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During the Victorian period men and women's roles became more sharply defined than at any time in history. In earlier centuries it had been usual for women to work alongside husbands and brothers in the family business. Living 'over the shop' made it easy for women to help out by serving customers or keeping accounts while also attending to their domestic duties. As the 19th century progressed men increasingly commuted to their place of work – the factory, shop or office. Wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. From the 1830s, women started to adopt the crinoline, a huge bell-shaped skirt that made it virtually impossible to clean a grate or sweep the stairs without tumbling over.
The two sexes now inhabited what Victorians thought of as 'separate spheres', only coming together at breakfast and again at dinner.
The ideology of Separate Spheres rested on a definition of the 'natural' characteristics of women and men. Women were considered physically weaker yet morally superior to men, which meant that they were best suited to the domestic sphere. Not only was it their job to counterbalance the moral taint of the public sphere in which their husbands laboured all day, they were also preparing the next generation to carry on this way of life. The fact that women had such great influence at home was used as an argument against giving them the vote.
Women did, though, require a new kind of education to prepare them for this role of 'Angel in the House'. Rather than attracting a husband through their domestic abilities, middle-class girls were coached in what were known as 'accomplishments'. These would be learned either at boarding school or from a resident governess. In Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice the snobbish Caroline Bingley lists the skills required by any young lady who considers herself accomplished:
A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages … ; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions … (ch. 8)
As Miss Bingley emphasizes, it was important for a well-educated girl to soften her erudition with a graceful and feminine manner. No-one wanted to be called a 'blue-stocking', the name given to women who had devoted themselves too enthusiastically to intellectual pursuits. Blue-stockings were considered unfeminine and off-putting in the way that they attempted to usurp men's 'natural' intellectual superiority. Some doctors reported that too much study actually had a damaging effect on the ovaries, turning attractive young women into dried-up prunes. Later in the century, when Oxford and Cambridge opened their doors to women, many families refused to let their clever daughters attend for fear that they would make themselves unmarriageable.
Bowles's Drawing Book for Ladies is a manual for drawing or embroidering flowers. Drawing and embroidery were part of a conventional female education in the 18th and 19th centuries.View images from this item (6)
At the same time, a young girl was not expected to focus too obviously on finding a husband. Being 'forward' in the company of men suggested a worrying sexual appetite. Women were assumed to desire marriage because it allowed them to become mothers rather than to pursue sexual or emotional satisfaction. One doctor, William Acton, famously declared that 'The majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind'.
Girls usually married in their early to mid-20s. Typically, the groom would be five years older. Not only did this reinforce the 'natural' hierarchy between the sexes, but it also made sound financial sense. A young man needed to be able to show that he earned enough money to support a wife and any future children before the girl's father would give his permission. Some unfortunate couples were obliged to endure an engagement lasting decades before they could afford to marry.
If a young man was particularly pious he might manage to stay chaste until he married. Many respectable young men, however, resorted to using prostitutes. All the major cities had red light districts where it was easy to find a woman whom you could pay for sex. Out-of-towners could consult such volumes as Roger Funnyman's The Swell's Night Guide through the Metropolis. Unfortunately syphilis and other sexual diseases were rife, and many young men unwittingly passed on the infection to their wives. For those unlucky enough to develop full-blown tertiary syphilis, the result was a painful and lingering death, usually in the mid-40s.
The New Swell's Night Guide, a guide to finding and approaching actresses and prostitutes, estimated 1840.View images from this item (7)
'the majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled by sexual feelings of any kind': from William Acton's medical text, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs, 1857.View images from this item (4)
Young and not-so-young women had no choice but to stay chaste until marriage. They were not even allowed to speak to men unless there was a married woman present as a chaperone. Higher education or professional work was also out of the question. These emotional frustrations could lead to all sorts of covert rebellion. Young Florence Nightingale longed to be able to do something useful in the world, but was expected to stay with her mother and sister, helping supervise the servants. She suffered from hysterical outbursts as a teenager, and could not bear to eat with the rest of the family. Elizabeth Barrett, meanwhile, used illness as an excuse to retreat to a room at the top of her father's house and write poetry. In 1847 Charlotte Brontë put strong feelings about women's limited role into the mouth of her heroine Jane Eyre:
women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. (ch. 12)
This passage was considered so shocking that conservative commentators such as Lady (Elizabeth) Eastlake in a famously scathing review of Jane Eyre likened its tone to Chartism, the popular labour movement that advocated universal suffrage.
In her review – which also covered William Thackeray's Vanity Fair – Lady Eastlake took a strong dislike to the sexual ambition of Jane Eyre and Becky Sharp, both of whom end up marrying into the households by which they are employed. The figure of the governess was unsettling, especially in literature, because it drew attention to the fact that not all Victorian women were as sexless as Dr Acton had suggested.
The conservative 'Lady Eastlake', real name Elizabeth Rigby, harshly criticises Jane Eyre as dangerously immoral in this review, here reprinted in Littell's Living Age, 1849.View images from this item (8)
The prostitute was the shadow that haunted the well-run middle-class home. She serviced the needs of the men of the house, not just before marriage but sometimes during it too. Just like the men she slept with, but unlike their wives, the prostitute was a worker in the economic market place, exchanging services for cash. Doctors such as Acton were extremely worried by the 'problem' the prostitute presented, in particular the way she spread sexual disease amongst the male population. For this reason Contagious Diseases Act were instituted from 1860 which allowed, in certain towns, for the forced medical examination of any woman who was suspected of being a sex worker. If she was found to be infected she was placed in a 'Lock Hospital' until she was cured. A reform movement led by Josephine Butler vigorously campaigned for a repeal of the acts, arguing that it was male clients, as much as the prostitutes, who were responsible for the 'problems' associated with prostitution.
Many charities were instituted to help reform prostitutes. Charles Dickens even collaborated with the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts to set up a 'Magdalen House' which would prepare girls for a new life in Australia. Despite these efforts, prostitution continued to flourish for as long as there were bachelors who were prevented by economy from marrying until their late 20s, and working-class women who desperately needed to make money to raise their own children.
Table showing William Acton's estimated figures of brothels and prostitutes in London, May 1857.View images from this item (2)
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Environmental Humanities, 9(2): Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien (2017)
Filed under journal | Tags: · alien, astronomy, cosmos, earth, extraterrestrial, imagination, life, science, space
"A growing number of researchers in the social sciences and the environmental humanities have begun to focus on the wider universe and how it is apprehended by modern cosmology. Today the extraterrestrial has become part of the remit of anthropologists, philosophers, historians, geographers, scholars in science and technology studies, and artistic researchers, among others. And there is an emerging consensus that astronomers and other natural scientists—contrary to a common prejudice—are never simply depicting or describing the cosmos "just as it is." Their research is always characterized by a specific aesthetic style and by a particular "cosmic imagination," as some have called it. Scientific knowledge of the universe is based on skilled judgments rather than on direct, unmediated perception. It is science, but it is also an art. This special section focuses on two at first sight contradictory aspects of this cosmic imagination. On the one hand, there is a distinctive move toward viewing the extraterrestrial in familiar terms and comprehending it by means of conceptual frameworks that we, earthlings, are accustomed to. On the other hand, there is a tendency to understand our own planet in unfamiliar terms, especially in astrobiology, where so-called analog sites and "extreme environments" provide clues about alien planets."
Special section edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar
Publisher Duke University Press, November 2017
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
pages 300-455
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No matter how busy motherhood gets, I can't imagine giving up my creative activities. I just read an article by a woman who did exactly that. She was a blogger and photographer, and she did no work for two years while she took care of her children. She said that she needed to be more present with them. She's not the only one I have heard of who has done that. I have friends who have done that as well.
I admire the self-sacrifice and self-control, but I can't really imagine doing that myself. Maybe it's good that I have to stop at one child, as much as I wanted to have more. But if I had 10 kids I have a feeling I would still be squeezing in time to write poems or to paint. That maybe I would be in a situation at that point where I shouldn't be doing those things, but I would do them anyway.
Poetry is such a part of me that I can't imagine giving it up. I go through spells where I primarily read poetry rather than write it. When I do that I am often soaking up inspiration and gearing up for a period of intense writing. But to simply not have poetry in my life? I can't even imagine.
Painting and photography have become primal urges for me. I can't imagine putting my camera down as some of the mother photographers do. I might sometimes get lazy or too busy to take out my expensive camera, but I'll at the very least be taking photos on my phone.
Perhaps all of this is selfish or self-absorbed, but I'm not so sure about that. Everyone needs their own identity. Everyone needs something that they love to do and an opportunity to do it. Naturally your husband and children have to take priority, but you can't draw from an empty well. If you want to give them more, then you have to give yourself something. So many women say they've lost their identity in motherhood, and I just can't relate. When I had my daughter I became even more myself. I still had all the artistic aspects of myself, all the general personality traits like introversion, I still liked the same foods and movies, only I was finally fully tapped into my maternal potential. Having a child didn't sap my sense of identity. It completed it.
Not that I think I am really at risk of this, but I pray that I never put down the pen or the camera or the brush. These things are apart of me. Without them I think I would fall to pieces.


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The optimist is a useful idiot whom hope fools again and again and again. The optimist never learns from this. And the whole world, wanting to feel wise, dances on the optimist's grave. The optimist, refusing to be buried, crawls out of the earth to dance alongside everyone else, and is thus caught inevitably caught unawares when it all starts over again.
— § —
I am forty years old. Forty.
— § —
"Cut away, cut away!
Send transmission from the one armed scissor!
Dissect a trillion sighs away, will you get this letter?
Jagged pulp sliced in my veins, I write to remember!
'Cause I'm a million miles away, will you get this letter?
Jagged pulp sliced in my veins, I write to remember!
I write to remember, I write to remember!
Cut away, cut away!
Send transmission from the one armed scissor!
Cut away, cut away!"
— § —
Oh, how the young seek reasons!
They try to make the best of things—
fighting their ways so valiantly through
gray days and weighty sums!
Such naïveté, though forgivable,
is far from colorfast;
innocence taken is always forgotten—
like childhood, primordially past.
The wizened know what's never said:
'Fate the liar is a cheat.
Wherever fate has taken you,
you have been misled—
made to wander, dragged astray,
poisoned as you're fed.'
Mazes are mazes, nothing more,
no greater purpose served.
It's meandering and the search for why
that precisely fate adores—
that and callow nerve.
— § —
You get born and then you
go to school and then you
hate your parents and then you
finish school and then you
wander aimlessly and then you
wonder if you will ever amount to anything and then you
work while you wait and then you
realize that you have been working forever and then you
marry and then you
have kids and then you
fight a lot and then you
give your kids away and then you
realize you won't do anything you planned and then you
arrive at very old and give up and then you
die to make room for someone else to be born.
— § —
There is this generative impulse. And there is this destructive impulse.
The generative impulse believes in tomorrow, while the destructive impulse believes that the apocalypse is tomorrow, or maybe even later today.
You get in a race with yourself, as the two halves of your being vie for position and seek to protect you from the damage that the other is certain to do. You sweat. You bleed. You cough and spit teeth. You flail and your eyes get wide and you try, try, try, try to reconcile these wildly diverging halves of the ethical universe.
Pulling, pulling, pulling, they tear you apart and in the end neither protects you from the other; instead, working together toward your protection, they bring about your destruction, and you find the whole thing to be ironically funny and post-mortem, you sit around drinking with sad Manhattanites and talking about how it's all just a semiotic game and psychoanalysis is dead.
— § —
In the olden days, they used to bake. This is now officially classified as a form of oppression; no-one is allowed to bake without a license from one of the identity-politic-quora.
— § —
Testosterone, testosterone
where is your microphone?
Do you believe, in your heart of hearts, after the fact,
that you'll get a reprieve?
— § —
Courtesy, courtesy, courtesy, courtesy of the
of the
of the
— § —
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
— § —
Sensing that things had become hopeless yet feeling at the same time that desperation that comes with knowing that your point has not been made, that no-one in the entire universe has heard the scream of your pain, I flung my glass with all my might across the room and against the wall, where it knowingly shattered into a thousand tiny, flapping, hapless butterflies.
Taking this to be a signal, I put on my hat, so very heavy in the gray afternoon light, and stumbled out into what seemed nonetheless like endless, laughing darkness.
— § —
Someday, I would love to be free. Cherished dreams and all.
I've heard that freedom is good.
— § —
Hormones, hormones, hormones, they tell you about your hormones but they don't tell you how much you will hate them, how much you will miss them, how much you will live in them, how much you will learn to let them go.
— § —
Into the drug, into the drug, about the drug, without the drug, tell me about the drug, carry me about the drug, will the drug, pill the drug, I drug the drug ever forward.
Ironic or not, what have you got?
— § —
I've said it before and I'll say it again, silly humans with your justice plan:
— § —
"Picture my house in a postcard town
Picture a bomb in the sky
History at your door
Who could ask for more?
I've felt better."
— § —
A sandwich, a sandwich, my kingdom for a sandwich,
my soul for a trite and officious bloody heart.
"I torch my soul to show the world that I am pure—
deep inside my heart—
no more lies…
I shall be free…"
— § —
Wherefore, wherefore, Shakespeare, baby?
Wherefore, you fucker?!
— § —
Bleed in your own light.
Dream of your own life.
I miss me—
I miss everything I'll never be
And on, and on."


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Amy Henson grew up loving horses. She always knew she would own them, but horses are expensive, and she had to earn enough money to keep them.
As an adult, she became an optometrist and bought a farm and horses: Dream achieved. But when one mare wasn't able to provide milk to its newborn foal, a vet suggested goat's milk as a great way to feed babies in emergencies.
"So, I didn't know anything about goats, but I said, 'Let me get some goats to try to save my future horses if we have this problem again,' " she said, adding that becoming a goat farmer was "a huge learning curve. And I had a freezer full of milk."
She didn't want the milk to go to waste, and she couldn't find anyone to take it. Armed with her biology and chemistry degree, she did some research and learned about soapmaking.
"The first batch was great. The second batch was a disaster," Henson said. "Then I was just mad, so I had to keep doing it."
She created Rock Bottom Soap Co., and began selling soaps at craft fairs on the weekends, and it became a nice side gig to use up the goat milk she had on hand. Then, she got a letter from Kroger and Kentucky Proud.
Getting into Kroger
Initially, Henson dismissed it. "I thought, 'No, Kroger is not interested in me. I don't make a food product," Henson said.
In 2014, she got a call from Steve Smith, owner of the Louisville-based meat and specialty foods distributor Fishmarket, who was organizing a food show for Kroger and Kentucky Proud. He encouraged her to bring her soaps to the event, Henson recalled, because Kroger was looking to expand its local selections to soaps, lotions and beauty products.
"We got on the first round of the Kentucky Proud rack, and that first order was huge," Henson said. "It was the biggest order my company has ever had. We were not prepared for that!
"So we buckled down, and all my friends and family were working until two or three in the morning to meet the deadline and get it out. We lived through that, and we've been on the Kroger rack ever since, and it's helped grow our business. It's just great to be in Kroger and have the recognition of the Kentucky Proud line."
Henson and other Kentucky business owners were selling their products at the Kentucky Proud Show Wednesday at the Gheens Lodge at Parklands at Floyds Fork. The show is in its fourth year, and Smith, an organizer of the event, said he's very happy with the results.
"You gotta give Kroger credit for this really," Smith said. "Because look at this: This is a national company. This is a food show for local vendors, and look at their participation. Honestly, that is amazing. You don't get this from other large retailers, you just don't. The bottom line is they made the commitment to do this and asked us to participate in it and get it going, and it's just grown exponentially every year."
Smith, who owns Fishmarket with his twin brother Brad Smith, began the business in 1988 with his father. His grandfather had been a frozen foods distributor, and now Brad Smith's son is also in the business.
Local sells
Businesses set up booths at the Wednesday event to show their products to Kroger management throughout the state, offer samples and give information with the goal of getting their products onto Kroger shelves. There were about 50 vendors on hand; 14 of them were new and looking to get into their first Kroger stores.
Managers have some control over the items in their store displays, and they were able to provide feedback and vote for their top three vendors at the event, but most of the decision-making is based on customer-loyalty data, said Jere Downs, associate communications manager for Kroger's Louisville division.
"We know what our customers want, and we're gonna give it to them," she said. If certain items sell better in some locations, then the stores can adjust accordingly.
Sales of local products in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois have increased 4 percent annually, a very healthy rate, Downs said.
Since launching the Kentucky Proud display racks in 2014, Kroger sales of locally grown, produced and manufactured merchandise by farm families and producers have grown steadily from about $715,000 to $1.1 million each year and more in 2018. Kroger carries more than 100 Kentucky Proud products in its grocery section alone from more than 50 independent vendors.
This year, Kroger is launching a new Kentucky Proud rack specifically for beauty products in Kroger stores. A large portion of the vendors at the event, like Henson, make soaps, lotions and lip balms.
Although Henson sort of fell into the soap business, she sees her role as more than just a goat farmer, and she hasn't been able to quit optometry yet.
"I still have a day job, which I love, but my heart is truly on that farm with my animals," she said. "So many people are away from the farm now, so I think it's important to show that 'Hey, a farm did this. We raised this animal, we milked it, and this is what they can do.' I love that part of it. My heart's always been in farming; I just had to find a way to finance it."


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Artist answers U.S. Navy's call
Kelsey, 70, was commissioned to create a 12-inch angel statue for the Navy's USS Sterett by the Sterett Association, thanks to Google search of her first name.
"The association was looking for everyone in the country with the name Sterett, spelled with one 'r,' to invite to the commissioning of the USS Sterett" on Saturday, Kelsey said from her Roxbury studio.
" Kent Sterett , a member of the association, found me. We talked. And our discussion led to my sculpting an angel statute to go on the ship."
Kelsey, an internationally renown sculptor whose unusual first name is a combination of family surnames, will attend the commissioning ceremony for the USS Sterett in Baltimore. She will read a letter she wrote to U.S. troops after the
"Creating the angel statue goes back 20 years," Kelsey said. "When the plane was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, I created an angel statue and sent it to a memorial garden that had been established in Lockerbie.
"Three men from the town where I was living at the time had been killed in the bombing."
The angel's name is Joy. She is a symbol of love, hope, joy and peace -- all of which freedom makes possible, Kelsey said.
Kelsey told Kent Sterett about the angel and he asked her to create a replica for the Navy ship. She also told him about the love letter she had written to the troops and he asked if a copy of the letter could be included with the statue.
"Sterett Kelsey is a very well-known artist in the arena of brass artists," Kent Sterett said. "If you were looking for a brass guardian angel for a ship, who would you assign the task? Especially when she was named after the lieutenant and family that the USS Sterett ships have all been named after."
The USS Sterett is a $1.3 billion warship, the fourth ship the Navy has commissioned with the name of Lt. Andrew Sterett (1778-1807), who had an illustrious career. The first ship he served on was the USS Constellation.
The Sterett Association is comprised of men and women who have served on Navy ships with this name, and the lieutenant's extended family members who carry the name.
"I wrote the letter to the troops, titled 'Love Letter From Home,'" Sterett-Gittings Kelsey said, "after 9/11 because I wanted our troops to know they were loved and supported by the people back home. I was tired of reading negative things about our troops and our country in the papers.
"Whatever you think about the war, our young men and women serving in the armed forces need our love and support."
Kelsey was raised in Baltimore. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1964 with a bachelor's of fine arts degree in sculpture. She works primarily in bronze, with works ranging from 3 inches to 14 feet in height. Her pieces are in more than 300 public and private collections worldwide.
Learn more about her Roxbury studio at Kelsey Sculpture.com.
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Sterett-Gittings Kelsey's letter to U.S. troops will be installed on the USS Sterett, a Navy ship to be commissioned Saturday in Baltimore, Md.
Love Letter From Home
Dearest One
I am counting on you.
Keep the light of Liberty bright.
I so appreciate what you are doing for me.
I miss you Sweetheart.
You make the Sun shine.
I am with you now ...
Every step of the way.
Keeping you close,
In my thoughts,
In my prayers.
Cherished above all
You are precious to me.
Come home safely ...
Come home soon ...
All my love ...


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I'll bet you thought it couldn't get worse than Galactus, huh? Well think again.
Dr. Doom, of course, is one of the greatest villains in the history of comics. One of the unique things about him was that he was actually the ruler of his own nation, the fictional Latveria. But back in Fantastic Four #200, there was a big showdown between Doom and the FF that saw the dictator deposed and the rebel leader Zorba take the throne. It was a great way to celebrate the two-hundredth-anniversary issue, particularly in the way it pit Reed against Doom mano a mano. The heart of the FF-Doom conflict was always the rivalry between Reed and Doom, and Marv Wolfman did a great job with his emphasis on that in this ish. (Kudos also to Keith Pollard on the art.)
Now at its center, Byrne had good motives for what he did with FF #246-247—he wanted to restore Doom to the Latverian throne. He just picked the worst possible way to go about doing it.
Without getting into the minutiae of it, Doom manages to escape from Liddleville (where he was left trapped in ish #236) and his first order of business in issue #246 is to capture the FF and bring them to Latveria, where it is revealed that Zorba has run the nation into the ground. Picking up the cliffhanger in #247, Doom explains that crime has returned to the land in the wake of his ouster. Of course, crime was nonexistent when Doom was running things—then again, so were free will and human dignity. But the FF (and Byrne) seem to have forgotten this paltry detail and agree to help put Doom back in charge.
This is, of course, completely ludicrous. But as usual, Byrne isn't going to let that stop him from telling the story he seems dead set on telling.
Doom paints this picture of himself as a benevolent dictator, which any longtime reader knows is an outrageous distortion of reality—and if the reader knows this, then the FF certainly knows it. But they end up buying the whole story. The implication being that Doom's b.s. is somehow true; like all that we've seen before was a mass hallucination or something.
Later is this ish, Doom even saves a young boy after his mother is killed. He then effectively adopts the child. By issue #258, he's hoisting the kid up in his arms like a proud papa.
I guess Comtois is going with the hallucination theory, as he notes: "riffing on hints scattered from FF #84-87 and other past sources that the Dr. Doom character wasn't all evil tyrant, writer/artist John Byrne added shades of gray by depicting him as a benevolent father figure to his people, who were grateful for the safety and prosperity his genius has bestowed upon Latveria…. As he did with Galactus, he [Byrne] managed to… restore Doom to the top of the villainous heap" (p. 67).
Being a "father figure" and figuratively bouncing a kid on your knee bumps you up to the "top of the villainous heap"? How do you figure?
It's also amazing to me that Comtois would point to the pages of FF #84-87 as some kind of a justification for this portrayal of Doom, when these are precisely the issues I would offer up as evidence that Byrne's portrayal is a complete perversion of the true Doom. I'll let the pictures speak largely for themselves:
Clearly, the "freedom" and "happiness" Doom offers his subjects is a grotesque charade. As the team later observes…
The following page, Doom (who's been secretly observing) responds: "He dares compare me to a slave owner?!! History teaches us that slaves have been known to escape–! But here, in my kingdom, none can escape! I am the master– they are the subjects– forevermore!"
Then the coup de grace:
There's a "benevolent father figure" for you—willing to wipe out an entire village of his people for the sake of a test of his robots. Lest anyone think I'm cherry picking here, by all means, go back and read FF #84-87 for yourself. Show me where these "hints" of Doom's benevolence are so cleverly hidden.
On more than one occasion Byrne has characterized his approach as "back to basics." (In fact, that Diablo story that started this FF run was cheekily titled "Back to the Basics.") So what I want to know is: Does Byrne have some kind of learning disability when it comes to reading comprehension? Or did he simply grow up reading comics published on the Bizarro World? Because his version of Doom is not only NOT a return to Lee-Kirby form, it is, in fact, once again, the exact opposite of that form.
It's true that Doom is not a black-and-white adversary; that, there are, in fact, shades of gray to him. It's not like he's evil for evil's sake; he's not some moustache-twirling villain, tying damsels to railroad tracks just for kicks. He's a tragic figure, a man who was made into a monster (at least in part) by circumstance—but he's still a monster nonetheless. He's a supervillain, not a #$^*@!# teddy bear!!
At different points Comtois acknowledges that Byrne "did make a handful of serious mistakes" (p. 57); notes that the break-up of Alicia & the Thing (and Alicia's subsequent pairing with Johnny) was "ill-advised"; laments the importation of She-Hulk into the strip; and even admits that the quality of Byrne's art had begun to erode later on (pp. 100-101). Well these things take up nearly half of Byrne's run on the strip—so how good could this run have been? Even if you loved everything that came before, we seem to be in agreement that (at the very least) the back half of Byrne's run is terrible. So the quality of the run overall can't possibly be better than 50/50. That equates to a failing grade in any school on Earth.
If only Byrne's reign of terror had begun and ended with Fantastic Four. Sadly, it did not.


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By: Don Gray
We live in a connected world. Between LinkedIn, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Snapchat, and all the other social tools out there, you would believe that everyone is connected to everyone else. We do have a vast communications network available to us. But, as salespeople, are we using it correctly?
Sales, in its own right, is about making connections and building relationships. As salespeople, we are making contact daily with prospects, customers, and others we meet. What are we trying to accomplish with our connections? Well, sales, of course. It seems so obvious that we should be making connections. But, I still see today the lack of building a truly connected network. If I want to accelerate my sales success, I need to improve my networking beyond just making a connection. So, how do I do that?
Networking and connecting is not just about making the connection and hooking up on LinkedIn. It's about gaining insight about that individual. What is their background? What do they do? Who do they know? The goal is about building awareness and developing knowledge of others.
I help run a job seekers group, where I tell everyone that no matter what their career has been up to this point, they are now a sales person. We stress the importance of making connections, building your network. We like to say, "You never know who might be able to help you in your job search." So, the bigger your network, the better will be your opportunity to secure your next position.
This applies directly to sales. The bigger your network, the greater will be your opportunity to find someone who may have insight into a prospect or knowledge about an industry or business problem. You may also be able to help them be successful.
The next time you are in a group or networking session, don't look at it as just a card exchange. Get to know the people you meet. Learn about what they do. Discover what they know. Build a true connection. Then, determine how you can help them. Is there someone in your network that you can connect them to? Is there someone they have in their network who might be able to help you? Find out what you have in common. How can you help one another?
So, you can accelerate your business success by enhancing your connections because, after all, business moves at the speed of connections.
About Don Gray
Don Gray is the Founder and President of Sales Engineering Group, a sales performance consultancy. Don has worked with a variety of small, medium, and large B2B organizations to help them develop their distinct value messaging, identify how customers buy their solutions, and skill their sales teams to drive predictable sales results. You can find him leading the monthly Sales & Marketing Shared Interest Groups.


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G & C Automotive is a complete automotive service center, specializing in Toyota. We are a PA State Emissions and Inspection station and we provide preventative maintenance on most makes and models.
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Understanding US Visa Refusal and Re-application
Reason for us visa refusal
There is no specific reasons for visa refusals because they vary. After refusals, the consulate usually gives the applicant a form stating the reasons for refusal like 221g (administrative processing) or 214b. (Refusal)
Meaning Visa Refusal
According to the visa law designed by U.S. immigration, if the applicant is not able to prove that he/she meets the requirements to be issued a visa, a visa must be denied. This could either be because the application submitted by the applicant does not meet the requirements of the visa category which he applied for, or because there are grounds for ineligibility based on other aspects of the visa case. A visa refusal is when an applicant is denied their non-immigrant visa application by a U.S. consular officer according to the Immigration and Nationality Act.
How to appeal the refusal?
Some visa refusals can be overcome by providing additional information by applicant, the newly provided information should establish the applicant's eligibility for the visa. If you have additional information and evidence that can help the decision of the visa officer to be in your favor, you should reapply for the visa adding all the information and supporting documents.
Applicants refused under the refusal case (221g) might be refused because of any documents missing or if the consulate needed any additional information.
Applicants refused under Section 214(b) INA might be because they were not able to convince the consular officer that they have strong and long-term family, social, and economic ties outside the United States which will compel them to leave the United States after their authorized temporary stay.
The following are the indicators that the Consular officers look forward to in every application that helps them determine whether the applicants has compelling ties to their home country:
- Whether the applicants has traveled to the U.S. before and how long he/she stayed? If they stayed longer than 6 months, did they have INS approval to do so? To verify this, the applicant must bring their INS extension approval notices to their interview.
- Whether the applicant has traveled to the U.S. previously and how long they have been back in their home country
- If the applicant has children and/or grandchildren back in their home country and how many they are
- Whether their relatives in the U.S. ever went to their home country to visit their families as is normal for foreign students, workers, and residents in the U.S.
- If the applicant are active professionally or gainfully employed in their home country. If yes, how much do they earn and what is the nature of their work?
Older applicants (mostly visiting Parents) do not understand when they are denied after they apply the second time after visiting the US once, even though INS approved an extension of stay during their initial visit. Usually, these applicants were in the U.S. for a year or more and have been back in home country only a short while. In this case, the applicants find it difficult to prove that they have compelling ties in their home country, which makes them ineligible to receive another visa.
What to do when an application is refused
Once an application is refused a refusal letter is issued which explains the reason for refusal and the next step to take.
If and when one can reapply
One can reapply as many times as one wants.
Strong ties?
Ties are referred to as an area of one's life which binds or compels them to their home country. These ties differ from country to country, city to city, individual to individual. Examples of these ties include possessions, employment, social and family relationships. The ties can be a person's job and income, a house or apartment, a car, close family relationships, bank accounts, etc.
These ties satisfy a consular officer that the applicant will be compelled to leave the United States voluntarily after an authorized temporary visit. For example, you may bring a letter from your current employer, on letterhead, with your position/job title, length of employment, and monthly salary and your three most recent months' bank statements.
In many cases, younger applicants may not have had an opportunity to establish these ties, the U.S. law then considers educational status, school grades and long-range plans in home country
If the denial under Section 214(b) is permanent
No it is not. The applicant's visa may be approved if he/she adds new relevant information which was not presented to the interviewing officer at the time of the first application, or if the applicant's circumstances has changed significantly since the last application.
Duration of reapplication after being refused
An application can be reapplied or resubmitted at any time after refusal. The application may be resubmitted if there are additional information or supporting documentation available that may further prove that the applicant is qualified for a visa.
I presented all the documents I was told to bring, but my application was turned down anyway. What else should I bring?
Submitting documents might not necessarily be the problem but could be that the applicants current overall situation (as supported by those documents) was not enough adequate to convince the consular that he or she is not an intending immigrant. , This is because the U.S. law says that all applicants for nonimmigrant visas are intending immigrant until they are able to prove otherwise.
Why are the visa interviews so short? I was refused after only a couple of questions and the interviewer hardly looked at my documents?
The Visa officers are experienced and experts at what they do, and because of this, they are able to quickly review the application form and submitted documents in order to know the type of questions they will ask.
When I applied for a visa, I told the officer I would return to my home country after a short stay in the US. Why didn't the officer believe me?
Visa officers are analyzes the applicant's situation so as to make a decision. When the applicant states that he/she intends to return to home country, the statement alone is not enough to show that they really qualify for the visa under the requirements of the U.S. law.
If my visa application is denied, would it help to have a high ranking official like congressmen/senator contact the consulate?
No. The consular officers are the only ones authorized by the United States law to issue or refuse visas. Additionally, United States law do not listen to the decisions on visa cases from outside influences. The only way an applicant can influence a reversal of denial is only by providing new evidence of strong ties


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Wall's Matcha Mochi Ice Cream 750ml
Product Description
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This imported product is certified halal. Suppliers' halal certification for local chicken/beef are from JAKIM/JAIN whilst imported beef/buffalo/lamb/mutton from Islamic bodies recognized by JAKIM in Australia, New Zealand, India
Full of mochi balls, Halal - The Central Islamic Council of Thailand
Green Tea Flavoured Ice Confection with Red Bean Sauce and Mochi Balls.
Serving size : 80 g, Servings per package : about 6
Mochi Balls, Red Bean Sauce, Glucose Syrup, Milk Solids (Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Butter Milk Powder), Coconut Oil, Matcha Green Tea Powder, Contains Permitted Stabilisers (INS 410, INS 412, INS 407), Emulsifier (INSA 471-Plant Origin), Flavourings and Colourings (including Tartrazine) Substances of Plant and Synthetic origin
Contains Milk
May contain traces of Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Wheat, Soya Lecithin and Eggs
Nutritional Information
|Per 100 g
|Per serving (80 g)
|193 kcal (807 kJ)
|150 kcal (627 kJ)
|36.5 g
|29.0 g
|26.7 g
|21.0 g
|1.8 g
|1.0 g
|4.4 g
|3.5 g
|monounsaturated fatty acid
|0.3 g
|0.0 g
|polyunsaturated fatty acid
|0.1 g
|0.0 g
|saturated fatty acid
|3.7 g
|3.0 g
|trans fatty acid
|0.0 g
|0.0 g
|3.5 mg
|Less than 5 mg
|Dietary fibre
|1.4 g
|1.0 g
|51.2 mg
|40.0 g
Reference intake of an average adult (8400kJ/2000kcal)
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Country of Origin - Thailand
Preparation and Storage
Keep frozen under -18°C.
Best Before: see on tub
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Level 33-35, Menara TM,
Jalan Pantai Baru,
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Jalan Pantai Baru,
59200 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia Consumer Careline: 1800 88 1315
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The waters are clear, mottled light turquoise and a deep, dark blue further out however it is shallow close to the beach itself and is perfect for swimming. A nice mix of soft sand for walks and lounging and rocks that are just begging to be dived off make this a popular destination in summer.
Cala Salada is not just a beach for swimming and sunbathing. It is a popular place for naturalists as it is surrounded by caves that are famous for Bronze Age cave paintings and if you fancy a bit of a trek, you can head back to the entrance to the bay, turn right and walk a dirt path and head up the cliffs for one of the most amazing views you will see.
Hungry after your little adventure? Head back to the main beach and there is a small restaurant that serves amazing traditional dishes and is always full of island residents!
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Who is Accountable for the National Debt?
The USA's National Debt has long been a matter of growing concern, but we will soon reach a point where government must stop playing political football with the issue, and take action to save our future.
Paul Stebbins, former Chairman and CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and the Campaign to Fix the Debt, are working to inform and mobilize citizens to help effect change in Washington. Join Paul for a discussion about who is accountable for the National Debt...and how accounting can help us fix it
Utilizing Your Teaching and Learning Accounting Toolbox to Engage Students in the Flipped Accounting Classroom
Teaching internal audit as a part of an accounting curriculum
Publishing in Professional Journals
Excel Across the Curriculum
Growing a Prosperous Society through Accounting: The AAA Centers
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Sharing Best Teaching Practices Panel
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Learning to Learn: The Accounting Vision Model and Accounting Judgments
Accounting Education's Emerging Issues
Paper/Case Submission Reviewer (for Paper and Dialogue Sessions)
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Paper Sessions
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Effective Learning Strategies (ELS) Poster Sessions
The deadline for all submissions is 11:59 pm EDT on June 3, 2015. Extended to 11:59 pm EDT on June 8, 2015! To submit your paper (or to volunteer as a Reviewer, Discussant, or Moderator), please CLICK HERE to access the system using your AAA member ID and password. If you have forgotten your AAA member ID/password, click here to retrieve them. If you do not have a AAA member ID/password, please click here to obtain AAA login credentials. Then create an account in this system, using your AAA login credentials. If you have difficulty logging in, please contact Suzanne Mullinnix email@example.com for assistance.
See the Call for Volunteers for information on volunteering for the meeting.
Paper Sessions
Paper sessions provide an opportunity for researchers to present and discuss completed papers or cases. Sessions will include three or four research papers with discussant(s). Each presenter/discussant will have approximately 20-25 minutes. Completed papers and case studies may encompass any topical area of accounting and may be theoretical or practice-oriented. Papers can have an academic, practitioner or pedagogical focus.
Papers accepted to Paper Sessions will be considered for the following awards:
Dialogue Sessions
Dialogue sessions provide an opportunity for researchers to present papers and cases that are in a developmental stage. Authors should indicate their interest in presenting in a Dialogue Session if they have specific issues or areas for further development they would like to discuss with fellow presenters and an audience. Researchers should submit their working papers along with a cover page that includes two or three carefully crafted questions that address specific issues of concern to the researcher. (Do NOT include author identifying information on the cover page.) For example, is there another statistical technique that could improve the data analysis? Are there additional variables that might influence the statistical outcomes? Dialogue sessions will allow presentation and dialogue for five papers with each presenter having 20 minutes for presentation and dialogue. The discussion will be facilitated by the Dialogue Facilitator and each presenter in the session will have access to a copy of each other presenter's submitted paper for dialogue contribution. Presenters and audience members will be asked for suggestions to improve the working papers in the session. Papers and case studies submitted to the Dialogue Session may encompass any topical area of accounting and may be theoretical or practice-oriented.
Papers accepted to Dialogue Sessions will be considered for the following awards:
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The ELS Poster Session showcases ideas, teaching strategies and education innovations that support learning in accounting. It offers an interactive format for presenters to engage colleagues and exchange ideas and resources. The ELS Poster Session will take place during the Friday night reception of the Midwest Region Meeting. Poster display sizes and display space will be determined at a later date and presenters will be notified directly of those specifications.
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The September 3, 2017 event will be a scientific and popular culture gathering that is five-minutes from the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
August Update: International Cryptozoology Conference 2017
The Year of 2016 in Review: International Cryptozoology Museum
During 2016, the ICM experienced a series of ground-breaking developments that will propel it into 2026 and beyond.
The End-of-2016 Cryptozoology Lists
One thought from discoveries revealed in 2016…
The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2016
Here is a quick overview of the top areas of the high and low points of cryptozoology for the last year.
Bigfoot Enthusiast Rebecca Begin Dies Suddenly
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American Assassin
Cert: 18 / 112 mins / Dir. Michael Cuesta / Trailer
As the BBFC card boldly proclaimed "American Assassin: 18, strong, sadistic and bloody violence", a hush descended over the not inconsiderably-sized audience. The film, dealing as it does with themes of terrorism, revenge and moral accountability opened with a disco-backed montage of worldwide political unrest and narrated by President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech.
'Well', I thought, 'this is a very similar start to the still-playing Tom Cruise movie American Made. I can't imagine that it's entirely deliberate but it will be interesting to contrast each film's approach to core values of democracy and intrinsic freedom'. Then within thirty seconds, the scene cut to Tom Cruise sitting in the cockpit of a plane, and half a dozen members of the audience (including me) found ourselves walking jointly toward the foyer to point out that they were playing the wrong film*1.
PROJECTION SCHEDULERS: You'll have to do more than just look at the first word of the title, yeah?*2 Anyway, American Assassin began around two minutes after that.
American Assassin opens with Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) on holiday with his girlfriend Katrina in the Bahamas, when a terrorist attack kills hundreds on the beach including his beloved. Over the next 18 months, Mitch fuels his grief into working-out, target-practice and infiltrating the terrorist cell he holds responsible, with a view to wiping them out in an act of morally justified revenge*3. But the mission falls at the final hurdle when he inadvertently steps on the toes of a CIA black-ops team, who then recruit Mitch to put his talents to more structured use. Under the charge of Agent Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) and Agent Hurley (Michael Keaton), Rapp is taken to Rome where the mysterious 'Ghost' (Taylor Kitsch) is assembling a nuclear device for the highest bidder*4…
So, 'the beach-scene' is a powerful start to an intriguing, if uneven, film. It's not quite gleeful in its application of violence, but cinematographer Enrique Chediak works an unflinching camera. The fast-cutting in scenes of gunfire is used to navigate to the shots that hurt, not around them. O'Brien is an incredibly strong lead, too; his best work definitely still to come, I think. And I'd genuinely forgotten what it was like to look forward to a Michael Keaton flick, but this year has been so good to us in that regard. His supporting performance as the Navy Seal turned counter-terrorist is nothing short of masterful. The narrative itself can feel a little heavy-handed, but that's understandable given the subject matter (although from an idealogical point-of-view, the film's first-act is borderline Western propaganda).
It's not all plain-sailing, of course. As arresting as the opening is, once the action hits the streets of Rome it's only two steps away from becoming a Luc Besson thriller with Eli Roth on torture-duty*5. For a story that starts with such urgency, American Assassin quickly takes to treading a well-worn path, with shell-casings in abundance but free of emotional engagement. We need to talk about Taylor Kitsch too, overacting in just about every scene, reminding us why he's been out of the cinematic limelight for so long*6. Together, Kitsch and O'Brien are like two differently-aged versions of the same character. And from a certain point-of-view that's absolutely crucial, but it's also distracting as fuck when you're watching it play out. And naturally, no action-thriller would be complete without a ticking-countdown ending of course, especially if that timer is attached to a nuke*7...
There's the feeling in the final push that American Assassin doesn't have quite as much to say as it thought it did when it stood up and dinged its knife against the glass. But as a hard-edged political action-flick, it's head and shoulders above the rest of its class, and well worth your time for the things it does well…*8
Unlocked, Eye In The Sky, Daniel Craig-era Bond.
It'll probably work better on a big screen than a small one.
Well it's adapted from a novel (/some novels), so if its aim is "bring a series of books to the big screen in the transparent hope of franchising the fuck out of the property" then it probably does.
It's an incredibly strong turn for everyone involved, but not best...
There ain't.
Level 2: Mr Dylan O'Brien was in The Scorch Trials, of course, along with Alan 'K-2SO' Tudyk.
*1 Serious point, though: the BBFC card was for American Assassin - while I know the ads and trailers are interchangeable throughout a film's cinema-run, I thought the BBFC card was hard-coded to the digital print of the film? I've heard of age-inappropriate trailers being screened before, but not this. Projection managers, please tell me how this can happen, thank you. [ BACK ]
*2 Oh and apparently, films beginning with the adjective 'American' (Eg.1, 2, 3, 4, etc) are not all part of one collective continuity. Which is in clear contravention of the law set down by The Rev. Ian Carry-On in 1958 and as such is frankly outrageous. [ BACK ]
*3 And call me cynical, but there doesn't seem to be a huge glut of stories about all the absolute arseholes that must also get killed in terrorist atrocities. I mean statistically, they've got to be there too, right? People are largely awful, after all. Not quite sure how you'd build a compelling film around this, but that's why I'm not a screenwriter. Yet. [ BACK ]
*4 And bonus points for the subliminal Back To The Future reference in the film. At one point we see Taylor Kitsch's character in the back of a transit van, examining a (conspicuously radioactive) antique clock, which he's buying on behalf of Libyan terrorists. In the next scene, Michael Keaton is watching a news bulletin reporting stolen Plutonium. Fantastic stuff. [ BACK ]
*5 Although sorry to be that guy, but the gunshot effects in the beach-scene look shite. In all fairness, I couldn't tell at first-pass if they were prosthetic shite or CGI shite, but the result was much the same. [ BACK ]
*6 Spoilers - highlight-to-read: Mind, there's a shot in this of Kitsch's character wearing U.S. Navy-whites as a younger man. Is American Assassin actually an unofficial sequel to Battleship?? [ BACK ]
*7 Spoilers - highlight-to-read: Right hang on, you're telling me you can detonate a nuclear device in the sea less than five miles off the coast of Italy and everything will be basically fine again within a matter of minutes? OH, OKAY THEN... [ BACK ]
*8 And thank you, dear reader, for reading all of these. You're very patient. [ BACK ]
• ^^^ That's dry, British humour, and most likely sarcasm or facetiousness.
• Yen's blog contains harsh language and even harsher notions of propriety. Reader discretion is advised.
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AMD has made their position on power consumption clear, with much attention being directed to performance per watt. With that said, it seemed appropriate to run a couple of tests to see the wattage draw of each system, as measured at the outlet. In each test, Cool'n'Quiet was enabled and the test beds were left to idle for 30 minutes before their wattage was recorded. Next, we ran two iterations of Prime95's torture test set for maximum power consumption and heat to pin the CPU to 100% on both cores. Again, each system was left in that state for a full 30 minutes before recording the wattage draw.
Running at full load, the MSI K9AGM2 consumed 10 less watts compared to the nForce 430/6150 series board and 2 watts below the 430/6100. When running idle, the 690G weighed in 6 watts less than the 430/6150 and 8 watts less than the 430/6100. This variance may seem small to some, but the best way to look at this is in percentages. When running idle, the 690G consumed close to 8% less power than the 430/6150 and 11% less than the 430/6100 based board. At full load the power consumption difference is closer to 7% less than that of the nForce 430/6150 based board, where the reduction was closer to 1.5% compared to the 430/6100. These aren't exactly make or break differentials obviously but notable none-the-less.


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Five presentations were made by St. Luke Productions, Battle Ground, Washington, on November 30-December 4, 2018. The productions reached approximately 850 persons of all ages in various locations, The event locations were selected to best serve all areas of the Rio Grande Valley. Locations included St. Mary's Catholic School (Immaculate...
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With fashionable footsteps that date back to high fashion modeling for names like Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren before a memorable stint on the show Big Brother (CBS), celebrity stylist & television host Marcellas Reynolds knows now more than anyone, it's best to crawl before you walk. With 18 million people watching the Season 3 finale, Reynolds muses that, "walking off of the set of Big Brother and literally onto the set of E! Network," was a fabulous way to launch his career as a TV host and fashion pundit.
Since season 3 (and the All-Stars episode) of the hit reality series, Reynolds has taken to guest appearances on shows such as Good Day LA, Good Morning Britain, Fox News, and Style Star, and Fashion News Now to flambe fashion fails and talk red carpet celebrity style trends. As a fashion stylist he has worked with Emmy winners Jennifer Finnigan and Jayma Mays, BAFTA winner Rebecca Hall, Oscar nominee Sharon Stone, and music superstar Justin Timberlake. As a brand influencer he's worked with H&M, Joyus.com, Macy's and Midnight Velvet hosting live events online and offline, giving shopping videos an overhaul and doing TV appearances to promote the brands.
Aside from recent editorials for Angeleno Magazine, Lash Magazine, and Elegant Magazine the known style sassmouth admits to having a sweet spot for mass market retailers such as Bon-ton, Kohl's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Meijer, and several other brick and mortar and e-com retailers who shoot every day, all year round to keep up with the $225 billion dollar retail and clothing industry (Statista.com).
When he's not globe-trotting in the name of ready-to-wear or chatting up his 24K Twitter followers, Marcellas is literally crawling. LA Crawl, an online-offline themed crawl that begins on Twitter with the hashtag #LACrawl and ends in person that was born out of Reynolds' need to reconnect with friends after being away from his LA home for long stints. "We asked our Twitter fam for suggestions of fun places to go! Well, bars, restaurants, and hotels tweeted at us to come to them and other people invited themselves to come along and LA Crawl was born!" Many of the LA Crawl members have a bond from working with Project Angel Food over the years. Prior to being Crawlers, several were a part of the "Angel Mafia" who have raised tens and thousands of dollars for PAF (sleeves rolled up in the kitchen and all).
"The response was so immense to our 1st Crawl we decided to streamline the night by giving it a theme, We landed on Tiki Crawl and sought out LA's most fab tiki bars. We started by the pool at Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills. I contacted them directly and they reserved an area for us. It was happy hour and 6 of my closest pals met there. We had a lil nosh and, of course, drinks." UBER, a sponsor who responded swiftly to the impromptu promotional opportunity with Reynolds [and good friends] en tote. Twitter pals joined the 5 locations as UBER awaited.
The crawls are where food meets glam with participating restaurants readily anticipating Reynolds and celebrity pals. "We went to Trader Vic's, then Cabo Cantina on Sunset, who had a table for us and drinks, then Cha Cha Lounge in Silverlake where we took pics in the photo booth which would become the logo for LA Crawl's Twitter page, then to Tiki-Ti which is this tiny legendary LA bar and the most fun [minus the line which was huge], and then on to Good Luck Bar which reserved a table for us and ushered us right in. We ended our night at Kitchen 24 in Weho exhausted, a lil drunk, and happy. We released our Uber driver who was so fun and rehashed our very fun night over loaded fries and PBRs!"
"From that night on each time we went out it had a theme and LA Crawl was born. Our hashtag is #LACrawl. There are 6 founding members. Each Crawl has grown in numbers and popularity and now we're thinking there is a business here. Cool, curated nights out, almost tours of our favorite cities that we each know well. I've done Crawls in LA, Chicago [hometown] and of course NY. I've also done mini-Crawls in San Diego where I spend a lot of time. Since I'm a fashion stylist and I know everywhere to shop in most major cities, I've done Shopping Crawls with a few of my clients. It's been very fun!"
Reynolds observes the women's responses have been especially favorable. "I think the Crawl-ers want to have a good time. They want to feel special. They want to feel part of a crew. I think women especially want to go out and have a good time while feeling safe. Part of the Crawls is looking out for each other. Making sure that everyone is accounted for, having a great time and gets home safely." The mutual benefits between Crawl producers, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and lounges and the Twiends that join the fun is clear to Reynolds. "For the bars and restaurants that have taken part in the Crawls of course it's about money but it's also advertising. An integral part of the Crawls is all of us Tweeting, Facebooking and Instagramming every part of the experience; the atmosphere, decor, food, drinks and of course the crowd!"
Next up, with a major soft spot for the everyday people who make fashion fabulous, Reynolds is looking to launch multi-city private shopping, nightlife, bachelorette and lifestyle themed crawls for more contagious fun. When he's not headed off for style bookings through mega fashion icon Wilhelmina, Reynolds will be partnering with a major hotel in Beverly Hills to launch movie nights and swanky events to delight fashion aficionados and foodies alike. Aside from the volunteer time spent in actual food kitchens helping cook nutritious meals that are delivered daily to terminally ill patients for Los Angeles Food Bank or PAF, nothing could be "chic-er", right Marcellas?


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Protecting our Healthcare, Preserving our Waterfront
The Mission Bay Alliance is a coalition of UCSF stakeholders, donors, faculty, physicians and the working men and women of San Francisco who are concerned about the impact of the proposed Golden State Warriors stadium on the future of the vibrant community and medical campus at Mission Bay. The Alliance fully supports the Warriors' team and congratulates its tremendous championship win. However, the Alliance believes the proposed Mission Bay Events Center – in which basketball games will comprise only 18% of the proposed activities – is ill-conceived for this site.
The proposed stadium will have a disastrous impact on the health and welfare of thousands of patients and families by:
- Blocking access to lifesaving medical services
- Creating a parking nightmare — the several hundred parking spaces dedicated to this arena are not enough to serve a stadium of 18,500 people
- Grinding traffic in and around Mission Bay to a halt
- Flooding a small, landlocked area with crowds attending the 225 planned events per year
- Saturating limited and insufficient area transit options
- Causing noise pollution that could threaten the delicate recovery of the thousands of children, women and cancer patients who rely on Mission Bay hospitals' world-class care
- Jeopardizing the growth and success of healthcare and biomedical research at Mission Bay
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Want to catch up on whats been happening lately? Take a look at the latest goings on at Mission Bay Alliance.
Mission Bay Alliance and Mother of UCSF Pediatric Patient File Lawsuit on Proposition M to Relocate Controversial Warriors Arena out of Mission Bay
Mission Bay Alliance Appeals Warriors' Office Space Allocation for Violating SF Law
Mission Bay Alliance Statement Regarding Announcement of 1-Year Delay in Planned Arena Construction
Mission Bay Alliance and Mother of UCSF Patient File Lawsuit to Block Controversial Warriors Arena
UCSF Sued Over Warriors Arena
The Mission Bay Alliance is a coalition of UCSF stakeholders, donors, faculty, physicians and the working men and women of San Francisco who are concerned about the impact of the proposed Golden State Warriors stadium on the future of the vibrant community and medical campus at Mission Bay.
- Making it impossibly difficult to access emergency and urgent care at critical moments of life or death and creating significant hurdles for the visitors who seek health care services, including Kaiser Permanente patients in their new Owens St. site.
- Adding a significant burden on the working men, women, nurses, doctors and medical staff who visit the medical campus each day for work.
- Creating a tremendous parking challenge. With only a few hundred parking spaces to accommodate the 18,500-seat arena, this project promises a parking nightmare and a traffic logjam.
- Causing a steady influx of crowds to fill the 225 planned events each year — only 18 percent of which would be Warriors basketball games.
- These crowds would flood a small, heavily congested area and add untold pressure on UCSF patients seeking lifesaving care.
- Impeding the efforts of those who dedicated decades to designing UCSF's world-class hospital campus and bioscience research center at Mission Bay.
The Mission Bay Alliance board is made up of former and current UCSF researchers, faculty and stakeholders who are invested in protecting the future of healthcare and biomedical research at Mission Bay.
Dr. William Rutter
Dr. Rutter is considered a founding father of the biotech industry in San Francisco. He joined UCSF in 1968 to start a new department in Biochemistry and Biophysics. He developed the foundational tools of molecular biology and helped UCSF become one of the most prestigious science institutions in the world. In 1981 he founded pioneering biotech firm Chiron, a biomedical company that developed the Hep B vaccine. He is currently the CEO/Chairman of Biotech incubator Synergenics. UCSF Mission Bay named the William Rutter building to honor Rutter's legacy of encouraging social interaction between scientists of different specialties.
Dr. Samuel Barondes
Dr. Barondes is a leading psychiatrist and researcher who serves as the Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at UCSF. Barondes was also the former chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute for 7 years. He is the author of numerous books and more than 200 original research articles specializing in applying science of molecular biology and molecular genetics to psychiatry. He also pioneered a systemic method of assessing individual personalities in his book, "Making Sense of People", which explored the role genes play in causing certain behaviors.
Richard Neil Snyder
Mr. Snyder is a retired attorney and former adjunct professor at UC Hastings School of Law where he taught Comparative Law, Public International Law and a course in the History of Legal Institutions. His distinguished legal career was dedicated to Intellectual Property Law and Real Estate Law and included International Law.
Jeanne Robertson
Board Member
Jeanne Robertson is a civic leader who has been active for many years in the fields of education, healthcare, and public policy. She was Chairman of the UCSF Foundation from 1997–2000 and continues as Distinguished Director, serving as a member of the Nominating and Governance, and the Development Committees. Jeanne was awarded the UCSF Medal in 2000 to honor her work as a volunteer on behalf of UCSF.
Currently she also serves on the National Council for McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, the Advisory Council of the Depression Center at the University of Michigan, and the Advisory Council of the International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO).
Bruce Spaulding
Mission Bay Alliance Strategy and Organizational Consultant
Mr. Spaulding is the former Senior Vice Chancellor of advancement and planning at UCSF and the architect of the UCSF Mission Bay campus. As Senior Vice Chancellor, Spaulding was tasked with locating a "second campus" for UCSF and raising the capital to make it a reality. He instigated the land deal that made the 43-acre Mission Bay campus possible, spurring more than 1 million square feet of privately built space, hundreds of housing units and UCSF's $1.6 billion women's, children's and cancer hospital projects. Spaulding most recently served as chief of strategic planning for the Gladstone Institutes and as CEO of the Gladstone Foundation at Mission Bay.
Are you passionate about defeating the stadium plan at Mission Bay? We'd love your support! Join our mailing list and sign up as a supporter – or donate to the cause. The Mission Bay Alliance is a 501c4, which means that your support and donations can be made anonymously. We welcome support at any level to help keep the pressure going and defeat the stadium plan at Mission Bay.