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Naughty or nice? PlayGround-LA continues its third season and celebrated monthly staged reading series, Monday Night PlayGround, on December 8 at the Zephyr Theatre with six original short plays inspired by this month's topic… THE HOLIDAY PARTY! Los Angeles-based playwrights in the inaugural PlayGround-LA Writers Pool had four-and-a-half days to write and submit scripts inspired by the topic. The six finalists (see below) will be presented as script-in-hand staged readings at 8pm on December 8. For tickets, low-cost subscriptions or for more information, the public can call (323) 992-6766 or go online at http://PlayGround-LA.org/monday.
month's selected plays/playwrights are:
Santa the Clause by Ron Burch, directed by Sylvia Blush
Over the River and Through the Woulds by Kathleen Cecchin, directed by Andy Lowe
HM by Forrest Hartl, directed by Lee Sankowich
Baby Black Jesus by Vincent Terrell Durham, directed by Ivan Rivas
Record by Mercedes Segesvary, directed by Frieda de Lackner
All the Mees by Chelsea Sutton, directed by Jim Kleinmann
Ten days before the designated
Monday, a topic is announced and the thirty-six playwrights in the
PlayGround-LA Writers Pool have until 2pm the following Tuesday to
submit a short script. A panel of judges selects six winners, whose
entries are cast over the weekend and then rehearsed with the area's
best professional actors and directors in a whirlwind ninety minutes
each before being performed as script-in-hand staged readings. Previous
topics include "Origin Story", "Sea-Change", "Holiday Spirit", "I Have A
Dream...", and last month's "Mistaken Identity".
The inaugural PlayGround-LA Writers Pool are:
Breen, Cort Brinkerhoff, Ron Burch*, Tiffany Cascio*, Kathleen
Cecchin*, Maurice Chauvet, John Corcoran*, Allie Costa*, Andrew
Crabtree*, Kevin Crust*, Mike Deas, Thomas Dunn, Vincent Terrell
Durham*, Joshua Fardon, Miguel Garcia, Forrest Hartl*, Elayne Heilveil,
Tim Hill, Karen Howes, Susan Hunter, Sara Israel, Ian Kaye, Arthur Keng,
Marc Ketchem, Carolina Rojas*, Raquel Rosser, Jessica Rowe, Katie
Rubin, Richard Ruyle, Mercedes Segesvary*, Mark Sherstinsky*,
Ann-Giselle Spiegler, Chelsea Sutton, Lucy Wang, Jennie Webb, Lilliana
* Best of PlayGround Award recipient
The mission of PlayGround-LA is to
support the development of significant new local voices for the theatre.
PlayGround-LA has developed a unique model for identifying and
nurturing the best new writers, helping them to build a significant body
of original work, and strongly weaving these artists into the family of
local theatre professionals. PlayGround pairs early development
playwrights with established, professional actors and directors and
fosters the artistic relationships that develop.
PlayGround-LA is the first regional
expansion of the celebrated Bay Area playwright incubator and theatre
community hub, PlayGround(SF). PlayGround was launched in San Francisco
in 1994 by co-founders Jim Kleinmann, Brighde Mullins and Denise Shama.
In 1996, Kleinmann became PlayGround's first Artistic Director. Since
its founding, PlayGround has developed and staged nearly 700 original
ten-minute plays by 200 Bay Area early-career writers and has
commissioned/developed 54 full-length plays by distinguished PlayGround
alumni. In the process of staging those works, PlayGround has helped to
identify some of the leading emerging writers and, at the same time, has
engendered the creation of a true community of theatre artists,
bringing together hundreds of local actors, directors and playwrights.
For most if not all of the participating writers, PlayGround is the
first professional staging their work has received and serves as their
introduction into the professional theatre community.
PlayGround's alumni have gone on to
win local, national and international honors for their short and
full-length work, including recognition at the Humana Festival, Sundance
Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, New York International Fringe
Festival, Aurora Theatre Company's Global Age Project, and Samuel French
Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, among others. Directors and
actors participating in PlayGround are among some of the most
distinguished theatre professionals, regularly working on leading local
For more information, visit http://PlayGround-LA.org or follow PlayGround on Facebook (http://facebook.com/PlayGround.LosAngeles) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/PlayGround_LA).
PlayGround-LA's Monday Night PlayGround is
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December 8, 2014 at 8pm
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
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An island country off the south-eastern coast of China; population 23,400,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Mandarin Chinese; capital, Taipei.Official name China, Republic of
Former name Formosa
In 1949, towards the end of the war with the Communist regime of mainland China, Chiang Kai-shek withdrew to the island with 500,000 nationalist Kuomintang troops. Taiwan became the headquarters of the Kuomintang, which held power continuously until defeated in presidential elections in 2000. Since the 1950s Taiwan has undergone steady economic growth, especially in its export industries
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Volume 19 Number 1 September 1996
IU Exchange with Warsaw University Celebrates Twentieth Anniversary
President Myles Brand, Rector Wodzimierz Siwiski and Peg Brand President Myles Brand, Polish Studies Director Timothy Wiles, and several IU representatives visited Poland in May 1996 to observe the twentieth anniversary of our exchange relationship with Warsaw University. They joined Rector Wodzimierz Siwiski as speakers at a symposium on the importance of academic exchanges in East Central Europe, both in the time of Soviet influence and in the post-communist period of social transformation. President Brand discussed several new academic initiatives during his visit to Poland, and as a result IU has extended invitations to scholars and administrators at both Warsaw University and Jagiellonian University to visit IU next year. Myles and Peg Brand and Dean of International Programs Patrick O'Meara enjoyed excellent visits in Kraków and Warsaw, full of meetings, meals, cultural events, and friendly reunions. This visit reaffirmed the importance of Poland to IU's European studies activities, and it strengthened the role of the Polish Studies Center in this regard. Poland was not the only country visited by Myles and Peg Brand, Patrick O'Meara, and Vice President for Government Relations Christopher Simpson this spring. This European tour was the first extended international trip for President Brand since he came to IU two years ago, and it was so (Continued on page 2) Bo ena Shallcross Appointed Associate Director of Polish Studies In a move to expand faculty participation in the management of the Polish Studies Center, the Office of International Programs appointed Bo ena Shallcross as Associate Director of Polish Studies beginning in September 1996. She and Timothy Wiles will share some of the duties of coordinating the Center's academic and cultural program. "We're moving more toward the idea of a team to direct this center," said Tim Wiles, "and I've very glad to have a person with so much enthusiasm and knowledge as Bo ena Shallcross for a partner." Shallcross is Assistant Professor of Polish Literature and Language in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She joined the IU faculty in 1994 after several years of employment at Hunter College, and before that, she studied at the Jagiellonian University and the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literature, she worked at the Institute of Literature for several years. Her research interests include relationships between Polish literature and the visual arts, and the depiction of Jewish culture in Polish arts and writing. As a result of this appointment, opportunity arose for another native Pole to teach the introductory Polish language course at the Slavics Department this fall. We are glad to welcome Katarzyna Rydel Johnston as the instructor of P101/501 Elementary Polish. successful that the President will visit IU exchange centers on another continent next spring. The President's team started their tour with several stops in Spain, then spent a week in Poland, and concluded the business part of their trip by attending a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, which marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the School of Business at IU and was attended by alumni of the school from all over Europe. The visit to Spain also had significance to IU's connections with the European business community. The principal host there was Spain's major commercial bank La Caixa, which funds one of Spain's largest academic fellowship programs with the U.S.--IU has served as La Caixa's American partner for financial management and for the screening and placement of the Spanish scholars for several years. The Brands also visited IU's overseas campus sites in Madrid and Barcelona and spent time with Hoosier students who were completing their year in Spain. Considering that these are large and financially-important overseas programs for IU, it is significant that President Brand spent seven days in Poland on this trip. Some of that time was devoted to needed recreation, and Myles and Peg Brand spend a weekend in the Tatra Mountains, where they toured highland villages, hiked and drove by horse cart to the high-elevation lake called Morskie Oko, and explored the resort town of Zakopane. Peg Brand is Polish-American and her family immigrated in the 1920s, and so it was possible for Peg to trace her roots back to her father's birthplace, the mountain town of Czarnej Dunajec. She located her grandmother's birth record in the church archive there this spring. Several of us who helped set up this tour were gratified that Peg's homecoming visit met with success. For the Indiana University party, visits to two great Polish university centers were the heart of this trip. First stop was Kraków, where we held the initial meeting between an IU president and the rector of the Jagiellonian University, an institution which dates from medieval times but which has a very dynamic program in the new Poland. For example, several Jagiellonian University faculty have visited various IU campuses during 1995-1996, and they are involved in programs which address the needs of society today and in the near future. Krzysztof Frysztacki, Chair of Sociology and a leader in the teaching of Social Work, is part of a program based at IUPUI and co-sponsored by the Center on Philanthropy which is aimed at reforming social work education and the funding of social services in post-communist Central Europe. Andrzej Swi tkowski, Professor of Law, in the Faculty of Law and Administration at Jagiellonian University, is a specialist on labor relations in contemporary Poland and the problems which arise as the state transforms to a democracy with a market-based economy. He has worked with the labor studies division of SPEA at the IU South Bend campus, and last spring he visited IUSB and Bloomington as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at IU. Their fields of research have clear connections with labor and social welfare issues in the state of Indiana, and they have been excellent partners for the Polish Studies Center in our effort to develop new programs in Poland. These should lead to new opportunities for faculty and student research. Myles Brand with Aleksander Koj, Rector of Kraków University. Professors Frysztacki and Swi tkowski were ideal hosts for us in Krakow. They hosted a dinner at which the IU party met their colleagues in sociology and law, and they organized the visit to the Rector's office. All these efforts came together when President Brand and the IU party met with Rector of the Jagiellonian University Aleksander Koj in a room dominated by a glass case filled with five 6-foot-high silver academic maces "which we use for various occasions," explained the rector. We enjoyed a good talk with Professor Koj, who is a biochemist and whose wife, also a biochemist, once spent some weeks in Bloomington on a research project. The result of the talk was an invitation extended by President Brand for a scholar from Jagiellonian University to make a short research and lecturing visit to IU later this year in a field related to modern Polish society. The second stop on our Polish visit was Warsaw, and this seemed more like a homecoming visit, even to the IU people who had never visited there before. We devoted some time to nostalgia and reminiscence, particularly since the President's group was joined in Warsaw by the person who founded the Polish Studies Center in Bloomington, Professor of Comparative Literature Mary Ellen Solt. But while we looked back at twenty years of accomplishment on this visit, we also looked ahead. President Brand met with Rector W odzimierz Siwi ski and affirmed our commitment to some of the new projects being pioneered through our exchange. (Continued on page 6) Above: Patrick O'Meara with musicians at Wawel Castle At right: A visit to the medieval Collegium Maius, the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University and the residence and teaching rooms of the faculty at the time of Copernicus, who taught here and lived in one of the upper apartments. With the Brands and Dean O'Meara are Andrzej Swi tkowski, Professor of Law (left), and Krzysztof Frysztacki, Professor of Sociology. Patrick O'Meara, Peg and Myles Brand touring the city. A highlight of the anniversary was a conference devoted to the history and significance of academic exchanges between American and East European universities, from the Cold War era to the present, with a focus on the IU - WU exchange. From left: Speakers at the conference included the two individuals most responsible for initiating our exchange in 1976 and fostering it with their governments in the initial years, Professor of History Andrzej Bartnicki and retired United States Information Agency officer Leonard Baldyga, who described the founding of our exchange; the directors of our partner centers, who assessed their institutions' current cooperation, Krzysztof Michalek, Director of the American Studies Center at WU and Timothy Wiles, Director of the Polish Studies Center at IU; and the chief executives, who spoke about the role of our exchange in the future, Myles Brand and W odzimierz Siwi ski. Above: Krzysztof Michalek and Timothy Wiles at the conference on U.S. - Poland academic exchanges. At left: Paul Marer and Monika Dabrowska (exchange alumna from Institute of Law). Behind them are several Polish students who are enrolled at the IU School of Business. Above: President Myles Brand at Warsaw University. Many friends of the Polish Studies Center and the IU - WU partnership reunited at the twentieth anniversary celebration. Clockwise from top left: founding fathers of the exchange and key liaisons with their government and education bureaucracies for two decades Andrzej Bartnicki and Leonard Baldyga; (top right) President Brand and Rector Siwinski; (bottom right) Peg Brand, who lectured on feminist aesthetics at Warsaw University, flanked by one of WU's alumni of our exchange, Professor of Politics Antoni Mrozek; (bottom left) and the person at IU most responsible for launching our Polish Studies Center and nurturing it as founding director for seven years, retired Professor of Comparative Literature Mary Ellen Solt, greeted by Andrzej Bartnicki.Warsaw University Visitors in Bloomington this Fall Several academics and university staff from Warsaw University are visiting IUB this fall. Feature stories about their activities will appear in the next issue of the Polish Studies Newsletter. For now, we'd like to inform you about these Polish guests and friends, and invite you to meet them. PSC secretary Lois Plew has their addresses and phone numbers: call 5-1507. Our visitors would be glad to talk with you--or your students-- about their work, and are happy to go out for a social occasion. Henryk Hollender, Director of the Library at Warsaw University, and his associate Anna Cwilag, Secretary of the Library, spend the first weeks of September at IU and discussed ways to utilize expertise at our library in the development of library services at the new facility being built in Warsaw. Marcin Zaremba, a doctoral student in Political Studies at WU, will spend Fall Semester at IU. His research area is communist-era politics in Poland. Marcin's wife, a journalist, will join him shortly. We welcome a good friend from the American Studies Center at WU, Ma gorzata Durska, who has been in charge of the entrepreneurship courses at the center for several years and is its development officer. For this year, she holds a Fulbright position, and she will take courses and consult with faculty at the School of Business. Malgosia is in Bloomington with her two children. We also welcome a Bloomington old-timer, Ma gorzata Korzycka-Iwanow, in the second year of her Fulbright appointment from the Institute of Law at Warsaw University. Her research involves problems of patenting new genetically-altered species, and at IU she is attached to the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Malgosia is in Bloomington with her husband and two children. Visiting IU from Warsaw's Economics Department is Agnieszka Markowska, a doctoral student in environmental economics. This year, she holds an IREX fellowship, and she is affiliated with the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Her research will compliment work done at IU last spring by WU environmental economist Jerzy leszy ski, and we welcome this opportunity to continue some investigations that follow up on the PSC's April 1996 conference on Economic Protection in Poland. Bartlomej Wazniewicz is also on an IREX fellowship in environmental studies at SPEA this year. He is a graduate of Jagiellonian University. Bartek's wife will join him shortly. Was anyone omitted? We want to introduce all academic visitors from Poland in our Newsletter, plus all staff and other visitors whose work relates to Polish Studies. Let us know who you are, and/or who is here! Please phone 812-855-1507 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Mary Ellen Solt and Susan Solt in Warsaw. As a student in 1977-78, Susan lived with Mary Ellen in Warsaw during Mary Ellen's year on our teaching exchange, just before she founded the Polish Studies Center at IU. Susan later put her Polish experience to use as an advisor for the filming of Sophie's Choice, the job that launched Susan's career in the film industry. She is now Dean of the School of Theatre, California Institute of the Arts. Mary Ellen now resides with her daughter in California. The visit to Poland coincided with Peg Brand's birthday. We held her party at the Wierzynek Restaurant in Kraków. Celebrating are Tim Wiles, Patrick O'Meara, Peg and Myles Brand. (Continued from page 2) One of these will be to offer consulting on the administration of the new Warsaw University Library which is currently under construction. Several IU and WU specialists in library services and information technology will be involved in this exchange, over the course of construction for WU's new $80 million, 5 million volume capacity library (scheduled to be ready for the "Class of 2000" in fact). As another new program, the President's office has invited WU to send some senior administrators to IU for short visits in the fields of financial management, student information systems, and fund raising over the coming years. Additionally, IU may be able to extend our efforts in promoting distance learning technologies and pedagogies to Poland, a subject President Brand discussed with U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Rey during his visit to Warsaw. These opportunities for cooperation on technical and applied matters were all discussed in depth during President Brand's visit with Warsaw University administrators. The fact that a Polish university is branching out into all these areas signaled to us that we have a very forward-looking and responsive partner in Warsaw. As Director of Polish Studies, I was glad that Myles Brand, Patrick O'Meara, and Christopher Simpson agreed that Warsaw was the center of a very dynamic country and culture, and that the leaders of Warsaw University were particularly well-connected with business and government leaders who are shaping Poland's transformation, and also re-shaping the profile of the public university in the leading country undergoing post-communist transition. One Polish business leader who met Myles Brand on this visit has some unique Indiana University ties. This is Zbigniew Dick Niemczycki, President and CEO of the European Office, Curtis International, Inc., an Indiana-based company with divisions in consumer electronics, housing construction, and other enterprises. Dick Niemczycki divides his time between Poland and Indiana, and in Poland he has been singled out both for his business success and for innovative management practices and worker-employer partnership relations he has cultivated. He is also an IU parent: his daughter Dorota Niemczycka received her bachelor's degree from the IU School of Business this spring, and she will work in Indianapolis for a year before applying to MBA programs. Dick Niemczycki sits on several boards which help oversee the public course of key academic institutions in our circle. He is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of the IU School of Business. At Warsaw University, he is a member of the Advisory Council of the American Studies Center. In fact, Rector Siwinski and Dick Niemczycki noted that they sat together on four different boards in Warsaw related to university and public or government relations. Myles and Peg Brand will be meeting with the Niemczyckis and other leaders of the Polish and Polish-American communities over the coming months, as one way of strengthening our programs and IU's international dimension. Paul Marer (School of Business) represented IU as this year's academic appointee to the faculty research exchange. His visit coincided with President Brand's stay in Warsaw, and Marer was able to introduce the president to several Polish faculty and administrators in business education with whom he has worked over the years. Marer visited the American Studies Center and consulted on the entrepreneurship education program which he created at WU two years ago. Joining him was Richard Bliss, a doctoral candidate in Finance at the School of Business and one of our first graduate instructors at WU on the Young Professionals Abroad teaching program. They also met with the current entrepreneurship instructor, Christopher Meyer, who earned his MA in Russian and East European Studies in 1992. Marer's most recent project in Poland was to serve as co-editor with Krzysztof Cichocki of a volume published by the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, Education for Transition to Market Economy in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The traditional academic strengths of our exchange, and its opportunities provided to IU people for teaching, study and research in Poland, were also evident to our IU administrative visitors during their visit. President Brand and colleagues met with several of the Warsaw University faculty who held or will soon hold the distinguished visitorship appointments which were initiated last year, including Jerzy leszy ski, an environmental economist and a leader last spring of the Center's conference on Environmental Protection in Poland; Hanna Komorowska, a linguist and expert in English language acquisition; Jerzy Grzelak, a social psychologist and newly appointed Vice Rector for International Programs; and Jacek Ho owka, a philosopher, expert in ethics, Jerzy Grzelak's immediate predecessor as Vice Rector and an alumnus of our own exchange program. Jacek Ho owka will be in residence at Notre Dame this year, and so we expect to see both him and Jerzy Grzelak on lecture visits before long. Incidentally, Vice Rector Ho owka was also the person chiefly responsible for arranging a lecture by Peg Brand (Department of Philosophy) on the topic of feminist aesthetics, which she delivered to an audience invited from the Institute of Philosophy and the American Studies Center. This year we offer opportunities for IU faculty and students to conduct research in Poland as part of our exchange, and we also will underwrite the position of an advanced graduate student from the IU School of Business to teach courses on entrepreneurship and business culture at the American Studies Center at WU. Scholars and artists from several Polish institutions are scheduled to visit IU at the invitation of the Polish Studies Center. As is our tradition, we are the host for several Polish post-graduate students this year, and I'd be glad for you to meet them and to offer them some personal hospitality while they are in Bloomington, if this is possible. These younger scholars will also be invited to make presentations about their research. Meanwhile, various IU students and faculty have been visiting Poland on programs which they devised themselves, and I also invite you to send us news about the work you have done as it relates to Polish studies, and to offer us a talk or offer to lead a brown bag lunch discussion, if you would like to present something. I hope you will enjoy the photos, captions, and related stories from President Brand's recent trip to Poland. Come visit us at the new Polish Studies House at 1217 East Atwater Avenue. A schedule of lectures and Polish Studies events of the first part of Fall Semester will be sent out soon, and there will be another newsletter in a few weeks announcing academic opportunities and our news of the new academic year. --by Timothy Wiles, Director, Polish Studies Center Moves to New Polish Studies House on East Atwater Avenue. For the third time in our twenty years of existence, Polish Studies has a new address. In late August the Polish Studies Center moved to a house of its own at 1217 East Atwater Avenue. This is in the block between Ballantine and Highland Streets, and so it is not far from our old locations, namely the limestone gothic manors of Goodbody and then Memorial Halls. Come visit us! This location formerly housed the Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, which has moved to 201 North Indiana Avenue. Because that building is under renovation, not all of the Global Center's equipment has been removed from our building yet, and so it will take a few weeks to make the public rooms like the lounge fully operational. However, our offices are open and ready for visitors! So is the double-width brick-columned front porch! First some vital information. 1217 E. Atwater Avenue is on the north side (campus side) of Atwater, so you don't even have to cross Atwater to find us. There is a good small "C" lot (a gravel lot) just across the street. We kept our old phone number, 812-855-1507, and the old fax number (855-4869) is still operational, although we may get another one later. The new house offers a number of opportunities. It has seven rooms plus a kitchen (and two baths!). We now have more room for the library and for visiting faculty and students. Best of all, we have space for a seminar room and on the ground floor, a lounge and browsing room--we've even been promised some nice sofas and chairs. Students and faculty are welcome to browse or study in our quarters, and we plan to hold some of our seminars and smaller talks right at the new Center. I would like to see the new house become a resource and meeting place for people working in the Central European area. The new Polish Studies Center is hardly 200 meters from Ballantine Hall, and it's a lot nicer than sitting around in BH 008, so come visit us. We plan to have an opening reception in a couple months. Indiana University Non-Profit Org. Polish Studies Center Bulk Rate 1217 E. Atwater Permit No. 2 Bloomington, IN 47405-6701 Bloomington, IN 47405


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|Lucca, Italy, May 2012
Yes, we like to travel for all of the typical reasons: exposure to new cultures, the food, the locals, the history, the views. But here's another reason we like to travel: it's good for our kids. I don't just mean it's beneficial for them educationally or culturally (which of course it is), but I mean it is good for them as siblings. These concentrated chunks of time when it is just the two of them together leads to lots of giggling, playing, and sometimes even joint commiseration as they endure yet another visit to a historical site. As both of them get older and spend more time with separate sets of friends, I can see the value of family trips growing even stronger.
We are packing up our favorite set of siblings and heading out on another family adventure: The Aeolian Islands. See you when we return.


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Fandom: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Alternate Postings: AO3
Rating/Content: PG13, canon neglected child backstory, maudlin
Warnings: none
Word Count: 750
Disclaimer: Not my world. Not even my usual world.
Notes: Well, lately when I'm trying to avoid thinking about RL (doing a lot of that lately) and don't have the focus for anything more demanding, I poke around on the Force Awakens Fic Meme (caution, many prompts NSFW), and this 'misfire' prompt got me thinking about Rey's relationship with reading during her early life. So, here's my first Star Wars ficlet (that is, if you don't count the ones I wrote before the internet existed ;-)).
Summary: Rey's relationship with written words and stories, growing up on Jakku.
From the moment she was first sent into the wrecks to scavenge, Rey has stolen and kept every spare sheet of flimsy she's found in them. Flimsies aren't worth anything, but when she was little, she'd take any chance she got to look at the letters on them, to try to puzzle out the words. She'd had only a little bit of education before being left on Jakku, but she wanted to know. Wanted to remember.
None of the flimsies were stories; they were all ship manifests, flight logs, reports. She worked through the letters and sounded out the complex words, and asked anyone who'd hear her what the words meant. Sometimes someone answered her instead of taking a swat at the annoying human child. It was enough. Rey learned.
She wrote on the blank parts of flimsies too, forming the letters of the words she'd read above, combining the letters to make words she knew. No one would tell her if she was doing it right, and she knew it was pointless to ask. If she had time to write and read, she had time where she could be crawling deep into the nooks and crannies of the crashed ships, getting the harder-to-reach parts and earning her keep with Unkar Plutt. No one told her what to write, no one taught her new words and how to use them.
The first word she wrote that wasn't a copy of a word from the flimsies was 'home'. She spelled it wrong of course, but didn't know because she'd never seen it before.
Rey scratched words on the flimsies with char-sticks, on the walls of the ships with sharp metal, in places deep deep in the access shafts where no one would ever see: 'rey' 'i am rey' 'i am here' 'i am still here'.
She always told herself stories of the ships that had crashed on Jakku. She knew which were from the Empire and which were from the Rebellion or Republic because while she may not have been taught to read and write on Jakku by anyone but herself, she was taught the names of the ships and the parts inside them. What they did, how they made the ship go, fight, defend. What they were worth.
Knowing how to be still and quiet, she listened to everyone who gleaned the ships. She heard their stories about the battle fought above Jakku, when the ships fell from the sky. She told and retold their stories to herself, embellishing them, picking up the names of great heroes; Luke, Leia, Han. She made herself a Rebel pilot doll, she found a helmet, and she told herself stories of heroes and legends.
When she told herself a story she didn't want to ever forget, one that took her away (from Jakku, the scrub tent, Unkar's trade shack) for the span of time it lasted, she wrote it down. Letter by letter, word by word, scratching slowly onto flimsies in the dark. No one read them but her. No one saw them but her. She kept them hidden away, safe.
As she grew and learned more, she'd correct her spelling and grammar on her older stories, making them better. Re-reading them again, remembering them anew:
There was the story about the princess, whose whole planet was destroyed in front of her, but even then didn't give up; the princess who kept fighting back with her friends, even when she knew she was alone.
There was the story of the boy who only knew his father was dead, who lost the only family he knew, and was taken away to another planet to learn to use the secret inner strength he never knew he had, and used it to change the fate of the galaxy.
There was the story of the man who was a scavenger and a smuggler, who only cared about himself until he found something more important that he needed to care about.
There was the story of the brother and sister who never knew each other existed, but who found each other again anyway.
There was the story of the heroes who found each other when they were lost, who gathered around them friends and allies, and despite loss and tragedy and despair, ended the evil Emperor's reign.
Stories she'd heard, stories she'd made up. Stories. Legends. Nothing real. Just something that could take her away from Jakku for a while.
Something to make Rey believe anything could still be possible.
(that's it)
Tags: fanfic, ficlet, reading, star wars
Current Mood: melancholy


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Besides being everyone's favorite furry friends, dogs can actually benefit your health and well-being. Walking your dog is a great excuse to get outside and get moving. A recent study led by Michigan State University found that people who own and walk dogs are 34 percent more likely to meet federal benchmarks for physical activity. Those who walked their dogs walked about an hour longer per week and also had higher overall levels of both moderate and vigorous physical activities than people who owned dogs but didn't walk them.
Walking offers a number of health benefits, including improved circulation, reduced risk of heart disease, and a stronger immune system. Walking is especially valuable for older adults, as it is a low-impact exercise suited towards those with aging knees. For these adults, walking can help fight osteoporosis, prevent and control diabetes, and bolster the immune system. Walking can aid anyone of any age in their weight loss goals.
Walking is an easy and convenient form of exercise and you can do it just about anywhere.
"Dogs really are nature's personal trainers," said Dr. Dawn Marcus. "They model fitness behaviors, and behaviors for eating and socializing, too." Need that extra push to get out the door? Dogs are always eager to go for walks. They might even help you meet people and develop healthy human interactions when they stop to socialize with other dogs. So put on your tennis shoes and take your dog for a stroll–your body, and your dog, will thank you!
Source: http://www2.cambridgema.gov/cdd/et/ped/ped_hlth.html


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The candles are lit, the knives are sharpened and the corpse bride is ready to wed under the howling moon. You the guests and the dead are invited to join us for a night of debauchery and decadence as we tantalize taste buds in a 5 course banquet of epicurean artistry. Allow your souls to be seduced by our raucous revelry as we dine, drink and dance into the darkness of the night.
DRESS CODE: Think all things Tim Burton with a splash of Día de Muertos and a large snort of Carnival Vibes. Check out some ideas here >>> http://bit.ly/2d5Wgdg
Over 70% of the food we serve on the night is salvaged surplus, but don't worry, we're not dressing up a banana peel from a skip. All the food we get our hands on has been diverted from large markets or packing houses before it reaches the shops or supermarkets. It's then cooked up by some of East London's most exciting young chefs creating an opulent feast of culinary mastery not to be missed!
Party vibes with a ghoulist sprinkle
Twisting and contorting their way through aerial hoop
All the paint and glitter your face can handle
Risk the loss of your soul as you capture moments in time with our professionals
SAT 29th OCT
18:00 - late
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No, save the trees, we'll have your name registered online when you purchase a ticket
Can I see the menu?
Cooking with food waste slightly resembles Ready, Steady, Cook. We won't know until the week of the event what surplus we've managed to salvage. We have access to food distribution organisations who have surplus often due to the bulks of their orders or if fruit and veg are mis-shapen and deemed unsuitable for supermarket sale. We intercept this food before any of it is going off or has touched a skip. Around 70% of the food served will be food waste the other 30% will be purchased by our chefs in order to create the high quality courses served at our banquets.
I'm a vegetarian - am I catered for at your event?
Yep, the majority of food will be vegetarian. There is an option whilst purchasing tickets to specify any dietary requirements.
What is food waste? Does that mean its gonna be a dodgy one pot?
From plough to plate 20 million tonnes of food is wasted each year in the UK. We intercept surplus that is deemed mis-shapen or unsuitable to consumers by supermarkets long before it has gone off or been anywhere near a bin. Don't worry, the food will be banging, our chefs are brilliant, you'll be amazed by what they can create.
Are you a charity?
No we're not a registered charity, we're a social enterprise. We're looking to save as much food waste as possible whilst creating performing arts events that blow you away. Sorting the planet out has to be fun!
Can I get a ticket on the door?
Nah, we need to know how many we're cooking for as we don't want to create any extra waste
Is this event BYOB?
No we have great locally brewed ales, organic wines, mulled cider and more
If I turn up late will I still get all the courses?
Unfortunately not. We have a lot of courses coming out and a lot of people to feed so we need to keep on moving or the kitchen will stall. Best thing is to arrive early, get your facepainted, enjoy the canapes and a mulled cider. You'll be called to seat at 19:15.
Will my soul be damned if I dine with the devil?
It's highly likely. But Hades is happening.


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Flexible working 'has business benefits'
New rules extending the right to ask for flexible working to all employees will benefit businesses as well as workers, employment minister Jo Swinson has said.
Ms Swinson told the Today programme that improved staff retention, productivity and morale are all positive effects of flexible work arrangements.
But Steve Brittan, president of the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, explained that while large businesses could easily accommodate flexible working, it might have a "dramatic effect" on small firms.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday 30 June.
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I'm sure a fair few of us have shut our eyes, dimmed the lights, and stroked ourselves while thinking of the lovely Peaches. Don't lie. But would she really be all that good in bed? Maybe if you are a girl she might be more into it, but then again she's been known to swing both ways, so she might enjoy the company of a nice man-shaft too (she told me she preferred smaller, average sized ones). And whilst she might smell like a peach between her creamy thighs (I asked Gina) is Peaches really the sexual dynamo one might imagine her to be, actually, are any of these models any good in real life? The answer…well of course they are.
Clip is from a bonus feature on the DVD.
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Some titles have a "fixed layout" when you open them in your browser using OverDrive Read.
A fixed layout lets the publisher design an ebook or digital magazine to look just like the print version. This formatting is often used for graphic-heavy titles, like comic books and picture books.
You can't change the layout, font, or book design. Instead, you can zoom in on individual pages to make words and pictures larger:
- Click or tap the Zoom icon along the top of the reader to enter zoom mode.
- Use the plus or minus icons to adjust your zoom level.
- Select Done to exit zoom mode.
Note: Fixed-layout titles may not fully download or work when reading offline.
Here's an example fixed-layout spread from the graphic novel Roller Girl.


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Watch Hourglass backstage at New York Fashion Week with Oscar de la Renta. The look was created by Gucci Westman and featured luminous skin, berry-stained lips and a dramatic winged eye. Full list of products used can be found here.
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Hourglass at Oscar de la Renta
This year for New York Fashion Week, Hourglass partnered with Oscar de la Renta and makeup artist Gucci Westman. The look, worn by models including Karlie Kloss, featured luminous skin, berry-stained lips and a dramatic winged eye. "I was inspired by some of the more graphic prints in the collection," said Westman, who combined two Hourglass liners to create the playful geometric shape. "It needed to be appear inky, so I started with Calligraphy Liquid Eye Liner and then applied the 1.5MM Mechanical Gel Eye Liner on top." To balance the bold liner, Westman fashioned a runway-worthy radiance by using Illusion® Hyaluronic Skin Tint and the Ambient® Lighting Palette.
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BROWS: Perfect arches with Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil.
LIPS: Prep lips earlier with No. 28 Lip Treatment Oil. Apply Opaque Rouge Liquid Lipstick in Empress, a deep aubergine shade, and use your fingers to diffuse the color. Finish with a dab of No. 28 Lip Treatment Oil for a subtle sheen.
Illusion® Hyaluronic Skin Tint, Now Available in 12 Shades
We listened to you Illusion® lovers, and this foundation has been refreshed with a whole new look and packaging. Illusion® Hyaluronic Skin Tint is now in a tube but contains the same superior formula. Infused with Hourglass' Hyaluronan Complex, Illusion® Hyaluronic Skin Tint plumps fine lines and wrinkles, tightens sagging skin, and delivers an unbelievably luminous glow. Now available in 12 shades to accommodate a wider range of skin tones.
Hourglass Introduces 1.5MM Mechanical Gel Eye Liner
Introducing 1.5MM Mechanical Gel Eye Liner, the thinnest, softest, waterproof gel liner. Encapsulated in a 1.5mm mechanical pencil, this liner offers precision accuracy and ease of application. No pot, no brush, no clean-up required. Just two clicks and one stroke creates dramatic definition that resists transfer for extended wear.
Available in a package of 3.
How to Use Ambient® Lighting Palette
Hourglass' Ambient® Lighting Palette is our curated combination of Ambient® Lighting Powder shades. Featuring Dim Light and Radiant Light, as well as the palette-exclusive Incandescent Light, here is how to use the palette to create your perfect light.
1. Dust Dim Light all over the complexion but focus on the center of the face to soften imperfections.
2. Add Radiant Light as a contour under the cheekbones, on the temples and on either side of the bridge of the nose.
3. Finish off with a light dusting of Incandescent Light on the tops of the cheekbones, under the brow, on the center of the eyelids, the bridge of the nose and the cupid's bow to brighten the complexion.
*For deeper skin tones, test the product on your skin and make adjustments by adding Radiant Light for more warmth.
Marion Cotillard at the 2014 Met Gala
Marion Cotillard turned heads at Monday's Costume Institute Gala at The Met in New York. The French beauty paired her midnight blue Christian Dior gown with dramatic side-swept hair and luminous makeup by Hourglass. "The dress makes a graphic statement and we complemented it with glowing skin, iridescent eyes and richly pigmented lips," says makeup artist Christophe Danchaud.
Complexion: Danchaud began by prepping Marion's skin with Hourglass' No. 28 Primer Serum. He followed with Veil Fluid Makeup in 1.5 and Hidden® Corrective Concealer in Pearl. He finished with Ambient® Lighting Powder in Dim Light applied all over the face to create a soft-focus effect.
Cheeks: He applied Ambient® Lighting Blush in Radiant Magenta, a golden fuchsia blush, to create a stunning glow.
Eyes: Danchaud used Visionaire Eye Shadow in Exhibition. He began by applying the shimmer lilac shade all over her lids. He then applied the dark mauve shade in the duo close to her lash line and to the outer corner of her eye. He extended the mauve shade to underneath her eyes, close to the lash line. To lighten up his handiwork, he used a gold pigment on the lids. Finally, he applied several coats of Film Noir® Full Spectrum Mascara.
Brows: He defined the brows with Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil in Dark Brunette.
Lips: Danchaud lined the lips with Panoramic Long Wear Lip Pencil in Raven, a new shade for summer. He followed with a mix of Femme Rouge® Velvet Crème Lipstick in Raven and Muse creating a sensual orange red shade.
Flaunt a Feminine Flush Look with Ambient® Lighting Blush
Ambient® Lighting Blush introduces a completely new way to blush, with a soft-focus, seamless finish that is out of this world. We asked makeup artist Moani Lee to brainstorm a few different ways to showcase flushed-faced beauty this spring. For all looks, begin with an application of your Hourglass primer, foundation and concealer.
• Try a modern-day Marie Antoinette look with a melange of romantic pinks. Start with a wash of Dim Infusion all over the lids. Follow with a coat of Film Noir® Full Spectrum Mascara, an application of Radiant Magenta and Luminous Flush on the apples of your cheeks and a swipe of Opaque Rouge Liquid Lipstick in Ballet on the lips. Make sure to blend out both blush shades using a circular motion. "It's a modern and fresh approach to wearing pink," says Lee. "And one we've seen on red carpets lately."
• For advanced users, it's possible to combine myriad blush shades to create captivating glamour. First add a soft flush of warmth to the apples of your cheeks, using either Radiant Magenta, Diffused Heat or Luminous Flush. Next, softly contour with a deeper tone, like Mood Exposure. Blend upwards and out towards the temples with a hint of Dim Infusion and finish off with Ethereal Glow as a highlight on the tops of your cheekbones. "The airy, lightweight formula means you can never overdo it," adds Lee.
Flaunt a Sultry Siren Look with Ambient® Lighting Blush
Ambient® Lighting Blush represents a completely new way to blush, with a soft-focus, seamless finish that is out of this world. We asked makeup artist Moani Lee to brainstorm a few different ways to showcase flushed-faced beauty this spring. For all looks, begin with an application of your Hourglass primer, foundation and concealer.
• Create a sultry siren look by expertly contouring your cheeks with two shades of Ambient® Lighting Blush. "Blend Dim Infusion into the soft hollows of the cheek and apply Ethereal Glow as a highlight along the tops of the cheekbones," says Lee. Finish the look with exaggerated feline eyes achieved with Calligraphy Liquid Eye Liner in Ebony and pale pink nude lips care of Femme Nude Lip Stylo in Nude No. 1.
• Ambient® Lighting Blush is designed to be paired with Ambient® Lighting Powder. "Using them together creates a multidimensional luminescence that is unlike any other product," says Lee. Using the No. 2 Brush, start with a dusting of Ambient® Lighting Powder in Ethereal Light all over the complexion. Using the Ambient® Powder Brush, highlight with Ambient® Lighting Powder in Luminous Light. Switch back to the No. 2 brush and apply Radiant Magenta to the apples of your cheeks. To finish up, apply a light dusting of Ethereal Glow and blend out your handiwork with a circular motion.
New Hourglass Visual Identity – Revealed
To commemorate our 10-year anniversary — we launched at Barneys New York in 2004 — Hourglass has orchestrated a refresh of our visual identity. At the core of the update is a bold new logo conceived by renowned designer and creative director, Marc Atlan.
"Since Hourglass products are so well-designed, the new identity embodies discretion, timelessness and an element of surprise," says Atlan, whose sophisticated roster of clients has included Comme des Garçons, Maison Martin Margiela, Helmut Lang and Cartier."There's a certain boldness about the new logo, which reflects the confidence of the Hourglass woman. And it's used on packaging in an unexpected yet elegant manner, slightly off-center."
Atlan is the French-born founder of the LA-based Marc Atlan Design, where he conceptualizes everything from perfume bottles and packaging to retail environments and TV commercials.
Hourglass's modernized identity will take into effect immediately, as seen on all branded materials, the website and wherever the brand is sold. Ambient® Lighting Blush, our spring release, will be the first of our products bearing the updated insignia. The new logo will transition into the rest of the Hourglass collection over the course of the year.


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My Mississippi
By Willie Morris
with photographs by David Rae Morris
256 pp., 105 full-color photographs
1578061938 (9781578061938)
1578063094 (9781578063093)
A father and son's eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi
An exerpt from the book:
"Through the years two of the most singular extremes have been the desire, on the one hand, to dwell forever with all the myths and trimmings of a vanished culture which may never have truly existed in the first place, certainly not the way we wished it to, and the frantic compulsion, on the other, to reforge ourselves as an appendage of the capitalistic, go-getting, entrepreneurial North. . . . Between these two extremes there have been complex lights and shadings, and considerable ambivalence and suffering. Mississippians watch the same television as other Americans, frequent the same shopping malls and national franchise chainstores and fast-food establishments, and live in the same kind of suburbias. . . . At the new century it is the juxtapositions of Mississippi, emotional and in remembrance, and the tensions of its paradoxes that still drive us crazy. . . . In my work on this book certain ironies never failed to tease me."
-- Willie Morris, 1999
Few writers have ever approached their native terrains with such an inclusive and compassionate understanding as Willie Morris. This book, his last, circles back home where he started. To love it and discover it one more time, he and his son David Rae take us on a trip through contemporary Mississippi.
Who could express so passionately an understanding of the Mississippi landscape? Who could capture so unerringly the state's contrasting and often contradictory faces? For his readers the answer is Willie Morris. For Morris it is his photographer son.
Surveying the familiar yet always strangely evocative panorama that became his literary terrain, My Mississippi contemplates the realities of the present day, assesses the most vital concerns of the citizens, gauges how the state has changed, and beholds what Mississippi is like as it enters the twenty-first century. This southern homeland to which Morris returned after terminating his career as a New York editor remained for him a tantalizing mystery, the touchstone for all his thoughts, and one of the last unique places in America. For Morris, despite its flaws, Mississippi is beloved.
With father and son in their peregrinations we witness what they see and hear -- "the bugs on our windshield in the Delta springtime, the off-key echoes of high-school bands from the little Piney Woods football fields in the autumn, the supple twilights and sultry breezes on 'the Coast,' the hunting camps and picnics, and parades and pilgrimages, the catfish ponds and graveyards, the roadhouses and joints near the closing hour, the art galleries and concert halls, the riverboat casinos and courthouse squares, the historical landmarks of the old and the industrial complexes of the new."
"It has been a pleasure," Morris says, "more than that, an honor, to collaborate with my son on this project."
The son grew up in New York City, seeing his father's native land from the perspective of an outsider. As an adult he has chosen to live in or near Mississippi and has spent the past twenty years traveling and photographing the state. In a thoughtful and provocative photographic narrative entitled "Look Away," he presents striking, full-color images of his Mississippi.
This complementary collaboration of father and son unites their separate visions and shared love of a place that remains infinitely intriguing for everyone.
Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote many books, including North Toward Home, The Courting of Marcus Dupree, and After All, It's Only a Game (all available from the Univer-sity Press of Mississippi).
David Rae Morris is a photojournalist who lives and works in New Orleans. His photos have appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, and many other magazines and newspapers.
256 pp., 105 full-color photographs


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Honor is a Huawei Sub brand that offers really great budget friendly devices, one of their main focus are the mid to high-end Honor smartphones and this year they made a hit with the recently announced Honor 8.
Recently the devices was officially launched in the US, with much fanfare from the attendants Honor's new flagship packs everything you would expect from a high-end phone is a more budget form (something we are happy about).
The phone follows the new trend of Glass and Metal construction giving a sense of familiarity when holding it.
And what's under the hood will make you think twice to let it fall in the "mid-range" category, let's take a look:
OS: Android™ 6.0 (EMUI 4.1)
Color: Pearl White, Sapphire Blue, Midnight Black
Display: 5.2''FHD (1920*1080,1080P)
Chipset: HiSilicon Kirin 950 (4*Cortex A72 2.3GHz + 4*Cortex A53 1.8GHz)
Battery: 3000mAh(typical), 2900mAh(rated)
Camera: Main 12 MP Dual camera, Front 8 MP
Storage: 32GB/64GB ROM
Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11ac/a/b/g/n, 2.4G/5G, Bluetooth 4.2
USB 2.0 with USB Type C Interface
Dimensions: 145.5 x71.0 x7.45 mmWeight: about 153 g
SIM: Dual SIM model option
Fingerprint: Yes (Smart Key)
MicroSD card slot3.5 mm headset
Other: Infrared remote control
As you can see, there's a lot you can do with this device, even and long missing option like the infrared control is back with this beauty, and man! Is a real beauty.
On the back you see the "2.5D Glass" will offer a 3D grating effect which is a pleasure to see.
Also the P9 look-a-like dual 12MP cameras at the back promises outstanding photos.
Right now the device is not available, but up for pre-orders set to start shipping at early September with an interesting price tag:
The 32GB model will cost €399 or £370 if you're in the UK and exclusively to use at Three)
The 64GB model will cost €499 so, probably around £470 (if or math game is not too rusty)
What are your thoughts on this new trend of cheap phones with great specs? Let us know in the comment section below or join us at twitter


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Employers and assessment providers have tried to distinguish their assessments by arguing that their assessments were designed to measure "normal" personalities and/or "stable" personality traits. That argument fails because the FFM measures both sides of the same coin. As noted in the ADA, FFM and DSM post, the five-factor model of personality is widely accepted as representing the higher-order structure of both normal and abnormal personality traits.
By its design, a test that measures so-called "normal" personalities and seeks to identify individuals with "stable personality traits" screens out (or reveals) persons who may not possess "normal" personalities and/or "stable" personality traits – persons like military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, college students diagnosed with bipolar disorder and mothers with post-partum depression – persons whom the ADA was enacted (and amended) to protect.
Similarly, an employment assessment is designed to reveal a person with a mental impairment (a red or blue bead) by distinguishing that person from a "normal" person (a white bead).
In the words of the Karraker court (please see the Courts Find Tests to be Illegal post), an employment assessment utilizing an FFM-based model is "designed, at least in part, to reveal mental illness and has the effect of hurting the employment prospects of one with a mental disability" and, as such, "is best categorized as a medical examination."
Some assessment companies make it very clear that their tests are designed to identify and exclude persons with mental illnesses. Clearfit advertises itself as a "hiring tool for finding job applicants and predicting who will succeed." According to the company's website, "each applicant is scored against a Success Profile: a combination of personality and motivation traits that predict success in a particular role."
And what happens if personality is not taken into account? According to Clearfit, one of the consequences is "27.2 days/yr. lost productivity for depressed workers." Thus making it clear that the personality assessment should be used to eliminate from employment consideration those persons suffering from a mental illness, like mothers with post-partum depression.
A screenshot from the Clearfit webpage is set out below:


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Alison Brie (born December 29, 1982). Brie was born Alison Brie Schermerhorn in Hollywood, California. Her mother, Joanne (née Brenner), works at the non-profit child care agency Para Los Niños, and her father, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. Brie began her career acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California (her mother is Jewish and her father has Scottish and Irish ancestry). She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's in theater in 2005.
Prior to becoming a television actress, Brie had worked as a clown at birthday parties, and performed in theater in California.
For a time, Brie studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
One of Brie's first television roles was the minor character Nina, a novice hairdresser, on Hannah Montana. She then went on to star in the web series My Alibi, and was chosen for the role of Trudy Campbell in Mad Men. She is also a main cast member on Community as Annie Edison.
On April 15, 2010, Brie co-hosted G4's Attack of the Show!. Brie has also appeared for a short segment on the G4 show, Web Soup. She had a role in the 2010 film Montana Amazon. She made Maxim's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99 and Maxim's 2011 Hot 100 list at number 49.
She had a role in the horror film Scream 4, as Sidney Prescott's assistant, Rebecca Walters. The film was released on April 15, 2011. She appeared alongside Jason Segel and Emily Blunt in The Five-Year Engagement, which was released April 27, 2012.


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|Learn the basics of coin magic that you can perform anywhere and anytime. This comprehensive and yet very inexpensive DVD will teach you holds, grips, palms, utilities, productions, vanishes, routines, and more. Most of the fundamental moves in coin magic are clearly explained. In addition, the video explains classic effects such as Coins Across, Coins through Table, The Matrix, Coin Assemblies, Spellbound, and more. This comprehensive course contains more than 50 effects and routines you can use to stun any audience! 007MM6303
|This six DVD set provides a wealth of knowledge about cards and card magic. The videos by Simon Lovell cover over 170 Moves and Sleights for the beginner through the professional magician. Whether you're just starting out with card magic or are an experienced finger-flinger, this set of DVD's are an incredible learning tool. 0083rekam0133
|Fool your spectators with the most amazing secret card forces ever! Learn over 40 secret forces! Go in-depth with expert card magic instructor Gerry Griffin step by step, move by move. This DVD contains over two and a half hours of demonstrations and explanations to expand your capabilities as a card magician. 057MM0150
|TThis DVD features Himber Ring routines with Karrel Fox, Ted Lesley, Billy McComb, Pete Biro and Jonathan Pendragon. This is a video in the Twin Cities "Greater Magic Library Video Teach-In Series." This DVD provides a wealth of knowledge from some of the most talented artists in magic. It is a must if you want to do a Linking Finger Rings effect. Himber Ring included.
|Learn over 80 great tricks that can be performed by anyone, anywhere, at anytime! Larry Anderson performs each trick and then explains them step-by-step for you. Fun to watch and perform! Over four hours of quality usable material for the beginner, amateur, or pro magician. Comes complete with one Svengali Deck and added bonus material on the DVD on how to perform and present this classic trick deck. 0021MM2196
|The Linking Rings is one of the oldest and most popular magic tricks of all time. On this DVD, Troy Hooser teaches how to perform this classic trick and many of its startling variations including deceptive methods to link rings, how to create designs and shapes with linked rings, methods to visibly unlink rings, routines and much more. 006NUFFI01950
|Wow! J. B. Bobo's book MODERN COIN MAGIC has been the standard magician's "bible" for many years when it comes to learning palming, sleights, manipulation, effects, routines, information on gaffed coins, and the like. Now comes the entire book profusely illustrated on a set of FOUR DVD's! The Classic Course in Coin Magic is Here! Watch in wonder and amazement the most incredible sleights and tricks with coins! Then learn step-by-step from the performer's view how to do these amazing coin feat! Highly recommended. 10051MM0148
|WOW! So you want to learn how to do sleight-of-hand with cards? Jean Hugard's classic ROYAL ROAD TO CARD MAGIC book has now made its way to DVD. This phenomenol four DVD disk set goes step-by-step in parallel with this great book. Among many other sleights, the DVD's will teach you how to control a card, retain cards, how to operate the injog, topsy-turvey cards, retaining cards, flourishes, turnovers, spreads, fans, how to spring the cards, waterfall, the glide, glimpses, using key cards, how to undercut, marking cards, various palms,breaks and break controls, false shuffles, card forces, and an array of various card effects. Wow! 0051MM0140
|The Self-Levitation DVD will teach you how to levitate with no gimmicks whatsoever. The real work on the Balducci Levitation starring Michael Maxwell and Paul Harris with exclusive performance tips by David Roth!
|Simply Psychic is the finest introduction to mental magic on DVD, from the art's finest practicioner - Ross Johnson. Imagine reaching inside someone's head and discovering his innermost thoughts. On Simply Psychic, Ross Johnson performs and explains impossible and explains the unexplained. The effects on Simply Psychic are as evocative and thought-provoking as they are entertaining -- no mere magic tricks. Best of all, they're aimed at the beginning mentalist, require few, if any special props. Ross' clear and concise teaching makes every effect easy to understand. Each explanation is peppered with carefully considered, professional advice, hints and tips - salient points that professionals will find invaluable. Watch Simply Psychic, learn the material and perform. It's that simple. On this DVD you will learn: - How to interrupt the thought and speech patterns of an entire audience - psychically! - To predict the outcome of future events, including the flip of a coin and the selection of a card! - What a spectator will do before even he knows! - And much, much more! Voted the top psychic entertainer in the world, Ross Johnson's uncanny abilities have taken him around the globe. With over 25 years as a professional mind reader, he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Simply Psychic. He knows what you're thinking. 018NUFfi01450
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Version 1.0, 3 March 2015
file Download this Credit Guide
Art Money Pty Ltd
Australian Credit License 470221
Level 1, 30-34 Wilson Street
Newtown, NSW 2042
Tel 1300 31 66 11
Fax 02 9550 1048
Art Money Pty Ltd is a credit provider of loans to customers who wish to purchase art from participating galleries.
In this Credit Guide, the words "we", "our" and "us" refers to Art Money Pty Ltd.
This Credit Guide provides important information about us and how we provide credit assistance to you in relation to your art purchase loan.
We act as a credit provider for the loans to customers. As credit provider, our functions include:
We do not impose fees or charges on you when we provide credit assistance and other services.
We are required by law to inform you of any commissions that we are likely to receive, in relation to credit assistance we provide to you. We do not receive any commission in relation to your loan.
We do not pay commissions to third parties for the introduction of your loan to us. We have no volume bonus arrangement in place.
We believe that it is essential for our customers to be able to identify and deal with a company who has the ability, authority and proper training to hear and respond appropriately to any complaints or disputes.
Complaints can be lodged by contacting our Complaints Officer, Helen Lalas on:
Telephone: 1300 31 66 11
Email: [email protected]
Post: Complaints Officer, Art Money, PO Box 767, Newtown NSW 2042
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you can contact our external dispute resolution provider Credit & Investments Ombudsman for an independent review on:
Credit and Investments Ombudsman Ltd
PO Box A252
South Sydney NSW 1235
Telephone: 1800 138 422
The external dispute resolution process is free of charge.


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Labor and Coalition agree to Sunday night leaders' debate at National Press Club
The two major parties have agreed to the first leaders' debate of the federal election campaign, to be held on Sunday night at the National Press Club in Canberra.
Labor wants the ABC to moderate the debate, but the Liberal Party has not indicated whether it supports that.
Both parties have agreed for the debate between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott to start at 6:30pm (AEST).
The ALP had been pushing for a debate hosted by Channel 7 in conjunction with Facebook.
Labor's campaign director George Wright says he wants that debate to go ahead the following Sunday.
He said all major networks should have the opportunity to host a debate during the election campaign.
Liberal federal director Brian Loughnane says he looks forward to the National Press Club finalising arrangements.
He says two additional forums proposed by Mr Abbott should also take place.
@tonyabbottmhr will debate @kruddmp at the #NPC 6:30pm this Sunday night chilp.it/2e2a73 #auspol #ausvotes
— Brian Loughnane (@LoughnaneB) August 8, 2013
Topics: federal-elections, rudd-kevin, abbott-tony, liberals, alp, federal-government, federal-parliament, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, australia
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Helsinki (24.02.1999 - Juhani Artto) A wide gulf exists between the social conditions of workers on either side of the Finnish-Russian border. The Finns enjoy the benefits of world-class enterprises while the Russians suffer from factory closures and other consequences of outmoded production facilities and the collapse of social structures.
The Finnish paperworkers are showing solidarity towards their Russian peers in this situation in many ways. While in earlier decades cross-border co-operation was mainly a matter of exchanging top-level delegations between Helsinki and Moscow, in the 1990s co-operation has taken another form.
This spring the Finns are showing their solidarity in a new way. The Paperworkers Union is financing and organising the distribution of basic foodstuffs to worker families in two towns, Läskelä and Suojärvi, where the forest industry factories closed down last year.
"Before reaching this point, we discussed thoroughly whether donating international humanitarian aid is any business of a trade union", explains Esa Mäisti, a planning secretary at the Finnish Paperworkers Union. We decided in favour of such an initiative and the union resolved to commit 100,000 Finnish Marks (FIM 1.0 = EUR 0.17 or USD 0.19) towards food aid. It was also argued that we ought to concentrate on helping our Russian peers to reinforce their trade union organisations.
But who should be eligible for the aid packages? What should they contain and how should the distribution be organised to make sure that the aid reaches its proper destination? Mäisti stresses that such questions had to be studied seriously before preparations for concrete action could begin.
At the first stage 15 tonnes of flour, macaroni, edible oil and sugar will be distributed. The beneficiaries will be more than 500 unemployed forest industry workers and 450 schoolchildren. Läskelä School will also receive milk powder because the protein intake of its schoolchildren tends to be too low. At the second stage in April the food distribution will concentrate on helping families with children. Workers who belong to trade unions will get an extra two kilogrammes of sugar.
Although the union responded positively to the question of humanitarian aid, Mäisti stresses that the current effort is a once-off operation. "We want the beneficiaries to understand this and not to entertain unfounded expectations of continued food aid. In the coming season we want everyone to cultivate their own smallholdings, as they have done in the past."
However, some union activists feel that the paperworkers' initiative may encourage union organisations in other industries to follow suit. The humanitarian aid project of this spring is an exceptional operation for the Finnish Paperworkers Union. Other forms of solidarity spanning the Finnish-Russian border are more prevalent. Mäisti reminds us of the three most important forms of solidarity work. The Finns have donated PCs, copying machines, printers and other equipment to the forest industry workers' union offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk (the capital of the Russian Republic of Karelia, which borders Finland). Last year alone the value of donated hardware exceeded FIM 150,000.
A substantial sum is used every year for a week-long seminar for Russian union activists. Half of the seminar usually takes place in Finland and the other half in Russia. In Finland participants get concrete information on how Finnish union activists work, on what kind of employer-employee relations exist in Finland and on the role of trade unions in a market economy. In the last few years the Finnish Paperworkers Union has also contributed to an extensive union education programme in the Republic of Karelia. This programme is co-financed by European Union.
The Finnish Paperworkers Union spends one per cent of its annual membership fee income on international solidarity work. This amounts to some 300,000-400,000 Finnish Marks per year.


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Events Calendar
Featured Events
Moonlight Magic has become a traditional event across the region. It is the kick-off to the holiday season that includes Lighting of the Village, the Parade of Lights, Santa's Workshop, carolers, and street performers.
Interested in vendor, sponsorship, or parade opportunities at Moonlight Magic?
Download the 2018 Moonlight Magic Vendor Form and return it to GSFABA with payment no later than Friday, November 9, 2018. Checks can be made payable to Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association.
Click here to download the Moonlight Magic Vendor Form
Businesses can also take advantage of our Sponsorship Opportunities!
Click here to download our Sponsorship Form
The 2018 Moonlight Magic event will feature a parade of lights. Anyone can enter a float into the parade for free. Line up is at 4:45 pm at the Lamson property, and the parade will kick off at 5:15 pm. To participate in the parade of lights, complete this form (starting Summer 2018).
Visit the Moonlight Magic page to learn more!