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Drawn By Pain: Episode Two
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Many years later, Emily Waters has grown up, but what kind of monster has she herself gown into? Part 2 of 12 shows that some dreams are not made of candy.
mmmm interesting, kind of cheesy though? her costume was a bit.. iffy but the sword bit was pretty cool.
Hey hey, better then the first episode by far. I like it.
But the ending was rather drawn out.
Liked it a lot better than the previous one, but that is to be expected now the plot is really rolling. It still retains a great dark theme to it, but now I can actually take the issues somewhat seriously. I'm intrigued to see what direction the story will take, mind.
Mild criticism: The introduction movie is somewhat long for a 10-minute production.
Is she just channeling Dexter?
I mean...she entices a guy, cockslaps him, and then when he gets nasty, she slays him?
Pun intended? ;-)
Just as weird as the first episode.
I think I'll give this a miss in future - 10 minutes plus 10 minutes commentary is just 'too much' - and the T-shirt advert is a bit 'drastic'.
And I still can't see the point of this being on the Escapist? - oh well, to each his own.
No hablo ingles, muy bien por favor.
This was soaked in cheese. Cmon the whole "whip it out" Is she some kind of Dexter-ish female? I thought this series was gonna be good i may have been wrong :(
Thx Melaisis! The story gets darker and darker as it goes and will be glad to hear your thoughts as you go. As for the intro - I also feel it is a tad long, but being an episodic I wanted to make sure anyone coming in on a random episode had a sense of what they were in store for. A necessary evil I suppose.
-Jes :)
All things - behaviors attitudes, etc become clear over time. I don't much like making things that spell everything out from the inset and you will find if you continue to watch that all things do not stay the same as they go.
Either way - thx for taking the time :)
Thx Sammy!
As for the ending - the importance of the young girl on her psyche is very key and I felt needed the time.
Hey Geordie - I can promise you the series gets even weirder than this :)
As for t-shirts - many people have asked for them - so we make them available.
Thx for taking a look,
It was ok. I liked the first one better.
Innocence is lost
still needs vampires!
I shall have to call the fashion police :P
Thx for the sword comment - there are many more powers and animated nightmares on the way.
-Jes :)
lol :)
Seriously bad ass psionic weaponry going on there ... the way she baited herself - though that guy did seriously push his luck to the breaking point - she is coming off kinda psychopath more than avenging angel, she already got the righteous payback on the abusive father figure, now it seems like she is doing it just for the kicks, so she doesn't feel like a "drone in the hive". Sick.
This one did move better than the first though, found it entertaining, thank you.
Very welcome :)
I basically went and ruined this series by watching eleven episodes in one go...and...seriously folks: I don't think this series is meant to be watched like that. So, while you can google the site very easily (comes up as the first hit), I recommend watching no more than one episode per' week.
Why? It's heavy stuff, and if you watch it all in one go you'll probably end up like me: dulled by all the pain and frustrated by the ensuing character development. Of course, you could end up like me no matter what you do, but I'm thinking one episode per' week is a better approach.
* sigh *
Overall opinion: it's okay. Not bad, but not great either. It grinds on the same issues from start to finish, and really: what more could you expect? It's probably the heavy grinding on the issues on hand that leaves me emotionally exhausted; the other thing that bothers me is the lack of originality in terms of story arch. Acting swings from 'meh' to good, but the overall story arch is what eventually killed this thing for me.
To me DBP feels like a gimmick film: you got this cool artsy thing, but take that away and it's not very deep. In the beginning it prods on a couple of nerves. Then it breaks out a mallet and delivers a real beating on those same nerves. By the end of the 11th episode those same nerves were pretty much fried, which is why this isn't a great review...
I feel exhausted and frustrated more than anything else, so I'm going to say: good effort, but no great follow through.
While the first episode was a direct ripoff of an old mediocre episode from that renewed 4th Dimensions series from the 90's, with the only difference being that the kid summoned to reality a barbarian hero from his favorite comics, while here, we have a blue-girly anime thing with a lousy cell shading and that awful spiky haircut, this second episode seems to go down another route entirely, one that is literally absurd and embarassing, and reminds me of those bitchy female cops tarting up to catch men who would be too foolish to think with their balls for a few minutes, while as everybody knows, men think about sex 8 times a day... duh.
You should stick with the young girl, less butts, boobs and cheese.
Thanks for taking a look T,
Glad to hear you went through most of them - ep12 will resolve some of what you are feeling - but alas that is way down the road for the folks here.
-Jes :)
Never seen the 4th dimension so can't really comment.
The act of the older girl is meant to be forced as she plays a game of cat and mouse with her prey. As for where it goes from here - it's stays very true to it's roots in my opinion.
Thanks for taking a look :)
Thank you sir :)
What was that whole thing about? I was too busy staring at her epic rack
double lol
supress your urge for boobies for 10 minutes and watch again
Hm, kind of boring imo. It was 10 minutes, could have easily been done in 4,5 minutes instead. The shots and camera angles were good, lighting as well. The story's just, not that interesting. For a show that's suppose to mix anime with real time footage, there's not much in the form of anime action in there. So she somewhat slays an ignorant horny latino guy with a tiny knife using huge swordswings that could have easily been avoided? Make us hate the villain, let us see a normal girl ( without a modern xena outfit ) turn into a vicious killing machine that's fast..lethal. You get the picture, I love the concept of this show but the execution still needs some work pacing/storywise :)
i wasnt to sure wen i saw the first episode but i liked this one and will definatley watch future videos!!!
wered u get the idea for the series from?
Hmmmm....It's a long answer - the short one is - had the original idea about the little girl who's powers come to life to defend her about 9 years ago, but decided when I started dbp that I was more interested in who that little girl would become once she had grown up. Would she be ok? Would she be a good person? All those questions kind of unfolded the story you are now starting to see.
cool, really enjoyin the series so far! lookin forward to the next episode :)
It's not really 'Must watch' material and I've lost interest now that the drama of childhood is gone. It's like she has no motivation for anything and comes out being an incredibly shallow (I would say 2D, but the pun would eat my brain) character which is the opposite of what you've tried to achieve I guess.
Also I fail to see the relevance of this being on a games magazine site. ZP does reviews, De-Rez Makes fun of The gaming industry in general, VGT is... Trying, Unforgotten Realms is about D&D and DBP is about a messed up 20 something woman who is Schizophrenic only when she has pushed people to the edge and they finally attack her. Spot the odd one out.
Thanks, but no thanks
The childhood story is not gone by any means and her shallowness is completly intentional (as she is damaged and guarded goods). The story/character arc is one of feature length and not told in a single episode (as there wouldn't be any more to tell). I appreciate you taking a look of course - I feel sad that your judgment is based around a snapshot of the story as a whole, but appreciate you taking a look nonetheless.
I started to watch the video because it seemed kinda neat with the drawings and stuff then I started to skip along then I got near the end and found some spanish guy following an emo whore? I was like ok thats fine I guess then they started to fight...wtf? I know you probably tried your best but it honestly looked like crap. So I seen there were a few comments and I wanted to see what people had to say and as I started scrolling further and further down the list no one actually said it looks like total piss. So the further I scrolled down I got more and more pissed so I actually made an account and started typing this fun little comment. If your going to make a video and not try then don't put it online, just keep it and show it to your friends cause there won't be people like me to make fun of it. And if you did try your best maybe you should find another hobby. I made a few videos of games and I tried and most of them came out to be very well. Anyways I just wanted to comment and let you know I thought your video was horrible and maybe better luck next time.
Explain to me how this kind of feedback is valuable or appropriate? Actually, explain to me offline, because you've been banned. /mod.
I really have trouble with the idea that you can pass judgment on someone else's work without really even watching it. You say you just began to skim through the Episode, and then were confused by the fighting? Well, no kidding. If you don't bother to watch all of an episode or read a full chapter of a book, you won't understand why something happens.. I think the series is very interesting, and though a little dark at times that just makes it more unique.. so many shows and movies constantly put out "..and they lived happily ever after" themes were things just work out in the end, but the world isn't like that. There is pain and darkness and desperation and I like seeing it in this format.
As for the content you have produced - it's all well and good to say that they "came out to be very well" (whatever the hell that sentences means), but did you actually get those videos up on a site like this, or put them up anywhere? Would you have the guts to put your work up for the slaughter of people who don't even give it a chance? ..Probably not.
Also - to the comment regarding 10 mins of Episode and 10 mins of commentary.. you don't have to watch both.. it's just bonus content for folks who dig that kind of thing.
just my 2 cents.
So some chick puts on a hot topic uniform, acts a tad whorish, leads a guy into pulling a knife on her, then kills him? wtf? If we are supposed to identify or sympathize with the character, you would think she wouldn't kill for fun. Well made but the writing could use some work. Also, the intro was a bit long.
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Over the last several weeks, the three networks ignored or downplayed important stories such as the Gosnell abortion trial. Will they cover this one?
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BRET BAIER: President Obama promised to get to the bottom of the Benghazi attack. So, why are the perpetrators still free? Correspondent Adam Housley has part two of our exclusive investigation.
OBAMA: Make no mistake. Justice will be done.
ADAM HOUSLEY: Seven months and still no arrest or targeted killings after the brutal attack on two U.S. locations in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans despite promises that those responsible would be hunted down and held accountable. However, multiple sources tell Fox News that the U.S. has identified the mastermind of the Benghazi attack who was still in Libya and walks free.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We basically don't want to upset anybody. And the problem is, if Ambassador Stevens' family knew that we were sitting on information about the people who killed their son, their brother, and we could look them as a government in the face, then we're messing up. We're messing up.
HOUSLEY: Fox News spoke exclusively with this special operator who watched the events unfold in real-time and has debriefed those who were part of the response. He remains anonymous for his safety and has decided to talk because he says he and others connected with the September 11th attacks of Benghazi are frustrated with the excuses, lies, and lack of a military response since Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have all the capability, all the training, all the capacity to kill and capture that only terrorist involved with the specific events of 9/11 and Ambassador Stevens' death, but terrorists who are feeding other regions, including Europe that eventually could affect our national security in the short-term. We're not talking midterm or long term. This is a short-term.
HOUSLEY: The community is pretty frustrated?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. It's a daily frustration.
HOUSLEY: Another threat, a larger terrorist haven that continues to build in parts of Libya and North Africa. Those working the region in the enters (ph) of United States security plainly the ball is being dropped by top leaders at the White House, Pentagon, and State Department.
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Well, the U.S. has claimed a more active role to find and remove an estimated 20,000 shoulder launched missiles called man pads, some Americans working the area say they're not allowed to take or even destroy the missiles because they have not been given the authority from their chain of command.
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Twenty-five years have passed since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the first report of a mysterious disease killing homosexual men in Los Angeles. According to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, all the men had a "cellular-immune dysfunction related to a common exposure" and a "disease acquired through sexual contact." Characterized by a strange array of infections -- pneumocystis pneumonia, Kaposi's sarcoma, candidiasis, cytomegalovirus -- the disease was initially dubbed "gay cancer," then GRID (gay-related immunodeficiency disease). As federal health officials learned of similar cases involving people who were not gay, GRID was abandoned for AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
The CDC's report appeared in June 1981, but it would be nearly two years before the virus that causes AIDS would be identified -- and two more years before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would approve the first antibody test for HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Recently Newsweek magazine quite correctly observed that, in the beginning, "no one -- not the government, not the media, not the gay community itself -- reacted fast enough to head off disaster." Politicians objected to funding research of a new pathogen believed to kill mostly gay men and intravenous drug users. Mainstream media outlets largely ignored AIDS until it turned up in women, children and hemophiliacs. Even the New York Native, a gay newsmagazine, originally dismissed AIDS cases with a perfunctory headline: DISEASE RUMORS LARGELY UNFOUNDED.
During the early years, President Ronald Reagan made no public acknowledgment of AIDS -- even after a Hollywood pal, charismatic film and TV star Rock Hudson, was diagnosed and died. For many Americans, Hudson's death in 1985 was their first exposure to AIDS. Then, America's extreme political right wing and the usual pack of pseudo-Christian evangelical jackals seized the opportunity to demonize gay men. Reagan advisor Pat Buchanan proclaimed, "The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war against nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution." In the absence of any prudent, discerning national leadership on the subject, people living with HIV or AIDS were routinely divided into two categories: "innocent victims" and "people who deserve to get AIDS." Hostility towards those in the latter group was palpable. People were routinely fired from jobs, evicted from their homes and denied access to healthcare.
Some gay men went into denial, refused testing and mourned closed bathhouses, but many others mobilized, creating advocacy groups and AIDS service organizations such as ACT UP and Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). In those early days, the deaths were unrelenting, the losses made all the more painful by our nation's indifference and propensity for tasteless jokes. During a 1986 rededication ceremony for one of America's greatest monuments, beloved comedian Bob Hope quipped: "I just heard the Statue of Liberty has AIDS. Nobody knows if she got it from the mouth of the Hudson or the Staten Island Fairy."
It would soon be hard for Americans to ignore AIDS or revile all its sufferers. Entertainers, from actors to musicians, would succumb. Artists, fashion designers, athletes and porn stars would perish. Grandmothers, brothers, school children and college students would be diagnosed and die. As early as 1983, rational voices warned of an epidemic, even predicting that AIDS could be the public health threat of the century. And while Americans are capable of profound compassion from time to time, we truly excel at fear, ignorance and hysteria. With a collective shudder, the nation lurched forward, abandoning the myopic "AIDS is a gay disease" scenario for one even more fallacious and loathsome: AIDS is a gay disease that's spreading to the population at large!
How did AIDS bring out the worst in us as a nation? In 1986, the Pentagon began testing new military recruits for HIV, rejecting those who tested positive -- an obvious effort to expose homosexuals. That same year, HIV-positive Indiana teenager Ryan White was barred from attending public school. By 1987, the United States had added HIV to the immigration-exclusion list (that policy remains intact). Later that year, Congress adopted the Helms Amendment, legislation banning the use of federal funds for HIV prevention and educational materials that "promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities" -- it would not be declared unconstitutional until 1993. Throughout the 1980s, anxious voices advocated everything from compulsory testing of all hospital patients, prison inmates and marriage license applicants to the quarantining and tattooing of people with AIDS.
How did our government fail? It would be fully seven years after the first cases of AIDS were reported before the CDC would distribute information about HIV and the behaviors that can lead to its transmission. In May 1988, 107 million American households were mailed a copy of "Understanding AIDS," a brochure put together by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, but never publicly acknowledged or endorsed by then President Reagan. Nine years passed before the United States government introduced a federal program or legislation -- 1990's Ryan White CARE Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act -- to improve the quality of care for and prohibit discrimination against people affected by HIV and AIDS. None of that, however, can be attributed to any particular effort on the part of Reagan's successor, the first George Bush, a man who can most charitably be summed up as oblivious. And by 1992, AIDS had become the No. 1 cause of death for American men aged 25-44.
You may want to believe President Bill Clinton genuinely "felt your pain" during his two presidential terms in the 1990s. After all, he championed reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act, created the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS and appointed the first "AIDS czar." Unfortunately, it was also his administration that launched federally funded abstinence-until-marriage programs for America's youth in 1996, a misbegotten initiative that appeases the nation's prudes, but tends to create the kind of dumbed-down teenager who will insist that oral sex isn't real sex.
Clinton and his predecessors would be dramatically upstaged by HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) in 1996. This combination of pharmaceutical drugs known as protease inhibitors and reverse transcriptase inhibitors would prove to be powerful medicine despite its ludicrous marketing as an "AIDS cocktail." Barely a year later, the revolutionary treatment was credited with drastically reducing the AIDS death rate and bringing scores of men and women back from the brink of death -- a so-called "Lazarus Effect," named for the biblical figure who was raised from the dead. But HAART -- an expensive, lifelong commitment distinguished by grim side effects -- is not the answer, a panacea or cure; it's a bitter pill.
A quarter century of AIDS and a decade of HAART behind us, where are we? According to a recent national survey (May 2006) conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, significant percentages of Americans still mistakenly believe HIV might be spread through kissing (37%), sharing a drinking glass (22%), and touching a toilet seat (16%). More than half of all Americans do not know that a pregnant woman with HIV can take drugs to reduce the risk of her baby being infected (55%), or that having another sexually transmitted disease may increase a person's risk of getting HIV (56%). Maybe Americans don't know any better because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has, under pressure from tight-assed congressional ultraconservatives, de-funded explicit prevention efforts over the past ten years.
Apparently the CDC needs reminding that prevention is not simply part of its name, it's their responsibility. Serious, explicit, fundamental prevention education has been thwarted, abandoned in favor of vague initiatives about testing and linking positive people to treatment -- period. Does it really make any sense to gut comprehensive sex education in schools and strip funding for proven, straightforward prevention programs when we live in a country that spends an estimated $10 billion a year on adult entertainment? We can handle the truth. It's time for the rest of us to tell our government -- especially its most insufferable legislators, like Tom Coburn, Bill Frist and Mark Souder -- to get over its squeamishness about sex and acknowledge, once and for all, that politicians have no right whatsoever to hold the entire American population to a rigid puritanical sexual standard that begins and ends within the context of a monogamous heterosexual marriage. Hey, Uncle Sam, grow the hell up!
What else? Well, let's acknowledge that safer sex was a great idea. Yes, it's sounds soooo 1989, but it works. We hear a lot about how it's an "old paradigm" -- a fancy way of saying it's a tired model -- but the truth is we've gotten lazy and bored. So then, what if we dropped the language and moved on? Everyone, including people with HIV and AIDS, is entitled to a full and satisfying sexual and emotional life. Start having conscious sex. You know, try being fully aware that sex always has consequences -- from pleasure and intimacy to pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Common sense, candid conversation and condoms = conscious sex.
For the gay guys: Listen, something is definitely wrong when "Will & Grace," a sitcom featuring two sexually active gay men, can run eight freakin' years wringing laughs from homophobia, infidelity, gay parenting, single motherhood, addiction and death, but fails to find even one single amusing way to send those boys to the clinic for an HIV test. Looking for positive role models? Forget TV. Maybe gay men could just start caring about one another again like we did when AIDS was ravaging our communities and the preachers were telling us it was God's wrath and the politicians could not have cared less. Where are love, courage and compassion today? Are they awakened only by crisis? Maybe you don't think HIV is a big deal anymore; the meds make it chronic and manageable just like diabetes or heart disease, right? Please wake up and smell the scented candle. If you think a life of pricey, toxic meds, bizarre side effects, disclosure and discrimination is acceptable, then you need your head examined. And by the way, please avoid crystal meth; it's rots your teeth and makes you stupid.
So it's been 25 years since those first AIDS cases. What needs to happen for us to move forward as a nation? First, the United States government and the CDC should apologize immediately for mistakenly suggesting a link between homosexuality and AIDS. Worldwide, over 40 million people are infected with HIV and half of those are women. HIV is not a gay virus and AIDS is not a gay disease. The president of the United States should say that in a televised address to the nation and the CDC should mail that information to every American household. Next, we should have a national day of mourning; an opportunity to grieve and acknowledge that AIDS has killed more Americans than every military conflict from World War II through Iraq. And finally, pharmaceutical companies -- the world's most wildly profitable businesses -- should quit squabbling over patents and generics, stop buying off Congress and the FDA, and refrain from irresponsible marketing practices and price gouging. In other words, try something ethical for a change.
Yes, the urgency that once surrounded HIV and AIDS in the United States has ebbed. Many Americans think the epidemic is under control here and the problem now exists over there. Our government cunningly deflects attention away from the growing American HIV social-services crisis and disproportionately high rates of infection and death in our communities of color by constantly dwelling on the plight of poverty-stricken Africans. It's bad over there; we get it. But poor and disenfranchised Americans don't have it much better. And our government-sanctioned complacency is leading to rising infections among women, teenagers and even the AARP generation. Make no mistake: The problem has not been solved; America is still struggling with this virus.
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Olive tree cultivation and the consumption of Olive Oil have a long tradition on Majorca. This fact brought about the recent recognition of the Protected Denomination of Origin.
It is Extra Virgin Olive Oil, obtained primarily from the 'mallorquina' variety of olive. It is produced in the Sierra de Tramontana olive growing region in the northern part of the island. The special climate and topographic conditions of the area and a traditional production process result in a unique product, golden in colour, intense in flavour and slightly sweet. Because of this it earned recently protection under the new Oil from Majorca Denomination of Origin.
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Acclaimed writer Jeffrey Eugenides sits down with Paris Review editor Emily Nemens to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his debut novel, "The Virgin Suicides," and introduce his latest short story collection, "Fresh Complaint."
"The Virgin Suicides" announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, "The Virgin Suicides" is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Middlesex" (FSG, 2002), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. "The Marriage Plot" (FSG, 2011) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. In 2017, FSG published his first collection of stories, "Fresh Complaint." Eugenides is the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in English and American Letters at New York University. He has been elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in the summer of 2018. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, "The Cactus League," is forthcoming from FSG, and her stories can be found in The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, and n+1.
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Wendy Herrmann and Mark Nowak exchanged their wedding vows Jan. 4, 2014 at St. Anne Catholic Church in Alpena. Father Richard Schaeffer officiated the 1 p.m. double-ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Glen and Nancy Herrmann of Alpena. The groom is the son of Jack and Debbie Nowak of Alpena.
Attending the bride as matron of honor was her sister, Amanda Swallow. Bridesmaids were Kayla Nowak, sister of the groom, and Melody Schultz, friend of the bride. Attending the groom as best man was his brother, Matt Nowak. Groomsmen were Joel Nowak, uncle of the groom, and Mike Pettit, friend of the groom. The ring bearer was Collin Wentworth, son of the bride. Ushers were Ben Maleport, friend of the bride and groom, and Keith Nowak, cousin of the groom.
Following the ceremony, a reception was held in honor of the newlyweds at St. Anne Parish Center. The rehearsal dinner took place at Fletcher Street Brewing Co.
Wendy is a 2001 graduate of Alpena High School and graduated in 2009 from Colorado Tech University with a degree in nursing. She is employed by Autumn Leaves Memory Care as a nursing supervisor. Mark is a 2001 graduate of Alpena High School and a 2003 graduate of the Alpena Community College Concrete Technology Program. He is employed by QuiKrete as a regional quality control manager.
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The $2.2 million project is on schedule, said Monticello City Manager Myron Lee. Lee expressed amazement that the project has moved forward so quickly.
"It generally takes four years from the time a project begins to seek funding to the groundbreaking," said Lee. "Construction began on this project just a little over a year after we began looking for funds."
The previous Monticello Swimming Pool was built in the 1950s with a community-wide fund raising effort. A similar effort helped drive the funding of the new project.
This pool is being built a penny at a time through a local effort driven by school students. Kara Boyd, a teacher at Monticello High School, initiated a project to raise a million pennies in her math classes. When the effort was tied to helping fund the new pool, there was community-wide excitement.
"Many people have been involved in this project, including recreation director Eddie Allred and the recreation committee," said Lee. "There are also a group of 'swimming moms', led by Adriann Goodwine, who have been a great help."
The penny effort has attracted approximately 800,000 pennies to date or $8,000 of the $10,000 goal. The project has also attracted the attention of other funding agencies.
"The Community Impact Board and Eccles Foundation were excited about the million penny project," said Lee. They thought that if kids were saving their pennies for this project, they could also help.
San Juan County has pledged to contribute $500,000 for the project. In addition, the Eccles Foundation provided a $100,000 grant. Local groups, such as the Lions Club and Baseball Parents Association, have also pledged to contribute to the project.
The Community Impact Board extended an $825,426 grant and offered a $1.3 million loan. The zero percent loan will be paid over 30 years with an annual $45,000 payment.
The project is funded primarily by a sales tax approved by Monticello voters in 2008. The sales tax is expected to generate approximately $20,000 a year in revenue. While revenues will vary from year to year, city officials are hopeful that revenues will increase as the city grows.
The city will put the remaining grant funds and contributions in an interest-bearing account. It will be used to pay the remainder of the $45,000 loan payment.
The aging facility closed in 2008 after an expensive piece of equipment was damaged. City leaders moved ahead with the demolition of the old building this summer, with the hope that a new building would take its place in the following year.
The new facility will cover roughly 100,000 square feet, with a three lane lap pool and "zero-entry" wading pool that gently drops to 2 feet deep. The pool includes space for a shallow-depth volleyball and basketball area and a diving area that is 12 feet deep.
The pool will open during the warm weather months. While Lee reports that maintenance and operating costs will be similar to the previous pool, he hopes that the new facility will generate considerably more revenue than the previous pool. Use of the older facility dropped as it aged.
In recent years, the $28,000 in annual costs were offset by roughly $15,000 in revenues, leaving an annual subsidy of approximately $13,000.
Lee said the financing is tight on the project. "The city took a risk when they tore down the old pool before the new project was finalized," said Lee. "But things seem to have worked out."


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The God Delusion vs. The Science Delusion
Last year I had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake about the relationship between conservatism in science and those who are pushing its boundaries. Finally, with the release of his new book Science Set Free it's time to let you …Continue reading Tweet
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Awesome interview. Thanks for sharing.
Would like to see this discussion.
Loved this interview and topic. Thanks for sharing Mark & Dr Sheldrake.
Thanks Mark for this. I definitely would like to see the two in a joint interview.
In a huge bookstore today, there were 4 aisles of science fiction, fantasy, and teen paranormal romance, but only a single segment on science.Similarly, there were 2 aisles of mystery fiction about murders, investigations, and court dramas, but only a single segment on law.This shows the American literary psyche is almost devoid of any interest in reality. Even amongst active, invested readers, we greatly prefer fiction, fantasy, and entertainment, if you can believe the proportions in the bookstore. See for yourself.
@RogerAbramson Great point. (Side note: I wouldn't lump sci fi in with fantasy, mystery, romance, etc myself … I think true sci fi is extremely important.)
@RogerAbramson Great point. (Side note: I wouldn't lump sci fi in with fantasy, mystery, romance, etc myself … I think true sci fi is extremely important.)
@RogerAbramson So people prefer the 'Right Brain,' imaginative side of life, as relief and escape. Why is 'imagination' not seen as another part of *reality?*
"It's a pleasure.." and… "connected in full stream …"
I would be interested to hear, see, read and understand anything that challenges orthodox thinking.
I do though think there's a danger of getting drawn in to a counter view based on our current beliefs. I watch and read a lot about science, people, behaviour and associated topics.
We all make assumptions about the way the world works, these assumptions are based on a set of beliefs, then cognitive dissonance makes sure we are closed to others ideas.
Dawkins and Sheldrake will have their own set of beliefs and will use science to back them up. So both will look right depending on what your beliefs were to start with.
I haven't read Sheldrake's book but will do soon.
It could be that both Dawkins and Sheldrake are right about some of their thinking but both wrong about other ideas.
Our decisions are at least partly determined by our available choices. We may not agree with everything our political party says but have to vote for someone and end up choosing one over another. Before we know it we then come to believe everything about the party.
In my own thinking I try to have an open mind, it's just sometimes so hard to be this way.
A fantastic interview thank you. And yes, it would be marvellous to see those two going head to head, I do hope you can arrange it
yes, please
It's all ILLUSION… in fact just as God was simply used to control small, tight-knit communities….now cosmopolitans cannot be… under THAT, but Conservative Science is cunningly used by Pharma, governments, etc., as a rationale or 'controller' or inhibitor of free citizens!! Golly. G. Thanks for the soapbox @markjoyner
@StevePrior you've said what I wanted to, but could NOT get enuf 'neurons aroun'
@Mark Joyner @RogerAbramson Yeah true 'sci fi' is like our thought-molds, our right brained IMAGINATION creating future solutions – esp movement to planets! Solutions to 'disease' and other role plays!
Guys just sharing, I've found this interesting! Check it out! http://www.histian.webs.com
and great post!!


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After three years of relative quiet, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns have been making a comeback in the past 12 months. The BDS movement demands that organizations divest from Israel's economy as a protest against claims of human-rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Certainly, loud divestment protests on well-known college campuses and boycott decisions by aging pop stars may make sexier headlines than the quieter work of peace negotiations. But it is worth asking: 1) How much have BDS campaigns actually affected attitudes and behaviors over the last decade, and 2) Have such efforts advanced the cause of peace or conflict in the Middle East?
An anti-Israel hate-fest
The seeds of the modern BDS movement were planted in 2001 at the now-infamous United Nations "Anti-Racism" conference in Durban, South Africa, which degenerated into an anti-Israel hate-fest, leading to walkouts by both Israel and the United States. At a meeting of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) there, a wide range of anti-Israel organizations – meeting face-to-face for the first time – developed an "Apartheid Strategy." Let's be clear: This was a long-term propaganda campaign to declare Israel the new South Africa, with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as their primary tactic.
The campaign first made its appearance in 2001, with campus petitions demanding that colleges and universities divest their endowments and retirement funds from companies doing business with the Jewish state.
Despite an initial surge of media attention, campus-based BDS campaigns faced the double bind of university administrators and fund managers universally hostile to divestment requests, and counter-petitions denouncing divestment outpacing pro-BDS petitions at Harvard and elsewhere by a factor of at least 10 to 1.
Little support for divestment
Just as BDS was facing credibility issues after two years of noise with virtually no results, the program got new momentum in 2004. That's when the Presbyterian Church in the US (PCUSA) voted to begin a process of "phased, selective divestment" in companies doing business with Israel. This led to a proliferation of similar divestment requests at other mainline Protestant churches, as well as new institutions such as unions and municipalities.
As with campuses, however, support for divestment within these organizations turned out to be extremely shallow. When the Presbyterians met again in 2006, they revised their 2004 divestment decision by a vote of 94 percent to 6 percent. The resolutions ended the policy of divestment in Israel and shifted to a policy of investments in "peaceful pursuits."
False claims of BDS groups
After five years of defeats, with internal struggles confounding the BDS organizers, the campaign went into suspended animation from 2006 to 2009. The movement got a fresh round of press, however, in February 2009 when media reported claims that Hampshire College in Massachusetts became first US campus to divest from Israel.
This declaration, put forth by campus BDS activists, was later refuted by the college's president. A year of similar bogus reports followed, some even claiming that major institutional investors (such as the academic retirement giant TIAA-CREF) had joined the Israel divestment movement. In fact, TIAA-CREF had simply sold off some plummeting Israeli real estate stock for purely economic, rather than political, reasons. Just last month, BDS activists claimed that Harvard had divested from Israel when it made a routine transfer of Israeli equities from its emerging-markets to developed-countries fund portfolios.
Why are BDS organizers so desperate to portray major institutions such as Harvard and TIAA-CREF as backing their cause? Remember that divestment, at its heart, serves to hammer home the BDS propaganda message that Israel is an "Apartheid State" deserving economic sanction from major, respected organizations. A group of anti-Israel activists demanding divestment is not news, but Harvard or the Presbyterian Church or TIAA-CREF taking such a stand makes headlines.
Lack of success
Again, the goal of BDS is not just to change the investment landscape per se, but to create a public opinion "tipping point" against Israel – the kind that spelled the end for South Africa's racist regime 20 years ago. On both of these fronts, it comes up well short. Israel's economy has grown explosively during the ten-year period when BDS has been working tirelessly to make these statistics go down. Meanwhile, support for Israel among the American public has surged in the same period. Even in Europe, where political hostility to Israel is greater than in the US, European venture funds now invest heavily in Israel.
In the face of this macro-economic reality, the lists BDS organizations present as their wins (especially when stripped of false claims like Hampshire and TIAA-CREF) seem paltry indeed. But keep in mind that the goal of boycott and divestment campaigners is to put Israel in the dock and to give legitimacy to their accusations against Israel by claiming well-known and respected organizations as their supporters.
Because of the potential propaganda payoff of even a temporary success, BDS campaigns are likely to continue this year, regardless of the needless pain that always accompanies dragging the Middle East conflict into a civic institution. In fact, the BDS campaigns may contribute to extending and exacerbating conflict, even during a period when the parties themselves are negotiating peace.
Those who are truly interested in working toward peace might find a better home with the many organizations committed to peace and understanding between Jews and Arabs in a part of the world needing more cooperation, not than less.
Jon Haber is a Boston-based writer and activist who documents the BDS movement at his anti-divestment website, www.divestthis.com.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Momentum is building among Republican lawmakers for legislation to prevent a credit default by the United States, suggesting they will fight hard for spending cuts when Congress debates another increase in the nation's debt limit this summer.
More than 60 fiscal conservatives in the House of Representatives now support so-called "prioritization" legislation.
Prioritization would direct the Treasury to pay the interest and principal on U.S. bonds before making any other payments if the government can no longer borrow additional funds because Congress failed to raise the debt limit.
The legislation is seen as an attempt by fiscal conservatives in the House to show they are prepared for brinkmanship as Congress and the White House debate the debt ceiling in the coming months. Republicans hope to use the debt limit issue to force Democrats to cut spending and reform costly health care programs.
"A lot of members have been wanting to pass a prioritization bill for a long time so when we are having negotiations on the debt ceiling, default is not an option," Republican Representative Steve Scalise, the head of a conservative faction in the House, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Introduced on February 25 by Representative Tom McClintock of California, the legislation has gathered 64 co-sponsors and been referred to the Ways and Means Committee.
Now House Republican leaders are backing the idea.
House Speaker John Boehner will support the debt prioritization legislation that the House Ways and Means Committee produces, a spokesman for Boehner's office said on Tuesday. "When it comes to the debt limit, our goal is to cut spending to help create jobs, not to default," he said.
Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House, said last week in announcing April's legislative agenda that he expects the House to consider prioritization legislation "in the near future."
As President Barack Obama prepares to unveil a budget plan on Wednesday that he hopes will help him reach a deficit-reduction deal, the prioritization issue could resurrect the brinkmanship that marked an ugly fight in 2011 over the debt cap battle.
The idea of prioritizing payments on debt has been rejected by the Obama administration in the past. It has said ensuring that bond holders got paid before others would be default by another name.
Under the Republican approach, if the U.S. Treasury reached the debt limit - possibly by late July or early August - the government could continue making payments to Chinese creditors and other bondholders before making other payments such as Social Security retirement benefits and military salaries.
The House Ways and Means subcommittee, which helps oversee the Treasury Department, will hold a hearing on Wednesday to explore the administration's ability to prioritize its payments and continue operations if the Treasury hits the debt limit.
This will happen the same day Obama is due to propose a budget that would offer cuts to big government health care and retiree benefits programs in exchange for increased tax revenues.
Similar legislation has been introduced in the Senate, but it is not expected to go anywhere with Democrats controlling that chamber.
Still, the mounting support from House Republicans suggests that they are serious about going to battle with the Obama administration over the debt limit, unlike the most recent fiscal deadlines when they worked with Democrats to keep the government operating.
It is unclear whether the Republican plan would reassure investors or whether the Treasury Department could make all of its debt payments with the cash it receives. Tax revenue does not come in at the same rate that payments are due, according to Treasury's cash flow statements.
"It may be that you might not have enough money to pay a large refinancing," said Steve Bell, a former Senate Budget Committee staff director who is now an economic policy director with the Bipartisan Policy Center. "It works until it doesn't," he said.
The government is on track to hit the legal limit on how much it can borrow around May 19. The Treasury is expected to use emergency measures to stave off default, though that will only last until around July or August.
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"Apparently, there's a lot of debate going on right now whether I'm qualified or not to be the new judge on 'American Idol,'" Ellen said on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," airing Tuesday. "I'll tell you right now, how I know I'm going to be a great judge because I've spent my whole life being judged. So I know what it's like."
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"I'm very excited to be on the show… I knew people would have opinions and I did not want to know what they were because why should I take that stuff in. I try not to watch anything that I think is going to be talking about me. I try not to read anything…nothing. I don't even read the back of a cereal box," she continued.
Ellen even addressed Paula Abdul's recent spoof of her during the "VH1's Divas" event.
"I have nothing but love for you too Paula," Ellen said. "But, I want my wig back. I really do. Give it back."
Ellen might have some naysayers out there, but she has a fan in princess of pop.
"Congratulations on American Idol!" Britney Spears Tweeted on Wednesday. "Don't take any crap from Simon."
Fans will have to wait until January 2010 to find out how Ellen does sitting next to Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell at the judge's table.
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With out warning, 50 % the belly dancer viewers busted out an Arsenio Hall fist pump. "Whoo Whoo Whoo!"
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It happens to me that only 5 folks on the world are heading to get that joke. *SIGH* I am previous. Shot at the 2009 Four Winds Renaissance Faire in the vicinity of Whitehouse Texas.
Mugging for the camera. You would believe these sixteenth century females had in no way observed a DSLR camera prior to or something… weird.
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The entire world is a better area due to the fact some men and women have this sort of through pattern! Lengthy live cathartic drinking water violence!=D
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The newest force to shake up the competition scene, Fabian Bösch cemented his position as one of the greats last season by winning Gold at the Aspen X Games Big Air.
As a member of the Swiss Freeski Team, the 19-year-old travels the globe almost year round, competing at events of the highest calibre, often beating the best in the world, like in 2015 when he was crowned the Slopestyle World Champion. Needless to say, young Bösch is sure to add more hardware to his collection in seasons to come.
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3D printing technology, more formally known as additive manufacturing, is a game-changer for many companies. In addition to routinely "printing" items from shoes to airplane parts, some companies are exploring scientific and medical applications, such as printing a prosthetic hand or producing a customized tracheal stent.
3D printing has expanded beyond prototyping to the delivery of finished goods, but it won't replace traditional manufacturing anytime soon. Small production volumes result in high production costs, and the number of raw materials that can be used in 3D printing is relatively small. Significant design and output hurdles also remain.
Still, the potential—for innovation as well as for disruption—is staggering. And the time to act is now, as .
What does 3D printing mean for your business? Could you print products close to or at customers' premises instead of shipping them? Can you create a mobile 3D printing lab that takes manufacturing capabilities wherever they need to go?
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NCAA Tournament Bracket Analysis: Who Looks Good?
Ready for March Madness? Selection Sunday is over and the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has been set. WSJ's Darren Everson and Geoff Foster look at the big surprises, the wildcards, and wonder which Number One seed will exit first.
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Google is now charging advertisers only if users view their ads, according to recent reports.
"If you are an advertiser and a human being didn't see your ad, then frankly nothing else matters," Neal Mohan, Google's vice-president of display advertising products at Google, told the Financial Times. "If you are a marketer, why pay if a human being did not see the ad?"
Google's recent move affects 2 million sites in Google's ad network, according to the Financial Times, and is revolutionary for advertisers who worry their ads aren't seen. Online advertising is about a fifth of all marketing spending, but charging by view also helps companies judge its success with hard numbers. This approach has an advantage over TV advertising which can't guarantee any ad is seen by viewers.
If users view an ad, or more than half is visible on the screen for a second or more, it's considered a view for the advertisers. Google didn't say how many ads would be affected, but did say that prices for display advertising is likely to rise.
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Facebook Data Science did a study on the evolution of Facebook memes.
Memes spread on Facebook much like stories in the telephone game, where one person whispers a secret to the person next to them, and by the time the secret reaches the last person in line, it has evolved into something different.
The team studied one particular meme: "No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, post this as your status for the rest of the day."
In September of 2009, over 470,000 Facebook users posted this exact statement as their status update. At some point someone created a variant by prepending "thinks that" (which would follow the individual's name, e.g., "Sam thinks that no one…"), which was copied 60,000 times. The third most popular variant inserted "We are only as strong as the weakest among us" in the middle. "The rest of the day" at one point (probably in the late evening hours) became "the next 24 hours". Others abbreviated it to "24 hrs", or extended it to "the rest of the week".
Using anonymized data, there were 121,605 different variants of this particular meme which appeared in 1.14 million status updates.
So how is this similar to genetics?
When studying thousands of viral Facebook memes, "we have a very unique opportunity to actually trace when copies and mutations occurred, and these are the two basic ingredients in the evolutionary process," the data team wrote.
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Dirk Nowitzki passed Jerry West on the NBA scoring list from a familiar spot: behind the 3-point line.
Nowitzki had 19 points, including consecutive shots from long range in the third quarter to move up to 16th in career scoring, and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Washington Wizards 105-95 Tuesday night.
The 7-foot German will go down as the best-shooting big man in league history whenever he retires, so it was fitting that the 35-year-old was 26 feet from the basket when he supplanted the man whose silhouette serves the NBA logo.
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"Jerry is the man," said Nowitzki, who finished the night with 25,197 points and now goes after Reggie Miller for 15th at 25,279 points. "He is the logo and that says it all. It has been a great ride."
Trevor Ariza led the Wizards with 27 points, including five 3-pointers. He also had seven rebounds and four steals.
Monta Ellis started slowly from the field before scoring 10 in the fourth quarter to help the Mavericks improve to 4-0 at home this season. Ellis matched Nowitzki with 19.
The Nowitzki was struggling from the field before a loose ball bounced to him above the key. The 11-time All-Star and 2007 MVP grabbed it, turned and hit a shot to get within a point of West's record.
On Dallas' next possession, Gal Mekel passed to Nowitzki a few feet left of the previous spot, and Nowitzki pulled up and hit another from long range with 59.9 seconds left in the third.
That bucket gave him 16 points for the game and put him ahead of West, who scored 25,192 in 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers from 1960-74. He went on to become their general manager and later a Memphis Grizzlies executive.
Nowitzki, who is in his 16th season, ended up 8 of 19 from the field with eight rebounds, two assists and two steals.
"Yeah, I suppose it was (fitting), although Jerry West never shot a 3," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. "If there had been a 3-point line back then, this milestone would have come later. He's going to pass more big names in the weeks and months to come."
Vince Carter scored 16, and Samuel Dalembert led Dallas with 13 points in the first half and finished with 15. DeJuan Blair had nine points and 11 rebounds.
Marcin Gortat had 12 points and 12 rebounds for Washington.
The Wizards had their last lead early in the second quarter, but were down just 89-84 when Ellis hit a pull-up jumper and was fouled by Bradley Beal, who was held to nine points on 2-of-10 shooting two nights after scoring a career-high 34 in an overtime loss at Oklahoma City.
"That's the confusing part," Beal said. "We played so aggressively and so hard against OKC. It was like Game 7 of the finals or something. Then now, we come out tonight and not have that same mentality."
Ellis' bucket over Beal was his first shot of the fourth quarter after he had gone 3 of 10 through the first three.
Ellis missed the free throw, but the Wizards couldn't convert on three chances at the other end. After Nene lost the ball out of bounds trying to make a post move, Shawn Marion hit a runner to put Dallas back up by nine.
"He's going to keep attacking," Nowitzki said of Ellis. "All good scorers in this league are like that. He was phenomenal in the fourth quarter. He kept that cushion for us."
Nowitzki hit a runner to give the Mavericks their biggest lead at 71-56, but the Wizards went on an 18-6 run to make it a game again. Ariza had 11 points during the run, including a 3-pointer and a dunk on consecutive possessions.
John Wall had assists on five straight buckets during the spurt and finished with 10. Wall and Nene scored 14 apiece.
Carter started a 16-2 Dallas run in the second quarter with a 3-pointer, and Ellis finished it with a nifty reverse layup to put the Mavericks up 49-38.
After the Wizards got within four, Jose Calderon made a 3-pointer and Carter hit another 3 at the shot clock buzzer to give Dallas a 59-49 lead in the final minute of the first half. Carter was 4 of 9 from long range.
The Mavericks scored seven points in one trip late in the first quarter to turn a 29-23 deficit into a 30-29 lead.
Jae Crowder was fouled on a driving bank shot and missed the free throw, but DeJuan Blair grabbed the rebound before hitting a shot and getting fouled. His missed free throw was tipped by Carter to Mekel, who passed back to Carter for a 3-pointer from the left wing.
"That's just commitment to rebounding," Washington coach Randy Wittman said. "Just not ready. I don't know what to say about that. Inexcusable."
NOTES: The teams combined to shoot 60 percent in a 67-point first quarter, which ended with the Wizards in front 34-33. ... Mavericks G Wayne Ellington sat out with a right thigh contusion. ... Mavericks G Devin Harris says he's targeting a mid-December return from offseason toe surgery.


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Chiara Ferragni on Blogging and Starting The Blonde SaladChiara Ferragni owns one of the most successful fashion blogs on the internet. Her blog, called The Blonde Salad, recently went under Harvard law school's microscope in their first ever fashion blogger case study.
The company currently makes $8 million a year through e commerce and partnerships with luxury brands such as Dior and Burberry. The blog started up in 2009 and has since grown into a one woman operation into a company employing 16 additional people.
Ferragni and co-founder, Riccardo Pozzoli, dished out the details on how they established such an incredible blog. Pozzoli told Refinery29 about the beginning of The Blonde Salad, "We were young students and it was not easy for us to say 'no' to such proposals with high financial reward. But, we decided to stay away because we knew that if we wanted to work in fashion, we could not sell Chiara as a showgirl." By waiting for buzz to grow, they enabled their site to be accessible to high fashion brands which propelled them to the upper echelons.
Nowadays brands sponsor Ferragni to attend fashion shows and store openings around the world, but the first season Ferragni received invitations to international shows, she and Pozzoli paid for their own travel and expenses. "We were actively seeking invitations to the fashion weeks of New York, Paris, London, Stockholm, and we were paying for all the expenses ourselves," Pozzoli explains.
Now, Pozzoli and Ferragni are owners of a multimillion dollar fashion empire. Hey, everyone has to start somewhere right?


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Assembling the Medicago truncatula Pseudomolecules
All relevant genomic sequences (BACs, fosmids, etc.) were downloaded from GenBank following a data freeze. BACs whose sequences were entirely contained within other clones plus any contaminants of non-Medicago origin were first eliminated. All remaining sequences were subjected to an all-by-all alignment using MUMMer (Delcher et al., 2002) to find overlap regions.
Overlap rules
Following assembly of all available sequence into contigs, scaffolding using all BAC and Fosmid end sequences was performed with BLAT (Kent et al., 2002).
Criteria for BESs
- Only low copy BES pairs were used. i.e. Both ends of the BES hitting two or fewer times in the genome
- Matches with >= 99% identity and >= 90% coverage were used
In cases where scaffolds could be formed by at least two pairs of end sequences, 50,000 Ns were inserted between neighboring contigs. Where a contig could potentially be extended by a defined but unsequenced BAC, 50,000 Ns were added to the contig.
The final step of assembly was anchoring and ordering scaffolds onto the eight chromosomes by reference to genetic maps composed of DNA-based genetic markers (Choi et al., 2004; Thoquet et al., 2002).
Order & Anchoring the scaffolds - Inserting gaps
- A spacer of 100,000 Ns was inserted between scaffolds that could not be spanned by paired end sequences.
- Because some sequence contigs already terminate in 50,000 Ns due to the recognition of an unsequenced BAC extension, this process can result in gaps of 100,000, 150,000 or 200,000 Ns between sequence-defined contigs.
All singleton BACs that could not be anchored to the genetic map were collected together and designated as chromosome 0. Following the assembly, the Mt 3.0 pseudomolecules were re-arranged to conform as closely as possible to the optical map.


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For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.