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The story of a D.C. insider
He was one of the unseen insiders who make Washington run: a top expert on congressional redistricting whose legal work at the Republican National Committee helped the GOP win the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. He was a terrific cook, and a demon dancer and DJ. He worshiped Notre Dame football, St. Patrick's Day and all things Irish, and his darkly handsome looks turned more than one head — of both genders.
But Michael Anthony Hess also grappled with two realities that would have been dislocating for anyone: He was a gay Republican lawyer in an era of much greater political and cultural divisiveness over homosexuality. And he was an adopted child, the son of an unwed mother who had given him up for motives he never fully understood and that haunted him for life.
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Now, nearly two decades after his death from AIDS at age 43 — and to the surprise of some of his former co-workers and bosses — Hess is the central presence (or, more precisely, the central absence) at the heart of "Philomena," the hit Academy Award best-picture nominee for which Dame Judi Dench just snagged her seventh Oscar nod. Dench portrays Philomena Lee, a frightened young Irishwoman who was shamed by the Catholic Church into giving her toddler son up for adoption to an American couple in 1955, then years later, embarked on a desperate quest to find him.
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Michael Hess (named Anthony Lee at birth) was that son. He was born in the Irish abbey where his pregnant mother had sought refuge and, after his birth, was compelled into servitude for more than three years. His adoption was part of a program of forced adoptions practiced at the time by the Roman Catholic Church. Michael was raised by his adoptive family in St. Louis and Rockford, Ill., and in the last years of his life, he undertook a parallel search to find his birth mother. But the nuns at Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland, told neither mother nor son of the other's repeated inquiries.
Some top Republicans have been just as surprised to learn of the twisting tale. (And if you haven't seen the movie, multiple spoilers lurk beyond this sentence.)
"But for you, I wouldn't have known that Michael Hess was the child that was given up for adoption," said Haley Barbour, who was chairman of the RNC when Hess, then its general counsel, died in 1995. "He did a good job, and that's what mattered." Barbour added in an interview: "I had been told" that he was gay, "but that wasn't any of my business."
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Scott Reed, then the party's executive director, was equally in the dark. "I didn't know him personally that well," he recalled. "If you have a competent lawyer, they give you comfort, and he was a very competent lawyer."
Indeed, Hess's story summons up a time — not so distant in years, but ages ago in public perception — when it was all but impossible to be an openly gay Republican at the top levels of Washington politics, as the AIDS crisis raged and the Moral Majority crusaded against the evils of homosexuality. Today, a former GOP chairman, Ken Mehlman, is campaigning openly on behalf of gay marriage, and one of the party's top legal talents, Ted Olson, has pressed the cause all the way to the Supreme Court.
Still, the party's conservative wing — and, to a lesser degree, its elected establishment — remains stubbornly opposed to gay rights. Just last year, to the dismay of reform elements, the RNC itself passed a resolution affirming its opposition to gay marriage. Jay Banning, the party's longtime former chief financial officer and a contemporary of Hess's, declined to be interviewed for this story.
"I don't want to discuss that, sorry," said Banning, who himself is gay, before quickly hanging up.
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But even in the 1980s and '90s, there was a vibrant underground of quietly gay staffers at party headquarters and on Capitol Hill, as many of Hess's contemporaries readily acknowledged.
"We all knew he was gay," Mary Matalin, then a young RNC staffer, recalled. "In fact, I had a crush on him anyway. A lot of people did."
The new film is based on a 2009 book, "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee," a novelistic re-imagining of the true story by the British journalist Martin Sixsmith, who helped Philomena Lee learn of her son's fate in 2004. In the movie, Hess's story is told sparingly, through silent home-movie flashbacks.
But his tale is the heart of the book, which portrays him as tortured by his sexual identity, determined to hide it and at pains to defend his political work to other gay friends at a time when the Reagan administration was largely silent on AIDS and party strategists like Lee Atwater were making not-so-subtle homophobic appeals to win votes.
Steve Dahllof, Hess's partner for the last 15 years of his life, said in a telephone interview that the book was "about a three out of 10, in terms of accuracy," while the movie, "in accuracy of spirit, is 10 out of 10." He said the book had "portrayed Michael as this very dark, brooding type of person that he was not," though he acknowledged that Hess "didn't let very many people in."
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Still, Dahllof said, all of Hess's bosses and colleagues in the party knew he was gay and had a partner.
"It didn't need to be part of the conversation," recalled Dahllof, who has just retired as president and CEO of Asia Pacific operations for Ogilvy Public Relations in Hong Kong. "Now it's more relaxed. Society has moved on. He was never tormented by his sexuality. He was a Republican, more a fiscal Republican than a social Republican. We really didn't talk politics that much."
In fact, if Hess was consumed by anything, it was his search for his biological mother.
"Was Michael tortured?" Dahllof asked. "No, he wasn't tortured. But he had this deep desire to find his biological mother, to understand her. He held his Irish roots very deep. There were always Irish flags around the house. St. Patrick's Day was huge around our house. He was an amazing singer. In a piano bar in D.C., he sang 'Danny Boy,' and the place went from very noisy to dead silent."
Young Anthony was adopted just before Christmas 1955 by Michael Hess, a urologist from suburban St. Louis, and his wife, Marjorie, who had three biological sons of their own but wanted a daughter. When Marjorie Hess first visited the abbey, she was attracted to a little girl named Mary, and then to the little boy — Anthony — who wouldn't leave her side. In the end, the Hesses adopted both children, and they rechristened the boy Michael, in honor of his adoptive father.


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RoastLog is a small start-up working on an integrated software system to help coffee roasters all over the world. We provide tools for roasters to track and analyze all sorts of data about their roasting with the end goal of improving the final product...the coffee we all drink and love. In effect, RoastLog is a "digital notebook" for coffee roasters.
If you love, or *need*, coffee, let that inspire you on this project.
We have done the interaction design and are providing wireframes (see files attached). Wireframes can mean different things to different people. For this project, a wireframe is a visually generic picture of what needs to be on a page. You are not bound 100% to what's there…use your creative talents as you see fit. If you believe a button should be moved somewhere, you can do that.
The RoastLogWebAppUI_designThese3 PDF shows what we're expecting from this contest.
The roastLog_WebAppUI_wholeSite PDF is our entire site which you can use as a reference.
We have a great logo we got here at 99designs. What we're looking for is someone to take our logo and wireframes, and marry them so the user experiences a web application that looks as good as it behaves.
In terms of design (colors, etc.), the only hard requirement is it works with our logo.
The target audience is small to mid-size coffee roasters who care about the quality of the coffee they are producing. Some examples:
- http://www.ritualroasters.com/
- http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/
- http://www.counterculturecoffee.com/
- http://www.eccocaffe.com/
Any roaster who is trying to produce the best cup of coffee possible will be using RoastLog. The specialty coffee world is fairly small, and people know each other. We will have many customers in the US, but also across the entire globe. The site you design will be seen and used by coffee professionals in many different countries. In the future, our site may be available in different languages.
- Your understanding of what sorts of design elements are hard to turn into HTML/CSS and Javascript will play a role here. Tons of rounded corners and gradients? Try another direction please.
- We like designs which are clean, simple and spacious.
- No Flash.
We need:
1. A landing/home page
- Should be clear and concise. Note, we do not have a wireframe for this.
- Sites we like: mint.com, survs.com
- We'd like to see concepts for the home page sooner rather than later. Your best change of willing the contest is via the home page the Roasting "dashboard" (#4 below). If you can knock those out of the park, we'll be pretty confident that the other pages will fall out just fine.
2. Global header and navigation (doesn't go on homepage)
3. Roasting "inbox"
- The "inbox" will mimic an email inbox. It'll be the place users go to see a brief list of their roasts.
4. Roasting "dashboard"
- From the Roasting Inbox, a user will be able to select one or more roasts by selecting the checkbox next to the roast and then move to this "Dashboard" page, which shows roast profiles and cupping (tasting) data for the roasts they just selected.
5. A dummy design for a form
- We'll be building a lot of forms, so we a basic design that we can build from.
Your Deliverables:
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- Please be precise. We don't like to guess.
- A layered summary file that lays out link states, button states, nav states and any other state-ful elements of the design, if needed.


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Investors are already responding to shifting economic conditions by funnelling more capital into commercial real estate, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, it said.
The report estimates that direct commercial real estate transactional market will exceed USD 1 trillion per annum by 2030, compared with nearly USD 450 billion in 2012.
Asia Pacific has outpaced other regions in real estate activity since the global financial crisis, achieving commercial real estate investment volume in 2012 equal to 77 per cent of the previous peak reached in 2007.
The Americas have only reached 62 per cent of that level, while Europe's investment volume is 46 per cent of its peak amount.
"While real estate asset values have shown no immunity to the financial shocks of recent years, real estate nevertheless is emerging as a preferred option for many investors," Jones Lang LaSalle President and CEO Colin Dyer said.
The report - The Advancement of Real Estate as a Global Asset Class, - said that since 2008, strong economic growth in the Asia Pacific region contrasted with recessionary contraction in Europe and North America has fuelled real estate activity.
"The Asia Pacific region is emerging as the long-term winner in the global contest for investment capital, boosted by the rise of domestic pension funds and private wealth," the report said.
Higher returns are convincing many investors to increase exposure to real estate and increased allocations to real estate also reflect investor efforts to reduce risk by diversifying away from the traditional portfolio mainstays of bonds and equities, the JLL report said.
However there are some operational challenges like low levels of liquidity and in some cases undeveloped capital markets currently constrain institutional investment in the region.
This is partly the reason why most western institutions are underweighted in the Asia Pacific region relative to the size of its real estate markets.
Over the long term, JLL expects relative portfolio weightings to move in favour of the region as high rates of savings, rapid urbanisation, the inexorable rise of the middle classes and evidence of improving transparency increase investor confidence and interest in the region.
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PHOENIX, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Blake Griffin and Jamal Crawford combined for 45 points Sunday for the Los Angeles Clippers, who notched their 13th straight win with a 103-77 rout of Phoenix.
Griffin finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Crawford had 22 points as the Clippers extended the longest winning streak in franchise history.
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Odin9112 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 386 diseños de 75 diseñadores freelance.
Objective: Create a Logo for TeamFound. Primarily web based but needs to work on business cards and soft goods.
Who we are: TeamFound is a resource that helps companies source and staff their software/mobile development projects using virtual teams. Think Lonely Planet for software developers. We are located in Vermont which is a really cool place to live but has forced us to get really good at building virtual teams as there are more cows that people here.
Small(under 50) to Medium(under 500) business in the US that are looking for experienced and reliable help building a team outside the confines of their office.
What it should include: A good logo should be; simple, distinctive, relevant, memorable, and timeless.
Simple: Two color(we are partial to Blue/Green or Blue/White or Blue/Silver) but it needs to work in B&W as well.
Modern, Technology..yet simple and clean.
It should convey a sense of trust and experience that can be helpful to your company
It should include the letters TeamFound though how you use them is up to you
What we are not:
We are not a big company
We are not a boring company
We are not for everyone
Please do not use stock photos, clip art pictures, or cartoons
There will be follow on work for a Wordpress site design.
The logo should be ready to use with Adobe CS5 software for printed and electronic media with vector based files for Illustrator and PSD files for Photoshop.
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Sen. John McCain of Arizona accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night with a dual message: Sen. Barack Obama does not have the judgment to govern the nation, whereas he himself can reach across party divisions to "get this country moving again."
In an address at the party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn. — briefly interrupted when three yelling anti-war protesters were hustled out of the hall as delegates chanted "U.S.A., U.S.A." — McCain promised to "reach out my hand to anyone to help me."
"Americans want us to stop yelling at each other," McCain ad-libbed as he called for delegates to ignore the disruption.
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Alex Johnson is a reporter for msnbc.com. NBC News' Mike Memoli in Virginia Beach, Va., Amna Nawaz in Washington and Aram Roston in Anchorage, Alaska; Tom Curry of msnbc.com; and John Croman of NBC station KARE in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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It was the perfect segue for his main message of the evening.
"Again and again, I've worked with members of both parties to fix problems that need to be fixed," McCain said in a call to end "the constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems."
"I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not," he said.
At the same time, McCain offered his "respect and admiration" to Obama, the first African-American ever nominated for president by a major political party.
"I wouldn't be an American worthy of the name if I didn't honor Senator Obama and his supporters for their achievement," he said.
McCain left most of the attacks on Obama to his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and his close friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Their sarcastic digs — Palin in her well-received introductory speech Wednesday night and Graham in an Iraq-heavy denunciation Thursday night — freed McCain to get off a few well-chosen shots at his Democratic opponent while devoting most of his time to establishing himself in voters' minds as a proven, trustworthy steward of American security and prosperity.
McCain: Yes, I'm a maverick
McCain embraced the label that has been applied to him throughout his political career as a cantankerous, relatively moderate Republican willing to buck his own party.
"You know, I've been called a maverick — someone who marches to the beat of his own drum," McCain said to cheers. "Sometimes it's meant as a compliment, and sometimes it's not.
"What it really means is I understand who I work for," he said: "I don't work for a party. I don't work for a special interest. I don't work for myself. I work for you."
In a passage that surely will be replayed in Republican campaign ads at all levels for the next two months, McCain neatly encapsulated what he — and, by extension, the party he will lead into battle — stands for:
"We believe in low taxes, spending discipline and open markets. We believe in rewarding hard work and risk takers and letting people keep the fruits of their labor.
"We believe in a strong defense, work, faith, service, a culture of life, personal responsibility, the rule of law and judges who dispense justice impartially and don't legislate from the bench. We believe in the values of families, neighborhoods and communities."
'I'm not afraid' of threats to U.S.
Turning to foreign affairs, an arena in which Republicans say he is vastly more qualified than Obama, McCain called Iran "the chief state sponsor of terrorism" and accused Moscow of harboring ambitions of "reassembling the Russian empire."
"We face many threats in this dangerous world, but I'm not afraid of them," McCain said. "I'm prepared for them. I know how the military works, what it can do, what it can do better and what it should not do."
He promised to establish good relations with Russia "so we need not fear a return of the Cold War," but he did not say what he would do about Iran.
McCain closed by recounting the story of his 5½ years as captive of North Vietnamese forces during the war in Southeast Asia, although in less graphic detail than former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had the night before.
"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's," he said. "... I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was my country's."
The lesson he learned was always to "fight for what's right for our country," he said, bringing the crowd to its feet for a sustained ovation with a determined call for action:
"Fight for the ideals and character of a free people! Fight for our children's future! Fight for justice and opportunity for all! Stand up to defend our country from its enemies! Stand up for each other — for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America!
"Fight with me! Fight with me! Fight with me! Fight for what's right for our country!"
As he spoke, police on horseback thwarted plans by anti-war demonstrators to march on the convention hall.
Scattered protesters inside interrupted his speech briefly near the start. He dismissed them, telling the crowd not to be diverted by "ground noise and static." The crowd chanted "U.S.A., U.S.A." to drown them out.
Graham paints Obama as 'patronizing' defeatist
Embracing his attack-dog role Thursday night, Graham said Obama "cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq" and "inspired those who supported retreat and would have accepted our defeat."
Graham said President Bush's "troop surge" last year in Iraq had tamed violence in Iraq, crediting McCain with supporting it from the beginning.
"We know the surge has worked. Our men and women in uniform know it has worked. And I promise you — above all others — al-Qaida knows it has worked," Graham said. " The only people who deny it are Barack Obama and his buddies at moveon.org."
Graham's characterization of Obama's position on the surge was at odds with Obama's own statements. In an interview Thursday on Fox News Channel, Obama told host Bill O'Reilly that the infusion of tens of thousands of new U.S. troops had, in fact, "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams ."
Nonetheless, Graham insisted that Obama "refuses to acknowledge [the troops'] success."
"They have worked too hard and sacrificed too much for a patronizing pat on the back," Graham said. "... He should not be their commander-in-chief."
GOP happy with Palin speech
Graham's comments built on a biting attack Wednesday by Palin, whose poised and polished performance remained the talk of the convention.
Of Palin, who was formally nominated by acclamation early Thursday evening, McCain said he "can't wait until I introduce her to Washington."
"And let me offer an advance warning to the old big-spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second Washington crowd: Change is coming," he said.
Republicans said Palin's address went a long way toward answering doubts raised by Democratic critics about her political training as a small-town mayor and her brief tenure as Alaska's governor.
The McCain camp also pushed on with its fierce public relations campaign against the news media, seeking to deflect further attention from Palin's family and the ethics investigations she faces back home.
"When you're a real reformer like Sarah Palin, who isn't afraid to take on entrenched political interests, scurrilous attacks and empty allegations come with the territory," said Taylor Griffiths, a spokesman for McCain.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, agreed that some news coverage of his Republican counterpart had been sexist, saying in an interview with Fox News Channel that criticism of Palin's family had been fueled "by you guys in the media."
"It is off-limits to talk about her family," Biden said. "Every family has difficulty as they're raising their children. I think the way she's handled it has been absolutely exemplary."
Later, campaigning in Virginia, Biden said he would challenge Palin on issues "as strongly as I can," but he reiterated that he would refrain from personal attacks.
"I thought the vice presidential nominee did an incredible job" in her speech Wednesday night, he said at a military forum in Virginia Beach. "I tell you, she is good.
"But the thing that I was most impressed by, beyond her standing and how confident she was, was what she didn't say," Biden added. "She didn't mention the word 'health care.' She didn't mention the word 'education.' She didn't mention college education. Not one time did I hear the phrase 'middle class' part [Republicans'] lips."
Biden was wrong on at least one of those points. Palin said Wednesday night that the express reason she got into politics was to work for better education.
Obama answers Palin jibes
In what has emerged as a favorite talking point of Republicans this week, Palin on Wednesday night sarcastically dismissed Obama as a "community organizer," contrasting her experience with his three years advocating for poverty-stricken residents with a church-based group on the South Side of Chicago during the 1980s.
Speaking Thursday in York, Pa., Obama objected to what he characterized as Republican attempts to demean social work.
"Why would that kind of work be ridiculous?" Obama asked. "Who are they fighting for? What are they advocating for? They think that the lives of those folks who are struggling each and every day — that working with them to try to improve their lives is somehow not relevant to the presidency?
"I think maybe that's the problem — that's part of why they're out of touch and they don't get it, because they haven't spent much time working on behalf of those folks."
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In Pokémon X/Y, you can customise your trainers. This is something The Pokémon Company previously revealed, but here's a good look at how dress-up works in Pokémon X/Y.
There seems to be a big game in how the characters look in this mode and in the actual game, but whatever. Not sure which is better name for this: Pokédress-up or Dress-upmon?
Pokemon X/Y - Commercials [YouTube]


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Free Magazines and some books .
We are downsizing and hope these can go to a good home. I live in the Richmond, Virginia area and am not interested in shipping these.
WoodenBoat Issues 108, 124-218 (most in cases)
Watercraft issues 44-51, 53, 54
Assorted boat related books.
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The Fall marathon season kicks off in Berlin Sunday morning with both world record holders on the line anxious to prove themselves ready for the run up to next year's Olympic Marathon in London. With Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie and England's Paula Radcliffe sharing top billing, it marks only the third time in history that both the men's and women's world record holder will compete on the same day. In 1989 Belayneh Densimo of Ethiopia and Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway ran in New York City, and in 2005 Kenya's Paul Tergat joined Paula Radcliffe in London.
Sunday in Berlin, both record holders arrive with questions and high hopes. The oft-injured Radcliffe is returning to marathon competition for the first time since finishing fourth in ING New York City Marathon in 2009 where she was compromised with tendinitis in her knee. In the mean time she has given birth to her second child, son Raphael, and then had to overcome post-partum hyperthyroidism and a bad disc in her back. Haile Gebrselassie is making his first return to the distance since dropping out in New York City last November in mile, also due to a knee injury. Though he rashly announced his retirement in the aftermath, Haille quickly reversed his decision, and even signed up for the February 2011 Tokyo Marathon. Another knee problem in training, however, forced him to withdraw. But he comes to Berlin with his old smiling countenance and good cheer, a sign he is in form.
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David Drysdale (born 19 March 1975) is a Scottish professional golfer.
Drysdale was born in Edinburgh. He turned professional in 1995.
Drysdale currently competes on the European Tour, having graduated through qualifying school for the fourth time at the end of 2008. He had previously qualified for the elite tour in 2001, 2006 and 2007 through q-school, in addition to graduating directly from the Challenge Tour in 2004, when he finished 12th on the end of season rankings, largely thanks to a sudden death playoff victory over Mattias Eliasson at the Bouygues Telecom Grand Final.


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Bafflingly, Man Chooses Coors Light Over Death
Fifty-two-year-old Clifton Vial of Nome, Alaska, who does not sound like the sharpest knife in the proverbial psychotic Alaskan woodsman's knife belt, decided to go for a spin in his Toyota Tacoma last week "to see how far a road winding to the north would take him." It took him—and the six-pack of beer he had in the cab—to a snowdrift about 40 miles outside of town, where he became stuck with no supplies. Except for that beer:
His only provisions: Snow, and a few cans of Coors Light that had frozen solid in the cab.
Vial ate the beers like cans of beans. "I cut the lids off and dug it out with a knife," he said.
I can only imagine the kind of sheer, burning will to live it would take to eat frozen Coors Light instead of allowing the inviting, warm darkness of death to envelop me. But Clifton Vial was rescued three days later, having lost 16 pounds, escaped frostbite. I hope it was worth it. [Anchorage Daily News, image via Shutterstock]


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Late last summer, subscribers to Harper's Bazaar received slimmer than usual September issues with the androgynous British model Agyness Deyn on the cover. She was dressed in expensive designer homage to Michael Jackson, who had died in June: Balmain tuxedo pants with a matching sequinned jacket; special-order Repetto oxfords—just the thing for a moonwalk; and a four-hundred-dollar black fedora by Albertus Swanepoel. Her right hand, gloved in glittering Givenchy, appeared to have knocked the first "A" in Bazaar jauntily askew. Within a few days, the image was copied from the Internet by a sixteen-year-old in Zagreb, Croatia, named Antonia, who stored it on the fashion Web site Polyvore.com, where she is known as tonka1. Antonia pasted the photo of Deyn into an online collage—or "set," as Polyvore calls it—she was making, layering on pictures of cheaper clothing, including a studded blazer ($140 at Topshop), a purple leopard-print skirt from a store in Japan, and a Vanessa Bruno tank top. She finished by adding the vaguely Michael Jackson-inflected caption "Tomorrow can wait. Dance all through the night." Over in Indonesia, meanwhile, a student calling herself Fabz_Reen had found the Bazaar cover similarly inspiring. Her Polyvore set included pictures of a Vivienne Westwood skull-print dress, an Alexander McQueen cuff bracelet, an Alexis Bittar bubble ring, strap-strangled Christian Louboutin Nitoinimoi ankle boots, a Victoria's Secret mascara wand, and a second image of Deyn taken from Brazilian Vogue, all under the headline "Think Black."
The Louboutin boots also caught the fancy of Gail Helmer, a forty-three-year-old marketing consultant and Polyvore user in Calgary, who put them in two different sets that season. For more than two years, since she discovered the site via Facebook, Helmer has visited Polyvore daily, and she has become one of the site's most popular creators, with thousands of followers. Before walking her collie each morning, she sits with her husband at their kitchen table over coffee, oatmeal, and laptops (he's a Web designer who owns a gaming site that does military simulations with jets and tanks), signing on as MyChanel. "He's been in awe of what I can do on Polyvore," she said.
Every set begins with an electronic scissor called the Clipper, saved to a browser's toolbar, which allows you to collect pictures of merchandise and other visuals from all over the Web. Helmer's preferred destinations are Farfetch.com, an Internet mall of forty boutiques; Collete.fr, the site of a Parisian department store famous for its high-end eclecticism; and Brownsfashion.com, the online outpost of the London luxury mini-chain, which is where she found the boots. Her choices are stored in her virtual closet, which is open to inspection by any of the 6.6 million people who visit Polyvore each month. Helmer's closet currently contains more than five thousand items, including accessories, jewelry, and cosmetics. Although she buys plenty of clothes after first spotting them on Polyvore, she told me, "making sets really feeds that shopping urge in me, without having to go and spend all that money. Because, seriously, I can't afford a thousand pairs of YSL shoes."
Polyvore is a lot like playing paper dolls with pictures of real clothes. Some people spend an hour on each set, glomming from scores of Web sites. It's the rare Internet pastime that feels productive—even if the product is just an online collage that you e-mail to a friend, with the message "Look, I made this outfit for you!" After dragging and dropping enough images to create an ensemble, a user might paste in a background pattern and then garnish the set with a lipstick or a bottle of perfume. A set can also be given a soundtrack, although Helmer doesn't go in for these sorts of bells and whistles. "I'm just so visual," she said. She calls herself a "fashion whisperer." "I'll find an item and it kind of tells me what it goes with. What shoes, what bags." Polyvore permits a maximum of fifty items in each set ("There has to be a limit," one of the company's software engineers told me. "If you put, like, a million items in there, that would basically kill the server"), but Helmer usually limits herself to a dozen, which she enlarges, shrinks, or rotates at her pleasure, adding perhaps a pithy phrase in a decorative typeface. Helmer says that she gave up print fashion magazines "when they stopped putting models on the cover" ("I don't care about celebrities"), and she likes to paste in a picture of a model, usually a blond one, like Lily Donaldson, Gemma Ward, or Kate Moss, as her set's final fillip—"the cherry on top," as she put it. (Polyvore creators generally avoid using pictures of themselves, preferring more glamorous avatars; the clothes tend to float, disembodied, next to the models rather than on them, as with paper dolls.) "I don't use anyone who doesn't look like me," she said.
"Think Black," the title of the set made by Fabz_Reen, in Indonesia, is a reference to "Think Pink," the exuberant opening number from "Funny Face," the 1957 movie about the fashion world. The cadences of the film clearly still echo through the popular fantasy of what constitutes a fashion magazine: a dictatorial matron sweeping through skyscraper offices, as Meryl Streep did in "The Devil Wears Prada," fifty years after Kay Thompson played a caricature of the legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, fretting about failing the "American woman who stands out there naked waiting for me to tell her what to wear." In reality, the American woman has not waited to be told what to wear in some time. Vogue and Bazaar now compete with the more populist shopping magazines, like InStyle and Lucky, whose low-key editors have replaced lush, fantastical spreads with practical shopping advice and catalogue-style layouts. Polyvore's user-generated model abandons the queenly paradigm altogether. The site has 1.4 million registered users, two hundred thousand of whom are, like Helmer, dedicated "creators": amateur stylists who put together thirty thousand sets a day and post them on Facebook, Twitter, and their personal blogs. Kerry Diamond, an executive at Lancôme who has done business with Polyvore, describes sets as "the cyber equivalent of the inside of a school locker door."
"Our mission is to democratize fashion," Jess Lee, Polyvore's twenty-seven-year-old vice-president of product management, told me recently, as she picked at a huge Caesar salad at Fred's, the restaurant on the ninth floor of Barneys on Madison Avenue. "To empower people on the street to think about their sense of style and share it with the world." She believes that the "Funny Face" days are history. "Newspapers and magazines are, like, these things outside that get wet," she said. "They're like roadkill." Polyvore had collaborated with Barneys this winter, on a contest called "Barneys Obsession" (users put merchandise from the store's Web site into sets that were then judged by Barneys' fashion director, Julie Gilhart), but Lee had never visited the store, and she had seemed entranced by the array of bleached jeans and strapless mini-dresses on its eighth floor. "I like exposed zippers," she said, stroking one.
Lee, who is of average height and slim, with sideswept dark bangs, was wearing a long black cardigan and jeans. "I never wear skirts," she said. She majored in computer science at Stanford and previously worked at Google, where she was a protégée of Marissa Mayer, the company's unofficial style czar, internalizing Google's philosophy of "Do what the user loves and the money will follow." When someone clicks on an item in a set, a small window pops open with a link to where she might buy it, or "flow to a transaction," in Lee's gentler phrasing. Polyvore is not yet profitable, but about a third of the company's revenue comes from commissions arranged with online retailers. The other two-thirds comes from a combination of traditional ads; contests like the Barneys event; and sponsored sets, like the one posted four months ago by Calvin Klein, titled "Soft+Flirty," whose elements (all sold at CalvinKlein.com) were quickly assimilated by users into their own sets. Each item in the "Soft+Flirty" set had been invisibly tagged so that Polyvore could track how often it was "touched" by online hands—marketing data that were included in the cost of the ad. A Polyvore staffer later priced a similar campaign at forty dollars per thousand "impressions," or page views.
Polyvore's most valuable asset is the intelligence that it gathers about its users' preferences. Every day, in a section called Zeitgeist, the site presents top-twenty lists of users' favorite brands, trends, and celebrities. Sometimes these rankings are easily explicable—after the February 11th suicide of Alexander McQueen, his brand hovered around No. 1 for weeks, as distraught creators rushed to make tribute sets—but they are sometimes just a reflection of fashion's eternal riddle: Why boyfriend shorts? Why now? Part of the company's business plan involves selling the statistics it's tabulating (which Lee called "a gold mine of analytics"), to designers and to store buyers, in order to manage inventory more effectively.
"We have so much data about what is being matched with what," said Lee, a dedicated setmaker who, like other regulars, calls herself a Polywhore. "If I click on Calvin Klein, do I also click on Helmut Lang? Are gladiator sandals going in or out? Are skinny jeans about to die?"
Polyvore's co-founders, Pasha Sadri, Guangwei Yuan, and Jianing Hu, are software engineers for whom the width of a jean leg is not an emotional issue. They started the company in 2007, after working together at Yahoo, where Sadri had invented a technology called Pipes, which allows Internet users to "mash up" different forms of data, like so many root vegetables, in one place, and not unlike the Clipper technology. Sadri, who is thirty-five and projects an air of serenity that belies all the frenetic data-crunching around him, was born in Iran. "I grew up playing Legos," he said. "I think that was an important factor in shaping the person that I am." When you put on clothes, he said, "you are making that sort of assembly from pieces that you have—this is the Lego analogy—and it's highly integrated with your identity." (When we met, he was dressed in baggy pants, a white shirt, and a blue V-necked sweater.) Asked what inspired him to invent the site, he replied, "I felt that it would be great to work on something that has a visual component. If you look at all the different types of visual media, images are the ones your brain processes the fastest."
Last month, Sadri announced that the former president of Google's Asia-Pacific and Latin-American operations, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy—known on Polyvore as Sukkie2008, the creator of a "work looks" set involving a Lanvin dress and an amethyst statement necklace—would replace him as C.E.O. It was the beginning of a hiring binge intended to double the size of the company, which is backed by Matrix Partners, Harrison Metal, and Benchmark Capital and currently employs fourteen people in Mountain View, California, with one advertising saleswoman, Katherine McClymonds, working from her Upper East Side apartment in New York. Singh Cassidy, an assertive, high-cheekboned woman who sat on the board of J. Crew and once appeared on the cover of Fortune, seems determined to raise Polyvore's profile. "I love style," she said briskly over the phone in her car on her first day of work, just back from a trip to Paris to celebrate her fortieth birthday. "I love décor, I love design, I love fashion—and, most importantly, I love the idea of finding women beautiful things."
Singh Cassidy insisted, however, that she had no plans to be "a voice on high that says, 'Here's what we think fashion is.' " She sees her task as solving "the problem of curation and discovery"—as if the Internet user, wandering through a vast house of many rooms, merely needed a gentle hand at her elbow, rather than the pointed directives of print magazines. She ventured that Polyvore might start to participate more directly in e-commerce. ("People write to us a lot and are, like, 'Do you have this in a size 8?' " Lee had noted.) Singh Cassidy said, "We're a platform that helps the user aspire, inspire, and ultimately, I hope, fulfill."
Several weeks before Singh Cassidy's appointment was announced, I travelled to Mountain View to visit Polyvore's headquarters. I met Lee in the company's small and cheaply furnished offices, on the second floor of a building shared by the dotcoms Bubble Motion, a voice-messaging service, and Plastic Jungle, a firm that sells unused gift cards at a discount. She was looking at her computer, affectionately regarding a set dedicated to her by a user named MonChanel (not to be confused with MyChanel; despite, or perhaps because, Chanel is difficult to buy online, it is the ne plus ultra to many Polywhores). The set was subtitled "You Are Always So Nice."
Fashion magazines are widely perceived to be snake pits, but the Polyvore community values kindliness, mutual affirmation, and tact. Most of the comments that users make about other people's sets are full of smiley faces and exclamation points; flamers are quickly ostracized. "It's a very positive environment to be in," Lee said. If MonChanel's namesake once declared, "Elegance is refusal," the site's ethos is more like "Elegance is inclusion." Here the pimply teen-ager floats blissfully free from test-marketed cover lines promising a hotter body in ten days. "I really wish I'd had Polyvore when I was little, because when I was reading the magazines I would look at the models and be, like, 'Oh, these people are so thin'—sometimes I'd just feel so horrible," Lee said. "To have some place where you can express yourself and get compliments and feedback—I think that's really important."
Among MonChanel's most recent sets was one filled with products from Nike, another company that has sponsored a contest, or "community challenge," on Polyvore. Back in the "Funny Face" era, Mademoiselle brought Sylvia Plath to New York and put her up at the Barbizon when she won the magazine's College Board contest. Polyvore prizes are more modest: a gift card or an autographed CD. "They do it for the love," Lee said of the contestants. "Imagine you're in Idaho. To have Julie from Barneys look at your stuff, or Ann Shoket from Seventeen, or Daria Werbowy from Lancôme—it's a big deal!" Other recent judges include the pop stars Katy Perry and Lady Gaga; the designers Vivienne Tam and Tory Burch; and, less obviously, Procter & Gamble, which sponsored a contest to raise awareness of a new line of Secret deodorants, Scent Expressions. "We were all a little nervous about it—this was an experiment for us," Lee said of the deodorant challenge. "We'd never do, like, tampons." But Polyvore's users were unfazed; one, from Turkey, who called herself lizardqueen, gamely mixed and matched a stick of peach-scented Secret with a peach-colored dress from Marchesa by Georgina Chapman, listed at $3,750.
Lee and her colleagues like to keep tabs on exactly how people are using Polyvore. They know that the average user spends ten or eleven minutes per session and clicks on twelve Polyvore pages per visit; they know that users "import" 1.2 million products per month. But they are boundlessly curious about the Polyvore setmaker's process. And so Lee invited Gail Helmer, the user from Calgary who goes by the handle MyChanel, to come to Mountain View and let the engineers observe her at work on a set. Lee called it "usability testing," as if Helmer—chosen because of the quality, consistency, and popularity of her sets—were a lab rat. "She's very fashion-savvy," Lee told me. "She's one of the top members."
Helmer arrived at the offices straight from the airport, wearing jeans from Zara tucked into black boots, a gray sweater she'd bought for ten dollars, and a white ruffled shirt. "Banana," she said, pinching a ruffle. "The Republic of." Tall and blond, with an impeccable maroon manicure, she was greeted like a visiting dignitary.
"You're, like, the Anna Wintour of Polyvore!" Lee said.
Overwhelmed by the compliment, Helmer stammered, "That's, um—thank you very much."
The next morning, Helmer was directed to a small conference room where Polyvore's home page was projected onto a wall. She sat down at a computer and signed in to the site, while Lee and Liz Xu Wilson, a software engineer, hovered nearby.
"Don't worry," Lee said. "We're just here to make the product better. The more that you tell us about what you like and don't like, the better."
Helmer began by checking messages from some of her 9,356 international contacts, akin to Facebook friends, on Polyvore. "This is work, by the way," she said. "Seriously, I didn't sign up for a job of answering these."
Next, she examined the fifty-six comments on her previous set, which had featured a rose-patterned Fendi canvas bag ($655). "I love that bag—it's the new 'it' bag," she said wistfully. "I think I want that bag."
"Awesome :d," a user named CzeskaVanilla had written.
"Toooooooooooo cute!" agreed another, signed sourcat.
"MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! BACIO GRANDE!!!!" Lilli, from Italy, wrote.
Helmer enjoys the camaraderie of Polyvore, and she loves having an anonymous "pretend identity." She said, "The amazing thing is you can tell the quality of who a person is by their sets. You can tell a good soul when you meet them."
"Do you look at nasty comments?" asked Wilson, who was holding a pen poised above a notepad.
"Some are, like, 'Oh, that's really great, but the shoes are really ugly,' " Helmer said. "And I'm, like, 'I didn't know I made this for you!' "
She began to make a set. First she went to net-a-porter, a retailer popular with Polywhores because its wares are pictured on a white background and are easy to cut and paste. (At barneys.com, one must navigate the Clipper around a cone-headed mannequin.) There she found a pink D. & G. blouse with a trompe-l'oeil pearl-necklace pattern and a Miu Miu sandal-bootie hybrid with five-inch heels and a zipper up the back; it looked like something one might find in a torture chamber. "Great boots," she said, and clicked over to a catalogue of products freshly uploaded by Polyvore from Colette.
"So you like being the first to use an item?" Lee asked, scribbling.
"Oh, I totally like being the first," Helmer said. "Even if it's a year old and no one's used it—score! It's fun."
Helmer's sets are more sophisticated than the usual scrapbook-style assemblages. Some Polywhores use advanced techniques, such as the "mosaic," in which the objects are arranged like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, with no items overlapping ("That's a tough one"); or "text and pics," with Lilliputian products arranged before a wall of text ("Some girls from Italy started that"). Helmer's current favorite is "magazine layout." "They always have an article and then an outfit, and that's what we're trying to do," she said. The articles in Polyvore sets are not written by users, however, but blithely Clippered from the Internet, without regard for their content, to be used as design elements. Once, Helmer realized that she was about to clip an article about a murder trial. "I looked at the text and I was, like, 'Oh, I can't use that . . . not at all fashion-related,' " Helmer said. "But no one really reads it."
After a few moments, she happened, with a gasp, upon a Valentino black leather-and-lace skirt, selling for $6,745. "O.K., stop the presses—oh, man, that's gorgeous," she said. "I'm starting to see something come together." She dragged over an Oscar de la Renta patent-leather belt that had been gathering dust in her virtual closet. "But it could be a Topshop belt," she said. "I don't think particularly about the label. It's the 'wow' that's the first priority to me."
She squinted up at the screen. "Now, this is looking really girly-girl, so I have to give it some edge." She added a fuzzy wool jacket by Martin Margiela that conjured Oscar the Grouch in the throes of a goth episode. "I need a handbag." In came the inevitable Chanel clutch ("I always put in something Chanel"). "And I'm going to need some makeup. I'm into Nars right now."
"We're running a campaign with them," Lee said, with a pleased giggle.
Helmer added a Nars blush in the hue Deep Throat. "I'm not going to say what it's called, because I think that's embarrassing," she said. "Now, who's wearing this outfit?" She clicked on models.com and imported a photo of Claudia Schiffer. Then, without apparent irony, she added the phrase "Under the Influence," snipped from the cover of an independent fashion magazine.
Lee made a note and asked, "How should we fix our text tool?"
Helmer didn't have an answer. "Some girls want everything given to them, and I tell them, 'Be creative,' " she said disdainfully. "This isn't Paint by Numbers."
Lee smiled, and told her, "You're, like, the Polymom!"
With a decisive click, Helmer published her set. Within twelve minutes, it had accumulated sixty "likes" (users who show approval by clicking on a heart) and fifteen comments ("Love it!!"; "Fierce!"). A few weeks later, I asked Lee if Polyvore had been able to track whether "Under the Influence" had resulted in any actual sales. She said that the site did not have data on such a "granular" level but that, since MyChanel had published her set, the Valentino skirt had been used in 1,156 outfits and viewed more than thirty-three thousand times on Polyvore.
After the observation session, Helmer put on a pink trenchcoat and went for a walk. Milee Yu, the marketing manager, arrived for a scheduled sales call over speakerphone with McClymonds, Polyvore's ad woman in New York, and Morpheus Media, a marketing agency that represents L.V.M.H., the luxury conglomerate. The goal was to persuade L.V.M.H. to buy ads on Polyvore and to sponsor contests involving the company's brands. Fortuitously, Morpheus's media-strategy director, Jessica Coghan, turned out to be a Polyvore user. "It's like crack," she said.
McClymonds began a practiced pitch: Thirty-five and a half per cent of Polyvore users are aged eighteen to thirty-four, and another quarter are thirty-five to fifty-four, with an average household income of eighty thousand dollars. Seventy-two per cent say they've bought something they saw on Polyvore, and almost seventy per cent have posted a product on another social-networking site. "It's an insane level of peer-to-peer advocacy that you really can't get anywhere else," she said.
"Got it," Coghan said.
"So the question for you is, how to get L.V.M.H. products into a set," McClymonds said.
Coghan brought up one label that, she said, had "very serious brand-guardianship parameters"; the label's executives were worried about the possibility of their merchandise being combined with less desirable labels in Polyvore sets. "It's a Catch-22," Coghan said. "You guys are becoming more popular, which is great, but while Coach is a wonderful brand, Dior doesn't think Coach is a wonderful brand."
McClymonds brought up the idea of a Polyvore "luxury month," during which Morpheus Media clients would monopolize all of the site's contests.
Coghan was interested. She said, "We could do a watch brand, a liquor brand—"
"We don't do liquor," McClymonds interrupted.
"Really?" Coghan said. (Polyvore users regularly paste "lifestyle items," like Starbucks lattes, iPhones, and cars, into their sets.) McClymonds changed the subject, and Coghan asked whether Polyvore had any way of policing the site. "Now, if somebody does something really horrible and totally inappropriate with our products, can you filter it out?" she asked. "Say it's just hideous and junky-looking?"
McClymonds was sympathetic. "Everybody's so used to fashion magazines, because with them you get to choose your adjacencies, and everything's so controlled," she said. But she held to the democratic Polyvore line, pointing out that real people wear a lot of different brands at once.
Coghan had concerns about another client, Neiman Marcus, which the anti-fur movement has dubbed Neiman Carcass. What if Polyvore users made sets that attacked the store for selling fur? Yu reassured her that, since sets are organized on the site according to popularity, the user group quickly flushes out anything unappealing or controversial. Mollified, Coghan ended the call on a positive note: she suggested a philanthropic-themed Polyvore community challenge to promote the Armani scent Acqua di Giò.
Until now, Polyvore hasn't done much to promote its own brand, but Singh Cassidy, the new C.E.O., seems eager to be the site's public face—at fashion shows, for example. "I hope to be invited to them," she said. "And, if I am, I would certainly come." At last month's New York Fashion Week, however, Polyvore's only official appearance was at the Chictopia10 Social Influence Summit, a convocation of bloggers and marketers held in a gallery on the Lower East Side.
The day before the conference, Lee and Yu, having flown to New York on a JetBlue red-eye, met McClymonds in Chelsea for an offline shopping expedition. Each had on a version of the current urban woman's casual uniform: jeans tucked into boots; loose, long tops; chunky pendants; and large designer handbags. McClymonds, who is blond, twenty-nine, and a former Texan, was in the midst of planning her wedding. She had ordered a sequin-trimmed Oscar de la Renta dress from theoutnet.com, net-a-porter's discount sister site, having found it through Polyvore the previous week. "I don't know if it's going to work out," she said.
Mountain View is not known for its designer boutiques, and Lee and Yu oohed and ahed like teen-agers as they ambled through the Commes des Garçons and Balenciaga stores, ending up at Jeffrey, the avant-garde department store on Fourteenth Street. McClymonds went right to an asymmetrical ivory dress by Roland Mouret—half naughty nurse, half ethereal goddess—that plunged her into doubt about the mail-order de la Renta.
"Try it on! Try it on!" Lee and Yu cried, fingering the crêpe fabric.
The dress was a little tight in the hips, and McClymonds paced back and forth in the capacious carpeted dressing room and sat on a bench to test the seams.
"Oh, it's so pretty!" Yu said.
A kindly, broad-bosomed saleswoman of the old school, after dispatching a minion to bring over a selection of high-heeled pumps in white and nude, offered to order the next size up, from Jeffrey's mother ship, in Atlanta.
"It looks so good on you," Yu said. "And you can wear it again with, like, a little tiny belt."
"I don't want a wedding dress—I just want a very special dress," McClymonds said, unzipping and shimmying into a Versace silk cocktail frock with teardrop cutouts at the neckline.
"Ooh, this is really modern," she said. Yu and Lee tilted their heads critically.
The three left the store empty-handed. The following week, McClymonds bought the Roland Mouret dress—not from Jeffrey, or from a Web site, but from the grand old bricks-and-mortar department store Bergdorf Goodman, on Fifty-seventh Street.
"Closer to home," she said. ♦


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Bryan Cranston has three. So does Julia Louis-Dreyfus. And Claire Danes and Jim Parsons are close behind, with two Emmys each.
Will these voters favorites return to the podium Sunday? Or will a new group -- Kerry Washington and Louis C.K. among them -- win their first acting Emmys? After looking at the supporting races here, let's lay some odds on the lead acting categories.
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Odds: 2-1. "Say My Name"? Emmy voters have been happy to oblige in the past and, after going with "Homeland's" Damian Lewis last year, could decide to partner with Heisenberg again.
Damian Lewis, "Homeland"
Odds: 3-1. Then again, defending champ Lewis owns the Emmy submission that showcases the most range. In "Q&A," we see Lewis' Brody go from defiance to despair, finally caving and revealing to Claire Danes' Carrie the depth of his involvement with terrorist Abu Nazir. Voters who like to be left in puddles -- and there are a lot of them -- will find much to appreciate here.
Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"
Odds: 7-1. Much has been made about Emmy balloters' infatuation with movie stars, and Spacey could well be the latest beneficiary. But some voters might be turned off by the show's fourth-wall-breaking conceit, not to mention the tangy Southern accent.
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Odds: 10-1. If Lewis' Emmy submission showed the most range, Hamm's (the "Mad Men" season finale "In Care Of") may be the most affecting. His mortifying Hershey's presentation was jarring in the way it laid bare Don Draper's self-loathing and despair. The show's sixth season had been slow to build, but the payoff was unforgettable.
Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"
Odds: 20-1. Daniels' Emmy episode, "Newsroom's" pilot, is remembered most for his four-minute rant about why America can no longer be considered the greatest country. Daniels masterfully delivers the monologue, but that alone probably won't win him the Emmy.
Hugh Bonneville, "Downton Abbey"
Odds: 50-1. Robert blames himself for Sybil's death. And he's right! Sure, Bonneville makes us feel something for the man, but still ... you should have listened to the family doctor!
Kerry Washington, "Scandal"
Odds: 2-1. Washington is something of a trendy pick, which isn't stopping us from following the crowd. Dan Bucatinsky's guest actor Emmy win last Sunday further confirms our suspicion that academy members love the show's soapy theatrics. Added incentive: Washington would become the first black actress to win the category. Voters love making history with their ballot choices.
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Odds: 3-1. Like Lewis, Danes submitted "Q&A," and she's every bit as good as her costar. The episode's intense interrogation could result in repeat wins for both actors.
Vera Farmiga, "Bates Motel"
Odds: 5-1. Farmiga is the category's dark horse, not to be taken lightly for the way she put her own stamp on an iconic character.
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"
Odds: 15-1. Wright's Emmy submission is the show's 10th episode, when finally we see what lies beneath Claire's ice queen persona. It was a long time coming, and Wright clearly relishes every moment, particularly the priceless confrontation with Kate Mara's Zoe.
Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"
Odds: 20-1. She has a better case -- and chance -- with her lead actress movie/miniseries nomination for "Top of the Lake."
Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"
Odds: 50-1. Emmys for "Downton" reserved exclusively for dames.
Connie Britton, "Nashville"
Odds: 100-1. Her show could well be cancelled next season.
Louis C.K., "Louie"
Odds: 5-2. C.K.'s Emmy submission, "Daddy's Girlfriend, Part 1," doesn't redefine the boundaries of television comedy, as do many of the other episodes from the series' brilliant third season. This is safe(r) "Louie," with the comedian fumbling his way through asking Parker Posey out on a date. It's beautiful and charming and could well bring C.K. his first acting Emmy.
Jim Parsons, "Big Bang Theory"
Odds: 3-1. Parsons has won twice and doesn't miss a beat in his flawless Emmy episode, "The Habitation Configuration," in which he tries to broker a peace between girlfriend Amy and mancrush Wil Wheaton.
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Odds: 6-1. Baldwin has also won twice but is unlikely to repeat unless sentiment is on his side for "30 Rock's" parting season. In his favor: His episode, in which Jack appoints Kenneth as his successor, was, like the rest of the show's swan song, very, very funny.
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Odds: 20-1. Like Spacey, Cheadle breaks the fourth wall often on his show, but in (arguably) ways that better serve the series. His Emmy submission, "Hostile Takeover," serves as a master class of the form.
Jason Bateman, "Arrested Development"
Odds: 50-1. He remains a peerless straight man, but that type of acting doesn't usually win Emmys.
Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"
Odds: 50-1. He's good. But if anyone is going to win for playing an exaggerated version of themselves, it will be C.K.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
Odds: 3-2. Louis-Dreyfus won for the show's debut year, and "Veep" really found its stride in its second season. The guy in the banana costume may have beaten her in that TV race, but she's unlikely to lose to anyone else.
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Odds: 3-1. An Emmy would be a great send-off.
Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"
Odds: 4-1. We've picked Poehler before and come away disappointed. She's definitely deserving and her Emmy episode, a two-parter that includes Leslie's wedding to Adam Scott's Ben, brims with the sweetness and warmth that this show does better than any other program on television.
Laura Dern, "Enlightened"
Odds: 15-1. "Enlightened" had its fans, but they weren't that passionate. (OK, a few of them were.) Dern's nomination for a cancelled show was a victory in and of itself.
Lena Dunham, "Girls"
Odds: 20-1. Voters love it when actors go to a chemically altered place, so it's not that surprising that Dunham submitted "Bad Friend," where Hannah tries cocaine as part of a writing assignment. It's a wonderful showcase for her underrated acting, but balloters will still likely lean toward the category's veterans.
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Odds: 50-1. Falco's win in 2010 feels like a long time ago.


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The Beautiful (Old) Penn Station
Did you know? The original Penn Station was considered to be one of the most beautiful train stations in the world but was torn down because of declining rail usage.
Most people have probably never heard of it but there is a tiny 100 by 200-foot island on the East River in New York City called U Thant Island.
From 24-hour dining to all-night clubs, some cities rebut the notion that nighttime is for sleeping. Get to know more about New York, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Beirut, and Paris.
Did you know? The island of Manhattan was purchased from American Indian people in 1626 for about US$1,000 in modern currency.
New York City's coastline is longer than those of Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco combined. Did you know that?
How much it would cost a taxi cab ride from New York City to Los Angeles?
New York City homeowners can request that a tree planted outside their homes for free.
There's a skyscraper in New York City with no windows. Do you know where is it located?
Do you know how many same-sex couples were married in New York City on the first day that same-sex marriage was legal statewide?
Do you know what the MTA does to prevent getting ice on a railway from happening?
New York City became the first national capital of the U.S. for a year. When did that happen?
Did you know? New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than other cities in the US.
Do you know where is located the narrowest house in New York City?
Did you know? When the Dutch first arrived in Manhattan, there were massive oyster beds. In fact, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were called Little Oyster and Big Oyster Island.
Did you know? Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park, Union Square Park, and Bryant Park used to be cemeteries.
Did you know? Those scary nitrogen gas tanks you see on the corners of streets are used to keep underground telephone wires dry.
Did you know? Eating a New York bagel is equivalent to eating one-quarter to one-half a loaf of bread.
A remarkable way to celebrate the power of women in leadership to life.
The winter of 1780 was so harsh in New York that New York harbor froze over. People could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice.
Did you know? In 1857, toilet paper was invented by Joseph C. Gayetty in NYC. 😷
Did you know? Albert Einstein's eyeballs are stored in a safe deposit box in New York City.
Did you know? Up until 1957, there was a pneumatic mail tube system that was used to connect 23 post offices across 27 miles. At one point, it moved 97,000 letters a day.
Did you know? There is a secret train platform in the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
Did you know? UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a DAY, contributing up to $120 million in revenue for the city of New York.
Where is the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia?
This is just impressive.
Fun fact about the Flatiron Building
Would you like to buy a private island in New York City for just US$10?
Did you know? It can cost over $289,000 for a one-year hot dog stand permit in Central Park.


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The Problem With American Soccer Fans
It All Feels Like An Elaborate Affectation
Growing up as a soccer fan in England, I've witnessed my fair share of horrors. I've seen shocking acts of violence, overheard hundreds of abusive chants and watched Pelé retire to sell erectile dysfunction pills.
Over the years, I've been angered, saddened and ashamed by these things. But through it all, my love for soccer remained undimmed.


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Hey, lets Create some buzz! 🐝
Who Am I?
I have many nicknames, but you can just call me Rob. I'm a fine art and fashion photographer, teacher, traveler, adoptee and lover of all things creative, natural and adventurous. Oh, and I love cats, but who doesn't? Over the last 4 years I've taught over 60 workshops and seminars relating to photography in 15 countries and over 20 cities. I've worked diligently to grow my social reach organically to over 600K followers across my social platforms, and most importantly I'm here to bring people together by sharing meaningful stories, experiences and art with my global creative family. To learn more about me, feel free to peruse my About and Portfolio sections above.
Why did I write you?
From September-December 2017 I'll be traveling the world to 8 international destinations, including 4 new countries and Mount Everest Base Camp to teach photographic workshops. In the process, I'll be filming tutorials and behind the scenes content from my travels. Starting in 2018, I'll be launching a brand new YouTube and tutorial channel to expand upon my 600K audience, prioritizing photographic education, positive social change, and inspiration through travel and active lifestyle. With the personal connection offered through video engagement, my audience will expand and be enriched to new levels. With your support I can push all these endeavors to the next level, ensuring that every person who participates in a workshop or views this visual content experiences something moving and life changing.
Meet The Team
Chris Buchal
Chris has spent 8 months filming cinematic YouTube content and will continue as the channel develops
Nirajan Chaulagain
Nepal Host
Nirajan is an expert Himalayan mountaineer and will lead the Mount Everest Base Camp trek
Samy Hamila
Tunisia Host
World renowned photographer Samy will co-host and facilitate the Tunisia based workshop
Mateus Lucena
Portugal Host
World traveling photographer Mateus will co-host and facilitate the Portugal based workshop
Fabrik Studio
Ukraine Host
Fabrik Studio regularly hosts photography master classes and workshops and will facilitate the Ukraine workshop
Jane Long
AuStralia Host
Award winning photographer, Jane will co-host and facilitate workshops in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane
Help Support furthered Education, Imagination, & Purpose!
More information about my 2017 workshops can be found under the "Workshops" menu tab above, there are many aspects of running workshops and producing tutorial and behind the scenes content for YouTube that will greatly benefit from various forms of support including but not limited to, financial support, media support, and product support. Check out some suggested forms of financial support below, I've included ideas of what I'm offering in exchange and look forward to talking further about how we can both mutually benefit the most from each others support.
Bronze Package
- Sponsor 1 student to attend a workshop for free
- Live mention at all workshop events
- Physical brand materials/promos handed out at each workshop
- 20 social media shoutouts between Sep 2017-Jan 2018
Silver Package
- Sponsor 2 students to attend a workshop for free
- Live mention at all workshop events
- Physical brand materials/promos handed out at each workshop
- 25 social media shoutouts between Sep 2017-Jan 2018
- 16 product photos from the tour, 2 taken from each travel location, content shared with brand for media/website use
*product photos also used in social media shoutouts
Gold Package
- Sponsor 3 students to attend a workshop for free
- Live mention at all workshop events
- Physical brand materials/promos handed out at each workshop
- 30 social media shoutouts between Sep 2017-Jan 2018
- 40 product photos from the tour, 5 from each travel location, content shared with brand for media/website use
*product photos also used in social media shoutouts
- 1 product/brand video produced on the road
- Sponsor 4 students to attend a workshop for free
- Live mention at all workshop events
- Physical brand materials/promos handed out at each workshop
- 40 social media shoutouts between Sep 2017-Jan 2018
- 80 product photos from the tour, 10 taken from each travel location, content shared with brand for media/website use
*product photos also used in social media shoutouts
- 2 product/brand videos produced on the road
- Mentions and/or logo placement on every weekly episode for first 6 months of my YouTube channel
ELITE 2017-18 Sponsor
Sponsor 8 students to attend a workshop for free
Official sponsor of my 2017 fall tour and my YouTube channel for 2018. You'll receive all the perks listed in the PLATINUM package with extended live mentions of your brand and logo placement in every 2018 YouTube episode (52 episodes total). In addition I'll fly directly to your company headquarters or a location of your choice to provide a free workshop and/or seminar style experience for your employees. Lets have a conversation about additional ways we can collaborate to best serve both our brands!
CURrent & Previous partners
Some of my favorite collaborations, to share a few:
I joined 500px in 2011 after hearing high praise and instantly fell in love with the photo sharing site; after using the platform religiously for years and growing an audience of almost 200K followers on 500px, our relationship became set in stone and we began collaborating. In 2015 and 2016 I hosted the world's largest photo meetup, held in hundreds of cities worldwide on the same date, for Tokyo and Portland locations respectively. In 2017 I began working with 500px on their new Classes platform to create interactive tutorials and live chat sessions helping photographers improve photographic and editing skills from their own desk. As of this year I have also joined their ISO blog as an ongoing writer, sharing tips of the trade from anything involving pre and post production, to finding inspiration for the shoot process. Its an honor to build an ongoing relationship with such an incredible company and team.
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In 2014 and 2015, Vanguard was an official sponsor for a North American workshop tour and a global workshop tour that encompassed 5 continents. In exchange for support from Vanguard, my teams and I created promotional content for Vanguard for various gear releases, campaigns and social media content. We also shared images including Vanguard gear to our social media audiences reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers. Having Vanguard represented physically through pamphlets and hands-on use during our workshops, as well as online, secured many new loyal customers to the brand.
On my 2017 world tour, Ted's Cameras reached out during my Australian leg of the campaign requesting a series of interviews to share with their audience. The interviews covered insight on various portfolio pieces and experiences from the life of a traveling photographer, as well as Q&A taken directly from Ted's customers and my social media followers. The Ted's team was a pleasure to work with and I can't wait to collaborate again.
In 2013 my team and I produced a crowd sourcing campaign and raised over $12,000 in funding between online and in person donations, helping to fully fund a new summer camp for foster children. The amount was exactly the remaining amount needed to reach the goal of 40 kids at camp for the first year. To promote the campaign I created an entire series of images portraying foster children from the darkest to brightest moments of their journey, with all the concepts sourced from real experiences volunteering with kids at camp and being adopted myself. The series was featured in publications worldwide and made into a gallery showing at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to continue raising funds for the foster camp.


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1. Re: JBDS5 AS 7 never stops startingMax Rydahl Andersen Aug 9, 2011 12:05 PM (in response to Tanya Ruttenberg)
Did you create a *new* AS 7 server or used one from previous installation ?
And please, also make sure you use AS 7 Final and not the previous releases.
2. Re: JBDS5 AS 7 never stops startingTanya Ruttenberg Aug 10, 2011 8:44 AM (in response to Max Rydahl Andersen)
That was it. I had CR1. Once I downloaded AS 7 FINAL this came up at once.
I love how fast it is!
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I have this problem and I tried this solution but it did not work.
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Jboss developer studio 5 M5
I try to install any Jboss as 7 Final and 7.1 Final, But it did not stop starting , Or it throw errors like the below shots.
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