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Miyake, Issey
MIYAKE, Issey
Japanese designer
Born: Kazumaru Miyake in Hiroshima, Japan, 22 April 1938. Education: Studied at Tama Art University, Tokyo, 1959-63, and at École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, 1965. Career: Design assistant, Guy Laroche, 1966-68, and Givenchy, 1968-69; designer, Geoffrey Beene in New York, 1969-70; established Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo, 1970; theater designer, from 1980; first U.S. boutique opened, New York, 1988; director, Issey Miyake International, Issey Miyake and Associates, Issey Miyake Europe, Issey Miyake USA, and Issey Miyake On Limits; lines include Issey Sport, Plantation, Pleats Please (introduced, 1993), and A-POC (introduced, 1999); A-POC stores opened in Tokyo and Paris, 2000; new HQ and store in TriBeCa, 2001; fragrances include L'Eau d'Issey, 1992; L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme, 1995; Le Feu d'Issey, 1998. Exhibitions: Issey Miyake and Twelve Black Girls, Tokyo and Osaka, 1976; Issey Miyake in the Museum, Seibu Museum, Tokyo, 1977; A Piece of Cloth, Tokyo, 1977; Fly With Issey Miyake, Tokyo and Kyoto, 1977; East Meets West, International Design Conference, Colorado, 1979; Les Tissus Imprimés d'Issey Miyake, Musée de l'Impression sur Étoffes, Mulhouse, 1979; Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982; Bodyworks, international touring exhibition, 1983; A New Wave in Fashion: Three Japanese Designers, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1983; Issey Miyake Bodyworks: Fashion Without Taboos, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985; Á Un, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1988; Issey Miyake Pleats Please, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1990; Ten Sen Men, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1990; Twist, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, 1992; Making Things, Paris, 1999. Awards: Japan Fashion Editors Club award, 1974; Mainichi Newspaper Fashion award, 1976, 1984; Pratt Institute Design Excellence award, New York, 1979; Council of Fashion Designers of America award, 1983; Fashion Oscar, Paris, 1985; Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix, 1989, 1993; Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, France, 1989; Asahi prize, 1992; Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, 1993; Hiroshima Art prize, 1991; Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, Paris, 1993; Tokyo Creation award, 1994; Shiju Housho from the Japanese Government, 1997. Address: 1-23 Ohyamacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151, Japan. Websites: www.isseymiyake.com, www.pleatsplease.com
By MIYAKE:
East Meets West, edited by Kazuko Koide and Ikko Tanaka, Tokyo,1978.
Bodyworks, edited by Shozo Tsurumoto, Tokyo, 1983.
Issey Miyake and Miyake Design Studio 1970-1985, Tokyo, 1985.
Pleats Please, Tokyo, 1990.
Inspired Flower Arrangements, with Toshiro Kawase, Tokyo, 1990.
Madeleine Vionnet, with Betty Kirke, San Francisco, 1998.
Making Things, Paris, 1999.
On MIYAKE:
Deslandres, Yvonne, Les Tissus Imprimés d'Issey Miyake [exhibition catalogue], Mulhouse, 1979.
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design [exhibition catalogue], Cambridge, 1982.
Phoenix Art Museum, A New Wave in Fashion: Three Japanese Designers [exhibition catalogue], Phoenix, 1983.
Koren, Leonard, New Fashion Japan, Tokyo and New York, 1984.
Milbank, Caroline Rennolds, Couture: The Great Designers, NewYork, 1985.
Sparke, Penny, Japanese Design, London, 1987.
Calloway, Nicholas, ed., Issey Miyake: Photographs by Irving Penn, Boston, 1988.
Coleridge, Nicholas, The Fashion Conspiracy, London, 1988.
Howell, Georgina, Sultans of Style: Thirty Years of Fashion and Passion 1960-1990, London, 1990.
Miyake Design Studio, eds., Ten Sen Men, Tokyo, 1990.
Miyake Design Studio, eds., Issey Miyake by Irving Penn 1991-1992, Tokyo, 1992.
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Hiesinger, Kathryn B., and Felice Fischer, Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950, New York, 1995.
Jouve, Marie-Andrée, Issey Miyake, New York, 1997.
Holborn, Mark, introduction, Irving Penn Regards the Work of Issey Miyake: Photographs 1975-1998, Boston, 1999.
Watson, Linda, Vogue Twentieth Century Fashion: 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, London, 1999.
Lewis, J., "The Man Who Put Show in Fashion Shows," in the Far East Economic Review (Hong Kong), 22 January 1979.
Bancou, M., "Issey Miyake Revisited," in American Fabrics & Fashions (Columbia, SC), Spring 1979.
"Issey Miyake," in the New Yorker, 8 and 15 November 1982.
"Issey Miyake," in Art and Design (London), March 1985.
Popham, Peter, "The Emperor's New Clothes," in Blueprint (London), March 1985.
"Issey Miyake's Bodyworks, " in Domus (Milan), May 1985.
White, Lesley, "Miyake's Marvelous But Issey Art," in Cosmopolitan (London), August 1985.
"Issey Miyake: Dateless Fashion," in Art and Design (London),October 1986.
Angel, Sally, "Zen and the Art of Fashion," in Blueprint, October 1987.
Knafo, Robert, "Issey Miyake is Changing the Way Men View Clothes," in Connoisseur (New York), March 1988.
"Eye of the Artists: Issey Miyake," in Vogue, October 1988.
Brampton, Sally, "Modern Master," in Elle (London), June 1989.
Martin, Richard, "The Cubism of Issey Miyake," in Textile & Text (New York), 12/4, 1990.
Penn, Irving, and Ingrid Sischy, "Pleats Please," in Interview, September 1990.
Tilton, Mary, "Issey Miyake: Designer for the Millennium," inThreads (Newtown, CT), June/July 1991.
Gross, Michael, "Issey Does It," in New York, 22 July 1991.
Bucks, Suzy, "Clothes That Grow on You," in the Independent on Sunday (London), 3 July 1994.
Spindler, Amy M., "Art or Vanity? Fashion's Ambiguity," in the New York Times, 13 December 1994.
Schiro, Anne-Marie, "Photogenic, But Out of Focus," in the New York Times, 20 March 1995.
Menkes, Suzy, "Show, Not Clothes, Becomes the Message," in theInternational Herald Tribune, 20 March 1995.
Wood, Dana, "Miyake's Lust for Life," in WWD, 18 December 1996.
Edelson, Sharon, "Miyake Rides SoHo Wave," in WWD, 27 August 1997.
Simon, Joan, "Miyake Modern," in Art in America (New York), 2February 1999.
Dam, Julie, "Issey Miyake," in Time International, 23 August 1999.
Edelson, Sharon, "Miyake Moves Downtown: New Store, NewConcept," in WWD, 19 July 2000.***
Architect Arata Isozaki began an essay in Issey Miyake's East Meets West with the question, "What are clothes?" The question, perhaps too fundamental and unnecessary for most designers, is the matrix of Issey Miyake's clothing. Possibly more than any other designer of the 20th or 21st centuries, Miyake inquired into the nature of apparel, investigating adornment and dress functions from all parts of the world and from all uses and in all forms, to speculate about clothing. Aroused to question fashion's viability in the social revolution he observed in Paris in 1968, Miyake sought a clothing of particular lifestyle utility, of renewed coalition with textile integrity, and of wholly reconsidered form. In exploring ideas emanating from the technology of cloth, Miyake created great geometric shaping and the most effortless play of drapery on the bias to accommodate body motion since his paragon Madeleine Vionnet.
Miyake's highly successful Windcoats wrap the wearer in an abundance of cloth but also generate marvelously transformative shapes when compressed or billowing and extended. In these efforts, Miyake created garments redolent of human history but largely unprecedented in the history of dress. As a visionary, he often seemed to abandon commercial ideas of dress for more extravagantly new and ideal experiments, such as a 1976 knit square with sleeves, which became a coat with matching bikini; or fall/winter 1989-90 pleated collection which was a radical cubist vision of the human body and of its movement. Miyake has also worked with traditional kimonos, and has even experimented with paper and other materials to find the right medium for apparel. Despite unusual and some thoroughly utopian ideals, Miyake appeals to a clientéle of forward thinkers and designers who wear his clothing with the same zeal and energy from which they were created.
Miyake gives his work interpretative issues and contexts that contribute to their meaning, acknowledging the garments as prolific signs. His two earliest books East Meets West (Tokyo, 1978) and Bodyworks (Tokyo, 1983), were both accompanied by museum exhibitions of his many creations. Miyake can be anthropologically basic; again and again, he returns to tattooing as a basic body adornment, rendered in clothing and tights and bodysuits. He relishes the juxtaposition between the most rustic and basic and the most advanced, almost to prove human history a circle rather a linear progression. No other designer—with the possible exception of the more laconic Geoffrey Beene, for whom Miyake worked briefly and with whom he maintains a mutual admiration—interprets his work as deliberately and thoughtfully as Miyake.
Such allusiveness and context would have little value were it not for the abiding principles of Miyake's work. He relies upon the body as unerringly as a dancer might. He demands a freedom of motion that reveals its genesis in 1968. If Miyake's concept of the body is the root of all of his thinking, it is a highly conceptual, reasoned body. His books have customarily shown friends and clients—young and old— wearing his clothing. They come from East and West; they do not possess a perfect anatomy or the streamlined physique of body sculptures, but they are in some way ideals to Miyake.
Miyake's works have placed him in the worlds of both clothing designer and artist. His designs explore space and natural forms but are grounded in the understanding that they are to be worn. They exist in one form, only to be transformed when a body gives the piece a third dimension. This transforming power is evident in the endless variations of his pleats collection, which first appeared in his 1989 and was expanded into the Pleats Please line in 1993. Garments were constructed first and then pleated, a reversal of the standard process. Huge garments made of lightweight polyester were fed into a pleating machine and the resulting clothing was easy to wash, quick to dry, and wrinkle-resistant. This practicality reflected Miyake's dedication to the universality of his designs and proved to be a great commercial success. He opened the first Pleats Please store in SoHo in 1998, and the line is one of his most widely recognized.
Miyake's continual questioning and exploration of his own work led to another revolutionary concept in clothing design—mass-produced clothes designed to be individualized by each wearer. In 1999 he introduced the A-POC line, an abbreviation for A Piece of Cloth. In this line, the wearer takes scissors to a section of a continuous knitted tube with cutting guides to fashion her own garment, varying hem, sleeve lengths, and the neckline. The first store dedicated to the A-POC line opened in Tokyo in 1999. The A-POC line is but one example of how Miyake's designs originate with the fabric. His fascination with textiles continues to be the springboard for his work; whether the textiles are natural or synthetic, handwoven or high tech, Miyake transforms fabric into clothing that brings its wearer the joy of beauty and movement.
—Richard Martin;
updated by Janette Goff Dixon
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Miyake, Issey
Issey Miyake
One of the world's most innovative fashion designers, Issey Miyake (born 1939) experimented with new fabrics and textile producing technology to create an artistic blend of Eastern and Western influences.
Miyake is considered the first Asian fashion designer to gain renown worldwide. Known for blending the flowing fabrics and textile designs of the East with modern technology and production methods of the West, he experimented with natural and synthetic fibers and advanced textile science. The winner of nearly every fashion award, he is known to dislike the title "fashion designer" and prefers to be considered an artist whose medium is fabric. Two of Miyake's most popular lines are the Pleats Please prints that are permanently pleated yet flexible, and A-POC (A Piece of Cloth), a single, ready-to-wear piece of clothing. The Issey Miyake label also appears on numerous non-clothing items, including perfume, hosiery, and home furnishings.
Interested in Art and Design
Miyake was born in 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan, and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on that city during World War II. His mother, a teacher, was badly burned by the bombing and died four years later of complications. In an illness unrelated to the bomb, Miyake suffered from a bone-marrow disease at age ten. Ironically, it was the American occupation in Japan that gave Miyake an introduction to western culture.
Miyake's interests turned to the artistic even as a child, and with dreams of being a dancer and an artist, he took an interest in the pictures of fashions in his sister's glamour magazines. Admiring the way clothes could drape the human body to make a statement, he decided instead to become a fashion designer, even though it was considered a woman's profession. When he entered university and obtained Western magazines, he was inspired by the fashion photographs of Richard Avendon, as well as the images of Hiro and Andy Warhol.
In 1959 Miyake entered the prestigious Tama Art University in Tokyo, majoring in graphic arts. During school he showed his designs for the first time in a theatrical event called, "A Poem in Cloth and Stone," and his showing reflected his view of fashion as art. Miyake graduated from Tama in 1964, and the next year he moved to Paris to learn the art of haute couture.
Studied Haute Couture in Paris
In Paris, Miyake studied at the Syndicat de la Couture, then scored an apprenticeship as assistant designer for Guy Laroche from 1966-68. When Hubert de Givenchy offered him a position in his house of design, Miyake took it and, at Givenchy's suggestion, stayed for at least a year so he could learn the trade. Miyake worked sketching hundreds of designs that were sent to clients all over the world, including the duchess of Windsor and Audrey Hepburn.
Miyake was in Paris during the student riots of 1968, and traveled to the Sorbonne and the Place de l"Odeon to hear their protests. He sympathized with the hippie movement and the social unrest resulting from rigid tradition. Already tired of the haute couture style, Miyake decided he wanted to make clothes for everyday people. He told writer Dana Thomas in Newsweek, "I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition."
Ready to branch out on his own, he first moved to New York City where he worked as an assistant designer for Geoffrey Beene, who proved to be his creative mentor. Miyake also attended classes at Columbia University and Hunter College. He reveled in New York culture, telling Ingrid Sischy in Interview, "I felt like I was arriving at some very cosmopolitan city of the future. . . . It was the height of the hippie era . . . that was a fascinating time."
Working with European and American designers had taught Miyake a way of viewing fashion that stood in contrast to that of his Japanese culture, which held no distinction between fabric and body shape. In contrast to the loose fitting kimono of Japan, the Western view placed an ideal human body shape at the center of ever-changing fashions around it. Miyake was determined to form his own avant-garde approach to design. He remained true to his vision which embraced a union of traditional artistic concepts with modern freedom, energy, and technology.
Opened Miyake Design Studio
In 1970 Miyake left New York to return to Tokyo where he founded the Miyake Design Studio. Noting the depressed economy in the United States at the time, he recalled to Sischy that in Japan, "There was the air of possibility. . . . I began to think, I should start something on my own. . . . I sensed something new happening on the street." His new studio became his sanctuary where he could explore new directions in the fashion world. An innovator in textile science, he developed new techniques for making clothes and experimented with different blends of fabric and textiles based on traditional Japanese designs. He brought some of his new pieces to Bloomingdale's, which gave him exposure by offering him a small section of the store for his displays.
Miyake's global career took off when, in 1971, he showed his first collection in Tokyo and then shortly thereafter in the new Japan House Gallery in New York. The true test of success was presenting a show in Paris, which he did for the first time in 1973. It was an instant hit. During his career, he would be consistently listed by French trade papers as one of the top 10 designers.
Throughout the 1970s, Miyake continued to experiment with a variety of Eastern design elements. He incorporated the Japanese themes of harmony, simplicity, and humility to produce innovative work. He created new concepts based on traditional Japanese processes, designs, and dress styles, such as the kimono and sashiko coat. He also found time in 1978 to publish a picture book, East Meets West, which collected his best designs. In 1979 he opened a design company in France, followed by one in the United States in 1982.
Fashion as Art
Miyake continued to work during the 1980s at his design studio in Tokyo, creating affordable cloths that were also practical. He experimented with natural and synthetic fibers, such as traditional Japanese oil-soaked paper, as well as nylon monofilament and molded silicone. He was the first to use ultrasuede and explored new weaving and dyeing techniques. Miyake also delved into other areas of artistic expression, such as presenting his "Bodyworks" exhibit at museums in Tokyo, San Francisco, and London. He also worked on design concepts with choreographer William Forsythe of the Frankfurt Ballet in 1988 and created pleated jackets for the Lithuanian team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
In 1992, Miyake entered the perfume market with the launch of L'Eau d'Issey. Critics praised the line of perfumes for its clean, fresh, minimal scents. The inspiration for Miyake's fragrances was Japanese culture's emphasis on pure water and bathing. The perfume bottle's conical shape and brushed-steel tip were based on the Eiffel Tower, which Miyake had admired in Paris. Miyake also released a line of body care products, lotions, and creams.
Miyake took a step back from his work in the early 1990s to backpack through Greece. Packing lightly, he found he could do well with only minimal items such as underwear and socks. This experience generated the thought that he should produce easy-to-care-for fabrics that people can wash and wear and travel with.
Launched Pleats Please
In 1993, fulfilling his wish and following five years of research, Miyake launched his flagship design concept: pleats. His permanently pleated clothes were meant to be functional, universal for the modern buyer, and accessible to a wide market. The pleats were made using Miyake's innovative fabric technology. Single pieces of 100-percent polyester fabric were cut and sewn two- to three-times larger than the finished product. The pieces were heat pressed between two sheets of paper, a process that simultaneously created a permanent pleat, in either a vertical, horizontal, or zig-zag pattern, and created texture and form. Offered in a variety of seasonal colors, the clothes were light, flexible, and easy to care for.
Around this time, Miyake brought in several colleagues to assume some of his responsibilities and thus allow the designer to free himself for more innovative research. Naoki Takizawa took over the design duties of the Miyake line of men's and women's collections. In 1995, designer Dai Fujiwara joined Miyake's studio to provide input on creative engineering of manufacturing processes. The addition of these capable new talents allowed Miyake to become an artistic director overseeing all the products that bore his name.
In 1998, Miyake participated in a unique exhibit, "Making Things," at the Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. The show presented a 30-year retrospective of Miyake's fashions as art and celebrated his collaborations with artists, dancers, and photographers, as well as his experimentations with textiles and technology.
Invented A-POC Clothing Line
Continuing to explore ways to create inexpensive clothing for everyday people, Miyake in 1999 developed a revolutionary process of manufacturing shirts and dresses from a single piece of cloth that required no sewing. A-POC, which stands for "A Piece of Cloth," was co-created by textile engineer Fujiwara, who used modern computers in conjunction with traditional technology. In the A-POC process, thread goes into the loom and is woven by a machine programmed by the computer. A continuous tube of fabric emerges with the design of a garment already printed on it and with the seams already sewn together. The clothing then only has to be cut along a faint outline on the fabric, which won't fray or unravel. Buyers can customize their garment by cutting the sleeves, skirts, and necklines to their desired length. Miyake said this customization option allows wearers to participate in the design and production of their own cloths. The A-POC process was also applied to fashion accessories, and even a beanbag chair and sofa.
Honored around the World
During his prolific career, Miyake has been honored by many in the design and fashion world. In 2001, the City of Toronto honored him as a world leader in a festival of creative genius, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London hosted an exhibit titled, "What Is Radical Fashion," which displayed the work of revolutionary and influential designers around the world, including Miyake. For Miyake's part, he told Julie Dam in Time Asia: "I would be very happy if it was said of me that I had provided some keys to the 21st century. All I can do is to keep experimenting, keep developing my thoughts further. Certain people think that the definition of design is the beauty or the useful, but in my own work, I want to integrate feelings, emotion. You have to put life into it."
Art in America, February, 1999.
Interview, November, 2001.
Newsweek, January 18, 1999; July 8, 2002.
Time Asia, August 23-30, 1999.
Wired, December, 2004.
"Japanese by Design," Kent State University Museum Web site,http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/japan/infomiyake.html (December 15, 2004).
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Miyake, Issey
Issey Miyake, 1938–, Japanese fashion designer, b. Hiroshima, grad. Tama Art Univ., Tokyo, 1964. He came to Paris in 1965 and designed for Guy Laroche (1966–68) and Givenchy (1968–69) before moving to New York City and Geoffrey Beene (1969–70). Miyake opened his own design studio in 1970, and quickly established a reputation for an avant-garde approach with his fluid, unstructured designs in unusual, texturally varied natural and synthetic fabrics. Influenced by both traditional Japanese and Western design, particularly the work of Vionnet, his stylized garments are often layered and loose, wrapped and tied around the body in a variety of geometric configurations. Since working with the Frankfurt Ballet in 1988, Miyake also has used many kinds of pleated fabrics in a number of inventive designs.
See I. Miyake et al., Issey Miyake: Making Things (1999); studies by M. Holborn (1996) and L. Benaim et al. (1997); photographic study by I. Penn (1999).
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Many homebuyers are on edge these days. They've watched in recent weeks as mortgage rates have spiked a full percentage point. It's been one of the swiftest rate increases in a quarter of a century. And for those in the real estate market, it presents a dilemma. Should they forge ahead and try to lock in now or hold off and hope rates come back down?
NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports on the conundrum facing today's buyers.
YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: Dhruv Gupta had been searching for a place to buy in the San Francisco area when rates started their rapid ascent. Gupta was quoted a three and a half percent rate in May. Less than two months later, he was looking at 5.2 percent for the same loan. But Gupta is undeterred.
DHRUV GUPTA: It's a fact of life. I mean, I can't control them, so what do you do?
NOGUCHI: Over the weekend, Gupta bit the bullet and put a down payment on a two-bedroom condo in Oakland. Mostly, he says, because it's so hard to find anything available and in his price range.
He hopes rates will decline again and that he'll be able to refinance. But for now, how does the soon-to-be homeowner feel?
GUPTA: I don't know yet. I'm more anxious than excited because of the commitment.
NOGUCHI: Downstate in Temecula, California, Juan Johnson has had the opposite reaction to the market.
JUAN JOHNSON: I learned that the interest rates had changed significantly enough where it made me reconsider my offer.
NOGUCHI: He had been in the process of making an offer on a house when his loan officer told him rates suddenly jumped half a percent.
JOHNSON: I was shocked. You know, I said, you've got to be kidding me right? And he said, nope. And he said, and they're supposed to continue to rise.
NOGUCHI: Johnson says it was already hard enough trying to find a home his family likes and compete against investors making cash offers. Now, he's battling interest rates, too.
JOHNSON: Bummed would be a kind way to put it.
NOGUCHI: So, while Gupta jumped in, Johnson pulled back. Those differing reactions are reflected in the data as well. On the one hand, the Mortgage Bankers Association says purchase applications rose 7 percent between early May and last week. But, according to the real estate website Redfin, the number of clients making offers declined more than 10 percent from May to June. Fewer people are requesting home tours, as well.
Market experts have long said rates would eventually rise from their unprecedented 3 1/2 percent levels. But what touched off the spike was speculation the Federal Reserve would start unwinding the stimulus programs that kept rates low. Then, on June 19th, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke put a specific timeframe on it, saying the central bank would end part of the stimulus by the middle of next year if the economy continued showing signs of strength.
Investors reacted as if he'd sounded an alarm.
MICHAEL FRATANTONI: Almost as soon as the words left his mouth during that press conference, you had a big run-up in rates.
NOGUCHI: Michael Fratantoni is vice president of research for the Mortgage Bankers Association. He notes that while interest rates are important, job market stability and increasing home prices are more significant factors. And, he notes, demand isn't uniform. Applications for smaller loans have leveled off, but applications for jumbo loans of $729,000 or more is increasing.
FRATANTONI: One reason we're seeing a stronger jumbo market is that we've had a very strong run-up in the stock market. I think people are feeling wealthier.
NOGUCHI: Dean Karlan is an economics professor at Yale University who has studied how people react when interest rates change. He says people got accustomed, even complacent, about the stable, very low interest rates in recent years.
DEAN KAPLAN: But when you see a big jump, all of a sudden that wakes people up.
NOGUCHI: Some people who've considered buying may hurry to pull the trigger. But, he says, volatile interest rates also raise the psychological stakes for consumers, who feel added pressure to time the market right.
KAPLAN: We tend to overweight the things that we've seen recently, and so we see this increase as a big increase and it's attention grabbing but at the end of the day, rates are still quite low, historically.
NOGUCHI: It's better, in other words, for homebuyers to try to forget where rates were and not think about what might have been. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington.
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by writing your own form file for the genie. Each genie library can
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Training.ctm would have Training.frm). The form file should reside
in the same directory as the library (ctm) file. A form definition
for each genie in the associated library can be provided. If one is
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FORM "<genie>"[,"<form title>"];
The format of the genie form file follows closely that of the CITECT.FRM file. Each genie form definition is denoted by the keyword FORM. This is followed by the name of the genie as specified in the genie library. For example, if you were writing a form definition for the genie 'Training.Sample', the form file would be "Training.FRM" and the genie name would be "Sample". A title can be provided for the genie form. If none is provided the genie name is used.
A record definition must be provided. It consists of a field number, field name and fields size. Each field is linked to the genie by its 'field name'. The field name should match up the substitution string(s) used in the genie. For example if you used %Tag% as a genie substitution string, then Tag would be the field name in the record definition. Any values entered into the Tag field through the form would be expanded out into the genie substitution string %Tag%. The field numbers must be start at 1 and increase conescutively.
You can also add extra fields that do not have a corresponding substitution string. Information entered into these fields will be stored but will not be expanded into any other fields.
The 'readonly', 'readwrite' keywords have no effect on the form but exists to maintain compatible with the CITECT.FRM structure. If not provided the field defaults to readwrite.
A 'list' can be specified for each field. This list appears in a drop down combo box on the form. The 'list form' and 'list field' specify which field of which form to source the contents of the list from. For example if you wanted to list the name from each record in the Variable Tags database you would enter "Variable Tags" and "NAME" for the form and list.
A 'list filter' can be specified with the format
For example, this can be used to only list tags that are of a specific data type. It is also useful for genies that use structured tag names.
<field> is the field name to filter by. This defaults to the field name specified as the 'list field', so <field>= can be omitted.
<filtertext> is the text to search for in that field. Only records that have the specified filter text in the specified field will be added to the drop-down list.
An * may be used as a wildcard. e.g. Using "*_PV" as the 'list filter' would only add records that end in _PV, and the _PV would be omitted from the name. This would cause tags such as "Loop1_PV" to appear in the list as "Loop1" and tags that don't end in _PV would not be listed. Multiple list filters may be specified between the quotation marks as long as the filters are separated by commas.
Any of the forms defined in CITECT.FRM can be used as a 'list form'. If a form from CITECT.FRM is used as 'list form' then 'list field' can be any of the fields from the forms record definition. For example if 'Keyboard Keys' is used as 'list form' then 'NAME', 'CODE', 'ECHO', 'KYBD_TYPE" or 'COMMENT' could be used for 'list field'. The value from the field specified by 'list field' will be taken from each record in the database file (keys.dbf for Keyboard Keys) and added to the list.
The keyword 'HELP' can also be specified as the 'list form'. If HELP is specified then the 'list field' can be any of the values from the field 'TYPE' in HELP.DBF (found in the \CITECT\BIN directory). The value from the 'DATA' field for each record whose 'TYPE' matches 'list field' will be used to construct the list. For example if 'BOOLEAN' was specified as the 'list field' then the list would contain 'TRUE' and 'FALSE'. The 'list filter' is not supported by genie form files.
It should be noted that any records the user adds to HELP.DBF will be lost the next time they re-install Citect for Windows.
The form definition is specified after the record definition. The form definition consists of the keyword NORMAL followed by a string that describes the form. The string describes prompts and fields. A prompt is copied character for character across to the form. Any carriage returns (new lines) are copied across to the form. Fields are indicated by a field number enclosed in brackets. The number of characters separating the brackets (including the field number digits) determines the size of the edit control on the form. The substitution string for this field is determined by the field name of the field with this field number. The prompt does not need to be same as the field name.
EXTENDED forms are not supported by genie form files.
An example form definition for Sample is shown below.
! Sample genie form
! Insert_Object genie form
For more examples look in the form files in the INCLUDE and EXAMPLE [aka DEMO] projects.
See Also: Q1765 Modifying Genie Form Files and Q3643 Creating Custom Dropdown Lists for Genie Forms
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Editor's note: This article was originally published yesterday.
Well … that was quick.
Yesterday, 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) tranquilized the bears by meeting analysts' earnings expectations, and maintaining its previous full-year 2013 guidance. When all was said and done, the stock managed to close up nearly 7% for the day.
Then, just this morning, the additive manufacturing specialist announced the acquisition of Rapid Product Development Group (RPDG), a "provider of on-demand additive and traditional manufacturing services."
Quick! Before the ink dries…
Curiously, though, management stayed relatively quiet on the guidance front until an analyst from BB&T asked for clarification during the earnings conference call yesterday morning.
In response, 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) CEO Abraham Reichental stated
We stand by the guidance that we have given. Nothing has changed. We didn't see any need to particularly mention it, but I believe that our guidance was $1.00 to $1.15 on revenue of $440 million to $485 million.
With the acquisition of RPDG, however, 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) proceeded to simultaneously raise its 2013 guidance. Now, the company expects revenue in the range of $460 million to $510 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share between $1.05 and $1.20. All told, that means RPDG should positively contribute around $20 million to $25 million in sales, with earnings of around $0.05 per share.
Naturally, 3D Systems' VP Ziad Abou heaped praise on RPDG, saying, "We are very pleased to add a proven service provider and innovator of RPDG's reputation, experience, and scale to our rapidly growing, global network of on-demand parts services." Abou, incidentally, is also the General Manager of 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) Quickparts Services segment, which was acquired way back in February, 2011. If all goes well, then, RPDG should serve to nicely complement the existing Quickparts business.
According to its website, RPDG was founded in 2003, currently has more than 350 employees, and boasts over 150,000 square feet of manufacturing facilities across its operations in the U.S., Mexico, China, and the U.K.


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Facilitated Action Learning Set
ACTION LEARNING is a method of improving and developing organisations and individuals. It works with small groups, or sets, which meet regularly to find solutions for their problems, whether work or domestic, using a principle of open questioning and feedback.
Despite the name there's not much obvious action! Meetings are slow and reflective, enabling members to discover insights of strategies in ways they might miss in busier forums. At each meeting two or three participants talk about a particular problem or situation going on in their lives. The other participants don't give specific advice or opinions but, by careful questioning, help the 'presenter' discover possible solutions. The next time the set meets the presenter reports back on progress and then other participants have their turn.
There will be an opportunity to learn facilitation skills and the group it is hoped will become self facilitating.
Each set member commits to the five full days to attend. All costs include refeshments / lunch and afternoon tea and cake.
What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?
You will need a car to get to the venue its not accesible via train or bus.
The Space Rose Cottage, Tracebridge, Wellington, Somerset TA21 OHG From Taunton/M5 go to junction (J26) Wellington and follow signs off motorway towards Wellington until you get to a roundabout. Take A38 Exeter (ie left) and continue on A38 at next roundabout. After a mile or so you pass the Beambridge Hotel on your left and start climbing a hill. Get in the right hand lane at the top of the hill to take the right turn towards Holcombe Rogus and Ashbrittle.
I found for some of the way following the signs to The Globe were helpful. Follow this road towards Ashbrittle – you come into Tracebridge and see the Tracebridge sign on the left. just after this you will come to the part of the road seen in the photo there are two parking areas.
One is on the edge of a Quarry so please be very very careful. The other is near the green house. Both can be muddy so bring a spare pare of outdoor boots.
Then walk down the hill and take the first path marked Rose Cottage. Hesperus Cottage (B&B) is opposite. You will see the stone steps on the right got up those steps and you will see the building in the photo below which is where we are meeting.
From the South – take M5 J27 and leave the roundabout at the 3rd exit signed Wellington A38. Follow this road for about 4 miles. On one of the sections of dual carriage way you take a left turn to Appley (small sign –look out) If you miss this turn take the next left – it joins the same road) then left at the end at this small section of lane which is one way. Follow this road straight to Tracebridge – Rose Cottage is the first drive on the right – you will see the Rose Cottage sign on the gate. Hesperus Cottage (B&B) is opposite.
What can I bring into the event?
You will be given handouts as we go along while you are learning about the set process. The mobile reception is not good at this venue but we do have Wifi.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
What's the refund policy?
Im happy to refund up to 30 days before the event but sadly I cant refund any later than this.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
There is no need I will have your details.
Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends?
I appreciate sometimes this has to happen to allow for business invocing and payment but please notify Becky if this is going to happen.
Can I attend half a day?
Im afraid this is a full day commitement.
What if I attend the first session and dont want to continue?
We need 5 / 6 people to run a set and im afraid if you want to leave we will still need to charge you the full fee.
Where can I learn more about Action Learning?
This is a good website to read more information about the process.
Becky Wright will be facilitating this event.
Becky is an accredited Action Learning Facilitator she trained with the Action Learning Associates in London. She has a particular interest in the use of creativity as part of the Action Learning process.
Becky has proven abilities in enhancing productivity and creativity in the workplace and optimising wellness through a range of talks including Managing Change and Transition, Developing Emotional Resilience, Managing Stress, Managing People More Effectively, Developing Leadership Skills and Stimulating Creative Thinking.
She is the Founder and Director of New Leaf Life Design, a company she established in 1992, which has developed an excellent reputation as a compassionate and supportive provider of coaching and counselling services, committed to helping individuals and businesses grow and flourish. An advocate of corporate social responsibility, Becky actively engages the community and supports a greener environment through innovative projects and activities.
A published researcher, she holds an MSc in Counselling Research and a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling, and has been featured in Cosmopolitan and psychology magazines. She has won the Pavilion Publishing Innovation in Training Award, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship Award and achieved Finalist in Taunton Deane Business Awards, and Cosmopolitan and House of Fraser Woman of Achievement in Education Award.
Passionate, positive and inspirational, Becky naturally engages large audiences and combines a down to earth style with humour and a calming approach to deliver motivational talks, which create positive life transformation and lasting change.


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There has been a nasty shooting at the screening of the latest Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado. A young 24 year old, James Holmes, apparently opened fire at cinema goers during a shoot out scene in the film, letting off a smoke bomb and leaving 12 dead and 50 injured. Luckily he was arrested by local police before he could kill any more and is now in custody.
You know, I have been flagging up the possibility of this sort event happening on Solaris Astrology for a week or two now, and today unfortunately it occurred. The shooting was in no doubt caused by the Mars Uranus Pluto t-square which is now at probably it's most potent point, all three planets around the 8 degree mark of cardinal signs. Mars was also trine to Jupiter and Venus which encourages risk taking and sextile to Mercury retrograde and the Moon so there was danger to the public, Uranus was also trine this conjunction so unexpected events could happen.
The key and the timing to why this event happened is due to Mars' position in the sky. Mars was in paran with Deneb Agide which sits in Cygnus which encourages one to "act in accordance with their own principles". It was also conjunct to fixed star Vindemiatrix, which is quite a violent combination. Vindemiatrix was known by the Romans as the "grape picker" and is associated with taking action. Add to these star connections with Mars a connection to destructive Pluto and shocking Uranus and you have a combination that is deadly. Vindemiatrix is a star in the constellation Virgo which is activated by the Sun in late summer at the time of the harvest. At the harvest when you pick your grapes, you reap what you have sown, and likewise this young man will now pay a heavy price for the actions that he has carried out.
There were a couple of other star planet connections which tied this event to Denver at 39 degrees North. The Heliacal rising star for that latitude was Alhena which indicates that "People would be carried away with a mission or a cause". Venus was last night in paran with star Bellatrix which indicates society having to deal with "a rogue" and Mercury (also conjunct the Moon) was in paran with fixed star Hamal which Bernadette Brady indicates as bringing "jolting news". All too true, and the poor people of Colorado after having had to deal with wildfires and destruction on a wide scale are now having to cope with this tragedy too.
My condolences go out to all the victims and families associated with this tragic event…
Link also to - The Astrology of James Eagan Holmes - The Aurora Shooter


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Template: Presentation to senior managers. How to use this template This template gives you a starting point to create a presentation to senior managers on workplace health and wellbeing. It includes slides and speaking notes. It can be changed as needed to suit your specific needs .
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Workcover's Health and Wellbeing Advisory Service
Healthy Workplace Resource Toolkit
Commonwealth-funded Healthy Workers Initiative
A workplace that addresses the health of staff:
A healthy workplace can have significant benefits to both workers and business.
A healthy workplace is good for business.
Short- to medium-term outcomes include:
Longer-term outcomes include:
Adapted from Grossmeier, J, Terry, P, Cipriotti, A & Burtaine, J 2010, 'Best practices in evaluating worksite health promotion programs', The Art of Health Promotion (American Journal of Health Promotion), Jan/Feb.
In 2005, a study1 comparing a healthy worker to an unhealthy worker found:
In 2008, research2 on the impact of workplace stress indicated:
In 2011, a report3 concluded that presenteeism:
1 Medibank Private 2005, The health of Australia's workforce, Medibank Private, Australia.
2 Medibank Private 2008, The cost of workplace stress in Australia, Medibank Private, Australia.
3 Medibank Private 2011, Sick at work: The cost of presenteeism to your business and the economy, Medibank Private, Australia.
1 Musich, S, Hook, D, Baaner, S & Edington, D 2006 'The association of two productivity measures with health risks and medical conditions in an Australian employee population', American Journal of Health Promotion, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 353.
2 Health and Productivity Institute of Australia 2010, Best-Practice Guidelines: Workplace Health in Australia.
Calculating your return on investment
In the last 12 months, a company of 50 staff has experienced a unplanned sick leave rate of 8.5 days per employee and has recruited 3 replacement staff due to resignations. The average staff salary is $50000. The company runs a shift roster of 8-hour days and the average hourly wage is $25.
1 PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2008, Building the case for wellness, United Kingdom.
In the last 12 months, a company of 50 staff has experienced a unplanned sick leave rate of 8.5 days per employee and has recruited 3 replacement staff due to resignations. The average staff salary is $50000. The company runs a shift roster of 8-hour days and the average hourly wage is $25.
1 Australian Human Resources Institute 2008, 'Love 'em don't lose 'em' – identifying retention strategies that work, HR Pulse Research Report.
2 PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2008, Building the case for wellness, United Kingdom.
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'You can't be a safe worker if you're not a healthy worker.'
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Addressing the health and safety concerns of your employees
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LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, many school districts have discussed training teachers and principals to fire weapons. However, One school in New Jersey is in a unique position to arm its principal.
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On the plus side, sold one of my wall hangings to a returning customer. Personalised it for her sisters wedding, bought a nice box, filled it with tissue paper and wrapped it up in ribbon looked lovely.
As you may know, I've decided not to do any craft fairs until it starts getting closer to Christmas (more on that later). So this month I've made the most of my time and done some non related business stuff:
- 14th August - Zumbathon
- 28th - 29th August - 24 hours in Chester
Anyway back to business!
Had an order for a personalised christening card - had a bit of a creative block for a bit but think it's come out quite nicely
Evans Dream Dress liked my facebook page and as I always do, I popped over to return the like and just said that I have some wedding gifts and cards and she very kindly offered to tag my page in one of her albums and do some shout outs for me. How nice is that?
I seriously suggest you go look at her facebook page too as the dresses are just AMAZING and she does made to measure dresses based on any design / photo you can give to her!
Did have a massive stumbling block in August though, managed to get suspended from using my facebook properly as it deemed me to be spamming! 15 days of only being able to update my own page, like other peoples but not communicate with anyone has been really tough, especially as I've had some fab new items become available after some inspiration!
Wedding bunting: This proper freaked King Neil out I must say but after he'd started breathing again even he said how nice it was!
Christmas letters from santa: These are available to pre-order now with x3 different delivery dates. Already sold two and had enquiries for a load more
Letters from the tooth fairy: Same as the santa letters but from the tooth fairy just £2.50 each delivered
Santa window signs: Perfect for people with no garden or who just want a nice personalised window decoration £5 each
Baby grow t shirt transfers: Started off with a few designs to give people the jist and this is one that was ordered (she's always called her daughter little miss pockets)
And finally did a big order for Catherine's son's Ben and Holly Little Kingdom themed birthday party:
Every birthday boy needs invitations
Birthday bunting
And these are a brilliant idea! Tag's that tie onto a balloon for a balloon race.
Kind of stealing that idea for some marketing over the next few weeks so watch out for that!
Talking of the next few weeks going to be rather busy!
5th September - Babysitting mine and Neil's godchildren for the day all by myself
12th - 14th September - Away with work in Plymouth
16th September - Well earned rest from work and catching up before...
17th September - Helping friends move house
18th September - Craft Fair
19th September - Back in Plymouth for the day
Then some point in October it's going to be my goddaughter's christening not only am I going to have to do a speech (eek) but I'm also making a giant christening cupcake! Claire of Over The Rainbow Cake Creations has very kindly offered to help me decorate it as she's a lovely local lady who also promotes my products on a local wanted, for sale and free group that she administers!
So yes that's it for now, busy busy busy as ever :)


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Task Force on Islam's Response to Science's Big Questions
Leading Muslim Scholars take on Big Questions at the intersection of Science, Faith, and Modernity
Istanbul, February 12, 2015 – By resolving the perceived conflict between Muslim faith and Science, the Muslim world can embark upon a new scientific awakening or renaissance, proposed a group of scholars – scientists, historians, and theologians – meeting to discuss Big Questions at the intersection of Islam and Science. The scholars put forth new ideas on navigating the religious and ethical questions posed by Science, such as, how Muslim scientists can produce scientific research and remain people of faith; and from the origins of the Universe to human evolution, how people of faith must reconcile their beliefs with cutting-edge scientific developments.
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the former Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and a noted thinker and scholar of Islam and Science kicked off the discussion as the Chair of the Muslim-Science.com Task Force Meeting on Islam's Response to Science's Big Questions.
"Muslims over the centuries have helped develop science and its underlying foundations but today the scientific enterprise in the Islamic World has almost come to standstill. On the one hand, this Task Force seeks to dispel the impression that Islam and Science are necessarily in conflict with each other. On the other hand, it also identifies some critical factors that we, Muslims, must pay attention to if we want to successfully navigate in these exciting scientific times and utilize science for the benefit of Islamic countries and the World at large. " Prof. Ihsanoglu said.
Among the 12 scholars on the Task Force are Usama Hasan, a scientist and a traditionally trained religious scholar, who is the Convenor of the Task Force, Prof. Nidhal Guessoum the author of Islam's Quantum Question, Sheikh Afifi Al-Akiti a noted Malaysian Theologan, and Prof. Mehdi Golshani an Iranian Philosopher of Science, among others. The Task Force is sponsored by Templeton Foundation and hosted by the Turkish Society of the History of Science.
The Task Force members noted that Islam has followed a very different historical trajectory vis-a-vis its support and tolerance for scientific ideas and developments in its early days as compared to other major world faiths such as Christianity or Judaism. When scientists were being burnt at the stake in the Christian World, Science in Muslim lands was thriving under the patronage of competing Caliphs. However, with the passage of time, this tolerance and support has waned with the resultant decline in the scientific fortunes of the Islamic World.
Addressing some of these questions is critical to the future of the Islamic Project and its ability to embrace modernity – in particular free thinking and critical inquiry that is so instrumental to robust scientific development – and hence address the myriad of challenges it faces to provide for the socio-economic salvation of more than 1.5 billion people worldwide.
"This is critical to creating a tolerant and moderate Islamic World at peace with itself and its place in the World," noted Usama Hasan, the Convenor of the Task Force.
"In answering these questions, the task force also seeks to reclaim the narrative of science within the Islamic Community – a narrative that in the recent years has been imposed from outside rather than created from inside – and hence begin an inside-out process of scientific revival within the Islamic World," said Dr. Athar Osama, the founder of Muslim-Science.Com and the Director of the Task Forces Initiative.
Muslim-Science.com will formally release the report of the Task Force in July 2015 and to seek to work with partners to advance this important discourse within the Islamic World.


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Discussion in 'Irrigation' started by 1idejim, Mar 1, 2013.
that is a climbing rope and not a wire?
how do you charge a climbing rope with current?
you don't.
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Very glad to hear that wandering around muttering to onesself is acceptable... thank you for validation ....I gotta LG, bluetooth headset so folks don't stare as much anymore...
this must be what Einstein labeled spooky action at a distance....
maybe the same force that causes me to need to pee really bad the minute i get home from a drive, everytime.
i find cordless phone conversations to be much more dis-believeable that this. maybe one day, i'll buy and try one.
the rope being a conductor, WHAT is it conducting, and WHERE does that "what" come from?
forgive my questions, but all my questions are not really my fault....
im just a conductor of the curiousity that originates from your video. its your fault.
1) It could be conducting radio or transmission waves?
2) It could be conducting inner demons? They are voodoo sticks afterall.
3) It could be that i am FOS, but i'm not.
4) Why does my left palm start itching when i think about locating?
5) Why do you always blame me, Rhett?
6) I can't have nuthin nice.
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Good question. I've read articles that say it has something to do with the human body and its conductivity. I wonder if the dowsing can be done using a non-conductive object, such as a long length of PVC pipe.
I may try this out next week, if I remember.
If you were to read the manual for the Rigid you have, prolly under "passive mode" they may address it in there. Not sure, just an educated hunch.
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lol.....oh me.
Well Jim I have you to thank for banging around in the irrigation trailer at 10:30 PM so that I might drag a piece of sch 40 and two marking flags into the living room.
and then doing something something of a sword dance holding these flags while laughing my ass off.
Thank god I dont live with my parents, I would be in the asylum tomorrow....
Thanks again for the share, I'm off to bed, or to practice....One of the two.
practice going to bed now and worry bout voodoo tomorrow Rhett.
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Washington Redskins Super Bowl–winning quarterback Joe Theismann weighed in on the controversy surrounding his former team's name. "I was very proud to play for the Washington Redskins, and I did it to honor Native people in that regard," he said in an interview.
"I can just tell you that when I put that uniform on, and I put that helmet on with the Redskin logo on it, I felt like I was representing more than the Washington Redskins, I was representing the great Native American nations that exist in this country," Theismann told South Dakota's Argus Leader newspaper.
He also recalled a recent visit with an American Indian boy in a nearby hospital, whose family supported the name. "And as I shook his hand the father said to me 'You're a Redskin,' and he said it in a very complimentary way, which was very humbling to me," Theismann said.
Theismann said a decision to change the team's name is "totally up to" Redskins' owner Dan Snyder. Snyder has stated he will "never" change the name.
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While speaking with another pollster recently, conversation moved to the inordinate fear "establishment Republicans" have of the "tea party." Trust me, they are terrified. But I quickly found that the other pollster and I shared a belief that the tea party movement is now so diffuse that it will cease to matter in most "red state" GOP primaries and general elections in 2014.
Splintered into all types of subgroups, including one bizarre marriage that generally ultra-left groups call the "Green Tea Coalition," the well-intentioned wheels are coming off any concerted and organized effort to influence elections, as we saw take place in 2010.
Yes, many conservatives still support the old philosophy of less spending and lower taxes espoused by the various tea-party-related entities in 2010 and 2012. But they have no centralized message and splinter groups so confuse their natural base that their clout is waning.
But those leaders who are often named "RINOs," "neocons," or "Bushies," regardless of whether any of the terms really fit, have plenty to fear in the next few years.
What has not been widely reported is the growing noise that those who followed the philosophy and presidential efforts of Ron Paul, and who have now progressed to his son, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., have managed to make at various Republican statewide conventions and meetings in the past year.
Their emergence is like that of the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition, both of which played a huge role in GOP politics in the 1980s and 1990s.
Unlike the tea party, support for the "Paulites" is likely less prominent among voters. But their strength at the intraparty level is much stronger than the rudderless and leaderless tea party of 2013. And with the emergence of a more polished and less polarizing national leader in Sen. Rand Paul, they may begin to pick up an increasing percentage of support among GOP primary voters, many of whom identified with the tea party philosophy of old. Their true ascendance will come this year, as they will likely follow the pattern set by leaders of former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson in the early 1990s.
They will have mastered the party rules they didn't understand in past years. Their boisterous activity at previous GOP state conventions will turn into better organized and more "crowd-friendly" potential power brokering in the next few years. And their once-unpopular positions on issues such as U.S. military intervention abroad, absent some major turn in events, will become a potential winner with conservatives and independents who are clearly war-weary.
The true power of groups such as the tea party and the "Paulites" is more their ability to launch a candidate of their own in a GOP primary. For a gubernatorial or congressional seat, they can take enough of the vote to force "establishment" Republican candidates into uncomfortable and costly runoffs or to take positions they would normally not take. And that's not a bad thing.
The beauty of the tea party was that it touted true liberty and fiscal constraint. And make no mistake, there are plenty of tea party organizations still sticking to those themes. But with so many mixed messages, it is clear that the next new thing in GOP elections will be the emergence of those who support not only a Rand Paul presidential run, but also an overhaul of the GOP as a big-time factor in Republican politics.
The consultants and pundits paid or beloved by those in power will dismiss such talk. Until they have to admit the truth.
• Matt Towery, a former Georgia legislator, is author of "Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of the 2008 Fight for the Presidency." He heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage.


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Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt
'Men of Tanith! Do you want to live forever?' - Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt
I'm currently reading the second Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus, among other things, and loving every page so far. However, I do have one problem. When I'm reading the books I have a mental tug-o-war with the way Gaunt looks. I know from the books and interviews with their creator, the mighty Dan Abnett, that he has blonde hair, tall and, well, gaunt looking. In fact he is based on Sean Bean's character of Sharpe from the show of the same name.
The 'mental tussle' comes from the awesome Clint Langley covers for the books. I just want to state now Clint Langley is an art hero for me and has been a big influence on my work for many years now. However, having said that he always paints Gaunt as a stocky, dark haired guy. Which is fine, except for the fact when ever I read the books I picture a cross between Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman and it's starting to bug me because I know he should look, tall, gaunt and blonde and like Sean Bean.
To cure this I decided to do a portrait of Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt how I understand he should look., and here it is:
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