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Joanne Micallef is a Lecturer with the Public Health Interventions Research Group in the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW. Joanne completed her Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) and doctorate at the University of New South Wales. She currently works on a number of projects in sexual health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, including a survey of STI testing, partner notification and re-testing practices at family planning clinics in Australia.
Lorch R; Bourne C; Burton L; Lewis L; Brown K; Bateson D; Knight V; Ooi C; Hoffman N; MacKson J, 2019, 'ADOPTing a new method of partner management for genital chlamydia in New South Wales: Findings from a pilot implementation program of patient-delivered partner therapy', Sexual Health, vol. 16, pp. 332 - 339, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH18169
Whitford K; Liu B; Micallef J; Yin JK; Macartney K; Damme PV; Kaldor JM, 2018, 'Long-term impact of infant immunization on hepatitis B prevalence: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 96, pp. 484 - 497, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.205153
Guy RJ; Micallef JM; Mooney-Somers J; Jamil MS; Harvey C; Bateson D; Van Gemert C; Wand H; Kaldor J, 2016, 'Evaluation of chlamydia partner notification practices and use of the "let them know"website by family planning clinicians in Australia: Cross-sectional study', Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5441
Scott R; Foster R; Oliver LN; Olsen A; Mooney-Somers J; Mathers B; Micallef JM; Kaldor J; Maher L, 2015, 'Sexual risk and healthcare seeking behaviour in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in North Queensland', Sexual Health, vol. 12, pp. 194 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH14092
Louie KS; Micallef JM; Pimenta JM; Forssen UM, 2011, 'Prevalence of thrombocytopenia among patients with chronic hepatitis C: A systematic review', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, vol. 18, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2893.2010.01366.x
Dore GJ; Micallef J, 2007, 'Low incidence of HCV reinfection: Exposure, testing frequency, or protective immunity? [1]', Hepatology, vol. 45, pp. 1330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hep.21577
Amin J; Law MG; Micallef J; Jauncey M; Van Beek I; Kaldor JM; Dore GJ, 2007, 'Potential biases in estimates of hepatitis C RNA clearance in newly acquired hepatitis C infection among a cohort of injecting drug users', Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 135, pp. 144 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268806006388
Micallef JM; Macdonald V; Jauncey M; Amin J; Rawlinson W; Van Beek I; Kaldor JM; White PA; Dore GJ, 2007, 'High incidence of hepatitis C virus reinfection within a cohort of injecting drug users', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, vol. 14, pp. 413 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2893.2006.00812.x
Micallef JM; Kaldor JM; Dore GJ, 2006, 'Spontaneous viral clearance following acute hepatitis C infection: A systematic review of longitudinal studies', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, vol. 13, pp. 34 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2893.2005.00651.x
Gates JA; Post JJ; Kaldor JM; Pan Y; Haber PS; Lloyd AR; Dolan KA; Levy M; Gray M; Wood D, 2004, 'Risk factors for hepatitis C infection and perception of antibody status among male prison inmates in the hepatitis C incidence and transmission in Prisons Study Cohort, Australia', Journal of Urban Health, vol. 81, pp. 448 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jurban/jth129
Jauncey M; Micallef JM; Gilmour S; Amin J; White PA; Rawlinson W; Kaldor JM; Van Beek I; Dore GJ, 2004, 'Clearance of hepatitis C virus after newly acquired infection in injection drug users', Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 190, pp. 1270 - 1274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/423943


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Views on Goverment subsidies from Vinod and UK
from Library House latest newsletter:
Keep an open mind on subsidies
For many entrepreneurs, the mere mention of subsidies has them shaking their heads in disbelief. Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems and a serial entrepreneur, said he viewed companies that rely on government backing with great suspicion. But Mr Khosla, speaking at Library House's Essential Cleantech conference last month, did entertain the possibility of limited subsidies for very new industries.
The fact is, like it or not, governments are getting increasingly involved in venture capital. They recognise the positive effect that well-directed investment can have on jobs, GDP growth and, importantly on public morale.
For this reason the most prolific European investors, according to VenturePedia, are High-Tech Gründerfonds Management, which partners with the German government, and funds run by Scottish Enterprise, which are also state-backed. High-Tech Gründerfonds Management has made 49 investments in the last year while Scottish Enterprise funds have made 45. The average deal size involving these organisations is less than €1m, indicating they are operating at a micro level, targeting companies that are below the radar of most venture capitalists.
There are also a number of hybrid investment companies, that are ostensibly privately-owned but whose funds are swelled by government money. One of these, Bridges Ventures, the venture capital group set up by Sir Ronald Cohen to invest in deprived parts of the UK, will this week make its 27th investment, lifting to £26.5m the amount of capital it has spent since being set up in 2002.
Bridges raised £40m for its first fund, including £20m from the UK government, with capital also provided by Sir Ronald's charitable trust, as well as private equity executives Jeremy Coller, Nigel Doughty and Jon Moulton, retailer Tom Singh, and listed private equity group 3i. But its second fund of £50m had no government money.
Although micro financing may look unattractive to many VCs given the amount of due diligence that is required to complete a deal, this may be a false impression. Phil Newborough, the chief executive of Bridges claims his funds are outperforming the rest of the VC market. That should, at the very least, give the sceptics food for thought.
I'll comment some more as I write about goverment involvment/support on the Irish scene and startup eco-system.

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Minna Henriksson and Nora Sternfeld1
On August 17, 2017, the exhibition Deutsches Lager and Other Post Doc Stuff opened in the Exhibition Laboratory in Helsinki. In the central work of the exhibition, 'Poetic Archaeology/Inside and Beside the Camp', Jan Kaila and Japo Knuutila assembled various artifacts, documents and videos from an archaeological excavation of the military base Hanko Tulliniemi, operated by the German Wehrmacht from 1942 to 1944.
The opening, at the start of the autumn exhibition season, was crowded. We had many encounters with other visitors who expressed empathy with the Wehrmacht soldiers. The sentiments of "poor young men in a dirty war" and "all wars are terrible" were omnipresent. This article tries to understand how the exhibition created such an overwhelming atmosphere of empathy, and how this relates to the subject of the exhibition, which involved the death of millions of innocent people due to Nazi policies.
Let's start with a number of facts the exhibition failed to address: history departments have known since the 1940s, and the general public since at least the1990s, that the Wehrmacht was not innocent. To the contrary, it "participated in the implementation of Hitler's genocidal policies directed at Roma people and Jews, and carried out mass killings of the Slavic populations in Poland, Serbia, and the Soviet Union."2 This means that the Nazi-led war of aggression along the "eastern front" was not an ordinary war but a "war of annihilation."3 In the mid '90s, the German exhibition, Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944, made clear that:
The German Wehrmacht's war against the Soviet Union differed from all other European wars of the modern era, including the campaigns waged by the Wehrmacht against other countries during World War II. This was a war directed not only against another army, but against parts of the civilian population as well. The Jewish population was to be murdered, the non-Jewish civilian population decimated by starvation and acts of terror, and recruited for or coerced into slave labor. These criminal acts did not result from escalating violence in the course of the war but were an integral element of German war plans from the outset.4
What 'Poetic Archaeology/Inside and Beside the Camp' failed to communicate was that the soldiers in the displayed photographs were—as soldiers in the war at the eastern front—in one way or another connected with an organised effort to murder and terrorise.
Since the early 2000s, several historians have questioned the myth that the war Finland was involved in from 1941 to 1944 was not part of World War II, but a separate war.5 Indeed, it by now is well-established that Finland did not merely align itself with Nazi Germany for military reasons, but that it collaborated with Hitler on the basis of common ideological goals.6 The Einsatzkommando Finnland, like other Einsatzkommandos elsewhere along the eastern front, had the task of "sieving" through prisoners of war in order to eliminate what the Germans considered to be "unwanted material," namely Jews, Roma, and those deemed politically unreliable. Valpo, the Finnish secret police, worked closely with the German Gestapo in this mission.7 For example, the Finnish authorities handed some 2900 prisoners of war to the Gestapo, many of whom were immediately executed, while others were transported to concentration camps.8 Meanwhile, German Wehrmacht soldiers retreated from the war along the Finnish coast to places such as Hanko Tulliniemi. By simply referring to the camp in Hanko as "Deutsches Lager," the exhibition avoided problematising Finland's role in the mass murder machinery of Nazi Germany, covered up the crimes of the Wehrmacht, and downplayed the critical difference between a camp site for German soldiers and the Nazi-operated extermination camps.
Against this backdrop, we wish to investigate how the empathetic atmosphere towards the soldiers that we encountered at the exhibition opening was possible. We want to know: what kind of collective memory is at stake here, and how is it reproduced through the means of an exhibition?
In her contribution to the Stuart Hall-edited book Representation, Henrietta Lidchi analysed exhibitions as systems of representation that produce meaning through the display of objects.9 Lidchi focused on exhibitionary poetics (asking how objects, contexts, texts and visual representations construct meaning), and on politics (asking how exhibitions are powerful acts within broader discourses). We hope to follow her strategy by taking a closer look at the practices of the exhibition, including how it was staged, what objects were displayed, and its accompanying catalogue.
To do so, let's take a closer and more detailed look at the exhibition through a description of what has been shown: a number of display cases in the center of the exhibition contained objects found at the Hanko archaeological site, including glass fragments, rusty tins, broken combs, and plates. One display case, located next to plastic bags of soil, contained several editions of the Lappland Kurier, a newspaper published for the German soldiers.10 All the material is presented in a conceptual and modernistic way, carefully placed in the display cases without any contextualising information. On the main wall of the exhibition space, the organisers displayed enlarged photographs of Wehrmacht and SS soldiers. The only text accompanying these photographs said "Pictures of Dead Soldiers". Right beside this wall was an installation of obituaries on a small plinth covered with a sheet of protective glass. There were more than 50 of them, assembled tightly and overlapping, depicting more photos of soldiers, and framed with a black line that announced their death. The obituaries were written in German and invited loved ones to grieve and pray. The installation also included several plasma screens with videos depicting the archaeological site, as well as additional photographs showing the German barracks as they exist today. A separate video recorded the actress Jonna Nyman reading love letters, so called feldpostbriefe, from a German soldier called Cyrill to his girlfriend Hanni in Germany.
The materials on display invited visitors to relate to the Nazi soldiers as human beings who live and die, but failed to include any information about the specific histories of the displayed materials and the people presented in and through them. In this way, the exhibition created a nebulous aura around the displayed material, and its implicit understanding of poetics and archaeology precluded the possibility of a critical historical analysis. Instead, archaeology appears to have functioned as a discipline that merely collects random, old-looking artifacts, and not as a method to encounter and relate layers of history to one another, permitting the critical reading of historical change. Indeed, the exhibition catalogue speaks of "the magic of fragments,"11 illustrating that the exhibited material was auratised, not contextualised. The exhibition did not identify the archaeological objects and did not provide a context for them, so visitors were left to speculate how the objects were used. Decontextualising history in this way is especially troublesome considering that Hanko Tulliniemi consisted of three separate prisoners of war camps, that in 1943 detained at least 605 prisoners.12 Nor did the exhibition acknowledge that the fate of the prisoners remains unknown. It failed to ask whether they were murdered by the Nazis or whether they were transported to concentration camps, and instead made us believe that only German Wehrmacht soldiers, and no prisoners of war, lived in Hanko Tulliniemi.
What explains the exhibition's failure to mention the crimes committed by the Wehrmacht and its involvement in crimes committed by others? What explains the artists' decision to not distinguish between Wehrmacht and SS soldiers, displaying them on the gallery wall as an undifferentiated group? The exhibition was organised to ignore that the Wehrmacht participated in the death of civilian populations along the eastern front, and that the SS—as the elite corp and self-described "political soldiers" of the Nazis—was directly responsible for their crimes. By displaying images of Wehrmacht and SS soldiers in one group on the same wall, the exhibition presented them as similarly innocent, and as commonplace casualties of any war. The exhibition, moreover, mentioned that Russians executed a "huge number of Germans," which if not an outright attempt to justify Nazi-crimes, was a cynical claim that both sides committed atrocities.13 And, the exhibition catalogue compared the barracks in Hanko with those in Auschwitz14 and compared Nazi atrocities with the creation of the State of Israel.15 This type of aesthetic and rhetorical parallelisation renders murderers and victims indistinguishable, equating murderers with victims.
While archaeology was mainly decontextualised, the exhibition's use of poetry was similarly nebulous. Poetry was not used to insist on and persist in questioning the world by engaging in differentiated knowing, but was instead a means of being content with knowing very little. Poetry was used to create a hazy atmosphere that helped avoid an investigation about the history of Hanko Tulliniemi, the people who lived there, and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. To serve this purpose, poetry has a pacifying function, which makes room for accepting the unacceptable, not contemplating that which is unbearable. As Theodor W. Adorno explained:
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.16
What the project called practice-based research appears to have been no more than a game at the interface of art and archaeology, which depletes both of their strength. Rather than analysing histories of violence, art and archaeology were infantilised and rendered inconsequential. Instead of engaging in memory work and confronting Finland's history, the exhibition invited visitors to collectively forget. The catalogue's introduction expressly states that the organisers were interested in creating "artistic compositions […] founded on the aesthetic dimensions of the material on show."17 And, while the introduction goes on to say that the curators took a "political stance"18 to address the collaboration between Finland and Germany, what the "political" in the exhibition really accomplished was to obfuscate Finland's participation in war crimes. Rather than taking the opportunity to generate new forms of knowledge about this widely ignored part of Finland's history, Kalia and Knuutila displayed panoramic photography in a futile attempt to suggest that a "building that cannot be seen entirely at once can, however, be captured in an image. Thus the image offers a different view of the building and thereby of a past that escapes archaeological methods."19 If this is all that the poetic artistic research of Kaila and Knuutila contributes to archaeology, it is a lot of fuss about nothing.
In sum, the exhibition created a sense of empathy with German soldiers, including members of the SS. Due to the lack of contextualisation, visitors were free to use "common sense" to empathise with young men who died fighting a war. The question arises about whether this type of mystification and auratisation of the displayed objects and photographs renders the exhibition a memorial for Nazi soldiers. Even more troubling is the possibility that the exhibition was in effect a contemporary monument honoring the Nazi regime. Notably, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen described the project as "a powerful gesture of monumentalising," thereby suggesting that although Kaila and Knuutila refer critically to traditional approaches of monumentalisation, their project is monumental, nevertheless.20 It is evident that the exhibition made an effort to dispose of recollection. A so-called poetic archaeology that is utterly silent about Nazi crimes and their victims only pretends to "excavate history." What it really does is take time, space and resources from real engagement and confrontation with history. In this sense, it functions as a reminder to continue to forget.
1 Thanks to Dina Zloczower, without whom this text would not have been written.
2 Bottger, Joerg. Review of Heer, Hannes; Naumann, Klaus, eds., Vernichtungskrieg: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941-1944.
H-German, H-Net Reviews. January, 1999, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2647
3 See HIS—Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Crimes of the Wehrmacht, Dimensions of a War of Annihilation, Berlin 2001, http://www.verbrechen-der-wehrmacht.de
4 HIS—Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Crimes of the Wehrmacht, Dimensions of a War of Annihilation, Introduction, Berlin 2001, http://www.verbrechen-der-wehrmacht.de/docs/e_ausstellung/p_ausstellung.htm
5 Among others, Markku Jokisipilä, Aseveljiä vai liittolaisia? Suomi, Saksan liittosopimusvaatimukset ja Rytin-Ribbentropin-sopimus. Dissertation, University of Turku, 2004; Oula Silvennoinen, Salaiset aseveljet : Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisiyhteistyö 1933-1944, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of History, 2008; Ida Suolahti, Yhteinen vihollinen, yhteinen etu: Sotavankien luovutukset ja vaihdot Suomen ja Saksan välillä jatkosodan aikana, University of Helsinki, 2016.
6 Suolahti, Ida. (2016), p. 336.
7 Suolahti, Ida. (2016) p. 216-224.
8 Elina Sana, Luovutetut : Suomen ihmisluovutukset Gestapolle, WSOY 2003 p. 314-324.
9 Lidchi, Henrietta. The Poetics and the Politics of Exhibiting Other Cultures, in: Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans and Sean Nixon (eds.),
Representation. Second Edition, London, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC 2013 (SAGE Publications), p.120-190.
10 The newspaper was printed in Oulu, the editorial was in Rovaniemi. One of the articles visible in the exhibition vitrine calls for "European solidarity" with the Nazis in the war, and gives insights to the European dimension of the Nazi-project.
11 See Mats Burström, The Poetic Dimension of Fragments, in: Jan Kaila, Japo Knuutila (ed.) in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 82-87.
12 In appendix 1 in Ida Suolahti (2016) it states that in 1943, Finnish military authorities handed over to German authorities on 5 January, 501 "Caucasians", on 19 September 75 "unknown and Caucasians" and on 20 October, 29 "Polish and Ukrainian" prisoners. See also Elina Sana, Luovutetut : Suomen ihmisluovutukset Gestapolle, WSOY 2003 p. 329.
13 Jan Kaila in Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Jan Kaila, 'A Discussion on the 30th of March 2017', in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 46.
14 In a footnote, Jan Kaila and Japo Knuutila write: "When we visited concentration camps in Germany and Poland in Summer 2015 we noted that the barracks in Hanko were built with similar proportions and dimensions as many of the prison barracks in the concentration camps." Kaila, Jan and Knuutila, Japo. 'Beginnings', in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 6.
15 Jan Kaila in Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Jan Kaila, 'A Discussion on the 30th of March 2017', in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 49-50.
16 Adorno, Theodor W. "Cultural Criticism and Society," in: Prisms, 1949, p. 34
17 Kaila, Jan and Knuutila, Japo. 'Beginnings', in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 7.
18 Jan Kaila, Japo Knuutila, 'Beginnings', in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 8.
19 Inkeri Koskinen and Pirkko Pohjakallio, 'Epistemic Benefits?' in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 80.
20 Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen in Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Jan Kaila, 'A Discussion on the 30th of March 2017', in: Inside and Beside the Camp, Helsinki 2017, p. 45.


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A blog dedicated to the education and support of Indie authors.
Also striving to providing great book recommendations and reviews for readers.
Links and Books by Jo Michaels
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Blog Party - Day Two
If you missed day one, pop on back and take a peek. It was a great interview with Ms. Tia Silverthorne Bach, author of the book Depression Cookies. Today, we add to the giveaway some really cool prizes! A couple of coffee mugs! See the photos after the post to get an idea of what you'll be winning!
Without futher ado, may I present Ms. Sandi Tuttle, coffee lover, blogger, radio show host, and designer of fine wraps for women. Ms. Tuttle is also writing a book on finding the perfect dress. Read on to find out more...
Jo: Today, I'd like to welcome Ms. Sandi Tuttle from the Average Woman in a Superwoman World blog and radio show. We're gonna do a giveaway in honor of Ms. Tuttle but that'll come at the end of the post. Let's get started!
Hi, Sandi! Nice to have you! I'm gonna lead in with questions about you, then we'll get going on your blog, clothing, radio show, and works you may have in progress. Tell us a little about your family. Where did you meet your husband?
Sandi: It's great to talk with you, Jo! You're one of my fav people! OK, I met my husband in Orientation when we both started a new job on the same day. I had the shortest hair of the women, and he had the longest hair of the guys. I thought he was cute. We found out we were working on the same project, for the same boss. We even had cubicles next to each other. Kind of like Karma was giving me a hand… We found out we had daughters the same age, liked the same music, and ended up liking each other a lot!
Jo: I'd say you did! You married him! Ha! What were some of the difficulties of blending your existing families together?
Sandi: Wow. OK, I'm a Catholic. I was raised a Presbyterian. He's Jewish, but converted when his daughters were born. He was raised Protestant also. We had to make sure that I didn't do too many 'Catholic' things, since this upset his ex. Kind of tough when your kid is in Catholic school, but we managed. We also had to make sure that we kept up with his twins' religious instruction. So the whole religion thing was touchy.
My ex lives in Connecticut. My family lived in Illinois. Rich's family lived in Massachusetts. So, whenever his ex and her family had events, we were expected to give up visitation. Driving my daughter to Connecticut for visitation was a problem if it was a weekend when we had the twins. Juggling school events, etc., sometimes got challenging.
The biggest issues surrounded what I guess would be called 'life values.' On the one side, we were considered far too strict. On the other, far too liberal. We tried to manage this by saying that the girls had to listen to their other parents when they were with them. They had to listen to us when they were with us. When they were 18, they could decide for themselves what they thought was the right way to go forward. It worked a fair amount of the time.
Jo: Your recent radio show about life happening really spawned a response with some of our mutual friends. Where did you get your outlook on life?
Sandi: Not an easy question. I used to be an angry, confused person. Everybody thinks they had a rotten childhood, so I'm not going to bother outlining mine. I just got tired of myself. Got tired of being angry. Realized that if I changed how I looked at things, dealt with things, the whole situation improved. It's like that song by Sister Hazel: "If you want to be somebody else, if you're tired of losing battles with yourself, if you want to be somebody else, change your mind…" I wanted to like ME. So I had to learn how to do that. Then, I had to learn how to live and not drive myself crazy. The more I read, learn and share with other people, the more I realize that life really is chaos, with occasional moments of clarity. And the only way you enjoy the ride is to just get off your own back and deal with what you CAN control. You.
Jo: Never were truer words spoken! Why do people call you homebadger?
Sandi: Ha. Evil woman. OK. I can have a temper. I don't like that side of my personality, but it's there. One thing that really irks me is when people give my family a hard time. When the girls were younger, they knew that if they came home and complained that there was something 'done to them', I would ask them what happened, and then ask them if they wanted me to get involved, or if they wanted to handle it. If they left it to me, I tended to approach things with a 'scorched earth – take no prisoners' attitude. Since I worked from home, they started calling me their Home Badger… The name stuck, even if I stopped going nuclear. Now we laugh about it; but they still know if the chips are down, I'll be there. Of course, if I find out they lied to me, they get the full Badger treatment. All's fair…
Jo: I'd hate to be on the receiving end of one of those rants! On a happier note, did you know that when you're Googled, you dominate the first three pages of results? How did you manage to do that?
Sandi: No. I've never Googled myself until you mentioned it. I have no idea how I did that. If I did, I'd schedule a webinar and train other people. Just dumb luck, I'm afraid.
Jo: Okay, I'll quit digging into your personal life now. It's really neat that you make wraps for women and sell them on your website via Etsy. Tell me, how did you decide on a logo for your brand and do you have it on all the labels?
Sandi: I used to have a logo of a 'home badger'. Actually, it was a logo I came up with for doing artwork from old album covers, and it was a visual play on my initials and my husband's initials. So, it started out as a rat. I figured I already had it, and how many people know the difference between a rat and a badger anyway? When I got my new website, I decided I needed something to brand "Average Woman," so I asked my good friend Julie Basello-Holt to help. She owns Creative Genius Gallery in Medford, NJ, and knows all about marketing and branding and art and stuff. I asked her to take a crack at it, sent her some things I was trying (and failing) to do, and she came up with my logo. I had my wonderful mentor, Janet Powers, take a look, and the new logo was a 'go.' I do have labels with the new logo, and am in the process of sewing them into the products I have on hand.
Jo: You have some of the most interesting guests on your radio show. Where do you meet these people that are so full of character and how do you get them on your show?
Sandi: Thank you! I'm so incredibly lucky! I've just kind of lucked-onto so many of them. One of my favorites, Nikki Johnson-Huston, was introduced to me via email from a friend in the eWomens Network. Another super lady, Kim Harvey, was mentioned in a blog entry by Jackie Bledsoe, and I was intrigued enough to follow up. One woman I met when she came to the store I work at, Fashions by Penina in Marlton, NJ, to pick up a bunch of clothes to put in her consignment shop. Turns out, for the past 18 years, they have funded a 24/7 help line from the proceeds of this consignment shop. I just stay open to the excitement of what other people do, and I have learned not to be afraid to ask. Some people don't get back to me, but that just means that I have time for the next fun person who comes along.
Jo: It's awesome how you can let it roll off you like that. What do you hope to accomplish with your blog?
Sandi: I would like to say I could find a way to accomplish World Peace. But, if that's a little ambitious, I would like to think that I give other people out there a way to feel good about who they are and what they see in the world. I'd like to show people how to find the fun and whimsy in even the grimmest of days, and hang onto it like a flashlight to get them through the dark times. I hope to show people they can do marvelous things, just like the people I find in my own backyard. They just have to believe it and start putting one foot in front of the other.
Jo: That's an amazing goal. Now for a topic I'm super excited about! Tell us about your upcoming book.
Sandi: As I said, I work in a dress shop. It's actually a specialty dress shop. Mother of the bride, etc. type clothes. We have some really cool casual wear, but we're primarily a specialty dress shop. Shopping stopped being fun for most women I know a long time ago. Between the whole atmosphere at the mall, never being able to find a salesperson in the big stores, and the ravages of time on our bodies, most women I meet hate shopping almost as much as getting root canal. That's a shame when you're shopping for one of the most exciting days in your life.
So many times, I have heard women say, "I never knew that… why didn't I know that…" when I explain some of the hints and tips for finding a perfect dress. So, one day I decided to tell them. It's kind of that simple. I work with amazing people who have a wealth of experience to draw on, and I have a few stories that can make even the worst situation funny, if you're willing to see the humor.
So, I'm thinking of calling it Cinderella's Closet: Tips to Finding the Perfect Dress. It won't be quite as long as War and Peace, but sometimes being in the middle of a bridal party fight over dresses can seem as bloody. It's my job to diffuse the situation, and help each woman look in the mirror and have that, "Ah Hah" moment when she feels beautiful. That's what it's all about.
Jo: Do you plan to self-publish or seek a traditional publisher?
Sandi: I don't know. I have all the wonderful tips from the ABC participants bookmarked, but I haven't had the time to really get down and dirty and absorb the pros and cons. I can be bought, but since I don't think some big publisher is going to just trip over me, I'm more than happy to explore self-publishing.
Jo: If you do, let me know! Well, that's all the time we have for today. Thank you so much, Sandi, for agreeing to talk with me. I'll be keeping an eye on you!
Sandi: It's been my pleasure, Jo. As you always say: "Keep Writing"!
As a recap, you may find and connect with Sandi the following ways:
An Average Woman in a Superwoman World blog
An Average Woman in a Superwoman World radio show
On Twitter: @AverageWomanSJ
On Facebook: AverageWomanSJ
Home Badger Creations
Now, enter to win these great mugs! Sandi and I both love coffee, so we decided to do these instead of the usual, hum-drum stuff. I hope you enjoy!
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On to today's great blogs to follow and read!
The first two are book reviewers. You all know how much I love them!
Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer
On Facebook: Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer
On Twitter: @kimbacaffeinate
One More Chapter Reviews
On Facebook: One More Chapter Reviews
And today's author is:
Danielle Bannister
On Twitter: @getpulled
Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!
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Great interview! You ask unique questions that allow us to learn such interesting facts. Thanks for the giveaway. :) Love the mug design. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, C.E, I do try to avoid cookie-cutter questions for my guests. I like to make them open up and talk :) Thanks for leaving Sandi some comment love, too!!Delete
Hi C.E! Thanx for your super comment! It actually came from all my 'ladies' complaining about how they hate their arms, and always flapping them just like that! Lucky I have an artist in the family who 'gets' my sense of humor! Keep coming back here! Jo always has awesome people!Delete
Great to see so many people from the Author Blog Challenge pop up on Jo's blog. Hope I win one of the awesome giveaways =)ReplyDeleteReplies
I keep in touch :) Good luck, Heather! Thanks for leaving Sandi some luv!!Delete
I loved the questions you asked Sandi! And I love Sandi's mug! I think Sandi's girls were lucky to have their "home badger" looking out for them. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Becky! Sandi's family is very lucky to have her :) Good to hear from you!!Delete
I have one of Sandi's shirts, so I would love a mug to go with it! I look forward to reading your book, too....ReplyDeleteReplies
That's awesome, Alana! I do hope you enter every day! The chances are really good :) Thanks for the blog luv!Delete
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Any time I think that Muslims cannot shock me any more, I am proven wrong.
I came across this ISIS propaganda video today. I shared it on my Facebook, then I deleted it a minute later. Watch it if you wish, but be prepared for extreme gore. Blood mixed with brain matter gore generated in front of your eyes.
The video starts with first person shooter perspective Hard Core Henry style and it is 'enhanced' with some digital text overlay on the targets to further appeal to the video-game generation. The kids are around twelve years old or younger; practicing the slaughter of tied up prisoners in an abandoned building.
Do you see them as children or as soldiers? Do you take them seriously? Would you shoot back to kill them if their guns were pointed at you? Would you like to see these boys as children refugees in Europe or America? Do you see them as victims or as combatants? Would you think of them as champions of peace?
Then later the same day I watched a one hour interview with Dr. James Mitchell, one of the 'inventors' of waterboarding, who recalls a conversation he had with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed about Islam.
He (Mitchell) asked him how can Muslims claim that Islam is a religion of peace considering its extremely violent present. You don't understand, said KSM. There can be no peace until every living creature submits itself to the will of god. When Muslims fight for world domination, they fight for peace. They are obligated to impose the will of God on the whole world because only then can we all live in peace.
The argument is, of course, bogus. There is no peace in Dar al-Islam or any part of it. The muslim world is extremely violent. Muslims are killing other Muslims in the name of Islam. In the linked video, the children are killing other Muslims for……. whatever the reason, but not being Muslim cannot possibly be one of them. People in the Muslim world are killed for not being Muslim enough. Islam has several branches and sects, all of them with their own version of the ultimate truth and interpretation of the will of God. There is absolutely no reason to think that this would change once Islam rules the whole world.
Righteous posturing and violence are the only things sustaining Islam. If it would ever run out of enemies on the outside, it would have to find them inside which is what it has done throughout its history. The Taliban instituted terror in a country where 99.8% of the population is muslim. Islam is fundamentally parasitic. Once it kills a host, it starts consuming itself.
Still, there is some twisted logic in the violence for peace argument.
A Muslim friend at a dinner party told us that the word Islam means 'peace'. When I corrected her, pointing out that Islam actually means 'submission', she conceded the point with the argument that it is the same thing. You will find peace when you submit.
My most favourite dog ever was an alpha dog. He got into fights all the time, but he never hurt another dog. The fight was always over the moment the other dog showed signs of submission.
I grew up in an abusive household. Submission and obedience were absolute prerequisites of peace, but not sufficient, as the rules were never exactly clear. They were dependent on the whim and blood alcohol level of my step-father.
Communism is also peaceful when you submit to the will of the rulers. The victory of communism was supposed to usher in a blissful world of peace and harmony amongst the nations under its rule. It never really happened, again, because the rules were not based on any measurable, testable criteria. I grew up with slogans urging me to fight for peace. "War is peace" may sound absurd, but not when you have to live it.
Life cannot exist without conflicts. Society cannot exist without conflicts. The self cannot exist without conflicts. The question we have to answer is not how to exist without conflicts but how to find the best mechanism to resolve them. Peace in this sense can mean only two things: the peace of rules or the peace of power.
The peace of rules is a peace of reason and cooperation, negotiations and compromises, respectful disagreements and the recognition and tolerance of our differences. The peace of rules is always a delicate compromise between conflicting parties, their interests and beliefs.
The peace of power is submission, oppression, unpredictability and a capricious use of violence by those holding the power. It is never really peace at all. The peace of power is always merciless oppression of any opposition to the ruling ideology or its representatives.
Utopias that promise a conflict free world always turn out to be the later, peace by power.
In the end, Muslims are right. Islam is the religion of peace. It is just not the kind of peace we want, and we should never forget that there is a significant difference.
The last news item of the day came to me on a ticker of a news station informing us that:
"Judge Quackenbush denies motion to dismiss torture suit against Mitchell and Jessen"
Yes, this is the same Dr. Mitchell in the linked interview, who was hired by CIA to devise (with his colleague Jessen) a humane yet effective interrogation methods (torture, if you will) to extract information from suspected terrorists. They did just that. Waterboarding does not cause any lasting physical or psychological harm. Only severe discomfort for a few seconds.
Think of that while you are watching the juvenile butcher peaceniks and the splattered brain matter. These boys are fighting for peace.


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On a darkened dance floor one night in June, 35-year-old Frederick Johnson lost much of what he once took for granted.
Like being able to easily open a jar. Or drive with both hands. Or cover his bills.
An insurance underwriter from Jacksonville, Johnson was shot twice during the Pulse nightclub attack that left 49 people dead. He no longer has sensation in his left arm and can't move his fingers on that hand. And while he was relieved last week to learn Orlando hospitals won't bill the victims, he still faces ongoing physical therapy — currently at $700 a week — and potentially long-term mental-health counseling.
"The bills have already started to come in," said Johnson, who has yet to return to work. "I've been really focused on ... just recovering fully. It's stressful thinking about the long-term costs for everything because it's expensive."
Many of those injured in the attack, including Johnson, are counting on money raised by the OneOrlando Fund. But experts say the donations — even at $23 million and rising — likely won't be enough to cover all the incoming bills, long-term care and lost wages.
To some survivors, the financial burden feels like another assault.
"There are people who are not able to work, who are in wheelchairs or using walkers, and what they're going to need financially is something that is always on their mind right now," says Terry DeCarlo, executive director of The Center — the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community center of Central Florida. "Every person has to think if I'm out of work, if I'm not getting a paycheck, what am I going to do? And these are people, thrown into this situation through no fault of their own, whose world has been turned upside down."
The OneOrlando Fund — started in the days after the June 12 attack — has drawn generous contributions from corporations, celebrities, sports franchises and individuals, and it is still accepting donations. Orlando Health and Florida Hospital announced last week they would write off their bills to Pulse victims, and Orlando Health said the anesthesiologists, surgeons and radiologists who bill separately have agreed to follow suit.
In addition, Orlando and Orange County have partnered with Heart of Florida United Way to establish the Orlando United Assistance Center to help cover victims' immediate needs — rent, utilities, car payments, etc. Between July 11 and Aug. 22 along, the center has had 833 incoming calls and set 235 appointments for more in-depth help.
"And we know there are victims out there who haven't even reached out yet — absolutely," says the center's director, Stephanie Husted.
There's also the state's Victim Compensation Fund, which will cover medical bills, mental-health expenses and lost wages up to $50,000 for the catastrophically injured and $15,000 for other survivors. It has paid out more than $287,700 in Pulse-related claims so far.
And there are two nonprofit organizations, the Pulse of Orlando and the onePulse Foundation, created to provide for the financial needs of the club's workers as well as victims and their family members.
Collectively, some may wonder, isn't that enough?
"I think it's hard for the average American to contemplate," says Michael Farmer of Equality Florida, the statewide nonprofit civil-rights organization for people who are gay or transgender. "They hear [$23 million], and for most people that's an unthinkable amount of money.
"But the reality is when you're talking about 49 families who were affected because someone was killed, and 53 people who went to the hospital and hundreds of others who are going to be reeling from having been inside when all those things took place — when you break it down, it's not that much in a lot of cases."
The OneOrlando Fund board of directors has yet to determine how much will go to the families of the dead, how much to the wounded and how much to those who were in the club when the shooting began but escaped without physical injury. But Mai Fernandez, executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, which is working with OneOrlando to distribute the money, says the expenses for those involved can be overwhelming.
"Even the One Fund in Boston, which was around $61 million, ended up not meeting the needs of everyone — because of these ongoing health-care needs," Fernandez says. "And certainly nobody is becoming wealthy. ... This is to give them some of what they need."
The April 2013 terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 250 others, including 16 people who lost at least one limb to amputation. A modified van for someone in a wheelchair, Fernandez said, can cost $60,000.
"Victims and their families are left with a new reality and a multitude of needs," said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who said he hopes donors will continue to give to the OneOrlando Fund before the Sept. 26 deadline, when the total will be divided for distribution.
Ted Miller, who has been studying the costs of gun violence for more than 20 years for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, said the OneOrlando Fund will only cover a small portion of the total costs some victims might have accrued.
The loss in future earnings for survivors, including those who are now disabled, could easily reach $20 million alone, he said. He estimates other costs associated with their quality of life could run survivors another $16 million.
But "there's no question that the hospitals stepping in to cover these costs will help stretch the fund a lot further," he said.
Survivors say they feel blessed with the amount OneOrlando has raised and can't imagine it not being enough but still there's a level of financial anxiety.
Chris Littlestar, 25, was shot five times while inside the club and spent more than a week in the hospital. After his discharge, he found a bullet was still lodged in his hip.
"I didn't even know it was there and now I'm going to have to go back and possibly have another surgery to get it removed," he said. "I don't know if the Orlando Fund is going to cover it or what is going to happen."
Many of Littlestar's friends who were injured in the shooting have been anxiously awaiting for the bills to come in the mail. He said he and others feel quite a bit better knowing their hospital bills will be covered.
"It's definitely a blessing but I know there's going to be other costs that many of us will have as time goes on," he said. "...I'm honestly just so grateful for the love and support we've gotten from the community. I mean $23 million is just so much. It's amazing."
Rodney Sumter escaped the Pulse nightclub massacre with bullet wounds in both arms and his back. The 27-year-old has had five surgeries and is now seeing a neurologist to try to regain feeling in parts of his right arm and fingers. He also goes to physical therapy three times a week and hasn't been able to return to his job at Mango's Tropical Café, where he worked as a bartender.
"I don't really have an [estimate] of when I'll be able to go back to work," he said. "I'm just taking it one day at a time."
For help through the Orlando United Assistance Center, call 407-500-HOPE.


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Actress Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), who is set to head line the upcoming Disney family/comedy, Wish List… There is only one problem though… That problem being, No writers! That is till today… that's right folks, according to Comingsoon, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger who have both most recently penned the script for the upcoming sequel in […]
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By Adriana Wells
The Virginia Film Festival will screen an original documentary by four local young black men during its Light House Studio Shorts event.
This past summer, Daniel Fairley II, the City of Charlottesville's youth opportunity coordinator, sought to bring attention to the achievements of a number of black men in the Charlottesville community. Fairley selected four teens, ages 14 to 18, to write, film, produce, and edit a documentary that showcases not only the talent of the subjects, but also the filmmakers. Clarence Green, filmmaker and visual storytelling instructor at Tandem Friends School, offered them guidance.
The documentary is only one step in the ambitious Changing the Narrative project, which, in the wake of the events of August 11 and 12, 2017, aims to keep local students engaged in (and in some cases, leading) conversations about race and racism in Charlottesville. That the VAFF will screen the film is an indication that this advocacy has the potential to reach beyond local bounds.
The Light House Studio Shorts begin at 5:30 pm this Thursday at The Vinegar Hill Theatre, and the event is free and open to the public.


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On 8th March 1933 McCully joined Northern Bank at Head Office. His address is recorded as Laharna, Killough, Co. Down. He was of Presbyterian faith. Transfers followed to Ballynahinch (1933), Head Office – Relief Staff (1934 to 1936), Coleraine (1936), Head Office (1941), Shaftesbury Square (1941) and Head Office (1942).
McCully was 'Called up on Active Service' on 1st March 1943 into the Royal Navy as a Rating. Promotions to Acting Sub-Lieutenant (RNVR) and Sub-Lieutenant followed.
He resumed service with the Northern Bank in 1946 at Portrush.
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We (CFL and LKS) have been dreaming about starting a blog called Slow Happy Living for a while now. Between us we have a whole lot of ideas that we'd like to share with all of you. But, because we are SLOW and happy, it can take a while for us to launch new things. Sometimes we'd both rather just dream about them, keep perfecting those dreams until they are designs for the most amazing things we can possibly imagine. Sometimes we get stuck in the design phase. That can happen when two designers get together.
But life doesn't always leave time for the launching of perfect dreams. So we're going to start now, imperfectly, and see what might develop.
Right now, between the two of us, we're:
- brewing beer
- teaching home school classes
- finishing up training for two half marathons to be run in the next three weeks
- hiking as much as we can before autumn sets in
- doing a little home remodeling (new windows? maybe a skylight?)
- making sauerkraut
- writing, writing, writing!
You know, the usual stuff that two busy people do in the too little available time we have for the fun things in life.
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Preserving Identity & Art: Totem Heritage Center
Totem poles have been obscured by myth and misunderstanding for centuries. An art form that dates back to the 1800s, they have been overlooked by many. The Totem Heritage Center, in Ketchikan, Alaska, puts totem poles and the history they carry in the spotlight.
The Tlingit people, indigenous to the Pacific Northwest Coast, brought the craft and culture of the totem poles to Ketchikan. The Tlingit moved to Tongass Island in the 1830s, and later moved to Ketchikan so that they could have easier access to medicine and schools. A century later, in 1970, the Alaska Native Brotherhood, the U.S. Forest Service, and the State of Alaska teamed up to start the Alaska Totems: A Heritage in Peril project, which sought to salvage and celebrate totem poles.
The project involved collecting poles from all around Alaska, including Tongass Island, Village Island, and Old Kasaan. They decided to display the totems in Ketchikan because of its history and ongoing relationship with the clans that crafted the totems. The Totem Heritage Center opened in 1976, with assistance from Native elders.
Totem poles are traditionally carved from cedar trees, and because of decay, not many examples remain from before the 1900s. However, records show that native tribes from Alaska were crafting a variation of these poles, somewhat smaller and simpler, before Europeans had set foot on their land.
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At first, European explorers believed that totem poles were pagan symbols or objects of worship. This theory was spread so widely that many still hold it to be true. However, while totem poles do have ceremonial value, they never carried any religious weight. Different types of totem poles are created for different reasons, but there are five main ones:
Shame poles, or ridicule poles, were erected to humiliate and disgrace a person that broke their word, did not pay an owed debt, or otherwise behaved dishonorably. These poles were placed in very public places, so that many people could see them. If the person changed their ways, or made amends, the poles were not only taken down, they were also destroyed.
Mortuary poles are carved when a person of high caste died. These poles had a hole in the back which fit a box in which the ashes of the deceased were placed.
Memorial poles were made in order to honor dead clan members. The poles were reserved for important members, such as leaders. Memorial poles were integral in society, for the next leader of the clan could not take charge until he had commissioned and erected a pole in the former leader's honor.
House posts or pillars were carved with symbols of family histories. Some posts and pillars were architectural and provided support to the main beams of the house, while others simply rested against the supporting pillars of the house. Pillars were easier to move, and were used more than posts in Tlingit clans.
Heraldic or crest poles rested in front of a house and displayed the clan crest. Some poles that date back earlier include the portal pole, which acted as a ceremonial entry to the house. Crests on portal poles indicated the clan's geographic origin, genealogy or events in family history.
Totem poles also depict traditional narratives, often telling creation or origin myths. For example, there are many totems poles depicting the story of how Raven stole the sun. This is a story told in many tribes, and even though the details change from place to place, most totem poles depict the same characters.
This story can be found on one of the totem poles at the Totem Heritage Center, along with many others. The Totem Heritage Center has the world's largest collection of 19th-century standing totem poles, including some that are 160 years old. Tours are given daily, so you won't miss any tales captured by the totem poles. The tour guides can also answer any questions you may have about the area or the Tlingit.
In addition to preserving existing totem poles, the Totem Heritage Center promotes the craft. Starting in October, their Native Art Studies Program will begin again, and the center will host workshops and lectures on Native art and culture. The center is open every day, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. until October. From October to April it is open Monday through Friday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., and closed Saturday and Sunday. Stop by to see a collection unlike any other.


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We were once starry eyed nurses, convinced we would change the world. We would be the helpmates and Saviors we knew the world needed and wanted. We end up broken like those we were trying to save. The people who come into institutions whole and leave broken are different than the patients who come in broken and leave whole.
Nurses, doctors, technicians- we stand daily at the abyss of death only to use our knowledge and magic to bring patients back from that perceived darkness. We pat each other on the back, cheer our own fabricated sense of Divinity. We are Demi gods. We are told we are, too. We believe every word of it.
Tear stained faces turned up to us in supplication. "What would we do without you? You're an angel! I prayed for help and here you are…." The drunkenness of re-starting hearts when there is no life, inject potions that hold the secrets to life –they are what allows us to fly. But only for so long. Even gods can't fly forever.
When our wings falter, the shock of it almost throws us off course. We realize how tired we are, that we have been flying far too long. When gods fall, they are problematic. When gods need to rest their wings, pluck old feathers, molt and renew like earth bound chickens, they are never allowed to fly again. Their wings are clipped, cut jagged with rusty shears. The wings are clipped in such a way that their hideousness and inability for flight are visible for all to witness. Like a naked chicken who has lost all feathers, the shame is all consuming, No one remembers that new feathers will soon grow when allowed time and rest. Until then, there shall be no golden eggs from a featherless bird. Without eggs or feathers or flight, no bird is useful. Except maybe in soup.
So the featherless Demi gods are banished with their broken and bleeding wings. They leave behind a trail of fallen feathers, a trail of down that could be gathered, if only the source wasn't a pariah. There are many broken winged Demi gods but they wander alone, through the grey fog of burnout, the wastelands and smoke filled barren hills of compassion fatigue, all the while dragging their broken and mangled wings behind them.
Shame. Separation. Banishment. It is what happens when gods are no longer able to give life at all costs, when they admit they are more human than diety. These fallen? They are the birds who fall from the sky out of nowhere. The ones who careen into windshields or plate glass windows, leaving faint images of open wings upon the glass.
They die instantly, broken wings and broken body crumpled, lifeless in a pool of blood. They are swarmed by ants until a human with compassion gently picks her up, examines with curiosity her crushed, limp form. They may brush off the ants, wrap her in a shroud of plastic and newspaper. If she's lucky, she'll get a proper burial, but most likely will end up wrapped with disgust and dropped unceremoniously into the trash with a thud.
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Failure isn't just an option, it's inevitable. And not just inevitable. For many of us, it's the norm -- with success being the exception.Read the whole thing. Vogt wisely notes that "success" is a notoriously nebulous term and only becomes more so when pursuing the crazy career of putting down words on paper. Instead of waiting for circumstances to magically validate your efforts, he suggests actually listing what you want to achieve with your writing and then quantifying your work. (An aside: Josh provides his own examples of this, and knowing high quality of his prose, I find the large number of rejections he's received strangely heartening. Seems this gig isn't easy for anyone.) For me, the whole post recalls the counsel of Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote, "In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
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Among gym newbies, there is a common misconception that, in order to become ripped, you need to spend a lot of time in the gym – something like 5 days a week and 2 hours each time, or somewhere along those lines. This is a complete myth.
You do not need to spend that much time in the gym in order to become ripped and stay that way. In fact, for me personally, I only go to the gym 3 times a week for 45 min – 1 hour per session. I have been doing this for several years, and have even slacked off to just 1 or 2 times a week for some periods. For 3 hours per week at the gym, I am able to maintain a pretty fit/ripped body (see images below), without taking any supplements. The only "supplement" I take is your regular Whey protein post-workout, and I dabble with the occasional creatine cycle to get a little more volume for beach season.
Do not believe any of the "secret workout routine" or "secret nutrition plan" ads you see online with massive bodybuilder dudes – it is simply impossible to achieve that kind of physique without doping. However, you can have a very solid, lean, and ripped body within a reasonable range of your natural body type by simply working out 3 hours a week and eating properly.
There is a lot of information online, from different websites or bodybuilding forums, of people voicing all sorts of opinions. It can get a little hectic trying to figure out which advice is good and which is garbage. So here I am, a naturally skinny Asian guy like yourself, here to tell you what works for me, which would likely work for you as well. I have scoured the internet and been testing myself at the gym for years to reach my current conclusion – I've already done the hard work for you and condensed all that knowledge into a simple formula, and all you have to do is to follow what I'm about to tell you.
Like most Asian guys, I am an ectomorph (thin and lanky body type). I don't have any freakish genetics and neither of my parents are athletic. I currently stand at 5'11'' (181 cm) and 168 lbs (76.5 kg), which is where I am content. Before I started working out several years ago, I was the same height but only weighed 145 lbs (66 kg), probably looking like I could've been blown over by the wind. That was the low end of my weight spectrum. On the other hand, for a little while last year, when my diet was poor and I was unmotivated, my weight got up to 173 lbs (78.5 kg), with higher body fat. That was the high end.
Without too much more blabbering, here we go. I only do the following 8 (hah, Asian lucky number again!) exercises, spread out over the 3 sessions each week.
- Barbell bench press
- Barbell squat
- Barbell lunge
- Barbell deadlift
- Barbell overhead press
- Barbell bent-over row
- Pull-ups
- Box jumps (no weights required; optional for some extra fat burn)
You can mix and match them however you want, as long as you cover all the bases over your 3 sessions per week. If you got lazy one week and could only go twice, then do more during each session to cover all the exercises. I also like to do a couple of the exercises twice per week just to get the extra work in. Ideally, you want to mix your weighted exercises so that you don't overwork the same muscles in one session – this way you can really go hard for each individual exercise (I'll talk about "going hard" later). What do I mean by this? For example:
- Day 1: warm-up, 4 sets of squats, 3 sets of box jumps, 3 sets of overhead press, 3 sets of bent-over row
- Day 2: warm-up, 4 sets of bench press, 3 sets of pull-ups, 4 sets of deadlifts
- Day 3: warm-up, 3 sets of lunges, 3 sets of box jumps, 3 sets of overhead press, 3 sets of bent-over row
- Go Hard! Find out your one-rep max weight (use a spotter!), and then use roughly 75% of your max weight and do 5 reps for each set. For the 3 "big" exercises, the squat, bench, and deadlift, I recommend doing a 4th set using 90% of your max weight and push until failure (2-3 reps) or simply going for a new one-rep max – this is how you get stronger.
As you can see, it is quite simply really. Not so many pointless exercises requiring fancy but useless machines or medicine balls like you see on gym brochures. Each exercise should take you no more than 10 minutes, with a 1 to 2-minute break between sets so you can tackle the subsequent set at full throttle.
What we have here is the bread and butter to strength and a masculine physique. These exercises cover pretty much your entire body, and all you need is a barbell, some plates, a squat rack and bench, and 3 hours (or less) a week. The only extra exercise you might want to add for aesthetic purposes are some bicep curls – as you can see from my pictures my biceps aren't much to salivate for, because I pretty much ignore them.
You can look up all the weighted exercises on the internet if you don't know how to do them with proper form, etc. IMPORTANT NOTE: make sure you do every exercise with impeccable form! This is to prevent injury but also to give you the best bang for the buck – proper range of motion, etc. to give you the best workout. Also, please ask for a spotter if you are trying a weight that you are unsure of.
I will, however, further clarify a couple of things:
- The warm-up: I go on the treadmill (I hate treadmills) for a 5 minute interval run – 1 minute warm-up with fast walking, and then 2 minutes at a 60% jogging pace, followed by 1 minute sprinting at the maximum treadmill pace, and then back to fast walking for the last 1 minute, while swinging my arms about to stretch them out. The purpose of this 5-minute treadmill warm-up is to get your heart pumping so you are nice and warm and your muscles are loose enough to lift some heavy weights without injury.
- Box jumps: This one is hard to gauge since everyone has vastly different jumping ability. You could be a Nate Robinson or you could be a Yao Ming, I don't know. Personally I do box jumps with 2 boxes stacked on top of one another so the overall height reaches just below my sternum. I alternate between a set of box jumps and a set of squats/lunges to keep my legs loose, and I do a set of 10 jumps. You must maintain your concentration for this exercise so you don't miss a step and scrape your shin – that hurts, bad (so I've heard). You should feel the burn in your legs and in your lungs after a set of challenging box jumps, and your heart rate should be right up. Make sure you challenge yourself by using a height that will visually intimidate you, but is not outside of your abilities. If you are taking it easy by using a small box that a 220-pound lady can jump on, then you might as well skip this exercise.
One last thing to go along with my simple workout routine, of course, is diet. Yes, believe it or not, you do need to watch what you eat, at least a little bit. Luckily for us, most of us Asians do not put on extra body fat too easily as long as we maintain a somewhat active lifestyle, since our bodies tend to burn everything to heat and CO2 all the time. However, in order to put on more muscle, you must eat lots of protein and fats. This means red meats, chicken, eggs, milk (if you don't have allergies like me), cheese, nuts, beans, etc. You should also either drink a protein shake or eat a hearty meal immediately after your workout, as your muscles will need to nutrients for recovery and growth. A good-quality, decent-tasting, and affordable whey protein product I can recommend is Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Gold Standard. I usually just mix it with water for convenience, but I have found that mixing it with almond milk in a blender makes it taste incredible, like drinking vanilla ice cream.
As well, as you get into your late twenties, you will notice that it becomes harder to stay cut – baby fat will accumulate more easily in the abdomen. Therefore, to stay ripped, you must limit your intake of processed carbs to a minimum. Rice, vegetables, and fruits are okay, but any packaged snacks or things with processed sugars should be avoided. I have almost no processed carbs in my diet – I do not buy anything that comes in a packaged box (chips, cookies, desserts, crackers, etc.), nor do I drink pop or fruit juices (yes even fruit juices – they contain a lot of sugar). I still occasionally eat fast food or pizza, maybe once or twice a week, and at my current age my body can still handle that stuff without too many negative effects.
So there you go, gents. Go get ripped. But just remember one thing – all this will still require your commitment. If you slack off for a week or even two weeks, that's fine, but just make sure that you keep returning to the gym in the long run. If you have not been working out before, you will be amazed by your progress and transformation should you follow my routine. If you are currently spending way too much time at the gym with the goal of just looking fit and not being a body builder, then I think you would also appreciate the time you will save by following my routine.
One last thing – keep your smartphone in your locker. We don't need that thing in the weight room – go focus and go hard, like a rabid dog.
If you have any further questions, leave them in the comment section below. Good luck.


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Di Wu, Jiawen Guo, Juan Du, Congxin Xia, Longhui Zeng*, Yongzhi Tian, Zhifeng Shi, Yongtao Tian, Xin Jian Li, Yuen Hong Tsang*, Jiansheng Jie*
1 School of Physics and Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Material Physics, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, China
2 College of Physics and Materials Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan 453007, China
3 Department of Applied Physics and Materials Research Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
4 Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
Polarization-sensitive photodetection in a broad spectrum range is highly desired due to the great significance in military and civilian applications. Palladium diselenide (PdSe2), a newly explored air-stable, group 10 two-dimensional (2D) noble metal dichalcogenide with a puckered pentagonal structure, holds promise for polarization-sensitive photodetection. Herein, we report a highly polarization-sensitive, broadband, self-powered photodetector based on graphene/PdSe2/germanium heterojunction. Owing to the enhanced light absorption of the mixeddimensional van der Waals heterojunction and the effective carrier collection with graphene transparent electrode, the photodetector exhibits superior device performance in terms of a large photoresponsivity, a high specific detectivity, a fast response speed to follow nanosecond pulsed light signal, and a broadband photosensitivity ranging from deep ultraviolet (DUV) to mid-infrared (MIR). Significantly, highly polarization-sensitive broadband photodetection with an ultrahigh polarization sensitivity of 112.2 is achieved, which represents the best result for 2D layered material-based photodetectors. Further, we demonstrated the high-resolution polarization imaging based on the heterojunction device. This work reveals the great potential of 2D PdSe2 for high-performance, air-stable, and polarization-sensitive broadband photodetectors.
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Censorship, 1917
A nation emerging from a major war is not the same nation it was when it entered the struggle. The hostilities release forces that cannot be brought under control by a treaty of peace.
In no phase of life in a democracy is the threat of lasting harm from war greater than in the realm of personal liberty. Those wounded in battle eventually die; relatives of the slain pass away; economic losses are replaced in one manner or another; but the wartime repressive measures are like dead hands that do not relax their grasp upon the republic after the occasion which created them has passed. The true test of a democracy is the rapidity and thoroughness with which it throws off those restraints that were necessary for the waging of a successful war.
The main purpose of this volume is to show the extent to which the First Amendment to the Constitution was set aside during the greatest crisis through which this nation has passed up to the present time. A second aim of the book is to reveal an evil more dangerous to the continued existence of a true democracy than World War I censorship. That evil was the danger of carrying over wartime repressive measures into an era of peace for the sake of stifling political, economic, and social reform when reconstruction should have been the all-absorbing effort of this nation.
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So we had plans for dinner with our friends John and April and their 4 kids (spaghetti and guacamole). Odd combo I know but we always have spaghetti with them because it cheaply feeds the 11 of us (they have a family of 6 and us 5). Well I decided since I was out lettuce I would do my version of the guacamole on http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com she uses edamame which I have like 9 bags of! So to work I went in the kitchen! I spent like half an hour making this and then I get a call…dun dun daaa…it's Corey they have a training meeting thing tonight and then more work for him 😥 well completely unprepared to come up with a meal in 20 minutes I used up the left over sauce in the fridge and made some lame spaghetti! So I'm sad and relieved about dinner (I'm exhausted and have a show on sat for http://www.jellebeandesigns.com)
Lots of work to do tonight!
Well onto the the guacamole recipe 🙂
2 Avocados
2 cups edamame (no shell)
1 tomato
1/3 red onion chopped
2 tablespoons garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp lemon juice
Take the peel and core off the avocados stick in the food processor (or blender as I did)
Peel the edamame and put in your blender
Garlic chopped into blender
Half tomatoes and gut them then chop and dice and stick in the blender
Dice the onion and plop it in the blender
I added 1/8 cup water and turned my blender on liquify and wiggled it until it was guac I then tasted it and seasoned with lemon/salt/pepper as needed! So yummy!
Btw my 5 year old loves the bread from yesterday and wants me to get that kind from now on!!! I will post my recipe Sunday when I make more 🙂


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A lone bloom
leaned against
the vase's rim
as fresh and captivating
as baby's first grasp.
A lone bloom
leaned against
the vase's rim
as fresh and captivating
as baby's first grasp.
My husband graduated from night school this May, our girls finished another school year, we went to my brother's wedding, our daughter celebrated her first communion that same weekend, my sister's wedding is in August, my husband got a great job offer in the South and he's thinking about taking it, and our ninth wedding Anniversary is tomorrow. The years have been good and they've been full, here's to many more!
I've got nothing. . . Well, that's not entirely true:
During comps our prof. picked a poem we were not familiar with for us to explicate. The name of the poet was not given. He wanted the poem to speak for itself. My poem was "Mint" I don't remember what on earth I wrote. I was too preoccupied with worry to write anything worthwhile. I do remember being distressed because I knew nothing of nettles and thought it an important detail. But I never forgot the poem which was probably the point.
It looked like a clump of small dusty nettles
Growing wild at the gable of the house
Beyond where we dumped our refuse and old bottles:
Unverdant ever, almost beneath notice.
But, to be fair, it also spelled promise
And newness in the back yard of our life
As if something callow yet tenacious
Sauntered in green alleys and grew rife.
The snip of scissor blades, the light of Sunday
Mornings when the mint was cut and loved:
My last things will be first things slipping from me.
Yet let all things go free that have survived.
Let the smells of mint go heady and defenceless
Like inmates liberated in that yard.
Like the disregarded ones we turned against
Because we'd failed them by our disregard.
I dig the bulb up from the mulched tilled ground
fat, cool I imagine its mandrake life
unmoved in darkness dormant until found
its head crowning and I like a midwife,
not knowing the pain, touched and guided out
the roots, and in my caked hands there you are!
I dislike the phrase "that said" or "having said that" there are other perfectly good words that would suffice and are clearer: however, still, nevertheless, nonetheless, in spite of, although. . . I enjoyed this article, The Maniacal use of "having Said that" which further discusses the phrase.
I was picking dandelion bouquets
to place on my mother's lap
My youth almost spent, I asked,
how long will I be old?
Age last longer than youth.
And those who see only age spots and skin
will look at faded images
and in their dotage say,
how young!
I don't even have to be be a beauty
for such a remark
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Hello everyone. Severus mentioned that our local group will be having a small tournament in about two weeks. Details can be found at Critical Hit's Facebook page.
This will be my first tournament in several months, and I have decided to compete as Eldar. Severus and I had a test game, which we will get into in a later post. For now though, here is my army and my philosophy behind it:
Farseer (jetbike, runes of Witnessing, & Stone of Anath'lan)
Autarch (jetbike, fusion gun, laser lance & banshee mask)
Warlock (jetbike and spear)
6x Guardian Jetbikes (2x cannons)
5x Avengers (SL/SC Wave Serpent)
5x Avengers (SL/SC Wave Serpent)
5x Warp Spiders (FS/TL Exarch)
5x Warp Spiders (FS/TL Exarch)
3x War-walkers (Scatter Lasers)
Wraithknight (Sun-cannon & Shield)
All of this totals to 1747. The general plan was to have a highly mobile and flexible army. Ideally my Autarch would have the Shard of Anaris, to make the jetbikes fearless, but with the limited points available I would have to do without. I chose him mostly for the crucial +/- 1 to reserves, seeing as I will probably have at least 3 units in reserve in each match. A fusion gun never hurts either, and he can provide very good MEQ close combat support. Meanwhile, the Farseer provides a guaranteed Guide/Prescience & other powers depending on rolls. Finally, the warlock guarantees the ability for the jetbikes to obtain a 2+ cover save.
I think jetbikes in some form are always a good idea. In this case I opted for a large unit of 8, so that my characters could not easily be sniped. This way I have a solid, fast unit that can split into 3 should it need to grab objectives end-game. Wave Serpents are also a great choice, so really the question is how many. I think two is reasonable at this points level. I am not convinced that spamming them is a good idea, and I only have three anyway. They may have lost some shooting reliability, but I think being a pretty tough and fast Objective Secured Vehicle makes up for it in spades.
My flyer of choice is the Nightwing. It has two bright lances and two Shuriken Cannons. It only has Armor 10 and two hull points, but benefits from shrouded and vector dancer. At 145 points I think it is very cost effective. With the Crimson Hunter becoming more survivable, I may revisit that opinion, but I don't have the model, and having a Guardian pilot fits my Ulthwé army much more nicely!
Warp spiders are also a great option in my book. Their mobility is excellent, and they can be very good anti-tank options, with 11 Str 7 shots. They are also great against MC with low initiative, not only because of their high strength, but also the Monofilament rule allowing the wounds caused on a roll of 6 to be AP1. I gave the exarchs twin-linked rifles so that my spiders could double as anti-air if needed.
War Walkers are another must have. They are extremely fragile, and quite expensive at 210pts for three, but the ability to put out 24 Str 6 shots at 36″ and benefit from Battle-Focus is well worth it. Meanwhile the Wraithknight is a good source if AP2, and is mostly there to deal with Centurions, Broadsides and Obliterators. Of course, it is also exceptionally mobile and very good in combat as well.
As always, I think that flyer heavy lists will be a challenge for me, as will high armor vehicles, but otherwise I think that this is a pretty balanced list, with every unit having either a high volume of fire or the possibility to ignore armor (or both). We shall see how it plays out though!


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