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(Editor's note: Looking for Sportin' In The Heat, part I? Here you go.)
Hey Gents,
Without a doubt, a khaki sport coat is the second most versatile jacket you could possibly own. Second only to a navy version, of course.
This is especially true in the warmer months, when you may want to wear lighter colors.
Navy's great and all (and it's pretty much always appropriate), but sometimes you just have to switch it up.
By the end of this article, you'll know exactly what kind of jacket (or suit) to look for, where to find one, when to wear it, how to wear it, and what to wear it with.
Pretty straight-forward, right?
Here we go!
"Should I get a suit, or just a sport coat?"
That's a good question. It totally depends on you and your needs. If you wear suits a majority of the week, have a few summer shindigs (parties, weddings, etc.) to attend, or just like the idea of owning a summer-appropriate suit, I'd pick up the suit.
That way, you'll have it at your disposal when needed, and you can always break it up and wear them as separates.
If you don't wear suits too often, don't see yourself needing one in the near future, or are on a budget, just pick up a sport jacket.
"What kind of fabric is best?"
Typically, you'll find khaki suits / sport jackets in a cotton or linen fabric. The key to a "cooler" experience, however, is to make sure the jacket is half-lined (lining half way down the back, fully lined in front panels), quarter-lined, or unlined.
Having a fully-lined cotton or linen jacket somewhat defeats the purpose. You want these layers to feel light and airy, but lining adds heft (especially if a jacket is lined with the same material) and can trap heat. If you don't like the lightness of unlined, go with a half-lined or quarter-lined version. You'll thank me later.
(If you're interested in learning more about unlined vs. lined jackets, check out my friend Antonio's video here)
"When can I wear my khaki sport coat?"
This jacket is more appropriate for daytime wear, or generally casual situations. Realistically though, you can take it from daytime to evening time (assuming you're not going to a formal black tie event) and no one will bat an eye.
"Where do I find a khaki sport coat?"
Here's what I do when I'm casually browsing for a potential new _____________ (fill in the blank: "Khaki sport coat", "navy suit", "striped socks", etc.), I use a site called shopstyle.com. You can search for anything, and ShopStyle will show you numerous options across different brands and price points.
Here are a few examples: Men's khaki sport coat , Men's navy suit , Men's striped socks
From there, you can filter down by brand, price, color, size, etc. all on the left side of your browser window.
Pretty nifty, right?
Specific ones I recommend:
Uniqlo's Linen Cotton Jacket First mentioned it here, and also happens to be the one I used in my examples below. They come in many colors, fit well, need minimal alterations (assuming you're more or less a normal shape), and is unlined… perfect for summer.
LLBean signature Warren Chino Blazer I have the Plain Weave Blazer in Navy, which is a three-button version with a decent 3/2 roll. If I were making the purchase again, I'd probably try the Warren.
Brooks Brothers Fitzgerald Fit Sport Coat A more pricey, yet classic option. If you go with Brooks Brothers, you're guaranteed to have this one for quite a while (especially if you take care of it.) The Fitzgerald Fit is BB's version of a more modern cut (narrower lapels, higher armholes) without skewing too trendy.
"What do I wear with my khaki suit or sport coat?"
Easy! Khaki is sort of like white or navy, it goes with pretty much everything.
The key word here is CONTRAST. The last thing I want you to do is wear a khaki sport coat with khaki pants and a khaki hat and khaki-colored shoes… and socks… and underwear. Terrible.
Take note: The one thing I advise against is pairing it with another khaki. Even if you think you found a perfect match for your sport coat ("Oh hey! Now I have a suit!"), you most likely did not. Matching two things that weren't made together (unlike an actual suit) is tough to do.
Anyway, here are four examples to get you started.
Khaki suit (the formal option)
If you're attending a formal occasion, go with the suit option, and keep it simple. Light blue shirt, solid navy knit tie, brown wingtips. Super crisp and fresh.
I don't cosign for black and white very often, but you could also do a white dress shirt, solid black knit tie, and black lace-ups, and if I saw you, I would give you a high five.
Casual option one
Since khaki is neutral, you want to bump up the contrast in your outfit. Dark denim would look great on the bottom. The light pink Oxford cloth button down complements the dark denim as well as the neutral khaki, and the olive desert boots look good with everything individually, as well as the outfit as a whole.
Casual option two
White denim also contrasts with the neutral khaki here, but instead of going dark (like with the dark denim) you're doing the complete opposite. The indigo chambray looks great with the white denim (if you took off the jacket), but also looks good underneath the jacket. The grey driving shoes have a nice contrasting pop of color with the natural leather tassels, and look good against the white denim.
Casual option three
The most "daring" outfit of the bunch, kinda. Really, it's just the bright chinos, but other than that, the outfit is quite muted… and this works out great, because the brightness of the chino plus the muted colors of everything else balances out.
That's another thing to remember: When it comes to major elements in your outfit, one bright pop of color, max.
Alrighty, kids!
That's all I have for you today. Hopefully that gives you a bit more confidence if you were looking to add a khaki suit or sport jacket to your summer arsenal.
Questions, concerns, compliments? Would love to hear it in the comments below.


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By Caleb Scott
ADA — The Ohio Northern men's soccer team saw eight different athletes score as ONU defeated Anderson (Ind.) 8-0 on Tuesday evening at Kerscher Stadium.
The Polar Bears improve to 7-2-1 overall with the victory, while the Ravens drop to 5-4-1.
ONU scored early and often in the contest as senior Grant Cayot (Roanoke, Ind./Blackhawk Christian) scored after the AU keeper mishandled Cayot's shot to give ONU a 1-0 in the second minute of the contest.
Minutes later in the seventh minute, freshman Beelal Hasan (Westerville/Thomas) scored his second goal of the season after finding a ball in traffic and scoring from 10 yards out.
The Polar Bears wasted no time adding to their lead in the second half, as Cayot found senior Mac Tompkins (Fairview, Pa.) on the left wing to help push the lead to 3-0.
In the 54th minute, senior Cory Lains (Zionsville, Ind./Zionsville Community) made his way past an Anderson defender from the left wing and found the back of the net to extend the lead to 4-0.
Less than a minute later senior J.J. Fortner (Maumee/Anthony Wayne) dribbled up the center of the field and scored on a strike from 15 yards out, pushing the lead to 5-0.
The scoring barrage would continue in the 64th minute as freshman Zachary Yoder (Goshen, Ind./Kamiakin) found fellow freshman Jacob Scheufler (Carol Stream, Ill./Glenbard North) with a touch pass into the center of the field, before Scheufler capitalized to give ONU a 6-0 advantage.
In the 73rd minute, senior Colin Johnson (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) scored his second goal of the season after freshman Sergio Bugarin (Murietta, Cal./Murietta) played a quick ball through traffic and found Johnson for the score.
Northern would cap the victory in the 79th minute as senior Ben Conkin (Maumee/Anthony Wayne) capitalized on a penalty kick to seal the 8-0 victory.
Freshman Dylan Plank (Lancaster, Pa./Manheim) earned the victory in the goal, posting his third shutout of the season and improving his record to 6-1-0 on the year.
Northern returns to action on Saturday evening as it travels to Alliance to take on Mount Union and open Ohio Athletic Conference play at 7 pm.

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This week marks the tenth anniversary of a stable economy in the UK. The withdrawal of BNP Paribas from subprime mortgages triggered the end of an economic bubble. Economics during times of prosperity is considered a dusty and boring subject. Overnight economics was suddenly catapulted to the contemporary subject as we all tried to make… Read More »


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Alternate Models
One notable characteristic of the ABL development community is lack of a dominant programming model. ADM has probably been the model with the widest adoption, albeit in multiple versions, none of which are really OERA compliant or Object-Oriented (OO) as one would expect to get from a tool of this sort. Various models have been offered for OERA applications, although most have limited publicly available documentation. How then is one going to accommodate this diversity of opinion in a Model-to-Code translation tool? Or should one?
One can argue, meaningfully, that many of the models now in use are not good models in a number of respects. Moreover, very few traditional models are based on OO12. One might wonder if providing a single, well considered model which implemented OERA principles and illustrated adherence to good OO principles would not be sufficient. While defensible, it also could be true that support for alternate models would increase acceptance. One important question one might ask is whether it is possible to support multiple models without undue burden.
This question really has two components – one about whether the transformation is open for the user to customize and the other about whether more than one model is supported out of the box. There is some need to support alternate models in any Model-to-Code translation simply because different approaches are often needed in different parts of an application for performance or compatibility issues. This mechanism is often called "colorization" or model markup. It means that properties are attached to the model which are not a part of its functional structure, but which tell the translation engine to do one thing versus another during the translation process. Naturally, providing such options add to the complexity of the translation templates. Thus, it would be possible to provide alternate models via markup, but it would add substantially to the work required to create the model.
The question of openness is also difficult, as illustrated by the history of ADM frameworks. Those who worked entirely with the ADM framework as shipped were often able to move to a later version without a great deal of difficulty. Those who customized the framework, however, (especially common with earlier versions) often had considerable difficulty in moving to new versions. While they could run the application with the old framework and the new version of Progress, they could not take advantage of the features of the new version of the framework running that way. If people customize the translation templates, we are likely to see similar issues here. However, at the same time, the ability to customize can often be the difference between acceptable and not.
It has been suggested that most of the difficulty experienced with user customization of framework components comes because a new framework is typically available only yearly. Consequently, a user feels a need to make customizations because he or she can't wait a year to see if desired functionality will be added. Meanwhile, the team responsible for maintaining the framework is modifying the framework according to some master plan which is unknown to the users. The result is divergent development over a substantial period and the consequent difficulty of resolving the two versions.
One solution to this dilemma is continuous availability of new versions, i.e., to make new versions available as rapidly as they are created, making well documented changes in individual components rather than sweeping restructuring whenever possible. This might be done through an on-line community which also provided a feedback mechanism by which individuals could contribute candidate changes for possible inclusion and where they could make requests for options in the overall framework. One should also have a visible planned direction of development so that users can anticipate future directions of development. Such a community would also help to publicize the tool.
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"e" – where Finance meets Science
Many of you would know I am a trained accountant. Most would not know that my original training was in science and engineering. It's that aspect of my life the I would like to write about now.
All of you would however be familiar with the concept of interest rates. A nightly topic on the news, interest rates determine how much spare cash we have after the mortgage payment. And the total mortgage paid is a simple calculation. To save time, I'm going to skip the math… but the formula is:
FV = PV(1+r)^t
FV = Future value
PV = Present Value
r = Interest Rate
t = time
its the formula for calculating the total amount you pay – and, (just like me), its not very sexy!
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The House has voted to limit funding for so-called sanctuary cities, but one lawmaker is pushing to take further action in the District of Columbia, dictating specific policies for law enforcement.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, has introduced "The Safer D.C. Act" declaring the District is a "sanctuary city," or a jurisdiction with policies that shelter undocumented immigrants. "The Constitution explicitly vests Congress with exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Columbia — and we should take action," Gohmert said. "Therefore, at the very least, Congress must use our explicit Constitutional power to ensure that at least the District of Columbia is not a sanctuary city." "In the wake of the tragic murder of San Francisco resident, Kate Steinle, by a five-time deported illegal criminal alien, it is important to realize that the District of Columbia is in fact also a sanctuary city like San Francisco," Gohmert said in a statement, pointing to the murder highlighted at congressional hearings last week.
Republicans allege sanctuary cities foster a dangerous environment that lead to events such as Steinle's death. The White House has punched back, saying Republican lawmakers contributed to the situation by failing to pass an overhaul of immigration laws. On June 24, the House voted along mostly party lines to withhold funding to these cities. But Gohmert argues Congress could go further when addressing D.C.'s policies, given the body's oversight of the District.
Gohmert alleged that when someone is arrested in the District who lacks paperwork regarding his or her immigration status, police officers "are prohibited from both investigating immigration matters and also contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
District officials dispute his characterization. One official pointed to the District law Gohmert appeared to be referring to, known as the Immigration Detainer Compliance Amendment Act of 2012. The law stipulates under which conditions the District should comply with ICE requests to detain citizens suspected of violating federal immigration law, thus allowing law enforcement to comply with ICE requests.
The law notes the District "shall exercise discretion" over whether to comply with a detainer request, and the District may comply under a number of conditions. For instance, D.C. police may comply if the detainee is 18 years of age or older and if he or she has been convicted of a dangerous or violent crime.
Gohmert's legislation would require officials to provide information to the Department of Homeland Security to determine the immigration status of people arrested in D.C.
If the department determines that person is "inadmissible or deportable," Homeland Security would be required to issue a detainer, and D.C. would be required to comply and then place the individual in federal custody. The DHS and District officials would face penalties and fines if they failed to comply with the requirements.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department warned of increased tensions between police and the District community should Gohmert's bill become law.
"The proposed 'The Safer D.C. Act,' contrary to its title, stands in direct conflict with the fundamental mission of local law enforcement agencies to protect and serve all those who reside within their respective communities," MPD spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump wrote in a July 24 email.
"Forcing local police to enforce civil or administrative immigration laws will only serve to drive a wedge of fear and distrust between police officers and the community they serve," Crump continued. "Ultimately, MPD officers are responsible for providing high quality police services to all of the many diverse communities of the District of Columbia, and we will continue to carry out that important mission."
House Democrats echoed Crump's contention that such laws would increase tensions between police and the immigrant community. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said the bill would deter immigrants from contacting police, rendering them "easy prey for criminals."
"Rep. Gohmert thinks he knows how better to protect our city than officials elected to bear that responsibility," Norton said in a July 23 statement.
On top of her criticisms of the substance Gohmert's bill, which was introduced on July 22, Norton also tossed a common critique of Republicans who look to affect District policies.
"Rep. Gohmert, a tea party leader, is violating his professed principles of local control of local affairs by seeking to overturn local law and to substitute the judgment of federal officials for a local government," Norton said.
In a statement, Gohmert responded to that criticism, saying, "My principles are for local control of local matters; however, when the local officials refuse to obey existing and applicable federal laws governing a matter that the Constitution makes clear is a matter for Congress to govern, then the local officials force the need for enforcement of the Constitutional laws to prevent the spread of further lawlessness."
Gohmert's legislation garnered support from at least one fellow member of Congress. A spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who sponsored the bill the House passed on July 23, praised Gohmert's work.
"Rep. Hunter supports any effort to crackdown on sanctuary cities—including DC," wrote Hunter's chief of staff, Joe Kasper on July 24. "I don't know the details of Rep. Gohmert's bill, but he too has been out front on sanctuary cities like others have, and it's good to have this and other bills out there as the House considers what to do next."
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A Mucking Good Time
American Theatre Company presents:
Yeast Nation
by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann
directed by PJ Paparelli
runs through October 18th (ticket info)
reviewed by Timothy McGuire
Yeast Nation is an innovative musical production unlike anything I have ever seen before. Greg Kotis (a veteran of Chicago's Neo-Futurists) and Mark Hollmann (a veteran of Chicago Theatre Building's Musical Theatre Workshop), the same creators of the Tony-winning musical Urinetown, tell a provocative story about the creation of life based on an absurd premise of single celled yeasts living in a primordial soup. There are no stories of life before these yeasts; these yeasts are the beginning of time.
These vocally gifted yeasts are living under the dictatorial rule of the Elder (Joseph Anthony Foronda), he being the yeast that produced all other yeasts. They are starving yet the Elder forbids them to rise to the top where plenty of nourishing food is available. The Elder believes that his oppression is for the good of all yeasts and life as a whole. He even kills a yeast (Sweet yeast's father) for disobeying him and eating from the top of the liquid surroundings. The Elder's son Second (Andrew Keltz), the second in command, sees no sense in his fathers orders. He ventures off to discover and take advantage of all the wonderful things available near the top, such as delicious fulfilling muck. He promises Sweet (the name of the sweet yeast) a new world, not knowing what lies ahead. Second's engulfment of muck results in the birth of a fantastic pink creature (Stephanie Kim), sparking the beginning of the progress to a new multi-celled organism.
Do not be alarmed if none of this makes any sense – the creators were aware of their own craziness in the foundation of their story and the even more incredible plot. In the beginning I was getting a little nervous as I had no idea what was going on, and then the scary-eyed grey-haired yeast (Barbara Robertson) poked fun at how weird it is to believe in a story about yeasts. Throughout the play the creators slide in small little jokes recognizing the lack of believability and completely insane premise of a society of single-celled yeasts. This is theatre, not school. Have some fun with it.
Each scene is filled with graphic sexual innuendos hidden in Kotis and Hollmann's brilliant writing. Though tempted to share with you some of these tastefully shocking lines, I would not want to ruin the experience of the live delivery. Considering the depth of this unordinary script and lyrics, I am looking forward to discovering the jokes that were intelligently hidden beyond my comprehension the first time seeing the performance.
There is no distinct set on stage. The scenery is composed of purple lights hanging from the ceiling and rafters creating Disney-like prehistoric stars. The stage is cluttered with scaffolds and equipment displaying the result of a Broadway-style performance being compressed into the small storefront space of American Theatre Co. This design allows for the yeasts to utilize a variety of heights and abstract placements on the stage, providing the sense of a large production cramming itself into the small set.
The lighting and special effects add the change in atmosphere to each various style of song. The musical variety in this bizarre tale includes a little bit of everything. The style of each song had its own vibe from a tune sang at a church choir, downtown disco, a rock concert, Christian rock, Gospel, rock video and more. I am pretty sure they did a parody of Meatloaf's music video for "I Would Do Anything for Love."
Before I even had an idea of what was going on in the plot, I already felt I was watching the beginning of a spectacular new musical. The confusion is part of the fun. The costumes were a little hokey, but the quality of talent on stage combined with the unique incomparable writing by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann is a combination for success. Go see the birth of the next hit musical that you cannot believe someone could imagine to produce.
Rating: «««½
Playing at American Theatre Company, 1909 W. Byron, Chicago, IL, Thursdays & Fridays at 8 pm, Saturdays, through October 18, 2009.
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Synosis: Baby Jaimie is in her first year of school. She has made a lot of friends and learned a lot of things. Now she will learn what it means to be a team player when she is in her very first play. Follow Baby Jaimie as she learns the lesson, there are no small parts, only small actors.
Author Notes: The third volume in the Baby Jaimie series was first written to be an exclusive e-book for Kindle. After I e-published it I kept getting asked if it would ever be available in book format. The problem was my illustrations were black & whites, which I thought would show up better on Kindle. My first Baby Jaimie book had black & white illustrations, but I really didn't want to do that again. Alex Baranov may have been the illustrator for this book, but the color was added by me.
Title: After reading this book you might think the subtitle isn't an exact fit for the storyline. On the surface you'd be right. The story does dwell more on the issue of Baby Jaimie being upset over the part she was given rather than nervousness. If you pay attention to the portion of the story just before the play you will realize she was nervous. This book, like all the others in the Baby Jaimie series was based on a real life experience.
To visit my kid friendly site dedicated to The Adventures of Baby Jaimie please click: here
Where to buy:
The Adventures of Baby Jaimie: Baby Jaimie Gets Stage Fright has just been updated and re-released in black and white Kindle format. Introductory price is set for .99 to own and free to borrow for Amazon Prime subscribers.
Jaimie Hope is pleased to announce the release of her much awaited fourth volume in the Adventures of Baby Jaimie series. To celebrate the release of Baby Jaimie Gets a Crush Jaimie Hope. courtesy of Kindle Direct Publishing, is offering the Kindle edition for free download from April 6th until April 10th. After that time the book's price will be .99 throughout the month of April. It will then be raised to $1.99. Amazon Prime subscribers will have the option of borrowing the book for free any time after April 10th. Get your copy today!
About Author:
Jaimie Hope was born on November 3, 1976 in New York. It wasn't until high school that she decided she wanted to be a writer. This is when the ideas for the Adventures of Baby Jaimie started forming. This was also around the time she joined the newspaper staff. According to the author she was part of the staff for two years and really enjoyed it. Because the students weren't given assignments and were allowed to write on any topic on their minds. This gave Ms. Hope her first experience in freelance writing.
In 2003, she moved to Florida, where she was not only an active volunteer at the local library, but also in the historical society. During this time she also sang on a few demos at the local studio, wrote her first song, and ran a book club.
It wasn't until 2005, when she picked up The Adventures of Baby Jaimie and started working in earnest to get it done. It only took a month to finish the text of my manuscript. After several rejection The Adventures of Baby Jaimie was again shelved.
She didn't pick up the manuscript again until 2006. Ms Hope had moved back to New York and had lunch with a friend in the summer of 2006 who told her about a friend of hers who was a self published author. Ms. Hope contacted with him, and got advice on how to go about making her dreams of becoming a published author come true, and in November of 2006, AuthorHouse released The Adventures of Baby Jaimie.
After the release, Ms. Hope got busy trying to promote it, and as they say, life happened. Next she decided to try her hand at writing a novel. This proved to be a slow process as well, but not as slow as the first book.
In July of 2008, PublishAmerica released her first novel, Who Says You Can't Go Home.
In June of 2010, Jaimie Hope became a two time PublishAmerica author with the release of her second novel, Bless the Broken Road. Her second children's book, The Adventures of Baby Jaimie: Baby Jaimie Goes to School also available courtesy of CreateSpace in the same year.
In 2011 three more books were published. An Autobiography, Roll with it, courtesy of PublishAmerica, and two direct to Kindle E-Books. The first one is the third installment of the Baby Jaimie series entitled, The Adventures of Baby Jaimie: Baby Jaimie Gets Stage Fright, and the other is my first Paranormal Romance, When You Come Back to Me Again. Both e-books are now available in book format courtesy of CreateSpace.
What Did I Think:
Baby Jamie is so excited to be in the school play. But thanks to her big sister teasing Baby Jaimie about getting stage fright then not getting the part she wanted, her excitement went from happy to broken hearted and dissappointment.
I have fifteen grandkids so this has happened several times with one or the other of the kids.
I thought I was listening to one of my daughters telling me about my grandchild. I wanted to tell the teacher why didn't she make sure Jamie understood and why didn't Mom see it coming. Do I sound like a defensive grandma? I Am ;0)
Baby Jamie wanted to be the star or at least co-star. Her sister needed an attitude adjustment. Also we should not encourage partent to yell at their children. But it is what happens most of the time. I know I do it then regret it later.
The author hit every scenario right on. The "I'm sick and can't go to school" is a real ailment. At least it was when I was a child. I could get physically sick from worry. But Baby Jamie's ailment was a little premeditated and very well planned.
If you want to know if Baby Jamie was in the play, did she freeze on stage or did she become star of the stage you will have to read this book. Of course you will want to read it to your kids and/or grandkids.
This story will teach the child to take pride in themselves no matter what part they take on stage or in their life.
I highly recommend this book!
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I received a copy of this book from the author for review. In no way was I compensated for this review it is my own opinion.


text: URMC / Office for Inclusion and Culture / Education Programs/Resources Educational Programs and Resources The Office for Inclusion and Culture offers a number of programs to help further the education and careers of medical center faculty, residents, fellows, students, other medical professionals and staff. Current programs include: Diversity Seminar Series The Diversity Seminar Series is an ACCME accredited series of workshops and lectures developed annually for the benefit of faculty, residents, fellows, students, nurses, social workers and other staff. The series is designed to help participants understand cultural perspectives that may impact patient care, education and research. This will enable them to improve their own teaching, patient care and research relative to diverse populations. In addition, the series aims to help people develop strategies for personal development, mentoring and academic career planning. Tana A. Grady-Weliky, MD Lecture A highlight of the Diversity Seminar Series is the Tana A. Grady-Weliky, MD, Lecture on Women and Diversity in Medicine. The lecture honors the memory of Dr. Grady-Weliky, former University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Senior Associate Dean for Education and Department of Psychiatry faculty member. It brings in nationally recognized speakers each year to address critical topics related to diversity and inclusion in academic medicine. Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics Lecture Established in 2017, the Paul M. Schyve, MD Center for Bioethics Lecture brings nationally and internationally recognized speakers to the University of Rochester to address bioethics issues in clinical care, the health delivery system, and life sciences research. It is part of the Diversity Seminar Series. Developing from Within The Developing from Within: Exploring and Enhancing Career Choices for Mid-Career Women is designed for mid-career women faculty at the University of Rochester who are current or future department or institutional leaders and who want to further develop their leadership skills. It is co-sponsored by the URMC Office for Inclusion and Culture Development and The University of Rochester Susan B. Anthony Center. Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion at URMC Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion at URMC takes place in April as part of the YWCA's Stand Against Racism national movement to help raise awareness about racism and diversity issues. The event highlights the broad range of diversity and inclusion activities and resources at the medical center. Exhibits may be displayed in one or more locations throughout the medical center. Health Care Disparities Conferences Held every other year beginning in 2013, health care disparities conferences give health care professionals an opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills in providing health care to underserved patients. For information about these and other programs, contact the Office for Inclusion and Development.


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7th Annual Georgia Conference on Information Literacy Conference takes place October 1st - 2nd 2010 in Savannah, USA. There is a very large parallel programme of presentations, panel sessions etc. on information literacy. Most contributors are from North America, but some from Europe etc. Sessions include: "Teaching Information Literacy through Senior Projects", "Assessing Information Literacy Skills Across the Curriculum and On a Budget", "Teachers, Partners, Co‐mentors: Collaborating to Improve Research and Writing Instruction", "Preventing Depression: Using Conflict‐of‐interest in Medicine to Teach Information Literacy", "Using Freely Available Software in Information Literacy Instruction", "Building a First‐Year Information Literacy Experience: Integrating Best Practices in Education and ACRL IL Standards", "Establishing and Teaching a Credit‐bearing Library Course", "Embedded Librarians in the Online Technical College Classroom: Collaboration Across the Curriculum", "Using Emerging Technologies to Teach Research: The Library/English Department Video Collaboration", "Healthcare Literacy in a Web 2.0 Environment", "Library Instruction Marketing: Planning and Assessment", "PLEase make IL instruction easy: Applying Educational Theory to Create Active Learning Lesson Plans", "Tackling the "Problem" Research Assignment: Strategies for Success", "Lost in Translation: Creating a Common Language for Information Literacy Across Disciplines", "Promoting Engaged Citizenship Through Information Literacy", "I Found it on Facebook": Social Media and the ACRL Information Literacy Standards", "The Commercial Side of Information Literacy: Using Commercials to Ignite Critical Thinking", "Yes, Virginia, You Are the Authority in this Wiki: Using Wiki Technology in the Writing Classroom", "Multiple Partnerships for Student Information Literacy ‐ Library, Writing Center, Faculty, and Administration", "Using Within‐Document Summaries for Selective Reading and Organized Writing ", "The Needs Analysis: The First Step in Library Instruction Assessment", "Librarians as Literacy Sponsors: The Connection Between Information Literacy and Writing", "Getting Credit for It: Constructing Information Literacy Credit Courses", "Teaching the Moving Image: Establishing Literacy Standards for Film and Video", "Digital Storytelling and Information Literacy", "Virtual Libraries to Support Information Literacy", "Collaboration Across Libraries: A Library Partnership to Teach Information Literacy", "If You Build It, They Will Cheat:" How to Prevent Cheating in a Hybrid Online Course", "Ethos, Ethics, and New Media: Becoming Effective Citizens in the 21st Century", "Critical Literacy as a Model for Navigating Online Information" The website is at http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolit.html
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Mastering the Nikon D300/D300S by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of these sophisticated new cameras. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion factor that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment.
The book explores the features and capabilities of the two cameras in a way that surpasses the user manuals. It guides readers through the DSLR camera features with step-by-step setting adjustments, color illustrations, and detailed explanations for each option. Each button, dial, switch, screen, and menu configuration option is explored in a user-friendly manner, with suggestions for setup according to various shooting styles.
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Veteran Feminists of America
Elizabeth Shepard
NOVEMBER 2009 Feminist of the Month
Elizabeth Shepard with husband,
Ive lived two lives, says Betty Shepard, today of Naples, Florida. When the feminist movement began I was living
in the suburbs of New York, caring for my husband and children and involved in community affairs. I never thought
of myself as deprived in any way -- until 1970, when, as a lark, I took part in the march for Equality on Fifth
Avenue in New York and was awakened to the inequities and discrimination towards the female sex.
To start at the beginning: I was born in Beloit, Wisconsin October 7, 1918, the only child of Hungarian immigrants.
My parents, Louis and Elizabeth Vigh, named me Elizabeth Louise for both of them. I was supposed to be a boy, but
they loved me, and I knew it.
At age seven, the day we moved to Elkart, Indiana, I explored my new neighborhood and found a tennis tournament
being held for local children. Someone asked Do you play ? I didnt, but I would like to. I wasnt wearing sneakers,
so was told to remove my shoes and a tennis racket was put into my hand . All you have to do is hit the ball over
the net and keep going, someone said. I won the match from a little boy, and I was hooked. From then on much of
my youth was spent playing tennis. I met my future husband John Shepard on the courts at the University of Wisconsin
where I entered college in 1936.
My dad didnt know why women wanted to go to college, but I had to go, though I hadnt the foggiest idea of what
to study. My father had ulcers, so I chose a career in dietetics to find out why. But when I graduated his ulcers
had healed.
I met John Shepard, again in New York City, where he was studying at Cornell Medical College and I was in the first
class Cornell held for therapeutic dieticians. My first job was at Carle Memorial Hospital in Urbana, Ill. I returned
to New York and married John in 1942. I worked as a therapeutic dietician at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
and later, at the Good Housekeeping Magazine Bureau as a chemist. This was during World War II, and John was soon
conscripted . Now, with a salary, we could afford the baby I so wanted. When my son was born I worried that I couldnt
possibly love another child as much. But as soon as I saw my daughter, who was born in 1947, I knew I could. I
learned then that love is never limited, but extends to take in all those that we can.
After the war we moved to Manhasset, Long Island, where John entered private practice. Now I was a suburban housewife.
Volunteering became a big part of my life. I was president of the PTA and active in local politics. I liked being
a mother. I think I said no to my children 3 times -- once to my son when he wanted a motorcycle, to my daughter
when she wanted a horse, and no to any fighting before breakfast. And I said no to myself when I was asked to run
for NY State Congress. How could I have two teenagers at home and a husband who rarely was.
I never thought of myself as deprived in any way until August, 1970 when a friend called to tell me that NOW, the
National Org for Women was going to have a march down 5th Avenue for equal rights. Lets go she said. Oh Maggie,
I said.... weve just been thru the Civil Rights and the Peace movement, and now this movement of kooky women?
Im not sure I want to go. What else do you have to do?, she asked. But the time of the march was 5 oclock.
That's the time I prepare dinner, I said. Ill check with John. Oh John wont care, she replied. And of course
he didnt.
A few hours later I was marching on 5th Avenue with thousands of women I had never seen before, many who were older
than I, some nicely dressed, and some I would have liked to neaten up a bit. The sidewalks were filled with on
- lookers. People were pouring out of offices staring at us. Betty Shepard , what on earth are you doing here?
I thought.
As I marched so many emotions were pouring over me. I couldnt sort them out. The march ended at the Public Library
Park where we heard speeches by Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Flo Kennedy and many others . The word I kept hearing
was equality, equality, equality
and I thought, I dont feel unequal in any way. Then I heard that the march
was on August 26 , 1970 because it was the 50th anniversary of suffrage, the amendment that finally gave women
the right to vote . My goodness, I thought. In 1920 I was two years old and my mother couldnt vote!
We were given a flyer which stated the reasons for the march. The first was educational opportunities, the second
was equal pay for equal work, the third was childcare. I had trouble with this one, as I felt strongly that women
should take care of their children. The fourth was reproductive rights -- all reasonable demands. These were definitely
not kooky women! I decided I d better look up this NOW.
The next week I joined the Nassau County chapter. The members, mostly housewives, were so smart. I paid dues, but
there were scholarships for those who couldnt afford to. You had to be active at least on one committee. I looked
at the numerous committees and thought, I need to learn about consciousness raising. And Ive done lots of public
speaking, so I should be on the speakers bureau. There was one called female sexuality. What did that mean? Then
there was a media committee. I joined them all.
Thus began 15 years of almost around the clock work for womens rights -- speaking, lobbying, organizing, doing
surveys. I spoke at churches, womens groups, mens clubs
I especially enjoyed speaking to high school kids. In
the schools hallways Id hear. Were going to hear a womens libber. And when I faced the students I could see
the disappointment in some. Hum, you were expecting a young woman in a T- shirt and jeans and no bra, Id say,
not an old grey haired woman. Then Id begin my spiel. The kids were intrigued. After the lecture many, mostly
boys, would stay to talk to me. I remember one boy saying, I know what youre talking about. Oh, is your mother
a feminist? I asked ? No, he said, but my father left us and my mother had to go to work, and she gets so mad
because men doing the same work are getting a lot more money. Your mother is a feminist, I told him.
Then there was lobbying in Albany and in DC. Once in DC in the corridor of the capitol I bumped into a group of
teen age boys add - from Catholic High Schools. Are you here to study legislation ? I asked them. No, they said,
to lobby against abortion. Suddenly I was steaming, but I made myself cool it. Do you have sisters? I asked.
Most said yes. Do you love them? Yes. Supposing your sister is gang raped and becomes pregnant and she doesnt
want to have a child by a rapist. Would you want her to go thru that? Well, theyd never thought of this. And
furthermore, it could happen to your mother as well" I said. I left them looking puzzled, but thinking.
Elizabeth Shepard with husband,
One day I ran into one of my senators in the hall
at the capitol. I stopped him and, in a rather controversial way, I have to admit, I asked
How are you going
to vote on the abortion legislation? Are you going to vote as your constituents want you to, or your religion ?
He would vote his conscience, he said, and he turned and walked away from me. Before I knew it my hand had caught
his shirt tails , and I was demanding of him
. I want an answer! I was so enraged that I didnt hear his answer.
I learned then that anger is not only blind, but deaf, and realized that if I was to be persuasive I had to control
my anger.
She was born handicapped. She was
born female
In 1971 word came that Midge Kovaks of New York City NOWs Image Committee was organizing a national campaign aimed
at the sexist media. The idea was to stop the portrayal of girls and women as silly, immature nincompoops. We were
given a record about sexism in the
media, along with several wonderful posters, which I later learned were made by Anne Tolstoy Wallach of the J.
Walter Thompson Ad Agency. One poster of a sweet toddler, a little girl who looked perfect in every way, really
got to me. The caption said, This healthy, normal baby has a handicap. She was born female. This was incredibly
heartbreaking. I had to spread this around. I called the local radio station, got an appointment to see the director.
We talked about the rampant sexism in the media. Would you NOW women like to do a public broadcast?, he wanted
to know. Do I hear you correctly? I asked in disbelief. Ill ask our board.
But the board had no idea what to do. A month later they hadnt come up with anything, so I realized I would have
to do it. I decided Id create a program rather than give a lecture, so I took a crash course in Communications
at Hofstra U, then developed the program. Called SPEAKING NOW I presented it on local radio for five years. My
husband was retiring and we were moving to Florida, so I turned it over to the chapter. It ran for another 19 years,
and then I lost track.
The Nassau Country Medical Auxiliary, to which I, as the wife of a physician, belonged, asked me to speak to them
about SPEAKING NOW. I would rather do a program about doctors wives -- about you, I said.. and suggested they
let me interview them. They agreed.
It was a real eye opener for all of them. One doctors wife was a doctor herself, but most were, like me, more
or less happy housewives. The program broke all attendance records for the Auxiliary. Now they asked me to do another
on female sexuality. That one blew their minds and they insisted their husbands needed to hear this. Soon I received
a call from the president of the medical society asking me to give the lecture Id given his wife. I said yes,
but the women wanted the same lecture Id given them for their husbands. How was I going to do that? And there
was no way I could adapt it. I told my husband he didnt have to attend, but he insisted, so I had not only to
talk to husbands of my friends about female sexuality, but to my own husband.
It was the last and most important meeting of the month. Standing before this prestigious group I told them that
I was nervous, but as I looked at that sea of male doctors (and about 4 female doctors) I realized that in this
case I was the professional. I began by saying that I was exceeding my own comfort level and if I exceeded theirs
, to feel free to leave. Then I began to explain that female sexuality meant everything about women -- how they
wore their hair, how they walked and particular how they talked. And I spoke of those body parts that we had no
terminology for. I told them that Id asked women how they referred to those secret parts and got more than 26
astounding names. Most women called them simply my privates, or down there, But the ones I found most interesting
were tinkalinkee and, can you believe, Christmas. The breasts were most synonymous with food items, everything
from walnuts to water melons. No one has ever talks about the clitoris, I told them: the organ that provides orgasm
for women. I went on to explain different ways women can come to orgasm. After the lecture a doctor stood up and
said hed come only because it was the last meeting , and he couldnt believe all hed learned. There was a wonderful
round of applause. No one had walked out.
For many years John and I attended golf tournaments in Pine Needles, N.C. By now Im known as that womens libber.
Once a man came in and addressed John, God damn, all we hear today is womens lib" .. then he said approvingly,
Thats some kind of a wife you have. My husband replied, "Yes,shell nail you to the cross every time with
her truth. So I lived the feminist movement with a feminist husband.
As I was beginning to understand this new anger within me I was no longer the Betty my husband and friends knew.
But as I liberated myself, my husband, too was liberated. Its just a happy and exciting place to be .
I enjoyed both my lives -- that as a housewife/mother and that of a social revolutionary. The early feminist movement
was a time of constant, intense work with many set backs and frustrations, but we accomplished so much, and, looking
back I see that, in spite of the negatives, it was probably the most joyful and fun revolution of all time and
I was fortunate to be a part of it.
Elizabeth Shepard received the VFA medal of honor
in 2002 at a VFA event held with West Palm Beach NOW and Florida Atlantic University. She and her husband have
lived in Naples, Florida since 1985. Dr. John Shepard was a noted neurosurgeon. Their son, Dr John Shepard Jr,
is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in MN. Daughter, Judy is a speech therapist in California.
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Module code: LAW2076
Module Overview
The course will consider and critically examine the effects of a breach of contract and the factors which vitiate the validity and enforceability of contracts. The ethical values, philosophical principles and practical implications relating to enforceability of contracts will be explored. The increasing importance of European law will be shown and comparisons made with contract law in other jurisdictions. The students will also have the opportunity to explore the difficulties of harmonisation in this area.
Module provider
School of Law
Module Leader
STARZA-ALLEN Antony (Schl of Law)
Number of Credits: 15
ECTS Credits: 7.5
Framework: FHEQ Level 5
JACs code: M222
Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A
Module Availability
Semester 2
Prerequisites / Co-requisites
Contract law I
Module content
- Termination by breach
- Remedies for breach of contract at common law and Equity
- Remoteness of damage
- Measure of damage (performance and reliance)
- The doctrine of frustration and restitution upon frustration of contract
- Physical and economic duress
- Undue influence
- The nature and types of misrepresentation
- Remedies for misrepresentation (including damages and rescission)
- Mistake
- Non est Factum
- Capacity
- Illegal contracts and restraint of trade
- Privity
Assessment pattern
|Assessment type
|Unit of assessment
Alternative Assessment
Assessment Strategy
The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate ability to identify key issues and principles in depth, critically assess these issues and apply the relevant law.
The assessment addresses all learning outcomes listed above.
This module, taken together with Law of Contract I, forms one of the core modules for the purposes of the Qualifying Law Degree. This module will be assessed by a 3000 word coursework.
1500 word coursework, to be returned with comments. General feedback in a revision lecture at the end of the semester.
Module aims
- The module aims to provide students with a good level of understanding of enforcement aspects of the English law of contract in context as well as an appreciation of the philosophical and ethical concepts which have influenced the development of this area of the law.
- Students will be able to develop critical understandings of the following questions: What is a legally enforceable agreement? (drawing on learning from Contract I)How are contracts enforced and terminated?What constitutes a breach of contract? What remedies are available for breach of contract?When may parties be excused from performance of a contract?What sort of terms and/or agreements cannot be enforced?What remedies are available to those who wish to avoid a contract?
Learning outcomes
|Attributes Developed
|Explain and analyse critically the factors which may render a contract void or voidable, the factors which lead to the termination of a contract and the practical consequences and remedies which may then arise
|Demonstrate a critical understanding remoteness and measure of damages in relation to breach of contract
|Explain and analyse the common law provisions and remedies distinguishing them from those arising under Equity
|Evaluate critically the fundamental principles of contract law
|Undertake directed legal research to locate relevant materials
|Critically apply knowledge of the primary and secondary legal authorities to solve novel problems
Attributes Developed
C - Cognitive/analytical
K - Subject knowledge
T - Transferable skills
P - Professional/Practical skills
Overall student workload
Independent Study Hours: 119
Lecture Hours: 15
Tutorial Hours: 16
Methods of Teaching / Learning
The learning and teaching strategy follows an enquiry-based learning approach.
Lectures will introduce the topics, give a general overview of the principles of each topic, give guidance on how to analyse the law and research those topics and in some instances give specific examples of the law and its effect.
The lectures will not give a full description of, or appreciation of, the law. In order to learn in greater depth and breadth, such as to satisfy the learning outcomes, students will answer questions of some complexity in the 2-hour seminars, either resolving legal problems or performing a critical analysis of the law. Typically the seminar groups will each contain 16 students, who will work in small groups to research the law and present answers, demonstrating self-direction and originality, of both approach and resolution. Students should be prepared to field questions during their presentations, either from their tutor or from fellow students, and to follow up the presentations with group discussion and feedback. Presentations may be required in any form, including advocacy for a specific party in a problem question or argument for or against a specific proposition.
The learning and teaching methods would typically comprise:
- 12 x 1 hour substantive subject-specific lectures
- 1 hour feedback session on the formative assessment
- 2 x 1 hour revision lectures
- 8 x 2 hour seminars, as described above
Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.
Programmes this module appears in
|Qualifying conditions
|Law (JD Pathway) LLB (Hons)
|A weighted aggregate mark of 40% is required to pass the module
Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2018/9 academic year.


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Variety of Coverage Areas
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Even the most ideal venue can have a few challenging elements. Whether your venue is drab or fab, flowers are a perfect way to dress your day!
Using fresh flowers to conceal things you don't love, or enhance the things you do, is a perfect solution; the bonus is that you can add color, life and impact while complementing your theme at the same time. Buy in bulk from a reputable online vendor and you will be surprised how much you can do, for an amazing price.
Check out these great tips for using flowers to make sure all the elements of your venue are at their very best.
If the entrance to your wedding or event has a fountain, consider not having predictable water running full out from each tier. Adding fresh flowers to a tier instead of water converts a traditional concrete element into an instant style statement. This is sure to get your guests talking as they walk up to your big event. Try hydrangeas, snapdragons and longer greens like seeded eucalyptus.
If there is a tree that you don't love, or perhaps a few that you do, use fresh flowers to add an aerial focal point. The pops of color will brighten the bark and enhance your wedding theme if you go for a coordinating look. These hanging pomanders (kissing balls) are perfect in this outdoor venue. Click to find out more about floral pomanders.
If your venue has a staircase, don't overlook it! Enhance it with the addition of a garland of greens and/or fresh blooms in softly coordinating hues. Adding candles and other creative touches is another way to add impact and guest enjoyment. A simple staircase can become something truly breathtaking!
Don't forget the overhead light fixtures at your venue. Some of these can be pretty drab and dull. Hide the metal and add life and color to what is usually strictly utilitarian by draping your favorite fresh flowers and greens for a stunning visual display. Click to read more about Floral Chandeliers.
Swimming Pool
If your venue contains a pond or a swimming pool, don't miss the opportunity to add more flowers to play up this feature. You can buy floating boards of styrofoam and plastic to hold beautiful floral centerpieces. Use hearty flowers such as ferns, daisies, mums, and lilies. Another idea is to float pomanders or even just to scatter rose petals or carnation tops on the water's surface.
Let's face it, walls at the venue can be bare and drab without some added "wow" factor. Don't overlook some added pizazz for any wall located behind a key element of your celebration, such as the cake or dessert table, bride and groom table, gift table or a bar. Create a lovely backdrop by using flowers to make a flower accent piece. Another fun idea is to tape flowers, stem and all, to a backdrop, for a simple yet so interesting touch! Click to read more about Floral Backdrops.


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Blue Sky Actors
Blue Sky Actors
The Blue Sky Actors is an inclusive ensemble of adult disabled and non-disabled actors.
The group is now delivered by, newly appointed Associate Company, Face Front Inclusive Theatre and is a resident company of Stratford Circus Arts Centre.
Link: www.stratford-circus.com/event/blue-sky-actors
Our main missions are to play, have fun, build confidence and produce three productions a year.
Meeting Day
Three hours per session - during term time
Meeting Place
Stratford Circus Arts Centre, Stratford.
Cost per term
£20 per term.
Blue Sky Actors came from an existing group previously run by Theatre Venture and NALS.
Officially formed in 2011, recent previous productions at Stratford Circus include:
- Sevenish (2017)
- Peter Panto (2016)
- H.M. Home (2015)
- The Wizard of Us (2015)
- 3 Minutes (2015)
- Three Pigs (2015)
- The Hunchback Dame of Notre Newham (2014)
- No Barriers With Barriers Bowling Club (2014, Rowans Bowling, ACE).
Supported by City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation's Charity
To Join
Please contact Stratford Circus Arts Centre to see if there are any vacancies.
*Blue Sky Actors is delivered in partnership by Stratford Circus Arts Centre and associate company Face Front Inclusive Theatre.


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Happy Nowruz!
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In many countries Nowruz is a public holiday, but even where it is not its traditions are becoming increasingly known. One of the most famous of these traditions is Haft Seen, which you can see laid out on the table, or Sofreh, on this blog's picture. All items on the table start with an "S" and have great symbolic value. The apple (sib), for example, stands for health whereas the sprouts, Sabzi, are a symbol of rebirth.
No matter which items are displayed on your Sofreh, have a nice time celebrating Nowruz and welcoming spring.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Five years ago, Dominique Crenn was just another hardworking Bay Area chef running a small, ambitious restaurant. She had been cooking since the early 1990s, when she arrived in this city from her native France, but she was still off the radar for many American food lovers. She had never won a James Beard award or served as a judge on "Top Chef" or hit any of the other marks of culinary stardom.
But in 2013, Atelier Crenn, her sleek modernist restaurant in Pacific Heights, won two stars from the Michelin Guide, making Ms. Crenn the highest-ranked female chef in the United States — and drawing the tribe of global gastro-tourists who follow the stars. Last year, she was named "the World's Best Female Chef" by the World's 50 Best, a London-based group that publishes an influential (if somewhat arbitrary) annual list of the best restaurants in the world.
Since then she has shot video campaigns for LG refrigerators and Georg Jensen tableware, been the cover model for the magazine Gastronomique En Vogue, and is profiled in an episode of "Chef's Table" on Netflix. She has been honored by the French government for her contributions to gastronomy and culture, delivered a TED Talk on "defining success," lectured at Harvard, and spearheaded a movement of chefs to help restore agriculture in Haiti.
Her vault to international fame and clout has surprised many American food lovers, who are more familiar with chefs like Barbara Lynch and April Bloomfield. And it has raised questions — some new, some age-old — about how and why some chefs, and not others, achieve celebrity.
Ms. Crenn herself, a little stunned by her whirlwind ascent, is one of the people wrestling hardest with those questions, including what it means to be a leading woman in what remains a male-dominated field.
"I hope that award won't exist in two years," she said over coffee (American drip, black) at a hipster bike shop/espresso bar near the restaurant. She considered rejecting the "Best Female Chef" title, which many chefs, including her, consider patronizing. "But then I thought, 'Am I going to fight it or am I going to do something with it?'"
Ms. Crenn is clearly up for the fight, from the soles of her retro-chic Adidas trainers to the tips of her spiky hair. She is thoughtful, outspoken, authoritative and softhearted, sometimes in the course of a single sentence. Unlike many chefs who keep their heads down and their focus on the kitchen, she is not afraid to raise her voice — about religion, immigration, entitlement, gratitude and other topics only tangentially related to food.
"Dominique is a force to be reckoned with" said Melissa Perello, the chef at Octavia and Frances here and a longtime friend.
As a chef, Ms. Crenn is both the artist who challenges and creates, and the cook who comforts and nourishes. (Her other restaurant, Petit Crenn, is a homage to French home cooking and to Ms. Crenn's childhood visits to Brittany.)
Dinner at the jewel-box-like Atelier Crenn, which opened in 2011, begins not with a menu but with a poem on a slip of paper:
At the edge of the winter lake,
Come with me and look into the golden light
A burst of oceanic feeling, salty black pearls
The whimsically ebullient blue umami
The poem extends to a dozen lines, each one corresponding to a course: the meal, to more than 30 different bites, each one simultaneously delicious, elaborate and bewildering.
On the plate, "whimsically ebullient blue umami" translates to a shellfish course: grilled local abalone garnished with abalone liver, roasted garlic, egg "jam," oyster-scented cream and a tangy gelatinized mignonette sauce.
The eminent French chef Guy Savoy described himself as "immediately seduced" by Ms. Crenn's cooking. "Her work is so close to and respectful of the product," he said. "When combined with her beautiful sensibility, the result is deeply affecting."
Still, food that is deeply affecting is not always what Americans are comfortable eating. Some critics have called Ms. Crenn's work mystifying and pretentious, both on the plate and on the page.
"Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste," her 2015 cookbook, included a multicomponent recipe for "Birth" — a nest woven from corn silk, dehydrated and deep-fried, filled with tiny eggs made of corn "milk," duck fat and egg yolks and garnished with dark chocolate twigs.
She may be intensely cerebral on the plate, but Ms. Crenn is high-spirited in person. "You'd think she would be a bore, but she's exactly the opposite," said Nancy Silverton, a founder of LaBrea Bakery and of the Mozza restaurants in Los Angeles. "Dominique is a very serious chef with a very playful personality."
Ms. Crenn, 51, was raised outside Paris, in Versailles. Her father, Allain Crenn, was a politician and a painter, whom she credits with developing the awareness of the visual arts and the natural world that is always present in her work.
She learned the principles of cooking from her mother, Louise Crenn, and was taken to fine restaurants from a young age. But she did not dream of becoming a chef, and never attended culinary school. She moved here after graduating from college in Paris, and has never truly left. "France is my country, but San Francisco is my home," she said.
With only her basic culinary skills, she talked her way into a job at Stars, cooking under Jeremiah Tower, and changed kitchens frequently after that, with a yearlong stint in Indonesia. Along the way, she refined the style and skills that have lifted her to a prominence available to very few women in the profession.
She is the only woman named to the international advisory board of the prestigious new Basque Culinary Center, a research and innovation institute in Spain funded by AB InBev, Siemens and other multinational corporations. Other board members include the chefs Ferran Adrià, Dan Barber, Alex Atala and Massimo Bottura.
The restaurant critic for Elite Traveler magazine, Andy Hayler, recently predicted that Ms. Crenn would be the world's single most influential chef of the next 10 years, outranking a corps of also-rans, all men, like David Chang and Grant Achatz.
"Partly because she is one of the few chefs who can pull off a modernist menu in a way that is interesting," Mr. Hayler said. "And partly because she is a woman, and therefore presumably able to influence more women to do what she does."
Ms. Crenn now has to wrangle publicly with the increasingly controversial role of leading female chef, a label she has tried to fend off throughout her career. The morning after being named "Best Female Chef," she was on "Today" defending (and explaining) the title, while online a debate raged over whether the award was a gratifying recognition from peers or a blatant expression of the sexism that continues to pervade the restaurant business.
Many chefs and journalists contended that the award's very existence smacked of tokenism, especially when bestowed upon a chef, like Ms. Crenn, whose restaurant has never appeared on the World's 50 Best list. On Mic, the food journalist Khushbu Shah wrote that the award "says you may be the best female chef in the world, but there are still 50 male chefs that are better than you."
Because of rankings like World's 50 Best, in which chefs help decide the winners, success in the modern food world requires being admired by other chefs — most of them male and European — even more than by critics. Ms. Crenn is popular among other chefs, who cite her dedication to mentoring, philanthropy and environmental causes, as well as her talent.
But her food is unapologetically artsy, personal and sometimes risky, and she believes this is one reason she received less credit and more criticism at the beginning of her solo career.
"Many people still think a creative, original artist must be a man," she said. This was long true in art, fashion, literature and many other fields, she pointed out. "My biggest role models are not chefs," she said, "but women like Coco Chanel, Simone de Beauvoir, Nina Simone."
Today, her style of cooking may work in her favor: Ms. Crenn is making the kind of food that currently commands attention from the food media and gastro-tourists. That means using technology to transform familiar foods into exotic forms; deploying luxury ingredients like foie gras, abalone and king crab; experimenting with foraged food like plankton and sea buckthorn; and presenting every dish in a way that is highly Instagrammable.
"She cooks the way the men are cooking," Michael Bauer, the longtime restaurant critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, said in an interview. "Like what you'd see at Benu or Quince or Le Bernardin," all restaurants with three Michelin stars, headed by men.
Many women can and do cook in this au courant style, loosely called "modernist." But in the United States, so far, few of them are at the helm of their own restaurants.
"Dominique is an outstanding chef, very creative and evolutionary," said Elena Arzak, the modernist chef of Arzak in the Basque Country, who began to champion Ms. Crenn's career more than a decade ago. Ms. Arzak was named the "Best Female Chef" of 2012. "She is always up-to-date on our world of food, and concerned with the larger world of nature and the environment," she said.
(In April, Ms, Crenn will pass the "Best Female Chef" baton to Ana Roš, a former ski champion and self-taught chef whose restaurant in rural Slovenia is dedicated to introducing the world to the native foods of the western Balkans.)
Ms. Perello, of Octavia, said most female chefs lack not the ability, but the desire, to embrace modernist cooking. With its manicured compositions and technical transformations, it's a style that constantly announces the presence of the chef. "For whatever reason," she said, "it's still easier for men to stick their neck out and say: 'Look at me, look at what I'm doing on this plate. Isn't it incredible?'"
Clearly, Ms. Crenn's breakthrough is not only about the food. "Yes, Dominique is more enamored of technique and equipment than any of the women chefs I know," Ms. Silverton said. "But it's her charisma and confidence, not her cooking, that cracked that boys' club open."
Mr. Bauer, who gave Atelier Crenn three and a half stars in a 2014 review, took that a few steps further. "She has been successful because she does have talent, and she has worked hard," he said. "But let's be honest, also because she has enormous charisma, she's beautiful, and has that French accent."
Ms. Crenn shrugs off this assessment. She is firmly feminist, but her interest in identity politics in the kitchen is limited.
"Being a chef is about feeding people, which is part of the story of all humanity," she said. "Male, female, gay, straight, Jewish, Muslim, white, black: The longer I do this, the more I am sure that none of it should matter in the kitchen — or anywhere."
"Maybe I'll start my own list," she added. "It would not look like anything the world has seen before."
Recipe: Caramelized Winter Squash With Pumpkin Seed Persillade