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Become a Permit Holder
You can support Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve and conservation effort by becoming a permit holder.
Make a Donation
You can support Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve and conservation effort by making a donation.
1. Introduction
This slightly earlier than usual Newsletter is prompted by the need to advise permit holders of the impending start of major works on No.3 bed, financed by a Higher Level Stewardship agreement, as outlined in the Newsletter of January 2012. Our Vice-Chairman, David Bowman, gives more details of this below, in particular how it will affect permit holders and the need to observe health and safety issues at all times.
Two months of 2012 remain, but the year will be remembered for rain, rain and more rain! Meteorological Office records indicate that this has been the wettest year since 1912, with only March having below-average rainfall. To date a total of 820mm (33 ins.) has fallen, with the months of July to September all experiencing totals in excess of 100mm, and April only just below the hundred mark. All this has meant high water levels on No.3 bed and as a consequence many breeding birds had a poor season.
2. Changes on No.3 bed
During the next few months permit holders will see a significant amount of disturbance on No.3 bed. We have made a successful bid for Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) funding which will enable us to reverse the encroachment across the bed by reed and scrub. Our advice was that failure to do so would result in significant loss of open water and a reduction in key breeding species. So, starting imminently and continuing until early next year, heavy machinery will be moved onto the bed and be working five days a week. All current permit holder paths will be kept open and won't be used by machinery, so access will continue as normal. I must stress the importance, for obvious health and safety reasons, of not straying from the paths marked on your permit. Fencing and signs will be erected to indicate areas where access is not permitted.
How will the work impact on the wildlife? Well, in the short term disturbance is inevitable, though being optimistic, the lowered water levels and exposed mud may be attractive to waders, rails etc. In the longer term the aim is to have the water levels back up to normal levels by the start of next year's breeding season. You should then see more open pools and channels, a better wader scrape in front of the main hide and eventually a wetter and more productive reed bed.
We hope you will bear with us during this process and if you have any questions or concerns please use the e-mail facility on the website to contact us.
3. Enviroloo
The toilet in the centre of No.3 bed has been a much needed facility, well received by permit holders. Unfortunately, in recent months problems have arisen from a design fault which required the toilet to be closed. Sadly, despite work by the supplier the problem has returned and the Enviroloo will be out of action once again until it is completely resolved. We are making every effort to have it fully operational as soon as possible, and ask that visitors do not attempt to use it in the meantime.
4. Giant Hogweed
In the last Newsletter I confidently predicted that work would begin to eradicate the acres of this alien weed in the middle of No.4 bed. Sadly, the contractor employed to do the work died suddenly and it took some months to find a replacement. The Manchester Ship Canal Company, as the landowner responsible for alien weed removal, has now hired a company to do the work, which hopefully will begin in early spring 2013. This will involve spraying with a herbicide approved by English Nature. Permit holders visiting No.4 bed when spraying is in progress need to observe any instructions from the contractors and stay well clear of any spraying. WECG will endeavour to advise permit holders of the work programme via our website and by notices in the hides on No.3 bed.
5. Mink Control
Many of you will be aware of the high numbers of mink seen on both the River Mersey and No.3 bed in recent years. A trapping programme was set up about four years ago and this has proved successful with up to 80 mink caught. In 2012 many fewer mink have been reported and clearly the population on No.3 bed and surrounding river has been reduced. That the Black-necked Grebes had their most productive year in terms of young fledged could be the result of lower mink numbers.
6. Management Work
During the year much work has been carried out as part of the Reserve Management Plan. This has included coppicing of trees, maintaining the wildflower meadows and removal of Himalayan Balsam. The wet summer provided ideal conditions for the Balsam and working parties, including volunteers from United Utilities, spent many hours pulling it out by hand. Other, less accessible, areas were mown using the Group's tractor. This is a long-term task which will continue next year and beyond. The paths on No.3 bed continue to be mown regularly by Volunteer Warden John Verdon, and the Group is grateful for all John's hard work.
The John Morgan hide has been treated with preservative and the Sybil Hogg hide on the south bank of No.3 bed has had a small section of flooring replaced and a weather board fitted to the door, which has also been re-hung and is now much easier to shut.
7. Open Day
It is now a number of years since we organized an Open Day, an event which has proved very popular and attracted many hundreds of visitors. WECG has decided to begin planning for another Open Day in Summer 2013 and more details will follow in the coming months.
8. Off-road Motorbikes
Many of you will be familiar with this recurring problem at Woolston, although with the help of the Police and extra metalwork at the entrances to the Reserve motorbikes are not the problem they once were. Even so we are aware that people do come to the Eyes in transit vans from which they unload motorbikes and lift them over the barriers. If you ever see this happening please do not approach the individuals concerned, some of whom can be unpleasant. It would, however, be helpful if you would take the number of the vehicle and inform either Brian Ankers or Brian Martin (tel. nos. on your permit). Details can then be passed to the Police, who will visit the people concerned and warn them off.
9. Feedback
It has been very pleasing to receive very positive comments from the RSPB about the standard of maintenance and habitats at Woolston and the quality of the hides. A well-known wildlife artist has described the Eyes in his recent catalogue as his 'favourite Reserve in the U.K'. Nice though this is we are always looking to improve the Reserve and if you have any ideas or thoughts about how we could achieve this then please let us know.
10. Wildlife sightings in 2012
Birds: After the poor showing in 2011 the Black-necked Grebes had an excellent year, with a maximum of 24 adults present in the spring. Eleven pairs bred, fledging a minimum of 19 young. The 1.73 young per pair that fledged is the highest ever at Woolston and this in one of the worst summers on record! Our waterfowl fared less well, with most of the Great Crested Grebe nests washed out on No.3 bed and the young that did hatch soon succumbed in the cold, wet conditions. Little Grebes did slightly better, but few young fledged. Mallard and Gadwall had poor breeding seasons, but Pochard and Tufted Duck did reasonably well.
On a more positive note Buzzards were proved breeding for the first time – two pairs which each fledged three young – and Little Ringed Plovers fledged at least two young, the first successful breeding on the Reserve for over 20 years. A number of pairs of Lapwings also bred.
Ringing highlights included a rare Siberian Chiffchaff caught on No.3 bed in April, and a Kingfisher ringed on No.1 bed in June 2011 which was retrapped in Holland in May 2012, the first BTO-ringed Kingfisher to be controlled there!
Butterflies: The butterfly year began well with the warm dry weather in March producing high counts of Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell, as well as early records of Orange Tip and Speckled Wood. Thereafter the weather went downhill and the near continuous rain in the summer months led to few sightings of any species. However, better conditions in August resulted in exceptional numbers, with over 500 Meadow Brown, over 20 Small Copper and 14 Purple Hairstreak. Early September was marked by an emergence of more than 100 Small Tortoiseshell and good counts of other species.
11. Changes to home or e-mail address
Please let us know of any changes to your address or e-mail so we can keep in touch with you.
I am grateful to David Bowman (WECG Vice-Chairman) for writing the section on the Higher Level Stewardship work and to David Hackett for the Butterfly Report.
Brian Martin Recorder, WECG


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Hi Everyone!
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This has been a wonderful bike for me and continues to be faster than I am.
Bike has been very well maintained with frequent changes of Motul 300v oil.
The original stock 2007 motor finally blew in April 2017 after 20,075 miles and many race seasons.
Instead of trying to rebuild the existing motor or purchasing another 2007 motor, I decided to do a full 2016 conversion including engine, wiring harness, throttle bodies, velocity stacks, airbox, tank, ECU, TC/QS, etc.
The motor had approximately 1000 street miles on it at the time of purchase, and I've put another 1227 track miles on it since.
The bike runs like an absolute dream!
Bike is very well equipped with Traction Control, Quick Shifter, Auto Blipper, Ohlins and much more with all the benefits of the more modern 2016 R6.
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Asking $6,400
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BENEFITING: SafePlace
ORGANIZER: Lauren
EVENT: Illuminate Austin 2016
EVENT DATE: Mar 06, 2016
Lauren Beck wrote -
More Americans have been murdered as a result of domestic violence than were killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in the 11 years from 2001 to 2012.
One in five women will experience severe domestic abuse in their lifetimes, and 4.7 million women will experience domestic abuse this year. Three women are murdered every day by an intimate partner. Every nine seconds, a woman is beaten. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined. This abuse affects some 10 million children each year.
These are our friends, colleagues, family members.
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SafePlace is Austin's resource for emergency and ongoing services related to domestic violence and sexual assault and has just teamed up with the Austin Children's Shelter under the SAFE (Stop Abuse for Everyone) Alliance. Services include emergency shelter, a food pantry, a K-12 charter school, job placement assistance, legal services, ongoing counseling services, pet fosters, and long-term transitional housing, in addition to the new Eloise House, where victims of sexual assault can get a rape kit and receive additional counseling and support. To highlight the need for these services in our community, SAFE initially expected to perform about 100 rape kits per year at Eloise House, and has done over 200 since opening in June.
These are great stats, but our community still has significant need for these services. Each year, there are 8,500 domestic violence reports in Travis County and estimates indicate that more than five times as many people are living with a violent partner. Awareness and support are critical to turning these lives around, particularly when children are involved. Often, survivors leave their homes with little more than whatever might be in their purses to face the most dangerous period in the relationship – women are 70 times more likely to be murdered by their partners in the two weeks after leaving than at any other time. Then they must face the hard work of rebuilding their lives and overcoming the lasting psychological impacts of domestic violence and sexual assault. While the prevalence of PTSD in veterans is estimated at 10-30%, among domestic violence survivors, it is estimated at between 40-80%. Domestic violence can destroy lives while at the same time has a major impact on our economy. Each year, domestic violence costs our economy $120 billion in lost wages, direct health care, social welfare, law enforcement and legal costs.
SafePlace is doing great work on these fronts, but depends on philanthropic support to provide and expand its services. Of its $9.2 million budget in 2015, only half came from government funding. This is why Illuminate Austin, it's main fundraiser in the year, is so important to its success and the work it does in our community, which is critical to so many survivors and to the health of our city.


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Our little Canon boy turned 4 years old today! He is such a sweet little boy!
We went to the zoo lights. It was the first time for me and the boys! Sad but true I know. Thank you Atacks for inviting us! It was FREEZING cold, and yes the boys had their moments, but they were troopers!
Canon decided he wanted doughnuts instead of a birthday cake this year for his birthday! I was all for it since I hadn't baked anything and wasn't even really sure we were going to do anything besides some presents that day since we did the cake and ice cream a couple weeks before.
He got his birthday hat at his cute preschool!


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ChemEng@Cam continues to lead the way in Chemical Product Engineering
A website, developed by Raquel Costa, giving case studies of Chemical Product Design, has recently gone live. This project, supervised by Geoff Moggridge, was sponsored by the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre, who are hosting the website. It is hoped that further contributions will expand the range of case studies available. The website is aimed at both students and academics teaching courses related to Chemical Product Engineering.
This follows a recent clutch of articles by Moggridge and Costa on Chemical Product Engineering, which have broadened the scope set by Moggridge and Cussler in their 2001 text, "Chemical Product Design":


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Fast food workers across New York City hit the streets today in a strike against the $200 billion fast food industry, which workers charge pays wages so low that many struggle to meet their basic needs.
The workers who are employed within one of the world's most expensive cities and work in several restaurant chains, including McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Domino's and Taco Bell, have been organizing with groups such as Fast Food Forward and many other organizations to fight for livable wages and for the right to unionize.
Their ultimate goal is to raise wages to $15-an-hour from minimum wage pay and to gain recognition for their independent union, the Fast Food Workers Committee.
According to Fast Food Forward, while the fast food industry currently grosses $200 billion annually, and the average daily salary of most fast food CEO's is $25,000, the average fast food worker only makes 11,000 per year, or roughly 25 percent of the money required to survive in NYC.
Organizers say most workers are forced to supplement their income with public assistance. This externalizes business costs onto American taxpayers, while the international corporations run away with multibillion dollar profits.
The strike is the first multi-corporation strike by fast-food workers in US history.
The New York Times reports that the first walkout took place at 6:30 a.m. at a McDonald's on Madison Avenue and 40th Street. Several dozen workers and supporters, including 14 of the 17 employees scheduled to work the morning shift that day, lined up outside of the restaurant chanting, "Hey, hey, what do you say? We demand fair pay."
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"We don't get paid for what we do. It really is living in poverty," Raymond Lopez, 21, an aspiring actor who has worked at McDonald's for over two years told The Times.
"The fast-food industry employs tens of thousands of workers in New York and pays them poverty wages," said Jonathan Westin, organizing director at New York Communities for Change. "A lot of them can't afford to get by. A lot have to rely on public assistance, and taxpayers are often footing the bill because these companies are not paying a living wage."
If successful, the move to unionize will be the first to do so across several fast food chains, and could be the largest of its kind.
"For so long, a lot of labor and other folks have avoided these industries because they thought they were too low wage, too hard to organize, and now our economy has become an economy of mostly low wage service jobs," Westin told the Atlantic.
"It was the same thing when they were organizing factories in the early 1900s. They organized those factories and lifted an entire segment of the population into the middle class. This could happen here. We could lift an entire segment of the US population out of poverty and into the middle class."
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2011 Outstanding Young Alumnus
Nabil Mistkawi PhD '10
In February while visiting Intel in Hillsboro, President Barack Obama singled out engineer and PSU alumnus Nabil Mistkawi. The honor was appropriate. Mistkawi developed a process for the production of computer chips that has saved Intel millions of dollars, is better for the environment, and became the topic for his Ph.D. dissertation.
Mistkawi began his U.S. education at Chemeketa Community College (where he met his wife and improved his English). After finishing his undergraduate degree at University of Oregon with honors, Mistkawi received a letter from Intel saying that they wanted to talk to him about joining their research department. While he had considered going to medical school, the opportunity to work in research at a first-class company that would pay for his advanced education was irresistible.
Mistkawi developed the new production process in three days while simultaneously working at Intel, going to school at PSU, and raising three young daughters with his wife, who also works full time.
Mistkawi holds nine patents at Intel, and says he benefited greatly from his mentors, including Shankar Rananavare, his PSU adviser and now close personal friend.
"In my long career, I never had a student whose science led to creation of a major product that made new technology possible, and it is an environmentally friendly product that is in use today," says Rananavare.


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Vairamuthu, born in July 13,1953 in Vadugapatti, Theni district near Periyakulam. His father was Ramaswamy and mother AngammaL His wife Ponmani Vairamuthu is a Retd Professor. They have two sons Madhan KarkyVairamuthu and Kabilan Vairamuthu.
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The ultimate low carb donut recipe! Tender baked almond flour donuts topped with a sugar-free maple glaze and sprinkled with crisp bacon.
The Maple Bacon Donut, how genius is that? Of course it's not my genius, as much as I might wish it was. Maple-frosted donuts with bacon on top have been floating around the web-o-sphere for a while now. I believe they started in a commercial bakery somewhere and spread like wildfire to other bakeries and donut chains. And of course, many a blogger has taken a stab at a homemade version. Images of this wondrous creation pop up rather frequently on Pinterest and Instagram, so it's only a surprise that it took me this long to create a low carb, gluten-free Maple Bacon Donut. But I have addressed this egregious error now and I apologize profusely for my oversight. It won't happen again.
Maple-frosted donuts have long been one of my favourites. Sprinkling them with crispy chopped bacon? Priceless.
Please see my Low Carb Maple Bacon Donuts on SheKnows.com.
Nutritional Analysis Per Donut. 214 Calories; 19g Fat (75.2% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 6g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 60mg Cholesterol; 353mg Sodium.


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This deck looks and feels just like a
deck of many things. But that is where
it ends. The deck contains 13 plaques.
Sun - gain a +1 arrow and 50
experience points
Moon - you are granted 1-4 unseen
servants for 1 week.
Star - immediately gain two-tenths on
your major ability.
Throne - granted a fancy wig with a
bottle of sweet perfume and a deed to a
Key - gain a map to a door,
somewhere? And a loadstone
Knight - gain the service of a
gravedigger for 1 day.
The Void - body functions but when
you come across a void of any size, the
player will run in fear for 1 turn.
Flames - enmity between you and a
Skull - defeat a skeleton or be forever
Ruin - lose one tenth of your wealth
and one tenth of any land.
Euryale - minus 1 on all saving throws
vs. spells
Rogue - one of your henchmen falls in
love with you.
Jester - gain 100 experience points ordraw 2 more draws from the deck


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I am so bored, so sickened, so unable to speak when I hear the refrain –
Hell, it is harm-free if just a piece of film, a page in magazine, a computer image – if just five minutes of wanking then thrown away.
It can great fun if it earn you tons of money, and you cannot bother to get your hands dirty.
Porn is great for everyone who has no conscious, no ability to give a damn about other's mental, physical and sexual safety.
Porn is great if you make the choice to view others as inferior, as goods that are disposable.
Porn is great if your view of women and girls is that they are nothing but holes to be fucked until they get wore out.
That is porn.
Porn is not something I can ever accept.
It is not sex, hell it as much to do with sex as an anteater is a London bus.
Sex should be about connecting, about finding respect, about discovering joy.
Sex is not just fucking, making another human into an object to be used and chuck out.
Porn is more than just making the woman or girl into a disposable fuck-object.
Porn is made of hate, contempt, a rage, some terror of all women, whether they are pinned into porn, or seen as the non-whores.
As a prostituted woman and girl, I know in every cell of my body and mind, what it was to be made into porn and to be thrown away.
After all, the porn trade has an endless supply of "actors" supplied by prostituted women and girls.
These whores know the harm – and always in every culture, every century, every country, they have attempted to speak only for their voices to be silenced.
Christ, whores know the harm.
They know they are cheap labour for porn wherever and whenever it occurred.
Whores are the images being fucked near to death on Greek and Roman "art" advertising brothels.
Whores are the women punished in Dante's Inferno in deaths scenes, men will wank over to without guilt.
Whores are made to smile in every brothel in every culture. The Happy Hooker was invented inside porn wet-dreams.
Whores are the women destroyed by Marquis de Sade.
Whores are the prostitutes Victorians would fuck and underpay, knowing they were under-aged and or living in poverty.
Victorians fuck whores, so they could invent the good wife.
Whores were pinned into photo album, with no life worth bothering about outside their role for men to wank into.
All this is history, and are the dead whores, so their lives have no importance.
We choose to lie about the past porn.
We lie that it had dignity, we lie that it must have of been women who just loved pain and sex, we lie that it give women some power.
We invent a history for whores, pretending they are not really like real women and girls – and we put them into a nice neat box, and feel good about ourselves.
But, I cannot see the history of whores and not see damage spreading all over it.
The history of whores is the history of their bodies being forced into porn.
See temples in ancient cultures, see women formed into goddesses or priest – and look more carefully.
Most temples were full of sex slaves, full of whores having to fuck men by their thousands until they looked old or were too ill to be fuckable.
Men re-named them as gods or priests or truth-sayers, so they could do sexual violence and think it would be invisible.
See courtesans – and see women and girls surviving by always being a fuck-doll for the rich.
Her survival is that she must always be inside his image of what is fuckable.
She is allowed to be intelligent as long as she has no ambition, as long she puts down her books or painting whenever he wants to fuck.
She must not grow old, the ideal courtesan dies when she is still sexy.
She has no friends or family, just exists on the money of men of power.
The sick joke that men invent about the courtesan is she that manipulates the men.
She is always just a whore who is their porn-dream.
She is always thrown away.
That is history, a history that all porn is embedded in.
We say that porn is violent now, that we live in a time that whores are degraded like no other time.
That is bullshit, for we refuse to know that whores have always been tortured and degraded, just so men can wank, profit and know how to rape without guilt.
Now, I believe porn is limited in what it can do to torture women and girl – the limit has always been murder and ripping apart their bodies.
What changes is the technology and how wide it can be spread.
The Ancient Greeks murdered, sexually tortured and brainwashed whores as much as they could in their known world.
Our limits now are that are that we have instance access to whores being raped, sexually torture, murdered and made to smile anywhere at any time.
There is a distancing now of the computer, through films or down a phone line.
Now, porn user and producer can be distance behind a camera or saying the image in some other country, it is not their responsibility.
But is that distance so new.
Did the readers of de Sade not pretend to themselves it was just fiction, that if was happening to real women and girls, could it matter as they were just throwaway whores.
Men have always made a class of women and girls named whore who are just supply for their porn.
Whores know nothing is new, just the language changes – always finding more ways to make their pain and terror disappear.
Everything that happened to whores in the past is happening to whores now and will happen in the future to whores.
Gang-rapes has always kept whores in lines.
When countries invades other countries, they often gang-rape, often select a whore-class to kidnap and supply their own brothels/temples.
As I was gang-raped, I was being taught how to be a whore.
Whores have always been trained into their role by being shown images of porn – let's named it to images of torture, images of hate, images that forces out all hope.
Why else would Roman brothels shown porn on every wall, why else when I enter prostituton was I handed hard-core porn by so many men.
Whores have always been place into danger as men use them as living porn.
There is nothing new about gonzo porn, nothing new about every fashionable sadistic sex act men want.
Whores have always known that porn included murdering them – hell of course Jack the Ripper got his kicks murdering whores.
Whores have always known even in death their life is of no importance – even if they are murdered, their murderer will never be punished.
So there have always been harm on every level in porn for the whore.
It is her cunt that is ripped, cut at, spit into, stuffed until it cannot feel anything.
The whore has always been gang-raped, anally abused, fucked without protection, strangled, kidnapped, tortured with anything that is at hand.
The whore's torture has always been wanked over, spread around men for their profit and ridicule.
The whore has never had rights to her own image, her own life, her right to be safe, her right to dignity. She is not a person, just something that is fucked or there to be wanked over.
All that has always been the ways men have invented the whore.
Well, we must break that the whore is made sub-human.
All whores are as human as you are.
Whore know pain, they bleed, they get STDs, they commit suicide, they had a life before they made a whore – this is true now and was always true.
Every time that you use porn, you are adding to the destruction of whores.
You are killing whores.


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Print is not dead yet — at least not on the Upper West Side.
As bookstore owners across Manhattan struggle with rising rents and competition from Amazon, two independent booksellers are, if not thriving, at least surviving.
The Bank Street Bookstore, a beloved children's bookstore at 112th Street and Broadway, is expected to announce Tuesday that it has found a new location just a few blocks away, on 107th Street. The store's fate has been uncertain since last December, when it revealed that it could not afford to renew its lease when it expires in February 2015. Many residents and customers were shocked to learn that the 45-year-old store had been losing money steadily for a decade.
"I can't tell you how many people have said to me: 'You can't close this store. My kids have grown up in this bookstore,' " said Andy Laties, Bank Street's manager.
The new location, most recently a flower shop, is about one-third smaller, with 2,200 square feet of retail space, but the rent is half of what the bookstore has been paying. Mr. Laties said the store would continue its schedule of readings and events, including daily story time, weekend puppet shows and occasional celebrity appearances (past guests have included Stephen Colbert, Julianne Moore and Jeff Kinney, author of the best-selling middle-grade series "Diary of a Wimpy Kid").
While it is perhaps premature to declare a full-blown renaissance for bookstores, there is another encouraging sign of literary life in the neighborhood. In November, Book Culture, which has two Morningside Heights locations, will open a third store at Columbus Avenue and 82nd Street, in the same spot that once housed Endicott Booksellers, which closed almost 20 years ago (it has since been a Sotheby's real estate office, a flower shop and an antique store).
Chris Doeblin, president of Book Culture, said he emptied out his retirement savings to help pay for the lease on the new space, which costs $35,000 a month. A sign in the window references the space's previous incarnation as a bookstore and evokes the movie "You've Got Mail," a 1998 romantic comedy about an independent bookstore struggling to stay open as a big national chain eats up its business.
"The rents are definitely high in Manhattan, but where am I going to find a more condensed, more literary group of book lovers in the world?" Mr. Doeblin said.
The openings — and re-openings — offer a rare bright spot in what has otherwise become a grim landscape for booksellers. The number of bookstores in Manhattan fell drastically between 2000 and 2012, plummeting by almost 30 percent. Even large chains like Barnes & Noble, once painted as the enemy of independent bookstores, have not been immune to the industry's woes. Borders, which had five outlets in Manhattan, declared bankruptcy in 2011. Several Barnes & Nobles have closed throughout the city in recent years.
And despite its history as a literary hub, the Upper West Side has lost its share of bookstores. Neighborhood institutions and specialty book shops like Shakespeare and Company and Murder Ink have closed.
When the sign in Mr. Doeblin's storefront window announcing a coming bookstore went up, some observers reacted with disbelief. In August, the website West Side Rag posted a neighborhood dispatch: "Either that time machine I stepped into last week actually worked or the universe is playing some sort of trick: A bookstore owner is actually planning to open a new book store on the Upper West Side."


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May 13th, 2011: Anmitsu
@musée Guimet
I know that the acoustics are sub-par, but I'm glad I didn't let that keep me away from this gig. I've had mixed feelings about the recent Tsugaru Shamisen hype, mostly because I don't like Yoshida Brothers all that much. It's OK sound-wise, but kinda bland in my opinion. Anmitsu are the real thing and the perfect antidote to that.
They too take the Shamisen beyond hackneyed cliches, but they don't need synths to do so. They stick to the instrument itself, and prove that it's not that dated at all for someone who has a novel approach. And they have that in spades. So they sometimes sounded rockish enough to come close to the dreaded cross-over world-music crap, except that it involved no technological trick and as such was not a bow to current mores but more a sign of the healthy ability to absorb whatever is around while not surrendering either, a prime sign that a tradition is alive and kicking. So there was no divide there, and maybe it was related to their embracing a low-brow kind of music, no matter the century. I don't mean to disparage anything my the term "low-brow", just to point out that sometimes high cultural aims get in the way, and it can be liberating to yield that ground, even though there's no yielding when in comes to the music itself. This balance is something Anmitsu masters as well or better than anyone I've heard.
I didn't like the vocal style, which isn't a surprise as my taste in terms of vocals and instruments run widely apart when it comes to Japanese music. But it wasn't featured often, and the shamisen playing was so creative and anchored in the here and now while being true to its heritage I felt honored to have witnessed such a masterful performance. They had all that I liked about this instrument, and added many things I didn't know I liked. They played the classics but with enough input that they felt fresh again, and their ability to breathe a second life into those classics was only second to their ability to breathe life into anything, so much so that telling those classics apart took some effort that instantly felt irrelevant.
They even had a French guy playing with them and it didn't feel wrong at all, just musicians sharing their trade and love. That was the mind-blowing thing for me. This was billed as traditional music, but they came across as musicians just like those I'm used to seeing in the free improv or noise scenes. That may be cryptic but means something specific to me. In that specific way they reminded me of Kazue Sawai.
I bought one of their records but didn't want it signed — I stopped doing that decades ago — but they were so good I was tempted. Come to think of it, Kazue Sawai was one of the last musicians I got to sign a record; I think Kronos were the last by a few months. I'll remember their performance far longer, I can only hope I'll have many other opportunities to hear them again.
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Season of Lent
What God has joined together, let no one seprate.
Reading 3, 1 Cor 13: 1-13 : Love is great of all.
|If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
|And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
|If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
|Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
|it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
|it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
|Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
|Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
|For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
|but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
|When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
|For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
|So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love
Gospel, Mk 10: 1-12 : What God has joined together, let no one seprate.
|And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.
|And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
|He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"
|They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away."
|But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
|But from the beginning of creation, `God made them male and female.'
|`For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
|and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
|What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."
|And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
|And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her;
|and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."


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A study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that one in five undergraduate women will experience sexual assault while in college. That means you probably know someone who was raped at Hopkins. It also means you probably know a rapist.
They're in our classes, our frats, our dining halls and our friend groups. And yet this reality remains conspicuously absent from our conversations about campus sexual assault.
In 2015 activists at Columbia University projected the words "Rape Happens Here" on the doors of the campus library. The phrase describes rape in the passive voice, reduced to the experience of trauma. There is an action but no cause, a school full of victims but no one who's responsible.
Students in distress looking to support a friend who has experienced sexual assault can find answers from an abundance of available resources, but there's no instruction manual that tells you what to do when the rapist is someone you know.
The identities of rapists on this campus have become a sort of open secret, their names whispered in support groups or the bathroom at PJ's. How do students navigate their interactions with the rapists who walk among us? How do you respond when someone you know, like or even trust has committed sexual assault? I spoke with students about this unspoken reality, and while I offer no solutions, I hope that by sharing a variety of experiences and responses, we can begin to find the answers together. So... you think your friend's a rapist?
The most obvious and common response is denial. Not all denial looks the same; There are many ways to avoid acknowledging a rape. Sometimes that denial is active and explicit: the assumption that the victim is lying. Sometimes it's more subtle. Denial can manifest in the façade of objectivity, the refusal to jump to conclusions and the classification of the nature of the encounter as ultimately unknowable.
Denial can take the form of a polite refusal to pry further about a sensitive topic or the compartmentalization of the event as irrelevant to your relationship with the accused.
Denial manifests in language. You'll call your friend "creepy" or "aggressive with girls when he gets drunk," but he's not a rapist. The identification of rape becomes murkier when considering the complicating effects of alcohol and inexperience on consent. In the context of cultural normalization of ambiguously consensual encounters, rapes can easily be explained away as unfortunate misunderstandings.
The impulse to deny the assault is understandable. When the options are to pretend the assault never happened or denounce a close friend as a criminal, more often than not, denial wins out. Acknowledging the validity of the assault threatens to fundamentally shatter your understanding of your friend, yourself and the moral order of the world.
How do we reconcile our positive experiences of the rapist with the evil of their action? Does the rape define them? Does it negate all previous acts of kindness? Was the foundation of your friendship based on a lie? If our identities are shaped by the company we keep, we fear what it means to associate with someone who did something so terrible. We feel guilty and ashamed to have been so close to someone and not seen their capacity for abuse. When acknowledging the validity of the rape begets emotional upheaval and crisis of conscience, it's no wonder so many choose to turn a blind eye.
Desexualization of Rape
Our unwillingness to label seemingly good people as rapists is derived in part from the desexualization of rape in mainstream rhetoric. In her groundbreaking 1975 bestseller, Against our Will, Susan Brownmiller argues that "rape is not about sex, but about power." Sex is a "weapon to generate fear" rather than the crime's motive.
To author Kate Millett, rape is an act of domination, born from "the emotions of hatred, contempt and the desire to break or violate personality." At the time this rhetoric was revolutionary. It was a paradigm shift that reframed rape as a political issue and distinguished rape from consensual sex. This rhetoric also served to increase resources for and recognition of trauma recovery for survivors.
But in the process, the humanity of the crime was lost. Other crimes, no matter how heinous, have rational motives rooted in our humanity: rage, jealousy, greed, desire. Sexual offenses are a category all of their own. Stripped of any reasonable cause, rape becomes a deviant expression of pure evil, a deliberate, hostile act of degradation and cruelty for its own sake. Rape is not a human activity but a crime of monsters.
The dehumanization of the rapist has visible, often racist, implications in our legal system, as judges and juries are hesitant to label seemingly normal people, like the now infamous Brock Turner, as rapists.
For accountability, we need to acknowledge that seemingly normal people can be rapists, and to do that, we need to expand our understanding of why people commit rape. Activist and writer Wendy McElroy once wrote, "There can be as many motives for rape as there are for murder and other violent crimes." Insisting that no rape is ever about sex does a disservice to our ability to address rape and rapists with the sobriety and clarity the topic deserves.
Rape Culture on Campus
If we accept that men (and people of all genders) who are capable of rape often look and act exactly like those who aren't, we must also accept that the people we know might be rapists. This is an extremely uncomfortable realization.
What are the moral implications of being friends with a rapist? Are you condoning their behavior by maintaining the friendship? How can survivors feel legitimized in their feelings when their rapist continues to be embraced by their community?
Many of the students I talked to expressed frustration and disgust with the hypocrisy of those who attend feminist marches and Bystander Intervention Training but remain uncritical of the rapists in their own circles. On a campus where disciplinary or legal action for sexual assault is uncommon, is social banishment the best way to hold rapists accountable?
The desire to cut off contact with the rapists in our life presents another moral dilemma: how to respect the wishes of the survivor. In many ways, a rape can feel like a crime against a friendship and a betrayal of a community's trust. The initial impulse when you learn that someone you know has committed sexual assault might be to tell your friends, to warn others, to show the rapist that you know what they did and you don't think it's okay. But it's important to remember that sexual assault is a crime against an individual.
Not all survivors want their experience to become public knowledge (and thus susceptible to public scrutiny). Without their explicit consent, this could be re-traumatizing. When navigating interactions with the rapists in your life, respecting the survivor must be the ultimate priority.
Moving Forward
So how do we deal with the rapists in our life without creating excuses for their crimes or disrespecting the survivors?
I don't really know. But one thing is clear, our unwillingness to engage in uncomfortable dialogue does nothing but protect predators. Combating rape culture means engaging in frank conversations. Take the voices of survivors seriously: Erroneous rape accusations are extremely rare. Talk to your friends about toxic masculinity and the objectification of women. Talk to your friends about consent, not just about the straightforward, official understanding but about its uncomfortably nuanced aspects as well.
What does consent mean when drinking is involved? Reflect on your own sexual encounters: Are there any that might not have been entirely consensual? If you're unsure, it might be beneficial to gently contact your former sexual partners. Ask your friends about their sexual encounters too.
Don't be afraid to ask more questions when something doesn't seem quite right. You might not want to hear the answers, you might find out some uncomfortable truths about your friends, but refusing to ask these questions won't make the reality disappear.
Someone you know is a rapist, and ignoring that for the sake of convenience or comfort doesn't make it any less true.
Maddie King is a senior International Studies major from New York City.


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Tonight EA opened a new section of the official forum for the Katy Perry Sweet Treats Stuff Pack. A simmer by the name of TheSimling started a debate about the endorsement deal with a sensible well thought out post.
The following is my take on the situation which I posted as a reply in the aforementioned thread.
"Thank you TheSimling for your well thought out post that shows understanding of the business world.
Yes EA is out to make a profit, nothing unusual there. However they have signed a deal with Katy Perry to endorse several sims 3 projects. That is unusual. The sims franchise has never done that before.
I am one of those long time simmers who has bought every EP and SP from the original Sims, Sims 2 and Sims 3 up until Master Suite Stuff.
I took a decision not to buy Showtime as I felt the price was too high for what was included. And when I do get it, when the price drops, I will not be buying the Katy Perry edition.
I really do not care for celebrity endorsement of the sims franchise and I don't understand why EA feels it is necessary. The Sims has been the number 1 best-selling PC game in its own right for many years now. The only explanation for this kind of cross purpose marketing is falling sales.
Katy Perry isn't doing this out of love for the game and EA isn't doing out of love for her. They are both doing it to boost their own profiles and inject more cash into their wallets. It is cold hard business with a powerful and convincing marketing machine behind it.
I don't hate Katy Perry, I just don't care much about her or her music, it's not my thing but I accept that other people are into her. I would feel the same about any celebrity who signed a deal like this. The extra pricing for versions carrying a celebrity name just rubs salt in this wound.
As for this Sweet Treats SP. I'm sad to say that the content doesn't appeal to me as I prefer fairly realistic worlds. But again I accept that others will like it. It is a matter of personal taste.
The Sims game itself should be good enough to appeal to gamers. If it isn't any more then EA need to start listening more to the community to understand what those who spend their cash on the game really want"
That's my take what do the rest of you think?


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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. last week, I thought I'd revisit Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport. Scholastic released a video version of the book, which I think contains different aspects. Instead of adding new animation for the video, Scholastic decided to give movement to the pictures from the book. The video zooms and pans across a page to make it appear as if the pictures are actually moving. This gives more detail to the pictures. The video also uses a narrator (actor Michael Clarke Duncan) but occasionally includes text that moves quite a bit on the page. Some kids who are learning to read may find this distracting.
Overall, I think the video is a good adaptation of the book, and it's nice that Scholastic released it as part of their video collection. It includes a portion of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, in his own words. If you want to view, listen, or read the entire speech (which I highly recommend), go here.


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California is known as a leader, a progressive state that is regularly in the forefront on a wide variety of issues. Taking this leadership role, however, comes with a great responsibility to make sure that our forward-thinking policies don't negatively affect minorities, lower-income families and other at-risk Californians.
The controversial environmental bill AB 32 has raised concerns that it crosses this line, putting a political agenda ahead of the basic daily needs of millions of citizens.
While some studies project positive effects, numerous studies have predicted that the implementation of AB 32 would cost tens of billions of dollars in higher electricity bills, gasoline, food and other products. The average California family would end up paying $3,857 more every year for housing, transportation, food and energy.
Businesses would be severely affected as well, including the small firms that create the vast majority of new jobs. The cost of AB 32 would average out to almost $50,000 per small businesses in California, a hit many of them couldn't survive.
We can't afford to lose more jobs here, particularly for African-Americans, Hispanics and other people of color who have already suffered greatly during the economic downturn. The California economy has shed 1.3 million jobs since 2007, and our unemployment rate is the third highest in the nation, at 12.4 percent. More than 900,000 job seekers have been out of work at least 27 weeks, the largest number of long-term unemployed registered since record keeping began in 1990.
But African-Americans and Hispanics are out of work in much larger numbers, hit hard by the housing market collapse and other factors. The unemployment rate for California Hispanics is estimated at 17 percent. Last March the National Urban League estimated that nationwide unemployment among African-Americans was nearly twice that of whites.
It would be easier to argue for AB 32 if it would have a significant effect on climate change. But California produces only 1.4 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, so even a very effective program of reducing our output would do little to improve global warming. As the name suggests, this is a worldwide problem that requires a worldwide solution. Going it alone would not only be futile, but it also would be economically foolish.
Instituting strict emissions controls on California businesses would motivate many of them to move to other states or countries where regulations are more lax. Businesses that decide to stick it out would be forced to dramatically reduce their operations, cutting jobs to pay for technology updates and new equipment that AB 32 would require. Our bleak employment picture of today could end up being looked back on as "the good old days."
Proponents of AB 32 insist that employment losses will be mitigated by the creation of green jobs, but there's no guarantee that those jobs would be created in California or that minority workers would be hired to fill them. We need every job we can get and are in no position to pick and choose one kind of employment over another.
We cannot sacrifice the welfare of California families to pursue unproven policies that will ship jobs out of the state. AB 32 carries too much economic risk for too little reward. Now is not the time.
HARRY ALFORD is president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. He wrote this article for this newspaper.


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Firm under fire for breast contest
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.
In the "Breast Christmas Ever" contest, 13 women were awarded the procedure after writing essays to the stations explaining why they wanted larger breasts. A Tampa station claimed to receive more than 91,000 entries.
Clear Channel said it had nothing to do with the contest and that it was a decision by local station managers to hold the promotion. The contest was aired on Clear Channel stations in Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Louis and Detroit.
The contest has drawn the ire of both the National Research Center for Women Families and the
The controversy comes within months of Clear Channel paying a record $1.75 million fine to resolve indecency complaints against New York-based shock jock Howard Stern , Tampa radio personality "Bubba the Love Sponge" and others. The station formally agreed to "clean up its act," FCC Chairman
While neither women's group is alleging the breast surgery contest violated decency standards, they are complaining the contest promotes potentially dangerous surgery and leaves its winners with no legal remedies should the surgery go awry. Under the rules, winners must be at least 18 and sign a waiver protecting the company from all liability claims.
"I try not to be judgmental about whether a large radio station should be giving away free toys to children instead of free breast augmentation," said Diana Zuckerman , president of the National Research Center for Women Families, a health advocacy organization.
NOW is urging the public to send e-mails to Clear Channel and the FCC to complain about what it considers a "degrading and unethical contest." About 3,400 messages have been sent to the FCC and Clear Channel, NOW said Monday.
Jennifer Gery , a spokeswoman for Clear Channel, said the company had no oversight of the contests and didn't sponsor them.
"There is no reason to be concerned because it's not a Clear Channel-sponsored contest, Gery said. "We empower our local manager to make programming decisions."
David Fiske , a spokesman for the FCC, said the agency does not regulate the content of radio station contests unless it violates decency standards. The FCC only requires radio stations to conduct contests exactly by the stated rules and to fully disclose the terms of the contest.
NOW has been active in lobbying the Food and Drug Administration against the marketing of silicone breast implants and has an ongoing "Love Your Body" campaign aimed at countering what it says are unrealistic body images promoted in the entertainment industry.


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Dressings, Impregnated, Antimicrobial, Iodine
Definition : Antimicrobial dressings impregnated with iodine solutions (e.g., povidone-iodine). The most common substrate used in these dressings is gauze, but other fabrics are also used. Iodine-impregnated antimicrobial dressings reduce the number of and/or kill microorganisms (bacteria); they are intended mainly to reduce the risk of infections in wounds and burns.
Entry Terms : "Povidone-Iodine Dressings" , "Iodine Dressings"
UMDC code : 24823


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Mistral Hotel's Walking Holiday 6th - 12th May 2014
Set in the historic village of Maleme, Crete, just three minutes walk from the beach; the Mistral Hotel is a resort catering exclusively for independent travellers, from their 30s right up to their 70s.
The Mistral Hotel's concept - Mistral Singles, is for the independent traveller who desires good food, good company and a choice of interesting excursions with a variety of themed holidays throughout the season. This provides guests with an excellent opportunity to learn new skills, make friends through mutual interests, while embracing the Cretan lifestyle.
Taking advantage of the natural beauty of Crete, the team at the Mistral have created a walking experience planned for 6th to 12th May 2014. A great opportunity will allow guests to explore some of the island's most stunning scenery, ranging from pretty coastal and hillside treks, to the Samaria Gorge - one of Europe's longest gorges. The holiday caters for all abilities, offering easy to moderate walks for two to four hours at a time. A week of discovering different sceneries and landscapes promises to be an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
Mistral Hotel's Walking Holiday costs £675 per person and includes:
- Seven nights' accommodation in a superior room
- Chania Airport transfers
- Seven breakfasts and six dinners (including wine and coffee)
- Four guided walks with lunch provided
- All transportation
Besides walking, other themed holidays throughout the season, include:
- Greek Easter - 15th to 21st April '14
- Culture & Spring Flowers – 22nd to 28th April '14
- Photography – 14th to 21st October '14
The 33-guestroom hotel offers a contemporary Cretan style, along with a relaxed ambience for guests. The hotel also boasts two large swimming pools and an outdoor Jacuzzi surrounded by spacious terraces and beautiful gardens.
For bookings and further information, please visit www.singlesincrete.com, email email@example.com or call 0871 990 2070.


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Albemarle County Parks & Rec Co-Sponsor Kid's Fishing Day at Mint Springs Park on April 27
The ninth annual Kid's Fishing Day will be held at Mint Springs Park in Crozet, Virginia on Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Trout Unlimited, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Kingfishers, and the Albemarle County Department of Parks and Recreation. This event celebrates the memory of David Thompson, a former member of Trout Unlimited.
Fish will be stocked for the event in the two lakes at Mint Springs. Mint Springs Park is located just west of downtown Crozet, on Route 684. All kids age 12 and under are invited to fish for free – no license is required. Only one fishing rod per youngster is permitted.
Trout Unlimited and Kingfisher volunteers will operate a concession stand. Some bait and tackle will be offered for sale. The Western Albemarle Rescue Squad will be on hand in the event something other than a fish happens to get hooked.
The annual event has drawn over 200 youngsters each of the past eight years. The Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Trout Unlimited, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Kingfishers, and Albemarle County Parks and Recreation sponsor the event to promote cold-water fishery conservation and fishing as a wholesome family activity.
For more information, please contact Albemarle County Parks and Rec at 434-296-5844.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Louder Than Words
I first worked for the San Francisco International Film Festival back in 1998, and have been a faithful attendee for long before that (enough for my wife to know, even before we were married, that she'd be a Festival widow for a good week every year). The Festival always comes within a few days of Westpex, so late-April always represents the annual sweet spot for the Filmatelist.
My very first FDC was for these Silent Film Star stamps (Scott #2819-28). I bought my own postcards of Chaplin, Lloyd, and Valentino and had them postmarked right in the lobby of the legendary Castro Theater, a beautiful art deco palace in San Francisco. But since those didn't turn out so hot (a blog post for another day), I picked up one of these caches as well. There was also a special screening of Safety Last that day, the first time I'd ever seen that film.
People often ask if I ever want to go to Cannes or Sundance one day. And I tell them if I could only visit one film festival in the world, it would be the Pordenone Silent Film Festival near Venice, Italy. For while I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to preferring to see any movie in a theater over TV or video, silent movies in particular benefit from the live music, the energy of the crowd, and the beautiful evocation of a time long past, preserved in those indelible flickers on the screen.
Although there are still plenty of silents I haven't seen, I try to seek out as many as I can on that big screen, and the Bay Area is certainly an embarrassment of riches in that department. For those who've never experienced a silent film in a theater before, they are often surprised by how raw, funny, sophisticated, and emotionally complex films from that time could be. The technology may be dated, but the sensibility and artistic vision on display rarely is. And while most of the stars in this USPS issue don't appear in my personal Top 10 (below), that's just a tribute to how many wonderful silent films are with us (despite so many still having been lost over the decades)--and all well worth discovering.
My Top 10 Silent Films
1. The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926; w/Buster Keaton)
2. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
3. Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1929; w/Louise Brooks)
4. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
5. Greed (von Stroheim, 1924; w/Zasu Pitts)
6. The Italian Straw Hat (Clair, 1928)
7. The Freshman (Newmeyer/Taylor, 1925; w/Harold Lloyd)
8. The Wind (Sjostrom, 1928; w/Lillian Gish)
9. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
10. The Lighthouse Keepers (Gremillon, 1929)
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American Idol Wild Card Picks save Ashthon Jones and Naima AdedapoFriday, March 4th, 2011
Just as we started to think that the American Idol Top 10 had completely excluded black women, we were introduced to the "wild card picks". With the introduction of the "wild card" came two black women who were voted into what then became the top 13!
It seems that the new line up of judges, Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, also noticed this glaring omission because two of the three people that they voted back into the competition turned out to be black women.
No one could have been more shocked than Ashthon Jones who was the first black woman that the judges voted to put back into the competition. She was then followed by a highly emotional Naima Adedapo, also a black woman, who was also voted back into the competition. The third person to be added back into the competition was a much deserving young man, Stephano Langone.
With the top 13 now selected, American Idol's season 10 is set to be a wild and exciting addition to Wednesday and Thursday night's prime-time line-up.
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TSSA - Join a team where safety is a passion
In view of the current COVID-19 situation, TSSA is pausing its recruiting efforts and focusing on the wellbeing of its employees, customers and business. We look forward to engaging with talented candidates, once circumstances in Ontario improve. Stay safe.
TSSA is a not-for-profit, self-funded organization dedicated to enhancing public safety. With headquarters in Toronto, TSSA employs approximately 400 staff, 70 percent of whom work in operations. Governed by a 13-member board of directors, TSSA is accountable to the Ontario government, the residents of Ontario and its other stakeholders. Since 1997, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) has delivered public safety services on behalf of the government of Ontario in four key sectors:
|Boilers and pressure vessels, and operating engineers
Not only are we helping to keep Ontario safe, we're working to keep our industry working.
Under our Boilers and Pressure Vessels (BPV) Program, our team regulates all pressure-retaining systems manufactured or used in Ontario. They review boilers, pressure vessels, and piping systems during the manufacturing process and again, once these systems are operational in locations such as schools, hospitals, factories, offices, and even nuclear power plants.
As a member of the National Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessel Inspectors and an Authorized Inspection Agency under American Society of Mechanical Engineers, our team works with industry and insurance companies to protect the safety of the public by ensuring the safe design, manufacture, installation, operation, and periodic inspection of all boiler & pressure vessels in Ontario.
They perform device and system design reviews as well as periodic, repair and alteration inspections of uninsured boilers and pressure vessels. Our Boiler & Pressure Vessels team also provide engineering and inspection services to the industry concerning the transportation of dangerous goods such as propane tanks that are dependent upon pressure vessels.
Their oversight is multi-disciplinary even includes the certification of insurance company inspector staff and provision of technical training seminars across the Province. Our knowledge and practical expertise drives the development and maintenance of the standards and codes that impact the safety of all of us in the Province.
Our Inspectors' in-depth knowledge of standards and codes is appreciated and relied upon by our customers. They are often considered an integral part of the team at our customers' sites, providing regular review of equipment and documentation as well as periodic repair and alteration inspections.
Our Inspectors are self-motivated, born problem-solvers who relish the fact that every day provides a unique set of challenges and environments to engage their experience and knowledge. BPV Inspectors may come from a variety of backgrounds, among them welders and quality control supervisors. Our qualified BPV Inspectors have at least five years of experience working with boilers and pressure vessels, and are Authorized Inspectors, having received their Ontario Certificates of Competency, InService Commission, and New Construction Endorsement from the National Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.
|Elevating devices, amusement devices and ski lifts
Elevators, escalators, and moving walkways aren't just modern-day conveniences; they're essential to the efficient and safe movement of people in their day-to-day lives throughout the Province. They provide essential access to facilities and resources for persons with physical disabilities, and help make Ontario a leader in accessibility.
Our team is a valued partner to industry and reviews and registers elevating, amusement, and ski device designs, conducts initial inspections, licenses devices, and is responsible for regulating the safety of other elevating devices including elevators, escalators, moving walkways, lifts for persons with physical disabilities, and construction hoists.
Since elevating devices can be found in all kinds of buildings within an assigned area, every day is a little different. The way devices are used is an important element of promoting safety. We ensure that the regulations are complied with by the industry mechanics and trade professionals in their training, examination, and certification.
If you're having fun in Ontario, there's also a good chance we're involved.
Many of our TSSA team members are responsible for regulating the safety of amusement rides in Ontario. That includes roller coasters, Ferris wheels, water slides, go-karts -- even inflatable bouncy castles!
Our Passenger Ropeways (Ski Lift) Safety Program is responsible for regulating the safety of passenger ropeway devices in Ontario. We also provide public education to promote safe activity and use to reduce the number of incidents involving these devices. So, if your idea of fun involves skiing and tubing, our team will help make sure you get to the top safely via bar lifts, chair lifts, gondolas, reversible ropeways, and tube and belt tows. The way down, however, is up to you.
Inspectors at TSSA possess initiative and a wealth of safety related knowledge while thriving on the unique environments and technologies that each day brings.
The work and experience of our Engineers influences the development of future regulations and codes.
Fuel lines and tanker trucks crisscross the Province and are vital to business and the general public. Our team regulates naturalgas, propane, and fuel oil from the point of production to the end use in a home or business including the transmission, distribution, transportation, and utilization of the fuels. This team also regulates the fuel that powers our vehicles such as gasoline, natural gas, diesel, and propane from production to filling up your gas tank.
Our TSSA fuels team works with industry partners and others to protect the public, environment, and properties from fuel-related hazards that can cause spills, fires, and explosions. They perform design reviews, inspections, and the licensing of facilities, pipelines, tankers, and specialized equipment while providing environmental oversight and reviews of properties if there is a liquid fuel spill or leak.
Their responsibilities don't end with the equipment or properties. They regularly inspect and register contractors, certify technicians, and collaborate directly with the industry and the public through call centre interactions, educational forums, and collaborations with other organizations such as the Fire Marshal's Office. Our expertise is applied in the development and maintenance of the regulations, standards, and codes that impact the safety of all Ontarians.
|Power Plant
A thriving Province requires sufficient public or industry service power plants to drive almost every industry, process or public service. A responsible Province expects it all to be done safely.
Under the Operating Engineers Regulation, our Power Plant Inspectors conduct restrictions and inspections of power plants monitoring their steam, hot water boilers, engines, turbines, air and gas comp compressors, refrigeration, steam traction technologies, and all of the related auxiliary support systems. Occasionally, they have to perform incident investigations in the event of personal injury, death, and/or property damage related to a registered plant.
But it's not just about the equipment; this tight-knit team also ensures that regulations are complied with by the plant engineers and operators and that these regulations are reflected in their training, examination, and certification.
During their time in the field, our Inspectors have the opportunity to meet like-minded professionals who are responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of power plants. As a member of the power plant safety team, our Inspectors can apply their committment to excellence by ensuring the safety of the Power Engineering profession and the industry it serves.
Our qualified Power Plant Inspectors have many years of experience managing and operating in power plants, often as Chief Operating Engineers, and have a 2nd Class Operating Engineer certificate as a minimum qualification.
|Our Work
|We ensure public safety in Ontario by setting some of the highest standards in the world. Our employees take pride in knowing that their work makes a difference in the lives of people across the Province. Every day.
|Our Culture
Since 1997, the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) has delivered public safety services on behalf of the government of Ontario. With headquarters in west Toronto, the TSSA is a self-funded, not-for-profit organization that employs approximately 400 staff across Ontario. The roles within the TSSA are as diverse as the Province we serve. It takes all kinds of people with varied skillsets and backgrounds to meet our organizational goals, but our employees share a few key traits:
TSSA provides our employees with competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and -- most importantly -- a sense of purpose. Our work is vital to the success and safety of the Province, and it's our people who make it possible.
Our Inspectors in the field are the face of the TSSA, actively working within communities. But the work they do would be impossible if not for the efforts and support of our corporate team.
Our corporate office works together to advance safety education and awareness to the benefit of the public. They support our Inspectors by managing the processes and relationships that define our area of expertise, and liaise between the inter-sector workforce focused on defining and implementing the regulations, codes, and standards that are the core of safety and best practice in Ontario.
The roles are varied, but the goal is consistent: ensuring public safety for the Province of Ontario. From customer service, licensing, risk management, public education, government relations, finance, information technology, and human resources, all of our employees are rewarded with competitive compensation and benefit packages, a collaborative atmosphere, and the opportunity for learning and development.
But what they value most is the knowledge that their work is making a tangible difference. Every day.
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I haven't been active here for a while, but I hope to change that! I'm selling off a bunch of lava-related stuff I've accumulated. Please make offers! I'm not looking to get rich off these items. I want them gone and I'd like a teeny bit of extra cash.
Trade offers are also welcome. I'd really love to find an empty Consort globe with intact gold cap, if anyone wants some of my items and has a spare. I'd also love to locate one of the iron-stand Auras Glow, or one of the little Mathmos rocketship candle-fired lavas (I don't really know how rare or valuable either of these are).
Complete lamps
-- Green Fluidium, no box
-- Hunter copper Sata-Glitterlite, "eyelash" glitters are no longer silver, no bulb or plug
-- Glitter table lamp, separate switches for glitter & top light, shade support broken off
-- Screw-cap Midnight, currently full of not-at-all-good glitter fill, will empty before shipping
-- Empty Century, one-piece base, heat coil inside
-- Same with 1960s greenish wax, no liquid (not shown)
-- Screw-cap Century, empty, no coil
-- Screw-cap Midnight, empty, no coil
-- Continental (oval), red/clear
-- Consort, plastic base, no felt, has heat bowl inside
-- Mystique (square), some tape residue on sides
-- Midnight Aristocrat
-- Silver Aristocrat, minor dents
-- That poor, poor squiggle Aristocrat with I'm not sure what, rust(?) on it
-- China-made Midnight
-- Blue Swirl
-- Red Splotch Icon II (has a hairline crack, I'll glue that)
-- Silver Wizard
-- Red Wizard cap
-- Tortoiseshell cap
-- Red (plastic) 32oz., not blacklight-responsive
-- Two Century heat rings
-- Black Starship, one leg missing (just pay shipping)
-- Coach parts, base, cap with one post missing, bail (just pay shipping)
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Totally understandable
Keith said:
I did, but with the covid-19 situation he said he was going to wait before going forward with any transactions
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Anyone get a reply from Jonas?
Hello! How much for a Century heat ring? Shipped to 98466? Thanks!
I'm interested in the red cap for the elec-trick!
Sent a message to the OP just in case.
Would consider silver wiz and red splotches just not to much if splotches has been broke
I've been starting to experiment with making my own wax and fluid, so I'm interested in anything that is empty or cloudy/gross wax, etc.
Hey man please message me back I'm very in retested in buying some !!
I'd like to buy the fluidium pm me a price
Fluidium still available?
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to be clear, I don't think people in my income range are over-taxed, and I wouldn't have a problem giving back the Bush tax cuts. I do have a problem with a massive tax cut on tippety-top moguls who run this country at a time when they clearly don't need any help and the government is struggling to meet its obligations. People in my income bracket have two major problems: how much they have to pay for health care (for themselves and for their employees) and how much it costs to put their kids through college because they're getting $0 financial aid. I'd like the government to take on those two problems before trying more trickle-down nonsense to create imaginary economic growth.
Agreed. If you're going to lower taxes on the middle class as you have campaigned just do it, rather than giving a token cut to them in order distract from a big cut to the tip top.
At least make it revenue neutral and if you need to, raise taxes a bit on the tip top to pay for it. They hate your guts anyway Dotard, not like a tax cut will get you into their club
just drivin' round in John Voight's car
This ending the estate tax because it helps farmer is ridiculous. There are approximately less than 100 "farmers" this would affect. Stop, just stop.
When in doubt, rub one out -BiffTannen
The GOP Tax Plan Is Already Hitting Speed Bumps
Corker, who insists he wont vote for a tax bill that adds a penny to the deficit, said in an interview that hes concerned about the early signals from the White House. On Friday -- two days after the tax framework was rolled out -- National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said that ending the state and local tax break was negotiable.
Thats the easiest one, said Corker, a Tennessee Republican. Some of the others are actually more offensive and produce lesser amounts of money.
The budget rules that Senate leaders plan to use to pass the legislation require that any changes that boost the federal deficit would have to expire in time. But the nine-page framework released Wednesday provided few details on revenue raisers. It calls for eliminating deductions, but doesnt specify them. By showing its willingness to negotiate on one such deduction, the White House appears to be charting a rocky path.Ive been very candid about this. We need to have new deficits because of that. We need to have the growth, Mulvaney said. If we simply look at this as being deficit-neutral, youre never going to get the type of tax reform and tax reductions that you need to get to sustain 3 percent economic growth.
Pat Toomey doesn't think Americans will mind a tax cut for the wealthy because he doesn't believe they are that resentful.
The ratio looking strong.
Pat Toomey opposes an amendment that would prevent this bill from cutting Medicaid because this is tax reform not healthcare reform, and also because he wants to cut Medicaid.
I feel like he's not sending the message he thinks he's sending with these tweets.
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Why doesn't everybody just get more money?
Evidence and facts don't matter.
I love mankind...its people I cant stand!!
Once again The Atlantic knocks it out of the park.
On Friday, Susan Collins will announce whether she's running for re-election to the Senate or for Gov. of Maine. If she runs for gov, I'd bet she'll vote against Trump's scam "tax reform".
Given that Corker will vote against it if it adds to the deficit. Since it will, and he hates Trump, this is another "No" vote".
Sounds like it is dead before arrival.
Reforming the tax code nationally (reforming, not cutting taxes on the rich and stacking up more debt) would add some incremental growth. Not as much as the republicans are going to claim, but some. It's a macro-level economic input that will have macro-level impacts. State-level tax policy, on the other hand, is far down on the list of social and geographic factors that drive business growth in a state. Kansas will never have a California or New York economy, even if it taxed and spent at those rates, and will never have a Florida or Texas economy, no matter how deep it cuts income taxes.
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies
murica...your greatness awaits. Step right in...
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Check The Label: CLR WTHR's Cloud Stryks Are Our New Faves
Though they're a relatively new brand, the brothers behind Clear Weather (CLR WTHR), Brandon and Josh Brubaker, have designed some of the most recognizable modern skate shoes, including the Muska Skytop. Their (combined) deep CVs include work for Converse Cons, Vans, Sole Technologies, and Supra, helping Geoff Rowley, John Cardiel, Kenny Anderson, Jim Greco, Erik Ellington, and other pros translate their needs and wants into functional product with recognizable flare.
Pictured above is the company's newest offering, the Cloud Stryk, one of the most distinctive shoes in recent years. Below, why the brand is not just more outsiders clamoring to wring dollars from the multi-million-dollar skateboarding industry.
The First Line: "Suede Where You Need It" and New-Order Laces
As futuristic as the Cloud Stryk looks, Clear Weather's first offerings are deceptively minimal. In a sense, the brothers are disrupting the industry model with a reverse approach. They take inspiration from Tinker Hatfield's innovative and out-of-the-box work with Nike, then refine ideas to their aesthetic, where asymmetry is a hallmark.
CLR WTHR "Donny" in Black. Source.
Bringing the Skate Aesthetic to Department Stores
After two years of establishing their aesthetic and collaborating with Barney's New York, Bloomingdale's, and Commonwealth, Brandon and Josh Brubaker have reentered the skate market, with a line that immediately stands out for its mix of avant design and simplicity. As skeptical and cynical as the skate community can be of new footwear companies, their simple, yet functional and detailed "Donny" shoe (above) has already garnered positive reviews, including a coveted "Pick Of the Month" award from Ripped Laces. Still, they're aware of the pushback a brand that appears to be rooted in fashion may receive, so they've been somewhat methodical in their launch strategy.
CLR WTHR "Donny" in White. Source.
Future Classics
Their mission of creating "future classics," begins with adding their insight of "suede where you need it" and inventive lacing placement. "The asymmetrical lacing on the Donny is definitely a intentional performance benefit as is the placement of the suede," Josh said, "these shoes are truly made for skateboarding."
The Strategy: Lifestyle, then Skatestyle
"We started off in the lifestyle space on purpose," Brandon said. "We wanted to build shoes that were not made for skateboarding, and wait until we had a strong concept that meant something to real skateboarders—something they could relate to. We also feel like the timing is perfect."
The Shoe That Pushed them Outside Their Comfort Zone
For their newest (and potentially game-changing offering), the Cloud Stryk, "The concept was to create a futuristic yet vintage vibe sneaker," says Josh. "The shoe is split by the webbing running down the whole tile of the shoe, and the medial and the lateral design are two completely different concepts mashed together."
Trend Predictions
"We think trends will continue to be there—'puffy' or 'slim'—but I think skateboarding is here to stay and that means vulcanized shoes will always be a part of skateboarding," Josh said. "They just seem to be made for it. But I see cup soles making a heavy comeback."
Bona Fides
"We come from skateboarding, and both of us have spent years designing skate shoes. I think you can see that in the designs and if you skate in them there will be no question that there is no infiltration going on. We have always been here."


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Analysts Chased Diamondback Energy Targets Higher
Sometimes price target hikes just are not enough to keep a rally going after a big news-pop. That may even be the case in the oil and gas sector these days, particularly for the companies which have seen their shares nearly double off of their recent lows. Diamondback Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) saw numerous price targets raised by analysts after their guidance created a big share price gain on Monday. Unfortunately, its shares were trading lower on Tuesday.
Diamondback issued its guidance on Monday. The company showed that its average daily production during the third quarter of 2016 was 44,923 boe/d, which was 73% oil. This was said to be up 22% from the second quarter of 2016.
More importantly, Diamondback increased its 2016 production guidance to a range of 41.0 to 42.0 Mboe/d. This is up 6% from the midpoint of the July guidance range of 38.0 to 40.0 Mboe/d. Diamondback cited continued strong well performance for the increase. The company expects to complete 65 to 70 gross horizontal wells this year.
For 2017, the company's preliminary guidance is 52 to 58 Mboe/d. This would be (at the mid-point) up over 30% from the mid-point of its updated 2016 production guidance. Diamondback further said that it plans to complete 90 to 120 gross wells in 2017.
So, the big question is whether this guidance was really all that much higher. Monday's gain was to $105.21 from a closing price of $94.70 on Friday. Again, Tuesday's post-news analyst coverage did not create any extra buying volume.
Price target hikes were seen by the likes of Canaccord Genuity, UBS, KLR, Raymond James, Nomura and more. These were seen as follows:
- Barclays raised its target price to $108 from $88.
- Canaccord Genuity raised its target price to $116 from $103.
- KLR Group raised its price target to $139 from $126.
- Nomura raised its price target to $110 from $98.
- Northland Capital raised its target price to $114 from $102.
- Raymond James raised its price target to $117 from $104.
- UBS raised its target price to $106 from $98.
- Wunderlich raised its price target to $130 from $110.
Canaccord Genuity's note said about Diamondback:
To put the company's 2017 preliminary guidance in perspective, the new range was not only above previous consensus (48.6 MBoe/d), but nearly surpassed our prior number also which had been one of the highest on the Street (52.3 MBoe/d). The impressive guidance illustrates why Diamondback should continue to be one of the top performers in the Permian. Such growth is made possible by a depth of quality inventory in both the Midland and Delaware Basins, top-tier corporate-level capital efficiency and a sterling balance sheet, all of which help underpin our Buy thesis.
Tuesday's mid-afternoon reaction was down 25-cents at $104.96. it briefly hit a new 52-week of $106.84 before selling off.
Here is what Travis Stice, Diamondback's chief executive officer, said for the higher guidance:
Diamondback's continued strong well performance and increased completion cadence during the third quarter reflects our ability to turn our growth engine back on into a rising commodity price after reducing completion activity in early 2016. We are now operating four rigs with a fifth rig to be added in the coming weeks and a sixth rig to be added early next year.
We have increased 2016 production guidance and introduced 2017 production guidance which shows production growth of more than 30% at the midpoint compared to updated 2016 expectations. Our existing asset base allows us to drive production growth within cash flow into 2017 and beyond at the current forward strip prices. The ability to drive multi-year organic growth, within cash flow on our existing asset base represents the standard we have always sought to achieve. We believe we are ideally positioned to pursue additional transactions provided they drive exceptional shareholder value while maintaining our disciplined approach to acquisitions. As has been rumored, we were engaged in discussions involving an acquisition but are not actively pursuing further negotiations at this time.


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Jason will study the existing buildings and infrastructure to better understand current construction and design practices that have and have not worked in recent years in Garden Hill and Wasagamack. Yet this research cannot begin until he has a broad sense of what problems are occurring on site and also what the general life is like on these reserves.
Through traveling to these communities, the research will gather of a general impression of the community, the environment, and to generally meet the community in a public setting. The outcome of this visit is not being pre-determined, nor are there any private or specific discussions or meetings being planned. He will participate by listening to community discussions in public settings and will not record any of these conversations. He will observe and take part in public events during the trip. He will also photograph and sketch the buildings and community structures to record the existing context of these communities."
This work is in parallel with Jason's thesis, which will collaborate with a Métis Elder on a design proposal for a space that facilitates cultural practice through a process of Kîhokewin. This includes storytelling, dreaming, art, music, language, craft, ceremony, and cultural activities at the historic site of Gabriel Dumont's Crossing along the South Saskatchewan River. The thesis will be an exploration of not only a Métis Vernacular, but an exploration of a contemporary Métis architecture that is grounded in the teachings and wisdom of our Elders. It will braid together the past, present, and future through an Indigenous architectural process that creates a catalyst space to strengthen kinship in the Métis Nation at Gabriel's Crossing, a place that has always been a hub for Métis resistance and culture. "The Métis are a distinct group of Indigenous people that have unique cultural practices, language and building traditions that differ from both their maternal (Indigenous) and paternal (Scottish/French/Engli
This research will explore both historical and contemporary examples of Métis architecture to better understand what is Métis architecture. Other Indigenous cultures in Canada have recognizable vernacular typologies such as the igloo, tipi, longhouse, and wigwam. What then is Métis architecture beyond log cabin nostalgia and pasted visual lexicons? Is there a place for a contemporary Métis architecture in the prairies?
[1] David T. Fortin, and Jason L. Surkan. Towards an Architecture of Métis Resistance. (THE SITE MAGAZINE. June 28, 2017). http://www.thesitemagaz


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Although I didn't think he was the most talented designer on Launch My Line, I did love his personality. This is a press release I received this week:
NYC, NY 5/19/10. Fashion Icon, Celebrity Patrick McDonald is entering the licensing arena. Seeking product lines related to fashion is a natural for this Beau Brummell. He is a perennial front row favorite at New York Fashion week, so much so that he appeared front row in the movie Sex in the City during the fashion show scene. He is a feast for the paparazzi often photographed by Bill Cunningham of The New York Times and countless books and fashion chronicles. He recently competed in Bravo TV's Launch my Line where he was one of last designer contestants to leave.
He is the epitome of Dandyism, "A piquant sumptuousness in attire, a preoccupation with effect, an elegant admission of vanity, distinctly reminiscent to the French court.--Giving meticulous attention to dress."
John Peale Bishop, The Golden Age of the Dandy (1920) -- Vanity Fair (The Viking Press, Inc.) (1960)
Licensing rights for Patrick McDonald - The Dandy will be available through the offices of LA PRESSE PR 1 Penn Plaza 36 Floor New York City, New York 10119.