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A year after her ethical rubber jewellery collection, supermodel slash actress slash activist Lily Cole has now turned her hand to sneakers. Today Lily has launched a collection of ethical AND stylish rainforest-inspired trainers (£55-65) with Veja, made using Amazonian wild rubber. We sat down with Lily to talk about her inspiration behind the collection, how she wears her sneaks and the future of ethical fashion. Lily is currently on stage starring as Helen of Troy in Simon Armitage's The Last Days of Troy (her theatre debut), so we also had to quiz her on her move into acting...
Grazia Daily: What was your inspiration behind your trainers?
Lily Cole: "I was keen to reference the Amazon and my experience of it in my designs. Last year I made a short film when we went to the Amazon. For the trainers I took still frame images from the film and they drew identical copies of the butterflies, the dragonflies, the leaves and the shrubbery I saw. I played with those images with the design and also reference the hummingbird tattoo I have on my back. The soles of the shoes are made of 40 to 50 per cent wild rubber from the Amazon. The company we're working with, Veja, already use wild rubber with their shoes so it made sense to work with a partner that was already on the ground there."
Grazia Daily: How would you wear the sneaks?
Lily Cole: "I've been living in them for last two months. Right now I'm wearing the grey pair with very floral pants – in a mad way both of the bold patterns work and don't work. I wear them with jeans mainly because I wear jeans a lot. I'm a trainers girl. I'm pretty tall, as you may know. I'm also pretty lazy. When it comes to walking, I like to have my feet as close to the earth as possible."
Grazia Daily: Why is ethical fashion so important to you?
Lily Cole: "I guess it's an accident of the different things I'm interested in. I have been interested in how production change can have an impact for a long time. I am a big believer that you can solve problems through production itself – the consumer is very powerful. It's appropriate for me to look at fashion because it's an area that I have more knowledge than most and a right to have a voice. I wouldn't be able to talk about washing maching supply chains with as much conviction– maybe one day!"
Lily wearing her jazzy sneaks [Getty]
Grazia Daily: They're timed to coincide with the World Cup, are you interested in football?
Lily Cole: "Nahh, not really. When I was a kid I was on the football team - I was terrible. I was the only girl I think on the school football team when I was very young and I was a huge Man U fan. I have never actually been to a live football game."
Grazia Daily: What exercise do you do?
Lily Cole: "I do a programme called Essentrics – a friend of mine and her mum made it. I discovered it three years ago when I was filming a movie in Montreal and now go in and out of phases of doing it. It has tai chi, pilates and dance and makes me look and feel at my best. Right now because I'm in a play I'm doing it every day or every other day."
Grazia Daily: Were you pleased with how your jewellery collection was received?
Lily Cole: "Nobody is going to suggest that one collection will solve the issue or have the impact we need to solve deforestation. But hopefully what it can do – which I think it did manage to – is start a dialogue about supply chains and consumer impact – specifically about wild rubber. Previously I had no idea rubber grew in the wild in the Amazon and has been a source of income to families in the Amazon for centuries. The ambition for the project is much bigger than any one collection."
Grazia Daily: Do you think the fashion industry is making progress in terms of sustainability?
Lily Cole: "I think so. Only based on intuition. When I started this dialogue six years ago it felt like a conversation not many people having. It seems that now there are more people talking about sustainable fashion, designers working in that medium and schools teaching it. It is still very very early days but there is more interest in production."
Grazia Daily: You're playing Helen of Troy at the moment, how did you prepare for the role?
Lily Cole: "I did a fair amount of research but actually if you start to research Helen of Troy you find there are a million different ways she can be interpreted. She is what everyone wants to see; what men want to see. So there are a million different images of her - not just physical, but who she is. I began researching quite a lot, working closely with the director and actors. I stopped researching for a period of time and focused solely on the version of her that lies in the script rather than any other text. It is still a process - I'll be working on it till the day I finish and maybe afterwards."
Grazia Daily: How do you find learning lines?
Lily Cole: "That's the easiest bit! It's just time and practise. How you say your lines and what they mean, that's the work. Maybe on my first film that was more intimidating - the idea of turning up and not remembering a line!"
Grazia Daily: A lot of models do go into acting, do you think it's a good way to start an acting career?
Lily Cole: "I always wanted to act from long before I was a model. I have no idea if I would have managed to break into acting if I wasn't a model. I actually did my first short films when I was six. I would guess it has helped me - but I'm not ignorent to the fact that there is judgement in people's minds which makes it an obstacle too. When I did my first film I was seventeen - maybe the reason it's worked for me is it wasn't an after thought. It was something that I made a conscious choice to move into it."
Grazia Daily: Do you now want to focus solely on acting?
Lily Cole: "I will always be interested in lots of things - Project Impossible I was doing full time before the play. I don't think I'll drop everything to focus on acting. I'm going to continue to do the other things I care about. For the last eight years I've had one film or two films out a year. It tends to work out as three months a year I focus on acting."
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Following a 28-18 loss to the Washington Redskins, Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys are once again looking at a dour offseason, as fans start to legitimately wonder:
Should #8 be under center when 2013 rolls around?
Hey, at least Tony Romo goes home to Candice Crawford.
Romo tossed a trio of interceptions last night, admitting he "let the team down" and adding to his woeful resume in critical games.
The signal-caller is 1-3 in the playoffs and has now concluded three seasons (2008, 2011, 2012) with brutal losses to division foes.
"Tony brings me to the same situation at the conclusion of every year," said ex-Cowboy Deion Sanders after the latest loss. "Take a picture, this date, and see if we're playing the same picture next year. We always think it's going to get better, but it's the same-old same-old."
Romo, who dated Jessica Simpson for awhile until settling down with Crawford, hopes his resume will eventually include a Super Bowl title. He isn't prepared to give up just yet.
"Your legacy will be written when you're done playing the game," Romo said. "And when it's over with, you'll look back."
But will Dallas fans be looking forward to another year with Romo as the starting quarterback? Should he maintain that position?
I have been a cowboys fan most of my life but if romo is still the back next year i will not be he will not run the ball when he can and he cant hit his target he just sucks and i am tired of being a fan of such a losser!
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Tony is a nice guy. When it comes to football he is a looser. Please Tony, leave and take that stupid ass coach with you.
I agree with romo giving up. The only way to get him off the team is to hurt the pocket of the owner. He doesn't understand stats or reasoning. He's about the money and thinks his decisions are right. If romo and the coach remain, I become a redskins fan for life!


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Ask Brent Guy how he plans to replace All-American defensive end Terrell Suggs and he'll point out that Suggs didn't get all 52 of Arizona State's sacks last season. His teammates got 28 of the total.
"We have guys capable of doing it," Guy said.
To compensate for Suggs' productivity, the front six as a unit will need to get stronger this coming season. Particularly up the middle.
It's not surprising that for the second straight season ASU signed a junior college tackle. The loss of the starting linebacking corps necessitated signing a junior college prospect for immediate help.
Among last year's departed linebacker trio, Mason Unck was the most consistent player. The staff had high hopes Josh Amobi would be a playmaker, but that didn't materialize. Solomon Bates did not fulfill early promise.
If Justin Burks, a first-team JC All-American, lives up to his billing, the position could be upgraded in the fall.
"He has very good reactions. He's picking things up as good as we'd hoped," said Guy, who personally tutors the linebackers.
Sophomore Jamar Williams lettered last season as the fourth linebacker and special teams performer.
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Jordan Hill, a BYU signee, joined the program last August after coming off a Mormon mission. He reported weighing 255 pounds and has since lost five pounds. Guy said he may ask Hill to drop 10 more pounds.
"He's a thick guy. I have to see how he runs around, how he plays," he said.
Guy also will evaluate redshirt junior Ishmael Thrower, a junior college recruit from last year, and freshman DeAndre Johnson.
"I have the most work to do to try to sort this out," Guy said.
The Devils will continue using their "Cobra" pass rushing package.
Sophomore Nick Johnson, the player who has moved into Suggs' spot in the lineup, earned his spurs last season as a member of the Cobra unit. He had four sacks.
"Nick will be a factor," Guy said.
It's the positions between Johnson and returning starting end Jimmy Verdon that may make significant improvement. Brian Montesanto and Shane Jones were in their first seasons playing tackle in the Pac-10.
That ASU was trying to defend its goal against Kansas State with a walk-on showed a lack of quality depth. Hence the signing of JC transfer Gabe Reininger.
"He's a diligent worker," Guy said. "He's been impressive for us in the weight room. We throw a lot of stuff at (transfers) and the hardest thing for them is to not think too much and just go play. Physically, he has the same ability as Shane Jones. He'll help us immediately."
Perhaps the wild card in this group is senior Matt Mason, the Glendale Community College transfer.
"We have to find a role for him to play," Guy said.
ASU may have more depth this season in the front six if everyone stays active.
"A lot of positions can be pretty competitive for us," Guy said.
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Archive for 2011
Fourth openSUSE Board Election 2011October 28th, 2011 by Izabel Valverde
This years openSUSE Election Committee is in the pleasant position to announce the 2011 Board Elections.
So, if you want to participate in the openSUSE board and influence the future direction of the project please stand up and announce your candidacy. If you want to vote for the candidates, please make sure your openSUSE membership is approved. If you are a contributor of openSUSE but you are not a member yet, apply for membership now and be a part of the changes to come.
Coffee talk with Michael MillerOctober 26th, 2011 by Kostas Koudaras
Friday 16.09, while working on the openSUSE 12.1 marketing actions during the Marketing Hackfest, two of us had the spontaneous idea to suggest an interview to Michael Miller(Vice President of Global Alliances & Marketing for SUSE), asking him a few questions we could have in the openSUSE community. We did not have the time to go around, to find the FAQ or to choose the "best questionsâ€. It was kind of "shall we do that, around a cup of coffee ? Why not ?â€. And Michael Miller accepted our proposition, without any objection or any "joker's needâ€.
Help out with testing at openSUSEOctober 25th, 2011 by Manu Gupta
One of the most important activities during software development is testing. In FOSS community, software often gets tested by the developers themselves, other developers and volunteers. During the openSUSE 12.1 development process it has been important to keep Factory working properly. Testing this is however a rather boring, repetitive task: the tester has to boot up a Factory ISO as often as possible and check if the basic applications start up and work. We don't like boring tasks so the openSUSE Project has been using the automated testing framework openQA to test this release daily!
This article explains how openQA works and how you can help keep Factory working! We'll also give some links to more information about testing to help new testers learn the trade but also give experienced testers some new tips and insights!
Development Cycle
Testing is generally done on the latest development release, with additional testing sometimes done using updates from Factory to verify bug fixes. Everything in Factory is passed through our automated test framework openQA. You can read more about openQA an the announcement openSUSE News. openQA is a great test suite and is capable of producing videos of the whole process and also screenshots. This greatly reduces the overhead for the testers. An overview of the test results can be found here.
Using openQA
Reporting Bugs
openQA can be used both for bug reporting and bug triaging. To find and report bugs using openQA just visit the openQA test result page, browse through the web interface and look for failed tests. Click on the corresponding tests, to view the results. If your copy of openSUSE is different from the version that has been tested at openqa but you want to/need to do additional testing, fire up your vm and install the version openQA used (or a newer one). You can check for bugs in the tests that have not been autochecked and also look for hardware related (note that in this case you will need to install it on your system instead of a vm) and other possible bugs that openQA might have missed. If you find a bug, report the bug to our testing team or file the bug yourself. Be sure to make good use of the openSUSE Testing documentation at the Testing portal, the Bug report how-to and read the Bug Reporting F.A.Q!
Triaging Bugs
Bernhard, the author of openQA has come out with a nice web interface for bug triagers to make them easier to browse through bugs. The web interface provides with a list of some random bugs. If you are interested ino a scpecific component, then you can use the search bar and look for them. Once you have a random list of bugs that may interest you, you mark a bug as taken. This will reserve the bug. Now fix the bug and update the bugzilla accordingly to get more info or mark it as fixed. While the real triaging is still left for the developers to do, the web interface makes it easierfor them to find bugs..
Adding tests to openQA
An important part of openQA are of course the tests themselves. The more tests are written the more openQA can cover. Tweaking preexisting tests or creating new tests is not very difficult. You can get the sources of openQa from gitorious. You will need it to have the examples and tools needed to build new test cases. Once you have the source, you can find the test modules spread across os-autoinst directory. Every test module has two parts, one which contains the general flow of sendkey events to test an application or feature, the second one being a set of md5 hash sums to determine the validity of test results. os-autoinst/bmqemu.pm can act as a reference for the functions that can be used in our test modules. The commands can be used to write the desired test module. To verify if the test results are valid or not, a set of md5 hash sums of screenshots of the desired results is checked. To calculate these hashsums you can use tools/inststagedetect2.pl. The following article provides an indepth howto on writing a test module in openQA.
Getting Started
If you need help/support in testing, if you have topics to discuss or if you are just interested in this area, join the email@example.com mailing list (see openSUSE:Mailing lists page how to subscribe). Have a look at the Testing portal or directly contact our core testing team
Happy testing!
Internet at openSUSE Conference 2011October 25th, 2011 by Andreas Jaeger
At the openSUSE conference 2011, there was especially one area that caused us the previous years some trouble and this year nobody spoke about since it just worked fine: Wireless internet access.
So, what have we done right this year? It was basically wiring internet ourselves to the location and setting up the wifi controllers sponsored by Aeroaccess.
openSUSE 12.1 RC1 spotted in the wildOctober 24th, 2011 by Jos Poortvliet
As was already blogged by Vincent Untz, a few weeks after our last milestone was released as beta 1, the first Release Candidate of openSUSE 12.1 is now floating over the web!
What's new
The next release of openSUSE is expected to bring a large number of improvements and changes. Many of these are the 'usual' updates any Linux distribution offers. These include the latest Firefox, GNOME 3.2 and KDE's Plasma Workspace 4.7. Under the hood, we have Linux kernel 3.1 and we expect to be the first to ship Google's new programming language Go. We also overhauled our boot procedure introducing systemd and Grub2 (testing!) and of course we'll ship the latest developer tools and libraries as well as all the sysadmin goodies openSUSE is known for!
But we also have some really unique treats. The coolest among those is Snapper, a btrfs-based tool which allows you to view the differences between current and previous versions of files on your system and lets you roll back the changes, bringing back lost files or undoing damaging overwrites.
The changes in underlying boot technology, the new tools like Snapper as well as the rest of the operating system need a good workout for the release! So now we need YOUR help! Go to the download page and grab your copy of openSUSE 12.1 RC1 and test it on your desktop, in a VM or on a laptop!
You can find information on testing on the openSUSE Testing wiki page which also includes a link to the most annoying 12.1 bugs. Help us shorten that list by re-testing the problematic areas or by fixing the bugs; or help us find new pressing issues!
Get openSUSE 12.1 RC1 from this page.
More information and other helping-out
The openSUSE 12.1 Portal page has been set up but still needs quite some work. There are screenshots to be taken, release notes to be written and Documentation to be composed. We also welcome help with translation!
Interview about openQAOctober 14th, 2011 by Kim Leyendecker
Last week, openQA 1.0 was released. We did an interview with Bernhard Wiedeman, the main developer of openQA.


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Government Shutdown 2011: What You Need to Knowby Free Britney at . Comments
Negotiations continue in an effort to forestall the great federal government shutdown of 2011, but both parties continue to dig in their heels in D.C.
With all the rhetorical arguments, the finger pointing and buzzwords surfacing around this potentially cataclysmic event, it's easy to get confused.
It's also crucial to stay informed about what really matters.
Lucky for you, THG's here. Here are 10 things you need to know about the impending shutdown, which will occur at midnight if no deal is reached:
- The President is the tanner of these two guys, but not by that much.
- Congress' awesome 23 percent approval rating may REALLY tank!
- FEAR NOT, Congress will still be paid, though. Their staff? Nah.
- Planned Parenthood funding is involved. We're not going there.
- The Bachelor host Chris Harrison is being sent in to mediate.
- You may actually get a reprieve from all that junk mail soon!
- 2011 is not 1995. No, seriously, it's not. It's 16 years later.
- The United States government can't figure out how to cut spending, or raise taxes to pay for all that spending, or some combination thereof.
- Donald Trump will somehow use this to plug Celebrity Apprentice, tout his fiscal conservative credentials, and question Obama's nationality.
- THG will remain open throughout any shutdown. Many services face lengthy interruption and an uncertain future, but not celebrity gossip.
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I agree that military should be paid, but who are you to say that people on welfare are less deserving? People are out there that have worked and paid in to taxes and are now unemployed and receiving benefits, so just because you may not get paid don't point your finger elsewhere. I have family members that are disabled and can not just go out and get a job, what about them? Would it make you happy to have even more Americans affected? Fight for what's right, but don't push others down in your fight.
Agree Beth! As a government worker in California, I feel and totaly agree that it has gone all backwards!! And you would get more money if you weren't married and have more kids!
Thanks all to our damn government! Pay the military first and foremost! They are top priority not stupid congressmen!
I find it appauling that our militry will not be paid, however congessmen and welfare recpients will be. As a military wife with 5 children I would be better off getting divorced and getting welfare as they still got a raise the last 2 years whereas we did not (oh and if they stop military pay, welfare and congress will still receve their checks WTFG)...SO much for family values!!
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It's no secret that Target Corp. has high hopes for its PFresh grocery format. Food and grocery products are driving most of Target's slow comp sales growth—0.5 percent over nine months. PFresh also attracts a lot of repeat business since people will eventually run out milk and bread.
Grocery items are not the easiest things to carry, even for people just wanting to make a quick run for a few items. So why does Target located PFresh so far away from store entrances?
Precisely because Target does not want consumers to make a quick run for a few food items.
"Target wants PFresh customers but they don't want just PFresh customers ," said Amy Koo, an analyst with Kantar Retail consulting firm in Boston.
Target's strategy has always been to get people to buy as much as they can in a store. You may have intended go to a Target only to buy milk and bread but you wind up leaving with a cart full of higher margin clothes, accessories, and home goods. Think about the REDcard 's 5 percent discount of total purchases. The more you buy, the bigger the discount.
That strategy is embedded in the store design: to get to PFresh, you must generally pass through a gauntlet of clothes, shoes, jewelry, and sporting goods, a pathway that will inevitably tempt you to buy more.
"It's like Target is saying 'we are going to call you on your bluff,'" Koo said. "You may have intended to buy food but you really want to buy clothes."
Excluding SuperTargets, regular Target stores usually have only one entrance, lest you sneak in through a side door closer to PFresh.
Target's strategy is clever but does not come without sacrifices. The first is convenience.
Consider CityTarget. The retailer touted CityTarget as the ideal smaller format for the hurried urban shopper who are not likely to drive cars and buy large quantities of goods, possibly because they are single and rent apartments. A perfect place where you can rush in during your lunch break or just after work, grab some stuff, and then hurry off to the subway or commuter trains.
But visit the CityTarget in Chicago and you'll discover PFresh is located on the second floor near the back of the store, arguably the least convenient place to buy groceries.
"Convenience can mean different things," said spokesman Eric Hausman. "CityTargets are convenient because of their locations" in the city core.
The second issue with Target's approach is the type of customer it normally attracts. Target has always excelled at making its most loyal shoppers even more loyal. These are the type of customers that will gladly buy a lot of stuff at Target.
And let's face it: if you're going to navigate the maze of Target departments just to buy some bread and milk, you must really love Target or you must really love bread and milk.
But here's the rub: Target actually needs to attract a broader group of shoppers beyond its diehard "Best Guests," Kantar says.
Given Target's sales challenges since the Great Recession, Kantar argues the retailer needs to focus on the casual, less affluent customer who are more likely to buy fewer items than load up on the Missoni and Nate Berkus collections.
Indeed, about a third of Target's sales come from customers who make less than $50,000 a year.
One way Target can reach those customers is to make their shopping experience more convenient. To that effect, Target has established Dollar Store like selections near the checkout areas at the front of the store as well as "grab and go solutions " throughout its departments.
CEO Gregg Steinhafel has also told analysts that Target is looking for further ways to shrink the size of CityTargets. Perhaps that path to PFresh will get a little shorter.
Target Corp. has certainly come a long way with its e-commerce efforts. Two years ago, the company's website couldn't even properly process orders following the roll out of its Missoni collection.
Fast forward to 2013. As of the first week of November, all 1,800 of Target's stores in the United State offer consumers the ability pick up merchandise in the store that they had ordered online.
Buy Online, Pick Up in Store is not exactly new: Best Buy and Macy's have long offered the service. But given its ambitious timetable—CEO Gregg Steinhafel told analysts during the summer the retailer planned to complete the roll out by Black Friday—Target not only finished the job but finished it a good three weeks early.
Amy Koo, a retail analyst at Kantar Retail, expressed skepticism that Target could complete the project in such tight timeframe. But the company seems to have adopted a more cautious approach to the rollout, she said.
Unlike the launch of the redesigned Target.com in 2011, the retailer has not heavily publicized the debut of Buy Online, Pick Up in Store. Back then, critics argued that Target did not adequately test its website to see if it could handle all of the heavy traffic the Missoni collection was bound to attract.
This time though, Target opted for a "soft launch" to first the test the service on employees and some customers.
"Target did not make a big splash, which makes it easier for them to first get the hang of it ," Koo said. "It's a real good thing to ease into it rather than make a big blowout statement."
Even now, the service remains rather low key. Koo said a store she recently visited was only filling 10 to 15 orders a day.
Target is apparently still working out the bugs. A good friend in San Francisco recently complained to this blogger that the item she ordered on the website was not set aside for her when she visited the store.
"Target made up for it though by helping me find the items and helping me wheel them to my car," she said.
The National Retail Federation had some interesting numbers from Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend.
Low prices helped keep Americans' budgets in check this weekend: on average, shoppers spent $407.02 from Thursday through Sunday, down from $423.55 last year.
That's one way to look at it. Here's another interpretation: consumers on average spent less than they did than the same period a year ago.
More than 141 million unique shoppers have already or will have shopped by the end of the big Thanksgiving weekend, up from 139 million.
More shoppers are always a good thing. But when you factor in how much money they spent, you get this: the number of shoppers over the weekend grew just 1.4 percent while average spending fell 4 percent.
Yikes. A 1.4 percent gain in shoppers hardly equals out a 4 percent decline in spending. Retailers are essentially brawling over a barely growing pool of Black Friday shoppers who are actually spending less on average than did a year ago.
In addition, there is one less shopping week this year because Thanksgiving fell on the last week of November. Suddenly, a season with an already low margin of (profit) error just got a little more perilous.
Target Corp. thinks its smaller format CityTargets can get even smaller.
During a recent conference call with analysts to discuss second quarter earnings, CEO Gregg Steinhafel said the company was looking at ways to reduce the size of the urban centric store.
"We are building the capability to operate stores in smaller spaces, particularly in urban markets," Steinhafel said. "We are analyzing results in our [existing CityTargets] to understand where in the stores we have the ability to reduce space even more allowing us to further shrink the size of this store format."
Launched last year in cities like Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, CityTargets are typically 80,000 to 100,000 square feet compared to the regular big boxes, which typically 150,000 square feet or larger.
For Target, the obvious advantage of the format is that you can find more places to stick one in a dense urban core.
Target was pretty lucky to find the urban real estate to accommodate the seven CityTargets it currently operates, said Amy Koo, an analyst with Kantar Retail consulting firm in Boston.
"It's really hard to find these spaces," she said.
Going smaller will presumably give Target more options as it scouts future locations for the format.
Thinking even further ahead, Target's experimentation might allow it to figure out ways to shrink the size of its regular big box stores to make them more productive, Koo said.
With U.S. sales weak, big boxes like Best Buy and Sears have adopted strategies to make the most of its space. Best Buy has partnered with vendors like Microsoft and Samsung to create store-within-a-store concepts while Sears has leased excess space to outside companies.
Big boxes over the next decade will realize that they don't need nearly all of the space they currently own or lease, Koo said.
"People just don't go to the general box to stock up anymore," she said.
Target Corp. CEO Gregg Steinhafel acknowledges that the retailer suffers from a "price perception" problem in Canada. Consumers readily buy Target's "discretionary" merchandise like clothes and home.
But when it comes to "non discretionary" items – such as food and healthcare – shoppers assume Target's prices are much higher than that of Wal-Mart or Loblaws.
For that reason, Target's Canadian sales have fallen below the company's original projections. Still, the company's price perception woes are not exclusive to Canadians.
Over the past three years, Target has struggled with weak U.S. sales during the crucial holiday shopping period. Part of Target's problem is that the company has not cut prices as aggressively as its competitors, analysts say. Holiday is largely about discounting, but Target has refused to chase what it calls "temporary market share" at the expense of profit margins.
In any case, Target's prices are probably not materially more expensive than rivals. The company already offers 5 percent off each individual purchase with a REDcard. And Target recently decided to match online and in-store prices of competitors like Wal-Mart and Best Buy, and offer free shipping.
"There isn't going to be a meaningful change in our [holiday] strategy, because day-in and day ... our prices are competitive," Steinhafel told analysts during a recent conference call. "We have a very strong value proposition and our circular pricing is even more aggressive than that and we take market leading positions."
But perception doesn't always match reality. Target's prices may be competitive, but Americans looking for deals will likely assume Wal-Mart and Amazon have lower prices, analysts say.
"For the last three holiday seasons, [Target] has performed poorly," Daniel Binder, a retail analyst with Jefferies & Co., wrote in a recent research note. "This appears to reflect its less aggressive pricing message even as its everyday low prices competitive."
"We do remain concerned that its less aggressive promotional posture during the biggest quarter may contribute to a loss of mind share with its core customers," Binder wrote.
In other words, for all of its marketing prowess, Target doesn't effectively communicate to consumers its holiday prices are just as good if not better than everyone else's.
To address soft sales in Canada, Steinhafel promised to take quick action to educate consumers.
"We're going to make sure that our prices get more notice than they have been up to this point," Steinhafel said. "Part of that was a conscious plan on our part to make sure that we really won in home and apparel and we feel real good about where we're in those two businesses today, so we're proud of that fact."
"Now we have to just turn on the gas a little bit on the other side of the equation to make sure that we're getting the Canadian guest to understand what great values we offer," he said.
Steinhafel could easily apply that same logic to American consumers come November and December.
In Chicago, where baseball loyalties are divided between the Cubs (North Side) and the White Sox (South Side), Target Corp. has decidedly pledged its allegiance to the Cubs.
Or has it?
Target enjoys a multi-year marketing deal with the Cubs to support its new CityTarget store, which includes a noticeable bull's eye logo on the famed ivy and brick outfield in Wrigley Field.
Only one problem: the CityTarget store is technically located on the South Side.
Last year, the Minneapolis-based retailer opened the CityTarget store to much fanfare on State and Madison streets. Designed by famed architect Louis Sullivan and built in 1899, the building, which is a U.S. historic landmark, was home to the Schlesinger and Mayer department store and later Carson Pirie Scott.
But a decision by Chicago's City Council in 1908 declared Madison street as the official dividing line between the north and south sides of the city. The store sits on the south side of Madison. If the store had opened just 100 feet across the street, Target would have safely been in Cubs territory.
Not that it really matters since there are plenty of Cubs and White Sox fans who live and work on each other's turf. It's not as if Target would pick a building solely on the basis of baseball loyalties. And some people believe the real North/South divide belongs someplace else.
Still, Target has tried hard to position CityTarget as neighborhood stores with strong ties to the community. And a few people did notice the contradiction, said Brian Kelly, a Chicago-based retail consultant.
Right now, the CityTarget sells more Cubs merchandise than White Sox products. In any case, both teams have losing records and are unlikely to make the playoffs.
In recent months, though, the Cubs and White Sox have ceded considerable shelf space to another Chicago team: the Blackhawks of the National Hockey League, which recently won the Stanley Cup Championship.
So it seems in Chicago retail, geographic loyalties don't matter so much as winning pedigrees.


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This is a shirt I made from a Built by Wendy pattern, and it's the second thing I ever made. I got the size kind of wrong, so I can't move my arms very well in this shirt. Also, I'm not too crazy about the fabric I picked for this shirt. Therefore, I don't ever really wear this shirt, but it was good practice for making a shirt.
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Feb 18, 2011, 04.09 PMby PeaceLoveTrees
I think this is super cute one you… and I LOVE the fabric. I have a similar fabric arriving soon and I can't wait to use it. Nice work =)
Feb 18, 2011, 03.58 PMby dixiediy
I had a similar problem with the arms, too, when I made that shirt pattern so maybe it's not just you. I really like the fabric and the design looks good on you. :)
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Thanks! Yeah I love this fabric. It think it's just not stretchy enough for this type of shirt, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who had this problem.
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Thanks emily, I'll try to buy it.!
Mar 24, 2008, 04.05 PMby emilywirt
Thanks, guys! This pattern is 3835 (Simplicity). It includes some dress patterns, too.
Mar 24, 2008, 02.37 PMby lemonemlyn
personally I love the fabric, perfect for summer. Too bad about the sizing though.
Mar 24, 2008, 07.42 AMby anek
The fabric is cool. really. I would wear it.
I know the thing with getting the size wrong. Happens to me quiet oftern, just because I'm too lazy to measure.
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I love the fabric especially, and it really works with the cut of the top. What is the pattern number?
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I think it's nice :) Suits you very well (especially the colors)
Mar 23, 2008, 03.13 PMby karencilla
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On tonight's finale of The Bachelor, Brad Womack will be bringing home two women to meet his family. One of which will receive the ... final ... rose.
In one corner, we have 25-year-old Realtor, part-time bartender and full-time Southern gal with a strange and hot name, DeAnna Pappas.
In the other corner, we have 27-year-old Wichita native and Phoenix Suns dancer (and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader), Jenni Croft.
Will Brad shock the world choose Jenni Croft, with whom he's had obvious hot chemistry since the beginning, and who, despite her focus on her career which might keep them apart, has worn her heart on her sleeve from the get-go?
Or will he go for DeAnna Pappas, the more demure beauty with whom he seemed to have some initial sparks, and whose terrific family visit seemed to really hit the mark with the wholesome family man Brad Womack?
An NBA dancer like Trista Sutter, Jenni Croft (above) has seen her stock rise from the beginning. She's made it known throughout that she wants to do her own thing in life, not just be the girlfriend of the guy who owns four bars. She has "priorities of her own" - like shakin' that cute butt in front of 20,000 NBA fans 41 times a year. Nonetheless, Brad Womack seems to really dig her.
On the other hand, he seems to adore DeAnna Pappas (above). Deanna has emerged as the clear favorite in the eyes of many viewers, seemingly possessing the whole package our hunk is after. Our guess is that ABC is overselling the chemistry with Jenni Croft and trying to plant some doubt around Deanna Pappas. But we've been wrong before when it comes to The Bachelor.
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Brad has serious issues. He obviouly doesn't know how to get to know someone. 6 weeks isn't long enough for someone to fall in love. He doesn't know what it would be like after working at the relationship. It takes time for a relationship to develop. I haven't heard anything on him being gay and then he throws that out there tonight. Maybe he really is and he is finally willing to come out. I feel the pain of DeAnna. She doesn't deserve him. She is still young, and successful. She will find true love when she least expects it.
I did not see it coming, the results took me by surprise. I think he was too drastic by letting both of them go. Why didn't he just at least continue dating one of them?
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The United Arab Emirates last week approved a list of 86 "designated terrorist organisations and groups, including the usual suspects – the UAE Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State – along with two surprises, both with ties to Hamas: the Muslim American Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
This surprising listing probably stemmed from both groups' links to the Muslim Brotherhood. UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan doesn't want to find himself overthrown by Islamic hardliners, and replaced by a Sharia government.
When the story first broke, I wrote at my website Jihad Watch: "If this is authentic, no doubt Hamas-linked CAIR's Nihad Awad and Ibrahim 'Honest Ibe' Hooper are furiously working the phones today, calling on all their contacts in the U.S. government and elsewhere to get this reversed. What fun it would be to be a fly on the wall in Honest Ibe's sumptuously appointed office today. Will the Obama administration's Justice Department now denounce the UAE for 'Islamophobia'?"
Close. It wasn't Justice, it was State. U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said Monday that the Obama Administration was "aware that two U.S.-based groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, were included on the list." Rathke said that the government was "seeking to gain more information on why, and "engaging UAE authorities" in order to do so.
A reporter then asked Rathke: "The State Department works…with CAIR all the time, no? I mean, there's all sorts of outreach programs between the government and CAIR, right?"
Rathke seemed taken aback by the question: "I don't know offhand whether we have a particular…I don't have that information at my fingertips. But at any rate, we're engaging UAE officials. These are U.S.-based groups so of course our – we are not in the lead then for domestically-based groups generally."
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It's perfectly clear why CAIR and MAS were listed as terror organizations: because of their links to the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Obama Administration cannot accept that, as it has itself done so much to aid the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere. Hence their inquiries to Emirati officials, which are a fresh indication of the unwholesome influence these groups wield in Washington. But the UAE has the right idea, even if it reverses itself under pressure from State — and we can only hope for a restoration of sanity in Washington that will end these groups' influence before they do more damage.
CAIR is not a terrorist organization, if one considers violent acts an essential part of what defines terrorism: it doesn't blow things up or exhort others to do so. It is, however, an Islamic supremacist organization with the same goals as those of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: the imposition of Islamic law wherever and whenever possible. And while CAIR is quite mainstream these days, this self-styled "civil rights group" was actually named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case by the Justice Department. CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR's cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. Its California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI. CAIR has opposed every anti-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented.
CAIR's dark side has been well known for years. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) said that CAIR is "unusual in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with groups that are suspect." Another United States Senator said of CAIR that "we know it has ties to terrorism," and "intimate links with Hamas." Those were the words of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), and they have been proven correct.
Congressman Bill Shuster (R-PA) has said: "Time and again the organization has shown itself to be nothing more than an apologist for groups bent on the destruction of Israel and Islamic domination over the West."
In June 2007, Federal prosecutors named CAIR as a participant in what the New York Sun called "an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas." This was when CAIR was first designated an unindicted co-conspirator for its support for the Holy Land Foundation. The federal prosecution document described CAIR as a present or past member of "the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee and/or its organizations." The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of both Hamas and Al-Qaeda.
CAIR was founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad. Awad had been the President of the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), and Ahmad its Public Relations Director. The IAP, which was shut down by the government in 2005 for funding terrorism, was founded in 1981 by a Hamas operative, Mousa Abu Marzook. Marzook currently heads Hamas's "political bureau," and is engaged in negotiations with Fatah in hopes of forming a Palestinian unity government. In the course of these negotiations, Hamas reaffirmed its refusal to accept Israel's right to exist – which is tantamount to vowing its total destruction.
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Julia Donaldson is one of the UK's best-loved and most successful authors of children's books. In addition to the Smarties Gold Award-winning THE GRUFFALO her most recent collaborations with Axel Scheffler include THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN and THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE, which are all available on audio CD and cassette. Julia is also much in demand for her brilliant events for children at schools, libraries and literary festivals. Axel Scheffler has achieved worldwide acclaim for his humorous illustrations, and his books have been translated into over 29 languages. He has enjoyed particular success in his award-winning picture book collaborations with Julia Donaldson.


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The Bureau of Reclamation has announced that starting yesterday, it has reduced flows from Palisades Reservoir from 1200 cubic feet per second to 900 cfs. Outflows will be restored to 1200 cfs Saturday. Reclamation's decision to decrease flows is based on the February forecast which predicts spring runoff in the Upper Snake River basin will be 92 percent of average, which is a slight decrease from the January forecast. Reclamation's analysis shows an increasing chance that continued winter releases of 1200 cfs may limit Reclamation's power generation capability at Palisades Dam in the middle to latter part of the summer irrigation season if the runoff outlook continues to deteriorate. The Bureau of Reclamation's assistant area manager Roland Springer says Jackson Lake, meanwhile will likely fill to only about 81% of its capacity this summer because of the lower run-off. He says after studying the storage patterns of the past several years and the current predictions, it was determined it will receive about 688-thousand acre-feet of water. It has a capacity of 847-thousand acre-feet. Last summer it was filled to 97% of its capacity.


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ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee couple accused of killing the man's 5-year-old daughter by forcing her to drink large quantities of grape soda and water will face trial in October.
Randall and Mary Vaughn were arraigned in Hawkins County on Friday. According to the court clerk's office, the judge ordered that Mary Vaughn be represented by a public defender. Randall Vaughn will seek a private attorney. The couple did not enter a plea.
According to the autopsy report, on Jan. 1, 2012, the Vaughns forced Alexa Linboom to drink about 2.4 liters of soda and water over a one-to-two hour span as a punishment. The massive liquid intake caused her brain to swell and herniate.
The Vaughns are charged with murder, abuse and neglect. They are jailed on $500,000 bond each.
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Am I supposed to be able to change the purple cells? I'm using a mac and don't have excel. Any one know if I can use this?
I think you will probably need to get excel or a program that can read and manipulate excel files. Each cell has formulas that will automatically update the price, etc. This is for PC, but I am sure macs can read pc files these days assuming you have the correct program to run it. good luck
Thank you! This is going to be so useful. I'm just a hobbyist at home caker. I sell some cakes, like maybe 2 a month and love it. Pricing is always a tough one for me, so this will help a lot. Thanks so much!!
For the Mac user- you just need Excel software installed on your computer. Macs can read files made by PCs...but you do need that software..just like you would if you had a PC too.
I use a Mac too and there are not any issues at all in opening/using the price matrix excel file (I do have excel installed).
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Like the previous reviewer, I too have dark Indian skin. Although I read that it works for all skin tones, this "luminizer" only made my face look ashy and greasy. Also there are absolutely no guides available online on how to use this on dark skin. This was pretty expensive and I feel sad that I believed all the hype. I'm sure it works great on fairer skin tones but the product should not promise it works for everyone.
I have never had fussy skin- really I could put whatever I wanted on and I would never breakout until I tried this stuff. First of all it was frosty so if you're dark skinned like me (Indian/Brazilian) then stay away just for that reason unless you want it to look like the 90's shimmer eye shadow threw up on you. It caused really bad cystic bumps immediately and I only used it twice because the top of my cheeks looked horrendous. I wash my face and hands religiously but having it in a pot in not hygienic at all, your fingers can get dirty so easily and constantly dipping them into the pot just allows bacteria to accumulate over time.
After reading lots of hype about this product, I finally ordered this. I was completely disappointed and quickly sent it back. For $38, this product didn't do much except make my cheeks feel kind of sticky-greasy. I could just put a little coconut oil there and it would look the same! I'll stick to my powder luminizers. I love the idea, the ingredients, and the packaging, but this is really not worth it.
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Like everyone who follows beauty news, I bough this after reading it's the product that gives J.Crew models their signature glow. While it certainly hasn't transformed me into a fresh-faced model, I'm happy with it, for the most part.
To apply, I like to take a very bit on my fingertip and dab along my cheekbones, on the outer corner of my eye, and down the center of my nose, which definitely gives my face a glow, although I've found it looks better when I'm not wearing much makeup I think it gives my skin an odd "thick" texture when I wear it with foundation.
I love that it's made with natural ingredients, which is probably the reason I'd continue to buy, as opposed to using Vaseline for the same effect.
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This is one of those talked-about products with a cult following so I had to try it. I can see why so many people love it - I find myself reaching for it everyday!
- Adds life back into my dry dead-looking pale skin. I have rosacea so I sometimes wear foundation + concealer to cover the ruddiness/acne, but that can deaden my face. Blush + this product really help to make me look alive and glowy (but not greasy or shiny) again.
- the PERFECT kind of shimmer! Superfine, almost metallic, and only noticeable in the sun, as a highlight.
- I took some points off for packaging because I'm not a fan of the jar as it's not hygienic to put your fingers in the product everyday. I much prefer an airless pump and I hope they do switch to that someday - something like the Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector packaging, which feels more high-end (but that product is definitely not as thick/solid as the RMS).
- People with oily skin will not appreciate the greasy feel of this.
- Can be hard to find - why doesn't Sephora carry this?
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All I can say is WOW. I have sensitive, dry-normal skin that sweats and gets a mite oily throughout the day. This is a luminizer that walks a fine line. It doesn't make my skin look greasy, rather it brings out a glow that makes me look like I've had the best fascias ever. You need to use it sparingly because a) this product is a lil' pricey and b) too much can just slide off the skin.
And it does last. I tried it sans any powder products and it lasted about 8 hours easy. Over a loose powder containing silica, it lasted 12 hours. People kept asking me if I was in love!
...I guess I am, but it's this luminizer that I'm crushing on.
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This is my favorite highlighter. I like the cream ones best, because I feel like they are the easiest to control with my finger. Powder and liquid can be too much with a brush. I also love the color and amount of shimmer. I am in my 30s, so I need something that isn't too in your face and something that still shows. This is a dewy sheen, and just looks like I have high cheekbones. I even feel comfortable using it on the bridge of my nose, it doesn't look like I have oily skin. Best of all is the color. It is kind of a really pale gold, not too silver or pink and still good for my super pale yellow toned skin. It does not starkly stand out like others. It is super expensive, but worth it since this jar should last a really long time.
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This is the most angelic and beautiful highlighter on my NC15-20 skin tone. I mostly like my highlighters to be very light and in the silvery direction and it's not easy to find. This gives the skin a moist and youthful sheen. I like that the skin looks dewy but not oily with this on. The only downfall/trade off for this effect is that it never dries down and therefore the wear time is not the best. It's easily rubbed off if you're the type who touches your face a lot.
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Crazy rumor is spreading around about this product and its life changing qualities. Way too many good reviews, organic beauty blogs telling you it's a must have.
Please do yourself a favor and lower your expectations before getting this luminizer and I promise you won't be disappointed.
I wanted this little thing for too long. And now here I'm I have it. Did my life change? No. Are people stopping me and asking what have I done with my skin? Not really, my dad said my skin is smooth though, (but hey family members don't count, do they)
So yea, it perks up my complexion, but you won't really notice anything special. It looks better when I have foundation on, I don't really like to apply this on bare (=moisturized only) skin.
You can apply a little amount, so you'll achieve a slightly glowy face, and you can apply a little more to almost wet-looking, glossy cheekbones. I do think the Living Luminizer is versatile.
Overall I like this product, but the packaging is not so HE as I'd expect.
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This product definitely has the hype factor. I think it was the first rms product that I purchased, probably because I had seen coverage everywhere, from natural to mainstream beauty editorials. I didn't entirely dislike it to begin with, but I increasingly felt that it was making the skin along my cheekbones a little bumpy. It stopped short of breaking me out, but there were very small, under-the-surface bumps that seemed to appear over time. Ironically, the congestion caused by the living luminizer, looked even more obvious once highlighted by the product itself. I cleanse very thoroughly, starting makeup removal with the rms coconut creme, so this shouldn't have been an issue.
Despite all the reviews stating how natural and indiscernible the shimmer in this product is, I would have to disagree and stand alongside the minority of reviews that have felt this is somewhat of an overblown statement. Even with the lightest of touch, it definitely has a 'frosty' finish to my eye, as opposed to a 'lit from within' subtle glowing radiance. It could be pretty if that's the look you are going for, but I don't really want anything that translates as sparkly or glittery on my face during the day. Finally, it doesn't last very long on my skin at all. By the time I have travelled to work (navigating public transport and often inclement weather conditions) it has all but disappeared. Likewise, on a hot weather vacation, it just seemed to slide off, and after a while application seemed pointless. This goes for many of the rms beauty products - I've often left my house happy with how my makeup looks, only to get a shock when I catch sight of my reflection an hour or so later.
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November 27, 2014
A work release inmate who Lincoln police say was spotted leaving the scene of a burglary last week is back in custody after a medical emergency put him in the hospital.
The Lincoln Journal Star says 21-year old Nathaniel Atkinson was found at an apartment early Monday. Police say officers and emergency crews were responding to a medical emergency at the apartment, which resulted in Atkinson being hospitalized.
Police says citations are pending when he's released.
Atkinson was on furlough from Lincoln Community Corrections when he was allegedly seen leaving the scene of a house burglary last Wednesday. Police tried to stop him, but they ended a short vehicle pursuit for safety reasons.
Atkinson was to report to the work release center last Thursday.
He was serving a 16 month sentence for felony attempted burglary and felony theft by unlawful taking. He was scheduled to be considered for parole November 27 this year.
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12/2/10 Hour 3 – The fellas continue discussing Roy's defense of Harrison Barnes. Jim says he wants Cam Newton to play in the SEC Championship, but Mac would prefer his team never have to play a tough game. ESPN's Doug Gottlieb talks about Duke's impressive win, a team he thinks could give them trouble and other stories from around the college basketball landscape.


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The singer has been married previously, to rock singer Deryck Whibley from Sum 41.
The pair wed in 2006, but after just three years together ended their marriage in 2009.
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Too old to work, too young to die: The struggle for pensions is the battle for retirement
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Illinois, which has a Democratic governor and a state legislature controlled by the Democratic Party, has just gutted its pension system for public employees.
"Mandela: Was he pushed or did he jump?," by Patrick Bond
|Joanne Landy December 11, 2013
Patrick Bond's piece "Mandela: Was he pushed or did he jump?," posted At Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, graphically describes the catastrophic transition from South African apartheid to today's neoliberalism – a sobering cautionary tale for all fighting for radical democratic change today – in Greece, in the U.S., in the Middle East, and beyond. Even though the neoliberal pressures are enormous, we all need to think about strategic alternatives.
How teachers unions should respond to the PISA test results
|Lois Weiner December 4, 2013
How should we respond to the barrage of propaganda about the latest international test of student achievement, PISA? Test data are (once again) being used to show that US schools are failing.
Thanksgiving and "identity politics"
|Lois Weiner November 27, 2013
Nasty exchanges about "identity politics" in Left circles on FaceBook I've glanced at recently haven't seemed very relevant to my work as a teacher educator or union activist. This is curious because I know one reason education is so contested is that schools reproduce (or change) the beliefs that underlie the society's political and economic arrangements. Schools and teachers convey how we make sense of our identity, as a society and as individuals. So why does the debate seem tangential to me?
"Where were you…" Thoughts on John F. Kennedy and his Memory
|Dan La Botz November 24, 2013
Hanging from a chain on a roof, that's where I was. It's true, as every television and radio station has been telling us over the last several days; those of us my age do remember where we were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. And, as I think back on it now, I am shocked at the cavalier nature of my response when I heard the news and I wonder at my lack of understanding of the significance of the event.
What do "social movement teachers unions" look like?
|Lois Weiner November 20, 2013
One question I'm frequently asked is what "social movement teacher unionism" looks like and how to get there.
Wealth and Power in the U.S Out of Whack
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Growing Income Disparities 'Danger to System,' says Former Clinton Labor Secretary
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Should we "play nice" with the NEA and AFT?
|Lois Weiner November 13, 2013
The teacher activist blogosphere has been buzzing about the perfidy of the AFT's and NEA's endorsements of teacher evaluation tied to students' standardized test scores and a new national curriculum, the Common Core. Both policies are key to the neoliberal dream of a national, privatized system of public education that will synchronize educational outcomes with an economic reality of growing joblessness and underemployment. (I know these are strong claims and I refer readers who want further verification and explanation to my analyses in New Politics and book.)
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|Lois Weiner November 6, 2013
It was clear from the start that teachers had an uphill battle explaining why NJ Governor Christie's educational policies, his vicious bashing of teachers, were harmful to kids and the state. One of the most serious obstacles is that media are captive to neoliberal propagandists. Conveying a different message requires concentrated, savvy use of social media.
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Review of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
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At this point, it seems pretty pointless to review a new entry in The Hunger Games series.
That we have been sleepwalking through such massive destabilization for decades proves that we are much better at consensually hallucinating than we are at separating our sciences and fictions.
Whether all these figures are anti-heroes, or in some cases something else entirely, is an interesting question. As is the question of why anti-heroes are so important in quality television. Short form answer is that they match the times. It's a mostly cynical and sour era, with little faith in institutions or, generally speaking, leaders.
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Why are books almost always better than the movie? The characters are never badly acted, the soundtrack is whatever you want it to be, and 35-year-olds don't play high schoolers. So give yourself the cred to say the original was way superior, and read these 10 Summer Blockbusters before they reach a screen near you.
A first impression goes a long way. That's true with people, and I think it's also true with books. When I'm choosing a new book, once I get past the title and the author, it's the first line--or first few lines--that make the decision for me.
We know today, some popular writers employ a "formula" such as fast-pacing, short sentences and chapters, and simple language, hoping to achieve success. Would I, as a novelist, seriously consider changing the manner in which I write? The easy answer is: No.
Engaging fantasy author Peter S. Beagle in conversation is a remarkably lively experience, and fan, friend and/or interviewer should prepare to be surprised. I'm all set for unicorns and werewolves when Mr. Beagle suddenly launches into political observations.
I spent a lot of my life trying to figure out where I could count on my Dad and where I couldn't -- would he define the sort of man I wanted to be, or its opposite?
You uncover meaning and find satisfaction through your own ability to pay close, critical attention; through patiently exploring an image; and through discovering patterns, relationships, and associations.
I find that women warrior figures starkly highlight current ongoing conversations, with an overdue need for far more balanced media depictions and fluid understandings of gender.
Read my 2012 review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey here A little over eleven years ago, on the eve of the theatrical release of The Two Towers,...
The part of the story I most wanted to see handled by Peter Jackson and team now exists. For my taste, they didn't get it right.
While filming, many of the cast expressed concerns that viewers would think the landscape was fake. How, they argued, could moviegoers believe that such stunning scenery is real? Where in the world do thundering waterfalls, turquoise lakes, volcanic pinnacles, and alpine glaciers all occupy a terrain with hardly any people?
The appeal of the Grand Adventure is clear and incontestable: the epic scale; the sense of mystery and adventure; the thrill of discovering what challenge, adversary, or ally awaits around the next bend. Thing is, the whole point of the exercise is to reach an ultimate goal.
The marketers made a brilliant move in refusing to reveal more than an eye or a bit of tail in the previews, because the first full-on shot of Smaug made my jaw drop. He is exquisite, and when Bilbo says that tales fall short of his magnificence, he couldn't be more correct.