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While everyone seems convinced that the Vikings will selected a quarterback in the first rounds – an assessment that head coach Leslie Frazier has done little to dispute – the team's vice president of player personnel, Rick Spielman, tried to throw a little cold water on the hot topic.
"We'll look at it, but we've always had the philosophy of going with the best player on the board," Spielman said Friday in an interview on KFAN-AM 1130.
The Vikings have the 12th overall pick in the draft, and the opinions are so varied on the quarterback prospects, with each of them drawing different concerns from the analysts, that it's possible the Vikings bypass the position with their first pick and go with a position like defensive end that is strong and deep with this year's draft class.
"This is the strongest defensive line group that I've seen in the long time," Spielman said, estimating that as many as 22 of them could go in the first two or three rounds.
Even if the Vikings don't draft a quarterback in the first round, Frazier has repeatedly talked about the importance of the position and noted several times this offseason that the other teams in the division – Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers, Chicago with Jay Cutler and Detroit with Matthew Stafford – all have young and highly regarded quarterbacks. Spielman said the evaluation process is continuing and that he is about 75 percent there on lining up the quarterback prospects on the team's draft board. However, he cautioned that the Vikings can't "force" a pick to be quarterback, meaning if they don't think the value is their when their draft position arrives they may go with another position.
"We've been pretty patient. There have been some big-name quarterbacks that we have passed on because some of the criteria didn't fit what we were looking for," he said. "We need to continue to use that philosophy even as we go forward with this draft."
Last year, QB Sam Bradford was the first overall pick for the St. Louis Rams, but there isn't a quarterback in this year's draft that is considered to be in Bradford's class. Another quarterback wasn't selected until No. 25 (Tim Tebow by the Broncos) and the Vikings decided to trade down out of the first round instead, bypassing Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen and Texas Colt McCoy at No. 30 and again at No. 34.
The key with the quarterbacks, according to Spielman, isn't just their accomplishments on the college football field but the intangibles that follow them into the NFL.
"The quarterback position is something that's a little bit more unique because you have to really define what you want in a quarterback, and it may not be all the things that you see on tape. It may be other intangibles," Spielman told KFAN's Paul Allen. "We have to make sure if we do go that route that he fits exactly what we're looking for. You don't want to force an issue that's not there because that's when you make mistakes."
The Vikings have been represented at most of the pro days for the top quarterbacks, but Spielman said the private workouts can give the team's scouts and coaches a better idea of how a player reacts to unscripted workouts.
"A lot of it is scripted," he said of pro days. "When you go do some private workouts with these kids it's totally unscripted. You get a chance to see how he reacts to your coaches and some things that they're putting him through that he's maybe not prepared for."
In private workouts, they are looking to see how the quarterback reacts to Vikings' coaches, how he is at diagnosing defenses in the film room and understanding schemes drawn up on a board, as well as trying to see how he handles adversity.
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NFL teams are allowed to bring up to 30 draft prospects to their team headquarters for predraft visits. In the past, the Vikings have hosted most, if not all of them, at one time. This year, there will be a few individual visits, but most of those 30 visits will be lined up over the same two-day period in April, when the team will welcome them in the afternoon, have them meet team personnel (from trainers and coaches to other staff member to a psychologist) and have dinner with all prospects at once
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text: 272: Software Engineering Fall 2012 Instructor: Tevfik Bultan Lecture 12: Dynamic Invariant Discovery Specifications • We saw several specification techniques/languages – contracts for classes • JML – temporal logics • LTL – data models • ORM • All these specification techniques help software developers to document the design decisions at a higher level of abstraction than the code Specifications • There is one problem with software specifications – Software developers do not like to write them! • I personally believe that it is all about cost/benefit ratio – If there is enough benefit in writing specifications • reduced development time, more reliable programs, etc. – then people will write specifications • Maybe current tools and techniques used in software development do not provide enough benefit for writing specifications – This may change in the future based on all the techniques and tools we discussed in this course Lack of Specifications • However, the fact remains, there is a lot of code out there with no specifications – maybe even no comments • What should we do about them? • You may say "Why do I care? I write detailed specifications when I develop software." – There may be some code written by somebody else that you need to maintain, modify, or reuse • none of the original developers may still be around • there may not be any specifications • the specifications may not have been maintained with the software Reverse Engineering • Reverse engineering is the process of analyzing a subject system – to identify the system's components and their inter-relationships, and – to create representations of the system in another form or at a higher level of abstraction • Examples – Producing call graphs or control flow graphs from the source code – Generating class diagrams from the source code • Two types of reverse engineering – Redocumentation: the creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction layer – Design recovery: involves identifying meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself Reverse Engineering • The main goal is to help with the program comprehension • Most of the time reverse engineering makes up for lack of good documentation Dynamically Discovering Likely Invariants • Today I will talk about a particular reverse engineering approach • References – ``Dynamically discovering likely program invariants to support program evolution,'' Michael D. Ernst, Jake Cockrell, William G. Griswold, and David Notkin. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 27, no. 2, Feb. 2001, pp. 1-25. – ``Quickly detecting relevant program invariants,'' Michael D. Ernst, Adam Czeisler, William G. Griswold, and David Notkin. ICSE 2000, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 449-458. • There is also a tool which implements the techniques described in the above papers – Daikon • works on C, C++, Java, Lisp Dynamically Discovering Likely Invariants • The main idea is to discover likely program invariants from a given program • In this work, an ``invariant'' means an assertion that holds at a particular program point (not necessarily all program points) • They discover likely program invariants – there is no guarantee that the discovered invariants will hold for all executions Dynamically Discovering Likely Invariants • Discovered properties are not stated in any part of the program – They are discovered by monitoring the execution of the program on a set of inputs (a test set) – The only thing that is guaranteed is that the discovered properties hold for all the inputs in the test set – No guarantee of soundness or completeness An Example • An example from "The Science of Programming," by Gries, 1981 – A good references on programming using assertions, Hoare Logic, weakest preconditions, etc. Program 15.1.1 // Sum array b of length n into variable s i = 0; s = 0; while (i != n) { s = s + b[i]; i = i+1; } • Precondition: n 0 • Postcondition: s = ( j : 0 j n : b[j]) • Loop invariant: 0 i n and s = ( j : 0 j i : b[j]) An Example • The test set used to discover invariants has 100 randomly-generated arrays – Length is uniformly distributed from 7 to 13 – Elements are uniformly distributed from –100 to 100 • Daikon discovers invariants by – running the program on this test set – monitoring the values of the variables Discovered Invariants Size of the test set 15.1.1:::ENTER N = size(B) N in [7..13] B All elements >= -100 100 samples (7 values) (7 values) (100 values) (200 values) Number of distinct values for N • These are the assertions that hold at the entry to the procedure – likely preconditions • The invariant in the box implies the precondition of the original program (it is a stronger condition that implies the precondition that N is non-negative) Discovered Invariants 15.1.1:::EXIT N = I = orig(N) = size(B) B = orig(B) S = sum(B) N in [7..13] B All elements >= -100 100 samples (7 values) (100 values) (96 values) (7 values) (100 values) (200 values) • These are the assertions that hold at the procedure exit – likely postconditions • Note that orig(B) corresponds to Old.B in contracts Discovered Invariants 15.1.1:::LOOP N = size(B) S = sum(B[0..I-1]) N in [7..13] I in [0..13] I <= N B All elements in [-100..100] sum(B) in [-556..539] B[0] nonzero in [-99..96] B[-1] in [-88..99] B[0..I-1] Means All elements in [-100..100] last element N != B[-1] B[0] != B[-1] 1107 samples (7 vallues) (452 values) (7 values) (14 values) (77 values) (100 values) (200 values) (96 values) (79 values) (80 values) (985 values) (200 values) (99 values) (100 values) • These are the assertions that hold at the loop entry and exit – likely loop invariants A Different Test Set • Instead of using a uniform distribution for the length and the contents of the array an exponential distribution is used • The expected values for the array lengths and the element values are same for both test sets Discovered Invariants 15.1.1:::ENTER N = size(B) N >= 0 100 samples (24 values) (24 values) Discovered Invariants 15.1.1:::EXIT N = I = orig(N) = size(B) B = orig(B) S = sum(B) N >= 0 100 (24 (96 (95 (24 samples vallues) values) values) values) Discovered Invariants 15.1.1:::LOOP N = size(B) S = sum(B[0..I-1]) N in [0..35] I >= 0 I <= N B All elements in [-6005..7680] sum(B) in [-15006..21244] B[0..I-1] All elements in [-6005..7680] 1107 samples (24 vallues) (858 values) (24 values) (36 values) (363 values) (96 values) (784 values) (95 values) (887 values) (784 values) Dynamic Invariant Detection • How does dynamic invariant generation work? 1. Run the program on a test set 2. Monitor the program execution 3. Look for potential properties that hold for all the executions Dynamic Invariant Detection Data traces Original Program Instrument Run Detect Invariants Test set • Instrument the program to write data trace files • Run the program on a test set • Offline invariant engine reads data trace files, checks for a collection of potential invariants Invariants Inferring Invariants • There are two issues 1. Choosing which invariants to infer 2. Inferring the invariants • Daikon infers invariants at specific program points – procedure entries – procedure exits – loop heads (optional) • Daikon can only infer certain types of invariants – it has a library of invariant patterns – it can only infer invariants which match to these patterns Trace Values • Daikon supports two forms of data values – Scalar • number, character, boolean – Sequence of scalars • All trace values must be converted to one of these forms • For example, an array A of tree nodes each with left and a right child would be converted into two arrays – A.left (containing the object IDs for the left children) – A.right Invariant Patterns • Invariants over any variable x (where a, b, c are computed constants) – Constant value: x = a – Uninitialized: x = uninit – Small value set: x {a, b, c} • variable takes a small set of values • Invariants over a single numeric variable: – Range limits: x a, x b, a x b – Nonzero: x 0 – Modulus: x = a (mod b) – Nonmodulus: x a (mod b) • reported only if x mod b takes on every value other than a Invariant Patterns • Invariants over two numeric variables x, y – Linear relationship: y = ax + b – Ordering comparison: x y, x y, x y, x y, x = y, x y – Functions: y = fn(x) or x = fn(y) • where fn is absolute value, negation, bitwise complement – Invariants over x+y • invariants over single numeric variable where x+y is substituted for the variable – Invariants over x-y Invariant Patterns • Invariants over three numeric variables – Linear relationship: z = ax + by + c, y=ax+bz+c, x=ay+bz+c – Functions z = fn(x,y) • where fn is min, max, multiplication, and, or, greatest common divisor, comparison, exponentiation, floating point rounding, division, modulus, left and right shifts • All permutations of x, y, z are tested (three permutations for symmetric functions, 6 permutations for asymmetric functions) Invariant Patterns • Invariants over a single sequence variable – Range: minimum and maximum sequence values (based on lexicographic ordering) – Element ordering: nondecreasing, nonincreasing, equal – Invariants over all sequence elements: such as each value in an array being nonnegative Invariant Patterns • Invariants over two sequence variables: x, y – Linear relationship: y = ax + b, elementwise – Comparison: x y, x y, x y, x y, x = y, x y (based on lexicographic ordering) – Subsequence relationship: x is a subsequence of y – Reversal: x is the reverse of y • Invariants over a sequence x and a numeric variable y – Membership: x y Inferring Invariants • For each invariant pattern – determine the constants in the pattern – stop checking the invariants that are falsified • For example, – For invariant pattern x a we have to determine the constant a – For invariant pattern x = ay + bz + c we have to determine the constants a, b, c Inferring Invariants • Consider the invariant pattern: x = ay + bz + c • Consider an example data trace for variables (x, y, z) (0,1,-7), (10,2,1), (10,1,3), (0, 0,-5), (3, 1, -4), (7, 1, 1), ... • Based on the first three values for x, y, z in the trace we can figure out the constants a, b, and c 0 = a -7b +c 10 = 2a + b +c 10 = a +3b + c If you solve these equations for a, b, c you get: a=2, b=1, c=5 • The next two tuples (0, 0,-5), (3, 1, -4) confirm the invariant • However the last trace value (7, 1, 1) kills this invariant – Hence, it is not checked for the remaining trace values and it is not reported as an invariant Inferring Invariants • Determining the constants for invariants are not too expensive – For example three linearly independent data values are sufficient for figuring out the constants in the pattern x = ay + bz + c – there are at most three constants in each invariant pattern • Once the constants for the invariants are determined, checking that an invariant holds for each data value is not expensive – Just evaluate the expression and check for equality Cost of Inferring Invariants • The cost of inferring invariants increases as follows: – quadratic in the number of variables at a program point (linear in the number of invariants checked/discovered) – linear in the number of samples or values (test set size) – linear in the the number of program points • Typically a few minutes per procedure: – 10,000 calls, 70 variables, instrument entry and exit Invariant Confidence • Not all unfalsified invariants should be reported • There may be a lot of irrelevant invariants which may just reflect properties of the test set • If a lot of spurious invariants are reported the output may become unreadable • Improving (increasing) the test set would reduce the number of spurious invariants Invariant Confidence • For each detected invariant Daikon computes the probability that such a property would appear by chance in a random input – If that probability is smaller than a user specified confidence parameter, then the property is reported • Daikon assumes a distribution and performs a statistical test – It checks the probability that the observed values for the detected invariant were generated by chance from the distribution – If that probability is very low, then the invariant is reported Invariant Confidence • As an example, consider an integer variable x which takes values between r/2 and -r/2-1 • Assume that x0 for all test cases • If the values of x is uniformly distributed between r/2 and -r/2-1, then the probability that x is not 0 is 1 – 1/r • Given s samples the probability x is never 0 is (1-1/r)s • If this probability is less than a user defined confidence level then x0 is reported as an invariant Derived Variables • Looking for invariants only on variables declared in the program may not be sufficient to detect all interesting invariants • Daikon adds certain derived variables (which are actually expressions) and also detects invariants on these derived variables Derived Variables • Derived from any sequence s: – Length: size(s) – Extremal elements: s[0], s[1], s[size(s)-1], s[size(s)-2] • Daikon uses s[-1] to denote s[size(s)-1] and s[-2] to denote s[size(s)-2] • Derived from any numeric sequence s: – Sum: sum(s) – Minimum element: min(s) – Maximum element: max(s) Derived Variables • Derived from any sequence s and any numeric variable i – Element at the index: s[i], s[i-1] – Subsequences: s[0..i], s[0..i-1] • Derived from function invocations: – Number of calls so far Dynamically Detecting Invariants: Summary • Useful reengineering tool – Redocumentation • Can be used as a coverage criterion during testing – Are all the values in a range covered by the test set? • Can be helpful in detecting bugs – Found bugs in an existing program in a case study • Can be useful in maintaining invariants – Prevents introducing bugs, programmers are less likely to break existing invariants


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Chapter 2 ~ Lynn Martin & Marjorie Graham
On August 20, Gordon Fickling and his girl friend Elizabeth Short registered as husband and wife at the Brevoort Apartments on Lexington Avenue, near Vine Street in Hollywood. They lived there until August 27. After they split up, Elizabeth moved to the Hawthorne Apartments at 1611 North Orange Drive, just behind the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood boulevard.
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Marjorie Graham, a friend from Boston was living at the Hawthorne with Lynn Martin, a 15 year old runaway from Long Beach. Lynn was passing herself off as a young woman in her twenties. Apparently, no one knew the truth until after the murder. She was adopted as a child and ran away from home to pursue the Hollywood dream. Beth stayed for a "night or so" before registering, according to Mrs. Ethel Richmond, the landlady.
She stayed from August 28 until September 20. Apparently, the three did not get along well, so Beth and Margie moved to another room at the Hawthorne and Lynn found a new roommate, Gloria Richards. Eventually, all four left the Hawthorne. While there, Beth, broke as usual, relied on friends and acquaintances to help her out. Neighbors Don Leyes, 22 and Harold Costa, 31 and others would treat her to meals. Eventually, Mrs. Richmond asked the three girls to leave.
Over time, Lynn and Margie worked in different venues around town, often as waitresses. Lynn worked at the Tabu Club on Sunset Boulevard and at the Palace Gardens Barbecue at the top of Cahuenga Pass. She also worked at a movie theater on Hollywood Boulevard near Western Avenue. Art Richman, a local boy, knew Lynn and Margie. He took Lynn to the beach for dinner and brought her back to the movie theater. He was surprised to learn her true age, he said later. Another acquaintance, George Bacos, dated Lynn and also told authorities he was surprised to learn her true age.
After the murder, Lynn's true identify was revealed and she was returned to authorities in Long Beach. Lynn had another name, Norma Lee Myer. As was the case with so many people that crossed paths with Elizabeth Short, Lynn Martin disappeared from public view.
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When she was interviewed after the murder, Margie Graham said that Beth planned to marry an Army Air Force lieutenant after he was released from the hospital in Los Angeles.
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American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), then married, who will become a feminist icon and activist. Politics at home become more complicated as the rift grows between reality and Reed's ideals. Bryant takes up with a cynical playwright (Jack Nicholson), and Reed returns to Russia, where his health declines.
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Topic Page: Lyot, Bernard Ferdinand (1897 - 1952)
French astronomer. He also designed and constructed optical instruments. He concentrated on the study of the solar corona, for which he devised the coronagraph and the photoelectric polarimeter, and he proved that some of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum represent ionized forms of known metals rather than undiscovered elements.
Life Lyot was born in Paris and graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité. From 1920 he worked at the Meudon Observatory, becoming chief astronomer 1943.
Study of Moon Most of Lyot's research during the 1920s was devoted to the study of polarized light, reflected to the Earth from the Moon and from other planets. In addition to designing a polariscope of greatly improved sensitivity, Lyot reported 1924 that the Moon was probably covered by a layer of volcanic ash and that duststorms were a common feature of the Martian surface.
Study of Sun His most striking achievement was the observation of the Sun's corona in full daylight 1931, using a coronagraph he designed 1930. By making it possible to observe the Sun's corona in broad daylight rather than only during eclipses, the instrument also permitted the observation of continuous changes in the corona. This meant that the corona could be filmed, as Lyot demonstrated for the first time 1935. He also reported the rotation of the corona in synchrony with the Sun.
In addition he developed the Lyot filter for observing the Sun's disc in the light of a single spectral line. He continued solar and planetary observations at the Pic du Midi observatory, and died suddenly in Egypt shortly after observing the total solar eclipse 1952.
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I've been doing some more coding these days in Ruby.
I've had great success and fun (especially when debugging) using RadRails, which is an Eclipse based IDE for Ruby and Rails. It's quite nice.
With introduction of RVM, bundler, and so on, I've gotten a feeling that RadRails maybe too much. It seems to get contexts confused and create more hassles. I am not sure yet, but it's caused me to go back and use TextMate, which I've always had in an honored spot in my toolset.
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Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, CA
Current modalities for imaging the lung and lower airway have relatively low resolution and have limitations in the ability to accurately characterize pleural, lung, or lower airway malignancies and other abnormalities. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a rapidly developing high resolution (near histologic level) imaging modality that has many potential advantages for early diagnosis. In order to assess the potential for OCT real-time imaging of pleural or peripheral lower airways, lungs in various states of inflation were imaged with OCT.
To evaluate the potential of OCT to provide accurate real-time high resolution imaging of the lung, pleura, and lower airway.
Freshly excised lungs were obtained from pigs and New Zealand White rabbits and imaged (inflated, deflated, and fluid filled) by OCT, using a prototype super-luminescent diode system constructed in our laboratory (10μm resolution and center wavelength of 1300nm). After OCT images were obtained, the samples were processed for standard H&E histology for comparison to OCT.
The OCT imaging offered high resolution of the lung, and lower airway, with approximately 10 μm resolution, to depths of about 2 mm below the lung surface. The OCT images closely matched histological images, showing detailed structure including the pleura, alveoli, and respiratory bronchioles.
OCT, using NIR interferometric methods to enable near histological level imaging with the potential for 'optical biopsy' capabilities, has demonstrated high-resolution imaging feasibility in excised lung and lower airway, both along pleural surface and in superficial lung tissue.
This imaging modality can be adapted to potentially obtain in vivo real time imaging for minimally invasive diagnostic purposes. With further advances, OCT may provide an accurate in vivo method for early diagnosis of pulmonary abnormalities.
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Monday, October 27, 2003
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Ireland holidays + Food & drink
Our drinks expert reports her findings from an arduous research trip to the Emerald Isle
No matter how far you travel, one thing's for sure – you're likely to come across an Irish pub. We pick some of the most remote and unusually-located, from the world's highest to a bar at the end of the earth
The novelist's favourite pub is known for serving a 'meejum' of Guinness
Guinness sales may be down but Ireland's craft beer scene is blossoming. Rob Crossan picks brewpubs perfect for sampling the new ales
With its plethora of restaurants, the city is firmly geared up for the visiting gourmand. But just how good are they, asks Jay Rayner
A roundup of the best early summer food festivals around the UK and Ireland
As it prepares for its annual Gourmet Festival, County Cork's most famous foodie destination is as warm and friendly as ever
The efforts of Diageo to equate Ireland with Guinness via the medium of marketing continue tomorrow with 'Arthur's Day'. The whole shebang is a relic, says Ed Power
This Sunday sees the start of Farmhouse Breakfast Week - the perfect excuse for Tony Naylor to eat his way around Britain
You don't have to travel to France or Italy to experience a rich diversity of regional foods. Tony Naylor picks 10 UK delicacies and where best to eat them
Does whiskey really taste of vanilla or fresh grass? Jack Arnott swallows his cynicism and savours the high notes
Dubliner Pol O'Conghaile takes you on a clandestine crawl of his favourite drinking holes.
Gothenburg | Arbois | Trossachs | Dingle | Tolosa | Naples | Agrigento | Ripon | Bruges | Laguiole
How do you spend a cheap weekend in a city packed with cultural and culinary treats and make it relaxing? Go to Cork and soak it up slowly, writes Rachel Beard.
Taste Ireland's pure shores reap some of the finest seafood in Europe. Here are five of the best places to enjoy it. They're all good value, too.
Catholic in the very best sense of the word, Darina Allen's courses don't have the single-minded approach of some Tuscan or Thai-based cooking holidays, and yet remain connected to Ballymaloe's immediate environment.
He is the toast of London's Soho, but Lindsay House proprietor and one starred-chef Richard Corrigan still regards his native Ireland as the best larder on the planet. Here he takes Rachel Cooke on a tour of his favourite artisan suppliers, markets, pubs and restaurants of County Cork.


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Naruto is not mine, and I don't profit in any way from this story, other that the fact that I use it to improve my writing skills. Enjoy.Why do I feel so weird?
One moment, I'm just fine and dandy, and the next…bam, I hit rock bottom. It all started with those two words Zetsu said to me:
"Itachi's dead."
…Why did that bother me so much? I mean, I had some sick fantasies about things I could do to him, but that was it. I didn't plan on acting on them. Itachi would have me castrated before I even tried.
Besides, he wasn't that kind of guy. He didn't like guys…or girls, for that matter. He seemed to be, to quote Shakespeare, "As chaste as ice, as pure as snow." About as virgin as virgin gets. I doubted that he'd ever been kissed, or that he'd ever let me kiss him.
He was like the forbidden apple in the garden of Eden- beautiful, desirable, tempting, yet ultimately untouchable. I never got anywhere with him. I wrote it off as lust. He was sexy, I was horny, and that was all there was to it.
So why did I care so much when he died?
Ever since that day, I'd been unable to forget him. I couldn't focus, and Madara wasn't helping matters any.
Itachi's kid brother joined up with Akatsuki…or, rather, what was left of Akatsuki. With Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, and Hidan all dead (or buried, in Hidan's case), the organization was a shell of its former self. He was just another reminder of what I'd lost…what I'd never had.
Something about Itachi…drew me in, so to speak. His cool demeanor, perhaps…his charming (once you got to know him) personality? His 'don't fuck with me' attitude…something about him made him attractive to me.
I wasn't supposed to be sentimental. Love was foreign to me. I'd only ever known lust. I was supposed to be a ruthless killer. But now, here I am, poised to die, having already bitten out my own tongue. All for some new emotion I felt toward a coworker. Why was I doing this? It wasn't who I was."We only know who we really are right before we die. As death comes to claim you, you finally realize your true nature. I think that's why we die in the first place, don't you?"
Maybe I wasn't so bad…I mean, I was willing to die for what I believed in…an honest world, where my life wasn't a lie. That had to count for something.
Well, Itachi-san, I thought, as I readied my summons to kill me, thus going, hopefully, to where Itachi was. We were fighting for the same thing. Did that mean we got to go to the same place?I guess you were right. In the end…
Even if I never got to say "I love you." Even if I never had the guts to tell you how I felt…
I'm not so terrible after all.D'aww, Kisame fluff :D
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Dan Brown's May release, "Inferno," finished the first half of the year as 2013's best-selling book in print and digital in the US, according to a Nielsen BookScan chart supplied to Publisher's Weekly, and Amazon.com's Kindle ranking.
But as PW points out, there's a great deal of difference between the print and digital charts this time around, especially in comparison to 2012's equivalent.
At that time, "Fifty Shades" and "The Hunger Games" authors E.L. James and Suzanne Collins were recurrent fixtures in both charts.
Only Sarah Young ("Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace") got a look-in on the BookScan top ten, in tenth position, while the romantic fiction of Jennifer Probst's "The Marriage Bargain" and Nicholas Sparks's "The Lucky One" encroached on digital.
In 2013, Collins is altogether absent from both BookScan and Kindle top 20s, with "Fifty Shades of Grey" eighth bestselling print book and "Fifty Shades Freed" 20th in digital, where Sylvia Day's "Entwined with You" was ninth.
The only other titles to make both charts were "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn and Khaled Hosseini's "And The Mountains Echoed."
Several authors appeared multiple times, with Nicholas Sparks featuring in both print and digital lists, Dr. Seuss's children's titles twice in print, while David Baldacci and James Patterson's thrillers proved popular with the e-book crowd.
And Baz Lurhmann's interpretation of "The Great Gatsby" had a tremendous impact, with Fitzgerald's 1925 novel the sixth best-seller in print and fourth on the Kindle platform.


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Pull into Euston and prepare for a surprise
Traditionally, Euston has been a place to pass through rather than to live. The busy train station has set the tone: transient and noisy, with little sense of neighbourhood.
Office towers loom over car-clogged Euston Road, the congestion charge boundary and one of the capital's most pedestrian-unfriendly thoroughfares, while budget hotels and fast-food outlets serve the travelling hordes.
But there are positives as well as negatives. Few places in Britain are better served by public transport than this pocket of London. Up the road are St Pancras and King's Cross, offering trains to everywhere from Paris to Perth, plus direct links to London's airports.
A short stroll away are the villagey backstreets of Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia and Marylebone, plus the leafy acres of Regent's Park. And, gathering momentum, is an area makeover, bringing new mixed-use developments with humanscale retail and residential hubs.
Redevelopment of listed Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Women's Hospital has greatly improved a formerly scruffy patch moments from the station. Occupying an entire block bounded by Euston Road, Churchway and Grafton Place, the scheme comprises 47 homes, a shiny new headquarters for the public sector union Unison, a gallery and exhibition space.
Despite the disparate elements, the buildings integrate seamlessly. Squire and Partners, the architect, came up with a "village square" concept - an open atrium, surrounded by the public spaces, with glazed cafés and restaurants allowing clear views in and out to the street.
The new residential buildings include a low-rise mews-style group of 17 affordable homes connected to the restored red-brick hospital by an open courtyard, a continuation of the atrium space, with natural stone paving, planters, seating and feature lighting.
These homes are being sold on a shared-ownership basis by Origin, a local housing association whose roots in the area go back to the Twenties, when it was set up to provide accommodation for railway workers. Called Churchway, the two-bedroom apartments are set behind a gated entrance with video entry, have tasteful oak front doors, black powder-coated window frames and high-gloss white kitchens.
One apartment has a huge, high-walled roof terrace (over 300sq ft), ripe for someone with imagination to transform into a striking urban garden retreat. Prices from £435,000 to £485,000. The minimum equity stake is 25 per cent, or £108,750. Only first-time buyers are eligible, and priority is given to people living or working in Camden borough. Call 0800 068 8990. Only one of the open-market private apartments in a separate block is left for sale, priced at £495,000. Call Galliard on 020 7222 2005.
Euston has strong academic and charitable links, with numerous university buildings and medical campuses - a settled backbone that gives the area character amid the scurrying commuters. Origin has launched a new website (originsales.co.uk) making it easier for buyers and renters to identify homes and book viewings online. Coming soon are developments at Kilburn High Road (homes in a former Victorian warehouse), Corsica Street and Loudon Road, Camden.
Somers Town - a triangle of land adjacent to the new St Pancras Eurostar terminal - is worth watching. Now largely council estates, it is regarded as a "lost quarter" and is being targeted for new housing. Housebuilders are also sniffing around the northern tip of Euston where it meets Mornington Crescent, which has been under a veil for decades.
Affordable homes account for 834 of the total 1,946 properties to be built at King's Cross Central, where a new district is taking shape around Europe's largest transport hub: 20 streets, 10 squares, 25 office buildings, 500,000 sq ft of retail premises plus a school, community and leisure facilities.
The first residential buildings - 284 homes for shared ownership and rent, due for completion next year - overlook Regent's Canal and will be adjacent to parks and public spaces that collectively form a series of "home zones".
One Housing Group, which is allocating the homes, says Camden borough residents and key workers have priority, though more homes open to a wider pool of people will follow. To register, visit onehousinggroup.co.uk or call 0800 234 6242.


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Shameful: Popular Manager With A Leading Club In Nairobi Caught In The Act With A Married Woman
A manager of a popular club in Nairobi was busted making love to a married woman in her car. The two had transformed the car backseat into a lodging when hawk eyed revelers spotted them and proceeded to document the co!tus on their phones and cameras. The lady is a known figure in the area.
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Brigadoon is directed by and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse.
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The most recent home video release of Brigadoon movie is March 14, 2005. Here are some details…
Release Date: March 15, 2005
The classic musical Brigadoon materializes onto DVD thanks to Warner Home Video. Watch Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse dance through the heather in this 16x9 digital transfer. Let the music sweep you away in Dolby Digital 5.1 (English) or Dolby Digital 1.0 (French). Get even more entertainment by watching three musical numbers that were edited out of the original theatrical release, but are included as extra features here. They are, Come to Me Bend to Me, From This Day On, and Sword Dance. You can also listen to Gene Kelly croon another discarded song—But For You There Go I, or view the trailer. The disc provides subtitles in English, Spanish and French.
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Van Johnson again plays the part of a bachelor pal (with similar negative views about marriage) in the movie Yours, Mine, and Ours. Tales of other mysterious civilizations are found in the films Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Dinotopia.


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What is a Chemical Pregnancy?
A chemical pregnancy is a miscarriage that occurs very early on in a woman's pregnancy. Due to the advent of the super sensitive pregnancy tests, like First Response, which can detect pregnancy up to 6 days before your period is due, women are able to find out that they are pregnant VERY early in the pregnancy. The chemical pregnancy usually occurs close to the time the period was actually due.
It is thought that chemical pregnancies occur when the fertilized egg never fully implants in the uterus and chromosomal abnormality is most like the cause.
The Case for Using a Pregnancy Test AFTER Your Period is Due
While these super sensitive pregnancy tests are very popular among those who are actively trying to conceive, they do have a very sad downside.
If you use a pregnancy test, before your period is actually late, the pregnancy test can show a positive for a impending chemical pregnancy AND a viable pregnancy. If an early miscarriage does occur, you will have to deal with the crushing sadness that comes with your period arriving a little late, when you weren't expecting it at all. However, if you simply wait for your period to be late, the emotional stress could be avoided because you wouldn't have known about the pregnancy in the first place.
Symptoms of a Chemical Pregnancy
The signs of a chemical pregnancy are very similar to your normal period. Bleeding will occur, after you have gotten a positive pregnancy test and can be heavier than your normal period . You may have more cramps and pass more clots than usual.
What is the Difference Between a Chemical Pregnancy and a Miscarriage?
While they are both types of miscarriage, the difference is based on when pregnancy is lost.
If the loss occurs very close to when the period was due, with bleeding starting before the period is a week late, this would be classified as a "chemical pregnancy" or an "early miscarriage".
Doctors will say a pregnancy loss at 6 weeks gestation or more is a miscarriage. The embryo will have implanted in the uterus and it would have been possible to see the embryo with an ultrasound.
Common Reasons Why Chemical Pregnancies Occur
The majority of chemical pregnancies occur because there are chromosomal problems in the fetus as it develops. Of course, there are also other potential reasons why you might experience a chemical pregnancy including congenital or acquired abnormalities in the uterus, low hormonal levels, inadequate lining in the uterus, luteal phase defect, and certain infections.
Can Chemical Pregnancies be Prevented?
The majority of chemical pregnancies aren't preventable. However, if you continue to experience chemical pregnancies over time, it is always a good idea to make an appointment with your doctor. Your doctor will be able to investigate the root cause of the issues that you're experiencing and form a plan of action which will help you achieve a successful pregnancy.
There are several potential treatments to help lessen the likelihood of chemical pregnancies. Some of the most common solutions that your doctor might prescribe include vitamin B6 in doses of at least 50mg each day, baby aspirin, and even progesterone cream to help with hormonal levels. Of course, your treatment plan is highly dependent on your individual symptoms and should be thoroughly discussed with your doctor to determine the best option for your needs.
In the case that infection is the cause of your chemical pregnancies, you should also visit your doctor. Antibiotics can resolve any issues that you're experiencing to also help lessen the likelihood that you will experience another chemical pregnancy.


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Brady Campaign Sues Interior Department Over Rule Allowing Concealed Guns in Parks, Will Seek Court Injunction
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and seeks an injunction to block the rule, which is scheduled to go into effect on January 9, 2009.
"The Bush Administration's last-minute gift to the gun lobby, allowing concealed semiautomatic weapons in national parks, jeopardizes the safety of park visitors in violation of federal law," said Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke. "We should not be making it easier for dangerous people to carry concealed firearms in our parks."
UN official says Israel responsible for breaking truce with Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza believed Israel had called a 48-hour lull in retaliatory attacks with Hamas when Israel Air Force warplanes launched a massive bombardment of militant installations in the Gaza Strip, a UN official said Monday.
Karen Abu Zayd, commissioner of the UN Relief and Works Agency which helps Palestinian refugees, raised the possible violation of an informal truce in a video press conference with UN reporters from her base in Gaza.
Marinating 'may cut cancer risk'
Marinating a steak in red wine or beer can cut down the number of cancer-causing agents produced when it is fried or grilled, research suggests.
Meat cooked in this way contains relatively high levels of cancer-causing compounds called heterocyclic amines (HAs).
Obama should engage Hamas, former U.S. envoy says
The former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East said Tuesday that President-elect Barack Obama should engage with Hamas under certain conditions, and sooner rather than later.
Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni said if Obama hopes to forge a peace deal, he needs to do it at the beginning of his administration.
In Pictures: Massacre of Gazan Children
Israeli forces killed two girls in an air attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip early Tuesday. Local sources report that a missile destroyed a house belonging to Talal Hamdan in Beit Hanoun today, killing his two daughters of 12 and 4 years old. A son is reported seriously injured. Yesterday Israeli forces killed four sisters and a four year old boy. Over 40 children have been killed since Saturday.
DHS seeks to condemn nature preserve land
The Department of Homeland Security has sued The Nature Conservancy to condemn land in a South Texas nature preserve for the border fence.
The conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve, which includes more than 1,000 acres along the Rio Grande near Brownsville, is home to a rare grove of native sabal palms, a South Texas native plant nursery for reforestation projects and habitat for the endangered ocelot and jaguarundi.
The government offered the conservancy $114,000 for a strip of land that would leave three-quarters of the preserve, including the property manager's home, in the no-man's land between the fence and Mexico, according to court records filed earlier this month.
The Nature Conservancy's preference is no fence and no compensation, but the offer failed to take into account the impact to the rest of preserve, Laura Huffman, The Nature Conservancy's state director, said Monday.
Israel accused of ramming Gaza aid ship
Activists trying to bring aid to Gaza today claimed their boat had been rammed by Israeli gunboats in a "criminal attack" in international waters.
The Free Gaza Movement said its vessel, the Dignity, was intercepted by several Israeli vessels as it was heading to the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli aerial bombardment since Saturday.
One gunboat rammed the Dignity on the port bow side, causing heavy damage, although no one was hurt, the group said.
Holocaust Remembrance: What's Behind the Campaign?
Every major American city has at least one Holocaust museum or memorial. Worldwide there are more than 250 Holocaust museums and memorials, most of them in the US and Europe. The largest is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, which is run by a taxpayer-funded federal government agency, and draws some two million visitors yearly.
What's behind the Holocaust remembrance campaign? Whose interests does it serve?
The Holocaust Remembrance campaign encourages sympathy and support for Jews and Israel. It helps to justify America's massive and on-going support for Israel, and to excuse otherwise inexcusable policies of the Zionist state.
Soldier alleges military pattern of Christian bias
An atheist soldier suing over prayers at military formations claims a larger pattern of religious discrimination exists in the military, citing attempts to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and an evangelical bias in a suicide prevention manual.
The expanded lawsuit filed Monday by Spc. Dustin Chalker and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation in U.S. District Court in Kansas City also claims the military doesn't take complaints of religious discrimination seriously enough.
The Defense Department has identified fewer than 50 complaints about alleged violations of religious freedoms during the past three years, with 1.4 million personnel in uniform, spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) A year ago, plenty of people were feeling sorry for Roger Federer.
They were sending him letters with good wishes or — believe it or not — tennis tips. They were offering advice about how to deal with a perceived drop in performance and ideas for how to beat Rafael Nadal.
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"If you achieved a lot, like I did, for so many years, and then you don't win some tournaments, people say, 'Oh, you're already on the decline,' very quickly," Federer said Saturday. "I hope it just opens some eyes, these last few months."
Yes, indeed. Look at Federer now.
When he steps onto Centre Court to face No. 6-seeded Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon final Sunday, Federer will be trying to collect his 15th Grand Slam singles championship, breaking a tie with Pete Sampras for the most in history.
Also at stake for Federer:
• a sixth Wimbledon title;
• a chance to become only the third man in 40 years to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season;
• a return to No. 1 in the rankings, a spot he ceded to Nadal 1½ months after losing to the Spaniard in last year's epic final at the All England Club.
"Obviously, you can't really say enough to kind of signify what Roger's career has been to this point," said Roddick, who is hoping to win his second major championship.
Asked about Federer's bid for No. 15, the American replied: "I'd love to delay it for another Grand Slam."
Federer is playing in his seventh consecutive Wimbledon final and 20th Grand Slam final overall, both records. It's also his 16th final in the past 17 major championships.
The only one he missed in that span was at the 2008 Australian Open, where Federer lost to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the semifinals. Federer later said he'd been recovering from mononucleosis at that time, but still, the chatter began: What's wrong with Roger?
"Sometimes," he said, "it's not fair towards certain players."
Federer then lost to Nadal in the French Open and Wimbledon finals, and fell to No. 2 in the rankings after a record 237 weeks at the top. But Federer won a fifth consecutive U.S. Open in September and, after a five-set loss to Nadal in the Australian Open final in January, completed a career Grand Slam by winning his first French Open title last month.
That allowed him to tie Sampras with 14 major championships.
"Records are part of this great match right now," Federer said, looking ahead to Sunday, "so it's obviously even more of an incentive to try really hard."
Roddick won the 2003 U.S. Open, but he is one of the many unfortunate souls who chose to play tennis for a living and happened to have been born around the same time as Federer: Roddick will turn 27 in August, a few weeks after Federer turns 28.
Roddick is 2-18 against Federer over their careers. That includes 0-7 at Grand Slam tournaments, 0-3 at Wimbledon, with losses to Federer in the 2003 semifinals and 2004 and 2005 finals at the All England Club. Roddick also lost to Federer in the 2006 U.S. Open title match.
"He has a lot of energy. He's very funny, very nice. As a player he's known for his incredible serve and intensity and fighting spirit. He never gives up. It hasn't been easy for him the last few years. Americans have a lot of expectations. They were spoiled with Sampras and (Andre) Agassi and all those before that. For them, it's not good enough to have someone in the top 10; they want somebody who is No. 1," Federer said. "It's great to see him back in a final."
Roddick hit 43 aces in his quarterfinal victory over top returner Lleyton Hewitt, and he then beat No. 3 Andy Murray in the semifinals.
"I always said that serve makes him so dangerous. No matter what surface you play him on, no matter where you play him, how bad the record is for him, he'll always have that shot," Federer said. "It's hard to get a read on it. ... He not only has a great first serve, but probably has the best second serve in the game. That's what makes it hard to break him."
The man Federer beat easily in the semifinals, Tommy Haas, was far less charitable.
"Andy Roddick is playing some of his best tennis that I've seen. Playing extremely well. Serving well," Haas said. "But I wouldn't give him really a chance to beat Roger in the final. Maybe take a set. That's my opinion."
To be fair, this is a rebuilt Roddick.
"You don't go back to a Wimbledon final by accident," he said. "It certainly is a process. And it's probably been a longer process than I would have liked."
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Marta Represa says
You are right. Luella is probably not what I would wear, but I've always liked her work. I think she is intelligent, she will work something out. Her brand concept can be quite successful!
gem fatale says
Fantastic post! I am gearing up for my own Luella post when I've taken enough anti-depressants to face the idea that she might not be back..!
Love your illustrations for your luella inspired collections 🙂
Couture Carrie says
Gorgeous post and tribute, darling! I love Luella, too, especially those polka dots… Plus, she makes amazing handbags!
Louisee x says
I think you may possibly be the biggest Luella fan ever! Good times 🙂
That S/S10 collection looks amazing, i want almost everything there. if it doesn't get made it will be such a shame!
such a lovely post – so interesting and detailed. i was looking through all the photos thinking how amazing the designs are, then it suddenly dawned on me that the incredible SS10 collection may never be made… it's like it all became real! & now im so depressed 🙁 and i blame YOU! x
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cody says
gorgeous post!!
love your pieces!!
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Winnie says
The thing with Luella is that the high street loves her and we can all wear a bit of (watered down) Luella inspired clothing but at a much more afforadable price. It's a brand with a very much, young aesthetic and perhaps that's where the problem lay. We all adore Luella but few of us can say we've bought a dress from her etc.
I sincerely hope she finds a backer because I think that she has a huge impact on British fashion. A constant source of inspiration for us all and we will miss her far too much!
Anna Jane says
Oh I love Luella, its such a feminine brand which is so me! And as for those adorable trademark polka dots…! I hope Luella doesn't go under because it's a label well worth being up there in the fashion spotlight.
Anna Jane
daisychain says
Luella was the first designer I fell in love with,
I do so hope it can be saved.
Blau von T says
with Anna Wintour amiking calls on her behalf let's hope this isnt the end x
lisa says
Best of luck to Luella!
Flashes of Style says
Oh Luella! I love it way way too much to be gone 🙁
Dane says
This is so sad! I love Luella, is this a final thing? I really hope they manage to save the label, what a shame it would be to lose it at this point..
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Hi everyone, there will be a home ware, jewellery and accessories event happening tomorrow (25/11/2009) at The Covent Hotel, London, WC2H 9HB, it starts from 6:30-10pm and it will be taking place in suite 202.
Basically me (Amma Gyan) and 5 other designers are showcasing our products in the setting of the room, so home wares on the couch, jewellery on the dressing table etc and were inviting people to come and have a look, buy gifts and get inspired. So feel free to come and have a look around.
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Strutt says
lol @ gem fatale. I've been too distressed to do a Luella post yet. I've got 2 meters of Luella (duchesse Satin) fabric in my room atm. if things don't pick up, I wonder how much I'll get for it on ebay?
(not that I'd ever sell it-it's too frikkin' gorgeous to touch and so far I've only made itsy bitsy shorts out of it.)
Emma A S says
I really hope that sometime in the future Luella continues. I have 4 of her bags and 2 purses – " smithys and 2 lizzie daisy's, giselle purse in white and the heart coin purse and they're soooooo beautiful! I adore your margo bag too, i've just found one online too buy as well!xx
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While online grocery shopping is very convenient for the time poor, it could be bad news for your waistline and your wallet.
Not only could buying your food only be leaving you with less money in the bank, it's also probably making you fat.
That's according to Australian dietitian Allan Borushek, who told NineCoach that people can make poorer decisions when shopping online.
The main reason for this, he said, is because some retailers don't show the nutritional information for many products on their online stores.
'While in-store shoppers can readily check the nutrition info panels, online shoppers are not given this option for many of the in-house brands,' Mr Borushek explained.
'The non-availability of nutritional data online disadvantages online shoppers – particularly those who are unable to physically shop in-store.'
Better choices: A dietitian said that many products online don't contain nutritional information.
This means that shoppers can't compare items easily and find the healthier product, and are more likely to make unhealthy choices.
It also have implications for people with dietary requires, who are unable to check levels of sugar, salt and carbohydrates in individual items.
A spokesman for supermarket Woolworths told Coach that they plan to introduce nutritional information online in the 'coming months'.
Coles, which currently does not provide nutritional information online for their home brand products, also told the publication they will add it in time.
Bad choices: Because of a lack of information online, people find it difficult to compare products to see which one is healthier
Last year, Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, urged people to return to walk to the supermarket and carry bags home instead of shopping online, in a bid to boost health.
'Everyone can become more active by making little changes to the things we do every day,' she said.
'If you can go for a run about the park – great. But if you are pushed for time, something is always better than nothing.'
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It's so easy, as a lady-type, to give into the whimsy and free spiritedness that Anthropologie and Free People tell me I should be. Grow out your hair and wear crotchet pants!
Use that one filter that makes your pictures look orangey! Constantly undermine your connection to others with your desperate need to prove that you are an individual by writing nonsense that literally just describes facets of any person, like you won a bet to create the worst type of fortune cookie fortune or astrology reading ever because you've decided to shortchange your creative and intellectual capabilities hoping to become the type of woman you know you're not and will never be because no one is that woman but we are all afraid of becoming her antithesis! [inhales deeply] For example, shit like this:
There is power, in a way, in the whimsical, misunderstood goddess image fed to women. At least, that's what the image is trying to sell. You want to be your own hero, pave your own path, own cultural and religious iconography from anywhere not considered "the West" because somewhere deep down, you know you are "the West" and those beheaded Buddhas and chakra stones set you apart from the blandness associated with the society you were born and raised and still live in. You want to be unique, and today's flavor of "unique" is an especially loud costume that clearly tells the world "I don't know who I am and I'm terrified to go looking for her, but I hope these hemp shorts make it clear that I'm fond of travel."
But you have little tassels on your sandals! You went to another country once! You can't be confined to "the West"s expectation of you! Your thin lace kimono (that you got at Forever 21 but haven't seen anyone else wear yet so it's still cool) is your shield, your faux-leather headband your armor, your toe ring your sword: you are more powerful than the buttoned-down, bland pantsuit future you're too unique to embody. Fighting so hard to defy social expectations, unfortunately, eventually leads you to giving in to some of the least favorable ones.
It's nice to be pretty in that unattainable yet easy sort of way. To emulate a fairy who feels so much to such a degree that she is unable to actually understand any of what she is feeling, or how to translate that into a way that is real and genuine and actually unique, because her feelings are too big to be put into any other form than sighs and repetitive sentences.
The whimsy of the promise of the potential to be unique is your power, and you will gladly soar overhead and shit your special shit all over the boring yuppies who are the corporate inversion of you, wearing fancy leather shoes and fun socks to subtly exert individuality in a world of conformity. The only difference is the breathy fairy goblin barfing up knit shorts is desperate to establish an individuality that doesn't come from wearing a lot of bracelets (spoiler!), while the corporate cardboard silence-so-deafening-it-makes-your-ears-ring type is so desperate to assimilate that minor acts of individuality are like little revolutions. Both are trying to succeed, to find their sense of power. Neither do. At least, not in the way they hope. In the interest of interestingness, let's focus on the whimsy-girl, because it is from her writing that my eyes bled today.
The issue at stake is her need for power, to find herself and embrace it. But like a sort of Hollister'ed Sisyphus, she is cursed to believe if she just keeps pushing, she will find the end of a road that never ends. Finding yourself isn't a destination full of (or obscured by) dreamcatchers and Doc Martens. It's a constant, unending journey through which resolution is never found. It's Waiting for Godot, but you're Godot. That's a scary thing to realize. So instead, we assign meaning to things that have none, or specify definitions of every person to specifically congratulate ourselves when no one else will: She is a human. The only human. She is therefore the most unique, and you should cum harder than you've ever cum in awe of her ability to find uniqueness despite the adversity of her being just another person too afraid to just accept the fact that sometimes it's okay to be boring.
We search for a power in ourselves that will help us calm this fear, and the power of the majestic fairy witch image — the idea of being completely disconnected from social expectations — is a strong one. Almost as strong as the stench of your patchouli rollerball perfume that you bought at Sephora. Except the patchouli and the manufactured whimsy-pixie-dream-girl image aren't powerful enough to quiet your fears of conformity. In fact, they amplify them. Not only do you dive head-first into waters that every woman in LA is swimming in, but you do so with a thick chain tied around your feet.
You're giving in to a more dangerous social expectation for women than the one you think you're running from: be whimsical — aloof — and demanding of applause; be unbalanced, uncertain, maybe even harmful to yourself and others for the sake of being unpinnable; be difficult to others because you feel it's too hard to find yourself. Demand that others spend time seeking out your "true self" that you haven't even bothered to spend time looking for. Prove to critics at large that women are, in all forms, nervous wrecks, unstable and unreliable, with nothing in their heads beyond how to do a fishtail braid and how many days its been since their last spray tan.
You're so special, because you're so terrified of giving in to a boring generic, that you lose yourself and your potential for actual, genuine greatness in manufacturing and maintaining that fake generic whimsy. You're the carbon copy of a million Coachella-goers.
And so you write, because the process of writing, early on, feels like you're creating something magical. That feeling is so good, you don't bother to exert any effort into form or style or to create something worth reading or to even ask yourself if your future involves writing (but of course it does, because it's artsy, even though you really have a knack with statistics and keep feeling a weird urge to work in finance). Or you paint, or sketch, or whatever artsy thing it is, because you think being caught in the process, being able to put artsy whimsical credits to your name, will validate your need to be a wisp of throat-catching smoke. You have to be "intrigued by the exotic and undiscovered," just like every average joe, because being intrigued by the common and the known is somehow not special enough to you, despite the connectedness that comes from being the person to first make someone else notice how the moon — always there, common as shit — sort of looks like John Lennon.
You sacrifice deeply examining anything serious for the sake of having wide eyes about like, a waterfall in Nicaragua. You sacrifice the opportunity to develop an actual, genuine voice talking about new things or old things in a new way, for the sake of whispering the same bullshit that's been said, through a veil you got at Burning Man.
If you want to write — genuinely, actually want to write, not just sit in a coffee shop and clack on your keyboard — shed yourself of this bullshit haze. You owe it to yourself to think critically, to think ugly, to criticize yourself and call yourself ugly, to throw up all the nastiest parts of you and your thoughts and observations and to see what catches in your throat the most.
This inane, soft bullshit discredits your goal to actually be a writer. You can't create anything worthwhile if you're stuffing yourself with chamomile tea and forcing all of your humanity into a tiny box in your chest so the rest of you can be filled with soft pretty things. You can't write anything worthwhile that way. You have to be visceral. Feel venom and rage pulsing through you that makes you want to stop typing and just scream, about nothing in particular. Drive yourself chaotically, poisonously insane as you type. Feel rage tense up your jaw and tighten your hands into claws. Aggressively force all the bile of your humanity out onto the page, then gradually wipe it off — but let the stench of it stick around.
Authenticity is not a beautifully lit room with gossamer curtains flowing in the breeze. It's the bird shit that flies into the room when the windows are opened and lands on the curtains, getting rubbed all over the walls by that gentle breeze. It's the discovery of the bird shit weeks later, the shock and misplaced sense of betrayal, and the eventual task of cleaning up this bizarre attack. It's the painful tingling of your foot (that you don't mention) after you've tripped on something and laughed it off, not the quirkiness of the trip. It's the chunks of half-digested salsa in your vomit after you partied too hard the night before, not the tanned, smiling selfies taken and posted before the party started. Be visceral, you cotton candy hack.
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A stunning Grace Kelly-inspired gown worn by Princess Diana to the Cannes Film Festival is set to go on display in an exhibition of the late royal's most memorable outfits.
The 1987 blue silk chiffon piece, by Catherine Walker, is one of a number of outfits that the former Princess of Wales is said to have modelled on film stars.
According to creators of Diana: Her Fashion Story, which opens at Kensington Palace next week, the princess used to disguise herself in a scarf and sunglasses to visit her local cinema.
Other pieces on display include the green velvet evening dress she wore for a Vanity Fair photo shoot with Mario Testino (1997), the pink satin gown she wore to stand out against the men's ceremonial uniforms in an official portrait (1987) and the youthful pale blue nylon dress she wore as a debutante for an Althorp House ball (1979).
The exhibition also features the red-skirted Murray Arbeid dress that she famously teamed with one black and one red glove for a visit to Spain (1987) and the shimmering, white sequinned gown she wore for her 1991 trip to Brazil where she made a point of removing her glove to shake hands with an Aids patient.
While her experimental style often received mixed media reviews, Diana was revered as a fashion innovator before her death in 1997.
The accolade soon prompted the Emanuel blouse she wore in the picture to sell out on the high street.
She also featured on the cover of Harper's Bazaar and continued to work closely with international designers such as Gianni Versace following her separation from the Prince of Wales.
The exhibition's opening on Friday will run alongside the launch of the palace's White Garden for spring/summer 2017.
Curator Eleri Lynn said: "Diana, Princess of Wales, was one of the most photographed women in the world, and every fashion choice she made was closely scrutinised.
"Our exhibition explores the story of a young woman who had to quickly learn the rules of royal and diplomatic dressing, who in the process put the spotlight on the British fashion industry and designers.
"We see her growing in confidence throughout her life, increasingly taking control of how she was represented, and intelligently communicating through her clothes."
Henry Holland may have celebrated his tenth anniversary last season but that didn't stop him from pulling out all the stops once again.
Collating a whole mixture of references stretching from Western territory to race tracks, the fun-is-foremost designer majorly clashed prints.
Pink race flag patterns juxtaposed with cow hide. American flag Stars and Stripes also made an appearance (albeit not together). Henry didn't forget his slogan love, brandishing the (slightly twisted) word 'Daddy' across tees and the show invite itself.
Shaggy coats were paired with short skirts and fishnet tights while camo mini dresses followed metallic ruffled ensembles. The label had also collaborated with Woody Woodpecker, splashing the cartoon character on easily sellable bomber jackets.
The entire collection seemed to be an ode to America and all its old-school Hollywood stereotypes. Film genres played out from a gunslinging cowboy epic to a fashion-forward remake of Fast and Furious. Even a Cher Horowitz-style kilt got its turn in the limelight.
Perhaps this is Holland's way of lightening up what seems like a hopeless situation. Or maybe it's nothing more than what he likes to watch on a Sunday afternoon.
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