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Jason Reynolds + Jacqueline Woodson | Lu
NYT bestselling author Jason Reynolds appears in conversation with Jacqueline Woodson, award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, to celebrate the release of "Lu," the final book in Reynolds' bestselling "Track" series.
Jason Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. The American Booksellers Association's 2017 spokesperson for Indies First, his many books include "When I Was the Greatest," "Boy in the Black Suit," "All American Boys" (co-written with Brendan Kiely), "As Brave as You, For Every One," the "Track" series ("Ghost," "Patina," "Sunny," and "Lu"), and "Long Way Down," which received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com
Jacqueline Woodson is the award winning-author of several books including "Miracle's Boys," "Brown Girl Dreaming," "After Tupac" and "D Foster," "Feathers", and "Show Way." She was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–2019, and is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Newbery Honor Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award. You can find out more about Jacqueline at https://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/
Appel Salon | Gary Shteyngart
"I decided, I'm going to set a challenge for myself... " —Gary Shteyngart, on making a billionaire hedge-fund manager a sympathetic character
Gary Shteyngart appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss his new novel Lake Success with Elamin Abdelmahmoud.
Sayu Bhojwani + Naomi Wolf | People Like Us
Sayu Bhojwani and Naomi Wolf discuss diversifying America's political establishment and Bhojwani's new book, "People Like Us: The New Wave of Candidates Knocking at Democracy's Door." This event is presented in partnership with the Literacy Partners' Subway Reads Campaign and the New York Immigration Coalition.
Political scientist Sayu Bhojwani is challenging the established status quo of the white, male, Christian and rich political system. In her latest book "People Like Us," Sayu offers case studies of politicians and activists who don't fit the established American political bill, be they, people of color or immigrants, fighting the system to create a better world for all. Sayu simultaneously shines a strong spotlight on the roadblocks that quell many people's chances of affecting robust change in governmental representation.
One of the world's most influential feminists and the bestselling author of "The Beauty Myth," Naomi Wolf doesn't just comment on the world's most pervasive problems, she aims to solve them. Wolf has written eight bestselling works of nonfiction, including "Give Me Liberty," which includes effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement and create sustainable democracy. Wolf is the co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and The American Freedom Campaign. The co-Founder and CEO of tech startup DailyClout.io, a digital platform that lets anyone lobby by sharing live bills, pass legislation, and run for office.
Sayu Bhojwani is the Founder and President of New American Leaders, which works across the country to build the power and potential of first- and second-generation Americans. She served as New York City's first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs and is the founder of South Asian Youth Action, a community-based organization in Queens. Sayu earned a PhD in Politics and Education from Columbia University, where her research focused on immigrant political participation. Her TED talk focuses on the importance of immigrants to American democracy, and her work to build a more inclusive democracy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and in The New York Times. Her book, "People Like Us: Knocking at Democracy's Door," will be published by The New Press in October 2018. An immigrant of Indian descent, she grew up in Belize and now lives in New York City with her husband and child.
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Mario Vargas Llosa and Paul Holdengräber: A Life In Letters | 5-14-2018
LIVE from the NYPL | Recorded live at the New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, May 14, 2018.
Legend has it that Mario Vargas Llosa was notified of winning the Nobel Prize while working in the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library. Vargas Llosa has worked on at least two of his novels here—The Storyteller and The Dream of the Celt—and while teaching at Princeton he spent afternoons off here reading. This year, in celebration of his new novel, The Neighborhood, the titan of contemporary Western literature travels from the stacks to the stage to discuss his life in letters.
Isabel Allende: "The Influence of Hispanic Culture in Literature"
Google celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by speaking with Isabel Allende, famed Chilean journalist and author, renowned for writing international bestsellers including "The House of Spirits," "City of the Beasts," "Inés of My Soul" and "Paula." She has written over 25 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold more than 67 million copies, and among other awards, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017.
Ms. Allende speaks about the influence of her Latinx background in her work, Latin American culture as an influence in global arts & culture, and the future of Latinx literature.
Moderated by Natalie Nunez.
Min Jin Lee: 2018 National Book Festival
Min Jin Lee discusses "Pachinko" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Min Jin Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrated to the United States when she was 7. She grew up in Queens, New York. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Lee studied history at Yale College, then received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. After practicing for two years, she began writing full time. She lived in New York with her husband and son until 2007, then spent several years in Japan, researching and writing her second novel, "Pachinko" (Grand Central), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and appeared on many lists for top book of the year. She lives in New York with her family.
Gerhard Steidl & Orhan Pamuk
Join us for an event with the iconic publishing company STEIDL to celebrate a series of book launches. The evening features works from Orhan Pamuk, Martin Schoeller, Karine Laval, Lawrence Schwartzwald, and Tod Papageorge, with an introduction by Gerhard Steidl.
Orhan Pamuk 'Balkon' - In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and European sides of the city, the surrounding hills, and the distant islands and mountains. Sometimes he would leave his writing desk and follow the movements of the boats as they passed in front of his apartment and sailed far away.
Lucy Hawking on Stephen Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions
[Note: The description below is taken from the Youtube channel of Waterstones, which interviewed Lucy Hawking]
'It's like having him there, having a conversation with him.'
It was a privilege to speak with Lucy Hawking about her father Stephen, his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, and to get an idea of what family life was like for the Hawkings as they lived with his work, his health and now his legacy.
Isaac Shapiro | Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan
Issac Shapiro reads from his memoir, Edokko, and answers questions from the audience.
In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow, 1896 and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler's national socialism on the rise, remaining in Berlin was for the newly-weds out of the question and they decided to continue their odyssey, first to Palestine, then China, to ultimately spend the World War II years in the relative safety of Japan. In 1931, they found themselves in Japan, where Isaac, son number four and author of this memoir, was born. A few years later, with World War II imminently looming, and the subsequent bombing of Pearl Harbor, their lives were disrupted once again. In 1944, the Yokohama shore was banned for foreigners and the Shapiro family including their five children, were forced to move to Tokyo, where they survived endless hardships, among others the intensified strategic United States bombing campaigns on Tokyo. Operation Meetinghouse started March 9, 1945 and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. The Japanese later called the operation the Night of the Black Snow. During the subsequent American occupation of Japan, 14-year-old Isaac, being multilingual, was hired as an interpreter by John Calvin 'Toby' Munn, a United States Marine colonel, (later promoted to Lt. Gen.) who, when the war was over, paved the way for Isaac, or Ike as he soon became known, to immigrate to the United States. In the summer of 1946, Isaac landed in Hawaii, at the time a United States territory, altering the course of his life forever.
Eugenia Cheng: "The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't"
Dr. Eugenia Cheng is Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She won tenure in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she is now Honorary Fellow. Alongside her research in Category Theory and undergraduate teaching her aim is to rid the world of "math phobia". Eugenia is also math columnist for the Wall Street Journal and a concert pianist.
Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. With her new book "The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't", Eugenia has set out to show how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly - and know when politicians and companies are trying to mislead us. This talk, like the book, is filled with useful real-life examples of logic and illogic at work and an essential guide to decoding modern life.
Jeffrey Eugenides | The Virgin Suicides & Fresh Complaint
Acclaimed writer Jeffrey Eugenides sits down with Paris Review editor Emily Nemens to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his debut novel, "The Virgin Suicides," and introduce his latest short story collection, "Fresh Complaint."
"The Virgin Suicides" announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, "The Virgin Suicides" is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides," was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Middlesex" (FSG, 2002), which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis. "The Marriage Plot" (FSG, 2011) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won both the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize. In 2017, FSG published his first collection of stories, "Fresh Complaint." Eugenides is the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in English and American Letters at New York University. He has been elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Emily Nemens joined The Paris Review as editor in the summer of 2018. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, "The Cactus League," is forthcoming from FSG, and her stories can be found in The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, and n+1.
Since its founding in 1953, The Paris Review has been America's preeminent literary quarterly, dedicated to discovering the best new voices in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Review's renowned Writers at Work series of interviews is one of the great landmarks of world literature. Hailed by the New York Times as "the most remarkable interviewing project we possess," the series received a George Polk Award and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The magazine introduced readers to Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, and Ha Jin, and featured early stories by David Foster Wallace, Denis Johnson, and Jeanette Winterson.
Keith O'Brien, "Fly Girls"
Keith O'Brien recounts the personal stories of female pilots who broke into the male-dominated sport of airplane racing, in his book "Fly Girls".
Tayari Jones: 2018 National Book Festival
Tayari Jones discusses "An American Marriage" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Tayari Jones had a spectacular debut with her first novel, "Leaving Atlanta," which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She wrote the novel while she was a graduate student. Her second novel, "The Untelling," is also set in Atlanta and received the Lillian Smith Book Award. Her new novel, "An American Marriage" (Algonquin), was a pick of Oprah's Book Club. Jones is an MFA faculty member at Rutgers University and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.
Seymour Hersh with Paul Holdengräber | LIVE from the NYPL
LIVE from the NYPL | Recorded live at the New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, June 30, 2018.
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, Seymour Hersh has broken some of the most impactful stories of the last half century. In the process, he has earned dozens of prizes for the New York Times and New Yorker, where he was a longtime staff writer. Now, for the first time, Hersh has stepped back to write a memoir, Reporter, some of which was researched at The New York Public Library. Hersh poured over documents from the New York Times Company Archives in the library's reading room, so it's only fitting that he should return here to discuss the resulting memoir, which tells the stories behind headlines that made history. Join us to hear those stories, along with more than a few "unwanted truths" — all from the man David Remnick once described as "quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era."
Two Poets Laureate on Making Poetry: 2018 National Book Festival
Robert Hass presents "A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry" and Tracy K. Smith presents "Wade in the Water: Poems" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include "The Apple Trees at Olema," a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner as well as "Time and Materials," "Sun Under Wood," "Human Wishes," "Praise" and "Field Guide," which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer's "Selected Poems" and "The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa." His essay collection "Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry" received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His latest work is "A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry" (Ecco). Hass lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.
Speaker Biography: Tracy K. Smith was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 2017. She was reappointed for a second term on March 22, 2018. Smith is the author of four poetry collections, including "Wade in the Water: Poems" (Graywolf) and "Life on Mars," winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her memoir is "Ordinary Light," which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Smith is working to bring poetry to rural communities across America. She teaches at Princeton University.
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Next week I head to New York for the comic con - OMG! I can't wait to see friends and meet some new faces. Many thanks to the wonderful Jimmy Aquino and Ben Templesmith for letting me stay at their place. I love you guyssss.
So, while I'm at the show, I'll be putting in a little time as well. I don't have a table this year, but you can find me at the following places and times:
Oni Press Booth:
Friday - 3pm - 3:45 pm
Saturday - 3pm - 3:45pm
Sunday - 2pm - 2:45pm
Penguin Books booth:
Sunday 12:30 - 1:30
Comic News Insider booth (in the podcast area):
No set time yet, but I'll be around the booth a fair bit over the weekend, doing signings on Saturday and Sunday.
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I now realize and accept, with a toddler in the house, the inevitability of plowing through recipe after recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Despite my best efforts to entice her with other baking adventures — "Let's bake cupcakes! Let's make cake! Let's make bars filled with chocolate and condensed milk!!" – she will firmly insist on cookies. That's not to say she doesn't eat anything else. She loves cupcakes and can massacre a piece of chocolate cake like a wild little gremlin after midnight. But when it comes to baking, cookies take the cake (pardon the pun).
In all fairness, I shouldn't exaggerate. It's not like we've baked together a hundred times. I suppose it's not quite a disaster that she hasn't yet the interest to bake layer cakes and éclairs. She's only 3 after all. And it's not like mama is all that fancy either when it comes to baking.
When did we pin our aspirations on our children? Sigh…one of the things I said I would never do when I was a mother. But I am also slowly realizing, and accepting, that being a mom sometimes (oftentimes) means breaking the rules you've set for yourself before that little bundle of life-changing energy came into your life.
And anyway, you can never have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes.
Chocolate Chunk Cookies
(From Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (or if you live in the tropics like I do, then just slightly softened)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 whole egg, plus 1 egg white
- 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chunks
- Optional: 1 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
– Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
– In the bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter and sugars with the paddle attachment on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
– To the butter and sugar mixture, add the vanilla, whole egg, and egg white. Beat this on low speed until well combines, scraping down as needed. Add the flour mixture to this in two batches and mix until just combined. Add the chocolate and walnuts and mix through with a wooden spoon.
– Shape 2 heaping tablespoons of dough at a time into balls and place about 1 1/2 inches away from each other on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake in a pre-heated 375F oven for 12-15 minutes (Martha says 18, but 12-15 minutes is good enough for me…you might feel differently).
– Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for 1-2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
For this baking jaunt, I decided to turn to that archetype of American domestic goddess-ness, Martha Stewart. She had 3 cookie recipes that seemed good candidates: a chocolate chip chocolate cookie, a white chocolate chip, and this dark chocolate chunk. I presented the page with the photos of the three to little C and she unwaveringly chose the chocolate chunk. So here we are.
This makes that particular type of chocolate chip cookie that goes buttery crisp at the edges. Don't try to make the cookie smaller than what it calls for in the recipe because I believe it's the size that allows for a super crisp edge coupled with a gooey and chewy middle. Get the best dark chocolate to use as the chocolate really shines here. I used a combination of chocolate chunks and chocolate chips only because I didn't have enough bar chocolate. When I chop my bar chocolate I don't worry too much about getting the chunks all the same size. On the contrary, I prefer them to range wildly from hefty chunks to flattish shards to powdery rubble. Each contributes to a cookie that appears to have both layers, and glorious melting pockets, of chocolate. I did have one addition, and I've marked it as optional – I added walnuts because I love them in chocolate chip cookies and feel that they are a much needed crunch and contrast to the sweet, oozy chocolate.
Like a lot of chocolate chip cookies, these are best warm out of the oven, and certainly on the same day. As such, I suggested you do what I do, which is to only bake what you are likely to consume and freeze the rest of the cookie dough in logs for future consumption (and having cookie dough in the freezer, on the ready for rainy days and heartaches, is really one of life's great insurances!). Or, you can take stock of all the children that live in your building and send out cookie care packages accordingly.
Today, I made a batch of chili con carne and when little C piped up to help I put her beside the bowl of beef, into which I was massaging the spices. She looked at me dubiously. I gave her some spices to mix together in a small bowl and she was much happier. And as I looked at my daughter enjoying herself in the kitchen I felt happier too. Maybe expecting a 3-year old to stick her hand into a bowl of raw beef was a bit too optimistic on my part. Her pace, her place, her joy…each of us follows the beat of a different drummer. May she always find the confidence to follow hers and may I always have the wisdom to know when to let her.


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For the last eight years I've lived in the attic. There's a lot you can do in a finished attic. For example, when I first moved in, my little brothers and I used to pretend to be superheroes, dress up in capes and jump around on the furniture and into piles of pillows. The door I wanted never got installed so the boys were a constant presence. There were also a whole lot of summersaults and juggling and yards of christmas lights to characterize my attic experience. Lots of clothing everywhere, because, hey, when you've got one million square feet you might as well fill it all with clothes. One almost mural, but we could never decide what it would be of… Camping out and photo-shoots and forts. Old photos all over the floor for scrap-books and school project assembly (because 6th grade was all book projects). I've had a room that has been almost like another world, up here in the trees where the light filters in on the weekends and fills every part of the vaulted ceiling with light…
Why am I reminiscing? Well, we're moving, and I'm going to the basement. In fact, we start the physical move on Friday of this week. It won't be far, no, not far, barely a mile away. But what's so strange for me is that I'll only be in this new house a year, then it'll be off to college. I guess this move is just a reminder that this time in my life is about over. I'm leaving the house that will for me always be my childhood.
I'm looking forward to the new house though. It's by the river, there's more land, lots of windows, very open. My room has arguably the best bathroom (my own bathroom!), and I think I may be able to paint a mural this time over in my room.
Not only are we moving though, other changes too have come, specifically to this blog. Back in January, the BDN had a few videos made of me making a some recipes. The blueberry gingerbread recipe video is up now on the BDN, but the videos (there are 5 I think total) are syndicated across the country and can be found on various newspaper sites. Though the recipes for blueberry cake and blueberry gingerbread are my adaptations, the lemon cake and frosting are just gluten-free bon appetit recipes that I love. The list of newspapers is below:
Eagle Tribune, Andover, MA: http://food.eagletribune.com
Gloucester Times, Gloucester, MA: http://food.gloucestertimes.com/
Newburyport News, Newburyport, MA: http://food.newburyportnews.com/
Princeton Daily Clarion, Princeton, IN: http://food.pdclarion.com/
Bangor Daily News, Bangor, ME: http://food.bangordailynews.com/
Home News Here, Woburn, MA: http://food.homenewshere.com/
Press Tribune, Roseville, CA: food.thepresstribune.com
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As to this recipe itself, what have I got to say? It's scrumptious. I made some changes to the original because I don't have a spice grinder (this is a travesty I know). Instead of toasting cumin seed and grinding it, I decided to add ground cumin to the olive oil, along with garlic and cayenne to heat up and let the flavors bloom. This I found to work well, though both options for the dressing are listed below. Similarly, we were out of dates, and I found that raisins are perfectly acceptable though I assume, dates, figs, or pluots (the original suggestions) are even better.
Moroccan Carrot and Chickpea Salad
Adapted from 101 Cookbooks
Serves 6
1/3 cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic, sliced thinly (can be used or not depending on your method with the cumin seeds)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1 Tablespoon cumin seeds or 1 Tablespoon ground cumin
1 Tablespoon honey
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
Approximately 1 pound carrots, grated
About 2 cups cooked chickpeas, or chickpeas from a 15-ounce can
2/3 cup raisins, or chopped figs, dates, or pluots
1/3 cup roughly chopped mint
Toasted sliced almonds to serve
For the dressing you can do either of two things. One, you could toast the cumin seeds for a minute or two, than grind them and add then to other ingredients (sans garlic). Or, you could heat the olive oil, garlic, cayenne, and ground cumin over medium heat in a saucepan for a few minutes then remove it and let it set aside. You want to make sure nothing burns but also that the spices have bloomed. Once cooled a little you could whisk in the honey and lemon juice.
In a decent sized bowl, toss together the mint, fruit, carrots, and chickpeas. Then, add in the dressing and toss again. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve with toasted almonds.


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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Tuesday trivia - Thomas Watson on the development of the telephone
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The following links are for those who prefer a download to a Flash player.
Video :
"TELEPHONE MEMORIES (Reel 1 of 2) (1931)" [NARA via Archive.org]
"TELEPHONE MEMORIES (Reel 2 of 2) (1931)" [NARA via Archive.org]
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- chris said...
Lovely to see and hear this history of communication. The legacy they left to the nations is now being exploited by telcos and govenments instead of moving on into the next stage. I am sure if Watson and Bell were alive now they would be saying 'what? still using our old copper wire? move on to the fibre old chap, lets get this show on the road'


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Wedding Party - "Shared" Members
The website now allows to design custom titles, however, every wedding party member must part of either side of the wedding, but not both. (Ours is a gay wedding, so it has to be either me or my partner, but the same would be for any wedding). Sometimes a wedding party member is a "shared" responsibility or part of both sides of the wedding. The website forces every wedding party member (including, for example, the Officiant) to one side or other of the couple. Our Officiant is the first friend we met mutually, so it should go to "both sides" - and should be laid out on the website in the middle, if you will (vs. on either party's side). We're doing the same with the flower girls, and other roles - not specific to either one of us. Why can't there be a section for the "shared" members of the wedding party?
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This seems like a core feature for ring bearers and officiants.


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The Ministers' Misconceptions
Howard Gardner
The GoodWork Project
Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Copyright © 2010
Of all the findings from cognitive psychology that are relevant for education, one that stands out is the repeated demonstration, across a number of disciplines, of the prevalence of misconceptions and the difficulty of getting rid of them and replacing them with more powerful and more veridical conceptions.
The most famous examples occur in physics. Students at outstanding universities, who have studied the laws of motion and have done well on standardized measures of achievement in physics, are asked to explain a new phenomenon - one that they have not studied but one governed by the laws of motion. Not only do these star students typically fail on these performances of understanding, but more dramatically, their responses are often indistinguishable from those obtained from students who have never studied physics. Comparable examples can be found in biology, astronomy, psychology, economics - indeed across the disciplinary spectrum.
These difficulties can be blamed in part on inadequate instruction, but they also reflect a disturbing reality. When young, without the need for formal instruction, nearly all human beings develop "folk theories" of how the world works: the physical world (if an object is broken into tiny, no-longer-visible parts, it ceases to exist); the biological world (all organisms were created at a single, pre-historical moment) and the social world (people who look different from me are to be feared and shunned).
More effective theories can only be constructed in the mind of the learner through effective teaching and significant involvement with the materials (object, data) for which the disciplinary understandings are appropriate.
Nowadays almost everyone goes to school. And even in the remaining unschooled societies, there is informal tuition. Nonetheless, misconceptions continue to hold sway. Here are the some of the powerful misconceptions about learning and teaching that characterize the folk theories of human beings:
1. Education involves the transmission of ideas and skills from older and more powerful persons to those who are younger and under the control of their elders.
2. The young mind is a blank slate on which correct ideas and needed skills need to be implanted.
3. Learning should occur bit by bit; to the extent possible, errors should be identified, discouraged, corrected.
4. The best way to teach - indeed, the only effective way - is to reward correct answers and punish wrong ones.
5. On any dimension worth considering, you can array people from the best to the worst (a so-called "league table").
6. If someone does not do what you want them to do, just ask them to do it, louder and louder, over and over again.
Now, since misconceptions like this are part of the human condition, it is not surprising that most children and most parents embrace them. But that does not mean they are correct, any more than that the world is flat or that all creatures were created at the same moment. Indeed, considerable social- scientific research over the last century calls each of these so-called truisms into severe question.
It might seem reasonable to expect that those who are in charge of educational policy should have moved beyond these misconceptions. And indeed, if engaged in quiet discussion, at least some policymakers reveal their awareness of the relevant research.
And yet, in observing ministers of education all over the world, I find them remarkably tied to these powerful, though erroneous ideas. Indeed, I sometimes think that for most Ministers of Education, their only goal is to improve the performance of their nation in the international comparisons, independent of the worth or utility of that comparison. In fact, I've recently encountered an ironical twist on this: The absolute standing of Scotland is less important than its relative position vis-a-vis England. Better to be 20th if Britain is 21st, than to be 10th if Britain is 9th.
Going beyond this "league table" mentality, I am constantly surprised at the persistence, in ministerial talk and writing, of allegiance to:
- the "transmission theory" of education;
- the focus on rewards (even monetary ones) and punishment;
- the notion that the best questions have a single correct answer and a resulting suspicion of multiple plausible answers, productive errors, creative leaps, etc; and
- the preferred solution to poor performance on tests - the administration of more and more tests. It is like the misguided belief that if the patient is sick, the royal road to health involves repeating measurement of temperature.
I don't mean to demean all Ministers of Education. As already suggested, some of them know better, and a few try to do better. It may be that there is something about the air in the ministries of the world, and in their all-too-frequent meetings with one another, which reinforces the worst of these misconceptions and repeats them endlessly to the public at large.
Of course, we do know a great deal about what actually brings about strong achievements in education around the world:
- plausible goals, understood and subscribed to by the range of constituents;
- awareness of the changing nature of knowledge and the need to prepare learners for an uncertain future;
- respect for teachers who, because of their knowledge of content and pedagogy and sensitivity to individual differences, merit respect;
- regular parental involvement;
- instilling in young people a love for learning that endures throughout life, even when no one is looking.
If I were trying to select a school system for my children or grandchildren, I'd beware of Ministers bearing misconceptions, I'd look instead for ones who understand these equally simply, and yet surprisingly elusive powerful ideas.
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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, he has received honorary degrees from twenty-two colleges and universities, and is author of over twenty books translated into twenty-seven languages, and several hundred articles. Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences.
Gardner's newest book, Five Minds for the Future, outlines the specific cognitive abilities


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Welcome to the first week of the Summer of Genealogy Wishes! To kick off the summer I am happy to present a wonderful guest post by Thomas MacEntee. If you would like to be a part of this series, just send me an email to email@example.com with your wishes for the genealogy community.
Without further ado, I present:
Genealogy Societies: The Transition Balance Beam by Thomas MacEntee
Anyone who sits on the board of a genealogy society these days knows what it is like to walk a balance beam: trying to attract new members and expand services by utilizing new technologies while at the same time keeping your long-time members who are rooted in tradition happy. It is not an easy task and no matter what action is taken, it seems as if some current members will up and leave and some potential members just won't join.
But is there a way to walk that balance beam and handle the transition from costly and outdated practices to more efficient and updated ones while at the same time minimizing the number of unhappy members, both new and old?
Having worked with various genealogy societies as well as sitting on the governing board of a state genealogy society, here is a five step plan that can get your board members walking that balance beam without falling off.
Step One: Perform a Needs Assessment
The society needs to do a serious "self-check" and determine the following:
- What works and what doesn't?
- What are the most expensive components of membership?
- Do the society goals include expanding membership? Adding new services?
But this isn't limited to services - for each of these items under consideration, the society must estimate how changes will impact current and potential new members.
- If the newsletter is no longer printed but only available online, will we lose members?
- If we don't allow folks to sign-up and pay for membership online, will potential members not join?
Step Two: Think Multiple Converging Balance Beams
Many societies that undertake a plan to transition to less expensive and more efficient services, often fail because of the "all or nothing" approach. They eliminate instead of transitioning and offering dual tracks. Envision a balance beam that splits into two, then converges back to one beam.
An example: offer a lower-rate "e-membership" that allows people to join and purchase a membership online and receive all society communication via email. This does not mean raising the current price point for a traditional membership, but it gives the society a chance to see how attractive this alternative membership format is to potential members. After six months to a year, the society can then decide to switch or not switch depending upon the results.
Step Three: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Change is never easy. Most of us know this from trying to make changes in our own personal lives. Habits are hard to break and many of us don't like stepping out of our comfort zone. And if we do need to make changes, we like to do them on our own. We don't like to be told what we'll have to change and when!
Communication - frequent and clear - is the key to keeping as many parties involved as possible during any transition.
- Don't just state the change being made; be clear as to why, the impact on the society as well as on its members.
- Realize that no matter how many times you mention a pending change, someone will act as if this is the first time they've heard of it and how the society will be much worse off for the change.
- Send out surveys to your current membership putting forth different scenarios (e-newsletter only, e-newsletter for free with printed newsletter for a small fee, etc.) and get opinions.
- Be clear that changes are being considered not merely to "keep up with the times" but to ensure the future of the society.
Step Four: Commit to an Action Plan
A society needs to stick to its guns when putting changes into effect:
- Don't let emotional reactions of long-time members or the influence of a large financial contributor derail your plan.
- You still need to listen to the concerns of the membership and just don't do so as a means of "going through the motions."
- Write down the issues raised. You will need to include them later when you track the results of the changes. The results will either support the concerns raised by the membership or will bear out and be supportive of the changes made.
Step Five: Track the Results
After three months, go back and survey your long-time members and get their thoughts on the changes. Continue to do so every three months or as major changes are made. Publish the results on your blog or website and in your newsletter.
Very often when results are seen in writing, especially when they support the decision to institute changes, the vocal opponents suddenly get laryngitis.
While the genealogy and family history fields continue to expand thanks to recent media exposure via Faces of America, The Generations Project and Who Do You Think You Are?, genealogy societies must walk a balance beam in order to meet the needs of their members both current and future.
On one side of the beam are the loyal and supportive long-time members with valuable experience in the field yet lacking in an understanding of current technologies such as social media. On the other side are new members at ease with social media and technology who want to learn as much as possible about genealogy yet are frustrated at what they see as outdated and inefficient practices.
The walk down that beam should not be predicated on keeping as many people as possible happy. The walk should be one which advances the mission of the society and embraces new technologies while still respecting tradition and helping members make the transition. Such a walk is possible with careful planning, committed execution, and thoughtful listening.
© 2010, copyright Thomas MacEntee
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Thomas MacEntee is a genealogist specializing in the use of technology and social media to improve genealogical research and as a means of interacting with others in the family history community. Utilizing over 25 years of experience in the information technology field, through his business High-Definition Genealogy, Thomas writes and lectures on the many ways in which blogs, Facebook and Twitter can be leveraged to add new dimensions to the genealogy experience. As the creator of GeneaBloggers.com he has organized and engaged a community of over 1,000 bloggers to document their own journeys in the search for ancestors.


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Volkswagen on Thursday denied speculation that it is working on a buyout offer for U.S. truck maker Paccar (NASDAQ:PCAR).
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Analysts at ISI Group and Bernstein Research quoted Daimler Trucks chief executive Wolfgang Bernhard as saying Volkswagen is eyeing an acquisition of Paccar, which has a market value of about $23.9 billion. Bernhard served on Volkswagen's management board from 2005 to 2007.
Shares of Bellevue, Wash.-based Paccar jumped 5.6% to $67.38 on the rumor.
"The biggest surprise from Wolfgang Bernhard's speech yesterday was that 'serious, multiple sources' suggest to him that VW is interested in buying Paccar," ISI's Arndt Ellinghorst wrote in a note to clients.
A Volkswagen spokesperson provided a "clear denial" that the German automaker is planning a bid. A representative of Daimler said the company has no further comment. Paccar didn't immediately respond to an inquiry from FOX Business.
Ellinghorst said any transaction would likely result in Volkswagen taking over Paccar's U.S. truck brands, while CNH Industrial (NYSE:CNHI) could pick up its European business, DAF Trucks.
The ISI analyst added that Daimler "is trying to make life difficult for anyone trying to further consolidate the industry" by floating the possibility of a Volkswagen-Paccar combination.
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QPR have confirmed the signing of Marseille striker Loic Remy for a club record fee.
The France international has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal at Loftus Road after choosing the Barclays Premier League basement boys over Newcastle. The official fee for the 26-year-old has not been disclosed.
Hoops boss Harry Redknapp told www.qpr.co.uk: "I'm delighted to bring him in - he's a great buy for us."
He added: "I didn't think we'd get him to be honest but (chairman) Tony Fernandes worked ever so hard on this. He wouldn't give up on it, and it's great that we now have him here with us.
"He's always been a player I've admired. I've watched him on so many occasions throughout the last few years. I actually spent three or four hours with him last year so he knew what I thought of him, and I think that was important.
"He's quick, can score goals and makes great runs. His movement is excellent. He's got the potential to be a really outstanding striker."
Remy, who has four goals in 17 caps for France, is eligible to make his Rangers debut against West Ham on Saturday, subject to receiving international clearance.
He said: "Harry played a big part in me coming here. I spoke to him and Tony Fernandes at length and they made it clear they wanted me here. They gave me the right motivation to join QPR.
"I want to develop my game here. This season the objective is to stay up but beyond that we have greater objectives. After seven years in France, this is the right time for me to pursue a new challenge in the Premier League - the best League in the world.
"I am confident I can adapt to the Premier League. My main characteristics have taken me to the level I am at today but I am keen to keep improving in the Premier League."


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BILBAO, SPAIN — This was more like it, what the U.S. National Team was after. Complete control over a clearly overmatched opponent.
Not that the Americans needed much of a confidence booster in pool play. But it never hurts to remind everyone in the FIBA World Cup field that the reigning champs aren't ready to relinquish their title just yet.
A slow start in Sunday's win over Turkey coupled with Monday's off day left plenty of time for people to question this team's potential and resolve. Their 98-71 smashing of New Zealand on Tuesday should serve as an appropriate response.
They are far from perfect. But in Group C they don't have to be. They are still working on things, still tinkering with the right combinations and rotations and still trying to find niches for others. Anthony Davis and Kenneth Faried continue to pace the U.S., combining for 36 points and 20 rebounds. The Americans overwhelmed New Zealand inside and went to the free-throw line 34 times. New Zealand was just 4-for-7 from the line.
"We definitely scored the ball, definitely got after it," Davis said. "It was a good test for us. We like playing against good competition, and they were definitely one of those opponents."
The shooters got in on the act earlier this time around, as Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were a combined 4-for-6 from beyond the 3-point line by halftime, when the U.S was already comfortably in control 57-35. The U.S. team didn't finish particularly well from the perimeter — it was just 6-for-16 (38 percent) for the game. But the team's strength inside enabled the U.S. to shoot 51 percent (35-for-68) overall.
"We had to come out more mature," Faried said. "After a [59]-point blowout win we had the night before, we kind of came in and 'ok, this is going to be easy; we can beat any team.' Turkey really smacked us; they smacked us in the first half. They woke us up and guys knew it's not going to be easy, and we have to come out each and every game and play our hearts out and give it our all if we want to go get this gold."
U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski started Derrick Rose after halftime in place of Kyrie Irving, a scoreboard move that allowed him to get Rose extended minutes in the first of what will be back-to-back-back games.
The U.S. improved to 3-0 with the win and finishes Group C play against the Dominican Republic on Wednesday and Ukraine on Thursday. New Zealand fell to 0-3.
The U.S. ran its streak of consecutive wins in international competitions (World Championship/World Cup/Olympics and exhibitions) to 57.
Group C: UKRAINE 64, TURKEY 58
Omer Asik finally had a breakout performance, piling up 10 points and 13 rebounds for Turkey in the first half against Ukraine. The New Orleans Pelicans big man owned the space around the basket, dominating in ways that he did not in two previous games.
He finished with 16 points and 20 rebounds, by far his best work of the competition, and got a nod of approval from his new frontcourt mate in New Orleans.
"I love it," Davis said as the U.S. team watched the end of the game from the tunnel on the end of the court before taking the floor for their game with New Zealand.
Asik's work alone wasn't enough to hold off the Ukraine, still smarting from a tough Sunday loss to Finland. Ukraine got huge contributions from up and down the roster while playing without starting shooting guard Sergiy Gladyr (sprained ankle).
Olexander Mishula led the way with 19 points and was money from deep (5-for-8), Ihor Zaytsev added 12 points (including a clutch late jumper) and Pooh Jeter scored 10 points and dished a game-high six assists.
Ukraine coach Mike Fratello said he spent Monday locked in his room studying tape and looking for ways to finally figure out a way to beat Turkey after struggling against them seemingly every time his team has played them during his four years coaching Ukraine.
That was time well spent, though, as Fratello's team looked sharp from the start and didn't allow Turkey to dictate tempo to them the way the U.S. did early on in their Sunday win over Turkey.
"My friends who have been here and fans of the team just say great things about the city," Fratello said of Bilbao. "Unfortunately, I haven't seen a whole lot of it. I've been seeing a lot of the inside of the hotel … but I walked, I took a walk late [Monday night]. I went around 11 o'clock, just to think, and what do I do, I run into a bunch of Turkish fans. Just what I needed."


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text: Go has a bigger branching factor than chess, as it starts with an empty board of 19x19, versus chess a loaded board of 8x8. The first few moves in go decide the outcome of the game already, as the rest is just a 'playout' of the first few moves. So what matters most is the first few moves in the game. It is easier to search selective in go than it is in chess. In chess selective searching is really tough to get to work well. In go you can throw away majority of the moves with near 100% sureness, some even with 100% sureness. Reason why chessprograms play so well is simply money and popularity of the game. Chess computers in the 80s and start 90s, used to export to 106 countries. I remember talking about producing a dedicated chesscomputer, and usually 100000 of them get printed. A minimum of 20000 pieces is needed to heat up the production line (Hong Kong, China). There is no go computers AFAIK, for simple reason that the only nation where you can sell your product is Japan. The 3 main nations where go gets played is China, Korea, Japan. So only Japan you could sell some if you have entrance to its very close market. In fact there is even a company that claims to have the rights on all human go games. At my chat is someone, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, whose program Leela you can buy. It is as we speak the strongest commercial go program on planet earth that you can buy. His engine focuses upon search, its knowlede is rather simplistic. He has a normal job just like you have one. So this is a sparetime written engine. Computerchess engines used to be fulltime work. When someone is jobless like me, you again work for a few months fulltime at it. There is 500 chess engines to compete with or so. In go the competition is very limited, only recently more engines are there. Most programmed by non-asian programmers. Not even from Asian decent. It's all about how much money you want to put in research. Would go have been the game been played in 106 nations and chess in just 3 from which only 1 has money and is a closed market, then we would be speaking now about a computer-go world champion program and wondering what makes computer chess so hard. In that case I would write then that if more money had been put at chess, that those engines would be stronger than the go engines. Don't count at it that the big supercomputers make any chance in go, neither in chess. The quality of the program is most important. As soon as you massively parallellize a strong engine, now *that* makes sense. Vincent On Jun 24, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Peter St. John wrote: > Programming a computer to play Go (an Asian strategy boardgame) has > been difficult; some people say it's proof that Go is better or > harder than chess, since computers can beat masters at chess but > struggle at Go. (I think that statistically a game of go is about > equivalent to a two-game match of chess; both games empty your > brain quickly of course). My view is that while go may be somewhat > harder to reduce to tree-searching, the main advantage of computer > chess was an early start, e.g. von Neumann. > > This article: > http://www.usgo.org/resources/downloads/CogApdx%20II-2.pdf > describes recent trends in computer Go and mentions a 32-node > cluster, 8 cores per node. Apparently MPI parallelization is recent > for them and they are making good progress. > > Peter > > The game Go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29 > AGA (American Go Association): http://www.usgo.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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WASHINGTON - The United States, Britain and Canada Monday announced new sanctions on Iran's energy and financial sectors, steps analysts said may raise pressure on Tehran but were unlikely to halt its nuclear program.
The United States named Iran as an area of "primary money laundering concern," a step designed to dissuade non-U.S. banks from dealing with it; blacklisted 11 entities suspected of aiding its nuclear programs; and expanded sanctions to target companies that aid its oil and petrochemical industries.
The United States stopped short, however, of targeting Iran's central bank, a step that could have cut it off from the global financial system, sent oil prices skyrocketing and jeopardized U.S. and European economic recovery.
In a coordinated action, Britain ordered all British financial institutions to stop doing business with their Iranian counterparts, including the Iranian central bank. A source familiar with the sanctions said the steps would not directly target trade in Iranian oil.
Canada said it would ban the export of all goods used in Iran's petrochemical, oil and gas industry and "block virtually all transactions with Iran," including with its central bank, with an exception for Iranian-Canadians to send money home.
While not taking concrete actions, France urged European Union and other nations to immediately freeze the assets of Iran's central bank and to suspend purchases of Iranian oil, steps it called "sanctions on an unprecedented scale."
The series of announcements were in response to a Nov. 8 International Atomic Energy Agency report that presented intelligence suggesting Iran had worked on designing an atomic bomb and may still be secretly carrying out related research.
That report, calls by U.S. lawmakers to sanction Iran's cental bank and media speculation about a possible Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear sites have pushed the Obama administration to seek tougher sanctions against Tehran.
Analysts said they did not believe the steps would dissuade Iran from pursuing its nuclear program, which Washington and its allies suspect is a cover for seeking nuclear arms. Iran says its nuclear work is entirely peaceful.
"Is this the straw that will break the camel's back? No," said George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank.
The range of unilateral steps planned by Western powers reflects the difficulty of persuading Russia and China not to veto further measures at the U.N. Security Council, where they have supported four previous sanctions resolutions.
The U.S. decision to name Iran as a money laundering concern has no direct effect - U.S. banks are already barred from transactions with Iranian financial institutions - and seems more a warning about the risks of dealing with Iran.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said any bank that deals with Iran's central bank or other financial institutions runs the risk of supporting Iran's "illicit activities" such as its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for terrorism and efforts to evade sanctions.
"Any and every financial transaction with Iran poses grave risk of supporting those activities, so financial institutions around the world should think hard about the risks of doing business with Iran," Geithner said in a joint appearance with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to announce the steps.
While the United States already seeks to prevent non-U.S. companies from large-scale investment in Iran's energy sector, the sanctions announced Monday would also target companies providing goods, services and technology for such activities.
Separately, diplomats said EU governments could reach a preliminary deal Tuesday to add about 190 Iranian people and entities to a list of those targeted by asset freezes and travel bans.
The new EU measures will likely aim at industries such as shipping and will be formalized at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Dec. 1, but discussions on possible further steps could take place in the coming days, diplomats said.
U.S. sanctions have already made it extremely difficult for many global oil companies and traders to obtain bank financing to trade Iranian crude, of which less than a third goes to Europe with the rest flowing to China and India.
In Tehran, Trade Minister Mehdi Ghazanfari said sanctions were hitting the Iranian economy but warned Western countries they were harming their own interests.
"Sanctions are a lose-lose game in which both sides make a loss. If they don't invest in our oil projects, they will lose an appealing market," Ghazanfari told a news conference before the British and U.S. announcements.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often said sanctions have little effect and in some cases make the economy stronger by making Iran find domestic solutions to challenges.
Ghazanfari reiterated that Iran had found alternatives to Western imports and investments but did not deny the downside.
"Facing hardship in a fight is inevitable. I admit projects will get harder as our trading costs will go up, delays will hit projects and money transfer will get harder," he said.
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No baby bump can get in the way of Reese Witherspoon maintaining her signature girl-next-door style—her third child is almost here!—thanks to a little help from her stylist Leslie Fremar. So what's the stylist's secret to a successful maternity look? "As a rule of thumb, pregnant women should wear more fitted clothes," Fremar told InStyle.com at the launch event for her latest Fruit of the Loom line of basics. "I think the inclination is to wear looser clothes, but it just makes you look bigger. Fitted clothes make you look smaller." Most recently, she put Witherspoon in a Versace LBD and Vanessa Bruno V-neck shift. And her reasoning is understandable: "It's not like people aren't aware of the changing shape of your body," she added. "Why hide it? Fitted clothes are most flattering." Do you agree?
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