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Deep Album Cuts Vol. 1: Brandy
I've always made mixtapes with nerdy specific themes, first on cassette as a teenager, then mix CDs, and no Spotify playlists. And I got the idea last year to do mixes of 'deep cuts' -- album tracks that were never singles or hits in any other sense -- from artists who are largely known for their hits. It's become a subject of fascination for me, how some artists can be incredibly famous, and even relatively respected for their work, sell millions of albums, and yet their musical legacy is tied up almost solely in the charting singles. It's not just 'one hit wonders.' So Madonna, or perhaps Tom Petty or Missy Elliott would be a good fit for this series; but not David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen or Jay-Z, guys who have hits but are also revered as album artists with widely loved deep cuts (as you may detect, gender could be a factor here).
So I was already planning to start this series in early 2013 when there was a mild controversy on the internet last weekend in which Solange Knowles, the sibling of a significant R&B artist but not so much one herself, went on a tirade on Twitter about music critics writing about R&B without really loving or understanding the genre (which I thought was interesting, since I thought those kinds of critics were basically Solange's biggest champions). The line that really caught on, and created a minor meme, was "you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a 'grade' or a 'score' to any R&B artist," which perhaps struck people as funny because Brandy is not considered a major canonical act, though I imagine that was precisely Solange's point.
Most of my previous experience with Brandy deep cuts was with 2004's Afrodisiac and last year's Two Eleven. When I wrote about the latter here a couple months ago, I even admitted "I've always taken Brandy for granted." Other than the hilarity of who it's coming from, I don't take too much issue with what Solange is saying, even if I could personally feel implicated by it; I didn't buy or listen to contemporary R&B albums that often until around 2005, when I started writing album reviews regularly. There was something of a direct cause and effect, too -- I quickly realized that while I had an interest in writing about popular music, it was a lot less competitive to pitch an R&B album than a rap album that surely ten other critics had already pitched, and at that point most of my favorite songs on the radio had been R&B for several years, so it just made no sense for me to not check out the albums too.
So I combed through the dozens of non-hits on Brandy's six albums, and came up with her greatest misses as a Spotify playlist:
Deep Album Cuts Vol. 1: Brandy
1. Necessary
2. Movin' On
3. Angel In Disguise featuring Joe
4. So Sick
5. All In Me
6. Warm It Up (With Love)
7. Learn The Hard Way
8. Always On My Mind
9. A Cappella (Something's Missing)
10. Paint This House
11. Where You Wanna Be featuring T.I.
12. Happy
13. When You Touch Me
14. Like This
15. Say You Will
16. Do You Know What You Have
17. Put That On Everything
18. Give Me You
Tracks 2, 8 and 18 from Brandy (1994)
Tracks 3, 7, 12 and 17 from Never Say Never (1998)
Tracks 5, 13 and 14 from Full Moon (2002)
Tracks 1, 11 and 15 from Afrodisiac (2004)
Tracks 6 and 9 from Human (2008)
Tracks 4, 10 and 16 from Two Eleven (2012)
I should note, by the way, that her biggest album, 1998's Never Say Never, is not on Spotify, so the four songs from that album are not in the playlist. Brandy is not a world class singer, but she's always had a unique, almost raspy tone, which I've often been reminded of in one of my favorite newer artists in R&B, Dawn Richard, formerly of Diddy-Dirty Money. During those "The Boy Is Mine" days, though, I always made a point of much preferring Monica's voice, and over the years I've remained something of a Monica partisan as she's built up a more consistent catalog.
Part of what's always kept Brandy at arm's length for me is the presence of Rodney Jerkins, one of the biggest and blandest producers in modern R&B, who helmed the bulk of three of her albums -- can you blame anyone for being more interested in Aaliyah when she had all those Timbaland tracks? Of course, Brandy did switch horses for 2004's Afrodisiac, making an album with Timbo right at his creative nadir (it speaks volumes that when Kanye West swooped in to do 2 songs at the last minute, he ended up with the lead single as well as the best deep cut, "Where You Wanna Be"). The Organized Noize production, "Necessary," easily outdoes every Tim song on the album. By comparison, Two Eleven is a far more confident and successful foray outside of Darkchild territory, with producers like Mike Will Made It and Bangladesh bringing her sound up to date in a way that she's never quite been able to do her whole career -- even when she was a huge hitmaker, there was a little bit of a sense that she was a family-friendly TV star, not really at the forefront.
But making this mix also made me take a good long second look at Rodney Jerkins, as well as the team that wrote and produced Brandy's 1994 self-titled debut, including Keith Crouch and Somethin' For The People. Jerkins deserves some credit for classic singles like "What About Us?" and "The Boy Is Mine," there's just a lot of really workmanlike, unexceptional stuff cluttering up his discography. Still, his work was at times more ambitious than I've given him credit for, especially on Full Moon, even if it hasn't all aged particularly well. One wonders if Brandy would have had a more interesting career if she'd acted less, or worked with more producers earlier, but the songs here represent a better catalog than I would've assumed. That Brandy has managed her biggest radio hit in a decade recently, even if she got a lot of help from that awful Chris Brown guest spot, is a testament to both her resilience and the adaptability of her voice.


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Garth is the owner and founder of Thievery. For Garth, Thievery has been a wild ride of learning and discovering, its been an experience thats made his life richer through the incredible community that the place has become.
Garth is equally comfortable shooting stills and directing video, he works commercially as well as maintaining an art practice, regularly holding exhibitions and collaborations with other artists. His favourite things are photographing skeletons and collecting taxidermy and an ideal weekend includes both fly fishing and whisky.
Caitlin is Thievery's go-to girl for all things production, accounts, administration and social media. She practises her creativity in a different way to the rest of the team; through the offering of organisation, the logistics of liaising, and the craft of coordinating. Her ability to make a potentially stressful shoot run with fluidity is a testament to her hard work and care for all clients.
Away from her desk, you can catch Cait running a trail in the Waitaks (she's the secretary of Thievery Run Club) or out on a yoga-practising-gin-sipping-podcast-listening adventure. Give her a call if you want to chat about a future project...
Paris is the Studio Manager of Thievery as well as a photographer and stills editor. She brings her positive energy and relaxed nature to both roles. Paris seeks to capture authentic moments in her photography, creating thoughtful images with attention to detail. People & nature are her favourite things to shoot; combining these two on photo adventures is her favourite thing to do!
Paris is also a lover of podcasts, documentaries, travel, photo-books & zines, lake swims, indie/folk, yoga, novels, mountain climbs & graphic pencils. Oh and tea. So much tea!
Erin is Head of Post-Production at Thievery and been around almost since the beginning. In her years here she has found her niche in Post, with specific skill in editing and retouching. Erin is particularly passionate about editing and sees this part of a project as where the story really comes to life. She thrives on playing an integral role in molding the final narrative. When she's not chained to the edit suite or cracking the whip on the post team, you're likely to find her out loitering in nature or hanging out upside-down entertaining the idea of running away with the circus.
Courtney is Thievery's Brand Manager, and has been part of the Thievery team since early 2018. Courtney has been obsessed with fashion from a young age, and has the mid-2000's fashion victim polaroids to prove it. For Court, Thievery Brand has been the ultimate professional adventure, allowing her to combine her sartorial creativity with the challenges of launching and growing a small business.
Outside the studio walls, Courtney (unsurprisingly) loves sketching and sewing as well as consuming large quantities of black coffee and catching summer rays on one of Auckland's many secret beaches.
Josh has worked with Thievery for the last 3 years. His strengths lie in stills production and photoshop but his skill set also includes producing music and film. Josh enjoys a challenge and brings a fun and creative energy to every project he's involved in. He is known for his attention to detail, vibrant colours and clean aesthetic.
Outside of Thievery you'll find him spending quality time with his pug.
Henry has been with Thievery for the past two years. His skill set is diverse and he always enjoys the challenge of a new idea, though his focus lies in film and still life photography.
Henry is somewhat known around the studio as a "camera nerd", and brings a strong technical understanding of lighting and optics to ensure every shoot he works on is executed perfectly.
If he's not on set, you'll likely find him out for a run or anywhere that mixes a good Negroni.
Sith is our motion graphic guru. His strengths lie in post-production; from storytelling to bringing graphic elements to life. With his creative flair and attention to detail, he aspires to make every project pixel perfect. Sith's talents aren't limited to the computer, he's a skilled camera man and an all round nice guy.

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If you tune into news about the economy, you've heard a lot of talk about the decline of US manufacturing. When I first arrived at Michigan in 2007, the Great Recession was hitting the region hard, as most everyone I met had a connection to automotive manufacturing . Every conversation I had was a personal tale of how their job was in jeopardy of offshoring.
The past couple of years are in stark contrast to 2007. Due to soaring labor costs in China, US manufacturing is projected to be increasingly competitive in terms of costs. This has already caused a number of manufacturing jobs to be "reshored" back to the US and is projected to increase. While the manufacturing environment in the US is improving, the one thing that hasn't changed is the strength of relationships between companies and their suppliers.
Sisu Global Health has chosen manufacturing partnerships in the US because of these strong partners here at home. As a small company starting out, good suppliers are key to making it through the transition from idea to marketable product. Medical devices specifically require independent research, testing and regulated manufacturing, and tracking quality assurance.
In dealing with US regulations, we have been able to find these partners that intimately know our difficulties and lend their expertise. We can meet in person and make adjustment utilizing their expertise in smaller batches of devices.
Because of our outstanding suppliers, our first production parts have come off the line and we are eager to start bio-compatibility and sterilization testing. This first lot of devices are planned for our first human patient clinical study. Our team has learned a lot from the process of choosing and collaborating with contract manufacturers. Many companies know the failure of bad partnerships. We have confidence them and they make our company stronger.
Written by CTO, Gillian Henker, and guest blogger, Kevin Lee. If you are interested in learning more about re-shoring, check out this article, this other one, and the cities leading the charge.


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Click on the arrow to see video of Abby having a giggle over having the hiccups. She had just gotten in from outside and she was absolutely exhausted. Then she got the hiccups and I had to tape it. I love her giggles.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Preschool is over for Abby after 3 years. She does have a month of ESY left for therapies but Thursday was her last day of actual preschool. She will move on to kindergarden in the fall. Above is Charlie and June. Charlie is her afternoon driver and retiring this year after decades of driving Special Needs Kids. Good luck Charlie!
Her Morning driver and aide. We always hate saying goodbye. People really get attached and then their gone. Bless them for the work they do!
Monday, May 24, 2010
No surgery..for now
I can't believe I havent posted for 2 weeks. Bad Mom. Helps that I have been horribly ill with some kind of bacterial respiratory infection.
In my last post I told you that the surgeon had talked to us about doing Pyloroplasty surgery on Abby and had sent us for a Nuclear Gastric Emptying study and until we figured something out we would be feeding her slower and more often.
Well we did all that. The slowing of the feeds that is. She has thrown up a couple of times but it hasnt been an everyday thing anymore.
We went in today for what we thought would be results from the study and the doctors recommendation. I dont feel we got either. Two weeks ago he recommended the surgery and talked about how it would help. When we got there today we found out that no only were we not scheduled to be seen...they had that we had missed all the tests we had spent hours doing over the last few weeks.
So Mamma Bear threw a little fit and got out her appointment card with everything on it and they got us in after a 2 hour wait.
When the surgeon came in I had to remind him why we were there because they had no record and no notes. This time he was very glum with a no guarantee it will work and so much can go wrong attitude. I am so not happy with this hospital right now. If we had not run into the best Doctor we have ever seen in a hospital setting on the way out I would have been marching my butt to the Patient Advocates office.
We ran into Dr Prince Charming..Although you couldnt tell by Abby's reaction to him today. I think she was feeding off my nerves being so rattled and didnt look at the Doc sideways.. When she was in the hospital she straight up hit on him every time he walked in the room. She is such a player. Wish she would of batted her lil eyelashes at him or something.
SO there will be no surgery unless and until someone with some knowledge says it's an absolute no choice kind of thing.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Changing things
This morning we took Abby for an Upper GI test to check her Fundo.
I was up all night worried to death about how they would perform the test on her since she has trouble swallowing and a NG tube through her nose has been unable to be placed in the past.
Of course I worried for nothing because they were able to place the fluid for the test through her MIC-KEY Gtube button. She was such a trooper. No complaints and all smiles. You would think she would be sick of being messed with.
The xrays showed that her fundo is tight and in place. We had been worried because it is supposed to hinder her ability to vomit and control her GERD but she vomits almost daily. So much in fact, that her little face is covered in broken capillaries.
Once we saw the surgeon he explained two options for her. One is to feed her slower. When she had her GTube surgery she had almost no stomach left and what she did have they wrapped for the fundo. In Neurologically impaired children their bodies just don't work the same way. The second option is to start with the first option and do a Nuclear Gastric Emptying Test next week. If her body is unable to empty the contents of her stomach properly he will have to perform a Pyloroplasty. This procedure will only be performed if absolutely necessary but it might just be the case. We are hoping not. I really can't stand the thought of putting her through another surgery but I cant let her vomit and aspirate every day either.
So good thoughts,prayers or both would be appreciated.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Gracemor for Team Abby
Abby all dressed up and ready to go to Gracemor Elementarys Dress Up 2 Cure Day
Giving our presentation about Rett Syndrome to the 4th grade and Kindergarden classes
The Kiddos. They were GREAT
Mrs Cowgers Class. They are such good kids and were so nice to Abby.
Abby was a little overwhelmed but very well behaved
Abby telling Mrs Cowger all about it
Thank you so much Mrs Cowger. We appreciate all your hard work and dedication for our cause and for Abby.
Yesterday Gracemor Elementary held a Dress Up 2 Cure Day in honor of Abby. It was our first one where a school actually participated so we didnt really know what to expect.
As soon as we got there kids ran out in the pouring rain to help me in with Abby. We werent sure if we were going to talk to one class or all classes and I was a little shocked when I walked into a room that full of kids.
The kids were wonderful while we gave our presentation about what Rett Syndrome is and what it is like to have it. They asked great questions and I was so proud of them.
Thank you Mrs Cowger and all the teachers,parents,admins and parents who participated. We so appreciate it.
The Dress Up 2 Cure Campaign for Team Abby is still accepting donations until May 15th by clicking here or in the box at the top right of the blog.
Looking forward to next year!
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When Ten Thousand Villages reached out to me to see if I'd be interested in a collaboration, I was delighted. Ten Thousand Villages holds a special place in my heart as one of the first fair trade shops I ever visited, long before I even knew what fair trade was. They're also credited with inventing the fair trade model as we know it back in the late 1940s when Edna Ruth Byler came back from a trip to Puerto Rico determined to expand the market for artisans there.
Ten Thousand Villages works with hundreds of artisan partners around the world with a mission to empower women, build relationships, preserve cultural arts, sustain livelihoods, and show dignity. In my experience buying from Ten Thousand Villages for several years, the products are well made, with attention given to detail and consistency. Plus, they make great gifts and their Christmas ornaments are lovely.
Ethical Details: Top and Skirt - thrifted; Shoes - Sseko Designs c/o MadeFAIR; Necklace and Earrings - c/o Ten Thousand Villages
Ten Thousand Villages sent me the Honeycomb Blossom Necklace and Earring Set made by Tara Projects in India. The pendant pieces are made from dyed bone sourced as a byproduct from animals that have either died of natural causes or are killed for food production. My position on material sourced from animals is that it must be a byproduct of a preexisting industry so that as much of the animal is used as possible, so I'm glad to hear that. The bone makes these delicate and super lightweight, so sensitive ears will have no issue wearing the earrings. I also appreciate the unexpected way the tri-flower necklace pendant is attached to the chain. It feels very contemporary.
The spring-time exuberance of this set inspired me to get out and take photos on one of those perfect, breezy, warm-in-the-sun, cool-in-the-shade early spring days. And now that the Northern Hemisphere is hurdling toward warmer weather, I'm excited to be giving away not one, but THREE Honeycomb Blossom Necklace and Earring sets. Details below.
I'm honored to not only be working with Ten Thousand Villages Corporate, but to be collaborating with my local Ten Thousand Villages store (Sallie and her team are the bomb!) to offer two ways to enter the giveaway.
Option 1: Enter to win one set at the Charlottesville Store.
You'll have an opportunity to win one Honeycomb Blossom Necklace and Earring Set when you enter at the Charlottesville Ten Thousand Villages on the Downtown Mall. The contest will run for one week at that location, so check the store for details.
The address is:
105 W Main St
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Option 2: Enter to win a set for you and a set for a friend on my Instagram account (@stylewiseblog).
Head over to my instagram account for the opportunity to win 2 necklace and earring sets, one for you and one for a friend you tag in the comments.
This contest will run for one week. The Charlottesville store will designate its own entry period and rules, and information can be found in store. The Instagram contest, in collaboration with Ten Thousand Villages Corporate, will run until Thursday, April 21st at 11:59 pm EST. Winners will be selected randomly.


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Too Young to Jail
Jim St. Germain found himself incarcerated before his 16th birthday. Now he's fighting for prison reform at the highest levels of government.
Sometimes it's easy forget the ridiculousness of youth. The proliferation of mistakes. The necessity of making them.
Yet here in America we have a bad habit of throwing our wayward youth in jail. Jim St. Germain learned that the hard way. As an adolescent immigrant from Haiti—poor by Haitian standards and even poorer in his new home of Brooklyn—the only path to success seemed to be imitating the gangsters that dominated his neighborhood. So he ate instead of being eaten, and was thrown into juvenile detention at the tender age of 15.
But, like so many over-penalized youngsters, he wasn't actually a bad seed. He refused to let jail ruin the rest of his life. Instead, he used it as a springboard. With a positive attitude and help from a few mentors along the way, St. Germain became not just a success, but a force for good.
Today, he runs a mentoring program for at-risk youth called PLOT. He also advocates for juvenile justice reform in New York and national politics, and was recently appointed to the White House Task Force on Twenty First Century Policing. He worked closely with Mayor Bloomberg, served on the Youth Advisory Council of the NY Department of Criminal Justice, and advises U.S. congressmen like Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) on youth criminal justice. He's also a member of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's Re-engineering Team, where he helps the NYPD reduce juvenile incarceration.
Jim has beaten the odds to become a prominent new voice in the fight against over-incarceration in the United States. And people are listening. Why? Because he lived it.
I was checking out your Twitter and I saw a picture of Paris with the caption "ringer on full" next to a picture of Aleppo with "ringer on silent." It's a striking image. Why did you feel like that was important to share?
I think traditionally in our society we're very selective when it comes to who we express sympathy for. Unfortunately, most of the times, race, ethnicity, religion plays a role in how we view these things. For example, there was a tragedy that took place in Paris where I think over 100 people died. A few months before or after, 10 times the amount of people were killed at a university in Kenya. Paris seemed like a big deal. The whole world was talking about it. People couldn't stop talking about it. Facebook allowed people to change their Facebook profiles to a France flag. None of the same things were done for the Kenyans who were even more brutalized. Thousands of innocent women and children.
It seems to me that they cover it when it's black killing white and they cover it when it's white killing black, but they ignore it when it's white on white or black on black. Chicago, for example, would be a huge crisis if it was happening elsewhere, and you just don't hear about it because I think the media knows people are like, "Ah, I don't care about that," because it's not a race crime.
At the end of the day, it's about what stories they think people will most likely gravitate toward. Obviously racism and America are mutually inclusive. You can't separate the two. The media understands that those stories get people riled up from every angle, and rightfully so to a certain degree. That said, when you have a conversation with some folks from the conservative areas, they'll tell you, "Oh, what about black on black crime?" Which makes no sense. It's like, "Hey, my house is on fire." You tell someone your house is on fire. Instead of them helping you put that fire out, they're like, "Oh, what about all the houses who caught fire prior to your house?" That makes no sense. I'm not talking about every other houses right now. Right now, my house is on fire.
I'd like to hear your story from the beginning, if you're not too sick of telling it.
I was born in Haiti, in an area about 15 to 20 minutes outside of Port-au-Prince. My dad was unemployed for almost his entire adult life. As you can imagine, there aren't too many employment opportunities in Haiti, so a lot of people have to create their own little economy in terms of commerce in the streets, trying to sell things and whatever they can do to get by, or they are just unemployed. There weren't too many options.
My mom and my dad ended up having four kids together in addition to each having two before they met. The relationship really didn't work out between them. My dad was dealing with a lot of demons himself and had issues regarding his drinking problems. Even though he didn't have much whatever little he did have he would gamble it in cockfights and poker games and different things like that.
That strained their relationship and my dad also became very abusive after he would drink and get high. As a consequence of that, I started kind of drifting away and just being a street kid. I was all over in our neighborhood trying to just survive and do whatever I was able to do, whether it's helping someone, whether it's climbing a mango tree, whether it was helping someone clean their backyard and in return they would give me some food, or whether it was helping a guy who was a mechanic, a family friend. I would pass him tools and help him clean cars and different things like that as a way of just obtaining my next meal or anything that was available.
We didn't have access to TV or electricity, but when we did get a chance to perhaps see a movie at a neighbor's house, it was a big deal. I remember one of my favorite movies as a kid was Home Alone with this kid named Kevin. In that movie, I saw the house he lived in and the neighborhood. I had a vision of me moving into an environment that looked just like that. I thought we would have a house and a dog and a car and neighbors saying hi to us. I just thought that America was heaven on Earth. I thought that once we came here, there would be no more suffering, no more pain, no more hunger. Everything would be fixed. Life would be perfect.
Little did you know...
Little did I know. I came here and it was just totally different than that. We moved into Crown Heights and there was a lot of drugs, a lot of violence. There was a lot of fighting. We were living in this rundown apartment and it was about 15 of us living in there. Things were different than I expected. Having a language barrier also was a part of the struggle that I had to deal with. Not only was I just trying to survive everyday, but I also had to find a way to break down barriers and assimilate into this new culture and society.
That struggle was very difficult. As a way of surviving that environment, either you were the prey or the predator. It was sort of like survival of the fittest because every time I would leave my apartment, there would be a kid harassing me and trying to fight me and get into stuff. You had to deal with gang members. The only way to really survive was to either become as the people who were trying to impose their will on you or become a victim. To me, I was never okay with playing the victim role, so I became more like a predator than the prey.
As a result, I started having run-ins with the law. Also, I lost a few friends to the streets who were murdered, shot and killed. I also lost friends who were deported back to Haiti and other friends who ended up serving a very long time in the criminal justice system. Lucky for me, all of this took place when I was really young. By the time I started to have my run-ins with the law, I hadn't turned 16 yet so I was still considered a minor. Finally, after being arrested multiple times, I caught two serious cases that were D felonies for selling drugs. At this point, the judge was really tired of me and just wanted to send me away.
My family gave up on me. They were just tired of going back to court. In Haitian culture, if your parents demand that you stop doing something and you continue to do it, then they're liable to give up on you and just allow you to go through your trials and tribulations by yourself since you're not listening. It's your job to deal with it alone, regardless of whether you're a kid or not. As you can imagine, navigating the legal system alone at that age can be really scary and daunting.
"I just thought that America was heaven on Earth. I thought that once we came here, there would be no more suffering, no more pain, no more hunger. Everything would be fixed. Life would be perfect."
That sounds like just about the most isolating rock bottom in existence. How did you find your way out?
While going through the juvenile justice system, I met some really great people. Had a dean from my junior high school who took me in as a mentee and really went out of his way to help me. I had my first lawyer, her name's Christine Bella, who also started to mentor me and she started to help me beyond the courtroom. Then I met another mentor who's a close friend of mine now. His name is Marty Feinman. I'm actually in his house right now.
After going through other juvenile justice facilities that were owned by the city of New York, I ended up with a nonprofit organization that runs group homes and other family services all across the country. It's called Boys Town.
There, I finally grew out of some of my behaviors. The change of my environment, the fact that now I was in a place that was conducive to productivity really made a difference. Folks started to invest more and more in me. I quit smoking. I quit drinking and I started to do things the right way. I started to read and I started to take school seriously.
Finally, I ended up taking my GED and I passed that. After that, I applied to college and started at BMCC. I did two years there where I studied human services, then afterwards I enrolled at John Jay College and I studied political science. I graduated from John Jay with a BA.
While I was there, I read books that helped me along the way. I remember reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X. I remember reading Dreams From my Father and this other book called The Pack by three young men who grew up in Newark, New Jersey who sort of had similar stories to mine and who were able to overcome them and became doctors. By the time I went home, I was about 18. I was already in college. I had gotten a little job at a supermarket, so there was really no need for me to go back to the streets and hang out with my old friends.
A few years later, I started to think about going back to the same facility I was in at Boys Town and to work there with the youngsters who were now involved in the system. Marty was able to help me get a job there. I ended up working there for about two to three years, but I was a little frustrated with the process of not being able to help young people as fast as I wanted to. I noticed that the youngsters who were coming into Boys Town were much younger, but they were also deeper into the streets than I was when I was their age.
Out of that experience, I called some of my friends who had helped me along the way and told them I wanted to start an organization where I could mentor young people, give them opportunities to go to college, and help them with job preparation. We followed through with that. Everybody was very gracious and decided to pitch in, and we were able to create PLOT. Now we have about 15 to 20 young people that we're mentoring in Brooklyn. My goal is to hopefully expand on that.
Wow. So Many questions. Here's one that I've always wondered about and I apologize if it's a bit simplistic. Is it worse to be poor in a place like Haiti, where everybody else is in the same situation, or is it worse to be poor in Brooklyn, where a few miles away you have extreme wealth?
That's a really good question. That's also a very tough question. I'm going to answer because I know you want an answer, but I must say that I personally don't believe in comparing pain and poverty. I think poverty is relative. Someone who's suffering in Haiti is suffering in Haiti. Someone who's suffering in America is suffering here in America.
With that being said, it's definitely worse in Haiti. Here, if I'm a homeless person who's hungry and I happen to walk 10 blocks and look into 10 different garbage cans, there's a chance that I might find a piece of bread, the end of a slice of pizza. I might find half of a bottle of water, and then I can eat that and at least feel better for the next hour. In Haiti, in certain places, you don't even have that option. There's nothing around. Literally nothing at all. As a kid, those are the things I experienced. The person who lives in public housing here and the elevator is broken and it's dirty and it stinks, and maybe they get $200 in food stamps, they're struggling. They're going through a lot. They're not living a life that some folks in the Upper West Side or in Beverly Hills are living, but if you're comparing those individuals to someone in Haiti, then those individuals are way better off.
However, the disparity between rich and poor is a whole different kind of pain. For example, I was in Cuba last month. I noticed that everybody in Cuba has just a little, just enough. Nobody had a lot, but everybody had just enough.
"The disparity between rich and poor is a whole different kind of pain."
Yeah, I've been there too. I noticed that same thing.
Right. For example, I didn't see homelessness in Cuba.
No homeless!
No homeless people. There's healthcare. There's a little electricity. Everybody has a little something, and to me, I find that to be so much better than knowing that Bloomberg is worth $30 billion and there'a 60,000 homeless people in New York City and 30,000 of them are children. I find that to be more painful and more immoral.
Yeah, because one relies on the other.
That's exactly right. Poverty in America can only happen because Bloomberg has $30 billion. What's fascinating to me is that the American people as a whole seem to not think that something is wrong with that.
Was there anything better about living in Haiti?
There's this feeling I get when I'm in Haiti, and I also got it when I was in Cuba, that I don't get when I'm in America. A feeling of being a first class citizens that you can't put a price on, as a young black man, to know that I'm in a country where my skin tone isn't a liability. If I get pulled over, it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm black, it because I actually did something wrong. To me, it's something that's so freeing that I'm willing to give up whatever little luxury I have here to have that feeling. It's more important that anything. I can imagine that's what it's like for white people in America.
Sadly, you have some African-Americans who never experience that. They don't know what it's like. Their entire lives they've been second class citizens and to me it's like, wow, how? How can this be possible? I think all these things go hand in hand.


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Suddenly the weather has turned hot–much too hot for spring planting. Plants make roots when the temperature is cool and top growth when the temperature is hot, but without enough root growth, heat will just make them droop. Be sure to water your new plantings thoroughly.
Memorial Day is traditionally the time to put in cold-sensitive plants like tomatoes and basil and to feed the lawn for the first time in the season. It's also time to get out the deck furniture, overhaul the grill, and enjoy the outdoors. I hope you'll get to do all that this weekend. But first, think about these garden chores:
— divide hardy perennials and grasses. Spring is the best time to divide plants, but now that the weather has turned hot, it's too late to divide tap-rooted plants such as columbine and orange butterflyweed, and many native grasses don't respond well once they've put out a couple of inches of top growth. Easy-to-divide plants like asters and boltonia can be handled for another week or so, but be sure to water well. That goes for anything you plant now–perennials, grasses, shrubs, or trees. Give them at least an inch of water after planting, and continue to water throughout the entire growing season.
— Harvest cool-weather crops such as lettuce, mesclun mix, spinach, arugula, and peas. Remove them and plant warm-weather crops in their place. Plant parsley, dill, and basil plants, and get those tomatoes in the ground!
— continue to water newly seeded lawn while the weather is hot. If you feel you absolutely, positively must feed your lawn, use a slow-release organic fertilizer. Better yet, don't feed at all this season, or wait until Labor Day for the single feeding. The planet will thank you, and the lawn will look just fine.
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Welcome to Year 1!
We have been getting to know our class artists, Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore, as well as reading the story of 'Beauty and the Beast' so that we can contribute to the amazing display in the entrance hall. Our first topic is 'London Landmarks'. Check back soon to see what we get up to and to find out what's in store for the rest of the year…
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I just read an excellent article on acoustic ecology, which focused on the work of composer and educator R. Murray Schafer. It focuses on the growing lack of sonic culture, the loss of unique sounds due to continued industrialization of our surroundings, and the difference between hi-fi (sounds evident in a pre-industrial setting, where sound overlap less frequents) and lo-fi sound environments (where sounds are "masked" and there is a predominance of anonymous sound). The article describes a neat little exercise that Schafer frequently used at the beginning of lectures and workshops:
Schafer's starting point was to note the incredible dominance of the visual modality in society–"eye culture" [ . . . ] –and to reveal that children's ability to listen was, in his experience, deteriorating. [ . . . ] Schafer both demonstrated and addressed the issue–which he termed "sonological competence" –through the practical exercises he developed in working with music students, such as: list any five environmental sounds (not music) that you remember hearing today; and list five sounds (not music) you like and five you do not. [ . . . ] many students do not recall "consciously" having heard any sounds during the day, and many do not complete the sound list even after fifteen minutes.
I gave his exercise a try, and it really didn't take me very long (except for the sounds I don't like). This is what I came up with:
Sounds I heard today:
- turtle dove
- wind in trees
- trip-trap of dog nails on pavement
- baby fussing and cooing
- quiet crackle of oil-lamp burning
Favorite sounds:
- espresso grinder and machine
- birds singing in the early morning
- creaking of trees in the wind
- the bells at St. Spiridon's church in Seattle
- rain falling on just about anything
Least favorite sounds:
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- people eating
- highway traffic (city and country traffic can sometimes be interesting)
- guns
- the breaking of glass
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I know very little about magic but what's the first thing that comes to your mind? A hat with a rabbit, right? I was going make a rabbit poking his head up but I ran out of time. This was for a 16 year old and I was told he's actually really good and had a relative who did it professionally. Pretty darn cool if you ask me! Oh, I don't know if I have this down as a flavor but this was a marble cake. The best of both worlds.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Blue and yellow baby shower
Pretty colors for a baby boy shower. AND, it had a variety of flavors-Lemon cake/raspberry filling, strawberry cake/butter cream, white cake/cookies and cream. Whew! I love doing the smaller booties. The normal ones I do can't fit on the smaller tiers.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Skateboard Cake
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Molly Fitzgerald of Hall User Group Danesborough Chorus is hosting a Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Care at the Village Hall, raising money for the Macmillan unit at Milton Keynes General Hospital.
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Patrick Damphier is a Nashville based record producer, songwriter and musician known as Field Days. He is also a partner at Club Roar, a popular recording studio and creative clubhouse that has hosted The Raconteurs, Jeff The Brotherhood, LionLimb, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Pujol, among others and is a space the acclaimed singer songwriter Tim Easton recently described as "a cross between Warhol's Factory and Abbey Road." In addition to Easton, Patrick has worked as a producer and multi-instrumentalist for Photo Ops, New Man, Nicole Atkins, Stone Jack Jones, and The Arcs over the past year. This is Patrick's Fidelity High: Ray Parker Jr. // Ghostbusters // Flashback Records // 1984. Patrick says, "This is the first record I ever owned. I specifically requested it for my 5th birthday and my grandmother shipped it to Nashville from New York. About a week later, I made my first recording by singing along with the instrumental track on side B into a boombox cassette recorder. That tape has been used as blackmail more than once. Also, both the song and movie are wonderful."
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Money-Making Apps That Haven't Made Me Money
In my new found free time, I've gotten into checking out some money-making apps. There are some I love. Read my post about Mobee if you're looking for a fun way to earn some extra cash. But for all of the apps I like, there a million that I don't.
Here are a couple of apps I haven't had much luck with:
The idea behind iPoll, as the name suggests, is to take surveys in exchange for money. The surveys don't pay much, somewhere between $0.50 and $1, which would be fine if I was ever eligible to take a survey. I haven't found the effort to be worth the reward.
What happens is that every time you log into the app you click a link to find a survey. You answer a bunch of questions and then the app tells you that they've found a survey you have qualified for. THEN you take another pre-survey survey where they ask a lot of the same questions that you just answered and 4 out of 5 times you don't end up qualifying for the survey. Or at least I don't.
So after 20 minutes of answering questions just to find out I don't qualify for a survey, I haven't found it to be an app I'm in to.
Alright, Gigwalk has the potential to be an awesome app, but it depends on your location. I'm in Colorado and there don't seem to be a whole lot of gigs out here. So from what I can tell, Gigwalk pays you to run errands. One of the gigs I saw involved going to a house and taking pictures. Wow, now that I say that it sounds really creepy, but it's legit...I think.
Anyway, the map in the app has a ton of jobs on the east coast and other places in the country, but Colorado hasn't quite caught on yet. It's at least worth the download and if you're lucky enough to be in a location that has gigs, let me know your experience.
Field Agent
Field Agent is another app that, similar to Gigwalk and Mobee, has you go to different locations around town and do things like take photos of displays. The payouts are pretty high, often around $3 per task and one location could have multiple tasks.
The problem is, I don't ever seem to be able to find the products. Within a few days of downloading the app, I went in and noticed a handful of tasks that involved taking pictures of products at a local drug store. The products need to be exact, the app even provides you with the UPCs. I spent close to an hour in the store searching for these specific products and didn't find a single one of them. To be fair, the description of the tasks do say that the store is a suggestion, but that the products may be found elsewhere.
I'm going to give it one more go and try some jobs in the Audit section of the app. This section gives specific store locations and has jobs auditing things like customer service.
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Zanesville Police make an arrest in a Thursday morning attempted break-in.
Lt. Bill Shaw says that around 2am police responded to a report of breaking glass on Moxahala Avenue. Officers found a window had been broken out of the Disabled American Veterans Building at 428 Moxahala Avenue.
Police located 38-year-old Isaac Washington III a short distance away on Adams Street. Washington is on probation and found to be out past curfew.
He was taken into custody for a probation violation and then further evidence was found on him linking him to the attempted break-in.
Zanesville Municipal Court offiicals says Washington entered a not guilty plea today and a hearing was set for July 21st.
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Education & Science, Social Media & Communication, Photo & Video, Food & Drink, Business & Productivity, Sports & Fitness
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Application for online academies and courses. You can create academy and teach people with your courses. Depending on the type of your subscription, there are various settings for your academy. Made as MVP, Android version is primarily a wrapper around web app.
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The client came to us with an idea, one part of which was to create a quality tool that allows the tools to create sets of filters that allow you to create masterpieces. The second part was the distribution of sets of complex processing of photos created by photographers among users.
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NFC Moments is built on Near-field communication (NFC) technology, which provides a contactless payment and allows getting rid of all the inconveniences related to physical money. Specifically, this project was built for providing NFC payment in pubs across the USA. It consists of several applications that are written on Swift and Kotlin for iOS and Android, correspondingly. Among these apps, we implemented the unique apps both for venues and customer.
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Sortly is the award-winning powerful tool that helps you easily keep track of the things. It is photo-based, which means users can create a clear visual inventory of all their own.
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MOVE Shanghai allows you to have access to all the premium fitness venues in the area just from one single place. With its help, you can book different activities like swimming, yoga, dance classes and much more.
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So its Valentine's Day. Why not do something special for your other half ? For example, to send a letter or postcard. Right? check out, if you make it through the world's smallest post office…
1. Tiny letters are large enough to fit those lovely three words , which someone really wants to hear on Valentine's Day.
2. Your message is written in small handwriting (even on a tiny table), and in such a hand, then it is sealed in an envelope of the size of a stamp, and in print the initials of sender will be written . 3. And Don`t Worry! Your letter will not be lost among the other correspondence of normal size, it is placed in a semi-transparent envelope with a magnifying glass. 4. The world's smallest postal service is managed by one person – Lea Redmond. At the post, you can also buy ribbons with the inscription "You are as sweet …" (please append) as well as with an ancient Chinese button. 5. That is the tiniest table, where your message will be written. Leah sells its services in the cafes and shops. 6. "This idea came to me quite by accident, and suddenly – she explains. – And I just could not implement it. I took a mini-table, put all the necessary tools in the basket on a bicycle and went to Oakland. I was very nervous, but then was pleasantly surprised when I found out that my idea is appreciated by many people. " 7. These valentines it will cost you $ 8, parcels – $ 10 plus shipping gifts .
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Pretty Little Things
My favorite time of the day is when I'm sitting at my vanity and getting ready for the day ahead. It's a time to relax and primp, which to me has always been quite fun. I wanted my space to reflect my personal loves and have a feeling of delicateness and romance. I knew right off of the bat that I wanted white furniture. It feels pretty and clean. Next, adding antique dishes for showing off some of my jewelry. I really loved the idea of having my jewelry out and also using it as a decoration. It's much easier getting ready when you can actually see what you own. Along the same lines, I wanted my makeup brushes to be out and keep them in a pretty candle holder and also a little decorative stiletto shoe my mom surprised me with. What vanity would be complete without a mirrored plate to keep perfume, little mementos, and flowers on? Really, anything can be stored on the plate and makes it feel oh so very feminine. Scattered here and there are little personal items such as a framed photograph of Justin and I along with little photos I place on my mirror, seashells from family vacations, a cork from my birthday in Hyannis Port last year, a crystal bear from my grandmother, and lastly a wand that has purple and blue stars, moons, and star dust. The wand was given to me as a child from my dad. It's something I've always loved and treasured and keep it in a prime spot where I can always see it. One of the last items on my vanity is an antique mirror and brush set my mom gave me. Having an extra mirror to hold up close comes in handy when you're applying eye liner and mascara.


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Mildred P. Huffman92, retired nurse, enjoyed reading
Mildred P. (Shedaker) Huffman, 92, of Lititz, passed away Friday, June 22, 2012 at Hospice of Lancaster County in Mount Joy.
Born Oct. 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, she was a daughter of the late Franklin and Lilian Shedaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry S. Huffman, and her son, Michael Huffman.
Mrs. Huffman retired after many years of service as a registered nurse for St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading. She was an avid reader.
She is survived by her daughter: Lisa B., wife of Ed Heltshe, of Conestoga; her daughter-in-law: Marjorie Huffman, of Lititz; and three grandchildren: Malory Garner and Tyson and Dane Huffman.
She was also preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters.
Services will be private and at the discretion of the family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of Lancaster County, 4075 Old Harrisburg Pike, Mount Joy, PA 17552.
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Windows 7 Ultimate X64
Initial drivers needed for build 6956
OK so my d/l of 6956 is a few minutes away from completion so I'm getting together all the drivers I will need for when I install it.
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Anybody think of anything I've missed off?
Also I was planning on using the latest 32bit Vista drivers and use them. Is this the right way to go about it?
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Hello Eggyuk,
That sounds about right if that is all of your devices. If one of them does not install, then you may need to use Compatibilily Mode with Vista selected. Although you might see how the default drivers that come with Windows 7 work for you at first to minimize any potential confilcts from Vista drivers. With that said, I have not had any problems with using Vista drivers yet. A clean install is the best method to use.
Hope it goes smoothly for you,
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Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
Specifically, make sure you have chipset drivers - although relatively new HW will have most of the stuff already installed....
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Hey guys I got a problem here. I can't pin enything into the taskbar and there's no option to pin either. I worked for a few days, week maybe and then suddenly nothing was pinned when i started my computer. I allredy tried to reset the star menu pin and all that thing and I also enter:...
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Windows 7 build 6956 on my lappy HP 6720 I am amazed I have never seen windows install so completely all drivers perfect!!:) Well almost, IE. is very buggy and slower than normal It didn't want to know my desktop though, something about the drive for the install not being bootable?? Pooch
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anyone here has way to remove the watermark form win 7 build 6956?..i got bad win 7 build 7000 iso..and now i dont have much time to download other iso..so im gonna stick wif build 6956..so anyone here hav an idea?..
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To demonstrate that Jesus is God and deserves our worship.
A. John 1:1-14
1. How is Jesus first described by John?
2. If the Word=Jesus and the Word=God, then Jesus=God.
3. What was made by Jesus?
4. What was not made by Jesus?
5. If Jesus made all things then he must be God. If hewas only a created being himself, then he would have to have created himself since nothing that has been created was created without him.
B. John 10:30-39 / John 9:35-41 / Matthew 28:5-10
John 20:24-31
1. What was the main accusation of Jesus' enemies?
2. Did Jesus refute their accusation?
3. Jesus accepted worship when he knew that God alone is to be worshipped. (Matthew 4:10) Colossians 1:15-20; 2:9-10
Jesus is the complete fullness of God.
1. Memory verse: Colossians 2:9
2. Suggested reading: Jesus - A Biblical Defense of His Deity by Josh McDowell and Bart Larson (Here's Life Publishers, Inc.)
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Book Fetish: Volume I
Bookish things for those with a fetish for books.
Inspired by classic cover designs, these shoes show off your love for literature. There are seven to choose from. I prefer Animal Farm myself.
You love your ereader but miss the smell of your books? Enter New Book Smell, an aerosol ereader enhancer.
You've probably seen the literary tshirts at Out of Print Clothing. But did you know they make these iPhone cases as well? Best $35 I ever spent.
Books can be art too. Painter Victoria Reinchelt creates images of books and magazines that are so realistic they look like photos.


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Today I'm sharing one of my favorite DIY storage ideas. I did this for Brit + Co. and for my office - a leather and striped slouchy storage bin. I don't know about you, but I am knee deep in spring cleaning right now. I am currently trying to reorganize my office. This, my friends, is no easy task. I've got DIY supplies coming out my ears as you probably could have imagined. So when I came up with this leather + striped bin, I was practically jumping up an down. But there is a little back story on this.
So Vintage Revivals (love her btw and definitely recommend following her) totally inspired me to buy a couch for the leather. I got this couch at Goodwill for $25. Considering how much leather there is on a couch and how much leather costs, that's a steal in my book.
So I stripped off all of the leather, and my head is spinning right now with all of the projects I am thinking of making! So I'm going to call this little series of DIYs the "Leather Couch Chronicles." Stay tuned to the blog to see what I have in store for you. Here are all of the posts for the Leather Couch Chronicles.
To see the full tutorial for this leather + striped storage bin hop on over to Brit + Co.
If you like this project, check out project #2 - DIY Sunglasses Case. And again in case you are interested, here are all of the posts for the Leather Couch Chronicles. And here are all of my projects for Brit + Co.
How is your spring cleaning going? I could use the support, so let me know in the comments below!


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Monica and I met for several lunches and a great few hours of consignment shopping! I felt a kinship with her from the moment we met. She 100% delightful, insightful and one Smart Creative Woman!
BIG THANKS to Monica for having me! Here is a link to the interview! Enjoy!


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Zineb Benjelloun is an artist and illustrator from Morocco with a background in fine arts and documentary filmmaking. She is inspired by the richness of the iconography within Moroccan culture. Her work celebrates the collective imagination and knowledge. In addition to her exhibition work, Zineb does screen printing, illustrations for children's books, graphic novels, visual identities for local and international cultural events as well as graphic design for public awareness campaigns.
Selected exhibitions
Dis-placement and Seeking Refuge, as seen through comics, at Museum and Urban Cultural Centre "Beit
Beirut", LB
Resonances, at IFA galerie, Berlin, DE
Shitholes, at Adrienne theater, Philadelphia, US
Printmaker(s), at Kulte, Center of Contemporary Art, Rabat, MO
Kissaria Print Exhibition, at Atelier Kissaria, Tanger, MO
Nouvelle Génération : la bande dessinée arabe d'aujourd'hui, at Musée de la bande dessinée, Angoulême, FR
Out of frame, American University of Cairo, EG
Ça restera entre nous خلف الباب, Tanit Gallery, Beyrouth, LB
Out of frame, Rosa Luxembourg Fondation, Tunis, TN
Swab Art Fair, Focus Magreb, Barcelona, ES
Rock Art, Rock en Seine Festival. Paris, FR
Stadt.Räume / l'espace [de] la villeنص نص (Noss Noss) / Gemischtes Doppel » at Le Cube, Independant art room, Rabat, MO
Communicating Science through Comics, at Projektraum C10, Berlin. Curated by Alexandra Hamman. Berlin. DE
In-situ, at Fondation hiba, Rabat. Curated by Jamal Abdenasser. Rabat. MO
Histoires de villes et autres personnages, solo exhibition at le 18 derb el ferrane, Marrakech, MO
The luxury of dirt at Voice Gallery, Marrakech. MO
Féminin pluriel, at Dar Belarj, Marrakech, MO
Tanger Tanger, at La Gaïté Lyrique, Paris, FR
The Souk, at The Kasbah Museum, Tangier, MO
Master's Degree (Master 2), Documentary Filmmaking. Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille. FR
Professional thesis: "The role of documentary cinema in Morocco: From the expression of collective imagination towards the consolidation of a visual and cultural identity."
Master's Degree (Master 1), Cinema Studies. Concentration: Esthetics, Analysis and Creation. Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. FR
Dissertation: "Jean Rouch: Docu-Fiction, Cine-ethnography, and the use of non professional actors as agents of reality".
Two-year University Degree in Dramatic Arts. Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. FR
2003 — 2004
Two-year University Degree in Fine Arts. Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. FR
French High School Diploma in Economic Sciences. Concentration: Mathematics. Lycée Descartes, Rabat, MO
Grants and Artists residencies
Meet the neighbours, is a cross-artform project, spanning 3 years, inviting artists to live side-by-side with members of the public in specific neighbourhoods in 5 cities across Europe and North Africa. Lillers, FR
Houdoud, Mobility from a (post-)colonial perspective: "The fertilization of knowledge through the meeting of art and research », joint project for artist and researchers, IFA galerie, Berlin, DE
Houdoud, Mobility from a (post-)colonial perspective: "The fertilization of knowledge through the meeting of art and research », joint project for artist and researchers, INBA Tetouan, MO
RAW Material Company, Center for Art, Knowledge and Society. Artist residency under the direction of Chimurenga, the panafrican publication of writing, art and politics based in Cape Town. Dakar, SN
AFAC grantee for Visual Arts (Arab fund for Art and Culture), LB
Lab619 : BD art d'asile, residence of creation organized by the Lab619 collective and the Fondation Rosa Luxembourg on the theme of migration, Tunis, TN
Samandal : sexuality, youth and poetry, residence of writing with the Lebanese collective of comics Samandal, organized by the comics publisher Alifbata based in Marseille, FR
Dar Al-Ma'mûn, research and writing on « Darna », a graphic novel project, Marrakech, MO
Awarded a merit-based scholarship. University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, FR
Risoprint workshop with Knust Press/Extrapool (Netherlands), at Kulte, center of contemporary art, Rabat, MO
Graphic journalism workshop with MICT (Media in Cooperation and Transition) and Correspondents - A Journalism Platform for North Africa, Tunis, TN
« Science meets Comics, The Anthropocene Kitchen », comics workshop at the Cluster of Excellence, Image, Knowledge, Gestalung of the Humbölt University of Berlin, DE
"De l'espace autre", drawing workshop as part of the festival Masnâa, Ce qui est là and L'école de littérature, La Source du Lion, art and research space, Casablanca, MO
"Maroc 20". Narrative graphics applied to Moroccan found footage. Atelier de l'Observatoire, art and research space, Amongst Marrakech Biennale 5 Parallel Projects, MO
Book illustration training for children. Carrefour des Arts, Casablanca, MO
Comics workshop, as part of the first issue of the fanzine " Skefkef", with Open Takafa Collective, Casablanca, MO
Comics workshop as part of the festival Masnâa, La Source du Lion, Casablanca, MO
Documentary filmmaking workshop at the Cinémathèque de Tanger, MO
Writing and directing workshop at the Cinémathèque de Tanger using archival footage focused on collective cultural memory, with Cinémémoire based in Marseille, Tanger, MO
Selected presentations and lectures
"Toward a self image", as part of the 1-54 Forum "Always decolonise!" curated by Omar Berrada, Marrakech, M0
"Create in times of crisis", as part of the Palest'in and out festival at L'Uzine, art space in Casablanca, MO
"What is the place of illustration in children's book literature in the Maghreb region ? Maghreb Book Fair (1), Oujda, MO
"Face à Picasso, témoignages d'artistes", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Rabat, M0
"Think Tanger", on how to define the objectives and modalities for implementing a platform of reflexionn creation and collaborative action that will aim to create cultural activities in and for the city of Tangier, Atelier Kissaria, Tangier, MO
"Sexuality seen by women in contemporary comics" at SoBD, the international comics fair in Paris, FR
Artist's work presentation to the Open Society Foundations, MENASA at Dar Al-Ma'mûn, Marrakech, MO
Member of the jury of the first CairoComix Festival in Cairo, EG
"How do Arab comics relate to taboos, to ideology, to political power?" as part of CairoComix 1, Cairo, EG
Artist's work presentation at Tétouan Fine Arts School, Tétouan, M0
Presentation of "Darna" , a graphic novel project, at La Serre (art space), L'Atelier de l'observatoire. Casablanca, M0
Selected publications
Nouvelle génération : La bande dessinée arabe aujourd'hui, Editions Alifbata, Marseille, FR, 2018 — Comics
Bananas, revue critique de bande dessinée, N° 10, Paris, FR — Comics
"Migrations", Lab619 hors série, Tunis, TN, 2017 — Comics
"Revista Fractal", Revista iberoamericana de ensayo y literatura, N°77, Mexico, MX — Illustration and texts
"Ça restera entre nous خلف الباب", Editions Alifbata, Marseille, FR, 2016. — Comics
"Slanted Special Issue – Marrakech", Slanted Publishers, Mannheim, DE, 2016 — Illustration
"The Anthropocene Kitchen", "Khalid", Mintwissen's edition, Berlin, DE, 2016. — Comics
"Exodus + 2°C" ,in Dyptik Magazine n°31, Casablanca, MO, 2015. — Illustration
"+91", exhibition catalogue for +91 Project, by Laila Hida & Alia Ali, at le 18 Derb El Ferane, Marrakech, MO — Illustrations
"Maroc tuning" in Fields Magazine, N°2, "Clans", 2015, Berlin, DE — Comics
"Yamna et la plante magique", E-Madrassa, Yanbow Al kitab and Inwi, 2015, Casablanca, MO — Illustrations
"Sauvons notre patrimoine", E-Madrassa, Yanbow Al kitab and Inwi, 2015, Casablanca, M0 — Illustrations
"La vie de Yousra", E-Madrassa, Yanbow Al kitab and Inwi, 2015, Casablanca, M0 — Illustrations
"Des animaux pas bêtes", E-Madrassa, Yanbow Al kitab and Inwi, 2015, Casablanca, M0 — Illustrations
"Mille et une répliques". Online book for kids for the social campaign for the youth reading E-Madrassa, Yanbow Al kitab and Inwi, 2015, Casablanca, M0 — Illustrations
"Femmes et religions", La Croisée Des Chemins et Fan Dok, Casablanca, 2015, M0 — Illustrations
"Samandal, généalogie », "Darna", abstract published in the comics anthology publication,2015, Beyrouth. — Comics
"Skefkef", "Maroc Honda tuning", in , Casablanca, 2013 — Comics
"Récits Graphiques". Comics workshops at ART'COM, Ecole supérieure de Design, Rabat, MO
"Autoportraits". Children's illustration workshops at Ecole La Résidence, Casablanca, MO
"Cartographie imaginaires". Illustration workshops at Ecole supérieure des arts visuels ESAV, Marrakech, M0
"Dessiner à plusieurs mains". Children's workshops on the theme of Cities and Environment. Paris, Marrakech, Casablanca, Tétouan, Dakar, Oujda.
Graphic design
Visual identity and illustrations for the new collection of Ulili Moroccan brand of candles, Casablanca, MO
Creation of the poster of the artist Damian Jr. Gong Marley as part of the "Rock en Seine" Festival, Paris, FR
Visual identity (poster, signage) of Nuits Sonores Tanger, MO
Visual identity and illustrations for the new collection of Ulili Moroccan brand of candles, Casablanca, MO
2013 — 2014
Visual identity (poster, signage and mural) of Tanger Tanger Festival at la Gaîté Lyrique. Paris, FR
Visual identity « Féminin pluriel » group show at Dar Bellarj Foundation, Marrakech, MO
Illustrations and visual identity for Ulili Moroccan brand of candles, Casablanca, MO
Creation of the ZNB illustrated company / Illustration, visual identity creation, graphic design, publishing, documentary filmmaking in Casablanca, MO
2012 — 2009
Graphic design for the corporate calendars of the PLV Ice Maghreb Company. Casablanca, MO
2011 Graphic design and illustration for the "Casablaklaxoon" campaign on sound pollution in Casablanca, MO
Sound Engineer and Editor — "Ballades". A documentary film tracing the oral traditions of Andalusia and the contribution of the Moors to local songs and legends. Andalucia, Spain.
Co-writer — "Secret(s)aires". A documentary film which challenges and investigates the image of the secretary in fiction and in the collective imagination by following four women though their daily routine and getting a rare glimpse of an almost exclusively feminine work space. Paris, France.
Director — "Neptune" (13 min). A documentary film about a social reinsertion through work program based out of a junk shop in the Montreuil area of Paris, France.
Decorator and Prop Master — Two short films on raising awareness for the French League Against Cancer. Sponsored by Arte TV, in partnership with the University of Paris, France.
Director — "Belleville" (3 min). An experimental movie on Super 8 in and about the Belleville (Paris) neighbourhood. Paris, France.
Director — "Magouilles" (13 min), produced by the Festiv'art, Short Film Festival of Limoges. Best screenplay award. Paris, France.
Movie/TV production
2011 — 2012
Head of the Documentary Programming Department at Medi 1 TV (National Television Station), Tangier. Responsible for programming, editorial oversight, as well as writing and directing documentary programs. Tanger, MO
Cultural mediator at the 2nd Nouzah Fennia (Art Walks) of the Casablanca City Arts Festival. Responsible for multimedia content and promotion. Responsible for video programming for the entire festival. Casablanca, MO
Head of hosting at the 3rd edition of FIDADOC, International Documentary FilmFestival of Agadir, MO
Intern at the 5th Panorama of Maghrebi Film festival at the Ecran, an art-house cinema in Saint Denis, FR
Production Assistant at Alif Productions in Paris which has documented North African culture in France for the past 20 years, focusing on issues of immigration and integration. Paris, FR
Arabic. Native Speaker / French. Native Proficiency / English. Fluent Speaker / Spanish. Working Knowledge


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Last week, Professor Michael Hudson published an important article in Counterpunch entitled "Monetary Imperialism."
It provides a sweeping overview of monetary history from World War I to the present -- which may not sound like a very interesting subject, until you realize that he is explaining the outlines of the political and economic system which has framed a hundred-year period marked by the overthrow of any nations which attempt to restrict the takeover of their peoples' natural resources and their sale to private parties, and (through the lever of foreign-currency debt) the imposition of austerity upon their populations (including the removal of public services, the reduction of pensions, and the sale of utilities, ports, airports, and even rivers and waterways to private "investors," who stand to make a fortune from these assets).
As such, Professor Hudson's article is worth reading and re-reading very carefully and deliberately in order to try to grasp the framework that he is describing, and how it leads directly to consequences that are all too familiar in the world around us.
He explains that after the cessation of open hostilities in 1945 at the end of World War II, the united states controlled seventy-five percent of the world's gold stock. This situation led to the united states dollar becoming the reserve currency, "freely convertible into gold at the 1933 parity of $35 an ounce." And, because other governments wanted to have either gold (largely controlled at that time by the united states) or dollars (which were "as good as gold" and could always be turned into gold at a fixed rate) to back their own currencies, those countries that wanted to participate in the system found that there were a few strings attached when it came to obtaining gold or dollars: they had to accept the trade and investment rules dictated by the united states.
Professor Hudson explains: "These rules called for relinquishing control over capital movements or restrictions on foreign takeovers of natural resources and the public domain as well as local industry and banking systems."
That sentence deserves to be read very carefully for all the points that it is making. It explains how the gifts of nature (or the gifts of the gods) to the people of a country -- such as the waters, the woodlands, and the mineral wealth beneath the surface of the earth -- were privatized (largely by individuals and corporations operating across boundaries and originating in other countries), so that the benefit of those natural riches accrued to a small group of people (from other countries) instead of to the people to whom nature (or the gods) had given those gifts.
However, the reader is probably aware that the united states dollar is no longer readily convertible into gold at the fixed price of $35 an ounce -- that framework ended a long time ago (in 1971), as Professor Hudson's article explains. You will get a lot less than one ounce of gold if you try to convert $35 into gold today. The gold window was closed after the united states spent so much of its gold on military actions around the world beginning in the early 1950s and accelerating in the 1960s, as Professor Hudson explains.
However, instead of being a defeat for the united states, the severance of the united states dollar's link to gold "was just the reverse of a defeat," Professor Hudson says. Those other countries could no longer easily turn their dollars into gold (and, as Professor Hudson notes, anyone trying to do so met with strong disapproval from the US), so they turned them into united states treasury bills and bonds instead -- and that is the situation that largely continues to this day.
What the reader must understand (and what Michael Hudson points out in his article) is that holding united states treasury debt is the same as making a loan to the united states, without any say in how the proceeds of the loan are used. Thus, the international landscape actually became even more dominated by the united states, which could still dictate that nations had to open their public domain and natural resources and industrial companies and banking firms to foreign takeovers by private individuals and corporations, and at the same time could rely on low-cost loans to finance its own military buildup and reduction of tax rates.
Towards the end of the article, in a section with the heading "US Neoliberalism Promotes Privatization Carve-Ups of Debtor Countries," Professor Hudson explains that the strong economies of industrialized countries like America and Germany were originally founded on "public investment in economic infrastructure," in which prices for essential services such as water and education were subsidized and kept to a minimum (or even provided freely).
"The aim," Professor Hudson explains, "was to lower the price of living and doing business by providing basic services on a subsidized basis or freely." But after the implementation of neoliberalism, public sectors are "privatized and planning turned over to rent-seeking corporations" -- and the united states is now leading the way in exporting this neoliberal privatizing vision around the globe.
"The price of resistance," he notes, "involves risking military or covert overthrow." The united states has a demonstrated history of overthrowing democratically-elected governments which oppose privatization of public domain and natural resources, as well as of protecting authoritarian governments which are open to giving away their country's natural wealth and resources (given by nature, or by the gods, to the people of those lands) to privatization. Authoritarian regimes have been invaded and overthrown as well, to be sure -- but the unbroken track record since the end of World War II demonstrates unequivocally that the criteria for the implementation of covert or overt overthrown is whether a nation's government resists privatization of public resources and the public domain or whether that government is open to such privatization. Such overt and covert actions have nothing whatsoever to do with "supporting democracy."
The economic aspect of this system is not very well understood. It is extremely rare to find anyone who can explained it with the clarity that Michael Hudson explains it -- and who can, in addition, bring a rich understanding of the history of economic thought and the debate over these issues stretching back over centuries (and indeed over millennia) that he also provides in his published writings, interviews, and lectures.
And, while the question of reserve currencies and treasury debt may seem to be far removed from the profound ancient wisdom contained in the world's myths, scriptures, and sacred stories, the question of the privatization of the natural resources and public domain that we see taking place in the world around us at an ever-increasing pace is very much a manifestation of the rejection of that ancient wisdom given to all people around the world. I have discussed this subject in numerous previous posts, including:
- "Two Visions" and
And so, what may seem at the outset to be a dry and unappealing subject -- the monetary history of the world since the end of World War I, and the question of reserve currencies and the holding of united states treasury securities in reserves of nations wanting to be part of the international monetary system and trade -- opens a window on the privatization by a few of what actually belongs to the gods, and thus to the people (in whom, the ancient wisdom explains, the gods are present, and at whose birth, the ancient myths tell us, specific divinities -- usually goddesses -- are always present).
The ugly and life-depriving effects of this privatization (note that "deprive" and "private" come from the same root -- a fact Professor Hudson points out elsewhere) is perhaps most dramatically seen when governments who are collaborating with the forces of neoliberalism sell off entire rivers. Here is an article from 2011 about the sale of rivers in India to corporations, who promptly fence them off, barricade their flow and divert it for use in mining, and hire guards to prevent the people from using the water for cooking, cleaning or fishing as they and their parents and ancestors have done for centuries.
And a similar thing has also been happening in Central and South America, where rivers may not be blatantly sold off to corporations by the collaborating governments, but where they are "de facto" given over to mining companies, who then barricade them off, prevent the people from using or even accessing the water, and divert their flow to generate power used for mining operations. See this story from early 2016 about the murder of Berta Cacares, who was a vocal leader in the opposition of such privatization of the rivers of her people. As that article shows, she urgently called on humanity to wake up to what is going on, saying: "!Despertemos, humanidad!"
Articles such as the most-recent article by Michael Hudson, "Monetary Imperialism," provide the kind of big-picture overview of what is taking place that should help us to wake up, and see how the pieces fit together.
The path that the world is on -- towards privatization, deprivation, and the short-sighted exploitation of the public domain and natural resources given by the gods (or by nature, if you prefer) to all and not just to a few well-connected individuals or corporations -- is by no means inevitable or unstoppable. But we need to be able to see what is going on, explain what is going on to others, and then stand up to what is going on, if we are to change direction before it is too late.


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Each year, there is a gathering of men who buy chocolates or similar chocolate sweets for their loved ones. After all, chocolates are one of the more popular gifts next to jewelry and flowers that men like to buy for their girlfriends or wives on this special day. However, not many people know how exactly the small chocolates are produced. Carbon infrared emitters from Heraeus Noblelight play a central role in their production.
Heat processes play an important role in the production of pralines. A first important heating step is the heating of the molds before they are filled with chocolate.
The quality of the product depends on heating it to a precise temperature of about 30°C, depending on the type of chocolate. The temperature cannot vary more than 1°C above or below the specific temperature required. Otherwise, the chocolate loses its consistency, becomes brittle, or develops an unattractive bloom. Tests at the Heraeus application center in Neston, UK, showed that carbon infrared emitters , together with pyrometers to ensure that the optimal temperature is precisely maintained within ±1°C, met the requirements for praline production. Pyrometers control the plastic molds just prior to the infrared heating system. This temperature specifies the time span during which the infrared heat acts on the molds. After this warming step, another pyrometer checks whether the correct temperature for filling the chocolate has been reached.
When combining the chocolate halves, a pyrometer measures the chocolate temperature in front of the heating station and controls the infrared emitters so that the halves can be reliably joined together at a temperature of about 30 ° C.
The use of infrared emitters not only significantly improved the quality and appearance of the finished product. In addition, the carbon infrared emitters react so quickly that they can be switched off immediately in the event of an unexpected stop in the production line. This ensures that impairment of plant and products is minimized.


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Here are some photos of him..from yesterday.
for the first time, we thought he belonged to a neighbor but when he lost several pounds
we realized he was either dropped off or was a stray.
He is adorable, loving, sweet and friendly. We probably can't keep him here as
we both have cats, Joel is trying to get his cat to accept him but so far????
If anyone would like him, please contact me by email at
Ocicats were bread to look like Ocelots..they have beautiful markings and beautiful personalities


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A jar of apple butter. A jar of peanut butter. Two spoons. A completely unsanctioned snack that was Bean's solution to the ravenous feeling they both have at about 4pm.
I decided to instead of saying no, to just hang out and watch them from behind the lens. I like doing this. Sitting back, seeing without interrupting or intervening. Just letting them be their silly selves. I love their unintentionally matched shirts; their nose rubs; their eyelashes; the way their body language is synchronized.
Best decision ever: to have both of them. Brothers rock. They have this bond that makes me feel like they're gonna be okay no matter what. I wonder if they'll feel that way about each other when they grow up? (Is that something that a parent can actually influence at all?)
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Last Monday 9 giant boxes arrived. This space is small even without giant boxes. I was so excited I didn't know quite where to begin, so I just started throwing open the boxes and pulling out the new colors and yarns. It was a mess. But it's all put away now and it's dazzlingly beautiful. Here's the wall (pictured above) 24 new colors of Worsted alone; new colors in Twist; 6 colors of Lace; Silky Merino in 7 colors and Chunky in 9 colors!
|Misti Hand Paint Sock
I also got a box of Tonos Worsted. It's a new yarn for us. It's a 50/50 blend of Alpaca and Merino. The colors are beautiful and saturated, perfect for the winter season, and the way it's plied it has great stitch definition and a really pretty, pixelated quality.
Misti also sent along a trunk show and I have 3 lovely pieces from them on display; two in Tonos and 1 in the Handpaint sock. I had a hard time capturing the color, but this is close. 2 of the pieces are free patterns with the purchase of yarn.
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The Misti Trunk Show is here until the 11th of November. Stop by to see it, pick up some yarn and a free pattern!