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High-Tech Bacteria On Tap For Toxic Clean-Up DutyBy Jan Suszkiw
August 20, 1998
A new tool for decontaminating toxic soils could come from a high-tech "cousin" of natural bacteria that live on plant roots. Scientists genetically altered the soil microbe Rhizobiummeliloti to make enzymes that degrade compounds called hydrocarbons. The chemicals are used in many products, but become contaminants once they escape into the environment.
The Rhizobium work is a cooperative project involving David Kuykendall of USDA's Agricultural Research Service, and Howard University's Sisir Dutta, Gail Hollowell and Li-Hua Hou. Their partners include colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is funding the project.
The Army Corps is seeking inexpensive methods of cleaning soils at military bases or other areas without inflicting further environmental harm. Conventional techniques, like excavating and chemically treating soil, are costly and sometimes impractical.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. generates several hundred million tons of hazardous waste annually, with chemical manufacturers, petroleum refineries, and electroplating companies leading the way.
Recruiting the Rhizobium bacteria to do the dirty work of clean-up is appealing because it would take place on-site in an approach called in-situ bioremediation. The team's research began with Kuykendall's key insights into Rhizobium genetics and ecology. In nature, the bacteria live on roots of legumes like alfalfa, supplying the plants with nitrogen for growth. R. meliloti RP4:TOL, the genetically altered species, performs one extra duty. By secreting enzymes into soil, it can degrade hydrocarbons like toluene, which is used in fuels, solvents and other products.
When scientists added meta-toluate, a salt form of toluene, to a liquid culture of R. meliloti RP4:TOL, the altered bacteria completely degraded the compound into benign carboxylic acids. Greenhouse studies with alfalfa--the microbe's natural host--showed at least partial meta-toluate degradation at soil concentrations of 136 parts per million, a fairly toxic level.
Scientific contact: David Kuykendall, USDA-ARS Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, Md., phone (301) 504-5736, fax (301) 504 5449, email@example.com. Gail Hollowell or Sisir Dutta, Howard University, Washington, D.C., phone (202) 806-6942, fax (202) 806-5832, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Ever asked for a discount if you pay for something in cash?
Or, if you're in business, have you ever taken a payment in cash and forgotten to declare it on your income tax return?
The IRD has its eye on cash deals and, for the 2011-2012 year, has identified more than $135 million in audit discrepancies as a result of cash jobs, fraud and criminal activities.
It is vigilantly on the hunt for people not paying their share of taxes.
Industries on the hit list include hospitality, construction, online trade and short-term rentals and accommodation.
About 1100 taxpayers who offered residential properties for rent during the Rugby World Cup were contacted about the tax implications.
This is how it starts. A letter discusses your industry, issues the IRD has identified and an opportunity for voluntary disclosure - a chance to fess up.
Online trading seems to be popular among tax evaders because you can appear to be anonymous.
But the IRD is watching traders who have a pattern of buying and selling for a profit. Profit means there's tax to pay.
Anyway, by the time you deduct 15 per cent GST then another 30 per cent for income tax, a $1150 sale leaves you with $700 for your service or product. Is there an attraction to do the job for 20 per cent less and cash in on $920 cold hard cash for your pocket instead, tax free?
Or, on the other side, if a tradesman says to a client "that job is usually $1150 or I can do it for $920 cash" does that sound like a bargain?
Probably, but if you're caught think of the penalties, 150 per cent for tax evasion, plus interest, plus legal fees, or in some cases worse - five years in prison and an additional fine of $50,000.
The IRD has completed 99 prosecutions, in the year ended May 31, of taxpayers operating in the hidden economy, and is gaining more ground by publishing and benchmarking data used in assessing margins, profits and costs as part of its audit process.
There are problems other than tax shortfalls that occur when you don't declare your income. What about the consequences of an accident that leaves you being paid out 80 per cent of your declared income? Or If you're trying to sell your business and you can't count the cashies, it's going to impact on your price.
About $7 billion in lost tax is the figure the hidden economy hides. What better facilities could we have as a country if that were banked by the Government?

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As the 2010 UK Bribery Act becomes enforceable in July 2011, companies with global operations in the UK need to be prepared.
As the 2010 UK Bribery Act becomes enforceable in July 2011, companies with global operations in the UK need to be prepared.
The UK has long battled corporate corruption with fragmented, complex and antiquated laws, but the 2010 UK Bribery Act (the Act) represents a much more unified and far-reaching law that carries heavy penalties for wrongdoers. The Act affects not only UK incorporated businesses, but potentially the global operations of foreign businesses with a UK presence. Similarly, the Act covers all bribery and corruption risk, regardless of whether it involves a public official.
The legislation allows for unlimited fines if a corporation is found guilty. Offenses by individuals carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The Act signals a fundamental change in the UK's approach to prosecuting corruption, and authorities have already made a significant investment in enforcement capabilities.
The Act becomes enforceable in July 2011, so there is an urgent need for businesses to re-examine their approach to managing bribery risk and to ask whether their current procedures are adequate.
The Act covers the activities of any person or third party acting on behalf of a business (for example, employees, agents or subsidiaries), and it creates four offenses. Two of these are general offenses covering the offering and receiving of a bribe. There is a separate offense of bribing a foreign public official and another for failing to prevent bribery.
This last offense is of particular note. For this offense, the only defense available to corporations is to demonstrate the existence of "adequate procedures" to prevent bribery. What constitutes adequate procedures requires interpretation.
In March 2011, the UK Ministry of Justice and Serious Fraud Office published guidance on "adequate procedures" to combat bribery and corruption. The guidance is high level and principles-based, rather than prescriptive of particular procedures.
The six principles covered by the Ministry of Justice guidance include:
US companies and their boards may be surprised to learn that the offenses set forth in the Act extend significantly further than the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Most notably, the Act extends to all bribery, whether it involves a public or commercial official.
To be clear, the offenses set forth in the Act are not the same as those in the FCPA. Therefore, compliance with the FCPA does not necessarily constitute compliance with the Act.
For example, the Act:
The Act is effective 1 July 2011, leaving little time to assess the current state of anti-bribery and corruption frameworks and to implement remedial improvements. Of particular concern should be exposure related to third-party relationships. Agents, consultants, distributors, joint ventures and new acquisitions create risks that can be difficult to assess.
Organizations need to look carefully at the due diligence they conduct on third parties that act on their behalf. Additionally, they should carefully examine existing anti-corruption programs to evaluate compliance with the FCPA, the Act or other anti-bribery conventions that exist in countries where the company operates.
Finally, companies need to assess the extent of their business dealings with government agencies and officials, state-owned-enterprises, sovereign wealth funds and other entities exposed to government affiliation or ownership.
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Crude prices bounced on bargain-hunting in Asia Thursday after suffering big losses in New York where dealers were spooked by concerns over the US "fiscal cliff" and European debt, analysts said.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, added 55 cents to $84.99 a barrel in the afternoon and Brent North Sea crude for December gained 68 cents to $107.50.
"We had quite a large move down (Wednesday) as the worries over the fiscal cliff and European woes started to more than usurp the euphoria" over the re-election of President Barack Obama, Jason Hughes, head of premium client management for IG Markets Singapore told AFP.
"In Asian trade prices have pushed back up... it's probably people covering positions after a big move."
After Obama's victory over Republican Mitt Romney the focus turned to the US fiscal cliff, a combination of deep spending cuts and huge tax hikes to take effect on January 1.
The package is a major threat to the economy that investors warn could tip the world's number one economy back into recession if lawmakers do not agree a less deal to slash the country's debt.
Sentiment has also been pressured after the European Union cut its eurozone economic forecast and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi issued a warning over the currency bloc's woes.
"Unemployment is deplorably high, overall economic activity is weak and it is expected to remain weak in the near term," Draghi told a banking conference in Frankfurt on Wednesday.


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Over at Salon, Michael Scherer discusses why all the left-leaning groups that promised to come to fisticuffs over Bush's Supreme Court Nominee have thus far kept quiet. It seems like Grover Norquist has a pretty good explanation, or at least one that credits the opposition with some strategic thinking: people are saving up their bile (and credibility) for either the September hearings, or else for whomever Bush might nominate next.
But the most important factor may be that John Roberts doesn't present a lot to throw mud at. Sure, he's argued the conservative line on abortion and tons of corporate issues, but since he was just fronting for clients the assumption is that those cases don't really tell us what he thinks. The senior counsel at the liberal Alliance for Justice, which spent all spring gearing up for a fight, runs the numbers on Robert's brief months on the D.C. Circuit Court:
"As a judge he has sat on 400 cases," says Shah. "He has only written 44 of those. And only five of them are cases in which one of the judges disagreed."
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High costs raise new questions about Arctic drilling
When Shell started buying leases to drill in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in 2005, the company was betting on Americans' thirst for any oil locked under those Arctic waters, which could replace declining crude production from Alaska's North Slope and other onshore resources.
Flash forward eight years, and the scenario has changed dramatically. Global energy expert Amy Myers Jaffe weighs the risks and return of drilling in the arctic.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
It's not just Obama -- the entire world is ready to get serious about climate change.
Global energy experts Amy Myers Jaffe and Danielle Sperling share an exciting revelation in this Foreign Policy piece, "the entire world is ready to get serious about climate change."
University of the Pacific adding accounting programs
The Eberhardt School of Business at University of the Pacific is adding new programs in accounting for the fall term.
New programs of a master's degree in accounting and a bachelor of science in accounting will launch in August 2013.
Last fall, the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management became the first school in the UC system to offer a master's degree in accounting.
Crying at Work: Why the Stigma Is Wrong
Tears have long been verboten at the office, but they could be more beneficial than you think.
Is the negative stigma of crying at work wrong? Interesting piece in Inc. Mag about how an employee getting misty-eyed at the office may not necessarily be the disruptive disaster you imagine. Professor Elsbach is cited.
Personal Finance: Online startups help with credit, loans
Can small-dollar loans paired with free financial education or rewards for saving/paying down debt truly motivate our financial choices? Dean Currall comments on two new SF startups – LendUp.com and SaveUp.com, led by bright, young, socially-conscious CEOs who believe that deploying behavioral economics can do just that.
Texas Man Takes Last Stand Against Keystone XL Pipeline
NPR story about efforts to block the Keystone XL pipeline quotes Amy Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability: "It feels very invasive, but the reality is that it happens all around the United States. It's not limited to just Texas . . .The bottom line is, it's public good because we use so much oil in this country that we cannot afford in our current lifestyle to turn down infrastructure. We're all participating in that by getting in our car."
Ethical jewelry? 'Conflict minerals' to face rules starting Jan. 1
Starting January 1, New Securities and Exchange Commission rules, though under challenge by industry groups, are to require companies to start disclosing the use of certain conflict minerals. Professor Griffin comments on the affect that this will have on the price of affected goods as well as additional global implications.
Why now's not the time to sell Apple stock
If you own Apple stock, odds are good you bought it for the wrong reasons. Don't sell it for the wrong reasons, too.
"Attention is a scarce resource. When there are many alternatives, options that attract attention are more likely to be considered," wrote Brad M. Barber, a professor in the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. There's certainly no shortage of media coverage about Apple, which is still up nearly 30 percent for the year in spite of its recent slide.
Green California to Vie With Texas as U.S. Oil Heartland: Energy
California, even as it seeks to be the greenest U.S. state, stands a good chance of emerging as the nation's top oil producer in the next decade, helping America toward what once seemed an unlikely goal of energy independence.
"There's a strident environmental community that's always very concerned about the possibility of ecological damage," says Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for energy and sustainability at the University of California-Davis. "It's going to be a much more intense operating environment" for companies drilling in sensitive areas.
The Art of the Bad Deal
Wall street's disproportionate sway over the U.S. economy has caused big problems in recent years, from the subprime crisis to high-frequency-trading debacles. But here's one you may not have noticed: it's crippling innovation. To understand how, look at the latest victim, the once mighty Hewlett-Packard. It's hard to think of a company that's been as loved and, more recently, loathed. Professor Elsbach is cited in this enlightening article about HP.
American Bull
The New York Times op-ed on U.S. energy independence by Roger Cohen quotes Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability: "This is a transformative development . . .We see ourselves increasingly as this weakened country dependent on faraway events. But as we become energy independent our sense of our own power and freedom of movement will change — and with it our foreign policy in ways that are hard to predict. Oil is a different issue when it is not your own problem anymore."
Boys' Club Still in Charge of California Businesses
The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a "boys' club" with women filling fewer than 10 percent of top executive jobs, a University of California, Davis, study has found. Incremental gains have been pitiful, in my opinion.
In California, 'dismal picture' for women CEOs
The Graduate School of Management's eighth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders—a yearly benchmark for the Golden State's lack of progress in promoting women business leaders—paints a dismal picture for women in leadership during fiscal year 2011-2012.
The survey, the only one of its kind to focus on gender equity in the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate California, reports that some of the best known among the top companies, or the California 400, have no women leaders.
Where are the women executives? Not in California
So, where are all the top women executives?
Not in California it seems.
A new study by the UC Davis School of Management of the Top 400 public companies in California found only one of 10 of the highest paid executive positions and board seats are held by women. That number has not changed significantly in the eight years the study was been conducted, researchers said.
Women still fill tiny share of state's CEO jobs
Top companies headquartered in California could use a few binders full of women. A new report finds that female executives hold fewer than 1 in 10 of the top spots in the state's 400 biggest companies. Worse yet, of the 85 Fortune 1000 companies based in California, just one is headed by an ethnic minority woman — Linda Lang of San Diego-based Jack in the Box. California's numbers are on par with other states, but that's still a pathetic record for a state as ethnically diverse as California, which leads the nation in so many other ways.
Sleeping Your Way to the Middle
December 6, 2012 / Professor Andrew Hargadon Blog
"I wrote yesterday on the race to the bottom — how corporations play states, and even cities, off one another in pursuit of the most lucrative benefits. At the same time, they complain about the burdensome taxes and regulations of California. But, as my colleague Martin Kenney so nicely notes in a recent column,[1] California seems to be holding its own in spite of playing hard to get."
Study of State Businesses Finds a Tough Road for Female Execs
Women have made few inroads into the executive offices and boardrooms of California companies, according to a new UC Davis study.
The eighth annual "Study of California Women Business Leaders," released Wednesday by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, found that women still occupy less than one in 10 of the top posts at the 400 largest public firms headquartered in the state. The findings dovetail with past reports.
Still a "Boys' Club" at the Top of Corporate California
There's good reason why Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer and Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Meg Whitman find themselves in the media spotlight and overly scrutinized for their performance while held up as role models for women aspiring to emulate their career success at top companies. There are so very few others like them.
At the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, we closely monitor and publish a yearly benchmark for gender diversity in the C-suites and boardrooms of the largest public companies headquartered in California.
UC Davis Study Finds Women Still Underrepresented California's Executive Suites
The eighth annual "Study of California Women Business Leaders," released today by the UC Davis Graduate School of Business, found that women still occupy fewer than one in 10 of the top posts at the 400 largest public firms headquartered in the state.
This year's findings dovetail with past reports.
This year, for the first time, the survey also looked at ethnicity among the 85 Fortune 1000 companies in California, and only one company in that subset of businesses had an ethnic woman as its CEO. Only 13 had any ethnic women directors.
Boys' Club Still in Charge of California Businesses
The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a "boys' club" with women filling fewer than 10 percent of top executive jobs, a University of California, Davis, study has found. Incremental gains have been pitiful, in my opinion.


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Your sermon of the week is Cheap Imitations of Love by Phil Johnson.
Some say lust is "love." Some say pre-marital fornication is "love." Still others say not warning people of God's coming judgment but letting people live however they want–live and let live–is "love." In this world where everything is subjective and "love" is whatever you want it to be, we must ask, what does the Bible say "love" is?
Phil Johnson takes on this topic and surprisingly delves into the whole perversity of the pulpit problem–that so many pastors today seem to think is acceptable–almost a full year before he delivered this scathing sermon taking on Mark Driscoll and the likes.


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False Drops are search results that match (contain) the keyword(s) you were searching for, but have zero relevance to the information you were actually looking for.
A simple example: Suppose you entered "angel" as your search term with the purpose of finding information about the 'Buffy spin-off' TV series, but in addition to the information you were actually looking for, you also got results for music videos for songs named Angel, Angel Stadium in Los Angeles, etc.
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Stackla is the User-Generated Content (UGC) platform that puts customers stories at the heart of brand marketing. Through predictive intelligence and automation, Stackla identifies authentic, compelling content to strengthen consumer trust and deliver personalised experiences at scale.
Over 450 leading brands, including McDonald's, Visa, Ford, Disney, Universal Music Group (and many more), use Stackla to identify their most powerful customer stories and align them with their key audiences.
Founded in Sydney in 2012, Stackla now has 60+ truly amazing staff and a global footprint, with offices also in Melbourne, San Francisco (HQ), Austin and London. Together we serve a variety of verticals including travel, retail, not-for-profit, media and entertainment and are proud partners with enterprise marketing platforms like Sitecore, AdRoll and Twitter.
As Product Designer, you will:Identify design problems and propose intuitive solutionsEmbed user-centered design thinking into new and existing Stackla functionalityHelp drive product development by conducting user research, creating user stories, developing wireframes and interactive prototypes, performing usability testing, and designing high-fidelity interface mockupsCollaborate with team members and stakeholders to rapidly test and iterate design solutions
To nail this role, you'll need a solid grasp of technology and user behaviour, with a gift for balancing business goals and user needs. You will be in your element when conducting user research, running usability tests and proposing data-driven solutions, wireframes and interactive prototypes.
In line with this, you will have:A minimum 3 years experience in a similar capacityA solid understanding of user-centered design and testing methodologiesExpertise in UX and UI design tools such as Sketch and InVisionExperience facilitating usability testing sessions and reporting findings to drive product design decisionsThe ability to understand and convert complex requirements into simple design solutionsThe ability to clearly and effectively communicate design concepts, processes and solutionsBasic HTML, CSS and JS skillsThe ability to iterate upon design solutions efficiently and intelligently
If you're looking for the next exciting step in your career and want to join a faced-paced, highly engaged team working with a high-growth, disruptive technology, then get in touch – we're waiting to hear from you.
Please note: Applications without an online portfolio will not be considered
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We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Applicants please note: due to the high volume of applications we generally receive in response to our job ads, please understand that we will only be able to respond to the top candidates. We thank you in advance for your interest in this position.
An exciting new role that offers a mid level designer to expand their skill set and career opportunities in a hybrid role. In addition to your UI/UX design duties, you will lead a team of UX/UI designers and will be responsible for mentoring their growth, co-ordination and process improvement.
You AreA natural collaborator and a proven hands-on leader. Whilst you are a designer at your core, you're at ease with multidisciplinary teams and can set strategic direction across UX/ UI design and have a conceptual understanding of front end /and back end development functionalities.A believer that great design creates impact, both in it's ability to deliver needed solutions and delight through unexpected details.Solution-focused and initiate constant agile sprints. You are ok to step out of your core skill set or discipline to fine the correct solution to a challenge.
You HaveA credible and diverse portfolio with examples of digital products, services and systems that you helped create.Experience in client facing and client presentation.An ability to easily connect with colleagues across all disciplinary teams.A strong desire to contribute to thought and leadership. 2 - 4 years experience in Visual /UI Design.Have moderate skills in UX Design practices.A sound understanding of UI design and industry's best practices.Sound knowledge in the Adobe creative suite and sketch.Excellent time management skills.
Key Responsibilities Include
1. Designer
Work with the project manager to ensure the project runs smoothly throughout the design phase including; client idea conception, UX/UI style guide, wire-framing, design drafts, client consulting, review and functional reviews.
2. Design Mentoring
Ensure the team has access to your knowledge of industry trends and best practices. Expand the teams skills set, implementing necessary channels/methods that can be shared with the team.Work with the design team to devise new and improved design processes and implement these into the team.Ensure all design work is filtered through the design lead and of the highest standard and meets all necessary client requirements.
3. User Experience Team Up-skilling
Ensure designs are underpinned by best practice user experience.Take part in User Experience Courses outlined as necessity by MindArc.Pass new UX learnings on to the team through hosting workshops, internal meetings and design feedback.
4. Team Management
Foster an environment of team collaboration and knowledge sharing.Ensure the team is motivated and operating at full capacity.Ensure team is meeting KPIs and key objectives.Facilitate design best practices with the team.Conduct reviews on individual team members to assess performance and add value high-lighting areas for improvement.
5. Process Improvement
Keep up to date and review tools and processes used by other teams, companies and advisors and find ways to optimise the processes within the Design team.Work with the General Manager to bring about new process ideas and highlight areas of growth to the team that meet business objectives.Work with the General Manager and Directors on key design team strategies and initiatives.
6. Reporting
Conduct a team forecast every month of upcoming projects and design work required for the month.Calculate weekly measures that monitor team growth, efficiency and utilisation.
About Mindarc
We are a young, fun and motivated team of individuals who work together to accomplish amazing feats!
We believe in cultivating a local team of designers and developers who can work together in person to create and achieve things not normally possible!
Through our core values of Knowledge, Partnership, Innovation and Creativity we aim to achieve our mission to positively impact the retail ecosystem by innovating and creating memorable ecommerce experiences.
As an eCommerce Digital Agency focusing on the Magento Platform we help our clients grow their businesses through website development, hosting, UX/Design and ecommerce growth services.
We have a culture of learning. Uphold Technical Excellence and are passionately curious. Our team members are not only capable, but enjoy continuously learning new items to better their process or ability.
// Awarded Magento Silver Partner 2015
// 10 x Magento Certifications in Solutions Specialist, Developer and Frontend Developer Events
//Google for Entrepreneurs Meetup - 2014
//eCommerce Optimisation - Online Retailer Sydney - 2014
//eCommerce Expo Melbourne - 2015
//Fash Hack Australia - 2015
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Working with names like Manning Cartell, Politix and Hello Molly, he has considerable experience launching, growing and integrating fashion brands into fast preforming, scalable and secure technology.
MindArc are a Magento eCommerce Agency based in Sydney, Australia.
We provide:
- Development on the Magento 2 Enterprise platform
- UX Design for conversion rate optimisation and improvement
- Creative UI and Visual Design for major fashion online stores
- Integration for ERP, CRM and Multi-Store/Warehousing (Omni-Channel)
- Performance improvement using Varnish and AWS Hosting Infrastructure
- PCI Security Support (SAQ, Reporting, Monitoring)
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27 weeks pregnant
Your baby at 27 weeks
At about 38cm long, she is an amazing three to four times as long as she was at 12 weeks.
It is hard to hear things through a pea soup of amniotic fluid, but your baby at 27 weeks is trying to make out what's going on outside. All of her organs are developing.
Her lungs, heart and liver are getting more mature and each day makes her more likely to cope if she was born now (she would still need a lot of help).
- Her long bones are starting to make red blood cells.
- She is getting chubbier but it's a slow process. Less than 5% of her body now will be made up of fat. But she will look more babyish as the rest of her body catches up with her head (but not fully, she'll still be a bit top heavy at birth).
- She is practising her proper swallowing reflexes, gulping when fluid gets to the back of her throat rather than randomly swallowing.
- The hair on her scalp is getting thicker and longer.
Your body at 27 weeks pregnant
Carpel tunnel syndrome Are you getting tingling in your hands? If it only affects the thumb, first and second and half your fourth finger then you have carpel tunnel syndrome.
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It happens because the nerve that supplies this part of your hand is squashed in the tunnel of bones in your wrist. It's squashed by the extra fluid you retain in pregnancy. It will go after birth but it's annoying and unpleasant.
Make sure your elbows are not higher than your hands when working at a desk. You can wear wrist splints to take pressure off the nerve.
Snoring The combination of extra weight and swollen mucous membranes in your nose disturbing the air flow makes snoring almost inevitable. Hopefully, you won't wake yourself up.
Pre-eclampsia Most swelling in pregnancy is harmless but you need to know about pre-eclampsia because it is dangerous if you don't get treatment. With treatment you and your baby should be fine, so this information isn't meant to scare you but to remind you to watch out for the signs of pre-eclampsia.
Pre-eclampsia is rare before 20 weeks and most women who get it have it from this week (week 27) onwards. An antenatal appointment might pick it up by finding you have high blood pressure and protein in your urine.
You may get swollen ankles, feet, fingers and your face may get puffy. This is called oedema and it's common in pregnancy. It's your face and hands getting swollen quite quickly that can be warning signs of pre-eclampsia. Also, if you can press your thumb into your oedema and it stays indented (called pitting oedema) it may indicate more established swelling that needs looking at. Later you may get bad headaches and blurred vision.
Some women feel terrible and have a sense that they are seriously unwell.
If you think you may have pre-eclampsia, speak to a doctor or midwife straight away. It is so much better to get it checked as it can lead to convulsions. If pre-eclampsia has been grumbling on for a while, your baby may grow more slowly because the placenta doesn't work as well if you have pre-eclampsia.
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According to George Bernard Shaw: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." But how fast does that aging occur once started? In the case of populations of salmon in Alaska studied by Stephanie Carlson and colleagues at the University of Washington and McGill University and reported on in this week's PLoS ONE, it all depends on how choosy are the bears which feed on them.
Pacific salmon are noted for not feeding during their breeding period, relying instead on stored energy reserves and for their rapid senescence -- the physiological deterioration associated with aging -- once breeding is over. It is, thus, more beneficial for bears to consume fish with fewer signs of senescence because these fish have more energy reserves. However, these "fresh" fish are also more vigorous and harder to catch and so are more effectively caught in smaller, shallower streams.
Carlson and colleagues studied populations of salmon and brown bears in six creeks in southwest Alaska to determine whether the rate of senescence in salmon was driven primarily by the rate of predation by bears or by the tendency of the bears to prey on salmon with less evidence of senescence. They measured the reproductive lifespan of each fish as the number of days between stream entry and death and recorded the mode of death for each fish. They found that the selectivity of the bears for salmon of various senescent conditions was the prime factor determining the rate of senescence in the salmon.
In populations where bears killed old, decrepit salmon, the salmon senesced more slowly relative to populations where bears killed young, "fresh" salmon. This result contrasts with the established expectation that senescence evolves because of the number of individuals killed by predators, rather than their physical characteristics.
"The work offers new insight into the relationship between an individual's senescent condition and it's susceptibility to predation and the long-term consequences of this relationship" says Carlson, corresponding author on the publication.
Citation: Carlson SM, Hilborn R, Hendry AP, Quinn TP (2007) Predation by Bears Drives Senescence in Natural Populations of Salmon. PLoS ONE 2(12): e1286. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001286 (http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0001286)
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In the spring, the candytuft takes center stage.
As the candytuft starts fading, the catmint and roses begin.
In the bottom right corner is the candytuft with the brown dried seed heads. The catmint is still blooming, but is starting to fizzle out. The daylillies and purple cornflowers hold court for the hot days of June and July.
I thought you might like to see my front bed as a progression. I'll take a few more pics in the following weeks, and then do a wrap-up in the fall.
I'd like to say that I planned this lovely progression of flowers, choosing them for their blooming time. That I poured over gardening catalogues and drew charts and graphs. But I didn't and that would be lying, and I never lie.
Case in point: when hubby was lamenting over the fact that he had to drop off the car to get new tires and then he would have to ride the bus into town with the weird people. And I said, "Don't worry, they won't bother you, you look waaaay too geeky."
"Do, I look too geeky?"
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text: This week marks another anniversary--I told you July was a roller coaster month for us, didn't I? Five years ago, on July 12th, our baby T had surgery to correct her metopic craniosynostosis--a birth defect she was born with. Scott and I stood in a very sterile, cold, purgatorial-type room at about 6:30 a.m. waiting for the word that it was time to hand over T. for the surgery. She'd been up since 4:00 a.m., poor thing, and I hadn't been allowed to nurse her, or even give her the tiniest sip of water. She had ceased being fussy at that point and was dozing, fitfully, in Scott's arms. Her plastic surgeon came in--a man about our age so scrubbed and disinfected that you just couldn't imagine a single germ on his body anywhere. He had a clipboard with him and papers to sign. I signed first and looked down briefly at the page and saw the words: craniectomy with lateral orbital advancement and I felt sick. I knew well--intellectually--what the surgery would entail, but the words seemed suddenly barbaric, discordant with the sight of my dozing 6-month old, in a ridiculously large hospital shirt, who had giggled and chattered after her bath only the night before. And then it was time. I walked her into the operating room, holding her to my chest. There was nothing reassuring about the place, no sign of warmth and comfort. I watched them put the mask over her crying mouth, watched her little fists ball up in fear and surprise and then go limp and I was ushered out, away, leaving my heart, my child, behind. After the surgery relatives clapped us on the backs and hugged us and proclaimed, It's over! It's over! And it was, but Scott and I will always share the horror of that time--the raw surreal numbness of handing over our baby to scalpels and drills and IVs and pain. We have sketched into us the memory of that day; we hover over her a little more than we should, perhaps; marvel at her accomplishments a little more, protect her just a little more neurotically than we should. She's fine now, she really is. But I think when you go through something like that with a child--when you lose them for seven hours to a major surgery, and spend days wishing away IV lines and needles and pain medication, you can be forgiven for keeping your child's rocky start in life always in your mind--boxed up, under lock and key in some vaulted corner of your mind, but there all the same. When Scott comes to bed at night, and if T. happens to be there (she's not supposed to be--we're working on this) I see him lean over her in the dark, while she lies between us. We whisper our I love yous to each other over her, joke about how much space she takes up now that she's five. We lean in and kiss goodnight and settle into sleep, our bodies around her, protecting her, supplanting what had been.


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Lady Gaga Thinks Everyone Wants To See Her Fail
Lady Gaga shocked Anderson Cooper during their 60 Minutes interview which airs Sunday when she said she thinks the world wants to see her fail.
"We want to see people who have it all lose it all," she said. "They want to see me fail."
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And given the harsh response to her much-hyped single "Born This Way," that doesn't seem to be too far from the truth.
"They want to see me fall on stage," Gaga says, pictured in L.A. yesterday. "They want to see me vomiting out of a night club. Everybody wants to see the decay of the superstar." And soon we will know if the new album lives up to people's expectations or is the failure people have apparently been waiting for…


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I've been wanting to download Firefox for a long time and now the adblocker too, And now I have a great combo. Thanks all.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I've been wanting to download Firefox for a long time and now the adblocker too, And now I have a great combo. Thanks all.
Don't worry spider.
I keep house
I donate quilts to the AAQI.
I'm another Firefox user from wa-a-ay back and can't imagine how people live with all the ads that IE lets through. It's funny, because every so often someone will post on this forum and make comments about the ads on the page and I always wonder what they're seeing and am very happy to be missing it. I've had no problem with pop-ups not appearing and love the ad-free surfing.
Samuel Johnson - Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength but by perseverance.
I've had Mozilla since day one, but never applied the ad-blocker until just now. What a difference! No more overflowing toilet! Thanks for the reminder.
Is it compatable with IE? We tried Mozilla Foxfire and the computer kept getting frozen. DD uses it and loves it, also has a different cable company than we do.
Wendy in VA
If I had a dollar for every time I got distracted I wish I had some ice cream.
I have Chrome set up as I wish my experience to be and therefore don't have to worry about filling up my disc space with superfluous programs.
AdBlockerPlus is a software program that keeps a database of advertising sites and links, and successfully blocks those links from being active on your computer. Chrome and Firefox both have this software available as plug-ins, unfortunately Internet Explorer does not.
A million thanks. Have tried everything suggested to get rid of Sexy Stephanie and Allstate's overflowing toliet to no avail. It had become so bad on the QB, I was visiting here less and less. Finally, something that seems to have worked!
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Water balloon incident leaves teen with facial injury
CTV Kitchener
Published Monday, January 21, 2013 10:57AM EST
A Kitchener teen required medical treatment after being hit with a water balloon thrown from a passing car.
Police say the incident occurred Saturday morning at about 2:15 a.m., on King Street North in Waterloo.
The 17-year-old girl was walking southbound on King near Bricker Avenue when she was hit in the face with the balloon.
The girl received medical treatment for minor facial injuries.
Police describe the vehicle as a silver car, last seen travelling northbound on King.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 2169-653-7700 ext. 6399.
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Sophomore forward Allan Dickson (Troy/Troy High School) finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Hudson Valley Community College (9-7) men's basketball team to an 86-69 win over Fulton-Montgomery Community College (4-10) this afternoon in Troy.
Sophomore forward Khylan Hunt (Saratoga Springs/Saratoga Springs High School) also had a double-double with 20 points and 17 rebounds. He moved into 10th place on Hudson Valley's all-time scoring list with 730 career points.
Sophomore guard Dane Samuels (New City/Clarkstown North High School), playing in just his third game for the Vikings, added 16 points and five steals and sophomore center Larry Tape (Syracuse/Cicero-North Syracuse High School) added 12 points.
Sophomore Darell Thomas (Manhattan/Manhattan Center High School) had 20 points to pace Fulton-Montgomery.
Hudson Valley will visit Schenectady County Community College on Tuesday, January 17. The game begins at 7 p.m.
Fulton-Montgomery (69): Darrell Thomas 7-4-20, Reggie Leaver 8-3-19, Mike Powell 2-0-4, Justin Smith 6-0-14, Jeff Wolcott 1-2-4, Peter Martin 1-0-2, Michael Moore 2-0-4, Gary Indrik 1-0-2, Totals: 28-9-69.
Hudson Valley (86): J.R. Battle 1-0-3, Dane Samuels 6-3-16, Mike Collopy 1-0-2, Mike Canape 2-1-5, Allan Dickson 8-7-24, Kevin Goutos 2-0-4, Khylan Hunt 8-4-20, Larry Tape 5-2-12, Totals: 33-17-86.
Three point goals: Fulton-Montgomery 4 (Thomas 2, Smith 2); Hudson Valley 3 (Battle, Samuels, Dickson).
Halftime: Hudson Valley led 50-35.


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The coach of Sloane Stephens has accused Victoria Azarenka of "cheating within the rules" during the world No.1's controversial semi-final win at the Australian Open.
Azarenka has been criticised for unsportsmanlike behaviour during her victory over Stephens for calling a medical time out at a crucial juncture in the match.
Critics claim Azarenka wasn't injured and she called for the 10 minute break to regain her composure after failing to serve out the match.
Stephens's coach David Nainkin said Azarenka acted against the spirit of tennis.
"I thought it was very unfair - cheating within the rules," Nainkin told USA Today.
"It was unsportsmanlike. I don't think you should be able to leave the court before the opponent serves for 10 minutes for whatever reason.
"You'd better have something pretty good. I think there's a grey area in the rule book that shouldn't be allowed. End of story."
Attempting to serve out the match at 5-3 in the second set, Azarenka blew five match points before losing her serve and calling a time out.
After a delay of 10 minutes, the Belarusian returned to the court and broke Stephens's serve to win 6-1 6-4.
In an on-court interview after the match, Azarenka said she had avoided "the choke of the year" and "felt a bit overwhelmed" after dropping her serve, prompting allegations that she called the time out despite not being injured.
She later changed her story and maintained that she had received treatment for a back injury.
"It was a necessary thing for me to do," she said.
"I just regret that I didn't take it earlier, that it got to the point that it was pretty much impossible for me to breathe and to play."
Azarenka said she had misunderstood the question when asked about her time out immediately after the match.
Azarenka's initial response led to calls of gamesmanship from respected commentator Pam Shriver, while fellow ESPN commentator Patrick McEnroe labelled it an "absolute travesty".
Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said on evidence from the doctor who treated Azarenka and the trainer who treated her, everything was above board.
"Certainly when these things happen and the trainers are called to the court the referee and myself we have a conversation," Tiley told 7 Sport.
"In this instance the doctor confirmed he did treat the rib, he did treat the knee and once he made that assessment she was able and ready to continue play."
For her part, 19-year-old Stephens refused to criticise Azarenka.
"If it was one of my friends I would say, 'Oh my god that sounds like a PP,' which is a personal problem," Stephens said.
"I love Vika and we share the same agent. We actually are pretty good friends. I'm sure I will see her and we'll talk about it.
"I hope she wins the final, so I hope if that's the case she should figure it out, something, get it together."


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Discussion in 'Artwork Zone' started by inevadropit, Feb 3, 2005.
found a pic of him from a 1997 sports illustrated, had to scan it and make a wall, so i did
wow, awesome wall paper.
Have you made any Roy Williams backgrounds?
old work, made this one back in september when i was still learning
awesome indeed :clap2:
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Union Flag
Bertie Portelli (August 10) pointed out that Britain's national flag is "only referred to as the Union Jack when it is hoisted at sea".
But it is not so. Parliament decreed in 1908 that "the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag".
Before that date it was frequently described as both Union Jack and Union Flag, and neither was wrong, nor is either of them wrong today. The Merchant Shipping Act refers to "the Union flag (commonly known as the Union Jack)".
A jack is usually a small flag (on a jack staff) at the bow of a ship and there are times when the Union Jack is flown as a jack.
One school of thought is that the name has nothing whatsoever to do with jacks or jack staffs, but relates to King James (Jacobus), who is generally credited with uniting his kingdom, and caused the flag to be designed.
The BBC tends to favour the term Union Flag - but for no other reason than to stop people like Mr Portelli writing in to tell them they've got something else wrong.
Flag or Jack, it makes no difference.
See our Comments Policy Comments are submitted under the express understanding and condition that the editor may, and is authorised to, disclose any/all of the above personal information to any person or entity requesting the information for the purposes of legal action on grounds that such person or entity is aggrieved by any comment so submitted. Please allow some time for your comment to be moderated.


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By Tony Allen-Mills, Washington correspondent of The Sunday Times, for Times Online
President George W. Bush has finally responded to a question that much of America has been asking: did a secret memo prove that Washington was gearing for war in Iraq months earlier than the White House has admitted?
The Downing Street memo on US preparations for war in Iraq was revealed in The Sunday Times five weeks ago. But it wasn't until Tony Blair's visit to the White House this week that the resulting controversy made waves in Washington, and revived a long-dormant American debate about President Bush�s march to war from the summer of 2002.
It has also provoked embarrassed questions in the US media as to why so many newspapers and broadcast outlets here ignored the story for so long.
The leaked memo quickly spread across the internet after it was first published by The Sunday Times on May 1 with several prominent US websites providing links to The Sunday Times article and the memo on Times Online. But only when British Prime Minister and President Bush appeared at a joint press conference on Tuesday did the American President face his first public question about a British intelligence official�s remark that "intelligence and facts were being fixed" by Washington to support the US case against Saddam Hussein.
Both Mr Blair and Mr Bush attempted to dismiss the memo�s central implication that Washington was gearing for war months earlier than has been admitted. But their denials opened the door to an American media scrutiny that had previously been notable for its absence.
Despite attempts by some of Mr Bush�s Democratic opponents to portray the memo as a potential Watergate-style scandal � one newspaper dubbed it "memogate" � most US media outlets ignored the original Sunday Times story on the grounds, now regarded by some as excessively cautious, that they could not verify the memo�s authenticity and were unable to obtain copies of their own.
There was also suspicion in Washington that the timing of the memo�s publication, a few days before the British elections, was a politically-motivated ploy intended to damage Mr Blair. President Bush suggested as much on Tuesday, when he declared at his White House press conference that "they dropped it out in the middle of the race".
All of which persuaded US editors that this was a story they could afford to ignore. While the American public is growing increasingly concerned about the current conduct of the Iraq war, its origins have never been much of an issue here and Mr Bush�s re-election last November effectively neutered controversy about US intelligence failures over weapons of mass destruction and Saddam�s supposed terrorist links.
The US media, stung by a series of recent scandals involving reporters who made up stories, has also been implementing ever more cautious editorial policies about anonymous sources and unofficial leaks. The media that gave birth to Deep Throat � the legendary Watergate whistleblower � was in danger of becoming the media of Deaf Ears.
One senior US editor frankly admitted this week that his paper hadn�t touched the Sunday Times memo because it hadn�t been able to obtain a copy from its own sources. Jim Cox of USA Today said his newspaper had tried calling Downing Street, but not surprisingly had failed to obtain "explicit confirmation of [the memo�s] authenticity".
It was not until President Bush was asked about the memo on Tuesday that USA Today mentioned it to its readers for the first time. So frustrated were some of the President�s opponents at the US media�s silence that one left-wing website, Democrats.com, offered a $1,000 reward to any reporter ready to tackle the President on the issue. The Reuters reporter who posed the question on Tuesday was unaware of the reward and has no intention of collecting it.
Yet now the controversy is out in the open and there is no further doubting of the memo�s authenticity, or excuse for media foot-dragging. The original Sunday Times report was widely quoted in leading newspapers this week. A Democratic senator entered the memo into the record of a meeting of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
A group of 89 Democratic congressmen has already written to the President questioning him about the claims in the memo, and several of their number have told The Sunday Times they do not intend to let the matter drop, despite the White House�s refusal so far to respond.
Perhaps most significantly, the President�s continuing difficulties in Iraq are taking a heavy toll of his approval ratings, and are beginning to threaten the Republicans� chances in mid-term elections next year. Further violence in Iraq may yet encourage a rebirth of American public interest in how the war came to be started.
.At Tuesday�s press conference, Mr Bush and Mr Blair managed to dodge serious examination of their preparations for war, but the issue does not look like going away soon.
Read more on Iraq and the Downing Street memo in The Sunday Times this Sunday.


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Access databases are great for storing information, but sometimes you want to use or analyze its data in Excel. You can use the Data Connection Wizard to create a dynamic connection between an Access database and your Excel workbook. You get to the Data Connection Wizard through the Data tab.
Important: Connections to external data might be disabled on your computer. To connect to data when you open a workbook, enable data connections by using the Trust Center bar, or save the workbook in a trusted location.
On the Data tab, in the Get External Data group, click From Access.
In the Select Data Source dialog box, browse to the Access database.
In the Select Table dialog box, select the tables or queries you want to use, and click OK.
You can click Finish, or click Next to change details for the connection.
In the Import Data dialog box, choose where to put the data in your workbook and whether to view the data as a table, PivotTable report, or PivotChart.
Click the Properties button to set advanced properties for the connection, such as options for refreshing the connected data.
Optionally, you can add the data to the Data Model so that you can combine your data with other tables or data from other sources, create relationships between tables, and do much more than you can with a basic PivotTable report.
Click OK to finish.
Keep the data in your workbook up to date
Now that you're connected to your Access data, you'll always want the latest data in your workbook. Go to Data > Refresh All to get the latest data. For more information on refreshing, go to refresh an Access data connection.
Connect to other types of data sources
Need to connect to other sources of data, such as OLE DB, Microsoft Azure Marketplace data feeds, Access, another Excel workbook, a text file, or one of many other types? See the following articles for more information.
Connect OLE DB data to your workbook
Connect a SQL Server database to your workbook
Connect data in another workbook to your workbook


text: Howzit. Just wanted to intro myself. I'm Michael currently in MO. I'm a Veteran of 9 years in the Navy Seabees. Currently attending school full time. I have owned a couple GM trucks and am now on my third. It's a 98 GMC Sierra 1500, single cab, short bed with a 4.3 Vortec and a 4L60E. Recently purchased it and starting to do basic mods to it. I know a lot of people are not so enthused by the v-6, but I wasn't either till I got it and has changed my outlook on these nice engines. I would like to share my experiences with you guys about these trucks or anything else. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.


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Smoldering doesn't even begin to cover it when it comes to JLo's sizzling photo shoot for 'Billboard' magazine! The Latina diva had many jaw-dropping looks that were all unbelievably HOT — check out her shoot here!
Jennifer Lopez, 44, stripped down and showed off her famously curvy figure for the front cover of Billboard magazine, and we can't believe how hot she looks! Ex-boyfriend Casper Smart has to be drooling at this point! The international pop star and mother of two makes a gorgeous cover girl, and she absolutely deserves the spotlight.
Jennifer Lopez's 'Billboard' Shoot
This has already been an incredibly hectic summer for the music mogul. Jennifer has been on tour promoting her eighth album A.K.A., released on June 13, and she just recently preformed at the opening ceremony for the World Cup in Brazil. She was Instyle's cover girl in April before becoming the face of Billboard this month — but she's much more than the face. Check out her body!
Her cover photo could not be sexier. For JLo's shoot, she was in a completely empty room wearing only a skin-tight red bodysuit by Paper London. There was nothing for her to hide behind, and with a figure like that, there's no reason to cover up! The red hues are stunning on her skin tone and those pointed pumps by Christian Louboutin draw the eye to her toned legs.
We love her soft eye make-up combined with a bold red lip, and her windblown hair completes the flawless look. Inside, she is rocking a one-piece white body suit and really showing off her curves.
All of this while dealing with the still fresh break-up from two-and-a-half year boyfriend, Casper Smart, and battling rumors that she's dating Maks Chmerkovskiy. How does she do it? The real life wonder woman seemingly does it all, and she does it in style.
Other photos from the shoot have similar features including a red lip, solid leotard, and above all, JLo's undeniable sexuality. We love her looks and think she is totally justified as the Billboard cover girl! What do you think?
— Michelle Tedder
More Jennifer Lopez News:
- Jennifer Lopez Shows Off Blonde Highlights At World Cup Opening
- Jennifer Lopez Releases Sexy New Videos After Casper Smart Split — Watch
- Jennifer Lopez Rocks 'Tight Pants' With Jimmy Fallon On 'Tonight Show' — Watch
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Chorus pro Musica Presents A Dickens Christmas, Celebrate the Holidays with Story and Song
Friday, December 21st At Old South Church, Boston With Terrence O'Malley, Narrator
The readings of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Betsy Burleigh, will feature traditional Christmas carols as arranged by Willcocks, Jacques, Rutter and Fissinger along with other holiday compositions such as Holst's On This Day Earth Shall Ring and Three Old English Carols and Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols, all integrated into the charming holiday program. Other pieces include Darke's In the Bleak Midwinter, Wassail Songs arranged by Holst and Vaughan Williams and arrangements of What Child Is This?, The Coventry Carol, I Saw Three Ships, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Good Christian Men Rejoice, Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day and Good King Wenceslas.
"This special concert combines two holiday favorites—music of the season and selections from Dickens' immortal A Christmas Carol," says Betsy Burleigh. "We'll alternate between great arrangements of beloved English carols and favorite readings about Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future."
"I've chosen each carol to enhance or reflect on the mood of the readings, and am very excited about the effect of wedding great literature to great music. The evening promises to be a lot of fun, and the program is varied enough to appeal younger listeners as well as our traditional audience. Almost all of our Christmas traditions began in the Victorian era—sending cards, Christmas trees and singing carols. Carols were sung in the parlor and on the street, and in this spirit we'll invite the audience to sing along at various points in the program."
Concert tickets for this performance at Old South Church are $25, $35 and $45 with discounts available on selected seats for groups, students, seniors and WGBH members. Reserved seats may be selected and tickets purchased at www.choruspromusica.org, or by phone (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) at 800-658-4CPM (800-658-4276)
Terrence O'Malley is an actor who has performed with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and The New Repertory Theatre. He has also found performing work acting in commercials and industrial videos, singing in Christmas Carol quartets and playing sax in rock 'n roll bands. In addition, Terrence is an educator at the New England Aquarium and a presenter at the Museum of Science.
Friday, December 21, 2012, 8:00 P.M.
Old South Church
645 Boylston Street, Boston
A Victorian Christmas, with the Spirit of Charles Dickens
Traditional Holiday Carols
Readings from Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Tickets: $25, $35 and $45; www.choruspromusica.org, or 800-658-4CPM (800-658-4276)
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Happy Birthday, David D. Dowd, Jr.!
Today is my father's 81st birthday. He (and indirectly, me) walks the earth due to the late life exploits of one Colonel David Dudley Dowd, born in Saybrook, Connecticut in 1806. He moved west to Seville, Ohio in 1831 and remained there for the rest of his many days. He acquired the honorific "Colonel" during the Civil War by raising local troops. After his wife Mary died in 1875, the Colonel remarried. As it turned out, the old bird retained his youthful vigor, or enough of it anyway to produce what otherwise would have been denied him: a male heir, or David Dudley Dowd No. 2. "Dud," as he was called, became father to my grandfather, David Sr., who with his wife Martha produced three sons, David, Jr., Jack, and Jim.
There are now three David Dudley Dowds: my dad, my brother (David III) and nephew (David IV).
My Dad, like the colonel before him, has ceded little to age. He remains an active member of the federal judiciary, and though he's lost some distance and added some strokes to his golf handicap (he was once a scratch player) he's a threat to place whenever he enters an event.
Given the subject of this blog, I offer a few visuals in honor of the occasion, each a nod to one of Dad's passions: a film still from Touchdown Mickey (1932), one of my all-time favorite cartoons, Disney or otherwise, featuring Mickey's Manglers versus the Alley Cats, with an incomprehensible Goofy providing the play-by-play; Leslie Saalburg, On the Green–Hole High, Esquire, March 1935; an SI cover from 1965 highlighting better days for the Cleveland Browns; and an editorial cartoon from 1912, by Clifford Kennedy Berryman, How They're Acting and How They Feel, from the three-way presidential election of 1912 between Wilson, the Democrat, incumbent Taft, the Republican, and Teddy Roosevelt, Republican renegade Bull-Mooser; and the Touchdown Mickey theatrical poster.
Happy Birthday, Dad! Have a wonderful day.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Nonfiction Illustrated: Bibliography 2
The other day I posted a few examples from the Social History category I put together for my Nonfiction Illustrated course. Tonight, I'm putting up one counterintuitive example from the Informational Works category. (I'll add a few more later.)
By way of introduction, from the annotated bibliography: These works are often the most straightforward of all illustrated subjects, but not necessarily the simplest. The seeds of modernity were carried in illustrated botanicals and technological manuals, which provided access to knowledge of manifestly concrete, non-verbal subjects: an overlooked and grossly underestimated realm of achievement. The secondary versions tend to be composed for educational settings and audiences. Informational picture books for small children comprise another set of such works, which offer the child a chance to pause over things and environments that might otherwise go by too fast to absorb. One example from this category delivers a great deal of cultural spin.
The reference to spin shows up in tonight's example: Badasses; Guys + Girls + Rides, a repackaged zine by Mark Todd. Published by Blue Q, 2007.
Todd's book is a hilarious compilation of deceptively crude drawings in a two-color palette with a scrawled text. The project provides a mock-survey of "badass" characters in popular culture from the 1970s and 80s, and includes men, women and vehicles. Lovingly compiled, silly, knowing and heartfelt.
I received this book as a Christmas present from my son Andrew, whose taste I respect. After working my way through it I immediately observed a) that I loved it, and b) what a good example it would be for my students, who can tend to think that nonfiction = snoozefest.
Despite the goofy affect, it is undeniably true that Todd's book documents a set of cultural facts, including the dominance of the great Snake Plissken (above).
I'll post more examples soon.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Chevron Supreme, 1958
Soon I'll put up a few more examples for the Nonfiction Illustrated course. In the meantime, I have been assembling a set of sources for my Postwar American Visual Culture seminar. Among my interests in this area is the use of surprisingly sophisticated animated television spots drawing on the emerging modernist strand of animation design in the 1950s, pioneered by UPA. I have renewed my relationship with a wonderful book by Amid Amidi, Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (Chronicle Books, 2006) and secured a few DVDs from Media Burn, a great media history outfit with a fascinatingly diverse collection of videotape materials. Through the latter I have acquired a set of 1950s advertisements. I'll post a few frames from a variety of things, but for now, two stills from a Chevron Supreme ad from 1958.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Nonfiction Illustrated: Bibliography 1
Classes started last week. I'm excited about the two courses I'm teaching: Nonfiction Illustrated for Page and Screen, to senior illustrators; and Readings in Postwar American Visual Culture, 1945-1965, my spring American Culture Studies offering. I'll post intermittently for and about these courses. Below, the opening blurb from the syllabus for Nonfiction Illustrated:
This course will be devoted to the development and production of a visual book or brief multimedia presentation (e.g., a short "film") based on research and reporting. The student will be asked to select and investigate a subject, conduct observations and interview participants (if possible), produce descriptive writing and images, and arrange the parts to capture the essence of the subject. Significantly, the project must present an editorial point of view on the given subject. The running text of the project may not exceed 1000 words, excluding title and call out quotes, if used. The length of the project will run 18 to 24 pages at a scale of 8 x 10 inches. Multimedia projects will run two to three minutes. These are ballpark requirements, with details to be worked out on an individual basis.
To provide a sense of what's possible in the nonfiction course, I have pulled a set of samples and established a set of categories for consideration. From the annotated bibliography:
These books and projects are presented here to give you a sense of the available range within the stated limitations. Read my annotations that accompany the citation, to be sure you understand the context in which the given work is being presented. Also please note that these sources have been arranged into loose categories, which may help you organize your thinking.
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Category One: Social History
Such works take experience in a particular time and place as their subject: the visual and social texture of daily life, the defining features of a culture or place, or a dramatic event grounded in culture. Sometimes these works are composed in the present, other times from a position looking back in time. In the latter case, they require significant research, which can often be accomplished in museums. There are ample resources in St. Louis to do such research--the Museum of Transportation in West County, the costume collection at the St. Louis Historical Society, the History Museum in Forest Park.
The works in this pile include Pascal Blanchet's White Rapids from Drawn & Quarterly (2007), A chapter of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan (1999), and Dan Zettwoch's Won't Be Licked; The Great '37 Flood in Louisville, in the D & Q Showcase No. 4 (2006).
Reproduced here are the other two works in the Social History sample set: Miroslav Sasek's This is London, and Rea Irvin's illustrations for Snoot if You Must. I picked up the latter at an estate sale.
Snoot If You Must. By Lucius Beebe, illustrated by Rea Irvin. Published by D. Appleton- Century Company, New York. 1943.
The book contains a series of republished magazine features about metropolitan life. The length of the text would preclude its use for present purposes, but I have included the work in your references because of the accompanying cartoon drawings.
These are observed social follies and character types. Rea Irvin was the first art director at the New Yorker and created the masthead type, the Eustace Tilley character, and the magazine's visual essence.
This comedy-of-manners approach could profitably be brought to a contemporary setting.
Note that this example suggests that cartoon drawing styles are perfectly appropriate for this project.
This is London. Written and illustrated by Mirsoslav Sasek. Originally published by Simon & Shuster in 1959. Republication by Universe Books, a divsion of Rizzoli, 2004.
One of a set of such books, including This is Paris, This is New York, and This is San Francisco. Note how whimsical yet informative the text and images are. Sasek clearly spent a great deal of time developing his representative content.
The illustrations range from occupational costume details [the man with the fish-carrying hat on p.13] to interesting transportation [buses on Fleet Street on p.16-17] to full-blown environmental scenes [view of an Undergound platform on p. 41]. Sasek's figures have been widely influential in the "modern cartoon" figurative style revived by contemporary illustrators in recent years.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Recent Work
A new year and a fresh decade underway, and I am glad of both.
Over the last twelve months I posted less than in my first two years of this blog, and somewhat less substantively, too. In part, this was by design. I have been working on longer format writing projects, which require–and reward–serious rigor. The riffy, improvisional style appropriate for a blog would (in most cases) prove grating in a book. But blogging has helped me to clarify my thinking on host of matters. I'm still a few short sprints away from finishing a book-length project, which will continue to preclude more sustained theoretical pieces here at Graphic Tales.
The more improvisational, open-ended projects I've been working on have been visual in character. Last year I continued to explore the sketchbook painting work.
At the top of this post, a detail from a sketchbook painting drawn from the balcony of a Residence Inn. We were there because five days before we were to close on the sale of our condo and the purchase of a new home, our (new) furnace caught fire, delaying (but not scuttling, to our astonishment) both sales. Above, the whole painting.
I went back and painted a sketch I'd made at my younger son's high school football game (one of many such drawings, made at a variety of games, both home and away, in the fall of 2008).
I also worked on some more even more informal studies, like the still life above, in which a simple key drawing in black prismacolor was modified with flat color shapes.
In coming weeks, I will be taking the lessons learned from these and many other pieces from 2008-09 and beginning a new set of works, which I'll show soon.
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