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Call for Papers. Special Edition of Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. Therapeutic Solutions and Discourses of Self-Empowerment. Guest Editors: Alan Apperley, Mark Jones and Stephen Jacobs: The University of Wolverhampton, UK. A purported user in an advertisement for the Miruji Therapeutic Massage Chair, which combines a physical massage while simultaneously listening to a mind coaching audio recording, suggests that after a session 'I feel good about myself'. L'Oreal advertisements indicate that you should use their products because 'you are worth it' Professor Richard Layer who was appointed as the 'Happiness Tsar' by the UK Labour Government in 2007 promoted the idea that 'wellbeing' should be integral to government policy. We are bombarded with messages that the primary malaise of contemporary society is stress, and encounter a plethora of panaceas claiming to combat stress. Bookshops have substantial sections containing self-help guides, often replacing or being included in the section on religion. Life coaches inform us that they can transform all aspects of our lives, and successful motivational speakers can fill stadiums. What all of these phenomena have in common is a discourse on individual wel lbeing and personal self-empowerment. We argue that this is not simply a passing commercial fad, but that this discourse on wellbeing and self- empowerment are deeply embedded in all aspects of contemporary society – health, education, politics, religion and economics etc., and that the structure of feeling of contemporary culture is best characterized as therapeutic. Therapeutic culture is clearly linked to the processes of individualization, which, Zygmunt Bauman (Liquid Modernity, 2000: 31) suggests, 'consists of transforming human identity from a "given" into a "task"'. This task is not only about the quest for a sense of identity which is disembedded from institutional forms and grand narratives, but is also a quest for a sense of agency and personal wellbeing. The contemporary climate, writes Christopher Lasch, 'is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation... but for the feeling, a momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.' (The Culture of Narcissism, 1991: 7). The effectiveness of the various therapeutic solutions, like the ones listed above, is validated, not through any external authority, but through the evidence of personal experiences – such as the statement 'I feel good about myself'. We believe that this is a critical area of investigation, as this discourse suggests that the individual has the power to transform their own lives, and negates real structural inequalities in contemporary societies. The rise of therapeutic culture is inherently implicated in the de-professionalization of areas such as education and health, and the de-politicization of the individual. We are seeking a selection of papers from a range of different academic disciplines, and from scholars from different nationalities, who are concerned with the rise of therapeutic solutions and the notion of self-empowerment in range of different arenas, such as education, health, spirituality, government policy etc. We are interested in questions such as: • What are the sources and nature of authority for therapeutic solutions? • To what extent can therapeutic discourses resist the narratives and institutions of modernity? • Are therapeutic practices embedded in the power structures of social institutions? • How do therapeutic solutions articulate individual identity? Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is an online academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. Details about Culture Unbound can be found at http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/ Schedule • Please send a 300- 500 word proposal by 15th December 2012. Please include a short biography. • Submission of the article 25th April 2013. For submissions and any enquiries about this special edition please contact the guest editor directly Alan Apperley email@example.com
Friday, November 23, 2012
CFP: Therapeutic Solutions and Discourses of Self-empowerment
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Call for Abstracts: International Society for Research on Internet Interventions 6th Scientific Meeting
Call for Abstracts: International Society for Research on Internet Interventions 6th Scientific Meeting
16 - 18 May 2013 Chicago, Illinois
The International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) invites you to attend its 6th Scientific Meeting hosted by the Northwestern University Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.
Deadline extended! 3 December 2012
The International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) invites the submission of innovative, high quality research that advances the field of eHealth interventions. ISRII, founded in 2004, promotes the scientific study of information and communication technologies targeting behavioral, psychosocial, health and mental health outcomes. These "Internet interventions" are broadly inclusive of existing and emerging technologies, including, but not limited to, the web, mobile and wireless devices and applications, digital gaming, virtual reality, remote sensing, and robotics. ISRII members include researchers, clinicians, engineers and computer scientists, informaticists, software developers, economists, and policy experts across the public and private sectors, who are committed to fostering excellence in evidence-based eHealth interventions.
The theme of this year's meeting is "Behavioral Intervention Technologies for a Healthy Future: From Design to Dissemination." This comprehensive program will span basic design and development, clinical trials, integration of eHealth interventions into healthcare delivery systems, dissemination (distribution and marketing), and policy implications. The goal is to generate vibrant discussion and collaboration both within and across each of these areas.
ISRII will be introducing a number of new events this year to both expand the program and further engage members:
Demonstration Displays: An opportunity to share interventions, devices and tools.
The Sounding Board: An interactive forum where attendees can present ideas for interventions and tools that are in formative stages.
The Think Tank: A collaborative discussion around one topic that is a specific challenge to the field.
The ISRII Throwdown: A competition in which small groups of investigators will have an opportunity to work together to conceptualize and storyboard a new eHealth intervention application.
You are encouraged to submit your most innovative and compelling work as one of the following presentation types. Special consideration will be given to submissions that link multiple topic areas, such as the integration of clinical and behavioral science, engineering, design, usability, informatics, assessment, methodology, implementation and dissemination, and policy.
Workshop: Intensive smaller group sessions providing focused education, training or discussion on a method, theory or problem area related to eHealth.
Symposium: Symposia are groups of papers submitted together around a common theme. The presentations tend to be data-driven on projects completed or near completion.
Panel: An audience-interactive format in which invited panelists make short, relatively informal presentations that serve as a springboard for discussion among panelists and between panelists and the audience.
Paper: Oral presentations not otherwise incorporated into symposia or panels.
Poster: A graphically oriented presentation that is displayed on a poster board.
Demonstration: Demos may include such things as running examples of Internet interventions, mobile apps, etc., and will be included in the Poster Session.
Sounding Board: A unique session to provide attendees an opportunity to briefly present ideas or projects in very early stages and to then receive feedback from the audience.
Please see below for further details on each presentation type.
Workshop. Workshops are being solicited and will occur the first half day prior to the beginning of the official conference. They will be made available to attendees for an extra fee. Workshops will run for 3 hours and should focus on unique but related areas of interest to those attending the ISRII meeting. These might include topics such as Machine Learning, Usability, Instructional Design, Gamification, Policy, etc.
Symposia. A Symposium consists of oral paper presentations organized around a common theme. These sessions can be structured in several different ways: for example, the invited papers might be preceded by an overview from the session organizer and followed by a response from a discussant. Symposium sessions will run either 50 minutes or 100 minutes depending on the number of papers included. The length allotted to the papers is up to the session organizer. The proposal must include: (a) a session overview abstract that describes the session's theme and its importance, as well as its format (e.g., who will chair the session, how long each oral paper presentation will be, whether there will be a Q&A session or open audience discussion following the presentations, etc.); and (b) individual abstracts for each of the oral paper presentations (there must be a minimum of 2, but no more than 5, papers). Because we require all the abstracts up front, it is incumbent upon the session organizer to seek out paper presenters early, get them to produce abstracts, and confirm that each one is willing and able to attend the conference.
Panel Discussion. A Panel Discussion is an audience-interactive format in which invited panelists make short, relatively informal presentations that serve as a springboard for discussion among panelists and between panelists and the audience. In proposing a Panel Discussion, your abstract must indicate who will chair the session, what format it will take, who have been invited to participate as panelists (no more than 5 panelists are allowed), and how many of these invited panelists have confirmed that they are willing and able to attend the conference. Preference will be given to proposals with confirmed panelists.
Paper. Present a Paper for assignment to a concurrent session. If you have a paper that you'd like to present, but which is not already affiliated with a session proposal, you can submit a proposal for an oral Paper presentation. If there are enough other papers on the same topic, the Conference Committee will consider creating a concurrent session for them. Paper presentations can include reports on original research; intervention development; issues of implementation/dissemination; methods and tools, theories and models, etc. Papers are expected to be allotted 10-15 minutes each.
Poster. A Poster is a graphically oriented presentation that is displayed on a poster board. Posters often provide an excellent alternative to oral Paper presentations because they are well-suited for visual data, as well as for promoting discussion about ideas or projects that are in-progress.
Demonstration. Demos include such things as running examples of Internet interventions, mobile apps, etc., and will be included in the Poster Session.
Sounding Board. The Sounding Board is a unique session to provide attendees an opportunity to present very briefly ideas or projects in very early stages and to then receive feedback from the audience. Depending on the number of submissions, the idea is to have 1-2 minute presentations by those included and then informal discussion between audience members and presenters in small groups. If you have an idea you are considering or one that is in an early stage of development, consider presenting it here. You may be surprised by what you get out of it!
Contact ISRII
International Society for Research on Internet Interventions
+1 434 284 4699
154 Hansen Road, Suite 201
Charlottesville, Virginia 22911 USA
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Banff Research in Culture 2013: Dock(ing); or, New Economies of Exchange
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
LAST CALL FOR AUTHORS: Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics
We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of
CQ Press/SAGE Reference in 2013.
*Please see the list of 38 remaining topics available for assignment below*
Social media are revolutionizing and galvanizing politics in the United
States and around the world. Old modes and methods of political
communication from elites to the masses (top down) and from the masses
to elites (bottom up) are being rapidly displaced by new social media,
and activists are building new movements and protests using social media
to alter mainstream political agendas. Members of Congress now routinely
turn to Twitter to spar with partisan opponents or broadcast messages to
constituents, and use YouTube to post their latest campaign
advertisements. The power of social media in politics is not isolated to
the United States. In the popular uprisings triggered by the Arab Spring
social media have played an enormous part in the organizing of protests
and keeping dissident voices from being completely stifled by repressive
regimes, despite attempts by those regimes to restrict access to the
Internet and social media platforms or technologies. In approximately
400 signed articles, this 2-volume reference work will cover the
phenomenon of social media and politics in an A-to-Z format.
This comprehensive encyclopedia will be marketed to academic and public
libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the
library's electronic services. The General Editor, who will be reviewing
each submission to the project, is Dr. Kerric Harvey, Center for
Innovative Media, George Washington University.
We are currently making assignments with a final deadline for
submissions of December 10, 2012.
If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it
is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining sociological issues in today's terms. Moreover, it can be a
notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your
publishing credits. CQ Press/SAGE Publications offers an honorarium
ranging from SAGE book credits for smaller articles up to a free set of
the printed product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding
reference with the Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, please
contact me by the e-mail information below. I will provide you with
submission guidelines and a sample article. Please provide a brief
summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related disciplines.
Thanks very much,
Lisbeth Rogers
Author Manager
Remaining topics (including words counts) currently available for
1. 2000 Congressional Campaigns 1800
2. 2002 Congressional Campaigns 1800
3. 2008 Congressional Campaigns 5000
4. Bounce Back (technical) 1000
5. Bounce Back effect (cultural) 1200
6. Campaigns, Email 1200
7. Campaigns, Grassroots 3000
8. Campaigns, Organizing 3000
9. Constituency 3000
10. DeMint, Jim 2200
11. Ellmers, Renee 2200
12. Fleming, John 2200
13. Forbes, J. Randy 2200
14. Grassley, Chuck 2200
15. Issa, Darrell 2200
16. McCarthy, Kevin 2200
17. McCotter, Thaddeus 2200
18. Membership Communications Project (data aggregation project) 1200
19. Menendez, Robert 2200
20. Musicians and Social Media in Politics 3,000
21. Multiple Leveraging 1200
22. Parallel Modeling 1200
23. Political Base 1800
24. Predictive Analytics 1800
25. Real-Time Communication Nodes 1000
26. Return on Investment 1800
27. Schumer, Charles 2200
28. Skunk Ops 1200
29. Social Security 1800
30. Spanish 15M Movement 1000
31. Spending and Debt, Government 2200
32. Take the Pledge 800
33. Taxes 1800
34. Thune, John 2200
35. Twestival 800
36. Udall, Mark 2200
37. Vitter, David 2200
38. Voter Demographics 2200
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Job Announcement | Global Communications | The American University of Paris
Job Opening: Assistant or Associate Professor of Global Communications
- Media communications and development in the global South with a critical political economy or cultural studies perspective. Practical involvement in NGOs and/or humanitarian campaigns a major plus.
- Emerging technologies, mobile platforms and digital media, including, possibly, social activism and political communications. Scholarly research and practical training highly desirable.
- Critical studies of culture industries: gaming, music, branding, advertising and PR, fashion, and visual media. Excellent scholarship with career experience ideal.
We invite and encourage women and underrepresented populations to apply. The University is an equal opportunity employer for whom diversity is an essential source of vitality and strength.
The Institution: Founded in 1962, The American University of Paris (AUP) is a small, undergraduate and Masters degree-granting institution with a Liberal Arts core, dedicated to the advancement of the Arts & Sciences in an international and multicultural environment. AUP brings together the values of the American higher education system with its location in Paris and Europe. AUP is accredited in the United States of America by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. AUP has cooperative agreements with Eugene Lang College, The New School and other North American and European universities.
The teaching load is six courses per year. Teaching responsibilities range from introductory undergraduate core courses in Communications and Media Studies to MA courses in the following areas: global digital media, social movements, urban communications, transnational flows of identity and meaning, critical cultural studies in branding, museums and fashion, etc. Ability to teach research methods courses a plus. Possibility of teaching courses in the candidate's research area. Commitment to scholarship, excellence in teaching, curricular development & innovation, student advising and university service required. We seek engaged scholars and have high expectations of teaching and scholarly research for promotion. AUP follows an American model of academic promotion (Assistant, Associate, Professor).
Salary Range: Salary and benefits competitive on the French market.
Three letters of reference should be sent electronically to: email@example.com
The American University of Paris
31, Avenue Bosquet
75007 Paris
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CFP- Differential Mobilities
Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies
Pan-American Mobilities Network Conference: May 8-11, 2013 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Conference website: http://mobilities.ca/pamnet-4/
Please note that the deadline for abstract submissions to the conference is November 21, 2012.
Sponsored by the Pan-American Mobilities Research Network in collaboration with the European Cosmobilities Network, this 4th annual conference will feature an exciting mix of scholars and artists working within the dynamic, emergent field of mobilities.
Confirmed keynotes include: Gerard Goggin; Giselle Beiguelman; Micha Cárdenas; Danielle Peers; Vera Chouinard; Ole B. Jensen; Jason E. Lewis; Darin Barney; Skawenatti Fragnito.
The Pan-American Mobilities Conference is hosted by the Mobile Media Lab in the Communication Studies Department of Concordia University in Montreal.
Please visit the conference website for the full text of the Call For Papers and to access the proposal submission form - as well as for more detailed information on the event and its participants.
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CFP Cultural Memory Conference
Call for Papers and Call for Panel Proposals
The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS)
The Balkan Network for Culture and Culture Studies (BNCCS)
Annual Conference 2013: "Cultural Memory"
September 5-6, 2013, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
The deadline for proposals is February 1st, 2013
The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) and The Balkan Network for Culture and Culture Studies (BNCCS) will organize the first of many to follow, annually-held conferences, under the overarching theme "Cultural Memory".
The interest in the past, and consequently, the interest in collective and individual memory, is quite pertinent to our overall present-day research interests. Finding a way to articulate and express individual and collective identities, which find themselves under the undeniable pressure of globalization, transition and consumer processes, is becoming increasingly important. On the one hand, in today's contemporary, post-modern societies, the various ethnic groups call for recognition, which in turn demonstrates a need for the construction of their pasts, and thus, their cultural memories. On the other hand, if national, regional, religious and/or local cultural identities present today were portrayed as more or less stable entities, today they may be observed as nothing more than events, changes or conflicts usually associated with secularization, industrialization, globalization, migration, or many other political, economic, cultural and/or religious. >From this stance, culture is seen as shaped under the influence of processes that stand in constant mutual tension. In other words, it is located in a state of constant negotiation with the newly present conditions, values, ideas and beliefs, set in circumstances whence the previously dominant segments are no longer present. In such processes, the term memory occupies a central role.
The objective of this first conference is twofold: namely, to contribute to the study of cultural memory by unlocking narratives about the past (and their canonization), and offer relevant critical observations on the manifestations of cultural memory that are not essentially 'narratives'. This approach provides a kind of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary access to cultural memory taken from various perspectives.
In this context, we are faced the following questions: how do we recall, remember and forget? What stories are 'permitted' and which are 'forbidden'? How does the past determine the present and shape the future? How do the various discourses of the past determine the social and personal identities? How are our deepest emotions, desires and fantasies articulated in the present through the discursive space of memory? What are the relations between memory and monuments, archives and museums? How can we understand the dual nature of monuments: as tools of ideologically driven memory (fixed memory) and/or as constant sources of creative construction and opening up of memory? Does technological development influence the process of remembering the past? What are the implications of a digitalization of memory? What kind of history is created by the massive use of digital technologies (i.e., online archives that are encoding/decoding their users' memories in virtual space)? How do the systems used for production affect the ways that use, protect and work with memory? In what ways is cultural tourism associated with memory? How does it reflect the local and global histories in terms of which narratives are being produced and consumed?
On that note, individual and collective memory within the processes of creating identities provides for the contemporary researcher indispensable links to the myriad present-day realities that are at the same time quite problematic. This duality manifests itself in the creative and conceptual forms of expression. Hence, the aim of the conference is to bring closer the various aspects applied in studying cultural memory. The conference aims at fostering a critical dialogue beyond the boundaries set by various disciplines, thus papers from various disciplines and fields are most welcomed, including art history, literature, anthropology, architecture, philosophy, political science, sociology, cultural geography, cultural studies, media and film studies, ethnology and folklore, economics, history, heritage studies, museum studies, landscape studies, leisure studies, tourism studies, transport studies and urban/spatial planning.
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Cultural Memory and Identity: family memory; biographical and autobiographical memory; the 'homå'; immigration; the migrant; borders; nationalism; ethnicity; history and changing historical narratives; tradition; violence; trauma and terror; forgiveness; memories of transitions: important personal and national events.
Cultural Memory and Politics: the use of propaganda; the use of cultural memory; the politics of cultural memory; authority; resistance; creating cultural memory; collective remembering and forgetting.
Cultural Memory and Space/Place: architecture; geography (cartography); the city and urbanization; the use of nature in the collective memory; transformed places; monuments, archives, museums.
Cultural Memory and Social Institutions/Cultural Products: myth; religion; art/literature presentation; language; clashing memories, popular culture.
Cultural Memory and Everyday Life: rituals; bodily practices; nostalgia.
Mediated Memories: cultural representations; mass media/digitalized memories; virtual memories.
Cultural Memory and Tourism: 'imagined routes' (mythic highways and meta-narratives); crossing boundaries; war itineraries; violence and displacement; consumerism.
Papers, creative projects, and other non-traditional presentations exploring the aforementioned topics are also welcomed.
The Conference will be held on September 5-6, 2013 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
Please submit your proposals to email@example.com by February 1st, 2013.
Submissions should include a 250-300 word abstract, keywords and a brief bio, as well as a contact address.
The paper proposals should be prepared filling in a paper form.
Please feel free to contact Loreta Georgievska-Jakovleva (email@example.com) or Mishel Pavlovski (firstname.lastname@example.com) with any interim questions.
Notifications of acceptance would come no later than February 15th, 2013.
Abstracts will be published and made available with the conference materials. Full papers will be published in the peer-rewieved journal "Култура/Culture".
We are seeking proposals for panels within the scope of the Conference
Panels are organized by internationally recognized experts aiming to bring together researchers on focused topics for an interactive discussion among the panel members and the participants. Panels are an important component of Annual Conference 2013. Panel members are researchers who have done well-known or controversial work related to the theme of the panel. Researchers interested in organizing a special session are invited to submit a formal proposal to firstname.lastname@example.com by February 1st, 2013.
Before submitting a panel proposal, the organizer of a panel is expected to contact all the proposed panel members and get their agreement to serve as a panel member. A list of questions to be discussed in the panel should be made available to all the panel members well ahead of time for them to prepare their response. Each panel typically allows a certain amount of time for each panel member to present their response before an open discussion is opened.
The panel proposals should be prepared filling in a panel form.
Early registration (till April 1st, 2013): € 40 (for members of The Balkan Network for Culture and Cultural Studies - € 20)
Late registration (till August 15th, 2013): € 60 (for members of The Balkan Network for Culture and Cultural Studies - € 40)
On-site registration (or after August 15th, 2013): € 80 (for members of The Balkan Network for Culture and Cultural Studies - € 60)
The registration fee includes the conference materials, the publication of the abstract and the papers, refreshment breaks, a welcome dinner for all participants of the Conference.
The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies web site: http://www.cultcenter.net/
Conference web site: http://www.cultcenter.net/conf2013.php
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CFP Ray Browne Conference
Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture "Modes of Mobility: Popular Culture in an Age of Technology"
February 8 – February 10, 2013
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
To build on the success of the First Annual Ray Browne Conference, and usher in the fortieth year of the Popular Culture Department at Bowling Green State University, the Popular Culture Scholars Association at BGSU would like to invite any and all students (undergraduates and graduate), scholars, critics, former members of the POPC program and friends of the department to join us for the Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture to be held February 8th through February 10th 2013, on the campus of Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Ray Browne founded the department of Popular Culture to give students an opportunity to academically consider the cultural forms of their everyday lives. In the past forty years, popular culture has only grown more prominent in society and developed new ways of engaging the public. Popular culture has become increasingly mobile through smart phones, webisodes, memes, and social media blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers. Simultaneously, cultures in general have become increasingly mobile through the spread of and contact between peoples, ideas and technology; making the production and consumption of culture a truly transnational affair. In light of increased cultural mobility made possible by new modes of technology, we must consider how popular culture scholarship has grown (and can continue to grow) to accommodate such new cultural modalities.
Potential topics for papers, panels, and roundtable proposals include, but are not limited to:
• How has the increased mobility in terms of culture, people, and technology had an effect on appropriation of cultures, (anti)nationalism, social and political change, tourism, diasporic experiences and how do we begin to theorize these interactions?
• How do we reimagine/reconstruct literatures, languages, narratives and identities in cyber societies? Has transmedia and convergence culture shaped our interaction with popular texts and affected pop cultural narratives?
• How has new media shaped interactions between popular culture and individuals?
• With increasing shifts in culture, have there been similar shifts in the representation of disabled, gender, sexual, race, and ethnic identities?
• Which new media, texts, genres, etc. deserve attention from academics and scholars?
• How have these shifts altered the study popular culture, and how do we continue to explore them?
• Explorations of specific popular culture texts, genres, trends and approaches
The deadline for proposals is Friday, November 16, 2012. Individual paper proposals should be between 300-400 words. Full roundtable and panel theme proposals can be longer, but should include as much prospective information about the topic and number of possible participants as possible. Please email your abstract and a short biography to firstname.lastname@example.com. The subject line should contain the writer's surname followed by "BCPC13" Abstract. Notifications for decisions will be sent by Friday, December 15, 2012. Please contact PCSA if you have any questions or concerns at email@example.com or via our website at bgsu.orgsync.com/org/pcsa.
Deadline: November 26
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UPDATE: CFP: Computer Culture (SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference, February 13-16, 2013)
Extended deadline: December 2 (Was November 16)
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association
February 13-16, 2013
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: December 2, 2012
Conference hotel: Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
330 Tijeras Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: +1 505 842 1234
Computer Culture: Call for Papers
We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 34th annual conference of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA).
Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived.
Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?"
"Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways:
- the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own?
- the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers
- the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean
- the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers
Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to:
* What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology ___ and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable?
* What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices (such as ____ ) associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins?
* How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean?
Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address:
- issues of (re)presentation through computers (Web site analysis and design),
- methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds),
- theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture,
- uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals),
- the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism),
- security/privacy/fraud and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes),
- and others.
While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research.
Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate.
Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at
Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities:
The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" :
The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowship" :
Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at
which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one.)
If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs.
Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.
For early consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by 2 December 2012 to the conference electronic submission system which can be found at:
If you have any questions, contact the Computer Culture area co-chairs,
Andrew Chen (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Joseph Chaney (email@example.com).
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Call for Expressions of Interest at the Institute for Culture and Society
Call for Expressions of Interest: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award applications in Cultural and Social Research INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) within the University of Western Sydney (UWS) was launched in 2012. ICS constitutes a major national and international Institute for the pursuit of engaged interdisciplinary cultural and social research. Rated 5 ("well above world standard") for Cultural Studies in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings, the Institute coordinates interdisciplinary cultural research across the humanities and social sciences and connects Australian cultural and social research to relevant research overseas, particularly in Asia. With the continuation of the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme in 2013 (see the website: http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/decra.htm) and a University commitment of significant new funding, ICS is investing in leading cultural and social researchers from Australia and overseas by supporting innovative and outstanding DECRA proposals from applicants up to 5 years post-PhD. ICS's research program is currently organised into the following research groups: Knowledge Practice Strands 1. Methods, Disciplines and Social Change 2. Digital Research and Cultural Transformation Bridging Theme 1. Australian Cultural Fields Culture and Society Research Themes 1. Intercultural Dialogue and Transnational Culture 2. Institutions, Governance, Citizenship 3. Cultural Economy and Globalisation 4. Heritage, Environment and Society 5. Cities and Urban Cultures ICS researchers approach culture as a vital dimension of social, political, and economic life. Their practice-oriented, interdisciplinary research produces cutting-edge work in and across the fields of cultural studies, media studies, sociology, cultural and human geography, cultural economy, Asian studies, education studies, and museum and heritage studies. The Institute hosts UWS's role in the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre. Academic staff in the Institute include: Distinguished Professor Ien Ang (Director) Professor Tony Bennett (Research Director) Professor Kay Anderson Professor Bob Hodge Professor Donald McNeill Professor Brett Neilson Professor Ned Rossiter Professor David Rowe Professor Deborah Stevenson Professor Stephen Tomsen A/Professor Greg Noble (Director of Higher Degree Research) A/Professor Robyn Bushell A/Professor Hart Cohen A/Professor Kaye Shumack A/Professor Judith Snodgrass Dr Fiona Cameron Dr Philippa Collin Dr Julie Thorpe Dr Sonja Van Wichelen Dr Tim Winter Dr James Arvanitakis Dr Gabriela Coronado Dr George Morgan Dr Juan Salazar Dr Russell Staiff Dr Amanda Third Dr Emma Waterton Dr Megan Watkins EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST ICS will offer expert assistance to DECRA applications where these fit closely with one or more aspects of its research program. Please consult the Institute's website (http://uws.edu.au/ics) for further details of the Institute's research program. Please note that applicants seeking the endorsement of ICS need to complete an Expression of Interest form. These are available from UWS Senior Project Development Manager Annette McLaren (firstname.lastname@example.com), and should be returned to her by 9am Australian Eastern Seaboard time on 10 December 2012. Prospective applicants are advised to email a brief (1 paragraph) outline of their proposal and their current CV to Annette McLaren when requesting the Expression of Interest form for guidance regarding the fit between their proposed project and the Institute's research, and the levels of research performance that applicants will need to demonstrate.
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EU and US sign joint declaration to make the internet safer for kids
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Department of Homeland Security and the European Commission - Joint Declaration
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Joint Declaration between the Department of Homeland Security and the European Commission
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Joint Declaration between the Department of Homeland Security and the European Commission
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Graduate Programs in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster
The Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is now accepting applications for its PhD and MA programs. The due date for applications is January 15, 2013, and details are available here: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~english/graduateapplications.html McMaster has long been considered one of Canadas best places for graduate work in English. As a mid-sized department, taking in about 25 MA and 10 new PhD candidates every year, we offer an alternative to huge departments where graduate students may receive little individual contact or exchange. At the same time, we are large enough to cover a range of fields, from Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century to Contemporary, and including approaches like postcolonialism and diaspora, poststructuralism, cultural theory, popular culture, Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, feminism and gender studies, to name just a few. Current course offerings include, for example: Visionary Women; Romanticism, War, and Peace; Indigenous Literature of North America; Speaking Pictures: Emblems, Metaphor, and Language in Early Modern Writing; White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada; Oh Behave! Postwar Sexualities; and Science Fiction: Mindworlds and the Boundaries of the Human. Building on McMaster's strengths in theory and the analysis of contemporary culture, we offer an interdisciplinary MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (CSCT), housed in the English and Cultural Studies department, but drawing on faculty from Theatre and Film, Communication Studies, Multimedia, Anthropology, and Religious Studies. CSCT MA students take a core course in Critical Cultural Theory alongside innovative topic courses such as Celebrity/Culture; The Secret Life of Things; The New Constellation of Race; The Cultures of Modernism; The Archive and Everyday Life; The Times We Live In; and Gender, Violence, and Visual Culture. CSCT students also complete a Major Research Project of their own design. All of our full-time graduate students receive funding (including the opportunity to work as a Teaching Assistant), and PhD students have the further option of completing a diploma in Gender Studies and Feminist Research: http://gsfr.mcmaster.ca/Grad_Dip/index.html We warmly encourage prospective MA and PhD students to contact us. We are glad to talk with you about our programs, our lively, stimulating graduate community, and the vibrant, affordable, and green city that is Hamilton. Dr. Susie O'Brien, Director, CSCT MA Program: firstname.lastname@example.com Dr. Mary Silcox, Chair of Graduate Studies: email@example.com Admission Inquiries (Graduate Secretary): firstname.lastname@example.com (905-525-9140, ext 24732) Facebook: www.facebook.com/EnglishandCulturalStudiesatMcMaster Twitter: @MacECS
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
8th Forum of the World Alliance of Cities against Poverty: Smart, safe and sustainable cities
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Robots under the skin
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Green ICT for Sustainable Consumption?
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Cookbook:Frito Pie
Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes | Texas cuisine
Frito pie is a corn (maize) chip and chili con carne dish popular in the United States. Frito pie may be made with just corn chips, chili, and shredded cheese, but often has other condiments added as well. Sour cream, jalapeños, onions, hot sauce, tomatoes, and various other Latin American ingredients are often used.
Recipe 1[edit]
This is a traditional, and basic, recipe for Frito pie. Minor variants are common.
- 3 cups (710 ml) Fritos
- 1 cup (240 ml) grated cheddar cheese
- 2 cups (590 ml) chili (homemade or canned)
- Preheat oven to 350° F (175° C).
- Spread 2 cups of Fritos in a baking dish.
- Sprinkle half of the cheese over the Fritos.
- Spread the chili over the Fritos
- Bake for 15 or 20 minutes and cheese is bubbly.
- Add remaining cheese and Fritos to top of pie.
- Serve hot. Makes 4 servings.
Recipe 2[edit]
This is an alternate recipe. It is based on the very nice recipe for home-made Frito Pie Chili.
- 1 recipe of home-made Frito Pie Chili
- 1 bag (10 oz. / 280 g) Fritos
- 1½ cups (350 ml) grated Monterrey Jack cheese
- 6 Tbsps. (90 ml) sour cream
- 1 small jar of jalapeños
- Place a handful of the chips in each of 8 shallow bowls.
- Spoon the Frito Pie Chili over the chips.
- Garnish with the grated cheese, sour cream and jalapeños.
Makes 8 servings.
Recipe 3[edit]
Your basic, on the go, craving Frito Pie, recipe:
- Buy a 99¢ Grab-Bag of Fritos.
- Buy a basic 99¢ cup of chili from Wendy's (or wherever you like to buy chili)
- Carefully open the bag without ripping the sides
- Pour the chili over the top of the chips in the bag.
- Pour on the hot sauce from the little packets, and a little more grated cheese.
- Carefully eat it right out of the bag with a plastic fork, and enjoy.
Recipe 4[edit]
The simple at-home way of making Frito Pie quickly, without an oven. More ideal for children than the hotter bag and casserole methods. Easily multiplied for parties or other occasions!
- Single-serving bag of fritos
- Single-serving of chilli
- Cheese and other toppings
- Heat chilli on stove or in microwave until desired temperature
- Pour over fritos in a bowl
- Add cheese and desired toppings
- Carefully eat it straight from the bowl


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An influx of up to 2 million people into nation's capitol for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president is expected to overwhelm the Washington area's transportation systems , as well as its communications infrastructure.
"This will be a great test [for continuity-of-operations planning]," said Cindy Auten, general manager of the Telework Exchange. "It will take us almost to the limits of being able to handle the bandwidth."
The exchange, a public-private partnership that promotes and provides resources for telecommuting, is urging employers in the national capital area to let employees work from home or other remote locations that day. It not only would help ease the congestion expected in downtown Washington, but would also be good opportunity for organization's to test the continuity-of-operations (COOP) plans that they should have in place.
"This will be the ultimate COOP experience, to be able to Telework with an extra 2 million people in the area," Auten said.
Continuity-of-operations plans are supposed to provide a blueprint for keeping an organization's mission-critical processes functioning during natural or manmade emergencies, when workers might not be able to make it to their normal place of work or infrastructure or resources might not be available. The plans usually look good on paper, but they often get little real-world testing in advance of a crisis. The planned crisis presented by the inaugural crowds could be an opportunity for a dry run.
"People in the area are coming to the realization that they are not going to be able to leave their homes, and if they are in D.C. they are not going to be able to get out," Auten said.
Conditions will be helped somewhat by the fact that the federal government will be closed on Jan. 20, but many businesses in the area will remain open. The government, through the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration and in cooperation with the Telework Exchange, encourages telecommuting through a program that operates 14 remote telework centers in the Washington area, from Hagerstown, Md., to Winchester and Fredericksburg, Va.
Of course, working remotely could add to the strain of a communications infrastructure already expected to be burdened that day, and wireless carriers will be put to the test as well.
Auten said her organization has been in touch with major carriers such as Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and others. "They are very aware of the strain they are going to have," she said.
Sprint already has announced plans to beef up capacity for the day, drawing on its experience in dealing with other special activities and sporting events. It increasing coverage in selected high-traffic areas and is positioning equipment to enhance its data and push-to-talk capacity by 40 percent for consumer customers, and by 90 percent for public safety users.
Although congestion is expected to be greatest on the Tuesday of the inauguration, opportunities to benefit from telecommuting could extend well beyond that, Auten said.
"I think the increasing traffic won't just stop on Wednesday," she added.
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A 16-year-old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident survived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday.
Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surgeon at OU Medical Center who treated Makenzie Wethington when she was flown Saturday from a skydiving school in Chickasha, said the girl hurt her liver and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.
"I don't know the particulars of the accident as I wasn't there. But if she truly fell 3,000 feet, I have no idea how she survived," Bender said at a news conference at the hospital, where the girl's parents also spoke to reporters.
Not only did she survive, but she was in good condition Tuesday, Bender said, and was expected to leave the intensive care unit. Still, she has a long recovery ahead. Bender said it will be several weeks before she can bear any weight.
The girl's parents agreed to let her perform the jump, but her father, Joe Wethington, now says the skydiving company shouldn't have allowed it.
"I don't think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn't have been allowed," Joe Wethington said at the news conference. "I find it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a flaw there somewhere, and I don't think it's through the state of Oklahoma. I think it's the company. I'm not sure."
Nancy Koreen, director of sport promotion at the Fredericksburg, Va.-based U.S. Parachute Association, said its safety requirements allow someone who is 16 to make a dive with parental consent, though some drop zones set the age higher.
Robert Swainson, the owner and chief instructor at Pegasus Air Sports Center in Chickasha, defended the company Tuesday. He noted that the father went up with his daughter and was the first to jump.
Mackenzie, from Joshua, Texas, was making a static-line jump, where a parachute is connected to a lanyard that's attached to the plane and opens automatically when a diver exits the plane.
Swainson said Wethington's parachute opened OK, but she began to spiral downward when the chute went up but not out in some kind of malfunction. Swainson said a parachute can develop such a turn for several reasons, but that Wethington and other divers were given instruction during a six-to-seven-hour training session beforehand on how to deal with such problems. He also said Makenzie had a radio hookup in her helmet through which someone gave her instructions.
"It was correctable, but corrective action didn't appear to have been taken," said Swainson, who has run the skydiving business for nearly 30 years.
Swainson said he did not jump out to help Wethington because there's no way he could have reached her and another jumper got cold feet and refused to make the jump. Swainson said it was protocol for him to remain with the frightened person because instructors don't know what that person will do.
"The most I could have done is screamed," he said.
Koreen, from the U.S. Parachute Association, spoke generally about skydiving rules and didn't want to directly comment on Makenzie's case. However, she agreed that a reluctant diver can't be left alone in a plane and that even if an instructor exited the plane, he wouldn't have been able to assist the student.
"You can't fly over the parachute and help somebody," she said.


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With the European Union finally giving approval to Oracle's $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems last week, IBM is stepping up efforts to exploit any untapped feelings of uncertainty in shops using Sun iron.
On Tuesday, IBM announced the addition of new software to its four-year-old "Migration Factory" vendor poaching program that makes it easier for businesses to push workloads from Sun into a Big Blue embrace.
The company said its improved Oracle-phobia prescription plan helps automate several of the processes necessary for anti-Sun migration, such as sniffing out and identifying Sun assets, provisioning the new target IBM environment, and streamlining workload transitions.
The software promises a speedier move from Sun Solaris to either Linux or IBM's AIX operating systems, migrating both applications and middleware.
Although IBM's poaching technique for Sun customers isn't new – the company clearly hopes to shake out any anti-Oracle stragglers as the official date of marriage looms closer. Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison is scheduled to outline a strategy for the combined companies and their roadmaps tomorrow during a webcast. The event is expected to lay out Oracle's future plans in hardware and software.
IBM hopes to stir up concerns of Sun's new ownership by stirring up unproven fears. "The future of Sun's hardware business is highly uncertain given its imminent acquisition by Oracle," IBM said on its Sun server migration page. "There's also been speculation in the press on whether Sun will cancel Rock, its next-generation chip project."
Big iron vendors like IBM are always especially eager to circle over the remains of companies freshly processed for acquisition. On the same day, Sun shareholders voted in favor of the Oracle deal, HP unveiled its Sun Complete Care program, offering Sun shops free migration and total cost of ownership assessments if they consider dropping Sun iron for HP.
IBM's Migration Factory shop also offers incentives to abandon Dell, EMC, and of HP kit. HP pitches the reverse favor in return. ®


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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Have A Hot Sex Life, Says Expert
Oh la la! If you swooned over the pic of R-Patz and K-Stew kissing on the balcony in Cannes, then you're going to die over what the body language experts had to say about it! Read on for ALL the hot details.
Any person can tell after watching this video that these two are totally in love.
But body language expert Lillian Glass says this definitely reveals what's going on behind bedroom doors.
"The bottom line is that this is a very hot couple with a lot of sexuality and great communication between them," Lillian tells HollywoodLife.com. "They are playful together and in sync with their playfulness which is a great sign as he jumps from side to side in front of her. She smiles at this then he leans over to give her a very romantic kiss to which she is very receptive to. She grabs his neck and he nuzzles into her as she says something in his ear."
So cute! And another expert reveals that Rob is definitely the one who is more invested in the relationship.
"If you watch the tape several times you can see the dance of the relationship is him cornering her and moving closer and her moving back. He odd shaking side to side is in part his frustration that she is not moving towards her. Again he is playful but she is not fully playing back in kind," body language expert Patti Wood tells us.
And another expert agrees.
"Her gestures appear restricted," Linda Talley tells HollywoodLife.com.
Hmm! Well — while we're not surprised — we're definitely happy to hear they have great chemistry! And we're sure that K-Stew loves R-Patz just as much as he loves her!
What do you think HollywoodLifers? Weigh in below.
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Set on over 200 hectares of Queensland hinterland this exclusive retreat environment will help you restore balance with innovative programs from two to seven days including the popular seven day Detox package.
EcoTourism certified, the retreat features extensive facilities with two swimming pools, a range of activities, delicious organic cuisine and the stunning Spa Sanctuary, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Spa and wellness services are the most comprehensive on offer and feature signature and unique therapies, plus equine experiences. Various accommodation choices include premium villas and meditation suites.
There are various options in this room category and all feature en suite, air-conditioning and fans and are close to the central facilities. Each of the Heritage Houses is unique and has been brought to Gwinganna piece by piece from various locations or built on site in the original Queenslander style.
Built from beautiful Australian reclaimed timbers with soaring ceilings, natural stone bathrooms, timber floors and spacious verandas, the Orchard Suites are nestled into Gwinganna's orchard. Choices include a deluxe studio with en suite featuring a veranda and sitting area plus outdoor bath, or a two bedroom suite with two bathrooms, shared relaxation lounge and veranda. These rooms are aptly named the Valencia, Mulberry, Olive, Macadamia and Lychee Suites.
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Tucked away in the mountain scape surrounded by native plants and trees creating the ultimate space to rest. Contemporary in style with light filled spaces to relax, the open plan villas feature a large deck with serene outlook and private plunge pool. Feel a million miles away in your retreat within a retreat.
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Perched on the edge of a ridge with spectacular ocean and valley views, the Moonarie Villas give you more comfort and privacy to create the ultimate escape. Exclusive features such as a private deck and plunge pool, plus sole use of a buggy further enhance your Gwinganna experience.
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Two large serene villas built from Australian reclaimed timbers using rich, warm colours that make the most of the natural beauty of the surrounding environment. Cantilevered over a secluded billabong the split level villas are easily accessible from the main facilities and feature a private steam room, outdoor deck and deep bath.
Within Gwinganna's orchard lie three premium meditation suites, custom designed to help you focus on mindfulness. With soft colours, a spacious open plan design and plenty of natural light the suites have a serene outlook and enhancements for meditation and yoga practice in your private oasis. Ideal for solo travellers or to share as a couple.
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Top Tech Gift Ideas for the Holidays
Nov 24, 2015 03:31AM
By Family Features
(Family Features) If you find your search for the perfect tech gift in today's ever-changing landscape daunting, take heart: the experts at Digitaltrends.com have reviewed all the latest tech gear so you can shop for everyone on your list.
The annual gift guide highlights 100 of the top tech-based gift ideas for the 2015 holiday season. Presented each November by the Digital Trends editorial staff, the list is culled from hundreds of new and recently enhanced technology-based products. The list is organized by consumer archetypes and features an array of suggestions to fit every budget.
"Consumers today are savvier than ever and want to ensure that the holiday gifts they're buying are not just state-of the-art, but are also cost-effective and meet their needs," said Ian Bell, publisher and CEO at Digital Trends. "Our editorial staff does the heavy lifting of product research and translates tech into layman's terms, so our users can quickly and easily learn about product capabilities and benefits before they purchase."
Get your holiday shopping underway with these highlights for the special people on your list, and find the complete list at digitaltrends.com/dtdesign/holiday-gift-guide-2015.
The Mini Mogul: Light up little wrists with a Vtech Kidizoom Smartwatch ($60), featuring a variety of watch settings, games, photo and video options and other features and designed for kids 4 years and older.
The Weekend Warrior: Give the outdoor adventurer the convenience of a GPS that mounts onto handlebars with the Hammerhead Bike Navigation ($85).
The Homebody: The Ninja Coffee Bar ($160) offers precision technology to transform any old coffee beans into every type of java imaginable.
The Boomer: Offering a sharp, crisp screen for indoor or outdoor reading, the 2015 Amazon Kindle Paperwhite ($100) comes with a deep library selection of eBooks from Amazon.
The Connoisseur: Pebble started the smart watch revolution a few years ago, and the Pebble Steel ($150) is the company's newer, faster and more fashionable version. It's geeky yet sophisticated at the same time.
The Gadgeteer: Aspiring videographers will love the LG V10, thanks to its enhanced filming capabilities, crash-proof stainless steel body and second screen ($23/monthly under contract).
Visit digitaltrends.com/dtdesign/holiday-gift-guide-2015 to view the complete list and start shopping.


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The Fourth!
It was pretty low key. My parents threw a barbecue and that was pretty much it! No fireworks or anything fancy. Lily made an appearance with her new dress but I had to usher her back into the house after a few minutes. She was going insane with all the noise.
In other news, next week I'll be in London with my twin! SO STOKED.
I have the majority of my outfits planned but I'm still iffy on the most important one–what I'm wearing to my cousin's wedding. It's in Sweden and I'll be going there after I take Italy by storm (!!!). I have a feeling it's going to be super fancy which is making me nervous. Everything on that side of the world is automatically 10X more fancy so if they say it's fancy, it's like, really fancy…right?!


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Much like a vampire shimmying up a pine tree, the 2011 MTV Movie Awards came and went with a sparkle and a hiss.
And, of course, there was Robert Pattinson.
"Saturday Night Live's" Jason Sudekis hosted the event and opened with a tip of the hat to "The Hangover" where he and some buddies imbibed a little too much and tried to find a lost Taylor Lautner.
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Sudekis also offered several untimely Arnold Schwarzenegger jokes, saying that the for the first time, the entire balcony of Gibson Amphitheater was comprised of Schwarzenegger's offspring.
Vampires and, specifically "Twilight" brought in the majority of the popcorn-shaped awards. Robert Pattinson won for Best Male Performance as smoldering vampire Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart won for her portrayal of Bella, and best fight and best kiss went again to "Twilight."
After taking the stage with Stewart to accept their award, Pattinson unexpectedly ran off to plant a big ol' smooch on Taylor Lautner. In the "Twilight" films, the two play an opposing vampire and werewolf who both vie for the attention of Bella.
"Twilight" also won the Best Movie of 2011.
"The fact that we're standing up here is a testament to all the hard work that went into 'Eclipse,'" Lautner said.
Pattinson and Chelsea Handler honored Reese Witherspoon in a special segment. "It's not always a bad thing to have sexual chemistry with your mother," said Pattinson, who played the son of Witherspoon's character in "Vanity Fair" as well as her love interest in "Water for Elephants."
The outspoken British actor also managed to slip an F-bomb past censors and into Witherspoon's tribute.
The night also served as a teaser for what will prove to be summer's biggest blockbusters. Steven Spielberg showed up to promote his upcoming collaboration with J.J. Abrams, "Super 8." Exclusive sneak peaks of the final "Harry Potter" and "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part One" were shown to raucous squeals from the audience.
MTV also heavily pushed the premier of their new show, "Teen Wolf."
Other winners of the night included Justin Bieber for Best Jaw-Dropping Moment (from his "Never Say Never" Performance Spectacular, and Alexys Nycole Sanchez from "Grown-Ups" for the Best Line from a Movie ("I want to get chocolate wasted").
Tom Felton, who won Best Villain for his nefarious portrayal of Draco Malfoy in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," said he has big plans for his popcorn-shaped trophy.
"This will look very nice in my downstairs toilet," he said.
Selected Reading: Just Jared, Today, EW


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Sweet & Sour Chicken with Fresh Pineapple
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I love your colorful photos!!ReplyDelete
such awesome photos! I love them all, but that pineapple one is just perfect! The sweet & sour sounds really delicious!ReplyDelete
Beautiful new header as well as the chicken dish.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Love the new header! and your sweet and sour gave me a craving. but I ordered in, and it was nowhere near as delicious as yours was, I'm sure! Looks fabulous! Mine tasted like glue with sugar :)ReplyDelete
This recipe looks fantastic and your photos are great. Can't wait to try this dish.ReplyDelete
Hi Mary, that looks good!ReplyDelete
You asked us to let you know about the pics. They are larger than previous posts, is that what you mean? You can't see anything along the sides at all.
Hey Mari, this is one of our favorite Chinese dishes, and one I haven't made in years, but that's all about to change.ReplyDelete
I love the vibrant colors on that plate!
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Love the pic, although have never been a huge fan of pineapple!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe!
Mary!! Your new format is sensational! Love the blue background and as always your photos are smashing. :)ReplyDelete
The colors in this dish really pop; it looks like a fresh and healthy meal :D. I especially like the idea of stir-frying over deep frying :). I'd like to include your recipe on our blog, please let me know if you're interested.ReplyDelete
Sophie, Key Ingredient Chief Blogger
Very tempting, colourful and attractive....OMG i just love it....ReplyDelete
Thank you for such great compliments.ReplyDelete
You've made my week!
This looks like a great recipe :)ReplyDelete


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If there's one thing Kanye West understands, it's how to create an all out media blitz.
The brilliant but troubled star, coming off the release of his critically-acclaimed new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, is set to complete his redemption tour by performing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday, reports MTV.
West plans to do a rendition of "Lost in the World," a track from the new album that features contributions from indie rock band Bon Iver. He will also travel along the parade route on the float of the New York Daily News.
In an interview with MTV, West says that "Lost in the World" is "the last song on the album and emotionally it just fit the crescendo of everything that I was saying and what I wanted to say to this girl." He also said it contains the "favorite eight bars that I've ever written in my life."
The rapper began his comeback in the late summer, bombarding fans through every distribution platform available. He tantalized fans with leaks of new tunes on "Good Fridays," followed up with a capella concerts at the headquarters of Facebook, started a highly entertaining Twitter account, sat for a slew of interviews - including a now already infamous chat with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show - and dropped a 30-minute short film for his song "Runaway."
All of that work seems to be paying off, as the album's reception has been nothing less than excellent. Rolling Stone gave it 5 stars and indie music website Pitchfork gave it a 10, the top grade each publication bestows during reviews.
Selected Reading: MTV, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone


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(CNN) -- Winter travelers trek thousands of miles to the frozen north each year seeking the sky's "dancing lights," which provoke awe, excitement and, some say, sex.
CNN iReporter Bruce Barrett shot this rare red aurora in Canada's Whitehorse, Yukon.
Scientists call the natural phenomenon aurora borealis: cascading beams of greens, yellows, blues, purples or reds -- which paint a breathtaking backdrop across the wilderness and attract thousands of tourists annually.
"Usually it starts slowly as kind of a hazy greenish color -- like a mist -- building up in frequency dancing across the sky ... and to me that's religion," said photographer Dave Brosha of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, who's seen more than 100 Canadian auroras. "It's just one of the most incredible feelings a person can have -- sitting there watching that."
To the west in Canada's Yukon province, tour operator Torsten Eder likes to tell a story about a marriage that was forged under the glowing curtains of light. See spectacular photos of auroras »
"I had one guy from Mexico, and he wanted to surprise his girlfriend by proposing marriage with a ring under the northern lights," said Eder from his office in Whitehorse.
"We got lucky and the lights were visible ... so our guest went down on his knee and proposed to his girlfriend and she was totally blown away. The funny thing was -- she wouldn't wear gloves for the first three days -- so she could show the ring off."
The otherworldly lights also have provided inspiration for almost sacred pilgrimages, Eder said. Guests who said they were going blind or battling cancer told him they wanted to view the auroras at least once in their lives.
"It puts enormous pressure on us," said Eder. "You can't guarantee that the lights will be visible because it's a natural phenomenon." The display is generally visible at least every three days, he said.
Scientists say the northern lights are created by the sun's super hot atmosphere, which blasts particles into the protective magnetic field surrounding the Earth. The magnetic field forces the particles toward the north and south poles. About 60 to 200 miles overhead, the particles bump into the Earth's atmosphere and become electrically "excited" -- throwing off light of various colors, said Prof. Dirk Lummerzheim of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
"The forecast for this winter is a continued quiet sun, in general," he said. The sun is on the upswing of an 11-year cycle. "Maybe we will have a few periods once a month where the aurora can get a little bit more active."
Although the phenomenon occurs around the clock, the lights are only visible at night. The best time of year to see them is during winter, when darkness in the upper latitudes stretches up to 24 hours. See map where northern lights can be seen »
Eder's Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels about 10 p.m. and takes them to an area about 20 minutes outside Whitehorse's city lights. There, travelers can enjoy nature's colorful show from a heated, walled tent until around 2 a.m.
"We almost take it for granted sometimes," said Brosha. "No matter how many times you've seen the aurora borealis -- when they really dance, when you get some really unique colors -- you just kind of say, 'Wow, I'm so lucky to see that.' "
A warmer way to enjoy the northern lights is a shallow, natural rock lake at Chena Hot Springs outside Fairbanks, Alaska, which allows bikini-clad guests to enjoy the lights in temperatures of 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
"I mean, honestly, it's the best way to see them," said spokeswoman Denise Ferree. "Because you're warm and toasty and you're watching the northern lights above."
Chena's owner, Bernie Karl -- who's often as colorful as the lights themselves -- said the auroras sometimes spark the libido.
"Having sex under the northern lights -- it's an awesome experience," Karl said. "Have you ever been out in nature at 35 below zero with northern lights bouncing over your head and your bare ass? Well, you need to try it."
If the hot springs aren't for you, Chena also takes guests up a nearby mountain to observe the auroras from heated Mongolian-style tents called yurts.
The resort prides itself on its environmental initiative, which has led to the generation of clean electricity from geothermal heat produced by the hot spring.
"Iceland is probably one of the best places to see the northern lights," said Reykjavik tour guide Arni Magnusson of AM Tours. That's especially true as the U.S. dollar gains value against the Icelandic krona -- offering some attractive hotel and shopping opportunities.
Guests are picked up at their hotel for a 20-minute drive outside the city to view the lights from higher elevations. "People say they feel closer to Earth and to the forces of nature," said Magnusson. "The lights totally overwhelm them."
Dan Hershman's life changed dramatically after he photographed a spectacular aurora in Washington state in 2000, which was a peak year in the solar cycle.
"These things are just dynamic and they seem just alive and organic," said Hershman, who at the time was a high school music teacher.
The photo was unique enough to attract the attention of NASA, which ran the image on its Web site, Hershman said. This spurred his interest in photography and soon, as Hershman put it, "my hobby became my profession and my profession became my hobby."
Now Hershman performs as principal bassoonist in local orchestras as a hobby -- and he teaches high school photography in Federal Way, Washington, as his profession.
The trick to photographing the auroras, Hershman said, is choosing to take the picture when the lights aren't moving as much. "Otherwise it looks like nothing but a big blob," he said.
Yukon Brewing Company offers tours of this award-winning brewery, the home of such libations as Espresso Stout, made with local espresso from Midnight Sun Coffee Roaster.
Mac's Fireweed, an independent bookstore and a Whitehorse institution, offers a nice selection of magazines and a huge catalogue of book titles.
Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels and takes them a short distance outside Whitehorse to view the auroras from heated, walled tents.
Just north of Whitehorse, see the northern lights from Takhini Hot Springs, which offers cabins and camping facilities. Two bed and breakfasts come recommended by Whitehorse residents: Casey's and Hawkins House, at 867-668-7638.
Enjoy warm tepees as well as food and drinks while viewing the northern lights at Aurora Village, which gets up to 20 hours of darkness in the winter months.
Chena Hot Springs resort offers accommodations and viewing tours of the northern lights. Locals also recommend Mount Aurora Fairbanks Creek lodge for those seeking views of the spectacular lights.
If you're looking for a trip deeper into the wilderness, Tolovana Hot Springs offers views of the auroras about 45 miles from Fairbanks -- accessible by trail or plane only.
Northern lights tours:
Travel to the Brooks mountain range above the Arctic Circle can be arranged with Out in Alaska at 877-374-9958. Northern Alaska Tour Co. offers wilderness tours to see the auroras in Coldfoot.
Northern lights tours:
Visitors interested in guided views of the northern lights can contact AM Tours at 011-354-898-6581.
Enjoy the hot springs and spa facilities at the famous Blue Lagoon. Find general information on touring Iceland at Iceland Travel.


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NVIDIA has released Version 3.0 of its CUDA Toolkit. Version 3.0 provides developers with tools for preparing their codes for Fermi-based GPUs due to hit the market in a few weeks time. The CUDA Toolkit v3.0 is freely available at www.nvidia.com/getcuda.
Key features of CUDA Toolkit v3.0 include:
- Support for new GPUs based on Fermi architecture: including ECC, optimized double precision, complete BLAS and LAPACK libraries, cuda-gdb debugger and Visual Profiler
- C++ support delivers improved productivity with class and template inheritance
- GPGPU/Graphics interoperability, critical for the GeForce/Quadro market delivering Direct3D 9,10 and 11 and OpenGL for both CUDA and OpenCL
- Improved developer tools for Linux, including the new CUDA Memory Checker that reports misalignment and out of bounds errors
- Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) support.
One area that is going to see real benefits from the improvements in CUDA Toolkit v3.0 is the field of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). To date, three Nobel laureates have been recognized for their contributions to this field which helps us understand the nature of our universe. The study of QCD is so important that up to 20% of the compute cycles across several national labs and other facilities in the U.S. Japan and Europe are dedicated to it.
"QCD codes need all the compute cycles they can get and we're really excited about the results we're getting by using GPUs -- we've already reduced the cost of our calculations by a factor of 5," said Richard Brower, U.S. Software Coordinator for USQCD, Boston University Physics and Electrical Engineering Departments. "With support for more complex linear algebra routines and a GPU-accelerated BLAS library, the new CUDA Toolkit 3.0 will help us to further extend our use of GPGPU architectures to advance research on QCD and related strongly coupled quantum field theories."


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The Navigational School at SCI had informal beginnings in 1899. In December of that year, Navy Commander W. H. Reeder wrote to J. Augustus Johnson, serving as Chairman of SCI's Committee on Navigation. The letter contained a list of materials needed for a teaching ship at SCI. The list included grummets, 100 pounds of hemp rope for knotting, 25 pounds of hambroline and stopping blocks.
In 1906, the still informal Navigational School met in one room, probably at the Institute's headquarters at One State Street. In 1914, the School partnered with the ailing New York Nautical College and YMCA. By 1916, the partnership between the YMCA and SCI was dissolved. The Navigational School reorganized and opened as the Navigational and Marine Engineering School of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York.
After reorganization, Captain Robert Huntington, a retired sea captain, came to teach at SCI. As the United States was on the brink of entering World War I, Huntington advertised the school heavily, and SCI trained 15,000 men during that time.
SCI founded the school not only to educate those who wished to go to sea but also to give them opportunity for advancement. Instructors at the Navigation School taught practical subjects on a real vessel.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, applications from officers desiring to return to the Merchant Marine service flooded the Navigation School. A 74-foot ship's pilot house and flying bridge was installed on the roof of 25 South Street. At 212 feet above street level, SCI billed it as the highest navigation bridge in the world.
After the wars, the shipping industry began to change swiftly. SCI and the Merchant Marine School changed with it.
Just as technology on ships developed, the technology on which the students were taught developed, too. In 1968, SCI moved into their new headquarters at 15 State Street. In the 1970s and 80s, changes in licensing, shipping and certification requirements hastened SCI to change their programs as well. In the fall of 1985, SCI held the first radar training conference. This conference led to international standards of simulator training. The Institute began turning classrooms into ship's bridges again, but this time inside the building. The training academy became known as the Center for Maritime Education (CME), which it is still called to this day.
Today, state-of-the-art simulators found at SCI locations in Paducah, KY and Houston, TX train thousands of mariners annually, using many scenarios from real life on the seas and inland waterways. While the simulators can never replace actual experience, they give students the practical training to successfully navigate whatever circumstances may arise.


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Some topics keep coming up for discussion. Irrefutable evidence can be presented to settle the issue but it may not be what people want to hear. They may ignore the evidence or decry it.
The question of when life begins is such an example. In late April, member of Parliament Stephen Woodworth put forth a motion to examine when life begins. He calls for a special parliamentary committee to review the federal Criminal Code's definition of when a baby becomes a human being. Canadian law says a baby only becomes a human being at the moment its birth is completed.
I am reminded of a famous line from Charles Dickens' book Oliver Twist: "'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble . . . 'the law is an ass - an idiot.'"
So it is. The law is based on pro-abortion ideology, not biological evidence which established decades ago that life reproduced sexually begins when sperm fertilizes egg. This is not a matter of taste or opinion, it is biological evidence.
If our nation truly believes in the concept of universal human rights then all human life must be included within that ideal. That's what "universal" means. Human rights begin when human life begins and ends with life's natural conclusion. Anything else is ignorance or sophistry or bigotry.
New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair adamantly opposed Woodworth's motion, or the establishment of a parliamentary committee. Mulcair said the entire New Democratic Party will vote against the motion.
In defending his motion, Woolworth said, "There's a diversity of opinion across Canada on the question of our definition of human being. But what does a parliamentarian do in the face of diversity? Rather than let opinions fester, one should expose them to the light of day."
Some opinions can't be sustained in the light of day. They need the logic of darkness in order to be maintained. The light of biological science, unfiltered by pro-abortion ideology, would quickly establish that life begins at conception and all one has to do is refer to the Carnegie Stages of human development.
The Carnegie Institute at John Hopkins University first described the initial stages of embryonic development back in the early 1900s. Canada's law's stating a human being's life begins at birth is ridiculous. It completely contradicts what we know about prenatal development.
The law is backward and bigoted. It needs to change to finally recognize and include what we know about prenatal life.
Unborn children are not the first group of humanity that has not been recognized as legal persons. Until 1929, Canada's Supreme Court said women were not legal persons. There was a time in North America when aboriginal people were considered non-persons.
In 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that black slaves were considered property and not legal persons. During the Third Reich, the personhood and humanity of Jews were questioned. Adolf Hitler said, "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but not human."
History is scarred with examples of people arbitrarily denying other groups of humanity legal personhood or even recognition as human beings. Now it is unborn children who are systematically denied their humanity and not recognized as legal persons. Prejudice makes civil society uncivilized.
Even if a parliamentary committee were to review the Criminal Code's position that a child only becomes human at the point of birth, it would still have to look at when biological science established when life begins. Too many parliamentarians will not accept the answer.
It would not be the first time a government has examined this important question. In April 1981, the U.S. Congress conducted a series of hearings to answer the question "When does life begin?"
A group of internationally recognized scientists appeared before the committee with a resounding collective statement that conception marks the beginning of a new human being. Fifty-seven witnesses appeared and only one scientist disagreed; his disagreement was based on philosophical, not scientific, grounds.
Did it change anything? No. Corrupt ideology and prejudice prevailed over truth. Millions of children have died across America since 1981. Why should we think it will be different 30 years later in Canada? Are we more open to truth now?
I fear the answer is "no," but pray it might become "yes." Until then, it remains important that God's people continue to proclaim the sanctity and dignity of all human life and prayerfully offer life-affirming alternatives to women considering abortion.


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Officials for the Superdome's power company will go before the City Council on Friday to talk about the power outage that halted play in the Super Bowl last Sunday night.
The council is the regulatory agency for Entergy New Orleans. Its utility committee meets Friday morning.
Committee chairwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell says she set the meeting for late-week to give Entergy time to gather and analyze data about the outage.
Superdome and Entergy officials have said the 34-minute outage happened when sensing equipment in the area where Entergy and Superdome equipment intersect detected some sort of anomaly, causing a breaker to open and cut power to half the stadium.
The companies plan to hire an outside expert to determine the source of the anomaly, which they have not described in detail.
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In addition, students participate in a variety of career development programs, scientific seminars, and specific career enhancement opportunities including preparation for national examinations. By the end of the summer, students are in a position to create a research poster for final presentation in Pittsburgh as well as at a national conference. Social activities are included in the program to help build a network of peers with similar career paths.
Students receive a stipend of $4,300 for the ten-week period plus round trip airfare to/from Pittsburgh. This stipend provides students with a comfortable budget to live in Pittsburgh. All students must have medical insurance for the duration of the program, and because they will be working with human materials, are encouraged to be vaccinated for hepatitis B.


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Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Gets $70 Million in Financing
The WSJ's Lee Hawkins discusses the strong likelihood that Jessica Alba's non-toxic products company, Honest Company, will do an initial public offering after an announcement that the company received a $70 million round of financing from venture capital investors. Photo: Getty Images
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... just because although ... a list actresses new sin City sequel ... now when Peter ... out with company The honest Company is making headlines in another venue ... announcing that it holds a seventy million dollar round of financing that means that on this which makes natural non toxic products such as cleaning agents ... baby products into a case ... has raised a total of one hundred and fifty two million dollars in financing ... since it launched in two thousand twelve the company grow revenues from twelve million in two thousand twelve to sixteen million in two thousand thirteen ... on this is now on a run rate of one hundred million in revenues for twenty fourteen ... winter wire reports the company's value to be just shy of one billion dollars ... in the deal comes just as the company prepares itself for an initial public offering ... in my interview with all that this summer I asked her about the possibility of an IPO do you see this company going public at some point ... yet any guts and not out of the question in a couple of years ... aam was seen ... aam we could possibly get acquired ... the name ... somebody I'm not sure ... I'm not sure when I was mean ... aam ... I ... think we're ... down now ... erm today ... that on the new will seek ... when ECB ... for the company for five years ... where would you like ... I certainly would like to be the Number one in the grand unveiling trucks and relies on ... bonds affiliated with Wellington Management Company LP that the round ... joined by the public market institutional investors existing investors Lightspeed venture partners institutional venture Partners ... General catalyst Partners Icahn Capital offer purchases made ... on the CEO post on Cain says the money would be used in part to help the company answer that has more adequate levels of inventory ... and to fund infrastructure and international expansion ... into fast growing markets like China ... the company hasn't disclosed the timeline for going well ... you ...


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