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|Girls in Kenya receiving their feminine hygiene kits. Photo courtesy of http://www.daysforgirls.org/
The wild and wonderful Maria Rattray asked me to help her with her Kenya, Africa project. Maria, acting as an ambassador for the Days For Girls organization, recently spent a few weeks in a small Kenyan village teaching and working with the village girls. The trip objective: to promote healthy living and education in a place where girls continue to have a high incidence of dying during childbirth—mere children themselves.
Keeping the village girls in school elevates the whole community, and that is a paramount goal of the Days For Girls organization. The main way to maintain school attendance for the girls is to deal with an issue that forces girls to quit school: the beginning of their menses. In an effort to continue going to school, the girls try using leaves or corn-husks to absorb the blood. Some girls even utilize rocks in an attempt to block the blood flow.(Can you imagine your 8th grade daughter jamming rocks up her vagina?) The girls' futile methods result in their leaving school by age 13 or 14 to sit at home on a piece of cardboard until the messy business of being an adolescent girl subsides. Or worse, they end up pregnant and leave school to tend to their baby.
Maria, who manages a Friday afternoon enrichment program for disenfranchised kids, in addition to her day job as ruler of aquatic therapy at the gym, requested we send a message of love and hope to the girls in Kenya. She asked us to share snippets of what life is like in America; include a bio with photos and relate a personal triumph over an obstacle. She recruited her "Friday Kids" to write messages as well. I told her that my life was hardly a good example, but she wanted my input, so I obliged. How often does one get asked to help change the world, anyway?
I gave a brief bio, and included photos of me growing up American girl style: Midwest spoiled; yet lacking the self-esteem gene—a personal obstacle I used as an example for Maria's project.
What message of hope did I send to those girls in Kenya who rank below the chicken in their society? I wanted to tell them what to do; but that would be condescending, perhaps misunderstood and no doubt unappreciated. I know little about the people of Kenya, other than a few Public television shows and the occasional news report. I just want us to adopt them all and move them to the United States.
Instead, I offered a message of Silent Hope:
Dear girls of Kenya, consider quietly practicing self-respect; because I think whatever one does in life, especially girls and women, evolves from self-respect and self-love. It's still a man's world. Boys are granted self-respect; and men naturally embrace it. Girls seem to have to chase it down—and it always seems to outrun us just when we need it most. Even as women, we battle for that badge of self-respect and the right to realize it.
How can a girl in a Kenyan village, practice self-respect? Learn to love your body and your mind. Treat these gifts with kindness, reverence and gratitude. Understand that while your body houses your spirit, it comes with a solid mind intact. Use it well. Consider that you originated from the spiritual plane, and you will return to that realm when you have lived your life according to your destiny. Meanwhile, you have a spiritual responsibility to care for your spirit's temple—you.
But you don't have to utter a word about your practice. Outwardly you may look the same, and do the same chores. However, inwardly you are becoming confident in who you are and how you want to be in this world.
Follow the example set by the author of Man's Search for Meaning. Victor Frankl. Frankl endured his internment in Nazi concentration camps by giving his external suffering, as a prisoner, an empowering meaning for his future and the future of his progeny. Frankl used the power of his mind to live through horrible conditions—engulfed in death and destruction. He silently practiced self-respect and self-love. Use his story to fashion your own fresh narrative.
Young girls of Kenya
your everyday life is a journey in spirit
Your daily actions
provoke meaning and power
Your power is choice
The meaning you choose to give
to what happens in your life
determines your character
and guides how you will feel
You have special gifts to share with the world
Even if that world is less than a square mile
The whole world anticipates you
We need your uniqueness
You are the world's special gift
We honor you
We champion your endeavors
of education
and bettering your life
in any way you can
Because in bettering your life
you better the universe
Thank you!

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I'm not going to lie: I've always felt intimidated to participate in a Hackathon.
All those smart, savvy, competitive minds battling it out in a cut-throat environment to quickly code up and release a product in 12-hours? I stepped away from being a code-monkey years ago and I certainly don't fit into a visual designer role – who had time to work with UX person in such a stressful environment? That being said, I felt a sense of admiration of my friends who had pulled of a hackathon, so when I got an heads up about Protohack from @LadiesThatUXNYC, I finally felt that this would be the perfect opportunity to bring out the inner entrepreneur and do a hackathon without the intimidation.
What is a Protohack? The only code-free hackathon for non-technical entrepreneurs. A jam-packed 12-hour hackathon … to pitch your idea in front of investors, developers, product people, and more. Walk away with a prototype, pitch, and awesome prizes to take your product to the next level all without writing a single line of code.
Getting the party started! Sort of…
I arrived at 9:30 AM, and was expecting to walk into some sort of ice-breaking event, or at least some sort of way for people to meet each other and share their ideas, but instead everyone was sitting at a table and appeared to have already made teams. Not entirely sure what to do, I grabbed an empty seat. I scanned the room and recognized one girl from a previous LadiesThatUX Meetup, and quickly made my move (I wanted to work with a team, after all!). I was able to join her team, and the day just got better from then on.
Keynote Speaker: Bradford Shellhammer
As founder & CEO of http://Bezar.com and founder of http://Fab.com, Brad definitely has an impressive portfolio along with plenty of experiences to talk about.
As a keynote speaker, apart making people who asked him a question yell out their "spirit animal", he shed light on the deep struggles but also joyous moments of living the start-up life. A few of my favorite quotes include:
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- If you do it and fail, it's better than not doing it at all.
- You are not going to be successful unless you really believe that what you will do will change the world and it means something to you.
After lunch was served, it was time to get busy. My team hashed out our idea, started researching for user validation, and pieced together our business model. I focused my energy on getting our wireframes together. Protohack offers each team the opportunity to book a design and pitching mentor for 15 minutes each, so we took advantage of that and got some great tips from designer Nick Spriggs and pitching tips from Stacee Mandeville. Time was slipping through our fingers, and at 7:45, we wrapped up cramming our Google Slideshare deck together and submitted it away. I found it odd that we could still edit the deck once pitches started going since it was a Google Doc, but it didn't matter to us since we were the third ones to pitch. In any case , once 8 PM struck, the judges were introduced and the ball got rolling!
It's already been 90-seconds??
90-seconds flew by, and nearly all of the teams had trouble keeping their pitch under the time limit . To work on an idea all day and to sum it up successfully in 90-seconds was probably the hardest challenge our team had – but hey, lesson learned! A 30-second warning would have been helpful. Our team used a self-timer, though that may have been more distracting than helpful.
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With over 30 years of industry experience, Larry has worked with some of the top product developers in the country. A graduate from the highly competitive University of Texas at Austin, Larry has established himself as an expert in the industry both on a national and global level. While working in commercial electronics and defense contractor industries, Larry gained technical skills in mechanical life testing, specification definition, root cause analysis and accelerated life testing. Larry is also in the process of completing his Certified Quality Engineer certificate.
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A graduate of the University of Utah, Ben has a background in electronics and mechanical engineering as well as experiences in the semiconductor industry, manufacturing and the medical device field. As Reliability Engineer at ARL, Ben helps to determine testing machinery and test criteria for the ARL lab. Ben is an ASTM Board Member on Additive Manufacturing and brings an expertise in 3D printing to the ARL team. He continues to expand his research in additive manufacturing, creating optimum protocols for testing to the highest safety standards for 3D printed parts.
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Over seven years with ARL, Jon has been involved in reliability testing for the computer, oil and gas, telemetry, aviation, aerospace, safety, consumer, military, commercial and industrial industries. As a reliability test engineer, Jon brings a multitude of disciplines to the team with a background in field applications for a major OEM power supply manufacturer, as well as design, restoration and repair of test, audio, electrical and mechanical systems. Jon has also created many reliability test designs, including machine replication of human-induced stress, fixture interface, electro-mechanical robot design / build, and sensor / data acquisition design and implementation.
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Monty Hall was the host of the US television game show Let's Make a Deal. An idealized version of one of the games on the show is known as the Monty Hall Problem, and it reveals some aspects of basic probability theory that many people find counter-intuitive. In the game, there are three doors; behind the winning door is the top prize — e.g. a car — and behind each of the other two (losing) doors is a booby prize — traditionally, a goat. (We presume you'd rather win a car than a goat.) Monty Hall knows beforehand which door is the winner. As the contestant, you get to choose a door to open, and will receive whatever lies behind the door. However, to introduce some extra tension, Monty will offer you the chance to change your mind.
This is how it works. The game begins with you choosing a door. Monty opens one of the other two doors, revealing a losing door; of course, he can always do this because at least one of the doors not chosen initially by you is a loser, and Monty knows where the winner is. Monty says something like, "Are you sure you're happy with the door that you've chosen? Or would you like to change to this one?", indicating the other unopened door (i.e., neither the one you first chose nor the one that he revealed).
So… do you switch?
Try to work your strategy out before reading any further!
This problem uses only elementary probability, but contains some subtleties for the unwary. Marilyn vos Savant discussed the problem and its (correct) solution in her "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990; many readers wrote to the magazine claiming that she was wrong.
It is beneficial to switch (you actually double your chances of winning). Hopefully it is clear that if you don't switch, you have probability of winning. That is,
Now, if you do switch, you lose if and only if you chose the winning door to start with (since if you did, you switch to a losing door, otherwise you switch to the winner). So
If this argument is a little too sneaky, think about how the game proceeds for a given configuration of winning and losing doors.
Describe a configuration by some list of the three outcomes (W, L, L), and, without loss of generality, suppose the first entry in the list is the door that you chose initially. Then there are three distinct possibilities, WLL, LWL, and LLW, and each of these is equally likely (probability ). Then
What happens if you do switch? If we are in situation WLL, then Monty reveals one of the two losing doors (it doesn't matter which), and if you switch then you end up with the other losing door. On the other hand, if the situation is LWL, Monty will reveal the third door and switching will take you to the second door (the winner!). Similarly for LLW. So
At this point, with any luck, some of you are thinking something like this: "But how can it make any difference? When I chose my door originally I knew there must be a goat behind at least one of the other ones; now Monty has confirmed there was a goat behind at least one of the other ones… which I knew already, thank you. Nothing's changed, so how can it possibly benefit me to switch?"
The reason for the change in probability is the fact that Monty's actions do impart additional information, because, with the knowledge that he possesses, he's opened a particular door. (Think about some generalizations: what if there were 100 doors and Monty had revealed 98 losing doors?)
To see how Monty's actions impart additional information, consider a variation of the original problem.
Further problem
Going back to the original (3-door) problem: suppose instead that Monty suddenly forgets where the winning door was, panics, and opens one of the two remaining doors randomly. By chance, he happens to pick a losing door to reveal, much to his relief, a goat. Does this change the probabilities?
Solution. We use some basic conditional probability. Using the same description as above for the possible configurations,
since if you initially choose the winning door, Monty will always choose to open one of the other two (losing) doors. On the other hand, if you initially choose a losing door, Monty's chances are only 50–50:
Now the only winning configuration for the strategy of not switching is still WLL. By Bayes's rule,
Again using the fact that all three configurations are equally likely a priori, we obtain
So the probability that either strategy wins, given that Monty happened to pick a losing door, is now : Monty's incompetence has evened things up. Note that Monty's actions now give different information: the fact that he has picked a losing door suggests that it is more likely that the configuration is WLL, so switching becomes less attractive.
A quick (perhaps too quick) way to see the new answer, avoiding calculations, is to order configurations so that, as before, the first is the door you pick initially and now the second is the door that Monty picks randomly. Again the three configurations WLL, LLW, LWL are equally likely, but the condition on Monty's revealing a losing door restricts us to the first two (WLL, LLW) of which the first wins if you stick and the second if you switch.
Of course you (the contestant) might wonder whether your personal probabilities have changed, after all, since you presumably can't know about Monty's sudden lapse, but that's a different (Bayesian) subject.
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Newlyweds and amateur sleuths Nicky Abbondanza and Noah Oliver return for another murderous adventure, this time on their honeymoon, in "Drama Luau," the fourth volume in the award-winning Nicky and Noah mystery series from author Joe Cosentino, where romance blooms, scandal erupts, and hula dancers drop like flies.
Treemeadow College theater professors Nicky and Noah are spending their honeymoon at the Maui Mist resort in Hawaii, accompanied by their best friends, fellow professor and department head, Martin Anderson, and his husband, Ruben Markinson. In exchange for the free vacation, the newlyweds agree to direct and choreograph a nightly luau show for the resort guests.
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This delightfully sudsy, colorful cast of characters would rival that of any daytime soap opera, and the character exchanges are rife with sass, wit and cagey sarcasm. Essentially everyone, including the missing dancers themselves, has a motive, and the always determined Nicky leaves no stone unturned, even if it means placing his husband and colleagues in garish disguise to help collect clues and evidence.
While Nicky is busy playing Poirot, his beloved becomes acquainted with Taavi, Lani's young nephew, seemingly in need of a father (or any parental) figure, which Noah is more than willing to provide. Although the details of Taavi's background are sobering, his interaction with Nicky and Noah is a tender, welcome respite from the suspicious, criminal activity taking place all around them.
As the pages turn quickly, the author keeps us hanging until the startling end, and some of what he discovers is beyond belief--which makes it all the more fun. The murder mystery makes for a veritable feast of innuendo and intrigue, while the storyline involving Taavi is both endearing and uplifting. Most importantly, we can rest assured this won't be the last we've heard from Nicky and Noah.
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The theme of the 2013 Association for Japanese Literary Studies Annual Meeting is "Performance and Japanese Literature." The conference will be held October 18-20 on the campus of the University of Chicago.
Performance offers a concept through which to re-examine our ethical and political engagements with the literary arts. We define it broadly to include not only conventional theatrical performances or literary representations of such performances, but also more metaphorical and theoretical understandings of the term, including (among others) narration or reading as modes of performance; the performativity of gender, ethnicity, and other modes of identity; linguistic or ritual performance; the social locations of performance; and the activities of literary criticism and publication as performance.
The organizers hope in particular to encourage reflection on literary scholarship and welcome presentations that address issues of pedagogy. We envision this meeting not only as a venue in which to present research, but also as an opportunity to reconsider current disciplinary boundaries and investments. In this vein, we hope to provide a forum in which to share best practices for the research and teaching of Japanese literature. We invite paper proposals from scholars of Japanese literature, modern and classical, as well as from kindred genres, including theater and performance studies, film and media studies, and music. Graduate students are especially encouraged to apply. Presentations may be made in either English or Japanese.
The conference will be designed to encourage innovative modes of scholarship as performance. The organizers solicit individual paper proposals (rather than panel proposals) and will combine these into panels designed to stimulate productive discussions across boundaries of genre, historical period, and institution. The deadline for submitting paper proposal abstracts (300 words or less) is May 15, 2013. Please send paper proposals, as well as inquiries, to the program committee at firstname.lastname@example.com. More information will be available on the conference webpage (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/ajls2013/).


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I was rather pleased to receive a DVD box set of the television series Game of Thrones for Fathers' Day. I had been considering buying it myself after giving up the idea of finding a dodgy feed online that at best wouldn't stream and at worst would give my laptop the clap. The Murdoch Death Star had been strong on this one.
"I'm surprised that you'd want to watch this," said Lady Barton St Mary, "it doesn't appear to be your sort of thing. You don't like films like Lord of the Rings," she continued, arching an exquisite eye brow.
She was right of course. I remember going to see one of the Lord of the Rings films (don't ask me which one – something with ring in it) where a farewell scene between somebody wearing spock ears took half an hour to say goodbye to somebody else wearing a big beard and a couple of vertically challenged actors in sacks, with carrots stuck on the sides of their heads, all with names that sounded like a cross between a drug and a food additive. As Ceclor gave a long speech to Aspartame and Olestra under the snowy peaks of Ativan before setting off across the lake of Phenergan, I wanted to stand up and shout: "How long does it take to say goodbye? Bugger off!"
But for some reason, Game of Thrones seemed to appeal to a wider range of people, not just the very quiet, socially awkward ones that smelled like biscuits, so I explained that it might be worth a try.
So, the following evening, we settled down to watch the first two episodes.
The opening scenes were normal 'fantasy world' fodder. Lots of snow, enormous mountains, men wearing dirty old sacks covered in shit and riding horses. Then an apparent zombie attack. I sat up, suddenly interested.
Sean Bean appeared. Lady Barton St Mary sat up, suddenly interested. He was incredibly northern, saying things like 'Y'alrait love?' or "Aye, 'appens I do," like a Macclesfield Boromir.
More characters started to appear at an alarming rate. The bloke from the Tesco commercials who played dad alongside the girl from Cold Feet playing mum was playing the King.
"What was he in?" asked Lady BSM, pointing at another of the actors. He did look familiar. What was he in?
Before I could give it any great thought, the first of many naked women started to appear on screen. This seemed to happen at regular intervals until Lady BSM mentioned the 'excessive boobage'. Is boobage a word?
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As you can see, my butterfly brain had already kicked in. I'd been introduced to The Nightwatch, The Northern bit I've forgotten (Wanfell? Weefall? Waffle?) and King's Landing. Two of them were cold and one looked like a medieval version of Disneyland in the Med. Why they didn't all live there, I don't know.
And there was a dwarf. Am I allowed to say dwarf?
It took all of half an hour before I began questioning Lady BSM.
"What's going on? Who are they? When did he get there?"
Lady BSM did her best to get me up to speed. I tried my best to show her I understood.
"Being Human!" I blurted.
Lady BSM looked at me askance. The beautiful eyebrow arched once more.
"That bald man in the grey robes. He was in 'Being Human'," I explained.
Then the girl who looked a bit like Marfa was being forced to marry a man who looked like Ming the Merciless without a nose hair trimmer. He didn't look very happy about getting married, either. The wedding was a bit rough; after watching two gym monkeys in leather nappies fight until one of them disembowelled the other, a bloke who had been in Spooks said it was usual for the tribe – the Gahh! Thrah! I think they were called, or some such name that sounds like somebody choking on a fish bone – to have at least one fight to the death during the wedding ceremony. We've all been to weddings like that, I guess.
The boobage became even more excessive. There followed a scene with the hairy Ming the Merciless consummating his marriage with the petite blonde sister of Jimmy Savile.
"Do you think that was the normal position in medieval times?" enquired Lady BSM casually, "perhaps it was, until the missionaries came along," she mused.
It took me a while to answer, since I was purging any thoughts that this poor young girl resembled my dear niece in any way before giving my considered answer.
"I think you may be right, my lovely," was all I could manage.
Considering this question at my leisure later on in the evening, I concluded that this almost certainly would have been the preferred sexual position during medieval times. Have you seen what medieval people look like? They'd fail the audition for The Jeremy Kyle Show for being too ugly. Plus the fact, they hardly ever bathed in medieval times. Toothbrushes hadn't been invented, let alone toothpaste. The stench would have been bad enough; if you had sex face to face I would imagine all your hair would have fallen out from the halitosis.
"Why's Sharpe in King's Stanley? Where's his wife? Which one's the bastard? What's going on?" I pleaded, not long after, "I thought he left her behind and took his sons, the ones in armless biker jackets with wispy beards," I continued.
Lady BSM looked at me levelly.
"Listen. I've seen as much of this as you have. So I don't have all the answers. However, he's called Ned, not Sharpe and it's King's Landing. King's Stanley is a village in Gloucestershire."
She returned to watching Sean Bean, smiling serenely to herself. I tried my best to keep up, images appearing in front of me of men from mobile phone adverts wearing old curtains and red haired, bare chested girls.
The closing credits made us both make a cry of surprise upon seeing the name Wilco Johnson appear in the cast list. Is this a common name, or did the famous Dr Feelgood guitarist have a small part in Game of Thrones? I'm sure somebody out there has the answer.
We're now up to episode 4 and we're enjoying it immensely, Lady BSM more than me, if truth be told. Maybe all that blood, guts and sex comes naturally to the aristocracy.
I just wish I could remember who they all were. And what they're doing. And why. I now know that Sean Bean isn't Sharpe, he's Ned Flanders; the man from Tesco is not as nice as I thought and ravens are good for sending messages, which they always deliver, rather than a card saying 'Your raven called whilst you were out, please call at the undelivered raven message depot 2 days' ride north of Cillit Bang to collect…'
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Four capacitors are connected in series with a battery, as in the figure below, where C1 = 3.24 µF, C2 = 6.11 µF, C3 = 12.1 µF, C4 = 25.0 µF, V = 18.4 V.
(a) Calculate the capacitance of the equivalent capacitor.
(b) Compute the charge on C3.
(c) Find the voltage drop across C3.
C4 is removed from the circuit, leaving only three capacitors in series.
(a) Find the equivalent capacitance.
Ceq = µF
(b) Find the charge on C2.
Q = µC
(c) Find the voltage drop across C2.
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Monday, 17 March 2008
Free Political Detainees From ISA!
Oh for the love of God, now that we have some semblance of democracy, why are the political detainees under the draconian ISA still inside?
If there was a crime associated to the arrest, then fine, continue with the legal proceedings. But half the inmates of Kamunting are there merely because they dissented with the wrong person.
And that person usually being someone with political clout.
As far as I know, the HINDRAF men (one of whom is our elected representative) are still inside. They pose no threat (except perhaps a stampede of adoration from the Indian diaspora) and should be allowed to go free.
Can we stop wasting their time (and our taxpayer money) and get them out of there?
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October 11: Our second Soundscape Sunday has arrived, and with it a piece by the constant target of the shaft at the Oscars–Thomas Newman! His gorgeous music has backed classics such as The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, American Beauty, and WALL*E. Yet another example of a nomination that went nowhere for the poor man was his work on the underrated film adaptation of Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. So be drawn now into a world of grotesque villains, mysterious acronyms, and an overall feeling of doom. I present for your listening displeasure: Verisimilitude!
October 12: Damn it all, the workweek has returned once again. Time for another Mundane Monday. For the life of me, I still cannot remember why this category exists … none of its entries have even the slightest thing to do with Hallowe'en! Take today's example …. what's so scary about meeting the neighbors? Nothing, I tell you!
October 13 … good number! We've arrived at another TV Tuesday, and, y'know, it just doesn't feel right to host any sort of Hallowe'en celebration without a piece by this classic early Y2K rock band that sold the concept in everything they did. From Coolsville to Crystal Cove, the Hex Girls' trademark Witch's gathering shtick has attracted countless listeners to the truly talented trio. But why stop at just one piece when you can have all of them? Here's the incredible concert that they've been giving continuously since 1999; for all we know, it hasn't even ended yet! For those not in the know, The Hex Girls is a fictitious band hailing from the Scooby Doo Universe that keeps popping up in more and more projects. Their music really rocks, minus some moments of cheese or ear-grating interjections from members of the Mystery Inc crew. I would not actually ask you to listen to the full half an hour of this, which I have shared due to my deep amusement that someone actually went the trouble (though you certainly could and might not regret it at all). However, if you'll listen to any of it, PLEASE check out their incredible "Trap of Love", which I will post below. Hailing from "Mystery Incorporated", a recent series with incredible animation, humor, character development, plot, and even scares (I've watched through it twice, I've outgrown scooby and yet Mystery Incorporated ranks in my top ten shows); "Trap of Love," in addition to sounding really slick, is actually an early moment of crucial character development for, of all people, Daphne, who sings its lead vocals under the stage name "Crush" due to certain relationship issues. But don't take my word for it, let the Hex Girls themselves put their spells on you!
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October 19: *sigh* Another Mundane Monday … I feel so deeply unprofessional with this category. What on earth was I thinking with this song? It's a tough economy, somebody's gotta do the dirty jobs. Considering someone to be subhuman just because they work a blue collar job … I ought to be ashamed of myself.
October 20: Ladies, Gentlemen, and All Else Who I Have Not Covered Already, TV Tuesday is here yet again! She heard about our previous feature on the Hex Girls, and is here to take the stage back from, and these are her words, not mine, "those posers who have no idea how a REAL supernatural force brings the house down." We are proud to present the starlet who died and went to show business, Ms.! Ember! McLain!
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Look for the third and final installment of Lola's Musical Halloween Countdown at the end of October!


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Robertsdale Police confirm 23-year-old Jeremy Michael Sparks, a teacher at Robertsdale High School, has been charged for his alleged participation in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a minor.
Sparks, a native of Daphne, is charged with two counts of second-degree sodomy, two counts of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under 19-year-old and one count of second-degree sexual abuse.
Police began investigating Sparks after a citizen contacted police with a tip on Wednesday, authorities say.
The victim, according to Robertsdale Police Lieutenant Rex Bishop, was a 15-year-old female.
Both the student and Sparks were brought in by investigators for questioning. Bishop says Sparks cooperated with initial investigations.
"Our investigations revealed that the encounters between the student and Mr. Sparks happened away from school grounds in various parts of the county," Bishop says.
Sparks was arrested Thursday where he was held overnight in Robertsdale before being booked Friday in Baldwin County Correctional Facility. He currently is listed with no bond.
The investigation into the matter is ongoing. Investigators with Robertsdale Police are asking anyone with information to contact authorities at (251) 947-2222.


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600 posts, Blogging, Heavy Metal, Law of 3, Lonely Postman, Megadeth, Music, Punk Rock, Raw Power, shoegaze, The Stooges, The Telescopes
The Stooges – Shake Appeal (1973)
Megadeth – Wake Up Dead (1986)
The Telescopes – I Fall She Screams (1989)
Oh, go ahead then! Pat yourself on the back little man! Celebrate! Six hundred what exactly mate? Right, 600 what? Posts? You posted 600 letters? Sure I did that yesterday on my last shift, picked up the stuff from the depot, biked around and I was in the pub by 4? Blog posts? What the fuck is a blog? One of them online thingys? Ah right, you just write whatever shot you want and it goes on the internet does it? You'd wanna get paid for that, son! So can I..can anyone just write any old crap they want on there? Do I not need a degree or somethin? Fuck me! Maybe I will give that a bash. Not tonight though. Maybe tomorrow. I'm shit with computers and all that technology malarkey. To be honest, I'm usually too hammered to get anything done at home. The job is fuckin wreckin me ya know? I've a got two shit knees and a low sperm count, the doctor says and me teeth are all gammy like. Fuck this, get us another whiskey there mate will ya? You can tell me more about these 600 posts you wrote over….four years. How many fuckin words is that? Ya don't know? More than bleedin War and Peace was it? And what were you writing about sonny? music, cinema? you mean films ya ponce! just say films for fucks sake! Mister la de da! what you thought of them? sure who gives a fuck what you think? I tell who was a great band, i will tell you now! Are they around anymore? I don't know….hey! Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan! What was the name of that band we liked back in the 80's? yeah, they are still around! Duran Duran mate! Write about those lads and the Spandau ballet! oh man, those were the days! fuck, must be old now. Oh, you wrote about your feelings as well did you ya poof? ha ha, what the fuck is happening these days? everybody is talkin about their feelins, in public! In the pub! online, offline, outside, inside, on the streets….blah, blah, blah, I'm so fuckin hurt from something that happened when I was a kid! boo hoo! boo fuckin hoo! my wife left me for a younger man! boo hoo! Do you talk about any of that stuff on your blog? Here, come back mate! Come back! I'm only messin with you! Come on back, I will get you a drink and we can celebrate alright! No hard feelins! Whats the name of your thing? No dancing no satisfaction? Yeah, it kind of makes sense but then again I'm drunk as a goats uncle! Yeah, I think I will try writin a blog online. People will read it won't they? I hope they will. I feel lonely…. sometimes. It gets lonely out here. I hope they read it.


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Short Story Analysis
(Francisco Arcellana)
SETTINGS: a. Place: Nana Emilia's House b. Time: The time setting for the action is in the afternoon. This story happened somewhat between 1950's up to the present time. There is no specific season for the said story but the story evolves in the evening.
II. CHARACTERS: a. Protagonist: Mr. Angeles b. Antagonist: Himself III. PLOT: a. Exposition: The story is started by Mr. Angeles who is coming home for his periodic inspection trip. Then he had written in Mariveles to Nana Emilia that he has a surprise to him that he bought mats that are made by an artistic craftsman at this area. These mats have colorful designs with their own distinguish weaves, design, and colors. He is excited to give it to them all. . b. Rising Action The rising action is when Mr. Angeles is giving his surprised gift to the whole family. And the siblings were very excited to get their gifts. And one by one, on the lighted area of the house, he gave the mats with distinguish names and symbolism on it. c. Climax The highest part of the story is wherein they all get the mats but there are 3 remaining mats that must be unfolded. And Mr. Angeles unfold it one by one and he speaks in a loud voice that he offers this simple mats to his 3 dead siblings which are Josefina, Victoria, and Concepcion d. Falling Action The falling action of the story is where Nana Emilia and Mr. Angeles argues about this sensitive issue that they must forget already because they are dead but Mr. Angeles is so stubborn that he emphasized that these children must not be taken for granted
e. Denouement The denouement of this story is when the cihildren heard the word exploding in the silence. They wanted to turn away and not to see the face of their father and also when Nana Emila shivered once and twice, bowed her head, gripped her clapsed hands between her thighs. f. Ending At the end of the story there was a total silence on the house. Then the mats were unfolded and each name was slowly revealed. And the mats for the 3 dead siblings were described. IV. CONFLICT: Man vs. Himself Because Mr. Angeles wants to commemorate his 3 siblings and he was so emotional that this sensitive issue must not be talked about and also the emotion was look before in himself and he find the way out to burst that emotion by offering mats to the 3 siblings V. THEME: "We must not forget and take for granted the people whom passed away because they contributed to our life and we must respect them by commemorating them."


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May 27, 2018
Memorial Weekend
Saturday-Monday, May 26-28, 2018
Adelman Peony Gardens, Salem, OR
Special prices on cut flowers to help you honor those
who have fought for our country and family members who
are no longer with us.
Schreiner's Iris
Gardens Bloom Season 2018
May 11 – May 31, 2018 • 9:00am-6:00pm
Schreiner's Iris Gardens, Salem, OR
Tour Schreiner's Iris Gardens' 10-acre display gardens
filled with over 500 named Irises. Shop unique gifts in
the Gift Shop on site, featuring an exciting mix of
reasonably priced home and garden accents, Iris-themed
gifts, glassware, t-shirts and handcrafted artwork, as
well as gardening tools and accessories. Shop a
selection of potted spring flowers and companion plants
to complement your Iris garden and place an order for
Iris to ship this summer. View hundreds of Irises on
display in the Schreiner's Cut Flower Show. Fresh-cut
Irises are available for purchase every day, weather
permitting. The gardens are free and open to the public.
Parking is $5 per car. Schreiner's Iris Gardens, 3625
Quinaby Rd NE, Salem, Oregon, 97303.
Spring Fever Open House
Saturday-Monday, May 26-28, 2018 • 10:00am-5:00pm
Cascade Nursery Trail Nurseries, between Aurora & Salem,
Three day extravaganza of garden touring, plant sales
and special events at our 6th annual open house,
perfectly timed for peak garden photo ops! Feel the
fever of plant lust and the thrill of finding those
alluring beauties as you fill your wagon at each
stop…pausing for munchies or libation and some sage
gardening advice from your nursery hosts before heading
to your next trail destination. Come out for a day in
the country, meet the owners and find plants you may not
see anywhere else. We will all be open Saturday, Sunday
and Monday so you 'll have time to get to ALL the CNT
Artist Fair & Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday-Monday, May 26-28, 2018 • 10:00am-6:00pm
Schreiner's Iris Gardens, Salem, OR
Celebrate the holiday weekend with amazing art,
excellent wine, artisan liqueurs, and gorgeous flowers!
Artists from around the valley will join us in the
gardens to display and sell their works of art. Many of
these artists have been painting in the Display Gardens
for years; all will have Iris-themed work on display and
for sale. Grab a glass of wine or a sip of liqueur and
browse the amazing art among the Irises. Artists are
scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, most stay through
Saturday thru Monday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
Spiritopia Craft Spirits of Corvallis, Oregon (www.spiritopia.com),
will offer tastings of their fine liqueurs. Tantalize
your taste buds with their premium artisan liqueurs and
purchase your favorites to take home. Also Saturday thru
Monday, Noon to 5:00 p.m., Methven Family Vineyards of
Dayton, Oregon (methvenfamilyvineyards.com) will offer
tastings of their incomparable Willamette Valley wines.
Saturday, 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., check out our live
How to Dig & Divide Iris Demonstration. We will discuss
and review the proper time and technique for digging and
separating Iris. It's easier than you think! Bring your
questions and learn tips from the experts. Free
demonstration, open to all. Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00
p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., The Language of
Flowers, a presentation by local antique expert Lisa
Hand of Wild Horse Antiques. Victorian & Edwardian
Language of the Flowers Tradition, Remembrance,
Sentiment and Beauty communicated through the elegance
of living blooms. Also Sunday, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.,
join the Tussie Mussie Floral Bouquet Workshop - a whole
conversation you can hold in your hand.
The gardens are free and open to the public. Wine and
liqueur tasting are available for a nominal fee. Parking
is $5 per car. Schreiner's Iris Gardens, 3625 Quinaby Rd
NE, Salem, Oregon, 97303.
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In the dank forests along the Pacific coast there can be found a leggy little creature, scarcely two inches in length, crawling among the sodden leaf litter and pine needles and mossy, moldering woodrot at a methodical plod. Its elongate form is clearly arthropodal; closer inspection reveals roughly twenty shining segments, each painted an aposematic yellow and black. Thirty-odd pairs of legs undulate along the span of its body, starting from the rear and rippling toward the head in a locomotive wave. Its movements are the can-can in slow motion, thirty kicking limbs on either side. The millipede chugs along, unhurried and unafraid.
Whence arises its nonchalance, its poise? The yellow-spotted millipede (Harpaphe haydeniana) is a denizen of the forest floor, a decomposer par excellence. It consumes dead plant matter and expedites the leaf litter's decay, breaking down cellulose and lignin in its gut and excreting ready-to-use fertilizer in its wake. Like earthworms, the millipedes provide an immeasurable benefit to the health of the forest, aerating soil, cycling nutrients, and generally keeping plant waste at a manageable level. Unlike earthworms, however, the yellow-spotted millipede has a toxic leg-up: when threatened, it emits sweet-smelling hydrogen cyanide from its sides, in a dose powerful enough to deter shrews and beetles and most other smallish predators. The cyanide is redolent of almonds, hence the common names "almond-scented millipede" or "cyanide millipede" for the oft-encountered critter.
Springtime is mating time for many animals, millipedes included. Their nuptials are announced via sex pheromone, secreted by the female and tracked slowly but fervently by the male. Courtship typically involves a male mounting a female—that is, literally standing on top of her, stacked like a double-decker bus—and massaging her sides with his legs, a rhythmic, sixty-footed caress. If performed satisfactorily, he's allowed to pass a sperm packet to her, which she stores for later fertilization. Sometimes, in a sort of sylvan orgiastic frenzy, tens of thousands of millipedes will congress (in multiple senses of the word) in a writhing, almond-scented mass on the forest floor, blinded by pheromonal haze. There are millipedes massaging millipedes, left and right, up, down, all around—impossible to tell who's caressing whom. Lots of legwork going on, that much is clear.
As a dutiful detritivore, eating and pooping and decomposing, yellow-spotted millipedes are integral to Pacific Northwest forest ecology, says Oregon State University researcher Andy Moldenke. The forest depends on them as surely as the rain. "From a conservation point of view, they're absolutely critical," he says. So give yourselves a hand, millipedes (or a leg, or thirty legs, or whatever).


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Sunday, December 24, 2017
Smooth take off as new Muscat airport trials flight operations
Muscat - An international flight consisting 200 guests on board Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off from the new Muscat International Airport as part of the trial on Saturday morning.
To make it look real, the 200 guests had even dummy passports and luggage for the 30-minute trip. The trial followed the entire process including checking in, baggage handling, finding the boarding gate, emergency evacuation, boarding the flight and disembarking from the same.
The guests comprised high-ranking officials from ministries, travel agents, exchange house representatives, Public Authority for Civil Aviation and Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC) officials.
Sheikh Aimen bin Ahmed bin Sultan al Hosni, chief executive officer, OAMC said, "We plan to be among the top 20 airports in the world. The construction is almost over and the new Muscat airport will start its operations soon. We will have more trials in the coming days."
Hosni said that the aim of the flight trial was to ensure that everything is in order before the commencement of actual operations. "These trials will be more than testing operations. We will use the valuable feedback from everyone to achieve the goal of emerging among top 20 airports in the world."
He added that the tourism sector is witnessing a boom and the new airport will help to attract more airlines and travellers to the sultanate.
H E Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Salim al Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communications had earlier said that the trial will help the government to decide on the launch date of operations.
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You know that fitness is a balance of good food, hard work and plenty of REST. Without all three of these vital components of health, you'll feel tired, or anxious, or you just won't make the progress you want toward your goals. But many of us put the rest part of our health on the back burner. Maybe you're great at eating well and exercising frequently but you just put off the recovery portion that regular massage provides.
Good News! We created the fitness fiber subscription plan for those who want to stay on track with regular monthly massage and want a good reason to do so! "I need to do this more often" is something we hear ALL the time, and we wanted to make it easier for you to do just that. Your monthly payment covers one massage each month AND any additional services you book with us while you are subscribed are ALL 10% off. Massages DON'T roll over and can't be shared, so get them booked and stay on schedule! That's what Fitness Fiber is all about, STAYING REGULAR!
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What if I want to send my mom in, can she use my included monthly massage? No.
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I'm really busy, and can't be sure I'll be able to make an appointment each month, can I still subscribe? You can, but maybe Fitness Fiber isn't right for you. This is really for people who know they need regular massage and want to make it a priority.
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Yaeli Ohana
A highly imaginative, enthusiastic educator and coordinator of education programs & specialist for over 12 years in Visual Art Theory, History and Practice.
I always strive to develop comprehensive programs consistent with my vast knowledge in both Contemporary and Traditional Practice. A practising professional artist with over 20 years of exhibiting experience. I have exhibited in commercial galleries in Sydney, Melbourne and New York.
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Q & A with Yaeli Ohana (August 2016)
1. What do you know about the Workshop Arts Centre?
I feel thrilled to be invited as a Visiting Artist, as I used to come to the centre many years ago as a child. My mother recognised my enormous appetite for art making and brought me to classes here, where I discovered new ways to draw, paint and work with clay. So the centre has a nice history for me.
2. What can people expect when they attend your workshop?
Participants of my abstract painting workshop can expect to come away using new techniques and feeling more confident handling paint. They will be encouraged to trust their instincts and explore their own unique visual voice. I will assist them in whatever they need to reach these goals. They can expect to have fun in the process too, I hope!
3. What currently inspires your work?
The horizon between ocean and sky inspires my latest body of work. The horizon, an ethereal meeting point, is where possibility lies. It's the place where I can dream, wish, hope and be thankful for all I have. Here I find peace, presence, solitude, connection, mystery, and vast expanse. I connect here with nature and inner human experience, and the minute grains of sand I relate to the cells in our body. This simple experience of connection makes such a difference.
4. Have you any mentors or teachers that have influenced your practice?
I have had many mentors along the way to becoming an artist. Immediately coming to mind is Laura Murray-Cree, former Editor of Art and Australia, Artist and Teacher Glenn Sujo, and photographer and friend Colin Beard. I have also learnt much about art and presenting work in my friendship with Wendy Whiteley. And meeting Brett Whiteley at a young age made me aware that being an artist could be a career choice.
5. Are there any exhibitions that you would encourage people to visit?
_There's a curated show on in Paddington until the end of August at Annette Larkin Fine Art, with contemporary Australian art including works by Tim Johnson, Ben Quilty, Rosemary Laing, Bronwyn Oliver, Michael Johnson, Clement Meadmore, Caroline Rothwell, Pat Brassington and Susan Norrie.
While you're in Paddington, it would be worth seeing the latest exhibition by Del Kathryn Barton at Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery until 9 Sept. I particularly found the photo montage work interesting._
6. What is the one tool/supply that you can't leave home without?
I always take some small sketchbooks and my watercolour set whenever I'm going to a cafe or the beach. There's nothing quite like doing a quick watercolour while waiting for a chai tea!


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Big Al here, Food365's resident food service worker!
Kind of.
After spending a month taking a ridiculous course at the local county building, I have a Food Safety Manager's certification. I needed this for my job, a day camp where we provide meals and snacks, and I am the Food Manager at the camp.
My favorite thing about being the food manager at camp is obviously lunch time, when the kids put forth their best "please" and "thank you"s to our staff serving the food.
On this day, I hope that everyone else out there remembers to say please and thank you to waiters, chefs, food establishment managers, etc.
If hangry, sweaty, and impatient kids can be polite and thankful to their food service workers, so can you.
To treat myself, here's a sweet snack for me.
I probably would have really given myself a toast with a drink, but I'm doing the Whole 30, so I'm not supposed to drink or really have sweets, so my "treat" is a compliant part of my lunch. Baked apples with coconut cream, coconut flakes, dates, of course with a protein and veggie rich meal.
It looks kind of funky here, but it has the Jasmine stamp of approval. Happy day to me and all other food workers out there!


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The funny thing about hypochondria is that, in my experience, it has less to do with a fear of getting sick than a fear of going to the doctor. I scraped my hand on a rusty nail a couple of months ago and debated with myself over whether to go in for a tetanus shot. It's been at least ten years or so since I last had one, and they can wear off in eight or nine anyway. At the same time, the scrape was so tiny that I had a hard time imagining any infection entering it, tetanus or otherwise. So I decided not to. It just didn't seem fair that I should have to give up, I don't know, an hour or a couple for something so innocuous. I turned out to be right. The scratch healed in no more than a couple days, and I never suffered any adverse symptoms. If I'd stepped on the nail, I would have dropped everything and rushed to the emergency room, and maybe it would have been a good idea to see a doctor even with a small scrape. I can't speak for anyone except myself, but what mainly bugs me about the prospect of getting really sick or needing surgery is the inconvenience. In his movie, Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen plays a chronic hypochondriac whose greatest wish seems to be that he actually will get sick for a change. It's one of his best films, and part of what makes the character so interesting is that what he is really afraid of is uncertainty. If he knows he's going to die, then he has nothing to worry about. Taking it on faith that you're going to be alright is really difficult, and I still haven't quite got the hang of it.
The problem, I think, it's that any rational person understand that nothing lives forever, but they want to know how long they've got. Sure, 70-80 years might seem like a long time, but when you spend an entire afternoon lounging around without accomplishing anything, it's easy to wonder if you're wasting your time. I always hate it when people talk about how fast these last few years have flown by, because I actually find that time moves slower the more fun I'm having. I can't remember if I've posted this song before, but here's David Byrne saying basically what I've been trying to put into words for a while.
I feel the need to see some good live theater again. Living in New York, I have plenty to choose from, and I'm dying to see Once. One of the people in my program was trying to organize a group to see a show, and while I was pressing for Once (or The Lion King, which I've seen already but wouldn't mind revisiting), a plurality wanted to see Wicked, a decent show that I saw once and don't need to see again. Darn. I want to scream, "What is wrong with you people? Why see something as big and glitzy as Wicked when you can have something as sweet and intimate as Once?!?!?!" I guess some people just like spectacle. When my cousin, who is an actor, asked me if I preferred plays or musicals, I answered plays. "Everyone says musicals," he responded. Perhaps the showy nature of musical theater makes for a better tourist attraction. All I know is that I have always found plays to be a more powerful and direct art form than musicals. Of course, we probably would have seen The Book of Mormon if tickets weren't prohibitively expensive and probably still really, really hard to get.
Part of the fun of theater is the knowledge that what you are seeing cannot be replicated. Any actor will tell you that the difference between the best and worst performances is barely perceptible to most audiences, but I like the knowledge that what I am experiencing will exist only right here and right now, with no recording to preserve it for posterity. Sometimes people slip recording devices into plays anyway. That happened with one show that I was in a few years ago, although the person who recorded it either stopped after three scenes or decided to post only those three on YouTube. I'm not sure why they did it. It seems odd to do such a thing when you could just enjoy the show. I've made it my mission to see at least a couple of my favorite film and TV actors onstage, if I ever get the chance. Philip Seymour Hoffman does a lot of Broadway acting, and Christopher Eccleston–still one of my favorite Doctors–has said that he prefers stage acting because it gives the actors rather than the director final say over what the audience sees. I know talented theater actors who have no desire whatsoever to set foot in front of a camera, and while I've done only a little bit of screen acting myself, I know a few people who might be better suited to that than stage acting. They're different beasts, certainly, and if I had a time machine, I would probably spend the first few months of it traveling back to see Orson Welles and John Gielgud onstage, along with the original cast of 1776. (That last one is of interest largely because I'm tired of people mythologizing historical figures, and approve of anything that shows them to be the flawed, backstabbing, sometimes petty people that they were.)
I often feel like I have so much to do that I can't even figure out where to begin. More often, I feel like I have something I have to do that I not only don't want to do, but don't even know how to attempt. The worst part is that my first, second, third, and fourth attempts often get me nowhere. So I keep trying because, well, life is short, but not so short that I don't have time to fail over and over again.
Off-topic: The members of LMFAO have the douchiest sunglasses and most punchable faces I've ever seen. If anyone reading this ever gets the chance, please murder them for me, okay? I'll send you chocolates and roses.