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This is part two in a series of posts. For the introduction post on how to do it all with a NuGet package, see asp.net two factor auth with google authenticator app. This article is about how to implement it manually and how it works behind the scenes. A lot of this code is based on an article by Jerrie Pelser titled Using google authenticator with asp.net identity.
If you already have an application that is utilising ASP.NET's identity service, you can made a few modifictions to include the Two Factor authentication code.
To show how this can be done, first off create a new ASP.NET application, choose "MVC", and set authentication to "Individual User Accounts". In this example we are creating a new application for managing our own movie DVD collection, so we will name it MovieManager.Read More ->
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I have created a NuGet package that will get it running in 10 minutes. Alternatively, I have also written an article on how you can implement it manually without using the NuGet package.
This method is using ASP.NET's Identity and Google's "Authenticator" app. The authenticator app is simple, very widely used (GitHub and Slack, to name two) and works very well.
If you are adding two-factor authentication to an existing site or codebase, I would suggest that you start by creating a brand new project and adding the already-prepared NuGet package that I have prepared. This will ...
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The last couple of months we have made some nice progress on our app. It's got a cool name, "Local Linguist", and it's had a facelift and a workover by some UI guys:
Each screen is much simplier and it will also include a section for listening to audio and providing a translation in your own language.
There's also a great interview with Katrina Langford, the "change maker" (eg, product owner) for the application. I could point out that so far we've won the Rhok Hackathon ahem *twice* but there's not a lot of point other than boasting, the value is in the results, not the kudos awarded on the way - though that definitely helps keep the motivation going, we're all human after all.
Plus here is a photo of the LocalLinguist team at the recent hackathon winning the trophy!! I'm not in the photo, I wasn't there on the day, but I've somewhat contributed to the project! But even still, great job guys.
While I'm here I might as well briefly mention that I recently gave a talk on "How to change things at your company" at DDD night, which was great fun. Here's a blurry photo of me doing my thing:
You might have read the story how Carlo lost $6,500 thanks to a bug in
Visual Studio GitHub's plugin.
It turns out that the issue was caused by a checkbox not working.
So what was the problem? The issue was that it's super-easy to accidently completely break a WPF control when you're just trying to change it's color. Why? Because if you want to change it, you have to completely override the entire control. So you end up having to copy and paste the code for the entire control, and then change what you need. So to fix the issue for Carlo they had to fetch the right control template code and then put it back in. But really, that's just a bandaid over a much, much more complicated problem.
I came across this problem in 2014 and suggested a (horrible) workaround. As you can see it's not simple, but it's better than nothing.
Today I came across a brilliant explanation of c#'s await keyword. I've been trying to figure it out for a couple of weeks now and every time I read it the explanation gets too complicated too quickly. The essential problem is as follows:
And therein lies the confusion.
(BTW I'm not sure which genius came up with this. Probably the same person who came up with "Visual Studio Online" - because.. you know.. it's not actually an online version of visual studio.)
So anyway marking a method as async doesn't make it asynchronous. What the heck does it do?
Huh? Well, normally each request in IIS takes up a thread. While IIS has a bewildering number of performance tuning options it essentially has a fixed number of threads available to process simultaneous requests. Each request uses a thread. So normally, the maximum number of simultaneous requests possible comes down to the maximum number of threads. So, if suddenly 1000 users hit your app at the same time, the 1001st user's request is going to be put into a queue, and they will have to wait. Now if your queue size is say 5000, and you then suddenly get 5000 more users h...
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Two weeks ago I spoke at the DDD Melbourne conference on the topic "How to be the best developer in the world". The talk went ok, and so I have turned it into an epic blog post:
How to be the best developer in the world
Big thanks to Troy Hunt for his super-helpful Speaker Style Bingo article, and also mad props to Lars Klint for his willingness to give me a go!
To kick off this blog, I think that I need to state the following:I am not the best developer in the world.
I know a lot of the things that you need to learn in order to become a great developer, but just knowing these things doesn't make it happen. Head knowledge is good, but that's the easy part. Putting it all into practice… that's what's difficult. I'm still a work in progress!
So in order to become the best developer in the world you're going to have to ask yourself a pretty serious question:
"what level am I at?"
To work this out, you might compare yourself to a couple of job ads. If you start poking around the internet for software developer jobs, you'll find things like this:
Notice how they advertise "3 years XP"? Unlike other crafts, software development does not have a well-defined methodology for working out how good a programmer is. All we go by is "years of experience" which is a pretty bad methodology - you can sit on your bum for five years, not learn anything, and you're suddenly a mid-level developer. It doesn't really mean anything. Instead of years of experience, what we need to know is competency.
Have you seen the programmers competency matrix? It's a great list, but I feel like it's missing a bunch of things.
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Next weekend I'll be talking at DDD Melbourne on "How to be the best programmer in the word". This will be my first full length talk at a conference so I'm excited, nervous and happy all at the same time!
Trying to cover such a massive topic in 45 minutes is quite ambitious... to say the least. Obviously I won't be able to cover anything in any substantial detail, but I can hopefully point some people towards the right direction in where their next steps should be to improve their skills.
In the spirit of trying to be as organised as possible here's all of the links that I will mention in my talk:
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced today they have signed non-import offensive lineman Alexandre Gauthier to a contract. Terms were not disclosed.
Gauthier is entering his tenth CFL season. He was originally drafted first overall in the 2002 CFL Canadian Draft by the Ottawa Renegades. He dressed in 16 regular season games in his three seasons with Ottawa, before joining the Calgary Stampeders where he played in 34 games over two seasons.
In 2007, he joined Winnipeg where he started in all 36 regular season games in his two seasons with the Bombers and was named an East Division all-star in 2007. Gauthier has spent the past two seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats where he started all 36 regular season games at left tackle.

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The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710 will be, according to Winrumours.com, the new names for the new Windows Phone 7 smartphones from Nokia.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is expected to be the official name for the previously dubbed "Sea Ray". That name has already turned up thanks to leaked photos from the camera on Flickr. The spy shots show that the phone will measure 116.5 x 61.2 x 121mm and weight 142g. it will have 512MB of RAM and of course as with all Windows Phone 7 handsets not sport a micro SD card. Talk time is supposedly 5 hours on 3G and you'll get 50 hours of music playback. Idle time is around 380 - 390 hours. Other Nokia Lumia 800 specs aren't given.
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Judging by the pictures, the Nokia Lumia 800 will be a reworking of the Nokia N9 with Windows Phone 7 buttons, while the Lumia 710 will sport a slightly different, less design focused feel.
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'UglyGorilla' represents the latest trend in global business.
Mr. Gorilla, who also goes by the name Wang Dong, is one of the three Chinese hackersnamed by a US security firm this week as being involved in a massive cybertheft operation. The other two are "Superhard" (Mei Qiang) and "Raith." ("Raith"? What kind of a boring hacker name is that?)
The security company Mandiant this week published a 74-page reportthat revealed previously unknown details about alleged Chinese government hacking. Specifically, the report claims to have learned that a specific unit of China's Army has stolen information from 141 companies (most of them American companies) since 2006.
Chinese officials deny the allegations.
If the Mandiant report is accurate, the three hackers work for an organization called APT1, which is really a unit of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) called Unit 61398. (Another possibility is that APT1 is an outside hacker group directed by the Chinese Army unit.)
Either way, Mandiant claims to have traced massive hack attacks involving terabytes of stolen data back to an unfashionable district of Shanghai where PLA Unit 61398 operates from this shabby, heavily fortified 12-story building.
(BBC reporters trying to video footage of the building yesterday were detained by guards and forced to hand over their videos.)
That building, according to top notch guesswork by Mandiant, employs not just UglyGorilla, Superhard and Raith, but hundreds or thousands of other English-speaking computer, security and hacking experts whose full-time job is to break into the networks of foreign companies, US defense contractors and foreign government agencies in order to steal whatever they can and use it for whatever purposes help the rise of China as an economic and military power.
Presumably, stolen trade secrets are handed over to Chinese companies to give them an advantage over their foreign rivals.
For example, when Google was hacked by the Chinese government (allegedly) nearly four years ago, presumably the "trade secrets" alleged by Google to have been compromised in the attack were handed over to the Chinese alternative to Google Search, called Baidu.
(We can also fear that China is trying to hack KFC to learn exactly what those 11 herbs and spices are and also gain unfair access to Victoria's secret.)
It's not clear what the connection is between the ongoing hack attacks alleged by Mandiant and past Chinese programs for stealing secrets, including Operation Shady Rat, Operation Night Dragon and Operation Aurora. (Aurora? What kind of boring hacker operation name is that?)
The Mandiant report didn't provide new Big Picture information. There is widespread suspicion that the Chinese government is deeply involved in not only cyber espionage, but also industrial espionage in order to use the intellectual property of foreign companies against those very companies to give Chinese companies and economy an unfair advantage. But the Mandiant report did provide a slew of new details, including who, where and how they do it. Allegedly.
In recent weeks, news reports of hacks originating in China have been numerous.
Major newspapers in the United States, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and BloomBerg report being hacked, and information and internal communication focusing on stories about China have been stolen.
China isn't alone in hacking and cyber industrial espionage, of course.
Tech companies have been hacked recently. Twitter reported recently that the personal profiles of about 250,000 Twitter users were compromised. Facebook and Apple were hacked. Both claim employee laptops were compromised but no data stolen.
A controversy is brewing as to whether the Facebook and Apple hacks originated in China or from Eastern European organized crime syndicates, but it's probably the latter.
All these attacks appear to have originated with malware spread on the site iPhoneDevSDK, an iPhone developer message board.
And Burger King's and Jeep's Twitter feeds were allegedly taken over this week for more than an hour by a hacker named Tony "iThug" Cunha, according to Gizmodo.
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Austin Powers didn't just make us laugh, he had a good point for America's employers. We need to behave much more to increase employee and customer loyalty. We have to out-behave the competition!
Two data points have been buzzing around my brain lately on this topic. They are the metrics of customer service and employee satisfaction. I don't think you can focus on customer service without an equal focus on the satisfaction levels of your team members. The nexus is straightforward: treat your employees like valued customers and your company and clients will WIN.
1] Repeat Business: David Geevaratne, president of DC-based tech company New Signature, shared with me last week a Xerox study on what drives -- or drives away -- repeat business. The study found that only a small percentage of customers will return to a business if they are simply 'satisfied,' but customers are six times more likely to return if they are 'highly' or 'extremely' satisfied. "Customer satisfaction simply isn't enough these days," says Geevarate. "What differentiates New Signature is that our team is inspired to deliver a highly engaging and exciting experience in every interaction with our customers and with each other."
Bottom line, you shouldn't aspire to have customers just 'like' your business, as that does not drive repeat purchasing. You should want your customers to 'LOVE' your business, because then they will return. Harvard Business Review has reported that companies can increase profits by almost 100 percent if just 5 percent more of their customers were retained. Lesson learned: Keep 'em happy!
The same goes for your employees. Don't assume happiness when it comes to your team.
2] The War to Keep Great Talent: At our startup Barrel of Jobs, people refer their networks to jobs and we financially incentivize the referral chain. Often they are referring friends who currently have jobs but are looking for a change. Out of 120 million employed Americans, 16 percent are actively looking for jobs, 74 percent are passive candidates - meaning they are not looking but may be willing to make a move for the right opportunity -- and 10 percent are not looking period. Those "passive candidates" are the highly desirable ones you want to hire, but also the ones that you don't want to lose, especially to a competitor. We all know that the job market is challenging and 12.5 million Americans are unemployed. People might not be jumping ship but they are keeping an eye open to opportunity. You don't want to lose your 'A' and 'B+' players.
As I've noted previously, the hiring process is like dating. Once an employee is hired, we need to think of retention process more as a 'good' marriage or partnership. When you want to hire someone you paint them a beautiful picture and you can't help but show excitement about finding the perfect candidate. Meanwhile, the person on the other side of the hiring table is envisioning candle light coffee breaks, walks on the beach -- I mean walks down the corridors, deep learning discussions and planning with their cadre of new colleagues. It's one thing to bring a key hire in the door. To keep him or her as a 'highly' or 'extremely' satisfied member of your team (celebrating many wonderful anniversaries together), you need to think about anticipating and exceeding your employees needs and expectations.
I am a big fan of Dov Seidman of LRN. Both Seidman and Thomas Friedman in his book That Used to Be Us talk about "out-behaving the competition." In the 21st century people don't want to feel like horses-on-a-carriage with blinders on walking through endless streets of rules and protocols. That is the lowest culture according to Seidman; it is a 'blind obedience' model that is ineffective at best. To out-behave your competition, Seidman suggests you build a self-governing culture where your team feels purpose, autonomy, trust and a willingness to take calculated risks. I equate this as a more entrepreneurial culture where people can take challenges and rise to the occasion. In his studies this self-governing culture is unfortunately rare, with only 3 percent of employees globally studied by LRN observing high levels of self-governing behavior within their organizations. Interestingly, over 10 percent of C- Suite leaders believe their organization has a self-governing culture.
A friend recently said to me "People don't quit jobs, they quit managers." People who love their companies and feel purpose will use their social networks time and talent to bring new relationships, clients, and potential quality hires into the fold, ten-fold. Employees who don't just 'like' but 'LOVE' working for (and with) you.
Now any great partnership is a two-way street or as Rob Base would say 'it takes two to make it outta sight!' Just like in a marriage, you can't expect your partner to make you happy all the time, nor should you expect the same of your employer. You need to bring your best to the table, seize opportunities and recharge your batteries when needed to stay on your professional game.
Next time you think of offering customer service training to your employees -- think of them as your VIP customers too. See within each team member an ember of entrepreneurial spirit and inspiration that is yearning to be ignited and channeled productively to truly benefit your company.


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I see Garen as a champion that is mostly DPS and part tank. He has one tanking ability which is Courage. The other skills lean more towards the DPS side of him. That is why in this guide, I will make him a DPS champion. Although I you can choose to put some tanky items on him. I will explain later on the guide.
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-Good througout whole game
-Great survivibility
-Great Ult (Instant kill when target's health is about 30% or lower)
-Judgement = Great escape move (Can't slow him)
-Vulnerable to CC
-Might be targeted first
-No gap closer between enemy (That's why you have lots of movement)
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1)Flash - Great escape move or chasing move. Ensures you get away saftely from gank (most of the time) or to kill the person you're chasing.
2)Exhaust - Great to slow down enemy, catch up and kill them. Can also be used to escape from a one chapmion becusae it slows them down and blinds them.
Armour penatatraion for more damage. The cooldown reductions help you use judgment faster, and the only thing stopping Garen from using his skills over and over agains is just his cooldowns. Critical strike chance to help your early game.
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I love when clients are daring with their nurseries. A different angle or placement of a crib can make a huge statement. Centering a crib in the middle of the room is one of those bold moves that we love as it makes the room feel very GRAND! Here is a room we did for a client in Greenwich, CT. She took her Alex crib and put it center stage, while lining her walls with bold stripes and the rest of her case pieces.
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Early in my professional career while working as a jury trial lawyer I tried many cases in D.C. Federal court. As fate would have it, the late judge Harold Greene who was presiding over one of my many trials was also working with a host of lawyers on the consent decree which led to the breakup of AT&T, commonly referred to "Ma Bell." Following one of their negotiation sessions, as the telecom lawyers were leaving his chambers, Judge Greene said to me and my opposing counsel, "Monopolies just don't work. Do you know that Ma Bell has several innovations in place, including video conferencing, that they haven't offered to the public because they are waiting for the right time? ... The public needs access to other providers so they will have more innovative telephone options."
"My main concern," Judge Greene said further, "is that these new service providers eventually become the same animal as companies like AT&T."
I thought about Judge Greene's words last week at the National Charter School Conference. Nearly 4,000 people descended on Minneapolis, Minnesota for this event which was particularly special since the first charter school law was passed in Minnesota 20 years ago. It was great to see so many reform-minded educators, policy makers and community activists, all committed to the education of our children, in attendance. However, as with any movement for change, the 20th anniversary of charter schools should also signal a time for all of us to reflect on where the charter movement is today and where it needs to go in the future.
There are now over 5,600 charter schools, serving two million children in 41 states and the District of Columbia. And, for the most part, these schools are serving our children well. But when charter schools aren't performing as well as they should, unlike traditional schools, there is a means to shut them down. Whether a school is public, private or charter, if it's low performing then it must be closed. And, several myths around charters schools remain, such as: they only take the best students, they don't serve kids with special needs, and they don't perform as well as traditional public schools still remain. Charter schools are in fact public schools, the majority are high performing and they must accept all children within their capacity. Yet while there is a lot of angst around the charter school movement, we can't ignore the fact that children have benefitted greatly from the introduction of charter schools.
Just as the break-up of Ma Bell forced us to look at an unfair monopoly within the telecommunications industry, charters schools have forced all of us to re-examine our education service delivery model. Similar to technology boom of the '90s, which brought us Microsoft, Sprint, AOL, Apple and others, American citizens are increasingly becoming better informed education "consumers" and as was the case with AT&T so many years ago, the one size model no longer fits all. Charter schools, specialty schools, magnet schools, private schools and other options provide differing and unique models that address our kids' individual needs.
That being said, bureaucracy begets bureaucracy. It happened with the telecommunications industry, and I am fearful that it will happen within the education reform movement. Our telecom industry has gotten so big that the largest service providers are slowly but surely becoming laser focused on profit, the ability to scale up for bigger impact, and squeezing out the competition, all the while forgetting about the importance of quality customer service. Similarly, folks in the charter school movement seem to have forgotten that the origins of the movement were based on putting thriving "Mom and Pop" schools in place that could serve neighborhood needs better than the bureaucracy-laden local school districts.
While the conference was full of discussions about scalability and replication -- mind you all important topics to the growth and sustainability of this movement -- we cannot ignore the fact that 20 years later, it is increasingly difficult for a single charter school to get started. Today, without a proven track record, the right funders and properly credentialed principal and staff, it's almost impossible to get a charter school approved. Is there an "enemy within"? What happened to the idea of one great educator with the knowledge, skills and ability to work with parents and the community to build a great school in a chosen neighborhood?
At their very core, charter schools were formed to help children obtain a quality education to extricate them out of the cycle of poverty. My fear is that the charter school movement will end up being that which we fight against: a bureaucracy driven system with overstated requirements that place more significance on preserving the system than ensuring that every child has access to a quality education. This may seem harsh, but charter school advocates and leaders must remember why they joined the education reform movement in the first place -- innovation, creativity, and accountability for all children. And if those education reformers need a blatant reminder to steer them away from a bureaucratic mindset, all they need to do is call Sprint customer service and see how long they are placed on hold.


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The humanitarian situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate. Driven by food insecurity and a cholera outbreak caused directly by the conflict, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has increased by two million and now stands at 20.7 million. Some 9.8 million people are in acute need of assistance to save or sustain their lives while 10.8 million people need assistance to prevent them from slipping into acute need.
One hundred and twenty-four humanitarian organizations have reached 36 per cent of the 2017 humanitarian target, working in a coordinated manner across Yemen's 22 governorates. The 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan has received 44 per cent funding against the 2.1 billion appeal.
The number of suspected cases of cholera continues to rise with 453,175 cases of suspected cholera/acute watery diarrhoea and 1,930 associated deaths, reported as of late July 2017.
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- Over 4,000 dignity kits containing information on cholera prevention information and materials were distributed in Sana'a Governorate including in areas with high numbers of suspected cholera cases.
- A total of 773 multi-sectoral services were provided for gender-based violence survivors in July with the highest being for psychosocial support services and health services.
- A total of 16,303 (men: 841, women: 8,709, boys: 1,789, girls: 2,134) benefited from mobile clinics' reproductive health services in the governorates of Aden, Al Bayda, Al Hudayda, Amanat Al Asimah, Amran, Hadramut, Ibb, Lahj, Sana'a and Taizz.
- More than 1,300 people were reached with awareness-raising sessions on gender-based violence in July, which included awareness raising on the role of women in the prevention of cholera.
- UNFPA supported the Central Statistics Organization in Yemen in launching a national framework for gender-related statistics as a first step towards improving data collection in the area of gender. The new framework will help build a reliable gender database, assess and analyze gender-related issues, design related evidence-based strategies, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of policies, and track progress toward the nationally, regionally and internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals.
- A consultation meeting on youth peace and security to roll out the UN Security Council Resolution 2250 in Yemen was held with over 50 participants. One of the key outcomes was to establish a Youth and Peacebuilding Inter-agency Working group. Among the main recommendations was to establish a youth, peace and security platform that allows youth to engage in open dialogues and helps create innovate peace initiatives.
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The Horseshoe Curve – Trey Anastasio
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Sitting undisturbed in its jewel case — as it is not right now, for better or worse — The Horseshoe Curve is a perfectly acceptable album for Trey Anastasio to release at this point in his career. Unbothersome, really: a collection of outtakes and leftover jams from the Trey Anastasio Band, issued while Anastasio himself enjoys his court-ordered clean-up and figures out what comes next. It's a place plenty of rock stars find themselves, this wilderness, be it the result of too many drugs, too few drugs, age, parenthood, or anything really.
The idea that Trey Anastasio has somehow gone off-course has, by now, disseminated fairly widely throughout the type of people who care about his music. But there was never any map to begin with. The particular skill Anastasio was armed with in Phish — what his prodigious formal talents as a songwriter, arranger, guitarist, and bandleader added up to — was the ability to somehow make it feel like there was a course. Literally. Not metaphorically. Encoded in his best songs — from the willful undergrad fireworks of "You Enjoy Myself" to the gentle lull of the more middle-aged "Sleep" — was pure compositional movement.
The Horseshoe Curve begins practically in medias res, with "Sidewalks of San Francisco," already trundling in a languid groove. Conceptually, perhaps, it can be read as something like an overture: the groove continues in some form for the better part of the album, in a bassline or a horn part. Track marks are mostly indistinguishable. Drama only arrives with the variations. Five seconds of lush percussive atonality about five minutes into "Olivia" herald what sounds like two jams folded over one another, ala Charles Ives' marching bands. It stabilizes within two minutes, though is enthralling while it lasts. On "The Horseshoe Curve" itself, a live jam excerpt, just after a lonesome train whistle blows in time with the band, Anastasio stomps some effects and phases his guitar alongside Peter Apfelbaum's flute, which is a neat trick. Quickly, though, the jam fades, no movement at all, and the moment is left uncontextualized.
"Noodle Rave" fares best as a coherent piece of music. The brass moans and morphs in the head while a distorted marimba (!?) fuzzes out a countermelody. Anastasio's brief intro solo doesn't add much, though he passes the baton to saxophonists Apfelbaum, Dave Grippo, and Russ Remington (not sure which players take the two solos, exactly, but they smoke). On each pass, the band gradually brings the strange horn moan of the intro back in behind the saxophonist, building him a stranger and stranger platform. They're in and out in just over six minutes. And then back to the album's regularly scheduled groove.
There is nothing wrong with the Horseshoe Curve, except that it kinda makes me want to gnaw my arm off. But only when I listen to it. So maybe "gnaw" was a bit of a strong word but "teeth mildly to keep myself entertained" was a bit too clunky to fit in the sentence. Really, as far as vaguely funky hippie jams go, The Horseshoe Curve is what it is, but it doesn't feel like much of a statement. It is unmistakably Anastasio, though, albeit Anastasio without the ambition of even a short-term destination. If not Zen, then it's at least life. And, if not life, then maybe it's just a necessary thing for one to make when he realizes that the map he'd been following was a not-to-scale representation of the territory printed on a paper placemat. The desert looked a lot smaller there. Or maybe it's not a metaphor at all.


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Children often have mixed feelings about starting secondary school. They might be:
You might also worry about these issues, and about whether your child will have the confidence and skills to handle them.
These worries are all normal. Secondary school also means a move from the familiar to the unknown, and a whole new way of doing things.
Your child will need to meet new peers and make new friends, and establish or re-establish her position within a peer group.
Your child will need to adapt to new teaching and assessment styles, cope with a wide range of subjects, adjust to having different teachers in different classrooms, become more responsible for his own learning, manage a heavier and more complicated study and homework load, and learn a new and more complex timetable.
Getting around
Your child will have to adjust to a new school campus, find her way around, get to class on time with the right books and materials, and possibly cope with new transport arrangements.
All these issues might be particularly challenging for some young people living in rural or remote communities. For example, they might need to manage lengthy travel times or move away from their families, friends and local communities to go to boarding school.
You can help to ease any worries your child has about starting secondary school by preparing your child in the months and weeks before term begins.
Practical issues
Here are some ideas for dealing with practical issues:
Here are some ideas to deal with mixed feelings and worries:
Practical issues
Here are some ideas to help with the practical side of the transition to high school:
These ideas might help with worries about getting to know people and making new friends at high school:
You could try these suggestions for handling emotional ups and downs:
If your child is struggling with the transition to secondary school, you might notice that he:
If your child is having trouble, don't wait for things to improve on their own. Try to get your child talking about how she's feeling, let her know that feeling worried is normal, and see whether you can work out some strategies together.
If things don't improve within 2-3 weeks, consider speaking with your child's teacher, year level co-ordinator, welfare co-ordinator or GP.
The transition to secondary school is sometimes more challenging for children with additional needs. It's important to ensure that your child – and your family – are adequately prepared for the change and can get the information you need.
You might need extra time to plan your child's transition to secondary school, even starting up to a year ahead. Student welfare services at your child's primary and secondary schools will play an important role in ensuring your child's needs are supported.
If you'd like extra support or have concerns, you can talk with your child's teacher, school principal or learning support team. Also contact disability services in your state or territory.
Your child's transition to secondary school is a big change for you too. Your relationship with your child's primary school might be ending, and you're likely to have a different sort of relationship with your child's secondary school.
It's normal to have mixed feelings about these changes.
Talking to other parents, particularly those who have gone through high school transition, often helps. It might ease your mind to know that most children find things a little hard at first but settle in during the year.
Also, other parents who are experienced at the school can often answer small questions and give you helpful tips about how things work at your child's new school.
And don't be surprised to find that your child doesn't want you to be as visible at his secondary school as you might have been during the primary years. Remember that he'll still need your support outside of school, and that it's all part of the way he develops greater independence.
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Brett Humphrey, a 17-year-old from Anaheim Hills who likes to race his mountain bike at a track in Orange, thinks a helmet would make him "look like a big Martian."
Orange High School freshman Nick Russell complained about the inconvenience of the plastic and foam lids. It's "just one more thing to carry around," he said as he munched on a pizza crust during lunch.
So if Gov. Pete Wilson approves a controversial bill headed for his desk that requires anyone under 18 to wear a helmet while riding a bicycle on public property, it's clear there will be a lot of unhappy kids in Orange County.
Because when it comes to cool--and for riders under 18, what matters more?--helmets are decidedly out.
"Most kids just don't want to wear them simply because they don't look cool," explained Gary Hoisington, owner of Team Bicycles in Huntington Beach. "But the only way they can be cool is if they're voluntary. You force a kid to wear it, that's the sure way to make it not cool."


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Both sides of the contentious debate over stem-cell research claim to be pro-life. That no doubt explains why two stem-cell bills taking opposite positions on the related issue of cloning won early approval in the state Legislature last week. Both bills could soon be headed to the desk of Gov. Kathleen Blanco -- who at press time said she has not yet made up her mind on the issue.
Last Wednesday, House Bill 803, sponsored by Rep. Gary Beard, R-Baton Rouge, gained approval by a House vote of 97-2. Beard's bill bans reproductive cloning, a process that essentially creates human babies from existing cells. We support that much of Beard's bill. Unfortunately, Beard's measure bans all cloning-based research. If passed, House Bill 803 would allow stem-cell research only with existing adult cells -- and the use of embryonic stem cells would be outlawed.
Scientists generally agree that embryonic stem cells represent the future of therapeutic medicine. Such cells might prove to be the key to unlocking cures to diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes, as well as solving genetic predispositions for numerous ailments -- from alcoholism to depression. Stem cells are master cells, capable of transforming into cells for any part of the body, curing health problems that might occur in the heart, brain, liver and pancreas. "The potential for the research possibilities and therapeutic value of using embryonic stem cells is almost unlimited," says Dr. William Claycomb, whose work at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans is devoted to using mouse embryonic stem cells to find cures for heart problems.
Claycomb supports Senate Bill 74, sponsored by Senate President Donald Hines, D-Bunkie. Hines, a physician, has crafted a bill that outlaws human cloning but allows stem-cell research. By press time, the Hines measure had cleared the House Health and Welfare Committee and was slated for consideration on the House floor. Meanwhile, state Sen. Art Lentini, R-Kenner, sponsored Senate Bill 873, which, like Beard's bill, outlaws both reproductive cloning and research. Last week, Lentini's bill was approved as a duplicate bill of House Bill 803, and it was passed by the Senate. As of press time, it was scheduled to go to the House for a vote.
"If these bills are passed into law, I might as well leave the state," says Claycomb, who believes he's the only scientist in Louisiana now working with embryonic stem cells. "I would compare it to passing a ban on the teaching of evolution in schools. It's that backward."
Supporters of embryonic stem-cell research include actor Christopher Reeve, who says its benefits might allow him to walk again. Nancy Reagan, struggling with the slow Alzheimer's-related decline of her husband, former President Ronald Reagan, also is a vocal proponent of stem-cell research. So is U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a prominent conservative.
Both nationally and in Louisiana, the debate over embryonic stem-cell research comes wrapped in the same emotions that surround discussions about abortion. Opponents call the practice slaughter, because embryos are destroyed during the research process. Embryonic stem cells are extracted from an egg that has been fertilized in vitro, which typically means in a petri dish in a fertility clinic. In August 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law a compromise measure that allows only 78 existing embryonic stem-cell lines, all of which originated from in vitro fertilization, to be used in research conducted with federal money.
Many scientists find Bush's low threshold too limiting. There is speculation that Bush may be softening his stance on the ban, perhaps in response to the argument that hundreds of thousands of stem-cell lines created in fertility clinics would be destroyed without first serving science.
In response to Bush's federal restrictions, California and New Jersey have enacted legislation to encourage embryonic stem-cell research at state-supported institutions. While hopes for medical cures are clearly part of the states' motivations, economics also plays a role. New Jersey lawmakers have set aside $50 million to fund stem-cell research projects. California voters in November will face a ballot initiative to approve $3 billion in bond sales for state universities to conduct similar research. Proponents of the California measure say it will save lives and reduce health care costs. In addition, private companies, aware of the massive profits tied to breakthroughs in biomedicine, are now looking to relocate or establish offices in New Jersey and California.
New Orleans officials and business leaders tout the city as an ideal home to the growing biomedical industry -- a cornerstone of economic development plans for this area. Passage of a law allowing embryonic stem-cell research would clearly give a needed boost to that sector of the local economy. The real benefit of embryonic stem-cell research is not measured in dollars, however. It's about saving lives. Stem-cell research has enormous potential to help cure diseases that cripple and kill thousands each year in Louisiana. We therefore encourage Gov. Blanco and lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 74. In doing so, they will place Louisiana at the forefront of a promising medical frontier -- and they will help save lives.


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Item #7 of our Rethink the Way You Invest says not to confuse entertainment with advice. It's a reminder that media emphasis is often on short-term, emotionally-charged and sensational events.
Cameron Passmore, my colleague at PWL Ottawa, came across a study entitled "CEO Interviews on CNBC"1, released on January 21, 2011, which examines how the stock price of a company is impacted by the appearance of a CEO on CNBC.
CNBC has become one of the leading sources of business news, with average viewership during trading days of 752,000. Many CEOs are likely happy to have an opportunity to be in front of such an audience. However, what can, or does, a CEO say in an interview and does it influence the purchase or sale of the company's stock?
The study in question looked at 6,937 CEO interviews from 1997 to 2006 to see whether or not the media attention affected stock prices. The findings are interesting – there were abnormally high trading volumes on the 2 days PRIOR to the interview (tying in with the timing of the announcement of the appearance of a CEO), with an average increase in the stock price of 1.6%. However, over the 10 days AFTER the interview there was a negative return of just over 1%.
Often, the CEO has no new news to convey – the interview contains a repackaging of information already published and which has already been taken into account in the market's determination of stock prices. Perhaps the appearance of the CEO for an interview IS the news?
The study also looked at the relationship of small to large sized trades. The findings showed significantly more small sized trades on the day of the interview (assuming no other corporate news or announcements). Small sized trades imply trading of individual investors, thus the individual investor is the driving force behind the price run-ups rather than institutional investors.
Interestingly, one area where there is evidence of a permanent increase in the pricing is for companies that have not previously had media attention. Here, the rationale is that the more exposure, the more awareness of analysts and investors, which can lead to positive market response.
Many other factors were identified as having some degree of influence on stock pricing – whether or not the CEO laughed during the interview; who conducted the interview; whether the tone of the CEO or interviewer was negative; the length of a response. After controlling for these and a variety of other variables, the authors conclude that it was the media attention that caused the spike and reversal in the stock price.
So what does this study really tell us? There is a great deal of information being analyzed by a large number of people, all of whom have access to the information at the same time. It is difficult for any investor – institutional or individual – to have an information edge.
Bottom line – keep the discipline – stick to your strategy and don't make trading decisions based on CNBC interviews. If you have difficulty doing this on your own, consider the services of a professional advisor.
1 Meschke, Felix and Kim, Y. Han (Andy), CEO Interviews on CNBC (Jan 21, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1627683


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Susie Vanderlip is a Monarch Butterfly Citizen Scientist, assisting in Monarch Health Initiative research.
She raises Monarch butterflies in Orange, California, studying, photographing, videotaping, tagging, speaking and writing
about Monarch life cycle, from egg to caterpillars, pupae and butterflies. In return, Monarch Butterflies have revealed
many of their fascinating life secrets to Susie. She shares delightful and fascinating anecdotes and life cycle science
in live presentations. She uses her photography and video to create movies and books for children to learn about these
invaluable pollinators and fall in love with Nature. And she has an entire photo greeting card line through which she shares
colorful and captivating garden and Monarch butterfly visions.
She is nationally known for her storybook, movie/DVD, and eBook: The Story of Chester, the Monarch Caterpillar/Larva (www.storyofchester.com) The new 2nd Edition Story of Chester eBook is available as of July, 2015 on Kindle/Amazon at
an incredibly low $2.99. A delightful book to share with children and grandchildren ages 4 through 9
on your Kindle reader!
Susie loves to speak about Monarch Butterfly life to both youth and adults, sharing amusing anecdotes and fascinating facts
she has learned from raising hundreds of Monarch caterpillars into butterflies. Using gorgeous photos and engaging videos,
Susie enthuses adults and children alike to help save and expand the Monarch butterfly population by growing milkweed in
their gardens at home, school and throughout their community. She also shares how to attract Monarch butterflies
to your garden and tips on raising your own crop of caterpillars into butterflies, and vital information more about the plight
of Monarch butterflies as critical pollinators in the world today.
Susie has spoken for:
* Laguna Beach Garden Club
* Aquarium of the Pacific
* Discovery Cube (Children's Science Center)
* Numerous nurseries including Armstrong Garden Centers, Blue Hills, Green Thumb, and more
* Elementary schools and libraries in Orange County, CA
* Assisted living facilities - Heritage Point, Kirkwood Assisted Living
and more
Susie is an avid nature photographer, videographer, author and speaker who loves and cherishes Nature. She has a full
line of photo greeting cards she sells at boutiques and markets in OrangeCounty(www.legacyofhope.com/butterflies.htm)
and Photographs at http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/SusieVanderlip/HowISeeIt
Her book and 10 minute movie, The Story of Chester, are currently in classrooms in the Tustin Unified, Irvine Unified, Fullerton
and Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Districts for Kindergarden thru 2nd grade as they study the Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle.
They are sold in gift shops at Pacific Ranch Market, Discovery Science Center, Bowers Museum, Tucson Botanical Gardens,
Frederik Meijers Gardens/Grand Rapids-MI, and Pismo State Beach Monarch Grove. The Story of Chester an award-winning
multi-media eBook on iBookstore with narration and embedded video.
Professionally, Susie has been a professional speaker and author for the last 24 years, earning the Certified Speaking
Professional designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and induction into the NSA "Speakers Hall of Fame."
She has spoken to over million youth and adults across the USand around the world sharing her one-woman theatrical
LEGACY OF HOPE® program (www.legacyofhope.com) to address youth and family issues. She has been a featured guest
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co-author with husband and clinical psychologist Ken Vanderlip, Ph.D. of De-Stress for Success Workbook with
multi-media and eBook (www.de-stressforsuccess.com).
Susie is a graduate of UCLA in math/computer science with minor studies in Dance. She is a native Californian, born and raised inLakewood,CA. She is an Associate Professor in Dance for Coastline Community College District. Her passions include gardening
and teaching Zumba Gold to active older adults and yoga at gyms around OC. She lives with husband Dr. Ken Vanderlip and
a multitude of Monarchs in the Orange Hills area.
Learn more about Susie's Story from a recent Los Angeles Times article
published on May 10, 2015 - Weekend Home and Garden Section and the Daily Pilot:
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES plus
YOGA FOR GARDENERS!– Blending Science, Art and Spirit
Susie Vanderlip is a Monarch Butterfly Citizen Scientist, Yoga Instructor, and professional speaker. She brings enthusiasm,
passion, humor, and an expert knowledge of Monarch Butterfly Life. She is trained to tag and test Monarch Butterflies
raised in her garden. In additon, she encourages gardeners to enjoy gardening even more by sharing easy, practical Yoga
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She has photographed and videotaped them for 4 years and now shares a delightful presentation that appeals to children
thru senior citizens. She shares this program with garden clubs, schools, nurseries, assisted living facilities, churches and
as an inspirational keynote at conferences. Learn more about Susie's Story from a recent Los Angeles Times article
published on May 10, 2015 - Weekend Home and Garden Section and the Daily Pilot:
Susie's presentation includes everything you might like to know about Monarchs in YOUR garden:
* Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle - egg, caterpillar/larva, chrysalis, butterfly including overwintering
* Monarch Butterfly migration and current decline concerns
* Their value as important POLLINATORS
* Amazing and entertaining Monarch Caterpillar and Butterfly anecdotes and video\
* How to Attract Monarch Butterflies to YOUR garden
* OE Parasite and feedback from Monarch Health Initiative scientists
* Native vs Tropical Milkweed recommendations
* How to become a Monarch Butterfly Citizen Scientist
Speak nationwide at garden clubs, schools, nurseries, churches, assisted living facilities and inspirational programs at conferences
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Judy Ryan from Lafayette, CA - 11/13/2017 15:56:23
The garden club audience was mesmerized by Susie's presentation on Butterfly Gardening, with a focus on Monarch butterflies. The presentation slides were beautiful, even including video from her 'Story of Chester' DVD. I would highly recommend Susie Vanderlip as a speaker.
Kathleen Mitzen from Brea CA - 10/04/2017 15:00:33
Our garden club thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful speaker. She is very knowledgeable about monarchs. We loved her lively presentation and were inspired to plant milkweed to help the butterflies.
Maureen Witte from California - 06/16/2017 20:47:33
Susie Vanderlip was the speaker at our June Palmia Garden Club Meeting, and she did a terrific job. She is organised, vivacious, energetic, and very well informed. I highly recommend her to speak to garden clubs. Now I'm watching the milkweed plants in my garden as they are devoured by the caterpillars that will become gorgeous monarch butterflies! Our club members loved her presentation!!!


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Today marks yet another day in the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus Release Date circus with November 21st again being thrown around as a possible release date for the Android 4.0-powered device.
That date though isn't just a rumor. No, in fact, it was confirmed by Google who says that the phone will be launching "pretty much everywhere" on that day.
Way to clear it all up for us Google.
Anyway, the 21st isn't the only date that we've heard about for the Galaxy Nexus' launch on Big Red. We also heard November 3rd. We heard November 10th. We have heard somewhere around Black Friday. And we've also heard December is a possibility because of bugs that Verizon has apparently found in the testing process.
Translation: this is getting ridiculous and very reminiscent of the debacle that happened with the HTC ThunderBolt before it launched in March earlier this year.
If you recall, the ThunderBolt also had about 50 rumored release dates before it launched which led to the same frustration, same annoyance, same disappointment, same everything as this Galaxy Nexus launch.
I like to call it HTC ThunderBolt Syndrome.
And it's very clear that the Galaxy Nexus has it.
Luckily, I've found a cure for Samsung, for Verizon, and for every single manufacturer or carrier out there that chooses to announce phones without clarity.
It's called communication.
Verizon's only communication regarding the launch of the Galaxy Nexus has been that it's coming "later this year." It was just as vague with the launch of the ThunderBolt and it got worse when Verizon pretended that pre-orders for the T-Bolt at Best Buy, which had started in February, didn't exist.
That silence was unacceptable then, and it's even more unacceptable with a phone of the Galaxy Nexus' caliber.
This is a phone that is not only supposed to take on the iPhone 4S, which has sold millions upon millions of devices. This is a phone that is supposed to deal with two heavy hitters on Big Red already in the Droid RAZR and the HTC Rezound.
This is a phone that many believe has the potential to be the best Android phone yet. Myself included.
Verizon might be trying to build a buzz here (the novelty of this game wore off a long time ago for me) but really what it's doing is shooting itself in the foot. On a business level and on a consumer level.
I get that there are all sorts of factors here. Other phone launches, bugs, etc. I get it. But what I don't get is the fact that these carriers think its totally acceptable to treat their loyal Android customers like this.
It's not.
Not when they continually bungle software updates. Not when prices for flagship smartphones are $300 on a contract. Not when the device will cost thousands of dollars over the course of those two years.
I do realize that the HTC ThunderBolt and the Galaxy Nexus are unique situations. One was the first 4G LTE smartphone. One is the first smartphone with Android 4.0. So it's easy to see why it might be having issues that are delaying the phone's release.
But what I don't understand is, why not just come right out and say this stuff? Why not offer folks a little transparency? I'm not saying for every single phone but for phones like these, where people are chomping at the bit, why not just go above and beyond the norm for once and let people in on the process.
"December is looking good for launch, folks."
"Yes, we have a few bugs to iron out and then we should be good to go."
"I can confirm that the Galaxy Nexus will not be out on November 21st for Verizon customers. Sorry for the delay. We're working as hard as possible to ensure a seamless experience for our customers."
"We'll try not to announce a phone two months before its release date. We should of learned our lesson with the ThunderBolt launch and we're sorry.
I think these companies would be surprised to see how far a little transparency would go.
So, am I being unreasonable?
Or does this sound about right?
I'd love to hear from you.


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Strack, Johann Heinrich
Strack, Johann Heinrich
BORN 24 Jul 1805, B¸ckeburg, Niedersachsen - DIED 12 Jun 1880, Berlin
GRAVE LOCATION Berlin: Dorotheenst‰dtischen Friedhof, Chausseestrasse (CH (3. Weg li., li. S.))
Johann Heinrich Strack was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. In 1839 he started teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1845 he was commissioned to build castle Babelsberg near Potsdam. He was sent to Athens by the government in 1862 and there, together with Ernst Curtius and Karl Bˆtticher, he discovered the theatre of Dionysos at the foot of the Acropolis.
He designed the grave monument of F.A. St¸ler, who died in 1865 and with whom he had worked. Between 1869 and 1873 he built the Siegess‰ule in Berlin. When he retired in 1876 he was named 'architect of the emperor' by Wilhelm I.
Related persons
was pupil to Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
has a connection with St¸ler, Friedrich August
Hammer, Klaus, Historische Friedhˆfe & Grabm‰ler in Berlin, Stattbuch Verlag, Berlin, 1994
Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909
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Older Editions of the Pain Education Workbook
The workbook is an introduction to pain science and is composed of one page infographics that are followed by questions to be worked through. The workbook can be used in its entirety or single pages can be selected.
You may distribute this work as you see fit. I only ask that attribution be made to this website or myself.
This workbook is a component of the course Physiofundamentals: Reconciling biomechanics with pain science.
This workbook along with the Part Two of the workbook (an interactive treatment manual and pathway for therapists and patients) helps therapists reconceptualize a biomechanics approach to treating injuries and pain within a Biopsychosocial framework. Hint, you'll never have to diagnosis a pelvic upslip or SI joint movement asymmetry again.
Naturally, this is a work in progress. Please submit any suggestions for future infographics or sections and you might see them incorporated into future additions.
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The book is designed to help therapists and patients deal with injuries and persistent pain. The book can be used alone or can be used with a therapist.
Click this link here to see a brief description of the different sections
The following document is a 26 page treatment manual and workbook for therapists and patients. It has a number of different features for treating pain and injuries and lays out the start of a simple but comprehensive approach to rehabilitation.
The treatment manual helps address:
1. Assessment Suggestions for evaluating the entire person and determining which factors are contributing to the pain.
2. A novel exercise prescription map: this section helps therapists choose exercises based on the specific patients needs, goals and their presenting complaints. It is different to how much exercise is prescribed is introduces the therapist to comprehensive capacity training, when its OK to push into pain, symptom modulatory exercises and why keeping things simple is always appropriate.
3. Report of Findings page and Exercise Prescription page.
4. Patient handouts for deconstructing many myths about injury
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As if New York didn't have enough top-notch hair stylists to last everyone a lifetime, Madeline Kahn now flies to Los Angeles once a month to be coiffed by that stylist to the stars, Allen Edwards. He tells Listen that another of his regular clients, Lesley Ann Warren, gave Kahn his number. And he's been handling the upkeep of her short, beveled, 1930s-type bob for the past six months or so. Not that Kahn and Warren are going to start looking as if they've come from the same salon chair, so to speak. Edwards says: "Lesley wears her hair long and wild now."
More tidbits from Allen Edwards' notebook: Actress Deborah Foreman, co-star of the new movie "My Chauffeur," appears on screen as "smooth and blown dry," he says. But in real life, he adds: "She likes her hair to stand up straight on top, get scrunched all over, go layered, long and wild. And it's a deep purple color." Edwards should know. He says he's the guy who cut it.
Only emerald would suffice when Marilyn McCoo presented a trophy to Kool and the Gang at the American Music Awards the other night. Jerry Skeels and Randy McLaughlin (they design under the Jeran label) say the singer walked in for a fitting of her Las Vegas gowns and walked out with a jewel--a green, crystal-beaded cocktail dress known as "the emerald." Then she topped the treasure with emerald earrings and a bracelet. For her upcoming Las Vegas appearance, Skeels says, McCoo requested not jewels but six "youthful, with-it" gowns, to give her enough costume changes for two shows a night. And speaking of on-stage switches, Listen didn't count, but Mimi Bergere of ABC-TV did. She tells us that during the three-hour televised Music Awards show, Diana Ross made no less than 17 costume changes.