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Peaches Geldof wrote of how she was "happier than ever" and "being a mum is the best part" shortly before her sudden death, it emerged today.
The 25-year-old TV presenter and former model said after having two young children her life was finally "bliss" in her haunting last column for a magazine.
The death yesterday of Bob Geldof's daughter remained unexplained today amid reports that police had not found any drugs or a suicide note at her Kent home.
Kent Police issued a statement saying they were continuing to investigate what they described as an "unexplained, sudden death."
Bob Geldof, 62, was flying back from San Francisco last night after he had given a speech on activism and social justice to the American society of neurosurgeons.
Peaches Geldof - a life in pictures
Peaches Geldof - a life in pictures
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Peaches Geldof with her eldest son Astala
2/20 Happy family
Peaches, her husband Tom and their two sons
3/20 Ladies night
Peaches enjoys cocktails with two female friends at Hakkasan
4/20 Family selfie
Peaches, Astala and Tom take a cute family pic
5/20 Mummy's boy
Peaches with Astala
6/20 Full of life
A picture from Peaches' Instagram account
7/20 Selfie time
Peaches snaps a selfie on the train
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Peaches Geldof - pictured in March 2014 - has been found dead at her home (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
9/20 Mother and daughter
Peaches Geldof tweeted this image of herself and mother Paula Yates hours before she died
10/20 First picture
Peaches as a baby in March 1986 with parents Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and sister Fifi Trixiebelle (AP Photo)
11/20 Happy family
Peaches with husband Thomas Cohen and children Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen and Phaedra Bloom Forever Cohen at the Dolce&Gabbana 'Christmas On Sloane Street' Children's Boutique launch in December (Picture: Dave Benett)
12/20 Sisters
Peaches and Pixie Geldof at the Elle Style Awards in 2013 (Picture: Dave Benett)
13/20 Glamour couple
Thomas Cohen and Peaches Geldof at the London premiere of The Wolf Of Wall Street in January 2014 (Photo by Dave M. Benett/WireImage)
14/20 In the limelight
Peaches and Pixie Geldof (R) arriving at the premiere of Bruno in 2009 (EPA)
15/20 Growing up in public
Bob Geldof and daughters Peaches and Pixie at the premiere of Charlies Angels 2: Full Throttle in 2003 (Getty Images)
16/20 Socialite
Peaches at the Brit Awards in February (Pictures: Getty)
17/20 Rose tattoo
The TV personality was known for her quirky style
18/20 Family
Bob Geldof with a young Peaches on the right and sister Pixie left
19/20 Young star
Peaches Geldof attends the ETAM show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2014-2015
20/20 Glamorous
Peaches Geldof arrives for the amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2009 event (Reuters)
In a statement he said his family were "beyond pain" after his daughter Peaches was found dead at the age of 25.
The mother-of-two, whose mother was the late TV presenter Paula Yates, was found at her home in Wrotham, Kent, yesterday after a concerned relative called emergency services.
Ms Geldof was a prolific tweeter and the final message she sent on Sunday was a picture of her as a child with her mother, with the message "Me and my mum".
A former model, she had two young sons with her second husband, musician Tom Cohen, and had recently become a columnist for Mother & Baby magazine.
In only her second column for the magazine published today she writes her "wild past" and reveals how she has found happiness in motherhood.
She says: "I lived a life of wanton wanderlust. With fun loving friends from Los Angeles to London, I was lost in a haze of youth and no responsibilities.
"Other than work there was nothing stopping me from having constant fun. But it was becoming boring, I wanted an anchor - I craved it. And when I had to wailing, smiling, joyful little blobs of waddling pink flesh they became my entire existence and saved me from one of pure apathy."
Later she writes: "Everything else was nothingness – I had the perfect life, two babies who loved me more than anything. It was and is bliss."
Ms Geldof wrote her last column before her last birthday and she adds: "Now with a newfound group of mummy mates, both locally and online, all with the exact same struggles and issues and who don't question if my child flings food at their hair or care if there's a screaming fit in the middle of the street – I'm happier than ever.
"My real old friends have stuck by me and connect me to my old life (I sometimes forget I'm only 24), treating me to nights out that let me forget about dirty nappies at least for a minute. So I've achieved a sort of perfect balance. Right now life is good. And being a mum is the best part of it."
Police today refused to comment on reports that officers had discovered no drugs or a suicide note at her home.
One report said that the coroner was examining the possibility she had died of natural causes.
Police also refused to say if the journalist's young children, Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra, were found by ambulance crews and police officers at the address in Wrotham.
In a statement Kent Police said: "Kent Police officers are continuing their enquiries today following the death of Peaches Geldof at her home in Wrotham.
"Officers were called to the 25-year-old's home in Fairseat Lane, Wrotham at 1.35pm on Monday, 7 April 2014. Peaches was pronounced dead at the scene.
"The death is being treated as a non-suspicious, but an unexplained sudden death. Officers are working to establish the circumstances and will be compiling a report of their findings for the coroner. It is expected that a post-mortem examination will be carried out in the next few days."
In a statement yesterday Bob Geldof said: "She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
"Writing 'was' destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?
"We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is.
"Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken."
The statement was signed Bob, Jeanne, Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof.
Cohen said: "My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. We shall love her for ever."
Ms Geldof, who was last seen at the F&F fashion show in London last Thursday evening, was a young girl when her mother died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.
Yates was divorced from Bob Geldof in 1996 after forming a relationship with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia, in 1997, and Yates went on to lose custody of the three daughters she had with Geldof - Peaches, Pixie and Fifi - the following year.
Bob Geldof later adopted Yates and Hutchence's daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.
Ms Geldof's oldest son Astala was 23 months old, while 11-month-old Phaedra was born on what would have been her mother's 54th birthday.
She was 19 when she married US musician Max Drummey at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in August 2008. The couple announced that they had decided to split amicably in February 2009 before divorcing in 2011.
Ms Geldof made no secret of drinking to excess and experimenting with drugs. In 2010 the Ultimo underwear brand dropped her as its ' face' after allegatins of drug-taking.
The following year there were reports of erratic behaviour when she was allegedly caughts shop-lifting make-up in Boots.
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Stevens: Lobo Women's Tennis 2012-13 Season Review
May 3, 2013
New Mexico Lobos Women's Tennis - 2012-2013 Season Review
By Richard Stevens - Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
In her push to make the season of 2012-13 a progressive step forward for Lobo tennis, Coach Erica Perkins Jasper says mission accomplished. She established the philosophical base of what it takes to play tennis for the University of New Mexico.
Now, the first-year UNM coach has to get ready to do it all over again. She returns only Michaela Bezdickova and Susanna Kuuttila and will bring in seven scholarship athletes and a walk-on this fall to form her 2013-14 roster.
But Jasper does not think any of her first-year brick laying will go to waste.
"Misa (Bezdickova) and Anna (Kuuttila) are two of our stronger competitors and they are back," said Jasper. "I'm excited about the talent we have coming in with our freshmen and we have two seasoned leaders to help continue the foundation we are trying to build.
"A lot of this season was laying a foundation in terms of the expectations of the program on the court and off the court, in the weight room, in conditioning, in the class room."
There is an old adage that pertains to sports and life: Start as you plan to go. Jasper has firm goals for the philosophical base from which to start her Lobo program. In a nutshell, it was a mortar of blue-collar work ethics that would make you better on the court.
But Jasper had a small problem with her start. The team of Lobos she inherited was all recruited by the former program and had been nurtured as young Lobos to a different set of expectations. Jasper need to crack the whip - but softly.
"As a new coach, you have to be understanding, that you are inheriting some players who didn't sign up for you," she said. "As a player, they have to realize that they have to step up to your expectations and any changes you implement.
"I couldn't be more proud of the way our three seniors (Kristin Eggleston, Michaela Oldani, Laura Richardson) bought in and tried to be examples for the team. I really respect their efforts."
It is fair to say that not all Lobos bought in to the changes. Jasper will be minus in 2013-14 three non-seniors who began this season. Of course, that opened the door to Jasper adding some fresh faces, which were recruited to Jasper's standards. She has scholarships available from three graduating seniors, three Lobos transferring out, and one scholarship she had been saving.
Despite finished eight out of nine teams in the Mountain West regular-season race, UNM placed two players on the All-Mountain West team. Bezdickova, playing in the No. 1 spot, made the honors' list as an individual and in doubles along with Richardson.
"To see the look on Laura's face when she won that award was pretty special," said Jasper. "I'm pretty sure she slept with her plaque for at least a week.
"You don't see it very often where you have two seniors (Richardson and Oldani) who are named your most-improved players. They put out a special effort and I was proud of that effort and the leadership they showed."
The Lobos posted a 7-15 mark (1-7 in MW) this past season and lost seven of their final eight matches. The Lobos had winning individual marks only in the No. 1 and No. 6 hole. The UNM middle was soft. The Lobos were bumped out of the Mountain West Tournament by a Colorado State team the Lobos beat in the regular season. Jasper's Lobos have some growing to do.
"Overall, the won-lost record was a little disappointing," said Jasper. "We had five or six matches that we had in our grasp and we didn't take advantage of that. Sometimes as a coaching staff you take that personal; what could we have done differently to get the wins?
"We had a few matches on our racket that went the wrong way, but we had a few that we snuck away with. The first year as coach you know you won't have the wins you would love to have, there are some growing pains, but it's important you establish the direction to want for the program and for the players."
The direction this program needs to go in is obvious. UNM needs to be more competitive in the Mountain West and eventually open the door to postseason play. The obvious ace returning to help that push is Bezdickova, who posted a 22-12 record in singles. The senior-to-be has made the All-MW list in all three of her seasons as a Lobo.
"I improved this season, but at the end I was hoping for a little bit better results in conference," said Bezdickova. "I'm looking forward to next season.
"As a team, we definitely improved even through the results didn't show it. We were more competitive. We came out with more energy and everyone was competing really hard. I felt we were in almost every match."
Said Jasper: "Misa (Bezdickova) is a tremendous competitor. She is a good college tennis player, but she is learning about what it takes to be a great college tennis player. She wants to be great. She wants to leave here being nationally ranked and she wants to make the NCAA Tournament. She is hungry to do that.
"She had to learn how to play with the pressure of knowing that if we were going to win a match, she had to win her match. That made her stronger mentally and that's so important in this game. She is an unbelievably dedicated player."
Bezdickova and Kuuttila will be the building blocks that Jasper throws out in 2013-14 as she continues to mold her program. But next year there will be a huge difference. All Lobos on the court will start as Erica Perkins Jasper plans to go.


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A MAGICAL JOURNEY THAT CELEBRATES THE AFRICAN SOUNDS OF NATURE "In the beginning, when all things began, these were the sounds which were music to man.'Cicadas, crickets, beetles and frogsSeedpods, cocoons, hollowed out logsCrackling fires, the patter of rainThundering hooves on the African plainBirds in the air, in the trees—on the landWind in the grass through the leaves—over sand."
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Wendy Hartmann is an award-winning South African author of more than forty children's books. They range from concept and counting, beginner readers, high interest/low vocabulary readers to picture books. Her books have been selected for honor's lists and nominated for awards for writing and illustration. Wendy lives in Table View, Cape Town. She is married and has two daughters. In her spare time, she paints and has taken part in numerous exhibitions and has works in private collections internationally.
Joan Rankin has illustrated over thirty books for children. She received the South African HAUM Daan Retief Prize for children's book illustration in 1986 and the Katrine Harries Award for Children's Book Illustration in 1991. She has illustrated numerous books on the McElderry list, including A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson and Off to First Grade by Louise Borden. Joan recently won the MER Prize for best illustrated children's book for Just Sisi/Net Sisi written by Wendy Hartmann.
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TAMPA — The morning after the keys of Florida State's football program had unofficially been turned over, new coach Jimbo Fisher sat in the principal's conference room at Leto High with a handful of coaches, administrators and senior running back Jeremy Deering.
The way Leto recruiting coordinator Frank Rose describes it, Fisher pointed at the clock, then told Deering, one of the bay area's top recruits: "This is my first day as Florida State head coach, it's 9 in the morning, and you're the first recruit I'm coming to see."
"You could hear a pin drop in that room," Rose said.
For coveted prospects like Deering, the toughest part of the recruiting process is weeding through the pitches college coaches spin. Their lines vary as much as the recruits they covet.
Deering has narrowed his list to five schools. In the past month, Fisher, Illinois coach Ron Zook, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier and Rutgers coach Greg Schiano have visited Tampa.
A resounding theme in Fisher's pitches, according to Rose: "I might only have you for three years until you go make some money," alluding to FSU's track record for sending players to the NFL.
Zook focused less on a program's success and more on keeping athletes content: "It's all about where you're happy. I know a lot of kids who win a lot of games who are miserable."
During an official visit to Rutgers this past weekend, Deering said players and coaches told him "it's a good time to break away and see other places."
And the night before his trip to Rutgers, Deering sat at Lee Roy Selmon's, listening as South Carolina assistant G.A. Mangus tried to convince him to change his schedule and make the Gamecocks his final official visit.
"In the end, you listen to everything they all say, but you've just got to do your own research and make what's the best decision for you," Deering said.
"The bottom line is that recruiting is all about relationships and how they're forged between a kid and coaches," Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Jamie Newberg said. "Some pitches evolve as the program does, but the great recruiters don't change too much."
Tampa Catholic quarterback Christian Green is ranked the ninth-best prospect in Florida and 61st overall. Green says all of his finalists (Florida, Florida State, Georgia) pitch winning, banking on past successes.
"A lot of the time, Florida tells me it's about national championships," Green said. "Come to Florida and you have a chance to win national championships.
"(FSU) is one of those programs that always has great tradition. They have a couple down years, but they're on their way back up. Jimbo is a heck of a coach. He knows what he's doing. I feel looking at FSU, it's heading back in the right direction.
"(Georgia) always tells me, 'Come up there, they're going to have a chance to win the SEC Championship.' "
Robby Pruitt, football coach at Fitzgerald (Ga.) High, has seen his share of pitches. Formerly the coach at Lake Butler Union County and Jacksonville University Christian, he has sent players to Alabama, Florida, FSU, Georgia, Nebraska, Ohio State and Wisconsin. Through the years he has dealt with the likes of Bobby Bowden, Zook, Spurrier, former Huskers coach Tom Osborne and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops.
And one stood out from the rest.
"To me, it was Bobby Bowden," Pruitt said. "He'd just have the grandmas and grandpas eating out of his hand. He'd say he knew how to take care of (his players), how it was a family (at FSU). He just had that personality. He felt like granddad. He had a way of making you feel like he cared about you. He just had that presence."
The Gators also pitch family. Hiram Green, Christian Green's father, accompanied his son on his official visit to Gainesville two weeks ago. Part of the visit involved a stop at coach Urban Meyer's house.
"It was nice event," Hiram Green said, "a family environment. That's what he stressed, being part of a family. His home is really welcoming. You can tell it's a family-type home. The kids enjoy it."
The key, above all, is forming a connection, and even smaller programs are becoming formidable. Take Florida International, just five years in Division I, which is making strides in the Tampa Bay area, having offered more than a dozen prospects. FIU assistant Alex Mirabel immediately found common ground with Hillsborough High coach Earl Garcia.
"I remember the first time I met (Mirabel)," Garcia said. "He walked into our conference room and the first thing he said was, 'I was a high school coach for 12 years, so I know what you're up against.' That means a lot.
"He knows what it's like to coach at the high school level, to order buses and organize pregame meals. Think Lane Kiffin knows that?"
Southern savvy
We asked Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Jamie Newberg to give us some of college football's top pitchmen who also recruit the South well.
James Coley, offensive coordinator, Florida State: Coley has high school coaching experience in the Miami area, so he knows South Florida well. He first worked with FSU coach Jimbo Fisher in 2004 as a grad assistant, so he knows Fisher's values. Stints with the Miami Dolphins and FIU also show he's been around the block.
Ed Orgeron, recruiting coordinator/defensive line coach, USC: Orgeron didn't have much success as a head coach at Ole Miss (10-25), but he is well known as one of the game's top recruiters. Returns to USC as Lane Kiffin's right-hand man with seven years of Trojans experience.
Charlie Strong, coach, Louisville: Former Florida assistant head coach and defensive coordinator knows the South after time with South Carolina, Ole Miss and Florida. He has a great reputation for connecting with recruits. His departure to Louisville was expected to hurt UF's class, but hasn't.
Rodney Garner, assistant head coach/recruiting coordinator/DL coach, Georgia: The prime trumpeter of Bulldogs coach Mark Richt's pitch of faith and family, he knows the Georgia program well after coaching under Richt for eight years.
Doc Holliday, coach, Marshall: New Thundering Herd coach spent three decades as an assistant, mostly at West Virginia, so he has seen the recruiting game change over the years. Also knows this region well after time at UF and N.C. State.
Giff Smith, defensive line coach/recruiting coordinator, Georgia Tech: Smith, who has spent nearly 20 years as an assistant, has been the recruiting coordinator at Georgia Tech and Tulane, and was an assistant at I-AA power Georgia Southern.
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I had Smartlipo performed on my abdomen & flanks on 1/3/2011. I was uncomfortable about the "muffin top" I had in the front, sides and back that would spill out of my jeans. I had a baby 3 years ago, and I am now an athletic size 6 but it has been impossible to find clothes that look good because of my belly. So after 3 consultations with local plastic surgeons, I knew this doctor was the person I felt most comfortable with doing my surgery.
Day of surgery: We started at 11:30am. I was given 1 Valium and 2 Percocet before the procedure started. The doctor warned me that the first part was the most painful. Indeed it was! She made 6 incisions for the cannula to be inserted and the "numbing" medication is dispersed throughout the entire area to be treated. It was extremely uncomfortable, but it didn't last long. I took another Valium and another Percocet. Things got much easier.
The next step was having the fat "melted" by the laser. This was not painful at all. My doctor and I were talking the whole time about our children, sports, relationships, and other things. She even told me that she herself had Smartlipo done after she had children, which assured me I was in safe hands & she understood what I was experiencing. She had very relaxing music on her IPod that played in the background.
Before I knew it, she started sucking the fat out of me. This part was uncomfortable, but not nearly as bad as the first part. Every time she would break up the fat with the cannula inside of me, I could feel it, but it wasn't too painful. She said she was finished and I stood up for her to check me for symmetry. She sucked a little more out of me while I was standing, which was weird to watch. Then she taped maxi pads to my incision sites and zipped me into a compression garment. We were done at 3:00pm. I remarked that it felt like only an hour had passed by!
I went to sit in the waiting room to wait to go home. I was driving myself. I very soon got lightheaded and pale and she told me to come lie down in a different room to recover. I drank appx. 3 bottles of water during the surgery and 3 more after. I was still feeling very sick and nauseous around 5pm. The Dr. had to leave to attend her daughter's girl scout meeting. She insisted I stay and nap in a separate room. I felt so comfortable and taken care of. Her mother (also a plastic surgeon) stopped in to check on me. The children's nanny came in and took me to the bathroom and she got me more water. I was finally able to drive home around 7pm. It was a 45min drive and I would've felt safer if someone had drove me home, but I was keeping this procedure a secret.
The next day was the most difficult. I was in pain and on painkillers for most of the day. I soaked through more of those maxi pads I had been using as bandaids. I couldn't sit or stand up without pain. I started bruising.
Day 3 I was back at the gym. I just did light cardio, walking on the treadmill for an hour. I did an hour on the elliptical machine on day 4. By day 7 I was back to strength training and even abdominal exercises. I continued to wear the compression garment for 10 days.
It is now 2 weeks since my surgery and I am healing great. My bruising has completely gone away. Only 2 of my scabs are visible. And they are so tiny, once they heal I know it will be impossible to tell I had this done. My doctor said it will take 6 months to see the final results, so I will post more pictures periodically. So far I am very satisfied!


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1. That CAI blows. Don't get it. I've installed a similar CAI and it took me an hour.
2. That wasn't a chip. You showed us a Shark Injection system which is meant for OBDII systems and because your car is a 1995. For a 1995 you need an acual chip because your car has an OBDI system. The brand is VERY good. I always recomend JC chips. The install time on that is about 10 minutes.
3. HELL FUCKIGN NO. NEVER get a universal wannabe muffler. And that won't even fit into your rear apron. You have a single tip outlet exhaust. Don't make your car look out of place. It is a 318i. Accept it.
4. I think $400 would be good enough if you are also includign a good headunit in that. Get that professionally installed.
Forget the muffler. Truthfully I think you need to look into Rims. I recomend ebay for this. People complain that ebay rims can dent easy and all that shit. But unless you plan to seriously track your car, then i think you should be fine. Go for like $400 or $500 ebay rims about 17 inchers and make sure they are BMW styled rims. Then if you get a bit more money look into buyign the rims and putting on yoko ES100's. Don't make your bimmer look out of place.
Good Luck.
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Do Not Want: Cats and Baths
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Do Not Want: Cats and Baths
Last time I checked, cats have tongues and give themselves delicate, if weird, little baths. So why do people insist on bathing them? Like the French (just kidding!), most kitties would prefer to put on cologne.
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Engineering Newswire 64: New hypersonic jet strikes anywhere in less than an hour
Today on Engineering Newswire, we're flying unmanned Navy helicopters, adjusting our atomic clocks, reconfiguring robotic ape spines, and attacking any target in the world, in less than an hour. This episode features:
-- The Next Fire Scout: Northrop Grumman's next-generation MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter conducted its first flight at Naval Base Ventura County in California
-- Planet of the Robotic Apes: iStruct, an ape-like robotic creation from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Bremen, has scored itself a reconfigured spinal system.
-- Tick Tock: NIST's compact atomic clock design relies on cold rubidium atoms instead of hot atoms, a switch that promises improved precision and stability in ultraportable clocks.
-- Son of Blackbird: Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has recently revealed its plans for a hypersonic aircraft that will go twice the speed of the SR-71. The SR-72 twin-engine aircraft is expected to travel at Mach 6, with the ability to strike targets. At this speed, no enemy would have time to react or hide.


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'The Voice' Blind Auditions Week 3 Recap: The Coaches Banter, Battle + Sell Themselves
The coaches are eager to fill their teams with the required 12 singers, so spots filled up on Week 3 of the Blind Auditions of Season 2 of 'The Voice.' We see them still encouraging each other to push the button for singers they think are right for the other, with Christina Aguilera often encouraging Adam Levine and Cee Lo to push their giant buzzers, while Blake Shelton muses about contestants being good-looking.
Lady Gaga Wants to Recreate 'Expensive Hooker' Scent for New Perfume
Lady Gaga tweeted that she is shooting her perfume campaign this weekend, posting: "Looking forward to this weekend. Shooting my parfum campaign and commercial with Steven Klein. Will be edited to a special song." We already know the campaign ads will be visual spectacles, since this is Gaga we're talking about. We can't wait until she leaks photos from the big shoot. But the billion dollar question remains: What will her signature scent smell like? Turns out it will have notes of "expensive hooker" in the recipe.
Adele Stuns on March Vogue Cover
Much is made about the fact that Adele is a singer as opposed to a pop star. She doesn't want the trappings of pop stardom or desire to be waif thin. She isn't interested creating a gimmick. It's all about her voice and her songs.
But that doesn't mean that she can't or doesn't enjoy dressing up in priceless couture for the cover of the March 2012 issue of Vogue.
Bruno Mars Brings Rat Pack Style to the Stage at 2012 Grammy Awards
Bruno Mars was the first pop act to perform at the 2012 Grammy Awards and the second performer overall, following classic rock legend Bruce Springsteen, who opened the show. Mars rocked his way through 'Runaway Baby' with a classic, Rat Pack energy. His performance was inspired by another era. But that's what Mars does so well. He even busted out a golden megaphone mid-set, too.
Kelly Clarkson Duets With Jason Aldean, Deals With Technical Difficulties at 2012 Grammy Awards
Fresh off last week's major performance of the national anthem at the Super Bowl, Kelly Clarkson was back in the Sunday night spotlight for another major performance! Tonight (Feb. 12), the 'Mr. Know It All' singer teamed up with her friend, country crooner Jason Aldean, for a live rendition of their hit ballad 'Don't You Wanna Stay' at the 2012 Grammy Awards.
Kesha Tweets About Whitney Houston's Death Nearly 24 Hours Later
Kesha issued a heartfelt tweet about the death of Whitney Houston this afternoon. She posted: "i cannot even believe it. RIP Whitney. my love goes out to family+friends+her mourning fans. #speechless." Simple enough, right? A reaction that mimicked the rest of the pop music universe, yes? No, not really.
Brittany Zika, AKA Tripster the Hipster, Tells Her 'Story' at 'American Idol' Portland Audition
The 'American Idol' audition round has moved to the Pacific Northwest to the lovely (if cloudy) city of Portland. The first contestant was evidence that you can't judge a singer by her clothes! Brittany Zika, a
Leslie Carter's Death Reportedly Due to Prescription Overdose
With the news of Leslie Carter's passing still fresh, rumors about the cause of death of the sister of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and Aaron Carter are beginning to surface. Carter, an aspiring singer and mother of a young daughter, was supposedly in the grip of a prescription medication addiction. The battle had intensified in the days leading up to her death. While the family's statement did not share the cause of death and requested privacy, other family members believe she overdosed.
'The Voice' Coaches Goof Off on Rolling Stone Cover
The second season of 'The Voice' kicks off on Feb. 5, right after the Super Bowl. After year of high ratings, press, promotion, hype and hanging out while seated in high-backed red space chairs, the coaches have come together for round two and they are celebrating with a Rolling Stone cover.
Romeo Diahn Survives Refugee Camp, Moves On After 'American Idol' Audition
There are 'American Idol' backstories and then there are backstories! We doubt that any of the contestants that have stood on the audition stage through the show's entire history could lay claim to going through what hopeful Romeo Diahn has been through. He is a true survivor with a feel good story if there ever was one.
'American Idol' Portland Auditions Recap: Brittany Zika, Britnee Kellogg Show Their Blond Ambition
Portland is a pop culture hot bed. From the hilarious series 'Portlandia' — which celebrates the indie-dom and coolness of the region and is as far removed from 'American Idol' and its pop sensibilities — to the hipster-friendly nature of the often cloudy and rainy area, Portland is on our radar a bunch. No wonder 'American Idol' producers hit the city again this season for the audition phase.
Lana Del Rey Redeems Herself With BBC Live Performance
Still think Lana Del Rey is all hype with no hope? Then check out her performance of 'Video Games' on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, where she pretty much redeems her much-maligned 'Saturday Night Live' performance. If you thought she sucked on 'SNL,' then at least allow the woman born Lizzie Grant in upstate New York another chance to win you over with this particular performance.


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"My husband and I planned a fun and exciting baby shower for our second child, who is due this NOVEMBER. I was looking for a special kind of invitation to go with our theme, Gender Reveal. The card I found on Tiny Prints was spot on with its design. It matches our decor to a T!!! I was elated. Our shower is being hosted by my sister and all invites have been mailed. Everyone of our closest family and friends have only the best of compliments about the design of the invitation! We couldn't have made it better ourselves, absolutely AWESOME!"
"It was everything and more i expected it to be down to every detail. I'm a 1st time mom and it was so important to me that the quality of the invite down to the envelopes were perfect. I paid so little for such a high quality item Thank You Tiny Prints."
"Love the cute design. I bought the plain shape and it was perfect. No need to pay the extra for the decorative edge. Good stock. Wish there had been room to include where the new mom was registered."
"So happy to have found this design. My sister is not finding out the gender and usually gender neutral means green and yellow. This design is modern and stylish. I know my sister will love it! Once again, a very happy and satisfied Tiny Prints customer!"
"This invitation was perfect for our shower since we weren't allowed to reveal the gender of the baby. My fellow party planners and I loved the whimsical look and all the hearts--they serve as a perfect reminder of all the love that went into preparing for this baby and all the love that will go into raising this baby. We also like the different fonts used to communicate information and the large heart used to indicate the date of the shower. If there's one flaw with this design, it's that the font on the very last line stating where the mom is registered is too small. My eyes are pretty good, but I still have to squint!"
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And we come full circle with car electronics that require professional repair, and the manufacturers are more than happy to NOT have you do it.
And we come full circle with car electronics that require professional repair, and the manufacturers are more than happy to NOT have you do it.
Speaking of electrics
Talk about tiny
Actually, I kinda like it. Sort of like a runabout that you left in the dryer too long
1921 Automatic Electric
Automatic Electric Transmission Co. Buffalo, NY
1929 Packard Speedster driven by Major Glasscock
Body by Thompson
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One more shot of the Glasscock special
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The tiny wheels crowd
Family and their model T
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Pierce Great Arrow 1910??
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Ford dealership with c1918 Model T Runabout, West Virginia
Flathead V8's
Ford engine and transmission assemblies are shown above being loaded onto a open freight car at the River Rouge factory, during 1937, to start their trip on towards assem-bly plants. Photos below show the sign coming into the city and the complex that at one time employed close to fifty-thousand workers.
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I'd almost forgotten about the powerhouse that the T could be
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I wasn't trying to wreck him, I just wanted to rattle his cage.... Dale EarnhardtOriginally Posted by porridgehead
2017 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack w/6-speed | 2016 RAM 1500 4x4 | 2008 BMW 335i w/6-speed | 2000 Cobalt 246 w/454 Mag MPIOriginally Posted by admirallaserbeam
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Ford Assembly Line 1931
Couple roadsters behind the commercial vehicle up front
A Press Photo taken in one of the Ford Motor Company plants during the 1931 model year run, which shows a commercial chassis in front of a whole batch of roadsters fol-lowing it down the line. Interestingly in the left hand background appear to be three more roadsters with their tops covered with paper to prevent soiling which you can also see on the assembly line. Also note that the cowl on the commercial chassis appears to be in primer to allow the painting of it to be completed by whoever completes it with a body.
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GM Proving Grounds
Testing the product
Looks cold to me
And they dont need any computers, just a stop watch and some junk which they found under the work bench .. Notice the apparatus which looks like it was setup the old fashioned way, they made it to do the job they wanted it to do. This is a fuel mileage testing device held in place with some twine and electrical tape. And check out the scien-tists great hats, the luxury 2 x 4 test seat with the air mattress on the backrest and the sand bags for weight.
Below it looks like our duo has gone high-tech on us. They are using a chain driven fifth- wheel and a spark accelerometer, which supposedly measures distance against time. It records data by using electrical sparks to make pinholes in a paper tape at one and ten foot intervals. The test vehicles are identified as Oaklands and the photos are dated 1924.
and now for something completely different
whoa, Nellie
New York to San Fran
Female Aviator
At least she looks better in black
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ezCater CEO Honored with Hospitality Technology's Top Women in Foodservice Technology Award
March 9, 2017 – Stefania Mallett Recognized as Industry Innovator Alongside Executives from Dunkin' Brands and Panera Bread
ezCater Raises $35M from ICONIQ Capital and Insight Venture Partners, Strengthening Its Position as the Leading Online Marketplace in the $21B Business Catering Market
January 11, 2017 — Only Nationwide Marketplace for Business Catering Connects Businesspeople with Nearly 50,000 Restaurants and Caterers Across the Country.
Survey Finds Providing Food in the Workplace Positively Impacts Sales and Productivity
December 15, 2016 — Office workers recognize food's influence on closing deals, attracting talent, and boosting productivity, according to ezCater research.
JLL, ezCater Launch CaterCares to Help Fight Childhood Hunger
November 22, 2016 — New corporate catering initiative debuts in Boston, will expand nationwide.
ezCater Announces New Program to Simplify Business Catering at Shared Workspaces
September 29, 2016 — Program gives coworking spaces an easy way to provide food for their members' meetings and events at all of their locations while earning incremental revenue.
Former Rue La La Executive, Onur Mergen, Joins ezCater as Chief Technology Officer
August 12, 2016 — Will Play Key Role in Scaling ezCater's Ecommerce Platform and Doubling its Engineering Team.
ezCater Honored as Gold Winner in the Annual 2016 Customer Sales and Service World Awards®
June 27, 2016 — Award recognizes ezCater as industry leader in customer service.
ezCater Highlights Explosive Growth in Corporate Catering with Lists of "Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains" and "Independent Restaurants to Watch in 2016"
May 19, 2016 — Atlanta Bread Company, HoneyBaked Ham, and Boston Market are Fast-Growing Restaurant Chains on ezCater's Platform; Up-and-Coming Independent Restaurants to Watch Include Firinji, Courageous Bakery, and Virginia BBQ.
ezCater Wins Gold Stevie® Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year
May 11, 2016 — Award recognizes ezCater for superior business performance and growth
ezCater Releases Tax-Exempt Ordering Feature
April 07, 2016 — Enables Non-Profit and Tax-Exempt Organizations to Set Up Tax Exemption Once and Automatically Receive it at Over 46,000 Restaurants and Caterers Nationwide
ezCater Wins a Silver Stevie® Award for Contact Center of the Year
March 21, 2016 — Award recognizes ezCater for delivering superior customer service and support
ezCater Hires New CFO, CMO, and VP of National Sales on the Heels of $28M in Venture Funding
October 28, 2015 — Executives from Actifio, Amazon, and Athenahealth Join Business Catering Marketplace to Increase Awareness, Drive Sales, and Manage Growth
ezCater Closes $28M Funding Round to Further its Leadership Position as the Only Nationwide Marketplace for Business Catering
October 06, 2015 — Insight Venture Partners Leads Series C Round Supporting the Dominant Player in the Rapidly Growing $19.6 Billion Business Catering Market
Two-Thirds of Sales Professionals Sell More by Using ezCater
October 14, 2014 — Data Shows 65% Close More Sales, 77% Make More Sales Calls, 89% Save Time on Paperwork


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A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk. An automobile can take one reliably to a destination and back... There being so little to be said, much must be invented. Social distinction must be associated with a house... sexual fulfillment with a particular... automobile, social acceptance with... a mouthwash, etc. We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is the hallmark of our culture.And this was before color television.
Inspiration from physics for thinking about economics, finance and social systems
Monday, October 10, 2011
Creating desires with advertising...
Vance Packard, American journalist of some 50 years ago, quoted in Satyajit Das' book Extreme Money:
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Reminds of when I was in B-school one of the marketing recruiters was elaborating on the fact that working for their organization (which involved food) was much better than for personal care, since people only shave so often per day, whereas the potential was unlimited for their wares.ReplyDelete
Of course, three years later this person jumped to one of those other types. SO much for walking the talk!
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My name is Matt and I am a waterfowl hunting lover from upstate NY. Rochester to be exact. I've been the Mass/NH/Maine once before to do some Eider hunting, but it was a little late in the season so we had minimal success.
Since Rochester is right on Lake Ontario, my experience with waterfowl hunting has been mainly diver and mallard hunting. While I have done a lot of goose field hunting, I do truly prefer watching a string of bills coming on a string to the end of your decoy line.
I have just recently purchased a nice hunting/fishing boat and took it out a couple time last year and it worked great.
Mostly I am looking for information on public hunting land and what my best options are for getting permission around here. I am mostly comfortable hunting the open water, however who doesn't love smashing green heads in a swamp.
Unfortunately my friends/roommates are not hunters and I have no interest in begging them to come along. I would rather reach out to a medium such as this to get information and possibly developed hunting relationships.
I am very excited to get my plans for the season in place and any information would be great. Because let's be honest, we have all been in a new place at some point in time looking for information and opportunities.
Happy Hunting and I look forward to meeting as many die harders as I can.


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Spud Fish and Chips donating a buck for every cup of chowder sold during Alki Art Fair
If you like chowder (and many do) you will have a chance to enjoy it and do some good this weekend at the Alki Art Fair.
Spud Fish and Chips is donating $1 to marine mammal protection organization Seal Sitters for each cup of chowder purchased during Fair.
During the fair, SealSitters will feature art activities for kids. First Responder Lynn Shimamoto and her 7-year-old granddaughter created some creative origami and paper cups seals. Seal Sitters is encouraging families to bring their kids by for free stickers and to do some art.
Thanks for everything you do for us!
Seal Sitters also reports that seal pup "Junebug" (http://blubberblog.org/files/tag-junebug.html) who continues to do well in rehab at PAWS. He continues to gain weight and is now eating some solid fish in addition to formula - and he's enjoying his personal swimming pool in this very hot weather.
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(June 13, 2017 | WGBH News and Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University) — WGBH News in Boston, in collaboration with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, has launched "Loving Day," a commemoration series on interracial marriage airing on 89.7 WGBH, June 12-14.
Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's June 12, 1967 landmark civil rights decision in Loving v. Virginia legally allowed interracial marriage, the effects of the case continue to reverberate. Read more
By Meredith Kolodner
(May 19, 2016 | The Atlantic) - Protests focused on entrenched racism rocked campuses around the country this year. Many top colleges enroll small numbers of black students, and the four-year college graduation rate for black students is half that of whites.
Rutgers University-Newark in New Jersey has a graduation rate for black students that is far above the national average. But instead of offering out-sized athletic scholarships or perks to potential out-of-state students, the university is doubling down on a bid for students who are often ignored—low-income, urban, public high-school graduates with mediocre test scores. Read more
By Sheryl Estrada
(May 22, 2017 | DiversityInc.) - Racism, sexism and intimidation are so engrained in the Fox News workplace culture that despite the increasing amount of lawsuits filed by employees against the news channel, Bob Beckel, co-host of "The Five," still thought it was acceptable to berate a Black IT employee. Continue reading this story.
On Monday, May 22nd, three women employees filed federal discrimination lawsuits against the news channel.
(May 20, 2017 | Media Education Foundation) -
White Like Me Mean World Syndrome Race-related animated videos Implicit bias test
By Tasnim Shamma
(May 17, 2017 | Marketplace.Org) - One out of 12 people ages 18 to 64 in the United States identifies themselves as having a disability. Whether it's a physical or learning disability, it can be difficult for those people trying to access the internet.
A 1998 law known as Section 508 requires the federal government to make information technology accessible for everyone on all platforms, but states don't have the same legal responsibility....
Therefore, developers in Georgia have been redesigning the state's websites to make it a little easier for people with disabilities to access information. Georgia.gov is coded so a screen reader provides audio descriptions for people with visual impairments and other disabilities. The fonts are larger, there's a strong color contrast and the links and photos are descriptive. Read rest of the story.
By Sheryl Estrada
(May 19, 2017 | DiversityInc.) - Interracial marriage is on the rise, making more than a fivefold increase since 1967, when only 3 percent of newlyweds were intermarried, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday. However, interracial marriage is more accepted by Democrats than Republicans, and Black men and Asian women are more likely to marry someone of a different race. Read more
By Ashley Smith
(May 10, 2017 | Inside Higher Ed) - Historically black colleges have had some success merging developmental education reforms with culturally sensitive teaching practices, which a new report said should cause community colleges and four-year universities to take note.
The report from the Southern Education Foundation examined barriers that low-income black students face when they enter developmental or remedial courses. Researchers at the foundation examined experimental developmental education courses at two HBCUs -- Claflin University in South Carolina and Morgan State University in Maryland -- which are "already engaging in culturally relevant teaching" to improve black student achievement. Continue reading rest of the story.
(April 2, 2017 | Doodle4Google) - Sarah Harrison from Connecticut in the 10th-12th grade group on being has been named the National Finalist of the 2016-17 "Doodle 4 Google" Contest for her doodle "A Peaceful Future".
Google has awarded Sarah with a $30K college scholarship and a $50K technology award for her school, as well as sharing her doodle on the Google homepage for the world to see.
Last year, Google asked young artists across the US to create a doodle about what they see for the future. Visit this page.
By Steve Friess
(March 21, 2017 | Columbia Journalism Review) - Within the first three minutes of the premiere of the podcast Little Black Dress, entertainment journalist Nina Parker laid out the show's mission: "There's definitely a lot of podcasts with women, but there's not a ton of podcasts with some who look like us. Nothing against the other podcasts, but we just wanted to represent a perspective that is a bit null and void." Read more
(Feb. 16, 2017 | Pew Research Center) - Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) say an increasing number of people from different races, ethnic groups and nationalities in the U.S. makes the country a better place to live; fewer (29%) think growing diversity in the country does not make much difference, and just 5% think it makes the country a worse place to live. Read more.
WAVE 3 News - Smoketown Billboards of Hope from WAVE 3 News on Vimeo.
By Dafina-Lazarus Stewart
(March 30, 2017 | Inside Higher Ed) - Several months later, I hesitate to offer yet another election postmortem for higher education. Like many of you readers, I have read countless such essays from within and beyond the academy. Some people have argued that the rise of white supremacists (they prefer to be called the "alt-right") was only to be expected given the proliferation of identity politics in higher education. Read more
By Kaitlyn D'Onofrio
(March 29, 2017 | The Wall Street Journal) - Staff members at The Wall Street Journal have written a letter to their management team regarding the publication's astounding lack of diversity, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.
"Diversity in the newsroom is good for business and good for our coverage," staffers wrote to Gerard Butler, editor in chief, and Matt Murray, Butler's deputy. Read more.
By Sheryl Estrada
(March 14, 2017 | DiversityInc.) - Jordan Peele, who is best known for his work on the TV series "Key & Peele," has become the first Black director and writer to earn $100 million in ticket sales for a debut film.
According to studio estimates on Sunday, Peele's satirical horror film, "Get Out," made with a budget of $4 million, earned $21.1 million in its third weekend, bringing its total to $111 million. It made $30 million when it debuted on February 24. Read more
By Sheryl Estrada
(Feb. 24, 2017 | DiversityInc.) - Ahead of the 89th Academy Awards show on Sunday, UCLA has released its annual Hollywood Diversity report, which highlights that diversity means higher financial returns on productions.
The report, generated through the university's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, examined the 200 top-grossing theatrical film releases in 2015, as well as 1,206 television, cable and digital platform shows from the 2014–15 season. Read more
By Bruce Drake and Jacob Poushter
(July 12, 2016 | Pew Research Center) - The surge of refugees to Europe has helped make it a region of increasing cultural diversity and foreign-born populations, just as immigration to the United States has pushed its foreign-born share to near record levels. But a new Pew Research Center survey paints a picture of a Europe that is far less positive about what greater diversity means for many of its countries. Read more
(Jan. 17, 2017 | DiversityInc.) - General Motors (No. 48 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) launched its second annual Discover Your Drive diversity journalism program Jan. 7-11, hosting 13 college students and nine professional journalists as mentors from across the country at Detroit's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Students from diverse backgrounds participated in the program that promoted diversity in automotive journalism and news coverage. Read more.
By Hannah Esqueda
(We-Ced/New America Media)On the eve of the inauguration for one of the most divisive presidents ever to take office, hate crime researchers are advising journalists to keep a close eye on the intersection of crime and hate speech in their communities.
"Research has shown that in the wake of a catalytic incident, such as 9/11, [it] can create a correlation of a spike in hate crimes," said Brian Levin, criminal justice professor at California State University, San Bernardino, and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. Read more.
By Liz Spayd
(Dec. 17, 2016 | The New York Times) - Only two of the 20-plus reporters who covered the presidential campaign for The New York Times were black. None were Latino or Asian. That's less diversity than you'll find in Donald Trump's cabinet thus far. Of The Times's newly named White House team, all six are white, as is most everyone in the Washington bureau. Read more
By Zeba Blay
(Dce. 19, 2016 | The Huffington Post) - Between the deaths of greats like Prince and Muhammed Ali, the destruction in Aleppo and the circus that was the U.S. presidential election, 2016 was the year of one awful thing after another.
But despite the awfulness, stellar writing by people of color provided clarity, comfort and insight in even the darkest moments this year. Read more
By Amy wang
(Nov. 21, 2016 | The Washington Post) - The "Hamilton" actor who delivered the Broadway show's viral message to Vice President-elect Mike Pence after a performance Friday said there is "nothing to apologize for" in response to President-elect Donald Trump's many tweets demanding one from what he deemed a "very rude" cast of an "overrated" show.
Speaking on "CBS This Morning" on Monday, Brandon Victor Dixon — who plays Aaron Burr in the musical — said he felt that the popular show was a platform through which the cast could deliver a plea for understanding and inclusion after a divisive presidential election. Read more.
MIJE Staff
(Nov. 14, 2016 | Maynard Institute) - Gwen Ifill, a pioneering African-American journalist whose career evolved from an internship in a newspaper city room to the pinnacle of national political journalism, died Monday from endometrial cancer in Washington at age 61.
We at the Maynard Institute mourn her loss. She was a generous mentor, particularly to young people, and a great friend of the Institute.
Ms. Ifill was co-anchor of "The PBS NewsHour" and moderator of the PBS "Washington Week" program. She moderated a Democratic primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in February, before illness forced her to take a leave of absence from PBS. Read more
By Shaun R. Harper and Charles H. F. Davis III
(Academe | November-December 2016) - Last year, at dozens of colleges and universities across the United States, students protested institutional unresponsiveness to pervasive issues of racial inequity. Most media attention disproportionately focused on the popularity of the protests as opposed to the actual issues underlying campus unrest. Read more
(Academe | November - December 2016) - Large student protests against racist incidents, closely watched by national media, roiled the University of Missouri and Yale University campuses. At the University of Missouri and Ithaca College, protests resulted in the resignation of university presidents. Yale and Princeton Universities, among others, were forced to consider renaming buildings and programs that bear the names of historical figures associated with racism and white supremacy and were pushed to increase racial diversity among students and faculty. Read more
(Oct. 25, 2016 | NABJ) - The Poynter Institute and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) are pleased to announce the 2016 class for the Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media, a transformational leadership program for journalists of color.
The 25 participants, chosen from a pool of more than 200 applicants, are emerging leaders in digital media who have demonstrated an aptitude and potential for leadership through current projects and references. The academy will include guidance on navigating newsroom culture, leadership styles, the business of journalism and entrepreneurship, as well as networking and one-on-one coaching. Read more
By George White
(Oct. 3, 2016 | New America Media) - In the wake of a two-year campaign that generated increases in the number of African Americans and other students of color on its campuses, the University of California and the Boys & Girls Club of America have launched an outreach partnership that could become a new model for building additional diversity pipelines on statewide and national levels. Read more
By Betty Ann Heggie
(Oct. 6, 2016 | The Huffington Post) - Since the inception of film, seldom have women, minorities or even nonconformist males held the center of a story, serving instead as the adjunct or love interest. Rarely the subject, most often the object.
Subtly, through the years we have been indoctrinated to view the world through a patriarchal lens. In virtually every sector those who select the protagonist, choose the narrative, act as distributor and pen the review, have endorsed or subscribed to a traditional masculine value system. Read more
By Jen Kinney
(Sept. 12, 2016 | NextCity.Org) - Over the next five years, a new fund will aim to award $100 million in coding scholarships to groups underrepresented in the tech sector, including women and racial minorities, according to a press release. The Tech Opportunity Fund, launched by code school The Iron Yard in collaboration with Code Fellows and Operation HOPE, will make scholarships available in 24 U.S. cities, including Indianapolis, Nashville, Raleigh, Tampa and Detroit. Read more.
By Sheryl Estrada
(September 8, 2016 | DiversityInc.) - Recording artist, producer and fashion designer Kanye West began New York Fashion Week Spring 2017 with a casting call controversy. On Saturday, West used Twitter to post a model casting notice for his "Yeezy Season 4" fashion show.
It read: "Multiracial women only. No makeup please come as you are." Read more.
Related story
- Kanye West Responds to "Multi-Racial" Casting-Call Backlash (Vanities | Sept. 7, 2016)
(Aug. 25, 2016 | Missouri School of Journalism) — The University of Missouri's School of Journalism, Office of the Provost and the Mizzou Advantage initiative announce today a new, immersive education-industry recruiting and training effort designed to increase the representation of underserved communities in journalism and strategic communication. Read more
The LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication Dean Jerry Ceppos discusses how recent events in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas highlight the need for greater diversity at media organizations.
Source: LSU Manship School
By Robert Mann
(Aug. 19, 2016 | NOLA) - The news from Baton Rouge last month was a city immersed in crisis and death, divided and virtually at war with itself over the death of Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old black man killed by Baton Rouge police officers in early July. Twelve days later, another tragedy engulfed the city — the shooting of six police officers, three of whom died. Read more
By Kaitlyn D'Onofrio
(Aug. 18, 2016 | DiversityInc.) - A study released this month by Wells Fargo (No. 12 on the 2016 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list) found a gender wage gap, "unmanageable" student loan debt and racial disparities when it comes to wealth and salaries for millennials. Read more
By Sheryl Estrada
(June 24, 2016 | DiversityInc.) - Milo Yiannopoulos is a tech editor at conservative news site Breitbart with a penchant for Internet trolling, but he has sent his final tweet. After inciting a barrage of racist tweets aimed at "Saturday Night Live" comedian Leslie Jones, Yiannopoulos was permanently suspended from Twitter on Tuesday. Read more
By Christopher Ivan
(May 26, 2016 | Shanghaiist) - As any foreigner who has ever lived in China can attest, attitudes regarding race and skin color are often quite different here from back home. Still even with prior experience, sometimes this country can leave you completely and utterly dumbfounded. Read more
Related Story
Chinese company behind incredibly racist ad calls foreign media 'too sensitive' (May 28, 2016 | Shanghaiist.Com)
By Ishaan Tharoor
(May 27, 2016 | The Washington Post) - Just minutes before his birthday, Masonda Ketanda Olivier was beaten to death. The Congolese national was confronted by a mob of men late at night last Friday in New Delhi and killed. Police said the incident was a dispute over the hiring of an autorickshaw; Olivier's friend, an Ivorian national, said it was a clear hate crime, with racial epithets repeatedly invoked. Read more
By Amir Nasr
(May 19, 2016 | Morning Consult) - Leaders of African American-owned media companies wrote to Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. G.K. Butterfield in support of the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to open up the cable set-top box market for third party manufacturers. Read more
By By Kaitlyn D'Onofrio
(May 23, 2016 | DiversityInc.) - The repeated practice of racially segregating schools in the U.S. has increased in recent years. And a new report concluded that segregating schools has negative effects on the education minority students receive. Read more
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(Source: Women Make Movies) - Broadcast nationally on HBO, SOUTHERN RITES is a powerful portrayal of how perceptions and politics have divided two towns in southeast Georgia along racial lines for years. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine published filmmaker and acclaimed photographer Gillian Laub's controversial images of Montgomery County High School's racially segregated proms. Read more
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(April 30, 2016 | The Open Mind hosted by Alexander Heffner) - Anita Earls of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice talks about voter suppression. Read more
By Dan Keating and Lenny Bernstein
(April 22, 2016 | The Washington Post) - The U.S. suicide rate has increased sharply since the turn of the century, led by an even greater rise among middle-aged white people, particularly women, according to federal data released Friday. Read more
By Ryan Fan
(April 20, 2016 | The Emory Wheel) - In the 21st century, diversity has become one of the most valued traits of any workplace or college campus. It represents the pinnacle of any developed, progressive society; it is the barometer of acceptance and fairness. Like any other core value of organizations and institutions, however, diversity has become overused and exploited.
by Terri Taylor, Jeff Milem, and Art Coleman
(Education Counsel | March 2016) - This paper aims to help institutions of higher education learn from and leverage existing research to enhance their ability to meet mission-driven diversity and inclusion goals through well-supported policies and practices. Read more
By Jessica Guynn
(April 21, 2016 | USA Today) - Slack has hired Leslie Miley, the former Twitter engineer who sparked public debate for challenging the social media company's commitment to advancing diversity. Read more
(March 15, 2016 | Associated Press) - The Associated Press is significantly expanding its coverage of race and ethnicity issues and their impact on the United States, the news cooperative announced today.
The existing team, under the direction of Race and Ethnicity Editor Sonya Ross, will increase in number with reporters, photographers, videographers and others from across the country dedicated to delving more deeply into the race issues of the day, including a sharp focus on the 2016 campaign and its impact on people of color. Read more
Source: Media Matters for America
By Michael Cavna
THE COVER commands you to stop, but not just because of the sign.
(March 10, 2016 | The Washington Post) - The acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Chris Ware ("Building Stories," "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth") is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, rendering scenes that feel layered in meaning. And for this week's issue, Ware again pulls in the reader with an image succinctly titled, "Stop." Read more
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
(Feb. 6, 2016 | Houston Chronicle) - So it turns out sitcoms can erase bigotry. And it doesn't even have to be a particularly good sitcom.
That's the bottom line of a study recently presented before a conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Read more
Related Stories
Comcast's Chief Diversity Officer Talks 'Race' at Screening (DiversityInc. | Feb. 22, 2016)
By Collier Meyerson
(Feb. 25, 2016 | Fusion) - Wednesday night's All Def Movie Awards, Russell Simmons' quick-fix answer to #OscarsSoWhite, was a brilliant, absurdist sideshow. It laid bare the Academy Awards' neutered jokes, uninspired fashions, chronic white male faces, and the unimaginative acceptance speeches viewers suffer through year after year. At ADMA, the presenters, categories, and winning actors had one thing on their minds: telling Hollywood that blackness is something to behold. Read more
By Jean Rose
(Feb. 2, 2016 | Ford Foundation) - By now, the consequences of the disastrous decision to shift the source of the city of Flint, MI's water supply are well known. The public outcry generated by almost daily headline coverage of the crisis has led to some urgent and essential actions—such as distributing bottled water and monitoring children exposed to high levels of lead—as well as conversations about the need for a permanent solution. But for that solution to be a meaningful and lasting one, we need to look back to the roots of the problem. Read more
By Jane Martinson
(Jan. 24, 2016 | The Guardian) - It's not funny any more. Even though UK viewers are likely to see more sexist behaviour per hour of primetime comedy than in any other genre of television, the lack of diversity on and behind our screens is a little less than LOL. Read more
By Erik Wemple
(Feb. 2, 2016 | The Washington Post) - The two emails arrived at the inboxes of Washington Post staffers within ten minutes of each other on Monday: The first announced that Lonnae O'Neal, a 24-year veteran of The Post, was leaving to join The Undefeated, the race-culture-sports website under the roof of ESPN. Read more
By Beth Haller
(Jan. 7, 2016 | NCDJ) - Most trained North American journalists try to follow style guides, but when covering the disability community, conflicting terminology sometimes exists.
It is called identity-first versus people-first language.
People-first language, terms such as people with disabilities or woman with cerebral palsy, is the terminology many in North America have heard of. It represents the shift away for outdated terms like "handicapped" or the offensive "retarded." Read more
By Denise-Marie Ordway
(Jan. 14, 2016 | Journalist's Resource) - What makes people adopt conservative or liberal political views? Why are some individuals drawn to – or turned off by – certain religions or spiritual beliefs? What determines whether someone will support racism? Read more
By Michelle Zilio
(Jan. 17, 2016 | CTV News) - Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef says linguistic, racial and ethnic background, as well as gender, will be considered by the advisory board tasked with recommending potential Senate appointments. Read more
(Jan. 5, 2016 | Media Matters for America) - Media highlighted the "racial double standard" in the coverage of an armed group of protestors occupying a federal building in Oregon as compared to recent coverage of minority group protestors like members of the Black Lives Matter movement. While some in the media referred to the Oregon militiamen as "patriots," black and Muslim protesters have previously been labeled as "terrorists" or "thugs." Read more
By Zeba Blay
(Dec. 21, 2015 | The Huffington Post) - Earlier this year, a friend of mine revealed some good news. She was in talks with a reputable network to develop a TV show based on her life. I was ecstatic for her, and ecstatic for girls like her: alternative black 20-somethings trying to make it in New York City. Read more
(Jan. 5, 2016 | Journalist's Resource) - So-called digital "drama" is not limited only to relatively benign arguments or gossip. It has famously crossed the line to "cyberbullying," a type of harassment to which a large number of American adolescents and teenagers are susceptible. Read more
(Dec. 15, 2015 | PBS News Hour) - As racial concerns continue to rise to the surface across America, is the media doing enough to tell the stories of people of color? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute about the industry's struggle with diversity.
By Shaun Harper
(Dec. 10, 2015 | Inside HigherEd) - Each year, college presidents, provosts, deans and other senior administrators hire researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, where I serve as executive director, to spend three to four days on their campuses conducting what feels like nonstop focus groups with students of color and their white peers about the realities of race on campuses. Read more
By David Yi
(Dec. 17, 2015 | Mashable) - Vogue magazine has always been deemed the ultimate purveyor of fashion, style and societal trends. And now it wants to be known as the destination for diversity.
Come 2016, the high fashion publication, under the direction of Conde Nast's artistic director and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, will begin efforts to expand its reach to be more inclusive. Read more
By Alyssa Bessasparis
(Dec. 6, 2015 | The Maneater)Broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien drew a diverse crowd of MU students, faculty and community members to Jesse Auditorium on Thursday, Dec. 3, where she spoke about both her work in journalism and her personal background.
O'Brien, whose mother is black and Cuban and father is white and American, talked about her family's and her own experiences with diversity, standing up for one's views and the importance of allowing one's voice to be heard. Read more
By Krithika Varagur
(Nov. 24, 2015 | The Huffington Post) - Every writer of color and most readers of color know the jolt of seeing a name like yours in print. It's a facsimile of the nod, the silent acknowledgment of a face like yours in a crowd. Read more
By Jelani Cobb
(Nov. 10, 2015 | New Yorker) - Of the many concerns unearthed by the protests at two major universities this week, the velocity at which we now move from racial recrimination to self-righteous backlash is possibly the most revealing. The unrest that occurred at the University of Missouri and at Yale University, two outwardly dissimilar institutions, shared themes of racial obtuseness, arthritic institutional responses to it, and the feeling, among students of color, that they are tenants rather than stakeholders in their universities. Read more
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- Why Tim Wolfe's resignation from the University of Missouri is a warning for all universities (Source: Chris Parr | LinkedIn Pulse)
By Beckie Supiano
(Nov. 10, 2015 | Chronicle of Higher Education) - Racism on American campuses is a matter of national concern again this week following protests at the University of Missouri at Columbia that led on Monday to the resignations of both the campus's chancellor and the system's president. Read more
By Sheryl Estrada
(Oct. 30, 2015 | DiversityInc.) - Last week, the cover of the State University of New York's (SUNY) Plattsburgh campus' student newspaper featured a cartoon portraying a Black male with a wide smile and bulging eyes in a cap and gown walking through a run-down urban neighborhood. Read more
By David Amsden
(March 1, 2015 | The New York Times) - Louisiana's River Road runs northwest from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, its two lanes snaking some 100 miles along the Mississippi and through a contradictory stretch of America. Read more
(Oct. 5, 2015 | Times Insider) - The Times recently passed one million digital-only subscribers. To celebrate, Times Insider this week is checking in with the reporters and editors behind some of our biggest stories and core coverage areas of the past four years.
When an unarmed black teenager was shot by a white police officer on Aug. 9, 2014, kicking off unrest in Ferguson, Mo., the first New York Times reporter on the scene flew 300 miles from Chicago.
The story escalated, and The Times kicked into high gear. We needed coverage, and quickly.
Reporters came from St. Louis, but also flew in from New York, New Orleans, Houston and Atlanta. Photographers and videographers captured the scene. Our journalists filed day and night to a team of editors in New York. Read more
By Katie Lever, Research Assistant, and Victoria LaPoe, Western Kentucky University
It is obvious that culture and time shape language. The word "tweet" was once used to exclusively describe communication between birds, but now millions of humans tweet on a daily basis. These tweets still send messages but they resonate much louder than a simple chirp. Although flighty like birds, tweets can hold tremendous weight in spite of their short window of relevance (Tweets are extremely replaceable and hard to find in the time after they are posted due to the massive circulation of tweets around the world) with the aid of the pound sign. Read more
By Aaron Morrison
(Oct. 14, 2015 | International Business Times) - As a black journalist, Zuri Berry has often been asked if he wanted to take a story assignment because it involved the African-American community. On at least one occasion he has said no. Other times, he has happily accepted the assignment. Read more
(Sept. 25, 2015 | MIJE ) - The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's board of directors has named Evelyn Hsu as its executive director.Read more
Dori J. Maynard has been a model for those of us working on the Media Diversity Forum. We have appreciated her advice and sharing of information, and we value the leadership she and the Maynard Institute have provided to efforts across this country to increase diversity and social justice in the media. We knew she always would be available when we reached out to her. But most of all we will miss her as a wonderful person and a true friend.
- Ralph Izard
Executive Director, Media Diversity Forum
Feb. 25, 2015.
Related Stories:
- Sally Lehrman on Dori Maynard: "A Legacy of Fierce Love" (Maynard Institute | March 3, 2015)
- Dori J. Maynard, longtime champion of diversity, died Tuesday, Feb. 24 (Source: Maynard Institute)
- Social media reaction: How we remembered Dori J. Maynard @djmaynard (Source: San Jose Mercury News)


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Welcome to Advice From An Elancer – a place to ask your Elance questions (through Elance's LinkedIn page) and get them answered as thoroughly and personally as possible. My name is Dorothy D. and I have worked with Elance as a freelancer since April 2009. I have always tried to help other Elancers understand how things work and how to accomplish more. In Advice From An Elancer I will address as many questions as I can each week. In some cases, questions have been edited for clarity.
Question #1:
A "personnel manager" recently posted in the Elance Professional Network on LinkedIn that there is a "secret cover letter recipe" for amazing results. It says it is free.
Advice from an Elancer:
I looked at the site indicated in this spam post. There is no secret. The video is 20 minutes long and is a hard sell. It keeps watchers engaged with the promise of revealing a "secret sentence" at the end. I left the video running as I checked out www.ripoffreport.com 's report as well as other reviews. The software costs somewhere between $20-50 depending on what you read. I gave up on the video drivel after 8 minutes. The bottom line is that there is no secret. You need your cover letter, in Elance's case a proposal, and a résumé, in this case a profile, to get jobs. Period. No magic. No secret formula.
Question #2:
What's with the changes in the basic Elance plan? I don't get it.
Advice from an Elancer:
Elance has made several changes recently. Honestly, I'm surprised there wasn't more of a differentiator between (free) Basic and ($10) Individual before now. Those willing to pay will get more for their membership, just like any site offering a service.
The big changes include appearing higher in search rank, the ability to view the range of bids from other freelancers, and being able to feature samples in proposals. Are these features worth paying for a plan? This is a decision every freelancer should make for themselves. A ten dollar investment to use extra features and have more Connect opportunities is worth it for me. It's a tax write-off. Is it worth it to you?
Question #3:
Why do some clients list jobs that exclude freelancers from certain parts of the world?
Advice from an Elancer:
Often, jobs are posted with the need for specific geographic knowledge and the client wants to find someone who knows the area. Some clients have had less than ideal job performance from freelancers from an area, so they are unfairly biased towards it based on a limited sample. If the client is keeping you from bidding because of your location, do you really want to work for that person? Look for the clients who are interested in your skills, not where you live.
That's enough for today. If you have questions or want to follow the conversation of other Elancers, visit the Discussion page of our LinkedIn page.
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Rust Dragon [egg < 51, hatchling < 201, adult 201+] -- Rust dragons are a strange breed... due to their odd physiology and life cycle it is often debated whether they are "true" dragons at all. They go through a "larval" stage which bears little resemblance to the adult. The primary food is oxidized metal, which they render to corroded dust with their feathery feelers and then devour. Larval rust dragons are fairly harmless to living creatures unless threatened, in which case they may bite. Adults are aggressive and dangerous and have been known to take prey occasionally as a supplement to their diet. Merely touching the armor-plated hide of an adult with a metal weapon, even a magical one, will corrode it to uselessness in an instant. Rust Dragon Spoiler
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