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In case you didn't already know, the Chinese New Year is this Sunday (2/10). Can you believe we're headed into the year of the snake already? I know I can't. Time flies when you're having fun.
And speaking of fun, there's going to be plenty of excitement going on to celebrate! Although Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles is waiting to throw a big shindig until next weekend (the 16th and 17th – I'll get to that in a bit), you can still get started on the festivities early by visiting the Hammer Museum at UCLA this Sunday the 10th at 2PM. It's completely free and should be a good time for visitors of all ages. The festival will be providing live music from the Music of China Ensemble of UCLA, and will be teaching guests to decorate their own paper lanterns and write Chinese characters, amongst other things.
What I'm really excited for, is the Chinatown celebration. There's no way I'm going to miss it! Again, I've got to emphasize the FREE aspect of this. There's a whole weekend of awesome Chinese New Year-related activities and entertainment going on and it all kicks of on Saturday the 16th at 1PM with the 114th Golden Dragon Parade. First of all, who doesn't love a good parade? And second of all, who doesn't love to see a friggin' giant dragon floating down the street! The parade starts at HIll/Ord and ends at Broadway/Cesar Chavez so be sure to get your seats along it route.
On both Saturday and Sunday you can expect to enjoy a wide range of entertainers on the main performance stage from singers to dancers, yo-yo-ers, hoop divers, and more! There's going to be amazing food (even if Chinese isn't your style, there's a whole list of LA gourmet food trucks that will be on site) plus a beer garden! Duh, winning! Plus you can check out a number of artisans that will be hanging around making candy and dough sculptures, doing face paintings, doing magic, telling stories, etc. They're even going to be attempting to break a world record for Chinese paper folding. There's actually so much going on during this celebration that I can't even begin to list it all.
Bottom line? I'm psyched.
Even without the Chinese New Year going on, Chinatown is still a super fun place to visit. While you're there, be sure to check out all of the local shops and make a wish at the famous China Town wishing well.
Don't have a car? Don't want to worry about parking? No problem. For those of you that have never "gone Metro", the Metro Gold Line will literally dump you off right in the heart of Chinatown for cheap. Plus there are a number of busses that can get you there. Check out the Metro website to plan your trip.
Happy year of the snake to you all!


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Hello everyone! I am back! For the past 2 months or so, I had a lot of busy work to take care of. I apologize to all of my fans... ;-) Anyways, on with the show!
I am SUPER excited because I am finally a member of the Scraps of Elegance monthly kit club. I was so happy to see the main kit and my elements add-on come in the mail this month!
So this is my newest layout titled "Love", and it is my entry for the Scraps of Elegance inspiration board for May, 2016. Also, I made a video tutorial for my layout and it is posted at the end of this post.
Here is the May inspiration board:
|Scraps of Elegance Inspiration Board - May, 2016
The colors in the board (which were also part of the kit) inspired me for this layout. Also the rusted, antique car reminded me that I just turned another year older last month. This is why I chose a picture from childhood :-)
I had such a blast creating this layout... believe it or not, this is the VERY first time I EVER used modeling paste that wasn't homemade! The main kit came with DecoArt Modeling paste, so I finally got to add texture without making the paste myself.
It was also a lot of fun to experiment with all of the unique embellishments... pushing my creativity a bit more than usual, which is always fun to me with mixed media.
Check out my scrapbook.com page for the product list and placement. For the details on how I created my layout, feel free to check my video below:
Thanks for visiting! Have a spectacular day!


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Crowstoes Morticia is one of those polishes I brought for the name I am a big adams family fan so had to swatch all three of the Crowstoes Adams Family inspired polishes, Morticia is an amzing glitter mix packed full red, black, purple and gunmetal hex and bar glitter in a clear base this is two coats layered over a silver base.
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Crowstoes - Morticia
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Ooooo this is lovely! I love the combination of colors! And the name is fantastic :)ReplyDelete
That is intense! So much glitter! And awesome swatches, as always! :)ReplyDelete
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Love this glitter! The mix works perfection for Morticia. :)ReplyDelete
Wow! I'm also a big Adam Family fun and certainly I'd buy this bottle because of the name but Morticia is stunning actually!ReplyDelete
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(The Frisky) -- Social networking on the Internet is the easiest way to keep in touch with your pals, tell people what you're up to without, you know, talking to them, promote your parties, and bask in your buddies' love.
Back in the day, MySpace was like the Wild West -- you could post, do, and say anything you wanted. Heck, it turned hussies like Tila Tequila into "stars" with their own TV shows.
But now everyone -- including our parents -- has jumped on the Facebook bandwagon. (It's so mainstream there's already a scripted movie about the start of Facebook, "The Social Network," which opened last week.)
So how do you keep your page fun to use yet still appropriate for your family and co-workers to read? Here are 8 important tips:
The Frisky: 10 celebs who showed way too much in Twitter pics
1. Tag, you're it!
Every time someone posts a picture of me with my eyes closed, a chubby double chin, sweat stains, and a face full of runny mascara, I want to die and/or kill them. But, luckily, it's easy to do some easy damage control. Simply click on the offensive pic, then remove the tag.
2. Don't drink and type
After a fun-filled party night, you're all amped! Then you come home and surf the Internet because you're not ready to go to bed. It's only natural. But beware! Perusing Facebook is one thing; trying to drunkenly express yourself in a comment or befriending someone you wouldn't if you were sober is another.
So look but don't touch your page or your friends' pages when you're loaded. You don't want to wake up with a hangover and a rude awakening from something stupid you wrote.
The Frisky: Angelina Jolie joins Twitter
3. Do not delete exes
Sure, you want to get rid of them from your life physically, but unfriending them after you've established Internet friendship makes you look pathetic and bitter. Besides, if they're obsessed enough with you to check your page, let them stalk away.
After all, it's as close to you as they'll ever get again. And if you manage your page right, you'll always be there looking good -- the best revenge you could possibly have. But there IS an exception to every rule, so of course, if your ex is like OJ Simpson, you should for sure delete him.
4. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Everyone modifies their interests, hobbies, and headlines. And sure, updating your status is a great way to draw attention to your page, but you don't want negative attention.
Never click update more than once in a day. Nothing makes you look more like a paranoid, obsessed loser than changing your info multiple times in the stretch of mere hours -- nothing is private on Facebook, including the frequency of your activity. So commit to your changes and let them go, at least a little while, before you change them again.
The Frisky: 10 biggest Facebook dating mistakes
5. Manage your image
Don't empty your camera memory card onto your page. Your photo album shouldn't have 200 snapshots of you from last Halloween in a barely there costume.
Edit the way you want to be seen, especially now that many employers dig into their potential hires' personal info by looking them up online. Keep your sexy self-portraits a secret. A couple shots with cleavage are OK, but, overall, keep it pretty low-key and tame.
6. Keep it classy
You have the right to choose what is printed about you on the Internet. If someone posts a comment about something wild you did back in college, you can and should erase it!
Save that stuff in your memory bank for reunions, because those are inside jokes; otherwise, the joke will be on you when it hits the public domain. And, in turn, when you write on someone's page about something crazy they did, it's guilt by association -- so don't incriminate yourself!
The Frisky: 13 super annoying ways people abuse Facebook and Twitter
7. Post-personality
Your page should look and sound like you. Post a couple pics with cool cultural references, fill in your faves, and don't be afraid to be funny. It's cool to see what music, TV shows, and YouTube videos you have in common with your friends.
But, reading your interests shouldn't take as long as War and Peace. Trim down your likes to the essentials. With everyone from potential bosses to potential boyfriends scouring the web for dirt, why not broadcast the best version of yourself; they have plenty of time down the road to see your dark side.
8. Stay away from strangers
The Internet is a great matchmaker. And, sure, that hot guy who friend-requested you may seem totally cool, but if you don't know him or his band, it's best not to accept him into your inner Facebook circle. Who knows what he'll do once he has carte blanche on your page!
Granted, these people will probably just spam you, but still, why give them the access? And just because you have friends in common doesn't mean you have to accept them. Don't give in to peer pressure! If you don't know them, you don't know them. Be more discriminating than the "friends" you have in common.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
HPIR and Team Toni!
For those who aren't familiar with Team Toni, this is a group of volunteers who have come together to help fight the dreaded "C-word." Named in honor of Toni Black, an inspirational young lady who became a symbol of hope and strength to all in her own battle, Team Toni is responsible for fundraising, providing services to those battling cancer and their families, and spreading the message that together, we CAN make a difference.
Kelly, one of HPIR's investigators, has been instrumental in the Team Toni campaign since the beginning, being a close friend of Toni's and her family. We've always been super proud of Kelly's devotion and dedication to this cause, and have helped out whenever we were able. HPIR's involvement with Team Toni became even more personal when Kelly's mother, Diane, also an investigator with HPIR, was diagnosed with a malignant spot on her pancreas.
Last weekend's Poker Run raised funds to support Diane and her treatment, so HPIR was happy to pull together and do whatever we could do to help! We also had a blast, as we tend to do whenever we get together! I had never been to such an event, and it was overwhelming to see so many bikes and jeeps coming out to support this great cause.
If you would like to become involved with Team Toni, whether its participating in one of the many diverse fundraisers, or as a volunteer for one of the many great services they offer, you can find more information at the link provided below. And while HPIR is proud to support and partner with Team Toni, there are many other great ways the paranormal community is kicking cancer in the butt!
On a local level, this past spring The Original WV Paranormal hosted a conference in Nitro to raise funds for a local woman who fought her own battle. On October 16th, another group out of Huntington, the Ohio River Believers Society (ORBS) will be hosting another event to benefit the American Cancer Society.
On a more national level, this year, September 15th was set aside as Paranormal Kicks Cancer Day, where groups from several different states held their own fundraising events to benefit the American Cancer Society. Cancer is an issue that affects every single one of us in some way or another, and I urge all my colleagues out there in the paranormal community to step up and do something about it!
Team Toni
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The Portland Timbers are certainly doing their part to dramatically alter their roster from 2012. After completing a deal to keep local product and former OSU Beaver Danny Mwanga with the team on December 11, the Timbers completed two trades that brought them another former
In a separate trade announced at the same time,
With the trade,
Kocic started 27 matches for Toronto FC in 2012 after incumbent starter Stefan Frei suffered a broken fibula in practice early in the season. Kocic has appeared in 41 matches for D.C. United and Toronto FC during his four seasons in MLS, but perhaps his best work for Toronto FC was during their CONCACAF Champions League run where he appeared in 11 matches and produced several outstanding saves. Kocic is 6 foot, 4 inches, and is regarded for his strong leg on goal kicks and calm demeanor on the pitch. Kocic has also worked very closely with current Timbers goalkeepers Coach Mike Toshack, and Kocic's solid 2011 season was directly attributed to the work with Toshack. Kocic will take up one of the Timbers international spots for 2013.
Bendik was signed as goalkeeping depth for the Timbers in 2012, but ended up playing in five matches in 2012 including making three starts. Bendik came on for an injured Troy Perkins in
Toronto FC already had the first overall pick in the 2013 MLS Super Draft because of their 2013 record, and with the trade now have two of the top three picks. However, the team has apparently been shopping the first pick actively and with this trade, could really make a trade happen. With the abundance of youth on the Timbers roster,
Players Under Contract or Timbers Control MLS Rights (28 current):
Goalkeepers (3): Jake Gleeson, Donovan Ricketts,
Defenders (8): Futty Danso, David Horst, Chris Taylor, Hanyer Mosquera, Ryan Kawulok, Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Michael Harrington, Bryan Gallego *
Midfielders (9): Eric Alexander, Kalif Alhassan, Diego Chará, Sal Zizzo, Franck Songo'o, Will Johnson, Jack Jewsbury, Rodney Wallace,
Forwards (8): Brent Richards, Kris Boyd, Sebastian Rincon, Bright Dike, Danny Mwanga, Ryan Johnson, Jose Adolfo Valencia **, Mike Fucito **
Timbers Designated Players (2): Diego Chará, Kris Boyd
Generation adidas Players (2): Darlington Nagbe, Andrew Jean-Baptiste
Timbers Home Grown Player (2): Brent Richards, Bryan Gallego *
MLS Rights Retained (2): Robbie Findley, Jonathan Bornstein
International Players (7 total, potential green card candidates in italics):Kalif Alhassan, Kris Boyd, Hanyer Mosquera, Franck Songo'o, Jose Adolfo Valencia **, Milos Kocic, Darlington Nagbe
Recently traded or waived by Timbers: M Freddie Braun (waived), M Charles Renken (waived), D Ian Hogg (waived), D Kosuke Kimura (traded to New York), D Eric Brunner (traded to Houston), D Steve Purdy (waived), D Lovel Palmer (waived, included in MLS Re-Entry Draft), GK Joe Bendik (traded to Toronto FC)
* The Timbers acquired the MLS Homegrown rights for Gallego from New York Red Bulls, which allows
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This isn't a hippie commune. This isn't a kindergarten classroom. This is SPARTA. Know the difference – or you might find yourself on the wrong end of a highly-sharpened spear…
Sparta was legendary for its warrior culture. All Greek city-states trained their citizens to be soldiers, but Sparta's techniques were the most intense, like a military academy on steroids (Also, Spartans probably would have loved modern steroids). In Spartan education, boys were taken from their parents at age 7 and sent to live in soldier barracks. Girls were also trained to fight, though they lived at home, and their schooling was somewhat less harsh. Younger kids were beaten up by older kids to make them stronger, and all children were often whipped in front of groups, including their parents, but they were not permitted to cry out in pain. Children were provided with very little food and, instead, were encouraged to steal. However, if they were caught, the kids would still be beaten, thus encouraging them to become cunning liars and thieves. This, ladies and gentlemen, was a day in the life of the Spartan educational system.
As an adult warrior, a Spartan's primary concern was to be a good soldier. Spartans used very similar armor and battle equipment to other Greek hoplites. Distinctive features of the Spartan warrior included their crimson cloak and tunic and their long hair, worn this way to reflect the Archaic symbol of a free man. Spartans were also hyper-obsessed with their shields, which were often marked with the letter lambda for "Laconia," the region Sparta was located in. If a Spartan lost a sword or spear, he was likely to get a "meh" reaction, but if he lost a shield, it was a sign of a deserter, which made the man an utter disgrace and meant he was no longer invited to regional Risk tournaments.
In the Archaic era, Spartan soldiers wore flanged bronze cuirasses, greaves, and helmets, usually in the Corinthian style. Historians speculate that during the Persian Wars Spartans either wore sculpted bronze armor or the linothorax, a body armor composed of metal and linen. Spartan officers were also depicted wearing a horsehair crest on their helmets, their plumage making them the direct predecessors of Vegas showgirls.
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Leading Industry Analyst Firm Says Tableau Software, at 86 Percent Growth, is Fastest Growing Business Intelligence Vendor Among Top Vendors
Tableau Software, a global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Gartner has ranked the company as the fastest growing BI vendor among the top 20 firms represented in its Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2011*. Gartner's assessments show that while the BI market was the second-fastest growing software segment that Gartner tracks, coming in at 16.4 percent growth 2011 over 2010, Tableau's revenue increased by more than 86 percent.
These findings come on the heels of the Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms** report, which positioned Tableau as a "challenger" based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. Tableau has made the full Magic Quadrant report available at no charge for a limited time at http://www.tableau.com/gartner-2012.
"Tableau's remarkable growth is a symbol of one of the most important trends in the industry: the consumerization of enterprise technology," said Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software."We are ushering in a golden era of fast, easy, visual analytics for everyone. It's a sea change in business analytics."
Tableau customer AOL has been using the software for the last several years of its rapid growth. "We chose Tableau because it had a heavy emphasis on data visualization, could plug into any sort of dataset, was really easy to use and ultimately could deliver self-service BI to our clients," said Ricardo Rivera, senior technology manager at AOL. "As Tableau has achieved its quick growth, we've been able to grow with it – transforming ourselves from a push model when it came to reports to a pull model where people are in charge of what data they need, in real-time when they need it."
"Tableau helps its customers leverage their investments with lightning fast connectivity to Teradata's world-class data warehousing and analytic solutions in a relevant and intuitive way for the enterprise," said Scott Collins, vice president of Teradata Partnerships and Alliance Marketing, a Tableau partner. "It's the ability to reveal patterns, outliers and insights through detailed data that has added enormous value and helped Tableau grow so quickly among our customers."
Tableau is designed for people to rapidly analyze data of any format or size. It brings business dashboards, fast analytics and data visualization to organizations of all sizes. Tableau Desktop lets people create interactive reports, dashboards and visualizations using an easy drag and drop interface. Tableau Server provides a complete web-based business intelligence solution for distribution, sharing and collaborating.
*Gartner "Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2011" by Dan Sommer, Bhavish Sood. May 1, 2012.
**Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms" by John Hagerty, Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson. February 6, 2012.
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Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Ranked by IDC in 2011 as the world's fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau helps anyone easily analyze, visualize and share information. More than 7,000 companies get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at www.tableau.com/trial. Register now for the 2012 Tableau Customer Conference at http://www.tableau.com/tcc12.
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A Jewish man married a Chinese woman. Their marriage was doing so well that they decided to have a baby. The husband wanted the baby to have a name that epitomized "Jewish people of today." His wife wanted the baby to have a meaningful, Chinese name.
After much thought they chose to combine two very meaningful names into one for their special boy.
They named him Cha-Ching.


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Photo of the Day
|Amazing sighting of a pack of 29 wild dogs in the east this morning!!
Morning Drive
(Chad, Marka and Andrea)
29 x wild dogs – Karans, Bush Braai
1 x leopard (Nthombi female) – Vielmetter, Jaydee Access
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Java, Crossing Below Java
1 x elephant bull – Argyle, Great North
1 x buffalo bull – Vielmetter, Vielmetter-Alberts Cutline
Afternoon Drive
(Chad, Marka and Herold)
29 x wild dogs – Borneo, Airstrip
3 x leopards (Java Dam female and two sub-adults) – Scholtz, Scholtz-Borneo Cutline
1 x leopard (unidentified male) – Motswari, Ingwelala Airstrip
2 x rhinos
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Peru, Argyle Rd
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Jaydee, Nkombi Pan
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Motswari, Wedge Northern Boundary
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Java, Western Cutline
1 x breeding herd of elephants – Vielmetter, Hide Dam
2 x elephant bulls – Vielmetter, Hyena Den
1 x elephant bull – Vielmetter, Western Cutline
1 x elephant bull – Motswari, Wedge Northern Boundary
1 x elephant bull – Motswari, Wedge Northern Boundary
7 x buffalo bulls – Motswari, Wedge Northern Boundary
5 x buffalo bulls – Motswari, Wedge Northern Boundary
3 x buffalo bulls – Vielmetter, Western Sharalumi
Daily Synopsis
Having gone on about how special the Timbavati is because of "the unexpected" with my guests over the last few days, im sure they must have thought I was way too biased (and I am)...but then we had a day like today, and everything I believed about how special it was became personified in one of my most special sightings I have had since arriving at Motswari almost 6 years ago!!!
Needing lions, I decided I should go and check in the east to see if the six Jacaranda's might have come back, so off we headed on a lovely crisp November morning; as usual in the east, things were slow, and we barely even saw impalas as we bumbled along the Kruger boundary, so we stopped to enjoy the lone hippo at Majavi dam, as well as a lone impala...
|Wild dogs in the east - bonus!
They crossed onto a property that only Motswari traverses, so we had no need to rush the sighting and I let Andrea and Marka know what I had found as I continued to follow the adults through the bush, usually only having visual of one or two dogs...eventually they went static and we could hear the excited chattering of the pack, and I assumed that they might have had a kill, so I went around the mopane thicket, but saw it was just the individual dogs getting excited at the reunion; then more excitedly Petros pointed through the bushes, and there were more than a dozen pups standing watching us!!!
|A load of pups!
Having no sooner manoeuvred into a position and somehow managing to get Marka into the sighting (as truthfully, I had no idea where on earth I was!), they all ran off to the west, and we relocated them...all of them...on an old airstrip and sat in awe at the special sighting in front of...TWENTY-NINE of Africa's second most endangered carnivores standing, playing in the open!
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|What an amazing sighting of 29 wild dogs!
Now seeing wild dogs anytime is something special, but to see such a large pack is something else, and it is a sight I wont forget in a hurry! We remained and enjoyed the pack for almost an hour as they soon started moving to the shady areas on the fringe of the airstrip and carried on to go and track down three rhinos nearby.
As it turned out, we never got to the rhinos, as Nthombi leopardess was found in the south-western corner, and heading west to the boundary, so I had to rush...quickly! As usual, when this is the case, all the animals show up – impala, wildebeest, warthog and nyala were scattered over Java Airstrip, and at the river near the Geiger's house, a large herd of elephants was drinking and feeding on the lush greenery in the area; not sure I would make the leopard sighting before she crossed into Klaserie, I spent time with the elephants, as rather have that than nothing.
|Roller mobbing a kite, impala and wildebeest, elephant herd and buffalo bull
Nthombi angled more south, so I took a chance, but she was nearing the Argyle Rd when we carried on bumping into animals, like a buffalo, but I pushed on and neared her as she was less than 100m from the boundary...fortunately for me, unlike the lioness yesterday, Nthombi went static, up in a marula tree, and we ended up having a wonderful sighting of this gorgeous leopard posing for photos before leaving her and heading back north, totally loving our luck this morning!
|Nthombi resting up a marula
After such a wonderful morning, I didn't really have any plans, but needed some lions, and buffalos. As the buffalos love the area north of camp, I headed there, and it didn't take long to find 6 buffalo bulls and a lone elephant bull feeding and resting in a little thicket.
|Buffalo bulls
A bit further along the road we had another 7 or 8 buffalos, and just past them was a breeding herd of elephants that were on Ingwelala, but fed across a clearing in our direction before we continued on towards Argyle Dam to look for some crocodiles.
|Elephant herd crossing into Motswari
We did see one in the water before the dam, and another large one in the water at the dam, as well as the usual impalas, waterbuck and hippo around them dam. Herold was sitting with the wild dogs when they got mobile east towards Kruger, so my idea of going to visit them this afternoon was put to bed early, so instead I went south to see some rhinos.
|Hippos at Argyle Dam
Heading south was a touch quiet, but as we got near the old hyena den, we found two hyenas making their way to the den site, but on arriving, rather than finding two small hyenas, we found two large elephants! So we carried on towards Hide Dam, and found our first lone giraffe for a few drives (although apparently Marka said there had been more than 20 there earlier!).
|Hyena, impala, zebra and Giraffe around Hide Dam
Just opposite side of the river, we had a large herd of elephants spread all over the area, as well as two rhinos, and it was wonderful to be surrounded by such large beasts!
|Elephants and rhinos together in one sighting
Moving back north, we got lucky and found the mother hyena back at the den with three of the cubs, as well as a sub-adult! It was a real surprise, as I was convinced that the den site was inactive! Not that I was complaining, and instead got to sit and enjoy them until another elephant came and chased them back into the hole.
|Our hyena den once again active
Herold had spent his afternoon with 29 wild dogs...and was now following three leopards in the east! Not only is seeing leopards in the east a rarity, but this leap is usually so skittish that following them is impossible, but they had been doing so for almost an hour, so we decided to skip drinks and take a chance and raced back to that area, knowing that they could be lost at anytime...and amazingly, managed to arrive and take over the sighting and spend about 20 minutes with the mother and her two sub-adults; they really didn't seem to fussed, and while we couldn't get close or in front of them, they were happy having us there!
They eventually came across a herd of impalas and a scrub hare in a clearing and the two subadults bolted after the hare before turning their attention to the impalas, but after they ran off, the leopards disappeared and we chose to head back to camp! Not bad for a day in the east, a place where "there are no animals"!!!
Marka also bagged himself a leopard on the way back, to round off an absolutely amazing day in the Timbavati, and one I won't forget in a hurry...going to be a tough act to follow tomorrow!


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Bankruptcy FAQs
We've answered some of the most common FAQs about bankruptcy. This should clear up any confusion you have and help you to understand the debt solution a bit better.
Saying this, we still strongly recommend that you get qualified legal and financial advice before you make any decisions.
During bankruptcy, you will be required to tell your Trustee – the person in charge of your bankruptcy – about any changes to your financial circumstances.
If your circumstances change for the better, you might have to start paying into an Income Payment Agreement (IPA) or Income Payments Order (IPO). Or if you've already got an IPA/IPO, you might have to increase what you pay into this. And if you get any money through a windfall or inheritance before the end of your bankruptcy, you might have to pay this towards your creditors too.
If you don't tell your Trustee about changes to your circumstances, your bankruptcy may last longer.
The total fee to go bankrupt in England and Wales is £680.
This is made up of the Official Receiver's fee of £550 and the application fee of £130. You can pay this fee online in instalments if you can't afford to pay it in one go. However, your bankruptcy application will not be processed until you've paid the full fee.
Bankruptcy will appear on your credit file for six years after the date you first start it. If you apply for credit while it's still on your credit history, lenders might be more likely to reject you. Or if they accept you, this might be at a higher rate of borrowing.
It's also important to be aware that some lenders will ask you if you have ever been made bankrupt when you apply. As a result, bankruptcy could have an impact on your ability to get credit for a substantial period of time.
If you meet all of your bankruptcy obligations, you are likely to be discharged 12 months after you were first declared bankrupt. You may still be required to make monthly payments for up to three years. Whether or not you'll have to pay anything will depend on your individual situation.
But if your Trustee thinks you have acted irresponsibly with your finances during this period or not co-operated, your discharge may be delayed.
Bankruptcy is only for unsecured debts – that means no mortgages or car finance loans. But there are some other loans you can't include in bankruptcy.
These include:
- fraudulent benefit and tax credit overpayments,
- child maintenance arrears,
- court fines,
- student loans, personal injury claims made against you, and
- any debts you took out fraudulently.
When you go bankrupt, the Official Receiver will tell your creditors about this. This means they won't be able to directly pursue you to repay those debts. Instead, they will deal with the Official Receiver initially. And after this, they'll deal with your Trustee.
Your creditors will have to provide details of the debts you owe. This is so they can make a claim. And after your bankruptcy, your debts in the bankruptcy will be written off.
Even though you won't technically owe anything towards these debts anymore, you still might have to pay something to your creditors. If you can afford to pay after your essential bills and other expenses, you might have an Income Payment Agreement (IPA) or Income Payments Order (IPO) for up to three years.


text: Mental health in the workplace: Practical responses to tough challenges Mental illness costs Canada $52 billion a year and is the fastest growing area of disability claims, but 64 per cent of Canadian businesses have no structure to support employees' return to work from mental health leave. Lorenzo Lisi looks at best practices to help organizations meet both their legal obligations and workforce needs Canadian employers have long understood the importance and priority of accommodating employee disabilities, not only to comply with the law and avoid liability, but also to ensure a flexible and productive workplace that addresses the differing needs of its employees. Historically, the emphasis has been on the accommodation of physical disabilities based on assessment of physical capacities. In the last few years, however, Canadian workplaces have seen a dramatic increase in the instances of requests for accommodation on the basis of an employee's mental or psychological disability. From an employer's perspective, this triggers an identical accommodation obligation, despite the fact that the illness itself can be based on subjective symptoms, or is not disclosed by the employee until much later, usually after discipline/termination for specific conduct. This area of accommodation is fraught with uncertainty and is now the subject of litigation, which will further define the obligations of employers. Managing this duty to accommodate and avoiding liability is a significant challenge, which requires foresight, patience and access to appropriate medical information. THE DUTY TO ACCOMMODATE Despite the often "invisible" nature of a mental disability, an employer's obligation to accommodate is identical to that where there is a physical disability: specifically, to the point of undue hardship. The case law has been clear that assessing this obligation is a multi-party inquiry, which requires input from the employer, the employee and any third party involved with the accommodation process, such as a union. Mental illness does not always manifest in visible symptoms, but employers still may have an obligation to inquire whether the employee has a disability. Difficulties often arise where there is conduct that would normally merit either discipline or discharge, which is alleged to be the result of a mental disability.The trick is determining whether there is a "causal connection" between the disability and the misconduct. ESTABLISHING THE "LINK" Based on recent arbitration and court decisions, the determination of whether there is a sufficient connection between the misconduct and disability is increasingly being made based on medical reports and advice. For example, in a ruling under the Canada Labour Code, an employee's claim that his attendance at work while under the influence was causally connected to his alcoholism was dismissed in large part due to the fact that he failed to provide medical evidence to substantiate this claim.1 WHAT SHOULD THE EMPLOYER KNOW? In Krieger v. Toronto Police Services Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the "Tribunal") held that the police service discriminated against a constable by suspending him for his overreaction to a situation involving a customer at a fast-food restaurant. The Tribunal held that the Police Services Board should have known, based on the constable's behaviours leading up the incident, that the constable was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder with respect to his involvement in a dispute with an armed suspect several months prior.2 The thrust of this decision is a warning to employers: there can be a duty to accommodate even in the absence of an employee actually articulating their need for accommodation. The cost of getting this assessment wrong can be considerable. In the recent ruling in Fair v. Hamilton- Wentworth District School Board ("Fair"), the Tribunal significantly altered the landscape for damages arising from mental health based claims.3 In this case, a school board supervisor alleged that her disability was the result of her highly-stressful job, overseeing the removal of asbestos. The applicant alleged that she feared that she could be held personally liable if she made a mistake. After going off of work and receiving disability benefits for approximately one year, the school board did not return the applicant to work. After a lengthy hearing, and some truly terrible facts with respect to the approach taken by the school board, the Tribunal held that the school board failed to accommodate the employee's mental illness by not "actively, promptly and diligently" exploring accommodation options. As a result, the Tribunal awarded the applicant over $450,000.00 in damages and surprisingly ordered reinstatement, nearly 8.5 years after the employee was terminated. WHAT NOW? Employers are right to be concerned about the ever-growing damage awards. It is part of the job of HR professionals to identify and manage these kinds of liabilities. But there is no reason to panic. Courts, arbitrators and human rights tribunals are assessing on a daily basis all kinds of claims relating to disability. Mental health is the most recent, and does not change the law of accommodation, or the obligations on employers, but only adjusts the approach. What this means is that employers must continue to utilize all of the tools and techniques normally associated with their obligation to accommodate their employees. Source:s 1 Air Canada v. Canadian Union of Public Employees (Airline Division) (Young Grievance), [2001] CLAD No. 472. 2 Kreiger v. Toronto Police Services Board, 2010 HRTO 1361. 3 Fair v. Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, 2013 HRTO 440. Lorenzo Lisi is a partner and member of the litigation group and the labour and employment team at Aird & Berlis LLP. firstname.lastname@example.com Key Take-Aways Getting timely, practical legal advice is always a good thing, but here are some best-practice tips which may help in navigating these often difficult waters. HR professionals are not doctors. They do not need to diagnose mental health problems. However, employers should watch for patterns and consider whether an employees' uncharacteristic behaviour is an indication of a mental health problem. Do not impose discipline or terminate an employee without taking time to carefully assess whether the misconduct at issue bears nexus to a mental health issue. Where HR professionals suspect that an employee has a mental health issue, they should meet with the employee privately, identify concerns, ask if accommodation is required and, of course, document the meeting in writing. Accommodation is a multi-party inquiry. If there is a union at the workplace, involve them in the accommodation process as there may be considerations impacting the collective agreement, or other employees. If not, insist the employee actively participate in the process by providing clear, timely medical information to ensure an appropriate accommodation can be considered. In response to an employee's request for accommodation or return to work, HR professionals should consider requesting a medical note from the employee's medical specialist, rather than the employee's family physician. In certain circumstances, employers may also want to consider getting an independent third party medical. Don't be bullied! Employers have the right to receive appropriate and proper information in order to comply with the obligation to accommodate. Accommodation doesn't always mean complying with the exact request of the employee, whether it be in relation to available duties or positions. The process must review available work/positions based on established restrictions. This doesn't mean simply making work or bumping another employee! Be clear. Be concise. Be vigilant in following up. The longer an employee is left "out there" on disability, or absent without leave, the harder it will be to assess accommodation or impose discipline. 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Embroidered vest: Vintage || Paisley dress: Dress Lily || Studded western boots: Zara
I've been wearing dresses with vests a lot, it's such a comfortable and great looking combo. Here I'm wearing my new original 60s vest I bought vintage on Etsy and a paisley high low tunic dress I received from Dress Lily. This one got a very nice and flowy fabric, too!
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10,000 Maniac[al steps to good health]. This has nothing to do with the band.
These are days, guys.
If you read Buzzfeed, or are on Facebook, or Instagram, or Twitter, or any social media with other like minded people (re: TwentySomethings), then you know that now is the time to be running, or working out, or eating healthy, or staying healthy, or something like that.
Everyone and their mother is working out and running 5ks and 10ks and 26.2ks and Blerg-Ks and eating all this kale and does anyone really even like kale?!
Seriously. You hit your twenties and it's just the thing to be doing. Or maybe the time to start telling people about the thing you were already doing. (I wasn't doing it before, really.)
That was how I ended up signing up for something called The Hit and Run 5k with FunSized.
It involved running and getting hit by things, then rinsing and repeating. Somewhere in the part where we were not getting hit by things, FunSized and I started talking about her latest piece of bling.
FunSized: It's a Fitbit. It tracks how far you walk everyday. Like my goal is 10,000 steps and it'll freak out when I hit it.
Me: 10,000 steps, huh?
FunSized: Yeah. I'll definitely hit it today since we're doing this, but it just motivates you to move around more. Like I know that you should park far away from Target, but now I actually park far away from Target.
Me: You're kidding.
FunSized: During winter, I would walk to the store and just walk around until I hit my goal.
Me: …Sometimes when I go to the store, I'm tired and try to get Boo to push me in the cart instead.
The concept was bizarre to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a slouch, and I play soccer every week, and I'm a biking kind of girl, but still. I'm kind of lazy.
So, I decided to join this revolution. I mean, I have a very big office. That has got to be a lot of steps I take everyday. At the very least, maybe FunSized would be right, and it would motivate me to move around more. Thus, the next time I was at Target, I parked as close as possible for the last time ever, and bought myself a Fitbit.
Day 1.
I got approximately 3,573 steps.
"I've only owned it a day." I told myself. "And it was only part of the day. So it really doesn't count."
Day 2.
I had 8,105 steps.
"What are you doing?" my mother asks me.
"Walking around the kitchen table," I tell her.
"FunSized told me this thing would freak out when I reached my goal." I tell her.
"Hm." my mother tells me.
Day 3.
I'm in shock that I don't take 10,000 steps per day. It doesn't seem right. MY OFFICE IS LARGE, people. But then this happened.
Total steps? 11,373. I've never been so happy to see a piece of technology freak out on me.
Day 4.
Obviously I am more than capable of taking 10,000 steps in a day, because I did it the day before. I'm a pro now. So when it gets to midnight, and I only have 8,746 steps, I'm pissed. Like legitimately upset and realizing that THIS IS WHY I AM NO LONGER SKINNY, because obviously I never took the time to park far away or count my steps and I knew I should have been jogging in place while watching The Fault in Our Stars last night.
Bells, whistles, and other celebratory things.
The other day, in a fit of comment-versation, Nathan Triple Name and I decided to gang up and write a post or two together. You know, board games, sex, metaphors – Oh, the metaphors! – and other such interesting things that keep you people chuckling with me*.
Well, he asked me what next week's post should be about, and I right away jumped on the monopoly bandwagon.
Then, I started brainstorming, and went to write a draft when I realized it. 99 published posts. Next post:
What exactly does one do to celebrate 100 published posts?
Board games?
Sexual Boardgames?
I'll save those for another day. After all, you do not know about the great game I invented when I graduated high school, involving food, body parts, and twister.
You know what I'll share with you today?
10 5 things I've gotten out of the last 100 posts.
1. The chance to write, write, and write some more. I hadn't been writing as much before I rediscovered blogging. Sure, I had a xanga back in the day, but that went kibosh in college. I used to write in journals all the time too, but life gets busy, and that gets put to the wayside too. Then I found my way to the blogosphere. Blogging gets you more involved in what you're writing. Instant feedback(unless you assholes don't comment).
2. Chasing dreams, achieving dreams. I wrote a book. I've actually written four books. Bits and pieces of lots of books. Books and stories and tellings of things where you can see people stop and listen and take in what you are sharing with them. Geez, what a feeling. But I'm actually taking full fledged steps to try and get some of my stuff published. One of these days, guys. Something will be on the shelves with my name on it, and you'll remember me from here.
3. Hi, friends. People that read your blog? They're real people. You can be friends with them.
4. Technology and I might constantly have angry angsty breakups. But at least we get along now. Some of the stuff that goes on with having a blog is having some technology know how. I have what's called "shit breaks constantly around me." But with a little patience, and a lot of friends who are more talented at this stuff with me, I actually feel competent about posting stuff. I even made my very own blog button. Yes, I know it's not hard. I don't care. Oh, and my phone doesn't have a cracked screen right now. Knock on wood.
5. L.A., this is L.A. Having a blog name was originally to protect the innocent.
I blogged about life, to de-stress, to sort things out in my head, to be angry in a more healthy manner. To apparently piss people off (that acutally happened a lot). But somewhere in the realm of going from blogging about life and blogging about people, to whatever the fuck it is I'm doing now, I came more to terms with who I am. L.A., or Laura Anne, or just Laura, because no one actually calls me Laura Anne, ever. The blog is on facebook now, and even my mother has read the occasional post. Between tsk-ing me for the swears, she's all,
You know Bunso, you are a good writer.
And that's nice. I like those moments.
So, here's to the last 100 posts. And probably another 100 more. I do have a lot of drafts saved of terrible, terrible stories involving texts that say:
Him: Do you know what I want for St. Patrick's Day?
Me: the same thing I want?
Him: L.A. with a side of rainbow.
You never know what's coming, guys.
P.S. What's your favorite post on Chicks in the Mitt?
*Yes, I know you're not chuckling with me. You're just chuckling…around me**.
**Yes, I know you're not chuckling around me, but chuckling at me.
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Technology, you bitch.
I had this whole post I was going to write about how I'm on this letter writing kick. Seriously. It's my latest obsession.
I've hashtagged it. I'm trying to use up all the stationary I've accumulated over my life, which is an excessive amount.
Do you want a letter on Pohacco stationary? I've got that. Hello Kitty? Got it. Beatles notecards? I've got oodles. Those dollar bins at Target tend to sell cute little notecards, and they are only ONE DOLLAR. I must buy them. In case, you know, I write letters someday. Like today.
But while I was prepping to write this great post about letters and HOW YOU CAN GET ONE FROM ME, complete with doodles and Gelly Roll writing, I decided that I needed some inspiration.
I head to iTunes, ready to sing along to "Amsterdam" by Guster.
I wanna write you a letter, wanna write you a book…wanna…NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY THE SONG BECAUSE MY HARD DRIVE IS NOT WORKING.
I seriously start hyperventilating. My life is on this hard drive. All my music, every single photo I've taken since I got a digital camera back in 2005, every book I've written, homework going back to at least the seventh grade (God only knows why I've kept that), my effing TAXES, did I mention EVERY SINGLE PHOTO THAT I'VE TAKEN SINCE 2005?!
My first thought is to call theAsian and cry. Since he is 100% Asian, he has a tendency to be able to save my life when technology fails. Which is a lot.
Maybe it's because my parents decided to marry and thus create a little half n' half baby. But Technology and I do not get along. Someone told me once that I need to defriend Technology. And they are correct.
Case in Point:
I finally get an iPhone. It's so shiny and pretty and the best phone I've ever had. Two weeks after getting it, I'm biking to soccer practice. I put the iPhone into my sweatshirt. The sweatshirt into my stuff sack. When I get to the field, the screen somehow managed to crack to oblivion.
"Did you drop it?" asks HSM while I cry to him at the Apple store. "You have to drop it just right for this to happen."
"It was wrapped up in my sweatshirt in my bag on my back!" I wail.
He shakes his head. "This would only happen to you."
While typing one day, LeBebe tries to Houdini out of his playpen (He's just learning to walk at this point).
I immediately jump up to catch him, and when I'm holding him and telling him why we do not climb out of our playpen, I turn to see my computer. Which I dropped on the floor. Oops.
"I brought a computer for you," I tell theAsian.
He laughs. "I'm guessing that means it's broken?"
"No," I say defensively. "It works!"
"I dropped it and the screen flashes now."*
I load all of my worldly possessions onto a hard drive to attempt to keep my computer from being overloaded. I go to plug in said hard drive and it will. not. load. It won't even recognize. I take the thing to Best Buy. Geek Squad, save me.
"I can't figure it out." The guy hands it back to me, shaking his head. "It should work fine, but it doesn't even want to load."
"What about my files?" I am about to cry.
"SOL." He shakes his head at me. "But I won't charge you since we couldn't fix it."**
I buy a new digital camera. A few weeks into owning it, Macy and I are out and it somehow drops and breaks.
I cry.
We go to a casino. I win big money. I buy a new camera.
Fast forward five months. Macy and I are at a hockey game. I put the camera into my pocket. We climb on a tree.
I wake up and the camera screen has cracked.
Technology. Hates. Me.***
*Normally, I don't drop things. Technology just blows up on me. I have witnesses.
**theAsian managd to successfully pull all my data off the broken hard drive and put it onto a new drive. Fuck you, Geek Squad.
***Feel free to donate to the "Buy L.A. a new hard drive foundation." It will be my third hard drive. Although, I did manage to get it to connect by using a camera USB cord. I just can't touch it, or it yells at me and starts making scary noises.


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Our history
The Tryon Running Club first started in 2009 with a small group of friends that wanted to find other people to share their love of running with. We met informally and connected via Facebook.
In 2012 we decided to become more than just a Facebook page and become a "real" club. As a result we join the Road Runners Club of America to benefit from the group insurance and to obtain non-profit designation under 501 ( c) 3 under the Internal Revenue Code. To afford to do this we began taking membership dues of $12 for single membership and $20 family membership. Currently we have 34 dues-paying members. All of the dues go towards our yearly RRCA fee.
Our mission
The motto for our club is "Giving back one step at a time." We want to run, meet people and give back to the community we all love. One of our goals is to sponsor races to raise money for local charities. Last year and this year we held the "Tryon Half Marathon" to help support The Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry. We also continue to support The Jingle Bell Jog for the Hungry. This year we have also taken on The Race to the Head of the Class for scholarship funds.
Our future
Sunday we will be meeting to discuss the future of our club. We will continue to support these local races, and many more. Opportunities abound in our community.... we have other, non-running events that need support, Tour de Leaves and Jerry's Baddle to name two. We will continue to do good, but we need more help. As mentioned above, we have 34 paying members, but we have 228 Facebook likes. On any given weekend when we post social runs we rarely have anyone show up other than the board members.
The board members meet regularly and ponder ways to get people more involved. We want to create a social environment for people to connect. It just doesn't seem to be working out that way. We feel like we need to offer thing for our club members but with limited funds and involvement it is difficult.
There are responsibilities to being on a non-profit board and anyone getting involved should be aware of these - you can read about them on the RRCA website.
The current board has served for two years and are ready to hand over the reigns. We need dedicated people to step up and take over the leadership of the club. The new officers will be given support during the transition period and will be handed over documentation and financials to make sure operations continue to run smoothly. If you are interested, please make sure you come Sunday to throw your hat in the ring.
Please give this some thought and feel free to offer feedback. We are all just regular people trying to do good things.
Thank you for your support. We are looking forward to seeing you Sunday, 12/1/13.
Date: 12/1/13
Time: 5:00-6:00 business meeting, 6:00 - 8:00 social
Place: Thompson Garden Gallery
83 Palmer Rd, Tryon, NC
Date: 12/1/13
Time: 5:00-6:00 business meeting, 6:00 - 8:00 social
Place: Thompson Garden Gallery
83 Palmer Rd, Tryon, NC


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Sleek, but sensible. Fast, but frugal. Is there anything BMW's new 5 Series Touring can't do? Matthew Parkinson went to find out.
Back in February, I drove BMW's fresh-faced 5 Series Saloon and I loved near-enough everything about it. Between the stylish bodywork, the exquisite interior and the vast array of invaluable gadgets and gizmos, there wasn't really anything BMW could have added to make the car any better, but lo and behold, they've gone and done so anyway.
With the 5 Series Touring, BMW have created their biggest estate car to date, and it's every bit as dashing as the Saloon - I'd even argue that the rear looks even better on this car. Unlike many people's pre-holiday gym regimes however, a better looking rear-end was never the ultimate objective of this new model. As ever with BMW's good ideas, form follows function.
The boot now holds a whopping 570 litres. To put that in perspective using one of Germany's less palatable exports, that's around 76 bottles of Blue Nun wine. Mercifully, unless you do decide to fill the cavernous boot with Prussian plonk, you'll be pleased to know that all that extra space doesn't result in much extra weight. BMW's CLAR ('Cluster Architecture') design system uses lightweight materials such as aluminium and carbon fibre alongside traditional hardened steel to slash the car's kerb weight, whilst ensuring the car's body is as tough as ever. The result is a car that carries a five-star NCAP safety rating, whilst being 80kg lighter than its predecessor.
The sense of space isn't limited to the rear either, with the BMW 5 Series offering more room up front than the Mercedes E Class or Audi A6 Avant. To help you make the most of that space, there's a ridiculous range of electronic adjustments you can make to the front seats and steering wheel, so that even a Harlem Globetrotter could get comfortable behind the wheel at the flick of a switch. Better still, the 5 Series will remember your unique driving position and save it for your next journey, no matter who uses the car in between.
Not that you'll want to be out of the driver's seat for long. The interior is a wonderful place to be, enveloped in body-hugging leather seats that translate every twist and turn of the road ahead whilst working with the car's adaptive suspension to soak up every bump along the way.
If choice is a luxury, then the car's opulence is in the variety of ways you can use it. Take the radio; you can change channel conventionally with glossy black buttons, via voice control, touch-screen interface, or even by simply pointing a finger at the radio thanks to BMW's ingenious gesture control function. Even the way you drive the car can be tailor made to you. You can let the car do its own thing, letting the eight-speed automatic change up and down on its own, or you can take control using the gear lever or the paddle-shifters mounted on the steering wheel.
You don't even need to be inside the car to take advantage of the technology on offer. Using the optional 'display key', you can adjust the car's interior temperature before you even climb aboard, meaning it'll be warm enough during the winter, and cool enough during the summer (if and when it arrives).
There's also some good old fashioned sensibility thrown into the mix, too. As well as an electronic tailgate that opens and closes at the touch of a button, you can also choose to open the glass hatch portion of the boot to quickly pop any smaller items inside.
You can't go wrong with the range of engines on offer either. Like the Saloon, the diesel engines are the most economical, with the two-litre 520d being the most fuel efficient in the Touring range, delivering 65mpg as well as being able to haul itself from 0-60mph in under eight seconds. Those looking for a little more power under their right foot might consider the 530d I was driving today. Twinned with the M Sport performance package and BMW's xDrive all-wheel drive system, you're instantly confident in the car's ability to go and stop whatever the weather decides to throw your way.
BMW are pitching the new Tourer as their contender to dominate the fiercely competitive luxury lifestyle sector, and it's plain to see why. Here's a car that's happy to do the donkey work required of a solid family car, ferrying your nearest and dearest along swiftly and safely. It's a car that works just as well for business as it does for pleasure, as a jack of all trades and a master of just about everything. In fact, its only limiting factor is the human sat behind the steering wheel.
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The techniques I use to produce my comic strips are a bit different than other comic artists I see online. While most people use digital drawing tablets and vector drawing, I find those forms of technology (at least the lower-level ones I can afford) to be clumsy for my writing style, so I don't use them. As an example of how I like to do it, I found this raw file of a comic I finished last summer.
I sometimes add notes to myself on the comic, but most dialog is easier to come up with when the comic is all colored. You can, surprisingly, see an instance of the Knight Guy, Corlis, himself in this comic sketch. That's because his proportions are so similar to a human's that I use him for figure-drawing. It's one of the reasons I wanted him to be the star of my grand project webcomic.
I scan my comic, put the panels in the order I need them in (obviously this can change though), and set up the outline layer. I make it have a Multiply blending mode, and fix up all of the problems I have. As you can see on the example above, the tree in the last panel was too skinny, I didn't want to work around the troll face, and I messed up on the main character's arm in the third panel. I also make a layer over everything that standardizes the panel size. Luckily for Knight Guy, I made a template that I can just print out, which saves me a lot of time.
After the errors are fixed, I start adding color layers. Sometimes I have a layer for each color, but usually I'm lazy and just do a different color layer for each character. I'm also getting better, so it's easier to mitigate errors that way. If you're a beginner at Photoshop, I would recommend making each color separate in case you need to modify it later.
The coloring phase also includes adding glow and gradient effects. I often use gradients for settings in my comics, mostly to add depth and distance. As for the glow effects, which are placed on top of the outline layer, I really feel like these truly make the comic feel like more than just a 2D drawing. I guess that has to do with depth, but to me it's almost like it makes you not notice the outlines as much either.
Next comes the shading and highlighting, and then the lettering. I draw my shadows on with a new layer (sometimes two) in black, and then modify the opacity of the layer manually until it looks the way I want it to. The same goes for highlights, which I also sometimes have an extra highlight layer with the Overlay blending mode. On Knight Guy, I've chosen not to worry as much about shading, because it takes a really long time and comics (like Penny Arcade) look fine without excessive shading anyway. I've only used shading when it's important or makes it look cool, but I don't worry about every character having their own shading style.
Lettering is the easiest part, and sometimes the funnest. Thank goodness the legacy version of Photoshop has Layer options, because without the Stroke, Gradient Overlay, Outer Glow, etc. options, it becomes difficult fast. I write the words in a variety of comic book fonts I found online. There are some pretty fun ones out there. Sites like BlamBot.com even have separate sections for Sound FX fonts and dialog fonts. You can get creative with them, deciding how you want the text to get across what's happening in the frame. Lastly, if you're making word balloons, just make a new layer with a Stroke effect (the "inside" option is usually the best) and outline the words, filling the areas in with white. That way it's easy to connect them and make tails for them and everything.
That's how it's done! I've always enjoyed drawing comics, and I'm glad I have the resources now to branch out and make comics more detailed, artistic, and deep than ever!


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Chapter Seven The Question of Difference: Isabel Bishop's Deferential Office Girls
1. See, for example, "Isabel Bishop Finds Critics Receptive," Art Digest 13 (February 1, 1939), p. 21; "New York Criticism: A Miller Pupil's Shackles Loosen," Art Digest 10 (March 1, 1936), p. 16; and Bernard Myers, ed., " Sleeping Child , by Isabel Bishop,'' Scribner's American Painters Series, no. 9, Scribner's 122 (November 1937), p. 32; and "New Paintings Shown by Isabel Bishop," New York World-Telegram , January 21, 1939, p. 16. [BACK]
2. One notable exception to this type is the 1937 painting Young Woman (Fig. 7.10), a three-quarter-length portrait of a self-assured, business-like woman standing against a column with a hazy urban backdrop behind her. She assumes a relaxed contrapposto pose, her coat and purse over one arm, her gloves in the other hand. [BACK]
3. See, for example, Grace L. Coyle, "Women in the Clerical Occupations," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Women in the Modern World 143 (May 1929),p. 184; Orlie Pell, "Two Million in Offices," Woman's Press 33 (June 1939), p. 256; and U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau Bulletin no. 120, The Employment of Women in Offices , by Ethel Erickson, 1934, pp. 3, 7. For important historical overviews see Lorine Pruette, ed., Women Workers through the Depression: A Study of White Collar Employment Made by the American Woman's Association (New York: Macmillan, 1934); Margery Davies, "Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force," Radical America 8 (July-August 1974), pp. 1-28, and her Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982); and Lois Scharf, To Work and to Wed: Female Employment, Feminism, and the Great Depression , Contributions to Women's Studies no. 15 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980). [BACK]
4. See, for example, Loire Brophy, If Women Must Work (New York: Appleton-Century, 2936); Hazel Rawson Cades, Jobs for Girls (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928); Dorothy Dayton, "Personality Plus—or Minus," Independent Woman 15 (November 1936), pp. 343, 362; Frances Maule, She Strives to Conquer: Business Behavior, Opportunities, and Job Requirements for Women (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1937); Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon, Manners in Business (New York: Macmillan, 1936); and Ruth Wanger, What Girls Can Do (New York: Henry Holt, 1926). [BACK]
5. Griselda Pollock, "Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity," in Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and the Histories of Art (London and New York: Routledge, 1988), p. 56. [BACK]
6. The fifty-story Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at Twenty-third Street also employed seven thousand women in a total staff of nine thousand. New York in Pictures , vol. 2 (New York: Sun Printing and Publishing Association, 1928), p. 7. Information on the tasks for each institution is in U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , p. 5. [BACK]
7. Bishop recalled that many of her models were from the block of buildings, which included the Bank of Manhattan Building, the Decker Building, The Union Building, and the Hartford Building, ranging from 31 to 41 Union Square West, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, just adjacent to Bishop's studio (see Fig. 3.1 and Maps 1, 2). Interview with the artist, December 16, 1982. [BACK]
8. In the work force in general, between 1890 and 1920 the percentage of native-born white women grew while the proportion of working women who were foreign-born declined. Among clerical workers the percentage remained high—80 percent by 1940. Scharf, To Work and to Wed , pp. 11-12. According to a report on women's occupational progress, for the years 1910 to 1920 the increase among women in the clerical occupations was "seven and a half times as great as the increase among women in manufacturing and mechanical
pursuits, and almost three times as great as that among women in professional service." U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau, The Occupational Progress of Women , p. 17, as quoted in Coyle, "Women in the Clerical Occupations," p. 180. [BACK]
9. Between 1900 and 1920 the participation in the work force of women aged 16 to 24 increased from 39 to 50 percent while the proportion of working women aged 25 to 44 rose from 3.3 to 7.3 percent. Scharf, To Work and to Wed , pp. 13, 41. [BACK]
10. Over half of all women surveyed were under twenty-five. For hiring policies, see MacGibbon, Manners in Business , p. 26; U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , pp. 14, 27. [BACK]
11. U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , p. 30. [BACK]
12. Married women made up 35.3 percent of all the women in trade, 35 percent of those in domestic service, and 32.4 percent of those in manufacturing and mechanical industries. In the 1934 New York survey of 24,025 clerical workers, only 10.1 percent reported that they were married. U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , pp. 12-13, 29. [BACK]
13. Coyle, "Women in the Clerical Occupations," p. 183. [BACK]
14. Coyle, p. 183; and U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , p. 13. [BACK]
15. The Employment of Women in Offices , pp. 5-8; and Wanger, What Girls Can Do , p. 112. [BACK]
16. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau, The Employment of Women in Offices , pp. 5-7; and Wanger, What Girls Can Do , p. 113. [BACK]
17. Unpublished interviews with Isabel Bishop conducted in September 1957 by Louis M. Starr of the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York. Quoted in Helen Yglesias, Isabel Bishop (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), p. 66. [BACK]
18. See John Berger, Ways of Seeing (London and New York: Penguin Books, 1972); and Rosemary Betterton, ed., Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media (London and New York: Pandora Press, 1987), introduction, pp. 10-14. [BACK]
19. Emily Genauer, "Miss Bishop Rates High as Painter," New York World-Telegram , February 15, 1936, p. 15; Edward Alden Jewell, as quoted in Art Digest 13 (February 1, 1939), p. 21; James W. Lane, "Bishop," Art News 41 (June 1942), p. 42, and Lane, "Canvases by Isabel Bishop, Painter of Subtle Tonalities," Art News 37 (January 21, 1939), p. 12; and Forbes Watson, ''Isabel Bishop," Magazine of Art 32 (January 1939), p. 52. [BACK]
20. Bishop's technique was complicated, and she took many months to complete a single painting. She worked either in oil or tempera, building up meticulously crafted layers of paint. The pencil strokes, which she added toward the end of the process, often to a surface still wet, suggest where a contour might appear without really defining it. As a result, the pencil strokes seem to hover above the surface, implying motion. [BACK]
21. In most New York offices women worked a thirty-nine-hour week, seven hours a day with four hours on Saturday mornings, except during the summer. In large offices there were good benefit packages that included two weeks of paid vacation, one week of paid sick leave, some group insurance, and small bonuses, either for Christmas or with continued service. Some offices made provision for additional education, and in banks there were often lunchrooms where employees could have inexpensive midday meals. U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , pp. 29-33.
Clerical wages seem to have been considerably better than those of domestic, industrial, and sales workers. In the early 1930s a beginning file clerk in a large institution seems to have made about a dollar a week more (or around $17) than a beginning saleswoman in a major department store, and a secretary two to five dollars a week more than an upper-level
saleswoman (or around $42.50). According to Lorine Pruette, in Women Workers through the Depression (pp. 66-74), saleswomen were always at the low end of the white-collar pay scale. My own estimate is based on an evaluation of several median wage charts in The Employment of Women in Offices (pp. 20-23), modified by reports of somewhat lower salary ranges in "Women in Business II," Fortune 12 (August 1935), p. 85. [BACK]
22. Wanger, What Girls Can Do , p. 111. [BACK]
23. Coyle, "Women in the Clerical Occupations," p. 181. [BACK]
24. U.S. Department of Labor, The Employment of Women in Offices , p. 1. [BACK]
25. Bishop believed a painter had to maintain an awareness of the painted surface even while creating the illusion of forms existing or moving in space. She argued that representational painters had two basic historical "forms" of painting by which they could simultaneously maintain an awareness of surface and of depth. Renaissance artists like Raphael retained planar integrity by arranging forms parallel to the surface, even though those forms were so solidly demarcated from the surrounding space that they could be removed from it, leaving the setting undisturbed. Other artists, like Rubens, Watteau, and Renoir, destroyed the compositional integrity of the picture plane by animating their figures and by creating diagonal recessions into the picture plane. But they reinforced the plane again by minimizing contour and by creating such a strong painterly continuity between figure and ground that figures could no longer be detached from their settings.
In her own work, Bishop chose the second method. In "Concerning Edges," Magazine of Art 32 (January 1939), pp. 57-58, she explained her theories. She summarized some of the problems she and like-minded representational painters faced:
And if the painter wants to make the thing painted on look different from what it is, he has to keep several balls in the air at once—that is, he has to create several sets of suggestions—one set always keeping you aware of what the thing painted on is like, while other suggestions are persuading you of depth, movement, weight, and what not. Jean Helion has defined painting as ". . . combining opposed purposes so that they develop instead of annihilate each other."
26. Sheldon Reich, Isabel Bishop , introduction by Martin H. Bush (Tucson: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1974), p. 24. [BACK]
27. In "Isabel Bishop, the Grand Manner, and the Working Girl," Art in America 63 (September 1975), p. 63, the art critic Lawrence Alloway identified this technique as a metaphor. [BACK]
28. Reich, IsabelBishop , p. 23. [BACK]
29. Reich, Isabel Bishop , p. 24. [BACK]
30. Cindy Nemser, "A Conversation with Isabel Bishop," Feminist Art Journal 5 (Spring 1976), p. 15. [BACK]
31. "Isabel Bishop," Current Biography Yearbook (New York: Wilson, 1977), p. 63; and Karl Lunde, Isabel Bishop (New York: Abrams, 1975), p. 169. [BACK]
32. "American Painting Bought by the Metropolitan," New York Herald-Tribune , February 20, 1936, p. 15. [BACK]
33. Nemser, "A Conversation with Isabel Bishop," p. 15; and interview with the artist, December 16, 1982. [BACK]
34. William Engle, "Portrait of Two Girls Bought by Metropolitan Reunites Two Ex-Waitresses Who Posed for It," New York World-Telegram , February 27, 1936, p. 3. [BACK]
35. William Engle, "Portrait of Two Girls." [BACK]
36. Interview with the artist, December 16, 1982. Quotations from Cindy Nemser, "A Conversation with Isabel Bishop," p. 18; and Reich, Isabel Bishop , pp. 14, 25. [BACK]
37. Alloway, "Isabel Bishop, the Grand Manner, and the Working Girl," p. 63. Alloway also argued that Bishop's fully articulated theories about mobility were a way for her to assuage her conscience for her remarks about the social limitations of these figures, a judgment that may have been unfair given Bishop's values and her position in particular social and political discourses in the 1930s. [BACK]
38. Positive attributes of clerical conditions, like the ones I have cited, served as preliminary comments to the studies of the rapid disappearance of occupational advantages once attributed to office work. Economic, technological, and institutional change had made them largely fictional by the 1930s. [BACK]
39. Grace Hutchins, Women Who Work (New York: International Publishers, 1934), p. 84. Hutchins, a writer with a Marxist perspective, quoted a 1926 National Industrial Conference Board report that showed 39 percent of all clerks received less than twenty dollars per week. Her study is an excellent foil for Lorine Pruette's study of white-collar workers on large salaries. Every woman in Pruette's sample, however, is forty-five or older. That these women earned so little after twenty to twenty-five years of working experience is the astonishing statistic. [BACK]
40. "Women in Business II," p. 55. [BACK]
41. In New York, where employers generally paid the highest wages, secretaries, who in 1931 had earned $30-$60 per week, received $25-$35 in 1935; stenographers dropped from $20-$40 per week to $15-$25; typists, who earned $18-$30 in 1935, received $16-$18 after three years' experience. "Women in Business II," p. 55; Grace Hutchins quotes a different, still lower, scale and looks to some of the lower clerical occupations. In 1929, clerks earned $10-$22 per week; in 1931 their wages dropped to $8-$18 per week. [BACK]
42. Hutchins, Women Who Work , p. 84; "Women in Business II," p. 50; and Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon, "Exit—the Private Secretary," Occupations 15 (January 1937), p. 300. [BACK]
43. A bookkeeper might absorb the jobs of a saleswoman, stenographer, and general clerical worker and work six days, eleven to fourteen hours each, for half her former wage. She dared not complain for fear of losing her job. Hutchins, Women Who Work , p. 84. According to a New York Emergency Relief Committee report from 1932, stenographers were hardest hit by unemployment, followed by seamstresses and general clerical workers. Once stenographers had lost their jobs, they were often out of work longer than women in other occupations, and many were forced to move down the occupational scale and take domestic positions. Furthermore, 50 percent of clerical workers, like saleswomen, reported substantially decreased earnings. Pruette, Women Workers through the Depression , pp. 64-74; and Scharf, To Work and to Wed , pp. 160-162. [BACK]
44. MacGibbon, Manners in Business , p. 165. Eunice Fuller Barnard, in "Girl Graduate, 1936," Independent Woman 15 (July 1936), assessed prospects for graduates:
The main trouble seems to be that even today's college graduate, and more extensively and tragically the high school graduate, has had too little informed guidance as to which occupation offers her a really promising field. She has had access to no accurate charts to show her long-time occupational trends. She has had as a rule no adviser with the requisite combination of patience, insight and scientific data to aid her in discovering her own best capabilities. With all her haunting worry about landing a job, with all the experience of her predecessors as a warning, the girl graduate still too often follows sheeplike, in the crowded paths of certain standardized occupations, such as office work and teaching. (p. 203)
45. Barnard, p. 203. [BACK]
46. Caroline Ware, "The 1939 Job of the White Collar Girl," Woman's Press 33 (June 1939), pp. 254-255; and Coyle, "Women in the Clerical Occupations," p. 184. [BACK]
47. MacGibbon, "Exit—the Private Secretary," p. 296, reported that in one enormous New York office, seventy-seven private secretaries, each of whom had served an executive, were replaced by twenty-two workers. One private secretary served the corporation president, while seven stenographers and fourteen voice-machine transcribers turned out the rest of the work. See also, Coyle, "Women in the Clerical Occupations," pp. 185-186; and Ware, ''The 1939 Job," pp. 254-255. [BACK]
48. The male figure here is Walter Broe, an unemployed man who modeled for all the artists. When I questioned Soyer about the conjunction of male unemployment with female labor, he said that given the opportunity to redo the work, he would eliminate the man, who added too strong a "storytelling" element. [BACK]
49. For a discussion of how the cartoon or crayon drawing came to be used and understood as a medium of social protest in earlier radical publications see Rebecca Zurier, Art for the Masses: A Radical Magazine and Its Graphics, 1911-1917 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988). pp. 126-132. [BACK]
50. Rembrandt was by no means Bishop's only old master model, and she also painted the female nude. As I suggested in looking at her early mural-like paintings, she was inspired by Renaissance art. She also admired Rubens's drawing style and his ability to convey movement in his art. Many of her "favorite" works were also models for Miller and Marsh, but she used her models to different ends. [BACK]
51. Lawrence Alloway, "Isabel Bishop, the Grand Manner, and the Working Girl," p. 64. [BACK]
52. In "Danaë: Virtuous, Voluptuous, Venal Woman," Art Bulletin 60 (March 1978), pp. 43-55, Madlyn Millner Kahr described Rembrandt's humanizing depiction of women, particularly nudes, as a new image of woman. [BACK]
53. Scharf, To Work and to Wed , pp. 100-101. [BACK]
54. MacGibbon, Manners in Business , pp. 12, 28. Some of these job advice manuals were scientific in their approach, with many categories of investigation; others were impressionistic; and still others took the form of letters between mothers and daughters, providing highly personalized advice. As the number of working women increased, advice literature helped to establish better lines of communication between high school guidance counselors, professional employment counselors, and businesses. [BACK]
55. Cades, Jobs for Girls , p. 16. [BACK]
56. MacGibbon, Manners in Business , pp. 16-17. MacGibbon also reported that heads of women's colleges said that those women with the best scholastic averages were usually the last hired for office positions because they spent so much time at their studies that they failed to take care of themselves. [BACK]
57. In "Women in Business II" it was estimated that more than a fifth of an office girl's salary was spent on clothing. The most expensive items were silk stockings, at the rate of a pair a week (p. 85). See also MacGibbon, Manners in Business , p. 29; and Maule, She Strives to Conquer , p. 125. [BACK]
58. Interview with the artist, December 16, 1982. "New York Types at the Midtown Galleries, New York," Art Digest 10 (February 15, 1936), p. 19. Another critic identified Head No . 2 as a shopgirl. "Colorado Springs Buys," Art Digest 16 (March 15, 1942), p. 15; and "Museumized: Noon Hour by I. Bishop Bought by Springfield," Art Digest 13 (May 1, 1939), p. 5. [BACK]
59. Maule, She Strives to Conquer , p. 6; and MacGibbon, Manners in Business , p. vii. [BACK]
60. Cades, Jobs for Girls , p. 16; Dayton, "Personality Plus—or Minus," p. 343. Dayton
wrote that personality was about 75 percent of getting a job, brains and technical training, less than 25 percent. Her article discusses the increasing reliance on experts to help a girl change her voice and improve her personality, first by testing, then through a series of classes. [BACK]
61. Brophy, If Women Must Work , pp. 35-41. [BACK]
62. Scharf, To Work and to Wed , p. 97. [BACK]
63. Maule, She Strives to Conquer , p. 6; MacGibbon, Manners in Business , pp. 66-72; and "Women in Business II," p. 55. [BACK]
64. "Women in Business II," p. 55. As the historian Lois Scharf described this new woman, she was "nothing less than the office mate of the harried male executive [who] dutifully fulfilled the emotional and business needs of her boss. In direct imitation of marriage, in which the wife derives her social status from her husband, the private secretary achieved her exalted position through the man to whom her services were indispensable" ( To Work and to Wed , p. 98). See also Eugenia Wallace, ''Office Work and the Ladder of Success," Independent Woman 6 (October 1927), pp. 16-18. [BACK]
65. "Women in Business II," p. 86. [BACK]
66. For an extended discussion of this painting, see Ellen Wiley Todd, "Will [S]he Stoop to Conquer? Preliminaries Toward a Reading of Edward Hopper's Office at Night " in Norman Bryson et al., eds., Visual Theory: Method and Interpretation in Art History and the Visual Arts (New York: HarperCollins, 1990); Victor Burgin, Between (Oxford: Basil Blackwell in association with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1986), p. 184; Gail Levin, "Edward Hopper's Office at Night," Arts Magazine (January 1978), pp. 134-137; and Linda Nochlin, "Edward Hopper and the Imagery of Alienation," Art Journal 41 (Summer 1981), pp. 136-141. [BACK]
67. "Women in Business II," p. 55. The persistent belief that these jobs were temporary was buttressed by the departure of four out of five women who entered clerical occupations when they married. [BACK]
68. MacGibbon, Manners in Business , pp. 61, 116-127. [BACK]
69. MacGibbon, Manners in Business , p. 127. [BACK]
70. Margaret Culkin Banning, Letters to Susan (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936), pp. 92, 94. To support her argument, Susan's mother offered the case study of a married woman who owned her own bookstore. Her husband had to go to his club every afternoon to wait for her while she finished her "unimportant" work. They lived in an apartment and ate many of their meals in restaurants so that she did not have to cook, a practice Susan's mother deplored as an avoidance of wifely responsibility. She concluded, "Martha won't give up her bookshop though dozens of girls could step into her place. She should be building him up. And bearing a child would do more for Martha than any number of sales slips." The feminist argument that women continued to work and needed to work after marriage for personal satisfaction was completely at odds with the demands, responsibilities, and obligations of traditional marriage. [BACK]
71. Banning, Letters to Susan , p. 7. [BACK]
72. Wanger, What Girls Can Do , p. 4. [BACK]
73. Unlike her nineteenth-century predecessors Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, who would never have thought of entering the cafes, nightclubs, and brothels that emblematized modern life for their fellow Impressionists, Isabel Bishop accompanied Marsh to the burlesque and to striptease joints on occasion. But as a proper upper-middle-class female viewer and producer of representations of women, she could not "properly" or "publicly" (through paintings) enter those spaces or envision female sexuality in that way for herself or her female viewers. [BACK]
74. By the 1930s there were a few small local unions that combined bookkeepers, ste-
nographers, accountants, and occasionally saleswomen. In May 1934 the legislative body of the Y.W.C.A., along with representatives of business and professional clubs, adopted resolutions identifying the welfare of office workers with that of other workers and proposing study and educational groups to help office workers prepare for unionization. Neither the movement nor the organization was widespread in the 1930s. Marion H. Barbour, "The Business Girl Looks at Her Job," Woman's Press 30 (January 1936), pp. 18-19; Clyde Beals, Pearl Wiesen, Albion A. Hartwell, and Theresa Wolfson, "Should White Collar Workers Organize?" Independent Woman 15 (November 1936): pp. 340-342; and Ware, "The 1939 Job," p. 255. [BACK]
75. "Women in Business II," p. 85. [BACK]
76. Interview with the artist, December 16, 1982. [BACK]
77. Henry McBride, "Some Others Who Arouse Interest," New York Sun , February 15, 1936, p. 28; Bernard Myers, " Sleeping Child by Isabel Bishop," p. 32. [BACK]


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Richard Sherman and a Cardboard Doug Baldwin Mock the NFL Media Rules (Video)
If you thought that Richard Sherman would keep his mouth shut on the NFL's actions against Marshawn Lynch, you were right…for about three days.
At a fairly surreal press conference, Sherman took to the podium with a cardboard cutout of Doug Baldwin (and Baldwin's voice) to take a few shots at the NFL's media policy. He also ragged on the league for failing to space out games for teams that are burdened with Thanksgiving, or other Thursday, games.
All in all, a pretty quintessential Richard Sherman experience. With a cardboard cutout. Oh, and he also took on the rules regarding product endorsement and "official" branding that takes places with things like headphones and iPad knockoffs.
Take a look:
I wonder if the NFL will be as hard on insubordinate pieces of cardboard as they are on players. Probably. Nothing, not flesh nor paper, is safe from the protected interests of the National Football League. But Richard Sherman will get a pass. It's pretty hard to stay mad at him.