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TYLER, TX. (AP) - East Texas police are seeking a beautician charged with unlicensed medical practice after a breast augmentation she's accused of performing left a customer hospitalized in critical condition.
A Tyler police statement says warrants have been issued for the arrest of Carmel Mitchelle Foster-Alexander, owner of Queen Divas Hair Salon and Spa.
According to the statement, a Longview woman was admitted Feb. 16 to a hospital, where she's listed in critical condition with severe chest pain. Police say the woman's family reported she had received injections of an unknown substance to augment her breasts the day before her hospitalization.
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here's a story out of Philadelphia that's enough to break your heart. On April 21, a man shot his girlfriend to death in front of her 11-year old daughter, then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Aleen Ali, 45, a supervisor at the city's Department of Human Services (DHS), walked up to the […]


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If the product delivered consistent reliable performance - it would be 5 stars. If you are lucky enough to play an undamaged product - it sounds fantastic: pure, ringing open tones, contrasting with a great muted tone when you muffle the exposed metal with your fingers
Unfortunately, the poor quality of construction means frequent failure of the internal suspension mechanisms for the "triangle." The result: a klunky sounding tone after minimal use.
I've been able to repair and extend the life of my triangle with copious amounts of JB Weld (to repair the plastic), high strength fishing line (to replace the string that suspends the triangle) and rubber tubing (to cushion the triangle from hitting the frame)
LP should have designed this instrument with gigging drummers / percussionists in mind. I would gladly pay 3x the price if they had made a sturdier model that could withstand being played and handled in the same manner as other hand-held percussion instruments.
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Take your time with this instrument. There is a subtle nuance to it ringing certain ways. The sturdy ABS plastic might fool you into beating it like a maraca. That works, but you'll likely not enjoy it for long as the internals appear fairly delicate. Comfortable to handle and clear sounding- Experimented with different positions- horizontal vs vert- alternating finger mutes and found it up to the challenge. It's enhanced my ability to add another layer of sound to my performances. Good buy.
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I just got it because it was on sale. 25% discount.
Of course this is a good idea. Playing forr with triangle in one hand and blocks or agogo with the other is a breeze. To my taste the sound itself is a bit too tingely. I need a fuller sound like that of a aluminium triangle.
Might mention that a good idea is to put some anti-slip adhesive tape on the sides to make it easier to grip. If not you will be more concerned with preventing it from sliding out of your hand than playing it.
Quality sucks. I bought one and returned it because it made klunky sounds. It's a rubber washer that falls off after only 30 min. of playing. I got another one and the same problem ocurred. Maybe its just this batch. A friend of mine got one when they came out on the market. He had no problems.
Also, don't think of hitting anything with it. The plastic casing will break.
Ok, I got mine on sale so it's no big deal. But no reason to accept a faulty product. Returning mine.
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This is a really interesting and unique precussion instrument. You need to practice with it and learn how to play it to get the most out of it. It has two cut-outs that let you damp it with your finger or thumb. This lets you damp up strokes or down strokes, so you can mix ringing notes with damped clicks. If you just keep a beat with it and then damp it in a clave pattern with your thumb and forefinger, it sounds musical. With some practice, you can do intricate patterns quickly with one hand.
It is very loud and cutting, but not in an obnoxious way. It has a very nice clean triangle sound. It is a lot of fun to play with it and to work out patterns. If you just pick it up, you might not get it with the damping notches, and if you hold it wrong it won't ring out clearly. There are some videos online that can give you the right idea of how to get started.
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Great concept. Too bad it's useless. The klunky sounds that it makes while knocking around inside the casing is louder than the triangle sound.
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The idea is a good one, unfortunately it doesnt perform as expected because in order to get it to ring you have to move it and get two sounds instead of the one chime sound as needed.
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Excellent Glutamine. As everything that AST made.
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After a few days of using 7.5g to 10g, I noticed that I had difficulty urinating, got headaches, my colds got worse, lost my appetite and the main reason why I stopped using L-Glutamine was because it caused depression and anxiety. All the symptoms alleviated after I stopped using this product. I've later read that L-Glutamine can be converted to excitotoxin in the brain and disrupts neurons, which would explain the depression and anxiety.
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I've been using it 2 times, around 2 weeks every time. Each time I developed a bad eczema on my hands. It disappears in a week when I stop taking AST Sports Science, GL3, Micronized L-Glutamine. Will never try it again.
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Willie Nelson, Eddie Izzard and Childish Gambino to Perform at Bridges Auditorium
Bridges Auditorium, the 1931 theatre that presides over Marston Quad, will see a handful of impressive performers this academic year, including upcoming concerts from comedian Eddie Izzard (Dec. 2), country legend Willie Nelson (Feb. 28), and rapper Childish Gambino (Nov. 10).
Tickets for the Nelson and Izzard concerts go on sale for the Claremont Colleges on Oct. 24, and tickets for the general public go on sale Oct. 31. The Eddie Izzard performance will cost $20 for Claremont Colleges students and $35 for general admission, and tickets for the Willie Nelson concert are $45, $55 and $65. Childish Gambino tickets ($24 for Claremont Colleges students, $34 general) are already on sale. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.pomona.edu/administration/bridges-auditorium/index.aspx or at the Bridges Auditorium Box Office (450 N. College Way, Claremont), Mon.-Fri. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (909) 621-8032.
"We've been home to the best in politics, arts and culture for the better part of the last century," says Bridges Director Christopher Waugh. "The Bridges team is committed to leveraging this momentum to move the Auditorium to the forefront as one of Southern California's premier college venues for the best in music, theatre and the performing arts. To wit, Bridges Auditorium has hosted some of the most groundbreaking artists and musicians in the business in recent years. Among them, Fiona Apple, Morrissey, Dave Matthews, Capitol Steps, John Mayer, LMFAO, Black Eyed Peas, Cocteau Twins and, just last week, Taylor Swift."
Childish Gambino is the stage name of comedian, actor and rapper Donald Glover, best known for his role on NBC's Community. He has released several albums and mixtapes. His first studio album, Camp, was released in 2011; Entertainment Weekly saidCamp "offers up a serious display of lyrical prowess, heartbreaking autobiographical details, and brutally dark humor." RollingStone writes: "Donald Glover, who raps as Childish Gambino, is closest in lineage to College Dropout-era [Kanye] West: he boasts an Everyman appeal built on witty, biting humor, a prideful disdain for hip-hop clichés and some incendiary prodding of racial typecasts, post-Obama and post-Chappelle's Show." His video for "Heartbeat" was nominated for the Best Hip-Hop video at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards.
Izzard has been hailed as one of the foremost stand-ups of this generation, taking ideas, historical stories and situations and extrapolating them into bizarre tangential, absurd and surreal comic narratives, using observational humor, improvisation, mimicry and mime. He has won numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his comedy special, Dress to Kill (2000). He was the lead in the television show The Riches. Among his film credits are The Riches, Cars 2, Ocean's 12 and Ocean's 13. He was named No. 5 of the 100 Greatest British National Comedians in 2010. His several concert films include Glorious, Dress to Kill and Stripped, and he was the subject of a documentary in 2009, Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story.
Legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson has been a lauded country music star since the 1960s. He began as a singer-songwriter in Nashville, famously writing the classic "Crazy," which became a hit for Patsy Cline in 1962. After having some charting country songs in the 1960s, he found a renewed vigor after moving from Nashville to Austin in the 1970s, creating his first album, Shotgun Willie, in "outlaw country" style (i.e., non-Nashville style). His new style, which incorporated folk and Americana elements, really erupted with the 1975 album Red Headed Stranger.
He is known for his collaborations with Waylon Jennings, including the first country album what went platinum, Wanted! The Outlaws, and Waylon & Willie, which included the hit "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." Nelson continued to chart hits in the 1980s, including "On the Road Again" and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before." He toured the world with Kris Kristofferson '58, Jennings and Johnny Cash as The Highwaymen in the mid-1980s. Nelson continues to tour, release albums and play in charity concerts, such as Kokua for Japan, which benefited the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. His 2011 release album, Heroes, reached No. 4 on Billboard's country music chart and featured guest appearances by Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Snoop Dogg, Ray Price and Sheryl Crow, among others.
Nelson is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the National Agriculture Hall of Fame for his work with Farm Aid. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998, has won seven Grammy awards, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Nelson has also appeared in many films, including Red Headed Stranger, based on his album of the same name, and has written or contributed to several books, including Willie: An Autobiography (1988) and Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings From the Road (2012).
Other upcoming performances at Bridges Auditorium include a screening of silent film classic Nosferatu on October 26, and SCAM Fest, the 17th annual Southern California A Cappella Music Festival on November 9.
Bridges Auditorium is a premier college venue for the best in music, theatre and performing arts. Located on the Pomona College campus in beautiful Claremont, California, the 2,500-seat theatre, built in 1931, is a historic venue modeled after European concert houses of that time. Bridges has hosted such performers, artists, public figures, icons and personalities as Amelia Earhart, Steve Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Graham, Muhammad Ali, Benny Goodman, Sandra Day O'Connor, Hilary Clinton, President Bill Clinton, James Earl Jones and Bono.


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Map showing the British distribution of Hyacinthoides non-scripta. Green and yellow dots represent pre-1987 records, red dots represtent 1987 to 1999 records, pink dots represent 2000 to 2009 records. This is a static version of an interactive hectad map, available at www.bsbimaps.org.uk.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta is widely distributed along the Atlantic fringe of western Europe,
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In the British Isles it is essentially lowland but extends up to 685m on Craig-yr-Ysfa in North Wales (Preston, Pearman & Dines, 2002).
The British Isles is often cited as containing the majority of the world's population of this species, which has helped drive concern over its continued survival here in the face of aggressive hybridisation.
In terms of area, or extent of occupancy, the extra-British western European range is broader but the species is sparsely and very unevenly distributed throughout that and never achieves the density of population seen in the British Isles.
Although the species can spread locally very efficiently by vegetative means (small bulbils forming around the main bulb), population genetic studies have shown that the major mechanism of reproduction is sexual, by seed, which is abundantly produced in most years.


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Dave on film: entering the Green Zone
There was clearly more than met the eye in Desert Storm and our subsequent engagement in Iraq, but is it all a huge government conspiracy, as suggested by Green Zone. By Dave Taylor
Colorado Ballet ends the season with variety and passion
Patrons heading to the Colorado Ballet's final production of its 49th season will see three very different works with one common factor: talent. Plus -- what's coming next season. By Maria Cote
Sheen's keen on meeting Julie Andrews' standards
The story and the message are timeless and ageless and that's why The Buell is packed with Mary Poppins lovers, young and old alike. "'Mary Poppins resonates with all ages," says the show's star, Caroline Sheen. By Cathie Beck
After a Western omelet at Heck's, I strap on a pair of rentals and hit the trails. A brilliant sun hovers above the back side of the Front Range as I work off the rust resulting from a two-year layoff from cross-country skiing. By Eric Peterson
Best bets: Lily Tomlin, Charlie Chaplin, Dave Attell -- someone for everybody
She's Ernestine, she's Edith Ann, she's way funny -- she's Lily Tomlin, and she's at the Paramount Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets: $45-$85. By Lisa Ryckman
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DJ Topsider – Polyphonic (Usher vs. Audien…)0
This mashup is ah-maze-ing! I'm not going to even continue to look for another brand new song to match its caliber, because I just won't find it! DJ Topsider, I am so glad that I found and featured you three weeks ago. I am so excited to do so again. Polyphonic is a stand alone hit. Usher meshed with Audien is outstanding, then the high-tempo beat is joined up with Calvin Harris. Kid Cudi comes in with a brief break from the action without taking away from the mashup (actually, it's the Steve Aoki remix of Pursuit of Happiness that assists with that). Again, the build up hits and it's back to the level of energy that drew me in during the first half. What a strong way to finish this magnificent mashup. Way to turn my head DJ Topsider, you have my attention.
Also, I learned something new today, rather than accepting his mashup title, I felt compelled to look up the definition (I'll admit it). Google, has provided: "Producing many sounds simultaneously; many-voiced." Oh, so it's a fancy way of saying mashup. I like it.
DJ Topsider – Polyphonic (Usher ft. Young Jeezy vs. Calvin Harris vs. Kid Cudi & Steve Aoki vs. Audien ft. Michael S)
FrankCarmine – The Night Alive (Hardwell vs. Usher vs…)0
FrankCarmine makes music that girls dance to, I don't think it can get much simpler than that! The Night Alive is only a day old and already getting a lot of attention. It includes samples from Hardwell, Dirty South, Krewella, Usher, Martin Solveig, and Rita Ora. Do listen to the whole song, but I have to say, my favorite section comes in right around 3 minutes. That EDM beat is what I enjoy the most! The whole thing is great though, a skillful execution without a doubt!
I'm putting this article under the Brand New category because of his latest mashup, but just in case you are new to FrankCarmine, I wanted to include a couple other favorites of ours. It would appear that as long as you have Zedd's Spectrum and just about anything from Adele, you have mashup gold! Set Fire to Starships is a great concept, if you take that literally – Nicki Minaj on "American Idol" is just awful. But as a cameo on this mashup, not so bad (which also has Katy Perry).
Viva La Language is the other mega mashup I feel obligated to share with you. I mean, come on, how can you not with a single mashup that includes all of these samples: Porter Robinson, Nicki Romero, Coldplay, Pink, Chris Brown, Katy Perry, and Deadmau5. What a great mix! Check out FrankCarmine's SoundCloud account for more great mashups… there just isn't enough time or space to provide them in this one article!
FrankCarmine – The Night Alive (Hardwell vs. Dirty South vs. Krewella vs. Usher vs. Martin Solveig vs. Rita Ora)
FrankCarmine – Set Fire To Starships (Zedd vs. Adele vs. Nicki Minaj vs. Katy Perry)
FrankCarmine – Viva La Language (Porter Robinson vs. Nicki Romero vs. Coldplay vs. P!nk vs. Chris Brown vs. Katy Perry vs. Deadmau5)
Honey Singh – Angreji Beat (DJ Kawal mashup)0
Bollywooood, Bollywood Swinging! That only works if you've heard of the song Hollywood Swinging by Kool & The Gang. DJ Kawal, of India, has over 13 years of experience. He plays the best Bollywood Commercial House music around, or as I'd like to call it – BollyHouse music. DJ Kawal has a statement that he enjoys to reinforce through his productions, "music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul." I read that quote when I first started listening to his body of work on his SoundCloud account. I knew that I wasn't going to 'understand' the lyrics of all his work, but rather, I could feel music instead. Though, some of his House remixes have a few English samples from our Top 40 artists.
For this one, I think I'll go based on newest to oldest favorites. Now, I'm not sure all that is mashed into each, but this first one has Honey Singh and Gippy Grewal and is called Angreji Beat. It sounds like it also has Avicii's Levels mixed in the beginning. But what I can feel is the consistent bassline throughout. I would love to see him do this live in a club – might have to fly over to India sometime soon.
The next one is named Chandani, or at least I think it is – could be another artist in India, I've also found it to be a movie title and a village development committee in Nepal. Either way, this one might be my favorite of DJ Kawal's mashups. Strong Bollywood theme throughout. Plus, I pulled samples out from Flo Rida (not positive on that one – the sample of the counting), Pink Floyd (I was just as surprised to hear it as you were), Gotye, Ke$ha, Vinylshakerz (remixing Murray Head's One Night in Bangkok), and Mohombi (that was easy enough to Google).
Finally, we have DJ Kawal's remix to Dil Mera Muft Ka from the movie "Agent Vinod" (which makes me believe the previous song was in relation to "Chandani" the movie). Again, I was able to pull out the American samples, Enrique Iglesias with Usher and Lil Wayne, and Duck Sauce. Not as many as the gold mine we found above. But needless to say, I'm impressed with him and wanted to share him with the world! I know you'll like him to, because frankly, it's hard not to!
Honey Singh ft. Gippy Grewal – Angreji Beat (DJ Kawal mashup)
Chandani (Hot! Hot! Hot! Mix) – DJ Kawal mashup
Deadmau5 – There Might Be Coffee (MILLERTIME Edit)0
Did someone say Miller Time? Hold on, let me go grab a beer quick.
…Okay, I'm comfortable and ready now, Miller Lite in hand.
Mark "MILLERTIME" Miller hails from Burlington, Vermont and has always been musically inclined. Starting off with guitar, he played in a garage band throughout High School. While confined to his bed (due to a chronic illness), he discovered his passion for Electronic Music. Which, can I just say, is a great step up from a garage band! When his status quo returned to normal he had the good fortune of being mentored by ZJ of Lazerdisk Party Sex. Which led him to majoring in music production at Berklee College of Music. Alright, so he know's what he's doing. Got it.
But, it gets better (not that it wasn't already good for MILLERTIME). His edit of Deadmau5′ There Might Be Coffee reached the #1 spot on the Popular Charts for the Hype Machine. Now, while he considers it an 'edit', we call it a Mashup, and that's what we enjoy the most. It includes the sample I Don't Like You by Eva Simmons, plus Walking Alone by Dirty South & The Usual Suspects featuring Eric Thercht. It's not hard to see why this Mashup is a favorite of many.
MILLERTIME has also performed with a few noteworthy artists such as 3LAU, Paper Diamond, Lazerdisk Party Sex. With his bootleg, Here We Scream The Dada, I could see him opening for Dada Life. This bootleg includes samples from Basto, Dada Life, Usher, and Hard Rock Sofa & Swanky Tunes. Oh, and as long as we're featuring MILLERTIME for Throwback Friday, I think it's important that we slip in his bootleg of Bad Touch. I can't help but enjoy a mashup that includes The Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch, you're also hearing Rattle by the Bingo Players on this track as well.
This is just merely a glimpse at MILLERTIME, I encourage you to go forth and find your own favorite MILLERTIME productions; let me get you started by sending you to his Facebook, Twitter (@DJ_MillerTime) and SoundCloud accounts. Like/Follow him, and together we'll discover his latest works!
Deadmau5 ft. Eva Simmons – There Might Be Coffee (MILLERTIME Edit)
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The partisanship on health care reform was on full display today as members of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee sparred at a televised hearing over a proposal written by Democrats that includes a public health insurance plan and a requirement for employers to provide health insurance.
On the other side, the Senate Finance Committee was also working hard to try and reach a more bipartisan compromise, but the ranking Republican on that committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said they may not reach a self-imposed deadline of July 4 to present their bill to the public.
Two bills are currently circulating in the Senate, one being the health reform plan sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who remains absent from the negotiations while he undergoes treatment for brain cancer. The Kennedy bill includes a health insurance plan that would be run by the government and compete with private insurance companies.
The other bill, which is still being drafted by Democrat and Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, entails replacing the public option plan with a series of health insurance nonprofit organizations that would compete with the private sector.
Grassley said closed-door negotiations for a bipartisan health reform bill in the Senate Finance Committee hit a snag, delaying an important cost estimate of that bill. But he expressed optimism that the committee will be able to reach a bipartisan health care reform bill.
Grassley said President Obama and congressional Democrats need to work with Republicans, who say a public option plan, which Obama supports, would stifle all competition and weaken the private insurance industry.
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Republican lawmakers have maligned Democrats for lack of transparency in drafting their bills to recast health care in the United States.
Sen. Mike Enzi, the Wyoming Republican who is his party's ranking member on the health committee, said the stakes of health care reform are too high for Democrats to take over the process.
"This is the most comprehensive legislation that any of us will ever work on," Enzi said Wednesday. "It will fundamentally impact one-sixth of the nation's economy ... affect the health care of every American. ... It's too important not to take the time to get it right."
Meanwhile, Republicans in the House of Representatives today unveiled their own health plan.
The plan's 3½ page summary provided to reporters lacked details or a cost estimate, but Republican leaders promised those details would come later.
House GOP leaders said the goals of their plan are to make quality health care affordable and accessible, prevent Americans from being forced into a new government-run health care plan, let Americans who like their coverage keep it, ensure that medical decisions are made by patients and their doctors rather than by the government and improve Americans' lives through effective prevention, wellness and disease management programs.
Republican leaders also emphasized that their plan would cost less than the rival Democratic plan.
Instead of recasting the way health care is provided, mandating that individuals obtain health insurance and employers contribute to it, perhaps with a public insurance option, the House Republican plan seeks reform through the current system.


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Mobile apps are helping concrete producers transform their operations, from producing more accurate mixes to improving customer communications.
Here is a collection of mobile apps that are helping concrete producers transform their operations.
A high level of collaboration and expertise was critical for the Pena Boulevard project team to successfully meet the technical, environmental, and logistical challenges the high-profile job had in store.
Producers can see real-time plant performance in one work center, leading to improved product consistency.
Truckast provides real-time updates on each concrete delivery, eliminating the need for time-consuming phone calls between customers, dispatchers, and drivers.
Command Alkon has introduced MOBILEconnect applications, with each focused on a specific need.
The web-based app provides a dashboard of fleet data, including vehicle locations, trip status, and fuel purchases. Managers use a web link to access real-time data from the field.
Drawing on his industry expertise and Ph.D. in civil engineering, Richard Szecsy has helped develop and update the concrete industry's standards.
Mark Perniconi carries out the Charles Pankow Foundation's mission to advance market-driven innovation with an approach befitting a civil engineer with an MBA from Purdue University.
The Society of Automotive Engineers Ready-Mix Concrete Truck Safety Committee has established two new standards with the goal of making operators' jobs safer.
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Wolf Parade "Yulia" from NORTH on Vimeo.
Wolf Parade's Expo 86 [SubPop 2010] has been the soundtrack of the summer of 2010 for me. When I first heard Yulia my head was flooded with images. The song is totally cinematic and has an urgent, longing drive that I wanted to try and express through images.
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we have been here a few times now and it just gets better each time! the first time we went we got special rolls only, we love the red dragon roll and the dynamite roll. The rolls were great but we realized the pieces were the way to go. The salmon and shima aji were the best in the city. The service got better too.. We're going to try and make it our regular place.
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So I am a regular of Poke and cannot argue that the food is great. I wish I could say that I had a great meal there last night and went home satisfied. Unfortunately, this was not the case being that the hostess with a Napolean complex felt like using the tiny ounce of power and control she possesses in this world to not seat our party at 10pm on a Wednesday night. Instead of pushing two tables together to seat our party of four who had put our name down a half hour earlier, she let two people walk in and sit immediately. The whole experience was partnered with this hostesses ridiculous and unwarranted attitude. The food is good, but unfortunately, even a bunch of regulars may have to endure this treatmnent on a Wednesday night.
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went last night at 7 and sat right away at the sushi bar....the tables filled up quickly by 8 (mon night)....i have to say it's the best sushi i've had in ny (gari was closed)....the service was phenominal...didn't feel rushed at all....it's so good that the sushi (order) was even better than the rolls (spicy tuna) which with all the rice took away from how good the fish is....next time i will just order sashimi....which will be tonight!
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I have been here a couple of times, once with my husband (who hated the rushed service and will not return), and once with my son (who was afterwards having dreams about the truffle sushi). Very affordable with the bring your own, but then, you pay the price that they want the table back asap. I think the whole package works as in freshness and quality = value. Definitely a lot better than some of the highly touted upper east side sushi places that I thought were awful. A keeper!
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In 1565 when Renaissance scholar Konrad Gesner died of the plague at the age of 49, he had published a huge body of work and established himself as the first modern bibliographer as well as the father of zoology. This Swiss physician and author has a place in the special collections at Thomas Jefferson University's Scott Library since it holds the first volume (1551) of his five-volume compendia on all the animals of the earth. Scouring texts by Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Roman and later European authorities, his citations marked the total extent of accumulated human knowledge on the animal (and later, plant) kingdom.
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Gulon entry, English translation by Edward Topsell (1607) - "This beast was not known by the ancients, but hath bin since discovered in the Northern parts of the world. (Germany and the Netherlands)...When it hath found a dead carcass he eateth thereof so violently that his belly standeth out like a bell; then he seeketh for some narrow passage betwixt two trees, and there draweth through his body, by pressing whereof he driveth out the meat which he had eaten; and being so emptied returneth and devoureth as much as he did before."
Historically, Aristotle and other ancients had first written about the animal world and were followed by medieval authors who created bestiaries with Christian lessons embedded in each animal's behavior, but Gesner's work culminated this heritage with many original reports from such locales as distant Moscow (urus, the extinct wild ox) and the Americas (the improbable armadillo).
Gesner, who was a brilliant linguist, had first published a "universal bibliography" listing all the authors (and their titles) who had written in Greek, Hebrew or Latin - from ancient texts to the most current publications. This work led to his honorific: Plinius germanicus, the German Pliny. He quit work on Book 20 of his bibliography to publish his Historie animalium, a zoological encyclopedia beginning with "live-bearing quadrupeds" or mammals (as coined in 1758 by the classifier Linnaeus). His plan, ambitious as ever, was to next move to the egg-layers, then aquatic beasts, the serpents, and, finally, plants.
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TJU Archives holds a first edition, a folio of titanic proportions over 1,100 pages and illustrated with numerous woodcuts. That same year, 1551, Gesner fell ill. Scholars suggest tuberculosis. This did not slow down his printing schedule but seemed to energized by the looming prospect of an early death. He started researching his book on plants before the animal subject was exhausted. The three animal volumes which followed were of a more discrete size, possibly due to poor sales because of the expense of the first big book. Dr. Gesner, as City Physician of Zurich, was also kept busy attending victims of the plague which visited Zurich annually from 1563-1565. A year before Konrad Gesner's death the Holy Roman Emperor ennobled the famed doctor, who only briefly used the name Konrad von Gesner.
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I've saved my changes as Rotated tattoo.psd found inside the 29_smart_objects folder. Notice that it's called Rotated tattoo, not warped tattoo because we haven't successfully applied any warping so far. What we need to do is we need some method for letting Puppet Warp know that every single stinking bit of this graphic here is one big graphic that needs to be modified uniformly. And I'm going to do that by placing the tiger against the white background. So let me show you how that works.
I'll go ahead and double-click on the tiger tattoo thumbnail there in order to once again produce this alert message. I'll click OK in order to skip it. Here we are with the file opened inside of Illustrator and I'm zoomed out so that I can barely see the outside edges of this pasteboard. I'm going to go ahead and grab my Rectangle tool which is located here and you get that tool by pressing the M key, just like the Rectangular Marquee inside of Photoshop. So I'll go ahead and grab that tool and then I will drag from corner-to-corner around this pasteboard to surround the entire thing.
By default, at least for me, it comes in with a white fill and a black stroke. I don't want the stroke. So I'll make sure the Stroke is active which it is up here in a Color panel. So I moving pretty quickly through this for those of you who haven't used Illustrator before, but I don't want to turn this into a 17 exercise lesson on how you change fill and stroke inside of Illustrator. So I'm going to continue to move along. Color panel, you can get to it from the Window menu. It is right there. It's got a keyboard shortcut of F6 just as in Photoshop. Make sure this guy, the big thick black thing is selected, that indicates the Stroke and click on None down here in the bottom left corner of the Color panel.
Now, we've got this fairly obvious problem I think where the white rectangle is in front of everybody else. So right-click inside of the Illustration window, then choose Arrange and then choose Send to Back which has this keyboard shortcut. But I don't expect you to memorize that right now. So just go ahead and choose Send to Back. We've now gone ahead and glued together all parts of the tiger tattoo using this white background. I'll go ahead and click in the Close box up here in the title tab. And Illustrator will ask me if I want to save the changes. I'll click on Yes.
I'll switch back to Photoshop like so, and we should, in a moment, see the illustration update inside of the Photoshop composition. Now, I have invited an obvious problem at this point which is we can no longer see through the dragon tattoo to the guys arm we are now covering it up. That's actually okay because we were going to have to apply a Blend mode anyway. Now here is a little bit of a quiz based on the 26 exercises that you just finished up hopefully associate with Blending inside of Photoshop, in the previous chapter I'm hoping you have a sense of what that Blend mode should be.
And I even mention when I was describing how the Blend mode works that it creates a tattooing effect. So we want to drop out the whites, we want to keep the blacks, we want to merge in the reds with this guy is flesh because it wouldn't make sense for the Reds to be totally opaque. Everything is got to darken up as it's applied to the canvas on his flesh because this is as if we are printing on colored paper here. The color of the flesh is going to inform the rest of graphic. So because we need to uniformly darken this dragon tattoo, I'm going to go to the Blend mode menu and I'm going to change the blend mode to Multiply.
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In the future we might end up applying a layer effect or something like that and we'd want to control its opacity independently. So I'm going to take the Fill value down to 80% like so just so that we have a little bit of lightning associated with that tattoo. All right, now I'm going to zoom in on the tattoo so that we can take it in and all of its detail. And let's see how the Puppet Warp command behaves now. I'll go out to the Edit menu, I will choose Puppet Warp. And I'll began laying down those pins here. I'll put one guy there.
The other flame didn't disappear for once. Let's actually set a pin to celebrate to that flame. Then I'll click here and here sort of around the tiger's temples in order to create some pins there. And we need a handful of other pins. I might put a couple around his mouth, like so. We might need some independent control down here in his chin. So I'll lay down some pins there, and maybe around his nose. I'm not sure, so far, where I need pins and where I don't. It's basically what it comes down to. So I'm laying pins at symmetrical points inside of the tattoo.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
In Defense of Hazing
People need to remember that treating subordinates in a less than desirable fashion (often like shit), and employing anger, insults and even violence as a method of enforcing discipline have been traditionally very common practices in Korea. Though things may have changed a lot now, people in my generation and even younger have been subject to violence from teachers and parents throughout our entire lives. I was beaten and insulted on a regular basis as a student in Korea, both by teachers and upperclassmen. As an elementary school student, I've seen my peers literally get tossed across the room and tripped by teachers. Later in middle school, getting smacked across the face with a textbook was a thing, as was getting ganged up and stomped by older students in the same school. I also remember getting hit and yelled at by adult strangers for what they saw as poor behavior in public. This may be a case of memory bias but I wasn't getting hit for stealing or punching a handicapped kid; I remember getting attacked by a stranger for being too loud on the bus. This is the type of society I and many other Koreans grew up in. You can discipline a member of your society lower than you on the hierarchy tree and utilize savage techniques to do so. No one would bat an eye.
Things have changed quite a bit since then. I'm not knowledgeable enough to even begin to describe why these changes have come about, but I according to people I talk to and the media, corporal punishment is rarely, if ever, employed by faculty members now. At least in Seoul. The big thing nowadays is school violence among students but I'm willing to bet that media sensationalism is over blowing this social issue as always. Where were these concerned journalists and parents when kids were getting belted and smacked by teachers simply for talking funny back in my day? I'm not even that old. "My day" was only a decade ago. Funny how things change.
Anyway, I digress. Things change. In schools, in society, and even the military. These cuddly new attitudes on discipline seep into the military as new generations get conscripted, and guess what? They clash with existing attitudes and ideas. Older guys don't understand why cussing at a subordinate isn't allowed anymore, much less beating him. It's really because some guys snap and off themselves or others. Some call their mothers and tell them about all the horrible things they are subject to. The media gets a hold of these stories, the military gets flak and people get angry. More importantly, voters get angry. Politicians bitch at the commanders and the shit rolls down hill. Guys are told to stop hitting juniors and conscripts in general are restricted in how much they are allowed to talk about their lives in the military. Because it's not really about stopping hazing, it's about protecting careers.
Nobody cares about hazing in itself. What people care about is that hazing is the leading cause of suicide and desertion, and the following media backlash can affect careers. If nobody killed themselves, nobody would give a shit.
I could go on a lot more about the bureaucratic mess of it all but this is about why it exists. I'm just going to add that in a way, we really need to thank the crazies who snapped and mowed down their unit members. These incidents, and the public condemnation they received, really drove the military brass and politicians to get off their asses and enact change. Even a couple years before my entry, I've heard a lot of stories of violence and even sexual hazing. But the shootings and suicides changed that.
Despite the changes, hazing still exists. In some (I'd wager most) units more tame forms of it are common while in others, more "traditional" versions of it still persist. This article by Kyunghyang Shinmun is the most recent information I could get on military hazing. The title says violence in the military has increased two-fold in seven years according to a survey conducted mostly on active-duty conscripts on leave. The chart they posted as evidence doesn't make it seem that bad though. The chart says 17.7% of respondents witnessed violence but 52.7% of them feigned ignorance. 12.5% say they were the victims of violence.
I would personally consider other factors for the increase. I have a hard time believing things are really worse than the good old days of regular beatings (oftentimes endorsed or conducted by military leadership themselves). The newer generation of conscripts are probably more vocal about their negative experiences and demanding of change compared to previous generations, which I think is a trait more prevalent among younger Koreans in general. These guys were probably a lot less afraid of being frank since they were on leave as well. Also, these younger guys are also more spoiled and softer than previous generations. After being accustomed to be being cuddled for so long, any negative experience is going to be shocking. As I expanded on my previous entry, it should also be noted that there really is no clear definition of hazing. What one considers playful teasing could be perceived as being invasive and hurtful to another. How many of these incidents of violence were intended to be playful by the perpetrator and how many of them were truly hostile and damaging? Cognitive bias should also come into play here as the particular situation and victim's opinion of the perpetrator could influence how the incident is remembered. Hell, I knew a guy who got in trouble not because what he did was really damaging (he cussed a lot), but because he was just really annoying and guys were sick of him.
With that in mind, it is probably difficult for a lot of guys, in particular guys from lower socioeconomic back grounds, to get rid of old habits or to comprehend why they can't shit on a subordinate when it's been happened to them their whole lives. To some it's simply unfair. It's their chance to "get back" at all the shit they've taken and now it's not allowed. If one is convicted of things such as violence or foul language, punishment is presented in the form of restricted leave, demotion, prison, and in some cases, unit transfer.
Other than the threat of punishment, the military also attempts to educate us on these matters but I found them to be extremely lacking. Once in awhile, we have mandatory viewings of "educational" videos basically telling us how to be good soldiers and that hazing is bad. That's really it other than the commander assembling the entire unit and screaming. There's your grand hazing prevention policy. It works in a way. The threat of being caught and being sent to prison is enough for many to either cease their transgressions or tone it down. Not all. It'll be like trying to reduce crime by enacting harsher sentences. Sure it would probably work to some degree but there are much more complicated social issues that need to be addressed. Hazing is no different. I think one of the biggest factors in decreased or less harsh hazing is simply the influx of newer generations and newer attitudes. It has less to do with anything the military actively has tried to do.
I would liked to have seen more proactive attempts. Poor education and training is a big factor in hazing's persistence in my opinion, and a real issue in all aspects of the ROK military's effectiveness. There is no real leadership training courses for conscripts. No real education or training in dealing with discipline and relationships with subordinates. I was a squad leader and I got one lazily constructed week of squad leader training. Same educational principles here: watch a few propaganda videos, attend a few lectures, and you're ready to lead a squad! You think a twenty-something year old with a year of military experience is going to master the art of discipline after a week of lectures, much less be ready to lead troops into battle? By the way, you can't fail the course either so if you're not concerned with getting points and earning leave, you can doze off the entire time. Some guys don't even enroll in the training course but are given the leadership position.
We are told to be "gentle" and use words of encouragement to discipline our men. Simply being told to alter to one's behavior isn't always effective. Habits are hard to break. Beliefs and traits instilled through out the years by one's environment isn't going to change that easily.
Yet simultaneously, there's an extremely heavy demand for discipline by the brass. Lower ranking officers, NCOs, and conscripts are constantly harassed for better discipline. Conscripts get yelled at, lectured, and have our free-time infringed when our discipline is poor. Seemingly insignificant things like the proper positioning of your belt buckle or how straight you wear your hat are a big deal. If a lower ranking private is caught with poor discipline, his seniors are the ones who get reprimanded for not properly teaching the guy. The problem here become clear. Young guys, with little to no true leadership training, are pressured to disciplined their troops and resort to the methods they've been exposed to their entire lives despite warnings from above not to do so.
Let me give you an example. Let's say you're a squad leader and during a training exercise, you have a few rookies who keep forgetting to keep their helmets on at all times. You remind them continuously but due to confusion, not having developed that habit yet, or simple stupidity, they keep forgetting. Then a few officers pass by see that your men aren't disciplined! They reprimand you, or other seniors in your squad. They yell at you that your lack of leadership is undermining the safety of your squad. But it doesn't end their, word gets to your commander and what's he going to think of you and your squad now? The unit commander will undoubtedly have a "talk" about this issue with your platoon leader who will undoubtedly pressure you even more to keep your men disciplined. If officers of other units or higher in the division witness this, this could affect your CO's standing within their eyes. Your officers also have an image in manage. That is their "face" and we all know how important that is Korean culture. So you get shit from your platoon leader, your company commander, and maybe even battalion commander. Other NCOs and officers will chide and criticize you. You get frustrated at your rookies' inability to adjust in a timely manner. Although you really wanted to be the "nice" senior, desperation hits and you end up cussing at them. Maybe you hit them or shun them socially. You may resent your guys for causing you so much grief.
Senior conscripts also have the added burden of teaching new juniors on how to do their jobs. Except for highly specialized occupations such as driving, most conscripts receive no formal job training for their MOS. The skills required are handed-down by senior conscripts. When you first enter the military, you are taught as you go along instead of going through an official training course that specifically deals with your specialty. You can imagine how ineffective this can be since some seniors will tend to forget certain things, are bad at their jobs themselves or are just bad at teaching. It boggles my mind that I was allowed to handle sensitive military intelligence without any sort of training or even a simple briefing on protocol. I sort of picked up on the dos and don'ts as I went along and got yelled at a lot. When a rookie mucks up because he doesn't know what he's doing, his senior is going to get chewed out by officers and in turn the the senior is going to return the favor on the junior.
The brass expect impeccable discipline and performance yet demand no feelings to be hurt in the process. It's a tall order for a bunch of 20 year-olds with no real training on the matter. Guys technically aren't allowed to hit, insult, yell or even hurt feelings. Words of encouragement can only go so far. What other recourse is there when that doesn't work? The proper way of going about it is reporting to the higher ups but as I have outlined this before, there is a general mistrust of the professional ranks among conscripts. Many times officers and NCOs don't do shit or their ideas of reform only end up making things worse. For example, in an attempt to prevent religious oppression of junior conscripts, COs made everybody go to religious service, effectively infringing on the religious rights of everybody not Christian or Buddhist. Many of their solutions to these things are knee-jerk reactions that look for short-term results. In some cases the officers will blame you for being a weak leader who can't even control his own men.
Another example is the military's move to compartmentalize ranks by room. The military is supposedly having soldiers of the same rank share a room so there is less hazing and abuse of power. They don't want sergeants lying around watching TV while the privates are cleaning the room. Anybody who's been in the ROK military would know this is extremely unrealistic as there is no way a unit can maintain an equal ratio of ranks. Guys get discharged (sometimes unexpectedly due to injury) or transferred. Sometimes the unit composition changes they may end up having more new privates than expected. Sometimes guys get early or postponed promotions. Sometimes a platoon will have a one private. There's no way that one private is going to get a room all by himself. Plus seniority in the ROK isn't dictated by rank anyway; it's by your date of entry. Senior privates will still share the room with lower privates. Also, what's to stop the sergeants or corporals from going over to the privates' rooms and telling them to clean up all the rooms? Due to the impracticality of this policy, I suspect it won't be applied across the board but rather, the article I linked is likely an announcement by the military to show the public that they are trying something to curb hazing. Many of these "solutions" to hazing are merely political gestures to abate public criticism and take no consideration to what conscripts actually go through. How would they know anyway. Most of these generals and high-ranking officers have never lived as a private.
There are some guys, conscripts and officers alike, who are natural leaders. They command respect and inspire obedience through their personality. They're the type of guys who you don't want to disobey because for some reason you don't want to disappoint them, not because you're afraid of their wrath. Some guys you trust with their command because they're just badass. But these guys are rare. I've only met a few in my lifetime, much less in the two years of military service. The military needs to try to educate and grow such leaders instead of expecting everybody to be gifted in this area.
So what do you do if you aren't a gifted leader who can inspire genuine comradeship and discipline, and you lack inter-personal skills? How do you deal with a stubborn or stupid junior who won't follow orders and ends up making you, your unit and CO look like clowns, or worse, undermines the effectiveness and safety of your unit? Talking to the junior doesn't work, you're obviously not allowed to use harsher methods and you are afraid of going to your commander because he's an asshole and has a history of making bad decisions because he's a shitty leader himself. All the while you're receiving pressure from above to deal with it in a timely manner. What do you do? Many times senior conscripts (and officers) will find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to disciplining subordinates.
Of course there are guys who haze and abuse their juniors because they are genuine assholes. Some guys are insecure dicks who use military service as their one chance in life to act like a tough guy without retribution. When else are they going to be able to order other adults around and be all "alpha?" There's also the guys who resist the change toward leniency because they hold a grudge on the shit they've been through in the past and have a need to still "get their's." They immaturely resent the newer conscripts who have it easier than they have.
The problem is that when hazing happens, there is no real way to be there all the time to catch guys in the act. In my unit's case, we had close to 300 conscripts but only two officers and 4 NCOs. Officers can't always be watching conscripts when they have their own responsibilities to take care of as well. The victim can report it but sometimes there's no real way to prove the crime. What if an asshole junior decides to accuse every senior he doesn't like? There's also the fear of being seen as a "snitch" if you report hazing or testify in favor of the victim. Social ostracism is a factor to consider.
There are no real ways to effectively enforce hazing regulations. It's entirely dependent on someone reporting it. For this reason I think eliminating hazing from a top-down approach is unrealistic.
The professional soldiers of the ROK military sort of act as the enforcers and police when it comes to conscript discipline. Of course there are the actual military police but they tend to deal with more serious infractions. Within a unit and in the military as a whole, the officers and NCOs are the elite and ruling class so to speak. It's difficult to trust most of them when they themselves violate the same regulations they're supposed to enforce and nothing happens to them. Sometimes the guy in question happens to be too high of a rank to touch. Sometimes the officers see a report for hazing and just shrug their shoulders. How many people would snitch to the police if they regularly witness police corruption and brutality? Also, as mentioned, guys won't report hazing because they don't trust the higher-ups to deal with it effectively.
When the violators are of the "elite," the system is much more favorable to they are than they are to conscripts. Most of the time reporting hazing by an officer is pointless because nothing will happen to the guy.
Here's another facet to think about. I'm going to stress this again because it is important. There is no real clear definition of hazing. I've been told on several occasions that if the victim feels he has been violated, then that is a violation. Imagine if laws worked that in the civilian world. I'm going to press charges on you because I feel you offended me. A senior could playfully wrestle with a guy because he genuinely likes the guy and that's his way of showing affection (and we all know how touchy Korean guys are with eachother) but if the "victim" of this situation feels violated, the senior is in the wrong. Many times the junior can't speak out and candidly express his feelings to the senior because he is afraid of offending someone above him. There is no other recourse for the junior other than to go behind the senior and report it, or bottle it up and boil with resentment for the rest of his service.
At what point is it hazing and what point is it just guys being guys? At what point is it sexual harassment and at what point is it affection? Nobody knows and this just adds to the confusion.
My last reason is rather obvious and perhaps painfully idealistic. Hazing happens because people let it. If everybody just simultaneously said fuck being bullied by superiors, hazing would stop now. Nobody would be afraid of reporting it or being ostracized. I guess you could say the same about pretty much everything. My point is that the general societal attitude is a factor in why hazing is persistent, and why it has gotten better. Conscripts and young officers nowadays are from less violent backgrounds and don't see hazing as an effective tool. Hazing will probably never go away entirely, but there will be much less of it as military culture changes.
This goes against the grain of Korean thinking and the nature of military organizations, but the military needs to stop with the top-down control of conscript lives. There needs to be a building of trust, communication and true comradeship. It needs to be organic instead of being forced upon us. A bunch of strangers aren't suddenly going to be best buds because someone tells them to. This also goes against Korean culture but the obsession of showing "respect" and formality between subordinate-superior relationships has to go. Lower ranks should be able to communicate their concerns to their seniors without fear. We're guys, stop with the tiptoeing around.
On that note, stop being bitches. Let guys be guys. The military has this intense opposition to violence, which seems a bit ironic to me. One-sided hazing is one thing, but they should let guys, regardless of seniority, duke it out like men in a controlled setting. Settle their differences like warriors. Provide boxing gloves or wrestling mats or something. There'd be a lot less immature political bullshit like clique forming and picking of sides. Losing a fight isn't as bad as being treated like shit or being friendless. Some may say, "Isn't that barbaric?" Uh, we're also learning to shoot people so learning to throw and take a punch seems like a step down barbarity to me.
I don't want to sound like I'm blaming the victims here, but to some degree the victims and the public in general also need to realize this is the military. It's an organization that ultimately kills people. Soldiers go to war and people fucking die in them. It's not always going to be pretty and add to that it is a male-dominated society. And men like to fuck around, crack dirty jokes, play fight, real fight, and make fun of each other. Modern society has a tendency to coddle people and make things easy for them, and when we conscript people from this sort of society, its impossible to avoid sensitive people who get offended by any sort of teasing or criticism. There are victims of real hazing, but I wouldn't surprised if we see a lot more "victims" who report hazing just because someone made them feel bad about the shitty job they were doing. These people will undermine military discipline.
Just like bullying, I don't think hazing will ever be eradicated completely. It's human nature and no matter what you do, there will always be some assholes who abuse their position of superiority over others. But I think there are definite steps toward reducing it. Starting with regular sparring matches.
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- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM
Don't forget that university life is full of hazing, too, from the OT "freshman orientation" through to the MT "membership training" events. Corporations as well. Without hazing, in fact, the Hite-Jinro Co. could go into bankruptcy and be out of business, so add that to your list of defenses of the practice.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Since when do they haze freshmen? I just came back from my freshman OT and the seniors there seemed alright.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Not going to a SKY uni then, are you?Delete
Hazing is pretty rampant where I'm from. Guess that's just how it goes.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 25, 2013 at 11:24 PM
I really enjoyed reading your previous posts on the Korean military. I got drafted in sep 09 till june 11. The only thing i remember during the first six months was the bliss of of being able to lie on my back at 22.00 and the last part of my service when take the p4ivates on a mental rollercoaster of distress.ReplyDelete
Yes i was an asshole just before my final discharge.... Not something i am proud of....
Another saying i remember from my days in my base.
There is always one dickhead in a group. If you cant find a dickhead it probably means you are that dickhead.


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This years theme is "A Look beyond" and it will reunite artists that share an international or unusual perception of reality. Some are foreigners that live and work in Italy, some are Italians that live and work abroad – some have simply carefully observed certain aspects related to other nations.
Like the previous edition, Digiarte will take place in different venues. The main exhibition area will be the Centro Espositivo Antonio Berti in Sesto Fiorentino, actual birthplace of the whole event.
The retrospective in occasion of the tenth anniversary of Digiarte will instead be hosted by the Galleria Centro*Sesto of the Ipercoop Mall in Sesto Fiorentino in a special space specifically set up for the event.
As usual, the artists we will be presenting come from different backgrounds. The exhibition will feature established professionals as well as young Tuscan artists and foreigners that have shown particular artistic sensibilities that deserve to be brought out to meet the public.
Michelle Davis
American experimenter based in Florence. Fascinated by chemistry and the slow pace of DIY, she balances analogue photography and digital improvisation.
Christopher Domakis
German photographer that will be presenting his latest work focuses of night situations in the very center of Beijing, China.
Roberto Vincitore
Italian photographer based in New York. His activity is centered on the person and the surrounding space: the interaction between humans and the environment, humans and technology, humans and states of mind. His photos are surreal and emotional.
During Digiarte he will be presenting a project based on "suspension", where bodies "float" on a very unusual fluid: air.
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Pan Yao is a young chinese student who has studied photography at LABA with the support of her teacher and mentor Agnese Morganti, featured in the previous edition of Digiarte in 2012. Pan's project, "Yin", focuses on shadows (with a particular reference to the traditional Chinese Shadow Puppetry)
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Two young Tuscan artists based in Chianciano. They are photographers, graphic artists and visual performers. They will be presenting a video related to this years topic.
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Koci is an artist of international reputation, one of the most important "instagrammers" worldwide. Professor of New media at Berkeley University and experimenter of new languages, Koci is a pioneer of Google Glass photography.
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