Shake Your Bootie Sunday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 23rd, 2013
Good morning!
Hey…it’s Sunday. What could be more fun today than a little twerking, especially when it is done to some classical music. You don’t know what twerking is? Ahh…you are in for a visual feast – Enjoy!
Twerking To Classical: Twerking Gets a High Class Makeover
One of America’s newest favorite pastimes is Twerking, the subtle art of rhythmically flexing and gyrating one’s posterior to music.
Sadly, this relatively new form of dance often does not get the respect it deserves from the performing arts establishment.
- in some cases these dancers have even been suspended from school for practicing their craft.
To help demonstrate the merits of the dance we have assembled a montage of some of the most skilled twerkers on the Internet, set to Aram Khachaturian’s Suserov Par (Saber Dance) from the final act of his ballet Gayane. It is our hope that seeing twerking in this new context will help foster a wider appreciation for the budding dance form.
With any luck we will soon see patrons of the finer arts lining up to see acts likeAtlanta based Twerk Team perform to Verdi’s La Traviata at the Met.
Peter Gelb, we’re looking at you.
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Readers: Modern day “Twerking” is a bit more seductive than the original traditional “Mapouka” dance – however both are amazing and fun to watch. Tell me those aren’t the best bootie bumps you’ve ever seen. Girls: I know you’re bumping your butts in the mirror right now seeing if you can hang with these girls. Are you as good at shaking your stuff? Blog me.
Happy twerking.
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June 23rd, 2013 at 11:44 am
Couldn’t get in yesterday to say I loved it!
June 23rd, 2013 at 11:49 am
Did you feel that quake? Hey Gods the Princess is here. She could get hurt.
June 23rd, 2013 at 11:51 am
This quake:
Guam Earthquake Today 2013 Strikes Off East Coast
A Guam earthquake today 2013 has just struck off the east coast. The Guam earthquake today June 23, 2013 locally started just after 5:47 am local time today. No reports of damage have yet to be indicated by local news.
The Guam earthquake today registered a 4.6 magnitude, officials tell news. The quake however posted a moderate depth. USGS indicates to news that the quake started thirty-seven miles below sea level. As a result the quake could be felt only around the immediate area. While Guam earthquakes are not unusual, this quake is atypically closer than recent temblors.
Officials tell news that the Guam earthquake started ten miles east of Yigo Mayor’s Office. The quake was also eleven miles east of Yigo Village and fourteen miles east of Dededo Village. USGS indicates to news that the quake was seventeen miles east of Mangilao Village and twenty miles east of Hagatna.
June 23rd, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Maybe this is the reason for the earthquake:
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More of Guam’s boys and girls are identifying as bisexual in high school, and more boys are engaging in sexual activity with each other, which is changing the way human sexuality is taught in schools.
Part of the Personal Responsibility Education Program training health educators and guidance counselors attended last week at the Westin Resort Guam included a discussion about how to address students identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, and those who are questioning.
“We’re looking for LGBTQ and questioning students. We have to know the students, how they react to their sexual identity,” said Paul Nededog, director of the PREP program at the Department of Education.
Darrel Lang, one of the consultants conducting the training, said more discussions about LGBTQ were included in last week’s workshop.
“When we look at the No. 1 cause of death in LGBTQ youth, it’s suicide,” Lang said.
Suicide risk
A Reuters article reported last year on a study in Pediatrics — the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics — by Mark Hatzenbuehler from Columbia University that indicated lesbian, gay and bisexual teens were five times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.
On Guam, research on suicide rates haven’t investigated the relationship between suicide and LGBTQ youth.
However, according to A Profile of Suicide on Guam from the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center, 20 percent of people who committed suicides on Guam in 2010 were younger than 19 years old. The center was formerly known as the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
According to the Reuters article, the study’s findings suggest schools can improve the community for their LGBTQ students by making changes to their policies.
An accepting community
Lang said the community on Guam is more accepting of people with differences than many places in the rest of the U.S.
According to statistics collected for the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 percent of Guam’s schools have gay-straight alliances or similar clubs, and 20 percent of schools provided curricula or supplementary material and engaged in practices related to LGBTQ youth.
June 23rd, 2013 at 2:22 pm
I loved the Richard Gelb link! Thanks for that story!
June 23rd, 2013 at 6:30 pm
I love a beautiful ass. And it if’s got talent to boot. All the better.
June 23rd, 2013 at 6:59 pm
I didn’t know my race had so much talent. You go white girls.
June 23rd, 2013 at 7:13 pm
How to Buy a Mattress (and Still Sleep at Night)
7 traps to avoid
Mattresses might be soft to sleep on, but they are notoriously hard to buy. Various stores sell very similar mattresses under different names, thwarting attempts to compare prices. Salespeople often steer shoppers toward ultra-expensive products. And manufacturers highlight features that consumers can’t easily evaluate. As a result, many shoppers pay hundreds of dollars more than necessary—or end up sleeping for years on mattresses that they hate.
Beware of these traps…
TRAP:
It’s very difficult to compare mattress prices from store to store. With the exception of certain specialty mattresses, each retailer typically uses product names and numbers that you won’t find anywhere else. This is true even when the mattresses are virtually identical, aside from cosmetic changes involving fabric colors and quilting patterns.
What to do:
When you find a mattress that feels comfortable (see the “Mattress-Shopping Checklist”), jot down every available piece of information about what’s inside the mattress. Include the coil count and coil wire gauge…dimensions including the height…firmness (based on your judgment of where it falls on a one-to-10 firmness scale with one the firmest)…materials used…how the sleep surface is described…and what position the list price occupies compared with other mattresses at the store from the same manufacturer.
When you visit other mattress retailers, examine mattresses that fall in the same general position in the manufacturer’s price scale until you find one that matches up very closely. Start there and compare coil counts, firmness and other characteristics of various models until you find one that seems to match. Lie on this mattress, if possible, to confirm that it feels about the same as the one you tried earlier.
Tell the salesperson that you found the corresponding mattress at the other store, and ask if he/she can beat the other store’s price. If the second store has the lower price, you could return to the earlier store and try the same tactic. Most mattress stores and many furniture stores will negotiate.
Their list prices tend to be double their cost, so it’s perfectly reasonable to try to negotiate a price 20% to 40% off list price (which could mean a savings of $400 off a $1,000 mattress). Department stores often won’t negotiate, but they sometimes will honor their price-match guarantee if the customer shows that a mattress at another store is essentially identical despite different names.
And the department store might offer a better deal on shipping and better return options if you’re not satisfied, both important considerations.
Reasonable price:
You should be able to find a good queen-size mattress for $700 to $1,000—for guest rooms, $500 to $800.
TRAP:
“Pillow top” softness may not last. So-called pillow-top mattresses feel great when you lie on them at the store. They have thick, soft layers of fiber and/or foam above the mattress springs. Trouble is, these thick layers soon will develop deep, annoying body indentations. The heavier you and/or your partner, the faster this will happen.
If you love the soft pillow-top feel, opt for a “plush top” instead. These have perhaps two to three inches of foam and fiber, rather than the four to six inches of a pillow top—and they will be less likely to develop deep body indentations. Plush tops also tend to be $100 to $300 less expensive than pillow tops.
Helpful: If there are two separate “tape edges”—ropelike lines—running around the mattress above and below the foam layers, it is called a pillow top.
TRAP:
Warranties and satisfaction guarantees are less impressive than they seem. If you voice concern about whether a mattress is right for you, the salesperson might assure you that there’s no need to worry because the store offers a satisfaction guarantee.
Quiz the salesperson about this guarantee. Can you get cash back or only exchange the mattress for a different one—and how much time do you have to return it? Is there a restocking fee for returns?
What about a pick-up charge or additional shipping charge for the replacement mattress? And if you purchase a mattress during a sale, will you be able to exchange it for one of similar list price or only for a lesser one with a list price similar to the sale price you initially paid?
Caution:
Manufacturers’ mattress warranties cover only major defects. They won’t permit you to return the mattress because you don’t find it comfortable. Mattresses generally should be replaced every eight to 10 years.
TRAP:
New foundations often are unnecessary. If you buy a mattress, expect the salesperson to push you to buy the matching foundation (what used to be called a box spring) as well. You might be told that this foundation will extend the life of your mattress or make it more comfortable or that not buying it will void the mattress warranty. None of this is likely to be true.
Unlike old-fashioned mattresses, many modern mattresses do not require you to flip them over from time to time, and these no-flip mattresses don’t require springs beneath them at all.
Today’s “box springs” really are just simple wood-and-wire frames covered in fabric. These foundations cost retailers very little, yet they’re often sold for hundreds of dollars.
If your old foundation has no obvious problems such as sagging or cracking and is the same size as the new mattress, you can continue to use it. If you have an old spring-type box that flexes when you push down on it, you don’t want to use it with a new “no-flip” single-sided mattress.
If you have a platform bed or a bed with slats that are spaced no more than two inches apart, you can skip the box spring entirely—assuming that the resulting mattress height is not too low. If you do need a new foundation, purchase the one that’s matched (brand-wise) to your new mattress. Don’t feel that you need to match the fabrics. A lower-priced foundation of the correct size should be fine if you’re buying a single-sided mattress.
TRAP:
A higher coil count doesn’t necessarily mean higher quality. For spring mattresses, mattress salespeople often stress high coil count—more springs per square inch—as they steer shoppers toward high-end models. It’s true that having more coils is better than having fewer coils, all else being equal, but all else is not equal when it comes to coils. Coils might be made from different materials or in different ways.
Example: A mattress with independent coils—coils each made from a separate piece of wire—is likely to do a better job of conforming to the contours of your spine than a mattress with coils made from continuous strands of wire, even if the coil count isn’t as high.
Independent coils also do a much better job of isolating movement, a big plus for those who share a bed.
TRAP:
Delivery and removal charges. Ask about delivery charges before you agree to buy a mattress. Some retailers provide free delivery, but others see it as a way to slip one last sneaky fee into the deal.
Also ask whether removal of the old mattress is included in delivery—there’s sometimes an additional charge for this. Include any delivery and pick-up fees when you compare prices at different stores.
TRAP:
An expensive specialty mattress might have drawbacks. Solid foam and dual-zone, air-filled mattresses look great in ads and can feel great when you lie on them—but there might be issues that the salesperson won’t mention. For instance…
Memory foam mattresses such as those made by Tempur-Pedic do a wonderful job of conforming to the contours of the body and providing support—but they also make some sleepers feel too hot.
If you want foam but are a warm sleeper, consider a natural latex foam mattress, which sleeps cooler. Some synthetic foam mattresses have gel embedded in them to keep sleepers cooler, but these mattresses are extremely heavy and difficult to move.
Dual-zone, air-filled mattresses such as Sleep Number by Select Comfort provide separate firmness controls for each side of the bed. But humidity and perspiration tend to build up around the internal air bladders of even the best-made air-filled mattresses.
Mildew and mold can spread if the bladders are not cleaned frequently using liquid detergent.
These mattresses can be opened up for cleaning and for ventilation—but make sure that the mattress is completely dry before closing it up.
HOW TO TEST A MATTRESS
Lie on a mattress for at least 10 to 15 minutes in the showroom to make sure that it feels comfortable—and that it properly supports your spine.
Doctors used to recommend firm mattresses for back health, but they’ve since concluded that firm mattresses actually provide poor spine support. Backs do best in beds that allow the spine to be straight and supported as you sleep. When you lie on your side on a too firm mattress, your shoulders and hips don’t sink in far enough for your spine to stay straight…and when you lie on your back, your hips don’t sink in far enough for the mattress to support your lower back.
A medium-firm mattress is the best choice for the vast majority of sleepers.
The mattress industry uses terms like “firm,” “medium-firm,” “plush,” and “pillow-soft.” It may be more helpful to use a one-to-10 firmness scale with one as the firmest and four- to-six as medium.
Ask the salesperson where each mattress falls on this firmness scale so that you can learn what firmness number you like best. Then you can specify this number when comparing other mattresses.
Exception to the medium-firmness rule: Side-sleepers prone to hip or shoulder discomfort might do better on a soft mattress.
Helpful:
Bring someone along on your shopping trip to make sure that your spine is straight as you lie on your side…and to confirm that there’s no gap between your lower back and the mattress when you lie on your back.
Source: Ronald Czarnecki, a former manager of multiple mattress stores in the Pacific Northwest. He is author of Shop for Sleep and Survive the Bite: How to Shop for a Mattress and Save Money in the Cold White Sea of Deception (CreateSpace).
June 23rd, 2013 at 11:14 pm
This is what the power of women can feel like when they come together… Maxwell is simply the conduit to help them with their way. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veFCZtQu2E0