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Monday, June 28, 2010
Giant-Size June! G-S X-Men #1
Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975)
"Second Genesis!"
Len Wein-Dave Cockrum
Doug: To close out our month-long look at some of the oversized comic goodness that brightened our lives back in the Bronze Age, we'll be peeking between the covers of one of the Holy Grails of the 1970's -- Giant-Size X-Men #1. Yes, back in the late spring of 1975, you truly could have had your senses shattered by this 1st issue! As my resource -- I'm not one who was lucky enough to ever own this tome -- I'll be using the Marvel Milestone Edition from 1991, which is an exact reproduction of the original issue, ads and all.
Karen: Although I do have a copy of GS X-Men #1, it's not in the greatest shape any more (too many re-readings), so I'm using the paperback edition of Marvel Masterworks X-Men for this review.
Doug: I re-read this last night (as I type this) before sitting down to comment. I'm not sure where to begin... I had a Mego playmate who owned this off the shelf, and I had X-Men #95-96 as they came out -- I knew about this story and these characters "back in the day". In fact, I'd venture to say that in 1975 I had little to no knowledge of the original X-Men beyond what was mentioned in the issues I've named. In my world, Beast was an Avenger, Angel and Iceman were Champions, and Cyke and Marvel Girl were X-Men. So for me, these were "my" X-Men, and Dave Cockrum was the artist. When I read this last night, I had all of the same emotions -- the excitement, the geeked-out fanboy giddiness -- that I felt 35 years ago. Whenever youngsters argue that Silver and Bronze Age material doesn't "hold up"... send them to this one. Shoot, send them straight through the All-New, All-Different era all the way to Byrne's departure after "Days of Future Past". Then tell them that's what it means to "hold up" after a long time.
Karen: I can still remember when I got this issue. My brother and I were out running errands for our folks on a Saturday and we stopped at The Book Nook. I was really taken with this book because 1) it was a giant-size, and 2) these were not the X-Men I knew from the reprints I had been reading. Once I read it -and saw the beautiful Cockrum art -I was just like you Doug: giddy with excitement.
Doug: The reader with a little history knowledge can grab a real sense of appreciation of where Dave Cockrum had been prior to joining the Marvel Comics Group. From the opening pages of this story, a world tour begins that brings a slight smile -- this wasn't a team culled from the United Planets, but one taken from the United Nations. All of the introductory segments for the new characters are nice -- I particularly liked the three pages spotlighting Nightcrawler. It was straight out of a 1930's horror movie with the crazed villagers setting upon the misunderstood monster!
Karen: Oh yeah, Nightcrawler was definitely in the Frankenstein role there!
Doug: I found it curious, though, in the Wolverine segment, that Charles Xavier could offer Logan (whoops -- not called that yet!) the chance to "become a free agent". The Canadian military officer was right to protest, and loudly. Crazy Americans...
Karen: In retrospect, do we have to wonder if there was a little bit of mind control there, to even allow Charles to get on that base?
Doug: Ha! Yeah -- Jedi mind trick... I thought it was interesting that Xavier recruited Banshee (other than Cyclops, the only new X-Man with ties to the old team) in Nashville, TN. That is the city where we last saw him, in the pages of Captain America during the "Secret Empire" storyline.
Karen: Oh yeah, that was great - Marvel continuity at its finest! And in that same panel are three distinct looking background characters -I'm not sure who the two guys are (Cockrum and Wein, maybe?), but the girl is a dead ringer for Tinya Wazzo, aka Phantom Girl from Cockrum's recently departed Legion series!
Doug: I believe that is Cockrum at top and Len Wein in the foreground, yes. I recall being amazed that Storm was drawn topless -- I'm not sure if I thought it was dirty or not... but I do remember staring at those panels! Her's was an almost-pitiful story, and Xavier was right to term it a "fantasy". Cutting then right to Japan and Xavier's audience with Sunfire -- what a jerk! I'm glad to this day that he didn't stick around. Later, Thunderbird and Wolverine would provide enough brashness that the team did not also need to deal with Shiro.
Doug: Next to Storm, the introduction of Colossus was the most sentimental. Len Wein and Cockrum really did a nice job in these little vignettes. Peter's care for his sister and his parents was very touching. Of course, I'm sure at the time the USSR would not have let Piotr leave so easily!
Doug: Lastly, John Proudstar was appropriately named. Wein targeted the emotions of a young, disenchanted Native American in a quite believable fashion. This part of the story, and future exchanges involving Thunderbird, was rife with racist language which was, again, appropriate.
Karen: Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but I loved all of these introductions. They did what they were supposed to do: define the characters for the reader. With Storm we get a sense of her regal bearing and power; Colossus shows his great strength and humble spirit; and we can feel the rage and frustration boiling inside Thunderbird. While I liked Thunderbird from the outset, reading his dialogue today he sounds just like Wolverine to me. It's no wonder they decided to give him the ax.
Doug: Once the team was assembled (in a very nice splash by Cockrum), they are introduced to their leader, Cyclops. Right away I noticed the change in his visor, and thought it looked great! Cockrum's pencils were just outstanding throughout the book -- I've always felt he was underrated in comparison to his contemporaries, and perhaps it's due to his too-short stints on the Legion and here with the X-Men. But it's hard to find something of his that I don't like. His also very short run on the Avengers was solid. The man just poured passion into his pages, and I think that's mainly to do with his having been a fan before he entered the field professionally.
Karen: His art here is fantastic. I've always appreciated his attention to detail, and the scenes of the big battle later on just resonate with power. Another one of his virtues was his ability to handle large numbers of characters in single scenes. He was such a great artist.
Doug: So the mission is for the new team to go to the island of Krakoa and rescue the original members. We get a nice recap of what had transpired, a little taste of mystery, and some outstanding characterization of all 14 of the characters in this story. You think of the X-Men, you think of Chris Claremont -- but it's Len Wein here who really has his finger on the pulse of these characters. Just outstanding dialogue, etc.
Karen: You're right, most of us do think of Claremont when we think of this team, but here Wein gave us the basic personalities of these characters.
Doug: As the mission begins, the team is broken up into pairs, sort of like the old JLA/JSA team-ups. Again, this serves as moments for characterization, measurements of powers, etc. I have to say, the cliche "jumping on point" is used way too often these days; however, this issue truly was a start-up, and anyone coming to this title shouldn't have had any doubts about what had gone before with the original team, nor about who these new folks were and where the book was going. Really, about the only thing that was dropped by Claremont, and I find it curious since it involved Nightcrawler (who Cockrum had had in store for years), was Kurt Wagner's bestial qualities -- howling, growling, etc.
Karen: I have to say, both then and now, I thought that "Krakoa -the island that walked like a man" was about the dumbest villain I'd ever seen. Seriously, while everything else in this issue gets an A, Krakoa does bring things down a notch for me. I don't care for the concept, and I don't care for the look. He looks like Man-Thing's big brother. Not the best idea in the world.
Doug: As the story reaches its apex, we see for the first time a plot device that would be employed off and on in subsequent adventures, and that is the linking of energy-powered characters -- in this case it's Storm, Polaris, Havok, and Cyclops. I thought here that Polaris was really over-powered, to the point where I wondered if she was stronger than Magneto. This was soon dropped, as the Sentinels story would show just a few months later.
Karen: Yes, the X-Men combining all their powers in to an all-out assault did seem to become a staple for the book. Even the cover to issue 126 shows the team in this manner.
Doug: Karen's mentioned that the production of these Giant-Size issues wasn't always reliable. While some books ran to a 5th or even 6th issue, X-Men reached only a second G-S issue, and it was a reprint of the Thomas/Adams issues. What's advertised in the "next issue" box is a story to be titled, "When the Doomsmith Strikes!" I'm pretty sure that was X-Men #94. The magazine concludes with three short reprints of the origins/powers of Cyclops, Iceman, and Marvel Girl; these stories ran in X-Men #'s 43, 47, and 57, respectively.
Karen: At the end of the story, Angel says,"What are we going to do with thirteen X-Men?" That answer would come swiftly in X-Men 94, as all of the original team left, except for Cyclops. Although we would see Jean return relatively quickly, and Lorna and Alex would also make appearances. But the baton had been passed - the Silver Age team was gone; the Bronze Age team was here. And the X-Men's domination of the Marvel universe had begun.
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- The Groovy Agent said...
Great work! This was the highlight of 1975 and one of (if not the) best comics produced during the Groovy Age. I agree with y'all on everything (well, except for Karen's opinion of Krakoa--I loved that plot twist and still think Krakoa is pretty scary-looking). Never before--or since, 'tis true--have I ever felt the excitement--okay, giddiness--I felt devouting G.S. X-Men #1. I read it a half dozen times the first couple of days I owned it (right off the spinner-rack at Mack's in Harlan--wish I'd bought every copy!). I literally had to staple the cover back on it.
Ah, good times. So whaddya gonna do to top this? ;D
- June 28, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Had this baby in my hands about 3 times, but could not hold on to them, due to childhood pals "borrowing" it, then it became too expensive to buy in later years!
There is one group member you forgot to place in your poll: Thunderbird! I liked him not only because of his super-strength, but IMHO, had one of the best costumes of the whole team!
All in all, another great review from the Dynamic Two! Keep up the great work!
- June 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Karen said...
Groove -thanks for your comments! GS X-Men #1 is indeed a big act to follow -which is why we are doing George Perez July next!
CAS: Ya know, I almost put Thunderbird in the poll, but he was around such a short time, I decided to limit it to the new guys who lasted. Although I agree- he had a great costume!
- June 28, 2010 at 2:54 PM
By 1975, I'd been reading comic books for 9 years, and I'd been waiting for the X-Men to return for 5 of them. I remember feeling absolutely lucky that I stumbled across a copy of this issue in a store that didn't always sell comics - this was probably just under a year before I had a job and was able to actually make sure I bought every comic that came out.
I wonder how things would have gone if Wein had kept the book. I liked what Claremont did, but honestly, I haven't read any of these ever since they came out originally, so I don't have the reverence you slightly younger folk have for them. I was very disappointed that I didn't get my X-Men back at the time.
Thanks for the look back, though - you definitely make it sound way more fun than I remembered.
- June 28, 2010 at 6:18 PM
- Doug said...
Groove -- the only other book that I feel remotely as excited about whenever I re-read it is The Dark Knight Returns #1. When I first got that book, I read it twice the first evening.
"Old Man" Pick -- you crack me up. Thanks for calling me a "younger folk"!
Best to all,
- June 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM
This is one of the few books where I can remember having the advertised "EVERYTHING CHANGES!" actually hold up upon reading. After going through the first 60-odd issues, and then coming to this, it's such an obvious, welcome, and well-executed sea change that really stands up to this day. It introduces all of the characters remarkably well (and with brevity) and tells a really good yarn in the process.
Also, I've always loved the really obvious attitude behind the book. The mindset that says "Y'know what? This is gonna get cancelled anyway. Let's just do whatever the heck we want, and have some fun with it. Bring on the living island!" Reminds me alot of the early Stan Lee/Jack Kirby FF stuff in that regard. Just people telling the stories they want to tell, regardless of the consequences.
- June 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Yeesh - all these old-timers who pulled this off the rack when it came out (ok, ok, 1975 was actually the first year I began reading comics, but I was about 7 & at that point was just pulling anything with Spiderman in it from the spinner racks...)
I actually came into X-men roughly in the middle of the Byrne/Claremont run, and in those days before TPBs, Essentials & other reprints, just getting the opportunity to read GS X-men 1 was kind of a like a grail quest. I first read it around 1980 when my future brother-in-law let me borrow his stash of comics from his collecting days, which luckily for me ended around 1975, so he had the first few issues of the new X-men. Anyway, the story in GS 1 may have its flaws, but it is certainly an explosive beginning for the X-franchise. I'm with Karen, I think my favorite part of it was the character introductions. And as for Thunderbird, I know this may be considered sacrilegious, but I liked him better than Wolverine...
- June 29, 2010 at 3:10 AM
See, I love Wolverine. I really do. I think he's a great character, what with the fighting between his better, nobler samurai nature and his animalistic impulses. I dig all of his costumes, and I maintain that the adamantium claws are really, really cool to this day.
However, I loathe Wolverine™, the giant marketing machine that has to be in three X-Men books and three Avengers books plus his own title and spin-offs for both his evil son (with claws) and his teenage female clone (with claws).
- June 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Karen said...
Well said Chris! I agree whole-heartedly. Back before he was a marketing juggernaut (no pun intended, Wolverine was a very cool character, a definite 70s anti-hero, but sympathetic enough to keep from going over the line. Now he's in so many titles they are actually making jokes about it in the books themselves (see the New Avengers #1 for one example).
- June 29, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Karen said...
Edo, I was another fan of Thunderbird -for the whole 3 issues we had him! Loved the costume, powers, and attitude. Reading GS X-Men I couldn't help but think the way he related to Cyclops - or One Eye as he liked to call him - would reflect the later relationship of Cyclops and Wolverine.
- June 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Sorry if this is becoming a threadjack, but I just have to say: it's not that I don't like Wolverine, just liked the whole Thunderbird idea better. ChrisPV, I agree with you about the ubiquitous Wolverine marketing machine; I also agree that Wolverine is a great character, but solely as a member of the X-men, with, like you indicated, the conflicted personality. One thing I liked about the way he was written in much of the Claremont-Cockrum-Byrne run was that he was prone to berserker rages that even made him dangerous to his fellow X-men...
- June 30, 2010 at 4:00 AM
There's a real what-if, isn't there? I mean Claremont & Byrne are unassailable, but a run of Wein/Cockrum would have been very interesting.
I think also that Roy Thomas (always a friend to the merry mutants) had a hand in their resurrection.
Is it me, or is Krakoa's gaping maw quite proto-'Brood' ?
Cockrum's Nightcrawler was originally created, I think, for DC but they didn't want him. Interesting when you consider all the later Kirby/Shooter furore about who actually owns the characters.
General note: how do Banshee's powers work? How is it that anything directly in front of him is blasted into matchsticks and yet his teammates, often much nearer his sonic boom, don't need so much as a Q tip? On what planet does sound work like that?
One thing I've never understood about GS #1 is the time framing. Correct me if I've got this wrong, but the entire (walking) team including Alex & Lorna go off to find the world's most powerful mutant which turns out to be a living island who captures them and vampirically sucks their life energy out. His need for energy is so great that he sends Scott back to the world to suck more mutants in, so clearly the Xmen will be bare bones pretty quickly. So, in order to save them, Xavier spends what must have been WEEKS if not MONTHS travelling across literally the entire world (Russia, Africa, Europe, Canada, Japan ) to gather a team for a rescue mission. And then he spends some more time training them. And Scott endures all this knowing Jean is hanging up by her thumbs in Krakoa's digestive tract. Seriously, Charlie, I'm sure the Avengers were in the phone book.
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A bomb threat was made early Thursday morning at Jackson County Comprehensive High School despite all schools in the Jackson County system being put on lockdown the day before.
"Another statement was discovered on a restroom wall at Jackson County Comprehensive High School stating that there is a bomb in the school," officials said. "Jackson County Schools will err on the side of student safety and evacuate JCCHS until the building has been cleared by trained officers. As additional information becomes available, we will provide an update through webpage, Facebook, and district call out messenger."
After two bomb threats came on Wednesday, the Jackson County School System has implemented strict restrictions, as well as "lock down" status for the middle and high schools. Wednesday's bomb threats came the day after a video featuring Sheriff Janis Mangum and Jackson County School System superintendent April Howard was shown to students.
"Unfortunately, our school disruptions have not ceased as a result of the video message shared by Sheriff Mangum and me," Howard wrote in a memo to principals Wednesday night. "The safety, security, and integrity of our school district is being jeopardized and will not be tolerated."
Howard instructed principals to do the following:
•Staff should be on high alert at all times; ANY suspicious activity should be reported and investigated immediately.
•Restrooms should be monitored as students access them; custodians should limit access and may choose to close some restrooms to ensure school's ability to monitor.
•Middle and high schools will be on Level 1 Lock Down for the remainder of the year.
Level 1 Lock Down includes: All exterior and interior doors locked; all students accounted for at all times.
If a student must leave the classroom, they must sign out with destination and time noted, as well as, return time noted. Outdoor activities suspended (including field day events).
•Elementary schools will be on a soft lock down for the remainder of the year.
Soft Lock Down includes: All exterior and interior doors locked; all students accounted for at all times.
If a student must leave the classroom, they should sign out with destination and time noted, as well as, return time noted.
Should a statement be discovered or any threat arise, schools should:
•Fully implement the safety plan. Book bags and all belongings should be left in the classroom; only what students have on their person should leave; account for all students.
•School resource officer immediately notified and school safety plan enacted.
•No students will be dismissed until the entire building and premises are clear of any threat.
•Any lost instructional time will be made up through Saturday school and/or extended school day/year.
"Please share these expectations and procedures with all staff," Howard instructed the principals. "Our high school students have very important EOCT's upon them and deserve a focused learning environment to ensure optimal performance. Graduation is an exciting milestone in students' and families' lives. We have a responsibility to ensure a positive and productive end to the school year."
Howard also asked parents to "help us to share the importance of our students' safety."
"We have to take every threat seriously," Howard said. "The repercussions of these actions have impacted our learning environment. For the families of the alleged perpetrators, the arrests and prosecution will have lifelong impacts, both criminally and financially."
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Name one high-profile issue that's going well right now for Secretary of State John Kerry.
Russian troops are still sitting on the Ukrainian border, and Russian-backed militants haven't backed off inside the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is still taking Kerry's calls, but not seeming to care much about what's being said.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad announced Monday he's running for re-election, unopposed, eight months after firing nerve gas over President Barack Obama's red line.
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Kerry's attempted peace process reboot between the Israelis and Palestinians has stalled out.
And then, "apartheid" — what the future could hold for Israel without a peace deal, he warned in a closed door meeting last week.
In a defiant apology of sorts that fired back at those who questioned his support for Israel, the nation's top diplomat acknowledged "the power of words to create misimpression, even when unintentional."
Kerry's been confronted with this lesson throughout his career in public life, repeatedly getting caught in impolitic descriptions of what he would argue are just realistic assessments of where things stand. This is the politician, after all, who famously explained his procedural maneuver on Iraq War funding as, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" — a true, and in his mind defensible, position that proved poison to his 2004 campaign.
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"One of those inarticulate moments," he said at the time.
Once again, he's fed a problematic narrative about himself as a man who goes knee deep with his foot in his mouth, and a larger narrative of an Obama administration foreign policy that's stumbling and in trouble — which the president defended over the weekend as "you hit singles, you hit doubles; every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run."
State Department officials say Kerry is undeterred.
"This guy is absolutely locked in, unafraid of bumps in the road, and he always jokes, 'What are they gonna do — send me to Vietnam?' said a senior official close to the secretary. "Now the proof is in the pugilism. Kerry has spent a lifetime in the arena, and that's where he'll stay."
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Even as Kerry and Obama have brought together allied international action on Ukraine, Iran and elsewhere, his administration has been under attack at home and abroad for not being better able to showcase strength or effectiveness toward Russia and Syria.
Amid that criticism, Kerry is the face of the administration foreign policy, whether announcing the preliminary breakthrough with Iran in November — still moving forward, at least for now — or standing in Geneva again two weeks ago to cautiously accept the basic agreement with the Russians, now proven useless, to de-escalate Ukraine.
And then there's his own decision to making a renewed Middle East peace effort a central mission, which continues to have Obama's support and which hasn't been affected by the "apartheid" comment or the response it's generated.
Kerry sees progress on multiple fronts, say aides, from moving toward the May 25 elections in Ukraine or planning for the two-and-a-half years ahead of him to make progress on the peace process. And that doesn't count many issues gaining less attention, from attempting to stabilize Egypt to tackling the genocide in South Sudan, which he'll be addressing on a trip to Africa this week.
"He's not looking for a quick sugar fix, he's looking for a way to keep making progress, keep chipping away," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
( Also on POLITICO: Barbara Boxer: John Kerry apartheid critique 'ridiculous')
"On Syria, he knows we've rid 92 percent of the chemical weapons from Syria, but he won't be content until we're at 100 percent and Assad is gone. On the Middle East peace process, he knows that there are ups and downs but the two parties always end up determined to get back to the negotiating table. On Ukraine, he feels liberated to blast the Russians and he knows that exhausting the diplomatic process brought reluctant Europeans to finally get tough on sanctions," the official close to Kerry said.
The "apartheid" furor is one that in the minds of the State Department is playing out purely within the American political context, and is likely to disappear just as quickly as it arrived.


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Patrick Wolf blogged about this, but I'd like to have it available here as well:
If you get the error Workspace "[workspace name]" is inactive. Contact your administrator. when you try to login into your workspace or when you run an application, then you should run the following script to fix the status of your workspaces.
- Connect as SYS, SYSTEM, APEX_040100 or any user who has the APEX_ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE role
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begin for l_workspace in ( select short_name from apex_040100.wwv_flow_companies where account_status='AVAILABLE' ) loop apex_040100.apex_instance_admin.enable_workspace(l_workspace.short_name); end loop; commit; end;
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In the past three years, newspaper circulation and advertising revenues have plummeted, a fourth of all newsroom employees have been laid off or have accepted buyouts, and more than a hundred free local papers have folded. During these unhappy times for the profession, a surprising savior has appeared: America Online. In the past year, AOL has hired nine hundred journalists, and each week it hires forty more. The new employees include alumni of the Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Journal, and USA Today. Other recruits are recent graduates of journalism schools, like Columbia's, that used to send alumni to regional newspapers that no longer exist.
This surge in activity is even more noteworthy given AOL's dismal decade. In the late nineties, the company built a business connecting people to the Internet over their phone lines and then giving them a place to check their e-mail, chat with friends, and scan the news. Roughly half of everyone logging on to the Internet did so through AOL. In 2000, the company bought Time Warner, in what was the biggest corporate merger in history. But soon thereafter people started getting faster Internet access through cable or DSL connections already built into their homes, the merger soured, and AOL's business collapsed. In 2002, the company had thirty-five million subscribers; today, there are just over four million, and the number continues to decrease.
The company still gets eighty per cent of its profits from subscribers, many of whom are older people who have cable or DSL service but don't realize that they need not pay an additional twenty-five dollars a month to get online and check their e-mail. "The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five per cent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it." But AOL also runs several popular service sites, like Instant Messaging, MapQuest, and Moviefone. According to the company's newest C.E.O., Tim Armstrong, the most important part of AOL is the collection of blogs and news sites that it manages: DailyFinance, Engadget, FanHouse, Politics Daily, PopEater, and about ninety others. At the center of this media empire is AOL.com, the company's home page, which provides links to these sites and which receives more than thirty-six million unique visitors every month.
Many companies publish content online, but Armstrong, who is forty years old, thinks that AOL can develop a reputation as a place where reporters and editors craft original stories. The Internet is chaotic, messy, and full of garbage, he says—and AOL can be a helpful filter. He talks enthusiastically about users opening their browsers and going to an uncluttered AOL.com home page, where they will find everything they want to read: from news about the flood in Australia and Verizon's iPhone to gossip about the Kardashians and tips on cooking Chicken Marsala.
Two efforts are central to AOL's success. The first is to revitalize its home page. This past summer, Armstrong launched a redesign effort and conducted daily meetings to make the page more alluring. "Is this the fastest place in the world to get news and entertainment?" he said, admonishing a roomful of executives. The home page, he told them, feels "like an Internet company designed it. I want it to feel more friendly." The new home page débuted in November.
The second is to invest heavily in local news. "Local is the one area of the Internet that has not been built out in an extensive way," Armstrong said last spring. "We believe it's an untapped market, for the most part, and one of the largest commercial opportunities online that have yet to be won."
AOL's local effort is called Patch, a compendium of online newspapers that target small, affluent communities and are supported by advertising. Each paper offers a calendar of after-school activities and planning-board meetings, links to stories about breaking news, and a scrolling Twitter feed that includes information on traffic accidents, police logs, and ongoing crafts sales. There are now seven hundred Patch sites operating in nineteen states and the District of Columbia. AOL chooses new locations based on an algorithm that examines fifty-nine factors, including potential advertising revenue, income, voter turnout, and retail spending. Each Patch site is run by a journalist, who earns between forty and fifty thousand dollars a year. There are no offices; reporters live in the area they cover. Because there are no newsprint or shipping costs, AOL publishes news, Armstrong says, at approximately four per cent of what it costs a traditional local newspaper to do so. Still, the sites are not making money yet. "We will be the largest publisher of local news in the U.S. this year," Armstrong predicts.
They might not, however, be the best. The sites aspire to break news, and occasionally they do. The Darien Patch, for example, reported that a First Selectman candidate had a criminal record. But often the sites are like digital Yellow Pages, promotional bulletin boards accompanied by news about all the fun things going on nearby. Quality varies widely, and one senses a tension between journalism, which often conveys uncomfortable news, and boosterism, which makes everyone feel good about the home town.
Quality is a problem for the entire AOL media empire. The company has hired many talented journalists, and some of the niche Web sites, like Engadget, publish content that particular readers love. Much of what AOL publishes, though, is piffle. On a typical day in January, its home page included a substantive story about the recovery of Representative Gabrielle Giffords after she was wounded in an assassination attempt in Tucson. But there were many more pieces with headlines like "KATIE AND TOM MAY BOYCOTT OSCARS," "CURLED LASHES WITH NO MASCARA AT ALL," and "VIDEOS: HILARIOUS PETS."
In 1996, David Foster Wallace described the Internet as a place where "there are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it's too much work to do triage to decide. So it's very clear, very soon there's gonna be an economic niche opening up for gatekeepers. . . . Because otherwise we're gonna spend 95 percent of our time body-surfing through shit."
Fifteen years later, there is still a need for the kind of filter that Armstrong says he wants to provide. If he can do it, the company may well be able to thrive as it continues to lose subscribers. It seems unlikely, however, that AOL will survive if it's just creating new places to bodysurf.
After graduating from Connecticut College, where he majored in economics and sociology, Armstrong went to work at a mutual-fund company, but he quit after six months. For career direction, he cold-called senior business executives who he hoped might serve as mentors. None responded. One executive assistant told him, "The only way you'll get through is if you're a reporter, or if you know someone they know."
"So I decided to start a newspaper," Armstrong says. In late 1993, at the age of twenty-two, he and a friend from high school, Michael Dressler, sold their mountain bikes, racked up about a hundred thousand dollars in debt, and produced a tabloid-size newspaper called BIB (Beginnings in Boston). The paper was a tip sheet for college-age students and other people just entering the workforce. Armstrong and Dressler interviewed executives, who gave advice and told stories about how they had become successful. Suddenly, the higher-ups started returning calls, volunteering guidance, and offering the names of friends to contact.
Near the end of 1994, the owner of the Square Deal, a larger, rival newspaper, died. There was no obvious successor, and his widow called Armstrong. "My husband would have wanted you to run his newspaper," she told him. He and Dressler were given partial ownership of the paper, and they moved its offices to Harvard Square and closed down BIB.
Armstrong was interested in a new phenomenon called the Internet, and he wondered if he and Dressler could publish a newspaper online. So he visited the M.I.T. campus to watch a presentation of Mosaic's first browser. He saw that consumers could just click on what they wanted to read, and that advertisers could track users in order to target ads more precisely. "On the spot, I said, 'I'm doing this,' " he recalled. " 'This is going to be huge.' "
Dressler wanted to enter the sports business, so they sold the Square Deal. Armstrong went to work as an ad-sales director for I-Way, which he describes as "the first Internet magazine for consumers." He proved to be a persuasive ad salesman and was soon promoted. Two years later, he switched to a new online entertainment-and-news company, Starwave, which was bought by Disney in 1998. While there, he engineered the first million-dollar online-advertising deal, with the health-care company Columbia/HCA.
Armstrong moved through a series of online publishing jobs. In the summer of 2000, he was working in New York as the vice-president of sales and strategic partnerships at a news-and-gaming company called Snowball. One day, a friend called and told him that Google was considering selling ads to run alongside search results. Its sales and operations chief, Omid Kordestani, would be in New York and wanted to meet Armstrong for an "informational discussion." They got together at the Regency Hotel and, at the end of their conversation, Kordestani asked Armstrong if he'd fly to California to meet Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They offered him a job as U.S. sales chief, and he accepted after convincing them that he should be stationed in New York.
Armstrong did bold things at Google. At one point, he decided to expose Google's engineers to the consumer-oriented culture of Procter & Gamble. That company's chief marketing officer, Jim Stengel, wanted his staff to learn about digital technology. So they agreed to exchange employees for a few weeks at a time. Armstrong's main accomplishment was to build a direct-sales force of more than a thousand employees, who worked with advertisers and their agencies. Most of the company's revenues were generated by the small text ads that appear when it answers search queries on Google.com. But Armstrong helped convince Google that much of its future revenue would come from people who could sell large display ads on other sites in the company's empire, like YouTube. He "literally built the entire direct sales force" at Google, the company's C.E.O., Eric Schmidt, wrote in an e-mail. "He is a genuinely fun and charismatic leader, people just like to be with him and listen to him. He is among the best and most inspirational sales managers I have ever worked with."
While he was at Google, Armstrong had his revelation about local news. One Saturday morning in 2007, he and his three young children were driving home from a bagel store half a mile from their home, in Riverside, Connecticut. At a stoplight, they pulled over to look at the hand-lettered signs that residents had stuck in the grass to advertise local events. There was no online listing of events in Riverside, and the Greenwich Time lacked a calendar. Armstrong called the newspaper and introduced himself as a resident and told an editor that the paper was missing out on a terrific business opportunity.
"We don't really need any help. We have a fine business," the editor told him, before saying thanks and hanging up.
This was crazy, Armstrong recalls thinking. He lived in one of the wealthiest towns in America, yet he had to drive to a stoplight to find out what to do with his family.
Google had made him extremely wealthy, and he had the means to address this problem. With the help of a close friend, Jon Brod, who had been running his private investment company, he launched Patch as a small side project, with the first pages opening in three communities in northern New Jersey. After coming to AOL, he had the company buy Patch—forgoing any personal profits—and brought Brod in to run it.
Google's ad sales soared under Armstrong, as did his reputation. In the winter of 2009, Jeff Bewkes, the C.E.O. of Time Warner, invited Armstrong to his eleventh-floor office at the Time Warner Center. Bewkes had been a senior Time Warner executive, and one of the few open dissenters, when the company agreed to merge with AOL. He had had a hand in hiring and firing a series of C.E.O.s, and he was desperate to rejuvenate AOL—or to spin it off as a private company. Bewkes told Armstrong that he'd like him to come to AOL as the chairman and C.E.O. He thought that Armstrong could regain the confidence of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and advertisers.
Bewkes was essentially asking Armstrong to leave the most successful technology company of the past decade to run one of the least successful. Bewkes knew that Armstrong had made his fortune. He was the president of a division and, as a non-engineer in an engineer-centered company, there wasn't much room for him to advance. Perhaps he could turn AOL around, as Steve Jobs had done at Apple and Louis Gerstner had at I.B.M. A few weeks after the meeting, Armstrong took the job. He was AOL's fifth C.E.O. in a decade.
When most people leave Google, their departure is marked with a memo. When Armstrong left, the company prepared a farewell slide show, which was half toast and half roast. Randy Meech, who worked with him at Google and is now the chief engineer for all local AOL sites, says, "We all assumed Tim would one day run for President."
AOL announced Armstrong's appointment on March 12, 2009, and he set off on a listening tour during which he met with employees in sixteen cities in the U.S. and abroad. During his visit to Dulles, Virginia, a thousand AOL staffers crowded into a tent to hear from their new C.E.O. He walked onstage with his jacket unbuttoned and the knot of his yellow tie not quite pulled up to his shirt collar. He stands six feet four, and has a full head of wavy black hair, high cheekbones, and large front teeth. Although he limped slightly from an old hip injury, he exuded a sense of command. "Are you guys committed to putting America back online?" he bellowed. "Don't worry about Wall Street. Don't worry about the press. Worry about building great products." Team AOL cheered. "It felt like a revival meeting," said Jeff Levick, an executive who followed Armstrong from Google to become the president of global advertising and strategy at AOL.
When Armstrong moved into his new company's headquarters, in the Wanamaker Building, on East Ninth Street in Manhattan, he took down the walls around his corner office. Eventually, the former department store came to resemble the offices of Google, with bright colors and open spaces.
He was astonished to discover, though, that many of his employees kept hours typical of professors. AOL, like Time Warner, enjoyed summer Fridays, when people would leave for the weekend at noon, if not earlier. He terminated the perk immediately. Although AOL's employees acquiesced, and made it clear that they were ready for a savior, Armstrong felt that he had joined "a defeated culture." On the Monday morning of his third week, he read online that AOL's e-mail service, which once ranked No. 1, had fallen to fourth place, behind Google's Gmail. He thought that his employees would be chastened and, therefore, motivated by the news. "I waited all day to see if someone would bring it up," he recalls. "No one did." At a Friday gathering of the AOL executive team, Armstrong asked everyone at the table what was new to report. Again, no one said anything about e-mail. He finally explained what had happened and yelled, "We should have held red-alert meetings!"
After conducting focus-group research on the value of the brand and talking with hundreds of employees and advertisers, Armstrong gradually settled on a strategy. He would rebrand AOL as a content company, and label its original material so that visitors would know that the company was not just another collector of unpaid bloggers recycling other people's news. He would slash the number of ads featured on AOL.com, convinced that large advertisers would relish the exclusivity.
He also decided to direct more of the company's focus toward women, whose interests and needs, he believes, are not well served by the rest of the Web. When AOL started redesigning its blogs, it began with the women's sites, like StyleList.com, AOL Shopping, and KitchenDaily.com. Nearly sixty per cent of all visitors to Patch are women. On the company page describing its demographics for the sake of advertisers, the first two categories mentioned are "women" and "moms."
While making these changes, Armstrong brought no executives with journalistic experience into his inner circle. As a result of this, perhaps, AOL relies far more on technology than traditional news-gathering organizations do. David Eun, who came from Google and, as president of AOL Media and Studios, coördinates all of AOL's non-local content, says, "The front page of AOL should look less like the New York Times than the front page of Amazon.com. What you get and what I get should not be the same." Just as Amazon recommends books based on previous purchases, AOL will allow you to rate stories and will recommend ones based on what you've read and enjoyed. Visitors interested in, say, health issues will see more pieces about the F.D.A.
The company has also designed a system called Seed, a hybrid of journalism and engineering that is run by Saul Hansell, who came from the Times after seventeen years as a technology and finance reporter. Seed is based on the idea that editors can figure out what stories to assign by mining data from search engines like Google and social networks like Facebook. If algorithms can tell you what people are talking about, and what they're searching for, then you know what they want to read.
With a staff of about twenty-five, Seed produces print and video stories for various AOL sites. An online database lists each idea that the editors and the algorithms come up with, along with a deadline, a proposed length, and a proposed fee, which is usually less than a hundred dollars. Thousands of freelancers have signed up to write these stories. The company's hope, Hansell says, is that the technology "is going to give people access to thoughtfully produced reporting on far more subjects than traditional journalism methods ever provided." Knowing what interests people, and what questions they have, "helps us be better journalists," Hansell says. For now, the results are not heavy on investigations or stories about Yemen. One day in January, pending Seed assignments included "Confessions of a Personal Assistant," "Insane Customer Service Calls: They Called About WHAT?," and "I Interviewed at Google."
The writing, too, is often designed to appeal more to search engines than to readers. In the list of "contributor resources" for Seed, the most prominent category is for "search engine optimization"—S.E.O.—the process of packing stories with words that will make them appear higher in the list of results that Google and Bing display when users search for terms related to the subject. Seed links to guidelines that instruct writers to pay attention to what is called "keyword density": the number of times that certain phrases appear in a story as a percentage of the total words in a piece. If you're writing a story on herbal tea, you should use that phrase early and often.
The idea of targeting a story for search bots infuriates some journalists. But AOL points out that it hasn't gone nearly as far as some of its rivals. A company called Demand Media publishes six thousand stories a day by freelancers. Its founder, Richard Rosenblatt, has boasted that the assignments are all based on algorithms. Demand Media is profitable, but, unlike the executives at AOL, Rosenblatt does not associate his company with journalism; he says that he and his company are "content enablers." Often, the stories are hard to distinguish from spam.
Although David Eun has vowed to hire an editor-in-chief to impose standards, AOL has not yet done so. Some journalists doubt that the experiment and the over-all approach to journalism at AOL will end well. Jeff Bercovici left the company in late September to join Forbes.com, partly, he says, because being at Forbes would "help me get my calls returned," and also because "people at AOL are looking for fast results to counter the downward trend lines." A reporter at AOL says that there is tension between the writers and the executives, too. "When I started here," he says, "it was all about getting more page views. Then they decided on a different metric, S.E.O. What they never realized is that you can't build a real journalistic brand that way."
Early each morning, Armstrong takes a chauffeur-driven S.U.V. from his home in Greenwich to his office in Greenwich Village. There are no newspapers on the back seat; he consumes his news online. He says that he spends about twenty minutes scanning "the major newspapers" and Web pages like the technology news outlet All Things D, and another twenty minutes skipping among the various AOL sites.
Armstrong listens intently, rarely raises his voice, and is generous with compliments. He commands attention when he speaks, even when it's not clear exactly what he's saying. Like many salesmen, he has an affinity for catchy slogans: AOL is on a mission to "beat the Internet," and is engaged in a "start-around." He says that his big idea for AOL is to "put people back in charge of the Internet. Silicon Valley creates things where users have to work. AOL will do the work for consumers." His company should be thought of as full of helpful "elves." Armstrong offers something between a vision and a sales pitch.
Armstrong presses his strategy in meetings that take place around a long table in a large, glass-walled conference room several yards from his desk. The seats are generally filled when he arrives, with his laptop in one hand and his iPhone in the other. He urges the executives present to be candid. In a business review meeting this past summer about operations in Europe, for example, he said, "If you don't say it in this meeting, don't say it after." He asks many questions, and he can be tough, as one AOL executive learned when he recommended that the company jettison its failing European divisions. "You're thinking too small," Armstrong told him. "We need to be a global brand." Armstrong soon relieved him of his job by politely telling him, the executive recalls, "I need to bring in my own team."
Even after being fired, though, the ex-employee speaks well of Armstrong, and there are executives outside the company who want to hire him. This fall, private-equity investors furiously tried to manufacture an AOL takeover of Yahoo. The deal made no sense: AOL is a tenth the size of its rival. But it seemed to have been instigated by Yahoo investors who were eager to find a way to get Armstrong to replace Yahoo's C.E.O., Carol Bartz. AOL executives also quietly touted the deal and whispered that they could save a billion dollars by merging the two portals. It was obvious, though, that their enthusiasm stemmed in part from the fear that AOL's new strategy may fail. Those doubts aren't unwarranted. Despite his galvanizing leadership qualities, Tim Armstrong has yet to find significant success at AOL.
In 2010, Armstrong nonetheless began to boast of "the AOL turnaround." In his first year and a half as C.E.O., he had reached an agreement with Time Warner to spin off AOL as a privately traded company on the New York Stock Exchange; restructured and cut another third of AOL's workforce; and streamlined the company's home page and slashed the number of ads featured most days, from fifteen to one. This would crimp short-term revenues, he knew, but it would make AOL more user-friendly and allow it to sell ads at premium rates. He had negotiated an agreement with Google that kept his old company as the default search engine on AOL. He had got rid of AOL assets that Time Warner overpaid for, including the social-networking site Bebo, which Armstrong sold in 2010 for approximately ten million dollars, an eightieth of its cost.
AOL was also acquiring. In one week in September, the company announced that it had bought an online video company (5min Media), a Web software company (Thing Labs), and a prominent blog, TechCrunch. He had overhauled the company—by the fall of 2010, every senior executive reporting to Armstrong was new to his job—and impressed advertisers. "With Tim's arrival and the team he brought with him, we have leadership that is much more sensitive to what it takes to be successful in the advertising marketplace," Irwin Gotlieb, the C.E.O. of GroupM, the country's largest media-buying agency, said.
Still, between 2008 and 2009 AOL's revenues dropped twenty-two per cent, to just under $3.3 billion; the number of its domestic subscribers plunged by twenty-seven per cent. Although AOL's net profits rose to two hundred and forty-nine million dollars last year, Armstrong concedes that most of its profits flow from that melting subscriber base. While many year-end 2009 analyst reports praised the management team that Armstrong has assembled, they did not ignore AOL's difficulties. "Of the different turnaround stories in the 'Net sector today," Citi analysts wrote, "AOL is probably the toughest."
AOL's numbers did not improve in the first nine months of 2010. While the advertising revenues of most Internet companies rose, at AOL they dropped. On August 4th, Armstrong admitted to analysts that AOL was "a sick patient." The company's third-quarter earnings report, which was released on November 3rd, revealed a continued slide in revenues, earnings, and subscribers. Many analysts have begun to question the prospects for the "new" AOL.
Armstrong predicts that the company's health will show marked improvement in the second half of 2011, but there are few signs of that happening. The problem begins with the fact that Armstrong's vision isn't entirely new. AOL has fitfully pursued a "content" strategy since 2006, as an S.E.C. report filed by Armstrong in 2009 acknowledged. In fact, most of Armstrong's turnaround strategy—make the site cleaner, add local news, create unique content, make AOL a destination portal—is based on ideas from the Internet's past. Relying on Web advertising was a promising business idea ten years ago, when advertising rates appeared destined to climb endlessly higher as it became possible to target ads precisely for narrower groups of consumers. (Your Web history tells me that you like to run, and that you live in New York; here's an ad for a sale at the local shoe store!) But Web advertising rates have decreased in recent years, since demand (the number of Web pages) vastly outpaces supply (the number of advertisers). True, high-speed Internet connections allow the kind of video ads that are featured on television. And it is possible to run a profitable business supported by Web advertising, as Google, Yahoo, and Facebook have shown. But Web businesses have come to realize—as online newspapers and magazines have—that they need a second revenue source, whether it is e-commerce or paid subscribers.
As AOL struggles with old stuff, its competitors are pushing ahead with new stuff. In the past two years, Apple has released the iPad and built a lucrative App Store; Google introduced the Android mobile operating system and has begun charging people for pay-per-view on YouTube; Facebook has generated hundreds of millions of dollars through video games and formed deep partnerships with everyone from Pandora to the Times. Meanwhile, AOL increasingly relies on content that advertisers have generally spurned. It may also be the case that young Internet users don't require AOL elves to help them navigate the Internet. Older users who do need guides are not the people most advertisers want to reach.
Clearly, consumers today want local news, and print newspapers that have said their growth depends on that strategy have often been done in by the expense of paper, presses, and trucking. But hiring hundreds of journalists isn't cheap, either, and Patch is costing AOL about thirty million dollars each quarter. There are also many other online news sites that are intent on providing more local coverage. In some cities in Connecticut, for example, Patch competes with a company called Mainstreet Connect, which is trying to do much the same thing.
Other portals offer an array of content. All vie for advertising, talent, and the attention of consumers. While AOL—like Yahoo and the Huffington Post—boasts of the original journalism it produces, it doesn't employ a single overseas correspondent. By contrast, the Times says that it spends seven million dollars a year to produce news from Iraq and Afghanistan alone. If Politics Daily is better than Demand Media, it's not as good as Politico. AOL does not seem to be saving journalism, and journalism does not yet seem to be saving AOL.
As Steve Jobs and Apple showed in the nineties, tech companies can survive and prosper after near-death experiences. Perhaps Tim Armstrong will manage to make AOL rise again, but there's a much more common path followed by digital companies—like Wang, DEC, Starwave, Excite, and Lycos. They rise, then they sputter, and then they crash. ♦


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a) Etsy. we share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you our services and comply with our obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
b) Service providers. we engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to our shop, such as delivery companies. We will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
c) Business transfers. If we sell or merge our business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
d) Compliance with laws. we may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.
Data retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. We generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU
We may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If we are deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, we rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
Your rights
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. We describe these rights below:
You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting us using the contact information below.
Change, restrict, delete.
You may also have rights to change, restrict our use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where we are required to store data for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon request.
You can object to (i) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from us after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, we will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
Frequently Asked Questions
Custom and personalised orders
All custom and personalised order will usually be created & dispatched between 7 & 21 days of receipt of full payment.
Please allow the full 21 days for 'made to order' designs.
If your requirements are more urgent please contact me, it may be possible to accommodate a 'rush order'. There will be a non-refundable 50% charge for a 'rush order' (within 7 working days) to cover additional hours, please contact us in the first instance to see if we can accommodate your request and to set up your order.
Bespoke designs may take longer than 21 days depending on design requirements.
Any items that are ready to ship will be shipped within 2 working days.
Sizing details
For accurate measuring, take a tape measure around the widest part of your head; from the forehead around the widest part of your head and back to meet the forehead. Don't pull too tight on the tape or your hat will be too tight as well as do not make it too loose.
Measurements in inches and cm:
21" | 53-54cm
21.5" | 54-55cm
22" | 56cm
22.5" | 57-58cm
23" | 58-59cm
23.5" | 60cm
24" | 61cm
Need a larger size, just let me know.
Care instructions
Felt hats / headwear:
Use a clean soft brush, such as a soft shoe brush to occasionally remove dust and refresh the fibres on the hat, however only apply light pressure. For felts with a pattern use a lint roller to remove dust.
Straw and sinamay hats / fascinators:
It is important not to get your straw hat wet, as it will lose its shape. Please also store in a dry place but out of direct heat, as this will make the straw brittle over time.
All millinery headgears:
It is best way to keep all your millinery creations in special hat boxes which we provide with all orders.
Gift wrapping and packaging
All designs are packed in either a luxury sturdy gift bag, hat box or gift box, depending on style and size. Every bag / box is then posted in a postal box and sealed in a posting bag.
Your invoice will be enclosed, if you require a gift receipt, please let me know.
Wholesale availability
All our hats, facsinators and other accessories are available for wholesale orders.
If you are stockists or shop buyers and looking to expand your shop range please contact us via messaging system.
Colour matching
Please note that colours may vary due to screen resolution or or suppliers fabric batches. This is not classed as faulty or a defect, swatches may be requested in advance.
We are regret but we couldn't accept any returns for the reason of unmatching colour as it is not faulty or defective.
Made to order / Custom return / General return / Refund
The majority of our designs are handmade to order; made to measure, made to customer specifications. We regret that we are unable to offer refunds or exchanges on products that are bespoke, made to order or customized.
We are always happy to advise customers regarding color matching and measuring prior to placing an order. If for any reason the product does not meet your expectations, you can return for alteration, you need to contact us within 3 days and ship a return within 7 days of receipt via same courier you have received order.
All returns must be in an unworn, unmarked, as new condition and complete with their original tags in place as received.
We are not refunding for the shipping cost or for the items "not color's matching".
Additional policies and FAQs
We reserve the right to make changes to this shop, policies and terms and conditions at any time. We may make alterations to the price, content, or nature of this shop without notice.
All images and communicated feedback regarding purchased goods may be used at the discretion of Irina Bluebird Millinery across all marketing or selling venues.
We retain all copyright on custom design orders and may choose to resell custom designs.
Images and all content ©Irina Bluebird® All Rights Reserved.
Photography ©Irina Bluebird Photography.


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Taylor Lautner's new movie Abduction is out on Friday, and to celebrate his big role as an action movie leading man, we brought one lucky fan to San Diego to meet and interview Taylor for PopSugar. In our newest I'm a Huge Fan, meet Sara, one of Taylor's biggest fans who is also from his hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. The young mom of three is off to California to interview the star, but first she has to prepare by getting to know the world of Taylor. She arrives in San Diego and is surprised with a trip to White Dragon Martial Arts where Sifu Dennis Smith gets her inside the life of action star and martial arts expert Taylor with a karate lesson. Check it out now and watch the rest of I'm a Huge Fan: Taylor Lautner on PopSugar before Abduction hits theaters on Friday!


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This was kind of a special charter. Most of the liveaboards only spend September-April in the Raja Ampat area. This is because of the less than favorable wind and sea conditions during the summer months. Most head south to work the waters around Komodo, South Sulawesi and Bali. This was the first leg of Dewi Nusantara's transit south and took us from Sorong (gateway to Raja Ampat) to Ambon (gateway to the Banda Sea area). Here's my rough approximation of the route we took:
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After an overnight transit from Sorong, we spent 6 days diving the area to the southeast of Misool (one of the "four kings" or "raja ampat") and were treated to beathtking reefs rich with both hard and soft corals along with tons of critters. We then took a long transit south to dive off the island of Koon, on the east side of Seram. We were greeted by strong currents and sandy patches filled with frogfish, robust ghost pipefish and leaf scorpionfish.
After only two dives, it was time to head out again. 16 hours straight west to a location called Nusa Laut on the southern coast of Seram. First dive of the day, we were greeted by an eagle ray, a hammerhead shark and just as we were getting picked up by the tenders...a dugong zipped by a couple of times. I thought it was a dolphin. I didn't know these relatives of manatees could swim so fast!
Our last two days of diving comprised muck diving in Ambon Harbor. Black sand, murky water, junk and lots of strange and cool critters.
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[working as specified] Time on disconection and moves
To the case of people using disconnection to avoid losing games it could be adjourned for a time (couple of minutes, hours) with a chance to resume when the oponent get online. After that time, if the player who got disconnected doesn't resume the game, the other one can clain win.
Other important thing about time is the lag taking your game time. When you got short on time it gets most annoying. The server should be able to deliver the move with the correct time, without discount on the time the lag takes to show it. Other servers have it, and it really makes the game more fair.
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Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK
Bancroft Press, 1998 - 617 pages
"Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert Kennedy was personally supervising groups plotting against the Cuban leader. Filled with rage and a sense of destiny, Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, announcing he would kill America s president in exchange for sanctuary in Havana. Live By the Sword forces the conclusion that members of the Cuban regime accepted the troubled American s offer. Russo shows that Oswald was indeed JFK s lone assailant, but that after the president s murder, a devastated Robert Kennedy and key officials launched a comprehensive coverup to hide its true causes.Gus Russo, based in Baltimore, Maryland, has reported for acclaimed ABC and PBS documentaries on JFK, and done research for authors Gerald Posner, Seymour Hersh, and Anthony Summers. Exhaustively researched, Live by the Sword ends 35 years of public mistrust and confusion over the Kennedy assassination."
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May 13, 2010
Aaron Krumheuer
On leave from the violence in Iraq, Dr. Salam Bash Al-Maliky is an eyewitness to the struggles of his country.
Dr. Al-Maliky, an associate professor in the Department of Engineering and the Global Leadership Center's leader in residence, will hold a forum about elections in Iraq and other Arab nations at 3 p.m. on Friday, May 14, at Walter Hall Room 145. It will be followed by a presentation on the crisis of depleted uranium.
"Arab countries are used to military coups and more revolutions than elections," said Dr. Al-Maliky. "The common practice is having one-man leadership. It's not because they believe in it, but that's what's common, what's happening around us. That's what makes Arab countries feel highly cautious about the Iraqi elections."
Iraq's parliamentary elections were held on March 7. Election Day was marked by insurgent attacks that killed 38 people, but voter turnout still reached 62 percent, according to a March 9 BBC article.
Dr. Al-Maliky left Iraq with his wife and sons in 2009, accepting an offer through the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund, which provides fellowships for endangered scholars to continue their studies in safer countries.
Dr. Al-Maliky was previously a faculty member at Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Since 2007, according to a New York Times article dated Oct. 19, 2009, bombings at the university have killed or maimed more than 335 students and staff members, and a 12-foot-high blast wall has been built around the campus. Many Iraqi academics, including Dr. Al-Maliky's former dean, have been kidnapped and killed.
Dr. Al-Maliky's areas of expertise include industrial wastewater treatment, air pollution and nuclear radiation. At Ohio University's GLC, he is leading a comprehensive study of depleted uranium in Iraq. This high-density metal is a byproduct of nuclear energy production and has been used in shielding and munitions in U.S. military actions since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Dr. Al-Maliky said.
"Iraqis are living, eating, and drinking all day from a very highly contaminated environment," he said. "They cannot just abandon their homes, and it is not just an Iraqi issue since it covers the Gulf, Iran, even India. So it's a very huge issue to study."
The contaminant has been linked to birth defects and cancer. Although occasionally a talking point of Iraqi officials, Dr. Al-Maliky said the problem is largely neglected, especially during elections.
"I call it a silent ghost. It can cover continents without being noticed, and it's still radioactive," he said. "We are trying to find what kind of measures that international experience has had to help Iraqis get rid of or at least control the bad consequences of this crisis."
His year in the U.S. is coming to an end, but Dr. Al-Maliky is making arrangements to extend his studies to better connect OHIO with Iraqi institutes, he says.
"One of my goals is to live in this environment and express what I know to my students and colleagues in Iraq," said Dr. Al-Maliky. "The intention of mine is to go as deep as I can. One academic year is not enough."


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Stumpedia was launched just over a year ago and its grown to be one of the most active social search engines on the market. I've been a fan and using it for a while now, especially since they've gone dofollow. The site as of today is showing stats of 13,452 links, 3,976 members and over 35,000 search terms in the database. If you haven't added your site to Stumpedia I highly suggest you go and register for an account, then search for your keyword. Once you're there you can add your listing to that search term and it will eventually show up in your backlink profile….assuming it doesn't get de-listed. Remember to only submit quality sites because you won't last long spamming this search engine with junk.
The site has been growing strong in the last few months and hopefully will continue on in this fashion. Like I mentioned before the links are dofollow so they will eventually show up in your backlink profile. You can also vote on your listings which will help with placement within the serps. I like what they have done with this platform and I wouldn't doubt if Google has been snaking ideas from them for the future of their search engine. It's going to be a tough battle combating serp spam, but eventually we'll have a cleaner search experience.


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If isn't already obvious, today is a good day if you're excited for the upcoming film The Thing, a prequel to John Carpenter's classic of the same name from 1982. Back in June, I was given the incredible opportunity travel to Toronto to watch the film while it was in production, and in addition to getting a first-hand look at the set design and special effects workshop, I also spoke with many members of the cast and crew, including stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton. To coincide with the release of my report, Universal has sent over the first images from the film, which you may have seen bits and pieces of in the rest of my coverage. Now it is my pleasure to share the full-size versions with you.
While you don't get to see any of the horrific mutations that will undoubtedly be present in the final film, fans of the Carpenter movie will immediately recognize the world that this film inhabits. Featuring both stills from the final film and shots from behind-the-scenes, these images give you a glimpse of what this film has to offer. You have freezing cold temperatures, heavy jackets, flamethrowers and an evil, replicating alien on the loose. What's not to like?
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How to import TOD to iMovie with TOD to iMovie Converter for Mac?
Some friends of mine tell me that they couldn't import JVC TOD files into iMovie for editing. It means iMovie doesn't work with TOD well. They are looking for an easy to import TOD into iMovie on Mac.
It's clear that we should convert TOD to DV, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MOV etc which compatible well by iMovie if somebody want to import TOD to iMovie. But before converting TOD to iMovie, you should consider that the converted videos must keep original quality and same size.
Mac TOD to iMovie Converter is perfect solution for you to import TOD to iMovie on Mac. It provides you a simple way to convert TOD to iMovie. Beside, with this TOD to iMovie Converter, converting TOD to other video formats like MP4, WMV, AVI, FLV etc is also allowed. With TOD to iMovie Converter, import TOD to iMovie is not a difficult problem any more.
After converting TOD to iMovie, you can easily import converted TOD video into iMovie to make your own home video, sharing these videos with friends or family is an not bad idea.
Now, follow the guide to convert TOD to iMovie on Mac.
Step 1. Add videos into this Mac TOD to iMovie Converter
To add video files, please click 'Add Video'button and browse to source video files or drag and drop the files in the 'Getting Started' area.
Step 2. Choose the output format and set the destination
After importing TOD video to this Mac TOD to iMovie Converter, you should choose a kind of video formats like "MPEG-4(.mp4)" as the output format so that you can import TOD to iMovie successfully, then select the location where you want to store converted video files.
Step 3. Start convert
Of couser, if you would like, there are some editig fnctions to allow you make you videos before convert TOD to iMovie, like add watermark, trim video, crop video. When all things are ready, just click "Convert" button to convert TOD to iMovie on Mac. After conversion, you can import TOD into iMovie on Mac.
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