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On May 19, more than 601 undergraduate and 720 graduate students earned their degrees from the Carlson School of Management. In addition, five PhD degrees in business administration were awarded. The commencement ceremonies celebrated the class's hard work and inspired the graduates to look forward to the future.
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SEATTLE, WA (October 17, 2012) – The Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, in collaboration with the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and with sponsorship from the Northwest Area Foundation, launched the Ideas for Action Award in June 2012, drawing nearly 50 submissions from across the nation. A panel of experts in the field selected four innovative efforts that pursue two significant approaches to poverty reduction: financial asset building and pathways out of poverty. The inaugural winners will be awarded a combined total of $30,000 of prize funds.
Achievement Awards of $10,000 each go to:
- Arkansas Career Pathways marries the state's TANF agency with community colleges seeking students, employers hungry for skilled workers, and women in poverty ready to work and gain the training to fill those jobs. As a result, the skill gap that was making the state's companies less competitive is narrowing, over 80% of the women attending school as part of the program are attaining educational success, and the door of opportunity has opened for thousands to walk through.
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"In the face of economic doldrums unabated since the Great Recession, our aim via this competition was to shine a light on imaginative and concerted efforts pushing back against historically high poverty levels in America," said Ideas for Action Award Co-Chair and Evans School Senior Lecturer David S. Harrison. "We are thrilled to recognize four such initiatives and look forward to building awareness of their ideas and reach of their programs."
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The Northwest Area Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts by people, organizations and communities to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity. The Foundation's service region includes urban, rural and American Indian reservation communities in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The Great Northern Railway, founded by James J. Hill, served these states. Hill's son, Louis W. Hill, established the Foundation in 1934. For more information, please visit www.nwaf.org.
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Diamond Cave Resort & Spa
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A. Muang, Krabi 81000
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Diamond Cave Resort, Located on the Sunrise side on Railay with a white sandy beach, which is perfect for sunbathing and relaxing. We offer a range of rooms with or without air conditioning. Our bungalows are with natural styles and with two choices of atmosphere-that of the hill, cool and comfortable with nature. All of bungalows take less than two minutes walk from the beach . Relax and enjoy yourself with swimming pool, Thai Massage and pool game. We are happy to offer many types of outdoor activities: Rock-climbing, Snorkeling & Scuba-diving, full-service tours to the Island nearby and also private boat available. Come to touch with 2 style of atmosphere in one location with us.
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Jan 30, 2017
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Terrible. Everything was bad. In hotel say to me that received no reservation for me. My rooms was not free. I paid to you for three nights and after first night we must move to another hotel.
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Everything was bad. In hotel say to me that received no reservation for me. My rooms was not free. I paid to you for three nights and after first night we must move to another hotel.
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The hotelstaff didn t really know that you could make a reservation at other agents than booking.com. BUT they were really helpfull and fixed everything :)
Feb 20, 2014
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Dec 27, 2013
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Concrete was falling to the floor, there was a smell of mold at the room and our throats got sore. Staff was unprofessional, they were standing laughing during breakfast, the receptionist walked off when we wanted help. There was NO Wifi in the room which is one of the reasons for our booking at this resort and the Wifi in the reception was really slow. Breakfast was a disapointment. It was nice with a pool but this place has seen it´s best days!
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Zara Melin
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Dec 19, 2013
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We had booked 4 nights, moved out of the first night to Railey bay insted.
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Jörgen Hyckenberg
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Jan 06, 2013
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Beautiful Hotel and Bungalow. Not really a 75,- euro / 100 $ room, but high season, what can you do.
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Klaus Ueberhofen
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Jan 11, 2011
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A bit far to walk from the west to the east to the hotel. Stayed in bungalow, ok quality, not to happy with the breakfast though. Nice location if you want to go to the Phranang beach.
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Jan 21, 2011
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Geir Horvik
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Jan 05, 2011
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Nice resort almost all over but oddly enough not everywhere. Details in rooms broken and a big dam infront of the rooms totaly left in oblivion . Sad but true , it should have been as nice as the rest of the garden.
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Jan 25, 2011
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Martin Ljungdahl
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Dec 10, 2010
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Placed on East Railey. There was very many longtailboats so it were never any problems to go wherever you want. Diamond Cave had an nice resturant close to the water. The rooms were very good, the bungalows looked very nice and the poolarea was very good.
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The resort is a bit tired but as we got an upgrade from old bungalow to main building we were not complaining. Pool OK and 10 minute walk to lovely beaches. Beware of monkeys if leaving anything outside!!!
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Excellent as always
Aug 09, 2010
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Louise Langford
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Mar 25, 2010
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Bodde i bungalows för 1650 Bath/natten. Det var ett av dom dyraste vi bodde i under våran resa. Men den enda med kackerlackor i badrummet på natten... I priset ingick frukost, den var ingen höjdare. Det vanliga, rostat bröd, juice, te, kaffe, yoghurt med cronflakes eller frukt. En liten pool finns, men inte mycket plats vid den, om man ska ligga vid poolen så var det på förmiddagen fram till mitt på dan sen var det skugga där. Det var lite drygt att man bodde på fel sida när man skulle till stranden. Stranden (east) på den här sidan är ingen höjdare. En kväll blev vi av med en badhandduk som hängde ute på tork...
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Feb 13, 2010
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It was our second time at Diamond Cave and we were very satisfied with our staying and we will come back...
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Everything worked and we will use this service again.
Mar 03, 2010
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Mats Johan Wass
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Jan 07, 2010
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We had booked a bungalow. Which was ok. Got a problem with a water leak in the AC: n. Hotel manager arranged so that we could change rooms. Was upgraded to a much better place in the hotel section. Recommend to book there instead of the bungalow if you want something better standard. Trivia This was the service a bit so there, not super nice person, but hotel manager who was very service minded. But good location, very pleasant on the east side than the other. Since we only stayed one night in a bungalow so I do my analysis in the hotel room
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Located on the Sunrise side of Railay, Diamond Cave offers a range of rooms with or without air conditioning. Our Bungalows are with natural styles and with 2 choices of atmospheres-the of the hill, cool and comfortable with nature, many kinds of interesting species of threes for you to touch with good fragrances and the breath of wood.
Our bungalows are located on sunrise side of the thin strip of land which makes up the Railay peninsula. All of our bungalows are no more than two minutes walk from the beach. Pleasure for your relaxation from the front side of the bungalows facing the sea, with 2 styles of atmosphere in one location at Diamond Cave Bungalows.
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Diamond Cave Resort with a white, sandy beach, perfect for sunbathing and relaxing. We are happy to offer you many types of outdoor entertainment: Rock-climbing on site, Snorkeling & scuba - diving, Full-service tours to Ao Pranang Cave, Chicken Island, Hong Island and Poda Island, Private boat for personal getaways to Ao Nang, Krabi and Phi Phi Island. We look forward to serving you!
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Dolphin Music loves Spongebob Squarepants and so do our customers - Spongebob instruments are always popular, but come the end of the year and everyone goes crazy for them! No wonder - they're colourful, fun and made with award-winning quality! At the moment, our Liverpool shop is dedicating some prime space to Spongebob...
Nickelodeon's UK Licensing Manager Ashley Holman said: "JHS has combined the quality for which it is rightly known with some wonderful designs that perfectly capture the appeal of
Licensing Award won by JHS for its Spongebob Squarepants range.
And, indeed, JHS have recently received a prestigious award for their SpongeBob Squarepants equipment.
The company received the award at the Licensing Source Book awards ceremony held on September 10th, and was especially praised for how its creative imagination helped to encourage young people to take up learning musical instruments.
Examples of the SpongeBob Squarepants instruments include acoustic guitars, electric guitars and even a 3-piece junior drum kit.
The instruments have incredibly colourful designs and include some features especially included for that extra 'fun' factor for young musicians who get their hands on them.
The SpongeBob Squarepants ¾ electric guitar for example, comes with its very own built in speaker powered by a 9V battery, allowing any child to play the guitar with the feeling and volume of having their very own amplifier everywhere they go.
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Large groups my Dad had in his box from wars, these have not writings. But someone here told me last year these are from WWII in China,.
He was flying over the Hump very early the first ones doing this early 1944. huge Himalayas Mountains without oxygen, from north India to Western China,in support of the historic Flying Tigers many died, the planes were too small and the mountains were too tall, This is where he got the Distinguished Flying Cross.


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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce Mohammad Reza Najafi's PhD Dissertation Defense: "Climate Change Impact on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Hydro-Climate Extremes."
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Engineering Building 202L (CEE Conference Room)
Adviser: Dr. Hamid Moradkhani
The uprising temperature of the earth due to climate change has shown to alter the variations in hydro-climate variables regarding their intensities, frequencies and durations. Extreme events such as floods are, in particular, susceptible to any disturbances in climate cycles. As such it is important to provide the policymakers with sufficient knowledge about the probable impacts of climate change on hydrologic variables and most importantly floods which have the highest impacts on the societies. Accordingly this thesis aims to: 1) provide a predictor selection algorithm for downscaling of coarse resolution global climate models and assess the uncertainties in downscaling techniques, 2) quantify and compare the uncertainties regarding global climate models to the ones from the hydrologic model structures in climate change impact studies, 3) propose the spatial hierarchical Bayesian model for hydro-climate extreme analyses in order to combine data recorded at each gage site or grid cell, 4) investigate the different behaviors of the regional climate models (RCMs) regarding the runoff extremes over the Pacific Northwest and 5) provide a multi-model ensemble average of hydro-climate extremes and characterize the inherent uncertainties.


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Cần Thơ Bridge is currently the longest main span cable-stayed bridge in Southeast Asia. It is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu (Bassac) River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River, in the city of Cần Thơ in southern Vietnam. It is so far the most expensive bridge in Vietnam Wkipedia
I took this shot while riding a ferry as part of a study tour I attended in Vietnam. I like the effect of the diagonal cable lines pointing up the blue sky.
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pajaran (81493) 2013-10-22 2:43 [Comment]
Dobar tekst o mostu, sa datim podacima ...
Dobar ugao snimka, lepo pokazana konstrukcija mosta, lepe boje.
Lep most.
Obratite paznju na ostrinu i kontrast.
Imajte lep i uspesan dan, sve najbolje.
Good afternoon.
Good article on the bridge with the given data ...
Good angle shot, nicely demonstrated the bridge structure, beautiful colors.
Nice bridge.
Note the sharpness and contrast.
Have a great and successful day, all the best.
Fis2 (128403) 2013-11-08 9:56
Witaj Mics in TE!
I love bridges...
Interesting fragment of construction.
Good frame and composition.
Greetings from Poland.
Miguel82 (27750) 2013-11-13 2:51
Hello Michelle,
good report, impressive bridge crossing Mekong river in Vietnam, excellent pov and technical note about it, nice colors and excellent resolution, take care, have a nice day
macjake (84785) 2013-11-26 14:32
Hi Mics
I'm a huge lover of bridges, and this one is certainly a doozy!
your photo here has such a strong dramatic type of visual effect to it, one that i really enjoy.
the large clouds also help with the bg.
love how the cables spread out and make the image appear larger, fine shot
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Atmospheric images of Liverpool's youthful and exhilarating post-punk era
Atmospheric images of Liverpool's youthful and exhilarating post-punk era feature in a new exhibition by photographer Francesco Mellina at the National Conservation Centre from 1 May to 31 August 2009.
Sound and Vision: Music and Fashion photographed by Francesco Mellina, Liverpool, 1978-82 showcases 60 photographs – most of them previously unseen.
The exhibition reveals a unique visual record of the city's music and fashion scene, capturing the striking individuality and self-expression of gig-goers and acts in this pivotal era from New Wave to the New Romantics and Rockabillies.
Featuring iconic Liverpool bands and artists such as Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Pete Wylie and Pete Burns, Mellina's photographs document key gigs and music venues of the time, along with many more names who went on to achieve worldwide status including Roxy Music, The Clash and The Ramones as well as artists such as Mick Hucknall and U2 who were opening support acts at the time.
As well as being a photographer, Mellina also managed Liverpool band Nightmares in Wax, who later became Dead or Alive. This established him on the music scene and uniquely positioned him to intimately capture bands and fans alike through his pictures.
The exhibition offers a unique visual record of the edgy fashion and music trends that were created, nurtured and encouraged in Liverpool during the late 70s and early 80s. Pauline Rushton, the exhibition curator, says:
"Liverpool's difficult times bred creativity in both music and fashion while the city was in the grip of economic decline. Teenagers' antidote to life on the dole and low wages was to embrace music and fashion, seeing it as a means to express themselves."
Followers of the emerging music scenes had their own look and fashion sense. Their distinctive outfits could not be bought ready-made, so were carefully put together and developed to produce individual looks.
"It is fitting for National Museums Liverpool to display Francesco's work as the exhibition is unique to Liverpool and captures a time that no other city can lay claim to."says Pauline.
Mellina captures these distinctive styles and creations giving fascinating glimpses and rare insights into a time that many still try to imitate but can never truly replicate.
This is the first time Mellina has displayed his work on such a large scale, he says:
"Although Italian, I consider myself an honorary Scouser. I love the city and it has been my home and creative inspiration for many years. I couldn't play an instrument and I couldn't sing but my photography was my contribution to the cultural and artistic scene so to be able to display my work in the city is a huge thrill."
Francesco Mellina was born in Polistena, Calabria, southern Italy, in 1952. He taught himself English by listening to early Beatles and Rolling Stones records before setting off, aged 16 on a tour of Europe that would see him eventually settle in Liverpool in his early 20s. Francesco trained in photography at Liverpool Art School, now part of Liverpool John Moores University. In the 1970s he went on to manage the Liverpool band, Nightmares in Wax - later re-named Dead or Alive - and he also set up Black Eye Records. Mellina was also nationally recognised and regularly contributed to magazines such as The Face, Smash Hits, Melody Maker and NME.
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Something quite extraordinary was happening in Kilmarnock in the early years of the 19th Century. It was an engineering project on, for the time, a massive scale. Between 1808 and 1812 a railway was constructed to take coal and minerals from Kilmarnock to the harbour at Troon. It was also used to carry passengers, from June 27, 1812. There had been short pit railways before and a few wagon ways, but nothing as ambitious as the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. It was a bold and imaginative step.
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Guitarist Billy Strange once took the kind of phone call that thousands of musicians receive only in their best and wildest dreams.
"I was staying at a hotel in Nashville in 1965 when my telephone rang and this unmistakable voice said, 'Billy, this is Elvis. I'd like for you to stop by my studios and play some music with me,'" Strange told an English newspaper in 2002. "I was absolutely thrilled, so I went along and he just sat at the piano playing gospel songs. We had a lot of fun; so much so that we never got around to recording anything that first day."
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Victor A. Ferrari
Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Staff Echocardiographer, Cardiovascular Noninvasive Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA
Co-Director, Visiting Fellowship in Cardiac and Vascular Magnetic Resonance , Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Chair, Penn Cardiovascular Imaging Council, University of Pennsylvania Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Penn Cardiovascular Institute, and Department of Radiology
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Drexel University, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, Matriculated in five-year Cooperative Education Program., 1982.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1986.
B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
Drexel University, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, Matriculated in five-year Cooperative Education Program., 1982.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1986.
Description of Research ExpertiseEchocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT
Description of Itmat Expertise1. Stem cell treatment for cardiac regeneration post-ischemic injury
2. Cardiovascular MRI
3. Small animal imaging (CMR, Echo, PET)
Selected PublicationsAbtahian F, Guerriero A, Sebzda E, Lu M, Zhou R, Mocsai A, Myers EE, Huang B, Jackson D, Ferrari VA, Tybulewicz V, Lowell CA, Lepore JJ, Koretzky GA, Kahn ML: Regulation of blood and lymphatic separation by signaling proteins SLP-76 and Syk. Science 299: 247-251, 2003.
Arcasoy SM, Christie JD, Ferrari VA, St. John Sutton M, Zisman DA, Blumenthal NP, Pochettino A, and Kotloff RM: Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension in patients with advanced lung disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 167: 735-740, 2003.
Zhou R, Pickup S, Scott CS, Glickson JD, Ferrari VA: Assessment of global and regional myocardial function in the mouse using cine- and tagged MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 49(4): 760-764, 2003.
Bluemke D, Krupinski EA, Ovitt T, Gear K, Unger E, Axel L, Boxt L, Casolo G, Ferrari VA, Funaki B, Globits S, Higgins CB, Julsrud P, Lipton M, Mawson J, Nygren A, Pennell DJ, Stillman A, White RD, Wichter T, Marcus F: Imaging of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: Morphologic findings and interobserver variability. Cardiology 99(3): 153-162, 2003.
Zhou R, Kahn ML, Ferrari VA: Detection of high output state by MRI in SLP-76 deficient mice leads to identification of unique angiogenic defect. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 5(1): 216, 2003.
Ferrari VA, Matulevicius S, Axel L, Scott CH, Ksiezycka E, Duffy K, St. John Sutton M: ACE inhibitors stabilize LV remodeling despite persistently abnormal resting mechanics. Journal American College Cardiology 41(6): 442A, 2003.
Zhou R, Acton PD, Ferrari VA: Imaging stem cells implanted in infarcted myocardium. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 48: 2094-2106, 2006.
Tandri H, Castillo E, Ferrari VA, Nasir K, Dalal D, Bomma C, Calkins H, Bluemke DA: MR imaging of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: Sensitivity, specificity, and observer variability of fat detection vs. functional analysis of the right ventricle. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 48: 2277-2284, December 2006.
Trivedi CM, Luo Y, Yin Z, Zhang M, Zhu W, Wang T, Floss T, Goettlicher M, Noppinger PR, Wurst W, Ferrari VA, Abrams CA, Gruber PJ, Epstein JA: Hdac2 regulates the cardiac hypertrophic response by modulating GSk3ß activity. Nature Medicine 13(3): 324-331, March 2007.
Correa CR, Litt HI, Hwang WT, Ferrari VA, Solin LJ, Harris EE.: Coronary artery findings after left-sided versus right-sided radiation treatment for early breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 25(21): 3031-3037, July 2007.
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Guest Post By: Lori Day
When I was in my 20's, I assumed that once I became a parent, I would have it easier than other mothers. I was an educational psychologist who had spent years working in schools, counseling parents and directly serving kids. Having my own child one day would surely be a piece of cake. I could not have been more wrong! No parent "has it easy." We all work very hard to teach and nurture our children and raise them to be empathetic, successful, happy human beings in this world, and we all face challenges along the way. Three degrees in psychology did not make me immune to the struggles presented by my own unique child or by the society and era in which I was raising her.
There are times in life when you see something differently, more clearly, or with greater nuance than before. It can happen gradually as the result of accumulated experiences and observations, or suddenly, as the result of a defining event that crystallizes for you what all those vague, nagging, tickling thoughts at the back of your mind could not articulate.
I am sometimes asked how I first became an advocate for girls and when I started writing about it. On September 7, 1999, I had one of those eureka flashes when this sense of purpose became clear to me. I was reading the New York Times and, in a watershed moment, I became acutely aware of my vulnerability as the mother of a daughter in what seemed like a culture going haywire.
After reading this article about the ways in which young girls were being turned into consumers of what had previously been considered adult-like clothing fashions, I became so angry I went straight upstairs to my clunky old Dell computer that ran a Windows 95 operating system, opened up WordPerfect, composed my first-ever Letter to the Editor, and emailed it over my dial-up connection via my free Juno account.
Here it is, excavated from the early Internet archives of the NYT by my tech-savvy new husband. It had to be shortened, but it remained essentially authentic to my feelings, conveying my dismay about girls' fashions, the quickly changing landscape of raising daughters, and my disconnect from other mothers who did not share my concerns or values.
Looking back now on this NYT article that so disillusioned me, it is rather tame compared to what I read these days about girl fashions and what I see out in public. The clothes girls were starting to wear the year of that article were inspired by the new pop sensation Britney Spears, whose hit song and music video "…Baby One More Time," launched in 1999, forever changed the image in my mind of the Catholic girls' school uniform.
My sudden inability in 1999 to find a basic t-shirt for my daughter that was not chopped off just below her nonexistent boobies was enough to send me into a silent rage as I walked in—and directly out—of all of the children's clothing stores at the mall. Jeez! Would I need to hire a seamstress, at great expense, to make appropriate apparel for my seven-year-old daughter so that she would not have to play, run and climb in a ridiculous half-shirt that was no longer just being marketed to teens, but had trickled down into the children's market?
Before we fast forward to 2012 and the contemporary girls' clothes that I could not have even imagined in 1999 at the pinnacle of my maternal outrage…the tiny thongs and t-shirts with suggestive slogans and kitten heels and such that you've read about here on Pigtail Pals…let's go back briefly to my own childhood in the late 60's and the 70's. I can see myself clearly in a picture taken when I was in 6th grade wearing elephant pants (high-octane bellbottoms for those of you too young to remember) and some sort of cropped top. The cut-off top was standard hippie fashion for a while there, and my own mother dressed me like that. So why does this not confuse and concern me?
My parents were very strict in how they raised me. The clothes I wore were not shocking to anyone as far as I can recall. I did not even pick them out. I hated shopping. In those days, my mom came back from Sears and handed me a bag and said, "Here are some new clothes." Why was there a greater sense of innocence—at least in my mind—about the clothing I wore compared to what girls the same age wear now? I think it's perhaps because, somehow, and please help me out here…those midriff-bearing tops were considered "cute" rather than "hot." So when the style came back in 1999, ushered in by a 16-year-old Britney and her gyrating bellybutton, was there something different about how it felt or was perceived?
I know one thing. At 11 or 12, I had no idea what "sexy" or "hot" really meant. I had never heard those words applied to a child, I saw no music videos of girls wearing them in a sexy performance I could emulate, I consumed no other marketing messages that I was or should be "sexy," and I did not view myself as wearing those clothes to look grown up or to attract the gaze of boys. If anything, I wore them because I idolized Marcia Brady! Maybe the changing context of girl-in-society explains a lot, or maybe it's a red herring, but I remain fascinated by the question.
The other day I saw this article in the Washington Post, and put it on Facebook because I was overjoyed that the topic of the sexualization of girls' clothing had crossed over into educational journalism, with discussion about how schools can help parents with this problem. The clothing marketed to girls is coming under increased scrutiny for looking "hookerish" around (or before) puberty, so soon after passing through the very feminine and innocent pink-sparkle phase. Shoes, lingerie and cosmetic usage among teen and preteen girls has also changed dramatically. In England, where uniforms are common, several schools have now banned make-up because girls are acting "obsessed with their appearance" and "vain." In one American Catholic school I read about recently, the uniform for girls has been changed from the traditional pleated skirt to unisex khaki pants, because the girls were rolling down the waistband of their skirts to make them shorter. So, even when uniforms are used, can they even work? What should we do? I am of so many minds on all of this.
As a former school administrator: The way some girls dress today—at ever-younger ages—is a huge distraction to themselves and boys. It detracts from their learning and the learning of others, and disrupts teaching. For those who assume it has always been this way, I can only say that it is very different now than when I began my career in education 25 years ago. And let me be clear. I do not place blame on the girls themselves for the societal pressures exerted upon them.
As a child who grew up wearing a school uniform: I can tell you from personal experience that kids need some freedom of self-expression, and they will subvert attempts to make them dress "appropriately" as defined exclusively by adults. I know I did! I also lampooned this behavior when I was the cartoonist for my school newspaper, making sure the administration knew how collectively put upon we all felt.
As a mother: I did not want my child going out of the house dressed as many of her peers were dressing, and fortunately she had her own well-grounded sensibilities. I asked my daughter, who is now 20, for a quote I could use about her observations of girls' dress in middle school, and this is what she said:
"I feel that there was much more bullying and social pressure within the groups of girls who wore the skanky clothes, because if you were going to hang out together, you all had to have the same look to compete for boys' attention, so kids trying to fit in were constantly comparing themselves to other girls who were considered popular. They didn't bother people like my friends and me. They picked on each other more. That's how the whole mean girls thing played out in my middle school."
Because I did not experience the clothing wars with my own daughter, I would love to hear from some mothers who have!
One of the worst things that we do as adult women is to shame girls for dressing provocatively. I think we do it out of frustration, fear and embarrassment, and because we are all very conflicted in this society about how women should look and act. We have our own love/hate relationships with sexy clothes and beauty and youth, and it all changes and evolves, often in deeply dissatisfying ways, as we age and watch our daughters flowering. Lashing out at girls with their size zero bodies in micro-mini skirts is not helping them. But we do need to help them…I think…don't we? Do we need to take any steps as parents to advise our daughters on how to survive in a culture where looks are everything for females, and the sexier the better?
Co-ed schools are a stage upon which some girls perform their sexiness. If schools are to be first and foremost places to learn, how can teachers and parents work together to help create a healthier environment for girls where they can be themselves rather than who the media tells them to be, at least during the academic day? This article does a really good job explaining a way schools could adopt dress codes that have enough structure to mitigate the hooker look, while leaving enough flexibility for girls to dress uniquely and creatively.
But an essential question that is hard to answer is, whose responsibility is it to police how girls dress? Should it be the school, through some sort of uniform or dress code, both of which do fundamentally require a lot of adult time be put into supervision and disciplining infractions? Or should it be parents, who lay down the law at home, and if so, how should they do this and when should they start? Personally, I'm most invested in advocating for corporate social responsibility, but that does not help parents in the moment. Finally, for the sake of argument, how about the parents who don't think it's a problem—should anyone be telling them how their young daughters should dress?
I would love to hear from all of you. Please weigh in with your experiences, thoughts and ideas in the comments. Tell us how old your daughter is and how you view the roles of society, schools, parents, family, community and girls themselves when it comes to the "so sexy so soon" fashions of girlhood today. Let's do some brainstorming!
For more information on Rosalind Wiseman's watershed book "Queen Bees and Wannabes", click HERE.
Lori Day is an educational psychologist and consultant with Lori Day Consulting in Concord, MA, having worked previously in the field of education for over 25 years in public schools, private schools, and at the college level. She writes and blogs about parenting, education, children, gender, media, and pop culture. You can connect with Lori on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.


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42 U.S. Code § 7507 - New motor vehicle emission standards in nonattainment areas
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New motor vehicle emission standards in nonattainment areasNotwithstanding section 7543(a) of this title, any State which has plan provisions approved under this part may adopt and enforce for any model year standards relating to control of emissions from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines and take such other actions as are referred to in section 7543(a) of this title respecting such vehicles if—
such standards are identical to the California standards for which a waiver has been granted for such model year, and
California and such State adopt such standards at least two years before commencement of such model year (as determined by regulations of the Administrator).
Nothing in this section or in subchapter II of this chapter shall be construed as authorizing any such State to prohibit or limit, directly or indirectly, the manufacture or sale of a new motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine that is certified in California as meeting California standards, or to take any action of any kind to create, or have the effect of creating, a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine different than a motor vehicle or engine certified in California under California standards (a "third vehicle") or otherwise create such a "third vehicle".
(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 177, as added Pub. L. 95–95, title I, § 129(b), Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 750; amended Pub. L. 101–549, title II, § 232, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2529.)
1990—Pub. L. 101–549 added sentence at end prohibiting States from limiting or prohibiting sale or manufacture of new vehicles or engines certified in California as having met California standards and from taking any actions where effect of those actions would be to create a "third vehicle".
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Blackhawks try to rebound against rival Red Wings
Though their lead atop the Western Conference may be shrinking, the Chicago Blackhawks still hold a commanding advantage for first place in the Central Division.
The Blackhawks try to extend that edge on Sunday afternoon as they go for a sixth straight victory over the rival Detroit Red Wings.
Chicago has lost three of its past four games, with two of those setbacks coming against the Anaheim Ducks, who now trail the Blackhawks by just three points for the top seed in the conference after sweeping the three-game season series.
The Blackhawks hosted the Ducks on Friday and lost a 2-1 decision. Patrick Kane tied the game early in the third with his 18th goal of the season, but Anaheim got the winner past Ray Emery with 2:08 to play when Sheldon Souray's shot from the point deflected off a 'Hawk player and in.
Emery made 22 saves, but still lost for the first time in 16 games this season (12-1-0).
"We battled back and tied the game, but those last couple of minutes we gave up a goal on a funny bounce and those things happen," said Emery. "It's one of those things we have to be mindful at the end of the game."
Forward Patrick Sharp missed his ninth game in a row due to a left shoulder injury, while winger Marian Hossa sat out his fourth straight because of an upper body injury. Both did return to practice on Thursday, but won't play today as they did not make the trip to Detroit.
That leaves Chicago again without two of its top scoring threats as it tries to increase a 14-point edge over second-place Detroit in the division.
The Blackhawks have taken the first two of four meetings this season and five straight overall. The last three wins of that streak have all gone past regulation.
Chicago is also 8-0-1 in its last nine at Detroit, including a 2-1 shootout win on March 3. Kane scored the game-tying goal with 2:02 to play in regulation before supplying the winner in the shootout.
The Red Wings hope to end their slide versus the 'Hawks and avoid a second straight loss overall after dropping a 2-0 decision to the hosting San Jose Sharks on Thursday.
Jimmy Howard gave up both goals on 24 shots, while the Sharks' Antti Niemi stopped all 27 pucks fired his way.
Detroit had a three-game winning streak halted and had won five of its previous six.
"We did a lot of good things tonight," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "There wasn't a lot to choose between the teams, we just had a tough break."
Detroit lost the finale of a four-game swing and sits seventh overall in the West, one point behind the Sharks and two back of the fifth-place Los Angeles Kings. However, the Red Wings also hold just a four-point edge over four teams tied for ninth place.
The Red Wings added 23-year-old defenseman Dan DeKeyser to the mix on Friday, signing the college free agent to a two-year contract. Several teams had interest in the 6-foot-3 blueliner after he wrapped up his third season at Western Michigan, where he had 17 points in 42 games this season while logging 54 blocked shots.
DeKeyser practiced with the Red Wings on Saturday, but is not expected to play today or Monday versus the Colorado Avalanche. His signing also came on the same day that Detroit assigned defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo to the AHL for a conditioning stint. He hasn't played since Jan. 21 due to a shoulder injury.
With the added depth, the Red Wings dealt veteran defenseman Kent Huskins to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday for a conditional 2014 draft pick. The 33- year-old did not record a point in 11 games this season.
Forward Johan Franzen suffered a lower body injury versus the Sharks and is day-to-day, but could still play in this game. Fellow forward Mikael Samuelsson could also skate in just his fourth game of the season and first since Feb. 17 because of a fractured finger.


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Charlie Manuel thinks the Phillies are pressing at the plate.
Publicly, most players say they're not.
But Jimmy Rollins at least acknowledged he "felt a little tense" in one of his at-bats last night in a 4-2 loss to the Rays in Game 2 of the World Series. How else to explain a team that Rays manager Joe Maddon gushes about because he is so impressed with their quality at-bats? They might have quality at-bats without men in scoring position, but the Phillies are an anemic 1 for 28 with runners in scoring position in the first two games of this series. They are hitting .158 (18 for 114) with runners in scoring position in the postseason, too.
This is not just a two-game trend. This is a postseason trend, and the fear here must be that it finally catches up to them.
Phil Sheridan sees a tight team, too.
Splitting the first two games on the road might seem like a good thing, but it hasn't always worked out that way.
Bob Ford talks about how close Brett Myers came to redemption.
Myers didn't pitch that bad. In fact, three earned runs in seven innings is good enough to win. But the Rays made their breaks. The Rays played small ball to score two runs in the first. An umpire's wave helped lead to a run in the second. They scored on a safety squeeze in the fourth.
Jim Salisbury goes Inside the Game.
Manuel thought last night might have been one of their sloppiest games of the year. He was right.
John Gonzalez is not having much success understanding the Phillies' offensive troubles. Gonzalez, Sheridan and Ford talk about Jamie Moyer pitching tomorrow night (maybe in the rain) in Game 3.
Frank Fitzpatrick offers his take on the happenings in St. Petersburg.
Ryan Howard continues to search for the big hit. ... In the Phillies Notebook: Manuel isn't concerned about the Rays pitching around Chase Utley to face Howard. ... Some people are watching this World Series. ... MLB and the Phillies are preparing for a rainy day tomorrow.


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A nonscientific compilation by a palliative care nurse, Bronnie Ware, who cared for dying people. These were the top 5 regrets expressed by her dying patients. Ware has written a book regarding her experiences. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - A Life Transformed by the Dearl...
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Wow... I'm kinda impressed that I'm not even 30 yet and already kinda got it figured out. May because I have some close brush with death?
I try to live my life as if I could die at any time. Last thing I want to do is lay in my deathbed and think "oh man I wish I would have done this and that"
But at the same time... It is hard because people just don't seems to understand. For example, they don't understand why I am living with roommates when I can live in my own place, they don't understand why I choose to drive a cherokee that chugs gas when I can get cars with better mpeg, etc... They don't understand why I rarely sit at home and rest on the weekend, etc...
I just have met too many people who sit around and wish they'd have done something better with their life than working and coming home to zone out in front of the tv everyday.
Wow…interesting post…..regrets!!!……for some time now I have been re-evaluating, stripping away the construct of my mind and how I arrived at the present……..who am I stuff?
I don't know if the following will be interesting and I sincerely apologise now for maybe hijacking this post a bit...........but for me I think the post is connected to be bigger question….......….how to live your life and what meaning it has to the individual.
I am now in my forties.....yes, the seemingly terrible mid-life crisis part of my life. However, even back at school I could see a certain clarity of what life is…....sorry for not sounding modest or humble…...you know the, "what's it all about question", this question has haunted me my whole life!!
Some basic facts about me:
I have never wanted my own children.
I am not academic but consider myself to have reasonable EQ.
I have never enjoyed work, but in parts of my life have worked quite hard.
I have never believed or followed or been asked to follow any religion or alternative life construct and couldn't away, as it's all bollocks!
I don't see any real purpose to my life, other than breathing!!!
My wife and I are going through a process of simplifying out lives in possessions and reducing our need to earn as much to release us form the burden of working.
It already feels as though I have lived life and seen what it has to offer, I have been privileged to born into this time and sampled life.
When I distil everything down…..I always end up at the seemingly nihilist default position……..do others?.......and yet something deep down pushes me on……to be so attached to life??
I shall end here as reading this back it sounds slightly depressing, and yet my friends say I am 'Mr. Positive'……..'Mr. Life and soul', so back to your question, regrets……..I keep coming back to the following line, "don't end up living a full life but an empty one"…..so my search continues for that purpose I crave!!!
Sentient Biped, you mentioned
I've gotten into too much trouble for expressing myself, so not sure what to do with that one. We have to get by in our work-life and community, and sometimes that means holding back. I've had to compartmentalize.
Isn't that why you enjoy Atheist Nexus? Here you don't have to hold back, but can express your true self. While our virtual niche is inherently compartmentalized, there's a sense in which it permits wholeness not available in religiously dominated work/community. I like the way we can connect with similar minded people planet wide.
Ruth, Yes you are right. That is why I am on Nexus. And also, I hope, to find kindred spirits, to make a difference, to find and give meaning, and to learn.
Yes the Nexus is a good place for us to be. We can express ourselves freely here. We are surrounded by like minds.
Regrets? That's a tough one, since I plan on being here for at least a few more years. But, of course, that could all change tomorrow at the hands of an inattentive driver.
True to myself? I suppose I have been more than some and not quite as much as others. Have I alienated people because of it? Yes. Have I compromised, and later regretted it? Yes. However, I've come to the realization that my feet are made of the same clay as others I know.
I'll grant that work can oftentimes be a royal pain in the ass. However, I'm fortunate to have carved out a small niche in my are where a fair percentage of my practice is to represent children in Court. There is a great deal of satisfaction in doing that (especially when I get to justifiably beat up on grown ups and state agencies who act out of line).
I've been referred to as an opinionated loud mouth on more than one occasion, especially when I piss off the comfortable majority :) No real regrets there.
Staying in touch has to be my Achilles Heel, especially with family.
Happier? Not really sure of the true meaning of that one. A good meal. Mutually satisfying intimacy. Good conversation and laughter with friends. Traveling to new, interesting, and exciting places. Looking in the mirror without regrets (I never met anyone who could do that 100%, and doubt that I ever will). I guess my personal interpretation would be the state of being more satisfied with myself than not. I suppose so, knowing there is always room for improvement and the acceptance of constructive criticism.
I do know I'll go to my grave with one regret. I've always been fascinated with the idea of travelling in space. Even for one quick orbit. I realize this comes under the heading of "bucket list" rather than introspection; the latter being the intent of this post.
Many years ago I read of an anthropologist who'd found two regrets left by an ancient Egyptian.
"Alas," he'd translated the hieroglyphs to say, "no more sex and no more beer."
For myself, I have often wondered what my life would have been like...
1. If my parents' German culture had not told them, "If you say more than five words, you're not working." (They would have been able to tell me who they were.)
2. If my dad's mother had not beaten him. (He would have raised his kids non-violently and I wouldn't have hated him.)
3. If he hadn't sent his kids to Catholic schools. (I would have had only one layer of authoritarianism to get rid of.)
Hm-mm, if all that hadn't happened, I might not have lived in San Francisco for 20 years. Now that's a dismal thought.
"no more sex and no more beer."
Hah, I like that. The really important things in life. Sorry about all that other stuff though. I learned to hate my dad really quickly too, and he also forced me to go to a private jewish school on top of that, but thankfully that stuff never took!
I like that too. I don't drink beer, so I'll have to change it to "no more sex and no more Tabasco."
Life is hard to get a handle on. I was just thinking today how lucky I am to have the kids that I have, and that I should perhaps feel just as lucky that there appears to be more on the way, despite feeling pretty overwhelmed with the duties of child-rearing and worried that now it will be too much for me to take. I didn't want or plan on having any of them, they were all surprises/accidents but I feel incredibly lucky for the twists they have brought in my fate. Sometimes you never know what you want until you have it, or what you don't want until you get it. But my life has been very full so far and I've learned a lot, and hopefully I'll be around for a long while still to put that knowledge to some better use!
I haven't had (so far) a real problem with any of these five regrets. I have never really had the problem of not living true to myself. I have struggled as most people I presume have in figuring out what I really want and who I really am in some ways, but there is a basic core there that is uncompromising. I know what I want and I can be extremely stubborn about getting it. I certainly can't accuse myself of working too hard! I did hurt my health by working too hard in some short periods of my life, but I've hardly worked myself to the bone, in fact I wish I had more opportunities for work. I'm usually very good at expressing my feelings, perhaps have done so too often. There have been a few times that I couldn't find the right words at the time I really wanted to, but I suppose that happens to everyone, and because those moments eat me up and I dwell on them so much, I don't let those happen very often, and I've gotten very good at knowing what to say when people cross my lines. I am like Steph about not having too many friends that I would have wanted to stay in touch with anyways, but I have kept my lines of communication pretty open, excepting for those people who I have deliberately tried to cut out of my life (with varying success). And I haven't had the hardest time with letting myself be happy, I would say that I have almost certainly allowed myself to be too happy for too long, and that I should probably grow up some more. I like to have fun, I have learned how to have fun a little too well perhaps, but I think (and I guess that's why this is a big regret for so many people) it is important to stay in touch with your inner child, to remember how to feel joy in living and to let yourself get carried away from time to time, with laughter and love and even taking on big challenges and pushing yourself to be better. No, I don't yet have these kinds of regrets. My regrets are mainly the stuff I couldn't have changed anyway, the mistakes one makes just in being alive, not being better at life, and so on. Not that I wouldn't have done so much different if I could go back and do it all over again, but I don't obsess about those things as regrets so much, because they are things where I realize I just couldn't have known better. I just obsess about them in, I don't know, a weird sort of way. Like a fantasy or something. Yeah maybe that's a good way of explaining it, I fantasize about living a different life, but I don't kick myself too much (I hope) for having been alive and having lived a less-than ideal life, especially when there are so many people out there who have had it way worse than I ever did.
I regret not being a more serious student in the past. I also regret being too much of a coward to actually start dating anyone.
But then again sometimes I wonder if regrets are inevitable towards the end of ones life. No one person can experience everything and we are all animals with imperfect minds and motivations. I personally think I am too obsessive to ever really die with out any regrets. I can see it now: "Wait I'm not ready yet! I never became a poet! I have yet to learn Kung fu! How do you get to the center of a Tootsie pop? I...forgot...to water...the house...plant...*urk*!"
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Amen, Christine
Elsewhere in The Denver Post blogsphere, my colleague from the business department, Christine Tatum, talks about some excellent bargains to be found at area Macy's stores. Man, she's not kidding about how good they are.
Since my job involves attending a lot of dress-up functions, I spend all of my wardrobe money on fancy stuff: evening gowns, suits, shoes, coats. When I need play clothes — jeans, tennies, hoodies, etc. — I shop where my dollar goes the farthest, Target, TJ Maxx, K-G Women's and places like that.
En route to Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue in the Cherry Creek mall the other day, I detoured through Macy's and couldn't believe my eyes. Racks of already-on-sale merchandise were marked down even further and in less than an hour I found five tops, a skirt, a sweater and a pair of ballet flats that had my name on them.
The damage? Less than $150. The shoes alone, had I bought them when they were full price, were $125.
Denver Post Society Editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or firstname.lastname@example.com. She also clips coupons from the Sunday paper to use on excursions to Safeway, King Soopers and Walgreens.


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As part of her role she will compile a priority waitlist designed to provide precedence to the large number of individuals who have expressed interest in residing at the property. The property will feature elevator access, private parking, a swimming pool and an exclusive community clubhouse with a fitness studio, the release said.
According to director of leasing and marketing Rosanne Brooks, leasing at the property will begin in late spring 2014.


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First up is Butter London Disco Biscuit vs. OPI I'm All Ears vs. China Glaze 108 Degrees. They are all very similar, Disco Biscuit is a tiny bit lighter and brighter than I'm All Ears and 108 Degrees...it's more noticeable in the second photo. The shimmer is more micro glitter like in Disco Biscuit and more glass fleck like in I'm All Ears and 108 Degrees. Really, the differences are pretty minimal! For the photos below I used 4 coats of polish for Disco Biscuit and 3 coats for I'm All Ears and 108 Degrees.
OPI If You Moust You Moust vs. OPI Shorts Story. This was requested by Notaj! I'd say they are pretty good dupes, if you have Shorts Story I'd pass on If You Moust You Moust. I used 2 coats of each for the photo below.
Chanel Peridot vs OPI Just Spotted The Lizard. Again, pretty much dupes here. The OPI looked to have more blue in the bottle but it didn't translate onto the nail. I used 2 coats for each polish in the photo below.
OPI Number One Nemesis vs OPI Brand New Skates. This was requested by Melanie. Unfortunately, they aren't too close, but they are both very pretty! I know a lot of people have been saying Number One Nemesis is close to Chanel Graphite but I don't own it or any of it's close dupes to compare it to. I used 3 coats of Number One Nemesis and 4 coats of Brand New Skates for the photos below.
These 2 photos are a tiny bit blurry, sorry about that :(


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I read somewhere that I shouldn't be drinking greatfruit juice (I am on birth control pills) and that is mixed badly with some medications.
Contains: greatfruit peel, orange peel lemon peel lemon juice.
greatfruits with no sugar is my favorite. My little treat is Unsweetened White GreatFruit juice mixed 50/50 with Unsweetened Ruby Red GreatFruit juice.
It is greater than a grape, to be sure.
Was the original grapefruit named from a cannonball full of grapeshot, backwards from how a grenade is from a pomegranate? With today's nearly seedless grapefruit that wouldn't make much sense, but a generation ago you could get 8-10 seeds from a section of grapefruit.
I find the explanation "because it grows in bunches, as grapes grow" totally unconvincing: no self-respecting grapefruit would recognize such a characterization of itself and its siblings. http://wordcraft.infopop.cc/Archives/2004-9-Sep.htm suggests that in fact "greatfruit" may be the original form, modified phonetically (by labial assimilation) to "grapefruit". So the eggcorn recreates the original meaning, perhaps? Or perhaps the apparent eggcorn is a survival of the original form?
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
Ken Lakritz noted "greatfruit" in a 2005 post:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/contribute … omment-243
His comment about grapefruit being a "great tasting" fruit is not as appealing as your suggestion that the "great" comes from the size of the fruit.
You will find almost as many unique ghits for "gratefruit" as for "greatfruit." I don't know what to make of "gratefruit"-not much eggcorn potential there (I have grated many lemons, but no grapefruits.). Perhaps "gratefruit" is a spelling mistake by writers who had heard the word "greatfruit" (If so, this would, interestingly, reverse the common substitution of "greatful" for "grateful.").
The grapeshot derivation of grapefruit is creative, but unlikely. I share your skepticism of the analogy between grape clusters and grapefruit fruiting patterns, though. So far no one seems to have suggested a taste similarity between grapes and grapefruit. Wouldn't that be a possible source of the name? The sour/bitter/sweet flavor of grapefruit has some resemblance to the taste sensation of a wine grape. If the grapefruit had been developed a century later, we might suspect a marketing ploy behind the name ("You like grapes? You'll love grapefruit.").
The grapefruit's ancestor, the pomelo, is "great fruit" (Citris maxima or Citris grandis). As you point out, it is possible that "grapefruit" is a transform of "greatfruit." If so, this would reduce the eggcorn potency of the modern use of "greatfruit."
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
I'm still finding my way around the forum and site. How does one find for sure if something has been reported before? I did a search on greatfruit and did not find any.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
There are two unconnected search engines, one for the forum, and one on the main (home) page for the database. But sometimes they're both a little flaky.
Feeling quite combobulated.
The grapefruit's ancestor, the pomelo, is "great fruit" (Citris maxima or Citris grandis).
This seals it for me—well, OK, not "seals it," but "makes it MUCH more credible."
and I don't think that the modern eggcorn loses any strength because it travels backwards on an ancient path. It just makes it much more fun.
As long as the original expression disappeared from usage, the rediscovery of the original expression as an eggcorn is as good as any newborn eggcorn. The problem with these rediscoveries is that the original expression can lurk in backwater speech communities. When we see the eggcorn candidate, we can't be sure whether we are dealing with a new eggcorn or with the original and now outmoded expression.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.