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Former youth pastor's suicide should serve as a warning to the 'ex-gay' movement
By Barry Duke	• 7 months ago
Just after a week of coming out publicly as 'queer' Steve Austin commits suicide
THIS is not a site where you'll find much sympathy for those who passively allow religion to manipulate their lives, but my heart goes out to the family of a thoroughly decent former youth pastor who recently committed suicide after publicly coming out 'queer'.
Most advocates of so-called reparative therapy believe that one way out of the "LGBTQ lifestyle" is a sham heterosexual marriage. They are the ones who should be paying particular attention to the case of Steve Austin, 38, who knew from his early teens that he wasn't "straight" in the conventional sense.
But he chose to marry. And the consequences for both he and his wife Lindsey, pictured above, were beyond tragic.
On May 23 Austin – ironically an advisor on mental health issues – revealed on his Faith + Mental Health blog that, in 2018, he had come out to his wife as "queer".
If you want to get specific, I check the boxes for bicurious, pansexual, questioning, and demisexual. So, I'm pretty sure that makes me the Q in LGBTQIA+.
He added that his wife was perfectly at ease with his coming out, and continued to love him him "unconditionally".
But she was far from OK. Just over a week later he revealed that she had been hospitalised with "mental health issues."
Days later, the author, podcaster and life coach was reported missing from his home in Alabama. He was eventually found dead in a vehicle in the parking lot of a business early on the morning of Monday, June 7.
In his "coming out" post, Austin asked:
Do you believe God loves every part of you? Or have you been hiding in the pews and shadows, too?
For the first thirty years of my life, I lived in fear of God or anyone else knowing my deepest truth.
In our small, closed-minded corner of American Christianity, everyone believed the ultimate definition of a true Christian was: straight, white, cis-gendered, Republican, spirit-filled man or woman of God.
So, I constantly tried to deny my true self and be someone completely different, in order to please a God of fear and shame and be accepted by my family or my church.
Do you have any idea how exhausting it is to perform your whole life for people who will only fully accept you if you deny anything about yourself that doesn't meet their approval?
For the past three decades, I've lived a lie, hoping to appease a group of people who only support you if you follow their rules and live up to their unfair and unrealistic expectations.
I knew I wasn't completely straight when I was twelve. Sure, I've been in hetero (or straight-passing) relationships all my life, but that's not exactly who I am. Well, the hiding ends today.
Was there a direct causal link between Austin's coming out and his wife's affliction? We don't know. What we do know from this Christian Post report is that Lindsey was being treated with SSRI, also known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor. It is a type of antidepressant that works by increasing levels of serotonin within the brain.
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His wife, Lindsey, battled a mental health crisis a week after he publicly came out as queer.
Austin had a book set for publication on July 20, titled Hiding in the Pews: Shining Light on Mental Illness in the Church.
Describing his relationhip with his wife in his May blog, Austin wrote:
To be clear: Lindsey and I are not separating or starting new/separate lives. This [is] about uncovering my truest self, while learning to celebrate the intricate ways in which God designed us all. Thankfully, my wife is celebrating my truth with me.
Lindsey and I deeply care about each other and are great partners and co-parents with a wonderful, healthy, happy marriage.
When I first shared my truth with Lindsey back in 2018, she didn't shrink back in fear. She didn't pull away in disgust. She didn't file for divorce. She took my most significant concern, wrapped it in unconditional love and acceptance, and handed it back to me.
Nine years ago, at the age of 29, Austin tried to end his life in a hotel room with his Bible in his lap while serving as a youth pastor.
In his 2016 book, From Pastor to a Psych Ward: Recovery from a Suicide Attempt is Possible, Austin recounts surviving sexual abuse as a preschooler, his favourite aunt's suicide, battling mental illness and struggling with a porn addiction before he eventually lost his ministry job over "unethical" contact with youth under his care.
At that point, Austin attempted suicide in a hotel room by overdosing on prescription drugs and over-the-counter medication.
A GoFundMe account established to help Austin's family has raised more than $34,700 in three days as of today (Wednesday).
The page's organiser, Kristie Lawley Burch, said:
Unfortunately, Steve succumbed to his suicidal ideations in a time of struggle and despair. Knowing how much he advocated for those of us who also battle our own demons, we felt Steve would have wanted you to know. He would also want you to reach out for help if you find yourself in such a place.
I actually found myself wiping away tears while writing this piece because, at the age of 19, I was compelled to seek a "cure" for my own homosexuality in order to marry my gorgeous Italian girlfriend, Allesandra.
We never had sex. While dating her, and proudly showing her off to my family and friends, I was secretly having a full-on sexual affair with a very handsome German guy called Rene.
After Allesandra caught us in bed together, she fell apart and revealed all to my distraught mother. In a bid to put things right, I agreed to be "cured" by a psychiatrist who had a reputation of successfully treating "sexually confused" patients. Dr Wolff spent just 20 minutes with me before pronouncing me:
The most perfectly normal homosexual I have ever met.
His parting words still echo in my head:
Go away and enjoy your life. And resist all temptation to use women as camouflage. To do otherwise will inevitable lead to misery … or worse.
Not long after I found true love in the form of an ex-British army soldier, and we remained blissfully happily together for 21 years – until cancer took him from me in 1996.
Few people get second chances, but I did. A year later I met a guy 20 years my junior, and after 21 years, we finally got to marry three years ago.
Hopefully there will soon come a time when every civilised society on the planet makes conversion therapy a criminal offence – with absolutely no religious exemptions.
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It's imperative that we do everything in our power to destroy organisations such as Core Issues Trust, headed by "ex-gay" Christian charlatan Mike Davidson, above, who promises to rid people of "unwanted sexual attractions."
Ahead of an expose of this vile outfit last month by the Mirror, Davidson issued a defiant statement which concluded:
The Trust will continue to unapologetically uphold, respectfully promote and humbly defend Christian teaching in accordance with the words of Jesus who regularly affirmed the sacred twoness of humankind: male and female.
He consistently reverted to the teachings in the Book of Genesis on marriage between one man and one woman in covenantal union. We who believe his words should do no other.
Banning therapeutic choice – the real purpose of 'conversion therapy' bans – is a violation of the basic human rights of belief and association.
If the government proceeds in this direction, restricting freedom of speech and funding soviet-styled witch-hunts through compensation schemes, every citizen in the Kingdom will have these basic human rights, including religious freedoms, reduced or impeded
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Long before Sunny Liu took photographs, what he liked to do was draw. He began sketching pencil portraits while growing up in Sha Tin, but it was a hobby he had to relinquish when the pressures of adulthood took hold. Now a 27-year-old electronic engineer working in a hospital not far from his home, where he lives as he always has done with his parents, Liu has swapped his pencils and sketchbooks for a compact camera, which he takes with him everywhere he goes and uses to capture moments that feel special and unique.
Sunny has his trusty backpack propped up next to him, which is where he keeps his compact RX100, ready for any moment worth shooting that arises as he goes about his weekend errands. Though he sometimes works with models, he likes to shoot unwitting strangers most of all, because the unexpected scenes that come out of watching people going through the motions and natural rhythms of daily street life are what lend a snapshot its unique magic.
"I like the uniqueness of every moment; it's not something that you can take again. And it's not done with expensive tools, it's about how you spend time on the street," he says. Sometimes his hobby becomes a point of obsession, as Liu devotes entire weekends to exploring his city, camera in hand. But it's a fixation that is paying off. Liu's enthusiasm has not only accrued him respect in Hong Kong's world of Instagram photography, but it has also led to paid work, with clients including the Hong Kong Tourism Board and HSBC.
Liu first started taking photos with his iPhone in 2012, which quickly led him to invest in a real camera. Always interested in Hong Kong's landscapes, both urban and natural, Liu began uploading images onto Instagram, accruing a growing base of fans who appreciated his eye for elegant and poignant scenes that prolong otherwise fleeting moments of Hong Kong life.
Liu's images elevate scenes that one might consider banal into the realm of the poetic. It's a quality that might come from the way a sliver of sunlight shines on a dilapidated building, or how the shadow of a solitary figure is stretched out in the evening sunlight. Somethings what draws Liu to a scene is something more emotional and human; one of his favourite images depicts one women helping another move her pushcart one late evening in Central. For Liu, the image shines a light on something he would like to see more of in Hong Kong: strangers helping each other.
Liu often snaps children and people playing or smiling, sometimes in less than ideal circumstances. One of his favourite images was that of a young girl grinning in the midst of a road flooded by a typhoon. Liu likes the idea of illuminating moments in which we as humans can exhibit joyfulness despite trying conditions. This human element of Liu's photography is in part inspired by the photography of the late Fan Ho, whose work Liu often references in the scenes he chooses to depict.
Ho was as much known for his empathetic depictions of grassroots city life as he was his elegant and poetic compositions – qualities Liu admires and takes reference from. "I like the photography of Fan Ho, his use of shadows, I like the symmetry and minimalism," says Liu. "It's difficult to shoot that aesthetic in Hong Kong, because the city is so crowded, and that's not what I want to capture." he says. Like Ho, Liu is drawn to the rare sight of a Hong Kong street empty but for one solitary figure.
Compared to Ho's heyday in the 1950s, Hong Kong's buildings now soar higher and higher. Liu sometimes climbs up to rooftops to take bird's eye views of the city. The city's futuristic cyberpunk quality — something that has inspired everything from Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell – is another one of Liu's fascinations. Like many photographers working in Hong Kong today, he is drawn to the disappearing tradition of the city's neon lights.
Liu expresses a sense of ambivalence about the changes the city is going though; he regrets what is being lost in a time of upheaval. Perhaps this is why photography has becoming such a meaningful endeavour to him: it allows him to create time capsules with which to treasure those disappearing moments.
Sunny Liu captures vanishing moments in a fast-paced city.


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In addition to being a popular jewelry material, gold is used in dentistry, electronics, drinks and food. It has even been used by some as an alternative medicine for arthritis. While gold doesn't have any taste or nutritional value, it does add a touch of elegance to food and drinks. It is a soft metal that is easy to work with once you have practiced with it. Many people like to melt it down and make their own golden creations. Because gold has a moderately low melting point for a metal, it can be melted with a standard propane torch. Once melted, gold can be poured into molds to harden or pounded with a mallet into thin strips.
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Put on safety goggles, a long-sleeved shirt and a face mask to protect your skin should the molten gold happen to pop or burst.
Put the gold in the bottom of a cast-iron pot. Cast iron is good to use because it's readily available and has a melting temperature almost 900 degrees higher than gold.
Turn the propane torch on and set it to a medium flame.
Hold the end of the flame directly against the gold. As the gold heats up, it will turn to a liquid state and form a puddle. Depending on the size of the gold, this can take anywhere from a minute to an hour.
If you are melting gold that is thicker than a half-inch, you may want to cut it in half with a band saw to reduce the amount of time it takes to melt.
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Chef Marcus Samuelsson celebrates the variety of Black food
FILE – Host/chef Marcus Samuelsson participates in PBS's "No Passport Required" and "South By Somewhere" panel at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. on July 30, 2019. Samuelsson is hoping to educate Americans and champion Black chefs in "The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food" from Little, Brown and Company's Voracious imprint. The book has 150 recipes from two dozen top Black chefs and includes profiles of each.
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If anyone asks chef Marcus Samuelsson what African food taste like, he has a ready answer: Have you ever had barbeque? Rice? Collard greens? Okra? Coffee?
"All of that food comes from Africa, has its roots in Africa," says the Ethiopian Swedish writer and restaurateur. "Everyone has had African American dishes, whether they know it or not."
Samuelsson is hoping to educate Americans and champion Black chefs in "The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food" from Little, Brown and Company's Voracious imprint.
The book has 150 recipes inspired by Black chefs, writers and activists, and includes profiles of 26. The recipes celebrate the legacy of Africa, the influence of migration and integration, and where cutting-edge Black chefs are going next.
"When I look at American food and I look at the Black experience, we've done so much but almost got erased," says Samuelsson, the chef of Harlem's famed Red Rooster. "There's never been a better time to tell those stories."
The book — with essays by Osayi Endolyn and recipe development by Yewande Komolafe — is a rich mix of stories and food, from citrus scallops with hibiscus tea to oxtail pepperpot with dumplings. As Samuelsson writes in the introduction: "This isn't an encyclopedia. It's a feast. And everyone's invited."
Readers will learn how Los Angeles-based chef Nyesha Arrington's cooking draws on family history from Mississippi and South Korea. They'll learn it takes just 45 minutes to make Eric Gestel's chicken liver mousse with croissants, a dish informed from his years cooking at the acclaimed Le Bernardin. And they'll learn how Mashama Bailey is reinventing traditional Southern dishes.
"Our pasts are so unique and it's so important to tell," says Samuelsson. "We needed to tell our very layered and beautiful, non-monolithic journey."
Samuelsson notes that many cookbooks celebrate European and Asian foods but hardly bring up Black dishes, meaning we know more about ricotta than ayib, the fresh cheese of Ethiopia.
"This is America's past. So for me, as much as we learn about Japan, as much as we learn about Italy and Spain and so on, wouldn't it be great to learn about our own food? This is America's food," he says.
Samuelsson compares the food in the book to popular music. He looks at New Orleans and hears the influence of France, Haiti, Africa and Spain — he hears jazz. Black food is no different.
"It comes from the continent first and then it lands here. And then, whether we went North or stayed in the South or went out West, it's going to have a different journey — a different flavor profile to it — depending on who we met and who we got together with," he says.
The book took four years to make and had to grapple with the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Samuelsson says in his author's note that the effects of COVID-19 will stay in the Black community for longer than elsewhere and that the nation must also fight the virus of systemic racism. But he marvels at the resiliency of the Black community and says "Black food matters."
"We still will cook," he vows. "Black food has always been controversial because the way we were brought here to work, the food and the land. We have always had to do it through different lengths and a different set of rules."
Readers will learn how wide and rich the food rooted in Africa can be, from the use of venison to pine nut chutney to roti. They'll learn that benne seeds are a delicious alternative to sesame seeds and make a vinaigrette sing.
"Whether this is your first experience making African-inspired dishes or you're familiar with them, my hope is this book will spark an interest — or continue one — and you'll want to learn more about the people redefining and celebrating this cuisine," said Endolyn.
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Maine, meet Brunswick Stew. Brunswick Stew is a Southern dish, usually cooked with squirrel meat (!!) and at times in a big, outdoor cast iron pot. I grew up on the stuff (don't worry, the canned version has chicken) and found it's best if you up the corn ante by adding a can or better still, some cut off the cob. Thanks Mom, for shipping up six cans of the stuff and satisfying my craving.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. You should make your own sometime. It's easy and tastes great.
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What happens when it seems like things just can't go right? Or when it feels like the world is piling on? What do you do when you feel attacked, perhaps metaphorically or even literally, by people or events or maybe even an institution? How do you not simply survive these experiences, but convert them and thrive instead? In this discussion Rita discusses what to do when bad things happen and shares her own recent attack.
You can listen to the full podcast episode here, or continue reading below.
If you talked to me in January, I was smitten with a memoir written by Dr. Edith Eger, The Choice. I'm inspired by individuals who transcend some type of personal pain or hurt and are able to not only use it but catapult from it.
Edith Eger is a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz camp. She's often referred to as the Anne Frank who didn't die, because both young girls were about the same age when they were deported to the camps. Edith survived and then became a psychologist to help others. In this book she describes her life before, during, and after her experience in the concentration camps.
The part that most intrigued me is what she uncovered on her ongoing road to healing from the atrocities she was exposed to.
Today we'll discuss how to know when we may unwittingly be playing the role of victim. We'll also discuss what to do when we know events or people have a hold on us, but don't know how to extract ourselves from the feelings of victimhood.
We can't escape pain, but we can escape long term suffering. Pain happens, suffering is a choice.
Early in the book Edith makes the distinction between victimization and victimhood. She says there's a choice between the two. Victimization is caused by circumstances, people, or institutions that are outside of us— things over which we have no control. Victimhood happens from the inside. It occurs when we choose to hold on to our victimization.
We're all likely to be victimized in some way in the course of our lives. It can be the bully at school. It can be the raging spouse. It can be the abusive member of the family. It can be the lover who cheats. It can be an accident that happens to us. It can be an attack. These things happen. It's called life.
No one can make you a victim but you.
But you have a choice of whether or not you are going to be a victim to these people, experiences, or circumstances.
How do you know you are being a victim? And what to do so you are not held hostage?
One way to help yourself convert bad experiences is to ask the question, "What do I need to do to be at peace if the situation never changes?" The question beckons us to not rely on fixing the external environment, but instead to shift our internal story or interpretation of it.
At our most organic state, we are peaceful beings. When we leave that state, our job is to consciously break free and return back to that peaceful, centered state—regardless of circumstances. It is only from that place that we are able to become the people we are here to be.
I have had bad experiences that seemed to happen one after the other of late. People have asked, "Wow, how can you move through that? How does that happen to just one person? How do you traverse with grace and ease?" One of the most important paradigms of thinking that supports me to navigate when the world is piling on, is to trust that there must be some opportunity before me. I believe everything is happening to support my evolvement. These moments don't always feel good, but there is peace in my faith that I am supported by something larger even in the difficult moments.
How does this struggle have meaning?
What is the opportunity, even in the difficulty?
How, in a strange way, is this working out perfectly for my well-being?
This past January I was attacked by two men. One grabbed me from behind and spun me around. It was then that I saw the second man with a face mask and hat. I can't tell you all of the details of what they said or did. My body had a very primal, instinctive desire for self-preservation. I focused all my resources on screaming and being heard. Getting help was my only hope. Fortunately, I was finally heard by a another man who came running. The two attackers took off in a car.
In my reflection, instead, I've found meaning in the chaos and it helps me step up and out. For example, through my own process of healing I am learning the power of the brain and how to re-train it at a deeper level than I have preciously known. It's been the catalyst for bolder living, deeper work with my clients and those I lead, as well as solidifying my direction and purpose. Knowing I could die also reminded me how temporary my time is here. I'm more present and give more hugs as a result.
I will not sugar-coat it. I don't believe in putting whipped cream on garbage. The event was not positive nor easy. I've had moments since where I am triggered and sent back to that frightening event. I've screamed anxiously in front of my daughters in Nordstrom's when a woman opened a bathroom door. I've been startled and, in turn, scared two little old ladies who 'snuck' up on me in a parking lot. On more than one occasion I've been jolted and terrified by the shadow of my coat when walking alone. I am still choosing for the event to be meaningful. Painful as it and the events after have been, I am stronger, wiser, and more loving today as a result.
You must process your experiences.
You must feel your feelings.
You must never stay a victim.
Your body is amazing at being able to protect you. It will send the message when it is compromised: "ALERT. ALERT. ALERT. Send all of my available resources to get me out of this situation alive." If you've ever had that dream that nothing comes out of your mouth when you scream, I'm hear to share…it will.
Instead of asking "Why me?" ask "What now?" We all have stories of victimization. Ask the better question.
Never diminish or discount your pain. If you've ever said, "This isn't the biggest deal, because another person is going through something more profound than what I'm experiencing," you're still playing the role of a victim. Never deny your pain.
Witness and feel your feelings. Talk, write, scream, cry, shake, laugh. In short, practice releasing consistently and with repetition.
Time doesn't heal; it's what you do with the time. Long ago, if there was a painful experience, I'd replay it over and over again in my head thinking that at some point I'd numb out to it. That eventually it wouldn't have such an intense feeling in my body. I've learned that doesn't work. It is what we do with the time that matters. It's how we take responsibility for our next action, healing the pain and re-programming the brain.
How do you know you're being a victim?
You're focused on other people and what they've done wrong. We don't need to fight our opponents any longer. We don't need to prove that they are in error. Your attention is better served on creating what it is you DO want.
You know you're being a victim if you're asking, "Why me?" Rather than, "What now?" What is your next empowered action? That is the opportunity before you. Look for your options.
You're simply unhappy, telling yourself it should be another way. Use that feeling of unhappiness as a messenger that it's time for a new direction or change. In my experience, if something has happened, it was supposed to happen.
Declare, "I am taking back my power." "I'm in charge." "I've got this." Anything after "I am" is a powerful conductor and sends the brain a message that it is a new and different day; the vivid consistent repetition of this thought …accepted as already true… will elicit new and different behavior and a new and different outcome.
Bottom line: Do what you need to do and take responsibility for your life. I invite you to make the choice to be free. The world needs the best you in play.
Subscribe on iTunes for more tips, tools and inspiration to leading the optimal vision of your life, love and leadership. Remember, a half version of you is not enough. The world needs the fullest version of you at play.
As a Business and Life Coach, Rita works with highly motivated professionals who, despite their level of success and achievements, are not happy or satisfied. Often, they're "successful" by traditional standards, yet unfulfilled based on their own. They know they want more and are ready to have it.
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This is a story of corruption. It begins, as it must, with Hillary Clinton. - Gregg Jarrett, The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.
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Nan A. Talese, Senior Vice President of Doubleday/RandomHouse and publisher of Nan A. Talese Books, talks about the future of book publishing and offers insights into what authors can do to improve their chances of being published in today's broader marketplace.
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday is a literary imprint committed to quality publishing, both in the excellence of its authors and the quality of the production of its books.
Established in 1990, it is distinguished both by new authors of fiction and nonfiction, as well as the authors The imprint is headed by Nan A. Talese as senior vice president. For many years, Nan has published writers who have been staunchly supported by independent booksellers (and more recently Barnes & Noble and Borders) and reviewers. Among its writers are Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Atwood, Pinckney Benedict, Thomas Cahill, Kevin Canty, Lorene Cary, Pat Conroy, Jennifer Egan, Mia Farrow, Antonia Fraser, David Grand, Nicola Griffith, Aleksandar Hemon, Thomas Keneally, Alex Kotlowitz, Robert MacNeil, Ian McEwan, Gita Mehta, George Plimpton, Edvard Radzinsky, Mark Richard, Nicholas Shakespeare, Barry Unsworth, and Gus Van Sant. Nan Talese is a Senior Vice President of Doubleday and the Publisher and Editorial Director of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a trade book publishing imprint known for its literary excellence.
Having begun her publishing career at Random House, she subsequently joined Simon & Schuster as an editor, beginning her long editorial relationships with such authors as Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan, Barry Unsworth and Thomas Keneally, all winners of the prestigious Booker Prize.
It was at Houghton Mifflin, which she joined in 1981 as Executive Editor, eventually becoming Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, that she began her association with Pat Conroy as editor of his novel, The Prince of Tides.
She joined Doubleday as Senior Vice President in 1988, and two years later introduced her author-oriented imprint dedicated to the publication of a select list of quality fiction and nonfiction. The critically acclaimed and bestselling titles she has published since the imprint's inception include There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlotwitz; Beach Music and My Losing Season by Pat Conroy; Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; Amsterdam, Atonement, and Saturday by Ian McEwan; How the Irish Saved Civilization, The Gifts of the Jews, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, and Sailing the Wine Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill; Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth; Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser; Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd, as well as the works of George Plimpton, Mark Richard, Robert MacNeil, Peter Ackroyd, Kevin Canty, Jennifer Egan, and Adam Haslett, among others.
Mrs. Talese is married to author Gay Talese, whose latest book A Writer's Life was published by Knopf in April 2007. They have two daughters: Pamela, a painter, and Catherine, a photographer.
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The 8-hour workday isn't helping us; it's holding us back.
The 8-hour workday was created during the Industrial Revolution as an effort to cut down on the number of hours of manual labor that workers were forced to endure on the factory floor. This breakthrough was a more humane approach to work 200 years ago, yet it possesses little relevance for us today.
The ideal work-to-break ratio was 52 minutes of work, followed by 17 minutes of rest. People who maintained this schedule had a unique level of focus in their work. For roughly an hour at a time, they were 100% dedicated to the task they needed to accomplish. They didn't check Facebook "real quick" or get distracted by emails. When they felt fatigue (again, after about an hour), they took short breaks, during which they completely separated themselves from their work. This helped them to dive back in refreshed for another productive hour of work.
People who have discovered this magic productivity ratio crush their competition because they tap into a fundamental need of the human mind: the brain naturally functions in spurts of high energy (roughly an hour) followed by spurts of low energy (15-20 minutes).
Real breaks are easier to take when you know they're going to make your day more productive. We often let fatigue win because we continue working through it (long after we've lost energy and focus), and the breaks we take aren't real breaks (checking your email and watching YouTube doesn't recharge you the same way as taking a walk does).
Break your day into hourly intervals.
In the study at Draugiem, they found that employees who took more frequent rests than the hourly optimum were more productive than those who didn't rest at all. Likewise, those who took deliberately relaxing breaks were better off than those who, when "resting," had trouble separating themselves from their work. Getting away from your computer, your phone, and your to-do list is essential to boosting your productivity.
Breaks such as walking, reading, and chatting are the most effective forms of recharging because they take you away from your work. On a busy day, it might be tempting to think of dealing with emails or making phone calls as breaks, but they aren't, so don't give in to this line of thought.
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The Man Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
The schoolroom staple didn't originally include "under God," even though it was created by an ordained minister
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I first struggled with "under God" in my fourth-grade class in Westport, Connecticut. It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of Allegiance, partly as a cold war rejoinder to "godless" communism. We kept stumbling on the words—it's not easy to unlearn something as ingrained and metrical as the Pledge of Allegiance—while we rehearsed for Flag Day, June 14, when the revision would take effect.
Now, nearly five decades later, "under God" is at the center of a legal wrangle that has stirred passions and landed at the door of the U.S. Supreme Court. The case follows a U.S. appeals court ruling in June 2002 that "under God" turns the pledge into an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion when recited in public schools. Outraged by the ruling, Washington, D.C. lawmakers of both parties recited the pledge on the Capitol steps.
Amid the furor, the judge who wrote the ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court, based in San Francisco, stayed it from being put into effect. In April 2003, after the Ninth Circuit declined to review its decision, the federal government petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it. (Editor's Note: In June 2004, the Court ruled unanimously to keep "under God" in the Pledge.) At the core of the issue, scholars say, is a debate over the separation of church and state.
I wonder what the man who composed the original pledge 111 years ago would make of the hubbub.
Francis Bellamy was a Baptist minister's son from upstate New York. Educated in public schools, he distinguished himself in oratory at the University of Rochester before following his father to the pulpit, preaching at churches in New York and Boston. But he was restive in the ministry and, in 1891, accepted a job from one of his Boston congregants, Daniel S. Ford, principal owner and editor of the Youth's Companion, a family magazine with half a million subscribers.
Assigned to the magazine's promotions department, the 37-year-old Bellamy set to work arranging a patriotic program for schools around the country to coincide with opening ceremonies for the Columbian Exposition in October 1892, the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. Bellamy successfully lobbied Congress for a resolution endorsing the school ceremony, and he helped convince President Benjamin Harrison to issue a proclamation declaring a Columbus Day holiday.
A key element of the commemorative program was to be a new salute to the flag for schoolchildren to recite in unison. But as the deadline for writing the salute approached, it remained undone. "You write it," Bellamy recalled his boss saying. "You have a knack at words." In Bellamy's later accounts of the sultry August evening he composed the pledge, he said that he believed all along it should invoke allegiance. The idea was in part a response to the Civil War, a crisis of loyalty still fresh in the national memory. As Bellamy sat down at his desk, the opening words—"I pledge allegiance to my flag"—tumbled onto paper. Then, after two hours of "arduous mental labor," as he described it, he produced a succinct and rhythmic tribute very close to the one we know today: I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands—one Nation indivisible—with liberty and justice for all. (Bellamy later added the "to" before "the Republic" for better cadence.)
Millions of schoolchildren nationwide took part in the 1892 Columbus Day ceremony, according to the Youth's Companion. Bellamy said he heard the pledge for the first time that day, October 21, when "4,000 high school boys in Boston roared it out together."
But no sooner had the pledge taken root in schools than the fiddling with it began. In 1923, a National Flag Conference, presided over by the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, ordained that "my flag" should be changed to "the flag of the United States," lest immigrant children be unclear just which flag they were saluting. The following year, the Flag Conference refined the phrase further, adding "of America."
In 1942, the pledge's 50th anniversary, Congress adopted it as part of a national flag code. By then, the salute had already acquired a powerful institutional role, with some state legislatures obligating public school students to recite it each school day. But individuals and groups challenged the laws. Notably, Jehovah's Witnesses maintained that reciting the pledge violated their prohibition against venerating a graven image. In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled in the Witnesses' favor, undergirding the free-speech principle that no schoolchild should be compelled to recite the pledge.
A decade later, following a lobbying campaign by the Knights of Columbus—a Catholic fraternal organization—and others, Congress approved the addition of the words "under God" within the phrase "one nation indivisible." On June 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
The bill's sponsors, anticipating that the reference to God would be challenged as a breach of the Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, had argued that the new language wasn't really religious. "A distinction must be made between the existence of a religion as an institution and a belief in the sovereignty of God," they wrote. "The phrase 'under God' recognizes only the guidance of God in our national affairs." The disclaimer did not deter a succession of litigants in several state courts from contesting the new wording over the years, but complainants never got very far—until last year's ruling by the Ninth Circuit.
The case originated when Michael Newdow, an atheist, claimed that his daughter (a minor whose name has not been released) was harmed by reciting the pledge at her public school in Elk Grove, California. If she refused to join in because of the "under God" phrase, the suit argued, she was liable to be branded an outsider and thereby harmed. The appellate court agreed. Complicating the picture, the girl's mother, who has custody of the child, has said she does not oppose her daughter's reciting the pledge; the youngster does so every school day along with her classmates, according to the superintendent of the school district where the child is enrolled.
Proponents of the idea that the pledge's mention of God reflects historical tradition and not religious doctrine include Supreme Court justices past and present. "They see that kind of language—'under God' and 'in God we trust'—with no special religious significance," says political scientist Gary Jacobsohn, who teaches Constitutional law at WilliamsCollege.
Atheists are not the only ones to take issue with that line of thought. Advocates of religious tolerance point out that the reference to a single deity might not sit well with followers of some established religions. After all, Buddhists don't conceive of God as a single discrete entity, Zoroastrians believe in two deities and Hindus believe in many. Both the Ninth Circuit ruling and a number of Supreme Court decisions acknowledge this. But Jacobsohn predicts that a majority of the justices will hold that government may support religion in general as long as public policy does not pursue an obviously sectarian, specific religious purpose.
Bellamy, who went on to become an advertising executive, wrote extensively about the pledge in later years. I haven't found any evidence in the historical record—including Bellamy's papers at the University of Rochester—to indicate whether he ever considered adding a divine reference to the pledge. So we can't know where he would stand in today's dispute. But it's ironic that the debate centers on a reference to God that an ordained minister left out. And we can be sure that Bellamy, if he was like most writers, would have balked at anyone tinkering with his prose.


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The Lakeland coed squad avenged a championship loss from last year, beating Gulf Coast United,
6-1, Sunday at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex.
The Lakeland coed team is comprised of players from the league that won the Florida Classic in January.
With the victory, the Lakeland team expects to be extended a big to the U.S. Soccer coed
nationals for the fourth time.
The team just barely made it to the finals. Saturday they got a last minute goal from Pat
Ball to tie Gulf Coast United, 3-3.
In a round robin format with teams advancing
based on a point system, that final goal sent them to the championship game.
Pete Schiebel led the coed team with two goals. Jesse Gore, Justin Buckner, Stu Wells and Ashley Craig scored.
Coach Justin Buckner complimented the women on the team who "made the difference," he said. "My girls were the best girls out there."
Also playing for the Lakeland coed team were Monte King, Trent Glenn, Arthur Mattson, Bart Allen, Ben Seitz, Adam Devine, James Wells, Jesse Gore, Lorraine Buckner, Ashley Craig, Mindy Dymon, Alise Gore, Maggie Driscoll, Eina Dorado, Beth Seitz and Spencer Short.
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Q: How to obtain hierarchical relationships for org units based on positions hierarchy I have a table containing some HR data including (amongst other details) the position id, the parent position id, and the org unit id.
Something like
pos_id | parent_pos_id | pos_name            | org_id | org_name
   1   |     null      | CEO                 |   A    | Executive
   2   |       1       | Assistant           |   A    | Executive
   3   |       1       | IT Director         |   B    | Information Technology
   4   |       1       | Finances Director   |   C    | Finances
   5   |       3       | Systems Leader      |   B    | Information Technology
   6   |       5       | Database Manager    |   B1   | Database Systems
   7   |       5       | Application Manager |   B2   | OS and Applications
   8   |       4       | Finances Leader     |   C    | Finances
   9   |       4       | Financial Assistant |   C    | Finances
  10   |       8       | Payroll Manager     |   C1   | Payroll

and I need to obtain the information of the parent org unit id for each record, based on the position hierarchical relationships.
So, for the above example, the desired output would be:
org_id | parent_org_id
   A   |      null
   B   |       A
   C   |       A
  B1   |       B
  B2   |       B
  C1   |       C

Is there a query that can be built to obtain this in an SQL Server database?

A: use self join
DEMO
select  a.org_id as org_id,b.org_id as parentorgid
from t1 a
left join t1 b on a.parent_pos_id=b.pos_id
where a.org_id<>b.org_id or b.org_id is null

OUTPUT:
org_id  parentorgid
A
B         A
C         A
B1        B
B2        B
C1        C

A: You need to write a Recursive CTE for this,The psuedo code is below
with cte as
(
 select org_id,parentorg_id,pos_id,parentpos_id from hrtable where parentpos_id is null
 UNION ALL
 select org_id,parentorg_id,pos_id,parentpos_idfrom hrtable t join cte c on t.parentpso_id=c.pos_id
)
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I have been experimenting with different methods for tuning our search engine's field boosts. In Solr or Elastic Search, you specify the importance of matches in each field when configuring the search engine. The ranking function is complex and non-differentiable, so I have been looking to use optimization algorithms and reinforcement-learning approaches to optimize the NDCG score on some ranked documents. Has anyone else approaches this problem? I am having trouble finding literature on it but it's an important problem for anyone working on search engines. We work on a job search engine, so setting the correct weights for a match on job title vs skills vs job description can make a big difference as to the relevancy of the results. Obviously you can also use LTR models, but before doing that i'd like to ensure I have the optimal query configuration before re-ranking results.
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Q: Prevent creating a new relationship based in node attribute I am trying to create a graph using Neo4j which makes relationships between cities and streets. There can be several streets with the same name, belonging to different cities, but the only restriction is that one city can't have 2 streets with the same name. Imagine I have the next scenario:
Here I create two Street nodes using Cypher with the same street name:
(st1: Street { streetName: 'streetName1'}),
(st2: Street { streetName: 'streetName1'}),

Here I create a City node:
(city1: City { cityName: 'cityName1'}),

I know st1 belongs to city1, so I create the relationship between them:
(st1)-[:BELONGS_TO]->(city1)

My question is: given that I have that relationship already in the graph, is there any way to prevent creating a new relationship between city1 and any other Street node which streetName attribute is 'streetName1', like the following
(st2)-[:BELONGS_TO]->(city1)

A: Here is an example of how you can create a street and link it to a city if-and-only-if the city does not already have a street with the same name:
MATCH (city1:City {name: 'Foo'})
OPTIONAL MATCH (st:Street {streetName: 'streetName1'})-[:BELONGS_TO]->(city1)
FOREACH(x IN CASE WHEN st IS NULL THEN [1] END |
  CREATE (st2:Street {streetName: 'streetName1'})-[:BELONGS_TO]->(city1))


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Q: ggplot separated by biotopes I am quite new to R, so hopefully this will be easy:
I have a dataset of different biotopes (arable land, water bodies, settlement etc.) which I want to plot by means of their Area and Perimeter on the x and y axis. Colors should indicate the different biotopes. I succeeded by
qplot(Data$Perimeter_meter, Data$Area_meter, color= Data$biotopes)

As there are two biotopes of huge sizes, the main biotopes are not very well visible/presented in this plot (very small and skewed in the left corner). I tried to eliminate them by creating a subset:
ggplot(subset(Data[which(Data$Perimeter_meter <= 90000 &
                         Data$Area_meter < 5000),]),
     aes(x = Data$Perimeter_meter, y = Data$Area_meter,
        colour = Data$biotopes))

The dput(head(Data)) is:
    new("SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"
    , data = structure(list(OBJECTID = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), HG_STR = structure(c(6L,
6L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 8L), .Label = c("02", "04", "05", "07", "08",
"09", "10", "12"), class = "factor"), HG_NUM = c(9, 9, 5, 5,
5, 12), HGUG2_STR = structure(c(25L, 25L, 10L, 10L, 10L, 32L), .Label = c("0210",
"0212", "0215", "0221", "0412", "0510", "0511", "0513", "0514",
"0515", "0710", "0711", "0717", "0810", "0828", "0830", "0831",
"0832", "0835", "0836", "0848", "0850", "0851", "0868", "0913",
"0914", "1010", "1011", "1021", "1023", "1212", "1214"), class = "factor"),

PATCHID = c(4, 1364, 1444, 1549, 1573, 1580), Shape_Leng = c(2515.41907685,
69731.2831506, 13900.6309242, 873.269546963, 1865.70715484,
915.779630011), Shape_Area = c(95171.5598722, 6997023.54296,
900797.40161, 23226.8911895, 59557.1082323, 30295.3228437
), biotopes = c("arable land", "arable land", "grassland",
"grassland", "grassland", "settlement, traffic areas"), Area_meter = c(95171.56,
6997023.54, 900797.4, 23226.89, 59557.11, 30295.32), Perimeter_meter = c(
    92290.15,
        94507.9, 20812.99, 1344.65, 2405.33, 8100.22)), .Names = c("OBJECTID",
    "HG_STR", "HG_NUM", "

HGUG2_STR", "PATCHID", "Shape_Leng", "Shape_Area",
    "biotopes", "Area_meter", "Perimeter_meter"), row.names = c("0",
    "1", "2", "3", "4", "5"), class = "data.frame")
        , polygons = list(<S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>,
        <S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>,
        <S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>,
        <S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>,
        <S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>,
        <S4 object of class structure("Polygons", package = "sp")>)
        , plotOrder = c(2L, 3L, 1L, 5L, 6L, 4L)
        , bbox = structure(c(3423870, 5865918, 3428870, 5868918), .Dim = c(2L,
    2L), .Dimnames = list(c("x", "y"), c("min", "max")))
        , proj4string = new("CRS"
        , projargs = "+proj=tmerc +lat_0=0 +lon_0=15 +k=0.9996 +x_0=3500000 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0"
    )
    )

error still occurs: "Regions defined for each Polygons
Fehler in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
  Objekt 'Perimeter_meter' not found

A: get the columbus spatial polygons data frame:
require(spdep)
example(columbus)

then do a scatter plot of perim, area coloured by Y, on a subset:
ggplot(subset(data.frame(columbus),AREA>0.1), aes(x=PERIMETER, y=AREA,colour=Y))  + geom_point()

Note: 1. conversion to data.frame (ggplot doesn't like sp-class objects here, so strip the spatial off and make it a plain data frame). 2. No need to say columbus$AREA because ggplot uses non-standard evaluation and just gets the name from the data frame; 3. use of ggplot(data, aes=...) + geom_point() to draw a scatter plot.


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Sasha (born Alexander Coe on 4 September 1969), is a Welsh DJ and record producer. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s, and became a central figure in the development and popularisation of electronic dance music. He partnered with fellow DJ John Digweed in 1993, touring internationally and producing a series of mixes (compilations of other artists work played in a continuous fashion). Through their track selection and mixing techniques, Sasha and Digweed were instrumental in the evolution of progressive trance and house music.
Sasha has produced multiple UK-charting singles and has remixed tracks for artists such as Madonna and The Chemical Brothers. His remix of Felix da Housecat's "Watching Cars Go By" earned him a 2004 Grammy nomination. Sasha's remixing and production often combine electronic music genres, making it difficult for critics to pinpoint his musical style, including on his debut album of original work, Airdrawndagger.
After achieving success as a producer and DJ, Sasha worked with younger DJs and producers such as Brian Transeau and James Zabiela, influencing their musical styles and techniques. His use of live audio engineering equipment helped popularise technological innovations among DJs who formerly relied on records and turntables. Despite the changing trends in electronic dance music, Sasha continues to perform in large dance venues and is currently on an intercontinental tour of large European and United States venues. In 2007, he formed the record label Emfire, which will be the exclusive outlet for his new music.
Sasha was born in Bangor, Wales in 1969, but spent most of his youth with his mother in the Welsh town of Hawarden. Sasha's early musical taste was primarily Top 40 pop music like The The and The Police. After an "idyllic childhood", he passed the entrance exam for Epsom College at age 17. He did not like Epsom, however, and left before completing his Advanced Level (an academic qualification in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland). Instead of continuing his schooling, Sasha moved to Bangor to live with his father and stepmother. Sasha's stepmother forced him to take piano lessons which, although he disliked them at the time, Sasha ultimately found to be beneficial to his music career.
Sasha became aware of electronic dance music in 1988 at The Ha�ienda, a Manchester dance venue. Drawn to the rough sound of acid house music and the rebellious attitude he associated with it, he visited Manchester weekly and soon moved to nearby Disley. Sasha purchased many acid house records, and began to teach himself how to mix. A local DJ at a club Sasha frequented announced that he was looking for other DJs to travel with him on a regional tour. Sasha volunteered, and made his first live appearance in nearby Stockport. Sasha recalled of his debut, "I'd never even touched a Technics: I thought the pitch control was the volume, I didn't even know where to plug my headphones in! I'm sure I was absolutely horrendous."
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How Midterm Elections Affect Stocks
August 12, 2018 | Financial Professionals, Mitch on the Markets
Stocks are generally not influenced by a single factor. It is usually a multitude of factors pushing and pulling prices at any given time. Earnings may serve as tailwinds breathing positive momentum into stocks, while tariffs could do the opposite and serve as headwinds. Leading economic indicators may boost investor sentiment and the relative attractiveness of stocks, while high valuations could discourage some investors from buying. At any given time, the confluence of these factors determines the direction of stock prices, in our view.
One such factor that gets little airtime, but that we'd like to discuss this week, is midterm elections. At Zacks Investment Management, we are politically agnostic in our approach to investing, favoring no party over the other. Our concern is on policy and how it may affect property rights, corporate profits, and economic growth. It doesn't matter what side of the aisle it comes from – but it does matter.
Perhaps that's why historically, stocks have tended to get jittery in midterm election years, as the balance of power in Washington undergoes a potential shift. Let's look at some of the historical data first, and then we'll explain why we think stocks have behaved this way in midterm election years.
Volatility in a Midterm Election Year: By the Numbers
Let's start by taking a look at the last four midterm election years. The table below takes a look at S&P 500 corrections during years of midterm elections, but then also takes a look at what the market did in the 12 months following the correction[1]:
As you can see from the table, stocks have tended to display a volatile streak in midterm election years. Going back even further to 1962, the average correction during a midterm election year was an eyebrow raising -19%.[2]
But here's the kicker: since 1962, the average bounce for stocks following the midterm correction was a sturdy +31%. The table also shows that in the last four midterm election years, stocks have rebounded considerably following the downside volatility enduring during the year.
Going even deeper, if we look at the average monthly returns of the S&P 500 in midterm election years (going back to 1962), we find that from April to September the S&P 500 has posted negative returns.[3]
Bottom line, stocks have tended to wobble, and we think there's a reason why. Because midterm election years can mean a shift in the balance of power in Congress, it also means that there is an increased risk of one party enacting new laws and/or policies in the lead-up or once the power dynamic is set. Markets, in our view, do not like policy uncertainty.
But we see a flip side to this hypothesis – once midterm elections happen and the markets know how the table is set, so to speak, the uncertainty fades and corporations (stocks) have a better idea of what to expect from Congress in the coming two years. Perhaps this is why since 1946, the S&P 500 has not declined in the 12 months following a midterm election, with the average price return in the 12-month period following a midterm election from 1950 – 2014 being +15.3%. [4]
We do not think 2019 will be the exception.
In my view, investors would be wise to brace for a noisy, sometimes ugly fight in this midterm election cycle, and we wouldn't be surprised if markets responded with increased volatility – as has often been the case throughout recent history. But as we mentioned earlier, we do not believe stock prices are influenced by one factor alone. While the mudslinging surrounding midterm elections may create some headwinds for stocks, the positive news surrounding earnings, jobs, income, and spending may help support the longer-term upward trend. History has also shown that corrections in midterm election years are often followed by solid positive returns in the years that follow, and we could very well see that being the case in this cycle as well.
1 Strategas Quarterly Review in Charts, July 2, 2018, pages 55-58
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First stop, Manila for Philippine's famous duck egg, Balut.
They say one never been to Manila if they never try Balut and Lechon, so I shall put that on my list.
Then to the land of smiles,Thailand to complete my list-of-eaten-insect. I had yet to try all the insects.
While at it, I shall sneaked over to my favorite noodle stall for my beloved boat noodle.
And lastly, to Cambodia for their world known deep fried tarantula. I heard that said it tasted like seafood.
So, food please don't run and let me eat you.
P/S: Actually I thought of making a compilation of noodle dishes in South East Asia to see how good Kolok Mee stands among them but for this contest, I guess exotic food seems to be more interesting lol.
In case you don't know, Asean Pass let you travel around South East Asia in a month with a flat rate.
They asked me what's my Must Visit Festival for 2016.
This is my answer. 🙂 Sometimes is not how fun how grand a festival is but how it means to me and that someone.
AirAsia is giving out Free Seats now. Travel period from 15 Feb to 31 Aug 2016. Booking period till 28 June 2015!
What's your must visit festival?
Pixar's Up Animation Tickets Giveaway.
If I had 10 AirAsia Free Seats..
So what to do in Cambodia?
We can start the trip by shooting the Sunrise at Angkor Wat in the morning!
And that's only one Angkorian site, there's more sites to visit.
shoot a Tomb Raider scene at Ta Phronm.
Look at that huge tree crawling out of the structure!! Amazing kan.
So what to eat in Cambodia?
I wanted to eat Cambodia spiders ever since the first day I heard about it!! Macam sedap!
And we all so gonna eat that!! Right, guys?
For those who are interested to go travel, do check out AirAsia site now!
They are having promotion and giving out Free Seats!!
#NoLie I just got myself two tickets for next year, one to Bangkok and another to Myanmmar and I only pay RM200 per round trip where I mostly pay for the airport tax and insurance, the tickets was just RM30 per trip.


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