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One of the great joys of summer is outdoor cooking. Not only is it a tasty way to get a meal on the table, but it also keeps the house cool and makes meal prep quick and easy. But if your idea of an outdoor kitchen is a kettle grill, there's a whole world of innovation you can tap into to create an attractive and efficient open-air cooking space.
Keeping in mind a few simple guidelines will help you create an outdoor kitchen that's not only enjoyable but also adds to your home value.
When you're ready to create your outdoor kitchen, it's important to pick the right spot. You only need a small corner of the back yard or patio, but you first decide if you want your al fresco facilities under cover or out in the open. A key consideration is ventilation.
If you designate a corner of a patio, make sure there's a way for smoke and odors to escape, such as with a venting or fans. Smoke can gather in an enclosed area and cause soot and smoke stains on the walls. A grill that's open at the back or in an open area won't cause this problem.
Natural materials are very popular and perfect for an outdoor kitchen. Bear in mind that these materials should be polished and sealed. If you use untreated natural stone, for example, its porous surface will reveal every grease spot and drop of barbecue sauce.
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Today's grills offer a variety of options, from burners to infrared searing elements and rotisseries. Rotisseries enable you to place a large piece of meat or a whole chicken on the grill and roast it easily because the spit turns automatically, leaving you more time to spend with family or friends. This accessory is available on most upper-tier grills, producing nicely roasted meat without a strong grill flavor.
An outdoor kitchen needs both ambient lighting and task lighting to help you see clearly while cooking. If the grill is in the yard, you may need an electrician to run conduit and electricity to the kitchen. String patio lights to add an inviting ambience. You'll also want to include storage for charcoal, utensils and essentials. Are you a family of pizza fans? Consider adding a pizza oven for a wood-fired taste.
Prep space, refrigeration or insulated storage, and a sink are other nice additions for any outdoor kitchen, but before you spend a bundle, consider how much time you actually spend outdoors in the summer. If you hang out on the patio every night, these niceties will be a great investment; if not, they'll be bells and whistles you might regret buying.
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This ladies Aran wool cowl neck warmer is great for keeping that winter and Spring chill off. It's made in a lovely soft purple heather Aran wool (25% wool) and fastens with 3 chocolate brown wooden buttons. It's hand knitted in a moss stitch pattern.
Unfastened, the cowl measures 51cm long (20 inches) and 18.5cm (7 1/4) inches wide.
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No. 15 Georgetown tops No. 18 Marquette 63-55
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Otto Porter scored 11 of his 21 points after a momentum-shifting technical foul on Marquette coach Buzz Williams, and No. 15 Georgetown won a stop-and-start game of turnovers and whistles Monday night, beating the 18th-ranked Golden Eagles 63-55 to move into a tie for second in the Big East.
Porter scored Georgetown's next six points after Williams was whistled while arguing an out-of-bounds call along the baseline with 12:13 to play. The Golden Eagles had cut a 10-point halftime deficit to three, but the Hoyas went on an 8-1 run immediately after the technical, and Marquette didn't get closer than eight points the rest of the way.
Georgetown scored 24 points off Marquette's 19 turnovers, and Markel Starks added 16 points for the Hoyas (18-4, 8-3 Big East), who won their sixth straight and avenged a 49-48 loss at Marquette on Jan. 5.
Jamil Wilson scored 13 points to lead the Golden Eagles (17-6, 8-3), who fell into a tie with Georgetown behind conference-leader Syracuse (8-2). Chris Otule scored eight of Marquette's first 11 points, but had only three the rest of the game.
Georgetown won despite going nearly 7 minutes without a field goal to start the second half. The Hoyas went 9 for 24 from the field in the second half, but they compensated by making 11 of 17 free throws in a half that had 24 combined fouls.
With both teams playing aggressive defense and the officials calling a tight game, the flow was practically non-existent. Instead of trading baskets, the Hoyas and Golden Eagles were swapping some combination of turnovers, steals and offensive fouls.
Georgetown didn't score a field goal in the second half until Jabril Trawick's baseline layup with 13:04 to play, but the pace was so laborious that the Golden Eagles were only able to outscore the Hoyas 8-2 during that span.
Meanwhile, Williams, known for his inability to stay in front of his bench, was again pushing the envelope - twice venturing close to the midcourt circle with play under way in the first half. Officials spoke to Williams at length after he ran far onto the court to call a timeout, but no technical foul was assessed, and Georgetown fans began serenading him with chants of "Off the court!" in the second half.
Williams finally got his technical - but it came when he was disputing a questionable call with 12:13 to play. Porter, whose assertiveness has helped fuel Georgetown's recent surge, made both free throws and then hit a floater on ensuing possession to complete a four-point series for Georgetown that pushed the lead to 41-34.
After that, Marquette was never able to regain momentum. Porter's three-point play with 3:42 remaining made the score 60-46, essentially putting the game away.
Porter was also busy in the first half, grabbing a defensive rebound that was volleyballing about near the free throw line then going coast-to-coast for a layup that gave his team a 24-18 lead. Georgetown closed the first half with a 7-0 run, capped by nice dish from Porter to Mikael Hopkins for a layup and 33-23 halftime lead.


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Granny Pam at Granny's Genealogy recommended a program in a comment on Carol's blog Reflections from the Fence for transcribing from images that I downloaded and am trying out for transcribing wills.
The program is Transcript and it is available here. All I can say, is OMG! This is fantastic. I wish I had this program twenty-plus years when my dad and I photocopied over 200 letters, most from his great-grandmother Percival, and I transcribed them all. It was a lot of work, but it would have been made better by this gem of a program.
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Just now catching up on blogs. Thanks to you and Carol for this link. Now if you can just find a site that give more free-time for me to do the work I need to do. LOLReplyDelete
Thanks for mentioning my comment on Carol's blog, and for the link back. We should do a meme for a while called "Tuesday Tools"; everyone could give their tricks and tricks. I will start Tuesday, but I will probably go with transcript, so you will not need to read that one.ReplyDelete
I would love to, but have so much going on - mostly scanning all these letters and transcribing them.ReplyDelete
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"I treated a dog once that ate some socks," said Dr. Wendy Hauser of Coal Creek Veterinary Hospital. "I had to do five separate intestinal resections. He didn't survive."
Watching out for what pets eat is especially important at this time of year, when holiday food and packages under the tree tempt animal palates. And people may be too busy to supervise inquisitive pets properly.
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Regarding the transaction of my "Double D" with Scott Levin, I firmly believe that the negotiations could not have been handled better. Any and all question and concerns were handled quickly and professionally. There was never any pressure to do this or that and I for one believe that shows a high level of knowledge, confidence, and professionalism. I realize that this transaction may be "small potatoes" but it is a sizable investment from my perspective, and I appreciate and applaud the fact that we were never treated as such. Mr. Levin is a credit to his field and boating as a whole.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) can't be everywhere at once, so it's crowd-sourcing the weather report with a new app called mPING.
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The right-to-work landscape in Rust Belt states
Here is a look at the landscape in some Rust Belt states that have pushed for right-to-work plans in recent years — some successfully, others not.
Illinois has not seen a serious right-to-work movement largely because of a near Democratic lock on the General Assembly in the past 30 years. During much of that time, the state had Republican governors, but they tended to be moderates who dealt with labor amicably. And when the GOP held the state Senate during the 1990s, there were many moderate Republicans from suburban Chicago who balanced out more conservative lawmakers from central and southern Illinois.
The Republican-controlled Legislature in Indiana approved right-to-work earlier this year. House Democrats walked out in 2011 for five weeks to block the measure by denying the GOP majority the numbers needed to conduct business. The state's quasi-public economic development corporation says a handful of companies have expanded operations in part because of the law.
The labor stronghold of Michigan became the 24th state to enact right-to-work on Tuesday when the House approved the final version of the legislation and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed it hours later. Snyder had previously maintained that right-to-work wasn't a priority for him, but the plan sailed through the GOP-controlled Legislature after he announced his new position last week. While labor unions said the move would be disastrous for worker rights and benefits, Snyder insisted the plan is actually "pro-worker."
Ohio voters in 2011 overwhelmingly rejected a sweeping law that placed restrictions on public employee unions. Republican Gov. John Kasich says making Ohio a right-to-work state is not among his priorities and that he sees other ways to keep the state competitive. However, a group called Ohioans for Workplace Freedom has been circulating petitions for a ballot measure that would keep workers covered by labor contracts from having to join a union or pay dues.
Pennsylvania labor unions have been largely successful in pushing back against efforts by first-term Republican Gov. Tom Corbett to dramatically scale back their gains. But Corbett says the state apparently lacks the political will to enact right to work. However, his spokesman says the governor would support such a bill if it reached his desk.
Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011 voted to pass Gov. Scott Walker's proposal that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers and forced them to pay more for health insurance and pension benefits. Walker argued it was a cost-saving move, but unions said it was designed to cripple their political power. Walker did not propose right-to-work legislation and has said that is not a priority, but he's stopped short of saying he would veto such a measure.


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Should Gollum Get an Oscar?
Does Andy Serkis, the actor playing Gollum in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy deserve an Oscar for his work and acting? Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri weighs in.
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Book Chapter
"A Physics Inspired Finite State Machine Controller for Mobile Acoustic Arrays", in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, The 11th International Symposium, vol. 104, Springer, 2014, pp. 47-58.,
Conference Paper
"Mobile Autonomous Navy Teams for Information Surveillance and Search (MANTISS)", in Workshop on Crossing the Reality Gap: Control, Human Interaction and Cloud Technology for Multi- and Many-Robot Systems, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, 2014. Download PDF (3 MB),
"Towards applying goal autonomy for vehicle control", in Goal Reasoning: Papers from the ACS Workshop, College Park MD, 2013. Download PDF (343.76 KB),
Conference Proceedings
"Application of grazing-inspired guidance laws to autonomous information gathering", Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE Press, Chicago, IL, pp. 3828-3833, 2014. Download PDF (532.45 KB),
"Case-Based Parameter Selection for Plans: Coordinating Autonomous Vehicle Teams", Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. Springer, Cork, Ireland, pp. 32-47, 2014. Download PDF (1.9 MB),
"Coordinating robot teams for disaster relief", Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference. AAAI Press, Hollywood, FL, 2015. Download PDF (749.33 KB),
"Goal Reasoning with Information Measures", Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems. Evanston, IL, 2016. Download PDF (545.69 KB),
"Goal Reasoning with Informative Expectations", Planning Robotics Workshop, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. London, England, 2016. Download PDF (717.74 KB),
" Iterative goal refinement for robotics", Planning and Robotics: Papers from the ICAPS Workshop. AAAI Press, Portsmouth, NH, 2014. Download PDF (704.64 KB),
"Learning to Estimate: A Case-Based Approach to Task Execution Prediction", Conference on Case-Based Reasoning. Frankfurt, Germany, 2015. Download PDF (884.97 KB),
"Mixed Propositional Metric Temporal Logic: A New Formalism in Temporal Planning", 2015 AAAI Workshop on Planning for Hybrid Systems. Phoenix, AZ, 2016. Download PDF (364.45 KB),


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Sept 10th: I was supposed to hang out with my old friend Katie a few weeks ago, which is was to be stupendous because:
A) I haven't seen Katie since last we sat in a rooftop hot tub and she told me the 15 reasons why she was no where close to having children. That plan worked out well for her.
B) Baby Daddy takes the kids every Saturday, but I haven't had one person to hang out with since I moved here, which leaves me little choice but to spend my Saturdays scrubbing tile and watching Sandra Bullock romcoms on Netflix.
So we were all set to spend the day together on a Saturday and of course I met up with the business end of this flu that had been courting all of us for the previous month or so. I don't remember much of that weekend, because I spent most of it wrapped up in a Snuggie which Vicks sent me while pouring sweat from my calves, having really horrible nightmares, and eating all the egg drop soup I could get my germ-ridden hands on.
I think that's where this tweet came from.
Today I am grateful for the Chinese, 7up, blue lobsters, Vicks, and that KD Lang didn't grow up to become a pharmacist.— Mr Lady (@mrlady) September 9, 2012
Not that I remember tweeting it, but it's there in my stream. That whole weekend is feeling a lot like the weeks right after my surgery, when I slowly began to realize that I had a number of out-bound text messages on my phone, to close friends both male and female, containing pictures of my sutures. Which, you know, were in/on/around my lady bits.
If you google perineum, make sure your image search is off. You're welcome.
I also don't remember any of that. I can only conclude that there is a strain of the morphine-flu going around, and I caught it.
Sept 15th: The irony here is that I was still sick when I drafted the first half of this post, and I cannotforthelifeofme remember where I was going with it. I think I wanted to do a daily gratitude list or something? See? I had to be on flu/drugs. Daily posts. Me. HA.
But now I am sick again (iknowright?) and I can't stop sneezing, and I do mean CANNOT STOP. I have sneezed more times this morning than I have in my whole life combined thusfar ever. I let my 12 year old watch me flush out my left sinuses with a dixie cup full of tepid water this morning, and now he may never look me in the eye, or nostril, again.
I'm pretty sure his gratitude list today will be helium, video games, and anything else that kills brain cells, particularly in the prefrontal lobe area.
My gratitude list for today would be Puffs Plus with Vicks, and pantyliners.
Oct 5th: I pretty much gave up on that post here and now I've got like four other posts in draft which will also probably never see the light of day. See? It's not that I don't blog, Momo, it's that I don't publish. BIG DIFF.
But then last night my daughter went from seven-going-on-14 to 102° in like five seconds flat and right now I am sitting here watching my daughter sleep off this same crud that cause all of that nonsense up there while I'm working right here next to her, where I can get her anything she needs whenever she needs it, and I am really just so totally grateful to have this amazing privilege to have both a career and the ability to be here for my kids when they need me, even when those two things have to happen at the exact same time.
Working from home exclusively is hard. No, it's soul-crushing. I think that's a fair statement. It's hard to miss out on Thursday Shoe Shots and Friday Happy Hours. It sucks when you realize that you haven't spoken to the actual face of another adult in more than five days. Most of the time I hate everything about it, but then this happens
this happens and I am reminded of why I am doing all of this - the blog, the job, everything - and how amazingly lucky I am to be afforded the gift of time for all of it.
My gratitude list for today is BlogHer, high-speed internet, Children's Advil, and showers right before the kids come home so they don't think I've just been sleeping all day.
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Sept. 7, 2011 -- Overweight and obesity in African-American women increases their risk of death, especially from heart disease, according to a new study.
"We have now found in African-American women what has been found in other populations -- that the risk of death goes up incrementally with increasing BMI [body mass index] over 25," says researcher Julie R. Palmer, ScD, professor of epidemiology at Boston University.
BMI is a measure of body fat. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is termed healthy.
The new finding refutes previous data that suggests that the risk of weight-related death in African-Americans is increased only at very high BMI levels, such as 35 and up. A BMI of 30 or higher is obese.
Palmer's study found the risk became significant at 27.5. For example, that is the BMI of a woman 5 feet 4 inches tall who weighs 160 pounds.
A big waist, over 35 inches, also boosts risk, she says. ''Regardless of BMI, having a large waist size, which is an indicator of carrying around excess abdominal fat, is related to having an increased risk of death."
The study is published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The results are based on follow-up of women who were part of the ongoing Black Women's Health Study.
The study results, Palmer says, suggest that ''this is just one more reason to maintain a healthy adult weight." To have a BMI of 24.9, a woman who is 5 feet 4 inches tall, for example, would have to weigh 145 pounds.
Tracking Risks of Obesity
The ongoing Black Women's Health Study includes 59,001 African-American women from all parts of the U.S. Women enrolled in the study in 1995, when they were age 21 to 69. They answer questionnaires every two years.
For this research, Palmer and her team focused on 33,916 women who had never smoked. All were free of cancer and heart disease at the start of the study.
They gathered the women's height, weight, and waist circumference in inches at the beginning of the study. The information was self-reported.
The women also gave information on their exercise habits, education, alcohol intake, and provided other data.
The researchers looked at the National Death Index, trying to find women who had not returned the 2009 questionnaire and were not known to have died.
They tracked down the cause of death from the index or death certificates. They grouped causes of death as cardiovascular, cancer, or other.
Through 2008, the researchers found 1,773 deaths; 770 of these were among the 33,916 nonsmokers they were studying.They took into account such factors as age, physical activity, and alcohol intake. They found that the risk of death from any cause rose as the BMI rose.
''The link became significant when it got to 27.5," she says. For those with BMIs of 27.5 to under 30, the increased risk was 31%.
The risk was highest for heart disease. Women with a BMI of 25 to 29 had a two times higher risk of death from heart disease as normal-weight women. Those with a BMI of 30 or higher had three times the risk.
No significant link was found between BMI and risk of death from cancer.
Waist Size and Health Risks
Next, the researchers focused on the non-obese women. They compared those with large waists (above 35 inches) and those with smaller waists.
"The women in the largest group -- 35 inches or higher -- had a 50% increased risk of dying compared with those not obese with a waist circumference less than 35 inches," Palmer says.
The waist size reflects the amount of abdominal fat. Fat inside of the abdomen that surrounds organs is considered more metabolically active. Too much of this type of fat is considered hazardous to long-term health.
In obese women, she says, they found no effect of waist circumference. She suspects that the amount of fat they have, wherever distributed, is enough to be hazardous.
Obesity Task Force
The National Medical Association, composed of African-American doctors, is aware of the problem. It launched an obesity task force earlier this year, according to Cedric M. Bright, MD, the association's president.
"African-American women have the highest rates of obesity and this directly correlates to other [coexisting] conditions like diabetes, hypertension, certain cancers, heart attacks and strokes," he says in a statement. "Unfortunately, the epidemic of obesity in women is often passed on to their children and families."
The task force is bringing together doctors, surgeons, nutrition experts, and fitness experts who are helping to shape an action plan, Bright says. It will develop a comprehensive approach to combating obesity in African-Americans.
According to the National Medical Association, African-Americans, especially women, are 1.5 times as likely to be obese as non-Hispanic whites.


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Creativity Blossoms in the Great Migration
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How students transformed a school in an industrial backwater into something beautiful.
Photos courtesy of Lily Yeh and New Village Press, from Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms.
A chance meeting in 2003 brought me together with Zheng Hong. Zheng Hong, who holds a PhD in Paleontology, had just earned her Master's Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. Moved by the dire situation faced by migrant workers in her beloved city of Beijing, she recruited help from her friends and numerous volunteers to create the Dandelion School for children of migrant workers.
One thing I had always wanted to do, but never had the opportunity, was to transform a whole school environment into a stimulating place for learning, filled with colors and inspiring images. The Dandelion School offered me a rare opportunity to realize my dream to create a total learning environment with the engagement of the whole school community.
It is easy to measure the impact of the physical transformation of an environment: we only have to compare the before and after pictures of the place. However, when community members participate
in transforming their environment, the process often triggers other kinds of transformation, affecting the minds and hearts of individuals and the whole community. These changes, and especially
their long-term effect, are much harder to assess or measure.
The Biggest Migration in Human History
When I was in high school, I liked studying history. But I also remember the pain of studying Chinese history of the past two hundred years, filled as it was with the corruption of the court, the invasion of foreign forces, the unequal treaties, and the humiliation and suffering of common people.
Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, China shows a very different picture: confident, powerful, and proud. Under Deng Xiao Pin's reform policy, China has force-marched its economy from poverty to prosperity, at least for a portion of its vast population. The country hosted a most impressive Olympic games in 2008, with a breathtaking opening performance, in its daring and striking new sport facilities.
At the same time, China is witnessing a massive migration of over 150 million people from the countryside to cities, from underdeveloped to highly established economic areas, and from the central and western regions to the eastern coastal provinces. It is the biggest migration that has ever happened in human history. Traditional agricultural practices can no longer sustain villages. Families are forced apart as parents move into urban centers to find work, often leaving the old and young behind. As a portion of the population becomes richer, the other portion suffers uncertainty, alienation, and deprivation.
I wanted to witness and understand the impact of this momentous happening on the Chinese people, society, and especially the young. My opportunity came when Zheng Hong, a founder and the principal of the Dandelion Middle School, established solely for the benefit of the children of migrant workers, invited me to visit the school.
The Dandelion School is located in the Shou Bao Zhuang Village in the Daxing District, an industrial area on the outskirts of Beijing. Based on the figures provided by the police department, it has a resident population of 846 and a floating population of 11,000, mostly composed of migrant workers and their families.
Along the several main streets that feed into Tuan Ho Road, the major avenue connecting to the Beijing highway system, Shou Bao Zhuang is bustling. Situated on the opposite sides of Tuan Ho Road and facing each other diagonally stand the Dandelion School and the well-off China Performing Arts High School. Next to that school stands the entryway to Lao San Yu village.
Both Shou Bao Zhuang and Lao San Yu were farming villages with homes clustered along major roads. The homes used to be surrounded by farmland, which is now mostly appropriated for new development projects, including the construction of low and sprawling homes for migrant workers. The original residents of Shou Bao Zhuang and Lao Shan Yu no longer farm the land. They rent out rooms and lease their land to newcomers—migrants arriving from all over the country. Labor is cheap and competition intense.
When I first entered the area in 2006, I was struck by how gray the sky was and thick the air was with the pollution from traffic, industries, and coal-burning furnaces. The heavy smog dimmed the sunlight. Cars, buses, and trucks moved through crowded streets teeming with activities on both sides of the road. Crowds of people waited for buses, shopped, and ate in restaurants or at sidewalk stands. Crossing the street in the incessant traffic was difficult.
Some of the migrants have become urban farmers, cultivating mostly vegetables on makeshift farms with piled-up soil. They grow their vegetation either in the open fields or in large barracks covered with clear plastic sheets. They work constantly. In addition to weeding and feeding their crops with chemical fertilizers, the farmers irrigate the fields and control the temperature within the barracks.
They wash their crops after harvesting and stack them up in tight, well-organized bundles, discarding the ones that do not appeal to the eye. A farmer told me, "Dealers will not buy them because they don't look good." They work very long hours for a very low margin of profit. But even that is better than being without income back at home.
Torn from the Tree
On my first impression, the Dandelion students, with their laughter and energy, seemed happy. I imagined them blessed with a lifetime full of possibilities. After working there, however, I became aware of bleak undercurrents, the result of the unforgiving economic situation that tears families apart. During special workshop sessions, students often expressed sobering emotions through drawing and writing.
On one occasion, students were asked to draw images that told stories about themselves. One drawing showed a tattered tree with broken limbs. Placed below the image were the words, "I am like this tree, worn out by the wind and broken." In another a student imaged herself as a cluster of floating leaves and wrote, "Torn from the tree, I am like these leaves, rootless and without direction." Another image revealed a little girl kneeling on the ground. With raised hands held together and tears running down her face, she begged her parents for patience and understanding. I realized that many had already experienced much pain in their young lives.
That spring, I read a series of articles by students that deeply moved me. The writings exposed the loss and intense yearning of some of the children, left behind by their parents when they were little. Their anxiety and fear of living in today's society is in part rooted in their sadness and insecurity.
The story of two siblings haunts me. Domestic violence and the imprisonment of their father led to the breaking up of the family. After he was released from prison, the father returned to his homeland. Staying behind in Beijing, the children lived with their mother in a tiny two-room apartment. In order to support the family, the mother had to start working in the underground economy, but that work was deeply damaging to her children. The son finally left home to live with his father. Unfortunately, the father's despair at his inability to find work led to his becoming an alcoholic. The son returned to Beijing, where his anger led to an act of violence, preventing him from returning to the Dandelion School, which he obviously cherished. People have found him lingering at the school gate. He now works as a day laborer wherever he can find a job. Life is already closing in on him.
His sister's reaction to her situation was quite different. She stared into space all day long and had very little response to her surroundings. One day she drew a portrait of herself, saying, "I am like this wooden puppet. I have no heart."
In the United States many schools host parent and teacher meetings, but not home visits. So when I heard that the Dandelion School requires its teachers to do home visits for every student in their classes, I was intrigued and impressed. I figured that if I really wanted to understand the living condition of the migrant families, I should do some home visits. Asking the school leadership for help, I was accompanied to visit a special family, whose livelihood depended on recycling trash.
During my first visit to Dandelion in 2006, I was struck by a large area allotted to trash collection near
the school in the county of Shou Bao Zhuang. It contained many subdivisions, each hosting and recycling a different kind of trash—glass, metal, paper, tires, old clothes, plastics, and foam materials.
Families lived in the trash compounds for cheap housing and easy access to goods. Even though migrant workers in general are on their own, with no rights, no land, and no legal protection, a powerful hierarchy has firmly established itself in the trash-collecting business.
Mr. Ku, the owner of Zheng Jun Hotel where I stay during my visits to Dandelion, began his career collecting trash. Due to his keen sense of business and shrewd maneuvering, he is now a millionaire owning several properties and businesses—an amazing accomplishment common among daring entrepreneurs in the new China.
But many families are not as lucky. The family I visited was composed of the parents and four children, three girls and one boy (the youngest), ranging in age from seven to seventeen. The girls had not had the opportunity to go to school until they came to Dandelion. In 2010, the middle two children were studying at Dandelion under a scholarship plus room and board.
Due to a leg injury, the father lost his ability to do any work other than trash collecting and recycling. The mother and children all help with the work. They built their modest house in the middle of the trash ground. They are allowed to collect only the cheapest materials, plastic foam boards, and nothing else. Although born into this big capital city, the little boy has grown up in this humble house with no facilities. His playground is the trash land. The smelly, polluted air is what he has breathed since infancy. The family's most prized possession is an abandoned white puppy they found on the street. Their situation seems dim and grim, but still I found glimmers of hope. The children have decorated their home with colorful plastic flowers, which they found while rummaging. Displayed on a mud wall is the pride of the family, two rows of awards in red and gold colors, announcing the children's various academic achievements.
Generation Dandelion
Among the 150 million migrant workers in China today, 18 to 20 million are school-age children. Beijing alone has 500,000 migrant youth. The sadness, hurt, anger, and despair expressed by some of the children in the Dandelion School reflect the hidden wounds of numerous migrant children. We must call attention to this social phenomenon because so many emotionally ill people cannot make a healthy society.
Although recently admitted to the Dandelion School, delicate and pale Liao Shu Li had a will of iron and had distinguished herself in her study and service. Her parents grew and sold vegetables. We decided to pay them a visit.
Migrating from the countryside of Henan, they had toiled for seven long years in the urban farms, hoping to create a better future for their two children, Shu Li and her brother. "Not only have I not made a penny, I am tens and thousands of yuan in debt," the father sighed. Shu Li's mother had been badly injured while working in a factory. They did not have money to care for her properly, and a piece of low-quality metal was inserted to restore her shoulder blade temporarily. This often caused her great pain. They hoped that someday they would earn enough money to have the shoulder properly fixed. When we talked about school, Shu Li's mother broke down.
"I feel so sorry that we cannot sufficiently provide for our children. Many young people have the means but they do not want to go to school. We don't have the resources, but our children excel in studying. They want to attend school so much. We had originally decided that all of us, including Shu Li, would work to support the son to get an education." But Shu Li was determined to get an education, too. She and several of her girlfriends managed to find the Dandelion School, which offered them tuition and room-and- board scholarships.
Her parents thought that it was some kind of scam to trick them out of their children. The mother told me, "Although we are poor, we will manage. If we die, we want to die together."
Shu Li's story has a happy ending. In addition to being an outstanding scholarship student, she has recently won top prizes in creative writing, with good cash awards to take home. As a top student in every field she commits to, Shu Li has a bright future.
Painting the Town Prosperous
Urban artists revive our neighborhoods and show us how to share our gifts.
Dandelion, what an appropriate word to name a school that serves the children of migrant workers! The dandelion's seeds, feathery and light, drift with the wind to wherever they land. The tenacity of the plant helps it endure, put down roots, and live on. It is a perfect symbol of the situation tolerated by many migrant families, driven to wherever they can find jobs. Unassuming but tenacious, they endure, raise their young, and hope for a better future. They form the force that builds the enormous urban landscape in China; their labor brings the country its confidence and prosperity. Yet they live on the fringe of the cities they built and are often invisible to mainstream society.
My hope is that what those students have learned through their participation in the project will give them confidence in their own creative power and inspire them to dream and take action to shape their own future.
Photographer Chris Jordan's latest project left him feeling grief and hopelessness. Now he wants more people to discover how productive those emotions can be.
In Paris, Palestine, Peru, and beyond—guerrilla artist JR asks the people of the world share their faces to transform urban landscapes into stories.
How photography training and disposable cameras are giving young Palestinian refugees something new—a voice.


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As importers and manufacturers go, Century is one of the biggies, if not the biggest. And even they had headaches to deal with. When they were importing AK kits, they found many out of spec. As a result, they had to either scrap guns, or make replacement parts. Then the big change in interpretation happened.
The government, in its infinite wisdom (one of these days they are going to notice that I'm so snarky, and there will be headaches for me. Until then, too bad!) decided that barrels were not a normal wear item, and a replacement part. Rational? No. We all know that barrels wear. But, as a scheme to make parts kits importation too expensive to be economically viable, it was a smart move and only a tiny bit fascistic.
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Suspect pleads guilty to Georgetown murder
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A man accused of killing a Kiowa man whose body was found off Interstate 70 near Silver Plume in 2010 has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Shawn Sheeley, 37, of the Denver area, is likely facing 30 years in prison for the crime as part of a plea agreement. A second defendant in the case, Jesus Reyna, is facing a first-degree murder charge, which would carry a penalty of life without parole.
Residents discovered the body of 31-year-old Conrad Keith Crall Oct. 9, 2010 as they were hiking around their property, according to press reports at the time.
Sheeley and Reyna were charged after new evidence cleared Thomas Claeys, a previous suspect in the case who was arrested for first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery in May 2012.
"Claeys was cleared of his charges when evidence arose that implicated Shawn Sheeley," said Jill Sarmo, spokeswoman for the 5th Judicial District Attorney's office.
Sheeley was first interviewed regarding the Crall murder in April, 2012, while he was in custody for an unrelated crime. Reyna was arrested in August.
When Claeys was arrested, prosecutors said there were plans to bring charges against a second defendant, but didn't name the individual or elaborate on the charges.
Details of the case were never released as a judge issued a gag order and all of the relevant documents, including the arrest warrants were sealed.
Crall's body had been on the hiker's property for 10 days to two weeks when it was discovered, according to Clear Creek County authorities at the time. He was identified by his fingerprints and appeared to have been killed at the same location where his body was discovered.
A sentencing hearing for Sheeley has been set for March 18.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC freshman guard Taylor McCarley (Bowie, Md./Academy of Holy Cross) snagged the final America East Rookie of the Week honor of the season, as announced by the league office on Monday.
McCarley was also named the College Sports Madness America East Player of the Week after helping the Retrievers to a 66-60 double overtime victory against Binghamton that clinched the seventh seed in the upcoming America East Championships.
McCarley posted UMBC women's basketball's first-ever triple-double in Saturday afternoon's game, finishing with 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the victory. The rookie's triple-double was the first for an America East Player since 2010, when Mo Moran of Boston University tallied one on Nov. 11 against Yale.
The honor is the third of the season from the America East for McCarley and her first from College Sports Madness.


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Surprises of the World's Fair of 1893
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 has become this legendary fair that put Chicago on the International map. Today, Chicagoans let their imaginations run wild for being among the first ride on a "Ferris" wheel, 100 feet taller than the one that commands Navy Pier's skyline, to taste the sweet Juicy Fruit of Wrigley's chewing gum for the first time, and hearing ragtime being performed just outside the Beaux Arts pavilions designed by the world's first "starchitect" Daniel Burhnam placed in a setting envisioned by the father of landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmstead.
The Field Museum opens their vaults for Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair, showcasing some of the artifacts from the great World's Columbian Exposition. The museum and the exposition have a deep connection, as the institution came out of the call to create a place to house the over fifty thousand objects on display at the fair.
The 1893 world's fair has become a convergence of mythical proportions in Chicago. Exposing visitors to all the wonders the modern world at the end of the 19th century has to offer, bringing people from all around the world to this young city, just 22 years out from the Great Fire, Chicago culture owes its early legitimacy to this seminal event.
Jars of colorful oils, viles of seeds, and selections of woods, fibers and resins fill a display case in front of where Christine Niezgoda, Collections Manager of Botany at the Field Museum and I are standing. "Here if you look at this array of oils, most of them are olive oils from Spain. We have resins from all over the world…alot of these came from south ameria, venezuela, colombia, brazil. This whole display is of Russian grains, wheats, barley. I must have 100 different varieties of corn from Bolivia. "
She says the Fair was a grand setting for something that would seem familiar today
"People for get this was also a trade show" Niezgoda says. "I think its because I'm looking at from the perspective of our display. But if you think of the expositions that happen now there's alot of new inventions, new things being show. Why would you send all your olive oil unless you're promoting "Buy my brand of olive oil, we have the best." And not just one jar, as you can see we have…I think I have another dozen or so jars of olive oil
So this exposition that has been exalted for being the epicenter of culture for this young city, putting us on the international map…was in a sense a well attended housewares show with an commercial bent.
Rudiger Bieler is curator of Zoology at the museum. "At the fair there was no display of a natural history museum or zoology collection. They were usually displayed in context with commercial exhibits. Like one of the labels you see here, there's a mound of large animals in context of the shoe and leather display. So they were tied in to commercial products.
Yes, taxidermied animals to promote leather shoes.
The main room of the exhibition is divided into the four areas of expertise of the museum, Zoology, Botany, Geology and Anthropology.
"Projection screens overhead show archival photographs of the exposition animated to bring the to life. Taxidermied animals large and small pose ready to pounce except for the glass separating you, said Bieler. Regardless of the way the animals were used to market products, this was a new way to showcase these exotic animals in a more natural way.
"This was a new way for huge shift in the way taxidermy was being done," Bieler continued. "Rather than stuffing these things with cotton and straw, it was the time when taxidermists developed techniques of sculpturing the animals. essentially as artists building a scuplture the showed the muscles and the veins and then put the skin over it. "
One of the leading people of the time who developed these techniques was Carl Ackely who was then hired by the museum at the first chief taxidermist. His work in the early days of the museum has been copied by natural history museums around the world.
These artifacts in the exhibition were contemporary to the time of the fair, made specifically for the visitors of the exposition…so not the prized possessions the museum may seek today. But still they can be of significance in understanding a culture at a specific time be seeing how a society has evolved since.
"Many of the specimens are still being used in day to day research…So its not that we put these things away 120 years ago and now pulling them out of their vaults for the first time. Many of these things are used in research projects, education projects and other exhibitions we've done in the past. And the amazing thing for me is that it often turns out we can use techniques, approaches and answer questions that were completely unforeseen at the times these were collected. So, some of our bird researchers have been successful at getting DNA out of these old skins and can compare the gene pool of that time with what they are finding today in the same species," Beiler said thoughtfully.
The exhibition also showcases a great sampling of objects housed on the Midway Plaisance. This area was a popular destination for visitors wanting to see the exotic villages of peoples and cultures deemed "Primatives". Zulu shield and delicate necklace show the rich broad culture. Native American clothing, worn by "live displays" that means humans, then encased next to beadwork of the same tribe now, shows how the culture has adapted to the time.
And the exhibition wouldn't be complete without an interactive component. Where you can play a virtual Gamelan, a traditional Indonesian instrument on display and performed at the fair, as heard in this wax recording of a performance.
The exhibition may not be the traditional artifacts one expects in a museum exhibition, but it will change the way you view of contemporary culture.
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The only thing growing faster than Gary Clark Jr.'s acclaim — among fans, critics and iconic musicians alike — is the scope of his talents and tastes.
But nothing you have seen, heard or read can prepare you for the power and scope of his debut album, Blak And Blu. Not the buzz from his Run-The-House tour through the 2012 festival season which included Coachella, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Bonnaroo, Metallica's Orion Fest, and Lollapalooza, to Jay Z's Made in America Festival (the only artist invited to play both nights) and continuing through the upcoming Neil Young curated Bridge School Benefit, Austin City Limits gathering and NOLA's Voodoo Fest.
Not his collaborations, in the studio and on stage, with Nas, Alicia Keys, the Roots and Eric Clapton nor the ear-bending, cross-format embrace of his tour-de-force debut Bright Lights EP can prepare you. Even his one-to-watch appearance at the White House command performance for the Obamas alongside Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy — prompting the Music Fan-in-Chief to remark, "He's the future."
The album, produced by Mike Elizondo (whose credits are fittingly eclectic, running from Dr. Dre to Fiona Apple to Mastodon to Eric Hutchinson) with Warner Bros. Records chairman Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, My Chemical Romance) and Clark, puts his talents and ambitions through a brilliant prism of vast possibilities. Blak And Blu is a rocket ride rushing from the Mississippi Delta of a century ago to a point somewhere ahead of the horizon, gathering up the whole of blues, rock and soul along the way.
Perhaps the most succinct summation of Clark's musical vision and what lies ahead can be taken from a recent interview where he imparts: "Music is movement. It all moves together, like lifetimes—a continuum. It's all part of the same fabric in the end."


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Arthur (2011)Reviewed By brianorndorf
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Personally, I harbor no romantic feelings for the 1981 Dudley Moore sleeper smash, "Arthur." Distractingly clunky, the feature is best appreciated as a film of its time, when a mainstream comedy could be built around the antics of monstrous alcoholic and still be regarded as adorable. It's strange to be confronted with a remake of such beloved material, which still holds to a clownish boozehound mentality to acquire laughs, though much of the overt foam has been shaved away out of respect for the disease. Then again, Moore made "Arthur 2: On the Rocks," so perhaps the character isn't as precious as I recall. Remake away, boys.A spoiled playboy basking in the luxury of his family's incredible wealth, Arthur (Russell Brand) has lived a life of comfort under the supervision of his loyal nanny, Hobson (Helen Mirren), reveling in women, toys, and endless amounts of booze. When his destructive antics threaten the future of the family's business affairs, Arthur is encouraged to marry powerhouse Susan (Jennifer Garner), a savvy, controlling force of nature ready to rectify critical financial matters. Expectedly, Arthur wants nothing to do with the toxic union, turning his attention to Naomi (Greta Gerwig), a dewy NYC tour guide who offers the scamp a grounded sense of minimum-wage reality. With the clock counting down to his wedding day, Arthur is stuck between the woman his loves and a woman who will secure his monetary future, leaving alcohol and Hobson as his only true friends during his time of need.
"Arthur" marks the directorial debut for television helmer Jason Winer, and frankly, it looks like the work of a man who's never commanded his own feature film before. Displaying unbridled performances, crummy editing, and lousy placement of scoring cues, "Arthur" is an unexpectedly amateurish remake, spending more time basking in the glow of its star than dealing with filmmaking basics. It's an uneven movie, struggling to correct the mistakes of the original picture. In fact, the feature goes out of its way to make all new errors, primarily centered on Brand's abrasive performance at the titular rascal.
Don't get me wrong, I like Brand's…er, brand of wicked comedy. He's a quick draw mischief-maker with a boundless brain, showcasing scene-stealing chops in films such as "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek." "Arthur" gifts Brand a leading role right up his formerly hedonistic alley, taking over for Moore as the perplexed man-child with a drinking problem, faced with too much free time (he has a penchant for movie cars, such as the Batmobile or the "Back to the Future" DeLorean) and too many women. Brand's eager to please, but his take on Arthur is extremely aggressive, rendering the character obnoxious and borderline unlikable, lacking Moore's innate sensitivity, charging ahead as an entitled brat who doesn't grasp the bigger picture of maturity. It's difficult to believe in Arthur, to root for his well-being after enduring 100 minutes of tepidly scripted buffoonery and shrill improvisation. Arthur doesn't need love, he needs a ball gag.
Helping Brand out considerably is Mirren, who brings a lovely authority and sly wit to the role that gave Sir John Gielgud some late inning fame. A firm match for Brand, "Arthur" awakens when Mirren takes center stage, introducing some needed vulnerability and skill into an often claustrophobic picture. Also fun is Garner as ice queen Susan, a role that offers the actress something different to play, nailing the ball-busting sense of control that comes to terrify Arthur.
Less impressive is Gerwig, who reduces Naomi from Arthur's bright, besieged equal to a dim-witted sycophant of sorts, unable to generate any sparks with the lead actor. There's no fairy tale union between the characters, leaving their path of love awkwardly forced upon the audience. The original film had Liza Minnelli stomping around, matching Moore with her natural screen poise and brassy personality. Gerwig plays Naomi like a plate of gelatin, leaving no discernable trace of appeal, at least to an admitted whoremonger like Arthur. He falls in love because the script demands it, not due to a plausible connection between the pair.
If you've seen "Arthur" you've already seen "Arthur," as the remake traces basically the same plot, with Naomi's role shoved aside to stick tighter on Arthur and Hobson. The lack of surprise is a disappointment, but that's coming from someone who's viewed the 1981 picture. Those fresh to the formula might be more tolerant of the movie's manipulations.The bad news is that "Arthur" is a needless redo that mistakes vociferous behavior for screen enchantment. The good news is that, if the need should arise, there's a crummy sequel to be remade as well, which I'm sure would encounter few objections.
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Tomorrow PARISTEXAS will present a selection of beautiful womens garments from american designer Raquel Allegra...
Here is a bit of info on the brand:
With the intricate distressing of an iconic garment, Raquel Allegra swathes her cult following in unapologetic comfort and modern romanticism. Born in Berkeley, CA to artisan parents, the designer's childhood encouraged a personal creative process of instinct, experiment and play. Raquel first gained a following for her deconstructed t-shirts while working as a sales associate for Barney's Beverly Hills. Largely influenced by her environment and social interactions, she was inspired to new levels of creativity as she took cues from the desires of her discerning clients that were always looking to emulate her unique sense of style. Raquel's instincts in design and style seem to be perfectly aligned with that of the collective interests of her brands' devoted followers. In creating the shredding technique that has become synonymous with the namesake label, Raquel Allegra has introduced elegance to the once, basic tee. Full length webbed cocoon shapes evolved out of laborious experiments with oversized vintage shirts recycled from the Los Angeles County Prison System. The ethereal and informal beauty of the pieces has garnered instant admiration from celebrities, editors, stylists and savvy consumers from Los Angeles to Beirut.
2009 marked a maturation for the brand as the collection expanded to include richly textured pieces in deerskin, linen, cashmere and French lace. With 7 seasons of production thus far, the Raquel Allegra label is found internationally in select high end boutiques.
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Fashion After Dark, Copenhagen shopping night tomorrow... PARISTEXAS is open till 21.00 hrs... enjoy -15% discount between 18-21.00 hrs... see you in the dark !
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Thursday, 30 September 2010
A small drop from Surface to Air arrived yesterday... including a really cosy cape and some great scarves.
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Thursday, 23 September 2010
The new aw10 bag collection from BOYY has landed today... I am in love with the mini Slash in steel grey with black pony flap. The mini has such a great size !
The new Jake is the perfect day bag... love the costum made hardware !
The new Jake is the perfect day bag... love the costum made hardware !
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Wednesday, 22 September 2010
PARISTEXAS has had a facebook group page for a while but never really used it... so to actually get to know you all a bit better and give you instant updates on a more personal level, we now have a new facebook page that will be active with information, fashion tidbits etc on a daily basis... Pls add Paristexas Copenhagen as your friend if you want to follow us up close and personal.
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Tuesday, 21 September 2010
This thursday, sept 23rd, we expect the delivery of aw10 from BOYY BAG... New Slash styles and classic Slash styles like the Big Slash and the Mini Slash will be among the goodies delivered !
If you are wait listed - we will give you a call once the bags have landed.
If you are wait listed - we will give you a call once the bags have landed.
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If you're interested in exploring faith through travel, it's surprisingly easy to do via cruise ship. Many cruise itineraries sail close to holy sites, with shore excursions that can help you learn more about your own faith or other religious traditions.
A place that is sacred to the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths is the city of Jerusalem, Israel. Located about an hour's drive from the port of Ashdod, Jerusalem's walled Old City contains the Way of Grief, leading to the Church of the Holy Selpuchre, which many believe to be the place where Jesus was crucified and buried; Temple Mount, which Jews regard as the place God chose as the resting place of the Divine Presence and Muslims believe is the place where Mohammed ascended to heaven; the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine; and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
While Jerusalem is an obvious choice for a religious shore excursion, you can find such opportunities in more unexpected places, too. If your eastern Mediterranean cruise includes Athens, you can take an excursion to Mars' Hill, where the Apostle Paul delivered his famous Aeropagus sermon. In Vlora, Albania, an excursion to the city center includes the Mosque of Muradije, which dates from the 15th century. You may also be able to visit Kus-Baba, a religious place built but the Muslim Bektashi sect.
In Venice, some excursions include a tour of a medieval Jewish Ghetto that lies along the Canneragio Canal. When the ghetto was created in 1516, Jews were confined to the area from sunset to dawn. While only a few Jewish families live there today, the ethnic flavor of the neighborhood survives.
Wherever your next cruise may take you, there's likely to be an opportunity for a religious shore excursion, whether a full-day tour of sacred sites or a visit to a house of worship as part of a broader tour. To find out more, talk with Cruise Holidays.


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G20 officials will disregard key parts of a currency statement issued this week by the Group of Seven powers, according to a communique drafted for finance leaders meeting in Moscow, and will not single out Japan. A G20 delegate who has seen the draft - put together by deputy finance ministers for their bosses - said it would also make no direct mention of new debt-cutting targets, something Germany is pressing for but which the US wanted struck out.
If adopted by G20 finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Moscow yesterday and today, the wording will confirm that Japan will escape any censure for its expansionary policies which have driven the yen lower and drawn demands for action from some quarters. The currency market was thrown into turmoil this week after the G7 - the US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy - issued a joint statement stating that domestic economic policies must not be used to target currencies.
Tokyo said that reflected agreement that its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies were appropriate but the show of unity was shattered by off-the-record briefings critical of Japan. The G20 draft merely sticks to previous G20 language on the need to avoid excessive foreign exchange volatility, the delegate said. The yen has fallen by around 20 per cent since November. Having firmed earlier on Friday, it turned tail and dropped 0.6 per cent against the dollar and euro in response to the communique details. One senior G20 source said any reference to targeting exchange rates was not acceptable to China, which is now the world's second-largest economy and holds much of its $3.3 trillion in foreign reserves in US Treasury bonds.
Officials lined up to pour cold water on talk of a currency war featuring competitive devaluations. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said recent sparring over currencies was "inappropriate, fruitless and self-defeating" and US Treasury official Lael Brainard warned against "loose talk". Draghi also said the euro's exchange rate was in line with long-term averages, a point endorsed by International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde. "The current talk of currency wars is overblown," she told the G20 ministers and central bankers.
"There is no major deviation from fair value of major currencies." Other policymakers in Moscow said Japan's aggressive fiscal and monetary expansion aimed at raising the inflation rate to 2 per cent was to be welcomed if it boosted growth. Others have noted that the US has created new money in a very similar way to the Bank of Japan, although Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke insisted the US central bank was acting in line with the G7 statement, "using domestic policy tools to advance domestic objectives".
Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa said he would defend Tokyo's bold approach to monetary easing, saying the policies were aimed at stabilising the domestic economy. He also said the bout of yen weakness merely reflected receding risk aversion among investors globally. The meeting in Moscow of finance officials from the G20 nations, which account for 90 per cent of the world's gross domestic product and two-thirds of its population, also looked set to lay bare differences over the balance between growth and austerity policies.
The draft communique reflected a row brewing between Europe and the US over extending a promise to reduce budget deficits beyond 2016. A pact struck in Toronto in 2010 will expire this year if leaders fail to agree to extend it at a G20 summit of leaders in St Petersburg in September. The G20 put together a huge financial backstop to halt a market meltdown in 2009 but has failed to reach those heights since. At successive meetings, Germany has pressed the US and others to do more to tackle their debts.
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copyright, Tim Flach.
If you're familiar with Tim Flach's work, you know there aren't many people out there who photograph animals better than he does. It's not that he merely captures his subjects with excellent lighting. He also creates a unique environment for them – whether they be horses, chimps, bats or, in this case, dogs – and brings a painterly quality and rich, storied texture. As someone not easily enamored with animal portraiture (I'm not much of a William Wegman fan, for instance), I find Tim's work beautiful and compelling.
This image of a Springer Spaniel chasing pheasants was included in his 2010 Dogs book. It was taken on the Elveden Estate in Norfolk, England which is huge, hunting mecca teaming with pheasants just waiting to be shot at. The book is definitely worthy of a perusal, if not an outright purchase. There are tons of fun pics of all kinds of dog breeds here, many of which I've never even seen before. Tim nailed this shot with 3 lights on an overcast day. I am happy to say no animals were injured in the filming and no fog machine was necessary.
Camera: Medium format, digital, with 100mm lens. Set on a tripod 13 feet back from ferns. Shot at 1/800, f11, ISO 200.
Lighting: Tim has positioned two lights to act as the keys for this shot. One large softbox at f16 (+1 stop) is set high, 15 feet to camera left and a foot behind the dog. Another large softbox at f11 is positioned similarly 15 feet to camera left just in front of the ferns. These two lights ensured the foreground would be covered regardless of where the dog ran or the birds flew. A third large softbox at f8 (-1 stop) is high and directly behind the camera, acting as fill. The incredibly overcast daylight measures f5.6 (-2 stops) and allows for the moody, gloomy background.
Comments: Tim waited hours in a cold, wet, camouflaged duck blind to get this shot. The hired Spaniel – a lifer hunting dog with an impeccable pheasant kill ratio – was noticeably displeased when, after executing a textbook flush from the brush, Tim shot the game birds with a Hasselblad H4D-40 instead of a Browning Auto 5 Light 12-Guage.


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Ciara is unreal. Where did she come from? How does she dance like that? And why have the Atlanta Braves not publicly thanked her for her support of their franchise?
The song is great, but you have to watch the video. Ciara isn't joking around. The girl has serious moves and a killer bod to go along with them.


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Play For Japan initiative has done a lot to help raise funds for those affected by last month's earthquake and tsunami, but Play For Japan: The Album will be giving a lot back to you in return.
Due for release next month, the album gets together some of the greatest composers working in the medium today, like Nintendo legend Koji Kondo, Final Fantasy's Nobuo Uematsu, Silent Hill's Akira Yamaoka, Tommy Tallarico, Hip Tanaka and even Battlestar Galactica's Bear McCreary.
Those men and more will each have a single work showcased on the album, from which 100% of all proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross. The album will be available on iTunes in "early June".