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Communicator, cooker, drinker, poet. Grew up in a mining town, wore a hard hat.

Monday, September 24, 2007

when my friend asked how i was feeling, after having taken a few days off of drinking beer, i solemnly answered

Friday, September 14, 2007

because i'm in the mood...

i do not purport to stand unaccompanied, my finger on the pulse of an otherwise un- or ill-defined generation. i do not pretend that my language is my own. i have no knowledge but experience and that tenuously borrowed from twenty-one years, only seventeen of which were spent sober. i have a proposition. i propose that the great fears of centuries past (death, war, poverty, disease) have failed to properly impress themselves upon those i would call my countrymen, were it not for breasts, progress and urban sprawl. i settle for peers. drowning in comfort, marching to the impossible beat of technology, we resign ourselves to fears much more pedestrian: mediocrity, addiction, divorce, retirement. and how to blame us? having been born into the unmitigated generosity of a previous generation...and video games, unapologetic spawns of the devil, relieving children everywhere (albeit predominantly north-american) of any latent life-defining phobia they might still possess. the unlucky few who've avoided twenty-first century bliss have, in the past, been dealt with with by many consumables, most recently celebrex. and my thesis, you ask? i have none. this is but another self-concerned rant by another spoiled brat in a generation of would-be poets without proper pain or focus.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

wednesday night jazz

The sounds of jazz are loud here,
Like the clanging of pots and pans
While father is playing the piano
And mother is a younger, darker haired
Version of herself, singing smoothly
About I can’t give you anything but love.
The living room walls are red and the
Trumpets sound now with a familiar tune
Sleeping children could recognize.

Smoking is the requisite for all of these
Things, contemplating the changing
Of seasons, how the ivy near the window
Has been complaining lately, of snow.
How my skin seems more creased when
I look in the mirror, my teeth bearing their
Age like a crest. The changing of seasons
Is such a wretched time, beautiful and full
Of agony all at once. Smooth voices soothe.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

i would like to begin by stating that my general opinion on women is that they are by far the more intelligent, interesting and well-adjusted half (51%) of the species. i would like to continue by saying that, that being said, sometimes i just have ask myself "what the fuck?"

i work in an office at yonge and wellington and drink a lot of coffee. this finds me making frequent trips to the WC. and every single time i bust open the swinging washroom door i hope to find the place empty. i think it's fair to say, that save for the occaisional fetishist, no one likes company in the b-room. but because there are 40 women in my office and three stalls, there is invetiably another human being going about their business while i attempt to go (at mine).

i call them stallers. these women who sit in stalls, silent, waiting for me to make my exit so that they can go (about their business) alone. the thing i find exceptionally curious, is how long they'll wait in silence and how many of them there are! i figure that the point of the exercise (stalling) is to avoid having to share with any other member of the office the fact that you're taking a shit. and the details of that shit which, i presume, if you're bothering to stall, aren't particularly savoury.

word to the stallers: shoes are your identifying feature. based on your shoes, i can deduce your height, age and fashion inclinations. and because there are only 40 of you, you'repretty easy to peg once back in the corporate space, where i can connect your shoes to your face. what's worse, being identified as a staller, or admitting that you have to take shits?

advice to the stallers: courtesy flush! while you're still sitting (and i know this is getting detailed, but i feel it's important) about to embark on the dark mission, flush the toilet and go with it. we won't hear you (this works best in business bathrooms with industrial flushing mechanisms), it'll smell significantly less and even if we sort of hear and it sort of smells, you're allowed to take shits! it's okay. we all do it. we all need to do it. and for those of you who aren't having regular post-meal bowel movements, you've got bigger things to worry about than judging those who do.

stallers disband! shit freely my women friends!

Monday, September 10, 2007

monday night riot

The hungry hands of my heart
Have tightened their grip and
Are rattling my ribs like prison
Bars, their voices echoing through
Veins and dark cavities like an alarm
That reminds on this clear day
you are only human.

Oh these human parts! This army
Of human parts which I govern like a tyrant
Rely on me, trusting that I will sleep,
To dream, to wake, to feed, to love again.

Oh these human parts! These eyes
Which have seen years fly by in a flurry
Of colour and space, these hands
Which have felt the sticky backs of lovers
And the smooth, sharp edges of razor
Blades. This heart which has thumped
Softly in the depths of an urban evening,
And pounded with anger in the torrid heat
Of adolescence. Oh these human parts!

Friday, September 07, 2007

alanis morissette on love

it's tortured, ugly, pretty and involves much whining. i don't like the way that my itunes seeks out every audio file on my computer and compiles them into some giant playlist that, when shuffled, finds me drinking wine to the sound of my own voice recording voicemail messages in mp3 format for various support lines in the office. i don't like the way that beer caps inevitably end up in my purse and pant pockets. i don't like way my beer is hot before i finish it in every month except november, december, january and february. i don't like the way i can't tan and do burn, in the months where my beer is hot before i finish it. i don't like the sound that the keyboard makes on my new hp. i don't like that my life is regulated by business hours.

i especially hate the fact that if i knew anything about the kind of love this canadian girl is whining about, i wouldn't give a shit about any of things i don't like. i figure that's the way it works, anyway. don't correct me if i'm wrong, it's the light at the end of the tunnel i don't like.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

the new digs are hot

that's all.

Saturday, September 01, 2007

new house

moving's a bitch. that's all.


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More Than Music at KCSU

By KCSU | March 21, 2018

By: Chiara Garland

KCSU is known for its delivery of new music and support for local artists. This college radio station also ensures to support students in sports broadcasting.

The KCSU Sports Department is a ever-growing part of Rocky Mountain Student Media. The men behind the programming, Nick Baker and Bryan Buck, will enter their fourth semester as sports directors this fall.

Together, Baker and Buck host four sports shows, covering all of CSU’s major storylines, and other college and professional sports. They have interviewed notable guests from the community and the NFL. The pair call CSU Volleyball, Baseball, and host a pregame show during the Football Season.

Sports have always been in Baker’s life, “Now that I’ve had too many concussions to keep playing them, covering them is what keeps me close to the competitions I’ve loved my whole life.” Buck owes his positive experience at a University of Washington football game for his love of the sport,“I remembered how excited I was on that cold, miserable, definition of a Seattle autumn day, and all the other people who were just as excited.” He had never considered his future in sports broadcasting, and is thankful to be doing what he loves in a job that takes a lot of passion.

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Foods With Less CholesterolIf you have read anything about health-related epidemics in America, you know that cholesterol is responsible for a lot of health problems. As such, it is important to stay vigilant about your cholesterol levels. There are particular foods that you can eat that are low in cholesterol and will help you maintain healthy cholesterol levels.

1. Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Fish has healthy fats that are good for your heart, due to the large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids in the fish. These work well in decreasing your risk of blood clots and bringing your blood pressure down. It is recommended that for the maximum benefits, you eat a minimum of two servings of fish every week. Fish is generally also low in cholesterol, and all of the benefits associated with it will help keep your cholesterol levels healthy.

2. Oatmeal, Bran, and Other Foods That Are High in Fiber

There is soluble fiber in oatmeal. Soluble fiber helps to bring down your LDL cholesterol (low density lipoprotein cholesterol, otherwise known as the “bad” cholesterol) levels. Additionally, oatmeal and bran are very low in cholesterol themselves.

3. Nuts, Such as Almonds and Walnuts

Nuts have lots of calories, but they are very good in terms of health benefits. They can decrease blood cholesterol levels, as long as you limit them to about a handful at a time. They are also rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, meaning that they are good for maintaining the health of blood vessels. As long as you make sure that the nuts are not coated with salt or sugar, they can be extremely healthy. In fact, it would be a good idea to replace a lot of the foods in your diet that have high amounts of saturated fat with different types of nuts.

4. Foods That Contain Added Plant Stanols or Sterols

There are now foods that have been fortified with stanols or sterols. These are chemical compounds that have been found in plants, which in humans, aid in blocking cholesterol absorption. Some examples are yogurt drinks, orange juice, and different types of margarine that have these additional plant sterols. These foods can help decrease LDL levels by over 10%. They do not seem to have an effect on HDL (high density lipoprotein cholesterol, otherwise known as the “good” cholesterol) levels.

5. Olive Oil

The mixture of ingredients that make up olive oil contains antioxidants that can decrease your LDL levels while having no effect on your HDL levels. It would be beneficial to replace other fats that you normally consume with 2 tablespoons of olive oil per day. However, remember that it is an oil and has a large number of calories, so do not consume too much of it.

Overall, it is a good idea to minimize your intake of anything that contain saturated and trans fats if you are trying to lower your cholesterol level. The above foods are just a few of the foods with less cholesterol you can try.


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About Burning Bright

Burning Bright
by Donny Albro

September 2014

I began writing Burning Bright the Saturday that I heard of Sam’s death. I sat down at my piano and played the three note marimba melody heard at the beginning of the piece. I was drawn to this dark melody and built the other somewhat discordant melodies around this. These melodies are played by the crotales, bells, vibraphone, and chimes. After this initial section was done, I stopped working on the piece for a while. I always wanted the piece to move away from this dark beginning to something more celebratory but didn’t know how to do that.

I started thinking about church bells and the tradition referred to as change ringing. Traditionally, church bells are rung in patterns, with one person pulling a rope for each bell. I listened to some of the patterns used for celebratory church events and used them in the second half of the piece. I also included two triangles and two tambourines, which I always thought of as the two cheeriest percussion instruments. I included the challenging snare drum part to honor Sam’s skill and love of the instrument. My hope is that all of these elements mixed together give the conclusion of the piece a brightness and joy worthy of Sam Berns.

Notes for performers:

  • The piece works well from about 90 -100 beats per minute. Any slower and it doesn’t groove very well.
  • In the tradition of change ringing the chimes are meant to be split up between the players and spread through the ensemble. This will give the desired antiphonal effect.
  • The snare drum and bass drum are central to the work and should be placed in the center and slightly in front of the ensemble.
  • The dynamics may need slight adjustment based on the instruments you use but when balanced properly all the parts should be audible. The only exception to this is the first triangle entrance, which is supposed to be covered and then gradually emerge from the sound of the chimes.
  • The bass drum my need slight muffling once the rhythms begin.
  • If you prefer, a deeper snare or tenor drum can be used at the beginning for a darker sound. The whole end of the piece should be played on a fairly shallow crisp sounding drum.

Listen to a performance of Burning Bright by clicking this link: Burning Bright Performance (.wav)

Band Directors: you may download the full score and sheet music for Burning Bright for free here:
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  English name(s): Durian, Civet fruit tree
  Description: Tree to 20-36 m tall, the trunk straight, to 1.8 m GBH and over, the bark grey, smooth, the crown rather small, rounded-elongated. Leaves with the petiole 1.2-2.5 cm long, the upper half pulvinate, often somewhat curved to caudate; blade 8.5-20 cm long and 2.5-5.5 cm wide, narrowly elliptic, infrequently narrowly elliptic-subobovate, rounded at the base, from gradually to rather abruptly long-acuminate at the apex, with the acumen to 2 cm long and obtuse to more or less acute, subcoriaceous, the margins somewhat undulated, the upper surface deep green and somewhat shining, the lower surface olivaceous-lepidote, the scales finely fimbrillate, the costa prominent beneath, the venation otherwise nearly inconspicuous. Flowers with the pedicels thick and 1.5-1.8 cm long; epicalyx short-tubular, 1-1.2 cm long, densely tawny-lepidote without, cinereous-stellate- puberulous within; calyx oblong-tubular, 2.5-3 cm long and 6-9 mm in diam., scarcely swollen and rounded at the base, the apex 5-dentate with the teeth to 2 mm long, densely covered with finely fimbrillate tawny scales to 2 mm in diam. without, the lower 2/3 very densely whitish-lepidote and the upper 1/3 brownish, glabrous and shining within; staminal tube white at the base and at the apex, reddish in the middle, longer than the calyx, to 3.5 cm long, the upper part finely and minutely stellate-arachnoid, the apex 5-dentate-lobulate, the lobes c. 2-3 mm long, with 7-9 stamens along their margins; stamens with the filaments to 1 mm long, the connectives c. 1-1.2 mm in diam., the thecae c. 0.4 mm in diam., the stalks c. 0.2-0.6 mm long; ovary densely white-lepidote, the cells 2-ovulate; style long-exserted, to 4 cm long, white-arachnoid, the hairs short and fine, the stigma orange, to 2.3 mm in diam. Capsule globular, to 10 cm in diam.(spines included), completely dehiscent on the tree, the spines conical, 6-15 mm long, covered with brownish scales, the pericarp(without spines) c.12 mm thick, snow-white inside; seeds 1-5, chestnut-like, to 3.8 cm long and 2.3 cm thick, completely surrounded with an orange brown aril, the latter laciniate at the apex, the testa brown and shining.
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  Habitat: Occasionally grown for the edible fruits
  Distribution: Cultivated in India, Native of Malay Peninsula; introduced elsewhere
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  Saprophyte: No
  Stem parasite: No
  Root parasite: No
  Flower colour(s): Creamy
  Weed: No
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Fun Stuff

Welcome to the KidsEatPlants playroom! It’s time to party!!! Here you will find links to music, games, puzzles, poems and stories. There are some great books and resources out there these days for plant-based kids. Enjoy 🙂

Herb the Vegetarian Dragon

If you haven’t met Herb yet, and his delicious veggie slurp (okay it does have butter in it, but I’m sure we can think of an easy alternative…), you really should! Here he is…

Herb on YouTube

Chocolate Spiders

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Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

I ran into an old post by Philipp Lenssen on how good programmers are lazy and dumb.
I totally agree with the title and most of the content. However, I believe that the lazy and dumb engineers are the better ones for a different reason:

Because code is liability, and by writing a lot of code, you are taking upon yourself (or your team) liability to test, maintain, document and improve it.
A lazy developer will first look for an existing solution that already has all the above and which is qualified to solve the aimed problem.

Because a dumb developer writes code that is simple enough, for dumb engineers, just as he is, to be able to understand and work with.
“Smart” engineers tend to write sophisticated programs that nobody but them or the like of them can understand. I guess it makes them feel smart.
Dumb engineers look for simple, encapsulated, loosely coupled solutions that anybody can understand.

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  1. Mike

    Uzi, I totally agree with the Lazy component. As for the dumb, however, I think there needs to be some baseline intelligence such that the ‘dumb’ engineer even understands how to build a loosely coupled solution! A smart engineer should strive to write code that looks dumb/simple. I sure love finding bits of code where the developer found simple ways of avoiding defensive programming; this requires the intelligence to recognize when something is overly complicated or nonsensical.

    All in all, Lazy + Dumb is a good thing. Reusing other code is a big win as well and I wish more people would be open to recycling… But I fear there will always be those who say, “I know to know what’s going on by writing it myself.”

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    I totally agree with encapsulation and loose coupling as design principles.

    But I do have to say that as far as coding goes… dumb solutions only get you so far. Ultimately, you end up with complex scalability problems that only smart and/or wise people can solve.

    I agree that when left entirely to their own devices, smart people will tend to write code that only they (and other smart people) can understand. Not in any malicious way. They love doing what they do. They love creating the best possible solutions and they will use whatever technologies they can to do that. It’s an aesthetic and moral imperative to them… or maybe they’re just bored.

    You need both kinds. Keep in mind that the smart ones love to share their knowledge and spread it around. If you encourage this, your “dumb” engineers could find themselves well down the track of wisdom.

    1. Uzi Kilon Post author

      I agree with everything you say.

      Some time “smart” people like to take a simple task, make it complex, and then solve a hard problem.
      I can’t count the time into so many over-complicated programs which could be easily written in a simple way.

      I guess, by saying “dumb”, I was mostly referring to “not trying to be smart”.

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Painting - Open to All Media

12.09.2018 - 09:00
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Prof. Felix Gmelin

This is a Painting Class open to all Media on Storytelling and your Affections

This is a painting class that takes you out of your regular practice and aims to be relevant also for you who don't actually don't paint. It is based on individual research, short lectures, quick practical experiments and mutual discussions about what painting could be and mean for us today, affected by documentation, journalism, feminist and post-colonial studies. It is about how to make your production of images a relevant tool and language for communicating your personal affections and desires.
This is a painting class that examines how storytelling and identity politics can move painting into new directions.
Identity politics and storytelling develop interesting narratives within painting today.
Artists such as Anna Boghiguian, Lubaina Himid, Tala Madani and Kerry James Marshall do fascinating works by telling stories forgotten or hidden and neglected by the major discourse. At the Art Academy in Vienna professor Ashley Hans Scheirl today offers classes in “Contextual Painting” promoting: "trans" topics and practices such as Queerness, Trans-Media, Trans-Genre, and Transgender. Feminism of course is the root to all these movements in painting today.
This is a painting class about storytelling – about how to articulate your dreams, memories, fairytales, discourses and subjective experiences. It aims to develop your stories and articulations, taking into consideration how they relate to the medium and language you choose. We all will share our expertise togeter, and will discuss how form follows function together.
Stories are powerful: they create nations, institutions, religions, dissidents, fear and rebellion, but also build and break families. Media society makes information move fast, but only very few of us really develop stories of our own. We together, I hope, will help you to develop your stories, and discuss how one story always overlies another. I will be curious to learn how you deal with your stories...

Welcome, Felix

This is a painting class which will begin in examining historical examples of narratives within painting. Subsequently, in a playful workshop consisting of quick tasks, we will develop individual projects with simple means. The aim is to find ways to develop and articulate your own projects, in individual and group tutorials. A final group presentation will serve to evaluate your work, and encourage its future development.

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And there may be something to their revulsion. According to a new study published in the Archives of Oral Biology dog owners have high rates of a type of dangerous mouth bacteria.

Japanese researchers analyzed the plaque of dog owners and dogs. They found that a higher-than-normal 16 to 30 percent of dog owners have periodontopathic bacteria, germs which make you susceptible to diseases of the teeth and mouth.

But it isn't just humans who suffer when Fido plants a wet, sloppy kiss. Seventy percent of dogs have periodontopathic bacteria, and the researchers suspect that dogs can catch the germs from humans just as easily as humans can catch them from dogs.

So the bottom line is, you should show your furry friend your love by giving him a nice hard scratch behind the ear. Both your mouths will thank you.


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David Bowie’s widow Iman discussed the frustrations of living with his legacy, nearly three years after his death, saying that fans who wanted too much proximity and businesses that wanted to profit continued to make things difficult for his family.

“People take pictures of me in the street, and say [while touching her arm], ‘I am so sorry for your loss,’” Iman told Net-A-Porter in a new interview. “I’m like, ‘Don’t touch me. You just took pictures of me, how can you be sorry?’ I get the fans’ grief, but it’s not the same. They have lost someone they look up to; we have lost a husband and a father.”

She added that sometimes she doesn't "want people to know how sad I am. People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re so strong.’ I’m not strong – I am just trying to keep it together.”

The former model, who was married to Bowie for 24 years, insisted she’d never remarry. “I mentioned my husband the other day with someone, and they said to me, ‘You mean your late husband?’" she said. "I said, no, he is always going to be my husband. I do feel very lonely. But do I want a relationship? I can’t say never, but no, not now.”

The effect of Bowie’s fame recently landed on their daughter Lexi, after Iman shared some pictures of her online to mark her 18th birthday. “And every agency, every designer, called me to say, ‘If she wants to, we’d love for her to model for us,’” she recalled. “I said, ‘No, she doesn’t.' … I know why they wanted to her to model – it’s because she is David Bowie’s daughter.”

She added that she’d advised Lexi that “this can all wait, it isn’t going anywhere. Have a life that is private while you can, because one day soon it is going to be public, so enjoy this.”


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Counselling & Psychotherapy in Central London

Self-harm and the body

Self-harm is an act with a broad definition which often includes suicide attempts, eating disorders and risk-taking behaviour. Within the area of self-harm, I will today focus more specifically on non-suicidal self-injury, this refers to any acts of injuring the… Continue reading →

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Most of us make the decision to go for therapy when there is something in our lives we want to address, whether that is a recent experience or a more long-standing difficulty. However, finding a therapist can be a daunting… Continue reading →

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TBT: Louder feat. Vision [Double Exposure Remix]

It’s throwback thursday!  A week ago I experimented with double exposures and I tried it out on some old footage. Here I got to mix it up with some clips from a music video back in 2011 and from new year’s eve/day in Australia on 1/1/11. That footage shot on the first DSLR (canon t2i) that I got just a month or so before the trip. Great memories.

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KSOW-lp Accepting Banner art for KSOW-lp web page!

KSOW-lp is accepting artwork for the header on the website pages. Images will be selected for artistic qualities and relevance to the goals of the radio project. Image post is for a term and images my be segued with other images to provide greater outreach to submitted art.

Photographs, local photo images, there are many options. Video might be a bit much, but the day is not far off!

Please keep help us make this website a vital part of life in Cottage Grove.

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Dutchland Plastics Expands in Central NY

January 26, 2018

By Stephanie West

Albany, NY – The country’s leading contract plastics rotomolded product manufacturer Dutchland Plastics will expand its operations into a new 50,000 square-foot facility in the Village of Canastota in Madison County from its current location in Oneida County. The expansion will facilitate the creation of at least 42 new full-time jobs over the next two years in addition to the 23 positions which will be retained. Construction on the new facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.

“The expansion of Dutchland Plastics is a testament our forward-thinking economic strategy that is transforming the regional economy,” Governor Cuomo said. “By incentivizing growth, successful companies are choosing to expand their operations, strengthening the economy, creating good-paying jobs and ensuring that Central New York continues to rise.”

In order to encourage Dutchland Plastics to expand in Central New York, Empire State Development has offered up to $475,000 in performance-based tax credits through its Excelsior Jobs Program, which are tied to job creation commitments. Additionally, ESD has reallocated a $1,685,000 Restore NY grant to the Village of Canastota that will assist with construction of the new facility. The company will invest $2.6 million for capital equipment and to customize the new facility, which will sit along the storied Erie Canal.

Dutchland Plastics, which is headquartered in Eastern Wisconsin, has been manufacturing high quality plastics products for nearly half a century. As a custom plastics products manufacturer, the company services recreational, commercial, outdoor, food and beverage, furniture and marine industries. The company manufactures cutting-edge products like Yeti coolers, NuCanoe boats, and KI chairs, among others and is the third largest contract rotational molder in the United States.

“We are very excited about this expansion,” said Dutchland CEO Randy Herman.  “This is a tremendous opportunity and I want to thank Governor Cuomo, Madison County Industrial Development Agency Executive Director Kipp Hicks, and especially Canastota Mayor Carla DeShaw, who will be assigning resources to help the Company recruit and train requisite new hires from the local community.”

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New Year's Eve Afternoon

I wrote this poem on the afternoon of 12/31/2011 standing in my recently reseeded back yard in East Quogue

Looking at the just replanted
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I pleased myself
With the thought
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Now is the weeds

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A Journey Yet to Come

No matter how bad
The cell phone reception
In a particular part of town
You always want to stay
Connected to the clear blue sky
In an unmediated way
And if there ever should come
A moment where it appears
Things are going rapidly
The other way
A late afternoon squall
Blitzkriegs in from the south
Much better if you're not caught
Too far off shore when it hits
Or you just might end up
Blown far off course
Much further than you
Can even imagine possible

Saturday, December 24, 2011

On the Afternoon Before Christmas

I wrote this poem 6 months ago or so and came across it today by chance. It strikes a chord with my mood this afternoon so I have decided to post it to the blog in lieu of words more contemporaneous. It was the afternoon before Christmas and I was home by myself, the dogs were both snoring, one on a chair and the other on the couch.

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That it’s worth doing well

Doesn’t mean it’s worth doing

If no one else will ever know

Or care or tell

Unless you feel compelled

The way a swan plays the trumpet

As if it’s a necessary part of what

Or who you are and what

You have to keep doing

To stay alive

That’s what poetry

Has to become

Your daily meditation

And prayer

You don’t need a license

But it does take

Constant practice

So you can close your eyes

And pluck the truth directly

Out of thin air

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

To Dream Perchance to Write

This is a poem I wrote in my sleep on 12/19/2011, the night before I got fired from my job. I've tried not to change too much from what I first wrote down after waking up. One thing a little odd about the composition of this poem is that I woke up, wrote a line, went back to sleep, woke up and wrote another line, and so on four separate times. So if the poem reads a bit disjointedly, you now know the reason why

With or without
Careful adherence
To everyday

By some method
Both proper and good
And by reality

Whichever way you like
Or back and forth
If you can't decide
Already drenched in sweat
But trying harder even yet

Head over heels
Down the pathway
We tumble
Making progress
At minimal expense
A thing in itself
Neither good nor bad
While prone to something
Completely different besides

Saturday, December 10, 2011

About Animal Co-Dependency

Almost everything
I needed to know
About my own addiction
I learned from Guston
The one eyed cat

Who developed
A pretty bad
Drug habit himself
Just from sitting
On my lap

You see
That’s how he became
Hooked on weed
And seemed to lose interest
In most other stuff

Whenever he saw me
Pull out my pipe
For a puff
He’d take a running leap
And soon enough

From the glassy look
In his one good eye
I knew it was time for me
To think about
Straightening up

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Gan Yu - II

A Poem About Meaning

I don’t speak as
One officially trained
Or accredited by a school
Of higher learning
I have labored
With help here and there
From a few intensely wise friends
Followed by much
Dogged self-study

Poured over the dictionary
In point of fact
That proving
A most helpful way to learn
Through long steady gaze
At its handsomely bound pages
Only then did the patterns within
Begin to emerge

How meanings leap about
Whether by sound or sign
Or by means compounded
The mind thrives by
Such diversity
At each point
In the path
We notice
A potential

Or as opposites
Meanings continuously
Attract one another
From shelter to
It takes nary but
A slightly different
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Many home improvement companies have been slow to make any change in suppliers as the industry has slowed during the recent recession. Afraid to rock the boat, retailers side and windows have chosen to weather the storm by trying to cut costs rather than investigate new solutions. The market has been evolving though, mainly due to quantum leaps in technology, composite door manufacturing as a prime example.

Composite doors are recognised as being superior to plain UPVC doors and improvements in the manufacturing process have meant that composite doors are now priced around the same as UPVC doors. I won’t go into much detail as to why composite doors are becoming favored choice of UK consumers, there are plenty of articles on that subject, some even written by yours truly. Suffice declare that when faced by using a choice of a new family saloon or a meaningful Rolls Royce for towards same price, the choice, for many, is beckoning!
Anyway, I’m well known locally for my marketing experience, in particular assisting new business start-ups . i was delighted to answer the call for a home improvement company in Devon that has for quite a few years been retailing UPVC windows and doors. They were interested in selling composite doors being the demand for them amongst local residents was growing quickly.
The principal cause this was males that the pros in the home improvement industry, the market leaders in fact, had began selling composite doors recently and had positioned these products in the top of their price range, reflecting the superiority of composite over UPVC doors.

The first problem was the associated with switching the main focus of door retailing to a composite doors range and away from UPVC, which is what all of level of competition were offering. Getting into the fast growing composite doors market seemed a good move but you won’t of outfitting a showroom was beyond reach. So the first thing we did would have been to get onto Google, find out who the players were in composite door manufacturing and supply and then put both of them to the analyze.

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My experience from Fronteers, JSConf EU, Frontend and FromTheFront

This month has been very busy conference-wise. I had 4 conferences in a row, so I was flying from country to country and giving talks for 2 weeks. As I usually do after conferences, this post sums up my experiences and feedback I got from these conferences, in chronological order.

This was a rather low-budget Italian conference that took place in Cesena, a city near Bologna. Despite the extremely low ticket price, they managed to pull off a very decent one day conference, which is very admirable. Italian food is so good that I’d recommend visiting this country even if it’s just for the food! They were very nice hosts, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.

My talk was right after Jeremy Keith‘s, who is a very well-known and experienced speaker that knows how to make audiences delirious (in a good way), so I was naturally a bit nervous about the unavoidable comparison. Despite my fears, my talk was very well received. Here’s a sample of the twitter feedback I got:

@ is presenting js methods I did not even know existed during her css3 talk!!

#ftf11 this is a real css/js hardcore talk. Fascinating @
Claudio Cicali

#ftf11 when you watch a @ presentation there is always something you didn't know
Andrea Panisson

#ftf11 I hugged @ at the end of her presentation at @ 🙂 Loved her
Andrea Verlicchi

A whole hour of CSS3 to the tenth by @ at #ftf11
Andrea Giannangelo

@ "what can we do in this case?" Nice presentation of css problem solving #ftf11
Matteo Collina

Next stop was Berlin and JSConf’s European sister conference. This was one of the most well organized conferences I’ve been to: The food, the coffee, the afterparties, the wifi, the projectors, everything was top notch. Also, it had a get-together the day after the conference (called “hangover.js”) which I think is great and more conferences should start adopting this tradition. It eases the pain of the conference being over and you get to say goodbye to a few folks you weren’t able to catch at the afterparty. It also featured many cool ideas, like a gal drawing live visualizations of the talks (Here’s mine) and a singer to open the conference in the first day singing a song to …Brendan Eich (!). I made new friends, had lots of fun and everything was awesome.

I was a bit more nervous about my talk for two reasons: Firstly, it was my first JavaScript talk, and secondly, it had no live demos like my CSS talks, which is a big part of why people like them. It went much better than I expected, and I got very good feedback and even though I went hugely overtime (I had 30 minutes and did 55!) nobody complained. Thankfully, it was right before lunch so I didn’t eat up another speaker’s time (which is part of the reason I love the pre-lunch spot so much).  I didn’t get the super-enthusiastic feedback I get from my CSS talks, but it was good enough to not be disappointed. Here’s a sample:

Now the lovely @ is rocking the polyfills on stage at #jsconfeu - good talk, I worked through the slides with her earlier 🙂
Christian Heilmann

wise JS code+hints on CSS and DOM features detections by @ #jsconfeu
Andrea Giammarchi

Awww @ is sooo cute when saying "in other browsers, CSS polyfills are a pain in the ass!". Nice talk btw! #jsconfeu
Amos Wenger

@ dropping knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb about how to build polyfills. Awesome Talk! #jsconf
Malte Ubl

Don't do CSS polyfills! Says @. She is soooo right! #jsconfeu Excellent talk, really more technical then thought it would be!
Sebastian Werner

Overwhelming talk by @ on #polyfills great detail hope to see it published! srsly this girl rocks
Claudio Procida

some great work by @ at #jsconfeu. "Impossible to detect"? Sounds like a fun game! 🙂
Ben Green

@ Really long and really informative. Dope styling + rich content. Congrats 🙂
Amos Wenger

You can find my slides on Speakerdeck , Slideshare or the HTML version on my website.

I was looking forward to Fronteers the most, since it’s my favorite conference. It might not be the one with the most money or the biggest, but it has a special place in my heart for a number of different reasons (not all of which I can write in a public blog post). It was the first international conference I ever attended (in 2010) and I’ve met there so many people I used to only know (and admire) as a name & avatar before. It’s the conference I’ve had the most fun at, in both years I’ve been there. Everyone, the volunteers, the attendees, the speakers, everyone is awesome. There is something magic about this conference, as most of its speakers and attendees think about it in the same way (Christian Heilmann for example calls it “his special conference” and he goes to A LOT of conferences). It doesn’t just feel like a professional conference, it feels like a big, loving, open, web development family that gets together once a year to celebrate the advances in our field.

But this time, I wasn’t just an attendee. I wasn’t a regular speaker either. I was also hosting a workshop, my first full day workshop. I was super stressed about that, and in retrospect, it was the most exhausting thing I have ever done. Some other speakers told me it felt so exhausting because it was my first, I really hope they’re right. Luckily, attendees loved it, and they didn’t seem to notice my progressively getting tired after the 4th hour. Here’s some of the feedback I got:

Cool way of testing your CSS3 skills. Interesting workshop so far @ #fronteers11
Jurgen Vansteelant

Need coffee to keep up with @! Very nice and interactive workshop so far, though. #fronteers11

Lea Verou really does it right. Her css3 workshop is pretty awesome! @ #fronteers11
Jessica Lazarus

Agree 🙂 RT @: Lea Verou really does it right. Her css3 workshop is pretty awesome! @ #fronteers11
Tamara Forza

The CSS3 workshop by @ is pretty well executed. Learning loads of new stuff!
Ron Derksen

My talk was the next day, and even though I was afraid it would be bad due to being tired from the workshop and the pre-party, I think it was my best talk ever. I was much more relaxed, and I got the most enthusiastic feedback I ever have. My hand literally got tired favoriting tweets, and I’m pretty sure I missed some. Here’s a small sample:

If you thought you can just miss the CSS talk by @ at #fronteers11, you're doing a big mistake. The talk will be amazing.
Smashing Magazine

Live coding CSS queen @ is now talking about 10 things we didn't know yet. #fronteers11
Fronteers Conference

I've seen @'s 10 things talk three times now, yet still somehow manage to learn something new each time. Nice work.
Addy Osmani

Great live CSS coding session by @ revealing some very handy ans usable#CSS tricks #fronteers11
Luuk Wilms

There are some really awesome CSS3 tricks shown by @ here at #fronteers11

@ just made geeks to love CSS. Nice usage of CSS pseudo-selectors! #fronteers11
Andrey Okonetchnikov

@ showing off insanely amazing capabilities of CSS3 with the :nth-child selectors with adding and removing elements #fronteers11
Arthur Stobbelaar

Impressive css selector-fu by @ gets an applause from the #fronteers11 audience. And rightly so. Respect!
Ron Derksen

I was sceptical because of the title of this talk. But @ rocks "10 things you might not know about CSS3" #fronteers11
Andreas Dantz

Indeed 10 CSS3 Secrets that are actually secrets. Mind=blown. #fronteers11 by @
Nils Riedemann

Can't wait for @ 's presentation/slides to come online. And she's not even done. #fronteers11 #cssQueen

@ kudos for your live coding slides! Awesome! And thank you very much for some very useful tips!
Luuk Wilms

@ talks things about CSS3, I didn't know before. I am shocked! o_O #fronteers11
Aleksandr Motsjonov

@ on CSS3 completely blew me away. Very creative use of properties and selectors. #fronteers11
Menno van Slooten

Kudos to @ for cramming all these unknown CSS gems in one hour! Thanks! #fronteers11
Fronteers Conference

Totally amazed by the vast knowledge and CSS skills of @. Wow. Learned some nice css3 tricks along the way! #fronteers11
Peter Peerdeman

Just seen @ pull some amzing rabbits out of the hat. Pure magic at #fronteers11
Bjørn Johansen

10 blackbelt CSS3 techniques in under one hour. @ is a CSS guru! #fronteers11
Ján Sokoly

This is probably the most enjoyable/informative talk on CSS I've attended (& I've attended many) @ = awesome presenter. #fronteers11
Aral Balkan

So glad I got to thank the lovely @ in person for all her hard work! #fronteers11
Luc De Brouwer

Recapping the first day of #fronteers11 - the talks by @ and @ were the definitive highlights. I'm glad I came.
Patrick Hund

First day at #fronteers11, with great presentations by @ (awesome skills), @ (really funny) and @ (inspiring enthusiasm)
Govert Verschuur

@ BTW, saw you in Stockholm and sat behind you today during the afternoon. Big fan! #fronteers11 #sweden
Johannes Axner

The "10 secrets of css3" talk at #fronteers11 by @ all summed up here
Flurin Egger

My slides are now online at Speakerdeck, Slideshare and the interactive version on my website.

Frontend 2011

Oslo is a city I’ve been to many times in the past, so there was nothing new to see there. I didn’t make it to the speakers dinner & pre-party due to my late flight, which kinda sucked but it’s my fault since it took me a long while to decide on my flight dates. The conference itself was a bit more design-focused that I’d like, but very well organized. It took place in the same hotel the speakers were staying at, which is always a good thing. It also had the best coffee I’ve ever drank at a conference, and one of the best I’ve tasted in general. I also loved the idea of having multiple projectors, so that everyone in the audience can see clearly. They had the very original idea of not only drawing caricatures for every speaker (here’s mine, I also got it in a nice frame) but also having the artist in the venue to draw caricatures for attendees as well!

My talk went smoothly, and received very good feedback:

fantastic presentation from @ at #frontend2011 is online her own build CSSS slides framework
Gustaff Weldon

Great presentation @ ! Grwat presentation framework! #frontend2011
Oriol Torrent

really enjoyed @'s talk, some great tips n tricks #css3 #frontend2011
Gavin Taylor

Just attended an amazing session with @. Thank you! #frontend2011
Mikael Jorhult

Inspiring peek into the less widespread secrets of #CSS3 with @ . @ up next on modular #JavaScript with Ender #frontend2011
Ken Paulsen

Great preso on CSS3 by @ Thanks a lot Lea, really enjoyed it.
Cornelis Kolbach

That’s it. I now get to rest for a while. Next stop is SWDC in November, which will host the première of my new talk “CSS in the 4th dimension: Not your daddy’s CSS animations” which will be about CSS transitions & animations, from the basics all way to badass secrets.

Thanks to all the conference organizers for inviting me and for the attendees for attending and giving feedback on my talks. You are all awesome, and it was the best 2 weeks ever. 🙂


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04 May 2010

Why 89: The Career Closet [2 of 7*]

In 1999, I wanted to expand my writing opportunities and thus applied for an editorial position in a corporate office in Makati. This office was supposed to be global in its scope, with sister companies in more progressive countries in Asia. They published numerous trade magazines for different industries, hence the need for writers and editors. I emailed them my application and they sent me a telegram (yes, a telegram!) stating that I should report to their office for an exam and an interview, so I did.

Back then, I looked different from what I look like now. During those days, I was just in my mid to late twenties, and I was used to dressing up for corporate work. The previous full-time job I had prior to that application was for a film company which was ensconced in the middle of Ortigas business district, so regardless of the nature of our company, we office workers had to dress up "corporately." Dressing up, back then, meant wearing slacks, a blouse or girly-cut polo, and nice shoes (no sneakers, no boots). It also meant maintaining my long, shiny hair (like those you see in shampoo commercials - yes, my hair naturally falls like that) and putting on some make-up. Yes, make-up, just the basics for me, though -- lipstick (mad about matte ones from Revlon), some eye shadow and basic light foundation (Clinique worked for my oily skin). In short, I looked like your average office girl in corporate attire. Average straight girl, I should say, for no one would immediately assume--based on how I looked--that I was a lesbian.

On the day of my interview, I dressed
up and went to the Makati office promptly. I tackled a very simple and usual HR-crafted exam tailor-fit to the nature of the company. It was relatively easy enough, and I was confident about my performance. Next came the interview.

A man who looked like he was in his forties entered the small conference room where they conducted the interviews. He had with him a folde
r. He was wearing a men's shirt and tie, no coat. His eyes looked beady and he had a mustache. He began asking me about my qualifications as a writer, and my experiences as an editor, among other things, as he looked at my application papers in the folder, along with my CV. I could sense that the interview was going well, as he was just letting the questions flow while smiling, and letting me answer casually. The air was not tense; he was relaxed, and I was working that Revlon-highlighted smile of mine. I guess it worked.

Until he asked the question.

"So," he began, "may boyfriend ka na ba?"

Did I say he looked like he was in his forties? With this question, he looked like he morphed and looked like he was past 50 all of a sudden -- a certified Dirty Old Man. The malicious glint in his beady eyes gave him away. Hm, what to say, what to say. Remember this was 1999, before Facebook, Google, Youtube and everything else where you could easily type "lesbian" in the search boxes and gazillions of information would flood your screen in an instant, educating you easily and conveniently. And of course, the phrase "equal opportunity employer" didn't exist in the annals of Philippine companies.

It was a tricky question. Never in my work history had I been asked that during an interview. It was tricky because things could be swayed depending on my answer. If you think that this is already blas
é , well, think again. If you think Ricky Martin finally admitting he was gay was not a feat, you are mistaken. It was a struggle. If he did that in 2003, where would he be now, right? If Ellen Degeneres immediately came out before her sitcom life began in the 1990s, where would she be now? Well, I guess it's quite different for these people, so let's stick with people with less stellar job titles -- people like you and me.

If I said "Yes, I already have a boyfriend" to Mr. Interviewer, what do you think would happen? I guess he would have laid off my case and stopped staring below my chin, and he probably would have said "We'll call you" or something to let me know the result of my application. Fair enough.

If I said "No, I don't have a boyfriend" then the follow-up question would be trickier. "Why? How come?" By this moment, his beady eyes would have squinted more, and he would sport a more crooked smile, and wait with eager anticipation as to how a pretty made-up girl like me would be loveless. Hm, tricky. Unless I wanted some advances from Mr. DOM there, I better answer it right.

So I guess the advocate in me won. My inner Gloria Steinem said, "No... I don't have a boyfriend... because I don't like men."

He was amused with my answer, and closed the folder with my application papers to look at me closely. He laughed as if I told a joke a la David Letterman. "Ha-ha! You don't like men?"

"Yes... sir... I like women... because I'm a lesbian."

Pregnant pause. I guess, like Ellen's sitcom audience, they struggled whether they heard it right. Whoa, did she say lesbian? Or Libran? Lebanese? Whatever.

Slowly, after about ten seconds, he spoke. "Oh..."

And that was when the advocate in me just took over. Inner Gloria Steinem now had a "polite" mini-attitude. "Yes, sir. I'm a lesbian. Is that going to be a problem here?"

Yes, I watch too many Hollywood films. Gave me the courage to say what I said. And now, it was my turn to look at him closely, for his response.

He started fidgeting with his tie, and then the folder, and then his mustache. "Well, uh, no, not an, um issue here. In fact, there are a lot of gays working here already! It's okay, ha-ha. Of course, they just have to... behave properly of course..."

"What do you mean, sir?" I forgot to say I penciled my brow during those times, too. Made me look more mataray whenever I raise one brow.

"Well of course it's okay to be like that and all, but of course you have to be behaved. It's not like you can, you know, go around and just, walk
around the office and, um, not behave..."

What the hell was the man talking about???

"What do you mean, sir?" the brow two notches higher.

He nervously fixed his tie. "Well, arhm, I mean they of course can't just, you know, display themselves in front of everyone, or start being... gay in front of everybody and all that... and..."

The man was sinking. Should I throw
him a life vest? That was when I sensed that I wasn't going to be called back. So I just let inner Gloria Steinem prattle on. "Oh come on now, sir. Of course we won't just jump each other on the tables and start kissing in front of everybody. We have manners." Punctuated with a wide grin. Revlon was working it, girl!

"Ahaha, oh, uh yes of course, yes, yes... uh..."
By this time, he no longer could look at me squarely. He could not meet my gaze, nor did he dip his gaze down my chin to see my attitude-filled front. His neck was tense, so tense that he looked like he was just in a wrestling match and he got hit badly on the shoulders or something. He was so stiff.

"So... is that it, sir?" "Uh, ah yes yes, uh, thank you, okay thank you. well let you know the results of your application and, uh, yes, we'll call you."

Of course they never called me back.

Sure, you could easily say that maybe I wasn't really qualified or maybe I failed in my exam. Maybe it wasn't because I was a lesbian. But I had other friends who had similar qualifications, and they were easily accepted. Straight friends, I should say.

Okay, how about this: I had a friend who was working as a freelance writer like me. She put me in touch with two geeky guys who were running their own small company, and they needed someone with filmmaking background to do some videos for them. Now this friend of mine knew that I was a lesbian, and she was even friends with my ex-girlfriend. But this was also back in the late 1990s, and this friend of mine had the tendency to just be needlessly talkative -- in short, taklesa.

When I first met the dudes, they were the easygoing types, part bohemian, part geek, and all straight. Our ages were a bit close, so it was easy and fun to talk to them. My friend sat with us during that first meeting, and the two dudes were just hyped about meeting me, simply because this common friend of ours hyped my credentials to them (I just won two Palancas the previous year, so of course others pointed that out a lot). After our initial meeting, it looked like the dudes were ready for a more detailed and task-building meeting, so we scheduled another one soon after that first meeting. I left them there with my friend as I went ahead.

During the second meeting, our common friend was not there, and only one of the dudes sat with me. But something was up. He didn't look me straight
in the eye whenever he talked, a stark contrast to his initial demeanor during the first meeting. And unlike the first meeting, he wasn't as glib, and he wasn't as bubbly and lively when he spoke. It was like the dude-ness in him died. I was wondering why the sudden coldness. And what made me wonder more was the fact that his statements all sounded so blank, so general, so inconclusive, with that unmistakable "don't-call-us-we'll-call-you" tone. We ended the meeting without anything concrete reached, and I immediately left because I felt I was really unwelcome in their shop.

I decided to go back to our common friend and fish for updates. It could just be that the project was swiped off from under me, simply put. Happens often in the media industry; I was used to it. But when I talked to my friend and asked if the dudes got a new person to do their videos, she said they did not.

This got me thinking more about the strange behavior of Dude 1. And then my taklesa friend handed me the answer. Excitedly, she said, "O di ba I told you those two guys are nice! Mabait, and easy to deal with! I told them nga na oy, you like Libay? She's good, she's talented! You should tap her! It's weird, 'no. Lesbian iyon, pero hindi halata, di ba? Hahahaha!"

I guess I have to tell this friend of mine a few tips about outing other people unnecessarily, especially when in the process of outing others, their potential work opportunities would be affected. But as I outlined my mini-gender sensitivity lecture for her in my head, I merely retreated and decided to just brush this whole thing off. Including my friendship with her.

It's funny how a seemingly simple detail about a person coul
d affect the outcome of a job interview or a job prospect. I remember watching Brandon Lee's life story on TV once, and he painstakingly concealed during auditions that he was Bruce Lee's son, but somebody had scribbled that very definition of him at the back of his head shot photo, and he was so disappointed when he saw that.

Of course he was highly considered for the role, but he didn't want to get roles that way, using that one "small" bit of information about him. Of course it's different if a potential employer would discover that his potential employee had a criminal record, spent time in jail, did drugs in the past or what have you. But it seems like being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender could also affect job prospects for us in the community just by being who we are, by being ourselves.

Of course, that was 1999, you would say. We're already in 2010, so things are better now, with equal opportunity call centers having unisex bathrooms employing transgender women or men who carry on with their preferred gender identities and all that. Sure, that happens, too, but what about in other fields? Lesbian dentists can't come out for fear that the parents of her kid patients would react vehemently, lawyers couldn't out themselves because of the very patriarchal nature of law as practiced here in the country, and all that. Try talking to more butchy-looking lesbians or girly-looking gays out there and they'll tell you some sob stories. Yes, it's 2010, but the career closet is still very much real for those of us who want to be happy in earning a decent living -- if it meant locking ourselves inside that closet from 8am to 5pm from Monday to Friday.

This is why we in the community need a bill like the proposed Anti-Discrimination Bill filed in congress eons ago. This bill enumerates that no employer could discriminate against anybody who is or perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. It's time to smash that career closet, and by voting for Ang Ladlad partylist -- who will champion the ADB -- you will help make a positive step towards that change, eradicating that career closet once and for all.

Vote 89.

*Why 89: 2 of 7 is the second of a seven-part series of creative nonfiction narratives I am writing as a countdown to the upcoming May 10 elections in support of my partylist, Ang Ladlad.

Part 1 of 7 -
The Benefit(s) of Recognition

All photos by libay linsangan cantor: (1) Ondoy days at Pan de Americana Marikina Oct2008, (2) rainy Makati June2009 (3) signs at the Baguio Pride March June2009; (4-5) Comic Shop at Universal Studios LA April2010; (6) home rainbow Marikina 2008; (7) Coke lip at Universal Studios LA April2010; (8) Ang Ladlad contingent at the 2008 LGBT Pride March Malate.

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Kettlebell Workout

What is a Kettlebell?  A kettlebell is a fitness training tool which originated in Russia and is used to develop full body conditioning. Resembling a cannon ball with a handle, or a steel ball with a curved handle on one end and flat on the other end, the shape of the kettlebell allows users to position their weight directly above their center of mass while keeping their hand and wrists in natural alignment. This allows for increased endurance and a higher volume of exercise, resulting in greater fitness and conditioning.

Kettlebell Weights

Kettlebells come in various weights or sizes, typically increasing in 4 kg increments (i.e. 12kg, 16kg, 24kg, and 32kg). However 14 kg, 28kg, and even 60kg kettlebells are also available. While one bell is sufficient for a great workout, many athletes train with a number of kettlebells of varying weights.

Kettlebell Training Benefits

Benefits of Kettlebell training and workouts include:

  • Increased strength
  • Improved flexibility, coordination, and balance
  • Increased endurance
  • More lean muscle mass
  • Improved core strength
  • Weight loss
  • Prevention of injury
  • Posterior chain strengthening
  • Mental toughness
  • Can be applied to sports and combat

The Kettlebell Swing

The most popular and core kettlebell movement is the Kettlebell Swing, which can be used for strength-endurance as well as cardio and metabolic conditioning.

To perform a kettlebell swing, start with a posture and hip drive. The weight is then:

  • Swung up from between the legs
  • Driven by a hip thrust forward to chest height
  • Accelerated down by shoulders pulling the weight down
  • Swung back through the legs
  • Driven back up with the hips
  • Back-and-forth sequence is repeated for reps

Depending on the mass of the kettlebell, sets of swings can be:

  • Low-Rep (3-5)
  • High-Rep (10-100 or more)

Kettlebell swings also work the grip and forearms and can be performed with two hands on one bell, one hand on one bell, or one bell in each hand for ‘doubles’ (two bells at a time).

Kettlebell Workout Movements

Additional kettlebell workout movements include:

  • Jerk
  • Snatch
  • Kettlebell Deadlift
  • Kettlebell Squat Thruster
  • Kettlebell One-Arm High Pull
  • Kettlebell One-Arm Clean

International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation (IKFF)

Kettlebell training is available at the International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation (IKFF). The IKFF promotes mind/body fitness globally and helps members develop the skills they need to enhance their fitness level and/or accelerate their fitness business. On the cutting edge of athletic conditioning and training, kettlebell competitions are now held annually in North America, promoted by the World Kettlebell Club, and Kettlebell trainer certification courses (RKC) are also available.


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United Nations Organisations

  • UNICEF: Evaluation of UNICEF modality on Community preschools in Cambodia (2015) Strategy thinking on the repositioning of UNICEF as per early childhood in Cambodia.

  • UNESCO: Evaluation of CapEFA programme (UNESCO, 2015-2016) which is an extra-budgetary funding mechanism and programme approach created in 2003 to complement UNESCO’s efforts of global advocacy and coordination for EFA will concrete action at the country level, specifically those at risk of not achieving the goals by 2015. Team evaluator for ICON Institute, contracting consultancy.

  • UNESCO: Observatory for Higher Education and Employability, UNESCO Chair – Polytechnic University Madrid (2012-2013). International expert serving on the Experts Council of the Observatory for Higher Education Employment and Employability.

  • UNFPA: Evaluation of UNFPA support to population and housing census data to inform decision-making and policy formulation 2005-2014 (Total amount spent on census within the period under evaluation is USD 227.2 million). Contracting consultancy: Icon Institute. Position: Evaluation team leader.

World Bank

  • Evaluation of the legislation on higher education in Albania and assistance to design by-law and process (2015). World Bank.

  • Tunisia- competitive funds and new funding arrangements for higher education in Tunisia (June 2015): concept paper for future WB-funded project and organisation of the conference in June 2015 for the Ministry of higher education and the World Bank.

  • Evaluation of the World Bank project in Tunisia (2008-2013) aimed at supporting Quality in Higher Education (PARES) (2013). Core team member in charge of the evaluation of the implementation and impacts of the projects conducted by the universities and postsecondary institutes to strengthen employability of students and foster innovation.

  • Entrepreneurship in Tunisia, project design by World Bank (2015). Fabrice was a World Bank consultant, in charge of the design of human capital development policy, entrepreneurship and fulfilment of with economic expectations in Tunisia, to be funded by the World Bank 2015-2020.

  • Moroccan Public Private Partnerships (2015)-World Bank: International review on governmental provisions meant to foster interplay between education (secondary/tertiary) and corporations.

  • World Bank Expert – Evaluation of Quality Assurance system of Montenegro (World Bank / Ministry of Higher Education) (2013). International World Bank seasoned expert.

  • OECD Quality Assurance expert for the World Bank-Centre for Mediterranean Integration (2012). Fabrice was in charge of the quality assurance aspects of the review on skills mobility in MENA: Policy issues associated with Skills Formation and Mobility. Team leader: World Bank MENA.

European Union

  • European Union: SHARE (Support to Higher Education in ASEAN) project (2015-2018) with Campus France / British Council / DAAD / NUFFIC (10 M€). Fabrice is Team leader for the evaluation of Credit Transfer Systems and co-team on the mobility scheme infra ASEAN and between ASEAN and the EU. SHARE aims at putting together an Asian higher education area on the lines of the Bologna Process. SHARE Consortium leader: British Council.

  • CEDEFOP: Review of quality assurance arrangements in postsecondary education across Europe, (2014). This Europe-wide evaluation explored permeability of VET and higher education systems and pathways between academic and vocational studies. Contracting consultancy: EFDM, Ecorys and Bettelsmanstifftung.

  • EuropeAid-funded evaluation of Early Childhood project (AFD/EuropeAid) (2014) – impact evaluation with contribution analysis. Team leader of the evaluation of early childhood aid programmes in Cambodia. Fabrice conducted case studies of families in rural areas of Cambodia and peri-urban zones, data collection, capacity building sessions with NGOs.

  • European Commission -High Level Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education (2013). International expert in higher education, contribution to the works led by the High Level Group on the HE Modernisation, chaired by Mary McAleese, former president of Ireland.

  • External committee member for the EU-funded project Indicators for Mapping and Profiling Internationalisation (IMPI), 2011/2012. Member of the international ad hoc committee.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – OECD

  • Evaluation of the OECD regulatory policy committee, multi-country evaluation including insights into Europe.

  • Evaluation of the OECD competition committee multi-country evaluation including insights into Japan, Korea, USA. Position: seasoned evaluator.

  • Evaluation of OECD local economic and employment (LEED) programme multi-country evaluation including insights into Mexico, Columbia.

  • OECD conference designer and facilitator for the What Works conference Maximazing the student experience conference, 100 attendees and 30 international speakers, publication (April 2014).

  • OECD and Danish Ministry of Higher Education (2012). Team evaluator with 2 consultants and Head of skill beyond schools project. Countrywide review of the Post-secondary Vocational Education and Training: applied research, skills mismatch, higher education-business relations.

  • OECD project “Supporting quality teaching on higher education” (2008-2012). Project manager.

  • OECD Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) 8 M€

  • OECD project “Managing internationalisation” (2010-2012) Team leader, with OECD steering group. The project explored how the many dimensions of internationalisation can be best managed by both governments and institutions so as to reap its (possible) benefits.

  • OECD expert: Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education/Arab Network for Quality Assurance (ANQAHE) (2012): Strategic thinking on quality assurance structures in Tunisia, in the perspective of setting the new quality assurance agency (established July 2013).

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Benjamin Harrison. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Benjamin Harrison.

On March 4, 1889, Benjamin Harrison was sworn in as the twenty-third president of the United States. Forty-eight years to the day earlier, his grandfather, william h. harrison,had become the ninth U.S. president. His grandfather's presidency ended after only one month when he died from complications due to a pneumonia he developed after delivering his inaugural address in the rain. Harrison's presidency lasted a full four-year term, ushering in sweeping legislative changes, signaling a return of the Republican Party to the White House, and laying the groundwork for the foreign policy of the late 1800s.

Harrison was born August 20, 1833, in Ohio. After graduating from Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, he moved to Indianapolis to practice law. There he became involved in Republican politics, serving as city attorney, secretary of the Republican state committee, and supreme court reporter for Indiana. During the Civil War, he joined the Union Army. Within a month he was promoted to colonel and commanding officer of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment. He fought under General William T. Sherman and was promoted to brevet brigadier general in February 1865. After the war he returned to Indianapolis to pursue his legal career.

Harrison lost the race for governor of Indiana in 1876, but made a successful bid for a Senate seat in 1881. He held his Senate position for only one term, failing to win reelection in 1887. This loss did not deter ardent Republican supporters who wanted to see Harrison in the White House.

In 1888 Harrison ran against the incumbent Democratic president, grover cleveland. Harrison was the surprise nominee of the Republican party, a second choice after James G. Blaine, who declined to run again after having lost to Cleveland in 1884. Following a very close race, Harrison won 233 electoral votes; although Cleveland took the popular vote, he won only 168 electoral votes. "The bottom principle … of our structure of government is the principle of control by the majority. Everything else about our government is appendage, it is ornamentation."
—Benjamin Harrison

In the 1888 election, the Republican party gained control of Congress. During the first two years of Harrison's presidency, Congress enacted into law almost everything contained in the 1888 Republican platform. This was one of the most active Congresses in history. The central themes of Harrison's campaign had been nationalism and tariff protection. The Democrats favored tariff reduction, whereas the Republicans stead-fastly favored a system of protection. The tariff existing at the time Harrison took office produced more income than was needed to run the government and was the cause of much bipartisan debate. In 1889 Harrison signed the McKinley Tariff Act, which raised Customs Duties to an average of 49.5 percent, higher than any previous tariff. The act contained over four hundred amendments, including provisions for reciprocal trade agreements. It found favor with few Republicans, causing a rift within the party. One issue in Harrison's term that enjoyed bipartisan support was antitrust legislation. During the late 1800s, business combinations known as trusts were created and began taking over large shares of the market. Both Republicans and Democrats perceived trusts as destructive of competition, and each party's platform was antimonopoly in 1888. In 1889 Senator John Sherman introduced antitrust legislation to restrain interstate trusts. On July 2, 1889, Harrison signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act into law. This was the first major piece of legislation enacted during his term, and it remains in effect more than one hundred years after its adoption. Historians view the Sherman Anti-Trust Act as the most important piece of legislation of the Fifty-first Congress.

During Harrison's term legislation providing for federal supervision of all congressional elections was defeated several times. The legislation had been drafted to ensure the voting rights of blacks as mandated by the Fifteenth Amendment. Harrison was a strong supporter of the bill and also of legislation to ensure education for southern blacks, which was also defeated. These were the last significant attempts to provide these Civil Rights until the 1930s.

With regard to foreign policy, Harrison had an aggressive attitude and little patience for drawn-out diplomatic negotiations. He helped convince several European countries to lift their restrictions on the importation of U.S. pork products, thus increasing U.S. exports of pork from approximately 47 million pounds in 1891 to 82 million pounds in 1892. Harrison also played a part in solving disputes between the United States, England, and Canada regarding seal hunting in the Bering Sea. And his tenacity proved successful in avoiding a war with Chile in 1892. Harrison's attitude toward foreign relations was emulated by Theodore Roosevelt and other politicians.

When Harrison sought reelection in 1892, Cleveland once again opposed him. This time Cleveland emerged the victor.

Harrison has been described as an aloof loner, lacking in personal magnetism, but a man of great intellect. After he failed to secure a second term as president, he was revered as an elder statesman, giving lectures and acting as chief counsel for Venezuela in a boundary dispute with British Guiana.

After a bout with pneumonia, Harrison died March 13, 1901, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Further readings

Lyle, Jack. 1996. "Benjamin Harrison First ISBA President." Res Gestae 39 (January): 19.

Socolofsky, Homer E., and Allan B. Spetter. 1987. The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas.


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What if I Miss a Post?

file1021269350926You’ve been posting regularly, maybe even religiously, to your blog for several months. But this week there’s just no way. Time is short, to do lists are long, and there are simply higher priorities than blogging right now. Is missing one week really going to kill your online marketing efforts?

No. We’re all human and sometimes we get sick, or have too much on our plate. Your followers will forgive you if their subscription email doesn’t show up one morning. But there are strategies you can use to help minimize down time on your blog.

  1. Don’t post the day you write. Plan on writing a few days before your posts get published. That way if something happens and you simply can’t finish your blog article that day, you have an extra day or two to catch up before it affects your posting schedule. Most blog platforms allow you to schedule your posts in advance, so give yourself a buffer to account for the unexpected.
  2. Create emergency posts. Everyone has slow periods in their business. Use that down time to create posts that can be stored and used in emergency situations, like when you get sick. Make sure these articles aren’t tied to any particular news story or event, though. Otherwise the post may seem out of date when you finally use it.
  3. If you miss one, post anyway. Just because this week’s blog didn’t get out by your deadline doesn’t mean you can’t post something later. Consider finding a particularly time sensitive issue and posting an up-to-the-minute update later in the week. That way your readers will be pleasantly surprised by your mid-week post and will forget about the missed day.
  4. It’s okay to skip a week. Missing a blog article is not the end of your marketing world. Your readers won’t abandon you if you skip a week, and your blog won’t suddenly plunge to the bottom of the search rankings. But while it’s okay to give yourself an occasional pass when schedules get extremely tight, if you are having trouble finding time to write regularly, you may need to outsource the work. It’s okay to skip once in a while, but there is a danger to your marketing dollar if you fall out of the habit altogether.

Your blog doesn’t need to be a source of stress in your already intense schedule. It’s okay if you find yourself up against a deadline and need to make adjustments just this once. What is important is that you maintain a feeling of regularity with your readers and that you keep your blogging habit, even when your schedule fills up. If you’re in over your head trying to keep up with your blog, contact ghost writer Lisa Schmidt for help.

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