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The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra is committed to reaching young people in our community through partnerships – we all exist in a community together and we believe that by working together we can build stronger families and a stronger community. This partnership program exists to provide young students with lessons at a location that is nearby and convenient to them. Orchestra Partners Sites may be a public, private, or charter school, a church, or a community center.
The partnership program is designed to work most seamlessly within the elementary school environment reaching children from Kindergarten to 2nd grade. We begin by teaching violin, viola, and cello. Later, there will be an opportunity to learn bass, if the child wishes to do so. Any additional students who wish to learn an instrument may do so through MYO's on-site enrollment process that takes place each spring, but lessons will take place at other locations.
The lesson is only one component of the MYO program. All MYO members must commit to both a weekly lesson and a weekly orchestra rehearsal that will take place on Saturday morning (elementary age), Tuesday evening (middle school age), or Thursday evening (high school age). Additionally, all MYO members are expected to participate in two major performances at Hilbert Circle Theatre and other venues and an annual recital and adjudication (assessment).
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Super Heroic Plumbing Man –
My curly mustache
my blue plumbers overalls
It's me Mario
That night –
My past lovers touch
forever grafted to me
feelings… lingering
Task force –
Five warriors arrive
The heroes of the rainbow
fight with all their might
Capture The Flag –
The blues are coming
Gaming is a battleground
and their flag is mine!
Expectations –
What does the world want?
A soldier or a poet
why must I choose one?
The fight –
The fight for freedom
A remarkable concept
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Though most Americans think of it in a different way, specifically in the context of a "variety show," the form of entertainment known as burlesque originated in the 1500's and found its expression in literature and art, as well as stage. To our American minds, burlesque describes the form of entertainment which was usually categorized by exaggeration and ridicule – usually of some specific group or individual. This later evolved into another popular form of entertainment – the minstrel show.
In our politically correct environment, there is little discussion of this form of entertainment. The majority of these performances were acted by whites who wore "black face." Normally in a minstrel show there were caricatures of those whom the performers mocked. Typically, one of the characters was a fop and another was a fool.
What is totally absent from this "non-conversation" is the fact that the minstrel show was further developed by American blacks who accentuated their innate "blackness" by applying "black face" and whose shows similarly mocked other blacks. This is as inconvenient a truth as the fact that it is well documented that before the Civil War more than 3500 black Americans owned black American slaves and white indentured servants. Rather than deal with the facts of history, the liberal left has chosen either to ignore, expunge or alter it for their own purposes.
It would not be difficult to argue that the minstrel shows with white actors were primarily motivated by racism – both on the parts of the writers and were well received by a similarly inclined audience. But if the sole purpose of the show was to castigate another race, one would similarly expect that the black minstrel show would turn to ridiculing whites. Why then did they follow the same tradition of their fellow white artists?
The other day I had lunch at one of the neighborhood casinos. I finished my meal and was returning to the parking garage. Waiting for the elevator was a black male whom I would put in his early thirties, a black woman in her late twenties and her little girl about four years old. As the elevator opened, I immediately drew a picture of the black man – who he was and what he was about.
He stood in front of the door and started to walk in without waiting for the elderly woman who was trying to get off to make her exit. Without waiting for his female companion or child (or me) to get on, he turned to the control panel and pushed the button for his floor.
Once we all were aboard, he continued his conversation with the young woman. I didn't hear his previous comments, but in the short space of two floors on a slow elevator, he complained about someone to whom he apparently owed fifty dollars and who had asked for his money. He categorized this person as a "faggot-assed white cracka." The young woman looked at me apologetically and with some embarrassment.
I couldn't help but think if the little girl were raised in an environment where that kind of language is prevalent, she would naturally learn not only to express herself in those terms but would be molded into viewing the world in this racist manner. It is the same mentality that allows the perpetuation of the word "Nigger" to be used within the ghetto community. That word is abhorrent – perhaps even more so when one black applies it to another – because it is not only a statement of disparagement but it is more importantly an expression of self-loathing. Words do indeed matter.
To return to the art of burlesque with its exaggerations and portrayal of individuals as buffoons, the image of President Obama quickly leapt into my thoughts. In the world of hyperbolic phrases which were invented to convey a disparaging image of blacks, the phrase "shiftless and lazy" comes to thought. I have never heard anyone other than a black person described using that phrase. And if we were to find the archetype for it, one could argue there is no finer example than the current occupant of the White House.
It seems that not a day passes when the administration seems to be caught off guard by some new crisis – the latest being the challenge to and invasion of our southern border. Cast as a "humanitarian crisis" it is one of this administration's own conception and implementation. This "most transparent of all administrations" is perhaps one of the most opaque – rivaling Soviet Russia under Lenin. And while I have long debated whether it is merely incompetent or unprepared, I now am of the mind that it is, plain and simple, morally corrupt beyond redemption.
If this were an isolated instance, a fair and open-minded person might offer the administration the benefit of the doubt. We have all made mistakes. But this "crisis" is only the most recent of a string of missteps and outright failures. There is no need to point to the other "phony scandals" because they are well-documented and the reader of this blog should certainly already be aware of them. But to what might we turn for a glimmer of hope that there is some basic decency in the Obama administration that has resulted in some positive results? After five and one half years and trying as honestly as I might, I am unable to find a single plan, program or policy that has worked as it was purportedly intended.
Perhaps it is unfair to categorize the Obama administration as being burlesque. A more appropriate phrase might be "theater of the absurd." But while we might be brought to tears through laughter, we also may find ourselves sobbing because of a profound tragedy. And there is nothing sadder than the travesty which is currently unfolding on the stage of the American theater.


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One year after the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned, the St Andrews Foreign Affairs Society (SAFAS) organised a stimulating weekend of discussion and reflection on the ongoing Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. With guest speakers from Sciences Po and the University of Edinburgh, as well as the University of St Andrews' best political researchers, the talks not only discussed regional trends between the uprisings but importantly focused upon specific case studies, including the ongoing Syrian humanitarian crisis.
The first day saw Dr Jean-Pierre Filiu of Sciences Po open the conference by discussing the first year of what he described as not one but many simultaneous regional revolutions still in their prime. The revolutions began in Tunisia after outrage of the treatment of martyr Mohammed Bouazizi, following his desperate act in protest of Tunisia's corrupt political and judicial system. Dr Filiu noted the homogeneity of slogans that called for the fall of corruption, and the resulting reform used by populations throughout the region, which was coupled by the predominance of peaceful and non-violent methods used in the protests. Interestingly, however, he also described notable differences between MENA states, for instance the long-standing dispute of Palestinian self-determination juxtaposed with Israeli wishes for increased security and settlement expansion.
The University of St Andrews' Professor Andrew Williams continued the first day with an insightful history of the influential political decisions made by Britain, France and the United States in World War One. This included Scotland's own Arthur James Balfour increasing Zionist influence in Palestine following the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which continues to be a great source of contention between Israeli and Palestinian communities to this day.
On Sunday, Dr W J Dorman of the University of Edinburgh discussed the lack of land planning and settlement organisation in Cairo, a city in which two thirds of the population live in makeshift settlements without planning permission, and gave insightful reasons for the resentment felt by Egyptians towards the Mubarak regime. This was followed by eyewitness accounts of the Egyptian uprisings, which included those of St Andrews' Union President, Patrick O'Hare, who spent time protesting alongside Egyptian students in Tahrir Square in January 2011. A discussion of the uprisings' implications on religious and ethnic minorities in the MENA region followed.
Speaking of the conference, the SAFAS conference coordinator, Maxwell Baldi said: "I'm extraordinarily pleased with the results of SAFAS' inaugural conference: the turn out, the lecturers and the social events were all outstanding. After months of hard work from a dedicated team, it's gratifying to see such a successful result."


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This week H&M announced that it would forgo its seasonal appearance on the Paris Fashion Week show schedule, which it's held for five years, instead debuting its SS19 Studio collection on a three-day trip to Sedona, Arizona.
The trip will involve key influencers and press from around the globe in which they will be cast as active participants in a series of immersive events. While it is the first time that a brand has made the theatre often brought to life through catwalk shows fully immersive (turning the viewers into the participants) H&M is not alone in its migration to a more time-relevant show schedule or, in fact, its influencer model as a way to showcase the newest collections.
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Press trips are nothing new and have been a keen part of brand's PR strategies for years, but the introduction of influencers into those strategies. However, the use of their social media handles as a broadcast platform for brands, has made them a voyeur's dream insight into what goes down on these trips and opened the doorway for newer ways to utilise them. Now the influencer model is not just a way to allow influential people to preview the new collections, but also to showcase it to their followers and create content for brands to use on their own channels as well. In particular, the luxury market is no stranger to these trips, but what used to be reserved for the elite and a way to convert relationships with editors into coverage is now a way to create immediate hype around products that can then be bought in real time or soon-after – resulting in sell-out collections. It seems the high-street are catching on too and democratising the experience further.
Revolve have pioneered this model and are known for being the biggest player in this space in the industry thanks to their ongoing campaign #RevolveAroundTheWorld (unsurprising since the word "influencer" appeared 79 times in their IPO filing). Each year they host a whole host of various influencer trips in luxurious locations, where they clothe reams of their most engaged influencers with the newest launches, brands and collections. The trips are packed with parties, activities and impressive resorts as the backdrop for these collections and all of it is documented over the course of a week-long splash of Instagram content. Plus, it's working, with influencers reportedly generating up to "70 percent of current overall sales at revolve.com" according to WWD.
To the same effect, other luxury brands are catching on, with the likes of Net-A-Porter and Zilingo launching The NETSET/Jet-A-Porter and #ZilingoEscape respectively. The former is an ongoing holiday edit for NAP's 'constantly travelling clientele' and a trip-model used to take their most influential content creators and editors away. Similarly, Bulgari also launched its new #Fiorever collection in Dubai at the end of last year with a three-day trip to the desert to try out the new collection and create content while wining and dining.
The move on from traditional press trips is not overtly innovative, but it does symbolise a significant shift in the way brands – and customers – are consuming fashion. In terms of shop-ability, there is a definitive move to be more reactive and commercial, less seasonal as the immediate desire that is created once something has inundated followers' feed is soon followed with the 'old-news' mentality when they have to wait six months to be able to buy it. It demonstrates the power of meaningful influencer relationships and finding true advocates for your brands, who's community and their loyalty equals serious spending power. It also shows how many high-street brands yes, but also luxury brands are beginning to favour sales over aligning with high-end fashion credentials and finding the balance of 'reality' i.e. influencers, while maintaining elevated.
Expect to see this play out over the next 18 months as the next big thing in influencer marketing, but while it's something that can result in huge sales and a lot of great content for both you and your engaged network, you have to be prepared to front the cost. Influencers are getting offered these trips tenfold so make it exciting, make it engaging, and find ways to differentiate yourself as a brand that 'gets' their customers and their most influential fans.


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Exhibiting The Boundries of Photography.
Clare Strand: Hi Florian. Good to see you, can you see me?
Florian Ebner: Hi. Yes.
CS: Great. So, when we briefly chatted about doing this, you were keen not to have a formal interview. Why is this?
FE: Yeah, I think it's to try to avoid this very classical narrative of a career. Mine was not always such a straight career, you know. I practised photography, I taught photography, I wrote about photography, I went back again to teach photography, I exhibited my photography and also curated shows.
CS: This leads me to my second question. Why have you asked me to be involved in this conversation?
FE: [Laughter] I like to have a kind of oblique thinking about traditional formats for exhibitions and other things. When I got this invitation to do an interview, I thought it might be interesting to do it with a person who has an oblique way of thinking. When I attended your talk in Paris you spoke about the territories of photography – the little bit on the borders of photography, and I thought this might fit quite well because it's exactly what I'm thinking about currently............................
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Shows Like SpongeBob May Slow Kids' Ability to Think, Study Says
To watch the energetic SpongeBob and his dim-witted friend Patrick Star zipping around with their under-sea antics may slow down your child's brain. In a 60-kid study mentioned by U.S. News and World Report, children who watched the fast-paced SpongeBob SquarePants were unable to solve problems as well as children who watched slower-paced shows or spent time drawing. Unrealistic, fast-paced shows could be damaging to children because they overstimulate the brain, making it harder to maintain focus, plan, organize and control inappropriate behaviors, the researchers wrote. Researchers told Bloomberg they don't know how long the effect lasts. "It may be that children recover quickly.


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On 16th March 1942, Consolidated Liberator AL577 LB-30 crashed in bad weather. The Mk II plane came down on Slieve na Glogh on the Cooley Peninsula. A memorial plaque stands today on high ground at Jenkinstown, near Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland.
This incident would prove to be the worst airtime crash in Ireland when it came to the loss of life. In all, 15 men lost their lives when the bomber came down.
The Liberator crash on 16th March 1942 was the second of three fatal incidents in this mountainous area of Louth. The other accidents came in the form of a British Hudson bomber in 1941 and an American P-51 Mustang fighter 1944.
RAF 108 Squadron
RAF 108 Squadron had been serving in North Africa engaging in bombing campaigns. In December 1941, the RAF decided to switch from Wellington bombers to the American built Consolidated Liberator. Its initial success soon led to the entire squadron swapping to the American planes.
In March, a crew of experienced men from 108 Squadron flew back to the United Kingdom to collect new Liberators and return to the front. Their flight would take them from Egypt, across to Gibraltar and across to England.
Liberator AL577 Crash
Liberator AL577 of 108 Squadron HQ Middle East took off from Egypt at 1655hrs on 15th March 1942. The destination would take them over the Mediterranean and France to RAF Hurn in Dorset, England.
There were 19 men with full kit on board. A six-man crew operated the plane carrying thirteen passengers from the same squadron. In all, the plane held six pilots, three navigators, three wireless operator/air gunners, and one mechanic. The men were from the English, Scottish, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealander forces.
Shortly after flying over the French coast towards England, the crew experienced their first problems. Reports suggest the plane was ordered to return to Egypt due to bad weather over the British Isles. These orders were acknowledged.
Veering off course in the bad weather, the plane ended up flying over the east coast of Ireland. The crew saw city lights, believed it to be Dublin and set course for RAF Greencastle in Co. Down as they were by then short on fuel.
The American bomber crashed at Slieve na Glogh on the Cooley Peninsula near Dundalk around 1410hrs on 16th March 1942.
The aircraft was West of its course and crashed into high ground. As the accident occured in Eire and the evidence available suggested that the cause was due to disobedience of orders and bad navigation, it was considered by Accidents Gloucester, that no useful purpose would be served by ordering an investigation.
Official Incident Report
Of all those on board, 15 died in the incident. Dundalk Hospital, Ireland received the remaining four injured parties. When recovered enough they moved to Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, Co. Down then on to Stranmillis Military Hospital, Belfast, Co. Antrim.
The transcript from the accident report contains some errors. The RAF would not have had a presence in Ireland at that time. RAF Hurn was near Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. Dundalk, Co. Louth was the scene of the accident.
A letter from Liberator AL577
We ran into the worst weather I have ever experienced in three years of flying. It was almost impossible to see out own wing tips. We all knew we should require a good deal of wireless assistance if we hoped to get down safely. Then the real trouble began – the Wireless Operator could not contact any station in England because of some fault in the wireless equipment due to weather conditions.
We knew we were over England and we lost height to two thousand feet in order to enable us to pinpoint our exact position, but the weather was just as bad at two thousand feet. It would have been unwise to do down any further because of barrage balloons or mountains so we climbed up again and cruised around hoping for the weather to clear, but it did not; instead, it became even worse. By this time we had been in the air over fifteen hours and we were carrying fuel for just over fifteen and half hours.
We were preparing to bale out and chance it but before we could do so someone spotted lights on the ground. The captain immediately dived down over the lights which we knew was Dublin and circled around at above five hundred feet. About this time two of our four engines ceased running and we were unable to climb very well. The captain then headed straight along the coast of Eire to try to land at an aerodrome in North Ireland.
We had been flying for about half an hour after leaving the lights and all this time we were gradually losing height. There was a terrific crash and when I awoke I found myself lying about twenty yards from the machine, which by this time was practically burned out. I tried to stand up, but couldn't, as I found later in hospital I had fractured my spine in two places. I managed to crawl around in a sort of daze and soon saw there was not much I could do for any of the other chaps in my condition.
So I crawled over the mountainside to look for help, but there was no one in sight, I started to crawl back to the machine but fell unconscious before I got there. I woke up while being carried down the mountain on a stretcher and found that we were not discovered until three hours had elapsed.
Written from Majestic Hotel, No. 7 P.R.C., R.A.F., Harrogate, Yorks, 5th June 1942
Liberator Crew
|Last Name
|First Name
|Richard John
|Wing Commander
|Distinguished Flying Cross. RAF 39918. Killed.
|John Peile
|Pilot Officer
|RAF 67640. Killed.
|Paul Herrick
|RAF 917067. Killed
|Henry James
|Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
|RAF 948393. Killed.
|Charles Joseph
|Wireless Operator
|RAF 916998. Killed.
|Francis Charles
|Flight Lieutenant
|Air Gunner
|Distinguished Flying Cross. RAF 77959. Killed.
|James Robert
|Flying Officer
|Passenger (Pilot)
|Distinguished Flying Cross. RAF 795088. Survived.
|Cyril Rowland
|Passenger (Pilot)
|RAF 1182180. Survived.
|Lindsay Ross
|Flight Sergeant
|Passenger (Pilot)
|RAAF 402429. Killed.
|Wilfred Bertrand
|Pilot Officer
|Passenger (Pilot)
|RAF 113267. Killed.
|Flight Sergeant
|Passenger (Pilot)
|RAF 1060536. Killed.
|Herbert William Thornley
|Flight Sergeant
|Passenger (Pilot)
|RAAF 402677. Killed.
|Thomas Edward
|Passenger (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
|RAF 644625. Survived.
|Sydney Frederick
|Passenger (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
|RAF 910905. Survived.
|Walter Paul
|Passenger (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
|RAF 931402. Killed.
|Carlton Stokes
|Flight Sergeant
|Passenger (Navigator)
|RCAF R/62738. Killed.
|Leslie George
|Flight Sergeant
|Passenger (Navigator)
|RAF 905148. Killed.
|George Frederick
|Pilot Officer
|Passenger (Navigator)
|RCAF J/15525. Killed.
|Andrew McMillan Smith
|Passenger (Engineer / Fitter)
|RAF 546659. Killed.
In 1993, people of Louth arranged a memorial plaque to display near the accident site. From the hillside where Liberator AL557 came down, walkers can view the east coast of Ireland. On a clear day, the peak of Sugar Loaf Hill in the Wicklow Mountains is visible. Families and friends of those killed in the crash attended the unveiling.


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Born in the Back River Area, Mary grew up knowing the traditional, migratory life on the land. Having visited the community of Baker Lake for trading purposes, Mary and her family settled there permanently around 1960, when her son started school.
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Society vs. Individual Choice
The Last of the Mohicans has a couple of standard tropes; one in particular is the Female Who Proves Herself As Brave As A Man. (Sorry, can't find the official TV Tropes name for this.) It brought up an issue for me that I've thought about a little before: if in our modern society we try to make things gender-neutral, opening traditionally-female jobs to men and traditionally-male jobs to women, why were they ever gender-specific in the first place?
Unfortunately, I can think of a good answer. Pretty much every society has jobs people would rather not be doing, whether it's unclogging toilets, collecting garbage, or taking care of a screaming two-year-old. There are a couple of ways to "carrot-and-stick" people into doing these jobs (they do need to happen, after all).
The carrot could come in the form of honor, but usually doesn't…rather than being seen as someone putting in effort to do a "dirty job", they're looked down upon for not rising past it. No one would choose to be a garbageperson, right? Instead, the carrot comes in the form of money…and even then, not very much of it. So the people doing the essential-but-unliked job are usually those who can't afford to move to something better, not those who chose to be there for the money.
This makes a little bit of (depressing) sense, because a large society usually has more dirty jobs than clean ones.
The stick is limiting options. "If you're a women, you're only allowed to be a nurse, a teacher, or a housewife." If you don't want to be any of those, tough luck, although you might be able to find a dirtier job (housecleaner?) if you want. (If you're "unlucky", you'll have to.)
This doesn't just apply to gender-divided societies. It's also shown up historically with caste-based (or strict feudal) systems, and all the way up to the present with ethnic discrimination. While we are (ostensibly) trying to eliminate this, it's much harder, possibly impossible, to eliminate class distinctions altogether. Even if we have no genetic-based discrimination, the dirty jobs still have to get done, and we don't give them enough honor or money to make everyone's standard of living equal.
(Things start to get a little more murky with disability and language proficiency discrimination—it really might be harder for you to be a good worker if you have a disability or can't speak the native language very well. The problem with all of these is that they're examples of "prejudice", from its etymological roots in "pre-judging". Thus we have laws that prevent this kind of discrimination up front—you're supposed to try the employee out and make accomodations. You can only fire them if then they're not up to snuff. But this does make things harder for business owners, who have to fear lawsuits if they rightly fire an employee who happens to have a disability or be in an ethnic minority.)
So society really appreciates having a group that's designated for the dirty jobs. We don't think that's right anymore, in a moral sense. Why not?
Because we don't want Gattaca and Brave New World to happen. Because even if it were true that "Peruvians are genetically disposed to be better at math", that general trend doesn't say much about individual Peruvians or about non-Peruvians. I'm guessing that even in this hypothetical world, you'd get better results from picking the top mathematicians from every ethnic group, rather than making all Peruvians mathematicians.
(And part of that is based on the fact that a person doing something they like to do will generally put more effort into it, usually surpassing someone who has only put in effort to fill a quota, and sometimes surpassing those with some kind of "innate talent".)
By assuming that generalizations hold across entire groups, we are shutting off potential contributions from sources we consider unlikely. Not to mention that new perspectives are a good thing in many fields—if people's brains really are wired differently, that's great!
What we end up with, though, is the entitlement generation—my generation. We were raised to believe we can become anything we want, but it's turned out that for a lot of people, that's not true.1 Someone still has to do the dirty jobs and the underpaid jobs.
What's the solution? Unfortunately, I don't have one. In Star Trek, it seems that all the really low-level dirty jobs have been mechanized: cleaning, manufacturing, and such. They haven't eliminated boring jobs, but it's an improvement, and there seems to be enough leisure time for most people to have hobbies, at least. (One hopes that Keiko O'Brien was paid more than teachers today.) In a college-campus coöp, everyone is supposed to donate some of their time to cooking, cleaning, whatever. The advantage of this is that people can still trade for the work they prefer. I'm not sure how well it would scale to a neighborhood, community, city, county, though.
It's certainly not right to earmark people for dirty jobs, but have we made things worse for those stuck at the bottom? I don't think so. People aren't worse off than they were before, when their lack of choice was institutionalized. A class system still exists, and I won't pretend that people stuck in the lower class and in crappy jobs chose to be there, but the assumption that that is their place is being eroded, and there's a chance for the next generation to get out of that class. That's something to keep working on.
It's a hard problem, though, and in the long run I think the solution is to eliminate/automate the dirty jobs…and then figure out how to give back life to the people working those jobs.
TLDR: Society likes having scapegoats for the dirty jobs, but trying to justify it morally doesn't work, because most generalizations suck (joke intended). Unfortunately the dirty jobs don't go away even when gender roles are abolished and the lower class has the same ethnic makeup as the upper class.
But, stay tuned for the next blog post on this: how gender discrimination is different from ethnic discrimination. (Hint: biology!)2
I consider myself blessed to have grown up without wanting anything, to have gone to a good college with the freedom to take courses outside of my major, to have been able to choose my own major and profession, to be good at it as well as liking it, and for it to be a profession that's still hiring even in our current economic state. Most people do not have my privilege. (I say "blessed" despite being atheist because "lucky" doesn't seem to cover it. This is Teela Brown levels of lucky.) ↩
For those who are pre-emptively offended, I'll also talk about how it's the same as ethnic discrimination, i.e. we shouldn't do it. ↩


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I met him about twelve years ago at a pastor/spouse retreat. He was speaking. I was leading worship and doing some Biblical storytelling. Since it was a pastor/spouse retreat, both of us had our better halves with us.
Gary Thomas. Bestselling author. International speaker. I am extremely blessed and grateful that I have spent more than a decade calling him "friend."
Gary is passionate about the Bible. He recently agreed to write something just for you, the readers of this blog. It is based on his newest book The Sacred Search, written for singles who long, hope, and desire to one day be married.
I will be sharing that post this weekend. Stay tuned. I've read it and you will love it! (You'll want to share it, too.)
Since this blog is all about the Bible – and Gary unpacks and applies the Bible as well as anyone I know – I thought I would share a few of my favorites. He's written about 20 books. These are my top four: [Read more…] about A Writer Who Inspires with His Life As Well As His Words


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Re: Output display of exponential function in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg62767] Re: Output display of exponential function in Mathematica
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:37:06 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/4/05 at 5:57 AM, NewGuy at yahoo.com (New Guy) wrote: >On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:05:41 +0000 (UTC), Jean-Marc Gulliet ><jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com> wrote: >>Now, the base of the natural logarithm is written E (capital e). >Beg to differ here. The BasicInput.nb palette uses the small 'e' >that is kind of double-struck. The BasicInput palette displays the constants Pi and E in TraditionalForm. If you type E//TraditionalForm into an empty cell, the corresponding output cell will be the same character you get after clicking the entry button on the BasicInput pallete. The point is, to enter the constant E from the keyboard, you enter it as a capital E. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four


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This American High School textbook just scrapes into the "published in the 21st century" criterion I set myself for finding free, out-of-print sociology texts, but I've included it because although it's obviously a little dated – at least in terms of content if not necessarily design – Sociology and You (2001) was probably one of the first to push at the boundaries of textbook design for "Grades 9 – 12". This, by my calculations, means 15-18 year olds and if you're wondering, as we probably all are, how this fits into the UK grading system I'd say the text equates to "high GCSE" / AS-level. But this is only a rough guess – there are bits that could fit into A2 – so if you want to use it with your students it's probably a case of suck-it-and-see before you let them have copies.
The book itself exhibits most of the features we now take for granted in contemporary textbooks: short bursts of text, lots of big colourful pictures, key terms identified and defined, tables, boxouts, short readings, simple assessments and white space.
Lots and lots of white space.
In other words, anyone familiar with UK A-level texts over the past few years will see this as very familiar territory.
Except, of course, most of the examples and illustrations are drawn from North America. Which is okay if you're North American (or are really into comparative sociology / North Americana) but not quite so brilliant if you live and study elsewhere.
Keeping this in mind, if you decide to have a look at the text I've made it available it as either a complete textbook or by chapter. I've provided the latter option because there are some chapters, such as those on "Sport" or "Political and Economic Institutions", you may not need or want: put bluntly, you're probably not going to teach stuff that's not on the A-level Spec.
You can also use the chapter option to see if or how the text might fit with your teaching because, as I've noted, judging the level is a little problematic given differences in both the US and UK grade system and the skill levels each requires of its students at different ages.
Somewhat surprisingly, at least to me, there seems to be a positive dearth of Culture and Identity related revision material, at least of the Word / Pdf variety (PowerPoint users seem much better served). Why that should be I don't know but I have managed to find a few resources you and your students might find helpful:
1. Revision Checklist (K.Birch): I've included this because it's one of the few revision resources I've been able to find for the OCR Board and while it's not particularly exhaustive it does provide a list of key concepts, some simple practice questions and some sample exam-type questions for each topic in the Culture and Identity module.
2. Sociological Perspectives: Some quite extensive notes dedicated to different types of sociological perspective.
3. Culture and Identity: This is another set of paged Notes by Mark Gill that I've collated into a single document for the convenience of everyone involved. I've kept it as a Word document so that you can easily separate-out sections if you want to give your students Notes on a specific topic. As ever with these Notes there's quite extensive coverage of a range of areas: socialisation, perspectives, identities and globalisation.
4. Culture, Socialisation and Identity: This combines short Notes focused on the concept of culture with simple student exercises (and in case there's any confusion, it's the exercises that are simple, not the student).
5. Culture, Identity and Agents of Socialisation: Short Notes mainly aimed at illustrating the relationship between different identities (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.) and different agencies of socialisation.
6. Facebook and the Presentation of Self: This is an article originally published in Sociology Review (2017) that uses the example of Facebook to illustrate arguments about structure and action. While it's not exactly a revision piece it might help students clarify this relationship if they need it. It also looks at how personal and social identities relate to structure and action.
The second part of the Crime and Deviance Revision series (the first, if you missed it, involves revision booklets) is devoted to a range of PowerPoint Presentations that I've collected from various places. Just have a look at the document properties if you want to know who created them.
The quality of the Presentations is "variable" at times so it's probably a case of having a look at any that take your fancy to see if they're something you can use. You also need to keep in mind the date when some of these were created (again, just check the document properties).
Although most of the Presentations are just a relatively simple mix of text and graphics, some include links to YouTube videos (which you can, of course, edit accordingly if you want) and some are a little more interactive in terms of their content (posing questions, setting short exercises and the like).
Although I've signposted the Presentations as a revision resource there's no reason why you couldn't incorporate some of these into your everyday teaching if you like to use PowerPoint. They can, of course, be edited to your particular requirements.
The Presentations (all 26 of them…) are as follows:
Long-time readers of this blog may recall that around 18 months ago I posted a series of sociology simulations, under the general title "7 Sims in 7 Days", one of which, Cards, Cakes and Class, focused on giving students a physical taste of social inequality. However, while I like the basic ideas underpinning the sim, it suffers from two major problems:
1. It takes a lot of time, effort and space to set-up and run.
2. It mainly focuses on economic inequality to the detriment of other dimensions of class inequality – specifically, cultural and social capital. While the former is, of course, an important dimension of inequality, students need to understand, discuss and, in this instance, experience other dimensions of inequality.
If you liked the basic idea behind "Cakes and Class" (and who doesn't like to see their students suffer in the name of Education?) but were prevented from running the sim because you couldn't commit to everything involved in setting it up, you might be interested in this variation by Dawn Norris (Beat The Bourgeoisie: A Social Class Inequality and Mobility Simulation Game). While it covers much the same area as Cakes and Class it does so in a way that's:
1. Easier to set-up and run: you just need two groups of students and some questions.
2. Quicker to carry-out: Norris suggests the simulation itself should run for around 30 minutes, (with as much time as you like after for a discussion of content and outcomes).
Back by popular demand and with a brand-spanking new set of Tables covering media, methods and education. Each Unit is by a different author and the quality is, at times, variable.
These are pdf files so unless you've got a programme that will edit them you're stuck with the information they have to offer. That said, they're fairly recent (2015) and so are probably reasonably up-to-date and in line with the latest Specifications. There is, unfortunately, no indication of authorship…
• Ownership of the mass media
• New media, globalisation and popular culture
• Selection and presentation of news and moral panics
• Mass media and audiences
• Representations of the body
• Representations of ethnicity age and class
These are a little older (2009) and again authorship is a little hazy. On the plus side they're in Word format so they can be easily edited if necessary.
• Experiments and Questionnaires
• Interviews
• Observation and Secondary Sources
Previous Tables you might find useful:
Again, not sure who created these or indeed when they were created. However, they are in Word format if you want to edit them.
• Functionalism and Marxism
• Feminism, New Right, Interactionism
• Cultural and Material Factors
Previous Tables you might find useful:
The third chapter in our trawl through the murky waters of organised (and disorganised, come to that) religion looks at the relationship between religion and social position in two broad ways:
Firstly terms of the so-called (by me at least) "CAGE" variables: class, age, gender and ethnicity. This section both outlines the relationship between each of these variables and religious beliefs / practices and evaluates a range of possible explanations for the relationships uncovered.
Secondly, the chapter looks at the appeal of modern religious movements to different social groups, with the focus here on two types:
a. New religious movements, based on Daschke and Ashcraft's (2005) idea of 'interrelated pathways' that examines a broad typology of five different groupings (Perception, Identity, Community or 'Family', Society and Earth).
b. New Age movements, based on a typology of Explicitly religious, Human potential and Mystical movements.
Those of you who like your religion with pictures will be saddened to learn that there's only one (and since this is the "pre-permission" version of the chapter, the spiritual purity of a group of Transcendental Meditation practitioners is somewhat sullied by a dirty great watermark that takes up most of the frame). The disappointment both of these facts might engender may be dispelled by the inclusion of a few tables and a lot of mnemonics.
Or possibly not.
One area of social life in which the relationship between youth and specific types of behaviour is particularly clear is that of offending behaviour. Young people – principally young, working class, men – are hugely over-represented in the crime statistics and since this series of chapters is linked by ideas about Youth Culture and Subculture it would be useful to explore the relationship between Youth and Deviance in more detail.
In order to do this the chapter is divided into three main sections:
Firstly, an outline of a range of key concepts – the distinction between crime and deviance, how we define youth, how we measure crime, moral panics, deviancy amplification and the like – that can be applied to this area of social life.
Secondly, a section that outlines the evidence, in terms of patterns and trends, about the nature and extent of youth deviance. This section is further subdivided according to social class, gender and ethnicity.
Finally, it looks at how different sociological approaches – in this instance Functionalist, Marxist and Interactionist – explain the patterns and trends in youth deviance outlined in part 2.
While the chapter is specifically aimed at the OCR Youth Culture Unit it's one that should have general application for any Specification that looks at the nature of crime and deviance in terms of patterns and trends in offending behaviour and how these might be sociologically explained.
After the raw, enervating, excitement of Family Trends and the Role of Family in Society, the rollercoaster ride that is Family Life continues with the unalloyed joy that is Family Diversity.
While some commentators (who shall remain nameless because I haven't named them) have described family diversity as a "thrill-a-minute fun-fest filled with fantastic fripperies", more controversially, other, equally nameless, commentators have described it as being as dull as the rest of the family stuff. But I couldn't possibly comment on this.
What I do know is that the chapter is filled with a range of diversity-related stuff (hence its name. Probably). This includes:
• Organisational diversity
• Class diversity
• Cultural diversity (age, gender, ethnicity)
• Sexual diversity (don't get your hopes up, nothing to see here).
Things start to get a little more interesting (a term I use advisedly) when the chapter turns to look at two opposing views on contemporary family diversity (Postmodernist and New Right if you're still reading this) but then things take a turn for the worse when the chapter ends with social policy.
Still, it's free. So you can't complain.
No, really.
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After a brief hiatus, we're back to business with a fifth example of Jill Swale's ATSS work, this one focusing on patterns of offending and how differences based on gender and ethnicity (you can easily add further variables, such as age, to the exercise if you want) can be identified and explained.
The exercise itself is a simple one to organise and run, although you'll need to update the "Websites and Other Sources" section of the instructions because the suggested web data no-longer works and you'll need to use texts that reference more contemporary crime statistics. That aside, the exercise is generally straightforward and is designed to encourage students to apply a range of skills to sociological data and research in terms of:
While mnemonics are not everyone's favourite hot beverage I've always found them a very useful memory device – and I'm particularly fond of CAGE (Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity) and its less-exulted compatriots CAGES (…Sexuality) and CAGED (…Disability) for a couple of reasons:
Firstly, it has a simple manifest function for students. If you're ever stuck for evaluation ideas in an exam it's always possible to say something useful about class, age, gender or ethnic differences. Use it as a kind of "Get Out of Jail Free" card (Pun Very Much Intended) you can play whenever you need a quick prompt to get an answer flowing.
Secondly a latent function of CAGE for teachers is that you can use it to illustrate the concepts of structure and action in a simple and memorable way using the distinction between social and personal identities.
Following from the previous post on sociological perspectives, this map on Media Representations demonstrates how useful these types of revision maps can be for organising student knowledge around quite diverse topics.
As with previous examples, this map is based around keywords illustrated by pictures and fleshed-out where necessary with short pieces of text.
Continuing the sociology of the media theme that began with moral and amoral panics, this series of posts looks at the idea of media representations from a range of different perspectives.
For traditional Marxism, economic power is a key variable; those who own the means of physical production are always the most powerful class and economic power brings with it the ownership of mental production – control over how different social groups are represented.
Cultural institutions such as the media are part of the ideological superstructure and their role is to support the status quo through the creation and maintenance of a worldview that favours the political, ideological and, above all, economic interests of a ruling class. How different social groups are represented within this worldview is a crucial aspect of ruling class domination and control – with the focus of explanation being the various ways a ruling class use their economic dominance to represent less powerful groups in ways that enhance and justify their power. While media representations are not in themselves a means of controlling behaviour, they are a means to an end. By representing different groups in particular ways the media allows a ruling class to act against such groups if and whenever they threaten their political, ideological or economic power.


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A woman's quest to have her dead husband's baby will head interstate or overseas after the NSW Supreme Court found his sperm was her ''property'' but state laws prohibit her from using it to conceive a child. Jocelyn Edwards will be allowed to remove from storage at IVF Australia three ''straws'' of frozen sperm extracted from her husband Mark hours after he died in a workplace accident last year. But she will have to convince a fertility clinic in the ACT or Queensland to impregnate her because Mr Edwards did not sign a written consent before he died.
When Inger Rijn was last year refused a third dose of Panadeine at hospital in a last-ditch bid to manage chronic pain, her mind was made up. She would take her own life. Doctors at the Cabrini Hospital emergency department told the 70-year-old mother of three that she could not have another injection because ''we've given you enough to kill a horse''. Mrs Rijn felt no better. She joined Philip Nitschke's pro-euthanasia group Exit International and, with husband Victor Rijn, discussed with the group the legal implications of her husband being in the room when she died.
An Indonesian Christian's 15-year struggle to gain refugee status in Australia has come to an end. Now Dicky Susanto, his wife and seven-year-old son face imminent deportation. His supporters say the Immigration Department has handled the case badly because his brother was granted residency in identical circumstances. The psychiatrist is concerned about the mental health of the family and particularly their seven-year old son, who spent his entire life in Australia.
Religious education instructors in state schools are required to do less than one day's training before they teach hundreds of children. The volunteers, organised through the Access Ministries, pay just $15, attend a six-hour training session, and get a note from their minister in order to become accredited to teach Christian Religious Education classes. They have to complete an assignment and get a Working with Children's check, and they can teach as many hours a week as needed in state primary schools.
Australia is locked into settling 4000 extra refugees as part of its swap with Malaysia even if none of the 800 asylum-seekers flagged to be sent to Malaysia in return are deported. As the Gillard government came under renewed fire yesterday over the terms of its refugee swap with Kuala Lumpur, Immigration Department secretary Andrew Metcalfe admitted to a Senate committee that no asylum-seeker needed to be sent to Malaysia under the terms of the deal. "(But) Australia will still resettle all 4000 humanitarian refugees even if no asylum-seekers are sent," he told a Senate estimates committee hearing. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen continued to stonewall over whether Malaysia was reserving the right to veto asylum-seekers Canberra proposed to send to Kuala Lumpur.
The Anglican Church's disciplinary system will be challenged in the New South Wales Supreme Court today, by two Newcastle priests who are facing being stripped of holy orders. The church's professional standards board last year recommended the former dean of Newcastle Reverend Graeme Lawrence and Reverend Graeme Sturt be defrocked. The recommendation came after the board heard evidence of their alleged involvement in an incident involving a teenager at a clergy camp in the Riverina in the 1980s. The pair deny the allegations, which have not been pursued by the NSW Department of Public Prosecutions.
Federal politicians say they are overworked and want to cut the hours they spend at Parliament. But a Victorian mum juggling three jobs to make ends meet has hit out at MPs, who she says should stop "crying" about their workload. Liberal backbencher and GP Mal Washer said the public "lacks intelligence" if they didn't understand their representatives were more productive when well-rested.
Hundreds of Muslims, angered by the prospect of a government-closed church re-opening in their neighborhood, protested outside the church yesterday, causing the provisional military authority to back away from its promise to allow Orthodox clergy to reopen it. Protesters started gathering on Thursday afternoon outside the Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam in Ain Shams, a poor section of northeastern Cairo. The church was scheduled to reopen that day, but protestors surrounded the building, preventing anyone from getting into it and trapping priests who were inside.
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Hey, I used to race on this boat!
Source: Latitude38
Latitude 38 had a small piece on the Berkeley Midwinters. It was a nice surprise seeing Challenger right there on the front page, even if it wasn't in the best of circumstances. I've been on that boat when we were right on the precipice of crashing like that...the owner made sure every single person knew what line to pull in case it happened, I'm positive he pulled out of it nicely.
It must be cool to have a picture like that of your boat, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want it published for the whole world to see.


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For this drawing, Penny McCarthy drew her inspiration from a sketch by Athanasius Kircher that attempts to illustrate the myth of the Tower of Babel. The work is part of Time will darken paper, a series of work McCarthy made for the twenty first issue of ESOPUS Magazine published in Spring 2014. Through a series of painstaking drawings, the artist explored ideas of time and narratives that are embedded in archive and hand drawing. Aiming to investigate the idea of archival 'truth' in the context of fake news, Penny McCarthy created a picture essay replicating documents and images. "The method follows Walter Benjamin's idea of a work composed entirely of quotations in which the elements may be moved and realigned to organise knowledge in pieces and scraps", the artist explains. While the works may be constructed from a wide range of sources, taken together they give rise to a narrative. Penny McCarthy, b.1960, Washington DC, works primarily with drawing and text. Her work is presented internationally in a variety of contexts: in museums and galleries, at conferences, and as live projects and publications. She is based in the UK. 23.5 × 21 inches framed
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Call-out for participants
Invitation to Wander (2019) is a contemporary music project created by composer, Karen Power, in partnership with Cork Midsummer Festival and in association with Cork International Choral Festival, Cork Centre for Architectural Education and Nano Nagle Place. This mixed media music project will explore FOUR of the world's most fascinating and mostly unreachable places: The Arctic, Amazon, Arnhem Land - Australia and Deserts and will premier from 19th - 22nd June 2019 as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.
We are inviting 15 individuals, Emerging and/or Amateur singers/vocalists (any voice range) to form Ireland's first ever 'Sound Choir' and to be part of:
- 4 evening premier performances as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2019, and
- participation in a unique Professional Development Programme
What is a 'Sound Choir'?
A 'Sound Choir' is a concept conceived by composer, Karen Power. It is a roaming body of voices (choir) who listen and respond to Power's sound compositions for the four aforementioned worlds, using a series of guided improvisations, text and composed musical phrases. The 'Sound Choir' will perform vocally and respond to these worlds.
Professional Development Programme
The professional development programme has 4 distinct workshops in extended vocal techniques, improvisation, movement and creative practice with Irish and International leading practitioners:
- Vocal extensions with Michelle O'Rourke (Dublin)
- Voice improvisation with Ute Wassermann (Berlin)
- Listening as the start of creativity with Karen Power (Cork)
- Movement workshop with Mary Nunan (Limerick)
The workshops will be held on Friday or Saturday evenings in Cork City with two workshops in March, one in April and one in May. Exact dates to be confirmed.
Selected individuals will receive a small contribution towards performance expenses. This will cover refreshments but not long distance travel or accommodation costs.
Expression of Interest
Submit no more than 500 words in word (.doc) or pdf with your singing/vocal experiences to date and reason for wanting to be part of the 'Sound Choir' by 11th February. You must be over 18 years old. If you have links to singing/vocal experience and/or previous performances, please include. However, they are not a requirement for your submission. Email firstname.lastname@example.com with these materials.
For further information, go to http://www.karenpower.ie/Invitation_to_Wander.html
Invitation to Wander (2019) is supported by the Arts Council and Cork Midsummer Festival.


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Joy Williams Sheet Music
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If you're looking for something to add to your Christmas service, here are some of our most popular Christmas songs: Here With Us (Joy Williams), How Many Kings (Downhere), I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (Casting Crowns) and Christmas Offering (Paul Baloche) are all beautiful choices!
Joy Elizabeth Williams is an American singer-songwriter. The winner of four Grammy awards, Williams has released four solo albums and four EPs since the release of her self-titled debut in 2001. She performed with John Paul White as the Civil Wars from 2009 until 2014.
Late in 2013, Williams collaborated with Chris Cornell on the song "Misery Chain" for the 12 Years A Slave soundtrack. They performed the song together on Late Night with David Letterman at the end of the year. She also collaborated with Matt Berninger from the National on "Hush," the theme song for TURN, which airs on AMC.
Williams announced that she had begun work on a new solo album in April, 2014.
Williams and Hayley Williams of the rock band, Paramore, collaborated on a new version of Paramore's "Hate to See Your Heart Break." The track was included on a deluxe version of the band's self-titled album and was released in November, 2014.
Williams released the debut single, Woman (Oh Mama), off her upcoming album 'Venus' on her personal website in late March 2015.


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Young dandies on a budget seek out color and style
Indeed, it has become one of their routines on dates to visit men's fashion shops. But this young couple is not visiting high-end department stores in search of luxury brands like Giorgio Armani or Ermenegildo Zegna.
Rather, Jang and Park must satisfy their mutual passion for high-style menswear on a limited budget. They scour downtown streets for the easily available brand shops, such as STCO and the Shirts Studio. And Park is not the only young man tending to his style. Bargain brand boutiques have shown steady growth.
The major sales pitch of these men's brands ― they define themselves as catering to men who want a coordinated look ― is an affordable price and a wide variety of colors and items. Shirts range from around 50,000 won ($53) and ties average about 40,000 won. Rock bottom prices on some shirts are as low as 29,000 won.
With their colorful designs and hip attitude, these budget men's shops cater to the emerging market of young "metrosexual" Korean men who care about their appearance and are not ashamed of being style conscious ― but still want value.
Baek Myoung-gee, the marketing strategy director for the Shirts Studio, noted that conventional men's brands, many of them available at department stores, have a built-in bubble in their steep prices to accommodate the commissions paid to department stores and other marketing prices. Baek says the secret for his company is location and style rather than heavy marketing. "We tend to cut down on advertising and we open branch shops around subway stations frequented by young people," Baek said.
While the prices of the shirts and ties may be low in these shops, they can translate into high profits for the companies. STCO, launched in 2002, reported 45 billion won in sales last year, a major leap from 17 billion won the year before. This year, the brand is projecting sales of 60 billion won. The Shirts Studio, launched in 2004, is enjoying a doubling of its sales growth each year. Baek is happy to be in this moderate end of the market, saying that many well-established brands are trying to make inroads into the realm of affordable and stylish men's fashion.
The price strategy of these brands also lowers the threshold for young men on a budget who want to become stylish. Kim In-young, a 27-year-old currently without a stable job, said that he appreciates the pricing and he can still satisfy his inner peacock. "I have a limited budget, yet I want to wear nice clothes in bright colors," Kim said, "So I come to these shops once or twice a week." Last Thursday, he was torn between a pink-striped white shirt and one with blue polka dots.
A recent visit to STCO and Shirts Studio outlets in Sinchon, a hot spot for young people in central Seoul, revealed a rainbow of shirts and ties on display, with various shades of pink and purple, many of them adorned with flowers or heart patterns, dominating the scene this season.
Kim Eun-seong, manager of the STCO shop in Dongdaemun, explained, "One important character istic of our brand is that we use colors that were once exclusive to women."
Huh Sung-woo, an assistant manager at Andrew's Ties, agrees that men's preference for colors is a new trend, something that began around 2005. Andrew's Ties launched in 2004 with a focus on colorful ties and shirts, but it faced marketing difficulties at first. "It was hard to break the longtime stereotype of male customers who preferred monochromatic colors for their suits," Huh said. Now, the best-selling items are purple, orange and green ties, he added.
Huh noted that another change in the men's clothing market is that the male customers are becoming more active and engaged by fashion. "Many of the customers used to be women who were picking presents for men," said Kim of STCO's Dongdaemun branch. "But we have many male customers who enjoy shopping alone." Baek of the Shirts Studio echoes this observation. "Men used to wear what their girlfriends or wives picked out for them. In shopping, they used to be nothing but drivers or porters to carry the bags," he said. Now, it's a different story.
Take Park In-tae, 28, a curator at an art gallery. Park's strict principle is to always choose his look with his own eye. He said he is quite picky in terms of fabric and color. "What I wear represents who I am," Park said,."And I don't want to look boring. I want to wear pretty clothes and look pretty."
Aside from color, Park said he was drawn to a variety of slim ties that contrast with traditional attire, a look he borrowed from a Japanese soap opera. The slim tie look is hot now in the brand shops.
Park likes to wear a narrow gray tie with a black shirt, gray jacket and black pants on work days. "At work, it's sometimes too much to wear, say, a purple shirt with a flower pattern," Park said. "In that case, I wear a tie to represent my style."
The trend toward color and flair is not limited to the young. In fact there is a new group of so-called "Dandy Daddies," who are style-conscious. In a recent survey of 1,897 middle- aged workers taken by the Web site Career Net, 26.3 percent said they were fashion conscious.
"The days when men thought fashion was not their priority are long gone," said Baek. "Now, men are aware that what they wear is a reflection of how they are living their life and investing their time and money."
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My idea for an SCP would be this purple space-like entity in the shape of the human with a 10 cm iron ball inside it. Its anomalous property is that much like a sun it gets energy from the fusion of hydrogen atoms in its body that it absorbs from the air. With this energy it can then explode and implode any object it touches with the energy it has at the moment. The entity can also explode and implode itself and reforms itself at the iron ball which is unharmed. Containment would include trying to make its chamber as close as possible to a vacuum and would include extremely powerful magnets to repel the entity into a fix position.
Not sure about this last part but an idea I would have for the SCP is for it to be saying that the Foundation "Left them to die" and therefore having a vendetta against the Foundation and wishes to destroy it. The SCP would also want to "Free the others." As I said before I'm not sure about this part but if it needed some lore behind it this would be my idea.


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FeelViana, a brand new sports resort, located in north-west Portugal is Planet Windsurf's favourite new holiday destination. Here are just 5 reasons why you should visit this amazing destination:
1. Some of the world's best windsurfing
The beach at FeelViana will make all your windsurfing dreams come true. The resort is run by a competitive windsurfer, and is purpose built for sporting enthusiasts with a fantastic centre, stocked with all the latest equipment, right on site. Beginners learning to windsurf will enjoy the large area of flat water created by the port's breakwater while a couple hundred yards down the beach, the waves start to peal, creating the perfect playground for more advanced sailors. The thermal wind picks up through the day so it is not uncommon to be able to windsurf from sunup right through to sunset in the summer season.
Beach in front of hotel with kit centre/beach bar and breakwater in distance. Winds normally blow from the right – starboard tack cross shore.
2. Fantastic, safe conditions
This area of Portugal is said to provide the most consistent wind in the whole country and the horshoe-shaped bay offers safe windsurfing conditions no matter your skill level. The hotel also has a unique set up with the local lifeboat society who offers a free rescue boat service during the summer months to anyone using the beach – a luxury that is offered almost no where else in the world.
View of the bay.
3. Discover authentic Portugal
FeelViana is located on Cabedelo Beach, near the traditional port town of Viana do Castelo. Here you can enjoy a truly authentic Portuguese experience, far away from the bustling tourists resorts, crowded beaches and commercial hubs of Portugal's Algarve. An authentic atmosphere, well priced cuisine and a great local experience will have you returning again and again. Located just 40km from the southern border of Spain, the resort also offers the perfect base from which to explore the surrounding region.
Hotel's beach bar / cafe/ kit centre
4. Great value for money
The hotel offers a four star boutique experience that is suitable for a wide range of clients at an affordable price. Planet also has exclusive rates at FeelViana to make it even more affordable, including pre-reserved rooms for the PWA 2018 event that will be held at the hotel between 14 and 24 June 2018. There are lots of flights to Porto available from the UK, from London, as well as some of the regional airports, making this a very accessible destination – even in the busy summer holiday months.
Aerial view of hotel with beach in the background – if there's swell like in the pic there's waves right on your door but still flat water inside the breakwater.
5. Great for multi-activity holidays
The area surrounding FeelViana is rich in cultural and historical sites as well as outstanding natural beauty – perfect for the outdoor enthusiast. When you are not on the water windsurfing you can learn to kitesurf, enjoy a spot of SUPing, fishing or sailing, or explore the land on foot or by bicycle. One thing not to miss out on is FeelViana's guided cycling tours. Utilising only the best equipment and offering over 400km of tracks to explore, in the mountains and on the roads, by the river or by the beach, FeelViana offers a cycling experience second to none. You can even cycle up the river to an ancient village to enjoy some fine wine and cheese or pop into Spain, enjoy an afternoon of tapas and fine wine, and make it back to Portugal in time for a sunset windsurf session!
The hotel's impressive cycle and sup centre.
So what are you waiting for, contact Planet Windsurf Holidays to book your trip to FeelViana today!


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Word to the Wise
Monday, July 27, 2009 - Monday in the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time[Exodus 32:15-24 and Matthew 13:31-35]
Moses asked Aaron, "What did this people ever do to you that you should lead them into so grave a sin?" Aaron replied, "Let not my lord be angry. You know well enough how prone the people are to evil. They said to me, 'Make us a god to be our leader; as for the man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.' So I told them, 'Let anyone who has gold jewelry take it off.' They gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."
Grade school and high school teachers know better than to leave the students alone in a classroom for too long, even if there is a "monitor" present! It must have taken God awhile to get those commandments carved into those stone tablets (and NOT as Roman numerals!). In any case, the Chosen People made their own choice. If God's "agent," Moses, was not going to be around, they would find an "agent" for another "god." Moses' brother, Aaron, shows himself to be a flexible kind of guy (Hey, go with the flow...!) and he is familiar enough with current designer-god patterns. His later explanation to Moses is really somewhat comical if it weren't such a serious offense: "I threw it [the gold] into the fire and this calf came out..." Yeah, right! There is much to be gained from serious meditation on this incident. I'll highlight just a couple. The first is the contrast between Moses and his brother, Aaron. Moses is going to represent God's message and will. Aaron is going to represent the great "Whatever...." Moses has the unenviable position of being a "mediator" between God and the Chosen People. Aaron just creates a "god" and lets things take whatever course the folks feel like doing! (It must have been quite a liturgy!) Pastors and liturgists have a lot to learn from this. The second is the whole question of our tendency to create a "god of our own design" when the commands of the true God become inconvenient or God appears to be "absent" or God's agent isn't around to keep things in line! We may find ourselves in big trouble. Moses grinds up the golden calf and makes soup of it! So much for the great god, Whatever! Blaming poor leadership isn't going to get us off the hook! AMEN


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From the folks who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,another hybrid of Jane Austen's classic novels of love and society and horror genre menaces is about to hit our literary shores. This time,the target is Sense and Sensibility,with the interesting add-on of Sea Monsters,thanks to "co-author" Ben H. Winters.
The story set-up is familiar;the Dashwood sisters must find a new home after their father meets his untimely end at the gruesome jaws of a shark and all of the family estate by the seaside is inherited by half brother John,who with the help of his cold as a cod wife Fanny,reneges on his promises to assist them(it helps that the plea by the senior Mr. Dashwood was written in sand and washed away by the tides).
The ladies are offered a home on one of the islands owned by Sir John,a somewhat retired adventurer,and there Miss Marianne is courted by two suitors. One she automatically rejects is Colonel Brandon,who has a tentacle ridden face due to a sea witch's curse,and the other, Willoughby, she unreservedly gives her heart to after he rescues her from the clutches of an octopus.
Elinor,on the other hand,slowly realizes that she and Edward Ferrars will more than likely never get a chance to express their love,especially when Lucy Steele lets her in on the secret engagement between her and Edward(ill timely told while rowing a boat just as the Devonshire Fang Beast rises up from the waters to make his presence known).
Many of the perils of this book are physical as well as emotional,due to the ongoing battle between mankind and just about every denizen of the deep that you can imagine:
This background of nautical warfare is due to an event called The Alteration,which has a number of theories about it's origins held by several characters throughout the story,but even that doesn't prevent the Dashwood sisters from experiencing heartbreak or other worries.
Their loads to bear in life are made more exotic by having to flee giant lobster attacks,hold off a band of vicious pirates and fearing for young Margaret's state of mind as she becomes obsessed with some strange goings-on at their new island home.
Those who are ardent admirers of Miss Austen's novels should be able to rest easy;while the outrageous acts of violence committed by sea dwelling creatures of all sorts are merrily splattering the pages,the heart of the tale is still intact. Marianne's legendary misery is complete in all it's glory,only with a maritime setting to enhance it further along:
Ben Winters mixes in plenty of prior literary ocean based references such as Jules Verne,along with some offbeat mystical ones like H.P. Lovecraft with parody laced panache. While sea monsters may not have the instant pop cultural cache of zombies ,this second go-round at Jane Austen has the potential to create a revival.
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is an amusing take on the Austen romantic realm that brings much needed laughter to readers to put them at ease as they go forth thru the troubled waters of our times.
Whether you're a land lubber or a salty sea dog,S&S&SM has the right bait and hook to reel you into the wild waves of this Regency romp. The best you can do is hang on tight and enjoy the ride-you might even make a few new friends along the way:


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On March 3–10 Rector of Riga Technical University (RTU) Academician Leonīds Ribickis will pay a working visit to the Land Of The Rising Sun in order to strengthen relations with Japanese higher education institutions and agree on cooperation.
Along with L. Ribickis, Deputy Rector for International Academic Cooperation and Studies Igors Tipāns and Dean of RTU Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Jānis Grundspeņķis will also visit Japan.
RTU Rector will visit Kumamoto University and meet with the Rector. Both universities are interested in cooperation on student mobility and development of short-term courses for Japanese students at RTU, which was already discussed earlier this year. During the visit of RTU delegation a cooperation agreement could be signed.
L.Ribickis is planning to visit also Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Denki University and Waseda University, and meet with their administration and specialists, as well as visit laboratories and student campuses. A meeting with representatives of the Robotics Society of Japan is also planned. The exchange of information and experience in the development of robot technologies is one of the goals of this visit. At the beginning of this year, within the framework of the visit of the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, his spouse Akie Abe visited RTU and had an opportunity to see demonstration of the robot constructor Sumo Boy, which was created at RTU.
During the visit, a meeting is planned with the Latvian Ambassador to Japan, Dace Treija-Masī.
A close cooperation between RTU and Japan began already fifteen years ago. RTU has general cooperation agreements with three Japanese universities – Shizuoka University, Kobe University and Kindai University. Until now, a closer cooperation has been established with Shizuoka University, the cooperation agreement foresees a joint degree programme, student and staff mobility, as well as cooperation in scientific research and organization of scientific conferences. Researchers from RTU and Japanese universities have collaborated more closely in the field of material sciences. Delegations and lectors from Japan have visited RTU, where they gave lectures to RTU students and academic staff. Several students from Japan study at RTU.
Cooperation with Japan takes place not only in the field of education and science, but also in promoting culture and language.


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Cancer Support VI Lecture Postponed Until Today
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Because of a canceled flight, the lecture originally set for Wednesday, Nov. 7, has been moved to today: Cancer Support VI, sponsored by International Capital & Management Company (ICMC), will host the next free presentation by Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, vice chairman of the Department of Medical Oncology at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), Chief of Medical Oncology and Medical Director of Research at CTCA – Philadelphia. He will present "Precision Oncology 2.0: Transforming personalized medicine into better cancer treatments"


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Beta Alanine – Information You Need To Know About This Supplement!
Within the previous couple of years, beta-alanine has emerged on the market sport nutrition. Beta-alanine is commonly used as capsules, tabletsor as a powder that is blended with a fluid (normally water). While a few clinical trials have indicated increments in markers of vigorous continuance execution, body structure, and quality with beta-alanine, others have exhibited no cryogenic advantages. This area examines beta-alanine as a sports supplement, starting with its main compound carnosine.
Detail about Beta Alanine
One of the most sought after nutritious supplements to hit the business sector recently has been beta-alanine. Essentially, beta-alanine is an ancestor to the compound carnosine; which, works by "extinguishing" the acidic environment made by working muscles. On the off chance that the cell environment inside of the muscle turns out to be excessively acidic, then the muscle quits working-the hypothesis is that carnosine constricts the onset of an acidic domain permitting you to accomplish more work (lift more weights, run quicker, and so on). As you can envision this has gotten many people in the wellness and execution industry energized, in light of the fact that the more work you can do and weights you can lift, the greater, speedier, and more grounded you can get to be.
Carnosine is one of the synthesized in the body utilizing beta alanine and histidine. Since there is a wealth of free histidine in the circulatory system, taking beta alanine will add to higher carnosine levels in the cells. Beta alanine is what is called an isomer amino acid, being fundamentally the same to L-alanine, yet confronting an alternate bearing. These slight varieties can effect sly affect how an amino acid is used by the body and this is unquestionably the case with it contradicted to L-alanine. These two amino acid isomers share almost no in like manner pharmacologically.
Boosts Performance and Prevents Aging
This strong amino acid has been appeared to expand quality and stamina in performance sports person and might help the elderly by boosting mind action and vitality levels. One of its significant impacts that adds to its notoriety as a sports supplement is the capacity to support lactic acid. Lactic acid is a side effect of cell digestion system that particularly happens with extreme activity. At the point when the body is presented to high force exercise it produces lactic acid, which flags that vitality is getting low.
This supplement can shield lactic acid which is the thing that gives it such a colossal point of preference to quality and execution competitors. It has been appeared to expand the impacts of creatine on vitality yield and quality which is the reason it is incorporated into numerous pre-workout recipes. It is hypothesized that the ideal beta alanine measurements is 1800mg, making it difficult to accomplish ideal levels with generally supplements.
The side effects of Beta alanine
The side effects of Beta alanine are very few however it has one awful reaction that individuals either love or despise! It causes a "tingling" impact like niacin which some portray as a "shiver". This is absolutely innocuous yet might make your skin feel bothersome for 20-30 minutes subsequent to taking the supplement. It is hypothesized that it causes the nerves near your skin to flag like niacin. The flush is not something to be worried with and has no pessimistic wellbeing impacts, however it might disturb to a few individuals. The taking so as to flush might be decreased your supplement with something sugary like organic product squeeze this ought to dispense with that reaction by constraining the supplement into the cells and along these lines keeping it far from the nerves.
As a sport supplement
Beta-alanine supplementation is generally new and is a very helpful cryogenic aid. It is essential to understand that there have been just a couple very much planned clinical examinations on this compound, and the distributed results to date have been obscure. One of the potential restrictions in the current writing is the irregularities in dosing regimens. While a significant part of the exploration has been sure, the dosing regimens have differed from 3 to 6 g/day. This issue is frustrated by the way that the higher dosages were less powerful now and again. In connection to reactions and measurement, research from Harris and associates (2006) has uncovered that generally high single dosages of beta-alanine are in charge of disagreeable manifestations of paresthesia (shivering sensation in the skin) that might last up to 60 minutes. This sensation can be wiped out if the greatest single dosage is 10 mg/kg of body weight, which relates to a normal of 800 mg of beta-alanine in a solitary measurement (Harris et al. 2006).


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The unisex Shapes ring by Vitaly Design is pretty straight forward, three different shaped rings that when combined make a ever changing design. This ring is much more delicate than the rest of their collection which makes it easily wearable by the girls too - when all three are together though, it definitely stacks up as a cool geometric mens ring like you haven't seen before.
Wear one or wear three, the option is up to you! If you really want to create you one of a kind look, combining both finishes will allow so many combinations it would be hard to look the same twice again.