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5 Critical Aspects Of Your User Experience
The user experience. Everyone talks about it. Finally. It's a joy watching the field grow and getting recognized. People are beginning to realize that there is more to online success than having a functional website in place. More even than a high google ranking and good usability. By now, even the smallest company has found its way online, web technologies have evolved drastically, and with that people's expectations have grown.
Expectations that we need to meet in order to keep up with our competitors, but also with the overall standards people have become used to. In previous articles, we have discussed a series of things you can do to improve the overall user experience of your site – for example, with surprising details, whitespace, or video. Yet, there is so much more you can do.
The user experience is broader than just the design or some other details of your site. Here are essential aspects you should have in place for a good experience.
. Good findability
Let's start with a very crucial part of your website. You might argue that this is just too obvious to mention, but there are still too many sites out there that could do better. We're talking about whether or not people can find you. Obviously, if they can't, you can stop bothering about your experience right now.
So it all starts with being findable. How you do that is completely up to you, your business, and of course your users. Ask yourself questions like: What are people looking for? How do they look for you? Can they find you there? Or should you go out there looking for them? Make sure you know your target group well to truly understand their needs and motives.
SEO and SEA are certainly a big contributors to good findability. That's because most people use search engines to find information, products, and companies on the web. Just keep in mind, there are also other ways to draw attention to your site. For example: more traditional, offline strategies.
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Make sure people can find you, be it online or offline.
At Usabilla, we put a lot of focus on inbound marketing. By providing high quality and useful content to the community, people know to find us and they learn to appreciate Usabilla as a brand. At the same time, we actively reach out to our target group. For example, we recently attended the Emerce eDay, the largest annual e-business conference in the Benelux. Here we met many of our current and potential partners. Once people know your brand, they will find your website.
. A clear call to action
Once people have found your site, make sure you have a clear idea of what you expect them to do. Of course, your own ambitions shouldn't be the only ones that matter, and it's only natural if your 'user-centered' alarm goes off now. But we'll get to that in a minute. For now, let's focus on you and your agenda.
What is it that you want people to do on your site? Do you want them to read through your content word by word? Do you want them to give you a call to schedule an appointment? Or do you want them to sign up for a newsletter or online account? Either way, don't keep it to yourself.
The way you structure and present your content, and how you use your design have a big effect on the message you send to your visitors. For example, you can emphasize some aspects while making others appear less salient. A clear call to action can be key to converting your visitors.
The Firefox CTA
Make sure your call to action is salient, clear, and indicates trust.
There are plenty of guidelines for an effective call to action, but there are no rules. Whatever works best for your product, your design, and your users, is allowed. For example, Firefox has a rather simple and plain website with a big, shiny call to action. Besides the fact that the CTA is very bright, it also offers a lot of information, such as the name and language of the product, that it's a free download, and the logo indicates that it's a trustworthy Mozilla product. Clearly the main goal of this site is to get people to download the latest version of Firefox.
. Good usability
Next, there are the goals of your users that you need to keep in mind. What is it they are looking for and how do they go about finding it? Obviously you don't build a website out of pure kindness, but by also catering to your visitors' needs, you will also see benefits at the end.
This means by making your website usable, you allow your visitors to reach their own goals – quickly and without much hassle. Ideally their and your goals match and for them reaching a goal equals a conversion for you.
Good usability means your design and navigation structure are clean and clear. Your site is consistent, which means your visitors don't get confused or lost. Your site is trustworthy and matches your user's expectations in term of structure and functionality. And your content should be readable – on any device.
Usability of Nike.com
Nike.com makes it easy for visitors to find what they are looking for.
The Nike.com website perfectly illustrates what good usability is all about. Of course, a major goal of the site is to get people to buy stuff. Yet, the website is designed all around the user and their goals. For example, when looking at the navigation of the site, they offer two different starting point. You can either browse their collection by standard categories such as men, women, and children, or you go directly to your favorite sport. Nike understands that people often identify themselves through their sport. For example, this makes "Running" a much more important category than "Men".
. The personality factor
Who are you? What makes you special? And why should people trust you?
Questions like these can help you focus on your online credibility. The web is a big and sometimes scary place. To make sure your website doesn't drown among all the useless and anonymous sites out there, suit up and show some personality.
People are aware that going online means they literally interact with a machine. When visiting a website, they send a request and all they get back is some code translated to a graphical interface by their browser. Let's be honest, if we look at it like that, the Internet becomes a very sad and cold place – somewhere we'd rather not spend a lot of time.
By making your website more personal you can show that there are real people behind it. The website itself might be mediated, but the content and the interaction that comes with it involves real people. This way, your website not only becomes more credible, but also more attractive.
Your design can help you add personality to your site.
The graphic designer James Garner has done a great job adding personality to his website. His website offers a framework for presenting his work and at the same time it is a portfolio of his creativity itself. Everything you see has "James Garner" written all over it. The style is authentic and very consistent throughout the different sections of the website. This website is anything but technical and anonymous.
5. A lasting impression
Last but not least, it is important to make a lasting impression. It's great when people can find you. It's even better if they find their way around your site and reach their goals in a timely manner. But what do you do to make sure they come back? Will they tell their friends about your site, product, or brand?
There are many different ways in which you can create a lasting impression. For example through very special and intriguing design, high quality content, good humor,
or anything that appeals to your visitors.
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Heineken invites you to share your favorite Heineken picture with the world – and with your friends.
Heineken is known for their humorous and extraordinary ad campaigns. Be it the Walking Fridge, the Departure Roulette, or their latest special for "legendary travelers", the
Pic Your Travel site – Heineken is all about having a good time with your friends. Sharing is one of their key concepts – sharing experiences and sharing their content.


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Falk, who has said the George W. Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks, also called the Boston attack "retribution" for the actions of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
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It's a dirty job, and someone's gotta do it, but that person is not Matthew McConaughey. The actor was recently asked if he was "running home" from an event to change his almost 2-week-old son's diaper. "I was there this morning, so I guess I am running home. But I'm not changing the diapers," he said, according to People.
Unsurprisingly, McConaughey isn't the only celebrity who has "somebody" changing his baby. Saying you are anti-diaper-duty appears to be a common admission in Hollywood. But, wait! There are some A-listers who consider it one of their favorite pastimes. So in case you've been waiting for a roundup of celebrity quotes about diapers, er, here you go.


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Learning: Steps to Becoming a Passionate Lifelong Learner is Russell's second book. In it, he explains eight specific steps that will teach you how to become a passionate lifelong learner.
Russell Sarder, an entrepreneur who founded a leading learning organization that has helped more than 54 thousand professionals achieve their goals, has created this quote book. It is a brilliant resource that will help you discover what a lifelong passion for learning can do for your life and career.
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Scoring box office hit after box office hit, writing-directing duo Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (American Reunion, Harold & Kumar) are not going away anytime soon. (Well, until they score box office bomb after box office bomb.) With one project already set up at Universal, Variety now tell us they've partnered with Good Universe to focus on a raunchy comedy titled Cherries; the spec screenplay comes from Jim and Brian Kehoe, though the two directors in question will further flesh things out and, down the line, probably direct.
Its title is a slight, disgusting hint as to the plot's content, wherein three simple-minded fathers realize their daughters' prom night will lead to the taking of virginities. Knowing about their pact to score, the leads take it upon themselves to save a few people's dignity before things go pop. (Sorry.) A crass idea, but those can sometimes be the finest sort with which to launch any comedy — maybe even a franchise.
In whatever way, the current — most likely future, too — incarnation of Cherries' screenplay leaves room for future installments, something Hurwitz and Schlossberg's credits would indicate a familiarity with. But is it worth the treatment? Although there's skepticism on my own part, we'll be able to make a judgement when the work comes through.
Hurwitz and Schlossberg will be producing with Chris Cowles, while the Chinese company DMG Entertainment (Looper, Iron Man 3) are also throwing support.
Have you been keen on their prior work? Does Cherries sound like a good step?
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The Everywoman Tube Dress
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I saw a woman wearing a dress similar to this the other day, and decided it was the perfect style dress for a yard-and-a-half of West African fabric I recently bought. It was super easy to make (which is why I call it the Everywoman Dress); just two rectangles of fabric, with three rows of shirring around the chest, and below the breasts and bias tape finishing the top and bottom (blue polka-dotted bias tape on the top and white bias tape for the hem). I also added inseam pockets
Unfortunately, my shirring is really bad (I just don't think my machine does it very well), so I reinforced the shirring with two bands of elastic (around the chest and around the ribcage).
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Jun 16, 2011, 07.42 PMby WunderlandNYC
where did you find your fabric? Ive been looking for great prints!!
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Jun 17, 2011, 01.03 PMby daughterfish
I think the place is called the Fabric Garden (249 West 39th Street, btwn 8th and 9th). They have some rolls by the register and some more toward the back of the store. Hope this helps!
Jun 15, 2011, 07.25 PMby flowergirl22
i dont think I have to mentin the fabric again,, we all agree its one of a kind,, nice style too well done
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Jun 15, 2011, 10.51 PMby daughterfish
Thanks so much!
Jun 14, 2011, 12.36 PMby redviv
Brilliant fabric sets off the dress.
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Jun 14, 2011, 02.22 PMby daughterfish
Jun 14, 2011, 10.31 AMby ladyshape
Yet again more amazing fabric!
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Jun 14, 2011, 02.22 PMby daughterfish
Teehehe:) You'll just have to come over the ocean and I'll show you where to go!
Jun 13, 2011, 12.17 PMby melongrowergirl
You're my inspiration – I have some african fabric too, know I definitly know what to make out of it! Thanks for the description on your blog, I will need it. :-)
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Jun 13, 2011, 02.05 PMby daughterfish
Awesome! Hope it's easy to follow! I've really been loving sewing and wearing African fabrics this summer. They're perfect for hot days, and it just cheers me up to look a the bright colors! Good luck!
Jun 13, 2011, 10.54 AMby Dee Durrant
I love the fabric you've used and the bias tape just finishes it off nicely. I have a new machine and it struggled with shearing too – I had to dig out my old relic sewing machine where the bobin case is underneath rather than a top loading one. I made a very similar dress for my recent holiday to Australia and they are so comfortable to wear in the heat and there was no risk of those horrible tan lines you get when wearing a dress with straps.
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Jun 13, 2011, 12.00 PMby daughterfish
Thanks! It's too bad my machine doesn't make strong shirring, because it's so easy! I could see this dress being great on a vacation. I plan on wearing it on the beach a lot this summer. Pesky tan lines begone! (Or never even appear!:)).
Jun 13, 2011, 10.51 AMby poppykettle
I just love your fabric!
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Jun 13, 2011, 11.55 AMby daughterfish
Thanks so much! I didn't really want to cut into it because it's so pretty!:)
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Oceaneering International, Inc. announced it has acquired GTO Subsea AS (GTO) for approximately $45 million. GTO is a rental provider of specialized subsea dredging and excavation equipment, including remotely operated vehicle (ROV) deployed units, to the offshore oil and gas industry.
GTO equipment is used for the subsea suction, transport, and disposal of sand, clay, and rock associated with ocean floor construction, decommissioning, and drill support activities in support of offshore oil and gas exploration and production. GTO was established in 1999, is based in Kristiansund, Norway, and has an excellent operating reputation in the North Sea. GTO's technologically advanced equipment has also been utilized off Sakhalin Island and West Africa, and in the Gulf of Mexico.
T. Jay Collins, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are very pleased to add GTO's unique product line to our ROV tooling suite. For the entire year of 2008, GTO expects revenue of approximately $15 million. We therefore anticipate this acquisition will contribute about $12 million of revenue to our Subsea Products segment for the balance of this year and will be marginally accretive to our earnings.
"Given GTO's track record of success in the North Sea and our worldwide operating infrastructure, we will market this dredging and excavation equipment in conjunction with our ROV services on a global basis. We expect to grow the business as the oil and gas industry expands its level of subsea activity."


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Delphi Behavioral Health Group was created with the purpose to guide individuals, families, and communities to an improved life through quality, on-demand addiction and mental health services.
Delphi Behavioral Health Group operates a network of treatment programs and some of the top-rated rehab facilities to assist those suffering from addiction by giving them a second chance at sobriety and life. The road from addiction into recovery is difficult to face alone. However, with help from our highly trained professional staff, you will experience the opportunity to heal yourself with our comprehensive programs. Each of Delphi's professionals is committed to following global trends to stay up-to-date with advancements in information and technologies relating to issues of addiction and addiction treatment.
We treat addictions with various clinical approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy, drug detoxification, and after-treatment alumni groups. Treating addiction, however, is only part of the healing process. We are fundamentally committed to the continued prevention of drug and alcohol abuse.
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13 years later, Thad caught the marathon bug. His marathon quest began with the '97 NYC Marathon. Twelve years later, he's run 15 marathons all over the country from NYC to Baltimore to Nashville to Honolulu, and then some as well as on 50K Ultra Marathon.
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Organ transplantation in Japan
Organ transplantation in Japan is regulated by the 1997 Organ Transplant Law which legalized organ procurement from "brain dead" donors.[1] After an early involvement in organ transplantation that was on a par with developments in the rest of the world, attitudes in Japan altered after a transplant by Dr. Wada in 1968 failed, and a subsequent ban on cadaveric organ donation lasted thirty years. The first transplant after the Organ Transplant Law had defined "brain death" took place in February 1999.[2]
Due to cultural reasons and a relative distrust of modern medicine, the rate of organ donation in Japan is significantly lower than in Western countries.[3]
The first organ transplant in Japan took place at Niigata University in 1956 when a kidney was temporarily transplanted to a patient with acute renal failure.[4] In 1964 a permanent and full-scale kidney transplant was successfully undertaken at the University of Tokyo, and by 1992 nearly 9,000 kidney transplants had taken place.[5] In the same year, a liver transplant was performed at Chiba University by Professor Komei Nakayama.[6] The first heart transplant in Japan was conducted at Sapporo Medical University in 1968 by Dr Wada.[7] This operation attracted concerns that Dr. Wada's evaluation of brain death was inappropriate, and even though an investigation of possible criminal liability was dismissed, a distrust of organ transplanting developed, particularly of transplants from brain dead donors. This brought subsequent developments in transplanting to a halt.[6][8]
Cultural attitudes
The Japanese people's views regarding life, death, ethics and religion have influenced their negative attitude toward organ transplanting. The Wada heart transplant in 1968 increased a sense of apprehension, especially regarding the evaluation of brain death.[1] The Shinto religion regards death as impure, and has tainted connotations which have carried through into Japanese culture.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Japan Organ Transplant Network Organ Transplanting in Japan". www.jotnw.or.jp. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ "BBC News". news.bbc.co.uk. 1999-02-28. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ "Brain Death and Transplantation: The Japanese". Medscape. 2000-04-25. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
- ↑ "SpringerLink - Journal Article". www.springerlink.com. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ Case studies on human rights in Japan - Google Books. books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Asia -- de Villa and Lo 12 (11): 1321 -- The Oncologist". theoncologist.alphamedpress.org. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ "Organ Transplantation and Brain-Death in Japan.". www.bioethics.jp. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
- ↑ "Japan Organ Transplant Network The History of Transplanting". www.jotnw.or.jp. Retrieved 2010-07-05.


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Tony Duckett
Tony Duckett '85 remains the all-time assists leader in Lafayette's men's basketball history. He dished out a record 622 career assists as a four-year starter while netting 1,063 points.
He holds the record for assists in a season with 192 assists in his 1983-84 junior campaign, followed by 189 assists in 1984-85, which ranks second in Lafayette history. A team captain his senior year, Duckett started 101 games for Lafayette, scoring in double figures 51 times. He maintained a .748 free throw percentage throughout his career and tallied 20 or more points in a game nine times. Duckett was named to the East Coast Conference (ECC) First Team twice as well as the ECC All-Tournament team. As a senior, he was honored with the Charles Albert '08 award, which is presented to the college's top male athlete. Upon graduation, Duckett was drafted in the sixth round of the 1985 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks and later played on the European circuit.


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U.S. State Fire Code Enforcement: Ohio – Texas
The following list contains contact information for the Office of the Fire Marshal for each of the listed states. In some cases, the code enforcement agency may not be the Fire Marshal, which is noted. Important historical fires and disasters which have had an impact on fire codes are also detailed.
Every attempt has been made to ensure that this information is current, but for the latest information, always refer to the State or local agency responsible for code enforcement in your region.
| The Ohio Department of Commerce
Division of State Fire Marshal
8895 East Main Street
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
Phone: 614-752-8200 / 888-252-0803
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www.com.ohio.gov/fire/
The Office of the State Fire Marshal is a division of the Ohio Department of Commerce.Fire Facts:
| Office of the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal
2401 NW 23rd, Suite 4
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73107
Phone: 405-522-5005
Fax: 405-522-5028
Web: http://www.firemar.state.ok.us/
The State Fire Marshal's Office was established in 1910, and then abolished in 1957. Over the next few years, the need for the office was recognized and the State Marshal's Office was reestablished in 1965.Fire Facts:
| Office of State Fire Marshal
4760 Portland Road NE
Salem, OR 97305-1760
Phone: 503-378-3473
Fax: 503-373-1825
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://www.oregon.gov/OSP/SFM/
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| Office of the State Fire Commissioner
2605 Interstate Drive
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Phone: 717-651-2200 / 800-670-3473
Fax: 717-651-2210
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://www.osfc.state.pa.us/
Pennsylvania State Police
Office of the Fire Marshal
1800 Elmerton Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Phone: 717-783-5528
Over 90% of Pennsylvania's municipalities administer and enforce building codes locally. For the other regions, code enforcement in Pennsylvania resides with the Department of Labor & Industry. The Office of the State Fire Marshal is part the Pennsylvania State Police Law Enforcement department and has jurisdiction over arson investigation. The first Pennsylvania fire commissioner was appointed in 1976 and is responsible for the training and development of Pennsylvania fire and emergency response.Fire Facts:
Rhode Island
| Rhode Island Office of the State Fire Marshal
118 Parade Street
Providence, RI 02909
Phone: 401-472-4200
Fax: 401-462-4250
Web: http://www.fire-marshal.ri.gov/
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South Carolina
| Office of the State Fire Marshal
South Carolina Division of Fire and Life Safety
141 Monticello Trail
Columbia, SC 29203
Phone: 803-896-9800
Web: http://www.scfiremarshal.llronline.com/
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| South Dakota Department of Public Safety
Office of the State Fire Marshal
118 West Capitol Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501
Phone: 605-773-3562
Fax: 605-773-6631
Web: http://dps.sd.gov/emergency_services/state_fire_marshal/default.aspx
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| Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance
Office of the State Fire Marshal
500 James Robertson Pkwy
Nashville, TN 37243-0565
Phone: 615-741-2981
Fax: 615-741-1583
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Web: http://tn.gov/commerce/sfm/
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333 Guadalupe
Austin, Texas 78701
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History of Modern Art: Suprematism and Constructivism
The Suprematism Movement
Suprematism was an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, in 1915. The term suprematism refers to an art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects.
Kasimir Malevich originated Suprematism when he was an established painter having exhibited in the Donkey's Tail and the Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) exhibitions of 1912 with cubo-futurist works. The proliferation of new artistic forms in painting, poetry and theatre as well as a revival of interest in the traditional folk art of Russia provided a rich environment in which a Modernist culture was born. In "Suprematism" (Part II of his book The Non-Objective World, which was published 1927 in Munich as Bauhaus Book No. 11), Malevich clearly stated the core concept of Suprematism: "Under Suprematism I understand the primacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth."
He created a suprematist "grammar" based on fundamental geometric forms; in particular, the square and the circle. In the 0.10 Exhibition in 1915, Malevich exhibited his early experiments in suprematist painting. The centerpiece of his show was the Black Square, placed in what is called the red/beautiful corner in Russian Orthodox tradition ; the place of the main icon in a house. "Black Square" was painted in 1915 and was presented as a breakthrough in his career and in art in general. Malevich also painted White on White which was also heralded as a milestone. "White on White" was a breakthrough from polychrome to monochrome Suprematism.
On video: Discussion about Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville (Impressionism) and Malevich's White on White (Suprematism)
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The Constructivism movement
Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement. Its influence was pervasive, with major impacts upon architecture, graphic and industrial design, theatre, film, dance, fashion and to some extent music.
The term Construction Art was first used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of Alexander Rodchenko in 1917.Constructivism first appears as a positive term in Naum Gabo's Realistic Manifesto of 1920. Alexei Gan used the word as the title of his book Constructivism, which was printed in 1922.
Constructivism was a post-World War I development of Russian Futurism, and particularly of the 'corner-counter reliefs' of Vladimir Tatlin, which had been exhibited in 1915. The term itself would be invented by the sculptors Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo, who developed an industrial, angular style of work, while its geometric abstraction owed something to the Suprematism of Kasimir Malevich. IZO, the Commissariat's artistic bureau, was managed during the Russian Civil War mainly by Futurists, who published the journal Art of the Commune. Constructivism in Moscow was represented by VKhUTEMAS, the school for art and design established in 1919. Gabo later stated that teaching at the school emphasized political and ideological discussion rather than art-making. Despite this, Gabo himself designed a radio transmitter in 1920 (and would submit a design to the Palace of the Soviets competition in 1930).
As much as involving itself in designs for industry, the Constructivists worked on public festivals and street designs for the post-October revolution Bolshevik government. Perhaps the most famous of these was in Vitebsk, where Malevich's UNOVIS Group painted propaganda plaques and buildings (the best known being El Lissitzky's poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)).
Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky's declaration 'the streets our brushes, the squares our palettes', artists and designers participated in public life during the Civil War. A striking instance was the proposed festival for the Comintern congress in 1921 by Alexander Vesnin and Liubov Popova, which resembled the constructions of the OBMOKhU exhibition as well as their work for the theatre. There was a great deal of overlap during this period between Constructivism and Proletkult, the ideas of which concerning the need to create an entirely new culture struck a chord with the Constructivists. In addition some Constructivists were heavily involved in the 'ROSTA Windows', a Bolshevik public information campaign of around 1920. Some of the most famous of these were by the poet-painter Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladimir Lebedev.
What is the difference of Constructivism and Suprematism?
Malevich's Suprematism is fundamentally opposed to the post-revolutionary positions of Constructivism and materialism. Constructivism, with its cult of the object, is concerned with utilitarian strategies of adapting art to the principles of functional organization. Under Constructivism, the traditional easel painter is transformed into the artist-as-engineer in charge of organizing life in all of its aspects.
Suprematism, in sharp contrast to Constructivism, embodies a profoundly anti-materialist, anti-utilitarian philosophy. In "Suprematism" (Part II of The Non-Objective World), Malevich writes:
Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without "things" (that is, the "time-tested well-spring of life").
Jean-Claude Marcadé has observed that "Despite superficial similarities between Constructivism and Suprematism, the two movements are nevertheless antagonists and it is very important to distinguish between them." According to Marcadé, confusion has arisen because several artists – either directly associated with Suprematism such as El Lissitzky or working under the suprematist influence as did Rodchenko and Liubov Popova – later abandoned Suprematism for the culture of materials.
Suprematism does not embrace a humanist philosophy which places man at the center of the universe. Rather, Suprematism envisions man – the artist – as both originator and transmitter of what for Malevich is the world's only true reality – that of absolute non-objectivity.
…a blissful sense of liberating non-objectivity drew me forth into a "desert", where nothing is real except feeling… ("Suprematism", Part II of The Non-Objective World)
For Malevich, it is upon the foundations of absolute non-objectivity that the future of the universe will be built – a future in which appearances, objects, comfort, and convenience no longer dominate.
Legacy and Influence of Constructivism
The Constructivists were early developers of the techniques of photomontage. Gustav Klutsis' 'Dynamic City' and 'Lenin and Electrification' (1919–20) are the first examples of this method of montage, which had in common with Dadaism the collaging together of news photographs and painted sections. However Constructivist montages would be less 'destructive' than those of Dadaism. Perhaps the most famous of these montages was Rodchenko's illustrations of the Mayakovsky poem About This.
LEF also helped popularise a distinctive style of photography, involving jagged angles and contrasts and an abstract use of light, which paralleled the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Germany: the major practitioners of this included, along with Rodchenko, Boris Ignatovich and Max Penson, among others. This also shared many characteristics with the early documentary movement. Meanwhile LEF produced an architectural version, the OSA group directed by Alexander Vesnin and Moisei Ginzburg – for more information see Constructivist architecture.
The book designs of Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and others such as Solomon Telingater and Anton Lavinsky were a major inspiration for the work of radical designers in the West, particularly Jan Tschichold. Many Constructivists worked on the design of posters for everything from cinema to political propaganda: the former represented best by the brightly coloured, geometric posters of the Stenberg brothers (Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg), and the latter by the agitational photomontage work of Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina.
A number of Constructivists would teach or lecture at the Bauhaus schools in Germany, and some of the VKhUTEMAS teaching methods were adopted and developed there. Gabo established a version of Constructivism in England during the 1930s and 1940s that was adopted by architects, designers and artists after World War I (see Victor Pasmore), and John McHale. Joaquín Torres García and Manuel Rendón were instrumental in spreading Constructivism throughout Europe and Latin America. Constructivism had an effect on the modern masters of Latin America such as: Carlos Mérida, Enrique Tábara, Aníbal Villacís, Theo Constanté, Oswaldo Viteri, Estuardo Maldonado, Luis Molinari, Carlos Catasse, João Batista Vilanova Artigas and Oscar Niemeyer, to name just a few. There have also been disciples in Australia, the painter George Johnson being the best known.
In the 1980s graphic designer Neville Brody used styles based on Constructivist posters that initiated a revival of popular interest. Also during the 1980s designer Ian Anderson founded The Designers Republic, a successful and influential design company which uses constructivist principles.
So-called Deconstructivist architecture was developed by architects Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and others during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Zaha Hadid by her sketches and drawings of abstract triangles and rectangles evokes the aesthetic of constructivism. Though similar formally, the socialist political connotations of Russian constructivism are deemphasized by Hadid's deconstructivism. Rem Koolhaas' projects revive another aspect of constructivism. The scaffold and crane-like structures represented by many constructivist architects are used for the finished forms of his designs and buildings.
Cinematic influences include Bulgarian born animator Theodore Ushev's 2006 brief film Tower Bawher. Inspired by Russian constructivist art, the animated short features visual references to artists of the era including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.
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As riots go it must be said that we didn't have too a bad one. As the Shabbos boredom reached its zenith some action was delivered quite literally to our doorsteps and no one can accuse us of not rising to the challenge.
While rioters around us were breaking windows our locals broke bread with them and lent a hand to shift some of those heavy boxes. We should now look forward to a Yiddish letter to the News Update signed 'A Concerned Looter' advising that when doing returns, if you don't have a receipt you can always ask for a credit voucher. However, rumours that some of them helped themselves to 50" plasmas are patently false since they would not by any means fit into a bedroom cupboard. There would also be no use for sneakers or Crocs which the gedoilim have ruled to be non-kosher footwear for Tisha B'Av.
Of course we were taken aback by the overt anti semitism of the rioters who chose to ignore us altogether. This is surely an issue that must be looked at by the anti boycott and delegitimisers. It may have been perfectly understandable while the rioting was taking place in Tottenham when we did our bit by forming a human chain which included that shameful scene of a chasidic husband holding his wife's hand in public and on TV.
But when rioting broke out in balbatishe areas such as Ealing and Croydon some hard questions were asked. Why not us, we demanded from our Dear Leaders who considered putting off their Margate and Bournemouth holidays to deal with the crisis. Surely Shomrim can arrange something better than a few straggling rioters lost between Brixton and Enfield. It took a letter from the Grand Leader himself and Shomrim members were finally spotted heroically waving 2-ways at passing traffic and contacting the uncontactable police every time a cleaning lady passed with a carrier bag. 'Never leave them unattended for a minute', they yelled into their halachically adapted mobiles, 'or they may walk off with your fleishige kitchen sink.' Jewish women of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your goites.
A special meeting of our own Cobra, which goes by the name of the Jewish Community Liaison Committee, was hastily convened at which a resolution was unanimously passed calling on all bakeries to hand out pastries, rogelech and cheesecake as well as challah. Meanwhile beards were trapped in riot gear and tzitzis tangled in stab-proof vests to deal with the Independent Advisory Group muscling in on the action. We have one official spokesman, one person licensed to speak to the old bill, one liaison committee, one vigilante group and the rest can go and watch the action. Though in an unusually strongly worded letter, local Rabbonim urged spectators to cover their faces so as not to cause a chilul hashem.
Calm was finally restored with a visit to the affected area by representatives of the IAG, JCLC, UOHC and SHSRP. The public was assured by the announcement that the number of committees would be increased from 160 to 1600 and that the situation was being closely monitored so that further acronyms may be released should the need arise. Confidence was further restored by the leaking of a transcript of the telephone conference between the chairman of the JCLC, the Secretary General of United Nations and the head of Mossad. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the public made a peaceful exodus during the following weekend while showing an admirable coolness under fire and brimstone.


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Sometimes we all feel that our creative selves have been buried beneath a mound of responsibilities, stress, boredom and other real life stuff.
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I'm on holiday for some of the time the course is running, does that mean I can't join in? Would it still be okay to enrol and do it daily when I get back ?
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UPDATE: Spokesman for the governor responds, says Barbour is not a racist
After facing scrutiny for praising a segregationist group, a spokesman for Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told TalkingPointsMemo that "you're trying to paint the governor as a racist and nothing could be further from the truth."
The governor recently praised the Citizens' Council, a group that fought racial desegregation during the civil rights-era, for preventing violence in his hometown of Yazoo City.
"It was an organization in Yazoo City that was, you know, a group of the town leaders and business people," Dan Turner, the official spokesman Gov. Barbour, said. "Tell me what in Gov. Barbour's past gives any indication of any racist leanings, and I'll be glad to address the question… There's nothing in his past that shows that."
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In a recent profile published by conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential Republican presidential candidate, praised a civil rights-era organization dedicated to blocking racial integration.
Barbour claimed that the Citizens Council movement helped avert violence in his hometown of Yazoo City, after schools were ordered to desegregate.
There was no violence "because the business community wouldn't stand for it," he said. "You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
The White Citizens' Council, later known as the Citizens' Councils of America, fought against racial desegregation in the fifties and sixties after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Unlike the Klu Klux Klan, the segregationist group publicly renounced the use of violence, preferring to use economic reprisals against those who supported desegregation.
During his 2003 gubernatorial election campaign Gov. Barbour received criticism from Democrats and others for appearing in a photo at a barbecue sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the Citizens' Councils of America. The photo appeared on the Council of Conservative Citizens website next to a blurb calling for the release of neo-Nazi author Ernest Zundel.
The group is currently planning a boycott of Marvel Studios upcoming movie Thor because it "gives Norse mythology an insulting multi-cultural make-over" by having a black man play a Norse deity.
Gov. Barbour said the segregationist group's views were "indefensible" but allowed the group to keep his photo on their website. "Once you start down the slippery slope of saying, 'That person can't be for me,' then where do you stop?"
He also told the The Weekly Standard that he attended a speech by the civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr. in 1962 while was in high school, but was not all that interested in King's speech.
"I don't really remember," Gov. Barbour said. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do. We paid more attention to the girls than to King."
Gov. Barbour, who is also the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, is expected to run for president in 2012.
"A year ago, he was saying no way, but now he's saying to [donors and operatives] to keep their powder dry," a friend of the governor told Politico.


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Everyone was off by one digit. Rumors have been swirling about the replacement for the 575M Maranello for months, and disguised prototype cars had been spotted on the streets surrounding the Ferrari factory. The future model, according to the automotive grapevine, would be called the 600 Imola to represent the 6.0-liter displacement of its V-12 engine and the Italian racetrack. Now, Ferrari has announced that the car actually will be called the 599GTB, as the company has chosen a literal interpretation of the V-12's displacement, which is 5999 cubic centimeters. The letters GTB, of course, have a long history in Ferrari's model lineup, in such noteworthy models as the 275GTB and the 365GTB4.
The 599GTB, Ferrari says, is its most powerful V-12-engined production car of all time. The V-12, which is also in the 612 Scaglietti two-plus-two coupe, is derived directly from the engine in the Enzo Ferrari supercar and will produce at least 620 hp at 7600 rpm for a power-to-weight ratio of only 5.7 pounds per horsepower. (That translates to an estimated curb weight of 3534 pounds.)
The 599GTB's chassis and body will, according to Ferrari, "adopt the latest evolution in the company's tried and tested all-aluminum construction." The exterior has been designed by Pininfarina, and the car is very clearly related to the 612 Scaglietti, although much better-looking.
The 599GTB will carry on Ferrari's proud tradition of front-engine, V-12, two-passenger berlinettas, picking up the torch from the outgoing 575M Maranello and its immediate predecessor, the 550 Maranello. Some 5700 examples of those cars were built in the past decade.


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Both my parents and I are confident that we know the truth. But the problem is that we have both developed different conclusions.
I am 22 and was raised in an incredibly strict environment and raised to love God more than anything. Everything my parents did involved their love for us kids. They never wavered in their love. But they never wavered in the fact that they were right. There was never a doubt in their mind that they had interpreted Scripture right, and I/we could never question their doctrine or convictions.
I am now working at a Christian camp serving the Lord in this mission field. My parents are very nosy, because they really do care about me. About two months ago my dad asked me straightforward about alcohol. I avoided the answer as best I could because I knew judgment and condemnation were coming. I was afraid! So I avoided talking to my dad completely for two months. I didn't want to dive into that topic!
Then about two weeks ago my aunt passed away, and it made me think through my life and regrets that I might have. So I decided that no matter the cost I was going to be honest with my dad and just spill the beans about my belief about alcohol. I wanted him to know that I felt like it was biblically OK to drink alcohol in certain environments and with purposeful motives, and lots of other restrictions.
Long story short, they think that I am going to hell and that they have to tell me the truth no matter what the cost is. They don't want to see their daughter go to hell over this alcohol thing, so they must take charge of my sanctification process.
In the meantime, I have to wonder about how I am supposed to respond to this situation. I understand that I am called to honor my parents, I understand that they love me, I understand that God has given me different convictions than theirs, I understand that I must love no matter what. But they are telling all of my younger siblings that I am "lost" and addicted to sin and on the wrong path. I don't know if I can go home and face them again. But I desperately want a relationship with them.
How do I honor God and them through this? How do I pursue a relationship with them?
I don't believe this is really about drinking alcohol. I'm going to go out on a limb here and take a guess that your parents' theology is not so much that drinking alcohol sends one to hell, but that acts of sin send one to hell, and that in your case, that sin happens to be drinking alcohol. In other words, the believer is only as good with God as his last act of sin and repentance.
If I'm right, then the heart of the issue is not alcohol, but the theology of holiness, sin, repentance, forgiveness and the eternal security (or lack thereof) of the believer. Those are waters too deep for us to wade into here, but know that there is often more than meets the eye when these kinds of issues arise.
But we're not going to try to get them to agree with you or change their theology, nor are we going to try to get you to agree with them. Those beliefs are what they are, and only the Holy Spirit can bring us into His convictions about sin as we mature in Christ. There are times to battle on that hill, but I don't think this is one of them. Right now we want to make peace.
Based on your description of your parents' strong conviction, you will not change their minds by bringing a better argument or better logic.
First, if you are not regularly taking this before God in prayer, you shouldn't expect anything to change. In fact, it will likely worsen. That's just how much I believe in the power of prayer (really, the power of God) to bring miraculous change in the midst of situations that seemed there was no solution. (I realize that so much of my advice in my columns starts with prayer, but I've come to a place where I no longer assume that people are doing that, I mean really doing that, with their problems.)
Next, there comes a time, and you're there, when we each must "work out" our own salvation. Your parents had to do it. Their parents had to do it. We all have to do it. Just like when the time comes to leave the house we grew up in and launch out on our own, so comes the time when we ease out of our reliance upon others' faith and must know God and His heart for ourselves.
That is not always easy; it may even be costly in terms of our relationships. To follow a conviction we have from God that goes against the grain of even those we love the most can be painful. That's when we need to count the cost of our convictions and decide whether we're willing to pay the price for them.
You are 22 years old and out of the house and making it on your own. If as best as you can discern, Scripture and God are saying one thing and your parents are saying another, then you must make that hard choice of whom will you serve.
Also, I'm only one voice. Seek the advice of older Christians whom you respect and trust, and see what they have to say about this. Many have gone down this road before you and will likely have good wisdom to offer.
Finally, you walk this road in the way of grace and love. You can be right about everything, but if you don't love, you've lost. Ask God to show you how to love and serve your parents extravagantly, in the midst of your disagreement, in a way that brings Him great glory. Over time, your life and the fruit of God's Spirit in your life will make its own statement.
You can do little more than pray earnestly, follow God, seek wisdom, love and serve extravagantly. When these become your habits during disagreements, you can trust God to bring His solution. And that's the one we all want.
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Seitz on the 2014 Academy Awards: It's Hard to Completely Screw Up the Oscars Telecast
It was too long. The repartee was weak. Too many montages. And it was still wonderful.

The Academy Awards telecast was too long. It didn't spend its time wisely. The repartee was weak. There were too many montages and too many moments where the stars, the host included, seemed full of themselves. And it was still awesome. Why? Probably because the Oscars telecast is by its nature un-screw-upable. It's a singular event: a three-plus hour live broadcast (six if you count the televised red carpet arrivals) that lets us watch impeccably dressed famous people go off-script, make mistakes (John Travolta's mis-pronouncination of Idina Menzel's name was the low point), struggle to balance personal pride with awareness of historical injustice (the awards for 12 Years a Slave and the AIDS-era drama Dallas Buyers' Club sat rather uncomfortably amid the glamour and lightheartedness), and otherwise let what seem like authentic personalities shine through makeup-airbrushed facades.
Most of all, the broadcast is about loving movies and being fascinated by Hollywood glamour — two hours of red-carpet arrivals, people! — and wanting to be present when elder members of showbiz's royal family are celebrated (see Jim Carrey's unnerving impression of Best Actor nominee Bruce Dern) and new members inducted (somebody get Lupita Nyong'o an Audrey Hepburn part, preferably opposite Idris Elba in a tux).
And, more so now than probably ever, it's about the dream that the entertainment machine will become more accessible to artists who aren't white, and international in ways that aren't just a matter of accents.
If both last night's presentation and the awards it handed out are any indication, limited but visible progress has been made. Even when host Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first out gay female star, was stretching out the show's running time like a strand of pizza cheese, there was a refreshing big-tent sensibility. If the show was going to run long yet again, it was nice to see the likes of Lupita Nyong'o and her brother and seatmate Junior goofing around, taking part in a tweeted selfie and joining DeGeneres's prolonged pizza-ordering gag (after being comically hassled for money, Nyong'o rooted around in her purse and handed Ellen a tube of lip gloss).
The broadcast featured more black presenters than any Oscar telecast, and made room for a 50th anniversary celebration of Sidney Poitier becoming the first black man to win a statuette as Best Actor (for 1963's Lilies of the Field, honored during the 1964 telecast). Poitier co-presented the directing award to Gravity, which was directed by Alfonso Cuarón, the first Latino to take the prize in his category, and photographed by six-time nominee Emmanuel Lubezki, also Mexican-born. After enduring a near-shutout in major categories besides Supporting Actress, and being the target of a pretty sharp white liberal guilt barb by DeGeneres (who said at the top of the broadcast that there were two possible outcomes: Slave wins Best Picture or the Academy is racist), Steve McQueen's historical drama slid in under the finish line to take the top prize. The statuette was presented by Will Smith, the top-grossing African-American film star in history, and capped by McQueen literally jumping for joy.
It seems fitting that the broadcast's emotional peak was a celebration of the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, everybody's favorite fable about a humble, anonymous traveler remaking herself in a land full of exotically dressed, magical creatures. The segment was introduced by Whoopi Goldberg, one of a handful of African-American performers to win an Oscar, and made Emma Watson, the English-born co-star of another great fantasy, the Harry Potter franchise, tear up at the film's mere description. The film clips were so innately powerful that not even Pink's of-the-moment vocal stylings while covering "Over the Rainbow" could break the spell.
It was, all things considered, an unusually emotional telecast, once you factored out the almost-four-hour length, the poorly articulated "Heroes" theme that ate up screen time with lumpy montages, and the crass ads for Samsung disguised as celebrations of the "Team Oscar" internship program.
The show was filled with authentic, sometimes authentically bizarre moments. Two involved Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey: his presentation alongside Kim Novak (the award to animated film went to Frozen; the facial surgery jokes write themselves, unfortunately) and his three-minute, Elmer Gantry–like soliloquy at the end, in which he thanked God and his mother and informed us that since he was a boy, his hero has always been himself in ten years. (My hero is myself in 30 years. I am wearing a jet pack.) Blue Jasmine star Cate Blanchett teared up during her Oscar speech and somewhat pointedly thanked her writer and director Woody Allen, whose name is mud right now, and perhaps for all time. The image of Pharrell Williams, Best Song nominee for Despicable Me 2's "Happy," inspiring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams to dance was great, but it didn't define the telecast like the sight of his first partner, Nyong'o, spontaneously getting all the way up out of her seat and shimmying in the aisle. It felt like she didn't just belong there but had always been there somehow, for as many years as Streep, and had starred in just as many great movies. Here's hoping. "No matter where you're from," the Kenyan Nyong'o said in her acceptance speech, "Your dreams are valid."


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This is an update for our extended Association for Creative Industries AFCI (formerly Craft & Hobby Association) family; a more focused lens directed on what is topical and trending.
Each month I ask a group made up of designers, educators, authors and others to share their observations of trends that relate to our industry. I assemble the content and share it via my blog and through the AFCI membership email.
Here are our latest observations:
"Resistance imagery will be everywhere as people take personal stands on many different issues. They will wear their opinions through textiles and jewelry featuring words and symbols. The trends I am also picking up include unusual mix and matching. Wood and crystal, feathers and wool, metal and glass. Designers are gathering different fibers and surfaces and joining them."
Carmi Cimicata
Social Media Manager for John Bead Corp. and ILOVERESIN.com
"I am seeing women go crazy with coloring their hair! Blues, pinks, yellows, greens. And it's not age dependent either. All age ranges are doing this!"
Katherine Swift
Owner, Resin Obsession, LLC
Owner, Resin Obsession, LLC
"No longer confined to your Granny's sitting room, needle arts including embroidery and crochet are huge right now. I am seeing lots of both in the fashion and home decor markets."
Kelly Panacci
Art Licensor and Founder of Kelly Panacci Inc.
"Here's what I spotted at AFCI: Succulents in all forms, planners and accessories, and fairy gardens. On line, I am seeing a growing interest in Junk Journals- these are journals that you can add almost anything to- junk mail envelopes, tea dyed scrap paper pages, ephemera of all kinds tucked in everywhere- and no need to be neat about it!"
Eileen Hull
Author, Artist and Adventurer
Licensed Designer for Sizzix and Clearsnap
"Pom poms & tassels have hit a huge trend. Recently noticed a huge display of all different kinds of scarves, pocketbooks, summer hats, and jewelry at Nordstrom's featuring pom-poms tassels and dots. Anxious to see how many people pick up on it!"
Suze Weinberg
Suze Weinberg Designs
"Patches, patches and patches. Embroidered motifs/applications on clothing... H&M, Zara, J Crew, River Island, TopMan - men and women's collections feature it on their clothing."
Fernando DaSilva
Fernando DaSilva
Creative Director for John Bead Corp
"What hasn't been covered much until now, which actually really surprises me, is the popularity of Cosplay and it's continued increase in popularity."
Roberta Birbaum
President, AFCI Canada
"I feel like metallics and bright colors are both on going trends with interesting twists. I saw a lot of bright jewel tone colors, but this time they have special finishes like pearl, Frost, or hammered metal. Even iridescent jewel tones! And of course foils are still going strong!"
Jenny Barnett Rohrs
Television Host (TV Host) at Hands On Crafts for Kids
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"I'm seeing Rose Gold still continuing as a huge trend. And more and more products with metallic accents in every color, especially papers, embossing powders, ribbons, etc. It's very exciting and very shiny!!"
Laura J Weed
Graphics, Social Media & Website Coordinator
"Gold, gold and more gold. Gold with pink for a pretty girly look, gold with black typography and or quotes for a trendy contrast, gold mixed with florals for a sophisticated wedding décor."
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Program Overview
The mission of the Paralysis Resource Center (PRC) operated by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is to improve the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information, and advocacy. The PRC provides comprehensive information for people living with spinal cord injury, paralysis, and mobility-related disabilities and their families. Resources include information and referral by phone and email in multiple languages including English and Spanish; a peer and family support mentoring program; a military and veterans program; multicultural outreach services; free lending library; quality of life grants; and a national website.
Learn about another ACL program funded by NIDILRR: Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center: Spinal Cord Injury.
Project Goals
A resource center with dedicated information specialists; a resource-rich website containing customized materials including fact sheets, Paralysis Resource Guide, and educational and health promotion videos and wallet cards; and a national clearinghouse library of materials available at no charge to the public.
A comprehensive outreach program dedicated to increasing the quality of life of individuals from underserved and minority communities including the African American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian American, LGBT, and rural communities.
The National Peer and Family Support Program provides certified trained peer mentors to assist individuals living with paralysis and related mobility impairments, their family members, and caregivers.
A national program that successfully translates activity-based therapies including treadmill therapy from academic clinical centers to community fitness and wellness centers to improve the physical health and functional ability of individuals with spinal cord injuries and other paralyzing conditions.
A national Quality of Life program that awards grants to paralysis-focused nonprofit, community-based organizations so that they may implement programs aimed at improving the health, wellness, and independence of people living with paralysis and other physical disabilities, including a new innovative High Impact Assistive Technology Grant Program making grants to state programs funded through the State Assistive Technology Act Program and funding to support efforts to transition people living with paralysis from nursing homes to community living.
National surveillance that increases understanding of the true impact of paralysis by disease category, injury, and quality of life indicators that are used to shape and revise PRC programs and services, as well as provide accurate and timely information to other disability organizations, including federal agencies.
A public policy program that provides outreach and education to elevate the voices of people living with paralysis and their families through education and outreach efforts in the areas of community-based long-term services and supports, enhanced family caregiver support, health insurance, and access to rehabilitation technologies.
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John Joseph Deering
John Deering has lived in Northeastern Ohio for the greater part of his life. In addition to two short trips to Europe he has also toured some farside Pacific islands and lands, courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps. At the end of WWII John was sent to the South Pacific as a 2nd lieutenant, and five years later, he was recalled as a 1st lieutenant and saw limited combat duty in Korea with the 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
Deering is the father of six adult children, divorced, and retired from the world of business and commerce. His present interests revolve around desktop publishing.
Other unpublished works that he has written include four plays, some humorous and not so humorous essays, poetry and a work much larger than his published work, God, Was She a Man, Or Is He a Woman?
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CHICAGO (AP) – A high-ranking member of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and son of one of the drug ring's leaders pleaded guilty to drug trafficking a year ago and has been cooperating with authorities, federal prosecutors in Chicago announced Thursday.
Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, who described himself as a "trusted lieutenant" of his father, pleaded guilty in April 2013 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute multiple kilograms of cocaine and heroin between 2005 and 2008, according to a plea agreement unsealed Thursday.
Zambada, 39, was indicted in Chicago and arrested in Mexico City in 2009, and extradited in 2010.
Also named in the indictment are cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was captured in February, and Zambada's father, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada-García. He is considered to be a close ally of Guzmán's in running the cartel and is not in custody.
There is no indication that information Jesus Zambada provided helped lead to Guzmán's capture at a hotel in Mexico.
According to the plea agreement, Zambada told authorities he acted as a surrogate and logistical coordinator for his father, sending and receiving messages about cartel operations and at times coordinating deliveries of narcotics from Central and South America to Mexico and into the United States, including Chicago.
The document also states Zambada was responsible for distributing multiple tons of cocaine, sometimes moving hundreds of kilograms of the drug on a weekly basis, between 2005 and 2008.
Federal authorities have said Guzmán made Chicago a primary distribution hub, relying on the city's extensive train, airport and highway systems to transport narcotics to U.S. points in the Midwest and beyond. The plea agreement describes a multinational operation in which the cartel used "stash houses," or offices, in multiple cities to store drugs, cash and weapons and used violence and threats of violence to law enforcement and rival cartels.
Zambada faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a maximum fine of $4 million, said Zachary T. Fardon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. But Fardon said prosecutors could request a shorter prison term if they determine Zambada has sufficiently cooperated.
"This guilty plea is a testament to the tireless determination of the leadership and special agents of DEA's Chicago office to hold accountable those individuals at the highest levels of the drug trafficking cartels who are responsible for flooding Chicago with cocaine and heroin and reaping the profits," Fardon said.
Zambada also agreed to forfeit more than $1.37 billion. A sentencing date has not been set.
One of Zambada's attorneys, Fernando X. Gaxiola said neither he nor the other attorneys would comment.
Zambada typified a new, yuppie-style generation of drug suspects when he was arrested in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood in 2009, and authorities paraded him before TV cameras in a stylish black blazer and dark blue jeans. His suave image was a sharp contrast to a photo of him with moustache and cowboy hat released by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2007.
Mexican authorities arrested Zambada just hours after he supposedly met U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents in a Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City in 2009. He told the agents he wanted to start providing information directly to them rather than through a cartel attorney, according to defense filings.
In the agreement released Thursday, Zambada admitted he paid bribes to Mexican law enforcement on multiple occasions — sometimes at the direction of his father — to further the Sinaloa cartel's business.
Mexico's Foreign Ministry and the country's Interior Department, its lead law enforcement agency, did not immediately to requests for comment on the deal. The Mexican attorney general's office declined comment, saying it was a U.S. case.
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|House Tully
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A Storm of Swords (mentioned)
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A Dance with Dragons (mentioned)
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A Clash of Kings
Delp is on duty at the River Gate when Ser Jaime Lannister tries to escape. It is only stopped because because Long Lew sees Edmure Tully returning in a boat, so Edmure could not be below giving orders to open the gate. Delp is wounded while recapturing Jaime.[1]
A Storm of Swords
Shortly after Delp returns to duty, he is killed during Lord Rickard Karstark's murder of Willem Lannister and Tion Frey.[2]
References and Notes
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
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