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Denounced by the left as "White Power Barbie," Tomi Lahren is the 24-year-old star of conservative media. With a current social media following of more than 6 million, she started fresh out of college with her own show on ultra-conservative One America News Network and then TheBlaze. She regularly fire-bombed the liberal political landscape… until she stepped out of line and voiced her pro-choice stance on ABC's The View one morning. She was subsequently fired from TheBlaze, and now we're waiting breathlessly to see what she'll do next. For now, let's take a look at real Tomi Lahren, the one you don't quite see when she's on-camera…
She wasn't planning to be an on-air commentator. She wanted to be an intern.
After graduating from the University of Nevada with a degree in political science in 2014, Tomi wanted to get started with an internship. She Googled "conservative news outlets," went on an interview at One America News Network and ended up impressing the CEO so much that he built a show around her. She was 21 years old.
She's fully aware she's in the entertainment business.
Tomi readily admits that she's not a journalist. She has said that she is a commentator, not a journalist, and has said that her shows are not about presenting news neutrally, but about commentary and "mak[ing] the news."
She learned early on she didn't want to be a politician. She just wanted to talk about them.
Tomi's internship with Congresswoman Kristi Noem's Rapid City office (in Tomi's hometown) taught her how government worked. And that's when she decided she wanted to commentate on politics, not participate in the actual process.
She admits her subject matter is complex and she sometimes needs help with the tough issues.
While mediating a debate between a Palestinian and Israeli advocate on her show, things became so intense Tomi's producers "actually had to come out and help mediate the argument during the commercial break," Tomi revealed in an interview.
She's doesn't believe in organized religion.
Tomi says she's not spiritual and regularly blasts organized religion for being "about hierarchy, power, control and greed." That said, she admits to praying, especially on her daily runs, to "be a better person."
She is aware she's playing "a role."
Tomi thinks her fans like her because she's "real" but admitted to Trevor Noah in her Daily Show appearance that, as entertainers, they both know "we have to play these parts."
She was an adviser to the Trump campaign.
Tomi reported to the New York Times that she was an "informal adviser" for the campaign's social media use beginning in August. Sadly, it looks like she couldn't get a leash on that Twitter use…
She's likable.
"I find that when people are actually around me," Tomi reported to the New York Times, "it's impossible not to like me."
She's not "alt-right."
Although she's often accused of being racist – and goes on some pretty racist rants – Tomi speaks out against radical conservative groups and their ideologies, even going so far as to call the alt-right movement "disgusting" and "nasty."
She thinks it's important that we all talk to one another.
Tomi's a consistent advocate for having frank, honest conversations with those who do not share your views. She's even gone on Charlamagne Tha God's radio show (spoiler alert: he's African American) where they agreed that they need to try to understand each other's views.
She loves rap music.
After some of her tweets from her college days went viral, Tomi admitted to loving rap music. "When I was in college," she wrote, she would go out with her friends and they "liked to listen to rap music and one of the songs … they enjoyed was a song called "Pop That Pussy." She didn't like to say the word, she says, so she said "Pop That P" and that became her thing. But that's not all she did in college…
She was a little wild in college… and a little lazy.
The tweets also revealed Tomi's drunken escapades in college, and showed that she was just a normal, lazy college student. "Bad news: had to get a job," one tweet said. "Good news: It's at my mom's store and chill as F. #livinthedream". So much for people having to work their way through life the hard way.
She may be more liberal than she lets on.
In addition to Tomi's recent revelation that she is pro-choice – not a popular stance among her fans – on a political show she hosted for her college tv station, she said that believes that climate change is real (exact words: it's an "agreed upon scientific consensus") and that we should institute gun control.
She says she's not a diva but …
During all the suits and countersuits that resulted from being fired from TheBlaze for her pro-choice stance, they revealed that Tomi complained about on-set conditions, refused to work with certain staffers and engaged in what they called "inappropriate office behavior."
She says she always wanted to be in Playboy magazine.
But she was just kidding. Maybe. But Tomi did give Playboy a tell-all (not a bare all) interview after the fallout from her firing from TheBlaze. Besides, she can't get too much more naked than she does on her Instagram.
She loves Lady Gaga.
A strange pairing, to be sure, but Tomi thought that Lady Gaga's halftime show at the Super Bowl was really balanced. Not sure everyone agrees with that but she told Playboy, "I was so impressed that Lady Gaga was able to avoid that by leaving the political bullshit out of it."
She believes that conservatives are trying to silence "strong women."
"The left is watching how the right treats women," Tomi told Playboy, "and we are doing their (the left's) work for them. We can't silence, diminish, and shame a strong female voice because she takes an opinion that maybe we don't like."
She has a bigger audience than Fox News.
With almost 6 million followers on social media, Tomi reaches more people than Fox News. In fact, a homemade video she posted on Facebook telling her viewers that she'll soon be back after the whole TheBlaze thing goes away got 8 million views – 5 million more viewers than Fox News gets in primetime.
She feels vilified by both the left and the right.
Speaking about people calling her a "blonde bimbo" and "airhead," Tomi told Playboy that "just as many conservatives do it to me as feminists and folks on the left. Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down."
She's not a gun-toting member of the NRA.
While she grew up in a rural area where people owned guns, Tomi is not a member of the NRA, doesn't have a conceal-carry permit and claims, "I'm not a recreational shooter. I don't enjoy shooting as a hobby."
She believes that the Black Lives Matter movement is well-intentioned.
While she's critical of the BLM movement, Tomi says she believes they felt that "there was a rift between police and the community" and that "they wanted to draw attention to it and create a national conversation."
She has tattoos that inspire her.
Tomi has her state flower tattooed on the back of her neck and a XI; tattooed on her wrist. She explained the XI; on Twitter by saying "11 is my lucky number and the ; is symbolic. It's a reminder to keep going when you want to stop."


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Trim one edge of the Styrofoam plate even with the cake, using scissors. Repeat with the other cake. Place these two sides together.
Smooth the frosting where the cakes are joined, using a metal spatula dipped in water. Smooth the frosting on the sides of the cake.
Make an outline of a "chalkboard" on the top of the cake, using the strawberry twists. With green gel, write "Welcome Back" or "Back to School" in the center. Add apples, notebooks, pencils, etc., using the gels.
Add 1-2-3 along the right side of the cake between the chalkboard and the edge, using the gels. Add A-B-C on the left side. Sprinkle with colored sugars, as desired.
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podcasting in education
I kinda had my mind set on podcasting before coming to todays classmeeting. That was my fist thought when I found out we would work on projects and I came across an article in the library later that week, that talked about using podcasts in the Foreign Language classroom. I think it is a brilliant idea, because students can be exposed to native speakers or are encouraged to practice their pronunciation and language skills before recording their own podcast.
I keep finding more and more information online as you can see in my del.iscio.us and if anyone is interested in joining my project, just contact me.
I felt class discussion was quite difficult today, people either didn't have many ideas or didn't feel confident enough to share them. Also it seemed as if some people already had found their groups and projects and didn't want to share. Anyway, we did get some results and I'll just list the main ideas:
skype –> project group meeting online instead of in a classroom
youtube –> comedy video (He is looking for one or two more people to join his group…)
second life –> how to make money with it
art in multimedia and advertising –>create some thing
improv everywhere –> something like it in UMW
performance –> live performance on facebook
–> interacting with the medium and the audience
–> streaming in both directions
alice –> programming tool
e-commerce –> ebay
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Events Aggregator
There ought to be a way to subscribe to upcoming events in the same way that you subscribe to RSS feeds. Your aggregator would just be a calendar that knows about event feeds. Ideally, you can also see events that your social network flags as interesting. I would be interested in any events that my friends and my friends' friends are interested in. The events should be location aware, so that you can filter out events that aren't happening anywhere near you. The reason this hasn't taken off before is that it only gets really useful when there is a critical mass of venues and artists and organizations using the event format. The conclusion we draw from that is that there has to be a killer application to create the critical mass of adoption. I think the killer app could be a free, hosted event calendar that is just as easy to embed as Google Ads.
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Collection: Women Activists
Arredondo, Yolanda – OH1218
Interview Date: 2003
Places: Boulder Topics: Boulder County Safehouse (also called "Safehouse: Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence"), practice of ethical communication, need for early intervention, how Safehouse creates hope, narrator's reasons for working with Safehouse, narrator's development as a political activist, effect of Safehouse … Continue reading
Ball, Betty – OH1233
Interview Date: 2003
Places: Boulder Topics: childhood experiences with civil rights issues, attending George Williams College on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, work at Hull House in Chicago, The Boulder Communication Center (alternative resource center for hippies and transients), … Continue reading
Bninski, Carolyn – OH1234
Interview Date: 2003
ABSTRACT: Carolyn Bninski describes about her lifelong work in the areas of peace, social justice and environmental activism. She talks about the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, homelessness, globalization issues, coordinating the work of many different organizations so that … Continue reading
Boulding, Elise – OH0871
Interview Date: 1996
People: Kenneth Boulding (husband) Subjects: The Parenting Center; Colorado Non-Violence Network; Colorado Women's Forum.
Bozak, Trisha – OH1224
Interview Date: 2003
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Interview Date: 1990
People: Clifford Huston, Byron "Whizzer" White Places: Boulder, southern Colorado Subjects: CU, National Institutional Teacher Placement Association, Rocky Mountain College Placement Association, IBM, women's lib, only woman working in a man's world.
Counihan, Bobbie – OH1242
Interview Date: 2003
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Crumpacker, Bonnie – OH1225
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Donner, Christie – OH1237
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Whilst the idea of the scalp cooling process is to minimalise hair loss it is fair to say that many, but not all, patients do experience some hair fall. With this in mind it is important to try and manage this. For some people this hair fall is on par with the normal shedding of hair they experience every day. For others they notice that their hair thins and reduces in total mass or that particular areas thin considerably revealing bare patches.
If this occurs you may start to ask yourself if you wish to continue with the scalp cooling process. Remember that you can get in touch with helpful organisations such as Cancer Hair Care or the manufacturer 'Paxman' for further advice. Below is a troubleshooting guide that may offer you some help and ideas if problems occur:
Hair thinning some general tips:
Remember that many people continue with the scalp cooling process despite losing quite a lot of hair – you may need to adjust your style for a time to help disguise thinning areas
Avoid wearing clothes that show lose hairs
Wear a headscarf when cooking if you need to keep hair away from your from your face
Ask your nurse/nursing assistant to check that your cold cap is as tight as possible. If you have lost hair and thus your hair has reduced in overall amount you may need a new cap size. If you can slip your hand up the back of the cold cap it is too large – you need a smaller fit
Ask your nurse to place a thin strip of gauze over any bare patches
Some tips for disguising areas of visible thinning/bare patch
Change parting
Use a hair clip/grip that can easily be removed to clip hair over the thinning area (ensure it places gentle hold)
Wear a hair band to cover areas of hair loss (fabric is ideal as plastic ones can put additional stress on the hair)
Talk to a hairdresser about using styling products or a change is style to accommodate thinning
Other problems you may encounter:
Hair tangling -matting, dry (brittle) texture
Use a thin conditioner during scalp cooling - a thick one may be clogging up your hair and causing it to matt
If after treatment dreadlocking/ matting is occurring consider rinsing out the conditioner soon after treatment
Have any dry, split or brittle ends trimmed as these tend to rub together sticking like Velcro
Use a leave-in-conditioner to help ease out tangles
Use an intensive to boost moisture
See our guide on page 25 with tips on how to shampoo and condition your hair
Managing hair loss on other areas of the head
Eye lashes and brows thinning/loss
The cold cap doesn't reduce hair loss from any part of the body other than the scalp. Therefore anywhere else that hair grows it may also fall out.
Many people will notice their eye lashes and brows thinning or falling out completely. Using false eye lashes or learning how to create false brows can be really helpful. Take a look in our directory for organisations who can offer guidance with make-up.
Eye brows, lashes and other areas of hair loss will generally start to grow back once treatment is complete. It may take a while for growth to appear but is normal that after around 3 months people start to notice improvements in growth.
Shall I continue with scalp cooling?
If you start to think that scalp cooling isn't for you and decide to stop then it is likely that hair loss will be escalated after your next treatment. It's worth considering that even if up to 50% of hair falls out you will still have some hair to integrate into your new hair growth.
There are plenty of ways to disguise hair loss and maintain your sense of style. Consider some of the other options for covering up such as hats, headscarves and wigs. Take a look at our directory for organisations who can offer you ideas on covering up.
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The couples who choose PianoDJ for their wedding or event usually have a huge passion for music and want it to be an important part of their day.
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Brief description of what you do: Responsible for the Human Resources department that consists of payroll, recruitment and all human resource issues. The HR department is a resource support for all employees, managers and the executive team. I help develop policies, protocols, procedures for best practices in regards to compliance with legal requirements, employee relations, benefits, compensation and general business practices.
Your professional background: Production/Operations Manager for 20 years in food processing. Human Resource Manager/ Business Partner for 10+ years in various food processing facilities.
How has working at Aspire impacted your life: Changed my views on what a person with a disability is capable of doing. Working for Aspire has given me a whole new working experience that I had not had before.
Best facet of working at Aspire: The people… both clients and staff.
What brought you to Aspire: I moved back to Southern Oregon and was looking for a Human Resource position. Through contacts I learned that Southern Oregon Aspire was looking for a HR Manager so I applied. After meeting the directors and some clients I felt this was a good fit for me.
A few thoughts on encouraging others to become involved with Aspire, in any way, shape or form: Take the time to learn what we do. Meet some of our clients and learn how special they can be. Meet the staff and learn that what they do is difficult at times, but they have the passion to care for someone and to make their lives better.
What things you would like to see transpire in the future of Aspire and the people we support: Would hope for a smooth transition into the employment first requirements. Seeing our clients in community jobs will be awesome!
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"People want great insight but don't want to pay for it"
Apart from lack of time (a common complaint in life!), this was the most popular response. In fact the top 6 responses all relate to how research is VALUED (which as we will see later is directly related to how the value of research is communicated).
The actual collection of insights doesn't appear to be a challenge. Methodologies and tools appear adequate.
Examining the top 6 responses, we see how they all relate to the perception of value within the wider organisation – and therefore, I would argue, how successfully we as researchers communicate that value:
1 & 3 – "Not enough time", "Lack of budget" – there would be enough made available if it was valued enough
2 – "People want great insight but don't want to pay for it" is another way of saying they don't value it high enough
4 – "Hard to communicate the value" – speaks for itself
5 – "Not enough internal support" – how does it help me? What's the value for ME and MY department?
6 – Lack of resource – again resource would follow perceived value
We are struggling to communicate the value of customer research. I blame Steve Jobs
One of our responders (thanks J-CZ :)) commented that one major barrier was:
"Managers quoting Steve Jobs about the 'asking' customers what they want. And using this quote to forgo in-depth customer understanding and insight generation."
Characterising market research as 'asking customers what they want' is of course ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.
So, no of course I don't blame Steve Jobs, the blame is with people mis-representing what Steve Jobs said in order to avoid doing the hard and valuable work of research.
As Brian Solis puts it:
"Steve Jobs was quoted in Fortune Magazine in March 2008, "We do no market research." The quote was more in reference to how Apple crafts its business strategy not necessarily its product roadmap. It is however, widely known that Apple pays close attention to customer experiences and feedback."
So 1) that quote is taken out of context and 2) you are not Steve Jobs
Customer genius is not formed in isolation
There is a romanticism of the lone genius whose masterworks come out fully formed. But it's as Malcolm Gladwell notes in Blink – good intuition takes approximately 10,000 hours to develop. And it's not done in isolation. Customer intuition is built up from experience and exposure to real customers and their needs.
In our defence of Lazy Manager™, perhaps organisations aren't helping them:
"Organizations stifle insights because of forces locked deep inside their DNA: they value predictability, they recoil from surprises, and they crave perfection, the absence of errors."
From Seeing What Others Don't: The remarkable ways we gain insights by Gary Klein.
Organisations can be a problem, but there's no such excuse for entrepreneurs
Free from traditional organisational constraints, there are still many (most?) entrepreneurs who would rather do anything else than customer research, preferring instead to leap right in and 'build'. This is partially explained by confirmation bias – any research might tell them that their precious vision is wrong. Often this ignorance is perversely preferable to spending years of time and money developing something people don't need.
See http://nativeye.com/blog/what-research-is-and-what-it-isnt/ for more on this topic.
Ego and self-delusion lie at the heart of the problem
A "We don't need research" attitude is pure ego – it's the belief in the sovereignty of the imagination. But effective imaginations need to be open. As Tony Robbins says:
"Stay humble or get humbled."
Also, a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous, but so can the illusion of knowledge:
Daniel Boorstin: "The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."
We've blamed everyone else – what about us research professionals?
A separate straw poll featured on GreenBook indicated the pressure felt from being expected to come up with something new when there wasn't anything new to be found in the data!
I do think there is a challenge for researchers whose jobs is to find genuine insight who are then faced with the task of selling their work in any way they feel might detract from its purity or 'truth'. This is as true of commercial researchers as academic researchers whose work might not be politically en vogue and struggle for funding.
What to do about it? EFFECTIVE VALUE COMMUNICATION!
THE BIG PROBLEM: People see research is a should and not a must.
As research practitioners we have a blind spot – we instinctively know or 'feel' the value of doing research. But that doesn't mean others do.
So what can we do about it?
1. Put it in terms ANYONE can understand
Yes that means plain English, but I think we have to aim more at basic emotion by building empathy.
Again from Brian Solis:
"Other by products of good research include the ability to feel customer empathy and translate it into inspiration, a powerful emotion that strives for relevance. Just watch any episode of Undercover Boss and you'll see the same realization about empathy during the ending of every show."
Making your research results as visible as possible e.g. by including photos and videos really helps to build empathy.
2. Link to financial gain
For example, how researching a better customer experience contributes to the top line of the business by making it a customer experience leader
Financial gain can also be characterised as a cost-saving – remember the entrepreneur that would rather just rush off and build rather than work out what to build first? See "Doing discovery work means doing LESS delivery work."
3. Link to financial loss
(or prompt the question: What will it cost me if I don't do this research?)
If being a customer experience leader means you out-perform the market, being a customer experience laggard means you trail the market average – according to research by Forrester by 33%.
4. Sell it!
It's got to sound interesting, game-changing, and simple. It might not be simple, but it must have a clear and understandable benefit linked to a specific business area. Go on, you can do it!
Let's keep this conversation going.
Let's keep this conversation going.– share your tactics for selling research in the comments section.


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The Epic battles heat up with new races and classes!
Putting Dark Elves and Orcs in the same arena seems like a bad idea - unless you're playing Epic PvP. Add the possibility of making them Monks and Barbarians as well, and the battle is on!
And all of this is entirely compatible with the previous Epic PvP: Fantasy decks, meaning that some new, exciting and downright ridiculous character combinations are now yours to play with.
Get back in the arena, the battle is on!
This expansion comes with two 20-card character decks and two 20-card race decks, as well as a board for each.
Published by: Alderac Entertainment Group
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Ages: 10 and up
Players: 2 to 4
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It started in the Genesis, where the good Lord decided that Adam needed a 'helper'(1), and thus made 'Eve'. Adam on seeing Eve said, "…she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man." And there we see the first time when a woman was put in 'her rightful place'. History is replete with instances when women played out the roles of harems, concubines and sex slaves; varying in degree, but all just different forms of subjugation at the end of the day!
Forget the Bible, the harems or even the strip clubs of the present day. Even the very institution of marriage that strives to unite man and woman seem to be promoting male sexual dominance in our patriarchal society. Married women are looked at primarily as an object to satisfy male sexual pleasure. The Justice Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law suggested the removal of the exemption of marital rape which was premised on the notion that marriage was proof of a woman's irrevocable consent "to have intercourse with her husband at his whim". However, the government rejected this proposal and justified its move by stating that such an amendment "has the potential of destroying the institution of marriage." An ideal wife according to our Indian culture is duty-bound to let her husband have intercourse with her. Thus, religion and culture also play a role in the objectification of women in the sexual context.
It is in this context that IÂ would like to discuss the matter of women's right to pleasure. Sexual pleasure has been defined as the "physical and/or psychological satisfaction and enjoyment one derives from any erotic interaction". In the public domain, sexual rights have generally focussed on the negative consequences of indulging in certain sexual practices rather than its relation to recreation and pleasure. However, sexual rights are not just important in terms of reproductive rights but also with regard to gender equality.
It is worth considering that, in many Indian languages, the words used to refer to female genitalia often double up as swear words of the vilest kind (I refer here, to words like MC, BC). I was once at a meeting regarding Women's Health Issues, where a Frenchman working for the UNICEF lamented about the difficulty in educating women in their local languages about Women's Health considering the fact that there are no appropriate words to refer to the female genitalia in a pleasant way.
However, this problem is not restricted to India. The closest male-equivalent to a 'nymphomaniac' would perhaps, be 'satyriasis', but that word is rarely used. Instead, we refer to excessive sexual desire in men with terms like 'womaniser' or 'playboy' that almost seem to commend such behaviour. Prostitution too is largely an industry that caters to male sexual needs, gigolos are still a rare concept.
The patriarchal structure has worked overtime to silence women's right to pleasure. In this setting, a male approaches coitus as a 'conquest'; an act of gaining power. And therefore, it leaves the female playing the role of the 'object' of the conquest and thereby, losing power(2). Traditionally, porn has also gone on to further this perspective by placing importance on the male climax, portraying sex as something men do to women, and focusing on the 'male gaze' whereby the scenes are shot in a manner that it focuses on the female body and allows for the male viewer to imagine himself with that woman.
However, in recent times, there has been a surge in feminist porn that seeks to portray sex in a feminist fashion. This way, the viewers get to see genuine female sexuality. Producers of these films focus on the actors' entire body, and encourage these actors to enjoy themselves. This way, the porn footage is not only catering to the average heterosexual male, but to the female audience too.
A discussion on women's right to pleasure would be incomplete without a discussion on orgasm. The clitoris, located above the vaginal opening is the only organ in the human body that is solely for the purpose of sexual pleasure. However, there are more than 125 million girls and women today, living across 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East who have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in an attempt to reduce a woman's libido and therefore, curb her from indulging in 'illicit' sexual intercourse . Here again, we see a male-dominated society that looks at women as sex-toys that men use to reach their climax. Once that is attained, they do not really care about the 'needs' of the 'sex-toys' (or much worse, they think the sex toy should not enjoy the act even remotely).
Further proof of this would be the fact that there are various drugs available in the market to treat male sexual dysfunction (Viagra being the first and more ubiquitous one of the lot!), but not a single one to treat female sexual dysfunction(3). If men and women really are equal in the society, it is high time that they came up with medicines to address the woman's need for a satisfying sexual life.
However, it is not all bad for women today. More and more women are beginning to talk about sex with their partners and discussing what they want in bed. Men are not the only ones who walk out of one-night stands today, a fair number of women are doing the same. The changes maybe small, but they cannot be ignored. So, for the men out there who care to listen, women like it hot too!
1. Genesis 2:18
2. Jennifer Oriel, 'Sexual pleasure as a human right: Harmful or helpful to women in the context of HIV/AIDS?', Women's Studies International Forum.
3. A Door Opens for Women's Right to Sexual Pleasure, Let's Hope the FDA Doesn't Close It


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The U.K. has deported radical cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan, where he will stand trial for "terrorist acts."
According to The Wall Street Journal, British PM David Cameron is "delighted."
Qatada was sentenced "in absentia by Jordan in 1999" to a life sentence for terrorist activities and "faces trial." However, his attorneys in the U.K. have been able to block his extradition by arguing that a return to Jordan would mean "risk of torture" and a situation where evidence obtained by torture "could be used against him."
This impasse was recently averted when Qatada said he would voluntary return to Jordan if Britain and Jordan would ratify a treaty against torture.
NBC News reports Britain has accused Qatada of ties to Zacarias Moussaoui, "the only person charged in the United States over the September 11, 2001 terror attacks." Moreover, tapes of Qatada's sermons were found in an apartment used by the some of the 9/11 hijackers.
Qatada was unsuccessfully tried in the U.K. in 2001, yet British officials were able to detain him from 2002 to 2005 under an anti-terrorism law.
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Since 2012, Tejasvita has been on the job to develop a working model for the preschool program in a fast changing landscape related to school admissions in low income areas of Bangalore. In order to do this we are piloting our preschool program in different locations. As of March 2017, we have delivered our program to nearly 300 children for at least one academic year. About 50 children among them have received our program for two academic years.
We have used our pilot preschool program to learn from our experiences constantly and modify and fine tune the program accordingly. Read about our exciting journey below.
2012-2013 academic year
Our first ever attempt to implement the preschool program was in partnership with SOS Children's Villages of India, South Bangalore. At SOS, we conducted it as an after-school program for 15 children between the ages 3 – 5 yrs. While we saw the children make several gains in their overall development, we were not able to continue our program here in subsequent years, due to several issues related to the availability of 3-5 years old children within SOS.
2014-15 academic year
With the permission of the Department of Women and Child Welfare, we conducted our program in two anganwadis in South Bangalore. We again saw several developmental gains made by the children and the anganwadi workers greatly acknowledged the progress that they were seeing in the children due to our program. However, we started to spot abnormal amount of attrition from anganwadis. We believe that due to the onset of RTE, parental aspirations in low-income communities to send their children to private English schools may have skyrocketed which could have contributed to this. In addition, at around the same time, the Department of Women and Child Welfare decided to cut back on partnerships with NGOs.
At Tejasvita, we decided to follow the children and go where they were most likely to be.
2015-16 academic year
We partnered with two affordable private schools that serve low income communities in South Bangalore. We worked in 4 classrooms with about 110 children in these schools during this academic year. Having found partner schools with a lot of children we could serve, we began to grow our capacity. We developed our teacher hiring model and started to develop a teacher training process and a scalable curriculum.
2016-17 academic year
2016-17 has been a significant milestone in our journey. Having worked with 110 children in 4 classrooms in the previous year, we continued in the same classrooms but with full capacity this year. We maintained a teacher student ratio of 1:10 and worked through the year 3 days a week with a total of 66 sessions of 1.5 hours each, in each of the 4 classrooms. We also refined our teacher hiring model, our training processes and developed an assessment methodology to measure the progress of the children. What's more, we were able to see measurable impact of our program on the children.
All of this is described in our Annual Report for 2016-17.
You can also get to know about the impact of our program here.
2017-18 academic year
Having refined our model over the previous academic year, we now believe that we have the kernel of a scalable model. During the academic year 2017-18, we have set goals for ourselves to make further improvements to our preschool program as described in Annual Report for 2016-17. Our intent during this academic year is to validate the assumptions around scaling and fine tune all of our operational & curriculum processes, as we prepare to scale in the future.
As we set out to refine our program further in order to scale it to more schools, we request your support to make this a reality. You can support us by donating here.


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Gina Rodriguez Can't Believe Cheech Marin is Joining 'Jane the Virgin'
Gina Rodriguez shows off her growing, but fake, baby bump while shooting some upcoming scenes for Jane the Virgin on Tuesday afternoon (February 3) in Los Angeles.
The 30-year-old breakout star filmed a couple of romantic scenes with her co-star Justin Baldoni.
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China signs tax data pact
China, Canada, Iceland, India, Israel and New Zealand have signed up for the OECD's Multilateral "Competent Authority agreement for the automatic exchange of Country-by-Country reports", the tax information-sharing pact held to be an important tool in figuring out where multinationals pay or evade tax.
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Definition of sing/play lead
- He sang/played lead in the band.
: to produce musical tones by means of the voice
: to utter words in musical tones and with musical inflections and modulations
: to deliver songs as a trained or professional singer
: a session of group singing
: swordplay
: game, sport
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: to engage in sport or recreation : frolic
: to have sexual relations
: to move aimlessly about : trifle
: to guide on a way especially by going in advance
: to direct on a course or in a direction
: to serve as a channel for
: leadership
: example, precedent
: position at the front : vanguard
: a bluish-white soft malleable ductile plastic but inelastic heavy metallic element found mostly in combination and used especially in pipes, cable sheaths, batteries, solder, and shields against radioactivity — see Chemical Elements Table
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: a usually flat lead roof
: to cover, line, or weight with lead (see 4lead)
: to fix (window glass) in position with leads
: to put space between the lines of (typeset matter)
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If current homicide trends continue, East Baton Rouge Parish is on track for one of its bloodier years yet.
According to statistics compiled by The Advocate, the number of slayings in the parish so far this year is higher than that of any year in recent history.
As of Mondtask of turning around Baton Rouge's entrenched culture of crime could take many years.
"Unfortunately, I'd like to say things will change dramatically overnight, but that generally doesn't happen," he said. "Don't expect that to happen here."
One of the first tasks BRAVE calls for is determiningay, homicides had been committed within the parish.
By the same datees on record — 59 people were slain in the parish.
On Aug. 8, Edward Shihadeh, an LSU sociology professor and criminologist, said he was expecting 2012 to set a murder rate record.
"We could end up with between 80 and 90 murders this year (within city limits) and that's as high as I've ever seen it," he said. "So we need to deal with it and we need to deal with it now. And we are."
Shihadeh said this year's numbers bring a heightened sense of urgency to the parish's new crime-fighting initiative, Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination.
BRAVE is modeled on Operation CeaseFire, a mix of community policing and aggressive enforcement on targeted criminals that has proved successful in reducing violent crime in many cities nationwide, such as Boston and Chicago.
District Attorney Hillar Moore III has been one of the key actors behind the BRAVE initiative.
"Obviously, it's frustrating to see the numbers this high," he said. "The way we're going about doing things right now are obviously not working."
BRAVE is expected to be in full swing by the beginning of October, Moore said.
Even though Moore said he is confident BRAVE will work, he cautioned that the the driving forces behind the parish's violence.
LSU researchers are beginning to analyze the motives behind all of Baton Rouge's homicides and nonfatal shootings in recent years, classifying them into categories such as drug-related, gang-related or cases of domestic violence.
"If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have said the majority of murders are gang- or group-related," Moore said. "But it seems now, over the last six months to a year, the majority of murders have been more drug-related."
High rates of poverty and unemployment are often cited as factors contributing to the city's high murder rate. But, Shihadeh said, the uptick in murders over recent years could also, at least in part, be attributed to a spike in teen pregnancies in the 1990s.
He said those children born to teenage mothers are typically more at-risk of turning to criminal behavior than those born to older mothers.
He also said the parish's high volume of blight and vacant buildings allows criminal activity to flourish.
Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and Police Chief Dewayne White have repeatedly emphasized tin 2009 — the year with the highest number of homicidhe success of BRAVE will hinge on the community's willingness to help authorities by calling in tips.
"The only way we're going to stop all this nonsense," Moore said, "is the community taking their own community back and cooperating and sharing with us information they know."
Naomi Martin has covered crime in East Baton Rouge Parish for The Advocate.


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Every year at Decowraps we forecast future trends in design, colors and materials. In order to make these predictions, our graphic designers attend trade shows around the globe. This research is what inspires us when creating our annual stock line as well as custom programs. Stay ahead of the curve and find out how these key trends will influence the floral industry and gain ideas on how to differentiate yourself from the competition!
Last year we unveiled our 2018-2019 trends forecast. From High Shine to Raw Authenticity, we've already spotted countless predictions. The trend that is bound to dominate summer 2018, however, is undoubtedly Tropical Weave.
This earthy organic trend incorporates oversized plant motifs with furnishings crafted from cork. Patterns reference materials found in nature, while other playful elements are featured such as cacti, flamingos and pineapples. Not only do materials and patterns play a major role with this trend, but colors as well. Bright earth colors such as green, mustard, deep orange and pink are highlighted.
In reference to the packaging industry, be sure to be on the lookout for terracotta containers, baskets and kraft paper with organic patterns. Decowraps' products such as the Palmier Reversa, Flamingo Pick and Artisan Sleeve perfectly compliment this ongoing trend!
We offer a wide range of products, colors, designs, sizes and trends to beautifully style your flowers and plants.
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Steven K. Stack, Sr., 55, of Athens, PA passed away on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at home.
He was born on September 14, 1959 in Sayre, PA the son of the late Lawrence, Sr. and Charlotte Benjamin Stack.
Steven loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. He enjoyed driving truck, painting cars, hunting, and fishing. When he was younger, he enjoyed riding motorcycles.
Steven is survived by his children Jolene Spencer and Darris Vinson of Lockwood, NY, Julia and Lucas Wilson of Hot Springs, AR, and Steven Stack II of Burlington, PA, grandchildren Felicia Stack of Waverly, NY, Adriannah Boyer of Lockwood, NY, Jeffrey Boyer of Hot Springs, AR, Davyn Vinson of Lockwood, NY, Sierrah Stack of Owego, NY, Matthew Wilson of Hot Springs, AR, and Emily Ennis of Waverly, NY, siblings and in-laws Lawrence Stack, Loretta Stack, George Stack, Emma Cron, Linda and Glenn Vanderpool, Sharon and Jake Burgess, Dale and Kathy Stack, and Gerald and Julie Stack, the mother of his children Bonnie Stack, and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Friends and family may call on Monday, October 27, 2014 from 1pm-3pm at the Jay E. Lowery Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 225 South Main Street, Athens, PA. Funeral Services will follow at 3pm at the funeral home.
Burial will be at the convenience of the family.
Memorial donations may be made in Steven's memory to: Jay E. Lowery Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Inc., 225 South Main Street, Athens, PA 18810 to help offset the funeral expenses.


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A trio of Harrison residents have been arrested in relation to stolen items and narcotics, some of which are from locations across eight different counties.
The Clare County Sheriff's Office learned on Friday of locations of the items and narcotics, according to a news release Saturday from the Clare County Sheriff's Office.
A 34-year-old Harrison man; a 57-year-old Harrison man; and a 48-year-old Harrison woman were lodged in the Clare County Jail pending review of charges.
"The investigation stemmed from a recent arrest of a stolen vehicle that fled from deputies and contained several items of stolen property," said Sheriff John Wilson in the release.
A collaborative effort among the sheriff's offices of Clare, Gladwin and Isabella counties, the Bay Area Narcotics Enforcement Team and the Michigan State Police Emergency Services Team led to the search warrants being executed and a compilation of stolen items and narcotics being located.
Individual search warrants were executed at two separate residences in the 500 block of Dodge Lake Road and 4000 block of North Hoover Avenue in Hamilton Township in Clare County.
In addition, a search warrant was also executed at a residence on Opland Road in Gladwin County.
At this location, four people were arrested and lodged in the Gladwin County Jail pending review of charges by the Gladwin County Prosecutor, according to Wilson.
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While I was working on a tea caddy for an upcoming 360 Woodworking class, I decided to knock out a simple, table saw jig to cut miters on small parts. Normally, I use a miter saw for this work, but with the pieces being small I opted to work on a machine that allowed an easy line of sight at my fingers and hands. Plus, I could install and use a super-thin 7-1/4″ saw blade. (You can build this jig for use with a full-thickness blade, too.)
To begin, select a piece of scrap plywood (3/4″), or cut a small piece about 14″ square. Also, mill a couple of runners to fit accurately in your miter gauge slots – I used scraps of quartersawn white oak because it's a stable, hard wood. You want the runners to fit, but not be sloppy. Look for them to slide effortlessly in the slots
Position the runners in the two slots so that the ends are hanging off the edge of your saw, place your plywood on top of the runners and square to your saw's fence and pinch things tight with a couple of spring clamps. Grab a pinner and attach the runners to the plywood.
Remove the spring clamps and slide the mash-up to the outfeed side of your saw so that the ends are just hanging off the edge of the table. Clamp and pin the runners again, locking them into place. Remove the jig from the saw, flip it over and drive a few additional pins through the runners for a good hold, then test the jig's ride through the miter slots. You may need to scrap the runner's sides and bit, or add wax to make the ride smooth and effortless.
When the fit and ride are good, make a cut into the jig about 4″ in length. To lay in lines for your fences, use a combination square and pencil. Position the square to intersect at the end of your cut then draw a line. Flip the square and lay in a second line that is 90° to the first. The idea is to get the lines and fences set as accurate as possible.
With your lines in place, cut a couple of 1-1/4″-wide fence pieces. You can use whatever you have on hand, but I like plywood for this because it's stable. Miter one end of your fences at your miter saw just so they fit closely to your cut line as you set them to the layout lines.
Position one fence, pin it down to the jig body then cut the mitered end using the jig. Slip the second fence to the jig, attach it at the line and make another cut to accurately trim the end. Your jig is now ready to use.
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DoT Rules 3G Roaming Illegal
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked mobile operators to stop providing 3G roaming services or risk the termination of their roaming agreements. The telecom regulatory body has stated that this is in violation of licence norms. Mobile operators are definitely going to feel the pinch of this new ruling because they stand to lose a lot of revenue.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had earlier made similar inference following which, the Law Ministry, Communications, and IT Minister Kapil Sibal had asked Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar to notify all 3G operators operating in this "illegal" manner about the diktat. The DoT plans to penalise operators not abiding by this new ruling.


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POLICE RESERVE OFFICER. The City of Osseo, Minnesota (pop. 2,500), is accepting applications for Volunteer Police Reserve Officers to assist with a variety of tasks such as traffic control, crowd control, assistance at accident scenes, fires, natural disasters, general patrol duties and assisting licensed Police Officers as needed.
New Reserve Officers attend the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Reserve School and will complete a mandatory in-house, field training program so as to familiarize themselves with the equipment, geography and procedures of the Osseo Police Department. Other training includes defensive tactics, firearms, TASER, personal chemical spray and more. It should be noted that the Reserve Officers do not carry firearms.
The Reserve Officer program is a great way for citizens to give back to their community, find out how law enforcement works and create leadership and teamwork skills for day-to-day life.
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As his second year begins, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is finding that being mayor is much harder than running for mayor. After a long series of missteps, de Blasio starts year two falling in the polls, out of favor with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, still distrusted by the city's police department, and accused of giving big-dollar jobs to buddies.
August started off badly as de Blasio's office was heard slamming Governor Cuomo over the city's recent effort to combat an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. At a press conference, de Blasio spokesperson Karen Hinton slammed the Governor for what she perceived as a flawed response to the disease, prompting the Governor's office to ask de Blasio just why he is attacking them over his own failures to respond to the outbreak.
De Blasio was so embarrassed that he had to rush out to claim that his office's chief spokesperson was not speaking for his office.
The mayor also recently lost a major battle with the Millennials' favorite transportation smartphone app service, Uber, when he proposed limiting the company's growth in the city; he had to back off when it became clear he had badly miscalculated his support to squash the popular Internet-based company.
Now, as he begins his second year, de Blasio's popularity is taking a tumble, as a new poll shows that 44 percent of New Yorkers disapprove of his performance as mayor. De Blasio's approval rating has never been lower, and the current percentage is down 11 points from this time last year.
Worse for the mayor, almost 50 percent say he does not deserve re-election at this time, and 47 percent say they would not vote for him in 2017; only 41 percent say he deserves re-election.
Even The New York Times noted on Sunday that "messes are piling up" for de Blasio.
These missteps have been occurring almost since his first day in office. It was de Blasio, criticized as the "self-declared progressive man of the people," who in December, built a 12-foot-high privacy fence around Gracie Mansion to keep the riffraff of the city from seeing his personal business.
But these new negatives come at the same time that a new report finds that de Blasio has been giving friends and buddies lucrative jobs at taxpayers' expense.
According to one case reported on Friday, de Blasio gave an unadvertised city job to the "life partner" of a top aide.
De Blasio invented the job of "campaign director" and gave it to Stephanie Yazgi, the "life partner" of his close aide Emma Wolfe. The position was never made public or advertised as city jobs are supposed to be and pays a healthy $150,000 a year at the expense of taxpayers.
The mayor defended the new job and excused the salary, saying that a "delayed grant" will take over the new salary sometime later. He also claimed the job somehow represented a fulfillment of his pledge to "introduce reforms."
Finally, de Blasio is still not right with officers in his own police department that earlier this year were seen physically turning their backs on him when he attended public events because of the way he criticized the department over the riots earlier this year.
In fact, this past weekend, the mayor took severe criticism for going to the gym to work out as dozens of NYPD officers engaged in a six-hour standoff with a suspect who had already shot a veteran firefighter on Staten Island.
Constant missteps like these are causing citizens to feel de Blasio is a disconnected elitist who lacks any sort of feeling for the common folks–and his ratings show it.
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