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To recognize and honor certain Laurel's "Hometown Heroes", in and around the City of Laurel.
Program Description
The City of Laurel Hometown Heroes Banner Recognition Program recognizes and honors the service of Laurel residents and their family members to the United States Armed Forces, local Law Enforcement, Fire and Rescue organizations, and others as warranted.
Award Coordinator
Mayor's Chief of Staff
Award Committee
Chief of Staff or designee, City Administrator or designee, Director, Department of Public Works, Laurel Board of Trade members (2).
Award Presentation
The Award Committee will develop criteria for the Honorary Banner. Approved attached criteria.
The Laurel Board of Trade will arrange for the collection of funds for and purchase of Honorary Banners. The City and Laurel Board of Trade will arrange for storage and/or final distribution of Honorary Banners. The Mayor will present a citation to the family of the honoree. The City of Laurel will provide the labor and equipment for banner installation and removal, as well as maintenance of the banner hanging poles and other materials.
Award Selection Dates
Year Round
Banner Location
Banner (light poles) poles on Cherry Lane, Van Dusen Road
Equipment Needed
Existing banner holders, flag poles, installation equipment


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7/10/07 on to Dowry Creek
We departed
7/11/07 to South
From Dowry Creek Marina to South Lake anchorage though the straight and narrow Alligator –
7/12/07 on to the hospitality of
We pulled the anchor at
7/13/07 day in the
We left
7/14/07 let's meet the other Victory owners at Salt Pond
We slipped away from the
7/16/07 the Chesapeake Bay and the
Tight slip, so we walked the boat out, which was much easier than getting in. Beach Cruiser headed to the Chesapeake Bay where we promptly put up the sails and enjoyed turning the engine off for the first time since Florida waters and headed northeast across the bay. We enjoyed sailing a good portion of the day until the skies started to turn gray and questionable. So in came the sails and we started to head for an anchorage in Hungars Creek. The ground came up to meet the keel, so hard aground we were. Barry used his expert skills to get us off the shoal that mysteriously appeared in the 7 foot waters of the middle of the channel. Needless to say, we abandoned that anchorage, pulled out the charts and quickly started to look for another, deeper anchorage. It was now getting late and storms were on the horizon. We ended up about one mile off the eastern shore near
The channel was very tricky getting up the Pocomoke Sound, where we saw depths as low as 4.5 feet. We made it through and traveled up the
7/20/07 we are chill-axin…
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|Laval, Quebec
|Current City
|Hip-Hop, Rap, Hardcore hip-hop, R&B
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|Le Chum Productions, Star Status Records
|Associated acts
|Le Chum, Monalisa, Murdah Mammiez
Raised in Laval, near Montreal ,Ruby developed a sudden interest for Rap by the age of 13.Not doing to well in school,she then decided to take some time off to practice her abilities.Grew up listening to Gangsta boo,Rah Diggah, Lil Kim, Deadly Venoms and many other female artists, Ruby felt she could pursuit her dreams by devoting her self to her music,to one day maybe achieve her goals by being one of the first female Mc's in Canada to make it big. She went on searching for other females with the same love n dedication for Hip hop as she,in the hopes of maybe finding some other lady to share her skills with. Now at the age of 20 working with one of MTL's best producers Le Chum,this young lady should be releasing her first solo album by the year 2010. Many projects to come ,she is proud to have found her place within all these local artists she has come to meet in the past few years. Not to forget her associate Monalisa (whom has just put out her first solo mixtape "THE MYSTIC STORM)together Ruby Aka Venomous Candy and Monalisa Aka The Crunk Mistress had formed a group by the name of " Murdah Mammiez".Unfortunately things did not quite work out for them as a group. Despite the fact that they we're receiving lots of love n support from their community ,they have mutually agreed to focus on pursuing their solo careers .Hoping to someday be recognized for her many talents, Ruby will keep on pushing until she reaches her dreams, keeping in mind that the Sky is the Limit.
Music VideosEdit
See AlsoEdit
- List of female rappers and rap groups
- List of Rappers
- List of Rappers and Rap Groups
- List of Canadian rappers
- List of Canadian rappers and rap groups
- List of Greater Montreal rappers
- List of Greater Montreal rappers and rap groups
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Studying Romance Studies in Germany
Romance scholars learn and study languages that emerged from Latin.
An article by Oliver Burgard in collaboration with Kathrin Fromm
Romance Studies
That is what it's about
Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or maybe Romanian, Catalan or Sardinian? Anyone who studies Romance languages is spoilt for choice. The subject is diverse and focuses on the languages and cultures of quite different countries and continents. The Bachelor's degree courses are equally varied: students can study one or more languages or opt for a regional focus such as Latin America. The common thread of all Romance courses offered: languages that emerged from Latin. The degree course in Germany is usually based on three main disciplines: linguistics, literature and civilisation studies. Students learn how the Romance languages have developed, they look at novels, films and telenovelas and deal with political and social issues, for example how the economic crisis has influenced Spanish writers. There are also language courses which make up around one-third of the academic studies. In these courses, students learn grammar and conversation and practise writing essays in the chosen foreign language. A study visit abroad is rarely required, but very beneficial. "I can only recommend doing one to everyone because there is no better way to get authentic language practice," says Thomas Klinkert, professor at the Uni Zurich and chair of the Deutscher Romanistenverband (German Association of Romance Scholars). Some universities in Germany offer a four-year Bachelor's degree course in Romance studies with an integrated year abroad.
suitability, obstacles, misconceptions
School leavers often underestimate the theoretical parts of the subject. "Many think: I am studying Italian because I like the language and enjoy travelling to Italy. And then they have to learn historical morphology and read Boccaccio," says Klinkert. Interest in a country is a good motivation, but Romance studies focuses, above all, on studying language and literature as a scholar. To do this students have to read a lot: not only novels but also texts on literary theory and the history and politics of the Romance countries. They can't be afraid of complicated texts and must be open to theoretical aspects like grammar. The seminars are often held in German at the beginning. The proportion of courses held in the foreign language increases over the course of the semesters. Getting off to a good start is easier if students already know a Romance language well at the beginning of the academic studies. In many cases, students may also start from square one; however, the studies are extended accordingly. Some faculties require knowledge of Latin. Sometimes a qualification in Latin is required; sometimes a less in-depth Latin course is sufficient. Both can be made up at the beginning of the studies. Most degree courses in Romance studies in Germany do not have admissions restrictions; the course entrance restrictions for the rest are commonly between 2 and 3.


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Forecast for today in NW MO:
102 degrees, heat index of 110+
Oy vey.
Everything is wilting, including me.
These are the kind of days that I think about the pioneer women, wearing their long dresses with long sleeves, plus petticoats. How did they do it?! Those women were made of stern stuff.


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Conditions in the 710 gap are slow and go, as Gov. Jerry Brown last week vetoed a bill that would have forced the California Department of Transportation to quickly sell some of the nearly 500 properties it owns in Los Angeles, South Pasadena and Pasadena.
In his veto message, Brown said he is working to find a solution in the so-called 710 gap, where transportation officials are studying a 4.5-mile tunnel that would connect the Long Beach (710) Freeway and the Foothill (210) Freeway even as local leaders and residents raise alarms about the proposal.
State Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge), who wrote the measure, said she is likely to introduce another measure to push sale of the properties next year.
"I think there will need to be some legislation involved," she said. "We're going to talk to our locals and see how far we can get."
Liu's measure would have required Caltrans to begin selling homes it acquired decades ago in preparation for constructing an extension to the 710 freeway. An August audit by the state showed that Caltrans has been a poor steward of those properties, failing to collect market-rate rents or adequately oversee repairs to the homes. The audit called on Caltrans to transfer management of the properties to local cities, whose officials are cool to the idea, or to let a private firm to take over.


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India's water availability through rivers is depleting at an alarming rate. We have only 75% of what we had in 1947. By 2030 we will have only 50% of water we need for survival. If the country / govt and citizens don't take combined immediate action, future generations will have extreme hardship. Do you know Cauvery does not reach the see? It has dried up 75 km before its destination.
The solution lies in planting (forest) trees in govt land, fruit trees in private land all along the river banks to a width of 1 km on both sides. We need to create a policy at central / State levels to save rivers. It is a long time plan. When properly implemented results would show up after several years.
Isha Foundation led by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is conducting a national level rally to create awareness on this issue. Sadhguru himself would drive from Kanyakumari to Himalayas starting from 3rd Sep ending on 2nd October in Delhi. Sixteen Chief Ministers are joining and supporting. Draft policy document will be presented to govt on Gandhi Jayanti Day in Delhi.
Please see the pamphlet attached. If you wish to support this cause just give a missed call to 8000980009. Your family members may have many mobiles. Request them to support in similar way. Only one call per mobile number will be counted. It is to impress upon the govt that public are with them or that a policy is their (public's) demand.
Dr P Vyasamoorthy
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I like how HollerMall came up with the idea to put everything in just one store. With so many online sellers now, they can now place their products into place where they can gain more customers.
Besides the open store, raffles are to commence every hour and tons of freebies will be given away. One of the main contests is the chance to shop with your favorite girls: Ida Anduyan, Cha Ocampo, Vina Guerrero, Kally Araneta, Chin Obcena, Chace Chua, Gela Muñoz, Akiko Abad, and Aaliyah Benisano. Oh how this is so exciting!
Oh and by the way you can start purchasing your GCs for the raffle starting tomorrow, November 25 until the grand opening day at 4:30PM. Winners to be announced at 5PM.
For more information and announcements, visit their website and social media accounts I provided below. Oh and before I forget, they have an ongoing giveaway. Hurry and join now as it ends on November 27, 2015. Good luck and hope to see you there!


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Search here for conference announcements, calls for papers, fellowships and more.
Do you have an event you'd like to announce? A call for papers for a conference? Email all details to [email protected].
Call for papers: Peoples and Cultures of the World
International Conference
Palermo University, January 24-25, 2019
Building 19, Viale delle Scienze, Aula Seminari A and B
Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 November 2018
Abstract: 250 words (max)
Duration of each paper: 20 minutes
Official languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish
Registration to the Conference is free of cost. Travel, accommodation and food costs are to be covered by participants.
Scientific coordination:
Leonardo Mercatanti and Stefano Montes
Organizing committee:
Irene Majo Garigliano, Leonardo Mercatanti, Giovanni Messina, Stefano Montes, Alessandro Morello, Gaetano Sabato, Flavia Schiavo, Licia Taverna
Department of Cultures and Societies, Palermo University
Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italy
Please send your paper and short biodata to:
Leonardo Mercatanti ([email protected])
Stefano Montes ([email protected])
Gaetano Sabato ([email protected])
Leonardo Mercatanti ([email protected])
Stefano Montes ([email protected])
Gaetano Sabato ([email protected])
Conference Theme: Ethnographic Futures
Hosts: AES / ALLA / ABA
Conference Dates: March 14 to 16, 2019
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Website: https://americanethnologist.org/meetings/spring-conference/aes-2019
CfP deadline: January 28, 2019
Registration Prices: Students $40 / $45 (member / non-member); Professional $140 / $145 (member / non-member
Travel Diversity Grant deadline & information: January 28; [email protected]
Call for Paper Abstracts for Proposed Panels
View proposed panels seeking paper abstract submissions HERE.
Abstract Submissions for Panels, Individual Papers, and Roundtables
AES, ALLA, and ABA invite proposals for individual papers, organized paper panels, and roundtables for our joint Spring 2019 Conference. Word limit for abstracts: paper up to 250 words; Session/panel up to 500 words. Submit HERE.
When submitting your proposal, you will be asked to either (a) provide your own theme(s), or (b) select from the list of pre-determined themes provided by the program committee. These themes will be used during the review and scheduling processes to reduce content overlap. If your submission does not align within one of the themes, you may select "other" and provide your theme(s) as written responses.
Pre-determined Themes:
Theorizing the Future
Methodology: Innovations, Conundrums & Engagement
Violence, Trauma & Resistance
Citizenship & Belonging
Debt & Repayments
Queer & Other Intimate Imaginings
Sanctuary & Refuge
Migration, Mobility & Borders
The State, Surveillance & In/Exclusions
Race, Ethnicity & Class Formations
Gendered Spaces & Subversions
Embodiment & the Body
Emancipatory Politics & Solidarity
Urban Futures
Health, Healing, and Ethics
Environmental Justice
Labor & Work
Consumption & Desire
Others proposed by submitters
The submissions portal closes Monday, January 28, 2019 (3pm ET).
Dear Fellow Anthropologists,
We are in the process of updating an introductory 'primer' in Applied Anthropology, entitled What Anthropologists Do, which was initially published in 2009.
The intention was originally to introduce the subject to school leavers or first year undergraduates, who often have little idea about what anthropology is, or what anthropologists do. The purpose of this second edition remains primarily to encourage people to study anthropology and also to illustrate the wide variety of careers now available to anthropologists. The book has also become widely used in undergraduate anthropology courses, to help people think about the areas they want to focus on as they progress.
The text has a secondary purpose: many potential employers of anthropologists – industries, agencies and government organisations – also have little familiarity with anthropology as a discipline, and thus only rarely make use of anthropologists and their particular skills. By providing them with a highly accessible and updated introduction to the subject, the volume will – it is hoped – encourage greater use of anthropology and the potential insights provided by ethnographic research.
What we are looking for this time are exciting new examples of research and short autobiographical accounts describing people's experiences in applying anthropology, especially in emergent areas.
If you would like to be involved in helping to get our discipline 'out there', please have a look at these new areas (below). Depending on your level of enthusiasm and ability to spend some time on this, you could send some brief examples of your current research and how you have applied anthropology. How did you get involved, and what difference has the inclusion of anthropology made in your work? (If I quote you or make broader use of your comments, this will be acknowledged.)
And/or you could offer a short autobiographical account (1000-2000 words) of your work as an applied anthropologist, possibly including some feedback about it from the people with whom you have worked. If you think you might like to do this, please write a brief outline (about 200 words), and attach a CV as well as your contact details.
We do hope that you will support this continuing effort to encourage wider engagement with our discipline. So if you are doing some good things with anthropology, please let us know, sending responses to either [email protected] or [email protected].
Initial drafts/suggestions should be submitted by the end of September, so that we can spend October reviewing possible items to include. The deadline for the inclusion of final drafts for approved content is January 31st, 2019.
Many thanks,
Veronica Strang and Joanna Puckering
Summary of new areas, update for 2nd edition.
A more substantial body of literature to mention, including basic introductions to anthropology and to professional practice.
Chapter 1. Anthropology and Advocacy
Debates on GM and related issues – new issues such as:
Biofuels etc.
Indigenous rights and mining issues, eg. Standing Rock
Debates about ecological justice/rights for nature
Efforts to declare rivers as 'living ancestors' and 'legal persons'
Advocacy more directly in relation to non-human rights and conservation
Human rights:
More focus on displacement
Treatment of refugees
Human trafficking
Modern slavery
Rights to clean water
Rights to sanitation
Freshwater resources
Water security
Chapter 2. Anthropology and Aid
General updating with ongoing research on (and critiques of) international aid development
Medical humanitarianism
More on involvement of anthropologists in participatory action research
Material about gypsies could be updated
Chapter 3. Anthropology and Development
Emergent conflicts around tourism taking over cities (eg. Barcelona, Lisbon)
Displacement of local residents in favour of profitable Air B&B accommodation etc.
Dams continue to be controversial
Diversion of limited freshwater resources into irrigation
Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Environment
Impacts of the patterns of freshwater use (and see Ch3)
Plastics in the ocean
Tipping points in extinctions
Air quality issues
Energy production/consumption
Fisheries policy (and Brexit)
Conservation controversies over big cat protection
Updates to climate change debates / anthropological perspectives
Archaeology and historical archaeology
– Recent controversies over Stonehenge tunnel would update that material
– Lighthouses and heritage
– Land and identity
– Strengthen the material on urban identities
Chapter 5. Anthropology and Governance
Recent rise in populism, Brexit etc.
Rising influence of social media
Anthropology's involvement in public policy development
Changes in managerial cultures
Corporatisation of health and education institutions (schools and universities)
Continued rise of transnational corporations; their ownership of key resources and utilities
Involvement of anthropology in military and covert government activities
Chapter 6. Anthropology, Business and Industry
Business and digital developments:
– Advertising etc. via Facebook (and related controversies)
– Virtual realities/cyberspace
– Online gaming
– Employment of anthropologists by Google, Microsoft etc
Anthropologists working with unions/on industrial action
New methods such as UX (user experience) testing
Professional behaviour
Gender relations
Gender pay gap
Chapter 7. Anthropology and Health
Changes in the last decade, eg. issues:
– Surrogacy
– Sperm donation
– Abortion
– Child rearing
Emergent issues about millennials and health
Changes in approaches to mental health
Huge issues (especially in the UK) about the demographics of aging, dementia etc.
Related concerns around health provision:
– Health insurance in the US etc.
Major new outbreaks of disease, eg. Ebola (importance of anthropological understandings)
Forensic anthropology – continues to expand, especially in relation to disaster zones
Chapter 8. Anthropology, Art and Identity
Standalone 'identity' related topics
Those expressed via art and material culture
The former:
New work dealing with gender and sexuality, eg.
– Same sex marriage
– Transgender issues
– Adoption etc.
Discussions about race:
– Re-emergence of the extreme right wing and its effects
Breakdown of federal states, eg. Scotland and Catalonia, efforts to achieve independence and outcomes to date
Visual anthropology and representation:
– Museums
– Cultural heritage
– Archaeology and historical archaeology
Development and (both tangible and intangible) cultural heritage
Visual anthropology and social intervention
Chapter 9. Interdisciplinary Anthropology (New chapter)
Situations in which interdisciplinary research involves (and is assisted by the involvement of) anthropology
Issues around how anthropology is applied
The need to provide students with practical training in engaging with other disciplines
The perspectives of non-academic professionals, industry specialists etc.
Engaging with alternate forms of expertise involves:
– seeking shared research questions
– common theoretical framework
– navigating sometimes difficult issues, eg. disciplinary identity, territoriality, power, access to funding, disciplinary status
Additional section providing a vision of where anthropology is heading in the future.
Immigration, Ethnic Mobilities, and Diasporic Communities in a Transnational World
The Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) invites panel and/or paper proposals for its upcoming conference on the theme of "Immigration, Ethnic Mobilities, Diasporic Communities and Transnationalism in a Transnational World". Departing from the traditional ethnic-studies- in-Canada perspective, the theme of this CESA conference intends to explicitly connect with transnationalism allowing reflection of current, dynamic and ongoing transformations of Canada and its ethnic community landscape in a globalized era. Constant population movements within, but also across national borders, alongside a much more extensive and complex communicational, informational and exchange network, are permanent features of a globalized world. Both population movements and intricate exchange networks signal the multiple economic, cultural, social, ideological and symbolic mobilities within and across states in transnational social spaces.
Such radical changes in the Canadian multicultural state necessitate that we recast traditional Canadian ethnic studies beyond ethnic communities to encompass (im)migrant movements, "mobilities," not only within Canada but also over and beyond Canada. Even if it has been a myth that historians have debunked that previous immigrants to Canada rarely moved again globally, contemporary (im)migrants have complex and diverse forms of mobilities which have surpassed those of any previous imagination and have called into question not just borders, sovereignty and national states but also citizenship, belonging and the very nature of our multicultural mosaic. Furthermore, although for some mobility is a privilege that they enjoy and a tool they utilize to improve their social locations, for many mobility is forced, unwanted, and even resisted. What are the forces behind the creation of transnational social spaces, the mechanisms, routes, and processes, as well as the consequences of these radical changes in Canada and globally? How exactly do they change the Canadian multicultural mosaic, citizenship, identities and belonging? What can we expect of the 21st century with respect to such phenomena? Within this larger problematic, CESA invites theoretical and empirically-based papers, fully formed panels or presentations in other formats, addressing, from a variety of disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives, more specific topics such as:
- The future of immigration, ethnic studies, and multiculturalism
- Intersections of immigration and race, class and gender
- Voluntary and forced mobilities: Refugees and the Canadian state
- Youth, ethnicity, and identity in multicultural Canada
- Ethnic communities, global diasporas and transnationalism in Canada
- "Homelands": Memories, reconstructions, returns and directions forward
- Citizenship and belonging in transnational spaces
- Gender, class, and ethnic intersections in transnationalism
- The future of transnational and ethnic mobilities in an unsettled world
Conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, posters and video presentations that address any of these and other related topics. Organizers invite submissions from a variety of perspectives, academic disciplines, and areas of study. We will endeavour to make a decision shortly after the abstract is received in order to facilitate those who need verification of their acceptance for travel funding purposes at their own institutions.
Who should attend? In addition to members of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, the conference will be relevant to a wide range of people interested in history, ethnicity, race, immigration and citizenship issues in Canada and internationally. University professors, graduate students, other researchers and teachers; policymakers and civil servants from all levels of government; those who work in various non-governmental organizations, as well as those involved as frontline workers delivering various kinds of social services – all of these will find that this conference offers them worthwhile information, challenging critical perspectives, and an opportunity to network and discuss important issues with people from across the country and from a variety of academic disciplines and institutional perspectives. A special issue of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal will showcase selected papers from the conference. To be considered for publication, papers must be submitted no later than four weeks after the conference. Papers must be written in accordance with the journal's guidelines.
All abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and will be refereed by the CESA Program Committee. Individual conference presentations will normally be 20 minutes in length, and conference sessions will be 90 minutes. Abstracts should be directed electronically to [email protected].
CESA will provide a $600 subsidy for conference presenters who stay at the Banff Springs Hotel. This subsidy will be provided for the first 50 presenters who register for the conference.
Please visit our new website: http://www.cesa-scee.ca for more information.
The deadline for submission of proposals for papers, sessions, panels, roundtables, and poster presentations is February 15th, 2018.
Special Issue "Place Branding and the Consumption of Heritage"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability of Culture and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2019
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) calls for original research on the synergisms between the geographic attributes of place (regions, countries, cities, towns and landscapes) and how consumption —through tourism or via consumer goods and services—creates a special niche in regional and global economies. While globalization aims to homogenize consumer tastes and preferences, public and private stakeholders increasingly draw on folklore, culture, history, and the tangential attributes of landscape to add value to consumer and tourist experiences. Together, these synergisms portend a sustainable approach to improving the human condition in an increasingly borderless and limitless realm of consumption and tourist experiences. This process, however, is fraught with tension as different narratives about authenticity and heritage emerge. Accordingly, we seek contributions from across the social sciences and business fields that use both case-study and empirically-anchored perspectives, as well as approaches at broader, theoretical and meta-analytical levels, to explore these aspects of place-branding.
Topics might range from the rise of agricultural tourism (wine-circuits and viticulture, specialty produce), micro-breweries, social justice museums (the American south, Eastern Europe), and the burgeoning literature on "Made in [fill in the country]," to ways in which local, regional, and national products enlist color, music, story-telling, cultural icons, and myth-making to couple consumption or tourism-marketing strategies with place attributes.
The Guest Editor guarantees a timely yet thorough review and turnaround of all submissions. Sustainability, whose Impact Factor this fifth year of open-access publication is 2.075, is an international, scholarly journal whose peer-reviewed papers highlight the environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. It is indexed by SCIE, SSCI, and other databases.
If you have interest in this special topic issue, please provide a 150-word abstract first before formal submission. Looking forward to your contribution.
Prof. Dr. Joseph L. Scarpaci
Guest Editor
- Arnould, E. J., & Thompson, C. J. (2005). Consumer culture theory (CCT): Twenty years of research. Journal of consumer research, 31(4), 868-882.
- Ashworth, G., & Larkham, P. (2013). Building a new heritage (RLE Tourism). Routledge.
- Dinnie, K. (2015). Nation branding: Concepts, issues, practice. Routledge.
- Fehimović, D. & Ogden, R. (Eds.) (2017) Branding Latin America: Strategies, aims, resistance. Lexington Books.
- Graham, B. J., & Howard, P. (Eds.). (2008). The Ashgate research companion to heritage and identity. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Graham, B., Ashworth, G., & Tunbridge, J. (2016). A geography of heritage: Power, culture and economy. Routledge.
- Holt, D.B. (2004). How brands become icons: Principles of cultural branding. Harvard Business School.
- Manning, P. & Ulisashvili, A. 2008. "Our Beer": Ethnographic brands in postsocialist Georgia. American Anthropologist 109 (4): 626-641.
- Morales, E. & Scapraci, J.L. (2012). Marketing without advertising: Brand preference and consumer choice in Cuba. Routledge
- Park, H.Y. (2014). Heritage tourism. Routledge.
- Pettygrove, M., & Ghose, R. (2018). From "rust belt" to "fresh coast": Remaking the city through food justice and urban agriculture. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2), 591-603.
- Pike, A. (2009). Geographies of brands and branding. Progress in Human Geography, 33(5): 619-645.
- Rivera, L. A. (2008). Managing "Spoiled" national identity: War, tourism, and memory in Croatia. American Sociological Review 73(4): 613-634.
- Scarpaci, J.L. (2005), Plazas and barrios: Heritage tourism and globalization in the Latin American centro histórico. University of Arizona Press.
- Scarpaci, J.L. (2007). Globalization tourists and heritage tourists in American culture: The case of Latin American historic districts. Material Culture 39 (2): 1-16.
- Scarpaci, J.L. (2016). The meaning of objects. Material Culture 48:1-9.
- Scarpaci, J.L., Coupey, E. & Reed, S. 2018. Artists as cultural icons: The icon myth transfer effect as a heuristic for cultural branding. Journal of Product & Brand Management. 27(3): 320-333.
- Scarpaci, J.L., Portela, A.H. (2009). Cuban landscapes: History, memory and place. Guilford.
- Scarpaci, J.L., Sovacool, B.J., and Ballantyne, R. (2016). A critical review of the costs of advertising: A transformative consumer research perspective. Journal of Consumer Policy 39 (2): 1-22.
- Schor, J.B. & Holt, D.B. (2000) The consumer society reader. The New Press.
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
- place branding
- heritage
- consumer goods
- tourism
- cultural geography/cultural anthropology
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
The Conference on Mediterranean Linguistic Anthropology 2019
Bounded languages, Unbounded
The politics of identity remain central to the mediation of language change. Here, boundaries rise and fall, thus motivating the ephemeral nature of community. The Mediterranean region is one replete with histories and power struggles, clearly demarcating nation, community, and ethnicity. Identities, language ideologies, and the languages themselves, have sought boundedness, dynamics which have indeed sought change over eons, through demographic and geographic movements, through geopolitics, through technological innovation. In a current era of technological advancement, transnational fluidity, intellectual power, capitalism, and new sexualities, we question, once again, the boundedness of language and identity, and ways in which to unbound languages and ideologies. However, mroe than before, we now increasingly require anthropological toil, so to innovative ways to locate these ideologies and their fluid boundaries, actively. We now then need to unbound these languages, and their ideologies, so to arrive at progressive realizations, and to rectify, or at least see past, the segregations of old.
The theme for the COMELA 2019,
Bounded languages, Unbounded
encapsulates an ongoing struggle throughout Mediterranean regions. The continuous tension between demarcation, yet concurrent legitimization, of languages, language ideologies, and language identities, has now entered an era where new modes of interactivity require language communities to take on roles superordinate to the past, and where flexible citizenship now operates within, and not only across, language communities.
For more information about the CFP, please visit the website.
Abstract and poster proposal submission
Opens: August 13, 2018 at midnight (CET Time)
Closes: January 25, 2019 at midnight (CET Time)
Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies is a flightless, multi-site conference that invites interdisciplinary attention to confluences between environmental and religious perspectives and practices in the long Anglophone nineteenth century (1780-1900). The conference will be broadcast online from four participating sites:
• Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University (Texas)
• Lancaster University (UK)
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
This conference calls for attention both to earlier religious environmental consciousness and to the environmental impact of our scholarship today. According to TerraPass, air travel for an average international conference generates roughly 100 metric tons (mT) of carbon dioxide equivalents, the same greenhouse-gas impact as consuming 11,252 gallons of gasoline, burning 109,409 pounds of coal, or driving 245,098 miles in a passenger vehicle. In addition to avoiding air travel, we hope to lower barriers of cost and transportation, thereby enabling a more diverse and inclusive range of participation than is often possible at international conferences.
Rather than seeking to replace physical with digital networking, this conference will take a hybrid approach by linking several international sites. Events will be live-streamed on a shared conference website, where, after the conference dates, they will also be recorded for future access.
The Call for Papers is available on the Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies conference site: baylor.edu/library/ecologyreligion. I encourage you to visit the site and submit a proposal for a paper or panel session. I look forward to your submission and to our engagement with one another through this new way of conferencing.
Violence. A Journal is launching a call for papers on the theme "Perpetrating Violence." This special feature will be coordinated by Sabrina MELENOTTE (Violence and Exiting Violence platform).
Your article should be sent to Violence before March 18, 2019.
Violence. A Journal is also welcoming articles dealing with a wider range of topics, on the issues of violence and exiting violence. Each issue will be coordinated by its two Editors-in-Chief: Scott STRAUS (UW-Madison) and Michel WIEVIORKA (FMSH). Articles not intended to be part of a special feature can be sent to Violence anytime throughout the year.
Special Feature Theme
The special feature "Perpetrating Violence" will concentrate on acts of violence associated with collective processes, even when the action is individual. It will leave legal questions to the side.
What drives some people to commit violent acts? Conversely, why do some others, similar in all respects, not commit them? What is this liminal space that opens up between mental radicalization (this moment of the fiction of violence, of its imagination) and its enactment? Does this moment exist in all experiences? Of course, the analysis must take account of the context, according to whether it is peacetime or wartime, for example. Moreover, doesn't there exist a switch (rapid or not, conscious or not) towards the enactment of murderous deeds?
Often inexpressible or quiet, but not necessarily so, the moment of acting violently can be rich in meanings, giving rise to many questions that this special feature is intended to explore. In acts of extreme and mass violence, the executioners' interest is not always limited to killing the enemy, and the body can become the vehicle for messages of war. Cruelty can go from humiliation to animalization; it can be gratuitous, or it may be purposeful, turning terror and fear into methods of control and domination by killing and "re-killing" the body through postmortem mutilations. The Shoah demonstrated the heights of cruelty and sophistication that can be reached by the will to completely destroy a human group and, thus, the individuals comprising it. Collective violence, as in incidents of lynching and stoning, may arise from a runaway process in which actors use rudimentary methods that presuppose a face-to-face confrontation. Torture, systematized in certain wars (the Algerian War for example), and used by dictatorships like those of Latin America in the 1970s, transgresses the codes of war, to the detriment of civilian populations in particular. Modern communication technologies allow actors to stage their cruelty as a spectacle; for example, we see this with some Mexican drug traffickers, with ISIS, or, in France, with Mohammed Merah, responsible for a series of murders in Toulouse and Montauban in March 2012, which raises many questions about the reasons for this staging and the use of social networks.
By avoiding the twofold pitfalls of a sociologism that explains everything by collective processes and a psychologism that ignores them, it will thus serve to analyze, in a dynamic and possibly transversal manner, what connects—or fails to connect—Nazi executioners, global jihadists, Mexican drug traffickers, volunteers or conscripts in guerrillas and contemporary wars, each time they perpetrate violence. This special feature is intended to bring together all the disciplines comprising the social sciences, without exclusion; it will also welcome the words and thoughts of actors who are well placed to have observed these questions closely, for example, within NGOs.
What do we know about committing acts of violence, about individuals who perpetrate them, about the processes of subjectivation and desubjectivation that animate them, about the methods of which they make use, about the contexts that make acting violently easier or more difficult? Should the knowledge produced by research on perpetrating violence allow us to construct models, strategies, and modes of action for the prevention of extreme and mass violence, and if so, according to what criteria? This special feature will help us to better understand not only individual or collective violence, whether political, social, religious, etc., but also to better understand pre- and post-violence conditions. Is it possible to construct models, strategies, and modes of action for the prevention of extreme and mass violence, and if so, according to what criteria?
Articles should be sent to Violence's editorial board before March 18, 2019, if they are intended for the special feature, or for the first issue of Violence in general. Otherwise, you can submit your article(s) anytime throughout the year. You can send your article to Violence's Managing Editor, Charlotte Groult: [email protected].
Articles should include a summary and a detailed bibliography. The editors also welcome preliminary proposals. In this case, your proposal should be sent several weeks before the deadline of March 18, 2019, if you want your article to be part of the first issue of the journal, especially its special feature. It should also be detailed enough to allow the Editorial Board to clearly understand the research materials on which the article is based, as well as the argument and the author's intellectual approach, the principal hypotheses, the research findings, the central concepts, and the references.
If your article is accepted by the Editorial Board, it will then be sent out for peer review by the journal. Each article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length (including footnotes and bibliography).
The author should make a special effort to use a writing style that will make the article easily understandable to the educated layperson and not merely to academic circles. Violence. A Journal has the ambition to reach a wider readership than an academic journal, especially the "actors" involved in preventing and exiting violence: NGOs, associations, politics, legal experts, and civil society.
Violence will be published both in print and online and will be available entirely in English. However, you can also write your article in French; Violence. A Journal will take care of the translation.
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) Bi-annual National Conference
April 10-13, 2019
Metropolitan State University of Denver
890 Auraria Parkway
Denver, Colorado 80204
Please join us for this exciting national conference of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado. The conference will be hosted by President-Elect, Evin Rodkey of Muskegon Community College, Michigan ([email protected]).
Our bi-annual SACC-fest offers attendees a great opportunity to learn about SACC, network with new friends and contacts, acquire new skills and teaching tips, and enhance awareness of what is happening in other anthropology departments.
Please consider both attending and presenting at this conference. If you have ideas about teaching, a favorite lesson plan or teaching strategy, we want to hear from you! If you would like to discuss current issues facing faculty or departments or have resources that you would like to share, let us know! And, if you have a student project, club or other activities to share, bring your students and let them inspire us!
Paper presentations are tentatively scheduled for 15 minutes. If you would like to organize a discussion, or give a demonstration of a teaching method or assignment we can schedule a longer period. Abstracts should be no longer than 125 words. Call for papers will be announced soon.
You will be able to register for the conference after January 15, 2019 (est.). All registration will be handled by the AAA on their website http://www.americananthro.org/.
The conference hotel with a block of rooms will be the Springhill Suites by Marriott, 1190 Auraria Parkway, Denver CO. The hotel is very close to the university. https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/densd-springhill-suites-denver-downtown/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy9qXwu6I3QIV1YTVCh0JGgVvEAAYASAAEgJu5vD_BwE
About SACC: SACC is a network of people who teach anthropology. A section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), SACC was founded in 1978 to encourage dialogue, collaboration and excellence in the teaching of anthropology. Visit us on the web at http://sacc.americananthro.org/.
The CALA 2020 – The (Annual) Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020
Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 5 – 8, 2020
Following the success of the CALA 2019, The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019, in Cambodia, we announce The CALA 2020, February 5-8, 2020, at The University Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.
The CALA seeks to redefine scholarship on Asian Language and Society.
Purpose and Structure
The CALA 2020 invites Linguists, Anthropologists, Linguistic and Cultural Anthropologists, Culturologists, Sociologists, Political Scientists, Ethnologists, and those in related fields pertinent to Asia, to discuss work, and engage in scholarly collaborations, thus forming global networks.
University Putra Malaysia
Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia
- Taylor and Francis Global Publishers (Official Publishing Partner)
- 60 major academic institutions globally
- Scientific Committee of over 100 academics
Journal Special Issues, and Monographs, from papers submitted that meet publication requirements. Papers selected will be published with Top-Tier journals. Here, ample assistance will be provided to revise manuscripts.
Abstract and poster proposal submission – November 17, 2018 – May 9, 2019
Notification of acceptance – No later than May 10 2018 (for those submitted prior to this)
Early bird – March 10, 2019 – June 14, 2019
Normal bird – June 15, 2019 – September 25, 2019
Presenters must register by September 25, 2019, to guarantee a place in the program. Registration will remain open after this, but conference organizers cannot guarantee placement in the conference.
Late bird – September 26, 2019 – February 8, 2020 (Conference end)
Conference dates
Wednesday February 5, 2020 – Saturday February 8, 2020
Final day comprises optional Anthropological excursion (separate cost)
Abstract submissions
The Call for Abstracts is now open, at http://cala2020.upm.edu.my, which contains all information
Anthropological Excursion
Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia
Asian Text, Global Context
The CALA 2020, February 5-8, 2020, Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia, will follow on from the success of the CALA 2019, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The CALA 2020 will thus expand on work on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, as well as Asian Language and Society. Here, the global Linguistic Anthropologists will gather to discuss work on Linguistics, Anthropology, and Language and Society, in and of Asia, and beyond.
With an increased focus on the significance of Asian Language and society, the Annual CALA Conference has emerged at an appropriate time, opportuning academics from the West to tap into, and work with, Academia in the East. Scholars in institutions throughout Asia increasingly affiliate with the CALA network, as do those in Western contexts, to explore the vast possibilities of the Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, academically, and socioculturally, where the CALA network has now well contributed and has significantly boosted research, publications, and academic networks, globally.
Themed Asian Text, Global Context, The CALA 2020 will represent over 400 years of East-West global interaction, communication, and transnationalism. Throughout, symbolisms of Asian 'texts' have been significantly emphasized, (re)interpreted, contested, and distorted, while employed for cultural and political purpose. Asian texts have become highly representational, authenticating and legitimizing sociopolitical and cultural devices, where their potency should not be undervalued. Never have these texts shown more significance than in the present, as their intensified use, and their qualities in Asian identities long contested, seek this Linguistic Anthropological exploration.
The Asian text has thus regenerated itself as a semiotic, in that, as a verbal, non-verbal, and visual artifact, it encompasses the whole semiotic spectrum of that which is performatively Asian, and that which is distinct from the Non-Asian, yet a text which can interlink the East and the West, through a multitude of textual modes. The continuous recentralizations and recontextualizations of Asian texts, both locally and globally, have hence become vital to representations of Asia, Linguistically, Anthropologically, Socioculturally, Politically, and much more.
The CALA 2020 thus calls for renewed interpretations of Asian texts, and asks that we seek new perspectives of these complex texts, in global contexts. These interpretations increase in significance as; return migration to Asia is now a salient factor in transnational flows; online texts and their textual modes now compete ever more enthusiastically to effect disjunctures in previously Western dominated technologies; ontological conceptions of life and social interaction now increasingly draw from Asian philosophies, sociocultural models, lifeworlds, and Asian urban anthropologies, thus producing interstices for new or revised textual and textualized semiotics; the entangled complexities and intersubjectivities of political, sociocultural, and religious practices and their constraints, motivate engagements in interfaith dialogue, shifting ethnic demarcations, and sociopolitical interventions. Ultimately, the massive sets of Eastern demographics, and their expansive sets of social dynamics, models, and praxes, continue to uniquely inform and (re)complexify productions of Asian texts, in both local and in global contexts.
Abstract and poster proposals should address one or more of the key strands related to Asian countries and regions:
- Anthropological Linguistics
- Applied Sociolinguistics
- Buddhist studies and discourses
- Cognitive Anthropology and Language
- Critical Linguistic Anthropology
- Ethnographical Language Work
- Ethnography of Communication
- General Sociolinguistics
- Islamic Studies and discourses
- Language, Community, Ethnicity
- Language Contact and Change
- Language, Dialect, Sociolect, Genre
- Language Documentation
- Language, Gender, Sexuality
- Language Ideologies
- Language Minorities and Majorities
- Language Revitalization
- Language in Real and Virtual Spaces
- Language Socialization
- Language and Spatiotemporal Frames
- Multifunctionality
- Narrative and Metanarrative
- Nonverbal Semiotics
- Poetics
- Post-Structuralism and Language
- Semiotics and Semiology
- Social Psychology of Language
- Textualization, Contextualization, Entextualization
Presentation lengths
- Colloquia – 1.5 hours with 3-5 contributors (Parts A and B are possible, thus 6-10 contributors)
- General paper sessions – Approx. 20-25 minutes each, including 5 mins for questions/responses
- Posters – to be displayed at designated times throughout the CALA 2020
Submission Guidelines (via the online submission website, or by email (see below))
General session papers
- 18-word maximum presentation title
- 400-word maximum abstract, including references
- Submission of only the main abstract for colloquium required
- Abstract must contain the colloquium main description, and a summary of each individual paper within the colloquium
Evaluation of proposals
All abstracts for general sessions will be double blind reviewed.
Main parent abstracts for colloquia will be double blind reviewed. All abstracts for individual presentations within each colloquia will not be peer reviewed, but are expected to be at a standard commensurate to the colloquium parent abstract.
Review criteria are as follows:
- Appropriateness and significance to CALA themes
- Originality/significance/impact of the research
- Clarity/coherence of research concerns
- Theoretical and analytical framework(s)
- Description of research, data collection, findings/conclusions, rhetoric, and exegesis as a whole
- For colloquia, importance/significance of the overarching topic and/or framework(s) addressed, and its coherence of and with individual presentations.
For more information, please contact:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hazlina Abdul Halim
Head, Dept. of Foreign Languages
Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Head of Communications
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Yes. Teeth in addition to the usual 32 are called supernumeraries, because that number is exceeded. These are often at the back of the jaws in line with the 3rd molars, or wisdom teeth. Some people do not get 3rd molars at all.
Supernumerary. The 4 would count as the wisdom teeth and any others are termed supernumerary. Not as uncommon as you would think. Good Luck.
Supernumerary teeth. Most people have four wisdom teeth, it is possible to have more and it is called supernumerary teeth.
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When You Feel Like You Are Sinking…
by Erin Honor
One of the biggest lies that childhood cartoons (that's right, I'm looking at you Looney Toons) taught me was that at some point in my life, I would encounter quicksand.21 years later and the closest that I've gotten to quicksand was seeing it in that sub-par Indiana Jones movie with Orlando Bloom.
Still, though I've never found myself slowly sinking into quicksand while walking the streets of New York – I feel myself sinking. We can call it mental/emotional quicksand. It feels like everyone is moving forward in life while I am stuck in place.
And the more I try to fight it, the deeper I sink.
Excuse me for the melodrama.
The thing with writing the blog is that it feels incredibly egocentric. Why would anyone care to take the time out of there day to read about my feelings? There is no good reason – and I do not expect any person out there to take any particular interest in my life. The thing is, sharing the inner workings of my mind is not exactly my favorite thing – it is terrifying and feels shameful. But with that comes the thought that if, by talking about all of the craziness that goes on inside this head of mine – if one person can see something and resonate with it. If one person can feel that they're not alone in thinking or feeling the way they do… That is all I want. And the best way I know to do that is by putting it all out there, warts and all, and hoping someone who needs it sees it.
Okay. Back to the whole quicksand thing.
I'm not that self-centered as to think that I am the only person who feels as if they are falling backwards in life while those around them are moving forwards. Tell one person that you are essentially having an existential crisis and they are likely to tell you, "No one knows what they are doing in their 20's (or teens, or even 30's these days). You're not supposed to."
Then why does it feel like everyone has a grasp on what they are doing but me? Why is it that while I see people getting into medical school, landing careers, getting their first apartments, etc. that I, seemingly, can't even make a simple phone call to schedule a doctor's appointment for myself without my voice shaking to the point of it almost being unintelligible from anxiety? Why is it that I am overwhelmed to the point of complete and utter collapse over my college coursework when there are people who work full-time, or even part-time and take more classes than me? Why is it that other people who suffer with anxiety can hold a job while I can't work a simple part-time job without having a panic attack in the middle of my shift and having to quit in complete and utter shame (mind you, this was a job I honestly really enjoyed).
I know, I know. "Comparison is the thief of joy." I get that… But this goes beyond just falling into the comparison trap.
This is about disappearing for a little while.. Losing time… Thawing. Waking back up.
I often have trouble accepting the age that I am. Not because I think that 21 is particularly old, but because, to me, being 21 makes no sense to me. A majority of my life beginning in my sophomore year of high school (when that eating disorder I mentioned in a way-too-much-oversharing post earlier this year first got bad) through my senior year of high school.. i.e. the bulk of my teenage years.
It's hard to explain this feeling to someone who hasn't experienced it, but I know that there are many out there who have. One of the best descriptives of this feeling (phenomena?) that I have heard was said by author and musician Mishka Shubaly and my favorite podcast, The Rich Roll Podcast. Both the host of the show, Rich Roll (super inspirational and aspirational ex-lawyer and author of Finding Ultra) and Mishka are both recovering alcoholics and, in this episode, they were having a conversation about addiction. Here, Mishka (a man in his 40s I believe) was talking about how he felt like he was the age he was when his alcoholism first took hold of him. It was as if he had been asleep for a long time and was just waking up and needed to experience life starting at the age where he was last truly alive.
Now, to the skeptical mind, this may sound like a simple excuse to get out of growing up, accepting responsibilities, etc. Honestly, when applied to myself, I feel it to be an excuse. I often question whether I actually have an anxiety disorder or an eating disorder or PTSD (this diagnosis is the one I doubt the most), or if I'm just trying to get out of doing things that I don't want to do. Logically, I know this to be false. I'm not the kind of person who lacks drive and motivation. At least… I think I'm not.
For so long, I feel that I have been asleep. Frozen. That any and everything that made up "Erin" was shoved into some box in the back of my subconscious while mental illness came to the front and took over. For so long, my identity has been "anorexia" or "anxiety" or "depression." They became who I was. All I was. I didn't (and still sometimes don't) want to let them go and heal because I don't know what I am without them.
I don't know who I am. I don't know what I'm like. I don't know what I like.
I know being afraid of people. I know being afraid of food. I know feeling empty. I know being obsessive about exercise. I know being somewhat reclusive.
Think of the mind like The Upside Down from Stranger Things – only here, there is no demogorgon. Instead, there is a whole different monster – this monster is mental illness. This monster is what has consumed all of what made you, "you." This is the monster that has stolen away all of your light. This is the monster that has trapped you. This monster is anorexia. This monsters is panic-disorder, this monster is PTSD, this monster is depression. This monster is any and everything that has stolen the true, beautiful, and crucial "you" from this world and has hidden you away.
But you know what this monster isn't?
This monster isn't you.
I feel like I am only just waking up. I feel like I am only just becoming 'me' again. The thing is, I have no idea what constitutes being 'me.' The last time I was 'me,' I was 15 years old.
I have a lot of catching up to do.
When years and years of your life have been taken from you by whatever it is that consumed you – it is not your fault if you feel that you are falling behind. You are not there yet, and that is okay.
In all actuality, you really are still that little person that felt so scared/alone/out of control that they had to retreat to the back of their subconscious and let something else take over. Protect them. Act for them. Exist for them.
I can see skepticism or chalking all of what I am saying up to the perceived laziness/entitlement/immaturity of the millennial generation – and I can completely understand that mentality. This feeling of losing time only to wake up one day still the child that you were when you first disappeared, unable to cope/function in an 'age-appropriate' way, is a feeling that is inexplicable (though I'm trying really hard here with this way too wordy blog post).
But just because it doesn't make sense to most people does not mean it is not real.
Just because you are not where society deems that you are supposed to be at any age does not make you a failure.
Just because you feel lost and scared and alone and unable to ask for help out of fear of being told to just 'grow up' or that 'you're an adult now' doesn't make your feelings and troubles invalid.
Of course, with all of this and my saying that you need to be gentle with yourself, be patient with yourself, and allow yourself to go through the phases of growing up that you were "supposed to" have gone through years ago – you, we, still need to put ourselves forward.
However, you can push yourself forward without dragging yourself down. You can move slowly, tread lightly.
The more you thrash about. The more you beat yourself down. The more you try to run and catch up with the others faster than you are able to..


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Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday deferred the hearing on the bail plea of former state finance minister Raghavji in connection with a sodomy case.
Raghavji, who is in judicial custody till July 22, was accused of sexually abusing his domestic help Rajkumar Dangi.
The bail petition claims that the former minister was framed in the matter by BJP leader Shiv Shankar Pateria, as the latter had demanded a state-level post from him and even offered Rs 1 crore to him.
It said that since the former minister had refused to oblige him, Pateria conspired with Raghavji's servant Rajkumar Dangi to defame him.
The petition also highlighted that in his 64-year-long political career, no charges were levelled against him and the conspiracy was hatched to defame him before Assembly polls which are due in next four months.
It also mentioned about Raghavji's old age and his medical problems.
A case was registered against Raghavji on July 7 after Rajkumar Dangi's complaint and later he was arrested from a flat in the Koh-e-Fiza area of Bhopal.
A Bhopal court had earlier rejected Raghavji's bail plea.
(With PTI inputs)


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Road Bike Tour in Cambodia > Thailand > Laos
In 2013, we have done this charity road bike trip for American Stanard Charter Bank. This Cambodia, Thailand and Laos Cycling Tour starts from Angkor, Cambodia to cycle through eastern part of Thailand and finishes in Vientiane, the Laos capital. We start cycling to visit Angkor complex and former Khmer Rouge strong hold, then to Surin. From there, we cycle to visit the Elephant Village and cycle on the most beatiful rural part of Thailand to enjoy the scenery, the endless sugar cane farm and casava.
We aim to take tourists to see REAL Cambodia, Thailand through the northeastern part of Thailand UNTOUCHED by tourists. This trip is suitable for both road bike and mountain bike as the rural roads in Thailand is very small but nicely paved and in good conditions comparing to the rural roads in neighboring Cambodia and Laos. The cycling routes for this trip is relatively flat with maximum altitude 180m high.
We cross the border at Nong Khai. It is now possible to get Laos visa on arrival for USD35 per person. Please take 1 photo passport size for the visa. Please inform us your nationality for more information about the visa. The hotels for this bike tour are mostly 3* and 4* stars and we try our best to book available hotels with swimming pools. Only 1 night at Anlung Veng is 2* stars simple room with aircon and hot water. There is no better choice in this non touristy town.
After arrival in Vientiane, this Thaland and Laos cycling trip can be extended to Luang Prabang for 1 more week: Cycling Tour Vientiane to Luang Prabang.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrive Siem Reap (no cycling)
Day 4: Surin to Roi Et (145km)
Day 5: Roi Et to Khon Kaen (127km)
Day 6: Khon Kaen to Udon Thani (160km)
Day 8: Depart Vientiane
Breakfast at the hotel. Free untill your departure.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Verizon iPhone Coming In January 2011?
An iPhone for Verizon Wireless, the no. 1 U.S. carrier, will be introduced next January, according to a Bloomberg report citing "two people familiar with the plans."
If true, this is good news for Verizon and Apple, which will be set to sell a LOT of iPhones. And it'll be bad news for AT&T, which has been the exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier so far, and Google Android, which has been the dominant smartphone platform at Verizon as of late.
The timing of this latest leak is suspicious, given Apple's product secrecy and the recent launch of the new iPhone 4. We wouldn't be surprised if this was Verizon's doing, in an attempt to get people to wait before upgrading to the iPhone 4 and extending their AT&T contracts another two years.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Faux Wrap (or Why I Suck at Making My Own Clothes..)
This month's stashbusting theme - "Seasonal Change and Wardrobe Building" - is going to be a rough one for me. I am TERRIBLE at making clothes for myself. I just don't have the patience for all of the measuring, fitting, re-measuring, re-fitting, etc... I'm not ashamed to admit that I am an instant gratification kind of gal, and making my own clothes is time consuming.
But, I am never going to get better at sewing my own garments if I keep avoiding them. So, I thought I would ease in to the wardrobe building theme with a quick knit top from a pattern that I picked up at the thrift store a few months ago. I never would have had the courage to put this together for myself if it weren't for Jagoda over at Fitnottofit inspiring me with a recent wrap-style top she made.
I tried out a belt under the bust to see if it helped the shape, but it just created bulges under the arms.
Fit issues that I will have to correct the next time around.
- Shoulders are too wide
- Neckline is too big
- Hem is too short
- Sleeves are too loose
I think I should have kept the original size that the pieces were cut to, but I went by the measurements on the envelope. Plus, the pattern is printed on heavy paper, so it wasn't easy to fit to myself before I cut. Oh, well. It's still wearable, I just don't know if I will make it again. I definitely don't plan to buy more jersey specifically for this project. Maybe a candidate for upcycling some t-shirts later?
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- GMY said...
Aww, I'm sorry it was disappointing. It's a cute shirt, though. I wonder if you couldn't just take up some of the extra in all of the seams to make it fit better?
I feel ya on the difficulty of making clothes for yourself. Boobs and hips are so hard to fit when compared to kids' straight bodies!
- March 6, 2014 at 7:31 AM
- Eska said...
I really like the print on your shirt. Sucks that it doesn't fit the way you were hoping.
Is there any way you can gather up the neckline with some elastic thread or sew a tuck into the shoulder to bring those to the right spot?
- March 6, 2014 at 8:17 AM
- Angela said...
Thanks for the support, you guys!
I thought about taking in the seams, but because of the way this shirt is constructed, I would have to take it apart completely to fix it.
Next time, I will pin and fit before I sew. Lesson learned. ;)
- March 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM
No, no, no! This top is fantastic!!! The neckline is great and very flattering (I've NEVER seen a girl who does not look well in a deep V-neck), I adore the print and colours, and the mock-wrap style is hot! But I can see what you mean about the back being too big and sleeves being too roomy - I always have the same issue. For some reason I keep thinking that I have a huge back, which seems not to be the case. I hope you give this pattern another crack, it would also look great extended into an A-line dress. Good luck!
And also, I am so touched that I inspired you to make such a fun top, yey! And I love your haircut!
- March 8, 2014 at 8:55 AM


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Affalo sparks rally as Pistons clinch division titleMar 28, 2008 - 3:40 AM By Chuck Klonke PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer
AUBURN HILLS, Michigan (Ticker) -- The Miami Heat have won only 13 games this season, but they gave the Detroit Pistons all they could handle Thursday night.
Rookie guard Arron Afflalo, filling in for the injured Richard Hamilton, scored a career-high 15 points, including five in the last 3:32, to lead the Pistons to an 85-69 victory over the Heat.
Detroit secured its 51st win of the season and clinched its fourth straight Central Division championship.
"It means a lot," Pistons point guard Chauncey Billups said. "Every year we're picked to finish second, third, sometimes even fourth, but at the end we're in first. Yeah, it feels good."
Before the game, Detroit coach Flip Saunders showed the players some of the preseason magazines that had them picked behind Cleveland and Chicago.
"A lot of people said we were too old, that we had played too many tough playoff minutes," Saunders said. "It's tough to sustain the level we've played at the last several years. This (championship) says a lot about the whole team. I compare the season to a bending river. We've gone through all the bends, now that the playoffs are starting we want to be on a straightaway."
Trailing most of the first half, the Pistons jumped ahead quickly at the start of the second half on a pair of baskets by Afflalo.
"We didn't get off to a good start like we should have," Afflalo said. "We should have attacked the post a little more but we made some adjustments in the locker room and had a better second half."
Detroit maintained the lead on some solid defense and nine points by reserve Jason Maxiell. Miami scored only 10 points in the third quarter on 3-of-14 shooting from the field, and the Pistons led, 66-55, going into the final quarter.
"We came out ready to play in the second half," Maxiell said. "We did a better job against the pick-and-roll, and we just picked up the defensive intensity."
The lead eventually reached 13 points, but a basket by Miami's Chris Quinn with just under five minutes remaining brought the Heat within four points, 73-69.
Afflalo hit two free throws to make it 77-69, then he stole the ball, went in for a layup, was fouled and made the free throw to for an 80-69 lead with 2:39 left.
"I thought Arron had a great game," Saunders said. "He gave us great energy, made big plays, made shots, made free throws. We held them to 24 points in the second half. You do that and you're going to have opportunities to win.
"It was our turnovers in the first half. Sometimes when you play a team that doesn't have a great record, you try to knock them out in the first round. Then you have to play catch-up."
Quinn gave the Pistons credit for a strong defensive effort.
"They turned it up a notch and we weren't able to respond," he said. "We put ourselves in a position where if we made a run down the stretch we could win the game."
Maxiell also had 15 points while Billups and Rasheed Wallace added 13 apiece for Detroit, which limited Miami to 24 points in the second half.
Blake Ahearn, who signed a 10-day contract with the Heat on March 21 and had scored only two points in his three previous games, scored 13 in the second quarter to help Miami take a 45-43 halftime lead. Ahearn led the Heat with 15 points.
The Heat led, 43-35, with 3:07 to play in the first half, but Detroit finished the half with an 8-2 run to trim the deficit to two points.
Heat coach Pat Riley praised the play of his rookie-laden team.
"They're all playing hard," Riley said. "They have their moments up and down. It's hard to evaluate them all out on the court at the same time unless you put them out there with your better players. There are a couple of things Blake did through the course of the game that I liked. Stephane (Lasme) and Joel (Anthony) are working at it.
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A staggering 25 tons of bird droppings have been removed from a famous Rye landmark.
A specialist company was called in by Rother District Council to deal with the problem at Landgate Arch.
The sheer weight of bird droppings have meant it has been impossible for contractors to get inside the Arch and repair its broken clock.
The bird guano can also damage timber and stonework due to its acidity.
CountyClean Environmental Services started a major clean-up operation to uncover the original stonework inside the towers, which had been covered in a thick layer of seagull and pigeon droppings.
The company used a Using a custom built combination tanker and vacuum hoses to remove the droppings and specialist high pressure water jetting equipment to thoroughly clean the surfaces of the stone floors and steps throughout both towers.
The vacuum system and the jetting system are both provided from the same custom built combination tanker, which specialises in this type of difficult work.
Workers wore special protective clothing while dealing with the situation.
The waste removed from the monument will be transported to a licensed plant for treatment.
Mike Walker, founder of CountyClean said this week: "I am delighted that Rother District Council chose to use our services for this major cleanup operation.
"Our company have all the right equipment and experienced teams to be able to carry out this type of specialist work."
There was no disruption to locals and visitors to the town. Although some parking had to be suspended in East Cliff, the road remained open wile the work was carried out.
CountyClean Environmental Services specialise in liquid waste management across the utility, commercial and industrial, marine and domestic sectors.
The jobs they tackle include pump station and sewage treatment plant maintenance, liquid waste disposal, spill and flood response, hazardous waste disposal, high pressure water jetting and CCTV drainage surveys.
The call to clean up the Arch was led by Rye Mayor Cllr Bernardine Fiddimore and Cllr Mary Smith, who submitted an information request on how much Rother spends on ancient monuments.
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The turbines supply about 40-percent of the school's electricity.
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A crew out of North Jackson climbed the other two towers to make sure there were no structural problems with either of them.
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At age 85, Frank Bolling is the oldest living player from the 1965-70 time period that I have not yet blogged about.
This is Frank's final card (#269), even though he continued to be the Braves' starting 2nd baseman for part of the 1966 season (a job he held since the start of the 1961 season).
Bolling was signed by the Tigers in June 1951. He played in the minors for the rest of that season, and all of 1952-53.
He made his major-league debut in April 1954, taking over the starting 2nd base job that was manned in '53 by Johnny Pesky and others.
After missing 1 year (1955) in military service, Bolling returned to the Tigers as their regular 2nd baseman for the next 5 seasons, and had more than 640 plate appearances in 2 of those seasons. Frank also won a Gold Glove award in 1958.
In December 1960, Bolling and outfielder Neil Chrisley were traded to the Milwaukee Braves for pitcher Terry Fox, catcher Dick Brown, 2nd baseman Chuck Cottier, and center fielder Bill Bruton.
Frank matched his season-high home run total with 15 in 1961, and was an All-Star in his first 2 seasons with the Braves. He was the regular 2nd baseman through the 1965 season, starting 141 games in his final season as a regular.
In 1966 he only started 57 games, since shortstop Woody Woodward was splitting his time between shortstop and 2nd base, and the Braves were also working rookie Felix Millan into the lineup.
Bolling's last game was on 9/15/1966, and he was released after the season, ending his 12-year career. In 12 seasons he played 12,983 innings, and all at 2nd base!
Frank's brother Milt was an infielder for the Red Sox in the 1950s.
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There's a new doughnut shop in West Hollywood, but it isn't exactly serving glazed doughnuts and crullers. At Glazed Donut Bistro, opening Thursday, the shop's doing sweet and savory fried doughnut concoctions, and even a couple of salads.
On the savory side, the shrimp roll ($14) is a take on the classic New England lobster roll with jumbo shrimp dressed with a tarragon and dill dressing, celery, onion and capers on a Long John doughnut bun; the Missed Piggy ($14) are three pork sliders on doughnut holes with pickled veggies and a bourbon BBQ sauce; and the fried chicken beignets ($10) are three doughnuts filled with chunks of boneless fried chicken served with a maple syrup and vinegar gastrique.
The sweet doughnuts include a selection of cake doughnuts, such as the red velvet ($3) with cream cheese glaze, toasted coconut and red velvet crumb and the carrot cake ($3) with fresh carrots in the dough, a pineapple ginger glaze and candied carrots on top. For the yeast (raised) dougnuts there's the Mambo Italiano made with house-made ricotta cheese filling, an apple crumb with a Speculoos caramel glaze and apple compote, and a 'Smores doughnut filled with house-made marshmallow fluff and topped with chocolate ganache, graham cracker streusel and bruleed marshmallow.
And all the doughnuts come with your choice of dipping sauce; there's raspberry, chocolate sauce and more.
"There are other artisan doughnuts out there," said owner Harry Ben-Zvi who comes from a background in hospitality in Las Vegas, but "we think of our doughnuts as more of pastries."
Chef Gena Lora, formerly at Baked in Montrose and an instructor at Le Cordon Blue in Pasadena for 12 years, is the woman behind all the doughnuts at Glazed. She's making all of the dough from scratch and uses bits of dough from the previous day as a natural conditioner to soften the doughnut dough.
"There's no preservatives in our doughnuts, so it's best if they are eaten fresh," said Lora. Lora and all of her crew wear red or white chef's coats in the shop's open kitchen.
And then there's the alcohol. A full list of white and red wines are available, along with a selection of beer and Champagne. Yes, you can order a bottle of Dom Perignon ($190) to go with your doughnut.
And the entire coffee program was designed by Stumptown Coffee Roasters with baristas trained by the Stumptown crew.
The sign outside says "Opening Valentine's Day," but they will be open this week Thursday to Saturday from 6 p.m. to midnight. The store's regular hours have not been announced.
8807 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 360-0222, glazedla.com.
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For those who believe mankind needs to re-evaluate and change the roles each one of us plays in our ecosystem of finite resources, to redirect our impact on future generations and their ways of life.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Why is Urban Agriculture important?
Why is Urban Agriculture important?
The rapid urbanization that is taking place goes together with a rapid increase in urban poverty and urban food insecurity. By 2020 the developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America will be home to some 75% of all urban dwellers, and to eight of the anticipated nine mega-cities with populations in excess of 20 million. It is expected that by 2020, 85% of the poor in Latin America, and about 40-45% of the poor in Africa and Asia will be concentrated in towns and cities.
Most cities in developing countries have great difficulties to cope with this development and are unable to create sufficient formal employment opportunities for the poor. They also have increasing problems with the disposal of urban wastes and waste water and maintaining air and river water quality.
Urban agriculture provides a complementary strategy to reduce urban poverty and food insecurity and enhance urban environmental management. Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population. Next to food security, urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation and social inclusion of the urban poor and women in particular, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes (see below for further explanations and examples).
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- Addictive Picasso said...
Urban agriculture is not just a useful strategy to the developing world.
In the developed world, especially towns and cities that are decommissioning/recommissioning their social and economic purpose, urban agriculture is a useful way of maximising land assets, enabling community cohesion and securing future food supply. It is also a useful counter to price inflation for staple products.
Thanks for the links. Where is your blog?
- Addictive Picasso said...
http://www.dott07.com then click on 'food'


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baby britain feels the best floating over a sea of vodka
i just got the first two Elliott Smith albums on amazon for less than £12.
this makes me happy.
i've never actually heard the first one. is it as good as all the rest?
It's an underrated favourite
I probably prefer it to Figure 8. It's consistent, concise and generally great. Certainly his most lo-fi, and features the first four No Name tracks. Yeah, it's a good'un.
Which are those?
I have:
Elliott Smith
Figure 8
From a Basement on the Hill
New Moon
Roman Candle
you have all of them then :P
the first two are roman candle and elliott smith. i've heard the latter loads (sneaky download ages ago) but never the first.
Ah cool. Most of them are my girlfriend's
I've just been getting into him recently and enjoying his stuff a lot.
I also have loads of rarities
I heart Elliott.
But it's still a good album.
roman candle si absolutely beautiful.
This are my 2 favourite Elliott Smith albums actually !
yeah, that's kinda what it relies on :P
although i did rather well this time - 2 CDs i've been meaning to buy for ages and the new Walking Dead book, £17.95 total :D
yeah, roman candle is amazing.
the title track is one of the best songs he ever wrote.
I've always thought of Roman Candle as a bit rambling
Plenty of signs of what he was going to go on to accomplish, but very little of the finished product. But maybe I just need to give it more time.
xo is my fav
oh guntrip now you are making me all rambly sad about dear ol' elliott again. and now i can't talk to you to ease the pain...where are yoU?!?!


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The BBC have been filming a drama about Mrs Beeton next door. It's been terribly exciting with cameras, carts, men with tall top hats and Mrs Beeton I assume wearing some very fine big skirts. It inspired me to glance through my Mrs Beeton Cookbook (the M&S version that Marce kindly bought me for my birthday) and it fell open at Beef Wellington, a sign if ever I've seen one. And she even says how to make individual ones, how many cookbooks did I trawl through for that information? I will have to look out for it when it appears on television in September and see if I can see any of the 'modern features' I've been eliminating.
And not that I need any encouragement, but I will make an individual Beef Wellington in Mrs. B's honour - maybe call it a Beeton Wellington!
Monday, April 10, 2006
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