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December 6th, 2010 #1
art instruction books for "kids"
Hi all,
My nine year old is loving to draw and showing some passable skill for his age. I want to continue to encourage him myself, but am also looking for a decent book that he can work through to hlep him advance his skills beyond what he does now. He loves to read and self-learn.
That said, I am looking for something more advanced than some of the kid art activity books you can normally find (i.e., "if you can draw an "H" and a circle and some triangles, you can draw a lion!") and the more advanced stuff you might give a late teen.
He's smart for his age so I'd rather err on the older side if need be. But something that isn't going to put him off and looks too complex.
So I appeal to folks here ... what book(s) would you recommend?
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December 7th, 2010 #3
"How to Draw Everything" by Barrington Barber?
It starts very basically, on how to hold the pencil without tensing too much, on drawing with precision, straight lines, circles (learning to reaaally concentrate attention on the pencil, and where it goes) as a beginning exercise..
..then moves on to drawing objects in the house, ellipses, using negative space to help 'space things out' properly, learning shadows on simple forms and using light sources, and to draw animals in one chapter I believe (learning how to observe the 'shapes' in all things, which he'll be able to pick up earlier on). All very basic but helpful stuff on drawing technique! Hope it's of use- I nabbed it cheap from The Works (a book/stationary shop in my country), you might be able to get it cheap on the Internet? I don't know..
There's loooooads more of course that eventually goes into figure drawing, but this is how it starts. It has a handful of 'pictoral guides' that show how things are being done (like framing a landscape with forefingers and thumbs, or using card with a rectangle hole cut out, and even goes into how to build up a drawing of a complex object), which is a good balance for when things get a bit wordy. I don't think the words are hard from what I can see, though naturally there'll be some terms to pick up along the way.
Hope this helps!
December 7th, 2010 #4
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December 7th, 2010 #5
How about Loomis, Fun with a Pencil. While they're only online, why not print one out for him?
December 7th, 2010 #6
Hmm, well, for what it's worth, I got some decent mileage out of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" when I was about that age...
I remember I also had fun with "Cartooning the Head and Figure" by Jack Hamm, which has a bunch of practical pointers while also being pretty entertaining and accessible.
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I would recommend these two books below. The drawing projects are short and fun.
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December 9th, 2010 #8
I think Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale is an excellent book for explaining what really makes drawings work. It might be a bit difficult, but with a little help from an adult if the child doesn't understand something, I think this might be a good, advanced, book. I know I've read it several times and still learn something new from it.
December 13th, 2010 #9
Thanks for all the suggestions! I'd completely forgotten about Jack Hamm. Barber's How to Draw Everything is tough to get ahold of, but I'm finding the others easy and have got a couple enroute for the holidays. Thanks, all.
December 13th, 2010 #10
It depends on what he's drawing. If he's into stuff like comics and cartoons the way I would encourage him would be to get him a really cool fountain pen, like a rotring artpen or something like that, and some black markers. I'd also get a big box of replacement ink cartridges and large sketchbooks like 11x14, I believe looking at that ammo would fire him up to draw. Another thing I would do is if he copies panels from comics, I'd scan them then blow them up to full page size, it's good for kids to draw big.
I'm skeptical about the use of reading anything on art at that age, all the books I've seen suck in one way or another, it's better not to be limited by over-simplified concepts at too early an age.
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December 13th, 2010 #11
Great book though.
My Self-Portraits
"Work for your self first. You can paint best the things you like or the things you hate. You cannot paint well when indifferent.
Express a mental opinion about something you are sensitive to in life around you. There is a profound difference between sensitivity and sentimentality."
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December 13th, 2010 #12
can we see his drawings?
December 13th, 2010 #13
Rudy De Reyna's How To Draw What You See isn't a terribly hard book to read-- and it's a good one!
December 13th, 2010 #14
I just remembered this book: http://books.google.com/books?id=7aI...page&q&f=false This book was specifically made for teaching youngsters, I believe an adult should help the youngster through it, and is one of the few that will not mislead with half informed theories.
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"Beliefs are rules for action"
"Knowledge is proven in action."
"It's use is it's meaning."
December 14th, 2010 #15
Any drawing book can work in theory though i personaly suggest QueenGwenevere choice as well as maybe getting books like "The art of basic drawing" and such that are easy to get into and practice with help given.
Man i wish i started when i was 9 years old.
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Thirdly, we have those who say, "it is the church in which I was brought up". Tradition is the word that can be used here. It is easy to be captured in the snare of tradition because one gets the idea that if they withdraw from the traditional church and go to some other, they have in effect said that their parents or grandparents were wrong. However, one might consider that if tradition made a church or religion right, Saul of Tarsus would never have been the apostle Paul. He told the Galatians, "And profited in the Jew' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my father" (Galatians 1:14). What one's parents or grandparents did or did not do has nothing to do with our own salvation. The prophet Ezekiel said, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him" (Ezekiel 18:20).
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All of the above answers fall short of being the answer that one ought to have to the question of why they are what they are religiously. The only correct answer is, "because it's teachings and practices are in absolute harmony with the word of God". This is true because of the fact that in the last day, we will be judged by that word. Jesus said, He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" (John 12:48). Paul wrote, "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel" (Romans 2:16). As the Bible closes, John wrote, "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works" (Rev. 10:12).
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From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.
In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This talented group combined a hatred of injustice with uncanny skill in promoting their cause. Within five years, more than 300,000 Britons were refusing to eat the chief slave-grown product, sugar; London's smart set was sporting antislavery badges created by Josiah Wedgwood; and the House of Commons had passed the first law banning the slave trade.
However, the House of Lords, where slavery backers were more powerful, voted down the bill. But the crusade refused to die, fueled by remarkable figures like Olaudah Equiano, a brilliant ex-slave who enthralled audiences throughout the British Isles; John Newton, the former slave ship captain who wrote Amazing Grace; Granville Sharp, an eccentric musician and self-taught lawyer; and Thomas Clarkson, a fiery organizer who repeatedly crisscrossed Britain on horseback, devoting his life to the cause. He and his fellow activists brought slavery in the British Empire to an end in the 1830s, long before it died in the United States. The only survivor of the printing shop meeting half a century earlier, Clarkson lived to see the day when a slave whip and chains were formally buried in a Jamaican churchyard.
Like Hochschild's classic King Leopold's Ghost, Bury the Chains abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of unsung heroes and colorful villains. Again Hochschild gives a little-celebrated historical watershed its due at last.
"'Men from England bought and sold me,/ Paid my price in paltry gold;/ But, though theirs they have enroll'd me,/ Minds are never to be sold.' So went 'The Negro's Complaint' by noted 18th-century poet William Cowper — written, says Hochschild, as an op-ed piece would be today, to spread the message of England's fledgling movement to abolish the slave trade. Hochschild, whose last book, King Leopold's Ghost, was a stunning account of the ravages perpetrated by Belgium on the Congo, turns to a more edifying but no less amazing tale: the rich, complex history of a movement that began with just 12 angry men meeting in a printer's shop in London in 1787 and, within a century, had led to the virtual disappearance of slavery. The men who met in James Phillips's print shop included Quakers, Evangelical Anglicans and a young Cambridge graduate who had had an epiphany about the evils of slavery while on the road to London. The last, Thomas Clarkson, became an indefatigable organizer, carrying out the first modern-style investigation into human rights abuses. Granville Sharp was an eccentric but socially respected man of progressive ideas who dreamed of founding a colony of free blacks in Africa. Within a short time these men and their colleagues had created a mass movement that included the first boycott, in which hundreds of thousands of Britons, chiefly women, refused to buy slave-made sugar from the Caribbean; petitions from all over the country flooded into Parliament; and a mass-produced drawing of a slaver's lower deck, showing where the slaves were densely crowded for the middle passage, became the first iconic image of human oppression. Hochschild tells of this campaign with verve, style and humor, but without preaching or moralizing, letting the horrific facts of slavery in the Caribbean (far more brutal than in the American South) speak for themselves. And he refuses to make saints out of the activists; while highlighting bravery in the face of death threats and physical violence by promoters of slavery, the author equally points out their foibles and failings, and the often ironic unintended consequences of their actions. Along the way, Hochschild illuminates how Britain's economy was dependent upon the slave trade, why England's civil society was particularly hospitable to a movement to abolish that trade, and the impact on the movement of the French Revolution and the particularly bloody slave uprising in French St. Domingue (today's Haiti). It's a brilliantly told tale, at once horrifying and pleasurable to read. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. Agent, Georges Borchardt. (Jan. 7)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"One of Hochschild's great strengths...is his ability to get inside the 18th-century mind and show how our ancestors' assumptions parallel our own....A chronicle of a rare and radiant victory by our better angels." Kirkus Reviews
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Like the author's classic King Leopold's Ghost, this new work abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of epic anti-slavery crusaders, heroes, and villains in Britain.
From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history — the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. In early 1787, twelve men — a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery — came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements. A deft chronicle of this groundbreaking antislavery crusade and its powerful enemies, Bury the Chains gives a little-celebrated human rights watershed its due at last.
About the Author
Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. His first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey, and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. It also won a J. Anthony Lukas award in the United States, and the Duff Cooper Prize in England. His books have been translated into twelve languages and four of them have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empires Slaves, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. His last two books have also each won Canadas Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international affairs and the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. In 2005, he received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction.
Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. His articles have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists and elsewhere. He was a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine and has been a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
Hochschild teaches narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and spent half a year as a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, sociologist and author Arlie Russell Hochschild. They have two sons and two granddaughters.
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CONTENTS Introduction: Twelve Men in a Printing Shop 1 PART I: WORLD OF BONDAGE 1. Many Golden Dreams 11 2. Atlantic Wanderer 30 3. Intoxicated with Liberty 41 4. King Sugar 54 5. A Tale of Two Ships 69 PART II: FROM TINDER TO FLAME 6. A Moral Steam Engine 85 7. The First Emancipation 98 8. and#147;I Questioned Whether I Should Even Get Out of It Aliveand#8221; 106 9. Am I Not a Man and a Brother? 122 10. A Place Beyond the Seas 143 11. and#147;Ramsay Is Deadand#151;I Have Killed Himand#8221; 152 PART III: and#147;A WHOLE NATION CRYING WITH ONE VOICEand#8221; 12. An Eighteenth-Century Book Tour 167 13. The Blood-Sweetened Beverage 181 14. Promised Land 199 15. The Sweets of Liberty 213 16. High Noon in Parliament 226 PART IV: WAR AND REVOLUTION 17. Bleak Decade 241 18. At the Foot of Vesuvius 256 19. Redcoatsand#8217; Graveyard 280 20. and#147;These Gilded Africansand#8221; 288 PART V: BURY THE CHAINS 21. A Side Wind 299 22. Am I Not a Woman and a Sister? 309 23. and#147;Come, Shout oand#8217;er the Graveand#8221; 333 Epilogue: and#147;To Feel a Just Indignationand#8221; 355 Appendix: Where was Equiano Born? 369 Source Notes 373 Bibliography 409 Acknowledgments 428 Index 432
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Edit: If a "public" room isn't available, your insurace will pay for a private one. This is their "out" if a hospital doesn't have private rooms for all their moms - like military hospitals.
not private, ugh, had a roommate, it's all the hospital offers unless there are only a few women there at that time. it was AWFUL!
anyway they should cover it if they allow that hospital!!
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When I have been in the hospital at other times I paid out of pocket for a private room. Its priceless and I would go without many other things before I would consider sharing a room.
My insurance also has that disclaimer, but since the hospital I deliver at ONLY has private rooms, they paid for it.
"who is going to watch the baby while I go to the bathroom? you don't expect me to leave him in a room alone with strangers"
"where is the disinfectant cleaner? I don't want to use the bathroom after some other woman has been dripping her blood all over it"
"how am I and the baby going to get any sleep with another crying baby in here?"
So they moved here somewhere else. Shared recovery rooms make no sense to me at all.
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DD2 I ended up with a private room only because it was extremely slow. The nurse actually told me they would try to keep me private no matter what because my daughter was in the NICU. It was hard enough to see all the moms with babies when I didn't have mine, having to share a room with one would have been practically impossible. When I was discharged they had an open room with like 10 beds for any mother whose child was in the NICU and they wanted to stay with them in the hospital. There was one other woman with me in that room. I was just grateful they had a place I could stay at.
Had an emergency c/s last night. I've had 2 vaginal births and always had private rooms, all in different hospitals.
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The hospital I had ds and ds2 at had mostly private recovery rooms, but if they run out of space you might have to share. Thankfully I didn't encounter that, although since I'm now on baby #3 I would feel comfortable bailing out of the hospital ASAP.
Absolutely no idea what my insurance *officially* pays for room-wise, they still haven't figured out that I UPed and per their wording, won't cover a hospital birth without doctor referral. Even if they didn't cover private rooms I'd pay the extra out-of-pocket, could not imagine sharing a room immediately postpartum
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The second place I delivered only had private birthing suites. The rooms for planned c-section moms were a little smaller than the ones where they were expecting a vaginal birth, but they were all private. You stayed in the same room for everything (well, except when I went to the OR, but there wasn't a "recovery room", I was just wheeled back to the same room.
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I heard, though, that this hospital is relocating to a new building in 3-4 years, and that the new digs will only have private rooms. Since they *strongly* encourage the "partner" to spend the nights with the new mom, and are pro-rooming in, it doesn't make sense to have shared rooms: that's just too many bodies per room overnight.
BTW your insurance sucks. Shame on them. :
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They're telling me I could have chosen to go to some other hospital. They couldn't name one that has semi-private rooms, but the hospital I was at (a community hospital, chosen for ability to give birth naturally, actually more of a dump than the other local hospitals) only has private rooms.
And while there definitely still times people have to do a semi-private situation, it is usually only when a hospital is overcrowded and all the normal recovery rooms are full.
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After back-to-back scoreless innings, Allen Central outscored Sheldon Clark 2-1 in the third inning.
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Reading through his son's exhaustive color-coded journals in the weeks following his funeral, Henry's father seeks clues to the boy's secret life and mysterious death (the details of which are withheld until book's end). A decidedly idiosyncratic sensibility is revealedafter hearing a story about how his grandmother was terrorized by a pigeon, "Henry ate neither chicken nor egg and abstained from all games of duck-duck-goose." By fourth grade things had "turned ideological." On MLK Day, Henry wears blackface and a noose, sits in the back of the classroom, and refuses to drink from the "white" fountain. More traditionally, Henry's journal painfully chronicles his doomed teenage romance, which finds a brighter present-tense parallel in his father's tentative efforts to win back his estranged wife. Nearly as obsessive as his protagonist, Shapiro repeats peculiar word choices (characters are continually packing and unpacking their "fundamentals") and revels in a menagerie of animal imageryants, birds, and especially jellyfish. (The book joins Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film Bright Future in the current vogue for cnidarian-related narratives.)
Henry's mid-novel trip to New York cements the inevitable Holden Caulfield parallel, but given Shapiro's corporeal take on youthful alienation, Gregor Samsa might be just as relevant. In a key scene, Henry finds himself at a New Year's Eve gathering of "Pilgrims," who have voluntarily undergone body modification as extreme as amputation. (Shapiro co-directed Murderball, the acclaimed new documentary about quadriplegic rugby players.) The motif appears subtly throughout The Every Boy (one character gets a nose job; another resists getting her ears pierced) and brings Shapiro into ethically treacherous territoryby linking Henry's disaffection to that of racial minorities, the aged, and especially the handicapped, the book comes uncomfortably close to equating transitory teen angst with more entrenched forms of disenfranchisement. Still, any former (or current) teenage boy is likely to empathize with the explanation one Pilgrim gives for having his vocal cords surgically altered: "My voice wasn't my voice. . . . It was like a stranger was speaking through me."
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- USS Seawolf (SS-197), a Sargo-class submarine commission in 1939
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- The Sea Wolf (1930 film) starring Milton Sills, Raymond Hackett, Mitchell Harris, and Nat Pendleton
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- The Sea Wolf, its soundtrack by Charles Bernstein
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- Erie SeaWolves, a minor league baseball team
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday exuded confidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be 'neutral' vis-a-vis the Cauvery water dispute with Karnataka. She said it was only fair to give the BJP government some time before it acts on her demand to constitute the Cauvery Management Board.
Holding that all political parties in the state shared common view on constituting the CMB, she said there was no need for an all-party meeting as demanded by DMK chief M Karunanidhi.
Responding to Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Ananth Kumar's statement that there was no proposal to set up the CMB, Jayalalithaa said the remarks were not made by Prime Minister Modi or the Minister concerned, i.e Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti.
The Chief Minister recalled that she had presented a memorandum to Modi during her meeting with him on June 3, calling for constituting the CMB, among other demands.
She said the Prime Minister had "kindly said that he would take action. He seeks good relations with Tamil Nadu government and wants to help the state. Constituting the CMB is part of the final award (of 2007) of the Cauvery Tribunal and it needs some time to implement it."
"We are confident that the Prime Minster will be neutral in this matter and it is fair that the Centre is given some time," on constituting CMB she said, adding, why Karunanidhi was in a hurry to raise the issue within a week of her Delhi visit. She charged her arch rival with failing to get the final award of the Cauvery Tribunal notified in a Central gazette despite being in power at Centre and state in 2007 and accused him of considering interests of "family business" in Karnataka in not doing so and ridiculed his demand for an all-party meeting.
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The cake mix maker's in-house kitchen staff is ready to interact with fans and followers.
General Mills-owned Betty Crocker won ClickZ's Holiday Social Showdown for putting together a holiday campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube with baked-in brand equity. The cake mix maker has a special ingredient its competitors don't: an in-house kitchen staff ready to interact with fans and followers.
Several things about Betty Crocker's holiday marketing efforts impressed ClickZ, and Betty911 was a standout. The program, now in its second year, allowed people to post their emergency cooking and baking inquiries to Facebook, or tweet them using the #Betty911 hashtag.
Betty Crocker's team of 13 test kitchen cooks, dieticians, and food experts - on location at the company's Minneapolis headquarters - were on call for 13 hours each day on Thanksgiving and then again from December 16 through Christmas day. The kitchen staff chosen to engage with consumers through social media channels are routinely involved in answering questions on Facebook and Twitter.
Leading up to Christmas, the #Betty911 hashtag gained traction on Twitter, as people promoted the tip service or asked questions there. And the brand did something most brands featured in this contest failed to do: it created a cohesive approach to all three top social media platforms while customizing content and tone for each one.
While Facebook posts often asked questions and generated lots of discussion and sharing, Twitter posts employed hashtags like #Betty911. Meanwhile, YouTube videos complemented the #Betty911 theme with a handful of how-to cooking and baking videos to calm nerves in the kitchen.
Compared to just 45 questions during the 2010 holiday season, around 600 questions from anxious cooks came in through Facebook and Twitter during the 2011 holidays, according to Laurie Borgen, senior editorial manager at General Mills.
"It was so successful for us that we're going to make Betty911 a permanent feature on the website," said Mike Bettison, interactive marketing manager at General Mills. "We want to basically be able to bring the idea to life on an ongoing basis," he said.
It's no surprise the test kitchen staff and their knowledge not only informs Betty Crocker fans, but the brand's marketing itself. The world-class test kitchen, visible via an atrium from two floors at General Mills HQ, is a part of life for the company's employees. "We are always down there," said Bettison, noting the marketing staff sits directly above the kitchen.
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Incorporating feedback into the holiday campaign was merely an extension of the approach the brand takes on a regular basis. Comments and questions from people on Facebook and Twitter often inspire development of new recipes, like miniature pies, for instance. "A lot of people are looking for cooking-for-one or ways to keep the cooking sizes under control," said Borgen.
Several posts to the Betty Crocker Facebook page in December generated lots of likes, shares, and comments. A post featuring a photo of a festive red and green cake inspired more than 300 shares and over 1,500 likes. Another holiday gift related post asking people to fill in a blank spurred 14 shares, 95 likes, and 60 comments in less than 10 minutes.
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The works of García Lorca, internationally recognized as Spain's most prominent lyric poet and dramatist of the twentieth century, are filled with thinly veiled homosexual motifs and themes.
There has always been homosexual involvement in American musical theatre and a homosexual sensibility even in straight musicals, and recently the Broadway musical has welcomed openly homosexual themes and situations.
Best known for his genius in art and architecture, Michelangelo was also an accomplished author of homoerotic poetry.
The African-American gay male literary tradition consists of a substantial body of texts and includes some of the most gifted writers of the twentieth century.
Combining elements of incongruity, theatricality, and exaggeration, camp is a form of humor that helps homosexuals cope with a hostile environment.
Langston Hughes, whose literary legacy is enormous and varied, was closeted, but homosexuality was an important influence on his literary imagination, and many of his poems may be read as gay texts.
James Baldwin, a pioneering figure in twentieth-century literature, wrote sustained and articulate challenges to American racism and mandatory heterosexuality.
Oscar Wilde is important both as an accomplished writer and as a symbolic figure who exemplified a way of being homosexual at a pivotal moment in the emergence of gay consciousness.
When I reported that on March 12, 2014 Judith Levy was confirmed to a seat on on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, I noted not only that she would become the first openly gay federal judge in Michigan but that from 1996 to 1999, she served as a law clerk to Judge Bernard A. Friedman, who recently invalidated Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage in the case of DeBoer v. Snyder. An interesting article in the Detroit Free Press offers more information about Judge Levy and her relationship with Judge Friedman.
In his article, Brian Dickerson offers a full profile of Judge Levy, including the fact that she and her long-time partner Janet Johnson were recently married in a civil ceremony in Washington, D.C. The couple are parents to three children.
When Levy, then a second-year law student at the University of Michigan, first met Friedman in 1995, he had already tapped her to become his clerk upon her graduation. She had been invited to lunch with her future boss, and she called him to let him know that she was pregnant. During the application process, she had strongly hinted that she was a lesbian, but she feared that he might be shocked or at least bewildered if she showed up for lunch without preparing her boss for her appearance.
Despite whatever trepidations Levy may have had about her boss' reaction to her pregnancy, they proved baseless. As Dickerson writes, "It had never occurred to him that his single, lesbian clerk might be planning a family. But Friedman, who had served as a district court judge in Southfield before joining the U.S. District Court, was proud of his reputation as a boss who put his family first and encouraged his staff to do the same. And though he'd never met the partner Levy called J.J., he was determined to treat the couple and the child they had decided to raise together the same way he treated his other employees' families."
During her time working for Friedman, she not only gave birth to her first child but also to twins.
Levy was the first openly gay person Judge Friedman and his staff had worked with. The fact that she and her partner were raising an infant made her seem that much more exotic. Levy freely shared details of how she and Johnson were planning to build their family through the use of artificial reproductive technology. She and Johnson, who is African American, hoped to conceive biracial children who bore physical resemblances to both women.
Their twins were born during the middle of Levy's clerkship and the pregnancy became a "landmark event" in Judge Friedman's chambers.
Dickerson quotes Michael Steinberg, a lawyer who knows Friedman and Levy well, as saying that the judge took a special interest in Levy's growing family. "He became more than a casual friend to them," Steinberg says. "It's almost like he's their grandfather."
There is no question that Judge Friedman's ruling was based solidly on the law and the evidence. It is not a result of his personal friendships. Still, it is an axiom that as straight people come to know gay people personally, they resist the popular misconceptions and stereotypes. They are certainly less susceptible to the caricatures of gay people that are frequently offered by opponents of equal rights.
In reading Dickerson's article, I was reminded of an observation Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times made some time ago about how "webs of personal association and experience have led the [Supreme Court] justices to see old problems in new ways." In 1986, when Justice Lewis Powell cast a vote to uphold sodomy laws in Bowers v. Hardwick, a vote he later regretted, he subsequently remarked that he had never known a gay person. Ironically, he made that statement to a clerk who was himself a closeted gay man.
By the time the Supreme Court reversed Bowers v. Hardwick in the 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the world had changed. As Greenhouse observed, the Court itself had become "a gay-friendly workplace where employees feel sufficiently comfortable in their open identity to bring their partners to court functions."
As Dale Carpenter reports in Flagrant Conduct, his indispensable history of Lawrence v. Texas, gay-rights advocates received a boost of confidence when, on the day of oral argument at the Supreme Court, someone in the audience whispered to the lead attorney that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--one of two swing voters on the Court--had recently sent a baby gift to a former clerk and her same-sex partner.
In other words, coming out is important not only for individual happiness but also in changing the hearts and minds of others.
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Album Review: Eric Church — Chief
On the press release that accompanies Eric Church's new album Chief, the singer describes his lead single "Homeboy" as an amalgamation of sounds that thematically and sonically could be "three or four different songs."
The same could be said for the album as a whole, which sounds like it could be three or four different records by three or four different artists. And while Church continues to push his own boundaries, the result here is a disjointed collection that offers little insight into his artistic manifesto, other than loud and tough.
Unlike 2009's Carolina, which benefited from the strong thread of rambling restlessness that ran through its songs, Chief skips from influence to influence and genre to genre without any clear progression. The listener begins to feel like a ball in a pinball machine, bouncing from country to light rock to metal to bluegrass and back again.
Case in point: "Country Music Jesus" opines a missing country music leader to the sound of a heavy metal guitar riff heavily reminiscent of Collective Soul. Fun wordplay like "Some longhaired hippie prophet preaching from the book of Johnny Cash" transitions into a bluegrass-tinged romp, before ultimately winding down into a missed opportunity. The juxtaposition of the at-odds instrumentation comes off as an off-kilter frame for Church and Jeremy Spillman's hopeful picture of country music redemption.
From there, a handful of radio-friendly singles are mixed in with an ode to Bruce Springsteen, twangy Deliverance-worthy songs heavy on the "bom bom bom boms" and the lead single's social commentary strive for diversity but get lost along the way.
Sonically, the result is oftentimes more shoutlaw than outlaw, the dubiously dubbed title often attached to the singer by everyone from press to radio to fans. Church and producer Jay Joyce inorganically rely on studio tricks and over-processed vocals to spice up the singer's often laser-focused lyrics. His words – like "Hungover & Hard Up's" potent "Living in the lost and found/Round and round, up and down/I'm tired of this seesaw merry-go-round/So Mary you can go to hell – are overshadowed by the noise.
Still, the one bright side of all the confusion is that the album's best tracks stand out like gold. "Hungover & Hard Up" offers hard-hitting imagery of a long-dead relationship that's following the protagonist like a shadow, and showcases the singer at his finest. Similarly, "Jack Daniels" lets Church's well-honed live performance skills to come through in a jam band that's powerful and direct without being silly.
And despite its meandering, Chief ends on an oddly charming note: "Over When it's Over" utilizes repetition against a laid-back, quiet arrangement that make the most of Church's patented mix of anger and regret. This is where the singer shines most, allowing his lyrics to twist and turn all on their own without novelty echoes or auto-tuning and letting his twangy voice to rhyme "ain't" and "can't" to pleasing effect.
Overall, Chief continues Church's spotty output of brash proclamations mixed in with glimpses of honest stories by someone who holds country music's past and present in very high regards.
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Definitely enjoyed the musical variety and "unique" arrangements a little more than you did, but I completely understand about the processed vocals and how some of the album could come across as overproduced.
I enjoy Eric's acoustic performances on the Opry which downplays his shoutlaw leanings. Conversely I don't care for his harder/edgier music when backed by the rocking electrified full band. I would never pay for his music, but when he's acoustic on the Opry he is well worth listening to.
I did not like his show when he opened for Miranda Lambert in October, but I like a few of his recordings. More recently, I really enjoy "Faster than my Angels can Fly" and the cover of "Chevy Van" from the Caldwell County EP. I haven't heard this album yet, but some of the clips actually sound interesting, though others do just sound like noise.
The problem with Church is he's just not a very good singer.
I bought this CD and played it all the way through a couple of times. There was one cut that kept me from throwing it in the trash: "Jack Daniels" As I was listening to him sing the line "Jack Daniels kicked my ass again last night," I thought: "Damn this could be a great single–if it was cut by someone who can sing: George Strait, Mark Chesnutt, Travis Tritt, even Brooks & Dunn with a vocal by Kix if they were still together!"
These 4 comments posted are actually very diverse in an interesting way. One complains because his voice recording are too processed, another says he's too tawangy and not a very good singer. You really cant have it both ways. Nobody has a perfect voice but at least when you show up for the concert he sounds the same in person as on album. Country. Eric Church is the beginning of a trend in country music towards this idea of being an individual. You could say all he does is sing about country stuff, but is he anything like Luke Bryan or Jason Aldean. Not really. He is an outlaw, an outlaw who sells out his shows, had the #1 album across all formats, and as of next year is headlining his own tour without a top 5 or a #1 single. Hmm. Sounds like he must be doing somethin right.
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Well, news flash, your 4 year-old daughter/niece/sister/aunt knew it could. In addition, they mysteriously - at least to you - managed to bypass your pattern/passcode lock. You're amazed, are you not? Well, I'm letting you know you probably shouldn't be. Everything is perfectly fine. This is the age of the whiz kids, the prodigies. It is the time for the precocious - as many a novel and well-written tale would describe such amazing capability.
About 2 years ago, Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran took the tech world by storm. At ages 12 and 10 respectively, they had become the youngest company President and CEO combo in the history of India. They were hailed as brilliant young men who were speaking in front of crowds with an average age probably twicetheir own. It was a spectacle to behold as the two boys from Chennai spoke about their company GoDimensions, their inspiration Steve Jobs and their programming beginnings. With over 30,000 downloads of their apps, from over 20 countries around the world, these kids were achieving dreamsmany Lupita Nyong'o-inspired developers still hold valid.
(Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran viahttp://blogs.welingkar.org/)
14 year-old Richard Turere became famous last year for his invention of a predator deterrent based on a solar-powered flashlight bulb. He adapted to the challenges he faced as a herder of his father's treasured cattle and found a way to keep both the lions that caused him problems and the herd safe. A few months later, he was telling the world about his revolutionary solution, and how he almost gotkilledby his mother for tearing apart her new radio. He escaped a "near-death experience" and became an inventor. Such drama is a natural part of the journeys the whiz kids of this world embark on in pursuing their curiosity.
In March 2013, Nick D'Aloisio, an Australian-born, British teenager sold his app Summly to Yahoo for $30 million. In his statement to the Telegraph prior to the app's launch in November 2012, he explains his enabling circumstances with a powerful statement:
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Bringing the narrative backhomeat the iHub, the Kids' Hacker Camp has shed light on the immense potential of our own children. They are brilliant, driven and most importantly, insatiably curious. Being a net native makes for a different kind of process growing up. That is why these young boys and girls know how to unlock your phone, surprising you with the ease with which they navigate to your gallery/email/hidden apps. Remember when you were a child yourself and you felt, as Richard did, that you coulddismantle and reconstruct the HiFi speaker in the living room? Well, now the kids of today have your phone, laptop, smart TV, decoder and a myriad of other devices to figure out. Let them have their way, encourage them toembrace their inquisitive nature.
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Notre Dame has embraced the common notion that you learn more from losing than from winning. They finally figured out that yards mean little. For the first time this season, Notre Dame was outgained by their opponent. And for the first time this season, the Irish won.
After the game was settled, the Irish still look like a team with few positives. They beat a good Spartans team. Yet, there were still turnovers. And a late drive by Michigan State that could have turned the game. This time, the Notre Dame secondary held tight and forced an interception at the goal line to seal the win.
A day later, all the attention turned from their first victory to their future.
The Big East conference is on the verge of collapse, and Notre Dame is under pressure from national media to join the ACC. While the recruiting is stronger in the south right now, there have been trends that shift from region to region. The national media is pushing Notre Dame to bet on the south having better recruiting for the long-term. Meanwhile, the Big Ten continues to be a better fit regionally, and with regards to all sports.
The Irish already have long-standing rivalries with Michigan, Michigan State, and Purdue. The Big Ten also provides more options for the university as a whole, not just for football (though it's likely the Irish will attempt to remain independent). The ACC does not have any ice hockey programs. Plus, geographically, Notre Dame does not fit. Teams in the southern states can play a more speed-based football game because the weather is nice year-round. While in the north, teams must play more smash-mouth football.
If ACC teams come north in the late fall they would find an inability to perform as well as they are used to. It also means that the advantage teams in the south hold in bowl games would be negated on their mid to late season games at Notre Dame.
It also means Notre Dame would be at a decided disadvantage going on the road late in the season, as well. Unless the Irish would make a switch to match the ACC, at which point their offense would become stagnant and fans would become frustrated as the season moves into late October.
The best option for Notre Dame through the NCAA's conference reallignment is to join the Big Ten in all sports except football, where it should remain independent. It would also provide Notre Dame their best chance in utilizing their brand new ice rink, as the Big Ten already has hockey powerhouse programs Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Minnesota. If Notre Dame joined the Big Ten would have its sixth team, the minimum requirement for holding a hockey conference, which would make it the premiere college hockey conference, and making the best use of the million dollar facilities Notre Dame just built.
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Until late 2005 I almost exclusively used "Swiss Shooting Medals" by Jean L. Martin. Published in Lausanne 1972. This publication was the most comprehensive catalog available on Swiss shooting medals. It contains over 1150 medals with obverse and reverse pictures. All pictures are actual size, black and white photos. While other books are available and I do own the Martin catalog was considered the 'bible' until the Richter catalog was published.
In 2005 a new book was published "Die Schutzentaler und Schutzenmedaillen der Schweiz" and "Die Schutzenjetons der Schweis" by Jurg Richter are the most concise catalogs of Swiss shooting medals, talers and jetons presently available. The new 'bible' of schützenfest medals.
This is a two volume set covering issues up to 1960. The shooting medal catalog is 405 pages and the jeton catalog is 120 pages.
I use both the Martin and Richter catalogs extensively in my hobby. Both are in German but are extremely valuable resources in schützenfest medal collecting.


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The activities of the County Clerk's Registrar's Office are literally an open book, with easy access to all available public records. The Auto Bureau's two Main Offices, four Satellite Offices and three Mobile Auto Bureau sites offer a full range of services related to motor vehicles and licenses. At the County Clerk's Office, we look forward to continuing exemplary service to our customers while generating substantial revenues for County taxpayers. Through the internet, on the telephone or in person, we look forward to serving you!
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