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Love or Hate

“If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar;           for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen”, 1 John 4:20

Today we are going to look at the above verse as it means as well as apply it to current events mainly happening in St. Louis, MO but sure it is also happening around the world. The first part of the scripture “Love God” is a commandment given to us but stated in Mark 12:30:

 “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with    all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment”, Mark 12:30

The second part of the scripture “hates his brother” Is in contradiction to Mark 12:31:

          “And the second is like, namely this, thou shalt love thy neighbor   as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these”, Mark 12:31

Simply put, we have a man who says he loves God but hates his neighbor is either telling a lie about loving God because God’s commands are very clear as we revisit Mark 12:30:

It should be noted here that John mentions “liars” in this letter four other times:

  • 1 John 1:10
  • 1 John 2:4
  • 1 John 2:22
  • 1 John 5:10

Simple terms:

  • A person who shows hate for others but claims to know God is lying;
  • Someone who knows God but fails to keep his commandments is a liar;

The second part of the verse adds an explanation, moving from the “seen” to the “unseen.” It is more difficult to love someone you cannot see than someone you can see. If a person cannot love those they see, they cannot reasonably claim to love those they cannot see. This verse explicitly declares that a person cannot truly love God while hating other people. The person who claims to love God must also show love for others.

This also ties into the idea that, since we cannot see God in all His divine essence, love is meant to be the way God is seen. Both in ourselves, and in the world, God’s love is meant to be the way humanity “sees” Him.

Now let’s take this into the context of today’s happenings. In the past, we have had two major incidents in the St. Louis, MO area.  They both surround an incident where a black person is shot by a white cop.  Now stop right here, we are not getting into the debating of this issue as our justice system decided and that is not the point here.

However, from the most recent event, below are some quotes from the organizers of the protest:

He urged his congregation to practice “DARE: Daily Acts of  Resistance against Evil.” “Resistance closes freeways without ever stepping on them,” he said. “Resistance shuts down concerts without ever showing up downtown. Resistance closes  businesses, closes streets, closes malls. “Resistance works, baby.”

I am not admonishing freedom of speech but would it surprise you that the last was by a man of the cloth? On Sundays, this man of the cloth stands before his congregation and preaches God’s Word but during the week he urges resistance against evil being our neighbors that had nothing to do with the reason they are protesting in the first place.

The bible does not condone protesting so long as it’s civil, peaceful and not inciting violence. Romans 13:1-6 pretty much sets out God’s requirements for a protest.

The Lord Jesus taught us that no matter what we should always pray and never give up. In the parable of the persistent widow, the Lord taught that even an unjust judge will do what is right in response to persistent prayer and pressure. Read Luke 18:1-5

You may not believe it sometimes but God hears our prayers. We tend to think that when we don’t get a response or we missed the response God didn’t hear our prayer. We are either praying, or we have given up. If we have given up it is probably because we neglected to pray.

You can only be informed, involved and interceding only if you pray.

Scriptures specifically states violent revolution is clearly forbidden. Read Titus 3:1.

There are three types of people:

  • Some people watch things happen;
  • Some make things happen;
  • Others don’t have a clue what happened!

As Christians, we are ambassadors of Christ. Therefore, we are to be the light and the salt in society.  The salt preservation of morals and light bringing the hope and truth of the Lord Jesus Christ thus dispelling darkness and evil. This is supported by scriptures Matthew 5:13-16.

To act with wisdom, humility, and order we must pray to God before standing up to our neighbor’s liberties.

No matter what evil the government is promoting then we must say:

“Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.” Acts 4:19.

Other than matters of worship and evangelism, we as Christians are commanded to as the Apostle Peter tell us:

“…Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.” 1 Pet 2:13-14

So, in closing we learn the following:

  • We must love God who we cannot see and our neighbor who we can see;
  • If you love God and not your neighbor you are a liar;
  • It’s alright to protest so long as it is civil and peaceful;

Churches and politics have worked hard to stay out of each other’s playground. So, when you get a man of the cloth out there rallying the troops in my opinion is the same as hating your neighbor because come Sunday he is in front of his congregation praising the Lord.

So, if we are going to protest, let us protest something that we can change and target the people that can help us make the change. Targeting the businesses is only hurting thy neighbor and is probably not going to change the outcome of what they are protesting.

So why don’t all the protestors get together and fight a battle that can be won just as some justice for the homeless. The scriptures tell us that we are supposed to help the less fortunate.

So, whatever the cause you decide to protest, Remember these things:

  • Make sure the cause is a worthy cause;
  • Make sure it’s not hate against your neighbor while loving your God;
  • Pray for the strength of peaceful civil protest;
  • Make sure it’s a cause that can make a change;
  • Know when to call it a day;
  • Pray for guidance;

“Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered”, Proverbs 21:13

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SG1-15 The Power Behind the Throne

By Steven Savile

SG-1 are asked by the Tok’ra to rescue a creature known as Mujina. The last of its species, Mujina is devoid of face or form and draws its substance from the needs of those around it. The creature is an archetype – a hero for all, a villain for all, depending upon whose influence it falls under. And the Goa’uld Apophis, understanding the potential for havoc Mujina offers, has set his heart on possessing the creature.

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Steven Savile has edited a number of critically acclaimed anthologies, including Elemental, Redbrick Eden, and Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague. He also compiled Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions and Black Gondolier and Other Stories, the collected horror stories of Fritz Leiber. He is the author of the Von Carstein Vampire trilogy (Inheritance, Dominion, Retribution) set in Games Workshop’s popular Warhammer world. He wrote the best-selling original audio novel Torchwood: Hidden for BBC Audiobooks, as well as a novel based in the Primeval universe. He has also written for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and four incarnations of The Doctor.

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Fifty feet from the gate the blue water of the event horizon ripped out of the aperture. The way home was open. O’Neill had done it. Teal’c saw the colonel go down again. The sucking silence that followed was hideous. Then both Carter and Daniel Jackson were yelling — this time the sound was primal and filled with fear for the fallen O’Neill.

Teal’c ducked beneath a wild burst of fire from a Jaffa weapon, and ran, hard, fast, keeping low, his arms and legs pumping. A burning man staggered across his path. The flames consumed him, turning his flesh to blistered sores. Teal’c fired once, putting the Jaffa out of his misery, and was past him. He ran to O’Neill’s side and gathered him into his arms. The colonel shuddered once, violently, and opened his eyes. “Go!” he rasped.

“Indeed,” Teal’c said, rising. He watched Daniel Jackson’s back disappear through the gate and followed him. “We do not leave men behind, O’Neill. That is the law.”

But O’Neill had lapsed into unconsciousness.

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Archive for May, 2011

Summer Events

Two new events have been added to the calendar, these being the club picnic on July 9th and the Slovak Illustrators & Czech Art Exhibit on August 5th. Do not forget about the Sugar Creek Slavic Festival which is drawing near on June 10th & 11th. We are looking forward to seeing you!

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Making It Nice With Daniel Humm and Will Guidara

Making It Nice With Daniel Humm and Will Guidara

The famed restaurateurs of Eleven Madison Park talk their newest hotspots and expanding their ventures

In a global, food-obsessed culture in which Instagram is king and people regularly partake in culinary pilgrimages to iconic restaurants, the founders of Make It Nice Hospitality Group know unequivocally that they can never stop innovating. It’s not enough that Eleven Madison Park was once named Best Restaurant of the Year, or that the NoMad has now opened a Los Angeles outpost. The rise of the fast casual restaurant has caught their eye, and they’re all in. They want to own the entire space from fine dining to superb everyday restaurants to fast casual eateries people frequent daily. They shall leave no culinary stone unturned in an effort to bring unique experiences to all types of customers. And perhaps it’s that exact philosophy that has led them on the path to building an empire.

CSQ Can you tell us about your individual upbringings and how that shaped your future and sparked your love for all things culinary?

Will Guidara I grew up in the hospitality world. My father worked with Wolfgang Puck, Au Bon Pain, Pizzeria Uno, and Restaurant Associates. He was my hero growing up; I always wanted to be like him, so going into restaurants was an easy choice. I look to him for inspiration and guidance to this day. My early jobs included working in the dining rooms at Spago in Beverly Hills and at Tribeca Grill in New York City. Each experience made me fall in love more. My first management position at Tabla with Danny Meyer sealed the deal.

Daniel Humm Unlike Will, I didn’t grow up around the restaurant industry, but I was exposed to cooking from a young age. Growing up outside of Zurich, home cooking, visiting local farmers, and even growing some of our own produce were all common place. My mother always had me help her picking lettuces and vegetables, washing them thoroughly, and prepping them for lunches and dinners. At the time it seemed a chore, but looking back I realize how important it was. Taking a role in a restaurant came about in part because I needed to get a job, but also because I enjoyed cooking and had an appreciation for it. It wasn’t the path I wanted to take professionally, that was to be a cyclist, but after an accident when I was 16, plans changed.

Eleven Madison Park’s renovated dining room

EMP was named the best restaurant in the world, and then you made the bold move to close for renovations. What was your thought process behind that?

WG There is a quote by Willem de Kooning, “You have to change to stay the same,” that is a big part of our company’s philosophy. We believe in constant evolution, always reinvesting and reinventing from a position of strength, not waiting until the experience is tired and you need to. While it was a pretty bold move to close after the big win, the timing was right. We had just signed a new 20-year lease, and felt ready to give the restaurant the facelift that we had been dreaming about for some time.

What type of experience will a guest have now at EMP that they wouldn’t have had before, prior to the renovations?

DH It’s still the same experience—gracious hospitality and delicious food—but now the room is more comfortable, more inviting, and more reflective of who we are. And then in the kitchen we have a few more tools of the craft, things to help us advance our food even further and better the guest experience.

EMP even has a presence in the Hamptons, for the second year in a row. Why is that an important market for you?

WG The decision to move to the Hamptons was based on the fact that we were renovating and we wanted to keep our staff. When we were thinking about how to do that, we asked ourselves what New Yorkers do in the summer. They go to the Hamptons. So we did the same. It was an amazing experience—getting to reconnect with our regulars, getting to spend more time with the farmers out there that we have worked with for so long, and getting to bond with our team as we all spent a summer together on the beach!

Jacques Garcia of Studio Jacques Garcia collaborated with Humm and Guidara on their newly minted West Coast restaurant, NoMad Los Angeles

How do you approach your growth strategy for the business?

WG We are lucky enough to have a deep bench of ambitious talent, and part of our strategy is to watch them thrive. They commit themselves fully to our business and our ethos, and we want to give them opportunities—to watch them grow is to watch our business grow.

How did you start out in the business, taking a passion and turning it into a successful career?

WG I have always wanted to work in hospitality. I learned how important drive, ambition, and a strong work ethic are from my father and I never let go of my goal, which has always been to create meaningful experiences for people.

Did you ever think your hard work would create an empire someday?

DH When you first start out as a young chef you don’t think about empires—you think about each day, about small goals you can achieve and build upon. We started with one restaurant in 2011, and through the years have slowly grown little by little. But we don’t consider our business an empire—we have an amazing and supportive team that allows us to grow.

Why was it important to also tap into the fast casual market with Made Nice?

DH EMP is a restaurant you experience once in a lifetime, and NoMad is somewhere you go once a month. We started thinking about the kind of restaurant you would want to experience every day, and that led us to Made Nice.

EMP’s Southampton Outpost

What makes you different than other hospitality groups out there?

WG We have a seamless relationship between the kitchen and the dining room. At our restaurants, there is no separation from the front of house and back of house—in fact, we don’t even use those terms. We work together, share ideas openly, and never go to bed angry. At the end of the day, we also share the same goal: to make our guests happy.

What other projects are in your lineup for the next few years?

WG NoMad Las Vegas is opening in October, and EMP Winter house will be open from December 2018 to March 2019.  Beyond that, we are launching a partnership with the International Center of Photography in January and opening 425 Park Ave in 2020.

What is your overall food and hospitality philosophy?

DH Our goal is always to serve delicious food paired with gracious hospitality.

What would be the best piece of advice you would give to budding restaurateurs?

WG Prioritize graciousness and deliciousness above everything else.

EMP offers an 8 to 10 course menu that features the finest and freshest ingredients

If you weren’t in the jobs you are doing, what would you be?

DH If I weren’t a chef, I would be an architect. My father was an architect—the exposure to creating things, putting ideas to paper, and crafting a place that can be experienced influenced me. I learned from a young age how to appreciate the work.

WG I would be a musician. It was always my other love. I played the drums my entire life—in fact I still do, but not that often, and it is something I really miss. Perhaps one day!

Who would you say are your culinary mentors?

DH Chef Gerard Rabaey and Chef Michel Bras are both mentors and huge inspirations to me.

The NoMad has crossed the country and moved to LA. Why was the market so attractive to you?

WG NoMad Los Angeles needed to be a celebration of its own city and not a carbon copy of New York. We have been very lucky to have the support of such a welcoming community of chefs and restaurateurs—the way they have embraced us in their city has been amazing.

The bar at EMP, offering the best selections of wine and spirits

How did you approach the differences in cuisine from the NY palette to the LA palette?

DH In developing our menu we were inspired by what we found at the markets—the year-round seasonality and availability of amazing ingredients as well as the diversity of the city’s cuisines.

What are your thoughts about being a part of the culinary renaissance in LA?

DH I don’t see it as a renaissance necessarily. I mean, LA has been one of the best dining cities in the country for some time now. We’re just excited to contribute to that and bring our cuisine and our perspective to the city, particularly Downtown LA, which has been so wonderful in embracing us so far.

What is the most meaningful award that you have received, as a chef, artist, business man?

WG Honestly, each accolade has impacted my life and provided a moment I’ll never forget. I can’t say one is more important than another because each has left an indelible mark on me and on our staff.

With all of your interests and such a high standard of quality, what are some standards used to enforce quality control at this level?

DH It’s all about trust. We trust our staff, our vendors, and our farmers completely.

What hobbies and passions do you have outside of the kitchen?

DH Running, biking, snowboarding, and spending time visiting museums and galleries.

WG For me, it’s music—especially playing the drums.

Where do you see the overlap between the restaurant experience and the art world?

DH Art is based on form and function, as is a restaurant experience. At Eleven Madison Park, we’ve created language that reflects this—every dish must be creative, intentional, delicious, and beautiful.

The word entrepreneur carries an impactful weight in society today. What does it mean for you both to consider yourselves entrepreneurs?

WG I believe deeply in the nobility of service, which I cherish and teach to our employees. I see each of our restaurants, each seat, as an opportunity to create an experience. Over the years, as we’ve grown, we’ve developed the confidence to develop our own set of rules, which I think is a big part of being an entrepreneur.

The atrium dining room at EMP

What were the entrepreneurial precursors to your inevitable purchasing of EMP from Union Square?

WG We are both leaders—one of us leads the dining room, one of us leads the kitchen. As we worked together our confidence grew, we developed our own style of leadership and grew loyal to one another. Together, these factors led to us purchasing Eleven Madison Park—it felt like the natural next step, as a team.

Can you pinpoint any specific turning points in your career that set you on a particular path?

DH When I started out as a chef, I was always trying to come up with ideas to make my dishes more elaborate, more impressive—additional sauces, additional techniques. I thought this was what was necessary to show my skills. But over the years, I’ve realized that simplicity is what shows mastery of your craft. When there are fewer components on the plate, the purpose of each element is much clearer, and in fact it’s much harder to work with less. When I created the dish of celery root in pig’s bladder, I came to understand this. For the first time, I felt like I had found my style of cooking and my identity as a chef.

Is it true that when you do what you love every day, it isn’t work? How do you make sure you maintain a work/life balance amidst the demands of your job?

WG Yes and no. We put our heart, souls, blood, sweat ,and tears into our work because we love it. I still wake up excited and go to bed eager for the next day. I don’t think there is such a thing as work/life balance, but what keeps my feet on the ground are my friends, my family, and my wife—no doubt Daniel’s children do the same for him. Our family in the restaurants also make even the hard days worth it—we are inspired by them every day. And when it’s been a really long day, I order takeout and watch Netflix.

Will Guidara & Daniel Humm

Will Guidara & Daniel Humm

Co-owners | Make It Nice Hospitality Group

Will Guidara

Business Over a Drink
Manhattan on the Rocks at the Nomad Library

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Chef Daniel Hum

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New poem: “Earth, Waving”

I have a new poem up at Amaryllis. This one was inspired by Bridget Riley’s 1963 work Fall. Check out the poem here.

New Poems

Last week, not only were two of my fiction pieces published, but I had a total of eleven (!) poems published, too. Five of them were published in Five 2 One Magazine‘s special Election Week edition of #thesideshow.

Another poem, Martyr, was published in Boston Accent Lit.

And last but certainly not least, five more poems were published in Anti-Heroin Chic.

All of these are great publications. I would encourage you to check out other things they’ve published and follow them all on Twitter and Facebook.

Oh, I would also encourage you to submit to them.

New Flash Fiction

After a bit of a dry spell, I have a few new pieces published, and I’ll have more next week.

The first is A Swan’s Memory, a short fiction piece that the good folks at Mad Swirl were kind enough to publish.

The second is The Empty Cage, another short fiction piece that found a home (or a nest, since a bird plays a primary role in the story) in the always great Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. I had originally a version of this for a contest in the Summer of ’15 but later re-wrote it with the help from my friends in Scribophile, so I would like give a big “THANK YOU” to them.

I hope you enjoy the stories. Please feel free to let you know how you like them in the comments.


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Ralph Lauren, the 80s called, they want their ad back

Here’s a recent ad for Ralph Lauren’s fragrance Polo.

It’s a cultural antique. This is what advertising used to look like when designed to flatter male egos and sell goods that were designed to flatter male egos in a cultural moment designed to flatter male egos. These days, its “Really? Get over yourself.”

Ralph Lauren has not been superbly in touch with the cultural moment. (Not since the 1980s when he helped define the cultural movement.) But this is really egregiously out of touch. I guess he doesn’t have a Chief Culture Officer.

What looks and feels more contemporary?  Have a look at this Fitbit ad.

The difference?

It’s not about one person.  It’s about lots and lots of people.

It’s not about young males. It’s about a variety of people.  Because some years ago, advertising and branding learned it had to let in everyone, not just the Young and Beautiful…and Male.  Who gets the credit here?  Sylvia Lagnado and Dove? Who else?

And it’s not about someone with that terrible look of self congratulation, that overweening red speedboat of an ego.

It’s not about speedboats but the diversity of ways people have found to entertain and exert themselves. This is plenitude in action.

Yes, this ad is an exercise in diversity because the Fitbit is designed to capture data generate by any activity. But notice the tone, the reckless, frenetic charm of this spot. It’s not about anyone’s ego. There are no beautiful people here. No celebrities. It’s a “Here Comes Everybody” exercise, to use Shirky’s phrase. There are a variety of deep cultural reasons why diversity is so important when crafting cultural meanings.

We are on the verge of a season that shows a relentless stream of James Bond movies, and with each season, Bond looks a little stranger, a man so besotted with himself that it’s hard to imagine rooting for him.  How do we identify with a monster of vanity? Those days have passed. This is where you are, Mr. Lauren, on the wrong side of history.

Will Digital Culture ever invent a Homer Simpson?

First Observation:

Entertainment Weekly recently gave us the "100 greatest characters of the last 20 years."  The list includes Buffy, Jack Sparrow, Rachel from Friends, Harry Potter, John Locke, Miranda Priestly, and Ron Burgundy.

Second Observation:

In his latest book, Clay Shirky suggests that we now have around 1 trillion hours of creative surplus at our disposal.  We use this time variously, offering Lolcats and, yes, blog posts.

The question:

Will Shirky’s surplus ever create a character that will appear on the Entertainment Weekly list?  Will we ever create our own Homer?

Some thoughts:

I am not being argumentative.  This is an open question. The answer could be "soon" or it could be "never," and I’ll be happy.  However we answer this question, we will have improved our anthropological understanding of contemporary culture.

There is a general presumption, I think, that we are sitting on a gusher.  Shirky’s surplus is so vast, so inexorable that the creation of an EW "100 winner" can’t be far off.  And it’s not that we are talking about the proverbial 100 monkeys.  It won’t happen by evolutionary accident.  It will happen because our use of the Shirky surplus gets better and better. This argument says "soon."

Some will say our surplus is already in evidence on the EW list.  They will say that these creatures are the result of user participation, consumer cocreation, the agency and activity of fans, transmedia assembly, textual poaching, and a liberal borrowing from the cultural commons. Homer Simpson is all about borrowing and, like any bard, his standing depends finally on our consent. This argument says "already."

But there is an argument that says "never."  The red neck version of the argument rehearses the idea that popular culture is a waste land.  Thus speak Keen and Bauerlein. But there’s a more sophisticated approach that says the creativity of the internet is a derivative creativity, that mashup culture must begin with something first to mash.  Our culture may be in the direction of the consumer-producer but it will always depend on the producer-producer as a kind of "first mover."

Let’s push things a little further.  (And again I do this for the sake of argument only.  Living at the intersection of Anthropology and Economics, I can be ecumenical on a question like this.) What if the people who make Homers and Buffys must be funded by something other than the "creative surplus."  Must there be an enterprise that engages people to invest financial and creative capitals in a (relatively) expensive and therefore risky productions which then compete in some cultural marketplace.

By this reckoning, the EW 100 list will not exist without the intervention of commerce (of some pretty literal kind that goes well beyond the gift economies of the cultural commons.)

I’m just asking.

The Upshot:

This would make a dandy topic for a Futures of Entertainment session, with Shirky, Henry Jenkins, Larry Lessig, David Weinberger, Dan Snierson, Jeff Jensen, and several other thinkers.  With Sam Ford moderating, of course.

Anonymous.  n.d.  "Lolcats" entry on Wikipedia here.

Bauerlein, Mark.  2009.  The Dumbest Generation: How the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future.  Tarcher.

Carey, John.  1992.  The Intellectuals and the masses: pride and prejudice among the literary intelligentsia, 1880-1939.  Faber and Faber.  (For an argument that anticipates and, I believe, dispatches the kind of argument made by Bauerlein and Keen)

Jenkins, Henry.2006. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age. NYU.

Jenkins, Henry. 2008. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.  NYU

Keen, Andrew.  2008.  The Culture of the Amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values.  Broadway Business.

Shirky, Clay. 2010. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Penguin Press.

Snierson, Dan, Jeff Jensen, and many others.  2010. The 100 Greatest Characters of the last 20 years. Entertainment Weekly.  Double Issue.  No. 1105 and 1106.  June 4 and June 11.  here.

Thanks to Gareth Kay for telling me about Shirky’s new book.


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A Movement Veteran Rethinks the History of Asian American Activism
Seattle March on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Photo: Eugene Tagawa, via Verso)

As a generation of veteran activists—sometimes known as "movement elders"—enters an age of wisdom, new reflections on past movements have cropped up in the form of memoir and historical scholarship. Karen L. Ishizuka weaves together history and memory in Serve the People, a biography of the postwar Asian American civil rights movement. She takes a critical look at a social uprising that she herself was part of, and details the people, places, organizations and campaigns that formed what became known as the Asian American Movement. It may be seen in some ways as a relatively brief moment in Asian American history, but in many ways, it was the Big Bang that created Asian and Pacific Islander America as a political and cultural phenomenon. In a dialogue with CultureStrike's Michelle Chen, Ishizuka reflects on what the Asian American Movement was, what became of it, and what it still means today.

Read an excerpt of Serve the People.

—Michelle Chen, August 19, 2016

Michelle Chen: Why does Serve the People appear now?

Karen Ishizuka: The "Sixties" was a critical time in world history that gave birth to a radical and global consciousness that continues to reverberate and rumble five decades later. Unlike previous historical eras, over the past 50 years there have been hundreds of books and articles dedicated to deconstructing and analyzing its impact and influence, evidence of its continuing significance not just for the past but for the present and future. Most of these books and articles have been written from a white male perspective. And although the general public is aware of the Black Liberation movement, and some have heard of the Chicano/a movement, very few know about the Asian American (and Native American) movement. That's why, when I originally proposed a much narrower (geographic and topical) focus on the Asian American movement, Verso felt it was time for a broader, more comprehensive, national overview. So I owe that vision to the editorial board of Verso and my editor Andy Hsaio.

Another reason to write this book now is that on the long road to social change, sometimes you take one step forward only to go back two. Diagnosis: historical amnesia. For example, as I write in the book, a 2012 Pew Research report basically concluded that Asian Americans are still the model minority—a dangerous stereotype that we fought so hard to get rid of 50 years ago. And in 2013 an API tweet calling for “a space to use our voices, build community and be heard” went viral attracting the attention of mainstream news outlets around the world. But to those of us who made such a space in the Sixties—or so we thought—it was déjà vu.

What inspired this book personally for you?

"Kill that Gook" (Alan Takemoto, Gidra, 1972, via Verso)

I began a Ph.D. program in the late 1970s and dropped out to work on the ground in the area of Asian American history, culture and community. I wrote and produced films primarily on the Japanese American experience, curated museum exhibits and advocated for the significance of home movies as the only motion picture documentation of people of color who were routinely overlooked in American newsreels and mass media. All good but I realized that the written word still rules in terms of getting us out of the margins and positioning us within the canon of U.S. history and culture. The written word doesn’t require projectors or other playback machines, are less ephemeral than museum exhibits, and are the primary educational tool. Moreover, the written word can be cited by other scholars and writers thereby taking on an after life. Of the over 1 million books per year that are published in the U.S. alone, more than a handful should be on and by Asian Pacific Americans. And, oh, after a thirty year hiatus I went back to school and am now a recently minted Ph.D.

As I read contemporary API commentary and listen to young people, I am struck with the realization that today’s APIs know nothing to little about how Asian America came to be. Just as my generation was never taught about the history that came before us, the current generation—as well as recent immigrants—don’t know the history of how and why Asian America came to be. Before the Sixties and the Asian American Movement (AAM), there was no such thing as an Asian American. We were primarily Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos, the majority of Asian ethnic groups in the U.S. at the time. We were not born Asian American but rather gave birth to ourselves as Asian Americans as a political identity to be seen and heard. Now the terms Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander have been neutralized into a mere adjective.

But as Jeff Chang incisively stated in the Foreword he wrote for Serve the People, “There was a time…when the term ‘Asian American’ was not merely a demographic category, but a fight you were picking with the world.” We cannot change mainstream America’s stereotype of us as model minorities until we realize, like it or not, that we are in a fight.

The Asian American Movement, as you define it, is difficult to periodize, even though (or perhaps because) it spanned a relatively short period of time. Talk about how you periodize this history in your scholarship?

What is generally known as the "Sixties" actually spans three decades. As a global, political era with far reaching social consequences, most scholars mark its beginning as starting in the late 50s with the decolonization of British and French Africa and ending in the mid 70s with the end of the Vietnam War. Within this elongated decade, the AAM arguably began in the late 60s - with the spontaneous arising of organizations such as the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) on the campus of the U.C. Berkeley, Asian Coalition for Equality (ACE), a primarily middle aged, professional group in Seattle, and Asian American for Action (Triple A), a multi-generational, anti-imperialist coalition in New York City. It wound down in the mid-late 70s with the corporatization of the U.S. and return of power to the upper class. It was a relatively short period of time, but without it we would not have the Asian Pacific America as we know it today. Although people don’t connect the dots between then and now, it was the cause and impetus for Asian American Studies, API health and welfare agencies, API professional organizations as well as API cultural institutions.

How did you structure the book to cover the movement as it spread throughout the country?

I struggled with many attempts to come up with the structure of the book—to tell the history of Asian American movement that was both national in scope yet local in execution. I thought about laying it out chronologically, but too much took place simultaneously and I didn’t want to reduce the dynamics and passion of the AAM into a timeline. I thought about structuring it around geographical hubs, but that would further shroud the many other places that sprouted grassroots activism of their own that I wasn’t able to include. I thought about structuring the AAM into major spheres of activism—cultural, political and social—but such realms overlapped and fed into each other. Like all social movements, the AAM was like a cosmic Venn diagram in which personal meaning, political activism and cultural production intersected.

In the end, I took advice from Paulo Freire: “Discovery cannot be purely intellectual but must also involve action; nor can it be limited to mere activism, but must include serious reflection.” Rather than a history of the AAM per se, I focused on the making of Asian America and presented the story in three acts, not that there is a strict linear progression from one to the other. Act I: “American Chop Suey” is on Discovery –why and how Asian America came to be, with chapters on “Growing Up Alien in America” and “Living in B&W.” Act II: “Once in a Movement” is on Activism—various spheres of activism in anti-war, community building, arts, etc. Act III: “Finding Our Truth” is on Reflection—self-appraisals and evaluations. (I took the title from Tom Hayden who said, “If the sixties are not over, it is up to the sixties generation to continue to find our truth.”) This three-act structure of Discovery, Activism and Reflection allowed me to encompass, but not be restricted by, chronology, geography or sociology.

The other key structural element was to foreground individual stories. A movement doesn’t make itself. As much as the AAM was a grassroots movement wherein we worked in a spirit of collectivity rather than individuality, I wanted to put at least some of the names and faces to the many deeds and ideas to remind ourselves of a kinship and mutuality that would otherwise remain unknown. I am a firm believer in the power of stories—with people learning and engaging more from stories than from facts and figures.

Does the Asian American movement still exist?

Of the many Sixties activists I spoke to about the Asian American movement—specifically regarding how and why it ended—only those in Seattle said it hasn’t ended, that an Asian American movement continues to this day. Home to the International District, Seattle is the only place in the continental U.S. where Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos historically comprised one pan-Asian community, they also had strong alliances with the Black, Latino and Native American progressive communities. As Chinatown/Manilatown in San Francisco and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles were overtaken by redevelopment, the International District has managed to thrive, having cultivated continuity between old and young activists in a strong multi-generational, multi-ethnic front.

In general, however, as I conclude in the book, the Asian America of the Long Sixties no longer exists—nor should it. Social movements are not meant to be continuing entities because they must respond to the internal and external conditions of the times. My objective in writing the book was not to resurrect the AAM as it was then, but to know that it indeed existed in order to build upon it. I quote from Jean-Paul Sartre as the epigram of the last chapter: “What is important is that the action took place…If it took place, it can happen again.” Or as our beloved poet Al Robles murmured, “Ah Pilipinos, if you only knew how brown you are.”

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Écoles publiques en Colombie-BritanniqueCUPE 801, K-12 support workers at SD46, reached a tentative agreement last night following five bargaining sessions that began in March.

CUPE 801 President Janice Budgell said that the bargaining process went very well, and their bargaining committee is looking forward to presenting the tentative agreement to members tomorrow at the ratification meeting.

“Our entire bargaining committee was new and we all left feeling it was a positive experience,” said Budgell. “I’m happy with the tentative agreement we will be presenting.”

The provincial framework agreement (PFA) approved by the K-12 Presidents’ Council in September forms part of the tentative agreement. The current K-12 agreement expires on June 30, 2019. When ratified by CUPE locals and school districts, the provincial agreement will be in effect from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2022.

Further details of the tentative agreement will not be available until after ratification by all parties. Ratification is expected to be completed within a week.

CUPE 801 members provide a wide variety of services that support students including Education Assistants, Aboriginal Support Workers, Child Care Workers, Custodians, Trades, Clerical, Technology Technicians, and Administrative Support.

The Local represents approximately 230, K-12 support workers on the Sunshine Coast at Gibsons, Sechelt, Halfmoon Bay, Madeira Park, Roberts Creek and Pender Harbour.

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Council members from several CUPE locals heard some exciting news about the prospect of increasing membership, both for the council and for the community health sector at large.

“The results of this growth will be a stronger voice and an increased vote in the bargaining association on behalf of CUPE’s members, and an increased proportion of collectively bargained funding for things like the enhanced disability management program and, where applicable, professional development funds,” said CUPE health coordinator Chris Losito.

“Increased membership in the council also allows the HCPC more options for pursuing sector-related campaigns supportive of our members’ needs.”

Community health locals can expect to hear more news on this increase in membership in the near future.

At the meeting, the council also adopted a new protocol agreement that strengthens its relationships with partners such as CUPE BC and the Hospital Employees’ Union, discussed ways to ensure more activity involving new member orientation, and nominated CUPE 1978 member Kaz Takeuchi as the new treasurer.


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Notre Dame among top producers of Fulbright students

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Ten University of Notre Dame students have been awarded Fulbright grants in the 2014-15 program, placing the University among the top-producing universities in the nation.

The U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, Fulbright recently announced the complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2014-15 U.S. Fulbright students. The success of the top-producing institutions is highlighted in Thursday’s edition (Feb. 12) of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“Notre Dame’s inclusion on the list of top producing institutions of Fulbright U.S. students is a sign of our expanded commitment to internationalization, along with the important work of Notre Dame International and the units that will make up the Keough School of Global Affairs,” said Jeffrey Thibert, assistant director of national fellowships in Notre Dame’s Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE). “Our students are especially competitive for the Fulbright not simply because so many engage with the world through coursework and study abroad, but because of the depth of the engagement the University encourages. The Fulbright allows our students to take the international education they have begun at Notre Dame to another level, better preparing them to become representatives of the University on the international stage as they pursue their increasingly global careers.”

Mike Westrate, associate program director of the Graduate School Office of Grants and Fellowships, said, “As a ‘Fulbrighter’ myself, I know the extraordinary value of this award, both during and after the Fulbright year. We are proud of our graduate students, and we are quite happy that we were able to assist five of them to win this prestigious award. But most of all, we are happy about the powerful and lasting effect that a Fulbright year abroad will have on their lives, both personally and professionally.”

Notre Dame’s 2014-15 U.S. Fulbright students are:

  • Natalie Boll, international economics, Class of 2014 — English Teaching Assistantship to Luxembourg
  • Andrew Dupont, ACE Class of 2014 — English Teaching Assistantship to Bangladesh
  • Melissa Guinan, political science, Class of 2012 — Study and research grant to European Union
  • Hannah Hemphill, theology postgraduate student — Study and research grant to Switzerland
  • Deanna Kolberg, political science/Chinese, Class of 2014 — English Teaching Assistantship to South Korea
  • Marcus Liddell, German, Class of 2014 — English Teaching Assistantship to Germany
  • Thomas Metzger, bioengineering postgraduate student — Study and research grant to Ireland
  • Amy Nelson, medieval studies postgraduate student — Study and research grant to Austria
  • Sara Troyani, literature postgraduate student — Study and research grant to Italy
  • Sylvia Yong , biochemistry/French, Class of 2014 — Study and research grant to France

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided participants — chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research; exchange ideas; and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. In the past 69 years, more than 50,000 students from the United States have benefited from the Fulbright experience.

CUSE provides undergraduate students in all the University’s colleges opportunities for research, scholarship and creative projects. More information on CUSE is available at

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Habitica for Business – Getting Started Guide

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In my summer email newsletter, I mentioned a mobile and online app, Habitica that has been a game changer for me in my day to day. Today, I wanted to do a brief introduction of Habitica for business and show you a couple of ways I’m using it in my business to be more effective. I have written a short Getting Started Guide for anyone, but particularly for people in business and entrepreneurs. There will be more advanced blogs, shortly, but for today I’m going to get you started with this step by step instructions for registering & beginning to use Habitica.

Habitica for Business – Getting Started Guide

Click on the topic you would like to know more about. It will jump down to that section

Habitica home page

Habitica is an online representation of your Real Life and it can play like a game. Therefore, use your imagination, think outside of the box and pick a name that you would want for your best self. Register your ‘handle’ – let your imagination run wild.

I choose one of my favorite avatar names, Mheri Whey from my online role playing games. I have used it in almost every game that required naming a character for that game.

If you’re doing this for a team or business, I’d be a little less creative with the handle (username) you chose. It should be easy for the rest of your members to find the team or business.

  • Teacher working with students might go with something like Mr.Smiths2017class
  • A ball team might go with their Team name BadNewsBears2017.
  • A team driven business might use a handle like, ABCbiz.theATeam

Registering steps and links:

  1. Navigate to Habitica website.
  2. Click on ‘Join for Free’
  3. A Login/Register window will pop up
  4. Click on the Register tab
  5. Enter all information requested
  6. Click on ‘Get Started

Habitica Register

The next page you arrive at is the Habitica dashboard. Here is where you will spend most of your time. To get started there will be a pop up tutorial to introduce you to some of the features on each page.  Take a moment to click through the little pop windows. At the same time you are view the tutorial you will be earning resources for your character. (Not covered in this blog, check out this resource.)

Habitica Dashboard

Will we be jumping around a little at this point:

Next series of steps will cover

  • Your Avatar
    • your custom avatar
    • your avatar’s stats & achievements
    • your avatar’s profile
  • Tasks
    • Recommended tasks to get started
    • Challenges

Your Avatarhabitica avatar

Did you notice you have a little you? It doesn’t have to look exactly like you but you might want to customize this little avatar to your desired looks. Let’s check that out.

While on dashboard page, either click on the User tab/button. This will take you to Avatar page

Tip: Quick access to User tab, by clicking on your avatar’s image.

Here you find tabs/buttons for:

  • Customize Avatar
  • Backgrounds
  • Stats & Achievements
  • Profile

Your Custom Avatar:

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Click on the ‘Customize Avatar’ tab/button will take you to the customizing page. Items with a white background are free. Items with dark background are paid with gems that can be obtained from a subscription. Right now just go for the free stuff and we will talk subscription in a later blog. Here are the options:

  • Change hair and skin color
  • Change hair style and accessories
  • Change clothes
  • Put on glasses
  • Sit in a wheelchair
  • And many more free and paid for options

Background page is part of the paid subscription service.

Your Avatar Stats & Achievements

Click on this tab/button, will tell you more about your avatar. To begin with not much going on. As you complete task, you level up your Avatar. You will also obtain stats equipment, pets and mounts. Here is my L27 personal avatar stats page:

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Here are some resources with more details about this page.

Your Avatar’s Profile

Next you can tell a little about yourself or make up a backstory for your avatar.

Here is are great example of an Avatar backstory:

Spazzie was an Elven Healer entrusted with the care of The Sacred Child’s light.

But the darkness had crept into her city and the city was dying and The Sacred Child’s light was fading. The Mayor of the Dying City suggested Spazzie seek out The Inner Goddess whose light is so bright all those she favors know bountiful Health, Deep Peace and Eternal Love.

The last known Temple of the Inner Goddess was in the Rolling Countryside at the Training Grounds. Spazzie entered the rolling countryside, immersed herself in The Training Grounds, only to discover the Temple of the Goddess had to be restored before The Inner Goddess could be summoned Spazzie had to strengthen and balance her mind, body and soul.

One night the Inner Goddess spoke to Spazzie in a dream. “In order to fully restore the temple of the Goddess you must battle the plague within the Dying City. Return home and restore my temple.

Thanks to my sister, for this great story. I opted to do a mix.

Mheri Whey is a songster and bard extraordinaire. She brings her words and her song to her quest and challenges. Her world on Habitica is filled with music as she challenges herself and her crew to grow.

On Earth, in a little town outside of a river port town, Mheri’s alter ego, Gina, is an Entrepreneur. She works with people in business who are frustrated with their efforts of getting and keeping customers. Find out more about Gina’s trade, Marketing Coaching & Consultant

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Avatar: Mheri Whey

I’m excited we are getting down to the nitty gritty of Habitica. I got my avatar updated and decked out like I want. Are you ready to move on?

Let’s head back to the dashboard main page:

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Check out your To-Do list. In the 2nd column from the right, you will see your To Dos. If you haven’t already done it, click off your 1st accomplishment – ‘Join Habitica.’ Watch the right corner of your screen as you click and update any task. You will receive increase to your experience, health, moneyand rewards.

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It’s time to add some task to the dashboard. Therefore, I want you to start thinking of items to add to Habitica. Think of habits, dailies & to-dos you might want to be more productive with.

I have found from introducing this to my friends and talking with other Habitican’s that the first tasks are critical. You will be creating a new routine and it takes certain critical things to happen. The biggest of these is your mindset. If your mindset is NOT ready to change or make improvements, you won’t create that new habit. My recommendation is start with some small steps, maybe things you are trying to do but aren’t quite doing them as regularly as you would like.

You will be creating a new routine and it takes certain critical things to happen. The biggest of these is your mindset.

Recommended Starting Task:

Accept my challenge and add these task to your Habitica, then make modifications as needed.

Update: July 28th, 2016

A guild, Habitica for Business, (See Resources below) and challenge, Getting Started Guide, are live for this series of task and any future ones.

I will cross post these challenges into the Entrepreneur guild also.

Currently creating challenges will only allow me to enter the title. Nothing can be added to Extra Notes, nor is there a checklist available when creating challenges.

Therefore here is my recommendation: Once you accept the challenge, it will populate into your Task. From there edit each task and add the below information.

Add these to your Daily task:

  1. Check in on Habitica, when you: (Comment: use the checklist feature in the task window)
    • Start your day
    • Late morning (2 -4 hrs later)
    • Mid afternoon (2 – 4 hrs later)
    • Before bedtime
  2. Spend 5 minutes reading – Under notes: pick topics you want to know more about
  3. Your choice – your goal here is to get in the habit of checking in on Habitica every day, save tougher stuff til later. (Not available in challenge, add yourself)
    • pick something that is easy to do
    • pick something fun
    • pick something you do everyday, but maybe you want to limit it – say time on social media
    • use your imagination
    • check out other people’s challenges

Add these to your Habit tasks: – under notes you should define when you can click this. These are my recommendation, you can decide for yourself.

  1. Check in on Habitica
    • (Comment: the goal here is to get into the habit of checking in daily on Habitica) Under Notes
    •  Under Notes- Click +, when I have checked in 2 or more times a day
  2. Reading education topics – Under notes – click + for every 5 minutes/chapter you read
  3. Add  new to-do list items here on Habitica (you are creating the habit of adding to dos to Habitica)

Add these to your To Do list tasks:

  1. Find my old to do list and add them to Habitica in appropriate spot
  2. Do a Challenge – Under notes: someone else’s
  3. Create your own challenge – Under notes – I am to familiarize myself with how to create challenges
  4. (Each week) Create a Weekly To-Do list – (Comments
    • Add items you want to accomplish this week’s checklist.
    • At end of week move task not done to the next week’s Weekly To Do List. Mark these task as Wk 2 items.
    • Finish checking off this week’s items and
    • check off whole task, when done.)

Add these to your Rewards column:

Rewards set up in challenges are automatically set to 10 coins, I recommend changing them.

  1. Hatch an egg – weekly
    • When you complete a daily for 7 consecutive days hatch an egg
    • Set a limiter, if you wish; for example – only hard to do dailies, 1x a week or after
  2. Feed a Pet – daily
    • When you complete a daily or a to-do item
    • Set a limiter. 3x a day
  3. Treat yourself to something decadent (or your choice)
    • Find things outside of game to reward yourself with
    • Choose both items that are free and need to be paid for
  4. Create your own reward
    • Remember it has to have significance to you
    • Think outside the box.

Next, I want to talk real quick about Challenges. Challenges are under the Social tab/button. You will notice several links to click under that tab, Inbox, Tavern Chat, Party, Guild, Challenges & Hall of Heroes. I’m not going into everything that falls under this tab at this time.

Click on Challenges tab/button – here are some great resources and ideas for adding content to your dashboard.

Note: Accepted challenges can be edited, though you will not be able to add checklist to task that come from challenges.

Did this Getting Started Guide answer all your questions? If you have any more questions about Habitica for business. Please leave them in the comments, I would love to help you with them.

Habitica Resources

Habiticia Wiki

Habitica Blog – find information about new updates and releases here.

Habitica Library of List

Habitica Guild Guide – List of guilds on Habitica

Guild: Habitica for Business is a private guild. If you would like to know about joining the Habitica for Business guild, contact me.

Guild: Entrepreneur guild on Habitica – posting open challenges here also.

Habitica Business – Changing Habits: Turn Your Real Life into a Game (Coming shortly – Part 2 Habitica for Businesses)

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Til Death Neon Sign

Til Death Neon Sign

This LED neon sign makes a fantastic piece of light up wall art for any room in your house.

Size: 130cm x 71.5cm approx. size

Our LED neon art is handcrafted which makes each piece unique. The size shown is a very close approximation that allows for the slight variation that is a hallmark of all handmade articles.

You can also design unique wall art for your bedroom, man cave or garage and so much more using our custom neon sign maker.

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'Til Death

'TIl death do us part, you will always have my heart.

This uber-cool LED neon sign makes a unforgettable statement as wall art for your home.

Safety: Our neon flex LED signs, lights and lamps are shatter resistant, energy efficient, recyclable, UV resistant and conform to CE, RoHS and UL certification.

Made to Order
All our signs are hand-made to order, and the above lead-times include both the production and delivery. Brighten your world with this unforgettable LED neon sign. Deck out your home or office, or add magic to your next event. Blending effortlessly with any color scheme, this light sign is a great way to add something unique.

Light up your Life

LED neon signs are an attention grabbing addition to your wedding, party or special event. In the home neon light décor is perfect for the bedroom, bar or man cave.

Awesome for the photo wall and as props in social media snaps!

Become an Instagram sensation by adding quirky neon word signs and aesthetic neon sculptures to your store, café, food truck, yoga studio or workspace.

LED neon signs are a safer, more affordable alternative to traditional glass neon. They're hard to break, cool to the touch, and are more energy efficient. They also weigh a lot less which makes them portable and easier to use as home and bedroom décor.

Hanging your sign

The kit contains metal wires, aluminum buckles and hanging clips

Thread the steel wire through the aluminum buckle

Pass the wire through the pre-drilled holes on the sign

Loop the wire around and thread through other buckle hole

Clamp the aluminum buckle tightly with pliers

Pass the other end of the wire through a hanging clip

Attach the hanging clips to the wall or cieling

Admire your new sign!

Wall Mounting your sign

Mark drill holes on the wall to match the sign's pre-made holes

Carefully drill the holes

Fix the screw nuts to the wall

Fix the screw

Put a plastic cushion on the outside of the acrylic backboard.

Connect the screw cap and the nut

Tighten all the screws after the last nut has been connected

Admire your new sign!

Customized Neon Signs
All of our neon light signs are custom designed by us, and can be altered to your preferred specifications, size and colours. We can make any neon sign you want, in most fonts & a wide selection of colours.
Try our easy to use custom design tool to bring your own designs to life.

Adapter Included
All of our Australian customers receive a 12V Australian standard power plug. Customers in other countries receive the correct power plug for their country.
Your new LED neon comes with a 1-2 metre transparent cord which plugs into a UL certified AC adapter (if you need an adapter for another country, ask when checking out). The adapter has an additional 1-2 metres of black cable that plugs into the socket.

Australia Wide & Overseas Shipping
Orders usually take 3-5 weeks, including production and shipping.
If you would like your sign quicker please add Rush My Order at checkout. This will push your order to the front of the production queue, for delivery to your address in 2-3 weeks.

12 Months Warranty*
We offer the latest LED neon flex technology which is both stronger & lighter than glass neon. All of our signs come with a 12-month manufacturer warranty covering faulty items (*indoor use only). Click here for more details.

Full Remote Control
Switch ON/OFF and pick from 10 brightness settings. The LED neon lights can be set to flash with adjustable speeds. (Optional/extra cost on some models)

Easy to Install
Our LED Neon signs are mounted on high quality, clear acrylic backboards, stands or boxes. Backboards feature pre-drilled holes for easy installation, and are ready for wall mounting, right out of the box.

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A Great Morning with Young Readers

I spent a recent morning with dozens of young people at Courtice North Public School in Ontario.

Their teachers had included Myrtle the Purple Turtle in their recent studies. Principal Peter Bischoff invited me to visit.

Blog Photo - School Cynthia holds book and talks to students

I was nervous!

Writing for your readers is one thing. Hearing them talk about your book — and answering their questions — is quite another.

Myrtle the Purple Turtle

And though I’d won awards and acclaim for my children’s TV programs in earlier years, it’s been a long time since I visited a classroom.

The first thing I noticed was that Mrs. Murphy, the teacher who introduced me, treated the students with great respect, addressing them as “Ladies and gentlemen”.

When you are nine or ten years old and are addressed as “Ladies and gentlemen”, what do you do? You live up to it, of course.

Blog Photo - School students 1

Wow. What a smart, polite and thoughtful group. Their observations about the book’s key messages about difference, the role of friends, and accepting oneself and others, were sharp and eloquent.

We talked together about why “the mean turtle” behaved so badly toward Myrtle and whether that turtle might have herself been bullied and considered it normal to be mean.

That led us to talk about a sequel.

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“We followed Myrtle through her day and saw what happened before she met the other turtle,” one astute young woman noted.

“But we didn’t follow the other turtle before she and Myrtle met. Maybe the sequel could tell us more about what happened before to make her so mean.”

“But the story is about Myrtle the Purple Turtle, so if you (focus on) the other turtle, you’d have to change the title of that book to ‘The Mean Green Turtle'”, a young man observed.

Blog Photo - School student writes

As you can imagine, the discussion was intensive and fabulous. Mrs. Murphy had asked me to talk a bit about the writing process. Discussing the characters and story development for the sequel was one practical way of doing so.

Blog Photo - School Cynthia holds book and talks to students

My great thanks to each and all of the students.

To principal Peter Bischoff, and the teachers of Grades 4, 5 and 6  — Mrs. Fedewicz, Mrs. Posteraro, Mrs. Durst and Mrs. Murphy:

Thank you for using my book as a learning tool and thanks for your warm welcome.  You made my week!

Thanks to Jennifer Pym-Murphy for the photos.

35 thoughts on “A Great Morning with Young Readers”

  1. How lovely – it’s always good to spend time with eager, imaginative children. It sounds like a thoughtful school – such a great idea to invite an author in to inspire the children. Sometimes I really miss my teaching days! 🙂

  2. That’s great Cynthia. Bet it was an unforgettable experience for the children to have you and your warmth and Myrtle visit them, and a special time for you too.

  3. What a special visit, both for you and the students. I absolutely love the perception that something had to have happened to the other turtle to make her so mean. Another important social justice theme! Will the young man have copyright on his title suggestion?! 😉

    1. Between you and me, I was thrilled when the idea was raised, because I had been toying with it myself for months. Then blogger Oscar (Hermit’s Door) mentioned it, and next the student mentioned it. It felt like great validation — I smiled from ear to ear.

  4. That sounds like a wonderful school! It treats its pupils with respect which must break down those ‘them and us’ barriers. I am so pleased you had such a productive time there! Here’s to more children’s books!

  5. What a nice experience for the students to get a chance to meet the author of a book they have read…I’m sure that doesn’t happen often. Also what a nice experience for yourself, meeting your young and enthusiastic audience.

    1. Indeed, I initiated the discussion by saying that I’d been thinking about coming back to the green turtle in a sequel, and finding out more about why she behaved the way she did. The kids took it from there, and it led to a fascinating discussion! The idea of giving more time to the green turtle was one of several I considered for a sequel, but it was YOU who got me seriously thinking about it in that wonderful review you did. THANK YOU, Oscar. Not sure if it will be the first or second sequel, but it will be a sequel!

  6. I’m glad you – and the students – had such a good time. (Though no surprise to me. :-)). But I am curious – Myrtle is a picture book and aimed at a younger reader; will you be visiting earlier grades as well?

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Cyprus is the safest country in the world for young people out of 184 countries across the globe, according to the latest data published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) it emerged on Tuesday.

Analysing the data, British newspaper The Guardian found that Cyprus topped the charts compared to countries from other continents with a death rate of almost one in every 4,762 youths. A young person was defined as aged between 15 and 29.

On the other side of the scale, Sierra Leone proved to be the most dangerous with one youth in every 150, estimated to have died in 2015, the paper reported.

The figures show a widening gap of youth mortality between the developed and developing world as nine of the 10 most dangerous countries are in Africa, the Guardian said citing WHO data.

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Sextus Empiricus (c. 160-210 AD) is writing down the body of thought of  Greek Skepticism as it developed over the centuries before him, especially in the work of Aenesidemus,  who coined the term Pyrrhoian Skepticism and stated the tropes and method used by Sextus. The name "Pyrrhoian" comes from the name of the philosopher Pyrrho, who lived from 360 to 270 BC and travelled with Alexander the Great to Central Asia where he came in touch with Eastern philosophies and therefore developed his first doubts about the certainty of Greek dogmatic and academic knowledge and developed what we call pyrrhonian skepticism. The goal of the skeptic is to research truth about reality (skepsis=inquiry) by comparing and considering opposing and different truths, in order to reach the peace of mind ("atarraxia") through achieving the suspension of judgement ("Epoke").

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The Vines AI Micro-Compendium

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Post by Ogodei » Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:58 am

Hello :)

Here you find all that you need to know when setting a minion that use the Vines AI:

There are a few hardcoded features about it:

- It checks for enemies that are Poisoned (state ID#2)
- It flees from enemies that are Poisoned (state ID#2), as if searching for other targets

- It was supposed to check for the enemy's poison resist and flee from immunes, but due to a bug this doesn't happen

That said, this AI comes in handy for simple summons that only use the same skill.

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Aip1 : Difficulty Dependant, Delay between attacks
Aip2 : Difficulty Dependant, Target Range check
Aip3 : Difficulty Dependant, Stall time when following the owner
Aip4 : Difficulty Dependant, Flee  by AIP4# steps from poisoned enemies.
Aip5 : Difficulty Dependant,  Owner's warp leash

The Vines AI thinks like a Melee Monster: it will approach and then use SK1 when in Melee Range. However, you can make ranged pets out of this AI, by changing their MeleeRng in Monstats2.txt to a big value like 40-50. This will make your pets always think they're in melee range, and therefore use SK1 to cast bolts, lightning or whatever you assign them.
NOTE: A similar workaround does NOT work with the DruidBear, as that AI will always check if the path between itself and the target is walkable, and therefore won't cast skills from the opposite side of, say, a wall or a river.

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