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Ke Colin Zheng
I am now working in the finance industry, on another search problem: trading.
Prior to that, I worked as both a researcher and an engineer at Bing, the decision engine powered by Microsoft. In particular, I was working on the image / video vertical of the search engine, leveraging computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning techniques. I was in charge of image / video search relevance for billions of online images and videos, revamping to build the first internet scale machine learning-based practice in multimedia search at Microsoft. In addition to solving the hardcore ranking task, I contributed to many industry leading features of image / video search.
I completed my Ph.D in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington in 2008. My research interests lie in computer graphics, computer vision and multimedia. My advisors are David Salesin and Brian Curless at the university, and I also collaborate closely with Michael Cohen and Rick Szeliski from Microsoft Research. In my thesis work, I develop computational techniques that can help us author and render more expressive imagery from cameras.
Besides doing research, I have always been interested in learning about business, with the hope of bringing research ideas/technology to commercial products. I hold a Technology Entrepreneurship Certificate from Foster School of Business at University of Washington, and have consulted a few IT start-ups.
I came originally from China. I completed my Bachelors with honor from Chu Kochen College, Zhejiang University, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering, 2001.
Contact me for my Curriculum Vitae.
Email: master (at) colinzheng dot com
Parallax Photography
- Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Cinematic Effects from Stills. (Best Student Paper Award)
With A. Colburn, A. Agarwala, M. Cohen, B. Curless, and D. Salesin, GI 2009.
- Parallax Photography: Creating 3D Motions from Stills.
Doctoral thesis, University of Washington, 2008.
- Layered Depth Panoramas.
With S. Kang, M. Cohen, R. Szeliski, CVPR 2007.
- Spatio-angular Resolution Tradeoff in Integral Photography.
With T. Georgeiv, B. Curless, S. Nayar, D. Salesin, and C. Intwala, EGSR 2006.
Correspondences & Motion
- 3D Point Correspondence by Minimum Description Length in Feature Space.
With J. Chen, and L. Shapiro, ECCV 2010.
- Piecewise Object Registration in Presence of Multiple Large Motions.
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Synthesis & Editing
- Animating Pictures with Stochastic Motion Textures.
With Y. Chuang, D. Goldman, B. Curless, D. Salesin, and R. Szeliski, SIGGRAPH 2005.
- Panoramic Video Texture.
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Women's Lacrosse Season Preview
Feb. 9, 2011
WORCESTER, Mass. - Two-time defending A-10 Champions UMass women's lacrosse begin the 2011 season away against Holy Cross on February 16 with first year head coach Anglea McMahon. The Minutewomen return 10 of 12 starters to their force, as well as six of their seven top scorers.
This season's highlighted games include a clash away at Boston University (2/23) who were last year's America East champions, and the second ever women's lacrosse night game at McGuirk Stadium against NCAA Finalist and Five-time National Champion Northwestern (3/26). The Atlantic 10 season begins at home against Temple (4/1) in McGuirk Stadium where UMass will host four of their seven conference games. The most exciting conference test will be against Richmond (4/17) who UMass beat in the A-10 Championship last season. McMahon will be looking to lengthen UMass's Atlantic 10 Title streak to three in a row.
Jackie Lyons will lead the UMass offense in her senior season. Earning All-America and A-10 Offensive Player of the Year honors, Lyons scored 49 goals while assisting 20 in her junior year. Entering the season, Lyons has 102 goals and 51 assists for a total of 153 points on her UMass career. Also returning to the UMass offense are juniors Jesse O'Donnell (38 goals, 9 assists), Danielle Pelletier (24 goals, 12 assists), and Nina Sarcona (19 goals, 12 assists).
The UMass midfield is highlighted by returning senior Haley Smith who recorded 12 goals, 21 groundballs, and 12 caused turnovers last season. She is joined by junior Dayna Defliese who received Atlantic 10 All Conference Second Team honors, and finished last season with 5 goals, 22 GBs and a team high 24 CTs.
Katie Florence returns in goal for her junior year after starting all 20 games as a sophomore. Florence posted a 10.34 goals against average, while having a .431 save percentage (153 saves) last season. Entering the season Florence has a goals against average of 10.88 with 339 saves, and a save percentage of .447 for her UMass career.
Headlining the defense is returning senior Nazy Kerr who had 20 GBs and 8 CTs last season. She is accompanied by returning juniors Riley Perry (29 GBs and 14 CTs last season) who received Atlantic 10 All Conference First Team honors and Ali Houlis (Team leading 33 GBs, 16 CTs, and 7 goals last season)
After graduating three seniors, McMahon has brought in ten Freshman to compliment her returning squad. Out of the ten rookies, seven have earned All-America honors during their prep careers. "We return the bulk of our Atlantic 10 Championship team from last year and I feel this group will help us keep the program competing at a high level," said McMahon.
The Atlantic 10 Championship Tournament will be held at Temple, beginning on April 29. This will be familiar territory to the Minutewomen as Temple is where they won the 2009 Championship.
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Europa Series Introduction
The Europa series banknotes are to be introduced gradually over several years, in ascending order. The two first banknotes in the new series, the €5 and €10, started circulating in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The new €20 was unveiled on 24 February 2015 and will start circulating on 25 November 2015.
Refreshed design, enhanced security
The new banknotes represent an evolution. They still feature the "ages and style" designs of the first series, but they have been modified slightly to accommodate the enhanced security features. This also helps to make the new banknotes easy to distinguish from the first series. An independent banknote designer based in Berlin, Reinhold Gerstetter, was selected to refresh the design of the euro banknotes. The denominations remain unchanged: €5, €10, €20, €50, €100, €200 and €500.
Easy to spot and more secure
The new security features of the Europa series are easy to locate on the banknotes and make the new notes resistant to counterfeiting.
Gradual launch
The introduction of the Europa series of banknotes will differ from the euro changeover in 2002 for several reasons.
The various denominations are being issued at different points in time, so the introduction of the whole series will take several years, unlike the big-bang changeover which took place in 2002.
Given the gradual introduction of the new banknotes and the fact that each country has its own "cash cycle", the notes will not appear simultaneously across the euro area.
Parallel circulation, indefinite validity
In order to use up remaining stocks, in many euro area countries the banknotes of the first series will continue to be issued for several months alongside the new banknotes. The two series will circulate in parallel as legal tender. The date when the first series ceases to be legal tender will be announced well in advance; however, the first series of banknotes will be exchangeable for an indefinite period of time at the Eurosystem NCBs.


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Broadchurch airs Wednesday Nights at 10 on BBCAmerica.
Watch out for spoilers.
I didn't really know what to expect coming into this first episode of a crime drama about a kid who dies mysteriously in a small town, but what I got was a gorgeously-shot first episode full of tension and mystery that sets up a whole lot of information in a single episode.
Here's the core: Danny misses school, and his mom can't reach him; soon after, he's found on the beach dead. We saw him in the cold open standing on the cliff overlooking the beach, with blood running down his hand, but the ME says he didn't fall--he was choked to death and left there. No hints at all about who might have done it.
The lead investigator is DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant in a very different role than the Doctor), who has some failed case haunting him even as far away as this little seaside town, and who was hired for a job promised to DS Ellie Miller. She now has to work side-by-side with the man who took her job on the case of her son's best friend's murder, and she already seems emotional and a little tightly-wound even before everything went crazy. Adding to this, her nephew Olly is trying to get a job at a big important newspaper and sees this as his chance; he leaks the boy's name to the press, and when that catches their attention, sets up covert contact with the reporter that comes for the coverage, from the very paper he's trying to get in on.
Here in the first episode, we only get the very early first bits of the case, but we know this much so far:
- Alec had some similar case that he messed up or that he couldn't stop from going wrong, and his boss suggests he gets off the case, but he wants to prove that it's not a handicap.
- Ellie is almost as close to the case as if it was her own son.
- That son, Tom, erased a whole bunch of texts and emails from Danny after she told him what happened--why? What was in them?
- Danny's sister has a secret boyfriend and he's worried that he'll get arrested because she's underage.
- Danny never showed up for his paper route, and it's hard to tell if the guy he got his papers from is creepy or just shocked.
- Olly does have a little decency left--he hesitated to send the text that leaked the name, and he apologized--but it looks like his ambition might send it right out the window, despite having the second-lead investigator on the case and what that'll do to the family as a whole.
- The reporter from the big paper is staying in the same hotel as DI Hardy and that can't go well; also, the girl in charge there seems to be sweet on him already. And why did she steal the teddybear Danny's sister left him?
- Danny's mom and dad seem to be having under-cover difficulties; he won't say where he was the night Danny got killed, so it sounds like he was having an affair or otherwise up to no good under the cover of his plumbing business, and she sounds like she's already blaming him.
- The media is all over this case for the shock value, for DI Hardy's involvement, for the leak Olly let out, and for the spectacle, and that can only get worse.
It was beautifully done. From the long single-take intro scene where we follow Danny's dad to work and meet all the townsfolk, to the creeping dread of his mom realizing something was wrong and running for miles to get to the beach, to the slow-motion and silence of her violent reaction. This episode uses silence and stillness to show shock and fear very well, and we're left with the idea that this idyllic little beach town has piles of un-dealt-with problems just below the surface, things that got poked pretty severely by the murder of a kid in a place where they don't have murders at all, usually. Whether it stays a quiet, tense show is up in the air at the moment, but right now, it's so well drawn, I'd feel sad if it blew up and became something else not as well-done.
This first episode was near perfect, as far as I'm concerned. It does exactly what a mystery's first episode should do: it gives us a problem, it shows us the players, it sets the stage. And it tilts everything just short of the point where the landslide will start bringing up all sorts of secret mess; that's for next episode to start doing. This one shows us exactly what we've lost here and hints at where it could go.
So what did you think of Broadchurch Episode 1? Share in the comments!
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Here are our weekly android apps round up to show you the best free android applications from the recent releases on google play store.
The new version of the Android OS is just around the corner. We are all hoping that manufacturers will provide the latest Android L update sooner than ever. Don't just sit and wait for Android L, keep discovering new android apps with new features.
Here are the Best Android Apps This Week:
Camera51 – a smarter camera
The Camera51 is an application that helps you in the composition of your photo. The application seeks to analyze the scene, taking various factors such as lines, objects, people, shapes, and anything that is within the box. After all, a picture with good lighting, exposure and focus are nothing if it is not a good composition. Unlike other camera apps, the Camera51 can observe all objects in the image and guide you through some graphics on the screen, and in this way you can get the best position to get a better composition…. So you can enhance your photo quality with the app Camera51.
BASE Music Sensor
BASE Music Sensor lets you capture the sound around you to identify songs that you might be interested in owning. Feature very similar to that offered by Shazam and SoundHound, but with the peculiarity that he is always on in the background. The app separates your music by activities and always ring the perfect song for every situation. It will create a list of songs that were played during the day to remember the best moments.
Treehouse is a platform for online learning especially focused on issues of web design and development, with educational content. You can now access the service via Android devices. With its official mobile application for Android you can now access to videos of the courses, questionnaires, exercises and other materials.
Squarespace Blog
Squarespace is a popular service and is used by many people. With the official mobile application Squarespace Blog users can manage different aspects of web space from Android, and can switch between them (if you have more than one account), allowing actions such as the incorporation of new publications, edit posts, manage comments and change the blog design tools.
Squarespace Note
Squarespace Note offers a simple notes application that serves as a gateway for adding quick notes to Squarespace, Dropbox, Google Drive or E notes. Just open the application you can write the note with an attached image and, then, the note is sent to the services you have synchronized.
Shake App
Shake is an interesting app, especially useful for small business owners and freelancers, that combines the simplicity of a handshake with the security of a legal contract. The app is very simple to use. Use Shake to quickly and easily create, sign and send legally binding agreements from your Android device.
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October 22, 2013 | Vol. 94, No. 248
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LLOYD NEVEAUX Jr., of Ashland, right, appears with his attorney, public defender Aaron Marcoux, at a sentencing hearing Monday afternoon in Iron County Court in Hurley.
HURLEY — A 48-year-old Ashland man was sentenced to three years in prison and two years of probation Monday for a seventh drunk driving offense.
Iron County Judge Patrick Madden sentenced Lloyd Neveaux Jr. in a late afternoon court session.
Neveaux, formerly of Odanah, was also assessed fines and court costs of $2,000, had his driver's license revoked for 24 months, received a five-year interlock ignition system requirement and was given credit for 65 days served in jail.
Asked by Madden if he was an alcoholic, Neveaux replied, "Yes." He told Madden he had spent time in prison before.
Before Neveaux left the courtroom to be returned to the Iron County Jail, Madden said all prison programs offered should be made available to Neveaux.
"Get yourself involved in a group," Madden advised, saying that might help Neveaux deal with his alcoholism.
Public defender Aaron Marcoux, who represented Neveaux, said he also faces charges in Ashland County.
On a motion by Iron County District Attorney Marty Lipske, other "underlying" Iron County citations against Neveaux were dismissed.
The sentence was the result of a joint recommendation from Lipske and Marcoux.
Neveaux entered a no contest plea to the charge that was filed in court on Aug. 16, 2012.
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Leatherhead missed out on another chance to ease their relegation fears with a 2-0 home defeat against League leaders Billericay Town on Saturday.
The result leaves Tanners fourth from bottom, six points behind drop zone rivals Hastings and Harrow Borough with only eight games remaining.
Jay May put the visitors ahead after 40 minutes before Harrison Chatting capitalised on a second half defensive error for a simple tap in.
Leatherhead manager Richard Brady knew the importance of preparing well for the visit of the league leaders but was disappointed with the way his side conceded the two goals.
"We didn't defend set pieces and if you don't do that against Billericay then you are going to come unstuck," he said.
"We knew exactly the scale of what we faced. We went through everything in training, but we still managed to shoot ourselves in the foot."
Billericay had their first chance after three minutes, Tanners failed to clear a cross and May's tight angled shot was blocked by keeper Chico Ramos at the near post.
Leatherhead's only real hope of getting their noses in front was on the counter attack. After 13 minutes Tommy Hutchings broke clear and launched a thunderous 25 yard shot which Blues keeper Dale Brightly did well to turn over for a corner.
Billericay's well organised back four swept up everything Leatherhead threw at them, while their sensible short passing display ensured they never gave away possession too easily.
Tanners came under pressure when Chris Wild headed wide from a corner after 36 minutes, before Ramos made a reflex save to turn away a powerful header from Courtenay White.
The opening goal came after Leatherhead gave away a needless free kick just inside their own half. Dave Collis hit a perfectly weighted cross for May to out jump his marker and nod the ball home.
Blues continued to control the game in the second half and added to their lead in the 70th minute. A cross was misjudged by Leatherhead's Jamie Coyle, allowing Harrison Chatting to steal into the box unopposed to turn the ball past Ramos. Leatherhead: Ramos, Andrew, Gross, Coyle, Dean, Simmons, Francis (Thompson 62), Holness, Ottaway, Hutchings (Richmond 86), Manners (Terry 73)
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"This poet who was full of lyrics. That was the magical ingredient!"-John Densmore, describing Jim Morrison
Of the countless bands that arose from the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s, The Doors created what is arguably one of the most awe-inspiring, totally original and uniquely poetic bodies of work.
What they were able to accomplish becomes even more astonishing when one considers what a short period of time the band had together, before its "magical ingredient"-Jim Morrison-left the band and Los Angeles itself for Paris, France…never to return.
Today, more than forty years after the band's "poet full of lyrics" suddenly abandoned The Doors and effectively put an end to what remains one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, countless artists continue to marvel at how The Doors created music that, amongst its most striking qualities, sets itself apart in its effective use of silence.
New York Dolls founder Rick Rivets is among those artists whose work was strongly influenced by the music of The Doors. Sitting with Examiner on a cold winter's afternoon here in New York City, Rivets fondly recalled the band that he is quick to describe as "One of the greatest live bands I've ever seen." Rivets described that unique Doors sound thusly:
"Unlike so many other bands from that era, The Doors were a quiet band. You had to hear them perform live to really appreciate that aspect about their sound."
Recalled Rivets: "They would come onstage, and for several dramatic minutes there would be dead silence. Then the music would begin with a single sound: Densmore performing a soft, jazz-influenced beat upon his cymbals, using his drumsticks with such delicacy that you'd swear he was using a brush, but he wasn't! His touch, tone and timing were just amazing to listen to!"
Rivets takes particular delight in remembering what a powerful performer Jim Morrison was, and how his performance was shaped as much by what you didn't hear as by what you did. Rivets: "God! Those incredible moments of total silence when Jim Morrison was performing, not just singing. There would be this dead silence-you couldn't even hear the audience breathing-as Morrison would speak so softly you had to almost strain your ears to understand him. Jim would take these long, dramatic pauses, as the song would build in intensity. Jim Morrison made the silence of those dramatic moments as much a part of the band's unique sound as was Manzarek's driving organ, Densmore's jazz-influenced drumming and Robby's Spanish/Flamenco-inspired guitar work were a part of that sound too!"
However, as anyone can attest to who witnessed the band's musical evolution from its beginning in Venice Beach to its triumph on the stage of The Ed Sullivan Show, the band are today equally remembered-and highly lauded-for their courageous and singular undertaking of their breaking away from the tight-fisted constraints that were typical of late sixties television.
Result: the band achieved the creative freedom and power to both shape and dictate not just how it appeared onstage, but more important, how the band were portrayed onscreen. In an age where rock icons like Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones found their movements restricted and their lyrics edited by television's strict rules of "propriety" it took a band with a potent mix of strong-willed conviction and the fearless determination to steer itself on its own independent course, to finally break on through those constraints. It took The Doors.
With the DVD release of The Doors R-Evolution, one can witness this overall evolution that The Doors undertook in freeing the band from those very constraints/restrictions of 1960s television; constraints that had held previous bands and performers back from achieving what The Doors ultimately accomplished.
With brilliant, restored audio that will surely enhance your personal enjoyment of that unique "Doors sound", this collection is noteworthy as much for what it doesn't include, such as the band's historic Ed Sullivan Show performance ("Light My Fire"), as for what it does include: rare footage such as The Doors' performance of "People Are Strange" from the Murray The K In New York program, originally aired back in September 1967.
Although this DVD collection is by no means a "complete" collection of this seminal band's history on film, this is nonetheless an essential must-have for every Doors fan who wants to possess a comprehensive overview of the band's ever changing, ever-evolving visual image throughout its short but quite prodigious lifespan.
From lip-synched performances on long-forgotten, teen-oriented television programs like "Malibu U" from 1967 to experimental, imaginative films of the band's own creation, this is sure to be a sheer delight to the eyes and ears of every Doors fan, especially since much of this has rarely been seen since it was originally aired more than forty years ago.
Be looking for my exciting, insightful interview with Doors drummer John Densmore,
coming soon to Examiner!
The Doors R-Evolution DVD Track Listing: (Full Details Below)
1) Break On Through (To The Other Side) 2) Break On Through (To The Other Side) 3) The Crystal Ship 4) Light My Fire 5) Light My Fire 6) People Are Strange 7) Moonlight Drive 8) Unknown Soldier 9) Hello, I Love You 10) Touch Me 11) Wild Child 12) Roadhouse Blues 13) Crawling King Snake 14) The Changeling 15) Gloria 16) People Are Strange 17) Strange Days 18) L.A. Woman 19) Ghost Song
1) Break On Through (To The Other Side)
Music Film January 1967
2) Break On Through (To The Other Side)
From Shebang aired early 1967
3) The Crystal Ship
From American Bandstand aired July 1967
4) Light My Fire
From American Bandstand aired July 1967
5) Light My Fire
From Malibu U aired August 1967
6) People Are Strange
From Murray The K In New York aired September 1967
7) Moonlight Drive
From The Jonathan Winters Show aired December 1967
8) Unknown Soldier
Music Film February 1968
9) Hello, I Love You
From Musik Für Junge Leute: 4-3-2-1 Hot And Sweet aired September 1968
10) Touch Me
From The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour aired December 1968
11) Wild Child
Music Film July 1969
12) Roadhouse Blues
Music Film February 1970
13) Crawling King Snake
From GTK (Get To Know) aired March 1971
14) The Changeling
Music Film April 1971
15) Gloria
Music Film October 1983
16) People Are Strange
Music Film 1984
17) Strange Days
Music Film 1980s
18) L.A. Woman
Music Film 1985
19) Ghost Song
Music Film 1995
Special Note: For both the North American and European markets, this release is
available in four different formats/versions. But only the Deluxe Set contains the
outstanding 40 page book which features a fabulous "scrap book" style presenting
of every single track, including the song lyrics, the background info, stunning photos
and more! This Deluxe Set is now available in both the DVD and Blu-ray formats.


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Every year football and horse lovers look forward to the new Budweiser commercial during the Superbowl. The Budweiser Clydesdales are among the most gorgeous creatures to be found on commercial television and even those who aren't horse people are moved to oohs and ahhs. The Clydesdales are majestic and powerful and the advertisers hope to inspire a long lasting association of their beer to these horses that move with thunderous grace.
The Feb. 2014 XLVIII Superbowl was no different in its approach of releasing new attention grabbing commercials. Some watchers expressed a bit of overall disappointment while others were as charmed as ever. The Budweiser "Puppy Love" spot was, however, a bit of a surprise to some who anticipate the Clydesdale appearance. The surprise was not necessarily a bad one. We love puppies as much as we love beautiful horses. Smart choice Bud. Play to our appreciation of beauty and power and now stir in a huge helping of adorable cute and you've got people talking about your product for hours or even days. Perhaps the product is considered last but everyone watching still grasps that its a "Budweiser" presentation.
When it comes time to purchase a beer product a lingering impression of Clydesdales and puppies won't likely sway a shopper to choose Budweiser over a different favorite. Beer isn't just beer to those who frequent micro breweries and enjoy noting the varieties of tastes and tones in their suds. However, if it comes time to grab a well known brand that is often front and center on the shelf, perhaps the association will at some level take effect and eventually help Budweiser pay for the hay and now the puppy chow. Regardless of the end purchase results, there are few in this country who don't know the brand and the famous Clydesdales with the massive hooves.
You can see the new Budweiser puppy and the famous Clydesdales in the attached "Puppy Love" commercial. Perhaps next year we will be presented with the puppy now grown up a year and sitting in the Budweiser carriage. You can read more about Superbowl commercials that have gone to the dogs at Audi goes to the dogs for Superbowl 2014. You can also see the Jaguar Superbowl commercial featuring Brits making villainy super cool here.


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As we said, please use this thread to discuss the cover photo design thread, and ask any questions.
Maybe you should make the background a collage of money. You know from different countries.
Am I allowed to participate, even if i'm the winner of the latest contest?
Does the photo have to focus 100% on the "100,000!"? Like the number takes 68% of the effort?
Can you upload more entries?
From the contest rules/entry thread:
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Former Glasgow resident Eunice (Burrus) Moen, 97, died Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, at the Health Center in Kalispell, Mont.
A memorial service will be held at Bell Mortuary in Glasgow at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, with burial to follow at the Highland Cemetery. A reception will be held at a location to be announced.
She was born on a homestead west of Glasgow to Alfred "Mike" and Merle Burrus on June 23, 1916, the second of seven children. From the homestead the family moved to a farm near Liberty Crossing where she spent her early years.
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Open in 2005, Hangzhou European-Style Holiday Hotel is located in the West Lake Avenue, adjoining Chengzhan Railway Station, and sit at the fashionable and flourishing business street, with limitless scenery. The hotel is cinvenient at traffic, 25 kilometers from the Xiaoshan Airport, only one step away to the Railway Station, 15 minutes' walk to the West Lake.
European Style Holiday Hotel offers 168 comfortable and bright guest rooms, including standard single, standard twin, superior Double, deluxe double, superior suite, executive suite. All rooms are equipped with luxury bathroom, air conditioning, IDD, DDD, satellite channel TV, internet access, as well as other modern facilities. The hotel is furnished with the large, medium and small meeting room. Among them, the large-scale meeting room on the seventh floor can hold more than 300 people. The great gazebo with more than 2, 000 square meters on the sixth floor offers abundant self-service roasting with Chinese-Western style. Some other facilities and services provided by this Hotel consist of laundry cleaning service, car parking, car rental, currency exchange, business center and fitness center.
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The Pirate Bay has hopped around a number of country specific domains since the start of the year, and it even suggested that it had found snug berth in North Korea.
This year we have followed its moves from Sweden, to Norway, to Spain and to Greenland. It has looked relatively comfortable in all of those locations, until local hosting firms changed their minds under pressure from copyright cartels and sent the website packing.
Earlier this month when it was shunted away from Greenland servers, we were told that The Pirate Bay was known to be a copyright infringer and that legal experts had recommended its hosting be suspended.
"A case from the Supreme Court in Denmark has ruled that the activities carried out by The Pirate Bay infringe any third party copyright," said Greenland host Tele-Post in a translated statement. "We observed Tuesday that the domain was activated and therefore took immediate contact with our lawyer."
It is hoped that its latest move to Iceland will be a more permanent one. ISNIC, the company hosting The Pirate Bay under the .IS domain, said that it is not going to proactively kick it out, according to a report at Torrent Freak.
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Was it tough to start her business at the celeb level? "I'm not afraid of celebrities," says Krich. "I treat them like regular people. I talk to them honestly, and they love that. Nobody talks to them honestly." To extend her network, Krich again partnered with her friends in the wine and cheese industries to donate fund-raising events to her favorite charities. Soon corporations and individuals were paying her to do gigs at parties, weddings, wineries and conventions. She set her rates at $60 per person for fewer than 50 guests and $40 per person for 50 or more.
In 2011, Krich married and moved to St. Louis, where her husband lives. Today she travels around the country to speak and host tastings at events like the Ministry of Rum Festival in Chicago, the Wisconsin Cheese Originals Festival and LAWineFest. She does presentations at about six events a month, for groups ranging in size from 10 to 1,500. She occasionally writes a cheese column for The Beverly Hills Times, and she has created a series of 23 Internet TV shows about cheese (smallscreennetwork.com/cheeserules). She earns about half her old income, and the lack of job security sometimes keeps her awake at night. "But I've found this whole new part of myself," she says. "I really like her. She's fun."
Melissa Nicastro
From: Patient advocate
To: Photographer
Turning point: She took snapshots of her friend's twins
Working out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Melissa Nicastro snaps photos of beautiful, timeless moments: a bride and groom embracing in front of an elegant stone fountain; a cluster of bridesmaids swathed in satin, strolling down wooded paths; tuxedo-clad gentlemen raising toasts in mahogany-paneled billiard rooms. "The scenes sometimes remind me of a Regency novel," says Nicastro, 39. But it's the intimate moments that inspire her most. "I love watching couples in love, seeing that connection between two people," she says. "I think I've become a sap!"
Eight years ago, Nicastro spent most of her time as a patient-care facilitator at a lung cancer center, a job that was upsetting. "One day they'd be talking to me and laughing. The next day I would get an e-mail saying they'd passed," she says. Often she left her office crying. In April 2005, needing a break, she flew to Minneapolis to visit her childhood friend Rebecca Bell Sorensen. Nicastro began taking photos of Sorensen's five-month-old twins with her point-and-shoot camera. "I always had my camera with me, and I was just snapping, snapping and getting such a rush from capturing their relationship," she says. She caught them as they slept side by side in a baby jogger, draped in a blanket, their chubby legs and tiny feet sticking out. She visited again later that year, this time with an upgraded camera, a Sony SLR with a much faster shutter speed. On that trip, Sorensen marveled at how Nicastro seemed to anticipate which intimate exchanges best captured her twins' interaction. "She saw little things that brought them together: the way they experienced something new to eat or cared for their baby dolls," says Sorensen. "She has a true gift for telling stories with her camera."
Back in Gloucester, to escape the sadness of her work, Nicastro began taking pictures of other friends' babies. Yet her day job continued to weigh on her. "I felt myself shutting down emotionally," she says. At a St. Patrick's Day party in 2007, a friend commented on how depressed she seemed, and asked her what her dream job was. Without hesitating, Nicastro blurted, "A photographer."
"What's stopping you?" he asked.
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Okay, so not doing so good with the homeschool blog.
I do have plans for this blog, they are just slow at getting produced. It almost like I have six kids and am prego with number seven or something.....
This new school year has brought some changes and tweaking to our norm...do we even have a norm? Seems like something is always changing every year. I suppose it has something to do with the fact that we don't run a school, we live our lives.
We are still ironing out some wrinkles and the routine is just beginning to settle. Which is good because I want to share about what our typical routine looks like eventually.
I was recently having complications with this pregnancy and the medication that I was on for hypertension. Functioning was not possible for about three months. I had severe fatigue and weakness. The children learned a lot of "life lessons". The good news is my new medication is working much better and I feel functional again- well as much as any woman can at seven months prego! With my renewed energy I have started doing things like getting back into cloth diapering my toddler and prepping to do the same with the new baby by sewing some of my own! I am also working on a whole new project which I will reveal at a later date! don't let the suspense keep you awake at night! I want you awake when I make the announcement!
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Planning the year: a system that works even if you have 102 children
Keeping things organized when you have one child can be hard at times. Finding a system that works and is simple for keeping plans for multiple children from being stacks of " I know I put that somewhere" and shelves of "put it there, we'll figure out what to do with it later" chaos is mind numbing to the point that you spend hours upon hours upons hours (did I mention the hours?) of scrolling through blogs and Pinterest checking out what others do and how it works for them. I am here to save you the time you do not have. I mean really, go take a shower instead...seriously. Bookmark this page so that when your two year old unplugs the internet modem and your computer you will be able to find this blog again.
I'll wait.
Hum dee dum dum dum....
Okay saved? Go refresh yourself.
Didn't that feel good? Now get a piece of paper...how about that one right over there that your five your old drew what looks like a purple duck but is really a "pretty magical pony that flies and is a ballerina princess". You can write on the back or in between scribbles. Just be ready to take notes.
Remember, this is a system that works FOR ME. If there is something that doesn't work for you skip it, tweak it, spit on it, it doesn't matter to me. (well, maybe not that last one, spit is gross) just make it YOUR system not mine.
Here we go.
Remember in my customized planner post how I only put a month worth of lessons in my planner at a time? No? Well, go look at that later in my post about planners.
Anyhoo, this is all about where the REST of the plans go.
It starts with a box. Preferably one with a lid and the capability of holding hanging file folders,and one that is liquid and smash resistent - for those times when your four year old (holding a cup of hot chocolate that isn't suppose to leave the table, let alone be near the computer)is using it to stand on and see over your eight year olds shoulder while he plays on the computer and then is RUDELY bumped by the two year old that tries to climb up because she wants to see too!- no joking. It. Will. Happen. Don't go for cardboard. Go for plastic with a secure lid- like this one:
|It's safe to say that if you really have 102 children,
you will need several more boxes!
Then you need 36 hanging file folders- or the equivelant number of weeks you normally have school in your academic year, and regular file folders to go inside.
Here is where your preferences come in.
You need a file folder in each week for each category/child that you plan for. For example:
Last year I filed by levels. Upper Grammar, Lower Grammar, Dialectic, Preschool and everyones's planning sheets went into our homeschool binder. I had one student in each level, except for upper grammar, there were two towards the end of the year. (To keep items separate that needed it I just paper clipped them together).
Are you thoroughly confused now? Keep reading it should begin to make sense.
This year it is by student, and I have one as well. I reused the same folders from last year but added as necessary.
So in each of my hanging folders are six regular file folders. I have my tabs color coded with labels, but you could write names if you wish. If you are at a stage like I was once and you teach all your kids the same things or use unit studies, you could just have a folder for each subject. Whatever works for YOU. However you would like to organize the various printouts, worksheets and other papers in your lessons.
|In this close-up you can see some white tabs with numbers-those are the weekly hanging file folders,
and the regular file folders with colored labels.
Once that is all put together this is how it works:
Print out your planning pages for the year. Put one (if you plan weekly) in each weeks correct folder- either yours or students if they have their own or both, whatever system of planning you are using. I am trying out daily planning sheets with a week at a glance sheet for me this year. You can learn more about what I used in my other post linked above.
The next step takes the longest. Assuming you have your curriculum and know what lesson you are going to use, begin printing, creating, tearing out of workbooks, copying all of the pages that will be used each week and place them in the appropriate week in the category or child's folder that it belongs with. You do not have to do this for the whole year! But getting the first couple of months done is sooo helpful, as long as you set aside time to do it again to keep yourself ahead of schedule.
For example:
A child is studying the Oregon trail and pioneers. They will be filling in maps and making a lap book. Print the maps, and lap book pieces then divide into the weeks they will be studied and put the lesson packets in the child's folder for each week needed. If there are tests or quizzes, put those in the week they are needed. If you know of a game, project, or recipe that will work well with a lesson jot it down on a sicky note and stick it to one of the pages you file so that when it is time to fill out your lesson plans you will remember. (Can I just say that I love sticky notes!)
Keep it simple. Work on one child at a time one subject at a time. Once you get in rhythm it will go quickly. And just keep reminding yourself that all the effort you are putting in now is giving you more time to cuddle up and listen to your six year old read aloud this winter with a cup of hot cocoa, (it's okay because you got the plastic box! right?) instead of trying to gather all the materials needed
for lessons tomorrow or next week.
Once that is all worked out and you've had your last lazy days by the lake getting burnt to a crisp because you put sunscreen on all 29 of your kids but failed to remember yourself, and it is time to gear up for your first week back to routine and educational bliss you will do the following.
Get out your glammed up planner that was made especially for YOU.
Open it flat on your desk,floor, table,bed, roof....wherever you plan best. There is one mom that I know of that loaded up all her lessons planning materials every saturday morning and she headed off to the library for time alone to plan while hubby stayed home with kids being task master of saturday cleaning chores. That amazes me. It sound so T.V. perfect family that while I day dreamed about it for a fraction of second-it is something that would just never work for us. Maybe it will for you!
Get your file box- should we name it? I feel like I should. It serves me so well. Almost better than having a personal assistant. I think I'll call mine....PABLO (Personal Assistant Box of Lesson Organization). Wow, I am impressed with my brain power, I just pulled that right up. Proof that I do have some brain cells left.
|I got a little excited with this and put the name on the box lid
with scrapbook letters and contact paper!
Okay get PABLO , but don't strain your back, you don't want to start off the year teaching from the couch, (although it's comfy and that is probably where I will be because pregnancy #7 is rough on a lady). I much prefer utilizing the still nice weather and sprawling out with our books on the trampoline or in the TeePee. There I go again keeping you from getting your planning done by rambling away about my day to day life-sorry.
Open the lid to PABLO
Pick what or who you will always start with. I start with my planning page, then my oldest child I need to plan for. Take out the lesson packet for the first week. Look through it, remind yourself what the lesson was, if it is coming from a book or other planned out resource, have that next to you so you can scan directions, materials, books etc. Then fill on your lesson plan page accordingly. Such as: Monday: read 2 chapters of Little House on the Praire, math lesson 1. Spelling list A,Begin lap book by glueing folders
Tuesday: read 2 chapter LH ( I usually abbreviate everything in my plans). M2, Sp- write in sentences, LB cut pieces for ch 1&2
And so on and so forth. I am hoping you have filled out a lesson plan before, but if not the New bee homeschooler has great illustrations to help you along.
Just keep plugging in the plans for each child and subject for that week. Stick the packet of materials in the front pocket of the divider to await lesson day. (My planner has dividers with pockets that divide the 4 weeks I am planning.)
Do the same thing for the next week(s).
Tah dah! A month of lessons ready to go. Open, grab and teach!
When one week is done pull it out. Archive it. (this is a tabbed section in my notebook right behind the weeks. Again it is referenced in my post on planners) Move the other weeks forward and add a new week to the back.
Work on the planning the new week ( which should be three weeks ahead of you) on the day you deem good for planning, like on saturday morning while you hubby takes charge of the household--it could happen, it has been done (just not by me)! This is so great because you have the perfect amount of time to reserve the library books you want and pick them up while taking your twelve year old to soccer. And also make the list of needed items for the science project so you can buy them at Walmart when you run out of bread. Everything will be there ready to go when that week reaches the front. Isn't it wonderful?
But don't give me credit for it. I pieced this together from all the treasure of ideas I have gleaned from my hours upon hours upon hours of sitting at the computer until the chair was molded to backside and my eyes resembled a zombie like stare. I tried to give credit to those that I know for certain authored the advice or product, but there are many more that are only a picture in my mind of something I saw or read about once. If you recognize any of these ideas as your own--Thank You, for sharing, I wish I could give you the credit you deserve!
Happy Planning!
10 Principles every Homeschool Mom should Remember
I was really excited to see an article in the August 1014 Ensign ( an LDS church magazine) about learning at home. The article is titled "Home the Heart of Learning". It is mostly talking about how we need to make sure gospel principles are being taught at home and that the lessons in church are in support of that. At the end of the article is a list of 10 principles every teacher should know as pertaining to teaching gospel lessons at church. I was inspired to tweak it a bit to give guidance to us homeschool teachers. You can read the original list and article here.
|#7 "Keep Lessons Alive"
Here we are having an indoor picnic and a read-aloud,
when the weather was un-cooperative for an outdoor one.
10 Principles every Homeschool Mom should Remember1. Council with The Lord. Ask Him how He would have you organize and teach in your homeschool. Go to Him with specific questions. Both for the family and each individual. Keep a Notebook near by to write down the inspiration you receive.
2. Be led by the Spirit. Don't let schedules and lesson plans that have already been noted get in the way of the powerful teaching that can come from the Spirit. Let Him guide your day.
3. Teach children not lessons. "Put the little minds of children out of your thoughts. Children have just as big minds as we have."-Charlotte Mason
4. Focus on gospel principles and core subjects. Everything else will fall into place as needed or when interest spikes.
5. Pick out one or two key topics to focus your lessons on. Many small meals are easier to digest then an all-you-can-eat buffet. "Be faithful in the little by little, day by day approach of reading from great books."-Karen Andreola (A Charlotte Mason Comapanion)
6. Learn as many subjects as possible together as a family. Less prep for mom, more learning for kids.
7. Keep lessons alive with hands-on projects, acting out or dressing the parts, read aloud exciting stories, create memorable note booking pages. Turn your dining room table into a tent on a rainy day to liven things up!
8. Find ways to tie in gospel truths to the other subjects of study wherever possible. Science is full of Gods amazing creations, History is packed full of life lessons and God -fearing heroes. There can always be something found to bring it all back to Him.
9. Create a house of order. This doesn't mean sparkling toilets and a perfectly regulated day set to alarms. Simply, have a routine and a plan for the day with Christ in the center of it and do your best to carry it out. "Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up." -A.A. Milne
10. Don't dismiss the importance of life's every day lessons. Achedemics are important, but how well have you prepared your child for a life of success if he can do trigonometry but doesn't know how to wash a load of laundry or fix a flat tire? So much is taught on a day to day basis just by involving your kids in the needs of the household. A great little book about teaching kids how to help out is called: From Pampered to Productive by Debbie Bowen. I found mine for my Nook here.
Happy Day!
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Fall Food & Wine Weekends – September 25 through November 15
Food & Wine Weekends at Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek and Waldorf Astoria Orlando is a celebration of fine wine and the culinary arts…the perfect complement to the Epcot® Food & Wine Festival, for the serious epicurean.
Designed for those who truly savor the artistry of fine culinary preparations – each plate a canvas for delight and each vintage an invitation for couples to indulge in each other – we invite you to experience Food & Wine Weekends at Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek. Come for an evening, or immerse yourself in a gourmet weekend retreat. Plus, enjoy complimentary transportation to Epcot and all Disney Theme Parks.
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Friday & Saturday, 6pm – 11pm, La Luce at Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek
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Preview menu for September 25 & 26; October 9 & 10, 23 & 24; November 6 & 7
Preview menu for October 2 & 3, 16 & 17, 30 & 31; November 13 & 14
The Taste of Bull & Bear
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Experience an exclusive tasting five-course menu comprised of exquisite food and wine pairings – prepared by the illustrious chefs of Waldorf Astoria Orlando. $110 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Call 407-597-5413 for reservations or click here to reserve on Open Table. Click here to preview the menu.
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Inspirational art is the perfect complement to a sumptuous feast. New this year, watch Edson Campos and Kathleen Brodeur – renowned Chalk Artists – create a masterpiece while guests dine, celebrating a form of art as fresh and contemporary as the cuisine.
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Muddle, mix and sample! Guests partake in an interactive experience creating their very own specialty cocktails cocktails. ($)
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Battle: Los Angeles
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Like alcohol, this movie is taken as a stimulant, but the depressive qualities overwhelm that buzz pronto. It's a major sedative to another cheated audience…it lulls, despite the (at least) 1500 edits, and the furious yet substandard pixel wrangling against the usual clam-chowder colored cityscapes.
Just as he tries to get out, they drag him back in. The deal is that the aliens have invaded just as Camp Pendleton based S/Sgt Nantz (Aaron Eckhart) has made the momentous decision to leave the Marines, just as soon as he's got his most recent batch of men trained. The film flickers around to throw up some backstorying some of his fellow Marines…the Courtney Vance guy, the toothpick-spined shavetail, the Nick Cannon guy, the shell-shocked guy, the one who has a pregnant wife…all of whom will be scooped up into helicopters when it's time to fight the aliens.
They attack at dawn, next to Santa Monica pier. Motiveless and brainless, these tripod creatures (thanks, War of the Worlds) flew here in interstellar craft. Yet they have all kinds of trouble coordinating their air support. Their invasion strategy is secondary to a human tale of redemption. Nantz supposedly needs to redeem himself for losing some men in Iraq.
The Santa Monica airport (formerly called "Clover Field" by the way, not to recall a better alien-invasion movie) is secured by the troops who have decided to hold the line on Lincoln Blvd. Caught behind the lines, Nantz' Marines fight their way out house to house, or rather crappy little Venice bungalow to bungalow. I've never seen LA get creamed with such a lack of visual imagination, or so little irony at the pomp of a great city being tamed.
After a spot of alien vivesection, the Marines commander an RTD bus to escape. The aliens, in silhouette something like Aquaman villain Black Manta, fire blindly, chirruping like defective automatic dishwashers. They have little in the way of brains. They must have: they came light years for no good reason. A scientist on TV explains one possible reason why they've attacked…
To make an analogy, why haven't earthlings flown to Titan to get all that sweet, sweet natural gas? Could it be you'd use too much power to make the trip worth while? The problem with aliens in this kind of movie is that they have the same terrible economies of scale as the motion picture industry itself.
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No, it's the point where Staff Sergeant Nantz is commended for doing "some real John Wayne shit," which is followed by younger Marine asking, "Who's John Wayne?".
Cinematically speaking, Battle: Los Angeles is ploughing the ground with salt. It's another stage in the transformation of cinema to gamer-crap. But in mentioning Wayne, it's obviously superstitious enough to throw some of that salt over its shoulder.
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Anna Gunn almost didn't audition for Breaking Bad. She had given birth to her second child just four months before and was down with a bad cold, which led her to cancel several meetings with casting director Sharon Bialy. When Bialy finally tracked her down by phone, Gunn recalls, "I said, 'I'm exhausted, I'm a new mom again, I'm overloaded.' "
"Take an echinacea and read the script," Bialy replied. "You won't be sorry."
Gunn tore through the pilot in a single sitting. "It was one of the best scripts I'd read," she says. "I called Sharon back and said, 'I'll be in tomorrow.' "
As the 10 million–plus viewers of the AMC award-showered hit (accolades include this year's Golden Globe for Best TV Drama) well know, Gunn was Breaking Bad's formidable Skyler White, the wife of Walt, a chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine cook played by Bryan Cranston. Through five seasons that ended in September, Gunn negotiated a rocky, Emmy-winning ride of discovery, outrage, complicity and alienation, all within the context of what seemed to be a model suburban marriage and family. Breaking Bad was disturbing, riveting and bleakly funny. But Gunn, 45, left the heaviness behind at the end of the day. "You go on a journey with these characters. . . and [when one of them] has a trait that's inspiring or fascinating, you get to take that with you. The other stuff you leave on the shelf," she says.
The Los Angeles–based actress, now divorced from actor and real estate agent Alastair Duncan, chose the quaint tearoom nestled in the Huntington Botanical Gardens near Pasadena for our interview. "I used to come here all the time with my girls," says Gunn. Her older daughter, Emma, is 13; Eila is seven. With her blonde hair and crystalline blue eyes, Gunn has an ethereal quality, but in conversation she is thoughtful and eminently grounded. Cranston says he was impressed with her from their first test scene, in which Skyler gives Walt a distracted hand job as a birthday present. "She was aggressive and assertive yet vulnerable," he says. "I knew that we'd gotten a tiger by the tail."
"We were a fun-loving set," says Betsy Brandt, who played Skyler's sister, Marie, and now costars on The Michael J. Fox Show as Fox's wife. "When we were doing that deep, heavy stuff, I had to come up for air and joke around. But Anna stayed very focused the whole time." As Cranston puts it, "Anna takes her life as an artist very seriously. She loves to act, and you can tell. There's a joy that comes through her, even in the most harrowing moments." In the lighter ones, Cranston cracked her up. When the cameras rolled for an intimate bedroom scene, Gunn recalls, laughing, he appeared with a can of hairspray wedged into his tighty whities and a wig on his head, calling, "Hello, honey! I'm ready!"
Breaking Bad was shot in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gunn and her daughters "lived in a little village just outside Albuquerque. We hiked and biked and went camping and to the balloon fiesta. It was really fun to show my girls all these things from my childhood," says the actress, who grew up in Santa Fe.
Until she was a sophomore at Santa Fe Preparatory School, Gunn thought she'd be a writer. But a sense--memory exercise in an acting class made her pivot. "The memory I chose was about my older brother going away to college," she says. "It was about saying good-bye to him at the airport." She found herself so immersed in the recollection, she cried. "Afterward, I had that lightbulb moment when I realized this is the way I want to do my storytelling."
Her parents—Shana, an interior designer, and Clem, who worked in real estate (both are now retired)—were encouraging. "My dad drove me to every rehearsal, even in blizzards, five nights a week. My mom made every costume. They were tremendously supportive." Gunn went on to major in theater at Northwestern. Later she paid her dues, cleaning toilets between gigs early on and holding out for parts that interested her: a Vegas showgirl in Nobody's Baby, starring Mary Steenburgen; a -buttoned-up assistant D.A. in The Practice; the sheriff's complex schoolmarm wife in Deadwood. She consistently pursued theater, too, starring as Isabella in a Sir Peter Hall production of Measure for Measure and as Marie Curie in Radiance.
But none of her characters drew the attention and, in the early seasons, the vitriol that fans directed at Breaking Bad's Skyler. A vocal segment in what was then a mostly male audience saw her as the nagging, buzzkill wife of their meth-cooking murderous champ. Gunn was hurt—she liked Skyler—so she penned a considered response that was published by the New York Times as an Op-Ed. "I'm concerned that so many people react to Skyler with such venom," she wrote. "Could it be that they can't stand a woman who won't suffer silently or 'stand by her man'? That they despise her because she won't back down or give up? Or because she is, in fact, Walter's equal?"
For all her poise, Gunn is petrified of public speaking. So when asked to give last year's commencement address at her high school alma mater, she took fear as her theme, telling the audience about the Erica Jong quote she tapes to the mirror in every dressing room she uses. It reads, "I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back, turn back; you'll die if you venture too far." "Being afraid," Gunn says, "means you care and want to do your best, so forge ahead."
Which is what Gunn, now renovating her Hollywood home, is doing. In January she began filming Gracepoint, an American adaptation for Fox-TV of the BBC series Broadchurch. Costarring with David Tennant, Nick Nolte and Jacki Weaver, Gunn plays a detective who must solve the murder of a child in the tight-knit coastal town where she grew up. "She was our collective first choice," says Carolyn Bern-stein, an executive producer on the show. "We were all rabid fans of Breaking Bad. As Skyler, she made this very challenging character deeply sympathetic and relatable."
To research the Gracepoint role, Gunn spent time with retired police officer Ally Jacobs, who was pivotal in cracking the 1991 Jaycee Dugard kidnapping case. "She told me about what you have to pay attention to as a cop," Gunn says. "People's mannerisms, their gestures, the most minute details. I love this part; I have a notepad and carry it everywhere."
Gunn is also loving her forties. "When I was in my twenties and thirties, I spent so much time worrying: the next job, the next review, the next blog," she says. "It really was wasted time. I haven't stopped worrying, but now I have the ability to say, 'I'm going to enjoy the time that I have working and that I have with my kids and my family and my friends. And I'm not going to spend it going, 'Oh dear, oh no, what comes next in 20 minutes or two hours or tomorrow?' I'll wake up and deal with it."
Margot Dougherty profiled Courteney Cox for More in February.
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