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Man, hell of a weekend!  Injuries, DNPs, I got a credit card hacked, went to a wedding, saw the sorry Panthers beat Jay’s sorrier Chargers… Out of control out there!  Thankfully we’re nearing Christmas, time to see some family, gets some time off work, and hopefully get our fantasy teams healthy…  But noooooooooooooo!  The fantasy gods gave us a bah humbug last night, with Nerlens Noel finally debuting off knee surgery, only to go down with a kankle.  He was looking pretty good too, especially with a little dunk on his first basket!

The hair on the other hand…  I dunno…  Shot 3-5 FG, hit his 2 FT, for 8 points and a steal in his first 10 minutes of the season.  Sucks it ended prematurely with another injury, and especially on the Sixers, who are treating everyone with kid’s gloves and have too many centers anyway.  Also sucks we don’t have any idea what his role will be, as Joel Embiid sat this one out to further maintain his EMBIIIIIID minutes.  As long as it’s under 4 hours, we’re good!  Here’s what else went down over the weekend in Fantasy Basketball action:

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First off, Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone!  Here’s a little Thanksgiving edition of The Numbers Game.  I promise to keep it short so as to not interfere with the eating and the shopping.

I’ll do a reverse this week and start off with the Victor Oladipo analysis and do the matchup by the numbers later on.

Last week, I covered the defensive aspect of Dipo’s season stats.  Let’s look at the offensive side so far this season–15 games in (as of writing, he will be playing his 16th game).

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With how the Poppycockers put together their “Super Team”, I admittedly had some worries that the bunch of Tom Cruise-divas they threw out there might make The Poison Goose a mere co-pilot.  But not with moxie like this!

Dude doing that at 7’3!!!!!  SEVEN THREE!!!  Monster game from Kristaps Porzingis last night, going a career-high 35/7/3/1/1 with 3 treys on 13-22 shooting.  He played 40 minutes, and put the Poppies on his back.  While I was a little apprehensive of his USG, I still think my rank of 23 ended up being ahead of the curve (I would confirm this, but FantasyPros is being a little ish and not making it easy to find draft day expert consensus!).  Alas, I was unable to get the Goose in any leagues, and I’m suffering some major poultry withdrawal.  Thankfully Thanksgiving is right around the corner!  He’s taken 15+ shots the past 7 games, attempting 2 more treys a game than last year, and the TO rate has gone from 1.7 his rookie year to 1.3.  His ridiculous 7’3 size makes him too tough for stretch-4s to cover him, and his ridiculous speed and ball-handling makes him too tough for centers.  He’s becoming a true matchup nightmare with the added iso moves, and is – I’m going there – a no question first-rounder next year.  Slim having him on his REL team has me depressingly reaching for the Grey Goose!  Here’s what else went down in fantasy hoops action last night:

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Hello Razzballers!  Welcome to the inaugural edition of the “The Numbers Game”.  I know, plain vanilla title but hopefully there will be some interesting golden nuggets of actionable information each week for everyone.  And I promise to not make it sound as boring as Statistics class.

This weekly segment will dig a little deeper into some league, team and players stats WITHOUT (hopefully) having to use the words Standard Deviation, Z-Scores, and all those weird stat symbols.  Who needs those when we can all exchange friendly banter in the comments section, criticize coaches and go through the roller coaster ride we submit ourselves each NBA season in the comments section.

The season is young and therefore take all of these stats with a grain of salt.  Nothing like the lack of sample size to skew numbers as outliers can easily move the numbers.  There is also the subjective aspect of it–whether it be a coaching change (did I hear someone say Asshat?) or a major lineup change or even just a relatively higher number of back to back games so far.

So without further ado, let’s get down to the it. This is a grid provided by BBM to its readers.  You might want to open it up in another tab as you might want to look back at it while reading further below.

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Ahhhhh, our epic Jusuf Nurkic vs. Nikola Jock Itch debates. 16-17 might become remembered as the year of the Nuggets big men Civil War. I wanna be on Iron Man’s side!

In a gutsy battle with the Craptors, the Nugs almost pulled out a great road win, putting together a huge 3rd quarter and getting a lead for most of the 4th. We the North still ended up notching the W, and so did Slim and the Nurk > Joke contingent! I still feel like I have to remind everyone that I ranked Nurk ahead of all experts, and was middle-of-the-pack-to-slightly-below-consensus on Jokic. But alas, I did think Slim was a little crazy saying he wanted Nurk over Joke outright, and after last night, it’s looking like it’s going to be a coin flip any given outing. The real head-scratcher is Nurkic lead the team with a preposterous 38 minutes. Lunacy! Ended up going 13/18/1/1/5 in a great line, but did struggle with the %s, shooting 5-14 FG and 3-7 FT. He’s just so big out there… Look at poor Pit-Pat trying to block him, what are you doing Pit-Pat?!

I think this matchup made sense, as Nurk is a good fit to D up The Luminescent Lithuanian, and with his size and D presence, can help out on the Lowry and DeRozan iso drives. Erstwhile, I thought Nikola Jokic looked pretty good, but only played 22 minutes, going 12/4/1/0/0. Shot 6-9, but 4 TO?! The Nugs only had 8 TO as a whole, so friggin’ Jock Itch had half their giveaways, plus had 4 fouls in that limited run. Just wasn’t his night.

So what to do with these guys? I think you gotta just deploy them as usual, and hope the coin flips your way any given game. As long as it doesn’t pull a Watchmen and land standing up. I think that was Watchmen, I know it was in the dumb movie Ed too, about Joey from Friends teaching a monkey to pitch. Hahahaha, how terrible. I just had to link the trailer, because I watched it for 30 seconds to be sure I was citing the right movie, and holy crap. This is the most fantastic 2 minutes of my life:

If that doesn’t make you laugh, nothing will! I’m all over the place this morning… To wrap that metaphor, I guess Kenneth Faried would be if the coin landed straight up, and at least he only saw 15 minutes. I wouldn’t be shocked at all if Nurk gets 22 minutes next time out, Jock Itch 35, and Jock Itch has the big game. Going to be frustrating game to game. But for last night, Slim gets to gloat! Here’s what else happened last night in fantasy basketball action:

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Save your horse, and ride a… Justin Hamilton?! As we coined on the Podcast, the coach of the Nets has officially changed his name. It’s even on his newly issued Birth Certificate! It’s no longer Kenny Atkinson. While Brooks wears his giant cowboy hat, Kenny literally wears his ass on his head. He is forever more: Kenny Asshat. I’d love to make that my Halloween costume!

After that shockingly low-run debut, Brook Lopez persevered in game two with a 25/5/1/1/0 line in only 26 minutes on Friday night. Maybe the most shocking aspect of that game was the Nets actually won an NBA game! Then on Saturday afternoon, we get word Brolo is going to get a healthy DNP-rest. Mother F Asshat! Because of course after 2+ healthy seasons including playing 33+ MPG last year, Brook is an injury risk. This is a ticking time bomb in Brooklyn… Asshat wants to chuck as many 3s as possible; through Saturday night’s game, Brooklyn’s 37.3 3PA were second in the NBA, only to the Mavericks who had an OT game then played Houston. 42% of their shots are treys, which leads the league thus far (small sample of course). Even in that “good” game from Brolo Friday night, he shot 0-4 from deep, giving him 6 3PTA this season. His career high 3PTA?! 14 last year for 0.2 a game. 3.0 thus far in 16-17. A big part of his value has been game-to-game reliability and FG%, and now we’re not going to get either. Asshat really wants to pound Brook’s square peg in a round hole, and we all know Asshat has a big round hole! What a mess this team is. Hopefully you don’t have too many shares of Brolo, and if you do, you’re really forced to hold as best you can. No one is giving you anything for him… But at least it opens some opportunities, with Hamilton now a streamer even in 12ers, and you know the rest of your Nets are all going to have ThrAGNOF streamability. Asshat playing his team like Duke. Shooting nothing but 3s… So annoying! No UNC bias there… I don’t think Asshat got the memo that the NBA perimeter is further out… Smh. Here’s what else went down over the weekend in Fantasy Basketball action:

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1617-rcl-logoThe epic battle between good and evil has begun! The 3rd annual JB vs. Slim RCL drafted last night, pitting the heroic forces of yours truly against the nefarious hordes of that villainous Slim. Last year, I got the upper hand by knocking Slim out of the semi-finals, but still fell short of winning the league title. Stupid Mr. Green Beans! Ruining it for everyone…

If you’re still jittery with excitement for the NBA season, there’s still time to make a last second RCL League! If we can get a couple more created, I’ll be sure to heavily promote them through the end of this week and the weekend to be sure you have a full league. Hit up our 2016-17 RCL Sign-Ups!

With the epic responsibility to maintain goodness and order in the universe by besting Slim, here’s how my draft went down:

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It’s late-round magic time! And by late-round Magic, I’m not talking about Stephen Zimmerman! Who? Exactly…

As we hit the trip-digs in picks, it’s time to go all-out for your guys. In standard leagues, you’re hoping to maybe hit a home run on one of your final 3-4 picks, and the others flame out immediately. Why? Because you want to know for sure who you need to hold on to and have quick cuts for the first wave of wire gold. Maybe I’m overly pessimistic, maybe you’re hoping for 2 to work, but all we really want to know is “answers”. I still do my ranks as best as I can to signify “seasonal-value”, but I might get a little crazier with risk than stick with the status quo come draft day and the clock winding down.

If you’re catching up, check out all our ranks in the Top-10, Top-25, Top-50, Top-75 & Top-100. Now it’s time to get into the fun sleeper land. Here’s the Top 150 for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season:

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As we prepare for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season, I’ll be taking a look at each NBA team with their major adds and drops to see if we can pan for any surprise rotational gold.  This open is especially witty for the Nuggets – and hey, look!  We’re at the Nuggets!  We’ll be counting down from worst NBA regular season to the best, mainly because I’m still figuring out how to rank the Warriors…

Denver Nuggets (33-49)

Key Acquisitions:

G Jamal Murray (Rookie)

G/F Juan Hernangomez (Rookie)

G Malik Beasley (Rookie)

Key Losses:

F/C Joffrey Lauvergne

Can still having Manimal on your roster count as a “key loss”?

Well, a team doesn’t HAVE to bring in any free agents, amiright?!  No seriously, am I right?  They didn’t bring in any FA of note?  Weird.  And just not much of an overhaul on this team at all!

Beyond that little nugget (too much fun!), Denver is assembling quite the young team.  We obviously LOVE their front line (minus Manimal), Mudiay still has upside, and mmmmmm, those wings!  I like the wings wayyyyy more than the drumsticks.  And you gotta get bleu cheese.  Ranch is sacrilege!  Wait, where is this going?!  Can you tell I wrote this while mad hungry?!  There’s more than one reason why I have an insatiable appetite while writing about Denver’s team!  Here’s how the Nuggets roster is coming together:

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The precursor to the much-hyped Clippers and Warriors game was the game between the Bulls and Knicks. On paper, this wasn’t the best choice by ESPN, considering the Knicks are out of the playoffs and the Bulls are competing for the 8th spot.

However, it featured two of the best, youngest international stars. Rookie Kristaps Porzingis dunked and shot his way to 29 points and 10 rebounds. He may have hit the so-called “rookie wall,” but he still contributes enough in a variety of categories to matter in fantasy for the playoffs.

Nikola Mirotic almost single handedly brought the Bulls back in the 4th quarter. He knocked down 9-13 from downtown, on his way to 35 points and 6 rebounds off the bench. Can you name the last Bull to knock down 8 threes in a game? Ben Gordon did it in 2008-09. While Gordon had a serviceable career, I hope both Mirotic and Porzingis have better careers than Gordon. Based on Wednesday, their futures look very bright.

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Magic Book to Start from Zero

Alt Names: alt ゼロから始める魔法の書alt Grimoire of Zeroalt Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Shoalt Zero Mahou
Author: Kakeru Kobashiri
Artist: Takashi Iwasaki
Genres: Adventure AdventureComedy ComedyFantasy FantasySeinen Seinen
Type: Manga (Japanese)
Status: Ongoing
Description: Year 526 of the Liturgical Calendar.
The world knew that witches existed, and that they practiced the notorious art of sorcery.
Nevertheless, the world did not know anything about the study of magic.

Our story follows a half-man, half-beast mercenary; humans mockingly call his kind the “fallen beasts”.
He always dreamt of becoming a human, but one day, he met a witch who would change his life forever.

“Do you desire a human form? Then be my escort, mercenary!”

The witch introduced herself as “Zero”, and explained that she was searching for a one-of-a-kind magical tome that bandits had stolen from her lair. Entitled “The Book of Zero”, the grimoire supposedly contained valuable magical knowledge that could be used to effortlessly bring the world to its knees.

Thus, in order to realize his dream of becoming a human, the mercenary must accompany Zero on her journey—despite her being one of the witches he so loathed.

This is the story of a haughty sorceress and a kindhearted beast.

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Ooooh. Nice job Mr. Mercenary.

Even in a fantasy world, Shimakaze's existence is still 'too lewd'.

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@ Bloody Sorcerer - Not all villagers went on witch hunts because they believed the person was a witch, they went on them due to extreme fear of the people in charge of the village. If they didn't go along with the village leaders, they themselves could be branded witches/sorcerers etc. and killed.  It was not mob mentality that ruled their actions but self preservation. Now, to answer two of your rebuttals...

(1) They had minimal education and we all know the lower the education level of a person, the easier it is to manipulate them with fear and confusion.

(2) Self preservation is a natural instinct.  Not only that, but police officers and firemen have to be reminded to save themselves in certain situations before they save others, otherwise there might not be anyone left that's trained enough to save others.

So, pity and mercy should ALWAYS be shown, unless you have definitive proof they are willing participants and therefore guilty and deserving of punishment.

I don't believe no one said this yet.

But to answer our fluffy MC's question: Yes a village for a Witch is a fair trade. Whenever a Witch hunt happened, all villagers ran after them to hunt them down, not a single one of them is free of sin.

There are even reports of parents selling out their own kids to the church, even when they live beside the kid and "know"(or at least are supposed to know) quite well they are innocent, they are still willing to believe in the "Word of God" over caring for their own flesh and blood.

Witch hunts were not used only to assert the church's power and influence, it also served as entertainment for villagers, much like the Collosseum and it's gladiators in old Rome.

So no, you don't need to pity those villagers.

Looking at the new cover, that is a really... interesting position for his hand.

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Looking at the new cover, that is a really... interesting position for his hand.

Is it wrong to ship it. Probably. But I'll do it anyways.

Is it wrong to ship it. Probably. But I'll do it anyways.

Hey Batoto! I am the translator for the series Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho (or Zero Mahou, as we call it) over on Nanodesu, and as Lockman Capulet has already stated, we are picking up the manga adaptation of Zero Mahou. We are currently done with Volume 1 of the manga, thanks in no small part to the efforts of groups and individuals before us, and aim to continue translating the remaining volumes in the adaptation!

Thanks for keeping up with the adventures of Zero and Merc, and we hope you enjoy!

Well, I don't think Thirteenth's backstory has really been explained yet, so there's a good chance those ten years will be explained at some point in the future. I'll go back and re-read everything to double check about the time gap thing.

Anyone else who reads the LN at nanodesu notice that basically all of the dialogue in Ch.003 was lifted straight from the light novel translation?

yes, i translated the chapters from english to italian, and to be honest, i think i actually prefer this, if we have to choose betweeen a shitty translation or a brought-from the novel translation, i choose the second... i still don't understand the book off zero paradox though:the coven of zero was created from the death of solena, and solena died a year before. but the dude says the book of zero was part of the coven for like 10 years... ??? my guess is that there was a typo somewhere and either the book has been used for only a year or solena actually died 10 years ago, but the first option would make little sense world-building-wise(the war was present from before, but only started to be pretty hefty since the death of solena, which happened long time enough that zero knows about the war but not about solena's death) and the second would mean that zero stayed in that cave for 10 years after thirteen was out doing... nothing.

it just doesn't make sense.

Anyone else who reads the LN at nanodesu notice that basically all of the dialogue in Ch.003 was lifted straight from the light novel translation?

For the scanlators, i have the first vol in HQ. If anyone wants it, pm me.

i haven't read any tags or description. i just came here because i'm lured by those thighs mmm....

for me, it was all about dat midriff.

but seriously, didn't even notice it was released, how long it was since? and who made it? when will next chapterbe made?

I have a feeling the new kid is baiting them.
Chap 1 : talk, talk, talk Chap 2 : talk, talk, talk Chap 3 : just more talk, with new talky character It appears that at this point i should just accept that attention span has gotten really short with LN. It's not enough that exposition has to be spoken in lengthy manner, but everything else must also freeze in place while the characters are doing so. 5 pages of awesome display of practical magic only to be followed with dozens of magic lectures. Yeah but, no.

The proper course of action is to reach the coven then impale the kid through the back.

Nobody that stupid deserves to live.

Minus the magic and fantasy element, their world isn't all too different from IRL... except the real world is full of far more idiots like this witch boy, down to the part of him asking for a handout in the end even after having logic and reasoning explained to him.

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To support militant groups such as Al-Quaeda and Islamic State, these people exchange secret messages and plans in Facebook by using code names.

Among these six suspects, two of them are husband and wife who live in St. Louis and had come to United States as refugees, whereas other four are said to be legal permanent residents.

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Every unit in a large (five building, 70-unit) apartment complex, Spring Valley Commons, in Spring Valley, NY, is getting treated for bed bugs. Suzan Clarke of the Journal News reports that: The treatment – which begins today – comes after residents complained to the county’s health department that they were being bitten in their homes […]

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I am embarrassed about the graphics on this blog. I can't figure out the right color for the text of the heading, nothing is easily readable against the background. So I went in and made the area directly behind the text lighter, but it looks like some kindergartener who just learned to use a computer did it. Then, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, you see something very unintended that I don't know how to fix. That's what I get for trying to modify the template without really knowing what I'm doing!

I'll probably leave it for now and try again when it's Fall and I feel like a change of graphic motif. Maybe I'll get further then and learn from my mistakes.

I long for the "good old days" of computers -- to me, that means: I remember our first computer. When we took it out of the box, we first had to install DOS (remember DOS?). Then we installed Windows -- a whole stack of 3.5" floppy disks, or maybe it was even the old 5-1/4" disks, remember those? We installed a mouse, and later a hard drive. I knew everything about how that computer worked, I edited the config.sys file, I really felt in control of it. Now, computers are so complicated, with more and more features coming along all the time, that I'm starting to feel that I can't keep up. And the web -- the first websites I visited, you could look at the code and read the words of the text among the few snippets of HTML code, and it was even obvious what the codes did. Now, websites are so complicated -- CSS, PHP, RSS, blogging, tagging, web 2.0, social networking -- it's too much for my small brain to be able to remember.

Though, there is one good thing this new technology has brought -- podcasting! Maybe I'll post more about that later.

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Melissa: I live your graphics! I am still learning how to include links. ::smile:: Hugs, ~T


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Beer Sherpa Recommends: Gigantic Kiss the Goat

Gigantic Brewing has one of the more interesting approaches to beer in America. Their regular line of year-round beer consists of exactly one brand: IPA. Everything else they make appears just once (almost all of them) or annually (Massive! is the only example I can recall of a recurring beer.) They number each new release and contract with a well-known artist to create the label. Sometimes they even have an associated musical tie-in. This would seem to violate all the rules of branding and brand-building I know: there's no consistency across either beers or labels, and each bottle is a crapshoot for their customers. If one of these beers becomes a treasured fan favorite, too bad: you'll never get to taste it again. And yet as far as I can tell the brewery is flourishing. Brewers/owners Van Havig and Ben Love are doing so well that half the time they seem to be in Tokyo or Turin promoting their latest project.

I have loved three or four of the 39 editions of this experiment and probably disliked twice that number. (The rest I enjoyed in varying degrees.) This means Gigantic is the perfect brewery for the Beer Sherpa: when a good one comes along, it's almost mandatory that I point it out.

Kiss the Goat is to this point my favorite of all the Gigantic beers. It tickles my fancy on absolutely every level. The beer itself is a titan of flavor and balance. I am often accused of favoring low-abv beers, but this is not entirely correct. I often dislike bigger beers because breweries sometimes feel that lots of booze demands florid flavors and creative indiscipline. What I really like are strong beers that keep it together and manage to lure me in for an ill-advised session with their big, bad selves. Kiss the Goat is a perfect example. Havig, who knows I have a thing for Czech beers, says it reminds him of a cerne (a Czech black lager). The brewery called it a "black doppelbock," which is a pretty good description, too. It has a spine of roastiness, but lobes of sultry malting and a gentle layer of alcohol. Because of its strength, there's a lot of all of this, but the brewers have exercised restraint, so it tastes full rather than intense and encourages you to drink the entire 22-ounce bottle. (It's 8%, just borderline strong, which means you accept the encouragement.)

But a new Gigantic beer is a multimedia release, too, and the label earns this special Sherpa attention as one of the most entertaining in recent memory. The artwork is by Portlander Jon MacNair and features a TTB-defying scene of dark happenings. It recalls the 1980s basements of my teenage youth. The soundtrack to those years was often the kind of silly metal that scared Tipper Gore--and which sounded a lot like the accompanying 7" single Sons of Huns created specially for this beer. (You might think Clyfford Still, who is quoted on the label praising the color black, is connected somehow to Aleister Crowley, but in fact he's an American abstract expressionist.) Pure sensory pleasure, from eye to ear to tongue, this fine beer supplies in spades.

You definitely want to track down a Kiss the Goat or three. This is one of the Gigantic beers we'll miss when it's gone.

"Beer Sherpa Recommends" is an irregular feature.  In this fallen world, when the number of beers outnumber your woeful stomach capacity by several orders of magnitude, you risk exposing yourself to substandard beer.  Worse, you risk selecting substandard beer when there are tasty alternatives at hand.  In this terrible jungle of overabundance, wouldn't it be nice to have a neon sign pointing to the few beers among the crowd that really stand out?  A beer sherpa, if you will, to guide you to the beery mountaintop.  I don't profess to drink all the beers out there, but from time to time I stumble across a winner and when I do, I'll pass it along to you.

  1. Sounds great but also sounds, unfortunately, like it will have disappeared before I get there this year. I can't believe how Gigantic have grown. I visited the brewery shortly after it opened and, whilst enjoying the beer immensely, had no idea that they would become so renowned for their niche products.

  2. Ginormous seems to be pretty regular, and I think they brought back Most Premium this year too.

    Now if they'll only bring back Royale...

  3. Kiss the Goat was on draft several years back, so not the first time they've made it, just the first time they've bottled it. It was fantastic back then, too.

    Also, I second the Royale. That beer was sublime.


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Happy Monday! Here is to another week! My week has a very snowy start. I spent all day Sunday baking a cake to bring into work, and watching Shameless! Obsessed with that show. I don’t know how I didn’t start watching it sooner!

Today’s dress is the perfect holiday dress in my opinion. It’s flattering, unique and has those little details that allow to wear it without any accessories. For the past couple of months I’ve been avoiding wearing any sort of jewelry. I don’t know what it is, probably just a stage 🙂 haha My dress is by LATTORI, and the booties are Kenneth Cole Reaction I got on Hautelook a few years ago.  I’ve selected some similar products for you to check out below:

As promised, we have another holiday giveaway for you! This one is even better than the last! I’ve been obsessed with It Cosmetics for about a year now, and I wanted to share the hype with you today! It Cosmetics has recently become available at Ulta, and you can enter to win a set of 5 brushes, and two ornaments that include Confidence in a Cream and Super Hero mascara! Good luck!

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The Outfit: This long vest has been on repeat since I bought it at Kohl’s a couple weeks ago! I absolutely love the versatility and the ease of styling that it brings. I might have to go get the grey one too 😉 Distressed jeans are still hot and aren’t going anywhere any time soon. These moss colored Kenneth Cole booties are growing on me, I tend to reach for them more and more every week. And to top it off, I layered my favorite bracelets and a Daniel Wellington watch, because sometimes you need to give FitBit a break. You can save 15% off your next Daniel Wellington purchase with code ‘BEINGZHENYA’ – valid through Sept 15, 2016!

monday mode link up The Surprise: Welcome to the new weekly Link Up brought to you by Rachel of Rachel’s Lookbook, Jewel of Style Optimist and yours truly! We are so excited to be sharing this with you today and every Monday from now on in our effort to express our styles, bring the fashion community closer together and meet new people! A lot of you know I moved from Minneapolis to Milwaukee a little over a month ago, but I wanted to stay in touch with my blogger girlfriends, and this link up is also a way for us to stay in touch, collaborate and bounce ideas off of each other!

Since this is a celebration of a new beginning, we thought it would only make sense to kick it off with a giveaway! I am so happy to be able to give away some of our favorite NYX Cosmetics goodies to you today, make sure you enter today!

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This is probably the most fun and exciting giveaway I have ever participated in! You get to win a fully thrifted outfit from Beth and I. We have recently had a Thrift Style Thursday swap, where all members of the group were paired up and got to send, or in our case, give each other goodies in person. And since it was so much fun thrifting for another person, we decided to pass on the Gift of Thrift to 4 other people! And that’s where you come in! We would love to gift you a fully thrifted outfit, and in our case, since Beth and I both live in the Twin Cities area, if you are from the area, you get to go thrifting with us, and we will style you! And probably take you out for lunch or coffee too!

I will add pictures of what Beth thrifted for me a little bit later today. This Friday is a super exciting day for Sam and I, and if you follow me on Instagram, you will probably find out soon enough 😉

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Nothing makes my day like a pair of good pants! I received them from Mint Julep Boutique last week and couldn’t help but wear to work the next day. Everyone loved them! People are naturally drawn to bold eccentric patterns, and these pants were a perfect example of that. No one said how much they liked my black top, it was all about the pants.

Also, my hair is still longer in those pictures. I miss it. I went and got a haircut last Friday, and am still getting used to it. I always have a hard time finding a good stylist in the Twin Cities. I don’t care how many layers you are going to cut, I don’t like layers. So I immediately went back to taking biotin and rubbing my scalp with apple cider vinegar. Go figure.

Once again this semester I have more ideas than free time, so just make sure to follow along on my Instagram. I am more likely to reply to any of your comments there too!

Happy Monday, can I disappear through the wall now?

On a happier note, I’ve partner up with Mint Julep Boutique to give away a $25 gift card! That’s where my hot pants are from! So enter and get yourself a pair! I know you want to 😉

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With Valentine’s Day being only a month away I thought I’d start preparing and posting for it early this year! And luckily I have Vanity Fair Lingerie help me out.

Who doesn’t like comfortable but stylish lingerie? The kind that you don’t want to pull through your sleeve immediately after you come home from work?

So here are a few options from Vanity Fair that are my favorite:

Lily of France – your perfect T-shirt bra.

Vassarette – affordable luxuries bra.

And now for my favorite part – you get a chance to win a bra of your choice and your size! (because that’s the most important part!)

So depending on the bra size, you will win a certain type of bra! If you are:
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– B-DD: Vanity Fair Beauty Back
– C-DD: Vanity Fair Breathable Comfort

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Welcome to #25DaysofGlam!!!

Happy December 1! And happy only 24 days until Christmas! Today I along with a few other amazing bloggers are bringing you our own version of the advent calendar, called 25 Days of Glam! It’s going to be a fun, fashion full experience, with a little lifestyle on the side! We are so excited to be launching this! It took a lot of late nights to put it all together! So make sure you stop by on my blog daily for new Holiday Themed posts, giveaways and announcements.

We are starting off with a giveaway! So on the right foot! I know we have all just spent too much money on Black Friday, am I right? So we’ve partnered up with Mavatar to Support St Jude Children’s Hospital (A charity that is really dear to my heart).

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Thank you for joining us for #25daysofglam, feel free to use and follow this hashtag on Instagram and Twitter, check us out, send us some love and have fun!

I am off to get ready for class with my hot chocolate and curling iron in hand!

Gerard’s USA Natural Beauty Products Review and Giveaway

My trip to Chicago was an absolute blast. I had such an amazing time reconnecting with my old friends and meeting new ones. And since traveling by car is so much easier than by air, because I can bring and pack as many beauty products as I want, I packed my Gerard’s USA Caviar Cream and Top Base Face Primer first.

Gerard’s is the first skin and body care company to use flower and plant extract, natural organic and active ingredients to protect, maintain and improve the skin. Founded in the Italian Alps region of Italy, where the soil is rich in minerals, they pride themselves in producing the finest products for each skin type and need, using pure extracts. Gerard’s on-site laboratories use cutting edge manufacturing methods to produce non irritating, dermatology tested, results oriented therapeutic face and body products. Gerard’s philosophy is to enrich people’s lives through face and body treatments and products using pure natural active ingredients.

Gerard’s is the world’s only skin care brand which uses refill containers as a way to reduce the ecological burden on our beautiful earth <- How awesome is that?

So let’s talk about the Caviar Cream, because I am obsessed. The packaging is so creative and amazing, that when you see it, you think caviar right away! You just can’t think anything else! This rich and luxurious cream is a deep restoring treatment that helps renew and protect your skin from all sorts of damage. It contains Caviar and marine Collagen, created for skins that need vital nourishment, energy and deep moisturization. It reactivates the cell’s regeneration, reduces wrinkles and expression lines, while protecting from UV rays. Skin will look vital, supple, toned and deeply renewed.

Active ingredients: Hydroglicolic extract of Caviar, marine Collagen, Oak Extract, Allantoin, Solar Filter.

Use: Apply it in the morning or at night onto a perfectly clean and tonic skin.

When I first started using it, I noticed slight tingling in my skin, that quickly went away. But every time I apply it now, it leaves my skin feeling soft, nourished and pampered. Needless to say, I get complimented on it a lot.

Face Primer Top Base is something that I’ve really wanted to try. My only other experience with face primers came from a drug store, and I remember not exactly enjoying it. So this was a great opportunity to rewrite my beauty history. This primer covers imperfections, removes redness and creates a flawless finish for the skin. Apply a small amount all over the skin, let dry for one minute. Top base brings an incredible luminosity and firmness to the skin. May be used as foundation when skin tone matches. And guess what? It matches pretty well, so I am skipping out on foundation for a while.

I have been greatly impressed with the products, from packaging to quality to scent. And am extremely happy to have them in my beauty arsenal.

And now for the giveaway! You can win $150 to Gerard’s USA online store and pick the products that you like! How amazing is that?
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Beauty Brunch: Mail Call

Having spent 2 summers working at a camp, I am very familiar with mail call. Were I at camp this week, I would’ve had to sing once a day every day, if not twice a day for all my packages. I do love getting mail, but you don’t want to hear my singing voice, trust me.

From makeup to nail polish, to hair removal products, I got a lot of new stuff to try in the mail. I don’t really know where to begin, so let’s start with Sigma Standout Eyes collection of 6 gel eyeliners.

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Just in case you didn’t know, Sigma is a local company that first became known for their makeup brushes (at least to me, via YouTube). Now that they have added lines of well-pigmented and high-quality makeup, I like them even more. Last week I received this amazing set of gel liners in the mail. And let me tell you, the cat eye challenge is on! The set included liners in: Wicked (blackest black), Liberally Toasted (toasty warm brown), Stunningly Ladylike (dark brown-black), Standout Peacock (deep indigo blue), Royally Striking (true purple), and Unexpected (neutral stony grey). The colors are long-wearing, opaque, and saturated. All gel liners are versatile, yet unique and unexpected with intense pigmentation and a smooth, fluid-like finish. It also included two brushes: E06 Winged Liner Brush, which creates the perfect winged liner, and E68 Line Perfector Brush, for controlled liner application with powder products. I can’t wait to show you the makeup looks I’ll be creating with these liners and my other Sigma products. Use the hashtag – #standouteyes on social media for inspiration.

Next let’s talk about Luuux Makeup Brushes. I got 3 sets of those (yes, THREE!) and will be giving 2 of those away! One in today’s post, one on Instagram. So if you need makeup brushes, make sure to enter and get your hands on a pretty cool set, which includes: L150 Large Powder Brush, L187 Stippling Brush, L116 Blush Brush, L190 Foundation Brush, L224 Eyeshadow Blending Brush, L195 Concealer Brush, L239 Blending Brush, L242 Eyeshadow Brush, L219 The Pencil Brush, L217 Eyeshadow and blending brush, L208 angled brush, L316 Lip Brush.

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Since I will be quitting my job in the next month or so, I knew I wanted to order hand made all natural soaps from one of the teachers. She’s given me a couple before to try, and I loved them. When she brought me a box of 10 different scents on Wednesday, I knew I wanted them all. Connie started making soaps several years ago as a necessity, not a hobby. She had several health issues caused by chemicals found in every day beauty products. And that’s how her soaps came to be. To learn more about Connie’s soaps email her at

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I am also excited to try these Completely Bare products that I got through Klout. I am always looking for alternative hair removal ways, as I seem to cut myself every time I shave with a razor. I am especially interested in the Body Moisturizer & Hair Inhibitor, it’s Lemon Grass and Green Tea scented, and promises to help reduce hair density by as much as 50%, reduce hair length by as much as 30%, reduce hair growth by as much as 55% in 28 days. I remember using a product like this before (about 5-6 years ago), and I really liked it. I’ll definitely keep you posted on this one.

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And, finally, I received some products from Gerard’s to try out, and I will write a separate post on those. But how cool does Caviar cream sound? So stay tuned!

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Hello, Lolly! See’s Candies Giveaway!

Let me try to make your life a little sweeter today! See’s candies are hard to resist, and why should you?

In honor of National Lollypop Day on 7/20 See’s Candies launched San Francisco Sugar Rush Sweepstakes! You can enter daily until the 20th, and one of you will win quite possibly the greatest candy-filled trip of your life. Want to know more? Check it out here. Plus See’s will be offering free lollipops on 7/20, and special pricing for boxes of lollipops 7/13-7/20. I know I am going!

And as a sweet bonus, See’s Candies has also provided me with a $25 gift card to reward to one lucky reader. I’d totally spend mine on the Dark Chocolate Blueberries! So enter below and good luck!

And if you are at the Mall of America on July, 20, make sure to check out a huge 3D street art display at the See’s store location! Tweet me your pictures if you do!

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Fringe + Real Techniques Giveaway

Obsession with fringe came a few weeks ago when I saw Sonya’s outfit post. Then one of our afternoon aids came in wearing an awesome fringe jacket yesterday, that I absolutely had to try on. And just like that I was in love! Luckily for me there is an abundance of fringe jackets out on the market today. But what I really might go for is the vest, like the one from Forever 21.

It’s also time to say “Thank You” to all of you again, and this time with a Real Techniques makeup brushes giveaway. I use these same brushes everyday, but this set comes with a really cool travel stand as well. Just like always, this is an international giveaway.

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Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) is happy to present the Grand Political Media Barometer report for 49 months of continuous observations (between April 2012 and December 2015). The research summarize our findings and offers the main conclusions concerning the major factors that determined this communication throughout the whole period of observation.

The database on which we are basing our conclusions consists of 75541units of analysis, or 40172 unique instances of media appearance of political forces/individual politicians. Each of the units of media appearance (i.e. article, interview, etc) was analyzed and coded along the 20 various parameters, making the overall sample consist of no less than 1.5 mln.database entrances (units of analysis). To create this database, we objectively and quantitatively evaluated the media-appearances of the Belarusian opposition political forces (and 27 individual politicians), based on the systematic monitoring of the available open media sources.

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1. Seasonal character of Belarus’ independent politics is clearly reflected in the volume of communications (number of observations). There is a clear explosion of politics during the electoral campaigns and the presidential elections could be characterized by the unprecedented growth of communication.

2. Having limited channels to reach society and greater capacity of online media to carry political messages compared to offline media inevitably pushes the Belarusian political forces to ‘migrate’ into the virtual space, which, for the most part, have not been monopolized by the authorities.

3. During the high electoral season, both politicians and parties reference meetings with the constituencies much more than in the previous periods, where they tend to make statements and comment on the events. Moreover, the share of public actions grows during electoral campaigns and the share of policy implementation increases between the electoral periods.

4.  One of the key conclusions that could be drawn, is that there is a gap between the interests of the median voter (the demand side) and the topics that dominate the political discourses of the independent political forces in the media (the supply side).


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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Wanker of the Day

Borrowing in the tradition of Atrios and a few's my idea of "the wanker of the day."

It's by Joe the Plummer, who was interviewed by Christianity Today.

Q: In the last month, same-sex marriage has become legal in Iowa and Vermont. What do you think about same-sex marriage at a state level?

A: At a state level, it's up to them. I don't want it to be a federal thing. I personally still think it's wrong. People don't understand the dictionary—it's called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It's not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do—what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children.

(h/t Josh Marshall at TPM)

The hits of the GOP just keep on coming.

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  • Ummm...let's see, some of your friends are gay, and yet you wouldn't let these friends near your children?? That's a pretty pathetic definition of a friend!

    Message to Joe: Gay does not equal child molester!

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President Elect Donald J. Trump's Transition Website

President Elect, Donald J. Trump and Vice President Elect, Mike Pence, invite you to visit their transition website The Trump team has laid out the framework of his initial policies with policies focused i) on American Security including as Defense and National security, Immigration Reform and Building That Wall, and Energy Independence; ii) Getting America Back to Work Again including Tax Reform; Regulatory Reform; Trade Reform; Education; Transportation & Infrastructure and Financial Services Reform; and iii) Government for the people including Healthcare Reform (Obamacare), Veterans Administration Reform and Protecting Americans' Constitutional Rights. Read more at

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“Young Messiah” makes merchandise of men’s souls

You can’t have a Christiollywood blockbuster without the bling.  While you won’t find Young Messiah Happy Meal toys in your fast food, the Jesus trading cards and games introduce a whole new kind of fandom.

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kit2Successful movies require bling. Successful Christian genre films require endorsements and film-based preaching. From sermon guides and resources to small group study materials, the film is quickly making merchandise of men’s souls.

My previous articles will help discerning Christians understand the theological inclinations of churches and celebrities behind the new movie (see, The Young “Messiah”: Christians delight in really bad fanfiction). You also need to know what’s in the movie itself, by getting a good look at the many doctrinal departures and detours the filmmakers take in the name of art: (see, What’s so unbiblical about “Young Messiah”? Read and weep).

The filmmakers themselves are pushing the film as truth rather than art, and that should concern you:

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The endorsers are pushing this off as doctrinally sound:

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What concerns me more than anything are the resources designed for churches – the very shepherds who are entrusted with protecting sheep from apostasy will now get a kit to help them swallow it down.

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Churches are encouraged to get the free premiere kit, so that pastors can begin showing clips and asking poignant questions of their sheep to get them to think about a 7-year-old Jesus and all of His (I mean his) adventures. Like bringing a dead bird back to life, which is straight out of the heretical Gnostic Gospels, or that time when a bully beat the tar out of wimpy Jesus for playing with a girl, and the girl took a big stick and beat the tar out of the bully, all as a snack-eating Satan looks on.

It never happened. Here’s the bully scene, and “Sister Rose,” a Catholic nun teaching about “Jesus and the Bullies” on leftist Patheos:

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There are small group study guides for Evangelicals, children, and special ones for Catholics.Here’s the scene where Mary tells Jesus who He is, and warns Him not to use His superpowers.  The accompanying study guide for church small groups states:

“Once Jesus understood fully his mission, the weight of his questions was lifted from him and he felt
peace. In the same way, we find freedom when we discover and live out our identities as sons and
daughters of God. Can you think of a time when knowing your true identity in Christ brought freedom and peace? What was that experience like for you?”

The beautiful website and gorgeous film trailers will no doubt enchant many. And anyone who raises concerns will be sure to get the stink-eye from Christians defending their turf and demanding that you consume the full heaping, steaming plate of apostasy before earning the right to say anything constructive or discerning.

You have to see it to know it’s not the Jesus of the Bible, but a different Jesus? Hogwash. Look, the reason I am writing these articles and sharing them is because this movie in particular is theologically dangerous. And the fact that Bible study guides were created so that people could study this fiction about our Lord grieves me to no end.

If you want to go enjoy and consume something false, believing that none of the stories and images can be unseen, then go. But at least be an informed consumer, and know that God does not delight in pablum for the masses.

The Young “Messiah”: Christians delight in really bad fanfiction

What’s so unbiblical about “Young Messiah”? Read and weep

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  1. Glenn E. Chatfield March 10, 2016 at 6:06 pm #

    OH MY!!! This is about as bad as it gets.

  2. Darrel March 11, 2016 at 8:28 am #

    The Lord Jesus Christ is never enough for these people. There must always be fantasy scenarios, re-written history and whatever else they can come up with to try to escape the ever prying eye of the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sins. Catholics have always been famous for this, to them Jesus is either a baby, a child, or hanging on the cross, NEVER will they speak of the resurrection as the Scriptures do. Their “Jesus” is ALWAYS effeminate, weak, powerless, subject to the whims of men, and even sometimes controlled by satan as hinted at in this filth of a movie. And yet people with pretend faith will laud this garbage (their pretend faith is in a pretend Jesus who does not exist) and will not be able to see what a mockery this makes of the Word of God and the Lord Jesus Christ who IS the Word, John 1:1. It was made by pagans, written by an occultist, and endorsed by other pagans—catholics—and assorted fraud “Christians” who do not know the Lord nor are they known by Him.

  3. scott March 18, 2016 at 6:16 pm #

    2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2) And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. (3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

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 54413960 tsetsefly Fires started after Tottenham police shooting protest

Vanessa Robinson said she had joined the original protest outside the police station and it had begun peacefully.

She said the situation had now turned into "absolute chaos".

Maria Robinson, who lives in Tottenham, described the situation as "absolutely manic".

She said people were throwing bottles, "making bottle bombs", setting fires and shops had been broken into.

One person at the scene, who gave his name as Tim, said: "It's an absolute war zone. I walked up there.

"I saw about five youths, all faces covered up. They set a wheelie bin on fire and threw it into the riot police.

"The whole of the police station is surrounded by… about 100 police officers in riot gear and they threw a wheelie bin into it and then started throwing bricks, street signs, anything they could get their hands on, straight at them."

‘Police station attacked’

Another resident, David Akinsanya, 46, said several shop windows had been smashed.

"It's really bad," he said. "There are two police cars on fire. I'm feeling unsafe. It looks like it's going to get very tasty. I saw a guy getting attacked.

He added: "There was a police line of about 15 riot police sort of in front of the police station on the north side and then there were loads of uniformed officers on the south side of the police station.

"They weren't making any effort to go into the crowd. Every now and again they would rush the crowd and the crowd would run.

"But there seems to be a lot of anger in Tottenham tonight… as I left they were starting to attack the police station.

"Obviously they've got the toughened glass so the missiles weren't going through."

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the shooting of Mr Duggan.

A police officer was also injured in the incident, which happened when police stopped a minicab containing Mr Duggan.

It is thought the officer, who was taken to hospital and later discharged, was shot first but this is not known for certain, an IPCC spokesman said.

The Met said a handgun was found at the scene and a bullet was later found embedded in a police radio.

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Vegetarian Predecessors
(Pleistocene Epoch)

Downtown Berkeley BART area

Before the Gourmet Ghetto, farmers’ markets or edible schoolyard gardens, local produce was organic, abundant, and free to all inhabitants. During the late Pleistocene Epoch 15,000 years ago, today’s Berkeley was part of a coastal prairie that resembled Africa’s Serengeti Plains.  Herbivores, mammoths, mastodons, bison, horses, llamas, and camels grazed beside tree-lined streams and through rich grasslands on seasonal migrations toward the nutritious mineral rich ocean shore beside today’s Farallon Islands.

Mammoths (with long coats of reddish or yellowish hair) probably traveled in herds of 10–20. With molars like modern Indian elephants, they grew to a height of 13 feet and weighed as much as 24,000 pounds. Like elephants, mammoths were probably intelligent, caring animals. They forged migratory trails, crushing rocks with their enormous weight and clearing trees. Such well-defined routes were subsequently used by man, and considerably later may have helped determine the placement of roadways like today’s State Highway 12 through the Valley of the Moon and Highway 1 from Rockport to Bodega Bay.

The mastodon, a shorter and stockier distant relative of the mammoth and elephant, reached heights of 10 feet. Baby mastodon fossils, now at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology, together with whale, camel, horse, and rhino remains, were uncovered during Caldecott Tunnel excavations. Other paleontological sites include the Berkeley Municipal Wharf (mammoth), University Ave. (mastodon), and Aquatic Park (bison). When digging the downtown, BART workers uncovered remains of a ground sloth, an herbivore that grew to 9 feet and weighed 600-800 pounds.  Ground sloths could stand on their hind legs to strip leaves from trees. Their powerful forearms also helped in defense against predators like short-faced bears, saber-tooth cats, packs of the dire wolf, and prides of California lions.

Contributed by Robert Kehlmann, 2012

  • Columbian Mammoth (2009), George C. Page Museum, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA.

  • Mastadon rendering (2008), photo Dantheman9758@en.wikipedia.

  • Mastadon Skeleton, Museum of the Earth (2007), Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, N.Y..

  • Baby mammoth mummy discovered in Serbia (2010), Field Museum, Chicago.

  • Ground Sloth fossil (2005), National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

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Analog, June 2006.

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James Grayson and Kathy Ferguson. Puncher’s Chance.

Dave, a mature space engineer/pilot is nonplussed when a politician who is opposed to the spage program comes on an inspection of an earth-orbiting station, en route to Mars. He gets the job of taking her, on a shuttle somewhat passed its best, with a co-pilot he has issues with. Of course, the journey to Mars is evidently (as you would expect) not uneventful, and there is a bigger picture, as Earth starts to get a closeup view of how vulcanicity can impact on our long-term future on Earth.

The story is quick paced, and an easy read, but has nothing in it that hasn’t appeared, with regularity, in SF over the past 50 years, although some will doubtless be enervated by the MagBeam Plasma Propulsion touted in the story, and featured in a followup science fact article. It’s an SF story written by scientists, as opposed to an SF story written by writers.

Richard Lovett. Original Sin.

A track coach is given a means to improve his star athlete – a VR headset, which records in complete detail the experience of the person wearing it, when in record mode, and which plays back those experiences in full to anyone who puts it on in playback mode.

The young student’s racing improves, but he uses the headset for other purposes. WHen the coach tries the headset and finds himself immersed in a full-on porn scenario, he feels ‘mentally polluted’. But worse that a bit of rumpy-pumpy, it transpires that the young student has been getting into altogether darker territory, and has attracted the attention of certain ‘businessmen’.

Charlie Rosenkranz. Preemption.

No stone is left unturned by Rosenkranz in his hunt for humour as the US President scuttles to his deep place of safety as aliens arrive in orbit and start taking chunks out of humanity. Excepts that it’s not us that they’re after, as we’re deemed not a threat. The big threat to the galaxy are in fact our canine companions.

Carl Frederick. The Door That Does Not Close.

A scientist and an alien visitor who is inhabiting an android body of a young boy, go in search of an ancient Roman codex. The reader is dropped straight into the story, and there isn’t a whole lot to report other than the codex is found and the scientist is concerned that the far superior knowledge of the alien visitors makes any scientific study somewhat futile.

Edward M. Lerner. A New Order of Things. Part II of IV.

If your preferences are conservative and you like an easy read with a bit of science thrown in, then a perfect issue. But for my money, you could read the above story outlines, not bother reading the stories, and not actually lose out anything from not having read the stories, which are all straightforward, mostly dialogue-led but lack that something special.

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America Under Siege

Tucson, AZ – “We’re under siege,” said rancher Ed Ashurst, as he pointed to where he had tracked the killer of his friend and neighbor to the U.S.-Mexican border. “Five years ago, we didn’t even bother to lock our doors. Now, my wife and I carry firearms everywhere we go.”

John Ladd is a fifth generation cattle rancher in southern Cochise County, Arizona. The southern boundary of his family property is a ten-mile long stretch of steel fence erected by the U.S. government. On the other side of the fence: Mexico. He told us, “Mexican drug cartels are running this part of America.”

The poet Robert Frost posited that “good fences make good neighbors.” From what our FOX News War Stories team documented this week, that’s not the case here in southern Arizona – where “the fence” on the U.S.-Mexican border remains unfinished. According to many level-headed, beleaguered Americans here, the fence is little more than a “speed bump” for drug couriers, killers, human smugglers and lesser criminals flooding into our country.

Last night, just hours after Mr. and Mrs. Obama and their doting supporters dined on Martha’s Vineyard, our FOX News War Stories team, accompanied by members of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Border Interdiction Unit, walked up a quiet hilltop a few hundred yards north of the “fence.” There, we watched through night vision devices as a group of individuals approached the Mexican side of the steel barrier, timing their movement with the passing of U.S. Border Patrol vehicles.

By the time we departed for another location two hours after dawn, the “jumpers” – all wearing backpacks – had yet to make it into the U.S. Heartened by what we had seen, I said to one of the deputies, “It looks like the fence worked.”

“Yeah,” said one of our guides and well-armed protectors, “But they have spotters who saw us leave. They will try again. Maybe we’ll get ‘em, maybe not. But there are a lot more of them than there are of us. And they are better armed than we are, because the cartels have bigger budgets.”

The numbers verify the claim. Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman – a multi-billionaire who heads the Sinaloa Cartel just across the Arizona border – commands an army of more than 11,000 “shooters” equipped with heavy machine guns, automatic weapons, RPGs and armored vehicles.

That’s more than twice as many “troops” available to the U.S. Border Patrol, Arizona Department of Public Safety, Indian Affairs Police and County Sheriffs on the Arizona border.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu – more than 90 miles north of the border – explained the consequences. “Our deputies are outnumbered and outgunned. We’re up against drug runners carrying AK-47s” – the Soviet-era weapon used by Al Qaeda terrorists and Taliban insurgents fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

After one of his deputies was wounded by an AK-47 toting border-crosser, Sheriff Babeu requested funding to purchase AR-15 rifles for his department. The county turned him down for lack of funds. He told us, “My deputies shouldn’t have to buy their own weapons to protect themselves and the public.” A group of concerned citizens is now soliciting donations to buy the rifles for them.

Larry Dever is the Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona – at 6,000 square miles, it is larger than the states of Connecticut or Delaware. His jurisdiction is home to Tombstone – scene of the legendary October 26, 1881 Shootout at the OK Corral. It also shares an 82-mile long border with Mexico. Last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 550,000 people were arrested trying to illegally enter the U.S. – nearly half of whom crossed the border in the “Tucson Sector” – which includes Cochise County. Yet, Sheriff Dever has fewer than 90 sworn deputies.

After Cochise County rancher Bob Krantz was murdered by an illegal border jumper on March 27th of this year, the Obama administration promised to deploy 1,200 National Guardsmen to “assist the U.S Border Patrol on the Mexican border.” Arizona will get fewer than 550 of them – when they finally arrive. Not one cent of the $600 million appropriated by Congress this month for “Border Security” will go to any of the border states or county sheriffs. The money all goes to federal agencies.

Instead of new weapons, reinforcements and help protecting our southern border, Arizona’s sheriffs and Governor Jan Brewer received something entirely different from the Obama administration: a federal lawsuit. Last month a federal judge in Phoenix decided Arizona could not enforce certain provisions of a state law – SB 1070 – which allowed Arizona law enforcement officers to ascertain the citizenship of individuals stopped for legal infractions. Arizona filed its appeal in the case this week while we were on the border.

That’s not all that happened this week in what one of our hosts called, “the northern edge of the new war zone.” Since we arrived here, a mass grave containing the remains of more than 70 murdered men, women and children from Central and South American countries was found in northeastern Mexico, less than 90 miles from the U.S. border. That brings the civilian murder toll in Mexico to more than 28,000 since 2006 – higher than Afghanistan. And last night, two were killed and three were wounded in a drug-related gunfight here in Tucson.

Meanwhile, the president who insinuated himself in a local police matter in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a zoning matter for a mosque in Manhattan has been too busy to send condolences to Sue Krantz, the widow of an American murdered by a foreign criminal on U.S. soil.


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Medal of Honor citation: George Price Hays

Following our theme of the last few months, we continue to feature MoH recipients of the 20th Century. This month we wrap it up with US Army awardees, and our first has been virtually forgotten in the folds of time. How this happened is beyond me, as he was quite a military figure. Learn briefly about him here:

It has been a pleasure – as always – to bring you these 20th Century warriors over the last few months. Next month we start a fresh theme and will be digging farther into the past. Stay tuned!

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Rank and Organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army 10th Field Artillery, 3d Division. Place and Date: Near Greves Farm, France, 14-15 July 1918. Entered Service At: Okarche, Oklahoma. Born: 27 September 1892, China. G. O. No.: 34, W.D., 1919.

At the very outset of the unprecedented artillery bombardment by the enemy, his line of communication was destroyed beyond repair. Despite the hazard attached to the mission of runner, he immediately set out to establish contact with the neighboring post of command and further establish liaison with 2 French batteries, visiting their position so frequently that he was mainly responsible for the accurate fire therefrom. While thus engaged, 7 horses were shot under him and he was severely wounded. His activity under most severe fire was an important factor in checking the advance of the enemy.


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 Cute Girls Finish First: Is aegyo a form of power? - Beyond HallyuBeyond Hallyu

Cute Girls Finish First: Is aegyo a form of power?

Cuteness is something valued throughout the world. For evolutionary reasons, humans are programmed to want to protect and care for cute things. Big eyes, small mouths, small noses, naivety and innocence are all traits which are universally thought to be inherently cute and they are all traits associated with those most in need of protection from humans, babies. But this attraction to cute goes deeper than just making us coo over photos of babies and kittens, it affects the way we think about many things, particularly impacting our views of beauty and femininity. This is where aegyo comes in.

So what is aegyo? Aegyo is a concept that nearly anyone with any knowledge of Korean pop culture should be familiar with. It has no direct translation into English and although it relates to the idea of cute, it places specific emphasis on the act of being or pretending to be cute. Notably, it is much more regularly used to describe teenagers and adults (specifically females) than children or animals.

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Aegyo plays a huge role in Korean pop culture and girl groups in particular utilise over exaggerated cutesy hand gestures, coy facial expressions and lyrics speaking of shyness and naivety in order to become popular (the often used example being Girls’ GenerationGee’). On variety shows, stars are often asked to display their best aegyo and those who can charm the audience most effectively with their high-pitched voices and affected childlike behaviours are heaped with praise and attention. It is often acknowledged that these acts are fake and unnatural and yet, they are still held in high regard. Female entertainers who are unable to convincingly perform in this way are often made to feel out of place and uncomfortable.

ga inBut pop culture and actual culture are two different things and whether or not a few performers are made to feel uncomfortable in their work is of much less importance than whether all Korean women feel pressured to behave in this way.

I came across an academic article recently that looked into the trend of ‘dollification’ of young women in South Korea and the impact that this was having on these women in their daily lives. It discussed the many aspects of how women are trying to take on a doll-like appearance, in their clothing, diet habits, obsession with appearance and trends towards plastic surgery which creates and emphasises the doll-like features of the face. However it also highlighted the behaviours associated with this, specifically focussing on aegyo. If you are interested, you can read the whole thing here.

aegyoThe author, Puzar, argues that aegyo does play a large role in how young Korean women act, particularly in romantic relationships but commonly outside of this as well. Using cute hand gestures and expressions in photos, for example, and speaking in a way which implies helplessness (such as constant use of the phrase ‘eotteokhae?’ or ‘what should I do?’) are commonly seen behaviours in many young women in Korea.

So if women using aegyo in their everyday lives is common, why do they do it? The article cites many complex cultural reasons but most of them boil down to this: aegyo provides young women, or more accurately young, physically attractive women, with some kind of power. As a university student Puzar interviews says “I can fashion myself into a doll and all that, but then, after getting the guy, I can have it my way, so it is a sort of power.”

These women can use aegyo as a way to charm and sometimes even manipulate others (mostly males) into getting what they want. This can be seen in this SNL Korea sketch (via Asian Junkie) in which T-ara’s Eunjung demonstrates a ‘woman’s language translator’. The ‘translator’ translates all the various things Eunjung says including an aegyo-laden ‘Oppaaaaaa’ as the same phrase ‘sa jwo’ or ‘buy this for me’.

park geun hyeIt is important to remember at this point that despite being one of the world’s leading economies and having just elected a female president (although she is also the daughter of the country’s former military dictator) South Korea still remains a strongly patriarchal country with a huge gender gap. It came 108th out 135 countries in the World 2012 Global Gender Gap Report and the reality for women in the country is that they have nowhere near the same opportunities in terms of career and money-making as men. Combined with the pressure to look good all the time and have expensive, luxury items, using aegyo to get what you want can sometimes be one of the only ways that young women can realistically achieve the high status that they desire and is so valued by society.

The problem with this is that it teaches young women that the only power they have in the world is in their ability to charm men into giving them what they want. It tells them that their only value lies in their appearance, youth and sexuality and not their character, hard work and intelligence. As the author says, aegyo is ‘a daily and normalized weak-tactical approach to achieving life goals － but only with uncertain, uneven, and usually questionable outcomes for overall female agency’.

kim-tae-hee-v-line-face-drink-advertisementAnd what about women that refuse to or cannot for some reason conform to these standards? Women who are perhaps overweight, older, gay or do not fit the stereotypical gender norms. Are they simply not allowed to have a successful life? Must they be forced into a low paying job and unhappy or even non-existent family life simply because they can’t act cute?

I really do understand why young women might use this mix of cuteness and subtle sexuality in order to attempt to get ahead and make a better life for themselves, especially given the pressure put on young Korean women and their lack of real career opportunities. But that doesn’t make it okay. How is anyone supposed to be truly confident in themselves when they are taught to think their whole value lies in their success in manipulating others?

So yes aegyo is a form of power but one that is effective only because it is used by those who may feel otherwise powerless.  If women had more real influence in everyday life, perhaps aegyo would lose its importance. Maybe it would just become that slightly annoying thing K-pop groups do sometimes. I can’t say that would be a bad thing.

This is part of a series of posts on body image and gender in K-pop and Korean society.

  • http://orion21.blogspot.com/ Orion

    Men in such societies like submissive lolitas without a brain, women use that to get what they want, because real intelligence and skills and charm intimidate the “manliness” of guys who are used to being higher in society not because they are necessarily worth it or have earned it, but because they have a penis.

    As long as women cannot achieve things by any other means and as long as their society keeps being so unequal, aegyo will be used. Also, because it is used and many women simply give up on trying to change things, society changes at a much slower pace. It’s a circle. A vicious one.

    Entertainment and pop culture are surely not helping and maybe those are a good place to start. Politicians never will and therefore education won’t, companies won’t. The big powerful “men” won’t, so it has to start from the people. Art and entertainment can influence people. Unfortunately, aegyo sells and entertainment is run by said older rich men who are just fine and dandy with the way things are.

  • Penelo

    I agree with a lot of what you said, but I think you failed to address one point: men do aegyo too. More specifically, young men to their elders (men and women both). If you want to be even more specific, people who don’t have power to the people in power, and women do it most commonly, because they are most commonly the ones without power.

    So I understand why you feel the way you do, and I agree that it’s disturbing that aegyo is so common to women because they are generally, the ones who are on a lower level looking up, but it’s not necessarily gender-specific in Asian culture.

  • nobody nobody

    Aegyo doesn’t imply that the woman is submissive or stupid. Kong Hyo Jin’s aegyo is probably the best in kdramas but who would say that she’s a submissive lolita? She would probably slap you with a hanger if you got her too mad. 😉


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