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HHHThat's my homie,
No matter what anyone tells you, we live in a world based almost entirely on co-signs.
Whether you're looking for a job at a grocery store, shopping for a record deal, or getting into the mob, someone needs to vouch for you. Someone always needs to be there co-signing you as you try and claw your way up the elevator shaft to the Penthouse. And although it's unfortunate, it's life as we know it and it's something we have to learn to work like any other tool or utensil.
So today, I'd like to demonstrate the power of the co-sign.
Toronto-based vocalist Ayah has come up quick in her time. At the eager age of 22, she has already started to create waves through Canada with a string of mixtapes and guestspots that have garnered her a budding and loyal following. However, despite her smooth voice and well intentioned collaborations, nothing has been more important to her growth in Canada than her success in the Southern half of North America.
Having caught the ear of Touch of Jazz founder, the legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff, her brand new album, 4:15 is now not only completely executive produced by the Hip-Hop Icon, but also the launching pad from which she is poised to do some serious damage for the home team.
Here's the first single entitled 'In my Lifetime'.
Okay, so truthfully, neither of these dudes need co-signs. Both are supremely talented, have cred and co-signs coming out the A, and are arguably in the all-time TOP 5. That being said, it's always cool to get your hip-hop nerd on and see a genuine co-signing moment.
Brought to you by the same people who gave you the Def & DOOM footage, I give you the Mighty Mos Def and the incomparable Black Thought.
This last example of co-signage is one I hold close to my heart.
As some of you may or may not know, I'm the head of the Music Division over at PPF House as well as an artist on the Toronto-based independent label. We've technically been around for 10 years but I didn't really start contributing until about the Winter of 2004 and our Music Division was only recently launched this past February. Before then, it was held together by the work of two brothers, Tim and Howie Shia. Both established artists in their own fields (Audio and Visual respectively), if one were to compile a list of (what would be considered MAJOR) accolades from these two, they would have something comparable to one of those new compact phone books they've been sending out.
Well now, to add to that phonebook (you can check out more from that list by clicking the image above) Howie, who just recently finished doing a video for Mush Recording Artist, Deru (of Avatar fame — the cartoon not the James Cameron film) recently caught the eye of none other than the Louis Vutton Don himself, Kanye West. And although it was just a blog, I appreciate the love cause based off recent events, it would seem that Mr. West is quite passionate about his videos.
Anyway, here's the flick:
BLAKROC EPISODE #4 ft. RZA
I'm losing my mind. This is gonna be RIDICULOUS!
Be well world.


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TROY — Now through Feb. 15, the Miami SWCD will accept applications from Ohio landowners interested in selling an agricultural easement on their farms through the Ohio Department of Agriculture Local Agricultural Easement Purchase Program (LAEPP), made possible from allocations from the Clean Ohio Fund.
The easement requires:
• Farm remain permanently in agriculture production
• Farm must be 40 acres or more
• Participation in the Current Agricultural Use Valuation program
• Owners demonstrate good stewardship of the land
• Support of their local government
• Land not lay directly in the path of development.
Landowners may use the proceeds of the easement in any way they wish, but most reinvest it in their farm operations. Funding for the program is derived from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund, approved by voters in 2008. When combined with easements from all programs, 449 family farms in 59 counties have collectively preserved more than 73,500 acres in agricultural production.
For more information on Ohio's farmland preservation effort visit www.agri.ohio.gov. If you think you'd like to pursue this opportunity, contact Linda Raterman or Kreig Smail at Miami SWCD at 335-7645 or visit the offices at 1330 N. County Road 25-A, Troy.


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"Confession" is the excellent debut from Stoop Quintet, a band formed at the University of York, led by pianist/composer Jonathan Brigg. The album has a deeply rich and darkly melodic feel to it, with sudden, refreshing bursts of improvisation. Band-leader Brigg is joined by Sam Miles on saxophones, Alex Munk on guitar, Flo Moore on bass, and Dave Smyth on drums. Together the quintet have forged an engrossing originality that not only highlights the compositional skills of Brigg, but also brings to life a togetherness and richly entertaining balance of thought-provoking and expressionistic music. "Since writing for "Ranch" for Threads Orchestra in 2012," says Briggs, "I've been preoccupied with the challenge of composing for improvising musicians, while at the same time trying to honour my classical roots. Confession takes a step closer towards a jazz aesthetic, but the influences remain diverse and the role of improvisation within the music is perhaps unusual." What is clear from listening to this album, is that each and every musician involved contributes an important role in how the tunes develop. One can hear that it's cleverly written, but at the same time, it's also very evident that the skill and understanding of the quintet as a whole manage to take tunes on to even greater heights.
The opening track "Ranch" gives a clear indication of the inventiveness that flows throughout the whole album. There's often a quirkiness and always an edginess to the music that I really like. The opening riff of this tune leads into a rocky guitar solo from Munk, before journeying on, changing pace, exploring the riff and leading into the first of many stunning improvised sax solos from Miles, this one on soprano. Another feature of the tunes is just how well bassist Moore and drummer Smyth drive the pieces with a deeply understated cool groove. The impeccable piano and bass-led riff of "Turn" has a maturity to it, one that suggests this band have been playing together far longer than they actually have. There's a warmth and depth to the music that is very satisfying. On "Fable", undoubtedly one of my favourite tracks on the album, Briggs' haunting piano draws the listener in. His tunes may be like short stories individually, but on this piece he creates a whole new world for the listener to fall into. But what really lifts this track into a deeper, darker, more emotional place, is Sam Miles' sax solo. His playing truly sends shivers down my spine with an awesome tone to his tenor playing, totally enthralling. He has to be one of the most promising saxophonists on the UK scene at the moment and I can't wait to hear more from him in the future. "Stoop Kid" is a far more exploratory piece, with conversations taking place between the instruments, inquiring and responding in various ways before the tension breaks and the tune continues to evolve. The energetic, romping "Sevens" has a classical/jazz avante grade feel to it, but it never loses the listener's attention. Briggs' piano is the rock on which most of the music is built, with him rarely coming to the fore, but here he does, with an infectious style to his playing that suggests a restlessness, a kind of searching to still a cluttered, over-active mind. The beauty of "Spring Song" is a stunning change of pace, with Miles' mellow soprano working beautifully with Munk's sensitive guitar. When Briggs's piano brings in the melody, it's a wonderful sound, a textural and rewarding palette of colours. The title track "Confession" is once again a piece that evolves, with many changes of mood and atmosphere all within this one tune. I'm listening to a very good composer here, as the band lead me through this confession in alluring, revealing style. The music twists and turns, taking me on journey of surprise and intrigue. The album closes with "Soldier On", a stunning end to the recording. It opens with some ethereal guitar, before developing into a slow, pensive, yet astoundingly beautiful, soothing piece of music. I found myself putting this track on repeat several times, just to make it four or five times longer… the time needed sometimes to draw breath in a crazy world, the time needed to calm the mind and revitalise the soul.
"Confession" is a wonderful debut from Stoop Quintet. It's so good to hear music like this being released, especially given the fact that they are all relatively young UK musicians still making their way in the music world. They have certainly made their mark here, and I for one cannot wait to hear how this quintet develops in the future.


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Together as Individuals art opening
April 15, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
* Art Exhibit
* Social
* Performance Art
This Event: May be of interest to the LGBTQ community
Together as Individuals, ITS HAPPENING!
Madison, WI – The Common Wealth Gallery (located at 100 S. Baldwin st.) is pleased to present a group exhibition of new works featuring all local community artists. The "ITS HAPPENING" show will run from April 8th, 2016 – April 16th, 2016 with an opening reception on Friday, April 15th from 5-8:30 p.m. On Saturday April 16th, the exhibition will also feature interactive works including dance, Tai chi, cardboard construction, and performance art.
Many gallery artists will be featured in the show. We are creating something inexplicable- an energy, rather than anything steeped in narrative. Something more like a feeling. A happening is by definition "a partly improvised or spontaneous piece of theatrical or other artistic performance, typically involving audience participation." Come to the show, the experience, the art. Please join us, together as individuals to create a new art community.
Together as Individuals/ ITS HAPPENING, will run through April 16, 2016. The artists will be present at the opening reception Friday, April 15th from 5:00 – 8:30 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday–Sunday, 10AM– 6PM, and by appointment. For additional information please contact Common Wealth Gallery (608) 256-6565
- Date:
- April 15, 2016
- Time:
5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Event Categories:
- Art Exhibition, Performance Art, Social
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- art, Common Wealth Gallery, dance, galleries, Madison, performance, tai chi, Wisconsin
- Common Wealth Gallery
100 S. Baldwin St.
Madison, WI 53704 United States + Google Map
- Phone:
- (608) 256-6565
- Website:
- http://www.cwd.org/gallery/


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Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories: A Chronological Bibliography of Published Works 1789-1991
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This article was originally published as Organ, MK, Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories: A Chronological Bibliography of Published Works 1789-1991, Aboriginal History, 18(2), 1994, 123-144.
The bibliography lists published works relating to Aboriginal stories which have been labelled by non-Aboriginal Australians with a variety of terms: myths or mythology, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, fables, traditions, stories, dreamtime stories, narratives or even ghost stories. Preference is now given to the use of the term 'dreaming stories'. For a discussion of the various definitions and classifications of such material by Australian anthropologists and ethnologists refer Hiatt (1975). Interpretation by local and overseas researchers and academics has not been addressed in detail within this bibliography as such a topic covers a vast field, but some such items have been included. The emphasis has remained on publications which include collections of Aboriginal dreaming stories, though there are some exceptions to this rule, especially among the earlier references, for example, Tench 1789 and Collins 1798, where mere portions or retellings of such stories are to be found.


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For this game, you will need several rolls of toilet paper.
Divide your guests up into several teams of no more than 4 people per team. Each team elects one member to be the "mom-to-be." The other members must design a fashionable maternity outfit for their mom-to-be using only toilet paper. At the end, the real mom-to-be will judge which team did the best maternity clothes design.
A good prize for this might be to give a gift certificate to a clothing store to the "mom-to-be" from the winning team – for being such a good sport!
Baby Shower Game – Dress the Mom


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At the very last minute the House of Representatives is acting as if the house is on fire. Finally.
First, the House voted on Friday – the day after the Senate seemed to hand the President a victory – against the approval of the Nuclear Iran Deal. The vote was 269 to 162.
The House also acted on a bill which was introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
That bill, HR 3460, blocks U.S. President Barack Obama from in any way lifting sanctions on Iran's nuclear program, or from releasing individuals from specially designated terrorist lists which would otherwise be released under the proposed terms of the Nuclear Iran Deal.
The bill not only seeks to prevent the president from lifting sanctions now, it seeks to prevent him from lifting them until the end of his term as president, which is January 21, 2017.
The bill passed by a vote of 247 to 186.
Following the passage of HR 3460, Congressman Zeldin said,
"The President must not lift sanctions on Iran to implement this fatally flawed deal. The leverage that brought the Iranians to the table was the sanctions relief. Negotiating away our leverage while leaving so much out of the agreement is a historic strategic mistake.
"Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, actively working to overthrow foreign governments, while pledging to wipe Israel off the map and chanting Death to America in their streets. So much wasn't even part of the negotiations, including Iran's continued efforts to develop ICBMs, blow up mock U.S. warships and unjustly imprison American citizens, including a U.S. Marine, a Pastor and a Reporter.
"This is a fatally flawed deal that paves the path to worsening instability and turmoil in the Middle East and is on track to trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. Furthermore, Congress has not even received the entire agreement yet from the President, specifically the critical components of the deal that would outline the verification agreements entered into between the IAEA and Iran. The President says this deal is not based on trust; it is based on verification, but we don't even know the full details of the verification regime. It's unfortunate that some members of Congress choose party loyalty over national security. I also want to thank Congressman Roskam for his very thoughtful and determined effort with this noble cause."
Congressman Roskam said, "This dangerous nuclear agreement is what happens when the Administration capitulates to the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism. Under no circumstances should Congress be complicit in giving Iran a $150 billion cash infusion to further fund attacks against the United States and our allies. That's why today the House passed this important bill to prevent President Obama from lifting statutory sanctions against Iran under this deeply flawed deal. I want to thank Congressman Zeldin for his leadership on this issue critical to U.S. national security."
The following is the text of the bill that was passed by the House on Friday, September 11.
A BILL To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the President to waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prior to January 21, 2017, the President may not— (1) waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of sanctions described in subsection (b) or refrain from applying any such sanctions; or (2) remove a foreign person listed in Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action from the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the Department of the Treasury.


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Spring 2017
Vera Candiani
Hendrik Hartog
This course introduces students to the field of American studies. It takes "America" as a problem, rather than a given, considering what changes when we view it as a continent or as a nation. It is examined from global, national, and local standpoints, paying attention both to its material and its imaginary manifestations. The course uses primary and secondary sources in law, film, history, material culture, music, philosophy, and politics. It asks what "American" culture, history and identity mean, how that changes when America is viewed as a continent and how to understand it all in context of capitalism, genocide and other global themes.
Laurel Mei-Singh
This course employs the central premise that multiple racial projects contribute to Asian racial formation, and that warfare plays a central role in these co-constitutive enterprises. As such, this course will examine war, its entanglement with capitalism, and decolonization in relation to anti-Black racism, settler colonialism, and anti-Asian racism. As an introduction to an Asian American studies course, we will use comparative, transnational frameworks to interrogate Asian Americanism. In order to accomplish this, we will develop critical perspectives of the Pacific while exploring the intersections of race and indigeneity.
Stacy Wolf
This seminar explores how and why race is a key component of the Broadway musical theatre. From 19th-century minstrel shows, in which African American performers "blacked up" to play Black characters previously performed by whites in blackface; to the mid-20th-century "golden age" musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein, in which Asian characters were created to support a white liberal agenda; to the blockbuster Hamilton, which merges musical theatre conventions and hip hop to re-tell the story of America, performances of race and ethnicity structure the American musical's aesthetic and political work. How did we get from there to here?
Michael Friedman
The son of a Russian cantor, Israel Baline came with his family to New York in 1893, changed his name to "Irving Berlin," and dominated popular music in the United States for four decades, culminating in "God Bless America" and the most popular song of all time, "White Christmas." How did a Jew come to write songs that celebrate Christmas and Easter? How did a Jewish immigrant come to define the sound of American song? What about Ragtime or the Blues? This class will examine questions of identity, assimilation, and influence, as well as the crucial issues of race and appropriation.
Katie Pearl
Taking as our context the fractured state of our country, this course investigates artists whose work brings us closer together. From Frank Lloyd Wright's practice of organic architecture to Nicolas Bourriaud's theories of Relational Aesthetics, we will engage with diverse artists from a range of disciplines who, through their work, assert the absolute necessity of creative exchange and personal encounter to maintain a humane world. Students will explore, assess, and craft socially engaged art and performance that address the deep divides of our communities and create avenues towards the difficult conversations our country wants to have.
Kevin Kruse
In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between race, racism and politics throughout 20-century America. Topics will include segregation; immigration and assimilation; the role of racial politics in World War II and the Cold War; the civil rights movement and white massive resistance; Black Power and the white backlash; and contemporary politics up to the election of Barack Obama.
Henry Yu
The stories of Asian Americans and global Asian migrants have commonly been told through film and multimedia rather than textual representations. Underrepresented in narratives of U.S. history, activists and community-based filmmakers have often turned to film and digital media forms to document and story-tell about neglected subjects. This course examines a selection of Asian American films and at the same time asks students to create projects using multimedia tools. We will work together to learn basic film-making techniques through weekly workshops with the goal of being able to produce your own short film by the end of the term.
Emily Thompson
When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, no one, including Edison, knew what to do with the device. Over the next century Americans would engage in an ongoing dialogue with this talking machine, defining and redefining its purpose. This course will track that trajectory, from business tool to scientific instrument to music recorder to musical instrument. By listening to the history of the phonograph, and by examining the desires and experiences of phonograph users, students will perceive more generally the complex relationships that exist between a technology and the people who produce, consume, and transform it.
Naomi Murakawa
This course investigates the role of police power in reinforcing or challenging racial order in all of its economic, spatial, and gendered manifestations. We pay particular attention to the ways in which commonplace notions of safety and security develop in relation to the history of territorial expansion, war, wealth accumulation, and the racialized distribution of private property.
Naomi Murakawa
This course explores how ideas and discourses about race shape how public policy is debated, adopted, and implemented. Black social movements and geopolitical considerations prompted multiple public policy responses to racial discrimination throughout the 20th century. Despite these policy responses, discrimination persists, raising theoretical concerns about the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, political representation, the role of the state (meaning government or law) in promoting social justice, and the role of social movements and civil society in democratizing policymaking and addressing group oppression.
Anne McCauley
Museums are places where material artifacts from the manmade and natural world are preserved, shown, studied, classified, and refashioned into narratives about our past, amusements for our leisure hours, and models for our future. Why did these institutions appear and what do they say about our values and selective/collective memories? Through readings, field trips, meetings with museum staff, and practical exercise, students will explore the history of American museums (art, ethnographic, natural history, material culture) and the challenges that they confront in an increasingly multi-cultural and digital age.
Monica Huerta
This course argues that translation was a central concern and beloved practice of America's earliest writers. Students will read theories of translation in order to understand the different ways in which authors valued journeying between languages as between geographies and in order to answer questions about translation itself. How do we know when translations fail? What would "perfect" translations be? We will read canonical works as texts that deal in translation and migration to think about the limitations and possibilities that each of these lends to notions of belonging in America.
Christy Wampole
Comparative readings of canonical theoretical feminist texts in 20th-century France and the U.S., including texts by Beauvoir, Butler, Hooks, Cixous, Kristeva, Lorde, Irigaray, Harraway, Condé, Le Guin, Preciado, Wittig, and Tiqqun. Some topics addressed: first- through fourth-wave feminism, pornography, Riot Grrrl, the veil/burqa/burkini in the public space, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn incident, Femen, abortion, fashion and beauty, race and social class, sexual violence and the campus, French parity laws, street harassment, maternity politics, political correctness, queer politics, ecofeminism. Graduate students encouraged to enroll.
Tala Khanmalek
What do feminists of color have to say about how the social determinants of health affect our bodies? In this seminar, we will explore the ways in which feminists of color narrate the impact of multiple oppressions on their well/being. The readings begin with an overview of key concepts in women of color and transnational feminisms including but not limited to intersectionality and theory in the flesh, which we will draw on to think about the materiality of difference.
Alfred Bendixen
An exploration of the graphic memoir focusing on the ways specific works combine visual imagery and language to expand the possibilities of autobiographical narrative. Through our analysis of highly acclaimed graphic memoirs from the American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese traditions, we analyze the visual and verbal constructions of identity with an emphasis on the representations of gender dynamics and cultural conflict.
Regina Kunzel
The prison is a growth industry in the U.S.; it is also a central institution in U.S. political and social life, shaping our experience of race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, and political possibility. This course explores the history of incarceration over the course of more than two centuries. It tracks the emergence of the penitentiary in the early national period and investigates mass incarceration of the late 20th century. Topics include the relationship between the penitentiary and slavery; the rise of convict leasing; the prisoners' rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s; the effects of the 1970s "war on drugs" and "war on crime" on mass incarceration; immigration detention; and the privatization and globalization of prisons.
Beth Lew-Williams
This course considers the history of collective violence in America. We will define "collective violence" broadly to encompass people acting on behalf of the U.S. government (i.e. police, soldiers, militiamen, and immigration officers) and people acting as civilians (i.e. slaveholders, vigilantes, terrorists, and protesters). We will also define "America" broadly to include the states, territorial possession, and insular colonies of the United States. A series of case studies (drawn primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries) will introduce disparate forms of violence, including vigilantism, slavery, massacre, imperialism, riot, segregation, and terrorism.
Sadaf Jaffer
This course examines literature and film by South Asians in North America. Students will gain perspective on the experiences of immigration and diaspora through the themes of identity, memory, solidarity, and resistance. From early Sikh migration to the American West Coast to Muslim identity in a post 9/11 world, how can South Asian American stories be read as symbolic of the American experience of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity more broadly? Students will hone their skills in reading primary materials, analyzing them within context, writing persuasively, and speaking clearly.
Bruno Carvalho
Diversity has sometimes been viewed as a source of vitality and strength, other times as a threat to cultural or national cohesion. This seminar explores histories of segregation and debates about diversity in a hemispheric framework, asking: how can Latin American perspectives inform our understanding of the U.S.? How has the U.S. shaped urban developments in Latin American, as a model or cautionary tale? What is the interplay between identity politics and moral values? Urbanism and ethics? How does diversity relate to inclusion, difference, and inequality? Topics include immigration, globalization, social justice, planning, race and racism.
Fall 2016
Leslie Gerwin
The study of public health is an interdisciplinary inquiry involving issues of politics, policy, history, science, law, philosophy, ethics, geography, sociology, environmental studies, and economics, among others. Students will examine the government's role in assuring and promoting health, through the exploration of issues on America's "public health agenda," such as epidemic response, tobacco use, the impact of weight on health, mandatory vaccination, disease prevention, and violence. In doing so, they will consider the impact of race, income, gender, place and environment, education, capitalism and democracy on health outcomes.
Kathleen M. Nolan
We explore the educational practices and organizational structures through which social inequality is produced and reproduced inside schools and how social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and other social differences shape educational outcomes. Additionally, we examine students' responses to inequality and theories of resistance. We mainly consider theoretically grounded qualitative research related to K-12 education. Several readings discuss the realities of urban schooling; each week we connect the readings to current policy trends.
Laurel Mei-Singh
In recent years, global public discourse has stressed the urgency of unfolding environmental crisis. The course will start with the premise that a "crisis" marks a moment when a previous set of relations is markedly upset, and when state institutions aim to manage instability and consolidate power. Our entry point will be apocalyptic texts, which are reflections and exaggerations of existing realities. We will ask: What is crisis? Is crisis actually the norm? Then we'll focus on environmental justice, examining how environmentalism intersects with race and class. Third, we will examine capitalist crisis and its articulation with war.
Richard M. Preston
Study of the art of narrative nonfiction through reading and writing. Narrative nonfiction is a form of "creative nonfiction" in which narrative — a story — supplies the structure and energy for the text, and the work is crafted with literary art. Narrative nonfiction is distinct from expository nonfiction and the lyrical essay, and is also very different from daily journalism. We'll focus on American writers and writings between World War II and today. We'll do reverse engineering on the texts, reading with a sharp eye for professional techniques, and we'll put the techniques to work in creative writing assignments.
Tala Khanmalek
In this course we will trace the intersecting discourses of race, nation, and disease throughout U.S. history. We will examine various "living laboratories" or sites of state-sanctioned medical experimentation on populations such as Asian American, African American and Latinx, deemed to harbor disease. In doing so, we will consider the ways in which science has shaped the meaning of race as well as other categories of social difference.
Paul Levitz
How did comic books seize upon and express the Jewish bicultural experience in 20th century America? How did the ambitions of comics' greatest Jewish creators shape the medium's fantasy traditions and drive artistic self-expression in the graphic novel? This seminar combines literary and historical approaches to investigate the tension between comics' genre storytelling and its creators' self-expression. We will examine the evolution of the comic into its mature form, the graphic novel, through Jewish and American social, political and sexual perspectives.
Chika Okeke-Agulu
As articulated by Thelma Golden, postblack refers to the work of African American artists who emerged in the 1990s with ambitious, irreverent, and sassy work. Though hard to define, postblack suggested the emergence of a generation of artists removed from the long tradition of Black affirmation of the Harlem Renaissance, Black empowerment of the Black Arts movement, and identity politics of the 1980s and early '90s. This seminar provides an opportunity for a deep engagement with the work of African American artists of the past decade. It will involve critical and theoretical readings on multiculturalism, race, identity, and contemporary art.
Monica Youn
This workshop explores the link between racial identity and poetic innovation in work by contemporary poets of color. Experimental or avant-garde poetry in the American literary tradition has often defined itself as "impersonal," "against expression" or "post-identity." Unfortunately, this mindset has tended to exclude or downplay poems that engage issues of racial identity. This course explores works where poets of color have treated racial identity as a means to destabilize literary ideals of beauty, mastery and the autonomy of the text while at the same time engaging in poetic practices that subvert conceptions of identity or authenticity.
A.M. Homes
In traditional workshops, content and context come second to craft. Here we will explore writing political fiction, the politics of fiction and writing as political engagement. We'll read widely, from the most realistic depictions of the American political process and the varieties of immigrant experience to the work of Afrofuturists and feminists. The personal is the political and our frame will range from the global to the domestic. We will write stories that inhabit experiences other than our own. This course will allow students to make interdisciplinary connections between courses on history, politics and identity and creative writing.
Judith Hamera
This seminar investigates discourses and politics around the fat body from a performance studies perspective. How does this "f-word" discipline and regulate bodies in/as public? How do dancers reveal these politics with special clarity? How might fat be a liberating counterperformance? We will examine the changing history, aesthetics, politics, and meanings of fatness using dance, performance, and media texts as key case studies. Intersectional dimensions of the fat body are central to the course. Emphasis primarily on the US. Assignments include written work and group performances. No dance experience necessary.
Monica Huerta
This introduction to Latino literature will situate the long history of Latino writing in a network of linguistic and literary influences across race, geographics, and histories. We will read texts like Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burtón's The Squatter and the Don, Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands, and Junot Diaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Anne McClintock
This course explores the current fascination with animals in film, photography and popular culture, engaging central issues in animal and environmental studies. Why has looking become our main way of interacting with animals? How does rethinking animals inspire us to rethink being human? How can we transform our relations with other species and the planet? Course themes include: wilderness, national parks and zoos; the cult of the pet; vampires, werewolves and zombies; animal speech, animal emotions and rights; nature, sexuality and race. Exploring planetary crises such as extinction and climate change, and positive strategies for change.
Catherine Clune-Taylor
This introduction to disability studies draws together the work of feminists and queer theorists with that of historians and clinicians in order to contextualize the field's major theoretical claims. We will take up and critique the oft-made distinction between natural, physical impairment and socially constructed disability, situating it with regards to Michel Foucault's account of biopower, and his controversial claims in Society Must Be Defended regarding "racism against the abnormal."
Anne McClintock
Pleasure Power and Profit explores the intimate ways that sexualities and race are entwined in contemporary culture, historically, and in our own lives. Why are questions about sexuality and race some of the most controversial, compelling, yet often taboo issues of our time? Exploring films, popular culture, novels, social media, and theory, we engage themes like: race, gender and empire; fetishism, Barbie, vampires and zombies; sex work and pornography; marriage and monogamy; queer sexualities; and strategies for social empowerment such as: Black Lives Matter, the new campus feminism, and global movements against sexual and gender violence.
Tala Khanmalek
What do feminists of color have to say about how the social determinants of health affect our bodies? In this seminar, we will explore the ways in which feminists of color narrate the impact of multiple oppressions on their well/being. The readings begin with an overview of key concepts in women of color and transnational feminisms including but not limited to intersectionality and theory in the flesh, which we will draw on to think about the materiality of difference.
Stacy Wolf
Song. Dance. Man. Woman. These are the basic components of the Broadway musical theatre. How have musical theatre artists, composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, choreographers, and designers worked with these building blocks to create this quintessentially American form of art and entertainment? Why are musicals structured by love and romance? This course will explore conventional and resistant performances of gender and sexuality in the Broadway musical since the 1940s.
Beth Lew-Williams
This course introduces students to the multiple and varied experiences of people of Asian heritage in the United States from the 19th century to the present day. It focuses on three major questions: (1) What brought Asians to the United States? (2) How did Asian Americans come to be viewed as a race? (3) How does Asian American experience transform our understanding of U.S. history? Using newspapers, novels, government reports, and films, this course will cover major topics in Asian American history, including Chinese Exclusion, Japanese internment, transnational adoption, and the model minority stereotype.
Desmond D. Jagmohan
This course explores central themes and ideas in the history of African American political thought: slavery and freedom, solidarity and sovereignty, exclusion and citizenship, domination and democracy, inequality and equality, rights and respect. Readings will be drawn, primarily, from canonical authors, including Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Booker T. Washington, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Ralph Ellison, Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. This is an introductory course, which emphasizes both thematic and historical approaches to political theory.
Stanley Katz
Civil society is the arena of voluntary organizations (churches, social welfare organizations, sporting clubs) and communal activity. Scholars now tell us that such voluntary and cooperative activities create "social capital" — a stock of mutual trust that forms the glue that holds society together. The course will be devoted to the study of the history of these concepts, and to the analysis of their application to the United States and other societies. This will be an interdisciplinary effort, embracing history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines.


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Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret
When I attended the Mental Health America conference a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of eating lunch with Washington Post journalist Steve Luxenberg, a moderator at the conference. He kindly inscribed for me a copy of his fascinating book, "Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret." On his website, he writes the tale behind the book…
My mother was an only child. That's what she told everyone, sometimes within minutes of meeting them. When I heard that my mother had been hiding the existence of a sister, I was bewildered. A sister? I was certain that she had no siblings, just as I knew that her name was Beth, that she had no middle name, and that she had raised her children to, above all, tell the truth.
Part memoir, part detective story, part history, Annie's Ghosts revolves around three main characters (my mom, her sister and me as narrator/detective/son), several important secondary ones (my grandparents, my father and several relatives whom I found in the course of reporting on the book), as well as Eloise, the vast county mental hospital where my secret aunt was confined — despite her initial protestations — all of her adult life.
As I try to understand my mom's reasons for hiding her sister's existence, readers have a front-row seat to the reality of growing up poor in America during the 1920s and 1930s, at a time when the nation's "asylums" had a population of 400,000 and growing. They will travel the many corridors and buildings of Eloise Hospital, a place little known outside Detroit but which housed so many mentally ill and homeless people during the Depression that it become one of the largest institutions of its kind in the nation, with 10,000 residents, 75 buildings, its own police and fire forces, even its own dairy.
Through personal letters and photographs, official records and archival documents, as well as dozens of interviews, readers will revisit my mother's world in the 1930s and 1940s in search of how and why the secret was born. The easy answer–shame and stigma–is the one that I often heard as I pursued the story. But when it comes to secrets, there are no easy answers, and shame is only where the story begins, not ends.
Whenever the secret threatened to make its way to the surface, Mom did whatever she could to push it back underground. Just as Annie was a prisoner of her condition and of the hospital that became her home, my mother became a virtual prisoner of the secret she chose to keep. Why? Why did she want the secret to remain so deeply buried?
Employing my skills as a journalist while struggling to maintain my empathy as a son, I piece together the story of my mother's motivations, my aunt's unknown life, and the times in which they lived. My search takes me to imperial Russia and Depression-era Detroit, through the Holocaust in Ukraine and the Philippine war zone, and back to the hospitals where Annie and many others languished in anonymity.
For me, it was the quest of a lifetime.
Borchard, T. (2018). Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 29, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/annies-ghosts-a-journey-into-a-family-secret/
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Could your business be subject to $23 million in fines pertaining to the new European Union (EU) GDPR regulations taking effect this month?
If you have a mobile app that is not compliant with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) by May 25th, 2018, you risk hefty fines for being in violation of this complex data protection and privacy law. In a nutshell, the GDPR is designed to give EU citizens more control over their personal data while also providing businesses with clear guidelines about data gathering, management, and security. However, the regulation is nuanced, and businesses can suffer financial repercussions even if they believe they are in the clear.
What is the General Data Protection Regulation?
Discussed for several years, GDPR covers much more than mobile apps, but we wanted to focus on what you should be considering for your apps. In summary, GDPR applies to companies located both inside and outside of the EU if the company is processing personal data of someone in the EU (regardless of where the company is located). Personal data is broadly defined as information related to a natural person or 'Data Subject', that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the person. It can be anything from a name, photo, email address, posts on social media, medical record, or a computer IP address.
You may be asking yourself: "If it's an EU regulation, why do U.S. businesses need to worry about it?" The reality is that if your mobile app user base includes a single EU citizen, you may be subject to fines for violating any of the GDPR's specifications on data processing, storage, and usage. These fines can amount to 4% of annual global revenue or €20 Million (about $23.9 Million USD), whichever is greater.
Unfortunately, many U.S. companies are still at risk of incurring these fines. Surveys suggest that as of late 2017, 27% of U.S. companies were "concerned" about the GDPR, but did not have a clear plan of action. In fact, 52% were completely unaware of how the GDPR could impact them. Given such overwhelming percentages, it's safe to say that many businesses are still on the brink of losing millions.
What to Ask and Consider about the GDPR
Fortunately, there is still time to take the actions needed to get your mobile app aligned with GDPR compliance. Here are some questions you should be thinking about to determine whether or not the General Data Protection Regulation is about to hit your bottom line:
- Are your Terms & Conditions transparent? Under the GDPR, Terms & Conditions need to clearly delineate how and why they will collect data. Any ambiguous language or broad categorizations that make it difficult for users to knowledgeably give consent are in violation.
- Can you justify the data you collect on users? This is going to cause massive changes for businesses. No longer can you gather data that does not directly pertain to the user experience of your mobile app.
- Is your data mapped out? This pertains to two aspects of the GDPR. You need to be able to a.) demonstrate that you are only gathering essential data and that b.) you know where your data is stored in the event of a data breach.
- Are you testing for weaknesses in security? Even if your app was safe several years ago, hackers might have found new ways to abuse old systems.
A few other highlights pertaining to GDPR and mobile apps:
- All data moving between the app and the server must be encrypted
- Users have the right to request that their data gets erased. This is referred to as the "right to be forgotten." So, a system needs to be in place to locate and provide a user access to their personal data or remove/destroy that user's data.
- Before any personal data is collected, an app needs to ask for explicit user consent.
- Any data breach needs to be reported to authorities with 72 hours.
- Businesses with over 250 employees are required to have a Data Protection Officer.
If you need help getting your apps to be GDPR compliant, contact us for assistance.
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A Fenelon Falls mother is speaking out after getting a notice in the mail from the Haliburton Kawartha Pineridge District Health Unit.
She says her daughter could be suspended from school on March 4, if her immunizations are not up to date. But the problem is, this mother insists they are current.
"[It's] stating that my one child, her vaccine that was given when she was a baby is not valid because it was given three days before her first birthday," said Byrne.
The vaccine is the Meningococcal C vaccine that helps prevent meningitis.
"Why now? I don't know if it's going to affect my child by having two vaccines of this strand — no one can tell me if it's going to hurt her," said Byrne.
READ MORE: Measles outbreak hits U.S. community known as 'hotspot' for unvaccinated children
Global News reached out to the health unit and they say they must enforce Ontario's Immunization of School Pupils Act. It requires students to be fully immunized against preventable diseases.
In 2014, three preventable diseases were added to the Act, one of which is meningococcal C.
"The schedule indicates that one dose is to be administered no earlier than one year of age, and that's basically based on science so it's shown that kids that receive it one year of age or if they are older, it provides the best immunity," said Marianne Rock, the manager of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Department with the Health Unit.
But Byrne says she's not the only parent who is affected. About 5,400 area students also received the letter in the mail.
READ MORE: Some travellers through Toronto Pearson Airport might have been exposed to measles in January
"One of the options is to get the vaccination again, and there is no research to show that it does any harm. The other option is if they chose not to have that child receive that vaccination again — and so with that, that's called a non-medical exemption or an exemption process," said Rock.
But Byrne says she is frustrated because her child already has the vaccine.
"How can someone's body tell them, 'OK, you are a year old now — the body doesn't know how old it is down to the day. I could see if it was two months out or even a month out, but three days?" said Byrne.
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He looked at it for a minute contemptuously, then turned away: "Ah, I see that man did not know much about aerial perspective!"
It was a mere falsification of the law of aerial perspective, but it startled, almost terrified me.
To gain the full glory of the long aisles in their aerial perspective, the Abbey should be seen from the far end of the Nave.
Jan van Eyck also introduced improvements in linear and aerial perspective, and in painting upon glass.
All that time had passed in the contemplation of church preferment, with the aerial perspective lighted by a visionary mitre.
These results have a direct bearing upon what artists call 'aerial perspective.'
How it would have delighted the heart of Claude Lorrain, the painter of idyllic scenes and the master of aerial perspective!
Aerial perspective has not been sufficiently attended to by the painters of pictorial backgrounds.
They had332 not the least glimmering of what we call chiaroscuro or of aerial perspective.
Woodcutting, in Durer's days, had reached no delicacy capable of expressing subtle detail or aerial perspective.


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You may notice on how often that I write about KTG, but if you are still wondering who or what KTG means, is that it is really a group of bloggers whom I first met as friends, where I eventually became a part of. I'm proud to say that I have been part of this group since 2013 and I have never been more excited to spend the new year with these guys!
We're not just a collective, no. We're a family! And my do we have a lot of honored guests as well. This simple gathering of passionate people was held at the lavish, elegant Infinity room at F1 Hotel Manila (aka THE HOME OF THE KTG), where we were not only spoiled by large widescreens to project our karaoke and movie set-up, it's also where we got to devour on their wonderfully crafted food that are tried and tested since KTG name was 'founded' at the hotel a few years ago, as told many times by our present Godfather, Spanky Enriquez.
Meantime, check out some of the things we enjoyed during the party! And thanks to all those who were able to share their blessings and addictive laughter during that night!
We also had the opportunity to enjoy the best ham in the city, The Plaza Ham, complete with pandesal and their blockbuster array of sauces to go along with their perfectly cured and sweet slivers of meat.
Of course, we really believe that it's our dear friend Karla Reyes who started the cheese board craze, so our party wasn't complete without La Fromagerie's Raclette and smorgasbord of different cheeses, fruits, nuts and bread!
|La Fromagerie at the KTG New Year Party!
Booze is a must at parties in general, and we had unlimited frozen drinks c/o Swizzle Mobile Bar, which is also another thing that Karla was able to provide. Aside from these luscious and perfectly blended frozen cocktails, we also enjoyed a bunch of other drinks. A big shout out to Karla (@quichethecook) for providing drinks like Frozen Mojito and Sangria for the whole gang, as well as Gio Tia of Eater.ph for his bottles of champagne and wine for our table!
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It's nice to know that whenever I hang out with the KTG, it's not just about eating and drinking or covering new spots on where best to eat, but it's always a time to celebrate life, learn new things and share knowledge with my fellow KTG peeps. So I'll make sure to find more time so I can see all of you again soon!
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Check out the interactive Select A Method feature on BeforePlay.org. Or visit Bedsider, where you can see a Side-by-Side Comparison Chart or hear people share their birth control experiences in RealStories videos.
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Mowers for commercial, residential, and golf course equipment have many different options when it comes to tire replacement. A wide variety of tread designs, ply ratings and quality can make it confusing when trying to choose the right mower tire. Additionally, you will find these tires on pressure washers, broadcast spreaders, ditching machines, and all types of mowing and groundskeeping equipment.
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Medieval Women Warlords: Dr. Katrin Sjursen Offers New Perspective on the Role of French Female Noble Leaders
Today's popular myths suggest that Joan of Arc was unique among medieval women for leading armies. In truth, however, she is just one example of many female military leaders throughout the medieval era. Dr. Katrin Sjursen, assistant professor of historical studies at SIUE, is currently preparing a book that reevaluates the prevalence and duties of female lords in medieval France who were entrusted with crucial military responsibilities.
When Sjursen began exploring sources for her dissertation, she, like many history scholars, expected to find few examples of women in medieval France conducting warfare. Instead, she was amazed to find that at least 40 women in a 300-year period were involved in conducting military procedures in France's northern region. A prevalent theory for why so many medieval female lords' military contributions have been downplayed over the ages points to the gradual increase of power in the Roman Catholic Church. This claim, Sjursen said, is often traced to an influential premise by historian Megan McLaughlin. Dr. McLaughlin's argument asserts that by the 11th century, criticism of women conducting warfare became so pervasive that it eventually led to the end of such activities in the 14th and 15th centuries.
McLaughlin believed that as the power of the Roman Catholic Church increased, it pressured women out of power with misogynistic reforms that decreased noble sovereignty and favored the oldest male children as primary royal and noble heirs.
Sjursen, however, points out the importance of context when interpreting history through medieval writers. McLaughlin, she said, looked only at chronicles, narratives concerned with convincing readers of what the author believed to be a greater truth, such as the importance of spiritual matters. "Thus," Sjursen said, "she could only get at what medieval writers thought about these women rather than at what the women actually did." These chronicles, she said, "chose whether to castigate or approve individual women based on the chroniclers' own political position." Dissatisfied with the subjective nature of these sources, Sjursen also examined the documents left behind by some of these female noble leaders, such as letters, charters, treaties and financial accounts, as well as annals, short written entries that only recorded changes of power, major war or unusual weather. These records, unlike chronicles, she said, "don't castigate women commanders because they don't castigate or approve anyone; there's no space, and that's not their purpose."
According to Sjursen, there are additional ways in which recent scholarship has inaccurately depicted medieval women's military lordships. Some historians, she said, have neglected the topic in pursuit of some other scholarly agenda, while others deny that female lords participated in warfare at all. In some instances, she said, selective uses of terminology have deprived women of their historical importance. For example, the adoption of a term such as "regent" to describe a medieval woman ruler implies a number of inaccuracies, such as the deferment of power to another male figure. In many instances, Sjursen said, using the word "ruler" instead would prove more accurate.
In her manuscript, Sjursen focuses on figures such as Blanche of Navarre, the Countess of Champagne, who is often mentioned as the regent to her son, Count Theobald IV of Champagne, but whom Sjursen instead refers to as a co-ruler. "While she was serving as Countess, charters were written to her by name, while her son was unnamed," she said. "When she retired in 1222, her son still consulted with her on numerous occasions." And at times during her retirement, King Louis IX and his mother Blanche of Castile preferred to deal with Theobald's mother rather than him. Then there is the Empress Matilda, who fought for her right to inherit her father's realm of England, which at that time also included parts of northern France. "Chronicles rarely reveal participation beyond isolated incidents of bravery, and modern studies rarely venture beyond these sources," Sjursen said. "Her charters reveal how she managed the resources at her disposal to wage war and thereby demonstrate a much broader degree of women's participation."
Sjursen, through her exploration of medieval women rulers, and through an unprecedented number of primary texts, strives to bring us closer to a new, more empowered view of women's history and their roles in the political and military cultures of their time. As a result, her project promises to bring its readers closer to people and events that would otherwise remain misunderstood.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds Hi, Martina. How are you? Really good. Yeah, I'm feeling much better than I expected to a few months ago. I've been exercising and looking after my diet. Barry and I have even actually got out and actually done exercise together, which is pretty cool. We both lost weight, which is kind of a weird, happy bonus. I'm feeling really positive, but it's also that nagging feeling that stays with me about, what happens if the cancer returns? Will I know, how do I know? And then feeling kind of bad for thinking that, because it's actually going really well. First of all, Martina, you're looking really good, and I'm really pleased to see you today. Thank you.
Skip to 0 minutes and 50 seconds I just heard you said you were exercising and eating well. I think Jackie organised some of these support services last time through the care plan. So who have you seen? I've seen the exercise physiologist and the dietitian, and yeah, getting benefits from both. I didn't realise that healthy food could taste so good. Yeah, so really, we've been paying much more attention to what we've been consuming, which is good. And also, it's been really helpful for us, just in terms of our relationship, too, to kind of come back to a level of normal, which is nice. You've obviously linked in with the dietitian and the physiologist. I guess part of it now is you and Barry.
Skip to 1 minute and 32 seconds And you said Barry's lost a little bit of weight. Is that right? Yes, he has. Wow. But part of this year, what we should focus is that you really are promoting this change and making sure that it sticks. And I think it's really important that you maintain good diet, good exercise. Now, you mentioned about recurrence and your worry about that. I know I shouldn't be, because things are going well. But if I could have a scan every morning, I'd be really happy. Because I'm just worried that if I miss something, what if something's changed and I don't notice, and I don't know what I should be looking out for. And if I do, what do I do about it?
Skip to 2 minutes and 13 seconds Well, I think a lot of patients go through exactly the same thing. The good news is that you don't have to have a scan every day. But I guess some of the things that we might watch out for, and I'll mention a few of them, first of all, around the breast area. We're concerned if you noticed a new lump on the left side and also on the other side, as well. If you noticed any nipple changes. for us, that's a flag for you come in and speak to me, and I'll do a history and examination. You mentioned loss of weight, but if there is unexplained loss of weight, that's a concern.
Skip to 2 minutes and 47 seconds If you've lost some appetite, we need to know about that. I guess, lastly, if you feel a little bit more short of breath, tired, just something's not right, do come in. We're always here to have a look and make sure everything's going OK. So is it the minute I see changes? Like, I don't want you to be running scared every time I see you, going, she's here again. But do I contact you straight away if I see something change? I think initially that's probably something you might want to do. And obviously, you'll get a feel about what's normal for you, but something's not right. I guess it's a fantastic linkage that we have between general practitioner and a patient.
Skip to 3 minutes and 28 seconds When I was with Jackie, we've done all the diet stuff and exercise. She also mentioned a psychologist. I guess talking about recurrence, surveillance, watching out for any cancer coming back, people are worried. And I think for us, that's where a psychologist can help with your thinking about what you've gone through over the last period of time. It's about just going through a grading process, talking about your feelings, the effect on you, work. We want you to feel back to normal, get back to work, all of that, and obviously making sure that you're feeling you're actually on top of things. I think a psychologist would be a wonderful idea. I think Jackie mentioned last time a name of psychologists nearby.
Skip to 4 minutes and 12 seconds What are your thoughts about seeing a psychologist? I am keen to do whatever. And I don't want my negative thinking to create problems that are not there, and I'm worried I'm going to talk myself into having cancer again. So I'm happy to say yes to anything at the moment. Yeah, so we work with psychologists. We think they're valuable to patients with cancer. So I'll write that referral. We'll actually make that appointment, as well, so they're first up. And I think we'll touch base obviously when I see you next time and how those sessions have gone. Any other questions about the psychologist? No, just let's get it started, I guess.
Skip to 4 minutes and 46 seconds OK, so I'm going to go to the computer, type away, OK?
Empowering patients to manage their own health
As you will have seen in the video above, after Martina's last consultation with Jackie (the practice nurse) she was asked to check back with her GP (Justin) about ways to manage her own health. In this activity, we'll be exploring self-management in more detail.
Self-management is the process through which survivors take control of their lives after undergoing the mental and physical stress of a cancer diagnosis. Although self-management can be defined in various ways, all definitions share a common need for extending care beyond just medical advice. Self-management allows patients to take back their self-efficacy, independence and empowerment.
Self-management as defined in the article by Barlow et al (2005) describes this process as:
- Improving the health and wellbeing of the patient
- Reducing the patients need to have constant visits to health professionals
- Empowering the patient to take responsibility for their own health
As a PCP you will first need to understand the demands of cancer survivorship for the individual patient. Communicating this to the patient and their supportive care teams is paramount in introducing self-management skills. Survivors need to acknowledge:
- The need for regular participation in routine visits but less frequent oncology visits
- The ability to be able to understand the signs and symptoms of disease recurrence
- The importance of managing and adjusting to the late-term effects of cancer and cancer-treatment
- Adapting back into normal routines and becoming more involved in social roles is important going forward, and
- Being able to deal with residual psychological distress in order to minimise negative impacts on their quality of life.
This is not a one-size-fits-all approach, which is important to remember. And as a PCP, it is vital to support patients by educating them about the concept of self-management, and the importance of self-management throughout the survivorship phase.
By helping to empower patients throughout the survivorship phase, they will feel more in control of their own ongoing health and wellbeing. They can acquire the skills and be made aware of the resources to help them problem-solve, make better informed decisions, and enable them to take action and form stronger partnerships with their healthcare providers.
To discover more about self-management, read the article Self-Management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness and consider how you would apply aspect of this model to your care of cancer survivors.
Do you agree that when put together, these elements result in a productive partnership between informed and engaged patients aligning with well-prepared and proactive practice teams? Share your thoughts with others by posting your response in the comments section below.
References: McCorkle, R., Ercolano, E., Lazenby, M. Schulman-Green, D., Schilling, L.S. Lorig, K., & Wagner, E. H. (2011). Self-Management: Enabling and empowering patients living with cancer as a chronic illness. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicans, 61(1), pp50-62
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Save: Fruit Punch Chapstick ($1) – Darn Chapstick and their seasonal flavors! Evidently this version has been discontinued, but I imagine the new Pomagranate Gumdrop is quite similar. It adds just the tiniest hint of color, and since it's by Chapstick, of course it make my lips feel awesome!
e.l.f. Essential lip balm tint ($2) – I can't wait to try this out in the Grapefruit color. I've already added it to my next order along with the Studio retractable lip brush. I'll let you know how it goes!
e.l.f. Studio lip balm SPF 15 ($3) – I love the way this feels on my lips. It's so silky, and has just a touch of mint tingle that you find in the lip plumpers. Unfortunately the pink shade is not very natural looking on me. I'll definitely order it in other colors though.
Maybelline baby lips ($3) – My little cousins rave about these lip balms, but lately the only shades at my local stores are the neon ones. Umm…no thanks. I'd really like to find some of the Dr Rescue ones – maybe in Pink me Up.
NYX butter lip balm ($4)*panna cotta – My new favorite lip balm! This has an awesome raspberry scent, and leaves my lips feeling wonderful.
Covergirl smoochies ($5)*luv u & smooch – These are very hit or miss lip colors. While I like the Luv U shade, the Smooch one is actually filled with tiny bits of glitter that feel like grit on my lips. gross.
Burt's Bees tinted lip balm ($7) *hibiscus – Just as you'd expect, this balm is very smooth, and adds just the right amount of color. It's a great choice if you're in the market for a natural product, but I probably wouldn't buy it again unless it was on sale. Not when I have other favorites at half the price.
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e.l.f Essential jumbo lip gloss stick ($2)*pink umbrellas – I just picked this up a few days ago, and so far I like it. There is more color pay off than I expected, and it isn't shiny like a gloss, but it still goes on smoothly. I just wish it lasted longer.
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NYC city proof twistable intense lip color ($3)*ballroom blush – Returned it. Yes, the color was intense (too intense for me), but it was also super dry and made my lips feel gross.
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Starting an Independent Insurance Agency
Starting anything from the ground up can be overwhelming. There are many questions you should be asking yourself. Before you even begin, there's a lot of homework to be done to ensure that you are going to succeed as an independent insurance agent.
Do you have the experience to become an independent agent?
Since you're thinking of starting your own agency, it's probably fair to assume that you have some experience in the insurance industry. Whether you've been a captive agent or you have worked as a producer for another agency, industry insight is important if you are going to succeed as an independent agent.
The next step is to write up a business plan. As an independent agent, you'll need a solid business plan that lays out:
- Your mission – Why are you starting an agency? How are you going to be different? What is your niche?
- Your goals and financial projections – How will you reach them?
- Your market research – Who is your target audience, what are they buying, where are they, and can you reach them?
- Your marketing strategy – What is your niche? How are you going to sell your product?
Find your niche market in the insurance industry
It is important to make yourself stand out among your competitors. Before starting your own agency, think about how you can separate yourself from the pack and secure a place as a leader in your industry, instead of just another agency in the crowd. You need to find that niche in the market where you can excel above the rest. Become an expert in your niche market and grab a firm hold of your target customer base.
A niche market will help your agency run more efficiently
By only having your producers focus on one niche market, you are going to increase your production. Your sales campaign can also have more focus, rather than being convoluted or general. Focus leads to efficiency, which leads to bigger sales. Zeroing in on a niche market will help you run an efficient agency.
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Everything begins with words. Words make sense of a senseless world. Psychologists agree that writing is one of the most therapeutic exercises for any human being. I believe writing every day is important because it unleashes your creativity, it shows your determination, and it keeps your sense of wonder alive. You will discover yourself through the power of words.
One of the easiest ways to keep track of your writing is by blogging.
What is a blog?
A blog is a 'web log' and it is, in essence, an online diary. Anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can set one up.
How do I set up a blog?
There are many sites that offer free blogging. I would suggest Tumblr or WordPress for beginners. Both sites offer free templates and tutorials. You don't need to know anything about writing code or designing a website. You will receive a free blog site with an address you've chosen. This is the address you will give to family, friends, customers – anyone who might want to take a look.
Once you've created your profile you'll be asked to write your post and upload pictures. (Don't panic! There are buttons for all of these. Follow the prompts.) There is a tag section for blogs. These are the words you most associate with your blog. Add these tags when prompted because they help people find your blog in searches.
After you've checked the post all you have to do is click the publish button. Your post will be visible and you will have become a blogger. Remember that you are writing for an audience and you should write as clearly and as well as you possibly can. You don't have to write something new every day. You can share another blogger's post or simply add an inspiring quotation or picture.
What can I blog about?
You can blog about anything. You know what drives, motivates, inspires, and interests you. You might be passionate about cupcakes, or cats, or reality TV. You might want to blog about all three. Or you may want to write about something traumatic that's happened to you or your family. Whatever it is, there's a platform for you. I blog about writing every day on Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Google+ and Posthaven. I post my book reviews on Goodreads. Once you find your passion you will find there are many communities you can join.
Why should I blog?
- It will encourage you to write every day.
- Your creativity and passion need an outlet.
- Your stories will help you discover who you really are.
- You will raise awareness for your personal or professional profile.
- You can build up a following and create a community that supports your interests.
You don't have to blog to write though. Using a diary, or paper, or simply writing on your PC is just as good. You need to create a writing routine and establish a habit. Take an hour every morning before everybody else wakes up or an hour late at night when everyone's asleep. Writing every day will help you create a great story when you decide to eventually write a book. You will realise there is no muse. It is you and a blank screen, or a blank piece of paper. If you treat writing as a job, or a dedicated hobby, with deadlines and rules, you will succeed. If you treat it as an artistic experience you will not become published which is fine if you're not interested in that aspect. But if you do want to publish, find out how to write, find time to write, and do it.
My Five Top Tips for Aspiring Writers
- Write every day. Read every day.
- Learn how to write a book. Go on a course or do some research.
- You need 10 000 hours practice before you're good at anything. Start writing now.
- Brand yourself. Think about how you, and your writing, could become a product people want more of.
- Become 'social media' savvy. Spend two hours a day online as a 'writer'. Join Tumblr, Goodreads, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Amanda Patterson is the founder of Writers Write, a company which offers business and creative writing courses countrywide. She has written more than 20 courses on writing. She has a following of more than 100 000 people from her blogs and social media platforms. Her company's motto is: Write to communicate. More than 150 Writers Write students have been published.
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How would you feel two weeks after a loved one – perhaps a son or daughter or mother or father – had died? Might you still feel sad or empty most of each day? Would you have lost interest in most activities? Could the loss affect your appetite or your sleep? If so, you could be officially diagnosed as mentally ill under the criteria adopted in the newly released fifth version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – or DSM as it is commonly known. Older versions of this psychiatric bible contained a bereavement exclusion. You would not be considered to be suffering from a major depressive disorder if the depression were due to the loss of a loved one. The new version drops this exclusion. One could well argue that any parent who has recovered after the loss of a child in just two weeks is mentally ill, but DSM-5 makes you mentally ill if you have not.


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�LIN1603 Assignment
Critical Evaluation of a Scientific Paper
The paper, chosen for critique is 'Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome' by Gibson et al., published in Science on the 2nd of July 2010.1
Summary of Paper
The paper reports the experiment which was carried out by Craig Venter and his research team. Synthesis of the genome of a bacterial cell and the transplantation of such genome into another bacterial cell, allowed the research team to finally create a bacterial cell that is controlled by a genome which is chemically synthesized.
This synthesized bacterial cell is unique and somewhat revolutionary since it seems to be controlled by synthetic chromosomes. In addition, such synthesis of bacterial cell which uses chemically synthesized genome may be important for future applications such as in the case of vaccine and food ingredient production.
Such synthesis was made possible by introducing DNA sequences into the original genome, making it distinctive and the first of its own.
DNA-repair enzymes were extracted from yeast cells and used in order to link up short DNA sequences together. Upon synthesis of the Mycoplasma mycoides genome, it was inserted into a cell of different bacterial species, which however had similar physical attributes.
Much of the mechanism and the steps involved in such synthesis still need to be comprehended. Further attempts at improving the procedure need to be made and better understanding is still required, such that the synthesized bacteria are manipulated according to need.
Critical Evaluation of Paper
The paper by Gibson et al., is revolutionary in the sense that the synthesis of synthetic genome which acts as the principle controlling factor of a bacterial cell, is unique and has never been done before. This paper proves its significance and importance since this synthesis...


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