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Teaching kids to make things teaches problem-solving, perseverance and "grit," reports Wired.
When Eugene Korsunskiy and seven of his fellow students from Stanford University's d.school set out to tour the nation in a brightly painted truck full of laser cutters and rapid prototyping machines, they thought they were bringing a chance to play with high-tech maker tools to school kids who hadn't had one yet.
And they were: SparkTruck, the educational make-mobile, made 73 stops this summer, treating 2,679 elementary and middle school students to hands-on workshops covering the basics of electrical engineering and digital fabrication, and giving a chance to make cool stuff in the process, like small robotic creatures and laser-cut rubber stamps.
The SparkTruck team learned to let children struggle with design problems, get frustrated, beg for help — and then figure it out. "Once you make it clear that you're not there to provide the answer, they completely rise to the challenge," said Korsunskiy.
American kids are said to be low on "grit," the ability to learn from setbacks instead of giving up, Wired writes. Design teaches problem-solving, Korsunskiy said. Students learn to brainstorm, test ideas and go back to the drawing board.


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The Mobile Advantage
Mobile devices and applications are no longer just nice to have; they create both efficiencies and competitive advantage. With a strong mobile platform, employees are more productive, customers are more satisfied and organizations down the line may find it easier to attract both. Smartphones and tablets, along with Internet connectivity, are ubiquitous today--a situation that organizations are increasingly taking advantage of with BYOD, or bring your own device, programs, along with apps designed to take advantage of employees and customers on the go.
But while there is little question that organizations can benefit from a robust mobile program, finding the people to support it--whether from within the company or through new hires and contract workers--is not so cut and dried. The InformationWeek 2012 State of IT Staffing Survey shows that many companies expect to expand staffing in the area of mobility/BYOD program/end user device management, but they aren't so sure where they will find people with the skills to support mobile initiatives, whether those skills even exist right now or, if they do, whether they can pay people who possess them. But companies aren't letting any shortages of skills or budget curtail their mobile plans. Many respondents to the 2012 IT staffing survey noted that their companies are moving more quickly than expected, despite a shortage of workers. (R5791012)
Survey Name InformationWeek 2012 State of IT Staffing Survey
Survey Date July 2012
Region North America
Number of Respondents 116 respondents citing mobility/BYOD programs/end user device management as a top area of staffing increase.
Purpose To gauge mobility/BYOD programs/end user device management staffing trends in the enterprise.
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Hey, hello, how do you do... and all that jazz.
I hate intro type posts, so I'll try to make this quick and painless.
Just joined after wasting the better part of my work day googling green tea, of which I have been a long time drinker. Sadly to say, of the bag variety (although I always enjoy a cup of macha with sushi)... and usually iced since the climate in AZ isn't exactly conducive to hot tea drinking for a good 9 months out of the year. (The best iced tea ever (imo), and which I am drinking at this very moment,= 1 teabag jasmine infused green steeped with 1 teabag herbal mint tea)
I just inherited a nice tea set from my parents, and since I've always been intrigued by loose leaf variety, and since it is FINALLY under 90 degrees and thus prime hot-tea-drinking weather I've decided to do a little expirimenting. I ordered a green tea sampler from Adagio, as well as a box of blooming tea flowers (because they're pretty and novel and I'm a sucker), so, we'll see how that goes.
I have to admit it's slightly daunting, considering that currently my tea drinking regimen consists of only two steps (i.e. 1- boil water 2- pour in cup with teabag). I had no idea there were so many methods and intricacies involved in the process.
That was longer than I meant it to be. Oh well, c'est la vie.
By the way, I happened to glance over at the side chat as I was typing this and LOLed at the Soilent Green tea. It reminded me of a line from Futurama:
FRY: What if the secret ingredient is people?
LEELA: No, there's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola.
FRY: Oh. How is it?
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We're moving! We often joke that I.B.M. stands for "I've Been Moved", and the Tucson Executive Briefing Center is no exception.
Today is the last day for us in Building 9070. Starting tomorrow, the Tucson EBC will operate out of Building 9032 instead. While moving is always painful, there are some distinct advantages to the new facility:
- The Building 9070 facility has been in operation since 2003, and some IBM executives felt it was starting to show its age. The new facility reflects IBM's commitment and investment to IBM System Storage portfolio, including a new Green Data Center reflecting the latest "best practices" in facility design similar to the one we have in the Raleigh EBC.
- Several companies rent space in Building 9070. Clients visiting Building 9070 had to walk past the offices of our competitors. Building 9032 is exclusively IBM, with the new facility just off the main lobby.
- The previous facility was on the top floor of Building 9070, and the floors often shook because of an air handler on the roof. Clients complained that it felt like a minor earthquake every time it kicked in. The new facility is on the ground floor, on solid concrete.
- As the tallest building on campus, our clients in Building 9070 were often distracted by the views of our mountains and desert landscapes. We would take a 5 or 10 minute break, and getting everyone back in the briefing rooms was [like herding cats]. The new facility has no views to distract anyone, allowing our briefing managers to keep our meetings on schedule.
- The Building 9070 facility was so large with five meeting rooms and three dining areas, arranged facing out in a circle. If you get lost, just do a few laps on the outer track and eventually you will get back to the room you were looking for. No client will get lost in the new facility, with just two rooms and common dining area all facing each other in a triangle configuration.
With the success of the Storwize family developed in Hursley UK, IBM management felt the Building 9070 facility no longer reflected the "center of gravity" of IBM's storage development. Moving the Tucson EBC a quarter mile northward therefore brings us closer.
- Since the primary purpose of an Executive Briefing Center is to bring clients in direct contact with IBM Research and Development, we often had developers walk over from the other buildings to the Building 9070 facility. They often complained that this took 5 minutes or longer each way. Since most or our disk and tape developers reside in Building 9032, we have greatly shortened the time it takes for them to come over.
For myself, as the lead Subject Matter Expert on the Tucson EBC staff, I get a much larger office with brand new furniture!
Now is the time to book a briefing in Tucson to check out the new facility. Go to the [Tucson EBC landing page] for contact information.


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Apple Revenue Misses Forecasts: Hot Trends
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Popular searches on the Internet include Apple(AAPL) after the company reported fourth-quarter revenue that fell short of Wall Street forecasts.
It was the third quarter in a row in which Apple missed revenue estimates. For the fiscal first quarter, Apple reported it shipped a record 47.8 million iPhones, below analysts' expectations of 50 million.
With iPhone sales coming in below expectations, speculation is growing that the tech titan could be losing its luster and the six years of speedy growth the company experienced after the introduction of the iPhone could be coming to an end.
Apple reported quarterly profit that rose less than 1% to $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per share, its slowest rise in profit since 2003.
Apple has changed the way it delivers its financial outlooks to investors. Instead of giving conservative estimates, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said the company will give a range.
Google(GOOG) is trending after announcing a redesign of its image search feature.
The company now claims that Google image searches will be faster, more reliable and more visually appealing. Images will now be featured in a panel that allows the user to flip through them quickly using their keyboards. In addition, information about each image will be shown more prominently alongside it. The title of the page where the image is found, the domain name of its location and its size will be included. Users can also click on the domain name for each image or click a new button that will take them to the page where the image is found.
The ultimate result of the redesign cuts down on the amount of clicks needed in an image search and is expected to be quicker for the user.
Users will see the redesign "in the next few days," according to Google.
Sony(SNE) is another popular search. The company has just been fined 250,000 pounds ($396,000) by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office in relation to the PlayStation Network being hacked in April 2011.
The ICO found that the company was to blame for security failings and that the hack could have been prevented. According to David Smith, ICO's director of data protection, Sony stored a lot of personal customer information and "should have known better." Smith said the security measures in place "were simply not good enough."
Sony said it plans to appeal the fine. In a statement, Sony said it was the victim of a "focused and determined criminal attack" and that the personal data accessed is unlikely to have been used fraudulently.
The hack exposed personal data of about 100 million PSN accounts and resulted in the shutdown of the network for several weeks. At the time, Sony apologized for the incident and offered a "Welcome Back" promotion that included free games to PSN users.


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Wild turkeys are plentiful and are widespread. Many states are starting to introduce them into previously uninhabited areas, increasing their range and distribution. Current estimates of wild turkey populations are around 4 million in North America (Dickson, 1995).
Wild turkeys are not legally protected. In fact, they are hunted in many states.


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Friday, 15 February, 2013 | All Day Event
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The National Collegiate Leadership Conference is a student-run annual conference that serves as the cornerstone of the leadership experience and training for hundreds of college students across the nation. Each year, over 600 students from schools in over 20 states come to NCLC to learn about leadership. The philosophy of NCLC is that service, social justice, and leadership are all connected. Thus, the programming for this conference offers students a variety of opportunities to learn, understand, interact with, experience, participate in, engage in, and reflect on service, social justice, and leadership. The skills that students learn from this conference can be applicable in students' organizations, families, campuses, job settings, as well as local and global communities.
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I do the other method never calculated thickness factor? do by weight of dough balls and quantity or number dough balls I want at 250-265 grams stretch @12" and then thats your thickness John
Thickness factor is so non-representative of crust thickness in NP, I agree with John that dough weight is a much more appropriate/meaningful metric.
Have you ever tried playing with a smaller dough ball ?I know it's not NP spec, but I go with a 175/180 gram 12" pie. Perry
I've found 225g/13" is as small as I like, so a little more g/in^2 than you. Typically, I use 265g/13".
Looking back now after several years there are a few things that I wish we had done or included or changed in the tools. Unfortunately, we no longer have the capability of modifying the tools. On the positive side, there were very few programming errors. Peter
Just curious, what would you do different, or modify in the tools?


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Jaime Hernandez: The 1989-D Congress Dollar was produced to commemorate the bicentennial of the United States Congress.
Obverse: Depicts the Statue of Freedom which is located on top of the Capitol Dome. Below the Statue are the words In God We Trust and Liberty. To the right of the Statue is the date 1789, the first year in which the Federal Congress was formed. To the right is the date 1989, the date in which the coin was released to the public. Below the date is the D mint mark, indicating that the coins were produced at the Denver Mint. Arched above the Statue of Freedom are the words Bicentennial of the Congress.
Reverse: The words United States of America are arched above the Capitol Dome. Encircled around the Capital Dome are 13 stars. The letters WW below the right side of the Capitol Dome are the initials of William Woodward. The letters EZS on the left hand side of the Dome are the initials of Edgar Z. Steever IV. The denomination of the coin Half Dollar, is spelled out towards the lower central portion of the coins design.
Overview: Mint pre-issue price for the 1989-D Congress Half Dollar was $5. Mint regular issue price for the 1989-D Congress Half Dollar was $6. Maximum authorized mintage was 4,000,000 coins. Produced by Public Law 100-673.
The Mint also produced a 1989 Proof Congress half dollar. Additionally, it also produced proof and mint state $5 gold coins commemorating the bicentennial of Congress.


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RICHMOND, CA, February 12, 2008--Mechanics Bank today announced that its 2007 earnings topped $29 million, the best year in its 103-year history, and a 9.5 % increase over 2006, when it earned $26.5 million.
Steven K. Buster, CEO of the $2.7 billion Northern California community bank, said, "Overall, we can say that 2007 was a very good year for Mechanics Bank. The Bank has made excellent progress in balancing its revenue sources by generating substantial new fee income. More fee income was generated throughout the Bank's entire operations, including Retail Banking, Corporate Banking and Wealth Management Divisions.
Shareholders' equity increased 8.3 % from year ago levels resulting from retained earnings. With the combination of enhanced balance sheet efficiency management and increased retained earnings, the total assets declined to $2.70 billion at 2007 year-end, compared to $2.76 billion in 2006. The resulting balance sheet mix significantly enhanced margins as assets earned higher yields and cost of funding moderately declined. For 2007, the Bank's net interest margin widened by 21 basis points to a level of 3.95% during a time period when most other financial institutions experienced an erosion of their spreads.
"Mechanics Bank has never concentrated on absolute growth alone, but instead on building quality relationships that last for generations," said E. M. Downer III, Chairman. "This is evidenced by our stable balance sheet totals for the last several years, as we have focused on client service and more efficiently managed our resources."
By several regulatory measures, Mechanics Bank's capitalization was strong. Its total capital to risk-weighted assets ratio was 14 %; 10 % is necessary to be considered "well capitalized." Using another measurement standard, the Bank's "Tier 1" leverage ratio was 10.5 %, more than double the amount necessary to be considered "well capitalized."
"In one of the most challenging periods in recent banking history, we feel fortunate to have a loyal base of customers who are continuing to perform well," said Mechanics Bank Vice Chair Dianne Daiss Felton. "We are not experiencing the non-performing loans that have been plaguing most of our industry and our consistent focus on sound underwriting practices and compliance has been rewarded. We ended 2007 with an exceptionally high quality loan portfolio and superior liquidity."
Mr. Buster emphasized that Mechanics Bank avoided the problems afflicting other banks by focusing on its core customers and competencies. "For the past several years, while other banks chose to deviate from their traditional business lines in order to increase revenues, Mechanics Bank deliberately chose consistency and safety over rapid expansion," Mr. Buster said. "Other banks may have experienced sharper increases in revenue during that period, but are, unfortunately, now paying the price. Meanwhile, Mechanics Bank's disciplined approach is paying off."
Mechanics Bank avoided exposure to risky subprime loans, according to Mr. Buster. "We have never provided subprime mortgages as a line of business," he said. "We have always discouraged our customers from subprime loans and we have never marketed them."
"Entering 2008, we believe we are well-positioned to benefit from market conditions in the coming year," Mr. Buster said. "We have commonly been viewed as Northern California's most trusted financial partner and will remain conservatively managed in the tradition of our century of operations."
Mechanics Bank is based in Richmond, California. The 103-year-old community bank is one of the largest independent banks headquartered in Northern California. Its 33 offices throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento offer a full range of financial solutions for businesses and individuals.
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Independent curator Brad Rosenstein will give a multimedia presentation, "From Tutu to Haute Couture: Costume and the Ballet," which combines a brief history of ballet costume with more specific examples from Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Dance. The program will culminate in a fashion show of costumes from the archives of San Francisco Ballet, modeled by San Francisco Ballet School Trainees.


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According to recent Bloomberg survey, investors are the most bullish on stocks in at least 3-1/2 years, and the powerful stock market rally certainly reflects that, but MoneyShow's Tom Aspray counsels that it's exactly during times like these that caution is warranted more than ever.
The stock market continued to push higher again last week as more market skeptics gave up on their bearish stance. With the Dow Industrials and S&P 500 now back to levels last seen over five years ago, it is becoming harder for many to remain on the sidelines. With Friday's positive close the S&P 500 ended higher for eight up days in a row, which has not happened since 2004.
The market has been very resilient over the past few weeks as any early selling was well supported, and by the end of the day, the major averages were back into positive territory. While this is very encouraging for those who are long, it is quite frustrating for those who are belatedly trying to get into the market.
The startling performance of stocks like Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), which is up 50% this week also can encourage some to jump ion at the wrong time. As I noted earlier this month, it was the least liked stock by Wall Street and as I posted on January 20, the weekly technical studies were strong. As Carl Ischan explained in a recent interview, he bought NFLX mainly because everyone else hated it.
The new all-time highs in the Dow Transportation Average has fueled further buying as some expect the Dow Industrials and S&P 500 will also soon make new all-time highs. Does this mean you should be buying the market now?
This is the type of market that encourages some investors to follow their emotions, which is never a good idea. Let's look at some reasons why you may want to be more cautious over the next few weeks.
The 5% gain in Spyder Trust (SPY) so far in the month, and the fact that we have not had one close below the prior day's low all months increase the odds of at least a 1-2 day pullback. Also while stocks often do well in January, February is often a different story
The daily seasonal chart of the S&P 500 that analyzes data going back to 1930 reveals that typically stocks peak in early January, decline until January 24 before rallying until February 2. This has not been the case so far this year. Typically an early February high sets the stage for a decline that lasts for most of the month. This sets the stage for stocks to move higher into May.
For the last three years, prices have been higher in February with gains of 4.06% in 2012, 2.95% in 2011, and 2.85% in 2010. Looking back over the past 40 years, February was one of the two months that showed a loss, but it was considerably better than September, which was the worst month.
Now, some stock market strategists are already raising their yearly upside targets for the S&P 500. If you remember last spring this also happened before the market corrected.
Of course the seasonal tendencies need to be paired with the technical outlook, which is still positive for the short term, as well as the long term.
Even though we do not have sell signals for the major market averages, there are signs some of the top sectors have lost some of their upside momentum.


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As Michiko hurries to catch up with the circus, Hatchin is adjusting to life without her. A former performer, coincidentally named Michiko, takes an interest in the children with the circus. However, an investigative reporter insists they are in danger.
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About the Author: Sarah Nolan serves as Assistant Chief of Protocol for Diplomatic Partnerships.
Last week, the Office of the Chief of Protocol announced the destination of the next "Experience America" trip -- Atlanta, Georgia! Ambassador Marshall will lead a delegation of nearly 50 foreign ambassadors, representing over 500 million people from all around the world, to Atlanta starting Tuesday, October 12. The goal of this program is to plant the seeds for new international business partnership and give these diplomats a deeper understanding and appreciation of America's people, culture and institutions. In anticipation of our trip, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published an Op-Ed from the Chief of Protocol Ambassador Capricai Penavic Marshall that I wanted to share with DipNote's readers. You can read the Op-Ed below or click here.
"Selling the world on spirit of Atlanta"
Atlanta is one of our great cities. Home to innovative companies such as Coca-Cola and CNN, the world's busiest passenger airport, and a talented and creative work force, Atlanta is a city where the world comes to do business. It is rich in history and culture, full of diversity and dynamism, and Atlanta's story has always been entwined with America's.
That is why, this October, I am leading a delegation of nearly 50 foreign ambassadors from all over the world to visit Atlanta as part of the State Department's "Experience America" program.
Our goal is to plant the seeds of new partnerships between organizations, businesses, and local officials and their counterparts overseas. The relationships that grow out of these visits can help create new jobs and educational opportunities, and they can burnish Atlanta's reputation around the world.
Working closely with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, the Office of the United States Chief of Protocol has organized a substantive and exciting itinerary for these ambassadors.
Highlighting technology, education and entrepreneurship, we will visit Georgia Tech and tour some of its premier research facilities, including a joint program with Emory University on biomedical engineering. New relationships abroad will help expand the reach of both these great Atlanta universities and create new opportunities for their students. We will also visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a tour and conversation on global health with Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator at PEPFAR, and Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the CDC, moderated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Focusing on Atlanta's business community, Metro Atlanta Chamber President Sam A. Williams has invited us to an event with Mayor Reed and the heads of many Atlanta companies. The event will emphasize Atlanta's vibrant business community, international environment and send a clear message: Atlanta is a great place to do business.
The ambassadors will also meet with senior executives at CNN, a global icon and Atlanta institution. Of course, no trip to Atlanta would be complete without a visit to the World of Coca-Cola, where the ambassadors will be hosted by senior executives, learn about the company's global operation and discuss new possibilities for partnerships.
At the Carter Library, the ambassadors will meet with President Carter and learn about the many initiatives spearheaded by the Carter Center, from election monitoring to the eradication of Guinea worms.
We hope to provide our visitors with a deeper understanding and appreciation of America's people, culture and values. Where better to do that than Atlanta, home to so much of the legacy of the civil rights movement? The ambassadors will tour Morehouse College, receive a presentation on the papers of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. housed there, visit the King Center and participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at his tomb. I hope they will carry some of what they see and learn there back with them to their homes around the world.
These diplomats will leave Atlanta with a new network of partners, businesses and organizations they can work with in the future. The result could be new educational exchange programs and research projects, new investment opportunities and business relationships, and a deeper cross-cultural understanding. That would be good for Atlanta, good for America and good for the world.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that "America has a great story to tell and we need to be telling it every day in every way." That's the spirit behind this trip.
I can't wait to show off Atlanta and its famous Southern hospitality. Together, we'll give our visitors a view of America they'll never forget.
Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall is chief of protocol of the United States.


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Artist Fellow Monique Jenkinson performs excerpts from her work-in-progress Instrument. Since the beginning of September, Jenkinson and her three choreographic collaborators have been working in the museum in an experimental process inspired in part by Rudolf Nureyev: a Life in Dance. The result, her new dance-based solo performance Instrument, premieres November 29 at CounterPULSE. Please join us for a glimpse into her process.


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MA Material and Visual Culture
About the programme
This programme is designed as an advanced research degree providing exposure to a vanguard and creative field within anthropology and related disciplines.
In the first term the core course will introduce students to recent ethnographic writing on visual, material and digital culture, explore the contribution of key thinkers in the field and engage a number of key theoretical paradigms. The second term students will be presented with a wide range of case studies highlighting material culture in the wider world - ranging from art, through photography, clothing, consumption, cultural memory, monuments and the built environment with a view to exploring how these might be illuminated from a material culture perspective.
During the year students will also have the opportunity to take three specialist options from a range of courses offered within the Department. Finally they will be able to concentrate on a single topic, involving their own original research, through a dissertation at the end of the year.
The programme is suitable both for those with a prior degree in anthropology and for those with degrees in neighbouring disciplines who wish to be trained in anthropological and related approaches to material and visual culture.
The degree can lead to further doctoral research or careers in a wide range of areas such as architecture, media, commerce and aspects of development work, where an emphasis on the material and visual environment is central.
The MA is nominally completed in one year of full-time study or two years of part-time. In the autumn term students enrol in the Material and Visual Culture core course (and at least one optional course), followed in the spring term by the second half of the core course and 2 optional courses. The two-hour written exam is administered in the third term (usually in May), and the bulk of dissertation research and writing is conducted between May and August, with submission in mid-September.
Those studying part-time are restricted to enrollment in the core course in their first year (with the exam in term 3 of that year), while optional courses and dissertation research/writing normally occur in the second year.
The MA in Material and Visual Culture is based on the following components:
1. Core course in Material and Visual Culture
This is taught over two terms. The course is examined by a combination of a 2,500 word essay, a methodology practical, and a written examination at the end of the year.
Note that the aim of the practical skills training component of the core course is not to provide comprehensive fluency in technique (since we deal with a wide range of applications over the period) but to give enough sense of each technique that a student can envisage how and why these might be incorporated into anthropological research.
2. Optional courses
Students take three optional courses, at least two of which are typically from among those taught by Material & Visual Culture staff. These courses are examined by one essay each of 3,000 words, worth 8.33% of the course grade each.
- Anthropology of Art & Design
- Mass Consumption and Design
- Anthropology of the Built Environment
- Anthropology and Photography
- Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
- Transforming and Creating the World: Anthropological Perspectives on Techniques and Technology
- Social Construction of Landscape
- Documentary Film and the Anthropological Eye
- Practical Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking (Lab-Based)
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3. Masters Research Methods seminar
Typically 16-18 sessions are convened within the Research Methods seminar over the academic year. These sessions are made available to all masters students, and while only six are usually compulsory for students in the programme they may attend as many additional sessions as they wish. The Research Methods seminars vary from year to year but typically include the following sessions:
- Participant observation
- Ethics
- Investigating space and place
- Interviews (I & II)
- Questionnaires (I & II)
- Sampling
- Using new technologies for research
- PRA (participatory rural appraisal)
- Photography
- Against method
- Investigating kinship and relatedness
- Ethnographic writing
- Fieldnotes
- Film
- Historical sources
- Researching ritual
4. Dissertation
A 15,000 word dissertation to be submitted by mid September of each year, conducted under the supervision of a member of the material and visual culture staff, on an agreed topic. This will count for 50% of the overall mark.
Some recent titles of MSc dissertations include:
- Last Thoughts: Toward an Anthropology of Shoes
- Spectacular Politics & the Image: Tamil Cinema and the Making of History
- Doing the Best for Children on a Budget: Food Consumption Practices of Mothers on a Limited Income
- Marking National Boundaries: Taiwanese Cuisine and Night Markets as Natural Symbols
- I Can See the Calm Pull Chaos: Ritual and Identity at Comic-Con
5. A weekly seminar series
A weekly seminar series in Material and Visual Culture, with invited international speakers. Not examined.
This diagram illustrates the individually assessed components of the programme. The area of each box is proportional to its weighting (the upper layer represents the core course, the middle layer the options, and the bottom half the dissertation).
Research seminars and activities
We co-host the Material, Visual and Digital Culture Research Seminar
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Current Course Tutors:
Victor Buchli
Victor Buchli works on architecture, domesticity, the archaeology of the recent past, critical understandings of materiality and new technologies and the anthropology of sustainability and design. He also teaches on the UCL Urban Studies MSc and supervises on the Mphil/PhD programme at the Bartlett and serves on the Board of the Victoria and Albert/Royal College of Art MA History of Design Programme. He has conducted fieldwork in Russia, Britain and more recently in Kazakhstan, where he concluded research based on a neighbourhood ethnography in the new capitol of Astana, Kazakhstan, examining questions of materiality, architecture and urbanism in the post-socialist period. In addition, he is writing a new book Immateriality which examines the significance of material cultures that paradoxically attempt to deny their own physicality and another entitled The Anthropology of Architecture (Berg 2011).
Currently he is starting new research in new materials and new technologies examining the rise of rapid manufacturing or 3-D printing. This research is part of a co-organised ESRC funded intiative entitled New Materials, New Technologies with Susanne Kuechler and Graeme Were in UCL Anthropology and Materials Sciences at Kings College London. In addition, he is a member of the Eco-Town Delivery Consortium: an industry based knowledge transfer initiative examining the development of carbon neutral living through which he is conducting a long term ethnographic project 'Assembling the Carbon Neutral Subject' and supervising research into the anthropology of ecologically sustainable development and design. More recently he has begun work as a member of the interdisciplinary Templeton Scholars Group on the origins of domesticity at the Neolithic site of Çatal Höyük in Turkey where he is examining long term culture change and processes of material iteration and innovation.
Ludovic Coupaye
Coupaye focuses on the arts and anthropology of the Pacific, with an emphasis on the groups, material cultures and technologies of Melanesia. His doctoral thesis (SRU/UEA 2005), was titled Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Outlining the Technical System of Long Yam Cultivation and Display among the Abelam of Nyamikum Village (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea). He is currently writing on the magic and social life of ritual objects among the Abelam.
Haidy Geismar
Haidy Geismar came to UCL from the Dept. of Anthropology at NYU, where she was assistant professor in anthropology and in museum studies and taught courses on digital culture. She has written extensively on museums, issues of cultural property and archives, and has conducted fieldwork in New Zealand and Vanuatu. Her book Treasured Possessions will be out later this year with Duke University Press. She has papers in many leading journals such as American Ethnologist, Journal of Material Culture Studies, Comparative Studies in History and Society. She is joint founder editor of www.materialworldblog.com
Susanne Kuechler
Küchler is currently working on a new manuscript, which develops the theoretical implications of her past ethnographic research into the making of sculpture and the cognitive work of images. The Material Mind takes insights into the nature of innovation, won during long-term and collaborative research on the take up and transformation of cloth in the Pacific, to the context of the development of 'mindware' in laboratories. The manuscript offers a critical review of the existing theorisation of the aesthetics of the material [Materialästhetik] and sets out a new vision for the study of sculptural art and design, which takes into account the interface between the material and the cognitive as symptomatic of knowledge economies. Geographical: South Pacific; Papua New Guinea, New Ireland; Polynesia, the Cook Islands. And laboratories. September 2005-July2006: Invited Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin: The library research conducted during the year of residency concerned the evolving technology and fabrics supporting wearable computing and investigated its implications for the theory and methodology of material culture and anthropology. 'Smart' clothes and ambient intelligence provoke questions of how notions of mind and of life inform and are informed by prototyping, where it is the functionality of collections of artefacts which supports systemic relations between artefacts, and where a sociality with objects is mediated by such inter-artefactual relations. The initial work on the manuscript also concerned itself with a critique of current work on innovation, directing attention to the need for anthropological research to be conducted on the social history of the prototype in order to develop new methodologies and theories capable of handling emerging futures.
Daniel Miller
Miller has carried several research projects on the media which have resulted in publications including The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (with D. Slater) Berg: Oxford 2000 and The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (with H Horst) Berg: Oxford 2006, Tales from Facebook Polity 2011, and with Dr. M Madianou of Cambridge University Migration and New Media: transnationalism and polymedia (Routledge Sept 2011). He is currently working on the impact of social networking and webcam on transnational relationships and within Trinidad.
See Prof. Miller's discussion of his just-released Tales from Facebook (on YouTube and Vimeo).
Chris Tilley
Tilley is a UCL specialist in archaeology, material culture and social identity. He has written a number of books on archaeological theory exploring the relations between hermeneutic, structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives and material culture.
Chris Tilley's research falls into two main areas (i) the exploration
of different theoretical perspectives in relation to the study of
material culture and (ii) the relationship of these perspectives to the
study of substantive archaeological and ethnographic data sets. These
concerns are reflected in his publications. Theoretically he have explored
the use and value of structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist,
hermeneutic and phenomenological perspectives. His substantive analyses
have been very broad and wide ranging including the following: studies of museums and tourism, modern material culture, contemporary and prehistoric landscapes, topography and monuments, Bronze Age Scandinavian rock art, The Neolithic in south Scandinavia, Brittany, Britain and Malta, Artefact construction, ethnicity, heritage and identity in the western Pacific (Vanuatu), Landscape and installation art, Contemporary residential gardens and gardening in Sweden and England.
Chris Pinney
Pinney's research has a strong geographic focus in central India: initial ethnographic research was concerned with village-resident factory workers. Subsequently he researched popular photographic practices and the consumption of Hindu chromolithographs in the same area. His publications combine contemporary ethnography with the historical archaeology of particular media (see eg. Camera Indica and Photos of the Gods). The Coming of Photography in India, based on the Panizzi Lectures was published by the British Library in October 2008.
He is currently interested in cultural spaces which conventional social theory has tended to neglect: "more than local and less than global", and spaces of cultural flow that elude the west. In addition to ongoing projects with an Indian focus (for instance, a filmic record of two central Indian Dalit intellectuals) he is also working on visual dimensions of cultural encounters from 1492 to the present, and thinking through Kracauer's later work and the question of 'multiple temporalities'. Current book projects include, Photography and Anthropology (forthcoming from Reaktion in April 2011), Zoom: Seeing and Believing in Colonial and Postcolonial India,Lessons From Hell (concerned with popular Indian depictions of punishment), a 'visual history' of modern India, and Visual Encounters.
Further Reading
- Banerjee, M and Miller, D. The Sari 2003
- Basu, P. Highland Homecomings 2006
- Buchli, V. The Material Culture Reader 2002
- Küchler, S and Were, G Pacific Pattern 2005
- Pinney, C. Photos of the Gods 2004
- Woodward, I. Understanding Material Culture 2007
- Miller, D. The Comfort of Things 2008
- Tilley, C. Metaphor and Material Culture 1999
Key Information
Programme starts
September 2017
The programme can lead to careers in a wide range of areas such as architecture, media, commerce and aspects of development work where an emphasis on the material and visual environment is central.
Top career destinations for this degree
- Senior Curator, Frifthdi School of Art, Design and Technology
- Research Executive, Basis Research
- Web Designer, Elena Boykova Sirakova
- MSc Anthropology, Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
- Associate Director, DA and Company
The programme is designed as an advanced research degree providing exposure to a vanguard and creative field within anthropology and related disciplines. Students learn how to apply ethnographic theory and methodology in material and visual culture to a wide range of case studies highlighting material culture in the wider world - ranging from art, through photography, clothing, consumption, cultural memory, monuments and the built environment.
The degree can lead to further doctoral research or careers in a wide range of areas such as architecture, media, museums, business and aspects of development work where an emphasis on the material and visual environment is central.
Careers data is taken from the 'Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education' survey undertaken by HESA looking at the destinations of UK and EU students in the 2012–2014 graduating cohorts six months after graduation.
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Transferable Skills
Interpretation of objects and images
Skills in decoding meanings and understanding the limits of 'meaning'. Phenomenology and Deconstruction as alternative methods. Ethnographic research and different modes of contextualisation.
Project design and implementation skills
Designing a practical project exploring a 'material' methodology. Conceptualising initial hypotheses and developing methods to explore and test these.
Field and research skills
Preparing for participant-observation. Interview techniques. Observation and documentation strategies.
Presentation and written skills
From field notes to written dissertation. 'Writing-on-the-spot'. 'Texture' and 'voice' in different styles of ethnographic writing. Small group and formal presentation skills.


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I even wonder if the dough experiment with the aggressive kneading would even benefit this kind of dough. I had mentioned in my other post that I thought the flat beater did a good job, with out all the other mixing. When I was finished with mixing with the flat beater on different speeds from 1-3 (like at home with salt) the dough felt ready to be balled. I then mixed with the dough hook on those high speeds and went back to the flat beater and the dough without salt sure didnt feel any different to me, than just using the flat beater on 3 speeds. I thought just ball the Buddys clone dough without salt and wait and see what happens.
Norma,You might recall that I cited an article for a very high hydration dough at https://sites.google.com/site/hollosyt/quickrusticciabattapizza. If you look at that article, you will see that the dough is mixed and kneaded entirely with the flat beater (paddle) attachment at high speed for several minutes. I estimate the hydration value for the recipe cited in the article to be a bit over 90%, but as you know from your Pizzarium experience doughs with very high hydration but properly kneaded can be handled without a lot of sticking to the fingers. In Buddy's case, lufty told us that the dough during his tenure at Buddy's was formed into balls and scaled after mixing and placed in pans (Reply 318 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg136795.html#msg136795). As I mentioned before, I believe the hydration value for Buddy's dough is set at a value to allow even fairly inexperienced workers to be able to make the dough using practices that can be followed at all of Buddy's locations as a standardized procedure. In a home setting where you are only making a few pizzas, you can get away with much higher hydrations but in a commercial setting like Buddy's the bulk dough has to be easy to divide, scale and pan without sticking to everything.
Another thing you will note from the above article is that the amount of yeast cited is over 1% (about 1.2% if IDY is used). At that value, the dough is essentially an emergency dough, just like Buddy's. You will also note the lack of oil or sugar in the dough described in the article. However, salt is used, at 2.8%.Peter
those look great Norma. I need to spend some time reading through this thread
Norma,You might recall that I cited an article for a very high hydration dough at https://sites.google.com/site/hollosyt/quickrusticciabattapizza.Peter
Any idea what kind of yeast the recipe to which you linked uses? (The recipe doesn't say.) If I want to use IDY, is 1 tsp okay or should I reduce the amount? 1 tsp of IDY seems a lot, even for a "quick rise" dough, for only 250 g of flour.
Gene,Since the yeast is mixed in with the rest of the ingredients, I would guess it is IDY. ADY normally requires prehydrating in part of the formula water at a temperature of around 105 degrees F for about ten minutes, whereupon it can be combined with either the rest of the formula water (at its normal temperature) or the rest of the ingredients. If you have IDY, I would go with that. 1.2% IDY is a lot of yeast but it would not be out of line for an emergency dough intended to be made and used in about two hours.It would be interesting to see if the recipe can be used to make a Buddy's clone without collapsing from the weight of everything put onto the dough. By my calculation, the recipe makes around 17 ounces of dough. About 9 to 10 ounces would be enough to make a 4-square Buddy's clone. Peter
I could use one of those Mountain Dews and.....oh yeah, 2 of these to go please.....
Bob,You could easily make one of these kinds of pies yourself. They are a lot easier than some other kinds of pizzas.Norma
Hey Sweetie, I mean Norma. I'll bring the basil and chicken marinade along tomorrow.
Thank you Norma!
Craig,These are the times and temperatures for the bakes of the Buddys clone pizzas todayNorma
Norma,What kind of flour are you using?Gene


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (405 votes).
In short: wooded, cool. great views when woods opened out.In full: slow uphill outward trail, some pressure to get to Leith Hill before cut-off time. Having to stop sometimes to give way to runners in opposite direction as trail quite narrow in parts - might a round route be better? Blissful downhill back to Dorking with veggie sausages and tomatoes soon afterwards! Date of review: November 3, 2009
In short: Would make a great 52 miler if the organisers can be persuaded to double the distance !Date of review: November 2, 2009
In short: Fantastic scenic leg burning MarathonIn full: Loved this event, the route was almost completely off-road and not particularly flat at any stage. The views from Leith Hill were spectacular and well worth the effort to climb it on two occasions. Nice goodies at the end and sound organisation. Will be back for more Trioniom events.Date of review: October 30, 2009
In short: Excellent new eventIn full: Have done a couple of DR Robs events and as usual well marshalled and great atmosphere, hard but very enjoyable.Date of review: October 29, 2009
In short: Even though I had only done a half-marathon before the contrasting scenary and types of running made for an enjoyable run - but wish I had done 15 weeks of training instead of the 7 weeks I did!Date of review: October 29, 2009
In short: Absolutely loved itIn full: This was race 2 out of 3 in our 3in3in3 challenge. Never done a off road marathon before - knew it was going to be difficult with the hills - I was extremely apprehensive and nervous - but it turned out to be amazing and I loved it. Recommend to anybody!Date of review: October 29, 2009
In short: Hardest marathon I have ever runIn full: Wonderful event. Singing Jerusalem at the start of what was in reality mostly hardcore runners with a few brave and dare I say mad, first timers, was a great experience even for a Welsh man! I had run Snowdonia marathon the day before and was running Dublin marathon the next day, which meant slow and at times painful progress. Led to my worst ever time by a considerable margin, but the weekends plans caused that and not just the race. Good to see a number of treblers present and despite my time, would love to have done this without the pain in my legs.Date of review: October 28, 2009
In short: Great off-road marathon with beautiful scenery and a perfect climb profile.Date of review: October 28, 2009
In short: Magical!In full: Brilliant! There is nothing not to like about this race if hills and stunning scenery is your thing. A great, friendly atmosphere with enocuraging marshalls and loads of support all the way there - and back!Date of review: October 28, 2009
In full: As a the viewer of the above runner, and I have done other runs big and small I thought it was very well organised great route good T shirt bag and medal, wish I was fit enough to do it myself.Date of review: October 28, 2009
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Google: Late for Work and the Motorola Won't Start
Except, it has not worked. And on the heels of the company's third quarter earnings report, investors are beginning to wonder if it ever will.
The Quarter That Was
Growth has never been an issue at Google. This time, revenue soared 45% in the quarter to $14.1 billion. Though net revenue fell short of estimates, it still produced year-over-year growth of 51% -- reaching $11.33 billion. This was particularly noteworthy because it included traffic acquisition costs.
On the other hand, Google missed EPS estimates by 15% -- a meaningful disappointment. Not only did earnings per share of $9.03 fall short of expectations, but the number also represented a year-over-year decline of 7%. Aside from a tough macro climate that has impacted the entire tech sector, Google's Q3 bottom line was hurt by a year-over-year decline of 15% in cost-per-click, which also shed 3% compared to the previous quarter.
Motorola Needs to Work
Disappointingly, Motorola continues to weigh on Google's performance by producing revenue of $2.6 billion, or 11% below consensus estimates of $2.94 billion. This is the same company that, upon its purchase, Google decided was worth a premium of 60% above its closing price -- making it Google's biggest acquisition in the company's brief history. Was it a mistake? At this point I think this is a question worth asking for many reasons.
For instance, the quarter showed meaningful erosion in Google's operating income. Although that metric grew to almost $4 billion, or 8.8%, it was much slower than the 24% gain generated in the same period of a year ago. Likewise, another appalling quarter from Motorola is likely to turn the analyst community negative on the company's management, which consequently can introduce pessimism in future estimates. The potential adverse effect on the stock will certainly be felt.
That Google has since entered plans to divest Motorola's home business unit has now introduced concerns as to whether or not paying also $13 billion for Motorola was worth it. This is the group which includes set-top boxes and home networking.
Google is expecting the sale of the unit to generate approximately $2 billion. The decisions comes after rounds of job cuts and other cost saving measures that failed to produce the bottom line impact that Google once enjoyed in terms of profits.
Moving Forward
When reports first surfaced of Google's Motorola acquisition, I doubted whether or not it would work. After all, what did Google know about hardware? The company wanted to be more like Apple and establish its own ecosystem with the hopes that its Android software would come together perfectly with the hardware. So far Google has gotten it half right since most of Android's dominance comes from partners such as Samsung and HTC.


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The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Don't Jump That Barrier!
Part II: Why outdoor enthusiasts should respect Park Service closures
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Editor's Note: This is continued from Part I, 'Government Shutdown Reached Trails.'
Earlier this week, when we asked Trail Runner Facebook and Twitter followers how they'd been affected by the government shutdown, many gleefully recounted ways they'd rebelled—ignoring trail closures, jumping barricades and outrunning park rangers (or at least dreaming of the opportunity to do so.)
Although it's easy to feel outraged at the situation of taxpayer-funded public lands being "closed," the issue is not so cut and dried. Just as it takes a small village to put on a trail race, the more than 20,000 National Park Service employees who'd been furloughed perform vital roles in keeping our parks open. They build and maintain the trails we all enjoy, keep the roads in good shape so we can get there, and, in cases of emergency, may play roles in first aid or rescue.
While fostering recreation opportunities is indeed a part of why President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation that created the National Park Service in 1916, it's only one aspect of a greater mandate: "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
The reason entry fees exist for most National Parks is to augment government funding of Park Service personnel in their mission to protect the land and wildlife—often from excessive impact of human recreationists. They work to prevent, among other things, illegal wildlife poaching, tree cutting and destruction of wilderness, and dangerous campfires in especially dry areas under fire bans. Along popular trails like the Grand Canyon's Rim-to-Rim route, park employees shovel out composted human waste from public bathrooms by hand. It is then helicoptered out of the canyon by the Park Service.
Unfortunately, the cheeky actions of angry park visitors have demonstrated ignorance about the purpose—and importance—of the Park Service's daily work. In a powerful, three-minute film released this week by Amy Marquis and a team of filmmakers, Marquis shares the testimonies of several park rangers—quoted anonymously, since federal employees cannot share their personal views publicly. Marquis reports that one ranger told her film team, "Visitors have removed park-closure signs, damaged deadbolts beyond repair and driven around locked gates, crushing native vegetation and fragile desert soils."


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We all pay our share
Well, I filed my tax return and paid my taxes. Voluntarily. No one from the government came to my house to "steal" my money "at gunpoint."
As a Christian, I follow Jesus' instructions to "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's."
In his first letter to the Corinthians (12:28), St. Paul lists government among our gifts.
In his second letter (2:10), St. Peter describes those who despise government as "presumptuous and self-willed."
Clearly the Bible does not teach that taxes are bad. However, we do not buy our way into heaven by paying taxes, nor even by good deeds. If we could, we would have no need of a Savior.
Our founding fathers understood the need, for those who were able, to contribute for the common good.
Its placement in the very first article of the Constitution is no accident. Some would have you believe the Constitution authorizes only defense spending.
This is clearly untrue. Article 1, section 8 gives congress the right to impose taxes "for the common defense, and for the general welfare."
President Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase to benefit the American people.
President Lincoln's Secretary of State pushed for the purchase of Alaska for the same reason.
The transcontinental railroad, the interstate highway system, the space program, the national park system, the Panama Canal, the Center for Disease Control, the air traffic controllers, all were designed to improve the general welfare.
As the life of the people became more multi-faceted, so, too, did the government programs designed to promote the general welfare.
And so did the need for taxes.
Certainly, in 1775, few thought of universal public education as a need. Most men needed only to make an X for a signature. (Indeed, at the end of the Civil War, there were still no public schools in any of the Confederate states.)
Times change.
One may agree or disagree with a specific federal program; but there is no question that the federal programs and the taxes to pay for them are constitutional.
One pays according to one's ability, not whether one agrees or disagrees.
Some think their taxes should only be used for programs that have their approval (i.e., abortion).
Yet 10 years after the invasion of Iraq, my taxes are still paying for a war which I opposed from day one.
And will for years to come. Our common citizenship requires that we all pay our share, as we are able.
Lola Johnson


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I tried the Pace Picante puree added to some tomatos, but that wasn't what I was looking for.Questions: Do any of you put parm in your sauce? Would it be considered overly expensive by a chain restaurant to use it? and here is a stupid question: Would there be any reason to think that parm added to a non cooked sauce (but cooked on the pizza) would taste any different than shaking parm on a slice after it is cooked? Thanks.
I don't know if this is an "Emperor has no clothes" moment or not. But I thought that citric acid was to be avoided if possible. It is not always possible, but to many, those products without citric acid seem to be preferable or at least one step up from those with citric acid. I'm at a loss to figure out why someone would want to add it to their sauce, but maybe there's a good reason.


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D of I Circle 367 meets Feb. 7
IRON MOUNTAIN – The Daughters of Isabella Congress Circle 367 is meeting on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 1 p.m. at the I.C. Faith Formation Center with Marcene Fuse and Lorraine Jacobs as hostesses.
All members are encouraged to attend and become active. Guests and prospective members are always welcome.
Regent Marcene Fuse opened the first meeting of 2013 Jan. 4 for the D of I Circle 367 by wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
Chancellor Louise Plante led the opening prayer as all members joined in and the opening song was sung.
The draping of the Charter by Regent Marcene and Chancellor Louise was held in memory of Nelda Fornetti and Elaine Radloff, long time members, who passed away in December. "Oh What Could My Jesus Do More" was sung for them.
The pledge to the flag and to the state of Michigan was led by the Regent.
Chancellor Louise gave a spiritual reading written by Mother Teresa entitled "Do It Anyway" emphasizing forgiveness, be kind and give the world the best you have.
Correspondence was received and read from Liz Holmquist, the Nelda Fornetti family, the Carmelite Sisters and St. Vincent de Paul conference.
Financial secretary Betty Simon reported on the Christmas party. The annual luncheon was held on Dec. 13 at the Chippewa Club with members and two guests, Dorothy Schinderle and Olga Sartori. Regent Marcene welcomed all and Chancellor Louise presented the legend of the Red and White Candy Cane. Monsignor James Kaczmarek, chaplain, gave the blessing. Following the luncheon, songs were sung and bingo played with cash winners. In keeping with past years, monetary donations were made to the Carmelites and St. Vincent de Paul and paper products to the Caring House.
The "Hail Mary" prayer for the month of January will be offered to the members who are in the nursing home and those ill or housebound.
The obligation was taken by the members and the drill was had for the good of the order.
"Facts and Figures" of the New Year for those around the world by Julius Caesar was read.
"Open My Eyes Lord" was sung, the closing prayer said by all present with hands held in unity as the closing D of I song was sung.
Lunch was provided by Arlene Robinette and Louise Plante followed by cards. Peggy St. Louis won first in push and Marcene Fuse, second.
The 2013 dues of $15 are now past due and should be remitted to Betty Simon, 520 E. Grant St., Iron Mountain, MI 49801, as soon as possible. This would be appreciated to eliminate contact by mail or call 774-3590.


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Ewan McGregor | From Start to Beginners
In Mike Mills Beginners, Ewan McGregor plays Oliver Fields, a young graphic artist confronted with a barrage of confusing changes: his 75-year-old dad Hal (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet, then develops cancer; a charming and unpredictable actress Anna (Mélanie Laurent) comes into his life and heart. It's a multifaceted role of ups and downs, confusion and enlightenment, and, of course, beginnings as well as endings. In addition, the character of Oliver is in many ways a stand in for writer/director Mike Mills, who drew upon his own life experience for the screenplay of Beginners. For Ewan McGregor, "There is a convergence that makes Beginners very rich and complex. It's a film about losing, about accepting – in this case, accepting your father for who he really is, accepting the fact that someone who is living life to the fullest is going to die, and then coming to terms with such a loss while falling in love." Of course, McGregor has negotiated emotional complexity in his films for nearly two decades. And he has done so, as he does in Beginners, with a astonishing charm and humor.
Ewan McGregor | Blessed By Being Different
Ewan McGregor was born on March 21, 1971 in a small town in Scotland to a mother and father who were teachers at the local academy. There was nothing theatrical in his childhood, except that is for his uncle, Denis Lawson. As McGregor later told Time magazine, "I was brought up in Crieff, a small, conservative town...and [Dennis Lawson] had long hair, beads and a furry waistcoat. I aspired to be as different as he seemed to me." (Lawson had appeared in three of the Star Wars film, a resume that perhaps foreshadowed his nephew's career). By 16, McGregor left home to study drama at Perth's Repertory Theater, and then to London to attend Guildhall School of Music and Drama. By 22, he landed several major parts on TV shows, first on Dennis Potter's "Lipstick on your Collar" and then as Julien Sorrel in the BBC's adaptation of Stendhal's "Scarlet and Black" About the same time, he'd met up with Danny Boyle, who not only cast the young actor for his Hitchcock-influenced thriller Shallow Grave, but picked him for the role that would define his career.
Ewan McGregor | Audience's Drug of Choice
In 1995, McGregor was tapped by Boyle to play the lead in his new low-budget film based on a novel by Irvine Welch about a group of heroin addicts scrapping by in financially depressed Edinburgh. For McGregor, the film rocketed him to worldwide fame. As he told the music site Clash in 2011, "I thought everything I was involved in was going to be some huge hit back then, but truthfully, I don't think that anyone could have predicted just how successful Trainspotting would be today. I mean, it's still the main thing people ask me about when they come up to me in the street." No doubt much of the film's success came from the unique way that both Boyle and McGregor brought a sense of lightness and charm to otherwise depressing material without losing any of the subject matter's original grit. Indeed it was this unique attribute that attracted Boyle to McGregor in the first place; he revealed to Entertainment Weekly in 1996: "We wanted somebody who had the quality Michael Caine's got in Alfie and Malcolm McDowell's got in A Clockwork Orange… have a character who is actually repulsive, and yet there's a charm there that makes you feel deeply ambiguous about what he's doing. You're drawn to him.'' Critics and audience were indeed drawn to the young Scottish actor. BBC Films' Almar Haflidason later wrote, "Central to this supremely confident film is Ewan McGregor. His performance as the heroin-enslaved Mark Renton still ranks as his best."
Ewan McGregor | An Independent Star
True to his independent spirit, McGregor continued to take roles that pushed boundaries and expectations. In Peter Greenways' 1997 intricate puzzle drama of desire, McGregor plays an English man erotically entangled with a Japanese woman, a role that Time's Richard Corliss expressed "shows again that he is one of the boldest, most charming young actors." And in Todd Haynes ode to glam rock Velvet Goldmine McGregor so embodied the crazed rock Curt Wild that the Austin Chronicle's Russell Smith described him as "doing an Iggy Pop/Lou Reed amalgam to scary perfection" and Salon's Stephanie Zacharek commends how he "nails Wild's willfulness but also his vulnerability."
Ewan McGregor | Charmed, I'm Sure
McGregor told Total Film that in the midst of making Velvet Goldmine he got a phone call: "I was dressed in the Iggy Pop wig and leather jeans and spoke to my agent and she just screamed down the phone, "Waaaahhh! They want you to be Obi-Wan Kenobi!" With his Uncle Denis history with George Lucas, getting the role of a Jedi Warrior must have seen like destiny. And McGregor took on the legendary role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 1999 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the 2002 Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, and the 2005 Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. But in reality the move from glam rock to intergalactic rockets changed very little for McGregor, except the size of films he took on. McGregor moved back and forth between big budget fare like Star Wars and Angels & Demons to more intimate dramas like Stay and Young Adam. McGregor also signed up for a range of genres and styles, always bringing with him his inimitable charm. Stephanie Zacharek said of his character in Baz Luhrmann's madcap musical Moulin Rouge, "his charm enfolds everything from the way he stammers … to the suffering he holds like a noble vessel." Indeed the San Francisco Chronicle's Edward Guthmann credits that film's ebullient spirit to McGregor, "who has the talent to make us believe the operatic emotions that pour out of him." Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman explains that in Peyton Reed's 2003 Down With Love McGregor "is wonderfully charming as this toxic bachelor with no idea that his ways are on the way out."
Ewan McGregor | A New Type of Charming Man
Perhaps no actor redefines masculinity identity as expansively as Ewan McGregor. To be sure, he can be as butch as they come. In 2004, McGregor paused from making films to take a globe-trotting motorcycle trip chronicled in his TV documentary and book Long Way Round. He and his pal Charley Boorman rode over 20,000 though 12 countries, going all the way from England to New York city via Europe, Russia, Alaska, and Canada. But McGregor has also openly taken on a number of gay or bi-sexual roles, reveling in the chance to experience new identities, especially in love. As he told Out magazine, "I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situations. It doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love."
Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's memoir of their motorcycle trip across Europe, Russia, Canada, and the United States.
Danny Boyle's groundbreaking 1996 film about a group of heroin addicts in Scotland made Ewan McGregor a global talent.


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Ciara Parted Long Ombré Hair Style
Ciara has been a while out of the spotlight but with her new album which just dropped this summer, the sexy singer is making one sexy come back. She reminds us of a young Janet Jackson with her sexy look and cool dance moves. This beautiful ombré straight hairstyle looks stunning on her.


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Tears and Politics: Works by Phil Collins and Christian Jankowski
The telenovela is one of the most popular products of Latin America. It is a format that exploits the world market through the articulation and preservation of cultural difference, and at the same time serves as a powerful tool of self-representation and the re-signification of the continent's colonial legacy. soy mi madre (2008) by Phil Collins and Crying for the March of Humanity (2012) by Christian Jankowski both employ the format of the telenovela for critical purposes that draw on the aesthetics of the melodrama to talk about issues of immigration, class and race, and the relationship between arts, media and politics.
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USA Falls to Germany, 4-2
The U.S. Olympic Team for Women's Field Hockey fell to defending champions Germany, 4-2, at the Olympic Green Hockey Stadium on Thursday. Tiffany Snow scored first for the USA, but Germany rattled off three goals to assume the lead. A late goal from Angie Loy looked to swing momentum back to the USA, but Germany's fourth goal four minutes later sealed the victory.
The result leaves the USA with two draws and one loss in three matches, and a total of two standings points with the remainder of Pool B to play later tonight. The USA is guaranteed at least three more games: two pool play games against New Zealand and Great Britain, and one crossover match to determine final standings.
Germany is undefeated in three games and has a strong hold on the Pool B lead, with a trip to the medal rounds in sight. The top two teams in each pool continue to semifinals and final medal rounds.
Concerned about the slow starts in the previous two games, the USA pressured Germany early, spending time on the German side of the pitch. The USA retained much of the possession, but German tackles disrupted the advancement.
Germany stepped up to match the American's intensity. In the 20th minute, a German attack caused a frenzy at the goal line, highlighted by defender Lauren Crandall (Doylestown, Pa. / Wake Forest) batting a point-blank German shot out of the air. Five shots on goal by Germany follow in the first half.
In the 27th minute, a streaking Angie Loy (Loysville, Pa. / Old Dominion) carried the ball into the scoring zone. A German defender gained control, but a clearing shot hit a lunging Keli Smith (Selinsgrove, Pa. / Maryland), coming from the opposite direction. The ball bounced into the clear for Snow (Escondido, Ca. / Old Dominion), who chipped the ball into the goal.
"We came out strong in the first half, and we were pretty pleased with that," said team captain Kate Barber (West Chester, Pa. / North Carolina).
"We basically made the decision when we came out of the locker room to play from the word go," said Snow.
Germany, who is a team having their own issues with slow starts, responded seven minutes later. German forward Natascha Keller received a pass and ran free down the sideline, eluding the American defense. With a back-stick shot into the corner of the goal, Keller tied the game, 1-1.
"We were behind, and that [USA] goal was a good moment to start the game for real," said Keller. Keller was denied by goalkeeper Amy Tran (Grantville, Pa. / North Caroline) on a similar pay earlier in the period.
"We didn't play well in the first half," said German head coach Michael Behrmann. "The United States is a very strong team, and they played some good defense."
With the momentum of the first half goal behind them, German opened the second half with increased concentration, forcing intercepted passes and mishandled balls.
Germany took the lead with a goal from striker Fanny Rinne in the 49th minute. Rinne launched a blast that Amy Tran tracked with a diving save, but the ball slipped underneath her by mere inches. Team captain Marion Rodewald added a third goal.
The USA looked poised to jump back into contention with Angie Loy's penalty corner goal in the 60th minute. The penalty corner strike hit the German goalkeeper Kristina Reynolds and as German defenders swarmed the loose ball, one cleared it directly into the path of Angie Loy.
"It was great to score," said Loy. "The ball was cleared to me and I was just in the right spot at the right time."
The rally by the Americans was cut short as Germany added a fourth goal in 64th minute from striker Anke Kuehn on a penalty corner.
"We're disappointed with the result, obviously," said USA head coach Lee Bodimeade. "We have great respect for the German side as they are one of the best sides in the world. We were happy with the way it started, to go one up. We wanted to push."
"As a team we're disappointed with the result," said Barber. "We've got to regroup and learn from this."
The USA has faced three of the top six teams in the world in its first three games of competition. Germany is ranked number three in the world. The USA is ranked number eleven.
"It's been a tough first three games for, but the rest of the tournament is still in front of us," said Bodimeade. "We'll take a lot from these games and take what we learn into the final two. "
The U.S. Olympic Team for Women's Field Hockey faces New Zealand on Saturday, August 16. The United States is slotted in Pool B with Argentina, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and New Zealand.
For more information about the U.S. Olympic Team for Field Hockey, visit fieldhockey.teamusa.org.
For more information on USA Field Hockey, visit www.usafieldhockey.com .