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Green Wave was founded in 2001 with the aim to transform how the foodservice industry utilizes food and cup containers. Before the "green" initiative really took off, Green Wave stood ahead of the curve with its life-long dedication to developing environmentally friendly food service products. Read more
Green Wave produces a range of different biodegradable and green products, including plates and dinnerware. These items are made for not only an attractive appearance and convenience, but also for durability that will make sure that they last as long as you need them before being thrown away.
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Vintage Shopping Secrets To Live By
Growing up in rural Ohio--where designer stores are as scarce as traffic lights--vintage shopping was my regular weekend activity. It's the best kind of hunt; not only does it force you to be super creative with fashion, but I also love that you can buy affordable items with one-of-a-kind appeal. To show you some insider tricks of the thrifting trade, I headed over to one of my favorite vintage stores in Los Angeles, Jet Rag. What I found? A treasure trove of covet-worthy pieces begging for a stylish redux.
Vintage finds can make your wardrobe feel more special and unique versus those items that everyone can get their hands on.
Keep an eye out for frayed or sheer t-shirts because 9 times out of ten they are often the most comfortable.
If you are lusting after a designer piece, know that you can most likely find similar items for a fraction of the cost at thrift stores. I am obsessed with a pair Dries van Noten slingbacks from the S/S 13 collection, and these sandals are the perfect substitute.
Look for interesting fabrics and prints, because you can always alter what you find if it's not the perfect shape, size, or fit.
Wear your tees inside out so they become a staple solid-color tee in your wardrobe. (Note: make sure to remove the tag!)
Don't ignore the little boys' section! Just make sure to buy the larger sizes for a cool button-down or denim jacket.
Some people say you should go into a vintage store with a specific idea of what you are looking for, but I think the opposite. I often find the best items when I go in with no agenda.
Jackets and chunky cardigans are also some of my favorite finds. Try changing the buttons or removing them altogether for a quick update.
You can easily make your own denim shorts by finding the right high-waisted or slouchy boyfriend jeans and cutting them to your favorite length. (Trim tip: cut diagonally down from the outside of the jean towards the inside and about a 1 1/2" slit on the outside seam.)
Browse the selection of silk and chiffon maxi skirts and dresses. You can cut them to your desired length when you get home with scissors. The ends will fray perfectly and give the dress or skirt a slightly deconstructed vibe.

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Rendez-vous in Nantes
The city turned upside down by art, do the Voyage à Nantes
Where in Nantes can you get a 360 degree view of the town and its suburbs perched 150 metres up? Which bit of modern art will give you the latest weather forecast? How many acres of green space will the Floral Gardens offer up to the heart of the town? Who are those people painted on the wall fallen from the sky? Welcome and enjoy your visit! You thought you knew the western most metropolis in Europe? You haven't seen anything yet…
To do, to see
Nantes Saint-Nazaire Estuary Trail On the 60kms of the Loire estuary, this open-air museum will take you on a voyage of discovery of this fascinating land and the rich environmental heritage it holds. In 2012, 8 new perennial installations will join the ranks along this arts trail and bring the total to 29 the number of artworks on show on the whole of its length.
Contrary to many other great French cities, Nantes cuisine is not typically characterized through emblematic recipes. Our cuisine is characterized by a singular spirit linked to its history, its geographical location and the figures that had an impact on it. This spirit is the one of the opening to the world, of multiculturalism, of curiosity, of travelling… This is without a doubt because Nantes is at a crossroads between the sea and the land, between the sweet and the savoury, the world of plants and the world of animals, between Britanny, Vendée and the Loire river. And also because Nantes, with its port tradition, has been enriched by the flavours of the world that the explorers and the navigators have brought back over the centuries.
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Visit Nantes with City Card 24h, 48h, 72h
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Coming to Nantes
4 hours from Lille and Bordeaux, 4 hours and 1/2 from Lyon, 5 hours 10 from Strasbourg
As soon as you arrive, the aiport shuttle takes you to the heart of the city ( 15 to 20 minutes).
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July 2010
July 2010
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21st Century Skills and the Learning of History
In what ways can teaching 21st century skills improve history education? What are the complexities of teaching with technology? Read what several scholars, including Steven A. Goldberg, President-Elect, National Council for the Social Studies, and Harvard University historian Jill Lepore, have to say and voice your own opinion in this Issues and Research Roundtable. Explore here.
Lesson Plan Reviews: My History at School
This collection of activities found on the Bringing History Home website introduces first graders to important historical concepts. Through exploring the history of their time at school, students learn about topics such as chronology as well as how to identify and question different types of primary sources. While these concepts may seem fairly sophisticated for first or second-graders, the activities introduce them in accessible and engaging ways. Read more here. Read more here.
Independence Daze: A History of the 4th of July
Listen in as historians Pauline Maier, James Heintze, and David Blight look at changing interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the origins of Independence Day celebrations. Learn how the day became a national holiday and how different groups interpret the holiday. Listen here or explore other audio and visual history resources in the History in Multimedia database. Read more here.
Beyond the Textbook: Coal and the Industrial Revolution
As of 1860, the United States was an industrial laggard. Great Britain, France, and Germany each produced more goods than their transatlantic counterpart. By 1900, however, U.S. industrial production exceeded the other three combined. Why? Most textbooks offer little insight into the profound historical significance of energy, nor do they provide a coherent interpretation of what the adoption of fossil fuels meant for the nation's economy and environment. Read more here.
Historical Thinking
Teaching American History
Historical Thinking: Cross-checking Sources and Testing Hypotheses
In this video clip, we see a high school student checking his ideas against available evidence. In reading a leaflet from the Civil Rights Movement, he encounters a name from a previous document and assumes the person is a white civic leader. The second document, however, raises questions for him about the woman's position. Flipping back and forth between sources, he comes to a reasoned conclusion about who Jo Ann Robinson is and develops a more nuanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement. The written commentary points out clues that the student uses to inform his reading. Watch the video here. Watch the video here.
Lessons Learned: Modelling Place-based Teaching
Sarah Jencks of Ford's Theatre and Talia Mosconi of Tudor Place Historic House discuss the process of designing multilayered programs for teaching educators on how to use places as primary sources. A number of Washington, DC, historical sites have formed partnerships to provide educators with a wide-ranging orientation to the history of the city and the nation. Jencks and Mosconi warn against the dangers of running teachers through many historical sites too quickly, without providing context or allowing teachers time to process. Watch the video here. Explore here.


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Mead & Hunt is seeking a highly motivated individual to build our aviation practice in the Southeast. Responsibilities include leading business development opportunities to expand our airport engineering and construction presence in the Southeast market; leading the design of aviation engineering projects; mentoring project staff; project management for airport engineering projects; evaluating and analyzing existing projects; preparing reports, budgets, cost estimates, specifications, plans, schedules, studies, and permits. Travel will be required.
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The ideal candidate will have any/all of the following: airport design and/or construction experience; airport engineering project management experience; knowledge of FAA design criteria; experience mentoring staff; proven ability to win airport design and/or construction work in the Southeast; Southeast aviation market knowledge.
If you have strong communication and organizational skills, are self-motivated, and can work well both independently and as part of a team, complete the online application process for this job posting at www.meadhunt.com/careers OR submit your cover letter and resume (and the pdf application if possible) to the address below. The deadline to apply for this position is Tuesday, August 14, 2018. Interviews are awarded on our review of your ability to meet the qualifications in the paragraphs describing the "successful" candidate and "ideal" candidate, so be sure to explain where indicated in the online application (or in your COVER LETTER, not just in your resume, if you are applying by mail) how you meet each qualification listed in the paragraphs above. Mead & Hunt will not sponsor a visa (H-1B, etc.) for this position.
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DirectoryLooking for your advisor? E-mail Carrie Sauter for help!
Patricia La Noue
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Phone: 410-455-2024
Director Patricia La Noue has been with INDS since 1987 when she was hired as Assistant Director and Academic Advisor. Soon after Patricia's arrival, she engaged several faculty interested in helping students design majors in environmental science and environmental policy. These concentrations flourished and have become part of the Geography and Environmental Science major here at UMBC. Realizing the talent of UMBC faculty and the abundant opportunities in the Baltimore-Washington area for career preparation in the international field, Director La Noue initiated the International and Global Studies concentration in the early 2000's. In addition, she has been active in the design and protection of the Herbert Run Greenway at UMBC and serves on several committees involved with campus sustainability initiatives. Additionally, she serve as a board member of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture. She is married to Dr. George La Noue, and they have two sons, Jeff and Revere. She enjoys hiking, kayaking, yoga, and gigong.
Steven McAlpine
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Assistant Director Steven McAlpine joined the INDS team in June of 2006 as a Program Advisor and Instructor for the Capstone Seminar (INDS 480). Before coming to UMBC, Steven worked as a researcher and seminar facilitator for the Interdisciplinary Studies Project at Harvard Project Zero. While at Harvard, Steven designed a Teachers Guide for Walden Media's IMAX film "PULSE: a STOMP Odyssey" and worked as an education consultant for the Boston Arts Academy. He is a professional studio musician and composer who has taught as an adjunct music faculty member of the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. Steven earned his B.S. from Dartmouth College and his Ed. M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He and his wife Martha live with their son, Maddox, and daughter, Lily, in Catonsville, MD. A former college lacrosse player, Steven enjoys mountain biking in Patapsco State Park, cross country skiing, and playing "Thomas the Train" with Maddox and Lily.
Carrie Sauter
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 544
Phone: 410-455-2037
Assistant Director Carrie Sauter joined Interdisciplinary Studies as a Program Advisor in 2007. She received her B.S. in Psychology from UMBC and her M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland. Not only is she an alumna from UMBC, she worked for 2 years in the Registrar's Office advising transfer students and graduation candidates. Prior to working for UMBC, she performed psychological assessments for Maryland's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Carrie enjoys running in ultra-marathons, experimenting with new foods and recipes, and tending a variety of gardens at home with her husband, Craig.
Samirah Hassan
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 545
Phone: 410-455-2004
Samirah Hassan joined INDS as our part time office assistant in Fall 2011, and was hired full time in January of 2012. She is a 2010 graduate of UMBC with a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and a Minor in Biology.
Jill Wrigley
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 546
Phone: 410-455-2004
Jill joined INDS in 2012 as an Adjunct Instructor. She teaches INDS 430, Food: An Interdisciplinary Exploration. In Fall 2012 she also became a Program Advisor and General Associate. Jill worked for 17 years as a union and workers' rights attorney before getting involved in urban and school food system reform. She has consulted with Baltimore City Schools, a charter school consortium and individual charter schools about farm to cafeteria reform and food and garden educational programs and is a member of the Baltimore Food Policy Advisory Council. She participated in the creation of Great Kids Farm, a working educational farm owned by Baltimore City Schools and Good to Grow, a community food growing project in Ethiopia.
Jill received a J.D. and an M.A. (Political Science) from Columbia University. When not at UMBC, you may find her in a garden, playing the hammered dulcimer, writing poetry, swimming, tending to her college age boys (Mulugeta and Anteneh) or daughter Christina, or pruning fruit trees in her Irvington community's Peace Park alongside her husband Michael Sarbanes and neighborhood children.
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Dr. Eric Montgomery
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Dr. Montgomery has been an adjunct faculty member of INDS since 2012. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland College Park in 2009, and his B.S. in Physics and Interdisciplinary Studies: Optical Engineering from UMBC in 2005. While a UMBC student he sat on the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee to approve INDS degree proposals, and was also a candidate for valedictorian. His full time career today is as lead experimentalist for the Laboratory for Photocathode Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he designs, fabricates, and tests novel photoelectric sources for particle accelerators and free electron lasers. Dr. Montgomery has published over 20 peer reviewed papers and proceedings. He has been devoted to student mentoring, guiding 2 Ph.D. students, 8 undergraduates, and 4 high school students at UMD from 2007-2012. His undergraduate research mentees have been 5 times more likely than their peers to win the summer research competition at his institute, capturing the top prize of a conference fellowship in 3 of 6 years. Dr. Montgomery also consults for several small businesses and has a patent pending on controlled porosity reservoir photocathodes. When not at work, he can be found leading the young adults group at his church, digging up family history, juggling five objects simultaneously, or building a giant catapult in his backyard.
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Welcome to the Electrical Engineering Technology program. Our program is designed to enable students to enter the job market as an Electrical Engineering Technician. The program offers the Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical Design Concentration Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree and Electrical/Electronic Fundamentals Technical Certificate.
- The Electrical Design Concentration focuses primarily on programmable logic controllers (PLCs), microcontrollers, instrumentation, robotics and industrial control systems, electromechanical devices, and 3-phase power systems.
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Gimme Skelter (V)
"If the leaps and bounds that Scott Phillips has managed to take behind the camera from STINK OF FLESH to GIMME SKELTER are any indication of what we might expect from him in the future—assuming he stays away from scripting any further films like WEDDING SLASHERS—then the future looks bright indeed for this filmmaker as well as for genre fans."
What if Charlie Manson had a bastard son? And, what if one day junior decided to follow in Daddy's footsteps? An interesting idea or simply a wild story made up by a psycho in order to get others to carry out his dirty work? In GIMME SKELTER—the second feature from STINK OF FLESH director Scott Phillips, no one ever "really" finds out if the leader of this new family is Charlie's son but that doesn't stop his followers from reigning a night of terror on a small New Mexico town in this low-budget Grindhouse shocker.
In a town of less than a hundred it's hard to keep things under wraps. And when doofy dude Todd (Mark Chavz) cheats on his gorgeous girlfriend Jonda (former Miss Teen USA Jillian Parry) with a strange new arrival Brass (Jaymi McNulty) he finds himself thrown out of the house and thrown into the worst night of his life—as he discovers his new lover is actually a cult follower whose gang (including Troma veteran Trent Haaga) has just arrived and is planning to kill everyone in town before the dawn.
GIMME SKELTER wittily borrows it's title from a one-two punch of post-flower power bloodshed—The Rolling Stone's track Gimme Shelter gave it's name to the Maysles' cinematic document of the tragic Altamonte concert and the Beatles classic Helter Skelter which Author/Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi famously appropriated for his book about the Tate-LaBianca murders. Those two seminal events were watershed moments in the end of American innocence. With Watergate, Vietnam, The Watts Riots and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy the landscape of the United States would be forever changed. This change was echoed in cinema as well and the rise of the Grindhouse era was in full effect delivering nihilistic classics like LAST HOUSE OF THE LEFT and their ilk. With GIMME SKELTER, its apparent that Phillips is attempting to capture a little of the grit, grime, sleaze and cheese that made the 42nd street theaters and dumpy drive-in double features so fascinating. And interminably he manages to capture the overall vibe that filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino managed to miss in their respective productions.
Since GIMME SKELTER has no major budget to speak of, and the sets and dusty desert setting are Spartan and unpopulated, the film often looks and feels like an authentic old school 70's genre flick. The violence is appropriate, the nudity is random and unnecessary and the idea of a "Charlie's Family" collection of cultist killers is absolutely authentic to the period (just a few years ago an even more interesting reproduction SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF THE RISING SUN arrived on DVD shelves). With those things going for it the film is a huge leap forward for Phillips—as STINK OF FLESH was a much more typical regional microbudget zombie film. GIMME SKELTER actually has a lot of heart and talent both in front of, and behind the lens, including a very naturalistic performance from Gunnar "Leatherface" Hansen as one of the local townsfolk. For a part-time actor like Hansen who is generally cast as one of the Heavies or as a caricature (as in BRUTAL MASSACRE) it is amazing to see him deliver a letter-perfect performance as an everyday average guy caught in an intense situation. Even though he might play it a little too close to the chest when the shit starts to hit the fan, the fact that the big man turns in such a nuanced and restrained performance (compared to what is typically asked of him) is nothing less than a revelation here.
If the leaps and bounds that Scott Phillips has managed to take behind the camera from STINK OF FLESH to GIMME SKELTER are any indication of what we might expect from him in the future—assuming he stays away from scripting any further films like WEDDING SLASHERS—then the future looks bright indeed for this filmmaker as well as for genre fans.


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Lynn Shelton's 2009 movie Humpday was about two straight men making a gay-porn movie to win an amateur film competition. It might not have reached a mass audience, but Humpday was noticed by other directors and producers, including Matthew Weiner, who offered Shelton a job directing an episode of Mad Men.
Soon after, Shelton began work on her latest movie, Your Sister's Sister, which stars Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt as half sisters Iris and Hannah, and Mark Duplass as Iris' best friend, Jack. Hannah and Jack each go to remote island cabins in the Pacific Northwest after a terrible breakup and a brother's death, respectively — but then collide, unexpectedly, during the vacation.
The story line for the film was inspired by Duplass, who starred in Humpday. His original idea focused on a man who goes to a remote cabin after losing his brother. But when he arrives at the cabin, it turns out there's somebody else there: his female best friend's hot young mother.
"So originally, it was ... this weird, twisted, interesting, bed-switching love triangle with a mother and a daughter," Shelton tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I really liked the idea, but instinctively I wanted to switch the mom to an older sister because [the original idea] was a little too Oedipal or something."
Shelton's other movies include We Go Way Back, What the Funny and My Effortless Brilliance. In 2009, she received a Genius Award for lifetime achievement from The Stranger, an alt-weekly newspaper in Seattle.
Interview Highlights
On asking actors to improvise dialogue
"I had 70 pages written out, but I asked them not to memorize the lines — just to glance over those scenes and really get a sense of the shape and the emotional trajectory that needs to take place — but then to find their way through each beat of the scene. What I'm looking for is extreme naturalism, to the degree that it almost feels like real flesh-and-blood people having real conversations on screen. And I've found that incorporating improvisation really helps."
On her work
"I incorporate input from the actors. They participated for eight or nine months in the development process, and I would ask for their input about who these characters were, what was their back story, etc. By the time we got to set, we had an enormous amount of back story, so that they really know who they are when they open their mouths to say something; it's going to be like second nature what comes out. And then on set, I'm actually asking them to write dialogue."
On coming up with the idea for Humpday
"Sometimes the best stories can come from putting characters in situations out of their comfort zone and seeing what happens. And I came up with this crazy notion of two straight guys daring each other to do something that was completely beyond [their comfort zone] and totally uncomfortable for both of them. There really is a festival in Seattle, and it's called HUMP!, and it was founded a few years ago by Dan Savage, and it really is this idea of having fun with your sexuality and being an exhibitionist just for a night — instead of this mainstream porn industry, actually celebrating sexuality on screen in a more personal and artistic and maybe comedic way. And I had a friend who went to the festival and saw gay porn for the first time. And he was really fascinated by it. And I saw his response as a straight guy to this gay porn as really interesting, and that was where the wheels started turning for me. I thought, 'Well, this relationship between straight men and gayness in general is really rich territory.' "
On her sexual orientation
"I'm married, so I'm in a straight relationship and have been for decades, so it's not like I'm an active bisexual. But I've fallen for all stripes of human beings in this world. I've fallen for straight men, I've fallen for gay men, I've fallen for straight women and gay women. I really have. I had crushes on really every single kind of person in the world. So there was this period of time in my life when I had this sort of romantic idea that everybody was like that, that we're all human beings and that a person is a person and if there weren't these sort of societal ideas about gender and sexual orientation, that anybody could fall in love with anybody. Making Humpday was really the experience that showed me that that is not true — that some people really, truly are straight. There's a spectrum, and some people are really at one or the other."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guess, screenwriter and director Lynn Shelton, first became known for her Indie film, "Humpday," about two straight men who decide to make a gay porn film and submit it to an annual Indie porn festival.
"Humpday" led to her directing an episode of "Mad Men." Her new film, "Your Sister's Sister," like "Humpday," relies on a lot of improvisation from the actors. Mark Duplass, who plays Jack in the new film, also starred in "Humpday." Duplass and his brother, Jay Duplass, also direct films that rely on improvisation.
"Your Sister's Sister" begins a year after the death of Jack's brother. He's not taking it well, so his good friend, Iris, played by Emily Blunt, tells him to go to her father's cabin in the woods and spend some time getting himself together, but he doesn't find the solitude she promised. Her beautiful half-sister, Hannah, played by Rosemarie DeWitt, is there and then Blunt comes to visit and the relationships get very complicated.
In this scene, Iris and Hannah are telling Jack how their father had been involved in multiple romantic relationships over the years.
EMILY BLUNT: (as Iris) OK. He was with her mom for 10 years. Had an affair with my mom, who was his secretary.
ROSEMARIE DEWITT: (as Hannah) Got your mom, Lenore(ph), pregnant.
BLUNT: (as Iris) Yes.
DEWITT: (as Hannah) Married her.
BLUNT: (as Iris) Moved to London.
DEWITT: (as Hannah) Moved to London.
BLUNT: (as Iris) Got bored of Lenore and then he moved on and then he kind of philandered around for, like, seven years.
DEWITT: (as Hannah) He went through his crazy Warren Beatty phase. The funny thing, though, about those years when he was so bad with the ladies - he was so good with us because that was...
BLUNT: (as Iris) He wasn't.
DEWITT: (as Hannah) No. But that was, like, six summers that it was just the three of us here.
BLUNT: (as Iris) I know, but you were OK with it. I had no respect for that. He just went - he dodged from one to the other and it was gross.
MARK DUPLASS: (as Jack) That's so crazy. So he would just, like, date all of these women, like, for short periods of time with not a lot of emotional investment and...
BLUNT: (as Iris) Yeah, it was horrible.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) ...they were very similar and then he would just move on?
BLUNT: (as Iris) Yeah.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) God, that's just weird. Who does that? Oh, and the patterns emerge.
BLUNT: (as Iris) What are you doing?
DUPLASS: (as Jack) I'm sorry. Skinny jeans George. Skinny jeans Harry. Skinny jeans Vinnie. Vinnie lasted for at least two weeks. He was one of the longer ones.
BLUNT: (as Iris) I don't like dating. You know that. I don't like dating. I don't like dating.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) No. Technic - I think, technically...
BLUNT: (as Iris) I don't like it.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) ...this is...
BLUNT: (as Iris) I get bored. I don't like it.
GROSS: That's a scene from "Your Sister's Sister." Lynn Shelton, welcome to FRESH AIR. So the scene that we just heard explains the relationship between the two sisters. They have the same father. One of the sisters grew up in America, the other in England. Did you write that England-America thing because you wanted to cast Emily Blunt, who's British?
LYNN SHELTON: Originally, the two sisters were both British. They were always going to be half-sisters, but Rosemarie DeWitt came in and saved our production by replacing an actress that we lost three days before the shoot started, believe it or not. And so it was a really - because they were always meant to be half-sisters with two different moms and one dad - this sharing a dad - it was actually a really easy adjustment to make her American and Emily remain British.
So - yeah. It's funny. And, in a way, I think it's almost better because you're wondering from the very beginning, why do they have different accents if they're sisters?
GROSS: I was wondering. Yeah.
SHELTON: And your ears are sort of pricked up waiting for the explanation and then, by the time it comes, you're kind of really listening and you're like, oh, I see. I see. I see. So they only spent summers together and they have this sort of age difference and you're ready to hear all that exposition and kind of get it.
GROSS: How did Rosemarie DeWitt end up being the actress to save the day?
SHELTON: We had, again, a very limited amount of time to find a replacement, so I started running down the list in my mind and, as soon as I thought of Rose, she leapt to the top of my, you know, wish list. And I mentioned her name to Mark Duplass and he said, if she's available, she'll do it. It was a pretty confident statement, but about a year before, they had been in an airport on their way to New Orleans, each to work on a different movie, and she had accosted him at the airport and said, I never do this, but I saw "Humpday" - which is a movie that Mark and I had done together previously - and I really, really loved it and you were great in it. And, you know, she was a fan and she was, more importantly, versed in the kind of work, you know, that I do and...
GROSS: I'm going to stop you right there.
SHELTON: ...so that was really helpful.
GROSS: How would you describe the kind of work that you do?
SHELTON: I incorporate input from the actors - an enormous amount of input from the actors. They participated - the original actors all participated for eight or nine months in the development process and I would ask for their input about who these characters were, what was their back story.
By the time we get to set, we have an enormous amount of back story so that they really know who they are. When they open their mouths to say something, it's going to be like second nature what comes out. And then, on set, I'm asking them to actually write dialog because, you know, I had 70 pages of dialog written out in this case and I asked them not to memorize the lines, just to glance over those scenes and really get a sense of the shape, the content, the emotional trajectory that needs to, you know, take place.
But then to find their way, you know, through each beat of the scene. Again, I'm - what I'm looking for is naturalism, an extreme level of naturalism to the degree that, you know, it almost feels like a documentary, you know, that it just feels like real flesh and blood people having real conversations onscreen.
And I have found that incorporating improvisation to a certain degree really, really helps in that quest.
GROSS: Now, here's the thing. It seems to me, it really helps in getting a kind of naturalistic feel at the same time - and I don't know what I'm talking about here - but it seems to me like, if you're an actor and you have the lines written for you, those words help you embody the character because that character isn't you and that character speaks different from you. And the writer has imagined how that character would speak and, by speaking those words in the way that the writer has imagined it, you become that character.
But, if you're finding your own words for that character, it means that that character is going to be more like you because you're more likely to play it like yourself with the words that you would speak.
SHELTON: It's true. I'm really looking for the overlap. You know, where does the character, which is distinct from the actor as a person, but where does the character overlap?
Mark and Emily and Rose are very distinct from the characters that they're playing. You know, I would not say that they share all of the traits or all of the personality that these characters have, but it's really about finding the connection between yourself and the character and this is what actors do all the time. It's just that, in this case, I'm asking for, you know, you to provide the actual speech.
For instance, there's a scene early on in the film where we're getting to know Iris and Jack, played by Emily Blunt and Mark Duplass, and what their relationship is, which is a relationship of best friendship. And it's the second scene in the film, so it's really early on and we're sort of establishing this report that they have.
There are certain turns of phrase and certain - the way that they tease each other and the way that they sort of push each other in a gentle, loving way. They are able to draw on the friendship that had been established between Mark and Emily over the course of the shoot because it was the last thing we shot in the production schedule. And they were able to pull that report into this relationship.
GROSS: So why don't we hear that scene? And this is an excerpt of Lynn Shelton's new film, "Your Sister's Sister."
BLUNT: (as Iris) I've been watching you for a year now and whatever you're doing and whatever you think is helping you, I have a responsibility as your friend to tell you that it's not.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) I knew this was coming, by the way.
BLUNT: (as Iris) OK.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) Just tell me what to do.
BLUNT: (as Iris) OK.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) That's basically where I'm at.
BLUNT: (as Iris) OK.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) Just tell me what...
BLUNT: (as Iris) All right.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) You know better than I do. You know I'm...
BLUNT: (as Iris) I have a plan.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) You have a plan?
BLUNT: (as Iris) I just want you to hear me out. It's just a plan right now.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) I love your plans.
BLUNT: (as Iris) You might not love this one, but just hear me out.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) But I don't have any plans.
BLUNT: (as Iris) That's good news. You know that nice red bicycle that you have?
DUPLASS: (as Jack) Yes.
BLUNT: (as Iris) Yikes.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) Sorry.
BLUNT: (as Iris) What you're going to do...
BLUNT: You're going to dust off Old Red. You're going to wheel him out of the shed and you're going to get on a ferry. I'm sending you to my dad's place. You know, my dad's place on the island - it's beautiful in the winter. It's idyllic and crisp and peaceful and...
DUPLASS: (as Jack) Like, by beautiful, you mean rainy and cold.
BLUNT: (as Iris) I'm sorry. I got so distracted because all I heard was pissing and moaning.
DUPLASS: (as Jack) Right. Sorry. I started pissing. I'm not pissing. I'm not pissing and moaning. I'm done. I'm done.
GROSS: That was Mark Duplass and Emily Blunt in a scene from "Your Sister's Sister," which was written and directed by my guest, Lynn Shelton. Let's take a short break here, then we'll talk some more. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is screenwriter and director, Lynn Shelton. Her new movie is called "Your Sister's Sister" and it stars Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt.
Now, your previous film, "Humpday," starts off with a married couple and they're surprised when the husband's old buddy shows up unannounced at the door after being on the road and so they were living opposite kind of lives. There's like the husband, who's settled down, and the friend who's been on the road.
They go off to this party - the two men - and where the subject ends up being this, like, independent porn film festival known as the Hump Film Festival and they decide to make a gay porn film together and star in it, though neither of them is gay. What an odd idea for a movie. How did you come up with that premise?
SHELTON: Sometimes, the best stories can come out of just the simple premise of putting characters into a situation that's out of their comfort zone and I came up with this crazy notion of two straight guys daring each other to do something that was completely beyond their ken and totally uncomfortable for both of them.
There really is a festival in Seattle and it's called Hump and it was founded a few years ago by Dan Savage and the idea is to sort of reclaim - it really is this idea of having fun with your sexuality and, you know, being an exhibitionist just for a night, you know, and instead of this sort of mainstream porn industry, like actually celebrating sexuality onscreen in a more personal and interesting - maybe artistic and maybe comedic way.
And I had a friend who went to the festival and saw gay porn for the first time. He'd never seen it before and he was really fascinated by it and I thought his response, as a straight guy, to this gay porn was really interesting. And that was where the wheels started turning for me. I thought, well, what - this interest - this relationship between straight men and gayness, in general, is, I think, really rich territory.
GROSS: So, you know, I've been reading about you and you were quoted as saying - which may or may not be true - but you were quoted as saying that you would describe yourself as a shy bisexual who has crushes on gay men. And I'm going to ask you about this because, you know, "Humpday" and "Your Sister's Sister" involves sexual orientation.
SHELTON: Um-hmm. Yeah. No. I mean, I don't remember saying shy bisexual. Maybe I did say that and I'm just blotting it out. I mean, I'm married, you know, so I'm in a straight relationship and have been for decades, for a really long time. So it's not like I'm an active bisexual, but I've fallen for all stripes of human beings in this world, you know, and I've fallen for straight men. I've fallen for gay men. I've fallen for straight women and gay women. I really have, you know, had crushes on just every single kind of person in the world.
And so, you know, there was this period of time in my life when I had this sort of romantic idea that everybody was like that, you know, that we're all human beings and that a person is a person and if there weren't these sort of societal ideas about gender and sexual orientation that, you know, anybody could fall in love with anybody.
And it was really, you know - making "Humpday" was the experience that really showed me that is so not true. You know, that some people really, truly are straight. You know, there is a spectrum and that there are people who are really at one or the other, you know, and I was - one of the things that was most moving to me after "Humpday" came out was a friend said that her dad, who had been really on the fence about gay rights, saw "Humpday" and really was convinced that gay people should have all the same civil rights as straight people because he could really - it really hit home for him that you are who you are. You are born how you're born and that - here are these two straight guys who really, just for a couple of hours, wanted to not be straight and they couldn't, you know, do it.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Lynn Shelton. She wrote and directed the new film, "Your Sister's Sister," which stars Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt. She also wrote and directed the comedy, "Humpday" and she shot an episode of "Mad Men." Not just any episode. This is a pretty famous episode.
So much happened in this episode back in 2010 in season four. Among the things that happened is Joanie told Roger that she was pregnant with his child. She went to have an abortion and, at the end of the episode, we don't know if she goes through with it or not. The ad agency had gotten a new client, which was a defense department company and doing ads for them required getting a security clearance, so Don Draper was being investigated for a security clearance and he was sure his cover would be blown, that the defense department or FBI, whoever was investigating would find out who he really was and he'd be in jail.
And, at the very end of the episode, Megan, his new secretary, has kind of not even bothered to tell him about this because she doesn't understand the significance of this investigation, and Megan, who now is Don's wife - and then, with his new secretary, kind of bungles it, apologizes. At the end of the episode, she asks if she can leave now and go home and she's putting on some lipstick before leaving the office and Don looks at her like he's seeing her for the first time and he's seeing for the first time how beautiful she is and how interesting she is. And who knew back in 2010 that that character would end up becoming his wife? Did you know? You directed that episode. Did you know?
SHELTON: No. No. No, I had no idea.
SHELTON: No. It was such an incredible privilege to work on that show. I was an enormous, an enormous fan.
GROSS: How did you get to shoot a "Mad Men" episode?
SHELTON: Well, I, you know, yeah. It was great. I had been trying to get TV work. I was trying to break into episodic directing work, because I am a big admirer of a lot of television. I think there's some incredible quality on television right now, and "Mad Men" was at the top of my list.
I mean, I really felt like it was kind of pie-in-the-sky to try to get onto a show of that caliber, but Scott Hornbacher, one of the producers, somehow saw "Humpday." And so I had a great meeting with him, and he said, you know, I'm going to try and get Matthew to see it, but it's going to be hard, because he's incredibly busy.
And then a few, gosh, a month and a half later or something, I got the call that Matt was interested in meeting with me. And, I mean, just the meeting - I remember I had an hour and a half with him in his office, and I thought even if nothing comes of this, I will remember this forever, you know, just getting to sit and talk to Mr. Weiner in his office for an hour and a half.
GROSS: So you didn't know that Megan and Don were going to get married, and that happened further down the line.
SHELTON: Right.
GROSS: But you knew pretty soon whether, you know, maybe in the next episode - maybe not. I can't remember when it was revealed - whether Joan had the abortion or not. Did you know when you were shooting the episode whether she was going to go through with it or not? Or were you left hanging?
And were you supposed to know in order to get whatever nuance was supposed to be about what was going through her mind? Did you need to know what was going through her mind to really shoot it right?
SHELTON: It was a huge, huge secret, and so he let me know, and I think he told Christina at the very last minute, as well. And so she, I believe...
GROSS: Christina Hendricks, who plays Joan.
SHELTON: Who plays Joan. Yeah. I believe we were the only two people on the set who knew. Because he realized that we really needed to know that for the scene on the bus. There's this bus where she's coming back into town, and she's staring out the window, and it's very ambiguous. You know, we don't know if she's sad or if she's sort of, like, thinking about this experience she's just had, or if, you know, what it is. It's open-ended.
GROSS: How do you think knowing that affected the way you shot that scene?
SHELTON: Well, it was such a simple scene. The bus scene, in particular, it was very, very simple and elegant. You know, it was just a very romantic shot, basically. I mean, we had a couple different frames of view of it, but it was just her staring out the window and - lost in thought. And so it was something that was very subtle.
You know, we just got a lot of variation, but it was a very nuanced variation on the expression on her face and, you know, how her eyes looked. And, you know, just - yeah. It was very subtle.
GROSS: Well, Lynn Shelton, thank you so much for talking with us.
SHELTON: Oh, thanks for having me, Terry. It's such a privilege.
GROSS: Lynn Shelton directed the new film "Your Sister's Sister." Coming up, Ed Ward profiles Bobby Charles, one of those rock n' roll figures whose work you're almost certainly familiar with, even though you've probably never heard of him. This is FRESH AIR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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No, we have no idea what Cushnie et Ochs is either, it's a fashion thing, or something. But anyway, the firm has a black and white vibe going on this year, and so HTC has built a very limited-edition run of the phone.
You can't buy it, and there are just 100 or so of the handsets being given out to lucky fashionistas, but we've got the photos for you to lust over after a quick play with the phone today. And let's be honest, that's about as close to fashion that any of us get anyway.
Interestingly, the unibody of the regular HTC One X can't be used here, because there is no way to bond the two colours together with a proper line. HTC, we understand, is interested in developing two-tone unibody devices, but currently it's not possible.
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The Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium is a group of 33 organizations located in Lake, Geauga, Cuyahoga and nine other counties.
During the last two years, NEOSCC and more than 150 regional experts have conducted and compiled research about where Northeast Ohio is now with a look to where the region will head toward 2040.
Hunter Morrison, NEOSCC executive director, gave a presentation about the goals of the organization at the monthly meeting Monday of the Lake County Mayors and City Managers Association.
"Scenario planning helps the public and decision makers understand the long-term consequences of the choices they make today," Morrison said.
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"Our goal with ImagineMyNEO is to ask residents, 'What would this region look like in the future if you are in charge?' " Morrison said. "Users can share their priorities for the future and make the kinds of policy choices necessary to help create that future, and all in an engaging way."
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When I wrote last week about the "Top 10 Terrible Ways to Pitch a Story," I got a comment from a local author who asked that I expound on two of my points.
"The writer's perspective of interesting topic/compelling story may not be the same as that of the editor — hence the query," she wrote. "We can only do so much research into the magazine (and, yes, read the guidelines). But it inevitably becomes a judgement call for the editor. And…when do we find out? What is the typical time period for acceptance/rejection?"
I listened to a webinar recently in which book agent Irene Goodman (founder of the Irene Goodman Literary Agency) spoke about the challenges writers face getting attention for their ideas within a vast sea of queries. What struck me most about her response was her emphasis on the role of serendipity.
Editors (and apparently literary agents) are human; we have good days and bad days, high-energy days and low-energy days, days when we feel receptive to taking a chance on a previously unknown writer and days when we prefer the security of proven relationships. There are days when we feel inundated and resistant and days when we feel somewhat on top on things and open to something new. On a good day, we may make an effort to respond thoughtfully, in the interest of helping a writer grow. On days when we are exhausted, drowning in emails and feeling like everyone is clawing for a part of us we may respond with a curt "doesn't meet our needs at this time" — or simply ignore the message.
So unfortunately, a lot of it is timing and happenstance, neither of which offer much help to a writer who just wants an answer. But an editor's job involves triage; whatever is most pressing for the next deadline is what gets the time and attention. That said, when I see something truly fresh and exciting it rarely gets lost in the queue.
Which brings me to something else Goodman said: "Maybe equals no." Or perhaps it should.
Like many people who want to be thought of as considerate human beings, I struggle with the challenge of saying "no." So sometimes I'll sit on something mediocre for too long, with the good intention of getting back to the writer with some guidance and direction, when I should have trusted that squirmy sense in my stomach that was telling me "just say no." And then, because each day brings its own ensuing avalanche of messages to consider, I may never get to it. Not because I intend to be mean or thoughtless or arrogant, but because I'm only one person and I only have so many waking hours in the day.
Jana Bommersbach addressed this question in the Piper Writing Center class I took in November. If you haven't heard from an editor after a month, she suggested, send a follow-up email to ask politely if your query was received and to check on its status. (It's always possible that the editor never got your email, after all, or that it got lost in the shuffle.)
If another month goes by and you still haven't heard, I would suggest one more respectful contact. After that, wait another couple of weeks. If you haven't gotten anything in response by that point, you should probably move on.
What Goodman says about book pitches certainly applies for magazines: "If two months has gone by and you haven't heard anything, it's probably a 'no.'"
In the lightning-fast world of communication, the gears of editorial judgment and feedback still grind painfully slowly. I'm getting a taste of my own medicine lately as I pitch stories of my own to other publications, so I know how discouraging it can be.


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My OB asked me if I was done having kids after the one I'm about to have, my second. Knowing it took us two years to conceive this time, he cautioned: "A lot of women like you—who've been through IVF—find themselves pregnant again when they least expect it. Have you thought about birth control, or tying your tubes while you're having a C-section?"
I hadn't thought about tying my tubes, not even for a second. But he raises a good point. The thought of not needing birth control, and never having to worry about an unexpected pregnancy at my age, is tempting. But tying my tubes seems so final, doesn't it? My husband and I have always said we wanted three kids, but when infertility took over our lives two years ago, it obviously wasn't our focus anymore. Frankly, I'm not sure where we stand on it now.
I turned 39 this year, so the idea of having more kids at this point—when I'm 40 or older—seems pretty unlikely. But we're not totally ruling it out. And the real reason I'm even considering tying my tubes is because, if you recall, I still have quite a few frozen embryos from my one and only IVF cycle in September of 2011.
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I had produced 14 embryos—four of which we tried implanting over a one-year span, unsuccessfully. Then I finally decided to have the remaining 10 tested for chromosomal abnormalities (through PGD testing), and found that three of those 10 weren't viable and would never have resulted in a pregnancy or birth. But seven of those 10—seven!—were great quality, 5-day embryos. So we decided to implant one last September and—voila—here I am, due in nearly three weeks.
So that leaves six good embryos that I need to figure out what to do with, as totally strange and screwed up as that sounds. We always said we'd donate any remaining embryos to science for research, to help other men and women going through infertility, which is what I intend to do—but I'm not ready to make that decision yet. So until then, I'm paying $850 a year to keep them stored at my embryologist's lab 30 minutes away. It's weird to think about it, and I know everyone has their opinions about this, but please know this isn't something I take lightly.
My OB raised another interesting question. Do I have my tubes tied while I'm having a C-section, eliminating the need to ever go back for another procedure or worry about birth control, but give up any chances of ever conceiving again naturally? If I want a third child, I'll have to turn to those frozen embryos—yep, I can still have another frozen embryo transfer and get pregnant. And here's the even better news: Those embryos belong to my 37-year-old self and have already been tested for everything, reducing a lot of the risks and fears that come with being of advanced maternal age. They're 37; I'm 39 (or, simply, "old" as my son likes to say). Wouldn't you rather use 37-year-old frozen 5-day embryos than those belonging to a 40-year-old?
Seems like a no-brainer, right? The more I talk it out, the more I'm pretty sure this is what I should do, but it's still a hard decision for me. Here's why: Even though a frozen embryo transfer is easier than a full IVF cycle, I still got very sick on the meds and had a difficult time with the progesterone shots the size of pencils I took for two months (I still have numbness on my right buttocks). Bottom line, it's not a pleasant thing to put yourself through, and I've already been through a lot.
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It takes a big toll on you and your family, and my family is about to get even bigger. Sometimes I look back on the last two years—what I remember of it—and cannot believe how I got through it, especially considering everything else I was going through at the time (lost a job I loved and had for 10 years; started a new career; my husband also sold two of his businesses, and decided to change careers). Going through infertility in the midst of all this madness and uncertainty in our lives was masochistic!
But the questions remain: Will I be ready to go through this again in a year? Also, there's obviously no guarantee with a frozen embryo transfer. While I've eliminated a lot of risks and concerns with the additional testing, ya never know if it'll take.
Then, of course, there's still the open question: Will I even want a third child?
But the bigger moral dilemma here is obviously the fact that I have so many good embryos left—more than I'll ever need in this lifetime probably. It's a tough thing to reconcile… I never set out to produce this many obviously (in fact, I suffered from Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome when I had my egg retrieval), but as any infertility patient knows, that's a risk you sign up for when going through IVF.
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It's overwhelming to think about, but not necessarily a bad problem to have. The moral issue for me is that I don't like the control I seem to have over this. Tying my tubes eliminates anything happening by chance; but considering I have a better, more risk-free option, why would I not take advantage of it and use one of the remaining embryos I have left?
I'm having my second child soon so I know I made the right decision in my journey to conceive, and I have to trust that whatever choice I make from this point forward will be the right one for our family. I have to believe that.
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The Kansas City Chiefs released tight end Tony Moeaki with an injury settlement from injured reserve on Wednesday.
A third-round selection by the Chiefs in 2010, Moeaki was placed on injured reserve in August after fracturing his shoulder. It's the second time he'd landed on injured reserve in four seasons in Kansas City. He also missed the entirety of the 2011 season with a knee injury.
When he was on the field, Moeaki proved to be a decent receiving option for the Chiefs. He caught 47 passes for 556 yards and three touchdowns as a rookie and 33 passes for 453 yards and a touchdown last season. He's played in 30 games during his tenure in Kansas City.
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The Making of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1: 1929–1940
In 1923 Samuel Barclay Beckett, aged seventeen, was admitted to Trinity College, Dublin, to study Romance languages. He proved an exceptional student, and was taken under the wing of Thomas Rudmose-Brown, professor of French, who did all he could to advance the young man's career, securing for him on graduation first a visiting lectureship at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, then a position back at Trinity College.
After a year and a half at Trinity, performing what he called the "grotesque comedy of lecturing," Beckett resigned and fled back to Paris. Yet even after this letdown, Rudmose-Brown did not give up on his protégé. As late as 1937 he was still trying to nudge Beckett back into the academy, persuading him to apply for a lectureship in Italian at the University of Cape Town. "I may say without exaggeration," he wrote in a supporting letter, "that as well as possessing a sound academic knowledge of the Italian, French and German languages, [Mr Beckett] has remarkable creative faculty." In a postscript he added: "Mr Beckett has an adequate knowledge of Provençal, ancient and modern."
Beckett felt genuine fondness and respect for Rudmose-Brown, a Racine specialist with an interest in the contemporary French literary scene. Beckett's first book, a monograph on Proust (1931), though commissioned as a general introduction to this challenging new writer, reads more like an essay by a superior graduate student intent on impressing his professor. Beckett himself had severe doubts about the book. Rereading it, he "wondered what [he] was talking about," as he confided to his friend Thomas McGreevy. It seemed to be "a distorted steam-rolled equivalent of some aspect or confusion of aspects of myself…tied somehow on to Proust…. Not that I care. I don't want to be a professor."
What dismayed Beckett most about professorial life was teaching. Day after day this shy, taciturn young man had to confront in the classroom the sons and daughters of Ireland's Protestant middle class, and persuade them that Ronsard and Stendhal were worthy of their attention. "He was a very impersonal lecturer," reminisced one of his better students. "He said what he had to say and then left the lecture room…. I believe he considered himself a bad lecturer and that makes me sad because he was so good…. Many of his students would, unfortunately, agree with him." "The thought of teaching again paralyses me," Beckett wrote to McGreevy from Trinity in 1931 as a new term approached. "I think I will go to Hamburg as soon as I get my Easter cheque…and perhaps hope for the courage to break away." It took another year before he found that courage. "Of course I'll probably crawl back with my tail coiled round my ruined poenis [sic]," he wrote to McGreevy. "And maybe I wont."
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Setting your brand apart from the rest is practically the definition of marketing. Given the strict parameters of advertising on Google, the gatekeeper of the vast digital market, it can be a struggle.
It's no wonder, then, that on my last Econsultancy post discussing niche site strategy, a commenter wanted to know how to get that attractive, Google-branded check mark that distinguishes one PLA (Product Listing Ad) from the lineup.
For those of you who don't know, this check graphic designates a Google Trusted Store. It's an ecommerce certification.
Google grants this badge to sites that prove that they're fast and reliable shippers with a record of positive customer feedback.
Google will even reimburse a dissatisfied customer up to $1,000 if an ecommerce site violates this Google-bestowed trust.
In exchange for the endorsement, businesses give Google access to a significant amount of their data: items sold, shipping times, customer emails, feedback, and so on.
Google uses this stream of info to tabulate and broadcast info like shipping times and customer feedback to site visitors, continually verifying that the store meets its standards of good quality and service.
In his October 2011 post about the launch, Chris Lake wondered, would the badge improve service and satisfaction? And more ominously, would sharing data and metrics with Google become compulsory?
In the two years that have passed, Google has accrued an increasingly comprehensive view of the inner workings of many online businesses through its Trusted Stores channels.
On the marketing end, we have accumulated real experiences and data about the costs and benefits of the badges, which this post will break down.
As you can see in the PLAs above, there is still a sizable holdout of stores that have not added the badge. Given that PLAs have had a 600% increase in global traffic in the last year, you may want to get on the bandwagon.
If you still aren't convinced, I'd argue that joining is probably inevitable, so doing so sooner rather than later gives you an edge.
Benefit: cashing in on Google's name
If you're a recognizable brand like Macy's or Amazon, the Trusted Store badge will be less impactful. The biggest advantage the certification offers is credibility for first-time customers of smaller brands. SmartSign fits this profile.
We have thirty-some niche sites, none of which are household names. After adding the Trusted Store badges over a year ago, we didn't see any immediate bump in revenue (unlike the ecommerce sites featured in the Trusted Stores marketing video for merchants, which attribute big gains to the badge).
Our revenue has grown since the implementation, but it's impossible to attribute that to any one particular thing.
Still, we've seen many positive customer mentions of the added feeling of security that comes with the badges, and common sense tells us the value of a trusted third party's endorsement.
Cost: technical difficulties
Actually applying for the Google Trusted Stores certification requires high-level technical know-how. A partner and programmer at SmartSign, Abhay Purohit, shared that the major unforeseen difficulty in getting the badges was the unexpected need to convert all of the sites to doc-type files.
This added a month onto the application process, which took three months in total.
To get the badge, you'll also need to set up an in-house delivery system (just once, while the badges are being added), to transfer your information routinely to Google.
After implementation, there aren't any specific technical demands, but you'll need someone around to monitor and troubleshoot the daily release of information.
Benefit: an edge on the competition(for now)
As you can see in the row of PLAs above, the site with the badge stands out from its competitors. If you look at the Trusted Stores widget on a site, you'll see another advantage of adopting early.
The badge tallies the number of transactions since its implementation. If you join before your competitors, you can build an order history, which communicates competence and reliability to customers.
Google counts your certified orders by the tens of thousands (then it jumps into bigger increments). We got a head start on one of our competitors:
Ultimately, though, it's likely that the playing field will level. Order history and reputation will hit a threshold and depreciate in value after a certain number of transactions.
But if you're in a small segment, it could prove invaluable.
Cost: problematic shipping averages
Pride yourself on offering artisanal or custom products? Unfortunately, that could actually hurt you when it comes to the Trusted Stores badge.
The problem stems from the automated calculation of your average shipping time, which is displayed when a customer hovers over the Trusted Stores widget on your page.
Take, for example, the products offered on this custom parking signs page. There's a range of customizable design options; if someone orders from this selection, it will take more time than shipping a pre-made stock item.
In these cases, the average time to ship listed by the Trusted Store misrepresents true shipping estimates. Take, for example, a hypothetical pool cue store. Ordering a stock cue would take one week, and a custom cue would take three.
If the site had a Google Trusted badge, customers would expect a shipping time of two weeks, which would always be inaccurate.
The problem is not just that it might take the manufacturers longer to make the item, either. Custom items often require customer input.
In the case of MyParkingSign, the customer must approve an emailed proof of the custom sign before it gets made and shipped. Often, a customer takes a while to get back to the art team after the email is sent.
Maybe they're not in a hurry; maybe they're on a business trip. But all Google can see is the date ordered and the date received. So even if you're offering a service or custom product that customers love, your Trusted Stores badge would show a lower average than a competitor that has more limited options.
Hypothetically, this is also a way that a competitor could sabotage you, or a tech-savvy customer could claim a product deficiency in order to get a refund.
Cost or benefit? Giving Google your information
I suspect it won't be long, and perhaps just a couple of years, before the Google Trusted Stores badge becomes ubiquitous, and you must have one simply because you cannot be the only site without one.
In that scenario, the badge will be about as distinguishing as gold stars for participation in elementary school. Like it or not, we're seeing more evidence that Trusted Store badges do create (another) inevitable dependency on Google, as Lake foreshadowed.
As these badges pick up, Google has a rapidly growing flow of inside business information. Google could use this data for any number of things.
It could create wonderfully efficient, tailored tools for businesses, or it could potentially use this data to guide rankings. Ultimately, we don't know—but chances are, we will find out.
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You hit on a major point that google trusted stores doesn't cover everything in a shipping scenario. An item may arrive in the allotted time defined but different items ship differently - think a pair of shoes versus a couch. There are a lot of more important trustmarks out there that aren't easily gamed like the BBB in the US, or even verified review sites like a resellerratings. I think google has a lot of changes to make before more brands and ecommerce shops will fully adopt.
Agreed, Matthew. The shipping average is a pretty poor gauge of efficiency and quality, as is. I wonder what shorthand average would be preferable, though. Or perhaps they should just do away with shipping times altogether.
I think that it's important t have something about shipping, but Google needs to take into consideration the goods that are being delivered. I don't see why different shipping options couldn't be added - freight vs standard vs rush, etc, or just more parameters - was it handmade- was it made to order - was it delivered freight - etc. It would actually help them capture more data in the long run.
Agree that based on the information presented here it's pretty tough to determine if shipping is really fast on time etc.
But since Google closed a deal with Stella Service for its mystery shopping data of large number of online retailers the data becomes more valuable. Depending of the size of the Web Store they do a certain number of mystery orders, check how fast the goods will arrive, via DHL, UPS, etc, call, email, chat with the retailer, return the goods, wait for a refund etc.
In my opinion that will make it very interesting. Now wait for Stella Service to open up her service in Europe.
Never knew about Google Trusted Stores and the requirements are not all that crazy, so it might be worth exploring as it could help give a boost to ecommerce brands as well as tradtional stores as well.
It's also worth mentioning the cheap looking persistent badge they require to float on the bottom of your screen. That is a killer for luxury brands.
It's a PAID service - those are pay-per-click ads.
They allow only BIG businesses to join. Must have over 200 orders a month. Small boutiques and specialty stores cannot qualify.
Thus, Google gives the big businesses an unfair advantage over the smaller companies trying to grow their business and who concentrate on quality products and services, not the most that include cheapo products and inexperienced services.
Please research this deeper to find out what it really is about. It's not about helping the small merchant grow. It's about the money.
As someone who manages an ecommerce site with the trusted store badge, I can confirm that it is HARD to keep within their guidelines.
Unforeseen backorder issues and not being able to get tracking numbers from distributors can sink that ship in short order.
This is likely why most of the companies that enter into the program don't last more than a few months. Once you cross that threshold for the 90 day mark, poof - it's gone.
BUT, I can also say that's it's 100% worth it. We've noticed around a 5% increase in conversions since adding it, and that number is growing. If nothing else, it's really helping us monitor our customer service stats - the trusted store dashboard is at least pretty good for that!
great info all around...looking at a site I was a bit questionable about, price almost to good to be true...wondered if they had just pasted the "sign" to the site but looks legit, also see info on it at bottom of page with data as was mentioned...hmm, might be worth a shot, thanks so much.
My experience with google trusted store has not been positive. After exchanging emails for several days about a defective tv I purchased from tigerdirect I was dropped like a hot potato because I did not fill out some profile in the terms of service. I have no idea what that is nor was I asked to at any time. But without this profile they don't want to help. This is the worst experience I have ever had online.
What is to stop unscrupulous merchant fraud ?
For example creating its own customer orders to provide 5 star feedback.


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Rapid weight loss is not a false claim. People are doing it over and over again. Look at those celebrities, there must be a secret where they can go slim as and when they want to. In this weight loss tips article, you are not just going to learn the ways which you can use to lose weight. You are going to equip yourself with methods that can speed up your weight loss process.
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The reason is simple. By eating more meals in small quantities instead or three large meals, you will improve your metabolism rate and energy level at the same time. Forget about going on a diet or any kinds of starving program. The process is torturing and if you give up at any point of time, you will start stuffing yourself with more than double the diet you have before the program.
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What do I mean by a small meal? Well, one third of your current "three meals a day" meal size will be a good measure. More meals does not mean that you are going to have ten meals a day because it will not help. Our aim here is to avoid the food being stored in our body. Six small meals a day is the optimum amount of meals to have in order to lose weight fast.
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Fitness experts will tell you that the longer you exercise your body, the fitter that it will become. They said so because they are fitness experts who love exercising their body, period. Take up cardiovascular exercise such as running on the threadmill, cycling and rope skipping. Go through them intensely as if you are in a military training.
They seems hard but you only need to do that for a few minutes everyday. Your body may sore for the first few days but rest assured, it will get used to it and you probably want something that is more extreme by next week. It is not boring, at least, compared to those long distance walk and lame yoga, right?
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Why protein is the magic nutrient for rapid fat loss? First, protein fills you up faster and is not likely to be stored as fat compared to carbohydrates from rice, noodles and grain. Another great thing about protein is that it helps building the muscles. If you are doing the intense cardio exercise above, you need protein everyday to help your muscles recover.


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— East Carolina University researchers are evaluating the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the ocean floor in the Gulf region.
As part of a $150,000 National Science Foundation grant, nine ECU Geology and Coastal Resources Management faculty members and students will arrive in Louisiana next week to study how the hurricane shifted sediments, nutrients and chemicals in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya deltas. The data will provide new insight into seabed disturbances, which has important implications for geochemical and biological processes. Also, observations may help future evaluations of where to place pipelines and other infrastructure to best avoid harm from storms and other acts of nature.
"The recent crossing of Hurricane Katrina offers an unprecedented research opportunity and the potential to draw something positive from this catastrophic event," said Reide Corbett, a professor in geology, who is conducting the study along with ECU professors J.P. Walsh and David Mallinson.
The grant, which was recommended for funding this week, is for a two-year study of the deltas and adjacent continental margin. The ECU team is collaborating with faculty from Oregon State and Tulane universities.
For 10 days researchers will work aboard the research vessel Hatteras, a 135-foot University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System ship operated by the Duke/University Marine Laboratory. The scientists hypothesize that major weather events like Hurricane Katrina, which was a Category 5 hurricane when offshore, have a disproportionate role in the destabilization and redistribution of sediments and chemicals in the coastal waters of Louisiana.
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- Set your mower on a flat, level surface.
- Disconnect and ground the spark plug wire.
- If your mower has a battery, remove it by following the procedure for your specific mower.
- Drain the remaining fuel from the tank and run your mower to get rid of excess fuel. Wait for the engine to cool before you continue.
- Drain and replace oil, and change the filter.
- Check your machine for any broken or rusted parts, and repair or replace as needed.
- Clean dirt and grass clippings from your machine, and let dry thoroughly.
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