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Adam Wilt has been working off and on in film and video for the past thirty years, while paying the bills writing software for animation, automation, broadcast graphics, and real-time control for companies including Abekas, Pinnacle, Omneon, CBS, and ABC. Since 1997 his website, adamwilt.com, has been a popular reference for information on the DV formats. He has reviewed cameras for DV Magazine and written its "Technical Difficulties" column, and taught classes and led panels at NAB, IBC, and DV Expo. He co-authored the book,"Optimizing Your Fi...
By Adam Wilt | January 15, 2014
Last October Kevin McAuliffe told us in two articles that Final Cut Pro X wasn't worth caring about: "FCPX is still not ready for professional use". He caught a lot of crap for saying so, but he was right... in a very constrained context (which, if you read his rants, he carefully... Read More
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By Adam Wilt | November 11, 2013
Two stories of note from this past week:
Canon's C100 Large-Single-Sensor AVCHD Cine Camera will be upgradable to dual-pixel phase-detection autofocus, similar to that used on the EOS 70D DSLR... but better.
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By Adam Wilt | October 21, 2013
[2013.10.22 update: availability will be June 2014]
At Art Adams's behest, SLR Magic's product manager and lens designer Andrew Chan stopped by on Monday morning, fresh off the plane from Hong Kong. Andrew is on a whirlwind week-long tour, showing off his... Read More
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By Adam Wilt | August 24, 2013
Back in late February, a chap named James Flynn put up a Kickstarter page for Luxi: "Luxi turns your iPhone into an incident light meter." He hoped to raise $10,000 to build the thing; 45 days later he had $120,921. I threw some money in the pot in mid-March, and earlier this month two Luxis... Read More
By Adam Wilt | May 10, 2013
If you're using OS X and you copy AVCHD media folders to a NAS (network-attached storage) or a case-sensitive disk, you may run into problems: opening the media in 10.8's Finder gives you "CANNOT OPEN" instead of a clip browser, FCP X can't see the clips, and so... Read More
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By Adam Wilt | March 19, 2013
Today, one of our excellent local rental houses, Videofax in San Francisco, held an Open House to show off the Sony F5 and F55 large-single-sensor cine cameras. I was able to get a few pictures of these new beasts, which Videofax has kitted out using third-party support accessories and a couple... Read More
By Adam Wilt | February 24, 2013
The 2013 HPA Tech Retreat has concluded. In my final report, I offer some observations, look at a few items in the Demo Room, and show Mark Schubin's post-retreat treat.
4K and the cloud were in, 3D was out.
Sony has apparently had F55 4K... Read More
By Adam Wilt | February 22, 2013
The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference (plus Monday bonus session) for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. Day 4 offered a SMPTE update, lens metadata, lightfield cameras, new encoding paradigms, Ethernet AVB and video, upconverting to 4K, and the... Read More
By Adam Wilt | February 21, 2013
The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. Day 3 covered a legislative update, post on demand, ACES, the VFX business, file-based architecture, IMF, working in raw, digital intermediates exchange network, the cloud,... Read More
By Adam Wilt | February 20, 2013
The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference (plus Monday bonus session) for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. Day 2 covered design considerations for HDR displays, ATSC 3.0 and the future of TV, broadcasters' concerns, mobile DTV, 8K UHDTV, and... Read More
By Adam Wilt | February 19, 2013
The Tech Retreat is an annual four-day conference (plus Monday bonus session) for HD / Video / cinema geeks, sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance. The program for this year's show is online at http://www.hpaonline.com/2013-program and the opening "Super-sized Session" was on "More,... Read More
By Adam Wilt | February 18, 2013
The 2013 Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat started today with a presentation from Charles Poyton on "High[er] Frame Rates". Charles couldn't attend in person, as his Canadian passport expired unnoticed, so we enjoyed him via a live webinar instead (which had all the "cone of silence"... Read More
By Adam Wilt | January 22, 2013
[Warning: crass commercial message follows.]
So, it's finally done and dusted: Cine Meter for iOS has shipped.
It actually went live last Thursday, but one of my beta testers immediately told Jon Fauer about it. Jon posted a quick review on Film and Digital Times... Read More
By Adam Wilt | January 01, 2013
Happy New Year!
[Update 5 January: I have all the testers I need, thanks!]
I've been beavering away for a while on a new app. Cine Meter is a shutter-priority reflected light meter, an RGB waveform monitor, and a false-color display, for any iPhone / iPod / iPad with a... Read More
By Adam Wilt | December 05, 2012
I've had my new GH3 for a couple of days now; long enough to work my way through the manuals and answer my burning questions about how it compares to the GH2 as a video camera, and time enough to learn some interesting... Read More
By Adam Wilt | November 26, 2012
Image from Film and Digital Times used by permission.
Are you into super-shallow depth of field? Do you think modern lenses are too "clinical"? Shoot PL-mount? Vantage, the folks who make Hawk anamorphics, are introducing a new line of nine spherical prime lenses, from 17.5mm through 120mm. They all open up to T1, with the knife-thin DoF and the organic look that implies, and—wait for it—they'll be available in a partially-uncoated version for lower contrast and increased flare. Read More
By Adam Wilt | November 16, 2012
This review will be short and sweet, just like its subject: Induro's Hi-Hat is a stubby little tripod that brings your camera down to earth with more flexibility and versatility than a traditional hi-hat or low-hat can offer, while still allowing the traditional mount-it-on-a-board use that filmmakers are familiar with. Read More
Chinese photo-equipment company Benro has been making tripods and heads under its own name for the past decade. At NAB 2012 they introduced a new line of kits with fluid heads for video use, and these started shipping in October. Benro's US distributor sent me three representative kits, with both aluminum and carbon fiber sticks and three different fluid heads, to test and compare. Read More
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By Adam Wilt | November 06, 2012
Recently one of my L. A. buddies, photographer and director Ralf Strathmann (Flash-based website), shot a feature using Canon 5D Mk IIs. He found to his surprise that the audio and video recorded by the cameras weren't in sync, with sound two frames ahead of picture. A discussion two weeks ago on the Cinematography Mailing List also debated DSLR A/V sync, or the lack thereof. I decided to have a look into it. Read More
By Adam Wilt | November 01, 2012
Mikey Digital on an iPhone 4S running Voice Memo.
Blue Microphones recently started shipping the Mikey Digital, an add-on stereo mike for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, and iPod touch 4G (iOS 6 only), and Blue offered to lend me one for review. I'd been intrigued by earlier, analog Blue Mikeys at trade shows, so I jumped at the chance to look at—and listen to—this digital descendant. Read More


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(Portions of this report originally appeared Nov. 18, 2009)
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
What if we could reinvent Thanksgiving Day's traditional dishes?
Could we replace baked yams topped with melty marshmallows with something natural and organic? Could we convert Mom's canned green bean casserole into a healthier, Earth-friendly dish – complete with crunchy onion bits on top?
What if we asked some of the best-selling organic cookbook writers in the country to overhaul our Thanksgiving table?
We asked, and they answered. Our lineup of top green cooks have whipped up a great alternative menu for Thanksgiving. (OK, we did turn to one expert vegetarian cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, by Mark Bittman, for a stuffing recipe.)
And no, we didn't talk turkey. We'll leave that up to you non-veggie types. Here's what's cooking, and who is cooking it:
Myra Goodman and her husband, Drew, started Earthbound Farm in 1984. What began as a small farm producing organic items became the first company to launch pre-washed salads for retail sale. Today, 150 farmers grow Earthbound Farm's more than 100 varieties of organic salads, fruits and vegetables.
Myra has been creating her own recipes and cooking with their organic food since she baked and sold raspberry muffins at their first roadside stand. The Goodmans have been featured in People, The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Redbook and more. Her first book is Food to Live By: The Earthbound Farm Organic Cookbook (Earthbound Farm Organic Cookbk). Her newest book, The Earthbound Cook: 250 Recipes for Delicious Food and a Healthy Planet, was released earlier this year.
- Myra's recipe for Cranberry Sauce
Jackie Newgent is a registered dietitian, an eco-cuisine expert, chef/instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education, and author of Big Green Cookbook (Wiley, 2009) and The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook. Her Web sites are JackieNewgent.com and BigGreenCookbook.com. Follow her on Twitter @jackienewgent.
Her dish for our T-day table is a yummy alternative to heavy flour and turkey-dripping based gravy:
- Jackie's recipe for Earth-Style Sweet Potato-Butter Bean Gravy with Rosemary
Thanksgiving seems to demand a dollop of bread stuffing seasoned with sage. The question is: Can we tinker with this tradition, lower the carb wallop, but still fulfill our need for comfort food? Looking for something a little lighter, but still filling, found us perusing Mark Bittman recipes from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, a award-winning cookbook that rescues vegetarian cooking from the tofu/faux meat/Asian stir-fry rut. Bittman, an omnivore who recognizes the value of a mostly veg diet has been a professional food writer for 30 years, serving up recipes at Cook's and The New York Times. He's best known as the author of How to Cook Everything and for his "minimalist" column at The Times.
- We chose Pearl Couscous Gratin with Pesto and Goat Cheese, because it's easy, packs some punch and prepares well ahead of time.
The green team at Organic Gardening Magazine is always thinking seasonal, natural and healthy. Abigail Poulette, one of the pros there, has a fresh take on a Thanksgiving day dish that is usually anything but natural. Here is her suggestion to turn fall's fresh, seasonal items into a healthier version of Mom's green bean casserole.
- Organic Gardening's recipe for Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Crispy Shallots
Jesse Ziff Cool has been dedicated to sustainable agriculture and cuisine since 1975. She is a writer, restaurateur, spokesperson and consultant for eco-conscious food service, waste management and social and corporate responsibility in the food industry. She is the author of seven cookbooks, including Simply Organic. She operates three restaurants and a catering company. She works with Stanford University education students to build a curriculum around simple, healthy food. She helps guide Stanford Hospital toward organic, healthy food for patients.
- Jesse's recipe for Ginger Yams with Mascarpone
Myra Goodman again lends a hand in our virtual green kitchen with her natural recipe for a perfect Thanksgiving Day pie – Pumpkin and Winter Squash Pie:
- Myra's recipe for the Pumpkin and Squash Pie Filling.
- Choose from 2 crusts: Sweet Pie Crust or Flaky Whole-Grain Pie Crust
Anna Lappé is a bestselling author and speaker on food politics, sustainable agriculture, globalization, and social change. She was named one of Time's "Eco" Who's Who. Lappé has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O-The Oprah Magazine and more.
The co-founder of the Small Planet Fund and Small Planet Institute, she lectures and is co-host of public TV's The Endless Feast. Her first book, Hope's Edge, written with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, chronicles courageous social movements around the world. (You may recall her mother's bestselling book , Diet for a Small Planet.) Anna's second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006) written with chef Bryant Terry, has ideas, tools and menus for healthier lives. Her latest book is Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury).
- Anna's recipe for "Green" Apple Pie
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Ontornet Meets with Minister of Information
On March 19, Ontornet met with Minister of Information M. Walid Daouk to discuss the latest law he submitted to the cabinet on March 7, the Lebanese Internet Regulation Act (LIRA) (مشروع قانون للإعلام الإلكتروني).
At the beginning of the meeting, Minister Daouk acknowledged that he should have met and consulted the online community before presenting the law to the cabinet; however his action was driven by his need to fill an urgent legislative gap concerning internet laws.
Ontornet: Why did you withdraw the law from the cabinet agenda?
Minister Daouk: The news that the law was withdrawn is totally wrong, the law was not withdrawn. When discussing it in the cabinet meeting, it was pointed out that there are several laws, and I was asked to review it. The law was referred to the Committee in charge of Electronic Transactions who is currently reviewing it. It will be discussed, once again, in the ministerial cabinet.
I am truly open to feedback from the online community, and ready to discuss the use of words. I also don't mind taking their comments and concerns into consideration while reviewing the law. What I ultimately care about is having a good modern law for the greater national good.
Ontornet: There are different types of websites: the news websites (tayyar.org, NowLebanon, Elnashra, etc), personal blogs (BeirutSpring, HummusNation, etc), as well as NGO/Initiative websites (Ontornet, Nasawiya, etc) along with many others. The law you submitted does not differentiate between the different types of websites, does that mean that it applies equally to all types of websites?
Minister Daouk: Today, we all know that the number of websites is constantly increasing. There is nothing in the current Lebanese law that tackles Electronic media, and this constitutes a serious gap in the Lebanese Law: this is the main motivation behind the law. We only now have the Publications Law in our hands, even though I know that there are 2 laws being prepared now, one by Maharat and PM Ghassan Moukheiber, and another one by MP Robert Ghanem. However my problem is that the legislative process in Lebanon is Lebanon is taking way too long.
So, as I said, the objective for now is to build on what we have (The Publications Law of 1962) by adding a part that will allow the publications Law to interact with electronic media. This part consists of defining what a website is, and of giving the website owner the choice of either declaring his website to the Ministry of Information or not. It is an elective law; no one is forced to comply with it. If one chooses to declare his website he is in return getting protection.
Ontornet: Is there any place where it is mentioned that it the Law is elective?
Minister Daouk: In the legislation writing process, you don't mention literally that a Law is elective.
But had it been obligatory, the text would have stated "electronic websites MUST" (يقتضي على من يريد النشر بواسطة الإعلام الإلكتروني أن )
Ontornet: Since this is an elective law, what are the incentives for people to register?
Minister Daouk: There are 2 pillars: duties (identification) and rights (IP protection). Once you submit your identification information, you get the Intellectual property protection and you become liable in case you committed any copyright infringement.
Another incentive is that we are creating a way to show credibility by creating this label which is important for brands and online professionals. This is similar to AOC (Appellation d'Origine Controlee) and offers tracability and a kind of self-control.
Ontornet: So you are affirming that people are free to either opt in on this law or not?
Minister Daouk: Yes, indeed. Nothing would change for those who do not register. The law offers the honest more credibility and protections.
Ontornet: Do you consider you are asking websites and electronic media to obtain a "License"?
Minister Daouk: No way on earth! It is just identification. It would be total imbecility if someone wanted to impose licensing of electronic media.
Ontornet: Why did you state limits on the numbers of website owned?
Minister Daouk: Where is this stated? [After reading the paragraph] This is because it is something that already exists in the Publications Law. I needed terms of references and wanted to make sure no distortions were created, so we extended an existing law, one we know well.
Ontornet: Even though Publications Law dates back to 1962 and should not be applied to online media in the first place?
Minister Daouk: I agree on this point, but efforts concentrated on finding an existing "vehicle" that could be used to fill in the gap we currently have, until a better and final media law is issued.
I strongly believe that electronic media is evolving fast and that a law dating from 1962 may not correspond to it but I wanted to set two main values or pillars: someone identifies his information website at the Ministry and gets Intellectual Property protection in return.
Besides, any modification or addition to L.I.R.A occurs through the issuance of decrees within the Ministerial Cabinet, rather than having to draft adopting a new law in the Parliament. This was done specifically to be able to keep up with the speed and fast evolution of media law.
Ontornet: The opening paragraph mentions the respect of public morals and gambling – how is this judged or enforced and does it have any fallouts on freedom of expression?
Minister Daouk: If someone is registering his information website at the Ministry of Information, it means that his content cannot deal with online gambling or break general public morals which is something done in all countries.
Ontornet: Does this law include for example content published on official Facebook pages?
Minister Daouk: I don't care where content is published – whether Facebook, personal site, blog, etc. It is just that the Ministry cannot give identification to something that deals with gambling or breaking public morals
Ontornet: The big political website are the first people who won't submit for identification since they are protected and nothing forces them, true?
Minister Daouk: I am not really that sure because they have incentive to protect their content.
For example, few days ago I read about a lawsuit against the Free Patriotic Movement website- so anyway, those websites are famous, well known and can be sued. By submitting their info they get extra protection.
The Legal Expertise
In light of its meeting with Minister Daouk, ONTORNET discussed the content of the Law with a Legal Expert. The expert noted the following problems with the Lebanese Internet Regulation Act – L.I.R.A. (مشروع قانون للإعلام الإلكتروني)
The Format
The Law is only one-page long and contains 8 articles. It gives very few details for such a highly technical and complex field.
Article 6 refers to the Law on Publications (قانون المطبوعات) dated 14 July 1962 whereas it provides the number of Law 382/94 which concerns Audiovisual Broadcasting (قانون البث التلفيزيوني والإذاعي). This creates confusion as to which law applies to the employees of information websites. It also does not specify which particular articles within this law(s) will actually apply to those employees.
Loose and Incomplete Definitions
The law defines 3 concepts in the first set of articles:
- "Electronic Media" (الوسائل الإلكترونية) is defined in Article 1.
- "Electronic Communication" (التواصل الإلكتروني) is defined in Articles 2 and 3 without any apparent reason, since it is not used anywhere else in the Law. What is then the need for this definition?
- "Websites" ( (الموقع الإلكترونيare defined in Article 4 which sets the conditions of website registration in the Ministry of Information.
However, the main "regulation" articles, Article 6 and 7, use the new concept of "Information Websites" (المواقع الإلكترونية الإعلامية) without any previous definition.
This leaves a number of questions unanswered: What will be considered as an "information website" (and thus will have to comply with Articles 6 and 7)? Is a personal blog considered as an "information website"? Is a public forum considered as an "information website"?
The Extent/Coverage of the Law
Minister Daouk assured ONTORNET that the law is optional and only applies to registered websites as defined in Article 4. In other words, only if an author chooses to register his website will he have to comply with its provisions. See below tweet dated 22/03/2012 "@Walid_Daouk draft law aims to give persons who identify themselves optional more credibility and tracability for their websites' content."
However, the optional nature of the Law is nowhere mentioned in the text. Furthermore, the text does not provide clear answers to the below important questions.
- Do Articles 6 and 7 apply only to websites defined in Article 4 (i.e websites registered in the Ministry)?
- Article 1 prohibits Electronic Media to publish immoral content. Question: Does this article only concern registered websites, or all websites? In case Article 1 applies to all websites, then there is a need to clarify the concept of "public internet content", and whether for instance social network communications are included or not. There is also a need to provide clear legal protections in order to ensure freedom of speech and online access to information.
Such opacity might give way to a considerable amount of confusion and misinterpretations in the implementation of the law.
- The Law does not include mentions of a timeline for further decrees regulating its implementation.
- The Law does not include transitory provisions that are more than necessary in the field. For example, do the provisions apply to content published before the law was issued?
- The Law clearly does not take into consideration international norms in the field.
The Law does not provide for essential technical definitions and aspects that are specific to the field. Below are a few examples:
- Domain: Does it apply only to websites registered to .lb domain?
- It refers to old (1962) publication norms that are not compatible with the modern nature and technicalities of online publications.
The Intellectual Property Rationale
L.I.R.A does not seem to give any added value to already existing law in the media field. When asked about the purpose of this law, Minister Daouk explained that it will allow media websites to register in the Ministry and benefit from Intellectual Property protection.
However, the Intellectual Property protection provided for in Article 7 only concerns Intellectual Property violations in advertisements that are published on the websites. Moreover, registering in the Ministry and naming a representative manager who can be pursued for any violations, means that registering will not protect the website's Intellectual Property; it will only make it easier to sue the website if it commits any Intellectual Property violation. In other words, there is absolutely no incentive for companies to register.
Bottom Line
Once again, Lebanese internet Users are faced with a "Good, Bad and Ugly" situation.
The Good: For once, a minister in the current Government takes his job seriously and drafts a Law proposal.
The Bad: The Law itself. It has no added value and its inconsistencies risk to create serious confusions and misinterpretations upon implementation.
The Ugly: The Government is going ahead with L.I.R.A. despite the alarm calls of concerned actors.
Ontornet team will be meeting with Minister Daouk on March 19 at 2:30 to share the community's questions and concerns about the proposed Lebanese Internet Regulation bill and to have a discussion around the new regulatory framework the government is planning.
We will be live tweeting our discussion and taking in your questions. Please voice up all your concerns in the comments section and we will be communicating them to the Lebanese Ministry of Information.
Stay tuned for the minutes of meeting and audio recordings.
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Earthenware was already produced by people in early history (Egypt, Greece, China and Persia). Initially, the earthenware was unglazed, later on people learned the technique of glazing, in which a layer of semi-transparent lead-glaze was applied in various hues. As a result, the earthenware became stronger as well as water- repelling.
At about 1100 AD, tin-glaze was discovered in Persia. Owing to this, it became possible to provide the earthenware with a white, untransparent layer of glaze. Upon this it was quite feasible to apply a coloured decoration. This was of importance, in order to be able to compete with China, where in the meantime porcelain was made already. This hard, glassy earthenware fired from a mixture of kaolin and veldspar (sorts of clay), was white in colour and decorated in hues.
By way of the Moorish occupation, the tin-glazing technique came to Spain,and from there it became known in Europe. Particularly in Italy, tin-glazing became popular (around 1450). The painted earthenware with tin-glazing applied on one side, was called majolica.
Around 1550, Antwerp was a flourishing port.
On account of the growing enlargement of the power of Spain, Antwerp lodged many refugees. Among them there were among others Portuguese Jews and also Italian potters, who were familiar with the tin-glazing technique. From Antwerp, this technique spread northwards, where majolica production was also taking place (Haarlem, Zealand, Delft and Friesland).
In the meantime, the eighty-year war (1568-1648) broke out between The Netherlands and Spain, in which particularly the southern Dutch provinces were occupied by Spain. The north successfully resisted itself against the Spanish army.
When in 1585 Antwerp came under Spanish occupation, the Scheldt estuary was closed off by the Zealanders , who were still free. As a result, the role of Antwerp as a trading and port city was soon over.
The Golden Age; Hey-day of the Northern Netherlands:
The fall of Antwerp implied the transfer of the trading and port activities of The Netherlands to Amsterdam.
In 1602, the powerful V.O.C. (United East-India Company) was established, which soon conquered a monopoly on trade with South-East Asia. Spices and particularly also Chinese porcelain were transported in large quantities to Amsterdam and traded there.
In particular the blue decorated porcelain found its way to the evermore affluent middle class and nobility, it became a favourite collector's item. Mostly special porcelain rooms were arranged in the houses and so-called "Porcelain displays" included the show-pieces of many a collector.
The whole seventeenth century was a period of great wealth for The Netherlands. Other objects of art were also collected. This "Golden" age for that matter was the most famous period in Dutch painting after all.
The rise of Delft-fayance:
The Dutch earthenware industry tried to imitate the ever so popular Chinese porcelain. Potters fled from Antwerp to the North improved the tin-glazing technique, and one succeeded in firing very thin earthenware. This earthenware was covered on all sides with tin-glaze and decorated.
This type of earthenware went into history under the name of fayance; it was primarily produced in Delft but also in Haarlem.
However, competition with the relatively cheap Chinese porcelain remained difficult. This situation, however, changed drastically about 1650.
The Ming dynasty in China tottered. The associated internal wars paralysed the porcelain industry.
The import of porcelain into Amsterdam also stagnated. The demand of the collectors, however, was only growing. The Delft-fayance turned out to be a good substitute. The number of earthenware factories grew quickly, and more was being produced all the time, and the quality was likewise improved as well.
In the initial stage, Chinese porcelain was primarily imitated concerning both form and decoration. One even went so far as to replace lost parts of Chinese porcelain objects by Delft-fayance items.
The term "Delft porcelain" was used even, an incorrect name, because it concerned earthenware in fact.
Also when Chinese import restarted, Delft-fayance remained popular. After 1730, a slow decline set in, and after 1830 only a single Delft-ware factory remained.
Although "Delft-fayance" was also made outside Delft (Haarlem), it was indeed Delft that formed the most important centre of production. In the so-called Luke-guild in Delft, a great number of earthenware factories and traders were united. In this way, there were around 1650 in any case sixteen factories known by name such as "De Grieksche A"(The Greek A); "De Dobbelde Schenckan"(The Double Tankard) ; "De Paeuw"(The Peacock); "De Roos" (The Rose); "De Porceleyne Fles" (The Porcelain Bottle); "De Witte Starre" (The White Star); and others.
A number of earthenware factories were established in former breweries, and took over the name of that brewery (e.g. De Witte Starre, De Dobbelde Schenckan)
In the hey-day of the Delft-fayance, the blue decoration (cobalt) was primarily used, which was applied directly onto the layer of tin-glaze that was dried but not yet fired. After that, firing was carried out in a hot oven (more than 900 degrees Celsius). In this way, the decoration became one with the glazing.
Domestic earthenware certainly has been produced by the Delft earthenware factories. Most of this is lost. The famous Delft decorative earthenware is an altogether different story. This was mostly produced only once by order of collectors. It has been preserved for the greater part and kept in private collections, or can be admired in Musea (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam). Delft-war is also exhibited abroad. Famous are the Delft tulip-vases in Hampton Court, London, England.
Sorts of decorative earthenware:
The decorative earthenware can be classed under a number of categories. The most important are:
- Dinner table service:
Not somuch plates and dishes, but especially tureens, butter pots, pie tureens, fish plates, cake dishes, spice-boxes, gravy boats and oil and vinegar sets have been preserved. - Obelisks
Around 1600, some Egyptian obelisks were transported to Europe and erected there as statue (Rome). The popularity of the obelisks induced the Delft earthenware potters to make small, blue-decorated obelisks. - Jugs:
Many jugs, certainly those higher than 38 centimetres have been made solely as ornamental object. Many forms have been applied e.g. the form of a ring. - Tea (and coffee) sets:
Tea sets were articles much in demand, due to the increasing culture of drinking tea ( blown over from China). As far as coffee sets are concerned, little is known. Of certain coffee jugs it is not known if they were actually used for coffee. For drinking tea, also hot water kettles on a little tripod were made. These kettles were indeed also used for chocolate. - Tobacco earthenware:
The increasing use of tobacco furnished a number of dishes having scenes relating to the smoking of tobacco. In addition, tobacco pots have been made, which were decorated with tobacco leaves. - Cupboard sets:
Specially for the Dutch cushion-cupboards and cabinets, cupboard sets were produced, mostly consisting of five vases, which could be grouped symmetrically. - Chemist's pots:
In behalf of the use in chemist's shops, chemist's pots and syrup jars were made. Initially with a simple painted on label. Later on the label framework became more and more decorated. - Tulip vases:
Tulip vases form a special category of Delft-ware. At the end of the 16th century, the tulip reached The Netherlands from Turkey. It soon become a fashion flower, for which exorbitant prices were paid. People talked of "The foolish tulip trade". But also when this fashion whim was over, the tulip , however, remained a popular flower. Still it is not so that the Delft tulip vases were only used for tulips, other flowers were also stuck into the vases. The case is even that some Delft tulip vases, namely the large pyramid-shaped vases were not used as flower vase at all. The vase itself as showpiece was already impressive enough. It has been established that with a number of pyramid-shaped tulip vases the little spouts have been closed up from the inside, so that flowers could not be stuck into them after all. The tulip vase can be characterized as a vase having several little spouts into which flowers can be stuck.
Tulip vases were very popular at The English Court. This was not surprising because Queen Mary before she became Queen of England, had been living for many years in The Netherlands (Palace Het Loo). She was a collector of Blue Delft-ware and she has taken part of her collection with her to England. The tulip vases at Hampton Court in London are relevant examples. Pyramid-shaped tulip vases are indeed also to be admired in the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam, in the palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn and in the Musee Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire in Brussels. Several types of tulip vases can be distinguished: Simple, low flat vases having an oval or heart-shaped belly. These especially served for being placed on tables or low cupboards.Round tulip vases with or without several storeys. The large specimens solely served as showpieces. Pyramid-shaped tulip vases. These were the largest show-vases. A well-known specimen is more than two metres high. They are composed of several storeys, and form a unique appearance of the Delft's blue fayance. Finally, there are also tulip vases in all kinds of fantasy shapes.
The Decoration:
As the blue Delft-ware had to replace the Chinese porcelain, many of the paintings are Chinese imitations, or inspired on Chinese presentations.
Popular were Chinese landscapes depicting Chinese dignitaries. Also Dutch presentations were represented in Chinese style.
That does not alter the fact that also other styles of painting were applied. Well-known are Biblical presentations, allegorical presentations (the senses or the four seasons), landscapes, port-views and interiors. Flowers and plants were also frequently represented. On appointment, coats of arms and portraits were also applied as decoration. Initially, only hot (more than 900 degrees Celsius) earthenware-ovens were used.
The decoration was applied onto the dried up tin-glazing and fired together with the tin-glazing. Owing to this method of working , the colour integrated into the tin-glazing, and a smooth surface arose. Blue was the most popular colour, but also yellow, brown, black and brown-red could be applied.
When, at the end of the 17th century, the enamel-oven was invented, by means of which one could fire at 600 degrees, it became possible to also use bright-red and gold. These colours, however, were applied on top of the tin-glaze already fired, and consequently lie on the glazing. Often, a mixture of both techniques was used. Some colours were fired together with the tin-glazing, after which later on, with the aid of the enamel-oven once more, other, less heat-resistant colours were added. This specific technique was applied to enable the imitation of the Japanese Imari décor that had also become popular.


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There may be trades involving actual people on draft day. Branden Albert? Sure. Chris Ivory? Probably. Tim Tebow? Why not.
But that's difficult to gauge, and is a reflection of the fact that there are so very few truths in this draft, one which will be filled with all sorts of zany. We accept the following as near scripture, though:
- Teams that are currently slotted in the top half of the first round have no desire whatsoever to be there. That's great, and it may keep writer folk like, well, me up for many hours Thursday while we try to chart the insanity. But the thing about trading back is that someone needs to trade up, and maybe only two teams really want to do that.
- Dee Milliner is the top cornerback
Fact No. 2 will remain in dispute, and when Milliner is eventually selected as the draft's top player at his position, the separation between him and, say, D.J. Hayden or Xavier Rhodes won't be lengthy. At all.
But despite all the reports saying all those awful things about Milliner (which may be a product of fecal matter throwing), he's still ranked as the top corner by over half the league.
Specifically, 22 teams have ranked Milliner as the top CB, according to Draft Insider's Tony Pauline. To be fair, that still leaves 10 teams which have someone not named Milliner as their top-ranked cornerback. But 22 >>>>> 10, and what makes that number even more notable is that Milliner has maintained his high standing despite the circulation of his five surgeries throughout his Alabama career.
From Adam Schefter, here's the entire hit list:
Alabama CB Dee Milliner has undergone five surgeries, some not as major as others. Milliner's surgeries: right knee scope, sports hernia, right tibia stress fracture, left shoulder, right shoulder
Milliner's torn labrum is well known. That's the injury which required surgery shortly after the combine, and it may led to at least a partial absence during training camp. And sure, the rest of that list sucks, because full health is much better than a list of rips and breaks as a team prepares to invest a first-round pick — and likely a very high pick — in Milliner.
But reports of Milliner's past surgeries surfacing now is just so late April. With all the medical checks and re-checks and the private inspections done by team officials during pre-draft visits, it's simply silly to believe that anything here is surprising to prospective future Milliner employers. If Milliner falls, it'll be because one (or more?) of those 10 teams is slotted in the top 10, and not because of any perceived new injury.
Oh, and here's more in late April draft calamity: a scout has Ryan Nassib graded as an undrafted free agent.
Transcribe that lunacy from Adam Schefter for us please, Rotoworld:
"Some teams say they have him rated as the top quarterback on the board. I've heard other teams say they have him as nothing more than a fourth-round pick. I even had one team tell me that their coaches didn't consider him draftable, and they're not putting him on their board and they're not studying him."
At worst, Nassib is most commonly viewed as a second-round pick. But it's growing increasingly likely that he's a first-round pick, and probably to the Bills due to the obvious connection with Doug Marrone, their new head coach. Nassib to Buffalo could happen through either a desperate but maybe necessary reach at No. 8, or with the Bills trading back into the first round and taking him with a late pick (the Vikings would be the most likely trade partner because of their multiple picks).
A fall out of the draft entirely? That's about as likely as an orangutan and a dog being inseparable.
*shrugs and hides in underground lair forever*


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Largely a self-taught artist, Vic received his degree in Fine Art. He studied painting under Todd Doney specializing in oil painting and mentored by Keith Smith, Dean of Liberal Arts, whose work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian Institute among others.
Focusing on figurative oil painting in a Baroque style, Vic explores the dramatic play on light and form to evoke various emotions from the viewer. His subject matter leans towards religion, taking the various themes and Christian stories and displaying them in a more up-to-date manner. His pet series deals with the plight of animals being held captive, bringing attention to puppy mills and animal abuse. Each piece evokes an emotional response from the viewer to be compelled with compassion and to take on the struggle as a voice to those who have none.
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Phylicia Rashad graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Howard University and has since been awarded two honorary doctoral degrees from Brown University and Spelman College for her work in the fine arts. The Harvard Black Men's Forum named her the 2003 Woman of the Year. In 2011, Rashad became the first Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre at Fordham University. Most recently, Rashad has become the voice of University of Phoenix in the Let's get to work™ advertising campaign.
During her distinguished career on stage and in film and television, she's received multiple NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress and has been nominated for several Emmy Awards. For her role in the play "A Raisin in the Sun," Rashad earned a Tony Award. She was the first African-American woman in history to receive a Tony.


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A funny thing happened at work yesterday: I killed a man. Well, an intern. He was saying something about onerous transcription duties, about how his writing skillz were "gathering dust", and I didn't hear what he said after that because I reached right down his throat, into his chest and tore his lungs out.
Later, there were questions. Complaints, even. Interns aren't ten-a-penny, and if there's one thing that's calculated to lower office morale - one thing that really hobbles productivity and puts a ceiling on your blue-sky thinking - it's the sight of the guy you knew as "that vegetarian on floor 4" bellowing tearfully at a fistful of bronchial tubes. But I'm not to blame, really. Nobody's to blame. I didn't make myself the way I am. No sir. The war made me.
"Gathering dust" hits a very special nerve. It stirs up a fearful mess of memories, like the gobbets of bloody foam above a piranha feeding frenzy - exchanges and scenes I'd thought I'd finally laid to rest after years as a quiet, law-abiding non-combatant, the proud and unconflicted owner of all three current generation consoles. Well, two current generation consoles and a broken PS3. And a DS. And a PSP that only works when I carry it sideways.
I thought I'd made my peace with the great gods of console fanboyism, those hideous chimerical sowers of strife and discord, turning brother against brother and, I suppose it's necessary to observe nowadays, sister against sister. Sure, I work for an Xbox site, but that's a fall of the dice - if Jonty hadn't laughed at my Final Fantasy XII jokes in the interview I'd probably be writing for Maxim, or something. My old, sinful self is behind me. Except he isn't any more. The future beckons, like that president guy on the poster. They're going to announce the PS4 tomorrow, those crazy murderous fools.
Where does dust come into it? Well, I suppose there's no point keeping a lid on things now. Dust was one of the many, muddled criteria by which we legions of the faithful - we incorrigible brand loyalists - asserted our victories over the other side and their misbegotten hardware. It was a strict question of empirical science: if you could demonstrate that your own version of The Enemy's console had more dust on or in it than His version of yours, you won the thread. I lost good mates to scraps like that - hence the fistful of bronchioles. Somehow, it never occurred to anyone to post pictures. Or to wonder why we were all arguing about whether it was worth buying consoles we'd evidently already bought.
Dust-gathering was a piece of cake next to the specs stuff, of course. You'd have thought the odds would have been more cut and dried when it came to specifications - can't argue with the hardware's publicly disseminated, quantifiable capabilities, can you? Well, it turns out you can, providing you don't actually know what all the numbers mean. That was the secret to success, much of the time: cast-iron ignorance tops genuine understanding any day of the week. People who know what they're talking about tend to let their knowledge bog them down, whereas those who can't tell an API from Adam are quick on their pins.
All you needed - and all you will need - was the vocabulary, a few hard-hitting acronyms up your sleeve to dazzle the other guy with and rally the undecideds to your cause. The one about PS3's "asymmetrical" architecture being "hard" to "tap" was a favourite of mine. Then you'd follow up with a line about dust, or perhaps something about "the world's most expensive paperweight", or about how your best friend doesn't own one and he works in IT support. You had to be merciless like that, or the Enemy might leave the thread secure in the conviction that He was actually capable of deriving a sense of enjoyment from the console He'd bought. A savage, savage business.


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Frank McCourt - Rest in Peace
Frank McCourt, teacher, Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and brother to raconteur, Malachy McCourt, passed away on July 23, 2009.
Writing fearlessly about the fearsome childhood he shared with his siblings, Frank opened the eyes of all who viewed the auld sod with emerald-colored glasses. He shows readers the worm in the apple of Ireland after the War, a place so stark that little boys lived in houses with the sewage from the community toilets in the lane flooding the downstairs while the family lived, always cold and always hungry in the upper bedrooms. Like many contemporary Irish writers, Frank McCourt remembers a far different country than the St. Paddy's Day folk would have us believe.
But it is not for his sad stories that he will be most remembered, Frank McCourt was, by all accounts, a gifted teacher, who in the course of a career teaching English, figured he had offered Shakespeare to over 10,000 students. His requirement that students taking responsibility for their own learning, his modesty, and his wit, have earned him a reputation both fine and rare in the annals of the New York Public School system. Highlights include his connection between how a pen works and how a sentence works (in explaining subjects and grammar, an area which he struggled with himself) and his use of realia in his writing, like the students' excuse notes and cookbooks.
He taught from the time he was 27 and continued for 30 years. He spent most of his teaching career at Stuyvesant High School, NY, where he taught English and Creative Writing.
He will be missed by all who loved him, and they are many. Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the IrishCentral.com,remembers Frank fondly, "He never lost the run of himself. I don't know how many struggling young writers received words of encouragement or book blurbs from Frank. I don't know how many charity events he supported, or how much money he secretly slipped to writers in need. I suspect it was quite a lot. He would never say."
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In the past fighting cancer often seemed to take a nuclear bomb approach—high doses of radiation or chemotherapy that killed not only the malignant cells but healthy ones, too. But that is quickly changing, and in Northwest Indiana many local hospitals are collaborating with larger institutions, allowing patients access to state-of-the-art clinical trials.
Though the word "trial" may sound like a hit or miss proposition when it comes to cancer care, there are well structured research studies administered to answer specific questions concerning new drug therapies, surgical procedures, devices or alternate ways of using known treatments.
According to Dr. Mohamad Kassar, a medical oncologist at Community Hospital and the principal investigator for the Gynecology Oncology Group (GOG) trials, clinical trials help in determining whether a test or treatment regimen is equally or more effective than another. In the U.S., medications and devices must go through clinical trials prior to being used in the treatment of patients.
Collaborating with Rush Medical Center in Chicago, Community's cancer team is working to advance early detection and treatment of both uterine and ovarian cancers.
"With our participation in the GOG trials, Community Hospital can offer area residents access to state-of-the art national clinical trials," says Kassar, noting that the treatment of gynecological malignancies, particularly ovarian cancer, is quickly changing and better therapeutic options are becoming available.
"There are different cancer research groups in the country," says B. H. Barai, M.D., Medical Director, Oncology Institute at Methodist Hospitals. "We are affiliated with the University of Chicago, which is affiliated with the Alliance for Cancer Research. What that means is whatever protocol that hospitals like Duke University, Mount Sinai and Sloan Memorial have is available in Northwest Indiana. People then don't have to travel."
Methodist offers the latest clinical trials such as the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) national clinical research trials and is also a regional center for the nationwide SELECT (Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial).
"Not many cancers are more aggressive than triple-negative breast cancer," Barai says. "But there's positive news; some new chemo drugs for triple-negative are already in clinical trials such as PARP Inhibitors, which are showing a lot of promise."
In his 35 years as an oncologist, Dr. Mark Kozloff, medical director of Ingalls Cancer Care, says he sometimes got a little down.
"When you deal with cancer and there aren't big changes, it's hard," he says. "But now I'm more enthused about the future of oncology than I ever have been. The more understanding we have about cancer, the more we can treat it rationally rather than irrationally treating everything."
Partnering with the National Cancer Institute and Chicago's major university hospitals as well as the nation's leading cancer treatment centers, Ingalls works with them in the design and implementation of a myriad of clinical trials for nearly every cancer site in the body.
"These studies are very exciting," Kozloff says. "There's an experimental drug we're looking at in treating BCL-2," he says. "BCL-2 typically doesn't allow lymphoma cells to die, but this drug allows the cancer to die naturally."
According to Kozloff, other clinical studies suggest that certain types of drugs bind with c-Met inhibitors, allowing chemo to be more effective, while another indicates that an antibody appears to attach to c-Met inhibitors and prevents cancer cells from developing.
"Oncology today and in the future is going to be personalized care based on the genetics of the cancer and the genetics of the patient," says Kozloff, noting that it's no longer one-size-fits-all in cancer treatments but rather tailored to the individual. "It's going to change how we treat cancer. Sometimes it allows us to give less treatments, sometimes more, but that's less toxic. It may not always be curative but will hopefully make life better and longer." Courtesy of the Times.
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*TOP REVIEWER* noseofblue on 9/18/2012 7:12:00 PM more reviews by noseofblue
Age: 44-55 Skin: Other Hair: Other Eyes: Other
I had so hoped this product would be the replacement for my beloved discontinued Volume Exact. It has the same brush but just isn't as volumizing.
UPDATE--this product gets more volumizing with use as it thickens in the tube.
UPDATE 8/23/13--I've now discovered CG Professional STL which is exactly what I've been looking for, so I don't think I'll be buying Lash Perfection again.
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pelini on 9/17/2012 11:18:00 PM more reviews by pelini
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium Eyes: Brown
This mascara separates and defines, but that is about it. I don't notice any volumizing or lengthening effects. I prefer Lash Blast Volume or L'oreal Million Lashes.
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makimotoki430 on 9/17/2012 2:55:00 PM more reviews by makimotoki430
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I've tried all the highest rated/most reviewed mascara in Product Reviews, this one blows all the other ones out of the water. I have thin stick straight asian lashes, this one is awesome, staying power, separation, length, volume, holding a curl, this is the closest to fake lashes I can get from a mascara (with the shiseido perfect mascara base of course!) all around PERFECTION! I've repurchased this more than a dozen times. It's only $6 bucks at target. What's not to love?
Other ones I've liked so far, but not as much as this one: Maybelline full n soft, YSL Faux Cils, Dior Show, Shiseido Perfect Mascara, L'oreal Voluminous Full Definition, Jordana(great for length but holds no curl)
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keldar on 9/17/2012 2:14:00 PM more reviews by keldar
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
Honestly, I thought this stuff was going to be crap. I used to use LashBlast religiously but it flaked SO MUCH throughout the day and eventually I couldnt put up with it anymore. Having very light lashes means Im always looking for something thats going to darken them and add a good amount of volume, even during the day, and I was shocked at how well this stuff performs. It adds great colour, volume, definition and best of all doesnt flake off. I like a lot of lashes at night so I wouldnt recommend it for dramatic looks (unless you dont wear a lot of makeup), but for day-to-day, its perfect!
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*TOP REVIEWER* cathyz123 on 9/9/2012 12:04:00 AM more reviews by cathyz123
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool Hair: Black, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
first things first, the spikes on the wand are a little stiff so be careful not to stab yourself! i don't find this gives me enough volume to be classified as a 'volumizing' mascara but it does give a decent amount of volume, length and definition for an everyday look. it doesn't clump or smudge and it's very affordable.
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ekimxo on 9/8/2012 11:35:00 PM more reviews by ekimxo
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
I'm in love with this mascara! It doesn't clump or smudge at all! I used to use Maybelline's The Falsies, but that mascara left me looking like a panda by the end of the day. However, the Lash Perfection is literally perfect. It emphasizes each individual lash and makes your lashes look thick and long! It holds my curls brilliantly on my Asian lashes. I love this product!
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TianaSwift on 8/20/2012 12:11:00 AM more reviews by TianaSwift
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium Eyes: Brown
Sadly, no this product is not volumizing at all to me! It lengthens my lashes and for that reason it looks pretty good. It's not clumpy AT ALL thank god! It stays on alright, I put it on at 7am and by 3pm no way you could tell I had anything on. It's not too watery or too dry. In the end I think yes, I would buy it again but not if I were looking for something with volume. Oh and I kinda find the packaging to be sort of ugly! Is that just me?
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deedrajean on 8/19/2012 9:06:00 PM more reviews by deedrajean
Age: 19-24 Skin: Very Oily, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Red, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Hazel
im so sad this was not what i was expecting. saw the great reviews and went out to get it... sadly it weighed down my lashes and the holding power for a curl was hardly there if any at all.. IT FLAKED !! i looked in the mirror maybe 3 hours into wearing it and i had black flakes under my eyes :( im sad this didn't work out for me. and volumizing ? i think not.
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*TOP REVIEWER* chinadoll13 on 8/19/2012 9:04:00 PM more reviews by chinadoll13
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Black, Wavy, Coarse Eyes: Hazel
Oh my God! I've found a treasure!!! I have long thin lashes and this lengthened gave volume, separated and didn't budge. The tube doesn't look too appealing but who cares it does a great job. I love a very dramatic lash and this isn't dramatic but it does a nice job and no raccoon eyes...yay!!!! Definitely a keeper!!!!A++++++++. I do want to mention that I don't curl my lashes so I don't know how that would work but I love it!!!!
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Great drugstore mascara; no clumps, no mess, lasts all day, separates, defines, adds volume. I wish the packaging was a little more interesting than the drab grey and silver, but that's not important; I will definitely be repurchasing.
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"Promoting the Economic Self Sufficiency and Self Determination of
American Indians and Native Americans since 1974"
The Florida Indian Youth Program is an intensive away from home educational experience provided for approximately 50 Native American youths each year by the Florida Governor's Council on Indian Affairs, Inc., a Florida non-profit corporation.
The students, most of whom are 14 to 17 years of age, travel to Tallahassee and live in a residence hall on or near the campus of the Florida State University. During the ten day program, the students participate in more than 50 separate educational, cultural and social events and activities, all designed to increase the probability of high school graduation and inspire the students to higher academic achievement.
The Florida Indian Youth Program is divided into four main components: Academic, Job and Life Skills, Social, and Cultural.
The Academic component of the Florida Indian Youth Program (FIYP) focuses primarily on written communications, mathematics and computer skills.
The Writing Skills program is designed as a small group (4 to 7 students) writing workshop. Designed to facilitate:
Considerable "one-to-one" instruction on English skills
Creative writing skills and the effective use of word processing software
Contributions of poetry, stories or artwork for the "Florida Indian Youth Program Anthology"
Building better Communication Skills is always a focus of the Writing Skills program, and is also addressed by:
Performing in mock interviews, and writing cover letters and resumes in the Job Skills program
Making oral and written presentations in the Tribal Government and Life Skills portions
The Math Skills program utilizes small groups to promote considerable individualized instruction and a safe learning environment where:
Students are placed at the proper skill level
There is proven reduction of "math anxiety"
Ninety-five percent of FIYP students significantly increase their scores from the pre-test to the post-test
Students claim our teachers make math fun!
Computer & Technology Skills are essential for today's workforce, so we make sure our students are on the cutting edge of computer technology by:
Teaching them to publish their own anthology
Building and designing individual web pages
Producing a PowerPoint presentation
Job and Life Skills
Our Job Skills program focuses on how to get a job and teaches the essential habits and behaviors required to remain successful in that job through:
Completing Career Assessments & Inventories
Teaching workplace etiquette, punctuality, and the importance of education & life-long learning Introductions to top executives from major corporations
Developing mentoring relationships to learn first hand the wonderful opportunities available to them in the "World of Work"
The Life Skills component is filled with activities that provide important information about how young people can best survive and succeed in today's world. Topics include:
Drugs, alcohol and tobacco abuse education
Health & nutrition including diabetes prevention
AIDS awareness
An etiquette workshop
Field trips & Presentations
Specific motivational courses are provided by world-class motivational speakers such as Lester Brown to address:
The Ability to Establish & Obtain Personal Goals
Positive Self Attitudes & Personal Power
School to Work Transition Skills
Independent Thinking Skills
Job Retention and Advancement
Money & Time Management Skills are also essential lessons taught by:
Using a real cash account at the "FIYP Bank"
Learning to correctly write a checks, balance their account and create a personal budget
Having the entire FIYP schedule act as a lesson in time management
Social and Cultural
The Social and Cultural activities encourage students to appreciate both their own culture and cultures outside their normal experience. Each activity is designed to foster the student's desire to become a leading citizen within their country, state and tribe.
Our amazing counselors and Native American role models such as author, poet and musician, Joy Harjo, motivational speaker Denise Alley of Native Star and immanent Law School Professor Kirke Kickingbird all provide inspiration and guidance for these students.
The Tribal Government courses provide students with a unique opportunity to learn and develop leadership and self-governing skills by:
Exploring relationships between the U.S. Government and federally recognized tribes
Examining historical relationships between federal and state governments and tribes
Exposing the students to tribal constitutions and governments
Creating their own tribe,adopting a constitution, electing officers and a tribal council ,and financing their own exceptional celebration
The students explore many facets of other cultures by:
Attending theater and musical performances
Touring museums, forums and art exhibits
Visiting the Capitol, Supreme Court and other area historical sites and landmarks
The Awards Banquet is the program's crowning event. More than 300 awards and scholarships are presented before the students' family, peers and tribal leaders in recognition of each students' personal and academic achievements.
During the two weeks the students are on campus, they spend more than 70 hours in classroom activities at the Center for Professional Development or at one of Tallahassee's three fine institutions of higher learning (Tallahassee Community College, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University or Florida State University).
Activities are planned for every waking hour and there is no such thing as "free time" at the Florida Indian Youth Program. Students are required to be with a counselor at all times and the group is accompanied by at least one officer of the Florida State University Police Department whenever the group leaves campus.
Dates to Remember:
March 27, 2015 - is the absolute deadline for Training Assistant applications. TA applications must be 100% complete including references, essay questions, and Vouluntary Consent form must all be in our office by this date.
June 12, 2015 - is the absolute deadline for Youth Program applications. YP applications must be 100% complete including references, essay questions, and Vouluntary Consent form must all be in our office by this date. Applications received after this date will be placed on a Waiting List.
July 24, 2015 - FIYP Awards Banquet.
Florida Indian Youth Program Brochure
Schedule for the 2014 Florida Indian Youth Program
Youth Program Dates July 11, 2015 through July 25, 2015
Florida Governors Council on Indian Affairs, Inc. 1341 Cross Creek Circle Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Phone (850) 488-0730 Phone (850) 487-1472 Toll Free (800) 322-9186
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With substantial natural resources, such as fertile soil and adequate rainfall, agriculture forms the most important economic sector of Uganda. The country also has sufficient copper, gold and (recently discovered) oil deposits. The agricultural sector employs more than 80% of the workforce. Coffee is the country's principal export item.
Since 1986, the Ugandan government has utilized international support to rehabilitate the unstable economy. The implementation of currency reforms, increase of producer prices on crops meant for export and petroleum products, and improvement of civil service wages has greatly benefited the economy. All these policy changes were aimed at reducing the ill-effects of inflation, while boosting production and earnings on exports.
The 1990s saw reforms ushering in tremendous economic growth, based on infrastructural investment, better production and export incentives. Some other factors include the comparatively low inflation, improved domestic security and the return of Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs.
Uganda continues to grow rapidly despite the inconsistency in coffee prices. Although the global financial downturn negatively impacted the country's exports, its GDP growth continues to remain relatively strong. The credit for this goes to the economic reforms enforced in the past and the efficient management of the slump period.
The countries that Uganda trades with are:
The total Uganda export volume for the year 2009 was $3.151 billion. The country ranks 121 in terms of total export volumes. According to the 2008 statistics, goods are primarily exported to:
Sudan 14.3%
Kenya 9.5%
Switzerland 9%
Rwanda 7.9%
Democratic Republic of the Congo 7.3%
Netherlands 4.7%
Germany 4.4%
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The FUEL CHEM ® technology segment generated revenues of $9.2 million in the third quarter of 2012, a decrease of $2.6 million, or 22%, from the comparable 2011 quarter. The revenue decrease is due in part to attrition at existing customer accounts due to the soft electric demand market and fuel switching as a result of low natural gas prices. These factors led to combustion units operating at less than full capacity which, along with unscheduled outages, resulted in a corresponding decrease in revenues. Segment gross margins increased from 43% in the third quarter of 2011 to 54% in the current quarter, the result of a higher mix of FUEL CHEM TIFI-XP™ applications where extreme performance is needed for higher slagging coals. The quarterly gross margin in 2011 was negatively impacted by $0.4 million attributable to the costs of a FUEL CHEM demonstration in China.
Revenues for the FUEL CHEM segment for the nine-month period totaled $26.8 million, a decrease of $5.9 million or 18% versus the prior year amount of $32.7 million. Nine-month revenues for 2011 include approximately $1.3 million in non-recurring lower-margin installation work for a specific new customer. Segment gross margin increased to 53% in the first three quarters of 2012 from 49% in the comparable period in 2011. The higher gross margin in 2012 is attributable to a higher margin mix of customer orders and the previously mentioned non-recurring, lower margin installation work that was recognized in 2011.
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, file photo, U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, Jamesa Euler, delivers mail, in Atlanta. The financially struggling Postal Service is seeking a 3-cent increase in the cost of mailing a letter, bringing the price of a first-class stamp to 49 cents. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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