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Walt Cassidy is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His explorative and allegorical work incorporates photography, drawing, sculpture, painting and jewelry. He utilizes a wide range of materials, imbued with the talismanic, emphasizing elemental principles through narrative abstraction, aestheticism and conceptualism.
His work has been exhibited at Mass MOCA; Paul Kasmin Gallery; Deitch Projects; 303 Gallery; Torrance Art Museum; Watermill Center; Vox Populi; Natalie Kates Projects; Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Invisible Exports.He has collaborated with the Brazilian brand Melissa, produced editions with The Long Life China Company, and designed the jewelry for Derek Lam's Spring/Summer 2016 Collection. The jewelry works have been featured at The Limited Edition Miami Beach, Laloon and The Feathered Mexico City. Publications include Vogue, Elle, Artforum, The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal Magazine, In Style, The New York Times, Style.com, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Harpers Bazaar.
Instagram @waltcassidy
You started out being called Waltpaper and now you are a multimedia artist. Tell us a little bit about your journey.
I moved to NYC when I was 19 years old as a young painter and illustrator, and after a short time found myself living at the Chelsea Hotel. I had a very extreme look at the time, and began working in the nightclub scene of the early 1990's, which was thriving. These 'mega-clubs' were reigned over by a group of young mischievous creatives, who quickly became my peers, The Club Kids.
The name Waltpaper came about as a reference to the drawings that I was doing at that time, which reflected my explorations of gender, street culture, fashion and nightlife. The Club Kids were hyper aware of 'personal branding', as were street artists. The first step of that process was creating a name for yourself, or a tag, that gave some insight into your identity and character, and had a good hook to it. During those years, in addition to my painting and drawing, I treated my body and identity as an artistic medium.
In the early 2000's, I moved to London and began traveling extensively around Europe. I picked up photography as a portable medium because it could be produced anywhere, and didn't weigh me down with a heavy physical archive, aside from a box of film negatives and work prints.
I began doing a series of still life photographs, which eventually led me to sculpture based work. I wanted to create the physical content in the photographs, without using the found objects that I had prior, so began to create disposable sculptures that I would shoot on film and then destroy.
When I settled back in NYC, I began to make sculptures that would exist as works on their own. I found myself using a lot of jewelry making tools and techniques, and that began my journey towards jewelry making.
What is your creative process when completing a project? And how has it changed over time?
I treat my work as a journey, and explore territory that is unfamiliar to me, whether is be through materials that I have never used before, undeveloped skills or emotional terrain that has yet to be cultivated. I love the thrill of going into the dark, uncovering something, and dragging it into the light. This metaphoric process fuels the allegorical aspects in my work, and also reflects my interest in illumination.
The primary objective of my process is to give my objects a soul and a narrative, so they feel occupied. I am not at all interested in vacancy or sterilization. I want the residue of life to be present in the things that I make.
Over time, what I have realized is that even before I knew I had a "process", I was already living that process intuitively. For instance, I was never conscious that I had a strong interest in jewelry, but now I look back at early club kid pictures of myself, and I see that I was exploring jewelry from the very beginning. What has changed, is that I have developed more confidence, comfort and awareness about what I do as an artist.
What has been an epoch-making experience in your career?
There have been many along my path. Within the past couple years, the most axial shift came when I was embraced and featured in Vogue, and met Mark Holgate, who has been a wonderful friend and advisor ever since. His dedication to authenticity and integrity within the industry is truly inspiring.
I have heard some artists say that he/she is influenced by nature, others say human emotion or the human condition. What is the source of your influence?
Artistically, I see myself as a diarist. My work is highly autobiographic, chronological and linear. One piece leads to and informs the next. I like the idea of ordering emotion chaos, in an effort to find balance and centeredness. I use narrative abstraction to code and create ambiguity around the biographical details in the work. Their essence becomes ambient, but the sense of order, and subsequent resolution of the journey remain on the surface.
My life is my greatest influence. I've said before that an artist's life is their actual artwork, and the things that they create are residue of that one master work. So for me, the most important creative focus is just living my life, and experiencing as much as I can. When I leave this present life, and head towards my next one, I don't want to be carrying over any karmic baggage.
Name three artists you have been inspired by and hope to be compared to?
Agnes Martin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Alice Neel.
What's integral to your work?
Emotional honesty, vulnerability, order, occupancy and triumph.
You were spotlighted in an article for Vogue's 2015 issue where it talked about your use of pairing varied materials to create your custom made sculptures that make people say, "I just want to put it on!" How do you know what works and doesn't work? What is your underlying focus for your use in these varied materials?
There is a balancing of tension that is achieved when a work is successful to me. The juxtaposition of materials, references, and objectives is what informs this tension within a work. Balance allows the piece to exist in a space of presence, much like hitting a musical note in tune, it resonates. The power of objects stems from how they are occupied on an energy level. I am responsible, as an artist, for building that occupancy, and also making sure that it is in tune within the object.
For me, there is an intuitive point when the object becomes "full". You might compare it to a flower blossoming or an animal bursting forth from it's skin or a shell. The fullness initiates that launch forward into the next stage of evolution and awareness. It's that moment of chrysalis and transformation that I refer to in my work as "the blossoming cage".
Do you have specific themes you pursue in your art?
I am in constant pursuit of authenticity and evolution. The ideas of illumination, endurance, paradox, and allegory run concurrently through my work.
Some of your pieces have been featured on the runway and in fashion magazines. Is that an industry you would like to break out into?
Coming from a contemporary art background, which at times, has felt very claustrophobic, I am enjoying the freedom that seems to be coming with the exploration of design. Design is allowing me to color outside of the lines a bit more, to have fun and connect to a different network of people, which I find invigorating.
Your collaboration with Derek Lam was spotlighted in a recent issue of Elle magazine. How did the collaboration come about?
Derek Lam discovered my work through the feature that was done on me in Vogue. He seemed very drawn to the colors and materials that I was exploring, and the urban undercurrents of my work. There is a renegade quality to what I do as an artist, that created a nice contrast to the precision and temperament of his work. We were somewhat an unlikely pairing, but I was very pleased with how the collection turned out and had a great time working with his team. I grew a tremendous amount, as a result.
The article talked about how you designed the collection using twos vs odd numbers making it unconventional. How did you come to design your work in the collaboration in such a way?
Derek had initially mentioned a reference to Spanish culture that he wanted to address in the collection. In my research of that culture, what first caught my eye was the presence of blood, whether it be through bull fighting or crucifixion imagery.
I asked myself, "How can i connect to the blood lines in the body?" I came up with the idea of trying to place stones on top of the jugular veins on both sides of the neck. That immediately created this formal obstacle of using only two stones, which excited me. From there I began to investigate the meanings of the number two within the context of Numerology, the Tarot and Chinese Medicine, and from there the energy and references began to align. With necklaces it's much less effort to create balance by using odd numbers. The sizing is much more flexible, and odd numbers easily find their rightful place in a structure that has a front vs. back construction. By using two stones, it requires much more precision in terms of tailoring and draping.
Commercially, I think most jewelry designers lean toward solutions that work for a broad range of sizes and body types. For me, jewelry is so intimate, much like a tattoo. The more I necessitate customization and tailoring for one particular individual, the stronger the piece becomes. It is this type of thinking that perhaps makes me more of an artist, than a designer. I factor in a certain amount of self-sabotage in my creative process. For me, that is what gives an object fire. There has to be a sacrificial element.
You often use varied materials in your work. What materials did you use in the your collection for Lam?
I used bull horn, pink coral, glass, pyrite, black onyx, ambronite, sodalite, vinyl and brass.
What inspired your use those particular materials?
My launching point was primarily Derek's color palette for the collection. I began collecting materials that would compliment his selection of ginger, lemongrass, cobalt, indigo, black and white. I also considered his Spanish reference. In addition to the bulls and the blood, I was looking at tapestries of the Spanish Monarchy, the works of Miro and the sea themed paintings of Picasso.
What does "body beautiful" mean to you?
Presence, Alignment, Acceptance, Strength, Discipline, Diversity and Grace.
What has been your scariest moment in your career? And how did you move past it to where you are now?
As an artist, I am constantly diving into this great sea, and swimming and swimming and swimming. Occasionally there are moments where I find myself much further out than I realize. I stop and look around, and there is no one near me. There is no safety net and no hope of rescue. It's easy to panic, but I have learned to rest, catch my breath, and find my way back to shore.
My father, who passed away many years ago from cancer, comes to me as a spirit guide in my daily meditations. When he first presented himself, I was walking through a vast empty green field. I walked up to his spirit, and he was putting these sticks into the ground in rows, as they do in orchards for young trees to grow up.
He said to me, "I have laid everything out for you already, just follow the lines. Your creativity is your gift and it will get you over every obstacle you come across in life." I carry this with me as a mantra, and it helps me navigate any difficulties that arise.
What do you wish you knew when you started that you want other artists to be aware of?
I wish I had known about the power of daily meditation.


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Hyrum and I have had something of a vendetta against Cascade Mountain for a while. He tried it in early June and didn't summit. I tried it with him the next week and we didn't summit. We were going to attempt it in August but couldn't find the trail, so we didn't summit. We tried it again on Labor Day—and this time we summitted!
Cascade is one of the less-known mountains in Utah's Wasatch range. It sits just south of Mt. Timpanogos across Provo Canyon. The trek to the 10,908-ft. summit is a long one, but it provides great views of Utah Valley, the Wasatch range, and Heber Valley. Our round-trip stats were:
- Between 14 and 16 miles
- About 4000 ft. of elevation gain
- 12.5 hours
The hike can be broken into three general sections: walking up the valley to the base of the mountain, hiking up the side of the mountain to the ridge, and traversing the ridge west and then north to the summit.
We hit the trail at 7:30 a.m. and enjoyed a beautiful dawn over Utah Valley. We followed our previous route to the base of the mountain, but the scenery was a little different this time: the avalanche that we walked over before had melted to reveal a green mountain valley.
We decided to follow the trail this time instead of walking straight up the terraced mountain, which turned out to be an excellent decision. The trail was fairly well maintained and easy to follow until we reached the ridge, at which point things became decidedly less clear. I was glad to have Hyrum with me, since he seems to have a certain knack for finding invisible trails.
The traverse was slow going because of the poor (or non-existent) trail quality. In fact, I'm still not sure if there even is a trail on the ridge. We'd find little pieces of what might be a trail for a few hundred feet, then lose it and route find for a while. The route finding pointedly reminded me how tired my feet were the first time we tried Cascade. Walking for miles on a 30 degree slope doesn't do great things for my feet.
On the bright side, though, the snow we saw in June had melted to make the north side of the ridge passable. We crossed back and forth for a while until we came to some sheer cliffs. At the cliffs we knocked a rock loose and could hear it tumbling down for well over 30 seconds. Deciding that we didn't want to share the same fate, we crossed back to the south side and followed it the rest of the way.
The ridge heads west and then curves to the north. We broke for lunch a little while after we rounded the corner. After a nice break (and some good grub) we headed toward the summit, enjoying some great panoramas of Utah Valley. It was again slow going, but at least we were getting closer.
At 2:00 we reached summitted! Months after our initial attempt and 6.5 hours after we began that morning, we achieved our goal. We spent a full hour up there resting, enjoying the views, taking pictures, and procrastinating the long trip down.
At 3:00 we hit the trail again. We bushwhacked most of the way down; in the process I amassed a vast collection of burs, needles, thorns, pebbles, and dirt in my boots. I think I emptied them four or five times. My socks still haven't recovered.
We enjoyed some beautiful sunset silhouettes and saw three deer during our descent, arriving back at car by 8:00. The trip was well worth it, but I think that after doing Whitney, Lone Peak, and Cascade in succession, my next trip is going to be a nice, easy one!

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Thursday, 16 October 2008
The Story of Syawal. 'Bitten By A Puppy'
2nd day of Syawal . I was at home with my family. Nothing to do. My neighbours were still away at their 'kampung'. And of course, no visitors too! I was stuck at home, eating and watching TV. Finally, my husband asked me to tag along with him . When I asked him where to, he didn't say a word. I followed him as I was curious where he's taking me actually!
Ooo..... he's taking me to Jaya Jusco. Shopping? I don't know! I just followed him. He stopped at a shop to look for something . While waiting for him , I looked around too. Trying to find something that interests me which I would grab if it's cheap and affordable! Then.... I just realised there was a puppy near me! Oh my God, the puppy is about to bite me! Help ! Help! Don't let me being bitten by a puppy !
But it was too late! I was already bitten by the puppy! And I had to pay to the owner of the puppy eventhough it was not my fault! It was the puppy's fault! This is the picture of the puppy that bit me at Jaya Jusco!
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sah dapat duit jalan2 umah org pas tu beli kasut raya.Kasut kepala anjing la ni mahal ooo
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I have soured on Beto.
And I will be voting for the Madman from Calgary.
Is it because I see the writing on the wall for Beto?
Despite polling, I still think Beto has a good shot here.
So what gives?
We have seen this campaign before.
I voted for hope and change twice, and well, we didn't get much of either.
I always imagined Beto being a kind of Lloyd Bentsen-esque larger-than-life figure, and not some social climber or empty vessel.
After the primary I thought he would have quit this Pollyanna bullshit and shift gears, but no....it is still all Whataburger and Willie. Both of which are things a lot of people pretend to like.
And yeah, it hurts to know I am voting for the Alberta Dork after having given money to the Bike Messenger.
But hey as they say, "La plata viene y va".
And don't kid yourselves about Beto about not wanting to run for POTUS should he win the Senate seat.
You know how it will play out..."I talked to Ulysses and he said, 'Dad, but America needs you'...and I was like, 'You're right, like fuck yea, America needs THIS."
And it will be more INSERT FAST FOOD JOINT and MUSICAL ARTIST.


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A simple yet beautiful chrome candelabra. It can be used individually or be interlinked with more than one in a line.
Loop candelabra is inspired by the Fibonacci curve that is seen throughout nature and looks correct and balanced to the human eye. Loop is an ever changing radius made from steel. It is the ever changing radius that makes the design so appealing. The shape cannot be understood at a glance and looks unique from different angles.
• Holds standard 22-24mm candles
• Chromed steel
• Individually boxed
• H 28cm W 20cm D 13cm / H 11"" W 7.8"" D 5""
• H 11.5cm W 3.2cm D 19.5cm / H 4.5"" W 1.3"" D 7.7""
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More details of the trouble in Nollywood Actress, Mercy Aigbe's home have emerged.
NET reports that sources close to the family have revealed that the marriage of Mercy, 38, and her 50-year-old husband, Lanre Gentry, was destined to crash. Both parties [Mercy and Husband, Lanre Gentry] constantly cheat on each other.
A source close to the family who spoke anonymously said, 'The marriage was destined to break',
'Mercy Aigbe has been promiscuous all through the marriage and this has caused a strain between them since the beginning.
'Some of us have always known that this would happen someday. A married woman cannot be sleeping about like that. A lot of people thought that after she remarried, she would have calmed down.'
'Where do you think she gets all her money from, movies? How much do Nigerian actresses make for their movie roles? If you compare it with their luxurious lifestyle, you'll see that it doesn't add up.'
'Let me give you an example: for someone who likes to travel as much as she does, each trip she takes outside the country takes nothing less than N3million. Take a look at her Instagram posts. She always flies business class. The cheapest amount you can get a business class ticket to Dubai is N900,000. Don't you see the pictures she posts online? Mr Gentry simply does not have the funds to foot that bill multiple times a year.'
The source went on to say that notable politicians pay Mercy Aigbe for sexual adventures.
'These are the people that help Mercy maintain the facade of being an A-lister'.
On Gentry, the source said, he has also been a philanderer whose life of indiscretion was well known to his wife. He has a penchant for young girls and his Oregun hotel, Laveronique was a rendezvous of sorts for his flirtations.
'The man has a hotel where Lagos-based actors and actresses use to shoot their movies, but the business was mismanaged and nobody goes there anymore.
'As of now, he doesn't have any business going on for him. How many wide-mouthed actresses can live with that type of hopelessness? The situation has gotten so bad that now Mercy can openly cavort with the politicians that have been on her case since. I'm sure that in no time, her shop in Omole will be shifted to Lekki as she has always dreamed of,''the source said.
What put a final nail in the coffin to the marriage was her husband's flirtation and affair with Opemititi, a very close associate to Mercy.


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The smart pad market seems to be moving so incredibly fast over the past few weeks and big manufactures have announced some pretty interesting products to compete against Apple and their iPad.
Targeted more directly at the SME and Business market, Blackberry have announced their new 'PlayBook' which can be the answer to some businesses prayers – in terms of reliability and performance.
What makes the PlayBook different to the rest?
'Well, each run a different OS.
- Blackberry with Blackberry OS QNX
- iPad with iOS
- HP with either webOS or Windows 7
Each will have their own division of the market, for example we would expect that the PlayBook will target business users with the facility of BIS and BES, whilst the iPad is more of an entertainment device, and the HP Slate purely for developers as far as we know right now.'
What it has against competitors?
Blackberry have one over on Apple straight away as not only does it support multi-tasking but it supports multi-processing.
In terms of whats inside the slate, it packs a dual-core 1GHz processor, a luctrative 7″ LCD display with full multi-touch and gesture support and a 1024X600 resolution.
To compliment the rest of the hardware the PlayBook has, Blackberry have managed to cram:
- 1GB of RAM
- HDMI-Out
- Micro-HDMI
- Micro-USB
- Wi-Fi which can connect to a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth
- dual HD camera on the device capable of a 1080p recording quality
- a rear 5MP camera complimented by a 3Mp front facing camera – possible FaceTime facility?
No only does the smart tab have all of the hardware, the software just works! Compatibility with HTML5, Adobe Mobile Air, Java, OpenHL and Flash10.1 for probably one of the best web browsing experiences.
Summing it up
In terms of spec – it is pretty fantastic and lets hope Blackberry can deliver with this! In all honesty though, for Blackberry to compete against all of the other tablets on the market and knock off ones, they will have to produce something grossly over powered and looks pretty good at the same time – but isn't all Blackberry devices like this?
Rumor has it that Blackberry are developing this with 3G/4G connectivity which is all well in USA, but the UK? (read more)
Well first the release of the Blackberry Torch with OS6 and now this – what do you think of the idea of a PlayBook? Do you welcome more competition for Apple or do you just think that the PlayBook could be an overpriced luxury toy?
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The Red Cross Council is also the strategic body of the SRC Humanitarian Foundation. In this capacity, its responsibilities include:
- electing the Foundation Council
- issuing the Foundation's regulations and approving the award guidelines
- establishing binding medium-term priorities derived from the SRC Strategy
- establishing the amount of the fixed contribution to the Red Cross Council for the medium term. The fixed contribution to the Red Cross Council may not exceed 30% of the Foundation's gross revenue
- approving the annual accounts, the annual report and the budget
- Annemarie Huber-Hotz, President
- Toni Frisch, Vice-President
- Marc Geissbühler, Vice-President
- Daniel Biedermann
- Danielle Breitenbücher
- Ivo Cathomen
- Annalise Eggimann
- Ursula Forrer
- Guy Mettan
- Barbara Schmid-Federer
- Dieter Widmer
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Unofficial fan application for Bike_S system. Bike_S is a self-serviced bike rental system in Szczecin, Poland. You can get this application for Android smartphones for free from Google Play.
The green color on the map indicates a large amount of free bicycles at the station, and red means no bikes. Number on the map indicates the number of available bikes at the station. The application automatically refreshes the information on the quantity of bicycles. App lets you to call for service or send an e-mail with one click from menu. A set of most important system information is available off-line.
The application is not part of the Bike_S. This is an unofficial product. Detailed information about Bike_S can be found on the official website of the system: http://www.bikes-srm.pl


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World Mental Health Day
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A new theory regarding the trend between IVF and twin births has been published by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology…Read More
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In recent times, the NHS has been facing a little fall in the number of nurses who were working in…Read More
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Everything you didn't know about Vitamin C Let's talk about Vitamin C. What is there to know about this clever…Read More
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It looks as though hundreds of thousands of health-care professionals in the NHS are in line for a pay rise…Read More
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For the second year in a row, the number of applications to train as a nurse in England has fallen.…Read More
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The importance of the NHS has been in a new poll which indicates that most people in the country would…Read More
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Most people are aware that the NHS needs a helping hand when it come to caring for patients. In an…Read More
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Recent figures provided by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) indicates that there is more to be concerned about…Read More
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I work as an Analyst of European Affairs in Elcano Royal Institute, and as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science in Carlos III University of Madrid. My main research areas include: European integration, Euroscepticism, political parties and elections in Western Europe, Turkish politics and Turkey-EU relations. I am teaching various courses including "Actors and Political Behaviour", "Comparative Politics" and "Geopolitics of Europe". In addition to my academic research, I write articles for various European think tanks, newspapers and periodicals. I am native in Turkish and also speak fluent English and Spanish.
I hold a BA in Economics from Hacettepe University, Ankara and an MA in Economics from Sabancı University, Istanbul. After completing my studies in Economics I worked for more than two years in the Economic Development Foundation (IKV), a think tank focusing on the European Union and Turkey-EU relations. Prior to my enrolment in the PhD program, I obtained an MA in Political Science from the "Democracy and Government" program of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). In 2016, I completed my PhD degree in Political Science in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the UAM. During my PhD studies, I have been a Visiting Researcher in the European University Institute (EUI), Italy and University of Mannheim, Germany. Right before completing my PhD, I was granted the prestigious "Mercator-IPC Fellowship" in Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University.
PhD in Political Science
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
MA in Democracy and Government
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
MA in Economics
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey
BS in Economics
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Visiting Scholar
Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Visiting Scholar
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Erasmus Student Exchange
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Adjunct Profesor
Real Instituto Elcano - Madrid, Spain
Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University - Istanbul, Turkey
Mercator - IPC Fellow
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Political Science and International Relations - Madrid, Spain
Economic Development Foundation (İKV) - Istanbul, Turkey
Economic Development Foundation (İKV) - Brussels, Belgium
EU Expert
Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Istanbul, Turkey
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Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Foreign Relations Department - Ankara, Turkey
Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Foreign Trade, International Economic Relations - Ankara, Turkey


text: Ben Tre is located in what is known as the Mekong Delta, a lush sprawling agricultural area interwoven by rivers and tributaries. Located throughout this region you will find small villages surrounded by farms and workshops of all natures. For instance, on the day tour I took, we visited several coconut, honey, and fruit farms, along with a coconut candy workshop. Shrimp farming is also extremely popular in the region. As far as entertainment goes, cockfighting is extremely popular here, as it is in many rural areas in SE Asia and you will find that a large number of people keep roosters on their property in small cages. If you manage to visit this area try to take a small paddled boat ride through the regions palm-lined canals as it is a very enjoyable experience. Additionally, if you haven't had a chance to see them up until now you will be able to see plenty of water buffalo on the farm properties here. Ben Tre definitely makes for a nice way to get out of Ho Chi Minh hustle and bustle for a day.


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Guidance for government RFP writers on requesting budgets can be found in section 4.8.4 of Preparing RFPs: A Ministry Guide to the Request for Proposals (RFP) Process.


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TLC is back in the news and this time for its special show My Husband's Not Gay in which four men will openly discuss their feelings for other men.
The show will throw light on the life of three married men and one bachelor who will discuss their same sex attraction while also being in a relationship with a woman.
In the 90-second promo released by TLC, one man who is single, talks openly about himself as gay but still wants to marry a woman. While another says "I'm attracted to my wife, for sure, and I'm definitely attracted to men, too."
"There's no marriage that's perfect. But with our faith in God we believe we can overcome anything," adds another.
One cast member went on to say "I want to marry a woman but I don't know how to work out these feelings."
However, the men do not refer to themselves as gay or homosexual and keep on mentioning that they have 'same-sex attraction.'
The show synopsis of TLC's controversial show reads: Four men living in Salt Lake City, Utah, who don't identify themselves as homosexual despite having an attraction to men.
In the trailer, the married men can be seen discussing their sexuality 'issues' which they can overcome through faith in God.
The promo of the much anticipated TLC show has attracted a lot of criticism for being anti gay.
Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon said, "bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network TLC is serving up a reality special in January.
In the promo for the show, the 'Not,' of course, is cheekily dropped in between 'Husband' and 'Gay' as a winking afterthought."
Think Progress says the "whole enterprise made you feel uncomfortable and vaguely sad."
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Customer: "Excuse me, I asked for no meat. This has meat on it."
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Customer: "Well, I said no meat! Take the hot dog out!"
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What does this website do?
This website compiles information on the careers of Hong Kong women filmmakers from the 1997 handover to the present. It aims to document the contribution women filmmakers have made to Hong Kong film culture during this time and situate their work against the backdrop of recent Hong Kong history and politics. The post-1997 era has been an enormously productive period for women media artists working in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and they shine as major figures in local, regional, and global motion picture culture. Taking the change in sovereignty as a starting point, this website compiles information on key films by established and emerging women directors, producers, and scriptwriters in order to explore the role played by these women in highlighting specific issues involving gender, sexuality, politics, and aesthetics.
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This website lists the biographies and related information of the filmmakers alphabetically by surname. Each filmmaker's critical biography contains a brief description of her work and career development within the Hong Kong film scene. An in-depth filmography and external links to reviews and interviews are included where possible. A bibliography of references and further academic reading pertaining to the filmmaker is located at the bottom of each biography.
Subject and Style in the Work by Hong Kong Women Filmmakers
A perusal of titles by women directors since 1997 shows that they tend to be attracted to specific subjects and aesthetic forms; notably, women's roles in the Chinese family, working women, women's position in public life and politics, domestic violence, female sex workers, consumerism, women's sexuality, lesbianism, romance and female desire. The filmmakers have been very sensitive to women outside of Hong Kong, and many have chosen to look at women in the People's Republic of China (PRC), or within the Chinese diaspora as well. In addition, they have been quite adventurous in their use of film form – adopting and transforming observational/direct cinema techniques, counter-cinema, and complex "puzzle" narratives. Taking up perspectives often marginalized within the industry, it seems that Hong Kong women filmmakers have been inclined to explore aspects of film language that would go beyond the "male gaze."
Aims of this Website
The aim of this website involves directing research in the field of Hong Kong cinema toward greater appreciation of the role women filmmakers have historically played in the colony, as well as the impact they have had on the cinema of the HKSAR. This project does this by looking at the recent contributions Hong Kong women have made to the development of film culture in the territory. It covers work by noted Hong Kong women filmmakers, including Ann Hui, Mabel Cheung, Clara Law, Tammy Cheung, Carol Lai, Barbara Wong, Yau Ching, Mak Yan Yan, Ivy Ho, Tsang Tsui Shan, Louisa Wei, Angie Chen, Heiward Mak, and Emily Tang, among others.
By looking at recent work by established as well as emerging directors, the hope is to promote widespread interest in how Hong Kong women filmmakers contribute to local cinema as well as global film culture. As women filmmakers turn their cameras to issues involving women's changing role in the family, the marketplace, the labor force, and the Chinese diaspora, this study turns with them to highlight issues that are of particular concern to women inside and outside of Hong Kong. Women filmmakers are sensitive to questions of gender, and have displayed a particularly acute understanding of the shifting nature of identity as Hong Kong has changed sovereignty, as the global economy has transformed class alignments and labor roles, and as culture has become more global – multi-ethnic, multi-national, and multi-lingual. They are cognizant of working in an environment characterized by temporal dislocations – "post" modern, "post" Fordist, "post" feminist, "post" Handover, "post" colonial – and they approach their subject matter with that in mind. While some filmmakers may be exhausted by working in the aftermath of all these supposedly "terminal" moments, Hong Kong women rise from the ashes with insistent visions, novel techniques, and enormous creative energy. They have been leaders in the innovative use of the medium to explore subjectivity, memory, narrative form, character psychology, and domestic space, and this website highlights connections between the personal, the political, and the aesthetic in fresh ways.
Hong Kong Women's Perspectives
This website opens up critical floodgates so that a new wave of scholarship on women in Hong Kong film can flow more freely within film criticism dominated by attention to male directors and, often, male-defined perspectives. It takes the gender (female) and location (Hong Kong) of its filmmakers as a starting point without making claims for any essential gender, ethnic, or national identity that can be teased out of any specific film. Rather, the lived, gendered, embodied experiences of these filmmakers appear to be linked to what can be perceived on screen. While male filmmakers also deal with women's lives, this specific body of films by women directors highlights Hong Kong women in ways that other screen representations neglect. These films take up issues common in Hong Kong film culture – including domestic violence, prostitution, and romantic coupling. However, they do so from a different angle, with attention to considerations downplayed by other filmmakers.
There has been considerable debate in literary and cultural studies about female authorship, gendered vision, and feminine writing, and it remains moot whether there is any distinguishing characteristic of women's art. However, a case can still be made for grouping the work of women filmmakers together for analysis. Women operate as a visible minority within the industry. They tend to be more self-conscious about their choice of subject matter and approach because they have been marginalized – and may be seen by some as the representative or "token" voice of women in film circles. Like women who have emerged in traditionally male-dominated professions in the past, they serve as more than just another pair of hands in the production of a film. They gravitate toward or are hired to deal with particular themes, characters, or plotlines. Filmmakers work with material they know, and women directors intimately "know" the challenges women face in public and private life. Hong Kong women directors, not surprisingly, have made an enormous contribution to the aspect of film culture that deals with gender, sexuality, the family, and questions of changing identities. Auteur theory claims that films can (or, should) be interpreted as extensions of their creators, and Hong Kong women filmmakers do, indeed, seem to put their lives, concerns, and vision on the screen.
Film, Gender and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Hong Kong
The biographies on this website place these women's films in the context of their earlier work, Hong Kong film history, as well as within the context of scholarship on women filmmakers worldwide. Despite the sustained critique of "identity" politics and poststructuralist suspicions of essentialism, what Gayatri Spivak has called "strategic essentialisms" continue to be important to women – particularly postcolonial women – in their encounters with institutions (like the film industry) that have traditionally excluded them. This website operates in that spirit by highlighting these women's strategic evocation of women's issues as a way of expanding film art and culture beyond the male domain. The works by Hong Kong women filmmakers examined here do not seem to be in search of any "essential" identity but they do take up women's lives, desires, and perspectives in significant ways. Men move to the margins and women take up the camera, center stage, looming large in the frame.
Gender, of course, is less an "essence" and more of a position (within a social structure) and a process of "becoming" (as Simone de Beauvoir points out) in existential terms. As women filmmakers position themselves within Hong Kong in a process of transformation from colony to SAR, their contribution to a film culture situated between the local and the global becomes more salient. Hong Kong women filmmakers are "made," not "born" in relation to what it means to be "female" in the hybrid, mutable, post-colonial space of Hong Kong. As feminism shapes current discourses involving gender difference and sexuality, women filmmakers position themselves as political agents involved in the ideological work of transforming screen depictions of women. Hong Kong women filmmakers engage with these issues within a specific location – a British former colony, a PRC possession, a semi-autonomous SAR, an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally Chinese city with a cosmopolitan flair, but also a multicultural meeting place of various races, ethnicities, and regional forms of Chinese identities and dialect groups, the quintessential "world city" where China "meets the West." This is also the place where Chinese/Confucian attitudes toward women, the family and sexuality rub up against not only Euro-American Christianity but the legacy of Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism brought in through ties to the British Empire and its colonies in South and Southeast Asia. Gender places these film artists on another edge – in the minority as women filmmakers but at the forefront as both within and outside the mainstream with a perspective on being from Hong Kong, on being Chinese, but also being on the edge as a woman. Although any given film could be made by a male or female director, taking this group of films made by women in a particular place at a particular moment in history may open up valuable insights into the general concerns of female directors.


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In the early days of desktop virtualization, there were few low-priced alternatives to VMware Workstation that didn't involve a steep learning curve. Even the freely available VirtualBox didn't affect Workstation's market domination and instead faced competition from the newly rebranded VMware GSX server, which was offered for free as VMware Server. Despite being an entry-level server virtualization product, many people used VMware Server on the desktop. Taking that into consideration, you have to look at the recently released VMware Server 2, from two angles — as an entry-level server virtualization platform and as an alternative to desktop virtualization products like VirtualBox. With its performance and other improvements, it does enough to keep existing customers happy, but probably not enough to get others to switch.
Compared to its predecessor, Server 2.0 offers quite a few enhancements. You can now create more scalable virtual machines that support USB 2.0 devices, can use up to 8GB of virtual RAM, and have 10 virtual network cards, as well as SCSI disks. You can also install Server 2 on 64-bit Linux hosts to run 64-bit Linux and Windows guests.
If you are using VMware Server in a networked multi-user environment, you can't help but admire its highly configurable access and configuration parameters. It lets you fine-tune the access to all areas of VMware Server for all users. The access parameters are so detailed that you can have a user that can use VMware Server to create and modify VMs yet can't add a new disk.
VMware Server 2 also bundles the VIX API v1.6 that allows developers to write scripts to automate VM tasks. Finally, VMware Server 2 can run VMs that were created with VMware Workstation. In my tests I had no issues migrating VMs created with the recently released Workstation 6.5.
Useful Web-based interface, but with usability issues
The most distinguishable feature of VMware Server 2 is its Web-based interface. Once it's installed, you have to use your browser to create, administer, and run VMs. The Web interface makes VMware Server ready for network use. All you need is a Web browser to access VMware Server and create VMs from any machine on the network. I tried it with the new Firefox 3.0 and it worked fine.
If you are using VMware Server for local VM deployment, as a replacement to Workstation or VirtualBox, you wouldn't always want to have a browser window open just for accessing the VM. For this you need the VMware Remote Console plugin. The plugin launches a Firefox session that lets you run the VM. You can also create a shortcut to the VM (it's just another URL) and place it on your desktop. When you double-click the icon, it'll let you log in and run your VM.
However, you still need the browser for creating and administering a VM. Unfortunately, the VMware Server Web interface isn't quite intuitive. Even a seasoned virtualization campaigner will need to refer to the user manual to understand a few controls and procedures. For example, if you need to use an ISO image for your DVD drive, it has to be part of a registered "datastore." A datastore in VMware Server is a repository that can hold local and remote files and even VMs. This isn't quite like Workstation, where you can use any ISO off the bat.
Then there are some usability issues as well. For example, when adding a datastore to map a local directory, you have to enter the path manually as opposed to using a Browse window. And users cannot navigate the interface with a keyboard.
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One of the most important performance-related enhancement in VMware Server 2 is that it now supports Virtual Machine Interface extension. VMI is a paravirtualization interface that improves performance by allowing a guest OS to communicate with a software interface similar to the host hardware.
VMI has been included in the Linux kernel since version v2.6.21. To use it, after creating a VM, you need to enable VMI before you install the guest. Apparently not all VMware Server VMs support VMI. For example, the Fedora 9 VM has the VMI option grayed out. Without VMI, the VMs were noticeably slower than with VMI enabled. Even on the VMI-enabled Ubuntu 8.04 guest, the performance improvement wasn't noticeable across the board. Starting OpenOffice.org took a lot longer than it does natively, but startup and shutdown of the guest was pretty fast. What puzzles me is that both Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 are an order of magnitude faster when running as guests under Workstation 6.5 and VirtualBox 2.0.2 version Server 2.0 on the same dual-core host with Intel's virtualization technology (Intel VT)!
Other issues
The biggest issue with VMware Server is that it allows you to save only one snapshot per VM. The similarly free-of-cost VirtualBox has no such limitation. If you are constantly modifying a VM, you'd want the ability to take more than one snapshot.
There's also no 3-D support, which is currently available with Workstation 6.5. I also had some mouse-related issues after installing the VMware Server guest additions. I lost the ability to scroll up, and the guest OS couldn't track the mouse movements properly. As pointed on the VMware forums, you can partly solve the issue by using the regular "mouse" driver instead of "vmmouse."
Sound on the guests works, but you have to specifically add a sound card using the Add Hardware wizard. It would have been better to include an option to adding a sound card when you're creating the VM itself, instead of adding a diskette drive, which probably has few takers.
Final verdict
After using it for several days I have mixed feelings about VMware Server 2, mostly because it tries to ride two boats — as a desktop and server-level virtualization software. On the desktop, it offers almost everything you'd find in the similarly priced VirtualBox, except for multiple snapshots. If you are a developer and write programs that involve a VM, you'll be better off with VMware Server 2 and its VIX API.
Despite being billed as an entry-level server virtualization software, VMware Server 2's server capabilities are limited to remote access with a Web-based interface. Better server virtualization platforms, like VMware ESXi, have a small footprint, are designed to run on bare metal, and offer near-native performance. At the server level, VMware Server 2 is more of a demonstration platform than anything else. VMware itself recommends using VMware Server for testing and development, and the commercial variant VMware ESXi for production systems.
All said and done, VMware Server 2 doesn't have enough new features and performance gains to attract VirtualBox users, but does enough to keep its existing users, who probably use VMware VMs that can't easily be migrated to VirtualBox. Apart from the Web-based interface, VMware Server has no clever tricks up its sleeve that you can't perform with available competition.
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I'm home alone on a Friday night with absolutely no intention of going out or doing anything. Really, I wish I could just go to bed, but since I took a nap this afternoon, it may be a while before I actually do so. I might take a sleep aid if I'm not snoozing by midnight, though.
I can't do anything because I'm on-call for emergency surgeries. I have a clean pair of scrubs sitting on my record player, ready for me to change into in case I am needed. Of course, although the money is good, I'd rather stay home bored than have to go to work. It's not that I do not love my job, but having to go to work would mean that there is an animal in a painful situation.
Before sitting down to write this, I watched the latest episode of Glee, the one where they pay tribute to Cory Monteith via his character, Finn Hudson. Goodness, I cried almost the entire time.
How do I explain what that show and his character have meant to me? This already sounds cheesy.
I will just have to take you back to the beginning. Here goes…
The show premiered in June 2009. Fox only aired the pilot episode, but it received great reviews, and there was a lot of buzz about it. The full season finally started airing in the fall and was well worth the wait. I was absolutely hooked.
I think that 2009 was also the year that Facebook really took off. I know for a fact that I started using it more than I had in the previous five years, mainly due to the excitement of being able to upload photos straight from my phone. What an innovation!
I mention Facebook and this entire time frame because it all leads to my relationship with Dustin. Fall of 2009 was when he caught my attention, via Facebook. I believe he started posting more often and the vast majority of things he shared led to me crushing on him. Posts about music, sports, reading, and his liberal opinions. He seemed like the perfect guy! It didn't hurt that he was also a total cutie-pie!
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, he posted that he decided to watch an episode of Glee. At that point, the season was already several episodes in, so he downloaded the ones he had missed. He loved the show. Dammit. As if I didn't already like the guy enough! Now he was a fan of my favorite television show and what (straight) guy would openly admit loving such a show? The answer: an awesome one.
Unfortunately, Dustin had a girlfriend. As with most of the crushes I have had throughout my life, I figured this wouldn't lead to a thing even though I really REALLY liked him.
We ended up exchanging comments here and there on Facebook and eventually, exchanged numbers (yikes!) as well. I figured we could be friends. Maybe I would get to know him better and realize that he wasn't all that great. Or maybe we truly were a great match and he would realize that too!
He texted me all throughout the month of December. I have never given my number to a guy who actually used it and didn't make me wait for replies! Dustin immediately texted me and he did so every day. I kept falling for him. I was helpless.
On Christmas Eve, I was at my grandparents' with my family celebrating the holiday. Dustin texted me throughout the evening. I had my cousin/best bud Jonathan with me when I received each text. Of course, Jonathan knew how much I liked Dustin and how each message I received from him made me happier and happier.
At one point in the evening, either Dustin or I brought up Glee. He asked me which character I related to the most. I didn't have an answer. I asked Jonathan who he thought I was most like. He replied Brittany because of how goofy she was. I texted that reply to Dustin and he disagreed. He said I was too smart to be a Brittany. Aww, shucks!
Naturally, I then asked Dustin who he related to. His response: both Mr. Schuester and Finn. He wouldn't tell me why, though. He said he would tell me later. Weirdo. Why wouldn't he just explain?
This is a photo of Jonathan and me both confused by Dustin's response that night! Hahahaha We literally took this right after Dustin sent me his reply!
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Dustin and I ended up meeting the following day. Two days later, he posted this as his Facebook status:
Two days after that, he and I became a couple (after he broke up with his previous girlfriend, of course).


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Inundacion de casa Miami
Damage from water repairs are required to make sure that the structure of your home is safeguarded and guarded from deterioration. As we know, Inundating is a huge concern for most homeowners. It's a type of loss that is caused by the intrusion of water across specific areas or even an entire a higher level the home. The harm can be minor and progressive also it you may also have catastrophic with instant results. The harm are a wide reason for the losing of property value. Flooding, rainfall and stagnant water might occur with a quantity of risks like the weakening from the soil foundation, damage to home interiors, electrical devices, rotting and others. Any homeowner should aim to minimize the hazards preventing future damage. This can be essential to keep the home safe and gaze after its market price.
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Risks levels caused by water damage and mold
Inundating repairs can address numerous risks. There are several forms of damage due to water. The initial level is a result of clear water. It may be broken pipes or water spots. The next level is caused by gray water that could be stuffed with contaminants. It could be sewage water, or failure of water dependent devices to discharge the river out. Lastly, there is damage a result of black water that could be caused by catastrophic events and is difficult to fix.
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When it comes to water damage repairs, there are a few conditions can be handled by simply DIY methods. In the event the damage have not seeped through various systems across the home and could be mitigated by simple repairs, that may be highly relevant to do it yourself. However, most water damage shows symptoms when the condition it can be already widespread. Plywood as well as other wooden structures which were moistened by leaking pipes, ice dams or broken roofs can cause increase of mold and mildew, causing illness. Such problems can cause multiple structural and health issues. Therefore, fast and immediate action is important for almost any homeowner.
Getting a restoration contractor
A restoration services most beneficial for houses with massive and instantaneous damage like plumbing issues, sewage problems, flooding, hurricane damage and also other events that can last over One day. These specific damages could make the property uninhabitable. It might also lead to health problems as a result of growth of microorganisms. Such damages must be addressed by experts because it is not merely on top the location where the problem can settle. The muse of the house may go through damage at the same time. Hence, for many damage cause by water, it will be better to possess the aid of a specialist in working with them.
Water-related damage is definitely a big concern for many homeowners and address both mild and severe issues, getting the the help of restoration services can be essential to:
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"Internment And Resettlement Operations" Or FM 3-39.40 Detainment Of U.S. Citizens (Video)
By Josey Wales
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Internment camps for political dissidents in the U.S. aren't a conspiracy theory. The Department of Defense document entitled "INTERNMENT AND RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS" or FM 3-39.40 proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Page 146 describes detainment of US citizens, under the identification of prisoners section. It shows the layout of these camps and explains the means of the use of deadly force ! Organizations involved include DOD , DHS , FBI and FEMA !
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Amidst the shuffle of SEO and chasing the next viral hit, marketers often forget that first and foremost, content produces customer success through proactive education.
In this endeavor, perhaps the biggest challenge is attracting and keeping readers' attention long enough for them to implement your advice and see results with it. To this end, creating a compelling company narrative, supported by common themes, is incredibly effective for better understanding and retention, not to mention building a long-lasting readership.
Consider great works of fiction that have stayed with you; is there a single reader of 1984 out there who doesn't vividly recall the themes Orwell presents?
Lofty as it may seem to apply this to a blog, you don't need to be a literary master to make use of "theming" in your writing.
It all starts with identifying topics that will not only help your customers succeed (and appeal to their interests), but that strengthen the stances you take with your company's culture.
Before I confuse you any further, let's take a look at content theming in action.
Examples of Content Theming in Action
The benefit of creating and revisiting themes with your content is that it allows for an easier education + motivation process for your readers.
To better explain what I mean, here are some deliberately addressed themes I've consistently included in the articles published here at Help Scout:
- Why great service is good for business. Having customers share this belief is one of the key ways we seek to motivate people. If you believe (and are armed with statistics and data) that excellent service produces a substantial ROI for your business, it becomes easier to see how a help desk might benefit you. It also becomes easier to understand why the tactics we discuss are worthwhile. I don't need to explain why you should bother with Activity X to increase customer loyalty because you already "buy in" that the endeavor is worth the effort, if it works.
- The importance of tone in support. So much of exceptional day-to-day service comes down to tone. "Is there anything else I can do for you?" and "What else do you want?" are, in essence, asking the same thing, but they're wildly different in terms of tone. We place a heavy emphasis on this because we genuinely believe it is one of the most effective, universal ways that any support team can improve their interactions with customers and increase their impact within the company. It also closely ties in with email support, which depends on tone since it lacks the expressive nature of face-to-face conversations.
- The returns on empowering support reps. With a readership consisting of many folks working in support, this might seem like pandering, but our actual goal is to place the spotlight on a topic near and dear to support teams' hearts—that they aren't able to deliver their best work without the authority to make decisions. Not only is this a topic that produces big returns for support's impact, but it also allows us to plant our flag in a topic we care about: it lets some of our most important readers know that we have their back.
In addition, the overarching goal of consistently touching on recurring themes is to address the "who, what, and why" of any company blog: who this is for, what they should be doing, and why they should bother.
Within these general themes, relevant sub-topics can make for a better and more consistent teaching experience. When discussing tone, we regularly look at phrases, templates, and common scenarios that can help create more memorable communications with customers.
The result should be a more cohesive experience with your company blog. The narrative becomes clearer, and the topics, their intended audience, and their importance are defined and addressed (and readdressed) in education pieces that have more of an impact on customer success than yet another random "5 Tips" post.
When Theming Meets Company Culture
The idea of a brand focusing on shared values in order to better connect with customers is nothing new, but it should be noted that one smart way to use content theming is to closely align the topics chosen to your company culture.
37 Signals (now Basecamp) has for many years positioned itself as a thoughtful supporter of remote work—a narrative crafted through books, blog posts, and even a job board—as well as a case study for making bootstrapping work. Last but not least, the team has taken a stand against the startup "grind," opting for company policies like a 4-day workweek during the summer.
They serve as a great example of the storytelling—through revisiting common themes in their writing and marketing—that has genuinely complemented the products they sell.
Take a look at their flagship (and now primary) product known as Basecamp, a project management tool.
When we examine the themes I highlighted above against the software, a clear picture begins to unfold:
- Remote work is an excellent complement to a project management software that allows teams to collaborate from anywhere. Supporting remote work attracts remote teams who can make great use of Basecamp.
- Bootstrapping is a topic loved by a key persona for Basecamp—the up-and-coming founder who is working with a small but dedicated team and is likely tackling multiple projects head on.
- A healthy work-life balance is an interesting theme to address and is a good example of going against the grain (in the startup world, at least). It also is one of the strongest shared values the team has created with other founders and companies who believe in planning and completing big projects without the burnout.
To be perfectly clear, like any genuine narrative, these are stances and topics that the 37 Signals team has a true passion for.
The important thing to note here is how they were also used to create a company narrative—told in large part by candid writing on the Signals vs. Noise blog—to attract customers and prospects who hold the same beliefs.
To sum it all up, if you're looking to create deeper connections with readers and foster genuine customer success through education, examine what sort of narrative your company might tell and what themes you might visit (and revisit) to attract clients and customers who feel the same way.


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Set in Liverpool, against the backdrop of poverty and increasing unemployment, it tells the story of twin brothers Mickey and Eddie who having been separated at birth find their lives inextricably linked, while both of them remain unaware of their family connections.
This is a powerful and moving story which weaves a complex and tragic tale, peppered with moments of joyfulness and unhappiness.
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Let's go with categories.
First, food. =D
The long weekend home.
Supper the night before the special day
with Caroline, Eric, Quachee and another Eric (I have no idea how to spell their names. =X)
Durian buffet!!
Caroline went karaoke session with me after that,
which mean she's the only one who was there when I officially turned 24.
Birthday breakfast
Jambu air from the half way stop.
Photobombed by toes.
Birthday lunch. Penang (Butterworth) Char Kuey Teow.
Birthday dinner
Forgot what is this
but it's beef and rice in AutoCity.
And my favourite. =)
Can I hear a grrrrrrr from ze stomach?
This is actually breakfast for the next day,
but I love this a lot and it's not popular in KL. =(
Dimsum with the skinny gang before I came back.
Can you believe that among that group of friends,
I'm the fattest?
If you've seen my in real life,
you would be amazed. Or not.
Bag from mom coz she can't stand
seeing me holding my bag together with a wire.
So this was what my old bag looked like.
I love this bag so much that I didn't want to throw it away.
It's the right size and not too girlish nor boyish.
It's the perfect bag,
but then it fell apart.
But well I have something similar now,
but you know there's always something that you can never replace.
Present from older sis.
What I asked for.
Well I asked for a P!nk CD, not this particular one,
but this is great!!
Blasting while writing this post!!
P!nk FTW!! wooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Birthday present from Jo. (younger sis)
How practical.
Present from Dawn ze best friend since highschool. =)
Handmade card and earrings!!
Birthday present from Sam.a.k.a. moi-meme
My first camera.
24 and I finally have a camera of my own.
Oh there's the polaroid but it's just different.
the camwhore collage.
Since my last birthday, I:
1. Started work
2. Became more active in blogging
3. Improved makeup skills
4. Got extensions
5. Broke a heart and karma was a bitch
6. Finally get to drive around and thus cursing level increased
7. Helped support a child from Vietnam
8. Found a great group of friends (You bloggers rock!!)
9. Grew wiser. Seriously. Just a little.
10. Found someone who has the same birthday as I!! Wooohoooooooo!! Happy birthday too Luke!!
Ok, more stuff happened but these are the first 10 that popped up so there you go.
So here's 5 more.
11. Got my first Valentine present and my first bouquet of flowers. (Yes, after 23 years, finally)
12. Got thinner. =/
13. Cured my obsession for shoes
14. Got free stuff and services from blogging.
15. Went to club for the first time (Yes, after 23 years. People don't believe me when I tell them that. T^T)
It's not too late to give presents and "surprise parties" yet. No pranks or throwing into pools.
Remember, karma is a bitch only if you are one.
And I had to wait to my birthday to realize that I have a good life after all.
Despite all the ups and downs,
when my friend asked me what I wanted for my birthday,
I can't think of anything.
other than a boyfriend and never ending supply of money
It means I'm actually more blessed that I always thought. =)
Thanks to everyone who came and left in this 1 year,
your presence gave me new experiences no matter how short the time.
Thanks to everyone who've helped me.
And finally
thanks to mom and dad (mom especially coz she did more work) for bringing me into this world.
Not even sorry for the long post.
That's what J_Fish has to say~ Au Revoir~
p.s. I proved that ppl don't remember your birthday unless it's on Facebook. Only the ones who really care will remember. =) Thanks for everyone who wished me.


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Egg noodles with Fresh HerbsFrom riverrat715 11 years ago
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- 2 tbs toasted sesame oil shopping list
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How to make it
- Bring water to boil in large kettle
- add salt
- add noodles
- cook till tender (about 10 minutes)
- Coarsely chop fresh herbs (can use garlic from a jar)
- melt butter and sesame oil together
- add herbs to butter
- stir to wilt
- drain noodles and toss with herb butter.
- serve with a large green salad and some crusty bread from the bakery.
- Great meal for a busy evening and oh so good. The fresh herbs give it a marvelous flavor that you will love.
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There are several different ways to make money with a craft or sewing blog and I've been working to consolidate resources and ideas in one spot! I hope you find some of the links below useful when you're trying to figure out how to make money as a craft and sewing blogger! Do you know of something, somewhere, or someone I should have added here? Contact me!
There are links to relevant and helpful facebook groups, link parties, group pin boards, submission-friendly websites, affiliate programs, ad programs & media agencies, blogs that "talk business", google+ communities, & blogging tools. You could also check out my pinterest board about blogging for assorted articles that I've found helpful!
I'm always striving to improve, but you can see how much money I am making each quarter in my regular reports on traffic and income, all found here. I share my top methods for both making money and boosting traffic, below.
{This post contains affiliate links, indicated by an asterisk*. Please refer to 'legal stuff' in the top menu for more info.}
I also want to share that I'm a member of the Craft Industry Alliance – it is a unique community so I wasn't sure which category to include it in! It is a trade organization for creatives, including bloggers, with a recurring online journal, private forum, and lots of resources – so check it out!*
Pin this post to re-read later, here:
How to make money as a craft and sewing blogger – the mega, master list!
My top earning methods
- The Etsy Affiliate Program, join Affiliate Window here and then apply for the Etsy program*.
- The Amazon Affiliate Program, join it here.
- I link to supplies and books; you can see examples of Amazon links in this post and in this post.
- The Craftsy Affiliate Program, join Shareasale here and then apply for the Craftsy program*.
- I link to classes primarily, though they do have supplies and patterns as well; you can see an example here.
- Ads – I am a part of the Mediavine Ad Network, who I highly recommend and have written about here. I started out with Google Adsense and Amazon CPM ads, switching over once I had enough traffic.
- Selling my patterns – you can see my PDF sewing patterns in my shop! I sometimes contribute patterns to bundle sales or online magazines like One Thimble, and also have them in two different boutiques, UpCraft Club and You Can Make This as well as on Etsy.
- Sponsored posts – I predominantly work through Social Fabric or approach companies myself (example post here) but list several other agency options below.
- Freelance writing – I have moved away from this but in the past I have worked with several different companies and other blogs, writing tutorials for them on their own sites and linking to it from my own (example post here).
Affiliate Programs for craft and sewing bloggers!
Affiliate programs all have different terms, but pay you when someone clicks through and makes a purchase or signs up for something.
This is treated as income for you personally or if you're registered as a business – please talk with your tax advisor, etc. about taxes. Also check out FTC regulations; there are different ways to indicate affiliate links but they need to be noted as such.
Annie's Craft Store
Connecting Threads
Consumer Crafts
Craft Industry Alliance
Create For Less
Darby Smart
Ebates.com – now known as Rakuten see my post explaining what Ebates is all about here, it is amazing!
- Check out what Ebates has to offer (right now, money back at Joann's, Amazon, Fabric.com) *
- Become an Ebates affiliate (register, sign-in, and click "tell-a-friend") *
Free Craft Patterns
Fat Quarter Shop
Gotham Quilts
Groopdealz (sometimes has crafty stuff)
Ibotta – this is an app for cash back but offers cash back at JoAnn Fabrics
Joann Fabrics
M&J Trimming
Michael Levine Fabric
Online Fabric Store
Organic Cotton Plus
- Shop OCP*
- Become an OCP affiliate
PicMonkey (online photo editing)
Online Quilt Guild
Sew Sweetness
The Confident Stitch
Therm O Web
Individual Sewing Pattern Designers
5 Out Of 4 Patterns
Bella Sunshine
Cozy Nest Designs
E-Beth Patterns
Everything Your Mama Made & More
- Visit EYMM and see what they're about*
- Become an EYMM affiliate
Golden Rippy
Interweave Publishing
Itch To Stitch
Jennuine Designs
Love Notions
One Thimble E-Magazine
Patterns for Pirates
- Visit P4P and shop around*
- Become a P4P Affiliate
Peek-a-boo- Patterns
Seaside Notions
Serger Pepper
Straight Stitch Designs
UpCraft Club
Swoon Patterns
- Visit Swoon's website to see what they're about *
- Become a Swoon Affiliate
Welcome To The Mouse House
You Can Make This
Ad Programs & Sponsored Post Agencies
Blogher – ads
Clever Girls Collective – sponsored posts
Google Adsense – ads
Martha's Circle – ads
Mediavine (see my review of working with Mediavine, I love them, here!) – ads
Mode (formerlyGlam) Media – ads
Pollinate Media – sponsored posts
Social Fabric – sponsored posts
Ways to Network, Connect, & Promote
My top promoting methods
- For the record, most of my biggest boost are group boards or groups that aren't currently accepting more members! I also get a huge bump in traffic by using Tailwind* – it is a scheduling service that also has a 'tribes' feature, allowing you to easily repin other members' content.
- I always submit my tutorials to Craft Gawker, Craft Gossip, All Free Sewing, and Sew Can She!
Facebook Groups
Be sure to read the rules – some groups only allow link sharing on certain days or in certain places!
About Blogging/Designing
- Craft Your Blog: Bloggers Central
- Sewing/Craft/Creative Bloggers Group (No link! I created & am the admin for this group on Facebook, I set it to 'secret' because I was tired of weeding through 20+ membership/spam requests a day. Email me and I'm happy to add you.)
- While She Naps Softie Designers Forum
- Stitch Smarter
About Making
Link parties:
- There are SO MANY out there and honestly I have stopped using any but SewCanShe's on Saturday! I had trouble keeping this list current because so many folded or took long breaks. Let me know if you have a regularly occuring linky party I can list here.
- Pam at Threading My Way has ongoing link parties that I like checking out and participating in, as well!
Group Pin Boards:
Boards that are welcoming new members!
- PDF Patterns (Full disclosure: I created & am the admin for this board!)
- So Sew Cute
- Sewing Tutorials & Tips
- Get Pinspired with Crafty Bloggers
- A Refashion Obsession
- Teen Crafts
- Free Sewing Patterns
Websites That Accept Submissions
Some of these just feature tutorials, linking to you, and some are looking to publish it in full, read through and ask for more details if the page is unclear!
- 30 Minute Crafts
- All Free Christmas Crafts
- All Free Holiday Crafts
- All Free Kids Crafts
- All Free Sewing
- Apartment Therapy
- Craft Gawker
- Craft Gossip
- Craftster
- Cut Out and Keep
- DIY Candy
- DIY Cozy Home
- DIY Ready
- Dollar Store Crafts
- Fave Crafts
- Fave Quilts
- Free Quilt Patterns
- Fun Family Crafts
- Geek Crafts
- Get Crafty
- HomeTalk
- Inspiration DIY
- Instructables
- Just Bright Ideas
- Kollaborra
- Scrappy Girls Club
- Sew Can She
- Sewing 4 Free
Google+ Communities
Ways To Learn & Grow
Blogs that talk crafting business
- Oh My! Handmade
- Sew Mccool (not active, but archived content)
- While She Naps
- Crafterminds (not active, but archived content)
- I post here from time to time, see the posts here
- Craft Industry Alliance's blog
Blogging Tools I Use
- Name Cheap *- where I bought my domain!
- PicMonkey *-online photo editing with cute fonts, easy collages, and neat effects
- Siteground hosting* (for my other site! I use Techsurgeons for this one, but recommend Siteground as well)


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Jen how do I change my Delphi name? I meant to type Jules1102 but the L was missed.. fast fingers....
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Glow Doodles
Glow Doodles are easy to make using the webcam on your computer, phone or tablet. You can craft some lightbottles using old bottles, LEDs and batteries, or use flashlights, sparklers or even just reflected ambient light. Find software from your computer here, or check out the Android or iOS apps in your app store.