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The Power of Connecting Our Mind to our Bodies
Quick question, friends…do you tend to live primarily from your head or your heart?
By this I mean…when making decisions and going about your day, do you let your head lead or your heart lead?
If you're still scratching your head wondering what the hell I'm talking about, let me break that down further…do you lean toward thinking things through and then deciding or letting your gut or intuition guide you?
Most people let their heads do the work of leading them through their lives. They rarely, if ever, check in with how things make them feel and go with that as the foundation of their decisions. If they do happen to feel something, they doubt it, distrust it, and typically ignore it.
If this sounds familiar to you, then today's topic is just for you!
Being in Our Heads
Society, as a whole, is pretty disconnected with themselves. Most of us spend the majority of our time in our heads and we're not allowing ourselves to really feel things in our body.
We're so in our heads that we're practically cut off from everything below our neck. We're like Nearly Headless Nick (from Harry Potter for those of you not equally obsessed with all things HP!)…our heads are just hanging on by a thread.
We follow shoulds and shouldn'ts and we ignore our true path because we worry too much about what others might think or we can't necessarily see the outcome.
Our brains tell us that anything off the beaten path or unknown is scary and scary is bad.
When we are in our heads too much, we're living a half life.
Characteristics of a Cerebral Existence
Let's talk a little bit about the characteristics of living too much in your head…I like to call this a Cerebral Existence.
On the rare occasion where feelings are noticed, there's typically doubt, insecurity, or distrust on whether following your feelings is the right path (and typically, they end up being ignored because the chatter in the head is so loud and strong).
The problem with living a Cerebral Existence is that it keeps you out of touch with what you really want or need to do. It relies solely on logic which isn't always reliable. Your decisions are clouded with shoulds, judgement, and other motives.
It typically involves lots of rationalizing, i.e. "This may not be exactly what I want to do, but it makes the most sense and besides, I know what I need to do and what will happen."
Our Inner Bully…that voice that likes to point out all of our flaws (whether real or not!) plays a heavy hand in a Cerebral Existence.
This, by the way, was me for YEARS. I know this mindset well because I lived it for the majority of my life.
But, I think this is typical because it's what we're taught growing up. School, while a wonderful tool for educating us, teaches us to live in our heads and to think, think, think, think. It's a hard cycle to break, but to live a truly whole existence where your deep desires, beliefs, and values are honored, you have to get into your body more.
Characteristics of a Whole Body Existence
When we start to move out of a Cerebral Existence, we mend the disconnect between our mind and body. The gap that exists between the two spaces starts to narrow and there's more of an open communication with your whole body, which is why I call it a Whole Body Experience.
We'll never be completely out of our heads and that isn't even what I'm suggesting. We need our brains and we need logic in our lives.
We turn down the volume of the Inner Bully and we turn up the volume of our Intuition (which I like to call our Inner Mama).
When you are living a Whole Body Existence, decisions are made based on how it feels in the body. This comes from your intuition or more commonly known as a gut feeling.
Deep inside, we know what's right and wrong for ourselves and when we learn how both of those sensations feel within ourselves, we allow ourselves to make better decisions for our lives.
Our intuition has a much stronger reliability factor than our logical brains. When you learn to trust it, you'll see it's generally the right choice.
Your gut instinct may, on some occasions, be in conflict with that logical side of our heads, but once you start to see how accurate your gut is, you'll start to trust it and go with it despite the screams of your Inner Bully.
When you follow your instincts and trust what your body is telling you, you will feel an inner peace and an overall sense of calmness. There may still be fear around the decision and you may even wonder if you are doing the right thing (but again, that's the head trying to get in the way), but ultimately, you'll know it's right and you'll trust it.
This is me now. I've worked really hard to get out of my head because I could see it wasn't serving me. Now, I pay attention to how I feel and I always use this when making big decisions. When something is the right choice, I instantly feel it and just know it. As a result, I feel so much more confidence in myself, I know myself better, and I completely trust myself and what my gut tells me.
Why it's Important to Connect with Your Body
I've already highlighted the main benefits to connecting with your body and using that in your decision making throughout this post, but to sum it up, let's take a look at the benefits to living a Whole Body Existence.
- Better decisions: Once you trust your gut and feel what your body is telling you, I promise you, you will make better decisions for your life.
- Honor your Core Values: When you make decisions based on your intuition/gut, your choices will be in line with your core values (even if you aren't aware of what your values are!).
- Your Intuition is Wiser: You may be the smartest person in the world and hold degrees from prestigious institutions, but your intuition and gut are so much wiser than anything you've got crammed in that smarty-pants mind of yours! Trust it!
- It cuts out the crap: The Inner Bully is loud and it likes to cut you down and keep you in your place. Going with your gut shuts up the Inner Bully, gets rid of the crazy rationalizations, and drops the shoulds/shouldn'ts.
- Stronger Connection with Yourself: When you start getting in touch with how your body feels, it allows you to strengthen your connection with yourself. This can help you in SO many phases of life. It becomes your inner compass and guiding light.
- You're in Charge: Instead of your Inner Bully making decisions for you, or fear holding you back, you become more in control of your life. You're running the show and calling the shots. It's your life, your stage, your experience.
Tips for Getting More into Your Body
Because so many of us have been cut off from our bodies for most of our lives, it can be challenging to start the process of reconnecting with our whole body.
It doesn't happen over night. It takes an intentional focus and work to start opening yourself to the sensations of your body and what that's telling you. Sometimes you hear it and get it, other times you won't. But, that's okay! Every time you miss it, you learn a little bit more about yourself.
It takes jumping off the ledge and trusting that your parachute will open (and just in case the metaphor isn't clear…the parachute is your gut/intuition).
The Inner Bully that likes to keep you in check and playing it safe will NOT be happy about this and will likely start to get really noisy, really fast.
It's like getting unwanted advice from your Aunt Bertha (no offense to any Aunt Berthas out there!). You hear her and you know it's coming from a good place, but you also know her advice isn't exactly the best advice for you.
When you are faced with a big decision, or you're at a crossroad, give a few of these tips a try...
If you've been reading my website for any length of time, you'll know I'm a big fan of journaling. Writing it out by hand unleashes magic in our minds and the more we write, the more we are able to see clearly.
Meditation is such a great way to start connecting with your body, noticing your how your body is feeling, and getting into the habit of noticing thoughts and letting them pass by without giving them any energy.
Evaluate each option of your decision
I read about this exercise in Untame Yourself by Elizabeth Dialto and loved it, so I'm passing it along to you as a way to start checking in with yourself when faced with a big decision. If you can't decide which fork to take in the road, think of both options, then try to following quick exercise:
Use a Yes statement
In your mind, or better yet out loud, say that you are going to do whatever it is you're considering. For example, if you can't decide if you should move across the country for an amazing job opportunity, you'd say "I am going to uproot myself and move across the country to take advantage of this dream job opportunity."
After saying that out loud, close your eyes and just scan your body. How does feel? Is there a new tension creeping into your shoulders, is your stomach feeling queasy? Or, perhaps you feel some peace, a tingle of excitement, a quickening of your breath, and the beginnings of a smile spread across your face. Don't judge what's happening, just notice it.
Use a No Statement
Regardless of how you felt with the Yes statement, now, do the opposite. Tell yourself (or again, best to say it out loud), that you are not going to do whatever it is you're considering. For example, "I am not going to move across the country despite the amazing job opportunity. I am going to stay here."
Again, close your eyes, scan your body and just notice the sensations that are occurring.
Now that you've said both options and patiently scanned your body…which one felt right?
Maybe one statement brought on the tension, queasiness, and unease, but the other felt like a breath of fresh air. These are clues as to what your intuition, your gut, wants you to do. It may be in direct conflict with what the logical part of your mind is saying and definitely with what your Inner Bully is saying, but if you go with the one that feels right, you're going to be on the right path.
But, what if neither necessarily feels right? It may not be time to make a decision and you don't have enough information yet, or you're just not there yet. Table it and do this exercise again a few weeks or months later. You will know when you have an answer.
Over time, you will start to recognize how a Yes feels in your body and how a No feels and you may not even need to do the body scans at some point…you'll just know.
Final Thoughts
To put it simply, getting out of your head and into your body gives you power. When you make decisions from your gut or your heart, you will know it's the right choice and you will start to align your life on the path you need to travel.
You may not always like the choice, but you'll feel a sense of peace that you made the right call and over time, you'll develop a strong relationship with yourself and your trust in your own decisions will grow.
The biggest gift from learning to listen to your intuition and living a Whole Body Existence is that you will know you can trust yourself.


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The Fragments Embedded in the Street Scenes – As if We Were Right on the Scene: Solo Exhibition by Tung Fu-Chi
Author │ Wang,Po-Wei2015/04/30
Translator│Wang, Sheng-Chih
"Sometimes I am not sure whether I have been to those places in the end. What flashed cross my mind is nothing more than some blurred images. I have a distinct sense of déjà vu about some places to which I am quite sure that I have never been. On some other occasions, however, I have a feeling of alienation even though I am fully aware of my presence there. The aforementioned symptoms remind me that physical involvement alone does not count as robust defense of presence. Therefore, I try to recall how all of this got started."
Tung Fu-Chi made this statement on his latest solo exhibition As if We Were Right on the Scene held at Absolute Art Space, Tainan. Tung belongs not in the rank of prolific artists. He earned his master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Art, Tainan National University of the Arts in 2003. Putting aside his two solo exhibitions held at Paint House Studio, Tainan, along with several group exhibitions in other places between 2001 and 2003, it took him a decade to stage his new solo exhibition Un-words at VT Artsalon, Taipei. Retrospectively, all his artworks followed the consistent theme and context that he developed in his graduate school period; that is, the manipulation of language and onomatopoeia, analyzing speech-associated experiences by reversing, decomposing and recomposing phonetic elements. However, he shifted his focus onto a new subject in As if We Were Right on the Scene.
Following the customary practice in his previous solo exhibition, one of the exhibited works has the same name as the title of this solo exhibition. The series As if We Were Right on the Scene is a product of Tung's imagination sparked by the scenes in TV news. To experiment on the difference between imagination and reality, he firstly located some scenes that appeared in TV news with the technology of Google Street View, and then took pictures of these scenes with a pantoscope from a similar perspective yet a greater distance, capturing greater details of the scenes than those offered by the TV news. Finally, he freeze-framed the scenes in the TV news, printed them out, and fixed them with masking tape right on the photographs of the identical scenes he took.
News coverage tends to focus particularly on its subject that inevitably leads to the deprivation of the subject's background and the de-contextualization of its original function and meaning. News coverage per se entails the intervention of events and video cameras. It combines images with narratives to evoke the viewers' emotions and perceptions. In other words, it miraculously transforms inconspicuous places into the stages brimming with dramatic tension. In a piece of the series As if We Were Right on the Scene, for example, Tung photographed a scene near the intersection of Mei-Tsun Road and Gong-Yi Road in Taichung City. It is only meters away from the Park Lane by CMP and therefore the most bustling block as well as the most popular shopping area in Taichung City. However, the freeze-framed scene of the TV news just features the doorway of a shop whose location and name are unidentifiable. A police car parked in front of the shop where several police officers are carrying out an inspection. "The Decay of Public Security in Taichung" is the caption shown at the upper left of this scene, while partial content of the journalist's interview with a witness is displayed at the lower left. Another piece of the series depicts a robbery occurred at a gas station in the suburbs. The image in this work transforms the nondescript gas station into a mysterious and horrific crime scene. The scenes in TV news that are rife with well-knit events and dramatic tension therefore contrast starkly with the scenes in which a relaxed, comfortable and quotidian atmosphere prevails. Such an approach not only revivifies the original scenes in TV news that faithfully reflect the realities, but also throws a spotlight on the symbiotic relationship between reality and hyper-reality that emerged in these works, if you will.
Another spatial installation Real Time features a clock on the wall of the exhibition venue. Tung films the clock with a video camera, and then streams and projects the real-time video back onto the wall, making the clock in the video overlap with the one in the real world. The viewers may overlook the projection if they glance at the clock inattentively. Nevertheless, the subtle nuances in the image transmission results in the "wake flow" of the second hand of the clock. The effect of after image divulges the secret of this installation as a result. The artist treats such kind of media representation as the "fragments" of reality. The interplay between these fragments and real scenes constitutes his perception of the world. Theoretically, the fragments and real scenes are as inseparable as two sides of a coin, which implies that they cannot be juxtaposed and examined simultaneously. Against this theoretical implication, Tung deliberately tries to unfold the two sides and then overlap one with another (this technique can be observed every bit as clearly as in the series As if We Were Right on the Scene).
It can be said that Tung's works touched upon at least two vital aspects when the artist was addressing the distance between media representation and reality. The first aspect is the state described by Jean Baudrillard that our experiences of hyper-reality have replaced those of the real world. As the artist himself stated on this exhibition that "physical involvement alone does not count as robust defense of presence," what is absent is not the body but the ability in recognizing the present. In other words, the artist not only challenges the authenticity of images represented by media, but also addresses the gap between perception and reality by personally recording the real scenes. The second yet more significant aspect is that, through his works, Tung extracted the gap between simulacra and reality, and treated it as an object that is independent of both simulacra and reality, a new object that can be observed and experienced by human beings.
Tung chooses to maintain critical distance from the objects he attempts to investigate when tackling the issue of media experience. For example, each of the freeze-framed scenes embedded in As if We Were Right on the Scene was extracted from TV news. It is in a fixed and posted state, quoad hoc, it seems more a black-and-white photograph than a TV image. The four (highly conspicuous) pieces of masking tape used for fixing the image on the photograph further manifest their papery texture and substantially deviate from people's viewing experiences of electronic media. With regard to Real Time, the projector performs, indeed, little more than the function of live broadcasting (another example is that the artist documented the paths he traveled with Google Street View in his book entitled Going on the Street. However, what the readers saw are nothing more than the electronic images arranged according to the book's inner logic). It is not so much that Tung reflects a contemporary media phenomenon as that he concentrates particularly on "describing" a sort of specific experiences amidst media images and real scenes. He indeed "described" them in two of his paintings entitled The Trajectory of Déjà vu. Tung ingeniously portrayed similar objects and created similar compositions to those of As if We Were Right on the Scene on two pieces of tracing paper as translucent as to be pervious to light. The barely discernible strokes of the pencil represent the entanglement between real scenes and news footages. This series creates a sense of uncertainty and fluidity about everything, which is linked to individual perceptions that linger over the realm between simulacra and reality. The scenes that the viewers witness are projected on a thin membrane. They not only roam across simulacra and reality, but also shape the humanistic landscapes that mingle imaginations with after images and memories.
1. Presently, we cannot observe a scene represented by media and its counterpart in the real world simultaneously. What we can do is only to experience them one by one in a chronological order. Technological advances such as the popularization of optical head-mounted display may help us transcend such kind of limitations.


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My interests lie towards low-level programming and digital electronics. I'd love to write but I still haven't got the hang of it. Doesn't keep me from trying though!
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|Babatunde Fashola Governor of Lagos State
The governor said this while he was officially presented with his identity card by the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission, Chris Onyenmena, at the Lagos House, Ikeja.
After receiving his unique National Identity Card, Fashola said the country was paying for its previous failed attempts at capturing the people of the country in a common database.
"I need to emphasise that this is a very important undertaking for all Nigerians, what we have not got right in the previous exercise, we are all paying for it now. One cannot overemphasize the role a common and reliable identity management exercise will play," he said.
Continuing, the governor said, "Government cannot provide services for people who will remain anonymous, but the National Identity Card will help the government in doing many things in terms of planning. If this had been done successfully, it would have eliminated or substantially reduced the stress we put ourselves through in order to get the PVC to vote."
Earlier, Onyenmena had made a distinction between a Unique Identification Card and ordinary cards, saying the unique identification was biometric-based. "We are here to present your Unique Identity Card to you and thank you for the support you have been giving to the Commission.
"I recall that Lagos and Abuja were selected for the pilot scheme of the exercise. We are presently operating from 23 locations.
"The distinction between Unique Identification Card and the normal card is when a card is issued based on a unique database, then you are talking about a unique identification. It is usually based on unique set of standards, especially when it is founded on the biometrics, like the fingerprints or the face or the eyes," Onyenmena said.
He added that "What the National Identity Management Commission is charged to do is to provide the foundation identity."


text: "Good Evening. In recent days tensions have been building between the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom. We seek to restore a Republic and restore the most basic of human rights. But the Royalist seek to stop any chance of a Democratic Republic of being formed. They don't want you to be as powerful as you think. They want you to submit to what they want. And we can no longer let this go on. So on approval of the 1st Congress I regret to announce that the Irish Republic declares WAR on the United Kingdom of Ireland. We did not want to do this but it seems it is the only way to restore a Republic to our great nation.


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By Nudge Sustainability Reporter James Moo
Food waste has been a perpetual problem in the developed world. While many people in other countries have been facing food shortages, people in major cities of developed countries are throwing away vast amounts of food - just sheerly not being able to finish it. Each year, an amount of 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted.
In Singapore, much has gone into the discussion on how to best salvage the leftover food. The amount of food waste reached 788,600 tons in 2014. Only less than a fifth of this waste was recycled. Recently there has been a development in Singapore in order to deal with this problem. Collected food waste is processed with biomass generators in order to power electrical stations. With this method, energy that is stored in food materials can be released. If the segregation of food waste was to be accomplished properly for the production of biogas before sending in for incineration, it could result in the generation of more electricity. This co-digestion process can produce 30 % more energy than directly incinerating food waste. Therefore, efforts to educate people about the separation of food waste is currently being advocated. Also, the collection from premises such as shopping malls, schools, hospitals and office buildings are done at a pilot-testing stage.
However, prior to that, one must note the enormous energy investments that have been pumped into producing these agricultural products in the first place. For an apple, it needs 1.67 kWh of energy before it can be harvested. For meat 4.4 kWh is needed before it arrives in our supermarkets. Just to put things into perspective, 1 kWh can charge one's phone more than 250 times.
Thus, one should have a measure of what can be consumed. Additionally, food waste adds to our grocery bill. In Singapore, people generally buy more food than what they need, in the "worry" that family members might not have enough to eat, often resulting in waste. The National Environmental Agency of Singapore has produced a campaign on equating food wastage and potential savings that can be achieved. Buying what one needs to prepare meals and finishing it will be the way to go. Customized education materials are also made available to reduce such food wastage at home. It helps in improving planning skills during meal preparations.
How do we allocate the amount of food that one may need, so as to minimize wastage of these resources and make sure that it can be channeled to where it is needed most? Perhaps, this is the most pressing question that we city dwellers need to think about.


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We had a riot in Singapore the other night. No, really, a riot. In Singapore!
On Sunday night in Little India about 9:00 PM, a bus that transports construction workers ran over a Bangladeshi man. The reason why is still vague, but alcohol seems to be involved. As they plotted how to extricate the guy from under the bus (he died), a crowd of 100 that looked on soon swelled to 400. At some point it all went bad as the crowd attacked the bus and the driver. Police arrived minutes later and 7 police cars and an ambulance went up in flames with four more cop cars overturned before the riot police arrived. The police helicopter video looks like a scene from Iraq as the oxygen tanks in the ambulance exploded. So far, there is one dead, 18 sent to hospital and 27 arrested with likely more to come once they screen the CCTV videos.
This is the first incidence of civil disobedience on this level since the race riots of 1964. Then, Malays and Chinese battled in the streets leaving 36 dead, 600 injured and over 3,000 arrested. This riot, and the animosity between the local Chinese and Malaysians were a prime motivator to Singapore being kicked out of their union with Malaysia in 1965.
This is different. There are one million low income foreign workers out of a population of five million. They are largely from impoverished Asian countries and the men (from Bangladesh and India) do construction, garbage collection and roadwork. Work that Singaporeans would never stoop to do. The women are largely from the Philippines and are maids and helpers. They have few basic rights, no unions, limited medical benefits that are often denied and little hope. The men pay agents upwards of $7,000 to get here often to find their wages cut or work days restricted. When they do work it is a 12 hour day, with at least a few hours more of travel time, 7 days a week. They live in compounds that are hidden from view on the outskirts of the island that I for one have never seen in 5 years here. They are ferried back and forth in open pick up trucks with no seat belts and usually no seats at all.
According to the one enlightened interview I saw, Singapore has purposely developed an under class. A transient group of Indians and Bangladeshis that live at the margins of this society. Over 300,000 of them work construction with little or no protection under the law. They are often abused by their masters, denied medical care when injured and threatened constantly to be sent home if they complain. The only place these men can gather together in their few down hours is Little India. They are dark skinned wearing the clothes they work in. That would be out of place among the glam of Orchard Road.
Singapore's response has been shock. The government is outraged that this could happen and the full weight of the law will be applied to those who participated. They warn the populace not to be 'xenophobic ' as web sites are filling up with vicious comments about 'foreigners' disrupting this happy and prosperous island. For now, alcohol has been banned until further notice in the affected area and heavily armed patrols will keep a sharp eye. But, nothing will happen. The fear of being sent home penniless will trump the righteous indignation of these poor people whose lives and labor have been so terribly taken advantage of.


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Ryder Architecture has completed this £7m innovation centre next to Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
An extension to an innovation centre designed by Falconer Chester Hall at the Liverpool Science Park, the 3750m² building sits in below Frederick Gibberd's Grade II*-listed cathedral, known locally as 'Paddy's Wigwam'.
The wing, which is connected to the existing building by a double decker bridge, has commercial laboratory space on the ground and first floor with flexible office space on the upper two storeys.
Ryder's Liverpool office has moved into the building they designed, taking up space third floor overlooking the Cathedral.
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Gareth Callen, director, Ryder Architecture
'We designed the new wing of ic1 to have an identity of its own whilst complimenting the existing building and being sensitive to the adjacent Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.
'This crisp new addition to the site also has to define the southern edge of the urban park between the Cathedral, John Moores University Design Academy and ic2.'
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MATT OX x MONTREALITY ⌁ Interview
It's easy to pick on someone like Matt OX, he's younger than almost anyone else in the game, and compared to the multitude of rappers in the industry it may seem like he doesn't fit. Naturally a born-killer like himself is going to attract tons of attention, good and bad, but regardless: Matt OX knows what he is all about and that exact attitude is what has carried him so far.
In a craft such as hip hop, originality and the pursuit of ones own story are cornerstones to a successful career. While many are looking to bash the young gunner, he's focused on himself and more blessings to him for that. If more people followed their passions without paying an inkling of attention to all the haters, the world would be a much happier place.
"Only thing I care about is supporting my family and supporting my friends, and that I'm living," he says, his hand casually playing with his long brown hair and occasionally pushing it away from his eyes. He is focused on pushing his game forward and with that, leaving his mark on the industry in a way that hasn't been seen before. Although he takes inspiration from his many peers currently taking the scene, he has also studied the people and personas that have built such a solid base for artists like himself.
"Yeah I rock with Eminem, I like his old stuff. I mean Eminem he's tough, but for me rap can go 2 ways, there's melody rap and there's bars rap. For bars rap, he's one of the top, but for melody rap - I wouldn't say that. For the new wave, not at all, but for the older days and that bars stuff, yeah he's a legend for real. It's a new wave now, it's not on that bars stuff no more."
Undoubtedly, Matt OX is surfing his own new wave and we can't wait to see where it takes him.


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Families are booking their sessions for the Fall already people, and I can't believe it. So, what are you going to do with these family pictures? Most people purchase Christmas cards as well as gift prints for family, and wall prints for their own home. Deadline for family sessions wanting Christmas cards or gift prints is November 17th!
Interested in booking a family session? It's easy, just click here to purchase your family session. Then we will work on the details (dates, outfits, location,etc)


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Thanks Marie.
Izzy will be delighted if Georges sidekick, Will, is on too, for some reason she fancies the pants of him. Don't understand it, he walks like he has kacked himself and talks as if on helium? We actually bumped into him in some village or other, Izzy nearly fainted..................so did I when I saw his wife. Very nice.


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This has not been a good week. I've had the man flu and it has felt that my head were going to explode. It has been difficult to concentrate but somehow, I barely survived this week. Even though I felt like I was going to die, with headache and a temperature at 38,5* CELSIUS. Yeep, it is hard to be a man having the flu.
Anyway… it's time for the weekly blogpost. This week we started off with making gifs. It was easier than I thought and easy to learn. It was pretty much straight forward. Select some pictures or a video à Cut or/and edit. à Upload. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I made a gif where I showed how to make a DDA. To be honest I should have learned this earlier, but I guess it's never to late to learn something new.
Other things we did this week was learning about stuff. I am not sure what we actually learned this week because I have been a bit lost this whole week. I have kind of lived in my own bubble. But I remember that we talked about the artwork made by Wolfgang Staehle, named "Empire 24/7", and the artwork "Every Shot, Every Episode" made by Jennifer McCoy and Kevin McCoy. Two interesting artworks and some artworks that I would like to see in real life.
We have also tried to have a twitter chat this week. That was an entertaining event, and fun. We had it two times this week. One on Tuesday and one on Thursday. What we did was as following. We watched some movies about digital art ("Sky Magic Live" and "Eunoia II") and later answered some questions on twitter that @Netnarr had asked us. It was fun, and I liked this event. One thing I liked about this was that we could read what other people are thinking about the different questions, and I could see how other reflected on these videos. A fun exercise and I would like to do it again.
Yesterday (Thursday) we went to the library after the lecture. There was a presentation made by Daniel Jung there. The presentation was about "Science referencing in the age of digital production". A presentation where he told about how editors used software to see through their texts instead of doing It manually. It was also about how editors did a bad job in checking the texts. A very good presentation and also a very interesting.
All in all, it has been a very nice week, but also an exhausting week. Looking forward to next week.
Here is the gif I made this week.
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Coffee Stain Motorcycle Drawings by Carter Asmann
Mixed in with photographs of his scenic surroundings in Encinitas, California, artist and illustrator Carter Asmann shares whimsical interpretations of coffee stains on his Instagram account. Among his most impressive pieces are his graphite drawings of motorcycles and other vehicles that rest on drippy caffeinate circles. The contrast of his detailed renderings with the sloppy coffee tires never seems to get old. You can see more here, and coincidentally, illustrator Oliver Jeffers shared some of his own coffee stain drawings just yesterday. (via Booooooom)
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Watch Part Motorcycles
Artist Dan Tanenbaum constructs these amazing miniature motorcycles using nothing but watch parts. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook, and if you liked this also check out the work of Natsumi Honda.
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To further pollute your minds with my obviously socialist/left wing agenda, here is a link to NPR's interview with Harold McGee. It's about how to make your food more liberal...Actually, it's about the science of cooking, and perceptions of flavor. Enjoy.
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"Keys to Good Cooking."
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Quick + update = quipdate
There are so many recipes and pictures that I want to share with you, but a combination of laziness, a cold, and a need to enjoy the last few days of sunshine in Seattle have slowed me down a LOT. I'm sorry. Please, forgive me.
Being the snooty, Christian, liberal that I am, I was at npr.org today and found this:
Tips and recipes for oven frying. I've done oven friend chicken before, and loved it. It means that I can eat all of my southern food favorites, without feeling like I'm going to diiiiieeeeeee.
Being the snooty, Christian, liberal that I am, I was at npr.org today and found this:
|Sweet potato fries!!! Photo by T. Susan Chang for NPR.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Braised chicken with lemongrass and curry (Ga Kho Cari Xa)
|It was a late dinner night, so no sunshine for good photos. Sorry.
Braised chicken with lemongrass and curry (Ga kho cari xa)
Note: This is probably not the recipe for you if you don't like fish sauce!
3 lbs boneless chicken (cut into bite sized pieces)
3 tbs vegetable oil (separate 1 tbs oil)
4 tbs fish sauce (nuoc mam)
1 small onion, chopped
2 lemongrass stalks, trimmed, chopped finely
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tbs chili garlic sauce (add more to taste)
2 tbs Madras curry powder (add more to taste)
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
1. Marinate the chicken pieces in fish sauce for 20-30 min.
2. In a non-stick pot, heat 2 tbs oil over medium-high heat. Once hot, add chicken. Brown the meat, then remove chicken from the pot, and set aside.
3. Add 1tbs oil to the pot. Then, add the onion, lemongrass, and ginger. Stir frequently until onions are soft.
3. Dump in curry and chili garlic sauce. Stir.
4. Add in the browned chicken. Reduce heat to low, and cook covered for 20-30 min.
*Once the chicken is cooked, I like to taste the sauce to see if the balance between the spices is right. I usually have to add more fish sauce/curry powder/chili sauce, depending on the spice brand that I used. It's all a matter of experimenting until you find the right flavor.
We like to eat it over steamed rice, with cool slices of cucumber to balance the heat of the spices. It's such a simple dish, but I really love how the flavors fight together without overpowering each other. Now, my sister requests that I make it at least once a month.
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Halloween cupcakes
How cute are these cupcakes from Karen Tack and Alan Richardson?
I just finished reading the latest issue of "Taste of Home" magazine, and they have a really great article on how to make these yourself. (I've also included instructional links/videos from the magazine's website below, just in case your latest issue has not arrived yet.) I'm thinking about making these for the youth group at church. Anyone want to help me?
|All photos: Taste of Home
Picture 1: "Orange You Spiky?"
Picture 2: "Purple People Eater"
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Excellent news: today is the official Australian release of Han Yujoo's dark and entrancing debut novel, The Impossible Fairytale. Translated from the original Korean by Janet Hong (no mean feat – see the video below), The Impossible Fairytale delves deep into the colour and violence of the human psyche.
The Impossible Fairytale has attracted emphatic praise from all around the world since its publication by Tilted Axis in the UK and Graywolf Press in the USA. Now we are super stoked to be sharing this excellent book with you all.
You can find The Impossible Fairytale in any bookshop in Australia and New Zealand worth its proverbial salt. You can also place an order online and we will ship it to you pronto. Or you can download the ebook version via Apple iBooks, Google Play, Amazon Kindle, and Kobo, if you're into that.
We will be launching The Impossible Fairytale on Saturday 1st September at Hill of Content Bookstore in Melbourne. We're also thrilled to announce that Yujoo will be doing the following four events at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival:
For the Love of Dog — Sat 1 Sep, 2.30pm
Local Libraries: Han Yujoo — Sat 25 Aug, 6pm
WrICE Papers Salon — Sun 2 Sep, 10am
Writers Across Borders — Fri 31 Aug, 2.30pm
Come along to any and all of these events, and get your hands on this extraordinary book.
Janet Hong discusses the challenges of translating a book as rich in wordplay as The Impossible Fairytale. Check it out, kitty cat, kitty cat, Kit Kat, kat.
What's it about?
The Impossible Fairytale tells the story of the nameless 'Child', who struggles to make a mark on the world, and her classmate Mia, whose spoiled life is everything the Child's is not.
At school, their fellow students, whether lucky or luckless or unlucky, seem consumed by an almost murderous rage. Adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on their own is marked by soul-crushing hierarchies and an underlying menace. One day after hours the Child sneaks into the classroom to add ominous sentences to her classmates' notebooks, setting in motion a series of cataclysmic events.
A teacher, who is also this book's author, wakes from an intense dream. When she arrives at her next class, she recognises a student: the Child, who knows about the events of the novel's first half, which took place years before.
The Impossible Fairytale is a fresh and terrifying exploration of the ethics of art-making and of the stinging consequences of neglect, by a wildly original new voice in global literature. Plumbing the depths of language to excavate the relationship between author and character, this story about the fragility of innocence and the power of memory quickly transforms into an unsettling and exquisite meditation on art and cruelty.
What are the narrative constructions we lean on to understand the world? Why are the things we wish we didn't have to see so seductive? Where does sleep end and reality begin?
So much praise:
"This début novel sketches the barbaric politics of elementary school with terrifying clarity … The narrative turn is both exuberantly postmodern and in dead earnest."
The New Yorker
"Han Yujoo casts an uncanny cloak of dreams over a South Korean childhood. ... Janet Hong, the translator, proves adept with both the skin-prickling horror of the novel's first half, and the second half's dark night of the literary soul."
The Economist
"Grappling with topics such as childhood, bullying, and what it means to tell a story, The Impossible Fairytale is an impressively unique and challenging read that is well worth your while."
"A powerful and primal work, a deliberately constructed story that incorporates irrationality, fear and change, and holds the reader's attention throughout."
Star Tribune
"[Han's] work is a victory of form that packs an emotional wallop. . . . With her shifts and slights of hand, Han Yujoo makes us question the narrative constructions we lean on to understand and move through our own worlds, leaving us in a state of unknowing that is both terrifying and exhilarating."
The Gazette
"This transfixing experimental novel questions where sleep ends and books begin, a concept borrowed from the works of French writer Maurice Blanchot, and the atmosphere of nightmarish dread and penetrating weirdness recalls a David Lynch film."
Publishers Weekly
"Eerie and haunting. ... The beauty of Yujoo's writing and her expert word play, incredibly well translated by Hong, strengthens the sense of horror and unease that grows throughout the novel."
The Riveter
"Spare [and] spellbinding. ... Han interrogates the innocence of childhood, deconstructing the child-monster by implicating the rest of society in the book's central, murderous act. ... This debut novel confirms [Han's] reputation as a bold young author at the vanguard of a new wave of Korean fiction. ... When the writing is not chilling or mystifying, it is beautiful—even breathtaking."
Korean Literature Now
"With The Impossible Fairytale, Han Yujoo has crafted a novel where the deepest recesses of the subconscious are conflated with childhood memories, futuristic anime, and folk tales to express the particular unreality of a writer's life. ... A fine book."
"A brilliant meditation on the vileness of humanity and the ethics of narrative and storytelling, this book shows you the necessity (and dangers) of watching, listening, making."
"The Impossible Fairytale is a wildly gripping page-turner, and ultimately a powerful yet unsettling read."
Asymptote Journal
"A tour de force. ... The world of The Impossible Fairytale is dreamlike, and the way that Yujoo carries the reader from scene to scene is both mind bendingly chaotic and strikingly beautiful."
Heavy Feather Review
"Bold and highly original. ... The Impossible Fairytale ... remains dreamy right till the end—with sharp and beautiful imagery involving snow, little objects like keys, a dog in a river. ... Below the surface, in the nuances, empathy shines."
On Art and Aesthetics
"The Impossible Fairytale is extraordinary. Disturbing and visceral in its depiction of the savagery of childhood, yet uplifting in its reinvention of literary form. A novel of hypnotic language, page-turning suspense and mind-bending metafictional twists, The Impossible Fairytale is the most eerie and fearlessly experimental work I have encountered in recent years."
Susan Barker, author of The Incarnations
"Is this a horror story or a memoir, a work of theory or a riddle? The Impossible Fairytale does to your head what turbulence on a plane does to your stomach. While your mind is being turned inside out, pay attention to yourself laughing before you start screaming. Listen out, too, for Maurice Blanchot, who is whispering in these pages. No doubt about it, Han Yujoo is a brave and intelligent writer."
Lara Pawson, author of This Is The Place To Be
"With minimal, yet meaningful, scenery and furniture—a classroom, a balcony, a green hair tie, a fountain pen, a paring knife—Yujoo weaves a haunting, yet spellbinding, tale about obsession, violence, psychosis and the immense and frightening force of an unquiet conscience."
Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither
"Han Yujoo shows us what we wish we didn't have to see, what we wish we'd never seen, and what we think we see clearly but don't. She plumbs the depths of language to excavate the relationship of author to character, transforming a story about the fragility of innocence and the power of memory into an unsettling and exquisite meditation on art and cruelty. The Impossible Fairytale is a new kind of literary horror, as intellectual as it is transfixing."
Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star
About the author:
Han Yujoo was born in Seoul in 1982. Her debut novel The Impossible Fairytale is her first work translated into English, published by Graywolf in the USA and by Tilted Axis Press in the UK. She is also the author of the short-story collections To the Moon, Book of Ice, and My Left Hand the King, My Right Hand the King's Scribe. She won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award in 2009. She is also a translator, is an active member of the experimental group Rue, and also runs her own micro-press, Oulipo Press, focusing on publishing experimental fiction.
About the translator:
Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in Brick, Lit Hub, Asia Literary Review, Words Without Borders, Litro, Asymptote Journal, and the Korea Times. Her translation of Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale was a finalist for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize. Her other translations include Ancco's Bad Friends (Drawn & Quarterly) and Ha Seong-nan's The Woman Next Door (Open Letter Books).


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Feeling a little frazzled? Yup - me too. I think it might be about time for the The Nightmare Before Christmas or maybe a spot of Coraline Definitely something in the Tim Burton line anyway.
Or check out the other photos by sixhours on Etsy for an Alice down the Rabbit Hole, distinctly un-Christmassy break
In amongst all the festivities, jollity, Santa cookies, tree-toppling-over-excitement, I must just remind you to start boiling your sprouts this evening, ready for their big day tomorrow. You want them to be nice and mushy, tasteless and without the faintest hint of green to them. (dolly heads optional)
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Cafe Inspired Candle.
It's no secret that Melbourne has a long standing obsession with coffee and the cafe scene.
To help you get your caffeine fix, without the long queues and hipster barristers, Neon Pear has designed an exclusive range of coffee and tea inspired scents for you to enjoy at home.
What's better than hot chocolate? A 'Jaffa Hot Chocolate'. Indulge in rich dark chocolate infused with fresh orange zest.
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Eli Braden & Little Mikey: Grotesque
To celebrate Robin's return to Studio 69, Howard welcomed two of the show's most prolific Robin parody songwriters, Eli Braden and Little Mikey--and wished they weren't so hideous: "Wouldn't it be great if you guys were really hot studs? Robin would be like, 'Holy shit!' She'd have a whole different feeling about your songs." It was obvious which was Little Mikey, as Eli's "grotesque" size was almost immeasurable: "When you're this heavy, would you get on a scale?" Eli said he'd actually had previous success in the music industry--he used to sing for a band called The Beggars that signed with Island Records: "I made more money when I was 20 years old than I have any year since." Little Mikey, in turn, said he had a (distantly) related gig: "I just got a job at a Christian radio station." The pair then sang a new duet, "Yankin' On Our Meats" to the tune of "Taking It to the Streets." Howard wished them both well--and out of his sight: "They're exactly what you'd picture."


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Finally the weather in New York gave us a break with temperatures hitting the 70's. Cue in the crop top please! I ceased the moment to get out of a sweater. Finally! And reached for the nearest crop in arms length. You'll catch me rocking this exact top all through Spring and Summer as its the perfect transition shade ever.
With warm temperatures out I still played it safe by pairing the look with my high wasted khaki denim pants. I layered a matching light weight khaki jacket on top for a little monochromatic moment.
I layered a matching light weight khaki jacket on top for a little monochromatic moment. I love the cropped yet boxy feel of the jacket and how it too is a great transition piece. With Spring only a few weeks away I'm prepping slightly early with light weight jackets I can use as layers in Winter and stand alone pieces in the Spring/Summer months.
To break up the monochromatic feel of this outfit I chose my newest purchase, these violet booties which I caught on sale at Zara for only $20. Yes you heard correctly. They were the last pair left in store. Just when I couldn't find anything I direly wanted upon exiting "BOOM" goes these babies hidden under a shelf on the floor!
I spent this lovely day roaming around the Meatpacking district with Britt! You can check her out here for even more style posts!
Be sure to come back for more style posts throughout the week! Have a great day! :-)


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DENVER – Monday, May 6, 2013 – Gov. John Hickenlooper announced at today's Colorado Literacy Week launch the selection of Duck on a Bike, by David Shannon, as this year's choice for One Book 4 Colorado. One Book 4 Colorado (OB4C) is a statewide initiative to support family reading at home and instill a love of learning in Colorado youngsters.
"One Book 4 Colorado engages more than 70,000 children in the magic of reading by putting a wonderful book in their hands," Hickenlooper said. "Colorado Literacy Week is a time for all of us to come together, focus on the importance of early literacy to the future of this state and then, do something about it. Everyone can play a part: donate to book drives, volunteer at your local school or library, or simply read to a child."
More than 70,000 copies of the book will be distributed to children across Colorado at local library events, at Reach Out and Read clinics and doctors' offices and through participating preschools. The book will be available in both English and Spanish and will be accessible to children with special needs. A statewide distribution of the Duck on a Bike and a multitude of family literacy events will take place May 6 – 20, coinciding with Colorado Literacy Week 2013.
"Learning to read has the power to transform a child's life and help ensure future success in school," said Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia. "We're one step closer to meeting the needs of a robust economy with a well-educated workforce every time a child learns to read."
One Book 4 Colorado is the result of collaboration between the Office of Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia, Serve Colorado, the Denver Preschool Program, Reach Out and Read Colorado, the Colorado State Library, public libraries, the private sector and the foundation community. It is modeled after the successful Preschool One Book One Denver program originated by the Denver Preschool Program and presented by Denver Public Library, and Reach Out and Read Colorado. Both programs are premised on the idea that providing young children with access to quality books promotes early literacy and helps families serve as their children's first and most important teachers.
Colorado Literacy Week 2013 will highlight how communities across the state organize their talents and resources to reach the goal of every child reading proficiently and celebrates the partnership between state government and local communities to advance literacy. Dozens of public and private partners are engaging in these conversations, including local school districts, not-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, parent groups and teacher organizations. Several community conversations will take place throughout the week, including in metro Denver, the San Juan valley, the North Front range and in central mountain counties.
Sponsors for this year's One Book 4 Colorado include: Aspen Community Foundation, Anythink Library, Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation, Comcast, Cydney and Tom Marsico Foundation, Delta Dental, The Denver Post Community Foundation, Douglas County Library, Early Childhood Leadership Commission, Executives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC), Entravision, Greenberg Traurig, Junior League of Denver, McDonald's, David and Laura Merage Foundation, Rocky Mountain PBS, Southwest Airlines, Teletech, Walmart.
For more information about One Book 4 Colorado, visit www.onebook4colorado.org and Colorado Literacy Week 2013, visit www.colorado.gov/ltgovernor.


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The arts must run in the family: My younger sister, Ashley, is the Dance Team coach at Churchill High School in Eugene, Oregon, and I had the pleasure to photograph her and her team.
We definitely had fun with this one. Although the assignment was a basic headshot for each dancer, we rolled out the white and a wide angle lens for some fun over-head shots.
A special thanks to all the girls for participating and being so fun to work with! Have a great season team!
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If you're not already registered to vote, GET ON IT! The deadline is approaching fast and you can evenregister online! The deadlines for voter registration are as follows:
Pennsylvania: October 6
Delaware: October 11
New Jersey: October 14
If you don't live in these states, you can view the list of deadlines for voter registration by state here.
In addition, if you live in Pennsylvania and need to obtain an absentee ballot, you can do so by downloading the application for an absentee ballot or finding out more information here.
There's a free Springsteen concert this Saturday in Philadelphia in support of Obama. It's free for Pennsylvania residents and students, but you have to register for a ticket!


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Healthcare IT Leaders Named A Best Staffing Firm to Work For
A global staffing advisory firm has named Healthcare IT Leaders as one of the Best Staffing Firms to Work For. The honor was announced today at the 27th annual Staffing Industry Analysts' Executive Forum in Miami Beach, FL. SIA Best Staffing Firms to Work For are chosen based on internal employee surveys that measure 10 key engagement categories […]Read More >
7 Reasons Consultants Choose Healthcare IT Leaders
A recent headline in Boston tells a familiar story: "Competition Especially Fierce for Skilled Tech Workers in Mass." And it's not just Massachusetts, it's everywhere. If you've got marketable IT skills, and a reasonably polished resume or LinkedIn profile, then you've probably noticed that recruiters want to be your best friend. In a world where […]Read More >
Ask the Recruiter: 3 Best Practices for IT Consultants and Vacations
For full-time employees, the end of the calendar year typically means vacation days start over or roll over after Dec. 31, but as soon as the bottle of New Year's Day champagne is empty, both IT consultants and FTEs begin planning their year ahead – including vacation days. Because self-employed consultants don't receive vacation days in […]Read More >
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Between the travel and the hours and the go-live deadlines, busy healthcare IT consultants may not have time to shop for holiday gifts. Luckily, those consultants working with Healthcare IT Leaders are earning points toward envy-worthy gifts each time they work an hour with us. And to redeem those points, consultants can just point, click and […]Read More >
4 Things To Do Before You Start Consulting Work
Since some full-time employees often ask us how to move into consulting work, we wanted to give you four items to find out more about before you start consulting. In the video below, Senior Consultant Advisor Christine Woods and Content Strategist Jaime Grimes provide tips on getting used to travel, how to figure out taxes […]Read More >
Most IT Contractors Earn $100K or More
For the third year in a row, IT contractors report annual pay of $100,000 or more. According to a Dice survey, 54% of contractors earned at least $100K in 2013, up from 51% the previous year and 50% in 2011. Salary data for all IT professionals (contractors and full-time employees combined) show 35% earned six figure […]Read More >
5 Tips for Choosing an IT Staffing Agency
Not all staffing agencies are created equal. When you're looking for an IT consulting job, you need an agency that specializes in IT staffing, matches jobs for your skill set and treats you well. After all, the relationship between you, the consultant, and the staffing agency is a partnership. You want to know about available […]Read More >


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2019 Venango Valley View Calendar
Sit back, relax and enjoy watching each of the twelve images that made this year's calendar. Take your time and soak in all the beauty.
The view over Venango, Pennsylvania is incredible.
We want to share the images to encourage all those around us to embrace the beauty of our little corner of the world.
Each month features a different beautiful photograph of the same Venango Valley View - with two bonus rainbow pictures at the end (not shown on back).
Calendars are 8.5 x 11 when folded shut (the size of a regular piece of paper)
Glossy Front & Back Cover
Each individually wrapped
Choose "Needs Shipped" for $15 - price includes shipping
Choose "Local Pickup" for $10 - if you are able to make arrangements to pick them up from us near Venango, PA.
Special thanks to my Uncle Blaine Walp for submitting the March photo - the view from his front deck.
All profits will be given to Common Grounds - a non-profit organization in Saegertown, PA whose mission is to be a gathering place where young people can socialize free of negative influences and where they connect and find common ground.
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In 2003, I was taking the TCAP test as a junior at White Station High School. Almost immediately after the test started, the student sitting next to me fell asleep. He slept through the entire test. Thinking back on that memory, I must admit, I am deeply bothered by the contrasting experiences of myself and the fellow student beside me. I have since had to ask myself – what are the systemic factors in a school that allow some students to feel invested, while others are left out? What would it look like for schools in Memphis to prepare all students for high academic achievement?Read More
The applicants vying for their own space in the wonderful world of charters have all been made public and as of April 3rd, submitting their applications to the Shelby County Schools district. Each of the applicants are hoping for approval and to open for enrollment for the Fall 2018 school year.Read More
My wife, April Leigh, and I believe that the ingredients of Memphis, Danny Song, and rigorous public middle school education will be a formula for incredible success beyond even the traditional scope of what it means to be successful in urban education.Read More
Studies are often cited claiming that Memphis is number one in all sorts of unflattering categories. It is true that we have serious and entrenched problems with race, crime, health, and education... However, it would be disingenuous for me not to mention that I firmly believe that Memphis is the greatest city in the world.Read More
I have my dream job. When I tell people we moved back to Memphis to start a new school, most probably don't know that I have been dreaming of this role and this school for many years.Read More


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As the frost of winter sets in, Northern Arizona transforms into a winter wonderland blanketed with soft snow. The towering pines and birch trees of Flagstaff created an etherial forest setting for this winter fashion shoot captured by Malone Sinclaire.
The bride wore a stunning sparkly and extravagant gown adorned with pearls and crystals on sheer illusion. The plunging neckline on this "Vilma" gown by Cristiano Lucci from Bridal Boutique of Arizona paired with layers of chiffon and tulle to create a gorgeous soft full skirt to the ball gown.
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Your guest list is one of the first and foremost important elements to plan for the Big Day – and the sooner you tackle this, the better it will be for everyone.
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Thank God November is done: Graeme's reviews of the 11/29 books./
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around these here parts, as we start to think about where to put the tree and all other holiday decorations. It's also beginning to look a lot like lots of first issues this week, for some reason. Whatever happened to the holiday slowdown...? Other than it meaning that Civil War gets pushed back, of course. 52 WEEK THIRTY: Admit it - When you've sat around at home, wondering just how Batman stopped being a dick and got his batgroove back, you never imagined that it would include a group of demon killers with eyes on their fingers. This is an Okay issue; there were some good parts (I especially liked Robin's conviction that Bruce Wayne had snapped and that his reason for taking he and Nightwing around the world was to train Nightwing to become the new Batman, and Batman's "My soul is black" confession was curiously satisfying, in a weird way), but it wasn't a story that really belonged in this title. I can see that it seemed like a good idea back when the book was first being planned out, but by this point, it felt less "And this is what's going on with the more famous characters" than an interruption to the regular storylines that wasn't entirely welcome. The only regular characters to appear were Montoya and the Question, and that plot has become less satisfying to me with the sudden introduction of the Question's disease a few weeks back - a cough that has now caused him to become bedridden and days from death, despite his never showing any symptoms up until that point. I read this immediately after last week's issue, and the difference between the two was very apparent - This was more deliberate and less interesting that seeing a homicidal egg kill people for laughing. The way forward for this book should be clear: Less icons, more freewheeling insanity.
BATMAN/THE SPIRIT #1: It's Jeph Loeb week, apparently, what with this book (co-written and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke), Onslaught Reborn and his story in the Stan Lee book all coming out at the same time. For all I know, he wrote the Heroes episode that was on on Monday as well (Kate and I ended up watching the six-hour marathon of the first few episodes on Sci-Fi the other night and ending up hooked. Damn all of you who recommended the show to me). This is probably the best of his output, and a lot of that is down to Cooke's involvement - even with the weakest script in existence, this would still be a beautiful book (That splash page with the Spirit in front of the falling signage that spelled his name... Ahhhh....). Luckily, the story lived up to the artwork, being wonderfully retro and goofy, refusing to take itself too seriously and zooming through a silly and enjoyable plot involving duel femme fatales and a policeman convention taking place next to a supervillain vacation spot in Hawaii. Part of the charm for me was that it was so goofy - There are probably some who feel that the first meeting of two comic icons like this should have been something much more self-important and full of meta-commentary about Will Eisner's contributions to the medium or something, but the focus on fun and the speed and momentum of the storytelling felt a much more appropriate tribute. Very Good, and enough to make me very excited to see what Cooke comes up with on the new Spirit book that's launching later this month.
CROSSING MIDNIGHT #1: Maybe it's the title, which makes me think of some American indie movie about a white man discovering the native American experience or something - No, I don't know why, either - but I wasn't convinced by Mike Carey's new Vertigo book, based on this first issue. It just didn't come together for me, with the story feeling too overloded with expositionary narration and underloaded with, you know, things happening. Jim Fern's artwork was surpisingly nice, though. Eh.
THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST #1: Or, as I just mistyped, The Immoral Iron Fist, which would be an entirely different book altogether ("Hail Hydra, you said? How much would Hydra pay to be hailed, exactly?"). But this particular book: WHEN TITANS CLASH! Ed Brubaker's gritty realism meets Matt Fraction's more-humorous experimentalism and the results will blow your mind. Or, at least, provide a Very Good first issue. You can see touches of both writers here - Brubaker's very apparent in the structure, but you can see Fraction's lightness of touch in the dialogue, and the two work off each other remarkably well. David Aja's art has some really nice moments (his Luke Cage in one panel is weirdly hilarious), and gives the book a style unlike anything else in Marvel at the moment except for, maybe, Michael Lark's work over on Daredevil. Maybe we're seeing the start of an official Brubaker aesthetic...?
ONSLAUGHT REBORN #1: There's a page in here, with a close-up of Franklin Richards as he's holding some kind of magic ball that's never explained, where you can see Rob Liefeld really trying as an artist. I'm not being sarcastic at all; the close-up is not a traditional Liefeldian face at all - there's clearly been an attempt at observation into what people actually look like. Sadly, the same can't be said of the rest of the book, which is full of exactly what you'd expect from a book that's aimed directly at readers who thought that it was time to revisit Marvel's creative lowest point. The story, too, is subpar, hitting all the points that people normally use to attack comics from the mid-90s: Nothing gets explained, and it's presumed that you already know the backstory of Onslaught, Franklin Richards and the entire Heroes Reborn world... which, admittedly, may explain why the Fantastic Four is attacked by the world's dumbest supervillain (Here's a clue, Onslaught: If you can possess people, and one of the people who you've possessed is being suffocated by someone they're fighting, then possess that other person to stop them doing it. Supervillain telepathy 101, people. Come on). It's an Awful mess, albeit a brightly-colored one that's probably exactly what the target audience wanted.
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #1: I don't like the Punisher, I admit it. I think he's a one-note character, and don't really get his popularity outside of suspecting that a lot of people are projecting their desire to shoot a lot of other people onto him (Ian Brill, I'm talking to you, here). That said, there were two moments here that I found myself wanting to buy the next issue of this series, and both are down to Matt Fraction's sense of humor. The first is the fairly minor use of the phrase "Government space gun," which amuses me greatly for no immediately apparent reason, but the second was the monologue that finishes "And Russell Johnson played the Professor on Gilligan's Island. Nobody gets me. Maybe it's the big skull on my chest. I don't know." That's all the indication I need that, just maybe, this book will have the right lack of reverence for the character after all. Good, and I really didn't see that coming at all.
STAN LEE MEETS DOCTOR DOOM #1: Have you seen the cover to this? It's as if Salvador Larocca thought "Doctor Doom? He's just like Darth Vader. I'll do a Star Wars thing." Seriously, what's with the space ships? Inside, it's more of the same from the earlier Stan specials, more self-loathing, but with even less story... maybe the law of diminishing returns is starting to kick in, or perhaps it was asking a bit much for one joke to stretch across five different comics when it's as weak a joke as this. For this one, the punchline is that Doom blames Stan for his bad reputation, until Stan proves that he's a nobody nowadays by showing that he was Willie Lumpkin in the Fantastic Four movie. Uh... ha ha? Perhaps? The fact that the final book in the series has Stan meeting the Silver Surfer scares me, because I'm worred that it's going to be the one where Stan gets serious and tries to be deep, and really, who wants to see that? (Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness do a back-up which is fine but pointless - although it does make me want to see McGuinness on the FF book from now on - but the star of the show is probably Tom Beland's two page tribute to Stan, which manages to laud his achievements even as it makes fun of his showbox personalty). Okay.
ULTIMATE POWER #2: It's Generic Marvel Plot #1: Heroes met, have a misunderstanding and fight. The problem is in the execution, which shows up just how mismatched Brian Michael Bendis and Greg Land are; Bendis's thing is all about the dialogue, and even more than that, about the asides within the dialogue... It requires someone who can handle subtlety and body language well, and Greg Land, um, isn't that guy. Much has been made about Land's use of the photo reference, but his bigger fault to me is that he really can't do anything other than melodramatic overacting - His characters never speak, they shout (especially his women, who more often than not, have their mouths wide open in full-on screaming mode), and that plays especially oddly when given Bendis dialogue. Characters don't quip anymore, they kind of yell lines while women stand in the background with mouths agape and chests pushed out. It makes for bizarrely uncomfortable reading, as if The West Wing was performed by pornstars or something. Awful.
WONDER WOMAN #3: Can you imagine if this book had come out on time? I'd be able to tell you that it's a well-done, Good story that actually turns out to take the "Who is Wonder Woman?" title in two different directions at once, with three characters making claim to the identity (Four if you include Hercules, who assumes the role without taking the name), while also examining what it means to be Wonder Woman ("I never called myself 'Wonder Woman'. The press did. She's an idea. A symbol. She's not me." "Ah, but symbols have power, Diana... and you have wasted yours."), all against the backdrop of crazy superbattles with characters who are clearly introduced for new readers, and you wouldn't be able to counter with, "Well, that's be great if it didn't take them three months between issues." If you can ignore the delays, though, this is pretty much old school superheroics done right.
PICK OF THE WEEK, I think, would be Batman/Spirit, although Iron Fist comes a close second. PICK OF THE WEAK is Ultimate Power, which cements my wrongness for many people, because it means that I really genuinely think that something is better than a Jeph Loeb/Rob Liefeld book. I'm sorry, everyone who's offended. TRADE OF THE WEEK is an old one, for me; Hibbs pushed the first ASTRO CITY trade, LIFE IN THE BIG CITY, into my hands this week after my review of the most recent issue last week, and God damn if it wasn't everything he'd promised. I also picked up the first volume of SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE due to recommendations from Newsarama readers, and greatly enjoyed the soap operatics therein, as well.
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text: My father, may he rest in peace, didn't have a mean or hateful bone in his body and he never met a stranger.... but he used racist terms constantly when I was a kid back over 50 years ago. They were simply words that were part of his vocabulary and being hurtful wasn't his intention and we all knew it. For example....decades later .... my father thought my wife, who is Puerto Rican, was the most wonderful person in the entire world (I'm pretty sure he loved her more than me ;-) but would use the term "spic", in front of her, when talking about Spanish people. I would cringe and ask him not to use those terms and my wife would say...."Leave him alone...he isn't saying it to be mean or racist....it's just a word to him and he doesn't mean anything by it". Then she'd walk over and kiss him on the head if he was sitting or give him a big ol' hug and say "Don't worry about it Dad". Words that we were taught to use because they weren't "bad" words became bad over time. Think about some of the "they prefer to be called XYZ now" words from the past that are no longer acceptable. I think we can all come up with a word or two like that. Here's the thing though....when my father was in his 60's he did stop using those words because he somehow internalized that they could be hurtful. So even though he didn't ever use those words with bad intentions he still felt the need to evolve because he didn't want to hurt anyone. My father was never big on current events, the news, politics, etc. so if my father was sensitive enough to pick up on what is acceptable and what is hurtful and change up accordingly when his mind was failing....I'm not making excuses for anyone who can think past 2 plus 2. As far as lowering the bar for what she said/did....The right BAR got lowered alright and it was Rosanne BARR.


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We are often bombarded by calories, sugar grams, sodium content and fat amounts but did you know that the pH-balance of your food could be helping – or harming your health? My own health was secretly suffering due to unhealthy and not-so-unhealthy choices. I will explain how I realized my food was affecting me and how I became healthier than I've ever been. I will also help you to find out if you are out of balance and how to get yourself in sync with true health.
What is the ph balance of food and why is it important if I am counting calories and fat grams? Well, all foods contain chemical compounds that make up its origin. Foods that contain more hydrogen are considered more acidic, while foods that contain more oxygen are deemed more alkaline. An equal balance of both hydrogen and oxygen is called neutral.
The ph scale below demonstrates the ph ranges in various products:
To maintain optimum health, we should eat 75% Alkaline-forming foods and 25% Acidic-forming foods, according to Sam Graci, the author of The Power of Superfoods. This is because blood and most body fluids, with the exception of stomach acid and urine, are utilized best under a slightly alkaline pH. To maintain this balanced pH, saliva helps us to dilute excess acidity or alkalinity in our bodies. Graci states that because of the alkaline nature of blood, Alkalizing foods help to maintain homeostasis and good health. Excess Acidifying foods decrease cellular metabolism, reducing our energy production and produce toxic byproducts that can lead to premature aging. Chronic acidosis compromises immunity and the body becomes a breeding ground for bacteria, viruses and cancer.
From my own personal experience, decreasing my acidic food intake and increasing my alkaline food intake have saved my health. I was in a downward spiral with mood swings, acne, severe stomach pains, lethargy and bloat. I tried to hide my symptoms but knew that I could not live with physical and emotional pain anymore. I went to my doctor who half-heartedly told me to "eliminate it if it bothers you" in regards to what I realized were curious food issues. I began to isolate certain foods and found what was causing me distress. I also began to eliminate foods that I didn't enjoy or made me feel sick physically or emotionally. I began to add other foods that made me feel calm, centered and revitalized.
The main culprits I found were diet pop, dairy and excess meat. To test my assumption, I would add a can of diet pop after lunch or one string cheese slice to my afternoon snack hoping stress was the main reason for my breakouts or gut issues. Within days, dots appeared on my face and shocks of pain exploded in my sides. Sadly, I knew I had to let go of my daily pop intake and cheese on my pizza. But I was forever grateful for clear skin, a less-anxious attitude and a pain-free tummy. I also began to eat more apples and bananas, dark greens, beans and quinoa, and I sipped on herbal tea. All of which helped fill me up so I no longer needed a majority of the other foods. To my surprise, I had pH-balanced my body.
An aesthetician once told me my breakouts were because I was eating too many acidic foods. I didn't believe her – until nowOf course, I still have acidic foods, just in moderation. I will never have a perfect diet, nor would I want to – chocolate tastes too yummy. But I feel so much better than I ever have. I am in balance and grateful for it.
Do you know if you are pH-balanced? Please answer my questionnaire below with 'yes' or 'no' to see if overly-acidic eating is possibly affecting your health.
ARE YOU pH-BALANCED?
1. I usually feel tired and/or sluggish.
2. I suffer from skin rashes, hives or acne on a regular basis.
3. My body is slow to digest food.
4. I regularly feel depressed and/or anxious.
5. I don't feel satisfied after my meals and reach for junk food to compensate.
If you answered 'yes' to 3 or more questions, you may need to increase your alkaline food choices and decrease your acidic food choices. Take a look at the chart below to help get your pH in check now.
ACID AND ALKALINE FOOD CHART from The Power of Superfoods.
NOTE: Please check with your doctor before changing your diet. This is my personal experience. If ph-balancing your diet works for you, great! If not, at least you are making an informed choice to treat your body with respect and give it what it needs – healthy food.


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Africa Blues
My sister just came in for a few days to visit and be with me while Rob is away. We had a GREAT time. The lesson? Sharing. Being 8 months apart, Keira and Robby clearly do not understand the sharing thing. One day, I'm sure. We visited my grandpa as a surprise and he loved it. It took all we had to get a good picture.
Five days to go until Rob returns with the other 11 on the team. Today, Sunday, is usually a family day. We would be planting flowers, riding bikes, being outside, playing disc golf, trying to play tennis at some point. Turns out my husband is on the other side of the world today! Despite my blues (the most bluesy yet), I am really proud of him and excited about his adventures. Here's a few pieces of correspondence:
A text I received yesterday (yes, his iphone can text from Africa):
I do keep quoting this to myself: "Who else is a rock but our God?" - Psalm 19. And Sandy and I have a verse a day to meditate on for The Twelves Days of Africa.
Sandy and I headed from the parking lot of dropping the guys off straight to the Zoo. She's got the tougher job - their foster baby and her 2 older ones. Though - I must say - they did fantastic at the zoo and are such sweet kids.
I am so glad we've got kids to keep us company and to say funny things like: "Daddy curling iron? Daddy need iron?" As he's packing up this morning. :) Nope, buddy, Daddy is all set with his curls for Africa.
Sandy and I decided that tomorrow (Mother's Day) we're reclaiming as: "I am so thankful I have the privilege of being a mom day." We are going to fight the thoughts: no breakfast in bed? No flowers? Nothing? Oh, wait, our husbands are halfway to Malawi. That's right. With water buffalo and elephants. And then when he misses our anniversary on May 19th - I will rejoice in our marriage of 8 years with a pizza by candlelight with my son.
So, thanks for praying for us and caring for us. The fun thing - with Rob's iphone - he can receive texts for free....and can send a text for 50 cents. Not bad. We'll spend $6 for a text a day. Calling is another story.....
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