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Style # 217030
With impactful colorblocking, a waist-cinching self-tie and plunging V-neckline, this bebe maxi dress is the epitome of resort chic. Try yours with metallic sandals and an oversized tote to complete your look.
- 95% viscose, 5% lycra
- Center back to hem: 47" (119 cm)
- Dry clean
- Imported
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Colorblock Maxi Halter Dress is rated out of 5 by 5.
Rated 2 out of 5 by Chris77 from I don't like the slit I liked the dress until I received it and saw the slit. It doesn't appear to have a slit in the picture. If I saw a slit, I wouldn't have ordered it. I returned the dress.
Date published: 2013-06-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nikki42 from Gorgeous I absolutely love this dress. Very elegant, can't wait to wear it. True to size and length was perfect.
Date published: 2013-06-05
Rated 5 out of 5 by momo from Summer essential Love this dress! The color blocking is very flattering and the cut makes this dress very unique. Unlike the other reviewer, I bought this dress because of the long slit in the front. It has a short lining inside that is above the knee length and gives a bit of a peek-a-boo effect without revealing too much as you walk or sit. The lining is also very cleverly designed as it is pink in the front and orange in the back so it blends in well and you get extra coverage without noticing the lining. The one thing that buyers need to be aware of is that you need to wear very sheer underwear otherwise panty lines will show. On the good side, this dress makes my derriere look fantastic! Another one of those bebe dress that make the hubby go gaga! It's a must-have for the summer, don't hesitate to purchase, you won't regret it. I got a lot of compliments while trying this dress on at the tailor shop for hemming (I need 3" off because I want to wear with flat, it touched the floor with 4" wedges). Choose the smaller size if you are in-between size, I got the xxs and it fits like a glove.
Date published: 2013-06-03
Rated 4 out of 5 by SimpleBeauty from Pretty colors I so wanted to love this dress but I was not impressed. I tried my normal size S in the store (32.27.42, 140lbs) and the fit was pretty true to size. Like the other reviewer mentioned, it does open in the front slightly, even though you can't see it in the picture with the model. That wasn't a big deal though, I actually thought it made the dress "different" from the other maxis. The visible lining is what threw me off, the material is thin so you can see it pretty distinctly. Other than that it's a very nice dress. The length was ok to me as well, I'm 5'4".
Date published: 2013-06-02
Rated 3 out of 5 by Panama from Not what I expected. Although the fit and color looks like on the pictures. It doesn't show that the dress is open from where the white part starts all the way to the bottom. It has a skirt/lining underneath I'm not crazy about. Also maybe I measured it wrong but I'm 5'7 and this dress is almost an inch off the floor. Will send back.
Date published: 2013-05-30


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TV commercials, more so than any other object of media criticism here at Slate, seem to become emotionally charged occasions for reader self-reflection and projection. Seth Stevenson's review of Ford's new spot for its SUV featuring a divorced family is no exception.
Perhaps because we assume that commercials represent prevailing social norms and mirror the demographics of their viewing public, the impulse is to judge ourselves against the subjects and scenarios depicted in them. (In a jab to fellow fraysters, 2divorceskid attacks exactly this impulse.)
While there were those who criticize Ford for treading down a slippery moral slope ("What's next? A minivan for polygamists?" asksoman1), most readers applaud a company willing to acknowledge the statistical and social realities of divorce—and more importantly, provide a role model for divorced couples who engage with one another in a civil manner, as jmsr attests:
Ford did a great job showing people that divorcees can get along. I'm a happily remarried women and my husband and I have a great relationship with my ex. He visits, we socialize and are always courteous to his feelings about not being around the the kids on regular basis. He is a great Dad, we just didn't work as a romantic couple but do as friends - the great Dad is what I recognize him for not the ex husband. If more ex spouses would attempt a friendship the world, and our kids, would be MUCH happier!!!!
JBC013 goes further in her optimism, dubbing the ad "30 seconds of hopefulness":
I love this ad. First, it's far more representative of modern families than just about any other ad on TV. It took forever for advertisers to use non-white models, and it took even longer for them to use mixed-race couples. VW ads presented gay couples, and now Ford is using one example of a modern, nuclear family - and it does it in a positive, uplifting way. Just about every other media channel uses the absolute most explicit, exploitative images available because they are sensational. I think the Ford ad builds brand equity because it's memorable, and you remember Ford, if not the model. It leaves the viewer with a sense of hopefulness, whether they identify personally with the story or know someone who would. Besides, who cares where dad slept? The kids are just glad he was along for the ride.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Mr_Clean finds the underlying social message far from positive or uplifting:
Having spent thousands of dollars and years dealing with the courts and legal system simply to get my right to spend time with my children recognized and upheld, I am sick to death of what seems to be the prevailing attitude that fathers are good for nothing more than mailing a monthly check, and actually spending time with his children is a secondary (if not tertiary) consideration that should be left completely to the prevailing attitude of the mother. Perhaps Ford should have spent a little more time considering how it might alienate single fathers who are tired of being treated like second-class citizens in the lives of their own children before coming out with this ridiculous "bold moves" commercial. For continuing to perpetrate this ridiculous stereotype, I will certainly never purchase a Ford product again.
In Luchese's estimation, Ford's ad makes palpable a sense of social alienation more than it offers up the hope of post-divorce civility:
The commercial is for a form of transportation not a venue for negotiating the conundrum of father absence. Pursuing both in the same context is a bit nauseating if not revolting. I view that SUV as more of a reason for divorce rather than some conciliator. It consumes too much fuel, has the aura of a combat vehicle and distances those who are occupants. Hence our oil dependence, the triumph of aggression as our dominant means of social discourse and the social isolation that now prevents successful interpersonal relationships. We have become much better at fighting wars, fighting each other and retreating into our boxes than establishing successful marriages or families. That is the real theme of the commercial.
revrick highlights the symbolic role of SUV as protector and father substitute:
While SUVs, with many of their names meant to evoke the image of the rugged cowboy, have appealed to men as a way to play out their fantasies of being that cowboy, they have also appealed even more to women as the cowboy/protector they long for. SUVs are mobile guardians against the dangers of a hostile world (never mind the tremendous amount of projection going on here, since research indicates that SUV owners tend to be more hostile than average). This mom, now without her husband, has an SUV to replace him in the role of protector. The message to divorced moms is that this SUV will not fail you like your ex did.
Nor will the Ad Report Card Fray fail to arouse further debate on this matter. Click here to find additional posts. AC … 4:30pm EDT
Friday, August 25, 2006
Amanda Schaffer's analysis weighing the risks and benefits of stomach stapling for teenagers drew a strong reaction from readers.
ponderthis declares herself fed up with the media's obsession over fat and fat people:
Everyday we, as consumers, are bombarded with articles, television broadcasts and radio spots, talking about how fat we are and what we need to do - better yet, buy - to avoid the myriad dangers that are associated with being overweight. We constantly hear "buy this food because it helps to reduce cholesterol" or "get this procedure because it will improve your health." This one is my favorite - exercise more!
kaydia attacks the underlying assumption of the debate:
The writer seems to imply that being heavy is a curse that must be overcome no matter what the cost. One does not have to be thin to be healty. You have to love and accept yourself for who you are despite what oher people may think of you.
Luchese responds:
Actually shame is probably at the heart of most over eating. The problem is weight does have impact on chronic disease, early disability and premature death. But I agree that surgery is a cruel and somewhat inhuman approach with teenagers. Non of the resources invested in this procedure are matched by preventive health care. That is the true tragedy.
In another instance of pathologizing fat people, livestephen thinks the procedure will be ineffective unless more fundamental psychological "dysfunction" is addressed:
These teens are suffering and making their symptoms disappear with stomach stapling just leaves them mutalated but still carrying the weight of the dysfunction that causes countless people to seek comfort and sedation in food.
In this testimonial, nicolet describes the life-changing consequence of her own gastric bypass surgery:
I was just 16 when I had the surgery. I was 5 foot even and topped the scales at 220. I don't regret one bit of the surgery. It gave me a whole new life that I would have never known if it was not for the surgery. Yes you do have to take medication for the rest of your life and you do "dump" and it does make you very sick. But in the end it is all worth it. Many teens don't understand how much your life changes. There are only certain things you can eat. Sugars for one are not allowed. You don't eat but only a few bits of something so buffets are gone. I am one who can't have dairy products. I have to say my food freedom is gone but my freedom on life I finnaly discovered!!!
That said, Eigenvector reacts with shock at the prospect of such a radical solution to child obesity. MSMcGahhey also thinks it too extreme.
Chime in over at the Medical Examiner. AC … 7:48pm
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
John Kinkaid's article, "Little Miss Sunshine," has stirred up a heated debate in the Culturebox Fray. Does the media storm surrounding the murder of JonBenet Ramsey reveal something sinister about American culture, and about us as media consumers?
Many readers reject the central premise of Kincaid's argument—that "we" have any interest in the Ramsey murder at all. Valiantly overcoming their disinterest in the case long enough to read the article, formulate a response, and post it on the Fray, such readers profess helplessness in the face of saturation Ramsey coverage. SeanD has a more empathetic take:
What a strange position Kincaid took, accusing us all of vicarious pedophilia! It seems he's fallen into a trap very familiar to those of us who work with criminal offenders: If you spend all day around people who have done terrible things, you start to think that the world is a terrible place full of terrible people.
It sounds like Mr. Kincaid needs to get out of the office more and chat with a few of us NON-pedophiles. You know, the overwhelming majority of the population, who feel absolutely nothing sexual for Jonbenet or any other inappropriately-dressed child, and can't comprehend why anyone would. [… Otherwise], he'll simply end up writing more articles like this one, which undermine themselves by taking on the very sensational and breathless tone that he claims to be condemning.
CaLawyer doesn't deny an interest in the case but resents the charge that it's an "obsession."
Like many people, I have an interest in this unsolved crime, and like most people, I am no more "obsessed" with this story than I am "obsessed" with other news stories. Methinks writers like Kincaid doth protest too much when he paints a picture of us who are interested in this case as weirdoes who are "obsessed" with the murder of a six-year-old beauty queen. These finger-pointers tip their hand when they use words like "titillating" to describe this horrific case. Like most people, I find nothing titillating about the death of a six year old girl. Maybe Kincaid and his ilk do, and they are projecting their own prurient reasons for their fascination with this case onto us.
As a law student himself, Freditor_G appreciates the lawyerly touch of CaLawyer's factor test explaining the story's appeal.
Not all readers are so quick to refuse responsibility for the eroticization of children. adept42 surmises that a secret longing for children is far more widespread than we may wish to believe:
Think back to your own adolescence. I'll bet that most of you will be able to remember developing an erotic interest in the opposite sex years before you were ready or able to act on that impulse. I don't think anyone would consider it strange or unhealthy for a child to be attracted to someone their own age.
Of course you've moved on but youthful desires never completely die. […] Pedophilia isn't some kind of ultimate evil -its ultimate childishness. Its adults trying to make themselves happy with the same dreams they've had since they were kids. Its sad and pathetic more than anything else. Now of course a pedophile's crimes are awful and they deserve to be punished. But demonizing them and claiming we have absolutely never felt anything anywhere close to what they feel is a dangerous lie.
theotherme goes even further, arguing that sexual gratification is a unitary urge:
Imagine a spectrum titled "satisfying sexual urges via objects external to us." At both ends of the scale there are socially unacceptable objects. Let's say as you move to the left on the scale you start seeing inanimate objects, such as the crease on that old couch in the basement of a fraternity house. […] Farther to the right, you start seeing animals, the mentally ill or undeveloped, dead people all the time, and children. In the broad middle of the range we find socially acceptable sexual activity – sex with consenting adult partners pretty much captures it. […]
Your very denial of any intention to have sex with children is proof positive that the power of your repressive reflex, far from being the guarantee of your celibacy with regard to children, is rather the precondition of their eroticization: the strength and energy of the "never with children" is a suspect defense mechanism. Of course, we would all love to have sex with kids. They're cute. They have nice skin. They smile winningly. In general, all those creatures who are cute, with nice skin, and who smile winningly (such as pumpkins, pigs named Babe – we all know the list) act as excellent objects for discharging sexual energy. […]
The mere fact that there's a *basis* for such-and-such behavior in humans does not lead to the conclusion that it's okay to do it, nor that the true origin of the behavior is in us. Rather, since the overwhelming majority do not use either pumpkins or children for the release of sexual energy – despite the presence of unexplored tendencies in these directions – we need to look *elsewhere* for the causal agent producing this behavior in a small subset of the population.
A former student of Kincaid's, hamlineprof struggles to bring the discussion back on topic:
Kincaid deplores the mistreatment of children in this culture, hell the mistreatment of every- and anyone. But, he argues, in a culture which claims to idealize the innocence of children, and raises a ruckus over every perceived threat to such innocents (from the media to strange abductors to you-name-it), why is there such *fascination* with the most extreme forms of mistreatment? Or, if we're so concerned with the mistreated, why aren't there blitzes of media coverage around the everyday abuses of children in poverty–why do we focus on the rarest of rare, and ignore the actual problems facing those we seek to protect? […] On the one hand we ostensibly want to separate children from pain and abuse and sexuality and various other horrors. On the other hand, we ignore the most widespread and dangerous of such horrors.
MsZilla ventures an explanation for why that is so:
Because stranger danger can be helped. Whereas the other sort of thing really can't be. Because they don't have a simple pat answer to the actual problem, they'll give you a wrong but simple and pat answer to a tiny speck of it and hope that convinces you they have a good reason they have their head that far up their you-guessed-it. That's why they like to focus on it.
The training that is given in school, by child protection advocates and is recommended for parents can be effective when it comes to dealing with strangers. But it's very different when the person has the authority and influence on the child and the time with them to slowly get around that training. And a very small percentage of these crimes are committed by strangers. […]
No amount of the training or practicing saying "No!" or any of the rest of it is terribly effective against an intelligent predator that is known to the child. And that is an absurdly large percentage of the cases. […]
I was taught the same things when I was growing up. I practiced saying "No!" and did the little games with the teachers and my Mom. We read the coloring books and went through them and we "talked about it". I agonized to myself every time the subject came up, but I never told. I said the right things so my mother wouldn't worry. I didn't hate him. He was my stepfather. He was the father of my brothers and sisters. He was family. I loved him and I didn't want him to get in trouble. […]
Do you honestly think your daughters would use those self-defense tactics on you? Say your four-year-old doesn't want to take off the pants she just tromped through a mud-puddle in because they're here favorites and she wants to wear them anyways. You're not gonna let her do that because she'll get mud everywhere and you don't have time to deal with the fuss because you have to go pick your wife up at the airport. So you deal with the situation by taking them off her. She gets scared. Do you in your heart of hearts think she'd fight you dirty enough to stop you? Do you think it's physically possible?
If the training you're talking about is to be at all effective, she would have to. It's all supposed to go off what makes them feel uncomfortable. So her fear because you look all angry and scary is supposed to trigger it. And changing her pants does involve getting your hands somewhere near a danger zone, and that's also supposed to do it. But you're her father. Do you think a few platitudes spouted at her once a year at school and a few pious affirmations by you that you mean she should do this even to you have a chance against that? Use your head.
Join the discussion in the Culturebox Fray. GA …11:25pm PDT
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
George W. Bush's reading of Albert Camus' L'Étranger (The Stranger), combined with Sen. George Allen's public utterance of an apparently French-derived racial slur, represents the rare infusion of francophilia into American politics (by two members of the conservative establishment, no less). A far cry from the days of Freedom Fries, indeed.
TJA speculates that mention of this novel in Talladega Nights, the Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy, might have inspired W.'s choice.
As a matter of diplomacy, Utek1 declares it was "probably unwise for the president to be seen reading a book about a soulless murderer of Arabs":
With Iraq in chaos, the ceasefire in Lebanon hanging by a thread, and the US making noises about invading Iran, the last thing Bush should be doing is throwing gasoline on the fire. But once an oil man, always an oil man.
Fortunately, the easiest way for Bush to make amends is to continue onto Camus' next novel, The Plague. Here, the hero isn't a murderer, but a doctor battling an epidemic of bubonic plague in the Algerian town of Oran. Despite the pestilence afflicting all those around him, the doctor continues to do his small part to relieve their suffering. The image of Bush reading about a Western caregiver providing comfort to Muslims during a bleak moment in their history would be a lot better PR for Bush than to be seen getting tips on how to murder Arabs without remorse.
Contrary to Dickerson, bhardin offers an alternative theory about the quintessential symbolism shared between Meursault (the protagonist in The Stranger) and G.W.:
The most interesting aspect of the novel is why Mersault is put to death. It isn't because he killed Arabs, which was rarely met with the death penalty. Rather it was his lack of compassion and explanation of his motives to the demanding public. Ultimately he was killed because he showed no sadness for the death of his mother. The public viewed him as inhuman. Bush is persecuted like Mersault not because he is a "remorseless killer of Arabs", but because he doesn't engage the public to explain himself. Bill Clinton also killed Arabs (e.g. bombing a "chemical weapons" plant/hospital in the Sudan) during his last year in office. However, he was an excellent communicator of emotions- he felt my pain. Of course, Bill would find more literary parallels with Willy Loman than Mersault.
Mersault is perhaps one of the most complex characters in modern literature, but to the mob that shouted for his death he would have been viewed as a Bush-like moron. Maybe, behind Bush's façade is a deeper, stoic intellectual who connects with a character publicly persecuted for his taciturn nature.
Soltasto, for one, applauds W.'s expansion of his intellectual horizons:
Regardless of his intentions, it will bring sorely needed new ideas to the man's head. I'm no Bush fan, but it is always important to defend any person's right to seek new information and evolve. Everything that penetrates his consciousness is going to affect his decisions in the future. For the next two years those decisions will affect everyone on Earth. Any actions this man takes toward expanding his tiny box of ideas should be applauded.
Thanks to astrotdog for tracking down the possible etymology of macaca:
Macaca ?= Makak = macaque = a french/belgium/dutch epithet for a Arab or black North African; derived from macaque, the old world monkey, once common in North Africa.
Further evidence of this derivation: Allen speaks French and his mother is of Tunisian origin, according to Clown_Nose.
As for Allen, RedStateImpressions criticizes Dickerson's "superficiality" as a journalist and for getting
the relation between Allen's racial attitudes and his "boobery" wrong. First, Allen isn't "racially insensitive"; he's a racist. Allen's as much a racist as Mel Gibson is an anti-semite. The "macaca" comment comes on top of the Confederate flag fascination, the picture of a noose hanging from a tree, and the pro-Confederate proclamations Allen made while governor. We should all be honest enough to take the broad hints that Allen's been giving us.
Dickerson also writes as though being a racist and being a boob are different things. This is not the case with Allen. The "macaca" comment was a pretty standard boob approach to racism. Instead of calling the opposition photographer Sidarth by one of the standard racial epithets for dark-skinned people, Sen. Allen thought that he would use a fancy French term for blacks that no one would recognize. This is almost precisely what it means to be a boob, to think that you're the smartest person in the room even while you're making an idiot of yourself. Sen. Allen thought he was demonstrating his racial superiority to the irritating guy, thought he was entertaining his all-white audience, and thought he was scoring points while he was NOT noticing that Sidarth was holding a camera in his hand and recording the whole blundering soliloguy. What a racist boob!
As little respect as I have for George Bush, it wasn't fair for Dickerson to equate Allen with the President. Whatever his failures as president and "goofy, amiable, towel-snapping qualities," Pres. Bush has too much "message discipline" to be caught making that kind of racist comment on camera even if he feels that way in private (and I don't think he does). Perhaps the worst thing you can say about George Allen is that he is considerably more of a boob than George Bush.
Not that such a thing would stop the Republicans from nominating him.
A profusion of additional commentary can be found in Politics. AC … 5:53pm PDT
Monday, August 14, 2006
In her latest column, "Teen Terror," Dahlia Lithwick ponders the similarities between a teenager and a terrorist. While noting many commonalities—or, perhaps, overlaps—between the two categories, Lithwick believes that, "because teenage boys with grudges are fundamentally different from adult men with liquid explosives, we should resist the lure of using terror laws to prosecute them."
Several readers disagree that American high-schoolers with dreams of mass homicide are different in nature from Islamic terrorists bent on mayhem and destruction. HLS2003 doesn't think Lithwick's case adds up:
The only analysis she does offer contradicts her assertion. After all, what is the difference between Timothy McVeigh and Mohammed Atta, other than one's motivation by Nazi fascism and one's motivation by a form of religious fascism? They were both terrorists and they both wanted to kill a lot of people. And how old do you think many of these terrorists are, Dahlia? Are they all thirty-somethings who have gotten past the pimply stage? Or are many young and impressionable teens just like your alleged victims here?
Another practicing attorney, carolfb, explains the legal doctrine of "terroristic threat":
While modern "terrorism as a political weapon" has changed our use of words, people have been terrorizing other people for millenia. "Terroristic threat" is not a new idea springing from the world-wide-war-on-terror, but an old concept in criminal law. While I would agree the teens you discuss are not "terrorists" as the word is used today, their actions (if proven) do indeed constitute "terroristic threats".
A terroristic threat is any credible threat that terrorizes another. […] Depending on where you live, there are historical artifacts in these statutes. In Georgia, a terroristic act includes burning a cross or other symbol with the intent to terrorize another or another's household. Depending on the seriousness of the threat, the charge can be a misdemeanor or felony. […]
My experience with terroristic threats comes primarily from representing women in domestic violence cases. […] The goal in these crimes is the same goal as international terrorism, writ small. The abuser wants to control "his" woman. She won't challenge him so long as she is afraid of him. Usually VERY afraid of him. […]
The teens you describe are also seeking to control those around them – perhaps for different reasons but with the same tool – terror. I agree that these kids are not international terrorists a la Osama Bin Laden. They are, however, mixed up adolescents who are INTENDING to scare the pants off other folks. That is the whole point of these activities: hurt or kill some folks, TERRORIZE lots more. The criminal code does and should address not only the physical assault, but the "terroristic threat".
Clown_Nose agrees there's a difference between American teenagers and Islamic terrorists but wants to close the gap as quickly as possible:
Why doesn't the United States take advantage of the teen angst like the Islamists do?
It seems to me that we know that suicide is a leading cause of death for teens. Islamists take advantage of this by telling these teens that it is God calling them to kill infidels.
Instead of using psychologists to try (and fail) to fix this defect, why don't we seize the opportunity and send these people over seas to blow up terrorist cells? They are going to die anyway, we might as well get some value out of it. […] Lets jump on the bandwagon and use some losers too.
Dayenu not only believes we should treat murderous students as terrorists, she's prepared to take out the stateside sponsors who harbor them:
It does seem that one element is missing from this equation. It would probably be a good idea to prosecute and lock up parents who exist in such a moral vacuum that they could watch their kids assemble arsenals and do nothing.
As long as we're talking categorically, FoxyGoth notes that homicidal kids draped in black aren't really Goth.
Several posters write in to help explain the difference between the Columbine shooters and international terrorists. Eigenvector argues for an intuitive approach: "Yeah the line is grey, faintly grey, but don't we have enough definitions of killer so that we don't have to pile on to the latest fad in bloodshed?" Angharad fingers ideology as the relevant factor.
There are also some interesting variants on the theme of blaming society for homegrown child terrorists. Luchese puts the prosecutors of seriously wayward youth into the docket:
Children and adolescents are not adults. They should never even be considered such in a court. But this society has become punitive, vengeful and rigid in its own obsession to achieve "justice" through the courts. Trying American children or adolescents as terrorist is barbaric, abominable and counter productive to what the real issues are; human understanding, compassion and prevention. But when the adults who promulgate this form of retribution it indicates they are still attempting to resolve their own childhood and adolescent anger, fear and depression and have given up. It is therefore projected onto the victim and then it is simple human sacrifice to bring, in the long run, a short term solution.
BenK has a strangely compelling argument for pinning teen terrorism on FDR's New Deal:
My mind turns to ways to solve their basic problem. For instance: get them out of school, into jobs they can be proud of, where they can prove themselves, perhaps attract girls, and relieve themselves of the depression and anxiety that may largely be the fault of FDR's misguided attempts to reduce unemployment by forcing employable young men back into school and out of the work force.
Discussion is off to an excellent start in the Jurisprudence Fray. Come on in and join us. GA …12:00am PDT

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In the words of the great gardener and landscape architect Russell Page, "'green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed." This sentiment may strike a chord if you happen to fall into the "unpracticed" part of this maxim. While some of us struggle to keep many houseplants alive, there are thankfully several beautiful varieties that will thrive, no matter how much or how little love they receive. Here are some of the easiest plants to look after.
There are some plants that are so resilient they won't mind whether left completely unattended or shown too much attention with excessive watering. The toughest of all the houseplants is the aptly named Cast Iron plant. This hardy plant will withstand low light, low humidity, all sorts of temperatures as well as complete neglect and will continue to prosper. Other varieties that are happy to be put in a corner and ignored are Wandering Jew, with its striped purple foliage, Chinese Evergreen, which needs no sunlight at all, and the shade-loving Dieffenbachia or 'Leopard Lily'. The elegant Peace Lily will also thank you for a shaded position and will happily take up residence in your bathroom.
Drought conditions
The ability to go without water for long stretches is a quality that the succulents that thrive in arid areas have honed over millennia of evolution, so these are a good choice for hands-off owners. Aloe Vera is a spiky and spotted plant which may reward you with flowers. It also has medicinal value – snap the leaves to release the rich sap with its skin-soothing qualities. Jade trees are popular in offices because they can go for long periods with no water and are well deserving of their reputation for being practically impossible to destroy. The Kalanchoe, with its large pink bloom, blends floral prettiness and the toughness of a desert succulent.
Familiar and dependable
Some plants may not be the height of fashion but they are have always been and still are stalwarts when it comes to easy care. Top of this list is the Spider Plant. Easy to propagate with its trailing fronds of spiderlings, this two-tone classic surely deserves a comeback. Rubber Plants, sometimes called Cheese Plants because of the holes in their leaves, are also due a revival. They are striking, grow tall, and have flourished in many a student's halls of residence.
Striking yet low maintenance
The Bromeliad bears a handsome flame-coloured flowerhead, which owes a lot in looks to its cousin – the pineapple. This plant appears as if it has been cultivated with great care in a greenhouse but will in fact thrive in all sorts of temperatures, and bloom with just a weekly watering. Another flowering plant is the Hoya, it doesn't need much sunlight or water, sports attractive heart-shaped leaves and, as with all of the examples above, should cope well with life in a home where nobody is particularly green-fingered.
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Tom is staying at his grandfather's farm for the summer, and not a moment too soon because it's in sore need of repairs. The barn is crumbling, the weeds are growing, and the water spring is breaking down. With a little hard work and some savvy decisions, they will have the place back in shape soon enough.
Breathe new life into the once prosperous farm by helping Joe and his grandson take care of business. Play addictive Match 3 levels to earn money for purchasing new structures, complete with clucking chickens, mooing cows, and buzzing beehives. Take on fun side Quests to help neighbors, search through Hidden Object mini-games, and solve whimsical adventure puzzles. It's a wonderful interactive environment that features witty dialogue and an immersive storyline.


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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Wordless Wednesday: Essie
Charlotte Estrella "Essie" Mott Lies
I thought it was about time I put a face to the memoirist.
I have no idea when this picture was taken but I think she looks about fifty, so I'm guessing around 1885.
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Lovely photo! I wish I had some photos from that time period in my family.ReplyDelete
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GC is there any new on the fix to moonkin 4pt8 that you may be able to share, or at least let us know if it being looked into since we have had no discussion on the bug?Oddly enough GC commented back fairly quickly with this gem:
The reason we increased the proc chance from 5% to 15% is because of the issue where you can lose the proc on an existing Starfire. For a number of technical reasons, we can't apply the proc to a spell already being cast. (source)
My first reaction:
To say the least his comments have really pissed me off.
First off, its a little hard to believe that they are having technical issues that prevent them from making the 4T8 set bonus to work. Nightfall works this way, and the Glyph of Corruption work this way. However, I am not a programmer. I do not work for blizzard. I don't have a clue as to what the technical issues are. If GC says there are technical issues, I will trust that there are technical issues. However, that leads me to my second point.
What is the point of implementing a broken mechanic? If they can't get it to work, they should change it. I'm sure they can come up with other creative ideas for a set bonus. Heck, worst comes to worse they could rehash some old ones. Everyone loved the 4T5 set bonus. Just make it work with the IS and Wrath also. Fixed.
Finally, what has me the most pissed is that when he announced the buff a month back he made it sound like a buff. Instead it was a bandade fix. I feel like I've been mislead.
Thankfully, GC came back and said this:
The problem is that you can't modify a spell's cast time while the spell is already being cast. The tooltip is accurate... if frustrating.
We just talked about it and we might have a solution. It might not be hotfixable, but it shouldn't take until 3.2. We might lower the proc rate if we got it to work however. I'll try and update when we work it out.
I still don't understand the difference between 4T8 and the Warlock abilities, but it is good that they might have found a solution. Hopefully, it will be something worth while.


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Amazon's introduction Thursday of the Kindle Fire HD opened two new fronts in the tablet wars. The 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD is expected to compete with Apple's new iPad, and the Kindle Fire HD 7-inch model will do battle with Google's Nexus 7.
Unlike other high-profile tablet launches we've seen recently, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos emphasized equally the power of the device itself and its utility as a portal to Amazon's massive content library. This strategy reminds us that the success of Apple's iPod was not in the device itself but in the iTunes service, which provided a cheap, easy and legal avenue to content. With the release of its two most powerful tablets to date, Amazon puts itself squarely in the tablet-war crossfire between Apple and Google. Here's a look at how Amazon's 8.9- and 7-inch devices stack up to the new iPad and Nexus 7.


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Manning Award Watch List, 2008(August 28, 2008) — The Allstate Sugar Bowl has announced the 2008-09 list of players to watch for the fifth annual Manning Award, given to college football's top quarterback. The list is comprised of 46 players who were selected based on their performance in the 2007 season.
Making this year's Manning Award watch list are:
C.J. Bacher (Northwestern, SR)
Todd Boeckman (Ohio State, SR)
Rhett Bomar (Sam Houston St., SR)
Sam Bradford (Oklahoma, SO)
Tom Brandstater (Fresno State, SR)
Hunter Cantwell (Louisville, SR)
Rudy Carpenter (Arizona State, SR)
Jimmy Clausen (Notre Dame, SO)
Chase Clement (Rice, SR)
Jonathan Crompton (Tennessee, JR)
Chase Daniel (Missouri, SR)
Nate Davis (Ball State, JR)
Joe Ganz (Nebraska, SR)
Sean Glennon (Virginia Tech, SR)
Matt Grothe (South Florida, JR)
Max Hall (BYU, JR)
Cullen Harper (Clemson, SR)
Graham Harrell (Texas Tech, SR)
Chase Holbrook (New Mexico St., SR)
Brian Hoyer (Michigan State, SR)
Will Hudgens (Memphis, SR)
Brian Johnson (Utah, SR)
Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada (Navy, SR)
Dan LeFevour (Central Michigan, JR)
Corey Leonard (Arkansas State, JR)
Jake Locker (Washington, JR)
Nate Longshore (California, SR)
Tyler Lorenzen (Connecticut, SR)
Colt McCoy (Texas, JR)
Stephen McGee (Texas A&M, SR)
Ben Olson (UCLA, SR)
Curtis Painter (Purdue, SR)
Todd Reesing (Kansas, JR)
Zac Robinson (Oklahoma St., JR)
Mark Sanchez (USC, JR)
Riley Skinner (Wake Forest, JR)
Rusty Smith (Florida Atlantic, JR)
Matthew Stafford (Georgia, JR)
Tim Tebow (Florida, JR)
Mike Teel (Rutgers, SR)
Willie Tuitama (Arizona, SR)
Drew Weatherford (Florida State, SR)
Pat White (West Virginia, SR)
Juice Williams (Illinois, JR)
Drew Willy (Buffalo, SR)
John Parker Wilson (Alabama, SR)
"The Sugar Bowl Committee is proud to again work with the Mannings on the presentation of this prestigious award," said Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan. "Furthermore, we are excited about the talented group of quarterbacks we will have the opportunity to watch this fall."
The Manning Award was created by the Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton, and Eli Manning, and will be presented to the recipient at an annual ceremony following the holiday bowl season.
Archie was the starting quarterback at Ole Miss for three years, and his many accomplishments led the Rebels to retire his jersey, No. 18. Peyton spent his college passing days at the University of Tennessee, while Eli followed in his father's footsteps under center for Ole Miss.
All three of the Mannings were named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year during their collegiate careers. (Archie, 1969, referred to as SEC Most Valuable Player during that time; Peyton, 1997; Eli, 2004).
The Manning Award is the only quarterback award that takes into consideration the candidates' bowl performance. The winner will be determined by a selected panel of national media covering college football, as well as each of the Mannings.
"These young men are very talented and will no doubt represent themselves and their respective universities well this fall," Archie Manning said. "We look forward to watching the great things this group of quarterbacks will accomplish and will eagerly await the opportunity to honor one of these young men early in 2009."
The previous four recipients of the Manning Award reads like a Who's Who list at the quarterback position. USC's Matt Leinart was the inaugural winner in 2005, followed by Texas' Vince Young in 2006. LSU's JaMarcus Russell earned the award in 2007, capped by his performance in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
Last year, Boston College's Matt Ryan took home the honor and went on to be the third overall pick in the NFL draft. All three previous recipients were also chosen as top 10 overall draft picks by NFL teams.
Finalists for the award will be announced prior to the start of the bowl season.


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RV Industry Preps for the Anticipated Revival
February 11, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on RV Industry Preps for the Anticipated Revival
Editor's Note: This first-person story about the RV industry was written by Melissa Preddy for The Detroit News.
Doing laundry, answering e-mail, baking a chicken and catching up on TV — all while hurtling southward on I-75 in Michigan at 70 mph.
Now that's what I call efficient.
And not terribly far-fetched, given the plethora of amenities available in the modern motorhome or travel trailer. The ever-growing ability to take our comforts on the road is one reason not every motor vehicle maven limits herself to four-wheeled machines.
I've never ridden an inch or slept a wink in an RV, but it's always amazed me how this huge consumer market — and employer of thousands of Michigan workers — seems to fly under the radar. It's a fascinating culture with its own lexicon — like "boondocking" and "diesel-pusher" and "pull-through," as well as lots of interesting technology and a tradition that parallels the birth of our automobile industry.
Production roots in Mich., Ind.
Michigan and Indiana are the epicenter of RV development. One of the first major producers, the Covered Wagon Company, was born in Detroit in the 1920s. Founder Arthur Sherman was hailed in 1937 by Fortune as "the Henry Ford of the trailer industry," said Al Hesselbart, RV expert and author of "The Dumb Things Sold, Just Like That!" — a chronology of the early travel-trailer years.
Hesselbart showed me through the RV Hall of Fame museum in Elkhart, Ind., pointing out space-age mid-century models, mod '70s campers and their ancestors: the tiny wood-crafted "teardrop" trailers with barely room inside for a pallet and a couple of clothes hooks.
Intrigued by the lore, I've since clambered through hundreds of RV units in all shapes and sizes, from the smallest pop-ups to luxury coaches that carry more bathrooms and a bigger mortgage than my house. Some even feature flat-panel TVs on the outside of the rig, along with built-in outdoor barbecues, sinks and refrigerators that slide from secret compartments.
250K registered in state
Here in Michigan, we rank fourth out of 50 states — behind California, Texas and Florida — in RV shipments. That's according to the Michigan Association of Recreational Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC), which sponsors the 44th annual Detroit Camper and RV Show under way through Sunday at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi.
As many as a quarter of a million RVs are registered in Michigan, from pop-ups to 40-foot coaches, and they're served by some 80,000 campsites in 1,600 campgrounds.
Following a recessionary slump, analysts and RV dealers are planning for an upswing in demand ahead of summer 2010. While assemblers and suppliers ramp up production, dealers are combing the classifieds and Craigslist looking for used stock to snap up and re-sell.
"We're looking for perhaps a 30-35% gain," said Larry Andree, president of A & S RV Center in Auburn Hills. And while some consumers are downsizing away from giant coaches and towables to compact Class B models that ride on truck and van platforms, they're not exactly getting back to nature.
Popular options include microwave-convection ovens, multiple LCD TVs, Corian countertops, luxury fabrics, stand-alone dining furniture to replace dinette booths, adjustable-firmness mattresses and glass shower doors. In-motion satellite systems that don't lose signal are hot sellers at about $2,000, as are GPS devices.
"When you think back to the RV models of 30 or 40 years ago, you wonder how you sold any of them," laughs Andree, a lifelong industry veteran.
Sue Carlsen of Hubbard Lake, Mich., state director of the Family Campers and RVers Association, said the downsizing trend is a hot topic among enthusiasts, but even those willing to make do with less space aren't giving up much else. Free Wi-Fi access is a must at campgrounds, she said, along with cable TV hook-ups and other electronic support.
"There's a whole feeling of redefining camping," she said. "People are bringing their homes right along with them."


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GRAND RAPIDS — Three MBA students and a professor from Grand Valley State University took second place and won $2,500 in the 2013 NextBillion Case Writing Competition.
The competition recognizes and publishes the best written case studies about business strategies aimed at alleviating poverty, especially in developing countries.
The competition attracted more than 150 people entering individually or as part of a team, representing more than 50 universities and 11 countries.
The Grand Valley team consisted of Paul Mudde, associate professor of management, and three Seidman College of Business MBA students, Eric Grossnickle, Doug Huesdash and Yvette Iyiguhaye. The team's case, "Hydraid: Safe Water for the Base of the Pyramid," has been published on GlobaLens.com.
A celebration lunch will be held April 26 at noon on the second floor of the Gordon Gallery in the DeVos Center on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
Here's the case summary from the competition: "Triple Quest, a joint venture between a manufacturing company and a private investment company, is experimenting with a number of different business models to distribute its proprietary Hydraid water filtration system. Although they have used both non-profit and for-profit business models, the company's preference would be to develop a for-profit model that would support entrepreneurial activity within the base of the pyramid (BoP) markets. The case discusses the worldwide water crisis and the international organizations involved in addressing this crisis. The case narrows its focus to examine the conditions in Ghana, both in terms of the need for clean water and the entrepreneurial environment."
The competition is sponsored by the Citi Foundation and administered by GlobaLens, a case publishing division of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. The aim of the competition is to increase the number of academic case studies focused on business approaches to economic and social development.


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If "Charles Dickens" conjures up frantic nights sweating over essays about 800-page tomes, banish that ghost of school days past. A yearlong "What the Dickens" celebration across Central Florida will feature pub crawls, a Victorian feast, movies, plays, art exhibits and more.
No reading is required.
But why would 21st-century Orlando spend all of 2014 honoring the British author who lived during the 1800s?
Says organizer Terry Olson: "Because it's going to be fun."
There are many reasons Dickens remains one of the most revered figures in English literature, experts say, not the least of which is "A Christmas Carol," the holiday classic in which ghosts teach miserly Ebenezer Scrooge the joys of compassion and love.
Orlando artist Jason Hunt first encountered Dickens by watching "A Christmas Carol" as a child. Nearly 60 years later, his "writings continue to inspire me to never give up and to keep moving forward," Hunt said.
"Many of us grow up with Dickens in all the many wonderful adaptations and versions — that wonderful Muppets 'Christmas Carol,' for example — so he is part of our cultural DNA," said Jenny Hartley, president of the London-based International Dickens Fellowship. "I think Dickens' sense of the absurd in ordinary life, and his enjoyment of it, still resonates with us."
Enjoyment is key to the local plans for "What the Dickens."
"Dickens was interested in everything," said Olson, who heads the Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs office. "It's only natural if we're celebrating Charles Dickens' times, life, work and issues that it's broad-ranging so everybody can enjoy it."
Kicking things off this month are a film series at the downtown Orlando Public Library, an art exhibit of Dickens characters by Hunt, and the largest production ever undertaken by the Orlando Shakespeare Theater — a two-part adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby" that spans 6 1/2 hours. Dickens wrote the novel in 1838-39.
It was Jim Helsinger, the Shakes artistic director, who suggested "What the Dickens" to Olson. The two had previously collaborated on a multigroup celebration of playwright Oscar Wilde in 1999.
"All arts organizations want to bring great art to Central Florida, but when we do so in isolation we don't have the same impact we can as a group," Helsinger said. "It changes the power of the arts in our community when we come together."
The Shakespeare troupe, Mad Cow Theatre and the English Speaking Union are collaborating on a program in which an actor playing Dickens will visit schools to introduce his works to students.
Olson may offer neighborhood walking tours with social-service agencies in honor of Dickens' crusades for the disenfranchised people of his era.
"Dickens really influenced society at a time when it was very polarized. Greed ruled; the poor had nothing," Olson said. "His writing helped shift society to be more humane. It would be fabulous if our arts had that power today."
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"Dickens Characters by Jason Hunt": The Orlando artist sketches Dickens characters as he imagined them in his childhood. At the Orange County Administration Center, 201 S. Rosalind Ave., through Jan. 31. Free.
What the Dickens Film Festival: Screenings at the Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; "Oliver Twist," 5:30 p.m. Jan. 6; "Tale of Two Cities," 5:30 p.m. Jan. 13; "Great Expectations," 5:30 p.m. Jan. 27. Vivi Barnes, author of "Olivia Twisted," a Dickens takeoff, will speak at 2 p.m. Jan. 11 on the author's influence. All programs are free.
Dickens-inspired Trivia Nights: You don't need to be a Dickens expert to play. First Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7 p.m. Jan. 7, at Stardust Video & Café, 1842 Winter Park Road, Orlando. It costs $10 per table/team to participate, with half the proceeds going to the winning team. The other half will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank. Other charities will benefit in the future.
"Nicholas Nickleby": Part 1 of the Orlando Shakespeare production opens Jan. 24; part 2 follows on Jan. 31. Performances run in repertory through March 9 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St., Orlando. Tickets are $17-$40 for each part; there are also packages that include seeing both parts in one day with a specialty dinner served in between. Call 407-447-1700.
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Szczesny: I am a genuine Gooner
January 10, 2013
Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has said that he along with a handle of others, feel like "genuine Gooners" and understand the importance of playing for the club.
The Poland international joined Arsenal from Legia Warsaw in 2006 as a 16-year-old, and after spending three years developing at the club before a loan move to Brentford, he has gone to make 84 appearances in all competitions.
Now 22, Szczesny is adamant he belongs at the Emirates Stadium, saying that playing for another club has never crossed his mind and he does not expect to be leaving any time soon after becoming an Arsenal fan.
"Ever since I signed for this club, I've become an Arsenal fan," Szczesny told the club's official website. "It feels like it's more than me just playing and doing my best on a Saturday afternoon, as I feel as if I have a much bigger part to play at this club. It means that little bit more to me.
"I think there's a lot of players in this team that are genuine Gooners. You've got people like Carl Jenkinson, Jack Wilshere and Emmanuel Frimpong who really feel it's the biggest honour they could have to play for this club. I think that's very important for the future.
"I don't think about playing for any other club. I see my future at Arsenal Football Club. I committed to coming here at the age of 16, not to then leave at the age of 24.
"That's not how it works for me. Coming over to England at the age of 16 was the most important decision of my life and probably the best one to date."
Despite establishing himself as Arsene Wenger's first choice in goal, Szczesny still eyes personal improvement, targeting as many appearances as possible in order to fully develop.
"I think I improve with every single game," he added. "I get the experience that is needed for a young keeper, so it's important for me to play as many games as possible."
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Based on Boston Ballet's "Adaptive Dance" program and supported by the Anna and John J. Sie Center for Down Syndrome at Children's Hospital Colorado and the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Dance program provides 30 weeks of dance classes to 30 students ages 5-14 with Down syndrome.
Instructors work closely with Children's Hospital Colorado's renowned physical therapist and Down Syndrome expert Pat Winders to build kinesthetic and cognitive skills through locomotor movements that incorporate shapes, rhythm, and basic dance steps. Be Beautiful Be Yourself Dance programs now being held at Colorado Ballet's studios. Participating children now have the opportunity to observe the professional company in rehearsal after their own class.
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Photos by Asa Dyer, Lee D. Photo, courtesy of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation


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This article was written in response to Sunday's New York Times piece on Discrimination in Healthcare.
As we learn more about what drives disease incidence like HIV infection, it's clear we must move from a system that blames and stigmatizes individuals to one that addresses the complex reasons why people get and stay sick. Untreated mental illness is a factor in HIV incidence because it often results in poverty, homelessness, alcohol and drug use – all common factors in HIV incidence and poor health outcomes.
Untreated depression, bipolar disease, schizophrenia etc. ruin the lives not only of those who suffer with these illnesses but also their families, communities and the already overburdened system that's supposed to address these complex issues. Without significant change, thousands will continue to suffer and the cost of psychiatric hospitalizations will continue to drive up Medicaid costs.
When we moved our headquarters to East Harlem 4 years ago, we noted that it's a community that has a disproportionate number of HIV cases, psychiatric hospitalizations and poor health outcomes for chronic illnesses like asthma. We also knew that our clients with untreated mental illness were less likely to remain stably housed, follow-up with their healthcare or access the myriad of services available to them in the community. In some cases, untreated mental illness also prevented clients from being treated for viral hepatitis, a disease that affects approximately 30%, because depression is often a side effect of treatment.
Our response was simple – develop a behavioral health clinic in our Rand Harlan Center for Housing, Health and Community in East Harlem that is harm reduction based, LGBT inclusive, provides bi-lingual services, accepts Medicaid and other insurances and is open it to everyone who needs high quality, mental health services. In December 2012 we did just that and the results have been amazing – over 80 clients have been seen by our psychiatrist and therapists. More keep coming — a wonderful outcome indeed!
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Japanese equities rose to a new six-year closing high on Monday, it's final trading day of the year, after dollar-yen hit new multi-year highs. Elsewhere, the rest of the region was mixed in subdued trade due to the holiday period.
A tepid handover from Wall Street last week capped larger gains in the region. The S&P 500 and the Dow were little changed, while the 10-year Treasury note yield rose above the 3 percent threshold, hitting its highest levels since July 2011.
Key data in the week ahead includes U.S. consumer confidence on Tuesday and weekly jobless claims on Thursday. Fed officials including Chairman Ben Bernanke are due to speak on Friday.
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Peer Power, from Potholes to Patents
Beyond big business and big government, decentralized groups are coming together to solve problems
If you listened only to the chatter of this campaign season, you might assume that all our core political values revolve around the two institutions of the market and the state, big capital and big government. If you're on the right, you want the market to do its magic and have the state get out of the way. If you're on the left, you want the market to be held in check by the regulators and safety nets of the state.
But seeing the world through these easy oppositions blinds us to the growing prominence of a group of new organizations: fluid, collaborative networks working outside both the marketplace and the state to improve the world in inventive ways. Inspired in many cases by the decentralization of the Internet, the movement uses the peer network as its organizing principle, with no single individual or group "in charge."
In all these efforts you can see the emergence of a new political philosophy. It takes seriously Hayek's insight about the power of decentralized systems to outperform top-heavy bureaucracies, but it also believes that innovation and progress can come from forms of collaboration beyond the market. I like to call the members of this movement "the peer progressives."
Not surprisingly, some of the most prominent examples of peer-network success have emerged online, in the global encyclopedia of Wikipedia or the arts-funding site Kickstarter. But they are also flourishing in localities around the world.
Consider the maps released earlier this month by the New Haven, Conn., organization SeeClickFix. Zooming in on a city neighborhood, you will see clusters of color hovering over certain blocks. Those bands indicate urban problems that ordinary citizens have reported using the SeeClickFix app: gaping potholes, abandoned cars, graffiti. So far, city governments have used the data to address more than 125,000 cases in neighborhoods across the U.S.
Other organizations, such as neighbor.ly, are taking the problem-solving one step further, creating a Kickstarter-style platform where neighbors can propose and crowdfund new projects in their communities: bike racks, community gardens, playground swings.
Peer networks don't have to involve digital technology. Twenty years ago, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre pioneered a radical new technique called "participatory budgeting." Each year, the city's 16 regions conduct general assemblies in which neighbors debate priorities for the budget: school construction, sewer repair, bridge building. The assemblies create a ranked list of projects, and the government disperses funds accordingly. The money comes from the state, but the decision of what to fund comes from the street.
Participatory budgets transformed Porto Alegre almost immediately. Within seven years, the number of citizens with access to the sewer system doubled. The number of new paved roads jumped to 12 miles a year from 2½ miles. The idea has spread world-wide: Roughly 10% of municipal budgets in Spain are now allocated based on civic participation, and districts of Chicago and Brooklyn have recently adopted the approach.
Another seminal project is the Peer-to-Patent system, designed by the New York University professor Beth Noveck to solve the bottleneck of patent review. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office receives roughly a half-million applications a year, many involving arcane pharmaceutical or technological advances. Someone inside the government must review and make an informed judgment on each one. Because the search for "prior art"—earlier instances of the invention that would negate the patent claim—is complex, the backlog of applications had grown to 1.2 million in 2009.
Prof. Noveck's system allows unpaid outside experts and informed amateurs to contribute to the prior-art discovery phase, through both tracking down and explaining earlier inventions. Based on its success so far in reducing the backlog (now down to 600,000 applications, thanks to a number of factors) and expanding the range of discovery, the U.S. patent office last week launched a full-scale version, "Patent Exchange," that allows citizens to participate in every patent under review. Pilots of Peer-to-Patent have also been launched in the U.K., Japan and Australia.
For two centuries, we have lived in a mass society defined by passive consumption, vast corporate hierarchies and the centralized control of state power. Those organizations didn't seem artificial to us because we couldn't imagine alternatives. But now we can. Peer networks are a practical, functioning reality that already underlies the dominant communications platform of our age. They can do things as ambitious as writing a global encyclopedia or as simple as fixing a pothole.
—Mr. Johnson is the author of "Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age," published this month by Riverhead Books, a member of the Penguin Group.
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My Best Shot -- Guatemala
This photo of pelicans roosting on a boat was taken by Jack and Carol Walters while on a Caribbean cruise. "We stopped in Guatemala and took a side trip to a village. This was the view of the marina as we approached by boat," says Jack and Carol.
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Villa-Boas not worried about Bale
Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas insists he is not worried about the possibility of losing Gareth Bale in the January transfer window.
Bale, who scored a superb hat-trick in the Boxing Day win over Aston Villa, has been linked with a host of Europe's top clubs, including Barcelona and Real Madrid.
However, Villas-Boas insists Welsh wizard Bale is not for sale and is confident the 23-year will be staying at White Hart Lane when the transfer window reopens.
"I have no concerns at all about the possibility of Bale going in January," Villas-Boas told The Sun.
"It's very difficult because in England there are no release clauses and a player of this dimension has a market value that is not obtainable to most of the clubs."
Villas-Boas has also played down reports linking Spurs with a move for unsettled Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder admitting they are unlikely to make any new signings in January.
"It's very unlikely we will do anything in the window," added Villas-Boas.


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Is not the typical SW movie but I had a good time watching The Last Jedi.
Good job with the recreation of the Foxes from Star Wars Rebels. I which they could give more personality to those animals.
We loved the whole thing. :)
An amazing well elaborate movie. Conplex but the story was touching and sad.
My family loved this movie. No idea why some keeps bashing this movie. One person.
Excellent movie.
I walked out 30 min into the movie. I couldn't take it anymore.
Same old, nothing new.
They are just banging out these new Star Wars movies to rake in as much money as they can.
We enjoyed the action but the story was poor.
All that potential wasted. It was tough seeing the old guard exit the way they did.
Hope they do better next time. This one was a failure.
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Two Democrat lawmakers on Friday visited the construction site where officials are repairing a sinkhole that has closed a portion of U.S. 24.
"I'm amazed at the efficiency with which the Colorado Department of Transportation has addressed this issue," said Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass Village. "Road work should be completed by Aug. 6th, in time for the Pro Cycle Challenge and the communities of Leadville and Minturn to have this open for commuting workers and tourists."
She visited the area with Rep. Millie Hamner, D-Dillon.
The giant sinkhole that closed a stretch of U.S. 24 north of Leadville earlier this month has been determined to be a century-old railroad tunnel that collapsed decades ago and was exposed when the soil thawed. CDOT announced last week it had chosen a contractor for the project.


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OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputies say a dog dug up a human skull near Opelousas.
Sheriff Bobby Guidroz tells The Daily World his office was contacted by the dog's owner, who lives off La. Highway 182 north of Opelousas.
Guidroz says detectives and cadaver dogs searched the woods near the house but could find no grave site or other remains last week.
As of now, he said police don't even know whether the skull was that of a man or woman or even how long it might have been buried.
He said the skull has been sent to the forensic laboratory at LouisianaState University of Baton Rouge.


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When you think of catching a flight, what comes to mind? Cramped seats, baggage fees, endless delays, long check-in lines and a $5 sandwich? In a world of booming budget travel, flying economy has quickly become less than luxurious.
However, not all airlines are made equal. The 10 best international airlines were recently announced at the annual World Airline Awards in Paris. The awards are run by U.K. market research firm Skytrax, which audits airlines and airports, conducts research for commercial airlines and also runs the consumer review site AirlineQuality.com.
The rankings presented here were developed based on overall customer satisfaction across first, business and economy class, using surveys from 18.8 million airline passengers worldwide. The surveys were conducted over a 10-month period through various methods, including online questionnaires, telephone interviews, business research groups and travel panels. The data cover 38 individual aspects of airline service, such as check-in, boarding, seat comfort, cleanliness, food and beverage and staff service.
Most of the top airlines on the list are based in the Asia-Pacific region, while no North American or Western European carriers made the cut.
Click ahead to see which airlines are considered the world's best.
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My first introduction to high end audio was back in college. During my freshman year (1975) I came into contact with a kid across the hall from me who owned a Pioneer tape deck. I remember well the wooden side panels and dancing dials. Even though I can not remember the model, I remember that it was able to record on CrO2 tape for the highest fidelity. Does anyone else remember those tapes? Over the years, I have owned a Pioneer CTF-650 tape deck and at least one Pioneer CD/SACD player. But even back then, I knew that Pioneer was really only mid-fi. In fact, Pioneer was competing with JVC, Technics, Sansui and others in the entry to mid level equipment market place.
Sure, today the Elite series is pretty good, but I still can't shake the feeling that it is just on the upper end of the mid fidelity crowd. My perception started to change when I met Andrew Jones (formerly of KEF) at CEDIA this last year. He gave me a brief history of the company and its goal of creating a completely new high end audio speaker family. He and his team (TAD, the Technical Audio Devices group) were given a free hand by the company to produce true audiophile grade speakers and they came up with the EX series. Andrew also reminded me that Pioneer has been making speakers for over 65 years, so a lot of experience has gone into making these speakers. Their experience and effort seems to have paid off.
Pioneer makes speakers too, and they are very good. Here, we review their model S-2EX, which are monitor-sized, which means they are too big to go on a shelf, but not floor-standing.
- Design: 3-way, Ported
- Drivers: One 1.4″ Beryllium Dome Tweeter, 5.5″ Magnesium Cone Midrange, 7.1″ Carbon Composite Woofer
- MFR: 34 Hz – 100 kHz
- Sensitivity: 86.5 dB
- Nominal Impedance: 6 Ohms
- Crossover Frequencies: 400 Hz, 2 kHz
- Power Handling: 200 Watts
- Dimensions: 22.3″ H x 11.4″ W x 16.8″ D
- Weight: 61.8 Pounds/each
- Finish: Dark Teak Wood Veneer
- MSRP: $6,000/pair USA
- Pioneer Electronics
The S-2EX are a 3-way bass reflex speaker that has a sloped front baffle that helps create a time-aligned transducer configuration. Pioneer calls it a coherent source transducer. The design allows each driver to project sound that arrives at the listener at the same moment. I saw a cut away view of these speakers at CEDIA and was impressed with the thick (2 inches) front baffle and internal bracing. These are some of the strongest built speakers I have ever seen.
The speakers weigh in at over 60 pounds each. The top concentric driver contains a beryllium tweeter inside of a midrange transducer, similar to the KEF UniQ driver. Beryllium is an expensive metal to play with as only about 200 pounds of this material are mined each year. In powder form, it can be harmful (as in fatal) if inhaled. The beryllium is vaporized and deposited onto copper dome and then heated. The copper is etched away leaving just the beryllium dome tweeter behind. It is very rigid and light weight.
Only a few other companies make beryllium tweeters due to the cost. If you are lucky enough to hear one in action, they really do sound marvelous. The 5.5″ midrange cone is made of magnesium. Both drivers share the same magnet structure but have a wave guide in between them. The 7″ woofer is made of a one piece composite construction for greater rigidity and lower distortion. It contains ten layers of aramid fibers, resins and unwoven carbon fibers.
The port is located in the front under the woofer. Even though floor spikes are supplied for these speakers, they really need to be placed on stands to get the best performance out of them.
The back of the speakers are tapered. High quality dual binding posts finish off the back of each speaker. They can be bi-wired or bi-amped. Make no mistake, these speakers are built and designed to play music at high volumes. Rapping on them with my knuckles produced a solid thud…and hurt my knuckles.
My set came in a very dark mahogany color. My wife's first reaction to seeing them was, "Those look really good with your stuff". My HDTV, stand and audio equipment rack are all black and the S-2EXs did look good in my room. For the first three weeks of auditioning I left the grilles off, but put them on for the last 2 weeks. They looked and sounded fine either way. The grilles by the way, have small bolts that hold them into place. It was a bit tricky getting them on because the instructions were not very intuitive, but once on, they were very secured. All in all, these are very handsome looking speakers with a solid look and feel in their design.
Even though I recently bought a pair of towers, I kept my old speaker stands. I figured that eventually I would be listening to some bookshelf or monitor speakers and it gave me a chance to justify keeping them. I placed the S-2EXs 8 feet apart, 3 feet off the side walls and toed in slightly. Because of the coaxial design, they provided a larger sweet spot than a more traditional tweeter/midrange configuration. My seating position is 8 feet from the speakers. My listening was in 2 channel (music) and multi channel (music and movies) with my existing Revel C12 center and S12 surrounds. The S-2EXs played very well with the Revels. I also listened with and without my subs to evaluate the bass extension of the S-2EXs. Though the S-2EXs look like large bookshelf speakers, they are full range speakers and they performed very well without the addition of a subwoofer.
In Use
For movies, I watched (and listened to) Baraka, Star Trek, and Phantom of the Opera. Baraka not only has stunning images captured in 8K resolution, but has a high definition soundtrack that contains instruments from around the world.
Drums with pulsing deep bass, cymbals and flutes that dance delicately, and sweeping musical vistas were all well reproduced on the S-2EXs. I heard subtle nuances within the music as well as the engulfing roar of the dynamite explosion in the chapter 15.
Star Trek provided special effects of phasers, flyovers, explosions and some great dialog effects from people talking off screen. When voices panned across the picture, they remained stable and intelligible. Good dialog is usually a testament to good mid range reproduction. Phantom was a good choice just for the sweeping musical score. Due to some mastering problem with HD-DVD, I had to crank the volume more than usual to get the soundtrack to hit realistic levels. It paid off though as the S-2EXs really came alive when cranked.
My musical choices where varied. In order to evaluate these speakers, I sampled everything from classical to the Beatles (newly re-mastered, of course). Prokofiev's Symphony No.5 allowed me to hear deeply into the orchestra and hear subtleties such as the breath intake of a horn player. Crescendos were easily handled and bass had a strong impact. The piccolo had a good deal of "air" and the beryllium tweeters played them without a hint of harshness or metallic ringing. It reminded me of some well designed silk-dome tweeters. A sweet and smooth treble.
The Beatles White Album is made up of individual musical expressions from all four members.
Their music swings from introspective ("Mother Natures Son") to frivolous ("Bungalow Bill"), hard rocking ("Back in the USSR") to acoustics ("Julia"). The re-mastered version sounds amazing on speakers that can achieve high resolution. The S-2EXs sounded very good with the Fab Four. Imaging was wide and deep and the details…I could hear things in the music that I never heard before… a softly spoken word, a musical note or some background banter. Little things that I had not noted before were revealed with the S-2EXs. Even "Revolution 9" was fun to listen to with all of the sonic details. It was like rediscovering an old friend. And as an aside, these speakers can be pushed pretty hard. In fact, the harder they are pushed, the more open they sounded. I never got them to say "uncle", and the warm articulate sound they produced was perfect for music and movies alike.
Well, as you can tell, I enjoyed these speakers. For music, they projected a large soundstage with great depth. Music was reproduced naturally with smooth treble and solid bass. With movies, the dialog and sound effects panned well from right to left without any noticeable gaps or timbre issues. I could easily have left my F12 towers out my mix of Revels and replaced them with S-2EXs and lived happily ever after. My guess would be that you could live happily ever after with these speakers as well. Pioneer, Andrew Jones and TAD have created an audiophile speaker with solid build and performance that they should be proud of. As for you other high end speaker companies: Watch out! There is a new kid in town.


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The IUCN National Committee in the UK is organizing a conference on protected areas on 26 April 2012 near Preston, Lancashire.
The conference will provide a platform for 21st Century protected area managers and policy makers to share best practice and consider existing and new policy and systems, opportunities and challenges. Development, climate change, economic constraints, and the needs of nature and people are all issues affecting the work of the protected areas community. This is an opportunity for practitioners and policy makers from across the UK to come together, share and debate new and innovative ideas.
Among the confirmed speakers, representing global, European, national and local interests in the protected areas community, are Trevor Sandwith, Director IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme and Kathy MacKinnon, Vice Chair IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.Three expert speaker sessions are expected, with chaired panels after the presentations and time allocated for questions. The draft programme is available here.
Following the conclusion of the event, the Annual General Meeting of the IUCN National Committee for the United Kingdom will take place at the conference venue, starting at 17.00.


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The U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship worth $3,000 - $5,000 is to help students pay for studying abroad. Follow them on Facebook.
The above SDSU website has scholarship information pertinent to community college students, too.http://www.shawncartersf.com/- Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, has partnered with the Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship to provide scholarships to help students study abroad.
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS Eurasian Regional Language Program: Scholarships $5,000 - must have two years language training. www.americancouncils.org
Bridging Scholarships for Study in Japan www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Bridging/scholarships.htm
Scholarships that provide $500 - $3000:
The San Diego Community College District is a proud member of California Colleges for International Education (CCIE), an international education consortium founded in 1985 for the express purpose of assisting community colleges with their internationalization efforts whether it involves study abroad, international students, internationalizing the curriculum, faculty exchanges and more. Go to www.ccieworld.org for additional information and to identify resources you might find useful.*DISCLAIMER: All the Resources on this page lead to privately owned web pages and are not affiliated with City College and/or the SDCCD. The above listings are intended for informational purposes only. No recommendations are intended and students assume all risks inherent in participating in programs abroad offered by California community colleges and other colleges/universities/program providers; City College and the SDCCD take no responsibility for outcomes related to students participating in or obtaining information from these entities. The same disclaimer is in effect for all resource links below.
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Currency Around The World
Understanding European Currency
Expanish Spanish School: our partner in 2010 for studying in Argentina
www.worldviewproject.org - a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting greater cross-cultural awareness, knowledge and understanding in San Diego. Go to volunteermatch.com to search for the Worldview Project for volunteer opportunities.
www.parobs.org - San Diego's finest online magazine for multicultural events, places and people.
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Follow a second City College student during her semester in Argentina, Fall 2010.
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Follow a City College student during the Fall 2008 study abroad program to Buenos Aires, Argentina and subsequent travels.
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Spring 2004 in Cannes, France
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On behalf of the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association, and it's member schools Welcome to the 2013 SUBWAY Junior Varsity Basketball Championships.
Over 5000 student athletes play high school basketball making it one of our most popular activities. Hundreds of hours of hard work and commitment have gone into practices, games, and tournaments in preparation for this weekend. We wish you success and best of luck as you strive to achieve your ultimate goal of being proclaimed MHSAA Provincial Champion.
Thanks to the host organizing committee for their efforts in organizing these provincials. The support of all volunteers - students, staff, parents, sponsors and the community is appreciated and is a major factor in the success of this championship.
A special 'Thank You' to our major partner, Subway. The support of our other provincial sponsors including Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, Wilson, MTS, Boston Pizza, Manitoba's Credit Unions, Manitoba Hydro, Red River Co-op, and Sport Manitoba is also very much appreciated.
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GPE Newsroom: Geeta Rao Gupta is Named Interim Chair of GPE
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy Executive Director at UNICEF, as Interim Chair of GPEs Board of Directors. The appointment is effective as of August 15, 2013.
Ms. Rao Gupta will serve as Interim Chair until a successor is approved by the Board. It is expected that the Board of Directors will approve a new Chair in its next meeting scheduled for November 2013.


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Lady Gaga injury forces show cancellations
The pop superstar was due to take her Born This Way Ball to Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, and Hamilton, Ontario this week (begs11Feb13), but a case of synovitis - severe inflammation of joints - has prompted her doctor to insist she bow out of the dates to rest up and recover.
In a statement issued to fans on Tuesday (12Feb13), the Poker Face hitmaker writes, "I am completely devastated and heartsick. I've been hiding this injury and pain from my staff for a month, praying it would heal, but after last night's performance I could not walk. To the fans in Chicago, Detroit and Hamilton, I hope you can forgive me as it is nearly impossible for me to forgive myself right now. I would do anything for you. I will hopefully heal as soon as possible and be at 500 (per cent) again, which is what you deserve."
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