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What was Once Familiar to You

Some would argue you end up at the right place at the right time. I am not going to argue but, if I were, I would say about the same except sometimes such bad stuff happens I cannot reconcile that anyone could be in the right place in, for example, a horrific moment. But that aside, I could see that the universe has a way of guiding and directing the paths of all within it.

Free-falling into something as if you had chosen it is a concept I was reading about, this summer. It is a surrender, much like childbirth. A successful way to ease the tension and physical pain of childbirth is to surrender to the feeling. Give in. Let it take the lead. Let it take you where it wants to go. There is no avoiding it. There is only learning. Take the path you are on. Notice the rocks in the road, don’t complain about them. Surrender, as if you had chosen a stony path. The path will change, many times. The path is as varied as the landscape across the globe. What was once familiar to you will return again.

The day follows the night; that I can see. What I can feel is the change in temperature, the change in tone. The change in knowledge. The change in people. We are a community, across this world. I would like to act like it. I would like to greet everyone around me with the dignity they deserve. All of us are free-falling, sometimes we’re more tense than at other times. Sometimes we fall with grace, sometimes we fall with fear. Releasing the fear places us at our greatest advantage. As Rilke has written, “Our fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasures.”

What you fear, then, go beyond it. What are you afraid of? I have fears. I’m not going to list them here, I hardly know you. I’m smiling. My point is, I can encourage you to face your fears. Please encourage me to face mine. I am not immune to this. We all need help. Let’s go forward in the direction of our dreams, through the forest of our fears, and come out at the beautiful pacificlike waters of our destination. Remembering that the destination is often the greatest journey. Then, we can climb aboard the sailboats and travel the waters, listening deep inside. Warm sunshine resting across all beneath it. Let’s build a community. Bring your life jacket, there are sure to be stormy seas out past where we cannot see.

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Angry Meth User in Oklahoma Reports Her Alleged Dealer to the Cops

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PITTSBURG COUNTY, Okla. - A mad meth buyer gave police a bizarre tip in southeast Oklahoma.

Split down the middle by Highway 69, Savanna is a haven for truck drivers. But the local Knights Inn has been a haven for crime for years.

“Probably three calls a week down there, sometimes three calls a day,” said David Spears, Chief of Police in Savanna. “This thing has just kind of festered into a problem.”

Chief Spears has been on the force since its inception and says he’s watched hotel management go from bad to worse, most recently under 43-year-old Shannon Folsom.

“When this lady was hired, I told management I didn’t think she was part of the solution,” said Spears.

Now Folsom is part of the past, thanks to an angry tenant and an idle threat.

According to court records, it all started on Saturday.

A woman claimed she tried to buy methamphetamine from Shannon for $100.

While the payment was made, the meth reportedly never arrived.

The woman claimed Shannon and her boyfriend, Jeremy Owens, taunted her, suggesting that she ‘could always call the cops and tell them her dope money was stolen.'

So she did.

Pittsburg County Dispatch soon connected her with the county's drug task force.

“The task force picked up information that they were selling drugs,” said Spears. “They got a warrant, and they come down with our officer and served that warrant.”

Authorities reportedly found a number of illegal items inside the room, all in the presence of a two-year-old child.

Owens and Folsom were swiftly arrested, and the Knights Inn is now under new management.

“They got a new lady down there, she’s taking over and we’ll see what happens,” said Spears.

The woman who originally called dispatch could be facing charges as well.

The case remains under investigation by the district attorney’s office.


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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - Chilling details are coming out of Sunday's mass shooting at the First Baptist Church where police say lone gunman Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire killing 26 people.

Kelley entered the church dressed in all black, wearing body armor, a black mask and carrying an assault rifle. Among the 26 people killed were a dozen children and an 18-month-old toddler!

"Never in a million years would I expect anything like this," a local resident declared. "I could never imagine anything like this ever happening here."

The church's visiting pastor was among the dead-- as was the regular pastor's 14-year-old daughter.

"People were screaming, 'Somebody call the police! Somebody call the police!'" David Brown, a Houstonian whose mom-- Frida-- was shot four times in the leg, revealed after talking to his mother. "And she says she thinks he was shooting their phones."

"It's just a horrific sight," Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt recalled. "I mean, you don't expect to walk into a church and see something like that."

"We are dealing with the largest mass shooting in our state's history," Governor Greg Abbott announced.

"To the wounded and the families of the victims, all of America is praying for you, supporting you and grieving alongside of you," President Trump conveyed from Japan.

Authorities say 20 worshipers were injured in the bloody massacre, including Frida Brown, who is now recovering in a hospital in Floresville.

"And then the gunman came in, and he walked up and down the aisle, shooting everybody if they laid on the ground," Frida's son, David, said. "He said nothing. He'd just-- anybody he heard he'd go and shoot them."

Police say a good Samaritan outside the church, armed with his own weapon, shot the suspect, but Kelley was still able to get into his vehicle and flee the scene.

Then another witness, Johnnie Langendorff, chased him.

"We hit about 95 going down 539 trying to catch this guy, until he eventually lost control on his own," Langendorff shared.

Police later found Kelley dead inside his vehicle in a ditch.

"However, investigators found evidence at the scene that indicates the subject may have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Regional Director of Texas Dept. of Public Safety Freeman Martin told reporters.

Authorities believe a domestic dispute led Kelley to go berserk, but there were definitely some red flags leading up to the deadly assault.

Officials say he sent threatening text messages recently to his in-laws, who occasionally attended the church Kelley targeted.

In 2012, Kelley was dishonorably discharged from the air force over accusations of spousal abuse and child abuse.

Kelley lived in New Braunfels and had worked five and a half weeks at Schlitterbahn Waterpark last summer as a seasonal, unarmed night security guard, according to Schlitterbahn.

Schlitterbahn indicates all of their security guards must pass a criminal background check through the Texas Department of Public Safety, but they say Kelley's employment was terminated.

Still, no one seems to be able to answer what could make anyone commit such an unthinkable act?


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Authoritative, Neglectful, Permissive, Authoritarian…What’s Your Parenting Style?

Back in 1966, Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist, presented the idea that parenting styles can be divided into 3 main categories: authoritarian, which is too hard, permissive, which is too soft and authoritative which is (you guessed it) just right.

Just like the three little bears, this 3-style spectrum covered the most harsh style of parenting to the most soft style of parenting, with the ideal style landing in the middle. Since then, a 4th style has been added to this collective, covering parents who are neglectful or uninvolved.

While this is a quick guide to each of these parenting styles, don’t expect that you will land perfectly into one category. The art of parenting is one of fluctuation and how we deal with our children can vary on a day-to-day basis depending on our mood, their mood, the weather, the position of the stars, etc.

However, knowing where you may spend your majority of your time can help shed light on whether or not your parenting style needs an upgrade:

whats your parenting style?

Authoritative parenting is considered to be the most effective and beneficial style of parenting. When you are an authoritative parent, you have high expectations of your children but you also provide support and understanding. You create a balance between parent and friend and foster healthy communication and boundaries.

Are you an authoritative parent?

  • Does your child’s day have structure?
  • Do negative behaviours have consequences?
  • Do you and your child practice healthy and open communication?

The affects of authoritative parenting on children:

  • Sense of Security
  • Self-Confidence
  • Healthy Relationships

Neglectful parenting, or “uninvolved parenting”, is perhaps the most harmful of the parenting styles. It is recognizable by a negative or absent relationship on the part of the parent. It’s more likely that the symptoms of neglectful parenting would be seen by someone on the outside.

Are you a neglectful parent?

  • Do you spend unnecessarily long periods of time away from your children, leaving them alone?
  • Do you neglect your children’s needs?
  • Do you know what is going on in your child’s life? Do you ask?

The affects of neglectful parenting on children:

  • Difficulty to Trust
  • Early Maturity (too many responsibilities)
  • Issues with Intimacy

While not the worst parenting style to possess, permissive parenting, or “indulgent parenting”, can be its own worst nightmare as it can potentially cause children to have no self-control. Permissive parenting involves being responsive to your children but not demanding – you are very nurturing and loving but establish few rules or boundaries.

Are you a permissive parent?

  • Do you not have set rules?
  • Do you avoid conflict?
  • Do you bribe your kids?

The affects of permissive parenting on children:

  • Lack of Organization and Motivation
  • Difficulty Self-Managing Behaviour
  • Unawareness of the Importance of Consequences

Authoritarian parenting, or “strict parenting”, is the polar opposite of permissive parenting in which you are demanding of your children and not responsive to their feelings. Punishment is often used to demand obedience.

Are you an authoritarian parent?

  • Do you have strict rules with no room for compromise?
  • Do you have your children little or no choices?
  • Do you restrict the warmth and love you show your child?

The affects of authoritarian parenting on children:

  • Insecurity
  • Low Self-Esteem
  • Difficulty with Social Relationships

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A new women’s hockey league was announced on March 26 and will place four teams in the northeast United States.The National Women’s Hockey League will consist of the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale and New York R...

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the radical critique of the international liberal order

The international liberal order is in the news again. In late July, a group of eminent international relations scholars led by David A. Lake and Peter Gourevitch published an open letter in the New York Times defending the order and condemning Donald Trump for his sustained attacks on its institutions:

The international order formed after World War II provides important benefits to the United States as well as to other countries. The United Nations, NATO, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, and other postwar institutions all help to provide economic stability and international security, contributing to unprecedented levels of prosperity and the longest period in modern history without war between major powers.

The open letter capped off a summer of healthy academic and policy debate about the state of international power relations and the institutions that embody them. Criticisms of the statement’s main arguments have been an important part of this discussion. In a Lawfare forum on the future of a post-Trump foreign policy, Heather Hurlburt described “[t]he U.N. and Bretton Woods institutions”—the organizations responsible for international security and economic governance, respectively—as “a mixed bag of good function, poor function and near non-function.” In a separate Lawfare post in response to the Times statement, Paul Staniland criticized “[p]roponents of the order” for “a narrow and highly selective reading of history that ignores much of the coercion, violence, and instability that accompanied post-war history.” And so on.

As is common in these debates, a relatively narrow consensus limits the range of the most prominent objections to the international order and its institutions. In their Monkey Cage post defending the Times statement, Lake and Gourevitch sort their critics, perhaps over-simplistically, into three ideological categories: (1) nationalists, who broadly agree with Trump’s “America First” rhetoric on topics like international trade and NATO burden-sharing; (2) “anti-globalists”—not a term I’m especially fond of, as a Jew—who embrace the left-wing critique of globalization and its discontents; and (3) neo-realists, whose main quibble concerns the order’s limited benefits for US economic and security interests.

This circumscribed consensus in foreign policy theorizing about the international order is non-accidental. As Robert Vitalis convincingly documents in his book on the role of race in the early intellectual history of the academic international relations sub-field, the century-long project of achieving US hegemony in the international system gave way to a foundational body of foreign policy thinking that choked out radical critiques of that same system. Vitalis terms these critical scholars—whose principle target was the early 20th century system of imperial white supremacy—the “Howard school of international relations theory,” after the historically black university in Washington, DC, where many such scholars studied or taught. A combination of McCarthy-era attacks on academic freedom, Cold War funding incentives, and the institutional consequences of desegregation in American higher education diminished the Howard school’s academic influence in the postwar American field of international relations and, therefore, its contributions to postwar debates about the international order that the Allied powers were stitching together in San Francisco, Bretton Woods, and Washington, DC.

It’s not that the Howard school’s radical—that is, system-questioning—ideas about the new international order were nowhere to be found in the postwar United States. It’s just that they migrated outside the international relations discipline. The result is that, with few exceptions, these extra-disciplinary and social-movements critiques of international order are not taken seriously—studied, debated, or referenced in major newspaper op-eds or policy papers by prominent think tanks—by the order’s leading theorists.

As Vitalis observes, the problems of US hegemony, especially in the post-Cold War era, have been a central focus of American academic disciplines ranging from anthropology to sociology to all manner of race, ethnicity, and gender studies. Historians of the Cold War, for example, have pointed to the myriad intersections between the US black freedom movement, Cold War foreign policy dynamics, and decolonization movements of various stripes. Additionally, different types of US social movements—many of them led by or comprised of students and scholars from these disciplines—have engaged with and contested the institutions of the international order, including bodies tasked with governing international trade (the World Trade Organization), international finance (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund), and the protection of human rights (the Human Rights Council, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, regional human rights bodies, and various UN special rapporteurs). In fact, the international order has been a central battleground for transgressive social movements since before the postwar period: in a recent paper in International Studies Quarterly, J. Ann Tickner and Jacqui True argue that feminist activists like Jane Addams articulated the antecedents of latter-day feminist international relations as early as a series of peace conferences at The Hague in 1915.

I have a working paper on the US black freedom movement that focuses on one aspect of this historical question; I hope to be able to post it soon. The black freedom movement is among the most expansive manifestations of the radical critique of the international order, but it is far from the only one. Similar debates have animated protest, scholarship, and public debate about organized labor, the Chicanx rights movement, and the native rights movement, to name a few US / domestic examples; non-US / global movements have also posed important challenges to the concept and policies that define the order’s institutions. A new vision of the international order and its shortcomings requires that international relations scholarship re-integrates these critiques into the study of the order’s purpose and functions.


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If you haven’t yet downloaded Between the Bleeding Willows, Book 1 Demon Hunters, it will be free Oct. 31-Nov. 4th
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Within in the Darkest Hollows, Book 2 Demon Hunters
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Beneath a Sinister Moon, Book 3 Demon Hunters
Coming Dec. 4th!

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11/2 – Brandy Nacole
11/6 – Tricia Copeland
11/13 – AJ Norris
11/18 – Nikki Jefford
12/2 – JL Clayton

(and more authors to come!)

**Thank you to Casey Hays for coming up with this fun idea and helping me**

Beneath a Sinister Moon (Book 3 Demon Hunters) COMING SOON!

That’s right, you read it right…I finished. The epic conclusion to my bestselling series, Beneath a Sinister Moon (Book 3 Demon Hunters) has been offered a contract with Limitless Publishing and will be coming to you soon. So GO GET BOOK 1 & 2 so you’re ready!!!

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Friday, October 12, 2012

What I Learned Last Week

Somewhat to my surprise, last month I got a great response to my post, "My Must-Read List" (HT's to Mark Thoma & Tyler Cowen). This past week I learned a lot by reading some terrific new papers on a variety of econometrics topics. Here they are, with some commentary, and in no particular order:

Degrees of Freedom in Regression

Yesterday, one of the students from my introductory grad. econometrics class was asking me for more explanation about the connection between the "degrees of freedom" associated with the OLS regression residuals, and the rank of a certain matrix. I decided to out together a quick handout to do justice to her question, and it occurred to me that this handout might also be of interest to a wider group of student readers.
So, here's what I wrote.


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So this adoption stuff is very expensive. Andy and I have managed to save enough for most of the actual adoption fees- but we are still quite a bit short for the travel expenses. We are hoping to use Andy’s copious amount of frequent flyer miles- but everyone says its tricky because the dates are so not flexible. Hopefully we can use them for at least an upgrade when we travel home with our future screaming child. I am certain our child will be screaming home on the airplane because, in my youth I have been a total bitch to people with screaming children on airplanes. As someone who is turning 39 in a few weeks, I understand how karma works. And yeah, it’s a bitch.

SO we have two FUNdraisers plan. I hate doing this stuff so I am really working the FUN aspect of it. First we are going to have a yard sale in early August. We are totally taking donations for this. If you have crap you want to get rid of- give it to us. We will sell it. Since we moved so many times- frankly we don’t have THAT much crap. Don’t get me wrong- we have crap- just not THAT much. So anything will be beneficial.

The second thing I am working on is a craft sale. I am super crafty- and I figured if I made stuff- folks may want to buy it as a way of helping us with the fees. I promise it will be good stuff. I am selling handspun yarn, scarves, pins and some fantastic (if I don’t say so myself) little coasters. We are going to have an actual craft sale in Portland at my friends house and I am going to upload stuff to my etsy site-so peeps don’t have to travel to get it. Also if anyone wants to donate a handmade item to our craft sale- I would be more than grateful!  Above is a sneak peek of my super cute coasters.

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Organic Chemistry & the Science of Learning

Walk into most chemistry classes on the first day of term and you likely won’t hear about Hattie’s Barometer. Though it sounds conceivably like a lab instrument one might use to monitor the reactions of chemical compounds, it actually does nothing of the sort. In fact, it’s unrelated to the periodic table, to molecules, bonds, atoms, or ions, and pretty much everything else related to chemistry. So one might wonder (and her students do) what Hattie’s Barometer is doing in Dr. Cathy Welder’s first day of Organic Chemistry 2.

The answer, says Welder, is metacognition. Developed by University of Melbourne Professor of Education John Hattie in 2009, Hattie’s Barometer measures the effects of different interventions on student learning and achievement. Included on the barometer are various things, both intentional and unintentional, that affect how students learn. Television and summer vacation? Slightly negative effects. Gender and class size? Slightly positive. Instructors who understand and employ active and team-based learning? Statistically significant in boosting achievement. It is awareness of these learning processes and strategies—or metacognitive understanding—that Welder aims to promote on day one. For many students, this is the first time they’ve been asked to think explicitly about how they learn.

“At Dartmouth, we tend to assume that because our students have been so successful thus far, they know how to learn,” says Welder. Indeed, the study strategies and learning approaches they’ve used up to this point have served them rather well. Their grades have been high enough and test scores strong enough to gain them admission to Dartmouth. But the strategies that have gotten them this far, says Welder, may not measure up to the demands of higher-level courses.

“Organic chemistry is a whole new ballgame,” she says. "At this stage, chemistry becomes more conceptual than calculative, and it builds on itself in ways that require students to retain and utilize vast quantities of information at once." This is a fundamental skill for succeeding in medical school and in health professions, a goal that Welder says many of her students have in common. Furthermore, Organic Chemistry is widely known across academia for being demanding and unforgiving, and has a reputation for dividing the students who will be successful in pre-health majors and go on to medical school from those who ultimately take a different path. Welder sees this as a pivotal moment to equip her students with the tools they need to succeed.

On day one, Welder spends much of the session talking through the rationale for her teaching approach and sharing the research to back it up. In particular, she shares with students the findings of a seminal study published in the June 2014 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which shows that students in active learning science classes perform better (half a standard deviation better) on exams, and are 1.5 times less likely to fail than students in lecture-based classes. This evidence, paired with teaching philosophies from books like Understanding by Design, Make It Stick, Teach Students How to Learn, and Reaching Students form the basis for Welder’s methods. She emphasizes her goal of helping students learn how to use the knowledge they acquire in new situations, not simply to acquire information. As a result, her lectures are recorded for viewing outside of class, students work throughout the term in carefully designed teams, class time is reserved for practicing with developing skills and asking questions about the content, and students are invited to consider their own learning strategies through a metacognitive lens.

Erin DeSilva, the Instructional Designer who worked closely with Dr. Welder on developing the course, says that implementing strategies like these is a dramatically different approach for many faculty, and requires a significant investment of effort. When asked why she took on the challenge, Welder responds matter-of-factly, "If research shows that lecture doesn’t work best, why would I do it?” Welder also credits the collaborative community of Organic Chemistry instructors that she’s been involved with since 2013, and her participation with DeSilva in Dartmouth's Gateway initiative, which helped push the small, incremental changes she’d been making to her courses to a full-fledged redesign. DeSilva adds, "The Gateway Initiative offers faculty members the opportunity to innovate in their classes, and to bring more active learning approaches like these."

A few weeks into the term, Welder returns students’ first midterm exams and takes the opportunity to invite them to consider their learning progress. “Did you do as well as you’d hoped?” she asks. “And what strategies did you employ to get here?” If students are disappointed in their grades, Welder reminds them to opt for more effective, evidence-based study strategies—quizzing yourself on the material, spacing out your practice, and translating main points into your own words—over less effective but commonly used techniques like rereading the text book and pouring over class notes. Students heed the reminder, and a few weeks later, the proof is in the proverbial pudding. On the second midterm, which tests more difficult material and is taken by all the same students, the median exam grade for the class is 10 percentage points higher.

The gains from Welder’s perspective are even more significant. Compared with the median grade on the second exam in Welder’s 2014 class—prior to her course redesign—students this term are performing significantly better. Not only is the median grade 13 percentage points higher, but the classroom community is less competitive, and more collaborative. Welder is seeing students helping and supporting each other more often. At the end of term, course evaluations reflect students’ appreciation for Welder’s obvious commitment to her teaching, and to them. Student comments, along with student performance data, provide affirmation that Welder’s approach to the science of learning is working:

"I truly feel that this course enabled me to evaluate my study habits and change them for the better. These new habits will affect my experiences in other courses and in a professional environment.”

“The structure of the class was very useful for facilitating learning.”

“Dr. Welder clearly cared immensely about our learning and wants us to succeed.”

“Welder is a seriously dedicated professor who is passionate about teaching.”


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I am just some poor lazy artist who works at a toy store and enjoys spending every penny that I make on figurines. I'm constantly poor without a doubt.

The thing I enjoy most about buying figurines is the cancerous smell of their newness and taking pictures of them.

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Happy birthday, it's been a while!
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Hi,I like your profile,profile pic and collection and thank you for creating the Shinji(My son/
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Happy birthday again! :D
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Happy birthday! It's been forever; hope you're doing some arting!
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bakamandy (Vor 2 Jahren) #14939677Thank you very much （*´▽｀*）

with pleasure. :-D
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Happy Birthday to you :-))
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Hi Mandy!
I was actually introduced to your profile through Sophie. She mentioned that you have an amazing collection :p Thanks for accepting my add!
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Shinji Ikari Defense Squad for life, and fellow Canadian! You have a lovely collection, I'm jealous!
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bakamandy (Vor 4 Jahren) #2435304Haha well it sure comes with its certain level of stress ^q^;; I've had a constant headache for the last few weeks from clenching my jaw too much unconsciously... Preschool is one of the hardest sections to work in too =u=;; and I'm pretty much doing it all by myself because nobody else wants to work in it.
The discount on toys doesn't account for much anymore to me... Canadian TRU doesn't have a great selection of toys (we didn't even get pacific rim stuff 8_8) and I've only found it useful with video games over the last few years... but that's only if they get games that I want to buy.
That's cool! A lot of friends who do film making tend to work in small groups so I don't think it's unusual unless it is a big production.
Haha I wish T_T right now my computer has been BSODing me and I need to reformat it (putting it off like a champ oops) and I don't like drawing at work because people tend to hover around and it bothers me. At this rate I won't be able to draw till after Christmas.

Bawwww, that sucks. *patpat* Hopefully things will get better soon? How do they determine who works where? Maybe you can transfer departments or hint at a raise since you're the only one over there?

Boo, that's pretty weaksauce. Can you get a discount on-line at least? Or maybe do some "inventory transfers" from the US? ;D

Ahhhh yeah, having an audience it no fun. You should hide out where the camping tents are during breaks and draw in there, haha. Why do you always seem to be having computer problems? Stop looking at smutty yaoi stuffs and getting viruses! ;)
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bakamandy (Vor 4 Jahren) #2407868It is pretty great! I'm a nightowl too and pretty introverted so working nights not having to deal with a whole lot of people is nice... it's a lot of physical work x_x getting more exercise in a month than the last couple years combined... but on the bright side, we goof around a lot too so it's not that bad.
UNFORTUNATELY... I'm working in the preschool side of the store =u= so not a whole lot of interesting toys. I have to wander to the other side to check things out... but don't even have much time to do that!
Ohh that's neat! I've always liked the process behind film making :D It does look expensive and time consuming but... I think it would be pretty exciting looking at the end result *_* HOPEFULLY YOU CAN MAKE IT!
Haha unfortunately 8u8 it's not actually a matter of having no time to draw but a matter of no energy to draw? orz I even had a long weekend last week and I just slept the entire time. I've been itching to draw a lot and doodle some things here and there but it's not enough... SO ITCHY... MUST... DRAw....
I haven't been on dA much myself either, well hopefully you yourself can find time to do the things you like 8u8 darn responsibilities...

Ah, I wish I could have a job where I didn't have to deal with people, too (fellow introvert; high five!). Plus getting paid to exercise is nice, haha. And that discount on toys, yum! I'd work there just for the first dibs on the limited/hard-to-find stuff that comes through, lol.

There can be some cool stuff in the pre-school side, no? Plenty of cutesy Fisher-Price and Disney stuff. Although I guess Duplos are over in the building sets area. :p

Yesh, lots of things go into filmmaking and most of it's interesting. Twas very difficult for me though since, as noted above, I am introvert. v_v Good thing it was a very small group of folks and many of them were friends. It's being color corrected right now but still have to finish up sound and music and whatnot (I'm doing things a bit backwards since my DP is very busy and I wanted to make sure color got done before he disappears again). We'll see what happens!

I know dem feels; all I do on weekends now is collapse! But iunno, mebbe you can art during breaks or whatnot? Even just quick sketchings is better than nothing....
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Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) is set as the female lead opposite Patrick Stewart in Starz’s live-action comedy series Blunt Talk, from Seth MacFarlane and Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames, which has a 20-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order. Also cast in the MRC-produced series is British actor Adrian Scarborough (The King’s Speech). Blunt Talk is a character-driven comedy revolving around Walter Blunt (Stewart), an infrequently sober but legendary British import intent on conquering the world of American cable news. scarboroughThe series follows the fallout from Blunt’s well-intentioned but mostly misguided decision-making, both on and off the air. Weaver will play Blunt’s straight-talking, tough and motherthy producer-manager Rosalie Winter, who looks after Walter’s career and helps shape the Blunt Talk newscast. Rosalie and Walter been working together for 20 years and once had a one-night stand. Scarborough plays Walter’s manservant, Harry Chandler (who rivals him in debauchery). Ames and MacFarlane executive produce the series; Stewart serves as a producer.

Two-time Oscar nominee Weaver, repped by ICM Partners, Elevate Entertainment and Felker Toczek, next will be seen in The Voices alongside Ryan Reynolds, and Equals, opposite Kristen Stewart. She also appears on Fox’s upcoming event series Gracepoint.


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My wife and I have been married for 13 years. We have a good sex life. I have no complaints. However, for the last several months she has been rimming me. I mean really going at it like a maniac. When she did it the first time, I told her it was the best ever. Ever since then, when we have sex, she wants to do it because she wants to please me.

The problem is her saliva must be like battery acid. It has gotten so bad I have to keep a tube of preparation H at work and hid at the house. When I get home from work, I have to go and wash my ass because I'm afraid if we do have sex, she will taste the ass medicine. This ritual of washing my hole only makes it worse because it hurts to rub off the ass medicine, making it more raw. I'm afraid if I tell her not to do it one night, she won't do it again. The thought of that is almost as painful as my butt. I mean you have not lived until you have you hands behind your knees, pulling you legs in the air, and your wife jacking you off while her tongue is an inch inside your ass. What do I do?

/goes to throw up

Okay… so… Wait, just one moment…

/goes to throw up a second time

Okay, so rimjobs! Nice! I don't really understand how your asshole can get SO raw from that kind of thing. How long is she down there? An hour? I mean, sweet Jesus. She's tasted fudge. There's no way around it. She has absolutely hit fudge if she's going at for that long and that deep. There's no way around it. She treating your asshole like the inside of a goddamn bundt cake. Ever have the old Pillsbury bundt cake? With the tunnel of fudge? That's your butt.

Anyway, I do believe you're using the wrong medicine. Preparation H is for treating hemorrhoids, which you don't have. It's an active medicine. You just need a moisturizer, like Eucerin Aquaphor. I would try something like that before you take any kind of drastic measure, like scotchguarding your rectum.

Is it that unusual that I often talk to myself? For instance, I'll be walking my dog (which, along with being on the can, is a great time to just think) and I'll just start contemplating out loud. I may do this for a full 10 minutes. I'm sure other people in the neighborhood have heard me doing this and think I must be schizophrenic.

I don't think talking to yourself is that unusual, but I rarely do it out in public. If I do it out in public, chances are I'm not even talking. I'm just muttering really low. I'm sure this makes me look like a lunatic, but far less so than if I were to talk to myself in a normal register. "Well, hello Drew! How are you today, Drew! I'm great, Drew! Thanks for asking! You know what's a funny phrase, Drew? YELLOW MONKEY COCKS!" That would be odd, especially the part about yellow monkey cocks.

When I talk to myself, it's almost always part of some imaginary conversation I plan to have with someone or would like to have with someone, famous or otherwise. We covered this in a previous mailbag, but I spend an inordinate amount of time rehearsing an imagined profile of myself on "60 Minutes". So if you see me walking to the drugstore and saying weird shit, chances are it's me talking to Steve Kroft about my seven consecutive Oscar wins. Steve is very impressed by Alternate Universe Drew, I can tell you that.

I'm much more likely to talk to myself in the house. Or worse, SING to myself. I'm not serenading myself, though that would be fun. I just get a song stuck in my head and start mouthing the lyrics. Sometimes, that will become audible, and I won't even realize it. Then the wife will pipe up:

WIFE: Did you say something?

ME: What? Me? No. You must be hearing things, crazy lady.

Then she goes back about her business. Only she KNOWS damn well I was talking to myself, and I know that she knows this. Yet it passes by unspoken, like a GHOST.

I also get odd phrases stuck in my head. I was forced to read Ulysses once, and Leo Bloom gets an ad stuck in his head about Plumtree's potted meat, and he repeats it to himself over and over because it's just THERE, in his head. This happens to me a lot. For example, I was going through the digital programming guide once and saw some kids' program named JAKERS! listed. I thought nothing of it. Later that day, I'm walking around and my head starts going, "Jakers. Jakers. JAKERS! JAKERS JAKERS JAKERS MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!" To this day, that word still pops up in my brain, and I'll find myself mouthing it. I have no clue what the show is or what it's about. I assume it blows.

Same with a cartoon called "Gundam Wing." I used to see it in the listings a lot and so it stuck in my head Gundam Wing Gundam Wing Gundam Wing, only my brain twisted "Gundam" into "Goddamn" and now anytime I see an airplane I think GODDAMN WING, which is just fucking bizarre. And this isn't some passing thing. I've had this in my brain for YEARS. I can't get rid of it. It's like some kind of bizarre internal thought tic.

A while ago, Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin made a really shitty movie called Fled. I never bothered to see it, but I thought the name of the movie was so awkward, that the word FLED stuck in my brain. Worse, the ads showed actor Will Patton saying the actual word, so now I think of Patton saying that word on a little endless loop in my brain. FLED FLED FLED.

I may need shock therapy.

Keith (again):

Don't you think that Sunday Night Depression should be a legitimate medical condition treatable with medication? When evening falls on Sundays I often stare catatonically at the TV in disbelief that I'm on the cusp of another full workweek. I think anti-depressants may be the only way I can get through this unbearable time.

It's even worse during football season. During football season, I will actually become depressed DURING the Sunday Night game because I know there's only one football game left in the slate for the week. Then it's that horrible six-day slog to get to the next Sunday and more football. It's a terrible feeling. Not as terrible as the entire, endless goddamn summer has been, but terrible nonetheless.

It's also worse when you're single. If you're married with kids, as I am, the workweek isn't so awful. You get to go to work and not take care of the kids, which is NICE. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. But if you're single, you still have weekends that are FUN. No house work. No relatives. No fucking kiddie birthday parties. It's just drinking and sloppy fucking and burritos at 3AM, every weekend. So that makes the idea of Monday a thousand times worse. Sunday Night depression tends to go away with old age, because when you're old, depression fills out the ENTIRE week. Fun!

The building I work in has water fountains on every floor, but by far, the best one is on the first floor. My office is on the 8th floor, but I am more than willing to trek down there when I need to re-fill my water bottle. So, is it just me, or is there only one really really good water fountain in a building at a given time?

No, you're more or less correct. Let's ignore the fact that your work should have a water COOLER somewhere nearby to alleviate the need for a water fountain, and concentrate on your basic issue. It was this way at school, too. Most of the water fountains were horrible at every school I attended. Many didn't even spout water at all, which is a cruel tease.

Anyway, all water fountains should be evaluated on three basic criteria. First: Temperature. Is this water cold? Or is it piss warm and taste like fetid pond water? (If you're using an airport fountain, the answer is always YES, because they want you to buy the shitty Vasa water at Hudson News for three bucks.) Second: Strength of Stream. Does this water fountain ejaculate a mighty stream of liquid, or does it dribble like a bad orgasm? Third: Control. A strong stream is nice on a water fountain, but sometimes that shit is TOO strong, and it'll bukkake water all over you. You want to be able to control the flow of that fountain, to apply enough pressure to the button to get a really nice arc of water to feast upon. A water fountain that has all three of these qualities must be cherished, like a new bride or a limited edition Superman comic. Water from a good water fountain is really fucking good.

When I was a kid, there was a water fountain at our school that had a stream so strong, it shot right over the fountain fixture and landed on the floor. I never got tired of flooding the hallway with that thing, and they never bothered to fix it. I always imagined some poor janitor sopping up the mess with a mop at 4PM, plotting his violent revenge on whoever kept soaking his floor.

By the way, I go to a gym and the gym has two water fountains. Both are for handicapped people, which means they're three inches off the ground. This is horrible, and the problem is compacted by the fact that some asshole will always be at the fountain with a goddamn two-liter Nalgene bottle, spending six hours filling it up. Hey fuckhead, I'm THIRSTY. This is not the time for you to stock up for a power outage. Take your sip and fuck off. And get me a water fountain that I can reach without bending over like a prison mark.

Chet Lemon:

Anytime I watch Braveheart, Gladiator, Troy, etc. and it's a battle scene, I always wonder about the friendly fire. Since I would have adopted the strategy of swinging a sword like a wild man, there is no way that guys didn't routinely kill their own men during battle. Especially since there weren't always clearly defined red coats like those dumb British. Do you think this was just an accepted fact during war? It's one thing to accidentally shoot someone from hundreds of yards away but another to turn around and stab your buddy in the face. I'd guess 10% of people were killed by their own men.

Yeah, I think kings back then probably didn't worry too much about soldiers accidentally planting a battleaxe into each other's skulls. But you're right about movies like that. They always show two armies mash together and start killing the shit out of each other, and you're always wondering how ANYONE survives. Watch the "Lord of the Rings" movies. I love those movies, but the battle scenes make NO sense. Gandalf will be out in the center of the shit on a horse and no one fucking TOUCHES him. What the fuck? It's a melee. Orcs should be attacking his old ass from all sides, even if he has some kind of crazy Wizard force field I wasn't aware of. Even Aragorn goes through the battlefield virtually unscathed. If you were in an orc melee like that in real life (if orc melees were, you know, real), you'd be dead within three seconds.

If I was in that situation and everyone around me was fighting, I'd do three things. First, I'd shit my pants. Second, I'd swing wildly in all directions to keep everyone away, just as Chet would. Third, I'd fucking RUN out of that shit. I don't want to be in a spot where I have to worry about being knifed from any angle. I'm far too claustrophobic for that. That would be like being in a nightclub. I'd have to get out of that shit in the most cowardly way possible.

Also, I'm always oddly happy when I watch a war movie featuring a scene like that and then the go to the titles at the end of the movie and they say something like, "Four thousand men died at the Battle Of Antioch," or whatever. And I'm always thinking, Really? Four thousand? I just watched two hours of fucking carnage and only four thousand guys died? NOT BAD!

I'm a compulsive wiper. Boogers, food smears, zit juice - it doesn't matter. If it's on my hands, I will find the perfect secret place to wipe it off. The girlfriend has recently discovered my talent (I've been getting sloppy) forcing me to retrain in the ways of the ninja Jedi wipemaster. What good hiding spots am I overlooking?

When I lived in my New York apartment, I used to smear boogers ON THE WALLS, right out in the open. My wife was horrified, as she had every right to be. I didn't even bother to wipe the boogers somewhere out of sight. No, no. Just a long trail of dried boogers right where the walls met in the corners of the joint. Horrifying.

Anyway, I too like to wipe random boogers, blood, and loogies in random places to avoid getting up and using an actual tissue. The underside of the floor mat in my car would shock and disgust you. I have no good tips for secret places to do your dirty work outside of the usual spots (under the rug, under the desk, behind the couch, under the couch, under a chair, on your mom), largely because I'm so shameless. Shit, I wipe stuff on my JEANS. That's horrible. Who would do such a thing? I would.

When I worked in an office, I often had garbage on my desk. Old Coke cans. Empty chip bags. Shit like that. They'd be on my desk because I was too lazy to throw them away. A lot of times, I'd jam a booger in the empty can. So not only would I keep garbage on my desk, but that garbage would also be filled with biohazard. I do not value myself.

I hate science. But while playing pool, and after converting a double cushion combo shot, I feel like I could recalibrate the fucking Hubble.

Yes, but surely you curse science once more when you MISS the same shot three seconds later. I always try and become John Nash when I'm playing pool at a bar. "Well, if I bank it off this side, it should bounce off the opposing diamond at a 43-degree angle and deliver the 5-ball gently into the side pocket." I begin to imagine little math sketches and equations appearing the table to diagram my perfect shot. Then I shoot and the ball goes off the table and hits a waitress in the fucking forehead. I suck at pool.

I have an extremely regular pooping schedule- every day, 9 am, like clockwork. This means that I have to take a dump exactly one hour after I start work, and I spend my mornings working in a courthouse.

I don't know if you've ever been in a courthouse bathroom, but people think they're going to get back at "the man" by shitting on everything. It's safe to assume that everything you touch in a courthouse bathroom has at one point been smeared with poop in anger. Now, I'm no princess about where I poop, but I'd prefer not to get hepatitis. So is there a way to push my poop clock back to late afternoon? I'd much rather go back to the office and take my time.

I don't have much to offer in the way of advice (eat bananas?), but I LOVE the idea of future convicts taking out their frustration with the US justice system by defiling a Federal bathroom. That's fucking GREAT. "Goddamn judge. Sentence me to three years, will you? Well then, I guess I'll just diarrhea in this toilet and NOT FUCKING FLUSH. Suck it!"

I like the idea of an angry, spiteful poop. I usually treat pooping as a calming, relaxing exercise. I've never thought it as a vehicle for catharsis. But I like the idea of channeling all my negative energy into a really big shit. I'M SO ANGRY, I JUST… I'M GONNA SHOCK THE WORLD WITH THIS POOP!

I've never imagined shitting on enemies while I poop. I think I will now. Next time I poop, I'mma picture Seth Meyers at the bottom of the bowl. NOT SO SMUG NOW, ARE YOU? YOU LITTLE TITMONKEY.

What is the worst thing a woman has ever said to you that wasn't meant as an insult? I was told I "look like the kind of guy who would wear Hawaiian shirts." That was last summer and I'm still shaken up.

Nothing really sticks out, except for the 8,000 times some girl said to me, "Aw, you're so sweet." That always translates to, "I wouldn't fuck you even if you shot thousand dollar bills out of your cock." If you ever hear that phrase from a woman, you need to restructure your entire approach to women, not unlike a golfer rebuilding his swing from scratch. Being labeled "cute" or "sweet" is penile doom.

So I go to a new dentist today and on the patient medical history, I make the mistake of noting that I've had some high blood pressure readings taken in the past. Why the fuck would this be pertinent information for my dentist? So a little bit into my appointment, the dentist starts asking about my blood pressure and decides she wants to take a reading or two: 160/93, high. 150/90, better. 170/94, fuck.

Yeah, NEVER tell your doctor that shit. Either it's completely irrelevant and you've wasted his time, or he'll note it with concern and make you feel like you're dying or fat.

Also, most medical forms that make you list your history also want you to be SPECIFIC about whatever past ailment you had. They even make room so you can write a little college essay about it. That means extra writing, which means extra work, which means extra time filling out the form before you can take it back to the receptionist so she knows you are ready to fucking go see the doctor now. FUCK THAT. No chance I'm doing that. It's a spotless patient history for me! THAT BOUT OF SIFFY NEVER HAPPENED.

Although, and this will sound odd, I‘ll sometimes go through that long list of ailments to check off and feel a bit left out that I never got them. Have I ever had liver failure? No. Kinda sad I never have. I bet people would send me cards if I had that. STUPID HEALTHY LIVER.

Seriously, what is the fucking point of ordering (or making) a chicken salad sandwich? I might as well be ordering half an order of chicken salad on my plate, half on my crotch and two pieces of toast. Who the hell looked at chicken salad and decided "Yeah, that's stable enough to go in between two pieces of bread without falling out and leaving mayonnaise residue all over my crotch"? I wish that person could spend eternity trying to be taken seriously in an important meeting with dried mayo on their crotch.

It's even worse if you're me and you hate mayo and you'll never accept any chicken salad with that horrid fucking goose taint all over it. Mayo is awful, but it acts as a critical binding agent in something like chicken salad. Without it, it's not chicken salad. It's just a pile of stuff. Still beats having mayo on it, though.

Anyway, I too dislike sandwiches like this where a chunk of meat will always pop out the back upon eating. UNLESS that sandwich is served in some kind of enclosed bread, like a pita. Kebabs are good like that, unless the pita hasn't been wrapped with foil on the bottom. Ever have a kebab pita completely break down on you? So fucking sad.

What's your stance on naked pooping? I enjoy it alright, but something just feels off about it.

Agreed. I watched a birthing class vid once where the woman was giving birth while naked. It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and that's what I think of if I take a shit while nude. I think of gross, sweaty, naked birthing. It's not for me.

Have you ever realized you're almost out of beer and you've got company coming over? If you're like me, you run out and buy some that's warm because you're a dipshit, hastily throw a few into the freezer because you need them cold in a hurry, and then forget about them when something comes up, or because your guests one-up you and show up with a bottle of wine. Then you find your emergency beers a few days later exploded in your freezer. I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me.

I've had it happen enough times now where I now put the beer in the freezer and become a complete neurotic about checking up on it. Is it cold yet? Is it cold yet? Is it cold yet? IT'S KINDA FROSTY NOW! TRANSFER! TRANSFER!

Sometimes, I'm just a little late and I get to the beer in the freezer and it's just begun to crystallize in the center. That is so fucking cool. I could stare at partially frozen beer for days on end. Looks like something Superman would drink while hanging out in the Fortress of Solitude. CRYSTALS ARE MYSTERIOUS AND POWERFUL.

Buying beer the day of having company over always sucks. I go to the store, and the beer I want to buy is ALWAYS in the warm aisle, which means I gotta do the freezer thing. Or worse, it's in the cold case, but then I bring it home and the wife is all THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN THE FRIDGE FOR ALL THAT BEER, but I know damn well I can't leave it all out to skunk. So I cram that shit in every available orifice of the fridge. And then the wife is just HATEFUL of that beer taking up so much precious fridge real estate. Women get so testy with fridge and pantry space. As if beer isn't worthy of being in a fridge with the cottage cheese. It has every right to be in the crisper. WHO ARE YOU TO LOOK DOWN AT MY YUENGLING, LADY?!

And my time is up this week. Time for another GREAT MOMENT IN FART HISTORY. Reader Mike sends in a story I call GREAT FARTSPECTATIONS.

Seventh Grade. English class. 5th period (post-lunch). We had just had a very questionable beef burrito from the cafeteria and played a fun round of Smear the Queer when the bell rang and my friends and I went back to our classroom for our Big English Test. I don't even remember why the test was such a big deal, but I do remember that the teacher was super strict and would not allow a noise to be uttered during tests and would not allow anyone to leave the classroom to go to the bathroom.

Anyway, about midway through, the combination of the burrito and the running around starts to take effect and something's bubbling up inside. I start to panic because I know I cannot ride this out until the end of the test. A fart WILL come out.

The option of the bathroom is out. The room is totally quiet and still. You could hear a pin drop. I can't hold it any more. I position myself on the chair so that no one can tell what I am about to do... What came out of my ass was my crowning achievement of all middle school.

That fart was the deepest, loudest, gnarliest two-second eruption I have ever produced. Like Keyser Soze, as soon as it appeared, it vanished, leaving no trace. Amazingly, there was no smell. Just pure Dial it up to 11 volume.

Of course, everyone starts cracking up. I mean everyone, even the girls. The good thing is that since everyone was concentrating on their test, no one was able to identify the source. Everyone was just laughing their asses off and even the teacher managed to smile for a half second before ordering everyone to quiet down and continue the test.

So, I feel I am home free! I have just pulled off the most amazing feat with no one knowing it was me. Unfortunately, amid the simmering giggles, someone actually starts the investigation. "Who did that?" People start looking around trying to figure out where the noise came from. Luckily, it was all volume and no stink, so it couldn't be traced. They start looking in my general vicinity as I am sitting in the center of the room and I laugh nervously hoping the inquisition is called off and the teacher tells us again to go back to the test.

It was then that the guy sitting directly in front of me looks back at me in an accusatory form. He was about to rat me out! Before he could say a word, I said, "Dave, that's disgusting!" I think he was shocked. I will never forget the look on his face. It was a mixture of "Why?" and "You asshole!" At that point, the teacher took command and ordered everyone to be quiet again and the giggling stopped and we all got back to the test.
I have always regretted laying the blame on Dave, but I thought for sure he was going to rat me out and I couldn't be "The Guy that Farted during the Big English Test". That would have derailed any hope I had with any girl in the school. He did become that guy and, unfortunately, he wouldn't live that incident down until we all left for high school…


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#J445: We’re going to dive into job hunting in Monday’s class. Don’t forget we’re meeting in the Mac Lab, not Tehama 130.

Here’s what’s on tap:

  • Discuss grabbing your social media metrics and what these mean for assignments you’ll have this semester.
  • Broad review of the range of job-hunting tools you’ll be creating this semester.
  • An overview of our guest speakers and their role in our course.
  • Dive into your first task, which is the Job Hunter’s Profile.

Have a wonderful weekend. I’ll see you Monday at 8 a.m.

Grab Those Metrics!

Happy Friday #J445! Congrats on making it through week 2 of the new semester.

I’m guessing many of you will be working in a variety of social media platforms over the course of your semester-long internship. If you have not already done so, one of the things you must do ASAP is grab your baseline social media metrics.

What does this mean?

Before you embark on your social media efforts you need to understand where your internship social media platforms stand at the start of the internship. For example,

  • How many Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook followers does your organization have today?
  • How active are the sites?
  • What were the most successful engagement posts or tools used in the fall? Why were they successful?
  • What does customer engagement mean to your supervisor and the organization you are interning for?
  • How is engagement tracked and measured by your supervisor?
  • How is success defined and measured in the social media spaces your organization occupies?
  • How are you going to move the social dial in a positive way via your internship tasks?

Why do I need to do it?

As a communications professional, you’re expected to get RESULTS. It’s not enough to just push a message out to your audience via a social platform. You must engage your audience, measure the impact of your communication effort, track what is working and what isn’t, modify your communication strategy to focus on what works, and MEASURE the impact of your efforts.

In your resume, LinkedIn profile and in job interviews, you want to talk intelligently about the messages you helped craft in your internship, but also the impact those messages had on your audience. You want to be able to quantify the number of customers that engaged with your organization due to your efforts.

How can I learn more?

There are a lot of resources online to understand social media metrics. Two of my favorite resources are:

  1. Social Media Today
  2. Katie Paine’s Measure What Matters, and you can check out her website.

We’ll talk more about this throughout the semester. Bring your questions to class Monday.


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On 1 August 2018, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of Ebola in the northeast, the second outbreak of the disease in the country this year.

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Where we work, we may see people with a mental illness or confronting distressing situations, such as violence, loss or displacement. Mental health support can be crucial to help people cope.

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Armed conflict has forced over 2.3 million people to flee their homes across the Lake Chad Basin. Violence and multiple forced displacement have destroyed what ability people had to support themselves, with many dependent on humanitarian assistance.

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Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing phenomenon in contemporary medicine and has emerged as one of the pre-eminent public health concerns of the 21st century.

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Every year, an estimated 500,000 people flee extreme violence and poverty in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and head north through Mexico to find safety. The high levels of violence in the region are comparable to that in war zones where MSF has worked for decades.

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Since 25 August 2017, a massive exodus of over 706,000 Rohingya people have fled Myanmar. We are urging the Myanmar government for unfettered access to Rakhine state to ensure the impartial delivery of aid to those in need.

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I've put together a wallpaper design free for all to download free. It illustrates various environments blended together in inside the 3D text "Actions," and serves to remind us that it's time to start Changing our Actions to avoid continued climate and environmental issues our world faces. This download is part of Blog Action Day, which this year is focused on "Climate Change." Learn more at the jump, and download this wallpaper!

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This wallpaper design is part of Blog Action Day 2009, a worldwide initiative started by Envato founders Collis and Cyan Ta'eed, now being run by Blog Action Day exists to change the conversation on the web for one day by uniting thousands of bloggers around one important issue - this year, Climate Change. It's not too late to register your blog and participate.

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I've created an organic wallpaper design for you to download free. It illustrates the text "Changing Actions" by embedding various climate images inside the 3D text. Blending various climate images and related animals inside the word "Actions" shows how we need to start changing our actions now to preserve our environment and avoid continued global climate problems. You can see more of my work in my Behance Portfolio.

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Creating this typographic illustration for Blog Action Day has been a very exciting project. The words I use in this illustrations are mere excuses for practice most of the time, so it was a relief to have a well defined topic and to be a part of something so important.

The demand was for a positive and inspiring message, and after some art direction from Sean Hodge, we settled on the words "Changing Actions." I intended to not only show a rich and diverse natural environment, but also a different kinds of impact that man can have on the world. Instead of destruction and damage, the focus is on preservation and protection.

The way that this concept took form was by placing all the nature elements inside a clean and simple typographic layout. The letters became a haven for several ecosystems, which I blended seamlessly throughout the word "Actions." After creating the text in Cinema 4D, I scoured the web for nature stock photography and began to slice up the images in place. Throughout the process, I used a pen tablet to modify, recreate, and draw elements in place.

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Chorizo and Asparagus Frittata

This is a large frittata that serves 6 people. I have only ever made frittata in the oven.  I use different ingredients, each time I cook this so i will try to post the different combinations.

  • Fritata1 Chorizo
  • 1 bunch Asparagus
  • Generous handful of baby spinach
  • 1 large chilli
  • 1/2 tsp garlic
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 8 eggs
  • 1/4 cup tasty cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup Feta cheese
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese
  • 20g butter
  • 1 tsp Olive Oil
  • Dash of Paprika

Apply a generous amount of melted butter onto your baking dish.

Dice Chorizo into 2 cm pieces. Cut each Asparagus into 3 pieces.

Heat a dash of oil in a frying pan and cook Chorizo until it is browned.  Transfer to a plate and set aside. Remove fat/oil and wipe pan clean, add a small amount of butter and  place pan back on heat, add Asparagus, garlic and chilli and cook for 1 min, add handful of spinach and remove from heat.

In a large bowl, crack 8 eggs, add milk, cream,paprika, cheddar cheese,  and 1/2 the parmesan cheese. and mix. Season to taste. (Chorizo and Feta are salty so please be extra careful with salt).

Add Chorizo, Asparagus, garlic, chilly, and spinach to the eggs, mix gently – pour into baking dish.  Place pieces of feta cheese into the mixture, Sprinkle top with remaining parmesan cheese.

I also put small dollops of butter in the mixture 10g tops – this is not necessary but it does add to the flavour.

Bake in a moderate oven – 180 deg C for 25 – 30 mins, till frittata is firm and just slighty wobbly in the middle.

Tip: 15 mins into cooking turn the dish around so you get an even colour on the top.   As you can see from my photo I forgot to do that.

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We fired the suicide car bomb before it entered the base. It exploded outside the base. Seven Somali soldiers were injured” – Ali Said

An Islamist group “al Shabaab” claimed responsibility for suicide car bomb explosion at a military base in Somalia which injured seven soldiers on Saturday.

Major Hussain Ali said the attack took place at a Military base outside the town of Kismayo in Southern Somalia.

This event happened at the same spot where a U.S Solider was killed in an attack on Friday.

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Title: Pinghua population as an exception of Han Chinese's coherent genetic structure
Author: Gan, R.
Pan, S.
Mustavich, L.
Qin, Z.
Cai, X.
Qian, J.
Liu, C.
Peng, J.
Li, S.
Xu, J.
Jin, L.
Li, H.
Cooper, A.
Citation: Journal of Human Genetics, 2008; 53(4):303-313
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Tokyo
Issue Date: 2008
ISSN: 1434-5161
Contributor: Cooper, Alan
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Rui-Jing Gan, Shang-Ling Pan, Laura F Mustavich, Zhen-Dong Qin, Xiao-Yun Cai, Ji Qian, Cheng-Wu Liu, Jun-Hua Peng, Shi-Lin Li, Jie-Shun Xu, Li Jin, Hui Li and the Genographic Consortium
Abstract: The Han Chinese is the largest single ethnic group in the world, consisting of ten Chinese branches. With the exception of the Pinghua branch, the genetic structure of this group has been studied extensively, and Y chromosome and mitochondrial (mt)DNA data have demonstrated a coherent genetic structure of all Han Chinese. It is therefore believed that the Pinghua branch, being members of an old branch of the Han Chinese, despite being scattered in and around Guangxi Province where members of the Daic and Hmong-Mien are more prevalent than Han Chinese, is no exception. We have studied 470 individual samples (including 195 males) from Pinghua populations and other ethnic groups (Zhuang, Kam, Mulam, Laka, and Mien) from six areas (Hezhou, Fuchuan, Luocheng, Jinxiu, Sanjiang, and Wuxuan) in the north of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Both mtDNA and the Y chromosomes were typed in these samples. High frequencies of the Y chromosome haplogroups O2a* and O*, which always present at a high frequency among the populations of the southern minorities, were found in Pinghua populations. Only Pinghua populations in Luocheng and Jinxiu maintain the Han frequent haplogroup O3a5a. mtDNA lineages B4a, B5a, M*, F1a, M7b1, and N* were found in Pinghua populations, exhibiting a pattern similar to the neighboring indigenous populations, especially the Daic populations. Cluster analyses (dendrograms, principal component analyses, and networks) of Pinghua populations, the other Han branches, and other ethnic groups in East Asia indicated that Pinghua populations are much closer to the southern minorities than to the other Han branches. Admixture analyses confirmed this result. In conclusion, we argue that Pinghua populations did not descend from Han Chinese, but from southern minorities. The ancestral populations of Pinghua people were assimilated by the Han Chinese in terms of language, culture, and self-identification and, consequently, the Pinghua people became an exceptional branch of Han Chinese's coherent genetic structure.
Keywords: Guangxi; Han Chinese; Pinghua population; Mitochondrial DNA; Y Chromosome
Description: University of Adelaide consortium member: Alan Cooper
RMID: 0020086083
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-008-0250-x
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The Wellspring for young people, v. LXX, no. 45, November 8, 1913.

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Digital Media Management Links November 2018

A roadmap for DAM management. From creating a business case to DAM implementation and beyond, this article discusses a wholistic DAM strategy. It also features links to related articles. – CMSWire

Librarians bring essential skills to digital asset management. This article outlines the unique value that librarians bring to the DAM administration. With their ability to sort and classify content; create, manage and govern metadata; and construct efficient workflows, librarians can unlock the full potential of DAM technology. – KMWorld

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The subject of this project is the common perceptions that exist towards microfinance in Cameroon within the community of those who work with or are influenced in some way by microfinance institutions. Furthermore, the project focuses on the ways in which these perceptions affect the institutions, the actions of the institutions amidst and in response to these perceptions, and to what extent these actions have a positive effect on the community and the firms themselves. I also examine to a certain degree the relationship between the two main goals of category two and category three microfinance firms: specifically, the fulfillment of social goals such as poverty alleviation and financial success. A large part of my research is based on my involvement with UNICS Plc., a category two microfinance institution with its head office in Yaoundé. For the purposes of research, I was an intern at UNICS for two weeks of this project to better understand how individual microfinance institutions function in the face of community perceptions.

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Considering the broader context of school reform that is seeking education strategies that might deliver substantial impact, this article examines four questions related to the policy and practice of expanding learning time: (a) why do educators find the standard American school calendar insufficient to meet students’ educational needs, especially those of disadvantaged students? (b) how do educators implement a longer day and/or year, addressing concerns about both educational quality and costs? (c) what does research report about outcomes of expanding time in schools? and (d) what are the future prospects for increasing the number of expanded-time schools? The paper examines these questions by considering research, policy, and practice at the national level and, throughout, by drawing upon additional evidence from Massachusetts, one of the leading states in the expanded-time movement. In considering the latter two questions, the article explores the knowns and unknowns related to expanded learning time and offers suggestions for further research.

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  • Expanding time in schools is an increasingly popular strategy in schools serving disadvantaged populations
  • Establishing an expanded-time school requires that educators must overcome significant obstacles
  • Expanded time has strong associations with improved student performance at the individual level, but complexities of time use at the school level make it more difficult to isolate time as singular factor in connection with student outcomes
  • Current research admits to several unknowns with regard to determining the role of time in generating student outcomes, most notably, the complex interaction of time and instructional quality, though effective practices research offers several insights in how having additional time can enhance a school's overall educational program overall and, in turn, individual student learning

Author Biography

David Farbman is the Senior Researcher at the National Center on Time & Learning. He has authored several studies examining the impact of time on different facets of learning, as well as papers related to the policy implications and public understanding of expanded-time schools. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from Brown University.

The author wishes to thank Blair Brown at the National Center on Time & Learning for reviewing the manuscript.

Responses to this Article:

Mike Feinberg, Commentary on "Expanded Learning Time in Schools" (October 2012)