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If you've read a culture column with The Fader, Vogue (update: wishing I asked about interviewing with Anna Wintour), The Village Voice, or Pitchfork you may be familiar with Alex Frank. As a writer and editor, Alex has covered everything, drag character Joanne the Scammer, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Aretha Franklin, and Ye's bizarre listening party in Wyoming. These profiles are written with the reader steadily at the forefront of his mind. Writing "like he speaks" grounds his interviews and personalizes them in a way we find to be approachable, entertaining, and real.
Turning the table, we were extremely happy to interview this interviewer. This q&a is our ninth interview in the series (see previous conversations here) and we continue to analyze and highlight those active in music and the arts community. Ultimately, we hope to bring those making, reading, and listening to art closer to the process and to collaborators.
Keep up with Alex's writing and projects on his website or instagram page.
Lastly, are we really ready for Rihanna's reggae album?*
Q Can you define culture criticism/journalism?
It's a carefully thought-through and deliberately written version of what we all as humans seem to do, which is think about, talk about, and debate about art. I don't really know why humans like to do this, but they do, so I'm pretty lucky to get paid to do something so essential.
Q Why do we need critique?
We need it because while almost everyone cares deeply about some kind of art, not everyone has the headspace to sit at a computer to process their ideas about it. All kinds of people want to engage in the conversation and reading criticism gives anyone an opportunity to do so in a really focused way. Maybe these ideas have been floating around the reader's head, too. It's exciting for them to see them well articulated in print. I hope it can make art better, too. If artists know there are people out there paying insanely close attention perhaps it motivates them to be their best.
Q Your thoughts on the current music/entertainment journalism environment?
A big question but, for the most part, I love so much of what I see happening out there. Writers like Lindsay Zoladz, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Doreen St. Felix, Reggie Ugwu, Gayle Wald, Robin Givhan, Wesley Morris, and so many other people all do work that thrills me and makes me think in new and exciting ways.
I do read a lot of writing that seems like a strung together thread of what the writer has seen on Twitter. This is both safe (it's less scary to put yourself out there when you're using ideas that have already been crowd-tested on social media), elitist, and boring. I also read a lot of writing that has the influence of academia and uses jargon that I don't understand. I much prefer people who write clearly, like they speak. I do wish there was less of all of that.
Q Per your conversation with Thora Siemsen (The Creative Independent), are your ideas on accessibility radical or rare? Generally well-received?
I'm not sure, but I just know that the rule for me is basically always to write like you speak, or a cleaned up and deliberate version of how you speak. I believe in using $1 words instead of $20 words, and I think if you read a piece of writing out loud, it should sound good. I would like to say that this is merely an ideal for me: I often fail to live up to my own standards but it's valuable for me to do my best at this. It's always clarified things for me.
Q Why do you think music, fashion, art needs to be accessible?
I just think writing is meant to be read, and it's hard to read writing that's hard to read.
Q Are your interviews generally done in person?
It's a mixed bag but I do my best to get the best and most access I can.
Q Favorite music critics or texts?
I love Ellen Willis, because she does what I think is very important, which is thinks for herself. I love Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia. I love Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan. I mostly read a lot of old profile writing and essays by people like Lillian Ross, Janet Malcolm, Renata Adler, Truman Capote, and probably most importantly, my hero and the love of my life Gore Vidal. I love that high-toned New York writing from the 20th century and just wish I was as good. It's so useful to read writers who are way better than you are.
Q What are you reading this fall?
Andrew Sean Greer's Less and Janet Malcolm's Iphigenia in Forest Hills, a riveting book about a murder trial from my favorite nonfiction writer. I also bought a book version of Truman Capote's New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando in the 1950s, and it's a masterclass in profile writing. I've also been reading nature writing by Gavin Maxwell because I am trying to get better at describing the scenery in my stories.
Q What title would fit best documentarian, curator, or purveyor of the arts?
I guess storyteller? It's cheesy, I know, but it works fine.
Q What are you working on or looking forward to in music?
I will hopefully get to do some year end list writing for Pitchfork which I really enjoy doing. I love looking back on the year in terms of music and getting to write about albums with a little distance from them. Usually, you have to write about them as soon as they come out. I'm also excited for Rihanna's reggae album*.
Q Any interest in putting out a collection of your writing?
I wish people cared that much! But I actually don't even know if what I do lends itself to that kind of reading. Do people want to read a random collection of profiles? I'd love to find a new topic that I feel like is deserving of a full-length book. [We'll be reading!]


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It was magic for me to see Willow and Simone in the flesh after "meeting" them over a year ago as a collective baby bump when we did their parents' Central Park maternity photo shoot in September 2012. This time we got together at Jane's Carousel to celebrate their first birthday. Aren't they lovely?
To get the first shot on this blog post - the one where they are sitting on their blanket in the park - I was flat on my stomach a few feet away, and suddenly had a flash of them as two old ladies sitting together and giggling. It made me a little choked up! I told you this photographer is sappy.
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It still feels like forever until our due date, but there was something about yesterday being the first day of November that made me realize we are getting just a tad bit close! I am literally soo excited!!
WEEK 25-26 : Mike and I decided to book our "babymoon" trip for the week of my birthday! Since I had such an awful experience the last time I traveled on a plane we decided to make it more of a staycation and planned a trip to stay in Virginia Beach for a couple of days. I experienced my first fake contraction "Braxton Hicks" during week 26. Such a funny feeling..no pain just feels like my stomach is flexing!
WEEK 26-27 : Babymoon was postponed due to the unexpected Hurricane that hit Virginia the week of my birthday. It was still such a special birthday because I was pregnant!! I always told Mike that for my 30th birthday I wanted us to celebrate it in Paris unless of course I was pregnant, but I never thought I would be! This was the sweetest birthday of all! Baby was head down, but when we went in for our 3D Ultrasound we found out that little stinker turned...!
WEEK 28-29 : My back pain and upper rib pain is pretty consistent, sitting is extremely uncomfortable. I am so thankful I don't have a job that requires me to sit I would of had to quit! Sleeping is also pretty uncomfortable but all of these pains are 100% worth it!! Baby turned again! Yay! He's head down! Can't believe we made it to the third trimester!
WEEK 30-31 : My midwife warned me to be cautious of my carb intake during this third trimester, but it's literally all I want! Bread and pasta just smells sooooo good! haha Baby Sofia came to visit this week and it was such a treat to have a baby in our home. Roman fell in love with Sofia! Mila paid her no mind..haha typical!
WEEK 32-33 : I ate ice cream every single day during week 32…oh my word, I couldn't control myself! I kept justifying myself and telling myself it was ok because it was dairy free! Oh brother, my favorite part about it was that the baby would move like crazy with each bite I had haha! Mike and I have started counting down the days…it's starting to feel real!
Overall Updates : Exercise: Running - Yes 3-6 miles a day and Mild Weight Lifting in the evening | Heartburn - NO MORE! YAY! | Pains - Upper Back and Right Below the Ribcage | Belly Button : Still In more like a Halfie lol | Wedding Ring is still on | Emotions : I am normally a cry baby but all I do is laugh! Especially at Mike, he is literally the funniest person on the planet!! ♡ Nursery is still unfinished but the car seat is installed haha oh brother! I am waiting on this so called "nesting" state to happen because lately I have zero motivation for anything haha


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New Music Video | Watch The Mad, Mad World Of The Weeknd
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)
If you're in Netflix coma this holiday weekend, but need another excuse to not talk to relatives check out the Weeknd's short film, Mania, below.
Also: Daft Punk, Touring Or Trolling
Directed by longtime Weeknd collaborator, Grant Singer, the 12-minute film doubles as an epic video music compilation (or vice versa) for the R&B crooner's highly-anticipated album, Starboy, which was released on Black Friday.
Mania features a day in the lifestyle of the notorious "Party Monster" as he sings, dances and broods his way to some of the album's surefire hits, including collaborations with Future "All I Know", Kendrick Lamar "Sidewalks", and Daft Punk "I Feel It Coming" (my favorite track) for the film's credit scene.


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Today Rolling Stone announced their 'Album's of 2017' and one album on the prestigious list was Japanese Breakfast's 'Soft Sounds From Another Planet'.
The album was mixed by Jorge Elbrecht and received much critical praise on release - we don't expect this will be the last 'end of year' list the album appears on!
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Gabriella Garofalo is the poetry author of "Lo sguardo di Orfeo"; "L'inverno di vetro"; "Di altre stelle polari"; "Blue branches"
Can you come along?
Look, have I got any choice?
Abel was the first, then they all followed suit –
You know, they were dancing
Mindless of the main guardian of our past,
The moon singing so proud of her silver lamé show,
The vain cheerleader!
The grass stayed silent,
No words, no name she'd got –
But I was only too aware of her eyes,
As soon as you get into the wood
The tallest branches clog around you
So you can't, you simply can't flee,
Yes, I heard people call her birth,
Which might or might not be true,
But all in all who cares?
Certainly not the ladies who collect totes,
The girls who long to be loved only for the sake of love,
That's why they had been shouting to God
'Can't you turn me into a star that rips the sky
Into shreds?'
Light can be dangerous, of course, but hey ho!
Can't you turn me into the North wind that lifts the souls
Up to your stars?
I know, the North wind can be stone deaf,
But to hell with that!
Can't you turn me into a storm that hushes
Limbs and desire?
Sure, a storm can be so very blind,
But isn't love much worse? Forget it!
Silly girls, they trusted words were light,
Just as the moon trusts her silver lamé –
The point is words are dark
And skip your voice and mine –
Oh and what was God's reply?
Well, intact skies, tamed winds, casual storms –
Come to think of it, I won't come along,
Enough with airheads, totes and fancy dreams:
I'll do as I wish, so please count me out.
Just nice, just there, so bland
Those endless cups of tea,
How can they warn the twilight?
Something sure went missing,
Perhaps the night or your address book,
Both fading slowly if water echoes
The silence when kids stop breathing –
Careful, now, if green leaves or dead kids
Clutter your ghastly rooms, demise,
No wintry moons for you, they're grieving
Hidden among indigo blankets and blowing clouds:
Leave them alone, even if you never saw
Graffiti walls showing
The frenzy of misshapen words,
The polite strain between time and fear –
You can't grasp it? Too bad,
Her night let in percussive prayers,
Well, drums abusing a sky
Who never warmed to her,
Just the odd cheap gift, that handful of blue
He give her on the sly –
Meanwhile women sick with welcoming wombs
Happily reject words or life,
And stands still in the stains of my tea cup.
Oh, the wonders of life, the easy-going kindness,
Quick, you'd better leg it,
Four a. m. a good time for fags rejections
And savants suddenly turning into boozy pervs.
Keep schtum, words, you're hurting me!
Animals stay silent and I, too, am a silent woman,
Only once I shouted to Him
'Turn me into the wind that lifts the grass up to your stars' –
Of course, wind can be stone-deaf.'
Only once I shouted to Him
'Turn me into a star that rips into shreds all the sky' –
I know, light can be a sneaky piece of work.
Only once I shouted to Him
'Turn me into the moon that longs for silence' –
Of course, the moon can be so blind,
As lust when blanking stares.
God's reply? Oh well, loose moons, tamed winds, intact skies, –
I know, He didn't want me to share the hope
Lust might even say 'why not?'
Yet poems too, starvation black, but slyer
Like to foster this dream,
That they are invincible towers –
No, no towers for me, thank you very much,
And my flat hasn't the rooms, only three,
Aggro, hidden memories, a chthonic harmony
Where they're waiting for me,
The matron busy knitting blue tapestries,
While the queen shines swords and spears –
I know, snow petals look shy and frail,
But crystals, oh, what a different bunch,
No trespassing for them,
As light gave us so many gifts
Shall we keep them safe, sure, sure,
She's mine, she's ours, so no chit-chat please
And trust you me, one day you'll meet your folks,
My lover of a never-ending art –
Or is it God, maybe our hidden father?
We Hope you enjoyed this poetry.
Born in Italy some decades ago, Gabriella Garofalo fell in love with the English language at six, started writing poems (in Italian) at six.
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In his disorganized and somewhat annoying "Defamation," Yoav Shamir, an Israeli filmmaker, tries to stir up a tempest with the notions that "anti-Semitic" has become an all-purpose label for anyone who dares criticize Israel and that some Jews' preoccupation with the past — i.e., the Holocaust — is preventing progress in the here and now.
These ideas deserve a thorough, dispassionate discussion, but what they get here is an imitation-Michael Moore treatment, with Mr. Shamir trying to catch his subjects in unguarded moments. Not helping is that some of those subjects, at least for an American audience, are overexposed. Mr. Shamir's main fixation is Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the most prominent voices on Jewish issues in the United States, and he also zeros in on Norman G. Finkelstein, whose positions on matters related to Israel are well known from his books, like "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History."
Presumably Mr. Shamir's film plays differently in Israel. In the United States, it feels like just another day on the Op-Ed page.
Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
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Much like how it was in the pairs event, the battle for gold will come down to two teams on opposite ends of their careers - one team has already established themselves as legends of the sport after four Olympic medals (including individual gold and silver), the other is just getting started and is poised to dominate in the years to come. In this battle of the giants, who comes away with that title? Watch for the levels - cleanness in elements will pave the way.
Oh, and did I mention I'm doing a top 20 prediction??
Olympics predictions
Official hashtag: #PyeongChang2018
GOLD Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron FRA - Undefeated since relinquishing their World title last season to Virtue/Moir, including a win at the Grand Prix Final this season at Grand Prix Final, Papadakis/Cizeron have been on fire this season. Where they may trail Virtue/Moir this week is in the short dance, so they will need to keep their levels high and keep it close if they go into the free in second place. Their free dance is and always has been their strength, but this will likely come down to who can skate the cleanest in this event.
SILVER Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir CAN - Virtue/Moir were coming in hot after two stunning skates at Canadians. But though they won the gold with Canada in the Team Event, their scores were less than what they were looking for, especially in the short dance, where they didn't get the levels that they normally get for their Rhumba pattern. That said, this could very well be an advantage for them over Papadakis/Cizeron, because they were able to take the feedback and work on it over the past week. A lead of 2-3 points after the short will go a long way toward that second Olympic individual gold.
BRONZE Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue USA - The U.S. champs didn't get a chance to compete in the Team Event, so they will probably be even hungrier to get onto that podium this week. Over the past couple of seasons, they have really developed and matured by leaps and bounds - their power and their willingness to push everything to the edge have set them apart, and they will need to use every bit of that as a differentiator for the podium. Of all the teams, their free dance is perhaps the most eye-catching. But their placement in the final group for the short dance, due to their world standing, may make a huge difference given how tightly packed it is for that bronze medal spot.
4. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani USA - It's been a bit of a frustrating season for the Shibutanis - two seasons of progress that seem to have come to a bit of a stall this year. And it's not their short dance, which has generally been their weakness. They have the best short dance of their career and have performed it to full potential this season. Surprisingly, it's their free dance that has given them problems - so much so that they have made multiple substantial changes to it throughout the season. Like Virtue/Moir, they went through the Team Event with some levels issues. A medal will depend on how precise they are this week.
5. Madison Chock/Evan Bates USA - They have been bubbling under all season, with some of the best free dance scores of their career. It's their short dance that has been the liability, especially relative to their teammates, and they have taken steps to strengthen that short dance to get themselves in contention for a medal. Question is, have they done enough to offset the difference?
6. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje CAN - In a lot of ways, Weaver/Poje are the dark horses - they have been somewhat under the radar for the past few seasons, but they are the only team here who have the remarkable record of finishing fifth or higher at the past seven World Championships. Their signature free dance can be their ticket to a medal, but it will require them to really avoid the mistakes that they are prone to making, particularly on their twizzle sequences.
7. Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev OAR - Team silver here in hand, Bobrova/Soloviev come into their third Olympics trying to wrestle their way into the top. And while they have improved since the last Olympics, the teams around them have also improved, and perhaps more so. They also have the luxury of having done both programs in the Team Event ...
8. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte ITA - ... as have Cappellini/Lanotte. In their final Olympics, the 2014 World champions have had some highs this season but also some disappointments, including finishing off the podium at Europeans for the first time since 2012.
9. Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier CAN - After two finishes off the podium on the Grand Prix, Gilles/Poirier scrapped their free dance for a new one that they debuted at Canadians last month. They are absolutely top 10 material this week, but can they figure out a way to crack the top 8?
10. Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri ITA - This is the perfect stage for Guignard/Fabbri to establish themselves as the next Italian team to break into the top. They have had some strong finishes this season, including a career-high fifth at Europeans last month.
And then 11-20:
11. Penny Coomes/Nicholas Buckland GBR
12. Tiffani Zagorski/Jonathan Guerreiro OAR
13. Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed JPN
14. Sara Hurtado/Kirill Khaliavin ESP
15. Natalia Kaliszek/Maksym Spordyriev POL
16. Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu CHN
17. Kavita Lorenz/Joti Polizoakis GER
18. Alexandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin UKR
19. Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin KOR
20. Marie-Jade Lauriault/Romain Le Gac FRA


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A little bit about Kristy
Hello, I'm Kristy. I'm a registered Nutritional Therapist specialising in gut health. My mission is to use the latest evidence-based nutrition and my clinical experience to guide and help you to support your health and wellbeing.
After many years trying to juggle a demanding job as a solicitor in central London, I no longer had the drive I once had and felt completely exhausted. Instead of turning up the volume, as I always did, I decided to take a step back and look at what I could do to get back to my old self. I grew up in a very sporty family, with two brothers and a mother who always cooked homemade food. I went back to basics and became fascinated with how nutrition, especially gut health, and physical activity can support wellbeing. It was through diet and focusing on my gut health that I gradually started to gain energy, felt more focused than ever and regained that feeling of wellbeing. Nutrition fascinated me so much that I set about changing career and retrained as a Nutritional Therapist.
My belief is that with the right information and willingness, positive changes in nutrition and lifestyle can support our health and wellbeing.
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Finally finished the Wall Art project for my MATS course, I was very happy that I could combined some of my mono screen prints this week.
Think I know which one I will upload, and will go and do that now so that I don't change my mind again!
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Egg Freezing
Egg freezing, also known as oocyte cryopreservation, is an assisted reproduction technology (ART) technique that freezes and stores a woman's unfertilised eggs for conception at a later stage of her life.
Owing to various reasons and personal pursuits, more and more people are delaying child-bearing. Egg freezing offers hope to still have healthy eggs for reproduction by the time they are ready. This is referred to as 'social egg freezing', a term for freezing eggs for non-medical reasons, and is currently not allowed in Singapore.
Women can freeze their eggs in Singapore for future use if there is a medical reason involving a permanent impact on their fertility, such as having to undergo:
Egg-freezing provides them option to preserve their eggs before they are damaged or depleted, allowing them the chance to still have babies post-recovery.
How is egg freezing conducted?
Similar to the initial stages of an IVF cycle, a woman has to undergo daily injections of hormones to stimulate the growth of eggs until they reach a mature stage for retrieval.
The retrieved eggs are then frozen and stored. They can be thawed when the woman is ready to try for a baby.
Sperm Freezing
Like egg freezing for women, sperm freezing is an option for men who needs to preserve their fertility due to medical reasons. Semen containing sperm will be collected and frozen before they start on their chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgical treatment.
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Namco will release the racing game Ridge Racers for Sony PSP on December 12th in Japan. That is the same day the Sony PSP goes on sale in Japan.
Japanese News Site Watch Impress reviews the new Ridge Racers Game for the Sony PSP with screenshots. There are more screen-shots on the Namco Ridge Racers site. The game sells for about 5,000 yen (~47USD). The PSP Ridge Racers game has elements from former Ridge Racers version like the Reiko Nagase (photo below) CG character.
The screen-shots just look amazing. I am more a fan of playing games on big projection screens, but maybe this game will also be engaging to play on a small portable screen.
Play-Asia offers Ridge Racers for the Sony PSP for $48.90 for international sale.
The Sony PSP-1000 is available for $219.90 at Play-Asia.
More Sony PSP Coverage:
Sony PSP Region Free: Japanese Sony PSP will play US ...
Sony PSP-1000K - PSP Value Pack
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The Backhausdance Artist Series features periodic master classes taught by internationally-recognized, concert dance choreographers and dance artists. Zak Ryan Schlegel, an internationally-recognized dance artist, choreographer and teacher, is the artistic director of LA-based AXIOM Dance Theatre and company member of Shen Wei Dance Arts in New York City. His 90-minute class builds a technical language based in the dimensions of identity, challenges the dancer to move seamlessly in and out of the floor, and weldsintricate gesture-work with large, locomotive phrasework.
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Earlier Event: October 27Artist Series with Ido Tadmor
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Nestled in the perfect location in Montlake! Gracious living, dining & a gorgeous gourmet chef's kitchen offer sleek finishes & clean lines to create the perfect fusion of classic with contemporary! Quintessential indoor/outdoor living, spaces flow openly to a huge/amazing entertaining-style patio for grilling/fire pit & dining al fresco, with serene & private gardens. An entertainer's dream home. One car off street parking. An exquisite urban oasis with unparalleled beauty. Truly special. Offered at $1,100,000
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I make it a point to seek out all of the most strange, interesting and delightful things you can find on dear old tumblr. That's kind of the only reason I have one, which is why I was immediately enthralled when the sculptures of Argentinian artist Camila Valdez popped up on my dashboard. Amidst funky street style photos of "black fashion" and things like this, it was still hard to miss a pair of voluptuous legs popping out from a teacup/a decadent doughnut/a bag of fluffy popcorn.
Valdez is a female visual artist who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 2010, and her work is at once playful and provocative. Her sculptures of pastel pastries and treats, things normally associated with innocence, take on a more cutting edge when connected at the thigh to what looks something like a burlesque dancer in her final act. What can be made of this attention-grabbing juxtaposition?
Valdez has actually been likened to the American artist Mel Ramos — most often associated with the pop art movement of the 1960s. More specifically, he is known for paintings of nude women emerging from boxes of McDonald's fries or strewn across a pack of Lifesavers. Now I can't really speak to the intentions behind Ramos' nude paintings, but I can say that the commodification of women's bodies and sexuality is nothing if not tiresome at this point in history. Pairing the bodies of naked women with commercial products is a telling – but not new – observation of the role women play in society.
Which is why I was so charmed that the person responsible for creating this art is a woman. You see, a man making these kinds of statements and essentially writing the script for female sexuality is kind of old hat at this point. I think the idea of women being literally turned into food or a product to be consumed by anyone who wants her is a typical expression of women's sexuality that most people don't give a second glance to today. But for a woman to make this kind of statement, to illuminate so clearly the objectification of women through art, I feel like that is empowering. It may not be entirely new, but it is at least a variation.
For a woman to acknowledge the way women are portrayed molded honed into sexualized beings in such a frank manner is an act of power. One of the most disheartening things that I see even in my daily life is women who have internalized the way of thinking that allows patriarchy to run rampant in this country. They would never in a million years fathom of calling out anyone for instances of sexism or even recognize it as such, which I actually find frightening.
So to see someone like Camila Valdez attack the constant sexual objectification of women that seems to be ingrained in cultures around the world is awe-inspiring. The mere act of confronting it for what it is – for turning an ideological issue into something tangible and visceral and right in front of our eyes – is an act of rebellion.
Of course, I might be completely over-extending my analysis of what she intends to do with her artwork. 🙂 Find more information about Camila Valdez here and more of her artwork here.


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May 7, 2019
androidx.leanback:leanback:1.1.0-alpha02 and
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New features
- RowsSupportFragment is now allowed to share ViewHolders with other RowsSupportFragments, which would improve performance for a multiple-tab UI.
API changes
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- Fixed broken leanback-preference Fragments theme due to a change in preference library.
- Fix navigation bug when BACK key is pressed on SearchEditText
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A moving reality of abuse. The statistic on two women die each week from domestic violence. The poem moved me to the core. Thanks,
I'm sorry I'm stupid and sluggish and slow
I'm sorry for being me
I'm sorry I'm ludicrous, futile and foolish
I'm sorry for this apology
I'm sorry I forgot to put out the bin
I'm as sorry as can be
I'm sorry as soon as I open my mouth
I have to apologise
I'm sorry the sides of your face turn down
Each time I look in your eyes
I'm sorry whenever I speak the truth
That all you can hear are lies
I'm sorry for hurting your fist with my face
I'm sorry your skin has been marred
I'm sorry for making a dent in the wall
By landing against it so hard
I'm sorry I'm struggling to get off the floor
Because my back is so jarred.
I'm sorry as soon as you drive away
I'll be limping out of the door
I'm sorry I met you, I'm…
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We need you to stand up to Facebook; What do kids learn from technology?; Manipulative Pre-K Apps; Kids and Materialism; Screen-Free Communities; Students Protest Summit; Recommended Reading
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In this issue:
- We need you to stand up to Facebook
- What do kids learn from technology?
- Manipulative Pre-K Apps
- Kids and Materialism
- Screen-Free Communities
- Students Protest Summit
- Recommended Reading
We need you to stand up to Facebook
CCFC has been standing up to powerful companies for nearly 20 years, which means we've seen practically every PR tactic in the book. But even we were shocked by last week's explosive exposé of Facebook in the New York Times. In order to cover up misdeeds and shield itself from critics, Facebook has deployed an army of lobbyists, opposition research firms, and publicists – including Definers, a right-wing opposition research group who claimed Facebook's critics were illegitimate shills funded by a left-wing billionaire.
We now know that Definers played a part in trying to quash our campaign against Facebook Messenger Kids, the first major social network for young children. Definers placed at least one op-ed claiming our concerns about 5-year-olds using Facebook were much ado about nothing, and even claimed that the people involved used to oppose Sesame Street. (No CCFC campaign has ever addressed Sesame Street, never mind opposed it.) At the time, the piece seemed like just another PR move. Now, it's an illustration of just how unequal the playing field is.
CCFC doesn't have Facebook's resources. We did the math, and our entire annual budget is roughly equal to eleven minutes of revenue at Facebook. We don't hire PR firms. Our advocacy gets covered by the New York Times and Washington Post because it's evidence-based and supported by well-known experts in media and child development. We don't have lobbyists. When Senator Dick Durbin read from our Messenger Kids letter as he grilled Mark Zuckerberg, it was because he shared our concerns, not because we bought him dinner.
We have you – and we need you now more than ever. Help hold companies that target children accountable by supporting CCFC today.
CCFC vs. Facebook is something of a David and Goliath story, but it's nothing compared to Facebook vs. Children. We're the only organization working to stop Facebook and other tech giants from targeting kids with intrusive, ad-supported technology, and we can't do it alone. Please donate today.
What do kids learn from technology?
On November 15, the Children's Screen Time Action Network was honored to host Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige for a conversation about technology and young children. For Dr. Carlsson-Paige, "knowing how kids develop and learn is the single most important resource we have for making decisions about screen use." But how do kids learn? In her one-on-one interview with CCFC's Jean Rogers, Dr. Carlsson-Paige offered six core concepts about children's development and explored technology's impact on each one using examples from her own life as a grandparent. For instance, does a child using a multiplication app really understand the concept of 5, and that two 5s make a 10, or is he just memorizing the right answer? This webinar and its companion parent guide are excellent resources for families, educators, and anyone interested in knowing more about healthy child development.
Manipulative Pre-K Apps
Last month, we led a coalition of 22 groups asking the FTC to investigate the pre-school app market, and now, legislators are taking action. Using findings from a new University of Michigan study, our letter detailed how many popular apps for young children manipulate kids into watching ads and making in-app purchases. Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Tom Udall (D-NM), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have urged the FTC to investigate, saying "Children should be able to entertain themselves and play without being bombarded by promotional messages, which young people may not be able to accurately assess and identify as marketing." CCFC's Josh Golin joined Senator Blumenthal at a press conference on November 26, calling on the FTC to promptly take action to protect kids and families from these unethical and deceptive marketing practices. If you're interested in learning more about this issue, join us on Monday, December 10 for our next webinar, Are Apps Manipulating Young Children?
Kids and Materialism
How do marketers get people to buy so much stuff? They say it'll make us happy! But the truth is that a focus on having and getting stuff is more likely to make people – including kids! – unhappy. Learn more about advertising, materialism, and kids' wellbeing in our brand new fact sheet. And if you want to learn even more, check out this piece about raising non-materialistic kids, featuring CCFC Board member Dr. Tim Kasser.
Screen-Free Communities
Screen-Free Week celebrations take place in homes, schools, and libraries around the world. But did you know that communities also hold Screen-Free Week celebrations? Whether as a healthy community initiative or just a chance to gather people of all ages, Screen-Free Week is quickly gaining popularity as a fun and meaningful community-wide celebration. Here's how the town of Round Hill, Virginia launched its first Screen-Free Week celebration this year.
Students Protest Summit
We're cheering on the Brooklyn high school students who staged a walkout to protest their school's use of Summit Learning Platform, a "personalized learning" system backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg! In their letter to Zuckerberg, student leaders said Summit hindered learning and critical thinking, collected too much personal data, and "severely damaged" their education. "We refuse to be experimented on in this way," they wrote. Read their whole letter in the Washington Post.
Recommended Reading
- Although marketing to kids has been outlawed in Quebec for nearly 40 years, McDonald's has continued to target kids with Happy Meals. This class action lawsuit could change that.
- Paul France went to work at an ed tech start-up because he believed technology could empower teachers and students. But when he saw that his kindergarten students were more interested in their tablets than playing with each other, he knew it shouldn't be the future of education.
- An important report from Pew has revealed that nearly 80% of parents aren't comfortable with what their kids have encountered on YouTube.
- CCFC Founder Susan Linn outlines why Google's recent ad featuring Mr. Rogers goes against what the beloved icon stood for.
- According to a recent poll of 2,000 parents, many adults want their kids playing with the classic toys that are known to help with children's development.
- Looking to reduce commercialism and materialism this holiday season? Check out these Simplify the Holidays resources from our friends at New Dream!


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I am a Sydney based teacher who is looking for passionate singers of all ages.
Whether you are singing for the first time, preparing for AMEB or HSC exams, or coming back to music after many years I would like to help you reach your full potential.
As a singer I understand that each person has different needs and requirements from a teacher. As such I tailor my lessons to suit the individual. This means that I work with each of my students (and parents) to find a common goal, prepare and then achieve it. These goals can be anything from learning a song from your childhood to preparing for a tertiary institute audition – whatever the dream, I want to help you achieve it and have fun along the way.
Many students strive to feel comfortable while singing and as such every 8-12 weeks I host a concert night where each student has the opportunity to showcase what they have learnt and practice performing in front of a supportive environment of peers. This is also a chance for everyone to enjoy singing in a relaxed atmosphere with friends and family.
I teach classical and music theatre styles of singing and encourage all of my students to try different genres, eras and composers - all with a strong foundation of technique. Having studied at language institutes such as Goethe and The University of Sydney, I also offer language for singers as a private or group coaching session.
Regardless of your experience or end goal, if you are passionate about singing then I would love to hear from you!
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Corporate Healthcare
In order for modern businesses to perform today, they require happy, healthy employees who are engaged with their work and motivated to perform. Whilst most modern companies offer superb working conditions, employees are statistically working longer hours often with early starts, late finishes and short lunches. At times, the pressures to balance work and home-life can mean that your employees feel like they aren't left with enough hours in the day, meaning that their own personal health and well-being can be the loser in the battle of competing priorities.
About 7.6 million working days were lost due to work-related back pain and other musculo-skeletal disorders from 2010 to 2011. The most common causes of back pain are strained muscles or ligaments, wear and tear, bad posture and stress (NHS UK). Employees who have access to tailored healthcare in the workplace are not only more likely to treat health concerns before they manifest to a stage where absence from the workplace occurs, but in such cases where absence does occur these individuals are more likely to return to full productivity in the workplace in greatly reduced time-frames.
Our comprehensive Health screen aims to check for early signs of chronic disease in the body and identify aspects of their health in need of improvement. This may involve an onward referral to their GP or other health care practitioner. However, it is much more common to require lifestyle advice for specific changes that can be made in order to reverse the downward trend of ill health. This health screen can in some instances be a life saving intervention but can also be used to optimise current fitness levels in already fit individuals.
How can we help?
In order to make sure your employees are in the optimum state of health to meet the challenges your business demands of them, we will provide a tailored solution based on the needs of both the employer and the employee.
Typically this solution can consist of an individual in-clinic assessment to identify any current concerns, followed by a bespoke treatment designed to alleviate the immediate complaint, whilst ensuring that measures are taken to prevent further problems by way of advice and exercise prescription. Alternatively, some employers find it more convenient to arrange for in-house treatment to be available to their employees. A warm, private, designated space (such as an office) is usually required for treatments to be carried out. These visits can be arranged at intervals to suit the company.
A good example of an issue facing modern office based employees may be a postural imbalance. This condition may have been caused by a historic sporting injury or even childbirth. Living with a postural imbalance can hinder your employee's ability to perform to their optimum level and can be a causative factor in many other health issues such as migraines, neck and shoulder pain or disc problems to name a few.
The chronic symptoms of such a condition can be treated in as few as 3 treatments, with each session taking 30 minutes. Treatments can be undertaken at the employer's premises or outside of office hours to minimize the impact on your employee's working day with the frequency of these visits arranged to suit both employer and employee.
Prevention is better than cure and also works out being more cost effective. If an employee is not able to work due to injury then the company is not only losing that employee's expertise and work load but they are also paying their daily salary. In the case of musculo-skeletal issues and some instances of migraines and headaches, Osteopathy is able to prevent issues from arising in the first place and if injury has occurred can get your employees out of pain and back into work quicker.
What are the main benefits to your company?
- Osteopaths have the skill and knowledge to diagnose many health issues outside of musculo-skeletal disorders and make pro-active specific onward referral to other health specialists. This can lead to appropriate assessment and treatment at an earlier stage and a faster return to health and work.
- Our comprehensive health screen is designed to identify markers for ill health in advance of symptoms appearing. Rather than waiting long enough for someone to become unwell and display signs of a chronic disease, it is much better for the individual if they can be given lifestyle advice that can prevent them becoming sick in the first place.
- Treatment processes are streamlined to ensure that the maximum number of employees may be seen in one working day.
- We can offer a discounted treatment rate specifically aimed at corporate clients.
- Our holistic treatment is designed to improve the general health of your employees, whilst minimizing the adverse effect that any diagnosed or undiagnosed conditions may have on their ability to perform in their daily lives.
- Pro-active treatment can prevent conditions manifesting in the first place.
- Long-term cost savings by reducing sick leave related absenteeism.
- Offering such a service to your employees will enhance the employer/employee relationship and can improve productivity and staff retention.
"We are an e-gaming company based in Douglas and we recognise that our employees are our most important asset. We teamed up with Adam to offer his Osteopathy services as a part of our health & fitness employee reward scheme. The on-line booking system is an easy and efficient way for our staff to book an appointment time and the central location on Douglas promenade, offering treatments during and outside office hours, is both convenient and offers a very relaxing environment. We have had some fantastic employee feedback on experiencing relieved stress and muscle aches to having their back problems corrected, which have existed for years. We would recommend using Adam's Osteopathy services to any company who are interested in investing in the health of their employees."
To find out more about our corporate scheme and the discounts available, please contact the clinic. Remember, Osteopathy is covered by most health insurance providers.


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Deb Bailey was appointed to the Board of Trustees in August, 2013, and she was elected to serve another six year term beginning January 1, 2015.
Deb Bailey is director of Corporate Relations for Steelcase Inc. Locally, Deb has also worked at Custer Office Environments, Herman Miller, Inc. Haworth, Inc., Aquinas College and the Women's Resource Center.
She is currently on the Boards of The Grand Rapids Student Advancement Foundation, Hospice of Michigan, Aquinas College, St. Mary's Hospital Foundation and the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce. She is a founder of Gilda's Club Grand Rapids.
Deb has also served on numerous other community boards, committees, and capital campaigns. For her work and her community service, Deb has received a number of awards, including: the YWCA Tribute Award for Community Service, the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Athena Award, Herman Miller's Outstanding Employee Award and The Aquinas College Outstanding Alumni Award. She was also named one of The Grand Rapids Business Journal's 25 Most Influential Women in West Michigan.
She attended GRCC and holds a bachelor's degree in English, Communications and Education and a master's degree in Counseling from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She also holds a master's degree in Management from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids.


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Wedding venues in Grabouw
If you've recently become engaged and you're looking for an exceptional location, consider getting married at one of the Grabouw wedding venues. As one of the most popular weekend getaway destinations for people from surrounding regions, it's easy to see why this small, farming town is a wedding planners dream. From country clubs and hotels to boutique businesses and intimate venues, your pending matrimony can be everything you ever dreamed of.
Aside from the comprehensive wedding businesses in Grabouw, the setting itself means that you don't need to rely on major decorations to make your event beautiful. The tree-lined streets and historic buildings set the scene, while the abundance of bird life add to the atmosphere, all topped off with the massive and picturesque mountain range acting as your backdrop. Best of all, there's a host of support services available for Grabouw functions and venues, to ensure that you check everything off of your list.
Grabouw forms part of an area in the Overberg region called the Cape Country Meander. This region is blessed with incredible natural beauty and with so many amazing things to see and experience, your guests can not only witness your wedding ceremony but also enjoy the immaculate surrounds of the destination. As a hospitable town in the Western Cape, Grabouw is often the setting for many functions. In fact, the venues here offer comprehensive services which include on site catering, in-house décor and built in seating or other amenities.
Additionally, the town itself is home to several smaller support businesses for weddings or events, such as professional make-up and stylists, DJ's, cake makers and photographers. Therefore, you won't have to stress about paying extra travelling costs for these.
Aside from the breath-taking setting, Grabouw is only 67kms from the bustling Cape Town metropolis and situated near many of the major thoroughfares from surrounding areas of the country. This means that whether your guests are coming from far or near, they can plan an easy getaway, with your wedding in Grabouw as the main event. With a host of accommodation, attractions, outdoor adventures and other amenities available within the town, it's easy for them to have an amazing time away.
Additionally, those looking to travel from outside of South Africa can easily do so by flying into Cape Town International Airport. From there, it's simply a matter of hiring a car, catching a lift with a friend or utilising one of the many major bus liners or independent transport operators that stop here.


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Is cerveza a scrabble word?
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Cerveza is worth 21 points in Scrabble, and 23 points in Words with Friends
There are 7 letters in cerveza: A C E E R V Z
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Newhaven Baptist Church holds a limited range of personal data to enable us to keep in touch with people and provide pastoral support as appropriate. This includes names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers, but no sensitive data other than people's connection with our church. Under Data Protection legislation the Deacons (ie Trustees) of Newhaven Baptist Church are the Data Controller. Data Protection legislation allows us to process this information as we regard it as being in the church's legitimate interest.
Names and contact details may be entered into our password-protected church database which is administrated by the Deacons and held on a single computer. All forms containing personal details are kept in a locked cabinet, accessible only to the Minister, Deacons and other church leadership as appropriate to the involvement of the person concerned. Contact details are removed from the database, and forms destroyed if an individual is no longer involved with the church.
Membership of any church organisations, such as Sunday School, Women's Fellowship or Parents and Toddlers, and optional inclusion in the Church Directory, are documented by separate registration forms also regulated by our Privacy Policy.
You have the right to ask to see any information we hold about you by submitting a 'Subject Access Request' to one of the Deacons. You also have the right to ask for information which you believe to be incorrect to be rectified. If you are concerned about the way your information is being handled please contact one of the Deacons.. If you are still unhappy you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office


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Note: this is part five of an ongoing series of psychological marketing techniques based on renowned psychologist Dr. Robert Cialdini's work. If you haven't read the others, you can jump to part one, part two, part three, or part four.
5. Liking
"Multi-level marketing" schemes like Herbalife and Young Living work for one reason: the psychological bias toward Liking.
This concept essentially states that if someone likes you, they're more willing to buy from you (or do what you ask).
Multi-level marketing companies take advantage of this by relying on their customers to sell more product to their friends.
But Liking doesn't only come into play with friends and loved ones. You can like complete strangers, and the effect is just as strong.
Social scientists have identified 5 main factors that lead to Liking.
Let's take a look at how they can be used in psychologically-based startup marketing.
1. Physical Attractiveness and Grooming
The "halo effect" is when one positive characteristic causes you to assume there are other positive characteristics as well, even if they're not at all related.
Thanks to the halo effect, people tend to assume that attractive people are smart, talented, honest, and kind.
As an entrepreneur:
- The clothes you wear and the way you present yourself will have an impact on how potential investors see your startup. You are more likely to get funded if you're well-groomed.
- The level of design polish your site and app have will affect how much people like and trust it. Better design (even just superficially) = more users.
2. Similarity
- Studies show that we automatically like people more when they dress like us. So while it's true that looking good in general can increase your chances, it's also a good idea to dress and look like the investors you're pitching to.
- Having a similar background, having gone to the same school, coming from the same place, or having faced similar challenges all lead to liking as well. That's why politicians tend to claim to be "Washington outsiders" who come from unprivileged backgrounds: they want you to see them as similar to yourself, so you will like them more and vote for them. This is also a major purpose of small talk before a sales pitch -- finding things in common to create a bond and increase the chances of a sale. You can "play up" the aspects of your bio that you believe your audience is most likely to connect with, and downplay the parts that they aren't.
- A common sales technique is "mirroring," where you lightly mimic the prospective client's posture and demeanor in order to trigger the similarity effect and cause them to like you.
3. Compliments
- Giving a compliment, even one as simple as "I like you", fills the receiver with an immediate appreciation for the person who gave it.
Quoting Influence, "we have such an automatically positive reaction to compliments that we can fall victim to someone who uses them in an obvious attempt to win our favor."
4. Contact and Cooperation
- Contact: the more familiar someone is with you, the more they start to like you. And the same is true of your brand. That's part of why it's important to focus on a narrow niche or small target audience: it's much easier to get repeat exposure to the same people when the group is smaller and reachable. This leads to familiarity which creates liking.
- Cooperation: when groups of people are separated, they naturally form an "us vs. them" dynamic that is often only strengthened when they are brought back together again (the book Influence offers the example of a school becoming more racist and combative after desegregating). But when competing groups are forced to cooperate to achieve a common goal, they bond and begin to like each other. This principle may be harder to apply to startup marketing than the others, but collaborating with a fierce competitor would be one way to make use of it.
5. Conditioning and Association
When a person or brand appears along with a positive or negative experience, other people naturally connect the two and associate the feeling of the experience with the person or brand -- even if one did not cause the other.
That's why we have to say "don't shoot the messenger".
Conditioning is when this happens repeatedly, making the association much stronger and altering the neurological structure of the brain in the process.
When Nike spends tens of millions of dollars sponsoring elite athletes, it's to condition people to associate Nike with elite athleticism and #winning. That association makes the Nike brand and Swoosh logo worth billions.
But you don't need a massive marketing budget to make use of conditioning and association for your startup or side project. Here are some ways this psychological concept can be used much more cheaply:
- Include humor in your marketing and/or pitches.
- Send emails at a consistent time and day each week, so your subscribers grow to expect them.
- "Surprise and delight" your users or customers to build loyalty and increase word-of-mouth.
- When choosing your company name, make sure it's not similar to something already associated with negative connotations.
- Do what you can to associate yourself and your business with well-regarded others. (You don't have to do official partnerships or sponsorships, either; simply making comparisons often enough can do the trick.)
One last example...
If I wanted to use the principle of Liking to encourage you to subscribe to my email newsletter, I might say this:
As a founder, I know what it's like to struggle with marketing. To try a bunch of different things and to have none of them work as well as you'd hoped.
I also know what a game-changer it can be when you finally get real traction. Suddenly, your business starts growing faster and faster.
When your marketing works, everything is easier.
That's why I'm so passionate about finding and sharing marketing strategies that actually work with fellow entrepreneurs.
The best way to get more of them is by subscribing to my free email newsletter. Just click here to subscribe and you'll get free access to some of our best marketing techniques, including exclusive strategies I only share with my favorite people -- subscribers like you 😄.
Now It's Your Turn
Try using the psychological concept of Liking in your marketing or pitches, and let me know how it goes!


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Chronic Pain Syndrome. Fibromyalgia. Nerve Damage. Thoracic Bone Spurs. Cervical Bone Spurs.
1. Daily prescription medications
2. Inhaler.
3. Lip Balm.
4. Dragon figurine from Game of Thrones- to remind me to roar like a dragon no matter how sick I may feel.
5. Mini Dancing Groot Figurine- He is cute and makes me smile.
6. Harry Potter figurine- It is my favorite book and movie series.
7. Lotion.
8. Water bottles.
9. Two Tablets- I use one to watch TV, and the other for FB, E.mail, blogging, etc.
10. Pens.
11. Two Notebooks- One I use for everyday things that I need to remember. The Fibro fog is so bad, so I write everything down. I use the other one for ideas about my blog, or Facebook page.
12. Harry Potter Coloring book.
13. Coloring pens.
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14. Multiple water bottles- for taking medications, and the dry mouth that they cause.
15. Daily vitamins.
16. Pill Organizer.
17. Books- The Bible
The Bipolar Handbook, by Wes Burgess
Unstoppable, By Bill Nye
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook
18. Maglite Flashlight-I keep handy for when the lights go out in a storm, or to take meds in the night so that I don't wake up my husband.
19. Basket- Under my nightstand I have a basket that I use to carry things when I go to the recliner, or the couch to try to get comfortable.
For more information about my story you can follow me on my blog, A Chronic Illness Warrior


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(Photo: old faithful image by Dave from Fotolia.com )
Located inside Yellowstone National Park, the Old Faithful Geyser is the most famous (although not the largest, as is a common misconception) among all the geysers that spring up throughout the park. Eruptions from this mighty geyser occur approximately every 90 minutes and can shoot between 3,700 to 8,400 gallons of boiling water to heights between 106 and 185 feet.
Be sure to check at the visitor's center or the Yellowstone Lodge for approximately what time the next eruption is due to go off. This will allow you to plan your sightseeing time around the geyser and have plenty of time to find your perfect vantage point.
Hike up the 1.1 miles to the top of Observation Point for one of the Old Faithful eruptions. This moderate hiking trail puts you at about 200 feet up and gives a great bird's-eye view of Old Faithful. Elk and bison can often be found along this area, making it even more picturesque.
Take in an eruption from the benches right in front of the geyser. This puts you up close and personal to the geyser, the closest vantage point you can get when it goes off. If you sit in the front row and the wind is strong, you can sometimes feel the mist from the huge stream of water.
While waiting for another eruption walk around the Geyser Basin surrounding Old Faithful. Walking along the wooden planks that snake through the basin, you can take in geysers and hot springs of all shapes and sizes such as Lion Geyser and Heart Spring, which is one of the many springs that are the trademark shade of bright blue.
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On overnighters, you'll have to liquefy snow for water. Financial plan around multiple times more fuel for winter trips than for summer ones. A decent working appraisal is 6.5 to 8.5 ounces of fuel per individual every day (contingent upon the temp, stove proficiency, and how much extra fuel you need).
Recommended Cooking And Fuel Equipment
Nourishment and Drink Tips for Winter Camping
Your body utilises a great deal of vitality when you're trekking through chilly, frigid scenes. It's imperative to eat and hydrate a long time previously, amid and after your action so you can keep your vitality up and remain warm.
Here Are Some Nourishment And Water Suggestions:
- Enjoy Hot And Straightforward Dinners: A hot supper while winter outdoors is particularly satisfying, yet endeavour to keep your dinners basic so you're not stuck cleaning bunches of dishes exposed. Consider calorie-thick nourishments that don't set aside much opportunity to cook and search for one-pot choices. Stop dried courses and breakfast nourishments are likewise great decisions. Study supper arranging.
- Take Short Meal Breaks: For lunch, straightforward sandwiches or speedy snatch tidbits and vitality nourishments that give protein, fats and sugars are great. Do whatever it takes not to stop for long meal breaks where you chill off. Rather, take short breaks to nibble on nourishment, or essentially snack while you're moving.
- Store Nourishment Safely: Bears are ordinarily in a profound sleep amid wintertime, yet there are different critters that will joyfully nibble on your sustenance in the event that you abandon it available. Stow your nourishment safely in your knapsack or drape it from a tree utilizing a stuff sack and rope. A few territories may have directions for sustenance stockpiling; acquaint yourself with those before leaving home.
- Remember To Drink: Stopping to drink water when it's virus out can feel like a noteworthy burden, and you may not feel particularly parched like you do on a sweltering summer day. To remain appropriately hydrated, it's vital to make yourself taste water normally for the duration of the day. At camp, making hot beverages, similar to home grown tea or hot chocolate, or tasting on soup are great approaches to heat up and rehydrate.
- Use Bottles: Most winter campers leave their hydration supplies at home and take water bottles rather (the cylinders on repositories can without much of a stretch stop strong, along these lines removing your water supply). To keep your water helpful, you can utilise a protected water bottle cover that connects to the outside of your pack.
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Softening Snow: During winter, numerous brooks and lakes are solidified strong or covered underneath feet of snow, which implies you'll likely need to liquefy snow for drinking water.
To Soften Snow:
- Designate a territory for social affair spotless, white snow.
- Light your stove.
- Put a little water in your pot, at that point include snow (including water forestalls searing the snow, which can make an off-taste).
- As the snow dissolves, include more.
It's best to fill every one of your containers previously you go to sleep so they're prepared to go for the following day.
Wide open to the harsher elements, your body needs additional calories to keep warm, so allot as much as 4,000 to 5,000 calories for each day. Pack thick nourishments like cheddar, nutty spread, chocolate, pasta, and margarine. What's more, be careful the stop factor: Some vitality bars and tidbits, similar to almonds, turn projectile hard in crisp temps, so settle on less-prepared, entire grain bars, for example, Odwalla and Nutri-Grain, and dried-natural product snacks (cranberries, raisins, mango), which will in general remain delicate notwithstanding when the mercury plunges.


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Over the winter I took photos of the ultra-fabulous Ashley. It was the second time working with her and we had such a blast! We laughed and chatted more than we took photos. At the end of the shoot we talked about how she had just recently become engaged and we talked about the possibility of me photographing her engagement session and her wedding. We decided to do a trial run together and do an engagement session this summer and if her and Daniel liked the photos then I would probably end up being the wedding photographer.
A week ago we got together for the exciting engagement session. We went to an apple orchard in the valley called Boates U-Pick. The sun was shining, there were still some apple blossoms on the trees, everything was perfect. I had so much fun photographing Ashley and Daniel. Ashley always has lots of ideas for pictures so we normally just bounce off each other like energizer bunnies. And we made sure it was quick and painless for Daniel. Hahahaha.
Here are the photos, enjoy :)


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I am excited to be on the host committee for this year's Auxiliary Black and White Party at the Mint Museum! Of course, my favorite part about it all will be the fashion viewing on site at the main event. If you haven't been to a Mint party, you really must, if for no other reason than to look at all the fantastic outfits on display. Below is the party invitation, and you may purchase your tickets via the Mint Museum Auxiliary website or HERE. Grab a date, grab a girlfriend and go!
Excited to be going, but not sure what to wear? Do not dispmay! I've put together a round up of some of my favorite black and which cocktail dreses on the web.
If I had my way, you would likely find me wearing:
- This Rubin Singer corset bustier with sleek black pants.
- This black and white striped asymmetrical silk tafetta cocktail dress. The 80's at its absolute best!
- This Carolina Herrera black and white polka dot dress. 80's at its best on steroids!!
- And if I was feeling especially flirty, sexy and fun, this floral ruffle silk satin mini number.
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Edimax EW-7822UTC IEEE 802.11ac - Wi-Fi Adapter for Desktop Computer/Notebook USB 3.0 - 1.17 Gbit/s - 2.40 GHz ISM - 5 GHz UNII - External
The EW-7822UTC is a AC1200 USB 3.0 adapter that can pair with an 11ac MU-MIMO (Multiple User - Multiple Input Multiple Output) router. It upgrades your older laptop or PC to a MU-MIMO device and boosts connectivity with super-speed USB 3.0. The adapter also runs selectable dual-band Wi-Fi at speeds up to 300Mbps on 2.4GHz and 867Mbps on 5GHz.
Super-Speed with 802.11ac
The EW-7822UTC runs ultra-speed 802.11ac Wi-Fi that's almost three times faster than 802.11n. Upgrade your laptop or PC to sport 802.11ac Wi-Fi so you can enjoy online video streaming and multiple data transfers at the fastest speeds.
Meet the Latest USB 3.0
USB 3.0 is up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 with data transfer rates up to 5Gbps. It's the latest standard in connectivity and enables devices to achieve the superfast speeds which 802.11ac can provide - for faster photos, music, videos, and data.
Dual-Band Flexibility
Experience better performance and greater flexibility with EW-7822UTC for your laptop with dual-band connectivity. Either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency band can be selected with top speeds at 300Mbps and 867Mbps respectively. Surf the internet and check emails on the longer-range 2.4GHz band, or use the high-speed 5GHz band for online gaming and YouTube or Netflix HD streaming.
11ac MU-MIMO
The latest 11ac MU-MIMO (Multiple User - Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology runs four streams and serve multiple devices simultaneously, for the fastest speeds and uninterrupted Wi-Fi connectivity to all devices.
MU-MIMO for Non-Stop Streaming
Instantly upgrades your older laptop or PC to the latest 11ac MU-MIMO functionality. Everyone in the room can enjoy smooth surfing, streaming and gaming at the same time when the EW-7822UTC is successfully paired with a MU-MIMO router.
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Beamforming Wi-Fi
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postgraduate ACU-LMH-MAS-2019
Master of Leadership and Management in Health Care
Make strategic changes to the healthcare system.
Become an ethical, effective health leader. Prepare for work in the public, private or not-for-profit sector. Understand strategic development, and help to work towards delivering culturally safe, resource-efficient health care.
Available loans
Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Total subjects
Study method
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Established in 1991 after amalgamating four eastern Australian Catholic tertiary institutes, Australian Catholic University now has seven campuses, from Brisbane to Melbourne and welcomes students of all beliefs. Specialising in arts, business, education, health sciences, law, theology and philosophy, ACU encourages its students to think critically and ethically and bring change to their communities and offer this online through Open Universities Australia.
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The aim of this course is to prepare graduates to become ethical, effective health leaders and managers who support innovation and who are able to take the lead in strategic development of a range of organisations, leading to culturally safe, resource-efficient health care within local, national and global health contexts.
The two year course is offered at master level only with exit options being the Graduate Certificate in Health Administration and the Graduate Diploma in Health Administration.
Graduates will be well-equipped to lead and manage a range of health care services from a local, national and global perspective. Potential roles include:
- health services manager,
- nurse unit manager,
- Chief Executive Officer in a health facility,
- leader or manager in a humanitarian or social welfare organisation or
- manager of a public or private health-related facility.
Higher education
To be eligible for admission to the Master of Leadership and Management in Health Care, an applicant must have completed either:
- the equivalent of an Australian bachelor's degree in a health or human services related discipline; OR
- the equivalent of an Australian Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Health Administration; OR
- the equivalent of an Australian bachelor's degree in any discipline and relevant work experience in a health or human services role.
English Proficiency Requirements
Academic IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 (with minimum scores of 6.0 in all tests).
Award Requirements
To qualify for the degree, a student must complete 160 cp from the schedule of subject offerings, consisting of:
- 140 cp from Specified subjects;
- 20 cp from elective subjects.
Exit Points
A student who has completed the requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Health Administration or the Graduate Diploma in Health Administration may exit with the relevant award.


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Abu Dhabi Airports has appointed Mohamed Mubarak Al Mazrouei as its new Chief Executive Officer.
He currently serves as a board member of Abu Dhabi Airports and is also a board member of Abu Dhabi Ports Company.
Abu Dhabi Airports chairman Ali Majed Al Mansoori, said: "I am confident that, as chief executive, he will contribute to advancing Abu Dhabi Airports' journey towards becoming the world's leading airports group."


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Borden is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The town is located 325 kilometres south east of the state capital, Perth and 111 kilometres north of Albany, Western Australia on Chester Pass Road.
The town was established as a siding on the railwayline between Gnowangerup and Ongerup and is named after Canadian Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden.The railway opened for business on 6 January 1913 and closed on 13 October 1957.
The area near Paper Collar Creek near where the town stands was a meeting point for sandalwood cutters in the 1840s fow when they used to head to the port at Albany. In the early years at the height of the sandalwood trade, Paper Collar Creek was a meeting point for the sandalwood cutters as they travelled between the hinterland and the port. When they headed to town, they would dress up their shirts with collars made of paperbark to impress the ladies, and then discard the paper collar near the creek on the way back.
In 1916, 250 acres (101 ha) of land was set aside for a townsite. Although the site had not been surveyed J.G. Jenkins had already erected the first building containing dwelling, dining, refreshment and assembly rooms. Another man, J. Copeland was also constructing a building at this time. A telephone connection with Gnowangerup had also been established and mail was being received twice a week by train.
The local Agricultural Hall, constructed of Jarrah and cast iron, was opened in 1928 by the Minister of Lands, Mr. Michael H. Troy. Local members Mr. H. Stewart MLC and Mr. C. Wittenoom MLA were also present.
The main industry in town is wheat farming with the town being a Cooperative Bulk Handling receival site The receival bins are able to handle 170,000 tonnes (167,315 long tons) of grain during harvest times. In 2017 the receival site was inundated with floodwaters following a heavy rain event. The harvest had been a new record so that large amounts of grain were stored in overflow bins


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Be Ye Therefore Perfect – Eventually?!?
This is a title of a talk (without the question and exclamation marks) given at the October 2017 LDS general conference . It was given by one of their apostles, Elder Jeffrey B. Holland. It is also presently highlighted on the opening page of lds.org.
I added the question and exclamation marks. It was my way of saying, "Really?"
A couple of sentences in, he states: "But have you noticed that every now and then a passage will appear that reminds us we are falling a little short?" Now he really has my attention. His title is about perfection and he begins by talking about falling a little short? He can't be talking about Matthew 5:48, can he?
But that is indeed where he goes! He refers to some of the other commands Jesus gives in Matthew 5. Then he says,
"If that is your morning scripture study, and after reading just that far you are pretty certain you are not going to get good marks on your gospel report card, then the final commandment in the chain is sure to finish the job: 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father … in heaven is perfect.' With that concluding imperative, we want to go back to bed and pull the covers over our head. Such celestial goals seem beyond our reach. Yet surely the Lord would never give us a commandment He knew we could not keep. Let's see where this quandary takes us."
His answer? His title gives it away. Perfection is something for the distant future. Now all we have to do is make a little progress. "While in mortality let's strive for steady improvement without obsessing over what behavioral scientists call 'toxic perfectionism.'" Steady improvement rather than immediate perfection is how he interprets Jesus' command. And he doesn't think his interpretation does violence to Jesus' words. One final quote: "What I now say in no way denies or diminishes any commandment God has ever given us."
Truth in Love Ministry has devoted an entire website to Matthew 5:48. It is simply called beyeperfect.org. On it, we show in depth that Jesus demands perfection now. Jesus even phrased it the same way legal requirements were worded. Any interpretation which says differently denies and diminishes Jesus' command.
This is exactly what Elder Holland does. But he does so much more. His talk is just another way Mormonism is keeping millions in the dark of unbelief. It is an opioid dulling the pain of God's law. Because of such talks, millions don't see the danger they are in and thus don't feel any urgency to be saved.
Contrary to what Elder Holland says, Jesus wanted it and his other commands to hit us hard. He wanted them to hit us so hard that we would despair – despair of any thought we could do anything on our own to please him. He designed his commands to show us our desperate state, that "there is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one" (Romans 3:10-12).
Only when we see this will we be eager to hear about our Savior. The Savior who was perfection personified. The Savior who covered us with his perfection and wiped away the stain of our horrendous failings. The Savior, in whom, and in whom alone, we can be perfect right now. "This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6).
I encourage you to go to beyeperfect.org and see how we share this wonderful truth with Mormons - and we encourage you to do the same. We have even created a simple way for you to do this. We designed a special Christmas card highlighting "The Lord Our Righteousness". They are available in our store. Order a set to give to a loved one, friend or neighbor this Christmas.


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ST. LOUIS- The St. Louis NAACP hosts a kickoff meeting Thursday, July 19 for a new criminal justice reform initiative called Justice 2020 St. Louis.
The criminal justice reform plan is designed to build trust between the police and the community.
They are working with circuit attorney Kim Gardner's office to implement reforms; emphasizing fairness and equal justice.


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Article: Hyuna-Kim Hyo Jong couple attend their 'first public appearance as a couple since announcement 3 months ago'
Source: Newsen via Nate
1. [+601, -29] Hyuna's really become an ajumma now;;;
2. [+502, -21] Why does Hyuna's face shape look like this in all her pictures all of a sudden;; did she lose weight? She has a horseface now
3. [+493, -17] They both look diseased...
4. [+39, -0] Are they not eating? They look so out of it
5. [+36, -0] E'Dawn fits him better... Hyo Jong... doesn't match him ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
6. [+30, -0] Hyuna's impression has changed so much..
7. [+26, -0] Why do both of them look like they're on drugs
8. [+22, -1] Hyuna's looking more and more like an ajumma since dating him. She's trying to act all cool like she's not stressed but she actually must be under a ton. Her face has aged so hard.
9. [+21, -0] They both look exhausted
10. [+20, -1] Aigoo Hyuna-ya, you look like an auntie ㅠ
11. [+15, -0] They're both weird... like they're both 4-dimensional..
12. [+14, -2] Pretty refreshing to see an idol couple in Korea holding hands at a public event like this ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I didn't think we'd see something so Hollywood in our own country, guess times really are changing
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We'll find out at 5pm on Thursday, along with the rest of the CrossFit world. The live head-to-head battle immediately after the announcement of 16.4 features the reigning CrossFit Games Champion, Katrin Davidsdottir, and third-place finisher, Sara Sigmundsdottir, so it should be a fun one to watch. Join us at Arena Ready for the live stream, and as with previous weeks, if you're not able to make it in on Saturday for the Open you're first shot at completing the workout will be on Thursday evening at the 7pm Gladiators class.
Wall balls? Box jumps? Deadlifts? Handstand push-ups? Overhead squat? Will they save the thrusters for 16.5?!
I wonder if they got my email suggesting a trivia element or critical thinking AMRAP...
WOD for 03-17-16:
3-Position Power Snatch (Hip, Knee, Floor):
5 Sets of (1+1+1)
3 Rounds For Time:
400m Run
8 Power Snatches @ 135/95 lbs
12 Toes-through-Rings