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And today is December 6

Yazan: Candace | 06 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Canadiana, Feminism, History, School, Women's Studies

Today is December 6, 2006. It is 17 years after the day a gunman shot and killed 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Thirteen were students and one was an employee of the university. Today we remember these victims of gendered violence and reflect on women everywhere who are victims of gendered […]

WoW Enchanters Take Heart

Yazan: Candace | 06 December 2006 | Comments Off on WoW Enchanters Take Heart
Categories: Games, World of Warcraft

Never fear, it’s not all doom and gloom for enchanters. One of the improvements for this “Before the Storm” patch in preparation for the release of WoW Burning Crusade includes making all Enchanting Rods counts as all lower level rods as well.

Sad times for WoW Enchanters

Yazan: Candace | 06 December 2006 | Comments Off on Sad times for WoW Enchanters
Categories: Games, World of Warcraft

We’re getting ready for World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade, due out at the beginning of 2007. Blizzard put out a patch yesterday and scrolling through the changes makes me sad for all the newbie and wannabe enchanters out there. Time was, a new enchanter could increase their skill level and fill their enchanting bags […]

Writing an abstract

Yazan: Candace | 29 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, School

This is based on my experience as an undergraduate TA. I thought I would share what I’ve put together to help students understand what an abstract does if they’ve never done one before. An abstract is brief, clear, and concise. It gives the reader enough information to know what an article is about but not […]

Site update: new look for femilicious

Yazan: Candace | 26 November 2006 | 1 Comment
Categories: Blogging, Happy, Technology

It’s been almost a year and a half since femilicious was born and I felt that it was time for a new look. This new theme is based on Freedom Blue by Frank Helmschrott. I chose this theme after searching off and on for a few weeks for something that wouldn’t need too much tweaking […]

Say thank you

Yazan: Candace | 16 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Happy, Life

I found this post in my draft folder. Since I just lost the wonderful post I’d written about citing wikipedia I decided to look back and see what’s just sitting around getting stale. I opened this one because it had an interesting title and I wanted to see what I was so happy about that […]

Addressing race, class, and sexuality in the environmental movement

Yazan: Candace | 14 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Ecofeminism, Environment, Racism, Sexism, Women's Studies

The environmental movement has inadequately addressed issues of race, class, and sexuality. The feminist movement has only recently identified the need to consider race, class, and sexuality, and made concentrated efforts to be inclusive in their concerns, structures, and practices. As the environmental movement faces increasing pressure to align itself with social justice issues and […]

The Disease called Poverty

Yazan: Candace | 11 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Life

Here’s what I’d like to know: For how long can a person be really really poor and still actually one day not live in poverty? There are plenty of overnight success stories floating around and the ever present protestant work ethic mentality: if you work hard you will succeed. But how many of the success […]

In another life

Yazan: Candace | 08 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Aging, Life, School, Technology

In another life I wanted to be an aerospace engineer. This was back in grade 11 physics, which I loved. My teacher recognized that and talked to me about engineering, and I was drawn in to aerospace. I wanted to make rockets. I was sure that this is what I would do until I discovered […]

Driving too slow

Yazan: Candace | 06 November 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Life, School

I went to a grad school workshop today (not inspiring). And then I read this from Joel Spolsky, posted a week and a half ago on Joel on Software. The combination of the two is pretty bad. You see, if you can’t whiz through the easy stuff at 100 m.p.h., you’re never gonna get the […]

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