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Hand-made books are slightly difficult to showcase online, but do your absolute best to browse through Palefroi's beautiful projects, screenprinted and produced in limited editions by the Berlin-based art collective. Made up of artists Damien Tran, Marion Jdanoff, and Susann Pönnisch, Palefroi's work is clever, bold, and consistently engaging – the illustrations feature stark geometric shapes alongside looser, free-flowing elements, and the palette always appears extremely considered. There is also an excellent use of negative space and a keen awareness of "the page" as a scene within a wider progression. Subject matter ranges from mountain peaks and battles to ghostly, mythological creatures, often evoking the sinister and the surreal. Wonderfully done.
Saturday morning means one thing in this here parish – it's time to upend our postbag and present to you the most lovely items that we were lucky enough to receive this week. And my goodness it's a cracker, with tarot cards, zines and bird bingo. Do not adjust your computer screen you read that right – Bird. Bingo. Let's do this…
Photographer Lisa Kereszi's work appears to be part of that interesting and ever-growing genre, whereby environments originally designed to entertain (theme parks, amusement arcades, and so on) are captured, often in states of decay, and reconfigured to reveal their artifice. They often evoke strange, dystopian spaces, where the attempts to control the audience's mindset are exposed in starkly composed shots that juxtapose reality with those attempted fictions. Now, such settings have always had the ability to stir the imagination – Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, and, much more recently, Miyazaki's Spirited Away, use fairground settings to great effect. Kereszi's work likewise provokes interesting questions about "space" and "meaning", but in the context of an ever-morphing, commercialised, consumerist society.
Once upon a time for six months, I lived opposite a construction site, and enjoyed seeing a whole house go up bit by bit – the different levels, the roof-beams, the plastic-y material flapping around on the wind as roof-tiles were added on top. Anyway, the gradual process was interesting for an observer but must have been unpleasant and occasionally frustrating for the workers, scaling various heights and battling the elements. But that usual building scenario may be about to take a turn, if Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California has his way.
Kuala Lumpur-based illustrator and graphic designer Tang Yau Hoong produces work that teases the boundaries between fiction and reality. His flat colour-fields and solid compositional skills ensure immediacy, but any initial understandings we have – that a certain form is "light", for example – is playfully and cleverly torn away, as in his Controlled Efficiency illustration. The bright palettes and use of paint-streaks are reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein, and his calculated use of negative and positive space is very Noma Bar. There is also a preoccupation with structures and structuring – from the disintegrating cities of So Long, Old World to the alteration or eradication of important symbols, that perhaps evoke the conditions of "making" and producing graphic work.
This is properly amazing. I was introduced to it when I started studying history of art and architecture, and was a tad daunted about all the incredible places I had yet to visit. But thanks to this wonderful resource, developed by Columbia University in 2000 and expanding ever since, I got to hop around the world and the ages taking in a feast pf extraordinary sights.
So, we're fairly inundated with sporty visuals these days, as all manner of superhero-esque London antics are projected across the globe. But they've been absolutely captivating, so here are some more!
TYesterday saw the release of Cut the World, the latest single from Antony and the Johnsons, which is accompanied by an absorbing, thought-provoking video. Directed by NABIL, it features mesmerising music, sleek, claustrophobic office environments, shadowed spaces, and – seriously, take heed – a fairly gruesome scene.
This week has brought us SPORTS – pub-goers have been positively glued to diving, gymnastics, and handball, and I've even spotted Olympians frantically searching for ginger-ale in Tesco (apparently it calms down upset/nerve-addled stomachs?). What's more, as I write this it's "Sports Day" here at It's Nice That, and we have table-tennis bats at the ready to battle it out. Regardless of who wins, the week has also brought us a glorious amassing of Things; from tote bags and literary magazines to thought-provoking photography and absorbing pocket-sized city guides, it's the perfect mix for an August holiday – which reminds me, happy August everyone; here you are!
This summer in London, it's everywhere – walking down high streets, wandering past billboards, and rushing through tube stations: that fluttering magenta, that slightly jagged, spaced out typography… Yes, it's the London 2012 identity, greeted with trepidation by some and for months heralding, in its slightly medieval, banner-like fashion, the impending crowds, transport disruptions, and mass-excitement of the Games.
North Carolina-based sculptor Patrick Dougherty weaves dreamlike sculptures out of woods, twigs, vines, and any such natural tree-derived materials available to him. The textural density and wavering structural curves tilt towards the surreal, with the sparseness of materials and shadowy window-cavities evoking the ruins of lost phantom civilisations, their dwellings mysterious and occasionally frozen in a fictional wind. On another level, their warping appearance makes them like animated houses – I'm reminded of the fortresses in The Supermario Bros, and there are playful architectural references in the construction of onion-domes, arches, and spires that remind us of the mimicery involved in building playhouses.
Let's all go to the seaside. Seriously. And we'll stay in amazing huts like these and when the holiday's over… we'll just take them back with us! Hut on Sleds, by New Zealand architecture firm Crosson Clarke Carnachan, is currently quite far away from where we live but with a tractor attached it's pretty portable, and when there's a will there's a way, right? Built for a stretch of New Zealand beach that's subject to coastal erosion, one of the primary challenges of the project involved responding to the changing conditions of the location. So… they put it on a pair of giant sleds. Brilliant.
Brooklyn-based design studio and letterpress workshop Swayspace have been Vandercooking up a storm with their self-promotion material. Intending to show their potential clients just what they can conjure up with little more than a bit of ink and an old-fashioned piece of printing machinery, they've produced a delightful publication that demonstrates, along with extensive technical capabilities, a very sophisticated approach to design. As anyone familiar with Vandercook presses will know, achieving this type of clarity and carefully considered appearance isn't easy, but Swayspace maintained happy mediums for ink levels and pressure to ensure an extremely high-quality finish. They also modified the original bright orange ink in order to bond more effectively with the blue elements; by adding a blue-ish grey colour to it, they ensured a rustier, more harmonious appearance.
This week our studio was reveling in the intense heat of London's week of summer – at last! – stocking up on Mars ice-cream bars by the dozen and sunning ourselves wherever possible. And yes, also giving out yards (Irish expression!) about transport disruptions that sunshine that the holiday smell of sunscreen made only mildly more bearable. We also had our Grads 2012 event, which was very exciting and filled with brilliant work and a fantastic mix of all sorts of talented people. In the meantime, we've received a massive variety of tremendous Things – five of which we showcase here in all their vibrant, fun-loving, map-addled glory. Enjoy!
These images, with their vibrant swirls, abstracted forms, and occasionally eye-popping bursts of colour, look like paintings. You can imagine them leaning against the wall of a messy studio, or framed and debated upon within a slick white gallery space. But in actual fact, they're photographs of where we all live. It's been 40 years since NASA launched its first Landsat satellite – sent way out there to monitor and document the changes taking place across the planet. To celebrate four decades of earth-gazing, NASA and the U.S. Geographical Society selected and digitally coloured 120 images taken from these satellites, and put them up for public vote in their Earth as Art contest.
Aleksandra Mir's Triumph is a massive installation of trophies – 2,529, to be precise – from every genre of sport, dating from the 1970s. The project was inspired by the artist's visit to the house of an ageing friend who had been a very successful athlete in his youth, and whose prowess was demonstrated in a shrine-like room dedicated to the prizes and photographs of his glory days. She was struck by the conflicting aspects of it all; the drama, speed and excitement of those victorious seconds, the sadness that they could never be returned to, and the sense that some day those much-anticipated and thrilling moments would be reduced to nothing more than a series of trophy-engravings and clippings.
Peter Crawley's a product designer, who also makes beautifully stitch-tastic graphic work on the side. We featured him on the site back in 2011, and his work – largely made using white watercolour paper, needles, and thread – has continued to go from strength to strength. Order Chaos is a recently hand-stitched project, the underlying concept of which will be extremely familiar to anyone who's ever worked with a sewing box. With the letterforms themselves illustrating the meaning of each opposing word, we see neatly and evenly stitched lines juxtaposed with an absolute tangle of cotton and colour.
Paris-based illustrator Guy-Pascal Vallez, also known as GAX, presents us with a host of surreal characters inhabiting all sorts of otherworldly space. Cloaked and occasionally masked, they are packed into dense medieval-style cities in huge numbers, or exist as sole occupants of dauntingly expansive landscapes.
Paris-based photographer Léo Caillard has captured the beach huts of Miami with such vibrancy that we wish we could enter the images and hang out there for hours, paddling in the waters and lounging around on the sand. C'mon, Mary Poppins effect – London's getting a bit hot these days!
This week at "Things" we've got Swiss climbing walls, various smells, antennae, and a beautiful selection of photographic work. As well as various interpretations of Bart Simpson's face, because why not. Enjoy!
Valencia street artist Escif has been transforming walls in all sorts of places, adding his figures, motifs, and commentary to surfaces and scales from Spain and Poland to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Much of his work has a beautiful ink-made, manuscript quality, which pleasantly jars with the open-air context, and yet draws attention to the similarities between that crumbling sand-coloured masonry and the fragile parchments on which such styles are found.
We were delighted when Mumbai-based illustrator Sameer Kulavoor's beautiful publication, The Ghoda Cycle Project came freewheeling into our studio the other week. It's a visual documentation of the many types of "ghoda" bicycles found across rural and urban India. The word "ghoda" means "stallion"; the name alludes to the sturdiness, heaviness, and durability of these vehicles that sustain businesses and livelihoods alike, and which become customised and personalised according to the needs and whims of each owner.
Kristiina Lahde's work is preoccupied with measurement, regulation, and the possibilities for boundary-breaking that such systems present. Using material that traditionally provides and facilitates order, like measuring tapes, phone books, and rulers, the Canadian artist produces graphic works and sculptures that reconsider their original function and refresh them as something new and extraordinary. Her Beyond Measure series of works examines the role of measurement in our day-to-day lives; in the Metric system pieces, she takes one mode of structuring and regulating physical reality (inches and centimetres) and reconfigures them as abstracted cubes that nevertheless retain a sense of uniformity and consistency. Her 2009 bookwork, Compilation, meanwhile appears to play on the hive of information currently available to us, and perhaps ties the intentional graphic consistency of something as humdrum as a telephone book with the startlingly beautiful consistency of natural geometric forms. Wow.
When I was growing up, there were apparently more golf courses in Ireland than playgrounds. At the age of seven my younger sister and I even resorted to improvising a see-saw out of a styrofoam surfboard and random cylindrical plastic thing we found in the shed. All this makes me massively appreciate a decent and fun playground structure, though my feelings are admittedly mixed with a dash of envy for the kids these things are actually designed for. Sigh.
Tasmanian-born Nick Sheehy (also knows as Showchicken) has a background in bronze sculpture, and rediscovered his love of drawing when he moved to the UK where he is currently based. Using pencil, paper, and layers of colour, he draws us into vivid dream-like feathered worlds, where multi-eyed birds dress as jesters, examine constellations, confront enemies, exist within larger birds, and make tribal offerings.
Branding agency DixonBaxi's been busy creating a new identity for UKTV Yesterday, which is set to launch on July 24 as a design refresh for the history-focused channel. The notion of "entertainment inspired by history" sparked DixonBaxi to produce something that was vivid, immersive, and iconically strong.
As you may know from the marvellous graduate work being showcased on It's Nice That for the past two weeks (see in full The Graduates 2012 here), it's that time of year again when we have amazing work blasting through our letterbox as creatives everywhere are breaking free from the shackles and security of student-hood.
The northwestern European compulsion to discuss the weather perhaps arises from the fact that, in these parts, you can rarely predict it; oh, to live in a place without four seasons in one day! But it does mean that there's always a guaranteed topic for small-talk, and Troika is generating further discussion with their tongue-in-cheek outdoor installation, The Weather Yesterday, on London's Hoxton Square.
Jarred goods have never looked so, well, good. Astrid Stavro Studio, in collaboration with Grafica, has designed the labeling for these jars of Son Brusque olive oil, almonds, chillies and other delicious food ideally eaten by a pool in a shaded olive grove, but equally acceptable in a rainy kitchen.
This year's Deutche Börse Photography Prize exhibition opens tommorrow – July 13 – at London's Photographers' Gallery. The annual competition was was founded in 1996 by the gallery and since 2005 had run in collaboration with the Deutche Börse Group (hence the name). It aims to reward £30,000 to a contemporary photographer of any nationality who has made the most significant contribution to photography this past year – either in the contexts of publication or exhibition.
We love Maggie Li's work. A lot. Producing illustrations on all sorts of topics – everything from geography and textile production to digital narcotics – she ensures that the content is beautifully laid out, often using soft palettes and arresting, considered colourisation. Her editorial work is particularly compelling, as complex subjects are often literally mapped out for our benefit; an awesome illustration portfolio that also teaches about sustainable architecture? Win.
See up there, north of where the Gherkin is – that's where we are! Well, not really… kind of. Japanese artist Sohei Nishoso's diaroma's aren't quite accurate in a technical, cartographical sense, but rather represent his own wanderings around the world's major cities. He explores these vast urban spaces, taking thousands and thousands of photos as he goes. Then, he edits them down to "just" a few thousand, hand-prints them, and cuts and collages to produce massive composite representations of the city as he experienced it.
We last featured Jean Jullien's work in May, but when stuff like this project comes through, in all its egg-soaked glory, we can't not tell you about it! The London-based French designer has just completed Le Nid (The Nest) for a space in Nantes, his hometown.
Yelena Bryksenkova's illustrations are wonderful. Using pen, watercolour, and gouache, she creates detailed and beautifully rendered spaces for her characters who often appear to exist in states of meditation or relaxation. Russian-born and US-raised, Bryksenkova completed her BFA in illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010, and has since produced work for the likes of Orla Kiely, Urban Outfitters, and Random House UK.
What did the tree say when it looked in the mirror? "Geometry!" ("Gee, I'm a tree!" Geddit?) That is my all-time favourite joke – I saw it in a Zig & Zag annual in the mid 1990s and it's been firmly rooted in my repertoire ever since.
Take a look at the consummate layout of London-based graphic designer, illustrator, and art director, Luke Fenech. There is a beautiful immediacy to his work – which involves clean, measured, and very appealing arrangements of text and pictorial content.
Anthony Zinonos' work – which we first came across after featuring Wicca who represent him – is whip-smart and great fun to boot. The Norwich-based collage illustrator uses found materials to great effect, arranging flat geometric colour planes, human figures, and all manner of other visual imagery to create images that immediately engage. His work also involves a considered and extremely effective use of negative space; different compositional elements relate to each other, certainly, but the page isn't overwhelmed by visual data – each element is thereby granted freedom, and yet they all inter-relate to compose very successful bigger pictures.
It's been another mighty week for Things – we've been getting all manner of delightful post arriving each morning at the It's Nice That headquarters. This week we've been indulging in 1990's stickerbook nostalgia, a bit of bike-spotting, a freaking awesome piece of self-promo, a beautiful publication on food aaaaand a very nice illustrated book involving reindeer and the Greenland landscape.
Letra is the studio of Portuguese designer Marco Balesteros, who graduated from the ArtEZ Institute in the Netherlands in 2009, and has been producing eye-catching graphics ever since.
Now that graduate season has come back around, it's interesting to consider what has become of those we featured way back when The Graduates, our annual showcase, started. Well, in 2009 animator Daniel Britt was one of our first ever – and since then, his career has gone from strength to strength. He has just completed this beautiful animation, A Thousand Reasons, for the WMD Awareness Programme, which raises issues surrounding the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The short film involves an arresting use of origami; the pace and progression are very smooth, while the fragility of the materials and the care taken in their construction provide a stirring counterpoint to the annihilation under discussion.


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There are two opportunities to build fun stuff at the Southbank Centre in the next couple of weeks.
From 31 July there'll be a labyrinth of books in the Clore Ballroom. It's called aMAZEme and is part of the London 2012 Festival. People can wander round it and see spoken word performances until 26 August (for free), but first the thing has to be built. aMAZEme have put out an appeal for volunteers on Craigslist – they need people 26-30 July to take 250,000 books and build walls up to 3m high. They'll give you food and drink for helping out (they also need a hand taking it all down again on 27 August). Drop firstname.lastname@example.com a line.
The Southbank Centre is also looking for volunteers to help build a map of the world out of Lego bricks, on the Riverside Terrace. Although technically you wouldn't be playing with the Lego yourself, we're sure there'll be opportunities. Officially they need people to help visitors complete their own piece of the map, and generally be bright and friendly and give the UK's only certified Lego professional, Duncan Titmarsh, the space to take care of the project. The dates are 23 July-10 August with training this Friday; the application document says you need to be able to do five shifts and it looks like those shifts would be full days.

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Coupons.com sizzles on Wall Street debut
The stock market debut of Coupons.com brought out bargain-seekers on Friday, shooting the online discount firm up a stunning 87 percent.
The stock market debut of Coupons.com brought out bargain-seekers on Friday, shooting the online discount firm up a stunning 87 percent.
Twitter got a reality check Wednesday as the high-flying messaging company reported modest user growth during a quarter in which it lost $511 million.
Twitter's stock price continued a recent decline on Wednesday, closing down 3.5 percent after an analyst lowered the short messaging service's rating on concerns that its stock price is too high.
Twitter shares tumbled Friday after a brokerage analyst warned the popular messaging network was overvalued following a meteoric rise since its initial public offering in November.
Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time Thursday, instantly leaping more than 70 percent above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street's lofty hopes.
Twitter debuted on Wall Street with a bang Thursday as shares in the fast-growing social network soared amid investor frenzy over the most-anticipated listing since Facebook.
As Twitter embarks upon an initial public offering that is projected to raise some $1.7 billion for the social media company, it walks past a veritable graveyard of dead IPO companies.
Twitter was on the verge of revealing the price of its stock offering Wednesday, giving the popular messaging platform a value of around $15 billion, media reports said.
Twitter boosted its public stock offering to as much as $2 billion Monday, suggesting strong demand for its shares and a higher overall value for the one-to-many messaging platform.
Here is a look at notable tech companies that have conducted initial public offerings over the past two years ahead of Twitter's IPO:
Two financial firms sued Twitter on Wednesday, saying it supported their own world tour to sell its shares last year, only to disallow the sales in a ruse aimed at boosting the company's valuation above $10 billion for an ...
Facebook Inc. has just one question for Wall Street: How do you like me now?
Facebook's stock has closed above its IPO price for the first time since the online social networking leader made its debut on Wall Street more than 14 months ago.
Facebook on Tuesday got into the business of publishing mobile games, offering developers help at going global with smartphone or tablet titles in exchange for a share of revenue.
Struggling Web game maker Zynga gave new CEO Don Mattrick a $5 million signing bonus and stock awards valued at $40 million to lure him away from his previous job overseeing Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox console for video games.


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Has anybody using Biotin label DNA and detecting by streptavidin IR dyes?
Re: Emsa
Hello Kaneja,
yes I have used biotin labeled DNA and streptavidin detection for EMSA, I am not sure what you mean about IR dyes? Do you have an example kit or method of detection?
very interesting if they have come out with IR detection for EMSA.
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'Flight' reaches new heights
December 15, 2012
Director Robert Zemeckis' name has been associated with family friendly adventures, stop-motion animated films and the story of a man named Gump. His films have heart and encounter conflict, but it is conquerable. But Zemeckis' latest film has so much conflict that it doesn't seem entirely resolved by the end of the film.
When sitting down to see "Flight," starring Denzel Washington as pilot Whip Whitacre, I expected a thrilling tale of a hero pilot based on the trailers. Buyers beware, because this film is so much more than heroic story. In reality, it's not heroic at all; it's downright despicable at times. "Flight" breaks the boundaries of what film can be and makes audiences distrust their own moral conscience.
The film begins with a tone altogether different than Zemeckis' other films. Washington wakes up from a night of frivolity with a nude woman and a room littered with beer bottles. Surprisingly this is what pulled me in, because I knew from that moment that this film was something entirely different. Washington does play a hero pilot, but one who suffers from severe alcoholism. After his character safely lands a plane that is sent plummeting back to earth after a part malfunctions, he is informed that those investigating the crash found alcohol in his system.
At this moment audiences might think Whitacre is going behind bars for a long time. Instead what unfolds is a powerful drama about the tortures of substance abuse and temptation. Depending on your state of mind, this film will either pull hard at your heart strings or bore you to death. This is a film for individuals who have met the eyes of temptation or witnessed someone struggle. If you don't want to relive potentially painful memories, then I would not suggest seeing this film.
Washington portrays a tortured soul better than any actor in recent memory. In one particular scene Whitacre drives to his old home in hopes of speaking with his ex-wife and son, but they will have nothing to do with him. The son threatens his father and tells him to leave immediately, and Whitacre grabs his son with a hug.
This moment brought on the water works for me, because there is so much pain in the scene acted brilliantly by Washington and company. There are plenty of scenes working together like this in Zemeckis' film. For those who have not met this struggle in life, some scenes may come off as overdramatic, but in reality they portray the perfect amount of human drama. Zemeckis and screenwriter Jon Gatins have done their research and present the ugly side of addiction in its most real form.
This film could have stood alone playing the addiction as the main plot, but what the director and screenwriter do is much more powerful and vile. They force the audience to examine their moral conscience when Whitacre's blood report is thrown out of a case against him due to faulty testing. Together with his lawyer, played connivingly yet charmingly by Don Cheadle, and his old friend, who works for the pilot's union and is played sternly by Bruce Greenwood, Whitacre will need to either lie in a hearing or face the realities of his choices.
Movie fan Patrick White doesn't spare anyone's feelings when deciding if the latest Hollywood offering is trash or treasure. Catch his reviews on the latest theater and DVD releases in Saturday's paper.
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American Restoration's Rick Dale Fixes Stuff, Makes Moneyon November 26, 2012
Rick Dale is restoring America, one vintage item at a time. The 53-year-old entrepreneur has established a reputation as a master craftsman who can turn a rusty 1950s soda machine into a work of art that retails for thousands of dollars.
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Foreign Media Report Kim Jong Un's New Year Address
|Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- The New Year Address made by supreme leader Kim Jong Un was reported in different countries from January 1 to 8.
Foreign media specially edited the main contents of the New Year Address with photos documenting his revolutionary activities. They included the Lao newspaper Congtap Pasason Lao, Mongolian News Agency Montsame, Iranian newspaper Iran News, Myanmar paper The New Age, Thai papers Thairath, Daily News and The Nation, Angolan paper Journal de Angola, DR Congo paper L'Avenir, Egyptian paper Al Ahram, Russian internet TV Krasnoye Televiseniye and websites of the Tynda Group for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism of Russia and the Poland branch of the Korean Friendship Association.
The Chinese Dandong Daily, Bangladeshi papers Bangla Times and Blits, Indian paper Indian and World Event, Pakistani paper Baluchistan Times, Myanmar News, Libyan paper February, Zambian paper Post and websites of the Brazilian Committee for Remembering Leader Kim Jong Il and the Romanian Workers' Association carried the full text or gist of the New Year Address under the titles such as "Leader Kim Jong Un set forth tasks for 2014".
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Crowdsourced Travel – Crowdfunding Invitation
Posted on 13. Nov, 2011 by Mikey Leung in Blog
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Assalam aleikum,
Hello Bangladesh Travellers. We hope this website haas helped enrich your experience here, and helped you understand the many facets this country has to offer.
Overcrowded Train by Md. Akhlas Uddin
We're back in Bangladesh because Bradt guides has requested that we come back here and update my guide. But we're also back here now because we need your help sharing a new story about Bangladesh.
It's a human story, a story about resiliency and opportunity. It's my story of Bangladesh.
When most people think of Bangladesh, they think of poverty, struggle and corruption. But when we think of this country, we see so much more.
We see the vibrant colours of the Srimongol's tea fields. We see the spectacular riverine landscapes of the Ganges Delta.
We see a story of human resiliency that inspires me, and makes me want to show others the **non-material** history, nature and wealth of this extraordinary nation.
That's why, with your help, we want to create a new social enterprise called Crowdsourced Travel.
Instead of perpetuating Bangladesh's negative image, we want to re-introduce it as a new frontier in travel development.
Well-managed tourism is a positive economic force to be reckoned with. It creates jobs, promotes cultural exchange and protects nature. Bangladesh is the perfect place to promote this style of tourism.
***To start this venture, my team and I need your help. We're asking you to help us crowdfund the capital we need to get started.
Our first goal is to create a crowdsourced coffee table photography book on Bangladesh, the first of its kind.
We need just $15,000 to produce this book, and we've already raised $5,000. But with $45,000 we can execute our full vision — which is to create a new social tourism business in Bangladesh. A business that promotes the best tourism operators and helps them reach responsible travellers more easily.
More funding means we'll be able to create open source tools and content that will promote sustainable travel. And if we make our full funding goal we'll have just enough to produce a documentary web series that will seal the deal.
In return for your support, you'll receive some fantastic photographic products from Bangladesh, and the knowledge that you are helping to show the rest of the world a positive story about this country, one that could create new economic opportunities through tourism.
Bangladeshi people deserve this opportunity, so please help us show Bangladesh to the world.
Thank you for listening to these podcasts. If you can, please pledge to support us our crowdfunding website.
Bangladeshe Bondhu, Ami Bangladeshke bhalobhashi, apni-o Bangladeshke Bhalobhashen, tai amake shahaj korun.


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Guide to the Duke Endowment Archives, 1902-2008 and undated, bulk 1925-2006
The Duke Endowment was established by James Buchanan Duke as a perpetual charitable trust in 1924, with the following types of beneficiaries, mainly residing in North Carolina and South Carolina: non-profit hospitals and child care institutions; educational institutions; and rural churches of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now the United Methodist Church).
The Duke Endowment Archives span the years 1902 to 2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1925 through 2006. The collection documents the administration of the corpus of the trust and the charitable contributions made to the categories of recipients named in the Indenture and Deed of Trust establishing The Endowment. The majority of the records are arranged into series that reflect the organization of the institution, including the Board of Trustees, Treasurer's Office, Controller's Office, Investment Office, Education Division and Committee on Communications, Health Care and Child Care Divisions, and Rural Church Division. Smaller series, documenting such other activities as record-keeping, publications, and history of The Endowment, include: Central Files, Oral History Project, Trust Under Will, Publications, Miscellaneous, Photographic Materials, and Audiovisual Materials. The collection consists of the following types of materials: correspondence; minutes of meetings; financial records; applications for assistance from hospitals, child care institutions, and churches; statistics; publications; oral history tapes and transcripts; architectural drawings and blueprints; photographs; audio cassettes; and miscellaneous records and papers. The geographic focus is primarily North Carolina and South Carolina.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Creator
- Duke Endowment
- Title
- Duke Endowment Archives 1902-2008 and undated, bulk 1925-2006
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 325.6 Linear Feet, 165,000 Items
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Series Quick Links
- Board of Trustees Series (RESTRICTED), 1924-2004
- Central Files Series (RESTRICTED), 1924-2000 and undated
- Treasurer's Office Series (RESTRICTED), 1941-2006 and undated
- Controller's Office Series (RESTRICTED), 1924-2008 and undated
- Investment Office Series (RESTRICTED), 1924-2000
- Education Division and Committee on Communications Series (RESTRICTED), 1960-1999 and undated
- Health Care and Child Care Divisions Series (RESTRICTED), 1923-1999 and undated
- Rural Church Division Series (RESTRICTED), 1918-2006 and undated
- Publications Series, 1910-2001 and undated
- Oral History Project Series (RESTRICTED), 1963-1970 (bulk 1963-1964)
- Trust Under Will Series (RESTRICTED), 1924-2003
- Miscellaneous Series (RESTRICTED), 1902-2001 and undated
- Photographic Materials Series (RESTRICTED), 1926-1933, 1956-1975, and undated
- Audiovisual Materials Series (RESTRICTED), 1991-1995 and undated
- Oversize Materials (RESTRICTED)
Collection Overview
The Duke Endowment Archives span the years 1902 to 2008, although the bulk of the material dates from 1925 through 2006. The collection consists of correspondence; minutes of meetings; financial records; applications for assistance from hospitals, child care institutions, and churches; statistics; publications; oral history tapes and transcripts; architectural drawings and blueprints; photographs; audio cassettes; and miscellaneous records and papers. The collection documents the administration of the corpus of the trust and the charitable contributions made to the categories of recipients named in the Indenture and Deed of Trust establishing The Duke Endowment. Records are arranged to reflect the responsibilities and operations of the Endowment's trustees, officers, and divisions, with major series including: the Board of Trustees, Treasurer's Office, Controller's Office, Investment Office, Education Division and Committee on Communications, Health Care and Child Care Divisions, and Rural Church Division. Smaller series, documenting such other activities as record-keeping, publications, and the Endowment's history, include: Central Files, Oral History Project, Trust Under Will, Publications, Miscellaneous, Photographic Materials, and Audiovisual Materials. Subject areas represented in the collection include: the history of foundations, hospital and child care demographics and other statistics, rural church buildings and activities, the construction of Duke University, and the life of James Buchanan Duke. The geographic focus is primarily North Carolina and South Carolina.
When James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment as a perpetual charitable trust in 1924, he formalized a tradition of philanthropy that he and other members of the Duke family had practiced for many years, especially with regard to Duke University (formerly Trinity College). The life of James B. Duke, including his philanthropic interests, is documented in the Oral History Project Series (RESTRICTED) and Miscellaneous Series (RESTRICTED), and, to a lesser extent, the Health Care and Child Care Divisions Series' (RESTRICTED) Feasibility Study and Rural Church Division Series (RESTRICTED) , Correspondence Subseries. The 100th Anniversary of James B. Duke's birth and interest in Mr. Duke's home in Charlotte, N.C., are documented in the Miscellaneous Series.
The Indenture and Deed of Trust establishing The Duke Endowment delineates the type of beneficiaries eligible for its support. These include non-profit hospitals and child care institutions; educational institutions; and rural churches of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now the United Methodist Church), including retired ministers and widows and orphans of deceased ministers. Beneficiaries usually reside within North Carolina and South Carolina, i.e., generally the areas served by the water power facilities established by Mr. Duke, although under certain conditions other states may be served. The textile mills served by hydroelectric power were of special interest to Mr. Duke. A statistical study of cotton mills that he requested is in the Miscellaneous Series. The Indenture and Deed of Trust specifies that hospitals and child care institutions for Whites and African Americans should be supported. The Duke Endowment provides technical assistance as well as funding. Specific educational institutions were named in the Indenture: Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.; Duke University, Durham, N.C.; Furman University, Greenville, S.C.; and Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C.
For the original corpus of The Endowment, James B. Duke assigned shares of stock from Duke Power Company, British-American Tobacco Company, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, George W. Helme Company, Republic Cotton Mills, and Judson Mills. The Indenture stipulates how income and capital from the corpus should be managed and includes specific directives for handling the stock of Duke Power Company. Continuous records for the financial management of the assets of The Duke Endowment are in the Treasurer's Office (RESTRICTED) , Controller's Office (RESTRICTED) , and Investment Office Series (RESTRICTED) . The volumes in the Controller's Office Series include records of payments made and management of the corpus as well as The Endowment's general operating expenses, such as salaries, rents, furniture, and supplies. The Investment Office Series contains records pertaining to companies in which The Duke Endowment invested. The Treasurer's Office Series includes an historical overview of The Endowment's expenditures and includes the minutes of the Finance Committee, which was established in 1975. The Treasurer's Office Series includes Beneficiary Information System reports, which provide geographic breakdowns of payments to institutions from the inception of The Duke Endowment to the present, and a summary that lists each institution or beneficiary group and how it used funds from The Endowment. The Treasurer's Office and Investment Office records do not reflect the overall financial management of The Duke Endowment.
The first members of the Board of Trustees of The Duke Endowment--Nanaline H. Duke, George G. Allen, William R. Perkins, William B. Bell, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Walter C. Parker, Alexander H. Sands, Jr., William S. Lee, Charles I. Burkholder, Norman A. Cocke, Edward C. Marshall, and Bennette C. Geer--were named in the Indenture as parties of the second part. As stipulated by the Indenture, the trustees were required to meet at least ten times a year and the minutes of the meetings were to be recorded. The minutes are located in the Board of Trustees Series (RESTRICTED) . Miscellaneous papers and pictures of some trustees, especially of Watson S. Rankin, a physician, who was also head of the Hospital and Child Care Divisions for many years, are in the Miscellaneous Series. Rankin was an early proponent of rural hospitals as a way to make health care available to greater numbers of citizens. The related correspondence of Graham L. Davis, assistant to Watson S. Rankin, is in the Health Care and Child Care Division Series (RESTRICTED) , Health Care Subseries. The Publications Series includes material by or about several trustees.
The Indenture directed the trustees to expend funds for the establishment of Duke University. Designated by Mr. Duke "as one of the principal objects of this trust," a percentage of The Duke Endowment's corpus was to be applied annually for its support. Duke Construction Company was organized by the Board of Trustees to build the university (now known as the West Campus). The architect Horace Trumbauer designed the campus buildings and plant, and the landscape was designed by Olmstead Brothers. Financial records for the construction of Duke University, including the operation of Duke Construction Company, are in the Controller's Office Series (RESTRICTED) and architectural drawings for the buildings, campus plot, and landscaping are in the Miscellaneous Series. Documentation of The Endowment's support of the other educational institutions named in the Indenture, including disbursements and income generated, is in the volumes in the Controller's Office Series.
Non-profit hospitals receive support from The Duke Endowment for free days of care for individuals unable to pay the costs of hospitalization. If all the funds designated for free days of care are not spent in any given year, excess funds may be used for support of hospital construction, maintenance, and equipment. Medical education is also supported, and technical assistance for administrative functions is provided through published manuals. A similar arrangement was established for societies, agencies, or institutions that cared for orphans and half-orphans. The Health Care and Child Care Divisions, Central Files (RESTRICTED) , and Publications Series provide detailed documentation for institutions and programs that receive assistance from The Duke Endowment.
The history of hospital services and statistics for the types of admissions in North Carolina and South Carolina, especially rural areas, can be studied in the Health Care and Child Care Divisions Series , Health Care Division Subseries [NOTE: Formerly known as the Hospital and Child Care Divisions Series and the Hospital Division Subseries, respectively]. The applications from individual hospitals, as well as summaries and statistics that group institutions into comparable categories, provide important documentation about the various types of hospitals and their clients in North Carolina and South Carolina, including hospitals' economic statuses, physical plants, and in-patient and out-patient demographics. Most of the earlier statistics include breakdowns for the number of African American and White patients served and their medical profiles.
The history of institutional child care in North Carolina and South Carolina is documented in the Health Care and Child Care Divisions Series, Child Care Division Subseries. The Child Care Division applications for assistance describe the individual institutions that request support from The Duke Endowment. The applications include information about the physical plant, administration and financial status, population statistics, and the physical care and education of children. The summaries use the information in the applications for assistance and group it by type of institution, e.g., religious, community, county, state, more than 150 beds, under 151 beds with farms, White, African American, etc.
Minutes in the Health Care and Child Care Divisions Series, Health Care and Child Care Committee Subseries document some discussions of how funds would be allocated by The Duke Endowment. The published Annual Reports of the Hospital and Child Care Divisions include substantial statistical information and summary reports about specific institutions served during the year. These reports, located in the Publications Series, are a useful place to begin research about hospital and child care. Reports for these divisions are also in the Year Books.
Between 1915 and 1924, Mr. Duke made systematic contributions to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for churches in the North Carolina and Western North Carolina conferences. His contributions were first administered through the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1920 Trinity College began to administer the funds. The Church Architect Program files in the Rural Church Division Series (RESTRICTED) , Miscellaneous Subseries reflect another arrangement between Duke University and the Rural Church Division. The creation of The Duke Endowment established a formal trust to continue similar support for building and operating rural churches, income for superannuated ministers, and widows and orphans of deceased ministers. The records of the Rural Church Series, Building Grant Files and Church Maintenance Files Subseries document the assistance that individual churches received to build, maintain, and operate churches. Many of these records include oversize blueprints or architectural drawings. There are also records for special projects and other activities supported by The Duke Endowment. The Correspondence Subseries includes information about the concerns of specific churches as well as Methodism and religion in general. Area economic conditions were often described in the correspondence.
The Education Division and the Committee on Communications are currently responsible for publications produced by The Duke Endowment. The Publications Series is a useful starting place for information about The Endowment's activities for a given year or for a historical overview of the foundation. Publications, especially the Annual Reports and Year Books, provide information about the trustees and staff; changes in the organization of The Duke Endowment; and summary information about various divisions, including financial distributions and income, statistics, and specific programs and activities supported by The Endowment at various institutions. Additional publications are in the Miscellaneous Series. Daily operations of The Duke Endowment are documented in the General Correspondence in the Central Files Series. Some general history about The Endowment is located in the Miscellaneous Series, including a signed copy of the Indenture and anniversary celebrations of the 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s.
The Oral History Project Series (RESTRICTED) , a project initiated in 1963, records the reminiscences of people who were knowledgeable about Duke University, the Duke family, and North Carolina and the region in general. The interviews were conducted by Frank W. Rounds of the Oral History Project of Columbia University. The correspondence includes outlines of the names of interviewees and the subjects they were to discuss.
Two groups of non-print materials and of oversize materials complete the collection. The Photographic Materials Series (RESTRICTED) contains approximately 200 photographs relating mainly to the Rural Church Division Series, especially the Committees on Church Architecture, and to the Miscellaneous Series. Several audio cassette recordings in the Audiovisual Materials Series (RESTRICTED) document miscellaneous meetings and addresses pertaining to the Health Care and Child Care Divisions Series. Although series from throughout the collection are represented in the Oversize Materials (RESTRICTED), this group is particularly rich in blueprints and other architectural drawings that support related materials in the Miscellaneous Series and in the Rural Church Division Series, Building Grant Files Subseries.
Unprocessed editions (12-238) are not available for research at this time.
Restrictions on Access & Use
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Access Restrictions
Access to portions of the records of The Duke Endowment is restricted as follows:
(1) The Annual Report and other publications of the Duke Endowment or its divisions are open for research; see the Publications Series for these materials.
(2) Access to the Oral History Series is governed by agreements with the interviewees.
(3) Access to materials in all other series is restricted to trustees, officers, and staff of The Endowment and to researchers who have received prior written permission from The Endowment's president, chairman, or their designated representative.
In addition, any researchers who are granted access to the materials must sign a statement indicating that they will not release the following information without prior written consent of the concerned individual or institution: (a) personally identifiable information about any living individual; or (b) institutionally identifiable information less than twenty-five years old about any institution still in existence. (4) All items not obviously covered by 1 and 2 above should be assumed to be governed by restriction 3.
Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.
All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. The library may require up to 48 hours to retrieve these materials for research use.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library to use this collection.
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The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Contents of the Collection
Includes an index, Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Reports of the Secretary, and the Committee of Trustee Secretaries.
Arranged chronologically.
[Processing Note: a gap in the sequence occurs at 2006.]
Arranged chronologically.
[Processing Note: A gap in the sequence occurs at 1986, Vols. 59A-B, and 1987, Vols. 60A-B. ]
Arranged chronologically.
Arranged chronologically.
Includes Index to Microfiche Codes, and microfiche copies of general correspondence that is dated five years or older and some applications for assistance for the Health Care and Child Care Divisions. General Correspondence includes letters, agenda, meeting notices, minutes, reports, audits, statistics, publications, clippings, form letters, and files for the Methodist Home. Hospital Files include correspondence, financial reports, information about health care in various counties, applications for assistance, and clippings. Child Care Files include correspondence, reports on conditions, descriptions of facilities, financial information, some early applications, and clippings.
General Correspondence is arranged chronologically by groupings of years, then by alpha-numeric subject codes. Hospital Files and Child Care Files are arranged chronologically by groupings of years, then alphabetically by institution name.
[SERIES RESTRICTED. These are archival (master) copies of fiche, and access is not allowed. Researchers may have use copies prepared for a fee; consult a reference archivist for more information. Use copies of the fiche and a detailed index to the contents of the Central Files are at the Library of The Duke Endowment in Charlotte, N.C., where research may be conducted.]
Microfilm in the Central Files series contains the same essential material as the earlier microfiche, but is not generally separated (or separable) into its component categories (such as General Correspondence, Hospital and Child Care Files, Applications for Assistance, and so on).
Processing Note: Reel numbers assigned by the microfilming company have been retained. Since these numbers repeat from one batch of film to another, however, group numbers were also added during processing in order for each item to have a unique identifier.
Includes primarily tax reports, two financial summaries, minutes and related documents of the Finance Committee, and files of tax counsel Richard Thigpen primarily pertaining to a 1969 tax law change.
Arranged by type of material and then chronologically.
[Processing note: some items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Includes payroll records; worksheets; minutes of meetings; and books of account including general ledgers, journals, cashbooks, voucher records and vouchers, bond, vault and dividend ledgers, and agency account books.
The arrangement of this series is first by record type and then by volume number. Originally many of the volumes dated prior to 1985 were bound and unboxed, while those volumes dated after 1985 were boxed. In 2011, the bound, unboxed volumes were unbound and boxed, thus accounting for the inconsistency in the box numbers.
Some volumes are also available on microfilm, microfiche, and compact disks, to be found arranged at the end of the Books of Account subseries. See also Oversize Materials. Arranged in descending order according to the hierarchy of the bookkeeping system.
[Processing note: continued as "Cash Receipts" after No. 6.]
Donor's note: as of the end of 1993, bond transactions will no longer be posted to the Vault Ledger. Bond activity will be reported in the GIA Ledger and in the Subsidiary Ledger.
Donor's note: as of the end of 1993, bond transactions will no longer be posted to the Vault Ledger. Bond activity will be reported in the GIA Ledger and in the Subsidiary Ledger.
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Microfilm Reels, 1996-2003:
[Processing note: items removed to Oversize Materials.]
Includes correspondence, files for companies that include primarily correspondence and reports, and minutes and related documents of the Investment Committee.
Arranged by type of material, then chronologically. Company files are arranged alphabetically by the name of the company.
Education Division and Committee on Communications Series (RESTRICTED), 1960-1999 and undated
Includes minutes and related documents of the Education Division and the Committee on Communications.
Arranged chronologically.
There are three subseries: Health Care Division Subseries, Child Care Division Subseries, and Health Care and Child Care Committee Subseries. Preceding both subseries is a feasibility study for the funding of hospitals and child care institutions. This series was formerly known as the Hospital and Child Care Divisions Series, and the original names of these two divisions were the Hospital Section and the Orphan Section; except when these earlier names appear as part of the titles of publications, the contemporary names Health Care Division and Child Care Division are used throughout this finding aid.
Includes applications from individual hospitals, summaries of statistical information compiled from individual applications, statistics, minutes of committee meetings, surveys, correspondence and writings of Graham L. Davis, and maps showing the distribution of hospitals in North and South Carolina.
The summaries for hospitals are divided by state. See also Oversize Materials. Arranged in the order in which The Duke Endowment proceeds with the application process and the compilation of data: applications for assistance from individual hospitals, summaries, then statistics. Microfilm is numbered according to the original reel numbers ascribed by The Duke Endowment. [NOTE: This subseries was formerly known as the Hospital Division Subseries.]
Includes applications from individual child care providers, summaries of statistical information compiled from individual applications, statistics, minutes of committee meetings, and maps showing the distribution of child care institutions.
Arranged in the order in which The Duke Endowment proceeds with the application process and the compilation of data: applications for assistance from individual child care organizations, summaries, then statistics. The applications and the summaries are divided by state. Applications are then arranged alphabetically by the name of the institution; earlier versions of the institution name are in parentheses following the most recent version. See also Oversize Materials.
Includes minutes of meetings and related documents of committees. Arranged chronologically. [NOTE: This subseries was formerly known as the Hospital and Child Care Committee Subseries.]
Includes the records for the programs supported by the Rural Church Office.
There are five subseries: Correspondence, Applications for Assistance, Building Grant Files, Church Maintenance Files, and Miscellaneous.
Includes general correspondence related to the Rural Church Division.
Arranged chronologically.
Includes correspondence and applications for field counseling, field work, in-service training, pastorates, special projects, various grants, superannuates, and supervision.
Arranged alphabetically by the subject or type of application.
Largest category in the collection. Includes correspondence, applications and related materials, including blueprints, for support of the construction of rural churches. See also Oversize Materials (primarily blueprints).
Arranged alphabetically by the name of the church; the county in which the church resides is also listed. Only first and last church is listed for oversize folders.


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Labor Department withdraws controversial child farm labor rulesWASHINGTON — The Labor Department on April 26 announced it would withdraw its controversial proposed rule dealing with children who work on farms and would not pursue its revision as long as President Barack Obama is in office.
By: Jerry Hagstrom, Agweek
WASHINGTON — The Labor Department on April 26 announced it would withdraw its controversial proposed rule dealing with children who work on farms and would not pursue its revision as long as President Barack Obama is in office.
In a news release, the department said it would withdraw the entire rule — the section dealing with the children of farmers who own or operate the farm, which the agency already announced it would repropose, and the portion of the rule that would affect neighborhood youths and migrant worker children who are employed on the farm.
Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., had all opposed the rule, and Moran and Thune had introduced legislation to stop it moving forward.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, favored rewriting the rule, arguing that researchers had learned much about child labor on farms since children were exempted from rules that prohibit or limit the employment of persons under 18 in many fields.
"The Obama administration is firmly committed to promoting family farmers and respecting the rural way of life, especially the role that parents and other family members play in passing those traditions down through the generations," the Labor Department said in a statement. "The Obama administration is also deeply committed to listening and responding to what Americans across the country have to say about proposed rules and regulations.
"As a result, the Department of Labor is announcing today the withdrawal of the proposed rule dealing with children under the age of 16 who work in agricultural vocations.
"The decision to withdraw this rule — including provisions to define the 'parental exemption' — was made in response to thousands of comments expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small family-owned farms.
"To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the duration of the Obama administration. Instead, the departments of labor and agriculture will work with rural stakeholders — such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers Union, the Future Farmers of America, and 4-H — to develop an educational program to reduce accidents to young workers and promote safer agricultural working practices."
Tester claimed credit for convincing labor to drop the rule.
"Montana is a world leader in agriculture because our farmers learn the values of responsible, safe work at an early age," Tester said in a news release. "I appreciate the Department of Labor listening to my concerns and those of hard-working Montana farmers and dropping these rules so we can continue our way of life and keep feeding America."
Tester noted that he grew up baling hay and "picking rocks" on his family's farm, and said that "while it's important to keep our young people safe, it's essential to expose them to valuable opportunities that develop a deep and long-lasting respect for work."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a news release, "It's good the Labor Department rethought the ridiculous regulations it was going to stick on farmers and their families. It would have been devastating to farm families across the country. Much of rural America was built on families helping families, neighbors helping neighbors. To even propose such regulations defies common sense, and shows a real lack of understanding as to how the family farm works. I'm glad the Obama administration came to its senses."
Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., said, "This is a major victory for farmers and ranchers in Nebraska and across the country. Just as it seemed like the Labor Department would move forward with its terribly misguided rule, common sense has prevailed. Rural families can breathe a little easier knowing it won't be illegal for their kids to be involved in agriculture, the lifeblood of Nebraska's economy."
Smith noted that the Labor Department had published its proposed rule on Sept. 2 and that on Dec. 16, he and 152 other House members signed a letter urging Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to re-evaluate the proposed rule because it would place burdensome restrictions on youth participation in agriculture. In October, Smith signed a bipartisan letter with 77 other House members which secured an extension of the public comment period on the rule.
Last week a coalition of advocates in favor of the rule including the American Federation of Teachers and the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs held a news conference in Washington to encourage the Labor Department to move forward with the rule. The advocates noted that youths have been injured running machinery and said that there should be rules about how long children can work in the hot sun and how high they can climb.
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Entry 2
Entry 2
Danco - Wed April 7th
We set foot on dry land at DANCO at about 0830 Wednesday morning, and very welcome it was too. We are travelling with 4 cameras and today the three we carried in with us were reunited with the one that has spent the past three weeks camping at Danco with Rebecca Roper-Gee, the Antarctica New Zealand observer on this trip.
Rebecca has been recording a video diary of her time at the disappearing base and I imagine she thought that she could now have an overdue break from the intrusion of a camera. So, we made her get in and out of her tent a dozen or so times, all for the camera and all so that we can edit her diary. We're all back on the boat now, but we haven't finished with her yet!
Sorry, we're not rolling this time
Dave Burkitt has been busily assembling and packing the prize artefacts from the old base. Some will go to Port Lockroy, others to the museum at Stanley in the Falklands and the rest are destined for Cambridge. We filmed Dave and John Shears looking through cases and selecting the items for Port Lockroy - with a fair wind and a bit of luck we should be able to film them putting them in their new home sometime next week. Fingers crossed.
I'm continually surprised at how good-natured people are about
our repetitive demands (sorry - can you do that again; oh, and
again. Um, I think we need a new camera battery, can you do that
again ...). It's also great for me to at last start work after so
much 'hurry up and wait'.
Richard Wilson
Copyright Rockhopper/BAS


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Back in 2000, Entrepreneur's StartUps magazine featured an article about Janice McLean Deloatch as she was trying to launch a business in Maryland that dispensed pantyhose from vending machines.
The venture didn't take off. But the Abingdon resident took what she learned from the experience to create "The Entrepreneurs Edge," a monthly public access cable TV program dispensing advice for entrepreneurs and small businesses.
A dozen years after that favorable article, though, the magazine's parent sued McLean Deloatch for using the word "entrepreneur" in the show's title.
"They can't monopolize a word that's used in everyday language," McLean Deloatch said. "That's in the dictionary."
Apparently, the company can, and McLean Deloatch joined a growing list of entrepreneurs sued by the California-based media company for trademark infringement. Entrepreneur Media Inc., owner of Entrepreneur Magazine and other publications, maintains that it has used the Entrepreneur mark for more than 30 years and doesn't want consumers confusing its brand with others using similar names. But many see a paradox in the company's aggressive pursuit of those who are the publication's bread and butter — entrepreneurs.
"It does seem very unusual that the very people that would have the most interest in [the magazine] are the ones they are going after," said Stacey B. Lee, assistant professor of business law at the Johns Hopkins University.
Neither Entrepreneur Media nor its lawyers returned phone calls or emails seeking comment.
For Marylanders, this case might be reminiscent of the brouhaha after the discovery that Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting had trademarked "Hon," a term regularly used by Baltimoreans. She later relinquished the trademark after much bad publicity and a drop in sales at her Hampden restaurant.
Trademark experts, though, say it's not unheard of for commonplace words to be trademarked.
"Think of Time magazine. We all use the word 'time' every day in conversation," said Hank Boyd, associate chair of the marketing department at the University of Maryland, College Park. "When you think of the brand of Time, they own it. That is their trademark and, therefore, they will protect it."
Indeed, Boyd said, a company can create a distinctive trademark but let it slip away by not protecting it, allowing the term to become generic.
That happened with aspirin, thermos, escalator, dry ice, shredded wheat, linoleum and trampoline — all terms that lost trademark protection as they fell into general use, said Darryl C. Wilson, a professor at the Stetson University College of Law in Florida.
Ed White, an intellectual property lawyer with LeClairRyan in Richmond, Va., said the strongest trademarks are arbitrary or fanciful, such as Kodak — a made-up word that firmly became associated with film.
But descriptive terms, such as entrepreneur, are weaker because they describe the nature of the person or the goods and services provided and thus more likely to be adopted by others, White said. And that means a company will have to be more vigilant about protecting its trademark.
Entrepreneur Media has been that. It opposes attempts by others trying to register a trademark with the word "entrepreneur" in them. And it has sued businesses that have used such names as Entrepreneur PR, U.S. Entrepreneur Today, Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, EntrepreneurOlogy, Seattleentrepreneur.com and entrepreneuressmag.com.
Sued by Entrepreneur Media this year, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center filed a countersuit alleging that "EMI has gained a reputation for suing entrepreneurs and stifling innovation by attacking small businesses, individuals and nonprofit organizations that use the word 'entrepreneur' to identify goods and services."
The legal battle was settled with the nonprofit agreeing to use its full legal name — it has called itself the Entrepreneur Center — and to give up its domain name, entrepreneurcenter.com.
"You have to be very careful when selecting a name for your company and product, and do the appropriate research," said Elana Fine, managing director at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at College Park.
Fine said Entrepreneur Magazine supports startups and is the source for things related to entrepreneurship.
"They have a lot invested in their brand," she said. While she hasn't been following the cases, she conceded that the company "may be construed as going overboard."


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CHEETAHS captain Jacque Leitao has no complaints about the teams that Zimbabwe were drawn to play against at the International Rugby Board World Series tournament in South Africa and believes his troops will compete strongly at the tourney.
The South Africa leg of the series will burst into life in Port Elizabeth tomorrow.
Zimbabwe have been drawn in Pool C of the competition where they will face the challenges of Canada, Portugal and the United States and their skipper and Old Georgians flanker feels that they are able to cope with the demands of the group.
"It seems to be a relatively good pool for us, but every team has shown they can upset the bigger teams. In Dubai (last week), Portugal beat England and South Africa and reached the Cup quarters with Canada.
"We know we have a big task ahead of us but just at the back of our minds we know that we can beat these teams, so we fancy our chances," said the forward.
The Cheetahs are still to make a huge impact in the main events of the international tournaments with their successes being in the Bowl and Shield levels.
But Leitao seems very ambitious and suggested that they would make it for the Cup stages.
"It is our goal to beat every team that we are going to play, and to reach the Cup, and we believe we can. I am sure they have the same belief in their camp, but for us we know we played them recently, we have prepared well and are just looking forward to a good game," he told an online newspage.
A few months ago Zimbabwe lost to Portugal in the core membership qualifiers and this loss is still fresh on the minds of the Cheetahs and Leitao believes the will to avenge for the loss could spur them on in Port Elizabeth.
"That was a difficult defeat to take, we led 17-7 with just over a minute left and ended up losing," he said.
However, Leitao feels that the changes that have been made in the Cheetahs side combined with the time they have taken to prepare for the Port Elizabeth Sevens and the moral boosting Africa Cup win will have a lot of effect on tomorrow's campaign.
"We have a couple of new players in now, though the strength and conditioning has been a major factor that we have been working on since (the Africa Cup),
"Obviously our goal is now qualifying for London in Hong Kong, and then becoming a core team for next year and we also have the World Cup in June."
Leitao also hopes that the support the Cheetahs enjoyed last year in Port Elizabeth will be a repeat this year adding that the brand of rugby his side plays keeps the spectators on their toes.
"The support we get here too is good, and if it is anything like last year it will be great.
"The brand of Zimbabwe Sevens is exciting and fast rugby, so we will just be hoping to bring that this weekend, keep our accuracy up, and hope to come away with some results," said Leitao.
While the Cheetahs expect a better performance compared to how they fared at the same stage last year, the Sables will also be hoping to leave an impression in Dubai where they are taking part in the Emirates tournament for the first time.
Despite having eight new players in the XVs side, Sables captain Costa Dinha reckoned that his troops will be up to the challenge in the United Arab Emirates where they take on Hong Kong tomorrow.
After going down to Namibia and Spain in Windhoek a few weeks ago, the Sables are hoping to end the year on a high and Dinha believes they are stronger than they were in Namibia.
"I believe we have a much stronger forward pack compared to where we were in Namibia and this is going to be key in our performance against the more professional sides we will play in this tournament," said the veteran lock.
Zimbabwe squads
Sables: Tapiwa Mangezi, Pieter Joubert, Nic Winwood, Keith Murray, Simba Musarurwa, Brian Makamure, Costa Dinha (captain), Jan Ferreira, Sanele Sibanda, Biselele Tshamala, Shingirai Mpofu, Tonderai Chigumbura, Takunda Chifokoyo, Scotty Jones, Graham Kaulback, Lenience Tambwera, Tichafara Makwanya, Tommy Nelson, Gavin Nyawata, Simbarashe Chirimuuta, Josh Rowe, Kudakwashe Chiwanza, Shane Makombe, Steven Hunduza, John McWade.
Cheetahs: Jacques Leitao (captain), Fortune Chipendo, Njabulo Ndlovu, Justin Coles, Tapiwa Tsomondo, Tangai Nemadire, Kilvan Magunje, Daniel Hondo, Gardner Nechironga, Wes Mbanje, Tafadzwa Chitokwindo, Garth Ziegler.


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Situated on beautifully landscaped grounds in a quiet community on Long Island Sound, youll love the tasteful elegance of our facilities while enjoying the convenience of living in the heart of it all. Were just minutes from shopping, dining, healthcare and wonderful regional attractions. If youre in the mood to explore, youll want to visit destinations like the Mystic Seaport Museum and Aquarium, the Eugene ONeil Homestead, Fort Trumbull State Park or one of our nearby casinos. Our warm and dedicated live-in management teams want to make your retirement experience truly special, and youll wish youd come home to Windham Falls Estates sooner. Windham Falls Estates is a part of Holiday Retirement, a company in the business of providing comfort, value and security to seniors. Since 1971, Holiday has been creating cheerful communities for individuals who want to enjoy an independent and enriching retirement. Featured Amenities At Windham Falls Estates, we strive to keep our residents as busy and engaged as possible, which is why our calendar of events is always kept full. Every day, there are at least eight different activities from which to choose, including bean bag baseball, Wii bowling tournaments, board games and film screenings in our television room. We also want our residents to stay in the best possible health, and a key part of that is providing food that is both delicious and nutritious. Our residents enjoy three meals per day that are specially pre
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TWO VIE FOR GOP NOMINATION: Bonds spur candidacy
A life-long follower and participant in local and state politics, it was the city of Sanford's $14.5 million bond referendums that pushed Keith Clark into the political arena, this time, as a candidate.
"I've always been interested in politics and government," he said. "I don't remember a time when I wasn't. My father was involved and in those days gubernatorial candidates did things like visiting people in their homes. It was just a part of what we did."
Clark is seeking the Republican nomination for the Sanford City Council at-large district seat and faces fellow Republican Max Dolan in the Sept. 10 primary. The Republican candidate will campaign against the Democratic nominee, either incumbent L.I. "Poly" Cohen or challenger Chas Post, in the general election.
When the city's referendums — which include expanding the Endor Iron Furnace, extending sidewalks within city limits, creating an open space park with water elements and streetscape improvements to downtown Sanford and Jonesboro — were moved to the municipal primary to be voted on, Clark called the change unfair and said a GOP primary would give Republicans a reason to participate in the primary and voice their opinion on the bond referendums. A vocal opponent of the bonds, Clark said they are "old-fashioned" solutions that won't solve Sanford's problems or address its current needs.
"I value uncommon sense — the ability to see why the obvious answer is not usually the best answer," Clark wrote in a campaign questionnaire provided to The Herald. "I pursue future-oriented opportunities. I have senior level experience in changing the way a government process works to provide funds for even more innovative ideas."
Clark said he played a "major role" in former N.C. Gov. Jim Holshouser's primary and general elections and he served as campaign managers and consultants for various local politicians. Clark, who is now retired, runs a blog called The Lee Dispatch, which focuses on local politics and his campaign.
"One (thing) I have discovered, as I have done my research, is that the city government is dysfunctional," Clark said. "I no longer believe, as I have said before, that we could have the bond issue ready by November 2014. The city council members and the mayor show no evidence of understanding how to function in their jobs. The council, I don't think, knows what is going on."
There are accounting and management practices Clark said he'd like to "clean up" if he were elected. And he'd encourage his fellow council members to "do their homework" instead of flying by the seat of their pants during meetings.
"Most of the professional areas are going well," he said. "The problem is with the way that the council conducts its business and interacts with the city manager."
As an alternative to the bonds, Clark said his priorities would be securing additional parking for Temple Theatre, placing an elementary school in downtown Sanford that would draw students and parents to the area from across the county and addressing the failure rate of small businesses.
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HTC Desire L was recently launched in Taiwan. This mid-range smartphone packs a 4.3 inch touchscreen display with 1 GHz dual-core processor.Read More
Samsung recently announced the pink Galaxy S II for the folks living in Taiwan. The pink variant of Galaxy S II is specially targeted at the female smartphone users.Read More


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The design for all! Such was Philippe Starck's intention with this 1997 design for xO. This chair is reasonably priced as its name says. Cheap Chic is part of a quest for borderline anonymity, defined as objects which are not exceptional to command admiration or aesthetic appreciation. Instead, their presence is justified simply because they make life more pleasant. It can "disappear", or at least become translucent, when required. Cheap Chic is a small, discreet, sturdy, stackable chair. It is elegance in its purest state. Available in a range of solid or translucent shades to offset, stand-out or blend in.
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Material(s): Frame in soldered aluminum epoxy lacquered. Seat in colored polypropylene.
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Designer: Philippe Starck
Born in Paris in 1949, he is one of the most original and creative designers of our time. He has obtained many important acknowledgements such as the Grand Prix National de la Création industrielle and the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects, he considers himself as "a Japanese architect, an American art director, a German industrial designer, a French artistic director, an Italian furniture designer".View other products by Philippe Starck
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Back in 1984, Philipppe Starck is raising to stardom; Gérard Mialet's spirits are high. Together, they cross the line and decide to create a new design house. It will be XO. To quote Starck, "To make a beautiful baby, parents have to be in love.".
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Viewsonic has announced the ViewPad E70, an Android 4.0 ICS tablet which will be priced at just $169.Read More
BlueStacks Android App Player, an Android emulator will work on Windows 8. This will bring all Android apps to the Windows 8 platform.Read More
Viewsonic has launched two new tablets – the ViewPad 10pi and the ViewPad 10e. The ViewPad 10pi runs Android 2.3 and Windows 7 in dual boot, while the ViewPad 10e runs only Android 2.3.Read More
Nvidia and Asus have announced the Asus EEE Pad MeMo ME370T. It's an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet powered by a Tegra 3 chip. It's to be priced at just $249.Read More
Microsoft is running a new promotional challenge called #smokedbywindowsphone at CES 2012, offering $100 if your phone can beat Windows Phone.Read More
Sony just announced the new Sony Xperia S at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. It is the first smartphone in the new Sony Xperia NXT series. Sony Xperia S is also a PlayStation Certified smartphone.Read More
AT&T and Nokia finally announced the much-awaited Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone. It is the first Nokia's Windows Phone powered device to feature the high-speed LTE connectivity.Read More
Verizon Wireless and Motorola recently announced the much awaited Motorola Droid 4 smartphone at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. It is the thinnest and the most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone.Read More
Motorola and Verizon just announced a new member to the Droid RAZR family, the RAZR MAXX.Read More
AT&T just announced the powerful HTC Titan II smartphone at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas. The HTC Titan II is the company's first 4G LTE smartphone.Read More
AT&T and Sony Ericsson just announced the Xperia Ion, the handset manufacturer's first dual-core touting phone as well as its first 4G LTE handset.Read More
As expected, AT&T just announced the Samsung Galaxy Note – a smartphone-cum-tablet crossover for its users in the United States.Read More
Sprint just became the first carrier in the United States to announce the Galaxy Nexus in the United States, and end Verizon's Galaxy Nexus exclusivity on it.Read More
Ubuntu TV competes directly with Google TV in it's attempt to redefine the entertainment experience of people. It has some amazing features and the first commercial appearance of the TV is expected by the end of this year.Read More
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Is anyone familiar with WooCommerce? More specifically the USPS (united States Postal Service) shipping plug-in?
My client is a clothing store that sells mostly t-shirts. The plug-in refuses to work unless items have both weight and dimensions specified. However t-shirts don't really have dimensions because they can be folded any which way.
How can I work this?
Why don't you give dimensions based on the box they'll be using to ship it?
Well that's the thing…if they order 1 shirt, it'll be some kind of box. If they order 20 shirts, it'll be a bigger kinda of box. Can't define it by that.
The plug-in asks that each item have weight and dimensions applied to them. unless I'm seriously missing something.
Looking in the FAQ it states the following:
Each order is automatically divided into packages of your defined box weight or less. The plugin will calculate how many packages need to be sent, calculate the cost of shipping each package and display the total cost to the customer on the cart and checkout.
Have you tried to just put in the box dimensions for one t-shirt and box?
I'm sorry, but that doesn't apply. The plug-in wants each item to have a defined weight and dimension, not the dimensions of a box. It automatically tells you what boxes they fit in when calculated. We can't decide what box the customer gets when the API specifically tells them what mode of shipping they're paying for.
All I'm trying to find out is how to apply dimensions to something that doesn't really have dimensions such as clothing since it can be folded in almost any way.
A t-shirt weighs roughly 6oz, however what do I put for dimensions???
Is there anyone on this forum that has used WooCommerce (either for yourself or a client), and can shed some light on this shipping situation for me?
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Book Review: Jane Was Here by Sarah Kernochan
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Jane Was Here
by Sarah Kernochan
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One of the most talked about books of the late seventies was "Audrey Rose" by Frank De Felitta. A frightening tale of reincarnation, it not only sparked a movie adaption but also began an era of passionate discussion on reincarnation.
For years after, I devoured books on reincarnation finding convincing supporting anecdotal evidence. Even the actress Shirley MacLaine is adamant she has lived multiple lives—one, famously, as a lover of ancient emperor Charlemagne.
So when I first discovered Sarah Kernochan's book, 'Jane Was Here', there was an immediate sense of Déjà vu. All the memories of my pleasure and wonder when reading "Audrey Rose" flooded back. A reincarnation novel, I thought—it's been too long between past lives.
In the first part of "Jane Was Here" we meet the strange mannered twenty-three year old Jane, knocking at an ungodly hour, on the door of Brett, claiming it to be her house. Also mysteriously drawn to the town of Graynier, Brett is renting the home with his ten-year-old son, Colin. Brett immediately overwhelmed by strong feelings of love for Jane, aids her in a determined search to discover her past life identity. Colin, less enamoured than his Father and, guided by his superstitious friend Gita, believes Jane's real purpose is evil.
Eighteenth century Jane Pettigrew tells her story, in part two, through a section of letters from herself to her lover. These letters are a window into the innocence of this Jane, and they build dramatically to the ultimate question of the story: what happened to this Jane?
Amongst the present day townsfolk is another group of characters, all with their own dark stories whose paths, in a karmic twist, will eventually intercept Jane's. The revelation of these character's roles in Jane's previous life brings the reader a satisfying ending that they will not see coming.
Sarah Kernochan is an Oscar winning screenwriter, and there is a spellbinding cinematic mood to this story. You will close this book but find days later that the idea has seeped into your consciousness. Kernochan's poetic vision of reincarnation and fate will truly haunt you.
You can purchase Sarah's book here
Flourishnote: Read Susan May's interview with Sarah Kernochan here.


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Debby Ryan and her Disney Channel Original Series "Jessie" co-stars visited Disneyland recently! Debby posted the photos here of herself along with her Jessie cast mates Skai Jackson, Karan Brar, Cameron Boyce and Peyton List.
It looks like they had so much fun at the park! Were you lucky enough to see them there?


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China's green promise
It's always nice to be one up on your fellow superpowers. During a visit to the UK, Xie Zhenhua of China's National Development and Reform Commission declared that his country will never release as much carbon dioxide per person as the US. Doing so, he said, would be a "disaster for the world". On average, every Chinese person emits less than half as much as the average American.
Cannabis chaos
Rats given a drug mimicking the effect of cannabis lose their way in a maze, showing confusion similar to the schizophrenic-like symptoms seen in those who abuse the drug. Brainwaves usually linking the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex had become desynchronised, suggesting "re-tuning" brain activity might offer a treatment (Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2970-11.2011).
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Today's meeting gets underway at 5:30 p.m. in the community room at the North Main Annex at 115 North Main Street in downtown Statesboro. Board Chairman Garrett Nevil will preside.
Among the items on a relatively short agenda include a presentation of the Annual Report of the Bulloch County Sheriff's Department.
Items on the Consent Agenda include the renewal of an alcoholic beverage license for Rangmadir Inc., for 2014 and approval of an alcoholic beverage license requested by Urvashiben Patel for Chevron Food Mart.
The commissioner think about 40 minutes will be sufficient time to take care of business at today's meeting. The public is invited to attend and participate.