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Madam Li Suxiang was 28 and a mother of two when she waded into the water at Beidaihe beach in northern Hebei province and tried to kill herself.
When asked what was going through her mind at that time, she said as she teared up: "My children wanted ice cream. And I couldn't afford to buy any."
Recalling her despair, Madam Li, now 48 with a four-year-old grandson, added:"We were too poor. Life was too hard. I just didn't want to live."
A street vendor pulled her out of the water, saving her from becoming a statistic - at that time, according to the World Health Organisation, a young rural woman committed suicide every four minutes.
For months afterwards, Madam Li's family kept a close watch on her. She remembers the years passing by in a depressed fog. But slowly, as China opened up, her village of Donghao began to change - and so did her life.
About seven years after her suicide attempt, her husband bought a lorry with money borrowed from relatives and they started travelling from village to village to sell clothing that she bought at wholesale prices.
By the mid-noughties, they were making up to 2,000 yuan (S$407) a day. They built a house and bought a DVD player. The children could have ice cream whenever they wanted.
As the people's lives improved in Donghao, which has a population of 2,600, the number of suicides declined. In the 1980s and 1990s, according to village elders, there were at least 25 suicides, by mostly young women and the old and infirm. There were almost none over the past decade.
The story of Donghao and villagers like Madam Li is a common one in China.
It is an astounding and unprecedented turnaround for a country that once had one of the world's highest suicide rates, with young women making up an abnormally large proportion of victims.
In a study published late last year, researchers from Hong Kong University's Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention found that between 2009 and 2011, China's average suicide rate was 9.8 per 100,000 persons.
This is lower than Singapore's, which was 10.3 in 2012, and far lower than the 31 in South Korea and 24 in Japan.
Suicides across all demographic groups in China have fallen since the late 1990s, when it was a shocking 23.2 per 100,000 persons, according to a 2002 study published in the Lancet medical journal.
In particular, the suicide rate among young women in rural China was 37.8 per 100,000 persons, or double that for young men - a gender imbalance in contrast to the global norm.
The turnaround, say researchers, is thanks largely to economic development and the opening up of China's rural areas.
Gaige kaifang (reform and opening up) literally gave rural young women a new lease of life. Leaving the village to work in the city provided them with an escape from stifling marriages or overbearing mothers-in-law, and also financial independence.
It also meant they could not lay their hands on pesticide - the poison of choice in over 60 per cent of all rural suicides in the late 1990s.
The immediate impact of economic improvement on suicide rates is due to the fact that many suicides in China were impulsive acts and not linked to mental illness, said sociologist Zhang Jie of the Buffalo State University of New York.
In a 2010 study of 392 suicides in China's rural areas, Dr Zhang found that more than half took place after family fights or because of economic setbacks. This ran counter to the norm in developed countries in the West, where mental illness is a factor in 90 per cent of suicides.
The findings showed that many suicides in China were the result of "psychological strain", Dr Zhang said, which is "the discrepancy between people's aspirations and their reality".
But after reform and opening up, everything developed so fast that the people did not have psychological strain.
"Women had the freedom to go anywhere, they were not tied to unhappy marriages. A lot of things happened that Chinese people did not expect. Housing, cars, food - it all developed faster than their expectations," he noted.
Opening up also allowed new ideas and trends to spread to the villages.
In 2004, for example, the Beijing Cultural Development Centre for Rural Women, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), sent representatives to speak to Donghao women about self-reliance, psychological coping methods and conflict management.
It resonated with 54-year-old Li Guimin, who tried to drink pesticide in the late 1980s but was stopped by her father-in-law just in time.
She had been scolded by her husband for making a mistake when cutting a sheet of glass for a customer's windows.
"My husband didn't know how to cut glass, I did. I was the one doing all the work and yet always being blamed," she recalled.
The Beijing NGO's classes taught her how to communicate better with her spouse.
"Village people are simple-minded; in our minds, it's either life or death. But these classes taught me how to take someone else's point of view and also that life can be about helping others," said the grandmother of three.
Using her own experience and what she had learnt, Ms Li counselled women in her village who might be contemplating suicide. She turned the front room of her home into a little library where village women could gather.
But as China's economy slows down after more than three decades of rapid growth, researchers are split over how its suicide rate will change in the next decade.
In the cities, stories of overworked, stressed-out young Chinese committing suicide have proliferated, leading some to predict that the suicide rate in China may rise again and catch up with that in Japan or South Korea.
Health-care infrastructure, particularly mental health facilities, must improve and expand in China if the suicide rate is to be kept down, said Hong Kong University social sciences professor Paul Yip, who headed the suicide rates study.
"It really depends now on the commitment of the Chinese government," he said. "So far, China is still reaping the benefits of urbanisation and improvements in the quality of life. But with the uncertainty of economic development and urban diseases starting to affect the population's well-being, I would not be surprised to see the downward trend slow or even reverse."
To Dr Zhang, the good life that most Chinese have enjoyed over the past two decades is just not sustainable.
"It cannot last forever. China is dealing with corruption, the economy is slowing down. There may not be more new surprises for the people. They will have to live with the lives they have now for a long time," he said.
"Every country has a natural rate of suicides. I think China will go back to its natural rate, but we don't know what that is."
Madam Li, saved from a watery death 20 years ago, says that life is becoming harder.
Her family still owes money on the house and her clothing business has suffered with the growing popularity of Internet shopping.
"Young people shop online and rich people go to the cities to the nice, big shops," she said, adding that she makes only 200 yuan a day.
She also needs expensive medication for chronic joint and back pain.
While she is "very scared" of sliding into poverty again, she says she is sure of one thing.
"No matter what, I won't think of dying again. If I had succeeded then, I would not have seen all this."
More elderly people giving up on life
China's overall suicide rate might have plunged dramatically, but the number of elderly people taking their own lives could be rising.
Last month, a six-year study by Wuhan University covering villages in 11 provinces provoked much hand-wringing about "moral decay" in China's society.
Led by sociologist Liu Yanwu, the researchers found heartrending story after heartrending story of elderly suicide in the face of indifference and neglect by their children. Many had been left behind when their children moved to the cities to work.
One sick man from Jingshan county in Hubei province was asked by his son, who had taken leave to return to their village, when he was going to die.
"I have taken only seven days' leave from work to settle your funeral rites," the son told the old man, according to Dr Liu. The old man swallowed pesticide.
In his study, which covered 40,000 rural Chinese in 34 villages, Dr Liu found that the suicide rate among the elderly jumped from 100 per 100,000 persons in 1980 to 500 per 100,000 persons in 2009. Urbanisation has also changed the power dynamic in families, he found.
"In 1980, when there was conflict, the daughter-in-law committed suicide. Now, the mother-in-law does," he noted.
Most elderly suicides took place after a stroke or a major illness. The lack of adequate medical care and their desire not to become a burden to their children prompted their actions, say researchers.
In Donghao village in northern Hebei province, the 72-year-old father of Madam Ou Zhenping committed suicide in the late 1980s after he suffered a stroke and gradually lost his mobility.
One day, he hauled himself to a corner of the house where pesticide was kept and swallowed some.
"We didn't take care of him well. Sometimes, he would lie there for a long time after soiling himself," Madam Ou, now 58, recalled.
"We didn't know how to take care of him, and we were also busy working," she added.
Dr Liu has drawn criticism from those who believe that such things belong in the past. They say that his study focused on only the poorer, more backward provinces, and that the 604 suicides covered did not give a representative picture of elderly suicide.
Still, the larger-scale Hong Kong University study that showed an overall drop in China's suicide rate has also flagged a rise in suicides among the elderly since 2008. For rural men aged 70 to 74, the study found a rate of 41.7 per 100,000 persons - over four times the national figure of 9.8.
Moreover, experts and volunteers say, not enough attention is being paid to the plight of lonely senior citizens who live in China's cities. Even though they are better off financially, they lack social and psychological support groups.
Madam Xu Kun, founder of Love Delivery Hotline, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that supports troubled seniors, says she often meets older women who are depressed because their husbands died or left them for a younger woman.
Take Beijinger Madam Jiang, 68. The mother of one, who did not want her full name published, said she could hear her then husband carrying on with prostitutes, even from her side of their divided courtyard home. They divorced after she caught him having sex with their housekeeper.
Madam Jiang called the hotline after seeing it advertised on television. Now, eight years later, she is a volunteer at Love Delivery.
Early this year, she rushed to the home of an elderly man who had called the hotline. His wife had just died and he was thinking of suicide.
Madam Jiang and some friends made dumplings with him to eat as it was Chinese New Year.
"I've been there and I know what they are going through," she said. "That's why I can help them."
One in four Chinese will be at least 65 years old by 2050.
Madam Xu said support groups like Love Delivery are all too rare. The NGO is trying to get demographic data from the Beijing municipal government, so that volunteers can identify senior citizens at risk and help organise programmes in neighbourhoods where the elderly are concentrated. But its efforts have hit a roadblock.
"I cannot get the data from them because they are suspicious of what we want to do with it," said Madam Xu. "This is the attitude that the government has towards groups like ours."
This article was first published on August 31, 2014.
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It is estimated that the Glazers need to increase United's average annual profit by at least é20million just to pay off the interest on their é540million loan.
We take a look at areas where the Glazers might be able to maximise revenue.
Premiership TV rights money - Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore believes Glazer would find it "almost impossible" to organise a revolt against the collective television bargaining deal.
In Italy Juventus, who are allowed to negotiate their own television deal, rake in around é70million a year from it, compared to the é25million United make.
United would love to follow suit and negotiate their own deal but the Premier League's constitution requires 14 out of the 20 clubs to vote in favour before any changes can be made.
Glazer could opt to challenge the current deal through the courts or seek a compromise deal whereby the next television deal continues to split money from UK rights evenly between Premiership clubs but Premiership giants like United are allowed to negotiate their own worldwide deals.
MUTV - The club's own television station, MUTV, has between 90,000-100,000 subscribers in the UK, a number which rises further over the pre-season period when friendlies are shown live.
Worldwide MUTV is currently distributed in 68 countries and there are 18 million homes where MUTV is received in various subscription packages.
If United are able to negotiate their own worldwide TV deal in the future then MUTV could be the vehicle to beam live matches around the world.
Marketing - United are reported to have 75 million fans worldwide but only 750,000 who spend money on the club. Glazer will be looking at ways of increasing United's marketing revenue.
Ticket prices - Ticket prices at Old Trafford have already been set for next season so any further hike could not be introduced until 2006-07. The Glazers could however consider introducing a debenture scheme.
Stadium re-naming - If Glazer can find a lucrative sponsor then the re-naming of Old Trafford would be one way of raising money, even though it would further alienate United fans.
Old Trafford sale-and-lease-back - This would be a way of freeing up money or rescheduling repayments but the Glazer camp have thus far stressed they have no intention of doing this.
Shareholder dividends - United currently pay out a é12million-a-year dividend to shareholders. Glazer will be under no obligation to pay a dividend once he has taken the club off the stock market.
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Yale Law Schol, Yale University
US News & World Report 2016 Ranking: 1.
Tucked away in New Haven, Connecticut (north of New York State), is the world-renowned Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is one of the US' oldest institutions for higher learning.
Yale Law School has a well-deserved reputation as the US' highest ranked law school. It is the alma mater of some of the pre-eminent legal minds and figures, including Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and former President Bill Clinton, and Senator Hillary Clinton.
One of the most distinguishing factors of Yale Law School (or YLS as it's often referred to) is its intimate size. With 650 students and 120 faculty members, Yale Law School has been described as an unparalleled and intimate crucible for legal thought.
In line with the school's small size, the LLM class size is limited to 22-25 students per annum (as far as I am aware, the smallest LLM cohort in the US).
Before you get your hopes up, however, an LLM degree from Yale Law School is not designed for everyone. Specifically, the LLM at Yale Law School is generally only open to those who are planning to be legal academics (or as Yale puts it on its website, "planning careers in law teaching and scholarship"). Thus, if your aspiration is to be a partner of a huge commercial law firm in downtown Manhattan (think Harvey Specter, who, on an aside, fictitiously attended Harvard), this is not the law school for you.
The fact that the program is aimed towards budding legal academics is reflected in its application. The application essays are geared towards analysing your suitability as a legal scholar. This year, the application essays are:
In no more than 350 words, describe your reasons for seeking admission to Yale Law School's LL.M. program, and explain how the LL.M. degree fits in with your plans for teaching after you graduate. Please indicate your areas of interest and what arrangements, if any, you have made concerning employment.
In no more than 500 words, describe your scholarly research agenda for the near future. Please articulate what you think are the most important issues in your chosen field, and explain why.
It is not uncommon for Yale Law School LLM applicants to be professors or doctoral candidates looking for a one-year "sabbatical". This is not to put you off applying but, rather, to provide some context as to the calibre of law graduates, lawyers and legal scholars who are applying for the program. For a strong chance at Yale, you will ideally have excellent grades (in the top 5%, if not 1%, of your graduating class), have numerous journal publications, have an aptitude for serious legal research, have legal teaching experience, and a formulated scholarly research agenda.
As to quality of life, Yale University has a bad reputation for being located in New Haven. New Haven is not known to be the nicest city (to put it mildly) and has serious safety issues. See, for example, this piece by the Yale student news.
Financial Aid/Scholarships
Financial aid is assessed after you have been accepted and is means tested (with parents' assets having to be disclosed). Financial aid comes in the forms of grants (essentially scholarships) and loans.
As a guide, the cost of tuition for the 2016-2017 academic year is USD$57,615. With living costs and other expenses, Yale puts the total cost of pursuing an LLM at USD$80,229.
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Floyd and Edris Dade
By Catherine Gong
February 2012
During World War II, Mr. Floyd Dade served under General George S. Patton in a segregated tank battalion called the "Black Panthers." In 1944 Floyd not only fought in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged the enemy for 183 straight days but he and his fellow tankers of the 761st also liberated death camps in Austria.
Mr. Dade's bravery was relatively unknown but because of the work of Mrs. Edris Dade, his wife of over 42 years, Floyd's experiences as well as the stories of the other "Black Panthers," have been recorded in books and documentaries. Also the 761st was formally recognized by President Carter and received the Presidential Unit Citation in 1978.
Years ago, I met Edris and her husband Floyd in San Francisco at a reception honoring veterans who liberated death camps. As a college student researching civil rights issues, I was especially struck by the central theme of Floyd's story, freeing Jewish prisoners while serving in a segregated battalion.
When Floyd rose to speak, his memories from five decades ago did not seem like fifty years ago but five minutes ago. When he spoke about the horrors of the Holocaust and the racism we still needed to confront here in America, he consistently looked to his beloved wife, Edris for comfort when his eyes would well up with tears. Floyd was the man listed on the program as the speaker but undoubtedly it was Edris who was his support system and gave him the courage to speak about the men, women, and children in the camps who were tortured, starved, or murdered for their ethnicity.
After the reception, I worked up enough courage to introduce myself to the loving couple, and Floyd for some reason thought I organized the event but when I said I was just a student setting up chairs and tables and was just a "go-fer" for the real man who hosted the event he said, "Well, if you are a gopher, you are the prettiest gopher I've ever seen!" All three us of laughed and I said, "Sir, I am the tallest and biggest gopher you've ever seen!" Both Floyd and Edris made me so comfortable I asked if they could come to my history class and meet my professor and classmates.
Floyd and Edris were generous with their time. They traveled to Stanford University where my class was and everyone felt at ease therefore some students asked Floyd sensitive questions about civil rights abuses during World War II and after it. What did Floyd think about the Jews in Europe who were at times publicly hung in ghettos and death camps? What did Floyd think about the lynchings of African-Americans in America which occurred before and after World War II? Again, Floyd looked to his wife Edris for comfort and expressed it simply—hate is hate no matter where or when it occurred.
It took unbelievable bravery for Floyd to dig deep in his heart and mind to educate us about racial inequality and his beloved wife Edris was there to restore his strength every time. Whether it was a packed auditorium, church group, neighborhood potluck, or classroom, Edris was at Floyd's side. Right up to Floyd's death on September 27, 2006, Edris was there. Although she didn't save countless camp survivors or serve in an all-Black tank battalion, Edris was just as committed as Floyd to educate us about the importance of civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that…" When I was a student, Edris was the light illuminating Floyd's story so that all of us could see the horrors of racism through Floyd's eyes—and now Edris continues to be Floyd's light which will forever drive out the darkness of bigotry in our world.


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|Japanese Title
|Group Tamashi
|1:30 (opening)
3:17 (full)
|Release Date
|February 2, 2011
|Episode Span
|Episode 1 - Episode 10 (OP)
Episode 60 (ED)
Dadada (だだだ, Dadada), performed by Group Tamashi, is the first opening theme and the sixth ending theme for the anime Beelzebub. Dadada is Group Tamashi's seventh single. It was used from episode 1 through episode 10 as the opening theme, and as the ending theme for episode 60, the final episode.
The original span was to be from episode 1 to episode 12 (now episode 10), but following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, two episodes have skipped airing, while all other releases, including the release of the next two episodes and the new opening, remained on schedule. Hence, episode 10 is the last episode to feature this opening theme.
- Dadada (だだだ)
- Yōchi&DESTROY (幼稚&DESTROY, Infancy&DESTROY)
- Ōedokōru&Response (大江戸コール&レスポンス, GreatEdoCall&Response) (2010.5.17 Shibuya C.C.Lemon Hall)
だだだ だだだ
なにさまだ お子さまだ
お前はすでに だだだだだ
なにちゃんだ 赤ちゃんだ
ママが無視なら 一応
だだ だだ だだ だだこねる だだだだだ
だだ だだ だだねだる だだだだだだ
聞き訳ないので おなじみだ
だだ だだ 地団駄ふむ だだだだだ
だ だ だ だ だまされた
Dadada dadada
Nani sama da okosama da
Yomei wa zatto shichi, hachijū nen
Omae wa sude ni dadadadada
Nani chan da akachan da
ni jikan oki ni gōkyū da
Yofuke ni oppai yōkyū da
Mama ga mushi nara ichiō
Papa no oppai suttemiru no da
Dada dada dada dadakoneru dadadadada
Famiresu no omocha ga hoshii no da
Dada dada dadanedaru dadadadada
Kiki wake nai no de onajimi da
Dada dada jidandafumu dadadadada
Don guri moratte gokigen da
Da da da da damasareta
(Dame da korya!)
English TranslationEdit
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Who's that. A child.
There're approximately 70-80 years left to live.
You're late, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Who's that. A baby.
Crying each 2 hours.
Requesting breasts so late at night.
If mom ignore for the time being
He will suck papa's breasts.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah so naughty, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
He wants to play toys of family restaurant.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah soliciting favours, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Just bearing if you can't get along with it.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah stamping around, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
He will be in good mood as eating acorn.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, being messed up.
(It's no use)
Yeah yeah yeah.
Characters in order of appearanceEdit
- Beelzebub IV
- Great Demon Lord
- Alaindelon
- Ak-Baba
- Hilda
- Tatsumi Oga
- Misaki Oga
- Oga's Father
- Oga's Mother
- Hidetora Tōjō
- Aoi Kunieda
- Hajime Kanzaki
- Tatsuya Himekawa
- Abe
- Shimokawa
- Buu
- Shimamura
- Nakata
- Ikari
- Chatō
- Shōji Aizawa
- Kaoru Jinno
- Chiaki Tanimura
- Nene Ōmori
- Yuka Hanazawa
- Ryōko Asuka
- Takeshi Shiroyama
- Shintarō Natsume
- Acid Suzuki
- Ryūichi Sanada
- Ryūji Sanada
Modifications following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunamiEdit
Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the opening sequence for the series was modified for Episode 10 to remove all references of earthquakes, flooding and mass graves. These modifications include the following:
- The pre-opening sequence where Oga spots Alaindelon floating down the river and opening himself up to release Beelzebub was precluded. Instead, Beelzebub is simply seen rising out of the bottom of the screen to latch onto Oga.
- Just before the title screen appears in the opening sequence, a demonic volcano is normally seen erupting and shaking the ground as Beelzebub flies out of it. This scene has been replaced with various close-up shots of Beelzebub from past episodes.
- After the scene where Oga fights a large crowd of teenagers alongside Beelzebub dancing, the two would normally be seen standing triumphantly on the pile of teenagers Oga just fought, all lying on the ground among them. These teenagers (and parts of Oga's and Beelzebub's legs) had been covered over by an alternating light and dark background rotating across the bottom half of the screen.
|e · d · v
|Dadada • Hajimaru no wa, Sayonara • Hey!!! • Baby U! • Only you -Kimi to no Kizuna-
|Answer • Tsuyogari • Nanairo☆Namida • PaPePiPu♪ PaPiPePu♪ PaPePiPuPo♪ • Shōjo Traveler • Dadada
|Appare☆Banchōsanjō! Beelzebub!


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Until When???
When you "just leave", but it isn't enough. When seven years later you're stalked and tormented, abused and punished; despite "just leaving".
This woman has lived on a wild roller coaster called life. I Do NOT follow the path of least resistance by any stretch of the imagination. I go where the grass grows tall and there are lots of wonderful things that can be seen and touched; thereto I can get caught up in the pickers as well. My experiences are varied and many, I could be called a jack of all trades and a master of none. I wear many hats, some at the same time. I am a master multi-tasker if that is possible, and could at times be referred to as a whirling dirvish.
My sense of humor has come from my life experience's and sometimes the funny comes from the darkness I have experienced. I am passionate, love with great depth and will do whatever I can to make your world right if I love you. I speak my mind and sometimes don't have a great filter, but with me you know where you stand. I have been told I'm "DYNAMIC", which I think might mean that I'm loud and gesticulate a lot.
I've had 7 children, spread out over the period of twenty years; that in and of itself has been a career and an adventure. Anyone who has ever had a teenager in the house knows that you have your hands full. But it truly has been my most rewarding and life altering growth experience EVER!!!!
I am a SURVIVOR of Domestic Violence!!!! I am passionate about changing the laws on how these things are handled. I have run the gamut with the legal system and at times been failed by it. I want to create dialogue aobut these things as the statistics are staggering; 1 in 4 women will experience some form of domestic violence in her life. I am determined to stand up and speak for those who cannot speak for themselves; I hope to help make a change in our society so that this is not the case for much longer.
I love to write and have started an outline for a book, based on my life. As I said in the beginning, it has been a wild roller coaster ride. I hope that somewhere along the line I can shine a light for those who are floundering with all of the challenges and obstacles that life throws our way.
When you "just leave", but it isn't enough. When seven years later you're stalked and tormented, abused and punished; despite "just leaving".


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By Ciara Long, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Originally set against a dusty backdrop of mechanical shops along Leblon's Rua Tubira, local company Jeffrey Special Products had a knock-on effect on the area's aesthetic when it opened. Set up by four Cariocas interested in travel and cultural exchange, Jeffrey began creating craft beer in 2014.
Almost three years later, the company has two beers and a range of non-alcoholic, organic grape juices. Their first beer, Niña, with lemon and coriander flavors, has won several international awards and the team launched a second beer, a smoky red Pilsner, last year.
With a suit-wearing duck as its symbol, Jeffrey is instantly recognizable and has found its way onto menus at many of Rio's most stylish restaurants. Although Gilson Val, one of Jeffrey's founders, is particular about the flavors and tastes in each beer, for him Jeffrey is about more than the products it sells.
"We all have tastes and passions, and this is our way of expressing ourselves," he told The Rio Times. "The store is totally made and painted by hand, and it's a place for good connections, for friends and for family, for exchanging ideas and collaborating."
Jeffrey's focus on artistic creativity and collaboration has triggered a transformation in the local area. It may have started as a craft brewery, but Val terms the Leblon space a "concept store", functioning as a community space and hosting monthly exhibitions by local artists, plus weekly live music events on Saturdays.
Today, thanks to the brewery's initiative, the creative vibes are spilling out into the local area: Jeffrey's efforts to spread public art in the community resulted in a colorful mural by street artists Acidum Project, which stretches up the side of a nearby building.
Jeffrey's efforts to create a space for innovation are clearly paying off. Tonight from 7PM Jeffrey will host an album launch party for Kid Le Chat, a musical collaboration that came about as a chance meeting between Brazilian-American producer Leo Moretti and American expat David Wilson in the concept store last year.
"It's a celebration of friends and family and it seemed like a great way to get everyone together at Jeffrey's as a kind of thank you," Wilson told The Rio Times. "It really is thanks to them that this happened in the first place – it's a community and it really is a place to meet and share experiences."
Meanwhile, other forms of culture are beginning to sprout up in the area; world-renowned chef Roberta Sudbrack set up a shop on the same road after meeting the Jeffrey team. Val wants to extend Jeffrey's artistic reach further than Leblon, launching a new capsule store in Barra da Tijuca last week and supporting NGO Favela Brass and Vidigal's rooftop garden project.
Val believes that philanthropic efforts are best done efficiently and small-scale, in direct contact with communities. "It's better to help on a smaller scale but to maybe inspire hundreds of other smaller projects," he added. "It might not be you personally, but more people will be reached that way."
The Kid Le Chat album launch party will take place tonight at Jeffrey's from 7PM, in addition to Jeffrey's regular live music sessions on Saturday evenings.
What: Kid Le Chat album launch
When: Monday, March 27th, 7PM – 11PM
Where: Jeffrey, Rua Tubira 8C – Leblon
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AUSTRALIAN MUSIC DURING THE 1990's
During the 1990's Australians listened to a wide variety of music including pop, punk, hip hop, electronic and alternative rock that all found large audiences throughout the country. This was the decade when the lines between musical genres became blurred.
Major Developments of Music in the 1990s
Indigenous Music
• Indigenous band, Yothu Yindi, combined traditional Aboriginal language, instruments and beats with modern instruments like guitars and drums.
• Following the grunge movement, alternative rock continued to grow in Australia throughout the 90's with acts like The Whitlam's, Powderfinger and Killing Heidi achieving success.
• There was an increase in music festivals including Big Day Out, Livid, Homebake
• Electronic, or computer-generated, sound became a common fixture of the Australian music scene
• Electronic music merged with pop in the 1990s and became electro-pop that was successful for Australian musical duo Savage Garden, who combined catchy melodies with dance beats and synthesised sounds.
•Children were listening to songwriter Bobby Susser who wrote songs for kids under the series "Bobby Susser Songs for Children". This was made so that music could be used to educate children in schools and at home.
• Animated musicals from Disney were made for children including The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995).
• Groups such as The Wiggles and Hi-5 became quite popular among younger children as well.
Youth- Adults Music
• Young people were gathering in nightclubs and dancing to up-tempo electronic dance music styles like 'house', 'techno' and 'trance'.
• They were also listening to the Grunge music of the time as it was a rebellious form to the alternative music.
• Baby Boomer's rock scene, by the 90s, translated into adult contemporary as they strayed away from rock n roll.
• Radio station Triple J started expanding through the country during the decade and bands believed they needed to be known by Triple J because of their musical influence in order to achieve success.
•In 1990, it was estimated that Australians owned 29.1 million radio sets. Within a couple of years, radio became the background to everyday life; people would listen to the radio while performing other activities like driving, cooking, working or studying.
American Influence
• One of the most significant changes to have taken place in Australian society since the end of WWII was its drift towards American culture, rather than British culture. As the American way of life was projected further into Australia via popular culture, it rapidly altered the ways we spent our money, entertained ourselves, dressed and socialised. Eventually, many of our British cultural legacies gave way to new American ideals.
•The 1990's was the era of the 'boy band' that didn't play instruments but sang melodies accompanied by choreographed dances. With bands including Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block being heavily promoted in Australia they achieved considerable chart success. This lead to the formation of Australia's own 'boy band' Human Nature.
• American music videos were repeatedly broadcasted on Australian music programs and commercial Australian radio stations played American music on high rotation. Later in the decade, the internet enabled Australians to easily download and reproduce music from anywhere in the world.
• American hip-hop and R&B, which had begun its rise in the 1980s, retained its popularity in Australia throughout the 1990s. Popular American hip-hop and R&B acts included Mariah Carey, girl group TLC and Snoop Dog.
British Influence
• In 1996, following on the success of the boy bands, British all-girl group the Spice Girls stormed the Australian music scene. Their debut single Wannabe spent eleven weeks as the number one single in Australia. The Spice Girls were designed to appeal to a young, female audience.
• British alternative rock acts like the Verve, Oasis and Blur achieved success in Australia throughout the decade. In the late 1990s, Australians embraced British electronic acts like the Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy and Fatboy Slim.
Childrens Music
Mainstream Music
Alternative Music
• Alternative music and Pop had an increase in popularity in 1994
• Grunge became huge in the Australia during this decade after the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in 1994. This was characterised by heavy drums, distorted guitars and "intense, angst-filled lyrics". It inspired local acts like Silverchair and Tumbleweed whom went on to become some of Australia's most successful musical exports.
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September 20, 2016 - "We can do better" - An interprovincial gathering to discuss shared waters
Submitted by: Josée Méthot and Tjarda Barratt
August 12, 2016 - Summer is in full swing and the Outreach Team has been busy, busy, busy! Check out the July update of activity in the Red Deer River Watershed!
July 15, 2016 - Josée Méthot, the RDRWA's Watershed Planning Manager, reflects on her month-long residency at the Banff Centre where she explored social innovation in the water sector.
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Who Is Entitled To Share The Tips You've Earned?
When you work for tips, and receive a reduced hourly rate from your employer (called a tipped credit rate), all of your tips belong solely to you, the employee. Your employer is not entitled to keep any portion of your tips. In fact, it is illegal to have any arrangement with your employer where a manager or supervisor takes any part of your tips.
When an employer breaks these rules, they lose the right to claim the tip credit. The tip credit basically allows them to pay you much less than minimum wage, so it's a benefit for them. However, if they abuse it, they lose it. And tip sharing is one area where the rules often get broken.
If you're a waiter, server, bartender or busboy in Illinois who works for tips, you're likely relying on those tips for a significant portion of your income. Here are some other potential issues to keep in mind:
- If your employer is making you do non-tipped work, like opening or closing duties, prep work, maintenance or cleaning, then you might be entitled to full pay for those hours. They can't take advantage of your low hourly rate and make you do non-tip work for such a low wage. If you are doing a significant amount of non-tipped work, you might be entitled to minimum wage for all of the hours you work. The same rule may apply if you are required to attend meetings.
- A tipped employee who works overtime needs to be aware of the hourly rate they are being paid for hours worked over 40. Employers often miscalculate the hourly rate by paying 1.5 times the reduced hourly rate, rather than first paying 1.5 times minimum wage and then subtracting the tip credit. Essentially, they calculate it in a way that pays you less than you're entitled to.
- If your tips are paid on a credit card, then your employer is allowed to take a percentage out of your tips toward the credit card company fee they are required to pay. However, doing so can't put your wage below the required minimum wage. And they can't hold your tips past payday while they are waiting to be paid by the credit card company.
Again, your employer can't keep any of your tips, and they can't make you share your tips any way they see fit. Tip splitting or pooling is permitted among tipped employees, if it's done properly. You can't be made to share tips with those who don't work for tips, such as dishwashers, cooks or janitors. Also, you are entitled to at least minimum wage when taking into account your tips and reduced hourly rate. If these don't equal minimum wage, the employer must make up the difference.
When an Illinois employer breaks these rules, they lose the right to pay you the tip credit rate and owe you full minimum wage for all hours worked. An employment attorney who understands federal and state law on tip credit, including minimum wage and overtime issues, can help you do the math. If you have questions, or need help getting the pay that you're owed, contact us.


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By: T. H. White
Rating: 3.5/5
The Once and Future King consists largely of a composite of works written by T. H. White in an earlier decade.
The second I found that out, this book instantly made more sense to me.
It's written as four "books" which each have a unique focus and, to some extent, a unique protagonist.
It's a work of Arthurian fiction, focused on the reign of King Arthur of England, his queen Guinever, the knights Lancelot and Gawaine of the Round Table, and the wizard Merlyn. All of that stuff from Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Yeah, that's this time period.
So, yes, it's definitely a fantasy book. There are people being turned into animals, magical terrible beasts to be killed, unicorns, that whole bit about Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone, and of course Merlyn himself.
White's writing style is especially unique. He never quite lets you forget that you don't live in the Middle Ages, or that the issues of those days are remarkably similar to the issues of ours. He likes to throw in little lines that shock you back to the present time.
But it's almost like reading four separate books in one. It starts out with a very young Arthur, back before he was king or even a royal. This is the really heavy magical, fantastical part. It was well-written, sure, but not really my cup of tea. Then it jumps to the youth of the Orkney brothers and their magical family including Morgan le Fay. Book Three is about Lancelot's youth and journey to becoming the greatest knight of them all. Then comes the fourth book, which is set in the old age of Arthur and his companions.
By this point, the writing has become much more adult alongside Arthur; the subject matter switches to war and philosophy and justice and right vs. wrong instead of magic or glory or animals or chivalry.
And it's this journey that really shocked me, this development from a children's tale about a child from a childlike perspective to a really very adult conversation about the morals of the world.
It's an interesting perspective on the change from "might is right" to a more modern judicial system and the incredible social shift this required.
It takes a time period seemingly far removed from our own complete with complex family and social dynamics and makes it approachable and fun.
Definitely worth the (very long) read.
If you enjoyed this book, try these suggestions:
(for more Arthurian literature)
Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory
Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J. R. R. Tolkein
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
(for more fantasy fiction)
Eragon by Christopher P
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
(for more by White)
The Goshawk by T. H. White
The Book of Merlyn by T. H. White
The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White
(for more Middle Age literature)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Coming up:
90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper


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late 2014: Fighting for my life
After fighting 24/7 for my dream for months on end, I burned out in summer 2014. Within the course of a few weeks I became mentally ill with severe clinical depression, psychomotor retardation, (social) anxiety and panic attacks.
My whole life and dream shattered in a million bits and pieces.
I was unable to take care of the label, sustain myself - let alone take one single street photo. Besides that, my long-term relationship fell apart as well.
To not end up on the street, my parents took me in again. In debt, heartbroken, mentally ill and with no perspective I spent the next half year bed-ridden in the tiny village where I was raised.
If you've never experienced clinical depression, bless you! It's almost impossible to imagine. I guess a nightmare is a close as it gets. You are going through hell in your sleep, but then you finally wake up and it's over.
With depression, you wake up into that nightmare in the morning. Everyday life feels like torture. Everything's grey, negative and dark no matter how much you used to love it.
That's why I call it soul cancer. It eats away your love for anything you ever loved from the bottom of your soul.
It was the second time in my life that this happened. In my early twenties, I had the dream to work in advertising. I made it to one of the top agencies in Germany, but burned out after two months since I had a side job next to my 10-hour agency days.
Ever since I was 18 years old, I was financially on my own due to the loss of our family business. I worked 40 hours a week in college to afford it. Not that I had any time to study, but I was too poor to afford the books. That's why I had to copy half of them and the rest I learned by reading my friend's summaries.
I captured the photo above in 2014 to illustrate how depression feels like. You see the light, love and warmth, but you can't feel it.
Although I was too sick to pursue my dream, I submitted my street photos to a few awards. In October 2014, I not only won a local contest, but was crowned as the Urban Photographer of The Year 2014.
To be honest, it put a brief smile on my face and then I sunk to the bottom of the ocean again. The smile you see in the photo below - yeah, I practiced that for days on end for the ceremony...
Every day I fought for my life. Due to my fatigue and psychomotor retardation, I could barely lift a pen. I considered it a huge mile stone when I got out of bed at 3:50PM instead of 4PM.
Tiny victories led to bigger ones. I couldn't believe it when I gained the courage and energy to leave the house for the first time in months.
I fought the devil in me for more than 200 days in a row - day in and day out...
...till I finally knocked him the fuck out with tears, sweat and blood on my hands!


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I'm happy to provide the long awaited wedding video I shot at Mac & Maren's wedding. It's nothing fancy but it does the job of documenting all of the speeches and first dances. It also makes me a little sad that the big moments at my own wedding weren't recorded. Not that we didn't try, my friend and videographer was stranded in New York along with a few other guests because of awful weather.
Please enjoy!
Mac and Maren's Wedding from Jamie Buhr on Vimeo.
Also if you are looking to kill some time, feel free to check out a few of the passion projects on Punky's Vimeo page. As you'll see most of them star Tommy Buhr, my very humble brother in law who also stole the show with his best man speech.


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- ProductionYear: 2004
- Runtime: 28
- Producers: Suzy Salamy
- Series: Shocking and Awful - A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation
- Topic: War
- Catalogue Number: 3273
Erasing Memory
The Cultural Destruction of Iraq
- In the wake of the U.S. invasion, the military stood by and watched the destruction of the museums and archives of Iraq, the oldest treasures of human civilization. Millennia of history were bombed, looted and destroyed, and with them much of the memory and culture of Iraq,
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Picasso responded to the fascist takeover of Spain in the 1930s with his famous painting Guernica. Artists today are responding the the U.S. occupation of Iraq and domestic repression with music, murals, street performance, comedy, cart...Topics: Art and Politics
National Insecurities
In the wake of 911 the U.S. government launched a 21st century pogrom against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S, inflaming racial and religious hatreds and fears. How have people responded?Topics: Racism
Impact of the U.S. Occupation on Iraqi Women - DDTV Director Brian Drolet and Dandana TV host Zeina Yazbek
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Paper Tiger Show: In the media coverage of the Persian Gulf War, even the pretense of a separation between the press and state was abandoned. This show explores the relationship between corporate sponsorship and media censorship via cove...Topics: War
Give Peace A Channel
Voices of city teenager discuss budget priorities. Why are we spending money on bombs when entire neighborhoods are being abandoned?Topics: War
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Bangalore: England batsman Ian Bell said he was lucky to be "pushed back to the crease" by the Umpire Decision Review System on Sunday when he was most certainly out LBW against India in the thrilling World Cup match that ended in a tie.
Bell contributed 69 valuable runs as England tied the scores after being set an imposing target of 339 by the Indians.
Bell survived the LBW appeal when he was on 17. He was adjudged not out by the on-field umpire as he had taken quite a few strides down the pitch.
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"Who Makes These Kinds of Things?" Dynamics of Power in Madden NFL
by Elysia Galindo-Ramirez — Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State
March 25, 2017 – 09:55
Curator's Note
Madden NFL is currently one of the most successful sport video game series on the market, with new games released on a yearly basis. In selling a franchise where new entries features gameplay that is rarely all that different from the previous year's game, promo videos released in support of it place a heavy emphasis on its authenticity (the game includes real players and teams) and dramatic potential. In the linked video, rookie NFL players are asked to guess their specific numerical ratings on a variety of factors (for example throw accuracy or throw power) and then, in the latter half of the video, told their actual rating. In all cases, the guesses were too high, although multiple players come very close. However, near accurate guesses are not framed any differently than much further off ones. The players featured all take offense in ways that are humorously framed—"Y'all came in here to make fun of me", "That's fucked up", and, one of the most frequently heard responses, "Who makes these kind of things?"This video may be but one of many promotional videos released in support of the game (others include one in which Von Miller, over a musical track reminiscent of Justin Bieber's "Sorry", encourages players to "Start Me" and build their defense around him), but in asking "who makes these kind of things", it touches upon a trend within physical, offline sport that is taken to an even greater extreme within the sports video game. The numbers used in the game are collected from a variety of sources, including the NFL scouting combine. This event, in which players are identified by numbers rather their names and in which their performance in a variety of physical challenges is meticulously recorded has been described by Thomas P. Oates and Meenakshi Gigi Durham in "The Mismeasure of Masculinity" as a key component in a draft system that transforms the athletic body into a commodity that can be bought, sold, and traded. In a game world where players are invited to not simply play professional football, but to become both player and manager, to trade players and to train them, it is difficult not to see this as the ultimate extension of the draft itself, as a mechanism through which fans are taught to accept and embrace the corporate logics that govern the lives of actual athletes within the NFL.
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I find it fascinating how
by Ryan Rogers — Marist College
March 30, 2017 – 12:09
I find it fascinating how entangled reality and simulation have become with Madden and the NFL. I also think you have touched on an important idea here: while many games have notions of masculinity and character value, this is placing a number on it.
statistics and ludology
by Stefan Hall — High Point University
March 31, 2017 – 15:10
What I find interesting about this piece is that these stats are extrapolated (or sometimes directly copied) from a variety of sources/metrics, and really under the hood of the game is the code and its use of these figures, but that the actual humans that produce these stats are unaware (albeit sometimes close) of their own performance. (Methinks that there is probably plenty of psychological research in how people habitually overestimate their abilities.) Perhaps being reduced to a series of algorithms is disturbing, but it underscores fundamental derivations of the rules of football as a game.
by Andrew Kemp — Georgia State University
April 01, 2017 – 00:19
Very interesting piece. Sports seem to both embrace and argue against the primacy of statistics and numbers, with the opposite position being "you have to play the game." Numbers are being used to turn athletes into tradeable and salable commodities, and perhaps not coincidentally, this rose to prominence in front offices (at least in baseball) around the time that player free agency, and particularly salary arbitration, became more common. Numbers give people a way to point to the math, as if it can't lie. But who builds the metrics?
This also reminds me of a conversation I heard the other day. I've been looking at wrestling video games, and I found an interview where Bret Hart, a long-retired pro wrestler, was complaining that Triple H had a much higher set of logistical numbers in a recent wrestling game release. Hart couldn't believe he had been judged lower than Triple H—"he can't lace my boots." Nobody brought up, of course, that he was complaining about a fake set of numbers for a staged performance sport.


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