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Academy Awards Photos Part Eight- Selfies
The most Tweeted photo in history.
The most Tweeted photo in history.
Oh Liza....
I am mad at Brad for his haircut. Knock it off, Pitt.
Everyone calls Tatum butterface and I never knew why (I saw Magic Mike once and wasn't really paying attention) until last night. Zzzz...
Donatella looks like a Gorgon. It's like Heidi did that thing where the bride picks her least unattractive friends to be bridesmaids. (That sounds so mean :/ )
I give you all the props for your screen name!
Hooray! for Fassbender!
lmao Liza
Gaga had on the worst lace-fronts I've ever seen. Those wigs could give Kim Zolciak a seizure, they were so bad.
Gorgon......love it!
The multi selfie was AWESOME! The best thing Drowning Ellen did all nite.
Dax u are super cool for that.
Gaga..Muppet..Heidi. I appreciate u.
Oh Liza...
The older Leto corrupts the beauty that is younger leto.
I thank the academy for not allowing me to look at gabourey for too long. I can't with her. Too disturbing.
Jennifer Lawrence asked someone to grab her boob! Anyways, that pic and the gifs have taken over the internet.
That picture of GaGa and Donatella is gonna haunt my nightmares. Black and white is not doing them any favours.
Luv the selfie/groupie shot - truer to selves. Yikes Julia -
BritBrit looks great - good to see her out looking glammed.
Fun pics!
Gonna keep it up...
Top 3
Foxx's Daughter
You be hard pressed to find a broad uglier on the outside than Donatella. I don't know if I would go through her to get to an orgy of my top 3 here.
Ah Fassy
Donatella stays in the running for fugliest woman in the world.
Does anyone know why in the hell Channing Tatum and his wife were there at the awards last night-did he present anything?? I can understand his appearance last year (he danced with Charlize, Magic Mike), but this year's presence was just totally out of place and confusing...Weird.
Yes PJ, Channing presented last night.
And damn right Donatella is fugly! Why did she mess with her face like that?
Brad, Brad, Brad..Get it right with the hair boy. You're so close and yet so far.
Oh Liza...
@PJ, yes, Tatum did present. I can't remember for what, though.
Liza, Liza, Liza... God help me, I love you so much.
Did Gaga's dress slip in this picture?
As soon as I saw the Liza photo and before I scrolled down, I sent the link to a friend with the subject "Oh, Liza." Scary! Love the name!
Hiya, Seven! I can't give you anything but love, baby!
Poor Lorna Luft. She never gets any recognition.
Where was Gabey? I don't remember seeing her.
My God I love Dax. Love love love.
Gaga, put those damn things away. Nobody wants to see that.
Dax Shepard, on the other hand, I'd like to see.
What was Ireland Baldwin at the Oscars? This is baffling.
Okay not to be nitpicky. .but Enty... You do realize a selfie is taking a picture of oneself with ones camera ... it can include multiple people other than oneself but the key is that someone in the photo is holding the camera and taking the pic. Huffpost does the same thing. Maybe its a new journalist trend - an expanded definition of selfies.
Hey hey, loopy!!
Did Kim Novak give you the sads last night? I adored her in Vertigo (my 3rd favorite Jimmy Stewart movie). I hope she's OK. :(
Donatella is morphing into an ape…bless her heart.
Gaga's head looks like it was photoshopped onto someone else's body.
Brad….Brad always looks like you wouldn't want to be downwind of him.
I was sooooo sad to see her like that. She had done an interview with Robert Osborne a few months ago and it was sad to see that as well. She was amazing in "Vertigo" and unbelievable in "Bell, Book, and Candle." I named my first cat Pyewacket because of her and that movie. So stunningly gorgeous. I hope they can do something to remove some of that filler. I'm still dying over "Adele Dazeem," too.
My favorite Kim Novak movie is Picnic, she and William Holden were hot.
I think she was a red carpet commentator for the TV Guide channel.
Oh, totally hot. Great movie, great cast. The Man with the Golden Arm, too. She had so much talent. The only film of hers I didn't enjoy was "Kiss Me, Stupid." It left me cold.
Ireland Baldwin looks more like Daenerys than Emilia Clarke!
What's Eli Roth up to these days?
Holy shit Liza doesn't even look like herself anymore! And Donatella looks like a muppet there.
Two poster chicks for what not to do plastic surgery!
The Leto Brothers. I'd do them both.
The shorter haired Leto reminds me of Quinto, is gaga morphing into donatella? Liza? Jayzuz!!! <3 Lorna luft she made grease 2 for me ;) and Heeeeey Eli Roth! Wear three layers of condoms n get rid of the Peaches herp and I just might :p
PS Jared the jayzuz look is done, and Ireland wtf is with the white blond hair and black eyebrows ffs!! Soz it's been a stressful day xD
Forgot to say, oh fuck off Ryan seacrest
OMG I LOVE that picture of Liza! She's like a caricature of herself!
Donatella. Looks like she has a herpes outbreak on her lip. Ewwww. Just ewwwww.
Liza was the laughing stock in the media here ... especially the photo taken at the back of everyone in that group selfie, where she's doing her very best to jump and be noticed ... but is 4ft too short. The media had field day, poking fun at her hair, her 'track suit' ... mean, yes, but I'm only going to say she needs to stop with the surgery.
I'm working backwards, so don't know if Enty has covered this, but my 'OMG!' moment was definitely Margot Robbie ... she's brunette for 'Z for Zachariah' if that helps explain it ... but still ... http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/03/03/margot-robbie-academy-awards-hair-makeup-oscars-red-carpet-2014/#
Ryan Seacrest wore green contacts for the event. I know that because some charming actress he'd been speaking to on the red carpet - but soon discarded her once someone more interesting (to him) came along, complimented him on his beautiful green eyes; in response, he told her they were contacts.
I've decided that Kristin Bell and Dax Shepherd are the most happy and loved-up couple in H'wood.
Liza looks like drunk Clooney from Oscars a few years back
Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington make a very handsome couple! They look lovely together.
Fassy and that ginger beard are EVERYTHING!
I really did think Ireland Baldwin was the actress from Game of Thrones
*sigh* Donatella Versace, please retire from public life and take fellow re-animated corpse, Joan Van Ark with you. Hags
Liza looks like drunk Clooney from Oscars a few years back
Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington make a very handsome couple! They look lovely together.
Fassy and that ginger beard are EVERYTHING!
I really did think Ireland Baldwin was the actress from Game of Thrones
*sigh* Donatella Versace, please retire from public life and take fellow re-animated corpse, Joan Van Ark with you. Hags
Donatella looks like an alien in that picture. What's with the placard for Gabourey Sidibe?
Placard for Sidibe is better than having to look at the real thing! She hurts my eyes.
Gaga going for nip-flash & Donatella are hideous.
Liza makes me sad. Remember "Cabaret."
Who's the a**hole who ran in & blocked Angie?
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Hello from Durban, home of COP17, and for the past 10 days home of the Greenpeace forest team.
Sometimes serendipity just waltzes right up to you. And that is what has just happened. Earlier this year a Greenpeace investigation revealed the shortcomings of the management consultancy McKinsey & Company's work on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation or REDD schemes (REDD = developed countries pay developing nations to protect their forests).
Our report demonstrated how McKinsey's policy advice, if followed, would not only lead to more rather than less deforestation but would actually reward those companies that are the main drivers of deforestation while at the same time punishing small-scale subsistence farmers.
So when planning what we would do in Durban and the briefings and reports that we would need to produce we decided to summarise our report in the form of a one page comic. At the time we had no idea how, when or where we would distribute it, but then, out of the blue, we find out that McKinsey are in Durban. Serendipity, yaay!
So yesterday, Tuesday 6th December, some of the team headed off to distribute our humorous look at the "firm". First stop was the convention centre where the climate negotiations are happening where the comic was passed out to journalists.
Next was Durban's beautiful Botanical Gardens where McKinsey were speaking at a side event. Unfortunately, exception was taken by the organisers to our look at McKinsey's secret plans. And in no time at all we were requested to leave (nicely I must say).
In finishing I have a short message for anyone from McKinsey who might be reading this: "Greenpeace is not going away. Your advice to governments is a bad influence on REDD. Bit by bit you are being unmasked. And it's not a pretty sight."
(Unregistered) Jethro
Dispicable but not surprising, this is what happens when people with no concept of or experience in conservation are put in charge of making decisions...
Dispicable but not surprising, this is what happens when people with no concept of or experience in conservation are put in charge of making decisions about conservation. Profit becomes the emphasis rather than finding solutions to the problem they were hired to sort out in the first place... Same can be said for George Osbournes recent comments on UK conservation.
Good Luck Greenpeace, Kick Mckensie out!
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Nice one John,
I am glad you are there. The whole REDD thing is one tough cookie.
Th real facts and figures are complicated enough, we so...
Nice one John,
I am glad you are there. The whole REDD thing is one tough cookie.
Th real facts and figures are complicated enough, we so do not need outside influences trying to put a slant on things.
I actualy belive in REDD as it was written but gads the implementation has been one crasy thing.
All the years and still trying to get out of the starting gate.
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e eat all the meat and bread in the fort...eat all the beef--all the mules--all the Dogs--and all the Rats around us.
So wrote a soldier who had been inside the Confederate defenses at Port Hudson, Louisiana, during one of the longest sieges in American military history. For 48 days in 1863, he and his fellow troops defended a fort that stood on top of a bluff above the Mississippi River; for all of those 48 days, Federal soldiers pummeled the Southerners with cannon shot and rifle fire.
Finally, just five days after the Confederates were defeated at Vicksburg, Port Hudson surrendered to the Union. With these two victories, the North could finally claim undisputed control of the Mississippi River. Though the Civil War would rage on for almost two more years, the siege at Port Hudson, and the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg--which all occurred the same week--together struck a blow from which the South never recovered.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
This lesson is based on the Port Hudson Battlefield, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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jamijones necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 178 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Baer & Edington LLC (also needs to have "certified public accountants and consultants" with name (no quotes) but as a subtitle
What we need:
We need a fresh corporate logo, name font and design, corporate colors, and stationery design. Our new website will incorporate the new colors, name, and logo. We will have two offices that are located in two different cities, but will be represented as one company. The two office locations will need to be a part of the letterhead design, however.
Who we are and what we do:
certified public accountants and consultants
We are a newly-merged public accounting firm, consisting of younger yet well-established partners/owners.It is our desire to brand our firm as stable yet highly progressive and innovative. Our marketing plan is strongly focused on offering more than the typical tax return to meet client needs. Our services are tailored to meeting the needs of the business entrepreneur as well as the established business owner and average individual. We have incorporated the best technology possible in the public accounting world in order to be the most effective, efficient, and client-service minded.
We desire to draw young, fresh accountants and want our image to be trendy but with a distinct professional image to continue to attract middle-aged clients seeking a new accounting firm. We're still looking for that strong, dependable image, even while drawing employees and clients who will embrace innovation and change.
owners of small to mid-sized businesses
real estate developers and/or owners
Both firms in the new merger have used blue(s) – primarily navy – in their previous color schemes and we'd like to keep a bit of blue somewhere in the mix (our offices have too much blue to change the entire color palette right now). I would like to see the inclusion of a soft green and perhaps some warm colors, such as tan, khaki, or chocolate brown. One of the owners likes the use of silver lettering on the tax folders, so is that possible to keep with the new colors, also?
Please stay away from the commonplace icons used in a typical accounting firm – eyeglasses, 10-key machines, ledger paper, 1040s, etc. We want to convey a competent yet savvy image. Nothing really edgey or wierd.
We like the following links due to their fonts and layouts.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Italy Immersion Program in Family Therapy & Italian Culture
|Spring 2014 Italy Immersion Program was a huge success! Students enjoyed having the opportunity of being immersed in the Italian community and culture for two full weeks!
The program will be offered every-other year, so the next program will take place in Spring 2016.
Family Therapy Training
This new immersion program is focused on family therapy training and cultural competence development through rich experiential activities, while immersed in Italian communities and culture. The training will be in English.
Italy has a rich history of family therapy. Students will develop greater knowledge of how cultural factors influence the assessment and treatment of mental health problems among immigrant families. The training experiences will include:
- Strategic Family Therapy: Two days of clinical training in strategic family therapy with Giorgio Nardone, director of the Strategic Therapy Center (Centro di Terapia Strategica) in Arezzo, Italy, and one of the major figures associated with the family therapy approaches developed at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.
- Three-Generational Couple Therapy: One day of clinical training in three-generational couple therapy and utilizing children as a resource in family therapy at Maurizio Andolfi's Academy of Family Psychotherapy (Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia) in Rome. Maurizio Andolfi studied with family therapy pioneers James Framo, Jay Haley, Salvador Minuchin, Carl Whitaker, and was an adjunct faculty member at Alliant.
- Immigrant Families: One day of clinical training in working with immigrant families at the Silvano Andolfi Foundation, a center in Rome established by Maurizo Andolfi to conduct research on and provide clinical services to immigrant, low-income, and other marginalized families.
Cultural Competence
Immersion in Italian culture paired with self-reflection and self-of-the-therapist work will help students gain a greater understanding of their own culture, identity, values, experiences, perceptions, ethnocentrism, privilege, and oppression.
Students will learn basic Italian language skills and process their experiences becoming immersed in Italian culture and history. Student will visit key Italian sites and monuments, view Italian artwork, and engage in activities like attending an opera, learning to make Southern Italian dishes like pizza, and attending demonstrations on making papyrus paper and Italian ceramics, and of course enjoying lots and lots of gelato!
Sample Schedule of Clinical & Cultural Activities
The first week of the program will contain four days of clinical training in family therapy on the mainland (the "boot") in Rome and Arezzo. During the first week students will also visit the following important cultural and historical sites:
- Rome: The capital of the Roman Empire and of modern Italy is the location of some of the world's most recognizable landmarks like the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, and the Trevi Fountain.
- The Vatican: The seat of the Catholic Church, this sovereign City State located at the center of Rome (the smallest internationally recognized independent country in the world) is the home of the Pope, Saint Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museum, which contains the Catholic Church's collection of art and artifacts.
- Florence: The cultural and political capital of Tuscany, this medieval city is the birthplace of the Renaissance and, as such, has key art galleries and museums, and Michelangelo's David.
- Naples: The birthplace of the pizza and spaghetti.
- Pompeii: An ancient Roman city buried under volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ash preserved detailed frescos, artifacts, buildings, and positions of people killed by the volcanic eruption.
- The Amalfi Coast: Breathtaking maritime cities terraced into steep cliffs overlooking pristine Mediterranean beaches.
In an effort to provide students with an opportunity to experience parts of Italy that are less "European" and more culturally "Italian," students will spend the second week on the island of Sicily (the "soccer ball" being kicked by the "boot") experiencing the following cornerstones of Southern Italian life:
- History: Sicily was sequentially conquered and ruled by the Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Spanish, Holy Roman Empire, and the Bourbons, until finally becoming part of modern-day Italy in 1860. The influence of so many cultures is evident across the various facets of Sicilian life.
- Architecture: We will visit some of the best-preserved temples and other structures from the Greek and Roman Empires which are located in Sicily. The influence of Phoenician, Arab, Spanish, and French is also clearly visible in Sicilian architecture.
- Art: Sicily is well-known for artistic ceramic serving dishes; we will learn how to make ceramics in Caltagirone, the center of Sicilian ceramics and terra-cotta sculptures.
- Music: Viewed as the culmination of the arts (music, poetic lyrics, acting, dance, artistic set design), Opera is at the core of Italian culture. One of the most famous composers of the bel canto style, Vincenzo Bellini, was Sicilian. We will visit Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the largest opera house in Italy and the third largest in Europe. We will also attend an opera.
- Agriculture & Cuisine: Food is at the center of Italian life. Italians have a saying that Americans eat to live and Italians live to eat! Sicily, dubbed God's Kitchen, is one of Italy's primary agricultural centers, leading to regional specialty dishes featuring local fruits and vegetables. The soil in Sicily is believed to be especially fertile because of Mount Etna, Europe's tallest active volcano. Sicilian cuisine is known for hearty flavors, fresh produce, locally-harvested seafood, regional wines, pastries (the birthplace of cannoli) and gelato (believed to have originated in Sicily using ice from Mount Etna). We will sample a variety of Sicilian cuisines and will learn how to make pizza and other local specialty dishes.
- Family-centric culture: Italian culture revolves around the family and is epitomized by the saying la famiglia e' tutto (family is everything). Family cohesiveness, loyalty, and honor are cornerstones of Italian family values. We will interact with and observe family in multiple settings during the program, allowing us to increase our understanding of Italian families, and in turn, our own families of origin.
The Italy Immersion Program will not include Venice; however, students have the option of visiting Venice on their own at their own expense at the conclusion of the program.
Expectations of Students
- Have an open mind.
- Be respectful.
- Be flexible (for example, Italy is known for union strikes that shut things down with no notice).
- Attend scheduled clinical trainings in Italy.
- Participate in scheduled activities.
- Share hotel rooms with one or two other students, possibly including Italian students from the Nardone and Andolfi family therapy programs.
- Be prompt and timely.
- Be able to walk long distances.
Projected Cost
- Program Registration: $3,999 – This price includes all travel within Italy, all lodging, all breakfasts and dinners, the clinical trainings, and all events and activities; the only costs of the program not included in the registration fee are airfare, all lunches, and registration in the associated course (see below for details).
- Airfare: $1,500 – This is an approximation. Students will fly into Rome and out of Palermo. Airfare varies substantially. I recently looked online and roundtrip tickets from LAX to Rome were about $1,200 and one-way tickets from Palermo to Rome were about $200 (these tickets are often available for about $100). A multi-city ticket with departure from LAX to Rome and return from Palermo to LAX is about $1,350. There are cheaper prices if you were able to leave a day earlier ($850), but that will result in lodging expenses for the night before the program will begin which would likely off-set the price difference). Students can also contact the Italian travel agency who will be coordinating aspects of the program regarding flights; group discounts may be available. If you can use frequent flyer miles (your own or gifted to you by someone else), you will not have any airfare costs, significantly reducing the cost of the program.
- Food: $200 – Students will need to buy their own lunch every day; breakfast and dinner are included in the program registration fee.
- Course: $3,183 – Students are required to register for a 3-unit course that will be taught in conjunction with the Italy Immersion Program entitled "Family Therapy & Culture in Italy" (PSY 6654). This course will count as an elective. Students can use financial aid for the course: students can use both FAFSA and GradPlus loans (depending on qualification). Depending on qualification, students can also use GradPlus loans to pay for the program registration fee ($3,999).
Therefore, participation in the program will cost approximately $8,900. Although the total cost will vary based on airfare and how much you spend on lunches, this is a substantial amount of money and a substantial investment in your education and clinical training. You will have to determine if the return on your investment is worth it for you. We hope that the clinical training, connections you will developed with the other participants, and what you will learn about yourself as you interact with Italians and participants will be invaluable to your clinical and personal development.
Students who participate in the Italy Immersion Program must be able to pay for the program, take 2 weeks of work off, miss 2 weeks at their practicum site, leave family members for 2 weeks, and enroll in the associated "Family Therapy & Culture in Italy" course.
Family Therapy & Culture in Italy Course (PSY 6654)
Students who participate in the Italy Immersion Program are required to register for a 3-unit course that will be taught in conjunction with the program. This course will count as an elective. Students can use financial aid for the course: students can use both FAFSA and GradPlus loans, (depending on qualification). Depending on qualification, students can also use GradPlus loans to pay for the program registration fee ($3,999).


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Finding Data
Archiving applications are increasingly being used to minimize online data stores and to meet compliance requirements. Most of those archivers include search features, but the capabilities vary widely. Understanding how these search tools work will help you find the best fit for your company.
Archiving applications are increasingly being used to trim online data stores and to meet compliance requirements. Most archivers include search features, but they may not have the horsepower to meet your company's needs.
Like the proverbial needle in a haystack, finding a single e-mail, file or record buried in terabytes of archived data is often futile. While many companies have successfully implemented automated data archiving, most are just beginning to grapple with the issue of how to recover specific portions of that archive.
Nearly all archiving applications provide some type of search capability to retrieve data items, but not all provide the flexibility and level of sophistication needed to meet the often-demanding requirements of litigation and regulatory compliance activities. Search-only products that bolster the search capabilities of archiving apps are appearing in greater numbers. Still, some companies may not be 100% confident that the search tools in their archiving arsenal will discover all relevant materials and may seek additional assurance by using an outside discovery service.
|Advanced search concepts
Hyperbolic tree: A graphic representation of found instances of data that shows the relationships among the data objects.
Fuzzy search: A search engine with this capability can find variations in the spelling of a search word or even misspellings.
Phonic search: A phonic search will distinguish instances where two words may have different spellings but sound alike (e.g., Smythe and Smith).
Stemming search: A stemming search will find all the variations of the search word where the root of the found word matches the search word.
Natural language processing: Natural language processing uses the context of a file to determine if the search result matches the intent of a search; for example, by distinguishing between "sue" and "Sue."
Brian Erdelyi, information security officer at Toronto-based Blackmont Capital Inc., learned this lesson while working at another company, where a high-profile legal case required restoring all e-mail for 12 specific users. "Because this company was so large, everybody's mailbox was on a different server," recounts Erdelyi, "so we had to restore 12 servers 12 times for each month in the past year." Because they had to restore the data from tape, it took them approximately six months to complete the chore. With his current setup at Blackmont using Fortiva Inc.'s archiving service, Erdelyi says a similar request was completed in "a day or two."
John Hegner, vice president of technology services at Liberty Medical Supply Inc., Port St. Lucie, FL, implemented iLumin Software Services Inc.'s (now owned by Computer Associates International Inc.) Assentor Discovery after he had to restore e-mail messages from backup tapes. He sent tapes to a data restore service that charged "over $100,000 for the work," says Hegner. Intent on avoiding a similar experience--and expense--he installed iLumin's product so that he could keep restore efforts in-house.
Incidents such as these are quite common. They're a stark reminder that new data retention and retrieval requirements are beyond the scope of traditional backup apps and procedures, and generally mean adding new archiving/search tools to the storage environment.
The trick is to know how deeply a search will need to delve into archives. In many cases, companies implemented archiving specifically to address storage and application performance concerns. By paring down the amount of application data stored on pricey, higher performing storage, companies could forestall buying additional primary disk. Searching through those data archives may have been a secondary consideration initially but, as the archives grow, the demand for search capabilities also grows.
Regulatory compliance and litigation aside, companies have found that search tools can help identify potential legal problems and, in doing so, may avoid legal issues altogether. Jim McGann, vice president of marketing at Index Engines, Holmdel, NJ, sees this application of search technology as a growing area of interest, citing an investment bank customer that routinely searches e-mail for certain words and then saves those search results in encrypted .PST files.
Erdelyi has been archiving Blackmont Capital's e-mail with the Fortiva Suite of outsourced services for approximately a year and anticipates using the search function proactively in some cases. "There's a feature within Fortiva where I can set up policies that are effectively keywords," says Erdelyi. "If these keywords are detected, [the e-mail] can be flagged for review." It's an intriguing prospect: An HR group could detect an instance of harassment or other improper behavior long before it became a serious legal matter. Besides detecting HR-related indiscretions, proactive searches can keep a company compliant. "There are certain code-of-conduct rules that our traders have to follow," notes Ederlyi, "so we set up keywords that will trigger [certain documents] and our compliance department will review those on a daily basis."
Search criteria
The granularity of a search depends on the elements the search application stores and examines. Basic search engines catalog the meta data associated with a file--typically information like file name, last access date, and the ID of the user who created or modified the file. For e-mail, sender and recipient, subject, date sent and other basic message information can be searched. Searching on such rudimentary meta data elements might work fine with a small pool of data, but will likely yield a results set that's impracticably large when searching voluminous data stores.
Only a handful of products still rely on such a simple, restricted meta data search. Some products allow users to customize the meta data by adding additional identifiers such as keywords or tags. Keywords help to narrow searches, but adding them is generally a manual chore and a uniform set of keywords must be maintained to ensure any degree of search consistency.
Rather than rely solely on meta data and keywords, most search app providers now index the content of the file or e-mail message and its attachments. This allows for much more focused searches, as the full content of the file is compared to the user's search criteria; this makes it possible to include more unstructured data in the scope of a search. "We're finding an increased need to go out and look at the content of the data," says Mark Diamond, president and CEO at Contoural Inc, a Mountain View, CA-based consulting firm. "So a tool that can only look at file attributes has limited value."
There are, however, some penalties associated with full-text indexing. First, it takes time and processing cycles to create the index, although most archivers manage the indexing process behind the scenes to limit any impact on application performance. The second issue is storage space. A full-text index of hundreds of thousands--or even millions--of data objects can result in an extremely large index that may use significant disk space and slow searches. Paring the size of the index is the Holy Grail of archiving, and vendors employ proprietary technologies to keep their indexed output as compact as possible. For example, Index Engines claims that its full-text index requires only 8% of the disk space required by the original files.
Reliability is another consideration. Vendors make the indexing process as transparent to users as possible, so little is revealed about its inner workings. That's generally good, but if the indexing process fails to complete properly, there may not be any indication that the source data wasn't fully indexed. This could result in searches that appear to be comprehensive but, because files were missed, the results aren't "correct and complete" in the eyes of the court, leaving a company vulnerable to considerable penalties.
"When indexing engines are performing indexing operations, they routinely fail just like any other software fails," says Peter Mojica, vice president of product management at AXS-One Inc., a records compliance management company in Rutherford, NJ. The failure could be extremely difficult to detect because a portion of a single document attachment or an e-mail failed to index properly. Mojica says AXS-One's Rapid-AXS Search & Retrieval system traps errors and notifies administrators that re-indexing may be required.
Data classification
A more promising alternative to manual keywording or tagging is to use some type of data classification system, especially when dealing with unstructured data such as word processing and spreadsheet files. Products from companies such as Index Engines, Kazeon Systems Inc. and Njini Inc. allow users to create custom policies that are applied to help categorize files, generally at the time of file creation or during the backup process.
Data classification can do more to make searches more comprehensive than just adding custom attributes to the data. For example, out of the box, some apps will apply standard classifications to files to tag specific elements like Social Security numbers. Rather than having to devise search criteria that looks for a specific pattern or numerical sequence, the data is, in effect, pre-screened for having the attribute of containing a Social Security number. iLumin, for example, includes this capability in its Assentor Discovery product. iLumin calls this classification technique "smart indexing," as it allows the application to segregate files that include the Social Security numerical pattern so that subsequent searches will only have to plow through a subset of the data. Other patterns that may be specific to a particular business, such as part numbers, can also be included.
Positioned as an information lifecycle management tool, CommVault Inc.'s Data Classification Enabler module, part of its QiNetix 6.1 suite, classifies archival data based on file-system meta data and content. An upcoming release of the product will allow users to add custom meta data to the classification criteria. Kazeon's Information Server IS1200 appliance also provides capabilities that go beyond data classification for search and retrieval, such as file copying and moving data to WORM media. Kazeon recently announced a partnership with Google to integrate its Information Server with Google's enterprise search offerings.
Beyond the basics
Meta data and index-based searches may suffice for many organizations, but litigation issues are likely to require more advanced search capabilities. Not surprisingly, the push for more sophisticated search functionality is being spearheaded by companies that have considerable experience with the discovery process, such as "highly litigious corporations," notes Michael Clark, managing director at EDDix LLC, a Washington, DC-based electronic data discovery research firm. He cites the tobacco, financial services, insurance, energy and telecommunications industries as examples.
For users, the goal is simple: Ensure that all material relevant to a litigation or regulatory case is found quickly. "Ultimately, you need to get beyond keyword search and Boolean operators," says Clark. Some of the newer, more advanced search tools address this issue, and "reduce the overall cost of a project," he adds.
A keyword search will turn up all occurrences of a word or phrase, but more advanced search engines work more like the human mind. For example, some search engines use a technique called latent semantic indexing (LSI), which is based on a statistical system that reveals associations among words or phrases within files. For example, an LSI-enabled engine might discover during a search on the word "contract" that the phrase "binding agreement" appears with enough consistency that a logical association can be assumed. So the "contract" search may return files that don't even contain that word but are linked logically.
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Here are some tips to keep in mind when evaluating the capabilities of archive and search products.
Some search providers have already incorporated LSI into their applications. For example, San Francisco-based Recommind Inc. provides conceptual search capabilities in its MindServer Retrieval products. iLumin doesn't do conceptual searches per se, but includes a number of advanced search techniques such as natural language processing, which can recognize the usage differences that distinguish words with the same spelling--such as the name "Sue" and the verb "sue." Zantaz Inc.'s EAS Search currently provides proximity searches that return results for two or more words or phrases that appear near each other within a document. The firm says it will soon include conceptual searching as well as relevancy scoring of found data objects.
Other search techniques appearing in document management, archiving and search applications include fuzzy, phonic and stemming searches (see "Advanced search concepts"). Many of these have been used for some time by Internet search sites.
The key to enhancing search capabilities with these complex, compute-intensive algorithms is incorporating them without sacrificing the performance of the search process. To this end, companies like AXS-One suggest using more general search techniques on a dataset first to create a more manageable subset that can be used with the advanced search functions.
Regardless of the specific search functionality employed by each vendor, it's clear that the state of the art in searching is steadily advancing. "The tools have reached the point where they're as or more reliable than human beings," says Andy Cohen, senior counsel and director of global solutions practice lead for compliance at EMC Corp. Cohen is also a member of the Sedona Conference, a group of lawyers, jurists and other experts that offer publications on electronic document retention and management, among other topics.
End-user tools
Right now, most searches are performed by storage administrators or other IT personnel, a natural development as storage managers are typically those who acquire and implement archiving applications. "These tools are still too new to be in the hands of the users," says Greg Forest, Contoural's vice president of services delivery. Although with e-mail archivers, users are increasingly doing the search queries themselves.
But the trend is toward more user-friendly interfaces so that legal, HR and compliance personnel can do the searches themselves, and view and analyze the results immediately. In a recent Osterman Research Inc. survey commissioned by Mimosa Systems Inc., the maker of NearPoint, a Microsoft Exchange archiving product, more than 77% of the respondents indicated that they want their archive/search applications to have end-user tools to reduce the reliance on IT.
Blackmont Capital's Erdelyi agrees, and is currently moving the responsibility for searching the Fortiva archives into his user community. "We've trained our compliance and our legal departments so they're able to perform the searches themselves," he says. Turning searching over to his users will also help Erdelyi manage the company's e-mail system better, rather than enforcing mailbox quotas. Quotas tend to result in users dumping mail into .PST files that consume disk capacity, slow backups and create the potential for legal exposure. By letting e-mail users use the search functions to find individual archived messages, Erdelyi hopes to discourage the use of .PSTs. "They'll always have access to [their messages] using Fortiva," he says.
Search federation
Two undeniable factors will affect the direction that search tools take: The amount of data that companies have to retain will continue to grow and finding specific pieces of that data will become more difficult. Most archiving tools in use today are for e-mail, file systems and databases. For the most part, these are discrete tools designed to integrate with specific apps. If a company uses several different archivers, they're also likely to have several associated search tools.
Ultimately, the proliferation of search tools will become unwieldy and the likelihood of missing something critical will increase. One solution may be an overall archiver/searcher that can work with data from multiple apps. But Contoural's Diamond warns users to "be careful about one-size-fits-all systems, because what's unacceptable is to have your archiving systems slow down the performance of the applications from which they're archiving data."
EDDix's Clark agrees, saying there will be "multiple vendors [and] special-purpose archives." If Clark and others are correct, that scenario opens the door for a search-only product that doesn't do any archiving, but can access multiple vendors' archives. Clark says vendors that develop those solutions will "position themselves as the hub in a hub-and-spoke model where they will be able to provide data mining, analysis and other tools independent of who the [archiving] vendor is." A number of products are evolving toward this model, such as MetaLincs Corp.'s MetaLincs 2.0, an e-discovery product that supports many of the popular e-mail archives and has a roadmap that calls for extending support to other applications.
Standards would facilitate the development of federated search products, but e-discovery experts say there's little, if any, activity in that area at this time. It's more likely that some of the archive players will cede search development to the search-only vendors and provide those vendors with the appropriate APIs so that their products will be interoperable. That, of course, shifts the responsibility to users, who must ensure that the archive and search applications are, indeed, compatible.


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Aces1Up necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 37 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking to re-design our web-site with a new and fresh web 2.0 style look. We want our new home page to be easily navigated by our visitors with a focus on our on line training courses they can take right through our web-site.
We're after a clean and clear site... The main 3 sections of our web-site are the following:
1. On-line Training Courses
2. In-House Training
3. Local Classroom Instruction
We would like simple layout and theme to where users can easily see summaries of each section of our web-site and navigate to them for more information...
We would like a home page developed that is easily navigated to get to these different sections of our web-site. The home page should emphasize the On-line Training Courses.
The main objective of the home page is to get the user to the sign up page for whatever type on mortgage training they need quickly and efficiently (3 clicks). Once at the section they have selected, the courses are extremely important and need to be clearly displayed in a visually impressive manner. Along with a clearly displayed call to action / sign-up form/button on all pages.
Our target audience are Loan Originators, Loan Officers, Loan Agents, and Mortgage Professionals that could use our training services so the design will reflect this. Not only do we wish to provide information on the product, we wish to push a call to action of calling or requesting a quote (these buttons and information are displayed through the site frequently). We also don't want our site to appear like a retail / junk mail catalog brochure; hence the clear and uncluttered look is what we are aiming for.
So what we need is a redesign of the home page
And 3 separate design/layout pages: 1 for each section of our web-site that provides more information / sign up...
1. On-line Training Courses
2. In-House Training
3. Local Classroom Instruction
Competition Web-Sites:
1. http://www.trainingpro.com/
2. http://www.mymortgagetrainer.com/
We would like a distinct look and feel different from these sites as they themselves look clunky and unfriendly.
- Clean design (information needs to be presented professionally and clearly, not like a bulletin board). Should be optimized for 1024x768 resolution.
- Home Page: Simple, easy to navigate, but still eye-catching with some artistic web 2.0 features.
- Menu / Navigation: Whatever type of menu is most functional and easy to use.
Currently there are far too many choices in our menuing structure, we would like to condense this to only primary sections.
- Logo to be tech savvy and legible.
- Good use of color. (This doesn't mean that the site resembles a rainbow, but an intelligent color scheme implemented into the design. Most preferably tied back to the logo colors: silver and blue)
- The site needs to be designed for 1024 x 768 screen resolution. This doesn't mean that the page can't vertically scroll BUT product images and most relevant information needs to be visible without scrolling.
- Sign up section to be added. This can either be a simple text field with a button or a button on it's own to go to another page.
- The footer links are presently drab and boring. Obviously these aren't the focus point of the site but it's the small things that are appreciated. Be creative with this section as they are important to the site, else they wouldn't be there.
- In the Local Classroom Instruction Page/Section we would like a map of the USA showing all the states so that the visitors will be able to click and see what courses are available and in which state.
- We would like an announcement section on each page / preferably not the focus of the page but still easily viewable and legible.
- We would like a eye catching easily readable RSS icon for subscriptions.
- On the home page below the fold a testimonial section
- Common Template designs. Use your imagination.
- No sense of user flow (they are there to learn about our training programs and be persuaded to sign-up using our forms.) We want our customers to be able to be browsing their preferred training program within 3 clicks.
- Wasting valuable screen space in the header area. We really want the layout to be easily navigated and urge visitors further into the web-site to learn more about our products.
All training section links should be visible on home page without scrolling.


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Kansas Realtor group rallies at Statehouse on taxes
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas real estate agents have converged at the Statehouse to lobby lawmakers to preserve two popular income tax breaks for homeowners.
The Kansas Association of Realtors had a rally Wednesday on tax issues before sending its members to meet with legislators. At least 200 real estate agents participated.
The association is trying to save two state income tax deductions targeted for elimination by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. One is for the property taxes Kansans pay on their homes and the other is for the interest on their home mortgages.
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You'd assume that a foosball table made from 100 percent renewable materials—cardboard and wood—would be best suited for college frat houses on a limited budget. But even with a handy cup holder, the odds are the Kartoni would be soaked in spilled beer after just a couple of games, destroying its structural integrity.
However, it's also just $55. So if you're worried about it not surviving, you can easily order a backup as well. And if the drab brown cardboard finish is clashing with your game room's motif, you can use paint, colored pencils, or even crayons to color it exactly how you'd like. It's completely customizable, folds flat for easy storage, and it even comes with a built-in speaker for connecting to your MP3 player of choice; a feature that even high-end foosball tables are surprisingly lacking. [Pappkicker via Inhabitat]


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Tor UK, Pan Macmillan's science fiction and fantasy imprint, announces today that it will make its ebooks DRM-free over the next three months.
"We know that this is what many Tor authors passionately want. We also understand that readers in this community feel strongly about this," says Jeremy Trevathan, Pan Macmillan's Fiction Publisher.
This decision has been made in partnership with our sister company Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, in New York. We are consulting with our authors at the moment and we will announce our plans in more detail in due course.
About Tor UK
Tor UK is a Pan Macmillan imprint specialising in science fiction, fantasy and horror. We also publish YA crossover fiction and novels based on internationally bestselling computer games franchises. Our team is fully committed to bringing the best imaginative fiction, in its many forms, to the reading community's bookshelves and eReaders. More news and views from Tor can be found on twitter and torbooks.co.uk.


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The 2008 AfterEllen.com Hot 100
By Sarah Warn
Around this time each year, the various American men's magazines release their lists of the hottest/most beautiful women, and every year, lesbian and bi women are left puzzled at many of the women they choose. So last year, we offered AfterEllen.com readers an opportunity to nominate the women you found most attractive, and the results were interesting — and decidedly different.
We opened up the poll for the second annual AfterEllen.com Hot 100 in early May, and received over 100,000 votes from lesbian and bisexual women around the world — again with different (and sometimes surprising) results.
Though many women from our first annual AfterEllen.com Hot 100 made the list again this year, there are a lot of new faces — like Gossip Girl's Blake Lively, Battlestar Galactica's Grace Park, and openly bisexual singer Missy Higgins. A few non-surprises? The woman who made Maxim's 100th spot, Tila Tequila, wasn't even close to making our list, and their number-one choice, swimsuit model Marisa Miller, barely received any votes from AfterEllen.com readers. In fact, just like last year, only two of Maxim's top 10 showed up anywhere on our list.
On the other hand, FHM's No.1 hottie, Megan Fox, made our list by a lesbian country mile, proving there are some women that straight men and queer women agree on.
After disregarding multiple votes from the same IP address, tossing out nominations for "my girlfriend", and then counting the remaining votes, we discovered the number-one hottest woman this year according to lesbian and bi women is … Tina Fey! Coming in a close second is The L Word's Jennifer Beals, followed by our own AfterEllen.com vloggers Jill Bennett and Bridget McManus, and finally, out actress/musician Leisha Hailey (which means three out of the top five are openly gay).
The woman who made perhaps the biggest jump in rank this year is actress Sara Ramirez, who rose from No. 80 in 2007 to No. 8 in 2008, proving that playing gay can be good for your career! (OK, so the voting was closed before her character came out on Grey's, but we lesbians have excellent gaydar, even for fictional TV characters.)
Other stats about this year's list? There are 18 women of color — a definite improvement over last year — and 21 openly gay/bi women on the list (seven of whom are AfterEllen.com vloggers), which is more than double the number on last year's list. We've put asterisks next to the names of the women on the list who are openly gay or bisexual. (There may be other women on the list who are queer, but we're only noting the ones who are out.)
Our list includes women from all over the world — from countries as diverse as Canada, England, France, India, Mexico, Norway, and Spain — and women who vary in age from 18 to 57 years old. Although the vast majority of women on the list are actors or TV personalities, there are some musicians this year, as well as a few writers, a chef, and an athlete.
There are some similarities to the 2007 AfterEllen.com Hot 100. Many of the same women made both lists, and like last year, many of the women on this year's list have played lesbian or bi characters on-screen, or expressed support for gay rights off-screen. (What can we say, we like women who like us!) Angie Harmon is once again the only openly conservative Republican to make our list — she even moved up in rank quite a bit this year— which is consistent with one of the prominent themes of the 2008 Hot 100: we really do love the bad girls! We also love the smart ones — or at least, the ones who play smart women on TV.
The following pages provide photos for all 100 women in ascending order according to your votes, with some further details provided about the first 25. We've also linked each woman's name to other articles about her on AfterEllen.com, in case you want to do some more reading about them, and we've listed each woman's rank on the 2007 list below her name.
This year, in addition to the photos, we've created a video countdown of all the women on the list with commentary provided by various lesbian and bi women (and a few token straight women) that AfterEllen.com readers know and love. You can watch the video countdown here as it's rolled out in installments each day this week through Thursday.
And when you need a break from looking at all the hot women, check out our brother site's list of the hottest men according to gay and bi men, on the AfterElton.com 2008 Hot 100 — you might even see some lesbian-ish men there!
Now on to your votes for the hottest women of 2008!
(No. 7 in 2007)
Last October, Tina Fey mentioned the fact that she was No. 7 on last year's Hot 100 on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and a mere nine months later, she's riding high as No. 1 on the 2008 AfterEllen.com Hot 100. Coincidence? We don't think so. Take one part Fey's support of the LGBT community, add her critical and comedic success in 30 Rock and Baby Mama (not to mention her hilarious Saturday Night Live sketches), mix it all together with some awesome black-rimmed glasses and bicurious shoes, and you've got a new lesbian icon. Smart, sexy, funny and down-to-earth: That's what lesbians like!
(No. 6 in 2007)
Always intelligent, poised and on the best-dressed lists, Jennifer Beals has also become an advocate for LGBT rights through her role as Bette Porter on The L Word. The biracial actress told AfterEllen.com last month at the San Francisco GLAAD Awards, "I feel connected to the LGBT community by virtue of having always felt 'other.'" Beals has made Bette one of The L Word's sexiest characters, whether she's having a fling with her intern, being a demanding professor or reuniting (finally!) with Laurel Holloman's Tina. Given that next year will mark the last season of The L Word, we won't be surprised if Beals gives Tina Fey some competition for the No. 1 spot in 2009.
What's better than a good lesbian film or television character? A good lesbian film or television character actually portrayed by an out lesbian actor! Hot 100 newcomer Jill Bennett first came to our attention when she co-starred with lesbian favorite Mariel Hemingway in 2006's In Her Line of Fire, then landed a memorable role as demonic hottie in here! TV's supernatural soap opera Dante's Cove. Her status as an internet sensation was sealed this year with the popularity of her AfterEllen.com vlog We're Getting Nowhere, and with her portrayal of carnivorous, gun-toting seductress Andrea in the bawdy web series 3Way. Sexy, smart and unapologetically out since day one of her acting career, Bennett is a brink-of-fame actress whom AfterEllen.com readers can take full credit for discovering.
Who's our favorite flexible, flirty and funny lesbian? Comedian Bridget McManus, of course! The 28-year-old former All American cheerleader came to the attention of AfterEllen.com readers after a guest appearance on the vlog We're Getting Nowhere. You demanded more McManus, and the hit AfterEllen.com vlog Brunch With Bridget was born. Broadcasting each week from her bed in Los Angeles, the professionally random McManus talks to her female guests about a variety of topics and ends each episode by cajoling them into a "pillow fight to the death." She also made a memorable cameo as Rhonda the Rapid Delivery girl on the web series 3Way, and can be seen this summer in a very brief appearance in the Angelina Jolie blockbuster Wanted. Look for her in the upcoming comedy documentary, Laughing Matters: The Next Generation, and prepare to tell the rest of the world that you knew her way back when.
(No. 1 in 2007)
Last year's No. 1 hottie moves down a few spots this year, but that doesn't mean that Leisha Hailey is any less adorable these days. Though her L Word character, the bubbly Alice Pieszecki, went through some ups and downs last season, Hailey's career is on an upswing. Having just wrapped up a tour with her band, Uh Huh Her, Leisha's preparing for the band's first album to debut in August, and she's also signed on as a spokesperson for Olivia. Openly gay, a killer guitar player, and simultaneously sweet and edgy? That's hotness personified!


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Kiki Feather Print Dress
Added Jan 25, 2010
By burdastyle
New York, New Yo...
The Kiki dress is perfect for making a chic fashion statement: the curved front and back scoop neck is soft & elegant while a bounty of center back buttons lend this dress a lovely vintage feel. The Kiki dress comes with 3 sleeve variations included in this pattern, the thumbnails are on the pattern page, which are perfectly fit for multiple occasions!
Variation A, pictured above, was made from a peacock feather print silk charmeuse & chiffon combination.
Material Notes
2 – 2 1/4 yards medium – lightweight cotton or silk blends. 20cm zipper, 90cm x 15cm interfacing, 11 small buttons
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Jun 13, 2011, 08.25 PMby LimeSoda
This variation in this fabric choice renders this dress extraordinary. I absolutely will be making this. And yes, the pics are lovely as well!
Feb 27, 2010, 03.52 AMby thedrells
Just a question about this. Is it the dress in the feather print and a seperate underdress as well If so, how much material should I get for the underdress?
Jan 28, 2010, 10.20 PMby racheln
I think the fabric is beautiful – is there anywhere I can find out where to get hold of this fabric? I'm new to this website, so wondered if for each project published the sources of the fabrics used are given? Thanks.
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Feb 1, 2010, 05.19 PMby burdastyle
Hi Rachel! I found the fabric at B&J fabrics in Manhattan, New York. You can definitely Shop Online via their website. The fabrics pictured above are a silk charmeuse & chiffon combo- perfect for combining a sleeve & dress with. Good luck!
Feb 4, 2010, 08.28 PMby racheln
Thanks Alison, I contacted B&J fabrics, and they don't appear to have this fabric anymore – what a shame!
Jan 28, 2010, 05.04 PMby threadsquare
Love this! Thanks for breaking down the fabric ratio (bodice & skirt) :) I like the chiffon/charmeuse combo in the same print. Having trouble sourcing some, but it looks great.
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Feb 1, 2010, 05.20 PMby burdastyle
As per the answer I gave above: I found the fabric at B&J fabrics in Manhattan, New York. You can definitely Shop Online via their website. The fabrics pictured above are a silk charmeuse & chiffon combo- perfect for combining a sleeve & dress with. Good luck!
Jan 27, 2010, 11.29 AMby carolinam
Love the fabric! It is perfect for this dress, love the sleeves… if i had the chance to put this dress on now i wold wear it today.
Jan 27, 2010, 08.26 AMby littlemisssewandsew
I am unable to download the instructions could you please fix the link if broken or explain how to download them, are they with the pattern download?
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Jan 27, 2010, 03.59 PMby alisondahl
The instructions are with the pattern download (in a .doc form you can open in Microsoft Word) and can also be followed on line here:
Let me know if you still cannot find them and I'll get them to you;)
Jan 26, 2010, 02.46 PMby wzrdreams
Hey Burdastyle! I would like/need a more specific fabric quantity break down. All versions of this dress use 2 different fabrics so "2-2 1/4 yards" is not very accurate. I suppose I could just buy LOTS of fabric, but I do have a budget and Mood isn't cheap. So…. how many yarns for the bodice and how many yards for the skirt?
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Jan 26, 2010, 03.45 PMby alisondahl
1 yard for the top and 1 1/4 for the skirt.
Jan 26, 2010, 06.44 AMby savirly
Lovely ! I like the colour and the sexy back .
Jan 26, 2010, 04.01 AMby sew4my3
What a difference fabric makes! I thought I didn't care much for this pattern till seeing this wonderful variation. I really love this!
Jan 25, 2010, 11.19 PMby Vivat Veritas
love the dress, especially the button detail in the back! i know this is unrelated, but i really like the cut out pumps in the last pic…do you know where it's from?
Jan 25, 2010, 10.06 PMby kkhb
Does this curved waistline tend to accentuate or hide a bit of a belly?
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Jan 25, 2010, 10.17 PMby alisondahl
The waistline hits up high at the natural waist, which tends on average to be our most narrow measurement. Depending upon how much ease you like (I'd like to be able to grab 1/2" on either side of the skirt), I think this look helps to conceal a little tummy…
Jan 26, 2010, 11.52 PMby alldressedinstripes
Not sure about a belly, but the curves pull the eye downward toward the sides, which is not typically a shape that's flattering to a full bust.
Jan 25, 2010, 08.42 PMby indil
Although I reall y love this pattern I'm not entirely sure about the fabric.. but probably it's just a matter of personal taste.
Jan 25, 2010, 06.57 PMby green cat
wanderful fabric & . . . all dress
Jan 25, 2010, 06.26 PMby irmchen
I like this version of 'Kiki'! May be it is the sleeve form which makes it perfect to me, or the fabric, or only the fabric colour?? Don't know what it is exactly, but the dress looks beautiful.
Jan 25, 2010, 05.51 PMby cottonsilk
Soooo neat!!!
Jan 25, 2010, 04.50 PMby wzrdreams
I love this sleeve version.
Jan 25, 2010, 04.33 PMby skwarynia
I like it, it's very elegant and the feather print look so shic but I don't get how it differs from the first yellow version? I thought that this week Burda will upload sth totally new, but this is only a variation, and I don't se any differences between the first. Anyway, I really like it:) And I don't want to upset anybody
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Jan 25, 2010, 04.42 PMby burdastyle
The variation is in the sleeve at the shoulder & cuff: Variation A (above) bells out more and requires more fabric for more fullness, which creates a more dramatic effect.
Jan 26, 2010, 12.16 AMby thecuriouskiwi
I took me a while to notice the difference in the sleeves as well, this is nice and flowy but personally I'd love a two tone version, I can see this fabric on top with contrast solid (maybe purple) on the bottom or vice versa :) What I realy want to know is the fabric split for "skirt" vs "top" which I asked previously in my comment on the Black & White Kiki
Jan 26, 2010, 10.12 AMby skwarynia
Oh yes, sorry I didn't notice:) all the time I was looking at this beautiful print!:) Anyway it looks lovely, and the pics are great too:)
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We're hanging out at Yoshi's parents place right now. Yoshi is playing around online while watching sports in the living room. Yoshi's dad just finished cooking crabs. Yoshi's mom is making all kinds of foods for tomorrow's shogatsu/osechi. (Yes, I'm going to go help in a bit!) I'm working right now to make up some hours from when I went to have a long lunch in Half Moon Bay.
Earlier today, we drove out to Half Moon Bay to go pick up thirteen fresh crabs off a boat! (Last year we went and there were no crabs to be found. We ended up having to settle for store-bought crabs.) While we were there, we had lunch at Ketch Joanne Restaurant and Harbor Bar (now a New Years Eve tradition for us).
Last year, we spent New Year's Eve in SF with friends, which was wonderful. We stayed at the Kabuki Hotel in J-town, so they were piping in NHK on the TV. I'm totally disappointed right now because we searched the DirecTV listings here in SJ, and there is no Kohaku to watch! Wah!
Anyway, since I had to work today, we drove up to San Jose last night and planned to hang out at Yoshi's parents place so I could work in their office. I've been pretty good for most of the day, except for the times where I have been distracted by food. Once by our trip to Half Moon Bay. Then later on in the early evening when we all got hungry again and Yoshi and I went to Super Taqueria (on our friend TM's urging) to bring some snacks home. [Side story: Late last night, I was IMing TM and told him we were in San Jose and he would not stop bugging me about how I had to go to Super Taqueria at some point in my trip. Then he told me I had to join the I LOVE SUPER TAQUERIA!!!!! Facebook group, which I did. And then he made me an Officer of the group, even though I hadn't been there yet. Anyway, I am happy to report that I am no longer a Super Taqueria virgin as we had the carne asada Super Taco, carnitas Super Burrito, and chicken quesadilla on flour tortilla. All we were yummy!]
Here's a picture of me with our take-out Super Taqueria food.
Here's a picture of me being a freak with our take-out Super Taqueria food.
Oh, and since I can't watch Kohaku on TV, Yoshi was nice enough to search YouTube for a clip. Here's Jero (African-American Enka singer!) on Kohaku:


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Yemeni Militants Shoot Down Army Helicopter – Killing All 8 Passengers
Yemeni militants shot down an army helicopter today killing all 8 passengers.
Meanwhile two transport planes arrived in Yemen earlier to evacuate US citizens.
Breitbart – AP reported:
Yemeni officials say that militants have shot down an army helicopter, killing all eight people on board including a military commander.
The officials say the helicopter was downed by a missile over the al-Qaida stronghold of Wadi Ubida in central Yemen. The helicopter was flying from the capital Sanaa to the province of Marib, officials said. The passengers were part of a military force guarding oil installations in the province.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
The attack comes at a time the U.S. and British embassies evacuated staff amid reports of a threatened attack by the terrorist group.


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Camel racing is not to be missed if you're here in the camel racing season, September to March, when races are held three or four days each week. In Dubai, camel races start at about 0730 and are over by 0830. It's quite a spectacle, as countless camels thunder down the tracks at amazing speeds. During the summer there's still plenty to see on the tracks, with daily practice sessions at no fixed hours, although 0630 is a good time to come, before it gets oppressively hot.
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The Green Bay Packers also get a quick chance at revenge when they open the 2013 regular season at San Francisco, and the Baltimore Ravens begin their Super Bowl defense against Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos in Colorado in a rematch of last season's thrilling double-overtime playoff match.
The San Francisco rematch is one of the highlights of the schedule that was released Thursday.
"Opening day is always exciting. Playing the San Francisco 49ers is obviously a challenge that we look forward to," Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy said.
Other opening weekend marquee match-ups (Sept. 5-9) include the Dallas Cowboys hosting the division-rival New York Giants, and the Washington Redskins hosting the Philadelphia Eagles and the Houston Texans visiting the San Diego Chargers on Monday night.
The 49ers beat the Packers 45-31 in last season's NFC divisional playoffs at Candlestick Park. San Francisco also earned a 30-22 win over Green Bay at Lambeau Field in the 2012 regular-season opener.
The NFL's 32 teams will each play 16 games over 17 weeks, while byes will begin in Week 4 and end in Week 12.
The Packers' schedule includes four night games, three of them in a four-week span.
In an unusual quirk, the Packers never play consecutive road games.
"I like it," McCarthy said. "It gives you a chance to get into a routine of playing at home and then on the road, to get into a flow. Winning on the road is so important."
Green Bay plays back-to-back home games just once, Monday, Nov. 4, against the Chicago Bears and Sunday, Nov. 10, against the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Packers have an early Week 4 bye, then play four of six games at home, including the division-rival Detroit Lions in Week 5 and the Bears on Monday night in Week 9, which follows a difficult Sunday night game at the Minnesota Vikings in Week 8. Green Bay also travels to the New York Giants on Sunday night in Week 11 and plays host to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday night in Week 14.
The Atlanta game kicks off a tough December schedule that includes, in order, a game at Dallas against the Cowboys, a home game against Pittsburgh Steelers, and a season-ending battle with the rival Bears at Soldier Field.
"I think we have a really tough finish on paper with the teams we're playing down the stretch," McCarthy said.
The Packers play in Detroit on Thanksgiving in the day's first game.
"It's an incredible tradition, playing on Thanksgiving Day," McCarthy said. "It's a blessing for everyone involved. We're fortunate enough to still be home in time to share in the importance of the day."
Thanksgiving will feature a triple-header. Oakland visits Dallas and Pittsburgh plays in Baltimore in the day's other two games.
For the fourth consecutive year, all 16 games scheduled for the final week of the regular season are division contests, enhancing the potential for more games at the end of the season with playoff ramifications.
Two games will be played at London's Wembley Stadium, with the Minnesota Vikings hosting Pittsburgh on Sept. 29, before the Jacksonville Jaguars host the San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 27.
The Buffalo Bills will venture north to Canada for the sixth consecutive season when they host the Atlanta Falcons in Toronto on Dec. 1.
Super Bowl XLVIII is slated for Feb. 2, 2014 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.


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Message from the President
One Foundation
Synergy is a word that has gone in and out of fashion for nearly 350 years. In a general sense it means "joint work," "cooperation." Synergy was a word much in use at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 2003, a year in which we emphasized quality performance through teamwork across divisions and departments—from marketing to research, from the Internet to the Historic Area, from hospitality to human resources. In 2003, we marshaled all the organization's components under the banner "One Foundation," the motivating phrase of a campaign to encourage us, in our diversity, to act as the single organization we are. The central objective has been to ensure that the value of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts—to think like, to talk like, to function like, to be One Foundation.
Complex enterprises like Colonial Williamsburg sometimes seem as if they are several operations running in separate orbits with little in common but a name, and in some situations that may make good sense. In fact, our individual operations have functioned well, if somewhat independently. But it seemed to me they could be more mutually supportive and reinforcing, as well as more efficient. Importantly, closer coordination of our efforts across the foundation would convey a clearer message to our multiple constituencies about the whole of Colonial Williamsburg. The One Foundation initiative emphasizes that our core mission is education, and that all the other activities either are extensions of that mission, or support it, or nourish it financially, and enrich the guest experience. In 2003, this approach became fundamental to the way we do business.
All the foundation's staffs are benefiting from a more cooperative and structured approach toward achieving their common goals. That structure emphasizes guest focus, improved communication internally and externally, collaboration on special projects and events, stewardship of our extraordinary resources, and personal accountability. Where there are like tasks to be performed, staffs are taking responsibility to share processes, avoid duplication, enhance operational efficiencies, conserve resources, and make seamless Colonial Williamsburg's "America. Chapter I." adventure.
President Colin G. Campbell stands in the middle of staff from around Colonial Williamsburg. Wearing the costumes or clothing of their worksites or holding the tools of their trades are Anna Agbe-Davies, Patrick Andrews, Stevenson Bailey, Bill Barker, John Boag, Natasha Brown, Glen Byrnes, Juleigh Clark, Gayle Clarke, Tony Craig, Larry Earl, Claudia Fitzgerald, Leroy Graves, Julia Harrod, Bridgette Houston, Clara Johnson, Craig Joseph Sr., Richard Josey, Denise Kellogg, Pete Roberts, Kathy Rose, Juliet Schwarz, Elaine Shirley, James Smith, Valli Anne Trusler, Darrell Waddell, Alice Watkinson, Dennis Watson, Bill Weldon, and John Wullert.
Our Internet effort is a good example of synergistic success. Online marketing, sales, and educational communications have become far more effective because a cross-disciplinary team is making coordinated use of Internet opportunities. That team melds specialists in the World Wide Web, information technology, marketing, and public relations with the people responsible for Historic Area programming, for educational outreach, and for tending our intellectual flame—the research staff.
When we set out to train employees to work with a new and improved ticket structure, the human resources department took full advantage of sales expertise in hospitality, products, and marketing to help Visitor Center salespeople communicate the variety of ticket options so that our guests could determine which experience might be best for them.
The products program has since its earliest days concentrated on selling reproductions, interpretations, and adaptations of eighteenth-century goods. The items now offered in the Historic Area's Prentis Store are hand made by our Historic Trades craftspeople. Thus the store serves both our retail and educational aims, demonstrating the linkage between them, and also giving more attention, in a commercial setting, to the extraordinary workmanship and productivity of Historic Area staff.
Colonial Williamsburg's hospitality operations have long been linked to the Historic Area through historic taverns staffed by costumed servers and balladeers offering adaptations of eighteenth-century food and entertainment, and by guest lodgings in Colonial Houses. Interpretive training and guidance for costumed hospitality employees is provided by Historic Area staff to ensure authenticity. Synergy has been further enhanced through popular seasonal lodging and dining vacation opportunities such as the Glorious Gardens package and the Ghosts and Legends package, which provide some of the very best that the Historic Area and our hospitality team have to offer at appealing prices.
Such cross-pollination is becoming the rule rather than the exception in organizations across the land. It makes sense for Colonial Williamsburg to be among those leading the way. After all, synergy is at the heart of the story we tell, the creation from thirteen disparate colonies of an idea greater than the sum of the parts, the idea of America, an idea for all people, for all time.
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New Book Claims 'Killer whales at Seaworld had teeth removed with power drills and were left to mourn on own after being separated from young.' A new book has produced a damning verdict on SeaWorld and the future of keeping killer whales in captivity in the wake of trainer Dawn Brancheau's death at the hands of Tilikumin (Tilly) in 2010 pictured here.
A new book examining the dark side of keeping killer whales in captivity has slammed SeaWorld for its treatment of the enormous beasts and for massive safety failings which still haunt the world famous marine parks. Claiming that the 12,000 pound animals are self- harming and that staff are inadequately prepared for another killer whale attack incident, 'Death at SeaWorld' has been published two-and-a-half years after the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in Orlando. Written by New York City reporter David Kirby, 'Death at SeaWorld' claims that killer whales kept in captivity suffer immense emotional and psychological trauma and spoke to former trainers and campaigning animal rights advocates to present his damning case.
Staff interviewed by Kirby told him of killer whales destroying their teeth on metal gates and then subsequently having those teeth removed by staff wielding power drills. In addition, he claims that calves are separated from their mothers causing both parent and child massive distress and in one instance almost leading to a fatality as an irate mother took out her anger on a trainer at SeaWorld's San Diego headquarters.
Furthermore, Kirby claims that staff are instructed to get Tilikum to come out of the water and roll and then masturbate him with a gloved hand, collecting the semen for the park's artificial insemination program.
Killer whales in captivity have a mortality rate two-and-a-half times higher than those living in the Pacific Northwest, according to figures produced by marine mammal scientist Naomi Rose of the Humane Society. One staff member that Kirby spoke to is called Jeffrey Ventre and he was fired from the park in 1995 for his expressive views on the treatment of the animals.
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Sea World and other prisons claim that killer whales in captivity do not pose a danger to the prison guards/trainers. See the history of 106 killer whale attacks rebelling against slavery from 1968 through July 2012. How can anyone claim this is not torture for the whales?
'SeaWorld can make the environment safe, according to them, 98% of the times,' said Ventre to ABC's 20/20.
'But what happens when the world's top predator decides to go off behaviour?'
Let go from SeaWorld for kissing a killer whale's tongue, a banned action, Ventrea said that most staff members violated the so called 'tongue-tacticle' rule and were not fired.
Trainer Dawn Brancheau's with
killer whale Tilikumin before he rebelled against his captivity
and killed her in 2010.
Attracting up to 12 million visitors a year across the three locations, SeaWorld was rocked by Brancheau's death after Tilikum dragged her by her ponytail into the water, scalped her and dismembered her.
One former trainer, John Jett, told Kirby that trainers were not fully aware of the safety problems related to killer whale work, however one senior trainer told a court investigating Brancheau's death that SeaWorld staff were told they may not survive falling in the water with Tilikum.
Former trainer
John Jett also listed several other incidents that happened while he was
employeed by Sea World:
'A lack of detailed information was the norm whenever accidents happened at other parks,' said Jett.
'I remember one incident when all of us were pulled from water work for a short time. 'To this day, I don't know what happened.'
An initial report after a trainer narrowly survived being killed by a killer whale named Kasatka in 2006 made for shocking reading.
'If someone hasn't been killed already, it is only a matter of time before it does happen,' said the California Occupational Safety and Health Program.
However, this line was not added to the final report and Kirby believes that SeaWorld pressured for it to be removed. Now after federal rulings which keep trainers out of the water with killer whales, SeaWorld has a specific emergency procedure should someone fall into the water.
Whales haven't attacked since the 60s??? They can't put Tilly back in the wild because people would be scared at the beach?
'Assuming there's an emergency where someone does get pulled into the water, an employee sounds the alarm, which triggers a park-wide emergency alert system,' said Kirby to a local radio station. 'That lets people know something went wrong in Shamu Stadium.
'I believe that ever since Tilikum, there's always somebody on stage with their finger on the button during a performance.
'People are trained to come running. Everyone is supposed to have a role. Some people are in charge of distracting the whale, try to call it back under control, using signals, underwater tones, food, hand-slapping on the water.
'A certain number of people are employed to unfurl the nets, designed to separate the trainer from the whale, or try to get it to go into a different pool. 'And others are there to try to use shepherd's hooks, floatation devices and what are called pony bottles of air for the trainer. 'The main task is to separate the whale from the human who's in trouble.'
However, despite this, Kirby is adamant that SeaWorld was responsible for Brancheau's death. 'If anybody's at fault, it's SeaWorld,' said Kirby.
Operating in San Antonio, San Diego and Orlando,
all SeaWorld's killer whales are called 'Shamus' in honour of the park's
original animal and up until the Brancheau incident were forced to perform
acrobatic displays with their human trainer's in "large" pools.
'It basically relied on the trainer's own judgment and ability to recognize precursors to aggression in a killer whale. 'It was their own skill that was supposed to save their skin. 'But I'm not a judge and I'm not a lawyer.'
The book comes some two months after a ruling by a federal judge affirming two safety citations against SeaWorld by the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration. In May, Ken S. Welsch, a federal administrative law judge for the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, downgraded one of the violations cited by OSHA and reduced the fines SeaWorld was facing by tens of thousands of dollars. 'OSHA failed to establish SeaWorld manifested plain indifference to employee safety,' said Ken S. Welsch.
'On the contrary, the record demonstrates SeaWorld constantly emphasised safety training and was continuously refining its safety program.' However, he was critical of the pressure on staff to always be prepared to implement these safety protocols. 'SeaWorld holds trainers to a near-impossible standard set by upper management, who engage in a form of Monday morning quarterbacking,' said Welsch.
'Once a trainer is in the water with a killer whale that chooses to engage in undesirable behaviour, the trainer is at the whale's mercy. 'All the emergency procedures, nets, underwater signals and hand slaps are useless if the whale chooses to ignore them.'
While SeaWorld is still hopeful that it can return its staff into the water with the killer whales, it has stated that it 'remains dedicated to the safety of its employees and well being of its animals.'
Indeed, in reply to the allegations made by Kirby, the park is adamant that it is 'a model for marine zoological facilities around the world' and that additions 'in the areas of personal safety, facility design and communication have enhanced this program further still.'
Tilikum (Tilly), a 22-foot, 12,000-pound killer whale, killed marine mammal trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010 after pulling her into his tank at SeaWorld Orlando. This is clearly a tragedy – but one for animals as well as humans.
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On this week's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack: philanthropy as an investment. Two philanthropy thought leaders, Jack Lund, the CEO of the YMCA of Greater New York and Doug Bauer, Executive Director of the Clark Foundation share advice on how to get the best return from your giving.
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Blue Velvet
Before director David Lynch got too carried away with his so-called genius, before his television show Twin Peaks brought him into the home and consciousness of the casually pretentious, before he would slap any old weird images together and have people call it art, back in '86 he made his best film...Blue Velvet. It had much of the surreal oddball touches we've come to expect from a "David Lynch film," but instead of relying on hammy artifices, it's just simply a haunting, funny, and beautifully crafted film. Though it's challenging and can be considered an "art film," it's still one of Lynch's most accessible films and works just as well as a straight suspense movie.
Before Blue Velvet helped push David Lynch further into the "auteur" big leagues, he had already had some major artistic success. His first feature film, the horror, sci-fi, surreal Eraserhead became an instant cult film for both its disturbing imagery as well as the humor in its strange pacing. He got an Oscar nomination for his next film, the beautiful and disturbing studio picture, The Elephant Man. He was miscast as blockbuster director for Dune; the adaptation of the popular sci-fi novel was a massive bomb, both financially and creatively. Though Blue Velvet was produced by the big-time producing Dino De Laurentiis Company and was even originally sold as a mainstream thriller, it was Lynch's return to his roots with an original screenplay, not developed for him, but by him and his own weird mind. Lynch and the film were obviously embraced by Hollywood. With Blue Velvet he would score another Oscar nomination for directing, but it meant he would never go back to being a "director for hire."Continue Reading


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Monday, August 1, 2011
Essential NON-Genealogy Books about New England
Thanks to all my friends for contributing to this list!
Essential Non-Genealogy Books about New England
Atwater, Edward Elias. History of the Colony of New Haven to its Absorption into Connecticut.
Beston, Henry. The Outermost House.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten.
Deetz, James. The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony.
Ferrero, Pat and Elain Hedges, Julie Silber. Hearts & Hands, The Influence of Women & Quilts on American Society.
Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed.
Gross, Robert A. The Minutemen and their World.
Hoftadter, Richard. America at 1750.
Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.
Lepore, Jill. The Name of War.
Ludwig, Allan I. Graven images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815.
Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family.
Nutt, Charles. History of Worcester and its People. (available for viewing on Google Books)
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower.
Puleo, Stephen. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.
Russell, Howard S. A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England.
Schultz, Eric B. and Michael J. Tougias. King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict.
Smith, Wynifred Staples. Pines and Pioneers.
Thorson, Robert. Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. (2001).
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her Diary, 1785–1812. (1990).
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. (1982).
Wagner, David. The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution.
Watters, David. The Encyclopedia of New England.
Wilson, Donald A. Logging and Lumbering in Maine.
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Fantastic list, Marian! You may want to add:ReplyDelete
Sherman, MIchael, Gene Sessions and P. Jeffrey Potash, Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont.
Thanks for creating this list.
Thank Cathi! I was hoping that people would continue to make suggestions in the comments. I'm glad to learn about that one.ReplyDelete
- Howland DavisAugust 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM
I have read parts of "Albion's Seed" dealing with New England. I have also read "The History Of King Philips War: Also Expeditions Against The French And Indians In The Eastern Parts Of New England In The Years ...." by Thomas Church and Samuel Drake. For information about the Dover, NH area, I have read "Hatevil Nutter of Dover, New Hampshire And His Descendants" by Frederick Boyle. For a more recent look at Boston, I recently obtained Twelve Walking Tours, Victorian Boston Today" edited by Mary M. Petronella and walked two of the tours (one followed streets that my sister travels daily and the other was in the area of my grandfather's home on Commonwealth Avenue).ReplyDelete