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New Mexican Genre Anthology Announced!
Small Beer Press have made available for pre-order the tremendously exciting anthology Three Messages and a Warning:
This huge anthology of all-original Mexican science fiction and fantasy features ghost stories, supernatural folktales, alien incursions, and apocalyptic narratives, as well as science-based chronicles of highly unusual mental states in which the borders of fantasy and reality reach unprecedented levels of ambiguity. Stereotypes of Mexican identity are explored and transcended by the thoroughly cosmopolitan consciousnesses underlying these works.
Table of Contents (not final order)
Lucía Abdó, Second-Hand Pachuca
Maria Isabel Aguirre, Today, You Walk Along a Narrow Path
Ana Gloria Álvarez Pedrajo, The Mediator
Liliana V. Blum, Pink Lemonade
Agustín Cadena, Murillo Park
Ana Clavel, Warning and Three Messages in the Same Parcel
Yussel Dardón, A Pile of Bland Deserts
Óscar de la Borbolla, Wittgenstein's Umbrellas
Beatriz Escalante, Luck Has Its Limits
Bruno Estañol, The Infamous Juan Manuel
Iliana Estañol, In Waiting
Claudia Guillén, The Drip
Mónica Lavín, Trompe l'œil
Eduardo Mendoza, The Pin
Queta Navagómez, Rebellious
Amélie Olaiz, Amalgam
Donají Olmedo, The Stone
Edmée Pardo, 1965
Jesús Ramírez Bermúdez, The Last Witness to Creation
Carmen Rioja, The Náhual Offering
René Roquet, Returning to Night
Guillermo Samperio, Mister Strogoff
Alberto Chimal, Variation on a Theme of Coleridge
Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Photophobia
Pepe Rojo, The President without Organs
Esther M. Garcia, Mannequin
Bernardo Fernández, Lions
Horacio Sentíes Madrid, The Transformist
Karen Chacek, The Hour of the Fireflies
Hernán Lara Zavala, Hunting Iguanas
Gerardo Sifuentes, Future Perfect
Amparo Dávila, The Guest
Gabriela Damián Miravete, Nereid Future
José Luis Zárate, Wolves
About the Editors
Born in Boston and raised in San Antonio, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Hispanic literature and a doctoral degree in the humanities from a Catholic university in Madrid. He has taught undergraduate literature courses at the University of Texas in San Antonio and recently obtained a doctorate in jurisprudence from Cornell Law School. He has published translations of books by contemporary Mexican authors Bruno Estañol, Rafael Pérez Gay and José María Pérez Gay. In recent years, he has also published scholarly studies on the Spanish poet Antonio Machado and the Mexican fiction writer Bruno Estañol. Lately, he has conducted readings and lectures on the subject of literary translation at the invitation of Cornell University, New York University, The New School and the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco.
Chris N. Brown writes fiction and criticism from his home in Austin, Texas. His work has been variously described as "slick, post-Gibsonian, and funny as hell, like Neal Stephenson meets Hunter S. Thompson" (Cory Doctorow), "Borges in a pop culture blender" (Invisible Library), and "like a cross between Mark Leyner and William Gibson" (Boing Boing). He also contributes to the group blog No Fear of the Future.
Bruce Sterling is the author of eleven novels (including the bestselling The Difference Engine with William Gibson), six short story collections, and four nonfiction books. He also edited the genre-defining Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. He has written for Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Technology Review, and Wired. In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the European Graduate School and in 2005 he became "visionary in residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He lives in Turin, Italy, and blogs at Wired's Beyond the Beyond.
Adam Roberts reviews Jean-Christophe Valtat's Aurorama
French author Jean-Christophe Valtat's latest English-language novel, Aurorama, a current Campbell Award nominee, is reviewed by Adam Roberts at Strange Horizons:
Better yet, the novel is as well-written as it is well-imagined: full of nice phrases—"the vandalized Bibi Eybat oil wells burned non-stop in the night, in true Zoroastrian fashion" (p. 153); a blizzard "whirls madly like a trapped wolf" (p. 174)—and Valtat handles his cod-nineteenth-century tone sweetly ("he beheld, almost miragenous through the whirling snowflakes, four hooded shapes hurrying away down the back alley" (p. 197)). North Pole politics are "poletics"; people travel around not in taxis but "taxsleighs"; and the prose approaches the business of swearing with a degree of propriety (". . . they were against the Council then, and now those phoque-in-iceholes work hand in hand" (p. 69)). Although, at the same time, the writing sometimes falls into the uncanny valley between the formal idiom of Victorian prose and the unidiomatic stiffness of a non-native speaker ("'This is very kind of you. But it happens that one likes to hunt for oneself, even if one is a bad hunter,' he said" (p. 41)). I don't mean to be a neat-piquer. That Valtat, a French national, wrote this long, accomplished novel in his second language represents an almost Conradian achievement. So if I gracelessly note that sometimes the style doesn't quite hit the bull ("It would, Gabriel thought, enlighten his return home . . . provided he would not go alone" (p. 68; "provided he didn't go home alone" would be more idiomatic); or "as he hurried he could perceive rooms whose open doors revealed the strangest scenes" (p. 160; "perceive" isn't the right word there, I think)—then I must also declare that Valtat's command of English is better than many published Anglophone authors I could mention. Overall, this is a very good novel indeed. – read the full review.
Strange Horizons, April 4-May 30, 2011 by Carole Moleti
In "Pataki," by Nisi Shawl, published in two parts on 4 and 11 April 2011, Rianne is starting over in a new place, but still hasn't recovered from the disproved allegations that caused her to flee Ann Arbor, Michigan for Oakland, California. And it's affecting her magic. She meditates in front of her altars, but it isn't until she dreams of a king with whom she has a shared experience that the mojo begins to flow. Continue reading
Hebrew Novel by Shimon Adaf Sells to PS Publishing for 2012 Release
From PS Publishing:
As if it wasn't enough that he's graced us with a couple of mightily fine short stories, two of the best novellas we've ever done (in Cloud Permutations and Gorel and the Pot-bellied God) and, with the forthcoming Osama, a gobsmackingly superb novel, Lavie Tidhar dropped us a line out of the blue to draw our attention to Sunburnt Faces, a novel by Shimon Adaf, one of the most highly regarded Israeli novelists and poets today. As Lavie was keen to point out, Shimon is a unique writer (and, on the strength of this outing, he'll get no arguments on that score from either Nick or myself) — "one of the few people in Israel engaged with speculative fiction, with 'weird' fiction, to create real literature," Lavie says anthusiastically. "His 2010 novel, Kfor, is to my mind the first true Hebrew SF masterpiece." The book went to Nick Gevers in the first instance, who had this to say: "I found the novel compulsive reading, for its vivid description of life in Israel as well as for its subtle, incisive treatment of the fantastic as a phenomenon and as a literary genre." Nick was not overstating the case.
Shimon Adaf
Sunburnt Faces is one of those in-between novels, mainstream in tone and pace even as it discusses the fantastic. It strides the rickety and oft-times perilous fence between the real and the fanciful, falling into line alongside such gems as John Crowley's Little, Big, Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale, John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, and Mary Wesley's Haphazard House.
Hitting the wire at a shave under 150,000 words, Sunburnt Faces is at once a literary novel and a book about Wonderland . . . on the one hand a coming-of-age tale and, on the other, a what-happens-after story. It features as its principal character a girl, Flora, growing up of Jewish Moroccan parents in a small town who, one day, sees God appear to her in a television screen. The first part of the novel sees her trying to come to terms with the fantastical event and move towards adulthood, while the second part sees her, in her thirties, as a mother and a successful writer of children's fantasy novels.
We're all agreed here — and you must forgive us for being a bit excited (heck, if we didn't get excited then there just wouldn't be any point in doing anything, would there) — we're agreed that this is a truly wonderful read. Mr. Adaf deserves to be experienced by the wider world. The simple and sad truth is we just don't have enough writers like him, in any language.
The novel was translated from the Hebrew Panim Tzruvei Chama by Margalit Rodgers and Anthony Berris. Publication is tentatively scheduled for late 2012. This will be Adaf's first novel to be published in English, though his poetry is widely available in translation. He is the author of four published novels and three poetry collections. His latest novel will be published in July in Israel.
New African Pulp Magazine Jungle Jim Launched
Jungle Jim is a new African pulp magazine, published out of South Africa, already in its second issue. It is incredibly cool – amongst the contributors you can find Jonathan Dotse (of AfroCyberpunk) and debut novelist S.L. Grey. Check it out!
Aliette de Bodard reviews Wolf at the Door
Aliette de Bodard reviews J. Damask (Joyce Chng)'s first novel, Wolf at the Door – the world's first Singaporean werewolf novel!
So, I finally got a chance to read J. Damask's Wolf at the Door (published by Lyrical Press)–and really, really liked it. It's a urban fantasy set in Singapore: Jan Xu is part of the lang, the Chinese werewolves: her pack is her family, and the thing around which her world revolves. She has married and settled down with her partner Ming, who isn't a werewolf; and she has two small girls, whom she raises half like humans, half like wolves.
Then Marianne comes back. Marianne is Jan Xu's sister, but there's a catch: raised like all werewolves, Marianne failed to shape-shift when she hit puberty. Though considered a member of the family, Marianne has always chafed at what she saw as second-class membership of the pack, and left Singapore after quarrelling with Jan Xu. But now she's back, boyfriend in tow–and she seems to have ideas of her own about where to take the pack…
This is original on several levels: the most obvious is the setting, which shows us not only Singapore seen through the view of an insider, with no exoticisation or over-description of familiar items and locations. It's very casual about everyday life, but nevertheless effectively manages to convey not only Jan Xu's life and her excursions to all ends of the city (including a hunting reserve in Malaysia), but also to effectively base its mythology on its setting, making the most of Singapore as a crossroads, teeming with immigrants who each bring their own folklore (I loved the bar which had vampires mingling with nagas). I also liked the way Damask ties her werewolves to Chinese folklore, rather than to European myths; it's very nicely done.
The second thing is the emphasis on family. A lot of urban fantasy is focused on the single girl (who might have children of her own, but who is still secretly looking for The One); and while those are definitely strong stories, it was really nice to see a book which focused on, well, what happens after the wedding and the childbirths. Marianne's returns has repercussions on Jan Xu's family life, and her relationship with her husband and her two girls: some of my favorite scenes take place in the quiet times at the flat, when the emphasis is on how she and Ming can deal with the consequences of what happened, and how to best shield the girls from it all. Jan Xu also has strong ties to her extended family, which nicely dovetail into the pack mentality of werewolves.
It's not perfect. There is a set of flashbacks to Jan Xu's past as a teen vigilante (sort of The Famous Five, except with dragons and other supernatural creatures), which feel a bit out of place: I love the background and the fact that they place Jan Xu's friends as strong individuals (and I would really love to see those expanded into a YA novel), but the way they're scattered throughout the story feels a little haphazard, and I felt those sections could have greatly benefitted from tidying up. But, all in all, it was a very nice and interesting read, and definitely worth a look if you're tired of urban fantasies set in the US.
Wolf at the Door, by J. Damask, published by Lyrical Press
E-book, $4.50, Cover art by Lynn Taylor
2011 SF&F Translation Awards Announced
The Association for the Recognition of Excellence in Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation (ARESFFT) is delighted to announce the results of the 2011 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2010). There are two categories: Long Form and Short Form. In each form our jury has chosen to give an honorable mention in addition to the winner.
Long Form – Honorable Mention
The Golden Age, Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive Press). Original publication in Czech (2001).
Long Form – Winner
A Life on Paper: Stories, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, translated by Edward Gauvin (Small Beer Press). Original publication in French (19762005).
Short Form – Honorable Mention
"Wagtail", Marketta Niemelä, translated by Liisa Rantalaiho (Usva International 2010 <http://www.usvazine.net/english.htm>, ed. Anne Leinonen). Original publication in Finnish (Usva (The Mist), 2008).
Short Form – Winner
"Elegy for a Young Elk", Hannu Rajaniemi, translated by Hannu Rajaniemi (Subterranean Online, Spring 2010 <http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring-2010>). Original publication in Finnish (Portti, 2007).
In addition to the standard awards, the Board of ARESFFT presented a special award to British author and translator Brian Stableford in recognition of the excellence of his translation work.
The results were announced as part of the award ceremony at the 2011 Eurocon in Stockholm on the weekend of June 17-19 < http://eurocon2011.se/ >. The awards were presented by the convention Guests of Honor, Elizabeth Bear and Ian McDonald, while fan Guest of Honor Jukka Halme was Master of Ceremonies. Each winning author and translator will receive a cash prize of US$350 (As both author and translator Mr. Rajaniemi gets $700).
Mr. Gauvin and M. Châteaureynaud were unable to attend the Eurocon (the latter having the excellent excuse of being on the way to Mongolia at the time). They both sent messages of thanks.
Mr. Gauvin said: "My deepest thanks to all the readers and editors who believed in these stories along the way, especially the folks at Small Beer. To Susan Harris and Paul and Sylviane Underwood. To Georges-Olivier, for writing them, and for his encouragement and support. And to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, who have honored us with this inaugural edition of a prize with a terrific future ahead of it."
M. Châteaureynaud said: "Many thanks to my mother, to Small Beer Press, and to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards. Sometimes, it is as much in an insightful review as in a translation–in this case, in a language I've a few glimmers of, having studied English at the Sorbonne–that one has the feeling of having been understood. I feel I've found a kindred spirit in Edward Gauvin, miraculously capable of comprehending and conveying what I've tried to express in these tales."
Mr. Rajamiemi was in Stockholm and said: "I am honoured to accept this award on behalf of all translators whose hard work is so often underappreciated. Both translating this story and collaborating with Antti Autio, the Finnish translator of The Quantum Thief, have made me aware of the difficult choices and leaps of imagination that translators routinely make, while remaining mostly invisible to the reader. It is great to see these efforts recognised in this way."
Further information, including comments by the jury on all of the commended and winning works, and photographs from the award ceremony, are available on the ARESFFT website.
The money for the prize fund was obtained primarily through a 2010 fund-raising event for which prizes were kindly donated by Neil Gaiman, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Gary K. Wolfe, Peter F. Hamilton, Kari Sperring, Nick Mamatas, Pyr Books, Nanopress and Tachyon Publications. ARESFFT thanks everyone involved once again for their generosity. Thanks are also due to Eurocon 2011 for their hospitality and help.
The jury for the awards was Terry Harpold, University of Florida, USA (Chair); Abhijit Gupta, Jadavpur University, India; and Dale Knickerbocker, East Carolina University, USA.
ARESFFT is a California Non-Profit Corporation funded entirely by donations. This is the first year that the awards have been presented.
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Expanded Horizons #27 by Jessica Barnes
This issue features four female authors, three of whom are Indian, and one who is from the Philippines. Though there are only four stories, they cover such varied topics as transdimensional portals, mermaids, the Indian goddess of destruction, and space travel. The offerings of Filipina Eliza Victoria and Keyan Bowes are flavored with tragedy, Neesha Meminger's "Daughters of Kali" reads like a modern folktale, and Devyani Borade ends the issue on a light-hearted note that celebrates imagination.
Expanded Horizons #28 by Sarah Goslee
The story "God in the Sky", by An Owomoyela, is especially interesting coming as it does on the heels of the Rapture hype in the news in May. In this story, a light appears in the sky. Scientists study it, others claim it is evidence of God, everyone panics. Owomoyela uses the light in the sky as the motivating force for a study of family dynamics in this character-based piece. The secondary theme involves the relationship of people to their religion, or lack of one. In the face of ill-defined potential doom, people turn to and from their families, to and from their religions. As in real life, and unlike many stories, none of these tensions are resolved. Continue reading
Hydra Competition for Brazilian Fantastic Literature
Via Side-Show Freaks:
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) and The Elephant and Macaw Banner have partnered up to create a contest that will bring the best of Brazilian speculative fiction to the English-speaking world via the Hydra Competition (Concurso Hydra in Brazil's native [sic] language of Portuguese).
A panel of judges will select three finalists from short stories first published in Brazil in 2009 and 2010. Orson Scott Card, one of the world's best-selling authors of speculative fiction, will select the winner.
Card says, "Ever since I lived in Brazil in the early 70s, the nation and people of Brazil have been important to me. That's why in Speaker for the Dead, the colonists are Portuguese-speaking Brazilians! When I returned to Brazil to take part in a science fiction convention twenty years ago, I made new friends and read the work of some exciting authors. I've continued following the Brazilian science fiction scene ever since, and I am proud that IGMS will be a means of bringing the work of some of these writers to American readers. Till now, American readers have had little idea of how much good work is being done in our genre in Brazil."
The winning story will be translated from Portuguese by author Christopher Kastensmidt, finalist in this year's Nebula Awards and organizer of the Hydra Competition, and it will be published inInterGalactic Medicine Show.
IGMS editor Edmund R. Schubert says, "We've been publishing stories from around the globe for nearly as long as the magazine has been online, but it was always the English-language speaking parts of the world. This opportunity to reach into Brazil, to a whole new way of not just speaking, but of thinking and of viewing the world, is exciting. South America and Latin America have long been renowned for incorporating magical realism into their fiction and that's a perfect avenue for IGMS to explore. I'm incredibly excited to see the stories that come to us out of this contest."
Competition organizer Christopher Kastensmidt adds, "The Brazilian speculative fiction community has produced hundreds of excellent stories over the last two years, but almost none of them have made the passage to the English-speaking world. Orson Scott Card and the staff at InterGalactic Medicine Show recognize that speculative fiction is international, and their support will make this competition one of the biggest incentives ever for Brazilian writers."
The name for the Hydra Competition comes from the Hydra constellation. Being a group of stars named after a mythical monster, the Hydra constellation is symbolic of both the fantasy and science fiction produced by the speculative community today. The constellation crosses the celestial equator, joining the northern and southern celestial hemispheres, just as the Hydra competition hopes to join the northern and southern hemispheres of speculative fiction. The Hydra is also one of the constellations on the Brazilian flag.
Submissions will be open from July 1st through August 15th and all eligible Brazilian authors are encouraged to participate. Rules will be published in Portuguese on the website Universo Insônia (universoinsonia.com.br). There is no entry fee to participate; however, the winner will receive a publication contract and be paid atIGMS's full rate.
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The first full-year budget for 2013/14 approved by the new Japanese Cabinet furthers Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's primary aim of stimulating the economy through public works spending, but also includes reforms to individual, corporate and investment taxation.
The overall size of the budget is put at JPY92.6 trillion (USD1 trillion), to be mainly financed by the issuance of new government bonds in the amount of JPY42.85 trillion and by tax revenue estimated at JPY43.1bn.
Much has been made of the fact that next year's tax revenue will be greater than bond issuance for the first time in four years, but it is also recognized that something will have to be done, sooner rather than later, about the continued rise in Japan's public debt and its servicing costs (that will amount to JPY22.2 trillion in 2013/14).
In addition, with Japan's rapidly ageing population, social security expenditure in 2013/14 is expected to rise by 10.4% to reach JPY29.1 trillion, and will account for nearly one-third of budget spending, while the projected spending on public works projects to stimulate economic growth, the Prime Minister's so-called "Abenomics" policy, will increase in 2013/14 for the first time in four years, up 15.6% from the previous year to some JPY5.3 trillion.
There is little reliance on tax cuts within the "Abenomics" economic stimulus plan, and the budget does not contain any measures to ease the effect of planned sales tax increases that are intended, in the next fiscal year, to begin fiscal deficit containment by raising around JPY13.5 trillion annually. Consumption tax should still increase from its present rate of 5% to 8% in April 2014, then to 10% in October 2015, while there is no movement towards the lower tax rates that have been suggested for necessities, such as food.
In fact, the tax reform package approved by the Cabinet at the same time as the overall budget also includes increased taxes for the wealthiest taxpayers by the introduction of a new 45% personal income tax rate band for those earning over JPY40m. The current highest marginal income tax rate is 40% on taxable incomes over JPY18m.
Inheritance taxes will also be increased by reducing the basic deduction by 40%, from the current amount calculated as "JPY50m plus JPY10m multiplied by the number of statutory heirs" to "JPY30m plus JPY6m multiplied by the number of statutory heirs," and by raising the top tax rate to 55% from 50%.
However, the tax reforms also include some corporate tax breaks and investment incentives. For example, companies that make further investment in production facilities in Japan are to be given a tax incentive through a special depreciation allowance of 30% or a tax credit of 3% for the acquisition cost of the relevant production facilities, or of 7% for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) making investments in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries, commerce, and service sectors.
There is also an increase to the maximum allowable tax deduction for research and development spending to 30% (from 20%) of a company's corporate tax liability, as well as a new tax cut for business entertaining by SMEs (of up to JPY8m annually).
The government will also introduce a Japanese version of an individual savings account to allow investment of up to JPY5m without taxation for 10 years, and will extend the period of the current tax credit relating to housing loans for four years, from January 1, 2014 to the end of 2017, and raise the maximum amount of deductions to JPY5m for eligible houses (long-term quality and low-carbon houses) and to JPY4m for other houses acquired during that period.
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Spray said to turn people to pushovers
May 21, 2008
Researchers have identified brain centers
activated by betrayal of trust—and a way to keep them quiet. Amygdala activation,
shown in red in a cross-section of the brain in an fMRI image. (Courtesy
NIMH Clinical Brain Disorders Branch)
Amygdala activation,
shown in red in a cross-section of the brain in an fMRI image. (Courtesy
NIMH Clinical Brain Disorders Branch)
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Researchers have identified brain centers triggered by betrayal of trust—and found that a spray of a hormone, oxytocin, makes people keep trusting even someone who has betrayed them. Thomas Baumgartner of the University of Zurich and colleagues said their findings help reveal the brain wiring behind trust and possibly the basis of social disorders such as phobias and autism. They published their findings in the May 22 issue of the research journal Neuron. The investigators asked volunteers to play a "trust game" in which they contributed money to a human trustee, who would either invest it and return the profits—or betray them and keep it all. Some players also received a nasal spray containing the brain chemical and hormon oxytocin, found in previous studies to make people more trusting. The researchers found that stiffed players who had received oxytocin went on trusting their treacherous partners. Other players, who had received an inactive spray instead of oxytocin, did not. Oxytocin was also found to reduce activity in two brain regions: the amygdala, which processes fear, danger and possibly risk of social betrayal; and an area of the striatum, part of the circuitry that guides and adjusts future behavior based on reward feedback. These oxytocin-associated changes, researchers said, occurred only when players believed an actual person was making the decision regarding their money. The changes didn't occur in a separate "risk game," where subjects were told a computer would randomly decide whether their money would be repaid or not. Players' brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technique in which harmless magnetic fields and radio waves are used to monitor brain activity by mapping blood flow in the brain. "Our insights into the neural circuitry of trust adaptation, and oxytocin's role in trust adaptation, may also contribute to a deeper understanding of mental disorders such as social phobia or autism that are associated with social deficits," the researchers wrote. "In particular, social phobia (which is the third most common mental health disorder) is characterized by persistent fear and avoidance of social interactions." The work "has significant implications for understanding mental disorders where deficits in social behavior are observed," wrote psychologist Mauricio Delgado of Rutgers University in New Jersey, who was not involved in the research, in a preview in the same issue of the journal. "Betrayal aversion, for example, could serve as a precursor to social phobia, a disorder characterized by aversion to social interactions," he continued, adding that the oxytocin finding suggests "potential clinical applications."


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|On the Pont Alexandre III bridge. Photo by Marcy Tilton
Just the word 'Paris'
conjures conflicting concepts
that can confuse the mind,
feed the senses,
expand the imagination
and ignite the heart.
In reality she never disappoints.
Typical touristic pursuits
continue to bring joy.
|Looking at the Trocadero and Paris from the Eiffel Tower.
Plus the views are spectacular!
Hausmann had a good plan.
The Catacombs compel.
There's always a line
to view the macabre,
but not so morbid really,
display of skulls and bones.
It's a long way down.
Curious to imagine how and who
transported the bones, skulls and more bones
deep into the depths,
much less organized them
into such charming and thoughtful patterns.
Being a flâneur in Paris offers a visual feast
with surprises and beauty around every corner.
|Artist's studios.
|Grafitti on a charming street.
|Chestnut trees blooming in the Palais Royale.
I spotted this chic woman
carrying her dog by Square Boucicaut.
The dog's name aptly translated
as 'sweet face'.
What a blast to stroll on the Champs-Élysées
the first day ever it was closed to traffic!
Beautiful weather enhanced the occasion
and buskers added to the high energy.
Wandering in the work of art
that is Monet's garden at Giverny
is always divine.
|Marcy, Eloise, Mimi and Wanda meander in the water garden.
Even French rain
can't dampen our spirits!
One can stroll in the gardens at Versailles
(which I adore) --
|Reflections in the Hall of Mirrors.
but the palace is a crowded mass (mess)
of tourists all eagerly taking photos
(yes, me too)
bumping, pushing,
greedily claiming a spot of space.
I have to remind myself to breathe, look,
to be present; to see, feel, imagine.
What it was like to live here in the day?
Possibly as crowded, competitive and
completely unconscious as it is now.
Always a pleasure to examine
the deliciously detailed textiles
that the queen wore.
Detailed paintings like this are
a treasure trove for textile lovers.
Artful Parisian Pursuits
So many art exhibitions,
so little time -- but I managed
to happily view more than ever before.
|An artful collection of boxes waiting for the 'homme de detritus'.
I was reminded of the pattern created by
these stacked boxes in the street --
when I went to the Monumenta 2016
exhibition 'Empires' by Huang Yong Ping
at the Grand Palais.
Tall stacks of shipping containers,
surround a giant Napoleon's hat;
all under the massive weighty skeleton
of a foreboding snake.
Reflective, uncomfortable
and definitely monumental.
The Grand Palais always presents
thoughtfully curated, powerful exhibitions.
Seydou Keïta's
moving and beautiful photos
capture the essence of the sitters
and the unerring eye of the photographer.
Accompanying videos provide a peek
into his process and vibrant unique personality.
The 'Carambolages' exhibition,
also at the Grand Palais,
indicates the curatorial direction
of the future.
'Listen with your eyes'
says the neon sign
giving the only instruction as you enter.
No titles, long explanations or
interpretations are provided with the work.
It is up to the viewer to follow
the sequence and make their own connections.
Classic and modern paintings with
weird and shocking elements,
primitive and contemporary sculpture,
indigenous garments,
functional weapons, exquisite porcelain
and ritual objects,
displayed in a non-linear
but totally connected progression.
Paintings by (left to right):
Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Adolph Hitler were in the area
with implements of aggression.
|Suit of armor with cannonball hole.
Sobering reminders
of the paradox we inhabit.
Stunning, exciting, thought provoking.
I saw it twice.
There was a marvelous
Paul Klee exhibit at the Pompidou.
I was drawn to these untitled Klee
And gleefully absorbed many previously
unseen (by me) Klee drawings and paintings.
|War or the Ride of Discord by Rousseau.
The Henri Rousseau exhibit
at Musee d'Orsay was fabulous as well.
'War or the Ride of Discord'
boldly captures
the gruesomeness of war.
Then there were the Fashion exhibitions!
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Ate numerous superb dinners.
Had the best latte EVER
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Gigi Hadid, Zayn speak to the gender fluidity of fashion: 'It's fun to experiment'
Covering Vogue's August issue, Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik don what was once thought of as menswear — button-up, collared shirts underneath blazers.
But members of the power couple, who previously posed for the magazine in Naples, believe clothes don't have a gender.
"I shop in your closet all the time, don't I?" Hadid asks her singer boyfriend, according to the fashion magazine. "Yeah, but same," Malik acknowledges before bringing up an Anna Sui shirt he borrowed. "I like that shirt," he says. "And if it's tight on me, so what? It doesn't matter if it was made for a girl."
His supermodel girlfriend concurs. "Totally. It's not about gender. It's about, like, shapes. And what feels good on you that day. And anyway, it's fun to experiment. . ."
She adds, "It's just about, 'Do the clothes feel right on you?'"
"With social media, the world's gotten very small," says Malik, "and it can seem like everyone's doing the same thing. Gender, whatever — you want to make your own statement."
Gigi Hadid has proven many times over that she's a pro at unexpected hair makeovers. USA TODAY
Hadid also opened up about her relationship with Malik while fielding Vogue's "73 Questions," describing his most romantic gesture. "A couple years ago on Valentine's Day we went on a boat trip," she said, "and it was really nice."
She also confirmed her beau also spends time in the kitchen, defying archaic gender norms. She says his chicken and sweet corn recipe is "like a hug."
Melania Trump continues fashion tour de force at Eiffel Tower dinner
After earning praise for her elegance and knowledge of French style, Melania Trump continued her fashion tour de force in a custom Hervé Pierre dress for dinner at the Eiffel Tower.
The first lady joined her French counterpart, Brigitte Macron, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron for a cozy meal at the Jules Verne Restaurant in the Parisian landmark Thursday, showing her earlier outfit was not a one-off.
The slim-fit, knee-length dress tastefully highlighted the national colors for the two countries — a fitting salute to France on the eve of Bastille Day, a national holiday akin to the 4th of July. And its made it all the more diplomatic when taking into account Pierre's French heritage and recently-earned American citizenship.
The designer and stylist behind her inaugural gown also picked out her red Dior suit from earlier in the day, a lovely nod to the 70th anniversary of the famous fashion house.
Brigitte Macron, for her part, wore another French designer, in the form of a Louis Vuitton mini-dress.
Five Tech-Savvy Fashion Labels To Watch From Asia
In a world where technological advancements are rapidly evolving, fashion – a multi-billion-dollar industry – is not about to shy away from innovation.
While there is much allure and satisfaction to be found in the old school, traditional way of designing clothes, there are a small group of designers who are breaking the mold, determined to mesmerize consumers with novel and futuristic creations. Ultimately, the future of fashion is about to be more than just simple textiles and serve more than just the typical purpose of clothes.
With everything from interactive fabrics to 3D printing, specialized lighting and utilitarian wizardry to serve us in this brave new world, here are 5 cutting-edge labels in Asia who're spearheading this fashion tech frontier.
Ying Gao – China
The China-born designer, Ying Gao, attended university at the Haute École d'arts Appliqués in Geneva, Switzerland and pursued a Master's Degree in Multimedia at L'Université du Québec, where she increasingly focused her design efforts on merging style with technology.
Her range of interactive apparel is crafted in such a way that they respond to different elements in the environment – including sounds, gaze and the human presence. For instance the moment she saw how dressmaker pins made certain sounds when being moved on a fitting mannequin, she was inspired to create a dress where the pins moved in a similarly fluid motion when triggered by ambient sounds.
Besides creating these impressive sound-activated garments, Ying Gao has also dabbled with eye-tracking technology and apparel that interact solely with human presence. Her experimental and out-of-the-box ideas merge technology with style, and are always intended to wow audiences.
Junya Watanabe – Japan
Apprentice to Rei Kawakubo, founder of the label, Commes des Garçons, Junya Watanabe can be heralded for his impressive use of innovative fabrics and textures. Through fabric manipulation, Watanabe effectively translates futuristic ideas into wildly creative designs earning him the title, 'techno couture' designer.
With a keen focus in synthetic and technologically-advanced materials, it's safe to say his collections are always hotly anticipated each season.
Take, for example, one of his most talked about innovations – a solar powered trench coat that provides on-the-go charging for a smartphone, created for his Fall/ Winter 2016 collection. Not only is the coat innovative in concept, it also serves to address a very real modern day problem – fueling a constantly drained smartphone.
Issey Miyake – Japan
As one of the early pioneers of incorporating technology in garments, Japanese designer, Issey Miyake is one to watch. Whether it's creating an entire collection from one roll of cloth to textile technology, the 79-year-old strongly believes in the many possibilities tech has to offer the fashion industry.
One of the brand's latest innovations is the 3DStretchSteam, which is a type of fabric that contracts into 3D patterns when exposed to steam. Creating this involved computer software that calculated the composition of different cotton and polyester weaves. The result is origami-esque clothing that gives the illusion of being folded by steam.
Despite being a strong supporter of technological innovation, Miyake toldCNN that he still aims to "combine [fashion] with traditional handcrafts, and in fact use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost."
Vega Wang – China
Coming from a family of electronic engineers, the Beijing-based designer, Vega Wang is no stranger to technology. For her senior collection while at Central Saint Martins, she was inspired by the creatures in BBC's Blue Planet documentary series to create luminescent designs by usingelectroluminescent technology. The project also offered an opportunity for her to stay close to – and collaborate with – her parents.
Wang's design aesthetic carries a bold, distinctive charm that is visually captivating and speaks volumes of the sheer creativity and intricacy involved. Alongside her unique interpretation of the human form, geometric shapes and cultural references, she has developed an impressive following in the field – a worthy achievement in and of itself.
Melinda Looi – Malaysia
Though the Malaysian fashion designer doesn't incorporate technology in all of her collections or designs, Melina Looi was a key part of the team behind Asia's first 3D printed fashion show. Working in conjunction with a Belgian-based additive manufacturing company, the show featured 5 avian-inspired works – from a skirt, to shoes, cape, necklace and wedges – which took a team of 6 to 8 people months to complete.
From this, Looi has found a new love for marrying fashion with technology while still creating a collection that is very natural and organic.
Afro-Athleisure – fashion theme at Saturday's
As the fashion challenge theme for this year, "AFRO-ATHLEISURE" will inspire designers to come up with original designs to produce garments that embrace the traditional style of horse racing, paying homage to the athleticism and skill displayed by the jockeys. The expected result is an enchanted assembly of authentic Afrocentric garments that radically transform horse racing attire towards traditional cultural aesthetic.
According to Xolani Zulu, the interim Managing Director of the KZN Fashion Council, the fashion theme will be extended beyond the Dundee July to cover the entire rural horse racing calendar. This saw fashion designers from participating districts given training by the KZN Fashion Council, to interpret the theme and gave them guidance to create and style looks that will be of high quality and eligible to compete on any respected fashion platform.
The above mentioned theme is intentionally and specifically targeting both the commercial and the developmental opportunities presented by the event of the magnitude of the Dundee July, and by extension, the rural horse racing cluster in its entirety.
Selected designers from the fashion challenge will be targeted for further specialized mentorship and incubation, empowering them to supply rural horse racing uniforms and related promotional merchandise, in a partnership between the KZNFC, DSR, EDTEA and LED's from participating municipalities.
Though it is based in Durban, with eThekwini Municipality as one of its founders, the KZN Fashion Council is also funded by the provincial department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs. This explains the busy calendar; after successful Durban July fashion shows with KZN Tourism, KZNFC has been preparing designers in uMzinyathi District Municipality for the upcoming Dundee July.
At the end of July the organization will be sending 15 designers to exhibit local fashion at Pure London , in the United Kingdom.
Zulu believes that empowering designers is at the heart of the Council's operational strategy and as such, the platforms like the Dundee July do well to also prioritize designers and their creative work. "Our Dundee July activities and participation is well placed to develop, profile and empower our beneficiaries, they are the stars of the Dundee July 2017 Fashion Element and Show, ".
The End of an Era: Colette to Close Its Doors
PARIS, France — Colette, the renowned Parisian boutique, is closing down after 20 years.
"As all good things must come to an end, after 20 wonderful years, Colette should be closing its doors on December 20 of this year," the company said in a statement. "Colette Roussaux has reached the time when she would like to take her time; and Colette cannot exist without Colette."
Saint Laurent is in talks to take over the Rue Saint-Honoré location, the company said. "Negotiations are under way with Saint Laurent and we would be proud to have a brand with such a history, with whom we have frequently collaborated, taking over our address," the statement read. "We are happy of the serious interest expressed by Saint Laurent in this project, and it could also represent a very good opportunity for our employees."
The boutique was founded in 1997 by Colette Roussaux, and has been led by her daughter Sarah Andelman in recent years. Andelman also shared the news in a post on the Colette Instagram account this morning.
Andelman is famed for her discerning fashion edits and quirky mix of lifestyle products that have turned the store into one of Paris' premiere fashion pit-stops. Drawn to an eclectic mix of high fashion and edgy street labels alike, Andelman regularly showcases designs from up-and-coming designers and was one of the first to stock collections by Proenza Schouler, Mary Katrantzou and Rodarte.
The three-storey, 8,000-square-foot space is a veritable destination for fashion fans and consumers. It sells everything from niche film camera to accessibly-priced souvenirs and T-shirts, and was the go-to for exclusive launches of brands, special products, independent magazines and the fashion incarnation of the Apple Watch.
Though Saint Laurent is set to take over Colette's address, the relationship between the two companies hasn't always been friendly. In 2013 Colette carried about 300 "Ain't Laurent Without Yves" parody T-shirts, following Hedi Slimane's decision to change the company name from Yves Saint Laurent to Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent's commercial director demanded that the shirts be removed from Colette's online shop, and its chief executive sent Andelmen a letter "accusing her of selling counterfeit products that 'seriously damaged' the YSL brand and confirming the end of their business relationship." Andelman, who sold the remainder of the offending t-shirts in-store but not online, said at the time: "We have been excommunicated."
The wide range of products, including kitchenware, jewellery, books and toys made the retailer a location for multiple generations. "It's the only shop where I go because they have things no one else has," Karl Lagerfeld told BoF last year. "I buy watches, telephones, jewellery there — everything really! They have invented a formula that you can't copy easily, because there is only one Colette and her and Sarah are 200 percent involved."
Colette is also known for its combination of high-end ready to wear and streetwear, making it one of the first to embrace the fusion of luxury fashion with an edgy street aesthetic. "We started to work with people like Virgil [Abloh] before he started Off White, as well as OAMC's Luke Meier when he came from Supreme, and with the whole wave of designers like Hood By Air," Andelman told BoF last year. "At a certain point it didn't make sense to have them on the ground floor anymore, so they went up with the designers."
From around the clock dining in the Water Bar to a plethora of book signings, concerts and even panel discussions on sneaker culture, Colette's status as a hub for genuine cultural "happenings" helps to sustain and propagate the store's buzzy atmosphere, accented by the Givaudan-designed fig scent that wafts throughout the space and onto the street.
Earlier this year, H&M revealed a collaboration with Colette. The 'H&M Studio x Colette' line is expected to launch on 21 August and will be stocked in-store and online at Colette for two weeks, along with selected pieces from the main H&M Studio AW17 collection.
"We'll launch the H&M capsule on 21 August," she says. "And of course nothing change with our 'Le Relais' projects with Les Vacances de Lucien, Sacai, Thom Browne, Chanel and Saint Laurent on our first floor."
Andelman says that colette.fr will also close and that she will be focusing on "turning the page."
A former art student and Purple magazine intern, Andelman established Colette in 1997 alongside her mother Colette Roussaux, after whom the store is named. Andelman and Roussaux lived above the store.
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Ty Hunter stepped out on faith when he quit his job at an artificial heart valve company in Austin, TX and moved to Houston, TX.
"I was ready for a change," said the celebrity stylist, most known for his work with Beyoncé and Destiny's Child.
After becoming depressed at his former job, Hunter gave himself three months to find a career that actually made him happy. Eventually, he kickstarted the next phase of his life as a mannequin dresser in Galleria Mall, where he met Tina Knowles-Lawson, whom he refers to as "my other mother."
"She said 'I'm [going to] get you out of here one day.'," he recalled while described a call to Ms. Tina on his day off.
And the rest is history.
"I ended doing and the 'Survivor' video in two weeks and ended up at the Grammy's as well in 2 ½ weeks."
Through his experience as a stylist, Ty has picked up plenty of lessons, some of which he shared on the 2017 ESSENCE Festival Beauty & Style stage audience.
"I learned that you can be at the top of your game and still be humble," says Ty. "Be in your own lane…[Beyoncé] looks at what she did the last time. Not what the other girls did the last time."
He also had a few words of advice for aspiring stylists and those looking to get into the fashion industry.
"When you have the opportunity to be around somebody you admire. You gotta speak up," says Ty, who regularly shares inspirational posts decorated in bright yellow on his Instagram account. @tytryone.
"This is life. It's not a rehearsal. This is it. You have to go for it. You have to step up and speak up."
Check out Hunter's new athleisure clothing brand Six:02 at Six02.com.
London Fashion Week Switches Up September Schedule
ALL CHANGE: What a difference a day makes.
The British Fashion Council is singing the praises of the CFDA, which has agreed to leave a full day between the end of New York Fashion Week, and the start of the London showcase.
For the first time in a long time, editors won't have to climb on to the red eye to London after the final shows end in New York. Instead, New York will wrap up on Sept. 13, and London Fashion Week will begin on Sept. 15.
"Hats off to the CFDA," said Caroline Rush, chief executive officer of the BFC, which for years had watched as exhausted members of the fashion press skipped Friday's shows altogether or slogged through the day half-asleep.
"The move will strengthen the Friday and also allow young talent to see buyers in London at 180 Strand," the BFC's official show venue and exhibition space, Rush said. The BFC is set to release the provisional September schedule on Thursday.
As reported, the five-day week will have an international flavor, with Emporio Armani staging a show at 7 p.m. on Sept. 17, followed by a party to mark the unveiling of the newly renovated Emporio Armani Bond Street store.
Last year, the designer showed the Emporio collection in Paris. The last time Armani showed in London was during his "One Night Only" event in 2006.
Tommy Hilfiger, meanwhile, will close London with a see-now-buy-now runway event that's previously taken place in New York and Los Angeles.
Hilfiger will stage his TommyNow experiential runway event on Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. at the city's Roundhouse concert venue.
In other news, Burberry has switched its show to Saturday night at 7 p.m. while Roland Mouret, who shows the following day, will be marking his 20th anniversary in fashion during the week. Nicopanda will be showing for the first time in London, at 6 p.m. on Saturday just before Burberry.
The showcase will open on Friday with catwalk shows by NewGen funding recipients Paula Knorr and Richard Malone, while labels including Shrimps, Faustine Steinmetz, Roberta Einer and Ashley Williams will also show on the day.


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The recently concluded 2012 legislative session may have been quick – just under three months, as prescribed by law – but lawmakers were able to achieve some major legislative victories for the people of Indiana.
Chief among those accomplishments was passage of a Right to Work law for our state. In Northeast Indiana, the average wage 20 years ago was 102 percent of the national average. Today that wage is only 78 percent of the national average. Our economic development experts in Northeast Indiana were unanimous in their support of Right to Work, having seen scores of companies reject Indiana as a site for new or expanded operations because we were not a Right to Work state. Despite all of our successful efforts in recent years to create a positive business and job creation climate in Indiana, many companies will only locate in a Right to Work state.
This week, Gov. Mitch Daniels noted that in just one short month since the Right to Work bill passed, 31 companies have shown interest in coming to Indiana because of this new law. I look forward to a number of announcements in the months ahead about new jobs coming to our state as a result of Indiana becoming the 23rd Right to Work state in America.
Taxpayers were also winners this session. Thanks to the hard work of Sen. Luke Kenley, Sen. Brandt Hershman, Rep. Jeff Espich and others, Hoosiers will see no new tax increases again this year. In fact, because lawmakers have held the line on spending during a severe national recession, taxpayers are on track to receive an automatic refund next year from the state's excess reserves.
Hoosiers will also be glad to know that after decades of failed attempts, lawmakers this year successfully eliminated the state's inheritance tax. As one of only eight states with such a tax, Indiana was chasing away many retirees who otherwise might have stayed here. That will no longer be the case.
Also, after many years of talk, full day kindergarten will finally be completely funded. Many studies show early childhood education is fundamentally important to a person's lifelong success, making this a big win for both our kids and Indiana's future as a global competitor.
The General Assembly passed legislation re-asserting the 150-year-old law ensuring the right to defend yourself in your home, a concept that was threatened by the Indiana Supreme Court's controversial ruling in the Barnes v. State case last year. At the same time, this legislation was very carefully crafted to provide better protection for our law enforcement officers.
New laws also eliminated nepotism and conflicts of interest in local government; college credit transferability was streamlined to help students transfer more easily between state institutions; stronger laws were enacted to fight the explosion of dangerous synthetic drugs, as well as the scourge of human trafficking; victims of last year's state fair tragedy were provided additional financial assistance; and a statewide smoking ban was finally passed after many previous attempts had failed. The list goes on and on.
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When i use SMB to access my shares there are some files that do not show up. For instance my SMB share would go into a folder called TV, from there i go to walking dead, if i go to season 1 all the files are viewable, if i go to season 2 I can open the folder but can't see any files. I can see the files if a navigate via another PC I just can't see them when I use try through my HMPC.
I'm running an Acer Aspire REVO with LIVE XBMC v10.
The files I'm trying to view are .MKV, and I'm not trying to view them in libary view I'm trying to access via the directory. The only common thread I can think of is the non navigatable files all seem to be newer files and it id generally everything in the folder that is missing. ALthough I have one folder with some episodes of a Tv series that were downloaded lsat year that are viewable but ones downloaded this year are not.
Is there a certain form of .MKV that doesn't work in linux?
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Check the permissions on the files.
Also are you sharing them from Windows or Linux?
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(2012-04-30 22:37)drivesoslow Wrote: Check the permissions on the files.
I'm sharing them from windows 7 to xbmc live.
I think you may have spotted the issue, the files i can see are shared to Everyone, System, My login, Administrators.
The files I can't see are shared with Authenticated users, System, Administrators, Users.
I've tried deleting the share and reapplying it but it still gives the same result. Any ideas how I get round this?
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You need to alter the permissions on the files themselves, not the share.
Alternatively, turn off guest access and have the XBMC system log into your share with a valid username and password that does have permission to view the files.
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Right click on the folder(s) you're sharing, get properties, go to the sharing tab, click advanced sharing, click permissions, make sure that the user that XBMC is logging in with has read permissions.
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Presious Passion, who bounced back from a ninth-place finish in last year's Sunshine Millions Turf at Gulfstream Park to become a grade I winner, invades Santa Anita for the 2009 renewal Jan. 24.
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Mr. Wolverine spoiled the return of California star Lava Man in the $150,000 TVG Khaled Stakes April 27, getting control at the eighth pole and ambling to a 1 3/4-length victory at Hollywood Park.
The return of three-time Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I) winner Lava Man and a 13-horse field in the richest event of the day, the $250,000 Cal National Snow Chief Stakes, highlights the $1.3-million Cal National Gold Rush program at Hollywood Park April 27.
Peter Vegso homebred War Monger came from well off the pace, moved into contention around the final turn, and caught pacesetter Lucky J.H. in mid-stretch en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the $500,000 Sunshine Millions Turf Jan. 26 at Gulfstream Park.
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Making his first start for trainer Michael Machowsky, Bedlam Bertie demolished his competition in Sunday's $134,375 Sensational Star Handicap for California-breds at Santa Anita.
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The guitar-driven ballad features romantic lyrics belted out by the country music beauty and the 'Lego House' singer.
Another song from Taylor Swift's "Red" album has made its way out online. The unofficial audio features her and Ed Sheeran performing their duet "Everything Has Changed" during what seems to be a live recording of an acoustic jam session.
"All I know is we said hello/ And your eyes looked like coming home/ All I know is you said my name/ And everything has changed," the two sing the chorus of the guitar-driven ballad together. "All I know is you held the door/ You'll be mine and I'll be yours/ All I know since yesterday is/ Everything has changed."
Swift and Sheeran's duet was written in her backyard. "We were just talking about the feeling of when you first meet someone and all of a sudden the way that the world looks to you changes," she said of the song. "Like everything looks different to you because of this one person, because one new person came into your life. It's really cool."
As for how the collaboration came about, the "Begin Again" songstress revealed, "I had management reach out and at the same time he was having his management reach out to me because we both wanted to work together at the same time."
"Red", where "Everything Has Changed" will appear, will officially come out October 22 Stateside, but the full set has now leaked online. Its first single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" debuted atop Billboard Hot 100 upon its release, making it Swift's first No. 1 single on the chart.


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Ambrose fights up and out but Orton dropkicks him for 2. Triple H comes back in and drops Ambrose. Triple H with lefts and rights in the corner. Triple H runs into a big boot but nails a spinebuster on Ambrose for another 2 count. Batista tags in to more big boos. Batista with an elbow off the ropes for another pin attempt. Another "you can't wrestle chant" starts as Batista has a submission applied. Ambrose breaks the hold but gets dropped with a boot. Triple H comes back in. Ambrose backdrops Triple H and drops him with a DDT. Reigns and Batista come in. Batista goes down. Reigns also hits Orton. Reigns with a big right hand off the ropes on Batista. And another. Reigns with a splash in the corner and a right hand on Batista. Orton gets clotheslined over the top. Reigns hits the big apron dropkick on Batista. He takes out Triple H and Orton on the floor too. Reigns comes back in but Batista grabs him for a Batista Bomb. Rollins leaps in and breaks that up. Reigns with a Superman punch on Batista. Reigns mocks Batista and goes for the triple powerbomb. They hit it and Triple H and Orton stop the pin at 2. Orton and Ambrose brawl on the floor. Rollins leaps out but misses and hits the barrier. Triple H nails a Pedigree on Reigns in the ring. Batista is the legal man. Ambrose runs in and brawls back out of the ring with Triple H. Batista covers Reigns for a 2 count. Orton crawls in and nails a RKO on Reigns. Batista covers but Rollins breaks the pin at 2. Orton pulls Rollins out and they brawl on the floor.
A cameraman goes down as the brawl is all over the floor. Triple H and Orton work over Rollins in the timekeeper's area. Ambrose runs across the tables and leaps onto them. Ambrose and Rollins brawl into the crowd with Triple H and Orton. They fight high up the steps. Orton goes down. Ambrose tumbles down a flight of stairs. Orton and Triple H stalk Ambrose down the steps. Rollins is still down somewhere. Batista and Reigns are still down in the ring. Out of nowhere, Rollins leaps from a balcony up high from the stands and takes out Triple H, Orton and Ambrose. Batista and Reigns get up. Reigns eats a spinebuster. Fans boo Batista. Batista goes for a Batista Bomb but Reigns slides out and nails a Superman punch. Reigns readies for a spear and nails it for the win.
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- After the match, we see Ambrose, Rollins, Orton and Triple H still down up on the steps. Reigns gets up as The Shield music hits and we go to replays. Reigns heads up to where they are and The Shield pose together.
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More back and forth. Cena with a suplex to a lot of boos. Cena looks to climb up the cage and is met with stares from Rowan and Harper. Cena jumps back down but Wyatt drops him with a right hand. We get the dueling Cena chants now. Cena blocks a shot into the steel and fights back. Bray blocks him and tosses Cena into the steel. Wyatt keeps control and covers for a 2 count. The cage door is opened and Wyatt goes to leave but Cena stops him. Cena catapults Wyatt head first into the cage. Cena climbs the cage again but Rowan and Harper taunt him on the other side. Cena climbs over the top of the cage but Wyatt grabs him by the head and pulls him back over. Cena knocks Wyatt to the mat. Cena climbs back over the top but here comes Wyatt. Bray brings him back over and they trade shots on the top rope. Cena knocks Bray back down. Bray crotches Cena on the top. Cena turns upside down in the corner and Bray splashes him for a 2 count.
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Mississippi has its first black major-party nominee for governor in modern times after Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree won Tuesday's Democratic primary runoff.
DuPree, 57, faces Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant in the Nov. 8 general election.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who heads the Democratic Governors Association, said DuPree "has helped move Mississippi forward" and pledged the national organization's assistance.
Phil Cox, the executive director of the Republican Governors Association, said DuPree "supports policies that will hurt job creators" and said Bryant is "the only candidate voters can trust to build upon the progress Mississippi has made over the last eight years."
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour could not seek a third term.
As our Gannett colleagues at The Hattiesburg American note, Bryant has a substantial financial advantage and has spent $3.1 million on his campaign, more than twice the combined spending of DuPree and his runoff opponent, Bill Luckett.
Will Oatis, who also is African-American, is running as an independent.
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The crowd flowed all night, 20 people wide and a kilometre long, from the Tiber River into St Peter's. They brought coats and blankets for the cold night, caps and parasols for the sun.
They were mainly Italians but there were Indians, Chileans, Africans and many Polish flags, and they all moved quietly up Via della Conciliazone and into St Peter's, where Pope John Paul II lay in state. One roughly painted banner said: "We are not afraid - you are with us".
By yesterday morning more than half a million had taken a last look at the waxen face - the cheeks perhaps a little pinkened by the embalmers - of the 84-year-old pontiff. Sydney Archbishop George Pell, in Rome for Friday's funeral and the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, called it an event "unprecedented in papal history".
The waiting pilgrims talked on mobile phones or filmed their journey, as they passed huge screens showing the body inside the church. Latin chants played from speakers along the road.
"I've come to see him make his journey to paradise," said Aniello Bagnati, 19, who stood with seven or eight friends from Herculaneum near Naples. How a frail, old, and conservative Pole inspired such devotion among so many young people is one of the mysteries of this papacy.
Carolina Capitanio came with edelweiss. Before boarding the bus that drove all Monday night from Milan to Rome she had plucked the white flower from her home in Bergamo in the foothill of the Alps.
In 1997 she had taken her son Mose, then 12, to see the Pope at a youth gathering in Paris. He couldn't come yesterday because he is on military service but in the group with Mrs Capitanio was Angelica dei Vecchi, 18.
"My grandfather died when I was young and he was like my grandfather," she said.
Angelica only ever saw the Pope on TV and once, far away, in St Peter's Square. But like many others keeping vigil, she considered "il Papa" - which in Italian means both Pope and father - as family.
On Monday afternoon, the Herald joined a line of journalists and 1500 Vatican employees - about half the total - who viewed the body in the Clementina Room. Entering the ornate room covered in Baroque frescoes where diplomats present their credentials, visitors saw first the upraised soles of the Pope's black leather shoes.
Two Swiss Guards, carrying pikes and dressed in their uniform of red, yellow and blue stripes, stood guard as a single paschal candle flickered by the body. Sun streamed through open windows.
Pope John Paul lay on a catafalque beneath a simple, black cross bearing a white Christ. The Pope's seal, taken at the moment of death, was absent but he wore a gold ring and a rosary was entwined in his pale fingers.
Priests and lay people prayed in pews on either side, but there were no tears. The mood of the room matched that of the crowds in the square, which has been relief, as well as sadness, since the Pope died on Saturday night.
All week the square has felt like a medieval pageant, with flags fluttering, people playing guitars and singing religious songs, and shrines of candles and offerings formed around lamp posts and the two fountains known as 'Scripture' and 'Tradition'.
At 5pm on Monday, led by a procession of choristers, priests, bishops and cardinals, the Pope's body made its final journey on a bier from the Clementina Room in the Vatican Palace, through the Bronze Door and into St Peter's Square. When the bier reached the square the crowd burst into applause. The air was thick with incense as people jostled to see and photograph the body. The former actor Karol Wojtyla had performed his final exit scene, on a 17th century set designed by Michelangelo, Bramante and Bernini, in the kind of spectacle only the Catholic Church can stage.
After the procession climbed the stairs into the church, a section of the crowd began to chant: "Santo! Santo!" ("Saint! Saint!") The canonisation campaign had well and truly begun.
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The Espuela Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., a British syndicate, founded the Spur Ranch in the early 1880s. The ranch was located in Dickens, Kent, Crosby, and Garza counties of West Texas and encompassed approximately 439,000 acres
The materials were donated by the Swenson Land and Cattle Company, owner of the Spur Ranch, and Clifford B. Jones, a former president of Texas Technological College and the son of Charles A. Jones, who was a manager for the Spur Ranch.
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Hey I was wondering, I had my chapter 7 discharged on 5/25/2010 by the Western District Court of NC with all debts discharged except my student loans. Today I was contacted by the lender for my vehicle which was surrendered under the bankruptcy (It was a piece of junk anyways) and they said in a letter that "We have repossessed your vehicle because of default and you have 10 days to pay the full balance or we will sell your vehicle off at auction at which point you will be liable for the balance"...The letter was dated on 06/02/2010. I was wondering, I have spoken with my lawyer about it and he said to document everything I've said to them and he thinks there is enough to file suit against them. When I called them they said "You'll still be liable for the debt" even after mentioning the discharge like 6 times. Do you think there is a possible case here against them?
Response: Yes, the lender is in clear violation of your discharge injunction. The attempts to collect on the debt by the lender are illegal. If they persist on calling you, you would need to file a Motion with the Bankruptcy Court to reopen your case in order to file action against the lender for violation of the Bankruptcy Code Discharge Injunction. The debt that the lender is trying to collect was properly discharged in your bankruptcy filing since you did not reaffirm the debts and you surrendered the property. Their persistent efforts to collect the debt after they have been told of the discharge is willful violation of your bankruptcy Discharge Order. See 11 U.S. C. Section 524. You would reopen your case pursuant to 11 U.S.C. Section 350(b).
Now we did have issues with surrendering the vehicle. After numerous attempts by my lawyer to get them to take the vehicle back, the only reason they took it back is because I dropped the insurance on it and turned the plate into the state's DMV. That wouldn't affect anything would it?
Response 1: No, that would not affect anything. The bankruptcy Code does not require you to do something more after declaring your intention to surrender the vehicle. It is up to the lender to decide how and when to take possession of the collateral.
I mean the debt was discharged regardless.
Response 2: Yes.
Also, what does it do to a discharge in the event we reopen the case and file the motion?
Response 3: Nothing. You are only reopening the case to file the Motion. Your case may not be closed yet. So, there may not be a need to reopen the case. Sometimes, cases are closed months after the discharge order. Your attorney should be able to tell you whether your case is still open.
I would still be granted the discharge after the issue has been resolved in the courts right?
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