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Hunger's End
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|Ael'Yith slain
DescriptionI am weak. The hunger is devastating, my friend. I understand now why your dragon rests in these pools.
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I came to warn you but... it looks like I was too late.
I hear him outside now. Ael'Yith... is... here...
Hah! Ha ha ha haaaa!
I haven't felt this alive in YEARS!
What you've done, <name> - not only to replenish my mana pools, but also to save my brood - will not be forgotten. The blues of Azsuna are ever in your debt.
I haven't felt this alive in YEARS!
What you've done, <name> - not only to replenish my mana pools, but also to save my brood - will not be forgotten. The blues of Azsuna are ever in your debt.
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If you're struggling to put money away each month, whether it be from lack of income, spending more then you make or you just suck at saving, you've come to the right spot!!
I made this money saving chart just for YOU! You're here because you want to know how to save $1000 in 3 months.
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Not spending more money than you make is challenging for most people. It sucks that it's a reality but here in the U.S. it is!
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The Importance Of Saving Money For Your Future
Most people have a hard time distinguishing between saving for the future or living for today. In the back of our minds, we all know we should be saving for the future.
However, it only takes a second for that little voice in your head to switch to, "live for right now, buy the shiny new object," and the next thing you know you're walking out the store with a new $1000 phone.
How do you FIGHT that voice?
This phenomenon happens way too often and it happens to everyone. This is why you need to find your WHY behind your goal of saving money.
Why do you need to save $1000 in 3 months? Find your "why" and write it down. Stick it somewhere you will see every day and let's get this party started.
"You must learn to save first and spend afterwards!" – H. John Poole
Reasons WHY you might want to save $1000:
- Pay off your debts
- Take a vacation
- Create an emergency fund
- Live a debt free life
- Retirement
How To Save More Money Each Month
We talk a lot about spending less. In order to reach your $1000 goal, you're going to have to cut back on your expenses so you can start saving. This is where the magic will happen!
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Here are more ways to save more money:
- Grocery Store Hacks That Will Help You Save Money On Food
- 10 Awesome Hacks That'll Save You Thousands On Your Household Items
- 50 Genius Frugal Living Tips You Should Adopt To Save Money
- Create Better Money Habits By Kicking These Bad Ones
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I Live Paycheck To Paycheck, How Can I Save Money
I already live paycheck to paycheck, I have no money left to save, how can I possibly do this type of money saving challenge.. Does this sound like you?
I hear this A LOT.
How do you save money if you already live paycheck to paycheck? I'm not going to sugar coat it for you, it takes a little sacrifice but you can do it!!
The funny thing is, most people who live paycheck to paycheck actually make a good amount of money. Or at least have enough to save each month.
They just live beyond their means and spend more money than they make.
If you're currently living paycheck to paycheck here's what I want you to do… before starting this 3-month money saving challenge. Take one month and write down every single dollar you spend, every dollar your husband spends, and every dollar your children spend.
At the end of the month, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what you notice. I guarantee that you will notice that there were quite a few items you could have cut out of your spending.
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If you want an awesome budgeting tool that can help you track all aspects of your finances, you have to check out these budgeting spreadsheets.
Related Resource: Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Pay Off Debt and Start Saving Money
How To Make Money Fast
Being able to save $1000 with our money saving chart is a huge step towards you reaching financial freedom, or whatever GOAL it is you're trying to reach..
However, if the money is just not there and you can't cut your spending any further it's time to start thinking about how you can make more money.
1. Get a part-time job
If you've exhausted all of your options and you can't manage to save another dime, get a part-time job. I know a part-time job might be a lot to add to your already full plate but it's only temporary.
2. Sell second-hand books
Do you have textbooks or electronics lying around your home that you don't use? I know many of you still have old textbooks stuffed under your bed or in your closet.
If so, you have to try Amazon trade-in program. All you do is enter your books ISBN number and then Amazon will give you a trade-in price. They even send you postage so shipping is free. In return, they send you a gift card with Amazon dollars!
Guys, I sent 12 of my old textbooks in and made over $300. So make sure to check this out!
3. Take online surveys
Are you ready to get paid money simply for giving your own opinion? If so, you're going to love online survey sites such as Survey Junkie.
You spend a few minutes taking a survey and then they pay you cash. If you have downtime this is a great way to make some extra money.
Here are a few reputable survey sites you need to check out:
- Vindale Research
- My Points
- MySurvey
- i-say
- YouGov
- InboxDollars
- OneOpinion
4. Start your own website
Are you extremely passionate about cooking, traveling, mom life, DIY or crafts? How about having a love for writing?
What if I told you that you could make thousands of dollars BLOGGING about your passion?
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Why you might ask.. Because you can make a lot of cash using it!
Rakuten is super self-explanatory. Next time you do online shopping at stores such as American Eagle, Khols, Target, Macy's or any other of their 2,000 stores, head over to Ebates.
On the Ebates website, click on the store you're doing your shopping at and then shop away as usual.
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6. Babysit
Nowadays, babysitters make a lot of money!! Parents pay big bucks to make sure their children are in a safe environment while they're away. If you love kids, you can easily make $10-$20 an hour babysitting.
7. Sell your clothes and other household items
There are so many different places you can sell your used items. This makes it super easy to make cash fast!
Here's a list of the best places to sell your used clothing and household items:
- Marketplace (on Facebook)
- Facebook garage sale sites. Just about every town has their own personal online garage sale site where you can sell used items.
- Craigslist
- eBay
- Amazon
- Local thrift shops
Related resource: 10 Awesome Hacks That'll Save You Thousands On Your Household Items
8. Swagbucks
Do you want to earn gift cards for items you're purchasing online? Shop online like you normally would at sites such as Amazon, J. Crew, Home Depot and many others (they partner with over 1000 different stores).
Swagbucks will help you find the best discount for the item you're looking for. In return, they give you points for shopping through their site. You can then redeem those points for gift cards to your favorite stores.
Make sure to check out Swagbucks next time you do your shopping online.
9. Start a side hustle from home
Winter is upon us, do you know what that means? Your neighbors are going to be looking for someone to shovel their sidewalks and driveways.
Don't get snow where you live? Well then, maybe your neighbor is looking for a hand building a deck or doing yard work.
If you have a talent that others might need, take your skill set and do something with it. Don't forget to let them know it isn't free!
Related Resource: 40 Ways To Make Extra Money This Week
10. Rent out a room in your house
Hello Airbnb!! Do you have an extra room in your house that you aren't using?
What about a camper your not using every weekend? Or any other unique place in or outside your home, heck even a tree house.
You can rent out these spaces using Airbnb for extra cash! We've used Airbnb a handful of times and we've only had great experiences.
We stayed in an Airbnb in Belize last year and loved it. Check it out here!
Remember these are just a handful of ways to make a quick but. The sky is your limit!!
How To Get $1000 Fast Using The Money Saving Chart
Remember we already went over the keys to saving $1000 in just 3 months:
- Spending less, saving more
- Budget your money
- Get a side hustle/ increase your income
How This Money Saving Chart Works
Every week for 3 months you will need to save $84. Does that sound like a lot to you? It might, but I just gave you numerous ideas on how you are going to do it!
Think about it, you only need to make an extra $12 a day to hit your goal in 3 months! When you look at it that way it will probably seem a lot more doable.
It's all about spending less!
What did you buy yesterday that you didn't NEED? Next time, don't buy those extra items.
Use the above strategies we talked about and you'll be golden. Let's make this happen!
You can download my free money saving chart below to get started saving $1000 in 3 months!
What Will You Do With The Extra Money
How do you plan to hold onto your extra savings while in the process of reaching your goal of $1000? Do you plan to hold onto it in a jar at home or a savings account at the bank?
If you are looking to save money short term, and you don't like to have cash on you, I would open a normal savings account at CIT Bank. Automatically transfer $84 into your "new special savings account" once a week or $168 every 2 weeks.
This way your money never touches your fingers and you won't have the opportunity to spend it.
Best tips for picking the right savings account:
- We're trying to SAVE MONEY, right?? Yes, so please make sure the bank you chose doesn't charge a monthly fee. When I was looking for a new bank when we moved to Minnesota, I was going to open a new saving account at a credit union and they wanted to charge me $2 per month. Um, no thank you. I'm trying to save money!
- If you don't have debt or are planning to save your $1000 long term for a future vacation, etc. Find a bank with good interest rates. I higher the interest rate the better. Try doing some research on Money Market Accounts.
- Like I mentioned above, automatic transfers is where it's at! Especially for those of us who aren't good at keeping track of every penny we spend. Save first, spend later!
Okay, so what are you going to do with your extra $1000? Hopefully not spend it, RIGHT!
Pay Off Debt And Other Expenses
Do you have debt? Sadly most of us do.
I can't even explain how freeing it is to pay off bad debts as soon as you can. You just have to do it and feel the relief!
Bad debts are debts such as any personal loans and credit card debt. Do you have any of these? If so I highly recommend you start by knocking these types of debts out of the park.
Once you knock down one debt, it will free up more of your money each month. Use that money towards knocking down the next debt.
Build A Emergency Fund – Prepare For The Unexpected
You don't have to pay off all of your bad debts to start saving for a rainy day. Even if you're only able to hide away a few dollars a week in your dresser drawer, do it. It will add up and at some point in time, you will need it for some unexpected emergency.
Your goal should be to have your emergency fund equal 4-6 months of your expenses.
Need help with tracking your emergency fund. Use the Emergency Fund Tracker in our Budgeting Spreadsheets.
Invest For The Future
COMPOUNDING INTEREST is an amazing thing! What if I told you we've made five figures this year JUST OFF INTEREST! Even if we didn't add a dime to our investment accounts this year, we are still making money, a lot of money at that.
I'm not telling you this to brag. I'm telling you this because this could be YOU if you start being smart with your money!
If you haven't already downloaded your FREE printable workbook to save $1000 in 3 months, DO IT NOW! It could change your life.
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If you have any creative ways to save money every day, I want to hear them below!
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Catholic Social Services received a $50,000 grant from the First Federal Charitable Foundation that it will use to create a permanent emergency homeless shelter and residential center in downtown Hazleton.
Catholic Social Services operates two buildings in Hazleton– its main office building at 214 West Walnut Street, the site of the former Our Lady of Mount Carmel School and rectory, and the adjacent Catholic Social Services Family Center, which was formerly Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Additionally, St. Joseph Pantry is an anchor program for the center. It is a client choice pantry that served 1,000 families in 2016. Educational programs, community-based events, a medical clinic, a community players group, and National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) and other family-strengthening initiatives are provided in the main level of the building. The main level is also utilized for community- and neighborhood-based meal programs.
Phase one of the project calls for a design reconfiguration of the space at 214 West Walnut Street to accommodate emergency shelter and youth transitional housing and to create a dedicated space for existing programs on an interim and potentially permanent basis. Phase two will involve restructuring the St. Joseph Pantry in its current location by maximizing space to more effectively serve consumers. Plans include creating an accessible entrance directly into the pantry, assessing the kitchen area on the main level that is utilized to serve meals, updating and making necessary changes to accommodate a community meal program, and developing bridge housing services either within the current complex or elsewhere in the community.
Neil Oberto, executive director of the Catholic Social Services Hazleton location, said, "The establishment of a comprehensive shelter and residential center within this community is in direct response to a need that has gone unmet for many years. We will now begin to more effectively address sheltering, stable housing and life skills that will lead to self-sufficiency for these individuals. It is a program that recognizes a person's sense of dignity and value and encourages movement in a positive direction. Our emergency shelter and residential center will help a vast number of needy individuals in the Greater Hazleton area. Catholic Social Services serves individuals and families in poverty and hardship and responds compassionately to their needs. We will always respond to an immediate need for emergency shelter, as well as offer the hope of transitional housing within Greater Hazleton, thus replacing despair with much needed hope."
Oberto added that since 2015 statistical data has confirmed that there is an "overwhelming need for emergency shelter, bridge housing, youth transitional living, and requisite supportive services" in the Greater Hazleton area. In February of 2016, Catholic Social Services opened the Divine Providence Shelter at several rotating sites throughout its service area. However, after further consulting with homeless individuals in the area, officials saw the need for a permanent shelter to be established.
"To this day, the Divine Providence Shelter has served 235 unduplicated adult males and females with a safe place to stay, a meal and supportive services. Since the shelter was established, and based on the issues presented by residents, Catholic Social Services was able to assess the need for more comprehensive services that would more effectively serve the homeless population and assist them in moving toward housing stability. On Feb 16 of this year, the zoning board for the City of Hazleton approved our application to establish a permanent site for an emergency shelter, bridge housing, and youth transitional living."
Oberto said he is very grateful for the help his organization received for the project from First Federal Charitable Foundation and that it helped to work with another organization that is so committed to helping the Greater Hazleton community.
"We are very grateful for the support of the First Federal Charitable Foundation. They are the first to officially assist this development project with financial support. First Federal's support of this project indicates their commitment to supporting opportunities that help to improve the quality of life for individuals within the community. We are extremely thankful to be included in First Federal's legacy of building a stronger community," Oberto said. "Working with (First Federal Charitable Foundation Executive Director Megan Kennedy) is refreshing. She is a good listener who has a deep sense of commitment and love for this community. When discussing a project, she also suggests other potential resources that would be beneficial. Our board of directors truly follows the mission of the First Federal Charitable Foundation in working to improve the quality of life for the community at large. So many individuals have been affected through the generosity of this foundation. It is community based and community driven."
Kennedy said, "The foundation was delighted to provide this grant to Catholic Social Services. We are gratified to see that they are planning to create a shelter that will be beneficial to so many people throughout Greater Hazleton. It was a very rewarding process to work with another local organization that is so dedicated to serving the community."
Catholic Social Services is the Catholic community of the Diocese of Scranton and operates under the guidance of the Bishop of Scranton. The Hazleton office services 2,500 families and approximately 8,700 individuals throughout Hazleton and Southern Luzerne, Northern Schuylkill and Northwestern Carbon counties. Rooted in the Gospel, the mission of Catholic Social Services is to serve individuals and families in poverty and hardship, as called by Christ to do, and to respond compassionately to their needs. As a Catholic agency, the organization advocates for individual dignity and self-sufficiency and actively gives to replace despair with hope.
Through comprehensive and flexible programming, Catholic Social Services assists in strengthening family life and in helping individuals to reach their full potential. Aware of and sensitive to community changes, emerging needs and resource challenges, Catholic Social Services continues its role as advocate, promoting the spirit of collaboration and responding with appropriate action on behalf of those who are limited in power, voice and access.
In addition to operating additional homeless shelters throughout its service area, Catholic Social Services provides a Homeless Case Management Program that offers a variety of services. The program assists homeless individuals and families with finding adequate housing, furniture, and employment and gaining the financial stability needed to maintain self-sufficiency. Referrals to appropriate social service agencies are made for necessities such as rent and food assistance, welfare benefits, and job training.
The First Federal Charitable Foundation was established to support worthwhile community causes. It strives to nurture nonprofit institutions and programs that will effectively serve those in need from the community, empower nonprofit institutions and programs that will expand their presence in and services to the area, and promote opportunities for new nonprofit institutions and programs that will serve the unserved.
Nonprofit organizations with a 501(c)(3) IRS designation that are located in Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon and Columbia counties are eligible to apply. Any organization whose headquarters is in another county but services either Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon or Columbia counties may apply for a grant to be used in one of those counties.
CAPTION: Catholic Social Services Hazleton Executive Director Neil Oberto, second from the right, accepts a $50,000 grant check from First Federal Charitable Foundation Executive Director Megan Kennedy. Also pictured are, from left: Sue Farley, Catholic Social Services administrative assistant, and Anthony Cusatis, president of the First Federal Charitable Foundation Board of Directors.


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Who's that handsome man?
Bio: Jason Lindner has been performing to critical acclaim throughout the mean streets of NYC over the past few years and now longs for the relatively nice streets of his native Chicago. He is a Yale Drama Grad ('02) and University of Michigan Grad (''99). and has performed at The Public Theatre, SoHo Rep, La Mama, 3LD, CSV, and other venues in NYC and across the country. He is looking forward to making good work in the city with big shoulders. Go Cubs!
Hair: Brown Voice: Bari/Tenor (Low E-High A)
Height: 5'6" Union: AEA
Yale School of Drama MFA 2000-?02
University of Michigan BFA 1995-?99
Second City Chicago Improvisation 1992-?95
Roderigo ? w/ Firebird Prod. Bank St. Theatre
Rods & Cables
Little Man w/Big Costume 3 Legged Dog
Pinchas, the Fish People, & the Great Flood (also Playwright) Noah - w/ Tami Stronach Dance
HERE Art Center, La Mama, Dance New Amsterdam,
(also Playwright) Professor Waldman (et al.)
- w/ The Flying Machine Soho Rep (extended run)
- Drama Desk Nom.
- Toured 2005 ? 2007
My Heart is Split in Two
Claude Verilhon- w/ Lucid Co.The Red Room
The Polish Play
Cotice (et al) - w/ Katharsis Theatre Co. Clemente Soto Velez Center
The Jammer (by Rolin Jones)
Bert Feinber The Player?s Theater
Henry V
Fluellen - w/ fifthstreet theatre Clemente Soto Velez Center
Sherlock Holmes & the Secret of Making Whoopie
Inspector Lestrade/Hardeen Houdini/et. al.
Barrow Street Theater
Signals of Distress
Walter Howells - w/ The Flying Machine
Soho Rep (extended run)
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Les Artistes
Alan Ballentine
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Twelfth Night Malvolio Lake George Theatre
Art Ivan Summer Cabaret @ Yale
Merry Wives of Windsor Pistol Michigan Shakespeare Fest.
Ghost Sonata Hummel Common Factor LLC
Docs and Robbers Pancho Shadowbrook Productions
Ninja Nonsense (V.O.) Sasuke Right Stuf Productions
Shura Non Toki (V.O.) Misumi NYAV Post Productions
Get Retarded Boobie Dubrinski Productions
Eisnvater Steve Dir. Will Swanson
Operatically trained Baritone/Tenor, Nearly all accents, Playwright, Clown training (Lecoq), Combat
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My selection of most compelling tips from the lists below
General tips for proposals.
- TIP-1: Have a direct and linear relation between problem statement, objectives and research questions, and methodology and data (in both directions). Identify research gaps (not just literature gaps), derive testable research objectives or answerable research questions (one per gap), translate each objective/question into exactly one (measurable) hypothesis/observation.
- TIP-2: Describe your empirical model precisely. Be explicit about the measures, relations and equations, statistical techniques. The more details, the better. Also describe backup scenarios.
- TIP-3: Put the problem statement in the very first lines of the proposal.
- TIP-4: Always stress both the academic and societal importance.
- TIP-5: Don't use (quasi) synonyms. This confuses non-expert readers.
- TIP-6: Write your best possible proposal and have it read and improved by colleagues with experience in research councils ("they will shred it to pieces and then you can restart").
- TIP-6: Evaluators first scan the proposal. They will notice diagrams, tables, facts (numbers), and quotes first. Make use of these opportunities to gain the reviewer's interest and confidence.
Specific for BOF.
- TIP-1: Mention important literature in other fields (in BOF, the expert panels are broad and people want to see their domain listed if relevant).
Specific for personal funding.
- TIP-1: Write in the personal statement which specific skills (analysis, statistics, ...) make you the best possible candidate to bring the research to a good end (nobody else than you). Don't base your application only on enthusiasm or don't be too implicit about your skills.
- TIP-2: Show how research fits within your track record (e.g., "I have 20 years of data and you allow me to add 4 more years, after which I will know X, Y, Z, which I did not know before and which nobody else could know").
- TIP-3: Show an international orientation, so that your current university is not your only possible employer afterwards (mobile researchers have a higher chance to get a job).
Specific for travel grants.
- TIP-1: Use a "science" narrative (I NEED to go abroad for IMPORTANT part of SCIENTIFIC WORK and can not do this in Flanders), not an "output" narrative (publications), nor a "career" narrative (network, or future applications).
- TIP-2: Stress the importance of the travel ("This plan is important for (my) research (group)").
- TIP-3: Stress the necessity of the stay ("For that plan the following is missing in my research group in Flanders").
- TIP-4: Describe the partner expertise ("I need to go to X as they have the expertise, equipment, patients").
- TIP-5: Don't use as argument that you will visit your (co)supervisor, you will visit a member of your supervisory committee, you will visit the editor of an important journal, you have to apply in order to get funding from your own university.
H2020 grants
- TIP-1: Write the evaluation report for your own project before even writing the proposal.
- TIP-2: Start writing backwards, start with (the evaluation criteria of) the interview.
- TIP-3: Explain your "little" project in the big picture of Europe (collect long list of policies, goals, plans, etc).
- TIP-4: ERC goal is to make Europe leader in science, ERC promises to have more top 1% highly cited publications. Explain how your proposal helps to achieve this goal.
- TIP-5: UK and Germany have excellent website of national support offices with lots of interesting materials online.
- TIP-6: Picking the right panel is critical. Select also the right keywords: enough detailed to get real experts, but not too detailed such that experts are not found.
- TIP-7: State-of-the-art: assume that evaluators know this, but you have to convince them that you also know it.
- TIP-9: Why bother? Have one sentence that aims for the reaction 'wow'.
- TIP-8: Why wasn't this done before? If you give me 5 coworkers and 50.000 €, can't I do the same?
- TIP-10: What insights do you have that experts didn't see?
- TIP-11: Evaluators first scan the proposal. They will notice diagrams, tables, facts (numbers), and quotes first. Your text has to contain short sentences in clear English, because many reviewers are not native English speakers.
- TIP-12: Think about a great communication plan. It is becoming more and more important.
From: dr. Seán McCarthy, Information session at Ghent University, 30/11/2018
ERC grants
- TIP-1: Understand the process: read guide for applicants AND guide for reviewers.
- TIP-2: Start many, many months before the deadline.
- TIP-3: Reserve several weeks for writing.
- TIP-4: Get plenty of feedback.
- TIP-5: Rely on local expertise: university support, grant holders closeby, etc.
- TIP-6: Sell yourself: provide irrefutable evidence for impact and excellence.
- TIP-7: Have unique selling points.
- TIP-8: No risk, no fun: talk about the risks and focus on novelty and potential impact.
- TIP-9: Clear title, clear abstract.
- TIP-10: Have a clear structure and plan.
- TIP-12: Get to the point. How does your proposal compete against "curing cancer once and for all"?
- TIP-12: Polish. Polish. Polish.
From: Prof. dr. Andreas Zeller, Blog post, 23/02/2013
FWO and BOF projects
- TIP-1: Have a direct and linear relation between problem statement, objectives and research questions, and methodology and data (in both directions).
- TIP-2: Start with an important issue in practice and show that it has received attention in literature, but insufficient.
- TIP-3: Start with a "striking observation".
- TIP-4: Put the problem statement in first lines of the proposal.
- TIP-5: Mention important literature in other fields (especially in BOF, the expert panels are broad and people want to see their domain listed if relevant).
- TIP-6: Always stress both the academic and societal importance.
- TIP-7: It is always interesting if you can observe two conflicting theories in literature, which you will investigate.
- TIP-8: Describe your empirical model precisely. Be explicit about the relations and equations that you will test.
- TIP-9: Don't propose pure "observational research". It is not enough to collect data, observations, or insights, but you have to go beyond: anlayze and interpret.
- TIP-10: Don't use (quasi) synonyms.
From: Prof. dr. Freddy Heylen, member UGent Alpha committee, Brown bag seminar FEB, 12/01/2018
FWO mandates and projects
Acceptance rate is about 20% for both proposals and projects. The expert panel contains about 20 people (from psychology, educational sciences, and other human sciences). There will be up to 3 external reviews. Then, 3 people from the panel will read your submission and these reviews. They will provide a score from A+ to D (B-D is not funded). They are not from your university (typically 2 Belgian and 1 foreigner), so they will look for weaknesses. Keep in mind that (only) these 3 will decide whether you get the money.
- TIP-1: Describe research in such a way that its importance and newness are clear (e.g., hypothesis testing will decide between traditional and new view).
- TIP-2: Show how research fits within your track record (e.g., "I have 20 years of data and you allow me to add 4 more years, after which I will know X, Y, Z, which I did not know before and which nobody else could know").
- TIP-3: For mandates, show an international orientation, so that Ghent is not your only possible employer afterwards (mobile researchers have a higher chance to get a job).
- TIP-4: Pilot data are always good.
- TIP-5: If there are potential ethical problems, ask for ethical clearance before submission (such that reviewers cannot question whether it will get cleared by the ethical committee).
- TIP-6: Write your best possible proposal and have it read and improved by colleagues with experience in research councils ("they will shred it to pieces and then you can restart").
- TIP-7: We need more good submissions from departments PP04, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, so good proposals from those side may have a higher chance.
- TIP-8: For mandates, write in the personal statement which specific skills (analysis, statistics, ...) make you the best possible candidate to bring the research to a good end (nobody else than you). Don't base your application only on enthusiasm or don't be too implicit about your skills.
- TIP-9: Don't count on your publication list. It is no longer explicitly evaluated (because it relates also to the group and environment). Reviewers may look at it, but expert panels not so much anymore.
- TIP-10: Don't count on your track record. Only if the current application is strong, you have a (40%) chance of getting something.
- TIP-11: Think of power issues and open science (certainly if your research is controversial, think about preregistration options; involve citizens, publish open).
From: Prof. dr. Marc Brysbaert, member expert panel FWO (G&M 3), Research afternoon PPW, 20/12/2017
FWO travel grants
The travel grants are assessed by the panel for international collaboration (CIS, for group grants) or the International Collaboration Committee (CIWS, for individual grants). The latter committee has 17 members from all scientific disciplines (3 members for Social and Behaviroal Sciences: social sciences, law, and another one, currently no psychology expert anymore). They meet monthly to decide on about 250 mobility applications (short and long stays, international conferences/workshops/courses, sabbaticals, etc.).
- TIP-1: Use a "science" narrative (I NEED to go abroad for IMPORTANT part of SCIENTIFIC WORK and can not do this in Flanders), not an "output" narrative (joint publication, help with publication, associate editor, etc.), nor a "career" narrative (networking, future research project (FWO, ERC), postdoc application).
- TIP-2: Explain your research or research line (background and rationale). State what you have done and what you plan to do.
- TIP-3: Stress the importance of the travel ("This plan is important for (my) research (group)").
- TIP-4: Stress the necessity of the stay ("For that plan the following is missing in my research group in Flanders").
- TIP-5: Describe the partner expertise ("I need to go to X as they have the expertise, equipment, patients").
- TIP-6: Describe the added value of the trip ("My research will benefit, and also the research group (dissemination of competences)").
- TIP-7: Describe a work plan or work packages!!!
- TIP-8: Don't use as argument that you will visit your (co)supervisor (because expertise is lacking in your university).
- TIP-9: Don't use as argument that you will visit a member of your supervisory committee.
- TIP-10: Don't use as argument that you will visit the editor of an important journal who will help you with writing and will make it easier to publish in a top journal.
- TIP-11: Don't use as argument "I have to apply in order to get funding from my own university".
- TIP-12: Don't put too much focus on deliverables: joined publications, grant proposals (FWO, ERC, ...), networking and career building.
- TIP-13: Don't have several applicants in the group that apply for the same travel grant.
- TIP-14: Don't 'copy and paste' the letter of recommendation.
- TIP-15: Rather don't apply at the end of your PhD/Postdoc.
- TIP-16: Read instruction and evaluation criteria carefully. Take your time and take the job seriously. Personalize your application and motivate enough. Ask feedback on the proposal to supervisor/senior researchers (even for conferences).
From: Prof. dr. Geert Crombez, member UGent Research Council and former member expert panel FWO (CIWC), Research afternoon PPW, 20/12/2017
FWO individual grants
This personal note focuss on FWO postdoc mandates. Success rate among postdoc submissions is about 25%. The submission is ranked by assessing the submission score A+, A A-, B, C, D AND the priority within the panel.
- TIP-1: See integrity statement: evaluators are instructed to be aware that "also negative results can be published".
- TIP-2: Be very personal in the personal statement. Use it to highlight personal differences from the evaluation standard.
- TIP-3: The recommendation letter should be convincing: the project and the candidate are really fitting the goals of the group.
- TIP-4: Criteria are: track record, scientific independence, research capability and potential, originality, feasibility, purposefulness, methodology fit, and support (fit in the team, with the supervisor).
For postdocs: more independence than in PhD, track record evolution, other progressions compared to PhD (show that you are a more mature researcher), more advanced and more ambitious project, more personal about the project/skills/contributions, focus, relevance.
From: FWO, FWO info session, 04/12/2017
Grants in general
Some typical reviewer comments
- TIP-1: Change your writing style.
- TIP-2: Write text that people like to read. It will make the reader more acceptable.
- TIP-3: Start has to be perfect, because people quickly take a decision. The first impression is the topic, title, abstract, keywords, etc.
- TIP-4: Don't be afraid to say things as "what if we would be able to", etc. Very personal and informal writing style.
- TIP-5: Polish. Polish. polish. Ask yourself: "how can I make this better, what's wrong with it". Ask colleagues or think about what they would say.
- TIP-6: Things like "They have done interesting things, but they forgot about... and I know how to fill this gap!" May not be that bad in grant proposals.
- TIP-7: Discuss literature overview in straight-forward bits and focus on the strongest and recent ones, don't try to convince with length of literature overview!
- TIP-8: Spend a lot of attention to the problem description! Should be understandable, relevant, etc.
- TIP-9: Idea: address the reviewer. "Do you recognise this?" "You had to apply a technique that did not feel right..." "Imagine you could use a tool that..."
- TIP-10: ERC: is it enough high-risk, high-gain? High risk should be obvious, high gain can be shown with prototype/initial results...
- TIP-11: TIP: talk about concrete artefacts: clearly delineated project.
- TIP-12: Talk about impact: should impact the whole way of working, teaching, software in the future?
- TIP-13: IDEA: use quotes to structure and keep attention?
- TIP-14: IDEA: find quote by recognised (!) researcher or specialist that points to the problem to illustrate its significance
- TIP-15: TIP: fallback, fallback, fallback, ... Provide backup scenarios in case of high risk!
- TIP-16: Search grant database. No similar projects = illustration of underfunding, argument to convince (but you still need to proof the need), similar projects = get inspired, get in touch, ...
- TIP-17: TIP: Typically: 1 goal, 2-4 research objectives (best is 3).
- TIP-18: Everything in the proposal should target the goal and objectives (as) directly (as possible).
- TIP-19: Use same language as key review criteria descriptions in the call, so they know directly that you meet that criteria.
- TIP-20: "This project helps ERC to reach his goals..."
- "The problem statement, such as it is, is too global, showing no relationship to reality with no potential solution being indicated or even possible."
> Focus, make it as specific as possible
- "This problem has been studied to death. I'm surprised the writer doesn't know this."
> Know your literature! Everything!
- "It is almost impossible to understand what the author wants to study or what the main theme is. The problem is full of jargon and totally unclear as stated."
> Don't use terms and abbreviations too much
- "I cannot ascertain what approach the researcher will take in examining the problem as outlined."
> Methodology!
- "The writer has a flair for the dramatic. The world will not collapse if we do not fund a study of students' daydreams."
> Significance!! Relevance! Importance!
From: dr. Robert Porter, Writing successful grants, 11/05/2017
FWO Data Management Plan (DMP)
- TIP-1: Describe the datatypes (surveys, sequences, manuscripts, objects, etc.) the research will collect and/or generate and/or (re)use.
- TIP-2: Are the following provisions in place in order to preserve the data for at least 5 years after the end of the research? Designation of responsible person. Storage capacity/repository (during/after the research).
- TIP-3: Is there a reason why you wish to deviate from the principle of preservation of data and of the minimum preservation term of 5 years?
- TIP-4: If issues concerning research data are indicated in the ethics questionnaire of this application form, will those data require specific security measures; if yes, can they be put in place?
- TIP-5: Are there other issues related to the data management you think relevant to mention?
From: UGent research tips, 16/04/2018
Paper writing
General tips for writing a journal article.
- TIP-1: Start with a real problem (not just a gap in literature), this answers the so-what question.
- TIP-2: Perseverance: revise and resubmit after rejections, address everything of the reviewers. Keep improving the work. Don't give up.
- TIP-3: Think about journal articles as a journey, not a product. You can even see it as a joint discovery with the reviewers and editors.
- TIP-4: Distinguish yourself, but at the same time, contribute in your community. Be different without giving up on the existing work in the field.
- TIP-5: There will be good and bad moments. Learn from failure, accept and search for help or training.
- TIP-6: Publication should not be the main goal, rather a constraint. The main goal should be the contribution (measured by the publication).
- TIP-7: You can ask editors before submission if your work fits the journal (but first read the mission statements, aims and scope of the journal!).
- TIP-8: To select a suitable journal, first think about your audience, then consider the type of paper you want to write or have written, and within this shortlist, target the journal with the highest impact factor.
- TIP-9: Design research so that either results are publishable (maybe it just requires to change the story).
From: consortium faculty, ECIS 2013 doctoral consortium, 03/06/2013
The 9 things every teacher should know.
- TIP-1: Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
- TIP-2: Learning is a change in long-term memory.
- TIP-3: Memory is the residue of thought.
- TIP-4: Learning requires forgetting.
- TIP-5: If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else.
- TIP-6: The answers of confident students are a bad guide to what the rest of the class is thinking.
- TIP-7: The only thing that matters about feedback is what students do with it.
- TIP-8: Effective group work requires individual accountability.
- TIP-9: Students have deep insights into their own learning.
From: The 9 things every teacher should know, Dylan Wiliam
Practical tips for teachers.
- TIP-1: Begin a lesson with a short review of previous learning.
- TIP-2: Present new material in small steps with student practice after each step.
- TIP-3: Ask a large number of questions and check the responses of all students.
- TIP-4: Provide models.
- TIP-5: Guide student practice.
- TIP-6: Check for student understanding.
- TIP-7: Obtain a high success rate.
- TIP-8: Provide scaffolds for difficult tasks.
- TIP-9: Require and monitor independent practice.
- TIP-10: Engage students in weekly and monthly review.
From: Principles of Instruction, Barak Rosenshine
Ten ways to study.
- TIP-1: EFFECTIVE. Practice testing: self-testing or taking practice tests on to-be-learned material.
- TIP-2: EFFECTIVE. Distributed practice: implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out study activities over time.
- TIP-3: PROMISING. Interleaved practice: implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of problems, or a schedule of study that mixes different kinds of material, within a single study session.
- TIP-4: PROMISING. Elaborative interrogation: generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true.
- TIP-5: PROMISING. Self-explanation: explaining how new information is related to known information, or explaining steps taken during problem solving.
- TIP-6: INEFFICIENT. Rereading: restudying text material again after an initial reading.
- TIP-7: INEFFICIENT. Highlighting and underlining: marking potentially important portions of to-be-learned materials while reading.
- TIP-8: INEFFICIENT. Summarization: writing summaries (of various lengths) of to-be-learned texts.
- TIP-9: INEFFICIENT. Keyword mnemonic: using keywords and mental imagery to associate verbal materials.
- TIP-10: INEFFICIENT. Imagery for text: attempting to form mental images of text materials while reading or listening.
From: Strengthening the Student Toolbox, John Dunlosky
Six strategies for effective learning.
- TIP-1: Space out studying over time.
- TIP-2: Practice bringing information to mind.
- TIP-3: Explain and describe ideas with many details.
- TIP-4: Switch between ideas while you study.
- TIP-5: Use specific example to understand abstract ideas.
- TIP-6: Combine words and visuals.
Seven recommendations for self-awareness in teaching and learning.
- TIP-1: Teachers should acquire the professional understanding and skills to develop their pupils' metacognitive knowledge.
- TIP-2: Explicitly teach pupils metacognitive strategies, including how to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning.
- TIP-3: Model your own thinking to help pupils develop their metacognitive and cognitive skills.
- TIP-4: Set an appropriate level of challenge to develop pupils' self-regulation and metacognition.
- TIP-5: Promote and develop metacognitive talk in the classroom.
- TIP-6: Explicitly teach pupils how to organise, and effectively manage, their learning independently.
- TIP-7: Schools should support teachers to develop their knowledge of these approaches and expect them to be applied appropriately.
From: Metacognition and self-regulated learning, Education Endowment Foundation
What makes great pedagogy? Nine claims from research.
- TIP-1: Effective pedagogies give serious consideration to pupil voice.
- TIP-2: Effective pedagogies depend on behaviour (what teachers do), knowledge and understanding (what teachers know) and beliefs (why teachers act as they do).
- TIP-3: Effective pedagogies involve clear thinking about longer term learning outcomes as well as short-term goals.
- TIP-4: Effective pedagogies build on pupils' prior learning and experience.
- TIP-5: Effective pedagogies involve scaffolding pupil learning.
- TIP-6: Effective pedagogies involve a range of techniques, including whole-class and structured group work, guided learning and individual activity.
- TIP-7: Effective pedagogies focus on developing higher order thinking and metacognition, and make good use of dialogue and questioning in order to do so.
- TIP-8: Effective pedagogies embed assessment for learning.
- TIP-9: Effective pedagogies are inclusive and take the diverse needs of a range of learners, as well as matters of student equity, into account.
From: What makes great pedagogy? Nine claims from research., Chris Husbands and Jo Pearce


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Serai Sate Kajang @ Medan Ipoh Bestari, Ipoh
Who doesn't love satay? I'm sure satay is one of the favorites among meat lovers. Of course we all know the famous Satay Kajang Hj Samuri and for Ipoh people, some of you would know the very popular Satay Endut.
Ipoh has been growing rapidly for the past 2-3 years and lots of new restaurants popped up.. one of them being Serai Sate Kajang (Lemongrass Kajang Satay). I don't think it's related to Hj Samuri. There's another satay kajang restaurant opened in Jalan Gopeng which I will review one day. But on my birthday last Saturday (25th February), I decided to eat satay as sort of like a birthday late lunch. BOY WAS THAT A TERRIBLE AND BAD IDEA!
It was around 4-5 pm, and the place was empty. One thing I despise when buying satay at this restaurant is the waiting time. It's like waiting to grow a beard. It was like eternity!
Staff? WHAT STAFF? This is the part that I'm very pissed about. Here comes the problem. According to my mom, there was a few staff there taking order.. but not one of them gave a fuck.. most were just young boys sitting and chatting while SMOKING. They're so inefficient and ignorant that when we left the place, they got our orders wrong! We ordered 10 pieces of chicken satay and 10 pieces of beef satay but what did we get? 5 pieces of chicken and 5 pieces of beef! What the hell? So I had to make a u-turn and went back to the store. They were very lucky I wasn't dressed up to get out of the car or else I would've given them a piece of my mind for being so careless.
Mom complaint and added 10 pieces of beef to the new order and without any apology or anything, they proceed with the new order. NO APOLOGY? You fucking made me u-turn for your own damn mistakes and you didn't even bother to give an apology? How rude.
So not wanting to receive another wrong order, she asked to check what they wrote them. Mother of mercy. Guess what? For the 2nd effing time, they got the order wrong AGAIN. The dumbass wrote 10 chicken and 10 beef when my mom only asked for 10 beef. Again, they were really lucky that I wasn't there to really bitch at their lazyness and inefficiency. If you want to smoke and chit chat with your co-workers, go to a damn bar. Did they not receive any training? How did they get hired in the first place?
The beef satay was very dry and hard and trust me, barely chewable! I had such a hard time chewing that crap that I wonder if it'll ever get digested in my stomach or just form a big clump of undigested lemongrass satay meat. The chicken was alright. What we realized then was that instead of them costing RM0.70 per stick, it's now RM0.85 per stick. For very dry and hard beef satay at that price? It's ridiculous.
Here comes my second problem. The peanut sauce/gravy. What I love about Satay Kajang Hj Samuri is the thick sauce with crunchy peanuts. It's supposed to be that way but noooo. This place has very runny sauce that it's almost like dipping the satay into a bowl of colored tap water. Not only that, the crunchy peanut was non-existent. Instead of crunchy, the peanut was so soft that it didn't taste anything.. it just dissolves in your mouth without you realizing it.
The sauce is EXTREMELY SWEET. By extremely I mean that it has the potential to give you DIABETES. Yes, it was that sweet! It was so disgusting and gross. Luckily you could put the chilli paste/sambal in it and I had to put at least 6-8 spoonful of chilli paste to make it extra hot, but even that wouldn't drown the taste of sweetness. When my mom asked them, they said it's meant to be very sweet. People likes it. And people wonder why majority of Malaysians have diabetes….. seriously… you guys like sweet peanut sauce? Really?
But apart from the ridiculous waiting time, the increased price, inefficient staff, the diabetes-causing peanut sauce, the extra hard and dry beef satay, my consolation is that I love the taste of the lemongrass. It gave such a great taste/flavor to the satay meat that it's delicious on its own..without dipping it into any sauce. Usually I'll just eat it on its own…unless you don't like lemongrass then the taste might not please your taste bud.
"Gardenia… so good you can even eat it on its own".. eh wait, wrong jingle, wrong product. Oops.
Overall, I had a terrible time with this restaurant and it's extremely lousy and unfriendly service and this wasn't the first time. I have not seen any improvements but instead they got worse. Not going back there again, thank you.
Jalan Medan Ipoh 1E,
Medan Ipoh Bestari,
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Surfing can be a time waster to some as it is seen more often as hitting sites aimlessly accomplishing nothing. But for the more experienced web user surfing is like visiting the library going through books, in this case sites, that hopefully will give you some form of enlightenment. Today I had such enlightenment. From one site to another I reached the link of a wonderful site called THE MOTH.
The name was interesting.. Moth? What on earth could that be? I hurriedly hit the link and found it was a site dedicated to storytelling, the kind of storytelling that was both personal and true. Interesting concept. i spent some time on the site and read that it started in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island, Georgia. He Invited some friends over to his house and soon this little movement became an organised group of active storytellers, conducting six ongoing programs and has brought more than 3,000 live stories to over 100,000 audience members. Some of you may have heard about it but i am just discovering this little gem.
The stories are compelling, some are funny and all of the story evenings are based on chosen themes for the nights presentation. I feature this story as it was moving and thought provoking. Anthony Griffith, a comedian tells his compelling story of the best of times and the worst of times. The story captures your attention as well as grips your heart, pulling at your emotional strings as he pours his heart out , telling his story about life's triumphs and life's challenges. Watch the video and I hope you are as moved as I was watching it.
A comic must earn his living as a clown while suffering the ultimate heartbreak.
Anthony Griffith lives in the mountains of California at 5,000 feet elevation in an animal protected community. It's much different from the inner city of Chicago where he used to live, but he still travels doing stand-up. He says that the overwhelming positive response of him telling his story at The Moth has prompted him to write my one man show and pen other short stories now in development.
Never has TheVoice generated so much interest in the Caribbean diaspora as the present season with Jamaican born and bred #Tessanne Chin showcasing her talents and by extension raising the hopes of every Caribbean talent. She is motivating a region beyond words cannot explain. She not only represents herself but every wanna be singer /performer hoping to get that one chance. The interest is heightened even more as there seems to be another clash of the titans , this time not on the tracks but in the vocal arena. Team Tessanne and Team USA is heading for a showdown.
Blake Shelton put the contest in perspective by this comments…..' You are a world Class Vocalist… I wish people would focus more on that than about you and where you come from..". Sadly America sees everything in a category . They can't help it . Its in their DNA. So lets move on. All the contestants are excellent vocalist. They all have immense talent and vocal ability and so they are entertaining but the one thing that will separate the winner from the losers is song choice.
The American people have shown the propensity to like Adam's 3 artiste. He is the only judge with all 3 of his protege in the lineup but Adam has this uncanny talent to mess things up by making wrong song selections and that could be to his detriment. Making sure the song fits TheVoice of the performer allowing him/her to soar is the mentor's responsibility and to a certain extent the performer's reality. Adam's age and experience, just like the other judges , have only taken the vocalists at this stage to the place they can take them. They need more. This is where the veterans and icons can help.
The show needs to bring in older established performers to work with each contestant and coach to take the contestants to another level and expand their vocal abilities. The judges are becoming redundant and repetitive in their comments. Producers/Directors loose the comments of these judges. Its corny and bland . Get them to perform with their candidates. The show is stagnant and without Tessanne Chin Caribbean connection it would have lost a lot of interest, certainly from the diaspora. The show is becoming a marathon where it should be a sprint to the finish. Over processed group singing, tacky arrangements, boring song selections and dull boring dance numbers all equal to a production on resuscitation and at the crossroads – either the production team is tired and want to go home or they are out of ideas. I would think its the latter. The producers and directors are the only ones that can save it. The creative room is dull. Change the room. Go outside. See color. Let some fresh air in. Think out of the box.
The Voice is not a singing contest, It's who has TheVoice that moves you, touches you and takes you to a place of unimaginable feeling of beauty inside. TheVoice therefore is the vocal Olympics..who can go higher, farther and stronger that they have ever imagined.
Arsenio is Back. Woof. Woof Woof. The fact that he is back on late night television is enough for people in my generation to get the coffee ready and stay up to see that good ole magic once again.
My first taste to late night talk show was the Arsenio Hall show. At the time, and I am talking the 90's here, Arsenio was the only African-American personality on TV that spoke the language, understood the culture and certainly had the soul of the demographics networks were trying to reach- the urban generation. His popularity created the unofficial "Pop TV Generation" soon to be known as the MTV generation, and soon the only place to be seen was the Arsenio Hall show. Arsenio then is what Oprah is now – THE SHOW of SHOWS. If you didn't hear or see it on Arsenio it did not exist. Many an artiste, Tupac, Vanilla Ice and Magic Johnson used that platform to set the record straight to the rumors affecting them at the time.
Arsenio started a lot of the trends that are happening today. The Woof Woof Woof sound from the audience started from his show from a section of his audience fondly called the "Dog Pound". His musical band's name was called 'The Posse", a term used in urban culture that pointed to your closets friends. Arsenio also made it cool for politicians to come on late night show to reach a particular audience and when Bill Clinton appeared on the show and played his saxophone, that musical note took him to the White House.
Arsenio's had his ear to the ground and he pushed the right envelopes and brought guests on his show that you would never expected. Coupled with the un-expected ones that just showed up, made the show a must watch . You never knew who you would miss. How can you forget Michael Jackson walking on the set with Eddie Murphy in the couch or Luther Vandross appearing on the last show and spontaneously singing. There were so much spontaneity it gave the show an authentic handle on the term " talk show", It was unscripted , un rehearsed and from the host point of view he too was floored by these unannounced appearances. That was the magic of Arsenio Hall show- It was preaching the gospel late at night to the young and even the older generation. It was like going to church.
19 years later Arsenio is back and up to his old antics. I hope he and the producers do not try to fit the show into the stereotypical talk show presently on the networks. These days the guests are vetted, the questions are certainly manicured and scripted, the audience is controlled to the point of being just by standers. Letterman, Leno and Obrien are nothing but sterilized hospital rooms.
Let Arsenio go. Let him be spontaneous because that's what he is. Let him bring the un known artiste to give them a stage to showcase their talent; let him have his 'dog pound'; let him have the cat calls; let him bring on the controversial guests; let him have his rant with homophobic audience members like he did with Queer Nation; Let Arsenio be Arsenio. I can assure you , when this happens late night talk show will not just be late night entertainment, it will assembling the church to come to the altar to worship.
Welcome back Arsenio- the church is waiting in the pew. And the church says…Amen.
As an entertainer and producer I am very aware that it takes a variety of ideas and creative thinking to produce anything. The first rule of thumb that any producer ask himself is .."who is my target audience"? When that question is answered then it makes it easier to produce your event.
The 2013 MTV awards is an annual event that is primarily a business generating, money-making event for MTV and its affiliates. The TARGET audience that makes up the MTV generation is the youth aged from 12-24 years. Remember that MTV is a cable and satellite television channel that broadcasts popular music and promotional music videos. It was launched in 1981. So one would ask why should they be concerned with anything that might be considered 'old' or out of their target audience current trends? Some will say their target audience is the youthful, try anything, do anything, wear my pants on my ass, tattoo covered ,a piercing body, colored hair, booty and cuchie showing generation . MTV is giving that audience the staple they have given them all year – filth. Whatever you feed the people little by little , they become. For those MTV generation who knows better, they might be appalled, like Will Smith kids reaction to the performances. But for others it is .."yea…This is THE BOMB"… sadly expressing their delight at the gourmet of pop culture gone south.
Every year MTV gives its audience , totaling millions worldwide, "Shock & Awe". It doesn't matter about the clever editing used, filth usually filters through. This year the show was held in Brooklyn. Why Not? It's the coolest place since Vegas. A whole NBA Team moved there! Nicely tucked between Brooklyn Bridge, the Barclay Center was the home for the filth that started from the so-called must have staple of awards show the Red Carpet! The only thing exciting about that "carpet" show was the shot above from the overhead blimp. That experience was just a lot of howling screaming kids and the shallowest 'personalities' that they could find to interview .
Lady Gaga opened the show. She has a new single so it's a done deal. In the usual Lady Gaga shock and awe style she delivered. From audible boos to the eventual hand clapping her reaction was at best luke warm. This audience was tough if they can't appreciate Gaga.
The next shock was the duo featuring the current "thief of rhythm" Robin Thicke and the media popular Mylie Cyrus. That performance made Janet Jackson's "NIPPLEGATE" looks like a sunday school performance. Everyone's talking about it. umm WHY? The hypocrisy is killing me. Everybody 'twerks' in the MTV generation. It's a standard acceptable "dance style " for the 'ladies' and Mylie is only doing what she knows the kids love to do. So don't blame Mylie. It's on MTV DAILY!
The filth continued. Drake looking like a child high on coke to the over exposed Kevin Hart . But the most humorous segment of the night was the producer's ode to 'equality' with the appearance of out and about athlete Jason Collins and the current & popular ASAP Rocky to deliver the message of inclusion to the audience. I must admit that was good comic relief in an otherwise boring show. On stage were 2 peas, not in the same pod, delivering a message that one pea LIVES and the other FORCED to 'promote' a topic that was clearly not good for his reputation and his die-hard fans, you know, the boys from Compton or South Chicago or Harlem. Those boys that will slap anyone who just glance over at them. Poor ASAP Rocky, didn't know what to say or how to say it, he just blurted out what comes to him naturally….
"A$AP Ferg's Trap Lord album is in stores right now!" said Rocky. "The next artist stands up for everybody being equal—color, homosexuality" he added, pointing to Collins…."
Mr. Producer…next time give the guy a script for christ sake. Don't leave him out to the wolves. Poor guy has to live with that reputation for life . SMH…the cost of money and promotion.
There were some saving graces however and from the audience reaction they too appreciated class Bruno Mars, probably the best performer of the night, Macklemore performing 'Same Love" and Jennifer Hudson joined Mary Lambert on the same song. There were flashes of brilliance but in the environment of filth it got lost from the stench of MTV's presentation of modern-day pop culture. The show ended thank God with Kate Perry performing the hit from the latest soundtrack from the new Rocky movie "Roar". At that point my stomach was the only thing roaring for food, food .
Pop culture is in trouble. Last night was a reflection of the social change in the society, albeit MTV being American pop culture. Sadly it filters through out the world and our kids believe that this is quality. As parents you can only do so much. Hopefully you will not loose them to the abyss of the MTV generation dark hole. But last night it was all about marketing, supply and demand and consumerism. Thankfully for me the remote was my little friend. I am saved. But the thought that your kids will grow up in a world where pop culture no longer craves the angels of music but rather the demons, vampires and the dead, it is enough to make you call up your subscriber and say …remove MTV from my subscription.
When you visit the Facebook page of the NDTC you will see this line which states what the company is all about : "The National Dance Theatre Company is a voluntary organization of dancers, singers, musicians, creative technicians and administrators." And so it is. 50 years ago professor Rex Nettleford , Eddie Thomas et al created what was at its time probably a forward thinking theater group. Dance then in Jamaica was seen as someone living with HIV now- sad but tolerated. For 50 years the company was the foremost dance theater in the country, becoming the cultural ambassadors of the country. It represented the epitome of ones dance career. To be selected to dance in the NDTC was a recognition that you have attained a certain quality and degree of performance to be included in this celebrated company.
And so the NDTC was celebrated with packed houses over the past 50 years. And so it should. not only was dance the foremost talent on stage but also the very best in singing, musical accompaniment , staging, lighting and yes box office So in theory the NDTC was living its statement of being a voluntary organization of dancers, singers,musicians, creative technicians and administrators all coming together to create this one whole – the Season of Dance.
The 50th season of dance is a celebration of its own accomplishment and perhaps its tribute to Jamaica 50. Everything else in the country is. The performance saw new works and a bit of the old classics my favorite being Sulkari. The new NDTC with its cadre of young performers did well, technically they made every choreographer happy for the night, no major flaws. They were not surgically sharp in all the performances, one can expect that and you also witnessed different performance levels of the dancers- some felt it while others were just going through the motion. Again you can expect that. Seeing the company 28 years later I drew from my last performance of dancers who were a bit more culturally mature, technically sounder and a more cohesive unit. You got a different feel from both generations only too evident in Gerrehbenta where the present dancers danced the piece while the older dancers performed the dance- 2 distinctly different perspective. Again you can expect that. The singers had few changes- a few of the recognizable faces were there in full force hallowing out their vocals with clarity and vigor. The singers were good to watch and a pleasure to hear. Again you can expect that.
What I did not expect 50 years onward is the technical difficulties for the music in a signature piece THE CROSSING. Faulty music, apparently from a scratchy CD made the performance null and void to end the first half of the performance. That I did not expect. 50 years and with all the technology in the world to help make performances like the NDTC flawless and we are still using whatever it is they were using. Inexcusable. But again you can expect that especially in a live performance. After all its theater and anything that can go wrong in theater usually does. But it is how you recover that makes a group like the NDTC a good company rather than a GREAT company.
Recovery was poor. An inaudible announcement followed by the quick turn on of house lights indicated to the audience that it was intermission. Yes there were the usual apologies but that was not enough. A GREAT company would have recovered from their problems and presented the piece immediately after the intermission , do a quick reshuffling of the programme and give the audience what they promised to deliver. It would have cost them nothing , maybe 30 minutes more.
The professor and his group has done a fantastic job over the last 50 years but as a cultural giant in the Jamaican society it should be in a better place than where it is now. No real website, very limited season and performances, still not a paying entity, no real or consistent merchandizing, not enough social interaction offering consistent classes for youths and not yet a significantly dominant cultural force in the Caribbean or to use a favorite word of the region the Caribbean Diaspora where other country's dance company can aspire to reach.
Is it money, is it the lack of time and diligence or is it the inane self indulged belief that because we are in the Caribbean we are limited by our resources. The legendary oratorical skill for which Nettleford was known, was often characterised in much the same terms as his dancing, namely a careful choreography of ideas which sought to captivate the imagination, as well as one's sensibilities. This has been the NDTc legacy for the last 50 years. Now for the next 50. What next? Are we still going to see dances that are rooted to the floor, performances affected by poor CD quality, lighting from the 8s and 90s , a website that is but a page and non interactive and no real imagined opportunity to drive revenue to support itself and its talented cast?
The NDTC is 50 but it is still a youth, full of energy but needs a business driven leadership team to take it to the next 50 years milestone. Like Jamaica the NDTC seems to be settled and happy where it is. It seems to be happy with taking baby steps to realize their dreams and will reach its milestone when it does. I think thats a mistake. The NDTC is now bigger than life. It is capable of making any decision that will become successful because of its ardent and religious following. It will do them well to lead its followers as the professor wanted the group to lead. Lead the Caribbean and the world. Become a symbol of excellent theatrical management catapulting the NDTC from being a good company to a GREAT company.
The little movie that could -Taken 2
If most of you had seen Taken last year you would probably wonder like me why this movie did not make it to the big screen. The movie was a hit. It made so much money and got so many good responses that the producers decided to do a sequel. The good news is the sequel is here .
Former CIA man Bryan Mills finds his family under threat once again from another posse of Albanian kidnappers… and this time, it's extremely personal.
Rade Serbedzija plays the father of one of the goons offed by Mills in the first Taken film, and it's he who orchestrates the attack on his family. This time, it's his wife (Famke Janssen) they snatch, and Mills is every bit as angry as he was last time.
Fortunately his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) manages to evade the kidnappers, but she still ends up in the firing line when Mills enlists her to help him save her mother.
The action is set in historic and beautiful Istanbul and judging from the trailer Taken 2 promises to be another smasher. The movie is scheduled to open in October in the UK and certainly in the US as well.


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STIRLING, Walter (1758-1832), of Shoreham Castle, nr, Sevenoaks, Kent.
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b. 24 June 1758, 1st s. of Sir Walter Stirling of Faskine, Lanark by Dorothy, da. of Charles Willing of Philadelphia. ?educ. Harrow 1770-1. m. 28 Apr. 1794, Susannah, da. and h. of George Trenchard Goodenough of Borwood, I.o.W., 1s. 4da. sus. fa. 1786; cr. Bt. 15 Dec. 1800.
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Capt. commdt. Somerset Place vols. 1798, maj. commdt. 1798; lt.-col. Prince of Wales's loyal Mdx. vols. 1803-8; vol. London and Westminster light horse 1803-7.
Sherrif, Kent 1804-5.
Dir. Globe Insurance Co. 1805.
Born at Philadelphia and 'brought up to commercial pursuits', Stirling never forgot that his father, a distinguished naval officer, had been offered a baronetcy following a royal reveiw at the Nore, where he was in command. In June 1791 he applied to Pitt for a baronetcy through Lord Dacre, expressing his willingness to bring his brother Charles, a naval officer, into Parliament. In 1795, when he signed the London merchants' declaration in favour of Pitt's government, he became a junior partner in the bank of Hodsoll and Michel in the Strand, which, from 1799, was styled Hodsoll and Stirling from 1824 until 1828 (when it ceased), Stirling, Stirling and Hodsoll. On 4 May 1796 the Duke of Gordon wrote of him to Henry Dundas:
he is a gentleman of independent fortune, much attached to the present government and whose sole ambition is to be created a baronet—he tells me that if he does not interfere with Lord Hugh Seymour, that he is to come into Parliament for Portsmouth, and as he seems pretty confident it will take place, the reason he urges his request at present is, that if he is not made a baronet till after the election he is afraid his voters would be apt to say he had sold them.1
Nothing came of this and Stirling did not come into Parliament until 1799 when he secured an opening at Gatton on the interest of John Petrie*. On 4 May, Reginald Pole Carew informed his brother Charles Morice Pole:2
I had the pleasure some days ago of introducing your friend Stirling into the House of Commons to his no small satisfaction ... This new situation has already procured him an honour which I was never bold enough to solicit, that of having Mr Pitt, Mr Dundas and the Speaker to dine with him in Queen Square ... The poor fellow was brought out of his gouty bed to sit at the bottom of his table to receive these illustrious visitors.
George Canning had this to report to his wife on 3 Dec. 1800:3
The fool with whom I dined yesterday gave us bad wine and a bad dinner. He is a Sir Walter Stirling, for whom I believe Dundas negotiated a seat in Parliament and whom Pitt has made a baronet just now, and who revenges himself for both by asking me to dinner.
Henry Brougham pointed out in the House on 7 May 1818 that Stirling had paid £3,000 for the title of lord of the honour of Otford in Kent.
Stirling made no mark in the House. In 1802 he unsuccessfully contested Seaford and proved a bad loser. Not until 1807 did he come in again, this time for St. Ives as the protégé of Sir Christopher Hawkins. He had to contest the seat every time. He supported government as before, rallying to them during the Scheldt divisions in January and March, as well as against radicalism, 16 Apr., and sinecure and parliamentary reform, 17, 21 May 1810. He was in their minority on the Regency, 1 Jan. 1811, and voted against the reversion of office abolition bill, 7 Feb. 1812. In a brief speech, 11 Mar. 1811, he washed his hands of the Shoreham road bill, which he had refused to sponsor. He voted against Catholic relief, 22 June 1812, 2 Mar., 11 and 24 May 1813, and again in 1816 and 1817. An East India Company stockholder, he was in the minority against Christian missions to India, 22 June 1813. Although he lent his voice only once to a government measure (the continuation of the property tax, 12 Mar. 1816), he could be counted on to muster for them on critical occasions between 1815 and 1820 when, despite preventive manoeuvres at St. Ives, he lost his seat. He died 25 Aug. 1832.


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The ultimate patriotic recipe roundup for the Fourth of July! Celebrate our nation with this list of red, white, and blue recipes from around the web. All healthy, delicious, and incredibly festive!
Green and red for Christmas. Orange and black for Halloween. Pastels for Easter. I just love when holidays have specific color themes! It makes it so much more fun to decorate and prepare food for.
The Fourth of July is no exception! Who doesn't love making beautiful red, white, and blue foods to celebrate our nation!? Plus it's one of the few major summer holidays, so it's the perfect opportunity to get creative with seasonal foods and make some really festive looking treats & eats!
Today, I've compiled the best of the best Red, White, and Blue recipes from your favorite food bloggers for the Fourth of July! It's the ultimate patriotic recipe roundup and it has every type of recipe you could need for your Fourth of July BBQ or party.
Beets & Berries Oatmeal Skillet Cookie
Spinach, Strawberry, & Hearts of Palm Salad | Kitch Me
Creamy Vegan Tomato Avocado Sauce
Strawberry Lemonade Fizz | Simply Happen Stance
Watermelon Caprese with Balsamic Glaze | Skinny Taste
Hot Buttered Cauliflower Puree | Food & Wine
Jasmine, Chicken, & Almond Stir Fry | Food & Wine
White Chocolate Peanut Butter Bites
Crab & Cauliflower Ravioli | Food & Wine
Overnight Blueberry French Toast | Kitch Me
Vegan Blueberry Overnight Oatmeal Parfait
Coconut and Blueberry Pudding Trifles | The Full Helping
Lavender Blackberry Spritzer | Real You Nutrition
Blueberry Cobbler Cookie Dough Bites
Super Acai Berry Bowls | Sharon Palmer
Fresh Frozen Blueberry Lime Margarita | Beautiful Eats & Things
Red, White, & Blue
Red, White, and Blue Vegan Watermelon Cake | Abbey's Kitchen
Red, White, & Blue Smoothie | Earthly Eats
Patriotic Salad with Quinoa & Berries | Mummy Yummy Kitchen
Red, White, & Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles | The View from Great Island
Garbanzo Berry Cupcakes | Eat Real Live Well
Berry & Cashew Cream Dessert Pizza | Triad to Wellness
Grilled Blackberry, Strawberry, Basil, and Brie Crostini Crisps | Half Baked Harvest
Summer Berry Crostini | Ambitious Kitchen
Red, White, & Blue Fruit and Yogurt Dip Platter | Homemade Nutrition
Vegan Cheesecake Dessert Nachos | Abbey's Kitchen
Red, White, & Blueberry Smoothie | Lunchbox Bunch
Stars & Stripes Cheesecake Shooters | Hostess with the Mostess
Red, White, and Blue Watermelon Salad | Will Cook for Friends
Frozen Banana Berry Cake | Hungry Couple NYC
Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries | Dessert Now Dinner Later
Fourth of July Toast | Taste & Tell
Patriotic Strawberry Shortcakes | Baker's Royale
Blueberry Strawberry Jicama Salad | Two Peas & Their Pod
Red, White, & Blue Frozen Yogurt Bark | Honey & Birch
How will you be celebrating the Fourth?
What's your favorite red, white, or blue food?
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6 responses to "The ULTIMATE Red, White, and Blue Recipe Roundup for the Fourth of July"
Can't go wrong with berries! Thanks for sharing at the What's for Dinner party – have a great rest of the week.
Hey Kaila. I love you friend, and I'm concerned about you. Praying for you! This is a beautiful round-up.
This is really outstanding. Everything looks amazing and healthy. Happy fourth of July everyone.


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