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Document Type: Case Reports
1 Dept. of Pathology, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India
2 Dept of pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal India
Blue nevi are benign melanocytic skin lesions and histologically represent diffuse proliferation of spindle shaped melanocytes. They are uncommon in the cervix (1, 2). The other extracutaneous sites of occurrence include the vagina, spermatic cord, prostate, pulmonary hilus, orbit, oral mucosa, oesophagus, maxillary sinus and lymph nodes. These pigmented lesions are derived from immature melanoblasts migrating from the neural crest to the mullerian tract during embryonic life (1, 3, 4).
The first two cases of pigmented cervical lesions were observed in 1883 and were reported by Bland-sutton (5) in 1922, who described them in women with uterine prolapse (5, 6). Being rare lesions, the actual incidence has been difficult to determine. Uehara et al. (7) estimated an over-all incidence of up to 28.6% in their case series, while Patel et al. (8) had earlier noted the incidence of blue nevi to be 0.12–1.9%. Some authors have also noted the existence of racial differences in the prevalence of this entity.
Clinically, patients with blue nevi of the endocervix are asymptomatic. These lesions are usually incidental findings detected histologically on surgical or biopsy specimens obtained for other purposes such as dysfunctional uterine bleeding, leiomyoma or prolapse (1, 2, 9, 10).
Here in, we present a case report of endocervical blue nevus in a 52 year old woman.
Case Report
A 52 year old woman (gravida II, para II) presented with pain abdomen and irregular menstrual cycles since the past 6 months. On evaluation, she was detected to uterine fibroids on ultrasonography. Hysterectomy was performed and the specimen was sent for histopathological examination. Gross examination revealed an enlarged uterus, with bosselated surface. On cut section, multiple intramural fibroids with whorled areas and arrears of hemorrhage were identified. The endocervix showed a small blue-black area measuring 0.5×0.5 cm (Fig. 1). On microscopic examination, loose clusters of pigment laden cells were observed in the sub-epithelial stroma of the endocervix. The cells had round to oval nuclei, inconspicuous nucleoli with no atypical features (Fig. 2, 3). The cytoplasm was filled with multiple small brownish granules. These cells stained positive with Masson Fontana (Fig. 4), negative with Perl's Prussian blue and when bleached with hydrogen peroxide. The overlying epithelium showed neither melanocytes nor melanin pigment accumulation. Sections from the fibroid showed interlacing bundles of smooth muscle fibers with vesicular nucleus. No mitotic figures, atypical features or necrosis were noted. Based on the following observations a diagnosis of leiomyoma with blue nevus of the endocervix was rendered.
Fig. 1: Cut section of the uterus shows endocervix showed a small blue-black area (marked with arrows)
Fig. 2: Clusters of melanin pigment laden cells arranged in clusters overlying the endocervical epithelium. (H& E ×40)
Fig. 3: Similar cell clusters surrounding the endocervical glands. (H &E ×40)
Fig. 4: Cells show positivity for melanin. (Masson Fontana, ×40)
Melanocytic lesions are uncommon lesions of the cervix because the cervical mucosa is devoid of melanocytes (1, 2).The various pigmented lesions other than blue nevus include malignant melanoma and melanosis of the cervix, which can be included in the differential diagnosis of a cervical blue nevus. When compared to the blue nevus, melanosis of the cervix shows the presence of melanin pigment in the basal epithelium only, and not in the stroma. However, melanoma is characterized by junctional activity and clusters of malignant cells invading the stromawith atypical nuclear features (4, 10). In the present case, melanin pigment was not observed in the basal epithelium.
There are various theories as postulated by Craddock et al and Sun et al. regarding the origin of pigmented melanocytes in the cervix. These include 1. Migration of neural crest elements during embryonic life; 2. Melanocytes could migrate from adjacent mucocutaneous areas; 3. Squamous metaplasia or epidermidisation of the cervical epithelium due to prolapse or chronic irritation (2, 11, 12).
A lot of controversy regarding the origin of cells in a blue cell nevus exists. Sun et al. (12) have regarded that blue nevus cells are not of purely melanocytic or Schwannian origin, but are derived from a precursor cell that has some common features of both melanocyte and Schwann cell. Saikia et al. also describe these cells to show both melanocytic and schwannian differentiation (13).
Various authors have described these lesions to present as
Table 1: Differential diagnosis of blue nevi in the cervix
Differential Diagnosis
Features on Histopathology
Blue Nevi
Clusters singly scattered, spindle to elongated cells with melanin pigment seen in the subepithelial stroma.
Neither melanocytes nor melanin pigment accumulation in the overlying epithelium.
Melanosis of Cervix
Hyperkeratosis, acanthosis of overlying epithelium with abundant basilar pigmentation.
Melanin pigment is present in the basal epithelium only.
No stromal melanocytes are seen. No atypical features
Melanoma of Cervix
Presence of melanin pigment in the normal cervical epithelium
Junctional activity is seen with infiltrating clusters of malignant cells
Stromal invasion and atypical nuclear features are seen
Cells display variable degree of pleomorphism, show prominent eosinophilic nucleoli and melanin pigment.
Blue nevi have also been found in association with malignant melanoma of the uterine cervix, endometrioid adenocarcinoma and vulvar malignant melanoma (14-16). However the exact clinical significance of these associations is not known.
All pigmented lesions of the cervix should be carefully followed up if detected on endocervical curettage, cervical biopsy, or cervical cone biopsy specimens. Detecting these lesions on hysterectomy specimens could be challenging. It requires meticulous examination as they can be easily unnoticed on gross examination owing to their minute size. The diagnosis should be made carefully taking into consideration all the differential diagnosis.
We wish to thank all the technical staff of the Department of Pathology.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.
How to cite this article:
Talengala Bhat S, Shivamurthy A, Calicut Kini Rao A. Incidentally Detected Blue Nevus of Endocervix: a Case Report. Iran J Pathol. 2015;10(3):248-52.


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Ben Bernanke said the White House would have to consider increasing the scope of its $750bn banking rescue package, as well as readying further aggressive measures to shore up the world's biggest economy. His warning to Congress came as shares in London slid to a new six-year low amid disquiet about the stability of Britain's banks following Monday's cash calls from HSBC and AIG.
The Fed Chairman also remarked that although the government had little choice but to rescue AIG with a further $30bn cash injection, the episode had made him "more angry" than any other episode in the past 18 months.
Until the financial system had been repaired the economy would not recover, he said, adding: "Without a reasonable degree of financial stability, a sustainable recovery will not occur. Although progress has been made on the financial front since last fall, more needs to be done."
The comments indicate that the US Treasury, which has put its weight behind a asset insurance scheme for bad assets much like the UK's asset protection scheme, will have to spend more than originally anticipated on rescuing the banks. The Obama administration has slated for up to $750bn in new support to be spent on the banking bail-out in its first budget.
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The FTSE 100 index closed down 113.74 points, or 3.14pc, at 3512.09.
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There is a gathering space that grows ever larger between myself and those days. I like to rest a little longer with my concepts now. I'm enjoying letting them grow, re-potting them, and letting them grow some more. Their matted roots are becoming a foundation of sorts.
A simple quartz line against a contrasting background has a very basic, simple appeal. At its primordial root I suppose it is a gestural line. A precursor of more sophisticated drawings and representations of hunt scenes on a cave wall. On other levels it is a boundary, a division, a path, a route, a map with all extraneous detail erased until all that is left is a salient line.
I like this idea of a path, a journey, of traveling because even when stay still, inhabiting somewhere for sometime, the journey is still continuing on inside. The surrounding geography remains the same but the internal landscape shifts continually - we are not the same people we were yesterday.
Points of departure, points of confluence, points of bifurcation. Winding less travelled paths where a clear view of the route is obstructed by twists and turns.
And straight broad routes where everything is open, clear and revealed.
I often feel that in holding such a tiny piece of the earth's substance in my hands I am holding all and everything - all that there is to know about life, love and loss is wrapped up in crystal and element and rock.
It feels like there is a life's work in deciphering and unpacking the all the possible representations and projects latent within this concept. Which at the end of the day is just a line.
In conclusion - I have embarked on a new piece. It feels good. And they way I know it is good is because I'm annoyed that I have to stop and sleep rather than just continuing on and on!


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As you get bogged down by the insanity of the holiday season, pissed off at the shitty traffic that came with a 12 foot snow dump and frustrated with a never-ending sinus infection try to remember and be thankful for the things both big and little that matter the most in life. Love. Peace. Happiness. A White Christmas!


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Initiatives for the First 100 Days of the Strategic Plan
February 15, 2014
Dear Rutgers Faculty and Staff:
The University Strategic Plan approved this month by the Board of Governors lays out an ambitious series of initiatives for the next five years to ensure we achieve our institutional goals. Many of these initiatives will require some time to implement; others are dependent on identifying appropriate funding sources; still others will need to be guided by the strategic planning processes currently under way in our four large academic areas. It is important, however, for the University community to appreciate that I am committed to converting this plan into action as quickly as is feasible. For this reason, I am announcing today a series of initiatives drawn from the strategic plan that will be funded directly from my office and implemented immediately. These initiatives will kick off the first 100 days of the University Strategic Plan.
The first 100-day initiatives will include the following:
1. Faculty Committee – Academic Unit Organization
As outlined in the plan's first Strategic Priority entitled Envision Tomorrow's University, I am establishing a blue-ribbon faculty committee to examine optimal academic organization of the University as we respond to the evolving demands of a premier research-intensive and education-focused residential university. The membership of this committee will be announced in the coming days. Resources for all related committee activity will be provided from the President's Office.
This committee will review the organization of our academic units and make recommendations to the University community and the administration for potential realignments that would allow our faculty to more effectively collaborate in their teaching and research efforts. The committee will also consider the best structures for units that span multiple campuses, and offer recommendations for potential new schools or academic units (such as a school of veterinary medicine or a school of architecture and design) that will move our institution forward and align us, where appropriate to our mission, more closely with other great public universities.
2. University-wide Committee – Near- and Long-Term Impact of Instructional Technology
Consistent with the second initiative from Envision Tomorrow's University, a committee of faculty and instructional technology experts is being formed to investigate the near- and long-term impact of technology on our residential educational model. Charged with developing a tactical institutional plan for exploring, testing, and implementing technology in our teaching and learning environments, this committee will examine the effectiveness and feasibility of pedagogical tools and digital environments that range from "flipped" and synchronous classrooms to MOOCs, interactive online courses, simulation technology, and other innovative educational technology. It will review the effectiveness of learning management systems (LMSs) such as Blackboard, Sakai, and eCollege, and recommend a path for unifying and evergreening these technologies. The committee membership will be announced in the coming days, and the activity of the committee will be fully supported from the President's Office.
3. Henry Rutgers Professorships and Henry Rutgers Term Chairs
Our strategic plan calls for the recruitment of an additional 150 faculty over the next five years, many of whom will be thought leaders in the fields and areas that we seek to strengthen. While much of this recruitment will necessarily be coupled with fundraising, I will begin this process immediately. To this end, I am today establishing two initial groups of endowed chairs to assist in the process of faculty recruitment and retention.
a. The first group consists of five endowed professorships created from central resources. Each of these professorships will bear the title of Henry Rutgers Professors, and will be used to recruit, or in some cases retain, preeminent senior scholars to our faculty. Priority for appointments will be given to areas and disciplines that align with the goals of the strategic plan, and that fall within the areas covered by the Integrating Themes. Ideally, the interests of the proposed recruitment would span several disciplines and/or schools. As resources become available, I will expand this pool to 30 endowed, Henry Rutgers Professorships during the next 5 years.
b. A second group of five new term chairs for mid-level faculty has also been created. These Henry Rutgers Term Chairs will be used to recruit and retain outstanding faculty who are entering the mid-phase of their careers, and will be targeted primarily at newly tenured or comparably positioned individuals of equivalent stature with high potential for future development. Again, as resources are identified, I will expand this pool to 25 Henry Rutgers Term Chairs.
Proposals for recruitment areas for the first round of both the Endowed and Term chairs will be solicited from the community on all campuses during the coming weeks, and will be evaluated and prioritized by a committee of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Chancellors.
4. Presidential Graduate Fellowships
Our plan calls for strengthening Rutgers' graduate programs in key strategic areas across the University. As a first step, I am establishing today 20 Presidential Graduate Fellowships, available immediately for use in recruitment of the most outstanding graduate student candidates. These five-year fellowships will supplement basic graduate fellowship packages and offer an additional $15,000 stipend per student, renewable annually for a maximum of five years. The offices of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development, in conjunction with the Chancellors, will identify a faculty committee to coordinate the application process and the review of requests for these prestigious fellowships. The selection committee will give precedence to graduate student programs with strong performance records in areas highlighted in the Strategic Plan or where critical resources are needed to establish new directions envisioned by the plan.
5. Henry Rutgers Undergraduate Scholarships
The strategic plan outlines a number of new initiatives to improve student satisfaction and to recruit the best undergraduates from the nearly 30,000 students who leave New Jersey each year to pursue higher education in other states. Principal among these initiatives are the University Honors Colleges in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden. Construction of the new Honors College facility in New Brunswick is already in progress, with planned occupancy in Fall 2015. Additionally, effective immediately, my office will fund 100 net new undergraduate merit scholarships targeted for New Jersey residents, for a total of 400 merit scholars in the next 4 years. These Henry Rutgers Scholarships will enable us to attract high-achieving students and to raise the academic profile of our entire undergraduate student body, without affecting funding streams for current merit and need-based scholarships. As the strategic plan highlights, identifying support for additional undergraduate scholarships will be a high priority for the coming years.
6. Integrating Themes in Courses and University-wide Symposia
Next, I am establishing two immediate initiatives related to the Integrating Themes put forth in the strategic plan. These initiatives are designed to coordinate interdisciplinary scholarship, bridge our campuses and schools, and integrate currently isolated pockets of excellence. Both of these initiatives are now open to proposals from the University community and implementation will be funded from central resources.
These Integrating Theme initiatives are:
a. The development and convening of five major international academic symposia, each centering on elements and aspects of one of the five themes. Proposals for these symposia should represent multiple schools and disciplines, and priority will be given to concepts that integrate across our community, enhance our visibility, and stimulate new collaborative efforts. Funding will be provided for both the conceptual development and the implementation of each symposium. I hope that the first of these symposia can be organized and held during the next twelve months and hosted across our campuses. Priority will be given to those proposals that involve multiple schools, areas, disciplines, and campuses. While these will be primarily faculty-driven symposia, we will also seek opportunities for student, staff, and alumni involvement.
b. The creation of unique University-wide general-education courses in the areas included within each of our integrating themes. Each of these themes represents a critical area for society and our students, as well as an area in which Rutgers has unique expertise or intellectual resources. I am calling immediately for proposals from the faculty to create one or more courses in each theme area that will have broad impact and applicability for our first- and second-year students. Where possible, the courses should incorporate technology to enable faculty to reach across our campuses and collaborate with colleagues and students. I will provide the successful proposals with support for faculty release time for course development, underwriting educational expenses, as well as providing resources to develop technologies that will allow each course to be made available across the University.
Proposals for both of these initiatives should be submitted to the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and will be reviewed by a faculty committee constituted by him.
7. Core Facilities Fund
The strategic plan underscores the critical need to strengthen the core facilities available to our faculty to support their research and academic endeavors. With this in mind, I am establishing today a short-term fund of $1 million to begin the process of evaluating and strengthening our core support facilities. I have directed the Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development to appoint a committee to assess the state of our core research and teaching facilities, identify institutional needs, and recommend areas for future development. Priority for these short-term funds will be given to support facilities used by faculty in multiple departments and schools.
Beyond this immediate charge, the committee will be charged with continuing this work in subsequent years. Identifying additional funding for further initiatives in this critical area will be a high priority for the administration.
8. Student Advising and Support
Transforming the student experience is a major priority of our strategic plan, and many of our long-term initiatives are focused on this goal. Immediate action is needed, however, in a number of areas related to student support. With this in mind, I have established a $750,000 fund to target high-priority areas of student advising, career counseling, and academic support. An oversight group will consider the appropriate application of these funds and will report with a prioritized list of initiatives within three months to a committee of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Chancellors.
9. IT Assessment
I have requested an immediate assessment of University computing and IT infrastructure. Long overdue and now critical after the integration with UMDNJ and their legacy systems and databases, this assessment will evaluate our basic business systems (ERP) software, as well as the storage and security of large data sets and critical business information, our conversion to a secure virtual server environment, consolidation and outsourcing possibilities for community IT services such as email and scheduling, and special academic computing needs. A task force led by the Senior Vice Presidents for Finance and for Administration has already begun this work under the aegis of the strategic plan, and the first report to the Board of Governors and the University community will follow in April.
These 100-day initiatives represent only the beginning of the many projects that will emerge from the strategic plan, including developing a corporate partnership office, improving transportation logistics, and designing high impact capital projects. In addition, as the campus strategic plans take shape over the coming year, I will consult widely on how to prioritize funding and implementation of new initiatives that emerge from these plans.
Robert Barchi


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Apparently, patience is some kind of a virtue. I don't happen to know, since for the better part of my adult life I have been trying to develop it. Unfortunately, it's just not happening fast enough. I'm inclined to agree with Ambrose Bierce's definition: a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue. Regardless, patience is inescapably called for in matters of love and baking.
There are fewer better ways to learn patience than through the making of bread. Everything is distilled down to the elemental. A handful of simple ingredients. A few crucial movements. And — time. We can alter the elements or how we handle them. But there is little we can do to speed up the effects of chemistry on flour, water and yeast which together produce the magic that is bread.
Making bread has been on the brain and on the pages of this paper lately. That's no accident since now is the season when things have slowed down and we are inclined to spend more time inside. There seems to be more space to take stock of priorities and to get back to basics. And what could be more basic than bread, the staff of life?
I have been practicing this meditation by attempting various bread recipes with different methods and ingredients. The options are myriad: To use instant yeast or a natural starter? All purpose or bread flour? And to knead or not to need. That is the other question.
Jim Lahey, the genius baker and founder of Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City has started a bread revolution by sharing his technique for no-knead bread. I've included here Mark Bittman's 2006 adaptation of Lahey's recipe, one that continues to get an enormous amount of hits on the New York Times website. It takes about 11/2 hours plus 14-20 hours rising time with an almost negligible 1/4 teaspoon of yeast. It is critical to sort your timing out in advance. Baked in a covered cast iron Dutch oven, the results are delicious. But even Bittman sought to speed up the process, and in 2008 revamped this recipe to cut down the rising time to 4 hours by using more yeast without substantially sacrificing flavor.
Local artisan baker, Steve Scott (a California native), had a life changing moment back in 1997 when after an aborted turn at professional cycling in Europe, he pitched up at a boulangerie in the North of France to work in exchange for his plane ticket home. In the years that followed, Scott trained with several bread baking icons including Kathleen Webber of Petaluma, Calif.-famed Della Fattoria, and Michael Weinstein of Neiman Marcus.
Chad Robertson, the owner and head baker of San Francisco's cult status bakery Tartine, wrote a veritable bread making manifesto in his Tartine Bread. A gorgeous book with mouthwatering recipes, it evokes a primal yearning for times past. See pages 45-68 to learn how to make his Basic Country Loaf using a natural starter with flour and water. (Space in this column does not allow for the recipe.) It could take a week from when you begin making your starter until the divine loaf comes out of your oven. But patience is well paid off with an incredible depth of flavor and a sublime texture: teeth shattering crumb and a soft supple interior. "The way bread used to and should be," declares Scott.
"Better flavor and fermentation develop with a natural starter. In this natural Levain method very little or no commercial yeast is used in doughs and a long fermentation with very little mixing," he adds. Baking in cast iron in a 500-degree oven is ideal. And the key to superior flavor is in the flour. If you cannot source flour fresh from the mill, the best off the shelf is King Arthur's all purpose flour, according to Scott who has also worked as lead baker at Breadworks and as production supervisor at Udi's Bread under Maurizio Nigrini before becoming the head baker at The Mediterranean Restaurant.
For us mere mortals, in our efforts to get back to basics and enjoy the fruit of a true labor of love using the no-knead recipes with minimal instant yeast will not disappoint. However, if you are looking for instant gratification then march on over to The Med on Walnut Street or Cured on Pearl, where Steve Scott's bread is available for purchase. Store bread in waxed or butcher paper — not plastic. And if you are going to freeze it, wrap first in foil then in plastic wrap.
Bread goes well with: everything.


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I started my weekly special last week and made yummy
lemon blueberry scones.
I was very excited to be baking and having
people over to pick up their pastries.
This week, I am baking 6 inch,
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Everything is baked from scratch with the best ingredients.
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I am getting my website boutique {on The French Pressed Home} put together so you can shop
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Super convenient for the airport and car return at Milano Malpensa. Lobby has a small bar. Breakfast is included. Had dinner in the restaurant and was very good. Nicely appointed rooms. Would stay again
We stayed overnight after landing in the evening. The rooms are basic but adequate. Breakfast is described as continental but there is bacon and eggs available. We didn't have an evening meal there as we found a good pizza restaurant just round the corner
Close to the airport, typical airport hotel, nice rooms, no noise, shower and amenities. The shuttle does not guarantee you to be at the ariport if your flight is very early, so better book a taxi with the reception. There are vending machines of you want a snack or a drink and the bar/restaurant is not open. Had a quiet night, even if we had to leave around 4 am.
Without doubt one of the favorite hotels I stayed during my time in Milano ! Upon arrival i were warmly welcomed by the staff , Receptionist supervisors Mrs. Paula (first class hotel receptionist. She made me feel that my experience at the hotel was personally important to her. )The staff was extremely friendly, the restaurant very flexible (appreciate this!) and the restaurant Manager( Mr.Mohamed Sobhi ) deserves a special thanks , he was a wonderful host and the food was so lovely , delicious , fresh , Amazing ,Mr. Sobhi & his crew were friendly and hard working . I really enjoyed my dinners , .. I had 4 great evenings here, which obviously also added up to the experience. the atmosphere is so special that it really felt like home to me. All respect for the general manager who does a great job here; a true sample of excellent hospitality and selecting perfect people to represent the hotel & made the big imprison & branding .…
I was there for one night. And it is the standard hotel to spend one night before a flight from Malpensa. Both the room (very big) and the bathroom were clean. Breakfast is intresting with many things to eat. It's only few minutes by car from the airport. They have a shuttle bus for 2,5€, it's great but be careful if you use Booking.com the meeting point at the airport is not correct, check with the hotel. In the end a good point for one night before a flight.
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Spring Hairstyles 2014: Chic mermaid waves & Low ponytails
The runways were filled with easy spring hairstyles worth trying from chic sleek loose hairstyles to lovely braided hairstyles and chic textured updos. Mermaid waves however, proved a very popular choice for a good reason: they have a lovely feminine yet effortless allure.
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SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-07-16
Interviews & Profiles
- The Book Beard's Blog interviews Nik Vincent and Dan Abnett, author of Fiefdom.
- Comingsoon.net interviews Phillip Noyce, director of The Giver.
- Diabolical Plots interviews Jennifer Rush, author of Altered.
- The Globe and Mail interviews Jeff VanderMeer, author of Acceptance, out in September.
- The Japan Times interviews Hiroshi Sakurazaka, author of All You Need is Kill.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl.
- The Qwillery interviews Jamie Schultz, author of Premonitions.
- Salon interviews Lois Lowry, author of The Giver.
- The Telegraph interviews Tanya Byrne, author of Follow Me Down.
- Tor.com interviews Anna Kashina, author of Blades of the Old Empire.
- WIRED interviews James S. A. Corey, author of Leviathan Wakes.
- The 2013 Shirley Jackson Award winners have been announced!
- Public gets to vote on names for exoplanets
Events & Event News
- Henry Herz will be moderating a fantasy/science fiction literature panel from 11 am to noon on July 24 at San Diego Comic-Con in room 5AB. The panel participants are award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Dr. David Brin, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Jason Hough, Marie Lu, and Jonathan Maberry. The authors will be signing their books afterward in AA09 from 12:30-1:30 pm.
- The Longitude Punk'd steampunk exhibit will be held until January 4th 2015 at the National Maritime Museum at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Crowd Funding
- Enclave Publishing Fall Releases – help a Christian sci-fi publisher fund five new books.
- Taurin Tales– a shared world anthology featuring some of the top names in small press sci-fi.
- Book Review: Paul Di Filippo calls Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker insouciant, mocking, wry, unpredictable and polished, without any of the cliches of High Fantasy.
- Movie Review: CultureMap calls Coherence a fascinating and brilliant sci-fi trip
- Movie Review: The Onion reviews Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
- The 10 most unexpected creatures to take over the world in sci-fi films, as chosen by Blastr.
- 15 Thought-Provoking Sci-fi Films That Are Worth Your Time
- Amazing Stories plays the Planets Name Game
- Being a Digital Wallflower: How Not to Succeed on the Internet
- Beyond The Planet Of The Apes: Six Seventies Sci-Fi Movies Worth Remaking
- BuzzFeed attempts a Definitive Ranking Of The Planet Of The Apes Movies
- DC Cinematic Universe: In search for Justice
- Doctor Who TV discusses Where Doctor Who Could Improve and How
- Everything You Never Knew About The Making of Last Starfighter
- Fantasy Faction shines a Spotlight on Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets
- How sci-fi and Spielberg brought Halle Berry back to small screen in Extant
- Hugo Dramatic Long Form Review 2014
- Human vs. Alien Films: Sound on Sight picks The Must-Sees
- In an interview during the Television Critics Association's press tour on Sunday, Daniel Cerone, executive producer of NBC's Constantine, has revealed that there are no plans for John Constantine to be bisexual in the upcoming series. While Constantine's sexuality may come as a surprise for many casual DC fans, it has been a more-or-less stated fact throughout his canon. Many LGBTQ comics readers consider Constantine to be an important and iconic bisexual character and were hoping for a better result. However, in a last minute twist, it turns out that the Constantine character changes are specifically designed to offer a Stronger Female Lead.
- Jeff VanderMeer talks about connections between Of Mice and Men and A Stranger in a Strange Land
- A Long Overdue Nod to SciFi and Fantasy's Best Librarians
- My Hopes for Ben Affleck, DC's Next Batman (other than simply not sucking.)
- The New York Times has a fascinating article by Ethan Gilsdorf on how the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons has influenced a generation of writers. Among others, the article mentions Junot Díaz and Sharyn McCrumb and screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire.
- Playing Dungeons and Dragons a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey with Steven M. Long
- Science Fiction Picture Books for the Youngest Readers [via Paul Di Filippo]
- The Telegraph explains Why YA needs heroines beyond Katniss Everdeen
- TV Station Claims Star Trek Is An Important Part Of Community Programming
- Wait, What? Constantine Character Changes Are Specifically to Have a Stronger Female Lead?
- Why is writing a book so darn time consuming? Other than the frequent Facebook checks.
- Beautiful Star Wars & Superhero Watercolors by Clémentine Campardou
- The Geek Art Gallery has posted a gallery of the art of Kait Kybar and Ryan Gitter
- If you're in NYC and you have a strong stomach, you should visit the Morbid Anatomy Museum
- William Puck creates Lord of the Rings-inspired notices and hangs them in the New York Subway.
More Fun Stuff
- Boba Fett's first-ever appearance was a county fair in 1978!
- Cover Reveal: Kill Baxter by Charlie Human, South African Edition
- Facts About Luc Besson's 1997 Sci-Fi Action Film The Fifth Element That You May Not Have Known
- Fun and informative Tweets from @MarsCuriosity: "Rolling over dunes. The science must flow."
- Japanese 'Cosplay' craze becoming popular in London. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Massive Behind-The-Scenes Photo Gallery From Ridley Scott's Alien
- Over the course of a weekend, DashCon 2014 descended into chaos. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Read an excerpt from The Children of Old Leech by Jeffrey Thomas at Word Horde.
- Read an excerpt from Frostborn by Lou Anders at Scribd.
- Read an excerpt from We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory at Tor.com.
- This Hexapod Robot looks like something Aeon Flux might have thrown at her pursuers.
- This Is What DARPA Thinks the Future of War Will Look Like
- Watch a trailer for Doctor Who Season 8


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Our man Chris Doyle received yet another NORA Cup Dirt nomination this year, for the 20th Annual RIDE BMX NORA Cup Awards
Our man Chris Doyle received yet another NORA Cup Dirt nomination this year, for the 20th Annual RIDE BMX NORA Cup Awards
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Like years past and to come…we hit the road hard in 2014 and stayed busy traveling, riding, and having fun with friends on our bikes!
CLICK HERE for a really cool piece of insight into the early years of Kink on Snakebite BMX!
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don't hold your breath waiting for Bob Craddock to help you with anything at the Smithsonian..... He is the person in charge of ANY model rocketry collection that they may have and he guards it like it is Ft. Knox.
The only things I ever got was a photo of the original estes astron spaceplane and a very poor photo of the carlisle mark -1 rock-a chute.
Bob is also a collector of sorts of model rocketry stuff.... if you peruse RMR on the name Bob Craddock you will find a lot of pro and con about the man.
Its my understanding that the STine collection was returned to Bill Stine some time ago., Because all the Smithsonian wanted to do with it was "store" it, never to see the light of day again. Thats one reason Bill did his mini-show at the seattle museum of flight.
The people that I know of who have very large model rocketry collections, not just models, but anything that might have to do with it, is Randy Lieberman and Mark Mayfield. Randy sold a large portion of his collection to Mark. Randy also holds things pretty close to his vest too. Mark on the other hand, has been very open about his collection, at least to me.
SInce there will never probbaly be any major model rocketry exhibit at the Smithsonian, I suggested to various people that perhaps they might consider creating a digital archive and then posting it to the web. To access it you would have to pay a membership fee, with the membership fees going to future perservaytion of model rocketry artifacts.
This way everybody in the world could peruse the digital archive. The idea is that it would encompass the Stine archive, the Estes archive and any personal collectors stuff. Anybody would be able to donate items in the terms of a photograph,etc.
I also thought that since you can now do 3-D on the web pretty easily, that certain artifacts be photographed(?) in 3D so people could get a feel for the real thing.
terry dean
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"Old Rocketeer's don't die; they just go OOP"
Thanks for the info Terry,
this might also be why Wright Patterson Air Force base has a a better Air Force and Space Museum then the Smithsonian even.
A whole new space and missle building was finished a year ago, now I got to do drive down and see it.
Art Upton
I am an original AR; pronounce like a pirate says "R"
An AR is an Always Rocketeer, in differance to BAR; although I like to visit BARs now and then.
I have a couple of things I'd like to go to a "real" museum--I'd just as soon not have them get into the hands of a collector where they are bought and sold speculatively like tulip bulbs in 17th century Holland. Likewise, if they go to my "heirs and assigns" they're likely to eventually end up in a dumpster as "just some old model junk".
Unfortunately, museum directors come and go, and often a model rocketry-friendly individual is replaced by someone with an entirely different agenda.
Soooooooooooooo I'd like to hear more thoughts on the subject of a trustworthy model rocket museum.
There is no "trustworthy" museum. Any significant one has tons of stuff not on display. We could go way OT here, but PC and politics prevents much important stuff from being displayed. Plus the reasons you mentioned. Never mind budgets for preservation and space for proper display etc.
For MR stuff, I think the best we can hope for is if somebody (the Estes??) leave a trust for something, in perpetuity. In some of my other hobbies, it is only due to the wealth of significant individuals that items are displayed at all, though the Smithsonian displays a few when ~200 years old and obviously of some "national historical significance".
Bob Craddock...he sure could be a pretty crusty guy sometimes. Especially when people weren't offering enough for the (vintage) kits he was selling, LOL! Very knowledgable of course, but always seemed reticent about giving out the "rest of the story", you always knew he was holding stuff back. That is probably good in some ways, least for the bureaucratic mindset, makes you seem "indispensible". He helped me numerous times on projects, I miss the guy.
So then a collection of say 2,000+ kits spanning late 1959 - ~1980, might be of some interest too the N.A.S.M. or they already have all that stuff? From Initiator001 and his picture, it sure seems to be the case.
If you think about it, dispassionately, just what kind of interest would a display of kits have to the general public? Or even to us, if we couldn't pick them up and "rattle the bags" having a closer look? Since that's not likely due to their fragile nature, then access to detailed/good photographs would probably be the best we could expect, an online museum.
There are so many reasons why somebody with an extensive personal collection of rarities wouldn't want to advertise it.
Nearly 30 years ago, the NASM had a rather nice display of significant model rocketry items.
Here's a slide I took in 1979 at the NASM when they had a good model rocketry display. A Mark 1, Estes/Schutz B/G prototype, etc.
Now, they don't have anything on display at the Mall museum.
They definately have a large collection of model rocketry items. Maybe the NAR should make some sort of $$$ contribution to the Smithsonian on the condition there is a model rocket display of some sort?
Just a thought.
Just found this site while trying to find out the status of an Estes against an ex-VP lawsuit...
Ain't that the truth!!
I didn't get to do much rocket stuff, but add me on the designer list for:
The lightning bolt style launch pad (forgot what it was called)
Episode 1 Mini Queen's Ship, CodeName "Garrison"
Episode 1 Quene's Ship, CodeName "Wendy"
2 of the plastic 1/4A Mini's (Now called Super Shot or something)
Co-Designer of the Eagle Boost Glider
Several rockets that never made it (including one that someone just had to be paint in pink latex... )
And a bunch of airplane stuff that doesn't apply here.
I am trying to get a listing of all the model rockets that the Smithsonian have in storage, the list of kits on display are under the Smithsonain thread below (Rocket Doctor section)
Thjey are also trying to come up with a price of a display case for a display as well, still waiting for a reply.
Found this info in another thread. I would like to add John Boren's (Jumpjet) works to this thread but don't know if the original poster is still around.
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CHICAGO -- "Frasier" star John Mahoney has died at the age of 77, after starring in a play at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. The theater confirmed Mahoney's death to ABC sister station WLS-TV on Monday.
In the play, "The Rembrandt," a museum guard touches a painting, and the audience is taken on an artistic spiritual ride through centuries, meeting Rembrandt and the poet Homer.
"I wish I could tell you how funny it is and moving - it really is," said Mahoney.
"Mr. Mahoney is fantastic to watch, he makes it look so easy you forget it's tough work," said Grabriel Ruiz, an ensemble member of Chicago's Latino theatre Teatro Vista.
"It's kind of hard when you get to my age...all of a sudden you look at this page after page after page of dialogue to learn and trying to get that into your brain, it's pretty tough," Mahoney said.
In September, Mahoney told WLS-TV his future plans were to do absolutely nothing - just kicking back at his home in Oak Park.
"First of all I want to stay in Chicago. I learned my lesson about traveling with Fraser... 11 years living out of a suitcase in New York. Having the only car in the Paramount lot with an Oak Park sticker on it. I just want to be back home. Be onstage where I enjoy it," Mahoney said in the fall.
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The Miami Dolphins signed quarterback Logan Thomas off their practice squad on Wednesday, the team announced.
In order to make room for Thomas on the roster, the Dolphins cut offensive tackle Jeffrey Linkenbach.
The Dolphins added Thomas to the practice squad on Sept. 15 after initially cutting him four days earlier.
The 24-year-old was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft out of Virginia Tech, seeing limited time in two games that season. He was on the Cardinals roster through the preseason before being cut on Sept. 5.
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Compliance Champion Spotlight
What is a Compliance Champion? A Compliance Champion is an individual or organization committed to fostering and raising the standards of anti-bribery compliance. TRACE Trends will include posts featuring Compliance Champions from time to time.
We hope you enjoy the following entry from this week's Compliance Champion, and TRACE Partner Law Firm!
Today's guest blog post is written by Mr. Anders Worsøe, attorney-at-law and Partner at Magnusson Law Firm, TRACE's Partner Law Firm in Denmark. Anders provides daily support and advice to both domestic and foreign multinational corporations on compliance issues. Anders utilizes his firsthand experience as an attorney as well as a board member for multinationals facing compliance challenges in their Danish operations.
As a European Union ("EU") member state, a major part of the anti-corruption legislation in Denmark stems from the EU. However, especially following the "Oil–for-Food" scandals in the 90's, where corruption and abuse of the UN's infamous program soared, Denmark, independently, has become more aware of and determined to strike down corruption. As result, Denmark ranks among countries with low corruption risks, 1st out of 167 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2015 and 21st out of 197 countries in TRACE International's TRACE Matrix. However, despite the country's corruption-free reputation, Denmark still faces corruption challenges, especially in its public sector.
One only need look to the recent Atea Denmark case for an example. In 2015, Danish police began a corruption probe into Atea Denmark, alleging that former Atea Denmark employees had bribed public officials in order to secure lucrative contracts and advantages over an eight year period.
The Atea case should not come as a surprise to those familiar with the Danish public sector. Given Denmark's smaller size and population, the risk of nepotism within its public bodies, commissions, and state-owned enterprises is relatively high. Additionally, due to a lack of transparency in the selection process for public appointments, a majority of the appointments are determined by the candidates' political relations and affiliations rather than their merit-based qualifications. Although some may not view this as falling within the classic definition of corruption, such appointments often lead to an environment where corruption and misuse of public funds flourish, and where cases like Atea occur.
Finally, it is suspected that not all Danish corporations fully grasp the ramifications of violating the bribery provisions of the Danish Criminal Code, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or the U.K. Bribery Act. Despite the publicity in Denmark around the Oil-for-Food scandals, where Danish corporations were investigated for bribing Iraqi officials, Danish corporations continue to get caught-up in global corruption scandals as result of their failure to maintain anti-corruption standards in their operations abroad that are equally as strict as the standards they maintain at home.
Although Denmark must be celebrated for its success in its anti-corruption efforts, its efforts are far from complete.
For more on this topic, please see the following resources:
TRACE Compendium - Danish Oil-for-Food Actions
TRACE Compendium – ATEA ASA
TI - Denmark, Least Corrupt Country in the World
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Update 3/3/13 9:00 a.m. EST - SpaceX demonstrated Dragon's thrusters were functioning properly during maneuvers Saturday and began the approach to the International Space Station. Early Sunday morning, astronauts aboard the station used the robotic arm to capture the Dragon at 5:31 a.m. EST, about an hour earlier than anticipated. Dragon was then pulled in using the robotic arm and was berthed to the station at 5*:56 a.m. EST. Astronauts will begin unpacking the cargo aboard the spacecraft early this week. *
An anomaly with the thrusters aboard its Dragon spacecraft caused SpaceX to miss a scheduled burn to adjust the capsule orbit on Friday, causing SpaceX to delay by at least 24 hours Saturday's planned rendezvous with the International Space Station.
SpaceX engineers have been working full-throttle to resolve the thruster issue, which followed a picture-perfect launch atop the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk and NASA officials said they are confident Musk's engineers will resolve the problem quickly and could have Dragon on track for a rendezvous Sunday.
Engineers at SpaceX mission control in southern California saw the first signs of trouble shortly after Dragon reached orbit.
"It was a little frightening there," Musk told reporters in a post-flight press conference. "We noticed after separation that only one of the four thruster quads was ready to engage. We saw that the oxidizer pressure in three of the four tanks was low."
Dragon has four thruster quads, used to maneuver the spacecraft in orbit. They are essential to the docking procedure and three of them are required by NASA to be working flawlessly in order to make the final approach to the International Space Station. Two of the "quads" are comprised of four small Draco thrusters while the other two actually have five thrusters apiece. The Dracos are initially used to adjust Dragon's orbit to begin its rendezvous with the station. Once Dragon has used them to achieve general proximity with the ISS, they are used to make the small adjustments needed for docking.
An initial investigation by SpaceX points to a possible blockage in a line that leads from a helium tank to an oxidizer tank that provides the oxygen needed for combustion. Inert helium is used to pressurize the four oxidizer tanks. There are four corresponding hydrazine fuel tanks for the thrusters as well.
Musk called the problem, "a glitch of some kind, and not a serious thing." He says the best guess is a piece of "frozen oxidizer" got stuck in the line. The oxidizer is nitrogen tetroxide, and Musk says he believes it eventually warmed up enough that the liquid could resume flowing.
"We've been able to free that up by cycling the valves," he said, referring to the control valves between the helium and oxidizer tanks.
As the day wore on, Musk said the four oxidizer tanks and the thruster quads were operating nominally. A successful co-elliptical burn happened late in the afternoon to raise Dragon from an altitude of 200 kilometers to something between 250 and 300 kilometers. This procedure was essential, Musk said, because Dragon's orbit would have decayed within days at the lower altitude, forcing an unwanted re-entry.
With only one of the thruster quads ready to go shortly after launch, there was a delay in deploying Dragon's power-generating solar arrays because engineers want two functioning thrusters so they can maneuver the capsule prior to the deployment. Engineers later decided to proceed with deployment with a single thruster after temperatures continued dropping on the array's actuators. Deploying the arrays provides Dragon with power beyond the on-board batteries.
Because SpaceX missed the initial burn required to begin the rendezvous with the space station, Dragon will miss Saturday morning's planned docking with the ISS. Once engineers have confirmed all four thruster quads are working properly, they'll begin the planned burns and maneuvers needed to approach the station. NASA officials said those maneuvers will allow them to see if the thrusters are working properly and provide the confidence needed to proceed with docking.
In order to operate inside of a safe ellipsoid around the ISS, Dragon must have at least three working thruster quads. Once inside the ellipsoid, there are several contingency plans that allow for aborting the approach. The final safety zone around the station is known by the acronym KOS – the Keep Out Sphere, an area 200 meters around the space station. The final decision to enter KOS will be made only if everything is functioning properly.
NASA officials said the next likely chance for docking will be Sunday and there are several windows of opportunity during the next week, but both NASA and SpaceX said they must wait until they know Dragon is working as planned. There is no rush, everyone said, and Musk said that, in a worst-case scenario, SpaceX "would keep [Dragon] up there for at least a month" to troubleshoot the problem. The only blackout days are on and around March 15, when three of the six astronauts aboard the station are slated to come home aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.
This isn't the first time SpaceX has had problems during flight. During the demonstration flight to the space station in May, a stuck nitrogen purge valve led to an automatic engine shutdown that aborted the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket.


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This is going to be one of my mish-mash posts I'm afraid! It'll have a little bit of homeschooling and remodeling. I thought that you, our dear readers, deserve an explanation for why we haven't been posting too many pictures of our food or garden harvests or homeschooling or homesteading!
We have been spending most of the summer prepping for remodeling our garage into a master bedroom suite. And not prepping as in preparing for us to do it ourselves! Well, we will be doing part of it ourselves, but the major construction part we are hiring out to a company that has greatly impressed us so far. Before we could even agree to the remodeling agreement though, we had to come up with money for it! That was an adventure in itself. Josh ended up having to remodel the entire bathtub area in our single full bathroom in about two weeks. We took a lot of pictures of that (Josh put an album up of that experience on Facebook) but haven't been able to post about it yet.
I am also preparing to homeschool four of my kids this coming year. I am hoping to start the day after Labor Day. My youngest boy starts kindergarten. My oldest boy will be in 7th grade! I will be using all videos with them again this year, but we are hoping to move to perhaps only half videos next school year. Homeschooling four kids takes up a lot of space. I think I might need more than two homeschool-dedicated bookcases! I've also learned this year that the 3-ring binder is definitely a homeschooling mom's best friend. I don't seem to have enough of them!
I also have two more posts partially drafted about Comic-Con and the San Diego County Fair. They are both old news now, but since both happen every year, they might still be helpful for next year's events!
So our major remodeling project begins October 3rd hopefully. We will definitely be posting about that experience here. I am not quite sure how the remodeling and homeschooling will work together. I have a feeling that most of our homeschooling will be happening at Grandma's and Lola's houses. The major work should be done by January, but since Josh and I are taking care of installing most of the finishes (flooring, bathroom fixtures and vanity, painting), we probably won't really be done until the end of February.
I do know that it is a given that the next 6 months will be very busy, so there may be a lot of these little mish-mash posts for a little while.
If any of you have hints for living through a major remodel (fortunately, it won't really affect our kitchen or current single bathroom. Mostly we will be dealing with just noise, dust, and our driveway being full of materials), we will gladly take them to heart! Thank you so much to all of you who take the time to read our blog! We appreciate all of you!
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Meg, our Guyana VSO friend, sent me a Rover's shirt with an extra special bit on the back which you can see in the photo. I'm very proud of it.
Now, I know that in 1960 Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers played in the FA Cup Final. It took place on 7th May 1960 at Wembley Stadium in
. It's etched on my mind because by Dad made my sister Irene and I record ourselves singing, at the age of 9 and 7, on his reel to reel, state of the art, Elizabethan BandBox tape recorder. We were to sing his own version of "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" adapted for the occasion to "We're not afraid of the big, bad Wolves." London
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But just to let the world know that Blackburn do not hold a grudge about what happened in 1960, Rovers allowed Hunt his late strike to secure their position of 17th in the table (one above relegation) with Blackburn finishing 15th. How kind is that David?
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A Matter of Labels
Delphie What do you do when you have five minutes free while working on a Sunday ? Go to the bookshop at the train station and check out what new magazines they have in store. And as far as we remember, only French Elle and a couple more french glossies with no guarantee to find a nice one. Though, this week's Elle was pretty interesting (visually, as we haven't read one word yet). Most interesting part was probably their "new faces" topic, called "future top models". A bit awkward, of course, but always raising some interesting... [Lire la suite]
Less Talk, More Marilyn
Liu Wen @ Marilyn (NY) Even if we were about to put it in the love and bookmark section, it's not so much about agency's communication and strategies this time. Of course, we have to pay attention and tribute again to these short polaroid-updates on Marilyn NY's blog just using one picture which quickly turns as a statement when you read the page. But what makes us love and bookmark again the page, is the recent moves in Liu Wen's career and how we relate to this evolution. We started working with d'management in Milan quite long... [Lire la suite]
Paris Part One!
Gracie Carvalho @ Marilyn (Paris), Lovani Pinnow @ IMG (Paris) Brazilian beauties at Kris Van Assche FW 09-10. We've got to run again, see you tonight. Check out our complete review while waiting...
TMSRRE part 2: Gracie
Gracie Carvalho @ Marilyn (NY) We've already featured her. Was not so long ago, brazilian shows were just starting. Things have moved fast forward for Gracie, she's in NY. She's in town. With a book now filled with new tests right in time for the shows, we'd just say she's perfectly ready. And we're obviously not the only ones to think so as her first steps on f/w 09-10 runways were at BCBG Max Azria, perfectly fitting the casting which include some more favorites like Imogen Morris-Clarke, Katie Fogarty, Anabela Belikova,... [Lire la suite]
Timeless beauty just in time
Gracie @ Marilyn (NY) She's Gracie and she's graceful. She's Brazilian and she's in Brazil. Right now but you'll hear and see more of her soon. Sounds all so easy to tell and that's no wonder: she's so inspiring while words seems made to talk about her beauty. Already a regular cover-girl for L'Officiel Brazil and graced the pages of Vogue from the same country. Currently walking in Rio (with Way Models) - we've spotted her at a few great shows like Coven even if time was missing to review them all, good thing to put on our to-do... [Lire la suite]