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AIGA Detroit Student Studio Tours: Ann Arbor
Friday, March 23, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Studio Tours at: Q Ltd., Pryor Design, and Savitski Design
Join us to tour of some of the best studios in the Ann Arbor area. This is a great opportunity to hear about the daily workings of these studios and meet the professional designers behind the work. You'll get to see projects in progress, learn about company histories, and chat it up with the design professionals in these established design studios.
Registration Required and limited to 25 students to allow more one-on-one interactions with your studio hosts.
12:00 — 12:45 Meet at Sweetwaters in the Kerrytown Market,
407 North Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
12:45— 1:00 Walking time 15 min.
1:00— 2:00 Q LTD., 109 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
2:00 — 2:30 Walking time
2:30 —3:30 PRYOR DESIGN, 303 South Main St., No.205, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
3:30 — 4:00 Walking time
4:00 — 5:00 SAVITSKI DESIGN, 102 Nickels Arcade, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Getting There / Parking / Walking: You will be responsible for your own transportation or carpool with other members of your student group as well as parking in Ann Arbor. We will be meeting in the Kerrytown Market and there are plenty of parking options. You will remain parked there the entire time, be prepared to walk to the studios. Here is a mapquest walking map.
Q LTD. / 109 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 / www.qltd.com
"Founded in 1981 by a group of professionals who recognized the power of meaningful collaboration, Q continues today as a team of talented designers, experienced writers, strategic planners, brilliant information architects, and 21st-century technologists. This diverse blend of personalities, creativity, and expertise make Q your perfect partner for developing winning strategies that harness the power of design to communicate, inspire, and motivate."
Pryor Design Company / 303 South Main St., No.205, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 / www.prydesign.com
"Our mission: to use design as a catalyst to build brands that thrive. At Pryor Design, we have a relentless desire to create work that is smart, effective, and inspired. We seek relationships with like-minded clients who value the role that design plays in everyday life. Our grounded approach to brand design is a careful balance of creativity and strategy which yields solutions that are both inspiring and informative. We are a small group, with a diverse range of skills, operating in an engaging environment, and doing work that we have great passion for. That's what we're about."
Savitski Design / 102 Nickels Arcade, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 / www.savitskidesign.com
Savitski Design is a tiny little place of 450 sq. ft. we will be squeezing into their studio or splitting in half!
"We're designers in Ann Arbor, Michigan providing communications for those who educate, create, perform, or inspire. Our clients include art museums, academic institutions, book publishers, university presses, art presenters, architects, and the occasional oddball."
Don't forget to sign up for the Portfolio Day on Saturday March 24th! Click here to register.
When & Where
Sweetwaters Cafe in Kerrytown Market
407 North Fifth Avenue
Ann Arbor,
Friday, March 23, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
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The French Prime Minister travels to Bonn today to give what amounts to a political and economic progress report to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Since their last, difficult tete-a-tete in Poitiers in June, Mr Jospin's position has been greatly strengthened, partly through luck, partly through skill.
The French economy is picking up; the markets have swallowed, for now, the promise that France will almost make the entry guidelines for monetary union this year; the franc remains usefully weak but not in free-fall; inflation barely exists; exports are booming; opinion polls are encouraging; the right-wing opposition is mostly engaged in savaging itself. For once, the Franco-German summit may be more pre-occupied with German political and economic problems than French ones.
But Mr Jospin faces a somewhat rougher ride when he goes on to the "summer university" of his own Socialist party in La Rochelle at the weekend. After three months of grace, the radical wing of the party, and Mr Jospin's Communist and Green coalition partners, are beginning to growl at his methodical and centrist approach to government.
The immediate cause of the unrest is not economic. The left has reluctantly accepted that Maastricht will take precedence over most of the economic ideas on which the Socialists campaigned successfully in May. There is to be no large increase in state-spending; the plan to reduce the working week to 35 hours will probably be put off for three years; the promise of 700,000 state-paid or subsidised jobs for the young will be phased in gradually; there will be no miraculous cure for unemployment. Everything will be mortgaged to Maastricht and an upturn in growth (now forecast to reach 3 per cent next year).
In return, parts of the left and the Greens had hoped for some form of emotionally-satisfying, symbolic left-ward shift in cost-free social policy, especially on immigration. Mr Jospin let it be known this week, however, that he would introduce only cosmetic changes to the restrictions on immigration, and the tougher controls on illegal immigration, introduced by successive right-wing governments.
This has been greeted as a betrayal. Hundreds of thousands of left-leaning French people, led by prominent intellectuals, demonstrated against the previous government's toughening of the laws in March. Mr Jospin himself (reluctantly) joined one of the demonstrations. The Socialist programme in the May election promised to abolish all the laws and start from scratch. In fact, the proposals put forward by the interior minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, accepted the thrust of a judicial inquiry and suggested that the existing laws be softened in places but mostly preserved. The Greens warned yesterday that the proposals "would cause a serious crisis of confidence, within the governing majority, and between this majority and its electors". A Socialist deputy, Yann Galut, warned that Mr Jospin would have enormous difficulties getting the proposals through the National Assembly.
The issue is a dangerous one for Mr Jospin. It divides the Socialists down one of their most explosive fault lines: between the mostly middle- class "moral" left on the one hand and the more working class "economic" left on the other. Mr Chevenement, head of a populist, Socialist splinter party, is one of the fiercest opponents of Maastricht but close to white, working-class opinion on immigration. His silence on the pro-EMU approach of the Jospin administration may depend partly on being given his own way on immigration policy.
What is more surprising is that Mr Jospin's retreat from campaign promises across a broad front has not damaged his popularity in the country. It was precisely the accusation that they had campaigned on one set of policies, and governed with others, which mortally damaged the previous administration of Alain Juppe. Mr Jospin is getting away with it, so far.
As Le Figaro said yesterday, the Prime Minister has perfected the art of "walking backwards on tip-toes". How to explain this paradox? Partly, it seems, the French instinctively like and trust the school-masterly Mr Jospin, where they instinctively disliked and distrusted the bureaucratic Mr Juppe. But the sense of a rising economic tide may also be buoying up Mr Jospin's popularity.
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Shareholder Activists Will Leave Board
March 27, 2000
Two closed-end funds have taken unusual steps in recent weeks.
Two vocal shareholder activists-turned fund board members will be stepping down as trustees on one fund, after successfully wresting control of several board seats and changing the fund's investment mandate. The shareholders of another closed-end fund, meanwhile, have voted to withhold compensation for the fund's independent trustees pending the implementation of a plan to insure investors will receive net asset value for their fund shares.
Ron Olin, president of Deep Discount Advisors, an advisory firm in Asheville, N.C. and Phil Goldstein, principal of Opportunity Partners in Pleasantville, N.Y., are not standing for re-election as board trustees to the Clemente Strategic Value Fund. Another trustee, Gerald Hellerman is also not standing for re-election. (See related story p. 16)
The three men had waged a multi-year proxy battle with the fund's adviser, Clemente Capital Management of New York. They successfully won board seats along with two other individuals in October 1998. Since then, at the direction of these trustees, the fund's investment objective was changed from global equities to domestic equities and its name was changed from Clemente Global Growth Fund.
But, the Clemente board member activists have publicly disagreed on how best to proceed in the interests of shareholders. Goldstein supports obtaining net asset value for Clemente shareholders by opening or liquidating the Clemente fund. Olin believes investors would best be served through preservation of the fund's closed-end structure and supports a share buyback program.
Last year, the Clemente board approved a share buyback program aimed at reducing the fund's discount - the difference between the fund's publicly-traded share price and its portfolio's net asset value price per share. The fund has been trading within the 14 to 18 percent discount range most of this year, according to Lipper, the data provider in Summit, N.J.
"Olin has decided he does not want people on the board who do not support the closed-end structure," said Goldstein in an interview. "But any company whose stock for a consistent period of time is selling below liquidating value has a problem." Goldstein said that he and Hellerman were asked not to seek re-election.
While Goldstein and Olin will no longer be board members, Olin's influence will continue to be felt, according to Goldstein. Olin continues to own 30 percent of Clemente's shares for himself and his advisory clients.
Olin argued that allowing a few investors to realize net asset value would be at the expense of others, according to the Clemente preliminary proxy statement filed on Feb. 23.
"Attempts to deliver NAV immediately to a minority of shareholders who wish to exit the fund may well destroy or diminish the advantages otherwise enjoyed by the remaining shareholders" said the proxy. Olin was unavailable for comment.
Walter Baer, a minority Clemente shareholder in Santa Monica, Calif. has proposed that shareholders be allowed to receive net asset value for each of their fund shares without a sales charge. Baer has recommended the implementation of a self-tender offer under which investors could redeem their shares at net asset value. He has also recommended a continuous share buyback program along with the self-tender offer.
But Baer's supporting statement takes language from a proxy proposal made by Olin to the board of The Portugal Fund earlier this year. In fact, the same solution he is now proposing was originally proposed to the former board members of the then Clemente Global Growth Fund by Olin in the summer of 1998, said Baer.
"Many of us individual shareholders applauded his [Olin's] team when they were first elected directors," said Baer in an interview. "In my view, Mr. Olin's letter represented some kind of moral obligation to hold a tender offer."
Clemente shareholders are scheduled to vote on the slate of proposals April 26.
An unrelated closed-end fund, the Mexico Equity and Income Fund, has also seen surprises this year. After several postponed shareholder meetings, shareholders not only voted to elect Phil Goldstein to the fund's board of directors - the second board seat the shareholder activist has attained - but they also gave their approval to a unique proposal initiated by Goldstein.
The two-part proposal called for a plan to be drawn up to allow shareholders to realize net asset value for their shares. But shareholders also approved a change in the fund's by-laws, stipulating that the fund's trustees would have their usual board compensation put in escrow until investors were allowed to cash in their shares at the higher net asset value share price. The $104 million Mexico Equity and Income Fund is co-managed by Advantage Advisers of New York, a subsidiary of CIBC World Markets and Acci Worldwide, which manages the fund's Mexican securities.


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Chapter 42 (Flashback)Mature
"Are you sure this is okay?" Vinnia asked as she buckled herself into her older sister's new car. "It's so dark outside. It's past curfew. We shouldn't be out at midnight!"
Orla rolled her eyes. "You're overreacting, Vinnia," she said. "It's only half past eleven. Besides, I thought you wanted to hang out with Victoria."
"I do," Vinnia said, voice wobbling. "But why do we have to go over right now? Why can't we wait until morning?"
"Victoria's older sister is having a party at her house while her parents are gone. For once, I was actually invited to go. It's not going to be a bad party, Vinnia. Don't give me that look. You know I won't do anything stupid." Orla jammed the keys in the ignition.
"I just don't think we should be out when it's so dark."
"You're only nine. What do you know about this stuff?"
Well, the next thing Vinnia knew was agony as she watched her older sister get dragged out of her totaled car.
Vinnia had been right. It was too dark for someone as inexperienced at driving as Orla was. As the ambulance whisked both girls away, Vinnia knew in her heart that she would never recover.
Minutes later, Orla was dead. But Vinnia was alive. That was when the nightmares started.
Every night, Vinnia woke up screaming. In her dreams, she saw the distracted truck driver hit their car. In her dreams, she felt herself being placed on a stretcher to be taken to the emergency room. In her dreams, she watched as her sister's heartbeat flatlined on the monitor. In her dreams, she felt as out of control as she had been in that very moment.
Having to raise Vinnia alone ever since her husband had left them, Vinnia's mother was forced to run into Vinnia's room every night and let her daughter cry on her shoulder. Understandably, Vinnia's mother got tired of having to stay up until the wee hours of the morning with the bawling Vinnia.
And so Vinnia was given light doses of emellior, a virtually unknown plant that was kept secret so as to keep others from finding it and selling it. It was a drug that caused the receiver to forget the memories that were stressing him or her. But Vinnia's mother was always careful to give Vinnia the exact amount of emellior she needed - too much would cause her to forget...everything. Forever.
Eventually, emellior was no longer effective with Vinnia - not even dangerously large doses. She'd built an immunity.
Yes, Vinnia had built an immunity to emellior. The drug that made you forget. The drug that, if given too much, made you forget everything about yourself.


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I Might Sound Bitter, But...Mature
I might sound bitter, but I'm going to tell you things as they appeared to me. No apologies. Here goes...
Idina followed me inside the house, where she asked me why I was being "insensitive." I guess she realized the reason I'd marched out of the car without so much as an explanation. We were sitting on my parents' bed (I have no idea why), and I remember our exact positions and such.
"It seems like you didn't have alot of sympathy. Why did you get mad at me?"
I explained my frustration with Idina's sulky attitude, to which Idina responded, "Some of my eating disordered friends have to go into another room just to eat dinner! I'm doing so well compared to them!"
I shook my head. "I don't care how well you're doing compared to them! You had no right to treat us like you did!"


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"The key to the short workout's success revolves around a concept known as high-intensity interval training (HIIT). HIIT is a heightened form of interval training that involves alternating between periods of short, intense physical activity and fixed periods of low activity or rest. Intervals can include anything from fast squats and pushups to weight lifting and powerful cardio."
The goal in exercise is expose the body to more than it is used to handling. If given enough time for recovery the body as a form of self-protection will come back stronger, more enduring, and more able to withstand the stresses previously placed on it. That can take one hour or two, or it can take less than ½ an hour. Regardless of the time period at the end the session you want to come out spent.


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Do you have a good attitude? Are you a hard worker? Then maybe the Career Start program is for you!
The purpose of Career Start is to provide students with the essential skills to be contributing and valued members of the workplace. Career Start is a program designed to expose students to different careers within their chosen career pathway.
Career Start teaches essential skills of workplace behavior, retail services, business administrations, technology and maintenance. Students have opportunities to visit other programs within the Career Center or job shadow at local worksites.
This course is open to both juniors and seniors, and is located at the Capital Area Career Center in Mason, MI
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Alumni discount
If you studied an undergraduate course or a PgDip/PgCert at the University, you may be eligible for a £1,000 discount on PG tuition fees.
Learn solid journalistic skills and become an articulate and aware fashion writer on this fashion journalism course.
Please note, the previously advertised flexible mode of study for this course is no longer available.
Use UAL's fees and funding calculator to estimate how much your studies may cost you in your first year, and what funding may be available to you.
Use UAL's scholarships search to find out what you might be eligible for.
Postgraduate loans of up to £10,000 are now available for eligible UK and EU students. A full list of eligibility criteria and information on applying can be found on the postgraduate loans webpage.
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High Holborn
|Study Level
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|Course Length
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UAL Home/EU alumni receive a £1,000 discount.
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UAL International alumni receive a £1,000 discount
|Autumn Term Dates
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MA Fashion Journalism is unique in its merging of cultural theory with fashion journalism. It is a multidisciplinary framework for independent study that leads to an original body of written and/or visual work. You can choose to position your aspirations and your work on a spectrum from media journalism to theoretical study, for example: a dissertation on the presentation of fashion on television; a book surveying the fashion industry in Canada; a new concept for a fashion magazine; a cultural analysis of the current position of masculinity in society.
The course aims to develop highly articulate and aware fashion commentators who have sound research ability and strong written and visual communication skills. Cultural theory and journalism strands run in parallel through the first stage of the course. Three of the four pathway units are focused on the practice of journalism, a key feature being visiting speakers from industry.
15 months, 4 terms, level 7, 180 credits
Term One
Undressed: The Fashion Media Exposed (40 credits)
Research Methods (20 credits)
Term Two
The Rationale of Publishing (40 units)
Collaborative Unit (20 credits) - find out more
Term Three
Masters Project (60 credits)
The renowned London College of Fashion library is at our John Prince's Street site, and you will need to travel to this site, and possibly others, during your course to use the library, which is open seven days a week in term time, and for tuition and special events.
In addition to tuition fees you are very likely to incur additional costs such as travel expenses and the cost of materials. We strongly suggest you read the information on our Additional Costs page.
Please note that due to staff research agreements or availability, not all of the optional modules listed may be available every year.
In addition, the provision of course options which depend upon the availability of specialist teaching, or on a placement at another institution, cannot be guaranteed. Please check this element of the course with the course team before making a decision to apply.
We will update this webpage from time to time with new information as it becomes available. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact a member of the course team.
Master's graduates have an acknowledged advantage in the employment market, obtaining work in a wide range of vocational and academic fields related to fashion. Previous MA Fashion Journalism graduates are now working in areas such as magazine and newspaper journalism, magazine styling and image making, lecturing in cultural studies and researching and developing concepts for television.
The MA also provides an excellent preparation for higher level research degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing number of graduates undertaking research in fashion related subjects, in practice or theory or entering into education as lecturers.
LCF Careers provides a comprehensive career management service supporting our students to become informed and self-reliant individuals able to plan and manage their own careers.
Entry to this course is highly competitive: applicants are expected to achieve, or already have, the course entry requirements detailed below.
Selection for interview will be made on the basis of your application, including the personal statement and the supporting written statement. If you are selected for interview you will be asked to bring examples of previous written work and to undertake a written aptitude test.
The course seeks to recruit students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and welcomes applications from mature students.
The course seeks to recruit students who can demonstrate:
All classes are conducted in English. The level required by the University for this course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in any one skill.
For more information, read the University's English Language requirements page.
The International Recruitment Office at the London College of Fashion will help to guide you through the application process and answer any specific questions that you may have regarding our courses. This may include portfolio advice, the application process and fee advice. We offer a 'drop-in' facility for applicants who may be in London and wish to obtain further course and admissions information. Please contact us for further information on this facility. We can also arrange a tour of our facilities if we are given prior notice.
International applicants should contact the Admission Office by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com about portfolio requirements (if applicable), interview times and dates.
You can apply for this course using our online application form – the link to this is below. Before you apply, we recommend you take some time to read the following details about the application process, including guidance on the extra information we will ask you to provide.
You will need to enter the following information in the online application form:
Before you can submit the form, you'll also need to agree to the terms and conditions for how we process your data – these are explained in the form.
Please note, if you're an international applicant we will need to contact you separately to ask for copies of certain documents (for example, English language qualification/certificate and copies of any previous UK study visas).
Once you have submitted the form, you will receive a confirmation email that includes links to where you should submit the extra information we require for the selection process:
Personal statement
The personal statement is your opportunity to tell us about yourself and your suitability for the course that you intend to study.
Some key points to consider:
You will be required to submit two written assignments:
Please select one of the following topics, and write a piece of between 500 and 1000 words in length. Please use Harvard style to cite any research that is relevant to your chosen topic
a) Has the explosion in fashion blogging been beneficial or detrimental to the online reader experience?
b) You have been given £100,000 to launch a fashion magazine (either print or online) Identify a gap in the market and how you would fill it.
c) By what criteria would you judge a fashion publication (either print or online) to be successful/unsuccessful and why? Please analyse two publications of your choice that are aimed at different market sectors.
d) Is celebrity culture largely beneficial or detrimental to the fashion media industry?
2) Journalistic style
Please select one of the following topics and write a piece of between 500 and 1000 words in length and write in the journalistic style of your choice, outlining the publication (print or online) you would be aiming your piece at.
Please ensure that your journalistic tone reflects that of your chosen publication and explain why this piece is relevant to the reader of your chosen publication. Please do not write in the first person.
a) A profile or interview with someone working in the fashion industry
b) An analysis of a trend that goes beyond simple catwalk references that can also reflect societal, economic, or technological change.
You may submit a digital portfolio of any previous journalism work if you think it will enhance your application; the most important part of your application is the two assignments as detailed above.
Please note, you can submit text and as many website links as you need to, but the portfolio form does not allow you to upload files.
If called to interview you may bring additional portfolio items with you.
This unit gives an overview of the fashion media through the medium of developing journalistic skills, with a specific relationship to the fashion industry. It will examine the current fashion marketplace through linking appropriate genres of journalism to key events during the fashion calendar, as well as ensuring that you have a broad underpinning of appropriate industry knowledge. The unit specifically looks at different types of journalism, including consumer and business publications related to the fashion industry, and considers the role of stylist and fashion editor. Writing skills will be combined with visual media throughout the course, culminating in a series of written and visual pieces that enable you to combine sound journalistic practice with fashion awareness and to develop an individual voice. The unit also contains an element of presentation skills and portfolio building techniques so that you can establish a body of work during the course, as well as work on live projects (wherever possible) or self-motivated freelance work that sees your writing enter the public domain.
The purpose of this unit is to introduce you to the range of research methods, approaches and tools that are available to you in order to conduct your Masters Project. The unit will cover philosophy and ethics in research, primary and secondary research methods, including quantitative, qualitative and visual research methods, and how to analyse, evaluate and disseminate research findings. The unit will consider research in a range of contexts relevant to the cultural and creative industries and enable you to understand the relationship between theory and practice.
This unit analyses the importance of the publishing industry as the backbone which supports book-based, magazine-based and online fashion literature. It also addresses the visual aspects of fashion coverage, dissecting the fashion image and graphic design through a number of different contexts. Over the course of the unit, you will analyse the relative successes and failures within recent international magazine publishing, the financial realities driving consumer titles, both in terms of editorial stance and magazine design, plus advertising revenue and physical costs involved through production. Running parallel to the commercial aspects of the unit, you will examine how media is marketed to the consumer in English-speaking markets, both prior to and after a new launch. This will involve aspects of market research, and an analysis of new publishing trends within the marketplace, including issues of ethical and sustainable production. This unit will address the role of magazine design within fashion media, by considering various approaches to page layout and design, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. You will look at the capacity of certain key computer graphics packages through project work, and dissect the power of the fashioned image alongside its appeal to the consumer within the fashion industry, within a number of markets and contexts.
This unit is designed to enable you to innovate, engage in developmental processes and participate in collaborative working practices. You will be encouraged to develop the professional negotiating and networking skills that you will need in order to be successful in the cultural and creative industries.
The nature of this collaboration may be within your own course, with students on other courses or with industry. The project that you undertake will depend upon your discipline and the specific requirements of your course. Further details will be available in your unit handbook.
The Masters Project is an important piece of work which will provide an opportunity for you to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in relation to your discipline and chosen project. Throughout the Masters Project, you are guided and supported by tutorials and peer and staff evaluation at interim stages. You will be allocated a supervisor for your project and will complete a learning contract outlining how you intend to develop and deliver your project. The Masters Project may take a variety of forms by negotiation and is assessed by presentation in an agreed format.
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An interview with Brenda Usher-Carpino
Brenda Usher-Carpino is a writer. Her work struck me at once. First, I asked myself why the hell she was in an MFA program with an established voice like hers; a voice relevant and important, as it has formed at the intersection of historical and familial hardships and pioneering. Second, I was awed with how deeply I felt and related to her experiences. Brenda's archive of experiences are essential to record, alongside and even against the dominant stories that become known as our country's history.
She is a woman who values manners but sits on the crap living room floors of the houses I've lived in throughout grad school and afterwards, meeting to discuss writing, relationships, family- never judging my means, or anyone else's.
She is what I think of as classy. Not classy in the sense of having jewels in porcilen dishes in her bedroom, but that type of classy that comes from treating people like people.
Even her answers to these interview questions are elegant, poised and real.
What is your medium and how did you get started as an artist?
Brenda replies, "I'm a writer. I've written poetry, short stories, and dramatic plays. My first memorable recollection of communicating by writing is a letter I wrote to my father who left San Antonio when I was nine years. He landed in Berkeley where he became a cook at the International House at the university and then sent for the rest of his family. I discovered early in life that writing was my best form of communication. I could say what I wanted to say how I wanted to say it without anyone cutting me off or censuring me before I had my say. In addition to having my voice taken away from me by a domineering and narcissistic father who subscribed to children being seen and not heard, I was also a painfully and morbidly shy child, a middle girl and fourth of six children.
"Writing became my primary – and often only – voice."
What are some of your artistic obsessions or ruminations that run throughout much of your work?
Brenda replies, "In my early writings I often found myself writing about the cruelty of certain individuals towards others. I'm fascinated with the workings of the mind and feel that my work deals mostly in psychological narrative and drama. My writing revolves around people rather than things or plots… I was obsessed with (these) individuals, and found myself writing about them in some way or other…I've only just stopped writing about them in the last three years or so. I've finally gotten them out of my system. I also write about racism, sexism, and sexuality which are recurring themes in my work."
Brenda is the epitome of individual and original, having made a life for herself in the image of her art, her love, her compassion and connection to the world around her.
Brenda tells me one year, if I had a son, I'd marry you to him because you'd make a great daughter-in law. I tell her, well I mean you have a daughter, but she intimidates me. Besides, son or not, I've already claimed her as my west-coast mother. And though her daughter is smart and beautiful, (and just finished law school), I don't think she will give up her current relationship so I can be official.
Though Brenda has several impressive degrees from Cal, Stanford and Mills, being an excellent human is not something you can learn or get a degree in. (Though don't talk shit in French around her. She will know what you are saying.)
When we talk about Oakland and the women in Oakland. Brenda is a woman of Oakland
She is a part of the fabric of what it means to me to be here, at this time, for the reasons of creating, inhabiting, bridging past and present, collaborating and living
Brenda is working on a bunch of creative projects at the moment including two traditional dramatic plays, a one-woman show, and a couple of short pieces. The novel is still on the horizon, where novels often loom, as they are intense, daunting pains in the ass.


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On Christmas Eve...
Do i have something to say to someone ?
Yes, ido.
To you, i think you know who i am refering to, yes you.
I feel compelled to say to you over and over again how much happier i am since you came into my life. Today and every single day of my life, i wake today and every day with a smile on my face, you are responsable for that.
I don`t want to have your babies, not just yet .Maybe tomorrow.
But i want to be here for you always, for as long as i live in Britain and even when i don`t , time and geography will not matter, my feelings won`t change.
So to you, my dear friend , thank you for being you.
A kiss from me to you on this magical day ,
on Christmas Eve, i hope you are having a
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Carla Freitas


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A lot of noise is being heard in West Bengal's political circles
over the Narada sting operation showing a number of leaders and
ministers of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC)
'accepting' bribe to help set up a fictitious company.
Narada sting operation: 2 reasons why Mamata is avoiding the core problem
The BJP was seen running the footage on a big screen at its state office while the Congress and Left, aspiring to fight Mamata Banerjee jointly but yet not finding the glue to seal the deal, have raised their voice seeking the ouster of the accused politicians.
The point is: How much impact will the noise have on the outcome
of the state's multi-phase Assembly elections starting next month?
Can the TMC's opponents make anything out of this sting operation?
Can an upset be expected from the Congress-Left combine or the
Chances are almost nil.
Sting op in Bengal politics is not a usual thing but
It is true that things like what we have seen on the television over the last few days is something not usual in Bengal's political history. The footage, whether genuine of fake, has created enough shock in the state and many have even regretted the 'fall' in values in Bengal's political life. But there is little possibility of the Opposition capitalising on this shock and transforming it into decisive votes in its favour.
At the most, the Opposition can expect to make some inroads in the TMC's base among the urban middle-class, compared to the 2011 Assembly elections.
TMC's brisk election strategy is unmatched from any of its opponents
The reason for this is the TMC, even when seriously hit by charges of corruption, is stronger than its opponents. The TMC began its race for the Assembly elections from the word go.
It announced names of candidates in all 294 seats hours after the Election Commission announced the election schedules and kicked off the campaigning. The Opposition, be it the Congress, Left or the BJP, are yet to get their act together---be it on forming alliance or announcing their complete lists of candidates.
The next focus then falls on the TMC's brisk electioneering and it gains the momentum from the fact that the TMC still has its trust factor intact in the suburbs and rural areas. No matter what the educated, middle-class of Kolkata perceive about the Madan Mitras and Suvendu Adhikaris, the man next-door image of these leaders in their own areas still make them far superior to the opponents.
Despite Saradha, TMC's election victories have not been hit
It can be noted that the Saradha scam, which burst into the open three years ago, hasn't affected the TMC's good show in the Lok Sabha, panchayat or municipal polls in the last few years. The story has unfolded in complete contradiction to what the Kolkata-based audience had predicted.
In one way, Mamata Banerjee's TMC resembles the politics that Bihar and UP have been known for. Doling out freebies or fielding a candidate from behind the bars so that the party's organisational strength is not wasted in the elections.
Mamata still matters in Bengal and so do many of her party's leaders; there is simply no alternative
Ideology and principles do not matter in such scheme of things (no matter how much Banerjee ridicules the Congress and Left as parties that don't value morality, her party has done nothing less immoral by accepting in its fold expelled Left leader Abdur Razzaq Mollah). This particular political style was mastered by a decaying Left Front towards its later days when it started showing signs of fatigue of remaining in power for too long).
A client-patron system became the central idea of everything political and it paved way for the collapse of the Left in 2011. And the party that replaced it in power just extended the same model.
The rise of Mamata Banerjee in the skies of Bengal politics is also a matter that will help her, even in these days of difficulties. Her leaders might have faced the heat but the fact that Banerjee is a woman who has struggled all the way up and has an honest image is something to which her opponents are yet find an answer.
Mamata imitated her predecessor, now her Opposition is imitating her
The TMC did not come to power in 2011 by promising a better alternative to the fast decaying Left. Its only agenda was to get rid of the CPI(M)-led Left and the party capitalised on civil society movements in Singur and Nandigram, Rizwanur, etc etc. Banerjee successfully positioned herself vis-à-vis the civil society and she cleverly widened the political polarisation in the civil society by awarding the loyalists and giving them tickets in the election.
These innovative thinking shut the door for the opponents who lacked leadership and teeth to make any dent, despite a number of pressing issues---be it economic stagnation, farmers' suicide, corruption or terrorism.
The critics often ridiculed Banerjee in the last five years, saying she only imitated the Left's politics by unleashing the party's terror to control every sphere of the social life. The irony is: Banerjee's opponents now are also imitating what Banerjee did as the Opposition leader prior to 2011, which is to pursue the single-point agenda of kicking out those in in power to take Bengal back to the days of glory. But they have no alternative plan to offer.
Narada will not help Mamata Banerjee's opponents after a point
With no face or organisation to take on Banerjee politically, her opponents are perhaps thinking that Narada is a great thing to have happened to them just ahead of the elections. But to quote Shakespeare, there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in philosophy.


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The Hotchkiss Brain Institute
Healthy Brains for Better Lives
The Hotchkiss Brain Institute is founded on the base of a very strong neuroscience tradition established by the previous Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genes & Development Research Groups. Under the auspices initially of the Neuroscience Research Group, one of the very first training programs in neuroscience was established in 1971 as a separate stream under the umbrella Medical Science Program. Students enrolled in this program (and its subsequent evolution into the independent Department of Neuroscience), as well as numerous postdoctoral and research fellows training in neuroscience laboratories at the University of Calgary took us in an astonishingly short time period to rank among Canada's most recognized neuroscience groups.
In recognition of the critical role played by our trainees in our research and academic success, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute recognizes an outstanding former trainee as the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Neuroscience Alumnus of the Year. Find out more about the HBI Alumnus of the Year award.
Dr. William F. Colmers is a Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience and AIHS Medical Scientist in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. Dr. Colmers delivered a seminar at the HBI in January of 2017 entitled "Y-bother? New Adventures in NPY" and is the 2016 HBI Alumnus of the Year.
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Time Travel : Myth or Reality?
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Time travel is one of the most fascinating or exciting topics to research and it gives goose bumps, just by thinking about it. So, firstly let me introduce you to the topic, it's basically jumping to the time, the time that has already been passed or the time that is going to come, from some place to another in which we are supposed to be living (if God is kind enough) by the means of some machine or some Doraemon gadgets, well it's not possible to have him here. Travelling to some arbitrary place in some arbitrary year requires a high-speed rocket or some other thing, the thing that has not been invented yet. Most of you have seen a lot of movies, read books, novels, journals, research papers and we also have so many Novelists, Directors to provide us with the stuff related to this topic. Somewhere inside, all of us wish to go back to the time and undo some of the mistakes that we have done so far, some things that really went wrong for us. But the biggest question is, is it really possible? Well, inquisitive readers like you & our respected scientists from ISRO & NASA are working on it 24/7, to make this impossible process, possible.
Time Machine: Thesis
So what all things and researchers are required to travel in the future or in the past? Albert Einstein already once proposed a theory some 100 years ago that time travel is possible & since then it has always been a hot topic among all but BANG! What have we done till yet? I am still writing a paragraph on it & wishing someday, someone will make it possible but it's really comfortable to know that at least we are thinking for that and we are all burning with curiosity wishing that someday we will have someone who'll be inventing it.
One thing we can do to change how we move forward in time relative to each other is by actually moving at different velocities compared to each other. The time machine that takes us into the future is basically based on Einstein's discovery about time in speed, the faster you move in space, more the time for you, slows down as compared to the people standing still. As mind-bending as it seems it's actually been proven by experiments.
Time Machine: Time Dilation
Some of the atomic clocks have been placed on rapidly moving aeroplanes and rockets ships and they have moved over some distance at a very rapid speed & when the clocks were measured after the end of the journey they had progressed forward in time a little bit less than similar clocks which had remained at rest on Earth. This effect is called TIME-DILATION and we can use it to travel into the future, in fact, it's already been done by a Russian-based Cosmonaut. What actually happened in his case is that he was 50th of the second slower in the amount of time that has passed to him compared to everyone.
Time Machine: Stephen Hawking's Theory
In one of the theories given by Stephen Hawking, he proposed that the dilation really becomes possible when you pump your speed to just near the speed of light that is 299, 792 km/h, the idea is to let clocks on the Earth move at their normal speed while you are up in space & your clock is moving more slowly and when you get back you are in the future. Suppose, for example, you want to go 500 years into the future, to move 500 years into the future, you have to move at 99.99% of the speed of light for seven year and when you'll get back you'll be aged only seven years but everything on earth will have aged by some hundred years.
Time Machine: Problem in building a Time Machine
But one of the biggest problems in building a time machine is that moving at such high speed to travel into future is finding enough fuel to boost the spaceship to speed that high. Although, there's no law that you can't go close to the core of the earth as it would be really easy to acquire such high speed inside the Earth but rocket ship becomes heavier and heavier as you go closer and closer to light speed so, you require more and more fuel to accelerate. To use smaller and smaller amounts of fuel, you need more than an infinite amount of energy to actually break the lights bars but high speed isn't the only way to slip into the future.
Also Read: Chinese Quantum Communication Satellites
Einstein's theory of relativity says high gravity also slows down your clock, a kind of gravity you might find near a black hole (a hole that is supposed to be black in colour because of such high gravity that it don't even let light escape from it). Let's say you are in the spaceship and find you just outside a block hole, for a while once you return to earth you'll notice that many & many years may have passed on earth but only a few weeks or months will have passed in your own frame of reference. You have jumped into the future while ageing very little.
Time Machine: Evidence
Some evidence have also been found regarding the time travelling in some of the past time and since then it has become the most mysterious thing, still unravelled.
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In this black and white photo nothing seems to be odd until you notice a guy dressed in so modern outfits. This picture was taken during the reopening of a South Fork bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia. By closely inspecting one of the guys from the crowd, it can be seen that the type of T-shirt and goggles he's wearing, it refers to some traveller from the future.
TIME MACHINE: LADY CALLING IN THE 1920s
In the late 1920s, a woman was found talking on the phone when we were not having any kind of idea regarding the cellular phones. Actually, the video was shot during the shooting of a Charlie Chaplin's movie, The Circus.George Clark from North Ireland uploaded the video on YouTube & it went viral as it could possibly be the case of time travel and different theories have been put since then by the Scientists. An editor from The Atlantic later put on the theory that it was probably a hearing aid the machine which was invented at that time.
I hope it cools down your burning curiosity to some extent, let's keep on working , let's keep on trying, I know we will achieve it sooner or later as people who are curious to learn are curious to discover.
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Often called the Garden of Eden by western travellers, the foothills of the mighty Indian Himalayas have it all – snow-clad peaks, magnificent remote valleys and gorges, life-giving rivers and endless banks of wild flowers. There are worse places to spend the last week of your life.
The last thing on Susan East's mind was death. Like many young westerners in the late 60s and early 70s, she had been drawn to the hippy trail. It promised adventure and a new life, far away from Canterbury, where she had very recently given birth to a baby, given up for adoption.
I was that baby.
It is now understood that giving up a child for adoption is deeply traumatic for the mother but in those days there was little compassion or understanding. Instead there was a burden of shame attached to teenage pregnancy outside marriage. Susan's vision was fixed on India, home of the eastern philosophies that fuelled the hippy way of life, far from the traditional restrictions of society.
Her parents, kindly but conventional, did not want their fifth and youngest child to head off alone on such a dangerous journey. But two things worked in Susan's favour. First, the government reduced the age of majority from 21 to 18, and second, her grandmother gave her some money. Reluctantly, her parents waved her off.
Ten months after I was born in October 1971, Susan travelled first to Istanbul, the point at which all roads from Europe converged, continuing across Iran, which was then a secular country run by the shah, and on into Afghanistan, where foreigners were welcomed and, not insignificantly, the hashish was plentiful.
The wandering pot-smoking westerners always preferred the term "freaks" to "hippies" and must indeed have looked like freaks to the Afghans, who were largely unaccustomed to tourists of any sort. But people were hospitable and Susan loved Kabul.
The following May, Susan arrived in Manali, at the north of the Kullu Valley in India. She fell in love with the small town, famously beautiful, nestling under mountains that carved a sharp outline against the blue sky. Come winter, she planned to head south to the beaches of Goa.
But a few weeks later, Susan was dead.
There was no funeral, at least not for her family, because the cremation was quick, as was the custom in India. Worse, there was no explanation for Susan's death. In fact, the whole episode remained a mystery for almost 30 years – until I discovered that she had almost certainly been murdered.
To me, growing up, Susan was always a mysterious figure. In a middle-class family, there was only one thing for it, other than abortion, when a teenager got pregnant – to send the girl away to a mother-and-baby home, where a married couple would later collect the baby and the girl would have a chance to put the whole ghastly experience behind her. In my mother's case, not even her siblings knew about it.
For me, this meant a new life in a new family from when I was six weeks old. It was a life so cut off from the original one that even when Susan died the following summer, my family were not told. Indeed, all I knew about my adoption when I was growing up were three bare facts. First, my mother was 17 when I was born; second, she had been in a relationship with my father for at least a year; and third, she had a sibling with a musical talent.
It was the last fact that bothered me most as it meant weekly piano lessons with an old woman up the road who had bent fingers and a sharp tongue. My mum was only trying to honour the one thing she knew about my genes but unfortunately, the musical gene had passed me by.
Later on, the first two facts got me thinking. Did having me so young meant she'd forgotten about me? Did she look like me? What happened to my father?
My adoptive parents were, and are, my family. We named our daughter Lucy after my mum and when my dad died four years ago, the fact that he wasn't genetically connected never entered into how I felt. But by the time I was 18 – the age at which an adopted person can legally undertake a search for birth relatives in England, Wales and Northern Ireland – I felt a strong need to know my roots. It was 1989 and Susan would have been just 36, so while I was (sort of) prepared for her to turn me away when we met, the last thing I expected was that she would be dead.
Susan's parents, whom I met two days after discovering this news, welcomed me with warmth, exuberance and Canadian accents. They still lived in a 1950s house in Canterbury, where Susan had grown up after their move from Toronto when she was five. They revelled in telling me about her childhood. They invited me to call them Grandma and Grandpa and, best of all, showed me photographs. Even now, I find it hard to explain how astounding it is to see yourself reflected in someone else's features for the first time. At last, someone I looked like.
In retrospect, I suspect that day was far more overwhelming for Susan's parents than it was for me – they had lost their daughter at 18 and gained a granddaughter at 19, the very image of her.
I saw them often and they opened their hearts, admitting their embarrassment in allowing the adoption to ever take place. They told me that Susan had quickly changed her mind about it and got close to a nervous breakdown, especially when the authorities wouldn't even let her have a photograph of me (although they did give in) and how – against her parents' better judgment – she headed off to India.
Susan kept her promise to write regularly. Indeed, my grandparents still had the stack of Basildon Bond airmail letters, tied up neatly with string. I pored over the words, so full of description and promise, in writing so small that I had to hold a ruler under each line. The last letter was sent in May 1972. "I'm so grateful to you for giving me a chance to see some of India," she signed off.
The next letter was not from Susan, but some people she had met in India. They told my grandparents they were sorry to hear of Susan's death and included a couple of her personal things. That was how they found out their daughter was dead.
"She died of a broken heart," my grandmother used to say, shaking her head sadly. Pressed (tentatively, as I did not want to upset her) she said it was a tsetse fly. "Yes, that's it, it was sleeping sickness."
Knowing the tsetse fly doesn't live in India, I wondered if at last the truth might be coming out when she confided in me one day, "They tried to make out it was suicide, you know."
It transpired that Susan's brother had got life insurance for the whole family, but when Susan died, the company wouldn't pay, claiming she had killed herself. But they withdrew the claim and paid up. Perhaps, I concluded, my grandparents just didn't want to, or weren't able to, face thinking about what happened to her.
Two days after meeting my grandparents, I met my birth father, Mark. We formed a close bond right away. He was more curious. He had loved Susan. And he was certainly more clued up about the casualties of the hippy trail. But he was none the wiser about just how she had died. Nobody would ever know for sure, he said.
Despite my questions, though, it wasn't really how she'd died, but the fact that she was dead at all – that was the sticking point. I felt a huge wrench that I'd never know this woman who had been alive in my mind for so many years and who had given me life.
So I tried to get to know her, by talking to family and friends, anyone who had known her. Her friends described her as an intelligent girl with a wild nature, while her siblings knew her as conformist and sensible. Even the content of letters, which I'm so lucky to have, don't quite tally up. Four days after I was born, she wrote to my father with passion and sadness, then mentions nothing about either me or him in the letters posted on her travels.
Still, it helped, as did my trip to Susan's birth city of Toronto, when I was 21. I'd gone to meet my Canadian cousins and decided to spend a year there. One day, it occurred to me to ask the Canadian embassy if they had any details about Susan's death. To my amazement, they gave me not just her death certificate but the post-mortem results.
There in black handwriting, one stark word jumped out and shocked me to the core: Poisoning. Friends were sure it was probably food poisoning. But the documents said she was found unconscious alone by a river bank without her passport or money (neither of which were ever found). Something wasn't right.
"We should go to India," announced Mark after I'd returned to England. It would be a kind of pilgrimage for Susan, he said, and a tangible part of my bereavement. Besides, it was my only hope of discovering the truth about what really happened.
So, in 1999, 27 years after her death, we flew to Delhi and retraced Susan's steps as backpackers ourselves, eventually reaching Manali. Sure enough, the mountain scenery was striking, but disappointingly crammed with concrete hotels. In Susan's day, there had been a handful of guesthouses; now there were more than 650. At least the old town of Manali remained a peaceful sanctuary, with fewer dwellings and the clearest, cleanest air imaginable. The extreme poverty was profound, however, and with cannabis growing plentifully, the westerners spending all day high on pot was not a pretty sight either.
Susan died at the busy Kullu district hospital, where the staff working in the crumbling buildings took time out for us when it was quieter. When the chief doctor read our documents, she smiled sympathetically and explained, clearly not for the first time, that, yes, the poison was the type that is given to people with the aim of knocking them unconscious. It's usually put in pot, she said, and while some people survive, others don't. The objective is usually robbery. There was no doubt in her voice – she had seen such documents and heard such tales many times, and her peers confirmed that Susan's story was far from unique.
Stunned, I listened to how Kullu, originally named Kulanthapitha, which literally means "the end of the habitable world", has witnessed countless westerners killed or gone missing.
"Some people describe this area as lawless," said the chief doctor at Manali's smaller hospital where my mother was initially taken. "In some villages, there is a complete lack of principles. What's more, you will never find a local admitting to witnessing any kind of injury or death for he knows someone might punish him for it. So justice is rarely achieved or even sought."
The following night, we discovered this for ourselves as a 32-year-old Scot, who had arrived on the bus from Delhi that morning and whom we had seen in a bar that evening, was found dead on the roadside – nobody claimed to know anything about it. We thought of his poor family.
Things are worse now. Smoking hashish, at least among adults, has been part of the traditional culture for as long as anyone can remember. Young Kullu boys sniffing bonded resin and locals hooked so badly on heroin that they will never find work again has nothing to do with tradition. Nowadays, we learned, the stunning hills and gorges hide a community of dropouts and drug dealers far from the reach of embassies or even the local police, with the inevitable drug wars, drug-related crime and a huge number of deaths.
Indeed, four years after our trip, an article in this newspaper reported on the many British backpackers who come to Kullu in search of peace, tranquillity and the world's strongest hash, but whose battered bodies are washed up in the river or whose skeletons are found in sleeping bags. Murder, corruption and drug-trafficking flourish in this valley, the writer concluded.
On the last day of our trip, Mark and I visited the Bhuth Natha Temple on the banks of the river, where Susan was cremated. We knew the visit would be hard, but hoped to lay her spirit to rest. But there was nothing remotely dignified or even secluded about the stark metal grate, the exact size of a human body and riddled with rust. We scuttled off as quickly as we'd arrived, bewildered and tearful. But when we returned a few hours later, somehow the fatalistic, spiritual nature of India seemed to do its job and it wound up feeling a cathartic, if not apt, ending to our journey.
Mark and I don't talk much about what we discovered. Life goes on – I have since had a family of my own and he travels a lot – in any case, when I think back to that trip, I remember it more as a summoning up of her spirit, one that enabled us both to finally lay her ghost to rest. I also remember it as a uniquely special time for Mark and me. Perhaps most importantly, when I think of Susan now I like to focus on the life she had, not the death.
But from time to time, I am still haunted by it. I wonder whether the person who poisoned her ever felt a prick of conscience. I wonder if she knew she was dying during the last few days of her life. I wonder what she'd make of the world – and me and my family – now. Of course, the facts would be hard to come to terms with, no matter how she died. But they are all the more painful knowing her death was avoidable and that such deaths are happening more than ever and still leaving families with unanswered questions.