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Most of us spend about half of our waking day at work, sitting down, so it makes sense to try to make sure that we are as comfortable as possible during that time. Being comfortable at work will help to improve your productivity and prevent RSI and general day-to-day injuries.
Why Choosing a Good Office Chair Cushion is Important?
Cushions do far more than just provide padding for your buttocks. The help to support your spine and take the pressure off certain muscles. A good cushion can help to stimulate circulation and make it easier for you to maintain good posture. This will have the knock-on effect of ensuring that your head is at the right angle to look at the screen, and your arms/wrists and shoulders are at the correct angle when typing. Supporting your posterior chain will have a knock-on effect on your whole body alignment.
A Look at The Most Common Types of Seat Cushion
There are three main types of the seat cushion. The most common choice is the standard seat cushion that sits on the chair itself. There are also lumbar support cushions and two-piece cushions that include a part for the coccyx and one for the back. Let's take a look at each in turn.
Seat Cushions
Seat cushions are small, relatively flat pads that are designed to support your coccyx and take the pressure off the buttocks. They are designed for people who suffer from sciatica or have pain in their tailbone, and for people who find office chars too hard. They are relatively small and portable, and usually just sit on the chair like a normal cushion, so they could be picked up and moved around if necessary. They can be used on almost any form of chair or seat – in the office, in your car, or while on an airplane.
Back Support Cushions
Back support cushions sit at the bottom of the chair back and have a convex padded area that helps the spine to achieve a neutral position. They usually have straps that will slip over or velcro around the chair to hold the cushion in place. They come in various sizes, and it is important to choose the right size to ensure that you are sitting in a comfortable posture. Back support cushions can be used with car seats or on office chairs. If they are fitted correctly then they will stop you from slouching, and support your spine, keeping you feeling alert for longer.
Full Chair Cushions With Support for Seat and Back
Full chair cushions combine the coccyx support with lumbar support, and sometimes run further up the chair, offering support for the neck or a headrest as well. These tend to be quite big and bulky, and are secured to the chair itself with straps or ties to prevent them slipping. This means that they cannot be moved from chair to chair as easily.
Tips for Choosing the Best Cushion
There are many different considerations that you would need to remember when choosing a cushion, including the ergonomics, the material, the way the cushion attaches to the chair, and how easily it can be cleaned.
Securing The Cushion
If you have your own private office then you may not mind using a full chair cushion that is tied to the office chair. However, if you move around a lot or do a lot of traveling, something more portable such as a comfort foam seat cushion may be a better option. Many truck drivers have custom seat covers with massage beads on them, which help to prevent deep vein thrombosis. They then carry other cushions for other parts of their job.
Cleaning The Cushion
Some cushions are covered with faux leather and wipe clean easily. Others have removable fabric covers. Some have fixed fabric covers, however, making them harder to clean. If you work in a hot office where people tend to get sweaty then this might be a problem for you. Choose something easy to clean.
Shape and Size of the Cushion
Shape and size matters for two reasons – portability (if you will be using the cushion for travel), and ergonomics. A cushion that is too high for you will make sitting uncomfortable and put pressure on your thighs. One that has too much of a curve in the lower back will make your posture awkward and is just as bad as sitting in a chair with no cushion. Pay attention to sizing options, and if possible test the cushion in real life before you buy it.
Some Popular Office Chair Cushions With Best Rated
There are lots of cushions to choose from, here are a few of our favorites:
Aylio Coccyx Orthopedic Comfort Foam Seat Cushion
This is the best sale seat cushion and has a high star rate. This cushion is made from memory foam and offers great support. It truly provides relief from coccyx pain, and ideal for people with hemorrhoids. Made by antimicrobial materials and never lose its shape. To avoid wear and fear, you can benefit from the reversible clothes design.
BackGuard™ Proprietary Density Memory Foam Lumbar Cushion
This cushion is made from memory foam and offers great support. It provides relief from lower back pain, and is ideal for people with bad back pain. This cushion never lose its shape and can provides healthy back support, fast to relief lower back pain for most users. The reversible design can flip to avoid wear and fear.
10-motor Massage Seat And Back Cushion With Heat
It's a powerhouse if you have a cheap massage chair. This is a fantastic seat cushion, can relax your entire body, give you a great massage. And it can help to relieve the pain of sciatica, you keep it on a computer chair and use it all day long.


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The first thing I thought when I saw the script was that we'd never get it made," says Saul Metzstein of 2012's Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, the first of the five episodes of Doctor Who he directed. "They're on a Triceratops running through a spaceship, chased by robots firing laser guns… I just thought, 'No way!'"
But Saul had come straight from being second unit director on the movie Dredd (2012) and was surely used to action-packed sci-fi. "Yes, but on Doctor Who you can shoot up to six or seven pages of script a day, which is hellish when you're doing special effects, visual effects, monsters and robots. On Dredd, there was hardly a day when I shot more than one page! That's a massive difference. On Doctor Who, every day should be a disaster – you're halfway through the afternoon and you look at the schedule and think, 'We're totally screwed!' But the crew we had were amazing. They could just get everything done."

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Released: 2016
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- A stack of bunnies in a trenchcoat.
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- Mushy tushy.
- Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
- Sandwich.
- Saving the Rainforest Cafe.
- Sir Thomas More's Fruitopia™.
- Sweating it out on the streets of a runaway American Dream.
- That one leftover screw.
- That thing politicians do with their thumbs when they talk.
- The spooky skeleton under my skin.
- The token lesbian.
- These dolphins.
- Three hairs from the silver-golden head of Galadriel.
- Water so cold it turned into a rock.
Black Cards:
- Astronomers have discovered that the universe consists of 5% ordinary matter,
- 25% dark matter, and 70% _____.
- BowWOW! is the first pet hotel in LA that offers _____ for dogs.
- Hey, whatever happened to Renee Zellweger?
- Housekeeping! You want _____?
- In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is _____.
- Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want _____.
- What's wrong with these gorillas?
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- You say tomato, I say _____.
- America is hungry. America needs _____.


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Written by Sue Elvis
It's not too late to bake up a batch of Speculatius to celebrate the Feast Day of St Nicholas...
1 cup butter
1 cup lard
½ tsp nutmeg
4 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground cloves
2 cups brown sugar
4 ½ cups sifted flour
½ cup sour cream
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ cup chopped nuts
- Cream the butter, lard and sugar together.
- Add sour cream alternately with sifted dry ingredients
- Stir in the nuts
- Knead the dough into rolls
- Wrap the rolls in plastic wrap, chill in fridge for a few hours or overnight
- Roll the dough thinly and cut into shapes
- Bake in a moderate oven for 10-15 minutes
- Serve with warm mulled wine or just a plain glass of red!
We've made a huge batch of Speculatius. We'll enjoy some tomorrow on the Feast of St Nicholas. We'll freeze the rest and eat them at Christmas.
These biscuits are guaranteed to be very delicious.
PS To be totally accurate, my daughters did the baking. I just wrote the post!
PS To be totally accurate, my daughters did the baking. I just wrote the post!


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Eating, Reading, and Writing: An Interview with Andrew Lam
By Noelle Brada-Williams
Award-winning author and New American Media editor Andrew Lam discusses his work, contemporary journalism, the complexity of cultural exchange, and what he hopes to see when his work is read in a classroom.
Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies: I first met you in person when you came to San Jose State to read from Perfume Dreams in April 2007. As we were leaving the reading, a woman asked you for a good place to eat Vietnamese food in San Jose. I was horrified that someone would essentialize this San Francisco-based writer as a native informant for her culinary desires. As I contemplated tackling her, you very calmly suggested several restaurants and even mentioned that you were working on a book on food. Is that a common experience for you?
ANDREW LAM: It is. I usually don't take offense. I do find, however, that it is annoying when assumedly smart, worldly editors would make that same mistake about me. As a writer, I am capable of writing about many subjects beyond the area of my own cultural background and have done so. I've written about other countries and their troubles- Japan, Thailand, Greece, etc. But when I am asked to write something, or when I am interviewed for something, it is only about Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora.
That is the crutch of being an ethnic writer - one is seen as a cultural ambassador from that community, and then a writer. The only way to break out of that mold is to be big enough in the literary circle so that one can address issues beyond one's biographical limitations.
AALDP: Journalists are often expected to cover a certain beat and to thus be an expert on a particular area, while creative writers frequently assert the uniqueness of their voices or perspectives rather than their representation of a whole group. Alexander Chee in Asian American Literary Review last year comes to mind. Do you feel that these identifications are valid?
AL: I think that used to be more valid than it is now. Part of the reason has to do with the fact that the media world has gone through a major shake up and fewer newspapers exist and while some still practice traditional journalism, that space between reporter and commentator (or essayist) is blurring. Reporters have opinions, after all, and the idea that Fox network seems to spearhead with great success is because people want their supposed reporters to have opinions. The Comedy Channel proves that journalism can in fact be practiced with humor and lots of running jokes and gags and biting observations. So while we still need reporters in the traditional sense, I feel many now are moving sideways across the various spectra of journalism. I myself write news analyses, do straight-forward reporting, and write op-eds. I never feel that I need to restrain myself to one genre. I think as long as I am fair and balanced, and honest with my own biases, I fit in with the new media.
AALDP: This next question also feels old-fashioned now that you have me thinking about Fox News: how do you negotiate between being a fiction writer and being a journalist?
AL: Not an easy task. I often compare journalism to fiction as architecture is to abstract painting. In the former, one needs to have all the logic and facts at hand.
One needs to build a strong frame and foundation. One needs all the supporting arguments and examples planned out. In the latter, one immerses oneself into the imaginary - but just as real - world, and one needs to step back to let characters grow into well rounded people with their own will. One needs to accept them and then describe them. One needs to feel deeply, empathize deeply. It's very different.
For me, writing nonfiction has become routine. It is still difficult to do creative nonfiction and ideas sometimes refuse to clarify themselves, but overall the process is not daunting. Doing fiction on the other hand, requires lots of time, and solitude, both of which I don't always have since I work as a journalist and editor. Fiction writing can be a foreboding task. Yet the unfinished story calls out for attention and when neglected, characters show up in dreams, in reveries, as if asking: "When are you going to come back to let the drama play out?" They nag at the soul.
AALDP: In your essay "California Cuisine of the World," in East Eats West, you discuss how Asian food culture has been embraced by the mainstream, at least in California. You write, "private culture has—like sidewalk stalls in Chinatown selling bok choys, string beans, and bitter melons—a knack of spilling into the public sphere, becoming shared convention" (81). You use this image of the private spilling into the public sphere at least two other times in your most recent collection. Do you think of this in terms of loss or gain—as nostalgic loss of the personal and private space or as triumphant claiming of the mainstream as one's own?
AL: There is something gained and lost in any exchange and it's inevitable. It's a kind of cosmic law of creation. Often immigrants bring their traditional practices with them - think Chinese railroad workers who introduced bamboo and acupuncture with them in the 1800s - and they are always astounded at how quickly those private practices get adopted and transformed by others as well as by their descendants. If I do feel a certain visceral sense of loss seeing pho soup being made by non-Vietnamese I am also generous enough to know how much my cosmopolitan life is so much the richer because other cultures have been integrated into my own life. I think without that sense of generosity one cannot navigate in this complex world of ours. One would have to hide and retreat behind the walls of Little Saigon and Chinatown and treat the larger world as unknown territory.
AALDP: The title for your book, East Eats West, reminds me of listening to Richard Rodriguez speak in the 1990's. He talked about interviewing a white supremacist about the man's views on Mexican immigrants while the man ate a burrito. He described the encounter in highly sexualized terms of the supremacist eating the "other." Do you see the mainstream popularity of Asian cuisine as a marker of the rising cultural power of Asians or Asian Americans, or is it just cultural appropriation?
AL: The verb "eat" is so loaded. One can swallow the other, and one can also be swallowed by the other, or be transformed by having ingested something powerful. I play with the idea that both is happening at the same time, which is the essence of my collection of personal essays: It is the story of how a refugee boy from Southeast Asia swallowed America - its myriads of food and movies and language and literature and humor - and is in turn transformed by it. Conversely the other transformation is also happening. Since my arrival in America, I have watched the American landscape be transformed increasingly by the forces of immigration from Asia.
As to your question, in the '80s we were terribly afraid of the rise of Japan and consequently we became enthralled with Japanese culture - even as hate crimes against Asians became endemic and that famous case of the murder of Vincent Chin (mistaken for a Japanese) united Asian Americans. I remember falling in love with sushi and Japanese anime in the '80s. Others I knew were learning Japanese. Nowadays, it's Korean and Chinese cultures that are becoming global phenomena.
In MBA programs, one is strongly advised to speak another language, and usually it's Mandarin. "You know your cultural heritage is a major success when someone else is selling it back to you," a friend of mine quipped after I noted the irony that Steven Spielberg produced Kung Fu Panda, which became an all-time box-office hit in China. Kung fu and pandas are both part of China's heritage, but it probably requires the interpretation of an outsider to make you see your own cultures in new ways.
Cultural appropriation happens both ways as well. Hong Kong used to steal Hollywood blind until they started making really original inventive films and then it was Hollywood that started copying Hong Kong. It cannot be helped. There's a lot of exciting things that can happen when things are "appropriated" because they also get reinvented in the process and newness - ideas, tastes, sounds, movements - come out of that "stealing." All writers "borrow" too from their favorite writers and then find their own voice as they grow. Again, I'd say be generous and see that nothing is really original in the first place. The idea of cultural preservation seems to me a little odd. Cultures that need to be preserved are not fluid and are pickled, as it were. The real culture is what is reinvented to fit the present time, the present palate.
AALDP: I went to high school in Orange County and graduated in 1985—ten years and a month after the fall of Saigon. The class valedictorian, David Nguyen, was perhaps the most confident person I have ever met. I have certainly seen Vietnamese Americans of the 1.5 generation do amazing things in a relatively short space of time after coming to the United States, but what amazes me about your family's story is the fact that not only your generation but your father managed to achieve so much in such a short time: an MBA and an institutionally and economically powerful position. How did he manage to do this as an older man and recent immigrant?
AL: My father, Thi Quang Lam, is something of a super-achiever. He was a three star general in the South Vietnam Army (ARVN) and studied French philosophy. Then he spent twenty-five years in the Army. In America he also wrote three books on the Vietnam War in English (then translated them back into Vietnamese for the community). He wrote his first two while working as a bank executive and raising a family of three kids. He just finished his third at 77 last year. He always mourned the fact that he came to the US in his mid 40s instead of mid 20s- because he would have gotten a PhD at the very least and not an MBA.
One of his secrets to success in America is a military trained discipline – which never left him even though he was forced to leave it, his beloved army, at the end of the Vietnam War, which unraveled in 1975. In America he studied nightly, he got up at 5 in the morning to do homework, and exercise. He went to night school while working full time. When he got his MBA, he moved toward writing his memoir and analyses of the Vietnam War, giving details from the South Vietnamese General's perspective. That sense of duty is chased with an iron will and became key to his success. I can still see it: my father sitting straight back, ramrod, at his desk for hours on end.
Even after retirement, he went on to teach high schools for seven years, and he taught Math, French, Physics. With a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, he even broke bricks in class to demonstrate he was not lying about discipline. He's quite a self-actualized person in many ways, perhaps an exception for his generation in the US. But his generation was full of brilliant people who never got a chance to achieve their potentials because of the many wars that took place in our homeland. So many were drafted and killed. In fact, that's one of Vietnam's greatest tragedies the lost generations. It is no wonder Vietnamese parents in the US are so forceful about their children making it in America – they are haunted by the robbed opportunities experienced by their own generation and those of previous generations.
In Perfume Dreams, I talked about being a Viet Kieu – Vietnamese expat – in Vietnam and how people measured their lost potentials in my own transnational biographies. They touched me. They marveled at my passport and all the entry and exit stamps. I hear phrases like, "Had I escaped to California…" or "If I came to the US at your age, I would have …" all the time. Their bitterness is extra deep because they know so and so who left and achieved great success in the West. Vietnamese, if anything, are a driven, ambitious and competitive people who are cursed with bad luck for being in a place where the superpowers never left them alone to develop in peace.
AALDP: Although you wrote about your father in Perfume Dreams, I think your second book actually made me think more about your father because of the powerful scene in which you tell your family that you want to be a writer. That passage struck me as an almost archetypal image of the parent-child dynamic with you mirroring your father's own iron will and writing ambitions even as you distanced yourself from his expectations for you.
In East Eats West you provide a great metaphor for the economic progress of your life: "I left the working-class world where Mission Street ended and worked myself toward where Mission Street began, toward the city's golden promises—and it is in one of those glittering glassy towers by the water that I live now" (28). Readers do not need to be familiar with San Francisco's housing market to get a sense of what an achievement this is. How do you think your own class position has affected how you view American culture? How does economic prosperity affect how one deals with issues of assimilation or identity?
AL: I came from a privileged background, growing up speaking French, and with servants, chauffeurs, lycée and country club in Vietnam. Perhaps it's why, having that experience, I am not particularly interested in wealth and status. I have no romantic notion about wealth and status. But I also remember what it was like to go from having an upper class status to being a refugee subsisting at the end of Mission Street in Daly City with other refugee families, and surviving on food stamps and the kindness of various religious charities. In other words, I have been both rich and poor, and now, yes, I am established, with established friends and so on, and my position as writer and journalist enables me to travel the world.
Admittedly, all that makes me feel connected to the cosmopolitan world and people would often describe me as "worldly." But I hesitate to bring class into discussion about my writing since it often makes human reality seem abstract. Looking at stories through the "class" lens often makes people jump from one ideological conclusion to another. Often enough it never gets to the real stories – the human stories regardless of your economic status– that I want to tell. Economics play a strong part of everyone's life and yet it also restrains narrative to some ideological bend, which is not what I'm after.
Besides, cosmopolitanism isn't part of some upper class experience anymore. The migrant who slips across borders learns new ways of speaking and of looking at the world. His children, growing up with two, even three languages in the household, navigate various cultural expectations all the time. People's fascination seems to be transnational these days, especially among the young. Kids who want to learn Japanese because they watch anime for instance. There's a Korean restaurant in Berkeley that's owned and operated by Mexicans who once worked in Korea – we have become, in some way, the other.
AALDP: You have a very optimistic view of cultural hybridity in much of East Eats West. But when you mention all of the terms we now have for mixed race people, you also include terms that can be used pejoratively. Would you say that there is any negative impact from cultural hybridity? How would you characterize Vietnamese attitudes toward the Amerasian children born during and after the war? Do you have a sense of Vietnamese American attitudes toward racial and ethnic mixing?
AL: That's quite a lot of questions woven into one. I have been accused in the past of painting a rosy picture of East-West relations, especially in the area of cultural exchanges. It is not that I am not unaware of the more sordid, exploitative side of that equation, but it is because I'm interested in what hasn't been fully explored. Certainly as a reporter and news analyst I've written quite a bit on the problems of globalization – racism, exploitation, human trafficking, unfair trading practices, copyrights infringement, accelerated environmental degradation, human rights abuse and so on. But in East Eats West, I wanted to explore what is barely being touched upon –the space where East and West intersect. And I'm not interested in the parameters that the pessimists would insist upon, where the conversation should take place within certain egalitarian ideals. After all, I am westernized by experience and choice, and am Eastern by original inheritances and my marvelous Vietnamese childhood. Part of that enormous complexity came from terrible tragedies – colonization, war, exodus, life in exile. You can be bitter about it, or you can pick and choose, integrating what's workable into your own life. It's all about how you synthesize the differences.
Yes, there are terrible combinations of hybridity that shouldn't even be repeated. Some food combinations are a disaster. But that said, if one frowns on the mixing, the openness to inter-exchanges, one is missing out on the energy that is fusing the major part of the 21st century.
AALDP: I first became familiar with your work through my teaching. First the two short stories anthologized in Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (1998) and later Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005). How do you feel about your writing being used in the classroom? Is that a space you envision at all when you write? What would you want students to take away from your texts?
AL: A good essay can be as much a visceral experience as it is one in which ideas are transferred. I want readers to feel what it is like to lose a country and all the cultures and societies and customs that went along with it, then have to learn a new language, a new set of behavior, and reinvent a new self, then thrive – that's the story I want people not only to understand, but experience. But I'd be happy if students went away from reading Perfume Dreams and East Eats West understanding that identities are not fixed in stone, and that after having gone through epic losses one also gains something as well, and new ways of looking at one's self in place of history.
Perfume Dreams is sadder because it's closer to the refugee experience, but East Eats West is more celebratory, it's a regard of life when East and West not only met but became intertwined, creating a hybrid space, as it were, from which new ideas emerged. It is both an internal space, within me, and a cultural and political force of the 21st century.
AALDP: Is there anything you definitely wouldn't want teachers and students to do with your texts?
AL: Well, I hope they don't burn them. But seriously, I think that people often see my work as particularly ethnic and on one level that's fine. On another, however, I put a lot of effort into playing with language, and structure –and one thing I hope they do pay attention to is the various literary styles in which the essays were written – ranging from the reportorial, to the highly personal, to the little vignettes. I am always thrilled when my work is taught in a literature class because it seems to break some personal barrier for me – to be recognized as a writer in English and not just as an ethnic writer.
AALDP: I have anxiously been awaiting a collection of your short stories. Now I understand Birds of Paradise is due out next year. Will this collect your previously published fiction or will it be pieces we have not seen before?
AL: Many have been published in recent years. But there will be unpublished work as well.
AALDP: Will it include some of my favorite stories such as "Grandma's Tales" and "Show and Tell?"
AL: I hope so but I fear they might be "eliminated" depending on the tastes of the
editor. But never fear, there are other pieces that might thrill you as well.


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StarCraft: Mass Recall is a recreation of the StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War campaigns (including the hidden missions), along with the Resurrection IV map, in the StarCraft II engine. The project is complete and is hosted on SC2Mapster. It is available in English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Chinese.[1] In version 5.2, released September 2014, the Precursor missions were added.
The port was mentioned in a StarCraft Discussion Roundup post on Battle.net.[2]
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- Options to allow use of Brood War units in the original campaign. Medics used by factions other than the UED heal at a slower rate than UED medics, with the lore reason their technology is more advanced.
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- Episode I Mission 4 has the option to be played with traditional gameplay, or as a third-person-shooter controlling Jim Raynor.
- Sarah Kerrigan and Samir Duran have the snipe ability from StarCraft II
- The Hidden Missions may be played at their appropriate intended placement in the campaign, or the player may choose to skip them to keep to the canon original missions.
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- In Episode II Mission 9, even if all protoss bases are destroyed, protoss units will regularly spawn from the former locations of certain bases to attack the player during the harvesting of the khaydarin crystal.
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- Episode III Mission 1 has new dialogue triggers with Fenix, taken from an alternate version of the map.
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- In Episode III Mission 6, previously unused dialogue is included which adds Raynor to the mission briefing with Tassadar.
- In Episode III Mission 10, during the attack on the Overmind, all existing zerg units on the map will swarm to the player's attacking forces.
- In Episode IV Mission 5 on Hard difficulty, all already existing ground units and Shuttles are removed after destroying a Power generator. This does not happen on lower difficulties.
- In Episode IV Mission 6 on Hard difficulty, Carriers can't be warped in. The still can be warped in on lower difficulties.
- In Episode V Mission 3 and Episode V Mission 8, zerg bases that are pacified by the destruction of their hive or cerebrate remain hostile towards the player, but will not actively attack them anymore.
- In Episode VI Mission 6, the UED units have increased stats.
- In Episode VI Mission 9, the protoss actively attack the player's base.
Custom models for units were made for those without suitable StarCraft II equivalents. Decals were added to reflect unit allegiances according to lore.
Events which were originally scripted, as well as some of the original cinematics, were converted into cutscenes. Completely new cutscenes were added.
- ↑ StarCraft: Mass Recall. SC2Mapster. Accessed 2016-10-16.
- ↑ Spyrian. 2013-02-15. StarCraft Discussion Roundup. Battle.net. Last accessed: 2013-02-23.
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This reminds me of that woman who's van was attacked by something, it did similar damage. I can't remember where it was, somewhere in the US, but it was a few years ago.
Are large wolf-like creatures stalking around the neighborhoods of Palm Springs? Jim Flood thinks so, and he's got the bite marks to prove it.
The Tahquitz Creek resident awoke last Sunday morning to find the cover on his prized BMW 321i had become dislodged during the night, but what he discovered underneath the cover that really shocked him.
The front left tire well had been completely damaged by what he could only describe as bite marks. Adding to Flood's panic, he discovered large paw prints across the sand to where the car had been parked o the front lawn.
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Though he might not have been ready to settle on the popular Chupacabra theory, Vamstad was quick to add that what might be seeing is a "coyote-looking German Shepherd".
There have been recent reports of local cats going missing, which only adds to the mystery..
No news if the creature has been spotted since the attack on Jim Floods car, but it's a good chance that if there is another sighting the whole neighborhood will be howling!
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This reminds me of that woman who's van was attacked by something, it did similar damage. I can't remember where it was, somewhere in the US, but it was a few years ago.
Yes I was thinking the same thing, it was on monster quest. It was believed to be a squatch, maybe a young one trying to figure out what a car was by tasting it? Hey they aren't all rocket scientists. I think the Chupacabra is ONLY in puerto rico, and other parts of the Americas are seeing something else. That's where the real unexplainable things are happening, and have been documented very well.
Chupacabra don't need no steekin' passport..
This was from 2007 and was on Coast to Coast AM, from the Mohawk homeland, north of New York…
I guess it's happened a few times then. Apparently the one on tv was debunked according to this bfro report but I can't find the link to the monsterquest show it was on. Still it's strange to think it's a dog that could do this? http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_article.asp?id=558
I can't conceive of why a dog, coyote or even a wolf would do damage to a car by biting unless there was something really tasty in the wheel well. Always possible this individual had some inadvertent road kill lodged up there that drove the local canids to go after it. A pic of the damage would be useful.
On the strangeness side, reports of large wolf like creatures remind me of the memorable first chapter in "The Hunt For Skinwalker" where a massive wolf like creature attacks a calf (I think) in broad daylight, sheds gunfire like rain and runs off. Lina Godfrey's man wolf research also contains a significant number of sightings of larger than normal wolf like creatures.
Wow really! I been a longterm resident of Palm Springs for years, and I walk in the same area on a regular bases. I even take a snack and sit on the grass before the sprinklers go off on the course. I haven't seen a part dog/wolf creature. I do however see a lot of gay men who are fat and hairy, perhaps that's what he saw? And, since many of them are bottoms, maybe that can explain why they had four legs *but ts up in the air* all the time. Ha ha
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If Steve McQueen in Le Mans is your all-time hero then there can be no Great Escape. One day the sport will pounce and transport you to another world. And let's face it driving Le Mans has to be infinitely less oily, noxious, slippery and dangerous than politics at present.
Lord Drayson - Paul to his racing colleagues - is all of the above and much more else besides. As Minister of State for Science, Innovation and Universities he has his fingers in a thousand pies and time - every last microsecond of the unforgiving stuff - is of the essence. At 49 he might not be getting any younger but he is definitely getting quicker. So quick in fact that this weekend he will not only fulfil a lifetime ambition by competing in the Le Mans 24 hours, he and his two co-drivers are even considered an outside bet in their GT2 class.
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"Paul's definitely one of us" confirms drayson racing (correct, they use lower case) team manager Dale White, twice a winning manager at Le Mans already. "I treat him like any other top professional driver because that's exactly what he has become in a remarkably short period of time. What he has achieved is extraordinary. He is the ultimate team man in one of the ultimate team sports. He has spent a business and political life as the man 'in charge' making the calls - and of course he owns and funds this team - but when we get to the racetrack he is just a cog in the wheel. I suspect he rather relishes that. His focus in incredible, He can be taking a Conference call from Downing Street out the back of the garage during practice and then step straight back into the racing environment when he comes off line. Impressive.
"I still can't believe I am gong to be racing Le Mans and in an Aston Martin to boot," says Drayson. I am a great believer in living life, giving everything you have got, and luckily my wife Elspeth shares that philosophy. She has supported me all the way and helped make the dream possible.
"It's 60 years since an Aston Martin won its first and last Le Mans. It's the best sounding car in the world, its got grunt and soul. You can hear it coming a mile off. Very British and distinctive. Marvellous. And I love the thought that our car is clearly related to past Aston Martins in shape and feel. It is not a space age prototype, it is a production model, albeit modified, and a car the fans can relate to."
The Top Gear crew loved it so much they elevated the Aston Martin Vantage to mythical 'fridge' status on their "cool wall" and voted it their car of the year in 2005. That fabled 4.5l V8 engine still leaves grown men - not to mention Jeremy Clarkson and the boys - drooling. From the outside it looks gorgeous even if the Aston Martin works teams have reclaimed the 007 number, as is their right, for the marquee event that is the Le Mans 24 hour. Good for T shirt sales apparently. Drayson has now been allocated number 87, considered unlucky by Australians but not by his team.
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The first thing you notice when talking to Paul and his co-driver Johnny Cocker at Spa is the age difference - 49 plays 22 and a youthful looking 22 at that - and indeed there is a teacher-pupil relationship but not the one you might expect.
"Johnny is my mentor, I learn something new every time we race or practice. He is a very gifted and a quite superb communicator. Not many top drivers can articulate exactly what they are doing and why. Johnny is exceptional and never tires of passing on that information. To go through the Spa circuit map with him was an education. He has that perfectionist streak and eye for detail. We hit it off from the moment we teamed up together.
"I love the intellectual challenge of these races, three dimensional chess. You have your car, its performance and race tactics to consider and also those of your competitors. When four of you are heading down a straight towards a corner all four will have different cornering speeds and will break at different times. You have to be aware of them but not lose focus on yourself. Mentally it's very demanding.
"Consistency is the big thing I am trying to build into my racing now. I can drive quickly around a circuit but to do that non stop for say a two hours stint at Le Mans, possibly at night, that is what defines the best drivers and is what I am striving for. I am working hard on my physical fitness and have shed a load of weight but also my mental strength. I do a lot of breathing exercises. You know the sort of stuff - count of three in, count of five exhaling. That last bit definitely helps clear the mental fog. I use it for speech making and addressing the House of Lord's as well.
"I like to take that feel good factor back into my day-job. It energises me and I rather hope that Le Mans next month and this season as a whole will be the start of something and not the end of the rainbow. If I can continue to improve I want to take this further. I could kick myself for not starting earlier but this doesn't have to be the end for me as a racer. Paul Newman finished second at Le Mans at the age of 54 in 1979. What do you reckon?
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A News of the World journalist told police they got Milly Dowler's mobile phone number and pin from other schoolchildren, a report revealed today.
Details of exchanges between police and the Sunday tabloid over the apparent hacking of the murdered schoolgirl's phone were released by Surrey Police.
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"(Name redacted) response was that the NotW had got Milly's phone number and pin from schoolchildren."
The letter from Deputy Chief Constable Jerry Kirby was censored at the request of Scotland Yard officers investigating phone hacking.
A press officer from Surrey Police is said to have spoken to an individual from the NotW about the recruitment agency story - which initially suggested Milly may be alive - on April 20 2002.
By this time officers had established that the voicemail left for the murdered schoolgirl had actually been intended for someone else.
The NotW "played the Surrey Police press officer a recording of the message left by the recruitment agency on Milly's voicemail".
"The press officer stated that the name of the person seeking employment was 'Nana'," the document said.
"The press officer said that there were a number of people on the recruitment agency's books from Ghana, and that the call from the recruitment agency was intended for one of them.
"(Name redacted) responded by saying that what the Surrey Police press officer was saying was inconceivable. (They) said that there were other messages on Milly Dowler's phone (e.g. a message saying 'It is America, take it or leave it'."
The NotW also informed police that they knew of voicemails from "a tearful relative" and a "young boy".
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee - which has also probed phone hacking - said: "The information provided by Surrey Police raises serious questions over what they knew about phone hacking and when.
"Had they acted in 2002 or had Sussex Police flagged this up in their review of Operation Ruby, it may have prevented the culture of hacking becoming endemic at News of the World.
"The Home Affairs Committee has also received a letter from Surrey Police with additional information to questions posed back in October 2011.
"We will be considering this information carefully and will look into investigating the reasons why Surrey Police did not follow up on this evidence."
The Guardian reported last July that the NotW hacked Milly's mobile and erased messages shortly after her disappearance in March 2002.
However, the Metropolitan Police have since indicated that, while reporters did access voicemails, they are unlikely to have been responsible for the deletions which gave the family false hope.
Instead the recordings may have been automatically removed by the phone company after being listened to.
The Surrey Police letter timetable published today - dated January 17 2012 - does not shed any further light on that issue.
It also dismisses the idea that the force was the source of the tabloid's stories, and said there was "no evidence" of any discussions about voicemail evidence after April 20 2002.
However, Mr Kirby stressed that the internal investigation is not yet complete.
"When and the extent to which Milly's mobile phone was unlawfully accessed (and whether any messages were deleted) are matters which form part of the Met Police Service's ongoing investigation," the letter added.
A statement issued on behalf of the Dowler family said: "The release of the Surrey Police statement is a further reminder of the relationship between that force and the News of the World.
"Current investigations are ongoing as to the propriety of that relationship.
"The report indicates that the police force were aware of a caller purporting to be Sally Dowler seeking information in 2002.
"No doubt there will be current investigations as to who that was as it was not Sally Dowler.
"The Surrey Police have not explained why they did not investigate that deception in 2002.
"No thought seems to have been given to the effect on the Dowler family. The family await the investigation by Lord Justice Leveson about the relationship between police forces and the Press.
"The Dowler family would be grateful if they could now be left alone."
Culture Committee chairman John Whittingdale told Sky News: "What (the letter) appears to tell is that several journalists at the News of the World were involved in hacking the voicemails left on Milly Dowler's phone.
"They did so in pursuit of a story rather than wanting to help the police with their inquiries.
"It appears as if they may have actually interfered or impeded the police in their investigations into what turned into a murder inquiry because they went on claiming they had evidence Milly Dowler was still alive."


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Wide receiver. This group is a far cry from the one new head coach Sean McVay got to work with in Washington. Tavon Austin isn't a true No. 1 wideout (even though he's being paid like one). Neither is free-agent pickup Robert Woods from Buffalo. The Rams also don't have a first-round pick to spend on the position after trading it to Tennessee last year for the chance to select quarterback Jared Goff.
Quarterback. The 49ers face a franchise-altering decision come draft night — select a QB with the No. 2 overall pick or continue to wait in hopes of acquiring Washington's Kirk Cousins whether via trade or free agency by the 2018 offseason. In the meantime, journeyman Brian Hoyer is set to handle the starting reigns for his seventh different NFL team.
There was a feeling Thursday night that Yoenis Cespedes may miss some time with an injury, but no one was truly positive.
Well, everyone is positive now.
This comes after the Mets lost their sixth consecutive games and 10 of their last 11. Cespedes is hitting .270 on the season but leading the team in home runs (6), walks (11) and doubles (4). He was second on the team in RBI (10) and base hits (17).
Since coming over to the Mets in a trade from the Tigers, the Cuban Cheap Barcelona Jerseys native 89 home runs and drove in 243 runs in 356 games.
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As we begin to close in on the end of the Old Testament, we enter the words & warnings of various Prophets who were sent to both Israel (AKA Ephraim) and Judah in an attempt to get them to turn from their sin and back to the Lord before disaster struck. Unfortunately, as we have seen over and over now, the people did not listen. They were too consumed in their own lives to pay any mind to that crazy, long-haired Bible freak on the street corner.
After a heavy dose of OT perhaps you begin to get a bit shell-shocked by the calamity. It just seems so much about doom and gloom and impending destruction on the horizon. But, here at the end of the words of Hosea we catch another glimpse of the true heart of God. It isn't about punishment or inflicting casualties… it is tenderness and yearning above all else to bless and protect His people.
Look at how it starts in verse 1…
"O Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled and fallen,
[visited by calamity] due to your iniquity." – Hosea 14:1
Notice that (once again) we are told that the reason for calamity visiting people is because of sin. It isn't because God is teaching people stuff or trying to purify them by fire… it is because they have ignored what He said and went their own way into disobedience. The same is true today!
Look at verse 2…
"Take with you words and return to the Lord. Say to Him, Take away all our iniquity;
accept what is good and receive us graciously; so will we render [our thanks] as bullocks
[to be sacrificed] and pay the confession of our lips." – Hosea 14:2
Here God is literally giving the people the script to come to Him with in repentance in order to stave off the impending doom. It is like He wants them to pass the test SO BADLY that He is giving them the answers to the test!
That is His heart… not to punish or inflict disaster… but to save.
Fast forward a bit to verse 4…
"I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for My anger is turned away from [Israel].
I will be like the dew and the night mist to Israel; he shall grow and blossom like the lilyand cast forth his roots like [the sturdy evergreens of] Lebanon.
His suckers and shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance
like [the cedars and aromatic shrubs of] Lebanon.
They that dwell under his shade shall return; they shall revive like the grain
and blossom like the vine; the scent of it shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?
I have answered [him] and will regard and watch over him;
I am like a green fir or cypress tree; with Me is the fruit found [which is to nourish you]." – Hosea 14:4-8
Notice the words God uses to describe what He really wants to do for His people?
Heal – Grow – Blossom – Return – Revive.
The Truth could not be clearer!
God wants to bless His people… He has always wanted to bless His people. When under the Blessing, people find healing, growth, green, blossom, etc. In fact – even those who dwell under that person's shade experience the Blessing! With God – fruit is found.
Repent – obey – and live under The Blessing.
Be Fruitful & Multiply,


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So we started the second semester at school which was bit of a shock to the system but there was light at the end of the tunnel because in a few weeks time the school was taking all the staff on a trip, something to look forward to. I asked where we were going only to be told some unpronounceable provinces and that we would see some flowers. What flowers I asked and the local teachers said "Rape Flowers." At first I thought it was just an error in the translation of the Chinese name but I remembered our gardener in Zimbabwe used to grow Rape as a type of spinach and it is also known as Canola. So it has a very unsavoury name but a beautiful bright yellow flower which is what we were planning to see.
I say planning to see because the weather forecast wasn't great and temperatures were still in the single figures, not conducive for blooming, as we left school on the Friday afternoon. We climbed onto one of the three buses only to discover that children were allowed too. The whole tour group totalled 160 people with lots of young kids hyped up on sugar and a 3.5 hour bus ride ahead, it wasn't looking good.The bus ride was long and the canteen where we stopped for dinner didn't satisfy our Western palates but the trip was all paid for so who were we to complain. The hotel on the first night was decent and did provide some humour with the following Chinglish on the information cards in the room.
The following morning was a break down in communication as we thought we understood that we would get a wake up call at 6:30am and breakfast was at 7:30am. However at 7:20am one of the local teachers came looking for us and said we must hurry as the bus was leaving in 10 minutes. So not much time for breakfast which wasn't very good anyway. The Chinese just cannot compete with a Western Breakfast, I mean who's ever heard of someone leaving a buffet meal hungry? After driving for another 1.5 hours, seeing some patches of flowers on the surrounding hills we stopped to buy tickets for the scenic area and pick up a Chinese tour guide who was no help to us. Someone did translate some of what she said which was along the lines of you may be disappointed as the weather is cold and wet so no many flowers. We reached the tour spot and had to walk up the hill with thousands of other tourists and into the terraced plantations of the flowers.
After an hour wandering up and down the terraces we piled back onto the buses to go for lunch but first we had to go and register our finger prints at was translated as an "interesting place" so we could get a free lunch at this restaurant (which was terrible) and then back to the interesting place.It wasn't a museum, just a village with a famous wooden temple building and tacky shops selling wood carvings, the area is famous for Camphor trees and other touristy junk. Here is a photo of the wooden temple that didn't do anything for me, it's cause not helped by the layers of dust everywhere.
Next up we went to visit a small river village which is famous because all the families there have the same family name Li meaning water or something like that. However there were so many people we had to park on the side of the road and walk 15 minutes to get to the entrance gate and once in the village trying to walk up the one and only pavement with so many people and not fall in the river was just frustrating. Just look at the photo below to get a sense of the overcrowding.
And to top it all off, after breakfast on the last morning we were waiting around in the hotel lobby for our buses and the 6 hour journey home when I noticed that several of the fish in the fountain were dead and had been for a while. While the ones that were still alive were gasping for air at the surface, just another scene that makes one wander about the society as a whole. Can you believe this.
So it wasn't a great trip. Lots of time spent in an uncomfortable bus with noisy kids that were fed too much candy and disappointing flowers. The food was average to bad and the hotels were clean but I just couldn't believe the dead fish thing. Having said that, it didn't cost us anything and I'm glad I got to see some flowers. The Wuyuan region itself is probably the most beautiful I've seen in China, so far untouched by the massive development I've seen in the cities and the scenery was pretty even though it was overcast. And the water in the rivers was clean, which is hard to imagine after what we see in the cities everyday.
So it's worth a visit however try to plan you weather better, stay away from the hotels, large canteens and interesting places as well as avoiding peak tourist times.


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Changes to Project Muse platform
Project Muse have informed us that they will be changing their platform. The new platform will go live in January 2012, but is currently available to view in beta form at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu. Please feel free to take a look and feed back any questions or issues you might have about it. Muse have alerted us […]
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No access to Reaxys 3rd December 2011
Due to scheduled maintenance, there will be no access to Reaxys on Saturday 3rd December. Access will be fully restored on Sunday 4th December. Reaxys apologise for any inconvenience.
Web of Knowledge Maintenance, 17th July 2011
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The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
The Library has bought the Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991. This features the complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991. The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its Director-General Lord Reith. It was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times. Developed as […]
State Papers Online Parts III and IV
The University has purchased State Papers parts III and IV, to add to the Library's previous purchase of parts I and II. The State Papers provides a digital edition of the Domestic, Foreign, Borders, Scotland, and Ireland State Papers of Britain with the Registers of the Privy Council and other State Papers now housed in […]
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Online
The University has bought Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Online. This resource provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. There are 17 thematic areas: Slavery in Early Americas, African Coast, Middle Passage, Slavery and Agriculture, Urban and Domestic Slavery, Slave Testimony, Spiritualism and Religion in Slave communities, Resistance […]
Making of the Modern World
The University has purchased the Making of the Modern World. This resource provides access to the theories, practices, and consequences of economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Contains collections from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library […]
Picture Post Archive online
The Library has bought the Picture Post Archive Online. This consists of the complete, fully text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of photojournalism in the 20th century. Picture Post was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its […]
African Newspapers 1800-1922
The Library has purchased African Newspapers 1800-1922 online. This resource provides access to more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Includes publications such as the […]


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We teach students about all aspects of communicative disorders, including the psychology and physiology of speech, language and hearing, the interaction between communication and learning, and the assessment and management of individuals with communicative disorders from infancy through adulthood.
The Communication Sciences & Disorders Department offers a comprehensive array of courses and broad-based observational experiences in a variety of educational and medical settings throughout the community. Students may earn a bachelor's of science. Students are required to complete a general studies core curriculum and coursework in Communication Sciences & Disorders. Upon completion of the undergraduate degree, Communication Sciences & Disorders majors are prepared for graduate study in a variety of fields including speech and language pathology, audiology and special education.
To practice as a speech-language pathologist, students must complete a graduate degree from a program accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA). UW-Whitewater's graduate program offers a two-year master's of science degree program that meets all professional standards for CAA and state licensure. After completion of the graduate degree in Communication Sciences & Disorders, students can work as speech-language pathologists in a variety of settings, including neonatal centers, preschools and schools, universities, hospitals, medical facilities, rehabilitation centers, private practices and geriatric centers. State departments of education report continuing shortages of qualified speech-language pathologists. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Hearing Association (ASHA) research division also reports personnel shortages. Over the last five years, 100 percent of our graduates who sought employment in the field found jobs within the first three months following graduation.
The M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 2200 Research Boulevard #310, Rockville, Maryland 20850, 800-498-2071 or 301-296-5700. The College of Education & Professional Studies is fully accredited by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
Upon degree completion Graduate level students will be able to demonstrate entry-level competencies for certification as a Speech-Language Pathologist. Graduate performance is systematically assessed and documented. Successful completion of the graduate degree is noted on the Knowledge and Skills Acquisition (KASA) summary form, which is verified by the program director. Undergraduate level students will be able to:
All Communication Sciences & Disorders faculty are teacher-scholars and clinicians who collectively have a broad range of teaching, clinical and research experience. They are committed to students, academic, clinical and professional development, and all faculty participate in the advising process and mentor students. The faculty-student ratio provides opportunities for personalized attention and for student involvement in a wide range of clinical, research and community experiences.
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This is our guerrilla activity in which we make alterations to images, adverts on the streets and products in shops. Whether it be adding a furry moustache to Gwyneth Paltrow or a beautiful big muff to a model in a bikini, we add fake fur, posters and stickers. This isn't necessarily just about hair removal, but of course that's part of it, but most importantly, it's a way of interacting with these images and reacting against them in a comical and accessible way. It's a political act; growing up consuming these images we have found a way to subvert the messages they convey, for ourselves, and for others.
Our intention is to inspire a questioning process. We want to challenge how these images work. Do they make women and men feel they need to change the way they look? We also think Pit Stops is very funny for those who stumble across it and can potentially change their shopping experience.