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Published: January 19, 2023, 12:08 PM
Updated: January 19, 2023, 2:51 PM
As Seen on SA Live - Thursday, January 19, 2023
Lassos, hot yoga, mocktails, food, & safe spaces.
Published: January 19, 2023, 12:08 PM Updated: January 19, 2023, 2:51 PM
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SAN ANTONIO – Today on SA Live, the Thomas Jefferson HS Lassos perform, Jen takes us to a candlelit hot yoga class, mocktails with Twang partners, super bowl healthy food, and we reframe the coming out process with Dr. Lulu.
The Thomas Jefferson High School Lassos are a traditional Rope and Dance Team. They were established in 1932 and haven't stopped roping since, they pride themselves on tradition, community service and school spirit. The Lassos will be competing in Fredericksburg, Texas on February 18, 2023 and shortly after we will be heading to California to perform at one of the nation's largest farmer's market.
Looking for a music-driven immersive yoga escape? Jen Tobias-Sturski takes us to House of Rhythom, a DJ-curated candlelit hot class fused with ancient practices and modern tech for deep, soulful, heart-thumping experiences.
Dry January is still ongoing and Twang Partners helps us get through it with some mocktails.
What's the best part of Super Bowl Parties? The food! Griselda Munoz with Plantology/ Vegan Avenue to show us healthy versions of usual comfort foods.
Dr. Lulu and friends present "Rethinking the Closet" a free community seminar to reframe the coming out process and create safer spaces for LGBTQ+ folks to live as their authentic selves. The event will take place on Saturday, Jan 21. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Family Service Neighborhood Place.
San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo is right around the corner and registration is now open for the Western Heritage Weekend Stampede 5K Run/Walk.
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is proud to host Crystal City 1969, a play based on the true-life story of Mexican-American teenagers who walked out of class and into civil rights history. Performances at the Guadalupe Theater in San Antonio will happen on Jan. 19-23, 2023. Tickets are now available.
SA Live airs weekdays at 1 p.m. on KSAT 12. Stream the show anytime from the KSAT+ app on Roku, smart TV, or smartphone.
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A place where Lindsey and Hatch vacationed.
The place where Hatch is resuscitated.
This is the pet project of Jonas Nyebern, and his main reason for living, as he has no real life outside of his work.
The bottom of an elevator shaft in an abandoned amusement park.
This is where Regina was adopted.
The living of the couple who lost the son is made here.
A seedy place rife with hookers and johns.
A suburb in which the Harrisons live.
A punk club that Vassago chooses some of his victims from.
This is the last place Tod Ledderbeck was before his death.


Moderate rain (total 11mm), heaviest on Wed afternoon. Warm (max 22°C on Fri morning, min 17°C on Wed night). Wind will be generally light.
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Mostly dry. Warm (max 23°C on Tue morning, min 17°C on Thu night). Wind will be generally light.
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I knew my South American adventure would take me to Brazil at some point since there is a World Wonder in Rio de Janeiro. After some research, I came to find out that New Years in Rio aka Reveillon was rated as the top New Years celebration in the world. I am into lists, as I have mentioned before, so I knew this needed to happen.
Since I was out of the country in a place where I was not allowed to procure new visas for travel, I had to do some shifty work to get my Brasil visa. I used Travisa services. All in, it took 3 weeks to get it fully processed. My total cost was around $700 including shipping and insurance and fees. It is a very strenuous and annoying process that entails bank account verification, notarized driver's license, and much more.
All the while, I was working on my flights in and out. Getting in wasn't bad since I was already in Argentina, but it wasn't easy. I had to fly into São Paulo then to Rio in order to get a flight at a decent cost. The return flight was even more difficult to acquire. Sure, there is a direct American Airlines flight from Rio to Dallas, but that flight costs $8000 for a one-way. I ended up booking on ticket from Rio to Panama City to San Salvador and a second ticket from San Salvador to Houston to Dallas: a total travel time including taxis of 32 hours, give or take. I actually had to leave the San Salvador airport completely through immigration, then come back in. This process took them almost an hour to comprehend. Then I found out that San Salvador airport shuts down nearly completely at 10PM, so there was no food or drink options.
The next piece of logistical annoyance was getting a hotel. As I said, Reveillon is a huge celebration. There are 2,000,000 people that are partying on Copacabana Beach. This meant that all the hotels and AirBNBs were booked for months. I looked at the JW Marriott, but it was $800 a night. I ended up choose a hotel that seemed close, Royal Tulip. It was only $300 a night or so. This ended up a terrible mistake. If you visit Rio, stay on Copacabana. You will regret the transit otherwise.
Uber is great around the city. You don't need to speak Portuguese, and it is usually done with good cars. The taxi situation is pretty bad. They are everywhere, but half of them will not stop. They only take cash, and they are difficult to understand.
When I was booking my trip, I decided to take a full day in the largest city in the Americas, and check out the beer scene. My buddy, Scott, put me in touch with a beer contact of his in Brazil. We set a time to meet for lunch. I arrived very early after an overnight flight. When I tried to withdraw money from my account, Wells Fargo decided it would be fun to put a fraud alert on my account and lock all activity. Great… It is 1AM, my account is locked. I lost my Schwab card in Cusco. I have no cash, and I have an hour drive to my hotel. After yelling at Wells Fargo for an hour, I realized the fraud department didn't open for 8 hours or so. As luck would have it, an Uber driver picked up my fare, so I only had to wait 90 minutes total. Then it was 45 minutes to the hotel. Thankfully the Sheraton WTC took care of me and let me check in super early. The hotel was pretty cool, and even though Christmas was over, there was still a cheerful feel about the lobby.
I woke up from my nap and headed over to Empório Alto dos Pinheiros to meet Doug and try some Brazilian beers. This place was awesome with its patio and indoor seating. They have a weird payment system, but they take credit cards. They had many local beers on tap and shelves and shelves of craft beer. Perfect.
We enjoyed a delicious daily special beef dish and some fresh IPAs. Afterwards, I grabbed a can togo and headed to Beco de Batman to take in some of the famous street art. Some of the neighborhoods did not seem very safe, but I am glad I walked. It gave me a chance to take in the flavour of the city.
I hit up Cervejaria Nacional for some more local brews then headed back to my hotel for a nap.
Concierge set up a reservation for me at Vento Haragano, which is considered one of the top churrascarias in the area. This place did not disappoint. The meat was delicious and wouldn't stop. Gaucho after gaucho presented his cuts of perfectly cooked meats. I was in heaven.
After this meal, I couldn't do much more drinking. I went by BrewDog, but they were closed for reason I couldn't quite understand. I took that as a sign to go home… haha.
I woke up the next day and made my way back to the airport. It was a short stay in Sao Paulo, but I loved it. I definitely need to return for more beer and culture.
I landed and could feel the energy. Millions of party-going adventure seekers were traveling in, and their emotions were filling the atmosphere. I grabbed my bags and an Uber and it was off to the hotel. From the start, I should have been leary about this hotel. It took them 40+ minutes to check everyone in… each… after wasting nearly two hours of my life, I got to my room to feel a beastly warm breeze. I don't want to focus on the negative for several reasons: first, it dilutes the value of Brazil, second, I have already wasted too many hours, and third, I don't want more headaches.
After dropping my stuff, I made my way to Bar Urca. I heard they had amazing views and great crab cakes. I opted to avoid the restaurant and just order food from the bar. It was a great decision. This was an excellent decision.
After a bite, I headed over to grab some brews from As Melhores Cervejas do Mundo. This place was great. Small, but they had 6 or so taps plus many local bottles.
Next, it was nap time. I stopped by the pool for a coconut and a kiwi caipirinha. It was a little crowded, so I left. That night, I went back out to explore. I hit Delirium for some food and a beer, then headed to Hocus Pocus DNA. I was very impressed with Hocus Pocus. The waitresses were very well-versed in beer. The atmosphere was fun. The space was a little small, but I am just a big guy.
I knew I needed rest for the next day, so I closed out and headed back.
This was the main reason for coming to Rio. I was pumped. I had an all morning tour of the statue and Sugar Loaf mountain. With every tour, you roll the dice when it comes to fellow tour goers. I have had quiet, loud, big, small, annoying, fun, and everything inbetween. I lucked out bigtime with this tour. Evan and Paloma actually lived in Dallas. And Paloma is from Peru. They were amazing. They loved food and beer. So we had a great day. We were the first to get up the mountain, so it wasn't terribly crowded at the statue.
When I planned out my World Wonder adventure, I actually had very low expectations for Christ the Redeemer. I thought, why should a statue be on the list. It isn't really significant or anything. Wow. Was I wrong. Everything about this. The aura, the atmosphere, the energy, the tour…. EVERYTHING was splendid and inspiring.
We did some touristy pictures and just absorbed everything we could. Next we headed to Sugarloaf mountain. The views up there were idyllic. I felt like I had been transported to another world.
just chillaxing. Terrible view, right?
After our tour, I invited Evan and Paloma to join up with the Couchsurfing group I was meeting for Reveillon. I am glad they are cool, for I really did not look forward to celebrating New Years alone in a crowd of 2,000,000. We agreed to rest and get ready for reveillon then meet back at Copacabana around 8 or so. I grabbed my white outfit, and fought with a taxi driver. Then struggled with an Uber driver. Then walked. Then grabbed another cab. Then walked some more. But I made it. I texted them and waited… and waited… finally I went to buy a cup for some libations, when I saw Evan and Paloma walking my way. Apparently, some favela kid had stolen his phone. Luckily, he found me. We got our flowers and got ready for an awesome night. Later, an Argentinian couple met up with us. He recognized me from my WhatsApp picture. We also met four awesome Brasilian girls and one cool dude. We were ready for sure. Beers flowed, dancing happened, Good times were had, the concert played. It was an awesome night.
Then came time for the big show. Against many recommendations, we made our way to the beach for the fireworks. Surprisingly, there was plenty of space. Then I discovered why… these favela kids would gang up in groups of twenty or so… Then they would run through the crowds stealing everything they could. I don't understand how Rio and Brazil let this happen. It destroys the environment and atmosphere of the celebration. Evan and I were cocked and ready to drop anyone that came close. They formed a flying V so I could take my pictures for the group. I saw some of the danger people talked about. But we faced in standing tall. These thugs wouldn't ruin our trip.
It is like the sky is full of stars, and we are living among them.
The fireworks were phenomenal. I am ecstatic we were on the beach. After it all ended, the roadblock made for some logistics nightmares. I walked over 4 miles just to get a cab. Then I got to the hotel. Of course, my room was still hot. UGH. 3 hours later, I started my journey home.
I am so happy I was able to visit Brasil. I felt like my travel goals were fulfilled, and I know that Jeff looked down and smiled. Another plus side, I now have a 10 year visa. So, I guess I should visit again.


Thanks everyone that gives me heaps to work with.
Clarence dates 1925 - 2000 are right I have birth and death certificates.
Mekal Norman death 1968 is right found his death in 'find a grave' and worked is birth year out from that 1895.
Family story is they had a farm in Wagga Wagga.
Mekal Herman have not been able to confirm anything on that man.
Can you check again these dates.
These dates are not correct.
This would be much closer to a very likely birth date.
And almost tallies with 32 years in 1900 (from Gerry) describing the crew member of the correct initials and surname.
The earliest I found him in NZ is 1919 in Auckland.
OLSEN Merkal Norman Farmer care of W L Dawes, Te Hirau, Raglan.
Hi, Mekal Norman Olsen is my great-grandfather. The geni tree linked to earlier is mine but it's a work in progress, not meant to be gospel! I had the date for M.Herman Olsen incorrect but only there for a few days before I realised my mistake (2am and my brain mistaking insolvency for intestacie).
I am also incredibly stuck on Mekal Herman Olsen, can't find a death or burial anywhere. Just the rumour that he was Norwegian.
Mekal Norman, Deas, and Daphne are all buried alongside one another in Aramoho Cemetery in Whanganui.
Oh jeepers, I obviously linked this to my facebook not intending to ever use the forums, haha, excuse my profile picture!
Daphne Olsen was my mother and she died 18 December 1952 from polio. She was born in 1926 in a town called Hunterville where her father, (my "Granddad") worked for the NZ Railways.
She was Clarence's sister. She also had a sister Gwendoline and another brother Cyril.
Verification of Mekal Norman Olsen's death. The date is correct. I was at the funeral and 17 years old at the time. I remember like it was yesterday.
Rosalea is quite correct when she says that Mekal, Deas (Nanna Olsen) and Daphne are buried next to each other at the Aramoho Cemetery in Whanganui, NZ. I, too, have been to the grave site on more than one occasion.
More information available on NAA and you have the option to purchase an historical image of his marriage certificate [AUD$21.40] online from Qld BDM which should show his age, place of birth, occupation, parents' names including mother's maiden name.


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» Government agencies split over Title VII
Government agencies split over Title VII
On Behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. | Sep 15, 2017 | Workplace Discrimination |
In July 2017, the Department of Justice said that the Civil Rights Act did not protect workers against discrimination based on sexual orientation. When it made that statement, the department put itself at odds with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The DOJ has jurisdiction over state and local government employers throughout Texas and the rest of the U.S. while the EEOC has jurisdiction over cases involving private and federal employers.
According to LGBTQ advocacy group Lambda Legal, this may create a situation where some employers are subject to enforcement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act while others aren't. In a brief submitted to the Supreme Court, the group asked that the judges take a look at a decision made by the 11th Circuit in the case of Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital. This court ruled 2-1 that workers were not covered by Civil Rights Act protections based on sexual discrimination simply because they were gay, lesbian or bisexual.
However, this differed from the decision made by the 7th Circuit in the case of Hively v. Ivy Tech. That case involved a skydiver who claimed his employer fired him after finding out about his sexual orientation. In a brief, the EEOC said that it stood by its earlier position that Title VII protects workers against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Those who feel as if they have been the victim of employment discrimination may be able to take legal action. Discrimination can take the form of jokes or harassing comments from colleagues. It could also take the form of being demoted or terminated after others find out about a worker's sexual orientation. Those who have been discriminated against may be entitled to financial compensation for back pay and other damages. Individuals may also be reinstated to a position after a wrongful termination.

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Q: Autohotkey - Key loop making shift key combos not work I made a script meant to be spammed on button down , its working but when I wanto use another key combo with [Shift] while holding down the key [Xbutton2] it doesnt work e.g If I wanto press Shift+q it only sends q and its the same for any other keys.
I have been using this script forever but since the Software updated it doesnt seem to work as intended anymore.
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I just dont understand why any key combo with Shift doesnt work.
I tried adding sleep on the shift keys that I use but it made no diffarence.

A: Adding an asterisk to the front of a hotkey makes it ignore modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, Shift).
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Verchnieje Sergi (Russisch: Верхние Серги) is een nederzetting met stedelijk karakter  en gorodskoje poselenieje in het district Nizjneserginski van oblast Sverdlovsk in Rusland. Het ligt aan de rivier de Serga op ongeveer 100 kilometer ten westen van Jekaterinenburg en 20 kilometer ten oosten van Nizjnieje Sergi. In 1989 had het 7.515 inwoners, hetgeen in 2002 was gedaald tot 6.629 inwoners.

De plaats ontstond in 1743 rond een ijzerfabriek van de Demidovs, waar ruwijzer, bandijzer en bandstaal werden geproduceerd. Sinds 1931, toen de fabriek werd omgebouwd, worden in deze fabriek boorkoppen (Rock Bits) geproduceerd voor gebruik in de mijnbouwindustrie. In 2005 werd meer dan 60% van alle boorkoppen van Rusland gefabriceerd in de fabriek, die nu de naam Oeralboermasj draagt (internationaal UralBMT).

Plaats in de oblast Sverdlovsk

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Margaret Bourke-White, (American, 1904–1971), Borscht (detail), 1931, Photogravure print, 16 x 20 in., Museum purchase from the Michel Roux Acquisition Fund, 2014.8 © Margaret Bourke-White/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
May 24–August 26, 2018
Margaret Bourke-White's
This exhibition examines the work that trailblazing photographer, Margaret Bourke-White, produced abroad. Drawing on the Cornell Fine Arts Museum's collection of Bourke-White's photographs taken in Russia and augmented by loans of her photojournalism conducted during World War II and beyond, the exhibition explores Bourke-White's groundbreaking subject matter. Beyond her work in Europe, this exhibition will include Bourke-White's rarely-seen photographs taken in India, Pakistan, and South Africa, among other locations.
As a young photographer, Bourke-White abandoned pictorialism and pursued a documentary vision. Her first photographs of Russia were the earliest images produced by a foreign artist in that country under Joseph Stalin. Later, following her pioneering role as woman photojournalist during World War II, she produced highly emotional images of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. These photographs are some of the most powerful works produced in the twentieth century. While Bourke-White's photographs are often understood in context of her domestic photography and the images she produced as a pioneering photojournalist in Europe during World War II, this exhibition focuses exclusively on her work abroad and demonstrates a more complex understanding of her role as a woman photographer documenting pivotal moments of change, political consequences, cultural shifts, and class transformations.
Margaret Bourke-White, (American, 1904–1971), Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin, 1931, Photogravure print, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm) photograph, Museum purchase from the Michel Roux Acquisition Fund, 2013.16 © Margaret Bourke-White/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Margaret Bourke-White, (American, 1904–1971), Bolshevic Babies in the Nursery: AMO Automobil Factory, 1931, Photogravure print, 16 1/4 in. x 20 1/4 in., Museum purchase from the Michel Roux Acquisition Fund, 2013.21 © Margaret Bourke-White/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


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Tokyo Ghoul and Mental Disorders
Originally written in my final year of high school.
Fun fact: I have OCD. Since I was nine years old I developed it, often the exact same as OCD often comes, suddenly, forcibly and without any prior warning that it is about to come. For nearly nine years I've struggled with something in my mind telling me what to do even when I don't want to do it. For a long time, I considered it a violent intruder upon myself, an entity that I constantly rejected. And when I was told it was unlikely I could ever be free of it fully I began to accept it as a part of myself, something that entered me and assimilated into me, or myself into it. I was not 'normal', I was something else.
So, what am I doing writing this here? It is that you can draw an obvious parallel between my own psychological journey and that of Kaneki Ken, tragic protagonist of the popular Tokyo Ghoul series of manga and anime. From his own journey what I see is a reflection of myself and my journey with this mental disorder of mine, especially in how his friends helped our protagonist in his salvation from being a monster.
To those who don't know, the premise of Tokyo Ghoul is similar to that of X-men, the superpowered minority is repressed by the normal majority, who relentlessly hunt them down. However unlike in X-men, where they are merely repressed because they are different, in Tokyo Ghoul the ghouls are repressed because they eat human flesh, as it is their only way for them to survive.
Ghouls are implied to be an evolution of humans, and while they look like us there are a few distinct differences. By eating humans they absorb RC cells (A fictitious substance, and is similar to how humans absorb amino acids from our diet), giving them a much higher count than humans.
But their biggest change is in they have evolved a 'predatory organ' known as a kagune, there are four types of kagune and all vary from ghoul to ghoul, they are all effectively tentacles that a ghoul can deploy from an area on their back. This also causes their eyes to become black and red, known as their kakugan (赫眼, red eye), and aside from the tentacles and the fact they are probably trying to eat/kill you, is the easiest way to tell if someone is a ghoul.
The story of Tokyo Ghoul opens with our protagonist Kaneki Ken going on a date with a bookish girl he met at a cafe, before walking her home. On the way, the girl, Rize, attacks him as a ghoul, but thanks to a Deus Ex Machina is saved at the last moment by falling metal beams. This leads to the organs that were destroyed in the attack being replaced by those of the ghoul.
As a result, he becomes the first artificial half-ghoul, only one of his eyes turns red and he hungers for human flesh, but he is also much stronger than his ghoul cohorts, which comes in hand as many ghouls are very animalistic in nature, and try to kill him.
When it was black
I can vaguely remember the first time my mother took me to the doctor's office to get me diagnosed with OCD. The doctor was a tall stern-faced old man, who didn't chuckle at any of the boyish jokes I often threw at him. He sat at his computer, had me read my symptoms to him and that was it, I was diagnosed with a mental disorder. I can remember crying later, about how I could never be normal (Whatever that means). As I think back today at that moment what also pops up is the first episode of Tokyo Ghoul, where Kaneki realises he has turned into a ghoul following the operation and stares in the mirror at his one activated kakugan, crying.
Kaneki felt a stigma for what he saw in the mirror because he knew that his inevitable death was due, he couldn't eat food and the Commission of Counter Ghoul (CCG) would hunt down and kill him for what he is. This may never happen to me, but it's the same kind of stigma that we all feel when we're first told that we have a mental disorder. It's a kind of numb dissociation from all around us, that we're somehow different and if anyone ever knows, society will shun us for it.
Our protagonist got lucky in a way. Soon after his transformation into a ghoul, he was accepted by a number of pacifist Ghouls that work in a cafe known as Anteiku, where he met the ghoul who would later attack him. I never really got this lucky, mostly because I wouldn't do it. I never wanted anyone to know about the fact I had this. I needed to keep it a secret no matter what.
When it was white
Towards the end of Season 1 of Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki's hair turns white. On the surface, it seems like it was Marie Antoinette syndrome from his torture at the hands of Jason Vorhes Yamori. But the reason is much more psychological, especially when you analyse the scene.
Throughout the first season of Tokyo Ghoul, Kaneki's ghoulish desires manifest themselves in Rize, the ghoul who's organs are inside him. She tells him to eat his best friend, and he can barely hold himself back, just like how I can hardly hold myself back when my inner 'voice' of my OCD tells me to wash my hands. And while for me it is never something as extreme as eating my best friend, I can never stop myself, just like Kaneki couldn't unless a tsundere ghoul kicked him in the face.
In a very surreal scene in the final episode, the dream Rize manifests in the tortured mind of Kaneki and shows him all his weaknesses, all the false things that he keeps telling himself that he is human despite the fact he has clearly become to everyone, a ghoul. After, this he consumes Rize and turns to the camera, announcing:
He then embraces his ghoul side and rejects his human side. For me, this was only a year or so ago that I was like this. I had become sick and tired of all the doctors, the medications and all the ways I was supposed to get over this. After all, wasn't I told that I would likely have this for the rest of my life? So what was the point in fighting it?
I may as well accept it as a part of myself, whether I like it or not. My hair turned white, four tentacles protruded from my back and I was accepting of the fact I would be different from the rest of society.
When it was black and white
I think for a lot of us with OCD when are told we have OCD we and society see ourselves as monsters. After all, there is such a stigma against anyone with a mental disorder - autism, dementia, depressions - that because it's our mind, effectively us, that's slipping. With cancer, it's something else, a violent attacker onto our body that we, for having it, are nothing more than poor victims.
That was why Tokyo Ghoul chose a man being implanted with a physical thing that converts our protagonist into a monster, rather than just a mental thing in order to show, through a kind of body horror medium, what it's like to live with a disorder. But it also means to teach us that we do not need to constantly live in fear of it.
Following an epic battle with CCG investigator Amon, Kaneki is carried back to the cafe by his friend Hide. Seeing his friend for the first time with his kakugan active, Kaneki covers it up in shame. Hide tells Kaneki that he knew, and despite this, he still accepts Kaneki as a friend, because it's Kaneki. His friend. He can see past everything that he is physically because at his core he is his best friend Kaneki. Kaneki removes his hand from his eye and stares at his friend, realising what a fool he was the whole time.
But this is Tokyo Ghoul, so, of course, we could never have a nice ending. For the whole scene we had repeatedly seen blood splashing on the ground, and while we had assumed it was Kaneki because he had been clutching his abdomen the whole time, it's revealed to be Hide, who cannot regenerate his own wounds as he is a puny human.
Clutched in Kaneki's arms, Hide tells Kaneki 'lets go home.' A later scene shows Anteiku burning and Kaneki echo's his best friend and, presumably, burns down the whole coffee shop. We then cut to a shot of his hair, somehow blowing dramatically, and in a scene that is startling similar to when his hair turns white, it turns back to black again.
Later when we see Kaneki walking, the hair is clearly white again. But as he carries his best friend across enemy lines, multiple times do we have a close up shot of his hair, without his face, but every time we see his face it is white. Rather this time when the colour changed it was more a mental change. Kaneki saw himself as a monster, and on the surface, that's what humanity and the CCG see him as, but when we remove that he is the same human he was always.
By walking back into the base, he is 'lowering his sword' and accepting what he is; he is neither human and neither a ghoul, merely he is a 'bridge' between the two worlds. This final scene is to show us that, while on the surface we may see and be seen by other people as monsters, our hair may be white, the actual truth is that we are as human as the anyone else in this world of ours. If you have cancer you are a poor bastard, but a brave battler against the disease that is slowly riddling your body. Meanwhile, if you are diagnosed with a mental disorder it's yourself that's is slipping, your personality and everything is now just a man with a mental disorder.
We aren't, deny this as much as we want but underneath it all we are human, and what helped me personally realise this was my friends. Hide didn't care that Kaneki was a monster, because at his core he was still Kaneki, just like how my friends didn't care that I had OCD. I told them, and they simply shrugged. What was the difference? I was still Jackson, wasn't I?
Was it all in the hair?
Tokyo Ghoul is inevitable a story of acceptance for a minority, and in any vein, you could take it along the lines of any kind of disorder. But for me Tokyo Ghoul is a reflection of what I have had to go through as a person, to come where I am today. And while what I had to go through was never as intense as the intense psychological damage Kaneki had to go through, I am glad this anime exists as a medium for me to show people what it is like to live with a mental disorder every day.


For the last few years, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has hosted a monthly "Think & Drink with the Extinct," an after-hours meet-and-greet for Cleveland young professionals hosted in their regular, dinosaur-laden halls.
Betz Rund, left, and Melody Mueller interact during a "Think & Drink with the Extinct" event at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Ever wanted to get a pinot grigio with a paleontologist? Well, you sort of can.


A number of you may use the term Modern Spanish Bungalow Interiors Painted With Yellow pretty frequently on everyday basis. A few of you may also work in this subject at the moment. But did you truly know very well what it is all actually about? Or did you only perform by head and kind of only feel it to produce it function? Improving the appearance of a house is definitely work that needs sense and sensibility. But when you just toss everything together, chances are the results wouldn't be satisfying. Understanding the style from its base could support a great deal because you would know what direction to go and how to handle issues if they manifest before you.
Home renovation and home remodeling are just other names that go along very well with the thought of home improvement. Essentially, it's a call regulated about particles renovation or adding something with a home. The term improvement usually applies to three major aspects: 1) it could reference a project that seeks to upgrade the preexisting interior of your house (e.g. plumbing and electrical), 2) the advance is focused on the outside (e.g. roofing, siding, concrete, and masonry), or 3) it could be dedicated to improving other areas of the property (e.g. garage maintenance or garden work.
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Anybody know a work around to determine seconds loaded?

A: bufferLength indicates the number of seconds currently in the buffer. You can use this with time to determine how much in total has been loaded.


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How well do you watch your language? Does it give away the inner view of your self-worth? Is it indicative of your current station or already reflect the next level you are shooting for?
Do you "wear your heart on your sleeve"? Does your language reflect that? Is your language a reflection of "what's going on inside? Or are you in control of always "masking it"? How well do you "watch your language"? Do you sometimes regret having said something? Or does that perhaps happen quite often? Are you aware how much your internal and external language influences your outcomes? How well does your language allow others around you to see "where you are at"?
I have learned that apart from what we eat, (and who we hang out with), we are what we think and speak. I'm sure we can all remember a parent or teacher having chastised us and used that phrase: "watch you language boy…." usually in the context of having used foul or colourful or inappropriate language, right?
Whilst we could have a long conversation about whether and when profanity is acceptable, that language connotation is not what I wanted to talk about today. I recently experienced similar situations with a few clients that highlighted for me how much the language we use can be an indication of how we really see ourselves; an outer indication of an inner view of our self-worth and how much of a bearing it can also have on how we are perceived.
One of these clients had grown from a GM into a vice president role in the two years since the completion of our last coaching program and we were now working on a new program looking at positioning him for putting his hat into the ring for a president's role in his organization in the next few years. After a while in our first conversation I noticed how much his approach and his language was "operational" and focused on delivery and deliverables, and KPI's – all with an immediacy, rather than a longer term big picture development and growth or leadership orientation.
Also, we noticed that it was "second in command "language. That he was doing the Managing Up thing really well in making his boss look good however too often speaking about "recommending" and "assisting" the boss get the required outcomes rather than driving things himself. Going back to his pre-coaching questionnaire, we both realized how much he had been using this kind of "assisting" or "helping" type language back then already. That gave us both a great signpost that there was a pattern playing out here that required some work. We challenged whether he might not still be harbouring some personal "self worth" obstacles?
So if I asked you to reflect on your "leadership" language at work in and around your bosses, customers, peers and subordinates for a while (which I am) what conclusion might you come to? Would your language signpost your "taking leadership" and driving the required outcomes? Would it be indicative of you having taken or being in control? Would it have others acknowledge your "big picture" thinking and your vision of where you are known to want to be driving towards, personally, for your department or division or company? Does your language reflect that you have the right attitude and behaviour to "make that happen" for you? Or are you still overly caught up in "the details" and the operational aspects of what you have been doing in your last few roles and are perhaps still overly doing now?
In one of my first few blogs I asked the question: Are you a "fetch" person?. Think about your attitude towards your career and ask yourself whether you are doing the right things to "fetch" what you expect from your career, or whether you might have become a little complacent, perhaps expecting or depending too much on your boss or the organization "bringing" the next opportunities to you?
I have learned that leadership has to be taken. Whilst a role might designate you into a leadership position and confer certain responsibilities, leading doesn't just happen – you need to make it happen, don't you? That's right, it has to be taken and made to happen.
So how well are you (and your results) positioning your ability and growth and visibility and placing yourself in the right light and into the right circles for your next role? In my last blog Putting yourself first I spoke of the success pyramid which was built on Discipline helping you to form Habits around doing the many little things right that most successful people know how to and how that generated confidence "that came out of your eyes" and ultimately resulted in presence, remember?
Well it is this Presence that I believe is also manifest in the language you speak and are acknowledged for. Real leaders just seem to "have" this kind of presence I'm talking about, don't they? And in the blog of that name I suggest that it is something we can develop.
How? Of course a solid track record of consistently delivering top results will be a pre-requisite for such eligibility. This and the previous article's focus is a very important part of that. That doesn't mean there weren't any "wrecks" along the way, provided we are acknowledged from having learned the right lessons from them. I have yet to find a successful career where there wasn't at least one significant "smash" and usually people are grateful that they had the opportunity for that learning.
My client and I agreed that if those in his organization that would need to agree that he was ready for a president's role (as in become one of them), he would have to be seen by them to be "ready".
How? By displaying that he is "independently" capable of thinking, strategizing, orchestrating, leading, acting, presenting, negotiating, influencing, marketing, promoting at the level expected by such senior leadership roles. Apart from his results, that his language would form an important part of that realization (for him and for them).
Our language, particularly our internal language plays such a vital role in our belief in ourselves and who we are. If our internal language is negative and derogatory of ourselves, I believe that it is quite hard to consistently "fake" a different picture on the outside by trying to mask that by our external language. It is exhausting and I'm sure you will agree with me that it isn't sustainable, right? We can't live our life living and speaking a lie. The truth will always set you free.
And so if our objective is to make ourselves eligible for promotion into the next level, our external language needs to reflect our internal language and both need to be positive, supportive and indicative of our confidence and our belief in ourselves and our ability. That is the first level necessary for our "presence". And as I said in Self Talk, this can and needs to be spoken into existence.
The next level then is to be acknowledged for speaking a "business" or "leadership" language that is indicative of your firm and confident grasp of the senior business leadership domain. This necessitates comfortably talking in financial, economic, trade, supply-chain, sales, political and market language as well as the more internal management, audit, policy, people and resource development language.
I don't know how anyone that doesn't believe that "leaders are readers" can confidently develop such language. I don't see that coming from an MBA for example. I see that coming from an innate curiosity and lots of reading and solid networking exposure to lots of people already competent and already successful in those areas. I see it coming from finding and pursuing the right mentors and being introduced to the caliber of people we want to emulate.
As an experienced executive and now executive coach my clients and I work through a bunch of additional strategies and tactics including the right levels of internal networking and politics which I won't go into here.
So let's go back to where we started with this blog. I asked how well does your language allow others around you to see "where you are at"? Are you speaking in a language that indicates your preparation or your preparedness for being where you want to be? Or does it still overly indicate where you have been for a while? What are you doing to change that (assuming you are wanting to grow)?
What if you were to spend the coming week "watching your language" and perhaps having some people you know well and trust helping you with some feedback, so that at the end of the week you might have a reasonably good picture of where you are at with this compared to what would be your preferred expectation or intent?
What if it highlighted for you that you still had some way to go? What if that had you figure out a plan on what you needed to do to get yourself there? What if you mapped out a plan for the rest of this year so that you could confidently put yourself on that path to get you where you deserve to be?
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VIDEO: Life of Poh | Poh Ling Yeow
By Rebecca Armstrong
Posted Mon 14 Nov 2022 at 9:32am Monday 14 Nov 2022 at 9:32am Mon 14 Nov 2022 at 9:32am , updated Mon 14 Nov 2022 at 10:37pm Monday 14 Nov 2022 at 10:37pm Mon 14 Nov 2022 at 10:37pm
Poh Ling Yeow. (Australian Story: Lincoln Rothall)
INTRODUCTION: Hi, I'm Gary Mehigan and I was a judge on Australian MasterChef for 11 years. Judges, like parents, aren't allowed to show their favourites, but that first series of MasterChef was pretty special, and I think it was because no-body had any idea what to expect. And that's where I met the subject of tonight's Australian Story, Poh Ling Yeow. What viewers saw someone who was fun, intensely creative and competitive, but most of all someone who loved to take a risk. And that's Poh … But as tonight's story shows us, she's so much more than that….
POH LING YEOW: I've always had this feeling since I was very young that cool things were going to happen to my life. It's, it's a really odd thing to say out loud, but it's almost like a little secret that I've had with myself.
TRACY COLLINS, FRIEND: Poh is like a magnet. You go out with her and you just you can see people look once, twice she just has an amazing energy.
Poh exclaims: Captain Chaos is here!
TRACY COLLINS, FRIEND: I think she's just so authentic. I think just authentically herself. And I think that's what people resonate with.
(Poh and Gary in cooking tent)
Poh: Oh my God, Food Dad is putting so much pressure on me.
Gary: 15 minutes to go!
ANDRE URSINI, FRIEND AND CONTESTANT: I remember first seeing PO about 13 years ago at the auditions of MasterChef Australia. And I remember looking across the room and I just watched this, I suppose this aura and infectious laugh and I was like who the hell is this person?
(CheeseFest 2022)
Matt Preston: You're supposed to be on stage Poh, what are you doing?
GARY MEHIGAN, FORMER JUDGE: I don't think she was trying to be a star, nobody knew what the show was going to turn into
(CheeseFest 2022 presenter)
MC: Poh Ling Yeow, Rose Adams and Mandy Hall!
GARY MEHIGAN, FORMER JUDGE: Part of what made her popular, I think, was her resilience and her ability to bounce back from a disaster.
(CheeseFest cooking demo)
Poh: I need another pot for my garlic oil.
CASPER YEOW, BROTHER: They talk about imposter syndrome. I think she's got a lot of that, even though from the outside she's got so much ability and skill and personality
Poh: I need to focus, I'm getting nervous
CASPER YEOW, BROTHER: I think there's always that little, little slither of doubt.
Crowd cheers: Poh, Poh, Poh, Poh…
POH LING YEOW: I have so many moments where I think back to that really, really shy kid.
I was such a nerd and so sort of socially underdeveloped.
Gary: That's it. Time's up!
POH LING YEOW: And to look at where I'm where I'm at now, yeah, it does amaze me. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. Like, how did I get here? It's a miracle. (laughs)
TITLE: Life of Poh
POH LING YEOW: I've always felt like I'm slightly sort of beamed in from somewhere else. That outsider feeling is part of me, it's not about where I am
(Poh works on art piece)
I'm sorting out budgie feathers that I've collected from my budgies, and I make little mandalas out of them.
POH LING YEOW: Like a lot of artists, I just keep painting the same thing over and over again. And it is what, who I call The Girl. I haven't really given her a name.
They're like all iterations of my girl.
POH LING YEOW: I came up with her when I was just kind of thinking about all the features that I hated about myself as a kid because I think that's the thing that caused me, the most stress growing up is just looking different. I never say she's me, I say she's autobiographical because I use her to tell my stories.
HENRY THONG, FRIEND: The girl looks like a little bit of an alien. I like that sense of discomfort when I look at those paintings because it accurately sums up the way that you feel sometimes as an immigrant in a new country or someone that doesn't look like everyone around you.
POH LING YEOW: I did have many years of feeling very, very guilty, I thought, oh, man, I'm really a bad Asian.. like, I can't speak the language. I almost was a bit lost in terms of my identity and I felt like I had to make good of it somehow. But now I kind of feel like through the art, through painting The Girl and also through the food, I've realised that's enough for me, I'm okay with that.
BRYAN CARMAN, FRIEND: Ultimately, Poh does not like being put in a box. She, she doesn't want to be seen as even an Asian, a woman, a this or that. She just wants to be seen as herself.
POH LING YEOW: I was born in Kuala Lumpur. We are fifth generation Chinese, born in Malaysia
(Poh, mum and great aunt in the kitchen)
Do you love this dish?
It's like one of my favourites.
POH LING YEOW: I grew up kind of having two Mums. Of course, there was my Mum, Christina, and also my great Auntie Kim, who's actually my Mum's auntie.
Poh: It that enough, twice?
Christina: That's better. You have to watch her like a hawk.
Poh: Dodgy.
POH LING YEOW: I was surrounded by family members extended family that were amazing cooks.
Poh: And Mum was very strict like if I dropped a little bit of flour on the counter …..
POH LING YEOW: Mum taught me, you know, how to line a cake tin impeccably when I was like nine. And I would watch her cook cakes over and over again, like you know, seven times in a row until she got it right.
Christina: She wasn't really big into cooking when she was young.
Poh: Baking I was.
Christina: But not into cooking as in traditional food, or indeed just baking mainly. I think most young ladies start with baking. Yeah.
Poh: As every young woman should.
POH LING YEOW: I would describe my childhood as a having a combination of pretty happy times at home but then at school I was an incredibly sad, anxious child. I'm pretty sure I had some kind of learning difficulty because all I remember is I couldn't understand anything and I really, really struggled. And I remember I would bawl my eyes out til recess and I always used to like, look at how wet my hanky was and feel really sorry for myself.
Poh: Masterclass from Auntie Kim on mint omelette.
CHRISTINA YEOW, MOTHER: She struggled in Malaysia because she really didn't like the Malay language and the schools were all conducted in Malay.
POH LING YEOW: At home we spoke English and Cantonese
Poh: Oh that smell, I love it.
POH LING YEOW: My Cantonese, that's just like a mangled mess now, because I just haven't had enough practice.
I was nine when my parents told us that we were moving to Australia to allow us to have a really good education. I immediately felt a sense of belonging when I came here. It was like this miracle. When I got to school, everything really did make sense. I got really good marks right away.
I still definitely felt different to the other kids, and that was very much a physical thing. The way I looked and also I felt a complete lack of confidence with my physicality. So playing sport, which is such a huge part of Australian school life and life in general, I just had I just had no confidence in that area at all.
So I spent a lot of my time, just shedding all the things that made me feel different and part of the shedding was the Poh, Poh Ling part.
I always wrote my name as Sharon Poh Ling Yeow as a kid. It's very common for, you know, Chinese to have English names but no one ever really called me Sharon. And I think it just took one kid to say, 'Let's go bowling Poh Ling'. I was like, Okay done we're going with Sharon. Mum and Dad worked really hard running our newsagency. Mum, was very strict on me and I wasn't allowed to socialise much as a kid.
CHRISTINA YEOW, MOTHER: It's only because we care and love them that we are being strict with them, you know, the strictness is, you know, it's like tough love.
POH LING YEOW: I did feel lonely in my teenage years, definitely, because when all the other kids were, you know, getting into boys and able to socialise and things like that, I just had no idea. I was really frustrated. yeah, and I just had to suck it up. I think, that forced me to grow this internal world. And that's really how my my love for drawing began. It gave me this magical feeling of, yeah, having a sense of purpose and belonging in the world. Yeah, I just identified that, it's like when I do this, I feel really terrific about myself and I can generate that feeling and it's something that no one can take away from me.
When I was around 16, my family went through some issues with our business going bad and we were feeling quite vulnerable and the missionaries came knocking from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Mum and I ended up converting to Mormonism. Because of that feeling of always being on the outer, it felt really nice to belong to a place that felt very safe and welcoming.
CASPER YEOW, BROTHER: What they had to share gave certainly gave mum and Poh some comfort. I was not that way inclined at the time, gradually I warmed to it
POH LING YEOW: I think for me I just kind of quite dug the handsome young American boys, (laugh) to be honest. And they were just so kind and so gentlemanly
I finished school in '91, and the first priority was to get a job, save up money, so I could get away from my parents and have freedom, not because I didn't like them, but because I'd just grown up in such a closeted environment and I just needed to spread my wings. So I ended up living overseas for about nine months. I was about three months in Provo, Utah
Provo is a Mormon university town. I thought I was going to find myself a really, you know, decent Mormon boy and I managed to just kind of attract the antithesis of everything that my mum and dad would want for me.
In the blink of an eye we were just, you know, having this torrid love affair and he yes, he popped my cherry. I don't know if my parents actually know that. He turned out to be a male escort from LA. So yeah that was a bit of a surprise, a bit of a surprise package.
And then I ended up going to Canada. And Canada truly turned my world upside down. My first best friend was trans, I just saw this cross-section of the world that I'd never experienced before. And that's when I started to really question. Whether I could go back to church.
MANDY HALL, FRIEND: The style of religion that they are and were involved in there were a lot of rules and regulations that come with that that, and then all of a sudden everything that you've kind of lived your life by is now being completely challenged.
POH LING YEOW: When I came back that's when I met Matt at church. We were both at this fork in the road philosophically. We were not gelling with the doctrine of the church anymore, and we'd have these wildly long conversations to flesh out all our grievances that we felt. We started dating and we thought the right thing to do was to get married. That's what, you know, the church and both sets of parents were expecting so we got married. But before we got married, we did something incredibly controversial, and we left the church.
(ROSE AND MANDY)
Leaving the church for Poh, was yeah. I think I still, I still think to now, you know, I still think that she would probably see that still is one of the biggest life decisions she's ever made.
CHRISTINA YEOW, MOTHER: I was a bit disappointed, obviously but I always believe that religion comes from the heart. If you force somebody to believe in something that you believe and their hearts not there what's to use you know.
POH LING YEOW: When we left the church, this huge cloud lifted, probably for the first time in my life, I felt, I felt completely free.
(Poh enters yard with dog)
Poh: Rhino, come on, quick…
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: The first day I met Poh was in 1996, on my first day of uni.
Poh: Hi Sarah. Sorry, I smell of dog.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: We just kind of got along just straight away and very similar. We like the same things. So it was always really easy to just kind of hang out and chat.
(Poh and Sarah in kitchen)
Poh: Everything is always so cute at your house.
Sarah: Cup of tea?
Poh: Cup of tea.
POH LING YEOW: She did the same course as me, she's an illustrator as well.
Poh: Oh my God, so cute.
POH LING YEOW: Matt used to pick me up from, from uni and we'd drop her off on the way home. So that's how sort of our lives became entangled.
You've got like a vase for tea, and I've got a thimble.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: She was umming and ahhing about changing her name. I said, 'What is it?'. She goes,' Oh, it sounds really weird'. I was like, 'What is it?'. She said, 'Poh'. 'That's way cooler than Sharon. There's no Poh's and lots of Sharons'. So yeah, she just went with it.
POH LING YEOW: Funnily enough, my mum actually still often calls me Sharon.
I was doing a little bit of graphic designing, a little bit of illustration and a little bit of makeup and hair as well, and also a little bit of acting, so I just had my fingers in lots of pies. Matt put the idea of being a professional painter into my head. I knew I had ability, but to push myself into, into doing painting as a as a professional was such a big deal in my head.
And then, like, a couple of weeks later he said, I kind of made an appointment for you so he's like, You better start painting because you need to go with some work to show the gallerist.
SAM HILL SMITH, ART GALLERIST: Poh arrived with arms full of paintings. They were very elegant, simple and I could see where she could build this.
POH LING YEOW: He agreed to give me a little solo show in the upstairs gallery. And that first show was a huge success. I sold like 80 per cent of my work and so it was just all guns from there.
SAM HILL SMITH, ART GALLERIST: She was pretty relentless in her exploration I found her technique evolving, getting much more sophisticated she became more self-reflective. And there are a series of works called The Girl.
HENRY THONG, FRIEND: The thing that I find interesting about the girl is that you can't see her eyes like there's no pupils. But of course you can't avoid the fact that The Girl looks a little bit like Poh, and as Poh gets older, the Girl gets slightly older as well.
POH LING YEOW: It was actually going through the process of designing her face that I had this revelation that this chip that I've had on my shoulder all these years was not at all informed by anything externally, but completely came from me and my own self-esteem. And so I kind of used her as almost like a meditation and I just painted and painted and painted her and now I really, I really like my features.
(Poh at dog park)
Poh to dog: Timmy.
POH LING YEOW: I can't remember any point in Matt and I's relationship where we never argued.
(Poh and Matt walking with dog)
Poh: Law of diminishing returns which you keep telling me I'm using incorrectly.
Matt: Yeah, and you used it incorrectly there as well.
POH LING YEOW: And it's because we're so similar. We are equally as neurotic and we have to be right.
(Poh and Matt walking dog)
Matt: And they'll run it for the public for three months.
POH LING YEOW: We're just the worst combination.
Poh: Is that just for next yea?
Matt: It is.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: It wasn't always like really kind of contentious. It was just they both had very strong opinions on everything, so they just butted heads a lot.
POH LING YEOW: I was in front of my canvas and a very clear thought came into my head, which was like, you need to leave. Like, this is so toxic. And I just legged it to the, what is it, birth, death marriages, got myself a divorce kit and then just served Matt up the divorce papers. So, we were together for a decade.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: After they broke up, Matt and I, we always kind of like got along well.
And it just kind of was a natural progression. Like after they broke out that we kind of got together and the trio kind of stayed together, you know, and nothing really changed except that I was with Matt now. So it sounds very bohemian, but at the time it's just, I don't know, it just seemed kind of natural.
POH LING YEOW: It was hard to swallow at the beginning. But, like, I could actually see this calmness that Matt had around Sarah. I thought I would never be able to bring that out of him.
Matt: Finally getting around to building the bookshelves…
POH LING YEOW: It was like a really nice sort of moment of I've definitely made the right decision. Like, why would I not be happy for them?
CASPER YEOW, BROTHER: Yeah, it's extraordinary that she was okay with it. I wasn't expecting her to be okay with that but she's very resilient, she gets emotional, but she gets over it really quickly.
Poh: Sarah would murder you.
Matt: Sarah would murder me.
ROSE ADAM, FRIEND: The first time Poh told me the story about her and Matt and Sarah. I was like, 'What, and you're still friends with them?'.
MANDY HALL, FRIEND: It's just society that tells us that we can't finish and restart things in that way and in very Poh style it's like, well, actually you know what? We can, we can do that.
ROSE ADAM, FRIEND: Sarah and Poh still best friends and Matt and Poh are still best friends and it's so stunning when you see them together.
POH LING YEOW: Sarah, Matt and I run a little market stall called Jamface. We'd dreamt of having a patisserie since we were at uni. I call it my church because it's on Sundays. Sarah and I both have our own specialities, and Matt is the most terrible cashier on the planet.
Sarah: With all the cream and everything?…
POH LING YEOW: I love the sort of closed loop cycle of cooking something, taking it to the market setting it up and then selling to the customers and wrapping it up and giving it away.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: Poh wasn't that into food when I first met her. Then she really got into it. She got very good, very quick.
POH LING YEOW: In 2004, I had a small foray into. Tv through an ABC show called Beat the Chef. The format was a Professional chef versus an amateur chef. I'd gone on it twice and I even auditioned for a presenter, I was absolutely dreadful at it, didn't get the part.
(Beat the Chef)
Times up, hands off, stop what you're doing.
POH LING YEOW: It was Sarah who texted me this website and it was just MasterChef.com.au. And she said, 'I think you should try out for this'.
(MasterChef Australia promotion)
Australia's first Masterchef has to have that kind of genius..
POH LING YEOW: No one knew anything about it because it was season one.
(Poh audition episode MasterChef Australia)
George Calombaris: Hello.
Poh: Hello.
Matt Preston: Poh, please something delicious….
POH LING YEOW: It was a bit like, So You Think You Can Dance except we rocked up with an esky and you had to present a dish that you had already cooked.
Gary Mehigan, So, what are you cooking for us?
Poh: A pan-fried chicken breast…
POH LING YEOW: I originally had cooked a European dish thinking I don't want to be pigeonholed right.
Gary Mehigan: Ten marks for trying to be creative..and about two in terms of delivery.
GARY MEHIGAN, FORMER JUDGE: It wasn't great. We gave Poh a second chance. It was just that little glimmer of, you know, potential that we saw and with a little push, it's like with anything, often that pressure reveals, you know, something entirely different, which is what we got.
Poh: I was actually going to make this dish called Abacus beads.
Matt Preston: Now you're talking.
Gary Mehigan: So why don't you go and do it.
ANDRE URSINI, FRIEND AND CONTESTANT: I was like, What the hell? Why are they giving her a second chance? What's so special about her?
POH LING YEOW: Luckily Mum is always like preparing for she's like a doomsday prepper, so she had all the ingredients. I rushed back, cooked it for them and they loved it.
Matt Preston: That's the sort of dish I really hoped we'd find in the competition.
GARY MEHIGAN, FORMER JUDGE: I think at that stage I think at an audition stage, Po hadn't really explored her culinary heritage.
POH LING YEOW: my knowledge for traditional food was terrible so I was just kind of Learning on the fly and just almost cooking from imagination and memory, like Palate, memory.
(MasterChef Australia)
George Calombaris: What are you cooking?
Poh: I'm making Hainanese chicken rice.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: I just knew that she would either win it or get very close to winning it…
Poh: It's from the region of Hunan.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: She almost won it.
GARY MEHIGAN, FORMER JUDGE: Anybody who was in that first series that survived into, say, the top 10 became instant stars.
ANDRE URSINI, FRIEND AND CONTESTANT: Poh had all sorts of opportunities, and I was a little bit jealous, to be honest with you.
(Poh and Andre Poh's Kitchen)
Poh: Have you ever made dumplings before, Andre?
ANDRE URSINI, FRIEND AND CONTESTANT: But she took me under her wing, I was in Poh's kitchen as a sidekick a couple of times.
Roll into the centre, not out.
Andrew: Ahhh.
ANDRE URSINI, FRIEND AND CONTESTANT: From then it just kept on growing and growing and growing. I now absolutely celebrate all of her success.
Jono: What are you actually knitting?
Poh: A scarf.
GARY MEHIGAN, FORMER JUDGE: I think everybody could see love blossoming on the set of MasterChef. But I, on the other hand, was not paying attention, and so I was really surprised when I found out that Jonno and Poh had kind of form this bond.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: She said she'd met someone and I said, 'Oh, he was one of the crew'. She always had a thing for, like, Aussie-kind of looking guys, you know, traditional kind of blonde hair, surfy kind of types.
POH LING YEOW: We used to sort of give each other eyes across during lunch time because we weren't allowed to fraternise with the crew, o it was very sort of old-fashioned romance, you know, at the beginning. What attracted me to him was just he he just there was just no games. He just was like, I really like you, let's get together.
A lot of people ask me about kids, so I didn't have them with Matt because we thought it was an unstable environment to bring a child into.
With Jono, we did actually get pregnant about eight years ago and I lost the baby at 12 weeks. So it was pretty much the day that I was allowed to tell everyone, and it was really heartbreaking. I actually went through a full labour at home.
And I saw the baby and. I, I like bringing this up because I think it's something that people should talk about. And I think it's this sort of silent grief that women have to go through all the time.
But I, I really like to acknowledge that I've, that I've, I really like to confront my emotions up front. Like, I think it's really healthy. I don't like to bury anything. / But it was it was probably one of the most horrendous things I've ever been through.
Poh in garden: I might put the zucchinis in this bed.
POH LING YEOW: I find so many beautiful life analogies in the garden. I think it's in nature that you become really aware of being a speck in the firmament. And I think that is the most healthy way to go through life, to not think that you're the most important thing, but the least important thing.
Jono and I broke up a little over two years ago, but we stayed really good friends. There is an eight-year age gap and I think at the beginning we thought love could conquer all. But I think little things like that start to chip away and we realised we just had to set each other free again. Yeah.
Poh in garden: It was meant to be this little creeper here, but the grass has taken over, so I'm just trimming the grass.
POH LING YEOW: I do call Jono and Matt for dating advice. It's very funny, yeah, the advice they give me and it's just so frank. I love it because there's no one that would know me better, right?
TRACY COLLINS, FRIEND: I think that at the moment, at the speed and rate that Poh is going in life, she would have to have a very, very savvy dude to be able to keep up with her.
POH LING YEOW: Saturday is baking day for me. I bake literally from morning till night. It's usually about a ten hour bake. I get into this rhythm of my own, put on loud music and just crash around like a psycho all day and I love it.
As much as I love doing TV it's not real, you know? And I'm very waryl of ever buying into it too much. So JamFace really, really just keeps it real for me. Because I'm such a doer. I always want to remember what brought me here. So it's the cooking, not the presenting.
SARAH RICH, FRIEND: I think when she starts to do something I envision her mother looking over her shoulder and saying, you know, that's not neat enough, that's not perfect enough. I think that might be running through her head a little bit sometimes.
POH LING YEOW: Funnily enough, I, I thank her for it because that's absolutely given me that attention to detail that goes into everything that I do.
BRYAN CARMAN, FRIEND: I think her main drive is just creating, and it doesn't really matter what discipline it is, whether it's with paint on the canvas or whether it's with food or whether it's making TV shows. She sees the opportunities that she has now and I think she's just really grateful for for that.
POH LING YEOW: I do often think back to what a wild journey I've had and I think one thing that stands out with all the experiences I've had, like, you know, the broken marriages and all those kinds of things, is that I've become I've learned to become really good friends with uncertainty. To have faith in a situation and to never fear things going pear-shaped. There's an opportunity to reinvent and start from scratch again. And I always find that quite exciting.
Introduced by Gary Mehigan, former MasterChef judge
Poh Ling Yeow burst onto screens in the first series of MasterChef Australia in 2009, her energy and daring quickly making her an audience favourite.
Her popularity rested on her resilience and ability to bounce back from disaster. And bouncing back is something she's done all her life, with her rise to fame anything but conventional.
By the time Poh auditioned for MasterChef at the age of 35, she was a flourishing artist who had left her family's Mormon religion and survived a painful divorce.
She says her "wild journey" has taught her much about seeing adversity as an opportunity and that she's "good friends" with uncertainty.
Stream Life of Poh on iview and Youtube
ABC feature article | How Poh Ling Yeow became the queen of reinvention


- Lenny hit the Top 40 with "Lady."
- Kravitz was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist.
- Kravitz could be heard on the compilation LP Unity - Athens 2004 Olympics with "We Want Peace."
- Kravitz hit the Top 40 with "Where Are We Runnin'?"
- Kravitz released his next LP, Baptism.
- Kravitz was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("If I Could Fall In Love").
- Kravitz was heard on the Bad Boys 2 soundtrack with the track "Show Me Your Soul."
- VH1: 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years includes "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" at # 50.
- Kravitz recorded the anti-war song "We Want Peace" as the US began invading Iraq. The song was performed with musicians from Iraq (Kadim Al Sahir), Palestine (Simon Shaheen), and Lebanon (Jamey Hadded). The song was made available for free at www.rockthevote.org.
- Kravitz could be heard helping out Jay-Z on the track "Guns & Roses" for Jay-Z's LP, The Blueprint 2: The Gift And The Curse.
- Kravitz released the DVD, Lenny Live, with performances from his world tour this year.
- Kravitz ranked # 14 on VH1: 100 Sexiest Artists.
- Kravitz hit the Top 40 with "Stillness Of Heart."
- Lenny won his 4th consecutive Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("Dig In").
- Lenny won an American Music Award for Favorite Male Pop/Rock Artist and performed at the ceremony.
- Lenny hit the Top 10 with "Dig In."
- Lenny was certified platinum.
- Lenny won a My VH1 Award for Favorite Male Artist.
- Lenny could be heard helping out Mick Jagger on his solo LP, Goddess In The Doorway on the track "God Gave Me Everything."
- Lenny hit the Top 40 with "Dig In."
- Lenny released his next LP, Lenny.
- Lenny was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video ("Again").
- VH1: 100 Greatest Videos includes: # 52 - "Are You Gonna Go My Way."
- Kravitz won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Male Artist - Rock and was nominated for Favorite Male Artist - Pop.
- Greatest Hits was certified 3x platinum.
- Kravitz won his 3rd Grammy Award in a row for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance and was also nominated for Best Rock Song (both for "Again").
- Greatest Hits was certified 2x platinum.
- Kravitz hit the Top 10 with "Again."
- Kravitz hit #1 on the Billboard Internet Sales chart for 1 week with Greatest Hits.
- Kravitz came in at # 93 on VH1: 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.
- Greatest Hits was certified platinum.
- Kravitz was handcuffed and questioned by police in Miami because he matched the description of a bank robber being searched for by the police.
- Kravitz released Greatest Hits with the new track "Again" which hit the Top 40.
- Kravitz could be heard on Busta Rhymes' LP, Anarchy, on the track "Make Noise"
- Kravitz hit the Top 10 with "I Belong To You."
- Kravitz won a 2nd Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("American Woman").
- Kravitz hit the Top 40 with "I Belong To You."
- Kravitz was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Male Artist.
- MTV: 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made includes "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" at # 90.
- Kravitz was nominated for a MTV Europe Music Award for Best Rock Artist.
- Persistent throat problems reportedly led to the end of his "Freedom Tour."
- Kravitz was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video and Best Rock Video ("Fly Away").
- Kravitz was nominated for a VH1 Fashion Award for Most Fashionable Artist (Male).
- 5 was certified 2x platinum.
- Kravitz hit the Top 40 with his cover of "American Woman."
- Kravitz told WallOfSound: "I'm gonna make a film on my own and put it out at the end of this year."
- Kravitz collapsed of heat exhaustion backstage after a concert in New Jersey after singing 4 songs.
- Kravitz hit the Top 3 with "Fly Away" and could also be heard on the soundtrack for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me with the Guess Who cover of "American Woman" (which was later added to future 5 pressings) and the compilation, Elton John And Tim Rice's Aida, with "Like Father Like Son."
- Kravitz hit the Top 10 with "Fly Away."
- Kravitz won his first Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("Fly Away").
- 5 was certified platinum.
- Kravitz won the Most Fashionable Artist, Male Award at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.
- Kravitz hit the Top 40 with "Fly Away."
- Kravitz topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with "Fly Away" for 3 weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 2 weeks.
- Throat problems plagued Kravitz's tour with cancellations. Kravitz only played for 35 minutes in Cincinnati before he had to cancel the remainder of the show, followed by a cancellation in Pittsburgh.
- He had also cancelled shows in Indiana and Ohio earlier in the month due to the same throat problems.
- 5 was certified gold.
- Kravitz talked with Rock Daily about such things as why he cut off his dreadlocks: "It was time for them to go, man... they held a lot of vibes and have been through all my experiences with me... I needed to shed them." Kravitz wrote the song "Little Girl's Eyes" for his daughter, Zoe: "That is actually one of the most difficult songs to write because I knew it was specifically for my daughter... I was more nervous doing that than getting up in front of 100,000 people..."
- Kravitz released 5 which was described as his most personal effort with songs about the death of his mother and fatherhood. Since his last LP, Kravitz has had to deal with the death of his mother, actress Roxie Roker (of The Jeffersons).
Kravitz told CNN, "I had to put my priorities in order. Witnessing a death, or rather a transformation into the next, really made me think about my life. I had great success and wasn't enjoying a lot of it. That's sad. I decided that if I wasn't going to have some sort of enjoyment out of something, I wasn't going to do it. So when I went into the studio, it was a real free experiences. I felt as though it was my first record again, and that was a blessing... My main objective this time was to have fun, which is why I got into it in the first place." The track "Thinking Of You" on 5 is a tribute to Kravitz's mother. Another track, "Little Girl's Eyes" was written as a birthday gift for his 9 year-old daughter.


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