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A-line sheath from a 1967 McCall's pattern. I wore this to a concert/theater production of Beatles' music performed by a wonderful cover band.
I omitted the facings in favor of using bias to bind the armscyes and neckline. For the back zipper, I used this helpful tutorial using tape to keep the zipper in place while stitching:
I am planning to make this my "go-to" dress pattern after a few more adjustments. Only two main pattern pieces, front and back,if I do not include the optional collar and facings.
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Oct 8, 2012, 04.11 PMby Mary Athey
Another fab dress and what an amazing print fabric. its lovely.on you and i.d love that vintage pattern.just groovy baby lol x
Oct 8, 2012, 01.07 PMby safiab123
Hi heatherrique, Still no message in my inbox… Will let you know when it comes- Thank you Saf.
Oct 8, 2012, 09.42 AMby quiltsewsewsue
Lovely fabric – suits you well as do the soft gathers at the neckline.
Oct 8, 2012, 12.58 AMby safiab123
Love the print,,, it's a pattern that fits you well once again,,,, love love the neck line,- lwould love to make it for myself… Did some research, can't locate a size 10 Any ideas for me? Thank you Saf.
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Oct 8, 2012, 01.49 AMby heatherrique
Thank you, saf! I just sent you a message via your Burda Style inbox.
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Who is Ghoul Friday?
I'm a Canadian artist living in Toronto, Ontario. When I'm not transforming my house into a ghoulish scene at Halloween, I'm creating mini-monsters for local shows in the city (and occasionally, for sale online).
But that's jumping to the end of the story. Here's the beginning...
It started when my mother let me spray paint a tombstone on the concrete wall of our basement for my Grade 4 Halloween party.
It was my first real Halloween party, and I wanted it to be great. I constructed a haunted house the length of the basement and lead people through dangling, slimy snakes hanging from the ceiling - just one example of the many forms and obstacles waiting for them in the shadow. I hadn't gotten over my fear of the dark, and I was deathly afraid of being in the basement alone (never mind with the lights off), but to make sure I could see well enough to safely guide each guest one by one through the haunted space, I sat alone in the pitch black basement for 20 minutes before the party goers even started to arrive.
That's when she was born, the little ghoul in the basement. Since then, she has come back to me every year, usually in late summer, ready to build creatures for Halloween. Sure, she's there throughout the other months, peeking through my eyes at the newest horror film being released, or tickling my neck so I turn to see the brochure for the Festival of Fear coming to the city.
But it's in August when she whispers "Is it time to sit in the dark?"
Yes Friday. It's time. What friends shall we create this year?
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You are welcome here! All are welcome here! Each day and each week individuals, communities, and congregations gather in this place to study or talk, worship and pray, visit and share. Students come in to the chapel to pray, or stop in the chaplains' offices to visit, or just find a quiet place to think and reflect.
Our years in college are an exciting part of a journey of self-discovery.
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Robin Wright's Film Takes 'Craziest Movie at Cannes' Honors
She plays "Robin Wright," an actress whose career grinds to a halt because she never sold out, in the half-animated The Congress. There is cartoon sex with Jon Hamm.

Before I continue with this post, take a look at this wackadoodle trailer for Robin Wright's new live action–animated movie The Congress, from Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman, which debuted at Cannes earlier this week and feels like the most uninhibitedly ambitious film of the festival so far.
Okay, now we can talk, because the movie itself is even more out-there than what the trailer would have you believe. Picture a part-live-action, part-animated Yellow Submarine–esque version of Being John Malkovich (but starring Wright), combined with the Hollywood satire of Robert Altman's The Player and a dystopian futurist vision of the celebrity obsession depicted in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (which also premiered at Cannes). Based on Stanislaw Lem's 1971 novel The Futurological Congress, it starts out with Robin Wright playing Robin Wright, an actress who starred in The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump, and could have been a star were it not for her "lousy choices" like refusing to do sci-fi. "Lousy movies, lousy men," her agent (Harvey Keitel) berates her. Now she's got two teenagers, and her son is slowly losing his sight and hearing. Even her daughter thinks she should be more flexible about the roles she'll do: "Every B-grade actress does a Holocaust movie and wins something."
She's almost 45, and the slimy head of Miramount Pictures (Danny Huston doing his best Harvey Weinstein) is offering her the last contract she'll ever get. She agrees to sign over the rights to "this thing called Robin Wright"; her cinematic identity will be scanned into a computer and she'll stop acting for twenty years while the studio puts the computer version of her into all the big-budget movies she's been foolishly refusing to do out of some deluded notion of integrity. She agrees; she can use the money and time to help her son.
Then we skip ahead twenty years to an "animation zone." Robin Wright is the biggest star in the world, thanks to her Rebel Rocket Robin sci-fi franchise, and things get really confusing with the introduction of a drug that allows people to be whomever they want to be, and most choose celebrities. Michael Jackson appears as a waiter who can de-shell a lobster with the wave of his hand. Jon Hamm (not playing himself) voices the role of Robin Wright's guide, a man who's fallen in love with her over the course of animating her for twenty years. They have hallucinogenic cartoon sex.
The Congress is a leading candidate for the festival's craziest film, an unofficial designation won last year by Holy Motors. It's not getting the same raves as Motors — "[Congress] doesn't quite come together," said Variety; "Ambition markedly outstrips achievement," wrote Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter — but no one who saw it could refute Wright's courage in skewering her own career and using the film as a tool to comment on the plight of aging actresses in Hollywood. Folman had developed the movie for years with another actress in mind, but scrapped that when he met Wright at an awards show five years ago and could immediately picture the opening shot, a close-up on her face, streaked with tears, as Keitel enumerates in a magnificent monologue what a failure she is. Folman pitched the idea to her over a cigarette at that award show. "He told me the concept, and I was like, 'I'm in. Let's do it. What a cool journey,'" said Wright, who also co-produced the film, during a roundtable interview last week. Folman wanted to use her, said Wright, "because I'm in two of the most iconic films — in my country, anyway."
Wright did agree to let Folman take certain details from her life, such as her filmography and the fact that she has two children, a boy and a girl, but she insists, "That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called The Congress has nothing to do to me. None of the words that I have ever said to my children are in there; they couldn't be less like my kids. I have never had an agent utter one word of that speech that he gave me. I have never been in front of a studio head that's ever spoken to me that way, and I've never felt that way about my life choices, career, etc."
She's had a career of mostly independent movies by choice, she says. "I have zero regrets." Not that she didn't have people around her who wished she'd tried to capitalize on those big roles and make some money. "Is it a given in Hollywood? Yeah, it's, 'If you do the dog and pony show, you're gonna get more treats,'" says Wright. "And I was like, 'I'm okay. I'll starve.' I'd rather do She's So Lovely that John Cassavetes wrote versus doing Batman. They're like, 'Okay, I'm just saying you're not going to be in the A-list category and you're not gonna get the offers that Cate Blanchett or Nicole Kidman are going to get.' So did they want to probably capitalize on building an ingénue because of the success of Princess Bride? Fuck, yeah! Of course they did. That's a business. That's shrewd … It's money. And then because I made those choices — happily, mind you — I didn't get to be a part of that zone for a period of time. Because I'm not bankable. If you don't do that, you don't become bankable. And it's not lucrative for them, and that's literally what it is. I remember trying to get movies made, and it's like, 'Eh, can we replace her with so-and-so? Because so-and-so brings money into the theater.'"
Does it make her upset that she's not considered "bankable"? "It makes me sad," she said. "Because what we do is we share stories. That's our craft. That's our livelihood. It's our passion. So in that sense it hurts, because you're like, 'I want to go play, too! I just don't want to play that way.'" She couldn't get out of that hole because she'd refused to do television, the lifeline for so many actresses over 40. That is until David Fincher came along with Netflix's House of Cards. On the Stockholm set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, he spent three hours wooing her to play the role of politician Kevin Spacey's wife, Claire Underwood. "I was like, 'I don't want to do TV. I don't want to play just the wife. Again. Like I've done so many times.'" Then he told her he wanted to create a Lady Macbeth, and that bit of bait worked. Wright says she and Fincher worked over season one to start off with a character she calls "the bust of Claire" and crack and erode her. "I was like, 'Give me somewhere to go,'" says Wright. "That's why I turned down so many movies in the last 25 years. Because if I'm just going to be arm candy or go, 'I'm sorry, honey, let me get you a beer,' I just ... I can't! I'd rather go work at a menial labor job where you're actually getting your hands dirty."
Wright flew back to the House of Cards set the day after this interview; they're in the middle of shooting season two. So she's ironically having a career resurgence right as this movie about the death of her career is debuting, a film that she started working on four years ago, when some might have told her it would all be over soon. There's even a line in the movie in which the head of Miramount tells her that once she turns 45 as an actress she might as well be dead. (Too late! She's 47.) Wright loved that and asked Folman why he didn't just have Robin Wright (the character) get Botox. "He said, 'But Robin, then the movie would be over!' We couldn't go anywhere with that movie."


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BOSTON – Dan Carcillo didn't play a single minute for Chicago in the Stanley Cup Final. Still, he got to skate around the ice with the NHL championship trophy that eluded him three years earlier when he faced the Blackhawks.
He was a left wing in those 2010 playoffs with the Philadelphia Flyers when they lost the finals in six games to Chicago.
"To be able to come to the dark side, so to speak, with the guys that beat me, it's amazing to have an organization like this want me," he said after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup with a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins in Game 6 on Monday night.
In 2010, Carcillo had two assists in the Eastern Conference semifinals as the upset-minded Flyers—a No. 7 seed—rebounded from a 3-0 deficit to win the last four games against the Bruins. They then beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games before being stopped by the Blackhawks.
On Monday, he was on the winning side.
"It just feels really special," Carcillo said.
HOT TIME IN BOSTON: The Bruins' last home game was their first played this summer in Boston.
The temperature reached a high of 95 on Monday and the Bruins and Blackhawks indeed sledded through some soft ice during the series finale. There was even some fog in the building during the morning skates.
The puck seemed to slow down at times on the surface Monday, and at other times, earlier in periods, it had some jump to it.
"Those are conditions that you have to play with at this time of year," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "Everybody has been through it, and two teams go through the same conditions."
LIFE OF BRYAN: Lost in the elation of the game winner for Chicago was the tying goal by another of Chicago's unheralded post-season stars, Bryan Bickell. His ninth tally of the post-season capped a run to remember, as he finished with a plus-12 rating and 23 points.
The 6-foot, 4-inch, 223-pound bruising left wing remained humble throughout the playoffs, and after hoisting the Stanley Cup, that didn't change.
"It's real simple, sometimes hockey can be real simple. Get to the net and good things happen," he said. "That's my game, that's our game—stay aggressive, continue to work hard and good things will happen."
The 2004 second-round draft pick also picked up 25 minutes in penalties along the way.
"I feel I like I played my kind of hockey this playoffs. I got a little lucky too," he said. "But this team allowed you to play your game, use your strengths for the team's greater good and I was able to do that.
"I feel real fortunate."
JUST IN TIME: Boston goaltender coach Bob Essensa watched the series from the press box, but for Game 6, he almost missed the opening faceoff. After he left the locker room, the elevator up to the ninth floor—traditionally an express route—stopped at every floor to take and release new passengers.
Essensa stood in the back of the elevator, patiently, and did not complain. When the doors finally opened on the ninth floor, Essensa scooted out just in time for the end of the national anthem. His goalie, Tuukka Rask, made six saves in the first period as Essensa watched from above.
SIMPLY THE BEST: Chicago defenceman Johnny Oduya has been on some good teams in the NHL, with the Blackhawks and in one of his previous stops as well—New Jersey. But Oduya knew early on in this lockout-shortened season that this club was going to be the best he was ever a part of.
He was right.
"I don't think there's any question. Even though—let's face it—(Monday night) was a little bit of luck, we're still the best team in the league," Oduya said. "We proved that during the year, and we proved that during the playoffs. Lot of things have to break right for you, they did tonight, but sometimes the great teams make their own breaks."
Oduya had three goals and 12 points in the post-season.


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The story of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's non-existent inspirational girlfriend is a giant hoax that gets more bizarre by the minute. But it is just the latest in a long list of famous hoaxes that fooled everyone.
Click here to see Photos: Manti Te'o and 14 other famous hoaxes and lies that fooled the world.
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Vanessa Hudgens & Selena Gomez: Vanity Fair Oscars Party 2013
Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez stick together for the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter held at Sunset Tower on Sunday night (February 24) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The two actresses just returned from a multi-city European promo trip for their film Spring Breakers, out on March 15th.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Vanessa Hudgens
FYI: Selena is wearing a dress from Atelier Versace with shoes by Jimmy Choo. She completed her look with Lorraine Schwartz jewelry and a Judith Leiber clutch. Vanessa is wearing a Moschino dress with Jacob & Co. earrings, a Gaydamak cuff, Bavna bangles and Demarco and Le Vian rings.
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"Under the Stars" commemorates 25 years of care
This summer, Niagara Hospice celebrates 25 years of caring for the most seriously ill residents of Niagara County.
As the only New York state-certified hospice provider in Niagara County, Niagara Hospice staff and volunteers are well-known for their compassionate care, and going above and beyond for their patients and their family caregivers.
Niagara Hospice volunteer Barbara Reed said, "Hospice volunteers feel privileged to be part of each patient's journey. When one of my patients learned I was a volunteer, she asked me why I do it. I told her it was because I didn't want her to be alone. She smiled and was so touched by that, and that made me feel good."
Niagara Hospice is the hospice provider for Niagara County residents who live at home, with a caregiver, at Niagara Hospice House and at contracted nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as hospitals.
"The growth of our organization over the past 25 years has been nothing short of incredible. We have not only had the opportunity to provide care for thousands of patients in their own home and at area nursing facilities, but we have been able to grow an extraordinary staff and volunteer corps, build Niagara Hospice House that has been used as a model for other hospices, and develop several collaborations with long-term care facilities who share our dedication and commitment to the specialty of end-of-life care," said Patricia Degan, director of marketing and public relations.
To celebrate 25 years of service and to increase awareness of hospice care in Niagara County, Niagara Hospice will host a 25th anniversary gala, an evening "Under the Stars," on Friday, Aug. 16, at 6 p.m., beneath the newly constructed Dominic Lariccia Family Pavilion on Niagara Hospice's Sunset Drive Campus. The gala will feature antique car rides; a star-gazing location with telescopes; live and silent auction items; music by The Jim Beishline Quartet; local wines from the Niagara Wine Trail; local and regional craft beers provided by WNY Beer Club; catering by the Tuscarora Inn; and a chance to win $10,000.
Visit the events page at www.NiagaraHospice.org for ticket information. If you would like to support the event with a donation of your time driving your antique car, providing a telescope or auction items, contact the Niagara Hospice Alliance at 716-280-0780.
Additionally, the gala will feature a very special book: "25 Years of Shared Journeys," which is a pictorial scrapbook illustrating Niagara Hospice's history going back to 1980 when hospice was just an idea.
"It was a process ensuring hospice care would be available for our county," said Niagara Hospice co-founder and board member Patricia Evans. "I was proud to be part of the small group that Rev. Cook organized back in 1980 to discuss the feasibility of developing a hospice program. And I'm so proud of how it has evolved and grown."
Evans and volunteers Janice Litz, Mary Ligammari and April Biamonte poured over boxes and files from the last 33 years to assemble and design the limited edition book, which will be available to Niagara Hospice friends and supporters. "25 Years of Shared Journeys" will be available at the gala for a $20 donation. It is available online at www.NiagaraHospice.org.
Many Niagara Hospice volunteers, staff and hospice family members and founders are remembered throughout the professionally printed book. Funds raised from both the book and the gala will benefit Niagara Hospice patients and families.
Niagara Hospice celebrates 25 years of providing hospice care this month. Since serving its first patient in 1988, Niagara Hospice has served more than 20,000 individuals and their immediate and extended families, providing comfort, dignity and choice. Hospice services include physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual and bereavement care. Hospice care is appropriate for any advanced stage illness, not just cancer, where the prognosis is a life expectancy of approximately six months or less.
For more information, visit www.NiagaraHospice.org or call Niagara Hospice at 716-439-4417.


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What is going on in this video?
You might think the light show is part of a public art installation or ambiance for a dance party, but this is what it looks like in the moments before a black-out on the High Line.
Managing one mile of park built on an elevated freight rail line presents unique operational challenges. Like any building in the city, the High Line has millions of dollars worth of mechanical systems – lighting and electrical infrastructure, plumbing and irrigation, and more – and it's all connected to the city's utility lines. When the power supply is cut nearby, it can affect the lighting system at the High Line.
Last week, about an hour before the High Line was scheduled to close for the evening, the lighting along the pathway mysteriously began to flicker, and eventually went out.
We contacted Con Edison for assistance, and learned that a project at street-level several blocks from the High Line had caused an interruption to the electricity flow to the park, which resulted in a temporary black-out. The Con Ed team advised that the power connection would be restored by morning.
As the video shows, visitors were treated to a mysterious light show as the power to the High Line's lights waned before finally going out completely. Visitors were intrigued, taking photos and videos and believing the flickering lights as were a new way of experiencing the High Line.
As soon as the problem started, Friends of the High Line staff began troubleshooting the issue in the park's underground vaults, and preparing for the park to close in the interest of public safety. We worked collaboratively with the Parks Enforcement Patrol officers to clear the park, starting in the northern section where the problem began, and working south toward Gansevoort Street.
We appreciate your patience and understanding during unexpected technical glitches. During these circumstances, we work as quickly as possible to make sure that the park is safe and accessible to the public.Visit the High Line's Web site or follow @highlinenyc on Twitter for updates on park operations.


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Violent protests broke out across Pakistan on Friday as people vented their fury over a YouTube video that they believe is blasphemous. At least 15 people died amid widespread destruction.
The primary targets of the leaderless mobs were the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and U.S. consulates in the provincial capitals of Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar, but violence spanned the country. Police and paramilitary forces managed to keep the protesters from entering any of the diplomatic compounds, but many cities were virtual war zones, suffocating under blankets of tear gas. Dozens of police officers were among the wounded as the enraged crowds hit back, burning buildings and ransacking shops and vehicles.
The worst violence took place in Peshawar, in the country's northwest, and Karachi, the country's main southern port. Police and hospital officials in those cities counted 15 dead, while some reports put the death toll at 20, with 12 killed in Karachi alone, including three police officers, and more than 100 injured.
Banned extremist groups, carrying their organization's flags, joined many of the demonstrations, including Sipah-e-Sahaba, which is accused of killing Shiite Muslims. In Lahore, one rally was addressed by Hafiz Saeed, the leader of internationally proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa, who carries a U.S. bounty of $10 million on his head for his role in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed 166 people. In many places, the crowds burned effigies of President Barack Obama.
The government's gamble of declaring Friday a national holiday so that people could express their "love for the prophet," an apparent attempt to provide a means for people to vent their anger, swelled the crowds and bolstered their determination, with tens of thousands joining the chaos, especially after Friday prayers.
In Islamabad, police and the crowd battled for seven hours in front of the entrance to the city's heavily fortified diplomatic area, where the American embassy is located.
"We want America to know that we are ready to die for Islam," said one marcher, 24-year-old clerk Muhammad Adil, recovering from tear gas. "Our religion is not the sort that you can make fun of. We will not tolerate it."
Members of the crowd seemed sure that the American government was behind the amateurish video, "Innocence of Muslims," or that Washington could stop its distribution on the Internet. Many said Pakistan should sever diplomatic relations with the United States.
"We just want the guilty person tried and hanged," said Omar Hyat, a 38-year-old soft-spoken businessman who was among the protesters. "All this is happening by design. It is a conspiracy. They are testing how far they can push Muslims."
In Peshawar, an employee of a TV news channel was shot dead, apparently by police. The city's iconic Firdous cinema was set ablaze as a crowd rampaged toward the U.S. consulate. In Karachi, four cinemas were burned, as well as banks, restaurants and shops. Often the buildings were looted before being set on fire. The crowds only dispersed as night began to fall.
Pakistan's information minister, Qamar Zaman Kaira, said: "Our enemies must be very happy. We are only hurting ourselves. Only damaging our own country. What did those killed today die for?"
The acting U.S. ambassador in Islamabad, Richard Hoagland, was called to the Foreign Ministry to hear an official protest.
In a statement, Hoagland tried to separate the United States from the video, which was produced by a Coptic Christian in California and publicized by a well known Egyptian anti-Islam activist who lives in suburban Washington and who sent an Internet link to the video to a newspaper reporter in Egypt. Actors in the video have said they were misled into appearing. There voices are obviously dubbed in the video.
"This act was a deeply insensitive decision by a single individual to disseminate hatred. It does not reflect the values of the United States, a nation of more than 300 million people, built upon the pillars of religious freedom and tolerance," Hoagland said.
Prime Minister Raja Pervev Ashraf, addressing a televised gathering of political leaders, boasted that Pakistan was the only Muslim country where the government had joined sides with the protesters. Ashraf leads the liberal Pakistan Peoples Party, with a secular ideology, but it is voicing sympathy for the protesters, while calling for demonstrations to remain peaceful.
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The standards are being phased in, starting lower this year and increasing through 2016 to give students time to adjust to the more-difficult new STAAR exams.
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Gothenburg's volleyball team remains at No. 7 in the state rankings by the Omaha World-Herald after extending a winning streak to 11 matches with victories over McCook and Lexington on Thursday.
It's an exciting place for the Swedes to be, said coach Mary Clark. Carrying the target is unfamiliar with the girls but the new-found swagger is sure a lot of fun.
"This is such a good group of girls and they've worked so hard to get to this point," Clark said. "We just have to keep reminding them that they can't let their guard down even a little. The worst thing, the last thing, we want to do is take any team for granted."
The Swedes didn't look past McCook (10-14) or winless Lexington. Instead they tried to continue improving their play on their own side of the net.
Gothenburg allowed the Bison to stay relatively close in the first match of the triangular, even giving up a slight lead a time or two, but the Swedes prevailed 25-17, 25-21.
Jacey Wiggins had eight kills and eight set assists to lead the way offensively while Aryn Meisinger picked up 11 digs on defense.
Against Lexington, Clark was able to put more girls on the floor.
"The girls on the bench do a good job of challenging the top six in practice every day," the coach said. "It's nice to be able to get them some varsity playing time."
Gothenburg defeated the Minutemaids 25-9, 25-13.
Wiggins was 16-of-16 serving with seven aces while Regan Geiken smacked seven kills and Tylyn Haynes had seven digs.
At 16-3, the Swedes have only one match this week, a head-to-head with Southwest (12-9) in a "pink out" parents night game on Thursday.
"It's almost a let-down to only have one game this week," Clark said. "The girls are having so much fun and they're on a roll. They just want to play."
Gothenburg travels to Broken Bow for a four-team invite on Tuesday with the Indians, Valentine and Doniphan-Trumbull.
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Richard Stroik, PhD, came to the University of San Diego in 1991. He previously served as chair of the department and as coordinator of the Intensive Language (Dartmouth) Model for first-year language instruction and as a member of the executive committee of the Academic Assembly. He has been active in study abroad during his entire career, serving as chair of the Study Abroad committee and creating a summer program in France. His research interests are in 20th century French poetry and Camus. Stroik is a product of Catholic elementary and secondary education.
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Although sales in the fine jewelry and better watch category declined in 2012, you wouldn't know it from looking at the ledger of Limoges Jewelry, maker of personalized products such as class and couples' rings.
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In just six short weeks, it'll be time for the September Campaign, the biggest annual fundraiser from nonprofit charity:water.
What the organization does this year to raise money remains to be seen, but it's worth looking back more closely at its efforts in 2012, when the charity took in more than $2m ($300,000 more than its original goal) largely through digital marketing.
That shouldn't be a surprise: charity:water founder Scott Harrison told the New York Times last year that he "absolutely" attributes the organization's success to the web.
Learning to let go: Kentucky, the Philippines, and Nutella
One of my oldest friends is a middle-school guidance counselor, so she excels at offering comforting advice to downtrodden teens. "Everybody starts somewhere," she tells one who flubs a math exam or another who failed to make the JV cheerleading squad.
It's equally good advice for brands and organizations that find themselves floundering in new media waters, like the State of Kentucky and Nutella, brands whose stumbles Tom Fishburne analyzed at Integrated Marketing Week last month.
The CEO of Marketoon Studios, who reeled off numerous real-life examples during his keynote, contrasted the two with the Philippines, which produced a campaign more suited to today's marketing environment.
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Don Draper has left the building is an announcement bound to dismay any woman with a pulse, but it should hearten marketers.
That's because Don Draper represents the old school of marketing, said Tom Fishburne, CEO of Marketoon Studios, at Integrated Marketing Week earlier this month.
In the Draper model, marketers decided what the brand stood for and what its strategy was. Every touch point with the customer was controlled.
Today those touch points have exploded and marketers have far less control, said Fishburne. To succeed in such an environment, we need to create marketing worth sharing, he continued, outlining five guiding principles.
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Retail giant Nordstrom competes against other luxury brands like Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue. It sells Citizens of Humanity jeans ($238), leather Prada men's sneakers ($420), and Jimmy Choo clutches ($620). It does not sell tires.
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What would it take to get you to do what I want? If I looked you in the eye when asking? If it was a Tuesday? If your name sounded like mine?
According to scientists, it's the last. We feel more warmly towards people or things we associate with ourselves, like if my name was Mary Anne and yours was Marilyn. They're close enough in sound and visual likeness that I'd be more apt to do you a favor than one for, say, Richard or Jennifer.
These kinds of findings, argued Nancy Harhut at Integrated Marketing Week, have implications for marketers because we're trying to get people to do things all the time: click on a link, choose our product over another, like our company on Facebook.
Knowing the instinctive, reflexive behaviors that people rely on when making decisions helps our marketing strategies and how we go about designing the prompts or triggers to get others to do what we want.
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Just when we were coming to terms with "blogger" being as legitimate a title as "journalist," we learn that some are falling into a more rarefied category: online talent.
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The swag, a brochure, your business card, your hot intern's telephone number, which was it?
This not-knowing is weird, says Liz Miller, overseer of daily operations at the CMO Council (CMOC), a global affinity network of top brand marketers. "Since when did a marketer get shy?" she asked recently.
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The posh set may still lord their smart handbags, pricey silks, and Ibiza getaways over the masses in the offline world, but in digital it's a different story.
Online, luxury retailers struggle to keep up with the Kmarts and J.Crews of the world. In fact, according to a recent study by L2, one in five luxury brands still lack ecommerce capability, and 30 percent of them have yet to incorporate basic site search.
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Opponents also say the bill would be an administrative nightmare. If it becomes law, the state government would be required to monitor Medical Assistance recipients' employment status. Doing so would mean the Department of Human Services and counties across Minnesota would have to go on a hiring bonanza, inflating the bureaucracy with hundreds of new case workers. The DHS estimates the bill could cost the state $7 million or more by 2021.
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Originally from Park Ridge, Illinois, Jason studied political science and business at Valparaiso University. It was there he got his start in broadcasting, co-hosting a popular college radio show called "The Rootdown." After graduating and while working in Chicago, he began to volunteer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was asked to host a bingo show for patients on closed-circuit TV and spend time with patients afterwards. One of them challenged him to look into a full-time career in TV, which lead Jason to earn his master's from Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism.
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The Chambersburg Area School District board has until 5 p.m. Wednesday to reverse its denial of a Gay-Straight Alliance student club or go to court with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU, said three previous cases in Pennsylvania -- in Waynesboro, Franklin County, and Hermitage, Mercer County in 2009, and a third in Brownsville, Fayette County in 2012 -- stand as examples of what the school board should do.
According to the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a Gay-Straight Alliance is a student-run club in a high school or middle school that provides a safe place for students to meet, support each other and discuss issues related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and to work to end homophobia and transphobia.
Jill Marcellus, communications manager for the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, said a Gay-Straight Alliance provides a "means for young people to change their school and take control of their own lives."
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|Eurydactylodes occidentalis Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier & Whitaker, 2009
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Eurydactylodes occidentalis is listed as Critically Endangered because of its highly restricted distribution, severely fragmented habitat, and continuing decline in the extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, and extent and quality of habitat. The species is restricted to two locations, both very small. The first is a remnant of 8 ha, fenced. The second location (Gouaro-Déva) is under threat from development. The locations are about 50 km apart with farmland in between. Surveys in the surrounding area have failed to locate this species. Despite one site being fenced, both face high threat from invasive species.
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|Eurydactylodes occidentalis is endemic to Province Sud, New Caledonia. It is distributed in the central west coast of Grande Terre between Poya and Bourail. This species is known from only two locations—an 8 ha forest remnant near Poya and a much larger remnant (approximately 240 ha) at Gouaro-Déva northwest of Bourail. It occurs at elevations of up to 20 m. The extent of occurrence is approximately 260 km², and the area of occupancy is estimated at 2.5 km².
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|Although there are no quantitative data on population size or trends, ongoing habitat loss and degradation suggests that populations are declining. The lowlands of the central west coast of Grande Terre have been almost totally denuded by conversion to pastoral farmland and only tiny isolated remnants of sclerophyll forest remain. As a consequence the remaining populations of Eurydactylodes occidentalis are highly fragmented and isolated.
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|Eurydactylodes occidentalis occurs in sclerophyll forest and closed mesophyll forest. It is arboreal and least partly, possibly, primarily diurnal. This species appears to remain on twigs and foliage all the time rather than seeking cover during periods of inactivity.
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I'm curious: When your family asks what your kid wants for Christmas/Hanukkah do you say, "Oh, he'll love anything," or do you say, "the 300-piece Playmobil helicopter with real rotating propellers that's on sale at Toys R Us for $29.99 and if you head up there let me know because I'll give you a coupon." Which answer do you think is better? I kind of have issues with both….
Giving people a little direction is helpful, I think. If your kid loves sharks, why not spread the word? When it comes to my mom and my mother in law, I offer guidance. Because they ask and because I want to be helpful and because we are all very close, I can say things like, "Please do not buy another stuffed animal that goes with a book" (mom) or "you know what Nora really needs for Christmas? A winter coat" (Debbie). But my kids are young, and they really don't have solid lists for Santa (if you recall, Alex wants an iPhone and Nora wants a flashlight), so I'm at a loss, too. I imagine as they get older they will know exactly what they want. I wonder how much of that I/Santa will handle and how much I'll farm out to the extended family. Being too specific feels like a registry to me (more on that later) but I guess it ensures that your kid will get what he wants. Then again, shouldn't he be happy with any gift he gets? Isn't it the thought that counts or is that no longer the way it works?
The thing is, I don't want to stifle people, which is how I sometimes feel when I'm told exactly what to buy. It kind of takes the fun out of gift-giving (although it makes it very easy, which I suppose is the idea). When I asked my sister, Melissa, if there is anything my eight-year-old nephew wanted for Christmas she said, "just get him a video game, I can actually pick one up for you while I'm out." I told her A: I would never buy him a video game (not my style) and B: What the hell is the point of getting him a gift if she's going to pick it out and pay for it? (We're on the phone 10 times a day so we can talk to each other this way.) Of course I do appreciate that she was trying to make my life easier—something I tend to avoid.
To be honest, gift-giving gives me great anxiety. The problem is, I aspire to be a person who gets the people on my list one-of-a-kind gems from my year of travels, the way my Grandma Ruth (a world-class shopper and world traveler) always did. She kept a list in her purse of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries and events so she always knew who to buy for. Unfortunately, I never remember to do this until it's too late (i.e., it's now occurring to me on December 13th). Oh, and I don't really travel anywhere.
And so, instead, I am the person who stresses and spends too much money at the last minute making up for the fact that I didn't pick up silk-screened panda prints from Bejing (one of my favorite gifts from my Grandma—they are now framed in the kids' playroom). At the same time, I refuse the very kind offering of my sister or others who say, "just get me _______." Because I have trouble seeing the point in that, particularly for Christmas. One of the reasons Nick and I stopped exchanging gifts is that it became a simple errand-running exercise and all the thought and love and creativity was gone.
Speaking of telling people what to buy, my friend's son recently got invited to a five-year-old party and at the end of the invitation it said "Billy* has a wish list at Toys R Us." A registry for a kindergartner seems a little much but that would be one easy party to shop for! Birthday parties, especially if you don't know the kid, can be tough. Many of my friends asked me what Alex might like for his birthday and, for some of them, I gave ideas (cooking stuff, gardening stuff, clothes). I know it made it easier for them and Alex wound up with some cool gifts (that's him with his loot, above). But a registry seems a tad much to me. My friend, naturally, was appalled as I'm sure I would be too. But given what I'm currently going through with Christmas,perhaps the joke is on me. Or, more specifically, the dozen or so people I still haven't shopped for. What do you think? Do you tell people what to buy your kids? Do you like it when people tell you what to get? Ever see a registry for a birthday party? Think it's helpful or horrifying?
*name changed to protect the guilty.


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We then speak to robot anthropologist Kathleen Richardson from Cambridge about her review of Levy's book and her take on the meaning and likeliness of human-robot couples.
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David Levy is best known for his many years as a Scottish International Master of Chess, but it's his recent doctoral thesis entitled "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners" at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands that has been getting him extensive media coverage lately. In an unusual combination of psychology, sociology and robotics Levy studied the dynamics of sex and relationships between humans and robots.
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The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, Columbia's Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, and Elsevier are pleased to announce the Research Data Symposium, an event to lead discussion on topics related to managing and curating research data and a variety of research outputs. The Symposium will be free, open to everyone, and held at Columbia's Faculty House on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.
The Symposium will offer speaker panels that address the different stages of the research data life cycle. Representatives from Columbia University faculty, learned societies, research institutions, funders, and publishers will come together to examine the implementation stages, available technologies and associated challenges and barriers for managing, preserving and accessing research data. Attendees will leave armed with valuable information to engage their respective organizational stakeholders and initiate and continue long-term research and data management efforts.
In addition to the panels, the Symposium will feature poster sessions addressing any or all aspects of the data life cycle. The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship is currently calling for posters (poster commitments due February 8, final posters due February 22.)
James Neal, University Librarian at Columbia, commented: "Columbia Libraries/Information Services are honored to host this symposium on the challenges of managing the life cycle of research data across the arenas of creation to use to preservation. The speakers reflect the mandate for a new radical collaboration among researcher, funder, publisher, information professional and technologist."
David Marques, Senior Vice President Research Data Services at Elsevier, added: "The potential opportunities presented by the nature of digital research data management are both extraordinary and challenging. Elsevier is proud to collaborate with Columbia to support an event that will lead the discussion and enhance the knowledge of stakeholders in the research community."
Space for the Symposium is limited. To register, please RSVP on the Symposium website here.
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• David Marques, Elsevier
• Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge
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• Joan Starr, California Digital Library
• Gail Steinhart, Cornell University Libraries
• George Alter, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Michael F. Huerta, National Institutes of Health
• Victoria Stodden, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (respondent)
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• Jake Carlson, Distributed Data Curation Center, Purdue University
• Linda Beebe, Former Senior Director of PsycINFO, American Psychological Association
• Steven Morales, The Digital Preservation Network
• Bob Chen, Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Earth Institute, Columbia University (respondent)
• David Madigan, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (moderator)
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• Heather Piwowar, ImpactStory
• Susan McGregor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
• Mark Hansen, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (respondent)
• Kathy McKeown, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University (moderator)
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CDRS serves the digital research and scholarly communications needs of the faculty, students, and staff of Columbia University and its affiliates. Our mission is to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, data curation, and preservation. In pursuit of that mission, we also engage in extensive outreach, education, and advocacy to ensure that the scholarly work produced at Columbia University has a global reach and accelerates the pace of research across disciplines. CDRS, led by Rebecca Kennison, is one of six entities that comprise the Digital Programs and Technology Services branch of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. The Center was created in July 2007 to address the ongoing evolution of researchers' and scholars' needs as new technologies, policies, and systems of knowledge support arise.
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Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys, ClinicalKey and Mosby's Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively. A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
NB: You can find a version of this press release on the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship blog here.