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"Before, it felt finished. Now, it feels perfect. It feels like a proper thing."
The proper thing on the mind of 20-year-old shooting star Charli XCX is an album long in the making, one which finally sees the light of day in 2013. The wait has been as agonizing for Charli as it has been for her fan base -- rapidly swelling on both sides of the Atlantic, but patience has paid handsome dividends. The debut album she releases in 2013 -- perhaps unlike the album she could have released in 2012, or even 2011 -- finds XCX's vision fully realized. Sweeping synths, crunchy beats, emotive vocals, coy raps, spiky and persuasive lyricism and big ideas about life, love and everything else: The album tracks (and soundtracks) Charli's journey from teenager to young woman, but deftly swerves coming-of-age clichés.
"There were all these questions while I was making the album," Charli recalls. "Like how can I twist something mundane to something really amazing that's never been done before? How can I make beautiful pieces of pop? How can I just let my mind go and let all the colours flow out?" Many of the answers have only really appeared in the last twelve months as Charli's vision has finally come into focus. And now the album is finished, its ample vindication for one of Charli's most firmly-held beliefs: "We need to reboot British girl power."
Honed during support slots for artists like Sleigh Bells, Santigold and Coldplay, Charli's live performances, like her music, are raw but multi-layered, sometimes stark but with a clear beating human heart. Her collaborators -- Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Usher, Alex Clare, Solange Knowles), Patrik Berger (Lana Del Rey, Robyn), J£zus Million and Blood Diamonds -- have helped unlock a unique talent. All pop is here, from Siouxsie to Spiceworld, The Knife to Nirvana. To achieve her intricate, post-modern pop with its evocative titles like 'Nuclear Seasons', 'Stay Away' and 'You (Ha Ha Ha)' she is a lightning rod, pulling influences out of the sky and channeling them into the crunchy beats, fuzzy synths, bittersweet melodies and idiosyncratic perspectives that combine in the absorbing multi-media output of this compelling new artist.
Charli's world view is splashed in vivid colours across her artwork, her videos and her Tumblr but with a dark edge. Her personal style she describes as "Wednesday Addams meets Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice meets Baby Spice". She obsesses about Pierre et Giles and David La Chapelle, just two of the names whose work she fell in love with at art school. "I love hyperrealism in every aspect of what I do," she says. She'll also look to her favourite films -- The Craft, Carrie, Party Monster, Clueless -- for inspiration. The brilliant but brutal 'How Can I' is directly influenced by Carrie. "I think of John Travolta being a dick, and that sweet guy with the terrible hair dancing, and the moment when she goes apeshit at the end. It's like 'how can I fix what I fucked up?' Well, Carrie, you can't. You are now dead in a grave with your hand poking out'."
As we know, Charli XCX's story is no overnight success. In 2006, when Charli was 14 she organized her live performances through MySpace and regaled crowds with "nursery rhyme-esque rap pieces with me shouting 'DINOSAUR SEX!' while standing on a crate in a warehouse". As a live promoter her dad had, once upon a time, booked acts like Bob Marley and Siouxsie & The Banshees at his club nights, but even he couldn't prepare Charli for the parties she found herself performing at. "Call me sheltered," she says, "but at 14 I'd never dreamed that I'd be singing while people were running around half naked on ketamine squirting each other with glitter guns."
Her life split in two. During the day she'd be at school -- she loved art, hated music ("an awful dictatorship") -- and afterwards she'd write songs and produce raw demos in the bedroom of her parents' house. By night, she'd be in London in a "colourful, glittery world that didn't really mean that much, but never claimed to either". Soon songs called things like 'Art Bitch' and (in reference to a crap girl from school) '!Franchesckaar!', created quite a buzz even sound tracking catwalk shows in London and New York for the likes of Marc Jacobs and Victoria's Secret. For Interview magazine, she was photographed by David Bailey in a skintight Pam Hogg creation ("I had no idea what I was doing and left my pants on, so there's a huge knickerline!"). These were exciting times, and then... Well, she'll admit it now -- she just didn't have enough decent songs. The buzz buzzed off, as it does. In the unforgiving world of next big things, some thought Charli XCX had disappeared. "So did I!" she roars today, laughing her head off. "It was tough, and frustrating. I had a period of just asking myself, 'how do I get out of this rut?'."
Charli met Ariel Rechtshaid on a trip to LA and wrote and recorded 'Stay Away' in their first morning together. The song marked a turning point, going a long way to defining her sound and causing blog fever when posted on line. Soon afterwards she travelled to Sweden to work with Patrik Berger who sent her some tracks the day before the session. She was instantly captivated by one of them, wrote to it all night in her hotel room, and the next day turned up to meet Patrik with 'You're the One', another key release and now a live favourite (She also wrote the global hit IconaPop song 'I Love It' that same night). As Charli hit her stride she grew to realize that her early stuff -- the parties, her diy releases, the jumping up and down shouting about dinosaurs -- wasn't a false start, just a chance to experiment when nobody was looking. "If I'd rushed to put out more songs when I was younger I know I'd be regretting it now," she admits, "but I know that I'll never fall out of love with 'Stay Away'."
Between starting and finishing the album she found herself listening to acts on the fringes of pop like Salem, Purity Ring, Hercules & Love Affair, Art Of Noise's 'The Seduction of Claude Debussy', and through collaborating with Ariel Charli had discovered the a darker, less transient style she'd been heading towards for the previous few years. "I'm fascinated by pop music being picture-perfect on the outside and warped and fucked up underneath," she explains, and it's a stance that's hard to ignore when immersed in her debut album. For instance there's 'You're The One' ("the ultimate 'wow I'm so in love that I'm exploding from every orifice' song"), but then there's 'Stay Away' ("the flipside, the dark side when it's emotionally heavy and it gets warped and fucked"). And then, she adds, there are "party jams, but not bad party jams that make you hate the world. They're not 'I'm in a club with my ho's', they're 'I'm in a Japanese club filled with amazing neons and I feel like I'm in the 80s but I'm not'."
2011 and 2012 were all about perfecting the sound, and honing her impressive live show. The Alex Metric collaboration 'End Of The World' created the right ripples in the right places, while the low-key release of 'Nuclear Seasons' (complete with a video made by Charli and her film-maker boyfriend over a weekend in Wales, that brought Charli's vision to life in broad, epic, colourful-but-distressed strokes), as well as contributing a song to the soundtrack of British movie Elfie Hopkins all added to Charli's momentum. "Some of my music is still very teen orientated -- I'm still pretty much a teenager -- but there's love in there and darker thoughts in terms of relationships," she says of her album "True Romance," due out later in the year. "And there are still couple of fuck you songs on there -- I have a lot of up days and a lot of fuck-the-world days, so there are party jams and dark warped depressing songs."
In 2013 XCX sees herself slotting in alongside sparky teenage girls who grew up in the shadow of the Spice Girls -- think artists like Grimes and Sky Ferreira, and who seem inspired by the useful bits of girl power. "90s kids are pretty fucking cool when it comes to music," Charli notes, "and pop's being taken seriously again now, which is exactly what it deserves".
Any other ambitions? Well, apart from continuing to write and create with people who inspire her, there's also Charli longing to have "these huge industrial fans on stage with loads of streamers that kind of turn and it's a bit epic, and there are glitter cannons and coloured smoke that make it completely apocalyptic". So if you see that happening on stage at any point, you'll know everything's going to plan. Until then there's an album of abnormally excellent, forward-facing pop that creates its own universe just as effortlessly as it will fit into yours.


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Established in 2005, the Carolina Challenge has become one of the most dynamic and exciting hallmarks of the UNC entrepreneurship ecosystem. As UNC's flagship new venture competition, the Carolina Challenge gives students, staff, faculty, and alumni the chance to win seed funding for their early-stage idea.
Approximately $50K in total prize money is distributed amongst the most promising ventures each year, with a top prize of $15K. Perhaps most alluring about the Carolina Challenge, however, is that it welcomes such a diverse population of aspiring entrepreneurs from throughout the University community. Individuals from 30 different disciplines across campus participated in the 2012 competition.
The Carolina Challenge is much more than a business plan competition. A robust series of networking events and educational workshops held throughout the academic year provide aspiring entrepreneurs with hands-on experience in evaluating and communicating their venture ideas.
Also, venture pitch events such as IdeaHatch and Pitch Party are catalysts for dynamic interactions between students and seasoned entrepreneurs eager to offer their mentorship. In fact, nearly 200 entrepreneurs, industry experts and alumni generously donate their time and energies to the Challenge program each year. This vibrant and extensive support network is one of the Carolina Challenge's greatest strengths.
The Carolina Challenge is segmented into several tracks to help match teams with judges who have the relevant expertise to evaluate each opportunity. The competition itself is characterized by several distinct stages (or rounds) of increasing difficulty in terms of competitiveness and required preparation.
In the initial Elevator Pitch Round, teams deliver a brief venture pitch and answer several minutes of questions from a panel of judges. Teams who advance to the Semifinals must write and submit a business plan as part of their required deliverables.
In the spirit of building a more open and instructive competition experience, teams are given the opportunity to observe the pitches of other teams in their assigned room. After the pitches and Q&A sessions have concluded, judges and teams engage in an interactive Round Robin feedback session. The Round Robin provides teams with the opportunity to receive individualized advice from the judges as well as follow up on specific questions or concerns. This format has proven successful in part because it eradicates previous realities of venture competitions as predominantly transactional experiences and transforms them into valuable learning experiences.
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A Hope College professor is hoping that his research into how Japan is caring for its burgeoning elderly population will provide insights as the U.S. copes with the same need as the "baby boomer" generation ages.
Dr. Roger Nemeth of the sociology faculty and a team of five Hope students will be journeying to Japan this summer to survey the directors and volunteers of non-profit organizations that provide in-home care to the elderly as an alternative to nursing-home care.
"The Japanese have hit a financial wall when it comes to caring for the elderly because they simply can't afford to institutionalize everyone with health care needs," said Nemeth, a professor of sociology at Hope, where he has taught since 1983. "They've had to get pretty creative about how they provide care in the home."
Nemeth noted that Japan's experience can be valuable to the U.S. because in about 10 years the U.S. will be facing the same demographic situation - a dramatic increase in the percentage of elderly citizens needing care of some sort - that Japan is handling now.
"We'd be wise to learn from the Japanese and how they're dealing with this," he said. "The economic burden of caring for the elderly through assisted living would be overwhelming, so we have to be creative and figure out how to provide for some of these needs."
Nemeth's project has recently received support through the ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program for Collaborative Research in Asia. The $40,000 grant will enable him and the students to spend three weeks collecting data and conducting interviews in Japan, primarily in the greater Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. They will analyze the material during the remainder of the summer and during the 2009-10 school year.
Nemeth noted that Japan has a higher percentage of its population over the age of 65 than any other country in the world, due to high life expectancy and a reduced birth rate. Further, he said, Japan's post-war "baby boom" group will also soon be reaching ages at which many of them will require increased health care.
Traditionally, Nemeth said, extended families in Japan cared for their elderly relatives, but the society has changed in recent decades. The low birth rate means that there are fewer children to care for aging parents. Further, more women are working, which means they aren't able to assume the primary-care role they once held. And, Japan is more urbanized - one-fourth of the nation's population, Nemeth said, lives in the Tokyo-Yokohama metro area--with the result that many households simply don't have room.
The non-profits, he said, have stepped in to help meet the need by helping the aging population in their homes. How well it's working is what he and the students are hoping to discover.
"All the questions we're going to be asking are focused on the extent to which this type of in-home care really addresses the health-care issues facing Japan," he said. "This is exploratory research--we may be surprised by what we find."
Two key considerations, he said, are whether or not the organizations have the capacity to meet the need, and whether or not the model is sustainable based on the volunteer labor required.
According to Nemeth, the U.S. is about a decade away from seeing the same sort of population shift that Japan is experiencing based on the aging of its "baby boomer" population. Japan's baby boom, he said, peaked in the years immediately after World War II, while the U.S. increase continued to climb into the 1950s.
Nemeth has visited Japan seven times since 1980, including for a semester as the college's exchange professor to Meiji Gakuin University in 2002. He has led the college's May Term to Japan multiple times, most recently in 2006.
The students who will be accompanying him are all sociology majors who have also studied Japanese. They are freshman Kari Bechtel of Bellingham, Wash.; junior Amanda Bruff of Flint; senior David Dethmers of Effingham, Ill.; freshman Alexander Krieg of Franklin; and junior Lindsay Ter Haar of Holland.
Established in 1992, ASIA Network is a consortium of liberal arts colleges focused on promoting Asian studies and has 168 institutional members, and the fellowships funded through the Freeman Foundation are designed to encourage undergraduate research in Asia. The Freeman Foundation is a private foundation that was established in 1993 through the bequest of Mansfield Freeman, a co-founder of the international insurance and financial conglomerate American International Group Inc. (AIG), and is dedicated to increasing international understanding between the United States and the nations of East Asia principally through the distribution of grants in education.


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Printing and Copying: Printing from computers is available for $.20 per page. OPL also has a black and white and a color copier for public use.
Coppa Collection: In addition to our regular collection, OPL boasts an extensive "Coppa Collection," local events (i.e. sporting events at local schools, parades, town meetings and more) on tape. Some recordings are available for library users to check out. Library users may also purchase copies of any event for $10 per DVD. Request forms are available at the Information Desk.
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A pregnant South Bay woman and her unborn baby have become the latest casualties of this year's influenza season.
Los Angeles County public health officials confirmed Thursday that influenza A (H1N1) was associated with the death that occurred in an area hospital.
No information has been disclosed about where the woman lived, how far along she was in her pregnancy, whether she'd had a flu shot or what hospital she had been in when she died. County public health officials said it also is unknown whether there were contributing complications.
It is the 52nd flu-associated death countywide among men, women and children of all ages, health officials said. It is not known if any of the other deaths have occurred in the South Bay.
Although influenza activity has recently been on the decline, health officials stressed that it is not too late to get a flu shot. The vaccinations are safe for pregnant women, who can receive them at any stage during pregnancy, officials said.
"This sad event demonstrates that serious complications can occur with flu infection in pregnant women," said Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding, director of public health. "We recommend that everyone, 6 months of age or older, receive either the influenza shot or the nasal spray vaccine and to practice basic hygiene, such as hand washing and covering coughs and sneezes, to prevent the spread of influenza and other respiratory diseases."
Immediate treatment with antiviral medication is recommended for pregnant women with flu-like symptoms, a news release from the county health department said.
Symptoms include fever, cough, headache and muscle ache within the first three to five days of illness, the statement said.
"The flu can affect each person differently," Fielding said in a statement. "Most individuals who get sick are able to treat themselves at home with over-the-counter medications, drinking plenty of fluids, resting and staying home from work or school. Others may develop complications such as pneumonia."
Local clinics and pharmacies offer the flu shot for a nominal fee.
This year's flu season was particularly harsh because of the predominant H1N1 strain, the same one that killed up to 203,000 worldwide in 2009.
In California, 243 people have died of the flu so far this season. Four of those were pediatric deaths. New totals are expected to be released Friday. At the same time last year, there were 106 deaths.
The number of those who have died has garnered much attention this year, because many of the deaths and hospitalizations have been among those 18 to 64, or younger than usual. Yet the total number of deaths may never be known because influenza-related deaths among those 65 and older go unreported in California and across much of the nation.
But a national report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that California hospitals may not be doing all that can be done to save lives.
Using data supplied by the California Department of Public Health, the report concludes that vaccination rates in California remained low, and "in most cases, antiviral treatment was not given as soon as recommended."
Of the first 80 deaths reported in California, 74 had underlying medical conditions known to increase the risk of severe influenza. But of 47 who were hospitalized and later died, only eight, or 17 percent, received antiviral treatment.
"Empiric antiviral treatment should be promptly initiated when influenza virus infection is suspected in hospitalized patients, despite negative results from rapid diagnostic tests," the CDC said.
Dr. Gil Chavez, an epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, said there were various reasons why a patient may not receive treatment on time including access to medical care, timing of doctors' visits, early recognition of an influenza-like illness, and the identification of an influenza virus infection.
But Chavez emphasized that caregivers should not wait for the results of testing that confirms flu is present.
"Hospitalized patients suspected to have influenza should be started on antiviral therapy as soon as possible and treatment should not await confirmatory testing," Chavez said.


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Farm bill talks revving up
Measured in planted acres, rice, peanuts and barley could fit in the back pasture of most farm bills. Measured in politics, they crowd right up to the road.
Rice is big for Arkansas where the farm bill is already an issue between Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor and his Republican challenger, Rep. Tom Cotton, in the 2014 election. Peanuts are a cash crop important to Georgia and its Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss — Speaker John Boehner's old pal and a veteran deal maker who came up through agriculture in his early years in the House.
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And barley? Well, barley is literally its own political brew: selling for animal feed at one price but also capable of earning as much as one-third higher when "malted" — an important ingredient for beer. Northwest Minnesota is barley country and home to Rep. Collin Peterson, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee and driving force now behind plans to almost double the barley target price in support of the richer malted market.
All this history is again relevant this week as the House-Senate farm bill talks begin to heat up — with Boehner saying privately that he will finally appoint House conferees.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) is seeking a "Big Four" meeting of the top negotiators in advance. And the University of Missouri's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, or FAPRI, has weighed in with an analysis of the House and Senate bills.
Alongside the Congressional Budget Office and the Agriculture Department itself, FAPRI brings to the table a respected economic model to measure the impact of target prices set by lawmakers. It's a farm bill player in its own right and the 30-page report contains a wealth of data important to the debate.
On balance, FAPRI's verdict is gentle: "Under both bills, the average estimated impacts on production and prices are generally small relative to normal annual variation caused by other factors." But the report does raise a red flag in the case of rice, peanuts and barley.
Most of the focus is on the House bill which raises the target prices for all three crops and then leaves the door open for farmers to increase production up to a cap. FAPRI's model shows more planted acres as a result but also predicts market prices will fall and farmers end up more dependent on the government for a share of their returns.
In the case of peanuts, FAPRI predicts a drop of market returns of $70 per acre, offset by a $110 government payment under the House's new price loss coverage or PLC program. Barley is down about $15 per acre on the market end; up $44 from PLC. Rice drops about $20 per acre but then gets $75 per acre from the government under the House approach.
At one level, this remains a backroom brawl. Rice, peanuts and barley add up to just 7.4 million planted acres in the FAPRI baseline or about 3 percent of the total for all of American agriculture. Corn and soybeans, by comparison, account for more than 168 million planted acres or 66 percent of the total.
Indeed, FAPRI's model shows that the Senate farm bill's treatment of corn could lead to an added 230,000 acres of corn production. That's just a .3 percent change but not really so much less than the estimated 300,000 added planted acres predicted for rice, barley and peanuts — altogether — under FAPRI's model of the House bill.
But wasting no time, the soybean lobby has been quick to jump on the findings, saying that FAPRI's numbers show the potential for "global market distortions, which would increase U.S. farm program vulnerability to challenges under the World Trade Organization."
Before he shifted to corn and soybeans, Danny Murphy, president of the American Soybean Association, grew cotton on his land in Mississippi. And that experience echoes in his response now.


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HILLSBORO, Ore., Dec. 2, 2011 – SolarWorld Industries America Inc. commended a key, unanimous U.S. trade determination issued today that Chinese imports of solar cells and panels into the United States have harmed American domestic solar manufacturers. The company said the resounding ruling confirms the position of a manufacturing coalition it leads that China's systematic and state-sponsored unfair trade practices are anticompetitive.
The U.S. International Trade Commission ruling advances its investigation, along with a parallel U.S. Department of Commerce investigation, into whether the government should apply remedies to prevent further harm. The investigations began in response to petitions by SolarWorld Industries America Inc., the largest U.S. solar manufacturer, and the Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM), which represents more than 150 employers of more 11,000 workers. So far, CASM contends, China's export drive has cost Americans about 2,000 direct jobs throughout the United States and many more at the subcontractor level.
"SolarWorld and countless other participants in the U.S. solar industry stand for sustainable production in the major markets where solar is sold, for healthy, international and sustainable competition, and for sustainable environmental practices in producing and deploying renewable energy," said Gordon Brinser, president of SolarWorld Industries America Inc. and leader of CASM. "Conversely, nothing about China's export campaign has proven to be sustainable, including its subsidized and dumped pricing.
"Today's unanimous vote is another step toward restoring the healthy global competition in the solar industry that has reliably driven down production costs and prices by 10 percent or so a year for many years," Brinser said. "We only ask for fair and legal competition, which is good for industry and consumers alike."
In a letter to President Obama issued today, about 60 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives concurred, raising concerns that China's anticompetitive trade practices undermine innovation, jobs and efficiency. Obama has expressed similar concerns in response to questions about the case last month.
As soon as Jan. 12, the U.S. Department of Commerce could determine preliminary trade remedies as well as "critical circumstances," meaning that China had mounted a surge of U.S. imports to circumvent the imposition of tariffs. If Commerce does both, importers would have to put up bonds or cash deposits on estimated duties on imports back to Oct. 14, 2011. On Nov. 9, the Commerce Department initiated its investigations and found that the domestic industry supported the petitions.
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
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text: Home- Faculty Search- Faculty Directory- Georgia Frank Colgate Directory FACULTY DETAIL < BACK TO RESULTS Georgia FrankCharles A. Dana Professor of Religion; Director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program Religion , 301B Lawrence Hall p email@example.com ACADEMIA.EDU Degrees BA, Barnard College, Columbia University; MTS, AM, PhD, Harvard University Teaching Experience Harvard University; College of the Holy Cross Specialties Ancient Christianity Interests Ancient Christian pilgrimage, icons, relics, monasticism Other My research centers on the role of bodies, places, and pictures in the ancient Christian imagination during the fourth through sixth centuries. This was a transitional and transformative time for ancient Christians (and new converts), as the previously banned religion became a religion tied to imperial power. I am most interested in how Christians understood their relation to the material world. Can places be holy? Can the body be trusted or somehow trained to perceive or even reveal God? These questions are at the heart of The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity (2000), which explores the role of the senses in early Christian pilgrims' writings about their encounters with desert monastics and the biblical past. Since the book, my attention has shifted from those who left home (e.g., pilgrims and monastics) to those who stayed put, namely, preachers and ordinary Christians. A central figure in my recent work is Romanos the Melodist, a sixth-century preacher from Constantinople. His sung sermons performed on feast days retold biblical events giving speech to new or neglected figures (e.g., Judas, the Virgin Mary, Peter, Satan, even personifications of Death). I present my work in conferences on Early Christianity, Art History, Byzantine Studies, and Classics in the United States, France, Israel, and Britain. Publications Published: "Memory and Forgetting in Romanos the Melodist's 'On the Newly Baptized,'" in Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity. Edited by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Lorenzo Perrone. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages series (Y. Hen, general editor). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. 37-55. "The Memory Palace of Marcellinus: Athanasius and the Mirror of the Psalms," in Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau. Edited by Blake Leyerle and Robin Darling Young. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. 97-124. "Sensing Ascension in Early Byzantium," in Experiencing Byzantium: Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, edited by Claire Nesbitt and Mark P. C. Jackson. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Pp. 293–309. "Telling Jerusalem: Miracles and the Moveable Past in Late Antique Christianity," in Objects in Motion: The Circulation of Religion and Sacred Objects in the Late Antique and Byzantine World. Edited by Hallie Meredith. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2247. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011. Pp. 49-54. "Death in the Flesh: Picturing Death's Body and Abode in Late Antiquity," in Looking Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History. Edited by Colum Hourihane. State Park, Penn.; Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. Pp. 58-74. "Christ's Descent to the Underworld in Ancient Ritual and Legend," in Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity, ed. Robert Daly. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2009. Pp. 211-26. "L'eucharistie et la mémoire sensorielle selon Jean Chrysostome," in Pratiques de l'eucharistie dans les Églises d'Orient et d'Occident (Antiquité et Moyen Âge). Eds. Nicole Bériou, Béatrice Caseau, and Dominique Rigaux. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, série Moyen Âge et Temps Modernes, vols. 45-46. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2009. Vol. 2, pp. 765-78. "Pilgrimage," Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 826-43. "From Antioch to Arles: Lay Devotion in Context." In The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 2: Constantine to c. 600. Eds. Augustine Cassaday and Frederick Norris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 531-47. "Loca Sancta Souvenirs and the Art of Memory," in Pèlerinages et lieux saints dans l'antiquité et le moyen âge : mélanges offerts à Pierre Maraval. Eds. Béatrice Caseau, Jean-Claude Cheynet and Vincent Déroche. Paris : Travaux et Mémoires. Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2006. Pp. 193-201. "The Image in Tandem: Painting Metaphors and Moral Discourse in Late Antique Christianity." In The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles. Edited by Richard Valantasis et al. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, 59. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2006. Pp. 33-47. "Romanos and the Night Vigil in the Sixth Century." In A People's History of Christianity, vol. 3: Byzantine Christianity. Ed. by Derek Krueger. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2006. Pp. 59-78. "Dialogue and Deliberation: The Making of the Sensory Self in the Hymns of Romanos the Melodist." In Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Ed. by David Brakke, Steve Weitzman, and Michael Satlow. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. 163-79. "'Taste and See': The Eucharist and the Eyes of Faith in the Fourth Century," Church History 70 (2001): 619-43. The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 30; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). "Macrina's Scar: Homeric Allusion and Heroic Identity in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina, "Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000): 511-30 "The Pilgrim's Gaze in the Age before Icons," in Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance. Edited by Robert S. Nelson. (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 98-115 "Miracles, Monks, and Monuments: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto as Pilgrims' Tales" in Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, David Frankfurter, ed. (REligions in the Greco-Roman World; Leiden: Brill, 1998), 483-505 "The Historia Monachorum and Ancient Travel Writing" in Studia Patristica 30 (1997) "Pilgrims' Experience and Theological Challenge: Two Patristic Views" in Akten des XII. Internationalen Kongresses fur Christliche Archaologie (Bonn 22-28, September 1991) Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum, Erganzungsbande, 20:1-2, 1995. Vol. 2, pp. 787-91 Dissertation "The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrimage to Desert Ascetics in the Christian East during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries" Advisers: Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University); Helmut Koester, Margaret Miles (Harvard) Professional Experience Anonymous reader for Patristic Monograph Series - University of California Press, Oxford University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Spiritus Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity, Society of Biblical Literature, Steering Committee member (2005-2008) Chair, Core 151: Western Traditions, Colgate University (2005-2008) Sub-Editor (Byzantine and Eastern Christianity), Religious Studies Review (2005-2008) Editorial Adviser, Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (2000-present) Member-at-Large, Governing Board, North American Patristics Society (2002-2005) History of Christianity Section, American Academy of Religion, Co-chair (1999-2002), Steering Committee member (1997-1999) Byzantine Studies Conference, Program Committee and Jury for Graduate Awards (1998-2000, 2008-present) Acting Managing Editor, Harvard Theological Review and Harvard Dissertations in Religion (1990), Editorial Assistant (1987-1991) Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Sart Mustafa, Turkey: Research Assistant in archives and publications division (1985-1987, 1990), Excavation Registrar, on-site, (1986, 1987) Distinctions Colgate Presidential Scholar Member of Phi Beta Kappa National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003) National Endowment for the Humanities - American Academy in Rome Summer Seminar (2002) American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1998-99) American Association of University Women Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1998-99) American Council of Learned Societies - Contemplative Practice Fellowship (1997) National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1997) Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (1991-92) Harvard Graduate Student Council International Conference Grant (1991) Harvard University Scholarship (1987-1993) Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Travel Grant (1986, 1987)


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Brussels, 11 June 2012
European Union and China step up cooperation in agriculture and rural development
The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloş, and China Minister for Agriculture, Han Changfu, signed today in Beijing a Cooperation Plan on Agriculture and Rural Development. Building on established relations between China and the European Union, this Plan will give a new impetus to our partnership and bring mutual benefits by establishing a stronger and closer relationship in agriculture, so that we tackle bilateral and international challenges more effectively together.
Both sides will in particular gain from sharing ideas, best practices, and innovative solutions. We will address issues of food security, as well as our environmental challenges, so as to make agriculture more sustainable and enhance agricultural trade relations. Focusing on common priorities will bring new momentum to EU-China relations in agriculture and rural development. Priority sectors for cooperation may include: food security, international cooperation, environmental-friendly agriculture, organic farming, and food safety.
Commissioner Dacian Cioloş commented: "Agriculture is of crucial interest for both China and the European Union. We share a strong interest in deepening our bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture and rural development. This Cooperation Plan is a new step in our commitment to work together to address common challenges – in particular food security, rural development, food safety and climate change. We can meet these challenges by establishing a stronger and closer relationship in agriculture, at bilateral and international level, through very concrete cooperation projects and actions."
Minister Han Changfu further stated: "Agricultural cooperation between China and the European Commission enjoys remarkable achievements and bright prospects. Thus, to promote our bilateral cooperation in the agricultural sector serves our interests of both sides, and represents aspirations shared by China and the European Union. I am confident that with our concerted efforts, agricultural cooperation between China and the European Union will surely realize mutual benefits, win-win results and common development".
The EU-China trade in agricultural and food products has been growing steadily over the past few years. The EU and China are two major trading partners in agriculture: the EU is currently the third largest export market of agricultural products for China and the fifth largest source of import for Chinese market. The EU-China Dialogue on Agriculture established in July 2005 enables both China and the European Union to exchange on bilateral and multilateral agricultural issues and promote mutual understanding, trust and bilateral co-operation. Pilot projects were launched successfully, such as the Task Force on Agriculture and Food Biotechnology, and a proposed agro-ecological conducted under the joint program MSRP (EU-China Policy Dialogue Support Facility). Building on these fruitful experiences, the EU and China are willing to take this dialogue further and to start a strengthened cooperation in the field of agricultural research, rural development, food security and quality policies.
This plan will first lay the foundation for enhanced cooperation between the EU and China at the multilateral level and in international discussions. Both parties will agree on the continuation and intensification of consultations and coordination on themes related to agriculture and rural development during the events of high international standard and among the platforms and multilateral forums like the G20. It will bring results and mutual benefits through exchange of best practices, and sharing ideas in areas of common interests: research and innovation, climate change, food security and rural development. Each Party will learn from the experience of others and will thus face common challenges such as the preservation and revitalization of rural areas.
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Raising children in any city or culture will cost you. In fact, the price of caring for children adds up quick: The US Department of Agriculture estimates that the average middle-income family will spend almost $300,000 to raise a child from birth to age 18. While the trend to splurge on swanky goods for your child can be tempting when you have extra funds, there is plenty of great gear you can get on the cheap at superstores like Ikea. Here are a handful of perfectly acceptable (in fact, cute!) must haves you should shop for with a deal in mind if you have an infant or toddler.


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Correspondence between Sens. Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle, Democrats from South Dakota, and the Bush Administration demonstrates the disagreements surrounding the labeling law scheduled to take effect in September 2004.
The two senators say they are have several concerns with the way the Administration has managed the rulemaking process for country of origin labeling, and are both "troubled and disappointed" that groups supportive of the labeling law were not afforded the access to the Administration provided to those against the law.
"While we understand the Administration is opposed to COOL, it remains the law and needs to be implemented in a fair and open manner," the two senators say.
"Some groups supportive of COOL have expressed concerns that the Office of Management and Budget reviewed the 200-page rule in a hurried manner," the letter states. "Some have even suggested the Administration was pressured by COOL opponents to hasten the release of an inflated cost estimate for COOL in order to impact a vote on a related Senate amendment."
"Our concern that the Administration may not intend to implement the COOL law in a balanced fashion was elevated by an Oct. 27 letter from OMB to USDA," said the senators. "The letter regurgitates claims about the cost and impact of COOL on affected parties and the U.S. economy, while neglecting to describe the benefits of such a program."
The Office of Management and Budget's letter to USDA addressed its concerns about the program's cost to consumers, which that agency says are "substantially in excess of any benefits."
Sens. Johnson and Daschle say the letter from OMB to USDA is "a transparent signal that the administration may be working to engineer a repeal of the law an entire year before it is set to be implemented and before the comment period for the proposed rule has concluded."
Fred Stokes, a Mississippi cattle producer and president of the Organization for Competitive Markets, believes USDA has made progress in improving the proposed mandatory rule since its release of voluntary COOL guidelines last November.
"The rule-making process is working in that some of our concerns have been addressed, and that process must be allowed to continue," Stokes says. "USDA also recognized that their initial record-keeping cost estimate was inflated. We now have a clear idea of the rules and can eliminate meat packer arguments speculating on what the rules could say."
"We feel that some of the discrepancies in the first draft have been resolved. However, USDA fails to recognize the obvious benefits of COOL which have been validated by every credible study to examine the issue," Stokes says.
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is not quite so optimistic. In a recent newsletter to its members, the commodity group says, "USDA estimates that implementation costs of the proposed mandatory rule could be as high as $3.9 billion in the first year alone.
"We maintain that a market driven, producer-led country of origin labeling program will allow producers to participate at their choosing without incurring unnecessary costs. Cattlemen are hoping Congress will find a way to rework the law so it helps, not hinders – the profitability of cow-calf producers."


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Actually this was a fantastic review. You gave answers to all questions I had in mind and even some more! Thanks a lot!Rattlehead wrote:Hope I havn't blabbed on too much
Actually this was a fantastic review. You gave answers to all questions I had in mind and even some more! Thanks a lot!Rattlehead wrote:Hope I havn't blabbed on too much
Lee, Have I done something to upset you?leepasty wrote:Tone was at the BKSA round 1 last week and I saw him on the beach and around the start area and that was it. I think if you are keen on course racing you are much better off buying a year old board for the same money- i have a north ltd 69 for sale
funny thing is on the beach he was saying prob for downwind is it has too much rocker, which also means slow upwind but if its any flatter you cant ride it when its windy. seems like too many comprimises means its very average all round.
another funny thing was he didnt race on the sunday as it was light rain and he said Flysurfers dont work if wet
Hi Nico,Nico wrote:Been reading your reviews with interest as I love prototyping and building my own exentric stuff.
One point that hasn't at all been brought up and that struck from the beginning as a NO NO for this system: Safety ??
Anybody ever had injuries or close shaves with that fin when it is partially or fully up between your feet.?
Downwind you will probably want as little as possible of that long dagger in the water, so any unlucky fall could result in you racing on with only one foot.
Thoughts ?
Rattlehead wrote:I had a fly race for about 6 months , got a hell of a lot of use out of it , traded it about 3 months ago for a 190 x 70 naish 2012 Venturi race board . Pro' s and con' s for the flyrace.
The fly surfer flyrace gets going in just as little wind as the directional race board , the flyrace is fun to use and as quick upwind and downwind as the directional board in the right conditions(i'll come back to this). The adjustable fin means you don't have to walk out a mile to get going without hitting the bottom. Tacking is easy but gybing fast is a little more technical. The board is very robust and nowhere near as fragile as the directional boards. It's light and easy to transport as especially easy to carry down to the water with a kite flying over your head.goes up wind like it is on rails and in my opinion points just as high as the directional board...
You need to constantly adjust the fin . Upwind you need to get the fin in the right position for the power of your kite , if you a little under powered you need to have the fin all the way down ,if you start getting powered you pull the fin up a little , about 40-50 mm is the sweet spot ,you get the fin right and the board hauls ass . Reaching you need to bring the fin up to nearly half way and down wind I had a stopper made up so it could only come up all the way except 75 mm or so.also you need to cant the fin backwards and forwards after each tack or gybe , by canting the board it seems to allow you more control.
All this fin adjustment is a pain in the butt , if you don't get the fin in the right spot you can't push as hard , to much fin the board rounds up and feels overpowered and not enough fin you lose drive. the advantage of the directional race board is no need to worry about where your fin is.
The stance is good for short distances ,because it is twin tip ( goes either direction) the stance is fairly harsh on your legs ( position of the straps)cause your trying to keep the board flat . This Is a big difference I noticed straight away with my new board , because of the footstep positions it's a heap more comfortable I like it to riding a sailboard , I can go miles upwind/ downwind on the same tack with no discomfort , the fly race after about 10 mins on the one tack you really start to feel the burn.
Downwind pushing it hard in a chop is fairly sketchy , first you need to get the fin within an inch of the sweetspot ,because the board is designed to go in either direction there is minimum rocker , so it is super easy to stuff the nose into the back of a wave . The new board is a dream to sail downwind compared to the flyrace , the new 3 fin racebords go downwind like a rocket ship on rails ...I'm yet to stick the nose in on the new board because it's got rocker in the front the front sits way up in the air. Whilst pushing the flysurfer hard in a decent breeze and waves the nosedive over the handlebars was a common occurrence.also downwind the ramped footpads are painful , because down wind you want to stand more upright to get the weight over the board ,you feet are constintly at a rediculas angle , this is good for short distances ,long distances is a struggle .mind you this is at race speed , when your just cruising you can back off a little and it's not as bad.
Overall I love the flyrace and got right into it , this is not a board you can jump straight on and go flatstrap , it takes a decent amount of time to get the feel for the board , in flat water I would put it up against any race board , the 2 big problems are the fin , (getting it in the right position for the conditions too much and it will spit you off , not enough and it lacks drive)I made up a handle for the centerboard because I had trouble reaching it whilst it was all the way down ( dodgy knee) . And the lack of rocker downwind in a chop is a killer.
Overall great build quality and great for those looking for a light wind board or a board to dabble in some racing , it very technical to get full potential out of though.
Hope I havn't blabbed on too much
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"You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold."Clearly, he meant to say "so many of these people are so poor and so many of them are black," and his instinct for poetic parallelism led him to bumble into an extra "so." But perhaps some people do think his mistake let racism show.
Blitzer's quote mentions Jack Cafferty, and throughout the afternoon, Cafferty had been drawing attention to the way the media has not been talking about the plainly visible fact that nearly all the stranded victims of the flooding in New Orleans are black. Cafferty was discussing Jack Shafer's Slate article. Shafer wrote:
My guess is that Caucasian broadcasters refrain from extemporizing about race on the air mostly because they fear having an Al Campanis moment....Blitzer's type of error was far different from Campanis's. He didn't express a specific prejudiced belief about race. He just got tangled up in his own news-prose.
Race remains largely untouchable for TV because broadcasters sense that they can't make an error without destroying careers. That's a true pity. If the subject were a little less taboo, one of last night's anchors could have asked a reporter, "Can you explain to our viewers, who by now have surely noticed, why 99 percent of the New Orleans evacuees we're seeing are African-American?
But what were Shafer and Cafferty driving at? What should a reporter be saying about race beyond what the viewer can see for himself, that the victims are mostly black? Shafer writes:
What I wouldn't pay to hear a Fox anchor ask, "Say, Bob, why are these African-Americans so poor to begin with?"I don't think that is the most obvious question of the day, though. Consider these: Were the provisions for flood prevention and for evacuation and shelter so inadequate because mostly black people were affected? Would the rescues have come more quickly if the victims were white? Would viewers and reporters express more outrage at the pace of relief if we were seeing white victims?
When one network took time from its Katrina coverage to provide a bogus "update" on the search for Natalie Holloway, all those questions sprang to my mind.


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Rangers' Nelson Cruz makes all-World Baseball Classic team
SAN FRANCISCO — Robinson Cano, Jose Reyes and Fernando Rodney of the champion Dominican Republic have been chosen to the all-World Baseball Classic team.
The squad was announced Wednesday. Fans and media combined to pick the team sponsored by MetLife.
Cano hit .469 and was the tournament MVP. The New York Yankees' second baseman hit two homers and drove in six runs as the Dominicans went 8-0, capped by a 3-0 win over Puerto Rico on Tuesday night for the third WBC title.
Dominican teammates Edwin Encarnacion, Nelson Cruz, Reyes and Rodney joined Cano on the all-star team.
Major leaguers David Wright, Yadier Molina, Angel Pagan and Michael Saunders also were chosen. Pitchers Nelson Figueroa and Kenta Maeda also were selected, as was designated hitter Hirokazu Ibata.
Encarnacion drove in six runs. The first baseman will now return to Toronto's spring training camp with Reyes, the shortstop who batted .314 and scored seven runs.
Cruz, the Texas outfielder, hit .303 with six RBIs. Rodney, the Tampa Bay closer, had seven saves and a 0.00 ERA.
Wright hit .438 with 10 RBIs before the New York Mets' third baseman was forced to leave the U.S. team because of a rib strain.
Molina hit .259 for Puerto Rico. The St. Louis catcher oversaw a staff that had a 2.88 ERA.
Pagan hit .364 with two steals for Puerto Rico. He reached the championship game that was held in the same ballpark where the center fielder plays for the San Francisco Giants.
Figueroa, in spring camp with Arizona on a minor league contract, won twice for Puerto Rico. He beat the U.S. in the game that decided which team advanced to the semifinals.
Saunders hit .727 for Canada. The Seattle outfielder also drove in seven runs.
Ibata hit .556, driving in four runs and scoring six to lead Japan into the semifinals. Maeda, his WBC teammate, had an 0.60 ERA in 15 innings and struck out 18.


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Brussels, 15 June 2012
SMEs: Better access to finance and boosting entrepreneurship
On the occasion of the fourth meeting of the European SME envoys held in Malta today, European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani announced a series of new initiatives and planned actions to improve access of SMEs to finance, to boost entrepreneurship and to go international. To facilitate access to finance, the European Commission published today a practical guide providing information on how to access over €50 billion of public finance in the 27 Member States. Secondly the Commission launched a European wide training campaign for the Enterprise Europe Network to help SMEs get access to finance. SMEs can contact one of 600 Enterprise Europe Network partners, who will be able to provide information on EU and national sources of finance. Vice President Tajani will also discuss with the SME envoys possible elements for an entrepreneurship action plan which Mr Tajani aims to table after the summer break to encourage the creation of new businesses and jobs. The plan intends to address obstacles, which hinder would-be entrepreneurs to set up their own business. It will also include measures to make the option of becoming his or her own boss a more widespread option.
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani, responsible for enterprise and industry policies, said today: "If we want to stimulate growth in Europe, it is from our SMEs that we must start. Entrepreneurial potential in Europe is not fully exploited: 45% of all Europeans would like to become their own boss if they could, but only an average of 10% are actually self-employed today. If we could raise this percentage, we could have millions of new innovative and creative enterprises which would rejuvenate Europe's economic basis, make it more robust, more job-generating and more resilient to stormy economic".
Practical guide for SMEs to help access over €50billion of finance
To facilitate access to finance, the European Commission published today a practical guide for SMEs providing information on how to access over €50 billion of public finance in the 27 Member States. It presents over 120 national or regional financing programmes and provides key information helping SMEs to apply for the different programmes in terms of characteristics, terms, conditions and contact information.
At the same time the Commission published an evaluation of public financing programmes in 5 Member States (Germany, France, the UK, Poland and Sweden) to exchange good practice and assess which programmes work best and could be used in other countries. The evaluation highlights that public financing programmes need to have a clear scope and be flexible so that there can be changes if required such as during the present economic crisis.
More information - To access EU financial instruments, please visit the website of the European Investment Fund to locate banks or venture capital funds that provide finance in your country.
More than 600 Enterprise Europe Network partners advise on access to finance
Staff members of more than 600 partners of the Enterprise Europe Network were trained on access to finance so that they can now better advise SMEs finding the right financing provider. The Commission has established the Enterprise Europe Network to help SMEs to become more competitive, to internationalize and to find business and technology partners. The network is represented in 51 countries with 600 partner organizations. SMEs wishing to access finance, can contact the nearest member of the Enterprise Europe Network, who will be able to provide information on EU and national sources of finance.
Action plan to set entrepreneurial potential of Europeans free
The European Commission is preparing an Entrepreneurship Action Plan – to be published in autumn 2012 – that will address areas where the entrepreneurial potential of citizens can be unleashed and where key bottlenecks can be overcome and obstacles to entrepreneurial activities removed. Possible areas of action include:
The guide on access to finance and the training for the EEN staff are measures from the November 2011 Action Plan to improve access to finance for SMEs (MEMO/11/879).
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While there are plenty of high-tech gadgets and gizmos to make your 4th of July spectacular, experts say this year it's all about staying connected while you play.
"The big thing is about interconnectivity today," says Ari Zoldan, CEO of QuantumNetworks, an e-commerce tech retailer in New York City. "Wi-Fi connectivity is huge. If you're outside a WiFi area, a little gizmo called the BearExtender will take your signal and spread it all over your back yard. You can sit by the pool or on the beach and stay connected."
Zoldan says wireless Bluetooth speakers are also flying off the shelves.
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"Everything today is about enhancements of your cell phone. You can go swimming with your phone in an Otterbox. Interconnectivity and mobility—wrapped around a waterproof component—that's what's big this summer."
In other words, electronics, once the uninvited guests at the pool party, are now a big part of the fun. Waterproof Bluetooth speakers and waterproof smartphone covers make it possible to chat in the pool while listening to music. And floating pool lights, like the Underwater Light Starship or the Swim Time Solar Underwater Light Show, turn your pool into a floating disco floor. Toss in a few light-up patriotic beach balls and you've got a perfect July 4th party.