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College Football 2013 Week 7 SimulationOctober 9, 2013
College Football 2013 Week 7 Simulation
NCAA Football 14 has found its rhythm, accurately predicting 13 of the past 15 spotlight games over the past three weeks. If you had any doubts that it would discover domination for the second consecutive season, kindly apologize to the world's smartest video game and pass along your polite condolences as it nears the end of its lifecycle.
Not only did the world's greatest simulation device finish with a 4-1 record in Week 6, but it also correctly predicted a Notre Dame upset and had Stanford beating Washington by three points.
Powers, folks. It has 'em.
For those of you who are new to this, here's the syllabus: Using NCAA Football 14 on the PS3, all college football games from the weekend are simulated. The results are not doctored with in any way—I am an adult with video game simulation standards—and the findings are reported here.
As for Week 7, just assume the following will happen given the recent run.
Updated Record Through Week 6: 20-10
Wisconsin 31, Northwestern 24
Wisconsin jumps out to a 17-0 lead, although the Wildcats bounce back. The Badgers score a touchdown with less than 40 seconds left to win, and it's heartbreak city all over again.
Quarterback Joel Stave plays a decent game, throwing for 171 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. The Badgers rushing game, however, is the difference. Melvin Gordon and James White rush for 235 yards and two scores on 33 carries.
Running back Venric Mark performs well, running for 97 yards and two touchdowns. Kain Colter completes 13 passes for 131 yards and also runs for 65 yards and two touchdowns in the most Kain Colter stat line ever for Northwestern.
It's not all bad news for the Wildcats, though. They do cover the spread according to the simulation, which is somewhat important after last week. Wait, sorry, please stop crying. I shouldn't have brought that up again.
Texas A&M 49, Ole Miss 13
The Aggies bust out of the gate and head into halftime up 42-0. What other information do you need?
Johnny Manziel posts video game numbers (wait, is that weird?), throwing for 235 yards, running for 117 more and totaling six touchdowns. Running back Ben Malena runs for 70 yards, but let's be honest, you zoned out thinking about that Manziel stat line.
Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace delivers the bad Bo Wallace, tossing four interceptions and completing only 12 of 27 passes. Wideout Donte Moncrief does muster up a solid performance in an ugly game, catching seven balls for 112 yards and a score.
Let's talk about the Manziel stat line real quick and point to the virtual scoreboard for him so the Internet doesn't say stupid things about it. Deal? Deal.
Oklahoma 35, Texas 31
The Longhorns jump out to a 21-0 lead—stop laughing, that's rude—although the Sooners score the final 21 points to come back and win.
Oklahoma quarterback Blake Bell throws for just 124 yards, but he adds another 110 yards on the ground and finishes with four touchdowns. Running back Brennan Clay adds 99 yards rushing on 17 carries.
Multiple Texas quarterbacks see the field in this game, which seems strangely fitting. The QBs combine to throw for 197 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. The solid stable of running backs finish with 152 yards rushing.
Let's just assume Big 12 officials missed an enormous holding call that caused the Sooners to win. And a pass interference call. And they (the officials) scored the final touchdown.
Florida 41, LSU 24
Florida finishes with 489 yards of offense—yes, that Florida—and cruises past LSU.
Matt Jones has a monster game for the Gators, carrying the ball 24 times for 227 yards and three touchdowns. Wide receiver Trey Burton also plays well, catching six passes for 107 yards and a touchdown.
Quarterback Zach Mettenberger throws for 287 yards and two scores against a solid defense. He does, however, add two interceptions. Running back Jeremy Hill carries the ball 17 times for 107 yards and a score.
Someone is going to write a recap of this game and describe the Gators offensive as "explosive" and mean it. Just you wait.
Oregon 38, Washington 14
The Ducks go about this road test business as usual, racking up 607 yards of offense and cruising against a good team.
Marcus Mariota remains your Heisman favorite, throwing for 445 yards (!!!), running for 35 yards and scoring four touchdowns. Byron Marshall gets going on the ground for Oregon, running for 84 yards on only eight carries.
Washington quarterback Keith Price has easily his worst game of the year. Price throws for just 134 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Running back Bishop Sankey runs for 67 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries.
Look, I have at least $13 in my piggybank, and I will donate $6 of these piggybank dollars to get Oregon and Baylor to play a game with 35-minute quarters.
Notable Scores
Kansas State 42, Baylor 21: BILL SNYDER IS THE ONE WHO KNOCKS.
Stanford 24, Utah 15
Louisville 45, Rutgers 16
Nebraska 34, Purdue 21
TCU 45, Kansas 14
Pittsburgh 24, Virginia Tech 17
Texas Tech 14, Iowa State 6: The Texas Tech mascot scored the game-winning touchdown and the call was upheld. Man, Paul Rhoads can't catch a break.
Georgia Tech 31, BYU 14
Clemson 34, Boston College 9
Georgia 34, Missouri 24
Alabama 52, Kentucky 17
Arkansas 38, South Carolina 34: Steve Spurrier was shirtless by the third quarter and no one noticed.
Michigan 21, Penn State 16
Colorado 31, Arizona State 18: [cracks open Todd Graham coaching destination joke book]
Oregon State 35, Washington State 34
Boise State 28, Utah State 14
UCLA 45, Cal 14

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The RFU has organised a disciplinary hearing for George Robson within 48 hours of the Harlequins forward's red card for butting.
Forgiveness is not on English rugby's agenda this season but speed of decision is and Robson will learn his fate this evening at the same London hotel where two former Bath players had their appeals against a nine-month suspension turned down yesterday The RFU is keen to demonstrate, not least to ERC, that the wheels of justice can turn swiftly. Robson was sent off in the first minute of Saturday's Guinness Premiership match against London Wasps at Twickenham for butting Joe Simpson, the Wasps scrum half, and his case will be resolved tonight.
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Trainspotting is a British black comedy crime drama released in 1996. It was directed by Danny Boyle and started Ewan McGregor.
The movie was based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. Producer Andrew Macdonald read the book on an aeroplane journey in December 1993 and felt immediately that it could be made into a film. He persuaded director Danny Boyle and writer John Hodge to join the production in February 1994. Boyle found the project immediately exciting and believed it to have the potential to be the most energetic movie ever made. Hodge's goal for the movie was to produce a screenplay that would convey the content and spirit of the book. Danny Boyle wrote to the book's author Irvine Welsh and told him that they did not want to make a movie for the art-house audience; they wanted to make a film that everyone would see.
Ewan McGregor was the only cast member who was cast in advance; Boyle wanted a repulsively charming character and a shaven-headed McGregor fulfilled this role. The remaining actors were cast after auditioning with the exception of Kelly McDonald who was cast after responding to a casting flyer posted in a nightclub; the director wanted an unknown for her role so that the audience would not know a 19-year-old was playing the part of a fourteen-year-old.
The movie was about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh but much of the filming took place in run-down areas of Glasgow. Beyond drug addiction the film strove to show the juxtaposition of poverty and squalor against the cultural richness of Edinburgh.
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The results indicated that mental health status of unemployed migrant workers in Eastern China was poorer than the national adult norm. More psychiatric symptoms are evidenced among unemployed migrant workers who lost their jobs for a long term and who had immature coping strategies. These findings can be used for prevention and intervention of mental illness among unemployed migrant workers.
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Yesterday, one of the most creative people in our lifetime, Steve Jobs, passed away.
On the way home from work, I met a musician and we shared a small conversation that quickly became a 'where were you' sort of talk. My friend told me about his first Apple on which he wrote music, and I told him how the original iMac and iBook helped me learn how to make movies and cool slideshows.
I'm writing this on a Macbook Pro. I will later process photos to accompany this article on an iMac while listening to tunes on an iPod, and I'll check the layout for mobile devices using an iPad and an iPhone. My creative life is surrounded by things that have bits in them that were thought up in Steve Jobs' mind.
When someone iConic passes on, there's a melancholic reflection that hits hard.
But it's also necessary. After all, the great ones are the ones that pass on a legacy we have to pay attention to. Dreams are contagious, and inspiring. So here is my humble tribute to a great visionary. The man who taught us to 'think different.'
1. "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
This is especially meaningful in a period of recession, when the commissions you might get as a photographer are few and far between. Staying true to your vision is even more important in the lean times because that's when you might doubt yourself and your choices. If you emerge from a dearth of commissions with your vision uncompromised, its integrity will give you work that is meaningful and beautiful, too.
2. "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.â€
Raising the bar every time you do something new is something that Steve Jobs has taught us in a very visible way. When naysayers were telling him he couldn't make a phone that didn't have buttons, he just went ahead and did it and now it's the best selling phone in the world, and it's changed the way we use phones.
3. "Design is not just how it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.â€
Having a design mindset is something that's evolved recently, as more and more people churn out original content that others can see, hear and use. The technology that Steve Jobs helped to put out there made it easier to make indy stuff—things like calendars on iPhoto, videos on iMovie. This shift in how we thought—from consumers to creators—was something that Jobs' vision helped to teach people.
All the neat stuff we share with each other is all about design now. Think about how we learn photo technique on our own: Youtube videos, podcasts, and apps are some of the more common tools. Not only are our tools products of this type of design thinking, but we are also more critical of functionality. I have always liked the ergonomics of the Nikon camera bodies. And it's a simple reason why—the right side of the camera's body has undulating curves that help me grip it firmly for a whole day without hurting my hand. This type of design—an intelligent design, is something that Steve Jobs helped the world learn.
4. "Things don't have to change the world to be important.â€
It is often the simplicity of an Apple product that makes it elegant. Maybe you don't recall the days when drag and drop was not the norm, but I do. And there is a simple satisfaction in being able to drag and drop things on an Apple computer desktop. One simple fluid step, and you've begun to organize your desktop. It's time saving, and time saving means you can move on to the more important things instead of spending time on multiple steps just to organize folders in your hard drive.
5. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.â€
Maybe you won't earn as much money doing one type of photography as another. But if you love it a lot, chances are you will be more open-minded shooting that type of genre. You'll probably be more relaxed, and as a result more ready for creative thinking.
6. "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they're not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.â€
I think often of how a class in calligraphy that Jobs took when he was auditing college courses apparently impacted his aesthetics. The craziness I see in his life isn't that he dropped out of college, went to India and that he dropped acid in his younger days.
The crazy I saw in him, the quality that isn't a default setting in a lot of people, is that he learned something that wasn't obviously going to fit a yellow brick road to good design, and he incorporated a sense of it in his own aesthetic.
Calligraphy is graceful, fluid, and has an economy that is functional yet elegant.
That could be the description of a lot of the Apple products Steve helped birth.
7. "I want to put a ding in the universe.â€
Steve Jobs enchanted us with his ideas because he never allowed himself to lose track of his vision. He once said, "I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.†The important thing here is not the part about the money. (Apple has more cash than the US. I mean, insanely so.)
The lesson here is something that creative people have known although rarely ever really talk about (because talking about it is time taken away from just being creative).
It's about internal motivation. A vision that's internalized serves a stronger motivator than something external, like money. That ding Steve put in the universe is not a goal he probably set—he was probably more worried about design, how to make something simple like an iPod so powerful. He was probably solving problems that were concrete.
But deep inside him, that vision was what sustained his drive. That's what makes the ding.
And the universe heard it.
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We are going to Venice a day ahead of our cruise on the Osterdam in September. What is the best way to get from the airport to our hotel at the Rialto Bridge?
How early can be schedule a return flight from VCE at the end of our cruise? Delta has an 11:30 am flight. I also worry that Delta would change the time, I think they can change it as much as 3 hours, which would be impossible.I wouldn't book an 11:30 flight, especially in Venice. It isn't so easy to get from point A to point B carting luggage. When we disembarked in Venice we weren't in hurry because we stayed 3 extra days. However, it was pouring rain and very difficult. You had to get a voucher just to reserve a water taxi and then go to the water taxi line and wait. It took forever. This was 2001 and maybe things have changed but I still wouldn't chance it. Italians take their time about things and you never know about the weather or unforeseen circumstances.
Take the regular city bus from outside the airport and get off at the Vapaetto dock, then take it for very little money and it is very easy. Walking in Venice is what it is all about. You can actually walk from the the boat dock to the ship if necessary but there will be buses.Thanks ... Come Sept '09 we will stay in a small pensione near the fish market / Rialto Bridge area. My wife has thought the bus is the best, easiest, least expensive way to go from the airport. Land 11ish am at the airport, stay one night in the pensione, then boarding Oosterdam the next day. Please give us some more of your thoughts on the bus, etc.
Thanks for the help. I think we will stay one night in Venice post cruise.We are also staying one night pre-cruise. We are thinking of the Marriott near the airport for either one or both. Which would make sense? (We have points for one night). Would the Best Western be a good one for the other night?Sunshine Nana--Personally I would stay at least one night in Venice proper because it really adds to your experience of what Venice really is about. I would spend your arrival night in Venice itself and suggest you stay near the train station, in the Cannaregio area, so you are closer to the ship. I've never stayed in this area, just suggest it for convenience with the added perk of really being in Venice. Then for your post cruise night stay at the Marriott where you have points. That way you are close to the airport.
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Naewye is the brain child of Paul Mullen aka Akiro Studios. Naewye came from a desire to combine local talent with good design and so Naewye was born. A zine which showcases art, design, photography and writing from local creatives but with the added bonus of proper page layouts and a fine attention to detail.
"Naewye comes in the form of a zine, the aim to explore the creative culture within the city, whilst providing a platform to promote local talent. Only 100 copies of every issue will be printed on the best paper we can use and will be hand numbered."
I was pretty amazed by just how quickly the project wen't from the initial kickstarter & facebook page asking for submissions to actually seeing the big cartel go live and finally meeting up with Akiro to swap my hard earned £8 for one of the fancy limited zines which came with a special Letter Pressed Card designed by Akiro! And it was money well spent. Issue 1 features design work from Akiro, Cameron Fraser, Stu Awesome of WLD WLVS, Mathew McGregor, Pirate Photography and a host of others you can check out here! I particularly liked Find Me on page 11, no other details are given. If you know Aberdeen tenements then you might recognise the decorative floor tile pattern. Where this particular design can be found I'm not sure but I'm going to have a go at solving this mystery, perhaps the charity shop entrance on King Street across from Morrisons?
Only 100 copies of the zine were printed and it sold out in a couple of weeks so if you didn't get one then chances are you never will. However, you can submit work for the next issue, guidelines can be found here, make sure you don't snooze on this one because it sounds like its going to be even better than the first issue! And once they sell out again you won't be able to find it Naewye! Sorry I couldn't resist!


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John Borrelli's daughter recognizes Mark Gurries, a registered sex offender, volunteering at a San Jose church festival and notifies security. Gurries produced a church letter saying he had permission. Deputies are investigating the authenticity of that letter. George Kiriyama reports.
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Beep. Beep. Beep. You are in labor, lying in bed attached to an electronic fetal heart monitor (EFM). A medical professional enters the room and immediately walks over to this machine, and with no eye contact he or she unfolds the long strands of paper to read a foreign language that no one explained to you. Nervously you peer down at your fingers as if you are getting graded. Beep. Beep. With that he or she responds, "Okay, looking good. I will be back to check on you in a couple hours." Beep. Wait a minute. Did the professional check on you or the machine? That is where lines blur. Babies all over the world are being continuously monitored without clear evidence of the benefit.
EFM was enthusiastically introduced into the medical system during the 1960s and took off in the 1980s with hopes that continuously detecting a baby's heart rate would ensure safety and lower the risk of perinatal death. Ina May Gaskin explains that this, in turn, increased the rate of cesarean section because doctors had not expected that "the lowered fetal heart rates during uterine contractions that could be picked up for the first time with the continuous monitor...were absolutely normal" (116). Many heart rate tracings are identified as abnormal when the baby is in no distress. Continuous EFM is highly sensitive and has the ability to identify fetuses that are distressed, but also has low specificity, or the ability to identify those that are not in distress. The EFM "therefore has a high false positive rate" (Walsh 60).
Walsh conducted a systematic review involving 12 studies and 37,000 women comparing continuous EFM to intermittent auscultation (listening by hand with a fetoscope periodically after a contraction). This review found (58):
Evidence shows that intermittent listening with a fetoscope is just as reliable as EFM, and in most cases takes away much of the fear involved in birth resulting in fewer cesareans. So why is this method still in practice? Continuously monitoring a woman in labor requires less human contact. One nurse is able to "monitor" several patients at a time from a local station. Doctors are able to monitor an entire unit. This in turn lowers costs and shows evidence, via the long strands of paper, that the baby was watched throughout labor if a courtroom was ever involved.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Imagine that you are back in that hospital room. Let's say that your female nurse walks in and begins to document your baby's heart rate. This time instead of looking down, look into her eyes and ask her to turn down that noise. Maybe even ask if she will turn the machine away from your line of vision so that it is no longer your concern, just hers. Then ask her the best ways to move around. Most likely she will respond with compassion and understanding.
As a labor and delivery nurse I do this for all of my patients. I always offer to educate them regarding what we are monitoring, why we are monitoring and the policies that go along with that. Then I ask permission to tilt the machine away so that it is no longer a concern. Sometimes the mother and I even cover the machine with a blanket! I then show her how to move around the room while still being monitored, and encourage her to get out of bed if she does not have an epidural.
Technology has a way of creating the illusion that we are progressing. This is not always true and there are data to prove it. Hospital staff and even parents tend to depend on these machines, creating a mind-body split. Sometimes the monitor becomes more important than the internal experience. Don't let that happen to you – keep yourself empowered and ask questions. The ancient ways of birthing through continuous human contact are still relevant and vital to health and safety for mothers and newborns.
For more information on this topic, pregnancy, or to read birth stories visit: http://birthwithbalance.com
Gaskin, Ina May. Birth Matters a Midwife's Manifesta. New York City. Seven Stories Press. 2011. Print.
Walsh, Denis. Evidence and Skills for Normal Labour and Birth a Guide for Midwives. New York City. Routledge. 2012. Print
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You should have at least 2 prenatal appointments with your doula. During these appointments you'll probably go over things she'll do to help you along during labor and if complications arise. Also during these times you should begin to get comfortable with her touching you in case massage, hair stroking, or counter pressure are used to comfort you during labor so you can let her know what you do and do not like beforehand and to build the comfortableness with her. If you would like she may have relaxation techniques to practice too which would be helpful so you know you can completely relax in front of her. Personally, I found an included belly casting session really helped me open up and get comfortable with my doula.
If at any point you are not comfortable with your doula: First determine if the issue can be resolved and try to fix it. If you think it is something that will affect your ability to remain comfortable with your doula for future appointments and/or during labor, birth, or postpartum then you should talk to her respectively and tell her you just can't do it; She may know someone else available that you may be comfortable with.
If you are a doula or want to become a doula: The steps also apply to you but from a different standing point. Try to give your client as much information as possible so that the family can feel comfortable with you; like a friend rather than business. Reassure partners that you aren't there to take their place, but rather to help them help the mother or step in when they need a break. Beware them that you can not speak for them, you are not a medical professional, and can not give medical advice; You are simply there to support the family and help comfort the mother.
I discovered I had a prolapsed bladder just 2 weeks after giving birth to my fourth child. I could feel a fleshy bulge caused by my bladder slipping down and putting pressure on my front vaginal wall. I was devastated. I felt broken, scared and alone.
I wondered if I would ever be able to bear children again. I began looking for information and found sites like www.wholewoman.com. It was there that I learned how common pelvic organ prolapses (POP) are (we are not alone!) and that they CAN be managed with lifestyle changes. That was 4 years ago.
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Jun 26, 2013 - 9:12 am
I don't visit this forum very often anymore since what's past is past, the cancer is gone and I don't feel the need to remain connected to it. It's done with me and I'm done with it. There are lots of people on this forum who can help and advise newcomers, and I have nothing to offer that others can't. That said, I do check in from time to time so, for those interested, an article titled No more chemo:
Jun 26, 2013 - 9:18 am
So glad to hear that you are doing well! Summer is finally here! I do hope you make it to Disneyland, Spain, and wherever your heart desires! Life is good. It will surely be wonderful when cancer can be treated with no chemo! Thanks for the article.
Jun 26, 2013 - 3:22 pm
You're welcome. "Doing well" might be overstating things a bit. My issues now have to do with the treatments, not the disease, as I thought would be the case. That's what western medicine does, it fixed one thing and creates 10 new ones. In addition, thanks to our stellar health care system, which is an embarassment and places us in the neandarthal category of industiralized countries with reagrd to health care, I'm probably going to be liable for $8,000 in copayments for the radiation. More than likely, I'll have to file for bankruptcy. So did I do the right thing by treating? I have no idea. In any case, that said, I've had better days but I've sure had worse, so overall, I'm not too, too bad.
Jun 26, 2013 - 4:42 pm
Sad isn't it? Between my husbands bone marrow transplant and my two primary cancers we could not stay afloat so to speak. My kids even had a benefit walk for us to help out. Two months ago we filed bankrupcy. It was a horrible feeling for me to be in that position but am also somewhat relieved to be starting over. Another unforseen possible side effect of cancer treatment !!!!!!!!!!
Jun 26, 2013 - 5:24 pm
laCh and eihtak. I think it is outrageous that we have the health care system that we do. Looking over the Affordable Care Act, I am pretty horrifed at what they call affordable. It will be affordable to those on a Medicaid expansion, and more expenaive with less coverage for those of us who buy on the dirext market. It is not what most people think that it is. Outrageous. As a divorced mother, it was a huge percent of my annual income. I have gone without too many extras for years. Having 2 cancers back to back wiped put all of my savings....and that is with the very expensive health insurance that I pay for. Unreal. I have managed to maintain my home, but I will be working until the day I die. I really think that working day and night and trying to be both a mother and father to my child, made my body susceptible to all this cancer. Sometimes I think I would have been better off just to go on government benefits. Instead, I have worked myself to an early grave!
Jun 26, 2013 - 6:24 pm
The problem with our system is basically that it's a for-profit system. Most Americans freak out when they hear the words "socialized medicine," but if you ask them what that means, and why that's bad, they have no idea. Back in 2011 I was in Spain, explaining to four friends about our health care system. There were four people staring back at me with their mouths hanging open, saying, more or less, "are you f**ng kidding me?" I'm not saying that Spain isn't without it's own problems, and I'm not even saying that their system of health care has no problems, but what we have here goes so far beyond "problems," that it begs another name. It's dysfunctional, it's beyond the financial means of most middle class people WITH health coverage, it's built on a for-profit business model no different than any other business and to cap it off, we're held captive by a lobby that puts more money into their lobbying than the tobacco and oil companies combined (see the recent article in Time magazine called Bitter Pill.) We're the only industrialized country on the planet without socialized medicine. Mexico has it, Canada has it, the countries in the Eurozone have it, England has it.... we're so hung up on this for-profit system (or the people reaping the financial benefits or it are), so trapped by their lobby, so hung up on words like "socialized medicine," that freak people out without any understanding of what they mean, that this is what we're stuck with. People working till they die just to pay off medical debts or stay eligible for medical coverage that doesn't even come close to providing accessible, affordable medical care. People filing for bankruptcy. Obama did nothing but throw more people into the dysfunctional pot of people who still won't be able to afford medical care, it's just that now they'll have insurance to not cover it. This will only end when we replace the for-profit system for a not-for-profit system, when hospitals can no longer inflate their prices with no oversight or accountability (again, see the Time article called Botter Pill) and when the lobby is reined in (which will happen when there's no longer profit to be made). This topic is a real sore point for me; it was before the cancer and it is now. But unlike Marynb, I knew that this would happen even before my first treatment. I anticipated this. I expected it. Our system is an embarassment. It's a travesty. It's egregious. It's shameful. And it's all ours.
Jun 26, 2013 - 9:25 pm
Perhaps you misunderstood my post. I have been an advocate for a single payer universal health care system in this country for the past 30 years. I never liked the Obama plan at all. I abhor doctors who get rich at the expense of suffering people. I detest the for profit system. However, as a cancer patient I do accept that science has not yet found a cure for cancer. I do not mistrust all doctors. I do wish that there was a cure for cancer. When push came to shove, we all wanted evidence based treatment and we accepted it because we all want to live full lives.
Jun 26, 2013 - 9:33 pm
Washington just doesn't get it or care. Why should they? They don't share our problems. We pay for everthing for them.
My husband worked for a solid company and we continued to have coverage under his plan. I don't know how you go through the stress of cancer and with the anger and resentment over no coverage and losing everything to boot, being expected to work when you are dead tired from being sick with a deadly disease. But for the grace of God go I and I realize that. I am also glad that I got my cancer before going on Medicaire which apparently really sucks now. My husband is having a terrible time figuring out who is paying what these days, but we are definitely paying more and getting less for his care. He was healthy the whole time he was insured by the insurance company which is now in second position but I guess it is still tricky getting through all the mind boggling paper work. I hope I get all straightened out before I have to go on Medicaire.
Jun 27, 2013 - 7:29 am
I'm on Medicare and am insured by a Medicare Advantage Plan (it's a regular insurer with a subplan reserved for Medicare recipients). The coverage is better than regular Medicare but that's not syaing much since Medicare sucks. Many providers don't accept Medicare or even Medicare Advantage Plans because their reimbursement is low. So here I am, a 5 minute walk from one of the most preeminent cancer centers on the planet, but I couldn't go to them because they don't accept my insurance. I wasn't concerned that they knew things that no one else did for treatment of the tumor that I had, I wanted to use them because I knew that when I got sick from the treatments, getting there would be easier then getting to the place I ended up using. I remember back in 2010, laying on a gurney in the ER, sick, in pain, vomiting, feverish, being told that the CT scan that I'd reluctantly agreed to undergo (reluctant, because of the copay) revealed that I had to have my appendix out immediately, and my only question was "Does the surgeon accept my insurance? Does the anesthesioligist?" Are these questions one should have to ask when they're sick/injured/compromised? Yes, the answer is yes, here in America. And then, because I had a $175/day inpatient copayment for simply sitting in the bed, I checked myself out 12 hours after I left the recovery room. You tell these kinds of stories to people who live in countries with socialized medicine and they're just flabberghasted. So what exactly did Obama do? He icluded more people into our shameful, exploitative, ineffective, greedy system. And I supported the guy, so it's not like I'm anti-Obama. My take on the article in Time, one of the best I've ever read, about why our health care costs are what they are, was, "if Steven Brill (the article's author) knows this stuff, Obama must know this stuff, and if he didn't, he should have. In any case, he knows it now." So has he addressed it? Has he uttered a word about it? Can he? Will he? The answer is no to all, because the lobbyists run the country, not the politicians, local, state or federal, nor you nor me. Expecting change is like asking the richest man on the planet to willingly give up his wealth, disperse it equally and step away from the system that made him so rich and then for him to implement a system that's guaranteed to be fair for the masses but keep him among them. In a word, the reason we're in this situation is one thing only. Greed. No more, no less. And the inability or unwillingness to engage it, dismantle it and replace it. Until that changes, this is the system that we'll have. It's truly shameful. There's a word in Spanish. It has no exact translation, but the word is sinvergüenza and it means, more or less, shameless. Without concience. Above it all. It applies to our medical care system and those who support it, advocate for it, fight for it, exploit it, and will do anything and everything to make sure it continues unchanged and unchallenged.
Jun 27, 2013 - 10:02 am
It will change when Americans stand up and force it to change. The issues with the Affordable Care Act are obvious, yet Obama was reelected. I supported the universal coverage that Hillary proposed with some minor changes. We now have, for the most part, what people refer to as, "low information voters" . This is a polite way of saying illiterate and apathetic. Most people do not read the newspaper at all. It is disgraceful. Change is possible, but it doesn't come without people standing up.
Aug 13, 2013 - 7:52 am
So well put LaCh! :)
Jun 27, 2013 - 6:56 am
No, I didn't misunderstand, I was agreeing with you and directing my comments to the general American system and mindset, and for-profit paradigm at large.
Jun 26, 2013 - 10:33 pm
I shelled out 30k for health care in one year! That is with the best insurance I could buy as an individual. Unreal!
Jun 27, 2013 - 10:09 am
you are so right!!!!! makes me ill....the stress of all of this worry is going to make us worse..... as far after effects, i did not get better until 3 years after tx so hopefully you will improve more and more....i still have issues.... how is your dog???? sephie
Jun 27, 2013 - 10:59 am
Regarding health care in our country, it's still the finest in the world. Our county hospital is the cutting edge in technology. You don't have to pay if you can't or you can pay as little as 25 month for the rest of your life. We have many free clinics here in Los Angeles, that do everything including biopsies and minor surgeries. The free clinic uses retired doctors from cedars, ucla and other tops notch facilities. They offer free medication, birth control, classes, dental and attorney services. You Can make appointments or be a walk in. Ucla will take anyone insurance or not.
I have traveled the world since I was a little girl, there is no country that can compare to us in anyway,standard of living, healthcare, public facilities, parks, beaches, you name it and ours is better.
When picking health insurance you should pick what you can afford. My health insurance I did not pay for chemo or radiation or even parking. When I go to the hospital, I pay a one time copay of 200.00. There is no cap. I pay 520.00 a month. It is worth every penny.
If you are dx wih cancer in a socialistic country, you may wait up to six months for tx.
Yes that's how the world goes round in a capilastic society, people want to make money. Whether they are a maid or a doctor everyone wants as much as they can get.
If you can find a better country that can offer a standard of living at least equal to the US I would like to know about it.
Jun 27, 2013 - 5:50 pm
Regarding health care in our country, it's still the finest in the world. Our county hospital is the cutting edge in technology. You don't have to pay if you can't or you can pay as little as 25 month for the rest of your life. We have many free clinics here in Los Angeles, that do everything including biopsies and minor surgeries. The free clinic uses retired doctors from cedars, ucla and other tops notch facilities. They offer free medication, birth control, classes, dental and attorney services. You Can make appointments or be a walk in. Ucla will take anyone insusance or not. Well, ok, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. I only know what I've experienced and what those around me have experienced. I don't want to pay for anything for the rest of my life. I pay down my credit card to a zero balance at the end of each month because I can't tolerate debt and don't feel that I should have to pay a medical debt for the rest of my life. I can't go to a free clinic because I have insurance; when you're on Social Security, it's mandatory. I don't have access to free legal services, nor a dentist, and in fact, haven't been to one in years because I can't afford it. As for technology, Spain, not exactly known to be an innovative country, has the same diagnostic and therapeutic technology that we do here. In any case, I'm not sure if technology is a good measure of good health care. It's a part—but not a defining part (this is simply MY opinion). Part of good health care means not having to ask a surgeon if he accepts your insurance as you await an emergency appendectomy, lying on a gurney in the ER, or having to ask the anesthesiologist the same. It means not having an administrative employee with no medical training make medical decisions about what diagnostic tests and treatments you will and won't be allowed based on economics. It means having a doctor who spends more than 10 minutes with you because he doesn't have a minimum number of patients to see in a given time in order to earn enough money from his low insurance payments. It means not having to check yourself out of a hospital because of a co-pay that you can't afford. It means not having to allow certain diagnostic procedures and treatments and rejecting others because your co-pay for those things is too high. Technology is a small part of what constitutes good health care, and countries with socialized medicine, democratic, Western European countries have the technology that we have here. That said, when a wealthy European or member of a royal family in one country or another gets sick, they may come here because of reputation, amenities, etc. Finances aren't their concern. They don't pick and choose treatments, they don't check themselves out of the hospital for economic reasons, so I'm not sure that people of means who come here for treatments sheds any light on health care for us.
I have traveled the world since I was a little girl, there is no country that can compare to us in anyway,standard of living, healthcare, public facilities, parks, beaches, you name it and ours is better. To make a broad statement that says that the United States has the best of all those things might invite a few dissenters from other places around the world. Parks, beaches, many places, many countries have breathtaking beaches and parks, wildlife refuges and countryside. The United States simply can't lay claim to have the best of those things because those things can be found all around the world. Some aren't as nice as those found here and others surpass some of ours by far, in grandeur and accessibility. Generally speaking, sweeping comments that invoke words like "best" "most" "all" "always" or "never" usually aren't so. Standars of living in other industrialized countries is equal or better by some measures, than ours.
When picking health insurance you should pick what you can afford. My health insurance I did not pay for chemo or radiation or even parking. When I go to the hospital, I pay a one time copay of 200.00. There is no cap. I pay 520.00 a month. It is worth every penny. When you have Social Security about $100 is taken from your monthly check and paid to either Medicare or a Medical Advantage plan of your choosing (you choose among those offered in your geographical area.) A Medicare Advantage Plan is a sub-plan from an insurance company that pools all its Medicare patients together. Since reimbursement is low for Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, choices are limited, many physicians don't participate and co-pays are a given, as are restrictions and caps. There is no Medicare Advantage Plan that doesn't have a cap, at least not in my area or anywhere that I'm aware.
If you are dx wih cancer in a socialistic country, you may wait up to six months for tx. I wasn't talking about a country with a socialist government, I was talking about a socialized medical care system with a democratic one. I have two friends in Spain who were recently diagnosed with cancer, one with colon cancer, and the other with lymphoma. Neither waited a long time (any longer than I waited) to be seen from onset of symptoms and both were in treatment quickly, within three and two weeks respectively. Maybe you're thinking of electives or non-essential, non-life threatening issues. I have to wait a long time for those as well, sometimes weeks or in a few cases, months. I'm not saying that Spain has a perfect health care system; I don't think any country does. I'm saying that the issue of waiting six months to be treated is something that doesn't happen with a life-threatening illness or injury. In addition to the two that I mentioned, I know others also diagnosed with cancer. They didn't wait any longer than I did, which was weeks, from date of diagnosis to start of treatment. They also didn't receive a bill, didn't search for a participating provider who accepted their insurance, didn't worry about in-hospital costs, diagnostic costs, treatment or follow-up costs. What they have is a large portion of their salaries held aside for those things, and after that, they have access to what they need, when they need it, and don't see a bill. There is no perfect health care system that I'm aware of but some are worse than others, and I stand by my assertion that ours is one of the worst in the industrialized world. We have one of the highest newborn mortality rates and one of the shortest life expectancies, as well as people who routinely have to file for bankruptcy after a serious illness or injury. Those are some of the measures of a good or a bad health care system. In my opinion.
Yes that's how the world goes round in a capilastic society, people want to make money. Whether they are a maid or a doctor everyone wants as much as they can get. There's nothing wrong with earning a living, with making money, but there's a difference between earning a living and earning a salary of 7 digits when the facility that pays you that salary is turning away patients because their insurance reimburses $150 rather than $300 or something like that. There's a difference between earning a living and greed. Again, I encourage you to read the article in Time Magazine entitled "Bitter Pill" by Steven Brill.
If you can find a better country that can offer a standard of living at least equal to the US I would like to know about it. Better? I don't know, but iqual, sure and in some ways, yes, better. Britain, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany… I can name a few. The United States has some fine points, but we're not superior to other places by the most common measures of quality of life within the industrialized western world. We have hunger and poverty here, we have desperate people and deep inequality. That said, withing the middle class, Western Europeans have a similar standard of living, or did before the global economy crashed and to a degree, maintain it now (certainly not all do but my friends have maintained their middle class standard of living). I respect your opinion and simply offer mine and the reasons why I have it. I've grown accustomed to some strong criticism in this forum and hope that this doesn't invite any more. It's exhausting. These are simply my opinions. There's no need to go ballistic if you (the generic "you") disagree.
Jun 27, 2013 - 10:00 pm
Nobody has ever "gone ballistic" here. It is fine to have discussions.
Jun 27, 2013 - 9:54 pm
Wow, good for you that California offers such a low price health insurance policy with such good coverage. That is great! Is that through work? That kind of plan is not going to be available through ObamaCare. Even in the best plan to the direct market under ObamaCare provides only 90% coverage plus premium and deducribles and copays That is the Platinum plan. The other plans provide that the patient pays 30% of total health care Plus premiums and copays and deductibles. This is NOT AFFORDABLE to most people. Those who fall below the poverty line benefit. The rest of us pay more!!!!!
I love my country too. However, I do not believe that health care hould be reserved for the rich or poor. I believe it has to change and that we will change it someday.
Jun 27, 2013 - 10:12 pm
Yes I agree our education system is not the best, I myself was a victim of that.
I am self employed. I started with this policy in 2007 and it goes up about40.00 a year. My provider will be available to me at that 100.00 copay that Lach mentionedwhen I retire.
La ch it is my opinion and I don't want to argue back and forth. I do stand up for my country and I stand by my opinion it's funny how it's ok to bash ourcountry, organized religion but other topics are taboo. I think a lot of people just do and say what's popular in the moment.
Jun 27, 2013 - 9:58 pm
Just another thought. Our public education system is certainly not one of the best in the world! Perhaps it was at one time. I am sorry to say tthis, but we have become mediocre to poor in that category!!!
Jun 28, 2013 - 12:02 pm
what company do you have insurance with ?????.....i might need to get that kind if i can change..thx sephie
Jun 29, 2013 - 12:05 am
Kaiser Permante. They are wonderful. If I lived in Colorado I would be paying only320.00.
Jun 29, 2013 - 9:26 am
thanks.... will look into it..probably cannot change after all i have had but worth a look... sephie
Jun 29, 2013 - 9:37 pm
I have lived in Washington State and New York where those who had preexisting conditions are protected from losing their insurance or becoming uninsurable. While whatever they have done in Washington DC called Obamacare is deeply flawed, at least now people can move from state to state without being subjected to different laws regarding their insurability.
My brother and sister-in-law have gotten great care from the Kaiser system. We should be looking harder at how Hawaii has always had effective health care in a government paid system. The remaining good news here is that we can choose.
The sad thing is to see the state of repair the system is in. It's a big boat to turn around.
Jun 27, 2013 - 4:19 pm
Sephie, thanks for the words of encouragment. My dog's doing well, enjoying the good weather, like I am. Thanks again.


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The Lions dropped a non exclusive franchise tag on Cliff Avril and he claims he is "blessed". He ought to be. Cliff Avril just got a 9.4 million dollar raise. That's an outrageous amount of money for the defensive end. I understand that the franchise tag could be temporary but Avril should embrace it. Financially it's a great move for Avril but it's a stupid move for the Lions.
Let's start with saying that Cliff Avril is a good player. I think that he has tremendous upside and he is young. The Lions went into the off season with signing Avril as a priority but this is ridiculous. Avril is a fine player but he is not a 10 million a year defensive end. Sorry. If the third year player out of Purdue thinks that he is in the Jared Allen and Justin Tuck club, he has to be allowed to leave.
Avril wants the kind of money that is reserved for the elite. The kind of guy that you build a team around. Avril is not that guy. There are already guys on the D line that you are building around. Suh had a sophomore slump and we may be mad at him but he is the star on the D line. Nick Fairley was a first round pick and if he can get on the field he can be a force. Signing the players that play around those guys to 10 million dollar deals does not wash.
Good teams lose good players. This is how the NFL works. You have a small group of core players (usually 4 or 5 but it can be as little as 1) and then you rotate guys in and out through the draft and free agency. We haven't seen this in Detroit for a while. It makes a lot of sense for free agents to come into Detroit and play around Suh and Fairley because it will pad their numbers for a big deal next year. Guys come in on a rental, do well and leave. Many players have done it for many other teams. Detroit has historically been the team that gets pantsed by free agents coming out of their rental deal.
Just because Avril has been "franchised" doesn't mean that there is extra cap space. Avril's cap number for next year is $10 million. You could get 2 positions of need for that kind of money. So why are the Lions doing it? I have absolutely no idea and I hate it. Cliff Avril is a fine player but he is NOT an elite player. All we can do is pray that some stupid team comes up with an offer and is willing to give up a first round draft pick which is not going to happen. The NFL Draft has become even more valuable since the rookie salary cap so we are stuck with Avril and his newly minted 10 million cap hit for next year.
$10 million for Cliff Avril takes the Lions out of the running on a lot of things. Megatron is going to be harder to resign. The free agent market this year looks pretty grim. This means we are going into the 2012 season with sky high expectations, no significant defensive secondary help (rookies aren't significant) and questions about our uber-talented game changing wide receiver. I got depressed just writing that! I understand why the Lions have valued Avril because he was a great value before but now he is vastly overpaid.
The Lions seem to have fallen into an awful pattern. Detroit teams seem to value loyalty more than most cities. We have seen it for years. Brandon Inge was signed to a massive deal (for him) even though his career was clearly entering the twilight (if it ever flourished). Magglio Ordonez was signed to a deal that clearly was loaded with legacy bonuses. Steve Yzerman was kept for around three years longer than he needed to be, eschewing other free agents to keep him. What did fans get for these loyalties? Brandon Inge was DFA'd last year when he was turning in a sub .100 average, Ordonez spent much of season either injured or ineffective and the Captain is the GM of Tampa Bay and will probably not participate in the reunion skate at Comerica Park. The problem with loyalty is the loyal usually wind up looking like chumps in the end.
I am so tired of this theme of loyalty running through Detroit sports. We keep players past their prime just because they gave us a moment in time or we make fan favorites millionaires when the rest of the league wouldn't even take them as free agents. When a fan favorite is axed there is a fan murmur but then it goes away. Does anyone really long for the days of Cory Schlesinger or Robert Porcher? Sure it hurts for a minute to see those guys go but in the end its better for the team.
Cliff Avril is only the latest version of this. If the Lions have any interest in becoming an elite team in the NFL, you have to let some players go.


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I won't lie. I bought this robot stamping plate for the large beautiful collection of gears, springs, and clock faces along one side of it. Because it was too much to turn down, I decided to break in this new plate with a full clockwork manicure using Julep's Kerry over OPI's CIA=Color Is Awesome.
I used several other polishes while I was experimenting with this one and four of them failed to work in the clock face sections of the plate. For the tiny details in the plate you need either a very opaque polish or a traditional stamping polish. Otherwise the details tended to come out a bit distorted or missing all together.
I have gold colored stamping polish on the way to try the circuit board part of the plate. I don't think that any of the ones I have could really do the trick for the small details. I've used the plate several times since the first attempt and I've managed to get clean pictures about three fourths of the time. I think it's a great addition to my collection and I plan to keep using it in the future.


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Dangerous Corner
Also see Richard's review of Of Serpents and Sea Spray and Patrick's review of Star Trek Live!: Mudd's Women
A self-satisfied little group of wealthy people are at a dinner party in England. They are dressed in tuxes and period gowns and they have gathered in the living room of a mansion or townhouse. They are representatives of the fortunate in their society, prosperous, rising, and prominent. Several are in the highly successful publishing business. Also there is novelist Miss Mockridge, who gently jeers, "What a snug little group you are ... in these days almost too good to be true". Missing from this group is the brother, brother-in-law, and close friend who died violently by suicide one year before.
The plot centers on the dead brother and why he committed suicide. There is a rumor that he he stole money from the firm and shot himself out guilt. There is an unintentional discussion about "letting sleeping dogs lie," a thoughtless admiration of a musical cigarette box, inconsequential questions, and suddenly the truth of why he killed himself. The sluggish conversation in this two-hour production starts to speed up and grows accusatory. Each person in the group is hiding one little lie about the suicide.
The production at the Royce Gallery remains true to the original style and you should remember that you are witnessing an early 1930s play with very melodramatic acting on the part of the assemble. The cast and director David Acevedo do a splendid job of reviving the play. The performances provide fascinating viewing and the actors never deviate from the earnestness of their roles, even when the plot starts to become slightly laughable.
C. J. Smith gives a genuine portrayal of Robert the head of the publishing firm, a satisfied man whose world is being smashed to pieces. Mary Waterfield, Adrienne Dolan, David Richardson, Deborah Joves and Lukas Hoag deserve equal acclaim for their understandings of similarly troubled characters. The cast is completed by Anastasia Durbula as authoress Maude Mockridge, who watches enthralled in the early stages of the family's exposures being revealed. The ending is a surprise.
Set designer Henry Sellenthin has done a great job of presenting an upscale 1930s British sitting room on an extremely small stage. Maria Graham's costumes are outstanding period clothing, especially the gowns worn by the women.
Dangerous Corner runs through January 24th, 2016, at The Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco. Tickets are available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com.


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Devon where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the year 1200 when the name gave itself to no less than five villages in that county, a highly unusual occurrence and indicative that the family name was highly influential at some pre- Domesday Book period in the county of Devon.
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Diet Chef advert banned for presenting 'socially irresponsible' approach to body image
AN ADVERT for the delivery service Diet Chef has been banned for presenting a "socially irresponsible" approach to women's body image.
Viewers slammed the advert for exploiting women's insecurities
The television ad featured a character, Cheryl, talking to her former self two months after starting Diet Chef, saying: "I know how you feel, you can look that good again you know.
"You look, amazing. I never dreamed I could be that slim again."
She then adds: "I bought a bikini last week, for the first time since this picture."
The former Cheryl was shown wearing a baggy shirt and had messy hair and appeared distressed, while the current Cheryl was more polished and had a happier demeanour.
The Advertising Standards Authority received complaints from 26 viewers saying it was offensive and irresponsible.
They complained it exploited women's insecurities about their bodies by implying that they needed to be slim to be attractive and happy and implying that those who were overweight did not take care of themselves or their appearance.
Diet Chef said the ad showed the frustration of the former Cheryl, who did not feel able to make a change in her lifestyle or to maintain a controlled diet and so was surprised that she had done so, and the sense of achievement of the current Cheryl.
They provided a document showing that the actress playing the former Cheryl, had a BMI of 27.4, which was in the overweight category.
The ASA called the advert 'socially irresponsible'
The company said the change of appearance reflected the change in her lifestyle and her "taking control", and the overall approach of the ad was typical of the "before and after" genre of ads commonly used to advertise weight loss products.
The ASA said the former version of Cheryl appeared less polished but did not give the impression that she had neglected her personal appearance.
But it said the character's unhappy demeanour while talking about wearing a bikini appeared disproportionate to concerns about her weight, especially as she did not appear to be particularly overweight.
The ASA said: "We considered that viewers would understand that her concerns about her weight had had a significant effect on her general wellbeing.
The Advertising Standards Authority received complaints from 26 viewers about the advert
"We considered that, overall, the ad focused disproportionately on the former Cheryl's negative feelings about her appearance and implied that weight loss was the only solution to her problems.
"It therefore implied that those with insecurities about their bodies, and particularly their weight, could only achieve happiness and self-confidence through weight loss.
"We therefore concluded that the ad presented a socially irresponsible approach to body image and breached the code."
It ruled that the ad must not appear again in its current form and Diet Chef were told "to ensure that their products were advertised in a socially responsible way".


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Each Thursday evening, one of SFMOMA's curators or specialists shares a perspective on a single artist or artwork on view. Talks last 20 minutes.
Julie Charles on Louise Bourgeois's The Nest
Related Exhibition The Anniversary Show
Thursday, January 06, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
Meet in the Haas Atrium before moving into the galleries.
Julie Charles, associate curator of education, SFMOMA
Image: Louise Bourgeois, The Nest, 1994; steel; Collection SFMOMA, Purchase through the Agnes E. Meyer and Elise Stern Haas Fund and the gifts of Doris and Donald Fisher, Helen and Charles Schwab, and Vicki and Kent Logan; © Louise Bourgeois / Licensed by VAGA, New York


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As we approach Welltodo's first Business of Wellness Summit on 4th June, we're highlighting some of the global business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors involved in the event.
Shining the spotlight on brands that are shaping the wellness industry and influencing future trends, this week we're focusing on iconic British department store, Selfridges.
Joining Welltodo at the BOW Summit, Scott Winston, Grocery Buyer at Selfridges, will be taking part in a dynamic panel discussion focusing on the big retail response to wellness.
Over 100 years old, Selfridges is the UK's most revered department store. Its flagship location on London's Oxford Street is one of the world's busiest shopping destinations, attracting over 100,000 domestic and international visitors every day.
As a leader in experiential shopping, in recent years Selfridges has evolved into a 'one stop' wellness destination, tapping into the current demand for all things wellness-related.
Currently stocking over 150 brands and 5,000 wellness-led products and services, here we look at how Selfridges has established itself as a leader in wellness retail, encouraging consumers to buy into a lifestyle, where experience takes precedence over product.
1. Launched In 1906 by Harry Gordon Selfridge, the department store soon began to flourish thanks to his revolutionary understanding of publicity and the theatre of retail. Hosting terraced gardens, cafes and a mini golf course, the Selfridges brand quickly built a reputation for delivering extraordinary customer experiences.
In 2003, W. Galen Weston and his family acquired the business for £598 million and have since fostered a shopping experience that promises to surprise, amaze and amuse its customers, paying particular attention to 'lifestyle brands' across categories including sportswear, food and beverages, and beauty.
2. Hosting pop-ups and events for brands including Nike and Stella McCartney for adidas, in the noughties Selfridges began to ramp up its focus on sportswear brands, eventually branching out into activewear with the launch of a brand new Sweaty Betty activewear concession in 2006.
Following the brand's in-store success, in 2013 Sweaty Betty unveiled a new concept concession in Selfridges' Denim Destination. The 1000 square foot space housed pieces exclusive to Selfridges, highlighting the department store's growing commitment to the wellness space.
3. Launching 'The Beauty Project' in 2014, six weeks of pioneering talks, interactive debates and immersive beauty experiences, Selfridges made the strategic decision to challenge the definition of beauty, and investigate the convergence of beauty and wellbeing.
Unveiling Beauty and the Feast at Selfridges' Food Hall, the store leveraged on-trend discussions focusing on beauty from within.
Sourcing the best brands and produce to provide customers with edible solutions to their beauty and wellbeing ambitions, the store began offering a huge selection of sugar-free, gluten-free and dairy-free foods, as well as dieticians on call.
4. Following the popularity of The Beauty Project, FaceGym, which launched as a pop-up during the successful campaign, took up permanent residency in Selfridges.
Backing the UK's first and only gym studio for the face, Selfridges cemented itself as a platform for new wellness brands and pioneers in the rapidly growing industry.
Subsequently helping to launch Elle Macpherson's Super Elixir, as well as hosting a six week pop-up with raw food brand, Tanya's Cafe, the world-renowned store proved it had its finger on the pulse when it came to wellness.
5. In 2016 the Food Hall at Selfridges in London began capitalising on the clean-eating food trend.
Targeting health-conscious consumers looking for superfood toppings to add to a green shake, to gym-lovers shopping for an energy fix in the shape of raw baobab bites, Selfridges declared itself as the one stop shop for all things health.
Featuring brands including Hipster Health, Twig Tea and a wider selection of 'free from' products from Livia's Bites and Nourish, the department store continued to position wellness as a core part of its strategy.
6. In April, Selfridges made its biggest commitment to wellness yet, with the launch of a 37,000 square ft. Body Studio.
Read More: Selfridges Is Buying Into The Future Of Wellness
Transforming the Ultra Lounge in its Oxford Street branch into a state-of-the-art fitness space for three months, boutique fitness brand Psycle took up residency, while the Hemsley Sisters opened their first ever Hemsley + Hemsley Café.
Featuring lingerie, swimwear, sportswear, lounge and sleepwear, the Body Studio aims to support consumers in their quest for health and wellbeing, while positioning Selfridges as a leader in wellness retail.
Providing consumers with a convenient, 360 experience, the Body Studio recognises that today's consumers are searching for wellness-led experiential retail.


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