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Watch the movie about the city of stars under the stars with PC!
There will be a HUGE banner for your red carpet-worthy photo op. Come on down to the quad in between Armstrong and Crum, take a pic channeling your inner Mia & Sebastian, grab a bag... or two.... of popcorn and other treats, then kick back and enjoy as PC Presents a lovely night in the City of Stars, #LiveFromLaLaLand!

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Healthy Hair, Happy Hair
Glossy, healthy hair that looks and feels great; that's the dream, right?!
Well, the average American woman spends nearly a quarter of a million dollars in her lifetime to achieve just that, according to a 2017 Groupon study. While it's important to think about the products and processes you apply to your hair (and recognize that less may be more in those cases), it's also crucial to think about how you can nourish it from within. Your hair can give you clues as to your overall health, and what may be lacking. So how can you look after yourself inside and out to achieve great hair and all round wellbeing?
Go for a rainbow plate
Being deficient in certain vitamins and minerals can really weaken your hair. As far as possible, try to enjoy a variety of delicious foods in your diet, including proteins, Omega 3 fatty acids and iron. Reading up on the benefits of great nutrition for your hair will empower you to make great choices in the store and on your plate, and your whole body will thank you for it.
Get sleep savvy
Your body needs rest to recover from the day's exertions and replenish its reserves. Try to get 7-9 hours sleep each night to see the benefits to your hair, skin, and overall wellbeing. Run a warm bath, enjoy a herbal tea and avoid screen time before bed (yep, no late night scrolling!) to encourage peaceful sleep if you can.
Cleanse, cleanse, cleanse
Water is vital for so many aspects of health. The NAM recommends an intake of just under 3 liters of water per day for women; that's in total, taken from both food and beverages. Hair that is moisturized from within should be less prone to frizzies, so drink up!
Finally, be kind to yourself. Stress and anxiety can have a really damaging effect on the health and condition of hair, so where possible, try to take the pressure off. Remember each hair type is different, and for every person lusting after tumbling curls, there's someone else wishing they could rock a pixie crop. Hang up the straighteners once in a while, or find a more gentle coloring product.
Eat well, sleep well; love what you're working with. After all, savvy women know that looking after themselves leads to glowing beauty from within. And that's the real crowning glory!


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Dear Darwin
The Heterocentron is just out of flower, but more flowers will be open in a day or two I send Centradenia grandiflora & floribunda;2 would you care for a tetrandrous Melast. a Sonerila is now in flower.3
I send Eulophia viridis.4
Borrer is a very nice man, but very aged indeed—5 he will be delighted to send you seeds— he is a man of large property & a wonderfully acute British Botanist of the old school— Borrer & my Father traversed Scotland on horse-back in 1810! & explored Sutherland—6
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What is the matter with your boys?7
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Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
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- Joseph Dalton Hooker
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- Charles Robert Darwin
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Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, "Letter no. 3373," accessed on 23 September 2019, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-3373.xml
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We all know that STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) fields remain dominated by men, particularly in the higher levels of academia. Kelly Wong, an online producer at Australia's Science Channel, talks all things science communication in plain English.
It is no secret that there is an implicit bias against women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, and in recent years, there has been a greater emphasis on recruiting women into such fields. However, many who have left careers in STEM posit that there are also issues within these industries and fields themselves that need to be addressed in order to retain women. So what is it really like for young Australian women scientists? In this interview series, we find out.
I talk to several young women from different fields of science about their work, as well as any instances of discrimination they may have experienced or witnessed, and their hopes for the future.
The next interview is with Kelly Wong. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Biomedical Science, and is currently an online producer at Australia's Science Channel.
Just introduce yourself a little – what's your background, what have you been involved in, and what are you doing now?
I'm a 26-year-old woman who lives in Adelaide. I was born and grew up in Brisbane, and my parents are Singaporean so naturally I love to eat food.
I have a very bizarre career trajectory. I studied a Bachelor of Biomedical Science, got through Honours and even found myself studying a PhD. I got about halfway through it before I realised it wasn't for me. After dropping out, I found myself working in retail while I figured out what to do. I also took up some freelancing as a social media assistant manager.
While I was studying, I was a pretty full-on food blogger. I also dipped my toe into a Twitter side project - I created @WeAreBrisbane, which is a rotation curation Twitter account for people in Brisbane. After some time in retail, I got accepted for a job for an online producer at Australia's Science Channel in Adelaide. And that's how I ended up where I am now.
My job as an online producer sees me running all our social media accounts, I'm also the News & Events editor so I do a lot of editing and writing about science. Oh, and I'm also a presenter in our videos. That part I never thought I would end up doing!
What's the most exciting thing that you've done during your time at RiAus? (Australia's Science Channel)
I think meeting Brian Cox is technically the most exciting thing I've come across at work! But I think I'm quite fortunate to read and write about lots of new discoveries – like the confirmation of gravitational waves, which sent literal waves of shock throughout the scientific community. And also when SpaceX landed their rocket for the first time. It's pretty mind blowing, what we're achieving.
What is a recent scientific discovery or advancement that you're most excited about?
I think the whole gravitational waves confirmation was 'UUUUUGE. I mean, just the LIGO facility/experiment itself is amazing. It's basically a laser split into two several-km long perpendicular angles to detect ripples in space-time, as an indication of gravitational waves. It exists to prove literal out-of-this-world theories about the universe.
Also, the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic modification tool. By tool, I mean it's a pre-existing system from bacteria that researchers can take advantage of to quickly, precisely and accurately add or remove genes. Its applications have been so widespread and adopted, it's been easily recognised as one of the biggest breakthroughs in science in last 5 years.
Which misconceptions about science do you really want to combat?
I want people to see science as entertaining. For a lot of people, the word 'science' is enough to turn them off. I think that people either haven't found an area of science that they're interested in - or simply that they don't even realise an interest of theirs is actually science-based.
For me, it's less about people seeing that science is everywhere. People should be able to appreciate things with whatever view they want. But I really want people to be excited by what is happening in science (and technology and engineering and all the facets in and around science).
There's lots of systemic issues within science, academia and industry that I would like to combat as well.
Why is science communication so important, and what attracted you to this field?
Science communication is important to normalise science. Science scares so many people and it can be such a barrier. It's unfortunate because science can be exciting and complex and interesting. Science communication is the bridge between science and the non-scientific public.
I really enjoy the storytelling behind science communication. What does it take to get people to see how amazing science is? How can you slip in science in a way that people don't even realise?
I fell into science communication by accident - it was never something I actively pursued or even considered. In retrospect, it seemed such a natural fit of my science and social media background. I really would like to see science communication keep up with modern communication – at the moment, it can be very traditional and archaic.
What are your thoughts on how society as a whole sees the hard sciences as opposed to the social (or as some people call them, "softer" sciences), and the arts?
I think this is interesting because "society" is still quite dependent on who you ask. I think people would be a whole lot less scared by science if they didn't see it as hardcore disciplines.
Science should be a loose definition. I think the social sciences and the arts are important. I think they need to be part of the equation. If science is really about understanding the world we live in, that means looking at the world from all sorts of angles.
On principle, I find acronyms quite unnecessary because not everything needs to be spelled out, especially when it should be just be embedded through it. But there's a reason people try to sneak the A for arts into STEM to make STEAM.
Do you think your race/ethnicity has had an effect on the way in which your work has been received in the field of science communication?
As an on-screen presenter in science communication, I always fear backlash based on my ethnicity. Like, call me out on my science, my bad jokes, pop culture references - that I can deal with. I suffer greatly from imposter syndrome. I still struggle to see myself as a science communicator.
Talking more broadly about race and ethnicity, one thing that's always bothered me is that Asians are often stereotyped as math and/or science nerds and being intelligent. But name me one famous Asian scientist. Where is this stereotype in reality?
What kind of strategies would you like to see implemented in science oriented workplaces to combat gender discrimination?
Actively looking for people and giving them a platform is the only way to combat gender discrimination. And on that, understanding that it can be exhausting to be an activist for gender discrimination. It's why it's important to make it a team effort to share the burden and provide support.
Everyone should be working towards combating gender discrimination, not just a few members dedicated it as a task. It needs to be dealt with systematically.
I think we can all stop talking about it now. Actioning on words and making changes needs to happen already.
I'd like to see discrimination tackled in a way that represents diversity through intersectionality. Dealing with one singular facet of diversity is ironic. Advocating diversity without fair representation is such an oversight that speaks to the privilege some have over others.
What suggestions do you have to get people (and in particular, women) more interested and invested in science education in Australia?
If you want to talk policy, it's about showing the dollar value. The government is sort of finally catching on that there's a big future in STEM, especially once we deplete all our mining resources. They can finally see that investing in STEM education now will ensure that there's people who can make money in the future.
But it's up to people, the public, to keep this pressure on the government and making it an important agenda. So get talking about it. Normalise it. Show the government that people are interested in science.
As for getting more women in science, I think it's about creating opportunities and support for them in their careers. Ensuring professional development, clear pathways for women to advance in the field, reach seniority in academia. I'd like to see a focus retaining women in science.
If we really want to address getting young girls to be interested in science, it comes back to normalising science, and having visible women role models from who've been successful in STEM fields. If we keep doing that, I think the shift will occur organically.
I think showing the humanity and practical applications of science makes a big difference in seeing science in a different light too. I think the media can play a big part of ensuring these kind of stories get out too.


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Comic books are big business in Los Angeles, and so are video games. You know what both those things have in common? Strong character design.
Heroes and Villains is a new Armory class for teens. It's taught by visiting Art Center alumni Juliana Ouyang and focuses on bringing life and personality to characters. It also explores the connections between story and research that drives great character design. Students will learn basic drawing techniques, including proportion, anatomy, gesture, and facial expression. They'll also dabble in activities like character acting, examine stylized vs. hyper-realistic animation, and will learn the value of research to find inspiration for creating engaging characters with depth and drive.
Heroes and Villains is for teens age 15-18. It meets at the Armory on Saturdays from January 16 through March 26 (11am-1pm). Enrollment is now open and limited to only 12 students.
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No class this Saturday 4/17/10
The 2010 Pacific NW Weightlifting Championships will take place this Saturday, April 17, 2010, at Thrush Sports Performance Center in Sumner. Our gym will be CLOSED (no 10:00am class) on Saturday so we can attend the meet with our weightlifters.
We have about eight men and women from Eastside competing in this event as part of our new USAW team, Fulcrum Barbell Club. Come on down and see your fellow Eastsiders join all kinds of other lifters (teens to seniors, newbies to old hands) from the Northwest in putting forth their best efforts at the snatch and the clean and jerk.
Session #1 56 – 77kg Men Weigh-In @ 9:00 am Competition @ 11:00 am
Session #2 All Women Weigh-In @ 11:30 am Competition @ 1:30 pm
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contacted me to participate in Mmmmmm.....Canada! the savoury edition, which is basically blogging about what memories or inspirations you (me) have about Canada and food. It came at a good time not only because of Canada Day on July 1st, but because lately I've been thinking about local cuisine and what it means to me.
Now personally, my family doesn't have any particular food traditions. Nothing that has been passed down from generation to generation. Mind you, I have a mixed national background and it has probably been homogenized along the way. When I think of Canadian food, my first thought naturally turns to Maple Syrup. After that - everything seems to be a variation on some other cultural dish: Poutine (fries, cheese curd, gravy), Back Bacon Sandwich, Nova Scotia Donair (donair kabob in a pita with sweet sauce), Canadian Pizza (bacon, pepperoni, mushrooms), Beavertails (deep fried bread with various sugar toppings). And on and on.
When I had a cultural day back in high school and had to bring a dish, I brought Johnny Cakes . . . which is very colonial but more well known in the US. This adds to the Canadian inferiority complex with America as we have very similar immigration patterns, geography, and access to similar food sources and ingredients. Only America often got there first in terms of claiming, naming and commercializing regional dishes. And of course this brings us to the Lord of the Wings.
I am Canadian. And I am a proud Canadian Blogger. Who loves chicken wings. And wings come from Buffalo. New York. USA. It almost makes me feel like a culinary traitor. I've been on a quest to find the perfect chicken wing: super hot, meaty, crispy, flavourful wings. I still haven't found it. And I've tried. I even went on a Great Wing Tour across the US, went to the Mecca of wings in Buffalo itself, and didn't find them. What I found was that I had better wing experience in Canada.
In my mental thoughts about Canadiana and food, I've been thinking about what makes a Canadian chicken wing? I've discovered the regional difference in Eastern Ontario to South Western Ontario in terms of sour cream as an accompanied dip. But that doesn't make the wing. A while back Rick suggested poutine wings - an interesting idea, but I don't know if I'd actually make it. Not long ago I had Ketchup Chip flavoured wings (Ketchup Chips being a very Canadian potato chip flavour). Interesting, but not something I think could catch on. Mixing Canadian dishes into wings, I doubt, would make for a wing the Canuck masses would embrace.
If 'Gimmicky' food combos won't do it, what makes for a great wing? I think it really just comes down to quality. Local poultry, homemade sauce, and properly deep-fried wings. The only thing that might make for a more Canadian style is the breading of wings. Traditional 'Buffalo' Wings are just deep fried and sauce. The breading adds an extra layer of crunch, and when done well, seasonings and flavour. I've also found that Canadian eateries and pubs tend to be able to make a wing really hot. Cliche artists might claim that we need hotter wings to keep warm in the frozen tundra, but I don't think that's it. BUT this still doesn't make for a really Canadian wing dish.
My first memories of Chicken wings were having them in the States. My family, on vacation across the border. It was a great time. Then there was a family trip to the Eastern provinces and I remember my parents complained because everywhere we went for dinner, I ordered the wings. In fact, for a long time I have ordered wings where ever I have gone, seeking to find the perfect wing - its only been the last few years I decided to make it official and blog about it. My overwhelming memory of chicken wings though, is being with friends.
My high school friends, Dude, Ricky, Bramanda were part of the old days in the Burg eating wings and even today finding a nice pub. Rick was the brainchild behind the Great Wing Tour. Dude is always up for a bar and has even started cooking wings himself. Jason and I have been out on adventures and we dine at all sorts of places were I often get wings.
In Toronto I have lots of friends that our hanging out somehow involved wings. Nee is always willing to help me find good wings. Juliana P was always there for me in the Chestnut Reports in the caf to get wings. Julianna L was there to cheer me on for my Wall of Pain at Duff's.
There were so many that I met at the Chestnut, were events and food and nights out involved chicken wings. The friends I ment in Hong Kong wanted to have a reunion where wings were the focus. And of course, LJ has always been there to make me happy with wings. Many of these people are not as crazy obsessed with wings like me, and more than a few never get wings. But I'm lucky that I can have it all with such great friends.
Chicken wings may not come from Canada, but they definitely have become a staple from province to province. I have been all over the world and tried wings everywhere. As mentioned above, the Great Wing Tour in the US produced sub par wings. When I briefly studied in Hong Kong, I had 'guy yik' (sp?) or chicken wings all the time (the cafeteria ladies came to know my 'regular' order), but they just weren't the same. I traveled through Europe and I only found wings in one location - and they were terrible. The first meals I wanted when I came home, or wanted to cheer me up, or celebrate or just have a good time is good old fashion Canadian chicken wings. A spicy, saucy, crispy hot chicken wing is really my taste of Canada. If home is where the heart is, than out with friends and some wings is truly being home in Canada. Chicken wings, good friends, and good times.


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A piece of caution: Only buy this backpack if you don't mind being stared at by people. Here is why it is a magnet to everybody's eyes.
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Bag construction: The bag is designed keeping the user and his/her comfort in mind. It has a padded back panel that is secured with air mesh which is highly breathable and protects the person from sweating profusely while carrying the bag. It also makes the carrying experience much comfortable. He/ she can carry the backpack for long hours without getting tired. The shoulder straps are also padded and secured with air mesh underneath for comfort and breath-ability. The air mesh acts as a life saver in summer and hot weather temperatures.
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Looks: The backpack is simply irresistible to ignore. The print is eye catching and people really have a hard time looking the other way when this predator is on your back or shoulders. It feeds on attention and it gets it's due eventually. So stay prepared to be stared upon wherever you go with it.
Design: A design that simply puts your life at ease with its innovative approach consumer centric thinking. The thoughtful design process has accounted to carry for almost everything from laptop to survive and get your work done in today's digital age to a water bottle to keep you hydrated while you are on the move.
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I am using (-(#DWFSS#)) and #DWFSS# rotation on a couple of images in Active Mode. What can I use to speed one or the other up a bit? TIA
I believe you can do (-(#DWFSS# * 2)) or (#DWFSS# * 2)Without the spaces though, I had to add spaces or else you couldn't see the * for some reason.That should double the speed. If that's to fast you can do 1.2 or whatever you want.
Thank you! I shall try that.
Let me know how it works out.
Better stated as: (#DWFSS#*-2) or (#DWFSS#*2)
Using #DWFSS# with a multiplier works well, but avoid division as you will get only a partial 360° rotation.
For more exotic requirements, using #DNOW#/number, and more complex maths.
See: http://community.facer.io/t/looking-for-animation-help-w-horizontal-movement/25934/2
Just highlight the syntax and select 'Preformatted Text' (or <Ctrl><Shift><C>) to show all '*', etc.
Oh yes, thank you for the assist. @andrew.dowden Is correct. If you multiply by 2 on the first string then it works but you will only get partial rotations if you were to do say 1.2. This would also happen if you slow it down past 1.
Thank you for the update, but I did not see the replies until later.Nevertheless, I had already used syntaxracing's formula without spaces and a multiplier until I found a speed that looked the way I wanted it to. It's good now.
Sweet, I'm glad it worked out. Hopefully you will share it when it's done?
Sorry I did not answer sooner. I disabled notifications so I've had to check discussion threads manually.My question was for this one which seems to be doing well in the sync department, so I thank you profusely for your help. Sorry I can't give you a cut, but it's free, so all I can say is "Thank You!". The Facer preview is jumpy on the computer here but it's smooth on the watch, so that's all that counts.
It appears to be running smoothly on my end, and no worries. I'm not looking for any compensation, I'm just glad I was able to help. Also glad to hear it's doing well, it's super cute.
I know. I was just being silly.
Thank you for the compliment. A few weeks ago, in a discussion topic somebody around here convinced me that I should try doing more cuteness. I suppose as long as it's successful, I'll continue for a while.


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New Jersey State Senator Bob Smith said in comments this week that the Garden State needs to close loopholes to keep organized crime and felons out of the recycling industry.
"At the end of the day, we need a system that keeps the bad actor out,'' Smith said during a hearing this week, according to NJSpotlight.com. "The mob's back in the solid waste industry; they're back big time.''
In May, the State Commission of Investigation in N.J. said it was looking into claims that members of an organized crime group were making money by illegally disposing of contaminated waste near waterways and homes in the state.
The website has more about the hearing:
His frustration was voiced during a hearing on a bill (S-2306) by the Senate Environment and Energy committee aimed at expanding who is covered by the law and required to undergo background checks to keep unscrupulous operators out of the sector.
But the attorney general's office expressed reservations about extending the scope of the law, known as the A-901 program, to include those involved in recycling. It was adopted when organized crime was rife in the hauling industry in the 1980s.
That view conflicts with a recommendation in a 2011 SCI report that called for those in the recycling industry to be licensed, a step once again the agency suggested lawmakers adopt.


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46: Arabelle Sicardi - beauty writer
Arabelle Sicardi's work as a writer and general creative focuses on the relationship between beauty and power. They are interested in exploring the bargain between beauty and politics. They write about the beauty industry, queer identity, futurity, mythology, survival, and feminist theory. They are a genderqueer Taiwanese American based in New York. They are also extremely a Capricorn.
Ashley Jacklyn isa twenty-seven year old Puerto Rican woman, raised in the beautiful ever changing, Jersey City. She's a photographer with a focus in fashion, lifestyle & stylized portrait photography, social media content creation for small businesses, and is working towards creating beginner Photoshop & Lightroom workshops.
This interview was conducted by Sophia Richards on August 21, 2018. Ashley Jacklyn photographed Arabelle in her Jersey City home.
SOPHIA: Tell me about your experience of girlhood, and then post-girlhood.
ARABELLE: Girlhood was very traumatic for me in the way that it's traumatic for every person who's ever been seen as a girl, so it doesn't feel very special. I went to school with the same group of people basically until college, so we were friends and enemies year by year. I remember in middle school they wrote a list of things that they didn't like about me and then gave it to me. [laughs] These are the same people that I eventually became really good friends with in high school and lived with in college. So we grew together, but I was unspeakably traumatized by this list written by people that I really cared about and thought the world of. That was adolescence. [laughs]
Then I became really close with Tavi [Gevinson] and all the Rookie people. That was a very important era of my and my friends' lives because we were creating this platform for girlhood and femininity and being a teen that didn't feel like a list of ways to improve. [laughs]
But...I don't know. Even before I would ever identify as a former girl, I was always more comfortable just being a femme. Femme has so much more to do with queerness than girlhood necessarily does, though it's not precluded from it. I was always interested in the limitations of femininity—why it's romanticized in the same way it's disparaged. I feel like most of the time, feminist discussions of girlhood puts it in this moral binary, and I'm not interested in that.
SOPHIA: Could you talk more about this moral binary?
ARABELLE: I'm super not into the "hot take."
SOPHIA: [laughs]
ARABELLE: I think Jia [Tolentino] talked about this in her interview with you. One of the reasons why I love talking about beauty is that it's a really good way to talk about how complicated morality is. What I liked about studying feminism in school and is that [it presents morality] as a compass and praxis, not a single decision. It's something that you have to figure out every day all the time. I don't think that most conversations about culture online allow for that type of interaction. Because it's so dramatic! Everyone has a fucking epiphany all the time.
SOPHIA: [laughs]
ARABELLE: Either [writers] are seen as delusional, or they're lying about how important a certain experience is for the money, which I get. But it's boring, and it's not really true. I think the hardest decisions are often the ones we make every day that we aren't really paying attention to. We push them away because they're not the biggest decisions we're making in our lives, but they're the things that fill our days. And when you're not critically examining all the small decisions in your life, shit can go wrong really slowly. But that's how we end up in a fascist state. It's slowly normalized; you don't wake up one day like, "Oh shit!" You've made a series of small decisions and everyone else has, too. That's why I'm interested in reading about war. I read a lot of war reporting and a lot of journals and diaries from soldiers. And [gestures to bookshelf] they're all interspersed right next to beauty books.
SOPHIA: [laughs]
ARABELLE: I'm interested in how easy it is to end up doing the wrong thing just to survive. Most conversations about culture and politics right now consider [morality] in a way that's not actually realistic to people who experience physical and institutional violence every day. The people writing essays are not necessarily the people who are getting hunted down. I mean, post-Gamergate – sometimes they totally are, and so it becomes twice as hard to even consider saying the hard stuff. There's not a culture of responsible care involved in the way we examine cruelty.
SOPHIA: Can you talk about how you started writing about beauty and feminism at such a young age [15]? What were you noticing in your environment that spurred you to do this?
ARABELLE: I was just a big fucking nerd about everything. And fashion happened to be a really interesting thing that I couldn't talk about with friends IRL. (They were also nerds, but more traditional ones.) I wrote about that a little bit in the essay I just wrote for NYLON about high school. I had no friends for a while in high school because I was such a dick. I totally deserved to have no friends, because I needed to understand that being mean to people is not a form of affection.
SOPHIA: [laughs]
ARABELLE: I didn't have friends for half of high school so I would just be at the library or hang out with my teachers, which meant that I had a lot of time to research everything that I liked. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, [the films of] Akira Kurosawa, Nietzsche, feminism...There was no conversation about feminism when I was in high school. But I was online friends with a particular nucleus of older feminists, and they acted like cool big sisters and introduced me to zines and all this language that it would've taken me a longer time to familiarize myself with otherwise. We all became friends through fashion blogs and Livejournal and Blogspot.
After a couple years of doing fashion stuff, I wanted to get on the other side of the bylines. People were writing about me when I was in high school, and I wanted to be able to write the story, not be the story. So…this is so funny. I was friendly with [makeup brand] Urban Decay in college. They gave me my first eyeshadow palette. And that made me realize that, with makeup, I don't need to spend a lot of money in order to be able to create something. I can't afford any of the clothing that I really love right now, so I'm just going to figure out a different way to access identity that doesn't require so much financial investment. Because people may never be able to afford a Chanel dress, and fuck Chanel anyway. But they can probably buy a Chanel lipstick, or at least buy a lipstick that's the exact same shade. So, alright. If I cannot faithfully say that fashion is democratic even if it's political, at least beauty has more potential to be. I saw that in college, so I just started writing more about beauty. And literally no one ever wrote anything intelligent about beauty (that I was reading in magazines, anyway). So I was like, alright, let's do it.
SOPHIA: In your part of Hazlitt's sort of…roundtable on eyebrows, you said, "I think beauty is so much about inheritance: from mothers and sisters and people who have been left behind, and the people who had power over those people, and on and on." Could you talk about the beauty you feel that you inherited? Either from your family or from external sources?
ARABELLE: My relationship to beauty was really trying to find my place in my family's history. I'm mixed-race. My mom is Asian, and my dad is just like, this white dude. His father was adopted, so we don't actually know a lot about his lineage. But so much of what I remember growing up is people arguing about which one of my parents I look most like. It made me confused about what I looked like to other people. And I definitely had a favorite parent, so every time I didn't look like my favorite parent, I felt like my body was betraying me. Then when I officially began identifying as a queer person and stopped identifying specifically as bisexual, I fell in love with queer history, and thought a lot about what it means to present as queer, and create [physical] signals that we look for and find safety in. So it was about finding a history that I can fit into in terms of my family lineage, my queer family and identity, and then what it means to be seen for who you desire and who you want to desire you.
SOPHIA: Do you listen to the Cheryl Strayed advice podcast?
ARABELLE: Dear Sugar?
SOPHIA: Yes! Their last episode was on privilege, and they brought on this woman as a guest, Catrice Jackson. Did you listen to it?
ARABELLE: I didn't listen to that one.
SOPHIA: Basically she said, in the context of racism, that privilege isn't necessarily a bad thing; what's bad is the unequal distribution of privilege. And that made me think, in the context of beauty privilege, that whether or not we agree with that statemetnt, equal access to beauty privilege will never be possible. Even in our utopian imaginations, if we had equal access to beautification resources, "natural beauty" will never be evenly distributed. So…in moral terms, is beauty always oppressive? Is there a way to justify exercising beauty privilege?
ARABELLE: I think the ideal result isn't that everyone is beautiful. I think that makes the term useless. Maybe that's the wrong answer for some people, who would say, "Everyone is beautiful. We're all valued." Yes, you have value, but beauty doesn't have to be the determining factor. You're a human being so you deserve respect. No one deserves beauty. I'm fine with the uneven distribution of beauty because my version of it is highly subjective. Just because I don't think someone is beautiful doesn't mean that they aren't beautiful to someone that they actually care about. My opinion of someone's beauty shouldn't really matter and neither should anyone else's in terms of their worth. You should be able to have access to all the things that you need to be a human and to feel loved and to survive. That doesn't mean that everyone needs to see you as beautiful. Beauty shouldn't have to be the point.
Also, you can have a lot of money and access to all of these resources to help you change your body, but the funny thing is that there are always stories about people whom we end up feeling sorry for because they've done so much to their bodies that they essentially just become monstrous. You can become monstrous in the pursuit of beauty. The whole reason why everyone's always obsessed with beauty is because we can never solve it. We don't have the answer to what the most beautiful perfect thing is. We never will. It is an unclimbable mountain and that's fine. I'm not interested in the end result if I could do anything to my body. Unless I'm getting Bella Hadid's surgeon, there's not going to be a huge change that's going to change my life. It's fine. I'm not expecting beauty to solve anything.
SOPHIA: In a way, beauty (and aesthetics in general, I guess), signifies so much, but it also signifies nothing. I think we have this vague idea that if we change our appearance, it will "mean" a different thing, but it doesn't actually mean any specific thing.
ARABELLE: What we think matters kind of doesn't matter. Ultimately, I don't think it should have to, but because beauty has so much to do with the perception of safety and trustworthiness in terms of race and class and stuff, it has to matter in that context. But if we ended up figuring out ways to solve systematic racism and class inequity and all those stuff, then beauty would probably lose its connection to these things, and the people that we consider beautiful would probably change. It does change all the time! We're just famously bad at remembering our histories.
SOPHIA: I thought about this question after reading your interview with Jenny [Zhang]. You were talking about women and femmes writing memoir, and publishers wanting these writers to just volunteer their whole lives and then not defend them when something goes amiss—
ARABELLE: Oh yeah, the tea.
[both laugh]
SOPHIA: It made me want to ask you about the kind of voyeurism and exploitation that comes with making a career out of—not entirely out of—but out of your body—
ARABELLE: —with your body as the foundation—
SOPHIA: —Yeah. Your work has obviously changed a lot since your blog, but even then you're making yourself a product for people to consume. I wanted to ask you what about this work feels exploitative and what doesn't. Where do you feel like you have freedom and where do you feel like you don't?
ARABELLE: That's a good question. The fashion stuff is purely walking advertisement for other things. That's why I stopped doing it. If the only reason you want to share anything is because you're obligated to an advertiser, you have nothing to say anymore.
I stopped writing extremely personal essays a couple of years back. I felt disinclined to do so early on, but it took a while to adjust to how else I could tell the stories I wanted to without using my own trauma. Also, writing about trauma is incredibly profitable. It's profitable in a way that other writing usually isn't for women and femmes, because these are the stories that publishers and advertisers actually do want. They want the most dramatic pain that they can condense into a product. It makes them look like they really understand you and that they're here for you, but [the same publishers] won't be interested in the mundane, fun, interesting things women and femmes have to say in any other type of writing.
SOPHIA: How would you and other women/femme writers in your acquaintance prefer to be treated?
ARABELLE: Getting paid on time, or getting paid ever. There are only two publishers I've ever worked with who have paid me on time consistently, and I've been writing for 10 years. To have an essay that will eventually take us two weeks of daily work to be valued at more than $100. When you break that down over an hourly rate, it's like nothing. It's pathetic. People are actually paid less than they were for the same work a decade ago. You can ask any veteran of the industry—that is, the ones you can find, who haven't been aged out and put out to pasture.
Beauty and fashion writers should get the same resources as any other reporter. There was that amazing 2015 New York Times piece about nail salons, where the writer [Sarah Maslin Nir] treated it seriously, as a journalistic enterprise from the business angle. It just happened to be about beauty. The greatest thing we can do for the beauty industry is to treat it just as critically as we would anything else, because it affects us just as much.
Perhaps I come across like a bitter person about this stuff, but that's fine because I totally am. I don't bother pitching a great deal of my ideas anymore because I know with relative accuracy what publications have space for, and what they'd risk putting out, and the most interesting conversations to me are not the ones that are the most predictable traffic-drivers. Some times editors actually call me to say they can't run pieces, I guess because they know putting it into writing would be like, too telling.
I'm not saying that to be egotistical about my own position, none of it is about me– it's more like, yeah, of course they're not going to run something that may be damning to their own publishers or major advertisers, or that goes against the unspoken political position that the magazine upholds.
Dealing with it has taught me that being refused can be a blessing, though. I'd rather do things on my own terms even if it takes a lot longer, than be beholden to other people's circumstances. It's not their name on the byline in the end. It's mine.
SOPHIA: What do women—or everyone who's not a man—need or can do for each other presently?
ARABELLE: I think people need to get better at understanding that being called out isn't condemnation, or it shouldn't be. We need to relearn how to rehabilitate. The #MeToo movement is very interesting to me because it's making us critically examine what we mean by restorative justice. What do we actually want from the people who have hurt us? Do we even know what we want? We don't. Most people can't agree on that. We can't even agree on the damage that has been done, or why people damaged us in the first place. None of us can agree on anything. It's important that we're having a conversation about any of it.
I feel like I wrote through for two or three years straight exclusively about my trauma, and that's fine. I never want to write about shit again. But I needed to do that because I didn't have any other recourse. I think that people need to get better at understanding that healing isn't something that other people have to do for you. People have to understand that healing is something that we have to do ourselves, for ourselves, and it's a lot harder to get that than just telling someone they need to apologize.
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A Proposal for a Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute
Benjamin Scott, Ph.D., National Institute for Standards and Technology
This eParliament Ideas article is the beginning of a concerted effort to foster Canadian synthetic biology through SynBio Canada, and advance biotechnology within the Canadian economy. Accompanying this article is a public petition advocating the foundation of a Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute
Why Synthetic Biology Matters
Synthetic biology seeks to engineer organisms to solve problems in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Similar to using the same plastic Lego blocks to construct different things, synthetic biologists can use genes from different organisms to piece together new biological pathways. Through this harnessing of biology, compounds once locked in the leaves of rare and slow growing plants can be grown by microbes in vats, making the production of fuel, chemicals, and drugs more sustainable and cost effective. Immune cells designed to treat cancer, and bacteria engineered to treat diabetes and rare diseases are becoming a reality thanks to the hard work of synthetic biologists.
Looking at the field from a Canadian perspective, Ontario Genomics published a detailed report (.pdf) outlining how synthetic biology could contribute to existing industries in Canada. Synthetic biology has the potential to bring the Canadian economy into the 21st century, beyond one reliant on resource extraction, to truly leverage Canada's considerable scientific talent.
With the potential to redefine healthcare, agriculture, industrial production, and green technology, it is difficult to overstate the impact synthetic biology will have on the Canadian economy. Global investment in synthetic biology recently surpassed $1B in 2016 alone, and global economic output from synthetic biology is expected to reach $38.7B by 2020. To put this into perspective, this forecast places the synthetic biology market at the combined value of all Canadian exports of precious metals, gems, refined petroleum, lumber, and wheat combined.
The United States and the UK have recognized the potential of synthetic biology, and have already made significant public investments of $800M and $400M respectively. Canada cannot afford to stand on the side lines of this biotechnology revolution lest Canadian industries lose their competitive edge, compounded by a brain drain of scientific talent.
A Proposal for a Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute
Recognizing the challenge of developing a diverse and highly innovative economy, the Government of Canada has dedicated $950M towards innovation superclusters. The aim of these clusters is to connect businesses, academics, and policymakers, to spur growth in several high-tech fields. This represents an extraordinary opportunity for developing the domestic synthetic biology sector here in Canada, and now is the time to propose ideas on how to accomplish this.
A Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute will set out to accomplish the following goals:
· Dedicated equipment and facilities for synthetic biology entrepreneurs and researchers
· An accelerator program to foster the top Canadian synthetic biology research and translate it into new companies
· A network of students, professors, entrepreneurs, investors, and biotechnology professionals to create a cohesive national strategy for synthetic biology
· Funded and competitive fellowships for synthetic biology research and entrepreneurship, to train students in business acumen in addition to the latest technical skills
· A dialogue with Canadian regulatory bodies to encourage support for synthetic biology projects, while ensuring projects are designed to meet Canadian safety standards
· A strong policy on intellectual property, acknowledging fully inventor-owned IP for technology generated at the institute
· Focused synthetic biology initiatives within all Canadian innovation superclusters, to foster interdisciplinary applications
A network of university laboratories, accelerators, and private laboratories can be envisioned, collectively under the umbrella of a Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute. Indeed, dedicated synthetic biology institutes outside of Canada already exist, with the United States, the UK, and Australia leading the charge. This can be rapidly established using current resources, to ensure a national strategy on synthetic biology is defined promptly, and outline the priorities of a stand-alone institute.
Actionable Proposals
A Canadian Synthetic Biology Accelerator
Due to the applied nature of synthetic biology research, the field is primed to create new businesses. Entrepreneurial projects can have an immense impact on the Canadian economy, if entrepreneurs are given the right tools and guidance to explore and test their ideas.
This strategy has worked well for Canadian digital technology in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor, with many accelerators fostering collaborations between large Canadian companies and student-led spinouts from universities. Established Canadian and international companies have recognized the benefits of entrepreneurial approaches to their business, and have partnered extensively with regional accelerators to support their own start-up like projects.
Unlike digital technology start-ups, a synthetic biology entrepreneur cannot make meaningful progress in a café on their laptop. Synthetic biology requires cost prohibitive equipment before the first great ideas can even be tested. This reality presents a barrier to any would-be synthetic biology entrepreneurs, due to a lack of dedicated lab space outside of purely academic environments here in Canada, compounded by significantly lower capital investment compared to digital tech.
With shared core laboratory facilities that multiple academics, start-ups, and small businesses can access, Canadian synthetic biology ventures will have an immediate chance to test and scale their ideas. This will de-risk investment by focusing it to where it matters, rather than having to build a foundation to simply perform basic experiments. Therefore, the growth of Canadian biotechnology innovation can be spurred by an investment in shared scientific infrastructure, with the establishment of a dedicated Canadian Synthetic Biology Accelerator Program to host and mentor synthetic biology entrepreneurs.
Synthetic biology accelerator programmes in Ireland and San Francisco have already shown success with this style of synthetic biology research. Trainees from around the world, including Canadian university students, have tested their ideas in these private labs, gained insight from mentors, and inked contracts with investors. By framing traditionally academic research as an entrepreneurial venture, the fast-paced style of these programs helps spur productivity, leading to dozens of new high-tech companies.
A Unique Canadian Solution
Canada must foster this spirit of highly skilled entrepreneurship here at home, and capitalize on the excellent post-secondary training available to Canadians. The SynbiCITE accelerator at Imperial College London provides a particularly useful example of a successful hybrid approach between academics and industry partners.
The SynbiCITE Bio-Start competition would serve as an excellent blueprint to kickstart Canadian synthetic biology, and can be envisioned as a national competition to specifically target Canadian industries. Canadian biotechnology, agriculture, and manufacturing firms will be able to partner with the institute-led accelerator program, to harness synthetic biology to solve problems their companies face. By centralizing synthetic biology entrepreneurship under a dedicated institute, Canadian companies will be able to invest in these revolutionary technologies without having to start their own cost-prohibitive research program from scratch.
Key to this accelerator is ensuring involvement from experts and mentors. The JLABS facility in Toronto, and the Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology (CASB) at Concordia University are the first potential sources of this expertise. The network of biotech companies fostered by LSO, OBIO, and other Canadian biotech groups would be natural allies of the prospective institute. Mentors from these organizations, either individuals or partnered businesses, would be able to lend their knowledge in biotech entrepreneurship, while benefiting from new talent, ideas, and applications of synthetic biology.
Implementing the Proposals
Although the federal government's Innovation Superclusters Initiative is promising, the foundation of a dedicated Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute is not contingent on government funding.
Much of synthetic biology research is driven by students, early career scientists, and hobbyists. Fourteen Canadian undergraduate teams participate in the global iGEM synthetic biology competition, developing their own research projects that have gone on to become new biotech companies and intellectual property. The field of synthetic biology has a long history of grassroots-based support. Encouraging this spirit of discovery and entrepreneurship will pay dividends down the line, to spur development of Canadian biotech lead by the highly skilled and enthusiastic students trained at Canadian universities.
As this institute will be established from the ground up, the responsibility is on those who are interested in seeing this through. In other words, if you want to see this institute established, actively lobby your peers, professors, and family to convince them of the importance of synthetic biology.
Although anyone can become involved, I am specifically reaching out for support from the following stakeholders, who I foresee as being key to the foundation of a Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute.
First Steps: A virtual institute to improve synthetic biology's profile in Canada, and build collaborations between existing stakeholders
· iGEM teams
· Synthetic biology start-ups
· Professors using synthetic biology across Canada
· International students and professors
Near-term: Establishing the synthetic biology accelerator program in partnership with the following stakeholders
· Genome Canada
· Regional Innovation Centres
· Canadian Universities
· LSO/other industry partners
· Hon. Navdeep Bains (Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development) and the Hon. Kirsty Duncan (Canadian Minister of Science) and relevant policy makers within the Government of Canada
· Venture capital firms in Canada and abroad
Long-term goals: Establishing a research program for the Canadian Synthetic Biology Institute
· Dedicated courses/summer programs for universities and the general public
· Operating grants for synthetic biology researchers and entrepreneurs alike
· Funded fellowships for synthetic biology graduate students and post docs, to recruit and retain the top talent
It is my hope that this eParliament Ideas article, accompanying petition, and set of actionable proposals serves as a rallying cry for all synthetic biologists in Canada. Now is the time to have a national discussion about synthetic biology and make significant progress forward, to ensure renewed Canadian excellence and leadership into the 21st century.
About the Author
Ben is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, applying synthetic biology to discover new drugs and engineer cells to deliver them. During his MSc he founded the McMaster University iGEM team, and has also lead several academic student unions. He has a strong interest in career development for students, with a specific focus on biotechnology. If you wish to collaborate in this endeavour, please contact the author at email@example.com


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Another suspected swine flu case in HyderabadJune 17th, 2009 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, June 17 (IANS) A man, who arrived here Wednesday from Kuwait, was admitted to a hospital in this Andhra Pradesh capital with suspected symptoms of swine flu, officials said.
The 24-year-old was found with suspected symptoms during the mandatory screening of all international air passengers at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here. He was quarantined and taken straight to the Government General and Chest Hospital, the nodal centre to deal with swine flu.
Doctors said the man was under observation and his throat and nasal swabs were sent to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi. They are also waiting for the results of the tests of two other persons now under observation.
The city has so far reported 13 confirmed swine flu cases, the highest in India. The total number of cases in the country stands at 31.
K. Subhakar, coordinator, HINI influenza nodal centre, said the condition of the six patients undergoing treatment here was stable.
A nine-year-old boy who came from the US June 14 was tested positive for HINI influenza Tuesday.
Subhakar said six people infected with H1N1 virus were under treatment at the Government General and Chest Hospital. Seven people were treated and discharged from the facility during last one month.
The infected include a 20-month-old boy and a six-year-old girl, who came from New York. They are among the patients undergoing treatment.
All patients, except one, came from abroad. The lone local person found infected without travelling abroad contracted the virus from his brother, a techie who had come from Philadelphia.
Officials said 54 people were so far brought to the hospital with suspected swine flu symptoms and 13 of them were tested positive.
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- 8-year-old tests positive for swine flu in Hyderabad - Jun 18, 2009
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Nirvana: Bleach (1989, SubPop)
When I think of Nirvana, I think of the Melvins.
Many people give 100's of other influences on Nirvana, but the core influence IMHO is Melvins.
Pretty sure I heard Melvins for the first time heading to some debate camp or another in my old reliable car. Pretty sure my first time hearing Bleach happened about the exact same way.
At the time I had no idea Kurt had been a hanger-on with Melvins, but it sure didn't surprise me once I found out.
I had been a Melvins fan for a few years at this point and wondered if there was a way the Melvins ultra heavy grunge sound could ever be transformed into something even a bit more commercially appealing (I will admit, I did not call their sound "grunge" at the time).
This in itself is an odd thought. I liked Melvins, loved that they had a sound that was hits the ears like Guinness hits the taste buds (like complicated but explosive sludge), so why would I care about how palatable they were to the global tastes?
I still do not know the answer to why this mattered or matters but for some reason it did and does. I guess I wanted everyone to be able to experience the gut-punch of Melvins?
Anyway, Bleach was the answer to this "problem" the first album I ever heard with the core Melvins "sludge" but with catchier melodies.
Melodies so catchy they made people tap their toes.
Melodies so catchy that people almost forgot the guitar and drum sound was like walking through an aural sewer pipe.
Just listen to that nasty bass on Blew
So, if that is the case, why in the world isn't this about Melvins (well it kind of is)? The reason is because Nirvana is the lens through which most of the world experienced a snippet of Melvins IMHO.
Nirvana is a Melvins Mitzvah :)
That pretty much sums things up.
What Was Grunge?
Not sure I ever cared that much about the label "Grunge."
There were plenty of other "grunge" bands, but only three ever really seemed particularly "grungy" to me (Melvins, Mudhoney, and Nirvana).
Bleach is probably the album I associate the most closely with the actual meaning of the sound (Some have suggested it came from Heart or some other area bands - see the Seattle episode of that Dave Grohl series on HBO) but to me it is a straight line from King Buzzo, through Cobain, to Mark Arm.
Sure, like everyone else, I like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains (and Mother Love Bone, Tad, and Green River etc.). There is also a special place in my heart for Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh. But I am sticking to my guns, Grunge came from the Melvins (And yes, I know Arm and Turner were in Green River).
For me the music has this rotting dark heavy core surrounded by melody (sometimes, as if like a pretty bow on a pile of earthy mulchy poo).
And grunge also wasn't really only limited to Seattle (or the Pacific Northwest) I also was a big fan of the band "Paw" in the same vein (from Lawrence Kansas) at the time.
Also was always into Jesus Lizard who were originally from Austin (I think).
Last but not least, apologies to people with other views on what "grunge" represents. I am not saying my definition is accurate as much as saying it is how "I" define "grunge."
Nirvana Discog's
Yes, the world knows Nirvana because of Nevermind.
Some of us listened to Nirvana before Nevermind. Nevermind is an incredible pop album, it is maybe the best integration of noise music into pop music in the history of the world.
But I am deep down a punk, not a pop guy.
This is also a good time to shout out Chad Channing who was the drummer on Bleach. Most people associate Dave Grohl with Nirvana for good reason, but he was the last of a string of drummers. Chad Channing was the drummer on Bleach.
Dave Grohl is one of the best drummers ever in alternative music, but even as a drummer I still love Bleach more and In Utero (yup, I am that guy - I also prefer Weezer's Pinkerton FYI - I even prefer some songs on Incesticide to many of the songs on Nevermind).
I don't dislike Nevermind, I have listened to it plenty (just like everyone else). But I prefer Bleach and In Utero. And it all started for me with Bleach.
It is a nasty, brutish, and short feast of dirty, nasty, sludgy punk goodness. If you haven't listened in a few years, plug in and enjoy!
And, yes, I know below I reference Dave Grohl who doesn't play on Bleach (but was nice enough to tip his cap to Nirvana's "other" drummers by name including Chad Channing at the Rock Hall induction). I include Dave's book because it is really great (mostly in covering DC punk).
What are your favorite albums from the Grunge period, what does Grunge mean to you? Who are your critical Grunge artists? Let me know what you think, leave a comment!


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Mortgage Interest Rates May Reduced by the Fed Again
The mortgage industry has been awaiting some good news and Michigan homeowners have been waiting out the present state-wide housing slump that could receive a big boost, particularly for those looking to refinance. If you thought mortgage rates couldn't fall any further, think again. Some economists expect the Federal Reserve to reduce current mortgage interest rates as low as 3.85 %. That would be truly amazing. I don't know if mortgage rates have ever been that low," said Amanda Crews, the housing director at Metro Housing in Flint.
Fed Cuts Rates to Target Range of 0%-0.25%
Watch Roundtable Reaction to the Federal Reserve and Potential Mortgage Rate Cuts.
Currently, conventional home mortgages are being published below 5%. Just a few months back, they were in the low 6% range. A cut below four % could save home owners a ton of cash. "One thousand dollars a year for every point for a $100,000 loan — two points. That would save a borrower $200 a month after refinancing a $100,000 mortgage loan."
The average rate on 30-year fixed mortgage loans rose last week to 5.12 %, from a record low of 4.96 % a week earlier, according McLean, Virginia-based Freddie Mac. After the Federal Reserve announced plans to buy $500 billion of bad credit home loan security bonds, rates fell from 6.46 % in October, about tripling the pace of home loan applications between the four weeks ended Jan. 16 and Nov. 21, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. If mortgage lenders introduced even lower rates, they would not be able to handle the resulting surge in applications, Heiden said. "As mortgage interest rates improve, volume increases," she said.
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Treasury Down After Bernanke Says Fed May Buy US Debt
Treasury prices declined Tuesday as yields moved higher, with bond traders playing off Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's comments restating that the U.S. central bank could buy longer-term Treasury's to keep loan rates low. Last week, mortgage rates dropped below 5% on thirty year mortgage loans and FHA home loans.
More aid to the banking system would be needed to foster an economic recovery, Bernanke also said in a speech he delivered in London. Two-year note yields (UST2YR) rose 4 basis points to 0.79%. A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percent. Ten-year note yields (UST10Y) were little changed at 2.31%.
The timing and strength of any global recovery remain "highly uncertain," Bernanke said. The Fed has begun a plan to buy billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities and debt sold by housing agencies including Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) to lower mortgage rates and spur growth in the housing market.
So far, the program has been successful in bringing down mortgage interest rates by reducing the gap between Treasury's is a benchmark for many types of home loans, and yields on mortgage or agencies bonds. Bernanke also said it may expand its program to buy asset-backed securities, which pool borrowings such as car loans and credit-card debt. Also Tuesday, a government report showed the U.S. trade deficit in November plunged to $40.4 billion, reflecting weakening demand for imports as the nation's economic woes deepened
New York Fed Begins Purchasing Mortgage-Backed Securities
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today began purchasing fixed-rate mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae. Selected private investment managers are acting as agents of the New York Fed in these purchases. Summary data detailing these operations will be available on the New York Fed's website beginning Thursday, January 8, 2009, and will be updated on a weekly basis each Thursday.
Get updated home loan guidelines and daily mortgage interest rates online. Many insiders believe that the Fed will continue to keep interest rates low for home purchase and refinancing through 2010, or when the housing markets recover.
This program, first announced on November 25, 2008, is intended to support the mortgage and housing markets and foster improved conditions in financial markets more generally. Read the original financial article>


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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 5/6/1999 04:30 (Entered as : 5/6/99 4:30)
Reported: 4/3/2002 7:34:14 AM 07:34
Posted: 3/4/2003
Location: Cranston, RI
Shape: Egg
Duration:3 seconds
|It flew over the highway
A small egg-shaped craft flew by at an extremely high speed. It was silvery-gray.
((NUFORC Note: Witness remains anonymous. We do not know whether the witness means a morning or afternoon sighting. Please see similar report from a commercial pilot for 2130 hrs. on June 22, 1999. PD))


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Predoctoral Internship Programs in Child Psychology
The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai St. Luke's, Mount Sinai West, and Mount Sinai Beth Israel are pleased to offer the following range of predoctoral internship programs in child psychology.
The Mount Sinai Hospital
The Mount Sinai Hospital sponsors an internship program that combines rotations on the inpatient child psychiatry unit, as well as rotations in the outpatient Centers of Excellence including the Seaver Autism Center, the Eating and Weight Disorders Program, the Pediatric Neuropsychology and Learning Disorders Program, and the Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Program. Interns are exposed to a variety of didactics and supervision styles. The internship is not currently American Psychological Association (APA) approved.
Mount Sinai St Luke's and Mount Sinai West
Mount Sinai St Luke's and Mount Sinai West offer an APA-accredited Predoctoral Internship in Psychology with a track focused on working with children and adolescents. The internship provides doctoral level psychology students with experiences in individual, group and family therapy, crisis services, home and community-based services for chronically mentally-ill patients, intensive case management, neuropsychological assessment and alternative day programs for psychiatrically ill and/or substance dependent high school students. Interns have major rotations in the Outpatient Department and at CARES. Minor rotations focus on learning neuropsychological testing and assessment skills, conducting intake evaluations with an emphasis on building diagnostic expertise, participating in clinical research projects and conducting developmental screenings for babies and caregivers in the Parent-Infant Center. In addition, interns participate in seminar courses focusing on child and adolescent psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessment, and may take optional courses in child and adolescent psychopathology and psychopharmacology.
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
The Psychology Division of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel offers a yearlong, full-time, predoctoral internship in clinical psychology with rotations in child psychology. This program is available to matriculated doctoral students in clinical and counseling psychology programs approved by the APA. The primary goal of the internship program is to provide an intensive, broad-based training experience that exposes the interns to a variety of clinical settings, populations, and applications of psychological interventions.
For the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Rotation, interns participate in a four-month rotation on the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Service, during which they conduct intake evaluations and psychological assessments. As part of their work with children and adolescents, interns regularly collaborate with various members of the child's school or other community agencies, such as child welfare. Interns become familiar with a number of therapeutic approaches including play therapy, parenting skills training, family therapy, and cognitive behavior therapy.


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This stately townhouse sits on a beautiful Chelsea street steps away from the High Line on New York City's west side. After years of being partially vacant, the design team* worked with the owners to renovate the garden duplex unit and three full-floor apartments into three rental units and an owner-occupied penthouse unit. Per the owners' wishes to renovate the building on a relatively modest budget, a large portion of funds was allocated to plumbing, electrical and Landmarks approved windows which were all or almost fully replaced.
On the interior, the firm maintained many of the original details to keep the heart of the building alive, while developing a scope of new interior finish work that would be durable and price conscious. The last phase was to design a roof deck accessed by the owner's penthouse apartment.
LOCATION: Chelsea, New York, NY
PROJECT TEAM: Larry Cohn, Aaron Vanderpool
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Ducat Construction Corp.
LANDMARK'S CONSULTANT: Mary B. Dierickx Historic Preservation Consulting
PHOTOS: Steve Siu & Aaron Vanderpool
Six months to a year after the major renovation was completed the clients came to the team* requesting a design for a rooftop deck. With its breathtaking views of Chelsea and the High Line a minimal deck, floating above the roof membrane, made of composite deck material was designed; with integrated seating, storage, and planter boxes.
* indicates work done by Shadow Architect P.C. with Aaron Vanderpool as part of the design team.


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