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Bethany Fruen
Head of Communications
We might not always have job openings, but we're always on the look-out for motivated people to help us engage more people. If you share our EPIC values (Ethical, Practical, Innovative and Committed) and want to join our team please email email@example.com with your cv and cover letter.
Head of Communications
Since joining Jump fresh out of university back in 2013 I've seen many changes in the way we communicate – both as a company and more widely within the sustainability industry. The current shift of sustainability to the mainstream is accelerating at a pace and it's exciting to be part of this step change. The insight I get from individual participants in our client programmes is invaluable as it helps me figure out the best way to get our messages across.
My team and I use digital communications to recognise individual and team success, providing information in a fun, meaningful way that encourages people to take action. It's about creating a feedback loop where people see that their actions are having an impact and this is very powerful in creating positive change within an organisation.
Change Management
I am Chief Customer Officer of SumoSalad, former Chief Marketing Officer at RELX: Risk & Analytics and Founder of RAW Energy. Having worked in publishing for 20 years, living through the first phases of the digital revolution, I'm used to disruption, uncertainty and transformation. But through all of this, my belief in putting the customer at the heart of an organisation by leveraging data analytics has helped multiple brands innovate, evolve and transform.
I'm a huge advocate for promoting wellness in the workplace which is central to our Jump mission, and created the award-winning RBI Living Well programme. Through my RAW Energy platform, I support business and community leaders to be more resilient, more authentic and more focused on wellbeing. A regular contributor to marketing, customer experience and wellness forums, I've written three books including Success without Stress: How to Prevent Burnout and Build Resilience for Optimal Health & Performance.
Finance & Company Secretary
I helped Graham set up Jump in 2011 and it's great to be involved in such a dynamic, growing business where I can apply my specialism in corporate compliance to ensure we are meeting our statutory and financial obligations. I am an associate of the Association of International Accountants (for whom I also act as a quality advisor) and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators.
Alongside Jump, I'm a director of Cornhill Group, a corporate service business in London advising the boards of businesses in a wide variety of sectors including shipping, energy, media and aviation, and I'm also a director of a global energy trader.
PR & Marketing
Alongside Jump, I've been helping clients get their message across for over 30 years,
most recently as chief executive of Richmond & Towers, the longest
established public relations consultancy in the UK. A Chartered Marketer,
I'm increasingly helping clients frame their message around sustainability,
particularly in food, waste and energy. The Guardian once described me as being
the "evil genius who got us all hooked on avocados", a claim I don't deny.
Since helping Graham get Jump set up in 2011 I've enjoyed communicating about a
subject where there is a great willingness among companies and individuals to
do the right thing, but understanding what practical action to take isn't
always obvious.
Chief Executive
As CEO of Jump I lead a talented team of professionals committed to sustainability and wellness. For much of my 35 year career I've been immersed in environmental issues, particularly how to engage people in practical action. Previously I built Trees for Cities from start-up to a global, award-winning charity as its founding chief executive, and I loved developing new initiatives such as The Edible Playground and the Million Trees Campaign.
In 2011 I set up Jump as I felt organisations large and small want to motivate action amongst their people around wellbeing and the planet, and a professional team dedicated to this purpose would help them accelerate their journey. I'm also proud to chair the Reward Gateway Foundation which supports organisations and projects that address inequality and disadvantage, with the ultimate mission of making the world a better, fairer, safer and more equal place to work.


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WILMINGTON- Thanks to a new website and a new free wireless Internet zone, Wilmington is moving forward in its quest to become a digitally efficient municipality.
The town now has "the Wilmington connection," a Wi-Fi zone that provides online access within the downtown area. The town was able to create the zone through a grant from the Vermont Council on Rural Development's Digital Economy Project, which helps rural towns and businesses utilize online tools. "We felt Wi-Fi was necessary for people passing through, and for businesses that put an order in, and need to put it into a laptop," said Wilmington economic development consultant Gretchen Havreluk.
According to the VCRD, the downtown revitalization organization Wilmington Works will be supporting the ongoing costs of the Internet connection and maintaining the landing page, while businesses, including Bartleby's Books and Twin Valley Creations, will be donating some of their Internet bandwidth to boost the zone's connection.
Wilmington was also able to use the VCRD grant to institute a new website created by the Snelling Center for Government, tailored to the needs of town residents. According to Havreluk, the town will save approximately $300 a year using the new site, which she says is easier to use. "Having a website that is more usable for the community is important," said Havreluk. "Both Vermont Digital Economy and the Snelling Institute were astounded at the open rate of even the old website. It was one of the biggest in the state. The community uses this site a lot."
The new website is Wilmingtonvermont.us and features an attractive panoramic picture of the town, easy-to-navigate drop-down categories, and a box on the main page with "most requested" items that residents may be searching for.
To celebrate this latest achievement, the town will be hosting a party tonight at 5 at the town hall, featuring guest speakers from local businesses as well as town manager Scott Murphy and Rep. Ann Manwaring.
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WILMINGTON- Thanks to a new website and a new free wireless Internet zone, Wilmington is moving forward in its quest to become a digitally efficient municipality.


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Denver's Biff Gore one to watch on "The Voice"
In case you missed it, here's the YouTube video of Biff Gore's rendition of "A Change is Gonna Come" on the blind auditions round of NBC's "The Voice," season 6. Big man, big voice. Could he be the one? The local worship minister did Denver proud. Per a publicist: "Biff is the proud father of six kids. He most recently worked for an organ transplant company helping consult with donor and recipient families. He auditioned for The Voice to follow his true passion – music."
Gore is associated with Highline Community Church.
NBC's singing competition returned strong for season 6, meanwhile, with some 15.7 million viewers tuning in the two-hour opener. With Shakira, Usher, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton back in the big swivel chairs, it was easily the night's top-rated show. Blind auditions, part 2, continue Tuesday night.
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Art Since the Summer of '69 and Rhizome present: Look Inside — a performance by Nils Bech, Bendik Giske and Sergei Tcherepnin (Presented as part of Performa 11)
November 11 2011
Singer Nils Bech works with voice, movement, music, and text, conceiving performances that are often staged or erupt spontaneously in galleries, bars, or public spaces. Bech describes his work as the "creation of rituals" through which he transforms and elevates emotional circumstances from his own life. Look Inside is based on his upcoming album, which includes collaborations with Giske (saxophone and electronics) and Tcherepnin (piano and electronics). The songs chart a chronology of events that have transpired over the last six months for Bech. These include meeting and breaking up with his boyfriend, as well as figuring out how to continue doing what he always knew he loved: performing and making art. Nils Bech has performed at a long list of exhibitions of contemporary art, among them ILLUMInations at the 54th Venice Biennial, Venice; ICA, London; the Frieze Foundation, London; Performa 09, New York; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Gavin Brown Gallery, New York; The Dark Fair at the Swiss Institute, New York; New Jerseyy, Basel; and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm—turning these occasions into his medium. In recent years, Bech has performed at all the main venues and music festivals in his native Norway. In addition, he has worked closely with the artist Ida Ekblad, Swedish fashion house Acne, and Swiss artist Tobias Madison, among others. Bendik Giske has become a renowned voice at the Norwegian music and art scene. He holds a Masters degree in Jazz saxophone and a curiosity and passion for contemporary and pop music, and he has successfully collaborated with many of today's most prominent artists, including Pat Metheny and Arve Henriksen. On top of touring in more than fifteen countries and performing on five studio albums, Giske has performed at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Opera House in Damascus, The Great Escape in Brighton, and the Ultima Festival for Contemporary Music and Øya Festivalen in Oslo, and other venues. Sergei Tcherepnin is a Brooklyn-based artist who uses performance, composition, and installation to explore the materiality of sound and its physical and psychological effects on the listener. He has performed throughout NYC as an improviser with piano and modular synthesizer at venues such as the Stone, Roulette, Abrons Art Center, the Whitney Museum, the Tank, Douglas Street Music Collective, Paris London West Nile, and i-Beam Brooklyn. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as Transit, Da Capo Chamber Players, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, at spaces such as Merkin Hall, Cami Hall, Dia:Beacon, Chelsea Art Museum, Diapason Gallery, Louis Kahn's "Point Counterpoint II," National Youth Olympic Stadium (Tokyo), Moscow Composers Union Concert Hall, St. Petersburg Composers Union Concert Hall, and the Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College. His multi-channel performances and installations have been mounted at Audio Visual Arts, Societé (Berlin), Casey Kaplan Gallery, 47 Canal, and Recess Art.
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Official T-Mobile HTC Sensation 4.0 Update Coming May 16
The Android 4.0.3 update for the HTC Sensation 4G will be available on May 16 – just two days from now. This new information comes from the HTC Sensation 4G's support page on T-Mobile's website, following news from the first week of May which claimed the Android 4.0 update would be available "very soon."
Once Wednesday rolls around, you can manually check for the Android 4.0.3 update on the HTC Sensation 4G. From your home screen, press Menu > Settings > About Phone > Software Updates > Check. T-Mobile is recommending that you have at least a 50% charge on your device to make sure your battery does not deplete during the update process. Source : AndroidAndMe
To add to the good news, T-Mobile has updated the HTC Amaze 4G support page, stating its Android 4.0 update will be available in the "coming weeks." We're not sure how much longer Amaze 4G owners will actually have to wait for their Ice Cream Sandwich update, but we're hoping T-Mobile makes it available before the end of the month.
Are any of you excited for the official Android 4.0.3 update for the HTC Sensation 4G? Did any of you give up and buy a new phone or flash an unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich ROM to your Sensation? Via: Androinica
HTC Sensation and Amaze 4G update features
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
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- System bar enhancements to easily view recent apps.
- Re-sizeable widgets
- Lock screen actions including pull down notifications and adjust volume while device is locked.
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Ooi, Can-Seng (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Singapore has embarked on an ambitious program to make the city-state into a significant player in the global creative economy. The country is being re-branded as a creative city. The government agrees that in the creative economy, the environment must be conducive to experimentation and innovation. As a result, more social and political spaces have been opened up to spur Singapore's fledging creative economy and also to signal that the nation has become more transparent and tolerant. The authorities, however, still limit the freedom of public expression on political, ethnic and religious issues. The current state of ethnic-religious harmony and political status quo is to be preserved. Singapore remains a soft-authoritarian state. Can such a country then be branded as a place conducive to creativity and innovation? This paper shows how the Singaporean government: 1) introduces and implements a set of comprehensive policies to develop the creative economy; 2) brands and re-images the city-state as an exciting creative nation; 3) communicates the new creative vision and eventually engineers local acceptance of the creative economy; and 4) promotes the image of an open society and yet maintain tight social and political control. The re-making and re-imaging of Singapore are two sides of the same coin. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7774
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The ideological symbiosis of 'auteur' and 'craftsperson'Mathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter explores some of the central cultural tenets of career and film making among elite members of the Danish film industry, or what is less than elegantly and somewhat grammatically incorrectly referred to as 'the cultural of production and career' in the title of this chapter. The theoretical reasons for this formulation is to train focus on the ideational dimensions of culture in the Danish film industry, especially as refracted through reflections on work and career by film workers. In this sense the approach, though less inclusive and ambitious, resembles Caldwell's interest in 'indigenous interpretive frameworks in Production Culture.i The chapter also argues that production and career decisions and actions are inextricable intertwined. Sometimes the two are consciously and manifestly related to each other, in terms of deliberating the implications that working on a given film, with given persons, in a given manner, etc. will have on one's further work possibilities; or the reverse, how career considerations impact how films get made in terms of who works on them and what resources, skills, tastes, and perspectives are brought into and realized in a production. Sometimes the interrelation of these considerations remains latent. This chapter explores how certain cultural underpinnings support these mutually intertwined considerations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8446
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Moeran, Brian (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper draws on extensive fieldwork in a wide range of creative industries to argue that creativity itself is under-theorised, and should be considered as both enabled and inhibited by numerous constraints guiding the choices made by creative personnel during the course of their work. Six sets of constraints are outlined in the context of different forms of cultural production: material, temporal, spatial, social, representational and economic. It is argued that the performance of creative work is similar in part to Turner's concept of 'communitas', when an aura of individual creativity is passed to other participants. This kind of liminal space is also found in creative industry ritual events, which enable participants to communicate on an equal footing, and gain knowledge and connections that they can then use at work in their normal everyday lives. These in turn may have a long-term effect on cultural production, creativity and constraints. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7951
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Melchior, Marie Riegels (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In terms of dress and fashion Denmark is an example of a West European peripheral country within the international fashion system. Since the Middle Ages, new fashions have found their way to Denmark through the internationally oriented royal family, the purchases of well-traveled citizens, various international and national fashion reports, and the international purchases by local retailers. With varying speed new cuts, colors and styles have impressed themselves upon both the everyday and festive fashions of the Danish wardrobe. The same foreign influence applies to local fashion production. Design, craftsmanship and technology has through time been shaped under influences from abroad. But these international influences have not undermined the recurring idea of a particular Danish dress and fashion culture. In the middle of the 19th century the prevailing view was that the peasants' festive dress represented specific national dress. By the beginning of the 21st century discussions in the Danish fashion industry and industry policy concern Denmark's status as a fashion nation and Copenhagen as a possible new global fashion center. This is due to the growing Danish fashion culture, the textile and clothing industry's export success, and not least the fact that Denmark is a world-leading fur exporter. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7769
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Abstract: This essay examines embedded structural tensions in the organization of Japanese advertising production. Tensions arise from the fact that an advertising campaign, like many other creative products, is produced by motley crews of personnel from both within an agency contracted to carry out the campaign (an account team) and freelance professionals hired to assist in the creative work required (a production team). The structuring of advertising account teams in Japan, Europe and the USA depends on how accounts are distributed by advertising clients. The amount and kind of creativity displayed by photographers depends on advertising and the structure of fashion magazine publishing. Creativity itself thus depends on an unspoken set of institutional power relations that enables individuals to compete for recognition as being creative . URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7777
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Abstract: This paper is written in preparation for the 'Wardrobe Ethnographies' conference to be held in Herning in June 2011. It aims to provide a research framework that goes beyond a catalogue of existing literature, and to provide discussion points for the conference papers. Scholars from several different disciplines have studied wardrobes and dress practices through a range of ethnographic and related qualitative and quantitative methods. The aim of the conference and ensuing book is to bring together a series of papers which combine a discussion of research approaches and methods with an ethnographic account of research findings. We hope to make a dual argument; firstly as obbjects of study wardrobes and dress practices can generate critical and innovative insights both at micro and macro levels; , and secondly, that what I tentatively term wardrobe ethnographies are a feasible and realistic research approach that is attracting scholars from different disciplines and with different research interests. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8277
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Abstract: The question of ethics is about determining concepts of right and wrong human action. There are a number of ethical controversies in relation to the industries that dress the visible self, especially clothing, shoes, accessories and skincare industries. The most important are, firstly, representations of idealized gender and body images, secondly, fakes and counterfeits of branded goods, thirdly, working conditions, fourthly, environmental impact and sustainability, and fifthly, animal rights. In a strict philosophical sense, these issues cannot be said to be purely moral because they overlap with political, social, legal, economic and environmental concerns. But they are problems that have been cast in terms of right and wrong behaviour from the point of view of West European industries and consumers. Because both consumption and production of dress are highly globalized these debates in West Europe are not qualitatively different from those of other highly developed regions. Many ethical problems, campaigns and monitoring issues are distinctly transnational because both consumer markets and production systems are highly globalized. It is a paradox that while many consumers have a positive involvement with clothing in terms of emotional attachment and identification, they also tend to have a distinctively negative image of the industry behind. In fact, there is a widespread cynicism about the fashion industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7770
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Abstract: This paper describes and analyses preparations for the holding of an anthropologist potter's one-man show in a Japanese department store. Based on participant observation, it describes in detail the strategic planning of, and preparations for, the fieldworker's own pottery exhibition in a department store located in northern Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands and home to a long tradition of porcelain and stoneware production. The paper focuses on the main players in the ceramic art world; the social interaction underpinning an exhibition; the conflicting ideals of 'aesthetics', display and money (pricing); and the ways in which different sets of values, and evaluating processes, affected the reception of the author's work. It concludes by developing a theory of values in the light of recent writings in the field of cultural economics. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7942
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A Case of Restaurant RankingsChristensen, Bo T.; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper is concerned with evaluative practices within the culinary field. The focus is on the evaluative practices performed by two restaurant ranking systems, respectively the Michelin Red Guide system handled by the French tire manufacturer Michelin and the San Pellegrino 'World's 50 Best Restaurant' list organized by the English based Restaurant Magazine. Both ranking systems evaluate and rate restaurants (judging their food, service, physical setting and so forth) but in different ways through different practices and means, and with somewhat different results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8393
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Branding Singapore as a Revitalized DestinationOoi, Can-Seng (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Destination branding attempts to frame the place in a unique manner, so that it will stand out in the global tourism market. The assertion of uniqueness has become an institutionalized global practice for celebrating destination identity. The emphasis on uniqueness in the destination brand however overshadows another important but complementary strategy: the accreditation approach. This paper gives attention to the accreditation strategy while presenting the Singapore case. By looking at the newly inaugurated Formula One car races in Singapore and the soon-to-be-opened integrated resorts, this paper argues that the Singaporean authorities are actually making Singapore less unique and more similar to other places. This strategy is advantageous because these new attractions will draw the attention of the global masses and they will also accredit Singapore as vibrant, glamourous and trendy. So, this paper shows why – despite the attempt to be different – destination authorities are learning from each other and pursuing similar attractions for their destinations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7952
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Skov, Lise; Skjold, Else; Moeran, Brian; Larsen, Frederik; Csaba, Fabian F. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Not so many years ago, the fashion industry was called a 'sunset industry', and was deemed to have no future in the most developed countries. But recently, the New York Times has suggested that 'the sun never sets on the runway' (Wilson, 2008). Under this heading the article described the diffusion of fashion week organizations, with accompanying fashion shows, that are no longer limited to a handful of fashion capitals, but are spreading to small-country capitals and medium-sized cities all around the world. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7943
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Abstract: Fragrance and perfume connect with our most basic and primitive window on the world – our sense of smell. Animals use their sense of smell to find food, sense danger and mate. So, too, do human beings. Mothers and their babies bond through smell. Smell triggers memories buried long in our unconscious, probably because our sense of smell is linked directly to the limbic system, the oldest part of the brain, which is the seat of emotion and memory. Throughout the ages in Western civilization, fragrance has been used to communicate spirituality, passion, and both masculinity and femininity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7772
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Anthropology, Fieldwork and Organizational EthnographyMoeran, Brian (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper looks at the relationship between anthropology, fieldwork and what is referred to as 'organizational ethnography'. It starts by distinguishing between fieldwork, which is a method of conducting qualitative research, initially in the discipline of anthropology, and ethnography, which is the writing up of that research. The paper makes use of the author's fieldwork experiences in a Japanese advertising agency to illustrate a number of features that define fieldwork as a methodology. It argues that it is the shift from participant observation to observant participation that enables the fieldworker to move from front stage to back stage in the study of an organization, and thereby to gain information and knowledge that is otherwise available only to insiders. Fieldwork, Anthropology, Organizational Ethnography, Observant Participation URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7038
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Abstract: This paper builds insight into how globalization impacts cultural clusters, through a case study of Bollywood, the Indian film cluster in Mumbai. The paper's analysis of the recent growth and consolidation of Bollywood, as well as the cluster's development of a new film formula, illustrates that globalization does not necessarily entail westernization of culture. Instead, the paper suggests that early-mover advantages held by the world's core cultural clusters may be eroded by globalization, as it creates pipelines of information, talent and capital, allowing hitherto peripheral cultural clusters to access export markets and develop exportable products. Analyzing the role of the Indian diasporas for the export growth of Bollywood, the paper also offers a discussion of the difference between two different aspects of globalization: Global flows of people and global bridgeheads of people. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7796
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Bille, Trine (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Det er helt centralt i Richards Floridas teori om vækst, at kunne tiltrække den kreative klasse, men hvad er det egentlig som tiltrækker den kreative klasse? Formålet med denne artikel er at undersøge hvad det er for kultur- og fritidsaktiviteter den kreative klasse især benytter sig af. Det er dels interessant fra et kulturpolitisk og ikke mindst et regionalt udviklingspolitisk ståsted: hvad er det for kultur- og fritidsaktiviteter den kreative klasse bruger og tiltrækkes af? Dels er det interessant at undersøge, fordi det er punkt, hvor Florida ikke er særlig nuanceret. Den danske kulturvaneundersøgelse indeholder detaljerede data om den danske befolknings brug af de fleste kultur- og fritidstilbud. Ved at koble disse data med data for befolkningens arbejdsstilling opdelt på Richard Floridas klassificering, kan der opnås en helt ny viden om, hvad det er for kultur- og fritidstilbud den kreative klasse benytter, og dermed – må man antage – tiltrækkes af. Resultaterne, som er baseret på multivariate regressionsanalyser, viser nogle markante tendenser. Den kreative klasse er generelt mere aktive end serviceklassen på en række af de mere "populære" og "brede" kulturområder. Den kreative kerne adskiller sig for derimod ved at være mere kreative i deres fritid end andre. Herudover er de bl.a. mere interesseret i litteratur og viden, kulturarv og historie samt klassiske kulturformer som klassisk musik og teater. Endelig viser analysen, at der er en række kultur- og fritidsaktiviteter, hvor den kreative klasse ikke synes at adskille sig fra andre grupper. Det gælder først og fremmest en række hverdagskulturelle hjemlige aktiviteter, nogle "brede" kulturaktiviteter samt mere oplevelsesorienterede familieaktiviteter. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7203
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Onarheim, Balder; Christensen, Bo T. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper investigates the question of screening ideas in the 'fuzzy front end' of engineering design, examining the validity of employee voting schemes and related biases. After an employee-driven innovation project at {Company Name removed for review}, 99 ideas were to be screened for further development. Based on the concept of 'wisdom of the crowds', all ideas were individually rated by a broad selection of employees, and their choices of ideas and idea categories compared to those of a small team of senior marketers. The study also tested for two biases: visual complexity and endowment effect/ownership of ideas. The study shows that the crowd wisdom of employees significantly correlates with the preferences of the marketing team: overall, in top 12 selected ideas and in choice of idea categories. This match increases when including only the ratings of the most experienced employees. The experienced employees also proved to be less affected by visual complexity in the ideas presented. The endowment effect was potent in that every employee proved to be more likely to select their own ideas over others, but this effect disappeared when aggregating across the crowd of employees. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8255
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Images of Users and Products Shown During New Product Design Increase Users' Willingness-To-Use the InnovationChristensen, Bo T. (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Two studies tested whether introducing images to designers during the design process lead to more useful design solutions as evaluated by the end-users willingness-to-use the final design. It was hypothesized based on theories in cognitive science and design that there were at least two paths from images to usefulness. One path concerns analogically transferring within-domain properties to the design solution. The other path concerns mentally simulating end-user characteristics and preferences and inclusion of the user in the resulting design. Study 1 supported that random images led to increased outcome usefulness, and supported both hypothesized paths, by using withindomain products and end-user images as input. Study 2 showed that the image categories competed for attention, and that the within-domain product stimuli attracted the most attention and was considered the most inspirational to the designers. The practical use of the technique may lead to only marginally original products perhaps limiting its applicability to incremental innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7941
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Abstract: Analyser af industrialisme byggede indtil for tyve-tredive år siden på en narrativ figur – 'fra håndværk til industri'. I vores postindustrielle samfund hvor butikkerne ligger tæt, og der er langt til fabrikkerne, må denne analysefigur suppleres med et nyt slutpunkt, så den forløber 'fra håndværk til industri til globaliseret industrinetværk'. Der er opstået et nyt grundlag for en globaliseret industrikultur baseret på en voksende afstand mellem produktion og forbrug. I denne artikel analyseres den danske og europæiske pelsbranche ud fra denne tre-punktsfigur. Pels har aldrig været et skoleeksempel på industrialismens udviklingsparadigme. På grund af pelsbranchens særlige materielle udfordringer – hvert skind er unikt, og det kræver en stor viden at bearbejde det – har det været svært for branchen at følge med industriudviklingen og høste de stordriftsfordele, som andre brancher gjorde i efterkrigstiden. Den fortsatte næsten håndværksmæssige organisering satte branchen så meget udenfor modens og industriens netværk, at den ikke havde mange venner tilbage, da dyrerettighedsbevægelsen i 1980erne lancerede en række anti-pelskampagner. Under efterfølgende krise og omstrukturering er branchens organisation blevet ændret, således at pelsbeklædningsproduktion i dag er koncentreret i Kina, mens distribution og salg er knyttet til internationale designermærker. Denne del af branchens strategiske repositionering kan i høj grad tilskrives markedsføringsorganisationen Saga, der er finansieret af de nordiske pelsdyravlere og beliggende i Danmark. Denne artikels overordnede argumentation er, at denne omstrukturering sammen med den voksende interesse for etik og forbrugerpolitik har været den afgørende forudsætning for pelsens tilbagevenden i modebilledet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7794
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Abstract: Formålet med denne rapport er at afdække markedet for kommissionsgenbrugstøj i København. Gennem en række kvalitative interview med forretningsindehavere og observationer i kommissionsgenbrugsforretninger, forsøger vi at karakterisere kommissionsgenbrugstøjforretningerne, deres forhold til henholdsvis genbrugsforretninger og førstehånds tøjforretninger samt deres indbyrdes placeringer. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8280
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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the labor market for artists and in the creative industries more broadly: How important is a formal education for jobs in the creative industries? How are the careers of people with a creative education? Do they work in the creative industries or outside the creative industries? How is the profile of the jobs within the creative industries? Alper and Wassall (2006) present an overview of the economic, mainly empirical research concerning the labor market of artists. Different types of studies can be distinguished: theoretical models of artistic career processes, qualitative interviews and data, retrospective surveys and panel data based on surveys (either true panel studies or quasi panel studies). Some of the most extended studies on artists' earnings are done by Alper and Wassall on American census data, where data comes from peoples selfreporting in surveys, and peoples' occupation is based on time spent at work during a single reference week. This do obvious have some drawbacks. Register data from Statistics Denmark representing true panel data, makes it possible to overcome some of these problems and gain new knowledge on the career patterns of artists, their income, the importance of education, multiple jobholding etc. The register data used in this paper includes a lot of variables on socio-economy, income, employment etc. for the Danish population in the period 1994-2003. The paper includes a discussion and delimitation of artist and the creative industries, and presents new empirical results on the labor market for artists and in the creative industries URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7750
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RATIONALE: Inserting the gene for interleukin-2 into a person's neuroblastoma cells may make
the body build an immune response and kill tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of using interleukin-2 gene-modified
neuroblastoma cells in treating children who have refractory or recurrent neuroblastoma.
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the safety in children of recurrent neuroblastoma of two weekly
subcutaneous injections of autologous, or partially HLA-matched allogeneic, neuroblastoma
cells that have been modified by insertion of the interleukin-2 gene introduced by a
retroviral vector. II. Determine whether multiple histocompatibility-restricted or
unrestricted antitumor immune responses are induced by this treatment and the cell dose
required to produce these effects. III. Obtain preliminary data on the antitumor effects of
this regimen.
OUTLINE: Autologous or partially HLA-matched allogeneic neuroblastoma cells are transduced
with a human gene for interleukin-2 production. Patients receive subcutaneous injections of
the gene-modified cells on days 1 and 8, with the second injection containing 10 times more
cells than the first injection. After a 3-4 week rest, stable and responding patients may
receive additional weekly injections at the second dose. Cohorts of 3-6 patients will be
entered at increasing cell doses until the maximum tolerated dose is estimated. Multiple
injection sites may be used at the higher cell-dose levels. Patients are followed every week
for 6 weeks, every other week for 6 weeks, and monthly for 1 year. Additional visits may be
required as clinically indicated.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 12 patients each will be entered into the autologous and
the partially HLA-matched allogeneic tumor cell treatment groups. Accrual is expected to
require 4 years for the autologous tumor cell group and 2 years for the partially
HLA-matched allogenic tumor cell group.
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven high risk neuroblastoma at the completion
of planned primary therapy No rapidly progressing disease Allogeneic transduced cell line
available Demonstrated production of at least 150 picograms of interleukin-2 per 10 to the
6th cells per day
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Under 21 at diagnosis Performance status: ECOG 0-2 Life
expectancy: At least 8 weeks Hematopoietic: (unless marrow replaced by tumor) Absolute
neutrophil count greater than 500/mm3 Platelet count greater than 50,000/mm3 Hepatic:
Bilirubin less than 1.5 mg/dL AST no greater than 2 times normal PT normal Renal:
Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL OR Creatinine clearance greater than 80 mL/min Urinalysis
normal Metabolic: Electrolytes (including calcium, phosphate) normal Glucose normal Weight
greater than 10th percentile for age Albumin greater than 3 g/dL Other: No active
infection HIV negative Not pregnant or nursing
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: See Disease Characteristics Recovered from prior chemotherapy No
concurrent antibiotics except prophylactic trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole No concurrent
drugs other than analgesics
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Bakery, liquor store, much more slated to open in The Source this year
Details about The Source, a food emporium slated to open in the River North neighborhood in June, are beginning to emerge.
Steve Scott, a baker whose moist, crusty, and addictive French breads have captivated Boulderites, is leaving the college town for Denver, where he will open Babette's, a bakery in The Source. Babette's, which will sell breads, brioche, croissants and a handful of sandwiches, will probably be the most open-to-the-public bakery Denver has ever seen – Scott envisions patrons standing just feet from the bakers and their machines.
"I want this to feel like we are baking for that one single person, like it's someone's home," said Scott, a former professional cyclist who has been baking for 17 years. "My philosophy is you need to see the baker baking. I view this as building community around the bakery."
Scott also hopes to hire a pastry chef, and build a pastry program around the chef.
Also coming to The Source:
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Here is my Dalai Lama, I am working with sending reports from a Unix back-end
to a Portal for publishing. The portal people tell me that I can specify
my font scaling, margins and page layout by using an XML. Needless to say,
they don't know how, but they know it can be done. I understand the fundamentals
of xml but I am still missing the boat. I understand there is a style sheet
(DTD) but, I haven't seen any examples of people defining formatting. Does
anyone have any information on XML tags and how formatting works?


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children born after being exposed to the flu during pregnancy may have a nearly four-fold higher risk of later developing bipolar disorder, according to a small new study.
The senior researcher said the results can't prove that a mother's bout of flu while pregnant causes her child to develop the mental disorder, but the association does suggest that some cases might be prevented.
"The idea is that if influenza is playing a causal role - and we can't say that from one study - there is a vaccine," Dr. Alan Brown, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University in New York, told Reuters Health.
"It's affordable and also I would argue that there are other things that pregnant women could do. For example, hand washing and staying away from people with the flu," Brown said.
Previous studies had already established a link between a mother's flu infection while pregnant and her child's increased risk of developing schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that often comes with hallucinations, delusions and paranoia.
Bipolar disorder shares some traits of schizophrenia, but also differs because it includes alternate cycles of mania and depression - although one type of bipolar diagnosis involves mania alone.
Past research into the link between people's risk of bipolar disorder and their mother's flu has produced mixed results, Brown and his colleagues write in JAMA Psychiatry.
For the new study, Brown's group looked for a connection between flu exposure and children's bipolar diagnoses in data from a study that involved soon-to-be mothers living in Alameda County, California, between 1959 and 1966.
Using the mothers' medical records and follow up information about their children, the researchers had information on 92 kids who were exposed to the flu while in the womb, and on 722 who were not.
Of the children exposed to the flu, about 9 percent were later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That compared to about 3 percent of the kids who were not exposed.
"What we found is that (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) share at least this in common. Maternal influenza is related to bipolar disorder," Brown said.
He added, however, that they did not see an association between bipolar disorder and a mother's common cold or other upper respiratory infections.
And until more studies are done, Brown said he and his colleagues can only guess at what is behind the link between flu and bipolar disorder.
"We think there is an inflammation going on in the fetus due to this infection and it can alter key aspects of brain development and function," Brown said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/11YJ3oD JAMA Psychiatry, online May 8, 2013.


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There was some tough competition for Miss USA 2014, but it was Nia Sanchez, Miss Nevada, who walked away wearing the crown.
The 24-year-old is gorgeous, obviously, but she's more than just a pretty face. Here are five things you need to know about the newly crowned Miss USA.
1. She Didn't Have a Picture Perfect Upbringing: Before the California-born beauty was vying for a tiara, she and her family were looking for a place to live. When she was just six years old, Sanchez and her mother stayed in a women's shelter for two months before moving in with a relative. "It was great because they provided day care for us while she was out there trying to save up," the beauty queen said in an interview with Las Vegas Weekly. Now, she volunteers with Shade Tree, a women's shelter in Las Vegas.
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NEWS: Miss Nevada USA crowned Miss USA 2014
2. She Can Hold Her Own in a Fight: Sanchez holds a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo. "I started training when I was 8, and I started teaching when I was 12, and I was a certified instructor when I was 15," she said. "It's a good workout. It's a full body workout. I never get more tired working out than when I'm at the studio."
3. She's A Real Life Disney Princess: Yes, seriously. Sanchez has worked as a variety of face characters at Hong Kong Disney, including Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Belle and Snow White.
PHOTOS: More stars' Disney princess style
4. She's Got Big Plans: Sanchez told Las Vegas Weekly she hopes to continue "modeling while I'm young and can enjoy it," but she also wants to focus on family life in the future. "...To be honest, I really see myself being a mom," she said. "I don't know if that sounds silly, but I love children, and I just want to be a good wife and a mom and really be able to raise my children. And I can see myself doing something off to the side like working at a day care or teaching martial arts at a taekwondo studio cause I've done that most of my life."
5. She's Taken: Sorry, fellas, Nia's got a man. She frequently Instagrams pics with her boyfriend, actor Daniel Booko.


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I'm a dev who inherited a mostly functioning box doing most of what I need. Except for the machine name is still that of the old dev (we name it "{username}-dt" or "{username}-lt" for ease of id on the network) and I want to rename it from old-username to my-username.
Naturally this will affect SQL as well, so I thought I would ask for more experienced advice on what I need to do before I rename my machine. I know there are some "sp_" sprocs to be run, but when do I run them? Do I need to restart my box before or after, and do I need a certain level of privilege? Will it destroy any existing windows-based auth on the box (those accounts are all AD accounts anyways)?


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Christmas in August? Sort of.
Note: M.I.Y.O. Monday stands for Make It Your Own Monday, a question thrown out to DCF readers every Monday to jumpstart the week with lively interaction. I also welcome questions and suggestions for future MIYO Mondays. Email me.
I'll be holding one last event later this year and, without giving away too many details just yet, I'd like to ask for your help in planning it. It's an event patterned closely after the 6th Anniversary Party of Dessert Comes First held this past April — but with a twist. I get bored easily and thus, my events can never be clones of one another.
For those who've been reading Dessert Comes First for a considerable amount of time, you know how much I champion the home baker and our local food purveyors. I've mentioned many times how strongly I believe that the best desserts and the highest quality food comes from these people. The ones I've featured on DCF have become my friends and I continue to track their rising stars, ever proud of their success.
Having said that, I'm always on the lookout for new home bakers, new food purveyors — people who put passion and originality into what they offer.
So, to make my upcoming food event more representative of Manila's dynamic food scene, tell me DCF readers:
Is there a home baker or food purveyor I should be checking out?
Whose desserts have you been enjoying? Whose products have you been buying and eating? Is it that baker I've heard about who makes maple cupcakes frosted with maple icing topped with caramelized bacon bits? Or what about that man who stuffs an entire liempo with lemongrass and whole garlic heads and roasts it a la Cebu-lechon style? If you're eating it, I want to know about it, both the sweet and savory stuff. We eat and share here on Dessert Comes First.
If there's someone you think should be at my next event, please tell me about them in the Comments form below. The more detailed you are, the more helpful it'll be for me. Please include their names and contact information and if available, their website or fan page. And if you have a home-based food business and want to be part of my next event, then please tell me about yourself. I can't guarantee anything but I'm truly grateful for your help, DCF readers. Thanks very much!


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Cosmos Books Ltd., one of the largest publishing organizations in Hong Kong, was established in 1976. The company primarily published Chinese books of popular culture and humanities, as well as books about science, economy, environment etc. With more than 100 books newly published every year, the company plays a prominent role in the publishing industry of Hong Kong.
The company has long valued the work of local writers and has been publishing a quantity of well-known pieces for over 40 years. Books written by famous authors, such as Yi Shu, Lilian Lee, Chua Lam and Mary Jean Reimer have been well received by readers. Moreover, it devotes a great effort to nurture young writers. By publishing quite a number of books with themes such as contemporary Chinese thinking, history and culture, Cosmos Books Ltd. influences the Chinese reading world greatly and wins huge reputation for the published work.


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I'm thinking about limiting the rights of users who choose insecure passwords (insecurity of a password being determined by length, how many types of characters (upper/lower case, numbers, symbols, etc.) are used, and whether it can be located in a rainbow table) to limit how much damage their account can do if compromised.
I don't have an application for this idea yet, but say I'm writing a forum or something: Users who use 1234 as a password might have to fill out a captcha before posting, or be subject to rigorous anti-spam measures such as timeouts or Bayesian filters rejecting their content. If this forum is very hierarchical, allowing for "promotion" to moderators or whatever by some means, this would either stop them from gaining privileges at all or telling them they have privileges, but not letting them exercise them without a change to a more secure password.
Of course this couldn't be the only measure of security, but it might go well next to otherwise good security practices.
What do you think? Is this just overdoing it, stealing focus away from more important security practices, or is it a good way to limit risk and encourage users to use safer passwords (and hopefully convince people you are using good security practices)?


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Hi all,
DarkRoast here.
It's been a long time since I last posted on a forum like this.
I started learning programming at 13 (except for a bit of fooling around with quick basic before that), and my main resource at the time were the Sams Teach Yourself books (they're pretty bad), and the good ol' hackers.com (that place was freaking awesome).
I consider myself pretty good at programming. However, I know about different languages/computing concepts but not enough of any to make me an expert.
For the first time now, I am attempting to apply my programming knowledge to see if I can earn a buck or two .
Java happens to be my favourite. My Christmas wish was for Apple to suddenly announce a switch over to java from objective-c. Alas, Santa's letting me down, and right now, my main preoccupation is wrapping my head around that. But I come back to java every chance I get.


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Uh-huh, two loaves of made-from-scratch multi-grain bread AND some oven-roasted tomatoes. The oven-roasted tomatoes are my specialty, except that I kind of burn them usually, but the bread is quite the accomplishment. Y'all, my bread has been RISING lately. RISING!!!
It was only yesterday that I took this awesome workshop on soap-making from The Kitchen Girls over at Barefoot Herbs Barefoot Kids, and I am already all about the soap-making. I'm all, "I must make soap. I can't BELIEVE I don't already make my own soap." As if it's a character flaw or something, which it kind of is.
The best thing about the workshop was that The Kitchen Girls had these little soap-making kits for sale, with all the stuff you need for a nice big batch--all your oils, already mixed, your little container of lye, some essential oil in its own little container, a spatula, some rubber gloves, and some safety goggles. I bought another buck's worth of dried spearmint from Barefoot Herbs, requested
from the library, and I am in business.
from the library, and I am in business.
Except, of course, that I need a crock pot and an immersion blender. Well, that's what Goodwill is for, right?
And at Goodwill this afternoon, that's where I committed a crime against morality.
It wasn't the crock pot--I found a little one that I can maybe use for small batches of soap, the idea of which I like better than the making of one big batch, anyway--and it wasn't the immersion blender, which I'm still searching for. It was the woman with a big armful of T-shirts, so big that when she wanted to flip through another rack of clothes, she had to lay her big stack of T-shirts on a trolley behind her. I come walking past, minding my own business, and then, on the very top of her stack of T-shirts, I see it.
An Angel T-shirt. With the whole cast. Have I mentioned that I'm a big fangeek?
I thought for a second, I started to walk away, and then, quick as lightening, I SNATCHED this woman's T-shirt from the top of her pile and kept walking. And then, my friends, I bought that shirt.
Am I sorry?


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By Johan Van Dongen and Joel Savage
On his campaign trail on February 23, 2016, Donald Trump promised, to be honest with everything and also to the world, if he wins the elections as the next president of the United States of America.
It is often easier said than done Mr Trump, but being highly educated and one of the most respected leaders in the United States of America, I am using my position as a scientist, to give you a fraction of my forty-two years research, proving that Aids, Ebola, Lassa fever etc, were medical crimes against humanity, by your country but America covered up the medical crimes with impunity.
You know very well that most of the past and present American leaders don't speak the truth. That means they are simply liars. To support this statement, you recently showed your honesty by calling George Bush a liar. He lied to invade Iraq when Saddam Hussein hasn't any weapons of mass destruction in his possession. This is the link to your accusation: https://goo.gl/guLZF8.
It was because of the lies George Bush made, a 'flying saucer shoe,' nearly took off his head in Iraq, during a press conference on December 14, 2008. Another biggest lies in the presidential history of America, came from former president Bill Clinton. He had carnal knowledge with a lady called Monica Lewinsky. After lying and swearing, Clinton admitted to lying and apologized to Americans.
At the end of this article are some few questions, which will be a challenge to you, if truly, you will live by your word to be transparent to the world, including your country America.
"The horrific Aids pandemic tremendously has generated scientific controversies within and outside the scientific establishment. Only a minority of scientists, like Johan van Dongen, and other engaged people have access to inside information concerning (bio-warfare) Aids and Ebola research.
At the beginning of Microsurgeon Dongen's career, he worked on multiple an organ transplantation; and carried out thousands of experimental organ transplantation. In order to deal with organ rejection, he administered radiation and sera for diminishing the immunity of the organ receiver. Besides that he also administered uncountable agents to recipients of organs in order to trigger, diminish or completely wipe out the immune capacity which can be compared to Aids.
During his university and hospital appointments in the early seventies, and later undercover in the pharmaceutical industry, he discovered at that time that animals don't die because of rejection of the transplanted organ but because of multiple infections which can be compared with human Aids victims. In this way, Johan van Dongen noticed that Aids can be induced by radiation, aflatoxins, Immuran/prednisolone combination, anti-lymphocyte sera and many other bio-warfare agents.
Dormant HIV virus
As head of the Department of Experimental Microsurgery, and involved in all transplantation and immunological experiments, which enabled him involved in many health controversies, regarding this subject, especially the connection of his work and the polemic concerning the transmission of HIV in many ways, he discovered in the extensive scientific literature the role of an obligatory co-factor that trans-activates the "Dormant" virus HIV in specific human cells.
This obligatory co-factor which trans-activates the "Dormant" virus in specific human cells, is deliberately introduced into mostly black-skinned people or Africans, governed by massive environmental factors, as indicated in our book: "Aids and Ebola the greatest crime in medical history against mankind," in order to depopulate Africa.
Therefore I will always like to enlighten readers about the real origin of Aids and the true nature of famous international researchers as Robert Gallo. As far as Gallo is concerned, Ricardo Veronesi, professor of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sao Paulo, was personally informed about the true nature of Gallo's research long before this controversy turned into a public scandal and as a consequence thousands of scientific Aids dissidents.
It was no less than Francoise Barré-Sinoussi, of the French Pasteur Institute who revealed the criminal intention of Gallo. Not only she became an Aids dissident but also the discoverer of the HIV virus, Luc Montagnier disputed Gallo, the fake discoverer of the HIV virus.
In their opinion, the major bursts in the common scientific approach lie in its ignoring that the pathogenicity of the HIV, is indeed governed by multiple deliberate environmental factors and one of these determinant factors is the PCR test (Polymerase Chain Reaction Test).
Polymerase Chain Reaction Test
This test is a technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence. Especially the diagnosis of hereditary diseases; the identification of genetic fingerprints, used in forensic sciences and paternity testing; and the detection and diagnosis of infectious diseases, the PCR test can be used to investigate the connection of diseases to the specific black race. Moreover, PCR can be extensively modified to perform a wide array of genetic manipulations not only in humans but also from microorganisms which cause Aids and Ebola.
Using and extrapolation of these kinds of techniques we can conclude that almost all people who have HIV in their bodies, were purposely infected with this virus which can lead to Aids. Bio-warfare scientists are able to make black-skinned people artificially susceptible for HIV or Ebola by using controllable diseases as a cover-up.
Most of the bio-warfare research using viruses which cause Aids and Ebola is predominantly carried out in Germany and Japan until 1945 and since then mainly in the USA and France, using Nazi and Japanese (military) scientific war criminals.
The Revealing Voices of Aids/HIV Theory Dissidents
The official scientific origin of the diverse HIV-strain has been placed somewhere between 1938 and 1948 when scientist T.F. Smith et al published an article in the authoritative medical journal Nature about this period in 1988 named: "The phylogenetic history of immunodeficiency virus".
He wasn't the only scientists who revealed the true nature of the HIV virus. Smith's efforts to reveal the real origin of HIV was followed, to name a few, by Sharp et al with his article: "Understanding the origins of Aids viruses", also in Nature, followed by Meyers et all with: "The phylogenetic analysis of the HIVs". But the most important article is described in the top of the bill of medical journals the Lancet by scientist L.A. Evans et al, who discovered the "Simultaneous isolation of HIV-1 and HIV-2 from an Aids patient".
All these mentioned scientist agreed that the distribution of the HIV virus was an intentional action. Their findings made it very conceivable that this distribution was intentional, because sometimes both the new viruses HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively HTLV-IV, are existing in one and the same person according to Evans.
And because his publication was checked by the editing and scientific boards of the Lancet, the outcome of his investigation was true. This counts also for thousands of publications in other medical journals as described in our book "Aids and Ebola the greatest crime in medical history against mankind"
Mr. Trump, during my research I discovered that in general, it is harder for blacks to get Aids than whites, but blacks have been made susceptible for a broad spectrum of brand new diseases caused by Germans, partly under the auspices of the South African Apartheid regime, and after the war under guidance of the U.S.A.
Nowadays we now know that monkeys do not get Aids when infected with the human Aids virus. The same goes for tuberculosis until the moment that monkeys in a laboratory made receptive. Therefore black-skinned people are under no circumstances contaminated with Aids by monkeys with or without eating them. That is so to speak a criminal scientific fairy tale, the World Health Organizations, and some health institutions want the world to believe. "Aids didn't come from monkeys brought from the Philippines," I repeat.
Questions to Mr. Donald Trump
1. Sir, according to your statement, you will be honest in everything to the Americans and the entire world. Please, can you explain why America did protected Nazi war criminals?
2. Can you explain why among other countries, America made man-made viruses such as Aids and Ebola?
Hopefully, we have freedom of speech on 'Stage 32,' one of the new progressing social platforms because I (Professor Johan Van Dongen) have been expelled from all social media by the NSA and the Dutch government because of his whistleblowing work.
Mr. Trump, I will be very glad, if you can answer just these two questions, before becoming the next president of the United States of America. The answers to these questions are necessary because Obama did promise America and the world, to serve in truth and honesty, but all that we've witnessed is mostly hollow words and extending wars remain…."


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Rufus necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 176 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Streetpark, llc, is a NYC based company about to launch a website that will fundamentally change the way New Yorkers use cars. Our application is in the last stages of development with an anticipated launch date of 11/25. The majority of our users will likely be affluent, 25-49 year old people who live in and around NYC.
We are targeting people who have cars (or people who drive) in and around NYC. Initially we will concentrate on three neighborhoods--Upper West, Park Slope (Bklyn), and a downtown neighborhood. We hope to expand to more of the city by the end of next year, and have plans to launch in other cities as well. We expect most of our users to be fairly web savvy people, many of whom use social networking sites and other internet resources regularly. Many, if not most, will also likely be smart phone users (which our site is designed to take advantage of).
The website address--Streetparknyc.com--should be prominently featured, and the logo should reflect the urban nature of the service (ideally it will not be specific to NYC, although it should work well for a company that at launch will offer its services only in NYC). The service will be exclusively used by people who drive cars in the city, so that should be reflected in the design. There does not necessarily need to be a realistic representation of a car, but a logo that reflects the difficulty of parking in the city and the fact that our service will make this task much easier is desirable. We are offering a completely novel service and the logo might therefore reflect the innovative, original nature of our service.
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Hello and Happy New Year, Interneters!
It feels late to be saying that 3 weeks into the year, but I've been quiet for the last little while. Near the end of last year I was experiencing some fatigue and minor pain in my drawing hand, so at my doctor's behest I took it easy over the holidays until it started feeling better. And now that I am feeling better, let the drawing ensue!
In other news, here are a bunch of things that Wolfmans like:
Safari Shirts
Handmade Sketchbooks
I know what your thinking--you have a lot in common with wolfmans. Well, you should probably go to the doctor like I did. If you have pain in your drawing hand, you may be a wolfman. (Luckily, my diagnosis was a false positive.)
Or you may have been thinking, "That is no sketchbook, sir! That is the box of a popular breakfast cereal!" Well, you'd only be half right, friend, for indeed it is both. My officemate and trained botanical professional, Anthony Zierhut showed me a totally easy method of making sketchbooks a couple of weeks ago, and I'm hooked.
You can try it too--he posted the easy to follow instructions RIGHT HERE IN PUBLIC for anyone to see. What a nice guy, right? He even gave me materials to make my first book (though I cannot guarantee he'll do the same for you).
Now, if you're thinking to yourself, "I can't make a nifty sketchbook like that; I'm allergic to cereal boxes," it turns out that you can make sketchbooks out of all kinds of stuff. I didn't have any bookbinding supplies at home, so I improvised with found materials for my next few books.
For the covers, I used the thick pages from a discarded children's board book.
The spine tape is duct tape instead of fancy binding tape.
I used regular sewing thread and a cheap candle instead of bookbinding thread and beeswax.
The paper is just regular cheap color printer paper--perfect for no-fuss sketchery.
The glue that binds it all together is regular white glue, like Elmer's.
To me, it's pretty cool that I could make a book out of stuff I found lying around our house. Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you
Anyway, I hope this year is fun and productive for all. Be good, and I hope to be back with more drawings soon!


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The CHRY04/PC-POD(2) from Precision Interface Electronics provides direct connection for an iPod and allows control of the iPod from BOTH the factory radio and the iPod clickwheel. The CHRY04/PC-POD(2) is designed for Chrysler's CAN-Bus equipped vehicles, and is only compatible with radios that have the 3-digit code RAK, RAQ, and REC on the front face of the radio. Unlike many other interfaces on the market, PIE's "POD2" line of interfaces retains the iPod screen and controls as well as basic operation through the CD Changer or steering wheel controls of the OEM radio (i.e. play/pause, track up/down, fast forward/rewind). One simple connection provides digital quality iPod sound and charges your iPod at the same time. NOTE: The CHRY04/PC-POD(2) does not display text from the iPod on the face of the radio.
The CHRY04/PC-POD(2) plugs directly into the 22-pin and 10-pin connectors on the back of the radio. Using the CHRY04/PC-POD(2) also retains the factory Satellite radio tuner if equipped.Compatible with:
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Police offer reward in pawn shop gun theft
Officials with the Siloam Springs police said a $1,000 reward is being offered for any information regarding the burglary that took place at M&M Pawn Shop Tuesday.
Police say someone broke into M&M Pawn Shop in Siloam Springs, and the suspect(s) stole approximately 35 guns including handguns, shotguns and rifles.
"It's a concern, and it should be for everyone in this town," David Clark said.
According to the police report, the burglar broke one of the windows at the pawn shop and removed the protective metal gate.
"I'm not aware of the guns that got stolen, but you're talking several thousand dollars easily," Ronnie Scott said.
He's the district manager of Big Brothers Pawn. They have four stores in Northwest Arkansas, and one of them is just across the street from M&M Pawn Shop.
"If any of those guns from across the street come over here, that person will get caught," Scott said.
That's because pawn shops are required to keep a log of the guns and all the serial numbers. Scott said they've never been robbed or burglarized, possibly because they have a state-of-the-art security system.
"You could break the glass, but you've have a hard time getting through the bars, and the alarm is going to sound when the glass breaks, which is going to alert the local police, and they'll be here," Scott said.
40/29 News spoke with one of the M&M Pawn Shop workers, but she did not want to talk about the burglary and would not tell us how much the guns were worth.
Anyone with information should call Siloam Springs police.


text: From Andy Dehart, Director of Biological Programs in Washington, DC If you are a shark fan like me, you probably already know that Discovery Channel's SHARK WEEK is just around the corner! Now that I have the great privilege of having two wonderfully rewarding jobs with the National Aquarium and the Discovery Channel, Shark Week is becoming a year round affair for me. I have worked for the National Aquarium in numerous capacities - from selling tickets in admissions to my current role at our newly renovated DC venue - for nearly 17 years. Sharks have always been my passion. For me it started when I was only five years old when I got to see a 6 foot long Caribbean reef shark while snorkeling with my father in the Florida Keys. Pardon the pun, but I was hooked and have followed the dream of working with sharks ever since. Throughout my career I have dabbled in media and when the unfortunate and extremely rare cases of mistaken identity rolled around and a bather or surfer was attacked by a shark, I have been called upon by the media to answer questions about shark attacks. In 2003 I got the chance to work on my first Shark Week show, Sharks Under Glass, about sharks in public aquariums. Last year I was approached by Discovery Channel to sign on as their Shark Advisor, which meant reviewing show and online content, contributing to online content and doing television and print interviews. For me the Discovery role is a way for me to help get the word out that sharks need our help to survive. I believe that the generation that has grown up watching Shark Week over the past 22 years is more informed and cares more about sharks than the generation raised on Jaws. Ultimately many people will always have an innate fear of sharks, even though there are less than 100 attacks worldwide every year with roughly five per year being fatal. The reality, however, is that sharks have more of a reason to fear humans, then we do to fear them. I want everyone to love sharks like I do, or at least respect them enough to know that they are not mindless eating machines after human prey. Sharks are critical to the health of the world's oceans. Some species have decreased by nearly 90% in just the last 20 years. We have to act now to save them. Stay tuned to this blog as I hope to share some of the magical moments I have had with sharks, spread conservation messages, and also share some of the stories of our upcoming show Shark After Dark. Andy will be featured in two Shark Week shows this year: Day of the Shark 2, premiering Monday, August 3 at 10PM and Shark After Dark, premiering Thursday, August 6 at 9PM. In addition to being featured in these shows, Andy will also be blogging live throughout the week. For a full schedule of programs and more about the blogging, visit discovery.com/sharkweek. Tags: discovery-channel, shark-advisor, shark-after-dark, shark-conservation, shark-week Categories: Animals, Behind-The-Scenes Previous Post Next Post


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Wisconsin gives Andersen new deal, raise
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Coach Gary Andersen has a new deal at Wisconsin with about a 15 percent raise.
The university's Board of Regents approved the five-year package for Andersen on Monday. He'll make $2.2 million with annual $100,000 raises.
Wisconsin went 9-4 in 2013 in Andersen's first year after arriving from Utah State. Athletic director Barry Alvarez said in a statement that he began considering a raise toward the end last season.
Andersen was approached by the Cleveland Browns about their head-coaching position in February. Alvarez says that Andersen "did not act directly or even imply that his salary should be increased, but that only re-affirmed" Alvarez's thoughts on a raise.
Andersen's two coordinators did not get raises but were approved for two-year agreements. Their salaries were reported at $480,000 last year.


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New Year's Goals, not New Year's Resolutions
Many people use the New Year as a time when they promise themselves to behave differently. They plan to be healthier, eat less, workout more and so on.
My family and I have for several years had a similar tradition. We find a restaurant that is open early on New Year's day (no small feat) and sit down with a little leather-bound book I write in. In that book we record our New Year's goals – not resolutions. It's a small change in terminology, but for us, it's a larger change in meaning. Goals are bounded, and have a set end-time. But most importantly, goals are measurable. In fact, before we make the new goals, we review each other's last goals and put a checkmark by the ones we accomplished.
Each member of our family has goals. The goals are completely up to the person, and fall in areas like spiritual, physical, educational and professional. They are things like "read this many books per month" or "work out at a minimum of three times per week." We also have family goals, for things we want to accomplish together, such as "volunteer at a soup kitchen twice this year". Each month, we sit down and review the goals with each other to see where we are in accomplishing them. The next year, if someone still has that goal, it becomes a lifestyle – we don't write that one down any more, it's just part of what we do. We write down new goals each year.
What has this got to do with databases? Well, I think there are some concepts you can glean from this process that might help you professionally. If you want to progress in your career, you'll need a plan to get there, and that plan will probably involve educating yourself more, working on more challenging database projects and so on. Here are a few tips you can pull from our process that might be useful in making your own professional goals:
- Only have a few. If you write down five hundred things to do this year, odds are you'll fail. Keep it to five or ten overall goals.
- Make the goals challenging but achievable.
- Make the goals measurable. Not just vague promises to yourself – the goal should be so specific that anyone could say that you accomplished them or not.
- Have someone keep you accountable. That means you should write down your goals and show them to someone you trust. Each month that person should hold you to your own goals – and it should be someone that can shame you into doing them.
Following these simple tips can help you in a real way this year. Take the time to plan your career, make some goals that will get you there, and hit those goals.


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One reason is the drop in initial capital costs. Recently, I saw a player on Google Shopping for roughly €185. That is cheaper than two tickets to a first-class rock concert, and can offer much more than a few hours of entertainment. The low-cost player offers a chance to increase business revenue.
Wow, increase revenue for just €185? Before you sign up, keep in mind there is a reason these digital signage installations are inexpensive.
Unlike digital signage players that are PC-based (x86 process, storage, etc.), these inexpensive players are appliance-based and gather content by streaming data across a network. With simple content layouts, this is not a problem. However, when digital signage content is streamed over a wireless network, data costs can creep up if you're not careful.
Suppose a company wanted to install three 3G media players at a price point of €185 on their business network. Let's say that the company wanted Web pages, videos, and photos as part of their signage content. A quick estimate of data costs can be calculated using a data calculator*.
Let's say the three players are on a total of 12 hours in a given day. During this time, these three players stream five Web pages, 60 minutes of video, and 50 photos (it can be assumed that RSS feeds, Twitter feeds, and text boxes consume negligible data). For all three players, total data usage would be 18GB/month (6GB per player).
This statistic is important for one critical reason: the cost of data overages. Data rates for businesses using a WiFi network can costs upwards of €75 per 10GB; however, data overages can cost up to €15 per 1GB overage. That being said, the overages themselves would cost €120 per month. This brings the total month data charges to €185. Multiplying this number for the year brings the total to more than €2220 for the three players. Suddenly, those "cheap" players become more expensive.
By adding the additional costs of the players, the total cost per installation of digital signage for the first year is equal to €2750. The other item to take note of is that these data charges do not fluctuate too greatly. Therefore, it can be inferred that a three-player signage installation can cost upwards of €7500 for three years of operation. There are other players that do not use stream decoding; however, they are more expensive initially.
If your company cannot afford to be surprised with operational costs that continue to add up over time, go with a one-time investment digital signage system like iCOMPEL. You just pay one up-front cost. All digital signage software is pre-installed and updates are free. No expensive licenses are required year after year.
Plus, the PC-based digital signage player works right out of the box – keeping digital signage simple. It also comes packed with customisation capabilities making it perfect for large-scale, sophisticated applications.
So, what digital signage player will you choose for your next installation?
*Data calculations based off a well-known telecommunications estimation tool.
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In the Industrial Age, cities knew their role: help create infrastructure, production facilities and marketplaces for industrial goods and services. In the Information Age, many are still defining and differentiating themselves.
Seventy percent of the world's population is expected to live in cities by 2050. These urban centers are competing intensely for global investments and best talent. 1 Meanwhile, the digitally enabled information economy is leveling the geographic playing field, reducing traditional advantages for port cities and trading hubs.
In the race to build strong urban information economies, some municipal leaders are buying into a "Smart Cities" vision. Accenture believes that if such a vision makes technology the goal, a city may be "smart" but still unable to attract the quantity and caliber of residents it needs to thrive. Accenture believes technology should be the means of delivery, not the objective. Cities that prioritize technology are unlikely to maximize the value of their "smart initiatives" and may struggle to move from pilot to scale.
Forward-thinking cities are taking a step back—thinking carefully about what citizens want and investing in novel and more effective ways of delivering those outcomes. They're putting people—not technology—at the center of public service strategies and investments and following the lead of other consumer-driven industries.


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Twin Falls (SC)
Photos from 2 visits to Twin Falls in Pickens County, SC (not to be confused with the Twin Falls in Transylvania County, NC). This waterfall is labeled as Reedy Cove Falls on many maps, and is located on Reedy Cove Creek, right where the creek and one of its tributaries join. My first visit was a hike along a 0.4 mile, flat, well used trail that follows Reedy Cove Creek. Along the way, you pass a number of places where the creek flows through boulder strewn sections of the creek, as well as a neat swimming hole. The trail also passes a water wheel that has been constructed on a side tributary. My second visit was via the 1.25 mile trail which begins off Cleo Chapman Highway and approaches the falls from the southeast. This trail brings you out RIGHT at the VERY top of the falls. Please see my webpage for directions to both trails.Read More


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Open daily 8 am-4 pm (closed Tuesday)
ph 845-265-9471 email firstname.lastname@example.com
Welcome to Hudson Hil's Cafe & Market in historic Cold Spring, New York. Our full breakfast and lunch menus feature fresh, local ingredients from Hudson Valley farms. Craft beer and wine list available.
Stop by our market for a selection of New York cheeses, fresh baked goods, local grass-fed beef, homemade jams and jellies and a cup of coffee or tea.
We also prepare specialty items for picnics, hikes, luncheons, gift baskets, birthdays and more.
To place an order, call 845-265-9471 or email email@example.com.


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Maryland school calls unsportsmanlike conduct, cancels football season
I hope you didn't buy any advance-sale tickets to the last two Crossland High football games, because they're not gonna be played.
The Prince George's County, Md., school canceled the remainder of its football season and fired coach Eric Knight (though he's still athletic director) for what it called unsportsmanlike conduct in a series of games.
From the Washington, DC, local Fox affiliate:
There's a firestorm of controversy surrounding why a Maryland high school football team cancelled the remainder of its season. Crossland High School says it was due to unsportsmanlike behavior at several games, but now FOX 5 has learned it involved much more.
Events after the [Oct. 24 Potomac] game even escalated to involve Prince George's County Sheriff's deputies getting into a physical altercation with a player, and then using pepper spray on a crowd of players. One of the suspended players is crying foul over the cancelled season and why he was suspended.
The school is revealing little about what led to the cancellation of the school's final two games, but FOX 5 has learned its what happened after the game that led to one arrest, the expulsion of four students, and the removal of the head coach.
The game against Potomac, where Knight coached successfully for 15 years before taking the Crossland job before last season, had become an annual tradition of Crossland gets its ass kicked, which degenerated into general ass-kicking. Because of fights on the field, last year's game ended in the third quarter with Potomac up 42-0. This year, the game made it into the fourth quarter with Potomac up 53-0 before the game had to be called because of fighting.
The parents and players, as you might imagine, aren't taking this well.
More from Fox in D.C., which interviewed four players who returned to school Nov. 2 after serving a 10-day suspension, as well as Crossland football parents who met that day with the school:
Darlene Trather's son wasn't even suspended, and she believes the school overreacted.
"Since when is football nice? What do you want them to be, cheerleaders? It is a football team– it is knocking, pushing, shoving," says Trather.
The players and their parents met with school officials Monday to air their concerns that the punishment is excessive.
"I don't think they have done a thorough investigation. I think that some of these students have been wrongly accused," said parent Adora Stevenson.
But the problems and altercations did not end on the field. According to a Prince George's County Sheriff's spokesperson, after the game a Crossland player threw a helmet at the Potomac bus, leading sheriff's deputies to spray several Crossland players with pepper spray and grab a player.
"The cops had choked me, grabbed me by the neck and was choking me and telling me to calm down, and I'm telling them I'm calm. Then I was held against the fence, then all I heard was mace. I was maced in my eyes and couldn't see nothing," said suspended player Kharan Wallace.
And parents at Crossland still want a better explanation from the principal.
The principal of Crossland High School would not comment further on the incident or the suspension. The parents say they have not received a proper explanation of what happened and plan to appeal to the superintendent of schools
"This is definitely not over– definitely not," said parent Star Tuaauli.
Uh-oh. It sounds like another ass-kicking is coming.


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For a while now, this project made me want to cry. I had been wanting to try this for SO LONG. I mean, I would LOVE to have the real thing. But my lottery winnings haven't come in just yet. So as usual I wanted to give it a try. In the end, it took three attempts to get this right. There is a slight chance that the string has fallen into a pile on the dining room table right now...but I think it's pretty solid. The last try, however, was the easiest, and best, which is what I'm sharing.
FYI, I don't have a bulb in mine. I will one day, but our dining room ceiling doesn't have an electrical box, and I'm totally ok with the weirdness of just hanging it empty. I will give a link that part of the project though.
There are a LOT of string pendant DIYs out there. This is about the 900th. Some of them are kind of bad. I saw one where the finished pendant looked like a big saggy teardrop....um...that's not the look we're going for kids. But, this worked for me. So, here we go.
- String
- Stiffy Fabric Stiffener
- A large balloon (I ordered mine from ShopHaha) - you might want to order a couple just in case
- A thick tarp (don't use a thin plastic drop cloth, it will stick to everything)
- Foam brush
- Electrical cord set
- Optional - gloves (I didn't end up using them because they were just a pain, and this stuff washed off really easily)
- A lot of tutorials say to hang the balloon and wrap it. This will take you approximately 17 years, plus you will need two people, and there will be a LOT of swearing. Instead, at first, I decided to tie the balloon the metal part of an old lampshade, and thought I would stand it up and work on it that way. That was my first fail. In the end, I simply placed the balloon on the tarp, on the floor, and pulled the string over it, turning the balloon as I went. It was fast and easy.
- Don't use Hodge Podge or whatever it's called. Again, I tried it, and it wasn't good enough.
- Don't use an exercise ball. I had a hard enough time getting the balloon out, I don't know HOW you would deal with one of those things. (EDIT: So a reader let me know that an exercise ball worked for her...just make sure you cut a large hole for the lightbulb (about 5 inches - thanks Dani!)
- Don't wear anything you remotely like when you're doing this.
- Don't do this while baby is napping unless someone else is there to pick him or her up. You will be sticky.
- Blow up your balloon to the size you want. Tie a string around the knotted part of the balloon so that you can hang it up somewhere when you're done.
- Put the string in a bowl and pour the Stiffy Fabric Stiffener over it, saturating it completely (you can use any bowl, it will wash away easily after). Don't unravel your string, just leave the whole thing on the roll, it will be easier when you're wrapping it around your balloon.
- Place your balloon on the floor in the middle of your blue tarp, with the bowl beside you. Unravel a bit of the string, and tie the string all the way around the balloon once, knotting it. This will sort of help you get started. You won't notice the knot after...it all blends in.
- Now, start wrapping. You can keep the balloon down on the tarp, just wrap it sort of as if you were pulling ribbon over a present, and turn the balloon as you go. You'll get a real feel for it, and I found that it went really quickly. Try to keep the pattern random. Do this until the whole ball of string is gone. I used one roll and it was plenty. It all depends on how dense you want the string to be.
- For the light opening, you have two options. 1) keep one area free of string, leaving an opening to change the bulb down the road, or 2) wrap the whole thing solid and cut a hole later. I've seen it done both ways. I like the idea of leaving a hole, it will just look cooler I think.
- If, as you wrap, you run into a knot or something weird happens, just cut the string, tuck it into the other string on the balloon, and start again making your knot the way you did in the beginning. I did this three times and it was no big deal.
- When you're done, hang it somewhere to dry, I left mine for two days.
- Once it's dry...go over it with a foam brush and more fabric stiffener. DON'T paint it on all over though. Use the foam brush like a bingo dabber (lol) just on the string. If you try to paint, you'll tug the string and it will be tough. I just dabbed all over, and it worked fine.
- Another two days later, you're ready to get that balloon out of there. Do this outside. I learned this the hard way.
- Take the eraser end of a pencil and slowly push on the balloon through the openings. Take your time, and make sure it's loose everywhere.
- Holding the balloon a bit away from the knotted part, use scissors and very gently cut a tiny hole into that part of the balloon (I didn't want it to pop...I wanted it to slowly deflate). Allow the balloon to deflate, using the eraser end of the pencil again if you need to quickly release bits of the balloon. The fabric stiffener dries and COVERS the balloon in billons of little flakes, which is what created the mess at this stage. Once the balloon is completely deflated, pull it through the largest opening you can find in the balloon (or the hole, if you left one). The flakey bits will all fall out of you shake the thing.
- If there are bits of fabric stiffener here and there stuck in the little holes, use a paint brush to dust them away gently.
- Now at this stage, I simply looked for the most dense patch of the pendant, and hung it with the same string that I used to make it. If you want the light portion...
- You can buy white cord sets like this one that you could simply pull through and be done with it. Or, if you want it to look a little more professional, I recommend taking a look at Jen Ramos' pendant DIY post. Hers looks fab.
Ok, have I missed anything? Have questions? Let me know!