Pioneer Woman talks about being a Throwndown episode with Bobby Flay.
Pictures of the guy who was too sexy for Saudi Arabia. He is pretty cute.
The #freejahar thing is kinda scary.
Love the Obama plan if their daughters get tattoos.
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Apt. 11d 
Off topic, but possibly of interest, is an email that I just got from a journal offering to keep my article public for the discounted payment of $1,000. They are switching from free access after two years to free access after ten years. (The articles are all on PubMed after one year, but still.)
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I don’t know if you’re still writing about academic publishing or not, but I just got an email offering, for the low price of $1,000, to keep my article accessible to the public. Previously, after two years, all content was public. Now they are going to ten years. Note that everything will still be accessible on PubMed after one year, but still this seems off.
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Thanks for the tip, MH. Storing it away for future use.
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I wonder if being attractive to women was the problem with the guy kicked out of Saudi Arabia.
I had a gay teacher colleague some years ago who had recently returned from teaching EFL in Oman. He said he was fielding emails from male students that would say stuff like, “You are so beautiful!”
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I like this a lot:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/32-lessons-from-a-saudi-princes-instagram?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=buzzfeed
He has a collection of sunglasses that any 12-year-old girl would envy.
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I don’t even know why a tattoo is a problem. I have two myself and I got the first one when I was about 45. I’m thinking of another one pretty soon. Is this a class issue?
But then, both my tats are in easily-concealed-by-corporate-clothing places.
And as for parenting, I’d much rather my kids (who are now 26 and 23 years old) wanted to be like me (and they do) than wanted to rebel against me (they rebelled against other kids who didn’t like their geekiness instead).
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“I’d much rather my kids (who are now 26 and 23 years old) wanted to be like me (and they do) than wanted to rebel against me ”
Ahh, but then you’re the mom who gets the tattoo :-).
I wouldn’t want my kids to get tattoos when they’re young, but I do think there are culture issues (which include class), here, too, on what is acceptable.
My daughter pierced her ears when she was about 8, which is totally acceptable for our culture (mine were pierced when I was a baby). I did worry about whether I was creating any culture clash issues for parents in my circle, who don’t, generally, accept piercing ears at 8, and for others, who think of ear piercing as a one of the rites of passage into woman hood (on par with makeup, dating, etc.). I have never thought of pierced ears that way, but think of makeup that way (i.e. no lipstick/mascara/eye makeup for my tween).
I think these rules, along with dating rules are ones where I feel pretyt comfortable telling my kids that our rules are based on our values, culture and background, while other parents might make other decisions.
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