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This lotion was actually a gift and I loved it! It smells so much a like a strawberry daiquiri!
It's very fruity which I surprisingly really like since I don't like strong scents in my lotions. It has a strong strawberry smell and something else that I can put my finger on. There was much floral scents, which was a bad, since I don't like floral scents.
This lotion made me feel girly and very fun! It's a great lotion for any girl that wants to feel pretty and fun. I'm surprised I like this lotion since I like more light, fresh, and clean lotion, and this lotion is different.
I would definitely by this again if BBW still carried this:(
I MISS THIS SO MUCH! It brings back so many memories of summer with my friends in high school! BBW needs to bring this back by popular demand. I still buy the old bottles of this off of E-bay but I pay way to much for old products! Bring this back, I am begging you!
One of my all time favorite scents and I MUST have for summer. I love it so much I buy enough to last throughout the year. It's so yummy and fruity without being "fruity", if that makes sense. I does make me want to relax and have a frozen daiquiri. mmmmmm so good! The scent lasts almost the whole day on me and never turns into another scent or nasty. Always fresh and and relaxing. I will always repurchase and I hope they don't discontinue it.
YUMMMM!! this stuff smells soooo amazingly good!! the scent is very strong and last for hours on my body so im not sure why it doesnt do the same for the user below me. anyways, this is the perfect summer scent, for fruity and sweet and strong and YUMMY!!! This was on sale for $2.99 at a B&BW outlet
I am so sad cause although this is an awesome scent, this barely scents me~ most of it disappears in minutes and only very little bit is left lingering for a few hours~ really need to stick my nose on my arm to get it..... my boyfriend didn't even notice it~
but I must say this a very nice strawberry! sweet without any yucky green notes like 99% etailers do~ doesn't change on me either~
This is my favorite summer lotion. I think it really smells like a fresh juicy strawberry and not at all like plastic. The scent lasts a long time on my skin and it moisturizes well.
This scent first off is one of the best Bath & Body Works scents ever. Smells so realistic. You can swear you are smelling fresh strawberries as you put this on. Sinks right in and you can smell the scent for a decent amount of time afterwards. Overall impressed with this product:)
This smells like a frozen strawberry daiquiri. I can detect some rum, strawberry and lime juices in this. It is light on the rum so not really a boozy smell either. It is extremely refreshing in both the lotion and shower gel formulas. I hope they keep this around for many summers. I am knocking off one lippie because I do wish the strawberry note was just a tad more realistic.
I bought this scent since my best friend called me RAVING about it - so of course I had to try it out for myself. It's hard for me to describe how I feel about this scent because part of me hates it, and part of me loves it (WEIRD, I know...LOL). At first - I absolutely HATED this scent and actually almost took it back to the store. I thought that it smelled VERY plasticy/cheap/dollar store-ish and had a fake/artificial Strawberry smell at first. However, the next day I decided to give it another try just because my best friend (who usually ALWAYS has the same taste in scents as I do) just absolutely loved it and said that she received compliment after compliment while wearing it. Sooo, I tried it out again, and the second time - I actually liked it MUCH better than the first. I have concluded that it is just a scent that takes a little getting used to - for me anyway. I LOVE fruity/juicy scents - but this one definitely took a while to grow on me. It IS sweet though - I will say that. AND...I can't wear it all the time because it WILL give me a MASSIVE headache. When I do use it, I have to use it very sparingly - and again, I can't use it all the time. I would say that if you are a lover of very sweet fruity scents - then go for it. However...if you get headaches easily from certain scents like I do, then you might want to steer clear. All in all, I would PROBABLY repurchase this scent - that's only IF I ever run out lol. If I did repurchase it, it would probably be in the 3 in 1 instead of the lotion - that way it wouldn't linger on the skin as long.
Strawberry is one of those notes that has the tendency to turn plasticky, and unfortunately that's precisely what happens in this lotion. As others have mentioned, I found this scent to be way too sweet, and very plasticky. Theoretically this should be something I love, as I'm a big fan of juicy, fruity scents, but this scent isn't juicy, it's just sicky-sweet. The formula of the lotion is fine- it's a good, light summer lotion. For temptations lotions I'll stick to the melon.


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|Thu, 08-16-2012 - 8:08am
Ok first let me star by saying Im not looking for judgement here. Iam looking for advice and hope. So last week I get my usual hey honey on my way home cant wait to see you text frm my husband 2 secnds later i get a quiet obscene text about being hme in bed hard and missing you. Well clearly this was not meant for me. I text him back so he knew he was caught then ran out with friends to drink ( not my best idea but i needed to run away) Well any way the next day i confront the issue head on he tells me he has been texting and chatting with multiple women and that his need fr instant gratification led him t giving his phone number out to many woman ( he apparently gt tired of waiting for them to go into the chat rooms ) Now i actually go int the cell phone bill and text several of the numbers and just one text me back turn out he was chatting with this one fr 3 months gave her all false information and she was just 16 althugh she did admit to telling him she was 19. Now with this information in hand is where my heart broke i got to my husband and ask how many woman He tells me hundreds he has these fake identities he pretends to be what they want him to be and say he only talked t woman who were 18 or and that he shared pictures back and fourth and the shared those pictures with other men online (The thought makes me ill) He prccedes to tell me how sorry he is he tells me this is a problem of his that he has an addiction to texting and enjoys playing these fantasy games. When i ask him whats wrong with our relationship that he has to do this ? He begins a full on confeesion of always having an addiction in his life he informs me before this it was drugs and alcohol and video games this just was a addiction that came from online gaming. He tells me that there is nothing abut ur relatinship he would change things are damn near perfect and that all means nothing to him and that he will never d it again He chanhed his phone number right away and closed down all the social media sites he was on. He swears he loves me and that he would never physically cheat n me.
Now a week later im broken im sad i cry all the time (not around him ) I dont know what to do. I feel like i have lost my best friend. I want to believe him but I dont . i feel like im married to someone i dont know. he has never sent me pictures like that or sent be and explicit text messages He is always so respectful toward me a gentleman actually. We are always together., always have been since the day we met. Do i try to get past all of this try to understand his addictive personality? Do i snoop in his email get an sms catcher? I feel like doing something like that would be wrong.
Im sorry this is so jumbled and my thought are unclear i just need outsider pints of view I cant talk to my friends or famiy he has good relationships with them and i dont want to ruin that for him.
|Thu, 08-16-2012 - 6:12pm
Yeah, I agree with caseejean, you are really fresh to this, you can't know everything right now. There is probably more to come. I would get a shrink as soon as possible and start talking and start listening. This is going to be a long road. This isn't going to be over in a week, or a month. This is a big problem and you need help. You can't absorb or understand the problem you are facing on your own. I read like ten books after my spouses affair. Here is the one that had the most comprehensive information:
I would have it sent next day and start reading. This is your rainy day. I would spend the money.
|Fri, 08-17-2012 - 11:34am
Thank you for your replies it helps to here from others that have been here. Therapy is definately the answer i agree having been in a phsicall and emotionally abusive relationship before I am no stranger to therapy. In seven years this is the first time i have been this low im seeing the signs of depression creeping in. So the calls are made and hopefully someone will call me monday. I did mention therapy t him and he seems reluctant, either way I will go. While i realize that this is him and not me I cant help but wonder how i missed it but honestly he is such a wonderful person in everyother way He never leaves my side except to work which he does 12 hours day nearly everyday i know he is there because of his paystubs this was all through his phone. There is absolutely no way he could have a physical affair and i know that but as said in another post he let squatters into his head fantasy or not he shared emotions with other woman that are supposed to be only mine.
I could easily just walk away and end our marriage but i really think he is worth this one chance. I dont know if Ill ever trust him again right now i feel like the answer to that is no. But i do have great support people in my life who say since ive been with him i have never been so happy and until last week this was true. I have two trusted friends who know about this and they think its worth a try. I will be in therapy and i hope he will reconsider and go for himself . I think that him admitting to the problem is a start but if he wants t keep our family intact he is going to have to decide does he want reality or fantasy he cant have both. While I have kicked him out of our bed i wake up each morning with him and discuss plans for the day before he leaves. I knw this is not going to be easy but if he work on his problem and i do not accept everything at his word as in the past I think we can work this out. As for the snooping I dont like it i feel its neccessary at this time i wnt snoop into the past but i will monitor the future at least for a while. thank you again your words and advice help


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|Thu, 09-17-2009 - 11:15am
I went in yesterday for my US & I have a cyst on my left ovary.
So no treatments this month. I have to go back next month & if it is still there I have to start BCP.
So all the worrying about which day was CD 1 was all for nothing.
Since I will be going au naturale this cycle & I won't be seeing the doctor until the next AF shows up I have decided that I am using yesterday as CD 1. My temp dipped yesterday & I had full AF by 2pm.
I am still going to use OPK's & hope for a miracle.
I am so bummed:(
|Fri, 09-18-2009 - 4:03pm
Oh Nat, I am so sorry to hear this.
I am also on a "forced" break due to a cyst on my left ovary about the same size as yours.
|Thu, 09-17-2009 - 7:36pm
(((Hugs))) I'm so sorry your cycle is canceled. I hope you catch an eggie au natural! Good luck!
|Thu, 09-17-2009 - 6:00pm
Nat, I'm so very sorry you have a cyst and aren't able to start your IUI. :(
|Thu, 09-17-2009 - 2:17pm
Thanks Kelly.
I am going to think positive and take better care of myself this month by getting to the gym more & eating better.
|Thu, 09-17-2009 - 2:14pm
Thanks Jess that does give me hope:)
I guess the bright side of this is I can relax and not worry about US appointments, clomid
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Thanks for the info. Well that shouldn't be too hard too follow since I never take pain relievers but the dairy might be a little tougher.
That is good to hear about your friend, my cyst is 3cm. I am going to try to stay positive & hope for the best:)


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We have had lots of snow in the East, so we hit the slopes. After breakfast(no carbs), blood sugar was 110. Hydrated up with H2O, skied for 2.5 hours, blood sugar 287. What? Don't usually see this spike with or without exercise so what's going on. Level 3 skier.
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For me personally (not much of a skier, very uncomfortable with it), skiing induces a complete stress-phobia. bg's go through the roof very quickly.
For me, any activity that causes an adreneline surge causes my BG to skyrocket as well. It's pretty common.
If you have no carbs for breakfast your body goes on starvation mode, in response to the starvation, the liver pumps a crapload of glucose in to your system, because the only way to feed the brain is with glucose from your blood. Your body is just looking out for your brain.
Thanks for the feedback. I did have eggs and bacon pre ski, but I'll try 15 carb grams the next time we head to the hills. That may be a while as 50 degree temps over the last few days melted the snow.
Sking never really had much effect on my BG. I find it surprising how little exercise it often is. There is a lot of time waiting in lift lines, conversing, etc. If you are going hard and fast, then you may find some activity that lowers BG. I keep my basals the same or very minimally lower them. Did you make any basal adjustments?
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DONALD Hayes admitted Uttoxeter are in a rut after narrowly losing their Midlands Four West (North) encounter with high-flying Tenbury at Oldfields.
Uttoxeter nosed their way in front in the second half only to be beaten by a late penalty.
Director of Rugby Hayes said: "We are in a bit of a trough at the moment but we will climb up to the peaks we were at.
"We are a young and talented side with a new coaching staff and new regime and we are all still developing as a team and a club, but recent week performances have highlighted our shortcomings.
"The players are not performing to their ability but we know how we can fix it — and we have an agenda for the forthcoming weeks.
"The defeat makes promotion more of a challenge but we are right in the running and there is a lot of rugby still to be played in this campaign.
Tenbury missed two penalty kicks in the opening 15 minutes but made amends when turnover ball created overlap for the visitors to score in the corner.
Uttoxeter levelled the scores in the 35th minute after winning a line-out.
Matt Nance and Pete Allen took the ball forward before Paul Milward switched play back blind to allow Rob Armett to cross the line.
Uttoxeter had to make a half-time change when Jim Holmes was sent on after Shaun Gorman suffered a knee injury.
Tenbury took an 8-5 lead with a penalty on the 43 minute when Uttoxeter were penalised for hands in the ruck and then made another successful kick when the hosts were penalised at the scrum.
This deficit was reduced when 19-yearold fly-half Lewis Bain held firm under pressure and knocked over a penalty after Tenbury were pulld up for lying over the ball.
Uttoxeter took the lead after 66 minutes when winger Aaron Lakin crossed the line for his first try for the 1st XV.
It was scored in similar fashion to Armett's effort, with Milward again changing play blind for Lakin to ease through a gap in the corner.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32405578995166185822014-10-06T21:50:44.355-07:00How's it sound?Thoughts and ideas from the brain of Gavin Shelton.Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-14561358834273937562011-03-21T22:51:00.000-07:002011-03-21T22:54:43.559-07:00This blog has moved to Tumblr.Dear Loyal Readers,

It is with great enthusiasm and excitement that I bring to you the news of a move. A digital move. I have long considered the concept of mobile blogging and while being at home and at my desk allows me to quiet my mind and wring out my thinking, there's something to be said for in-the-middle-of-the-action publishing.

So without further adieu I would like to invite you to point your browser to HowDoesItSound.tumblr.com. The mobile tools that Tumblr offers when combined with Blogger's failure to innovate and adapt to different publishing styles have finally convinced me to switch. I feel like I did when I unboxed my first Mac.

Hi, I'm now a Tumblr.

Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-43626571154940642142011-03-07T16:38:00.000-08:002011-03-07T16:50:49.226-08:00Lean on meI'm trying to keep life balanced these days.

I apologize to any regular readers of "How Does It Sound" for the recent drought of inspiration. I've been flush with new observations and ideas but warping around the city between classes, appointments, and deadlines has robbed me of the time to organize them in any digestible form. So I'm going to start taking smaller bites.

Today I will start blogging from my phone. I'd like to be able to strike when the proverbial iron is hot wherever I am. I'd like to share interesting things outside of my apartment in San Francisco and exercise my skills in brevity. Typing on this tiny keyboard keeps things succinct anyway.

I have written about the potentially negative effects of social reductionism brought about by the indifference of digital communication. Short ideas from my phone might appear hypocritical in this light. However I don't mean for shorter posts to be any less considered than my longer ones. Think of these posts as an interesting note slid to you on a napkin at a dinner party (Yes, the punch is spiked).

Here is some fascinating rock art to get things started. Bay Area artist, Bill Dan uses no glue; only gravity and an intimate understanding of a rocks personality to build his sculptures. It's as if he tunes the stones to be in perfect harmony with each other, making quiet and balanced conversations between the pieces of rock. This takes him hours to accomplish and the work moves very slowly and carefully. He spends the majority of his time looking for the right stones to stack, those that fit into some kind of mental model that he's imagined. Sometimes he picks the wrong stone and his whole creation topples over. When he finally finds the right group of shapes, the sculpture stands perfectly still and unique.

I thought it was interesting to consider our interactions with other human beings like this. We stack all of our relationships on one another to create some kind of pillar of social identity. Every different personality we encounter is rock shaped, containing unique planes, crevices and edges both sharp and dull. Some friendships are solid and grounded, providing stability while we get to know the subtleties of the friendships that rest on top of them. Stacking and balancing relationships one on top of the other is a lifelong process.

This should offer solace to anyone who has felt the frustration that comes with friendships or relationships that have fallen apart. As your pile of life stacks higher, it's those with steady hands and a trained eye who can pick out shapes that fit best and balance them with focused consideration. If it falls apart, know that reassembling the friendships around you will bring an enriched understanding of the proper hierarchy and how to stay balanced. Build enough great relationships and you can retire to the shores of San Francisco Bay and build rock sculptures.

How does that sound?

Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-3508470792931632302010-11-30T14:52:00.000-08:002010-11-30T16:08:55.123-08:00Listen Up

My heart is racing.

I can feel music when I listen closely. My body reacts to the chords, the timbre of the instruments, to the rhythm of the piece. I know I'm not alone. I've talked with friends about vivid memories that are tied to particular songs or artists. I've worked with children whom have special needs and used music as a way to vault over communications gaps. Music has definite mental clout. You just have to open your ears.

If you think about music as medicine things start to sound different. I start my day by choosing a song that will nudge me towards what mood or mindset I want to be in. Focused? I'll listen to Beethoven. Creative? Give me Miles Davis. Energized? Crank The Police to eleven.

I've recently been designing an experiment to test my ideas about the potency of music. Check out my video, and let me know what you think about my findings.

Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-27902487009114777832010-11-23T15:51:00.001-08:002010-11-23T16:28:43.605-08:00Take Note

Listen up.

I'm shooting and editing a unique series that revolves around music. The videos are the final project for one of my classes this semester. I'm eager to find some readers who are willing to undergo some musical experimentation.

Below you can find the introduction to my project. Post in the comments or ping me through various social networks if live in San Francisco and are interested in thirty minutes to an hour of a makeshift sound study.

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Give me a second real fast.

I'm counting down to the end of this semester. I've been fortunate enough to continue to take amazing classes and I'm encouraged by how far from conventional advertising we're being pushed. Because it doesn't work anymore. I think advertising as a medium is experiencing a monumental shift in thinking as attention gets scarcer and market variety increases with globalization. I'm happy to be in San Francisco during this change because many great new ideas have come from between these hills. I'm hoping to have a hand in designing the future of how companies and their customers interact with one another.

I'm currently taking a class called "Creative Planning," which is taught by Steve Williams, the man who designed and built the T-Rex in Jurassic Park and the T-1000 in Terminator 2—both before computers and digital logic were so ubiquitous. The first day of class was wrapped around the brainstorming, problem solving, and methodology that went into crafting visual illusions in physical space. It comes as little surprise that Steve is a fan of numbers.

We have studied and examined everything from Euclid's 47th Proposition to the Golden Ratio, with black holes and astrophysics sprinkled throughout the semester. Our discussions on the concept of time frequently leave me scratching my head as I try to comprehend time as a fluid element. I think best when I'm exercising and have recently come to some findings that I'd like to share. Ladies and gentlemen, start your watches…now.

Classical physics describes time as a constant, independent of the observer's state of motion. Without getting over my head and risking inaccuracies, I'll only state that our unique experience of time is the result of a perfect harmony of math and space. Thanks to some research, I've learned that "spacetime" is the meshing together of physical space and time into a conceptual grid. The interplay of mass comes into the picture and can warp this grid, actually changing the speed of time. This is one of the reasons that black holes are so fascinating;when something travels past the event horizon, their watch needs some major adjusting.

My most inspired thinking comes to me when I am moving through space by means of exercise. My bike rides, my runs, and my swims shift my thinking, and I'm working out my own theory on how everything is relative. I'd like to offer the following idea for discussion:

I. When I am at rest, I experience time in a particular way. When I am at ease, I know what an hour feels like and my thinking swims within a predictable range of depth. In other words, during my average day-to-day routine the thoughts in my head are no deeper than normal; they usually revolve around my daily responsibilities, social commitments, and general opinions about my surroundings.

II. However, when I suit up and get on my bike, things begin to change. I start climbing the hills of the city, then race down the other side with a pulse that's around 160-170bpm. The speed at which I'm traveling through space on my bike is relatively faster than it should be for my given heart rate, making my perception of time slow down. In other words, when I get on my bike for one hour and race around faster than I'm used to going, it feels like I've only been riding for around 20-30 minutes. Weird.

III. Conversely, the opposite is true when I run. I lace up my shoes in search of any forgiving (read: flat) roads, and the inverse occurs. My heart rate fluctuates between 160-170, but I'm traveling at a speed that's relatively lower than it should be for my higher heart rate. My perception of time then speeds up and a one-hour run can feel like it took two or three hours. Am I the only one that experiences this?

We talk a lot about film and cameras in class. Steve is an animator by trade and frequently talks about film speeds in conjunction with time. A high-speed camera captures many more frames, or tiny pictures, per second than a regular video camera. When played back, the visuals appear to be moving in slow motion. The reverse is theoretically true; when you record film slower than the standard (known as NTSC) 30 frames per second, the visuals appear to be pumped full of caffeine and move at warp speed.

Compare your brain to an infinitely more complex video camera and think about this: The heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the brain and allows neural activity to occur. Our brains are constantly making sense of the sensory input that's continuously wired in, and I wonder if the speed at which we think increases with more oxygen-rich blood. Thus, I wonder if it's too much of a stretch to think our heart rate could be comparable to the frame rate of a camera. Could this give rise to a thinking-rate that can be related to our traveling speed through space? Is this related to how we experience time?

To test this theory, I would have to have to exercise for specific periods of time at different heart rates (BPM) and at different speeds, after which I'd report how long it felt like I was exercising. I expect that I'd see a strange sine wave where my heart rate, the speed at which I perceive time, and my speed through space all tie together in a subjectively scribbled graph.

So, if you find yourself losing track of time and consequently rushing to keep up, do something that gets that heart beating: some push-ups, a quick jog around the block, even a quick listen to some fast paced music. Otherwise, if you're stuck sitting down and are watching the clock inch along, try to lower your pulse. Breathe deeply or put on some relaxing music to slow down your heart/ perception of time, and let the minutes speed past.

Give it a try and see how that sounds.
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Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-88710341738241234742010-11-09T04:45:00.000-08:002010-11-09T10:11:36.406-08:00I Dream of Jeanie
I can't tell you how lucky I am.

For the past few weeks, my family has been embroiled in medical chaos. My grandmother recently had a large cerebral stroke that left her in a coma and on life support. After a week on pins and needles, our entire extended family bid her goodbye as she left this dimension and transitioned on to the next.

Jeanie Bullock was the mother of seven children and oversaw throngs of grandchildren. I feel incredibly lucky for the time that I spent with her learning her cooking secrets (of which there are too many to count), and listening to her unbelievable stories.

As a memoir for my grandmother, I edited together this podcast for those who miss her and also those who weren't fortunate enough to meet her.

Grandma Jean, you'll be missed so much.

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Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-64636993682246185972010-10-06T20:09:00.001-07:002010-10-06T21:06:09.670-07:00Recycled Rhythms
In San Francisco, there are things that you hear on the street.

One of the things that I love the most about San Francisco is the vibrant street life. Creativity strikes at any time of day or night and trudging up the hills is made much more enjoyable by the various street performers.

For one of my current classes, we were given the assignment to set out and tell any story. Unsurprisingly, my mind jumped first to the men and women I see everyday on the street, making a living from the attention of complete strangers through performance art. The parallel to advertising isn't lost on me. As I stalked around downtown looking for someone to interview, the commonalities that both ad professionals and street performers share wasn't lost on me. In some ways I thought, it seems that the main difference is our profit margins.

I caught up with a San Francisco staple, someone who I've watched ever since I moved here 4 years ago. Faithful readers, I present…

The Bucket Man.

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My stomach is my guide.

One of the greatest things about living in a culturally eclectic city like San Francisco is the food. Walk around the city and in a few short blocks you can hopscotch all over the world. Delicacies from the Chinese Hunan province on one corner, while spicy Indian curries are tucked into alley ways across the street.

Living in China Town this past year has opened my nose to smells that I hadn't fathomed. Plumes of incense and aged green tea waft between columns of spices and unidentifiable dried plant in Chinese medicine shops. Fish markets reek of putrid fish and as fresh Tuna are unloaded off of trucks onto bare pavement, you resolve to thoroughly wash every piece of meat you buy for the rest of your life.

After my year long education in Eastern culture, I've since moved a short walk away and am now enjoying the familial atmosphere of North Beach. It's known as the "Little Italy" of San Francisco and open-air cafes and gelato abound. I produced a piece about the transition between culinary cultures for those of you that can't join me in Washington Square for a cappuccino and gelato, or a glass of wine and plate of prosciutto and cheese.How does that sound?

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I've learned in school that video is the new language. I'm currently in a class that revolves around journalistic short-form production and I'll soon be learning the tricks and subtleties of visual story telling. San Francisco is an incredible place filled with unbelievable characters. I've recently decided to share my remaining time out here with you, the viewer. Though I'll continue to think and write about my findings, you can expect to see more videos of the interesting things that I encounter out here on the left coast.

The most interesting thing I found today was some kind of Asian cultural festival in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. It was amazing how selflessly these children danced, so unconcerned about capturing the spotlight. I walked away thinking about how endemic this was to Eastern cultures, and how different we Westerners define ideas of self, community, social role, and purpose. Around the world It's easy to see that children love to dance, though I wonder what the differences and similarities are in their thinking as they move with the music.

I watched these kids dance and suddenly recalled the beautiful and perfectly synchronized dance performed at the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing. Perhaps cooperative dance is as familiar to children in Eastern cultures as a game of "Tag" is to Western kids.

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It's nearing the end of the summer semester, and I'm buzzing with excitement.

For our last Innovation project, we got to work with Kaitlyn Trigger from AKQA here in San Francisco. She talked with us all about how much communication is changing (Advertising in particular). She forewarned that objects such as print ads and standard marketing materials are bleeding their last drops of effectiveness. "We've entered the Experience Economy," she said, as she talked about different Brands that are focusing more on doing rather than saying. Combining Jesse Schell's ideas on the power of games ("The Gamepocalypse") and this heightened importance on experiences rather than messages, we were given our final project. Kaitlyn challenged us to take a crappy experience that we've recently had with a brand, and apply game-thinking or game mechanics to make it more enjoyable.

Though I'm constantly active, I do my best to avoid the gym. For me endless reps and questionable sanitary conditions take the fun out of getting my heart rate up. Thus, I chose to innovate the idea of a gym by creating a new business model that allows for digital interactions, community involvement, and environmental consideration. In our increasingly networked world, it made sense to take an achievement based activity (exercising) and design a way to blend it with digital trends.

Through my research, I discovered that most, if not all gyms are individually focused. Aside from group workout classes and new fitness friendships, I couldn't find too much outward involvement, excluding the YMCA. I then identified cultural gaps in both how people interact with their fitness environment, and also how fitness establishments interact with their respective surroundings.

For this project, I created VOLT: a new idea for a gym.

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Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-82973508805018833662010-08-02T01:44:00.000-07:002010-08-02T01:52:37.600-07:00Rolling forward with Pi

Marcus Hays looks down the road and sees things a little differently.

And here in the Bay area, people like him tend to lead the way. Perhaps there's something about the hills overlooking the Pacific that nurtures new ideas and forward thinking. Hippies helped redefine gender roles and created an American counter culture in the 1960's through the Summer of Love. Inventors and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley gave us new tools to access information through the Internet. As we begin to innovate our cities to accommodate people rather than vehicles, Marcus and a team of designers at Pi Mobility are hard at work.

The idea of an electric and human powered hybrid vehicle isn't necessarily new. Companies like Giant and Panasonic have been busy cranking out clunky cruisers with large battery packs attached to existing frame designs. Functional, yet not quite beautiful. Pi Mobility, Hays' company based in Sausalito, California is working from the other way around, and acknowledging that the design and aesthetic of a bicycle will have to shift as radically as the technology built into it.

This past weekend, I got to go ride their creation, the Pi Cycle and talked about how they innovated an idea that dates back to the mid-1800s. Since it's creation, the bicycle has seen little changes in its overall design, besides more modern materials and fabrication techniques. Hays and his team have finally given the bike a breath of fresh air.

The Pi Cycle's single unifying arc is a direct application of design sensibility and ergonomic functionality. Marcus explained to me that by arching the main tube of the frame, they streamlined their bike and transformed conventional geometry into a single ark that houses the internal battery and electronics, making for a much smoother ride.

The Pi Mobility team's environmental intentions don't stop in the design studio. The simplification of the frame makes it affordable to manufacture in the United States, rather than China where most of today's bikes are built. It's hard to look at the Pi Cycle with a gaping negative space (where an engine might be mounted), and not consider the future of transportation being free from the dogma of internal combustion.

Ranging from $2,999 to $4,999, the Pi Cycle may still be out of reach for most consumers. However, with new technology consistently bringing down manufacturing costs, I look forward to the coming years when instead of sitting in gridlock traffic during my commute, I can saddle up on a bike that makes me feel like Marty McFly, and silently cruise off into the sunset.

How does that sound?

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While I was visiting, I got to test ride the PiCycle. Bike envy quickly ensued.

Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-55431943661226461102010-07-27T23:26:00.000-07:002012-02-27T22:17:30.697-08:00I speak for the trees

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

For our most recent project in our Innovation class, Max Heilbron and Gareth Kay from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners came to talk. They spent the class talking with us about the power and importance of storytelling within advertising and media. They challenged us (for our next project) to take a well known children's story and retell it in a new way.

Everything that we've been learning about cultural trends tells us that storytelling isn't about simplicity, but rather complexity. The traditionally held structure of stories has been shattered and narratives now hop, jump, and skip around different channels. We were challenged to not only retell the old story, but reframe it in a way that creates an opportunity for people to share or upload something.

Being a (rather tortured) environmental enthusiast hiding in an advertisers body, I decided to continue last weeks lesson with Rachel Coady on Environmental Innovation. I chose to re-tell, "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss for my project. I dreamed up my idea after rereading the book and listening to Jesse Schell talk about games. Jesse is a famous game designer and cultural forecaster, and just gave a presentation through San Francisco's "Long Now" foundation. We all listened to him talk about games and how playing games has the power to change the world. The Lorax had similar ambitions and my project ensued.

Below is my presentation on how to retell Dr. Seuss's classic story in a new way that engages the young, technologically saturated youth, and improve the world in the process.

How does that sound?

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Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-62883260076157410902010-07-14T17:42:00.001-07:002010-07-14T18:37:30.004-07:00Troubadour: The Game!

So I was working on a project, and I had an idea.

If you love music, you probably already know. The way that media is created, promoted, distributed, and consumed has changed more in the past 10 years than in the past 100 (shoot, even 1000) years. In fact, it's hard to say that we're media consumers any more often, as we're often media creators. Gone is the old marketing idea of "target audiences," replaced by "target participants". Those who first saw this massive shift in online behavior are now probably sitting at the tops of our country's fastest growing companies. Those who didn't simple got left behind and tuned out.

If there's one industry that failed the most at adapting to technological changes, the music industry takes the cake. When Sawn Fanning created Napster in 1999, the music industry was furious when they should have dropped to their knees. "Big Music" shunned their new messiah that had come to lead them into the next generation. Instead Napster was shut down, and like a digital plague this free-media-sharing mentality spread like wild fire. Countless new sharing platforms sprouted in Napster's place and big music corporations sealed their own fate.

For my current Innovation class I just turned in my first project, a personal stab at solving this multi-headed music problem. I designed a mobile experience called "Troubadour" that provides a way for people to explore their surroundings, meet and collaborate with new people, all while discovering new music. "Troubadour" is a game for mobile phones that operates like this:

(Cue Start-Up pitch)

Troubadour is a mobile experience that discovers the new music playing all around you.

Players log into the application as inspired musicians, itching to create the next hit song that will plunge them into fame and success. They move around their city, completing challenges and collecting location-specific objects (ex: a new Fender "Jazz Master" guitar) which allows them to level up, gaining more "chops". As players progress through the game, they enlist the help of other players that are nearby, and combine their talents to "jam".

This interaction unlocks actual songs from Troubador's servers that players keep and can listen to on-demand, anytime on their phone. The music that is unlocked is dependent on the type of challenges that the two players collaborating (rather, "jamming") have already completed. For example, if one player has completed more challenges downtown, they might bring more rap/ city music influences to the collaboration, while another who's completed more challenges in the suburbs might bring punk-rock influences. Two players can never collaborate the same way twice; they are always "creating" (or gaining access to) new and different music.

From the back-ended perspective, Troubador is a way for local bands to gain local listeners. By donating a free song to the Troubador network (that's then analyzed for music related and location-specific metrics), they introduce themselves to potentially new fans that are in their city. There's nothing better than discovering a new band that you like, and then getting excited when they're playing a concert right down the street. The free song that's claimed by users is tagged with all of the artist's relevant info: Twitter tags, homepage, MySpace, iTunes link to help grow their digital fanbase.

Music is something that people love. What people love more is discovering new music before anyone else does (ever heard, "Oh, you like [Insert band name here]? Yeah, I was listening to them before they got big. Now they've gone all mainstream..."). And, what people probably love the most is a tie between playing games and getting free stuff.

I came to this whole idea from spending time in nature, studying how specific birds socialize and integrate with one another (if you've never heard of the Lyrebird, check out this video). It's a shame that Troubadour doesn't exist, though if some programmer reads this and wants to partner with me in finding some venture capitalists to get it off the ground, I'm game.

How does that sound?

Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-23335927596512881292010-07-02T14:21:00.000-07:002010-07-02T14:36:55.230-07:00The Power in the Leaves and Trees

Nature is where we began, and nature will show us our end.

In my "Innovation" class this week we got to work with Rachel Coady, a smart, and personable planner bent on returning society to nature. As a class, we trekked out to Lands End and discussed the wonder and incredible innovative practices that are found when you observe your natural surroundings. If San Francisco is one of the epicenters for technology (which tends to pushes us away from nature), working with Rachel helped us to see the beautiful technology right under our nose. Nature is still the world's greatest inventor.

We talk a lot about being a "solutionist," someone who, when faced with a solvable problem look for cultural "gaps" that can be fixed. Like social engineers, solutionists try and make something more efficient by identifying the needs (or "gaps") that we're living around (without addressing), and then finding solutions for communities. Once identified, we solutionists go into nature and observe how different species solve related problems. After all, the planets ecosystem evolved to sustain itself, without much concern that humans stuck around.

For example, if you're an urban planner faced with redesigning a city's transportation network, examine the structure of leaves, and how a plant organizes the transportation of nutrients from its roots all the way up to its leaves. As a species, we humans have evolved to focus on the control of nature, to insure our safety and the propagation of our genes and communities. As the problems we face become more intertwined with our natural surroundings, looking to where we started might be our best solution. We might engender some respect by viewing our environment as the leaseholder to the apartment we call Earth. We can't survive without nature, but nature would thrive without us.

As we work on our class first project that revolves around looking to nature for innovative wisdom, irony has struck. I prefer to enjoy thinking that I am the master of my surroundings. A few days after dominating the hike to the top of Mt. Tam and experiencing one of the most jaw-dropping views in San Francisco, I woke up with Poison Oak all over my face. If we're willing decimate countless natural ecosystems in the interest of "progress", I have to cede defeat as nature covers my face with hives, and makes me looklike I belong back in middle school.

Point to you nature. Way to put me in my place.

Man vs. Wild?

Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-34579237494509554882010-06-22T23:09:00.001-07:002010-06-22T23:14:05.180-07:00The blog heard around the world

Just an update.

I just accessed my Google Analytics, where I keep tabs on all the site traffic to and from my blog. Since I've been publishing, it seems that readers have been tuning in from 52 different countries (through search results, I'm sure) across the world, since I started publishing in October, 2008.

Cheers to more multicultural ideas! And, here's hoping that more new ideas, sounds, and videos make their way to the pages of, "How Does It Sound".

Thanks for your loyal readership.

Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-56929237054147210242010-06-19T13:19:00.001-07:002010-06-19T13:28:11.024-07:00The Sound AroundMusic is everywhere. All you have to do is listen.

Flying back to San Francisco yesterday, I began to hear things. In the clicks of people's footsteps was a complex drum line, syncopating the beat of travelers rushing towards their final destination. The preflight safety demonstration like a well practiced ballet, complete with seat belted pirouettes.

I stared out the window at the clouds over the United States and ascribed a sound or instrument to various clouds as we flew by, creating a mental symphony 3000 miles long. I got back to the city and edited this video together to share the experience.

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An open letter to my Color & Design class. God, I can't wait to be finished:

On Tuesday morning, I will dance on your grave,
reduce you to ashes; no longer a slave

To a world made of Guache; I'll at last be let free:
No more paintings to haunt the dreams in my sleep

At last and for all I'll pledge you good riddance!
Of my time you'll get nothing, not even a pittance.

So be gone with your colors, your theories and lines.
On Tuesday, forever I'm done with designGavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-15581125729340693632010-03-31T13:11:00.000-07:002010-03-31T13:15:17.649-07:00Laments of Art SchoolColor and Design is crushing me to a paste and mixing me back up.

Color is such a central part of cultures and societies and this class is teaching me the raw foundations of color theory. I'll use my new ability in controlling colors to affect future moods, behavior, and perceptions. The course's workload is large and tedious, and for someone without fast craftsmanship, I find myself having to spend hours on our painting assignments.

This class has stolen many nights of sleep this semester, but the end is in sight. Here's the rough draft of our latest assignment: mix the colors and paint a self portrait using a muted complimentary color scheme. Blue is a primary color (which I had a tube of) and orange is the secondary compliment (which I had to laboriously mix using red and yellow) that I then desaturated using white for the highlights and black for the shadows. We were instructed to include an achromatic (black and white) area in our designs that matched the value (lightness or darkness) of it's corresponding color. Lastly, after spending tremendous time and effort on one rough draft, we had to inverse the color scheme (using the cool color for highlights and warm color for shadows) and paint another. And that was just the beginning.

I was up until 3:30 am last night finishing these up. I decided to narrate my experience through a short poem while I waited for my colors to dry.

The Laments of Art School

by Gavin Shelton

I'm up to my eyes in color.

My brush strokes tire like weary soldiers

Dragged across the sands of my canvas,

Haggard and traveling towards the edge of the earth.

My hands are cramped,

And I know that when I'm done

Blood, Sweat, and Tears will mix together.

The contrasts mute, my design emerges.

So I sit and I wait

And my hard work dries slowly.

I wait and I realize that life's a palette of balance

Between onerous mattes and convivial glosses.

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Breath deep and sense yourself.

I'm just coming off an amazing week long Spring Break. I've had friends in visiting from Oregon and South Carolina, and we've been having great adventures in Muir Woods and all throughout San Francisco. Perhaps my favorite adventure this week though, has been deep inside myself within my own brain.

Balance is a curious thing, and most people don't think about it too often. Relying on a complex system of neural circuitry, once we're able to walk as toddlers, it's almost as if we forget that it was ever difficult and required some concentration and dedication. Balance is a virtue of mine and I've written in the past about how fond I am of Slacklining, a balance sport that involves stringing a flat piece of rope between two points and walking on it. Getting on the line has become somewhat meditative for me and I've spent the week teaching the basics to my friends and strangers alike.

Get past the tiny size of the rope (one inch wide) and the flexible bounce (hence the "slackness") and most take their first day or two trying to stop their legs from shaking and search for their center of balance. One must breath deep, stop thinking about and start feeling for their center of balance. When I'm walking, my eyes are locked ahead and nothing clutters my mind. My breathing becomes deep and controlled. When I'm on the line, nothing enters my mind except input from my physical senses and I'm able to clear my head of all the mental clutter. By the end of the weekend, I'd set a personal best by walking a fifty foot line (the shorter and/ or tighter the line is, the easier it is to walk on. Thus, the longer and/ or more slack, the more challenging). Below is a video of my final success on the line.

This comes as such a personal victory, as it wasn't too long ago that I sat in the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, recovering from my rock climbing induced TBI. After my head cleared and I had begun intensive In-Patient therapy, simply standing up and balancing on two feet was a huge challenge. My vestibular system (the auditory and neural network in the Brain that contributes to your sense of balance) had taken a huge impact and I would close my eyes and tip over, my head spinning. After relearning how to walk, my balance and leg strength returned very slowly but surely. Now, it's as if I'm walking in Philippe Petit's footsteps and walking fifty feet between two trees on a tiny piece of rope is an easy challenge.

I walked away from this afternoon, marveling at the wonders of the brain and how training your sense of balance through slacklining is almost a form of cognitive exercise: routing and rerouting your neural circuitry to more keenly grasp your physical place in physical space. My legs were once shaky on flat ground as I slowly re-took my first steps, but it seems you can do anything you practice and set your mind to.

How does that sound?

My first steps re-relearning how to walk in 2004.

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My first successful steps on a 50 foot slackline.
Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-77203977829315909472010-03-18T12:08:00.001-07:002010-03-18T13:13:08.274-07:00Edit Out the Bad PartsWhat do you see?

I'm making my way through the semester and learning more about the world around me. In my Relationships class, I'm becoming sensitive to how I interact with people and what my intent is for various human relationships. In my Color and Design class, I'm learning about the color wheel, and the aesthetic and psychological relationships that different colors have to one another. In my Non-linear Video Editing class, I've found that sometimes it's not what you see that's the most significant, but rather what you don't see that makes the difference.

Our editing class revolves around Final Cut Pro, the industry standard program for video editing. We've talked all about different cutting styles and narrative elements, and how to control the viewer's experience through selective editing. To illustrate the power of editing, our midterm assignment was to choose any song and edit together a music video, using a variety of older music videos from other artists. By using fractions of different narratives, I was able to create a whole new cohesive story with brand new meaning and intent. That's interesting to think about when we apply it to ourselves. We're all editors in our own stories, and we all edit together different parts of our life experiences to build new meanings into our memories. An exercise that really shows this is one I did a few years ago:

From the moment you wake up, write down a one word summary of what you're doing at 5 minute intervals through the whole day. Wait a few days, and before re-reading your stilted summary, try and recall everything you'd done. Examine the two lists and look for what's accurately remembered, and what's forgotten.
Chances are, you remember the major or remarkable events (meeting a friend for lunch, or getting in an argument), while editing out the smaller, more routine things (brushing your teeth, or getting dressed). We edit out most of our lives when archiving memories into our long-term cognitive library, and I've begun to wonder about the sum of the things that we edit out and forget. Could we build more empathy for others, if we could hold on to memories of interactions with human suffering? Would we be more deferential when in disagreement with others, if we could remember all the times that we were wrong?

We tend to hold on to artifacts that show our triumphs and successes in life, so what flavors of motivation could be cultivated by surrounding ourselves with reminders of our failures or shortcomings? The power of positive thinking is a very potent and useful tool, and when applied to things that aren't very enjoyable to remember (a broken friendship for example), maybe we can re-edit the experience to turn it into one that's worth learning from.

It blew my mind how long it took to edit together a simple 4-minute music video (about 6 hours) and re-editing all the painful or uncomfortable memories from our lives is likely to be a life-long project. Seeing the silver lining isn't just a simple decision, rather a full-length feature commitment, and I'm inclined to think it's one worth seeing through to the end.

How does that sound?

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Here's my re-edited music video for Jump, Little Children's song, "Rains in Asia" created with videos from The Talking Heads, Bjork, Oui Oui, and the Rolling Stones among others.Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-32277786758134277402010-03-05T01:50:00.001-08:002010-03-05T02:04:39.973-08:00Voodoo Seduction

After a late night out a week or so ago, I'd woken in a funk.

The kind when your mind is fixated on sometime from the moment your conscious. The feeling followed me around all day, so I sat down and exorcised it out with a song.

I'm in the process of piecing the finished project together over 3500 miles with my friend Sean back on the East coast. Give it a listen.

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Are you open minded?

What do you believe that you're proud of? More importantly, are there any beliefs that you're not so comfortable with? If you consider yourself open to opposing perspectives and ways of life, where do you draw the line? Is there anything that gets swept under the rug? The dangerous caveat with most humans isn't that we lack information, rather that we lack objective empathy. We cling to our worldview because it's easy and it serves us.

This is what we're talking about in my "Relationships" class this semester. We're focusing on how we treat each other as human beings and also learning about how to coexist in symbiotic ways. Growing up in a family that embraced different cultures and ideas, I've always tried to keep absorbing and growing from different people in different walks of life. In class, we talk about embracing this stance of being "In-Learning", which is defined as:

Being open to influence when holding strong opinions

Inviting other's views openly

Having curiosity about others, about their life, their views

Tries to "hear" what another is trying to say beneath the surface

Ponders their own reactions and beliefs and learns about themselves

Sees and invites the positive core within others

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I'm lucky to be a student and by definition, most of us are already In-Learning to more or less of an extent. After much self-reflection, I've decided to try and apply these principals outside of the classroom. I've decided to try and delve face-first into one of my own least familiar and most stereotyped social environments. I've ridden myself of my past beliefs and ventured into unfamiliar territory. I've pledged into a fraternity.

If you can believe that last sentence, perhaps you've already started to form an opinion. Based on past experiences with members of the Greek system in your own college days, or maybe from shreds of cultural evidence that you've seen over the years, you're currently shaping an opinion about it. Perhaps you're muttering, "I'm open-minded, but Frat guys are close-minded idiots. They're not In-Learning at all". In a lighten fast chain of neuronal activity, perhaps you've already cross-referenced your past experiences and emotions like a book in a cognitive library; in an instant called up volumes of memories to the forefront of consciousness to set the taste in your mouth. But why?

Part of being a successful account planner revolves around connecting, empathizing, and developing common ground with various groups of different people connected to the accounts that we work on. And doing all of this without judgment, or with a "child-like mind," as we're taught. As humans, we seek comfort in people that we share commonalities with and slide into "Us vs. Them" thinking with those whom we don't. It would be easy for me to connect with fellow musicians, or cyclists, or any tribe that I already feel a part of.

So, I'm trying to stretch myself into something new that I'm completely unfamiliar with, and so far it's been great. I've begun to meet all kind of interesting kids from other departments and with different artistic talents. Our school bears resemblance to a conservatory setting and the intensity keeps us somewhat segregated from other departments. By meeting kids outside of the Advertising world and from different artistic backgrounds, I'm hoping to cultivate some unique perspectives and grow my own thinking.

How does that sound?

Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-31441863212004850202010-02-23T14:51:00.000-08:002010-02-23T19:25:54.829-08:00Live! with Justin Ancheta

One of the great things about San Francisco is the street life.

Musicians perch on these hilly streets and almost any kind of music can be heard if one walks long enough. My favorite musician whose street side concerts I've listened to numerous times is Justin Ancheta. A local troubadour, I've heard Justin both solo and with his band, Mostro, complete with drums, and a huge didgeridoo-like horn. Enough to stop anyone dead in their tracks and induce spontaneous hip gyration.

I got in contact with Justin and he was so kind to record a live session for you loyal readers.

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I ran into Justin Ancheta on the streets of San Francisco last year as he was playing with his band, "Mostro". In their three-man setup is guitar, drums, and a six-foot long indigenous/ organic horn of some kind that produced a low drone a la a didgeridoo. I had no choice but to stick around.

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I am dependent on technology.

And I'll be the first to admit that I'm a long time user. My addiction started in the 6th grade when we got our first computer and I taught myself how to build basic webpages with HTML. From then on, I remained glued to my screen, stretching the fabric of the internet, sharpening my understanding of all things digital.

Suffice to say, moving to San Francisco has only stoked the flames. Like a cocaine addict traveling to Colombia, the close proximity of the Apple, Twitter, and Pandora headquarters binds Bay Area tech nerds together. In San Francisco, binary code is the drug du jour.

I've heard the critics before, scoffed at their diagnosis of having a tech problem. Communication theorist Marshall McLuhan diagnosed dilemmas like mine through his work in what he calls, "Technological Determinism":

"For the past 3500 years of the Western World, the effects of media- whether it's speech, writing, printing, photography, radio, or television- have been systematically overlooked by social observers. Even in today's revolutionary electronic age, scholars evidence few signs of modifying this traditional stance of ostrich-like disregard"

McLuhan wasn't the first to begin to look critically at the rising digital tide, and he certainly hasn't been the last. Earlier this week, I trekked down to City Lights Books here in San Francisco, and heard renowned technologist Jaron Lanier talk about his recently published book, "You Are Not A Gadget".

It was really fascinating to hear him talk and my digital worldview is getting a serious ruffling as I'm reading through it. I managed to video his whole talk for you loyal readers, which you can read below. Perhaps this book will be the kick I need to massively overhaul my digital diet.

How does that sound?

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Part 1: Jaron introduces himself and his ideas by playing an ancient flute-like instrument.

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Part 2: Giving some thoughts and ideas regarding our online behavior and why it's different from our real-life behavior.

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Part 3: Technology is the problem and solution to making life better.

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Part 4: Misperceptions about the Internet

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Part 5: Part of the solution may be in micropayments
Gavin Sheltonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240557899516618582.post-79023529500287745332010-02-18T14:19:00.000-08:002010-02-18T14:50:44.572-08:00Hear them out

I've heard the music.

Today, I commuted into downtown Oakland after making contact with the Community Manager at Pandora, who was nice enough to set me up with a personal tour of the office. To any music lover who's ever fantasized about working at one of the Web's biggest music presences, let me confirm what you probably already assume. The people at Pandora rock. They work hard and listen closely. Everyone whom I met was open eared and more than willing to share their two cents of musical insight. Everyone loved some aspect of what they do. This got me thinking.

One of the reasons why I'd guess that Pandora is so rampantly successful, is that it's an organization that are filled with passionate people. An easy gig, some might say, to get to listen to music all day. But it was interesting to ask whether or not some of the employees enjoy silence as much as the rest of us love music. After listening and analyzing music all day however, a lot of the music analysts and program engineers leave their office in Oakland and go to separate band practices. For the people that work at Pandora, it seemed that the music never stops.

It's my hope that someday I'll get to reconnect with them and somehow combine my interest in cultural/ business strategy with my passion for music. If technology has ripped the fabric of the music industry apart, organizations like Pandora are likely to sew together a new model of how music, artists, and listeners can all connect and improve the lives of each other.

How does that sound?

A panoramic view of their headquarters in Oakland, CA.

This screen shows the network engineers the health and operations of their servers all across the country.

This is part of the process that their Music Analysts go through, when combing through music and writing the musical DNA for every song.

Stacks of CD's, waiting to be ripped into their library.

"Jack the Ripper" audio ripping station, compliment to the "Jill the Ripper" workstation.

In the lobby of their headquarters, they make space for live music to be played by any and all interested musicians/ employees.

To break up the (seriously) strenuous work of getting music into the hands of the right listeners, people at Pandora take breaks with epic games of table tennis.Gavin Sheltonhttp://email@example.com


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If the game freezes, just click inside it (games can get unresponsive if you click elsewhere on the page).
Spongebob working as a school bus driver , he must take the school children to their home safely. are Spongebob can complete his task ? lets find out .
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department
Services given to OB/Gyne patients:
1- Complete antenatal care including ultra sonogaraphic assessment.
2- Investigation and treatment for cases of repeated abortions.
3- Diagnosis and treatment of tumours of female genital tract.
4- Easly detection of tumours of female genital tract.
5- Consenvatine and surgical treatment for the benign and malignant genital tract tumours.
6- Easly detection of breast masses.
7- Follow up and treatment of infertile women.
8- Premarital investigations.
9- Painless labour.
10- Follow up and treatment of perimeno pausal symptoms.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Master degree in Obstetric and Gynea, 1989, Zagazige University.
MD. in Obstetric and Gynea, 1998, Zagazige University.
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2- Assistant Professor then Professor of Obstetric and Gynea, Zagazige University.
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*Master degree in Ob/Gyn, Ain Shams University - 2010.
*IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactaction Consultant), Austria, Europe - 2009
*Membership in ALEXEA (Alexandria Endoscopy Association).
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The Department of State published an interim final rule (IFR) on August 28, 2014 to amend the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services. Effective September 12, 2014, the fee for renunciation of U.S. citizenship will be USD 2,350 (payable in USD or CHF). The renunciation fee is paid on the day you appear at the U.S. Embassy and officially renounce your U.S. citizenship before a U.S. consular officer; we are unable to accept pre-payment of fees before the day of your interview.
Section 349(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(5)) is the section of law that governs the ability of a United States citizen to renounce his or her U.S. citizenship. That section of law provides for the loss of nationality by voluntarily performing the following act with the intent to relinquish his or her U.S. nationality:
|"(5) making a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state , in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State" (emphasis added).
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Renunciations that do not meet the conditions described above have no legal effect. Because of the provisions of section 349(a)(5), Americans cannot effectively renounce their citizenship by mail, through an agent, or while in the United States. In fact, U.S. courts have held certain attempts to renounce U.S. citizenship to be ineffective on a variety of grounds, as discussed below.
In the case of Colon v. U.S. Department of State , 2 F.Supp.2d 43 (1998), plaintiff was a United States citizen and resident of Puerto Rico, who executed an oath of renunciation before a consular officer at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected Colon's petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Secretary of State to approve a Certificate of Loss of Nationality in the case because the plaintiff wanted to retain one of the primary benefits of U.S. citizenship while claiming he was not a U.S. citizen. The Court described the plaintiff as a person, "claiming to renounce all rights and privileges of United States citizenship, [while] Plaintiff wants to continue to exercise one of the fundamental rights of citizenship, namely to travel freely throughout the world and when he wants to, return and reside in the United States." See also Jose Fufi Santori v. United States of America , 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 16299 (1994) for a similar case.
A person who wants to renounce U.S. citizenship cannot decide to retain some of the privileges of citizenship, as this would be logically inconsistent with the concept of renunciation. Thus, such a person can be said to lack a full understanding of renouncing citizenship and/or lack the necessary intent to renounce citizenship, and the Department of State will not approve a loss of citizenship in such instances.
Persons intending to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware that, unless they already possess a foreign nationality, they may be rendered stateless and, thus, lack the protection of any government. They may also have difficulty traveling as they may not be entitled to a passport from any country. Even if they were not stateless, they would still be required to obtain a visa to travel to the United States, or show that they are eligible for admission pursuant to the terms of the Visa Waiver Pilot Program (VWPP). If found ineligible for a visa or the VWPP to come to the U.S., a renunciant, under certain circumstances, could be barred from entering the United States. Nonetheless, renunciation of U.S. citizenship may not prevent a foreign country from deporting that individual back to the United States in some non-citizen status.
Also, persons who wish to renounce U.S. citizenship should also be aware that the fact that a person has renounced U.S. citizenship may have no effect whatsoever on his or her U.S. tax or military service obligations (contact the Internal Revenue Service or U.S. Selective Service for more information). In addition, the act of renouncing U.S. citizenship will not allow persons to avoid possible prosecution for crimes which they may have committed in the United States, or escape the repayment of financial obligations previously incurred in the United States or incurred as United States citizens abroad.
Parents cannot renounce U.S. citizenship on behalf of their minor children. Before an oath of renunciation will be administered under Section 349(a)(5) of the INA, a person under the age of eighteen must convince a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer that he/she fully understands the nature and consequences of the oath of renunciation, is not subject to duress or undue influence, and is voluntarily seeking to renounce his/her U.S. citizenship.
Finally, those contemplating a renunciation of U.S. citizenship should understand that the act is irrevocable, except as provided in section 351 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1483), and cannot be canceled or set aside absent successful administrative or judicial appeal. (Section 351(b) of the INA provides that an applicant who renounced his or her U.S. citizenship before the age of eighteen can have that citizenship reinstated if he or she makes that desire known to the Department of State within six months after attaining the age of eighteen. See also Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations, section 50.20).
Renunciation is the most unequivocal way in which a person can manifest an intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship. Please consider the effects of renouncing U.S. citizenship, described above, before taking this serious and irrevocable action.
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