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The Chinese company, Vivo, brought a motorized camera setup in it's last month launched Vivo Nex series smartphones. The main purpose of innovating something like a motorized camera setup was to make the smartphone as Bezel-less as possible. The mechanism involved mechanical setup of a motorized camera which gets concealed in the top of the smartphone and pops up only when required or called for. A user wishing to take a selfie will have to launch camera and will see the camera elevating above the smartphone. However, very li'l probably did they know at the time that this may cause a trouble to it's users in future. Yes, if a video posted on Weibo by Abacus News is to be believed then the motorized camera pops up even when it is not called for.
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In a video posted, the motorized camera elevates when the user composes a new message on Telegram. The action to compose the message isn't mixed with any action to elevate the camera. The video highlights how without triggering the command for camera, the camera pops up when compose action for a new message is hit in the app and the camera settles back when the app is closed. A similar bug is reported while using the CTrip app and Tencent's QQ browser. Although in the case of CTrip and Tencent's QQ browser, the camera pops up partially and settles back when the apps are closed. The news spread like a wild fire within few hours of video posting and users sought an answer from the Chinese smartphone brand, Vivo and the app developers.
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In a statement released by Tancent on this issue, clarified that the camera pops up but doesn't record anything. This makes us believe that the bug could be with the app's API and may not be with the smartphone. However, this is difficult to comment firmly in the absence of Vivo's comment on the issue. We await Vivo's clarification on the issue and other Vivo Nex series smartphone users' report of any other bugs found while using the smartphone.
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Whilst many now recognise that learning is most efficient when down in bitesize chunks, there are still a proliferation of training courses that extend over one or more days. It can be challenging for participants to maintain their concentration during this time, and one useful way of gathering or maintaining momentum is the use of a training energiser. These are our top 5 training energisers:
1. Names in the air
Ask participants to write their name in the air with their finger using their preferred hand. This should prove fairly easy for most. Then ask everybody to write their name simultaneously using both hands. This will prove far more difficult for most and should create some laughter and amusement.
2. Flat Piano
A prop is needed for this energiser – which is a large flat keyboard/piano which unrolls onto the floor. Split the participants into groups of 4/5 and give each the instrument and a sheet of basic music showing which member of the team needs to press which key with their feet and when. The groups are set a time limit to learn their roles and then perform their melody to the rest of the groups. Sweets or other treats may be awarded for the best performance.
3. Truth or lie
This is an old but great energiser. Divide the participants into two groups and ask each individual to write down one truth and one lie. The aim of the game is for the other group to determine if the truth and lie of the individuals in the opposing group. Teams should work together and this is more fun if the individuals have some knowledge of each other.
4. Tug of war
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5. Large games
This one again needs a prop – an oversize wooden block tower such as Jenga. First split the participants into two or more teams. The rules are simple - each person has to remove a block in turn, and the person that removes the block that causes the tower to fall loses the game for their team. Teams are allowed to confer and strategise as to which block their player should remove.
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In my experience, energisers are successful when they are fun without being silly or patronising. It is also very important to pick an energizer to suit the particular group, and their specific attributes. A great way to introduce an energiser is to get the group to poll to decide which activity they would like to do. Explain three potential energisers and then use IQ Polls to get the participants to vote on which one they would like to do.


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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Vintage totally inappropriate, really?
This past Saturday was warm, sunny and felt springlike. I wanted to wear something springy. This dress and sweater were thrifted over the winter months. I find thrifting off season to be very beneficial. Our thrift store sorts their dresses and shirts into long sleeves and short sleeves. So in December, I am looking over the short sleeve dresses because for the most part they go undisturbed until the season hits. I found this little gem, at least I think so. I love the colors and the fit of this garment. On Saturday I had to do some shopping and wore this dress. My husband smiled when he saw me in it. I felt happy too. Then I went to a store and you would have thought I was wearing something totally inappropriate. In a sea of blue jean wearers, I stood out like a sore thumb. There were a lot of stares. I just ignored what was going on around me and did my shopping. Although it got me thinking, why do we look so much alike with our styles and clothing? I don't know about other people, but for too long I have stayed within the confines of what's acceptable in the fashion world, even to the point of making sure the flare of my pant was in keeping with the time. Really, if you think of it, it's silly! I found myself wondering about the history of garments. Hundreds of years ago, people wore all kinds of styles of clothing that they loved, with no help from a television or magazine. There must have been a great variety of clothing on the earth. So often I ask myself, do I have to live with the styles of 2011, or can I live life with what I love? I will say this, that I don't intent on living all the days of my life with the color blue (jeans) on over half my body, although I have a few pairs of jeans, in general, they don't suit me. What I am stumbling to say is; I am not trying to be different, or find my significances in what I wear, rather it's how I feel on the inside that effects what I want to wear. The way I am wired, I fit somewhere else in the garment timeline. You might too.
Something else I ponder often is this thought, do people really love what they wear? Maybe they feel like me, struggling with the best they can find at a mall, feeling they are at the mercy of the ideas of the fashion gods. You are in luck, if the mall is carrying clothes that fit your body and in styles you love. So often I have wanted to take a poll of the general population. It would look like this, if you could wear anything from any time period what would you pick? Somehow, I don't believe people would chose a big sweatshirt that has some logo plastered on it (although, I understand the need for comfort). No, I believe we want more than just being a bulletin board for someone else's ideas. I think you would hear a variety of things.
Going back to Saturday's outfit, I have to laugh a little about it, because really, I was wearing a dress from the 60's, only out of style by 40 or so years. Hehe. What's that compared to all of time, but a drop in the bucket. So, today I chose not to fear stepping out, even with the stares at my back. In the end, I love variety in others and in myself. I love it when someone wears something off beat and they look great doing it. I love the old guy who wears his plaid suit grinning at everyone. I love the old lady who still wears her winter coat from 1962. It's unexpected, beautiful and just plain fun! I think it would be a fascinating world to see such variety, right now from where I sit I can only see a sea of blue, maybe it's different in other places. Thanks for letting me get this out, it's just my opinion and my thoughts. Leave me your thoughts, in a perfect world, if you could break the "fashion code" what could you see yourself wearing, what would you embrace? What is your chosen styles/eras? What REALLY fits with your unique personality and style?
Have a fabulous vintage day!
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I say wear what you like! I love fashions from the 30s to the early 60s, but also bright bold crazy prints and sleek modern grown up looks. So my wardrobe is kind of crazy. I end up wearing jeans a lot, especially in the winter, but I'm working on building my made by me wardrobe!ReplyDelete
I try to wear vintage (or vintage inspired) to work every day, but I'm constantly fighting against jeans. It's just so easy and acceptable to wear jeans and a cardigan! I get funny looks when I wear vintage too, but I always smile my biggest smile and I usually get a smile back. ...and for every funny look I get at least two compliments. If I could go on a shopping spree in any time period, it would be 1958 through 1962. I think ladies fashions from those five years are the best ever. I LOVE your yellow dress and pink cardigan and your hairstyle is perfect. Don't let the funny looks discourage you! :)ReplyDelete
I love this dress, and the way you're wearing it. Clever that the cardi picks out the little bit of pink in the dress print, and I adore your shoes. You know, most of those stares will have been in admiration - for your courage to wear something different, for the fact that you could be bothered to put together a real outfit and for your sheer beauty! Maybe you'll inspire some of those folks to try and dress a bit more creatively! xxxReplyDelete
For starters, this is such a great find! You look lovely in it. I think you must have been getting stares because they were wishing they had a cute dress on, too. :)ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed reading your post today. This is an idea I struggle with as well. I love dressing "vintage" but I don't like sticking out and having attention brought onto me. It feels that I can only have it one way or the other, so I usually let my mood dictate my outfit on any given day. :)
But the other point of contention I find in my daily wardrobe, is that I'd rather just run out of the house in jeans and a T for a morning coffee, instead of taking the time to dress nicely when I know I'm only going to be outside in the world for 10 minutes. I'm still struggling to find balance, but I find the older I get, the more balance I am finding. :)
As far as era's go, my first love is the 50's but the 40's are slowing winning me over.
Fab dress! I used to pay attention to the quizzical looks when I wore vintage, now I wear it so much I've been able to ignore them. People just stare when you don't wear the ordinary. Let them. :)ReplyDelete
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I wear jeans most days in the winter, but I want to try making trousers and winter skirts this year now that I'm more confident with my sewing.ReplyDelete
If I could, I'd wear 50s style full skirted dresses with big petticoats everyday! :) Well, maybe not everyday, but you know what I mean.
Great post, really got me thinking about what I wear.
Ashley x
Well I think it looks lovely :)ReplyDelete
But then again, I had a similar experience to yours when I wore one of my handmade (from a vintage pattern) dresses to the mall- I was totally overdressed!
I can totally relate! I love to wear dresses, but few people in my circle of friends wear dresses on a regular basis, and no one wears the full-skirted vintage-style dresses that I like to wear. I often feel out of place and overdressed, but life is too short to wear jeans every day. I also notice that the more I dress up, the more people around me start to dress up. Maybe it will be contagious!ReplyDelete
Hmmm, I know exactly what you mean Gina. Sometimes when I'm out and about I'll turn around to J and ask if I have two heads or something because people seem to be staring. How about this for a theory though...the people that stare are so sick of looking at people wearing jeans too. Why would they look when you wear jeans, They see that everywhere. But when they see an inspired outfit, they can't help but look. Not in a "girl you look weird" kinda way, but in a "girl, you look aMAZing" kind of way "and I just wanna spend some time checking out what you've done there so I can copy it at a later date!". I know when I see someone who's outfit catches my eye in a good way, I'll be mentally noting down the details that inspire me, and before I know it I'll probably have been watching them for too long,lol!ReplyDelete
I once got acosted in a nightclub by a rather aggressive/drunk Essex girl who was clearly up for a fight and asked me "what the **** are you staring at?!" (I know,classy girl!)WhenI explained I totally loved her skirt, she was chuffed to bits and nice as pie!
Think of it not so much as standing out like a sore thumb, more like standing out like a beacon of delicious colour and style in an otherwise "blue" world. Perhaps the people you encountered were not staring at you in a bad way, but more of a "wow" way!
Love that outfit!!
I say good for you for wearing what you like and makes you feel good! I love the colors in that dress and that pink sweater is perfect to pull the pink from the dress!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous dress--it reminds me of some of those fantastic vintage sheets I've been thrifting lately. ;) You look so pretty in all these photos, Gina!ReplyDelete
I usually stand out as well--I'm chronically overdressed (but that sometimes is a good way to break the ice and make a joke at parties! ;) At least for me, who tends to be a bit shy anyway...). At this point I don't really mind or think about it anymore--unless it's blazingly obvious (someone makes a point to comment, etc.). I definitely feel more comfortable with how I dress than when I wear what is considered standard fashion fare for the average American (jeans, tshirt, flip flops in my region). I think too I've always had eccentric leanings in regards to my dress, but it wasn't until I was an adult and started making more fashion choices based on dressing to please myself, that I actually embraced it. ;)
I've always wondered what motivates people to make the fashion choices they do? I've always been extremely conscious about the message clothes can convey to others, and it's an area that I've studied quite a bit about. But the flipside--people who don't feel quite as interested in these things--I've always been curious abotu. What motivates the choices? Reading your comment about people wearing tshirts with brands enblazoned across the front, I was struck by this though: Do most people even *care* whether they are a walking billboard for a brand and essentially giving away free ad space to a company that will most likely see financial rewards from this form of advertising? Does it even occur? I can't even think of the last time I wore something with a prominent brand name. And not to be snobbish about it--I don't mean it in a "holier than thou" way. I just hate the idea of letting other groups of people profit from me wearing their products. Perhaps I'm just odd like that?
Anyway, interesting thoughts! :) Thanks for sharing them, Gina!
PLEASE grant permission for me to guest-post this on my blog, Kelley Highway!ReplyDelete
I am 50 years old and FINALLY got this a few years ago at 40. Well, I mean TEN years ago! What was the result? I ditched every piece of BLACK I owned. I ALWAYS hated how black made the lovely me look. In other words, I NEVER liked how black made the lovely me look. At 40 I made the decision to choose... I chose to wear what I felt lovely in, not thinking, "So-and-so is going to think this outfit looks good on me."
At 50, I'm INTO color! I'm INTO texture! I'm into beauty! On my graying, redheaded, size 14P on top and 14 below-frame, I love how I feel in browns, rusts, avocados and other greens, mustards, corals and teals... and any other color that resembles baby puke. I gave myself permissions to be ME!
I'm into wearing what I feel pretty in because God made me beautiful. I stopped looking at all my flaws and deciding to love me and dress me in what pleases God and my hubby and me. God doesn't make junk!
And young lady, I'm sooooo grateful you "got it" at an early age! This post is transparently RIGHT ON! Thank you x 18 for sharing this! I feel so blessed to have read this today.
Confession: When I first read the title, and then saw your first photo on this post, I thought, "Wha'?" and then "She looks aDORable in that!" blurted out of my mouth. Not, "I love her outfit" but "She looks positively radiant!" You are as beautiful as you feel.
WEAR WHAT YOU FEEL! WEAR WHAT YOU LOVE! LOVE the you you are!
P.S. With that pink sweater, girl, you added FROSTING to your cupcake!
IT'S DEFinitely YOUR IDEAL!
- Winding WaysMay 24, 2011 at 1:17 PM
My mama says that if people stare at you when you are "over-dressed" it is only because they assume you are going someplace much more interesting immediately afterwards. Let them.ReplyDelete
As far as what time and period I would like to wear, I have always felt that the most beautiful outfit that compliments every woman's figure is the sari. But as I have no connection whatever with the Indian subcontinent I think I would look silly and "costume-y" if I tried to wear one.
I really like your dress, it looks good on you and very season appropriate, but I get it if people stare as what you are wearing is probably what most others would only wear to a party...Or at least that's what people assume when I'm dressed up, I've been asked several times what the occasion is/where I'm going. It's pretty sad I think, that people are now so lazy that parties are the only occasion for when we get dressed up. Or are we just so uninterested in fashion with too much else on our minds to care about what we wear?ReplyDelete
I don't know, but I have those lazy days pretty often too, when it's easier to just throw on a pair of jeans than to pick out a matching outfit just to go grocery shopping. On the other hand I'd like there to be a few more everyday-but still 40's-60's in style- clothes in my closet so that I'd be able to look good, be comfy and lazy all at the same time. Still something to work on in that never ending wardrobe project of mine...
Keep up dressing the way you like though, maybe we can inspire others to dare to be different? Because I know that there's people out there who want to! And besides, what's the worst that could happen? :)
I try to wear something classic that I feel pretty and confident in. I don't know if it's just me being oblivious, but I never really notice stares when I wear my outfits. I tend to mostly wear skirts and dresses, and only wear pants if I'm just REALLY feeling jeans that day, or they're similar to Katherine Hepburn's. I tend to like the '30s to the '50s, but I mix and match and put together what I find aesthetically pleasing.ReplyDelete
Wear what you like and what you feel best in. Who cares if others stare. I agree that they could've just been staring in admiration...wondering where you got that dress. Or they could've been Debbie Downer's thinking you were completely over dressed. Who knows and who cares. Maybe it'll inspire others to try the same.
I think there is something to be said about finding clothing that is appropriate and fits you - beyond that, it should be limit-less. For example, I have seen lots of cute 1930's "house" dresses that I would love to sew up. But I know that it wouldn't be appropriate for work (business professional), or going for 3 hour walks (my favorite past-time with my hubby), and I just don't see myself wearing it while scrubbing floors and folding laundry. So sadly, it wouldn't fit into my life, even though I admire the style.ReplyDelete
However, there are also quite a few patterns from the 30s - 60s that I would love to sew up because with the right fabric, they would be perfect for work. While there are others that would be considered too "dressy" in modern society for running errands, but as long as it is appropriate (ie, not an evening gown or something) there is nothing wrong with wearing it while out and about.
I love that dress and it looks so nice on you, and the hair-do, too!ReplyDelete
I know what you mean about being made to feel like you are wearing something inappropriate. I love to wear dresses and have a closet full of them. I live in farm country in the upper midwest, though, where all the women wear jeans and mannish clothing. Wearing ANY kind of a dress at all turns heads, let alone something vintage.
I am usually the only lady who wears a dress to church. Maybe only one other lady does. All the ladies, even the ones in their 80's, wear pants. Not that it matters if you wear pants to church, of course, the important thing is that you come. But for me, I like to have at least one place where I can dress up, you know.
I did wear a vintage hat once or twice, and that really got stares at church. I don't like to feel like I'm being eccentric, so I probably won't wear them any more.
It is very sad that we have this Chairman Mao unisex look with the ubiquitous blue color. I, too, would love to see variety. I have some vintage dresses from the 80's and 90's -- those long flowing flowered ones and I can get away with wearing those to church and not getting stared at.
- AnonymousMay 24, 2011 at 5:48 PM
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That is such a lovely, happy outfit. Doesn't seem overdressed at all to me. Then again, living in London as I do, there is probably a much greater variety in what people wear at any one time. I wear 50s dresses & cardies any day of the week, even to collect the kids from school or go to the shops. And if I saw you dressed like that, I'd probably look at you, thinking what a nice combination and taking mental notes!
- AnonymousMay 24, 2011 at 6:10 PM
I actually like your dress with the yellow flowers and pink sweater. It's much more attractive and pretty than blue jeans. :)
I have a few :gasp: jeans in my closet too, but I am sick and tired of wearing them, so I don't.They are just "taking-up space" in my closet. They are the most BORING and uncomfortable piece of clothing ever, ugh! Don't know why I used to love them so much!
Most of the clothes in the mall are not to my liking either. I think that's why I end-up wearing the same clothes over and over again. I can never find what I like, and some things don't fit right, and some clothing is just over-priced. Ugh!
It really pays to know how to sew, I suppose, but when you don't know how (like me) I guess you're stuck with what's in the "trendy market." :( Ugh!
-L. Rose
I think you look stunning! But I agree, it can be disconcerting and make you feel self conscious when you go out and are more dressed up than everyone else in their denim uniforms. I find I get more funny looks when I wear my hair vintage than when I wear vintage clothes. I wear dresses most of the time because I find them most comfortable and also its so much easier to pick one item to wear than have to arrange a top and a bottom! Go for it I reckon, life is too short to not be an individual, who wants to be like everyone else..? not me!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2011 at 11:24 PM
Getting weird looks is something I am totally accustomed to. But the more I study fashion and the more I try to find the right balance for me,ReplyDelete
I realize that many of us just don't want to take time to look good.
It takes a great deal of work to put an outfit together, especially one that actually fits :)
You looked great! And I know that you are not going to mind the looks...you are different - end of story :)
Mrs. M.
I am NOT a jeans fan, either. And I always feel like my fashion tastes have confused my small town peers. Moving to the city really seemed to validate my sense of style: there really are folks out in the world who share our aesthetic. And by the way, that dress is killer cute! Great find!ReplyDelete
I totally agree, l don't think enough people care about their appearance these days. No one should stare, but lve had it here before too, l think we all have. Like you, l ignore it. I am rocking a vintage summer dress today!ReplyDelete
Wow you sure got the comments on this one. I especially enjoyed Kelley the 50 year old saying she is glad you 'got it' early on in life. You stand out girl because you are so beautiful. When people stare stand up straight and be proud you are not looking like they do!! I lived 60 years in California before moving to Alaska and I notice that Midwestern people are a bit on the conservative side. I hope I don't get into trouble saying this but they are very conforming if you know what I mean, that is why they all look the same. You are NOT following them and I love it!! Keep it up!ReplyDelete
You always look so pretty in anything you wear, I think that some of the people will be staring because you are pretty and they don't see beauty everyday!ReplyDelete
Twenty years ago I used to make all of my own clothes (I am just starting dressmaking again) and the only time people stared at me was when I was wearing something handmade, I know it was because my clothes were always ahead of what everyone else could buy in the shops, Vogue patterns always had something that little bit different.
If I could wear anything it would be in agreement with Ashley's comment, full skirted 50's style with lots of petticoats and little white lace gloves and pretty shoes and a bag to match!
I am just finishing my first dress after such a long break from sewing, it is a blue and white dress, the bodice is blue and the skirt has big blue and white flowers on it, I am a little nervous of wearing it for the firt time because it makes such a statement but I think my confidence will improve when I wear more pretty dresses that I have made myself. I am sure there will be stares when I wear it, but I know it is because I am not wearing blue jeans like everyone else!
I love checking out your blog to see what gorgeous things you have made.
You look lovely. We live in a society that is way underdressed and not much care is paid to one's appearance. I find it refreshing when someone goes to the trouble to look nice. I think it a courtesy not to be an eyesore and to provide something nice to look at. If enough of us did that, maybe it would catch on and more would join in.ReplyDelete
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I think your dress is lovely, and you look lovely in it. I feel similarly about clothes to how you do, but I think it sometimes works against me :) I do LOVE my blue jeans- I am just so comfortable in them, working, running around, getting dirty or cooking. I want to wear more dresses and skirts, but I end up reverting to my comfy jeans :) And, I find a pair or two I like and wear them all of the time! The other stuff I really like to wear is unusual thrifted items or thing I sewed. I have often gotten trouble from friends and family about some of the odd-ish or outdated stuff, but to me it is more about how I feel in something and less about how it looks, beyond being presentable. I feel special in a blouse I sewed knowing how hard I worked on it- or even a thrifted hand sewn garment, knowing how much someone else loved it. What helps is to be oblivious to what other people think :) You are beautiful- just keep being you and doing what makes you happy.
hmm,, nIce dress U wear.. it Looks So suitable With U..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM
I loved your post. You inspired me to go ahead and wear the top I just finished sewing up out of a yellow & green floral sheet. I love the way sheets feel on my skin & I loved the pattern. As of noon today I've gotten a few crazy glances but no one has said a word about my shirt and I FEEL Great! Thank you keep up the posting I love to read yours!ReplyDelete
Great post. I know that exact feeling of what you are describing. Whenever I walk around town in my 1940s workwear outfits or more feminine 1950s dresses I really don't care what people think, but as soon as I go back home to the small town where I grew up I feel quite uncomfortable wearing my vintage/retro clothes. I know that people stare, talk and probably think I'm weird and unfashionable (even if they are all bluejeans and t-shirts them selves) and I feel a bit offended by it. But still, I've decided to not change my style depending if I'm in the city or back at my parents place, because frankly, my wardrobe are a 100% vintage/retro by now and so am I ;)ReplyDelete
But to answer your question, if I could choose ANY style, I'd probably go wearing high waist 40s slacks and a comfy 1920s blouse or something ;)
This is such an interesting post and discussion (I'm a little late to the party).ReplyDelete
It can be hard to walk the line between what you find comfortable and 'right' for you and not worrying about stares from other people. I've always been a self-conscious person so I've always assumed people are staring at me disapprovingly for one thing or another, and that started years and years ago before there was much "different" in the way I expressed myself, so at this point I don't really worry about it.
I feel most comfortable in vintage or vintage-inspired clothes, though this doesn't mean I dress up a lot, because I don't. I tend to dress in more casual vintage styles. I do wear jeans and slacks quite frequently but they are high-waisted and more of a 40s and 50s look. Just because I'm into vintage doesn't mean I feel the need to wear a dress or skirt and heels all the time. So for quick jaunts I still look vintage, but I'm likely wearing something like high-waisted jeans, a tucked in blouse and saddle shoes, Keds or wedge sandals. But I know a lot of girls who are into vintage are much fancier in their styles, so that might not be something that their wardrobe would allow them to go. However my vintage wardrobe is much more suited for errands and picnics than it is dances and fancy dinners, honestly. LOL
And one last thing, on the subject of being comfortable: the other day we went to help a friend paint her apartment, so of course I didn't want to get any of my vintage or vintage-inspired clothes covered in paint. I wore normal modern jeans and a tank top, and I can't tell you how strange I felt all day!! Granted I was really glad to be wearing it since I did splash paint on myself, but I felt weird in those clothes and not like myself. It's very interesting how your opinion can change over time!
Seriously adorable dress, and you look beautiful! People are weird aren't they?? I know if I wear even a dress or skirt out and about on the weekend I draw stares, but often it's the good kind. Men open doors and smile, older gentlemen especially will tip their head or speak. I feel better in more feminine things, although sometimes I resort to jeans too. Usually this is because I don't have what I want in my closet though. I'm trying to remedy that with my sewing machine! (RTW just won't work for me, and vintage in my size is IMPOSSIBLE to find.)ReplyDelete
That dress is incredibly lovely!ReplyDelete
I had similar thoughts at the beginning of May, when the temperatures rose enough to wear cute skirts and dresses but still almost every girl and woman I saw on the streets was wearing jeans. I vowed to not wear jeans for the entire month of May, and I didn't (except for a couple of hours, when I totally forgot about it). Honestly, my style is a bit quirky sometimes, but I live in Berlin, where nobody even throws you a glance when you dress "different" - although at this point in my life, I probably wouldn't care anymore if they would. :) I want my style to make *me* happy, and it does.
Hi, I just found your blog by following a Closing The Gaps link on someone else's blog. I am adding you to my Google Reader!ReplyDelete
I live in a big city, so there is a pretty big variety of styles. It takes a rather crazy outfit to make people actually stare. :) But having said that, I do know what you mean about so many people being super-casual. In the neighborhood where I work, it's not uncommon to see grown women running errands in pajama pants. Ugh. I also see a lot of the dreaded oversized tee shirts, cargo shorts, and flip flops. These are not flattering to anyone! But everyone has a right to their own style, or lack thereof. ;)
Great post! I skip between decades depending on my mood. I might dress totally modern one day with tight skinny jeans, high wedge sandals and a tank top from Forever 21 and the next day I might wear a dress I made from a 40's housewife dress pattern. I think if someone looks in my closet they might think I was crazy. But I wear a lot of color usually and I have always been stared at since I was a 13 year old punk rocker in Hollywood. Who wants to be a boring person no one notices?Yay to you and those people probably just don't get how cool you are! Or they are wondering why you aren't in Paris.ReplyDelete
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I just found your blog and I just fell in love with it. I really love this dress especially with the pink sweater. Pink and Yellow are my favorite colors and they make me so happy. I love to see women wearing feminine clothing. You look absolutely beautiful in this outfit.
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MISSISSAUGA – Nexus Youth Services (Nexus) clients and staff launched the development of an action plan for engaging youth within Nexus Youth Services and the community at large in a two-day workshop, "The Art of Youth Engagement," held on December 5 and 6 at the Living Arts Centre.
Expert guests facilitated the workshop and shared the latest research and experience with youth engagement in the child and youth mental health field. Nexus welcomed:
The workshop was the first event in a youth engagement project made possible with a three-year, $225,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) in March. Luz Del Rosario, a member of OTF's Halton-Peel Grant Review Team, was on hand to witness the workshop's energy and excitement. The Foundation is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
"Nexus is thrilled to receive this multi-year grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation," said Nexus' Executive Director, Humphrey Mitchell, in thanking OTF for the new funding. "This generous support will help us transform how we create opportunities for youth by ensuring that our clients are meaningfully engaged in governance, program development and service delivery at Nexus."
Serving over 2,100 youth each year, Nexus Youth Services is a fully accredited, community-based counselling and resource service for young peoples ages 14 to 24.
Nexus operates two programs: Community Counselling and the Nexus Youth Centre (NYC). NYC is a dynamic youth drop-in environment located on the second floor of the Mississauga Central Library. It provides services, resources and opportunities for under-resourced youth.
"As the only accredited youth-serving agency in Peel that provides community-based mental health treatment for youth, Nexus fills a critical service need in our community," said Amrit Mangat, MPP for Mississauga–Brampton South, where Nexus' Community Counselling program is located.
"The Nexus Youth Centre is helping to build a vibrant community by hearing the voices of youth and helping them to achieve their goals," said Mississauga East–Cooksville MPP Dipika Damerla, who represents the Nexus Youth Centre location.
Building on OTF's support, Nexus leveraged further support for the youth engagement workshop from the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Nexus receives ongoing funding from the United Way of Peel Region, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ministry of Children and Youth Services, and City of Mississauga.
Karen Anslow, Clinical Supervisor 905-795-3500 ext. 2200
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How does the Stress Eraser or the emWave measure the function of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems? Short Answer: It doesn't. (Not directly.)
The Stress Eraser and the emWave are the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Feedback devices currently available on the consumer level. I'm generally a big fan of the user reviews on Amazon, however with these devices there is a lot of confusion. Consider the following excerpt from a retired physician:
"based on the "feedback" it gives the user, I really don't understand what it is measuring. It simply can't be sensitive enough to detect what it purports to detect without being very much more complex than it is."
The Stress Easer and emWave measure one thing, and one thing only- the inter-beat interval. That is, the time between heart beats. With this one measure it is possible to calculate the heart rate which is constantly changing. For example if the inter-beat interval is 10 seconds the heart rate is 6 beats per minute. If the next interval is 15 seconds the rate has dropped to 4 beats per minute. (Unrealistic numbers chosen to simplify the math.) So how does it measure the output of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)?
The devices don't measure directly the output of the ANS. Using the inter-beat interval data, and the mathematical technique of Fast Fourier Transform, the rate of change of the heart rate is calculated, on the fly, in real time. This is the "magic" of the technology.
Sometimes the heart rate is changing quickly, and sometimes slowly.
Fast changes in rate are caused by shifts in parasympathetic tone (by opening an ion channel which is virtually instantaneous).
Slow changes in rate are caused by shifts in sympathetic tone (linked by a second messenger system which is relatively slow taking roughly 4 seconds to change the rate).
So the rate of change of the heart rate, fast or slow, is a fairly accurate reflection of the activity of the ANS (particularly the parasympathetic system), even though it is not measured directly.
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Meed Quality Awards for Projects 2015
Samsung Engineering, a leading engineering, procurement, construction and project management (EPC&PM) company, said it has won top honours for its Muharraq sewage treatment plant (STP) and sewer conveyance project in Bahrain at a major industry event held in Dubai, UAE.
The project, built to treat wastewater discharges from the island of Muharraq, was chosen as one of 10 flagship projects in the GCC by business intelligence service Meed.
Samsung Engineering received the Meed Quality Awards for Projects 2015, held in association with Mashreq, at a gala event in The Address, Dubai.
The project, part of the Bahrain 2030 National Masterplan for Sanitary Engineering Services, has provided a high technology treatment facility to accommodate the island's growing wastewater demands, said Samsung in its statement.
Muharraq STP comprises a 100,000-cubic-meters-per-day wastewater treatment plant, a sludge incinerator, and 20 km of deep gravity sewer and wastewater collection networks to convey flows to the site for treatment.
Samsung Engineering's Dr MooHoon Kim received the award in the presence of Muharraq STP Company's CEO Jae-Seop Jeong, Bahrain Ministry of Works (MoW) official Shafiq Ahmed, and Ministry of Finance undersecretary for economic affairs Yusuf Humood.
The project team members were honoured with the GCC Project of the Year award in the sustainable project category, highlighting the main project achievements.
Samsung Engineering's project manager of Muharraq STP project Sang Don Min said: "We are very pleased to be recognised as winner in the GCC region. What makes it stands out the most from similar projects is our commitment to co-prosperity for the community and to provide the best solution with comprehensive project management skills for the entire project execution process through proactive communication."
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Every year, we sponsor professional development for our missionaries and we encourage our churches to participate. This year we will be sponsoring Evangelism Explosion Training which will be conducted by the BMAA Theological Seminary. The field work will be done on site in Clinton, MS with the intent of helping Grace Baptist Mission. We are hoping that a number of folks will take advantage of this opportunity and join us on March 5-7. The training will finish by noon on the 7th. If you would like more information about how to sign-up, please call MS Kim Parker at 601-428-8616.
Evangelism Explosion Training March 5-7
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Flow text from one text box to anotherIn some document layouts (e.g., magazines), you may need to run a series of text boxes that contain a sequence of text. Word lets you flow text from one text box to another: When the first text box is full, Word automatically moves to the next text box and fills it. If you add or delete text in a text box, Word adjusts the text in the subsequent text boxes accordingly.
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Trump's pick for Secretary of Education is a wealthy scion of Michigan's Republican political machine elite. She is a school choice and charter school advocate with no experience with public schools, her children having attended private Christian schools. More than 80% of Michigan charter schools, the largest proportion by far of any state, are run by private companies, and , under her championship, 1993 legislation in Michigan largely removed them from state oversight and regulation. DeVos and her family have been major funders of successful efforts to defeat legislative reform to bring more oversight to Detroit charter schools. Interestingly, she and the president-elect may disagree on Common Core.
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Once again, I'm staying up all night to pack. This is not just because I didn't make time to pack during the day, but also because it gives me a slight advantage on battling jet lag the first few days in St. Petersburg. I did put the most important things into my purse earlier today -- my passport and itinerary -- earlier, before the delirium set in. Just now I remembered to pull out my small cache of Russian currency (what is the exchange rate these days?). To forget it would not have been a big deal since there are ATMs at the airport and everywhere in the city, but definitely an annoyance. Do I have Euros? My second layover is in Helsinki, a few Euro coins for a cup of coffee would be nice.
I experience lack of sleep as a state of altered consciousness not unlike being drunk on a bottle or two of wine, even to the point of nausea. I don't practice staying up till dawn often anymore, but I do enjoy it whenever I can justify the loss of time the next day. I am so much more aware of my surroundings at night -- dogs barking across the street, cars speeding by on the highway a quarter mile away from the house, the noise of my computer fan. I can almost hear the cogs in my brain rotating slowly: did I pack underwear? did I pack running shoes in case I decide to exercise? did I pack an umbrella? No, I didn't pack an umbrella. Should I? The rain is inevitable (what a strange notion, I haven't seen rain since early June!), but my mom might have a spare I could use, and I can save myself half a pound of luggage.
Packing is always a feat of imagination. They've had a crazy hot summer in St. Petersburg this year, weeks worth of record breaking temperatures. But now google tells me the temperature is in the low sixties, with rain expected every day of the week ahead. Will I need sandals? Jeans jacket or a warmer (and nicer) corduroy? Sweaters? Bathing suit? I would love to get a chance to swim in a country lake this trip, but wishful packing is not likely to guarantee the best results. What about theatre clothes? Should I bring jewelry that I never wear? Oh, alright, I'll bring a dress and a baggieful of earrings. I've brought them on every other trip before, no reason to leave them behind now.
MP3 player! Check.
Can I do with only one novel on this 20-hour, 2-layover trip? I shouldn't pack more books. I have lots of things to read on my computer, and Dave says my plane from New York to Helsinki will come with a power plug.
I've been stuffing my suitcase with food all day -- I'm bringing edible souvenirs this time. Maple syrup. California wine. Fancy chocolates. On the way back, these will hopefully be replaced with books. And maybe a box or two of chocolate muesli. How come chocolate muesli remains an exclusively European know-how? Chocolate granola has become available in the States in the recent years, but chocolate muesli is still nowhere to be found.
Yay blogging -- I have to take with me the contents of my gift drawer, a few random things I've set aside for friends and family during the last few months. A kid toy. A bandanna. More chocolate. What's the point of collecting this stuff, if at the end of the day I forget it at home? Not quite, not this time. This time it's all coming with me. Anything else? Anything else? Maybe. But I'm rambling.
All this chocolate is making me hungry. I have an hour to go before my taxi arrives. Time for breakfast. I'll make it simple: chocolate granola and yogurt.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Adidas is without doubt one of the leading sportswear manufacturers and a huge global success. Easily identifiable and innovative, Adidas has become a huge success.
This success wasn't accidental and did not happen over night. In this series of blogs, we are going to have a delve into the Adi Dassler Standards, the bible which at one time was given to all Adidas employees, which sets out the blue print of what and how this company became a giant of the global sports marketing world on built on simple, shared and embodied core values, something we believe will resonate with school leaders. We hope you enjoy!
Like all visionary leaders Adi Dassler started with a clear vision. Over time, following interviews with his trusted colleagues, these were identified and exemplified and became 'his' standards. He offered a definition of what is was to be part of Adidas and what he expected out of every colleague.
These were the core principles that were built upon to become and embody everything Adidas aspired to do.
Any organisation needs to have a clear idea of where it is going, these 'guidelines and measuring sticks' of success needed to execute and evaluate our performance are essential. Without them, much time and effort is wasted and opportunities are missed.
There is no doubt about the value of such a set of guiding principles and you will see as we explore them each week that these are in no way constraining but enable all members of the organisation to reflect and question 'how can we do it better?'
This constant reflection, coupled with a crystal clear vision, building the organisational trust, diligence & belief enabled Adi Dassler to create an organisation that embodies what schools can create, the only difference is that our 'product' or USP is our young people!
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Putting video to use on the Internet doesn't require sophisticated equipment, a full production staff, or several actors. The more natural, the more fun you have with it, the more you make it stand out – have a reason for it to go viral – the better your chance.
YouTube announced the most popular videos of 2009. The top 5 had a combined total of over 250 million views this year, with the top video taking almost half of that.
Number One – Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent
(The original video that achieved over 120 million views did not allow embedding – this is one from the finals.)
Number Two – David After Dentist
Number Three – JK Wedding Entrance Dance
Number Four – New Moon Movie Trailer
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About AMSGAMES, LLC
Golden Black's flash mob promotional video from 2014. Alejandro and Erick acted in it.
We are an independent game development company.
Amsgames.com web domain was registered by Alejandro Mostajo (founder) back in 2004, although in those days no company was formed and the domain was used to create a fictional entity who developed flash games until 2006, where Alejandro became a BI developer / consultant and moved away from game development.
In 2012, Alejandro decided to return to the game development thanks to the new approach and opportunities that were emerging in the industry, he and Jose Cruz developed a game entry to the World Bank's "apps for climate" challenge; this alongside his participation in Global Game Jam ignited again his passion for game development.
In 2013, Erick Varen joined Alejandro in the development of prototypes and projects, both decided to take the next step in their entrepreneurism and formed Amsgames, LLC (Amsgames) in 2014. Amsgames was formed in Davis, California and although the company is based in the US, it has operations in Latin America. Our small development team is located in San Jose, Costa Rica.
On march 2015 we launched Stars Wagon, our first commercial video game product, on mobile stores and we are currently about to release the game on PC, Mac and Linux.


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Ministerio de Seguridad Pública photoFuerza Pública officers detained this suspect in Barrio Cristo Rey
Friday on suspicion that he was involved in breaking into cars in
the parking lot of a commercial center in Cartago. Police also said
they found a pistol.
Leprechauns figure in new short stories
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Expat author Albert A. Correia has penned a book of short stories with a
• Paddy gets up early to put his sure-fire scheme to capture the Leprechaun's pot of gold into action.
According to Correia, a former California resident, all the stories are based on prompts from two writer groups, one in Costa Rica and the other, online, is international.
The small book, the second in a series, is available as a digital ebook and in paperback.
Four fishermen adrift in Pacific rescued
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas has rescued four fishermen from Panamá who had been adrift in the Pacific for more than a month.
The rescue took place some 280 nautical miles west of Cabo Blanco. The boat is the Antares III.
The coast guard said the fishing boat suffered some type of mechanical failure and the crew was adrift for 33 days.
Woman, 20, detained on murder charge
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A 20-year-old woman has been detained on the allegation that she instigated the murder of a 60-year-old man last Feb. 15. The victim had the last name of Arguello and lived in Barrio San José in Alajuela.
The Judicial Investigating Organization accused the woman of letting in a third party while she was in the man's home. Arguello was tied up and smothered with a plastic bag over his head, agents said. The motive was said to be robbery of the home.
U.N. promotes multidimensional progress
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Economic growth alone will not reduce poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. This was a key message from the U. N. Development Programme during a meeting with over 20 officials including ministers, senators, academics and leaders of major multilateral organizations in the region.
The Programme simulated what would happen if the region grew during 2017 to 2020 at the same rate as it did during the last decade. That was 3.9 percent annually.
The estimates show that less people in Latin America and the Caribbean would be lifted from poverty than in the previous decade. While an average of 6.5 million women and men in the region left poverty every year during 2003 and 2012, only about 2.6 million a year would leave poverty behind (earning more than US$4 a day) between 2017 and 2020, the Programme said.
"Clearly, more of the same in terms of growth and public policies will no longer yield more of the same in poverty and inequality reduction," said Jessica Faieta. U.N. assistant secretary general and Programme director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Higher economic growth does not necessarily generate greater social progress: different policies must be in place, particularly at a time when fiscal resources, crucial to expand social safety nets, have shrunk," she said.
The Programme stressed that people's well being must reflect more than income alone, calling on the region's leaders to focus on multidimensional progress. This includes investing in skills for better employment opportunities, in financial systems that prevent over-indebtedness and reducing gender gaps.
"Many countries in the region have achieved quantitative and qualitative progress. However, we must not fall into complacency," added Diego Canepa, secretary to the presidency of the Republic of Uruguay. The challenge is to consolidate this progress and deepen the discussions, many of them promoted by the United Nations. Change is what ensures sustainability."
Ecuador criticized for media lynching law
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
The Inter American Press Association has expressed its strong condemnation to the government of Ecuador over the punishment meted out to television channel Teleamazonas for having engaged in media lynching, an offense under the controversial Communication Organic Law.
Feb. 13, the Information and Communication Superintendence, the agency charged with overseeing compliance with the law in effect since 2013, punished Teleamazonas for media lynching, based on what it called harmful comments against Luis Chiriboga, president of the Ecuadorean Football Federation in a humorous sports program.
Gustavo Mohme, association president and editor of the Lima, Peru, newspaper La República, declared, "This punishment puts in flagrant evidence the fact that the Ecuadorean gag law has created new press crimes or new forms of penalizing opinion and information, with a new kind of lynching that, due its generalized nature, can be applied arbitrarily to any case."
According to the Andean Foundation for Social Observation and Study of Media, this is the first punishment for media lynching in Ecuador. The formal complaint filed on Dec. 29 by Chiriboga against the television channel and four journalists has its origin in the comic slot in the sports program "Dream Team," where one of the personalities, represented by a puppet, referred to vote buying so as to obtain his re-election, in an apparent allusion to the president of the Ecuadorean Football Federation.
The punishment imposed by the Superintendence calls for a public apology to Chiriboga. The Communication Law's Article 26 on media lynching prohibits the dissemination of information that directly or through third parties is produced in a collusive manner and published repeatedly through one or more news media with the purpose of discrediting a natural or legal person or reducing his or her public credibility."
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|Talamanca dumps Facebook page with negative comments of
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Municipalidad de Talamanca took down its Facebook page Friday morning shortly after a news story appeared saying that the mayor wanted two expats to leave the canton.
A letter critical of the two expats had been the centerpiece of the Facebook page.
There was no explanation from the municipality. Carol Meeds, a U.S. expat singled out by the mayor, Melvin Cordero Cordero, said he was irked because she had posted a summary of an A.M. Costa Rica news story noting that a
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had not prepared zoning plans for the maritime zone.
The other expat, Philippe Vangoidsenhoven, who is from Belgium, faced criticism in the latter for filing multiple environmental complaints. Ms. Meeds said he did so because the complaints never got responses. The situation made news because having a public official post negative statements about residents is highly unusual.
In addition, Ms. Meeds said she thought the mayor had fingered her to crooks because he claimed she has a large pension.
|Three-day art festival begins March 13 in San José
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
San Jose's big festival will be March 13 through 15 with the participation of nearly 400 artists. The event is the Festival de Verano Transitarte 2015.
The three days of simultaneous performances and exhibits will take place in the municipal parks of Morazán, Jardín de Paz, España and Nacional and at the Ferrocarril al Atlántico rail station.
The flamenco performers of the Academia Al Ándalus will be the inaugural act March 13 at 6 p.m. in Parque Morazán. Some 22 dancers will present "Con el alma aferrada," the same program that was presented in December at the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano. The show takes its name from a verse in Carlos Gardel's tango ballad "Volver,"
The flamenco performance will be followed by the famous national group Son de Tikizia at 7 p.m.
Transitarte is food, artist booths, music, dance, poetry, sculptures, street parades, clowns, street theater and acrobatics.
Al Ándalus photoA scene from a December performance.
The event closes with an evening performance by Malpais in Parque Nacional March 15.
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|Genetically modified crop foes seek action by full
legislature or Solís
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Supporters of a nationwide ban on genetically modified crops are exploring two options after a legislative committee failed to back the idea.
The supporters say they plan to pressure legislators to bring up the proposed moratorium, No. 18.941, in the full Asamblea Legislativa. They also say they expect President Luis Guillermo Solís to issue a decree that would do the same thing.
The proposal for a nationwide moratorium was considered by the Comisión de Asuntos Agropecuarios, which held formal hearing. Eventually the committee issued a finding by the majority that shelved the plan for the moratorium.
During the course of the discussion, the moratorium was offered for 10 years or for four years.
Proponents of the moratorium oppose the U.S. corporation Monsanto, which has produced food crops modified to resist the firm's herbicides. The chemical company has been aggressive in trying to protect its patents and has brought some U.S. farmers into court for using herbicide resistant seeds without permission.
The moratorium has been supported by Frente Amplio and Partido Acción Ciudadana. Supporters of the ban note that 79 of 92 municipalities already have prohibited the planting of genetically modified crops, although the legality of these actions is still up in the air.
The scientific consensus is that modified crops are no different than conventional varieties, but a minority of scientists continue to seek evidence that the crops can damage humans. A University of Costa Rica expert, for
presented as fact to the committee a discredited
French study that claimed modified food produces tumors in rats.
Most of the processed grain-based foods in the United States contain genetically modified products, as do the many products imported and for sale here.
There was a new international development over the weekend.
Opponents of genetically modified crops have expressed concern about potential contamination of conventional crops and other plants.
Now a plant gene discovered by University of Guelph scientists might help farmers reduce the risk of contamination and quell arguments against the use of transgenic food crops, said Sherif Sherif, lead author of a new research paper describing the findings, according to the university.
This is believed to be the first-ever study to identify a gene involved in altering fruit trees that normally cross-pollinate – needing one plant to fertilize another – into self-pollinators, the university quoted Sherif as saying. The paper was published in the journal BMC Biology.
Sherif said researchers might one day insert this gene into GM crops to prevent their pollen from reaching other plants, said the university.
The researchers found a gene making a protein that naturally allows a small handful of plants to self-pollinate and make fruit before the flower opens. Peaches, for example, have closed flowers, unlike their showy-flowered plum and cherry cousins that need pollen from another tree to fertilize and set fruit, according to a university explanation.
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U.S. is principal suspect
for spy software in drives
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The revelation of secret technology that buries spyware into computer hard drives could be a blow to espionage efforts by the U.S. National Security Agency, intelligence analysts say.
Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based security software manufacturer, recently reported it found computers in 30 nations infected with spying programs.
The nations include Iran, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China. The targets included government and military institutions, as well as telecommunications companies, banks, energy companies and nuclear researchers, Kaspersky said in its report.
Kaspersky Lab has revealed Western cyber-espionage operations in the past.
The company did not publicly identify the country behind the spying campaign, saying the malware had been placed by what it called the "Equation Group."
However, Western news organizations reported this was a thinly veiled reference to the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA is the leading U.S. agency responsible for gathering electronic intelligence.
Paul Rosenzweig, an expert on information technology and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said the report would compromise NSA's mission.
"This will significantly disrupt ongoing activity and will harm foreign intelligence gathering," said Rosenzweig. "This is part and parcel of a foreign campaign to delegitimize NSA."
A spokeswoman for the NSA said the agency was aware of the Kaspersky report, but would not comment on it publicly.
Kaspersky said the spying campaign is closely linked to Stuxnet, a cyber-weapon that attacked Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Kaspersky and many other cyber-espionage experts say Stuxnet was run by the U.S. and Israel.
A former NSA employee said that Kaspersky's analysis was correct and that people still in the spy agency valued these espionage programs as highly as Stuxnet.
Kaspersky's report said the ability to hide spying software deep within hard drives gives the agency the ability to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers.
The report said thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of computers have been infected since 2001. The malware is beyond the reach of most security controls and antivirus products, Kaspersky said, making it nearly impossible to identify.
"It means that we are practically blind and cannot detect hard drives that have been infected by this malware," said Costin Raiu, a lead researcher for Kaspersky.
"Is anybody safe anymore?" That was the reaction to the report by Bill Supernor, the chief technology officer for KoolSpan, a U.S. company providing secure voice and text systems for mobile phones.
KoolSpan sells more products overseas than in the U.S. "Customers already suspicious of U.S. products will now be even more concerned that firms have been compromised," Supernor said. "If this is the U.S. doing this to our adversaries, we are seriously shooting ourselves in the foot," he said.
The Kaspersky report said the Equation Group used a variety of means to spread spy programs. They included compromising jihadi Web sites, infecting USB sticks and CDs, and developing computer worms.
George Smith, a senior fellow at GlobalSecurity.org, said the report represented "a black eye for the U.S. government because it undermines trust on the global networks."
"It makes it hard to argue for proper rules of conduct in cyber space because there are now no boundaries," Smith said.
U.S. President Barack Obama discussed cyberattacks in general terms in a recent interview with Re/code, an online computer industry publication.
"This is more like basketball than football, in the sense that there's no clear line between offense and defense," said Obama. "Things are going back and forth all the time."
Farmers seen on front line
in meeting food goals
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Bigger droughts, more frequent flooding, more devastating storms — these are some of the effects that some scientists say climate change is already having on our planet. And farmers, many of them small, family growers in developing countries, are on the front lines. They'll have to feed a world population that is expected to climb from just over 7 billion today to about 9.6 billion in 2050.
Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, said agriculture must become more sustainable, more resilient and more inclusive to respond to climate change — and to ensure that the poorest people have access to food.
"Always, the poorest and the smallest are the most vulnerable," he said, "starting from the fact they are already in marginal awareness, so they are the first to be affected by a drought or a flooding that are the current, ongoing impacts of climate change."
The Food and Agricultural Organization chief spoke Friday at an international meeting in Paris looking at the impact of climate change on agriculture. The city, which opened its yearly international agricultural show Saturday, will host a major U.N. climate conference in December intended to reach an international deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
At the agricultural meeting, French President Francois Hollande said the U.N. summit would not solve all the climate change problems, but it must at least give the world a reason for hope. It is important to define a global strategy to fight climate change, he said, and agriculture must be part of the solution.
Evelyn Nguleka of Zambia, president of the World Farmers Organization, said that farmers are looking for practical solutions.
"It's one thing just to send out an alarm that there are going to be weather pattern changes," she said. "But what is important for the farmer is how is a farmer going to be able to survive. So resilience is going to be a key word — and that, of course, goes with innovations."
Nadjirou Sall of northern Senegal heads the Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers' Organizations of West Africa. He said the Sahel region, where he lives, has been dealing with longer droughts for several decades.
Sall said the Paris climate conference will be useful if it takes the problems of family farmers like himself into account. If not, as far as he is concerned, it will be a failure.
U.S. Christian raises unit
to support Islamic State foes
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Since Islamic State militants declared a caliphate last year in parts of Iraq and Syria, thousands of Westerners have traveled there to join the battle.
But one American man said he has joined the fight, not for the Islamic State jihadist group but against it.
"I am in Iraq helping to raise a Christian army to fight ISIS," declared Matthew VanDyke in a statement on Twitter last week.
VanDyke is a bearded, blue-eyed Baltimore native with a slender build and a master's degree in security studies from Georgetown University. He has formed what he calls the Sons of Liberty International, or SOLI, a nonprofit group that is helping to train a militia made up of Assyrian Christians, whose homeland in northern Iraq has come under attack by Islamic State militants.
The militia, the Ninevah Plains Protection Units, is one of several small groups of Christian fighters trying to defend vulnerable locals against the Islamic State group, which has carried out mass executions and expulsions of religious minorities.
The jihadi onslaught against the ancient Iraqi Christian community is part of what prompted VanDyke to go to Iraq in early December and join the fight against the Islamic State group.
"They've suffered greatly under ISIS," VanDyke said via Skype from the northern Iraqi town of Irbil. "There's tens of thousands of Christian refugees and the population of Christians in Iraq is severely threatened."
"A lot of them have left and have become refugees and will not return to their homes. And if the Christians cannot demonstrate that they're able to secure their own lands, Christianity will be wiped out," he said.
According to VanDyke, the best way to stop the onslaught is to equip locals to protect themselves. To do that, he is recruiting U.S. combat veterans to come to offer specialized training to the Assyrian fighters.
So far, Vandyke said five military vets have volunteered to help train the Ninevah Plains Protection Units.
"And it's going quite well," VanDyke said. "We ran a covert training camp north of Mosul for about a month."
"The results were very positive. I have observed the Iraqi army and the Afghan army in the past, and these fighters far surpassed them in their motivation and morale and talents and how quickly they learned and how seriously they take things," he said.
Kaldo Ramzi, an official with the Ninevah Plains Protection Units, confirmed that VanDyke and the Sons of Liberty International have helped provide basic training to about 500 fighters that make up the Assyrian militia.
Ramzi said for now, the Ninevah Plains Protection Units was focused on protecting lands not yet taken by the Islamic State militants. But once the group receives more training, funding, weapons and fighters, he said it planned to go on the offensive to retake Assyrian towns captured by the extremists.
VanDyke and Ramzi even claimed to have met with U.S. State Department officials at a consulate in Iraq, who, they said, have given the Ninevah Plains Protection Units and its coordination with the Sons of Liberty International their full verbal support.
A State Department official refused to confirm such a meeting.
"American civilians who may have traveled to Iraq to take part in military activities are not part of the United States government effort in Iraq," the official said.
"As our travel warning indicates, we have been clear that travel to Iraq remains very dangerous and that we do not endorse nonessential travel to Iraq by private U.S. citizens," the official added.
The Ninevah Plains Protection Units is trying to coordinate its efforts with at least some other local groups, including the Kurdish Peshmerga fighting force that is also battling Islamic State militants. Some of the Ninevah Plains Protection Units training camps have been held at Peshmerga bases, for instance, according to VanDyke and Ramzi.
But while the Peshmerga, backed by U.S.-led air strikes, has had some success in retaking Kurdish areas from the Islamic State group, the paramilitary group has been hesitant to expand its efforts to other non-Kurdish territory captured by the Islamists, leaving many Assyrians desperate for help.
"For over six months, neither the Kurds nor the U.S. have lifted a finger to liberate towns, like Qaraqosh, which are a 10-minute drive from Kurdish front lines," said Michael Knights, an Iraq security specialist at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Other small groups of sectarian fighters are also interested only in defending their own territory, leaving no single unified anti-Islamic State fighting force and making the conflict a necessarily sectarian battle.
But there are concerns about whether forming explicitly Christian armies and involving foreign volunteers in that effort will bolster the appeal of the Islamic State group, which already claims to be fighting a holy war and battling what it sees as Western crusaders.
Knights, though, wasn't convinced this would increase the ferocity or change the nature of the conflict.
"ISIL is sure as hell fighting a holy war against them. They won't be put off by any U.S. volunteers who are using the same language in return," he said. "We are already at a medieval barbarity stage and ISIL did that on their own."
Others are more skeptical of the efforts of volunteers such as VanDyke.
"I don't think his help or others is needed or useful," said Sajad Jiyad, an Iraq analyst with the Baghdad-based Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform. "The NPU has Iraqi federal government support, so American advisers are already playing a role in training.
"It definitely adds to the propaganda daesh can use, and there are enough foreigners already in Iraq," continued Jiyad, using an Arabic word for the Islamic State group.
But VanDyke insisted he didn't have time to argue over semantics.
"Do we really care what ISIS' talking points are anymore? That's a luxury enjoyed by people in the Western world who aren't being beheaded or burned alive, to be worrying about whether it reinforces ISIS' talking points," he said.
But despite sometimes using stark, sectarian language to define the conflict, VanDyke stressed he didn't see himself as a modern day crusader.
"It's not a religious war and certainly not a crusade or anything like it," he said. "The Assyrian Christians have lived in peace with their neighbors and they will continue to. They are interested in defending their own lands against ISIS and any other terrorist threats and that's it."
VanDyke said the Assyrian Christians were "eager to get out and defend their homeland." But he wouldn't say whether the group has actually begun taking the fight to the Islamic State group. He also wouldn't make any promises that he would stay off the front lines himself.
VanDyke does have experience with Arab militias. His 2011 involvement with Libyan revolutionaries in the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi was the subject of an award winning documentary called "Point and Shoot."
But for now, VanDyke said he's "way too busy" managing his Sons of Liberty organization to take on any combat role.
"This is really a full-time-plus job. It involves a lot of moving pieces and is quite a challenge, but a rewarding challenge and something I love doing. But there's certainly been no time for me being on any front lines fighting," he said.
When asked whether he feared being killed or kidnapped by the Islamic State group, as other foreigners have been, VanDyke said that's a chance he's willing to take.
"It's always a risk in this work. It's something I take precautions against, but it's not going to stop me from doing this work. It's something I believe in," he said.
U.S. is taking seriously
terror threats for malls
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The U.S. homeland security chief said authorities are taking seriously a threat made by Somali-based Islamist militants against Western shopping malls.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was reacting to a video released by al-Shabab terrorists, appearing to call for attacks on shopping areas.
Speaking Sunday, Johnson said the global terrorist threat has evolved to militant groups "publicly calling for independent actors in their homelands to carry out attacks."
He said, "We're beyond the phase now where these groups would send foreign operatives into countries after being trained some place."
Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for a September 2013 attack that killed 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
The terrorist threat specifically mentioned shopping areas in the United States, Canada and Britain.
Among them was the Mall of America, in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota. The area is home to a sizable Somali immigrant population.
U.S. law enforcement officials have been concerned about the potential for radicalization among members of immigrant communities.
A Minnesota man was indicted last week on charges of conspiring to support the Islamic State extremist group and lying to federal agents investigating recruitment by militant groups.
Prosecutors said dozens of people from Minnesota, many of them Somali-Americans, have traveled or attempted to travel overseas to support groups such as Islamic State or al-Shabab since 2007.
Accord reached in strike
of U.S. Pacific cargo ports
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Activity at U.S. Pacific Coast ports began the process of reducing the backlog of billions of dollars' worth of cargo late Saturday following a tentative deal on a new labor contract between U.S. dockworkers and port operators, settling a dispute that disrupted the flow of cargo through 29 ports and snarled trade with Asia.
The deal was reached late Friday. However, the tentative contract must still be approved by the port operators and the members of the dockworkers union.
It was not immediately clear when a vote on the contract will take place.
In a joint statement, the president of the Pacific Maritime Association, James McKenna, and the president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Bob McEllrath, said they are pleased to have reached the tentative deal that is good for dockworkers and the shipping industry.
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez oversaw four days of negotiations last week between the two sides in San Francisco in the western U.S. state of California.
The White House responded to the settlement by calling it a huge relief for the U.S. economy, particularly the many American workers, farmers and businesses that have been affected by the dispute.
A spokesperson said President Barack Obama is urging all parties, as they finalize their agreement, to clear out the congestion with ships at the West Coast ports.
The labor dispute, which began in July when a previous contract expired, tied up the West Coast ports for months and created a bottleneck for much of U.S. trade with Asia. Those ports handle more than a quarter of all U.S. maritime trade and more than 70 percent of the nation's imports from Asia.
Cargo has been backed up, with large container ships remaining idle outside ports from southern California all the way north to the Canadian border.
Technique tricks HIV virus
and protects test monkeys
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Researchers are engineering healthy muscle cells to induce them to crank out genetic instructions that could potentially neutralize HIV, the virus that causes AIDS in humans.
Scientists at Scripps Research Institute used the technique to completely protect rhesus macaque monkeys whose immune systems were repeatedly exposed to simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, a primate version of HIV.
After treatment, Scripps researcher Michael Farzan says the macaques never became infected despite the challenge.
"We continued to administer the virus, doubling the dose each time. We've now gone with six doses that were capable of infecting control animals. We've gone to 16 times that," said Farzan.
The findings were reported in the journal Nature.
Traditional vaccines train the immune system to recognize and destroy microbial invaders. But experimental AIDS vaccines fail because the virus is continually changing its appearance to evade destruction.
Farzan, the study's lead investigator, says the new approach tricks HIV into revealing a key viral surface protein. The compound targets the portion of the virus that is always mutating to avoid the immune system.
Once bound, a second protein makes the virus self-destruct so it never has a chance to infect cells.
"Because HIV is fooled into thinking it's binding the cell, it undergoes the changes that it would normally do when it's ready to enter a cell. And those changes, if it's not near a cell, inactivate the virus," said Farzan.
The muscle cells continually pump out decoys that fool the virus into destruction.
Farzan says the compound has the potential both to protect against infection with HIV and to fight the virus in infected people.
The team wants to begin clinical trials in patients who cannot tolerate antiretroviral drugs.
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Here comes the sun, and we are happy to see it in any form. Be it dappled, filtered, shaded, or bright, after months of rain and more rain,
But no more! We have seen the sun now for three days in a row and are fairly convinced that there is more sun to come – and none too soon for gardeners like me who miss picking cherry tomatoes from the plant (and having only half of them reach the kitchen). Seriously, I may succumb to the temptation of starting a small greenhouse just to grow them. My friend Carla has a lovely glass enclosed space and can grow anything. I am green with jealousy.
Let's face it, that was a long and tedious rainy season for those of us in the Arenal region. Okay, we know that we may have to water our vegetable gardens in the months ahead and we don't care! We just want to wander through our flower beds without sinking in the mud and enjoy – yes, actually enjoy – weeding without having to wear a raincoat.
But I am rambling. This is indeed the time to get those tomatoes in the ground and watch them go to work producing that red ripe fruit we love so much. Time to get pepper seeds started and put radishes into the ground. It's also time to watch for tiny buds on some of our fruit trees – my mandarina (that's a tangerine for all you newbies) has tiny white flowers started. Two years ago it produced a ton of fruit, but last year it produced no fruit at all, so seeing a few buds give me hope. We had a "sierrista" here the other day (and don't ask if that's spelled correctly but it means "an expert chain saw user") and he pruned branches from the tree that were loaded with strangler fig vines. Maybe the tree will be healthier now and fruit well for us.
Whether the manderina fruits or not, it will enjoy the sun. I certainly intend to.
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Obama promotes free-trade deals
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. President Barack Obama has promoted the value of free-trade deals to the U.S. public, saying they will make American businesses more successful and competitive in a 21st century economy.
In his weekly address Saturday, Obama said past trade deals have not always lived up to the promise of leveling the playing field for American workers and holding all countries to the high labor and environmental standards the U.S. abides by.
But he said that does not mean the U.S. should close itself off from new opportunities and remain idle while other countries determine its economic fate.
The president said the U.S. should seize those opportunities, saying they will create good new jobs for decades to come.
Obama urged the U.S. Congress to act on trade promotion authority. He said that is bipartisan legislation that will protect American workers and promote American businesses with strong new trade deals from Asia to Europe that are free and fair.


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