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In issue 55 of the Bulletin-Info of the Zentrum fur transdiszplinare Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt-University Berlin, Heiner Schulze wrote a report on the CRUSEV conference 'A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics?'. The report is reproduced here in full.
A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany
20-22 July 2017, HU Berlin
A common narrative states that the 1970s was both the start and high point of much of gay and lesbian life. The decade is hailed as the mythical pre-AIDS era: the time when queer movements emerged as political forces and queer havens in which they could live, love, and fuck were developed.
A recent conference at Humboldt University examined this narrative. A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany was organized by Janin Afken, Andreas Kraß, and Benedikt Wolf from the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality. The conversation sought to trace the alleged revolutionary potential as well as the political and aesthetic strategies in the creation of such a "legendary decade" and questioned what is remembered and what is marginalized. Additionally, it showcased the importance of taking a closer look at the spatial and temporal context when talking about the construction of a "golden age of queer sexuality".
The conference, which ran from July 20 to July 22, began with welcoming speeches by Ulrike Vedder, Andreas Kraß, and Glyn Davis, followed up by a screening of Ulrike Ottinger's movie Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin with a short introduction by Michaela Wünsch. The movie made clear that the conference was not exclusively about (gay) men, who still dominate the discussions on this era.
After an introduction by Benedikt Wolf, the conference began with a keynote by Susanne Hochreiter. With the help of David Bowie's song The Bewlay Brothers, which framed the keynote, Hochreiter shed light on aspects of 1) melancholy, 2) time and narration, and 3) queer memory and transformation. Hochreiter illustrated the often cited connection between melancholy and queerness, and discussed the complex layers of memory and narration. Here memory is not simply a reflection of "facts" from the past but ripe with influencing contexts which can be written, re-written, and erased.
The first panel under the title "The Canonized Queer 1970s" featured three Berlin-based speakers: Janin Afken, Patsy l'Amour laLove, and Benedikt Wolf. Janin Afken focused on Verena Stefan's 1975 Shedding; which according to Afken is a story of transformation, in which the protagonist goes through a long process of developing an increasing awareness to the realities of (her) sexuality, eventually leading to a shift to become an emancipated "I". Afken focused on aspects of 1) sisterhood and solidarity and 2) motherliness and menstruation in Shedding. Patsy l'Amour laLove discussed Rosa von Praunheim's seminal movie Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt. Contextualizing the movie production and drawing on interviews, l'Amour laLove illustrated the huge importance the movie had on queer activism. According to l'Amour laLove, von Praunheim presented the movie as a foil of what society should not be. L'Amour laLove suggests viewing the movie as the cinematic version of a manifesto, which affected gays (as well as lesbians), even if they had not seen the movie itself. Afterwards Benedikt Wolf invited the audience to examine the "language of desire" in the work of Hubert Fichte. Wolf argued that Fichte's "vivid language" should be understood as standing besides the language of sexual oppression of the time on the one hand and the alienated language of sexology on the other hand.
In a second keynote presentation, Marc Siegel discussed how many markers of the 1970s as "legendary" leave out a variety of narratives and used film to show how one could analyze the (re)construction of the 1970s. He emphasized the strong connection between the political and artistic worlds in this decade and the importance of New Queer Cinema. Siegel stressed how important it is to look beyond the well-known narratives, for instance by taking a closer look at representations of and the role of public rest room (sex). He explained how queer politics back then could be characterized as "being out", not just meaning coming out, but also going beyond. He also emphasized the role of New Queer Cinema, a genre not only concerned with the LGBT community, but also with critical potential and one that should be applauded for its questioning and rejection of norms, generalizations, and representation.
Chris Auld opened the next panel, "Contesting the Canon", with the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the role of camp and melodrama in it, using The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant as an example. According to Auld, melodrama and camp can be used for political analysis as both help to illustrate ideological contradictions and tensions. The next talk discussed the radical-feminist journal Die Schwarze Botin. Vojin Saša Vukadinovi? presented the origins of the controversial journal and described its rise and demise. According to him, the journal represented a persistent radical stance in times of decreasing radicalism and increased "navel-gazing". He situates the journal as having been influenced by Critical Theory and as an attempt to highlight the effects of "wrong thinking" as well as ideological dead ends through (harsh) critique. Peter Rehberg followed, examining the contemporary Butt Magazine, the aesthetic roots of which he sees in the gay historiography of the 1970s. Rehberg went on to showcase the aesthetic of the 1970s and the mobile and transnational character of queer erotic imaginary. Influenced by new technologies and AIDS, new aesthetics developed, which Rehberg called Clone I and Clone II. Butt Magazine can now be seen as a Post-Clone with links to the 1970s Pre-Clone. Butt Magazine, said Rehberg, seeks to present a continuity of Gay culture after the erasures of AIDS as well as a renewal of queer imagery.
The final panel of the day, "Retrospections", featured Maria Bühner and Sebastian Zille. Bühner presented research on two books from the 1990s which dealt with the experience of lesbians in the former German Democratic Republic. She showed how both books emphasize "authenticity", offer a historical record, create meaning, and allow us to see feelings beyond factual history. She also pointed out the limitations by stressing how those books represented only a slice of the lesbian population and left out a wide range of other experiences. Additionally, Bühner explained the importance of contextualization and emphasized how in the context of the GDR the 1980s, and not the 1970s, should actually be seen as a potential Golden Age. By doing this, she radically questioned the dominant narrative of the "legendary 1970s", opening up the perspective beyond this specific time and place. The last panelist of the day, Sebastian Zille, gave a presentation on two HIV/AIDS-related German books and how they discuss the 1970s in retrospect. In his talk, which looked at different constructions of temporality and spatiality, he said that literary knowledge operates as an alternative form of knowledge; for him the 1970s were not simply a Golden Age, but it depends, the answer is not "either-or".
The next day widened the perspective beyond Germany to "European Perspectives". Alejandro Melero talked about the proliferation of German-Spanish film production at the end of the Franco regime, especially common in sexploitation movies. Melero pointed out the futility of the censorship attempts of the regime, censoring the Spanish version of the movies, just to see them get re-imported in the more permissive German version. Those movies pioneered the representation of sexual minorities, in particular of lesbians. Melero talked about the relationship between normality and the Other in those movies, with the latter, often racialized or homosexual, as a threat to heterosexual, patriarchal capitalism. Afterwards Krzysztof Zablocki gave a somewhat meandering talk about Wolfgang Jöhling, whom he called an important bridge between East German and Polish gay men. Jöhling, having grown up in East Germany, came to Poland in the 1970s, became a part of a network of gay men in arts and culture, and worked as a writer, poet, publisher, and cultural organizer. Juan A. Suárez brought the panel to a close with a presentation on three examples of the 1970s Queer Cinema: Werner Schröter, Adolpho Arrieta, and Teo Hernández. These three experimental film makers represented an important take on what queer(ness) can be in cinema. According to Suárez, their work dealt consistently with gender representations; it was ripe with "pregnant moments" full of artistic tableaus "bleeding meaning", which were political, but were in particular about instability, remoteness, and ambiguity.
The concluding event of the conference discussed if there is a shared history of lesbians and gay men in the 1970s, featuring Tomasz Basiuk, Michael Bochow, Antke Engel, Laura Guy, Agnieszka Koscianska, and Alberto Berzosa. The general tone was that it would be too easy to assume shared history and allege the 1970s were a Golden Age. It was generally agreed upon that much more work is still needed, that researchers should attempt to unearth more different voices as well as do the work of proper contextualization.
In general the conference was successful in shedding a light on a rich cultural archive. At the same time it became clear that our knowledge and our narration of the 1970s as a potential Golden Age of Queer Sexuality is limited, a simplistic view on this decade would not do its complexity justice. The conference pointed out how cultural artifacts can function as archives, how important proper contextualization is, but also how there is still the need to (re)discover new voices from the past. Especially the contributions from/on East Germany and Poland made clear that in different contexts, other eras, not the 1970s, could be considered their Golden Age.


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Do you live in secret, too embarrassed to tell the world you put kimchi on everything? Don't be ashamed. We do it too, and it's glorious! We love kimchi on hot dogs, toast, eggs, you name it. This dish sounds a bit odd at first, but believe us when we say it just works. If kimchi is just a little too odd for you pallet, you can always try Epicante salsa instead!
Another nice thing about this dish is it is versatile. If you are anti-tortilla, you can easily make this into lettuce wraps or serve it over rice.
1 pound ground round (ground chicken/turkey also works or if you are feeling extra spicy, chorizo!)
4 Stacey's torillas
2 cups kimchi (or if you don't like kimchi you can use salsa, but it takes out some of the fusion part)
1 small bok choy, chopped
1 green onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon brown sugar or honey (optional)
2 tablespoons olive, coconut oil or vegetable oil
1 tablespoon sriracha or (if you have it) 1 tablespoon Korean gochujang
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup chopped cilantro, optional
1 cup chopped lettuce, optional
Sliced radishes, optional
1 avocado sliced or made into guacamole
Step 1: Cook the beef
Add 1 tablespoon of oil to a pan over medium-high heat. Add ground meat and sauté until almost brown. Add 1/2 of the green onions and 1 clove of garlic to a pan. Continue cooking.
Now add soy sauce, sugar/honey and sriracha or gochujang. Mix into meat and cook an additional 3 minutes. Turn off heat and set aside.
Step 2: Prep the veggies and kimchi
In a separate pan, add a tablespoon of oil on medium-high heat. Now add second clove of garlic, the remaining green onions and bok choy. Sprinkle with a touch of salt and pepper. Sauté until bok choy has wilted. In the last minute of cooking, add kimchi. Stir into the bok choy and remove from the heat. You don't want to cook the kimchi for too long so you preserve the healthy probiotics!
Step 3: Assemble the tacos
Get out your tortillas (we recommend warming them in the oven for 1 minute at 350 F). Add meat to tortillas and scoop a hefty amount of the kimchi and bok choy mixture on top. Note: You can omit the tortilla and make these into lettuce wraps or serve over rice!
Step 4: Garish and serve
We recommend avocado/guacamole, chopped lettuce and cilantro. Additional garnishes that also work are: A bit more green onion, sliced radish, hot sauce, or even a touch of salsa. Want to take it up another level? Put a fried egg on top. What?! Crazy!
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Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Maria Butina, the only Russian arrested and convicted in the three-year investigation of Moscow's interference in US politics, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday, April 26.
The leader of a small Russian gun rights group, Butina used her ties to the NRA firearms lobby to build a network of powerful Republican contacts.
"I humbly request forgiveness. I'm not this evil person depicted in the media," she told the court in Washington before she was sent down.
Butina was given the full term requested by prosecutors, however, after previously admitting one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without registering.
The 30-year-old faces another 9 months in custody, having already served half her term.
Prosecutors said that although she worked openly and was not tied to any Russian intelligence agency, she was nevertheless a threat to the United States.
"I wanted a future here in international policy," she said, voice breaking. She added that she only wanted to work towards better US-Russian relations.
"If I had known to register as a foreign agent I would have done so," she told the court. – Rappler.com


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Best Laid Plans of Mice and Chisel
Today at YAPC I got unexpectedly moved to the main room; somehow this messed up all the mental preparations I'd made for the day:
- sitting through at least one talk in the room
- checking the layout, setup, etc
- working out where I'd stand relative to the screen
- (yada, yada)
I was lazy in the wrong ways and hadn't figured on a move to a stage with a podium and a mic and a huge projection behind me.
Worse, and the thing I'm kicking myself most about is:
- I didn't plug my (current) laptop into ANY projectors at all before my talk
- I'd assumed I could remember (in a moment of panic) that I could find certain settings
Bad Move.
Silly move!
In my vague defense:
- the previous talk overran
- I didn't have the five minute grace period to find the setting(s) I wanted
- people were drilling into my head with their evil laser-beam eyes!
I did muddle my way through but I'm thoroughly upset and unimpressed with my presentation skills today. It's only my second YAPC talk but I really should have known better.
Next time I'll get it right - I promise!


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Last weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Onward in the cinema. I'll admit that when i saw the trailer last year, I wasn't overly interested. Pixars first film since 2017 that hasn't been a sequel/spin off, there was quite a high expectation. This seemed like just another quest story life much like Finding Nemo, Inside Out and Toy Story. It is an easy formula to follow and thus has been overused. I also wasn't too impressed with the idea of a dungeons and dragons styled world. While I am a D&D player, it looked out of place. We've done the whole 'Monster' thing (twice) and fantasy isn't too dissimilar.
However, I was pleasantly surprised. How dare I thing Pixar wouldn't deliver?
Arrived in cinema, hot dog and milkshake in hand, the projection starts and rather unexpectedly, there is a Simpsons short in place of Pixars tradition animated cartoon. I was a cute sketch revolving around Maggie and another baby who meet at the park. Honestly, it was a 5 minutes cringe fest and did feel rather out of place. I was a huge fan of The Simpsons growing up but I feel they have had their heyday and relaying on a second Simpson movie to keep them relevant.
Onward begins with some exposition of how magic was once widely used to get by but with the invention of electricity, beings became more reliant on convenience and magic was forgotten as generations past. Fast forward to present day which mirrors our present day. We are introduced to our protagonist, Ian and his Mum and brother, Barley. It is established early on that Ian's father passed away before he was born and while a lot of heros in Disney movies have dead parents, there is something real about this portrayal. Perhaps its the relatable environment. Perhaps I'm just older and this sort of thing has more of an impact on me now. Either way, it felt genuine and I instantly related to Ian.
It is Ian's 16th birthday and Momma elf has a gift that was left by the boys father: a magic wizards staff. Oh and a spell that will bring back Dad for 24 hours and 24 hours only. Barley tried several times to cast the spell but fails. It is only later on when Ian is alone that the staff shows any signs of life. As the staff reacts to the spell, Ian's dad begins to appear, starting from shoes, then socks and trousers. Suddenly the gem shatters, leaving only half of Dad, the bottom half. That's right, like Wallace and Gromets "The wrong trouser", Ian's dad is a walking, dancing pair of legs.
The rest of the movie is Barley, Ian and Daddy legs on a quest to find another Phoenix gem in the hope to bring the rest of Dad back before the sun sets.
Along the way they: Inadvertently burn down a tavern,
Reignite The Manticore's passion for adventure,
Worry Momma elf who sets out to find the boys,
Anger some flightless Sprites,
Somehow the Sprites learn to fly again,
Impersonate a police officer,
Run away from the cops,
Destroy a van,
Have a dance with Daddy Legs.
Ian masters magic,
Protagonist fight before the climax and they make up.
The ending is an emotional journey. When Barley picks up the Phoenix stone, he activates a cure dragon. Constructed out of rubble from the school and near by surroundings, the dragon is after one thing, to get it's gem back. Momma elf gets to have big moment where she puts her workout dvd's to the test and takes on the dragon. I have never rooted for a cartoon parent so much. This mum is bad ass. The Manticore also had a shot at destroying the dragon but doesn't quite make it. During a previous heart to heart, Barley mentions how he never got to stay goodbye to his dying dad, having been frightened by all the tubes and wires keeping him alive. Ian, realising that Barley has been the father figure in his life, chooses to let Barley have the scares few minutes with dad. The gem does its thing and Ian uses his magic to help destroy the dragon. Its a pretty spectacular scene, I have to admit. In the crater of rubble, Ian manages to find a small gap to watch Dad fully appear and Barley gets to say goodbye. After the sunsets, Barley helps Ian and they share a touching moment before the movie fast forwards and we see that Ian has become a much more confident person.
It is the ending of this movie that makes it stand out. The moment Ian realises that it is Barley who has been there for him, stepping up as the male role model in his life. While Ian didn't get to meet his dad, he didn't go without and ever big milestone in his life, was achieved with Barley by his side. Barley however, is on his own journey. Unlike Ian, he has memories of his dad. But it was a story left incomplete. Earning him the right to say his good bye and that valuable time with the person he once knew.
This movie has so much to it. So many messages behind it. It tells kids that there can be other role models in their life and 'typical dad/mum/parent' things can be achieve with anyone. The most unlikeliest person may have stepped into those shoes without you realising it. It also goes very detailed into death and illness. Though never actually confirmed, it is implied that Ian's dad died from a long term illness such as cancer. This isn't something that has been touched upon before yet is a very real thing that affect so many people. Barley's description of seeing his dad covered in tubes and wires is what a lot of children have experienced and showing that in a movie makes it more normal. Life isn't all rainbows and sunshine.
One final point. This movie revolves around two brothers. Frozen and Frozen 2 looked into the bond between sisters and how true love doesn't have to mean a romantic interest. While movies and media is slowly becoming more gender neutral, Frozen still has a larger female fan base. Onward offers something for both boys and girls but focuses on brotherly love. I am a fan of both films but it fascinates me to see how different the dynamics are between siblings of the same sex. The sisters in frozen will hug, hold hands and typical 'girly' traits. The brother in Onward have a more subtle bond. The bug each other, drive each other crazy yet are still there for one enough. It is important to show these different kinds of sibling bonds.
All in all, I really liked this movie. The trailer didn't give too much away and it was a bright and heartfelt story. As Pixars first original movie since 2017, it was impressive. Now to see how Soul will compare…
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Explosive Metal Working for Spaceby A. E. Doherty, Explosive Fabricators Inc, United States,
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As the United States looks towards larger and larger lift vehicles for the transportation of the space station and other large payloads, the application of explosive metalworking becomes a more attractive technology for the production of the components that make up the launch vehicles and space station. This man-rated manufacturing method, which had its start in the 1800's, is providing engineers with a technique to increase strength, reduce weight, and use material combinations for improved performance that are not possible with other manufacturing methods.
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Designer menswear store offers bros beers while they shop
Riding the waves of its cult-like following, Bonobos has placed its newest shop in Dallas. Don't drive too fast on Henderson Avenue or you will miss it. The new store, like the brand itself, doesn't beg for attention. It has a cool, laid-back confidence akin to the men who wear its clothes. And starting Friday, Dallas men can get in on the action.
Located at 1901 N. Henderson Avenue, the guideshop marks Bonobos' second Texas address; the first is in Austin. To give the Dallas location an artsy, personalized touch, Bonobos commissioned New York-based artist Kiji McCafferty (aka Mr. Kiji) to paint a mural that adds a geometric, funky floral pop to the side of the building. The owners plan to update the space annually with work from local and national artists.
"Dallas is a city where men take their style quietly but seriously," says CEO and founder Andy Dunn. "It is also a city where the Bonobos focus on fit is particularly resonating as we move from a looser/relaxed to a trimmer/slimmer fitting era in menswear."
The company, made famous for chinos, started out in 2007 as an internet-only concept. In 2012, Dunn signed on with Nordstrom to open Bonobos brand shops; they're also sold at some Belk's, including the one in Dallas.
But the shop on Henderson has a special feature: Shoppers can kick back and enjoy a beer while their guide does all of the work.
The concept of Bonobos differs from traditional retail stores, in that customers don't actually walk away with any clothes. Instead, Bonobos carries only one size and color of every item. The full line includes chinos, suits, dress shirts, beachwear, jeans and belts.
Customers make an appointment to get measured and determine what style they like, from options such as slim and boot cut. The store never books more than six customers at one time. They can try on clothes in their size, then place their order. The clothes are delivered in a day or two.
Dunn, who started the company because he was sick of ill fitting pants, says he hopes he's found the right fit in Dallas as well. The store features a number of neat touches including a pebble-strewn enclosed patio in back and an amusing motel-style sign in front.
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Home renovations are becoming expensive, which is why many homeowners try to give it a shot themselves. While some repairs can be quite easy to do like swapping wood knobs with stainless ones, some require the service of a professional. Trying to do them yourself can put your home and life in danger. Even if you are a DIY enthusiast, some renovations are best left in the hands of professionals. Here are some home renovations that you should probably not attempt yourself:
Electrical repairs
Apart from replacing bulbs or changing a socket cover, anything more complicated is too dangerous and requires the services of a professional electrician. Electrical repairs like the wiring of a room is a no-go area because if you do not do it correctly, you can cause an electrical fire or even suffer an electrical shock. Hiring a professional electrician can be quite expensive, but when you consider what is at stake, it is the better option.
Most plumbing repairs
Although many YouTube videos show you how to carry out necessary plumbing repairs at home, it is important to note that when done wrong, it is hazardous and will incur higher expenses to fix. As a homeowner, if you don't have the essential tools, you are likely to put the wrong pipe in the wrong place. Plumbing requires the services of professional but if you want to try DIY videos, be sure it is something elementary and do not hesitate to call a professional plumber at the first sign of issues.
Roof repair
"How hard can roof repair be?" is the first question many homeowners may ask when contemplating repairing a roof shingle themselves or calling for the services of a professional. As easy as it may seem, roof repair is unsafe and can result in injury or death when you fall off the roof in the process of any restoration. Apart from the dangers involved, you can end up with a leaky roof that is expensive to fix. Your roof is off-limits, except if you are clearing off debris with a broom.
Gas appliance repairs
A regular home may have different kinds of appliances that run on gas. Your oven, clothes dryer, and water heater are just a few. When these appliances become faulty, it is advisable you call for the services of an expert rather than opening it up and trying to fix it yourself. It is simply too dangerous and could lead to gas poisoning or serious gas explosions.
DIYs frequently lead to more damages and more expensive repairs by a professional. Do the right thing and call an expert whenever you notice anything wrong in your home.
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Work 'em ''til they drop.
Everyone has a theory about how to take care of rechargeable batteries ranging from neglect to pampering. The reality is they will tolerate all kinds of work situations and last about a year to a year-and-a-half. If you care about extending their performance, thereby saving a few dollars, there are a few preventive measures you can take -- or leave, depending on your work load and how much effort you want to put into battery preservation.
Hard work never hurt anyone, or any battery
Don't worry about the problem of "memory". In normal daily use, batteries are nearly completely discharged by the end of the day and recharged overnight. Memory is prevented by significant discharge and full recharge on a regular basis. If this is not your normal cycle, then you should schedule a full discharge once a week.
Once a week, leave the radios on until the batteries are discharged. The radio should shut off, lose its display or give you a low battery warning. The battery should then be recharged immediately. Don't allow the battery to continue discharging and don't let them remain discharged for more than two days. This beneficial discharge will cause the memory effect to disappear.
Most radios are designed to turn off when the battery voltage reaches one volt per cell. Deliberately over-discharging below one volt per cell is fatal.
Other causes of premature death are:
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To avoid abuses which are guaranteed to shorten the useful life of a NiCd take the following steps:
"Memory" is a condition where the capacity (milliampere hours) is lower than it should be. It is caused by the changes in the negative, or cadmium plate, due to the formation of cadmium crystals. You can prevent the formation of these crystals by:
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Don't return fully charged batteries to the charger for an extra boost. This significantly shortens the life cycle.
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Edtech is constantly evolving and there is perhaps no doubt in this fact. But, what do you think do teachers' needs and choices remain the same and that, they would easily pick up anything new that comes their way?
Well that isn't the case because; there are a lot of considerations that actually influence the decisions of teachers regarding the selection of any tool. It is the teachers who know best about what they are really looking for and what even the other educators too want from the digital instructional technology.
In a report, we find, teachers have complained that some current technologies are not rigorous enough to be useful or feel they need a broader range of options for personalization as well as more opportunities for students to assess their own progress independently as they work. "I am not a fan of tools that make kids practice mindless exercises or… watch boring lectures. Teaching with standards is not equivalent to covering a checklist of topics, (it) is an art form that takes thought for how to challenge students to synthesize and apply the content that they have learned. This is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through the current state of technological options" said a teacher as mentioned in the report.
Further, surveys reflect that around 65% of student licenses for digital learning products are not used fully and therefore go unused. It's just 5% of educational technology products that meets the goals set by product companies and schools.
The reason why, edtech product developers do not get proper feedback from schools on their product is because most of the technology purchases go untapped. On the flipside, when edtech products go unused, it is a waste of the schools' budget. Students too stand as losers for they miss out on serious tech enhanced learning experiences.
Therefore, as an edtech product developer, it's important for you to first step into the shoes of teachers and evaluate if the product qualifies the common questions which influences the decision of teachers. Check three key questions that teachers have in their mind before making a final call regarding technology deployment.
Point #1:Teachers Think - Is this Edtech product useful to me and my students?
Designing something that's cool and which the younger generation would love to use in school is undoubtedly a tempting factor that you as a product developer will surely consider. But, step into the shoes of the teacher and start evaluating if the product is helpful, cool and worth. If teachers find the product falling flat in terms of usability, it isn't going to make an impact in the classroom as well.
As an edtech product developer, take a user-centred design strategy and start by examining the needs, wants and limitations of teachers and students. You cannot just develop a product from a distance, instead you need to talk to them in person and observe classes- and that's actually how you can witness challenges first hand, ask questions and discover whether the solution will find friends. At the time of pilot test, teachers will make it clear whether they find the solution really cool to consider and this will eventually help the product become a success in the future.
Point #2: Teachers Find Out: Has this edtech product worked in other schools?
Although there is a storm in the edtech market, with so many products evolving in the market yet you will find, there are just a few of them that manages to gain the entire spotlight. The reason for such is because, not every edtech product is piloted before being rolled out to the mass market.
As far as right guidance in conducting pilot tests for edtech products are concerned, partnering with an accelerator can turn out really useful for edtech companies. Accelerators not only offer guidance in most cases but also investments options too. Essentially they serve as test beds for promising edtech products. The other option for start-ups is to partner with an interested school district as teachers want to see how the solution works.
Report also suggests, 59% of teachers said they rely on recommendation from administrators. While 53% of them said they look up for product reviews and user satisfaction online. And going a little beyond, 47% of teachers said they rely on recommendations from other teachers.
Therefore, before rolling out products, it is important that edtech start-ups go for pilot tests and understand if their product qualifies user satisfaction and create value for their product.
Point #3: Teachers Check- Is this product easy to implement?
Teachers also check if a particular product is easy to implement and does it fit in the curriculum or standards. If they find the tool to be highly organized and can easily fit in the curriculum they are much likely to incorporate it into their pedagogy.
Going a little beyond the conventional thoughts surrounding edtech products, teachers must also consider on how products will work within schools. It is an important point of consideration as not all tools plug into the same interfaces and classrooms are also in its evolving stage and are therefore not built keeping all the modern technology in mind. It is also possible for schools to adopt but that will impact as if they have financial and technical limitations, it can make any change a struggle.
For a school to implement edtech product means they actually take into consideration a full picture ranging from- how the product actually helps the school save money, does the product company help the school with training needs for better usability and does the products usability come with small subscription packages or with overpriced packages.
Are you now wondering if your product can really stand up to the teachers' expectations? If this is the case, we would like you to introspect and analyse the nuts and bolts of your edtech product and try out pilot test to understand the value of the product. And if you really have a cutting edge product that is also a favorite of the teachers - share about the product in the comment box below.
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Type 1 diabetes affects millions of people worldwide, and has seen a profound increase in the past several decades. Understanding how insulin-producing β cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body's immune system is essential for identifying a cure. Our latest book, Type 1 Diabetes, offers a current review of the disease, focusing on key causative and therapeutic areas that drive research in the field.
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No rhyme or reason as to where people were standing waiting for their gates. Everyone was in line at each gate but no gates were announced so where do you stand? Once that disaster was solved, we got on the plane about an hour late. Then we had to wait like an hour because one guy couldn't board because he left his passport in his checked bag, so they went digging through the bags on the plane to find his bag so he could get his Passport and board. That took about an hour. We were all so happy to see him when he got onboard! As he was getting settled a guy walks up to the stewardess and tell her that he left his Lithium battery in his bag that he checked. Well, he pilot isn't going to take off knowing that is the case, because, god forbid something happens, he would get blamed for not doing anything about that. So, the plane was delayed another half hour while they just got his bag and brought it on board. They weren't about to look through it at that point. Finally, we left and had a lovely flight from there to Paris. We got off the plane and went to our hotel that is in the airport. It's a nice hotel! It's always nice to end your trip in a kinda fancy hotel! We have club access and a gorgeous room and we don't have to go to the airport tomorrow because we are already here! It always makes me reflect on how lucky we are to be able to experience the world like Emily
And I do. Everybody needs a little adventure in their life. Seeing other cultures makes us better citizens of the world. Seeing how similar we all are and how we all want for the same things is a reminder that there is a bigger picture than the laser focus we have right now in America. That's really refreshing because it feels smothering at times. No matter what you believe or who you support, the constant drone of arguing and fighting isn't good for anyone. It really is all about living a good life. Being with the people you love, eating well, drinking great wine, eating great cheese and being happy. The other stuff just makes us lose focus on those things. In Europe, they work less hours than us, although that's starting to change, they seem to always have the things they need and the ability to eat good meals and enjoy their families. We hyper-focus on ourselves and can't see the bigger picture. We only have one life! Enjoy it! Even if you love your job, like we do, working all the time isn't the way anyone would choose to live their life. Travel!! Emily and I started our little tour company as a way to show people how easy it is to have the trip of a lifetime. We offer trips that are customizable for way cheaper than you'd ever imagine. And they don't feel like it! We stay in nice apartments, in great areas and in great cities! As you've seen, we eat WELL! We have wine with every meal, good wine! We see all the amazing sights and so many that you've never imagined. We have friends everywhere we go that we have built relationships over the years. They help make the experiences we can offer extra special and still keep the prices reasonable. Don't wait until it's too late to truly enjoy our trips. They definitely make you exert yourself. We do a ton of walking, you have to in Europe, especially with all the food we eat. We use public transportation as often as possible, but even so, it's a ton of walking, 8-10 miles a day most days. But you will go to bed happy and wake up excited to see what's next! Unlike most tours, we don't RUN RUN RUN! We wake up later, most days, we rest in the afternoons and we try and adjust to the needs of who we are with as best as possible. But we also feel that it's important that we give you the best tour possible as well! I hope that any of you who are curious about traveling abroad or travel vicariously through us will think about coming with us some day! I promise, it'll change your life! As our trip comes to an end, I want to thank you all again for caring enough to pay attention to my little blog! It really has been an amazing journey. I tried to post a video of a best of slideshow but there's so much it wouldn't let me! LOL It was 5 weeks ago today we landed in Paris and took the train to Lyon to start it all. It didn't go amazingly smooth, but that's travel. It's not how you start, or how you finish, but all the memories you create in between and this has been as good as it gets! From Lyon to Beaune to Paris to Avignon back to Paris to Rome to Catania to Syracuse to Agrigento back to Catania and back to Paris what a journey! Come on in to the store so we can talk all about it! I always say, a trip never really ends as long as you keep talking about it. That's really the main reason I write this blog, so all of you can talk to me about the journey but more importantly, so we can relive it any time we want! I have years of blogs on here now that I can easily access and live those days over and over again. On those long cold snowy days in the winter it sure is nice to be able to do that! Thanks for taking the trip with us, all who were actually here and all who were here in spirit and through this blog. It means the world to us. Our customers, families and friends mean so much to us and that is truly what inspires us! Thanks again and we love you all just so very much!!!
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Awards are always an encouraging fact. When I re-entered in to this blogging world three months back, I watched many of the blessed authors honored with different kinds of awards. With great respect and love, I followed and read their blogs.
And now I feel so happy when myself got nominated by David for "The Epic Awesomeness Award"
I am very conscious about wellness and fitness. And David is really helping me a lot through his awesome blogs. I recommend you to visit his blog and follow him.
This is an award created by Paul who blogs at wwwpaulfitness.com. He is a personal trainer as well as an awesome blogger. I recommend you to visit his blog and follow him, if you are not already..
The Award Rules :
- I know you are Awesome, tell us why.
- You are my friends and tell us about others.
- Be creative. It's alright if you can't be.
- I give no questions to be fully answered but let yourself go here. Thank you.
I am awesome..? 🙂 .. I believe it's not a joke..Anyway good to hear.. So So happy and blessed to hear … And I would be more awesome now as you call me so..;)
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CM Punk Does Lengthy Q&A: Discusses His Least Favorite Opponent, Who He Wants To Get Into A WWE Ring, His Tattoos, More
CM Punk recently did a lengthy Q&A session with Beneath The Mat, in which he discusses a myriad of topics, including his toughest opponent, his tattoos, who he'd like to bring in from the indy scene, the origin of his name, his detractors, and much more. In an interesting note, when asked who his least favorite wrestler to work with in WWE was, Punk said Elijah Burke (The Pope in Impact Wrestling), calling him a diva. The two part session is embedded below:


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Vettd, innovators in data science and machine intelligence solutions for Human Resource Management, today announced a partnership with iCIMS, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based talent acquisition solutions.
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Vettd, innovators in data science and machine intelligence solutions for Human Resource Management, today announced a partnership with iCIMS, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based talent acquisition solutions.
Vettd uses the latest developments in data science to evaluate and prioritize candidates. Vettd now offers an integration into the iCIMS Talent Platform, a suite of talent acquisition tools that enables organizations to source, screen and employ the best talent for their ever-changing business needs. The partnership will offer recruiters a seamless transfer of priority candidates into the iCIMS Talent Platform, where recruiters can manage the hiring process from start to finish, all within a single, cloud-based application.
"Vettd's intelligent data science platform provides recruiters with the opportunity to become objective "Talent Analysts" and usher in a new era of candidate evaluation which compliments their current processes," said Andrew Buhrmann, founder and chief product officer of Vettd. "Our service offers an unbiased evaluation of natural language, which is critical for organizations to navigate the constantly shifting talent landscape and discover talent that may have been completely overlooked."
"The partnership between iCIMS and Vettd, provides organizations that value talent acquisition even more power to drive business success," said Michael Wilczak, senior vice president, strategy and corporate development of iCIMS. "We're thrilled to add Vettd to our growing partner ecosystem and to continue to lead the charge in empowering organizations to conquer their recruitment challenges."
Vettd will also benefit from UNIFi, iCIMS' Platform-as-a-Service framework that enables partners to integrate their software applications with the iCIMS Talent Acquisition Suite and market their products to iCIMS' customers through the iCIMS Marketplace. The iCIMS Marketplace, an online community featuring the largest partner ecosystem in the talent acquisition industry, enables companies to shop for and engage with supporting technology providers that are the best fit for their talent acquisition and management needs – all in one logical, easy-to-use interface. Additionally, through UNIFi, partners can build long-term, lasting relationships through standard and streaming APIs that offer flexible data sharing, adding value to their customer experience.
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Founded in 2014, Vettd has continued to push the field of data science forward with its groundbreaking Intelligent Data ScienceTM platform for measuring semantic relatedness. Vettd combines state of the art information extraction techniques with deep semantic analysis to prioritize relationships between individuals and requirements. Vettd has a team of scientists across the country dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that transform how companies manage talent. For more information on Vettd, see www.vettd.com.
About iCIMS, Inc.:
iCIMS is the leading provider of talent acquisition solutions that help businesses win the war for top talent. iCIMS empowers companies to manage their entire hiring process within the industry's most robust Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Built on the foundation of a best-to-market talent acquisition software suite, iCIMS' PaaS framework, UNIFi, allows employers to expand the capabilities of their core talent acquisition technology by integrating with the largest partner ecosystem in talent acquisition to help them attract, find, screen, and manage candidates. Offering scalable, easy-to-use solutions that are backed by award-winning customer service, iCIMS supports more than 3,500 contracted customers and is one of the largest and fastest-growing talent acquisition solution providers.
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A very good friend who is married to another very good friend posted yesterday that Kamala Harris's swearing in as Vice-President moved him to tears, and the Facebook post instantly harvested about a hundred "likes" and "loves." As God is my witness, as Scarlett used to say, I had to fight to restrain my self from writing on his page (since there is no "What the FUCK is the matter with you?" icon to click on), "Why, because she's a woman with no qualifications to be President or Vice-President? Because she's the first Indian-Jamaican VP, and you've always wanted one of those? Because she's just the right skin-shade to pretend to be an African-American, when she's not? Does it choke you up because she slept her way to political power, then locked up a lot of black men for drug crimes, then accused the U.S. of being racist because of "over-incarceration"? Or does any Democrat, even phonies and rank incompetents, getting power make you feel all misty inside and out? Really, I'm curious."
Well, he's a nice, good-hearted guy who has the political sophistication of a cheese, so I just shut up. However, his reaction is just incomprehensible to me.
1. Oh, look, now there's black Batwoman. Yay. Isn't this a little cliched and formulaic by now? Will every fictional character eventually have to be made black or have his or her race switched, and every male character get virtual transexual transitioning, to satisfy the Woke and Wonderful? Mikey (who liked Life cereal), is now a girl. Jake from State Farm is now black. Perry Mason's Paul Drake in the new reboot is black. Inspection Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes' ally, is black on the Netflix Holmes spin-off. (Watson became female in the TV show "Elementary." And Asian!) A really bad movie made Ralph Kramden from "The Honeymooners" black; Norton too. On Broadway, when there was a Broadway, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were black, and they aren't even fictional. Of course.The whole Ghostbusters team was turned female for the reboot (but still had only one black member). There is much, much more. Isn't this lazy? Isn't this boring? Don't women, blacks and other minorities want to have their own popular and iconic characters rather than just taking over white or male ones? Why isn't such fake "diversity" an insult? Aren't hand-me-down characters like hand-me-down clothes?
2.Nah, there's no educational indoctrination! On December 22, 2020 a single-mother and her son, a high school student at a public charter school, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the US District Court of Nevada. The student and his mother argue that he was coerced, under a "Critical Race Theory / Intersectionality"-based curriculum, to make statements contrary to his personal conscience and beliefs, and he was retaliated against when he objected. The complaint states that this "coercive and intrusive behavior compelled [the plaintiff's] protected speech and invaded his privacy, violating his constitutional rights under the First Amendment and his due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment." Here is how the complaint starts…
and here is a link to the whole thing.
3. Gee, I wonder why that would be? Axios has a story about how public trust in the news media is at an all time low. For the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in legacy media, according to data from Edelman's annual trust barometer.
Trust in social media has also hit an all-time low of 27%. Some details:
- 56% of Americans agree with the statement that "Journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations."
- 58% think that "most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public."
- When Edelman re-polled Americans after the election, the figures had deteriorated even further, with 57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans.
The really alarming part is that a majority of Democrats DO trust the media, despite the massive evidence that they should not. And the 18% of Republicans who trust the media must be genuine mouth-breathers.
This vanishing trust is a big problem, the Captain Obviouses at Axios observe. "Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together," they tut-tut. It's not that the public lacks trust, it is that the institutions, like the press, have squandered that trust be behaving in a grossly untrustworthy fashion.
The reactions of the journalists commenting on this completely earned ignominy are not encouraging. Heidi Larson shrugged, "We don't have a misinformation problem, we have a trust problem." No, you have a misinformation problem, and until journalists admit that and pledge to do better, public trust will and should continue to decline. Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan writes that "our goal should go beyond merely putting truthful information in front of the public. We should also do our best to make sure it's widely accepted." BOY, she's a hack! How about starting with putting "truthful information"—by my definition, meaning without your partisan spin—in front of the public? To me, "We should also do our best to make sure it's widely accepted' sound suspiciously like "we have to make our propaganda more believable."
4. And now for something completely different…but funny! Bank robber Damon Williams' note to the teller read, "Please, all the money, 100, 50, 20, 10. Thank you." What a polite young man! But in his closing argument to the jury, the prosecutor's Powerpoint presentation used this slide,
captioned "ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS,"while telling the jury,
"If you've never seen the movie, "The Shining," this is creepy but not scary, right? You've never seen it. All right. This guy looks creepy, and he's saying some very unthreatening words, 'Here's Johnny.' But if you have ever seen the movie "The Shining," you know how his face gets through that door. So, again, I just point that out to illustrate. It's not just the words; it's what you do before and what you do after the words that matters. And that's what makes this a robbery."
The defense lawyer objected but to no avail. The New Jersey Supreme Court declared a new trial was necessary, because the PowerPoint slide and the prosecutor's comments amounted to prejudicial error.
"Prosecutors must walk a fine line when making comparisons, whether implicit or explicit, between a defendant and an individual whom the jury associates with violence or guilt," the state Supreme Court said. "The use of a sensational and provocative image in service of such a comparison, even when purportedly metaphorical, heightens the risk of an improper prejudicial effect on the jury. Such a risk was borne out here."
Well, of course. The prosecutor's ethics alarms fizzled: how hard is it to figure out that comparing a defendant to a horror movie maniac is not fair or ethical?


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Are you having nightmares of cockroaches flying around your face at night? Do you get to work late due to sleep-deprivation caused by the mischievous bed bugs? Well, you might just have to know that you are absolutely at the right spot. Welcome to Classia Pest Control, your rescuer from the evil pests that have been residing in your house like it's theirs.
Having pests in your house can be so nerve-wracking that you might even just want to move out. But not anymore though! As our best-controlling team in Gulshan investigates your house and gives a quick analysis of where the pests are residing in your house.
Our workers are well trained and work just like a CID officer would investigate for clues. We don't look for pests, we hunt them. No one is better trained than Classia to ensure that you are safe from the dangers of the despicable little creatures. Our extermination methods are very eco-friendly. The fumigations we use aren't harmful at all. So not only we relieve from pests and insects but also ensure that you and your family members have a much safer environment to breathe in.
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Mouse Control
Mice might seem cute in animated films but not really in real life. Your children might actually be scared to find that out. Mice bits off almost every little thing in your house. From papers, plastics, fabrics, woods to even food and Electrical machines and wires. They spread diseases wherever they nibble. Sometimes they might even bite you which can lead to serious injuries and even death!
Do mice run here and there in your house? Give a quick call at Classia Pest Control. Our faithful team of pest control guarantees you the best service at the most affordable prices. Our pesticides and fumigations aren't harmful at all. Unlike other pest-controlling methods, we have a much safer process and ensure that you can still breathe into the fresh air in your house.
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If you have been struggling with keeping up with flies then it is time you consider giving a call to Classia Pest Control. We are the best pest controlling service in Gulshan 1 & Gulshan 2 and other places in Dhaka. Our extermination methods are harmless and give you a much safer environment to breathe. We don't use toxic chemicals and ensure that you are safe from the hands of these awful creatures.
Bugs Control
Bugs and leeches are the second most annoying thing after cockroaches. Not only annoying bugs like bed bugs can even kill if not controlled! Many people suffer from sleep deprivation due to bed bugs. Not only that, bed bugs bit into your skin suck out blood, which can inject parasites into your body. These can often lead to skin allergies, skin cancer or even death. Bed bugs in your mattress? Give a quick call to Classia Pest control, the most reliable team of pest control in Gulshan 1 & Gulshan 2. Our well-trained team investigates your house just like a police offer looks out for pieces of evidence. We don't look out for bed bugs, we hunt them. Say goodbye to bed bugs when you are with Classia Pest Control.
Mosquitoes Control
Mosquitoes are one of the tiniest yet the most harmful insects. They suck out blood from your skin and inject parasites which lead to diseases like Malaria and dengue. Your children could be in danger if you don't do something about the mosquitoes that fly around your house.
If you have been worried about having mosquitoes in your house then it is time you consider giving a call at Classia Pest control. We are one of the most faithful and reliable pests controlling the team in Gulshan. Our eco-friendly methods of extermination don't harm your environment and keep you out of dangerous mosquitoes.
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Cockroaches define nightmares. Even adults get shivers looking at cockroaches. It crawls around your house and spreads germs in your dishes, cupboards, and your cabinets. It bites off paper, fabrics and even nibbles in your food. Cockroaches are extremely dangerous yet nasty. If you have been suffering from these roaches then give Classia Pest control a quick call. We are the best pest controlling team in Gulshan. We have a team of faithful and sincere workers who are specially trained to exterminate the pests in your house and provide you comfort. Our services are affordable yet our extermination methods are harmless. Therefore, we do not only ensure you're your house is pest-free but also provide you a safer environment to breathe.


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August is here and with it comes an array of fantastic events! From the much-loved foodie festivals Haarlem Culinair and ProefPark Haarlem to Haarlem Jazz & More, there is something for everyone! Make sure to check out our open-air Haarlem Summer Comedy, Monthly Drink and Dutch Language Café for the perfect opportunity to have a good laugh and meet more internationals.
Thursday, August 1st- August 4th: Haarlem Culinair
This year marks the Silver anniversary of Haarlem Culinair. Drop by and experience The Grote Markt as it is transformed into an unprecedented culinary spectacle, with special performances of international allure and gastronomy to suit all tastes.
Wednesday, August 14th- August 18th: Haarlem Jazz Festival
Haarlem Jazz & More is a unique event in the old town of Haarlem. The various stages are free and freely accessible. In addition to the main stage on the Grote Markt, there are outdoor stages on the Oude Groenmarkt and Klokhuisplein this year. There are also special concerts in the Pletterij and in the Grote or St. Bavokerk.
Saturday, August 17th- August 24th: Haarlemse Muggenronde
This year marks the 62nd Haarlem Muggen Round. The cycling spectacle for the youth of Haarlem and surrounding areas is free to enter.
Wednesday, August 21st at 7.30 PM: expatsHaarlem Dutch Language Café
Come and practice speaking Dutch in a relaxed environment. Free entrance. Sign up here.
Friday, August 23rd, 8-9:30 PM: Haarlem Summer Comedy
The Haarlem Comedy Factory & City Beach Bar Oerkap present the Haarlem Summer Comedy! Join our open-air comedy with excellent international comedians and a fantastic view of the river Spaarne and the city of Haarlem.
>> Get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/HaarlemSummerComedy
Friday, August 23rd- August 25th: ProefPark Haarlem Foodtruck festival
The 2019 summer edition of ProefPark Haarlem will be held in Kenaupark.
Make the most of the last days of summer with family, friends, and neighbours in the most beautiful park in the heart of Haarlem. You can expect music, dancing and of course awesome street food sold from a variety of repurposed food trucks. With a food line-up of 33 mobile kitchens, from Korean sushi to vegan burgers there is something for everyone!
Friday, August 30th, 8.00 pm: expatsHaarlem Monthly Drink
Every last Friday of the month it's time for the expatsHaarlem Monthly Drink! Don't miss it in August!
>> Sign up here
Friday, August 30th- August 31st: Haarlem TAPT Festival
The concept of Haarlem TAPT Festival is simple; expect lots of beer, good food, chilling in the grass, playing games, dancing and singing with lots of nice people! If this sounds like a bit of you, then this festival is a must!
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You have to set standards for where you WANT TO BE, not where you are. You have to ask yourself, "Who do I want to become and what kind of rules would that person live by?" Your current level of performance may be fine for now, but if you do not expand the context or reality of who you are, the world will run you over eventually.
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Advice: Learn how to create a Set of Rules that will AUTOMATICALLY get
you to grow. The rules of rich class people are different that the rules of the poor and middle class. The stronger your Rules the more it will attract others who naturally seek to live by the same rules. You as a person will get bigger, more respected and will become a magnet for others who share your wavelength.
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|Where did my little baby go? He's all grown up.
|Where did my little baby go? He's all grown up.
|FYI- In January 2010 he was wearing 12mo. This Snowsuit is a 4. It's too small.
|Polar express: You know the kid who passes out and slides down his seat after indulging in Hot Chocolate? This is him.
|3 going on 13 with my Gene Simmonds impression
|Zoolander Returns
|My "I can Vomit on my shirt, go back for more and dance" face
|More "CHEESE".
|In cognito. My "Pretending to hide from Paparazzi" look.
|I don't know what to say about this one???? Little scary.
|Oh. Well this makes up for that last one! Beauty even with the tongue
|AAAKK! It's back!! I REALLY don't know what to say....
|Let's finish with some nice ones. Cause with three year olds- they are rare- and breathtaking!
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Aghora - Kali Yuga
by Santiago Dobles]
Born within a darkened age
Microcosmic game of life
Endless cycles endless dreams
Dormant beings we've become
Moving away from light
Through karmic conditioning
Consciousness self repressed
Unaware sustains the stress
Feeding us with ignorance
Trapped by time we stay confined
Moving away from light
By carnal conditioning
"Is this real?" you ask.
The reality is locked inside.
Close your eyes.
Take a step into the abyss.
It is far greater
Than the world you know.
Like the lotus in the mud,
Out of darkness comes light.
Facing life
Freeing minds
No more lies
Fear must die
In the abyss is life
Through the darkness comes light
Breaking the frames of time
Eternally man must rise


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Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.
Telemann is one of the most prolific composers in history and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Telemann's music incorporates several national styles (French, Italian, German) and is even at times influenced by Polish popular music. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies and his music is an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles.
Telemann was born in Magdeburg, then the capital of the Duchy of Magdeburg, Brandenburg-Prussia. His father Heinrich, deacon at the Church of the Holy Spirit, died when Telemann was four. The future composer received his first music lessons at 10, from a local organist, and became immensely interested in music in general, and composition in particular. Despite opposition from his mother and relatives, who forbade any musical activities, Telemann found it possible to study and compose in secret, even creating an opera at age 12.
In 1697, after studies at the Domschule in Magdeburg and at a school in Zellerfeld, Telemann was sent to the famous Gymnasium Andreanum at Hildesheim, where his musical talent flourished, supported by school authorities, including the rector himself. Telemann was becoming equally adept both at composing and performing, teaching himself flute, oboe, violin, recorder, double bass, and other instruments. In 1701, he graduated from the Gymnasium and went to Leipzig to become a student at the Leipzig University, where he intended to study law. He ended up becoming a professional musician, regularly composing works for Nikolaikirche and even St. Thomas (Thomaskirche). In 1702, he became director of the municipal opera house Opernhaus auf dem Brühl, and later music director at the Neukirche. Prodigiously productive, Telemann supplied a wealth of new music for Leipzig, including several operas, one of which was his first major opera, Germanicus. However, he became engaged in a conflict with the cantor of the Thomaskirche, Johann Kuhnau. The conflict intensified when Telemann started employing numerous students for his projects, including those who were Kuhnau's, from the Thomasschule.
Telemann left Leipzig in 1705 at the age of 24 after receiving an invitation to become Kapellmeister for the court of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz at Sorau (now Żary, in Poland). His career there was cut short in early 1706 by the hostilities of the Great Northern War, and after a short period of travels he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm, in Eisenach where Johann Sebastian Bach was born. He became Konzertmeister on December 24, 1708 and Secretary and Kapellmeister in August 1709. During his tenure at Eisenach, Telemann created a very large amount of music: at least four annual cycles of church cantatas, dozens of sonatas and concertos, and other works. In 1709, he married Amalie Louise Juliane Eberlin, lady-in-waiting to the Countess of Promnitz and daughter of the musician Daniel Eberlin. Their daughter was born in January 1711. The mother died soon afterwards, leaving Telemann depressed and distraught.
After less than a year he sought another position, and moved to Frankfurt on March 18, 1712, at the age of 31 to become city music director and Kapellmeister at the Barfüßerkirche. In Frankfurt, he fully gained his mature personal style. Here, as in Leipzig, he was a powerful force in the city's musical life, creating music for two major churches, civic ceremonies, and various ensembles and musicians. By 1720, he had adopted the use of the da capo aria, which had been adopted by composers such as Domenico Scarlatti. Operas such as Narciso, which was brought to Frankfurt in 1719, written in the Italian idiom of composition, made a mark on Telemann's output.
On August 28, 1714, three years after his first wife had died, Telemann married his second wife, Maria Catharina Textor, daughter of a Frankfurt council clerk. They eventually had nine children together. This was a source of much personal happiness, and helped him produce compositions. Telemann continued to be extraordinarily productive and successful, even augmenting his income by working for Eisenach employers as a Kapellmeister von Haus aus, that is, regularly sending new music while not actually living in Eisenach. Telemann's first published works also appeared during the Frankfurt period. His output increased rapidly, for he fervently composed overture-suites and chamber music, most of which is unappreciated. In the latter half of the Frankfurt period, he composed an innovative work, his Viola Concerto in G major, which is twice the length of his violin concertos. Also, here he composed his first choral masterpiece, his Brockes Passion, in 1716.
The composer, however, was still ambitious and wishing for a better post, so in 1721 he accepted the invitation to work in Hamburg as Kantor of the Johanneum Lateinschule, and music director of the five largest churches. Soon after arrival, Telemann encountered some opposition from church officials who found his secular music and activities to be too much of a distraction for both Telemann himself and the townsfolk. The next year, when Johann Kuhnau died and the city of Leipzig was looking for a new Thomaskantor, Telemann applied for the job and was approved, yet declined after Hamburg authorities agreed to give him a suitable raise. After another candidate, Christoph Graupner, declined, the post went to Johann Sebastian Bach.
Telemann took a few small trips outside of Germany at this time. However, later in the Hamburg period he traveled to Paris and stayed for eight months, 1737 into 1738. He heard and was impressed by Castor et Pollux, an opera by French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. From then on, he incorporated the French operatic style into his vocal works. Before then, his influence was primarily Italian and German. Apart from that, Telemann remained in Hamburg for the rest of his life. A vocal masterpiece of this period is his St. Luke Passion from 1728, which is a prime example of his fully matured vocal style.
His first years there were plagued by marital troubles: his wife's infidelity and her gambling debts, which amounted to a sum larger than Telemann's annual income. The composer was saved from bankruptcy by the efforts of his friends, and by the numerous successful music and poetry publications Telemann made during the years 1725 to 1740. By 1736, husband and wife were no longer living together because of their financial disagreements. Although still active and fulfilling the many duties of his job, Telemann became less productive in the 1740s, for he was in his 60s. He took up theoretical studies, as well as hobbies such as gardening and cultivating exotic plants, something of a fad in Hamburg at that time, and a hobby shared by Handel. Most of the music of the 1750s appears to have been parodied from earlier works. Telemann's eldest son Andreas died in 1755, and Andreas' son Georg Michael Telemann was raised by the aging composer. Troubled by health problems and failing eyesight in his last years, Telemann was still composing into the 1760s. He died on the evening of June 25, 1767, from what was recorded at the time as a "chest ailment." He was succeeded at his Hamburg post by his godson, Johann Sebastian Bach's second son Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.
Telemann was one of the most prolific major composers of all time: his all-encompassing oeuvre comprises more than 3,000 compositions, half of which have been lost, and most of which have not been performed since the 18th century. From 1708 to 1750, Telemann composed 1,043 sacred cantatas and 600 overture-suites, and types of concertos for combinations of instruments that no other composer of the time composed. The first accurate estimate of the number of his works was provided by musicologists only during the 1980s and 1990s, when extensive thematic catalogs were published. During his lifetime and the latter half of the 18th century, Telemann was very highly regarded by colleagues and critics alike. Numerous theorists (Marpurg, Mattheson, Quantz, and Scheibe, among others) cited his works as models, and major composers such as J.S. Bach and Handel bought and studied his published works. He was immensely popular not only in Germany but also in the rest of Europe: orders for editions of Telemann's music came from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and Spain. It was only in the early 19th century that his popularity came to a sudden halt. Most lexicographers started dismissing him as a "polygraph" who composed too many works, a Vielschreiber for whom quantity came before quality. Such views were influenced by an account of Telemann's music by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a late-18th-century critic who in fact praised Telemann's music and made only passing critical remarks of his productivity. After the Bach revival, Telemann's works were judged as inferior to Bach's and lacking in deep religious feeling. For example, by 1911, the Encyclopedia Britannica lacked an article about Telemann, and in one of its few mentions of him referred to "the vastly inferior work of lesser composers such as Telemann" in comparison to Handel and Bach.
Particularly striking examples of such judgments were produced by noted Bach biographers Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer, who criticized Telemann's cantatas and then praised works they thought were composed by Bach, but which were composed by Telemann. The last performance of a substantial work by Telemann (Der Tod Jesu) occurred in 1832, and it was not until the 20th century that his music started being performed again. The revival of interest in Telemann began in the first decades of the 20th century and culminated in the Bärenreiter critical edition of the 1950s. Today each of Telemann's works is usually given a TWV number, which stands for Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis (Telemann Works Catalog).
Telemann's music was one of the driving forces behind the late Baroque and the early Classical styles. Starting in the 1710s he became one of the creators and foremost exponents of the so-called German mixed style, an amalgam of German, French, Italian and Polish styles. Over the years, his music gradually changed and started incorporating more and more elements of the galant style, but he never completely adopted the ideals of the nascent Classical era: Telemann's style remained contrapuntally and harmonically complex, and already in 1751 he dismissed much contemporary music as too simplistic. Composers he influenced musically included pupils of J.S. Bach in Leipzig, such as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola, as well as those composers who performed under his direction in Leipzig (Christoph Graupner, Johann David Heinichen and Johann Georg Pisendel), composers of the Berlin lieder school, and finally, his numerous pupils, none of whom, however, became major composers.
Equally important for the history of music were Telemann's publishing activities. By pursuing exclusive publication rights for his works, he set one of the most important early precedents for regarding music as the intellectual property of the composer. The same attitude informed his public concerts, where Telemann would frequently perform music originally composed for ceremonies attended only by a select few members of the upper class.
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