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Monday Musings
2. I took my kids to see Soul Surfer yesterday. I could tell from the previews I would like it, and it ended up being even better that I'd hoped. I guess it's the mom in me, but it made me very emotional. My favorite part was when they showed photos of the real Bethany Hamilton and her family at the end. My kids all gave it a thumbs-up as well.
3. We ordered the flooring for our basement on Saturday, and today I start painting the walls. We're turning it into a rec room for the teenagers in the house. This should be a good opportunity to let those creative plotting juices flow. :)
4. I just won over at Deniz Bevan's The Girdle of Melian blog for her 500 Posts Contest. Thanks so much, Deniz!
Did you do anything fun this weekend? Any big plans for the week ahead?
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- Jen Daiker said...
Sounds to me like you are having some great things happening. I wish I had a garden but living in an apartment doesn't allow that. I loved Soul Surfer, I got to enjoy it at the drive-in one weekend. Congrats on getting the flooring and pulling a win!
My in-laws were in town this weekend so we had lots of great food (eating out) and enjoyed the gorgeous weather! I also maintained my word count each day (something new I'm trying) and trying to keep my focus off of querying and more on the new WIPS!
- Mon May 16, 07:11:00 AM
- Joanne said...
I planted my garden too ... lots of tomato plants, with some lettuce and eggplant too. And now the rains here too, perfect timing. Fresh tomatoes right off the vine are so good, can't wait!
- Mon May 16, 07:20:00 AM
- Brian said...
Congrats for winning!!! Oh yea, and congrats for getting that gardening done too!
- Mon May 16, 07:26:00 AM
I have wanted to see Soul Surfer and now will (again) make a plan to go! I went to my first High Tea. It was delicious!
- Mon May 16, 07:26:00 AM
- Anne Gallagher said...
Oh the garden - don't remind me. We went to the zoo on Sunday. First time in a long time. Nice day. This week includes revisions. Again.
- Mon May 16, 07:32:00 AM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
I'd rather it rained after I mowed than before - that only delays the mowing and makes the grass grow faster.
- Mon May 16, 07:43:00 AM
- Becky Taylor said...
I love painting a room...it's mindless activity and always leads to a flood of ideas. Vacuuming is the same for me.
- Mon May 16, 07:43:00 AM
- Kelly said...
My kids want to see Soul Surfer too. Glad to hear that it is really good! I'm sure it is inspiring!
- Mon May 16, 08:16:00 AM
- A.L. Sonnichsen said...
We had a huge thunderstorm this weekend. It was so amazing! My husband read that we got the entire average rainfall for the month of May in one day. Grow plants, grow! :)
P.S. Thanks for the movie recommendation. I'll have to check that one out.
- Mon May 16, 08:38:00 AM
- Bossy Betty said...
I can't wait to see updates on the home improvement project. Bring on the pictures!
- Mon May 16, 08:50:00 AM
- Theresa Milstein said...
Sounds like a good weekend!
Congratulations on winning a book on Deniz's blog. Which one did you choose?
- Mon May 16, 08:56:00 AM
- Old Kitty said...
Awwww congratulations with your win!! Yyayayayayayyayyayayayay!!!! What a great way to end your fab weekend! Take care
- Mon May 16, 08:57:00 AM
- Tara said...
I've been sick and didn't get the gardening done this weekend that I'd hoped to. When the rain started my first thought was that it would have so nice for the seeds/plants!
- Mon May 16, 09:04:00 AM
- L. Diane Wolfe said...
I suffered through a really long book festival but survived. And larned.
- Mon May 16, 10:47:00 AM
- The Happy Whisk said...
Are you turning the basement into your office?
- Mon May 16, 12:10:00 PM
- notesfromnadir said...
I like it when a movie's better than the preview as it doesn't happen often!
Just put up my latest ebook on Kindle & B&N, Nuts About Shea Butter.
- Mon May 16, 01:15:00 PM
- Talli Roland said...
You've been a busy bee!
- Mon May 16, 01:20:00 PM
- DEZMOND said...
I love gardening, too bad I never have time for it :( But I do have lovely irises in the garden right now in all possible colours and my favourite peonies should bloom soon.
- Mon May 16, 02:20:00 PM
- Jo Schaffer said...
Sounds like a great weekend.
I went to see Water For Elephants with friends and out to dinner. Also had a Girls Night at my house-- mani-pedis and chick flicks. (=
- Mon May 16, 06:00:00 PM
- Deniz Bevan said...
Congratulations Susan! Do you think my potted plants on the balconey will be okay, with all the rain and wind? It's the first time I've planted anything on my own :-)
- Mon May 16, 06:22:00 PM
- Trisha said...
I saw a poster for this movie when we went to see "Thor" on the weekend... Looks good!
- Mon May 16, 08:37:00 PM
- Hanny said...
FINALLY wen sailing in Bellingham Bay. It's been 5 years since I moved here and I only just now make it out onto the water. Thanks for reminding me about the unattended garden!
- Mon May 16, 09:01:00 PM
- Lydia K said...
I owe a bit of beta/CP work for this week. So far my gardening is done, whew!
- Tue May 17, 11:43:00 AM
- Jackee said...
I did a ton of gardening too! :o) I got the fence up and tilled and seeded. Good times.
The kids are going to love the basement! Oh to be an author-looking fly on the wall... lol.
Have a wonderful day, my friend!
- Tue May 17, 12:48:00 PM
- Michelle Teacress said...
Our big event is that our oldest is graduating from high school. It's all very exciting. :)
- Tue May 17, 05:34:00 PM
- salarsenッ said...
I'm thrilled to hear that Soul Surfer was cool. Want to see that one. This weekend...I hosted a prom dinner for my oldest (a junior), his date, and their friends. It was a lot of fun and interesting to really watch them interact. Go YA!! :)
- Tue May 17, 06:12:00 PM
- Stina Lindenblatt said...
I wanted to see Soul Surfer but didn't have a chance. I'll have to wait for the DVD.
So what did you win?
- Tue May 17, 06:45:00 PM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
What did you plant? We haven't started a garden yet. I hope to plant one in the next week or so. :)
- Tue May 17, 07:16:00 PM
- Fresh Garden said...
Soul Surfer is amazing!! :D
- Tue May 17, 11:02:00 PM
- Madeleine said...
Congrats on the prize.
Sounds like a productive weekend.
We were so busy with guests and the cat was injured an had to be kept in a room quietly. Exhausting but fun! :O)
- Wed May 18, 07:01:00 AM
I just got some gardening done right before the rains too. Tore out some patio deck and tilled the ground. Now we'll plant some stuff with the kids, including watermelons.
- Wed May 18, 08:10:00 AM
- Nas Dean said...
Congratulations on the prize! Seems like you had a very productive weekend!
I also got some gardening done, but then we have to do it the whole year around in my country!
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The Summer Olympics Games are one of my favorite things in the world. In fact, this August I'm going on my dream vacation to London to spectate the games! Although I could only afford one ticket to a session of track + field events, I am still ecstatic to be present for such an incredible event. This year, I am lucky enough to actually know some of the athletes personally that will be competing. This weekend, potential Team USA athletes are vying for their ticket to London at the Track & Field Olympic Trials in Eugene Oregon. I can't wait to see some of my favorite Gators representing their country at the 2012 Summer Games!!
That being said, I couldn't pass up the chance to compete in a baking-themed version of the games - the Cookie Dough-Lympics! This contest, run by Endless Simmer and Quirk Books was created to promote Lindsay Landis' (of Love & Olive Oil) new book The Cookie Dough Lover's Cook Book. I most often bake cookies and one of the hardest things for me to do is keep myself from sneaking chunks of the dough. There is something indescribably irresistible about raw cookie dough that makes it almost as good as its baked counterpart. Lindsay Landis fully agreed and developed an egg-free cookie dough recipe used in countless treats that highlighting the unbaked dough. I'm hoping I can get my hands on a copy of this book!
For my entry, I made cookie dough mini pies. Flaky pie crust surrounded a filling of classic chocolate chip cookie dough that stayed gooey even after baking. The trick was to cook low and slow so the dough didn't turn a weird consistency and the pie crusts didn't burn. After the crusts turned just the lightest shade of golden brown, I removed them from the oven and drizzled them with a warm stream of melted semi-sweet chocolate chips. The result was fantastic - you first tasted the soft buttery shell followed by warm chocolate chip cookie dough and then finally found yourself licking the chocolate drizzle from your lips. These pies are pretty messy but it was worth it!
Egg-less Cookie Dough From: Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook
1 + 1/2 stick butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
2 tablespoons milk or cream (I used half-and-half)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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1. Make Cookie Dough: Beat butter and sugars until fluffy. Mix in milk or cream and vanilla. Stir in flour and salt. Gently fold in chocolate chips by hand. Cookie dough is good in the fridge in an airtight container for 3 days.
2. Assemble Mini Pie: Cut two circles out of the pie dough with a cookie cutter or glass. Roll a tablespoon sized ball of cookie dough and then flatten it and place it in the center of one of the pie-dough circles. With your finger, lightly rub butter on the edges of both circles. Put the second circle on top of the circle holding the pie dough. To seal edges, press together with a fork around perimeter of mini pie.
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While the white or golden tabby coloration of these animals may be pretty, what the zoos won't tell you is that, in reality, it's a deadly genetic mutation. THEY ARE NOT A SUBSPECIES, and are not albino.
The white gene is a double-recessive one caused mostly by inbreeding (in a natural mating, there is only a one in 10,000 chance that a tiger will be white), which is why they say that it exists 'only in captivity'. Zoos are not willing to wait for this one in 10,000 miracle tiger, and so find that the only other way to produce them is through inbreeding.
Even though it does happen naturally in the wild that tigers can be born white, there are many reports of wild tiger mothers attempting to smother their white cubs to death, because the coloration also makes the tigers more visible to prey. In a natural setting, white tigers and golden tabby tigers would starve to death, or die of other complications. This maternal beha vior is noted even today in zoos, and often, white tigers must be taken from their mothers immediately after birth. The Singapore Zoo reported that one of their mother tigers refused to nurse her white cubs, so handlers had to raise the infant tiger themselves.
As further proof, white and golden tigers ARE NOT managed by the Species Survival Plan, under the following reasons:
1) the Indian Zoo Association is responsible for managing the Bengal tiger, along with the European EEP;
2) most white tigers are of unknown lineage;
3) because the SSP is based upon maximizing genetic diversity. Selective breeding of an extremely rare allele for white coloration is not appropriate.
According to Dr. Ron Tilson, Conservation Director of the Minnesota Zoo and manager of the world renown Tiger Species Survival Plan, "The white tiger controversy among zoos is a small part ethics and a large part economics. The tiger Species Survival Plan has c ondemned breeding white tigers because of their mixed ancestry, most have been hybridized with other subspecies and are of unknown lineage, and because they serve no conservation purpose. Owners of white tigers say they are popular exhibit animals and increase zoo attendance and revenues as well. The same rationalization can be applied to the selective propagation of white lions, king cheetahs and other phenotypically aberrant animals."
What Dr. Tilson didn't fully understand was that the inbreeding went even beyond the Bengal tiger bloodline. To make white tigers even more visually-appealing to the public, they were cross-bred with Siberian tigers, which, according to information released by Daniel C. Laughlin, a widely-recognized manager of zoological animals, makes "white tigers in the U.S. crossbred or hybrid animals, part Siberian and part Bengal. So, in conclusion, every white tiger in the U.S. is not only the result of repeated inbreeding of geneti cally defective animals but, even worse, is a hybrid or crossbred animal. Thus, anyone involved in breeding and/or exhibiting white tigers is doing a great disservice to honest conservation and preservation efforts to save the five remaining and endangered subspecies of tigers barely clinging to survival in their rapidly diminishing natural habitats."
But it gets worse: Laws in the United States actually allow people to own tigers as pets under the condition that they have a permit. Since a white tiger cub can sell for an average of $60,000, people are creating these cats through inbreeding in captivity without any professional background or knowledge. According to some sources, 80 percent of these white cubs die. Surviving cubs often have a range of problems including immune system deficiencies, scoliosis, cleft palates, mental impairments and/or bulging, crossed eyes. (Source: www.itsyourtimes.com/?q=node/2647 )
Also, ALL WHITE TIGER ARE CROSS-EYED, even if it is not readily apparent. This is because the gene which makes them white also messes up the way their eyes are wired to their brains.
Other deformities include serious dental problems and deformed bone structure. Mental issues are probably the most common result (I watched at a roadside zoo here in Oregon as a white tiger licked a concrete wall until its tongue bled). Gnawing on fences or enclosure walls, pacing and constant salivation are other sure signs that the cat you are looking at suffers from the affects of its unfortunate ancestry.
Often, you will see photos of white tigers being fed milk from baby b ottles, or sucking on their trainer's fingers during performances. Biologists believe that this a sign of prolonged stress in the animal, and that it has regressed back to acting like a dependent cub. This is not healthy and should NOT be encouraged.
Over all, it's a sad issue which is not being noted by the public enough to end it. Most zoos and safari parks won't even tell you about the inbreeding issue, or will claim that their white tigers were a 'natural' occurrence. But there have been no 'natural' white tiger births since 1951.
What these establishments are doing is wrong and immoral, and lying to the public about their tigers (or at least withholding the information from the public) shows quite obviously that they are not in it for the animals; they are in it for the money. Deliberately breeding an animal in the knowledge that its life will be unnecessarily painful is cruel, and is a practice that should have no place in modern animal care. White and golden tabby tigers are merely a product of the practice of inbreeding, and are not being bred for any sort of conservation program, regardless of what various zoos and other establishments claim. The Endangered Species Act does not classify golden tabby or white tigers as under threat; they are instead classified as a genetic variant. Tinkering with their genes in order to 'improve' them is just an act of vanity on the part of humans.
THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO TO HELP: Inquire at your local zoo as to where they got their white tigers, and let them know that you are aware of the issue noted above. Also, avoid roadside zoos which house white tigers, as these establishments are the most at fault for the inbreeding. But above all, education is the best means of helping the unfortunate plight of white tigers. Spreading the word of the inbreeding will make more people aware of the unfortunate plight.
For more infor mation, visit:
1) www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/white_tigers.htm
2) www.animalsvoice.com/edits/editorial/news/invest/siegfrie…
3) www.animalcorner.co.uk/rainforests/bengalwhite.html
4) lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-200310…
5) peaceriverrefuge.org/Tiger.html
Sites where this image has been used for education:
1) www.felinest.com/white-tigers-are-not-natural/
2) winddanncer.today.com/
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1) www.buzzinbizarre.co.uk/behind-the-breeding-of-the-white-…
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Ohio State moved up to No. 2 in the Bowl Championship Series Standings released Sunday, giving the Buckeyes an edge on Auburn as the teams prepare for their respective conference championship games this week.
The team that ends up No. 2 in next week's final BCS standings could meet new No. 1 Florida State for the BCS National Championship on Jan. 6 if the Seminoles can win the ACC title Saturday against Duke.
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The Buckeyes are ranked second in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, the Harris Poll and the BCS computers, with an overall average of .9503 compared to No. 3 Auburn's .9233. Florida State's average is .9948.
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Florida State, Ohio State and Auburn are each ranked 1, 2 and 3, respectively, in four of the six computer ratings.
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Mark St Leon: Australia's Travelling Showpeople
At the monthly meeting of The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra on Tuesday 5 June 2012 at 8pm at the Neighbourhood Hall, Cook Community Hub, 41 Templeton Street Cook (6251 7004) our guest speaker will be Mr Mark St Leon. Mark's topic will be: Australia's Travelling Showpeople.
Mark St Leon, who has lectured in economics, accounting and management at a number of Australian universities, is a descendant of the St Leon circus family. He has written eight biographies of circus people for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, as well as a PhD and a book: Circus - the Australian Story.
The itinerant life, paucity of education, word-of-mouth and lack of scholarly concern means that few circus people committed their experiences to posterity, preserved documentary evidence or bothered to investigate the past.
Mark's talk will be devoted to explaining the origins and development of Australia's travelling show industry, with particular reference to the circus and the challenges involved in studying circus genealogy. The talk will last about 45 minutes and will include some short film clips.
There is no charge and visitors are welcome.
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The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc was founded in 1964 'to promote and encourage the study and preservation of family history, genealogy, heraldry and allied subjects, and to assist members and others in research in these areas.' The Society is run entirely by volunteers, who give generously of their time, expertise and goodwill to provide a service for all members.
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Just as I started writing "On Water" for this blog, my well pump produced a terrible clanking and cranking and shut itself off after running for 30 seconds at a time. Death throes — that's what Roger, the well man, declares.
Gap-toothed and a little grim, Roger's standing next to the open door of our pump house. He outlines further possible disasters. We could be facing pitted pipes that will need to be replaced, or not-up-to-standard wiring — or, worst of all, a failed well. We won't know until the pump is pulled.
The roof of the pump house — originally designed to be removable for this contingency — has been pushed aside so the crane that Roger operates from the back of his truck can hoist up the long sections of pipe, one by one, from the 500-foot shaft that is our well.
Young Dustin does most of the physical labor, unscrewing and laying each pipe section carefully on the gravel driveway so it can be returned in the exact order it came out.
I can feel the pipe extraction as if it were my own body. I had no idea I identified so closely with this source I've been watching over for the 17 years we've lived on our country acres outside of Eugene, Ore.
Strategies for using less
We've always lived with low-flow everything. Restrictors on showers and faucets, the newest low-water washer — there's only one hose bib on the whole house that delivers at the maximum, and that's for fire protection.
However, I was surprised to discover that our toilets are not as water-saving as they could be. When we had to refill using a five-gallon bucket with water scooped out of the hot tub — our Northwestern winter pleasure — it turns out it's two gallons per flush. That was low-flow 17 years ago, but not now.
When we bought the house, we downsized from the average toilet flush of 7 gallons. Whew. However, now technology has improved. Some dual-flushes use less than a gallon. Save water in the bathroom — more for the garden, where it can at least percolate down and return to the groundwater.
Our gardening water comes from our holding tank, a 12,000 gallon above-ground swimming pool at the top of our property. It was here when we moved in. We don't swim in it. We collect rainwater in winter. Frogs and small fish have made it their home.
We augment in summer pouring judicious supplements from the well, turned on at night when the system has no other demands. A hefty farm pump next to the swimming pool delivers the water downhill in the daytime to drip hoses and low-volume sprinklers.
Water is wealth
Finally, our well pump is pulled into view, slim and shining, still looking new after all those years. I'm adding up replacement costs in my head — ca-ching, ca-ching — when I realize all water is free — every bit of it, an incredibly generous gift from our blue planet. It's getting it from place to place that costs.
The conservation connection has never been clearer to me than it has in the last three days without water — it took Roger that long to get here. All value of real estate, either in town or country, depends on water. You can have the fanciest Mc-house around with a big spread of barns and animals — we don't, but you could — and it's worth zero without a good source of water.
You think home prices have dropped in the last year? Your value plummets to nothing, the day your tap runs dry. Conservation gets personal. No matter how much it costs you in a monthly bill, water's true worth is beyond rubies and pearls.
Now Roger is grinning. All is well with the well. Our pipes are fine, our electrical wiring is up to code. we still have water in the ground. With each pronouncement, I take a personal pride, as if someone had told me, you have great teeth.
Dustin wires up a new pump and it slowly makes its way back down the shaft, to hang above the actual well bottom at 456 feet, so it doesn't suck up grit, connecting us once more with the source of all we need — and that's priceless.
Mary-Kate Mackey, co-author of Sunset's Secret Gardens — 153 Design Tips from the Pros and contributor to the Sunset Western Garden Book, writes a monthly column for the Hartley Greenhouse webpage and numerous articles for Fine Gardening, Sunset, and other magazines. She teaches at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism & Communication. She will be writing about water in the garden for Diggin' It.
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I'm a little skeptical of the 'twice as hard' claim. Can one diamond actually be harder than another? Nonetheless, any story about asteroids, diamonds, and Russia is worth posting.
'We are speaking about trillions of carats': Russia reveals vast diamond source under 62-MILE-WIDE asteroid crater which could supply world markets for next 3,000 years
Russia is about to start tapping into a huge source of diamonds that could supply the world market for the next 3,000 years.
Scientists estimate there are 'trillions of carats' lying beneath a 35million-year-old asteroid crater in Siberia - more than ten times the global stockpile.
The Kremlin has known about the reserves under the 62-mile-wide impact zone since the 1970s.
But it has kept it a secret until now because it was already reaping big profits in what back then was a heavily controlled market.
The Soviets had also been producing various artificial diamonds for industry which proved a lucrative enterprise.
Government officials finally gave scientists from the nearby Novosibirsk Institute of Geology and Mineralogy permission to lift the lid on the crater's hidden gems in a meeting with journalists over the weekend.
The official news agency, ITAR-Tass, said the diamonds at the site, known as Popigai Astroblem, are 'twice as hard' as the usual gemstones, making them ideal for industrial and scientific uses.
According to The Christian Science Monitor, the institute's director, Nikolai Pokhilenko, told the agency that the new source would cause a radical shake-up in the precious stones market.
'The resources of super-hard diamonds contained in rocks of the Popigai crypto-explosion structure are by a factor of ten bigger than the world's all known reserves,' he said.
'We are speaking about trillions of carats. By comparison, present-day known reserves in Yakutia (a Russian mine) are estimated at one billion carats.'
The stones at Popigai are known as 'impact diamonds' which result when an object like a meteor strikes an existing diamond deposit.
They are also unique, which will make them even more sought-after in high-precision scientific and industrial markets.
Pokhilenko said: 'The value of impact diamonds is added by their unusual abrasive features and large grain size.
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I'm amazed at how clean the shapes are, the cuts are sharp and very well placed. Wang brings (again) something very innovative to fashion.
And I'm in love with the white jacket in the first photo (and a shorter, black one as well).
It's so good, right! Also the black jacket in look 22. There's something about this collection that gets me excited for spring clothing, which for me is unusual. The layering aspect is important… and it still feels so clean.
Wow! I love the black dress. Sleek and sexy.
I particularly loved this show because it is the type that everyone comes away trying to pin-point an inspiration, a starting point or references in general. I could list off quite a few myself including: Tron, x-ray vision and robots but these clothes are camoflage for a woman in a concrete urban jungal. I was blown away at the effortlessness and execution of the peices, the way the separate sections of fabric seemed to hover on the models bodies. An amazing show from a true forward thinker – KUDOS Mr Wang!
Visually this is intriguing and inventive.
However I wouldn't have enjoyed watching the show live (or being in it) because I would have been on the edge of my seat worrying that a "wardrobe malfunction" could occur at any moment.
The clothes seem rather precarious don't you think?
Precarious, yes, but that's partly why they are so sexy. And don't worry, everything is held securely in place with a kind of melt-proof fishing wire.
Nice concepts but I wonder when a woman might wear something so see-through. Plus, didn't Ms. Versace do transparent seams a couple seasons ago?
I'm loving this collection!
Love this collection. All the shapes are so clean and they come together to create a work of art! so interesting to look.
Esther xx
Wow! I am in love with this collection.
The white with the clear sections of the clothes look beautiful!
Clean, Sharp, with subtle danger …….All in all, perfect.
That clothes make me remember Azzedin Alaia. A great designer, by the way.
I'm obsessed!
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WOW! Amazing detail in this collection! Such a mastery in creating the panelled effects.
A really sharp collection. But this is one of those that is more for inspiration and beauty instead of for wearing for real women. Take the black dress: any woman with even small size breasts couldn't wear this–it would be too revealing from the side. Most women aren't shaped like models…and probably don't want to be. But I'm a guy, so perhaps I'm wrong here.
I think the designs are really modern but crazy. I love crazy stuff.
I like it all!:)
I can imagine these sandals being the next hype for fall, but I'm not really convinced by the dresses yet. I feel you really have to be super skinny to wear them
DITTO! The Shoes – yes please!
The eternal question: is fashion supposed to be wearable or just a statement?
This is what this collection makes me think.
Interesting pieces, spectacular shoes, clear, bold lines, but all in all, who would daringly wear these clothes without layering them?
A big kiss from Greece!
I LOVE Alexander Wang!!
Visually striking but is this collection wearable by "normal" women ?
The white coat, probably.
Great creativity and execution.
Wow! How incredible is this collection. The textile reminds me of paper being cut out into shapes. Love it!
I love the lightness of these garments. They just seem to float around the models. It makes me wish it was still July so I could dress like this!
I love the shoes , but they look so uncomfortable… It makes me think, when the fashion meets the comfort and viceversa
I see a Cubism influence: the cuts simultaneously deconstruct and construct, and the different viewpoints created.
These dresses are so awesome, especially number 2 and 3!
these dresses are rad, and i love the high strap on those shoes. while revealing, the dresses seem flowing enough to handle many different body shapes. i hope the "normal" woman mentioned in other comments take these looks on.
Amazing. Inspired. Original, sexy, fun. Finally, fashion!
Amazing collection..!
Very innovative dresses! I lve the clean black and white look!
This, to me, is a statement that says exactly this: remember The Future?
For the past decade+ design as a whole (fashion, graphic, interior, architecture, etc) has been looking back for inspiration.l This, in my opinion, was a reaction to the whole Y2k hysteria. Towards the end of the 90′s- for those that can remember- design was centered around "The Future," and a bit of pre-millenium tension permeated everything. Fashion, specifically, embraced minimalist forms with utlitarian leanings. Many new synthetic fabrics were being implemented, and the shapes and embellishments were almost inspired by a survivalist mentality. People didn't know what to expect come the turn of the century.
Then, at midnight on January 1, 2000, when nothing happened, I feel the reaction became ANTI-Future. Around this time (2000-2002) we started seeing a return towards a more…used look (for lack of a better term). Think The Strokes, with their rumpled, 70′s, slept-in look and faded denim EVERYWHERE. Further into the decade, plaid and flannel made a resurgence, and with it, a more classic Americana look. Into the 10′s, that Americana look went even deeper, with heritage brands coming to the forefront, and everyone in Williamsburg pretending it was the 1920′s.
But viewing this Alexander Wang show says, "Enough already! Let us turn our eyes towards the future ahead of us once again." A rather bold statement, but a very necessary one
Beautiful without any fuss. Love it.
I am in love with this collection. The first thing I thought when I saw this was Fifth Element. Amazing.


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There's a revised edition of the Bob Griesemer OWB book from Packt Publishing - Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2: Getting Started 2011. It's a good book for beginners and leads you through the basics of building an OWB project using OWB 11gR2 with a mixture of data sources including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Its easy to follow and is essentially a tutorial for those new to the tool. Its always interesting reading different users views on what they use and what is important. The book includes updated information including the new user interface and code template mappings amongst others.
The book is here: https://www.packtpub.com/oracle-warehouse-builder-11g-r2/book


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I was recently driving past downtown Houston and noticed that we are home to some extremely tall buildings! Apparently, Houston has forty-five skyscrapers that exceed 400 feet.
The tallest of these is the JP Morgan Chase Tower, at 600 Travis Street, with 75 stories. It was built in 1982, and is 1002 feet high. It is the tallest building in Texas and the twelfth tallest building in the United States.
Standing at 992 feet, the Wells Fargo Plaza, at 1000 Louisiana Street, is the second tallest building in Texas and the thirteenth tallest building in the United States.
In addition, Houston has over 360 completed high rises.
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National Academy of Sciences Member Urges Teaching Both Sides of Darwinism Controversy.
Phil Skell, a National Academy of Sciences member and Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus Penn State University, best known for his work in carbene chemistry, has written a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education, voicing "strong support for the idea that students should be able to study scientific criticisms of the evidence for modern evolutionary theory along with the evidence favoring the theory." For Skell, who is an octogenarian, this must have taken considerable courage.
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All too often, the issue of how to teach evolutionary theory has been dominated by voices at the extremes. On one extreme, many religious activists have advocated for Bible-based ideas about creation to be taught and for evolution to be eliminated from the science curriculum entirely. On the other hand, many committed Darwinian biologists present students with an idealized version of the theory that glosses over real problems and prevents students from learning about genuine scientific criticisms of it.Both these extremes are mistaken. Evolution is an important theory and students need to know about it. But scientific journals now document many scientific problems and criticisms of evolutionary theory and students need to know about these as well.Many of the scientific criticisms of which I speak are well known by scientists in various disciplines, including the disciplines of chemistry and biochemistry, in which I have done my work. I have found that some of my scientific colleagues are very reluctant to acknowledge the existence of problems with evolutionary theory to the general public. They display an almost religious zeal for a strictly Darwinian view of biological origins.
For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This quasi-religious function of the theory is, I think, what lies behind many of the extreme statements that you have doubtless encountered from some scientists opposing any criticism of neo-Darwinism in the classroom. It is also why many scientists make public statements about the theory that they would not defend privately to other scientists like me.
Steve Jones, a biologist and moderator of the CreationEvolutionDesign discussion group commented, "Congratulations to Phil. Due to Phil's standing as a member of the NAS, this will be a powerful support to the Kansas Board. However, because of that fact, I expect that Phil will be savagely attacked for this `nailing of his colours to the mast' and there may even be attempts to expel him from the NAS. I for one will uphold him and his family in prayer."
Steve has the right idea, unfortunately. The Darwinists care way more about their monopoly on the school system than they do about carbene chemistry.
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Is there a happy medium?
Dear Bob,
I read your story in Circle Track mag about low-budget Saturday night racers. My son and I own a UMP Dirt Pro Stock and run at Fulton Speedway. After many years of struggles, he won his first feature this year. He went on to win three times this season and capture eight Second place finishes. The problem is we do this all out of our paychecks. I'm sure I don't have to tell you how tough this is. Even so, we finished Second in points this year.
However, the track has dropped our class for next year. So, we bought a northeast dirt modified that we will run in the Sportsman class but we are finding it difficult to come up with the money to buy a 602 GM crate engine and that's pretty much all we lack to get going again.
We are trying to sell the Pro Stock right now but no luck on that yet and we can't use the motor from that because you are required to have the crate engine in the Sportsman class. So, you talk about low-buck racing for the love of the sport, we are the poster child of that category.
Thanks for listening and keep the great stories coming,
Last month we opened the can of worms that is The Crate Debate. We laid out the original concept of crate racing as well as the problems that cropped up once the tracks and teams began using sealed engines. This month we bring you part two of the debate where we offer our idea for a solution to the problem.
But before we do that, let's revisit the actual problem. The very heart of the problem lies with the seal bolts, their existence of the bolts has made it very easy for a technical inspector to get lazy. It's a simple process to lean over a motor check for the presence of the bolts and declare it legal because it is sealed. Why bother checking any deeper when you can plainly see that the engine is sealed?
True, but as the cheater bolts we showed you in last month's issue have gotten more sophisticated, it's made it easy to slide an illegal motor through the inspection line.
Who cares, cheating goes on everywhere?
Again, true. Consider this: IMCA has a crate motor option in its Northern SportMod division where you can also run a two-barrel open engine. It's the racer's choice. Brett Root, IMCA's VP of Operations, says that his inspectors catch more racers trying to cheat up the two-barrel motors than the crates. Perhaps because it's easier (and cheaper) to get into an open motor or perhaps because there is a bigger percentage of opens in that division, either way there will always be somebody trying to sneak around the rules.
That in and of itself is a problem, but we believe that there is only a small percentage of people doing the cheating compared to the overall racer population. Problem is, those cheaters, particularly those cheating a crate, are running the cost of racing up into the stratosphere.
Whether legal or illegal, the bulk of the problem with crate motors and what to do about them falls squarely on the shoulders of one group in our industry, the racetrack owner. "My fear is that racetrack promoters see this crate engine as a gift from heaven that will automatically double their car counts," says Comp Cams' Scooter Brothers. "The only thing that I have ever seen to double a car count is to roll up the sleeves and go to work."
Brothers' fear is more of a reality than many people in the industry realize or even admit. Consider this recently received letter from a Circle Track reader, Gary Parkhurst out of Fulton, N.Y.
Ironically, in the case of the Parkhursts, the crate motor program has actually increased the cost of racing. When UMP switched the Pro Stock division from a purely open class to a purely crate class it obsoleted the Parkhursts' motor. So now they'll have a hard time recouping their original investment and will have to pony up more money for the new crate motor.
That is a problem that could reinvent itself in the future. "What happens when times get tight (for the manufacturers)?" asks Jack Jerovsek at Baker Engineering/Pro-cam. "What happens if say GM stops building the crates like it did with the EFI motor for the old ASA. As a sole source engine supplier you're gonna have a problem and there will be a lot of racers out there with useless inventory."
Apply that theory to Gary's situation and you could effectively triple the cost of his motor program should the manufacturers bail on the crates.
At this stage, GM as well as the others are firmly committed to the crate motor program. In fact, GM's new 525hp crate motor was unveiled at the recent PRI trade show. That said, crate motor racing is here to stay.
The First Step
In a recent conversation with John Kilroy over at Performance Racing Industry he said, "The most dangerous thing about crate motors is that it changes the 'ecology' of racing. When the technological competition goes away, I think the sport is in danger of becoming boring to its original, hardcore audience."
Racing is driven by technological competition whether or not it is chassis, body/aero or engine technological competition is the foundation of the sport. Let's take the 2007 World of Outlaws Late Model Series as an example. In analyzing the final Top 10 points finishers we find five different engine builders. What's more is each of the five engine builders visited Victory Lane multiple times. That obviously can't happen with crate racing. The WoO Late Model Series is an example of Kilroy's ecology of racing theory. Solving or avoiding that problem or impending problem falls squarely on the shoulders of the promoter and track owner. However, we as industry participants cannot necessarily rely on those promoters and track owners to develop the programs to maintain that ecology of racing.
While major sanctions like the World Racing Group which owns the World of Outlaws and DIRTCar sanctions in addition to UMP have the muscle to develop those programs, many independent tracks or smaller sanctions do not. But there are ways for the little guy to help in that process.
Solution #1: Just Tech It
"It's no different than the guy who says 'I don't like the 55 spec tire rule because they treat the tires,'" says Fasttrak President and Founder Stan Lester. "I told that guy, 'you don't like that rule because you're too lazy to do your job and punch a tire.'"
Lester's Fasttrak Series is one of the most prominent and well run crate racing organizations around and its success centers on that one philosophy of doing your job. The bottom line says Lester is "if people don't tech it'll never work."
Sanctions and tracks who blindly look the other way to the crates (or any cheating for that matter) need to wake up. If they let guys race cheated up crates from rogue engine builders are they really providing a mechanism for low-cost entry level racing? No. Not in the least. In fact they are contributing to the problem.
As a track owner or promoter, you have to have a solid tech inspection program in place, regardless. Since there are a whole number of tracks that do not, it may be incumbent on the industry leaders to develop some type of mechanism to do just that (Ed. Note: I know, be careful of what I ask for).
Solution #2: Ditch the bolts
Make finding the cheated motors easier by ditching the seals. You can still have the crate motor come complete from the authorized builder or GM. Without the bolts, tracks and sanctions do not have an excuse to not peek inside the engine. Yes, this option is just that simple.
Solution #3: Spec It
"That NASCAR deal is an interesting concept," says Scooter Brothers referring to the spec engine that made its debut in 2007 in the Grand National Division. "They basically sell you a kit and then the engine builder gets to assemble it and throw his little pixie dust on it. It's still all the encrypted parts and you still have control over it. Yet every one of the engine builders believes he can do a better job than the guy down the street of putting it together. Now that's an interesting slant on the whole deal."
A spec engine could be the best solution of all. The manufacturers could offer kits with their own components. However, parts from aftermarket suppliers such as Comp, JE or others would be authorized as acceptable alternatives to the OEM components. On paper everybody wins with that one.
Obviously the answer to the crate debate is a complex one that could fill volumes and offering solutions in three short paragraphs may be, well, contrived. Obviously it is easy to sit here and write "here's the answer, now go do it." It's quite a bit harder to actually lay the road map for success. But since we opened this can of worms, and now that we've got three options, we're going to seek to lay out that road map and maybe we can all work together for the betterment of our great sport.


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Texas Barbecue And Radio Deja Vu All Over Again
In the film "Groundhog Day," the days surrealistically repeat themselves for Bill Murray. Each day begins with the same greeting on the radio: "Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties, 'cause it's cooooold out there today."
A few NPR listeners can relate.
While hearing a story about Texas barbecue by young chefs at the Pecan Lodge in Dallas, a perplexed Nancy Jenkins from Camden, Maine, took to the website to write: "I am listening to this report on Maine Public Broadcasting right now, but why do I have the feeling that I heard the exact same story last week?"
"What's going on?" she asked. "Are you repeating yourselves?"
David Smith from Lawrence, Kan., heard the same report and was suddenly more certain of his own nagging doubts. "For some time now, I have had the feeling that certain stories are repeated, not just the same day, but over weeks or months," he wrote. "Today, my suspicions were confirmed with the rerun of the Pecan Lodge story from a few weeks ago."
Neither Jenkins nor Smith are hearing things nor living in the Twilight Zone. Quietly, without public announcement, NPR has begun over the last year to rerun some stories on its news programs. Prompted by the listener complaints, I asked Lauren Sin in the NPR library to research how many and she found that at least 26 stories have been repeated since the beginning of the year. All were features that are not heavily time specific. The barbecue story by Wade Goodwyn ran on Morning Edition in July and on All Things Considered in August.
At least one local station manager is complaining. Phil Wilke, media manager at Kansas Public Radio, wrote to us, "NPR has dozens and dozens and dozens of correspondents on staff, and you air re-runs? They have access to hundreds of local affiliates news departments, and they air re-runs?"
He added: "Frankly, NPR charges stations like mine an arm and a leg so that we can air their NEWS, not re-runs. Before coming to Kansas Public Radio, I spent 12 years putting out a daily newspaper. If I ran a story twice, I'd be looking for a new job the minute the publisher picked up the morning edition... and he'd be right to do so."
I asked Ellen McDonnell, the executive editor of news programming, to explain. She wrote:
Listening patterns have changed drastically over the years. Our audience is accessing content more often on more platforms but staying for shorter periods of time on broadcast. That means many people miss some of our best features. We believe it is a service to the audience to give them an additional opportunity to hear great stories. Our research shows that when you drill down to specific segments the audience crossover is quite small.
The audience experience is of most importance to us so we will continue to review whether this is a good idea.
I have no reason to doubt the research. I, too, have bemoaned how great radio stories pass so quickly into the ether. You can't stack them like old magazines, even though Web readers know that the stories are available online.
Few listeners, moreover, have complained about the encores. The Texas barbecue story may have been particularly remembered because it hit the culinary pride of other states. I for one was raised in Georgia but prefer both Texas barbecue (and Texas iced tea) because it is unsweetened, unlike most barbecue in the southeast and, possibly, elsewhere. But favored barbecue is a personal choice, just as the rerun practice is a management prerogative. Neither falls under my ombudsman purview, so I leave it to you to contribute to editor McDonnell's review of the audience experience.
What does more properly fall under my purview is whether NPR should announce that a story is a repeat. While almost all of this year's reruns appear to have been labeled as such on the Web — we found one that wasn't — only 18 of the 26 got on-air acknowledgement. Eight, including the barbecue story, did not.
As Ken Lass of Nashville, Tenn., wrote, "I don't mind rehearing such interesting stories, especially about Texas bbq, speaking as a native Texan. I simply request that if you do repeat stories that you announce it as a reprise, 2nd look (listen?), what have you."
I agree, for reasons of both transparency and protecting our sanity in a world of strange occurrences.
Editorial Researcher Lori Grisham contributed to this post.


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African-American Female Buyer Held to Unequal Standard, Federal Agency Charges
SAN FRANCISCO —Longs Drugs violated federal law by discriminating against an African-American female employee and firing her shortly after she reported the discrimination to human resources, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The lawsuit also names CVS Caremark as a defendant because CVS bought Longs in August 2008 after the alleged discrimination occurred and is liable as Longs' successor.
The EEOC asserts that Marcia Guaman, who worked as a buyer at Longs Drugs' general office in Antioch, Calif., was treated very differently by her supervisor than her colleagues who were not black and female. (Guaman was hired in January 2007 by Longs.) For example, Guaman received verbal and written warnings for her performance numbers, while white female co-workers with lower scores did not face any disciplinary actions. Also, the EEOC said, the supervisor gave white co-workers permission for vacation days but ignored Guaman's earlier requests for the same days. Within a few months after Guaman complained to human resources about the differential treatment, she was discharged from her position.
Race and sex discrimination and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed this suit only after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through conciliation. The suit seeks monetary damages for Guaman, training on anti-discrimination laws, posting of notices at the work site and other injunctive relief.
EEOC San Francisco Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo said, "Employees should be treated fairly, regardless of race or gender. This case should alert employers to the dangers of allowing bias to distort what should be an even-handed and fair application of company rules and measures."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado stated, "To count being black and being female as two strikes against a worker, without giving her the same opportunities to succeed as her co-workers – is unjust, illegal and undermines our goal of a fair workplace."
According to its website, www.cvscaremark.com, Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Caremark and Longs Drugs operate more than 7,000 retail pharmacy stores in 43 states. CVS Caremark, a corporation established in 1963, is the second-largest pharmacy chain in the United States .
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Stanford looks explosive in blowout of lower-tier UC Davis
Ty Montgomery scored the first time he touched the ball. So did freshman Christian McCaffrey. Michael Rector celebrated a starting assignment with a long TD catch. Kevin Hogan threw three TD passes and scored himself on a scramble.
Except for the sizzling heat, things couldn't have been better for No. 11 Stanford on opening day.
The Cardinal showed an arsenal of offensive weapons and didn't let outclassed UC Davis across midfield until the final play. Their 45-0 pummeling of the Aggies extended the nation's longest active home winning streak to 17 games.
South Carolina held that distinction with an 18-home game streak until it lost to Texas A&M on Thursday.
Now, of course, life gets tougher for the Cardinal. They play No. 15 USC unusually early in the season, next Saturday at Stanford Stadium.
Head coach David Shaw addressed that topic in the locker room after Saturday's game, and Hogan relayed his sentiments:
"It's not the Super Bowl, as some people might think. It's the next big game on our schedule."
The Cardinal bolted to a 38-0 halftime lead, and for a while it was the Ty Montgomery show.
He returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown just under three minutes into the game. "The guys made good blocks, and I was able to find a seam and hit it," he said.
He later caught a short pass from Hogan, and, given his speed and power, the play had touchdown written all over it as soon as he caught it with a head of steam.
Rector started at wide receiver in place of Devon Cajuste, who was suspended for one game for an undisclosed violation of team rules. Rector hauled in a 40-yard touchdown pass.
Then there's McCaffrey. According to Shaw, some of his fourth- and fifth-year players said when training camp started that they couldn't wait to see McCaffrey play.
"You see why," Shaw said. "He's dynamic, tough, physical."
And very fast.
The son of former Stanford and NFL receiver Ed McCaffrey came out of the backfield, caught a short pass and sprinted 52 yards for his first collegiate touchdown. He also uncorked a 41-yard punt return to set up a touchdown.
Asked if he was expecting such a performance in the freshman's debut, Shaw said, "The answer should be no, but the answer is yes."
He said he wanted to pull McCaffrey off the kickoff coverage unit following his touchdown to give him a breather. "He looked at me and smiled and said, 'I'm not coming out,' " Shaw said.
Backup quarterback Evan Crower took over for Hogan early in the second half and threw a 14-yard scoring pass to redshirt freshman Austin Hooper in the fourth quarter. The former De La Salle-Concord star made a leaping catch in the rear of the end zone.
"He's our Y (tight end)," Shaw said. "He's done a great job. He's a physical blocker. He wasn't perfect today, but he's a dynamic athlete."
Stanford's offensive line had four new starters: center Graham Shuler, guards Johnny Caspers and Josh Garnett and tackle Kyle Murphy. They allowed one sack, and Hogan took the blame for that by saying he held the ball too long.
UC Davis, led by former Cal assistant Ron Gould, was missing its top two tailbacks because of injuries. Gould didn't name his starting quarterback, London Lacy, until game day.
Lacy, under constant harassment, completed 12 of 22 passes for just 54 yards. Two of his throws were picked off by Noor Davis and Peter Kalambayi. The Aggies weren't any more successful on the ground, netting just 61 yards in 27 carries, a 2.3-yard average.
Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @tomgfitzgerald


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Obama security speech: 5 questions
President Barack Obama's security speech Thursday — covering topics from terrorism and drones to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — was by far the most sweeping address he's delivered on the subject since the early months of his first term.
He made some concrete announcements, including a lifting of the moratorium he imposed four years ago on returning prisoners to Yemen. And he fleshed out a series of statements his subordinates have made in recent months about the legal and practical restraints on the U.S. government's use of drones to fight far-flung terrorist networks.
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But the speech left lingering uncertainty about some important aspects of Obama's counterterror campaign and about his commitment to deliver on key aspects of his agenda, like his long overdue promise to close Guantanamo in his first year in office.
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Here's POLITICO's list of five key questions still up in the air after Obama's speech:
1. When will the war be over?
In his speech, Obama embraced the idea that the U.S. needs to prepare for an end to the war on terror. He declared "core" Al Qaeda to be decimated. And he said the terror threats facing the country, while serious, are manageable.
But, perhaps fearing post-Benghazi style political attacks if he declares victory and terrorists lash out, he didn't declare the war to be over — or really explain how we'd know when it was.
"He alluded to the war on terror winding down, which I think is right, but he didn't really tell us when it will be over?"said Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch. "He could have given basically the same speech and said, 'The war is over. We won….' If the threat is now the same as it was pre-9/11 — prior to 9/11, we didn't have a war."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's booming drone business)
Republicans also made clear Thursday that they think declaring or even hinting at an end to the war on terror is a bad idea and one for which Obama will pay a political price.
"The Obama Administration's return to a pre-9/11 counterterrorism mindset puts American lives at risk," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said in a statement. "This war will continue whether the president acknowledges it or not."
2. On Gitmo closure: Does he mean it this time?
Four years ago this week, Obama gave a lengthy speech at the National Archives outlining his vision for detention policy. He called the issue a national security priority, and vowed: "As President, I refuse to allow this problem to fester."
But when Republicans in Congress hardened their line against closing the island prison, the administration put up little resistance. In fact, after the May 2009 speech, Obama almost never mentioned the issue in public, save for a couple of occasions when he was asked about it directly.
"On Guantanamo, the problem really was a lack of political determination. He just capitulated to the opposition when it arose. It wasn't a battle he was willing to fight," said Roth. "What he said back in 2009 was a nice statement of principles, the key question is will he stick with it and invest the political capital needed to realize his vision."


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If you're a graphic designer you probably use a professional tool like Adobe InDesign or Photoshop to make leaflets, posters, infographics and other digital images. If, like me, you're not, and those tools are beyond both your budget and capacity to learn complicated programmes you're not going to use that often, you need an alternative.
I've written on here before about Canva, which is excellent for more than just presentations, and I like Phoster in the iOS app store for designing digital posters. But an under-rated tool for Design is PowerPoint. The main reasons are it's a lot more flexible than it's often given credit for, and it's incredibly easy to layer content (to put text over images, etc) - something which is maddeningly difficult to do in Word, for example.
So here are the key aspects to using PowerPoint for design.
1) You can make a slide ANY size, and save it as a JPG or PNG file
PowerPoint defaults to a 4:3 or 16:9 slide - but you can edit the slide to be any shape, size and proportions. Open a new presentation and go to Design then Slide Size and choose Custom Slide Size you can bring up this drop-down menu, or just put in the custom dimensions of your choice.
Everything becomes easier with design when your canvas is the perfect dimensions to start off with. Sizes like A3 and A4 are self-explanatory if you're designing flyers or posters, but also think about digital image sizes. For example:
- A Twitter image (which is to say a perfectly sized image which doesn't require users to click to expand when viewing it's tweeted) is W: 116 mm x H 232mm
- An Instagram image can be any square, but optimally is 134mm x 134mm
- A Facebook image is 317mm x 317mm
- A YouTube custom video thumbnail is H: 190mm x W: 338mm
(You can work out any pixels to mm dimensions using an online converter: I used this one for the above.)
Once you've created blank slides in a variety of useful sizes, save them to use as a template more quickly in the future.
2) You can install fantastic typography
As anyone who has attended my presentation skills training will attest, I'm always banging on about how Typography is a hugely underrated part of design. Fonts matter a lot, and can make the difference between something looking and the same thing looking really professional.
As always, I'd highly reccomend fontsquirrel as a souce of fantastic (and free to use) fonts - and see the previous post for more info on font-pairings.
3) It's easy to manipulate images in useful ways
You can find the ideal image from a CC0 site like Pexels, and make it easier to use - to layer text on top of, for example - using PPTs editing tools. They're nowhere near as sophisticated as those in Photoshop, but it's still really useful. Particularly darkening images using the Brightness slider so that white text clearly shows up on it, or blurring images. Both of these techniques are explained in more detail here.
You can also Crop images to specific shapes, circles for example, which can help with really striking design.
4) You can follow the basic principles of good design, and that's more important than the tool
I've found that I really like design without truly understanding it like a proper designer would, but certain rules apply across the board and help me with whatever I'm doing:
- Images AS the background most often works better than images against a background (unless you're using icons).
- Space is good. Leave space.
- No more than three fonts per design. And use fonts that help you communicate your message - or, to use a phrase I'm not altogether comfortable with for some reason, but it seems to apply here: use fonts intentionally.
- The most important thing about text is legibility. Make sure text is large, and the contrast is high between the text and the background.
- Left-align text unless there's a specific reason to Centre-align it (or very occasionally right-align or justify).
- Avoid orphan or widow words. Just stretch your text box a little more, or narrow it, so words aren't left on a line of their own. Canva's helpful design rules also have this to say on line length:
5) Save slides as images
You can save your PowerPoint as a PPTX to come back to the design later, but you can also save a slide as an image, or a whole bunch of slides as seperate images.
When you go to Save As, choose JPEG or PNG from the drop-down menu - it will then give you the choice of saving just the slide you're on at the moment as an image, or to create a folder into which it will save all the slides in the presentation as individual images.
And finally, while we're on the Save As function, here's a brief guide to which format to save regular presentations in depending on your situation...


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When it comes to matters of the female body, commercials tend to stray away from realistic scenarios and instead use euphemisms to describe tampons, pads, pantyliners and urinary tract infections. The Carefree Acti-Fresh Pantyliner commercial, which aired in New Zealand, recently did the opposite of most feminine commercials and become more carefree with their usage of the words "vagina" and "discharge."
The two words were only mentioned twice throughout the whole commercial yet complaints were made to the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB). The Huffington Post reports that the Carefree spokeswoman, Debbie Selikman, told NineMSN the company wants to use less "grandiloquent language" and "had the guts to use real words, not euphemisms or diminutive terms."
Pr Newswire reports in a study conducted by Summer's Eve that "nearly 70 percent of women are unable to identify five major parts of their female genitalia, and nearly 60 percent struggle with unresolved feelings about the word vagina."
In Glamour Magazine, Lissa Rankin, M.D. said she was surprised how uniformed college women were about their body.
These minimizing commercials are not helping solve the problem any faster. Manufacturers like Kotex have started emphasizing more realistic and often times sarcastic commercials that make fun of flowery and jazzed up commercials like the Always Infinity commercials.
Still even commercials that do not take extremes with either being blatant or too unrealistic pose just as much of an issue. In a commercial for Monistat 1, the woman does not even mention the word yeast infection but instead let's the text on the screen do the talking.