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Femininity in Contemporary Asian Art
If the Shoe Fits... and Vernal Visions
Vernal Visions
Curated by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Asian female artists of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian ancestry
have contributed to this exhibition. The group varies in age; preferred
media (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textile, video
and installation art); and residence (some living here, others abroad).
This exhibition falls into two divisions united by theme: If the Shoe
Fits and Vernal Visions.
Working in contemporary
modes these female artists from Asia address the issues of femininity.
Several employ the "sexy ideal" of movie stars of Shanghai,
Hong Kong or Mumbai (Bollywood); others portray women as young contemporaries
in modern day (MTV) attire. Many artists use the foot or shoe as a primary
object of personal identity. It is curious that the sexual fixation with
alluring footwear that temporarily empowers women and results in the deformation
of the foot is prominent in both the East (the bound foot) and the West
(the torturous high heel). The price of not adhering to such standard
modes of dress may be a loss of self-esteem and of desirability. The story
of Cinderella, of Chinese origin, highlights the importance of such myths
in traditional society and their exploration by these modern Asian artists
reveals that they are still potent. In the myth, the desirability of a
woman is judged by the size of her foot. Should it be too big, the consequence
is complete rejection.
The theme of If
the Shoe Fits asks the question "what does it take to be accepted
as a woman in modern society, and how does the art of contemporary Asian
women respond to this issue." The focus of the shoe arose as an observation
made while viewing many of the artists' work. But the importance of the
shoe as a symbol of personal identity in contemporary culture is not limited
to the Cinderella syndrome, as is evident in several common idiomatic
expressions in English. The phrase If the shoe fits. . . is also
a metaphor for one's inner character, often revealing aspects of the personality
that is otherwise denied. If the shoe fits, if the description
of one's character is apt, wear it, that is acknowledge it. The
shoe is the mold of the character. Though deception is possible with the
wearing of other articles of clothing, footwear reveals the true self.
Such sentiments are also revealed in the expression, You don't know
a man until you have walked a mile in his shoesówearing someone else's
shoes provides insight into their personality or, I wouldn't want to
be in his shoes. By contrast, the expression the clothes make
the manÖsuggests that behavior can be altered by outer adornment.
Lastly, feet of clay, connotes human fallibility and the revelation
of shortcomings.
Several of the artists
concentrate on the question of sexuality and the promotion of the self,
whether in personal relationships or professionally. Cui Xiuwen, for example,
has recorded the behavior of young women administering to their makeup
and getups by placing a hidden camera in a dance club in Beijing. Others
have created a personal diary of their own artistic adventures and family
history. Nina Kuo, whose work contrasts images of femininity in Asian
American culture, has taken a photograph of her grandmother in Nantung,
China when she went for the first time to meet her. Proudly, the grandmother
held up the embroidered three-inch lotus slippers for her bound feet.
In other works Kuo recreates the sexy Chi Pao dress, on which she
silk screens still photographs from old Chinese films. One called Shoeless,
shows the barefoot heroine reclining wistfully in bed, her servant holding
her high heels aloft. Xing Fei combines personal photographs, images of
events, objects from her past and calligraphy in a series of works entitled
Journey, a search for woman's self discovery inspired by the events
of September 11. Betty YaQin Chou makes several hundreds of wax models
of her feet and places them in a mandala-like configuration, with a time
line that mixes personal and historical events. Questions of sexuality
and genetic transmission are raised in uncovering the evolution of her
family tree. Using shoes as a metaphor for people, Il Sun Hong creates
pristine installations made from traditional paper. Old-fashioned Korean
flat shoes are shown in contrast to high heels to describe social situations.
The works displayed by Cai Jin also use shoes as a metaphor. Cai paints
evening shoesótall brocade, silk, and silver high-heeled shoesówith red
and colored pint. The pattern of the painted design resembles the rendering
of desiccated banana leaves that she paints in red on her large-scale
canvases. Carefully arranged so as to suggest a narrative, some shoes
are standing upright, others, as if kicked off in exhaustion, lie on their
Other artists in the show use a figurative art format. Li Hong's works show young barefoot women of indeterminate ethnic identity huddled together in a fish bowl, overshadowed by gigantic exotic orchids, and accompanied by commercial expressions that attest to the superiority of a product, its reliability and renown. Safe Handling Instructions by Mimi Kim asks the question of feminine identity of Asian American women by showing a timeline of female evolution, from youth to old age, with black and white drawings of figures lined up like a bar graph in a medical-sociological chart. Mimi not only questions society's assumptions about gender, but the very nature of medical knowledge, where feminine health services are often ill-informed and inadequate. Ancient images of Indian goddesses, especially Durgaóthe female destructive goddess, figure in the colorful works of Siona Benjamin. Durga sticks her tongue out in the traditional expression of hostility, but here the blue-skinned goddess, wearing black high heel pumps, wields modern instrumentsa spatula, tennis racquet, spade, fork and iron. Are these the weapons of the modern woman? Keiko Naka's canvases present riotous send-ups of stereotypical images of great works of Western art. She places herself in the Renaissance compositions, her blowsy image totally at variance with tradition. Instead of the Japanese ideal of beautyósmall, thin, delicate, and modestly clad, the protagonist, boisterous and voluptuous, dominates the scene; her flesh explodes on the canvas. Similarly, Sukanya Rahman questions notions of femininity in her collages that appropriate images from modern and vintage photos of "Bollywood/Mumbai" movies, fanzines, Hollywood publicity images, cartoons, religious posters and ads for beauty products, all combined with an ironic twist. In this way she asks, what is feminine, what is media hype.
A subgroup of works
relate to landscape and the environment. In their themes, delicate colors,
forms and patterns, these renderings of the natural world present the
procreative aspectóMother Nature's realm. The paintings, drawings, textiles
and ceramic sculpture in Vernal Visions provide a feminine perspective
of the external world. Tamako Nakanishi's drawings of landscapes and studies
of leaves, seeds and flowers evoke the stirrings of early spring. In her
paired abstract paintings, Jung Hyang Kim celebrates its rhythms, patterns
and colors. Kinuko Ueno's textiles present its budding trees and creatures
in the forest. Garden-like visions are created with tiny leaves covered
with clay slip by Keiko Fujita. Lastly Yuki Moriya has created new worlds,
and extraterrestrial environments, using clay and glass, the materials
of nature and industry, that radiate "gleams" of light.
In sum this exhibition views the works of contemporary Asian women's art and the way in which they express their ideas about sexual identity, cultural heritage, and the role of women in the modern world.
If the Shoe Fits
Li Hong's paintings are portraits of young women. In highly realistic style, girls of indeterminate race are delineated, often shown in pairs, clinging to one. Sensuous, the voluptuous beauties seem apprehensive. Li paints on the transparent shower curtains, which evoke the privacy and intimacy of the bathroom. Despite the depiction of amorphous space, the setting is restrictive, in part because of the scale relationships. Surrounded by swimming large golden carp, one girl presses her hands up against the imaginary glass wall of a fishbowl. In another, huge hothouse orchids overwhelm the space, the girl turns to the right as if to escape. The exotic flowers are rendered with technical brilliance; their delicate feminine forms carefully delineated and vividly colored. In a third composition two girls huddle together in scanty clothes and bare feet; they seem trapped inside, looking out uneasily at the viewer, beseeching, questioning. In the fourth work, two girls share a coat. Framing the figures are written upbeat advertising slogansóguaranteeing satisfaction, and the superiority of the product. Like the false promises of cosmetic products, the slogans portray the women as commodity, whose happiness is an advertising fallacy.
Xing Fei combines drawing, painting, photo transfer, calligraphy, printed texts and illustrations from novels. Xing describes these complex and multi-layered images as a woman's self discovery inspired by the events of 9/11. The chaos of the tragic day reminded her of the Cultural Revolution. On the right of the colorful and dynamic composition of "growing up" is a photograph of Xing as a child painting that was printed in the local newspaper, an image that anticipated her future vocation. Many of the images are taken from her childhood diary that her father found. The second piece, The Cultural Revolution, is dedicated to the chaotic events of the seventies that upended everyone's life in China. The conformity of Maoist uniforms worn by men and women recalls the repressive society in which sexuality, expressions of femininity, and human affection were punished. As Maoist garments shrouded the bodies, Maoist dictums inhibited freedom of expression. The third painting is a celebration of "giving life." Xing explores her own procreative cycle as well as the ancient images of fertility goddesses, a cult that has reemerged in China. Photographs of herself just prior to giving birth are embedded in the composition that celebrates giving life. The American flag is also present, as testimony to the freedoms that sustain individual expression.
Cai Jin paints images of banana leaves, withered and dried, which she reinvigorates with red/polychrome pigments on canvases that reach wall size proportions. In the rich red impasto used for the leaves, crepuscular forms of other colors squiggle and turn with the visceral movement of veins and arteries. Both the rich texture and vibrant color belie the bent broken forms of the stalks and their desiccated leaves. Cai has used figured silk as the surface for her animated designs, contrasting the feminine materials that filled interior chambers of women with the dying desiccated forms. For Cai, using red is one of the premises of her painting. The connotations of red are universalóblood, reproduction, femininity, violence, and internal organs are easily evoked. But when asked about the color, Cai reminisces about her father's occupation as a leader of a Beijing Chinese opera troop, wistfully remembering the beautiful costumes and elaborately made-up actors that peopled her youth. In applying the pattern of red banana leaves to shoes, Cai suggests a narrative of violence and pain, inherent in both the color and in the style of application of the pigment. Knowing Cai's youthful experience with the Chinese opera, however, the shoes also allude to the colorful costumes and high drama of her youth.
Mini Chi Pao Noir: Shoeless Lady, 2000
Chi Pao Noir: Shoe Store Spam, 2001
Kuo is a photographer whose work often depicts the complexities of Asian, and Asian- American femininity and gender. Kuo met her grandmother for the first time when she traveled to China in the 80s and was amazed by her grandmother's broken feet. In a black and white portrait her grandmother, in full frontal pose, has her tiny shoes nearby. In other works, Kuo recreates the famous sexy, slender cut Chi Pao dress in cotton or silk, sometimes in miniature size. On the dresses she transfers photos from old Chinese movies from the 30s and 40s when western fashions were readily adopted, especially the exotic high heel, bobbed hair and makeup. These works highlight the changing ideal of Asian femininity, in particular they document the new allure of the high heel: in one work, women are in a shoe store trying on the new styles; in another a barefoot beauty lounges in bed as a servant brings her pumps to her. Kuo's works nostalgically recreate outmoded ideals of beauty, presenting the ephemeral nature of fashion and the extremes to which women have traditionally been driven to radically alter their appearance to conform with ideals of beauty that are inappropriate, impractical, painful and crippling.
Fetish, 2001-2002
Mimi Kim is a painter, sculptor and installation artist whose versatility is readily apparent. Her works have strong themes that question racial ideals and gender stereotypes. Recent pieces revolve around the material of meat. In a large painting the parts of the cow are illustrated and identified, such a chart is based on butcher shop signs. In a related effort, Fetish, using processed meat, Kim has fashioned items of women's lingerie and a pair of boots. Safe Handling Instructions by Mimi Kim asks the question of feminine identity of Asian American women by showing a timeline of female evolution, from youth to old age, with black and white drawings of figures lined up like a bar graph in a medical-sociological chart. Painted in red across the pubic area is a USDA stamp of approval. Kim not only questions society's assumptions about gender, but the very nature of medical knowledge, where feminine health services are often ill-informed and inadequate. This combination suggests how women have been marginalized and reduced to sexual objects. These pieces distinguish the elements of our respective cultures that cast women in the light of a commodity, denying them individuality, intelligence, spirituality or creativity.
Chou laboriously cast hundreds of pairs of her own feet out of three kinds of waxóflex, bee and candle. The feet are not idealized. Cast to show their imperfections, the feet signify the frailty of the human condition. The pairs of feet are arranged in an intriguing geometrical configuration based on five circles and the figure eightóa closed formóthe composition reverberates with centripetal force. Chou says the mandala-like pattern of five concentric circles, is representative of the continuous process of history. A dateline written in a mixture of Spanish and English begins with Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Moments in the difficult political and private lives of her forebears who emigrated to the Caribbean beginning in 1806 are recorded, with curious details like "Mom Disappears." Here Chou uses her body as a multivalent symbol of time passed, distance traveled, and genetic relationships. The feet are a metaphor for the many tens of thousands of steps her ancestors took and numerous generations of her genealogy. The image is a most personal one, not only replicating her own form, but alluding to her parent's body, those of her forebears, and the genetic links of the family tree.
Waterdrops, 1999
Il Sun Hong sculpts shoes out of traditional Korean paper. She likes their beautiful shape, curved lines and symbolic meaning. "Each shoe in my work functions like a tool, like a brush in paintings." Hong shapes the shoes in varying colors, cuts them into parts, and arranges them in eye-catching patterns. Limited in hue and number, the slightly irregular hand-made forms are presented in a pristine minimalist installation. Vivid in their tonalities though banal in subject, they take on a precious quality, resembling colored stones in a jeweled setting. Narrative content is suggested by the titles and colors. In Commuting linear arrangements of the heels recall the impersonal urban life, assembly-line production, and the tedium of "commuting." In Waterdrops, Korean flat shoes, more irregular in contour, evoke the agrarian society of traditional Korea, rather than the high heels of glamorous city life; sex is contrasted with work. Using the language of contemporary art, Hong builds a bridge to the traditional Korean images that she daily engages, transforming them into modern art.
Supper on New Years Eve, 2000
Keiko Naka's paintings challenge the youthful, slender ideal of Japanese womanhood. Portraying reality, Naka says "I find the woman with a broken arm, the woman who drops the glass and the fat woman who can't zip her wedding-dress, how colorful, cheerful, and melancholic they are!" Influenced by the western artistic tradition, Keiko paints animated and dynamically foreshortened figures with a thick impasto of oil paint. Multiracial participants abound. In Supper on New Years Eve, the main figure, naked and blond, sits at a table filled with Japanese delicacies. She is oblivious to those around her, unlike the Japanese who are so self-conscious. In her enthusiasm, food and people are propelled into space. This raucous celebration is far from the solemn rites of New Years, when bills and debts are settled, the home scrubbed and cold food served. Evening in Okinawa, the site of the American Army base since the end of W W II and contentious enclave of American culture, has a blowsy, nearly naked voluptuous entertainer joyously belting out her song into the microphone. Nearby are her African-American back-up singers and electric piano player. In these paintings Keiko flouts Japanese female propriety. Her fleshy naked women enjoy themselves, as if for the first time.
Finding Home #40 "Curry-oke" 2000
Finding Home #51 "Namaz" 2001
Spicy Girl Series: Allrounders Techniques of Ecstasy,
Siona Benjamin, born in India, now lives in the U.S. In her art she incorporates symbols both of her Jewish Heritage and icons of the Hindu religion. Benjamin uses the artistic vocabulary of Indian miniatures and upgrades them for the twenty-first century. Her works focus on issues of feminine identification, both divine and mortal. Siona recreates Durga, Hindu goddess of destruction, in terms of contemporary culture. In Spicy Girl the blue-skinned goddess with tongue sticking out, now represents the Indian émigré living in America; the hands, which once held the weapons of the gods, now wield kitchen utensils, spade, iron and tennis racket. She walks in high-heels. Open the box and you find the ancient female fertility symbols of the womb, the yoni and yantra.
In Finding Home Series #29, a young beauty painted in the style of an Indian miniature has a tiger's body, a tail that ends in an electric plug, and paws that terminate in Mickey Mouse heads. She is swimming in the river, and on the far shore are low rolling hills done in the style of Pahari miniatures, a nuclear explosion erupting, and flaming Hebrew characters. The work is colorful and precise, recalling the delicate Indian miniatures of the eighteenth century. Benjamin is a world citizen, who while seeking to forge a new identity does not reject her rich religious and cultural traditions.
Sukanya Rahman, from Calcutta, makes relatively small shallow boxes filled with images appropriated from modern and vintage "Bollywood/Mumbai" fanzines, Hollywood publicity images, cartoons, religious posters and ads for beauty products, all combined with an ironic twist. She arranges and paints over them uniting their brilliant colors, eye-catching designs, and intent on persuading the viewer of their appeal. In Matrimonial we have a Bollywood beauty in deep dÈcolletÈ; beauty products that offer whitened skin; above are a bra and panties; luscious red lips float to the right. In the lower right is an Indian goddess in silks and jewels; a leg in fishnet stocking and gold high heel sandals. An exotic flower and brilliant parrot frame the top. Placed upside down is a piece of a Persian manuscript, an eye from a partial view of a face stares out intently. Drawn from the popular culture these works characterize the confusion of contemporary society, where old values of propriety and self-confidence in one's character are replaced by the desire to be attractive at whatever cost. What is femininity? Is it just the trappings of beauty sold in the magazines? These collages express the complex and often contradictory notions of womanhood and the contrasting values of glamour and spirituality, vice and virtue, east and west.
Cui's stance on the condition of women is evident in her paintings from the late eighties, but most recently she has directed her critical gaze to the contemporary situation by placing a hidden camera in a dance club in Beijing. Over a period of hours young women come and go, adjusting their brassieres, their make-up, their hair. Some change their garments preparing for the night by donning sexier and more revealing outfits. Late in the video the female bathroom attendant appears, sheepishly doing her chores. Her physical plainness and unobtrusive behavior is a foil for the exotic plumage of the girls, their nervous administrations to their appearance and strident voices. It is only in the last minutes of the video that it is apparent that some of these girls are for hire. In shrill tomes they discuss their dates and count their money. This is a very telling tale of the reemergence of sexual activities such as "escort" services in modern China, in the wake of Communist control of "vice and lewd behavior."
Victoria Yang is a self-taught artist. She is a renaissance woman who is active in the world of business in Shanghai. In contrast to her dynamic presence in the professional world, her paintings suggest a rustic repose. These are largely interior views of small Western style rooms filled with rugged country furniture, large wooden pieces, and encrustations of paint on the walls. Her technique relies on a thick application of paint that leaves a visceral presence on the surface of the canvas. In Western style, the works are filled with light and the source of the light is identifiable, brilliantly illuminating the interiors. Sometimes vivid floral patterns enliven the walls. These are quiet interiors, rooms that are empty but inviting with comfortable chairs. Yang has also done figural works, but these are less distinct than the interiorsóthe figures are sketchily done. Sometimes the style is extremely realistic, other times a more expressionistic technique is used, with heavy application of paint and abstract arrangement of color. The painting in the exhibition, a decidedly voluptuous female form, falls within the category of abstract works. The blue hourglass shape that dominates the picture plane clearly alludes to the female torso, and the delicate star-like patterns of yellow recall intricate feminine ornaments.
Vernal Visions
Jung Hyang Kim makes large scale paired canvasesóone a complex geometric design; the other a delicate lyrical floral motif. The floral designs recall the Buddhist imagery of her youthólotus flowers, plum blossoms, and the intricate textile patterns of traditional Korean weaving. Kim's paintings embody the ancient Asian mysticism of yin and yang: the opposition of female/male, shadow/sun, water/stone, and permanent/ ephemeral. Like mandalas, Buddhist diagrams of the cosmos, used in pairs, they represent the diamond (the eternalóunchanging) and womb mandala (the ephemeralógrowing) aspects of the universe. United by the color scheme, the panels contrast geometrical and floral, infinite space and surface design, hard edges and soft. Kim's technique varies from etched designs with the point of the brush, layered veils of colored, calligraphic lines, or rich impasto of pigment.
In Memory of Seeds, pastel spring colors unite the canvases. On the left beneath the pink background, are disks painted in muted tones of blue, gray, mauve and rose pink. On the right a multi-layered blue background supports delicate drawings of fragile flowers in a blue outline. Bursts of seed spores explode in hues of blue, gray, mauve and rose. It is as if these seed bursts are viewed under the microscope in the left side of the picture.
Tree, 1999
Tree, 1999
Kinuko Ueno, who lives in Osaka, uses a traditional medium, batik, for her installations. Ueno recreates pastoral views of nature and mythological themes comprising Japanese folklore. Categorically, her designs are brilliantly coloredófuchsia, red, cadmium yellow and sky blue dominate renderings of nature. Ueno is basically self-taught, her compositions are ambitious and complex wax resist dyed textiles. A sense of independence seems to fill the characters in her textile narratives with a joyful exuberance.
Each character is animated in its own way and there is the sense of experiencing a dramatic moment in the forest. Looking at her designs one can appreciate Ueno's experience as an actor and dancer. In Tree the form is etched in the wax resist technique against a background of mottled colorsóreds, blues and greens. The slim, boughless tree gives birth to numerous small flowers, promising hope and renewal. In 1985 she became a member of the theatrical company Taihen (meaning "extremely difficult") which consisted of only handicapped participants. After that she became a member of the "Cosmic Dance Company."
In Kyoto, Japan, Yuki Moriya makes ceramic works of art that resemble astral forms. In Cosmic City she built a series of clay skyscrapers. Delicately hued and lit from the inside, the city took on an otherworldly appearance. In her clay Orbit of Stars clay cylinders glazed white cover huge 8-foot wire hoops on which the ancient symbol for stars was painted. In Gleam, Yuki recreates the night sky in her dark blue glass discs. Heavily framed by black clay, the circular forms are illuminated from beneath. In concert with her earlier work, these ceramic pieces resemble the stars of the constellations. Here the celestial bodies have become palpable, three-dimensional forms that reflect light. Smaller jewel-like, light green glass disc shapes are also part of the composition. Similarly encased in black clay, these forms suggest a secondary chain of stars in the nocturnal sky. Yuki transports the viewer to an astral realm, watching the movement of the stars.
In the work of Keiko Fujita, who is from Aichi, themes of rebirth dominate. In earlier works she used egg-shape forms for her ceramic installations, lately she has turned to the delicate young leaves of spring. Fujita encases the fragile leaves in a clay slip and sometimes glazes them with a luminous finish. In one piece she created a pristine Zen garden in miniature. The leaves, arranged in pools and eddies around small white stones, looked as if a huge windstorm had felled them. Here in a multi-partitioned installation, her slip-coated leaves in combination with an assortment of natural materials such as seeds and tiny stones are encased in acrylic and framed. Finely ground earth-colored powders act as a mat for the varied compositions. Creamy white and earth tones dominate the pieces, which seem to be an attempt to understand the mystery of germination by analytical presentation. Keiko reaches out to the viewer to engage them. She is writing to them on clay-baked leaves.
Bush, 1998
Tamako Nakanishi, who lives in Osaka, is an accomplished poet and self-taught artist who makes intricate drawings of the natural world with colored pencils. Each work is made up of tiny lines that adhere, like magnetic filings, to create dynamic visual patterns. The tiny vegetal structures, leaves and seedpods of spring are all examined with an objective eye and delineated with such exactitude that they appear like biological studies. One mountain view of a village at first glance looks like a close-up view of a flower. The rose tones of the drawing enhance the double reading of the image. Lights that seem to twinkle in the mountains, upon second glance, are a flower's stamen. In the second work, Bush, the title suggests a double entendre, for the image distinctly renders a mountain valley. The water of the river is incandescent among the verdant hills. Tamako's intricate renderings of natural forms recreate the stirrings of spring with a meticulous hand that suggest the spiritual energy that engenders them.
Exhibition Checklist
If The Shoe Fits...
Li Hong
Decent Rebellion, 2001
Xing Fei
Journey: Growing Up, The Cultural Revolution,
Cai Jin
Banana, 1998
Nina Kuo
Wai Po, Grandmother, Nantung, China, 1980
Mini Chi Pao Noir Shoeless Lady, 2000
Mini Chi Pao Noir: Shoe Store Spam, 2001
Mimi Kim
Fetish, 2001-02
Safe Handling Instructions, 2001-2002
Betty YaQin Chou
Migration, 2000
Il Sun Hong
Commuting, 1999
Il Sun Hong
Waterdrops, 1998
Keiko Naka
Evening in Okinawa, 2001
Supper on New Years Eve, 2000
Siona Benjamin
Finding Home #29, 1999
Siona Benjamin
Finding Home #40 ìCurry-okeî, 2000
Finding Home #51 ìNamazî, 2001
Spicy Girl Series: ì Allrounders Techniques of Ectasyî, 1999
Sukanya Rahman
Matrimonial #3-Dowry, 2001
Victoria Yang
Cui Xiuwen
Ladies, 2000
Vernal Visions
Jung Hyang Kim
Memories of Seeds-Spring, 2001
Kinuko Ueno
Tree, 1999
Tree, 1999
Yuki Moriya
Gleam, 2001
Keiko Fujita
Installation, 2001
Tamako Nakanishi
Mountain Swaying with Lights, 1991
Tamako Nakanishi
Bush, 1998


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I think that if you feel like you can effectively make your point without it, go ahead and take it out. Perhaps reference the recent activation of the military without saying September 11th -- everybody knows it happened, and by now the mere words are politically charged.
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The target audience is primarily businesses and professionals that are blogging online but need to reach additional audiences either using printable PDFs via paper distribution or eBooks via digital distribution.
The current Zinepal logo is simply the text "zinepal" spelled out in bold using the Verdana font. I would like to add some graphic/visual elements to go along with the text. The new logo should still include the text, but it can use a different font and the text can be spelled in all upper/lower case or as "Zinepal".
The new logo will be displayed on the zinepal.com website and should fit in with the color scheme. The website uses shades of gray, blue and green, so the logo should use colors that fit in with that color scheme. The logo will also be included in the PDFs that users create using Zinepal, so ideally the logo will also look good when printed in grayscale.
I don't have any specific ideas for the visual element of the logo. Something that conveys the transformation of web content into other mediums, especially the transformation into eBooks would be excellent. The web-to-print aspect is less important to me.
The Zinepal slogan is "Now you are the editor." This may or may not appear in the logo. If you can work it in, then that's cool, but it's definitely not required.
UPDATE: I would like to receive the final design in SVG format so I can resize it as needed. Ideally I would like to be able to open it in a free vector graphics editor like Inkscape.
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Aeroflex announced that Silicon Laboratories has selected Arendar® 2009 Suite from VI Technology, an Aeroflex company. Arendar 2009 Suite is an enterprise software solution that utilizes a modular architecture, integrated security, comprehensive API and web accessibility to shorten test cycles and speed time-to-market.
"We are focused on increasing the efficiency of our test and development activities and VI Technology's Arendar 2009 Suite offered test data and test plan management solutions that helped us achieve that goal," said Greg Hodgson, Director of Applications and Systems Engineering, Silicon Laboratories.
"Silicon Laboratories' success with Arendar 2009 Suite is a great case study that shows how much time can be saved with smart data management and test plan solutions," said Alvaro Echeverria, Vice President of Business Development, VI Technology.
In 2006, VI Technology helped Silicon Labs leverage the Arendar platform to provide the most flexible enterprise-enabled data management system. Silicon Labs has since upgraded to Arendar 2009 Suite Test Data Management Module (TDM). Arendar 2009 Suite TDM enables Silicon Labs engineers to efficiently and automatically consolidate all acquired data in one centralized location to perform sophisticated analysis, trending and customized reporting. Once securely stored, the data is accessible from anywhere in the world via a Web dashboard.
In 2009, Silicon Labs expanded the capabilities of its data management solution to include the Arendar 2009 Suite Test Plan Module (TPM), enabling them to create, modify, reuse and share test configurations quickly using centralized storage, definition libraries, versioning and job tracking.


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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is making it easier for architects, contractors, owners, attorneys, builders and others in the construction industry to use AIA contract documents with the release of a new upgraded version of its electronic contract documents software: EF v3.0. The software includes current forms and editions for more than 70 AIA standard contract documents.
Published for more than 100 years, the contract documents provide the basis for nationwide uniformity for contractual relationships in the design and construction process. They represent the state of the law regarding construction industry practices and new legal developments.
"AIA contract documents really provide a roadmap for a project," says Steven F. Weiss, principal of Weiss Architects of Chicago. "They describe the process and who's responsible for doing what.
"This new version is a fairly extensive revision to the electronic format," adds Weiss, who says that the software's help system, which was written from scratch, has been greatly improved. "With the previous version of the software, I had to use the instruction sheet from the paper format. This is much faster," he notes.
Another key new feature lets users work on several documents at the same time, speeding project paperwork. Other improvements include easy customization of documents and enhanced navigation tools. The software also allows selective purchase of documents. Like a postage meter, it charges an account only when a final version of a contract document is printed. High-volume users may purchase an annual license option that allows unlimited access and printing of contract documents.
Further information is available on the World Wide Web at www.aia.org/documents/ef.


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The best things to do in Singapore this July.
Singapore is much more than the sum of its numerous attractions. It's constantly evolving, reinventing, and reimagining itself, with people who are passionate about creating new possibilities.
It's where foodies, explorers, collectors, action seekers, culture shapers, and socialisers meet―and new experiences are created every day.
Don't stop at finding out what you can do when you visit. Let our Passion Ambassadors show you what you can be when you're here. Because we're more than just a destination. 新疆35选7基本走势图:We're where passion is made possible.
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A Troubled Mexican Institution Starts to Turn a Corner
The University of the Americas at Puebla hopes to restore its good standing, particularly in the United States
Cholula, Mexico
Luis Ernesto Derbez has a long road ahead.
It was only in November that the University of the Americas-Puebla, the private liberal-arts institution that Mr. Derbez leads, was in shambles. Its previous rector, besieged by accusations of mismanagement and blamed for a series of firings, abruptly resigned. Students in departments gutted by the firings felt abandoned, while dismissed faculty members said they had been singled out for criticizing the administration.
Nestled in the mountainous, southeastern Mexican state of Puebla, the university has been a distinguished institution with close ties to the United States. It was a popular study-abroad choice and enjoyed accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
But under the tenure of Pedro Ángel Palou García, its former rector who was hired in 2005, troubles mounted. Several departments were nearly halved, with the most-severe faculty cuts made in the communications, international-relations, and economics departments, the latter once home to some of Mexico's better-known economists.
Some 300 employees were fired or forced to resign, including 60 professors. In December 2006, the Southern Association gave the university a warning, citing concerns over its finances and administration.
Mr. Palou, in interviews with local reporters before his departure, said the firings focused on people involved in a "conspiracy against the university's interest" but failed to provide details. Former professors say an intolerance for dissent provoked the firings. Mr. Palou did not respond to an e-mail request for an interview.
In March, Mr. Derbez, 61, became the university's new rector. He is a former foreign minister of Mexico who led a political-research group at the Mexico City campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies before coming to the university.
Mr. Derbez says he knows the university must change, but says it will take time to regain people's trust.
"My first priority," he says, "is to get people to participate and see how UDLA can compete in today's world."
The university's governing board is tightly controlled by members of the Mary Street Jenkins Foundation, a family-run group that owns the university's land and has long provided the institution's main financial support. During Mr. Palou's tenure, the Jenkins foundation was criticized for striking deals that benefited its members and cutting the universities' funds, which weakened research.
The Southern Association changed the university's status from warning to probation in 2007, based on the same problems it found a year earlier. In December it will announce whether the university will remain on probation, have its accreditation removed, or return to good standing.
"They must show us that they are cleaning up their act," says Belle S. Wheelan, president of the accrediting association's Commission on Colleges.
Mr. Derbez says he is convinced that the Jenkins foundation wants the university to regain its prestige and never had bad intentions. Their mistake was to put too much trust in Mr. Palou, he says. Representatives of the foundation did not return telephone messages.
To create a better system of checks and balances, the university developed new bylaws this fall that created three new councils designed to work directly with the rector to decide how the university is managed.
One council, made up of 30 elected faculty members, along with students and deans, will advise the rector on the university's academic programs, says Mr. Derbez.
The second council, comprising administrators, will oversee administrative policies and the budget, among other things, and work directly with the rector.
The third council will be made up mostly of business leaders from Mexico, who will function as a Board of Trustees, to independently oversee the university and recommend future rectors. (Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is the one politician on board.)
"This is all designed to stop undue influence from the Jenkins family," says Mr. Derbez.
Optimism on and Off Campus
Nora Lustig, a visiting professor of international relations at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, served as rector of the university before Mr. Palou. She resigned after clashing with the governing board over the future of the university.
She says she is optimistic about the institution's future: "I respect Derbez and think he can turn things around. There's a golden opportunity to do something positive and create a top-notch research university again."
She thinks the new governing councils are a step in the right direction. "It's important to see real changes in power and that the direction of the university is not subject to one single group," she says.
Several American universities with ties to University of the Americas are in a wait-and-see mode.
Oklahoma State University put its study-abroad program with the university almost entirely on hold, but that may be about to change.
"I'm heading down soon and hope to see peace and harmony," says James G. Hromas, director of international education and outreach at Oklahoma State University. If things go well, Mr. Hromas says his university will expand programs with the Mexican institution.
On campus, some faculty members say they feel comfortable talking to Dr. Derbez about the university's future.
"We're looking beyond past troubles and are trying to work with the administration to see how we can recover lost ground," says José Cisneros Espinosa, a communications professor at the university for the past 22 years. "Dr. Derbez is asking us how we envision the university. What should be conserved? These type of questions weren't asked before."
But tensions persist. In September several members of the economics department sent a letter to Mr. Derbez saying that while they were aware of the university's transition, they were disappointed that no new full-time faculty had been hired. They were also concerned that, because of the small number of faculty members and students remaining in the department, the master's and doctoral programs in economics were in limbo.
Mr. Derbez says it doesn't make sense to restore departments dismantled by the previous administration, including the economics and communications departments, without analyzing the university's overall position first.
"The question I'm asking people today is where do we want to go," he says. "The department of international business is steadily growing, but have we hired faculty in that area? The answer is no. So why don't we hire in international business rather than economics? We must remain relevant and respond to what society is demanding in terms of higher education."
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Lauren Ross
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2010-11: Won a bronze medal with the varsity four at Eastern Sprints... Sat in the No. 1 seat of the varsity four that finished sixth in the petite final at the NCAA Championship... CRCA Scholar Athlete.
2009-10: Won a silver medal with the third varsity eight at the Eastern Sprints.
2008-09: Sat in the No. 3 seat of the third varsity four that won a silver medal at Eastern Sprints.
2007-08: Sat in the No. 7 seat in the novice eight that finished sixth in the grand final at Eastern Sprints.
Before Yale: Graduate of the Lawrenceville School.


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smiledoctor needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 117 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Greene Family Dentistry
A neighborhood dental office dedicated to gentle high quality affordable dental care.
People with all of their teeth, people with some of their teeth, or people with none of their teeth. However, MIDDLE AGED WOMEN are the most common people that go to the dentist so gear heavily towards them.
Anything is on the table at this point- be creative. My first vision was a bright green apple with visible tooth marks out of the side; think the mac logo with a bite out of it; I envision our office having a basket of green apples in the reception area daily to serve our patients and promote our brand. But again, ANYTHING, is on the table run with this idea or come up with your own.
The pictures below are some images for inspiration; I love the westover hills family dentistry sign and accent above the letters.
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jbishop necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Autus Financial
We provide working capital to small business owners by purchasing their future credit card receivables at a discount. Our clients are primarily restaurants, but we also work with dry cleaners, liquor stores and some online businesses. We find new merchants through a national network of brokers who are paid a commission for bringing deals that are successfully funded. We also offer services to help businesses secure sba financing. Autus means growth in Latin, therefore the name of our company and our mission is to provide growth capital to merchants, Autus Financial.
Our target audience is two fold. On one side we are marketing our financial products to small business owners who process a large amount of credit card payments with a small average ticket size, like restaurants, dry cleaners, liquor stores, etc. On the other hand we are always seeking to attract brokers who will introduce Autus Financial to new merchants.
We are looking for a clean clear design that looks progressive. We want to stear clear of designs that overwhelming incorporate money or monetary symbols. We want a logo that is visually attractive but will pop against a white background and clean web design. We don't have a fixed idea in mind of what this logo will look like and we hope that the artist will use creativity in producing an exciting design. We don't really want to appear as a stodgy, old finance company but more of a young, intelligent, reactive company.
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Rumor has it, come this fall AT&T just might charge extra for FaceTime over cellular when the feature launches with iOS 6. Is that fair?
AT&T has a business to run and if they can get a few more dollars per user, or keep a little extra traffic off their much-maligned network, could that be win/win for them? Do you believe in paying per service so you get the best service?
How about if AT&T makes FaceTime 'Net-non-neutral and, if you pay, guarantees your packets get served first and you get the best, most crystal clear video possible?Or if paying more meant an extra 1GB or so of FaceTime data? Would that make a difference to your decision?
Or do you firmly believe that you already pay AT&T, and pay them well, for your data and you should darn well be able to do what you please with it? Especially if your capped already, and paying extra already for tethering, should AT&T be allowed to triple dip in your data pool?
As always, vote in our poll up top and then give me the details in the comments below. iMore nation, how do you feel about the idea of paying extra for your cellular FaceTime?


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I am just returning from AAMC 13 in Philadelphia, which happens to be the site of the very first AAMC conference in 1876. Perhaps it is this historic backdrop which made it more poignant when AAMC President and CEO Dr. Darrell Kirch charged the audience to rise to the occasion during our most challenging time, or our healthcare system's "moment of truth." Between sessions on how academic health centers needed to evolve to survive healthcare reform and how medical students need to avoid the "jaws of death" from the Match, there was certainly much to fear and much to learn. In spite of this, there are always moments where it was undeniable that the future was bright. But, the most interesting moments at this meeting where when it felt like we were going back to the future.
One of those moments was sitting in on the CLER (Clinical Learning Environment Review), or the new ACGME institutional site visit process which is not meant to be scary, but helpful! As a non-punitive visit, its meant to catalyze the necessary changes needed to help improve the learning climate in teaching hospitals. This session was particularly salient for me as I transitioned from being an Associate Program Director into role of Director for GME Clinical Learning Environment Innovation about a month ago. At one point, Dr. Kevin Weiss described the CLER site visitors observing a handoff- and in that one moment, they saw the resident bashing the ER, failure of supervision, the medical students left out, and an opportunity to report a near miss that was ignored. Even though CLER is new, he made it sound like the site visitors were going back in time and nothing had changed. Have we not made a dent in any of these areas? I guess it's probably safest to pretend like its 2003 and we need a lot more training in quality, safety, handoffs, supervision, fatigue, and everyone's favorite…professionalism.
After being the only tweeter at times in the Group of Resident Affairs sessions, I ventured into the tweeting epicenter of the meeting at the digital literacy session. There, I not only learned about a very cool digital literacy toolkit for educators, but also got to connect with some awesome social media mavens who use technology to advance medical education. While I have access to these technophiles through Twitter (you know who you are), it was NOT the same as talking about the future of social media and medical education face-to-face. Call me old-fashioned, but connecting with this group over a meal was just what this doctor ordered. My only wish is that we had more time together…
Lastly, we went back to the future in our session showcasing the winners of the Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Competition at both the AAMC and ABIM Foundation meeting last week. One of the recurring themes that keeps emerging in these sessions, in addition to a recent #meded tweet chat, is that the death of clinical skills (history taking and physical exam) promotes overuse and reliance on tests in teaching hospitals. Could it be that by reinvigorating these bedrock clinical skills and bringing back the "master clinician", we could liberate our patients from unnecessary and wasteful tests? I certainly hope so…and it can't hurt to be a better doctor. Moreover, one of the most powerful tools that was mentioned was the time-honored case report! In fact, case reports have been resurrected to highlight avoidable care in a new JAMA Internal Medicine series called "Teachable Moments."
And lastly, in the spirit of going back to the bedside, our MERITS (medical education fellowship team) submitted a video entry to the Beyond Flexner competition on what medical education would be like in 2033. While the impressive winners are showcased here, our nostalgic entry was aptly titled Back to the Future and Back to the Bedside, and envisioned a future where all students, regardless of their year, are doing what they came to medical school to do, see patients.
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Derrick Shannon always knew that he wanted to serve his country in some way.
Derrick Shannon always knew that he wanted to serve his country in some way.
His parents and friends told him he'd change his mind "a million times" before finally settling on a career path.
"I think I suprised them all," Shannon said with a big smile. "I never wavered. I stayed on this path and I'm really happy I did."
Derrick graduated from Honesdale in 2010 where he starred in three varsity sports: wrestling, football and baseball. He considered enlisting in the Army, but his heart was always with the Air Force...and that's where he signed on the dotted line.
"The Air Force recruiter really impressed me," Shannon said. "His name is Sgt. Joseph Maltese. He sought me out and hunted me down. We became really good friends and he helped me out tremendously. I made the right decision and I've never regretted it."
Over the past 20 months, Shannon has spent time in Texas, Florida, Washington and Georgia. He's currently stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Derrick stopped by The Wayne Independent this week to chat about his time in Wayne County and his future as a member of the Air Combat Command.
Q: Tell us about the demands of training for such a prestigious and elite arm of the Air Force.
A: Well, there were originally 24 of us that qualified in my basic training flight. Only two of us, me and my bunkmate, made it through. There were a lot of dudes who washed out back to other classes. My buddy and I were the only ones who made it.
Q: I would imagine that the training you guys underwent was pretty demanding?
A: Absolutely. It's physically demanding and mentally demanding, too. We work with the Army a lot, so we're on the ground carrying the radios and all that stuff everywhere. I've carried 115 pounds of equipment on my back as far as 12 miles. It's challenging. There are times when we're in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a map and a compass. It's quite an experience.
Q: Think back to your years at Honesdale High School. Was there ever a time when you imagined yourself in that kind of situation?
A: (Laughing) Absolutely not. That's one of the things they definitely don't show you in the recruiting videos. Another thing they don't tell you about is getting up ridiculously early in the morning. Some of my training involved getting up at 4:30 a.m. every day for physical training. Then we'd go to class, work out in the gym, eat breakfast and then go to work. My job is to learn as much as I can so I'm ready for any situation imaginable.
Q: What's the scariest part of what you're doing?
A: That's actually a pretty easy question to answer. What I'm usually doing is communicating between the Air Force and the Army ground forces. I pass grid coordinates to aircraft so they can drop ordnance...and if I get even one number wrong, your own people or civilians get killed. It's really precise and it can be really stressful.
Q: Derrick tell our readers exactly who you are and what you do in a military context.
A: My current rank is Airman First Class and my job right now...I'm known as a "TACCS," which stands for Tactical Air Command & Control Specialist. I'm training to be a "JTAC," which is a Joint Terminal Attack Coordinator. What we do is provide close air support for the Army.
Q: Let's say there's a battle raging and you're involved. Where are you and what's going on?
A: It's all mission dependent. I might be on the ground with the Army Rangers or I might be in a Humvee. We could also be in the Tactical Operations Center looking at compute screens and video feeds. I'm translating between two very different groups. The guys on the ground speak Army to us and I translate it into Air Force speak.
Q: Do you carry weapons while you're hauling all that radio equipment around during the battle?
A: Oh, yeah. But, we always try to let the ground guys shoot back while we keep talking on the radios. After all, a bullet is a bullet, but a bomb is a bomb and there's a huge difference.
Q: Are you planning to make this your career?
A: No question about it. I love what I'm doing with the Air Force and I love serving my country. I'm going to keep working hard and training hard and hopefully get even more involved in more special operations.
Airman First Class Derrick Shannon is the son of Kelly and Sean Shannon. His stepmothers are Jen Serge and Michelle Shannon. He has one brother and three sisters.


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We can all use a little help from our friends. That's why I'd like to direct your attention to a few articles written by friends whom I trust and find very credible.
The first person I'd like to introduce you to is Denny Cherry. Denny is a senior DBA and an extremely talented hardware person, which is a rare combination these days. Denny and I met at my spring "Breakfast with the Experts" event hosted by my employer, Quest Software. Denny was so smart and spot-on, that I strongly encouraged him to get involved in writing. He's now got a couple tips and articles out the door. Check them out, a tip on code portability and a tip on SQL Server 2008 data types.
Another bit of good reading that I'd like to point out to you is a great article on the history of Mercury Interactive. The article is written by Scott Moore, president of Load Tester, a high-end consultancy that does a lot of Mercury consulting as well as consulting towards building up operational excellence in quality assurance. Scott, when we worked together at Deloitte, and now at LoadTester has helped a number of major and/or large companies turn quality assurance into an IT center of excellence.
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Eyes Apart: Living with strabismus, a blog by Lois, who suffers with Strabismus which causes one or both eyes to not point in the same direction at the same time. She has written a lovely article about this site, Taking Your Camera on the Road, highlighting the fact that producing a website that meets web standards and accessibility requirements doesn't have to be boring.
Does the thought of accessibility conjure up images of bland web pages pared down to make them comply with someone else's needs? Whoa there! You've obviously not been to Lorelle and Brent VanFossen's website, Taking Your Camera on the Road. Their website demonstrates that accessibility is just the opposite of boring. It is inviting. It says, "Come in, we've got a place just for you!"
Lorelle says on her Accessibility page, "It is our policy to make our site as 'accessible' as possible, not just for our physically challenged users, but to make this site accessible via cell phones, hand held computers, all different kinds of Internet browsers, and readable from whatever country you are in."
Lorelle describes how the sold off most of our possessions and hit the road full-time in 1996. Their experiences are interesting, but the thing that makes their website stand out is it's feel. Just click on any link, and you'll immediately feel at home. The site almost beckons you to grab a warm blanket and a cup of hot chocolate, prop up your feet, and enjoy a cozy winter afternoon with the keyboard in your lap. Or maybe take your laptop to the porch swing for a lazy summer afternoon. Oh well, we can dream!
Thank you, Lois, and to all of our fans, seeing and unseeing, able and disabled. Creating an accessible website isn't just about laws, standards, or rules. It is also about love and compassion. Having worked with the disabled throughout my life, I've learned that limits are created in the mind not necessarily in the body. It is easy to open the door to information, education, and compassion through every effort you do, big or small. Creating an accessible website benefits millions, not just you. And it helps that search engines adore websites designed with accessibility in mind.


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Once upon a time, two sisters named Kelly and Kamille stumbled upon a secret musical garden that entwined classical grandeur and lush pop sensibilities. They brought back melodies inspired by soulful creators from Brahms to Bjork to The Beatles, and they called themselves KARMINA—"song" in Latin.
Since then, KARMINA's transcendent arrangements and haunting vocal harmonies have appeared in feature films/television shows including Reign, Pan, The Birth of a Nation, The Lorax, Pretty Little Liars, Shameless, The Hive, CSI:NY, Switched At Birth, and How I Met Your Mother. They've written, sung, produced and performed a vast catalogue of original music; toured the US, UK and Europe; and opened for Sheryl Crow, Sara Bareilles, Carol King, Train and, most recently, John Legend at the Los Angeles Nokia Theater.
After back to back summer tours of France and Israel, Karmina is full-speed-ahead back in the studio breaking ground with a new record that features the production and orchestral arranging of award-winning film composer John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon, The Bourne Identity). Critics have described their new cinematic indie-pop sound as "a cross between Florence Welch and Mumford and Sons" replete with vivid imagery and enthralling storytelling. Their anticipated release, Queens of Heart, pays homage to powerful women who have made an impact—much like KARMINA strives to do in 2018.


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The last 10 years have seen a proliferation of quality coffee shops here in London.
These new establishments are certainly a step above the sterile clones that plague our high streets and whose lack of atmosphere, service and coffee, leave a bitter taste in our mouths.
Yes we are turning into a city of coffee snobs and it's about time. For centuries we have burnt, smothered and ignored this magical bean, but all it takes is a little tender loving care in order to extract its true character notes.
That's exactly what these new, hip hangouts are focusing on: the art and science of coffee. From sourcing and roasting their own beans, to experimenting with different brewing processes, to training baristas who like to think their art degree hasn't gone to waste by adorning your beverage with hearts, ferns and swans.
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Patriots owner Kraft charged in prostitution bust
DOJ official: Mueller report not coming next week
A new economic reality forces a pivot at the Fed
U.S. top court to rule on 'Maryland cross'
First bloodshed linked to Venezuela aid standoff
Church must fix 'systematic failures' on abuse
Kraft Heinz shares fall to record low
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SCHLADMING, Austria (Reuters) - France's Marion Rolland used her knowledge of the course to snatch a surprise downhill gold medal at the world Alpine ski championships on Sunday.
Rolland, remembered for a freak crash at the 2010 Vancouver Games when her knee snapped seconds into the Olympic downhill, won by 0.16 seconds from Italy's Nadia Fanchini with a time of one minute 50.00. German Maria Hoefl-Riesch took bronze.
Rolland can claim to be the first Frenchwoman to win the most prestigious world title, though her compatriot Marielle Goitschel is widely considered as the winner of the 1966 downhill world crown after a gender test the following year showed that the champion on the day, Erika Schinegger, was actually a man. The Austrian was never officially disqualified.
"I wanted a medal here at all costs," Rolland, 30, told reporters. "I gave it my all because I believed in my chances.
"I had good feelings on this piste, which I liked very much since last season," she said.
Rolland has never won a World Cup event but earned her first two podiums last season on Schladming's Streicher piste, finishing second in the downhill behind Lindsey Vonn.
In the absence of the American Olympic champion, who was injured in the opening event of these championships, the downhill race was wide open.
"To win gold is obviously incredible, I dreamt about it like every young athlete. You have to believe in your dreams and your goals and fight hard to reach them," added Rolland, whose grandfather Antonin won two stages of cycling's Tour de France in the 1950s.
Fanchini, who like Rolland has had a career hampered by serious crashes and injuries, took advantage of her early start number to get on to the podium.
"I tried to ski the way I did before my serious crash in St Moritz in 2010," said the Italian, whose sister Elena was also downhill silver medalist at the Bormio worlds in 2005.
The course, unusually icy for a women's race, was too hard to handle for most skiers and several spectacular crashes caused long delays.
As a result, snow and visibility conditions changed in the middle section, making the course slower for the later starters and Rolland's performance, with bib number 22, all the more impressive.
Hoefl-Riesch was the only favorite to live up to her reputation, adding a bronze medal to her super-combined gold from two days ago.
"I'm glad to be on the podium of a very tricky race because of the changing light from one section of the course to the other," the German said.
"It's a podium for the war-wounded as we have all had serious knee injuries in our careers."
Pre-race favorite Tina Maze of Slovenia, who had been bidding to win medals in all five events in Schladming, had to settle for seventh place, 1.21 adrift.
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"On the surface, the sunrise is never this... beautiful..." Aaron started to think. A morning on a Everest class carrier, would probably be a exciting experience for most civilians, but after so much training, it had become quite mundane. This morning however was different, there was a feeling of excitement that hung in the air. These greenhorns were being shipped off to base, no other reason except for that high command had ordered in increase in troops at all bases across the border.
"Well...I suppose I'll be the one to break the silence." Chase said as he munched on his energy bar. "Anyone else notice how these are nothing like the movies?"
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"Hello passengers of the Dreary Morning Express, this is your captain speaking. We are now flying over the border, routine action of course, just, if we may, could we have a few moments of silence for any ships who strayed too close to the DMZ.
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"Alright, thank you everyone, carry on" His thoughts were interrupted by the intercom once again.
"Well, now that that's done we can get back to our conversa..." Chase was again cut off, this time by Kev.
"Hey, I have a great idea, how about we shut up until we get there! And I try to get some sleep!"
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Dina Temple-Raston
Adding to the coverage of NPR's national security team, Dina Temple-Raston reports about counterterrorism at home and abroad for NPR News. Her reporting can be heard on NPR's newsmagazines. She joined NPR in March 2007 fresh from a two year sabbatical in which she completed two books, learned Arabic and received a Master's Degree from Columbia.
A long-time foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia, Temple-Raston opened Bloomberg's Shanghai and Hong Kong offices working for both Bloomberg's financial wire and radio operations. She also served as Bloomberg News' White House correspondent during both Clinton administrations and covered financial markets and economics for both USA Today and CNNfn.
Temple-Raston is an award-winning author. Her first book, entitled A Death in Texas and about race in America, won the Barnes' and Noble Discover Award and was chosen as one of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2002. Her second book, on the role Radio Mille Collines played in fomenting the Rwandan genocide, was a Foreign Affairs magazine bestseller. She has two books related to civil liberties and national security. The first, In Defense of Our America (HarperCollins) written with Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, looks at civil liberties in post-9/11 America. The other, The Jihad Next Door (Public Affairs), is about the Lackawanna Six, America's first so-called "sleeper cell" and the issues that face Muslims in America.
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Representatives from the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) presented some more in-depth information about the state's newly enacted legislation dealing with Marcellus Shale drilling at a Tuesday meeting of the Elk County Gas Task Force. Act 13 of 2012 amends the state's oil and gas regulations and was signed into law by Governor Tom Corbett on Feb. 14, 2012. The law implements an unconventional gas well fee, or a drilling impact fee, and directs funds generated by the impact fee to local and state governments. Counties may impose the fee if they pass an ordinance within 60 days of the law's implementation, with the deadline April 16-- the first weekday after April 14. Counties that do not pass an ordinance will not be able to receive the impact fee funds, which are designed to help offset the impact of drilling on local communities. Elk County has approved an ordinance. The law strengthens regulations for drilling, increases penalties for violators and fees for well permits, extends well setbacks and requires that information about well production and completion, violations, penalties and remedial action be made public and accessible. It also distinguishes between conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells. "I think the department (DEP) looks at this act as very favorable. It provided a lot of tighter restrictions that are something the department wanted or thought that we needed in place, and quite frankly, some of the industry was already doing it," said DEP Local Government Liaison Erin Wells. Under Act 13, drilling permit fees have increased. DEP Oil and Gas Manager Craig Lobins said Pa. issued 4,600 drilling permits statewide last year, with about $9.6 million in fees collected. He said the average permit fee will now be $3,500. Fees are assessed during the year the well is "spud," which is the year actual drilling of the unconventional well commences. "Since we worked out Marcellus, we increased our well permit fee. It used to be just a few hundred dollars-- now it's related to the length, or the depth, the length essentially, of your (well) shaft," Wells said. Wells said the well bonding amount has also increased significantly. "The well bonding has also been adjusted in Act 13, which is really important because that's what's protecting if something goes wrong, [it goes] back on the bond to get the money to either plug up the well or clean up the spill, that sort of thing," Wells said. She said amounts vary depending on the depth of the well, with two different bond schedules for wells less than 6,000 feet deep and those over 6,000 feet deep. The bond is also based on the number of operating wells, and the maximum blanket bond has also been increased from $25,000 to $600,000."If an operator has combined, traditional and nonconventional wells, it (the bond) can be as great as $850,000," Wells said. "That's a considerable increase in that, and no existing operators can be grandfathered in-- everybody will have to come up to speed on that."Other provisions in the new law increase the well setback distance from streams, ponds, and other bodies of water from 100 to 300 feet; increase setback distance from buildings and private water wells from 200 to 500 feet and to 1,000 feet for public water systems; expand an operator's presumed liability for impairing water quality from 1,000 feet to 2,500 feet from a well; and extend an operator's presumed liability from six months to 12 months. "These (setbacks) are all for unconventional [wells]; the setbacks are still the same for conventional drilling," Wells said. "Chapter 32 (of Act 13)-- basically it breaks down and defines conventional and unconventional [wells]."Penalties for civil violations have increased from $25,000 to $75,000 per violation, and daily penalties from $1,000 to $2,000 a day. "The presumed liability now went from 1,000 feet to 2,500 feet, and from six months to 12 months, so if there is an issue with a water well supply or a complaint now, and you are within 2,500 feet, now you have a little more protection than you did before and a little bit longer period than you did before," Wells said. For more information, area residents may contact Service Representative Kim Yeakle at 814-332-6839; Wells at 814-332-6876; or Lobins at 814-332-6860.Pick up a copy of the Thursday, April 12, 2012 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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Meet the Team: Pauleen Cass
Tell us a bit about yourself.
I live in Darwin in Australia's Top End, but am a Queenslander born and bred. I've now retired from full-time employment when I worked in the administration of university research centres. Apart from my family and friends, my obsession is family history which I've been doing for the past 25 years.
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After being contacted by Judy I read up all the information on her blogs and decided to definitely go ahead with it. I was inspired by her own family's story of giving.
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I believe that we in Australia are incredibly fortunate with our lives and families, certainly I have been. I want to be able to share that good fortune with others who are working hard to establish their family's well-being and security. I've read and heard about micro-loans and their successful impact on people's economic security. The very high reliability of repayments means more loans can be made over time.
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Thanks for telling us more about yourself, Pauleen. I especially enjoyed hearing how you choose borrowers. Where in Africa will your daughter be working?ReplyDelete
McSHARRY / McSHERRY are not very common in Queensland, so as my good deed for the day I searched some indexes I have on my computer. I found:ReplyDelete
McSHERRY in indexes to Crown Land sales (triplicate deeds of grant); land orders; nuns; Mackay cemetery burial records; Mackay funeral director's records 1955-1977; St. Stephen's (Brisbane) R.C. marriages.
McSHARRY in indexes to registers of teachers and Northern District insolvency files.
McSHARRY *and* McSHERRY in indexes to electoral rolls 1870-1884 (including references to an address 'McSharry's Camp, Q.N.R. Extension' in Springsure/Leichhardt); Lands Department selection files; Justice Department inquest files; Mines Department mineral leases; Immigration Department passenger lists.
If any of these are new to you, email me and I will give you the source references.
- AnonymousDecember 20, 2011
Thanks for looking these names up for me Judy-a very good good deed. I usually keep an eye on your Qld page. Unfortunately while not common names, having two James McSharrys is proving to be a real headache. I'll have to have a look at which of these I've looked up and which not. My daughter's off to Kenya which is why I selected one of my loans for that country.ReplyDelete
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