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BB creams (Blemish Balms) have been popular in Asia for quite a while, originating from Korea, inspiring releases from Taiwanese and Japanese brands such as Hada Labo.
Now other brands have jumped on the bandwagon of a 'all in one' skincare and foundation product. BB Creams can cover an array of uses – it varies from product to product, and brand to brand but basically, at a minimum these days, you should expect it to work as a: Moisturiser, Sunscreen, Primer (as in covering pores and redness), Foundation, Concealer and a lot of Asian releases also have a whitening element.
Then Garnier decided to give it a go – now here's a brand I rarely use. Off I skulked to Superdrug with £9.99 (why do I feel like that's ridiculously expensive for Garnier!?) for their Miracle Skin Perfector BB Cream.
This comes in 2 shades, Light and Medium. There's no Deep or Dark which annoys me – complete the set, my dears! I chose Medium obviously.
Regular readers will know I have a problem with most BB creams because with olive toned skin, most Asian releases are too light for me. I say MOST – because that greyish cast people complain about is not actually present in every single Asian BB Cream. A few that suit golden tones include Hada Labo (as mentioned earlier in the post), Missha Perfect Cover in Golden Beige and Etude House V-Line BB Cream.
Medium (as you will see later) in the Garnier BB works fine. It's sort of yellow and beige. It looks a tad orange on me but at least it's not greyish.
Here is the tube – you get 50ml of the stuff:
The product at first squeeze is surprisingly thick, reminding me of a lot of BB creams I have used before. It has a really strong scent, which I dislike a lot – headaches ahoy:
Despite it being quite thick at first touch, it spreads out and disappears into the skin leaving sheer coverage and more of a tint on the skin, a bit like a mousse foundation. The title, 'Skin Perfector' really fits the product – its an 'enhancing' product as opposed to a proper foundation. It's more interesting in texture than a bog standard tinted moisturiser I think, and it gives a more polished finish but nevertheless.
This is really not a bad product – it's a bit better for 'finish' than a tinted moisturiser but it's feels to me like more of a skin perfector with some spf (and only a measly SPF15 – Asian BB's usually offer SPF 30-50). I certainly wouldn't call it a BB cream – indeed, if you are looking for something to match the type of BB creams you find on the Asian market in terms of coverage, finish, benefits you will be sorely disappointed.
The finish is sheer, sheer, sheer. I confess, my love for medium coverage is strong, but it doesn't mean I don't wear something light like Estee Lauder Daywear Tint at the weekends – that for me gives more coverage than this Garnier BB Cream.
It does control redness – I give it that. Pore cover is average. Blemish coverage is poor. I wouldn't wear this on it's own at all as a 'all in one' – the hydration levels are not great (on my dryish skin, I DEFINITELY need an extra moisturiser) and yet it has a tendency to slip as well so about 3-4 hours into the day, the make up has started to disappear.
So I don't recommended it for dry skin, or skin with patchy areas, but I also don't recommend it for oily skin! I guess it's just you plain old normal skinned gals left…
Don't think of this as a BB cream – otherwise every tinted moisturiser or foundation with SPF and hydrating properties can call itself a BB cream.
Instead treat this like a skin perfecting base which is great for ladies who don't mind fragrance in their skin products, and need minimal coverage and want a bit of glow. Skin that is neither very dry or oily is the best type for this product.
Ladies who want a product that can do a bit more (ie. cover scars and pores, blemishes and conceal redness) should look elsewhere. For me, I still love Hada Labo the most despite the colour being a little off – I can use it to even out my skin texture, cover scars, dark circles and have a all over even base, even though like the Garnier, it doesn't last as long as I'd like on the skin.
My Women Stuff has a review of the Asian version of this BB cream.
I bought this from Superdrug for £9.99.


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Last night I began blocking in the background for the drawing I showed yesterday. It's coming along well and I am pleased with the progress so far. First step was to isolate my scanned drawing in a channel layer and then load it as a selection. I then colored the drawing a little so that it wasn't all black. I changed the drawing to a multiply layer, added another layer behind it for background color and started painting. As I progressed with the background I found myself erasing out the drawing from the top layer. Initially thought I would leave a lot of the drawing showing, but I am beginning to change my mind and may just paint over all the line work before I am done. We'll see how it goes.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Seagulls - Progress
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Seagulls and Crickets
I'm just starting a fun little piece for a poem that will run in the Friend magazine. Folks from here in Utah will probably be familiar with the story of how seagulls save the crops of early Mormon pioneers from a massive cricket infestation shortly after their arrival in the Great Salt Lake valley. The account has it that the pioneers battled the crickets in vain until hoards of seagulls arrived from the nearby Great Salt Lake to devour the crickets. Not only did they eat their fill, but they then flew back to the lake to disgorge them, returning to eat more.Certainly this was a miraculous deliverance that preserved the crops of the desperate settlers. Here's the final design sketch. I'll be using Photoshop to render the final artwork.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Toys As Reference Material
Grandpa's Tractor (cropped) Acrylic/mixed media
Gathering the right reference material for your artwork can be a challenge, especially if you don't have easy access to the real thing. There are only so many sources to look to in your search for the right information (Internet, libraries, museums) and sometimes those results are unsatisfactory. I try to look for alternate sources to obtain the pictures that I need for a given project and one of those is using toy versions of the object in question.
Over the years I have purchased and photographed a number of scale model ships and cars (you have to assemble them first) as well as replica toys as small as Matchbox cars.
For the above project, I found a set of three John Deere tractors to use. I picked the one that I liked the best and then set it up at the angle and lighting condition I wanted for my painting. I always draw out my idea sketches first so the photography goes smoothly and fits into my design.
Using a macro setting, I zoomed in as closely as I could and took the photos I needed. I then made final drawings and painted from my "toy reference". I could never have accurately imagined the angle of the overturned tractor without using this process.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Notes From Bill Perkins Workshop
Our workshop group on the final day. I am next to Bill (center back with my arm against the wall)
If you have been reading this blog lately, you have noticed a few entries regarding the Bill Perkins Color workshop that I attended a few weeks back So much was covered that it is impossible to give a full recap here without multiple posts. I will continue to break down the most interesting concepts from the workshop in future posts, but today, I wanted to run down a few tips from Bill that I scribbled down in my sketchbook.
ALWAYS squint to see value, but NEVER squint to see color
The value [of a color] cannot be quantified on a color wheel rather it is based on perception.
Large masses reflect more light than small masses, therefore they appear lighter than small masses, because they indeed are. Consequently, small masses (such as the nose on a face)are darker.
Highlights are the color of the light source
Light areas are the local color plus the color of the light source
When lit, objects of mid value create potential for greater range of contrast than objects of either light or dark value. Mid value has the highest value range.
Some of these concepts I had heard before, and they all rang true, but having them all put together in the context of a workshop was a really valuable experience for me. I hope these tips will help you as well.
I apologize for not posting as frequently of late, I am in the middle of a really big project which I can't spill about. Someday after it becomes public, I'll share. Thanks for being patient. I will post as much as I can in the interim.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Tip of the Day: Paint Mixing
Bill Perkins Demonstrating at the workshop
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I learned a lot of things during the three days I spent painting with Bill Perkins. One very simple tip that Bill shared with us had to do with mixing just the right tint or shade of paint. Have you ever been mixing up a nice batch of the perfect color? Perfect except it needs just a touch of Thalo green or some other color to make it just right? What happens next always frustrates me. You get just a touch of Thalo on the end of your brush and mix it into your lovingly mixed color pile and WHAM, the whole thing becomes this pea green mess instead of that cool shadow flesh color you intended. You scrape your palette and begin again. Frustration. Well, never again, and I will tell you the solution that Bill gave us. DON'T mix the Thalo (or whatever) right into your batch of paint! First take a little of the tinting color and mix it with your white in a separate pile until it reaches the same value as your desired color and then mix a bit of this new color into your paint. The values are the same, so you won't risk absolutely killing the color you worked to get right in the first place. When Bill said this, I went DUH! It's amazing how you can work for so many years and still learn new techniques and concepts. The more I know, the more realize that I don't know about painting. Keep on learning!
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
First Line Contest
It was a dark and stormy night...
The Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers conference is sponsoring a First Line Contest. If you are a writer, aspiring writer, or illustrator who wants to start writing their own books, you may want to enter this contest. The competition is open to all genres in the Young Adult market and there will be prizes. Entrance rules and requirements are posted here. I attended the writing for picture books workshop a couple of years ago and it was a very valuable experience. This year's picture book writing workshop will be taught by Kristyn Crow- author of Cool Daddy Rat, Skeleton Cat and Bedtime at the Swamp.There is also a week long workshop for picture book illustrators. This year's guest artist is Kevin Hawkes illustrator of Library Lion and many others.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Spring Plowing
Spring Plowing - Acrylic, 22" x 11"
The snow is gone and it's time to start thinking about cultivating my garden plot. Seems like more often than not, I get distracted and miss my early window for tilling. This year I hope to have the ground ready for planting by mid May. We usually grow everything from beans and squash and corn, to beets, carrots, potatoes and peppers. I grew a really sweet watermelon a couple of years back and I can already almost taste those late summer tomatoes. I am really looking forward to getting plants in the ground. Nothing like fresh grown veggies in the summer. This picture was from my picture book Spring Song, by Barbara Seuling.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Howard Pyle's Studio
Howard Pyle studio- Wilmington, Delaware
In the summer of 2009 I had the privilege of visiting the studio that Howard Pyle, widely regarded as the father of American illustration, built and worked in. In 1883 Pyle bought a lot on Franklin Street in Wilmington Delaware and constructed what would become a Mecca of sorts for artists wishing to hone their skills under the tutelage of Pyle.
Pyle Studio circa 1906
Acclaimed artists that studied in the shadow of Pyle include N.C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Harvey Dunn and Jessie Wilcox Smith. During my cross country trip to Hartford to attend my final summer MFA session, Ron Spears and I arrived unannounced, but were graciously given a tour by current caretaker and occupant, artist Carolyn Anderson.
Stepping into the Pyle studio , one could sense the history and imagine the many late night lectures and critiques that took place there and in the adjoining studio space that Pyle constructed to accommodate his top students. Pyle was a consummate craftsman and teacher with a penchant for storytelling and hyperbole. On more than one occasion, Pyle stressed the importance of getting inside your work, breathing life into it. "When I was painting this picture of a battle'" he once told a class of students, referring to his painting The Battle of Nashville, " I felt the reality so vividly that I occasionally had to go to the door of the studio and breathe fresh air to clear my lungs of powder and smoke!"
Main room inside the Howard Pyle studio
Student Frank Schoonover once recalled visiting the master one evening in which he was painting "The Battle of Bunker Hill". The painting seemed nearly finished but when he and Stanley Arthurs returned the next day, they were shocked to see a new canvas with a different composition on the easel. He asked what had happened and Pyle replied that he had taken the canvas to the boiler room and burned it because he "couldn't smell the smoke". He then reinforced that "You have to smell the smoke." Good advice to this day. If you happen to be in the Wilmington area, swing by the Pyle Studio on Franklin Street between Thirteenth Street and Delaware Avenue. Then go to the Delaware Art Museum and see the largest public collection of Pyle work in existence. You won't be disappointed.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Bus Stop Moose
Bus Stop Moose- 9" x 12"; acrylic/mixed media
Wild animals wandering around town can cause quite a stir. I get excited when we get deer or the occasional raccoon in our yard. For some towns like Park City, Utah it seems to be a constant problem and the animals get more and more brazen. That was the thought I had when I came up with this painting for Park City Magazine. It was for an article on how the city deals with these sometimes not so welcome visitors. It was always fun to work with my friends Don Weller and his wife Cha Cha on the magazine (they have since moved on to other pursuits). They always gave me enormous latitude in create an image, which was refreshing.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Maintaining Tonal Zones
Among concepts that were learned or solidified at the Bill Perkins workshop I attended over the weekend was the principle of maintaining value relationships and patterns. In his explanation, Bill focused on identifying major values and then translating them into separate value ranges. Using my painting for this first exercise as an example, I will try to break it down simply.
First Bill had us analyze the values on the model and then define within our study those specific ranges. Each tonal block was kept separate from the next, but also allowing for variations of tone within it's own block . As the diagram I created above shows, all other values that did not fall into one of the value ranges or tonal blocks were eliminated.
This process allows each value range to stand as a separate and distinct shape that cannot be confused by competing values from another tonal block. The result was a painting that held together strongly because it made a clear value statement.
I had heard variations of this theory explained before but never with such clarity. I then focused my efforts for the rest of the workshop on translating this tonal zone concept into the color studies that we did. Most of the 16 studies we painted were done in 40 minutes or less and since we were focusing on capturing a color statement, likeness and drawing accuracy took a back seat. It was frustrating to not have time to "draw", but overall a very valuable three days. More about Bill's color theory explanations in another post.
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Warning Sign
Wrong Turn- acrylic on canvas, 11" x 13"
Sometimes we don't heed the signs along the road of life. We all need to pay more attention to the warnings before we meet with disaster. Sometimes I get too caught up in my art life and need to slow down. Take a pit stop to refocus, be with family and pay attention to the ones I love. Hope you will all do the same.
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Labels: acrylic, Editorial illustration, Illustration Friday
Friday, March 4, 2011
Bill Perkins Workshop Day 1
I am off to day two of Bill Perkins painting workshop. Me and 20 of my closest friends (the room is pretty tight) are enjoying working with Bill Perkins (former Disney artist among other things) painting in oils from life and learning more about color theory and application.
Yesterday we produced five different studies from different lighting and color situation. I will post more on that later. All the studies are between 30 and 45 minutes so we really have to work quickly. Needless to say, I am not getting them to a finish level that I enjoy (yet), so they really are more color impressions for me.
Bill started us with black and white and kicked off the session by doing this study in 30 minutes. More to come later including thoughts from the notes I took.
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Labels: Bill Perkins, Head Painting, Life Drawing, oil painting
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
National Pig Day
Don't Crash Away All!- Acrylic, 19" x 13"
In honor of National Pig Day (I'm not making this up). I thought I'd post this piece from my book "The Barnyard Night Before Christmas" in which the pig plays prominently. Actually, he is the brave hero in the climactic action sequence as you can here in a previous post. No animals were harmed in the creation of the book. Begun in 1972 by two Midwestern sisters, the goal of National Pig Day is "to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals". I agree. I think I'll celebrate tonight by having a tasty pork burrito at Cafe Rio.
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Labels: acrylic, children's illustration, Picture Book
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Scientists gain new insights into protein disposal
Cells have a sophisticated system to control and dispose of defective, superfluous proteins and thus to prevent damage to the body. Dr. Katrin Bagola and Professor Thomas Sommer of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch as well as Professor Michael Glickman and Professor Aaron Ciechanover of Technion, the Technical University of Israel in Haifa, have now discovered a new function of an enzyme that is involved in this vital process. Using yeast cells as a model organism, the researchers showed that a specific factor, abbreviated Cue1, is not only a receptor and activator for a component of the degradation apparatus, but also contributes to ensuring that the defective protein is marked with a molecular tag for degradation.
Proteins are molecular machines in the cells of an organism. Different types of proteins perform many different functions: They transport materials to their destination, ward off pathogens, enable chemical reactions in the cell and much more. Many proteins are produced in a cell organelle, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), are then folded and subsequently transported to their destination.
Some proteins are only required for a specific, time-limited purpose and must be degraded once their purpose has been served. But errors also frequently occur during production and folding. These defective proteins are not functional and can even harm the organism. Therefore they, too, must be degraded.
The cells therefore have a sophisticated system to dispose of defective, superfluous proteins. In the ER there is a special process for protein degradation, known as ER-associated degradation (ERAD). This system contains a number of enzymes that cooperate to ensure that a defective protein is marked with a molecular tag, the molecule ubiquitin. This process is called ubiquitylation. A chain of four to six molecules serves as degradation signal. A protein tagged with such a molecular chain is transported to the proteasome, the protein-cleaving machinery of the cell, where it is separated into its components.
This ubiquitin-proteasome system is found in all eukaryotic cells; it is ubiquitous. It is one of the most complex cellular systems and protects the body from severe diseases. Defective proteins that escape this system trigger serious diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis or diabetes. The scientist who discovered this protective program is Professor Ciechanover. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for this achievement together with Professor Avram Hershko (Technion) and Professor Irwin Rose (University of California, Irvine, USA).
Several enzymes must work in concert to facilitate the attachment of a ubiquitin chain to a defective protein. Some of these enzymes are anchored in the membrane of the ER, others such as the enzyme Ubc7 swim freely inside the cell. A factor called CUE1, which itself is bound to the membrane, is responsible for recruiting Ubc7 and escorting it to the enzymes at the membrane. To achieve this, it has a domain which binds specifically to Ubc7. Another domain of the factor is the so-called CUE domain. Dr. Bagola and Professor Sommer have studied its function in yeast cells together with their colleagues Professor Glickman and Professor Ciechanover.
Fateful connection
The CUE domain is a ubiquitin-binding domain (UBD). UBDs bind to specific ubiquitin patterns. For example, they can recognize whether one or more ubiquitin molecules have been attached to a protein and how the respective ubiquitin molecules are linked together in chains. The ubiquitin pattern determines which ubiquitin domain binds to which protein and thus determines the subsequent fate of the protein.
Direct impact on molecular chain formation – Signal for protein degradation
The MDC and Technion researchers, who have collaborated closely for many years, showed that the CUE domain of the factor Cue1 binds to ubiquitin chains that are linked together via a specific building block of the individual ubiquitin molecules. These chains subsequently serve as a degradation signal for proteins. In addition, the researchers found that the CUE domain also has a direct impact on the length of the ubiquitin chains: If the CUE domain was lacking or limited in its function due to a mutation, the ubiquitin chains developed more slowly and were shorter in length. Apparently, the CUE domain stabilizes the ubiquitin chains, allowing additional ubiquitin molecules to be attached more easily.
In yeast cells, the researchers found that the CUE domain of Cue1 in this way actually affects how effectively the ERAD system can degrade proteins. The researchers suspect that the CUE domain is used specifically for the disposal of proteins which are bound to the ER membrane. However, they seem to have no influence on the degradation of soluble proteins. "Our results show that a ubiquitin-binding domain can also regulate the formation of ubiquitin chains," the researchers said. "This function was previously unknown until now."
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George Duke: His Music Is His Legacy
Sometimes the heavens reward us with divinely inspired artists. One such individual was Grammy winner George Duke. Keyboardist, composer, singer, producer, arranger, director, writer, and professor of music, Duke went boldly into the recesses of music, performing and experimenting in multiple genres of melody. His talent knew no bounds as he explored electronic, acoustical, jazz fusion, Latin, Brazilian, avant-garde, gospel, mainstream, funk, R&B, Soul, etc. You name it and Duke could produce it, arrange it, play it or write it.
The world weeps when one of its greats departs knowing each of us are unique unto ourselves, so there will never be another George Duke. Duke, whose musical career spanned over 40 years, died of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, on August 5, 2013 at age 67, in Los Angeles. His death follows on the heels of his beloved wife, Corine, who died from cancer on July 18, 2012. People express grief in various ways and for Duke, momentarily the music stopped. He was unable to make music for months after Corine's passing. Eventually he conquered his grief by creating the album "Dreamweaver," in tribute to Corine. The song "Missing You," is an expression of his love.
Mr. Duke was born in San Rafael, Calif. He attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, before earning a bachelor's degree in composition and trombone from the San Francisco Conservatory; later earning a Masters Degree from San Francisco State University. He went on to perform with Frank Zappa and played in the Don Ellis Orchestra. He met Stanley Clarke with whom he formed the Clarke/Duke Project producing the hit song "Sweet Baby" which ranked in the Top 20 on the Billboard pop charts.
Duke played with the Canonball Adderley Band and also as a keyboardist on Michael Jackson's album "Off the Wall." He became a solo artist in 1976. Many people also remember George's collaboration with French violinist and composer, Jean-Luc Ponty. He released more than 30 solo albums. He also produced for Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Natalie Cole.
Duke blended his talents with a number of artists which included his cousin Dianne Reeves. He collaborated with Teena Marie, Rachelle Ferrell, Al Jarreau, George Clinton, Anita Baker, Chante Moore, Marilyn Scott, Herb Ellis, Jeffrey Osborne, Sheila E and Deniece Williams. As a record producer and composer, he worked with Miles Davis on his albums "Backyard Ritual" and "Cobra." Duke ventured into Brazilian music working with Milton Nascimento, singer Flora Purim and percussionist Airto Moreira, recording the album "A Brazilian Love Affair." He worked on Jill Scott's album "The Real Things: Words and Sounds Vol. 3, and guested on the track "Whenever You're Around." In 2011, he toured the US with David Sanborn and Marcus Miller as part of a trio, performing in over 20 sold out shows.
The world will miss George Duke but he amassed such a huge music repertoire it's impossible to list all his accomplishments and contributions. From 2000 to 2013, Duke gave the world treasures like "Cool," "Face the Music," "Duke," "In a Mellow Tone," "Dukey Treats", "Déjà vu, and "this year, "Dreamweaver." He was inducted into The Soul Music Hall Of Fame in 2012 and was a musical director for the Soul Train Music Awards and other special events. He also scored songs for "The Five Heartbeats" and "Karate Kid III soundtracks."
Life is often about choices and what you want to leave in your wake. If one is remembered fondly and can leave a beautiful part of oneself behind, then that soul has lived a life well served. Stanley Clarke said of Duke after his death, "Duke lived the life of 30 musicians. He attacked life as much as life attacked him. He was a true soldier of music. He could very possibly be the nicest man I've ever met."
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The Durbin amendment is like a big earthquake: Those closest to the event experience the most severe trauma. Those further away experience less shock but are still left feeling anxious and uneasy.
The obvious impact of Durbin is that it curtails debit interchange fee income for large financial institutions, says Mansel Guerry, executive vice president, administration, at Credit Union 24.
The Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2012 cut debit interchange fees roughly in half. Although the amendment exempts financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets (all but three credit unions as of year-end 2011), there's no mechanism for enforcement or oversight.
That means smaller institutions may lose out over time as market pressures force the interchange fees that smaller institutions receive toward the lower rate. This has led credit unions to re-examine their debit loyalty programs as a potential cost-cutting measure.
"New programs most likely will be classified as premium programs, open only to certain members versus pro-grams open to anybody, as before," Guerry says. "Nobody has put into place new restrictions and qualifications yet, but they certainly are contemplating them."
Statistics bear him out. Judith McGuire, executive vice president of product management at PULSE, says her organization's annual debit card study asks participants about their plans for rewards programs in the post-Durbin environment. It revealed that in 2008, 24% of debit card issuers considered implementing rewards programs. By the first quarter of 2011, that figure had dropped to 6%.
McGuire says credit unions are less likely than other providers to attach rewards programs to their debit cards (50%, compared with 60% of large banks and 55% of community banks). More than half of credit unions offering debit rewards (54%) say they plan to restructure or terminate these programs following passage of the Durbin amendment.
"It's taking a lot of energy for financial institutions to deal with the uncertainties of Durbin's final configurations, as well as the mandate to follow the Network Diversity Rules that call for them to establish new network relationships," she says. "It's a big burden."
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Still, debit loyalty programs aren't going away, says Guerry. "They're prevalent on the landscape. There are so many loyalty programs out there and consumers are so used to them that taking them away would be the equivalent of taking down your roadside business sign. You would immediately lose business and inflict damage on yourself."
Guerry cites his two sons as examples of savvy consumers. "When I was a credit union CEO they'd tell me, 'Your program offers this while another program offers that.' It made me aware that there's a segment of the public that is always shopping."
That's why Michelle Thornton, senior product manager for CO-OP Financial Services, sees opportunity in the post-Durbin era. "We tell credit unions that now is the time to reach out to potential members or current debit cardholders with rewards programs. This is an opportunity to drive new business."
She says rewards programs "absolutely work" to increase card use. One particularly successful credit union client integrates its rewards program into virtually all touchpoints.
"They post accumulated point totals at the bottom of statements, emboss the word 'rewards' on the cards, put up billboards, and remind members with Web banners and statement stuffers," Thornton says. "They market well and often because they know members will forget if they aren't consistently reminded."
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Cameron University's Bill W. Burgess, Jr. Business Research Center (BBRC) will host a business forum focusing on the state's economic health as measured by gross collections by the state. The keynote address will be delivered by State Treasurer Ken Miller. The forum will take place on Friday, March 14 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Shepler Center and is open to the public at no cost.
In addition to discussing the industries that are fueling the state's economic growth, Miller will offer some initiatives to further enhance Oklahoma's economic health. As the state's chief financial officer, Miller protects and manages more than $22 billion of taxpayer money deposited each year, safeguards the financial health of the state, and promotes responsible fiscal policy. He serves as chair or member on numerous boards and commissions including the State Pension Oversight Commission, the Oklahoma College Savings Plan Board of Trustees, the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund Board of Investors, and the State Board of Equalization, which certifies funds available for the state budget.
Following his presentation, Miller will participate in a panel discussion with Bryan P. Long, City Manager, City of Lawton; Brooks Mitchell, Finance Director, City of Lawton; Patty Clift, Finance Director/Treasurer, City of Duncan; and Diane Branstetter, Chief Financial Officer, Lawton Public Schools.
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The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a standardized admission test used primarily by business schools as a factor in the admissions process for MBA programs. Many business schools use GMAT scores as an admission criteria for various graduate management programs, including: MBA, Master of Finance, and Master of Accountancy. Although many programs now accept a GRE score, the GMAT continues to be the prevalent standardized admissions test used by top business schools.
The current format of the GMAT contains four separately administered sections:
Analytical Writing - 30 minute time limit.
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Verbal - Contains 41 questions with a 75 minute time limit.
GMAT scores range from 200 to 800. Scores are given in 10 point increments with recent average scores of 540. Most business schools place increasing emphasis on the combined verbal and quantitative score because this score gets reported in their class profiles of the students that were admitted into their business programs.
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Hey everyone!
In today's post, I'm going to show you a step by step pictorial of how to color your hair at home. The hair color of my choice is the L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss Conditioning Color which is a do-it-yourself, ammonia-free, semi-permanent color. I've had a few white strands since a few years and sadly they are all in the front hence very visible. I started using hair color every few months to mask the white strands and the L'Oreal Paris CCG has been a favorite!
I have used the shades Dark Chocolate, Chocolate and even Black in the past. Today I am using the shade #316 Plum.
Price : Rs 545 | Available online in India here
The L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss is hair coloring kit that is designed to be used at home. It is quite easy to use and the whole process takes about 40-60 minutes depending on the length of your hair. The sealed cardboard box contains the following –
1. Developer Creme (white bottle with nozzle)
2. Creme Colorant (pink tube)
3. Nutri Shine Conditioner (small white bottle)
4. Gloves
5. Instruction leaflet
The instruction leaflet outlines all the steps in detail –
Step 1 : Add the the Creme Colorant to the Developer Creme bottle. Put on the cap and shake the bottle to mix the colorant with the developer creme till the two are mixed well.
Step 2 : After shaking the bottle, the color of the mixture darkens. At this point, you need to break the nozzle tip or just use a pair of scissors to cut the tip. The developed hair color is now ready to use! Just squeeze the bottle and the cream color will come out from the nozzle tip.
Step 3 : Apply the color to damp hair. Do not shampoo, just slightly wet the hair to allow the color to spread better.
Since I have had colored my hair few months ago, I followed the instructions on the leaflet for colored hair (colored less than 3 months ago). I applied the hair color on my roots first and let it sit for 20 minutes. If you have no greys/whites, you only need to keep it for 15 minutes. After that, apply the color along the lengths of your hair and let it sit for another 5 minutes.
If your hair has not been colored, you don't have to keep it at the roots for 15-minutes and then along the lengths. Just apply the color all along the hair and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Tip : Always use the gloves while applying the color or your fingers/nails will stain a bit. Also apply some cream or vaseline on the skin near the hairline to prevent getting any color stains on the skin.
Step 4 : Wash off the color. When its time to wash off the color, first use some warm water to massage the color all along the hair to make sure the color is distributed evenly. Keep it for another 2-3 minutes and then start rinsing out the color with luke warm water. Shampoo as usual and then use the Conditioner provided with the hair color. Keep it for at least 5 minutes and then wash off with cold water.
Before and After ~
I barely noticed an immediate color difference after using the shade Plum. But the color generally shows better after 2-3 washes. My hair just looks quite dark and glossy after rinsing out the color. Since this is non-permanent hair color, you only see a bit of tint (more obvious in sunlight) but I get decent coverage for my problematic white strands. See the difference below –
After coloring my hair ~
What I Like about the L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss Hair Color :
1. Its ammonia-free and quite gentle on the hair – doesn't dry out the hair.
2. All colors do damage the hair a little but semi-permanent color like this has very minimal damage because it doesn't penetrate the hair deep, only gives surface color that lasts upto 28 washes.
3. Non drip creme formula is really easy to use – spreads easily through the hair and gives clean application.
4. Gives decent coverage for grey/white strands (claims 50% coverage)
5. Gives a glossy shine to the hair. The color tints your natural hair and hence looks very natural.
6. Affordable – the kit is priced at Rs 545 which is way lesser than what you would pay at a salon for global hair color!
7. Quick and convenient – The whole process can be finished in under an hour which makes it really convenient especially when you have a special occasion and you want to hide those pesky greys and add some nice glossy shine to your hair.
8. Available in 12 shades! Lots of variety to choose from.
What I don't like about the L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss Hair Color :
1. The color leaves a mild scent in the hair which takes 2-3 washes to go away. Its not an unpleasant scent but its something my husband seems to notice the day I color my hair. Its a fruity but slightly chemical scent.
2. The color is mild – like a tint which could be a downside for those looking for stronger color. Also on very dark hair, certain shades may not show very well.
[note color="#FFE4C4″]If you've been waiting to take the plunge into hair color, hope this post was helpful to you. I swear by at-home hair color kits like the L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss because they are so easy, quick, affordable and convenient to use!
Have you tried coloring your hair at home? Share your hair color experiences below! [/note]
This post is written as part of the Say Yes to Color Campaign sponsored by L'Oreal Paris India. Visit Get The Look to know all about new hair trends and hairstyles.


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What is Active Adult Homes?
Active adult homes are the various types of low-maintenance residences found in planned neighborhoods that are designed for people at or nearing retirement age. These communities are either age-restricted or age-targeted, and are usually managed by a homeowners' association.
Age-restricted neighborhoods often limit homeowners to those aged 55 or older, but this can vary by community. Age-targeted communities, on the other hand, cater to those who are 50 or 55 and older by offering amenities, services and leisure activities that appeal to them, but do not require homeowners to be a certain minimum age.
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A family camping in eastern Idaho on Friday saved their 4-year-old child after a mountain lion tried to snatch the girl and drag her away, a state fish and game official said.
The incident happened Friday evening at Green Canyon Hot Springs, NBC News reported.
The animal grabbed the child near a campfire and the girl's parents began yelling, causing the mountain lion to drop the girl and run away, Idaho Fish and Game Regional Conservation Educator Gregg Losinski said in a statement.
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The girl was unharmed and only suffered a few scratches, Losinski said, but the parents took the girl to a hospital after the attack as a precaution.
Losinski said in the statement that cougar sightings are rare and attacks are rarer, but when there are attacks cougars usually target small children. The parents had seen the mountain lion earlier in the day and Losinski said their close watch and quick thinking saved the child's life.


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HAVELOCK � The weekend before Jim Price opened his Texas-style barbecue resident in Havelock, he couldn�t sleep.
HAVELOCK � The weekend before Jim Price opened his Texas-style barbecue resident in Havelock, he couldn�t sleep.
�I was lying in bed worried that I wouldn�t be able to sell the food that I bought, that nobody would ever buy it,� he said. �On Monday at 10:30when we opened, people were waiting in the parking lot, and by 11, the line was wrapped all the way around the dining room and stayed that way. Tuesday was the same and every day since.
�It�s amazing. I�m just very humbled and very grateful.�
JJ Texas BBQ opened May 20 in Havelock. And instead of worrying about no one buying the food, Price is at the opposite end of the spectrum, often by the end of lunch running out of the brisket, ribs, chicken and side items, some of which must cook for 12 hours.
Because of the long cooking process as well as licensing rules, the restaurant is limited in the amount of food it can currently prepare, Price said.
�I wish to goodness I could serve all the way until 8 o�clockat night,� he said, adding that he plans on getting additional permits and equipment that would allow him to prepare more food. �I hate that people get turned away. That�s the worst thing in the world to tell someone you can�t provide something to them.�
But at the same time, Price said he would not compromise quality for quantity.
�We cook our meats fresh on site every day,� he said. �There�s nothing frozen or pre-cooked. We cook all of our meats fresh and all of our sides from our own family recipes. We cook it every day fresh.
�I�m not going to put something out there that is an inferior product. I would rather not serve it than put an inferior product out there.�
And because of that, Price and his son, John, face some long hours. They begin preparing the next day�s food in the afternoon and early evening, using special seasoning to prepare the meat, which is slow-cooked overnight. They arrive at the restaurant around 6 a.m.to continue preparations.
�I go home at 8 o�clockat night, and I just drop down and fall asleep,� Jim Price said. �We�re closed Sundays because you have to take some time off.�
Price came to Havelock with his parents in 1974 and graduated from Havelock High School in 1981. He joined the Air Force, married his wife, Jo, and they had a son, John, and daughter, Jennifer.
�We wanted to name it quadruple J, but double J sounds more like Texas,� he joked.
His wife has relatives in Texas, and that�s where Price developed his love for Texas-style barbecue. He sought the advice of family cooks and visited restaurants in Lockhart, Texas, the official barbecue capital of Texas, in developing his recipes.
Price moved back to Havelockin 2009 to be closer to his parents, and with his son working in the restaurant business, talk of opening a Texas-style barbecue place in Havelock began.
�When we talked about this, we talked about how this was a chance to do something for Havelock,� Price said. �I had a number of people tell me to go to New Bern. I had a number of people tell me to go to Morehead. They said I�d make more money. Everybody was telling me �don�t do it in Havelock. Restaurants don�t make it in Havelock.�
�I just felt that this is my hometown and I wanted to do something for Havelock, and it�s something hopefully Havelock will embrace and that Havelock will enjoy and it will be something good for our town. It will improve our town, and I will do my part. So far, we�re managing to achieve that because Havelockhas embraced us.�
When La Rosa�s Italian restaurant closed, the opportunity to open in Havelockwas secured in what Price remembered was originally a McDonald�s restaurant.
The family spent six weeks remodeling, installing cookers and adding new appliances. All was done in an attempt to provide quality food for a good price in a friendly atmosphere.
�In Havelock, people are looking to spend less than $10 on lunch. That�s Havelock, and I�m one of those people, so that�s my goal, to be able to provide you lunch for $10,� he said. �If you�re really hungry, you may spend more than $10, but our goal was to keep your lunch under $10.�
Price said the most popular item so far has been the brisket sandwich combo, which includes a 4-ounce brisket sandwich and choice of baked beans, potato salad or coleslaw for $7.99.
With Price making the food he loves in his hometown and enjoying the early success of the restaurant, one might think he was living a dream. Well, sort of.
�I think the dream come true is to be able to do something with my wife and son,� he said. �It�s neat to work with my son and my wife every day. It�s awesome.�
The restaurant, located at 405 West Main St., had its official grand opening with a Havelock Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting on Thursday.
The restaurant opens at 10:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday and serves until the food runs out. The phone number is 652-6063 and its website is www.jjtexasbbq.com.


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Portland: Fatty Melts and Big Mac Clones at Brunch Box
Brunch Box
620 SW 9th Ave, Portland OR (map); 503-287-4377; brunchboxpdx.com
Cooking method: Griddled
Short Order: Big, crazy burgers that are more about entertainment value than being perfect specimens
Want Fries With That? Meh, I'd skip them. The fries were on the dry and cardboardy side
Price: YouCanHasCheeseburger, $7; Burgermeister, $9; fries, $1.50/$4
With the opening of their brick and mortar store on 4/20, Brunch Box expanded out of Food Cart Alley on the corner of SW 5th and Stark, offering Portlanders another place to get their mitts on budget-friendly and hunger satiating grub, including breakfast sandwiches, hot dogs, and burgers. At both locations, burgers go from over-the-top to Redonkdonk (an actual burger from the Brunch Box menu, topped with egg, bacon, cheese, spam, and ham with grilled cheese sandwiches for buns).
Even with my hotel within easy stumbling distance, I knew I'd need some reinforcements, so brought along my defacto +1 (husband), and met up with Portland AHT contributor Adam Lindsley, thinking two burgers and an order of fries could be culled between the three of us.
Both Adam and I went for fairly understated options: a YouCanHasCheeseburger for me, and a Burgermeister (aka: Big Mac clone) for the gentleman.
The YouCanHasCheeseburger ($7), a take on the fatty melt, features a 1/4 pound of griddled Black Angus beef topped with the typical fixings and condiments, snuggled between two toasty grilled cheese sandwiches. Nailing this burger variant is all about proportion. There's the all-important bread-to-meat ratio, but when you're introducing that much cheese, you've also got to think about dairy-to-everything-else.
Looking at the top photo, you've surely diagnosed yourself that the YouCanHasCheeseburger is a little heavy on the bread. Two slices of Texas toast would probably skew the burger's bread margin, let alone four slices. So yes, I'll confirm it: there is too much bread. But there is also too much cheese. The patty gets a slice, and each slice of bread does too, bringing the total to six slices of cheese. That's way too much for the beef to stand up and be noticed, but let me tell you something: with the mayo, tomato, spreads (ketchup and mustard, if you swing that way), and burger patty thrown in, this is one hell of a grilled cheese sandwich, and that's how you need to think of it.
I'll pass the (greasy) burger baton to Adam and let him weigh in on his selection, the Burgermeister ($9):
With twice the beef of Erin's You Can Has Cheeseburger, the Burgermeister should have packed a meaty wallop, despite the presence of a third bun in the center. No such luck. The overcooked, underseasoned patties barely tasted like anything even when I tore off a hunk and sampled the beef on its own. Compressed to an almost sausage-like consistency, the two slabs of desiccated cow provided textural resistance in each bite and little else. Too bad.
Like the Big Mac it's mimicking, the Burgermeister keeps it simple on the toppings: American cheese, lettuce, grilled onions, pickles, and Thousand Island dressing. The salty cheese came through strongest, followed by the toasted bun, meaning this tasted like a grilled cheese sandwich more than anything. A grilled cheese sandwich with pickles and something vaguely beefy about it that you can't quite grasp however much you'd like to. In other words, it was totally fine example of an admittedly fatter-than-usual cheese sandwich, but a boring example of a double cheeseburger.
Big burgers like you'll find at Brunch Box don't really require a side, but if a burger without fries leaves you with a gaping hole in your soul, these spuds ($1.50/$4) will fill it. I found them to be on the dry side, but Adam liked them, so go figure. If you want fries that are equally as festive as Brunch Box's burger, there are always the "loaded" options ($6-$6.50), like the Black and Blue fries, with Cajun spices and blue cheese, but tread carefully. I found it difficult to remain upright and not groaning after eating only half of the YouCanHasCheeseburger.
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At the African Combined Events Championships, the starting point for the 2012 IAAF Combined Events Challenge, which took place over the weekend (13/14 April) in Mauritius, last year's winner Margaret Simpson from Ghana and Ali Kamé of Madagascar retained their titles.
Simpson won the Pentathlon with 6184 points and the men's Decathlon was closed out for a second year by Kamé with 7409 points.
Simpson's series was (14.00 +1.8; 1.80; 13.58; 25.35 -0.5; 6.02 +1.6; 53.70; 2:20.34), and she was followed in second place by Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam with 5906pts, and in third was Ivory Coast's Gabriella Kouassi (5766).
In the men's Decathlon, local Guillaume Thierry was second (7356) and France's Daouda Amboudi (6289) was third.
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Penn Charter graduated one member of its 2009-2010 girls basketball squad and another transferred out, but for the most part the Quakers' current team is staffed with athletes who've been playing varsity ball together for several seasons.
Familiarity bred success for PC last Friday afternoon, when the Quakers opened up on their home court with a 62-36 win over the visiting Gators of Shipley School. PC coach Diana Caramanico found that her wealth of returning players gave her significant advantages in an early-season setting.
"At this stage we haven't worked on any inbounds plays," she related, "so it's a wonderful thing when you can just call something you did last year and they know where to be and what to do."
Speedy, compact point guard Aleesha Powell started her senior season with a 21-point performance and 5'11" junior shooting guard Brianna Butler rang up 17 points for the Quakers. Junior center Dianna Thomas-Palmer also reached double digits, with 11 points, and Charter received six points apiece from junior guards MaryKate O'Brien and Danielle Sienko, and one from senior forward Kendall Stokes.
A prominent new addition to Caramanico's staff this winter is assistant Tom Lochner, who coached the women's team at La Salle University for the past six years. He still works at La Salle in his new role as Director of Adult Education.
Last Friday a lay-up by Shipley high-scorer Aja Ellison (13 points total) set the scoreboard in motion, but Charter quickly began clicking on the transition and each of the starters scored a field goal. Powell's bucket was a three-pointer that put PC up 11-2, and she added another trey along with a lay-up later on as the Quakers led at the quarter, 20-4.
When the hosts added another 10 points to their lead by outscoring the Gators 13-3 in the first two minutes of the second stanza, it truly was "game over."
The halftime tally of 43-15 incorporated 13 points from Butler, a dozen from Powell, and nine from Thomas-Palmer. As Caramanico deployed all of her bench players late in the game, Shipley was able to outscore the Quakers 15-6 in the fourth quarter.
During that stretch the visitors' Celeste Golub rang up eight points in succession (her total for the afternoon), and shooting guard Colleen Walsh also finished with eight points for the Bryn Mawr ballclub. Shipley coach Sean Costello doesn't shy away from tough non-league competition, so when his young team begins to hit its stride the Gators should make some noise within the Friends Schools League.
Penn Charter sophomore Katie O'Malley, a sophomore out of Norwood Fontbonne Academy, saw a lot of minutes off the bench for the home team. Her fellow sophomores on the squad are guards Allison Rogers and Nicole Weitz, and the roster also includes freshmen Lauren Dimes and Kristina Kubach, who were both starters on the Quakers' soccer team this fall.
Assessing Penn Charter's performance on Friday, Caramanico said "We have to tighten up some things on defense and with our offensive execution. It was by no means a perfect game, but overall they passed the ball well, played together, and played hard. You can't ask for much more than that at the beginning of the season."


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Step 2In a large saucepan, combine the remaining water with the sugar and corn syrup, and cook until the sugar reaches 245 degrees using a candy thermometer. Remove from heat.
Step 3With the mixer running on low speed, slowly pour the hot sugar syrup down the side of the mixer so it doesn't splash against the whisk. Slowly increase the mixer speed to high and beat until the marshmallow lightens in color, about 6 minutes, then beat in the vanilla. For piped marshmallows, continue beating on high speed until the marshmallow firms and stiffens in texture (similar to a stiff meringue); the marshmallow will have lost some of its sheen and should break off as the beater is removed, but it should not be overly stringy, 10 to 16 minutes. For cut marshmallows, beat less, only until the marshmallow is fluffy and doubled in volume, 8 to 10 minutes total.
Step 4To pipe marshmallow chicks, start by piping the body: Hold the piping bag over the colored sugar and begin piping the marshmallow out onto the sugar so it is about 1-inch in diameter and approximately one-half-inch thick. Continue piping the body so it is about 2 1/2 inches in length, then slowly release the tip from the marshmallow, pushing the marshmallow up to form a tail. To form the chest and head, pipe on top of the body, starting from the front of the body and piping over half of the back. Continue piping, but reversing direction, to form the head, slowly releasing the tip to form the beak. Spoon the colored sugar over the formed marshmallow to coat completely. Remove the marshmallow to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Step 5To form cuttable marshmallows, using a lightly greased offset spatula, immediately spread the mixture onto the buttered parchment-lined sheet, spreading the marshmallow so it covers the pan in an even layer. Set aside, uncovered, 2 to 4 hours to set. When the marshmallow is set, cut out shapes using lightly greased cutters. Gently press the marshmallows in colored sugar to evenly coat.
Step 6Form the eyes: Place the chocolate chips in a glass measuring cup or bowl and microwave in 10-second increments, stirring occasionally, until melted. Use a toothpick to dot the melted chocolate over the candies to form eyes (and noses, for marshmallow bunnies).


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Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Sometimes when Theresa Hwang is visiting a project site, maybe the 102-unit Michael Maltzan apartments rising from the corner of East 6th Street and Maple Avenue on the edge of downtown Los Angeles, pedestrians will stop and gawk and inquire about what's coming.
"What are you building?" they invariably want to know.
"It's housing."
"Can we move in?"
"Well," Hwang then responds, "are you formerly homeless?"
And this always throws people for a loop. Hwang's organization, the Skid Row Housing Trust, has been renovating and providing permanent supportive housing for the city's homeless for more than 20 years. But more recently, dating back to a first collaboration with Maltzan about eight years ago, the Trust has been building its own developments that remarkably mimic market-rate condos. Really striking market-rate condos.
The strategy is built on the idea that high design matters for the homeless, too, because it changes the dynamic between these buildings and their residents – and between both of them and the communities in which they're located. Nothing can deflate the NIMBYism that inevitably accompanies social housing quite like a building that looks like this:
"Especially as we get closer to downtown, people are always like, 'I don't want you to build a complex that's going to have all these homeless people in it, I don't want to live next door to homeless people,'" says Hwang, who is the Enterprise Rose Architecture Fellow with the Trust. "Architecture really helps sometimes by showing it's not a 'homeless project,' it's not a shelter. It's an apartment building."
The Trust's residents, all single men and women, live in these buildings permanently, for years at a time. They have rental agreements. They pay 30 percent of their income (although that income is typically one percent or less of the median in the area), and subsidies cover the rest. The whole arrangement – the construction of these buildings and the support that makes it possible for people to live in them – is funded by tax credits, state, city, county and federal money, rental subsidies and private financing. "You name it," Hwang says, "and we use it."
About 100 formerly homeless people live in the above Maltzan design, the Carver Apartments, which were completed in 2010. The building has a kind of protective sawtooth exterior, but a vast sunlit interior courtyard that provides safe open space.
This video of life inside of it is currently featured in the National Building Museum's House & Home exhibit in Washington, D.C.:
A building that looks like this also changes what it means to live in subsidizing housing, not because the amenities are particularly luxurious (these apartments are generally efficiencies), but because absolutely nothing about this property stigmatizes the people who are associated with it.
"I do believe that having a building that stands proud on the street has a huge impact on the residents where they can proudly point to the buildings and be like 'this is where I live,'" Hwang says. "The fact that people would be like 'wow, I wonder what's going on in there,' that kind of notice and attention is something they're proud of."
Social housing is often known for drawing attention to itself, usually for its iconically drab barracks-style construction and ugly concrete towers. The Trust has essentially traveled all the way to the other end of the architectural spectrum, bypassing buildings that just blend in for a kind that stand out in a whole different way.
"No one has said 'oh, can you make your buildings more boring, or less pronounced?'" Hwang says. This population needs to blend in socially, she says, not architecturally. And by making these buildings look nothing like stereotypes of what they are, the Trust is able to de-institutionalize them.
High-end architects have become increasingly interested in serving that mission, particularly at a time during the recession when firms haven't been quite as busy building new commercial properties, concert halls and luxury housing. "We haven't had to twist anyone's arm in order to partner with us," Hwang says of the architects. Although this work is clearly of a different kind.
"We need to be more thoughtful with where we invest in design, and with other areas that need to be a little bit more bare-bones," she says. That courtyard in the Carver Apartments, for instance, isn't just an aesthetic luxury. It ventilates the building and delivers much of its daylight. And those decorative metal fins are in fact structural supports that also conceal drain pipes. "We don't have the same budget as the Disney Concert Hall of course," Hwang says. "But I think you make the best with what you have."
Maltzan's latest project, the 95,000-square-foot partially prefabricated Star Apartments that are going up on East 6th Street, has a cost estimate of $19.3 million. That Frank Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall? It ran $130 million (not counting the massive parking garage). And each of these highly designed homes for the formerly homeless, although they cost more than most low-rise, cheap shelters, is grounded on the conclusion of a growing body of research: money spent on quality permanent supportive housing is public money not spent on the health care, public safety, incarceration and temporary shelter costs of city residents who have nowhere to live.
Top image of the interior courtyard of the Carver Apartments courtesy the Skid Row Housing Trust.
The Menino Survey of Mayors identifies priorities like infrastructure, traffic safety, and climate change. But many mayors aren't eager to challenge the status quo.
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As far as the Red Sox were concerned, 2012 was a year to forget. Devastated by injuries, they finished with their first losing record (69-93) since 1993 and their worst record since 1965 (62-100). Their long sellout streak ended, but they refused to admit it. Bobby Valentine, above, turned out to be a better broadcaster than a manager.
As far as the Red Sox were concerned, 2012 was a year to forget. Devastated by injuries, they finished with their first losing record (69-93) since 1993 and their worst record since 1965 (62-100).
Their long sellout streak ended, but they refused to admit it. Bobby Valentine, above, turned out to be a better broadcaster than a manager. So the Sox canned him and acquired Toronto manager and former Boston pitching coach John Farrell for shortstop Mike Aviles to replace Valentine as Sox manager.
With the Sox going nowhere, they sent Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto to the Dodgers on Aug. 25. The names of the players the Sox received in the deal aren't important; the fact that they rid themselves of $261 million in salaries through 2018 is.
During the offseason, the Sox spent more than $90 million to sign David Ross, Jonny Gomes, Shane Victorino, Ryan Dempster and Stephen Drew as free agents and acquired Pirates closer Joel Hanrahan. All of the free agent signees are in their 30s, and none is coming off an eye-opening season. The signing of Mike Napoli to a three-year, $39-million deal was on hold after problems were found with his hips during a physical.
Red Sox public address announcer Carl Beane died at age 59 when he suffered a heart attack and drove into a tree near Hemlock Ridge Golf Course in Sturbridge. Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky died on Aug. 13 at the age of 92, but only four Red Sox players attended his funeral in nearby Swampscott even though the team was off that day.
This year also marked the passing of former pitcher Mel Parnell, former major league player and Red Sox coach Eddie "The Walking Man" Yost, and former Patriots linebacker Junior Seau.
New England Patriots
With the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins combining to win seven championships since the 2002 Super Bowl, local sports fans have grown to expect success.
The year 2012 began on a high when the Patriots reached the Super Bowl again, but unfortunately things went downhill from there.
The Giants beat the Pats in the Super Bowl in the final minute for the second time in five years, this time on Ahmad Bradshaw's 6-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds left. In 2007, Eli Manning found Plaxico Burress for a 13-yard game-winning score with 35 seconds left.
With Tom Brady enjoying another stellar season, the Pats won seven in a row this season to jump atop the power ranking polls, but a home loss to San Francisco will likely cost them a first-round bye in the playoffs. Rob Gronkowski, who played in the Super Bowl in February with an injured ankle that required surgery after the season, has missed the last five games with a broken forearm.
Wes Welker, who didn't come up with a crucial catch late in the Super Bowl, battled with the Patriots over his contract and ended up signing for a one-year, $9.5 million franchise tag. Early in the season, it appeared as if the Pats were trying to phase out Welker in favor of Julian Edelman, but Welker still became the first NFL player to catch 100 or more passes in five seasons.
Boston Bruins
One year after capturing the Stanley Cup, the Bruins disappointed their fans with a first-round playoff exit in April against the underdog Washington Capitals, losing Game 7 at home in overtime. Not long after that, goalie Tim Thomas announced that he would sit out the 2012-13 season to devote more time to his family and other personal matters.
As it turned out, Thomas wasn't alone in his boycott. Hockey fans were handed another dose of disappointment in September when NHL owners locked out the players over a labor dispute, putting the 2012-13 season on hold.
Despite the use of federal mediators, a new collective bargaining agreement still had not been agreed to by year's end, and it threatened to wipe out the entire NHL season for the second time in eight years.
Boston Celtics
The Celtics got off to a slow start in their lockout-shortened season, but surprised just about everyone by coming within one victory of shocking the eventual NBA champion Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals. After losing Ray Allen to the Heat as a free agent over the summer, the Celtics hovered around the .500 mark the first couple of months of the 2012-13 season.
Rajon Rondo was a bright spot, handing out double-digit assists in 37 consecutive regular-season games to tie former Utah star John Stockton for second all-time, but Rondo's streak ended when he got in a scuffle with Brooklyn's Kris Humphries late in the first half a home loss.
Worcester Sharks
Sharks goaltender Alex Stalock returned to form in his first full season after Manchester's Dwight King stepped on his left leg and severed a nerve on Feb. 4, 2011. Last February, Sharks coach Roy Sommer became the fourth coach in AHL history to record 500 wins, but Worcester missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year.
The Sharks drew their largest crowd in their seven seasons in Worcester, 10,120, on Feb. 24 to watch Gronkowski, with his surgically repaired left foot in a cast, spike a puck before the game at center ice.
The Sharks spent much of the first part of the 2012-13 AHL season atop the Atlantic Division and are still only a few points out of first.
Worcester Tornadoes
Worcester lost its professional baseball team when the Worcester Tornadoes spun out of existence after the 2012 season, which included sideshow act Jose Canseco. The Can-Am League stripped Tornadoes owner Todd Breighner of his membership in the league for not paying the team's bills and no ownership group could be found for 2013.
The league and city hopes to have a team in 2014. The Tornadoes won the Can-Am League crown in their inaugural season in 2005, but finished last in 2012.
Assumption graduate Brian Kelly guided the University of Notre Dame football team to a 12-0 regular season and appearance in the BCS national championship game.
In February, the Patriot League announced it would begin offering football scholarships in 2013.
"What this will do for Holy Cross, like it will do for every other school in the league, it will help us get better students, get better athletes," athletic director Dick Regan said.
Boston College beat Ferris State, 4-1, to capture its third NCAA hockey championship in five years, all three after winning the regional at the DCU Center, prompting Eagles coach Jerry York to call Worcester his favorite place other than his hometown of Watertown.
The Becker men's basketball team won the New England Collegiate Conference title, qualified for the NCAA Division 3 Tournament, and won a first-round game against William Paterson.
High schools
After leading Gardner High to 16 state swim titles, Don Lemieux resigned after he was not allowed to coach in the state championship meet in February. The MIAA claimed the coach broke a rule by allowing players to overlap their high school and club schedules, a charge Lemieux, school officials and Gardner mayor have said did not happen. Later in the year, the MIAA stripped Gardner of its 2012 sectional title and placed the Wildcats on probation.
Northbridge High's Ken LaChapelle became the first high school football coach in Massachusetts to earn 300 wins at same school.
The Auburn High football team defeated Tantasqua, 33-7, to win its fifth consecutive Super Bowl and finished atop the T&G football poll for the first time. The Rockets have won 62 of their last 63 games.
Holy Name High running back Quron Wright, the T&G Hometeam Player of the Year, led the state with 2,254 rushing yards last fall despite a late-season injury and the 5-foot-4 senior finished his career with 5,891 rushing yards to set a Central Mass. record.
St. John's High junior quarterback Drew Smiley became the first Central Mass. player to rush for 1,000 or more yards and pass for 3,000 or more yards in a season and his 3,123 passing yards set a Central Mass. record.
Worcester fighter Edwin "La Bomba" Rodriguez worked his way to a No. 2 ranking by the WBC and into the super middleweight title picture with a pair of victories, both televised on HBO, raising his professional record to 22-0-0 with 15 knockouts.
The first win, in March at Madison Square Garden in New York, was a unanimous 10-round decision over Donovan George. Next came an impressive eighth-round TKO of previously unbeaten Jason Escalera in September at Foxwoods Resort & Casino.
At year's end, the 27-year-old Rodriguez, a Dominican native who took up boxing under coach Carlos Garcia at the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, was on the verge of signing to compete in a lucrative four-man tournament in Monte Carlo in March and June of 2013. The tournament featured purses that could make him a millionaire if he wins both fights.
On Feb. 4 and 5, the U.S. blanked Belarus, 5-0, in a Fed Cup matches at the DCU Center. Venus Williams played her first match since she withdrew from the opening round of the U.S. Open five months earlier due to fatigue and joint pain from Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease.
Unfortunately, the final day of the competition was held the same day that the Pats played the Giants in the Super Bowl so only 2,279 fans showed up. But unlike Pats fans, at least the tennis faithful got to see their team win.
The Longsjo Classic cycling race in Fitchburg was canceled for the second year in a row, this time due to low registration numbers. The race was called off in 2011 due to a fire along the route. The event is scheduled to return June 27-30 next year.


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Which QB is most likely to win the Super Bowl?
Can a quarterback be too old to win a Super Bowl? Is a certain amount of playoff experience a prerequisite for a title run? Are running QBs incapable of winning a ring? We analyzed the championship seasons of the quarterbacks who won the past 10 Super Bowls to get a better understanding of NFL trends. Here's what we learned, including which QB left in this year's postseason best fits the mold.
Playoff experience
While having an extensive playoff résumé may be a bit overrated, every championship QB in the past 10 years played in at least two postseason games before making their Super Bowl-winning run. Cam Newton and Andrew Luck are the only two QBs left in this postseason without that kind of experience.
Notable stat: 24 - Postseason games played by the Patriots' Tom Brady - more than Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, Colin Kaepernick, Russell Wilson, Newton and Luck combined.
Past 10 years' average: 5 games
The belief that young QBs can't win in the postseason has been debunked repeatedly over the past 10 years. On the other end of the life spectrum, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Philip Rivers are proving that guys in their mid-30s can still play at an elite level. But when it comes to winning titles, there's been a rather small career window. No Super Bowl-winning QB over the past 10 years was older than 30 when his championship season started. And in that span, only one QB (Ben Roethlisberger in 2005) was younger than 26.
Weird Stat: 4 - Number of the past six Super Bowls won by a Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Eli Manning (twice), Brees and Joe Flacco.
Past 10 years' average: 27 (as of Dec. 31 of that year)
Tom Brady - the Patriots' sixth-round selection (199th pick) in 2000 - has won three Super Bowls, but let's not jump to the conclusion that championship QBs are easy to find in later rounds. Since Brady's last title in 2004, each Super Bowl-winning QB was selected in the top 32, with Drew Brees (the first pick in the second round in 2001) being the only one chosen outside the first round.
Notable Stat: 1 - QB to win a Super Bowl in the past 10 years with a team other than the one that drafted him (or was traded to on draft night). Brees was drafted by the Chargers but he won with the Saints.
Past 10 years' average: 50th pick (it rises to 12th without Brady)
Passer rating
There really hasn't been any correlation between regular-season passer rating and titles - which is kind of surprising. Eli Manning won in 2007 with a dismal rating of 73.9, while Drew Brees had a 109.6 mark in his championship season. In the past 10 years, four Super Bowl-winning QBs had a passer rating below 87.7 - a mark 16 QBs surpassed in 2013.
Notable stat: 7 - QBs with a passer rating above 100 this year, the most ever in a single season.
Past 10 years' average: 92.4
Passing yards
No QB passed for 5,000 yards in the same season he won the Super Bowl - although Peyton Manning and Drew Brees have a chance to break that trend this year. Passing yard figures are often overvalued. In fact, Brees' lowest single-season passing-yard total in eight years in New Orleans was in 2009 - the year he won the title. As for three-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, he's surpassed 4,000 passing yards six times in his career, but never in a title year.
Notable stat: 198.8 - Average passing yards per game for Ben Roethlisberger in his Super Bowl-winning campaign in 2005. Only five out of 37 qualifying QBs passed for less than 200 yards a game in 2013.
Past 10 years' average: 3,779 (245 per game)
Rushing yards
In nine of the past 10 years, the Super Bowl-winning QB rushed for 101 yards or less in the regular season. The exception, Aaron Rodgers, ran for 356 yards in 2010, but even he doesn't rely on running as much as some of his counterparts. He's never rushed for more than 500 yards in a season - a mark reached by Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick this year.
Notable stat: -31 - Rushing yards by Peyton Manning this season. While a true rushing QB hasn't won a Super Bowl over the past 10 years, no QB had negative rushing yards and went on to win the title in the same season.
Past 10 years' average: 79 (5 per game)
TD-INT ratio
There has been a drastic variance in TD-INT ratio for the past 10 Super Bowl-winning QBs; TD passes range from 17 to 34 and interceptions thrown range from nine to 20. But three of the remaining eight QBs in this year's playoffs don't fall in that wide spectrum (outperforming the winning QBs of the past 10 years). Peyton Manning and Drew Brees have each thrown more than 34 TDs this year - with Manning setting the single-season record with 55 - and Colin Kaepernick threw fewer interceptions (eight) than each of the previous 10 Super Bowl winners.
Notable stat: 20 - Interceptions thrown by Eli Manning in his Super Bowl-winning season of 2007, which was tied for the league lead.
Past 10 years' average: 25-13
And the winning QB will be . . .
After crunching the numbers and evaluating the past 10 Super Bowl winners we've found that . . . this postseason is set up to break the mold. There's two distinct groups of QBs remaining: the old-time, prototypical drop-back passers (Brady, Manning) and the up-and-coming, mobile QBs (Wilson, Kaepernick).
Still want a prediction based on those stats we just made you read? OK. So which quarterback best aligns with the past 10 champs? Drumroll please . . . it's Colin Kaepernick!
Quick, call your bookie. Tell him to put your life savings on the 49ers! When have trends ever been broken? I'm sure this formula would have spit out Joe Flacco's name at this time last year.
So why Kaepernick? His playoff experience (three games), age (26) and QB rating (91.6) are the closest to the averages for the past champions. While he has more rushing yards (524) than any Super Bowl winner of the past 10 years, his stats are pretty close in the other six categories.
So there you have it. The San Francisco 49ers will win Super Bowl XLVIII. If by some miracle it's not the 49ers, don't blame us. It was the numbers' fault.


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