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ECD Architects and The Westwood Partnership have succeeded in fitting the new home of the Royal Ballet School into the tight urban scale of London's Covent Garden
The Covent Garden area is no architectural set piece. Its distinctiveness lies in the layers of past and present uses: workshop next to dwelling, market next to theatre, adaptation and reuse. Behind many a door, it is not selfevident what you will find - small space, large, single room or gateway to a maze. It is in keeping with this accumulated layering that the Tardis that is the new Royal Ballet School (RBS) upper school has been inserted into Covent Garden. What you get is five large, bright dance studios stacked up, with many support spaces wrapped around them.
What you see is a basement and groundfloor shop let to Zara, one modest ground-floor entrance to the school and undemonstrative facades to the RBS's spaces above, both on Floral Street opposite the Royal Opera House and on Long Acre.
Hanover Place, little more than an alley at about 3-4m wide, also runs down the side of the building, connecting these streets.
This contrast in apparent inside/outside scales is partly about making a fitting architectural treatment on the streets. Partly, it is a product of the deep site (reminiscent of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), another Tardis, refurbished by Avery Associates (AJ 3.5.01), set between Malet Street and Gower Street). Partly, too, it reflects the development package needed to make this project viable.
The project arose following the decision of the Royal Ballet to move in 1999 from Baron's Court to space in the upper floors of the Royal Opera House. The RBS was then in two locations - the lower school at White Lodge in Regent's Park, where it remains, while the upper school (A-level years) had been sharing the Baron's Court premises with the Royal Ballet, its students taking both inspiration and aspiration from the Royal Ballet's presence. The search was on to bring them close together again. Hardly a closer site could have been found, the two now reunited symbolically and functionally by Wilkinson Eyre's bridge over Floral Street, called the Bridge of Aspiration.
In conjunction with the Opera House, the RBS was able to buy a 150-year lease for the upper floors of a proposed development that was part of the old Royal Opera House site. The site was purchased by the National Farmers' Union Mutual (NFUM), with detailed planning consent in place for a ballet school to designs by Feilden & Mawson.
The NFUM was to create the shell and lease the space to the RBS, with the school responsible for the fit-out. The project was funded by the DfES and substantially by private supporters of the RBS.
The original planning consent was not appropriate for all the needs of the RBS or the NFUM, so new planning and listed building consents were applied for. However, some aspects of this original consent remained, notably the overall massing and related rights to light agreements, which added difficulty to packing the required spaces into the available volume, particularly the studios, which were too shallow in the original consent.
The NFUM procured the shell by Design & Build, using Salmon Developments as project manager, with ECD Architects appointed as executive architect to the NFUM. ECD has worked for Salmon for about 10 years. The Westwood Partnership, which has worked on various small projects for the RBS since 1955, was appointed to act as architect for the fit-out under a traditional JCT contract. This sounds as though ECD and Westwood worked in series; in practice, they worked much more in parallel. It is not possible to create a neutral shell for subsequent fitting out for an organisation like the RBS, which has such a particular set of spatial requirements.
The heart of the school is the teaching studios - one 21x15m, two 15x15m and two 15x13m (plus a 37m 2small group practice room). The largest studio (Linden), on the first floor, also has bleacher seating for 180 and the adjacent studio (de Valois) can then double as an audience gathering area. For this use, these two studios are 4.6m high rather then the 3.7m for studios higher up the building.
Also included in the spatial mix are the entrance foyer, changing areas, five classrooms, student common room, gym, physiotherapy and fitness rooms, and admin and teaching staff spaces.
Studios require structures deep enough for the long spans, which limit deflections and control potential harmonic resonance from dancing in unison (see 'Structure', above). Effectively, studios are doubleheight volumes; other spaces warp around them on single levels of varying height. The studios are in two stacks, one fronting on to Floral Street, and one stack in the heart of the building but with access to significant daylight to the west, where there is a lightwell and set-back in neighbouring buildings.
The result is a set of studios that have palpable daylighting and outdoor contact, though artificial light is used, too. They feel light, bright and contemporary - a huge contrast to the previous premises.
This shifting of floor levels and wrapping of spaces is given legibility particularly by the orientation device of the entrance foyer.While the RBS has only a narrow ground-floor entry on Floral Street (minimising the loss of lettable retail space), you have arrived when you climb to the first floor, with its two-storey foyer.
Here, there are views through into the adjacent studios; it is part of students' education to be permanently on show (as at the Laban Centre). There is space to stand and stare. A two-storey foyer window on to Hanover Place also helps with orientation (though the view is restricted by the Place's narrowness). And from here, the principal staircase - floating, opentread, inset from the side walls, skylit at the top - rises through the building.
The designers have used up pretty much their whole fire-spread Building Regulations ration of glazing in the foyer window. Other, symmetrically-placed, apparent openings on Hanover Place are, in fact, solid walls faced in back-lit obscured glass. There are a few small opening horizontal slit windows.
Behind this largely opaque wall are spaces that need windows least, such as changing rooms and visitor WCs. These are mechanically ventilated. All studios are air-conditioned from a stack of plant spaces at each level, simplifying air supply and return in horizontal ducts to studio ceilings. The plant, of course, has to meet stringent sound attenuation requirements.
Other acoustic considerations include sound leakage into and between studios and to/from the retail space below the school.
Materials are limited in range and sharply detailed. Studios have special cushioned vinyl on sprung floors and folded platemetal ceilings for air handling, lighting and some of the acoustic control.Walls have mirrors or timber linings (hiding student bag storage and AV equipment), or are plastered here, and elsewhere in the building, painted off-white. Ironmongery and balustrading are stainless steel. Carpet is used widely, in light burgundy, an RBS colour. Joinery is of oak, including framed glazed screens to the sides of studios and oak cladding to the lift shaft that rises alongside the principal staircase. This oak continues from its use as window framing externally, though that continuity is not very apparent, with the untreated external timber now a light sandybrown weathering to grey. Lighting is bright throughout, appropriate in studios, feeling a bit showbiz-glitzy or harsh in other parts (depending on your mood), as if you are always on stage.
If the main challenge of the interior has been the integration of varied spaces, always seeking legibility of organisation and contact with the exterior, the challenge of the outside has been in responding to the varied contexts. The site itself brings its own complications. To the east, on Floral Street, it includes the Surveyor's House of about 1800, refurbished by Westwood for RBS staff. (There is now a planning application to break through from the Surveyor's House into the main RBS building at each level adjacent to the lift. ) In the opposite corner of the site, the listed 51-52 Long Acre has been refurbished for letting by ECD. The basement and ground floor are taken for retail use by Zara. The upper floors are to be fitted out for residential use.
External treatment varies from elevation to elevation.On Floral Street, above the stone surrounds of the retail space, large boxframed windows set in brick reflect the scale of the studios within. Planners were keen for this facade to be broken up, as is much of this side of the street, though the Opera House opposite is one massive sweep of rendered wall. So at the entrance, the rhythm changes from brick to a bay of vertical limestone and glass, which drops in height to that of the adjacent Surveyor's House. The entrance is also marked by a 4m-high steel and glass banner, its etched motifs drawing on the Benesh Dance Notation. Artwork, by Julian Stocks, was part of the planning permission.
The rest of it is on Hanover Place, as small glass panels dividing the ground-floor glass boxes publicising the RBS.
The pattern of large opening plus pseudo-openings above gives pace to this long wall, though it feels a rather large-scale, sweeping gesture for so tight a space.
The stone ground-floor framing continues here and on to Long Acre as far as the listed Nos 51-51, which are white-painted brick.
The new build contains single-storey uses - offices, student common room, fitness-related rooms - and its windows, within the same brick as Floral Street, echo the pattern of sashes along the street. It is here that the set-back top floor is most evident, a metal and glass contrast to the adjacent older mansards.
In its compression, this building is in the tradition of the Covent Garden area, reinterpreted. In its explosion of bright open spaces within, it confounds expectations.
The client is impressed, too. And the students won't go home.
Jody Pearce, Waterman Partnership
The key to the success of this building was the ability to incorporate threedimensionally all the separate, specific areas into the available space in a way that made it user-friendly and natural. This required a structure that was subservient to the space-planning needs, not some regular structural grid, resulting in the use of different forms of steel construction and a variety of split slab levels.
The superstructure was formed using a steel-frame consisting of Slimdek floors in general administration areas, due to limited headroom, and long-span deep composite universal beams in the dance studios to give clear open areas and appropriate clearances. The beams incorporated web penetrations for service runs, to enable optimum control of the environmental conditions in each studio.
Design checks were made for the longspan beams, comparing footfall responses, to ensure that vibration and movement amplitudes were not detrimental to the use of the dance studios. The risk was harmonic resonance caused by the highly regulated impact of the ballet dancers to music.
Due to the site's proximity to the perimeter of 'Lundenwic' (Saxon London), a period of archaeological investigation was provided before construction began, leading to the retention of a dumpling of soil, central in the site, to preserve artefacts in-situ. Piles could not readily be put through this zone.
The westbound tunnel of the Piccadilly underground line runs very close to the northern boundary of the building and technical approvals were gained from London Underground Limited for new mini piles. These minimised the foundations' potential impact, and also addressed the constraints on site access and working conditions.
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The analysis is based on the tender sum for the gross internal area
SUBSTRUCTURE FOUNDATIONS/SLABS £196.47/m2 Excavation of basement to retail, substation and plant areas. Installation of mini- and large-diameter piling.
Underpinning existing structure. Formation of new reinforced concrete basement slab and retaining walls
SUPERSTRUCTURE FRAME £139.54/m2 Structural steelwork from basement to underside of roof
UPPER FLOORS £27.62/m2 Reinforced concrete and metal decking to upper floors
ROOF, ROOFLIGHTS £58.00/m2 Sloping zinc coverings on a steelwork sub-frame, single-layer membrane flat roofs on a concrete base; incorporating a number of glazed rooflights
STAIRCASES £29.51/m2 Galvanised steel staircases with screed-filled treads and precast stairs
EXTERNAL WALLS £185.28/m2 External envelope consisting of limestone and ceramic tile elements to the ground floor, with a mixture of brick and acrylic render-faced walls to the upper levels
WINDOWS £2.31/m2 Windows and curtain walling to all facades: windows generally composite fixed-glazed steel and timber units; curtain walling generally Schuco anodised double-glazed aluminium systems
EXTERNAL DOORS £0.21/m2 Automatic glass sliding doors to main entrance
INTERNAL WALLS AND PARTITIONS £15.91/m2 Generally blockwork; however, some walls precast concrete sandwich panels within in situ concrete infill
INTERNAL DOORS £1.45/m2 Steel doors for four hours (self-closing) and one-hour (self closing); enamelled finish
SHELL AND CORE TENDER DATE 1 February 2001
START ON SITE 17 February 2001
CONTRACT DURATION 56 weeks
GROSS EXTERNAL FLOOR AREA 4907m2
CONTRACT JCT with Contractor's Design
CLIENT NFU Mutual
PROJECT MANAGER Salmon Developments
ARCHITECT ECD Architects
QUANTITY SURVEYOR Gardiner & Theobald
STRUCTURALENGINEER Waterman Partnership
PARTY WALL SURVEYOR, PLANNING SUPERVISOR PSK Prout Tilbrook
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT Hann Tucker Associates
MAIN CONTRACTOR Dove Brothers
SUBCONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS BrickworkWilliamson Cliff, Swift Brickwork; blockwork Celcon, Swift Brickwork; acrylic render Sto, Renocon; zinc roofing, cladding Rheinzink, Carlton; masonry support Ancon; aluminium curtain walling and windows, oak windows Schuco, Formes Alutek; illuminated panels Sign Systems, Formes Alutek; limestone cladding Marble Arch; flat roofing Permaquik, Coverite; louvres Kingfisher Louvre Systems; cleaning access systems Tractel; structural steel Bone Steel; secondary steel Fussey Engineering; piling Fondedile; tanking Volclay; steel staircases Southdown Construction;
precast stairs, floors Creagh
TENDER DATE Fourth quarter 2001
START ON SITE June 2002
CONTRACT DURATION 26 weeks
GROSS INTERNAL AREA 3,385m2
CONTRACT JCT Private with Quantities; adapted by JCT Contractor's Designed Portion Supplement TOTAL COST £2,804,090
CLIENT The Royal Ballet School
ARCHITECT The Westwood Partnership
QUANTITY SURVEYOR EC Harris
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Waterman Partnership
SERVICES ENGINEER GDM Partnership
ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT Hann Tucker Associates
PLANNING SUPERVISOR PSK Prout Tilbrook
AV CONSULTANT Theatrep Planning and Technology
MAIN CONTRACTOR Benson
SUBCONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS Lift Kone; M&E installation Avon; specialist joinery Key Joinery; retractable seating Auditoria Services; dry lining, ceilings British Gypsum, Specialist Ceiling Services; metal ceilings SAS International; performance equipment AJS Theatre Lighting; architectural steelwork NcNealy Brown; ironmongery Allgood; carpet Desso/Essco; dance floor Dansflor (Tarkett); display cases Interior Configurations; aluminium entrance screen Specialist Cladding Services; signage HB Sign Co; lockers Helmsman; curtains, blinds Ravenswood; shower pods Taplane; classroom, office furniture Trac; tutu stands Alpha
CLIENT The Royal Ballet School
ARCHITECT Wilkinson Eyre Architects
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Flint & Neill Partnership
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER Buro Happold
LIGHTING CONSULTANT Spiers & Major Associates
QUANTITY SURVEYOR EC Harris
MAIN CONTRACTOR Benson
BRIDGE SUBCONTRACTOR GIG Fassadenbau
Benson www. benson. co. uk Buro Happold www. burohappold. com Dove brothers www. laingorourke. co. uk ECD Architects www. ecdarchitects. co. uk EC Harris www. echarris. com Flint & Neill Partnership www. flintneill. co. uk Gardiner & Theobald www. gardiner. com GDM Partnership www. gdmpartnership. com GIG Fassadenbau www. gig. at Hann Tucker Associates www. hanntucker. co. uk NFU Mutual www. nfumutual. co. uk PSK Prout Tilbrook www. prout-tilbrook. co. uk Salmon Developments www. salmondevelopments. com Speirs & Major Associates www. lightarch. com Theatre Planning and Technology www. theatreplan. net The Royal Ballet School www. royal-ballet-school. org. uk Waterman Partnership www. waterman-group. co. uk Wilkinson Eyre Architects www. wilkinsoneyre. com
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I have yet to make as much holiday progress at home as I'd like (still stuck between two), but instead of rushing, forcing, stressing I decided to move things along by visiting Andrew's wonderful friend Nisha at her little flower studio Fleurish on the Hill. If you've ever visited the Stumptown Cafe on 12th she does the big and beautiful arrangements that you see when you walk in. I always admire her work, so I was really excited to bring something home for the holidays.
All I knew is that I wanted something holiday-ish and branchy to fit into my giant Lenox vase and in just a few days I had this gorgeousness to set the holiday mood. Oh, how it smells of Christmas! There are so many great things tucked away inside but I am suddenly so fascinated by those eucalyptus pods hanging over the edge.
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
Whether of not we find what we are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.
Is idle, biologically speaking.
Lewis wrote a charming satirical poem on social Darwinism, but about Darwinism itself he evidently understood nothing. In another place (I forget where) he argues that since male sexual potency & desire are far in excess of the actual need for impregnating women, they must have been inflamed by Satan at the time of the Fall.


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3 Scriptures to Pray for Self Control
"Mommy," my daughter said casually. "I bit my finger today."
"Oh no! What happened?"
"I was biting a Cheeto, and well… I just kept on biting it!" She said as if it was a very normal thing to say.
Followed by more laughter.
This is a hilariously true story and a word for word conversation held with my middle daughter.
She stood in front of me with a band-aid wrapped around her pointer finger and explained the details of her recent Cheeto eating adventure.
Kaity and I have something in common, we love food. Not just for survival purposes but for the enjoyment. We tend to savor Every. Single. Bite.
Often at dinner, my husband and three other girls will beg Kaity to stop picking tiny pieces off of her muffin or drum stick and to just "take a bite!"
It is rather interesting to watch how long she can make a biscuit linger.
Bite by bite she is determined to enjoy every single morsel.
And then, she bit herself. Her own finger, she nibbled and nibbled on something delicious until it no longer existed…and the humor is she was so enthralled with her enjoyment that she did not even realize it was gone.
Humorous indeed.
Or is it?
I'm sure if you and I were to sit and think long enough, we'd agree that we have been there…may even be there.
One last bite.
Just one more laugh.
Just one more pair of shoes.
Just one more donut.
One. more. word.
It feels so good, doesn't it? Until we feel the pain.
I'm not sure about you, but I have certainly bitten myself a few times. My friendships, my wallet…my tongue.
Bite. By. Bite. I've gone too far. Took things over the edge by just nibbling.
The beauty of self-control is knowing when you've reached the end– of a good thing.
Yes, savor the moment but when enough is enough sometimes we just need to stop.
Kaity, with her vanished Cheeto and wounded finger may not realize it just yet, but knowing when to stop is a critical discipline.
One of the most overlooked "Fruits of the Spirit" is self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,[a] 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. We all lack it in one or more areas in our life.
Here are 3 Scriptures to guide our hearts towards God's truth.
Seek The Lord today, that he might grow you in your love for Him, others, and yourself.
Titus 2:11-12
11 For the grace of God has appeared with salvation for all people, 12 instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,
2 Peter 1:5-9
5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Wynter Pitts, For Girls Like You
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The Trump administration's scrutiny of international medical graduates who have already been accepted into U.S. residency programs has led to delays of visas for doctors-in-training, several national doctor groups say.
Most residency programs begin in the next month, so delaying medical resident visas has immediate repercussions . Nearly 4,000 international medical graduates have already been accepted to U.S. residency programs, but the U.S. Department of Labor has slowed processing of H-1B visas, citing the lack of wage data, the doctor groups say.
"Delays or denials of H-1B visas for non-citizen international medical graduates can have a serious downstream impact on patients' access to care in both the immediate and near future," American Academy of Family Physicians president Dr. Michael Munger said. "Community health centers, federally qualified health centers and teaching hospitals rely on medical residents to provide care to thousands of patients each year."
The doctor groups question whether the data request is an excuse to merely deny visas, considering the labor department has long used "resident stipend data" from the Association of American Medical Colleges. If the visas aren't approved soon, patients will face treatment delays and gaps in care given a lack of medical care providers, particularly in rural and urban areas. It's not uncommon for one medical resident to see 3,000 or more patients , doctor groups say.
" Approximately one quarter of non-U.S. (international medical graduates) training in the U.S. do so on H-1B visas ," the medical groups wrote in a letter to L. Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The groups signing the letter, dated May 30, are the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association and the Council of Academic Family Medicine.
The U.S. Department of Labor provided no comment on the doctor group's letter when offered the opportunity.
For its part, the Association of American Medical Colleges said its Resident/Fellow Stipend Survey has historically "been a reliable source for H-1B prevailing wage determination in the absence of federal data on medical residents and fellows."
"The unannounced increased scrutiny of prevailing wage as residents and fellows seek to start training in July is unnecessarily causing uncertainty in the H-1B visa application process," AAMC executive vice president Dr. Atul Grover said. "These delays are costly, disrupt the entire training program, and jeopardize care for thousands of patients."
The AAMC has already warned that the nation's doctor shortage could reach up to 120,000 physicians "across a number of disciplines by 2030." This year, " 3,962 non-citizen international medical graduates have accepted residency positions in all medical specialties ," AAFP 's Munger said.
"These physicians are very important to our health care workforce," AAFP's Munger said. "Without a quick remedy, a policy of delaying or denying visas for continued medical training will contribute to a longer-term shortage of physicians."


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KBA North America and Unimac Graphics Sign Major Deal at Graph Expo
Monday, October 18, 2004
Press release from the issuing companyKBA North America, a leading sheetfed offset press manufacturer based in Williston, Vt., and Unimac Graphics, a leading commercial printer located in Carlstadt, NJ, have announced an agreement today in which Unimac will purchase two new KBA presses: a KBA Rapida 142 56-inch eight-color plus coater and perfector large-format sheetfed press as well as a KBA Rapida 105 41-inch eight-color perfector with tower coater. This will be Unimac's third and fourth KBA presses. "After visiting the KBA booth at Drupa and seeing their presentation, we decided that we wanted to take another step forward and partner with KBA once again," says George Amann, Unimac's present. "We feel that the KBA Rapida 142 56-inch is a perfect fit for our company and will allow us to continue to serve our customers. It is a press filled with the latest automation and will give our company the ability to provide faster throughput and increased productivity to our customers." Unimac Graphics is no stranger to the benefits of utilizing KBA presses. In 1999, the firm installed a 64-inch six-color KBA Rapida 162A sheetfed perfector with in-line UV coater. Three years later, the firm installed a six-color KBA Compacta 215 16-page heatset web offset press, the first such KBA web press to be installed in the United States. It came online in February of 2003. It is producing book covers, direct mail, posters, publications and pharmaceutical materials to go with its roster of traditional products such as financial printing, point-of-purchase retail and high-end corporate communications. Currently, the company generates $63 million in annual sales backed by an employee work force of 225. Unimac boasts 146,000 square feet of manufacturing space at its Carlstadt, NJ campus, which has served as the company's home since September of 1999. Created by the combination of Union Graphics and MacNaughton Einson Graphics, Unimac Graphics has over 100 years of experience and reliability. The firm offers "one stop shopping" for the vast majority of printing projects including but not limited to: outdoor advertising, point of purchase displays, in-store signing, direct mail components, pharmaceutical and healthcare inserts and collateral material, catalogs, booklets, pads, brochures and hang tags. "KBA is proud to be a long-standing partner with Unimac Graphics and its customers," says Ralf Sammeck, president and CEO of KBA North America. "Over the years, both our sheetfed and web presses have helped Unimac to be a leader in its field. Our new Rapida 142 sheetfed press will add to their success."
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LaToya Egwuekwe-Smith was appointed Communications Representative on January 1, 2016. Egwuekwe-Smith is assigned to the Midwest Territory office in Joliet, IL.
Egwuekwe-Smith initiated into the IAM in 2008 as a Communications Representative at IAM Headquarters. Born and raised in the Chicago area, she has nearly 15 years' experience in communications and journalism.
Prior to joining the labor movement, Egwuekwe-Smith worked as a political television news reporter/anchor for The Florida Channel in Tallahassee, FL, and as a television news producer for WEWS-TV in Cleveland, OH.
She is the creator of "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession" – an animated map that shows the progression of U.S. unemployment from January 2007 to February 2011. Her work has been featured on CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, BoingBoing and hundreds of blogs, local newspapers and television outlets around the world.
Egwuekwe-Smith is the founder of Hire Ground, a Chicago-based nonprofit focused on helping the long-term unemployed get back to work. She served as a board member for the Union of Unemployed (UCubed), a nonprofit organization born under the helm of the IAM. She is a former Vice President of the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) Executive Council. Egwuekwe-Smith was also a 2014 Fellow of the Washington, DC chapter of a growing group of next generation progressive leaders known as the New Leaders Council.
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At Utah Valley Dental Lab, we value our clients as our greatest resource. Read these client testimonials and see what Utah Valley Dental Lab can do for you and your practice! To see more client testimonials, please contact us or visit our Twitter page.
Dr. Edward Shukovsky, DMD
If you are looking for a great lab this is it! Utah Valley Dental Lab has been my lab for nearly a decade and I have no qualms about telling you that you will not be disappointed. I originally came to know UVDL through a series of courses given by David Hornbrook. The introduction was doing full mouth reconstructions but what I have found is that UVDL is excellent for all my dental needs. Inlays, onlays, single crowns, implants, bridges, quadrant dentistry and full mouth reconstructions. I have found they give me the same level of care throughout the restorative/cosmetic spectrum. I will tell you that UVDL is as much a part of my office as any team member. I get to appreciate their fine work every single day. They are family. Thank you UVDL!
Dr. Lon McRae, DMD
"I started my dental practice from scratch–no patients, just a hope and a dream. Now after 11 years we have 2 practices averaging in the top 2% in the nation. Without question, partnering with UVDL is a primary reason for our success. I truly believe they are the best dental lab in the country. Every month, at least 2 or 3 local labs make sales calls to show us their discounted lab work. During uncertain economic times, it's tempting to consider using a "cheaper" lab. However, UVDL's quality, expertise, and consistency makes thoughts of finding a new lab disappear. As a practice, we strive for uncompromising excellence and that is what I get every time from UVDL. I love that UVDL is a full-service laboratory. I get great results whether I send Smile Design cases, posterior work, implants, or removable prosthetics. Regardless of the product, UVDL delivers consistent, predictable results. Thanks UVDL for making me look good every time!"
Dr. Joseph Harris, DDS
"I have had the opportunity over the past 15 years to work with some of the finest labs in the country. During that time, I watched the evolution of Utah Valley Dental Lab from a good lab to the lab I wanted to do my work exclusively. The management of the lab has been the key, with a dedication to exceptional work and fairness to all. I know the respect given to the technicians to be exceptional. Training is constant and at the highest level. Relationship between the lab and client doctors is one of respect on both sides, due to the credibility of UVDL and the quality of doctors who trust them with their cases. I have personal relationship with a number of the finest labs and none of them exceed UVDL."
Dr. Greg Pyle, DDS
"After using several labs over my 15 + years of dentistry, The Hornbrook Group hooked me up with Utah Valley Dental Lab. I must say the work done for that initial case completely blew me away! The eye for detail was incredible. I decided at that point that I would never use another lab. The ceramists at Utah Valley deliver work that rarely requires any changes! The bottom line is this: Thanks to Utah Valley, I've become a dentist that I only used to dream about being! Thank you!"
Dr. Gary Michaelson, DMD
"I have worked with numerous labs over the past 23 years. For the past 9 I've been with only one! This lab is amazing. Their craftsmanship, attention to detail, and service is outstanding. They're always there when I need them, never a wait on the phone, and ready to offer suggestions or solutions. I don't know where I'd be without them."
Dr. Chris Hammond, DMD
"The LEAST stressful thing I do each day is seat my cases. We consider the team at UVDL to be partners in our practice. I never realized that lab work could be so beautiful, accurate, and predictable. We're spoiled... and we love it. THANKS Utah Valley!"
Dr. Bob Maher, DDS
"Utah Valley Dental Lab's extremely high level of knowledge of occlusal principals in conjunction with esthetic artistry sets them apart from the rest of the industry. They successfully combine the concept of cutting edge high technology with the personal touch. I use them personally and for all my clinical mentoring programs."
Debra Gray King, DDS, FAACD
"We love Utah Valley and its ceramists. They are very skilled artists who sculpt teeth in a way that fits each individual patient. Utah Valley ceramists are awesome at making teeth look natural and beautiful. It's amazing how great each case turns out!"
Dr. David F. Hornbrook, DDS, FAACD, International Educator and Author
"I have worked with Utah Valley Dental Lab for close to 10 years and they are truly a welcome addition to helping me achieve the desired aesthetics and function I need to provide my patients the quality care they deserve. They have been an instrumental part of the many live-patient continuums I have taught in both aesthetics and occlusion and they participation has benefitted so many doctors and their patients with the incredibly beautiful and functional smiles they have provided. I would highly recommend them for any restorative needs a clinician would encounter, including removable and implant supported prosthesis."
Dr. Edward Shukovsky, DDS
"Thirty years of dental practice has taught me many things, one being that you are only as good as your ceramist. Utah Valley Dental Lab has made me a better dentist with their artistic and functional restorations. Combine this with impeccable customer service and you have a winning combination!"
Dr. Daniel Aneszko, DDS
"I've been using UVDL for 5 years now, and their quality of work has ALWAYS been consistent, and timely. That's not all… Their customer service and communication is superior to any lab I've ever worked with, and they are ALWAYS on the forefront of the latest and greatest materials and techniques. I've actually used some of their marketing ideas in my own office. They're not just my dental lab, they are my dental partner! Thanks UVDL, and keep up the great work!"


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All you need to do it comment with why you need the Lightscoop.
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Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
With Audacity one can record live audio, convert tapes and records into
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Lemon and Honey Cupcake, Powdered Green Tea and Milk Cupcake -SALLY'S CUP CAKE in Sapporo-
May 2nd, 2014
Sally's Cup Cake (サリーズカップケーキ) is a specialty store in cupcake near Maruyama Park (円山公園) in Sapporo city and was founded in 2013. This is a small store, but store concept is "Kawaii" and it is full of fairy-tale world.
When I visited here, cupcakes (カップケーキ) and icing cookies (アイシングクッキー) were displayed at the store. Because only cupcakes were about 15 kinds, I wondered what I should get. After asking a waitress about cupcakes's recommendation, she replied "Seasonal Cherry Blossom Cupcake (チェリーブロッサム) or Lemon and Honey Cupcake (レモンアンドハニー), or Powdered Green Tea and Milk Cupcake (抹茶ミルク)". Therefore I ordered the Lemon and Honey Cupcake and the Powdered Green Tea and Milk Cupcake. The prices were JPY 360 and JPY 380.
As for the Lemon and Honey Cupcake, the cupcake with honey was topped with designed lemon cream. On the other hand, as for the Powdered Green Tea and Milk Cupcake, the cupcake with adzuki bean and powdered green tea was topped with designed milk butter. Both appearances were beautiful, too. Cream was rich taste when I ate those. The cream was used 100% Calpis butter that is said to be rare butter (when 30 bottles calpico were produced, the cream can extract only 1 pound). I was surprised at creamy and rich taste.
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It is an illustration presenting the height of creativity by the artist. This illustration describes the artistic mind and it really shows that you really don't lose anything while flying into the air. This is something crazy dreaming and only an artist can have such a fantastic imagination. This author really thinks out of the box and we can expect anything from such a marvelous mind. This art has a lot to make children even adults curious. These illustrations can be used to bring more fun and creativity for the children.
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- One Fish Two Fish-- This store has an excellent selection of jewelry, accessories, gifts, and clothing. Their furniture is also amazing.
- Palm Avenue-- This is Savannah's Lilly Pulitzer signature store. They also carry Jack Rogers and Trina Turk.
- The Paris Market-- This store has antiques from around the world and a trendy parisian cafe that sells macarons and lattes.
- Trunk 13 Boutique-- This trendy boutique has cute, summery dresses at affordable prices. Their accessories are also very cute!
- The Men's Store-- The Men's Store carries Vineyard Vines, Collared greens, Southern Tide, Southern Marsh, Fraternity Collection, and more.
- Fab'rik-- Fab'rik has adorable clothing that is affordable (all items are under $100 besides their denim).
- Other Stores: Kate Spade, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Marc Jacobs
What to do:
- Visit Fort Pulaski
- Go to the SCAD Museum
- Take a stroll through Forsyth Park
- Get drunk on River Street
- Attend the St. Patrick's Day parade
- Go on a hearse ghost tour
- Go on a Savannah slow ride tour (info here)
- Go to the Telfair Museum
- Visit Wormsloe Plantation
- Take a day trip to Hilton Head Island, SC and hit the beach (it's nicer than Tybee)
- Take a stroll down Broughton Street (you'll get most of your shopping done here)
What to eat:
- Zunzi's-- excellent sandwiches and salads
- Lulu's Chocolate Bar-- delicious desserts and alcoholic beverages
- Vinnie Van Go Go's-- the best pizza in town
- The Olde Pink House-- this haunted building serves up southern american cuisine, but it's pricey
- Mrs. Wilke's-- the much, much better alternative to Paula Deen's restaurant
- SOHO South Cafe-- serves delicious brunch and lunch in an artsy/very fun atmosphere
- J. Christopher's-- the damn best breakfast in town (their belgian waffles are a must)
- Crystal Beer Parlor-- this place serves excellent pub food in a spectacular atmosphere
- Leopold's-- they most definitely have the best ice cream in Savannah
This only scratches the surface of what Savannah has to offer, but it's a good start if you've never been to the area. If you have any questions or want more recommendations, contact me and I'll be glad to help you out!


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ME6206 - Special topics in Buddhist studies I: Buddhist Psychotherapy for Buddhist Studies
2nd Semester, Academic Year 2012/2013 (December 2012 - March 2013)
The Visudhimagga written by Ven. Buddhaghosa could be recognized as the Manual of Theravāda Buddhist Psychology due to its salient psychological theories discussed therein. Psychotherapeutic strategies revealed by commentator Buddhaghosa are centered on three fold training (morality, concentration, and wisdom). This Threefold training elaborated in Visuddhimagga, in terms of sattavisuddhi (sevenfold purification), tries to transform three aspects of the individual as a therapeutic means. And on the other hand, various psychotherapeutic strategies advocated by the commentary show us various significances that are so relevant to this modern world.
Why are translations of philosophical texts so often misleading or even downright - Tom Tillemans
On December 13, 2008, Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute hosted its 6th Annual Symposium on Buddhist Studies. This year the title of the Symposium was "Buddhism Translated: Language, Transmission and Transformation". Dr. Tom Tillemans (University of Lausanne): "Why are translations of philosophical texts so often misleading or even downright incomprehensible?"
MC6205 - 阿毗达磨宗派理论概观 (Ven. Dr. Yuan Liu)
1st Semester, Academic Year 2012/2013 (July 09- November 10, 2012)
Ven. Dr. Yuan Liu 释源流 法师 博士
阿毗达磨佛教时期对于从整体上正确认识印度佛教的发展具有重要意义。从根本上讲,这正是佛教首次涉及"哲学化"的时期。传统上公认的阿毗达磨学派/部派一 共有十八个,它们有时也被视为小乘部派。这门课程首先略述这些学派的历史演变,强调那些导致不同部派分裂的教义上的争论。接着将概论北传中一些更为重要的 部派的根本教义,特别是说一切有部、经量部、大众部和正量部。


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I had to search my own blog to see when the last time I mentioned anything about crochet was. I proclaimed to have "a new obsession" on july 15, 2011 to be exact. I do love bold proclamations! so I may have been totally off then, but that was almost five years ago. I won't make any wild claims this time, but this may be the year I finally have my dream crochet blanket. maybe even two!
I totally just jinxed myself right? but aren't all those colors pretty? I grabbed almost all of the dk yarn in my stash (mostly hedgehog fibres merino dk, koigu kersti, and some plucky knitter cozy) and dropped it all in a basket that I decreed the "blanket basket" (goals people. goals), but kept procrastinating on the briochevron blanket I wanted to start. I think the idea of figuring out a color scheme seemed too daunting and I didn't have enough of any one color to use as the mc while using my scraps as the ccs. so I stalled it. until I saw a photo of a crochet square that I became obsessed with. I've been making a center circle here and there every day this week. I think when I reach between 15 and 20 circles I'll start joining the squares so I can see some blanket progress with my first row. I'm thinking of slowly picking up skeins of a mostly white speckled yarns for the outside/joining rounds.
and if I don't get to that magic number then I guess I just made myself a lot of coasters.
if you follow me on instagram, then you know the dk blanket wasn't my first crochet project. something got in me that told me to start a sock yarn scrap blanket. it must be all the 'cozy memories' blankets I kept seeing in my feed and on podcasts. the idea of little mitered squares didn't appeal to me though and I don't remember right now why I didn't cast on for the barn raising quilt. I may still since these little granny squares don't really take up much yarn. I'll be honest, I'm not that into this blanket. probably because I have no idea what I'm going to join all these squares with or maybe because all the juicy colors of the dk blanket are so distracting and call out to me.
it has been fun seeing how self striping and self patterning yarns behave in crochet. the two on the right are some regia from the arne and carlos line and the poste yarn I posted a picture of last time. looking at that one right now is making me try again and get only the black in the center. so maybe I am having fun with this project.


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the theological turn in youth ministry; a review/
Over the last ten years youth ministry has been gaining in street credibility among those in professional ministry. There is finally a critical mass of people who see youth ministry as a legitimate ministry calling, deserving of a proper education, salary, and in some cases even a pension.
Seminaries like Fuller have had a long tradition of elevating student ministry and seeking to educate those people who have chosen to pour their lives into adolescents. Their youth ministry blog is one of my favorite, thoughtful resources.
Because of the hard work by many before us, we are now in a time of legitimate writing and education for those of us in youth ministry. Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean are on the forefront of this theological discussion around the context and practice of youth ministry. And this is exactly the topic they address in their recent book, The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.
This book is not for the faint at heart or the casual reader. Root and Dean have put together a seminary-level textbook on practical theology, and approaching it as anything less would leave the reader in the dust. So if you are ready to go swimming in the deep end, pour yourself some coffee, find a nice quiet place that inspires learning, (like a library), and jump in!
Worth The Read:
The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry is the best deal on the internet. If you were to take this class at Princeton Seminary it would cost well over $1000, yet this book can be yours on amazon.com for $11.02. Seriously, that is the cheapest street cred ever for your library. But more than just a great deal, it is a thick book, deserving a thoughtful reading; it's compelling, challenging, and sometimes even frustrating.
Root and Dean did not back off one bit from their theological lexicon of $10,000 words. I had to dust off some books from my seminary days and bookmark wikipedia just too keep my head above water. While the terminology in this book could be a turn-off for many practitioners of youth ministry, wrestling with this subject and this format is important for us to do.
Many youth workers want all the upside of the rising professionalism associated with youth ministry. But this professionalism isn't just bestowed on people, it's earned when youth workers behave like professionals, and take their education and theological training seriously. Wrestling through this book is the sort of work that educates us, expands our worldview, deepens our theology, and equips us to do our jobs with more purpose.
Many youth workers have an amazing gift of intuition. In their guts they "know" students and understand their felt needs. Their passion for Jesus and their ability to connect allows them to go quite far. But for the long haul, youth workers must have a theological worldview and understanding that informs their decisions, their choices, their conversations, and their programs.
This book gives the theological underpinnings for what many of us do in youth ministry intuitively. By giving it theological language we now enter into a conversation that is deep and enriching. Even while struggling with the vocabulary, I was encouraged by the larger story of the gospel and the vital place student ministry has within it.
It is such a gift to have theological language to address many of the felt needs in student ministry. Dean's chapter on identity, and the fear adolescents have of disappearing, provides a completely new window into the lives of my students, along with tools to address that fear through a broader picture of the Gospel. Dean also writes a chapter on the theological significance of summer camps that is one of the best, most useful and instructive chapters of the entire book.
Root and Dean set out to place student ministry firmly in the stream of practical theology, and they accomplish this goal. Student ministry is the very definition of practical theology, and if we are going to do our jobs better then we must understand how theology shapes our ministry.
We Are Already Impressed:
While I enjoyed reading this book and was challenged intellectually and spiritually, I realized that most of my positive response to this book was because I wanted to be able to respond positively. Root and Dean are two of the leading theological voices in student ministry and are single-handedly elevating the conversation. It is because of their work that student ministry is gaining credibility in seminary circles and elevating the calling of those who work with students. I wanted to be on this side of the discussion.
But as I have reflected on the book over the weekend, there were a couple of issues that kept coming to the surface for me.
One is that there were too many big words. I know I have self-deprectated my way through most of my life and most of this blog, but the truth is that I am not dumb, and this book made me feel like I am. I understand many of the issues and topics that are being raised, but the language used is over the top. I know that the vocabulary terms in this book are staples in the seminary community, but they have zero touch points in the world of practical ministry.
I understand the need to elevate the conversation and to educate youth ministry leaders, but it felt a little like youth workers are either chubby bunny experts who thrive on the four spiritual laws, or those ready for some meaty discussion. But the truth is, no one uses the terminology used in this book. Not senior pastors, not adults in church, not those ready for meaty discussions--nobody.
Every chapter is chock-full of deep, deep theology and philosophy. It's too bad, but much of what's discussed will be left on the page, because there is little to no attempt at placing these ideas in a real ministry context. It would have been helpful to include a bridging section to each chapter to give these theological concepts a home in the real world.
Most people who are in vocational, pastoral ministry are people all about practical theology. It is what we do naturally. Those of us who are practical theologians need the help of academic theologians to sharpen us as we strive to do the thing God's called us to do in our unique context. Root and Dean try really hard to lift up the practical side of theology, but there seems to be a patronizing undercurrent for the actual practice of youth ministry. I hope as they continue to grow in respect and influence--and rightfully so--they won't stay so cloistered in the seminary world as to lose the ability to communicate effectively with, and understand the work of those of us in the practical theological world. We need their respect, their voice and support.
Youth workers are some of the most spiritually and intellectually deep people I know. We love that there are theologically strenuous books to challenge us. Root and Dean are two of the most respected thinkers and writers out there, and I m thankful for this book and for the ways it pushed me to think better. I look forward to more of my friends reading this book and for the conversations that will surely follow.
Don't be a cheapskate. Buy the book, and let's wrestle together.


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Here's a draft of the Press-Citizen Editorial Board's "Our View" for Monday:
We're pleased that Sen. Charles Grassley represents Iowa so well when it comes to ferreting out misuses of tax-exempt status.
When Grassley questions how university athletics departments give out luxury box tickets in exchange for large "donations," and when he begins scrutinizing televangelists for how they use the millions they rake in, he brings his Iowa common sense to bear on potential tax abuses. (It almost lets us forgive his attempts to secure a nearly $50 million earmark grant for the failed rain forest project.)
And we want Grassley to speak out when he discovers such an egregious example of government waste as one senior staff member of the National Science Foundation spending as much as 20 percent of his time during a two-year period at lurid Web sites and in sexually explicit chat rooms. According to a semiannual report that described numerous investigations into the misuse of the Internet by foundation employees, that time cost taxpayers more than $40,000. Other employees were alleged to have watched, downloaded and e-mailed porn over years.
We're glad that Iowa's senior senator takes his watch-dog responsibilities so seriously that he sent a letter to the NSF's Office of Inspector General asking for all the documents it has related to the inappropriate use of the foundation's network. Grassley understands that sometimes these abuses are so widespread that there needs to be an investigation into "the culture of an organization where this occurs."
But Grassley goes too far when, in interview with the Associated Press Thursday, he called on Congress to reconsider the $3 billion in funding to the NSF that's included in the current stimulus bill. He wants Congress to wait on the funding until his questions are answered.
Because the NSF provides about 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by the nation's colleges and universities, it hardly seems appropriate for Grassley to try to hold up funding for researchers throughout the nation because of the bad Internet habits of foundation employees.
And it hardly seems a productive way to "restore science to its rightful place," as President Obama said in his inaugural address.
Besides, spokesman Jeff Nesbit said the foundation is cooperating and already has taken steps to address the inspector general's report. Several employees have been disciplined and at least three staffers were fired because of their inappropriate use of the Internet.
"NSF immediately implemented additional IT systems controls to focus in particular on enforcement of the foundation's long-standing policy prohibiting the use of its IT systems to access sexually explicit, gambling and other inappropriate Web sites,'' Nesbit said in a written statement.
Any employees found to have broken this policy — especially as blatantly as the report alleges — should be fired. But the broader cultural change we'd like to see involves the entire federal government, not just the NSF. It's time to ensure that the government's stances on topics ranging from abstinence-only education to stem-cell research are based on scientific rigor rather than on pre-determined ideology — as they were during the Bush administration.
If "science is restored to its rightful place," then maybe those in charge of allocating scientific funding would recognize that they have much more important things to do with their time than watch Internet porn.


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Being a woman has many stigmas attached to it. However, being a woman that is comfortable in her sexuality and not afraid of that is an entirely different matter altogether. Or is it? For hundreds of years women have been the center of all things soft and sensual, and at the same time persecuted for being too sensual. It should not be seen as socially acceptable for only a man to enjoy sex, and yet, that is currently the social norm. Women and men should be held at the same standard because there is not one person on Earth that can truly say what is and what is not sexually permissible. Celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, Madonna, TLC, Christina Aguilera, and Lady Gaga, have all independently caused stirs in the media when being vocal about sex or being a sex symbol. Women, as human beings have the right to expression and the right to live through that expression, sexual or otherwise.
Being a woman is only a part of a larger picture. According to Mary G. Dietz, "Gender is absorbed into a mixture of identifications" and "woven of many different stands" including "color, class, ethnicity, culture, sexual identity, sexuality, etc" (Dietz 411). Which means that these strands are present in all human beings, therefore, if a man is able to be open about his sexuality, as well should a woman. The key for all women is the want to discover "common threads which connect the diverse experiences of women" in a common unity (Dietz 405). In "Estrogen, Desire, and Puberty," Natalie Angier's words give insight to being a girl and eventually a woman: Girls can imagine futures for each other, with outrageous careers and a string of extraordinary lovers, because it is easier to be generous to another than to yourself, but imagining greatness for a friend makes it thinkable for yourself…(23). In other words, girls and women are not to think about pleasure for themselves, but to have hope for others because it would appear more socially appropriate. However, what is socially appropriate has often changed from times before World War I to presently.
Sexuality has varied from before World War I to presently. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull declared herself a contender for the United States presidency. However, Ms. Woodhull was ahead of her time and publicly proclaimed the "philosophy of free love" (Strom 114). Strom also states that: Emma Goldman… was frequently arrested for her incendiary speeches, and socialist Charlotte Perkins Gilman echoed early reformers' belief that women should choose sexual partners on the basis of mutual love and desire… Goldman insisted that the institution [marriage] was inherently stifling for both women and men (114). At this time, marriages were not necessarily built on the idea of love, but more on security. Women would have large families and due to society's belief that women were not truly supposed to have their own opinions, the women in question often remained faceless, or without identity as to who they were. However, as Strom notes, during the 1900's, with surprising thanks to Freud and his psychoanalytic theory, a rather large change occurred: A new sexual sensibility… divorced sex from reproduction and emphasized sexual pleasure for its own sake for both women and men, overthrowing some of the Victorian constraints of the past (200). This was controversial because it was expected of women to be naive in their sexuality, and to not truly acknowledge it.
Unfortunately, women who are comfortable in their sexuality have unintentionally brought with them baggage created by other people—baggage in the form of words. As Feona Attwood notes in "Sluts and Riot Grrrls: Female Identity and Sexual Agency," "By the twentieth century it ['slut'] had become 'a widespread term of abuse' for women who did not 'accept the double standards of society'" (233). These double standards being it was acceptable for a man to openly bed whomever he chose and a woman was immediately degraded for participating in similar acts. In "The Pleasure Principle," a New York Times article written by Patricia Leigh Brown and Carol Pogash, an interviewee, Ms. Daedone states, "In our culture, women have been conditioned to have closed sexuality and open feelings, and men to have open sexuality and closed feelings. There's this whole area of resistance and shame." For men, emotion and intimacy do not seem to go hand-in-hand, and for some, intimacy is not included in sexual activities between men and women, or even same sex partners. In the 1968, a bra-burning occurred, and a year later, a feminist group known as Redstockings made this comment regarding female sexuality and the financial oppression: We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men's lives. Our humanity is denied. Our prescribed behavior is enforced by the threat of violence (Strom 296). Women are sometimes seen as a means to an end—furthering the family line for instance. For some men, like Henry VIII, women were just that; not to be appreciated, but to be used for their bodies. But if a woman were to enjoy having sex, she would be called a whore or other choice terms. On the other hand, a good deal of woman have begun to stand up against the people who use these words as derogatory, and have transformed them into words of empowerment for the very woman that enjoys sex.
However, in recent years, the term 'slut' has taken on a new meaning—one that all women can take to heart. She is "'a woman who takes her pleasure as a man does… without guilt or remorse', one of the 'sex-warriors, the independent owner-operators who bring great honor to our gender'" (235). Almost as if saying, "'Yeah, I'm a slut. My body belongs to me. I sleep with who I want… I'm not your property'" (236). This is empowering because girls will learn from various kinds of women: fake women, real women, women in between (Angier 22). Girls should learn at a young age that they are beautiful no matter what and understand that as they mature, their sexuality will bloom and become a huge part of who they are and what they are about. Strom notes that "Modern-day women had often struggled for the freedom to explore their own sexuality and sexual pleasure," however restrictions repress the ability to do so with the idea that "women who wished to avoid rape should stay home; if they went out at night or to the 'wrong places,' or wore the wrong clothing, they were often said to 'deserve' whatever they got" (298). No one deserves to have someone's pleasure forced upon them, and to say that only shows how little society thinks of women.
In Natalie Angier's essay, the author remarks that, Experience, after all, is a trustworthier friend than intuition. How many times do you have to encounter a man who reminds you of your cold, aloof, angry, hypercritical, and infinitely alluring father before you can recognize the phenotype in your sleep and know enough to keep your eyes and nose and hormones far, far away (20). The answer probably being once is enough. Hormones have not only a great deal to do with the attraction between individuals, but also the amounts of fat women and men have on their bodies. Angier states that women have a 27% average of fat, while men have approximately 15% (21). Due to ever-changing levels, women sometimes have more or less fat on their body. Society is constantly unsure how to handle this which leaves many females asking: Is there something wrong with me? Being comfortable in her body is part of a woman's sexuality and if society is consistently questioning what amount of fat is attractive on females, then she needs to transcend society's ideas and form her own. The New York Times interviewee, Ms. Daedone notes: "In our culture, admitting our bodies matter is almost an admission of failure. I don't think women will really experience freedom until they own their sexuality."
Women have every right in their world to express their sexuality. Being a women who is comfortable in her sexuality means that "'you can be a bombshell and wear black panties and still be really smart'" (Attwood 239). Enjoying sex does not mean he/she is unintelligent and self-righteous—if anything, men and women should enjoy sex because it is not just for reproduction, but pleasure. If sex is supposed to be an intimate bond between people, a battle between men and women as to who is superior defeats the purpose and ultimately goes on to cause continual issues in social environments. Behind closed doors, women are just as likely as a man to ask for or demand sex—it does not make it better or worse, it just is. It is no body's right to deprive "women of knowledge about their own bodies" (Strom 298). As Angier states, "The world needs your wild, pounding, dreaming heart" (23).
Works Cited
Angier, Natalie. "Estrogen, Desire, and Puberty." Inquiry: Questioning, Reading, Writing. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Edward M. White, and Shane Borrowman. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. 14-23.
Attwood, Feona "Sluts and Riot Grrrls: Female Identity and Sexual Agency." Journal of Gender Studies 16.3 (2007): 233-247. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 4 Dec. 2009.
Brown, Patricia Leigh and Pogash, Carol. "The Pleasure Principle." New York Times 15 Mar. 2009, Late Edition (East Coast): New York Times, ProQuest. Web. 29 Nov. 2009.
Dietz, Mary G. "Current Controversies in Feminist Theory." Annual Review of Political Science 6.1 (2003): 399-431. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 4 Dec. 2009.
Strom, Sharon Hartman. Women's Rights (Major Issues in American History). New York: Greenwood, 2003.


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When the Huskies face Boston University Friday they will do so with only one freshman on scholarship: Saniya Chong. That's by design; UConn's roster is filled with All-Americans and high school players of the year, and there was little need for a deep 2013 recruiting class. Next year, however, will be different.
The Huskies will welcome three guards -- Courtney Ekmark, Sadie Edwards and Gabby Williams -- and now that they have all signed their letters of intent, coach Geno Auriemma was able to talk about the players for the first time.
"Getting the players we have gotten is perfect for us, considering how our roster has shaken out at guard, and will continue to, over the next few years," said Auriemma, via the Hartford Courant. "We lost Caroline Doty and Kelly Faris, next year we lose Bria Hartley and eventually Moriah Jefferson [after the 2015-16] season.
"This class addresses an immediate need that we have. We do have other needs. But if the way this group of players compliments what they do, as individuals, and what we do as a group, it's going to be great. And not one of them is identical to the other, which is something we try to stay away from. We don't want to recruit similar players; that's when you run into problems."
Auriemma also thinks that one or more of the players could follow in the footsteps of Faris or Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and play small forward if needed.
I don't think Kelly or Kaleena came out of high schools as anything but guards," he said. "The fact that Courtney and Gabby are 6 feet means there is no reason either of them couldn't eventually do the same for us as those players once did. The way we use our players is, it might look like a mismatch, but I always feel like it's a mismatch in our favor."
Kia Nurse is also a member of the 2014 class but her paperwork has yet to verified by the school so Auriemma wasn't at liberty to speak about what she adds to the program. But Nurse, who hails from Ontario, Canada, shows that the Huskies' success makes them not only a national powerhouse, but internationally recognized.
Ideally, Auriemma would add one more name to next year's class: A'ja Wilson, the nation's top-ranked recruit. She visited Storrs last month but there appears to be no timetable on when she will announce her college plans.