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Blazer & Booties
January 29, 2015 by jasmine
Filed under Fashion Tips & Finds
Disclosure: Compensation was provided by DSW via Mode Media. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of DSW.
Due in large part to having my new son Joseph, my fashion posts have decreased in quantity – until now. These boots have me all sorts of inspired! In my last #ootd I showed you guys how I styled my first pick of boots from DSW. This time I'm showing off my more casual but equally fabulous and trendy western short booties. I've struggled in the past finding a pair of booties like these for a while because they never fit quite right; but these fit like a pair of boots I've worn for years. Best of all they even have that worn-in, vintage look making them perfect for jeans, dresses and even slacks. They look like all those expensive booties that you see on celebs but for way less (click here to see some of my favorite celeb looks). I picked the exact opposite style of boots this time for two reasons: One, to highlight the selection of styles that DSW has, and also to fit my extremely eclectic style.
I need to be comfortable. I have five kids and I'm always on the run, so I tend to grab a blazer and go. It's the easiest way to make any outfit instantly polished. For this look I wanted something that I would wear out to a casual lunch with the family so I grabbed my favorite blazer (you can see it also here and here), black jeggings, and a striped sweater. The boots really make this outfit pop! I love that the entire look is sort of sleek and the boots give it an effortless almost unfinished look. To me, that's what style is all about – combining all the things you love and making them work. Thanks to DSW for sending me these boots and stay tuned…I have lots of plans for this pair of boots.
DSW is the destination for savvy Shoe Lovers everywhere. Customers experience a breathtaking assortment of designer brands at irresistible prices everyday.
DSW is the destination for savvy Shoe Lovers everywhere. Customers experience a breathtaking assortment of designer brands at irresistible prices everyday.
Quilted Black Booties & Tights
January 28, 2015 by jasmine
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I have hundreds of pair of shoes! I'm such a shoe freak that if I happen to find shoes that I absolutely love, I buy multiple pairs. My particular weakness has always been boots – whether high heeled boots, riding boots, or even cowboy boots – because they make any outfit ooze the perfect rough and tumble vibe. To say that I was super excited to not only work with DSW again (you can see my last post here) but also be sent two pair of boots of my choice would be an understatement!
Picking a pair of boots that I liked was easy; narrowing it down to two was a little tough because DSW has an enormous selection of styles. I wanted a little bit of a challenge, so I chose two completely different looks. For my first pick, I went with a pair of high heel boots. I loved the fact that they had the perfect combo of sexy with its sky-high heels but also edgy with a buckle, quilt and rubber soles. The details are definitely on point! When I first put them on I was a little skeptical about the heel being SO high. I'm pretty comfortable in heels but sometimes they can be slippery and hard to walk in – that was not the case with these boots. The rubber soles kept them solid and the platform made them comfy and easy to walk in.
I decided to pair the booties with a little black dress, tights to add warmth and texture and a favorite oversized cardigan for a cozy touch. This is something I would wear on a chilly night out to dinner with the girls or even on a date night. It's super comfy, stylish and sexy. Stay tuned to see my next pair of boots and how I styled them!
DSW is the destination for savvy Shoe Lovers everywhere. Customers experience a breathtaking assortment of designer brands at irresistible prices everyday.
Disclosure: Compensation was provided by DSW via Mode Media. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of DSW.
Flying A Lot? Here are 3 Super Tips to Combat Dry, Tired Skin
January 24, 2015 by jasmine
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One of the many challenges frequent fliers have to deal with is the dry air in cabin. When you fly all the time, your skin can quickly get dried out. This can give you a haggard appearance that ages you tremendously. If you want to avoid this, you need to take steps to rejuvenate your skin. Here are three tips to combat dry, tired skin when you fly a lot.
1. Buy a Bottle of Water
Yes, it is a hassle that you can't bring your own bottle of water from home when you are flying. Even though you have to pay for it, drinking a bottle of water is one of the best ways to keep your skin hydrated when you fly. Make sure that you drink both the bottle you purchase in the airport as well as the bottle they give you on the plane. Drinking plenty of water is one of the best ways to keep your skin from becoming dehydrated.
2. Bring a Moisturizer with You
Even though drinking water is very beneficial, it is not always enough to keep your skin hydrated when you are on an airplane. Sometimes, the cabins are so dry that your skin will dry out no matter how much water you drink. To keep your skin hydrated and refreshed, you need to bring a moisturizer with you on the plane. Make sure that it comes in a container that is small enough to meet security regulations, which restrict carry-on liquids to 100ml. Try bringing this great moisturizer along next time you fly to keep your skin hydrated and radiant.
3. Post-Flight Care
One of the best ways to ensure that your skin handles frequent flying well is to follow a post-flight skin routine (similar to tips seen here). You should use a facial scrub as soon as you get to your destination. This will remove the dead skin cells that have accumulated. After you have cleaned your skin, use a moisturizing mask to rehydrate your face.
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Accessorizing Winter Outfits
January 23, 2015 by jasmine
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Unless you're living in florida like us then you're probably bundled up and dealing with the harsh winter cold. While a stylish coat is a stylish must have this year they do tend to get a little dormant when you have to wear them every single day. That's when simple accessories can come in and spruce up those cold dreary days. Men don't exactly have a enormous selection and ways of accessorizing like women do but we most certainly can add a few items here and there to makes things pop or in some cases simply embellish in a simple understated way. Below are some of our favorite accessories and some solid street style inspiration.
With a coat like this all you need is a simple belt!
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Here are some of our favorite accessories:
Scarves: A classic cashmere scarf | Paul Smith Checkered Scarf | A trendy infinity scarf
Beanies: Wool Cap | Beanie | Trapper Hat | Reversible Beanie
Stylish Gloves: Cashmere Fingerless Gloves | Stylish Driving Gloves | Fun Leather Mittens | Cozy Goose Lodge Gloves
Disclosure: "Fashiongrail.com occasionally receives vendor/brand sponsorships for selecting and mentioning brands or products in the Boys On The Side Section but the opinions expressed herein are those of the author."
Bradley Cooper's Look for Less!
January 21, 2015 by jasmine
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I wanted to take a quick break from all the winter styles and pull out a Bradley Copper look that's perfect for spring. Bradley's outfit has got the perfect mix of classic and preppy that's always pops back for men's spring looks. It's easy to recreate for less but in this case it's well worth investing in these pieces because you can wear them over and over again. Below we show you how to get his look and how to use the pieces in different ways.
White Jeans | Sweater | Belt | Penny Loafers | Cuff |
White Jeans | Plaid Shirt | Coat | Boots
Disclosure: "Fashiongrail.com occasionally receives vendor/brand sponsorships for selecting and mentioning brands or products in the Boys On The Side Section but the opinions expressed herein are those of the author."
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Marks-Lloyds Glamorous Selection of Online Fur Coats
January 20, 2015 by jasmine
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Who doesn't dream of living a luxurious lifestyle? You know the one in where you have jewels, a few homes, and a closet full of designer clothes, shoes and probably some decadent fur coats. Seriously, a fur coat screams glamour, wealth and of course style! It has an old school Hollywood glamour that most women would love to have and in today's world it's super easy to have access to just about anything you want including fur stores on the web like Marks-Lloyds Furs (MLFurs.com), Denver's oldest and most trusted furrier since 1951 (read more about them here).
MLFurs.com was born to accommodate the ever changing presence of online shopping to give those looking for the latest furs a chance at purchasing from Marks-Lloyd Furs. If you're lucky enough to be in the Colorado area you can drop by and shop the largest fur collection in the state but if not don't worry simply shop their extensive collection online 24/7 from the comfort of your home at MLFurs.com. MLFurs.com not only provides free shipping but they also offer free returns! And that's not all, they also give you the option of using lawaway or Paypal Credit making the possibility of owning the fur of your dreams that more possible.
Below are some must have furs for any fashion forward wardrobe to whether you're dressed up with a gown and jewels or even if you're wearing jeans and a tee a la Olivia Palermo . All links will take you directly to the furs shown. To read more about Mark-Lloyds Fur and their online store MLFurs.com click here, to see their selection of furs click here and follow them on Facebook or instgram where they post fabulous street styled fur and all the latest furs featured in their store.
Cream Sable Vest | Calf Cashmere Cape | Mid-Length Coat with Blue Fox Trim
3 Must-Have Jackets Under $40
January 13, 2015 by jasmine
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It rarely gets cold enough to wear a coat down here in Florida so I'm always looking out for cute affordable jackets to add to my closet. Below are three must have jackets from Forever21 under $40. Pair them with jeans and tee or pair them with a pencil skirt or leggings for a Kim Kardashian like look or even over a little black dress.
High-Slit Longline Jacket – $34.90
Reversible Collarless Jacket – $32.80
Collarless Duster Coat – $37.90
Pinspiration: Bundled Up In Style
January 11, 2015 by jasmine
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All this cold weather has me dreaming of being able to really bundle up and layer. For now I will have to settle for some Pinspiration.
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Celebrity Copycat: Kendall Jenner's Look for Less!
January 11, 2015 by jasmine
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Kendall Jenner's outfit is to die for! I love that she kept her sexy denim top (see pic below) simple and covered up everything else without over doing it. The denim against the leather marries edgy and sexy perfectly and the brown boots pop. Love it!
Denim Top – $79 at Madewell.com | Leather Leggings – $34 at Choies.com | Booties – $37 at Ebay.com | Satchel – Studded Satchel – $45 at NordstromRack.com | Aviator Sunglasses – $39 at ShopMango.com
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Police were investigating the possibility that an early morning fire that killed a 12-year-old boy in north suburban Mundelein may have been set, authorities said.
Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller said the boy, Jorge Juarez, died of smoke inhalation, but whether it was accidental or a homicide remains under investigation.
The fire also injured the boy's mother and two sisters, police said. Emergency crews were called to a home in the 200 block of Prospect Avenue at 3:16 a.m., authorities said.

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Glendora, CA - Former Citrus College wide receiver Brayton Newton has chosen the University of Sioux Falls to continue his educational and football career. Newton wrapped up his career with the Owls in 2015, finishing in the Top 10 in the Citrus history books in all three major career statistical categories.
"They [Sioux Falls] play at a really high level of competition. I really bought into how they run their program and the philosophy of their school," Newton said. "It's a great opportunity for me to go in and make my mark, just like I was able to here."
Over the course of two seasons, Newton hauled in 66 total catches for 871 yards, and 11 touchdowns. He ranks second in career touchdowns, seventh in career receptions, and eighth in career yards. Newton averaged 13.2 yards per reception for his career, with a long of 74.
"When I came to Citrus, I was in a place where I didn't know what I was going to do with the rest of my life. Being here gave me a lot of structure and stability," Newton said. "It gave me a chance to be at a place where I could set myself up for success in the future."
Newton's signature game in an Owls' uniform was also his last. In the Owls' finale against State #4 and Southern California #2 Riverside City College, Newton caught seven passes for a career high 180 yards and a touchdown. The 180 yards was also a Citrus College record for most yards receiving in a single game.
"Brayton has fought through some adversity and worked hard to get to the point where he is now ready to transfer to a four-year university," said Citrus College Head Football Coach Ron Ponciano. "His maturation over the last couple of years has put him in a position to be successful for Sioux Falls."


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Canadian organizations are facing a looming talent shortage because the Canadian-born population is aging:
- 40 years: The average age of the Canadian population in 2006. Of the employable population, 40 per cent were over the age of 50. (Source: Canadian Age Characteristics, Statistics Canada, 2008.)
- 72 per cent: The proportion of people between the ages of 45 and 59 in 2007 who planned to enter retirement by the age of 65. (Source: 2007 General Social Survey Report: The retirement plans and expectations of older workers, Statistics Canada, Sept. 9, 2008.)


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"I played CS 1.6, I played UT 2004, I played Quake, but no game required the skills and quick mind of Cookie Clicker. Nothing compared" - Anonymous
Early HoursEdit
The Pro Scene was pioneered by /v/ users a couple of hours after the Cookie Clicker thread was made.
Factory Rush: Enduring the pain and attempting to rush factories.
Grandmlings: Build grandmas a lot and rush the alchemy lab for the double dosh effect.
The Rule of Being Efficient: Compare the income of the next possible upgrade to the cost of said upgrade; the next upgrade purchased should be the one with the highest income/cost ratio. Cookie Clicker Optimizer, for example, expresses this ratio as "upgrade value". This strategy doesn't work well in short duration competitions because sometimes in the early game, the most efficient building is so expensive that building something else before would make you get the cookies needed to buy the efficient building earlier than if you just waited, as expressed in the efficiency metric of Frozen Cookies.
Winning Edit
In competitive play, the match is won by the first person to reach 50 portals. Rules are subject to change due to the changing nature of Cookie Clicker.
Other ways to playEdit
- Timed Method: This method is commonly used if you do not have the time to play any of the other ways. To play, you simply set a timer to whatever time your league agrees on and you see who can achieve the highest amount of cookies in that time.
- Cookie Method: This method is used for hardcore players. To play, you just play until one person has reached 1,000,000,000,000,000 (or whatever amount your league agrees on). It is very time consuming, and not recommended.


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On Monday I had the privilege of flying out to the Holy Land as one of the co-leaders of the Cumbria Ecumenical Pilgrimage, together with Rt Rev James Newcome (Bishop of Carlisle) and the Revd Richard Teal (Cumbria Methodist District Chair) and our organiser Rev Rob Jackson. Only travelling from Manchester to the airport I did not envy the 2 coach loads of pilgrims who set off from Whitehaven at 2:45am and Barrow at 3:15am on a tour to pick up fellow pilgrims across the county of Cumbria.
Our first full day took in Magdala, Nazareth and Cana. A true Christian pilgrim seeks change, the journey being as important as the arrival. Pilgrimage acts as a metaphor for the Christian journey, and so our journey through the Holy Land is unhurried and full of encounters. Not least is the encounter with our 75 fellow pilgrims (the snapshot was kindly taken by Kim, with me together with other members of our Cumbrian URCs l to r: Anne Dick, Ruth Mills, Jennifer Cassells, Margaret Baker).
The second image shows us with Mary, our guide at Magdala, showing us the remarkable discover of the 1st century synagogue beside the Sea of Galilee – acting not only as our guide to the archaeology but also as our spiritual guide and ministering to us in prayer.
Please pray for:
the pilgrims' experience of Christ in the land of his birth and ministry, and the moving of God's Spirit changing us through the journey
strong bonds of fellowship to be formed between leaders and pilgrims which are part of the Cumbrian experience and themselves act as a sign of all that God is doing within the county of Cumbria
the preparations for the ecumenical mission "Moving Mountains 2018" when next March Bishops (and the Archbishop of York), Methodist District Chairs, and Moderators all with their small teams arrive in Cumbria as a gift to support a week of mission in the county
the strengthening of ecumenical relationships by church leaders in your Synod Area, and for the increased willingness for a partnership in the Gospel between congregations in your locality.
your own pilgrimage where you are, as you come to know Christ more and as you make Christ known.


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'Failure is not in my vocabulary' says Libertina Inaaviposa Amathila - medical doctor, leading member of Namibia's liberation movement SWAPO, and Cabinet Minister for 20 years. Insightful, candid and amusing, this book traces Libertina Amathila's journey from a village in western Namibia travelling alone to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1962; medical training in Poland, Sweden and London; and the health and education centres in Zambia and Angola that she helped develop and run for Namibians in exile; to a victorious return home in 1989; service in the Cabinet of independent Namibia; and a leading role in the World Health Organisation. Courageous, committed, cutting through difficulties that deterred others, Libertina Amathila has assisted and empowered Namibian communities, particularly women, in exile and at home. As Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing, Minister of Health and Social Services, and Deputy Prime Minister, she focused on those in need, such as squatters, street children, and those affected by HIV/AIDS, and undertook immediate practical measures to improve their lives. Packing her tent and supplies, she drove to remote areas and camped out until houses and clinics were built for marginalized communities, assisting in the design and construction process herself. An indomitable spirit drives this remarkable woman. This is her story.The tents would not have lasted another six months, and we reckoned correctly that if we embarked on the housing programme with the San people making bricks themselves, and I used my skills to design and plan the layout, the costs wouldanbsp;...
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Rwanda Launches Virtual Centre of ExcellenceJan 18, 2018
The online knowledge-management platform also will promote ongoing discussions among practitioners in search of time-sensitive solutions
KIGALI, Rwanda, 18 January 2018 — The Government of Rwanda, together with the United Nations Development Programme and with support from the Republic of Korea officially launched a web-based Center of Excellence to share knowledge relevant to the promotion and achievement of locally-developed solutions to global environmental challenges. The centre of excellence was launched at a high-level National Forum on Knowledge Sharing for Inclusive and Sustainable New Community Development in Kigali.
The Online Centre of Excellence was set up and is managed by the Rwanda Green Fund, an autonomous body set up by the Government of Rwanda to invest in the best public and private projects that have the potential for transformative change and that align with Rwanda's commitment to building a strong green economy. The programme has been operational since 2016 through a series of workshops that were organized to gather and share knowledge needs and preliminary expectations and to build capacities in knowledge sharing among key stakeholders.
Hubert Ruzibiza, Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Green Fund, said he hopes the knowledge sharing platform will help facilitate the exchange of available knowledge on tools and practices and connect different institutions, organizations, and individuals generating knowledge for sustainable development.
"There is substantive evidence showing that South–South cooperation has the potential to accelerate sustainable rural development, in connecting knowledge and experience between countries," he said. "We hope to add to this cooperation through sharing our home-grown solutions on this platform."
Through capturing, documenting and facilitating dialogue around both successes and failures, the Online Centre of Excellence will be able to feed into the development dialogues taking place in neighbouring countries, said Fodé Ndiaye, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative of UNDP.
"Rwanda has developed a number of innovative solutions to its development challenges over the past 20 years," he said. "By sharing its successes through this platform with other countries, Rwanda will be helping others."
Kim Eung Joong, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Rwanda, said the genesis of the project was a multi-country initiative based on a form of community-driven local development in Korea called Saemaul Undong (SMU), which is based on the principles of diligence, self-help and cooperation towards transformed communities with a long-term shared vision of a better life for all through small-scale self-help projects.
"UNDP and the Republic of Korea partnered to promote the SMU-inspired Inclusive and Sustainable New Communities (ISNC) programme in six countries: Rwanda, Uganda, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Bolivia," he said, adding that the Rwanda experience was the only one of the six to involve the development of a virtual platform to facilitate knowledge management and sharing.
The Rwandan Center of Excellence is now being assessed as a best practice for lessons that can be leveraged and applied elsewhere, said Simona Marinescu, Director of UNDP's Development Impact Group in New York, which oversaw implementation of the ISNC programme.
"We are interested in the way Rwanda will further develop the Online OoE as a domestic solutions platform as we expand the global SSMart for the SDGs, she said. "SSMart is a similar platform that we hope will one day reach across the global South from Argentina to Zambia, providing both online and offline services to help match demand-supply, broker South-South Cooperation partnerships, provide advisory services and support implementation."
In line with this vision, a delegation from UNDP Uganda attended the launch in Kigali to assess the possibility of establishing a similar Center of Excellence based on the Rwanda experience.
Innocent F. Ejolu, Team Leader of the Institutional Effectiveness Programme at UNDP Uganda, said he is impressed at the enormous strides Rwanda has made in various aspects of its development, and hopes the FONERWA Centre of Excellence will be able to help the country to document this experience so that it can be shared with others.
"Ideally, we would like to replicate the model as a platform to document our own experiences under the ISNC model," he said. "Such a system could assist Uganda to share its own experiences with its neighbours– in the spirit of South-South Cooperation."
You can visit the Online Centre of Excellence here.
For more information and media interviews, contact:
In Rwanda:
Gisele Nyampinga: +250 788 802 595
David Toovey (GoR/FONERWA): +250 786 591 727
In New York:
Adam Rogers, @adamrogers2030; +1 202 601 0161 or +250 78 344 6161


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I wrote my post When You Are Discouraged About Your Health about a week before I started writing this one. Yesterday while I was in our rental office, I found out that we still had a fitness instructor on sight who offered free classes at multiple times. I thought this could be a great fit for me. I really missed the idea of working out with people even though I planned on just making due as far as being consistent with working out at home alone is concerned. Hubby said we could work out on his days off, but I knew that fluctuated so I didn't want to solely rely on that.
So I let hubby know I wanted to go to the class once he was home from work. I'm not sure why but when I reminded him today on his way home, suddenly he says, no, you don't have to do that. I will work you out. I was like huh? Seriously? I'm not sure if I told you all this before, but my husband did personal training for years. He has gotten his certification in the past but he never renewed it after that so the man knows what he is talking about when it comes to fitness, staying in shape and losing weight. I guess the issue has been with him needing to work soo many hours. He has struggled with finding the time to consistently go to the gym. He goes at all different times and that is always without me and JR. We have 2 gyms in our complex that he can use. So with his schedule being so hectic, I never thought to ask him to work out with me right in our house.
As my post title states What Did I Get Myself Into? It is what I was thinking during our first session. We worked on everything and he wants to help me increase my upper body strength because let's just say it's close to zero. He said having better upper body strength is the only way to benefit from a workout. I have a long way to go, friends. I was quite the dancer once upon a time, but that was mostly core and lower body strength. Figures. I've learned a bit about fitness from him and from doing some research when I used to sell health products on my old health blog, but this is just amazing! Don't get me wrong. I'm excited about having my hubby as a personal trainer. Can you imagine having a hot trainer as a married woman that you can actually hit on with no problem? I'm in complete bliss but at the same time, , the man is working me out! My arms felt like spaghetti after our first session. Ill definitely keep you all updated on how it goes. So far, it feels awesome that I get to work out with my husband. Exercise makes us happy so of course I felt absolutely amazing afterwards!


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Driven: A Car Culture Film Series - AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
7:30 pm
Cubberley Auditorium
Sponsored by:
Revs Program at Stanford
The Department of Art & Art History presents Driven: A Car Culture Film Series, featuring American Graffiti on March 7th.
About American Graffiti
Four high school graduates spend the last night of the summer in 1962 cruising the strip and having every adventure possible before dawn when they will each have to decide what they will do.
**Free pizza at 6:30 PM at the Cummings Art Building Lobby before the screening**
Nex Screenings:
April 12: Trafic (Jacques Tati, 1971), digital
May 3: Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis, 1980), 35mm
June 7: Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996), 35mm
All screenings are at 7:30 pm at Cubberley Auditorium.
Sponsored by the Revs Program at Stanford
The Revs Program at Stanford was founded to inspire a new trans-disciplinary field connecting the past, present, and future of the automobile and fosters an intellectual community bridging the humanities and fine arts, social sciences, design, science and engineering, and professions. For more information, visit http://revs.stanford.edu.
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"Labor Day signaled the end of summer but not the end of extra chances to win at Barona," said Rick Salinas, general manager of Barona Resort & Casino. "Every Thursday, 50 of our lucky Club Barona players will win $1,000 to kick off the weekend with a little extra cash!"
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The commander of the region's ballistic missile tracking base is preparing to swap the rural isolation of the North York Moors for the busy streets of London.
Wing Commander Rayna Owens has been reposted to Whitehall, where she will work within the Ministry of Defence.
WC Owens began her posting at RAF Fylingdales in November 2011, making her the stations 27th commanding officer, and the second female to hold the post.
"It's a beautiful part of the world, a unique mission and there are fantastic people here," she said. "I couldn't be more sad to go."
Station commanders rarely stay at Fylingdales longer than a couple of years, but WC Owens said she will be sad to leave the North York Moors behind as the base is "probably the best" job in her branch of the Royal Air Force.
She added: "This place is quite different to other military bases in that it's a real close-knit community here. North Yorkshire is now my spiritual home."
When WC Owens began her posting at RAF Fylingdales she was thrust in at the deep end, having to host 30 politicians from across NATO as part of a defence committee within her first fortnight.
Since then, she has overseen a number of developments at the base, culminating in last year's anniversary celebrations.
This was her proudest achievement, and WC Owens said: "I always knew the 50th was going to be a big event and I think we delivered fitting celebrations to recognise the landmark achievement. They were significantly more than you would expect from a team of our size, but that's a marker of the team we have got."
At the anniversary a new space science centre for schoolchildren was unveiled, while the reach of the base's wildlife conservation efforts have been greatly expanded under her watchful eye.
"I have had so many fantastic opportunities, and I've done all sorts of whacky things," she said. "I can always guarantee at the start of the week that I will never know what's going to come up."
A keen endurance runner, WC Owens has taken part in many races around the region, but also often joined the local mountain rescue, police or lifeboat teams on exercise.
Through this she has developed the station's relationship within the nearby community. "A real privilege of the job here is meeting local people," she said. "The thing which struck me is the warmth and the regard in which the local community hold us. It never ceases to amaze me how fascinated people are about what we do."
Rayna Owens will be replaced by Wing Commander David Keighley, who has already served tours at RAF Fylingdales, starting in the mid-nineties.
Check out next week's Gazette for our chat with the new station commander, but in the meantime WC Owens had some advice for her replacement.
She said: "When I came in I was going around saying 'so how many station commanders have you seen?' You can't come here and do dramatic changes, instead you can nudge things in the right direction.
"There's no manual which tells you how to be a station commander, but the reality is every day is different and you never know what's going to come up.
"I'd tell him to enjoy his time and make the most of the opportunities presented. Don't spend too much time behind your desk as it's very easy to be a slave to email, but it's much more fun to get out."


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- Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005
- M.S., North Carolina State University, 1999
- B.S., University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, 1996
Postdoc Training
- University of Washington, 2005-2008
Research Interests
Seed dispersal ecology, foraging behavior, and plant ecology
My research centers on studying interactions between plants and animals (birds mostly) that eat fruit and disperse seeds. Thus, I merge zoological and botanical approaches to formulate questions about the organization and ecology of plant communities and habitats. I strive to understand how the foraging and movement behavior of fruit-eating birds has an impact on the patterning, demography, and migration of plant populations and diversity. In my lab we use stable-isotope methods to track the fate of seeds and trophic interactions. Current projects take place in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico & Dominican Republic), Argentina, Brazil, and Pennsylvania.
Selected Publications
Selected publications:
Carlo TA, Morales JM. (2016) Generalist birds promote tropical forest regeneration and increase plant diversity via rare-biased seed dispersal. Ecology 97:1819-1831.
Herrmann J, Carlo TA, Brudvig L, Damschen E, Orrok J, Levey DJ, Haddad N, Tewksbury JJ. (2016) Connectivity from a different perspective: comparing seed dispersal kernels in connected vs. unfragmented landscapes. Ecology 97:1274-1282.
Peters V, Carlo TA, Mello MAR, Rice RA, Tallamy DW, Caudill SA, Fleming TH. (2016) Selection of species for Neotropical tree-based agroecosystems, perspectives for decision-making. Bioscience 66:1046-1056.
González-Castro A, Yang S, Nogales M, Carlo TA (2015) Relative importance of phenotypic trait matching and species' abundances in determining plant-avian seed dispersal interactions in a small insular community. Annals of Botany Plants 7: plv017; doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv017.
Carlo TA, Tewksbury JJ (2014) Directness and tempo of avian seed deposition increases emergence of wild chiltepins in desert grasslands. Journal of Ecology 102 (1): 248-255.
Gleditsch JM, Carlo TA (2014) Living with aliens: effects of invasive shrub honeysuckles on avian nesting. PLosOne 9(9): e107120.
Yang S, Albert R, Carlo TA (2013) Transience and constancy of interactions in a plant-frugivore network. Ecosphere 4: Article 147, pp. 1-25.
Fricke EC, Simon MJ, Reagan KM*, Haak DC, Levey DJ, Riffell JA, Carlo TA, Tewksbury JJ (2013) When condition trumps location: seed consumption by fruit-eating birds removes pathogens and attractants to seed predators. Ecology Letters 16: 1031-1036.
Carlo TA, García D, Martínez D, Gleditsch JM, Morales JM (2013) Where do seeds go when they go far? Integrating distance and directionality of avian seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecology94: 301-307.
Lugo A, Carlo TA, Wunderle J (2012) Natural mixing of species: novel plant-animal communities in Puerto Rico. Animal Conservation 15: 233–241
Carlo TA, Yang S (2011) Network models of frugivory and seed dispersal: challenges and opportunities. Acta Oecologica 27(6): 619-624.
Gleditsch JM, Carlo TA (2011) Fruit quantity of invasive shrubs predict the abundance of common avian frugivores in central Pennsylvania. Diversity & Distributions 17: 244-253.
Carlo TA, Tewksbury JJ, Martínez del Río CM (2009) Tracking the fate of seedlings with a stable isotope. Ecology 90: 3516-3525.


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|Willenhall, West Midlands
|Start Date:
|As soon as possible
|£26000 per annum
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|Willenhall 2410
Operations Manager
Hours 08:00 to 17:00
Job Purpose
* Matching customer orders and requirements to available suitable resources.
* Assigns resources to drivers and instructs drivers accordingly.
* Prepares schedules indicating times of arrival and departure of vehicles.
* Order entry.
* Driver debrief.
* Regularly update in-house computer systems.
* Communicates / Interacts on a regular basis with drivers, contract managers, other internal departments and Sub Contractors.
* Prepares and adheres to weekly list of vehicles and tankers for Service / MOT as per Company schedule and Defect procedure.
* Monitors and complies with Working Time Directive and drivers hours rules & regulations.
* Notify customers and process additional cost claims as per the depot procedure.
* Provides cover for other members of the transport office team.
Key Accountabilities
The successful candidate will have significant traffic office experience preferably gained within the logistics sector. Previous experience of dealing with the transportation of bulk liquids would be beneficial.
* Able to organise work load in a consistent and methodical way.
* Excellent interpersonal skills, a relationship builder and a strong communicator.
* Ability to plan, prioritise, work to deadlines, without supervision and on their own initiative.
* High levels of drive and enthusiasm.
* Meticulous in their approach.
* Dynamic and proactive.
* Good team player.
* Numerate and IT literate.
* Experience of Microsoft Office would be advantageous.
* Good understanding of operations.
* Learns quickly, able to develop a good knowledge of the organisation and its people
Behavioural Skills
A CPC qualification would be a distinct advantage. The candidate will be of a good standard of education with a strong working knowledge of software packages. Exceptional planning and prioritising skills and ideally coming from a busy traffic office background.
Core Principles
Commercial Focus: Driving efficiencies through understanding the business and its different functions, roles and responsibilities.
Integrity: Takes ownership and commits to the delivery of individual, team and business results.
Personal Responsibility: Recognising opportunities, being proactive and seeking solutions, looking beyond the immediate situation to the broader business impact.
Team Work: Builds effective working relationships within own work-group, internal and external customers.
About us
We are transport recruitment specialists with over 100 years combined experience. We make it our priority to recruit safe, professional, mature and responsible staff.
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Flower Details:
Judges Comment: Subtle color and strong composition creates a very pleasing dreamlike quality.
Judges Comment: Strong use of color, focus and composition.
Judges Comment: The composition and depth of field choice made this abstract portrait a top choice. I thought the photographer did a nice job balancing the saturation and color palate. Beautiful picture.
Judges Comment: Strong use of color and texture.
Judges Comment: The photographer really capitalized on the great color from this wedding and created a great detail. Very good toning and highlight work on the flowers. The lens flare seemed a little heavy to me, but overall a great detail.
Judges Comment: This image was a little more straight-forward, but the saturation and lensing choices by the photographer made this one stand out among many images shot this way. I thought it was a classy picture, a very nice detail to give to the bride.
Judges Comment: Really impressed with this image. The photographer took a big chance to execute this in black and white and it really works beautifully. Great job.
Judges Comment: Very nice color, light, texture and use of focus.
Judges Comment: This picture is a great example of the power of depth of field - it accentuates the flowers without losing the brides amazing smile. And the colors really pop! Post production very nicely done.
Judges Comment: Good framing, but just a moment late. The bouquet would have been better just to the left of the window frame. Overall, the most original and unexpected composition in this category.
Judges Comment: Simple clean design with strong composition created with the key elements to the left of center.
Judges Comment: Toning and detail work very well and again very strong composition. Nice Job.
Judges Comment: I loved the unique presentation of this detail. The image almost looks like a scientific document! The tone and saturation are well done for this image this type of manipulation would not work on any bouquet, but it worked really well with this one. Very creative choice by the photographer.
Judges Comment: Beautiful face and styling. Overall the use of color is good, but would be better if the eyes didnt look obviously manipulated. The whites of her eyes are too blue from an apparent color enhancement that should have been isolated to the iris. Also, since the eyes are being manipulated, the red should have been retouched out of her left eye. In the end, great subjects make great pictures, but this could be a significantly better image with more skillful retouching technique.
Judges Comment: The soft focus, muted light color create a very nice image and I love the photographer's approach with the bouquet.


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(Reuters) - A Southwest Airlines Co flight from Denver to Salt Lake City landed safely on Tuesday after the pilot detected a strange odor in the cockpit, a spokeswoman for the airline said.
Salt Lake City International Airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann initially said smoke appeared in the cockpit as the pilots prepared to land, but later deferred to the airline, which said there was no smoke in the Boeing 737's cockpit.
"It was a faint odor," said Southwest Spokeswoman Michelle Agnew. "Anytime they smell something that's out of the ordinary, they're going to take it very seriously."
Flight 1291 had taken off from Denver and was nearing the Salt Lake City International Airport shortly before 10 a.m. local time when the pilot noticed the odor and declared an emergency, Agnew said.
After the plane landed without incident, five crew members and 134 passengers were evacuated. There were no reports of injuries, Agnew said.
Once the plane was on the ground, the odor in the cockpit quickly dissipated, she said.
The airplane was sidelined for three hours and inspected by airline maintenance workers before it was put back in service. Because the smell was gone, workers were unable to determine its cause, Agnew said.
The flight originated in Kansas City before stopping in Denver en route to Salt Lake City.
(Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in Olympia, Washington; Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis, Mohammad Zargham and Dan Grebler)


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Life Story Rights Lawsuit Makes Truth Stranger than Fiction
Los Angeles, CA (Law Firm Newswire) March 14, 2011 - In February, the director, screenwriter, and entertainment companies involved in The Hurt Locker filed a motion to countersue Iraq war veteran Jeffrey Sarver. Master Sgt. Sarver claims that the movie was based on his own life story within the Army bomb squad and originally sued the group the day before the Academy Awards in 2010.
Now that the countersuit is transferred to California, The Hurt Locker group is using the anti-SLAPP statute to allege their free speech is being compromised and requesting the judge to order Sarver to pay their attorney fees. Sarver claims that he was the inspiration behind the main character Will James, aka Blaster One. The original lawsuit alleged that the movie defamed him and cheated him out of the financial success of the film. The movie's director was embedded with Sarver's unit while doing research for a Playboy article, but asserts the film and its characters are fiction.
In Hollywood and the movies, life story rights agreements typically involve a production company paying an individual, and sometimes their relatives, to cooperate and tell them all the details of their life needed to develop a full story. They may divvy up particular life events and also spell out rights for exclusivity, specific projects and media where the story can be shown.
Life story rights include rights related to privacy, publicity, and defamation. The right of privacy includes the right not to be portrayed in a false light, including embarrassing facts. Defamation can be proven if, for example, The Hurt Locker wrecked Sarver's reputation and caused damages. And since Sarver was not a public persona, unlike a celebrity, his rights to privacy could be the most egregious problem of all grievances in the lawsuit.
The Law Offices of Spotora & Associates in Los Angeles have worked with the best talent, production houses, studios, and distributors and understand the importance of life story rights to make a movie or television show more dynamic. From individuals to big movie productions, protecting their clients' rights and litigating for their clients ultimate win makes them the go-to Los Angeles entertainment attorneys.
Their managing attorney, Anthony Spotora, is experienced in entertainment contracts, options agreements, as well as representation and royalty agreements.
To learn more, talk to a Los Angeles Business Lawyer or Los Angeles business Attorney by visiting http://www.spotoralaw.com/.
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- Contract Basics for Business: Five Requirements of A Contract
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Skip to comments.US forces raid Iran official office in Iraq - TVs
Posted on 01/11/2007 12:50:03 AM PST by HAL9000
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Bank Sepah Iran
(212) 974-1777
650 5th Ave
New York, NY 10019
Washington Post
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Iraqi and Swiss envoys to Tehran over the detention of five Iranian staffers at a diplomatic mission in northern Iraq, state-run television reported.
The broadcast said the ministry had summoned the ambassadors and "demanded an explanation" about the incident. Switzerland represents American interests in Iran, where there is no U.S. embassy.
The summons followed an early morning raid in Iraq, where multinational forces stormed the building of an Iranian consulate in the Kurdish-controlled northern city of Irbil, 220 miles from Baghdad.
The troops detained the five staffers and confiscated computers and documents, according to local Kurdish officials in Irbil.
It didn't take long for the folks in Irbil to contact Reuters, AP and the BBC!
Bank Sepah Iran
(212) 974-1777
650 5th Ave
New York, NY 10019
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Let the SURGE begin!
At that hour there would have been no chance for resistance. Much safer for our guys and the information will be obtained with no loss of American or coaltion life.
Gregory asking Rice if US forces are going to arrest or kill al Sadr....
Oh, and off topic, David Beckham to sign with the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team....
Switzerland?! What, was it a choice between them and France?
Let the games begin.
We're coming for you, Iran.
I could have swore it was the annoying Gregory who is the President's official critic in the Press Gallery. If I am incorrect, then I apologize but I thought it was Gregory.
remember, mistakes are always made in war..and these days, with the media and the world against us...it will happen. I do think the gloves are off and its time to clean house. Iran has been put on notice and we are going to fight this war, the way is should be fought...HARD! Our men and women need to be unleashed, they are incredible human beings and fight better when their hands aren't tied. God Bless all of them!
Good. Let this be the start of something Patton could be proud of.
Thx for the info on Beckham, the news article I read didn't state which team.
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Gloves off bump.
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Save On Your Redbox Movie Rentals
Are you a huge fan of renting movies at the Redbox like we are? They are so convenient and already a really good price to start if you remember to return them on time that is LOL. We have complied a list of other ways you can save some money on your Redbox movie rentals. If you rent as often as we do these savings can really add up!
1) Sign Up for Text Alerts
First thing to do if you are looking to save some money on Redbox movies is to sign up for their text alerts. Simply text the keyword "FRIENDS" to the number 727272. You will occasionally receive text messages from Redbox and often time they will include a coupon for you to use n your next rental. Normal text rates do apply. You normally only get about 2-3 texts a month so they won't drive you crazy lol.
2) Redbox Promo Codes
One of the best ways to save on your Redbox movie rentals is to use one of the many coupon codes you can find on the internet. You can often find codes for a free night's rental or for a discount anywhere form $1.25 off to $.50 off your rental. Our favorite place to find Redbox codes is CouponDad.net. They post Redbox codes that can be used by anyone as well as host a large community where one time use codes are shared / exchanged.
3) Sign Up for Email Messages From Redbox
Another way to get discounted movie rentals from Redbox is to sign up for their email alerts. You will get a couple emails a week from them so I suggest using a different email account from your main one. You can easily grab a free Gmail or Ymail email address to use to sign up for these newsletters. That's what we do! Once you sign up for the email blasts you will get emails about new release coming out and often times the emails will include a discount wedding code as well.
4) Rent a DVD Rather Than Blu-Ray
When it makes sense of course. We always grab the Blu-Ray version if it is an action or thriller type of movie. But for most other movies you probably don't really need the Blu-Ray higher definition version. That is unless you just enjoy seeing the wrinkles and imperfections on your favorites actors faces! But honestly, we find most drama and comedies type movies you could do without the higher definition and sound and stick to the normal dvd and save a few bucks. Especially if you are going to end up watching it in your room anyway where most of us don't have the Hi-Def tv's and surround systems.
5) Join Redbox PlayPass
Redbox PlayPass is the Redox rewards program. You can earn rewards for every rental you make. After 10 rentals you will get a code for a free one. You will also get a free movie on your birthday and on the anniversary of when you joined the PlayPass club. Other benefits you will receive are occasional discounts, specials and promotions. We often get discounts on purchasing movies from Redbox.
6) The Redbox App
You can download the Redbox app onto your phone from the Google and Apple stores. The app is useful for reserving movies, checking if the movie you want is available at a Redbox location near you and for seeing what new movies are out. The other cool thing is of course they occasionally send you messages through the app that may include Redbox coupon codes for a free or discounted rental. Normally you will get a code for a free movie just for downloading and activating the app too!
7) Follow Redbox on Social Media
Redbox likes to slip free codes into their social media posts occasionally. So you can follow them on Twitter, Facebook and even Instagram to make sure you see those codes. Of course Coupon Dad (see above) adds those to his site when they are posted. So you can just watch for them there.
Wrapping Up
Let us know if you have any questions on any of the money saving Redbox tips? We are happy to help and remember to make sure you return your movies before 9pm the next day to avoid any extra charges. Enjoy your movie and saving on your Redbox movie rentals.


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Join George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video Analyzing a walk, part of Maya: Character Animation.
In this chapter we're going to animate a simple walk cycle. Now before we actually get into animating this walk, let's go ahead and analyze a simple walk and show you what makes a character walk, what makes a successful walk. So I have this file open here and if we want, we can simply play it and you can see it's just a very generic walk. So let's go over to our Perspective view and I'm going to actually show you a few things. Now let's take a look at what a walk is. Well the walk starts-- it depends on what frame you want to start with, but typically how a walk happens is a character shifts his weight from foot to foot. So he puts his weight on his left foot, then shifts his weight to his right foot, and each time he does that, he pulls himself forward.
So he drops his foot down, pulls himself forward, and so on. Now in doing this a number of anatomical things have to happen. Well, first of all, when he puts his foot out here, he has to put it in front of the body, which means that the hips have to rotate to meet that. So let's take a look at this, so this hip is actually forward and the other hip is actually back. But in order to maintain his balance, this shoulder has to rotate in the opposite direction.
So this is one of the key things in a walk is that when the left foot is forward, the left shoulder will be back. So let's take a look at that again and let's just watch the shoulders. So what happens is as this foot moves back, the shoulder moves forward. So what we have is a twisting motion of the spine. Now when he moves his foot forward, one of the things he does is he also puts himself out of balance.
So right here, he's actually falling forward just a little bit. So his weight is actually going to fall forward just a little bit and what happens is he's going to catch his weight with this foot. So when we do that what happens is-- let's take a look at this. So when he catches his weight with his foot, he starts with a straight leg and now that will need bends because what we're doing is we're shifting weight.
We're shifting weight from this foot, the left foot, to the right foot, and the same thing happens on the other side. So he puts his foot down, puts his weight on the foot which causes the knee to bend, and then he straightens that up as he lift himself up, allows that foot to come through, catches the ground, cushions, extends, and then takes another step. Now if we want, we can actually take a look at this a couple of other ways.
So I've got all of these geometries on layers, so I'm going to go ahead and turn off the upper body. So we can see how the legs move. So if you just see this, you can see how the hips are rotating left and right. So as this character moves forward, these hips rotate this way and then when he steps the other way the hips rotate in the opposite direction, in that direction.
So let's go ahead and turn on the rest of the body. Now another thing you want to take a look at is there's also a forward and back motion of the spine, so as he catches his weight here, the spine is going to arch forward just a little bit. What that does is because he's catching his weight on that foot, so as soon as he catches the weight on the foot, the body kind of leans forward, then it straightens up, then it catches again, and then it leans forward again.
Now one more thing I want to show you is the walk from the front. Let's take a look at how the spine works. So when he puts his weight on one foot here, we've got all of the weight of the character coming down onto that foot. And what this does is this creates a large weight on this side here which rotates the spine here, because we've got this giant weight, which is basically of character's foot, pulling this down.
And so in order to compensate for this, the spine has to arch from the front this way, okay. So that is in the middle of the walk cycle, which we call the passing position, where the foot passes the opposite leg. So when he does that we're going to have a little bit of a spine twist that way. So those are some of the basics of a walk, just some general guidelines, and we'll be going over these again as we animate the walk.
So I just wanted to show you a few key pointers to a walk, how the hips, the spine, and the shoulders move to make a character walk successfully.
Prerequisite courses: Maya 2011 Essential Training.
- Using screen-drawing tools for Windows and Mac
- Quickly posing characters with custom MEL scripts and layers
- Understanding forces and their role in creating lifelike animation
- Sequencing and timing pose-to-pose animation
- Fine-tuning transitions
- Animating a character's gait and run
- Crafting realistic facial expressions
- Syncing speech to animated dialogue
Skill Level Intermediate
Q: Where can I download the Linktivity Presenter drawing tool?
A: Linktivity Presenter is no longer available since the recording of this course. An alternative on-screen drawing tool is VB Doodle, which works with most 3d rendering software. Download VB Doodle here.


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The 'Veronica Mars' Encyclopedia: Who's Old Enough to Understand Benny Hill?
Your glossary to the plentiful pop-culture references on last night's episode of Veronica Mars:
Benny Hill: Origin: British comedian who chased women around to a jaunty theme song. Usage: Veronica discovers Amira and her Jewish boyfriend being photographed by Nassir and comments that the "peeping tom in a tree, takes off on a bike" bit feels like a Benny Hill sketch. But that Benny Hill reference could have been put to much better use in the "Dick and his two dates" subplot. Isn't it time Dick had a theme song?
Mars Attacks: Origin: Sci-fi spoof by Tim Burton. Usage: Mocking Keith's initiatives to bust underage drinkers, the Lampoon puts a caricature of him under the headline "Mars Attacks." After Keith catches the gang drinking with fake I.D.'s that Veronica created, the paper Photoshops Piz and Wallace's faces on the cover. If we used phrases like LOL, LMAO, or ROTFL, here's where we'd put them.
My Super Sweet Sixteen: Origin: An MTV show in which snotty children extort thousands from their parents to secure popularity in school. Usage: What Logan calls Parker's birthday party. Did two years pass in Neptune while the Pussycat Dolls were dancing? Is Parker in the throes of perimenopause? Why is this relationship barreling ahead at this speed?
HslPay It Forward: Origin: A movie starring that creepy guy from The Usual Suspects and that child actor with the huge head. Usage: Logan says this to Veronica after buying her a coffee, before asking her to come to Parker's birthday party. Unless Veronica also gets brutally murdered at the end of the party, we can imagine no fate worse for our heroine.
"Say what again, I dare you. I double dare you." Origin: From Pulp Fiction. Jules says this before shooting someone. Usage: Veronica says this before paintballing her main suspect. She then yells, "Check out the big brain on Brett," another Jules line, and our disgust over this episode's Full House–ian wrap-up is eclipsed by all things adorable.
Scott Peterson: Origin: White guy who killed his pregnant wife. Usage: Veronica puts spending "seven minutes in heaven" with Peterson on her list of things that are better than going to Parker's party. We don't blame her. Peterson always had a girlfriend or two, even when married, so he's probably great at multitasking — and making out.
"The Dude Abides": Origin: Catchphrase from the Coen Brothers' classic nihilist bowling film. Usage: Dick Casablancas's MySpace headline. We'll see you at Lebowski Fest, our diseased friend.
The More You Know: Origin: A PSA series that runs on NBC. Usage: It wasn't mentioned in this episode. But if you pay close attention during the resolution of the terrorist plotline, you can almost see the rainbow of understanding and the opening plinks of the theme song. —Marlena Bittner


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Click on my CLAW membership card above to see my special CLAW page!
I just joined a wonderful CLAW guild, Paws for a Cause. I am looking forward to becoming involved so I can do more to help abused and homeless kitties, like I used to be before I adopted Meowmie.
I received dese badges at the CLAW ceremonies in April!
For St. Patrick's Day, PFAC memfurs are making a Field of Clover with the shamrocks that memfurs submit. Each shamrock portrays what we would like to give to a shelter or a stray for St. Pat's Day.
The BFCC is a great club where all kitties can have lots of fun! One super fun thing is the Slumber Party hosted by Freya of BFCC. Go see me and the other kitties in our nighties!
We had a furry nice time going on a big shopping trip. If mew click da shopping bag, mew can see how much fun we had!
Efen dough I am a memfur of Bad Kitties Anonymouse , I am not a bad kitty! Dis club is full of kitties caught doing naughty things. Dis picture was sent in my somecat, but I don't know who, which supposedly is evidence of my escapades.
I did not haff ennyfing to do wif dis! Mew can read my denial here.
I am soo thrilled to be a memfur of the Circle of Charms club for girl kitties only!
I joined dis club acuz I fink it bees about time dat we hardly werking cats should be recognized!
I studied real hard and earned these degrees from the TCMC Cativersity:
Bachelors of Felinity
Master of Feline Arts and Sciences
Runtell, the Amazing Little Kitty, started this club. Runtell does all kinds of things to keep busy!
You can see my picture and all of the other kitties who are members of Cosette's Club for Stray and Shelter Pets here or click on my beautiful picture.


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STEPHEN FEE: Every afternoon, at his dining room table, 35 year old Ronald Lewis does his homework.
By day, he's a student — learning to fix heating and air conditioning systems, and he looks after his three kids. He also works the nightshift, running high-pressure boilers at a chemical plant here in his hometown Philadelphia.
RONALD LEWIS: I'm a father. I'm a hard worker. I'm very ambitious.
STEPHEN FEE: He's also got a criminal record.
A decade ago, Lewis had two major run-ins with the law that he says have interfered with his job prospects ever since.
In August 2004, he was picked up during a drug arrest alongside his brother. Lewis was carrying a 9 millimeter handgun. Days later he was nabbed for stealing a pocketbook from a department store.
So what was that like — and what happened at that stage after they arrested you?
RONALD LEWIS: It was life changing. But it wasn't a good feeling. It wasn't a good feeling because you felt like you disappointed your family and you disappointed your mother, which is the most important person in my life.
STEPHEN FEE: On the suggestion of his lawyer, Lewis took a deal. For both cases, he pled guilty to a total of three misdemeanors and was sentenced to five years probation. No jail time.
At that time, were you worried at all about how this might impact your future?
RONALD LEWIS: No. Because the lawyer had told me, 'It's only a misdemeanor. It's never gonna hurt you. Don't even worry about it.' So no. I really didn't think that much into it at that point.
STEPHEN FEE: A short time later, Lewis began looking for new work. He was overjoyed when he got a tentative job offer from a building company.
RONALD LEWIS: I worked there for about a month, was honest with them. Told them, you know, what was on my record. They still hired me. We're workin'. So I work there about a month. They called me in the office and said, 'Your record came back. We gotta let you go.'
STEPHEN FEE: And that was it? Even though you had disclosed everything? You were never dishonest in the hiring process?
RONALD LEWIS: Never dishonest. Never. They looked so scared of me — it was a shame.
STEPHEN FEE: What do you mean?
RONALD LEWIS: When they — we gotta get you out of here. We've gotta get you off the premises.
STEPHEN FEE: Lewis says that scenario played out over and over again — later on, he had two offers that were then revoked. He had promising phonecalls with another company that went nowhere. He says the only explanation he received: the existence of crimes in his past. Four of those companies declined to discuss Lewis' case with us.
STEPHEN FEE: There are people who are going to watch this, and they're going to say, 'You know what? You weren't a kid. You were 25. You were an adult. You knew what you were doing. And that this is a consequence — this is a consequence of your actions.'
RONALD LEWIS: If you show me one person that hasn't made a mistake, then I won't apply nowhere else.
STEPHEN FEE: Nine in ten companies in the US conduct background checks, and with rap sheets widely available online, advocates say people with criminal backgrounds — sometimes just an arrest record, no conviction — are being blocked from employment. They say it's driving a growing number of people into poverty. And that Ronald Lewis' case is hardly unique.
SHARON DIETRICH, COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF PHILADELPHIA: It's very common. We see clients come in with variations of his story on a daily basis.
STEPHEN FEE: Sharon Dietrich is now Ronald Lewis' lawyer — she didn't represent him in the original criminal cases. She's also the litigation director at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. She's been there for nearly thirty years.
SHARON DIETRICH, COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF PHILADELPHIA: We serve the low-income community of Philadelphia, basically unemployed and low-wage workers in Philadelphia. And it's the single most common reason people come to us for help is because they have a criminal record that has been keeping them from getting a job.
STEPHEN FEE: Last year, the Wall Street Journal using data from the University of South Carolina reported that Americans with a criminal conviction by age 23 have higher unemployment rates, make less money, and are twice as likely to end up in poverty as their peers.
REBECCA VALLAS, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: The reality is that with the rise of technology and really with the proliferation of background checks in this nation in really every walk of life from employment to housing, a criminal record now carries often lifelong barriers to basic building blocks of economic security.
STEPHEN FEE: Rebecca Vallas is a lawyer and poverty expert at the left-leaning Center for American Progress in Washington. She and Sharon Dietrich, Ronald Lewis' lawyer, published a report last year linking poverty and criminal backgrounds, especially among black men.
REBECCA VALLAS, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: The fact is that between 70 million and 100 million Americans, and that's nearly one in three of us, has some type of criminal record. And so it's really an incredibly pervasive problem that impacts whole segments of our community. But it — this issue also really disproportionately impacts communities of color.
STEPHEN FEE: Employers say they aren't just shutting out everyone with a criminal past — they're being careful and complying with guidelines from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission meant to give people second chances.
That's according to Beth Milito at the National Federation of Independent Businesses, which represents 350 thousand small businesses.
A cynical part of me says, 'Hey, if I sat down and, boy, it looks like someone's got a criminal record and then I've got another candidate who doesn't, I'm gonna go with the guy who doesn't have the criminal record,' right?
BETH MILITO, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES: Maybe, maybe not. I think it depends on the nature of the job. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued new guidance in April of 2012. And it reiterates that where at all possible it's good for a business to consider three factors– the nature of the crime, the time that's elapsed since the crime and the nature of the job. And when at all possible to make an individualized assessment. And I think many employers will do that.
STEPHEN FEE: Dozens of cities — including Philadelphia — along with thirteen states have passed so-called ban the box measures that basically ban that little check box on job applications asking about your criminal history.
But Vallas and Dietrich's report for the Center for American Progress wants to go a step further — and seal low-level, nonviolent criminal offenses that took place more than ten years ago.
According to Rebecca Vallas, the data show that after a decade, nonviolent offenders are no more likely to commit a crime than anyone else — so their records shouldn't be part of the hiring process at all.
REBECCA VALLAS, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: We really have policies in place that treat a person as a criminal long– after they really pose any significant risk of ever re-offending. And it really doesn't make much sense to be shutting someone out of opportunities to access — a job for instance — because of misconceptions about who that person might be and the risk that they might pose to public safety.
STEPHEN FEE: But Beth Milito at the National Federation of Independent Businesses says employers face major risks, and even potential negligent hiring lawsuits, if a past offender commits a crime on the job. And for small business owners especially, their reputations could be on the line.
BETH MILITO, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES: Hiring decisions are challenging. And they need this information. They can't turn a blind eye. Too much is at risk.They can't turn a blind eye to criminal history. It'd be foolish to. You know, there's people, property at stake.
STEPHEN FEE: Someone might be watching this and they say, 'You know what? I wouldn't trust you at my business.' How do you defend yourself to that charge?"
RONALD LEWIS: What I say to them is it was 2004, and I'm pretty sure if you made a mistake in 2004, you don't know what your mistake was. But mine is documented. So you know what my mistake is. And look at the positive things I've done since 2004. So if you're gonna hang your hat on just 2004, then you probably aren't the person I wanna work for anyway.
STEPHEN FEE: Do you think an employer doesn't have the right to know what happened in your past?
RONALD LEWIS: Employers should know — should know who they're hiring. It's fair. You– you should know. But you should also remember that these are lives we're — these are people's lives we're talking about. It's like if almost double jeopardy. Just look at it like this.
I serve my — I did my probation. No violations. Model citizen. I go to school and try to better myself, and I'm — it's like every time I apply for a job, I feel like I'm committing a crime all over again.
STEPHEN FEE: Lewis has submitted two pardon applications to the state to clear his record — and while both have been rejected, he plans on re-submitting in the near future.


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Judging News Sources
Truth or Trash?
The Left has taken up the favorite bloodsport of the Right: media bashing. Yes, CNN (known on the Right as the Communist News Network), Foxnews, MSNBC, even the venerable BBC are now under attack for spreading "propaganda" about the war, or for "not telling the American people the complete truth".
We live in a time where within seconds the average American can channel surf between Cnn, the three major broadcast news networks, CNBC, and for those on Comcast Cable, the BBC. With a few keystrokes, Americans have the entire news spectrum at their fingertips, reading AP, Reuters and CNN reports as soon as they are filed. From FreeRepublic.com to smirkingchimp.com, LibertyUnites.org to antiwar.org plus basic power of the search engine, the problem in America today is not the range of political voices, it is discerning the truth from the trash.
Americans today have unprecedented access to information. While most cities are down to a single newspaper, in contrast to the mid 19th century when even small towns had multiple broadsheets, even the smallest media market has a news TV station, a local newspaper and various radio stations. Beyond the local media there is the huge ocean of information available via satellite, cable TV, periodicals and the internet. Add to this other media such as political newsletters, videotapes, and letter campaigns and it is hard to imagine that a large proportion of the world's population lacks access to much of this information due to one basic fact: they cannot read.
Strip literacy out of the equation and the information ocean becomes a puddle, especially in areas where governments control radio and television stations and are usually distrusted when they aren't ignored completely if for the only reason that they are mind-numbingly boring.
Therefore much information in the world is disseminated through highly biased means, such as sermons at the local mosque or via traveling locals other-wise known as the "bush telephone". The American campaign early in the war to drop radios was perhaps the wrong solution for the right problem (because the radios exploded upon landing). The long term solution, which should appeal to Lefty bleeding-hearts as much as Right wing paranoids, is to boost literacy while democratizing society so that many political voices can be heard.
But in the USA there is a veritable cacaphony of political voices. Is bias therefore a problem?
The problem with bias is that it assumes the average reader or listener will believe everything that he or she reads or hears regardless of its source. However for Americans exposed to everything from sightings of Elvis to alien abductions to Clinton scandals, developing a "truth detector" (or its crudely named opposite, the "bullshit detector") becomes an important skill. Such a skill starts early as children take on the media preferences of their parents, and is refined later in high school and often college when critical thinking skills are emphasized (one purpose of this magazine is to save these skills from their demise at the hand of the Politically Correct).
Wielding such skills, it becomes much easier to discern the truth found in a BBC report attributing Princess Diana's death to bad or possibly drunk driving versus a tabloid's assertion of a Royal plot to silence the popular Princess carried out by the British Secret Service.
The problem occurs when these skills are devalued or worse, made meaningless by the Politically Correct's belief of the truth as being relative.
When truth becomes relative, then it no longer exists. When it stops existing then everything becomes true. So CNN, NBC and the Weekly World News are all just as credible. Lies can only exist if the truth does, and since the latter doesn't by definition, then everything suddenly becomes fact. Elvis spotted behind the Walmart, Bin Laden's ex-wife giving away his next target (as reported in November in the National Enquirer), the American press covering up atrocities in Afghanistan.
As such Al-Jazeera, the Afghan Islamic Press (the Taliban's official news agency), and other sundry Middle Eastern news outlets become just as "truthful" or even more so than the American media. Never mind that some of these outfits regularly print passages from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an anti-semitic turd dating from the 1920s, or other lies such as the rumor that 4,000 Jews called in sick the day of the WTC attacks.
Without a belief that Truth exists, then fantasy and reality can no longer be distinguished. While this may be desirable for those whose lives are filled with ennui (as the lives of many Leftist tenured liberal arts professors apparently are), it does not further the enlightenment process or the quest for knowledge – both of which are dependent on the existence (at some level) of Absolute Truth. Worse it opens mind for use by demagogues since he who believes in nothing will believe anything. (Currently this quote is not attributed.)


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Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0Robust editor has nifty new features, finally catches up
The last time I bought a traditional video camera was in 2000 when FireWire based camcorders were all the rage. It was a Sony DCR-TRV11 that I purchased for $1000. The camera still works great, and it has been through a heck of a lot--getting zapped to death by an Alienware FireWire port (which Alienware paid for after I complained), getting dropped, which resulted in the lens loosening from the camera, getting rained on, you get the picture. After a quick trip to Sony surgery, it came back good as new. But the problem is I hardly ever use it. It has been set aside in favor of my other video capture capable devices, an Olympus 1030SW digital camera and a Flip video mino camcorder. Welcome to the new age of video capture. And with that comes new tools for video editing.
One of those tools is Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 for Windows. The application, now in version 5 but called 7.0, is a consumer level video editing tool that has embraced some of the latest consumer video capture devices, as well as the output mediums that many people view video, including YouTube. The big news with version 7.0 is its support for AVCHD and JVC TOD files. While other consumer level video editors have had support for these files for a few years now, it's nice that Premiere Elements 7.0 finally offers support for these formats. Today's video watcher is no longer confined to viewing video on a VHS tape or DVD. They're watching video on the Internet, portable media players and other devices, from a variety of devices and formats, and the video editing tools have to keep up.
The Premiere Elements interface is largely unchanged, likely due to the fact that it works well with everything easily accessible. You can still edit in Timeline mode, or Sceneline mode, which is the same as Storyboard mode. The opening screen is a bit different, with a link to Adobe's new Photoshop.com community, as well as a new InstantMovie button, to go along with the Open Project and New Project buttons. Click the new Project button and you are prompted to name your project, where to save it and to choose project settings. When you choose your project settings, your choices now include AVCHD, in addition to DV, hard disk and Flash memory camcorders, HDV, and PAL settings. Each of these settings have sub settings where appropriate. For example, with AVCHD, you can choose Full HD 1080i 30 to HD 1080i 5.1 channel. Click OK and you are ready to build your project.
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The Premiere Elements interface is built around a tabbed structure called Task Panels. These panels include Organize, Edit, Disc Menus, and Share. The idea here is to give you direction on how to build your projects, and it works fairly flawlessly. The new Task Panel on the block is the Organizer. The Organizer enables you to perform all types of identification tasks. The idea here is to get you to better organize your assets, which makes for an easier editing experience.
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From the Organizer you can get media for your projects, create an InstantMovie, tag your clips and perform Smart Tagging on your clips. You can also filter your clips based on albums or tags. Once your media files are organized, the next step is to edit that footage, via the Edit tab. This is where you place your videos on the Timeline or Sceneline in the order you wish them to appear in the project, make cuts to the clips, choose a theme if you wish, add titles, effects and transitions, and so on. From the Edit tab you can also preview and set your in and out points of any clips that are in your project by double clicking the clip's icon.
After you complete your editing, the next task is to choose a disc menu if you are going to burn the finished video to DVD. Premiere Elements 7 includes several types of disc menus, including some high definition menus, and I am sure that more are available at Photoshop.com. Some of the disc menu types include Retro TV, Holidays and events, memories, kid corner, wedding, travel and sports.
Your final task is to share your video. Premiere Elements has always had some pretty robust sharing capabilities. These include burning your project to disc, creating a file for playback on your computer, mobile phone or media player, video tape, and for playback on YouTube or your own website. Within each Share type are a variety of different formats and quality settings that you can choose from to finish your project.
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The portfolio comprises of a collection of sleek and stylish LED wall lights, over mirror lights and ceiling lights.
(PRWEB UK) 31 January 2014
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To enter the competition, visitors to the Wattlite Facebook Page can click "like" on the link above. They will also need to fill out an entry form in order to be eligible to win the £50 Shopping Spree. The company is also offering additional bonus entries into the competition for participants who share the link with their friends on Facebook. Visit the contest page on Facebook for more information, as terms and conditions may apply.
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"Collision Leaking Species"
by Kate Fagan
The phrase "collision leaking species" appears in several panels of Maggie O'Sullivan's provocative work murmur, a sequence of text-based artworks and collages excerpted in this issue's Work/book section. As its title suggests, murmur is a graphic and partial account of what remains unaccountable and, in some way, unaccounted for: material whispers, the mechanics of an earthly undercarriage, iterations or ruptures occurring at a heart level — barely discernible by some readings and catastrophic by others. Category is torn open in O'Sullivan's work, as formal fragments permute through a complex series of operations and terrains. murmur is a work made for wall and floor, to be shifted about, as O'Sullivan explains to Dell Olsen in an interview to accompany the feature. It literalizes a step off the page and into physical space, while acknowledging in its primary textiles (A4 pages) the plastic, flexible and pervasive temper of writing media. As O'Sullivan says, murmur develops the poetic work as "a multidimensional, kinaesthetic, sentient terrain or environment for the body to enter and move through." It is a form of "social sculpture" (Joseph Beuys), powerful in rejecting aesthetics of neatly commodified sameness: "fabricators of canons don't want awkwardnesses."
Our Spring 2004 edition of How2 is a rich social sculpture, an electronic labyrinth that invites readers to abandon some formal and aesthetic presumptions as they "enter and move through" the site. In gesturing toward spatiality and disruption, "Collision Leaking Species" provides an exemplary title. Thematics of resistance, interface, habitat and leakage have emerged across all sections of this issue during production. They bear witness to a dazzling and intelligent range of poetic responses to current social, political and cultural weathers.
Each word in the phrase "Collision Leaking Species" is discrete, yet all three are brought into facing by their arrangement. A sharp kinesis occurs. "Collision" and "species" seem to be from antithetical points on a plane of events: collision implies the force of accident, while species denotes the controlling order of taxonomies and nomenclatures. They come into encounter through a leaking middle to produce an uncanny synthesis. To "leak species" might be to spill beyond standardizing charts into which we have arranged living systems. Or it might suggest new genres and kinds; perhaps those defying name, or un-writing prior "knowledges". To follow species-logic for a moment, the word "species" emerges from specere, which also subtends the words "spectate" and "specular" — to look or gaze upon in a classificatory and objectifying manner; and also, in a less alienating light, to regard the world with a heightened sense of vigilance and inventive perception ("speculation"). Complicated habitats and damaging occupations, such as those shown daily in news media, require the attunements of critical thinking and creative action.
Thalia Field's zoologic is one of the most interesting and ambitious works in this new edition of How2. Field scrutinizes the ideological architectures of "the species house", with its "critical distance doled out in centimeters." Via the animation of written text accompanied by sound, Field traverses ideational ground that connects place and spatiality ("she thinks spatially"); corporeality, gender, technology, capture and territory; ecological imperialism; and notions of home, foreignness and displacement — all punctuated by satirical insights about Heideggerean concepts of habitas and their philosophical reception. Her use of a "chorus" creates a skew in histories of dramaturgy. Field's electronic text is made to reckon with its own means of technological reproduction: "out of character", "out of print" and devising "multiple degrees of freedom", even as it berates "the overcooked human packaging of the C21st." This work defies specification in a highly informed way. Featured also in Multi-media, Susan Johanknecht, Hazel Smith, Melissa Benham and Stacey Dacheux give us works that problematize the borders of informational, bodily and social discourses, while sharing Field's welcome engagement with a poetics of containment and space.
These matters also inflect Frances Presley's selection of new poetry in "The Text as a Site of Resistance." Tilla Brading and Geraldine Monk provide the stitch and the fabric with openly political shades of meaning, in relation to gendered art-making and governmental spin; while Christine Kennedy's "Dusting the Mae West Memorial Library" explores links between sexuality, historical celebrity, image and economy. Sites of embodied resistance and memory inhabit a wide horizon of everyday circumstance and experience — as suggested by Andrea Baker's visual poem "House", in which transfigurations of bodies and dwellings occur in response to located grief. Hilda Bronstein's selection of papers from the London TALKS series offers a range of perspectives on embodiment, genre and location (In-Conference), while mapping a site-specific event of critical community.
Three Special Features in this issue celebrate three very different exponents of poetic narrative, its habitats and (dis)contents. Our much-anticipated critical focus on innovative writer Leslie Scalapino presents the full text of Scalapino's 'Can't' Is 'Night' — a demanding and astute response to U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the occupations of language that establish and annihilate the bounds of meaning for that conflict. Made by writer Rob Holloway in London, a recording of Scalapino reading the work is available for listening. Scalapino's phenomenological "poetic of occurrence structures" is investigated in critical pieces by section coordinator Laura Hinton, Elisabeth Frost, Jeanne Heuving, Alicia Cohen and Camille Martin; while Zack, who has collaborated with Scalapino to produce several of her performance texts live, writes about the difficulties and pleasures of staging her writings. In a lengthy interview with Anne Brewster, Scalapino describes her poetic in terms of a kinesis of being — such that a person becomes somehow inseparable from their surroundings, while consciously detaching from the ideational coercions of mass media: "I'm interested in seeing oneself as a motion, or one's interior ideas, thoughts, almost as small minute movements that are placed against a sense of the socially constructed, to create separation as a transformation of one's own mind."
"Seeing oneself as a motion" could apply equally to the enduring narrative gifts offered to readers by modernist doyenne Gertrude Stein. I am very excited in this issue to present "A Narrative in Escaped Places", a series of contemporary responses to Steinian texts and techniques. In their sheer diversity, these pieces — by Janet Neigh, Carla Harryman, Mary Ann Caws, Michael Farrell, Mark Byron, Marina Morbiducci and Rob Holloway — remind us that Stein's formidable legacy is still unfolding, generations after her death; and that her oeuvre permits great elasticity of interpretation and rejoinder. We are honoured to include Mary Ann Caws' tribute to feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun, a Steinian tracing of a very particular and circumambulatory friendship between two women. Legacy and interpretation are in the thematic foreground of Sawako Nagayasu's compelling feature on Japanese modernist innovation, in which Sawako's crisply balanced translations of Sagawa Chika appear alongside translations of Ema Shôko by Miryam Sas. A fascinating essay by leading Japanese critic Arai Toyomi is translated by Janine Beichman, and provides a valuable account of the socio-cultural context of modernist experiment by Japanese women poets.
How2 is a biannual journal — and the riches of this issue may take readers at least six months to unwrap and explore. As usual, Alerts features an excellent range of reviews and discussions; while Postcards has gained a new coordinating editor, Romney Steele, and promises to be revitalized in months ahead. Please check the Masthead and Updates pages for details of section coordinators, forthcoming features and writing events.
I will finish by drawing attention to some questions facing How2. Electronic journals are a curious (and leaky) species of texts, whose parameters shift constantly. As a biannual production, How2 still employs a largely print-based aesthetic when organizing its material. Several of the sections update regularly, but this accounts for a small part of the journal's content. How might How2 explore the capacities of new media — and where to now, for web-based art forms? What kinds of communities are produced by electronic technologies, and do web-oriented forms suggest particular issues of participation and access? Are these topics gendered, linguistic, generational, cultural, spatial? Is there room for How2 to become more immediately responsive to the desires and interests of its readers, in relation to the quick transmissions of electronic technologies? Over the coming year — and across the borders of many different localities now involved in this exciting international project — we hope to explore some of these questions.
My huge thanks to managing editor Dell Olsen (London) and webdesigner Roberta Sims (Lewisburg, PA), who have worked tirelessly to bring this edition to light; to all section coordinators for your illuminating discoveries and patient toil; and to all our contributors and readers, without whom there would be no journal. Enjoy the issue.
Kate Fagan
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