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In Living Cover
By Noah Michelson
For better or for worse, Jay Brannan is probably most famous for his participation in the hilariously realistic threesome scene in John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 cinematic ode to the complexities of sex, sexuality, and love, Shortbus. Since then the 27-year-old has spent his time writing, recording, and performing original music and covers around the world both live and via the Internet, which has proven invaluable in launching his music career. By utilizing YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and his own website, JayBrannan.com, the singer-songwriter has been able to pump his plucky, catchy tunes into the ethos thereby securing him thousands of adoring fans who eagerly gobble up whatever he sends their way.
We caught up with Jay just days before the release of his new album of cover songs, In Living Cover, as he prepared to hit the road for a world tour to chat about life on Facebook, what makes a really good cover song, and why he'll never be a poster boy for the gay community.
Out: First off, I have a bone to pick with you.
Jay Brannan: Why?
Because I friend requested you over a month ago on Facebook and you still haven't accepted it.
Oh, Jesus. Facebook won't let me! It's not my fault!
I don't know if I believe that.
Facebook allows you to have 5,000 friends'
Yeah. You're at 4,998 right now.
But it fluctuates up and down -- sometimes it'll say 5,001. I have a waiting list of like 2,000 people.
It's really frustrating. They were going to expand it and then they made that Facebook 'page' thing. So they're not going to change it. [sarcastically] Which is great because now I get two Facebook pages to keep up with.
Of the 5,000 to 7,000 friends that you have, what percentage of them have hit on you?
Oh, I don't know. Maybe like 1%?
No way.
And they were probably in a blackout when they did it.
You recently revealed via Twitter that you wanted to get laid -- maybe even twice -- before you hit the road next week for your tour. How's that endeavor going?
Not well.
Are you properly getting yourself out there?
I don't know what that means -- properly -- but I'm not really into nightlife, so if that's what you mean -- no.
Maybe you should advertise? Maybe a YouTube video?
[Laughs] I like to be a little more specialized in my advertising for that sort of thing.
That's fair. The Internet has been a huge part of your career. What do Twitter and YouTube and Facebook allow you to do that you couldn't do without them?
Pretty much everything. My whole business is Internet based. I don't think I'd have a chance at all in the music industry if that sort of stuff didn't exist. I can pretty much do whatever I want without asking anyone's permission and for the most part I don't have to spend any money. You can create whatever kind of art you want and you put it out in whatever way you want and you can project whatever image you want whether it's one that's authentic or whether it's one that's manufactured. No one can really tell you what to do and there are all these people out there that you can share anything with. It's kind of amazing.
Did you want to be independent from the very beginning? Or did you ever have aspirations to be on a major label?
I try not to walk into things thinking I know more about them than I do. I'm still pretty new to this industry. My first tour and my first album were just last summer. You know what people say it means to be on a major label or to be independent or whatever but a lot of people have ideas about the industry that aren't necessary true. I explored some of those options and spoke to some of those people and things just kind of worked out the way they wanted to. I wouldn't be opposed to working with a big company. It'd be great to have their resources and their money and their political relationships but it would have to obviously not be at the expense of what it is that I want to do and the reason why I do music in the first place.
Right. And even a lot insanely successful musicians -- Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos -- are now deciding that indie is actually the better option.
Yeah, everyone is moving that way. It's a lot easier for those people because they now have been set up and they have huge followings so going independent for them is much different than someone who is starting out independent, but obviously those kind of [major label] companies are getting cut out of the picture.
The new album, In Living Cover, is a covers album. What draws you to a particular song and makes you want to tackle it?
I chose the songs because they're songs that are in some way tied to a part of my life or a certain person or place or time from my past. They are songs that have meant something to me somewhere along the way and I felt the whim to do them on YouTube at one point and people have been asking me to record them and when people have been asking for so long to buy them, I guess I finally thought, Why not make them available? It was originally just going to be an EP of four or five cover songs and then it evolved into something bigger. It's almost a full album now -- it's nine tracks and two of them are originals: one is the first song I ever wrote and the other is the newest song I've written.

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The 40-acre park is actually one of the oldest in the city. It is located on two levels, with the steep, wooded river bluff and its WPA-era stone stairs and walls separating the upper and lower areas.
In recent years, the explosive growth of soccers popularity ran headlong into a system-wide shortage of areas large enough to accommodate a full-sized soccer field. The neighborhood around Riverside Park, with its large African immigrant population, is home to many soccer-lovers looking for a good field. The park refurbishment planning process led to consideration of a large meadow at the southeast portion of the park as a formal soccer field. That area had long been a passive greenspace also used for occasional pick-up games of softball and soccer. To retain maximum flexibility, the project included significant improvements to the meadow, but without the installation of permanent soccer goals so multi-purpose use would still be possible. The meadow was regraded for better drainage, an irrigation system was installed, and the field was seeded.
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The Public Publisher: Solving our media emergency
A few months ago I was invited to present at the King County Municipal League's Bold Ideas for Regional Change forum in Seattle's Pioneer Square.
Ten speakers were asked to deliver 20 slides in 5 minutes "about their breakthrough ideas or innovations." The point was to hear fast-paced presentations on innovative ideas that could potentially have a large impact in King County and Washington State.
Most of the other presenters were far more upbeat and engaging than I was. A better waterfront in Bremerton and more sustainable buildings on Capitol Hill captivated the diverse audience of civic-minded leaders.
My idea was that the public sector – as it has in Europe and Japan – may be needed to help support competitive, independent public journalism. I am the first to worry about public sector expanding its role, but hear me out. Advertising and paid subscriptions aren't enough any more, and our founding fathers did envision a critical role for the press. Is a new, relatively modest public revenue stream needed to sustain a quality news marketplace?
This is the assertion of Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols in their book, The Death and Life of American Journalism. (Close followers of the Seattle media-scape will remember Bob McChesney — today a professor at the University of Illinois — as the founder of The Rocket, a local rock-and-roll magazine.)
I was faced with a difficult choice. Do I present a complex idea about the future of journalism (clearly why I was invited), or do I present the underlying reasons for why a new future for journalism is needed? The latter is not so uplifting. Presenting both the past and future would be virtually impossible. Five minutes is not a lot of time.
Like the Muni League speech, this column began in the first week of my tenure at Crosscut out of a desire to be open and transparent about what it takes to make quality, written journalism work in today's marketplace. Like the column, I wanted my Muni League talk to bring people along on this rough and bumpy rode called journalism sustainability.
Figuring out a sustainable business model that will support journalism is the subject of much academic and news media speculation.
Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab recently reported on a new book that explores sustainable business models for journalism. The report concluded that "across the world, money to support journalism startups comes from a variety of sources. An analysis of 69 journalism startups in 10 countries finds no Holy Grail, but a lot of revenue ideas in action."
Around the same time, blogger Andrew Sulllivan announced that he will break from The Newsweek Daily Beast Company to sell his own brand of journalism directly to readers. The reaction is that direct-to-consumers is the new new thing. A declaration of independence.
"If this model works," wrote Sullivan, "we'll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be paid directly by readers, and that an independent site, if tended to diligently can grow an audience large enough to sustain it indefinitely."
And so this is what it's come to. Journalists hanging out their shingles to survive (and maybe thrive). "My journalism: $19.99 a year."
Imagine Upton Sinclair, Linda Greenhouse, Woodward and Bernstein, Walter Lippmann and Hedrick Smith leaving their venerable writing posts and asking readers to keep them afloat. Not long ago the civic-minded among us would have laughed, cried or protested.
All I can say is welcome to the party. Crosscut and other nonprofit online news organizations have been working to raise money from readers for some time with varying degrees of success.
My goal at the Municipal League was simply to paint a clear picture of the decline of quality print (written) journalism in our region – the same economic realities that led to Sullivan's so-called declaration of independence – and to hint at the idea that public funding might be necessary to the future of journalism, a way to augment the other revenue streams.
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Expanding public funding for journalism in this country is such a tough sell, especially in today's environment and yet, I suspect without doing so we are increasingly at risk of completely losing the fourth leg of republic's chair. The check and balance of the press, however poorly implemented and with all its entrenched institutional dysfunction, is still important if no longer relevant to the great majority.
The cynic in me wants to agree with David Simon.
"One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. I've become increasingly cynical about the ability of daily journalism to affect any kind of meaningful change. I was pretty dubious about it when I was a journalist, but now I think it's remarkably ineffectual."
This is the elephant in the room.
While quality journalism, especially the laser light of investigation shined in dark corners, has always been something of an afterthought between the advertisements for brassieres and pork butt, it is nearly so utterly lost now as to render the rest of the medium inconsequential. Nearly but not completely.
And worse, do people care? Will enough people care? Can you sustain a business model by supplying not what most people want to hear but what they need to know? That was a better option when news was delivered en masse. I would argue that most people, berated as they are by breathless and vapid servings of disaster and horror meant not to enlighten but to entertain, just do not want to know anymore or worse, are as cynical as I am, expectant of the absurdity, and would rather shrug their shoulders and live their lives. Perhaps this has always been the case and civic responsibility is left to the minority of those who read beyond the obits and Taylor Swift.
In the fractured marketplace of increasingly genre-specific user-tailored content, is the minority then sufficient to provide a living wage to those who would do their legwork?
But wait, haven't we democratized the press now? Have we not slipped information free of its capitalistic corporate bonds? Shouldn't we be awash in quality citizen-generated content? Then why does it all so, so ... suck? Because information is cheap, never cheaper, while knowledge and craft and experience is expensive. Good journalism is not a weekend warrior hobby. And since those days of media profitability seem to be coming to a close, and with it the small percentage that was thrown to true quality journalism, from the beat to the months-long windmill tilt, then from whence does the funding come?
You may be right. Expanded public funding. But the cynic in me says that in a country so heavily steeped in marketplace Darwinism and John Wayne self reliance, reeling as it is from deficits and a majority mindset obstinately hell bent on voting against its own self interest, it ain't never gonna happen.
I hope I am wrong. Thank you for not being as cynical as I. I'll still give to Crosscut as my hedge fund for hope.
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Eggdrop could allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to the vulnerable botnet, caused by a vulnerability in the share.mod module.
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- BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Feb 08 2004 - 10:26:12 CST : Eggrop bug.
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- CVE-2004-0274: Share.mod in Eggheads Eggdrop IRC bot 1.6.10 through 1.6.15 can mistakenly assign STAT_OFFERED status to a bot that is not a sharebot, which allows remote attackers to use STAT_OFFERED to promote a bot to a sharebot and conduct unauthorized activities.
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- Send your completed application with a $50 non-refundable application fee and all admission forms to:
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Leonard Cohen first played "Choices" at the April 26, 2013 Winnipeg Concert as a tribute to country legend George Jones, who died the same day. The performance in Mannheim last night was the second performance and the first to surface as an audience-recorded video. For more about Leonard Cohen, George Jones, and Choices, see April 26, 2013 Leonard Cohen Winnipeg Concert: Photos, Review, Setlist, George Jones Tribute
"Choices" is one of three George Jones songs posted as selections at Leonard Cohen's Jukebox, a series which features songs the Canadian singer-songwriter has specifically named and lauded in interviews.
- "Choices" By George Jones Is On Leonard Cohen's Jukebox
- "The Grand Tour" by George Jones Is On Leonard Cohen's Jukebox – Or At Least His Funeral Setlist
- "Cold Hard Truth" Is On Leonard Cohen's Jukebox
Best 2013 Leonard Cohen Videos: The best available video of each of the songs performed during the 2013 Leonard Cohen Old Ideas World Tour can be found at the Best Of 2013 Leonard Cohen Tour Video Setlist
Update: Download MP3 Of Leonard Cohen Performing "Choices" – Mannheim 2013
Leonard Cohen – Choices
Mannheim: June 29, 2013
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RE: Vertical Glass Tile (long and skinny)? (Follow-Up #6)
posted by: logic on 04.19.2007 at 05:19 pm in Kitchens Forum We have beautiful glass 2X6 tiles incorporated into our backsplash as well as some 1x1's from the CP Company's contemporary "Unity" line; they are in the UK...but apparently sell here through mass market retailers. We bought ours at Lowes back in the fall of 2005...the glass itself has the color....and they were very reasonable.I don't recall the price...but far less than WZ or AS.
All Lowes may not carry them...and they only had two colors in stock at the time; fortunately one was exactly the color we were looking for..."Dove" which in person, has a very slight amethyst cast to the gray. However,they may be able to special order the other colors (they have quite a few..including metallics...and different surfaces)...or you may be able to order from them directly. Below is a link to their website. Hope this helps. Here is a link that might be useful: CP Group NOTES: and more glass tile
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RE: Vertical Glass Tile (long and skinny)? (Follow-Up #5)
posted by: callieandkarin on 04.19.2007 at 09:36 am in Kitchens Forum thanks for the shoutout, mindstorm!
cimbronemamma- They are lovely tiles, and those pics were a big inspiration of mine! Although I agonized over those lovely WZ Roku tiles vertically for weeks, I ended up using a slightly different glass tile from WZ (Weave, 1"x4" in Equator) in a horizontal running bond pattern. Pics are below. My WZ rep ultimately steered me away from the Roku for a couple of reasons. First, the color is not actually in the glass-- the glass is clear, and the color is on the backing. We decided that colored glass would install and wear better, thus we went with the Weave. Also, we wanted more a matte finish, and the weave had a very subtle iridescence to it that to me made it more visually interesting. Up until the last minute of installation, I wanted to lay the tiles vertically. But, layout concerns in a couple of tricky spots, and the fact that the backplash is a intrinsically a horizontal space, I went with the safer choice of a horizonal install. Perhaps you will be more adventurous than I-- definitely let us know if you use them. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: Glass tile backsplash NOTES: Glass tile
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RE: Vertical Glass Tile (long and skinny)? (Follow-Up #2)
posted by: mindstorm on 04.17.2007 at 11:46 pm in Kitchens Forum Walker Zanger ... look at pictures 4 and 5 at this link. The tiles are WZ's Roku series and are about 1.5" x 6" long. Also look at CallieandKarin's lovely kitchen - I believe she's used the same line.
If you look at the online catalog at the WZ website - pages 208-211 list all the sizes on these tiles and the colors you can get. Good luck NOTES: glass tile
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In 2005, Dr. Jen Clements joined the Shippensburg Social Work Department after many years of practice as a clinical social worker in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, she is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Pennsylvania. Outside of that, she recently became a Level 1 Certified Trauma Specialist (CTS). Previously, she was also certified as an Art Therapist. While she is not certified currently, it is still a large part of her work; both clinical work and research.
Dr. Clements has over 10 years of practice experience working with children and families. Many of those years were spent in the child welfare system in Maryland. As a previous child welfare worker, she has become very interested in burnout and stress. Dr. Clements was able take a different look at it recently with interviews of long-term (10+ years of practice) child welfare workers, trying to figure out how people stayed rather than why they left. These qualitative interviews were very interesting. The major themes that came up were use of supervision and a STRONG belief in families. She is working on the publication currently.
Her new research surrounds developing an art therapy protocol that can be used with children at risk or diagnosed with various attachment disorders. Dr. Clements is working on testing this method with some children at a Residential Treatment facility currently and during the Spring/Summer 2013 she will be working with children in orphanages in Albania, India and Rwanda. Dr. Clements also has a great passion for social group work. She has been serving on the Board of the International Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG, Inc.) since 2007. She has facilitated numerous mutual aid groups with children through older adults on topics such as anger management, grief and loss, parenting and dealing with trauma. Dr. Clements is also a passionate advocate for the LGBT community. She is currently the Chair of the GLBT Concerns Committee at Shippensburg, faculty co-advisor to SALE (Students Advocating for LGBTQI Equality) and coordinator for the Silent Witness Program. More recently, she has started volunteering with a local branch of Common Roads which is a youth center for GLBTQIA individuals. For more information about any of these events, please go to www.ship.edu/GLBT and find out more or email Dr. Clements to get involved.
Why did Dr. Clements choose Social Work?
"When I started at University of Maryland I was not a social work major. I had never heard of social work before and was in a major that I hoped would get me a job and was not thinking about a career. I took a volunteer job at a domestic violence shelter and the director had a BSW degree. I loved what she did for a job and loved working with the families at the shelter. I went in to the social work department at UMBC and had a heart to heart with the Dean. I changed my major that day and have never regretted it!!"


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Media and the law: privacy issues
New legislation proposed by government would allow them to monitor all emails, calls and web use, without requiring permission from a magistrate. A great debating point for any lesson, and am important issue.
Read a brief article about it here.
Teen gangs programme
This looks like a potentially interesting programme, tonight at 9pm.
teen gangs
AQA AS and A2 revision handouts
These form part of the revision pack I put together for students. They include a checklist of topics (from the specification) and examples of all past questions up to the most recent summer exam (I hold back the January exams for mocks).
The AS guide is for Unit 1: Families and Households and Unit 2: Education with Research Methods
The A2 guide is for Unit 3: Mass Media and Unit 4: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods.
Please feel free to adapt and use.
read more...»History of Marriage
a neat little summary of the history of marriage. 10 key moments.
The question of what it means to be 'British' is one that appears to have greatly vexed the Government. They blame a lack of 'Britishness' for any failings in society and have a test specifically designed to weed out those not 'British' enough to own a British passport. Teachers are expected to instil British values in students and it is promoted in society. But what on earth is it?
read more...»privatising policing
The recent news story about the privatisation of certain police services has already sparked some vibrant reactions on facebook and other social media. I am using it as a starter in my next crime and deviance lesson to consider what impact it might have on policing and society in general. It offers a great opportunity to reflect on different theoretical perspectives.
This is how it has been reported on the BBC.
GCSE sample answers - education
An exercise looking at, and marking, sample 5 mark answers to help develop an understanding of the marking criteria at GCSE.
Remember to take the marks out when giving to students!
For those wanting a more humorous way into discussing the weaknesses of interviews as a method of research, this letter by Mark Twain might prove useful.
Parenting the French way
A fascinating article about cross-cultural differences in parenting. It would make a great resource for discussing the question of 'child-centred' families.
Population statistics
I've seen a number of interesting stories and programmes exploring ideas relating to population levels. The most recent was this morning on the BBC, asking if the number of people alive today (about 7 billion) outnumbers the number of people that have ever lived on earth. Most of these debates centre on the fear that at some point there will be too many people for the world to handle.
read more...»Media and Image
This is a fantastic commentary of the images of women portrayed by the media, commenting on how they project an impossibly flawless ideal. Jean Kilbourne argues, not just that this image leads to increasing eating disorders and mental health issues among teenage girls, but that the objectification of women's bodies contributes to a growth in violence against women.
Watch the video and see if you agree.
read more...»right to die - suicide
This story of a man's campaign to the right to die, would make an interesting contemporary update for those studying suicide in Unit 4. Read it here.
TED - videoed talks
TED is a fantastic resources of talks on a multitude of subjects. Go and have a browse - you are sure to find something interesting / fun / challenging / useful / eye-opening…
I like this selection on 'what makes us happy?'
Methods: strengths and weaknesses
Some card sorting activities on methods, for GCSE or A level.
Wikipedia 'blackout'
Wikipedia's decision to stage a 24hour 'blackout', in response to threatened US legislation, should make an interesting discussion starter for anyone studying media and / or crime and deviance.
read more...»Feminism and Technology
This year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) has caused some controversy, with companies employing 'booth babes' to help promote their products. You can watch a news clip here, featuring interviews with attendees and 'babes'.
read more...»Evaluating Research methods
A simple evaluation template for research methods.
Single Sex education
An article in the Guardian about the benefits of single sex education for girls. Read it here.
Routine and exam success
Apologies for the radio silence, but I have been enjoying a well-earned holiday! I plan to upload some new resources as soon as I can grab a chance between A level re-sit revision sessions, but in the meantime, take a look at this article on the link between daily routine and exam grades.
Policing the riots
The Home Office report on policing the riots. Essential reading for Crime and Deviance students.
Violence and terror - Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman: 'No one is in control. That is the major source of contemporary fear' – video. For Zygmunt Bauman the world is marked by a division between power and politics. While politics is defined by nations, power no longer recognises national boundaries
Health - animated lecture
Great animated video about research into the benefits of exercise. Watch it here.
Mass Media: Facebook
Facebook provides plenty of fodder for lessons on the mass media at A level or GCSE. Try this story summarising what people are actually talking about on facebook the most.
Traditional family?
A survey by the Centre for the Modern Family suggests that few people feel part of a 'traditional' family. Read about it here.
Crime and Deviance - London riots
The government published last week their interim report on the violence during the summer. You can find it here.
The LSE and the Guardian newspaper also carried out research, interviewing many of those involved. The findings are summarised in an article here.
Useful article about the impact of the introduction of the contraceptive pill.
Press Ethics
Any student studying Mass Media for Unit 3, should be aware of the Leveson inquiry - a goldmine of examples! The BBC have been doing a rolling commentary on the witness statements, including that by Campbell here.
Family incomes
I'm having trouble uploading resources to the website currently, but there are plenty of stories in the news that provide a good basis for discussion. One on the BBC today questions how easy it is to live on £40,000pa (the average combined income for two adults in the UK). Read it here.
GCSE quizzes and games
If anybody else is feeling like me at the moment, then it is a good time to (re)discover Chris Gardner's excellent website: lots of quizzes, games and notes for GCSE Sociology, several of which I use profitably with AS level as well.
Research methods: questionnaires
A great online exercise for evaluating questionnaires.
Educational Attainment and reading
OECD study shows the importance of reading to children in their first years at school. Read it here.
Growing populations
The growing population of our planet is of great interest to sociologists, and of concern to many. This neat app on the BBC lets you work out what 'number' you are - a great little starter for discussion.
Suggar Daddies
Sugar Daddy parties in the UK - is it a form of prostitution? Is it sexist? Or is it simply a rebirth of traditional relationships where the man is the provider? You decide.
Read the story here.
Gender and educational achievement
An interesting link I came across recently which explores the issue of boys underachievement at GCSE in more depth. There is a chapter you can download, along with a presentation, both of which contain useful information that could be adapted for use with sixth-former, or potentially GCSE students.
Politics and democracy
An interesting discussion of recent changes to electoral procedure; useful as a starting point for discussions about democracy and the balance of power. Read here.
African-Caribbean underachievement
Interesting and baldly stated article about reasons for underachievement by black boys. A good starting point for a lesson.
modern crimes and moral panics
Nice story for a starter about a father in trouble for taking a photograph of his daughter in a shopping centre. Read it here.
Race and Identity
Fascinating programme about race and identity on BBC2 tonight, that will be repeated Tuesday 11:20pm and Wednesday 12:20am.
read more...»year 10 assessment
Here is an assessment I put together for my year 10, based mainly on the studying society element of Unit 1. It is accompanied by a detailed peer marking exercise with model answers to assist.
read more...»4 thought - mixed-race marriages
4 Thought on channel 4 present short viewpoints on a wide variety of subjects that might be useful as starters for discussion points. Yesterday's was on mixed race marriages. The BBC have also commented on the issue, here.
Educating Essex
Don't be misled by the title or the pictures on the website, this series is a great fly-on-the-wall look at comprehensive education today. There is bullying, dating, teaching and even some learning. Take a look at the programmes here.
sleep and learning
A joint research carried out by UAB and Ramon Llull University, published in the journal Cultura y Educación, indicates that children sleeping less than nine hours and with bad sleeping habits - such as going to bed late - do worse academically. The study was carried out in several schools with children aged 6 and 7.
You can read an executive summary here.
children as brand ambassadors
The BBC discusses the ethical issues of using children as brand ambassadors to sell products.
community sentencing or punishment?
Interesting discussion of the point of jail and the merits of community sentencing. Read it here.
riots and statistics
An excellent piece on the BBC looking at the statistics associated with the riots. Good 'methods in context' material for A2 Crime and Deviance.
Read it here.
Plotting the riots
Another map, this time linking the homes of those charged in relation to the riots in Manchester, to areas of deprivation. A good stimulus for discussing causes of crime.
Targeting crime 'hotspots'
A study led by University College London suggests that targeting crime 'hotspots' is a good way of cutting offending, because most criminals are too lazy to go elsewhere. The study has been printed in the Jourmal of Experimental Criminology and you must be a subscriber to download the full report, but the abstract is below. Mark Easton, writing for the BBC, has also discuss the study, here.
read more...»Boys underperformance at GCSE
This discussion thread on the TES website might prove a useful tool in discussing boys' underachievement with sixth formers.
For those of you introducing capitalism to AS students in the next few weeks, or trying to get A2 students to develop their understanding further, this article might make a good discussion point. In particular, it could help students to apply the theory to contemporary issues and events.
Social surveys
A lovely article from the BBC about the ONS and some of the surveys it has carried out: from how many bras women owned in 1941, to sex and contraception in 2001. Read it here.
The ONS survey highlights would make a good starter for lessons on methods and / or social change; read it here.
the London riots and poverty
I'm not sure who put this together, but this map overlays locations of recent unrest with areas of deprivation. A good starting point for discussion about the root causes… (warning - it can be slow to load)
Carrot or Stick - A Horizon Guide to Raising Kids
BBC4 are screening a Horizon documentary this evening (Thursday 11th August, 8-9pm), looking at how parenting techniques have changed, and theory behind those changes. Sure it will be worth a watch, and I shall be recording it for future A level lessons on childhood.
Social climbing
An interesting article about whether 'social climbing' is a good thing. I wonder whether the assumption that it is still viewed as a negative aspect, remains true today anyway. What do you think?
Family types card game
A card game for GCSE students studying the family, to help them identify types and definitions. It's a simple pairing exercise - instructions included.
The Happiness Index
People in the UK believe their well-being should be measured in terms of health, friends and family and job satisfaction, according to a report by the Office of National Statistics. Read the article here. The report can be downloaded here.
Children who don't know their own name
A snippet from Radio 4 highlighting the problem of children arriving at school who don't even know their own names. The blame is levelled at television and the internet and the failure of families to engage in discussion. Listen to it here.
children behaving badly
The BBC screened a programme, Classroom Secrets, earlier this week, that showed footage of how children really behave in class. You can see the programme on BBCiplayer, and there is a short clip along with brief details about the programme, here.
Ben Goldacre - bad science
For those that haven't yet come across Ben Goldacre, he debunks examples of bad science. His articles are insightful and make useful starting points for discussion at A2 (value-free research / the positivism debate) and AS (for those looking at health particularly). His website can be found here.
The end of gender?
A neat article bringing together some of the most recent stories about challenging gender. Read it here.
Britain's mysterious baby boom
More discussion about fertility rates and the apparent 'baby boom' of the first part of this, the 21st century. Is Tony Blair the 'daddy'? A good starting point for discussion.
are children being forced to grow up too quickly?
In case you missed it earlier in the year, following a great deal of debate around the subject of the commercialisation, and particularly the perceived sexualisation, of children, the Government have commissioned a review. Reg Bailey, Chief Executive of the Mothers' Union is leading the review which will focus on 4 key areas:
read more...»class division - the battle continues
The BBC, in an article that not so subtly advertises a new book (Owen Jones - Chavs: the Demonization of the Working Class), discusses the controversy around the term 'chav' and the continued class division that exists in the UK.
Crime and Deviance: Miami mega-jail
The exam boards are generally looking for up-to-date examples wherever possible, so why not take a look at this article on the BBC about the Miami mega-jail.
'Imagine a jail where dangerous inmates awaiting trial live 24 to a room and fight each other under a violent gladiatorial code. This is life inside Miami's mega-jail, writes Louis Theroux.'
Revision links
If you haven't found it already, go and look the website for Ken Browne's Sociology books for A level. There are lots of sample chapters and some useful quizzes and matching exercises that are great for revision.
Gender Socialisation
A last minute case study on Gender Socialisation for either Family topic on SCLY1 or Education on SCLY2; Researchers from Florida State University, have found kids' books are likely to feature a male hero rather than a female heroine and could be reinforcing gender inequality. Adding that in recent years animal characters were twice as likely to be male as female.
Research methods revision game
A fun way to revise the strengths and limitations of various research methods based on the card game 'happy families'. Instructions included.
2010 UK General Election Analysis
A year on and some decent analysis from psephologists of the 2010 election are emerging. Dr Justin Greaves of Warwick University has made available an A'Level friendly Power Point on 'Voting Behaviour at the 2010 General Election'. An excellent resource for any centre studying this minority topic on AQA SCLY3.
Current issues and stories
Examiners are looking for contemporary references from students and I often get asked where they can find them. I usually start with stories in the news. Here are some quick summaries of stories and studies from April.
AV Referendum
Perhaps more political than sociological (and certainly historical), but a useful discussion of the merits of AV versus first past the post.
AV vs FPTP
Who giveth this woman to this man?
Don't seem to be able to embed this, so check it out here. In yesterday's royal marriage ceremony there was a bit in the service which I'd forgotten about. At one point (follow the link) the Archbishop of Canterbury (and when is someone going to tell him to get his hair cut?) said 'Who giveth this woman to this man?". Mr Middleton then gave his daughter's hand to the Archbishop, who placed Kate's hand upon Prince William's hand. Well, I know you can say it's 'just' a tradition, but what would feminists make of that I wonder? Surely the symbolism and the language is clear? The woman is a piece of property - she is 'given' by the father, to her husband. The husband-to-be however, is treated differently. He, it seems, is regarded as a fully independent being, who no one has the power to 'give away'. A marriage of equals? Make of that what you will.
read more...»nature vs nurture
More fuel for the nurture versus nature argument. This BBC article discusses how success is determined more by effort than talent, and the importance of a 'growth mindset' rather than a 'fixed' one. Dweck's experiment should prove fertile ground for discussion.
Men Kissing
This little story seems to be getting a lot of media coverage. But for a simple bonus point, identify one public place in the UK where men are allowed to kiss? It's a good example of the relative nature of deviance - in terms of place that is.
Material deprivation
The ATL has produced a study of the impact of poverty of pupils' learning, reported by the BBC. There is perhaps nothing unusual or unexpected in the findings, but as it is a report of teachers' perceptions, it could be a useful discussion point on subjectivity as well as material deprivation.
read more...»Ethnicity and higher education
David Cameron has raised a stink about ethnic minorities going to Oxford University. Much of the argument relates to how you read the statistics! Read it here.
Sociology, Post Modernism, Art and the Handbag?
Time for a little light relief for the end of term? This new book from the French Sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann has been all over the British press this week; The Times, The Guardian and The Express. In it he collates 18 months of research looking at what a handbag says about its owner. According to Kaufmann, "I'm like an ethnologist except that, instead of observing a tribe, I observe women. It is perfectly understandable, given that the advent of the handbag coincided with the dawn of choice, so it highlights the way in which women have been able to construct their own identities.
On a similar theme the French video artist Pierre Klein simply asks women to empty the contents and explain what the contents say about the owner. So there you have it, a perfect end of term 'Starter' activity - get your students to empty the contents of their bags!
What happens to our census forms?
Students who have been discussing the census may be interested in following up by looking at this clip.
social mobility
Nick Clegg has been talking about social mobility, as reported by the BBC. Alongside the usual politican-speak, is a nice graph that should prove a good discussion point.
boy or man?
This story on the BBC struck me today, not just because of the events, but because of the question of the point at which we stop being children and start being adults. Do we draw the line between boy, youth and man differently depending on the context? Food for thought.
Puzzle Maker
I was going to write something about the royal wedding ring and there's a nice clip on the BBC about what happens to the census form. However, time has flown, so I will direct you instead to this helpful site where you can make your own crosswords. In fact, I'm going to make one now.
'feminism trumps egalitarianism'
David Willets, the Universities Minister, claims that feminism has held back working class men. Read the article - what do you think?
Official statistics - census
Nice article from the BBC about the census and the difficulties of counting people - useful evaluation points for students to use.
The Changing Face of Motherhood
Some interesting findings reported on the BBC this week looking at the complex range of pressures facing mothers today compared to their mums and grannies. The new research is from The Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC). Obviously this will be helpful for students as an up to date case study for 'Family' on SCLY1. Also useful for Methods on SCLY2, as the study employs triangulation, consisting of Official Statistics, Focus Groups and an Online Poll. One stand out finding of resonance for me was that the 70's and 80's were seen as the best time to raise children; I must let my mum know!
Useful Video on Newsworthiness
I found this really useful clip on YouTube. It does about 5 mins on newsworthiness and is just right for GCSE although no reason why you couldn't use it for AS either. It's American and you might not like the voice over or teach kids who think they must laugh at anyone who differs from them, but my lot seemed happy enough with it. Just slightly cheesy point at the end about writing whatever you like, so I guess it must be aimed at some variety of journalism students.
A Real Live Positivist
Sometimes it's hard to find a sociologist who is easily put into one of the rather artificial boxes or categories which are used at A level. They are useful - up to a point, but if you are ambitious and fairly sophisticated, don't be fooled into thinking all sociologists fit neatly into such categories. Remember, sociological theories are tools - to be used - and different sociologists adapt them in different ways.
But anyway, do you know of any real positivists? Here's one I've found - Diego Gambetta of Nuffield College Oxford. He has written a great website where he explains some of his views. I don't necessarily agree with him, but you've got to admire the bluntness of the man who can say this: " I detest jargon, which has done so much to ruin, often deservedly, the reputation of sociology. I do not mean technical words, or new words that identify something for which we have no synonyms in our vocabulary. I mean all embracing loose metaphors – such as liquid modernity or risk society or space of flows. Jargon is the make up donned by bad theorising to veil its hollowness. When I encounter words such as discourse, modernity or structuration I stop reading." If you want to read more you will find it in his his essay More Hedgehog than Fox: a self-presentation.
Census Day
Having woken late or to find that the clocks should have moved forward many of us - or heads of household at least - may now also be dimly aware of another demand being made by the state - fill in your census form. If you are a teacher - do not look a gift horse in the mouth - fill in your return online and keep the questionnaire to use in class. Whether you are a student or a teacher, check up the census website and have a look at the questions. Students especially, who have a tendency to think questionnaires are easy - having looked at the questions, the number of options and the coding boxes - do you still think this is an easy method?
BBC survey of schoolchildren
The BBC have carried out a survey of UK schoolchildren, looking at religion and technology, as well as hopes and aspirations. It makes interesting reading and might be useful for AS students studying the family. Read the story here and download the report here.
the impact of technology
The BBC ran an article recently on famous 'firsts' - email, telegram, telephone call… I made this little worksheet for a bit of fun for GCSE classes.
Postmodernism Clip
Nice clip for explaining or getting into postmodernism here.
AQA unit 3 and Unit 4 outlines
I put these exam outlines together for my students to help them prepare for the summer exams. Feel free to use and adapt.
Unit 3: Mass Media AQA_SCLY3_outline.doc
Unit 4: Crime and deviance with methods and theory AQA_SCLY4_outline.doc
Marketisation of Education
The BBC reported on the potential impact of the rise in tuition fees for university, with some calculations provided by Baker Tilly. A good starting point for a debate on the impact of marketisation. Read about it here.
Love pie. Hate pie-charts
I have just been given David McCandless' great coffee table book 'Information is Beautiful'. As a consequence I've been raiding some of his images for class as an alternative to 'boring' tables and charts.
Try starting with these
'Mountains Out of Molehills' - timeline of global media scare stories, an interactive visualisation of Cohen's Moral Panics?
'Left vs. Right' – SCLY3 Politics for Dummies!
'Racist profiling' – a mapping correlation of ethnicity population density and support of nationalistic parties in the UK. Psephology for SCLY3?
Stuart Hall and Multiculturalism
Don't miss a special Thinking Allowed tomorrow, which will feature Laurie Taylor talking to Stuart Hall about multiculturalism. Should be fascinating.
did you fail the English Bac?
Some headteachers and deputies at the Annual Conference of the Association of Schools and College Leaders (ASCL) in Manchester are wearing badges that say 'I failed the English bac' in protest at the Government's new measure of GCSE performance. Old fashioned and contradictory to personalised learning, or driven by public demand? What do you think?
Read about it here.
AQA unit 1 and Unit 2 outlines
I put these exam outlines together for my students to help them prepare for the summer exams. Feel free to use and adapt.
Unit 1: families and households AQA_SCLY1_outline.doc
Unit 2: education with research methods AQA_SCLY2_outline.doc
Which dads help out most?
The BBC recently reported the release of a new study looking at unpaid domestic labour and gender roles. The idea that the finding that 'out-of-work fathers spend less time caring for their children than mothers who have a job' reflects 'startling new research' would be a good starting point for discussion. The report itself provides some interesting points of cross-cultural comparison and is worth a look. A copy can be downloaded here.
Losing My Religion
There's a very useful clip from BBC Breakfast - an interview with Rory McGrath talking about losing his religious faith. Would be great for introducing lessons on either secularization or sociological perspectives on religion - Marxism or Functionalism - as McGrath touches on the issue of how Catholicism can be a controlling influence in a person's life.
Neat little story from the BBC about the pressures of parenting - just to give you a flavour from the other side of the education debate. Read it here.
The British At Work
A new series starts on BBC2 this week in which Kirsty Young looks at British working lives since the Second World War. This programme combines the memories of ordinary working people with vivid archive from documentary, television and film to look at an era in which work was a great mass experience and work places were lively, welcoming communities. Details can be found here
Government policy towards divorce
AQA encourage students to use contemporary examples where possible. For Unit 1: Families and Households, you may like to discuss new government policy towards divorcing couples: they are to be referred to mediation to sort out disputes before they are allowed to resort to the courts (BBC article).
Jamie's Dream School
Historian David Starkey has become the surprise star of the new series, 'Jamie's Dream School'. Ostensibly focusing on how to engage teenagers who have dropped out of mainstream education, the programme mainly succeeds in showing just how difficult teaching can be - even if you are world-renowned expert in your field! You can read an article here.
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text: Age: 80 Address: Spruce Pine, North Carolina Date of Death: Sunday March 2, 2014 Arrangements: Webb Funeral Home Details: J Frank Berry of Spruce Pine went home to be with the Lord on March 2, 2014 with loved ones at his side. He was born November 9, 1933, in Fairview, Virginia to the late Lula Mae Duncan and Auburn E Berry, the twelfth of thirteen children. Frank often said his parents were so poor they couldn't afford a full first name for him. As a child he helped his brothers make moonshine and also hid the location of the still from the Revenuers. When times were hard he used his squirrel hunting skills to help provide for the family. He walked over two miles to school every day. "Uphill both ways!" He relocated to Detroit in his early twenties, working first as a parking lot attendant, and then moved up to car sales, where he quickly became the top salesman of Volkswagen cars. He worked in the steel factory for over six years and was a strong Union supporter. Later he became a carpenter and owned his own business, Oakville Millworks, where he and his sons hand-crafted doors that graced fine homes across the United States and Canada. He named his doors after his favorite presidents. His top-notch door was named after Ronald Reagan, "the last true President." He was a true patriot and believed that people counted more than corporations. He retired to North Carolina and wrote two books featuring his stories and dictionaries of "Mountain Tauk." He traveled all over the region selling his books, telling his stories, and giving talks at regional colleges. He sold over 13,ooo books under the penname Ben Brouke. When he was seventy years old he designed and built his home in Spruce Pine, with help from his sons Richard and Jason. Frank had many adventures but the one he was never able to live down was the time he was tearing down a chicken coop with a hammer. Unbeknownst to him there was an active beehive that became agitated as he knocked down the building, and quickly swarmed around his head. He managed to escape all the bees but one. In his determination to get the bee he raised his hammer and brought it down on the bee, killing it instantly. Unfortunately he lost sight of the fact that the bee had landed on his forehead. It was an impressive lump. For the rest of his life he received hammers as gifts. He is survived by his wife Janet Bernice Walker Berry; whom he met while selling Volkswagens. He said he would do anything to sell a car, so when she said she'd buy the car if he married her, he agreed. They were happily married for over forty-five years, but the car didn't last that long. He is also survived by his little sister June Williams, and his children: Deborah, David, Dan and wife Christine, George, Richard, Dave, Larry, and Jason and wife Stephanie, and grandchildren: Gary, Jonathan, Joshua, Kelly, Seth, Sarah, Emily, Brent, Colleen, Chelsea, Matthew, Denali, and Zoe, and great-grand children Tamara, Sophie, Lily, Jonathan, Ahrianna, Odin, and Jarrod. Frank never met a stranger. He could start a conversation with anyone. He was curious about the world and made a lasting impression with everyone he met. He was a truly unique man with a great heart and a zest for life. We will all miss him dearly. A memorial service will be held on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm at Bible Baptist Church in Spruce Pine. Words of comfort may be e-mailed to the family by going to our website; www.webbfh.com.,selecting Mr. Berrys name and then you may sign his guestbook. Webb Funeral Home in Spruce Pine, NC is assisting the Berry family.


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If the Raptors advance to the semis of the inaugural NBA Summer League Championship tournament, they'll have to do it without Jonas Valanciunas.
Immediately prior to Saturday's quarter-final matchup with the Phoenix Suns, the Raptors announced that Valanciunas sustained a sprained left index finger in Thursday's game vs. Denver.
According to Raptors President of Basketball Operations and GM Masai Ujiri, the injury is not considered serious and Valanciunas is considered day-to-day.
Of course by sitting Valanciunas — quite possibly the MVP of the tournament through four games in Las Vegas — prior to the quarter-finals, there may not be many days left here in Las Vegas for the Raptors. But a big picture approach obviously has to factor in.
Valanciunas has averaged of 18.8 points and 10 rebounds in roughly 29 minutes per contest through four games at NBA Summer League. He is also among the tournament leaders in field goal percentage (.561) and has knocked down an eye-popping 29 of his 33 free throw attempts.
Those numbers may belie the noticeable improvement Valanciunas has made with this footwork, ability to finish with both hands, recognition of double teams, pump fakes and, of course, his frame which has allowed him to go through opponents when not going around or over them in Las Vegas.
In short, a four-game sample has made it pretty obvious what Valanciunas can do against the Summer League competition. He's scheduled to join the Lithuanian national team soon, which is already ramping up training for September's EuroBasket 2013 and with an increased regular season role with the Raptors looming, you have to wonder if the risk of further injury is worth it should the Raptors advance.


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Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are
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Sebastian Seung, a dynamic young professor at MIT, is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that the basis of our identity lies not in our genes but in the connections between our brain cells – connections that are absolutely unique to every individual (even the genome isn't unique between identical twins).By mapping this "connectome", Seung hopes to unlock the mysteries of identity and personality. Seung and a dedicated group of researchers are leading the effort to map these connections, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse. Just as the genome was mapped, so Seung plans to map the "connectome".
It is a monumental project – the scientific equivalent of climbing Mount Everest – but if they succeed, they will uncover the basis of personality, identity, intelligence, memory, and perhaps disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. It also offers us a glimpse into a final understanding of the "nature vs nurture" debate, explaining how each experience in life fundamentally affects the connections in the brain – nurture shaping nature.
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We didn't know this was a real thing, but evidently today is National Pancake Day. Before you run out to your local IHOP though, Prince is here to tell you that "Breakfast Can Wait." The Purple One has been cunningly dropping new tracks all over the web in recent weeks, and today his 3rdEyeGirl alter-ego unleashed another new cut dubbed, yes, "Breakfast Can Wait," a song about working up an appetite in bed before making coffee and toast, a.k.a. Prince's morning workout.
"Breakfast Can Wait" is similar to a pair of Prince classics: Musically, it harkens back to the smooth early-hours funk of "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker," while the nursery rhyme lyrics detailing the breakfast hint at "Starfish and Coffee," and this new song attempts to be a carbon-copied mashup of those two Sign O' the Times tracks. Though it ends up as just another entry in a Prince songbook filled with sound-alike entries, this latest one does briefly recapture Prince's peak years better than the other 3rdEyeGirl leaks floating around. A digital download of the song is on sale now for only 88 cents at Prince's weird little webstore (via Soul Culture).
In other Prince news, the lineup for the Carnegie Hall tribute to the Artist Formerly Known as Love Symbol has been revealed. We already knew the Roots, Talib Kweli, Booker T, and the Blind Boys of Alabama were involved, and now ?uestlove bud Elvis Costello, Bettye Lavette, and D'Angelo have been added to the March 7 concert. Rounding out the cast are actress Sandra Bernhard, Bilal, and Princess, a tribute band featuring Saturday Night Live veteran actress Maya Rudolph.


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Everything you think you know about the housing crisis is crap, says the Boston Fed.
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Everything you think you know about the housing crisis is crap, says the Boston Fed.
This is what happens when everybody is lying.
The paper makes a nice argument that the responsibility relies in the irresponsible borrowers (some speculators and some legitimate home owners) the facts that the banks also took excessive risk, eventual reducing the cash flow in turn reduced the accessibility of cheap money eventually bursting the bubble shows that the responsibility rely in the banks as well as the irresponsible and greedy borrowers. Many irresponsible borrowers I know a few, believed that they were getting something for noting and they were taking advantage of the system that allow them to live in a house they cannot otherwise afford.
I think that as long as the market is moved by fear and greed there is noting that can be done to prevent this from happening again we the people will manage a way to get it done.
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Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Professor, received his B.A. In Classics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. He teaches courses in the Greek and Latin languages, classical mythology, ancient epic and Greek theater (Gen Ed). He has won the Ketels Award for teaching in Intellectual Heritage and the Eleanore Hofkin Award for Excellence in Teaching from CLA. In 2014 he was named to the Provost's Teaching Academy.
Robin's research interests include Greek drama, Homer, Vergil and Comparative Literature, and he has published a number of articles on Euripides, Sophocles, the Aeneid, and comparative approaches to Greek tragedy. His first book, Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides was published by the MLA in 2002, and Focus issued his translation and commentary on Euripides' Hecuba in 2006. His monograph Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008, and his study of the Eumenides of Aeschylus also appeared in 2009 with Duckworth. He is currently editing A Companion to Euripides for Wiley/Blackwell. Future plans include a book on the function of the horse in ancient epic. He has been a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, and, during 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. 204-3672. In 2013 he became co-editor of the journal Classical World, which now resides officially in TU Classics. His complete c.v. is available. email@example.com


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Videogame visions of a post-climate change future
I wrote an essay on the way games have depicted climate change for Memory Insufficient. I was pretty happy with how this turned out, and the plan is to whip it up into a more fleshed out paper later in … Continue reading
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Watch the K Foundation burn a million quid
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My favourite moments from the preview of SELFIES
I read the preview of SELFIES that is readable online. The bit that made me laugh out loud hardest: I take a black krink pen out of the inside pocket of my denim jacket and make my mark on the … Continue reading
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Gone Home: Jump Scares and Ludonarative Harmony
So there's a new game out called Gone Home and I don't have the superlatives to describe it adequately so just take my word for it and go play. It's some trifling amount of money on steam. If you haven't … Continue reading
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The Coles and Woolies Campaign is Bullshit; Let Me Count The Ways
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David Graeber on Ethnography
Taken from the Preface to his 2009 book 'Direct Action, An Ethnography' all about the 2000/2001 protests and riots against the WTO, etc., pages vii-viii: Call this book, then, a tribute to the continued relevance of ethnographic writing. By "ethnographic writing," … Continue reading
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Transcription: highlights from Timothy Morton's Q&A session after 'On Entering the Anthropocene'
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Comparative feelpinions about Far Cry 3
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Ramadan Mubarak!
With the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Merciful
On behalf of SuhaibWebb.com, our family (staff), friends and relatives we wish you all a blessed Ramadan. Folks get excited when shopping centers open early and close late after or before certain holidays. Well, Paradise is about to open and Hell is about close so we should be pumped!
"When Ramadan comes, the doors of Paradise are opened and the doors of Hell are closed."
We ask Allah to grant us tawfiq to make the most of this special time.
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Ramadan Mubarak, Imam Suhaib!
Asalam aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, Wishing A Blessed Ramadan to Suhaibwebb and all at suhaibwebb.com. May Allah Subhanawatala accept all your efforts and may He increases us in knowledge that benefits, ameen!
May our sins, pride and ego banish this Ramadan.