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This unique and fun filled class teaches the fundamentals of skating to children ages 3-5 years of age. Each week, skaters will learn basic balance and skating skills in a themed environment, including a Frozen week, Tot Olympics and Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration! While incorporating age appropriate on ice activities, skaters will develop the coordination and strength necessary to maneuver on the ice independently. This class meets for 45 minutes once a week. Fees for this class include skate rental.
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Quick Facts about "These Come From Trees"
- Check out our "welcome post" to learn about what inspired this project.
- Eco-minded Citizens: See what you can do with These Come From Trees!
- K-12 Schools, check out our Education Challenge
- Hundreds of Businesses Using These Come From Trees Stickers
- Proven up to 29% paper use reduction
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- A single "These Come From Trees" sticker can save around a tree's worth of paper, every year
- More than 50,000 stickers distributed since 3/07
- Laminated stickers hold up to washing.
- A typical fast food restaurant with two bathrooms can use up to 2000 pounds of paper towels a year
- The average coffee shop uses 1000 pounds of paper towels a year
- A single tree produces around 100 pounds of paper
- Roughly 50,000 fast food restaurants in the US
- 200,000 gas stations in the US
- 14,000 McDonalds' in the US
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Monday, March 26, 2007
These Come From Trees in the Enterprise
Like referred to in an earlier post, I started a new position at VMware recently. Well, given the fact that VMware's virtualization products help enterprises consolidate their server farms, which is a huge energy saver, in that each server probably costs about $500 in power to run a year, I figured that the company might be open to some "green" innovation of a less technologically advanced sort.
So I set up a meeting with Wally Hong, VMware's head of real estate and facilities, to brief him on the These Come From Trees project, and see if there was a place for the project in the VMware mix.
Well, the meeting went great. VMware's in the process of building a new campus too, called "Promontory" which Wally shared with me has a goal of being a truly green campus. So I figured that was a great opportunity. It's unclear what is happening at Promontory in terms of paper towel dispensers. If the bathrooms had yet to be outfitted, I encouraged Wally to use the sensor-activated paper towel dispensers, in that the "time out" they have keeps people from being able to pull a bunch of towels in quick succession. However, if they had already outfitted the bathrooms with "old school" dispensers (like in VMware's current building stock), I encouraged him to consider the stickers as a useful retrofit.
I told him about the idea behind the project, inspired by watching people eat at In N Out (mildly creepy, yes), and how it had evolved, and the preliminary results we got from testing at a local coffee shop.
I also encouraged him to pay attention the next time he was in the bathroom at how many paper towels are used per wash. My non-scientific observations have resulted in the same rough average of three towels per washer at VMware as at movie theaters, coffee shops, and restaurants. I have a feeling it really has to do with the ease with which C-fold paper towels can be pulled from the dispenser.
Anyway, we ended the meeting with me giving Wally some stickers, and him saying he would pass along the idea to his report who is in charge of facilities. So we'll see what happens next. I'll be sure to post about it here.
There's a big opportunity, to be sure. Based on what I saw, three paper towels a trip to the restroom, and maybe three trips a day per person, times 250 work days in a year, times 2500 people is 6 million paper towels a year. Wow!
A "pack" of C-fold towels has 175 sheets in it, so we're talking 35k "packs" per year. There are 20 packs in a case, so 1700 cases. Assuming we see a similar reduction of 15% to what we saw in our pilot test, that's 270 cases VMware could save a year.
Each case weighs 20 pounds, so that's around 5k pounds of paper towels. Good lord, that's 2.5 TONS! And based on our rule of thumb that you get 150 pounds of paper out of a tree, VMware could save 35 trees-worth of paper a year by deploying "These Come From Trees" stickers in their restrooms. Pretty cool.
And this is just one company with 2500 employees. If we get some traction at VMware, look out Cisco, Oracle, eBay, Adobe, and Google....!
Anyway, like I said, when I know more, I'll post it here.
14 comments:
- terrance said...
I'm doing blog outreach for an exciting project sponsored by Greenpeace and Seventh Generation. I came across your blog in my research and after reading your posts I wanted to include you in my outreach.
The program is called "Change It," and it will bring 200 young people who are committed to protecting the environment to Washington, DC for a week long grassroots educational training to address global warming and other critical issues facing their generation. You can find out more about it at the website: http://changeit07.org. Students can apply to the program at the website as well. The program is open to all legal residents of the U.S. and Canada, ages 18 to 24. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2007.
This year, we not just asking the 200 program participants to make a commitment to changing how we think about and treat our environment. Everyone can do something to change it, and at the Change it website now everyone can commit to what they're going to change to help protect our environment. You can see how other people have promised to change it (http://www.changeit07.org/statements) and then tell the world how you're going to change it (http://www.changeit07.org/how-i-will-changeit).
I hope you'll drop by and take a minute to tell us how you're going to change it, and come back to see how others are going to change it too!
- April 27, 2007 at 10:54 AM
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- Mike Eberhart said...
Great idea, and I sure hope your efforts results in reduced consumption.
I too love VMWare products for how they let me save energy through reduced physical computers/servers. I'll like VMWare even more if they take some of your environmental suggestions at that new campus :)
- May 26, 2007 at 8:08 PM
- Erik Mann said...
different and interesting, keep it up...erik
- May 30, 2007 at 8:58 AM
- Dora and Tim said...
I have the same observation at my company...people will take 2 or three paper towels. I don't get why. One usually does the trick.
- June 4, 2007 at 10:24 PM
- TAMANNA said...
simlpy superb! much needed and worth an effort. Keep going. All the best.
- June 6, 2007 at 2:37 AM
This is great...actually, server consolidation by way of virtualization companies like VMware are really huge right now. You might look at other companies like Sun, HP, Dell, NetApp, and IBM if you're looking for other targets for the sticker program.
- September 17, 2007 at 10:42 AM
From the shores of Zuma to the land of monopoly, environment plays the pollution game, focus the Nation, and feed the influenced. Under drunk plans:training thee issues is what we need to do more of!
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Our What Fits category is a reader favorite, and I promise we'll be sharing more bags and what you can expect to fit inside them in the near future. (If you have requests on bags you want to see included, let me know in the comments below.) Knowing the interior capacity of a bag is especially important for smaller styles; what looks like it can fit a continental wallet in a stock image may only be able to handle a card case in real life.
When the Cèline Luggage Tote became all the rage, I'd see it almost every time I turned the corner in NYC. The bag was the thing to have, and people were going crazy to get the colors they wanted. I snatched up a few very quickly, and the Nano size (the smallest the brand makes) ended up being my favorite.
Here's what fits in my Cèline Nano Luggage Tote:
- my Louis Vuitton continental zip wallet
- Cèline Sunglasses with case (similar here)
- Fresh Sugar Lip Advanced Therapy
- Acure Lip Lush
- Louis Vuitton Key Chain with car keys
- Goyard card case
- iPhone 6 Plus
One of the reasons I love this bag is because it fits my long continental zip wallet. I've always liked a big wallet, and many of the smaller bags I own don't work with this one, which I love and have had forever. Of course I can transfer the cards I need into a card case, but I like having everything; just in case I need my health insurance card or my Starbucks gift card, I know I didn't forget it. A large wallet slides into the bag snugly, but it isn't too tight. It's easy to get the wallet in and out, but it does take up a bit more room than is ideal. If you have a smaller wallet, it will open this bag up to even more space.
I have to carry my sunglasses with me since the sun in South Florida is intense year-round, and my case fits into the bag just fine. And then, I always have a few other items with me: my iPhone, car keys, a couple lip glosses and business cards. The dimensions of the Nano are 8" H X 8" W X 4" D, and the Nano currently retails for $2,700 in solid-color leather.


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"Web Update" is the original update for "Hilary Page's Guide to Watercolor Paints" published by Watson-Guptill publications. It covers the paints that have been either upgraded or introduced since the Guide was first published in 1997. Please scroll through the material for your personal use. Commercial use or reprinting of the material is prohibited without prior permission.
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To the 1,600 paints tested (of which some 1,400 were featured) I have now tested an additional 1000 paints. These additional paints are the subject of "WEB Update " (below) and my "update LISTS' (available via email). Unlike the book, "Hilary Page's Guide to Watercolor Paints" that shows a detailed visual sample for each of the 1,400 or so paints, "WEB Update" here shows just one representative, handling sample from each brand. I have, however, tested the additional paints using methods identical to those described in the Guide. In the web update shown here, I only give detailed descriptions of individual paints when they are exceptional for either positive or negative reasons. Unfortunately, the "exceptional" often dwells on the individual problem paints whereas, as was shown in my Guide, most paints now on the market are perfectly acceptable. The colors are reproduced to match the original as nearly as possible. The "update lists", available by email, are comprehensive and cover information on paints tested since my Guide was published.
MaimeriBlu 15ml tubes: 72 paints .
The old line has been re-introduced as the MaimeriBlu brand. The paints contain excellent lightfast pigments that give quite a wide range of beautiful, vibrant colors. The paints are ground to be uniformly smooth, even the inorganic ones such as 391 Ultramarine Light PB29.
A paint in the MaimeriBlu range that I particularly like is 114 Permanent Yellow Deep PY139. This is a new synthetic organic isoindoline pigment and at present is unique to MaimeriBlu and Daniel Smith's Isoindoline Yellow. It is an excellent match for Cadmium Yellow Deep PY35 but without the cadmium's toxicity.
Permanent Yellow Lemon PY175 (the same pigment as Winsor
Lemon) is another favorite since it is the perfect substitute for
Aureolin which is impermanent (see below). I also like 460
Mineral Violet PV16 (manganese) and 440 Ultramarine
Violet 440 (PV16) because the colors are attractive. Note
that the paint 374 Cobalt Blue Deep PB28 is made
with the same pigment as in 373 Cobalt Blue Light PB28.
The Cobalt Blue Deep PB73 pigment is not used in this range.
Venezia 15ml tubes, 36 paints
There are a couple of paints to be wary of: 174 Crimson Lake PR254,PR206 [ABOVE] is not crimson at all (despite the crimson color on the tube). Rather, it is a combination of Pyrrole red PR254 and Brown Madder Quinacridone PR206 and so it is a slightly dull yellow-biased red.
Venezia's 416 Cerulean blue has
a misleading name. Not in compliance with the ASTM labeling
requirements, the name gives no indication that it is not made with the
expensive pigment usually associated with "Cerulean" (oxides of cobalt
and tin). Instead it is made with the much cheaper and less evocative
pigment, phthalocyanine blue red shade PB15:1 with white added to make
it appear like genuine Cerulean. I should add that the tube does show
the pigments included but the majority of buyers do not check this.
Here's a reason to start checking now!
Holbein 5ml & 15ml tubes: 24 new paints The new paints extend the watercolor line to a total of 108. All Holbein paints are extremely well made. They handle superbly and the unique character of each individual pigment such as textural or smooth is beautifully preserved. 48 Antique Irodori paints covered in LISTS
The newest Holbein paints also include an iridescent Silver and Gold (interference colors) and some "mixed" pastel colors as well as the latest new pigment colors- Rose Violet PR122 (the same as Winsor & Newton's Quinacridone Magenta PR122 and Bamboo Green PG36 (Winsor-Phthalocyanine green yellow shade) and a Permanent Alizarin Crimson. They are very good. You can check the colors of these pigments in the Guide.
Holbein's beautiful, luminous Bright Rose
and Bright Violet are fugitive
and clearly marked as such. They should be avoided unless
for short-term display. Another more serious caveat: the following four
paints in the established-not the new ones- line are not
marked as fugitive, but according to my tests they have
inferior lightfastness when compared to other paints on the market.
These are Crimson Lake PR83, Carmine PR83, Scarlet Lake PR48 and
Permanent Rose PR60. Note also that this "Permanent Rose" is not a
Quinacridone paint. I mention these out of frustration really, because
otherwise Holbein paints are so superior and handle so superbly.
American Journey 37ml tubes: 51 paints (Cheap Joe's)
Especially memorable are the names! Red Hot Momma PR188, Fire Engine Red PR188,PV19 and Bumble bee Yellow PY97 to name but a few! Several paints are named for the artists' who use them such as Andrews Turquoise, Getz Grey and, of course, Joe's (phthalo) Blue PB15 and Joe's (phthalo) Green PG7! However, I have reservations about a few names. Brown Madder Quinacridone PR101, PV19 for instance [ABOVE], is named as if it is just a quinacridone pigment when in fact it is made with both "Indian Red" PR101, a relatively inexpensive red iron oxide pigment and Permanent Rose (quinacridone) PV19. The dark mass tone color of Manganese Blue PB33, PB15 (phthalo) indicates that the paint is mainly phthalo blue but this is not evident from the paint name. I should add that the pigment content is indeed clearly listed on the tube. However, the ASTM specifies that after the paint name, the words "Hue" should be used if the paint contains pigment substitution and "Mixed" if more than one pigment is used from the generally understood pigment content implied by the name.
Wild Fuchsia (American Journey) is a beautiful, brilliant pink. That the paint is fugitive is clearly marked on the tube and in the catalog. Though a tad less lightfast, it is similar in color to Holbein's Opera.
There is always a problem with Aureolin. American Journey's "Aureolin" PY40, PY3 is a mixture of both Aureolin Cobalt Yellow PY40 and the more stable and cheaper PY3 though this is not indicated in the paint name. However, the paint contains enough Cobalt Yellow (PY40) for the pigment to react with the medium causing the tube to almost explode! And it's expensive too!
page 6 AUREOLIN ALERT! THE DEFECTIVE PAINT!
Here I will digress a little to give you a general warning about Aureolin
PY40 (Cobalt Yellow) in ALL brands.
Despite the ASTM 's good recommendation (rated ASTM II), my tests show,
and manufacturers agree, that the pigment Aureolin
PY40 turns BROWN and FADES even in a dry state.
NOTE: PY175 is cheaper than Aureolin and the same hue.
A few brands list an "Aureolin Hue". Usually it is made with a warmer, more orange-biased yellow, PY97 or PY151. These are not the best substitutes. They do not match Aureolin PY40 so closely and so do not work nearly so well for color mixing as does PY175 as in Winsor Lemon. The actual color of both Aureolin and PY175 is a warm lemon that will mix with reds to produce bright orange colors, and will mix with blues to produce fresh, vibrant greens. The left side of the samples below were exposed to sunlight in the same window and for the same amount of time.
Winsor & Newton's 2nd range.
I recommend the Cotman's
Permanent Alizarin Crimson (a pyrrole and quinacridone mix) [BELOW].
Compared to the genuine Alizarin Crimson PR83,
it is indeed permanent. Both
have been exposed to the same amount of sunlight. My sample of Rose
Madder Hue (Cotman) was not especially lightfast. This is
surprising since it is comprised of the same pigments as in Permanent
Alizarin Crimson which as shown, tested out very
DANIEL SMITH:14+ NEW PAINTS: Green Gold PG10 has been replaced with Rich Green Gold PY129, the same color as Winsor & Newton's Green Gold! Phthalo Blue red shade PB15:1 has been added as have some lovely new natural earth colors. The color of two of the new colored iridescent paints are fade somewhat (see lists- email me for them) The color fades but not the sparkle!
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First munis, now REITs. Income investors increasingly have to keep one eye on Washington as the government continues to re-examine, and in some cases challenge, existing tax-exemptions that apply to certain investments. A.D. Pruitt reports in today's Wall Street Journal that the House Ways and Means Committee is taking a new look at how real-estate investment trusts are taxed as part of a broader hunt for ways to raise revenue by closing some tax loopholes:
Industry officials and analysts say it is unlikely that REITs will lose their tax exemption because it doesn't result in a major loss of revenue to the Treasury. They point out that REIT dividends are taxed at a higher rate than other corporate dividends, 39.6% versus 20%.
REITs paid $29 billion in dividends to shareholders in 2012, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. If the 195 REITs lost the tax exemption and dividends were taxed at the same lower rate as other corporations, the amount gained would largely be offset by the amount lost from the lower tax rate on dividends, industry officials say.
Industry officials also note that the first REITs were established to give individuals an easy way to invest in income-producing real estate. If they lost their tax exemption, they would likely pay lower dividends and act more like other companies. "REITs are a creation of the tax code, so it's no surprise that all parts of the tax code would subject to a review," said Tony Edwards, general counsel of Nareit.
REITs don't have to pay corporate taxes on income as long as they pay out at least 90% of taxable income as dividends. The story points out that the increased tax scrutiny comes as nontraditional companies are exploring adopting REIT structures, saying there are seven such companies, including gambling operator Penn National Gaming (PENN), currently either evaluating or in the process of a REIT conversion.
Last month, this blog wrote about a Barclays report on the pros and cons of REIT conversions that listed least 15 firms actively considering a conversion, including CBS (CBS) unit CBS Outdoor, Lamar Advertising (LAMR),Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) and Waste Management (WM). Barclays said REIT conversions are often extremely time-consuming, citing the recent conversions of American Tower (AMT) and Weyerhaeuser (WY), which took years to complete.
You can read a letter sent by NAREIT on April 15 to the House Ways and Means Committee, which offers a handy overview of the REIT market, here.


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Lindstrom: Gun owners should pass background check, gun safety class
You can call this the Lindstrom philosophy. You have to have a license to drive. You must pass a test to drive. You must have car insurance. You must register your car. How about if we require all gun owners to register as a gun owner. They should have to register all of their guns. They must pass a background investigation and a gun safety class. A test. If you buy a gun either from a dealer or a private sale you must both have a background investigation. The same thing goes for the seller. Each gun. Each transaction. Each seller. Each buyer. The original intent of the Second Amendment was to have every person be able to have a gun in their house to be used to overthrow the government. They put it in there to prevent having bad government. Not so some drunk can put a gun in his or her pants and use it to shoot people in the local bar or elementary school. I would never say that people cannot drive or own a car as long as they comply with the law. The same should be true with guns.
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Bobby Green's '31 Ford Roadster
Ask any gearhead over the age of 50 what he thinks of the current "traditional" craze sweeping the rodding ranks, and he's likely to tell you that this new "trend" is in fact nothing new at all, simply a bunch of young guys (and gals) looking to re-create the glory of stripped-down speed and simplistic beauty enjoyed by the original rods of yesteryear. Of course, many of these re-creations are more than a little lacking when it comes to actual tradition, as whitewall-wearing, 'glass-bodied cars sporting flat-black paint and brand-new crate motors are becoming more and more popular–not that there's anything wrong with fiberglass cars or crate motors, as yours truly is currently using both in a project. The oddity lies in the fact that many young rodders new to the "scene" try to pass off their current rides as nostalgic artifacts from the hobby's formative years, when more often then not the cars are recently assembled collections of new parts with just a taste of vintage style. The super-sano A V-8 roadster you see here is not such a car. In fact, Bobby Green's outstanding hair blower is the real deal, a born-to-run hot rod built from a pile of vintage tin with the singular goals of speed and style in mind. We think he succeeded on both counts.
Thirty-year-old Green owns a bar in the Los Angeles area and is a card-carrying member of not one, but two SoCal hot rod clubs. One has an amazing history, the other tries to re-create history. The club plaque proudly displayed on the nose of the roadster bears the name THEM!, an L.A. club known for its traditional ways and period-perfect rides. Bobby credits fellow club members Piero, Zack, Charles, and Troy for helping him in the construction of his bitchin' Model A, which went together in a year for the bargain basement price of around $14 grand. The other organization he calls home is the Sidewinders, a group legendary for their annual pilgrimage to the dry lakes and salt flats for sanctioned land speed racing, something they've been doing since 1938. Why join the two clubs, you ask? Because Bobby is no cruiser or car show shiner; he's a hot rodder in the truest sense of the word. The roadster has been driven to the lakes and raced at the drags, and the next project on the drawing board promises to be even wilder: a vintage belly tanker infused with Ford four-banger power.
Speaking of power, the 283 Chevy sporting triple Rochesters and ported fuelie heads provides more than enough grunt to turn a 13.90 at 120 mph at the drags, which are pretty stout numbers for an open-roof street car on bias-ply tires. The motor is nestled between the rails of a Cornhusker frame that has been pinched in front and Z'd in the rear, while a Ford 9-inch rearend with Traction-Lock puts the power to the pavement and '41 Lincoln drums pull in the reigns when it's time to stop. The body was an old hot rod Bobby found with the floor cut out for a channel job and an Auburn dash leaded in for a touch of extra style. After replacing the firewall, cowl sides, subframe, and floor, the body was delivered to Fine Lines Auto Body in Venice, California, for a little smoothing out. Bobby then sprayed his own custom shade of PPG red with flattener to get the perfect shade of red. A Victor Montez black and white roll tuck 'n' roll job on a Glide Engineering bench is set off by Stewart-Warner gauges in an owner-built panel. Other vintage touches include a Lincoln Zephyr wheel and a "telescoping" mirror from a '60s Jaguar.
So did Bobby accomplish his goal of attaining vintage rod nirvana? Judging by the constant flock of people surrounding the car while your humble photographer attempted to shoot this month's cover, it appears so. However, like all hot rods, this car is a continuously evolving work in progress, and we expect to see more great things to come from this young gearhead, including what promises to be an outrageous take on one of racing's coolest animals: the land speed racer. In the meantime, the import-driving young street racers of L.A. would do well to steer clear of the little red roadster bombing down the blacktop, because this car is no fancy trailer queen; it's the real deal.


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All inbound buses, vans, trams, and the LAX Shuttle unload on the upper level. Use the "A" bus for airlink connections only. Frequent free shuttle service is provided between terminals to assist travelers in making airline connections. Board "A" Shuttle under the LAX Shuttle sign.


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The Student Government Association of Barnard College aims to facilitate the expression of opinions on matters affecting the Barnard community through active communication between students, administration and faculty.
With various forums for collaboration, such as committees and weekly Representative Council meetings, SGA strives to promote open dialogue and action that will enhance student life at Barnard College. All Barnard College students, by virtue of having paid student activities fees, are members of the SGA.
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During the 2009 legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 563 and created N.C. General Statute 58-82A-1 aimed at preventing pyrotechnic disasters and/or tragedies from occurring in North Carolina. The new law requires anyone discharging/operating pyrotechnics or proximate explosives to attend a training course and earn a pyrotechnics operator license before conducting a pyrotechnics display in North Carolina, effective February 1, 2010.
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Title: The Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins
Author: David Van Meter
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First published in 1991, and quickly going through two printings within eight months, Van Meter's Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins (HRIC) quickly became a cult classic among collectors and numismatists. This was no surprise, really ... the book remains the most comprehensive, and yet easy-to-use one-volume reference on Roman Imperial Coins that is available! With over 330 large-format pages, and 1000 + illustrations, the HRIC provides the collector with both an expansive overview of the history of the coinage, and a particularly thorough catalogue of the coin types. Numerous charts, tables, and a lexicon make identifying, attributing and understanding your coins a pleasure. This book is quite simply the best value in reference literature on Roman Imperial coins!
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Migraine Activism: How Do We Make People Care About Migraine?
"Yoda is wrong. There is only try." I posted this on my personal Facebook page with a link to my Migraine.com piece in the hope that some of my Star Wars-obsessed friends would be intrigued enough to read the post. I want people to understand that not everyone is healthy and limited by their own perceptions. That for some people, including me, a person most of my Facebook friends care about, trying really is all there is.
The next, unrelated status update in my Facebook feed read, "Are you avoiding talking about race because it makes you uncomfortable or because you just don't care?" "Huh," I thought, "I don't talk about race because I don't have the mental or emotional energy to do so." Because I don't face racism on a day-to-day basis and instead spend my life trying to manage a debilitating chronic illness, the topic doesn't come up for me much. On the rare occasion I'm having an intellectual debate, race may be mentioned, but it isn't part of my daily life (nor are intellectual debates these days).
Answered in the frame of my friend's binary question, I don't talk about race because I just don't care. That is so not true.
Everyone has a "cause" they want other people care about, whether it is race, homophobia, autism, or migraine. Yet, every "target" of a movement or campaign has a finite amount of energy and attention. We care most about what has the greatest impact on our own lives. This isn't selfish or uncompassionate, but a matter of allotting our limited resources to cope with this incredibly difficult task called life.
I want nothing more than for people to understand how severe migraine can be and the emotional and physical toll it can take. I want this not only for patients and their loved ones, but for society as a whole. My friend probably has similarly ambitious desires related to race. Yet, instead of energizing me to action, her comment left me feeling guilty because my daily struggle keeps me from pursing other important problems.
We can't guilt people into action, nor can we force other people to take up the fight for an issue that doesn't impact their daily lives. How, then, do we get non-migraineurs to care? This is an issue I discussed many times at the American Headache Society symposium in November and every conversation raised more questions than solutions. I'm working on a list of ideas, which I will share soon.
In the meantime, I want to hear from you: What do you do to help non-migrainuers understand the potential severity and debility of this illness? What other things could be done, whether by you, patients and their families, advocates, or headache specialists? How do we make people care about migraine?


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It is now less than a month before Barack Obama's administration takes office. One of the items high on the administration's agenda is making a serious effort at educational reform. The President-elect has appointed Arne Duncan to head up this effort. According to the Christian Science Monitor, Mr. Duncan will have a difficult task managing groups with differing view and strategies for how to accomplish reform.
The focus of the debate on education reform has centered around accountability and innovation in school administration. The Obama team has talked about more teacher training, pay for performance and charter schools. The success of programs would still be measured by student scores on standardized tests. But this debate still leaves the basic purpose, structure and substance of school unchallenged.
The structural model and curriculum we base our public schools on were essentially developed during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The model developed by Horace Mann and other reformers of this era was created for a society that was undergoing rapid industrialization; America needed a workforce with a basic, consistent education sufficient for employment in industrial firms. Today we live in a global, knowledge based economy – driven by rapidly changing technology. There have been many vocal advocates for change – e.g. John Taylor Gatto, recognized as New York City's Teacher of the Year several times during the early 1990′s, who wrote Dumbing Us Down, an influential critique of the country's creaking public education system.
But some of the most influential voices in the debate may lie outside both politics and education:
Friedman has painted a very clear picture of what the new global economy looks like and what it may means to the future hegemony of American economic power. Each American worker now potentially faces competition from skilled labor in other parts of the world.
Dan Pink has focused on the kind of thinking that living in Friedman's flat world requires. In his book, he discusses what he sees as six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend. As he says on his website:
The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate.
To thrive in this hyper-competitive global economy, perhaps the most important knowledge a person must have is knowledge of themselves and their own strengths; how to discover them, develop them and leverage them to the fullest extent. Some of the pioneering work in this area for businesses, has been research conducted by the Gallup organization. Over the years, they have performed detailed surveys of hundreds of thousands of individuals in an attempt to distill key strengths. One of the strongest advocates of focusing on strengths in business is Marcus Buckingham. In his book The Truth About You, he defines strengths this way:
Your strengths aren't what you're good at and your weaknesses aren't what you're bad at." There are things that you are good at, but they drain you, even bore you. Strengths are not activities you're necessarily good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it; it feels good to do it. A weakness is an activity that drains you or weakens you, even if you're good at it.
This approach is now being applied to schools, as well as businesses, albeit with some differences in the types of strengths that are examined. Jenifer Fox, the head of the Purnell school for girls has been a leader in the strengths movement in schools (seevideo).
Whatever struggles with education reform we may have in the coming years, we can draw strength from the wealth of new voices and innovative ideas available to apply to the task.


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Volume 1, Number 1 - September 2009
Marion W. Copeland
An Animal-Centric Literature
Philip Armstrong. What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-35839-2. 225 pp. $110 hb; 35.95 pb
In his third chapter, "Rendering the Whale," Armstrong explains what he sees as modernity's critical failure to account adequately for what the whale—or any other-than-human animal—means to humans, and its total failure to account for what the other-than-human animal means to itself. Since he believes Melville is vitally interested in the possibility that the whale possesses "an active independent agency, a resistance to human projects and projectives," this means that in Armstrong's opinion (and I have to agree) the novel has been largely misunderstood. Some critics have adopted what Robert Zoeller calls Ahab's "transcendental version of Moby Dick as calculating, 'deliberative, rational and malignant'" (qtd. in Armstrong 102), a description more accurately applied to Ahab himself. On the other hand, Zoeller (The Salt Sea Mastodon 1973), adopting the anthropocentric Euro-American assumption that "conscious intelligence," and therefore agency, belong to "humans alone," sees the whale as a naturalistic being enslaved by "instinct" (103).
"Rendering the Whale," explores, as the chapter's title implies, the largely anthropocentric historical context of the novel. This consists of "the three intertwined meta-narratives of [humans] of the time: a still potent Christian theology, a dominant and expanding industrial capitalism, and an emergent evolutionary science" (115). The first two "maintain […] both an absolute anthropocentric confidence in the invincibility of human enterprises, and an equally anthropocentric impermeable dualism between human and animal based on the former's allegedly unique capacity for calculated intention." The third provided Melville with a the vision of animal agency distinct from how Ahab, as either avenger or whaler, viewed Moby Dick, and, according to Armstrong, that provides the major and overlooked thrust of the novel.
Read as Armstrong reads it, Moby Dick, poised on the cusp of modernity, becomes a primer for an evolving human awareness of the agency and intentions of other-than-human-animals and for a literature that reflects and encourages that awareness. His readers have been prepared for this insight by Armstrong's careful search for animal presence and significance, and for suggestions of both animal agency and a "methodological vocabulary" capable of "articulating animal agency in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels (Chapter 1) and Frankenstein and The Island of Doctor Moreau (Chapter 2). By clarifying how Defoe, Swift, Shelley, and Wells, though drawn to a vision of animal agency not dissimilar to Melville's, fail to realize it, Armstrong establishes the strength and pervasiveness of western culture's anthropocentrism. His discussions of these novels are in themselves convincing arguments for how much animal presence and meaning has simply gone unnoticed—or at least unacknowledged by critics. Each of these classic texts anticipates a truly animal-centric literature. That they fail to produce more than a ghostly semblance raises in itself significant historical and thematic issues inseparable from the human-animal conundrum, and are well worth the time of any reader interested in Animal Studies.
The chapter following Armstrong's discussion of Moby Dick considers the work of Upton Sinclair, D. H. Lawrence, and Ernest Hemingway, tracing the ways in which "the growing influence of positivist science and industry and capitalism" denigrated any emotionally laden relationships between humans and animals as "immature and unrealistic" largely by confining "them to the socially disempowered spheres of feminine domesticity, maternity, and child-rearing" (134). In an earlier essay, "Moby Dick and Compassion," Armstrong wrote:
Because the notions of "anthropomorphism" and "sentimentality" often are used pejoratively to dismiss research in human-animal studies, there is much to be gained from ongoing and detailed analysis of the changing "structures of feeling" that shape representations and treatments of nonhuman animals. Literary criticism contributes to this project when it pays due attention to differences in historical and cultural contexts.1
Though The Jungle takes readers at least twice into the thought process of "[w]hat the hog thought […], and […] suffered" in the slaughter house, the novel has never been read by literary critics as an argument for "the liberation of farmed animals" (140). Perhaps that is because, as Armstrong suggests, Sinclair himself buries the issue under his exposure of the physical and mental suffering of the slaughterhouse's human workers, a suffering of more immediate concern to his readers. A similar recognition of and turning away from giving equal weight to human and other-than-human rights and welfare characterize Hemingway's animals and, to a lesser degree, Lawrence's as well. As Armstrong observes: "It is not until the second half of the 20th century […] that literary narratives have begun to produce animal histories" that are not overshadowed by human history and concerns (162-163). Such "histories," treating the stories of individual nonhumans so that they are understood to be themselves rather than stand-ins for either "wild animality" or the human condition—selves rather than metaphors — are considered in the final chapter of What Animals Mean.
Armstrong's final chapter—"Animal Refugees in the Ruins of Modernity"— traces humanity's growing awareness of the fragility rather than the invincibility of the natural world and, therefore, of the lives dependent upon its increasingly "claustrophobic and denatured environments" (170). Less convinced that he himself is not invincible, modern man seeks to control and manage the natural as well as the civilized world. "Under modernity," Armstrong writes,
All the human structures that circumscribe animal life—farms, zoological parks, slaughter houses, fisheries, nature reserves—become sites for scientific manipulation […], Frankensteinian workshops [...], spaces created by and for the purpose of experimentation with the organic world. (181)
Many of the novels considered in this chapter—novels like Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage—are set in such spaces. In them humans and their anthropomorphic god are cast as scientific experimenters, too often either mad or senile, and other animals as their experimental subjects. The problem with such spaces is, as Randy Malamud noted in his Reading Zoos, that confinement areas "remove (for the most part) animals' capacity for agentive resistence to interaction with humans, and subject them to constant surveillance and control. They commodify the experience of human-animal interaction and perpetuate the belief that humans have the right to manage the natural world" (175).
That conclusion leads Armstrong to overlook any positive developments in modern and contemporary literature's depiction of nonhuman animal characters. Some of the novels discussed—Findley"s and Hoeg's Woman and Ape, along with Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone—do present readers with animal-centric depictions of nonhuman animals as the protagonists of their own life stories, even though those stories are set in spaces that are controlled by humans. Instead, Armstrong focuses on novels that are not animal-centric, like Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary, Yann Martel's The Life of Pi, and Coetzee's Disgrace. Although usually characterized as animal novels, these texts follow some of the earliest texts Armstrong considers in presenting nonhuman characters either as under human control, without agency or intention, or, in the case of Martel, used solely as metaphors in what Armstrong reveals to be "a rhapsody to the power of the (touristic, all-consuming, privileged, globalized, Western) human spirit" (179).
Without question, Armstrong's clear-minded readings of these novels are long-overdue and invaluable correctives, akin to his reading of Moby Dick in Chapter 3. My objection is that they are in fact so powerful and convincing that they lead him (and consequently his readers) to an understandable but incorrect judgment about the current state of animal-centric literature and, by extension, Animal Studies. Nor is Armstrong alone in this overreaction to the negative. It stems from at least two of this final chapter's major sources, Marion Scholtmeijer's Animal Victims in Modern Literature (1993) and Randy Malamud's Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (1998). Like them, Armstrong becomes the prisoner of the very metaphor he uses to focus his discussion—ruins and refugees.
Very like readers determined to see nonhuman animal agency as a threat to human agency, and nonhuman animal equality as a threat to human supremacy, Armstrong falls victim to the power of his own argument. And therefore, like Scholtmeijer and Malamud, he concludes the book with a dispiriting emphasis on "the severely disabling effects" such "regimes of taste" and assumption can have on "the socially transformative function of literature." While that emphasis is in part a fair conclusion to Chapter 5, it fails as an uncontested conclusion to the whole thrust of either Armstrong's book or final chapter. Depressed at the current state of human-animal relations the novels he considers reveal, he became blind to the fact that writers like Melville, Findley, and Coetzee have created works intended (in Armstrong's own words) to "dismantle such regimes, in order to re-engage literary fiction with the most vital and intimate of contemporary structures of feeling," "narratives that attempt translation between the animals we are and the animals we aren't" (225). What Animals Mean needs, then, is an "Afterword."
Despite the lack of an adequate conclusion, What Animals Mean deserves to be read as an accurate history of the evolving of an animal-centric literature and adequate critical approach that heralds a sea-change in modern Western Euro-American humans' attitudes toward and treatment of other animals. Consequently, What Animals Mean is an essential book for anyone involved in Animal Studies and everyone concerned with animals in literature. (Armstrong's bibliography of primary and secondary sources should provide the beginning of a must-read list). I think it very likely that, as readers of Malamud were gratified with his visionary 2003 follow-up to Reading Zoos, Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (which Armstrong does not reference), Armstrong's readers can anticipate a sequel from him that is less the captive of a metaphor, more in touch with the animals and the literature that foregrounds them.
With readings such as Armstrong provides here and a glass half full instead of half empty, readers will discover in our literatures, past and present and future, narratives that depict nonhuman animal selves and subjects as accurately and convincingly as they depict human animal characters. Such characters promise that our fiction, by tapping into the narrative (or sympathetic or metamorphic) imagination that has always mediated between species and is responsible for the animal-centric story that lingers in legend, folklore, myth, and the oral and written literatures of human cultures world-wide, will evolve toward contemporary narratives capable of revealing to human readers what nonhuman animals mean to themselves as well as to us.
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Bob Burton necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Anginn Consutlting, Inc.
Anginn is an information management consulting firm that is focused on program, logistics, and process management for the Federal government, particularly the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. Its consultants are seasoned professionals with extensive experience supporting national defense and security organizations. Service to the country is the core value of the company. The company is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business and much of the staff are either military veterans or have supported U.S. Military forces for many years.
The company will work in the Federal Government market space. Our primary clients are expected to be the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and other National Security agencies. They all have significant management challenges and require companies that can bring them new ideas and approaches to solving those problems.
"Anginn" is old-english for "to begin again"...or "new start". The logo should reflect that sentiment as progressively as possible...something along the lines of a stylized Phoenix has been on my mind for some time...but not locked down. It does not matter if the logo is just "Anginn" or includes the entire title of "Anginn Consulting, Inc."
Font...modern...similar to Stomp_Neuropol...or...there was a unique font used for the title of the first Star Trek movie that I have always liked...creativity here is important...it's what my clients will see first
Colors...my thoughts have been towards Royal Blue, new Royal Blue, to dark shades of Blue; shadows in Old Gold or variations...but open to new ideas/combinations. If there is a symbol such as the Phoenix...whatever contrasting color(s) make sense
The logo will be used on the website, business cards, stationary, and professional documents.
Web file format should be .jpg, as a minimum...others as appropriate
Please do not use any stock images or clip art
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Google continues to tweak its Google+ social media platform as the company seeks to gain traction among businesses.
Google launched a preview of Google+ for business in August last year and is letting organisations use the business features for free until the end of 2013.
"Both within Australia and globally, we are seeing solid adoption" by businesses of Google+, according to Jeanne DeWitt, Head of Google Apps SMB Sales, Japan and APAC.
The service is used by both large and small companies, but DeWitt told Computerworld Australia that Hangouts, the videoconferencing feature of Google+, has proven especially popular among what DeWitt terms "the micro multinational."
"You may have four people in four different regions of the world these days," she said. "As a [small or medium-sized business], flying back and forth constantly isn't always an option."
DeWitt declined to provide specific usage numbers for the business flavour of Google's social media service. However, the Google official identified two Australian small businesses using Google+ and Hangouts: Above the Parapet, a marketing firm in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, and Shoes of Prey, an online retailer based in Sydney.
A recent GlobalWebIndex report by UK market research firm Trendstream found that in Q4 2012, Google+ became the second biggest social network worldwide among 16-65 year olds.
The number of active users on Google+ grew 27 per cent to 343 million users in the quarter, the report said. Facebook had the most users, with an estimated 903 million accounts.
In designing a business flavour of what began as a consumer platform, Google is "following on the general trend of consumerization of IT," DeWitt said. "A lot of what you're seeing on the consumer side also exists on the enterprise side. But on top of that, we realise that businesses do need additional administrative controls."
Google recently added the ability for businesses to restrict posting outside of the organisation in order to prevent people from publicly posting internal company information. More administrative controls are planned in future releases, "in response to things people have been asking for," DeWitt said.
"Google acknowledges the need for enterprise controls, but it believes the decision to allow data outside the organization should reside with the user, rather than administrators," Gartner analyst Matt Cain wrote in a Gartner report dated 28 November.
"Lack of a domain lockdown will make Google less competitive with Microsoft—with its newly acquired Yammer cloud social service—and therefore put it at a competitive disadvantage," Cain wrote.
"We know of cases where Google Apps customers have chosen alternatives to Google+, such as Salesforce.com's Chatter, precisely because of this issue."
However, Google's DeWitt said the company has responded to customer demand for more administrative controls. She also argued that business customers must become more comfortable with social media.
"We're in the middle of a paradigm shift with consumerization of IT and the move to cloud computing, and so there's a certain level of [comfort] that people just need to get accustomed to," DeWitt said.
"There's a heightened concern about data security that's a little bit misplaced because people aren't used to it yet."
The changes Google has made so far reflect the company's approach of launching first, collecting customer feedback and then prioritising changes based on the feedback, DeWitt said.
For example, Google recently added Hangouts integration to its calendar application in response to customer demand, she said. It also upped the maximum number of Hangouts to 15, up from the 10 allowed in the consumer version, acknowledging the larger size of business meetings, she said.
A business-focused mobile version of Google+ is in the pipeline, DeWitt said.
"The impact of Google+ on businesses and institutions is likely to be very subtle, just as it was with Gmail," said Ovum analyst, Richard Edwards. That's because Google doesn't have a specific Google+ business product, but rather has been "continuously enabling business features on Google+ which Google Apps for Business users can benefit from."
"As Marshall McLuhan once said, 'We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us,'" Edwards said.
"Businesses today are still very email centric, but this will change as we push through the decade and make use of a broader set of tools."


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Lesser Sand-Star Starfish
"Starfish is a popular name for any individual of the family Asteridæ, a familiar object on the Atlantic coasts. The body is more or less star shaped, and consists of a central portion, or disk, surrounded by five or more lobes, or arms, radiating from the body and containing prolongations of the viscera. The mouth is situated in the center of the lower surface of the body, and the anus is either absent or on the upper surface. Locomotion is effected by means of peculiar tube-like processes, which are protruded from the under surface of the arms. They possess in a high degree the power of reproducing lost members and abound in all seas. [Pictured] Lesser Sand-star (Ophiura albida)"—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
asteridæ, asteridae, lesser sand-star, ophiura albida, peculiar tube-like processes, sea star, star fish, Starfish, viscera
Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)


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About 100 students are offered spring admission each year to fill vacancies created by students who graduate at midyear and those studying abroad. These "Febs" are selected from the entire applicant pool and are notified of admission at the same time as students admitted for September.
Students may indicate on the Common Application Supplement their preference for a specific semester of entry (September only, February only, or either February or September); however, the admissions committee may not be able to honor all preferences. There are some students who may only indicate an interest in September but who may be offered a place in our February class.
Students enrolling in the spring use the fall semester to pursue a wide range of interesting options. Some elect to enroll at other colleges, others work, travel, volunteer or take advantage of the many proprietary programs aimed at young people.
More detailed information about February enrollment is can be found in our Frequently Asked Questions About February Admissions.
For more information about ways to plan a "Feb-mester," visit our Feb-mester Resources Page. Recent Febs offer some advice through the Feb Experience Page.


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Florida Keys considering drones to help eradicate mosquitoes
The Florida Keys agency charged with keeping the island chain's mosquito swarms at bay might become the nation's first to use drones to spot remote breeding grounds as part of efforts to eradicate the insect.
"If you try to get across the small islands it's back country, it's jungle," said Michael Doyle, executive director of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, who added the drones wouldn't replace boots on the ground, but would help turn eradication efforts into "smart bombing."
On Aug. 26 the head of North Carolina-based Condor Aerial will demonstrate the Maveric drone on a test flight for officials in hopes of selling the $65,000 aircraft to one of Florida's most popular tourist destinations.
Condor Aerial CEO Fred Culbertson said the two-pound, two-and-a-half-foot-long drone can fly for 90 minutes at 200 feet. For mosquito control, they will be fitted with thermal cameras, which can show the pools where mosquitoes lay eggs as dark spots on the ground.
Inspectors will have to take pilot training certification courses and local officials will have to seek Federal Aviation Authority approval to fly the drones.
"They're not going to be used for surveillance," Culbertson stressed.
Condor Aerial is a division of Prioria Robotics, a north Florida-based manufacturer that in 2010 received a $2.8 million contract from Canada to supply reconnaissance drones in Afghanistan.
Mosquitoes breed in the stagnant water left after a high tide or a storm. The agency employs 40 inspectors who scour 42 islands spread across 140 square miles. After an event, inspectors have only days before eggs grow into biting, potentially disease-spreading adults.
When a drone spots a potential breeding ground an inspector would visit the site to test for eggs, before calling in one of the district's four helicopters to spray a bacteria to kill them.
"What we're looking to see is if this technology can actually see shallow water either out in the open or under mangroves," Doyle said. "And how much land can it cover quickly so the inspectors can get out that day."
Doyle said the drones could help him better monitor the Keys with less staff. "As our budget is getting smaller we're trying to find ways to cover the same area with fewer people," he said.
Keys officials regularly battle the common Salt Marsh mosquitoes that breed by the millions and can fly up to six miles. Yet their chief concern is the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries dengue, known as breakbone fever for the intense joint pains it causes.
In 2010 the disease infected 63 people, according to a Center for Disease Control report.
Dengue mosquitoes can lay eggs in small, hidden pools that drones might not be able to spot. The only effective solution, Doyle said, is to visit sites multiple times a month, emptying any containers and spraying chemicals to kill any larvae that might grow.
"They've found them growing in a two-liter bottle cap," he added.
As well as considering drones, officials are awaiting Food and Drug Administration approval to release genetically modified, sterile males into the wild to mate with wild females that would produce no offspring. Doyle hopes the plan could collapse the mosquito population.
Still, there's no way to eradicate the insect completely. Tourists and seasonal residents are always introducing new species and diseases into the environment.
"Every time somebody brings a potted plant from Home Depot in Miami there are eggs in there," Doyle said. "The next time it rains there will be a few more mosquitoes."


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The product: karl lagerfeld for shu uemura Rouge Unlimited Lipstick in Luxe Burgundy, Mon Shu Red, and Celebrity Beige
While working on a shu uemura Blossom Dream post (Spring 2013), I was hit by a rather startling realization: in all of the holiday bustle, I completely forgot to post about shu's Holiday Rouge Unlimited Lipsticks.
Seeing as they were my absolute favourite part of the collection, you can see why that might have been a bit of an issue for me.
Karl Lagerfeld for shu uemura Rouge Unlimited Lipsticks in Luxe Burgundy, Mon Shu Red, and Celebrity Beige
The formula: You always hear about shu's lipsticks: at first, it was the packaging (anyone else remember those clear twist-up bullets?), then it was the shades (there are some ridiculously gorgeous ones), but in reality, it's all about the formula.
Comfortable and smooth, the Rouge Unlimited formula wears well on my dry lips, and applies without a hitch even over dry patches. It's less pigmented than I was expecting–not quite opaque–and wears with a natural shine. Because of the formula (glossy and moisturizing,) the wear is a little on the shorter end of the spectrum, but it's very comfortable within that timeframe.
And (here's the part that really sells me) the formula is completely scent- and taste-free. I love a scent-free lip!
Karl x Shu Luxe Burgundy, Mon Shu Red, and Celebrity Beige (L-R)
The shades: All three of these shades have microshimmer in them, adding to the glossy effect. It's most evident in Celebrity Beige (I think it'd be stellar as a creme finish) and least in Mon Shu Red, but it is present in all of them.
shu uemura Rouge Unlimited Lipstick swatches in Luxe Burgundy, Mon Shu Red, and Celebrity Beige
Celebrity Beige
The most natural of this collection, Celebrity Beige is a surprisingly wearable nude. Despite its peachy undertones, I find it fits well with my cool-toned complexion, and it translates just as easily on warmer skintones — Christine (Temptalia) has it reviewed and worn here.
Luxe Burgundy
I love a vampy lip, and Luxe Burgundy is an absolutely gorgeous varient thereof. A medium-opacity wine with plenty of brown undertones to keep the colour looking muted (but still bold), it has a little more shimmer than I'd like (still much less noticeable than that in Celebrity Beige), and leaves a bit of a stain as it wears away.
Like many semi-opaque dark shades, it can apply a little patchily, but I don't find I have too many problems once I give a few minutes to "settle in." Be sure not to slide your lips together overly much and you should be good!
Mon Shu Red
The most attention-grabbing of the Karl for Shu lipsticks, Mon Shu Red has the least noticeable shimmer… and the most noticeable pigment. It's a bright strawberry-red, a little slippery and hard to catch on film. Against my skin, it's almost fluorescent, and I can see it as a standout summer shade.
The same rules apply to Mon Shu Red as to Luxe Burgundy for wear.
The verdict?
At $30 USD/$31 CAD, I probably should not love these as much as I do. After all, they're not fully opaque, and the wear isn't perfect… but it is very good (if a little short and slippery), and the shades are absolutely stunning.
If you're on the market for a great scent-free lipstick–which can be so hard to find,–be sure to check these out. The Karl Lagerfeld for shu uemura Holiday 2012 collection is still available on the shu uemura website, and even once these shades are gone, I still think the formula is worth a look!


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Solid leadership is critical to the success of a world-class institution like Joslin.
Joslin's Board of Trustees is made up of local, national and international philanthropic leaders who have a special connection to Joslin and a shared goal of a future without diabetes.
Joslin's Board of Trustees works closely with the Joslin executive staff. Together, executives and volunteers ensure Joslin is grounded on a steady foundation, yet has the freedom to create new knowledge — the hallmark of this one-of-a-kind Center.
Jessica Hopfield, Ph.D., is a former partner of McKinsey & Company in their Global Pharmaceutical and Medical Device practice. While at McKinsey from 1995-2009, she served clients across pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and consumer industries with a focus on strategy, R&D management and marketing. [more]
John J. Cook, Jr., Counsel, Seaward Management. John joined Seaward in March 1999 and was a Managing Director through 2013. Prior to this he was President of UAM Investment Services for five years. [more]
Mike Devlin currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Randolph Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Randolph Savings Bank. In this role, he leads all of the Bank's financial activities, including financial reporting and budgeting, as well as asset-liability, investment portfolio and risk management. [more]
Roberta Herman M.D. was, until July 2013, was the Chief Operating Officer for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, one of New England's largest non-profit managed health care organizations, providing care and coverage to over one million members throughout Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. [more]
Ralph James is Executive Director of External Relations at Harvard Business School, responsible for development and alumni relations activities for HBS.
Fred Keeton is widely respected for his knowledge and business acumen, and he is a noted and sought after speaker. Keeton articulates the requirement for inclusion driven business enhancement and provides passionate leadership. Fred's veteran business and corporate relations experience allows him to effectively address dynamic and highly challenging issues in our ever changing political, social and economic environment. [more]
Ann Lagasse is owner of Lagasse Real Estate LLC a real estate development, leasing and management company. For twenty-five years she and her husband, Chuck, have been instrumental in the revitalization and restoration of the Newburyport historic downtown. Today their company is developing and managing mixed-use projects throughout NE. [more]
Daniel R. Omstead, Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer of Tekla Capital Management LLC and President and Portfolio Manager of Tekla Healthcare Investors, Tekla Life Science Investors, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund and Tekla World Healthcare Fund; four NYSE listed closed-end mutual funds that make equity investments in healthcare-related companies. [more]
James Peterson served as CEO of Haemonetics Corporation, and after retirement has worked to bring new technologies into reality to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes. In the process he was advisor to a private equity group on their diabetes investments, founded an insulin pump company for people with type 1 diabetes, and founded an insulin infusion company for people with type 2 diabetes. [more]
Geoffrey S. Rehnert is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Audax Group, a leading middle market private equity and private debt firm. Prior to founding Audax Group, Mr. Rehnert was a General Partner and Managing Director of Bain Capital, Inc., which he helped to start in 1984. [more]
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh is Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology at the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Dr. Rubenstein was the Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine from September 2001 to July 2011. [more]
Mark E. Russell is Vice President of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance for Raytheon Company. He assumed the position in July 2008, and was elected a company officer in June 2008. Russell guides the company's vision and provides corporate leadership in the strategic areas of technology and research, engineering, operations, performance excellence, programs security, Raytheon Six Sigma™ and Mission Assurance. He is responsible for 45,000 world-class people working on more than 8,000 programs. [more]
Stefany Shaheen is the Chief Operating Officer of Good Measures, a provider of Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) services. Prior to Good Measures, Shaheen owned and operated a management and communications consulting practice working with private and non-profit organizations with a focus on helping organizations navigate challenging transitions. [more]
Richard Smith is the Co-Chairman of the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. Dick has held a wide range of influential business and civic positions over the course of his career. He was the former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Harcourt General, the Neiman Marcus Group and the GC Companies. He has held directorships at the First National Bank of Boston, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Wang Laboratories. [more]
Ex Officio
Robert A. Gabbay, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, Chief Medical Officer, has over 35 years of clinical and research experience and is Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin Diabetes Center. [more]
George King M.D. is the Director of Research and Head of the Section on Vascular Cell Biology at Joslin, as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. [more]
Honorary Trustees
Ken Quickel, M.D. is President Emeritus of the Joslin Diabetes Center. He served as CEO from 1987-2000 and again from 2008-2010. He was a staff physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, a trustee of both Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CareGroup and an Overseer of Brigham & Women's Hospital. [more]
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Canada's UN vote on Palestine hurts its role in peace process: NDP
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Friday, November 30, 2012 8:49AM EST
Last Updated Saturday, December 1, 2012 10:52PM EST
The Canadian government's staunch opposition to a vote that raised the status of Palestine in the United Nations has destroyed its credibility in the region and disqualified it from participating in future peace talks, the New Democrats charged Friday as Ottawa temporarily recalled diplomats from Israel and the West Bank.
NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said the Conservative government's campaign against the UN's recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state at the world body is baffling, marring all the work Canada has done over the past several decades to improve relations between Palestine and Israel.
"We can't play that kind of role anymore with the behaviour we've seen from our government," Dewar told CTV's Power Play Friday.
Canada was one of nine countries that voted against elevating Palestine's status at the UN on Thursday, joined by Israel, the United States, the Czech Republic, Panama and the Pacific island nations of Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau.
One hundred and thirty-eight nations supported the motion and 41 abstained.
Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird went a step further on Friday, temporarily recalling Canada's senior diplomats from Israel, the West Bank and the UN missions in New York and Geneva.
He said he's bringing diplomats back to get a better sense of how the UN vote will affect the situation in the Middle East and what the implications may be for Canada.
"We took a principled stand. We believe that statehood is a product of peace with Israel and the Palestinian authority is trying to go around Israel to the UN to get what they couldn't get at the negotiating table," Baird told Power Play.
"We deeply regret the confrontational, aggressive posture that (Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas brought to the UN yesterday," Baird added. "He could have said: 'I support the existence of a Jewish state, I strongly support a two-state solution and let's get back to the negotiation table,' but he didn't do that."
Dewar said Baird has gone "too far" in his opposition to UN's vote and accused him and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of making "veiled threats" against the Palestinian Authority.
Dewar also said Baird unfairly criticized the UN in his speech to the group Thursday.
"What does that do for Canada? How is that going to help parties get to the table?" he said.
Baird said that Canada supports only a negotiated settlement between the two sides.
He has suggested that Ottawa would take retaliatory measures against the Palestinians for forcing the UN vote. Though some observers say that might mean that Canada would consider suspending aid to Palestinians, Baird insisted his government won't be taking any strong action on the matter anytime soon.
However, if the U.S. cuts off aid to Palestine, the international community should not "expect Canadians to make up the funding that Americans had provided," Baird said Friday.
A five-year, $300-million program providing assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank is coming to an end in March, and International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino will have to decide what kind of support role Canada will play after that, Baird said.
He added that his government's biggest concern is that the Palestinian Authority will now seek membership in a variety of UN organizations, including the International Criminal Court.
The Harper government has repeatedly said while it supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a Palestinian statehood should be a "by-product" of peace negotiations -- not imposed by the United Nations.
Liberal human rights critic, Irwin Cotler, said Friday that he shares Baird's concerns that Thursday's vote will be detrimental to peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel.
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The IPPF has always been instrumental in supporting clinical and scientific meetings. In addition to supporting the American Academy of Dermatology's (AAD) Symposium on Autoimmune Blistering Diseases, the IPPF is co-sponsoring the International Pemphigus Meeting in Bern, Switzerland in June 2009. This meeting will gather the finest minds in the world studying and researching pemphigus.
Subjects include: models in pemphigus, cell signaling, immune responses, unconventional therapies, and how stem cells might play a part. Janet Segall, IPPF Director of Patient Services & Education, will add a human face to the ramifications of these diseases among the scheduled scientific discussions.
The hope for better results comes from the work of people speaking and attending this meeting. The IPPF is proud to partner and co-sponsor such an important discussion and thank all those involved. The registration deadline is March 31, 2009. Anyone interested in attending this meeting should register at http://www.kas.unibe.ch/pemph09/.


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As it says on the tin.
Right now on the Gold Coast, Queensland, it is 29.8 degrees and a humidity of 54%. It was in the mid-30's earlier today.
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soggy california
Oldman wrote:You got our weather and we inherited yours. 58 degrees and gorgeous. Listened to "Young Man Blues" from Live at Leeds followed by "She seeks Sanctuary" going up a hill. It was really nice. Your weather will return soon.
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First of all OMG! Fortune can be downloaded free of cost. Thus, you would not have to worry about any hidden charges. Different versions are offered for either Android and iPhone, so this is one more concern that you can put off your shoulders.
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