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July 21, 2016
Why I Cut 6 Inches Of My Hair…
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I know it hurts to see all that hair get cut off but I think you definitely made the right choice. I think where your stylist cut is exactly where I would have cut. But I just know in just a few short months we'll be seeing new & healthy growth!ReplyDelete
Facing the reality that you dropped the ball is hard but you did the right thing. Starting with a clean slate is easier from my experience. You will bounce back in no time. ☺ReplyDeleteReplies
Yup its all me, thanks Candice!Delete
I think A was a good point to cut to, fresh start. I am willing to join you on your quest to grow out your hair healthy againReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Mzddamn, let's grow together.Delete
You did the right thing, Tomi! But you already knew that was the right thing to do. I can see the difference from a year ago. Moving to a different county i a big step. I hope you find your Elasta QP where you are.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Nerline, for sure!Delete
A year goes by so fast and within months, you will see a huge difference in the length of your hair. I still remember when I big chopped. I thought it would take FOREVER for my hair to be able to fit in a bun. That was almost 3 years ago. I still can't believe how much it has grown in that short amount of time.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Joy, I'm looking forward to having my long hair again.Delete
I think you did what's best for your hair right now. Plus, you know what the issue was so you can take steps to correct it. I hope you can find your moisturizer.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Uzoma, I'm definitely changing up thingsDelete
Haven't been on the scene so long but still reading the blogs tho lol. Your hair has grown like crazy but the health of ur hair looks much better since the cut. Once u start back on ur old regimen I'm sure your hair will bounce right back!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Abbi, Yes back to the basics.Delete
I like how honest you are about why you had to cut your hair. I am definitely looking forward to your progress.ReplyDelete
Thanks Tonkabelle, sometimes we as bloggers don't show the negative to avoid critics but i think its part of growth.Delete
this will give you a fresh start. Your hair will bounce back as you know what the issues were.ReplyDeleteReplies
For sure Yvonne!Delete
You definitely made the right decision for your hair and I think it will be easy for you to bounce back and maintain the health this time around. Sometimes life gets in the way and things get neglected. Cant wait to read about your comeback regimen!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Andrea, that's coming up shortly.Delete
I have been experiencing a lack of interest in my hair care routine as well. I totally understand. It will all fall back into place :) you did the right thing.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Fatima, i hope you get back on track soon.Delete
Thanks for sharing the reality of a hair journey; it's called a journey for a reason: there will be ups and downs. But I believe you will bounce back from this.ReplyDelete
You did the right thing. Now you know what went wrong and you can move forward with that information.ReplyDelete
I definitely understand how hard that is! I was natural for 5 years and I had to cut off 3 inches of my curls and I wanted to cry but I soon seen this as a new beginning to taking better care of my hair. I was so heart broken! My ends were thin JUST like that and to top things off, My hair is very fine and not thick.ReplyDelete
I'm sure your hair is thriving now. Its hair and will certainly grow back.Delete
I'm willing to join you as well! I've had issues growing the middle (crown?) of my hair for years, and decided in February to cut it into a bob. WRONG. Then I decided to grow out my relaxer. DEAD WRONG. Now I have half and half hair that I'm planning on cutting, getting it to a uniform length and then relaxing to start all over.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hope you find the reason and solve quickly. Thanks Jessica.Delete
Ouch! My best friend got a bad dye job at the salon and lost over a foot due to breakage. She is trying to grow hers out and she asked if my husband could help her being he trims mine. He is doing micro trims just to get the splits and keep the ends even. I asked his opinion on yours and he said rather than hack off six inches like your barber did, he would have taken no more than 1/2" as you will continue to get splits and taking off that much length, it will never grow out. But the barber is in the business to give haircuts, not help you grow your hair out. Mine is now past my elbows, I have been salon free for several ears and his patience dusting just the ends is the reason mine is not still at collar bone length.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for your insight. Please take a look at my progress pics tab and you will see I started off with Shoulder length, I grew to Midback. All hair grows and this time i going back to the basics to re-grow my hair back to my bra.Delete
Girl I am sure that you will thrive on this new hair journey. No one is perfect, we all make mistakes and have those times when hair is not a priority. Looking forward to seeing the awesome growth again :-)ReplyDelete
You totally made the right decision, it hurts a lot to lose that much hair but it will grow back in due time. I am like you, I can't stand thin endsReplyDelete
What is sealing? I also use QP Elasta. I have gone through phases where I didn't use it as much as I should but I'll have to make I keep up with it. It sucks to lose the length but it looks so much better blunt and healthy.ReplyDeleteReplies
Sealing is locking in the moisture you have added with the use of oils. I have a video of how i moisturize and seal my hair. Thanks CeceDelete
I have this method used on my hair. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZq_oqjQa1wReplyDelete
My husband listens and does it for me. Hair breaks from the ends and worst damage in the layers underneath. Minimal trims to remove the damage, yet let the hair grow are the way to getting longer, fuller hair. The big chop myth doesn't get you longer, fuller hair. You just get short hair and unless you properly keep the ends in good shape with the minimal trims, it will stay short. Most salon products are over priced and destroy your hair. Bleach and the salon color are loaded with toxic chemicals that not only destroy your hair, but are known carcinogens.
So beautiful!! Time to start taking my hair seriously again!! Love your blog!ReplyDelete

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Without collector Chris Strachwitz, there'd be no record of some of America's greatest folk music, from zydeco to the Delta blues
When accordionist Marc Savoy comes to town, he stays with Chris Strachwitz in his quiet Berkeley hills home. They've known each other about 45 years. Strachwitz was hunting authentic Cajun music in Eunice, La., and had been directed to telephone Savoy, who had been making accordions in those parts since 1960.
"He said, 'I just ran over a chicken so I'm making gumbo - you might as well come over,' " Strachwitz recalls.
Strachwitz, 76, is a tall, hulking man with graying, sandy-brown hair and a slight accent left over from a childhood spent in Germany. Although he holds no degree, he is America's leading folklorist. He can't speak Spanish, but he single-handedly rescued Mexican American folk music. He brought backwoods Louisiana music out of the swamps and he made hundreds of raw, real records with such great musicians as Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins, Delta blues singer Mississippi Fred McDowell, bayou zydeco king Clifton Chenier and Houston conjunto pioneer Flaco Jimenez.
This particular weekend, the Savoy Family Band was descending on Strachwitz - Marc, his wife, Ann, and their two sons, Joel and Wilson. Strachwitz first recorded Savoy (pronounced Savoir) in the early '70s, back when Cajun music had scarcely been heard outside of Louisiana. Now Savoy is known throughout the world, and his latest group, the Savoy Family Band, has two CDs on Strachwitz's Arhoolie Records.
Ann has become a recognized expert on Cajun music, recording movie soundtracks with T-Bone Burnett and duets with Linda Ronstadt. Their grown sons are continuing the tradition, and not just playing with their parents. Joel, 27, started his own label, Valcour Records, and has been releasing recordings by young Cajun musicians. Wilson, 25, belongs to the Pine Leaf Boys, who record for Strachwitz's label. Strachwitz was going to pick up the Savoys the next day at the airport and drive them on a four-day whirlwind of performances. Chauffeur is not generally part of the duties of record company owners.
Strachwitz started Arhoolie in 1960 - a German public school teacher lugging portable recording equipment around ghetto beer joints in Houston or farms in rural Texas - anywhere he could find people playing country blues or old-time hillbilly music. He was on a hunt for real American music.
He had first gone to Texas the year before, looking for Lightnin' Hopkins. When the teenaged Strachwitz was first plopped down in Reno, Nev., straight from the carnage of World War II, he discovered the blues on late-night radio. Black bluesmen were as estranged from society in this country as Strachwitz felt he was. The blues became an all-consuming fascination for him, and after hearing Hopkins sing in those Houston beer joints, Strachwitz was determined to return the following year with his recording gear, on his first of many tours of the South scouting for the sound of America.
"I would drive sometimes all the way through Mississippi and Alabama and wouldn't find anything," he said. "I remember I was in Alabama one time, I don't remember the name of the town anymore, but I was talking to some people in the plaza or the square shelling peas or some damn thing and asked them were there any musicians around who played some blues. They said 'Well, there's one guy, maybe if you come back after we finish.' And the white guy comes and says, "What are you bothering my hands for? Go away. You got no right to bother my workers.' Then he introduced me to some guy, but he was no damn good anyway."
Although Strachwitz thinks the record business is just about through, he is still readying a few important releases. "Hear Me Howlin': Berkeley in the '60s" will be a four-disc boxed set of his private recordings, previously unissued performances that span a panoply of the Berkeley folk scene; aging country blues legends to incipient folk-rockers barely out of their teens (including the original recording of the Country Joe and the Fish anti-war anthem, "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" that Strachwitz recorded in his living room). He is also pulling together his extensive '70s recordings of Austrian folk songs with liner notes in three languages (Austrian dialect, high German and English).
And he is about to release a collection from sessions he held in New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina that includes everything from traditional brass bands to street singers, many of the tracks featuring Michael Doucet, the Cajun fiddler Strachwitz first recorded with the Savoy-Doucet Band and, later, in one of his best-sellers (with Arhoolie, "better-sellers" would probably be more accurate), with BeauSoleil, a Cajun group with some electric instruments that Strachwitz refers to as his "rock band."
"He [Doucet] was so turned on that day, it was unbelievable," Strachwitz said. "He hung around and accompanied this intriguing little singer who sings the greatest version of 'Hey La Bas.' Then he also played fiddle with the little string band that had my favorite clarinetist down there, Sammy Rimington. He was in town, and it was sort of a Creole jazz band kind of thing, so Michael enjoyed playing behind that. He also played behind Sun Pie Barnes, who is a really very talented singer when he just plays accordion and harmonica. He's really a folk artist. I know he's trying to be a zydeco musician, but I think his real tour-de-force is being a folk singer. He's an actor, too. He's an amazing guy."
Strachwitz is also producing an as-yet untitled documentary about the New Lost City Ramblers, the bluegrass revivalists who first brought the music to New York City in the '50s, a project he took over ("I got stuck with it," he said) under the auspices of the Arhoolie Foundation, a nonprofit wing of his operation that is also digitizing Strachwitz's collection of 78 RPM Mexican American records, which is probably the most extensive collection in existence, and making the music available through the UCLA folk music library.
Strachwitz is also the subject of a documentary film-in-progress, "No Mouse Music." The movie takes its title from Strachwitz's pat phrase for any kind of music he deems useless - "Mouse music," a contraction of "Mickey Mouse music," which was the '30s jazz musicians' term of disdain for unbearably square bands. Strachwitz's amiable irascibility makes him the perfect foil for documentary filmmakers. They build entire PBS TV series around characters like him.
Around dinnertime the next day, he arrives at Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, where the first Savoy Family show is going to take place. The Savoys awoke before four in the morning in Louisiana to make their flight out of Baton Rouge. After the band conducted their sound check, Strachwitz went next door and brought back a pizza. As the club was filling, he quickly scarfed down a piece before manning the Savoy's merchandise table and selling CDs to the crowd, making change with a fistful of bills stuffed between his fingers and keeping accounts in hen scratches on a piece of paper with a felt-tipped pen.
The Savoys put on a peerless display of delicately filigreed, timeless music - the two boys soaring in harmony on twin fiddles, backed by their father's squeeze box and mother's rhythm guitar. They all switched around instruments - Wilson was especially strong on piano and vocals, closing the set solo, singing his translation into Creole French of "You Don't Know Me." The capacity crowd sat entranced in the lithesome, ethereal spell they wove so effortlessly, the two young men confidently leading the music-making. At one point, Ann Savoy looked over at Strachwitz, who was seated at a table by the wall, smiling broadly at the music he was hearing.
"Why are we here?" she said. "The answer is probably Chris Strachwitz. Thank you, Chris." Strachwitz spoke back like it was a private conversation, but loudly enough for all to hear. "You guys are the ones putting out the music," he said. "I just caught some of it."
For a moment, everybody was sitting in Chris Strachwitz's living room.
He lives by himself in a roomy home above the UC Berkeley campus, his living room walls lined with record shelves, a view of the bay out the window. Over the years, he has recorded a lot of music in this room. Before he started releasing CD collections of old Tex-Mex records, the only way to hear the music was to have Strachwitz play you records from his collection. Ry Cooder sat in that living room one night more than 30 years ago, listening to antique 78 after antique 78 as Strachwitz yelped "yee-haw" to the old corridos until tears ran down his cheeks. Cooder, who would later work with Flaco Jimenez and make records with this conjunto sound, followed Strachwitz and his film crew around when they made the 1976 landmark documentary on Tex-Mex music, "Chulas Fronteras."
"I guess I'm alone in that field, although my Spanish is piss poor," said Strachwitz. "Ever since we made that documentary, 'Chulas Fronteras,' and people are still showing it and they're still enjoying it because it's a milestone. Nobody in the gringo world ever paid attention to this music, except a few guys in Texas, those three huge guys with long beards - yeah, ZZ Top. One of them guys always told me where to find some records. There was a guy in Austin (Texas) who died, killed in an overdose, I forget his name, who was a big collector of this music, but he was a musician who wanted to be a rock 'n' roll artist. Doug Sahm and those people were interested in it and he brought this music to the attention of the masses. My stuff never did."
Strachwitz oversees his folklore empire from a storefront complex on San Pablo Avenue, in no-man's-land at the far end of El Cerrito. At the rear of the parking lot, a climate-controlled, earthquake-proof vault holds the 78-record library - not just Tex-Mex, but blues, jazz, country and western, folk, rhythm and blues, American Indian chants, what have you. Upstairs is a large dining room and kitchen, site of mob scene parties twice a year at Christmas and the Fourth of July, which doubles as Strachwitz's birthday party. In a small room off the kitchen, a Spanish-speaking assistant works on the Foundation's digitizing project, painstakingly logging the information from the old records and recording them to computer files.
The record company operates out of the adjoining warehouse, with the shipping department on the ground floor, the executive suite upstairs. At the corner of a collection of desks, the room crowded with file cabinets, piles of papers and boxes, Strachwitz sits in front of a computer looking at a Web site about accordions from Texas. Strachwitz, who steadfastly resisted every important technological innovation in his field for the past 40 years or more, a record executive who drives a car with personalized license plates that read "78s," also sheepishly admits to recently breaking down and buying a cell phone. He had always been more at home with the simple pleasures of backwoods life.
When Strachwitz visits Louisiana, he stays with the Savoys ("He's my best friend, I guess," said Strachwitz). He knew Marc long before he married Ann, who came from Richmond, Va., to Cajun country, and he watched their boys grow up. "I was sitting with Marc at his place," said Strachwitz, "and he said to me 'Chris, you remember those kids when they were just fighting in the mud out there, the little squirts?' "
Nobody has done more to unearth Louisiana's wealth of musical treasures hidden in the swamps and bayous than Strachwitz. From the very beginning of Arhoolie, he was recording old-fashioned Cajun music, the folk music of the French Arcadians. He also is the man most responsible for the spread of zydeco, black music barely heard beyond Lafayette, La., before Strachwitz started recording the late Clifton Chenier. Now they use zydeco on beer commercials.
Chenier was introduced to Strachwitz by Lightnin' Hopkins, the great Houston bluesman, whom Strachwitz first went to Texas to find. Hopkins took Strachwitz to see some accordionists in Houston whom Strachwitz used to record his first zydeco album in 1961.
"When I first got to Houston," he said, "it was still the quaint stuff that I recorded on that first zydeco record that I put out, all these guys playing their squeeze boxes in these beer joints. They all said, 'Oh that Clifton Chenier, he's something special.' But he was just trying to be a rhythm-and-blues artist. That French music was just nowhere. To me, that was one of the most interesting things I guess I did accomplish, because I heard him first playing French in that little beer joint that Lightnin' took me to. He did nothing but sing in French, in that patois, and it was the most lowdown blues, and I loved it. Of course, he came over said, 'You're a record man, let's make a record tomorrow.' And he showed up with a god-damn band. He didn't have just the two pieces that he had in that beer joint. 'Oh Chris, I gotta make a record, it's got to be rock 'n' roll,' he said. I said bulls-. But he refused to play anything real that time."
But when Strachwitz returned to make a full album with Chenier, he negotiated (via first class mail) an agreement from Chenier that at least half the album would be old-fashioned French music some people called zydeco.
"Out of that session," said Strachwitz, "when he did the French stuff, came that amazing thing that I called 'Louisiana Blues.' He rattled off the name to me. He told me the name in French. I asked him how to spell it and he said 'You spell anyway you want to.' I said 'That doesn't help me much - can I call it "Louisiana Blues?" He said 'Go ahead, call it "Louisiana Blues." I think that was the smartest thing I ever did because if I had put that weird French name he first told me on the record, the deejays wouldn't have touched it down home. He had some kind of a name, but 'Louisiana Blues' by Clifton Chenier, they said, 'Oh this gotta be.' And then you put the needle down and that first note hits you like a sledgehammer. It was just lowdown blues. The flip side was 'Zydeco Et Pas Sales.' Both those things helped him both become proud of being Creole and helped him become the King of Zydeco, as he later called himself."
The storefront on the street in El Cerrito, the public end of Arhoolie world headquarters, belongs to his specialty retail record store, Down Home Music, one-stop shopping for everything that can't be found at Borders or Barnes and Nobles (world music, rockabilly, blues, old-time country music, Hungarian mazurkas, et al), now the flagship of a two-store chain. Against what he suspects is his better judgment, but having fallen prey to a determined developer who made offers he ultimately could not resist, Strachwitz opened a second store this fall in the high-end Berkeley shopping district on Fourth Street, where the Savoys were making an afternoon in-store appearance that Sunday.
The sound of fiddles and accordion trickles out to the sidewalk. The Savoy Family Band is squeezed in the nook under the little cupola at the end of the tiny store. A couple dozen curious onlookers are threaded around the CD stacks and listening posts. A pair of intrepid couples dance in the crowded space. Strachwitz is standing against the wall, his face creased with delight.
The night after the Freight and Salvage, he drove the Savoys to a show in Sacramento and back to Berkeley. The next night, he took them to play in Santa Cruz and spent the night before driving back to play the next afternoon at his new store. That night, the band would play for dancers at Berkeley's folk dance center, Ashkenaz, after which Strachwitz would take the Savoys to a motel near the airport for an early morning flight back to Louisiana.
Strachwitz is a man anyone can envy. Ever since he took that fateful trip to Texas with his portable tape recorder on summer vacation in 1960, he has been a man who followed his bliss. He made enough money doing what he wanted, he never bothered doing something he didn't want to do to make money. He has never done a single thing in his career because it would make money and he has done plenty of things knowing they wouldn't. Unlike practically everybody else who wanders into the music business because they love music, Strachwitz never lost touch with that original impulse. All these years later, it's still the music that matters to Strachwitz, the music and the people who make it.


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However, the book format does give you the benefit of the space to really explore a problem and offer up your solution, which will give you instant authority status.
Speaking in public is scary for many people. However, giving speeches or participating in seminars or panels is a great way to present yourself as an authority in your field.
One way to obtain a few speaking gigs is to align yourself with other successful speakers. If given the opportunity to speak alongside someone who is already well known, you will have a good-sized audience, and you can offer a different perspective on whatever the topic. Hone your speaking skills, study voice projection and observe other engaging speakers, ensuring you will be ready to give an interesting, stimulating speech an opportunity comes along.
Podcasts are typically a niche driven industry, making them an ideal way to get your message across to a large amount of people.
To get on a radio show or podcast, contact the host. You can usually find contact information, such as email addresses, on the show's website.
Tell the host why you would be a great fit for the show.
Don't forget about Twitter, Facebook and other social-media outlets, as you can often contact a radio show host through these means. If those ideas don't work, try contacting past guests who have been on the show to find out how they went about achieving an invite.
After you have been a guest on a radio show, spoken alongside a reputable speaker or had your worked published by a trusted outlet, you can begin sharing that experience as a way to build trust.
For example, if you are an expert on dog grooming and you have been a guest on It's a Doggy Dog World podcast, putting on your site that you were on that podcast is a great way to trigger trust.
If customers trust that podcast as an expert on the subject, and you were featured, customers will feel you are worthy of trust as well.
However, it is always a good idea to ask permission before using someone's name to build trust.
Related: Coach Yourself to Success With These 6 Tips
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That Day by EENAS
SYRIA — Everything happened within one day. That day changed my life forever. It was the last week of the spring semester. At this point we were done with most of the subjects, but my friends still insisted on attending classes for the whole week. My best friend asked me: "Eenas, are you coming tomorrow? Please come, okay?"
Although I had a feeling of uncertainty, I answered: "Yeah sure."
The next day when I came back home from school, I had my lunch, chatted with my mom, and everything seemed to be normal like any regular day. Until some shocking news broke out: "We can no longer stay here!"
Those were the most horrific four hours of my life. Everyone was packing, and I was steeped in my tears. I didn't want to leave, I begged them not to make me leave. I saw my entire life collapsing in front of me, and I was standing helplessly in the corner watching 15 years slip through my fingers. I couldn't help but to think about the future, and my present life which was about to become a memory.
It was 6pm, time to leave. My cousins and other family members came to say goodbye. I was barely able to see anything, because of the four hours I spent crying prior to them coming. We soon left for another city.
The next day my best friend called me to wake me up to go to school. It was that surprising, that I couldn't even tell my best my friend that I was leaving. I wasn't able to do it. My mom grabbed the phone from me and she told her, "We're leaving the country."
Two days later, we left home.
Two days later I opened my eyes to a different place, a different house, a new different and blurred chapter of my life.
But I was so lucky, because I had a house to sleep in rather than a tent.
I left behind my friends, my diary, my books, and the gifts from the people whom I love. Certificates of academic excellency that I used to be proud of, and my childhood photographs. I left what made me Eenas.
You might wonder what was the news that caused all of this?
But that is not the point, because there are millions of reasons why my people are fleeing our country and why they are becoming refugees, why they would choose this uncertain future over the present.
The point is to see more than a refugee next time you look in their eyes.


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Here is the new 'joke' –
What did Watson & Crick discover?
Rosalind Franklin's notes.
Rosalind Franklin's Legacy
When it comes to her place in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin has not received fair treatment. Or so maintains Lynne Osman Elkin, a professor of biological sciences at California State University, Hayward, who spends much of her time these days trying to clarify Franklin's significant role in one of the 20th century's greatest scientific achievements. In March 2003, Elkin published a lengthy article on Franklin in Physics Today, and she's hard at work on a biography. In this interview, hear what Elkin has to say about exactly where Franklin stands in her mind—and where Photo 51's creator ought to stand in the history books. Click on highlighted words or phrases for a glossary.With all she did to make Watson and Crick's discovery possible, Rosalind Franklin was essentially "a de facto collaborator," says Lynne Osman Elkin. EnlargePhoto credit: © Novartis Foundation
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NOVA: How close did Franklin actually come to deciphering the structure of DNA?
Elkin: She was very close. She had all the parameters of the helical backbone. She was the one who figured out that there were two forms of DNA, which made solving the whole structure possible. She had figured out that backbone of the A form is antiparallel. It wouldn't have been very long before she figured out that the B form backbone was antiparallel as well.
The other thing was base-pairing, which was Watson's brilliant idea, made possible by chemical information supplied by Jerry Donohue. But if you look at her notebooks, she was very, very aware of hydrogen bonding. She was very, very aware of the difference between enol and keto forms, which were the key to base-pairing. She was aware of Chargaff's ratios. She was aware of Donohue's work. All the stuff that circled around base-pairing.
How soon might she have worked it out if Watson and Crick hadn't gotten her data?
Well, at one time Crick estimated that it would have taken her three months. I don't know how long it would have taken her, but I think the critical thing with the timing is that she was about to publish her paper on the B form. That's the March 17th draft that Aaron Klug discovered. And that paper was written well before March 17th, and then after the Watson-Crick structure was figured out, she modified it very minimally, and it became the third Nature paper.
"After Watson saw Photo 51, he went out to dinner with Maurice Wilkins and pressed him for the interpretation of it."There is no way without her data that Watson and Crick could have figured out the structure before [her March 17th draft] got published. Now, if that had gotten published first and then they figured it out—remember, she talked about the double helix in that paper—then even though they had figured out the actual structure, they would have had to incorporate her information and credit her properly, and she would not have been written out of history.Franklin's famous Photo 51, which led to Watson and Crick's breakthrough insight into the double-helical structure of DNA Enlarge Photo credit: © Franklin, R. and Gosling, R.G./Nature
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What did Watson actually get out of Photo 51 beyond the idea that the "X" signified a helix?
After Watson saw Photo 51, he went out to dinner with Wilkins and pressed him for the interpretation of it—the 34-angstrom measurements and so on. At that early date Watson didn't know how to interpret a diffraction photo, other than that an "X" meant helix. In terms of getting measurements out of it, he hadn't the foggiest—at that point. It was Wilkins who told him how to interpret it. [For a closer look at the image, see Anatomy of Photo 51.]
What about the idea that the sugar-phosphate groups were on the outside? Did Watson get that from Photo 51?
No. That was from the MRC report. Watson and Crick got a tremendous amount of information from that MRC report. Now, they persisted in wanting to put the bases on the outside. And it's absurd—you don't put a hydrophobic thing on the outside of a structure in a cell. You put the hydrophobic stuff on the inside where it's protected, and the hydrophilic phosphates and sugars on the outside.
As a chemist Franklin knew that automatically, and so did even a graduate student at King's, Bruce Fraser, when he tried building a model. But Watson and Crick, being weak in their knowledge of chemistry, kept putting it on the outside. And Wilkins said, "You know, Rosalind said it should be on the inside." So Wilkins once again was telling them information that he knew from Rosalind. They kept resisting, however, because to put it on the inside, it seemed very difficult to know how to pack things.
But when Crick saw the MRC report—in which Franklin had not only said that the phosphates are on the outside but had offered measurements of the interphosphate distances—even he couldn't argue with that anymore. So when Watson once again was trying to build a model and it wasn't working, Crick said, "Why don't you put the phosphates on the outside, like Rosalind said?"
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Academic Standing (Undergraduate)
Academic Standing is determined at the end of the winter term for all undergraduate students who attempted 2.0 or more credits in the previous academic year (summer, fall and winter terms), or since their last assessment.
For the Graduate Studies policy on Academic Standing please review Policy 6017.
Good Academic Standing
Undergraduate students who attempt 2.0 or more credits in an academic year and earn an average of 60% or higher* in those credits are in good academic standing.
* Some programs may require a higher average for good academic standing.
Undergraduate students who attempt 2.0 or more credits in an academic year and earn an average below 60%* will be on probation during their next academic year. This status is recorded on their academic transcripts.
Students placed on academic probation must attend academic skills training before they may register for further courses.
Undergraduate students on probation may register for a maximum of 2.0 credits per semester in their next academic year and may be required to meet with their Dean (or designate) for academic advising before the next registration period. The Dean may impose conditions to be fulfilled.
Probationary undergraduate students with an average of 65% or more in the summer and fall terms may request the approval of their Dean to increase their course load in the winter term.
* Some programs may require a higher average for good academic standing.
Academic Suspension
Students on probation who have attempted 2.0 or more credits since their previous assessment and earned an average below 60% for those credits are suspended from the university. This status of academic suspension is recorded in their records and on their academic transcripts. Students on academic suspension may not register for further courses for a period of 12 months. After 12 months, suspended students may resume their studies with probationary standing (see "Probation," above).
Students on academic suspension will be withdrawn from any credit courses already registered in future terms. If students are notified of their academic suspension after the term has commenced, they may choose to remain registered in those courses or to withdraw immediately.
Under exceptional or extenuating circumstances, students on academic suspension may request a reduced term of suspension. Written requests are submitted to the University Registrar. Decisions are made in consultation with the Dean (or designate) of the student's Faculty.
Academic Expulsion
Students who accumulate 5.0 or more credits of fail grades are not eligible to continue their studies at OCAD University and are not eligible for readmission. They are expelled from the university.
Students who fail a course required for all programs for a third time will be expelled from the university and are not eligible for readmission.
Students placed on academic suspension who return and fail to attain a 60% average in the subsequent probationary period will be expelled from the university and will not be eligible for readmission.
The status of academic expulsion is recorded in the records and on the academic transcripts of all students expelled from the university. Students expelled from the university will be withdrawn from all credit courses upon notification.
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Student who do not successfully complete a course required for their program on their third attempt may not continue in that program.


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Technology is so deeply ingrained in our lives that we may take for granted how much it has changed everything around us.
In the past 25 years, the Internet has become a regular part of how we learn about and communicate with the world. Digital files have made it easier than ever to share photos of our children and grandchildren.
It's even possible to print things in three dimensions.
Coincidentally, North Shore Smile Surgery opened 25 years ago. As technology has improved our lives, it's also changed oral surgery.
And dental implants are one of the best examples of how technology has improved modern dentistry.
Technology In Action
Technology plays a significant role in our practice.
One example of that is cone beam scanning. Cone beam imaging was built on the work that developed CAT scans in the 1970s, according to an article published on the Dentistry IQ website.
The cone beam imaging is more compact than at CAT scan, and the cone beam machine uses minimal radiation. The end result is we can see three-dimensional images of our patients' teeth.
This has allowed us to diagnose and treat oral health problems on a much higher level than ever before.
For instance, our dental team can use those 3D images to conduct a "virtual surgery". If you are scheduled to receive dental implants, we can plan every detail on a computer before you ever sit down in the chair.
As a result, our implant placement is more accurate than ever. That means you get a good-fitting implant that looks, acts, and feels more natural and secure.
Types Of Implants
When Dr. Frank started his practice, he set out to become a "specialized specialist". As a result, 95 percent of our patients receive advanced dental implant procedures and extractions.
Whether you need or want to replace one tooth, multiple teeth, or an entire arch of teeth, we offer solutions to give you a complete smile.
Our traditional dental implants start with the cone beam scan mentioned above. Those images and impressions of your teeth allow us to plan your implants to fit perfectly inside your mouth.
The virtual imaging also allows our surgeon to see exactly what he'll find, such as bones and nerves that he may need to work around. (It's kind of like calling JULIE before digging in your backyard to make sure you don't hit something you shouldn't.)
Of course, the implants are the result of advancements in dental technology.
Modern dental implants are made with a titanium screw. This screw replaces the root of your tooth and sits inside your jawbone. The abutment placed on the end of the implant can be used to secure crowns and bridges that look and act just like natural teeth.
These implants are long-lasting and remain securely in your mouth. The titanium implants also fuse with your jawbone. This protects and preserves the healthy bone that holds your remaining teeth in place.
Smaller, Faster Implants
Traditional implants are only one option we have for patients.
Do you or someone you love have dentures? Would you prefer something more secure?
Maybe you've looked at implants but need something sooner than is possible with traditional implants. Maybe you have a special event coming up, or maybe you just prefer the convenience of a one-day procedure.
Refresh Smile, our All on 4 mini dental implants, provide another option. These implants are smaller than traditional implants, which means the procedure to place them is much faster.
Typically, patients who choose Refresh Smile will have a 4- to 8-hour procedure. That means in just one office visit, you can have a whiter smile. You'll also have more confidence when eating and talking.
Like traditional implants, these are secured in your jawbone, not held on by an adhesive like most dentures.
Because this procedure involves smaller implants, you'll also find your recovery time is faster, and you are less likely to experience discomfort after they are put in place.
See For Yourself
We want to show you how a combination of experience, technology, and concern for our patients can create a new level of care for you.
If you live in the north Chicago area and you need dental implants or any kind of oral surgery, stop by North Shore Smile Surgery at 1411 McHenry Rd., Suite 127, in Buffalo Grove or call us at 847-276-2500 to set up an appointment.


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Crate Training your Puppy or Dog
Tips, Techniques and Advice
As a new puppy owner, you may be interested in learning the many benefits of crate training your puppy. When introduced properly, the crate will likely become your puppy's favorite retreat for safety and comfort.
It's also a well known fact that no other type of training will eliminate as many unwelcome dog behaviors as puppy crate training.
However, it is important to understand that crates should not be used as storage units for extended periods of time.
To get the most out of crate training, you'll need to learn how to avoid costly mistakes and concentrate on crate training techniques that work.
While crates make great management tools and aids for house training, they are best if used as a short-term management tool so to avoid over-confinement.
Choosing and Preparing the Crate
The ideal crate for crate training your puppy should be the right size to allow your puppy to comfortably sit, stretch out and turn around, yet small enough to prevent your puppy from messing in one corner and sleeping comfortably in another.
After purchasing the right size crate, your next step would be to ensure it appeals to your puppy. A great way to accomplish this is by placing some safe chew toys and soft bedding for extra comfort. If you are planning to crate your puppy for more than a couple of hours, consider attaching a water dispenser filled up with fresh water to the crate.
Choosing the Best Location for the Crate
For the first couple of nights, place the crate in your bedroom so you are within reach to reassure the puppy and take him out to potty as necessary.
During the day, the crate can be placed in a central area, such as your living room, hallway or kitchen, where you can keep an eye on your puppy. Just avoid placing it in direct sun and next to air vents.
How to Introduce Your Puppy to the Crate
Your goal for successfully crate training your puppy is to have him associate the crate with positive emotions such as comfort, security and enjoyment; therefore, the secret is to go slowly. Once you have made the crate appealing, follow the below step-by-step instructions for crate training your puppy:
- Keep the crate door wide open and place some edible treasures inside.
- Praise your puppy lavishly for entering the crate and investigating, while ignoring him when he comes out.
- Continue adding treats inside the crate throughout the day.
- Feed the puppy in the crate when mealtime comes. If your puppy is hesitant eating inside the crate, consider placing the food bowl nearby the crate's entrance.
- Finally, when bedtime comes, place the puppy in the crate and shut the door.
Dealing With Whining When Crate Training a Puppy
While some puppies fall asleep right away without much fuss, others may have a hard time falling asleep. And it's easy to understand why -- being in a new environment away from mother and litter mates may be quite a scary experience for new puppies.
It helps to reassure the puppy in a caring, yet matter-of-fact tone of voice. Petting, giving treats and making a big deal out of the puppy crate training whining in hopes of reassuring the puppy will only make matters worse. The good news is that most puppies will eventually fall asleep, finally allowing both of you some much deserved rest.
Crate Training Your Puppy After the Introductory Stage
After two or three nights, most puppies will get used to sleeping in the crate at night. However, crate training your puppy does not end here.
Depending on your puppy's age, you will have to take your puppy outdoors to potty several times a day and in the night. For instance, a puppy under 9 weeks of age may need to be taken out an average of 8 to 12 times daily, and at least 3 times a night.
Whining, sniffing and turning around are signs that crate training your puppy is working; indeed, the puppy is simply demonstrating its discomfort and unwillingness to soil where it sleeps, which is the primary objective of a crate. You must be very observant in recognizing these early signs before an "accident" occurs!
But your puppy's crate is not only a great house training tool but also a great management aid. It will turn helpful when you can't directly supervise your puppy. The crate will prevent your puppy from being destructive and getting into trouble. However, it is important to consider how much is too long to crate your puppy to avoid the issue of over-confinement which may ultimately affect your puppy's well being.
How Long Should You be Crating Your Puppy?
While puppies get better at holding their bladders and bowels at night, during the day, when the puppy's activities are at peak level, more frequent outdoor trips will be needed. Also, puppies need plenty of time spent outside the crate so they can meet their exercise and socialization needs.
The following is a guideline on how long a puppy should be crated during the day based on his age:
|8 to 10 week
|no longer than 30 to 60 minutes
|11 to 14 week
|no longer than 1 to 3 hours
|15 to 16 week
|no longer than 3 to 4 hours
|17 weeks and up
|no longer than 4 to 5 hours
Common Crate Training Mistakes
To help your puppy succeed, you must adhere to important guidelines. The following crate training guidelines and tips will help you avoid mistakes that may have a deleterious effect on your puppy's progress in crate training.
- Ensure your puppy always associates puppy crate training with positive feelings. Pushing your puppy inside the crate or using it for punishment may create a negative stigma in the puppy's mind that may difficult to remove.
- Keep your puppy in the crate as needed, but be careful not to exceed a time frame he is not yet ready for.
- Remember to always remove your puppy's collar before placing him inside the crate. Even when using a plain buckle collar there is risk for it to get dangerously hooked on the crate's wire.
- Avoid crate training your puppy in hot weather or areas where he can easily overheat. Also avoid placing the crate near cold drafts.
- If there was an "accident" but you didn't catch your puppy in the act of soiling his crate, it's too late for punishment. So, if you leave and find a mess in the crate upon your return, just clean up soiled areas in the crate with a good enzyme-based cleaner. And next time, take your puppy for a walk before placing him in his crate.
- Avoid opening the crate when your puppy is whining unless you are sure he has a need that requires to be dealt with.
- Don't crate your puppy only when you need to leave or he will associate the crate with social isolation. It is good practice to also crate him when you are around.
Here is a brief video that provides additional crate training tips...
Final Thoughts...
A crate is a great way to house train your puppy, keep him out of trouble and even transport him as needed. Crate training dogs may also help you keep your dog out of trouble and fix numerous behavior problems.
Make sure you don't crate your puppy or dog for longer than suggested. If you need to confine your puppy for an extended period of time, use a dog pen or place your puppy in a small to medium-sized room equipped with non-porous floor and place the crate (with the door left open) in one corner and some newspapers several feet away.
Always make sure your puppy associates the crate with pleasant things, and you may be soon on your way to crate training your puppy with success!
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We usually like new members (that aren't known to the club at all) to come along to two or three weekends to get to know us. If both sides fit the bill then great, but if not then it saves the committee some work and the prospective member some money! Once you have been to a camping weekend or two you can fill the membership form in and give it to our illustrious Treasurer, Radar (Dave Day) or send it to the address on the form or by e-mail to David Day. Then you're a member! We don't bite, we're quite friendly, you can ride anything you like, any cc, any manufacturer, male or female, black, white or pink, we have no prejudices of any sort. All we ask is that you respect us as we respect you.
Around 80% of the 175+ members attend at least one club event a year and that's not bad going. If you like the idea of traveling to various Rallies, camping weekends and touring foreign countries then we're the club for you. If, however, this isn't what you want, then you don't have to waste your time and money by joining and paying membership fees for something that doesn't suit you.
If you want to join a club where membership means riding your motorcycle more than the regulation 20 miles on a Sunday, then don't hold back, join us now!
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Miguel Falls Off Stage in London
Oops, he did it again. Singer Miguel impressed a London audience with his vocal stylings yet also scared them simultaneously when he fell off the stage during his performance Thursday (Jan. 17).
The 'Kaleidoscope Dream' creator was performing at The Forum, singing his lauded tune 'Adorn.' Fans sang along to every word Miguel crooned before he took a tumble. And if that wasn't enough to cause some embarrassment for the Grammy Award-nominated entertainer, he even dropped the microphone several minutes preceding the fall.
At the 1:20-mark below, witness Miguel's stage show take a turn for the worse. This isn't the first time he's wiped out while performing. Last year in Houston, the singer did a set at The Drake and fell onstage as he sang 'Sure Thing.'
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Sulley has school spirit! Sulley was seen in Hanover, NH just about 45 minutes away from me this past weekend and he didn't stop by my house but at least he was showing his school spirit.
Monsters University producer Kori Rae and student Sulley attended the Dartmouth vs Yale homecoming football game on Saturday. During halftime the Dartmouth band played a selection of music from Monsters University while the crowd went wild watching Sulley and Kori parade the field and saluted the fans at the 50 yard line.
Sunday evening was the highlight with the Dartmouth Film Award and Tribute to Pixar presented by The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. The night began with a moving Pixar tribute reel followed by Sulley escorting Director Dan Scanlon and Kori to the stage for a moderated Q&A and showcase of bonus features "Monthropology," "Scare Games," and "Paths to Pixar."
Well Sulley and Pixar; congrats! Even though I still think you should have stopped by my home to say hello to myself and my children 😉
Monsters University was released on October 8, 2013 on Digital HD and Digital HD 3D.
Monsters University will be be released on October 29 2013 on 4-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, 3-Disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray Combo Pack, 3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On-Demand


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Taipan Houseboat
Taipan Houseboat
Taipan is a 60 ft. double decked pontoon houseboat with 3 twin cabins that all open out onto the Lake. This makes for a pleasant atmosphere especially with a lake breeze blowing.
Facilities include:
- CREW 2 crew (Captain, chef/deck hand)
- CRUISING SPEED: 6 - 7 knots
- CABINS 3 twin cabins with drop down sides onto the lake
- AIR CONDITIONED: No
- SHOWER 1 (there is also a cold water shower at the front of boat)
- MOSQUITO NETS in all cabins
- LIMITED MATTRESSES for those wishing to sleep on deck
- ENTERTAINMENT Darts board and board games.
- KITCHEN Fitted kitchen and dining area
- BRAAI gas braai
- COLD SPACE 3 deep freezers -1 large chest freezer for meats & ice etc, 1 small fridge/chiller for perishables + 1 Fridge for drinks on top deck.
- POWER SUPPLY There is a Generator on board to run all appliances during the day and an Invertor system to run fans and plug points at night.
- CHILD FRIENDLY Yes
- POOL Inflatable Splash Pool available
- TENDER 1x 8 to 10 seater tender boat for fishing and game viewing Please Note: Tender Boats are for Game Drives and fishing in the vicinity of the houseboat and are strictly crew driven. Should you require a speed boat for long distance fishing, please either bring your own which will be towed behind the houseboat leaving behind one of the houseboat tenders, (please bring your own rope for towing and fuel) or you can hire a speed boat from Marineland. (Contact us for details).
- MOORED at Marineland harbour
- VEHICLE PARKING: Guarded parking provided at $5 per vehicle and $3 per trailer per night
- BOARDING 12:00pm and disembarking at 10:00am
- Houseboat and tender boat hire
- Crew
- 15% VAT and 2% Tourism Levy
- Fuel for main vessel, tender boats, two stroke oil and generator
- Taipan will consume approximately 6 - 8 Litres of fuel per hour. The Generator will use approximately 12 - 15 litres of petrol per day.
- Please note: the above fuel usage is an estimation for your reference and actual amount consumed will vary with routing.
- All meals and drinks
- Cleaning Materials including Dishwashing Soap, Toilet Paper and Bathroom Soap and personal toiletries.
- National Parks lake usage and fishing fees
- Fishing requirements i.e rods, bait and tackle packs
- Ice
- Cleaning materials and toilet paper
- Swimming and bath towels
- Charcoal
- First aid kit
Recommended Charter Routes:
2 night charters - up to Antelope Island
3 night charters - up to Palm bay
4 night charters - up to Sanyati west
5 night charters - up to Elephant point
6 nights or more - up to the Ume
Fully inclusive option:
For clients wanting a fully inclusive package, Sengwa Safaris offer competitive rates on all extras (catering, drinks, fishing rod hire and bait) so please let us know if you would like us to include any of these in your quotation. Please click on the links above for more information on catering and extras or visit our FAQ's page
Please note that whilst every effort has been made to ensure the details supplied above are correct we can not be held responsible in any way should an item mentioned above not be on board /broken or miss quoted.
Specs and Technical Data
Crew: 2
Cabins: 3
Registration Number: KF1221
Hull Type: : Pontoon
Length: 60ft (18.29m)
Engine: Single Daf diesel
Mooring: Marineland harbour
- Fishing
- Game viewing
- Bird watching
- Photography and videography
- Relaxation
- Reading and board games
- Sunbathing


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THIS shocking footage reveals the moment a Crips gang member is shot dead in court after launching at a witness with a pen.
Siale Angilau, 25, is seen charging towards the stand inside a Utah federal courthouse before a female US marshal fires four rounds at close range.
The dramatic 24-second footage from the 2014 gang-related racketeering trial was released on Monday after a media coalition argued it was a public record in an important police use-of-force case.
It shows Angilau, a member of the Tongan Crip gang, calmly rising from his seat beside his attorney during the witness testimony and grabbing his lawyer's pen.
Someone is heard yelling: "Whoa, whoa, whoa," but before any officers could react, Angilau sprinted toward the witness and leaped with his right arm cocked overhead with the pen in hand.
The man jumped back to avoid being hit as Angilau fell feet-first over the front of the witness stand and the unidentified US marshal fires his gun.
A woman cries out in horror while other law enforcement in suits ran toward the witness stand.
Angilau's defence attorney jumps under a desk while prosecutors stood in shock.
A bailiff swiftly moved to block the entrance to the front of the court and pointed at people in the gallery and told them to stay still with his right hand on his holstered weapon.
Someone is heard shouting in the direction of Angilau: "Get on the ground."
An officer standing over him yells: "Drop the pen. Drop the pen out of your hand."
As US District Judge Tena Campbell was escorted out of the courtroom, someone called 911 at the end of the released video.
The unidentified US marshal was cleared of any wrongdoing by the FBI shortly after the shooting and a review board found the use of force was within agency policy.
Lynzey Donahue, a spokeswoman for the Marshals Service, said in a statement the video "demonstrates how quickly violence can erupt, in any situation."
The Angilau family attorney, Bob Skyes, said the video shows that the marshal "panicked" and should have used other methods to subdue him.
He points out that Angilau was already down on the ground for the final three shots and that a courtroom full of officers could have stopped him to stop him before he harmed anyone with the pen.
Skyes said: "There was no need to use deadly force. They weren't entitled to use the death penalty on him for an assault."
Angilau was one of 17 people named in a 2010 indictment accusing Tongan Crip members of assault, conspiracy, robbery and weapons offences.
He was the last defendant in the case to stand trial, with previous defendants being sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison.
The Department of Justice wanted the video kept under seal over concerns it could lead to retaliatory gang violence.
Faces of the judge, attorneys and jurors are blurred out and the agency declined comment about the release of the video.
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Building ARM Toolchain
Originally this was a complete walkthrough the compilation and installation process of the ARM Toolchain. Now there is a script called Summon ARM Toolchain that does everything automatically. Apart from the standard development tools linux users should install the following extra packages: libgmp3-dev and libmpfr-dev
For Debian/Ubuntu:
> apt-get install libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev
Or use build-dep to automatically grab everything needed to compile gcc:
> apt-get build-dep gcc-4.4
or on Maverick:
> apt-get build-dep gcc-4.5
For Cygwin on Windows you need the following packages:
- automake
- autoconf
- make
- git
- wget
- termcap
- libmpc-devel
- libmpfr-devel
- libgmp-devel
- libncurses-devel
- libtool
- patch
Also binutils 2.19.1 needs a patch as described here: http://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg06475.html. The current version of summon-arm-toolchain uses a newer binutils version that doesn't require the patch.
Now you only have to:
> wget http://github.com/esden/summon-arm-toolchain/raw/master/summon-arm-toolchain
And run the script:
> ./summon-arm-toolchain
This will download all necessary sources and build all the toolchain parts.
After that you should have a complete smooth ARM toolchain that should work with STM32 and LPC21.
This script should work on Linux and Mac OS X and is partly tested on CygWin on Windows 7 (additional patches welcome).
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Actor, writer and comedian Celeste Barber is best known for her roles in All Saints, Office Correctness and How Not to Behave. She has also made a name for herself through her satirical Instagram account, which has more than 740,000 followers and has caught the attention of celebrities including Kris Jenner, Ashton Kutcher and Zooey Deschanel. Barber, 33, tells Kate Waterhouse where she sees her career heading and provides hilarious insights into her social media challenges.
You are a trained actor and only later fell into comedy?
Well, yeah, I've always been told I've been funny but I always thought funny was stupid. I thought if you were a bit of an idiot then that was funny. But I've since learnt, no, not the case, and being funny is the best and I love it… My late friend Mark Priestley, who worked on [All Saints with me], was like, "This is your niche," and he helped me focus on it.
You appeared in The Letdown this week as part of ABC TV's Comedy Showroom. How did that come about?
I was asked to audition and read the pilot's script and fell in love with it. Then I found out that Noni Hazlehurst was playing the midwife and I was willing to sell my children to get the part.
What do you love most about comedy and making people laugh?
It's so nice to hear people's response because laughter is a positive thing. You very rarely hear someone going "I'm really angry" while they're laughing … If we focus more on things that are funny and made us feel nice, as opposed to feel pressured to look that way or pressured to think this way, I think it would lift the mood a lot, in a lot of circles …That's what I'm finding since doing this Instagram stuff – that people just walk up to me and say, "I've had the shittiest day and then I saw your photos and now I'm laughing and thank God for you, I'm sick of worrying about being fat now."
How did you become this internet sensation?
Well, the second you put yourself up near Kardashian … then you're running for president… it's madness. I don't know how it happened. I remember when it happened: it was, like, in August last year. I was at my house with friends and I had just done the Daily Mail interview and then I got an e-mail from the Daily Mail going, "It's going live now." They put it up and then Phil my friend was like, "All right – drinking games. No one check their phone for one minute." We all had to turn our phone on aeroplane mode and then a minute later he'd say "10,000 [more followers] – scull" and then we'd scull. It was the best. Then we'd go, "Right, five minutes," then set an alarm, come back, "15,000 – scull". It was the best.
You now have over 740,000 followers around the word.
Yeah. Most of them are in the [United] States. I'm waiting for Amy Schumer to go, "Actually you are amazing," and be a part of it. Come on, Schumer.
So how did you start doing your satirical photos of celebrities?
My sister and I were just seeing crazy yoga poses or someone going, "Wednesday Lunch", and we're like, "That's not Wednesday lunch. You're on a paddle board, in the middle of the Bora Bora, doing downward dog." And then I would go, "All right, I'll try that. That's just what a normal day is for fancy people. Challenge accepted." That's just how it started. My sister and I just started sending texts to each other with a funny photo [from social media] and she would write, "Challenge accepted?" I'm like, "Yeah." I did a few and then the Kim Kardashian one, on the dirt pile.
Did that image of you imitating Kim Kardashian have the most impact?
[Yes] most impact. It's not one of my most popular ones. But that's the one where people took notice. Then Daily Mail got hold of it and then Time magazine and that sort of thing.
Kris Jenner recently shared your Instagram image on Facebook. What was it like to catch the attention of one of America's most infamous personalities?
It's weird considering her children/clients are the main source of my parodies, but she seemed to have a good sense of humour about it.
Did her star power have an impact on your career?
Nup. My followers went up but the Weinsteins are yet to call with a show offer.
Have any other celebrities reached out to you?
I did a photo of Cindy Crawford – the iconic one where she is popping a bottle of champagne in front of the Hollywood sign. So I got a bottle of Coke and stood in front of the Long Jetty sign, on the Central Coast [of NSW]. She wrote underneath it, "A nice one," with a smiley face, which was very sweet. People like Ashton Kutcher have done shoutouts, Zooey Deschanel and Snooki. I am waiting for Kanye to beat down my door though and go, "You will not hurt my wife." I'm waiting for that.
Do you ever get nervous of a celebrities response, especially someone like him?
Wouldn't give a shit, wouldn't care less. Good luck to him.
Do you get trolled by some of the celebrities' fans?
Sometimes I do. Sometimes people are like, "You're fat, go away." But I don't care. I have kids and teenage daughters. I've made sure that I always say to them, "Social media has the power you give it. If you don't want it to be anything more than a photo of you with your friends, then that's all it is".
Who is your favourite person to impersonate on your Instagram?
I like to call them my muses, not my victims or anything. They're my muse. Kylie Jenner is pretty easy. If I'm struggling for something to do, I'm like, "Surely she has got something going," and I'll look for her and bang there it is.
Who are your favourite comedians?
Usual suspects: Amy Schumer, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler… They're just funny. Excellent women. And a lot write their own stuff. Amy Schumer recently said, when she won an award, "I work because I look like this. So I have to write my own stuff." Because I've got this area and that's exactly how I feel. I get really inspired by that, really inspired by making my own stuff which will suit me. That's fun.
What would you be doing if you didn't go into acting and comedy?
Oh, crying. Nothing. I don't know what I would do without it. I really don't. It's my first love. Nothing. Look at me freaking out. Well, actually maybe back-up dancer for Beyonce. There, write that.
What do you do in downtime when you're not working?
Hang out with my kids, my little fellows. They're the best.
It must be fun around your dinner table.
Yeah. We don't always eat — I'm going to be on a parenting website now. We don't always eat at the table. We've got too many age groups and too many needs. So we're just like, "Make sure everyone eats." That's the way you do it. Don't tell Mia Freedman that. She will put me on Mamamia [as the] "worst mother in the world".
Where do you see yourself in five years' time?
Doing a sitcom-type show that I have written. That's my plan.


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Hi lovelies! I hope you guys enjoyed my previous post on Kyushu and as promised, here's the second part of my trip where I'm going to share a little on what I ate and where I stayed! I was there for only 4 days but we were trying to cover the whole of Kyushu (from one end to another) by train within that 4 days, which explains why we stayed in different hotels despite it being such a short trip.
Are you the kind of traveller who likes to see as much as possible during your trip or are you the chill one who goes without any itinerary or plans? I would say, most of the time, I'm more like the latter. I like to travel and take in whatever that comes along but I'm also super thankful for friends who can plan the itinerary really well, heh!
Read on and enjoy the little video clip that we shot at the bottom which basically shows our entire trip as well! :)
So… that's it! I hope you enjoyed this Kyushu's photo diary and a nicely put-together video and find them helpful while you plan your trip to Kyushu! It was so much fun watching back what Jolene and I did and I honestly can't wait to go back to Japan! One of my favourite country, fo' sure!


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|Chapter 12. Operation Notes
Tablet PC (Windows Vista / 7)
The Tablet PC Input Panel interface used in Windows XP is not available in Windows Vista / 7. OnScreen with CrossScanner can be used in conjunction with the various Tablet PC Input Panel options available within Windows Vista / 7.
Fast User Switching (Windows XP)
Upon a switch from or to a user session, the software reacts to the WM_WTSSESSION_CHANGE message by verifying the software is not minimized, and restoring setup from the saved configuration. See the SessionChangeEnabled setting in the Initialization file.
Korean Windows, default IME (Windows XP)
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Sometimes I'm the kind of mom who sees tiny little hand prints everywhere -- walls and chairs, light switches and white cabinets -- and I feel like I just cannot live one.more.single.second without scrubbing everything clean.
So I wet a rag and begin to scour all of the surfaces in the dining room as my 3 year old gives voices to toy fishies and my 16 month old food-finger paints with ketchup at the dining room table.
They giggle and my older son beckons me to abandon my work in favor of play.
"Look at my blue fish!" he exlaims. "They are the police officers."
I marvel over the brilliance of making the blue fishies police since they are, indeed, sporting blue.
"Look at E.!" he then says, switching gears. "He's eating his paints!"
While I'm explaining that the red paint is actually ketchup, I stumble into some made love with his chubby, red-coated fingers, remembering how quickly just how much I adore those little hands.
And I think to myself, I'd rather be the mom who thinks I just cannot live one.more.single second without enjoying those small hands --both sets.
So I kiss ketchupy fingers and giggle about toy fishies, taking a few more baby steps in the right direction.
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Keep Your Edge
We've talked about how important the right learning program is for your organization, but we've never highlighted how a continuous learning strategy differs from the more traditional learning programs organizations are familiar with.
Continuous learning is meant to enable employees to develop and improve their skills and knowledge. When implemented correctly, continuous learning empowers employees to perform effectively, adapt to changes in the workplace, and develop into the future leaders the organization will need.
Continuous, collaborative learning strengthens employee development by giving people the skills and knowledge they need to excel in their current roles as well as helping them grow into and prepare for future roles and responsibilities. This, in turn, strengthens employee engagement and overall commitment.
Better employee engagement and development are just two benefits of a continuous learning program that emphasizes collaboration. Here are 3 more reasons why you should consider implementing continuous, collaborative learning:
It Helps Employees Grow in Real Time:
Traditional learning programs are often formalized events, with little flexibility in timing or direction changes. Continuous learning is self-paced, which has been shown to actually enhance learning speed and effectiveness. Continuous, collaborative learning doesn't just allow employees to learn at their own pace; it also enables them to utilize their own learning styles and preferences, further enhancing learning effectiveness.
Continuous, collaborative learning also draws on other resources to help employees immediately make use of their new skills and knowledge. Well-structured programs will use immediate feedback loops, which can take the form of online quizzes that help to measure the "stickiness" of what's been learned, as well as ongoing testing, reflection and guidance from peers, co-workers and supervisors. This "instantaneous feedback" allows employees to further entrench lessons into their behaviors and skillsets, increasing the effectiveness of the learning program as a whole.
It Improves Performance Alignment:
Continuous collaborative learning helps enterprises reinforce knowledge, behaviors and skill sets that are tightly aligned with business goals and objectives. When these goals and objectives change, the learning program shifts in response without any lag time. Integrating performance and learning data allows managers to create individualized learning plans for employees that aligns with career development goals, team goals, and organizational goals as well.
It Engages Employees with the Learning Process as Well as with Individual Learning
The best part of continuous, collaborative learning is that employees aren't just recipients of knowledge they are also mentors and knowledge sharers, with vested interests in advancing the entire learning program. Continuous learning tools make use of your organization's best resource; its experienced workers as learning facilitators. For example, using video, social networks, podcasts, and next-generation technologies to connect employees to their entire workforce can empower your workforce to access a wealth of experience and information that they might not have available to them regularly. It also engages employees on two levels: one as teacher, the other as learner. This type of collaborative learning better engages workers, and increases retention.
Another example: remote workers who might not be in the office every day, but who have decades of experience, can be available to younger workers through social networks for quick, informal instruction. Employees can also create and share instructional videos that viewers can access on demand as needed. Digital learning is the tool that allows organizations to better leverage their people to facilitate true, continuous collaborative learning.
How are organizations using and benefiting from their continuous learning programs? Find out what we uncovered in our original research report, The State of Continuous Learning.
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I hear someting from the soundtrack of the movie Nowhere in here somewhere, or maybe Heat, I know I do...it's subtle, but it's in there somewhere...(?)
Oh my! you are right! That is a back jazz hand! Wow! I didn't notice that before! good spotting!
Hey! Actually it's the one at the end...I cant belive it, but my video cuts off there, and I didn't even get your real jazz hands! I was so bummed when I was importing the video and it did that...but luckily I have all the other vid!
oh, fun fun fun!!! Is the half jazz hand the one on my head near the beginning? I love where-is-it puzzles! Yay!
Oh my dog, that is fantastic! I think I just watched that like three times in a row, and now I am going to go and watch it again. Oh, it just makes me want to go back there again! Danke schön!
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