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(NEW YORK) — A national campaign encouraging kids to befriend other kids who are different from them has come under fire from a conservative family group, which claims a pro-gay agenda is being foisted upon American children.
The American Family Association has taken issue with the annual "Mix It Up" Day organized by Teaching Tolerance, the anti-bullying project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance, said the group started the national campaign 11 years ago, organizing it so that schools can participate on their own terms by encouraging students to sit with those they don't normally hang out with during lunch.
"Hey, the cafeteria is in fact where kids tend to self-segregate," she said. "We're trying to get them past the idea that you have to distrust people in another group. So we started Mix It Up Day. For one day, kids will be assigned to randomly sit with other people who they wouldn't normally sit with."
Costello said that thousands of schools and millions of children have participated in the program over the past 11 years, and another 2,500 schools have signed up to participate this year.
But schools that had signed up with the SPLC to host Mix It Up Day this year have become the target of a campaign that views SPLC as a "fanatical pro-homosexual group."
"The Southern Poverty Law Center is using this project to bully-push its gay agenda, and at the same time intimidate and silence students who have a Biblical view of homosexuality," the AFA wrote on its website on Oct. 1.
The group called for parents to keep their children home from school on Oct. 30, the national day when schools can implement Mix It Up activities. They also prompted their supporters to write letters and place phone calls to participating schools encouraging them to pull the plug on Mix It Up Day plans.
"The problem is pushing the normalization of homosexuality in schools," said Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the AFA.
The group said the "radical" SPLC was using the anti-bullying campaign as a "gay indoctrination" program.
"It was just so bizarre," Costello said of the AFA's criticism of Mix It Up Day. "You could look through every page of Mix It Up (materials) on diversity, and the only reference to LGBT issues is that at some point we have an activity that helps kids end their use of comments like 'don't be a retard' and 'that's so gay.' That is it. That is the sum total."
"We don't tell schools what to do on Mix It Up day. We suggest activities, none of which have to do with sexual orientations. We used to focus on divisions of race and social class, but now we encourage schools to focus on what they're own school issues are," she said.
The AFA has asked the SPLC to publish a disclaimer making it clear that Mix It Up Day "should not be construed to imply the endorsement or support of homosexual behavior," Fischer said.
The Teaching Tolerance program countered with their own publicity materials, pointing out that AFA has been named a "hate group" by SPLC for their views on homosexuality, she said. Fischer called that an "entirely false designation."
Some 200 schools have asked to be removed from a public list of participating Mix It Up schools since the AFA launched their protest, Costello said.
In the same two-week span, 180 schools have signed up to participate, she said.
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It wasn't pretty, but the Pasadena City College women's volleyball team overcame 15 attack errors and 10 service errors to win its sixth straight match Wednesday night. The Lancers are undefeated in South Coast Conference North Division play after a 25-23, 25-21, 25-15 sweep over East Los Angeles College at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
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For a city synonymous with late nights, Late Night Trailhead just outside of Las Vegas is decidedly different. There are no buildings besides an outhouse, no meandering pedestrians or neon, and certainly no noise.
Instead you'll find about 200,000 acres of desert known as Red Rock Canyon, home to tarantulas, rattlesnakes, burros, bunnies and wild vegetation that can either harm or cure you.
More than 130 kilometres of trails lure another desert creature, namely the mountain biker - about 2,000 of them locally, according to Brandon Brizzolara, a guide and mountain bike specialist for Escape Adventures and Las Vegas Cyclery. He grew up in Vegas and fondly remembers when even The Strip had its own biking scene.
"From Tropicana to Fremont we'd have BMX sessions on The Strip like it was a skate park in the '90s," he says. "Vegas is a pretty active community, it's just The Strip that's a little out of shape."
We're here for The Strip and the desert - the beaten track and the single track: Neville and Leah and their teenagers, Ryan and Emma, all of us with contrasting wishes and expectations for our three-night stay in Las Vegas.
Shopping had been my kids' idea.
For hours we'd lost ourselves in high-octane consumerism at Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, a consumers' paradise with 170 stores, 15 restaurants and several entertainment venues. Britney Spears has her own store here where Britney merchandise exhorts shoppers to "Work it, Bitch."
It's a legitimate vice in Sin City, but shopping - and Britney Spears - make me uncomfortable so I stood with a crowd and watched a guy get his belly tattooed at Club Tattoo. Leah got a manicure at Original Diva and had nails "to die for" long after returning home. Ryan and Emma blew their entire budget.
On all of our wish lists was a Vegas show. Britney had taken March off so we chose Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana, a celebration of circus traditions set in an abandoned theatre (but in reality at the Aria Resort and Casino). The show blends anarchic humour with the precision and grace of aerialists, acrobats, jugglers, high-wire and trapeze artists.
Great food was on everyone's list and the following three restaurants more than delivered.
The Yard House, whose beer list alone would entice me back, enjoys an enviable location just a few feet from the High Roller, the world's biggest observation wheel.
Just a short stroll through the LINQ brings you to Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar, a two-storey fiesta in the making, anchored by a mechanical bull. Mexico City-born chef Ernesto Zendejas draws upon classical training in France to present an exquisite mix of flavours: Lobster tacos, bass ceviche, cilantro cream soup, shrimp fajitas.
Plates are meant to be shared at Crush, one of many dining options at the MGM Grand, but our family came close to making a scene over the sea scallop benny, comprising sunny-side quail egg, chorizo and chipotle hollandaise. Some meals are too good to be shared.
Between the shopping, the show, the spa and the dining, we savoured afternoon pool time. In downtown Las Vegas, we mingled with celebrity look-alikes and body-painted models at the Fremont Street Experience, five city blocks of high-tech wizardry featuring a 550,000-watt sound system and a music and light show broadcast from an LED canopy 90 feet above the ground.
Further down Fremont Street, past El Cortez, the city's first casino, we found The Beat Coffeehouse and Records, the hippest little joint for breakfast and heaven to a 16-year-old who's just discovered vinyl.
Nowhere, though, seems quite so off the beaten track as the Mojave Desert and the single track of Red Rock Canyon. The mountain biking had been my idea. Only 30 kilometres west of Las Vegas Boulevard, Red Rock's Mustang Trails might have been on another planet, such is the contrast with The Strip.
For two hours we mostly coast on easy trails, stopping occasionally for impromptu descriptions of the vegetation. Brizzolara says he hasn't taken a pill in more than 10 years, and why would he with nature's pharmacy on his doorstep? There are seemingly cures for all ailments in the numerous sage bushes and plants like Mormon's Tea, a species of Ephedra, which is traditionally used to treat asthma, hay fever and the common cold.
If inducement to remain on the bike were needed, there are no shortage of plants that could make for a painful landing: Cacti, whose barbs expand after piercing skin, and the Joshua Tree, whose bayonet-shaped leaves feature serrated edges - handy for cutting barbecue wieners, according to Brizzolara. We stay on our bikes. My daughter, Emma, struggles gamely and mostly ignores her dad telling her to relax.
It's the same advice she gave me at the Britney Spears store.
If you go
Las Vegas Cyclery (lasvegascyclery.com) and Escape Adventures (escapeadventures.com) offer year-round tours, which start at $129. Call 1-800-596-2953.
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March 13--Any threat to "shoot up" a school is serious, but the real significance of what happened at New Haven High School last week may not have been the words themselves but the prompt arrest of the 16-year-old female student who spoke them.
In the wake of the attack that killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine's Day, much attention has been focused on law enforcement officials' failure to respond to prior warnings about the danger posed by alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz -- and properly so. Far less attention has been paid to how an obviously troubled young man was able to buy a gun, and whether a school discipline policy designed to reduce the number of suspensions, expulsions and arrests may have played a role.
In 2013, the Broward County schools launched a program called "Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support and Education," or PROMISE, which offered "the least punitive means of discipline" in response to certain "minor" infractions, such as petty theft or vandalism causing less than $1,000 in damages. Interviewed by CNN'sJake Tapper after the shooting, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel insisted the program is "helping many, many people. What this program does is not put a person at 14, 15, 16 years old into the criminal justice system."
To which Tapper replied: "What if he should be in the criminal justice system?"
A good question. No one can be certain whether Cruz deserved to be arrested before he slaughtered 17 people, but part of that ignorance may be due to the PROMISE program and the resulting reluctance of school officials to expose children to the legal system. As Israel told Tapper, "There's no malfeasance if you don't know about something."
Despite many warnings to local and federal officials about Cruz's potential for violence, he was never arrested -- and was ultimately able to buy a firearm.
Even though school shooters tend to be white, it's also necessary to ask whether Cruz's race might have influenced school officials' response to his previous provocations. In 2014, just a year after the PROMISE program began, the Obama Administration issued guidelines calling on educators to end the "school-to-prison pipeline" it said unfairly targeted minority students. "Research suggests that substantial racial disparities (in discipline) are not explained by more frequent or more serious misbehavior by students of color," the administration contended.
In other words, if a disproportionate number of minority students were punished, that could trigger a federal civil-rights investigation. In 2016, to the contrary, Broward County was the only large urban district in the country to receive a Teacher Incentive Fund grant, one of the goals of which is "improved life for students in poverty/students of color."
In a paper released in January, prior to the Florida shootings, U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Gail Heriot correctly asked whether the threat of a federal review would be more likely to eliminate actual discrimination "or -- more likely -- would schools react heavy-handedly by tolerating more classroom disorder?"
To be clear: Cruz alone is responsible for his actions, and mistakes that seem avoidable in hindsight were not so obvious before he started pulling the trigger. But it hardly requires clairvoyance to know that failure to confront small problems can lead to and even guarantee larger problems later. In a 1982 piece in the Atlantic Monthly, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling gave this common-sense approach a name: the "broken window" theory.
Fort Wayne is often accused of being behind the times, but in this case we were ahead of the progressive curve. In 2012 the Fort Wayne Community Schools implemented something called the "Culturally Responsive Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports" plan officials said reflected the desire to teach students how to behave in a socially acceptable way before punishing them for acts they may not understand are wrong.
"Once we know they know, we will hold them accountable," a spokeswomen said at the time.
I don't know the race or culture of that New Haven student, but why should it matter? How many broken windows is too many? She made a serious threat, and officials responded in a serious and appropriate way -- one that will affect this student in the future and, just maybe, influence others who might be tempted to do something equally rash, stupid or dangerous.
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We don't know what the nature of the hearing is, or who brought the matter before the court. ayres is slated to have yet another competency hearing (trial in front of a judge) after Napa State Hospital has determined that not only is ayres competent to defend himself against criminal child molestation charges, but that he has been actively faking dementia in order to avoid further proceedings. ayres' attorney does not agree with the medical doctors, and feels that they are wrong, and so the judge must decide whether or not ayres is competent to proceed to criminal re-trial.
Meanwhile potential witnesses against ayres, such as the doctors who trained with ayres, are not getting any younger or any less dead. Anyone want to bet that Friday's hearing is just more delay tactic by the molester's subhuman piece of crap attorney? Well, who knows... maybe it will be good news instead.
We don't know if ayres will be present in the courtroom, but if he is, it will be a good opportunity to see the child molester in orange prison garb, and locked to his chair.
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RIP Dr. Joan Zilbach.ReplyDelete
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Hasn't anyone deposed these former coworker's amd classmates? I would have though the Boston PD would be making sure to get that info in case they get a crack at him.ReplyDelete
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Army inspired tunic from Target. Ya'll know army is big this fally and this shirt looks super cute with leggings! I Love love love it! Comes in several colors but I got Army Green!
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- AndreaLeigh said...
Oh, I'm going to have to try out that for kcups. We just get ours from Target and there isn't much of a selection at all!
- October 05, 2010 7:37 AM
- Mere said...
Only you could wear that tunic with leggings, certainly not us shorties :) But I do love it, need some army in my life!
- October 05, 2010 7:37 AM
- californiadreamin said...
OOOO I'm gonna go to K-cups site now. Those sound yummy! I have seen how in the army style is and Target has some amazing things that'll I'll just take 1 of everything haha
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
On the Casting Horizon
He tells us that the "circle of power photographers who decide which models cross over from all that runway traction into blue chip work seem to be holding back on their campaign shooting. There is not the usual feeding frenzy to lock up those hyped new faces . No epic "New Faces" edit yet at W, no New Prada Contingent marching through Vogue Italia...yet. This is an indicator that the campaign castings are going to run even more conservatively than in recent years, skewing back to the Raquels, Sashas and Natashas, if there is even a model on the premises. Celebrities are going to continue to take a huge chunk of those choice bookings..."
And take this quote photographer Nick Knight gave in a recent interview: "To make money, the industry is increasingly catering to the lowest common denominator and, as far as the people who run the big companies are concerned, anything even slightly out of the ordinary frightens people. But anyone with a brain knows that it is the quirkiness and imperfection in a person that attracts other people. That is completely obvious to human beings; it's just when it gets to a corporate level that it all falls apart."
Reading all of this made me more than a bit disappointed. For one, I can't stand seeing the current crop of celebrities in ad campaigns. It's already bad enough that I have to see them on the covers of American fashion magazines month after month--leave modeling to the professionals please. Secondly, this season I really took notice of and a liking to many of the new girls so it will be sad to see most of them ravaged and tossed aside by the industry. Especially since they are so young and all so gorgeous in unique ways. They looked different enough that I could actually tell them apart for once.
Anyway, it's during times like these I'm so grateful that Freja has Karl firmly in her corner. Even if I complain about it sometimes, and even if she's just going to be relegated to his entourage, at least she's getting new work that we'll be able to see. And who knows...we might even see her in a few other campaigns despite the dire outlook for models. After all, she made a killing last season coming away with 5 campaigns, and she's coming off one of her stronger runway seasons in a long time. Hopefully Freja can channel all this momentum into some more results. And hopefully Karl will let her go long enough so that she can work with some other people.
All things considered, Freja is in a great position having just shot the Chanel campaign. And with her quirky and palatable looks to draw upon (providing a nice compromise between the corporate and creative sides of the industry), I think she could be poised for more. Unfortunately, that probably won't be the case for your other favorites. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Karmen and Karolin, and hoping that my new girl favs like Mirte and Lisanne emerge unscathed. What about you?
4 comments:
- Lilee said...
i love freja!!!
- October 29, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Honestly i think the use of celebrities, due to commercialism, is really just making fashion less distinctive! The whole art value behind fashion might be facing a decline. It's a pity really. And we might not have good blogs like this anymore! What a shame..
- October 30, 2009 at 7:03 AM
I agree with you, it's disappointing. I was hoping for my Dutchies, Bregje and Anna de Rijk to get something or the Swedes, Dorothea, Sara B and Frida to get a campaign but it doesn't look promising so far. I'm so sick of Madonna.
- October 30, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- Rrose Sélavy said...
I agree with the both of you. It's disappointing how indistinct things have become. We have celebrities selling us everything from clothes to car insurance. When will the higher ups realize that a well-executed, beautiful concept with a striking and appropriate model can do more than a B-list celebrity...at least imo.
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Last Thursday night Iva, Michael, Andrew and I went to a special event at the awesome Dutch Trading Co. to taste some inspired pairings of beers from Nail with whiskeys from Limeburners.
The four pairings, specially chosen by the very witty and entertaining Caitlin from Nail and Anthony from Limeburners, were either complimentary or contrasting. I can't say what my favourite paring was, but I can say what my favourite accidental pun of the night was; Iva almost missed out.... or Miss Stout on the second tasting. You heard it here first folks, best name for a limited-release stout ever!
The pairings were inspired and really brought out the best of each of the elements, making the tasting a very different experience than enjoying the beers or whiskey alone... which is what I might have said at the start of the night. The end of the night however was a bit less coherent and ended up with Andrew body slamming me on our driveway in an attempt to cure my coldness by carrying me to the door. My elbow has nearly stopped hurting, unlike Andrew's ego which might take quite a lot longer to heal especially with my teasing slowing the healing process (I love having a good accidental drop up my sleeve).
All in all, it was a wonderful night! I would definitely go again if DTC ever host a similar event, and now that I'm an official member of the RAS (Royal Agricultural Society) I will definitely be visiting both Nail and Limeburners at the Perth Royal Show (the best time of year, even better than Christmas). The only criticism I have is that the kitchen closed very early so we didn't manage to order dinner, although we managed to get two massive bowls of chickpeas (we ordered one, and another bowl came out as part of the included snacks for the night; I've never eaten so many chick peas in my life), but I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys beer, whisky, or making their life difficult on a busy Friday at work.
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text: Whole Foods Market, the world's leading natural and organic foods market, offers a one-of-a-kind experience. In addition to showcasing products consistent with the Whole Foods promise of offering the highest-quality, the store includes the Back Bay Tavern, a full-service cocktail bar, and Tea Hive, a fusion café and tea bar. We also cater meetings and Holidays!


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This town of fewer than 400 people in southeastern Ohio, founded by Quakers and now home to a sizable community of old-order Amish, has always been a place apart, a quiet celebration of simplicity. Its newest business, the nonprofit Center for Plain Living, will do nothing to disturb that tradition.
The center, a clearinghouse of criticism of technology-driven American culture, is little more than a desk, a table, an old printing press and several lamps housed in a 19th-century photography studio.
Yet it is a distinctly visible symbol of a small migration of families from East Coast and Midwest cities and suburbs, many with no previous rural ties, to a new and quiet life in which they adopt the customs and even the religious beliefs of the Amish, other Mennonites or the most conservative of the Quaker sects, the plain Quakers.
Prompting this movement is the sense that people are losing control of their lives, largely as a result of the increase in speed, stress and alienation bestowed by technology.
"We've moved to a whole new speed in how we live," said Scott Savage, a 35-year-old former librarian who helped found the center four years ago and is now its director. "We started with the horse and buggy, and then to the automobile, and now we're moving at electronic speed. We're finding that people can't live at that speed. We're being crushed by the way we live, and it's on everybody's mind. It's right there on the surface."
Nobody knows exactly how many "homecomers," as these refugees are called, have migrated to plain living. But Savage puts the total at several hundred during the last year in the Amish communities of Indiana and Ohio alone.
The center's philosophy - skepticism about technology coupled with a quest for healthier rural economies, a cleaner environment and a less frantic, more meditative life style-is an amalgam of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement and the 1990s emphasis on family values.
Savage grew up in a Cleveland suburb as a liberal Quaker, accepting of modern culture, and holds a master's degree in library science from Kent State University. Now he, his wife and their two children are plain Quakers.
With his long beard, black suit, white cotton shirt and straw hat, he is often mistaken for one of the Amish farmers who raise their cows and corn among the steep ridges outside Chesterhill.
Sometimes his appearance attracts rude behavior. Last year, he said, he was "semi-mobbed by camera-crazed tourists" when he stopped on a Saturday afternoon at Lehman's Hardware, an Amish supply store in the town of Kidron, to the north. Across the street, other tourists surrounded the bench where his 30-year-old wife, Mary Ann, also distinctively attired, was waiting with their children.
Such moments remind the Savages how far they have wandered from their old lives in the mainstream. But they are not alone on this quiet tributary: at the 159-year-old Quaker meeting house next door to their home, they worship with several other young former suburbanites who have adopted the life of plain Quakers.
"We are doing something offbeat," Savage said, "and somebody who's never considered it would think this is totally ridiculous. But we keep talking about it and writing about it. And when you do that in a personal way, one-on-one, you get past all the self-defensiveness, and the snickering just disappears."
Although the Center for Plain Living has sponsored programs on rural development, its focus is Plain, a bimonthly magazine that is both a thoughtful exploration of Amish and other Mennonite cultures and a provocative critique of modern American life.
In Plain, emotional turmoil and environmental deterioration are attributed to technology, the automobile, blind pursuit of career at the expense of family, rampant consumerism and children's lives so tightly structured that they have no time for free play.
The path to a less frantic life, the magazine teaches, begins with throwing out the family television and computer, then substituting sweat for electronics, generalists for specialists, and, where possible, bicycles and horses for cars.
More than 5,000 families have subscribed to Plain since the first issue was published 18 months ago. Part of the magazine's appeal is the Savages' serialization of their experiences in gradually abandoning technology.
Not that the they have been able to do without every possible convenience. Savage-who, faithful to the tenets of his plain Quaker faith, declined to be photographed-works at Ohio University in Athens writing grants for the medical college and so must commute 25 minutes each way by car.
The family's rented house has electric lights and a telephone. And Mrs. Savage, a professed radio addict, is still getting over her decision last year to throw out the radio, her last connection to the electronic media.
What is more, Plain is edited and set on a computer and printed with modern offset presses.
Savage is working with Seth Hinshaw, a young plain Quaker printer from North Carolina, to acquire and use hand-powered movable-type presses, but the transition is expensive and likely to take at least another year.
Such inconsistencies, which Savage details in each issue of Plain, attract occasional criticism among the 40 to 80 letters that the magazine receives each week.
More frequently, though, the readers respond to the magazine with high praise.
After seeing the first issue, which dealt with agriculture, Craig Zolodger, an agricultural extension agent in Santa Clara, Calif., wrote, "You are giving voice to very deep feelings about what is wrong with society and, more importantly, offering hope and vision about what can be done to correct the dis-ease we are all experiencing."
And in response to an issue on threats posed by the information superhighway, Michael S. New, who identified himself as a computer specialist from Ft. Worth, wrote:
"The computer in the business world has replaced the requirement for face-to-face contact and trust-building with an ever-accelerating and paranoid passion for precision. Those unable to see both edges of this sword, or to rehash your noble though occasionally disagreeable alternative view, are already servants of the machine."


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I cannot believe it is still 90 degrees in September! I'm glad I didn't order a fall fix because it would be awful to take pictures outside! We have exactly 9 days until we are in Disney World. We have a couple of nights out while we are there, so I thought Stitch Fix would be the way to go! Here's the note I sent to my stylist:
Same stylist (Anne) please! Going to Disney at the end of the month. Would love some lightweight dresses for a date night and my daughter's birthday at the castle!
Here's a quick rundown on how the service works:
Stitch Fix is a service that will send you five articles
of clothing (or purses, scarves, jewelry, and now shoes) picked by a stylist at whatever interval you choose
based on a style profile you fill out about yourself. You pay a $20
styling fee for each box, but that money goes toward anything you keep.
So as long as at least one item works for you, there's nothing to lose.
And if you keep all five items, you get a 25% discount.
You don't have to sign up for a certain time period between fixes. You
could try it one time and never get another fix or get another one 2
years later! There's no cost commitment until you schedule a fix. When
the box ships, that's when you are charged the $20 styling fee.
You can create a Pinterest board dedicated to your style and put the
link in your style profile so that your stylist can see what items you
like and why. I love when I receive something I actually pinned or
something very similar to a pin on my board!
And here is what Anne sent in my 16th Fix:
(1) Hailey 23 Kerrigan 2fer Knit Dress $78
Fix #15. But as I first tried everything on yesterday, it was the one item that screamed keeper. My stylist recommended a dainty necklace to wear with the dress on our date night in Disney.
(2) Pixley Jacobsen Textured Knit Dress $68
(3) Market & Spruce Austin Polka Dot & Striped Mixed Material Shirt $44
Fix #15. This top is also one of the most inexpensive clothing items I've received, but I think it's going back.
(4) Loveappella Keetin Contrast Shoulder Knit Top $44
Fix #3 and my boyfriend jeans from Fix #14. I love the coral color and am always looking for cute tanks!
(5) Street Level Talula Backpack $68
So, I'm thinking about only keeping (1) and (4). I have been keeping a lot lately, so I'm trying to spread my fixes out more and only keep what I love or what makes more sense financially. I have until Monday to choose which items to keep and which I will send
back. I fill out a checkout survey to give specific feedback on each
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I have a white 20 inch intel imac 2006/2007, power for the hard drive doesn't work and the lcd goes black after computer is on. if you set the computer to work on low brightness and connect the hard drive to an external power source, the computer will work ok.
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Commissioner Šemeta welcomes European Parliament's support for the Standard VAT Return
Algirdas Šemeta, EU Commissioner for Taxation, welcomed the European Parliament's strong support today for a Standard VAT Return (see IP/13/988). The Standard VAT Return is one of the Commission's key proposals to cut red-tape for business and improve tax compliance in the EU.
Commissioner Šemeta said:
"This proposal is about making life simpler and cheaper for businesses. With the Standard VAT Return, it will be as easy to declare VAT abroad as it is at home.
As such, it will remove a major tax obstacle in our Single Market and cut compliance costs by up to €15bn a year.
Moreover, simpler rules are easier to follow and enforce. So the Standard VAT Return should also boost tax compliance throughout the EU, bringing new revenues to the Member States.
I am very pleased – but not surprised – that the European Parliament has shown such backing for this growth-friendly, business-friendly proposal.
I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ivo Strejček, for his great work on this file."
via Press release – Cutting Red Tape and Boosting Tax Revenues: Commissioner Šemeta welcomes European Parliament's support for the Standard VAT Return.


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Earlier this week, we talked about the value of chores. Today, I want to give you some resources to help you set up your own chore system for your kids. We've had several chore systems in our house over the years. Some have worked well. Some have not. There's no one perfect chore system that works for every household. I know families who pay for chores in tickets and tokens. Those tickets or tokens can then be turned in to gain special privileges like watching TV or playing video games. I know other families who pay their kids for all of their chores and still others that pay for none. Whatever system works for you is the one you should use.
But how do you go about choosing that system? If you're just starting chores with your young kids, where do you start? If your system isn't working, how should you change it?
Setting up a chore system isn't difficult. Finding the right one for your family may take some trial and error. Luckily, there are plenty of great resources available to help.
- Ask friends and family how they deal with chores in their homes. Someone you know may have a fantastic idea that you didn't know about. Sometimes the best advice comes from our own circle of influence.
- Check out the list of age-appropriate chores at Focus on the Family. This list is a great starting point if you're trying to figure out what chores your kids are capable of doing.
- Create a chore chart of some kind. Our chore chart right now is simply a dry-erase board with each girls' list of chores. This works especially well for us because I can create a new list every day. There are lots of chore chart resources available, but I like the variety of printable charts available at Free Chore Charts.
- If you're looking for a system that's already set up and all you have to do is implement it, check out Accountable Kids. This is more than a chore system. It uses chores and privileges to create an accountability system for your kids. I have a friend who uses this system and loves it.
- Use your system, and change it if it's not working. Your chore system is only useful if it's teaching your kids responsibility and you are able to manage it. Don't stick with something that's not working just because you've always done it that way. If it's not working, change it.
Chores are an important tool for teaching our kids responsibility. Use the start of the new year as a time to get a fresh start on getting the jobs done around your house because when everyone chips in, the work goes a lot faster. Like the Bible says, "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor" (Ecclesiastes 4:9). Use these resources to get your family working, and get a good return for your labor as you work together.


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Rey III Viquez designs commercial and residential spaces for his clients. When he took himself on as a client he got to dabble in both business and pleasure. The result is a beautiful rental home that expresses the modern design of current Palm Springs, but of course it's the media room we're interested in.
Viquez bought a home in Palm Springs that hadn't gotten an update in some time. When he decided to turn the 1,400 square foot town house into a small vacation rental he updated the interior to represent the cool design approach of modern Palm Springs. He had custom designed recliners and rocking chairs made for visitors to relax in, and switched out the old boob tube for a sleek flat screen.
We love how the cubed artwork is like an extension of the flat and cubed LCD above the fireplace (or is it the other way around?)
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The Green Machine girls basketball team (coached by yours truly) handily beat the Yellow Jackets (coached by the nasty, tough ex-marine who has been on my shit list for five years) 18-6. We are 1-0. Woohoo.
It's been a long day and I haven't eaten dinner yet. I'll update later, but meanwhile, pleasepleaseplease go read why how Kat saved the lives of two lost children today and became my hero. Start with the Kira post and work your way up.


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According to a recent survey conducted by online payroll service SurePayroll, the majority of small business owners believe there is a clear business value in popular social networking Web sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
According to SurePayroll Online Marketing Manager David Rohrer, the online presence of small businesses is becoming more important to remain competitive with big businesses.
"It is no longer just an outlet for personal use — it's rapidly becoming a must for business success," says Rohrer. "Big business is tapping into the blogosphere and posting their company profile pages in online communities. Small business owners need to do the same. What's so great about the online world is you don't need a million-dollar marketing budget. In fact, the most effective online connections are free personal communications from a business owner to their community."
If you need proof that social media works and is thriving in the minds of smart small businesses consider Wiggly Wigglers, a rural England-based natural gardening mail-order company that won the 2008 Global Dell Small Business Excellence Award.
By using social media to connect with current customers and reach new ones, Wiggly Wigglers:
- Serves 90,000 customers worldwide and delivers its products across Europe;
- Cut its advertising budget by 80 percent when the company turned to social media over traditional advertising;
- Facebook fans currently stand at 898, with over 170 discussion topics;
- Hosted a total of 50 weekly podcasts from the "Wiggly sofa" reaching thousands of listeners per week, and San Francisco Chronicle readers rated it their "favorite gardening podcast;" and
- Built its catalogue based on Wiki ideas generated on its Facebook page by experts and customers.
Maybe you're thinking, this is all fine and good for some hip English company – but what about me?
Social media is for EVERY small business owner. It's just a matter of determining to step out and start somewhere. Why not start now? Make your first Facebook page for your business.
SurePayroll's tips for optimizing social networking are:
Know Your Target Audience
Digg, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all offer different advantages to a small business.
Know which outlet is most effective for your message and audience.
Start a blog, or comment on other blogs to contribute to what those in your industry are saying.
Share videos like "how-to" clips or tours of your business. Join groups like Google Groups, Yahoo Groups or industry-specific sites that are related to the products or services you offer.
Yahoo! Answers and Linkedin Answers are great outlets for service-based business, as they allow you to establish yourself as an expert in your field. Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM.com wrote a great blog post about Yahoo Answers to get you started.
Get Started Without a Financial Investment
No one can argue the fact that time is money. If you are like most smaller businesses with few-to-no resources, you can still participate by simply listening. The cost is minimal and the payoff can be great. You can listen to what people are saying about you and your competitors. You will learn what people dislike about your products and services and see if anyone is providing suggested improvements. You may even find forums where people are giving you some of the best testimonials you have ever heard, but you have to be listening to hear them. Marketing Pilgrim has written a Beginner's Guide to Social Media Marketing that will help get you started. Also, read Chris Brogan's Social Media Power Secret to learn about where to listen.
Maintain Your Commitment
Being available and engaging with your online audience is essential. All your online communications define the level of success you'll have in your targeted community, including the personal touch you put in your:
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- StumbleUpon reviews
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If you create a blog for your company, post regularly and respond to comments. Give your blog a personality and make sure it's not just another place for your press releases.
If you choose to join Yahoo Answers, StumbleUpon, Digg or any other sites, just be active and participate. The worst thing you can do is blatantly try to market your company, and the best thing you can do is simply be part of the community.
Twitter allows you to communicate up-to-date news about initiatives, interactive support for customers, and is an open forum for discussion. Being transparent with your business motives and happenings allows for more consumer trust and builds a relationship founded on the belief that you're always available.
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Vascular function is crucial in environments of high altitude because there is low oxygen availability (hypoxia) and thinner air. This forces the body to work harder to provide muscles with oxygen. In fact, during conditions of hypoxia there is a greater potential for nitrite to convert to nitric oxide (Vanhatalo et al., 2011). Therefore, increasing dietary nitrate as the precursor to nitric oxide is a strategy to combat hypoxic conditions.
In 2015 Bakker et al. used 11 healthy people to investigate the effects of beetroot juice on endothelial function at 3700 m (equivalent to about twice the elevation as Denver, Colorado). The researchers found beetroot juice improved vascular function. They concluded that beetroot juice is a dietary strategy to maintain optimal peripheral vascular function (Bakker et al., 2015).
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In 2014 Kelly et al. used 12 healthy athletes to investigate beetroot juice related to exercise tolerance in hypoxic and normal oxygen environments. Each athlete completed moderate- and high-intensity bike tests: twice in normal conditions and twice in hypoxic conditions. For three days before the tests, the athletes drank 140 ml/day of beetroot juice or placebo.
Moderate-intensity exercise: steady-state VO2 was lower (1.91±0.28 l/min for beetroot juice and 2.05±0.25 l/min for placebo)
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A solar cell (also called photovoltaic cell) is a solid state device that converts the energy of sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Assemblies of cells are used to make solar modules, also known as solar panels. The energy generated from these solar modules, referred to as solar power, is an example of solar energy. The advanced cell processing technology and automated production facilities produce a highly efficient multi crystalline photovoltaic module. The conversion efficiency of the solar cells reaches up to 15%.
These cells are encapsulated between a tempered glass cover and an EVA (Ethylene vinyl acetate) potent with back sheet to provide maximum protection from the severest environmental conditions. The laminated parts are installed in an anodized aluminum frame to provide structural strength and ease of installation equipped with plug in connectors. Photovoltaics is the field of technology and research related to the practical application of photovoltaic cells in producing electricity from light, though it is often used specifically to refer to the generation of electricity from sunlight.
Batteries are the reservoir in a solar energy system. Solar batteries store DC energy generated from your solar system for later use when you need it. Right choice of batteries ensures proper performance and maximized battery life. Solar batteries offer longer life and better protection from abuse than low cost automotive batteries. If you have a large system and want years of worry-free performance, use Solar batteries - they are high capacity and offer excellent cycle life. The use of deep cycle batteries is more common in off-grid solar systems, but they can also be used in some grid connected solar power systems.
We have several brands and types of solar deep cycle, lead-acid and sealed maintenance free batteries to choose from that are made for your renewable energy systems including you solar home, remote industrial and commercial applications. All batteries capacities are shown in amp hours (Ah) at the 20 hour rate. For a detailed comparison and more information on solar batteries, please choose the brand and download brochure.
Battery capacity is calculated as Watt Hours = Volts * Amp Hours.
Solar Power Inverters work by taking the 12 or 24 volt DC voltage from the source, such as solar panels and converts DC battery power to standard AC power which allows running regular appliances like TVs, computers, microwaves and power tools. With an inverter your AC loads run off your batteries and they can be used any time of day or night - without a generator - and definitely during a utility power failure.
When selecting an inverter, choose a size that can power the appliances you plan to use. Most home power systems in Middle East, Africa are now wired for 220-240 VAC, and an inverter is installed to feed these circuits.
An inverter not only lets you use standard appliances and tools but conventional wiring as well. In larger remote residences, particularly those using auxiliary generators, inverters can reduce the costs of power generation by up to 90%. Typical sizes installed in RV and homes are 1000 to 2500 watts. Larger inverters from 4 kW to 11 kW are used in large power systems, such as lodges, and industrial applications.
We carry pure sine wave inverters to meet any solar power application and have a wide variety of inverters for Grid Tie, Off Grid, and Commercial Solar Applications.
A Solar Charge Controller could be considered the backbone of solar electric systems. A charge controller limits the rate at which electric current is added to or drawn from electric batteries. It prevents overcharging and may prevent against overvoltage, which can reduce battery performance or lifespan, and may pose a safety risk.
Simple charge controllers stop charging a battery when they exceed a set high voltage level, and re-enable charging when battery voltage drops back below that level. Maximum power point tracker (MPPT) technology is more electronically sophisticated, adjusting charging rates depending on the battery's level, to allow charging closer to its maximum capacity.
Charge controllers may also monitor battery temperature to prevent overheating. Our high quality charge controllers are specifically designed for your renewable energy needs.
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Jane Tallies Up a Gen X Fit by Five
August 30, 2005
Gen X, those fabulous young women with mothers who suffered through countless abuses in the workplace, are prime targets for all manner of products and services, today.
Gen X, those spoiled, had-it-all young women who are starting to check the mirror for crow's feet, all the while mouthing platitudes about accepting aging as a normal life process, even laughing at their mother's questions on whether or not they're worried about taking time off to procreate.
Gen X, those strong, capable, intelligent young women of today -- who are more in the driver's seat than they know.
Let's look more closely at this demographic. This youthful and vigorous young woman who learned to adapt to the Internet quickly, and who now cruises around on it as easily as her mother cruised along those vast expressways that sprung up during the 60s and 70s, connecting suburbia to the inner city.
In March, Jane cut an article out of our local paper -- "Young women are snared in midlife crises early," the headline said. The story was about a book...titled, "Midlife Crisis at 30." While we found ourselves nodding in agreement over the information in the article, underneath our recognition of the truth as presented by Lia Macko and Kerry Rubin, our alter-ego was saying, "Ha! Now they'll see what we've been trying to tell them for twenty years!" For instance, the stats in the article show, "Today, the average college-educated bride is 28. In the 1960s, she was 22." And, "Over the last 30 years, the number of single women 30-34 has tripled." Plus, "More women start therapy at 30 than at any other times in their lives."
Many of the women you are selling to are in this tender group, dear reader. These are Jane's daughters. They have issues. Note this excerpt from the book, honestly written by the authors: "Unlike the women at the luncheon (and our own mothers), we've never been the only woman in the room, and no one has ever asked us about our typing skills or sent us to fetch them a cup of coffee."
Which led us to wonder if the writers have ever been out of....wherever it is they live. If they bothered to talk to any 'real' young women. Jane knows many, many young women in the Gen X demographic who would heartily disagree with that sentence.
Suffice it to say, like all labels put on women, the Gen X label does not describe ALL young women in that age group. That they are, and continue to be, influenced by their mothers, is an undisputable fact. That they are also as diverse and unlike their mothers, is also fact. In order to get a handle on how this group thinks, what they want and how you can try to appeal to them, let's look at their homing instincts. Let's get inside their heads -- where they live, and see how different they are, and how those differences translate into marketing to women online.
In the Real Estate section of our local D&C, this article, "Gen Xers like big homes," caught our eye yesterday. We find it fascinating...and helpful in assessing the wants and needs of this tech-driven group. Here are Five Must-Haves the article says Gen X families won't do without in their new homes:
1. Space: This group values having enough room to invite friends, relatives, and neighbors in for backyard barbecues, or family reunions. In the event that Mother Nature has put a damper on things, they want enough room to house two or more families. Jane says: community; this group values a community approach and want it to begin at home, in their basement.
2. Media rooms: This is a group of high-tech, big screen TV, loud music, happy days kind of kids. Kids that are all grown up but not willing to let go of their toys. Baby Boomers reveled in the passage of adulthood that said put away things of your childhood and adopt a serious demeanor. Jane says: baby boomers let their cars speak for them. Gen Xers are letting their multi-media rooms speak for them.
3. Lifestyles: Jerry Howard, chief executive officer of the National Association of Home Builders, says, "Gen Xers...are techno-savvy and more likely to be house-shopping on the Internet. They have strong awareness of all their options." Jane says: Are you giving your Gen X visitors options? They not only want options, they expect options. Be aware, and be fair.
4. Four Bedrooms and high ceilings: No, they don't all have five or six children, and they aren't any taller than their parents. But, the majority of Gen X families want at least 4 bedrooms in their homes, and they prefer ceilings 7 feet or higher. Again, their goal is to have room for visitors. Jane says: Appeal to their family-centered approach to life. Folks who shell out the $$ for big homes such as these, also need insurance, maintenance, housekeeping, a good account, furnishings, add-ons -- the list is endless. Surely, you have something they need...or you can partner with another company to provide something this group needs...since they have reached that summit where needs are wants, and we know people (all people) buy what they want...not what they need.
5. Flexibility: The article notes that, "Young buyers don't want to pay for space they don't use. Maybe their elders always wanted a dining room, but their idea is, 'Can my house be flexible enough to accommodate everyday meal needs?' " Jane says: It's just like the commercial for Healthy Choice TV meals. The one where the Dad, bless his little heart, is home with the kids and the little girl, bless her little heart, repeatedly says, "Mommy doesn't do it like that." Until he serves dinner -- three Healthy Choice meals, whereupon the daughter smiles and says, "You did one thing right, Dad." This last scene takes place on the living room sofa, in front of the TV. Jane would like to ask, What is the world coming to -- eating dinner on the sofa in front of the TV -- but we are going to keep our mouth closed lest one of our children read this and remark that we have been doing just that for...a long time, now.
Jane hopes you take this in carefully, dear reader. The adult children of baby boomers are a group to be reckoned with. Treat them well. They will hit the clicker and be out of your site before your cookies even know they've been there, if you deceive them, if you waste their time, if you don't know them, and if you don't give them options. Yes, these are dual income families, which means the young women you're selling to may also be responsible for what gets into the supply cabinet at work, or where to cater the next company luncheon, or who to call for customer gifts...we hope you get the drift -- that home and work overlap.
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Mass delts bulk
thank you for your advice and opinions but please dont say things like cant :)
i do weight myself in the morning before eating once a week, i also take all my messurments weekly, i have a weekly meeting with my dietitian and she gets my weight and bmi and body fat %, i was just saying when i go to the gym for a fat burning cardio sesh i weigh myself before and after lifting and cardio before gains are made just to see the water weight/fat drop,
also when i stoped gym and diet i did not lose much muscle mass ( yes i lost some) because i stayed active and did not stop lifting (at home i have dumbbells, barbells, dip belt and all kinds of equipement)
and with the muscle gains i did not tell you my diet, my supps, my height, my age, my genes or my routine so dont say "cant"
good advice and opinions though thank you.
Ehm no. First of all. After 6 months almost all your muscles are gone, but don't worry. Broscience says they retten faster Then the first time.
But even Then you cant gain 2-3kg of muscle in 1 week. Even as a beginner there have trained before you should be very very happy to gain 0,5kg a week and that's on a Heavy bulk.
The fact that you tell me that you weight yourself after your workout and is in a caloric deficit tells me that it's glycogen and water weight.
You are probably closer to 1kg a week (+-0,5)
It's better to weigh yourself in the morning before you eat/drink and after you went to the bathroom. As weighting yourself after your workout says nothing of anything.
Or even better. Measure your weast. This Will tell you how much pure fat you lost :)
i can see with the comments i got that i did not explain my weight loss properly, before having my recent break i weigh 89kg-91kg (200.6lbs) with about 10%-12% bodyfat than i had six months of no gym and bad food so i gained fat and lost a little muscle i was up to 96kg (211.6lbs),
since i started back at gym ( 5 weeks ago) i have been weighing myself as i leave gym before i get my gains so i can see my fat loss without the muscle gains, so thats what i meant by saying droping 3-4kg (8.8lbs) but gaining muscle at the same time about 2-3kg (6.6lbs) so at the end of the week i was only losing about 1-2kg (4.4lbs) but with a fat drop of 4kg (8.8lbs)
i am stuck in between a rock and a hard place, abs or bulk, i recently had time off gym and time off clean eating so i gained some fat and lost strengh so when i started back up again i started with a cutting cycle because i still had most of my musscle mass just also unwanted fat, so i got my diet on check, routines, daily cardio, correct supps and everything is going perfect im droping about 3-4kg a week and really seeing muscle definition again so heres where the wall i just hit comes in, if i keep going on this diet and heavy cardio i will see abs ect in a few weeks but because im droping 3kg a week im lossing bulk and i really want to change my diet to bulking and lift heavy,
so the question is abs or mass?, lean or bulk?, obliques or delts?


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Favorable market returns and total net inflows were the primary reasons for the rise in AUM. Yet, foreign exchange led to a $0.8 billion drop in AUM. During the month, Invesco's active AUM witnessed positive long-term net inflows.
As of Nov. 30, 2012, Invesco's average assets stood at $677.6 billion, while the total value of average active assets was $564.2 billion.
In the month under review, Invesco's preliminary active AUM was recorded at $569.0 billion, reflecting a 1.0% rise from $563.4 billion in the prior month. Likewise, preliminary passive AUM was $114.8 billion, up 0.7% from $114.0 billion in the last month.
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Invesco's balanced assets summed up to $60.5 billion, rising 2.7% from the previous month. Moreover, money market AUM came in at $73.8 billion in the reported month, increasing just 0.7% from the prior month's level of $73.3 billion. However, alternative AUM declined 0.2% from the prior month to $84.0 billion.
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Paul Reinhart, former NHL all-star and Team Canada member, joins Spartan coaching staff for 2016/2017 season
Spartan Sport Group is pleased to announce that Paul Reinhart will be joining the program as a weekly assistant coach with both the E15 and Varsity programs. He will also be involved with development and mentorship of the coaching staff.
"Paul's desire to coach and passion to help young hockey players and coaches develop is what we are most impressed with. Paul's knowledge of the game is second to none, and experience at the professional level and NHL is a major asset for the program. He has years of involvement and contribution to youth hockey in Vancouver and we are extremely pleased to have him involved with our program. Having experienced the game and had his sons go through the hockey development path, Paul's contribution and mentorship of our young players will be invaluable." – Yashar Farmanara, Director of Athletics.
Paul is a former first round NHL draft pick, chosen 12th overall, and went on to amass 560 points in 648 games as a defenseman. He is also a two-time NHL All-Star, and alumni member of Team Canada. His three sons Max, Griffin, and Sam, all went through the Hollyburn hockey program and are currently playing professional hockey in the NHL. Paul has contributed his time and expertise to Hollyburn Minor Hockey throughout his sons' careers and beyond, mentoring both coaches and players
Along with his involvement with player and coach development, Paul will also be contributing his thought leadership on sport and personal development. He will be contributing a regular editorial to the academy website, with his first contribution upcoming shortly.
For further program information please visit: www.spartansportgroup.com or contact:
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Kenny's Research Has Made Lasting
Impression on Field of Social Psychology
By Claudia Chamberlain
David Kenny is a master of first impressions.
A professor of social psychology, Kenny has built an international reputation on interpersonal relationships. He's done it scientifically, through ground-breaking research.
"What we pioneered at Storrs is a naturalistic approach to interpersona l perception," says Kenny about his Social Relations Model.
Introduced in 1984, the model provides the methods and statistical procedures, as well as a number of integrated theoretical constructs, to understand interpersonal perception - or what occurs when two or more people interact.
Kenny's model, which pioneered the development of methods for the study of real people, has had a profound impact on research in the social sciences. Prior work had limited perceptions to hypothetical or artificial people.
Among the questions he's investigated are factors that lead people to agree and disagree in their perceptions of others; the accuracy of perceptions; and the degree to which people know how others may perceive them.
"We know much more about people we've just met than we think we do, and much less about people we've known a long time," says Kenny. "Part of the reason is that people we've known for 20 years have changed, and we do not pay much attention to them because we think we already understand them.
"Although we still know more about people we've known a long time than those we have just met, it's a curious fact that people we don't know well, we know better than we think we do," he says.
Considered among the 100 most cited social psychologists in the country, Kenny has been cited more than 3,400 times on a single published paper and the Social Science Citation Index has consistently reported him as one of the most widely cited psychologists in the world. The number of citations is more than 8,000.
Kenny's knack for explaining difficult concepts in a way that most research psychologists can understand may hold the clue to his record-making citations.
"David has become arguably the leading figure in the field of interpersonal perception, a position that is indicated in part by his membership on editorial boards and grant review panels, in part by his continuous grant support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Mental Health over the past 20 years, and in part by his professional citations," says Charles A. Lowe, professor and head of the psychology department. "David is also in constant demand as a colloquium speaker and as a research consultant and collaborator."
Despite occasional frustrations, such as rejected papers and grant proposals and students who have dropped out of his beloved field, Kenny has had a remarkably successful career.
"I have a great job," he says, "and if you accept the frustrations, you enjoy the process of the work."
Kenny's arch began in Sacramento where he grew up the oldest of six boys and entered the seminary to become a Roman Catholic priest.
"I didn't get much of a sense of social science in the seminary, but I learned a good deal of Latin," says Kenny. "When I left the seminary, I became involved in the Civil Rights and farm workers' movements and worked on behalf of CŽsar Ch‡vez," he recalls. "Ch‡vez is one of my heroes."
Kenny's intellectual journey was launched as an undergraduate student in the mid-1960s at the University of California-Davis, where he was fascinated by a psychology course taught by Professor Robert Sommer. Sommer not only sparked his interest, but encouraged him to go to graduate school.
At Northwestern, he found a mentor in Don Campbell, a psychology professor who, Kenny says, earned a reputation as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century.
"Don was measuring the benefit of social change due to interventions such as drug rehabilitation programs, and why some people change and some don't," he says.
Over time, the relationship between student and professor would mature, as the two became colleagues and friends. Campbell died in 1996, but not before the two co-authored a book, A Primer on Regression Artifacts, that was published posthumously in 1999 by Guilford. The book, Kenny says, deals with the statistical necessity of what goes up, must come down, and what goes down, must come up.
"The impact of this primer will be as ubiquitous and as important as is the topic with which it deals - regression toward the mean," says Lowe.
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"David is what our marketing friends would call a hot commodity," says Lowe. "Each year, one or two departments of psychology at other universities - and some years there are more than two - try to convince David to leave UConn and join them. The list is very impressive."
Kenny recently received a training grant from the National Science Foundation to offer workshops at UConn based on his model. These workshops, which will take place at UConn during the next two summers, are expected to draw social science researchers from universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Kenny is the author of five books, more than 80 journal articles, and 25 book chapters and five reviews. He has also published 11 first-authored papers in the Psychological Bulletin, considered one of the most read journals in social science.
He has been a distinguished visiting professor at Arizona State and Oxford University, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Chief among the prestigious awards he has received is the inaugural Distinguished New Contribution Award of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships in 1990. On home turf, he was named this year as a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, the highest academic title a UConn professor can attain.
"David is one of the most effective and well liked teachers at the University," says Joseph S. Renzulli, Neag Professor for Gifted Education and Talent Development. "He is always willing to help students and colleagues with complicated research design problems and has inspired many graduate students to go on to important positions in research."


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