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When I was in first grade, I could never get a handle on Show & Tell. Every time it was my turn, I brought in a parade of nonsense that put the other kids right to sleep. Everybody else came in with stuff that had us scrambling all over each other to get a better look, and you'd think with 90% of Show & Tells just being a presentation of a kid's favorite toy, I could have cracked this code. But I was so eager to blow them away, that I kept veering off course by bringing in, say, magnifying glasses and no sun in the room to actually burn anything, or the 12-inch single of Sweet's "Fox on the Run" that I slapped down on Mrs. Circle's mesmerizing turntable with the flashing diamond lightshow. Yes, her name was really Mrs. Circle and she had a cool record player, which seems unlikely but probably just a chicken-or-the-egg scenario. But this song was probably my worst Show & Tell ever, as I watched everyone's eye glaze over but did learn a lesson as valuable as anything I retained from first grade—which is never put on music and stare intently into a blank face and wait for a reaction. Music is mostly for solitude, particularly when you hear it for the first time, and a dark room like a movie theater is probably best. This is something I've carried with me, which became amplified by a thousand when I witnessed karaoke. So if you're singing an amazing Meat Loaf song at the bar, and I get up and leave? Don't take it personal. We must have made eye contact, and I just had no idea what you wanted from me.
But one day, I solved the riddle and cracked the Show & Tell code once and for all by bringing in a toy for this movie I hadn't even seen yet. See, the toy was ages 6 and up, where the movie was, what, 13 and up? It would probably be rated PG-13 today, like all of Spielberg's movies (I mean, he's the dude who invented that rating with Temple of Doom, right?) But this toy? Holy crap it was incredible. It was a big plastic shark with a rubber-band mouth, and you stuck a variety of plastic trinkets on the tongue and then plucked them off one by one with a wicked-looking gaff. And once the bottom jaw wasn't heavy enough to hold the tension… SNAP! The mouth banged shut, little plastic junk flying everywhere, kids screaming, the works. And it snapped extra hard if you life-hacked that shit like we all did and put three rubber bands on the mouth instead of one. It wasn't dangerous or anything. It had teeth, sure, but you wouldn't lose a leg like that poor lifeguard in the movie (the scene that almost got it an R-rating actually), but don't worry about him either, he'll be okay. I know it seemed like he died but if you look close, he was barefoot in the boat, but then when his severed leg floated down to the bottom… the foot was wearing a tennis shoe. That's why this lifeguard is the badass of all time. He took a moment to put on his goddamn shoes while a shark was chomping and blowing bubbles with him like Big League Chew.
Anyway, my shark was a bit hit. We didn't even have to play the game. I just put it together, fin-by-fin, locked and loaded the rubber-band jaw, then piled up the tongue with the junk. And these trinkets you had to fish out of its face were fascinating, by the way. Sort of like Monopoly, which could have been way better of you spent the game putting sharks on all your properties instead of houses. Near as I can remember, there was a work boot, an anchor, a wagon wheel (?), a fish skeleton, no human body parts but this big ol' bone that might have been from a person, and a walkie-talkie, which conjured up all sorts of Jonah-in-the-whale type fantasies ("Breaker 1-9, I'm still getting digested, over…"), and also made sense considering Spielberg's later fascination with this technology. Remember the scandal when he replaced every gun in E.T. with a walkie-talkie? This was supposed to make the movie a bit more benign and kid-friendly, but instead it convinced us kids our walkie-talkies might be lethal.
No license plate came with the toy though, which seems like a real missed opportunity. So I just plucked out this junk for my first-grade class, eyes wide and intent like a mad scientist, or at least a mildly-disturbed dentist, and the room held their breath. And when the jaws snapped shut, I knew it was coming. It wasn't hard to figure out exactly how much junk a three-rubber-band-tight jaw could lose before it sprung, so I barely flinched at all. The kids lost it though, squealing and rolling out of the way. And maybe I wasn't a hero for a day, but a hero for 15 minutes, and that was good enough.
I didn't see Jaws until about a year later when it was on "cable." I have the scare quotes around cable because my uncle was stealing Showtime with a pirate box (only the biggest suckers paid for cable in the '70s). It's not so crazy for kids to have toys years before they can see the movies that inspire them. And if you think it's weird that they made toys "ages 6 and up" for a bona fide horror movie, remember this was the '70s, where kids were playing with Giger's Alien in their sandbox or watching Blade Runner on their View-Master. No, seriously, they had Blade Runner on the View-Master! Or maybe it was The Black Hole, I can't remember. Equally scary though.
But when I watched Jaws that day with my uncle Pat, I didn't freak out. I was 7 years old or so, and my uncle and my parents marveled at how calm I was through the whole thing. This might have been my first case of "hype," with my relatives needling me so much about being scared that I had to prove them wrong, because while I was watching it, I kept thinking "This ain't so bad…" Either that or there was just no way I was going to show weakness. I'd already shown enough weakness earlier in the day when I ran full speed into their sliding glass door, bloodying my nose all over it. It wasn't the first time I'd done this, which was why my aunt and uncle had put butterfly stickers on the thing so I wouldn't make this mistake again. But they keep the door too damn clean. If I had a house made of sliding-glass doors, I'd be dead.
So when we were watching the movie, I was doing fine, cheering with everyone when Brody blew it up with that perfect shot, and that was that. Then people wandered off and I kept watching Showtime on my own.
And that's when the cartoon came on.
I still have no idea what this cartoon was, and I've been unable to track it down, even in the Golden Age of internets. Luckily, I wasn't the only one who saw it, so it really did happen. But my dad doesn't really remember it like I do. Showtime was weird back then, too. No hosts, no original programming that I remember, with just these short, animated clips to fill time between movies. They were usually darkly humorous flicks, like something they'd play at a drive-in. Showtime is where most of us first saw Godzilla Vs. Bambi, for example. So this cartoon was supposed to be funny, too. It depicted an entomologist running around in a field with a butterfly net, catching butterflies. Then suddenly this even-bigger net swoops down and snatches him up instead. Camera pulls back, and it's a huge butterfly carrying the squirming man in his net, flying back to a big cave. In the cave, the butterfly yanks the man out, gives him a cursory glance, then smack! Sticks him up on a wall with a giant pin. The camera pulls back again to show the wall is covered with men, all impaled on pins, heads lolling, and the butterfly sitting at a desk, drumming its fingers all bored.
It's an old turning-the-tables gag I've seen a hundred times since, but holy balls did it freak me out. It sent me off, running through the house screaming, and everyone was left scratching their heads, "What's wrong with Crash?" I listened to them diagnose my meltdown, and they decided that it was Jaws after all, combined with running face-first into the sliding door, that was causing this. Those were the real culprits, not a cartoon. And I was angry at the time, confused no one else was disturbed by the butterfly, but looking back, their assessment makes more sense. The cartoon was a fable, and it had a certain logic to it. Thinking about it now, Jaws was my sliding-glass door to the nose that day. Okay, the butterfly cartoon was freaky, but that's a simple revenge tale. Sure, Jaws might be construed as a revenge tale, too (Jaws: The Revenge, anyone?), particularly today when sharks are undergoing a mass extinction and the Earth loses three sharks every second, but Jaws was weirder than all that, more alien. The water was outer space, the wrong place to be. And in the movie, any shot of some desperate swimming trying to get to the surface, but being pulled down at the very last second? That's what got me. Isn't this essentially what happens when a sliding glass door appears from nowhere? The idea that you're underwater, that you're in the fish tank with those alien life forms, only there's six sealed sides to this tank and no exit, and the promise of sunlight from the surface will be stolen at any moment. That's true terror. But if anybody can track down the butterfly cartoon, let me know. So I can destroy the negative.
But there's a reason there's a Shark Week and not a Butterfly Week on the Discovery channel. Shark Week is only slightly more ridiculous these days, as it's mercifully pulled back from baiting the conspiracy theorist with fake Mermen and Megalodon documentaries. For a minute there, it was like they didn't trust people to think sharks were big enough, that they didn't need three heads or to be surfing tornados. A shark doesn't need to be the size of an aircraft carrier to terrify. They've always been just the right size, meaning bigger than us. Remember the movie Mighty Joe Young? I don't know about you, but there was something freakier about a King Kong that was somewhere in-between monster-sized and gorilla-sized, like that scary porridge that's just right. And even a man-sized butterfly on a rampage still lives up here. With us. Not down under those sliding-glass doors, ready to rob you of any hope of escape or last gasps. Or even last thoughts.
Okay, last thoughts. When I used to work at a bookstore back in Toledo, my boss at the time told us how she'd spent summers in Arizona back in the '70s doing volunteer work on a Navajo reservation, and one day she thought it would be great to organize a field trip to see Jaws. She said that most of them hadn't seen many, or any, movies at all, so she hoped there would be some big impact, maybe like the Maori tribe in The Piano who stormed the stage while watching the locals put on an adaptation of Bluebeard, or the apocryphal tales of crowds panicking and running from a projected locomotive during the Lumière brothers screening of their first film, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. Instead, she said, they watched the movie without comment, and when it was over, she eagerly went to them to debrief them about the experience. She was much more excited than they were, however, and one Navajo man's response seemed to be indicative of the general consensus. He just said, "Big fish" and shrugged, which is a good way to remind us what was really important here, all desperate sliding-glass-door symbolism aside. That fucking fish was big enough.
David James Keaton's work has appeared in over 50 publications. His first collection, FISH BITES COP! Stories to Bash Authorities (Comet Press), was named the 2013 Short Story Collection of the Year by This Is Horror and was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award. His second collection of short fiction, Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead (PMMP), received a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly, who said, "Decay, both existential and physical, has never looked so good." He lives and teaches in California, where the roads are made of sand fleas and avocados.


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Sailing to Rio de Janeiro!
Navegando para o Rio de Janeiro!
Πλώρη για Rio de Janeiro!
ΙΙΙ Festival
Music and Poetry
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
May 2013
The Festival was organized in collaboration with the ensemble Música Surda: Andréia Pedroso, Antônio Jardim, Artur Gouvêa and Eduardo Gatto.
Testimony by Michales Loukovikas
WHEN AMÉLIA MUGE AND I began researching and exchanging material from our traditions, the Lusitanic–Portuguese and the Hellenic–Greek, many people raised their brows in irony and disbelief:
"Oh, they are loucos", they thought – some even said. "Portugal and Greece are so far apart. Impossible to find common ground"…
Imagine what people like them, with raised brows, will say now that we are talking about a triangle (not that of the… Bermuda): Portugal, Brazil and Greece. Well, Portugal and Brazil, OK, the relation is obvious: former metropolis and colony; but… Greece?!!
I can say that our collaborative results astonished even us! Even me, I should add, that I have been researching this field for years, arriving to the conclusion that civilization, culture, is the result of give and take, of exchange. I have also shown in my radio programs that lands so far apart, like – say – India and Iberia, have been interconnected for thousands of years, since ancient times… Well, when the Hellenes say "ancient", they mean BCE (before the common era), or BC (before Christ), if you like.
All these ideas were further reinforced when Amélia and I started working on Periplus. Of course, there are some "dark spots" still now; questions that remain unanswered. A big question for me e.g. is: how can Amélia, a Portuguese born in Mozambique, compose in an ancient style? You see, all three ancient Greek themes we have in Periplus (Seikilos' Epitaph, the First Delphic Hymn to Apollo, and Mesomedes' Hymn to Nemesis) were included because of her own compositions that reminded me of the ancient Hellenic songs mentioned above. It's very strange, indeed.
However, apart from these "dark spots", which will always challenge us to come up with some satisfactory answers, we were able to assemble the rest of the puzzle rather easily. And when our Periplus was released, I could say:
"You know, the links are there, waiting for us to uncover them. One only needs to search, methodically, of course, with a proper compass", a bússula, as we say in Greek or bússola as you say in Portuguese.(a)
THE GREEK PENINSULA AND ARCHIPELAGO was not a beginning in world history. The Hellenes received the wisdom from the Orient (Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt) and turned it into science;(b) it was a great feat! And what they left behind was a marvelous literature – uma literatura maravilhosa, indeed! Thus the Hellenic civilization became the foundation of the Occidental cultures.
The extant peripli (plural of periplus) took place in the Mediterranean, the Indian and the Atlantic oceans. Herodotus also wrote about a periplus of Africa by Phoenicians on behalf of an Egyptian pharaoh. A Greek from Alexandria, Egypt, described the Indian Ocean coasts of eastern Africa and India. Pytheas, from the Hellenic colony of Massalia (modern Marseille, France), voyaged north to the British Isles and Scandinavia and concluded a periplus of Europe sailing via European rivers from the Baltic to the Black Seas and back to the Mediterranean. There are also people that believe the Minoan Cretans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Punics, and other ancient peoples sailed to the Americas long before the Vikings, Columbus – or, of course, Magellan, who attempted a periplus of the world but was not fortunate enough to conclude it.
Therefore, these voyages started long before recorded history, in the Bronze Age. There are some historical clues that the Minoans in the time of their thalassocracy travelled as far as Cornwall, Britain, in search of tin – or else they obtained this important metal at ports of southern Gaul. Tin is a necessary component of bronze (± 90% copper plus ± 10% tin). There were vast quantities of copper in the Mediterranean. Cyprus e.g. was full of copper and the name Cyprus comes from copper (and vice versa). But tin? There were very few places in the Mediterranean with tin and in limited quantities.
The Minoans, and later the Greeks and the Phoenicians, sailed initially to Iberia that was rich in these minerals. The Andalusians probably led the Cretans to Galicia, Brittany and Cornwall: they knew the way… All these places, especially Cornwall, had massive tin deposits. There, close to Galicia or even Cornwall, were the so-called Cassiterides Nesoe, the Tin Isles (cassíteros is tin in Greek). Herodotus and other historians write also about the links of the Hellenes and Phoenicians with Tartessos, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir, and many people nowadays correlate the legendary Tartessos with the elusive Atlantis…
AS A STARTING POINT THIS RESEARCH had some very simple questions:
• Where did the Bronze Age Mediterranean find tin to produce bronze?
• Who were the established maritime traders of the time to bring this most crucial metal to the Mediterranean and where did they find it?
All the answers are given in our Chronicles (Once Upon a… Wave), following our Voyages (during the Mediterranean Periplus)(c).
Our conclusion is that certain needs motivated the humans to live together, to communicate, to exchange. That's how society was born, the cities were created, the classes and division of labour emerged and writing was invented. The interaction concerned material needs but at the same time transformed the people that worked together exchanging also ideas and ideals, a process that led to the birth of civilization, of culture.
IT IS NOT SO OBVIOUS but we have something like a periplus in other human endeavours, too. Music was born together with speech. In an advanced stage, in ancient Hellas, music was either instrumental or song. Poetry in classical Greece was inconceivable without music. The two arts got… divorce later, in the 4th century BCE. However, either before or after, a periplus was (and still is) needed to combine sounds with words, and to express the meaning of the words through sounds. Something similar also happens in a translation: then the periplus concerns two languages. It is the voyage of a text, its meaning and style, content and form, while it is adapted in order to start breathing in another language environment…
The Odyssey is a kind of poetic periplus. According to the Lusitanians, the wanderings of Odysseus (Ulysses) were Luso-Hellenic, as well: he founded Lisbon and had a child with the Iberian princess Calypso. Homer described Odysseus' descent into Hades, the underworld, which was outside the Pillars of Heracles, that is, the Strait of Gibraltar. The Hellenes located in the same area the Garden of the Hesperides and the Makaron Nesoe, that is, the Fortunate Isles, the Islands of the Blessed, or Elysium, what today is thought to be Macaronesia (the Azores and Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verde).
Dante, in his Inferno, cites another version of Odysseus' descent into the underworld with no return. The king of Ithaca, he writes, went out of the Pillars of Hercules and sailed south, crossed the Equator, continued voyaging for months, until he reached a bay with a big mountain. Then a tornado sank his boat.
I don't know why, but I think this bay with the big mountain is… the River of January: Rio de Janeiro! I would really love to confirm that…
• The modern Greek Homerist Ioannis Kakridis argues that the Odyssey is a work of poetry and not a travel log (or a navigator's periplus). According to W. B. Stanford, Cape Maleas and the nearby island of Cythera, where Odysseus met storms (Odyssey, book 9), are "the last clearly identifiable places in his wanderings. After this he leaves the sphere of Geography and enters Wonderland." (Wandering in Wonderland)…
Nevertheless, due to the great impact of the Homeric epics, the attempt to create the "Geography of the Odyssey" started as early as Hesiod, who must have been Homer's contemporary, and by the Hellenistic period, the literature on the subject had really thrived. There were even disagreements among the scholars whether Odysseus' wanderings were confined within the Mediterranean or if they expanded into the Atlantic – indicating that for them the ocean was not a "terra" (mare) incogita.
Other scholars, however, turned against this euhemerism –(d) some of them even against the great rhapsode. The mythographer-grammarian Apollodorus of Athens (2nd century BCE) wrote that Homer imagined the wanderings as having taken place in a kind of fairyland in the Atlantic. Strabo (1st centuries BCE-CE) considered that at least Ogygia and Scheria-Phaeacia, the islands of Calypso and Nausicaa respectively, were "imagined in fantasy" as being in the Atlantic.
Plutarch (1st-2nd centuries CE) also placed Ogygia in the Atlantic, and specifically west of Britain. Additionally he repeated what Plato had described as a continent on the other side of the Atlantic, claiming that from this continent Ogygia was about 900 kilometres distant. The German astronomer and mathematician Kepler (1571 – 1630) estimated that "the great continent" was America and attempted to locate Calypso's island.
In her work entitled The Wine Dark Sea, the American Henriette Mertz argued that Circe's island is Madeira, Calypso's island one of the Azores, while the intervening travels record a discovery of North America: Scylla and Charybdis are in the Bay of Fundy, in Nova Scotia, Canada, while Scheria is in the Caribbean.
Enrico Mattievich, an Italian-Peruvian retired Professor of Physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (where our festival took place), "brought" Odysseus to South America, proposing that his journey to the Underworld actually took place there. The river Acheron is the Amazon, he argued in his Journey to the Mythological Inferno (1992). After a long voyage upstream Odysseus met the spirits of the dead at the confluence of the rivers Marañon and Ucayali – the starting point of the Amazon.
Odysseus may not have been the first Hellene to go down there: according to Mertz, a century before the Trojan War and the Odyssey, in the 13th century BCE, the Argonauts travelled across the Atlantic Ocean, down the east coast of South America, past the mouth of the Amazon and Rio de Janeiro to the Río de la Plata of Argentina, and, following it upstream, reached the altiplano of Bolivia arriving at Colchis or Tiwanaku, where the Golden Fleece was kept. Centuries later Tiwanaku became the religious, cosmological, cultural and commercial centre of a pre-Columbian empire that extended around Lake Titicaca in present-day western Bolivia, southern Peru and northern Chile from 300 to 1150 CE. But this area must have been inhabited as early as 1500 BCE.
Some writers interpret the Homeric epics as "British ballads" or "Viking sagas". The Belgian Théophile Cailleux suggested in his Pays atlantiques décrits par Homère (Atlantic lands described by Homer, 1878) that Troy was situated in East Anglia, on the heights outside Cambridge known as the Gog Magog Hills (rather far from the sea); while Ithaca, he believed, should be sought in southern Andalusia, somewhere between Jerez and Cádiz, in the delta of the Guadalete (where another Trojan War hero, Menestheus, supposedly settled: see Chronicle 7). But Cailleux was unlucky: some time after his book was published, Heinrich Schliemann triumphantly proved that Troy and Mycenae existed as powerful cities at the right time and in the right place to have fought a Trojan War such as the epics describe. Thus there was no great thirst for geohistorical speculation then in the market.
More than a century later, the Dutch Iman Wilkens presented the same idea again. His book Where Troy Once Stood (1990) takes us to the same hills that Cailleux pinpointed, but with the screenplay somewhat modified: the Trojan War was fought around 1200 BCE between groups of Celts, says Wilkens. Those living in Cambridgeshire were attacked by fellow Celts from the Continent to win access to the very profitable tin mines in Cornwall. He further hypothesizes that the Sea Peoples (see Chronicles 3-5) were Celts who settled in Greece and the Aegean as Achaeans and Pelasgians, bringing with them the oral poems that were translated and written down in Hellenic around 750 BCE, forming the basis of the Iliad and Odyssey. He locates Scylla and Charybdis at present day St Michael's Mount, at the tip of Cornwall, he moves a bit Ithaca from Guadalete to Cádiz, while the topography of the Laestrygonian Telepylos ("Far-off port") looks to him similar to that of Havana. Alas! His nationalism turned out to be his Achilles' heel: "It appears that Homer's Greek contains a large number of loan words from western European languages, more often from Dutch rather than English, French or German", he thoughtlessly wrote, speaking of tongues that have not existed until at least 1000 years after Homer…(e)
In The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales (1995), the Italian Felice Vinci assumed that the Achaeans were a Baltic people at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, coming to Greece around the 16th century, after the Trojan War that took place in the 18th century BCE, and bringing their traditional oral sagas to the Aegean. The islands of Odysseus' kingdom, Ithaca, Dulichium, Cephalonia, and Zakynthos, would correspond with islands in the Danish archipelago of South Funen, and Troy with Toija in SW Finland; the Hellespont could not be identified with Dardanelles, but with the Gulf of Finland; Mycenae would have stood in the same place as modern Copenhagen; and Odysseus' voyage would have taken place along the coasts of Norway: Ogygia could be identified with one of the Faroe Islands (among Britain, Scandinavia and Iceland); Scheria, home of the Phaeacians, with the environs of Bergen; Circe's island, and the places she describes (the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis) may be placed in the Lofoten archipelago of northern Norway; and Aeolus' island in the Shetland archipelago, NE of Scotland. According to Vinci, the same region is the setting of other Hellenic mythological tales, such as the Argonauts' voyage. Referring to Plato's dialogue Critias, he maintains that Athens used to rise formerly on a flat fertile zone in the Baltic, perhaps near the town of Karlskrona in southern Sweden.
Regarding the background of Homer's epics, the Flemish Karel Jozef de Graeve, in his République des Champs Elysées (Republic of the Elysian Fields, 1806), pointed out the area around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. Finally, the French Gilbert Pillot, in Le Code secret de l'Odyssée (The Secret Code of the Odyssey, 1969), "saw" Odysseus crossing the Pillars of Heracles and voyaging in the Atlantic, initially to Morocco, the Canaries and Madeira, and then heading north to Ireland, Scotland and Iceland.
More extreme views have occasionally surfaced that the whole geography of the Iliad and the Odyssey can be mapped on the coasts of the northern Atlantic. According to this, Troy was in southern England, Telemachus' journey took him to Andalusia, while Odysseus wandered around the Atlantic coast. Some others turned recently their eyes to the sky arguing that the Homeric geography is to be found there, and that the Iliad and Odyssey can be decoded as a star map. What we will hear next, I suppose, would be that the Trojan War was actually a Star War…


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Scleroderma is a disease of the body's connective tissue. Connective tissue is found throughout the body, providing support and form for organs and structures. Scleroderma is thought to be an autoimmune disorder, a condition in which the immune system mistakes the body's own tissue for a foreign invader, attacking and damaging it. Researchers believe that the immune system's interaction with the connective tissue causes an overproduction of collagen, a tough, hard protein that makes up tendons, bones, ligaments, and scar tissue. When this collagen is deposited in various places throughout the body, it causes hardening and stiffening.
The most common areas of the body affected by scleroderma are the skin, blood vessels, joints, and internal organs, such as the heart, lungs, kidneys, and digestive system.
Scleroderma is classified as:
Localized Scleroderma
This primarily affects the skin. Localized scleroderma is further divided into:
- Morphea—Skin lesions are firm, at times oval, whitish or brownish plaques, surrounded by a purplish ring. Different types include:
- Plaque morphea—superficial lesions usually confined to the dermis
- Generalized morphea—individual plaques multiply or merge and are present in 2 or more sites
- Bullous morphea—lesions form blisters
- Linear
- Skin lesions appear as hardened streaks or lines along the arms, legs, or forehead.
- May also involve subcutaneous tissue, muscle, and bone.
Systemic Sclerosis
Usually involves Raynaud's phenomenon, skin thickening, and involvement of lungs, gastrointestinal system, or kidneys
This is divided into:
- Limited
- A gradually progressing form of scleroderma that initially causes skin thickening, most commonly on the hands, forearms, feet, and lower legs
- Usually progresses to affect the internal organs.
- Diffuse
- A more quickly progressing form of scleroderma that causes the skin to thicken throughout the body.
- It may also affect the internal organs.
- Sclerosis sine scleroderma—very rare form of scleroderma in which there are no skin manifestations, but the internal organs are affected.
Overlap Syndrome
Overlap syndrome occurs when a person has symptoms of two or more autoimmune diseases. The most common diseases include:
Undifferentiated Scleroderma
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As the national organization for sociologists, the American Sociological Association, through its Executive Office, is well positioned to provide a unique set of services to its members and to promote the vitality, visibility, and diversity of the discipline. Working at the national and international levels, the Association aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.


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Color Scheme Inspiration – Desert Landscapes
- Elyse Harrop
- Jan 14, 2009
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Having trouble finding a good color scheme? Color scheme inspirations will aim to fix that! Each post, we'll pick out a topic and build color schemes out of it to inspire.
Dry and desolate? Try creative and motivational! Pack some water because this round of color schemes focuses on some of the hottest desert spots of the planet.
Photos are all found via Flickr (follow image links for more on the author), and color schemes are available to download on COLOURlovers.
Don't Click Here! – Placing Links in Context
- Zach Dunn
- Jan 09, 2009
- 23 Comments
- Articles
If you're interested in reading this article, click here. On second thought. Don't.
It's a common usability problem. Links that don't mean anything. How are you using links on your website?
22 Well Done State Tourism Websites
- Sam Dunn
- Jan 07, 2009
- 16 Comments
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In a continuation to Branding the United States, this article explores the state government run websites used to target tourists. While many of these tourist department sites are much more aesthetically pleasing than their .gov counterparts, not all of them make the cut. Here's the finest of the bunch.
6 Reasons Websites Fail at Getting Their Points Across
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- Jan 06, 2009
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Every website tries to communicate a different message. With some sites, it is hard to determine what exactly that message is. Here's a list of things that detract from the individuality of a website, as well as bury or distract from the intended point.
12 Sites Great at Being Green
- Zach Dunn
- Jan 04, 2009
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Green is a great color. This showcase focuses on websites that decided to go with a more natural shade of design. Take some inspiration from the shades of green used fantastically in the following twelve sites.
Many of these pages use green to illustrate a nature theme. There are also a couple of great examples like Emotions by Mike which use green simply because it works with the design. Take a look:
8 Sites with Excellent jQuery Navigation
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- Jan 02, 2009
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This is a gallery of sites that use jQuery to make the navigation clean, sharp, and elegant. These sites use the framework to do more than just add gratuitous effects.
Even though I'm a huge fan of Actionscript, Flex, and Flash in general, I love when navigations can keep usability while achieving fluid animation. A couple of these are so fluid you may forget it's not Flash.
Color Scheme Inspiration – Shells and Stones
Having trouble finding a good color scheme? Color scheme inspirations will aim to fix that! Each post, we'll pick out a topic and build color schemes out of it to inspire. For this round, we'll look down to the usually unnoticed rocks and shells we walk on.
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In Windows it is possible to configure system so, that user runs only some list of applications (for example Word, Excel, PowerPoint...) and user can't launch anything else.
How can I configure OS X the same way? (For example permit to launch office applications, Mail, Safari and forbid to launch any other application).


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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Melville, New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp., has received $2.9 M of orders from a domestic prime contractor to supply broadband, solid-state, high power integrated amplifier systems.
These systems, which include the latest solid state transistor and switching technology and provide for very broad frequency coverage, are key components in radio signal jamming systems manufactured by our customer.
Fred Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., said, "Comtech PST continues its success and recognition as a premier supplier of solid state, high power amplifier systems to the worldwide electronic warfare marketplace. This is another important set of orders for Comtech PST as it affirms our customers' confidence in Comtech as a high volume manufacturer of high power integrated amplifier systems."


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dubai78 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 105 Designs von 27 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
pickapic will be the brand name of an online based "e-tailing" platform where end users can download a software that will allow to create a photobook in very easy and simple steps. (later, services like calendars, canvas printing etc. will follow) Once finished with the design, the artwork is uploaded to a server and then reaches my printsuppliert which will print the book in high Quality and then ship it off the the customer. I have called it pickapic to create the association with the software in which you can literally drag and drop pictures to create the book. To get an idea on how this works, please see some sites that have a similar offering
My target Audience:
Primary, general public:
-Any gender but with higher ratio of women
-age between 16 and 45
-high disposable income (or rich parents :-)
-Media and arts students
Secondary, corporate:
-small to medium sized companies that dont require brochures and colateral in high quantities
-even management companies
-wedding planers
pickapic http://www.pickapic.com
pickapic is supposed to become the No.1 (actually first)photobook design & print Service in the Middle Eastern Region. I am tapping into a Virgin Market in which the awareness of such products being available is very low (compared to Europe, the States...) The Logo and the rest of the Corporate Identity should be quite easy to recognize.(think branding, car stickers, Ads..you get what i mean) Iam looking for a logo that will mostly be used as the url. (pickapic.com without www) However, when using the product name it should be able to stand alone (pickapic).Another challenge is to incorporate an icon in the logo that can stand by itself so it can sit on the desktop when the software is downloaded (please download the software of any of the mentioned sites to get a good idea on how their brand is used troughout and how the icons on the desktop look) Pickapic will be a product of my Company called"Fresh Media" please checkout the website http://www.freshmedia.ae to see my company logo icon (the lime) but dont pay attention to the listed services, they are being changed totally. pickapic as a brand has to harmonize with the Fresh media logo as they will appear quite often together in my Company communication. The lime has quite a 3D "glowing" look to it which could be considered for pickapic as well. To summarise, deliverables are the name , the name as complete url and a part of the logo that can be put in a square format to sit as an icon by itself mostly as the desktop icon to acess the photobook design software. Formats: Vector files, (if possible pantone codes)and jpgs
as mentioned i like when the font has a 3D or "roundish look". In terms of colors i like orange, yellow and blue maybe in combination with black but dont let this limit you in any way. background color options would be great to see how it looks on different backgrounds(black or white mostly) Im not sure if i prefer it to be single or multicolored.(maybe playing around with the cmyk coors??) if you choose to go for single color, maybe the icon could be of a different color.(I once have also thought of an option where the letters pic are inside a frame which then becomes the icon) Mhhh, i am just realising that i am maybe getting too detailed which might limit you. The best brief is probably...understand the product and service and let that be your inspiration!!
- it shouldnt get too childish as i will go for corporate clients too (over and above general public as the primary target audience)
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We accept all animals within Marion County. There are no fees for dropping off animals however, donations are accepted.
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The Advanced Clustering plug-in improves the availability of your Mirth Connect cluster with automatic message takeover. If one server in the cluster fails, another server will automatically resume processing of any queued or unfinished messages from the failed server. Managing your cluster becomes easier as you can monitor the status of each server, deploy/start/stop/pause channels across all servers, and view message statistics for the whole cluster or a particular server from the Mirth Connect dashboard. This plug-in can be used with standalone Mirth Connect instances using your own load-balancing solution, but also seamlessly integrates with the load-balancing and failover services provided on Mirth Appliances.
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ASTM E1381 for Mirth Connect allows you to send and receive data using the ASTM E1381 lower-layer protocol standard. It can be used in conjunction with the TCP Connector or the Serial Connector. By default the official ASTM E1381 standard is strictly followed, but there are several settings available to support variations from the standard. The extension supports specifying the bytes used for frame delimiters, the checksum algorithm used, various timeouts, and much more.
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Sometimes we have to be brave enough to state the obvious without fear of Newton's law or paradox or even being wrong. It is cold outside.
I awoke this morning to a thermometer seemingly frozen on 22 degrees and a weatherman telling me not to expect much more.
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Recently my home desktop computer has been reacting a lot more to heat levels. The fan starts maxing out just about any time the CPU is used, and it's very loud. It didn't use to do this - only in the last year or so (it's about 3 or 4 years old). I've removed all the dust I can find, but Speedfan shows it's running at about 130 degrees, and when it goes a tick above that the fan goes crazy.
Any ideas? Can the heat sink fail over time? Do I need to get better/quieter fans?
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TANF-ACF-PA-2009-01 (The Emergency Fund for TANF Programs)
- Audience:
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
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- Data Collection and Reporting
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State, Territory, and Tribal agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program
The Emergency Fund for TANF Programs
Section 403(c) of the Social Security Act.
To provide initial guidance regarding the newly established Emergency Fund.
On February 17, 2009, the President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), which establishes the Emergency Contingency Fund for State TANF Programs (Emergency Fund) as section 403(c) of the Social Security Act (the Act). This legislation provides up to $5 billion to help States, Territories, and Tribes in fiscal year (FY) 2009 and FY 2010 that have an increase in assistance caseloads or in certain types of expenditures. The Recovery Act made additional changes to TANF – extending supplemental grants through FY 2010, expanding flexibility in the use of TANF funds carried over from one fiscal year to the next, and adding a hold-harmless provision to the caseload reduction credit for States and Territories serving more TANF families. This policy announcement only addresses the Emergency Fund.
The Emergency Fund is intended to build upon and renew the principles of work and responsibility that underlie successful welfare reform initiatives. Like other provisions of the Recovery Act, the Emergency Fund provides resources to States, Territories, and Tribes to support work and families during this difficult economic period.
The same financial and programmatic rules pertaining to the appropriate use of the jurisdiction's Federal TANF block grant funds also apply when using the emergency funds. This also means that all TANF requirements, including work participation requirements and time limits, apply to families receiving assistance with emergency funds exactly as they do to families receiving other Federal TANF-funded assistance.
The Emergency Fund should not be confused with the TANF Contingency Fund in section 403(b) of the Act that currently provides money to qualifying States (but not Territories or Tribes) during an economic downturn.
The Recovery Act calls on the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the Emergency Fund "as quickly as possible pursuant to appropriate guidance." In that spirit, we are issuing this policy announcement to provide preliminary guidance to help agencies administering TANF programs understand the maximum emergency funding they can receive and the information we anticipate requiring of them to determine the amounts for which they qualify. Agencies may apply for these funds immediately by submitting the information described in the statute while we work to develop specific reporting forms and instructions.
Emergency Fund grants are available to States, Territories, and Tribes (referred to collectively in this guidance as "jurisdictions") if they meet any of the following three conditions for a quarter during FY 2009 or FY 2010:
- The jurisdiction's average monthly assistance caseload in the quarter is higher than its average monthly assistance caseload for the corresponding quarter of the Emergency Fund base year, and its expenditures for basic assistance in the quarter are higher than its expenditures for such assistance in the corresponding quarter of the Emergency Fund base year.
- The jurisdiction's expenditures for non-recurrent short-term benefits in the quarter are higher than its expenditures for such benefits in the corresponding quarter of the Emergency Fund base year.
- The jurisdiction's expenditures for subsidized employment in the quarter are higher than such expenditures in the corresponding quarter of the Emergency Fund base year.
For each category above, a jurisdiction that qualifies may request 80 percent of the amount by which Federal TANF expenditures and qualified State expenditures (i.e., maintenance-of-effort (MOE)) in the quarter for which it is requesting emergency funds exceed such expenditures in the corresponding base-year quarter. Under the law, the Emergency Fund base year is the lesser of FY 2007 or FY 2008 for a category. In other words, for the first category it is the year with the lower average monthly assistance caseload; for the second, it is the year with the lower non-recurrent short-term benefit expenditures; for the third, it is the year with the lower subsidized employment expenditures. A jurisdiction may request emergency funds under any or all of the three categories.
The law imposes a cumulative cap on the amount of emergency funding that a jurisdiction can receive for the two-year period. Cumulative combined grants from the existing Contingency Fund (section 403(b)) and the Emergency Fund (section 403(c)) cannot exceed 50 percent of the jurisdiction's annual Federal TANF family assistance grant. For example, if a State's Federal TANF family assistance grant is $100 million, the State could receive no more than $50 million in funding from both the TANF Contingency Fund and the Emergency Fund combined during the two-year period. We have included a table (Attachment A) listing the maximum funding that each jurisdiction could receive from the Emergency Fund. Any State that receives contingency funds in FY 2009 or FY 2010 should subtract those contingency funds from the maximum listed in the table.
The statute also specifies that this new Emergency Fund is disregarded from the limitation on total payments to Territories in sections 1108(a) and (c) of the Act. This means that Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands may apply for and receive emergency funds if eligible, even if the Territory has reached its payment ceiling for that fiscal year.
The Recovery Act gives HHS authority to make appropriate adjustments to caseload and expenditure data on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis to ensure that the data are comparable "with respect to the groups of families served and the types of aid provided." It also allows us to develop a mechanism for collecting expenditure data that includes reasonable estimates and permits us to set deadlines for revising data. We discuss our expected policies concerning adjustments below.
Emergency Fund grants are Federal TANF funds, and, under the Recovery Act, a jurisdiction must use these funds in accordance with section 404 of the Act. Please note that this does not include authority to transfer emergency funds to either the Social Services Block Grant or the Child Care and Development Block Grant because that transfer authority is limited to grants made under section 403(a) of the Act. Emergency funds are available until expended. Per section 404(e) of the Act, a jurisdiction may carry over emergency funds for use in a succeeding fiscal year.
Purpose of Emergency Funds
As we explained above, the Emergency Fund provides grants equal to 80 percent of a jurisdiction's increased TANF and MOE expenditures on basic assistance, non-recurrent short-term benefits, and subsidized employment – all forms of aid that can help families unable to find jobs or with low earnings weather this difficult economic time. We would like to stress the flexibility inherent in these funds and urge you to consider carefully the best way to make use of this opportunity to help needy families. For example, a jurisdiction could: find ways to make its basic assistance programs more accessible; expand short-term emergency help to needy families facing eviction, utility shut-offs, or the need to pay a security deposit to secure housing; and expand subsidized employment programs that can provide wage-paying jobs when too few exist in the private labor market.
Because the statute uses terminology already defined in current regulations and data collection instruments, we anticipate using these existing definitions. For your convenience, we have included these definitions as Attachment B.
Expenditure Data
We expect to ask jurisdictions to report expenditure data directly on an application form to request emergency funds. The intent is to reflect expenditures made for a quarter (as opposed to those reported in a quarter, for example on Form ACF-196). Expenditures during a quarter, whether during the base year or for a quarter for which a jurisdiction is requesting emergency funds, should reflect the amount actually expended (or estimated to be expended) for that particular quarter, irrespective of when the expenditures were claimed on the applicable financial report. For example, the expenditures for basic assistance should equal the amount that the jurisdiction paid to provide basic assistance benefits to families for the quarter. While expenditures you submit to apply for emergency funds should be consistent with those you report on your respective TANF financial reports (e.g., the ACF-196 for States), they may not be the same as the amounts reported on any given quarter's financial report. This is because those TANF financial reports often reflect adjustments to prior data and because the timing of claims on those reports does not necessarily have to correspond to the period of expenditure.
Under the current State TANF Financial Report (ACF-196) and respective reports for Territories and Tribes, a jurisdiction may have reported similar expenditures in several different categories. For example, a jurisdiction could report "emergency cash assistance" under a category called "Other" or under "Non-recurrent short-term benefits." When applying for emergency funds, it is important for a jurisdiction to submit expenditure data that is comparable for each quarter of the base year and for each quarter for which it is requesting emergency funds, regardless of the categories it used for those expenditures on its TANF Financial Report. We anticipate that a jurisdiction would only report this way on the form we are developing to implement the Emergency Fund; it would not have to modify past TANF Financial Data reports, as those reports are not used in awarding emergency funds.
To facilitate the awarding of funds as quickly as possible, we anticipate that we will accept reasonable estimates for caseload and expenditure data. We intend to review these estimates and compare them to prior reported data. If a jurisdiction estimates a substantial increase in expenditures, we would expect it to explain the nature of the change it has made to its program. We expect to allow a jurisdiction to submit such estimated data up to one month before the beginning of a quarter. A jurisdiction would then revise these estimates on subsequent quarterly submissions until it has submitted final caseload and expenditure figures. The form and instructions we are developing will specify timeframes for submitting final data. As jurisdictions revise these data, we would revise the award amounts accordingly.
The statute gives HHS the authority to adjust caseload and expenditure data to ensure that comparisons between the request year and the base year are valid – that is, that the comparison is "apples to apples." This adjustment language is intended to ensure that a jurisdiction that has made changes to the structure of its program or funding sources has neither a disadvantage nor an advantage because of those changes. Without the adjustment provision, a jurisdiction could fail to qualify for emergency funding if, for example, it began a solely State-funded assistance program after October 1, 2006. Similarly, a jurisdiction could be awarded more emergency funds than it should reasonably receive if it were to end a solely State-funded assistance program that had been in place in the base year and did not make the appropriate adjustments.
If a jurisdiction has not changed the structure of its programs in any of the three categories since the beginning of the base year, there may be no need to adjust its caseload or expenditure data. For a jurisdiction that has made structural changes in these programs, we may need to adjust data to ensure that the two periods are comparable. In general, we expect to adjust a jurisdiction's base-year data so that it is comparable to the program it now operates. For example, if a jurisdiction established a solely State-funded assistance program since October 1, 2006, then it would need to provide estimates of what its caseload and assistance expenditures would have been if the solely State-funded program now in place had existed in the base year. Similarly, if a jurisdiction ended a solely State-funded assistance program and those families were now served in TANF, an adjustment to the base year also would be in order. Or, suppose a jurisdiction had a non-recurrent short-term program (e.g., a front-end or "pre-TANF" program) in place in the base year but terminated that program and now provides all newly approved applicants with standard TANF/MOE assistance. In this case, we would likely adjust the jurisdiction's base-year caseload and expenditure data – both the basic assistance expenditures and the non-recurrent short-term benefits expenditures – to account for this program change and ensure that the data in the request quarter and the base-year quarter are comparable.
Similarly, we expect to adjust data so that a jurisdiction is neither rewarded nor penalized in the amount of emergency funds it receives due to the timing of its expenditures. For example, suppose a jurisdiction paid its subsidized employment contractor in a different quarter in the request year from the base year, making it appear as though the program grew when it did not. In such a case, we would likely make adjustments to smooth out the expenditures across quarters to represent more fairly and accurately the spending in that category in the two years. It is difficult for us to anticipate every possible scenario in which we might need to adjust data, but our guiding principle is that the Emergency Fund is intended to provide jurisdictions that increase expenditures in any of these areas with additional funding; the adjustment language will help us ensure that we carry out this mandate.
For a year in which a jurisdiction requests emergency funds in any quarter, we anticipate that it will need to provide expenditure data for all four quarters in each of the categories for which it is requesting funding, although not necessarily as part of its initial request. This will help us assure that the timing of expenditures is not a factor in the award.
It is important to understand that we are only proposing to adjust data related to shifts of expenditures affecting the three funding categories, including shifts into or out of a solely State-funded program. For example, a change to a time limit or sanction policy that restricts eligibility or a change to earnings disregards or family grants that expands eligibility would not require adjustment. The Emergency Fund is intended to provide extra help where a jurisdiction faces increased costs for basic assistance, non-recurrent short term benefits, or subsidized employment. If caseloads or expenditures fall or rise because of policy changes unrelated to a funding shift, we think those policy changes are accurately reflected in basic expenditure and caseload data and do not warrant any adjustment.
HHS will work cooperatively with jurisdictions to implement the Emergency Fund provisions as quickly as possible. The Department understands that many jurisdictions need these funds to maintain and expand essential benefits and services. We will respond to questions about the provision in a timely fashion and review the data submitted for both the base year and request quarters promptly. As we indicate below, you should direct your questions to the ACF Office in your Region. Both the ACF Regional and Central Offices will be working closely together to ensure that you have the most accurate and up-to-date information possible.
We are making every effort to expedite the process of making emergency funding available. Although we expect that the application form will be approved quickly, a jurisdiction may apply for emergency funds before the form has been approved for use by submitting the information described in the statute. At this time, a jurisdiction may apply for the first three quarters of FY 2009. We expect to contact you within two weeks of receiving your request, either to inform you of the amount of your award or to request further information concerning your application.
We will issue further guidance on funding approval in the event that requests for emergency funds exceed the Emergency Fund's appropriation.
Accountability and Oversight
Information submitted in support of a request for emergency funds will be tested for reliability and accuracy. Accordingly, jurisdictions are expected, as required by the Federal regulations at 45 CFR 92.20 and 45 CFR 92.42, to maintain pertinent documentation related to caseload and expenditure data used to support the request for funds, be able to link the information to the relevant reporting and accounting system, and make such information available in a clear and understandable form that can be validated by an auditor.
- Attachment A: Maximum Grant Awards under the TANF Emergency Fund
- Attachment B: Definitions of Terms Cited in the TANF Emergency Fund Statute
We anticipate maintaining close contact with you throughout the implementation of the Emergency Fund. Please direct any inquiries to the TANF Program Manager in your Region.
Ann H. Barbagallo
Acting Director
Office of Family Assistance


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Lucky SBH necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 207 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
I am the sole proprietor of a small all-natural soap, perfume & body care company (currently based in New York City). More than ten years ago on a trip to Spain, I stayed with a woman in Madrid who had the most amazing soap! When I inquired, she told me she made it, and showed me how! Upon my return to New York, greatly missing that sensual, natural, treat that my skin just adored, I started making cold-process 100% olive oil soap for myself. Over time, I tinkered; I played; I researched; I expanded & started to shared my creations. The more I shared, the more people demanded more!
I hated all the chemicals & synthetics that were being added to just about everything - knowing how harmful they are to the human body & the planet, and that just isn't sensual nor alive!
I love the perfectness of what nature has given us and how it restores, helps & heals us. I love bathing time, and perfumes, and the human body. I love all five senses and how incorporating those sensual experiences with my body care and the gifts of nature, transcend to calm and free my mind & soul. I understand the connection between my body, mind & soul and how balancing those are very important for overall health & wellness. And I love people, so the best way I can honor myself & others is to put myself into all that I make so when I share it, not only is it part of me, but it is filled with my love.
The two most primary are:
a) the upscale, luxury goods consumer who is stylish/chic, would perhaps visit a spa on occasion, or get a massage, and for instance, might shop at Sephora or Barney's New York, and is willing to pay more to receive a higher quality specialty product, and
b) people that tend toward being 'green', eco-conscious and prefer natural and/or organic products as well as handcrafted, quality, specialty goods - people who would shop at a Whole Foods Market or fresh farmers' market, for instance to get something 'good for you' but slick, or sexy too. The kind of people that would visit vineyards or buy hand stretched mozzarella.
Other audiences would be:
- any person who wants a specialty item to treat themselves - something that will feel indulgent, decadent.
- people who need a special gift.
- people who are body, mind & soul conscious like those who practice yoga or meditation, for example.
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- people with endocrine disorders and/or cancer patients who need to stay away from chemicals.
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All LOWER CASE (bárbara con amor), no capital "B" & FIRST "a" in bárbara needs the ACCENT over it.
I want the "bárbara con amor" to be in the DEEP RED.
For any embellishment, if possible, I'd like to incorporate the YELLOWISH BLUE AND YELLOWISH GREEN (colors of water & plants/nature) w/ the red text that SUGGESTS something more SENSUAL/sexual without being too overt - BUT could ALSO be easily printed at times IN ONE COLOR if need be.
Something SUGGESTIVE, NOT OVERTLY SEXUAL - While I DO VERY MUCH LIKE the simplicity of the sketched curves (sample logo pic attached) that bright red along w/ the head/hair etc. makes that logo too overtly sexual whereas the "S" for the Sephora logo is simple yet the shape IS suggestive in it's own way but not too overt.
I will be PRINTING ON on kraft/NATURAL brown paper & LABELS that will be from TINY TO LARGE to large as well as on PERFUME BOTTLE labels, as well as on my WEBSITE and SOCIAL MEDIA sites.
I like SIMPLE, clean lines, NOT ORNATE like the Antica Farmacista.
The FONT of my sample or the 'tarte' are ONLY SUGGESTIONS of 2 I like since they're simple, clean, narrow lines.
Think DISTINCT/CLASSY/UPSCALE w/ a HINT OF SEXY. I tried to give a sense of the FEELING I hope to exude w/ the logo, for the 'how' I am counting on you! Contact me for any clarifications at all! :)
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An impending update to the mini-projector sporting S1000pj we adored is on its way, according to leaked images by German mag Foto Digital. The S1100pj will add a touchscreen and remote control, as well as other yet-to-be-revealed improvements.
The S1100pj's predecessor won us over with its not-gimmicky projector that provided surprisingly decent previews of your photos and videos. The camera's main downside was that the rest of its specs were just decent as well, not offering the photographic punch we expected for the $US430 price tag. But our John Herrman noted of the device, "What's so appealing about this camera is that it's nailed what will be, if not a universal feature, something we'll come to expect in a certain class of camera before too long." Let's hope that Nikon beefs up the rest of the experience to match the excellent projector. [Nikon Rumors via Engadget]


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"If you don't know the blues… there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music" – Keith Richards
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Implosive therapy (or implosion therapy) is a form of exposure therapy similar to the imaginal form of flooding, with which it can be confused.
Although there are similarities, the terms implosive therapy and flooding cannot be used interchangeably. Both implosive therapy and flooding expose the client to anxiety arousing stimuli for prolonged durations. Flooding deals with the actual stimulus or its image, while in implosion therapy anxiety is aroused by only imagining the simuli (without direct contact). Further, implosive therapy involves imagined scenes that are often exaggerated by a therapist and often relate to the client's most feared fantasy. Finally, the anxiety that is provoked during implosive therapy is often addressed using psyhodynamic approaches (e.g., addressing an oral fixation). Research on implosive therapy is mixed and the therapy may only temporarily reduce fears and anxiety.
In flooding you might be asked to picture spider, perhaps at various distances so the you become desensitized to the image. On the other hand, in implosive therapy, you might be asked to imagine the spider entering your mouth as you sleep if that was an anticipated fantasy aspect of your fear.


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Estrella files FCC complaint against Comcast
Estrella TV, the third-ranked Spanish language TV network behind Univision and Telemundo, says cable giant Comcast is discriminating against the network in order to benefit its own Spanish language networks Telemundo and NBC Universo. Denver, Houston and Salt Lake City are the key markets where Estrella has been affected.
Estrella's owner, Liberman Broadcasting, on April 8 filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Comcast charging violations of the FCC's Program Carriage regulations, as well as of the merger conditions imposed on Comcast when it acquired NBCUniversal.
This isn't their first dispute. In 2015, Comcast and Estrella were in a carriage dispute in the same three markets. "They weren't offering anything," said Lenard Liberman, co-founder of the network. Estrella has been dropped from the Comcast lineup in those markets.
"In Denver we were the No. 2 Spanish language network in the market. When Comcast took us off the air, our ratings have essentially evaporated and their networks have done very well." (Telemundo Denver has new offices and studios within the Comcast Media Center.)
In Denver, Estrella is available on DISH and DirecTV but not on Comcast. Its most popular programs include entertainment fare "Tengo Talenta Mucho Talenta" and "Rica Famosa Latina."
Liberman Broadcasting is the largest minority-owned Hispanic broadcast company in the U.S., and the family-owned parent company of Estrella.
The case seeks to present "clear and compelling evidence that Comcast has discriminated against Estrella TV to benefit its own properties," and, further, it claims Comcast is asking Estrella to relinquish digital rights of its content as a condition for carriage.
"They've made demands nobody else has and they've made no offers to us (for compensation)," said Liberman. "In the case of Time Warner there was give and take." In the case of Comcast there was none, he said.
Updated April 8, 2016 at 12:15 p.m.: Due to a reporting error, the quotes above were wrongly attributed to Liberman Broadcasting's counsel. The speaker on the teleconference was in fact Lenard Liberman, co-founder of the network.


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Yes, cases pack a little weight to your slender phone, but some of us have butterfingers. A poll of our office would reveal that more of us have shattered our screens than care to admit. I like the playful cases Speck sells—in fact, I'm using this one now. For $30, you can afford to swap them out every once in a while, which is better than paying to replace a phone. And a lot more adorable. [Speck]