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We give thanks this day.
For moments we have shared with others; for times when we have reached out across barriers of distance and fear; for times when others have reached out to us; for moments when we have discovered another along our path:
For this community of celebration and growth, introspection and solitude, and for those moments of "that peace which passes all understanding":
For our gathering together out of distant places; for our weaving together out of many separate selves this hour of celebration and worship:
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'Room 237′ Trailer: Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' Has Its Secrets Revealed
Posted on Monday, October 8th, 2012 by Germain Lussier
"Phenomenal…An Absolute Must-See." That's a quote taken from my review of the amazing documentary Room 237 and used in its first trailer. Truer words can't be spoken. Directed by Rodney Ascher, the film dissects Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece The Shining to its core, featuring several insane – and not so insane – readings of the 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson. Whether or not you agree with these people or not, you'll never watch The Shining the same away again.
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Temperatures reached the low 20s in parts of the valley during the Dec. 4-10 cold spell. For Dec. 11-12 the National Weather Service forecast lows of 31 and 32 degrees respectively in Reedley with a slight warming trend to follow.
State and county inspectors are checking groves as well as packinghouses. Field inspections are planned for more than 200,000 acres in Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties. The aim is to eliminate most damaged fruit before harvesting.
"Nobody knows what the final numbers are going to be," LaForest said. "For the government to be so concerned that the consumer may get inferior product, it means there's fruit out there they don't like and they want to make sure it doesn't go to market."
"Although temperatures are now on the upswing, the compound effect of a seven-day freeze event has made the fruit more susceptible to damage at higher temperature points," Citrus Mutual president Joel Nelsen said in a news release.
Damaged mandarins and navels will be shipped to juice plants, Nelsen said, which is likely to cover harvesting costs only.
Many packinghouses have installed scanners in recent years that quickly identify and remove damaged fruit from lines, said Kevin Severns, chairman of California Citrus Mutual and general manager of the Orange Cove-Sanger Citrus Association.
Frost protection costs through the first seven days of the cold temperatures totaled about $32.4 million. Irrigation and wind machines can add a few degrees to grove temperatures.
California produces 85% of U.S. fresh citrus year-round. San Joaquin Valley citrus crops are valued at about $1.5 billion.


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Hi list, I recently switched to a Mac after over a decade of various machines running Linux (Gentoo for the most part), and think that the EPREFIX install is great. One of the first things I did was hack together a couple of crossdev toolchains after installing Gentoo-Prefix (it was a bit of a battle, but it does work). I thought, "yay! now I can share these binaries and save others their time", but then I realized there was a big problem. The EPREFIX suggested on the bootstrap page[1] (at least for Mac) is completely non-portable, since EPREFIX=${HOME}/Gentoo will change with every single username. This prevents people like me from sharing useful things like crossdev toolchains that might not be so easy for others to put together. Wouldn't a better solution for the guide be to _strongly_emphasize_ a common-ish EPREFIX such as '/opt/gentoo' or '/Users/Gentoo' ? I chose to use EPREFIX=/Users/Gentoo, since that is a fairly open spot on most Macs, and it likely wouldn't collide with any unix-y paths that might be used for some other purpose. Incidentally, I'd love to post my cross-toolchains for anyone to download - can someone from the gentoo-alt project host them? Currently, I have x86_64-apple-darwin10 => i686-pc-linux-gnu x86_64-apple-darwin10 => armv7a-softfloat-linux-gnueabi The softfloat toolchain can easily be used to build 'softfp' binaries (i.e. binaries that use e.g. neon or vfp, but still work with a softfloat userspace) simply by using e.g. CFLAGS="-march=armv7a -mfloat-abi=softfp -fpu=neon". They can be installed with 'emerge -Kav cross-i686-pc-linux/{binutils,linux-headers,gcc,glibc}'. Cheers, C [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml
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2008 Subaru Forester Revving With Clutch In
The idle of my 2008 Forester oscillates (between 1000 and 2000 RPM) indefinitely when I push in the clutch with the transmission still in gear. As soon as I take the car out of gear, the idle drops back to normal. I took the car to the dealership who was able to reproduce the problem but, because they didn't have a fix for it, their answer was that the car is behaving as designed. The service advisor more simply described it as a design flaw. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem and if they've had better luck getting it resolved.
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epgolfs Posts: 16Tried duplicating this on each of the 3 Foresters I've got sitting in my lot & couldn't. I wonder, though: You've got "Incline Assist" with a manual ~ it does not specifically STATE it in any of my documentation, but I wonder if in addition to applying the brakes momentarily, it also raises the engine rpm if the clutch is depressed on an incline....ARE you on an incline while this happens?
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fsb Posts: 9Hi ateixeira, I reset the ECU (by disconnecting the battery for 20+ minutes) and got some interesting results. For the first 20 minutes (in surface streets driving), the idle (albeit a bit unstable*) did not bounce between 1000 to 2000 RPM when coasting in gear. However, after that (in freeway driving) the problem came back and is now behaving consistently as before.
*By unstable, I mean that, when coasting in gear, the idle would settle to around 1000 RPM until I took the car out of gear, at which time it would return to normal (about 850 RPM). Same problem but less pronounced.
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johnv Posts: 40a TSB was issued that probably fixes this issue. I haven't taken my forester in for this fix as yet.
#11-89-08 Reprogramming Files For High Idle When Clutch is Disengaged
Also on a different board, someone reported a similar issue that turned out to be the accelerator pedal position sensor (in an 05 model). -
leadhead1 Posts: 4Hi there
I drive a 2008 black subaru forester manual base model.
My car did the exact same thing all time and i asked the dealer what was going on.
They were unsure at first and told me that they would contact subaru and get to the bottom of it.
I recieved a phone call three days later saying that there was a Re-flash available
I drove in the next day had the re-flash done and all was well.
I read the report about disconnecting the battery on here and then the problem came back
i found out that:
Good work and thanks for the advice -
leadhead1 Posts: 4You will have to understand the system that there are two random access memories. One is for lets say there was a recall and or an emmision concern and the memory had to be re-learnt. The re-flash for this concern is not permanent fix and disconnecting the battery will erase it. I watched the dealer carry out this re-learn and its fool proof that i think that you could even do it.
I phone the technical department for subaru and they even confirmed that this is the case. -
paisan Posts: 21,181Sorry, I am basing this on USDM spec cars. It would be kind of dumb for the ECU not to keep all the updates to the memory for things like recalls and such when you changed the battery. That would be a major liability for the manufacturers! Hence why when they do flashes like that here in the US they are more or less permanent even if you change the battery.
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johnv Posts: 40And not an idle rev (dealer called it idle fluctuation) to be seen. I call the problem fixed.
Curiously just today I received email regarding Service Program WVN-24, regarding a ECM reflash and one-way valve removal to prevent possible catalytic converter damage. I wonder if the reflash I received four days ago covers this? Annoying. -
whiteoakbayou Posts: 2My 09 Forester X 5-speed does the exact same thing. It doesn't settle down to idle until the vehicle stops. It's impossible to modulate between on throttle and off throttle smoothly between about 2000 to 2500 rpm.
I hate the dealership where I bought it and had it serviced for the first 40k mi. I'll take it to the other dealership in town next service and see what they say.
P.S. It doesn't do it when the engine is warm but not yet up to full temp. Maybe a colder thermostat would help?
Wish Subaru would publish something so I would know for sure.
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Sirandar: If Pana and Oly want to make "Pro" lenses they need to know what kind of pros they are targetting and realize they are competing against their own 40-150mm lenses which usually can do the job. I love my OMD-E5 to death but if I was really making my living with it I probably would be forced to used FF, if only because my customers would expect it. Thankfully I am free of the bondage of actually trying to sell photography.
Take home message .... there is not much point making 1000$ plus pro lenses for M4/3. The rich want more prestige cameras and the middle that loves and supports M4/3 cant justify the price when the 40-150 is only 149$
If the Oly primes I wanted dipped below the 400$ mark I would buy them tomorrow (12mm and 75mm). That is the price these primes should be.
"The optically best Olympus lenses shame Nikon and Canon."
LMAO. No, not even close.
pca7070: Made in Thailand, finally.
You've never met a sloppy Japanese, have you?
Paul Kersey Photography: it's interesting how Nikon continues to roll out a dying line of cameras; the DSLR.
Seems less dead than mirrorless.
beavertown: The worst investment ever made by Tameron. Who owns EOS-M?
Even the population of the unwanted Nikon 1 system is much higher than the EOS-M.
So do I. Plus plenty of people in Japan, making it one of the top selling mirrorless in the country. Just because us M owners aren't loud and obnoxious like some mirrorless fanboys here, doen't mean we don't exist.
Lab D: F/4.5-F/6.3
Oh by the way, now I know why people with poor math skills go for m43. You gotta be quite a piece of work if you can't multiply something by 1.5 or 1.6.
Lab D: F/4.5-F/6.3
I see that you're reaching for the 'reach' defence. Are things going slow in the m43 world? Thought you guys would be scrambling to find some kind of bandage fix for your EVFs getting burnt by the sun.
Lab D: F/4.5-F/6.3
At least you don't have to times two to arrive at the effective aperture. Unlike what you're shooting with.
topstuff: I find it hard to conceal my contempt and disappointment for a camera company that has more resources than any other, to offer such a weak and cynical offering in mirrorless to its customers.
They are abusing their brand and cynically expecting people to buy something inferior by design, just because of who they are and the distribution they have at their disposal.
In many ways I'm pleased that the M is so unsuccessful. Hopefully it will force Canon to take the market more seriously, make a better effort, and so produce something much better for the marketplace.
Then we all benefit.
What you need, is a shrink.
"We've already published lab test data showing that its optically excellent"
It's, as in 'it is', not its.
Hiring proofreader? I'm in Seattle.
Dabbler: When the MKI came out I gave up 12mm at the long end in my 112mm X20. Now I'm expected to give up another 30mm? Yes the 24mm at the wide end is nice but I would miss many shots at the long end using a MKIII. I'm interested to see what Nikon comes up with in the P8000.
Why would you "miss" the shot? Just snap it at the tele end and crop.
Lapkonium: Chinese company – check. Imitating apple's product name, looks of advertising materials, and gadget's appearance (iPod touch) – check. High specifications, unreasonably low price – check. Now, it's evident that something was saved upon. Most likely it will look and feel cheap, fail and disintegrate within months.
Armchair commentator who has no idea what he's talking about - check.
TimT999: The level of copying that's going on with the Mi Pad and all DP can say is "aimed at Apple's iPad Mini. " Let's at least be honest here, this is a level of theft that probably won't be allowed outside China.
Fairly common in China of course. You go into any big market area in Beijing or Shanghai and the booths are full of knock-offs of international brands. You can get a great price on a real, authentic "Rolex" that falls apart after a month.
I assume the hardware for the Mi Pad isn't that level of cheap crap. But the real issue is the software interface. If it's standard Android, it could very well take market share away from Samsung. The Mi Pad could definitely undercut their tablets.
I don't think it competes as much with Apple regardless of Mi Pad's flagrant copying. Many of the folks in China who have the money for Apple won't want to own a brand that screams knock-off.
"You can get a great price on a real, authentic "Rolex" that falls apart after a month."
I actually have a knock off "Rolex" and it's been keeping very accurate time for the last six years.
Ian SS: The cheaper 10-18mm EFS I see the point, but why 16-35mm IS? Wide angle lenses will not be affected as much due to hand shaking, I would rather have bigger f-stop.
Video. Video. Video. I'm a guy. I don't understand why there are ladies restroom everywhere. I never use them!
An Olympus camera that's not flawless? Shocking!
12345ccr: Eh, 17-40 still seems like the superior option. I can see this being good for video shooters though, particularly with the 70D. The IS and image quality will have to be up to par of course to justify the price over the 17-40 but there is some potential.
Why is the 17-40 superior? Other than the extra 5mm on the tele end and a lower price, this new lens is better in every way.
kwa_photo: Now, maybe if they had a clear/translucent version, that could be fun from a technology and conversation starting standpoint. To be able to see the internals (just isolate the sensor from light in its own little box) and it would be sort of fun. "Do I have an SD card in this thing? Yep! I see it!" LOL!!!
Never mind. That might work.
kwa_photo: Now, maybe if they had a clear/translucent version, that could be fun from a technology and conversation starting standpoint. To be able to see the internals (just isolate the sensor from light in its own little box) and it would be sort of fun. "Do I have an SD card in this thing? Yep! I see it!" LOL!!!
Clear version? Will it actually capture any image, other than those that are completely pure white?
EvokeEmotion: This completes the Canon APS-C Trinity: 10-18, 18-55, 55-250. All with IS and STM.
So much for the conspiracy theory that Canon is about to abandon the APS-C format.
The 60mm macro is a EF-S prime.
This completes the Canon APS-C Trinity: 10-18, 18-55, 55-250. All with IS and STM.
So much for the conspiracy theory that Canon is about to abandon the APS-C format.
dwill23: Sigma 18-35 f1.8 HSM is cheaper and over 2 stops faster. C'mon canon, reverse engineer Sigma's new optical formula and match their quality and I might pay the 33% price premium for your red stripe.
My 17-40 has been a total wedding work horse for me on my 5D3. I know some like to shoot the 24-70 L but the first one was garbage and 2nd one too costly.
However, the price point of the 10-18 sounds like it will move a lot of units, however, it's not that bright.
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Inkubate is already in full swing this year! We're proud to be sponsoring the Woodstock Writers Festival.Executive Director Martha Frankel, who launched her very own Woodstock Writers Radio show last year, is kindly featuring the title of my first children's book, When the Wind Blows, as the theme of her ever-popular, always-sold-out-early Story Slam. To be held on Thursday, March 19th, the Story Slam is Woodstock's uproariously fun kick-off event for writers and readers. Those bold enough to share their talent at the mic will incorporate the words "when the wind blows" into their 3 1/2 minute performances. We're grateful to Frankel, her fabulously personable entourage, and all of the friendly year-round residents who treat us like we live and work along the shores of the Hudson River Valley. Frankel's career as an entertainment journalist makes her a valuable advisor to the Woodstock Film Festival, where she can be found each fall interviewing dynamic actors and celebrities.
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Inkubate was hatched by my life-long friend and environmental colleague, Jay Gale, who was frustrated by the difficulty I was having pitching WIND to traditional agents, editors and publishers. Jay stayed up one long summer evening brainstorming Inkubate's business plan and Inkubate later launched me as a children's author. Thank you, Jay! Thanks, too, to David Bass, a nationally recognized marketing ninja, who accepted Jay's offer to be Inkubate's CMO. Together, this dynamic duo will ensure that Inkubate is "The Place to Go for Talent!"
We're also delighted to be sponsoring the International Publishers Guild's (IPG) 2015 Annual Trade Publishing Awards in Oxfordshire, England. IPG is the largest independent organization for European publishers and David will present Inkubate's powerful new B2B platform, which is rolling out this spring. David and Jay will be representing Inkubate at the London Book Fair, where we're sponsoring IPG's new Meet the Innovators Zone. All in all, it's turning out to be a very promising and exciting New Year.
Do you have an important story to share in 2015? If so, we hope that it will make its way to the bookstore shelf, the library shelf, or a traditional agent, editor or publisher's shelf. Incidentally, it was Oakland, CA-based literary agent Andy Ross who viewed WIND on Inkubate and sold it to Holiday House three days later. Thank you, Andy!
If you're a writer like I am, I bet you have shelves, cabinets and table tops cluttered with story ideas, re-writes, feedback, rejection letters, and praise from friends and family who have loved reading your work, published or not.
Recently, I opened one of my many writer abysses to search for information necessary to create a website for my first children's book (When the Wind Blows was discovered on Inkubate by Oakland, CA literary agent Andy Ross) and I discovered a goldmine of correspondence from none other than Pete Seeger. I knew that there were letters from Pete with comments he had provided on WIND and that they included a beautiful Foreword he had written for the story, but I didn't recall the many personal insights and attached articles that Pete had sent to me, because, like most of us, I'm a writer with a day job, or jobs for that matter!
Here, in my old pine hutch, on top of the tab marked "Seeger Correspondence," I found everything I need to create a lively site for my story, including a 15-year trail of articles related to wind energy, climate change and the benefits of shifting to renewable energy. There it all was, including a picture of me and Pete standing along his beloved Hudson River, back in 2009, when my mom and my son and I drove to meet him at the Beacon Strawberry Festival. But that wasn't all I found.
There were treasured letters from editors who, over the many years I have written and edited, had graciously taken the time to review earlier versions of WIND (then under different story titles) and provide critiques that helped me to approach my work with renewed enthusiasm and with fresh eyes.
There were notes of torn paper scribbled with story ideas, comments overheard by children that needed to be explored in writing, and complete drafts of other delightful stories that I had all but forgotten about. I was in awe.
I tell you all this because I know that we're all alike. Part-time writers everywhere (and there are at least 15 million of us in the U.S. alone) have started, revised, shared and shelved so many works, many of which have great potential. I know mine do. Yours do too.
Inkubate was created to provide me and all of you with a depot for all of our literary potential. Our site invites writers of all kinds of fiction and non-fiction to upload and categorize their work so that agents, editors and publishers will have an opportunity to access a broad range of content in one place, using a variety of relevant tools designed to serve their needs.
We can't guarantee that your work will be published, but we can promise that our mission is to create the smartest, simplest, most streamlined experience for writers to present their best works in an environment that is compelling to the publishing industry.
When Inkubate 2.0 launches later this summer, it will have enhanced tools for agents, editors and publishers to efficiently browse writer submissions. It will also have tools for writers to monitor the activity surrounding the works that they have uploaded to our system.
Our goal is to provide a mechanism to help launch more writing careers and to provide the publishing industry with the services they require to gain and maintain traction in a rapidly evolving industry.
If your work is discovered, will it be traditionally published or digitally released? It depends on the publisher and the demands of readers, but our goal is to make every possible channel available to you.
We'll be reaching out to all of our current writers soon with updates on what's ahead. In the meantime, happy writing to you all this summer!
Have questions about uploading a manuscript, the privacy of our members' works, or anything else? Please just reach out. I can be reached at email@example.com.
We've been fascinated by the efforts of many writers to create what are really shadows of a larger story using the 140 character limitation of Twitter.
As we prepare to hatch our next technology roll-out, which will include new tools for writers & publishers and a slick new dashboard design for both, we are curious whether this abreviated narrative would help us bring more writers and publishers together.
For example, if we were to tweet "Email us your 140 max-character MEMOIR," a journalist like Annie Harrison-Dunn may respond with one of her clever teasers, such as: "Confronted by the sameness and change of it all, he sighed deeply. This was the lake upon which he once skimmed stones." (119-characters)
Writer Ben Mines may reply to a similar request for CRIME, writing, "Take her out! Jules was told. So he did. It was a nice clean shot too. But then his boss phoned to ask if his wife was having a good time." (140 characters)
A call for ROMANCE may return a tease like this one by writer Joanna M. Weston: "He texted me during math class. I caught his eye. We met for coffee. Classes over, we went to my place; proved one plus one makes three." (136-characters)
You get the idea.
If you have a 140-character or less silhouette of a story running in your mind, please share it with us and we will post the most compelling ones on our blog and occasionally direct them to our publishing partners. You never know, a clever tweet may inspire a publisher to search for you as an author on the web or on our site, where you can easily create your writer profile, upload and categorize your work, and then pitch your idea to get discovered.
Let us know what you think.
Send your 140-character limit story tweets to me at email@example.com.
Write On!
Inkubate's core business model involves the market of 25 million aspiring writers who spend a ton of money each year on advice, editorial services, websites, conferences, workshops, and postage, just trying to get noticed. We writers are like addicts; believe me, I know. Just like many of you, I've spent a small fortune over many years doing whatever was necessary to get a traditional publishing deal. We know that it can be nearly impossible unless you are a proven "marketable" author, celebrity, or if you are fortunate to be represented by a top agency.
We created Inkubate to be a submission, discovery, curation, and collaboration platform for intellectual property. Our goal remains steadfast: to build the smartest, simplest, most streamlined experience for writers to showcase their works and for publishers to discover those marketable manuscripts that will be welcomed by readers and drive publishing revenues higher.
We'll be closing on our first round of funding soon and are looing forward to adding the technological enhancements that will provide more powerful discovery and marketability tools for publishers and meaningful feedback for writers.
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Inkubate News
Inkubate is pleased to announce that the judging for our Literary Blockbuster Challenge has concluded and our winners have been contacted. We are so grateful to all of the hundreds of writers who participated.
As soon as we have received verification from the winners that they meet the eligibilty requirements, we will share their works with our vetted editors and agents who are looking forward to the opportunity to review these fresh works of literature. Once their reviews are complete, we will share the winners' names publicly.
Thank you again to all of our writers who have participated in our first literary contest and to our wonderful judges who have made it possible.
All press requests regarding information should be directed to Stacy Clark at email@example.com. Please forward your press credentials along with your request.
Our judges are still deliberating over the finalists in our Literary Blockbuster Challenge. We are looking forward to speaking with them soon and making their news your news.
It's been a busy summer here at Inkubate, as we have been focused on building new tools for the writing and publishing communities. We have heard from many of you about the kind of writer experience you would like to see on Inkubate and we are so happy to include your perspectives as we move ahead. We know that many of you want to be able to track the number of times that your work has been viewed by our vetted editors and agents and this feature is at the top of our wish list too.
Thank you to all of our writers for trusting Inkubate with their most important work.
Have a great weekend.
"For two months all we did was read. There were detective novels and coming of age stories, mysteries and science fiction, historical and even some erotic literature. There were so many great entries that narrowing down our selections to just a few became a daunting task. In the end, I think we found some writers with exceptional talent, and that made all the reading worthwhile." – Nathan Feuerberg
Nathan Feuerberg, usually busy writing short stories, novels, and plays, collaborated recently with James Joyce Scholar, Susan Sutliff Brown, and author Mary Katherine Wainwright, Ph.D. to read and judge over 600 original novels submitted to Inkubate's first Literary Blockbuster Challenge. Inkubate is indebted to this remarkable team and we're delighted to announce, in no particular order, their Long List winners:
These writers' works will now be reviewed by our top-judges, lead by James W. Hall, author of Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers. Winners of Inkubate's Literary Blockbuster Challenge will be announced the first week in August.
Writers have two days left to enter Inkubate's Literary Blockbuster Challenge.
Here's what writers need to do:
Register as an Inkubate writer on our homepage: www.inkubate.com
Once registered, return to homepage to Login (link is on top right-hand corner of homepage).
Once logged in, click on "Add Work."
Type the Title, write a brief Synopsis and copy and paste an Excerpt from the work using our 'paste from word' tool.
On the blue right-hand side bar of 'Add Work' page, be sure to choose "Fiction" and "Novel" as your Format. This will trigger the "Enter in contest" box to appear further below. Also choose one to three Categories that best describe your work. You need to click "Add" each time you select a category.
Scroll to bottom right-hand corner of page and click on the "Enter in contest" box. Scroll up to agree to the contest's Terms of Use.
Finally, scroll to bottom left-hand side of page and click on the Browse tab to upload entire manuscript. PDFs are preferred.
Be certain to SAVE WORK otherwise your upload will not occur and your information will be lost. Each time you SAVE WORK, you will return to your Writer Dashboard. Simply click on the title of your work to return to the Add Work page, where you may continue editing your information.
Be sure to SAVE WORK each time edits are entered.
Uploading a newer version of a manuscript will replace any earlier verison of the work.
If you have any questions, please contact Stacy Clark at firstname.lastname@example.com or 214-505-9953.
Following the recent San Miguel Writers' Conference and many other winter literary festivals, Inkubate welcomes the talented writers who are now uploading their unpublished and self-published novels in anticipation of our literary contest deadline of March 31, 2013.
A stunning panel of judges will be reviewing writer submissions.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres), bestselling author James W. Hall (Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers), Woodstock Writers Festival CEO and memoirist Martha Frankel (Hats and Sunglasses), award-winning poet, President of PEN Mexico and National Endowment of the Arts Fiction Fellow, Jennifer Clement, and Fulbright Scholar and political satirist Larry Beinhart (Wag the Dog and How to Write a Mystery) will collectively review contest entries. When hearing that Inkubate's literary scholar, Susan S. Brown, Ph.D., was designing a contest to attract writers capable of creating a well-crafted, meaningful literary novel that's also a page-turner and commercial success, Jennifer Clement agreed to participate, stating that "the character-driven novel with plotting and suspense is the key ingredient of good storytelling."
When uploading a work for the contest, writers are asked to choose "Fiction" and "Novel" as their literary form. This triggers the contest entry box to appear. After checking the box, Inkubate's Terms of Use for the contest will appear and after agreeing to them and uploading and saving a novel as a PDF, writers' works will automatically be entered in this one-of-a-kind contest. Writers may upload partially completed novels and then return to re-upload completed works by March 31, 2013. Re-uploading a completed PDF automatically replaces any earlier version of a novel.
Writers seeking personalized attention in uploading works should email Inkubate co-founder, Stacy Clark, directly at email@example.com.
Writers works are never visible to the public, but rather only to the vetted agents, editors and publishers we invite as members.
There is no entry fee for this contest and ten winners will receive a total of $10,000 in prizes. Top winners will also have their works reviewed by leading literary agencies, including Curtis Brown and Andy Ross, and editors from Random House, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Hachette Book Group.
With five weeks to go, our distingusihed panel of judges and everyone here at Inkubate are cheering writers on!
Top left to right: James W. Hall, Jane Smiley and Larry Beinhart
Bottom left to right: Martha Frankel and Jennifer Clement
Published, this morning on Yahoo News:
Inkubate Inspires Writers to Create the Literary Blockbuster
Top Publishing Executives Review Winners
(Portsmouth, N.H.) December, 10, 2012. Is it possible to write a well-crafted, complex, meaningful literary novel that's also a page-turner and commercial success—even a blockbuster? Inkubate thinks so and announced today its 2012 Literary Blockbuster Challenge, offering writers $10,000 in prizes, a first-place prize of $5,000 and access to top-level publishing executives for the best attempts at merging literary and commercial fiction.
Inkubate's pioneering platform, engineered by PixelMEDIA, enables qualified publishers and agents to search, browse and discover writers' unpublished works. The late, great Ray Bradbury, having viewed an Inkubate demonstration in Los Angeles wrote, "Inkubate is giving voice to new writers as well as resurrecting those that should not be forgotten." For a man who explored technology and questioned its effects on society throughout his life, Bradbury's comments validate Inkubate's core mission, which according to Co-Founder, Stacy Clark, is "to offer writers a level playing field where they can at least get on base."
The contest is inspired by the publication of James W. Hall's Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers. Inkubate's Co-Founder, Jay Gale, explains: "In his analysis of twelve books that were major financial successes, Hall identifies the literary devices that the authors used to keep readers hooked."
Inkubate, and the panel of judges led by Hall and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Jane Smiley, are looking for writers who are willing to turn their literary talents to commercial fiction. "Imagine merging the profundity of Moby Dick with the page-turning power of Jaws," said Clark, whose own manuscript was discovered on Inkubate by Oakland-based literary agent, Andy Ross and will be published by Holiday House.
Joining Hall and Smiley on the panel of judges is Fulbright Scholar Larry Beinhart (Wag the Dog and How to Write a Mystery), writer and Executive Director of the Woodstock Writers Festival, Martha Frankel, and the prize-winning poet Jennifer Clement, who is excited by the chance to read the entries: "The character-driven novel with plotting and suspense is the key ingredient of good story-telling," Clement said.
Inkubate is accepting contest entries through March 31, 2013. Writers' works are visible only to vetted publishers and agents. Random House, Harper Collins, Hachette Book Group, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and leading literary agencies have agreed to review the winning submissions.
Contact: Stacy Clark
Co-Founder, Inkubate
Stacy Clark, a co-founder of Inkubate, is also an educator, writer and researcher who lives in Dallas, Texas.


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New RMIT building
New RMIT hub building on the left and remnants of the CUB site in Swanston Street in Carlton. Photo: Craig Abraham
FROM a rubble-strewn construction site on Swanston Street, one of Melbourne's most innovative buildings rises above the street clamour like a grey, linear iceberg.
At first, to stand next to it is to feel dwarfed – no windows, lintels, eaves or other such architectural frippery interrupt the vast sweep of its walls.
But a closer inspection reveals that the "skin" of RMIT's new Design Hub building is stippled, made from translucent, sandblasted glass discs.
Vice-chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner says this will make it a "glorious, gleaming, transparent, sequinned building" that cements Melbourne's reputation as a centre of design.
These glass discs contribute to the building's green cred – controlled by computer, they swivel in response to the sun and weather conditions and offer occupants a view of the city or a breath of fresh air.
And, as technology evolves, the university hopes some discs could be replaced with solar cells that could power the whole building, or mini screens that would enable films to be played on its walls.
The brainchild of esteemed architect Sean Godsell, RMIT's $60 million-plus building will be the largest design-based building in Australia.
It will house "transdisciplinary" teams of university design experts – from architecture to aerospace industries – who will work cheek-by-jowl in research or postgraduate work in a unique setting.
When RMIT sold off the rest of the old Carlton United Breweries site in 2005 to developer Grocon, it decided to keep the land on the corner of Victoria and Swanston streets and devote it to "something that spoke to Melbourne and about Melbourne … and the thing that had to be was design," Professor Gardner said.
It will sit alongside a number of other innovative buildings from Grocon, including Australia's first carbon-neutral office building, Australia's first wooden high-rise apartment building and an apartment tower etched with a 100-metre facade of indigenous leader William Barak.
The university also says the Design Hub will transform the traditional research space.
Gone are the individual small rooms and laboratories; instead, big, open warehouse-style floors with sliding walls and kit furniture will allow researchers to form and re-form their spaces and hang large projects or plans from the roof or walls.
Professor Daine Alcorn, the deputy vice-chancellor of research and innovation, said this approach would allow academic cross-pollination.
"The reason why this transdisciplinary approach is really important is that to answer the big questions you need a scientific point of view, a sociological point of view and economic point of view, for example," Professor Alcorn said. "This building brings all of these into the equation."
The outside of the building is largely complete but work continues on the interior.
Completion is set for the end of the year.
Architect Sean Godsell is probably best known for his award-winning Kew and Peninsula houses, his controversial design for a park bench that converts into a homeless shelter and for "Future Shack", a cabin constructed of a shipping container to house returning refugees.
Mr Godsell declined to talk about the Design Hub, his first major building, until it was complete but Professor Alcorn said he was on site most days to oversee its construction, particularly the external skin.
The Design Hub will sit alongside Grocon's Swanston Square redevelopment, which will include a new public square.


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Hampton University president named ambassador of U.S. Energy Program
Jordan Crawford | 2/6/2014, 10:38 a.m.
Hampton University (HU) received high accolades Friday from President Obama's point man on energy, who cited high-tech initiatives on campus and a new role for the school's leader.
HU President William Harvey will serve as one of several ambassadors for the Minorities in Energy Initiative, said U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. Harvey joins a group that includes 2014 Miss America Nina Davuluri and Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico.
Moniz made the announcement in a speech to students and faculty after touring campus. He visited Jefferson Lab earlier in the day.
His trip to the Peninsula followed the State of the Union speech Tuesday where the president made mention of an "all of the above" energy policy. However, Moniz said that generalized approach must still take into account climate change and carbon dioxide emissions.
"We must support the development of the technologies and the policies that will allow all of our fuel sources to be competitive in a future low-carbon environment," he said.
Moniz, a nuclear physicist and former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited HU's Proton Therapy Institute and met with a select group of students, whose majors included physics, mathematics and biological sciences, before addressing the larger group.
He said the university's evolution into a world-class research institution is really a fantastic journey, and it's exactly the journey the school needs more of. He then delivered a pep talk of sorts on the benefits of seeking a career in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
STEM careers can mean greater upward mobility for individuals, and as a nation "it has to be our competitive edge," he said.
With 17 national laboratories, the Department of Energy (DOE) is a "science and technology powerhouse," he said. "But going forward, that means we need a really good science and technology workforce."
The students greeted him warmly, and later tossed out questions that were a testament to their studies. One asked how DOE was dealing with environmental and safety risks in the field of nano-technology, for example.
Kai Bracey, a student who met with Moniz before the speech, asked how to reach younger people about the value of STEM so the country can lay down the innovation foundation we need to be efficient in the future.
Moniz brought up one simple experiment for young people. Compare an incandescent light bulb with an LED bulb. He said the incandescent bulb is really a heat bulb while the other is not.
"In other words, it's very efficient," he said.
Meanwhile, Harvey said he hopes to use his new role as ambassador to discuss a number of issues. He wants to continue HU's push toward campus-wide geothermal systems to provide heating and cooling, replacing coal. He failed in a pitch to Moniz's predecessor, Steven Chu, but hasn't given up on it.
His other priority is to change the face of the DOE work force.
"There is a dearth of minorities in the work force of the Department of Energy," he said. "We need to do more."
Harvey said he believed his persistence paid off with the ambassador appointment.
"You know the squeaky wheel syndrome," he said with a smile. "But I think it's good because it gives me another platform."


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Approaches to SEO: Incoming Links, Page Optimization and Great Content
You have a small business or organization. You have limited time, funds and energy. How should you approach SEO? In my post called Intro to SEO, Ken Cleveland argues:
the most important thing when doing search engine optimization is get a good amount of backlinks first. when you have a sufficient amount of backlinks, then you can start optimizing in page links, keyword density and other factors which affects your ranking.
And Navaro says:
internal linking is an important factor also and is worth looking into.
On another blog, a commentator felt strongly that page optimization (keywords, meta tags, body tags and more) was the most important factor.
We could argue about what is MOST important of the big three (Incoming Links, Page Optimization or Great Content). Instead, make sure to familiarize yourself with all three of these approaches and apply some of each to your site.
I would suggest that the most important place to put your energy is in building great content. If you have content worthy of a link, the links will come. Of course, there are many ways to "nudge" along the process of getting links. But if you have limited time, put some of that time into a blog for your business. This will give you an opportunity to write more valuable content that others can link to. Here are few examples of a blog for a small business:
More information about SEO, incoming links and page optimization:
- SEO 101 All You Wanted To Know About Incoming Links
- High Quality Inbound Links Can Boost Your Rankings and Site Traffic
- SEO Chat Forums
- How to Grow Your Google Authority
- 5 SEO Tips for a better keyword research process
- Organic SEO and Tracking Your Social Networks
- How We Got a Link from the New York Times
- Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization
13 Responses to "Approaches to SEO: Incoming Links, Page Optimization and Great Content"
Yup..great content leads to high Pagerank. If content is good and that's what actually being looked, easily and automatically will get good authority and genuine links. Content is king.
Thanks for this important post…nice and excellent written for the best choice of the seo process which the leading community to gain the website promotion field…keep sharing.
I agree that it is importent with good content. However it will not lead to high PR. I suggest that you get links from suppliers and bloggers you might know.
Agreed that great content is first. It will make incoming links come much easier. Also, incoming links are nice, but if the person who clicks on these links doesn't stay more than 5 seconds, it doesn't help very much.
Incoming links, page optimization AND great content is important. Im my opinion you can't go for only one of these.
But great content is the overall most important. And page optimization should be part of writing great content. But all this doesn't help much, if nobody finds your great content. So some basic link building to start with is neccessary to get a decent rank in the search engines, thus making your great content known to the users out there
I've found that incoming links are remaining important in SEO to this day. As a New Jersey SEO company offering internet marketing services we try to incorporate a third of our clients budget to link building.
Wonderful info. I enjoyed reading it and look forward to reading more. As the founder of WV Writing Services I am always looking for helpful info to better serve our clients. WV Writing Services offers SEO content at the best prices on the internet. We have 400 word articles for $2.50. Drop by today at http://wvwritingservices.com
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I realize this is somewhat dated, but at the same time it isn't because it is evergreen content. Leora, you hit it on the head when you said that great content is the most important aspect to developing a great site that ranks well. Google is all about shutting down spam and it's crawlers are getting better by the day at "reading" text, and like Scentsy said, it doesn't matter how many links you have pointing at you if there is nothing there to make someone (or a crawler) stick around.
If Ken Cleveland is arguing to build backlinks without first developing internal SEO I know who I won't hire for my SEO. No site should be launched without a proper structure and internal linking practice. Make it easy for the crawlers, and they'll make it easy for you.


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Michael Rockefeller
Father, Sister Arrive
Simon and Leo came through.
They made it to shore, after five hours of swimming, and ran to the coastal home of a Dutchman, who alerted authorities that Michael Rockefeller had suffered a boating accident.
Within hours, the colonial government had three search planes and 12 boats looking for Rockefeller and Wassink.
Wassink was located and rescued at 4 p.m. by the Royal Netherlands Navy.
Urgent calls to the United States informed Nelson Rockefeller that his son was missing.
Rockefeller and Michael's twin sister, Mary Strawbridge, immediately flew to Hawaii and then on to New Guinea in a chartered jet, followed closely by a mob of the world's journalists.
Gov. Rockefeller said, "I have complete confidence in Michael's stamina and resourcefulness."
Rockefeller, his daughter and his aides worked closely with Dutch authorities in overseeing the search. The governor took several trips by airplane to the area when his son was last seen, and one day he boarded a small Dutch trawler for a search by water.
Thousands of people — from government, the military and the media — were involved in the search for Michael Rockefeller.
Dutch Gov. P.J. Platteel put every boat and airplane at his disposal to work in the search. Australia added dozens of its own air and watercraft.
One historian called it the "greatest search operation in the island's history." But it was hampered by a local lack of modern communications and ground transportation.
Vast swaths of Dutch New Guinea lacked a single road, and fly-over searches by aircraft were nearly useless since most of the island was covered by a thick jungle canopy.
After ten days no one found a single sign of the missing young man, and the pragmatic Nelson Rockefeller decided to give up. He held a press conference and said it was clear his son was lost at sea. He accepted a phone call of condolence from President Kennedy, then left the island, traveling home via the Philippines and Holland.
On the evening of Nov. 30, Gov. Rockefeller stood before a crowd of journalists at Idlewild airport in New York after stepping off the plane from New Guinea. He delivered a sad but touching tribute to his son.
"He was never happier than he has been out there for the past seven or eight months," Rockefeller said. "He has always loved people and been loved by them. He had tremendous enthusiasm and drive and loved life and beauty in people, in art, in nature."
Gov. Rockefeller described Michael's New Guinea adventure as "one of the most exciting experiences of his life." His voice dropping to a raspy whisper, he added, "Things can happen."
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At the store near me they have been out of 9mm amor for awhile. During the 7.98 box sale many people went in and ordered tons of ammo me included. I ordered 2k rds in hopes of having before Janurany. Well i just got a phone call from a friend that works there telling me that Dicks just bought alot of Federal ball ammo and will be selling it to the people who had rainchecks. The bad news is that they only i case per person. So essentialy i lost 3 more cases for the price. Dangit!
Tell us if you got the same dredfull call and what you have been told.


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Before I became a Christian, I lived a life full of sin and I knew that I was destined for hell, but wouldn't do anything about it. I was self-centered, deceitful and envious. All I wanted was to please my flesh.
At one point, certain things and people took the place of God in my life.
But thank God for all his dealings in my life, on August 22nd, 2009, I attended a youth meeting at Kabwata Baptist Church. Elder Chibuta preached on Justification by Faith from Romans 3:19-31, but the key verse was verse 28. It says "For we maintain that man is justified by faith apart from observing the law." He explained justification in a simple way: "being treated by God as if you have done nothing wrong. He takes Christ's Righteousness and puts it on you, then takes your sinfulness and puts it on Christ. In short, it's just as if you never sinned". He later gave an example to say, "Imagine yourself in a court room facing judgment by God, about to be sent to hell forever for your sins. But a man walks in, prepared to take your place but only if you accept him and put your faith in him. This man is Jesus Christ, the only true son of God." This made me realize how serious sin is before God and how much he loves me that he freely gave up his son as an atonement for my sins.
As he continued preaching, I thought about my life and how I would go to hell if I continued living my life without Christ as my Lord. When I went home, I found the elder at home. When it was time for him to leave, I walked him to the door and I took this opportunity to find out who can be justified. He told me that it's only those who are in Christ that are justified. In Desperate need for a savior and justification, I quickly rushed to my room, knelt and prayed asking Christ to forgive me and justify me by faith. After praying my heart was filled with both sorrow and joy; Sorrow for the sins I had committed, and joy that Christ was my Lord.
My walk with Christ has not been easy. I had to give up most of my friends, movies, music and motives. There was a time I had backslidden due to the doubts I had about my faith and the struggle I had with sin. But later I came back to Christ because there was an aching void within me which could not be filled by anything. This was on 8th August, 2010 when Pastor Mbewe preached about Christ being the only way to heaven, only mediator and the only ransom to buy me from sin (Timothy 2:1-7). Christ has completely changed my life (Philippians 1:6). I live my life spending time with His Spirit, word and also in prayer. Day by Day I know am growing in grace through Christ Jesus my Lord. Amen!


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capital improvement program (cip)
The Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is a multi-year planning instrument used by the City of San Ramon to identify needed capital projects and to coordinate the financing and timing of improvements in a way that maximizes the return to the public. It is a comprehensive five-year plan of capital improvement projects, which identifies priorities as to need, method of financing, cost and revenues that will result during the five years. The program is a guide for identifying current and future fiscal year requirements and becomes the basis for determining the annual Capital Budget.
The Capital Budget is the first year of the Capital Improvement Program. The capital budget includes one-time costs for projects that may last several years. The projects result in major physical assets in the City. Resources for the capital budget are generally provided by bond proceeds, impact fees, grants, and taxes.
The Capital Budget is incorporated in the Annual Budget, which appropriates funds for specific facilities and improvements. Projects slated for subsequent years in the program are approved on a planning basis and do not receive ultimate expenditure authority until they are eventually incorporated in a Capital Budget. Each year when the CIP is reviewed, the program is moved forward one year and the previous second year of the CIP, as modified after review, becomes the Capital Budget.
The Adopted Five-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 2014-2019 can be viewed here.
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Amy A. Amiri, Senior CIP Analyst | email@example.com | (925) 973-2671 |
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- SCADA Network Communications Overview
- Potential SCADA Network Entry Points AND Defenses
- SCADA Network Scanning and Vulnerability Identification (in a SAFE manner)
- Network Monitoring and Simple Intrusion Detection
- Dissecting SCADA Protocols
- Common Programming Pitfalls
- Modern Hardware and OS Mitigation Strategies
- Incident Response Essentials for the SCADA Community
This course is structured to help students not only understand exactly how attacks against SCADA systems could be launched and why they work, but also provides mitigation strategies to increase the cyber security posture of your control system network. Because it is hands-on, students get a deeper understanding of how the various tools work.
The hands-on character of this course requires that every student have a laptop computer they can configure and bring to the class. All students in this course should have already mastered networking fundamentals such as UDP vs. TCP, MAC vs. IP addresses, Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 switches, and be comfortable with memory management and coding in C++, Java , or Assembly. In other words, it is a technical course. To be fair to the other students, we will not be able to slow this class to answer very basic questions, so if you are not comfortable with these topics, please take the Introductory SCADA Security Course where you will get much of the same material but without the technical details.
Accompanying this course is a sample SCADA network that will be used to demonstrate exploits used for unauthorized control of the SCADA system and mitigation solutions. This network will also be used during the course for the many hands-on exercises that will help you develop control system cyber security skills that you can apply when you return home.
Intermediate SCADA Security Sample SCADA Network
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- Contact:
- Gary Finco, (208) 526-7048, Send e-mail,


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MFW Spring 2013: Our Top 10 Shows
Elana Fishman
Fashion's Italian capital is home to some of the biggest labels in the biz: Prada, Gucci and Fendi, anyone? But when it came to the Spring 2013 Milan collections, we fell for some relatively new names in addition to the usual, can't-miss heavy-hitters. Click through to see the 10 lineups we loved most.
As colorful as a sleeve of Starbursts, Frida Giannini's collection of azalea pink, coral, turquoise, lemon and lime looks brought the punch. Tunics worn with trousers featured heavily, as did dresses virtually dripping at the shoulders with bold ruffles. Also worth mentioning? The ornate jeweled chokers, which would make even a white tee feel special.
While perhaps not to everybody's taste, Miuccia Prada's streamlined, Japanese-inspired kimono dresses and flat floral graphics were certainly refreshing and innovative. And we can't wait to see envelope-pushing editors test-drive those metallic leather toe socks.
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Alessandro Dell'Acqua is killing itl. His cerulean side-slit skirts printed with images of neoclassical figurines were graphic and gorgeous, while floral pieces slashed with red racing stripes were totally modern. And a figure-hugging sheath covered with silver bottle caps looked like something Venus would emerge from the sea wearing.
We loved the colorful chain-link trims and prints on Christopher Kane and Donatella Versace's wonderfully fun collection, as well as their heavy use of bright polka dots both super-sized and small. Knits blocked with magenta, yellow and green stripes were a fun take on the rasta look, and multi-zippered day dresses somehow made sheer athletic mesh seem chic.
Consuelo Castiglioni played with checks and balances—graphically speaking, of course. After opening with tie-waist coats and knee-length skirts in picnic plaids, she showed a section of monochromatic (!) leather dresses and separates in simple, sober black and white. The shimmering black jacquard finale looks, however, were anything but plain.
Jil Sander
The label's eponymous founder has returned, and with a stellar homecoming collection to boot. Pocketed coats and dresses in oxblood and navy stayed true to Sander's minimalist roots, as did the designer's great color-blocked shifts and separates (most of which were shown with similarly duo-toned mid-calf boots). The white-on-white finale looks peppered with iridescent polka dots, though, were the real knockouts.
Massimo Giorgetti's bold and youthful collection has been a favorite of ours for several season. The designer's panther-patterned jumpers and monkey-fronted minidresses were tons of fun.
Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi used harlequin prints to best effect, splashing them on bubble dresses, peplum skirts and sharply peaked bustiers. Some of those diamond jacquards were cut with palate-cleasing stripes, others amped up with gleaming sequins. Total drama.
Bottega Veneta
Tomas Maier showed beautiful '40s-inspired floral tea dresses, but balanced all that femininity with looks trimmed in metal studs and snakeskin insets. The second-to-last look, a belted party dress that featured crisscrossing rows of black beadwork, was a major highlight.
Karl Lagerfeld's Cubist inspiration was apparent in his paneled shirtdresses and skirts flanked by three-dimensional square pockets, and in the adorable dice-style clutches—some of which were carried by hand, others clipped to large totes. Less directly artsy (but equally amazing) were the Big Bang-printed looks that closed the show and resembled digital tie-dye techniques. Talk about an explosive finale.
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Paige McPherson Keeps Working Hard to Reach the Olympics Again
It would be easy for Paige McPherson to rest a bit on her laurels after winning a bronze medal in taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Historic London 2012 Helps Provide ŌĆścatalystŌĆÖ for British Taekwondo Growth
British Taekwondo has grown 'significantly' since London 2012 due in part to the heroic efforts of gold medallist Jade Jones, who won British Taekwondo's first ever gold at an Olympic Games.
Thursday, 02 May 2013
Olympic medallist Lutalo aims to reign in Spain
LUTALO Muhammad competes for the first time since winning an Olympic bronze medal when joining Great Britain's 12-strong squad at the Spanish Open in La Nucia on Saturday.
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Sarah Stevenson Calls It a Day as a Taekwondo Athlete
Sarah Stevenson has retired from taekwondo to become a coach on UK Sport's world class performance programme, calling time on an impressive career that included two world championship gold medals.
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If not for the Power Rangers, British taekwondo athlete Aaron Cook might be watching the London Olympics on TV instead of competing for gold.
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Motamed, rising world-class taekwondo athlete
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed (born in 1985, Tehran) is an outstanding talented Iranian taekwondo athlete who specializes in sparring. There are three types of taekwondo competitions: patterns (harmonious movements), breaking (of hard objects), and sparring…
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UAE Princess Will Compete in Taekwondo at Beijing Olympics
Sheikha Maitha Mohammad Rashid Al Maktoum, 29, looks like a model at nearly 178 centimeters tall, long black hair and a distinctive look. In fact she is a daughter of Mohammed bin Rashid Al…


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