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Chances are you've received plenty of career tips over the years, whether solicited or not. Like any "helpful" suggestions, job-oriented advice can range from the eminently sage ("Do what you love") to the highly questionable ("Do what pays the most").
Embracing the good advice can lead to a brighter, wealthier future. On the other hand, implementing those bad tips into your professional plan may lead you into a hard-to-reverse downward spiral.
What's the best career advice anyone has shared with you? What's the worst advice you've received?
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April 1st, 2010
2:18 pm
Best Advice: Believe in yourself! Strive to improve and push yourself to the next level.
Worse Advice: Was recently, put an objective on your resume and have a 1 -2 page resume. I am a professional manager and my 4 page resume has gotten more action than my 2 page bullet laden resume.
April 1st, 2010
4:35 pm
Best Advice: Think about how you are perceived and what you say or write will be interpreted. Just because you understand what you are saying doesn't mean other people are going to interpret it the way you intend.
Worst Advice: Take it personally.
April 1st, 2010
4:40 pm
Also with the resume, get input or help from someone that understands your discipline ie if you are a finace professional don't have a marketing professional help with the resume, it may look pretty but the finance decision maker reading it is going to think FLUFF.
April 1st, 2010
4:54 pm
Best Advice: Dress for the position you want, not for the position you are in.
Worst Advice: Just be patient.
April 1st, 2010
5:02 pm
Best Advice: Leverage personal contacts to meet people you want to work for/with.
Worst Advice: Sending out resumes and waiting by the phone.
April 1st, 2010
5:44 pm
"Newly Employed" is the only response that has any bit of useful advice.
HR Pro: Take what personally? Not getting a job/promotion/client? You have actually been given that advice? Seriously? I'm not sure that can even be called advice. Maybe sabotage, but not advice.
And, really, Mr. Mullin: can "believe in yourself" be considered advice? Then I guess that Hang-In-There-Baby kitten is basically Tony Robbins.
April 1st, 2010
5:47 pm
As for me…
Best Advice: One Word: Plastics.
Worst Advice: (based on the definition of advice permeating the other responses): Jump off a bridge.
April 1st, 2010
5:55 pm
Best Advice: Success is not determined by your salary.
Best Advice for Resume: Add "Avocation" as a resume section if it shows a skill that could be transferred to your job success, e.g., "marathon runner" shows the ability to set long-term and short-term goals, be strategic and delay gratification. Identifying your avocation gives the prospective employer a casual but meaningful place to start the conversation, rather than the typical chit-chat about the weather.
Best Advice I Can Offer: Don't stay in a job if it's killing you on an emotional, spiritual or physical level. Life is short — and there's a perfect fit out there for you.
April 2nd, 2010
4:48 pm
I was literally told, when I called a hiring manager for advice, that I should start smoking and it would make my voice sound deeper. I never did pick up that habit.
April 2nd, 2010
5:38 pm
Best Advice: Don't let your meatloaf
April 2nd, 2010
6:18 pm
Good advice
1) Always be preparing for your next job (it doesn't matter if it will be with the same company or not)
2) Follow your interests
3) If you are unemployed, treat you job search like a job
4) If you are employed (even if you like your positions), Send our resumes regularly, and try to interview at least twice a year. That way, if something happens to your current position, You are practiced and have stuff in the pipeline.
April 2nd, 2010
10:27 pm
My best advice was from my late father – pick a company you can retire from. I did, and I did!
April 2nd, 2010
11:38 pm
Best Advice – (After divorce and not working for 11 years) Get a masters degree in Special Education. (This proved to be excellent for job security.) I did and taught for 7 years, but I had to return to school for a specialist degree in instructional technology because teaching special education was too rough.
Worst Advice – (After divorce and not working for 11 years) You can't get a degree in pharmacy with two kids – now I know I could have and should have. That advice came from a family friend. Auburn said you can and we will let you try. I took friend's advice – wrong.
April 3rd, 2010
8:40 am
Best Advice: You can if you want to bad enough
Worst Advice in the history of the world: You can't do that. Here's why……..
April 3rd, 2010
10:56 am
FOLLOW YOUR HEART. Use your gifts to help those with needs. Dont try to be exactly like someone else – you'll only come in at second place.
April 3rd, 2010
3:24 pm
Best advice be prepared for the world and things that happen in corporate america.
worst advise: government jobs are better and fulfilling than private sector jobs.
April 3rd, 2010
5:44 pm
Best Advice to anyone: GET RID OF THE CHEWING GUM!
April 3rd, 2010
5:46 pm
Best advice on job hunting; Do not falsify anything on resume/application. It will come back and bite you…..
You are to old to go back to school and finish your degree…. Did not listen to that went back finished my BA and then completed my MBA. IMHO the best thing I did for ME.
April 3rd, 2010
8:59 pm
Best advice during the interview: Pause before answering a question and make eye contact.
Best advice for after the interview: Write a personal thank-you note immediately.
April 3rd, 2010
9:45 pm
Best advice, don't hire anyone named Dick Hurtz.
April 3rd, 2010
9:46 pm
Best Advice: You work for many managers. Some of them will be good, some of them not, but you'll learn something from all of them.
April 4th, 2010
10:43 am
Don't mistake a job for a career.
April 4th, 2010
4:05 pm
Best advice: Pay yourself first. Worst: It makes no difference what others think of you.
April 4th, 2010
7:46 pm
Do something that you love and are good at that pays well. Money is just a way of keeping score on how well you do yur job.
April 4th, 2010
7:55 pm
Having a mentor definitely helps one in getting fresh ideas as advice. I was struggling to find my direction in my career when my friend recommended me Onementor.com I had my doubts about mentoring at first but as time goes by, i found that i am able to gain certain new insights from my mentor which proved to be useful in corporate survival. overall, i think most people would find it valuable to have a mentor at hand who provide advice, whether its good or bad advice, its hard to put an answer as every situation differs.
April 4th, 2010
10:18 pm
Best advice: Don't cause problems for your boss.
Worst advice: Ask for forgiveness; not permission.
April 4th, 2010
11:39 pm
Best: Sleep with the boss, especially if she's ugly…
Worst:Feel free to take anything you can fit in your car….
April 4th, 2010
11:50 pm
Best: Let the interviewer know you are interviewing the company…have good' prepared questions about the company. Legitimate management questions..such as what is your employee turn-over rate..a good barometer of employee satisfaction. Do lots of research before the interview ie. if the company is privately owned , what is the stock value the stock history….etc.
worst: not doing your home work..if you want to work for the company..you should act like it,not the other way around.
April 5th, 2010
12:02 am
Best: Help yourself to anything in the company fridge…
Worst: Help yourself to anything in the company fridge…
April 5th, 2010
9:50 am
Best: You want to work in a position that is close to the money. (these are the last positions to be eliminated in a compay)
Worst: Rock the boat.
April 5th, 2010
11:33 am
That droopydawg sure seems to be a happy fellow with all the answers.
Hows all that advice you give yourself working out? You sound like a real success story.
April 5th, 2010
12:10 pm
Best advice: Follow your heart, and the money will follow.
Worst advice: Another degree won't make any difference..
April 5th, 2010
12:25 pm
Best Advice: Don't include the term "dawg" in the email address listed on your resume. Graduate of the Terry School of Business sounds great. firstname.lastname@example.com sounds like you're a slobbering idiot.
Worst advice: Salary is not important.
April 5th, 2010
3:01 pm
One word if you're contemplating another degree: Gerontology.
April 5th, 2010
5:20 pm
Best advice: Do not pick a career based on the salary. You think you will be happy, but trust me, you won't be.
Worst advice: Asking too many questions is bad. On the contrary, asking questions shows interest as well as wanting to learn more.


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37 weeks, home stretch!
|Sat, 07-10-2010 - 12:18am
I had my 37 week appointment this week, and all is still well.
|Sat, 07-10-2010 - 9:33pm
Wow, Robynne, you're doing so well for being so close to you due date and caring for six young children! I don't know how you do it -- you must be one of those super Moms!!! : ) You really don't have much longer now...you're definitely in the home stretch! I'm sorry you're so exhausted and cranky -- oh, boy, do I remember feeling exactly how you described you're feeling. Not fun! Hang in there, and keep us posted! Thanks for the update.
|Sun, 07-11-2010 - 1:25am
Wow, Robynne, so great you're almost there. I have the feeling I'm not far behind you. Again, if he/I can hang in there another week or two, that may just be ideal in my case. Not feeling as many contractions today, so I don't think what was going on yesterday was a sign I'm about to go into labor within a few days, but I feel there's a good chance he could be here by the end of the month/early August.
Keep us posted! I here ya on the crankiness, btw, and I'm not even dealing with a nest of kids!
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Outdoors In: Open Window Tips
One of our favorite ways to bring the outdoors in at this time of year is to throw open the sashes. Opening the windows is a favorite fair-weather practice because it instantly enlivens a space with new sounds, smells, feelings...
We've noticed some of our friends and family, for various reasons, prefer to keep their windows closed, relying on air conditioning as soon as the weather warms up. It can be tough to keep windows open without letting in unwanted dirt, grime, street noise, and hot air.
Is yours a windows-open household? What are your open-window tips for keeping interiors clean, unwanted sounds at a minimum, and the air conditioner at bay? (We often open our windows at night to flush out the warm daytime air). Please share your tips below for getting the most out of open windows at home:
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I love opening my windows! Being in a Manhattan apartment where the radiator is constantly on `high' and subject to the apartment building super's whims rather than my comfort, I keep at least one window open all most all the time even in winter. Come 65 degrees, they are all open, which means frequently cleaning the fan, the AC filter and the window sills. It's worth it!
Oh I wish I could throw my windows open. All I'd hear are screaming children and really, really bad music. Sigh.
I live in SF in the foggy cooler area and keep my bedroom windows open while at home during the day and sleep with them open, I love nothing more than a cool room under warm duvet. During the day except when it rains I keep several windows open while at home including the back patio door. I love the cool fresh air and have lots of throw blankets for my friends when they visit as they are not as fond of fresh cool air. My house always smells fresh I cannot imagine it any other way. I get allergies and I am never sick.
I open my windows any chance I get. When I was growing up, my parents never turned on the AC unless it was swelteringly hot and humid. It's such a natural thing for me that, when I was living in Philly, I kept my windows open during warm weather even though I lived on a particularly noisy street. I just got used to the noise (well, except for the Duck tours and motorcycles) and occasional fast food smells.
I hate being stifled up in a room or car with the windows closed tight. I even prefer to sleep with the windows open. Nothing like drifting off snuggled beneath a light blanket with a soft night breeze stirring the curtains.
My new house has really good windows that a previous owner (an architect) put in. It makes such a difference to be able to pop in screens interchangeably instead of having to fit each one to the window it came from the last year even though they are all ostensibly the same size (that was the case in my old (1916) house). Most of the windows in my current house are a casement style and crank open effortlessly. So to me, having windows that work without a lot of hassle is key to taking advantage of good weather.
I cannot imagine life without open windows. I like to think of my house being "free" in the months that I don't need to run the heat--I just open or close the windows to attain the perfect temperature. Sleeping under blankets with the windows open is bliss, as is taking afternoon naps when I can hear the distant sounds of lawn mowers.
Fresh air and sunlight naturally keep fabrics and homes feeling fresh and clean. You can smell it when you walk into a home that doesn't have windows open often. Yuck! Fresh air please!
Every window opened 15 minutes everyday, rain, sleet, snow, or shine. I'm deathly afraid of growing old and living in a house that smells like vegetable soup.
I hate air conditioning, though others in my household love it. It gives me a migrane if I have to sleep in a room with an air conditioner, though I'm all right during the day.
I am an open window person. Though on the hottest days of summer, I install a window fan, I'm not someone who is too bothered by heat.
I love fresh air and will keep my windows open whenever I can. I also have a back door leading to my patio from the bedroom. That door stays open and the screen door allows fresh air in. I also run several fans to circulate it.
Mine is a garden-level apartment in the basement of a 120-year-old house, and doors and windows are open whenever the temperature rises above 50 degrees. Nothing out there -- neither bugs, nor grime, nor gloom of night -- could be worse than the smell of a musty basement.
I open the windows while I am home and awake. But with a one story house, all the windows get closed at night except the one my Akita sleeps under. I don't want to have my house burgled, or wake up to someone intending harmful mayhem.
it gets over 100 in the summer in concord, calif. daily form july to september... we like the doors and windows when the mercury is below 80, but over? it's AC time.
we have to open our windows because we don't have ac.
there are huge flowery bushes outside the window and our kitchen was coated in pollen on one of the windy days.
but it's annoying having the windows open because our bedroom windows are by the parking lot so we hear conversation/cars/music and i'm sure they can hear us.
our living room window is by the stairway where everybody walks by! so it's soooo ridiculous that we can't open it without everybody looking into our apartment and hearing what we say or whatever. there's also no screen which is annoying.
i don't know why i'm blabbing.
i love the windows open though. but i think i'd like it much more if i lived in the country.
Windows shut. Because they're painted shut. Plus we don't have fly screens and in summer there are European wasps EVERYWHERE. Not to mention flies, mosquitoes. Ick. Plus in the heat of summer its SO hot. Curtains and windows are kept shut to keep out heat.
I love open windows. I like the breeze and the sound of the wind in the trees, the smell of fresh cut grass, etc....
I'm willing to give in to the AC-loving husband when it gets ridiculously hot-- but our place currently has just a window AC that only gives a minimal effort, so I usually win!
I love having windows open even with a noisy street, pigeons nesting under every window, and terrible music. I had a bad experience last summer, though - someone climbed our fire escape to smoke pot, and all the smoke drifted into the apartment. They pissed through the screen and ruined all the cookbooks on the sill - in retrospect, it's better that than the other two windows available to them (the bed through one, and the couch and a computer through the other) but we broke lease and moved to a nice third floor place where no one but us can get at our windows.
I love open windows, in the summer we open windows int he mornings and evenings and at night, too, but during the day it often gets really hot and it's cooler inside the house, so we just keep them shut until the temp goes down again. No AC here, just manual temperature regulation.
The windows here tend to be shut. I wouldn't mind the dirt and grime since we are on a second floor so not much could get in - but seems like anytime we have a window open, bugs manage to get it. But that's mainly because with an apartment, the screens are cheap and most have at least a slit in them. Plus our front windows overlook the apartment parking lot, so it's always noisy there - and the rest of the windows face a working set of railroad tracks that trains do come by several times a day and it's extremely loud with the windows open.
Definitely windows open. I absolutely need the fresh air, AC does not agree with me.
The only downsides: my husband gets irritated by the bird in the morning (although I love it), the bedroom windows don't have a good overhang so we have to close them when it rains or else water gets in, and a few years ago we had smokers living below us who would alternate between smoking in the front and the back of the building, so we'd have to run back and forth to close the windows whenever we smelled the smoke.
I'm incredibly allergic to trees, grass, mold... basically, the outside. I try to open the windows at least occasionally, to get some fresh air moving through, but I'd really rather have the windows shut and the AC on with a decent filter. Also, I get hot really easily, so even with the AC on to what normal people consider "cool" (and what my little environmental souls can stomach), I still run the fan in my bedroom so I can sleep. No open windows for me, thanks.
If there were no environmental or cost factors, I'd happily turn the AC down to 65 all summer, and run it until almost Christmas. Of course, we don't do that -- it would be totally irresponsible -- but I didn't ever open the heating vent in my bedroom last winter, and I was perfectly comfy.
Windows open. All the time.
I hate the days that it's 90 degrees. We live on the top floor and it gets hot up here, and I hate turning on the a/c. We actually lost 2 friends because they thought we were crazy to not have the a/c on. Sure, it was warm. But it wasn't to the point where we were sweltering!
Anyway, we were at a friend's house the other day and they already had their a/c on...and it was only 70 outside! Ack that makes me crazy, but everybody does things differently.
The worst day of the year is the day I finally admit to myself that we're wasting heat because the window is open. Usually in October. And then everything gets quiet again until March....it always feels like an eternity. Sometimes we air the house out in the winter and snuggle up with blankets and coffee, it's always fun. :)
I love having my windows open but it's difficult on really humid days.
I have a ceiling fan and three windows in the main room of my studio and it is just glorious going to bed with a light gentle breeze, with my curtains billowing ever so slightly.
I do live just north of downtown Baltimore, and about 4 blocks north of a hospital so there are a few sirens but I'm generally able to block out all of the noise. The first couple nights are sometimes a little rough but I like hearing cars woosh by three stories below.
I like to turn on the ceiling fans and open a few windows, one in the kitchen, one in the bedroom and let the air whip through my apartment. It creates a wind tunnel through my apartment.
My kitty likes to sit outside on the porch but hates it when I shut the door on her while she's out there. So sometimes I just open the door, turn off the A/C and sit in the warm air for a while so she can enjoy some really nice sun beams. I'm such a cat person.
I agree with Slowdown...I also grew up in an AC-less household whereby my parents would only turn it on if you were dead and dying. I love to open my windows and put a fan on and listen to the hustle and bustle of summer in the city. :)
I've never found it to be extremely noisy...
My windows are right above the garbage bins. Lucky me.
I'm a windows open girl --- it's so nice to have the fresh air and breeze, plus the low electricity bill is a big plus. Even weeks like this last one where the temp has been in the upper 90s in DFW I have my windows open all day; I get an awesome cross breeze if when I open the doors to my front and back balconies. But I can't sleep if my apartment is hotter than 80-82, or if it's really humid, so I have turned on the AC a couple of nights this spring.
The worst things for me about having windows open, is that I have been eaten alive by mosquitos and feathers blow in from the baby pigeons living on my balcony, but it's still worth it.
I'm definitely planning on leaving the state (texas) at some point to be in a place where AC is only needed on a timely basis and where opening the windows is useful
We live in "the country" in the southeast - so we tend to open our windows as much as possible. All we hear are birds chirping and trees swaying in the breeze. It's lovely and I know we are really lucky.
However - once the humidity level reaches 100%, we turn the AC on to take the moisture out of the air while we sleep.
flobo -- where in Texas do you live? If you're in the Southeastern part (Houston, Corpus etc) then I can see why you're never opening your windows. But up here in Fort Worth, I started opening up my windows in late Feb, and probably won't go 100% A/C for another month -- then I'll be able to open things up again in September through November.
I'm an open-window type girl; I have to be! With two kitties and a top-floor apartment, it's vital to get some airflow. I'm also allergic to the tree outside my window, though, so pollen cleanup is a must. A wet swiffering, though, and the problem is taken care of.
With window screens, a lot of the dust/bugs is taken care of. We always have windows open, in warm evenings we'll lock the security gate on our front door, and leave it open. Honeysuckle grows all over our porch, so it's really nice to refresh the house.
Windows open - even when I'm visiting family back east in VA or Florida.
Can't stand AC unless it's 90 degrees w/ 85% humidity and no breeze.
Windows open all the time.
We live in Germany where almost no private home has A/C. It doesn't get too hot here and humidity is usually rather low. We have screened several windows and keep them wide open as much as possible during the warm months. It's very safe here and quiet - you just hear the birds and the breeze in the trees.
I even open the windows when it is so hot that it might be better do keep them shut during the day, but I just love the cross ventilation!
I keep all my windows open. 1) For the kittehs, because they are indoor animals and need the scenery and 2) i cant stand stale air. I have fans on too to flush the air out of corners.
Poor kitteh fell out of a window who's screen wasn't secure. She is fine, but I am so freaken scared everytime i see her trying to use the damn screens as a stretching post.
all windows open when the weather is nice, and on nice summer evenings my husband and I (since we absolutley love our neighborhood and it's really safe) we put up a tension rod in the doorway and sit in the living room or just on the porch and let the nice air really get into our house, the extra light from having the door open during the day through the sheer curtain is also amazing.
Erin_Lang -- I hate to be a voice of horrible, but what you think is hot is way different that someone else. I can find an example just between me and my fiance - 70 degree weather perfect for me, for him he's sweating since he usually just hotter. If you want to have company over, you do need to make sure they are comfortable too. To them, it might have been like sitting in a furnace and prefer to have less friends than be that hot.
Our windows are open as much as possible. While we have central heat and air... we put a little window AC unit in the bedroom which gets turned on about half an hour before bed. My partner can't take any sort of heat when hes trying to sleep. I on the other hand, am always cold and could completely do without AC.
We live in a rural community, and aside from an extremely noisy family next door its pretty quiet, things get dusty, sure; but the fresh air is worth it.
The apartment we lived in before this house had an attic fan which made a huge difference. I'd love to still have one of these things, the difference it makes in temperature regulation is amazing.
Windows OPEN! Always - I was raised in a house that rarely saw A/C, even in hot, humid Indiana summers. But I love it... after 6 months of cold weather we Midwesterners have to live it up (at least that's my philosophy!). I do have to dust a bit more often and make sure there aren't any gaps in my screens where the buggies can get in - but even if they do I have a tag-team of kitties who usually take care of the problem.


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Giants place RB Brown on short-term IR
East Rutherford, NJ (Sports Network) - New York Giants running back Andre Brown was placed on the injured reserve-designated to return list on Wednesday.
Brown suffered a small crack in his left leg during the team's preseason finale. It was the same leg he fractured in November of last season.
The 26-year-old Brown rushed for 385 yards and eight touchdowns on 73 carries in 10 games last season. He was going to serve as the main backup to David Wilson this season.
Brown will first be eligible to play on Nov. 10 against the Oakland Raiders.
Additionally, the Giants signed defensive end Adewlae Ojomo to the 53-man roster from the practice squad and signed offensive lineman Sam Baker to the practice squad.
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Any input? Or would both be a good idea as well?
Any input? Or would both be a good idea as well?
Chase Freedom hands down in my opinion, especially if you can get the Visa signature version!
Amex BCE: 3% grocery, 2% gas
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Chase AARP Rewards ($10K), Freedom ($15K)
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+1 on the freedom. I love Amex cards, but freedom blows out the gold for everyday purchasing. Right now im using my CSP for everyday purchases and freedom is my gas card for the 5%. I should be getting my 40k bonus next statement period, my plan is to rack up a crap load of UR points and never look back.
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Paste Modernism Goes Down in Sydney, AustraliaJuxtapoz // Monday, 15 Sep 2008
Paste Modernism
Hibernian House, Sydney Australia
Words by Alana Armstrong
Photos by Patrick Stevenson (aka Deckland Scorpius)
New trends in street art are usually so fickle and under-established that even the slightest bit of organization within a movement can reveal great potential, or fall apart completely. Luckily this is a tale of the former.
Of late, the most frenetic personalities on the streets of Sydney have been of the paper and wheat paste genus. Not that paste-ups are a new method, born in the down under metropolis; it's just rare to see such a synchronized system. From the artists, to the local print shops they frequent, to the cab driver dubbed Godot (who trolls the late night landscape for new pieces to photograph for his blog) an ecosystem has formed in Sydney around the renegade street art style.
So when local pop-appropriation master, Ben Frost, put his head together with friend and paste-up artist, Bridge, an idea was born. They titled it Paste Modernism, devised an MO, and started calling up all of their paste-loving pals.
The manifesto for the event was brief: To promote, foster, experiment with, and document the art form of paste-ups. No sponsors, no sales, no advertising!
Invites were home made and announcements were posted on Myspace and Facebook where the location went unidentified until three days prior to the launch.
Ben has been investing a lot of thought in the virtues of exhibiting outside of the gallery space so the rogue nature of Paste Modernism was a perfect reason to hold the event in a space of parallel nature. Hibernian House in Sydney's Surry Hills, apart from being home and headquarters for many of the city's urban art giants, was already well known to the invited talents as a place where decorating the interior walls is a rite of passage for many artists. An upper room, lovingly christened The Crack Den served as the main room with the paper trail continuing through the stairwell to the street level exit.
While gallery set-ups typically leave the curator and artists tasting bile, this one was a fluid happening. The invited artists flowed in their own time, some happy to slap up their images between layers of paste, others taking pains to carefully compose their pieces or adding layers of paint in an urban al fresco style.
The result was an amped-up version of each artist's street style and personality. Pieces were bigger and more polished with some notable breakthroughs in materials and techniques.
By the evening of August 30th, 2008, the entire space was thick with appropriated images, hand drawn creatures, screen prints, photocopies, paste, artists, guests, media, cameras, music, and long-necks. The draughty halls caused less chills than the pure excitement of being amongst a watershed of activity- something that could very well put Sydney on the map as a paste-up capital.
Riding off the success of the first event, Paste Modernism has generated a collective momentum among its participants; one that makes the possible gains in paste-up art more palatable and completely real.
The official Paste Modernism website has since been launched with photography provided by Patrick Stevenson of Hobo Gestapo.
Anthony Lister
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Atronic, Tupac Lives Memorial
Ben Frost
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Samsung is denying reports that it is working on a Facebook-like service that will debut next year. The company called the rumors "groundless" on its blog, adding that what it's working on is far from a Facebook competitor.
The report originated from The Korea Times, claiming a company official said Samsung is working a social networking service with an emphasis on photo sharing and chatting that is code-named Samsung Facebook.
"This is not true and the rumor is groundless," Samsung said in a statement on its official blog. The company went on to say that it's actually working on an update for its Family Story service aimed at families sharing photos and video across smartphone, tablets and Internet-connected TVs.
"Family Story has been available since February 2012 on Samsung smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and the Web," the statement continued. "This service, like its name, is a family-oriented convergence service that focuses on sharing and storing families' special moments."
"It is true that we currently are working on upgrading Family Story as we always thrive to provide consumers with enhanced experiences, but this is far from a 'Samsung Faceboook' as some are claiming it to be," the company explained.
Although facilitating photo and video sharing between its devices might sound a bit like Facebook, Family Story is probably one of Samsung's ideas to add value to its Android offerings and differentiate itself from other manufacturers -- a bit like the PhotoStream sharing feature coming to iPhones with iOS 6.
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|Spring 1998
Defending CUNY
To the editor:
Ms. Mac Donald would rid CUNY of Marxists and professors of gender studies. But harsh cuts have little to do with the elimination of courses one might not like; in reality, such cuts create chaos.
Barbara Probst Solomon
To the editor:
First, a reality check. Our colleges are staffed, currently, with approximately 5,300 full-time and about 8,000 adjunct facultyserving 200,000 students. A generation ago, that number of students encountered double the number of full-timers. This hardly can be characterized as a bureaucratic boondoggle.
Second, following nearly a decade of budget cuts, about 70 percent of students now attend as part-timers at some point in their careers. Thousands of our students come from families with annual incomes of around $15,000. Sixty percent are women and the majority of them are parents; nearly as many are minorities from miserably equipped inner-city schools. Approximately 23,000 are on welfare.
CUNY graduates match every national profile for two-and four-year students, a fact Ms. Mac Donald ignores. She should look at where these graduates get hired, and at what kind of income they enjoy. CUNY still turns out more Ph.D.s than any Ivy League school in the country.
To attack students who take eight years for a baccalaureate degree is to attack people who are heroes of their own lives. And if a young, privileged, intelligent woman cannot understand that, she is patently uneducable. Her mean-spirited critique leads most CUNY readers to conclude that she is more interested in exclusion than serious discussion.
In the last decades that she so trivializes, a middle class made up of African-Americans and Hispanics has emerged for the first time in U.S. history. In these same years, a significant proportion of working-class "white ethnics" entered CUNY. The alumni of these decades help form New York's various professional cadresincluding over half of the black and Hispanic caucuses of the State Legislature. Ms. Mac Donald is trouncing a social transformation and branding its beneficiaries as substandard. Most people would consider this to be racist.
Sandi E. Cooper Chair
Heather Mac Donald responds:
The closest she comes to asserting that all is academically sound at CUNY is to invoke the earnings of its graduatesanother irrelevancy. At what cost was that boost achievedmeasured in numbers of students who dropped out, in the expense of remediation, and in lost opportunity for greater excellence?
Undoubtedly, nothing will convince Professor Cooper that I am not a white supremacist, but I can assure her that the entry of "white ethnics" to CUNY changes my view of open admissions not a whit. But since we're throwing around the epithet "racist" so freely, I would use it for Professor Cooper's implication that blacks and Hispanics can enter CUNY only if it waives the requirement that they know how to read and write.
I am delighted to learn from Professor Solomon that students in City's graduate writing program are well-versed in the classics. City's undergraduate priorities, however, are not so clear. While the undergraduate English program this spring offered 20 literature courses (including courses in black English and contemporary Latino literature), the black studies department offered 32 courses on such topics as Malcolm X and black revolution. Add to that 11 offerings in women's studies, and you have over twice the offerings of the already multicultural English department. Would I like to eliminate such identity-based trivialities? You bet. Would doing so constitute "harsh cuts"? Only if identity scholarship has become the core mission of City.
School Wars
To the editor:
For example, public school choice and charter-type public schools are widespread in New York Citywith support from the United Federation of Teachersfrom East Harlem's District 4 to our high schools, which represent the largest choice program in the nation.
Mr. Stern is wrong about the union's padding payrolls. It was UFT monitoring that helped move education dollars from district and central offices into classrooms, where they belong. And it was our contract that finally stopped principals from using valuable teacher time for administrative tasks so they could spend more time on professional activities.
His cost analysis is deeply flawed: the most successful suburban school districts in New York State spend almost double the city's $8,500 per student. City teachers earn considerably less than their colleagues in neighboring suburbsand far less than they deserve.
Vouchers are another matter. Numerous school systems around the world seem to do better than oursand not one credits that success to vouchers for private schools, and every one has a strong teacher union. What accounts for the success of schools in Japan, Germany, and elsewhere? High academic standards, orderly classrooms, a clear curriculum, well-prepared teachers, student accountability, and parental backing at home. These are the proven ingredients of schools that work, whether they are public or parochial schools, urban or suburban, here or abroad. Unfortunately, for decades American public schools demanded too little of students. Now that many school systems are raising standards, students are starting to do better.
Moreover, the UFT's contract flexibility allows schools to waive work rules that block educational strategies they want to try; it supports extra pay for objectively determined merit, such as earning national board certification and additional academic achievements, not just seniority; and it invites schools to form personnel committees to hire staff based on qualifications. Seniority is not the only factor in hiring. Service requirements for teachers who want to transfer are virtually gone. No teacher has a "lifetime job guarantee." Tenure ensures only a fair hearing before dismissal. And the UFT helped turn dozens of low-performing schools around by backing changes in leadership and staff, strengthening instructional programs, and providing staff development.
Inner-city parents want what all parents want for their childrenthe best education possible. But even a generous voucher program would help just a handful of inner-city children. Only the public schools hold out hope for all our 1.1 million youngsters.
Randi Weingarten
Sol Stern responds:
Unfortunately for the city's kids, it's pure union propaganda. Let's count the ways. School autonomy and charter schools: more than a decade after the creation of the so-called new-vision schools in New York City, the UFT does not even recognize many of them as independent schools with their own union chapters. If the union wanted charter schools with real autonomy, New York State would have long since had such schools. Incompetent teachers: the "due process" procedures for removing incompetent teachers remain so convoluted that school boards throughout the state have mostly given up. Only a handful of the state's 100,000 public school teachers get dismissed for incompetence in a given year: out of the 154 disciplinary cases opened in 1994-95, for instance, only six ended with dismissal by 1997.
Merit pay: the contention that giving teachers more money for taking courses is a form of merit pay is laughable. Taking a useless ed-school course does not make a better classroom teacher (See "Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach," page 14). These extra courses just fatten the coffers of the ed schools and the UFT (which also offers them). Seniority: of course, seniority is "not the only factor in hiring." I never said it was. But the city's principals must often hire teachers they don't wantand whom the school's parents don't wantmerely because they've got greater seniority; also, principals frequently have to "bump" excellent young teachers solely because they lack seniority.
Weingarten doesn't think that $8,500 per pupil is enough. But how do the Catholic schools manage to do a better job with less than half that amount? All the more successful countries she mentions spend far less on education than New York does. True, these countries have strong teacher unions. But they also allow families to send their children to religious schools at public expense. In other words, they have, in effect, a voucher system.
The Real Welfare Problem
To the editor:
Ms. Mac Donald doesn't mention the relationship between a welfare system that makes single parenthood a requirement of eligibility and the breakdown of the two-parent family. It was the author's ideological forebears who spawned a system based on the notion of the "deserving poor"a single mom and her childrenso it is no wonder she seeks to expurgate it. Nor does she discuss the need for expanding education in family planning. Instead, she assumes teenage pregnancy results from the knowledge that welfare will cover the tab. But facts get in the way of her assumptions. Western European nations with more generous public assistance benefits than New York have lower rates of adolescent pregnancy.
The author dismisses the notion that there is any relationship between jobs and marriage, and implies that there are plenty of jobs for anyone who wants one. But last year New York had net employment growth of 54,000, enough jobs for just a fraction of those in the city's workfare program.
One of Ms. Mac Donald's remedies for deterring out-of-wedlock births is to give preference to two-parent families seeking public assistance. But this is simplistic. Her desire to stigmatize single parents is apparently more important to her than the quality of the family's life together. She wants two-parent families, without complications, so let's just keep distress in the family, behind closed doors.
Ms. Mac Donald's central premise is that the poor must take responsibility for their own lives. Certainly, taking responsibility is part of the process for many in the effort to break long-term poverty. So, too, is ensuring that people have access to education, child care, and job training.
Emily Menlo Marks
Heather Mac Donald responds:
The claim that more sex education will reduce teen pregnancy is absurd (See "Sex Ed's Dead End," page 46). Teens already know all they need to know about sex and contraception; what they don't know is how to redirect themselves to more positive activities. Schools should relentlessly focus students' attention on academic pursuits rather than wasting time on condom courses.
Europe does have far more extensive welfare programs than the United States, largely targeted at the middle class. These programs subsidize idleness generally, not illegitimacy in particular, and so have produced the expected economic stagnation. That the European family has only recently started to disintegrate is testimony to Europe's more traditional family values. But the disintegration, now that it has begun, is proceeding rapidly.
I didn't dismiss possible connections between the marriage rate and the job rate, but rather the notion that the fertility rate should be independent of both. Ms. Marks refuses to explain why women should feel free to have children at the state's expense with no breadwinner in sight.
Domestic abuse has become an excuse for illegitimacy. While there are obviously cases where a wife must leave her husband, they don't begin to explain the massive out-of-wedlock birthrate. If a man is so unsuited to domestic responsibilities, why is the woman having his child? Ms. Marks's letter confirms what I said about her originally: she regards unwed single parenting as a given, with marriage a mere option when conditions permit. To end illegitimacy, social service providers, along with the rest of society, need to state unequivocally that having a child out of wedlock is irresponsible and immoral. Ms. Marks does not seem ready to do so.
To the editor:
It is important to correct the mistaken impression that this chess program in a public school was paid for in any way by public money, since that school has been traditionally starved for funds. For example, this public intermediate school with the highest reading scores in the city has no auditorium, no regular gymnasium, anduntil HEAF marshaled the necessary private fundsnot even any outdoor playground.
Mott Hall today has a fine record of high school admissions, but virtually no one from Mott Hall had ever gained admission to Stuyvesant High School until HEAF began its test-preparation program; today nearly a dozen students a year routinely enter there, and many dozens more move into Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, and other top schools. HEAF's Support Net then follows them into such colleges as Yale and Columbia.
Mott Hall's remarkable principal, Miriam Acosta-Sing, and her wonderful staff are producing miracles.
Daniel Rose
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New Kodak C1550 and C1505 Easyshare P&S cameras
Kodak has quietly launched two new Easyshare P&S cameras in their entry-level C-series, the C1550 and the C1505. Read all about them at DC Views (C1550) and ePhotoZine (C1505).
These increase the total of new cameras in 2011 to 138. That's just from the major manufacturers we track (see the list at the bottom of the aforelinked page). Who knows how many if the rest of the 2nd and 3rd tier makers and rebrands were added.


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Wild horses couldn't keep the crowd away from Walnut Way farm's Equine Extravaganza on Saturday.
The event, attended by about 100 people, was hosted by Marilyn Macfarlane, owner of Walnut Way.
The crowd enjoyed a wide assortment of riders who treated the audience to everything from a horse and rider in full Arabian costume, to a tiny five-year-old who handled her horse like Annie Oakley.
The Shelby County Public Library reopened recently after shutting down for renovation.
The new additions to the library are nearly complete, and will add 5,500 additional square-feet of space, according to Shelby County Library Director Pam Federspiel.
The library was closed for three weeks while the construction took place and reopened the day after Memorial Day. All that remains now is the delivery of some furniture, which is scheduled to arrive July 25, Federspiel said.
Tacking three extra days onto this year's Shelby County Fair was, for the most part, a good move, fair officials said.
"Several board members didn't think it would work," fair board secretary/treasurer Jeff Hagerman said. "But a lot of people (at the fair) were very supportive. It was a lot more relaxed atmosphere."
While he won't be traveling to Beijing, a local athlete hopes to win his second gold medal this summer.
Lance Alexander, of Shelbyville, is one 33 athletes from Kentucky who will compete in the 2008 U.S. Transplant Games in Pittsburgh next month.
The competition, which is organized by the National Kidney Foundation, is open to any athlete who has received a tissue or organ transplant.
The Shelby County Board of Education has ratified James Neihof's contract as superintendent for the school system.
The contract, which will last from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2012, will give Neihof an annual base salary of $125,000 for the first year.
In subsequent years, the board can increase his salary by the same percentage rate as the certified teachers with the same rank and experience.
Neihof's salary just tops the pay of the district's last fulltime superintendent, Elaine Farris.
Farris' annual salary during her last year was $123,554.
Panic broke out in the courthouse Tuesday morning after a man pushed a bailiff aside and fled before he could be handcuffed.
Brandon Davis, 26, of Taylorsville, is now lodged in the Shelby County Detention Center after the escape attempt, according to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.
Davis was in Shelby Circuit Court for probation violation, according to sheriff's detective Jason Rice.
Support groups
June 26 -- Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder meets 7-8:30 p.m. at the Learning Disabilities Association of Kentucky, 2210 Goldsmith Lane, #118, Louisville. For additional information, call the LDA office at 502-473-1256.
Public can attend
June 25 -- Shelby County High School's SBDM meeting 3:30 p.m.
June 25 - The Housing Authority of Shelbyville Board of Commissioners meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Housing Authority Administrative/Community Building.
Shelbyville American Legion manager Jim Wiley still isn't sold on his team's pitching, but after wining two out of three over the weekend, Wiley did something he hasn't done all year: compliment the pitchers for three straight solid games.
"I don't know if we have it figured out or not, but we got three really solid games from our pitchers," he said. "We played three pretty decent teams and got good pitching against all of them."
Shelbyville closed out the weekend with a 5-2 win at Owensboro.
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AFROALPINE HIGHLANDS► Isolation & Endemism
The Ethiopian dome began to rise some 75 million years ago and eventually split open and fractured through Great Rift Valley. During the Ice Ages the entire Ethiopian dome would have been less like Africa and more like the tundras of Eurasia, with the highest areas covered by glaciers. Formerly interconnected in glacial times, the present Afroalpine habitats (above about 3,000m) are distributed in isolated pockets on the top of mountains. Still, Ethiopia contains the largest extent of Afroalpine habitat in the African continent (see altitudinal map of Ethiopia).
Ethiopia's unique environment for its region, together with its isolation, was a potent stimulus for rapid speciation. Most highland colonists have been African species that were sufficiently plastic to cope with the area's many unique traits. Formidable obstacles, such as the grassy foodplains of the White Nile and the deserts of Northern Kenya, inhibited immigration of high altitude forms from most other directions. This isolation has resulted in a important number of endemisms of plants and animals. Some of this endemic species are in danger of extinction, like the Ethiopian wolf, and the status and biology of many others are unknown.
An array of organisms that colonized Ethiopia in glacial times are now isolated at high elevations and in many cases became new species. Nineteen of the 30 mammals currently to be endemic to Ethiopia live in the high montane area. Of these nineteen, eleven are shrews or rodents. Rodents are the dominant herbivores on the Afroalpine grasslands with densities up to 25kg/ha in parts of the Bale Mountains. In most areas, the endemic Ethiopian wolf prey on endemic rodents.
Two large and critically endangered ungulates and one primate are also high altitude specialists. The walia ibex (Capra ibex walie) is a southern offshoot of the Nubian ibex. It is now restricted to a small number of escarpments in northen Ethiopia. The world population may not exceed 400, of which over half live in the Simien Mountains.
South of the Rift Valley the mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) survives only in the Bale and Arsi Mountains and in parts of the Chercher Mountains further East. This large and sturdy member of the kudu family weights up to 300kg. In Bale it is more numerous in montane forest and grasslands around 3,000m. The Bale Mountains Narional Park contains the largest numbering perhaps 1,500.
The gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) is mostly restricted to the highlands north of the Rift Valley where it remains widespread in grassland areas.
Fifteen of Ethiopia's 26 endemic bird species live at high elevantions. Notable species include the blue-winged goose (Cyanochen cyanoptera), which occurs throughout the Ethiopian plateau including the Afroalpine zone. The largest bird of high elevantions is the northern wattled crane (Grus carunculatus), a distinctively marked and genetically isolated race of a species that occur at low elevations in southern Africa.
There are estimated to be 24 amphibians endemic to Ethiopia of which nearly half are from the high elevations. The invertebrates remain largely unstudied.
The higher plants of the Ethiopian mountains are still being catalogued. There may be between 100-150 high altitude endemics. The most conspicuous is the giant lobelia (Lobelia rhyncopetalum) whose sentinel forms dot the Afroalpine landscape.
The Palearctic connection
The high mountains of Ethiopia form an important biogeographic link with the temperate lands of Eurasia. During the glatial periods, tenuous links formed between northern Ethiopia and the Mediterranean region through the escarpments that flank the Red Sea, a route travelled by many animals and plants. Successful immigrants with certain Palaearctic ancestors are the walia ibex and the Starck's hare Lepus starcki.
During the temperate winter the mountains of Ethiopia provide habitat for an array of paleartic migrants. Three Paleartic species, the chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), the ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) and the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) have their only known breeding sites outside the north temperate zone in the Aafroalpine one of Ethiopia.
Special adaptations
The tops of African mountains have environmental conditions that differ dramatically from the lowlands below. Plants and to a lesser degree animals have evolved some peculiar adaptations in response to the Afroalpine climate. Plant gigantism is the most striking example. Giant lobelias, tree heather (Erica arborea) and giant Saint John's wort (Hypericum revolutum) are important elements of the high altitude flora of Ethiopia. The everlasting flowers (Helichrysum sp) are conspicuous in mountain habitats, their high reflective silvery levaes and dry, papery flowers allow them to survive the desiccating winds up to 4,300m.
The most peculiar of the mammals is the giant molerat (Tachyoryctes mcrocephalus). This animal is retcricted to the Afroalpine regions of the Bale Mountains where it is common. It is seeral times larger then the related common molerta (T. splendens) of lower elevations. It also takes it food from above ground vegetation. Its eyes have migrated to the top of his head so that it can scan for predators while exposing as little of its body as possible. The extensive burrowing and mound building activites of the moelrtas are dominant ecological forces in the Afroalpine grasslands of the Bale Mountains.
See Afroalpine ecosystem literature.


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by Denise Recheis in News
We have just been informed about a new call for proposals to set up the East African Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (EACREEE). The East African Community (EAC), comprised of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda is establishing this new regional center. This is an initiative by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) modeled on the successful example of ECREEE in West Africa.
The concept note, based on the extensive experience by the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy (ECREEE) endeavors to establish network of RE and EE promotion agencies across Sub-Saharan Africa to contribute to the ambitious targets of the SE4ALL (Sustainable Energy for All) initiative to be reached by 2030.
The difficult energy situation in this area intervenes with social, economic and industrial development and increased uptake of clean energy resources could help overcome challenges such as access to energy, climate change and energy security. The area, with about 133 million inhabitants, has one of the lowest per capita energy consumption rates in the world. Electrification in some rural parts is as low as 1-5% and even urban areas have an electrification rate lower than 50%. Firewood, charcoal and animal waste still form the the widest used means to satisfy energy needs, with all the negative consequences.
Limited capital to invest as well as unsure future demand make the uptake of modern energy solution tricky. Furthermore, even though the EAC has contributed very little to climate change, the impacts will be felt strongly and further challenge energy security.
At the moment the UNIDO and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) are assisting EACREEE in its set-up process of the East Africa Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency.
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You may be in the market to purchase a new or used vehicle in the New Year. I sure hope that you did your homework leading up to your purchase. Figured out how much you can afford. Collected some insurance quotes. Researched various financing options. Narrowed your car search down to two or three models. If you did all the above, I'd say you are ready to buy a car. However, if you've ignored any of the above steps – I wish you then nothing more than luck in your car shopping adventure.
I can certainly tell you that the dealers, car manufacturers and financing companies did their homework. Just open up any newspaper or website and you will notice the deluge of new car advertising, per-owned car advertising and various financing offers.
Auto manufacturers and car dealers have been aggressively promoting "year-end clearance sales," "reduced financing rates," "special offers," "clunker programs" and various other incentives. They want you to start the new year in a fresh set of wheels.
Every other retailer is doing their part to promote heavily leading up to Boxing Day. In the car industry, December is the slowest month. So, it's no wonder that the auto advertising is up. And there is a lot of truth in this. If you read any personal finance book (and I've read my share of books last year), the author always suggest that the best months to buy a car are in November, December and January.
I've yet to buy a car in either of those months, my luck has served me to always need and buy a car in months leading up to the "hot" months.
Getting back to deals in the auto industry during the holiday season. What began as a one day event for Boxing Day, where consumers can purchase a new car for a ridiculous price, has now turned into a months long event. In today's times, you can get a great car deal in December and January.
The thinking behind is the same – attract as many people by offering rock bottom prices and attractive interest rates in order to reduce our current inventory and bring in new inventory for the New Year. How clever! A win-win situation for both the dealers and consumers.
Consumers used to shop heavily during December in order to reap the great rewards from the retailers. However, times have changed. Consumers are getting more wiser and January has also become a hot month for retail therapy. Consumers are well aware that if the retailer did not meet their target during the holiday season, they will offer deep discounts in January to part with the overstock.
So, with keeping the above in mind I've prepared a few reasons to purchase a car in January (after the holidays).
Dealer Motivation
December marks the end of the calendar year for dealers, when bonus money (for salespeople and mangers) is up for taking. Dealers are inclined to offer even more astronomical deals so that they hit their monthly and yearly sales quotas. However, January is a whole new ball game. New Year is upon. Some dealers made their quota and others didn't, so they promote heavily by offering deep incentives to consumers (and their sales staff to sell) to start the year off right and make up for lost sales in the previous year. Essentially January becomes a buyers market.
Manufacturer Motivation
Manufacturers want to bring in the new models and they can't do it if the lots are full of previous year car models. So, what do about it? Offer attractive financing rates to consumers in hopes of attracting more consumers to purchase the stock on the lot.
Low Demand Models
If you've ever paid close attention to car ads, you will notice that at times only certain models have special offers, discount pricing or special finance rates. These models are the "low demand" models. Dealers are often motivated to sell overstocked vehicles that are in less demand. Certain models that have been sitting on dealer lots for months. The longer these 'low demand' vehicles gather dust, the more it costs dealers to their floor-plan.
Just one catch for the shoppers though - they can't be too fussy about model, options or color etc…
Above reasons shouldn't be your sole criteria for deciding whether to buy during the holidays. Refer back to the beginning of this article and remember other factors such as affordability, insurance and car financing options.
So, if you are prepared to buy now, the deals on vehicles are dime a dozen and they are selling like hot cakes. Enjoy your shopping and don't be afraid to walk away if you're not comfortable.


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ABC is shooting a pilot in Atlanta for a new crime drama "Partners'" starring Annie Wersching (right), who played Renee Walker on "24″ its final two seasons.
The concept, according to deadline.com, is two female detectives who are secretly half sisters. Wersching plays one sister. Scottie Thompson, last seen on NBC's short-run medical drama "Trauma," is the other.
"Partners" shot Grant Park last week, then Druid Hills. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the show shot in the Old Fourth Ward. It's set to wrap production April 1. Keep up with the show's progress here at www.partnersfans.com
There is about a one in three shot of a pilot turning into a series on a major network like ABC. We'll know in May whether it makes the schedule.
The other pilot shooting in town right now is CBS's "Hail Mary" starring Minnie Driver.
March 24th, 2011
6:30 am
A Criminal Justice Degree from "United Forensic College" led me to a point in life I thought I would never reach.
March 24th, 2011
7:18 am
Slow news day?
March 24th, 2011
7:40 am
Annie is smoking hot so I'd watch just about anything she's on. I mean, you always have the mute button at your disposal.
March 24th, 2011
7:51 am
Two half sisters? Does that make one whole sister?
March 24th, 2011
8:29 am
and jennifer garner is in town too in tucker filming
March 24th, 2011
8:49 am
The show is building an entire police station over here at the King Plow Arts Center–it's amazing how much detail goes in to the sets! Very cool to watch them build it and transform the Event Gallery into something completely different.
March 24th, 2011
9:18 am
This is why I stopped watching broadcast TV a LONG time ago! Its the same ole same ole, nothing but Cop/Government/CIA type shows or medical shows.
Please hire some new writers with some fresh new ideas! This is why cable networks like HBO succeed with shows like The Sopranos and True Blood because these are new ideas that no one ever seen before, while broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) fail with shows like Southland and Undercovers because its the same thing over and over, COP or MEDICAL!!!
March 24th, 2011
9:33 am
Hey TS, your opinion is justified but there are waves of fans out there who actually enjoy the shows like Southland (which, by the way is a more realistic COP show than some that are on the major networks) and Undercovers. I would say, maybe, that's why some of these shows are picked up by other networks.
Being from Atlanta but living clear across the country now, I look forward to seeing Partners succeed, just to be able to see scenes from home. Good luck Partners! ….oh yeah, they might have a shot if they bring Jack Bauer in for a few cameos!
March 24th, 2011
9:50 am
Try Justified on FX. A fun take on Elmore Leonard.
March 24th, 2011
9:58 am
Dont lump SouthLAnd in with all of the other "cop dramas". It's the best show on t.v. right now and one of the best "cop dramas" ever.
March 24th, 2011
10:09 am
Is this the same as the pilot that was filming last week in Kirkwood starring Minnie Driver?
March 24th, 2011
11:46 am
T.S., you left off the lawyer shows. It is sad that they are all the same. Every season, a new show similar to Friends appears. Nothing new.
March 24th, 2011
12:32 pm
USA Network has a lineup of fresh, new shows. Burn Notice, White Collar, Royal Pains, Psych, etc. are all great shows.
March 24th, 2011
1:37 pm
Does anyone know what is being filmed in the Northlake/Tucker area?
March 24th, 2011
2:04 pm
The Odd Life of Timothy Green with Jennifer Garner has been shooting in Northlake/Tucker. They are using Dharma Jewel Monastery, St. Bede's Episcopal Church, Northlake Mall and Henderson Park Community Garden. Principal photography is at the soccer fields on Henderson Road. I think they are about to wrap up over there though.
March 25th, 2011
4:50 pm
[...] Mary," a crime drama pilot starring Minnie Driver, is being shot now in metro Atlanta. ABC's "Partners," another crime dramas featuring two detectives who are secretly half sisters, is set to wrap on April [...]
March 28th, 2011
11:36 am
Sat next to her and her baby at Thrashers game on Friday night.


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August 7, 2013
25. Best Spanish Number: Catorce (14)
Keep counting till you find a number more fun to say out loud. Reached infinity yet?
26. Best Book: Roget's Thesaurus
It's the best! Inimitable! Unsurpassed! Transcendent, paramount, and second to none! Primo!
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27. Best TV Cop: Det. Phil Fish (Abe Vigoda, Barney MIller)
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Just look at him.
28. Best Hairstyle: Side Part29. Best Number: 69
Say you're at the DMV or in line at a bakery or playing bingo. When 69 gets called out, someone is giggling and someone is getting high-fived.
30. Best Video Game: NHL '94 for Sega Genesis
Sure, games today have insane graphics. But sometimes you want athletes to look less like they stepped out of The Polar Express and more like a pixelated, mulleted blob that sort of looks like a human. GOAL!
31. Best Cereal: Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries
Grape-Nuts may sandblast your colon, but we're partial to the sweet (but not too sweet) crunch of these morsels of corn, oats, and…whatever Crunch Berries are. By the way, did you know that Cap'n's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch? Thanks, Wikipedia!
32. Best Holiday: Memorial Day
You don't have to buy presents or spend any portion of it with relatives. All you have to do is show up at your friend's backyard with a six-pack and drink till your face falls off.
33. Best Invention: Fire / iPad (Tie)
One keeps us warm and cooks our food. The other allows us to play Temple Run while taking a dump. Too close to call.
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34. Best Sex Position: Doggy Style
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It's consistently ranked as the ladies' favorite in our annual sex surveys, and who are we to argue with a position that allows an unobstructed view of the game?
35. Best Candy: Fun Dip
Step 1. Lick a solid stick of sugar.
Step 2. Stick wet stick into a pocket of other sugar.
Step 3. Lick the stick.
Step 4. Eat the stick.
36. Best Photography
Point your camera at a mountain or sunset and in .2 seconds, you're an artist. And imagine a world where climbing-out-of-limousine crotch shots didn't exist. Terrifying, we know.
37. Best Finger: Index
37. Best Finger: Index
The middle finger is rude, the pinkie is lame, the thumb is ugly, and the ring finger puts too much damn pressure on you. That makes the good ol' index finger—yes, we're pointing at you—No. 1.
38. Best Live Concert: "Up in Smoke" Tour, 2000
If you were to add, say, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Drake to Jay-Z and Kanye's "Watch the Throne" tour, it still wouldn't stack up to this hip-hop traveling circus featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Ice Cube, and many more. Sorry to be so blunt.
39. Best Movie Gag: Spaceballs, "Comb the Desert"
It's joke on top of joke on top of joke, culminating in the best laugh line in cinematic history: "We ain't found shit!"
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40. Best Sports Event: Super Bowl XLII
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Heading in, the Patriots were the NFL's evil empire. Evil because of Spygate. Empire because they'd won 18 straight. That's why no one gave the Giants a chance, especially when they were down 14-10 with 2:42 to play. But then the stars aligned, Eli hit Tyree, and the evil empire crumbled. It was like the Miracle on Ice, only with fewer Russians and more concussions.
41. Best Soda: Mountain Dew
Looks like bubbly Hulk piss, tastes like heaven. We're still coming down off the sugar-caffeine high from Jimmy Franks' 10th birthday party, where we drank a two-liter bottle and threw up in the back of Mom's station wagon.
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45. Best Team: 1986 Mets
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42. Best Comic Book: Watchmen
No other book has captured the possibilities of the medium the way Alan Moore's thought-provoking, dystopian commentary on—ow! Sorry, punched ourselves in the balls midsentence.
43. Best Stand-Up Concert: Eddie Murphy, "Delirious"
"Now that's a fire!" "Goonie-Goo-Goo." "I'll clench up my butt cheeks and rip your dick off!" Just about every word that came out of his mouth is permanently ingrained in our brains. The homophobic stuff is totally mitigated by Eddie "helping out" that transsexual hooker by offering him/shim a ride on Santa Monica Blvd. in 1997.
44. Best Car: 1974 Lincoln Continental Mark IV
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This 20-foot, two-and-a-half-ton tank had the turning radius of a tugboat, went from 0 to 60 in who cares, and got about six gallons to the mile— and when you were behind the wheel, you were easily the biggest pimp on the road.
45. Best Team: 1986 Mets
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Given a roster filled with nut jobs like Gooden, Strawberry, and Dykstra, it's, well, amazing that the Amazin's ended up winning a whopping 108 games...and the Series. Shout-out to Buckner's inability to bend down very far.
46. Best Instrument: Drum Set
Guitars get all the glory, but it's the mighty drum kit, maker of rhythm, that requires you to sit on a throne and hit things with sticks. And it's the fastest way to make everyone within a 10-foot radius hate the shit out of you.
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47. Best TV Show: The Simpsons, Season 5
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"Homer's Barbershop Quartet." "Bart Gets an Elephant." "Homer Goes to College." True Simpsons fans—and fans of TV in general—know that it simply doesn't get better than the—Hello! Human fly here!
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This year was a good one for me, sewing-wise--each project taught me something new, and really expanded my understanding and abilities. I can't wait to launch into another year of historical sewing and learning and general geeking out, but before I do, the year in review.
First up, the Procrastination Project. The short cloak should have been done in 2010--I had the fabric and everything I needed. But. Somehow it didn't happen until fall 2011. No worries. I learned more about pattern drafting, and used a gridded, scaled pattern by itself for the first time.
Next, a 1770s jacket and petticoat ensemble for my mother, made of the most cheerful block print in the world. Happy, happy, pink, pink. I played a bit with historical construction methods, and am totally sold on what I learned.
The easy one--a quick and simple 1940s cocktail dress. Not sure I really learned anything here--but I did refine my dart-making techniques :)
Perhaps my favorite project of the year, and the one that stretched me the furthest--1780s stays. I started these unsure that I could make corsetry work for me--and I did! This whole project was a learning process, so I can pretty much safely say everything I did on this piece was learning something new! Now in the midst of a second pair, and loving it more the second time around!
Not quite a sewing project, but the new wig rounded out the tweaking and refining of my best 18th century ensemble. The details really do make the outfit, so I've learned--and proper hair is the best accessory. And, wigmaking (er, styling, since I used a pre-made wig) isn't quite as scary as I'd feared!
Lastly, the 1880s-inspired modern Sapphire Gown. I enjoy modern dressmaking even more now that I have a better foundation in historical methods--it gives you tricks and hints when the modern method doesn't quite cut it, and opens a whole world of inspiration! I learned how to create a boned foundation piece--a technique I have a feeling I'll be repeating very often!
And one final project, complete but not up on the blog yet--a second 1940s cocktail dress. Skirt construction and final product posts are forthcoming, but she makes it onto the 2011 list since she came out to play for my 2011 Christmas Cocktail Party!
What's your favorite project of 2011? And--looking forward--what to get started on in 2012?
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
2011 Sewing Roundup
Labels: Historical Fashion, Sewing Project
2 comments:
- Anachronist said...
You know, I am duly impressed. Soon enough you will be able to go professional with your sewing!
- December 29, 2011 at 3:03 AM
- Rowenna said...
Thank you, Anachronist!
- December 29, 2011 at 6:23 AM
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I watched the last ever episode of ER today on Sky Atlantic, it was pretty good and had a lot of things that happened in the first episodes from what I can remember of it and was done the same way. Even had a nurse who hadn't been in it for years, that Lydia. I was like "wtf, she hasn't been in it for years" well it actually wasn't years when I was watching, I watched it all in just over a year on there. It would have been on until about may or so if they'd just left it on one episode a day instead of two because tomorrow they are only showing it from the start again anyway but back to one a day. Pfft.
I didn't like how that girl from Gilmore Girls was in it, I don't like that show it always looks so boring and she just appeared out of nowhere yet they acted like she'd been there for ages. Where were half the med students they put in this season? Where was Daria Wade (who it would have been nice to see since she was actually in the pilot as another character) and her brother Andrew? they were barely in it. I liked them, they should have been in it more. Dubenko wasn't in it either, I thought he would be. Considering Pratt's brother Chaz was supposed to become a medical student we only saw him twice as one.
Where was George Clooney and Julianna Margulies? I thought they were supposed to be in it but obviously not … I thought they would have wanted to see the Carter centre open. I mean Benton was in the same episode they were in the other day and came in the last one so they should have to.
It would've been nice to see Abby and Luka come and see the opening of the Carter centre as well. Especially since I don't even think Luka really got a proper send off.
I mean even Kem was in it and I don't think anyone particularly liked her all that much.
It was nice to see Susan, Kerry and Elizabeth back in it as well.
Over all it was a good episode but not as good as I had expected, I had expected more from the characters. It was more about the patients instead, one who was really good was played by Ernest Borgnine. But I feel relationships were left undefined in the end between Neela and Ray then with Tony and Sam. Tony and Sam who held hands … so they may or may not have gotten back together.
Another was it was Sam's birthday, I was like "wasn't it her birthday last week?" because it was and I could have sworn it was this season … I don't even really remember them celebrating that many peoples birthdays in it.
It was kinda nice to see Rachel come and follow in Mark's footsteps although a little unexpected after how we last saw her and it was sweet when we got to see Reese with Benton again, and Alex had done up that car with Tony for Sam's birthday. Which was an awesome Mustang <3 Although I think I still preferred original Rachel and original Alex.
I kinda hoped for more though but it was pretty good, I guess. I thought I'd cry though because I thought it'd be really emotional but it wasn't really :/
I think I would have liked it more if this scenario had happened (ala Beverly Hills 90210): Tony and Sam decided to get hitched after getting back together and head off to Las Vegas with friends in tow, and Carter gambles away the last of his money so for the first time ever he can say "I'M BROKE!" and then they open the Carter centre at the end but he doesn't know how he's even gonna make it through the first year financially. Or they could've shown Archie marry Claudia since he practically proposed to her in the episode before.
I would've liked a good ol' wedding scenario to top it of like Donna and David in Beverly Hills 90210. Even if Tony and Sam hadn't gone out all that long.
But anyway it was a great show and I'm glad I watched it and I could watch it again from the start tomorrow but I have to catch up with other things so I don't see the point. Even though like I said in another post I missed the starts and odd bits of a few episodes near the start mainly because I didn't have Sky+ so couldn't pause it whilst going out and messing around during lunch or I was on the internet so missed the start on Fridays a few times but I caught up with them anyway so it doesn't really matter.
I loved the first few seasons but I think I preferred the Dr Luka years because Goran Visnjic <3
Not that George Clooney isn't hot as well <3
I could always catch Brenner in Sea Patrol because that's on from the start on Universal starting Friday lol. He wasn't in the last one much. Neither was Archie really and he was so funny!
I'm still kinda sad that it ended though :(
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