Your Boss is a Monkey

a "field guide" to boss management snippet




Exotic-animal trainers need a great poker face. Let's say you're a trainer, and one day, a beluga whale spits a mouthful of cold water at you. Your first instinct will be to shriek or jump or curse, but any reaction will probably reinforce the spitting. If you react, that whale will own you, and you'll be a Spit Bull's-eye for the rest of your life. Instead, you must ignore it and appear unfazed, expressionless -- a training technique called "least-reinforcing scenario," or LRS.

full article.




foreva clevaaa,

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t.childz©

Orange Glow

anxiously waiting with breath that is bated for this new album to drop...

Don't want to fight the state

[sort of]new single, listen
glowing and smiling,

t. childz©

Eid Mubarak

عيد مبارك‎

proenza schouler spring 2010

source: style.com

لیلة القدر

in case you missed it

new from fellow DMVer Trey Songz feat. Drake, i like it. he speaks to me

Invented Sex - Trey Songz ft Drake

hollis, dvf, bonnaroo style

[spring or sprung?]




dvf show closer, arlenis sosa

source: style.com

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t.childz

smooth jazz from Amel Larrieux

source: me

Maia Campbell

Please keep Maia Campbell in your prayers. I don't know if you are familiar with her story but she is a film and TV actress who hails from right around my area in Takoma Park, Maryland, daughter of author Bebe Moore Campbell and Tiko Campbell of Washington DC. Best known for her role in In the House.

She was recently institutionalized after some inappopriate videos surfaced of her on the internet smoking crack and prostituting herself.

Please read the story at Global Grind- and if you're curious to see the video proceed with caution. It is heartbreaking to watch.

Maia Campbell's father and Grandmother recently spoke out to Essence.com.



source: Essence.com & The Global Grind

CRACK KILLS

L.A.M.B.

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week kicked off yesterday in nyc and I would like to showcase Gwen Stefani, former lead singer of No Doubt. She launched her debut ready-to-wear line for L.A.M.B. (love.angel.music.baby)back in Spring 2006. Since then, her design style has evolved simultaneously with changes in her life-- marriage, two children, new solo album, and reconnecting with her band on tour this past summer.


LBD with a pop of color
perfect spring dressjumpsuits


Although it's fall and we are now focusing our attention on more covered up looks, remember that the fashion world is always a step ahead and designing for a season in advance and so we will see some of these trends trickle into stores by next spring. For the full collection and more from Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
 

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t.childz©

yeah...

oh and shout out to my paris partner in crime/fashion week hopper E. check out her fun celebrity gossip blog omgopinions. very witty

Why I have problems with Shari'ah sometimes...

Do you remember my post about the Malaysian woman who was going to be sentenced to canning for drinking during Ramadan? well I came across a similar story as well. This time in Sudan. A Sudanese female journalist, Lubna Hussein, was fined $200 for wearing pants, but opted instead to to take a jail sentence. Spoken like a true G.

source Politicsdaily.com











Ramadan in Malaysia (re-post)

A 32- year old Malaysian woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, ( a mouthful) is sentenced to be punished by way of “canning” for drinking beer during the Holy month of Ramadan. This past Monday, Islamic officials took her into custody and then decided to give her a break. I wonder why the change of heart? Alcohol widely available in Malaysia and Muslims are free to drink, however Shariah law forbids Muslims from drinking. (27 million Muslims in Malaysia).

Amnesty International got involved and condemned this woman’s sentence, while Islamic officials said it is necessary to uphold Islamic values.

I think a simple warning would have been fine or a ticket or something. We don’t need to haul people into jail for drinking alcohol. I understand this is a different country with different value systems, but the sentence was extreme.

style inspirations from Ambassador to UN to mka

Young, exceedingly bright, and ambitious, Rice is the first woman of color to hold her position: a perfect symbol of everything that is so exciting about the Obama administration. She is also, as one former State-department official put it, "a great example of Obama's gamble: which is that by engaging an organization like the U.N. you can actually get better results than simply trying to marginalize and ignore it."

source: Vogue, June 2009




source: olsensanonymous

22.

Halima & Me (09/2007 bday)

"Two sisters only have their parents to blame
It's rare that two can get along
But when they do, they're inseparable
Such a blessing comes to few"