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Published: 3 January 2013
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Looking for Transwonderland
Travels in Nigeria
Published: 3 January 2013
Other Editions
Published: 5 January 2012
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered there, and she didn't return for 10 years.
Recently, she decided to come to terms with the country her father loved. She travelled from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the empty Transwonderland Amusement Park.
Looking for Transwonderland is an engaging portrait of a country whose beauty and variety few of us will experience, depicted with wit and insight by a refreshing new voice in contemporary travel writing.


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Room B2.20, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Thursday 10 March - Anthony Ware - Context Sensitivity in International Development
Thursday 24 March - Jill Bamforth - The Untold Stories of Migrant Women and Australian Law
Thursday 7 April - Linda Young - The Construction of National Heroes in House Museums
Thursday 21 April - Geoff Robinson - American Liberalism and the Problem of Capitalism from the Long Boom to the Panic of 2007
Thursday 6 May - Benjamin Isakhan - Targeting the Symbolic Dimension of Baathist Iraq: Cultural Destruction, Historical Memory and National Identity
Thursday 19 May - David Hundt - Contesting Neo-Liberalism in Korea: Financial Crisis and Beyond
Thursday 9 June - Douglas Lorman - The Multicultural Debate: Deja Vu All Over Again
Thursday 23 June - Steven Slaughter - Does Minilaterialism Matter? The G20 and Legitimacy in Global Governance
Thursday 7 July - Abe Ata - Attitudes of Non-Muslim Australian Senior Students to Muslims and Islam: A National Survey
Thursday 21 July - Yin Paradies (University of Melbourne)- Understanding and Addressing Racism in Australia
Thursday 11 August - Leonie Rutherford and Adam Brown -Multiplatform Innovation and Participatory Citizenship: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Digital Children's Television Projects
Thursday 25 August - Yoko Harada- What Australian's Are Missing: Exploration into the Japanese theatre of the whaling dispute'
Thursday 8 September - Adam Possamai (University of Western Sydney) - Religious Profile of Aborigines, Pacific Peoples and Maoris in Australia and New Zealand. An analysis of the 2001 and 2006 censuses
Thursday 22 September - Alexander Naraniecki - The Origins of Australian Multiculturalism: Jerzy (George) Zubrzycki and Integrative Pluralism
Thursday 6 October - Professor Damien Kingsbury - Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indonesia's arduous path of reform
Thursday 20 October - Professor David Walker - Not Dark Yet: Writing a Personal History
Thursday 10 November -Professor Matthew Clarke - Yumi ol man blong Vanuato (We are the People of Vanuatu): Ni-Vanuatu Tertiary Student attitudes to national identity
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Mr Anthony Ware -
School of International and Political Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 10 March 2011, 12pm
The dominant presentation of international development approaches and principles is in terms of norms, which has resulted in insufficient articulation of how external development agencies ought to contextualise what they do to specific contexts. This gap in the literature might be interpreted as assuming such sensitivity to context is something agencies do (or should do) instinctively, that it is being implemented well by agencies, and that it is not necessary to be studied in greater depth. This paper contends that sensitivity to context cannot be assumed, that it often has not been done well, and that it requires renewed attention and theorisation.
This paper traces an evolution of thinking about context sensitivity in international development, starting from single pathway notions of economic development after World War II which described a defined linear process from traditional society to modern Western-like nation. It notes the development of country specific plans, the recognition that every country faces a unique developmental environment, emphasis from developing nations on the need for greater sensitivity to their context, recent emphasis on cultural diversity, and the prioritisation of community-led development and partnership with local organisations.
This paper suggests that on the one hand the global development dialogue has moved past universal prescriptions to recognise diversity, multiple paths and unique contexts. On the other hand, this paper argues that strong normative forces push development practice towards universal normative application, and diversity is still often treated as a deviation with only superficial variation permitted. It is argued that despite emphasis on highly participatory development, local partnerships, and empowerment, that what is widely overlooked is the ways in which international agencies themselves still need to contextualise their own actions to local, national and international contextual factors. This paper calls for more theoretical consideration of the roles and dynamics of context sensitive development, and makes some preliminary suggestions.
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Dr Jill Bamforth - Centre for Research Education Futures and Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 24 March 2011, 12pm
This paper describes a critical narrative research study to investigate the experiences of migrant women with Australian law. It compares the women's first-hand accounts of their experiences with narratives told about the same event by mediating and legal professionals. The research is situated within three intersecting theoretical frameworks: critical race theory, critical legal feminism and concepts of discourse and representation drawn from feminist poststructuralist theory. The analysis extends existing knowledge about migrant women by making connections between the women's experiences, professional interpretations of those experiences, and larger social discourses of race and gender discrimination.
Dr Jill Bamforth has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and curriculum writer in adult language centres and international schools in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She is currently working as a Research Fellow at Deakin University and as a lecturer in Victoria University's Vietnam-based M.TESOL program. Her academic interests include literacy studies, critical race and whiteness studies, critical legal feminism and narrative theory.
Dr Linda Young - School of History, Heritage and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 7 April 2011, 12pm
Nations need heroes, but the heroes available often need tweaking, not to say improvement, to fulfil their role as national patriarchs, models or souls. A fertile environment for the low-key presentation of a national hero is his (or sometimes her) house, where the domestic setting is seen to frame personal, homely, approachable aspects of character. The public may visit in the pilgrim tradition with a certain expectation of veneration and even of magical communion, but the house-setting also permits identification with the hero as member of a family or household, just as are visitors. This fusion of the sacred and the familiar constitutes the strength of the house museum as a site of national identity construction and reinforcement. Several tropes of heroic identity are common in the spectrum of house museums in the British world, where the earliest date from the 1830s-40-50s – the period in which Thomas Carlyle's lectures 'On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History' were first given. The master of heroic narrative history proposed categories including poets, prophets and divinities, which describe the kinds of heroes whose houses were museumised in the 19th century – as indeed his own London house and his birthplace came to be. My paper explores the class of museums made in the houses of heroes at this time, and ponders their survival in the modern world.
Dr Linda Young teaches aspects of cultural heritage management in the Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies program at Deakin University.
Dr Geoff Robinson - School of History, Heritage and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 21 April 2011, 12pm
American capitalism has generated both insecurity and inequality and unimagined prosperity. Liberals have sought electoral support from those disadvantaged by capitalism but have also had to appeal to an electorate committed to the project of capitalist affluence. Paradigms of intellectual liberalism have risen or fallen by their ability to provide effective political programs. The political effectiveness and intellectual influence of successive liberal programs has depended on their ability to successfully engage with the changing structures of American capitalism from the multidivisional firms of the 1950s to the rise of rise of financialized multi-level subsidiary firms in the 1990s.
Dr Benjamin Isakhan - Research Fellow, Centre for Comparative Social Research, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 6 May 2011, 12pm
This paper examines the systematic efforts to dismantle or destroy the symbolic dimension of the Baathist regime in Iraq since 2003. It argues that while the Baath were undeniably cruel and oppressive, they did undertake one of the twentieth century's most robust attempts to utilise the political power of historical memory to create a unified Iraqi national identity. However, while many have examined the militaristic or bureaucratic dimensions of de-Baathification, no such attempts have been made to examine the destruction of the symbols and monuments of the Baathist state and the consequences it has had for Iraqi national identity. This paper addresses this paucity and concludes that with the symbolic destruction of the Baathist state has come a near complete erosion of the Iraqi brand of nationalism that the Baath had managed to promulgate to varying degrees of success since the late 1960s.
Dr Benjamin Isakhan is Research Fellow with the Centre for Comparative Social Research at Deakin University. Previously, Ben was Research Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University and Research Fellow for the Griffith University Islamic Research Unit, affiliated with the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, Australia. Dr Benjamin Isakhan is the co-editor of The Secret History of Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) with Professor Stephen Stockwell. In addition, Ben has authored several publications including book chapters in Islam and the Australian News Media (Melbourne University Press, 2010) and refereed articles in the journals Middle East Policy, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Global Media Journal, Journal of Sociology, Australian Journalism Review, Media/Culture, Transformations and the Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. He has presented around 20 refereed conference papers in the United States, Jordan, Australia and New Zealand. Broadly, his research interests concern issues such as: Democracy in Iraq, Orientalism and the media, the history of democracy and Middle Eastern politics and history.
Dr David Hundt - School of International and Political Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 19 May, 2011
This presentation focuses on Korean contestation over neo-liberalism since the Asian Financial Crisis. It ascertains the degree to which civil society actors have contested, shaped and opposed neo-liberalism amid the Korean economic model's transition from a corporatist-inspired developmental state to a neo-liberal mode of governance. Drawing on Charles Tilly's 'dynamics of contention' approach, we examine contestation over elements of neo-liberalism such as the deregulation of labour markets, the reform of corporate governance, social policy, and free trade agreements. We find mixed evidence about the implementation of such policies and the capacity of civil society to oppose them. Korea's transition to neo-liberalism is far from complete. Instead, Korea resembles a form of 'ordo-liberalism' which retains a central place for state power.
Dr Hundt is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University. His main areas of interest are political economy, economic development, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. He has a particular interest in the history and politics of the Korean peninsula. His book, published by Routledge, focuses on the politics of rapid growth in South Korea.
Dr Douglas Lorman - School of History Heritage and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 9 June 2011, 12pm
A key feature of the recent federal election was the issue of immigration and population. During this time a number of issues were conflated under the rubric of 'population'. These included immigration, multiculturalism, terrorism, sustainability and the environment. Essentially though, the subtext concerned what kind of person we want as part of the Australian cultural landscape.
Using a discourse analysis approach I demonstrate how the media and politicians work in a symbiotic and mutually beneficial manner to construct so-called problems and alleged threats to social order and cohesion.
What I argue is that this struggle for Australian distinctiveness through the exclusion of the 'Other' is not new and has been a permanent feature of the cultural debate since federation. What has changed is the way racism and discourses of exclusion are constructed. Using Balibar's notion of neo-racism I demonstrate how 'immigrant' has become a substitute for 'race' and 'cultural difference' has taken over from 'biological difference'.
While the names have changed the distrust and Othering of 'newcomers' has a long history in the Australian social imaginary. It is part of the shifting sand that is the defining of 'Us' and 'Them'.
Dr Steven Slaughter - School of International and Political Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 23 June 2011, 12pm
This paper critically examines the significance of the G20 (the Group of Twenty) in world politics. It appears that the G20 plays a prominent and perhaps crucial role in stabilising globalisation and in coordinating the actions of states and International Organisations to address global crises when they arise. This paper examines the question of whether the existence of selective forums such as the G20 is replacing multilateralism as the organising principle for global governance in the 21st century. Some observers are extolling the virtues of selective forums for managing economic and social integration. Indeed Mosies Naim has coined the term "minlateralism" to denote such narrower forums, which involve the "smallest possible number of countries needed to have the largest possible impact on solving a particular problem". Consequently, questions revolve around whether minilateralism is a new phenomenon in world politics, whether minilateralism is antagonistic to multilateralism and whether forums like the G20 are legitimate in contemporary world politics. The issue of legitimacy will be considered both in theoretical terms of the changing nature of legitimacy in the context of globalisation and the emergence of new economic powers, as well as the policy related question of what should the G20 do to promote its legitimacy in a world which needs effective and representative forms of global governance. This paper will first contrast multilateralism with minilateralism and consider whether minilateralism is a novel phenomenon in contemporary world politics, second consider the advantages of minilateralism with a particular focus on the G20, and lastly consider whether minilateral fora like the G20 are legitimate in contemporary world politics and reflect whether there is any enduring importance of multilateralism in contemporary world politics.
Steven Slaughter, BA (Hons) Monash, Grad.Dip. Public Policy (Murdoch), PhD (Monash) is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His main publications are Liberty Beyond Neo-liberalism: A Republican Critique of Liberal Governance in a Globalising Age (2005) and Globalisation and Citizenship: The Transnational Challenge (co-edited with Wayne Hudson 2007). Before joining Deakin University in 2004 he taught at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Monash University, Melbourne University and the Australian National University. He has also taught at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra. His research interests include globalisation, global governance, human rights and International Political Theory.
Dr Abe W. Ata - Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Thursday 7 July 2011, 12pm
The Muslim community, though still small, is one of the fastest growing religious communities in Australia but so far, is little studied by researchers. A sharper interest in the media and government press releases into stereotyping of Muslim communities has come into focus during the last decade. The media image of the Muslim communities as a threat to the mainstream civic Australian life may have worked its way to a certain degree into the consciousness of Muslim and non-Muslim students alike. This study measures the attitudes of non-Muslim school age Australians towards Muslims and Islam. It explores the link between the media and political forces and attitude formation, and the extent to which they overshadow common values and issues of concern in religious communities. It makes curriculum recommendations and explores, amongst many other things, predictors that will bring about tolerant attitudes to Muslims. Over 2300 completed questionnaires were obtained from Year 11 students at 42 Catholic, Independent and State schools throughout Australia except WA and NT. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire comprising 90 variables. Questions covered Demographic variables; Attitudes; Knowledge of Islam; Social distance; Perceptions of religious groups –both Muslims and Christians. The paper outlines data frequencies and preliminary conclusions derived from initial survey feedback.
Dr Abe Ata is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation. Dr Ata graduated in psychology at the American University and was soon nominated as a delegate to the United Nations' World Youth Assembly in New York. He completed his doctorate at Melbourne University in 1980 and has since been teaching in several Australian, American, Jordanian, West Bank and Danish universities. He has been an Honorary Fellow at the Australian Catholic University for several years and his publications span 15 books. He was nominated as Australian of the Year in 2010.
Dr Yin Paradies - Senior Research Fellow at the McCaughey Centre in the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Thursday 21 July 2011, 12pm
Although racism is a pernicious global social problem, it is only recently that research has begun to reveal the extent and nature of racism in Australia. This presentation will begin by defining and conceptualising racism before detailing the prevalence of racism across Australia. This will be followed by a review of principles and practices in addressing racism, including specific examples of Australian interventions to combat racism.
Dr Yin Paradies is a Senior Research Fellow at the McCaughey Centre in the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. Yin¹s research focuses
on the health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice. Dr Paradies teaches professional development short courses on multicultural competence and anti-racism. He has qualifications in mathematics and computing, medical statistics, public health and social epidemiology.
Dr Leonie Rutherford and Dr Adam Brown - School of Communication and Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education
Thursday 11 August 2011, 12pm
This paper examines children's multiplatform commissioning at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in the context of the digitalisation of Australian television. A pursuit of audience share and reach to legitimise its recurrent funding engenders a strategy that prioritises the entertainment values of the ABC's children's offerings. Nevertheless, these multiplatform texts (comprising complementary 'on-air' and 'online' textualities) evidence a continuing commitment to a youth-focussed, public service remit, and reflect the ABC's Charter obligations to foster innovation, creativity, participation, citizenship, and the values of social inclusiveness. The analysis focuses on two recent 'marquee' drama projects, Dance Academy (a contemporary teen series) and My Place (a historical series for a middle childhood audience). The research draws on a series of research interviews and analysis of policy documents. The authors argue that a mixed diet of programming, together with an educative or social developmental agenda, features in the design of both program and online participation for the public broadcaster.
Dr Leonie Rutherford is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. She is a specialist in media studies, with a particular focus on children and youth. Funded by an Australian Research Council grant, she is currently evaluating the concept of emerging digital literacies using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. She is also engaged in a project to chart the development of the ABC's new digital children channel in the context of economic, technological and regulatory changes in Australia.
Dr Adam Brown is a Lecturer in Media, Communication and Public Relations at Deakin University. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, focusing on Holocaust representation, and is co-authoring the study, Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, contracted by Oxford University Press. Adam is currently working on research in the areas of children's television, new media in museums, and Holocaust film.
Dr Yoko Harada - Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
In Australia debate on whaling has already been over. Australia as a nation state firmly stands on an anti-whaling position to the extent of bringing the most notable whaling country Japan to the International Court of Justice. Almost every piece of media report in Australia clearly and absolutely shows sympathy towards anti-whaling activists and condemns whatever whaling activity currently been practiced. There is almost no space for pro-whaling arguments to enter and, therefore, the whaling debate does not exist as a debate in this country anymore.
However, very unfortunately from Australia's point of view, whaling is an ongoing practice. It is still continuing in different parts of the world in different forms and arguments to support the practice are well alive. The debate is far from over for those whaling nations and communities. For them, whales remain as one of natural resources which could be sustainably utilised. Therefore, it is still important and worth for anti-whaling nations like Australia to investigate what is in pro-whaling nations' mind and try to understand them, if not agree.
This paper will shed light on the Japanese theatre of the whaling dispute and make the complex nature of the whaling dispute in Japan visible and clearer. Consequently, it will attempt to restore the other side of the story to the Australian theatre.
Associate Professor Adam Possamai - Acting Director, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Sydney
The current literature remains silent on the various religious changes and conversion happening among the indigenous population. Using the data obtained from the 2001 and 2006 censuses from Australia and New Zealand, this paper analyses the religious affiliations of Aborigines, Pacific Peoples and Maoris. Among other things, it points out the decline in Christianity and growth in Islam, which is in line with current religious trends in the general population. However, with regards to the 'no religion' category, the growth of indigenous people is faster than that of the non-indigenous population. The results of this paper will feed into the current debate on post-secularism.
Adam Possamai grew up in Belgium where he studied to become a sociologist and a high school teacher. After some exposure to North Africa, he came to La Trobe University to do his PhD where he started to teach an introductory sociology unit. Since the completion of his PhD, which won a national award in 1999, he has worked at the University of Western Sydney and taught many sociology units. His specialities are the sociology of religion, sociological theory and the study of popular culture, and has published widely on these research themes. He is currently the Acting Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, and Associate Professor in Sociology, and the President for the Sociology of Religion Research Committee from the International Sociological Association.
He is the author of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach with James Henslin and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy (Pearsons, 2010), Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y (Equinox, 2009), Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament (Peter Lang, 2007), In Search of New Age Spiritualities (Ashgate, 2005) and the fiction book, Perles Noires (Nuit d'Avril, France, 2005). His work has been published in English, French, Spanish, Romanian and Slovakian.
Dr Alexander Naraniecki - Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
This paper argues for an integrative multiculturalism theoretically articulated by Jerzy (George) Zubrzycki (1920–2009) as the foundation for a normative definition and a national policy. This is not a plea for a new version of multiculturalism, but a return to the original definition and ethos of the policy of Australian Multiculturalism set out by the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council (AEAC) in 1977. Integrative multiculturalism (or integrative pluralism) is built upon liberal and humane approaches to cultural maintenance of immigrants in a way that seeks to promote the universal content of their particular cultural 'cores'. Simultaneously, it seeks to overcome chauvinisms, prejudices and illegal or harmful cultural practices which are normative to the collective ethics (Sittlichkeit) of particular communities. In this way cultural maintenance is not seen as a carte blanche but requires of minorities certain sacrifices particularly where one's ethno-specific Sittlichkeit is seen to be harmful to another cultural group within society or disrespectful to the majority culture. Such demands constitute the social contract upholding the moral (Moralität) underpinnings of the principles of integration and social cohesion. Not surprisingly such a multiculturalism holds conservative commitment to existing juridical and governmental institutions and certain fundamental cultural forms such as the English language. However, this is balanced by the view that society as a whole ought to evolve new normative inclusive cultural practices and ethical (Sittlich) values supported by universal and non-ethno-particular institutions. I would also make the case in using the term integrative pluralism as it is increasingly likely that the term multiculturalism has gained a normative popular meaning irreconcilable from its original vision. Integrative pluralism best describes the essential features of a Zubrzyckian multiculturalism.
Alex Naraniecki is a newly arrived Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Comparative Social Research and the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation in the Faculty of Arts and Education. His current research project is titled 'New Foundations for Multiculturalism' and is currently working on various publications focusing on the development of multiculturalism in Australia as well as the role of recognition and dialogue in promoting intercultural relations. Naraniecki is also actively involved in building bridges between the Polish and Jewish communities in Australia through dialogue and intercultural events as a member of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs.
Professor Damien Kingsbury - Director, Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne
Academics and policy makers have been and remain inclined to see Indonesia in one of two distinct ways: it is typically said to be either normal or special; that Indonesia conforms to conevtnional international principles of state behaviour or that it does not but needs to be understood in relativist terms. Neither appraoch is accurate and it is now necessary to just deal with Indonesia as it is, as a complex country shaped in part by its historical and physical circumstances but also by the competing influences of reform and regression. Indonesia is experiencing the challenges of reform; as much as it might try to change, there are structural forces and agencies at work that qualify the pace, extent and type of that change.
Post-Suharto, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono emerged as a capable, competent figure after a succession of weak political leaders. But Yudhoyono's government, especially in its second term, depends on a complex multi-party balance; SBY cannott, by himself, fundamentally reform Indonesian politics and society. His successor, post-2014, will be critical in either confirming the new directions in Indonesian politics or sliding back to old ways of doing business—and many of those old ways still exist in today's Indonesia.
Indonesia is more interested in external issues than it was a decade ago—still primarily internally focused, but rebalancing its threat perceptions as domestic challenges fade. Some within the leadership are keen for Indonesia to play a larger role in the broader Asia Pacific region and to take a seat at the global table. But the majority continue to concentrate on domestic, developmental challenges and growing Indonesia's influence Southeast Asia. Within this context, it is important for Australia to build a close and constructive relationship with Indonesia and by so doing to ensure engagement to our north.But for that partnership to unfold, both governments would have to want it to be more than it is now. The path forward will need to be marked by mutual cooperation, democratic and accountable governance supported by equitable and consistent rule of law, and exploration of further collaboration in a range of mutually beneficial areas. Australia should be proactive in exploring new opportunities for cooperation with a reform-minded Indonesia.
Not Dark Yet: Writing a Personal History
Professor David Walker - Chair in Australian Studies, School of History, Heritage and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University.
David Walker's eyesight deteriorated suddenly at the end of 2004 as a result of macular degeneration. His blindness caused him to reconsider his own relation to the past, and the history of his family, which, like most families, left very few records. Not Dark Yet: a personal history (Giramondo, 2011) is the result. It traces family connections to the mid-north of South Australia (just south of the Goyder Line) from the late nineteenth century to middle class life in the city from the mid-twentieth century.
The book examines how the past is embodied in everyday experience, as much as in extreme events - it makes the small events and day-to-day foibles of ordinary people bear witness to the social forces which have defined the country. In her review of the book for the Sydney Morning Herald, the novelist and critic Kerryn Goldsworthy commented: 'the book exerts the same powerful grip on the reader as the family chronicles and sagas of good 19th-century fiction and has the same kind of deep, complicated personal appeal.'
David Walker is Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been a visiting professor at universities in the US, China and Denmark. His books include Dream and Disillusion: The Search for Australian Cultural Identity, and Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, which was awarded the Ernest Scott prize for History in 2001.
Professor Matthew Clarke - Head of School, Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University.
Nation-building remains a key challenge across Melanesian societies, including Vanuatu. From the origins of the new nations of Melanesia following decolonisation in the 1970s and 1980s, it was clear that creating a unifying sense of national identity and political community from multiple languages and diverse traditional cultures would be difficult. Despite an apparent greater success than neighbouring Melanesian states, the legacies of dual Anglo-French colonialism presented additional challenges to the post-independence political elites of Vanuatu. This paper presents new survey and focus group data on attitudes to national identity among tertiary students in Vanuatu, based on research conducted at the University of the South Pacific and other tertiary institutions in Port Vila in 2010. Among other things, this paper argues that despite linguistic ties to political affiliation easing since Independence, there remains a strong ongoing association between the language of education and certain key attitudes towards national identity and different understandings of political community. These findings cast new light on the attitudes of likely future elites towards regional, ethnic, intergenerational and linguistic faultlines in Vanuatu, and the challenges of building a cohesive sense of political community and national identity.
(Research undertaken by Matthew Clarke, Mike Leach and James Scambary)
Professor Clarke is the Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. Professor Clarke has been chief investigator on six national Category 1 research grants valued at $2m during the last five years, and has published or presented over 100 academic journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. Professor Clarke undertakes regular evaluations of community development projects in the Pacific and South-east Asia for various non-government organisations, with a particular interest in HIV/AIDS and health-related projects.
Professor Stephen Castles -
School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney
International migration is a key aspect of global integration, yet unlike such areas as finance and trade, there is a lack of international institutions to set standards and ensure conformity with international legal norms – migration is characterized by a global governance deficit. State migration policies often fail or have unintended consequences, while for migrants the consequence may be high levels of risk and exploitation. The USA has over 11 million irregular residents, and systematic use of irregular migrant labour can be found throughout the world. In recent years, however, there have been attempts to move towards global governance mechanisms in the migration field. At the same time, migrant associations have grown and linked up with international human rights organizations. The article examines the reasons for these trends, paying special attention to the Global Forum on Migration and Development – an intergovernmental consultation process that has met annually since 2007 – and the efforts of migrant associations and other civil society organizations to bring human rights into the debate.

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I'm pleased to say that construction is steadily progressing on the William E. Kahlert Regional Cancer Center and Tevis Center for Wellness on our hospital campus.
If you drive along Stoner Avenue, you'll be able to see the 748 yards of concrete that was recently poured for the cancer center's linear accelerator vaults, used in radiotherapy treatment, to the far right of the construction project. Outside the main entrance of the Dixon building, structural steel support beams have been put in place for the cancer center's new two-story concourse.
The interior of the former ambulatory care center has been demolished, and crews have erected new walls, which will be primed and ready for paint by the end of the month. Inside, new mechanical and electrical systems are being installed.
The sitework continues for the underground stormwater piping.
The project remains on schedule, with the anticipated opening of the cancer and wellness centers slated for fall 2014.
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1 Boo Crew layer cake
¾ yard backing
Fat quarter for binding
Choose 24 of your layer cake squares. Arrange in sets of two. (4 set for the Bs and 8 sets for the Os)
Choose one other 10" square for spiders in Bs. Make a template from lightweight cardboard of a 6¼" circle.
For each O
Choose one of your 10" squares and place the cardboard template on top and cut a generous ½" seam allowance around it. From the other 10" cut a 8½" square.
For each B
Choose one of your 10" squares and cut:
2 - 3½" squares
1 - 1½" x 6½" rectangles
From the other 10" square cut
6 - 1½" squares
4 - 1½" x 6½" rectangles
To make the Os run a gathering stitch ⅛" around the edge of each circle.
Next pull the gathering stitch until the circle begins to pop up.
Pop out your template and center on your 8½" square background. Top stitch in place.
Using your 10" spider square cut 8- 1½" circles. A spool of thread works good for this.
With a needle and thread start on the wrong side of the fabric and begin a gather stitch.
Folding the fabric over as you go.
Pull tight to create your spider and tie off. Repeat with remaining circles
Sew a 1½" x 6½" B rectangle to a 1½" x 6½" background rectangle.
Take the 3½" square and sew the 1½" squares on the diagonal on three of the corners. Trim seam allowance.
Sew a yo yo spider in the center of this block. Repeat with the other 3½" square, remaining 1½" squares and yo yo spider.
Sew these two blocks together.
Sew the two 1½" x 6½" rectangle unit to the side of this.
Sew another 1½" x 6½" rectangle to the other side of your B.
Sew a B to two Os to create your Boo units. Make 4.
From your scraps or remaining 10" squares cut 4- 5" x 6 1/2" rectangles and 1- 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" rectangle. Sew these together with the smaller rectangle in the center. Sew this piece between two of the Boo units.
You can stop here to make a table mat or add the remaining Boo units on either end for a runner.
Sandwich top with batting and backing and quilt as desired. I quilted spiderwebs in mine.
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The Cordoba of Romero de Torres
This museum is home to part of the oeuvre of painter Julio Romero de Torres, along with some of his personal items.
It is a monographic exhibition dedicated to the Cordoba artist, Julio Romero de Torres. The museum opened in 1931, and contains valuable paintings by the artist which demonstrate his deep attachment to his home town. Besides paintings, you can also see the artist's furniture, palettes and brushes, as well as his library.


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B'dazzled will be the 11th extravaganza directed and produced by the master of the craft, Carlo Spettu and his team, choreographer Ursula Greer and lighting designer Grant Williams.
The show ticks every expectation from feathers and staircases to a dazzling array of sensational costumes that are changed every two to three minutes, and spectacular state-of-the-art LED lighting effects.
B'dazzled's music is both modern and familiar, covering all genres from hip hop to funk, pop, Latin and swing, a mix of genres catering for all tastes.
Vocalists Hayley C and Miles Hartman will add their phenomenal voices and presence to the spectacle on stage with power ballads and the latest pop songs too. Their performances in the previous show were so well received by Sun City audiences that Carlo happily brought them back for this new show.
Also returning by popular demand are the Naledi, award-winning Ama Taps quartet from Soweto. Their lightening quick tap dance routines are awe inspiring.
Directed and produced by the master of the craft, Carlo Spettu and his team, choreographer Ursula Greer and lighting designer Grant Williams, Heavenly Bodies is a sophisticated, sexy and raunchy show performed with a cabaret, burlesque, and Moulin Rouge feel. If you enjoy Michael Bublé, Tina Turner, Ray Charles and Broadway, if you like glamour, great moves and great bodies, you'll get all that in Heavenly Bodies, and much more.
Along with vocals from talented singers Hayley C and Miles Hartman, the show features nine 'heavenly' female dancers and four hunky males. The show is sexy and dramatic, delightfully daring, naughty but nice and deliciously entertaining. The costumes are risqué but fully dressed by special body lighting projections for dramatic and sensual effect.
The show starts at 10 p.m. Tickets are available from Computicket at R160 each to strictly over 18s only.
From 1 September - 25 October, fans of all ages will enjoy a massive, 8-week long entertainment experience at Sun City's highly-anticipated Spring Celebration.
Headline acts who will be part of the festivities include Die Campbells, LCNVL (Locnville), Pascal & Pearce and Nakhane Toure.
Family-friendly entertainment includes special appearances by Little Miss Sunshine and Mr. Bump, The Giant Puppets and the Marimba Band on Heritage Day.
A highlight of the Spring Celebration is the Huisgenoot Skouspel 2014 – an Afrikaans music extravaganza featuring more than 20 of South Africa's most popular Afrikaans artists, including Chris Chameleon; Die Heuwels Fantasties; Heinz Winckler; Karen Zoid; Ray Dylan and Snotkop.
All roads lead to Sun City this spring, so bring the whole family to celebrate the season with flair.
Dynamic and entertaining, Vocal Mania – back from the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland – begins its two month-long run at the Sun City Theatre on the 4th October.
The production will feature:
Show take place at:
20h30 Wednesdays – Fridays
15h00 and 20h30 Saturdays
14h00 Sundays
Come enjoy a carefully selected showcase of songs spanning over five decades. Book your ticket now and avoid missing out!
Huisgenoot Skouspel is a popular Afrikaans music extravaganza that's coming to Sun City's Superbowl on 4th, 10th and 11th October 2014. The breath-taking line-up of 20-plus musicians will take the audience on a musical journey that celebrates contemporary hits and adored classics.
The bevy of local performers for this year's Afrikaans music extravaganza will include:
An international guest act who will be gracing the stage at this year's Skouspel is none other than international best-selling record artist Richard Clayderman.
Accommodation and seats are limited, so book your place now to avoid disappointment.
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Take part in the annual Dis-Chem Sun City Swim held amongst the swaying palms, lush tropical gardens and crystal waters of the Sun City Resort.
The annual Dis-Chem Sun City swim is taking place on 18 October 2014. Enter into one of 10 swimming events, including a Pharmachoice un-timed fun swim for the whole family.
Accommodation packages available at the Sun City Hotel and the Cabanas Hotel, so don't miss out on this thrilling event.
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Kings of Chaos, the super-group featuring some of the very best rock musicians the world has ever known, is returning to Sun City. Special guest, the legendary Steven Tyler, joins the phenomenal Kings of Chaos 'All-Star' band as they bring the show back to SA.
Once again at the band's core are Matt Sorum, Gilby Clarke and Duff McKagan - all originally from Guns n Roses. In addition to Tyler this time they are being joined by; Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top); Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) and Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme) - with more stellar guest artists scheduled to be announced in the coming weeks.
Each Kings of Chaos show is a 'moment in musical history' due to the particular line-up of the individual shows. It is unlikely to ever see those specific musicians together in a band ever again.
This 2 hour long rock 'n roll master class will deliver all the hit songs that fans have come to know and love – and with the catalogue of hit songs to work with between Aerosmith, Guns n Roses, ZZ Top, Cheap Trick and Extreme, the show promises to be incredible!
The 2013 Kings of Chaos SA tour was a sell-out success, but now that SA audiences have experienced this extraordinary group in the flesh, promoters of the event Sun International and AMP Events is expecting the 2014 shows to sell even faster.
The feast of musical mayhem continues as rock music royalty, Kings of Chaos, announce an additional performance date on Sunday, 30 November 2014.
Seven original members – with more guests to be revealed in the coming weeks – will team up on this historical night to form the ultimate rock mega-group.
A few of the bands these musicians have founded or performed in, include:
Venue: Sun City Superbowl
Time: 16h00
Tickets for this event are selling fast so book now on the Computicket website to secure your seat at this spectacular music event.


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South Mississippi kids weren't the only ones getting Christmas surprises this year. The Bacot-McCarty Foundation also donated hundreds of dollars to make sure Jackson County senior citizens had gifts under the tree.
An unexpected visit from Santa Claus and load of presents under the tree were just some of Christmas surprises at Singing River Rehab & Nursing Center for seniors.
The holiday event is part of Singing River rehab's adopt a senior program, which helps make sure everyone has a gift for Christmas. But when some people were left without sponsors this year, the Bacot McCarty Foundation donated more than $700.00 for gifts.
"Through their generous donations, we were able to give above and beyond any Christmas yet," staff member Nicole Etheridge said.
The non-profit foundation's executive director Todd Trenchard said he was more than happy to put a smile on the senior's faces.
"It is something about giving and watching somebody receives something that is totally unexpected. With our senior population, it is a totally unexpected gift because they may not have a loved one that can visit them because of maybe proximity or one circumstance or the other, so it is truly been a blessing to see this," Trenchard said.
The more than 100 excited seniors couldn't wait to unwrap their presents, and they received everything from new pajamas to perfume.
Vivian Johnson loved her Christmas surprise. She said the holidays bring back such great memories.
"It goes back to my childhood a little bit, sure does," Johnson said.
The center's staff hopes the community will continue to show that very special Christmas spirit.
"Please remember our seniors throughout the year. At Christmas time they come to mind, but they have needs throughout the year," Etheridge said.
To adopt a senior for the year call Singing River Rehab & Nursing Center at the number you see on your screen (228)762-7451.
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Iv tried a few tanks and even tried to force myself to like em.
. The Kanger H Cartos just work soo much better then anything else I have tried.
Is it just me or does anyone else feel the same way.
I feel the same shiver, but a stainless kanger in tank would be pretty awesome.
I don't understand why the thread has been split up, the post count alone on the last one was a testament to how great canvape is.
I just noticed, it is happening all over the site with big threads. Weird forum update i guess.
ECF is having to upgrade their servers due to the size of the canvape thread
All is good in Vape land.
But where were we... oh yea POOWAAAAHHHHH! I told you canvape had to much to stay in it's own thread.
Entire guy on a horse and the old spice whistle.
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Yeah, you would need to get a short tank, and punch or slot the cartos yourself. Unfortunately the smoktech tanks are too long for regular size cartos.
Assuming you could get the holes right so it wicks well, i don't see why it wouldn't be awesome.


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The GeForce 7600 GT
Codename: G73
90 nanometer technology
12 pixel shaders, 5 vertex shaders,
12 texture units, 8 RasterOps processors
128bit memory bus
560 MHz core, 700 MHz DDR memory (1400 MHz effective)
The GeForce 7600 GT is the little card that could. A 12-pipeline card with a 128 bit memory bus, it can keep up with the 16 pipeline 256 bit cards of the previous generation, thanks to newer architecture and higher clock speeds.
Note that the memory runs at 700 MHz, which at first glance seems much faster than the competitor's roughly 500 MHz memory. Since the 7600 GT's 128 bit memory interface is half as wide as its 256 bit Radeon competition, however, it runs at about the speed that 350 MHz memory would on a 256 bit bus. This is probably the 7600 GT's biggest limiting factor.
The 7600 GT is capable of DirectX 9c / Shader Model 3.0 class effects like OpenEXR HDR lighting, but is hardware-limited in that it cannot run anti-aliasing at the same time.
The 7600 GT is the smallest card in the comparison. It does not require a dedicated power cable, because its power requirements are the lightest of the three cards.
The 7600 GT we used for testing is Gigabyte's Silent Pipe 2 card. Its clock speeds are the standard 560 MHz core / 700 MHz memory, so it will perform identically to all 7600 GT models based on the reference specification.


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New Police Chief Steps Down
Updated: 12/30/2004 - Police Chief is accused of misusing power.
Updated: 12/30/2004 - Police Chief is accused of misusing power.
Updated: 12/29/2004 - The search continues for a missing teen and her grandmother from Kinston.
Updated: 12/29/2004 - Sleep Apnea was a possible factor in the death of NFL great Reggie White. Could it threaten you?
Updated: 12/29/2004 - A Williamston woman lost her life Wednesday morning on the way to work.
Updated: 12/29/2004 - The Agriculture Commissioner race will be decided in a new statewide election.
Updated: 12/29/2004 - A new project will help bring jobs and hope to an economically depressed area.
Updated: 12/29/2004 - New cameras will allow you to check out road conditions before leaving your home.
Updated: 12/28/2004 - Eastern Carolina saw its share of extreme weather in 2004.
Updated: 12/29/2004 - One county is working hard to remove snow and ice from roadways, especially on secondary roads.
Updated: 12/28/2004 - More than 180 million tons of trash will be thrown away now that the holidays are over.
Updated: 12/28/2004 - State employees can expect to pay more for health coverage.
Updated: 12/28/2004 - Retail sales over the holidays turned out to be record breaking for some stores.
Updated: 12/28/2004 - A 14-year-old in Columbia is accused of dropping her twin infants out of a bathroom window. Are there ways to prevent this from happening again?
Updated: 12/27/2004 - With Interstate-95 a major corridor for holiday travelers, many ended up stopping off in Rocky Mount when the roads got bad Sunday.
Updated: 12/27/2004 - Pitt county was one of the areas hit hard by Sunday's winter storm, keeping Department of Transportation officials busy to say the least.
Updated: 12/27/2004 - You've seen the sign before... "Bridge Ices Before Roadway." Monday morning one Pitt County man got a first hand lesson.
Updated: 12/27/2004 - Things started to get back to normal Monday for U.S. Airways following a chaotic holiday weekend.
Updated: 12/26/2004 - A train accident in Rocky Mount that left three motorists dead is under investigation.
Updated: 12/26/2004 - Some problems are reported at local airports because of the weather, but most say flights are getting off the ground.
Updated: 12/26/2004 - Slush covered roads in Pitt County are expected to re-freeze overnight making for treacherous driving conditions.
Updated: 12/26/2004 - The winrty weather is making for dangerous driving all across Eastern Carolina.
Updated: 12/26/2004 - The Raleigh area wasn't spared from the winter weather Sunday making for dangerous travel conditions.
Updated: 12/26/2004 - A shooting in Craven County kills a 12-year old, and a skiing accident results in the death of a teen from Jacksonville.
Updated: 12/25/2004 - An Onslow County sex case suspect is locked up under a $1.5 million bond.
Updated: 12/25/2004 - A Georgia man faces charges in a deadly accident Friday on Interstate 95.


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I'm not willing to work at a relationship. I believe that a good relationship shouldn't require work, but if people are willing to do it, that's great for them, as long as they're not completely miserable. My parents didn't get along, but they were determined to not get divorced. It was horrible. They were both miserable and it made us kids miserable. They did their best to try to hide it, never argued in front of us, but there was just no sign of love there. Sometimes divorce is the best solution for everyone.
I don't think the notion that some marriages are just bad, negates the claim that all marriages take work. No one can possibly be completely compatible with someone else. There will always be differences that require compromise.
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Very good article, both for information and ammusment.
I can agree with so much of this, I warrior tank up to mid t5 content with a guild alliance while still remaining in a very small guild. What this means is 1-2 hours spent repairing, restocking, planning gear for the next boss, grinding gold for repairs and consumables for every 4 hour raid. I still enjoy heading off and tanking 5 mans when possible but getting the above done doesn't leave much time for it.
Myself and I know a lot of other tanks keep unguilded or "hidden" alts just to be able to spend some time doing something different. Strangly enough most of our alts are healers and not dps, were just different than dps I think.


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working on something neat with paddyleung 👀👀👀
( if you're intrested in tie dying keep yer eyes peeled for her TIE DIE PARTY at The White House Studio Project in downtown Toronto Aug 28!! )
(super badass, villain, babe haircut)
our initial sketches and the final product!
IM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS going to show this off a lot a lot a lot!!!!
paddy leung turning hair into works of art U w U)/
thank you nancy for styling these two lil buns for me!!!!! ♥
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I've recently started a art fundraiser that involves with awesome $5 haircuts. These donations goes back to art events that I want to host, a place where I can bring all kinds of interesting people to meet and greet but also a chance to be creative and inspired by others. Having that said I start raising money for my next event : TIE DYE PARTY. I've been very lucky to have so many people to support me and today my dearest friend came through.
This is probably the badass undercut that I ever gave to anyone. I was so excited and honoured to be asked by my good friend. Kelly K. is one of the coolest comic artist I know and she's the most hilarious person who actually thinks I'm funny. Here is the processes of Kelly's super badass, villain, goth babe haircut !
In the next couple weeks I will have an official announcement and an official website of all the haircuts that I've been doing. I'm pretty excited to share this to everyone because it's amazing how many people want to contribute to COUPE DE COEUR. I can't wait to host all these art events and share all the magic that I can create for Toronto.
If you're interested to get a cool haircut with me and you want to support my art parties, please contact me at email@example.com
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biggest ty to PADDY LEUNG♥ for giving me the skrongest undercut and turning me into the supervillain goth space babe of my dreams !!!!!!!!!!
if you live in Toronto (or can make your way down/up/around here!!!) she's doing really wicked haircuts for $5!!! all proceeds go towards future art parties much like the mask party she hosted earlier on this month, as well as the exhibition that followed!!!
you can take a look at the haircuts she's done so far, and if you'd like to get one yourself, hit her up!!!!
let's help a fellow artist bring the art community closer together, and get a bombass hair cut in the process!!!
Hey guys! Me and a friend are running a small kickstarter to get some vinyl sticker sheets made. Please check it out if you're interested!
I have a new comic PDF for sale on gumroad called Cold Soup
Cold Soup follows an adventure through a frozen land as our hero avoids on their journey through this chilly landscape.
72 full color pages of adventure for $6!
I'll post a preview of the first few pages soon.
ian comics always give me nice feelings and Cold Soup def makes me wanna put on my hoodie n backpack and go on an outing to grab food w friends :>
back it for some really sweet stickers from m'linz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 7, 14, 21, 28
Mask Party
curated by Paddy Leung and featuring Tessar Lo, Nimit Malavia, Maria Nguyen, Jenn Liv, Alexei Vella, Kelly Kwang, Megan Ellen M, Keita Morimoto, Nancy Zhang, Justine Wong, Peter Chan, Jon Todd, Shea Chang, Ness Lee
and MORE!
if you're free tomorrow from 2-6 you should come to 26 at 26 Mackenzie Crescent and check out this MASKIVE collection of masks curated by the one and only PADDY LEUNG!!!
paddy really outdid herself and brought together a wide range of artists and designers, and you'll truly be blown away by how utterly impressive these maskerpieces are!!!
let's celebrate the beginning of summer with a maskuerade c:
The sixth chapter of my comic Worlds is now on sale HERE!
You can get all the issues from my gumroad store and there is a preview of the first issue HERE
MASK PARTY: Celebration of Life
On May 31 I invited some of Toronto's finest to create a mask follow by a lovely gathering that I hosted for our upcoming art show that will be on display this coming weekend on Saturday June 7th at 26. It was one of the biggest and successful gathering that I've ever organized. I'm so happy the turn out was amazing and everyone really felt the magic that night with me. There was so many complications that got in the way planning this Mask Party. I originally planed to host a rooftop party however the management office decided to cancel my party due to stupid reasons. I was so devastated when they told me to cancel my party. After months of planning all my hard work was going to shit. When I announced the sad news, everyone was so supportive and encouraged me to follow through with the party. I got home that same day and my mother invited me over to have dinner her. She was so sweet to me because she knew how disappointed I was about the party. My mother had always been a great hostess, she was always the one who brought all our families together whenever we had gatherings. That night we talked and I remember she said to me "you have to take life where it takes you, make the best with what you have…". I realize she was right, I shouldn't give up so quickly! I decided to move the party to the park near where I live. I didn't know what to expect since I've change the location at the very last minute. But I wanted to invite anyone to come and just have a wonderful time together.
I got to the park at around 6 pm and it was still bright outside, there were so many kids running around at the playground. By the golden hour everything was perfect, all my guests was slowly making there way to the park. People came with their mask on and surprising me with warm hugs and kisses. I couldn't be more grateful to see all my friends together. Everyone was admiring each others masks, taking photos, and laughing together. Suddenly we were the kids in the park running around and chasing each other with our masks on. By the end of the night, I brought out sparklers for all of us to share. We lit all the sparklers together at the same time and a beautiful luminescent glow surrounded us. It felt so magical and nostalgic; like I was time traveling. I look over to my left and I see friends that I made 10 years ago and to my right friends I made in the last couple years. It felt like I was celebrating my birthday; my life. Some unexpected guests showed up to the party as well! It was really nice to know that I was bringing people together. I realize this event wasn't just for artists who created these masks but for everyone who wanted to take part of this special and inspiring evening.
My mother asked me the other day why I was hosting this event. I told her that it was about celebrating life. She looked at me and smiled like a proud mother. In the last 25 years of my life, I've had many great sufferings raised by strong but ill parents. For so long I've always felt like my family lived in a life with an expiry date. Until recently I realized that I need to just be grateful with what I have now and appreciate these moments that I can share with people who I love so much. I was speaking to a friend yesterday and she mention this quote she knew "vitam vive, ama vitam" (live life, and love life) those are exactly the words that I live by. My parents has been the biggest supporters of my life and has always put their best interests in my passions. I feel very privileged to be raised by a loving family and being surrounded by amazing people all my life.
I spend most of my nights wondering what is my purpose in life is. I think about what really makes me happy. I concluded that I love bring people together and the Mask Party was my gift to everyone who wanted to feel inspired and experience something beautiful. It was my way to thank all my friends for being here in my life. I want to thank you again for everyone for being so supportive and amazing. The true magic really lies within us, spreading the magic and being together made it all magical. It was truly inspiring and a memorable experience that I will always cherish so closely to my heart.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
For more pictures you can see my recent post on my flickr account and my instagram (#MaskOnTO)
I will be there on June 7th alongside with some amazing artists at the opening. If you can make it this weekend, not to worry because it will be there for a month!
im the biggest piece of shit i know
see y'all at PADDY LEUNG'S MASK PARTY TMR !!!
come celebrate the start of summer n shoot the shit with us ♥
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The Archaeology MA: Cultural Archaeology pathway focuses on cultural interpretation in archaeology, both in relation to specific cultures/periods and current research themes, with opportunities to specialise in a range of subjects, including material culture studies, funerary archaeology, British and European prehistory, and Greek and Roman archaeology. It is an ideal foundation for doctoral research in all fields of cultural archaeology, as well as training in practical and research skills for careers in archaeology and heritage.
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Del Sesto, Nicole. All Encompassing Trip. Seattle: Afterbirth Books, 2007. 308 pp. Paperback. $14.95. ISBN 193392912X.
In Nicole Del Sesto's All Encompassing Trip, aerobics instructors become oddly endearing, quick-witted coyotes sport do-rags, and coffee disappears completely, only to be replaced by episode after episode of Oprah, setting the stage for a strikingly original and laugh-out-loud funny first novel.
The journey begins when Nikki Nasco, a wonderfully neurotic businesswoman, starts compiling the five rock albums she would want if she were stranded on a desert island. Having a completely normal day, Nikki goes to her best friend Amber's exercise class, after which both women agonize over their respective exes. When they wake up, the world around them is both drastically and minimally different — only reruns of reality TV shows flicker in their darkened living rooms as a leprechaun waits in Nikki's back yard, all in the complete absence of caffeinated beverages. What's left of their possessions are Amber's car and the truly useless things — e.g. push-pins, Hallmark cards, Raid, a Fed-Ex envelope — in addition to Nikki's five desert island rock albums. Nikki and Amber's normal life is clearly missing, and it's their job to bring it back.
In addition to its sparkling prose and memorable dialogue, Nicole Del Sesto's narrative is rife with parodies of American life as well as subtle social criticism, lending these two women's entertaining adventures a serious ideological message. Emphasizing a balanced philosophy of life in which one avoids extremist points of view, All Encompassing Trip often uses the absurd premise of the book to satirize fanatics of all kinds — from the overly liberal to die-hard right-wingers to the extremist vegan. As Del Sesto writes at the start of All Encompassing Trip: "Somewhere in Milpitas, Chuckie Rightwing invites Jesus Christ to live in his heart … In Berkeley, Demi Davi Dai, a vegan, sits down to a meal of tofu with organic flower petals … In downtown San Francisco, Kassen Kyle, a medically certified commitment-phobe, considers his options for the evening…A normal day" (9). By juxtaposing a group of different but equally passionate fanatics, Del Sesto emphasizes the ridiculousness of the way these characters' identities are determined by their respective ideologies while showing the danger and isolation inherent in becoming too invested in any belief system.
Consistent with the social criticism woven throughout the novel, sheltered and weight-obsessed Nikki Nasco learns to value open-mindedness and a balanced worldview in herself and others, rendering her an unexpectedly fun and sympathetic character. As Nikki finds herself exposed to just about everything on this truly all-encompassing trip, Del Sesto skillfully develops Nikki's character to reflect this concept of belief in moderation, keeping her audience on its toes all the while. Del Sesto writes, "It seemed to Nikki, that being gay or anything else for that matter, should be about making a choice for your life, and not needing to shove your choice down the throat of the world…It's too bad it all gets lost in a stereotype" (75). Delivering a truly modern and socially relevant message through this imaginative parody, Del Sesto is a Bizarro writer with the heart of a philosopher.
If you enjoy leprechauns, coyotes, vegans, boot camp, or a skillfully constructed narrative, All Encompassing Trip is for you.
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When I was pregnant with my first child, I was determined to have a natural, drug-free childbirth. So I decided my husband and I should take Bradley Method Birthing Classes.
And so, every Saturday during college football season, we sat with our instructors in our family room for three hours, watching all sorts of ridiculously outdated videos, completing homework about cervix size, and planning every single aspect of my birth.
Even though I did end up having a drug-free birth, all I could think about during my few lucid hours after my baby was born was why the heck I spent so much time in those stupid classes.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking birth classes. In fact, I'm not even knocking Bradley Method Birth Classes (but update your materials, people!).
Mostly, I'm just knocking my own stupidity for spending so much time and energy thinking and planning the BIRTH of my child, rather than learning about what to do after she arrived.
Yes, there were the few sessions spent on changing a doll's diapers, which I already knew how to do anyway. And there was lots of time spent on how to breastfeed.
But the rest of time was spent on my cervix dilation, and how my husband could support me during labor and transition, which, yay, I'm so glad that I knew about that except since my daughter was sunny side up until the last moments before pushing, my whole labor felt like transition.
And all those great breastfeeding tips? Well they didn't work because I had a foremilk imbalance.
I'm not saying all the information about birth wasn't valuable, but quite frankly, I could have done with just a few classes on breathing and the "hows" of birth with the rest of the time spent on how to actually take care of a baby.
Hire a doula if you want a natural child birth. Then take some classes on the more important part: PARENTING.
I'm an educated person who worked with children for most of my life, yet I felt completely and utterly helpless with my daughter. I had absolutely no clue what to do with her.
So sure, take your birthing classes. But do yourself a favor and take some parenting classes too. Because that labor and delivery part is over pretty quickly. But the kid part? Well, that lasts forever.
Were you glad you took birthing classes?
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I have always gotten a kick out of the time people spend preparing for childbirth. We are talking a few hours of your life which, though memorable, are quick and fleeting and one way or the other you are going to be handed a baby. Interestingly, most people I have talked to have come home with their newborn and been completely at a loss for what to do next. Crib or bassinet or parents bed? Swing or bouncer? Onesie or footie? Swaddle or no swaddle? I think a class on just how difficult it will be at 3am on day five would be much more beneficial. While dad is walking into walls and mom is crying with the baby it would be so helpful to know that this was exactly what you should expect and your child is not abnormal... and neither are you.
There are a lot of people who are clueless when it comes to childbirth, particularly expectant fathers. Unless he's read every book and paid attention then he's not going to have a clue as to dilation, effacement, episiotomies, vacuum assistance and so on. Its good to know what all these things are to make the situation a little less scary should problems arise. I had to field several questions from my husbands co-worker and his girlfriend just before their recent birth because they had no clue what the doctor was talking about.
I spent a lot of time reading...and took a couple classes on actually caring for a baby, but I never had a birth "plan" per se. My first one was an emergency c-sec and the second was a planned c-sec but turned into an "emergency" when my BP went all wonky. I say, its ok to have a plan, just be willing to go with the flow..
Chocodoxies- very well said. Those first couple of weeks can be hell and it's really hard for some people who have only ever seen the sunshines-and-rainbows side of newborn parenting and go into it thinking that those first few weeks are going to be some kind of idyllic wonderful experience. The truth is, Mom's hormones are all out of whack, Baby's been forced out of a nice, warm, dark environment where everything was instant and on-demand and Dad's wandering around dumbfounded and awed by the fact that he IS a father. And that's just for first time parents! I'm sure there's an even greater dynamic when you add in older siblings. It's a wonder any of us make it out alive those first few weeks. My daughter was a wonderfully easygoing baby when she was first born and it was still pretty rough for us, exactly for the reasons I described above, plus I was recovering from a C-section.


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Perhaps it was being mistaken for the one other Black guy in my office by a colleague who had worked with him for years… Or perhaps it was being asked repeatedly by co-workers to teach them the Single Ladies Dance? Either way something provoked me to go on Twitter as @DearWhitePeople two years ago and start tweeting things like:
"Dear White People. The single ladies dance is dead. Please turn off your web cams and go on about your lives."
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