- Eight Man Tag Team Match Match: Da Soul Touchaz (Acid Jazz, Marshe Rockett & Willie Richardson) & Trauma defeated Crossbones, Sami Callihan, Trik Davis & UltraMantis Black
- Marshe was trapped throughout the match by the rudos, but Willie drops the Bomb with the legdrop for the win.
- Singles Match: Colin Delaney defeated Jimmy Olsen (8:33)
- Colin defeated Jimmy via the F-U after Vin distracts Jimmy by throwing an Equinox mask at him.
- Tag Team Match: Discovery & Incognito defeated Aguila de Oro & Mini Guerrero del Futuro (10:39)
- Incognito catches Aguila de Oro with a modified reinera.
- Singles Match STIGMA defeated Drake Younger (8:14)
- STIGMA defeated Drake with a tombstone piledriver after Drake was shoved into Vin Gerard.
- CHIKARA Young Lions Cup Title Match: Vin Gerard defeated Fire Ant to retain the Young Lions Cup
- Vin locks in the STF to get the win.
- Ten Man Tag Team Match: Amasis, Gran Akuma, Mike Quackenbush, Player Dos & Soldier Ant defeated Hallowicked, Icarus, Ophidian, Player Uno & Worker Ant (31:10)
- Player Dos pins Hallowicked for the fall and win.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Painting the Trend with a Twist
Okay, don't get freaked out by the Stats-101 reference! It's simply a measure of how accurately the predicted trend line is fitting the actual price series! In this case, we are referencing that accuracy level relative to historical norms to decide whether we are in fact in more of a mean-reverting versus a trending environment. Think of it as a "third state".
The color key below employs a smoothed monthly look back period with up-trends in green, down-trends in red, and mean-reversion oriented periods in purple. I expect that this concept could be advanced significantly with further study, but here is a first pass graphical look at the idea going back ten years using the S&P 500 (SPY) as inspiration:
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This sounds very interesting. May I ask which calculation you used to identify this "third state"?
- April 17, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Very interesting notion.
Question: you assume three stages ( quite logical). But what relative levels of the standard error correspond to each one ?
Example: is the upper third of the standard error values indicative of mean reversion ?
- April 17, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- jgpietsch said...
Hi Gang, the posted graphic uses one month standard error readings at extreme 99th percentile levels. Best, Jeff
- April 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Jeff, standard error from what, a 200day moving average?
- April 19, 2010 at 3:21 AM
- jgpietsch said...
Hi Alec, here we are looking at the standard error of the regression estimate, not of the mean:
Best, J
- April 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Jeff, I haven't heard about the SE of the estimate before, but from what I just read it's the deviation from the estimated values. Now which are these estimated values, how did you calculate these, if they aren't a mean?
The calculation itself seems to be very similar to the standard deviation, see here:
Standard Deviation: σ = √[ ∑(x-x')^2 / N ]
St. Error of the Est.: Se = √[ ∑(x-x')^2 / N-2 ]
I'd appreciate any help you can give me to recreate the Se as I'd like to write some ruby code and run it over a database of 80 ETFs I'm watching.
- April 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- jgpietsch said...
Hi Alec, the estimated values are those generated by a standard time-series based linear regression using the ordinary least squares line of best fit method. This is a bit different than what you described, which would have been more akin to a z-score, if I understood your implication. Best, Jeff
- April 19, 2010 at 6:04 PM
Jeff, I hope I no understood what you're doing:
For each day:
1) calculate the linear regression based on the past X days.
2) identify the standard error of the estimate for todays close based on the linear regression mentioned above.
3) compare this result with the previous Y days, if it's in the 99th percentile, mark it purple.
In case I got it right, the only thing I'd love to know is the number of days you're using for X and Y... unless you don't want to publish them. :)
- April 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- jgpietsch said...
Hi Alec, it looks like you are close enough to be able to properly experiment. Best, Jeff
- April 26, 2010 at 12:38 PM


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To get the camera continued to serve you, in daily use , a number of matters related to the protection of the camera is a must do. Because cameras are easily damaged electronic products, the use must pay attention .
1 Do not place the camera directly at the sun, to avoid damage to the camera 's image sensor device ;
2 Avoid camera and oil, steam , water vapor , moisture and dust exposure ;
3 Do not use ordinary cleaners or organic solvents to clean the camera ;
4 Do not touch the lens with your fingers , if the lens needs cleaning , use a soft brush to remove dust and blow up balloons , and then wipe the lens paper . If you use cardboard , paper towel or napkin to wipe the lens , easily damage it.
The actual demand of the Museum of the monitoring system
How to aim at the museum security system of the actual specific needs, formulate practical and effective monitoring and prevention system is the main subject of the protection of cultural relics at present.
The security system of cultural units mainly include video surveillance, burglar alarm and access control of three main items, building intercom, sound check and security patrol and many other sub item. As a precaution level relative to the highest unit, in addition to the requirements can be set correctly surveillance target, timely capture important information, to obtain reliable dynamic record, rapid treatment and precaution of events.
The usual solution is: strict screening on the performance index of each product composition of the system, the selection of targeted products, at the same time combined with the actual environment detailed exploration, eliminate the blind spot of the monitoring. But these methods only solve for the accurate and timely access to information acquisition, and advanced equipment to eventually by "people" management to achieve the desired purpose, fatigue coefficient of management personnel and the comprehensive reflection of safety precautions must be paid attention to in the design of a system for.
Therefore, we should construct the direct link between the three main system monitoring, alarm and access control, the establishment of a comprehensive information processing platform, the intrusion detection, video surveillance, review, sound gate entrance control, and other complex emergency alarm, together, will be aggregated information scattered, automatic operation preset strategy, provide the basis for decision-making, to replace part of or all instead of manual management and intervention.
At present, the industry generally method, is the third party platform software realization of multi system integration based on through the call, and treatment for different system data, the realization of the corresponding control linkage. Because the system is more need to integrate, also different interfaces and types of products, increasing the difficulty of the project implementation and customer application. There is no way to simplify the system complexity, free integrators, engineering contractors and customers from worry?
The traditional matrix in the museum to the role of monitoring system
Matrix control has become the core of the museum in a monitoring system to control one of the image display, clear in the real time video quality and fast switching. Based on the matrix programming setting, can meet the normal operation of user
requirements, such as group can view camera pre marshalling set in multiple monitor; camera switch can correspond to display switching in the specified monitor and alarm point or even a preset camera.
But in the high-tech crimes become more and more serious, the museum guard level monitoring system
gradually improving, this linkage has been unable to meet the actual requirements of the scene, the capacity matrix need to have an external warning condition pre judgment ability and real-time interaction response.
Ethernet communication technology will create a matrix of information receiving and processing platform
Combining with the matrix, hard disk recorders, alarm and access control systems, need to have a unified interface, traditional communication modes based on RS-232/485/422, the main controller or the system itself with the corresponding port, or are based on computer communication software. The former requires consideration of uniform transmission, processing interface in each process (such as all kinds of communication converter, optical transceiver); the latter needs to maintain long-term stability of the computer and software operation. More importantly, in the convergence of multiple system platform, a large amount of data on the accurate and timely processing of the need for greater transmission speed and bandwidth, the traditional means of communication have been unable to meet the requirements, the Ethernet communication and become a new generation system preferred network matrix, network hard disk video recorder, network alarm, network access control and so on
in. These building subsystem network data communication platform, matrix as the central processing unit linkage video, the network interface and other system interface index should be consistent, otherwise will become the bottleneck of the whole platform, the current 10M bandwidth is the minimum configuration. Through the network interface, matrix can be conveniently combined and alarm system, alarm can see the scene from the monitor, determine whether the real invasion, or do not see the people will think that is false
In addition, integrated with the matrix is also convenient for all kinds of network interface of the software industry, the comprehensive cost two times the development of low.
Enhanced macro commands let matrix with intelligent linkage function
A macro is a series of combined keyboard operation, self created by the user, the formation of a macro command, is actually a custom button / key combination operation, with a series of time-consuming alternative manual and repetitive keyboard difficult memory operation, automatically complete the required tasks.
Common macro generally includes 20 action, by the PC machine set the software to edit definition after downloaded to the keyboard operation, can through the button to manually perform different actions to execute a command, the matrix order, users can edit in the specification of the format of each action within the framework,
implementation designers intended function.
Enhanced macro instruction set movements increased to more than 40, although also requires the user to set the edit, but directly downloaded to the matrix operation. Obviously, compared with the ordinary macro instruction through keyboard after forwarding to the matrix after the implementation of the former, and the implementation of faster, more efficient, real time.
Enhanced macro instruction set increases the logic condition judgment (can be video loss, contact alarm, contact arc alarm event), a cyclic Executive (called repeatedly can achieve a directive), timer (in a fixed period of time or a predetermined time execution), and nested call
Because the city of network video monitoring system of huge investment, complex technology, therefore in the construction of the system before the overall objective assessment is very important. City video monitoring alarm networking system is the basic characteristics of general large investment, high technical requirements, involving users wide, connected links (related to the acquisition, transmission, storage, management, sharing images). Overall, city video monitoring alarm networking system basic evaluation principle: the system can meet the actual requirements; does the system management and maintenance; system there is no expansion and upgrading ability, can function upgrade provides the condition for the intelligence; whether the system has the ability of sustainable development.
From technology to system evaluation mainly includes the 10 criteria:
1 practical. The system should consider the local environmental conditions, monitoring objects, monitoring methods, maintenance factor maintenance and investment scale, to meet the city video monitoring alarm networking system and the normal operation of the social public security management needs.
2.The reliability and stability of (Reliability) . The system shall adopt mature technology and reliable equipment, have the backup or redundant measures on key equipment. System software maintenance support ability and strong fault tolerance and system recovery ability, in order to ensure the stable operation of the system as long as possible, once the system failure can quickly repair or restoration.
3 scalability. Should adopt the distributed system and modular structure design, expansion, in order to adapt to the scale of the system function expansion, supporting software upgrade requirements. The user can at any time according to needs of the system of extended or cutting, reflect enough flexibility.
4 advanced and inheritance. Impossible to put the system to simulate the original construction are mainly abandoned city video monitoring alarm networking system, it is appropriate in planning a good digital system as far as possible under the premise of the original analog system into which. System is the most ideal is to do a seamless connection between the two, the formation of city video network monitoring complete.
5 performance to price ratio. The designer should be reasonable to set the system function, the correctness of the system configuration and equipment selection, in the premise of key equipment and excellent grade, ensuring the overall price system is relatively low, so that the system has high performance price ratio. Selection and back-end software camera system front-end level should be the focus of attention, the front camera line number if less than 460 lines, the follow-up system is again good also to no avail, is impossible to guarantee system has clear image effect. A wide dynamic range and other advanced features also required in some applications.
6.Convenience system upgrade and maintenance. Because of the larger system, system software and key equipment with automatic upgrade and maintenance function; in addition, the city monitoring alarm networking system is composed of a plurality of complex systems, including network, storage, operating systems, software platform, various front-end equipment, so that each subsystem shall have a log record, including all system module and core equipment.
7.The system management function and easy operation. Taking into account the scale and complexity of network system, management software platform should have good core system architecture, system management and business management must be clearly separated, to ensure that meet the requirements of different applications. Due to the large number of system of all kinds of management server, storage and forwarding server, so the system management function must be strong, otherwise it is impossible to carry out routine maintenance; system provides management and user interface should be clear, concise, friendly, manipulation is simple, flexible, easy to use, easy to management and maintenance.
8.Capacity of system to support two times development. The number of cameras monitoring a city network alarm system at least hundreds, and more up to tens of thousands of, so we must consider the problem of sustainable development platform. To achieve the "video to create value" of the target, it requires the system to have two times the development condition, the only way to ensure full use of video resources platform.
9.Security level system. System security includes many aspects, which is mainly to prevent illegal access of user and device, so in addition to the different users (including administrators and users) to take different levels of validation methods, but also to ensure that illegal equipment can not access to the system to. Network monitoring system is the most vulnerable to hacker attacks, should take effective security measures, prevent the system from the illegal access, illegal attack and virus infection. In addition, anti lightning, overload, power, electromagnetic interference and sabotage, unsafe factors, to provide comprehensive and effective security measures.
10 compatibility with the degree of standardization. Compatibility is the key to realize the interconnection of many different manufacturers, different protocol between equipment. The system shall be able to communicate effectively and share data, realize equipment or compatible between systems and interoperability as possible. The higher the standardization, openness of the system better, the system life cycle is long. Control protocol, transmission protocol, interface protocol, video and audio codec, video and audio file format provisions shall comply with the relevant national standards or trade standards.
Device of image not clear mainly include: low brightness, edge focusing is not good, ghosting (image smearing), a sense of interference fringe stack (signal source image resolution is too high) or serrate (dropped frames).
We cannot immediately said that a product has a problem, the image display is a system, mainly has the video signal source such as DVD, camera, computer, control transmission products such as matrix switch, divider, signal transmission cable, and then to the display terminal.
The common solution is as follows:
Exclusion method: one by one the exclusion of all equipment, first check the source resolution and terminal display resolution is consistent, only in this way can form point-to-point display, the brightness of the image can also be improved obviously, if the video signal depends on whether the system can adapt to and display terminal, if not up to display terminal requirements, may through the nature exchange equipment or increase the conversion equipment to change the signal, such as the use of line doubler, can improve the VIDEO video signal to VGA signal. Secondly, look at the distributor and the matrix switch bandwidth and the impedance of the signal source, whether it can be in the range of standard distance so that the minimum loss of image. Finally see display focus and convergence device is normal, and the signal processing circuit is good. The most important thing is: in construction, strictly to the signal connector, to separate the interface cable tidy, reliable, power line and signal line, and reliable grounding, if not with UPS power supply, AC power grounding to achieve common ground, line two make a mark, to facilitate inspection and management.
Analysis: according to the fault phenomena, such as synchronization, synchronization interface and transmission cable focus inspection equipment, and the control signal source with the frequency range of terminal display synchronization. Shorten the examination time through analysis, image ghosting, transmission cable whether too long and too small, the solution is to change the line, or increase the signal amplifier equipment. The focus is not good can adjust the display terminal and so on.
A two method: refers to the overall failure, can be segmented for inspection, as long as the assumption of a section of the existing problems, then check out be ruled out after the problem is solved, we can save on other parts of the examination time.
To sum up, not to give the image not clear is the matrix switcher or other equipment problems.
The protective cover is an important component of monitoring system. It is the protective device so that the camera in the normal use of the dust, rain, high temperature and other conditions.
The protective cover is generally divided into two categories. One is the protective cover for indoor, the protective cover has the advantages of simple structure, cheap price. Its main function is to prevent camera falling ash and safety protective effects, such as anti-theft, anti sabotage. Another kind is the protective cover for outdoor, the protective cover is generally all-weather protective cover, regardless of wind, rain, snow, high temperature, low temperature and other adverse conditions, can make the installation within the shield of the camera work normally. Therefore, the protective cover with cooling, heating, rain, snow and other functions. At the same time, in order to in the rain and snow weather can still make the camera image normal uptake, generally in the all-weather protective cover glass window installed with the wiper control. At present, all-weather protective cover is better by using the semiconductor device heating and cooling of the protective cover. The protective cover is provided with a semiconductor element, can automatic heating, but also can automatically cool down, and low power consumption.
In addition, there are hemispheric, spherical protective cover, the protective cover is equipped with a universal adjustable bracket, modelling is beautiful.
The protective cover is divided into indoor and outdoor type two. The interior of the protective cover is mainly dust, and some also have a subtle effect, make the surveillance occasions and objects that are not easily detectable by monitoring. There are sunscreen, rainproof, dustproof, anti freezing and condensation prevention effect outdoor shield function. Protection of general outdoor cover is equipped with a temperature relay, automatic open fan cooling in high temperature, automatic heating when the temperature is low. It can artificially control the rain wiper brush. Some outdoor shield glass can also be used for heating, when the frost on the protection cover, can heat defrosting.
1, the video baseband transmission: is the most traditional way of monitoring TV transmission, 0 ~ 6MHz of baseband video signals without any treatment, through the coaxial cable (non-equilibrium) signal simulation of direct transmission. Its advantages are: the short distance transmission of image signal loss is small, the cost is low, the stability of the system. Disadvantages: the transmission distance is short, more than 300 meters high frequency components decay is larger, can not guarantee the image quality of a video signal; Lu cloth of a cable, transmission control signal to the other cloth cable; the structure of star structure, large amount of wiring, maintenance difficulties, poor scalability, suitable for small system.
2, optical fiber transmission: common analog optical transceiver and digital optical transceiver, is to solve the tens or even hundreds of kilometers of television monitoring transmission is the best way to solve, by converting video and control signal for the laser signal transmission in optical fiber. Its advantages are: transmission distance, low attenuation, anti-interference performance is best, suitable for long distance transmission. The drawback is: for signal transmission is not enough economic monitoring within a few kilometers; light and equipment welding and maintenance needs of professional and technical personnel operation, maintenance of the technical requirements of high, not easy to upgrade.
3, the network transmission distance, man: is the solution point extremely decentralized monitoring transmission mode, using MPEG2/4, H.264 video and audio compression format transmission control signal. Its advantages are: the use of network video server as the monitor signal upload equipment, Internet network install remote monitoring software can monitor and control. The drawback is: the network bandwidth and speed limit, only small screen image transmission, low quality; only several to more than ten frames per second transmission image, animation effect is very obvious and delay, can not do real-time monitoring.
4, microwave transmission: is one of several kilometers or even tens of kilometers is not easy wiring site monitoring transmission solution. Using the frequency modulation or amplitude modulation method, the image being carried by high frequency carrier, converted to high frequency electromagnetic wave in the air transport. Its advantages are: save wiring and cable maintenance costs, can be dynamic and real-time transmission of broadcast images. The drawback is: due to the use of microwave transmission, frequency above 1GHz, commonly used with L band (1 ~ 2.0GHz), S band (2 ~ 3.0GHz), Ku band (10 ~ 12GHz), the transmission environment is open space is easily affected by external electromagnetic interference; microwave signal transmission in straight line, can not have mountain, building block; Ku band is seriously affected by the weather, especially the rain and snow weather will have severe rain attenuation imagination.
5, the twisted pair transmission (balanced transmission): is a baseband video transmission, the non balance mode conversion 75 ohms to balance mode transmission. Is to solve the monitoring image 1Km transmission, one of the ways to solve the complex electromagnetic environment situation, will monitor image signal processing by balancing the symmetric mode transmission. Its advantages are: simple, low cost, wiring resistance to common mode interference is strong. The drawback is: can only be resolved within 1Km monitoring image transmission, and a twisted pair can only transmit one image, not suitable for application in large and medium-sized monitoring; UTP fragile texture anti-aging ability is bad, not suitable for field transfer; twisted pair transmission of high-frequency component attenuation is larger, the image color will suffer great loss.
6, broadband co cable transmission: video using amplitude modulation, frequency modulation with sound, FSK data signal modulation technology, dozens of road monitoring image, sound, control and alarm signals are integrated into the "two-way transmission of a coaxial cable. Its advantages are: make full use of the coaxial cable resource space, forty way audio and video and control signal in the same one cable two-way transmission, the realization of "first pass"; has the advantages of simple construction, convenient maintenance, save the material cost and the construction cost; frequency division multiplexing technology to solve the long distance transmission points scattered, difficult routing monitoring transmission problems; radio frequency transmission mode only attenuation of carrier signal, image signal attenuation is small, brightness, chroma transmission synchronization nested, ensure the quality of the image above grade 4.5 national standards; by 75 ohm coaxial transmission of non balanced mode which has very strong anti-jamming ability, the complex electromagnetic environment occasions can still ensure the quality of the image. The drawback is: adopting the weak signal transmission, system debugging high technical requirements, must use professional equipment. Broadband modulation end need external AC220V AC power supply, but at present most monitoring point with this condition.
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You may remember in September last year Intel introduced the ability to upgrade some of its processors in software by purchasing a code. It sounded like a bizarre way to generate extra revenue to us, and meant an additional cost after purchase to upgrade your effectively crippled processor. Sales of these upgrade cards must have been significant though, as Intel has decided to introduce the same feature on some of its latest low-end Core and Pentium processors.
According to Intel's Upgrade Service page the following processors will have the upgrade option:
- Core i3-2312M
- Core i3-2102
- Pentium G622
After the upgrade has been applied the processors are actually classed as different models, with the above becoming:
- Core i3-2393M
- Core i3-2153
- Pentium G693
Intel is claiming the upgrade will allow for better performance in photo, video, and music activities, as well as offering a more responsive experience all round while using your machine every day.
In the case of the Core i3-2312M, the upgrade bumps the processor frequency and unlocks a larger cache. For the other two chips it's just a frequency increase suggesting the 2312M is the most worthwhile upgrade to make.
Intel also gives some examples of what upgrading means for your overall PC experience. As the chart below suggests, you can expect around a 15% performance jump on average across common tasks.
The key thing to remember here is Intel is unlikely to sell these as processors you can buy. Instead they will be included in desktop machines, and in the case of the 2312M, in a laptop. So you could potentially buy one of these processors in a preconfigured machine without even knowing, and then find out when you boot up that Intel is offering you a processor upgrade.
The upgrades introduced last year cost $50, so I assume the same pricing will be kept for these new chips. $50 for 15% performance sounds like a good deal, but why not just buy a machine with a better processor included to begin with?
Read more at the Intel Upgrade Service


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Welcome to Screen Rant's "Geek Picks," where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web. Today you'll find Marvel shuts down Don Cheadle's Avengers plot leak; a smooth jazz version of the Game Of Thrones theme; the top 10 cartoon dads from TV; a Silver Surfer rap song; and 13 global politicians as Disney villains. All that and more on this edition of SR's Geek Picks!
If you have any Geek Picks of your own, please send them to srgeekpicks(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be featured in a future post!
Game of Thrones Theme - The Smooth Jazz Version
To celebrate the season premiere of HBO's Game of Thrones, ScottBradleeLovesYa teamed up with nine time Grammy-nominated sax star Dave Koz to bring you this smooth version of the opening theme song. No Starks were harmed in the making of this video.
Lannista's Paradise
Been spending most our lives living in the Lannister's paradise.
DC Hero Costumes
Marvel Shuts Down Don Cheadle's Avengers Plot Leak
Arsenio talked Don Cheadle into sharing some secrets from the upcoming Avengers film, but Marvel didn't want to see that happen. See how Cheadle gets shut down.
Adam WarRock "Norrin Radd" (Silver Surfer Rap)
Free Download.
Beat used: Kensington Kross "Gimme Your Love"
13 Global Politicians As Disney Villains
A series by pseudonymous Middle Eastern artist Saint Hoax.
Top 10 Cartoon Dads From TV
Some we wish were our dad; some we don't.
Mario is Destroying my house!
Ever wonder what your video games are doing when you're not looking? No? Just me? oh....
Immersion: Split Screen
On the latest episode of Immersion, Rooster Teeth tests whether a split screen view gives advantages in a real life FPS game.
NSFW: Language.
The Origins of Memes
PG-13 language.
That's all for today, folks! Be sure to check back tomorrow for more movie-related geekery.
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Sasha dolls were created by Sasha Morgenthaler, Swiss artist (1893- 1975) who, amongst others, had Bernese artist Paul Klee (1879–1940) for tutor. She started producing dolls in her Zurich studio then they were produced by Gotz (Germany), by Frido/Trendon (in England) and again by Gotz from 1995 till 2001. No two Sashas are exactly alike, they are truly magical and even if collectors seek them they are still being played with lovingly by a great many children around the world.
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Two Day Multicultural Self-Awareness Workshop - November 2019
Nov. 19-20, 2019
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All MSU Extension employees regardless of funding source or appointment are expected to attend this "cornerstone" multicultural workshop which sets an organizational framework for recognizing, understanding and appreciating differences.
During this two-day Multicultural Self-Awareness Workshop, participants will explore ways in which to view interactions with people different from themselves. The emphasis is on differences rather than similarities. The workshop focuses on the individual and helps explore belief systems about multiculturalism to identify feelings and values from a multicultural perspective. This learning experience focuses on increasing awareness of several areas of prejudice, discrimination and oppression, including racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and ableism. Participants are encouraged to reflect on how they've learned to think about human differences and on the widespread tendency to view differences within a monocultural view of "better than/less than" thinking. In addition, participants have opportunities to apply what they're learning to work-related scenarios and explore alternative, more helpful behaviors.
Due to the nature of the workshop, you are asked to participate fully in the two days without phone calls, meetings and other interruptions which diminish the learning experience for all. The cost to attend the workshop for MSU Extension employees is $75. Non-MSU Extension employees are also able to attend at a cost of $150.This workshop will be held at:
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Here She Comes a Tumblin' – BirdEatsBaby (Birdeatsbaby)
Once there was Cat-Scratch Glitter and wounded cabaret howls, charged shots of glowing liquid poured across lips of the harshest red. Everything shuddered, everything shivered, and the laughter was strange and sometimes cruel.
It was beautiful.
Now keeping those thrills, but adding extra dimensions, comes this collection.
Bravely, we are now not only shown the garish stage and the freaks, puppets, divas, exhibitionists, scary sexy monsters but… the quiet bedrooms, the rumpled beds where partners may or may not sleep, the view of empty streets from its lonely windows.
We are made curious about the sadness, the stillness that may go on BETWEEN these songs.
Make no mistake this is still a thrill ride, full of carnival hipsters hustling supreme, and frantic punters screaming along with the dangerous rides, but here, and there, and here again, not so hidden away, the girls and boys dare to show their tenderness, even their dreams, unfolded carefully and placed in our grubby hands.
On one page selling this CD they are described as emo, but please don't be fooled, there is no soft boy rich kid pampered star angstNwhines here. The lipstick is smeared from the sheer exuberant kiss and the eyeliner stains are from tears arrived honestly from fits of giggles and tears that fought hard to escape the calm internal.
There are pop songs to be sung loud by party girls, alive and free holding tight to the simple expectation of a great night out, and there are lullabies of the crooked kind that soothe and push the soul into a welcome unease with extra measure.
There is magic here. Give it a listen to.
Karkari –Mammut (Record Records)
I could tell you that Mammut sound like a frosty and refreshing mix of the best of those American 4AD groups (Belly and Throwing Muses) a bit of Bjork, a spoonful of Sonic Youth twisted into the pop sensibilities that Catatonia got so right. I could tell you that the band has had (already) three number one hits in their native Iceland and managed to cause a stir at the SXSW festival. I could leave it at that, and move on, pretty happy that you curious gentle reader, will go seek out the band and their music. Or you could think I am spitting out (politely of course) a bunch of facts and you will remain sadly disenthralled.
I shall instead shake the songs up in a virtual hat of the finest cloth, and let them hit the senses, and report what occurs.
I am reminded of old toys, cherished by teenagers in smiling nostalgia for their innocent child hood, toys that are still picked up and loved and kept in view as new makeup is applied and new adventures of the heart dreamt about. These plaything have an endearing roughness to them, all is not shiny shiny and plastic disposable.
I think of glam rock bands strutting their stuff on small Televisions in untidy sitting rooms early Friday evenings, the smell of dinner overpowered by the sweeter smell of the night (clubs) ahead.
Some songs make me think of mosh pits and bodies and beer bottles disengaging themselves from sweaty hands and crashing kamikaze to the pavement to join the wrecks of their fellow soldiers. Some songs make me think of almost empty studios, musicians huddled in the centre of a landscape of once twisting now still cables and wires and leads.
Some songs make me close my eyes and fall back, not thinking of the getting UP. Some songs make me want to grin and cook and dance and shop.
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Well ... it happened. The dreaded, seemingly inevitable hard drive crash. I'm still working on the same computer I've had since 2008, and had to revert back to the same operating system the computer came with. Basically, my phone has more power and options than my computer does at the moment. I can't even get Twitter to work properly, or my email. It's all very exciting, and first-world-problem-y, and I'll hopefully be updated soon.
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The first lady of G.O.O.D. music sings emotionally on her new track, Sorry. Taylor paints a picture of a relationship that just didn't seem to workout. Among other things, the Harlem native is set to be on BET's new scripted series, The Start Up
Listen to Teyana Taylor's new song Sorry + watch when she visited Sway in the Morning below.
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Amazon's desire to see other cities — revealed by its search for a second headquarters home — hasn't always cast Seattle in the most flattering light over the past year. Amazon's jilted first love has had to ask tough questions about what other cities could offer that it couldn't.
But news reports Monday indicate that Seattle may remain Amazon's main squeeze, and at least one city official is celebrating.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan called reports that Amazon plans to split its second headquarters among two cities, with 25,000 employees each rather than the 50,000 originally promised to one community, "good news." Speaking at an unrelated event at the Seattle Police Department's West Precinct, Durkan was asked about Amazon's change of plans by KIRO's Graham Johnson.
"I'd call those branch offices," she said. "That would be good news."
Leaks about the final stages of Amazon's search for a second headquarters have been pouring out over the past few days. The story took a dramatic turn Monday, when The Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported that instead of creating a second campus that is the "full equal" to Amazon's first home in Seattle, the company will actually create two smaller offices in two different cities.
As Durkan and many Twitter users noted, creating two large satellite offices is not quite the same as a behemoth campus to match — or even outpace — Seattle.
The Times reports that Amazon is close to a deal with New York City and Arlington, Va. Over the weekend, The Journal reported that Amazon was in advanced talks with Northern Virginia, Dallas, and New York City. Both stories rely on anonymous sources familiar with the HQ2 search.
Amazon plans to reveal the winner (or winners) of its HQ2 contest by the end of the year. With the steady stream of leaks coming out in the final stages, it's possible the announcement will come this week.


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Before you leave even the first gallery in the Times Square Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, which opened on West 42nd Street in June, you have already seen a six-legged cow, a legless acrobat, a car made of wood, the world's ugliest woman and an albino giraffe. Look up: A bulbous replica of a 1,400-pound man hangs above the main floor, held aloft presumably just as the man himself was when a forklift heaved his body out of his home after he died in 1991.
If you are tempted to say, "Now I've seen everything," believe it or not, you haven't, because you have yet to see a miniature sculpture of Babe Ruth created from used chewing gum ("ABC Sculpture" it's called); shrunken heads of an infant, toddler and boy executed by a barbaric Ecuadorean tribe ("No Child Left Behind"); a four-legged chicken bred by a Romanian farmer to produce more drumsticks ("All Fowled Up"); and a fossilized walrus penis used in tribal warfare ("Male Sex Club").
By the time you pass through all 17,000 square feet of this attraction — museum is too solemn a word — you still won't be able to say, "Now I've seen everything" because (as a character in the film "Team America" points out) you won't have seen a man eating his own head. But you will have been amazed at many things, and perhaps even cry aloud a few times, asserting how much easier it would be to choose the second alternative in this franchise's title than the first. This feeling is particularly intense when you are looking at something real rather than a replica — a shrunken head instead of the ugliest woman, an instrument of medieval torture instead of a photograph of a mutant.
And yes, along with the fascination comes a kind of unease, a sense that one is perversely peeping at a natural world immodestly stripped of its decorousness, or gazing luridly at its oddest human inhabitants. Circuses used to have freak shows in which (one cringes to recall) malformed, grotesque and exotic humanity was paraded before paying crowds. The freakish breaks all rules; it seems beyond belief because it fails to make any sense; it upsets comforting notions. The freakish is the ultimate avant-garde, a finger in the eye of the buttoned-up bourgeois vision of ordered life, like a tattoo parlor in the midst of a holistic spa.
The voyeuristic sense of gaining entry to a forbidden, exotic and at times unsettling realm is something Ripley's shares with a neighboring attraction on 42nd Street: Madame Tussauds. Waxworks, since their origins in the 18th century, have offered a similar window into the world of exceptions, violations, disruptions. Royalty, celebrity and criminality were the great wax subjects. Madame Tussaud (who gave the attraction its now-jettisoned apostrophe) even made wax models from guillotined heads during the Reign of Terror. Waxworks traditionally include a chamber of horrors, even this one, which is more haunted by the personas of J. Lo and Britney than anybody resembling Jack the Ripper. But more about Madame and her institution a little later.Continue reading the main story
Despite some flaws (and some editing errors in the labels), the new Ripley's is so entertaining and provocative that it's worth special attention. Ripley's hasn't had a presence in New York since it abandoned Times Square in 1972, when the neighborhood started to become a bit too much like the shadowy world of extravagant desire and freakishness portrayed within. Now, the Odditorium can more comfortably be the exception to the surroundings rather than an extension of it.
But it is still intent on channeling the cartoonist, columnist and amateur anthropologist Robert LeRoy Ripley, whom newspaper readers in 1936 named the most popular man in America. His life could be recounted in the style he perfected for his "Believe It or Not!" feature:
¶Ripley, who came to New York from San Francisco, tried out for the Giants in 1914 and was accepted! But he broke his pitching arm the very first game he played.
¶Ripley began his cartooning career chronicling sports statistics and records, but he got more mileage from noting bizarre achievements! One Toronto man he cited "ran 100 yards backwards in 14 seconds."
¶Ripley's feature became so successful that he traveled around the world adding to his collections from exotic locales. But he was terrified of the telephone!
¶For all his tireless energy, Ripley, in 1949 at the age of 55, suffered a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of his television show ... a show about the playing of taps at military funerals!
This was the man who, wearing a pith helmet, knickers and argyle socks, can be seen in videos at the Odditorium gleefully kicking up his heels with an African tribal dancer, or loading camels with memorabilia. His personal collections of beer steins, shrunken heads, tribal masks and "pranks of nature," like a two-headed calf, are sampled here. They also form the foundation of the other Odditoriums now run by Ripley Entertainment, which continues to add to the oddities. The label style remains a cross between the Coney Island barker and the cultural anthropologist. We are told, for example, that not telling the truth was a capital offense in ancient China, and that violators were tied to a heated stove pipe. Ripley's label reads: "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire."
You never know just what to make of Ripley's facts and objects. They are so removed from their contexts that all they can do is amaze: history becomes the domain of adventurer-tourists, prepared for sensations and thrills. That splitting apart — the isolation of the strange to make it stranger — is one of the place's hallmarks. Ripley's adores cataclysm. One of John Wilkes Booth's Derringers is here. (It was a backup in case his first shot at Lincoln missed.) Bizarre abilities are also combined with bizarre disabilities. The man who, lacking arms, does everything with his feet; the man whose skull is pierced by his power drill and lives to tell the tale. And cultural perversities are plentiful. Here can be found the bound feet of Chinese women, along with the torture instruments of medieval Europe, including an iron maiden from 16th-century Austria, which used spikes in a particularly unsettling manner.
It might seem at first that Ripley, exploring the world just as its imperial empires were beginning to disintegrate and accumulating relics of premodern cultures, was condescending, mocking them with his exclamation points. But there is something refreshing about Ripley's enthusiastic refusal to homogenize humanity's extremes. And his gaze roamed across his own culture's peculiarities too, treating them with the same amazement. Perhaps as a form of defense, the point is made explicit: Western viewers don't have too much to feel superior about, at least here. While African women of the Sara tribe have stretched their lips out nine inches using clay discs, the modern American woman applies Botox with a hypodermic needle. While Padaung women of Burma stretch their necks with brass rings, Western women expand their breasts with silicone.
At any rate, the world is a strange place indeed, even if most of us don't build a replica of the Spanish armada out of 250,000 matchsticks or find 20,179 four-leaf clovers, as two of Ripley's contributors did.
If you need more convincing, simply walk a few steps east, to Madame Tussauds. At first there isn't a hint of anything odd. The waxworks, which from its founder's death in 1850 until 1970 was a purely British institution, has gone mass market. Tussauds is now part of Merlin Entertainments Group, with attractions in Amsterdam, London, New York, Las Vegas, Hong Kong and Shanghai; in October one will open in Washington. And in the New York version, which claims 850,000 visitors a year, a huge model of the Hulk welcomes you, an "American Idol" room is a mini-theater, Johnny Depp promotes "Pirates of the Caribbean" and an overwrought presentation of Superman guides you to the gift shop. A good number of exhibitions like these are promotional partnerships with other entertainment companies.
So is this just a matter of seeing life-size versions of images already too much with us (and some far too dated as well)? Is this why up to $125,000 and six months of labor are spent on each wax reproduction, some of which also bear too vague a resemblance to the familiar images we know so well? But there is something else here too, even if in its current incarnation it all seems a bit denatured.
Until recently wax figures at Tussauds were mostly shown within tableaus, posed in historical dioramas, roped off from viewers. When I saw the Tussauds in London, decades ago, figures from history gathered for momentous events. When Madame Tussaud trained in 18th-century Paris, waxworks even served as a kind of molten ticker tape, their ever-changing scenes chronicling the French Revolution's cataclysms.
But in the last generation the ropes have come down. The figures stand or sit among the visitors. They are touched, groped, posed with. They become part of environments: a Broadway opening-night party, a nightclub. One large gallery is reserved for serious celebrities and high achievers: Abe Lincoln, Gandhi, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein, Bill Clinton and Albert Einstein literally rub shoulders with visiting schoolchildren and digital-camera-wielding tourists.
As in Ripley's, history dissolves into sensation; here the thrill is celebrity. The close contact makes these figures seem familiar. They are placed on the same level as their visitors, who are even superior to them in lifelike qualities. But sometimes a wax figure looks out of those glass eyes with unusual intensity, or there is enough of a resemblance to remind the fleshy onlookers of something more mysterious in these curious figures, something existing beyond the wax.
Celebrity always involves a double move: an off-putting superiority felt through the intimacy of vulgar gossip. Here at Tussauds the figures are neither off-putting nor vulgar; they can neither be condescended to nor put on pedestals. Instead we find ourselves looking into fun-house mirrors and through odd lenses, that, believe it or not, disrupt the cool poise of celebrity and leave everything even stranger than it once was.Continue reading the main story


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For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day.
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The amount of time people sleep varies from person to person. The WatchPAT is put on when you go to bed and runs ten (10) consecutive hours after turned on. You should take it off (without the need to be turned off) when you wake up in the morning and return it to the clinic for sleep data downloading.
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