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Inception of the Northern European Ice Sheet due to contrasting ocean and insolation forcing (Elsevier, 2007-01)About 115,000 years ago the last interglacial reached its terminus and nucleation of new ice sheet growth was initiated. Evidence from the northernmost Nordic Seas indicate that the inception of the last glacial was ...Journal articlePeer reviewed
Indian Ocean: Validation of the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model and ENSO events during 1958–1998 (American Geophysical Union, 2002-05-25)In the Indian Ocean, in situ data are sparse both in time and space. Therefore, numerical models are one of the major tools for further understanding of the ocean circulation. We have implemented, validated, and done a 40 ...Journal article
Individuell plan som virkemiddel for ledelse og samordning av tjenester i kommunene (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2013-06)In this report, commissioned by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, the system of Individual Plans (IP) is evaluated. An individual plan is a right for people with long term and complex health care ...Research report
Influence of Capillary Pressure on Estimation of Relative Permeability for Immiscible WAG Processes (The University of Bergen, 2008-04-30)Capillary pressure is one of the important parameters when describing flow in porous media. This parameter is nevertheless in some cases neglected, especially if no reliable measured data is available. The purpose of ...Journal article
Influence of horizontal model grid resolution on the simulated primary production in an embedded primary production model in the Norwegian Sea (Elsevier, 2009)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of horizontal grid resolution in a physical model on an embedded primary production model. The area for the experiment was along the west coast of Norway, from 60◦N ...Journal article
The Influence of large convective eddies on the surface-layer turbulence (Royal Meteorological Society, 2006-06)Close to the surface large coherent eddies consisting of plumes and downdraughts cause convergent winds blowing towards the plume axes, which in turn cause wind shears and generation of turbulence. This mechanism strongly ...Journal article
The Influence of Vertical Mixing on the Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (The University of Bergen, 2006-12-05)Doctoral thesis
Influensapandemien høsten 2009: Henvendelser til legevakt (Nasjonalt kompetansesenter for legevaktmedisin, Uni Helse, Uni Research, 2010-04)I forbindelse med den forventede influensapandemien høsten 2009 tok Allmennmedisinsk forskningsenhet Bergen initiativ til en bredt anlagt undersøkelse for å studere sykdommen og dens konsekvenser. Nasjonalt kompetansesenter ...Research report
Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsarbeidets rolle i det reformerende sykehusvesenet (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2012-12)The Norwegian hospital field is subject to a series of continuous change processes. The comprehensive reforms introduced over the two last decades coincide with a clear increase in the number of information and communication ...Working paper
Institusjonelle endringsprosesser i norsk fag- og yrkesutdanning. Fornyelse eller gradvis omdannelse? (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2008-05)In the last decade's educational reforms apprenticeship has developed into a general template for all qualification processes in Norwegian VET leading up to a formal certificate as a skilled worker. As a result the ...Working paper
Institutional Conditions and the Responsibilities of Universities (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2004-11)The focus of the paper is on institutional values and organizational forms in universities. Before starting the analysis, a theoretical framework for understanding institutional change is outlined. It is based on a ...Working paper
The Institutional Construction of Consumerism. A study of Implementing Quality indicators (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2004-11)This paper provides a critical analysis of the linkages between rising consumerism and the development of performance measurement practices in the Norwegian health care sector. Addressing this issue, we draw on Hensman's ...Working paper
Instituttstruktur og fakultetsorganisering ved HF-fakultetet, Universitetet i Bergen (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2005-05)At an inter-faculty meeting in the spring of 2004, The Faculty of Arts (HF) at the University of Bergen (UiB) took the initiative to evaluate the institute structure. Today's organisation of institutes was last changed ...Working paper
Integrering av kjønnsperspektiv i offentlig tjenesteproduksjon og planlegging (Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, 2004-05)Local authorities of the city of Bergen and the county of Hordaland have cooperated in a pilot project: To adjust services to women and men – developing methods for better user contentment. The aim of the project has ...Working paper
Intellectual Practicians: An Exploration of Professionalism among Upper Secondary School Teachers with Icelandic Mother Tongue Teachers as a Contextualized Empirical Case (The University of Bergen, 2015-05-21)The study Intellectual practicians explores an educational practice; more particularly that of mother tongue teachers in upper secondary school in Iceland as experienced and described by some of these ...Doctoral thesis
Intentional ethics and hermeneutics in the Libellus de symoniacis: Bruno of Segni as a papal polemicist (Routledge, 2009)The Investiture Contest has at regular intervals been considered as a 'revolution', largely because it contributed forcefully to the reorganisation of the Church in the centuries to come. But the Contest has also been seen ...Journal article
Interannual controls on Weddell Sea surface water fCO2 during the autumn–winter transition phase (Elsevier, 2004-06)The fugacity of carbon dioxide (fCO2) of the surface waters of the Weddell Sea along the prime meridian has been described for the austral autumn in 1996 and 1998. For individual years, fCO2 has a strong linear relationship ...Journal articlePeer reviewed
Interannual variability and ventilation timescales in the ocean cavity beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica (American Geophysical Union, 2004-04-20)Multiyear time series of ocean current and temperatures from beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, demonstrate both seasonal and interannual variability. The seasonal signal is visible at all measurement sites, ...Journal article
Interannual variability in the wintertime air–sea flux of carbon dioxide in the northern North Atlantic, 1981–2001 (Elsevier, 2003)Gridded fields of sea surface temperature (SST), sea level pressure (SLP), and wind speed were used in combination with data for the atmospheric mole fraction of CO2 and an empirical relationship between measured values ...Journal articlePeer reviewed


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Button Me Up is an online shop devoted to selling unique vintage bracelets, rings and earrrings that are made entirely out of vintage buttons. These pieces are extremely affordable, all being under $20. You will not find such great pieces out there that are this affordable. All pieces are hand-crafted, giving them that personal touch! They made great gifts as well!

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Lady Gaga "Applause" Music Video Premiere
Lady Gaga appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" where she also debuted the video for her new song, "Applause." Many Little Monsters, her fans, gathered in Times Square to cheer her on after missing Gaga for months.
Well, Gaga is back and better than ever in her new video, especially after her hip injury. Mother Monster rocks tons of different looks, showing off her very fit and in-shape bod, in her first music video in quite a while - and the first music video to her album ARTPOP. It's a masterpiece!
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Office of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan
CONCORD – Governor Maggie Hassan will deliver her FY 2014/FY 2015 budget address before a joint session of the New Hampshire House and Senate. Governor Hassan's address will outline her fiscally responsible, balanced budget proposal that focuses on innovation, economic growth and creating good jobs that can support a strong middle class.
Media is advised to be in place no later than 9:45 a.m. with proceedings expected to begin at 10:00 a.m.
WHAT: Governor Hassan to Deliver Budget Address to Joint Session of House and Senate
WHEN: Thursday, February 14, 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Representatives Hall, State House, Concord


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Gothic Mermaid Racer Tank
Mermaid Day is the most fabulous day of the entire year in Coney Island! Infinite variations of colorful, gilttering Mermaids descend upon Coney Island in full regalia. This Lola Star tee was inspired by the saucy goth vixen mermaid.
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Who was Joseph Lyles Jr's father?
Joseph Jr. and Rock Springs Baptist Church
Joseph Lyles, Junior, was either one of the many sons of Hugh Isham Lyles (born about 1795) or a son of the elder Joseph Lyles (1792-1870). In 1861 at age 43, he enlisted in the 2nd South Carolina Rifles, Company C, though he was sent home again after a few months because of his asthma, which his army doctor called "incurable." His doctor notwithstanding, Joseph Jr. lived another 38 years. (See his army discharge.) His family flourished, and his descendants still live in Oconee County and nearby today. He was probably a close kinsman of William Albert Lyles, perhaps a cousin or even a brother. Whatever the family ties were, after the mid-1850s when William A. Lyles moved up to Mountain Rest, S.C, the two kinsmen and their descendants apparently had little contact with each other.
The 1868 Oconee tax records list Joseph Lyles Jr. as "Joseph W. Liles." For a while we were uncertain as to which family name the "W" referred: William or Wesley. Recently, we have been in contact with the great-granddaughter of Jonas Lyles. His first son, her grandfather, was named Joseph William Lyles after his grandfather.
the children of Joseph and Letty Ann Lyles
Jonas (or Jonah) Lyles. May 26, 1846 to ?? In 1864, he joined Company C, 2nd South Carolina Rifles and was later parolled at Appomattox in April 1865. In 1866, he was listed as a member of Rock Springs Baptist Church, just west of Westminster, SC. He married Mary Matissa Hendrix and moved to Texas at the end of 1878 or the beginning of 1879. They had five children--Joseph W. Lyles (Jan. 13, 1879 to July 28, 1964), Ora Lyles Keathly, Cora Bell Lyles Inman, Arlie J. Lyles, and Armentia Lyles Lisby.
Vermelia Arrinda Lyles. June 15, 1848 to April 4, 1880. She married William Rains on May 3, 1879.
- Rebecca Frances Lyles. July 9, 1850 to ??. She married Joseph Pitts on August 15, 1873.
- Letty Ann Arzilla Lyles. September 21, 1852 to June 21, 1855. (Does her name echo the names of Zilla Ward Lyles, wife of Joseph, Sr, and of Zillah Lyles, the younger daughter of William A. Lyles?)
- Nancy Jane Lyles. September 1854 to ??
- Deborah Ann Salina Lyles. February 11, 1857 to ?? She married John Harvey on April 5, 1874.
- Martha Rachel Lyles. May 10, 1860 to ?? She married Jess Honeycutt.
- John William (Bill) Lyles. May 1, 1862 to November 7, 1937. He married Mary Louisa Brown, and they had two known children--Paul Jones (Bud) Lyles and Pearle Lyles Pitts.
the children of Joseph and Elizabeth Ann Lyles
- Mary Ellen Lyles. July 26, 1865 to June 25, 1958. She married Robert A. Adams (October 1864 to ??).
Julia Pickens Lyles. April 20, 1868 to ??. She married Colonel Chambers.
Samuel Jason Lyles. January 5, 1870 to 1952. He married Dora (Rosabelle) Carter (September 1858 to 1930).
Letty Ann Lyles. July 18, 1872 to ?? She married Oscar Carter.
Sally Louisa Lyles. March 7, 1874. She married William Smith.
Hettie Josephine Lyles. October 8, 1877 to ?? She married John Henry Long.
Who was the father of Joseph Lyles Junior--
Hugh Isham Lyles or Joseph Lyles, Senior?
- At first glance, there's no question about Joseph Lyles Junior's parentage. After all, Joseph Lyles Senior's probate names Hugh Isham Liles as the father of Joseph Junior. But one of Joseph Junior's grandsons testifies otherwise. He says that his own father, Samuel Jason Lyles, did not hestiate to name Joseph Liles Senior as his grandfather.
- Since Amy's notes state that our William Albert Lyles had a brother Joseph and since we are inclined to believe that Samuel Jason Lyles was likely to know the identity of his own grandfather, we have continued gathering evidence on the puzzle of the Joseph Senior-Joseph Junior-William Albert relationship. This page presents what we know so far.
- The Probate of Joseph Lyles Senior
- Even though Joseph Lyles Senior's probate record is the explicit authority for the notion that Joseph Junior was a son of Hugh Isham and Jenny Lyles, we don't trust it very far.
- In his will, Joseph Liles Senior explicitly named only his wife Zillah; he lumped all the other family members as "my legal Heirs." Whether he used this term because he expected everyone to know who his legal heirs were or because he had other reasons, we can't tell.
- Why indeed did Joseph Senior write a will at all? In our research in Oconee County, we have been struck by just how few people wrote wills or had their estates put through probate. For example, the Oconee County probate books show only one Lyles entry between 1870 (Joseph Senior's will) and 1948 (William Clifton Lyles). It appears that the only time folk wrote wills--so it seems--is when they suspected that the natural course of inheritance would not produce the desired results. Why then did Joseph write a will? Was it because Zillah, thirty years old when she married the 57-year-old Joseph, wanted a will to thwart Joseph's estate from going to his children?
- A right fair odor of strangeness surrounds the will and the probate. In the will and codicil devised (by Joseph Senior or someone else) in December 1869 and January 1870, Joseph appointed E. P. Verner his executor. Yet when one J.J. Norton appeared on behalf of Verner before Styles P. Dendy, Judge of Probate Court, he spoke as if there were no will at all of "Joseph Liles of the County and State aforesaid who died INTESTATE." Huh? There WAS a will. Did he and the judge suspect something was wrong it? Or Norton was simply very confused? After all, he went on to declare that Joseph was "unmarried"--a contention that Norton's client, Verner, and probably most of Westminster knew was not so.
- Even more peculiar, neither the will nor the probate documents ever mentioned William Albert Lyles, although he was clearly a member of the family and well known to Verner. And even curiouser and curiouser, Zillah seemed deliberately to thumb her nose at the rest of the family by selling the real estate for a pittance so that the heirs' legacy dwindled to a meager handful of dollars.
- The probate stretched out over at least 24 years. In going through the probate records there is a clue to the end of the travails of Joseph Liles, Sr. At the point when Joseph Lyles Junior became the ADMINISTRATOR of the estate there is a clue is in the line "amt rec from EST of E. P. Verner." The Oconee Cemetery records show that Ebenezer Pettigrew Verner died 27 Jan 1891 and was buried at the old Retreat Presbyterian Church. So the final action took place after that date and before 1894, when Martha A. Liles signed a receipt for her share. This was probably the first payout that the family--other than Zillah--had received.
- In the end, the Judge of Probate abrogated the peculiar will. By 1894, Zillah was dead (she was born about 1815), and the court appointed an intestate administrator (not an executor), Joseph, Jr., who followed his instructions and made a 1/3 distribution to the heirs of two brothers and the one known sister. Joseph Jr's fee as administrator apparently came from Hugh Isham's share.
- The Census records of 1840 and 1850
- The censuses of 1840 and 1850 make us suspect that Joseph Jr was not from the Hugh Isham Lyles family. Hugh Isham Liles himself does not appear in the census records until 1840 (where was he in 1830?), and although the 1840 records do not give the names of the household members, we can make some interesting inferences by comparing the 1840 and 1850 records.
- The particular question that we wish to ask is "where was Joseph Junior in 1840?" Based on analyzing the census records we suspect that he was NOT in Hugh Isham's household. The reasoning involves constructing an 1840 census record based on 1850's census, then comparing the actual and constructed records:
- 1850
- H. Isham Lyles 55 M
- Jenny 50 F
- Hugh 27 M
- Martha 25 F
- Samuel 23 M
- Lewis 21 M
- William 18 M
- John 13 M
- Deborah 11 F
- James 10 M
- Joshua 9 M
- Nancy Jane 8 F
- inferred ages 1840
- 1 M? (born 1839)
- would not appear?
- would not appear?
- actual 1840 ages
- 1 (Male 40-50 yr) Hugh
- 1 (Female 40-50 yr) Jenny
- 1 (Male 15-20 yr) Hugh Jr.
- 1 (Female 10-15 yr) Martha
- 1 (Male 10-15 yr) Samuel
- 1 (Male 5-10 yr) Lewis?
- 1 (Male 5-10 yr) William?
- 1 (Male 5-10 yr) John?
- 1 (Female 5-10 yr) ?
- 1 (Male under 5 yr) James?
- 1 (Male under 5 yr)
- 1 (Female under 5 yr) Deborah?
- total: 10 children should be 8 but, children often died in those days, especially younger ones.
- One point is obvious. Joseph Junior was 21 years old in 1840 and there is no evidence for a 21-year-old in Hugh Isham's household. Moreover, if Joseph, Jr. had been an older child of Isham, and assuming no infant deaths, there would have been about four years between Joseph and Hugh. Not reasonable since in the 1850 census the children are spread 2-3 years apart.
- Joseph, Jr. and wife Lettyanne were not married until July 1845, thus you would expect Joseph Junior to be present in the 1840 census. However, there is no room for Joseph in 1840. There is a complete match for the older males between the inferred 1840 census and the actual census.
- Joseph Junior was not in Hugh Isham Liles' household in 1840.
- Did Joseph Junior's convert late from the Methodists to the Baptists?
- The elder Joseph Lyles and William Albert Lyles were among the early Methodists in a county full of Baptists. So Joseph Junior's church affiliation was worth noting. Although he ultimately became an important member of Rock Springs Baptist Church, he evidently wasn't always a Baptist. The records of Rock Springs Baptist church show that he joined "by experience" during the July term of 1853 when he was 34 years old. (Coincidentally, this was about the time that Salem Methodist Church might have broken up.) Had Joseph Junior been a Baptist prior to 1853 he would have joined the church "by letter." We do not know in which church or churches Westley or Hugh Isham Liles were members, and we do not know where Joseph Junior was prior to 1853 (and we are researching these matters), but it is not unreasonable to suspect that he may have been a Methodist, which would have been consistent with his being from the family of the elder Joseph Lyles.
- Joseph Junior was literate
- David Lyles, Joseph Lyles Senior, and William Albert Lyles were all literate, as we can tell from their signatures on various document, especially deeds, while the older people in the households of Hugh Isham Lyles and Wesley Lyles could not read and write, according to the census records. Because the census of 1850 lists Joseph Junior as illiterate, we at first supposed that he didn't not fit into the family of Joseph Senior. But we now know the 1850 census was incorrect; Joseph Junior could read and write. Late in his life, he was secretary at Rock Springs Baptist Church, and the records show him to have a fine hand. He also served as Administrator for Joseph Senior's estate after E.P. Verner died. In that role he would have had to be literate. But there is no evidence that Hugh Isham or his older children were literate, so Joseph Junior doesn't seem to fit in that household.


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Gang War / Broken Strings
A pair of Harlem-based dramas makes up this vintage double-feature collection. In Gang War, blood fills the streets as rival gangsters, including the vicious Bob "Killer" Meade (Ralph Cooper), fight for top boss status using whatever ruthless means necessary. In Broken Strings, after a car accident cripples his hands, embittered violin virtuoso Arthur Williams (Clarence Muse) must cope with the loss of his talent.


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About Me
My name is Chris Crowe and I'm a PhD student at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, UK. I study cosmology and early universe physics, working on one of the highest-profile experiments going on at the moment (no, not CERN), Planck. I studied at Nottingham for my Masters degree in Physics and Theoretical Astrophysics before coming to Cambridge in 2008 to read for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (also known as the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, which is now a MMath). I did well enough to secure a PhD position in the brand new Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and I now work with George Efstathiou on technical issues relating to Planck's results (see physics section for more information). I like to play guitar, piano, compose music, occasionally go to the gym, even less frequently go snowboarding, and very occasionally indeed I like to go skateboarding. In fact, a few years ago I hashed together some footage that me and some friends took at the local skatepark and came up with this using only a Nokia mobile phone:
I also like to go skydiving when I can afford it, and would love to save up and take the AFF course. Sigh....one day!! This is me jumping perillously out of a plane at 13,000 feet a few years ago


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Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990.
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Dr. Holt's primary research interests are in the areas of reproductive epidemiology and intimate partner violence. Research projects include the impact of oral contraceptive use on ovarian cyst formation, the epidemiology of adenomyosis and endometriosis (with emphasis on reproductive and contraceptive risk factors), recent trends in ectopic pregnancy rates, and the association between body mass index and oral contraceptive failure. Dr. Holt also participates in several research projects concerning intimate partner violence, including the effects of protection orders and the justice system response to violence on the likelihood of subsequent violence and injury.


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The Swarm
Debunking the Myth That Michael Jackson Broke Down MTV's 'Racial Barrier,' and Exposing the Hypocritical Media That Reports It: A Daily Swarm Report...
Alex Sherman
Did Michael Jackson really break down the racial barrier at MTV? Or does CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff deserve the credit? How about neither. Michael Jackson achieved breathtaking commercial success during a period of major transformations in media. Indeed, Thriller broke so many records it forever reshaped Jackson's aura into an unstoppable force. But did MTV really have a racial barrier for Michael to break or was that just part of the hype? Alex Sherman reports:
Former CBS Records President Walter Yetnikoff standing with Michael Jackson, David Geffen, and Lynda Emon on the Victory Tour's opening night, 1984.
The day Michael Jackson died, cable news turned away from the turmoil in Iran to honor the passing of a legendary American entertainer. CNN had just earned a new term in the Twitter lexicon for its shoddy coverage of electoral theft, but the #CNNfail hashtag follows it from one breaking story to another for its hagiographic, hypocritical, and self-serving reporting on Michael Jackson's legacy.
I found myself glued to the TV that day and, like many readers, I've pored over countless stories about his legacy over the last week. The spontaneous celebration of his music that erupted in the streets of New York warmed my heart and made me wonder if there will there ever be another entertainer who, in spite of his flaws, had the power to bring so many people together across racial, ethnic, cultural, and political barriers.
But during the wall-to-wall coverage of Jackson's death, 24-hour cable news repeated ad nauseam the myth that Jackson was responsible for breaking down a racial barrier at MTV. CNN published a story about it as part of its Black in America 2 documentary series chronicling "the most challenging issues facing African Americans," which it had been promoting heavily in the days preceding Jackson's passing. The story quoted Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of black popular culture at Duke University, who compared MTV to a racially segregated state. "At the time that he releases Thriller," Neal said, "I always argue that MTV was arguably the best example of cultural apartheid in the United States." CNN claimed that "MTV didn't play videos of black artists before Jackson" – a lie – in the "story highlights," the bullet points at the top of the story for the hurried reader. The article also credited former CBS Records President Walter Yetnikoff with strong-arming the network into changing its "format" by threatening to pull other CBS Records artists from MTV's music video rotation.
The Yetnikoff angle wasn't really emphasized on TV news broadcasts, but the story has legs and has been echoing through the blogosphere. PopMatters noted the oversight in an insightful list of lessons to be learned from the Jackson coverage:
One point of fact that keeps coming up in his career is that he broke down racial barriers on MTV. In a sense that's true but it's much more accurate to say that it was actually CBS Records honcho Walter Yetnikoff – he was the one who told the network that they weren't gonna get ANY more videos from the label's artists unless they put Jackson in rotation. MTV caved in and it turned out to be a huge boost not just to Jackson but also to for the network.
In reality, this story continues to be a matter of dispute. In a recent interview with Billboard, former MTV Vice President of Programming Les Garland claimed the story is apocryphal. He said:
Billie Jean' set the standard that day for what excellence in music video stood for. There was never a question that we were putting it on. There was never a threat from Walter Yetnikoff—it's folklore. He got more upset because we didn't play Willie Nelson or Barbra Streisand.
Many who remember those early years at MTV would be skeptical of Garland's denial. MTV had a narrowly defined rock format that included few African American artists, including Prince, Tina Turner, Joan Armatrading, and the Bus Boys. But the stage was set for a high profile standoff after MTV declined to add the Rick James "Super Freak" video to its rotation in early 1983 and James denounced the channel repeatedly as "racist."
However, there is considerable evidence that supports Garland's claim and shows that the network itself was not enforcing a racial barrier.
MTV was launched in 1981 by Warner Amex, a company formed out of a 1979 merger between Warner Brother's cable subsidiary and the American Express Company in which Amex invested $175 million in exchange for 50 percent of the company. 30 years later, a credit card company's hefty investment in a cable company seems unusual—why would they drop so much cash into a cable concern?
The merger was precipitated by a series of court rulings and rules changes that made cable TV a suddenly much more profitable business venture. Until 1977, the industry faced major obstacles to growth such as an FCC ban on selling advertising and limitations on what types of sports and movies they could transmit. Their profit margins were small and as a result they could not afford to take on the debt necessary to expand into urban markets.
In a 1977 case brought by HBO and other cable companies against the FCC, the US Court of Appeals decided that those rules were arbitrary. The fall of the advertisement barrier spurred a new wave of investments and mergers, including the Warner Amex deal. Cable started to develop new channels to stimulate demand for subscriptions in areas they already served while urban markets remained the next frontier for growth.
At the time, 90 percent of African Americans lived in cities. But reaching urban customers was blocked by numerous problems. Laying cable under city streets was far more costly and involved than using the above-ground telephone wires in suburbs. Moreover, the process involved piggybacking on public infrastructure for which operators had to pay franchise fees, which were sometimes exorbitant because there was no national standard for the franchise application process, no limits to the fee a city could charge, and common quid pro quo deals at the municipal level of government.
Moreover, there wasn't significant demand for the service among city dwellers. In the suburbs, there was an adaptive need for homes with bad reception to switch to cable. But in New York City, for example, television owners were well served by the powerful broadcast tower on top of the Empire State Building. Cable operators knew that in order to make the case to subscribe they would have to provide high quality programming exclusive to cable.
The logistical challenges to urban cable penetration were finally overcome in 1984 with the Cable Communications Policy Act, legislation the cable operators had wanted for years. It standardized the franchise process and set a cap on fees at 5 percent. [See Cable TV: From Community Antennas To Wired Cities.] The next wave would be the revolution in programming.
When Warner and Amex entered into their 50/50 deal in 1979, Warner wasn't just receiving a major cash infusion to make capital investments. It was teaming up with the standard bearer for consumer marketing practices. Amex would benefit from cable's coaxial two-way transmission lines for credit card transactions on home shopping networks and online banking, functions of the internet we take for granted today. But they were providing their skills as extraordinarily sophisticated consumer marketers who would help Warner fulfill the medium's potential for niche marketing and narrowcasting. Thomas Dann, a key player in the Warner Amex deal whose career began in network television in the 1950s, told Thomas Whiteside of the New Yorker in 1985:
"When American Express came in with Warner to form Warner Amex as a joint venture it came, in part, because its people understand marketing. Warner didn't know how to study and apply the demographics of the market the way American Express knows how. When Warner Brothers put a movie into the theaters, it was rolling dice; the public decided right at the box office how successful it was. Well, that's quite different from the modern marketing of consumer goods. Procter & Gamble doesn't do things that way. It doesn't roll dice. It test-markets. It picks cities, marketing areas, it test-markets this, test markets that—it's done by computer. These corporations understand the future of communications. And, beyond that, they understand how all-encompassing the whole communications revolution is bound to be… It's public lighting by electricity for the fist time in London, putting an end to the gaslight. This revolution is going to encompass everything you do."
Thus, MTV came into existence at a time when cable's duality wasn't fully understood by viewers because the idea of narrowcasting was in its infancy. MTV was a satellite-based national channel, so it resembled the mass audience-oriented broadcast networks. But it was meant to bypass the mass and cater to the narrow demographic of suburban cable subscribers and defined its programming principles based on those market conditions. (Subscribers to The New Yorker can read the 3-part essay here.)
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By the time the "Thriller" video came out in 1983, MTV had already played "Beat it" and "Billie Jean" and the album had sold upwards of 10 million albums during its first year of release. But there was a reason why "Thriller" was a kind of entertainment that that nobody had ever seen before. It was a tool to hype demand for cable TV at a moment when expansion everywhere – including cities – was imminent. It was imperative for them to build demand for subscriptions.
Whereas "Billie Jean" and "Beat it" were directed (respectively) by a commercial director who made Miller Lite ads and a music video director who made early clips by the Human League, Adam and the Ants, and Heaven 17, CBS and Jackson tapped John Landis, one of the most powerful young directors in Hollywood to direct "Thriller." Landis and Jackson conceived of it as a short film, originally distributing it theatrically with the re-release of "Fantasia," a tactic that would make it eligible for an Academy Award.
When MTV paid $1 million for the exclusive rights for it, the first time it had ever done so, Garland remembered the acquisition in the context of decisions that were made not just at MTV but at other networks owned by Warner Amex. "We owned the Movie Channel at the time and bought movies exclusively," he said. "We used that as the template." Then, the network marketed "Thriller" as "event television," programming it at special times so cable subscribers could invite their cable-less friends to experience the wonders of the black box. The same year, Warner landed its first exclusive franchise in a major African American market in Brooklyn and Queens. The following year, the cable TV lobby finally closed in on the Cable Communications Policy Act, the last barrier to cabled cities, and Michael Jackson went on his Victory tour.
Since "Thriller," Jackson has found himself frequently in the media's spotlight for his moral transgressions —either as a the victor of epic moral battles or as its disgraced loser. But he can always be credited with knowing how to play both sides of the coin, as did the media companies who took advantage of the spectacle he never failed to provide.
But today, Michael Jackson's legacy is being rewritten for the purposes of money alone. The story of Jackson breaking a racial barrier at MTV is part of that revisionist history. MTV showed far fewer videos by African American artists before Michael Jackson than after him, but it's hard to believe that they were enforcing a racial barrier.
The story has circulated in recent days because it makes for entertaining television. But it has the insidious effect of reinforcing the most basic cornerstone of the cable industry's strategy for market growth: that cable is a place of events and milestones, and either you're a part of it or you're missing out on something important. At a moment when cable looks increasingly irrelevant to a generation of TV viewers who can circumvent subscriptions with Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, and other video on demand services, the importance of that message cannot be overstated.
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At 3:12 PM -0800 12/6/99, Warren Jones wrote:
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>figure it out by reading the ht://Dig code, but I'd be grateful
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The biggest problem with the Perl scripts is that they don't
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Additionally, many times the excerpts are stored compressed using the
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In short, the scripts will need to read a config file to find out
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PARIS Evatronix SA of Bielsko-Biala, Poland, announced it has updated its NAND Flash memory controller to meet the latest specifications of the Open NAND Flash interface (ONFi).
The purpose of the ONFi is to simplify the integration of NAND flash memory into consumer electronic products, computing platforms and other applications that utilize solid state memory as a mass storage medium.
Evatronix specified that the updated NAND Flash Controller IP is available now for implementation in any FPGA or ASIC technology. The IP core is delivered as an RTL source code with a set of scripts and macros for simulation/synthesis support or as an FPGA netlist targeted to the latest programmable devices.
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Stephen Hunt has hit back at pundits who have criticised the manner in which the Republic of Ireland have battled their way to the edge of Euro 2012 qualification.
The Wolves midfielder and his team-mates will book their place in Poland and the Ukraine if they avoid a heavy home defeat by Estonia at the Aviva Stadium on Tuesday evening after Friday night's 4-0 play-off demolition job in Tallinn.
Some commentators who have condemned manager Giovanni Trapattoni's conservative approach throughout the campaign have since called for the shackles to be thrown off to complete the job.
However, 30-year-old Hunt's response was withering.
He said: "When we qualified for the first World Cup, [goalkeeper] Packie Bonner couldn't get the ball far enough down the pitch.
"Our style of play has developed since then because we no longer hit it as high as we can.
"We do have a direct style of play, but we have good effective players at it. It's a bit of a myth, really, and we have just to get on with it.
"It can come across sometimes from the media that we don't have a fancy style of play, but we never had, we never, ever had.
"We had Liam Brady, who was talented, but apart from that, you tell me who has been Ronaldo or Messi in the last 20 years for Ireland?
"There is no-one who has been that good. [Jason] McAteer - good player, works hard, but no Messi or Ronaldo.
"He talks like them, but no Messi or Ronaldo."
Trapattoni freely admits his squad does not contain the rich individual talent available to some of his managerial colleagues.
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He said: "We have some good players - we have some very good players, not just good players.
"We have players who are well capable of producing a bit of magic and playing in the Premier League, and Aiden McGeady plays in the Russian league.
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H1N1: virus or vaccine, sweet or joke?
To understand whether or not I should get vaccinated against swine flu I am looking for information online. I have found a site that keeps me up to date every day (in English) on the happenings of all the most dangerous infective diseases on the planet. From cholera to yellow fever. Crikey. Today I received information about what was discovered in Spanish hospitals about H1N1. In the next few weeks, the blog will provide more up to date information about swine flu in Europe. In Spain, as discovered in the study, 0.2% of the patients had serious consequences. Basically, the only question that counts and that we need to ask ourselves (and that we never get an answer to) is Which kills more, the vaccine or the virus?
According to a study carried out in 21 Spanish hospitals and made known by the International Society for Infectious Diseases, there are no existing factors or pre-existing illnesses that can facilitate contracting the influenza A (pandemic A (H1N1) 2009 virus). The healthy patients without risk factors should however not underestimate the risk of contracting the virus. If on the one hand it is true that the great majority of those that contract the influenza get over it without complications, a minority of patients get worse around the fourth or the fifth day. "The natural symptoms of the disease are usually three or four days of fever, generally over 38 degrees with a steady improvement in the following days. (Jordi Rello, head of the intensive care unit of Tarragona Joan XXIII Hospital )
The health authorities should concentrate not just on the prevention of the illness and on the treatment of the less severe cases, but also on the care of the patients with complications who are in Intensive Care. It is estimated that only 0.2% of patients suffer serious complications from the flu. That means that for every million people affected, about 2,000 suffer complications. A number that is often unmanageable by the Intensive Care Units.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican police say some people have been questioned in the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old British girl visiting a rural village, but authorities say no one has been arrested in the case.
Assistant Police Commissioner Devon Watkis said Monday that "a number of people" have been temporarily detained for interviews about the shooting. He didn't say how many but added that no charges have been filed.
Imani Green was mortally wounded when a lone gunman opened fire Friday night on a group of her family members as they gathered at a relative's roadside shop in Trelawny parish. Three adult relatives were wounded.
Imani was from the Balham district of south London and was visiting relatives in Jamaica.


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Hello, Gorgeous! #1: Blowout
Wilson has finally turned thirteen. Her lifelong dream of working in
her mother's salon is now a reality. And what girl wouldn't want to
spend her free time soaking up all that glam? But, like most beauty
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thrilled to have some female friends for a change. But things get a
little too close for comfort when her mom goes and hires Lizbeth to work
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After all, Lizbeth is everything Mickey isn't -- outgoing, bubbly, and
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When Mickey's friends Jonah and Eve start dating and a reality TV show takes over her mom's salon, Mickey feels left out of the limelight. But when she's caught on camera sharing confidential information, her life spins out of control. If only an intensive hair treatment could tame this mess!
Hello, Gorgeous! #4: Swept Up
In the last few months, Mickey has learned a lot about being a super good friend and a super stellar stylist. But she still has a ways to go. Eve is still upset about her latest mess-up. And Mickey misses her friend more than ever now that her relationship with Kyle is starting to heat up. She needs a good friend to talk to about first kisses and hand-holding and how to know if you're someone's girlfriend. Mickey's not sure she's ready for any of these things . . . but with the spring dance coming up, she might just get swept up in all the excitement.
Hello, Gorgeous! #5: Do's and Don'ts
Mickey is ready to take the next step on her way to being a superstellar stylist. She and her friends set up a temporary beauty blog, where they can provide readers with Do It Yourself tips for at-home beauty treatments. Suddenly, Hello, Gorgeous! starts getting a steady stream of clients pouring into the salon with hair disasters in need of fixing at the same time the blog starts getting a lot of hits. Are Mickey and her friends actually generating business? By giving bad styling advice? Things at Hello, Gorgeous! have never been more hairy.
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Women's stories throw a different light on the conflict, writes Sunanda Creagh.
She's the chief radiographer at Royal North Shore Hospital, a confident, no-nonsense woman at the head of a busy department.
But when Kay Collett casts her mind back almost 40 years, to when she was a young nurse in the Vietnam War, the memories surge back. She begins to cry gently as she describes treating a small boy with napalm burns.
"His skin was all burned and mixed with tar off the road and it was my job to clean him up," Collett says. "It took me a couple of hours from toe to head. And when I got up to his head I cleaned his eyes, he looked up at me and in English he quietly said, 'Thank you very much.' That always makes me teary."
With a shy, embarrassed smile, she apologises for her tears. For a second, you glimpse the petite and impressionable 23-year-old she was in 1966, convinced Vietnam would be "a big adventure".
Collett's story is one of many that appear in Minefields and Miniskirts, a play about Australian women in the Vietnam War. Melbourne writer-director Terence O'Connell adapted the play from Siobhan McHugh's book of the same name, which told the stories of the nurses, entertainers and journalists in Vietnam and the wives of returned veterans.
Collett was the inspiration for the nurse, Kathy, in the play.
Kathy meets Eve (a volunteer) Sandy (an entertainer), Margaret (a Vietnam veteran's wife) and Ruth (a journalist) at an Anzac Day march. Their memories are triggered by the sound of a helicopter flying overhead and soon the women are sharing stories.
Collett saw the first production of the play in Melbourne last year and admits it was spooky to hear an actor on stage retelling her own memories to the audience.
"They could have made it a big soap opera, dramatised it and made it a real tear-jerker," she says. "But the words they put into the actor's mouths are direct from the people. It's our words, it's the words of the women who were involved, in whichever way, with the Vietnam War. It's a very true and accurate portrayal."
The production of Minefields and Miniskirts by Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre Production, which opens at the Glen Street Theatre this week, has Kristin Keam as the nurse alongside Tracy Mann, Robyn Arthur, Wendy Stapleton and Anne Wood.
Keam says playing the role of a real person - one who will sit in the audience on opening night - is daunting. "It's a huge responsibility," she says. "You want to do them honour and you want to reflect their experiences as honestly as you can, not having had them yourself ...
This play has a real psychological reason to exist. I have never worked on a piece so specifically intended to be a voice for people who haven't been listened to."
Leaving suburbia for the battle front was hard enough, but the characters find slipping back into civilian life almost as difficult. Ruth, the journalist, is told to go back to writing for the women's pages, while Sandy, the entertainer, starts a small-time talent school. Margaret, the veteran's wife, never left the home shore but suffers in secret at the hands of her war-traumatised husband.
Keam hopes the play acknowledges the difficulties of postwar life and goes some way toward making sure Australia deals better with returned servicemen and women in future.
"We are going to be having soldiers who are coming back from Iraq who have war neuroses," she says. "It's a separate question to the political issue about whether we should be there or not in the first place. The point is, if we are asking people to go, then you need a support structure for them and their family when they get back."
O'Connell has come to expect at least 50 people of various ages hanging around the foyer after the show, with questions and stories of their own. "The show has a double strength in a way," he says. "It has a lot of horrendous events but the show is not depressing; it's about strength and how these women dealt with this extraordinary event."
He even promises a few laughs.
With a background in musical theatre and cabaret, O'Connell couldn't help but add music to the play. The songs he chose, including John Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane and Joan Baez's Saigon Bride, set the scene and stitch disjointed stories together.
Collett plans to bring 17 friends to the opening night. The Vietnam story isn't new, she says, but this play covers what the movies gloss over.
"Movies like Apocalypse Now only portray a small portion of what went on. I have seen some of those movies and I think 'No, that's make-believe'. Hollywood is make-believe, but this is real people, real Australians."
Minefields and Miniskirts opens on Wednesday at Glen Street Theatre, Belrose. It will tour nationally until October.
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(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The University of Missouri School of Medicine has received a $2.4 million gift to create an endowed chair in oncology.
The school announced in a news release Thursday that the gift from Mark McAndrew was made to honor his late aunt. It will create the Frances T. McAndrew Endowed Chair in Oncology.
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Meeting minutes, DRAFT Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:00-2:15 pm Hawaii Hall 208
Members in attendance: David Duffy, Michael Jones, Justin Levinson, Dore Minatodani (recorder), Chittaranjan Ray, Norma Jean Stodden, Roy Wilkens (chair).
Absent: Patricia Donegan, Mike Garcia, Steven Ward, Larry Zane.
SEC liaison: Rosanne Harrigan.
Rosanne Harrigan called the meeting to order at 1:05 pm.
1. Selection of committee chair.
Roy Wilkens will serve as committee chair.
2. Selection of secretary.
The committee will share recording duties, rotating by name in alphabetical order.
3. Meeting schedule.
Meetings will be held every 2nd Wednesday of the month, 1:00-3:00 pm.
4. Meeting location.
Hawaii 208 is available for use and should be scheduled through Charlotte in MFS office. Key for Hawaii 208 is held at Bilger 104. Roy Wilkens subsequently secured the HIGP Conference Room (POST 601) for our Oct-Dec meetings (10/11, 11/8, 12/13) from 1-3 pm.
5. Issues to be considered this year.
a. Bioprospecting. Roy Wilkens will ask Will McClatchey (Botany) and researchers at SOEST for a briefing on issues.
b. Taro/GMOs/patents. It is possible that this will be an issue this year. The University owned two patents on strains of Hawaiian taro, and in response to protest, let them go. This year, work on Chinese taro strains continues.
c. Proprietary research and secret research. Creating a policy will require a large commitment of time and resources. If the committee decides to do this, it should consider asking interested departments, schools and colleges, and the VCR's office to assist, in the form of staff support, research assistance, writing assistance.
Michael Jones briefly reported on his attempts to gather information on classified research at UH. He also distributed a draft resolution on classified research policy and the UARC that will be considered at the committee's next meeting.
Roy Wilkens will ask the VPR's office for a list of classified research projects currently being conducted.
d. RTRF. There are rumors that the present formula for distribution of RTRF funds may change. The Committee will also continue the policy of requesting an accounting of current RTRF distribution/spending.
Roy Wilkens will invite VCR Gary Ostrander to the committee's next meeting and ask for a report. He will also invite VPR Jim Gaines to a future meeting and ask for a report.
e. ORS. The committee will address faculty and researcher concerns regarding ORS's processing of MOAs and contracts, and grants management.
Roy Wilkens will invite Yaa-Yin Fong to the committee's next meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 2:15 pm.
Next meeting: Wednesday, October 11, 1:00-3:00 pm; in POST 601. Next meeting's recorder: David Duffy.
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Musical Indoctrination
I think I have established with my regular readers that I love music. I had high hopes when Tyler was born. I played music for him all the time when he was a baby/toddler. Some songs would inspire him to dance (and he was quite good!) He seemed to love classical, traditional kid's music, cartoon theme songs and other various tunes from my MP3 collection. Suddenly, about the time he decided he no longer liked most kinds of food, he also decided he didn't like music.
I could have cried! So, I've been waiting patiently for what I HOPE is a phase to pass. Every now and then I catch Tyler doing a little dance to music he hears on TV (typically kid's music on one of his favorite TV shows) so I quickly try to locate an MP3 of that song so I can play it for him. The last instance of this was while Tyler was watching an episode of Sponge Bob that utilized an old Tiny Tim song (Living In The Sunlight, Loving In The Moonlight). Tyler heard the music coming from my PC, ran over, and let out a frustrated "AWW!" when he didn't see Sponge Bob on my screen. Nope, the song is no good unless the cartoon is there too. *sigh*
Over the weekend, I was sitting in my office at my PC when I heard music coming from the living room. *GASP* Country music!!! Eww! "John? Are you listening to COUNTRY MUSIC down there???"
"I like country music - the current stuff. And Tyler likes it too. He's even dancing to it."
Oh Lord, no. Anything but that!
So fast forward to today. Tyler was puttering around my office and he helped himself to a CD from the rack full on top of my file cabinet. "Mommy? What's this?"
I grinned hopefully and told him it's some of Mommy's music. "Do you want to listen to it?" At his affirmative nod, I popped Volume 1 of Living in Oblivion (an 80's greatest hits collection) into my CD player.
His reaction was immediate. "Mommy! Turn that off! I hate that!" *sigh* I talked him into listening to song after song until he finally said he liked the song Guilty by Classix Nouveaux. Figures. It's heavy on the video game sounding synth. I could play the theme from Super Mario Brothers at my desk all day and Tyler would LOVE it.
Well, at least he liked ONE song. Maybe I can indoctrinate him slowly, over time, into having some musical TASTE. We'll try volume 2 tomorrow.
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One of my clients is the beautiful Dana, the girl behind the Bahrain based blog, The Overdressed. (She can also be found on instagram where she has a large following). She sent me this link to this story that she posted last week with the help of Confashions and I asked her permission to share it with you. I am a real fabric advocate and one of the things that drew me to vintage initially was the high end feel to the fabrics that you can't always find in RTW now (or if you do it is so expensive that it can be mind boggling). Some fabrics would cost so much to reproduce in a modern world that they just aren't anymore, or the craftsman who knew the processes have been lost to time with no one to pass down their knowledge.
However, there are still pockets in the modern world where attention to more traditional fabrics are being well paid. You see it in Haute Couture and there are even some ready to wear designers that are having mills go outside their norms to produce really outstanding pieces. Here we take you to a festival on the island of Bahrain that celebrates the traditional weaving of gold thread directly into the fabric - it is done by hand and takes four women!
I hope this will kick off a bit of a mini-series that will continue to explore the techniques and challenges that go into making fabrics both from a historical perspective and now. I think that the world we live in tends to take this part of the process for granted. We ooh and ahh at the result but because we live in such a fast pace world we just don't really get exposed to what it truly takes (and took) to produce those jaw dropping fabrics.I would like to change that!
Please enjoy the post, re-printed in full here, and maybe it will make you look at that vintage caftan you have hanging in your vintage closet and little bit differently!
"Yesterday evening we had the pleasure of witnessing all the beautiful (and might we add overdressed) traditional craft that our little island has to offer at the Weaving Colours Festival at the National Museum with our special guest from Kuwait, Confashions."
In an initiative to promote Bahraini heritage and talent, the Ministry of Culture offers local traditional craft workers, artisans, entrepreneurs and contemporary artists to showcase their products and activities during the annual festival. It also offers musicians and folk artists the opportunity to revive and perform popular music and folk songs!
We were completely in awe of the Bahraini women who weaved gold threads, process known as kurar, directly into fabric, creating the traditional Bahraini thob, still worn by many women in Bahrain. The crafty ladies explained that it takes four women to weave the gold into the desired fabric. Three women hold on to different parts of the thread while one women sewed it on to the fabric.
Around the corner from the crafty ladies were the crafty men, weaving baskets and fabrics.
Contemporary Bahraini artisans such as Green Bar were also included at the Festival. A special "wardrobe scent" collaboration was formed between the Ministry of Culture and Green Bar in celebration of the Weaving Colours Festival. Everything is made in Bahrain, the sketch on the box is hand drawn by Green Bar founder, Sheikha Reem Al Khalifa, the almond shaped wardrobe scent is hand made in Aali by pottery artisans and infused by Green Bar with 100% organic essential oils such as sandalwood, lavender and bergamont.
Much was also to be discovered inside the museum! A beautiful display of traditional Bahrani thobs and Bishts were generously provided by the ruling family for the display of traditional (and VERY overdressed) garments. Our favorite type of Bahraini thob boasts the naqda technique. Naqda is a word used in the past to refer to the weight of silver. Previously in the region women's dresses were designed using real silver threads which were bought by the gram and are sewn using a special type of needle. These dresses were referred to as designed using "naqda" or silver threads.
Another impressive and beautiful piece on display was the late Emir, Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa's bisht made with kurar embroidery which produces beautiful ribbons of gold zeri, silver zeri and briesam that are made by hand and used to decorate clothing.
It is the result of a group effort in which the width of the final product depends on the number of women involved in the process. The Qataba sits opposite her partners (as in the photo above), who assume the role of the Doakhil, holding and weaving several strands at a time while the Qataba guides the process and attaches the ribbon as it forms directly onto garments. While the popular korar zeri makes an appearance in many different styles of thoub, the breisam version is reserved exclusively for men's clothing."


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McGuirk writes, "It sounds trite, and a little awkward, but this is rather how Sejima speaks. You're never sure whether she is stating the obvious or being incredibly profound. In this case, it seems clear the theme is one that preoccupied her in the making of the Rolex Learning Center, a university building in which there are no walls, just an undulating landscape intended to promote chance meetings between students and disciplines. It's a social education space, like Socrates's Agora but for the Facebook generation."


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You may or may not have been following the news, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the abortion debate is bleeding over into birth control. Here are some interesting links. I have to wonder how far this campaign to roll back women's reproductive rights will go, and in that line of I thought I'd share something that has been stuck in my head.
How Far?
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