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Injury is an unfortunate, however inevitable, fate for most athletes or active individuals.
If you are not able to exercise due to a broken bone, an unexpected surgery, stress fracture or concussion, you may wonder what foods you can eat to heal quickly, and how you can avoid gaining weight while unable to exercise.
You might not think food is important during recovery or rehabilitation, but nutrients help your body to heal and get strong again. Self control and conscious diet decisions must be realized when an athlete goes from lots of exercise to inertia.
First, try to maintain a quality nutrient intake on a regular basis rather than cleaning up your diet after you become injured. A well-nourished athlete has ample stores of important nutrients, vitamins and minerals to be put into action when sidelined from an injury. A junk food junkie who suffers a serious sports injury finds himself/herself at a big disadvantage.
An obstacle to optimal fueling for an injured athlete is the fear of gaining weight from no longer participating in many hours of exercise. It is imperative to remember that even injured athletes need to eat. Eating too few calories during the recovery process can affect complete and adequate healing. Moreover, the extreme reduction in physical activity during the period of recovery can lead to a natural reduction in appetite and food intake.
It's essential that you are aware of appropriate eating habits and nutrient needs to provide enough total energy for repair and healing. It is true that if you continue to eat the amount of food that you ate when training and competing you may gain weight. Extra weight may put more strain on an injury. So it is important to strike a healthy balance to get the calories and nutrients needed without eating excess.
Concerning what you should eat to boost healing, select a variety of quality foods that provide an abundance of nutrients your body needs. Do not eliminate food groups as they all work together. Eat every two to four hours to make sure your blood sugar remains constant and you do not overeat at the end of the day. Small snacks and meals more often keep your metabolism active. Here are some specific nutrients to pay attention to:
Carbohydrates: Do not eliminate carbohydrates, such as breads, fruits, vegetables, whole grains or pasta from your diet. When you have carbs for fuel, the protein you consume can be used to heal and repair muscles. If you eat too few carbs, your body may burn protein for energy which will hinder healing. Combine a smaller portion of carbs with other nutrient-dense foods.
Protein: Consume foods such as lean meats, legumes (beans, lentils, soybeans), nuts and low-fat dairy. You need extra protein post-injury to fuel recovery. Make sure each snack or meal contains protein, so try adding nut butters, egg whites, spinach or lean meats/soy wherever you can.
Plant and fish oils: The fats in olive and canola oils, nuts, nut butters and avocado have anti-inflammatory properties. Immediately after an injury, the first response is inflammation. These foods can assists in inflammatory control.
Herbs, spices and botanicals: These nutrients can also be valuable in the management of inflammation, especially in the first stage of recovery. Curry powder, turmeric, garlic, cocoa, tea, and fruits and vegetables are sources of these nutrients. Consuming these on a daily basis in various recipes provides a strong foundation for recovery.
Vitamins and minerals: Consuming an adequate intake of fruits and vegetables such as oranges, broccoli, strawberries, baked potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes and cantaloupe provides the powerful antioxidants that decrease inflammation. Vitamin C helps your body form collagen, a protein needed for strength and flexibility, and it repairs tendons and ligaments and strengthens bones. Vitamin A helps your body heal in terms of cell growth and development, and immune function.


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Premier Foods 'most likely' to sell Hovis to foreign firm
Britain's largest food manufacturer was reported to be sounding out the market earlier this week (October 29) for possible buyers for Hovis as declining sales of sliced bread and the soaring cost of wheat have squeezed the brand's margins.
The news followed Premier Foods' announcement that it had sold its sweet pickles and table sauces business to Mizkan for £92.5M in cash.
Julian Wild, food group director at legal firm Rollits, told FoodManufacture.co.uk: "I can't believe there's a UK buyer because Allied Bakeries and Warburtons have enough to handle themselves and there'd be competition issues anyway. It's bound to be an international player."
Graham Jones, executive director of city analyst Panmure Gordon, agreed that further disposals were possible for Premier – including from its bread division.
Speaking after the Mizkan sale, Jones said: "We don't think this rules out further disposals (such as sweet dehydrated powders, for example). And we think no option is being ruled out in bread, including exiting milling, looking again at logistics costs, or even selling the business as a whole if a high enough offer is received."
If the sale goes ahead, Hovis would be the first of Premier's power brands to be sold. When he took over the troubled business, Clarke's strategy was to concentrate on promoting the eight brands: Hovis, Mr Kipling, Bisto, Oxo, Ambrosia, Batchelors, Sharwood's and Loyd Grossman.
Wild said: "The fact that the core brands identified were across the grocery area suggests that bread baking isn't the way forward for Premier. But I wouldn't have thought there would be a long list of potential buyers [for Hovis]."
Walking away from £75M
Hovis recently walked away from a £75M contract to supply the Co-operative Group with its own-brand bread because the deal had "very low margins, was costly to service and would not affect 2012 performance". The contract was subsequently snapped up by Allied Bakeries.
Wild said: "£75M wouldn't make a lot of difference. A lot of business is low margin for Hovis but that was a piece they were particularly happy to walk away from.
"Bread baking is a tough area in which to make profit – as Allied and Warburtons have both seen – very competitive raw material prices are a big issue."
One problem for Premier in making a sale of Hovis would be the division of the milling and baking areas of the business, according to Wild.
"It's difficult to divide milling and baking because they are so inter-connected so it's hard to establish where the profit is made – I always thought it was on the milling side."
Keeping the banks happy
As Premier has now made sufficient disposals to reduce debt levels to the bank's required levels, Wild said it was now essential that it invested in the remaining business to maximise profit and keep shareholders happy.
"You can't just continue disposing of businesses because it's driving the business backwards," he said.
"Now they've satisfied the banks they've got to find a way of growing their core business to boost their stock market rating."
Premier's most likely areas of investment would be ambient grocery, according to Wild.
"They've come out of chilled by selling Brookes Avana so it's largely about ambient grocery now," he said.
"I would have thought they're going to invest in marketing and capital expenditure to boost those core brands and they're more likely to invest organically than to acquire anything further. I can't imagine the stock market being happy about them going on the acquisition trail."
What the companies said about the pickles sale:
- Michael Clarke, Premier's ceo: "I'm delighted to have exceeded our disposal target 20 months early while, at the same time, delivering three successive quarters of sales growth and taking £40M of overhead costs out of the business this year. We can now focus our attention on driving further momentum in our Grocery business and unlocking value in bread."
- Kazuhide Matazaemon Nakano, ceo Mizkan, said: "Branston Sweet Pickle is an iconic brand that has established a market-leading position. The Branston brand is also an excellent strategic fit with our global portfolio and adds to our solid foundation for growth in the UK."
To read more about the Japanese Mizkan Group, click here.

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Zabel pushes past tumor
Hayden girl fights on as chemotherapy treatment ends
Hayden — More than a year after she spent her seventh birthday in the hospital, Taylen Zabel is finally done with chemotherapy.
Smiling shyly from under a pink hat Tuesday, Taylen talked about the family's planned visit to Disney World through the Make-A-Wish Foundation in November.
What's she most excited about?
"Meeting a princess," said Taylen, now 8. Part of her wish was to have a meal with a Disney princess – or several of them.
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Taylen was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor, on April 9, 2007. After surgery and months of chemotherapy and radiation, she's ready to heal. And so is the rest of the Zabel family. Her mother, Gina Zabel, is principal of Hayden Middle School, and her father, Ty Zabel, teaches and coaches wrestling at Hayden High School.
"I know that through this, my mom and I both think it's changed us," said Tyanna Zabel, Taylen's 12-year-old sister. "Our whole family has become closer together. Taylen and I used to fight all the time. Now, we're close."
Tyanna and Taylen shared an ottoman in the living room as they talked about the experience. Tyanna was there all the way, through most of Taylen's trips to The Children's Hospital in Denver. So was Taylen's stuffed bunny, White Baby. She has had the rabbit since she was 6 months old.
"She's been through everything Taylen's been through," Gina Zabel said of the toy. "She went into surgery; she got shots."
Although Taylen will have to have regular MRIs until she is in eighth grade – she enters third this fall – the trips to Children's are tapering off. The process hasn't been easy.
"It's all hard," Gina Zabel said of the past 14 months. "I think just watching your kids go through a painful experience. But she's really strong, so that's great. Things that make us nervous don't bother her."
Ty Zabel shared a similar sentiment.
"She's the strength for all of us," he said.
The family kept Taylen's life as normal as possible, Gina Zabel said. She went to school when she wasn't going through chemo. Her schoolmates have been supportive even when Taylen lost her hair. Hayden Valley Elementary Principal Rhonda Sweetser has been Taylen's "mom away from mom," Gina Zabel said.
The family also still has money from a benefit at Hayden Daze last summer. The community has donated more than $50,000 to the family for medical and travel expenses. Donations to the Taylen Zabel Benefit Fund at Mountain Valley Bank in Hayden are still accepted.
"We thank everybody all the time for their support, their love, their care and their prayers," Gina Zabel said. "That's probably why we're where we are. We have a lot of people praying for us all over the world."
Taylen has big plans in addition to the Disney World trip – and plenty of horseback riding. She and Ty Zabel's father, Curtis, are going to walk the cancer survivors' lap at the Relay for Life fundraiser event in August. Several of Ty Zabel's students also plan to walk. They're calling themselves Taylen's Angels.
What's most important, Gina Zabel said, is that her daughter still is the same Taylen.
"You're still you," she said, smiling at her daughter. "We want people to know this hasn't changed you."
Taylen smiled again from her seat, blue eyes shining.
"Yeah," she agreed.
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Lead With Purpose By John Baldoni
"Purpose is the why behind everything within an organization," says author John Baldoni, of the book, Lead With Purpose.
Baldoni also believes that it is up to leaders to make certain that organizational purpose is understood and acted upon. And, to harness the talents of their employees, leaders must recognize their responsibility to instill purpose in the workplace.
Other recommendations include:
- Make purpose a central focus
- Instill purpose in others
- Make employees comfortable with ambiguity
- Turn good intentions into great results
- Make it safe to fail (as well as prevail)
- Develop the next generation
To define an organization's purpose, you must ask three questions:
1. What is our vision — that is, what do we want to become?
2. What is our mission — that is, what do we do now?
3. What are our values–that is, what are the behaviors we expect of ourselves?
Some of my other favorite observations from the book are these two:
- We follow leaders not because they bring us down, but because they lift our spirits with their attitude, words, and examples.
- No job is complete without a review. Look at what went right as well as what went wrong. Understand that failure is not grounds for dismissal.
Lead With Purpose draws on extensive research, field work and interviews with dozens of organizational leaders. It also includes the results of an exclusive 2010 leadership survey conducted for the American Management Association (AMA) by NFI Research.
Baldoni is a recognized leadership educator, coach and speaker, and the author of Lead by Example and Lead Your Boss.


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It's all about the artist in you, the one who writes and draws. Scribble is the name, a fantastic see-through plastic Gent, the Club Watch 1993. It's a tribute to the art of the absent-minded — the scribbles or doodles and scratches you make as you sit dreaming in a meeting, wishing you were somewhere else with your own time on your hands. Arabic numerals on the dial and the outline of the strap, including loop and punch-holes, are drawn in black by hand. A Scribbled sketch and a witty work of art for your collection.
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Phyllis C. Barone, also known as "The Queen on the Green," has been involved in Michigan golf for more than 20 years.
Her initial draw to the game came when she attended Miami of Ohio University. In her senior year, she was looking for those three "easy" credits that she needed to graduate. So, she dusted off her dad's old set of golf clubs and registered for a golf class.
After graduating from Miami, Phyllis left for Europe and put golf on hold. But when she got back to the U.S. a few years later, she was determined to get serious about the game. She attended John Jacobs' Golf School in Colorado.
She then packed up and moved to Detroit, where she took a job with U.S.A. Networks - a cable network that carried the first and second rounds of various golf tournaments, including the Ryder Cup.
The perks of her job allowed her to play golf at many premium courses, such as TPC Sawgrass, Firestone and Pinehurst.
Embracing her love for the game of golf, she then became the publisher of a golf magazine.
She said she felt like royalty when she walked the fairways with "The King," Arnold Palmer, at the Country Club of Detroit during "The Turning Point," and event held in his honor for the 50th anniversary of his winning the United States Amateur.
She's also played with Gary Player at the Grand Traverse Resort.
She's been taught by some of the best in golf - Cindy Miller, Bob Krause and Jason Guss. Legendary golf royalty, Judy Rankin, offered her a private lesson at the TCP Dearborn during Oakwood Foundation's Women's Health Care Classic.
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Bille, Trine; Jensen, Søren; Vestergaard, Trine (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Many studies on the creative labor market have been done with the purpose to get knowledge on the creative workers employment, working conditions, income etc. (e.g. Alper and Wassall (2006), Throsby (2001), Throsby and Hollister (2003), Heian, Løyland and Mangset (2008), Abbing (2002). Most studies have been based on interviews and this approach has of course its pros and cons. Very few studies are based on true longitudinal data making it possible to study artists income development and survival in the professions (one exception is Coulangeon et al., 2005) The aim of this study is to analyze, comparatively for different groups of artists, the factors that affect 1) the income of artists, and 2) the probability of an artist exits the artists labor market. The paper compares different groups of artists, by looking at income functions and survival functions concerning risks to exit the labor market, using event history techniques (survival functions and Cox regressions). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8378
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Ooi, Can-Seng (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Tourism is entwined in economics, politics, culture, and social life. Despite Denmark's attempt to re-brand itself as a modern, trendy and vibrant destination, the Danish tourism authorities is still selling the country's historical sights and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales to attract a growing number of Chinese tourists. While tourism authorities want to please the Chinese, other Danish authorities are concerned with overstaying tourists who may end up as illegal immigrants. On the Chinese side, the Chinese government is concerned with the image of China and its travelling citizens; they are trying to socially engineer the Chinese into better behaved tourists. The growing China outbound tourism market offers avenues for researchers to re-evaluate some aspects of tourism studies. Earlier studies have concentrated on the domination of tourist-receiving Third World countries by tourist-supplying First World countries. Other studies have focused on tourism impacts on host societies, ignoring how tourists themselves are being socialized and managed. This article, in the case of China, shows that a class of tourists from the developing world is capable of shaping destinations but they themselves are being shaped for the global tourism market. branding Denmark, place branding, tourism impact, tourism strategy, tourism politics URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6577
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Career-making among cinematographers and film editors in the Danish film industryMathieu, Chris; Stjerne, Iben Sandal (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter analyzes subjective and objective dimensions of developing a career to a large extent based on one or several strong dyadic relationships to directors who invariably overshadow editors and cinematographers, and the personal and professional advantages (maybe even necessity) and dilemmas encountered in this process. We focus on processes of reputation, but above all, association. With regard to association we examine its two-fold dimensions. On the one hand we look at dynamics inherent in the dyadic relationship (relationship-internal dynamics) as these are central to both subjective experience of one's career (i.e. meaningfulness, quality of working life, ambitions, and accomplishments), as well as its more objective trajectories. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8445
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The case of CopenhagenOoi, Can-Seng; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The stakeholder and bottom up approach is advocated by many researchers in the place branding literature. In order for a place brand to be successful, it must be supported by the various stakeholders. Moreover, it is an ethical issue. While studies have shown how place brands fail because of the lack of consultation with stakeholders, building up consensus amongst stakeholders is easier said than done. Models are plentiful but the practice can be a different story. How should these models translate into actual practices? We looked at the Copenhagen International Film Festival and the branding of Copenhagen. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7939
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On the authority and role of place brand image rankingsCsaba, Fabian Faurholt; Stöber, Birgit (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper discusses the practice of ranking linked to the issue of place branding focusing on two cases from Denmark, one the national level, the other on the local level, namely the city of Copenhagen. Rankings of places have increased, and – as we shall argue – so have their influence on identity negotiation and public policy. Drawing on experiences with rankings in other fields (corporate reputation and higher education) and critical work on polling, we examine their growing influence, unanticipated consequences and claims to represent places and people. We analyze how media and various audiences represent and use place image survey results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8243
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Anthropology's Prose and QualmsMoeran, Brian (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: To edit is to make a choice, or series of choices. Will I write a rough draft of this essay in longhand, or hammer it out on my computer? If the latter, what font shall I use? Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, or Garamond? Once I get started, what style shall I adopt: realistic, confessional or impressionistic; or a combination of all three (Van Maanen 1988)? Should I try to impress with 'learned scholarship', or should I merely outline in conversational English a few thoughts based on my own experiences?... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8337
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Content, Cost, Chance, and CollectionLorenzen, Mark (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This Working Paper argues that the film industry is a paradigmatic example of how the organization of the cultural economy is shaped by balancing creativity with contextual issues. In the film industry, organization is far from determined only by creative concerns for content production: Issues of cost, chance and collection also play important roles. Through analyzing creativity and its context in the film industry, the paper explains the industry's organization, and opens up for understanding its significant national and regional differences. The paper carries out a literature study of economic, socioeconomic and economic geography literature on the film industry, analyzing the importance of creativity, cost, chance and collection in the film industry, and exemplifies how these issues are balanced differently in different clusters. The analytical framework presented in the paper may be used to understanding different "models" of filmmaking. Creativity, film industry, organization, innovation, transaction costs URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7244
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Film festival prize juriesMathieu, Chris; Bertelsen, Marianne (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This case focuses on juries that award prizes at film festivals. Prize juries usually award a preordained set of prizes to a preselected slate of films, but on grounds or criteria that are usually up to the actual jury itself to formally or informally establish and administer. The consequences of film festival prize jury allocations can accrue to many different groups and individuals. The most obvious beneficiaries are the persons associated with the films and roles that win prizes, though what the tangible benefits of winning prizes are depend both on what prize at what festival and still is a matter of debate. The film festivals themselves and their leadership also are impacted by the jury and its decisions, as these build or erode legitimacy and publicity for the festival. Likewise, the jury members themselves may receive a number of benefits from their jury work, as elaborated on below. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8661
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Ooi, Can-Seng (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Singapore has embarked on an ambitious program to make the city-state into a significant player in the global creative economy. The country is being re-branded as a creative city. The government agrees that in the creative economy, the environment must be conducive to experimentation and innovation. As a result, more social and political spaces have been opened up to spur Singapore's fledging creative economy and also to signal that the nation has become more transparent and tolerant. The authorities, however, still limit the freedom of public expression on political, ethnic and religious issues. The current state of ethnic-religious harmony and political status quo is to be preserved. Singapore remains a soft-authoritarian state. Can such a country then be branded as a place conducive to creativity and innovation? This paper shows how the Singaporean government: 1) introduces and implements a set of comprehensive policies to develop the creative economy; 2) brands and re-images the city-state as an exciting creative nation; 3) communicates the new creative vision and eventually engineers local acceptance of the creative economy; and 4) promotes the image of an open society and yet maintain tight social and political control. The re-making and re-imaging of Singapore are two sides of the same coin. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7774
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The ideological symbiosis of 'auteur' and 'craftsperson'Mathieu, Chris (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter explores some of the central cultural tenets of career and film making among elite members of the Danish film industry, or what is less than elegantly and somewhat grammatically incorrectly referred to as 'the cultural of production and career' in the title of this chapter. The theoretical reasons for this formulation is to train focus on the ideational dimensions of culture in the Danish film industry, especially as refracted through reflections on work and career by film workers. In this sense the approach, though less inclusive and ambitious, resembles Caldwell's interest in 'indigenous interpretive frameworks in Production Culture.i The chapter also argues that production and career decisions and actions are inextricable intertwined. Sometimes the two are consciously and manifestly related to each other, in terms of deliberating the implications that working on a given film, with given persons, in a given manner, etc. will have on one's further work possibilities; or the reverse, how career considerations impact how films get made in terms of who works on them and what resources, skills, tastes, and perspectives are brought into and realized in a production. Sometimes the interrelation of these considerations remains latent. This chapter explores how certain cultural underpinnings support these mutually intertwined considerations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8446
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Abstract: This paper draws on extensive fieldwork in a wide range of creative industries to argue that creativity itself is under-theorised, and should be considered as both enabled and inhibited by numerous constraints guiding the choices made by creative personnel during the course of their work. Six sets of constraints are outlined in the context of different forms of cultural production: material, temporal, spatial, social, representational and economic. It is argued that the performance of creative work is similar in part to Turner's concept of 'communitas', when an aura of individual creativity is passed to other participants. This kind of liminal space is also found in creative industry ritual events, which enable participants to communicate on an equal footing, and gain knowledge and connections that they can then use at work in their normal everyday lives. These in turn may have a long-term effect on cultural production, creativity and constraints. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7951
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Melchior, Marie Riegels (, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In terms of dress and fashion Denmark is an example of a West European peripheral country within the international fashion system. Since the Middle Ages, new fashions have found their way to Denmark through the internationally oriented royal family, the purchases of well-traveled citizens, various international and national fashion reports, and the international purchases by local retailers. With varying speed new cuts, colors and styles have impressed themselves upon both the everyday and festive fashions of the Danish wardrobe. The same foreign influence applies to local fashion production. Design, craftsmanship and technology has through time been shaped under influences from abroad. But these international influences have not undermined the recurring idea of a particular Danish dress and fashion culture. In the middle of the 19th century the prevailing view was that the peasants' festive dress represented specific national dress. By the beginning of the 21st century discussions in the Danish fashion industry and industry policy concern Denmark's status as a fashion nation and Copenhagen as a possible new global fashion center. This is due to the growing Danish fashion culture, the textile and clothing industry's export success, and not least the fact that Denmark is a world-leading fur exporter. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7769
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Abstract: This essay examines embedded structural tensions in the organization of Japanese advertising production. Tensions arise from the fact that an advertising campaign, like many other creative products, is produced by motley crews of personnel from both within an agency contracted to carry out the campaign (an account team) and freelance professionals hired to assist in the creative work required (a production team). The structuring of advertising account teams in Japan, Europe and the USA depends on how accounts are distributed by advertising clients. The amount and kind of creativity displayed by photographers depends on advertising and the structure of fashion magazine publishing. Creativity itself thus depends on an unspoken set of institutional power relations that enables individuals to compete for recognition as being creative . URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7777
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Abstract: This paper is written in preparation for the 'Wardrobe Ethnographies' conference to be held in Herning in June 2011. It aims to provide a research framework that goes beyond a catalogue of existing literature, and to provide discussion points for the conference papers. Scholars from several different disciplines have studied wardrobes and dress practices through a range of ethnographic and related qualitative and quantitative methods. The aim of the conference and ensuing book is to bring together a series of papers which combine a discussion of research approaches and methods with an ethnographic account of research findings. We hope to make a dual argument; firstly as obbjects of study wardrobes and dress practices can generate critical and innovative insights both at micro and macro levels; , and secondly, that what I tentatively term wardrobe ethnographies are a feasible and realistic research approach that is attracting scholars from different disciplines and with different research interests. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8277
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Abstract: The question of ethics is about determining concepts of right and wrong human action. There are a number of ethical controversies in relation to the industries that dress the visible self, especially clothing, shoes, accessories and skincare industries. The most important are, firstly, representations of idealized gender and body images, secondly, fakes and counterfeits of branded goods, thirdly, working conditions, fourthly, environmental impact and sustainability, and fifthly, animal rights. In a strict philosophical sense, these issues cannot be said to be purely moral because they overlap with political, social, legal, economic and environmental concerns. But they are problems that have been cast in terms of right and wrong behaviour from the point of view of West European industries and consumers. Because both consumption and production of dress are highly globalized these debates in West Europe are not qualitatively different from those of other highly developed regions. Many ethical problems, campaigns and monitoring issues are distinctly transnational because both consumer markets and production systems are highly globalized. It is a paradox that while many consumers have a positive involvement with clothing in terms of emotional attachment and identification, they also tend to have a distinctively negative image of the industry behind. In fact, there is a widespread cynicism about the fashion industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7770
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Abstract: This paper describes and analyses preparations for the holding of an anthropologist potter's one-man show in a Japanese department store. Based on participant observation, it describes in detail the strategic planning of, and preparations for, the fieldworker's own pottery exhibition in a department store located in northern Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands and home to a long tradition of porcelain and stoneware production. The paper focuses on the main players in the ceramic art world; the social interaction underpinning an exhibition; the conflicting ideals of 'aesthetics', display and money (pricing); and the ways in which different sets of values, and evaluating processes, affected the reception of the author's work. It concludes by developing a theory of values in the light of recent writings in the field of cultural economics. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7942
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Abstract: This paper is concerned with evaluative practices within the culinary field. The focus is on the evaluative practices performed by two restaurant ranking systems, respectively the Michelin Red Guide system handled by the French tire manufacturer Michelin and the San Pellegrino 'World's 50 Best Restaurant' list organized by the English based Restaurant Magazine. Both ranking systems evaluate and rate restaurants (judging their food, service, physical setting and so forth) but in different ways through different practices and means, and with somewhat different results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8393
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Abstract: Destination branding attempts to frame the place in a unique manner, so that it will stand out in the global tourism market. The assertion of uniqueness has become an institutionalized global practice for celebrating destination identity. The emphasis on uniqueness in the destination brand however overshadows another important but complementary strategy: the accreditation approach. This paper gives attention to the accreditation strategy while presenting the Singapore case. By looking at the newly inaugurated Formula One car races in Singapore and the soon-to-be-opened integrated resorts, this paper argues that the Singaporean authorities are actually making Singapore less unique and more similar to other places. This strategy is advantageous because these new attractions will draw the attention of the global masses and they will also accredit Singapore as vibrant, glamourous and trendy. So, this paper shows why – despite the attempt to be different – destination authorities are learning from each other and pursuing similar attractions for their destinations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7952
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Abstract: Not so many years ago, the fashion industry was called a 'sunset industry', and was deemed to have no future in the most developed countries. But recently, the New York Times has suggested that 'the sun never sets on the runway' (Wilson, 2008). Under this heading the article described the diffusion of fashion week organizations, with accompanying fashion shows, that are no longer limited to a handful of fashion capitals, but are spreading to small-country capitals and medium-sized cities all around the world. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7943
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Abstract: Fragrance and perfume connect with our most basic and primitive window on the world – our sense of smell. Animals use their sense of smell to find food, sense danger and mate. So, too, do human beings. Mothers and their babies bond through smell. Smell triggers memories buried long in our unconscious, probably because our sense of smell is linked directly to the limbic system, the oldest part of the brain, which is the seat of emotion and memory. Throughout the ages in Western civilization, fragrance has been used to communicate spirituality, passion, and both masculinity and femininity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7772
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I'm running a series of posts about a survey I did to see how conference attendees organize the information and materials they bring home with them. Please be sure to read the previous posts in the series:
- Post 1 (Survey Results Overview)
- Post 2 (Questions 1 & 2/Attendance & Note-taking)
- Post 3 (Questions 3 & 4/Vendors & Swag)
- Post 4 (Question 5/How Do You Organize Materials?)
- Post 5 (Questions 6 & 7/Purchasing Syllabi & Recordings)
- Post 6 (Question 8/Attendee Suggestions, Part 1)
The final question of the survey was this: Other thoughts? Do you use systems/tools to keep yourself organized at/after a conference not already covered above? Ever been wowed by how a conference presented its materials? How did they do it?
As with the other questions, I received loads of helpful suggestions. Here is a smattering:
Suggestions for conference organizers:
Several people said they appreciate it when pocket-size schedules are available.
"I've been fairly under-wowed by the way conferences present their materials, in that every vendor, panel, and talk seems to have a separate set of handouts, or even a separate format. I've never been to a large conference that presented materials in a unified way and helped me collect them in a unified way." — this was echoed by another respondent who said having everything organized in one binder in order of the presentations makes life easier.
"Some very expensive conferences provide binders already set up to keep and augment materials. In the more electronic times we live in I find many speakers refer you to their websites or other places where their materials are stored. Easier to use this way IMHO."
"I think a good conference provides electronic access afterwards, which is particularly helpful to those who can't attend."
Suggestions for attendees:
"I carry a three-ring binder with the syllabus materials for sessions I plan to attend divided by tabs for each day of the conference. I have my conference schedule in the front of the binder, so I can see quickly where I'm supposed to go next."
"It's a whole lot easier to deal with a conference if I've live blogged it."
"For some things, I actually write on it, "Why am I keeping this?," and write out the answer."
"I try to create an "Action List" of things I want to try, do, research, etc., when I return. Keeping this separate from all the other conference "stuff" helps me to focus on just that. I also need to submit reports on all meetings that I attend."
"Ideally I would write the conference paper titles at the front of each notebook and list them in a database on computer. I do this sometimes but often I am too busy when I get home and resume work."
For vendors:
"One vendor at SLA 2009 gave medium-end swag on front table, and the high-end stuff was on a back table; you would only get it if you had a conversation with them.Sometimes [a] weird or intriguing toy is good swag because it's a conversation starter, both for me at the vendor's booth and later when I bring the thing back to my office."
Current technology:
"I do find that I'm starting to scan more things, though. I am a fan of Microsoft OneNote for keeping e-scraps (Evernote is good, too)."
"I especially like following and following up on conferences through the extensive use of Twitter. I just attended a one-day event yesterday and found myself disappointed that they hadn't created a Twitter handle for it."
"Slideshare for the PowerPoint (and with download option can often see the speakers remarks as well as the sides), Youtube if a video was made, Rww is great for tech conferences write-ups."
My final post in this series will sum up the results and include my observations about the trends mentioned and possible opportunities and solutions that have revealed themselves along the way. Read on here:


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Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, June 24, 2011
June 27 UPDATE: Protesters to March on Capitol Over Sabotage of TSA Groping Bill
5:21PM CST UPDATE: It's now apparent that the primary culprit behind the fact that lawmakers failed to show up for the vote was none other than Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus, who labeled the bill "nothing more than an ill-advised publicity stunt," despite the fact that it merely sought to reinforce language already present in the 4th amendment. The Texas Tribune reports that Straus approached the bill's primary sponsor Rep. David Simpson earlier this week and insisted that language pertaining to "private parts" be removed from the legislation altogether, which would have completely gutted the bill.
As Simpson has emphasized, this bill is far from symbolic, it's specific in its remit to "expand the federal definition of "official oppression" to prohibit federal employees from improperly touching a person' s private areas".
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who to his credit doesn't appear to be acting as a roadblock for the bill this time around, released a statement this afternoon saying that the Senate would try to pass the bill out of committee on Monday.
Despite a massive lobbying effort on behalf of public pressure groups that forced Governor Rick Perry to reverse his position and resurrect a bill that would ban TSA groping in Texas and place it on the special session of the Texas state legislature, lawmakers set to give the bill a hearing today bizarrely went AWOL, and the session was adjourned.
"The author of the bill that would restrict the ability of federal airport security agents from patting down the intimate body parts of travelers said Friday that he doubts the measure will pass during the current special session," reports KXAN.
"This is not going to happen," state Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, said after the Texas House adjourned without acting on any legislation."
Infowars reporters at the Capitol confirmed that the lawmakers had gone AWOL and were told there would be no further activity today. Under House rules, at least 100 members need to show up for any business to be conducted.
"I am disappointed that the House did not vote out the TSA bill today. It's been delayed until Monday which puts us up against deadlines to get it out of the Senate before session ends next Wednesday," Senator Dan Patrick, the bill's primary sponsor in the Senate, wrote on his Facebook page.
However, the bill is not even on the calendar for Monday's House session, suggesting it probably won't be heard at all.
The fact that lawmakers have gone AWOL for a vote that was made possible by a huge outpouring of public pressure is only going to ensure a bigger backlash in the long run. It's also possible that threats were made by the federal government in a repeat of the dirty tricks that were pulled to shoot down the first incarnation of the bill after it passed the House unanimously, when the Department of Justice threatened to impose a de facto no fly zone over Texas by shutting down airports. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst was later identified as being instrumental in using the DoJ letter to intimidate Senators into mothballing the bill.
Despite the fact that Governor Rick Perry added the bill to the special session earlier this week and the majority of Senators indicated they would pass the legislation, this strange turn of events has placed the bill in jeopardy.
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"(David) Simpson said Wednesday that he has enough votes in both chambers to move the bill, but suggested that, in his view, Perry appears lukewarm to the issue," reports KXAN.
"I thought it would be a good campaign issue for him, not to go up against President Obama but because the TSA needs some big changes," Simpson said.
In a statement released earlier this week, the TSA promised to take legal action if the bill was passed.
A video stream that was linked from the Texas Senate website disappeared at around 2pm CST. The video, which showed an almost empty chamber, was later replaced with a text entry which stated, "No program at this time."
The current special session ends Wednesday, so unless a massive onslaught of public pressure is applied to Texas representatives over the next several days, the anti-groping bill will be dead in the water.
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Northport City Councilwoman Judy Hayes demanded an apology from Mayor Bobby Herndon on Monday, but she did not get one.
Northport City Councilwoman Judy Hayes demanded an apology from Mayor Bobby Herndon on Monday, but she did not get one.
During the council meeting on Oct. 7, a visibly angry Herndon formally apologized for what he called embarrassing behavior by Hayes. Herndon's apology was directed to Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, the Tuscaloosa Police Department, the Tuscaloosa Transit Authority and two Northport businesses: CARE Ambulance and Mr. Bill's Family Dining.
"It ticks me off, it does — I shouldn't have to do this," Herndon said on Oct. 7. "But as long as I'm mayor of the city of Northport, I won't let any City Council member embarrass the city this way."
Herndon would not divulge details about what happened between Hayes and the Tuscaloosa Police or the Tuscaloosa Transportation Authority. He did say that Hayes made degrading public statements about Maddox online. Herndon also said that Hayes visited two local businesses and "made a scene" on separate occasions, touting her role on the council.
Hayes negated those comments Monday, saying she has only represented the concerns of her district and has done nothing that would embarrass the city. Instead, Hayes said she feels Herndon and the rest of the City Council are bullying her and treat her differently because she is a woman.
"I say publicly that I categorically deny the mayor's comments regarding me and really call to task his professionalism and work ethic," Hayes said, referring to the comments about her being made during a public meeting when she was absent.
"Mayor Herndon is neither my employer, nor is he my supervisor," Hayes said Monday. "My employer is the people who live in District 1. I answer to them."
While Hayes acknowledged she did go to Mr. Bill's Family Dining and to CARE Ambulance, she did not make a scene, she said, but instead voiced concerns of her constituents. Rather than making public statements about her, Herndon should have contacted her directly, Hayes said.
"For him to wait until I'm sick and not at the meeting — he should have afforded me the professional courtesy and done the professional way of handling any complaint, talking to me about it," Hayes said. "What he did was more of the same, bullying. He waited until I was home sick in bed, and every bit of it is a pack of lies."
Herndon said the last time he tried to work things out with Hayes on his own, he almost got arrested. The relationship between the two officials has been rocky since their August 2012 election. The day after the election, Hayes filed a police report against Herndon claiming he had threatened her on the phone on Election Day.
At that time, Hayes said Herndon became angry with her after she posted on Facebook, inviting the public to a catered barbecue dinner at Northport City Hall after election results were announced. The problem was, the dinner was a private campaign party that Herndon paid for, not a public event.
"He then accused me of saying things about him that I didn't say," Hayes said in 2012. "He said he was going to make things real hard for me over the next four years, and that I would regret being elected."
Hayes said that she became scared of Herndon and filed a report with the Northport Police Department. No charges were ever filed. Herndon negated Hayes claims over the incident.
He said his original apology on Oct. 7 to the city of Tuscaloosa and the local businesses was warranted and that he would not retract his statements.
Hayes said she was also disappointed that the other City Council members did not apologize. They never made any public statements against her.
"I just want to put this behind us and move forward," Herndon said Monday.
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With a historic win on the World Cup circuit this season, double Olympic champion Kamil Stoch is in peak form as he aims to defend his ski jumping titles at the Pyeongchang Games.
Stoch won his second straight Four Hills tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, on Jan. 6 to become only the second ski jumper in the long history of the sport to win all four stages of the prestigious event.
Germany's Sven Hannawald is the only other ski jumper to achieve the feat, winning all four stages 16 years ago. Stoch also won the Four Hills in 2017 when he was first in just one of the four stages.
The 30-year-old Pole won both the normal and large hill events at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, adding to his world title on the large hill a year before.
When Stoch won double gold in Sochi, he became just the third man to do so. Matti Nykanen of Finland won both golds in 1988. Switzerland's Simon Ammann won two golds in 2002 and 2010.
Here's some of what to know going into ski jumping at the Pyeongchang Games:
MEDAL FAVORITES: Slovenia's Peter Prevc won silver on the normal hill and bronze on the large hill in Sochi. While he has struggled this year on the World Cup circuit he will be banking on experience that includes winning the 2016 World Cup and the 2016 Four Hills.
Germany's Richard Freitag has three World Cup wins so far this season but fell during the Innsbruck stop of the Four Hills and suffered a hip injury that could jeopardize his Olympic medal hopes.
Andreas Wellinger of Germany has been on the podium five times this season and will also be a strong medal contender.
RISING STARS: Daniel Andre Tande. The 23-year-old has three World Cup wins overall and has performed well this season with three podium finishes. The Norwegian finished second at the Innsbruck stage of the Four Hills and could be set for a breakthrough in Pyeongchang.
POTENTIAL RECORD SETTERS: Another jumper to keep an eye on in Pyeongchang will be ageless wonder Noriaki Kasai. Known as "Legend Kasai" in his native Japan, the 45-year-old will be competing in his eighth consecutive Olympics.
Kasai would become the sole record-holder for most Winter Olympic appearances if he competes in Pyeongchang. He currently shares the record with Russian luger Albert Demchenko.
Kasai made his Olympic debut at the 1992 Albertville Games in France, and has appeared at every event since. He has earned three medals, including team silver at Lillehammer in 1994, and silver for the large hill and team bronze at Sochi.
He is the oldest Olympic ski jumping medalist and the oldest ski jumping World Cup individual event winner.
BEST RIVALRY: Germany edged out Austria in the team event four years ago and the two ski jumping rivals should provide some fireworks again this year along with powerhouse Norway.
The ski jumping competition will take place at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre, which is located in the Pyeongchang Mountain Cluster.


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Re: Very very basic question about Mathematica expressions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg111199] Re: Very very basic question about Mathematica expressions
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:12:46 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Sam, A short answer is that there are no functions in Mathematica, only expressions and replacement rules (except pure functions perhaps). When you define a "function" like s[x_, h_]:=x+h you really associate a certain global replacement rule with a symbol <s>. When evaluator sees a match, it rewrites according to this rule. There are no stack frames or activation records - it is a completely different mechanism that superficially resembles function calls (there is evaluation stack which is similar but not the same). So, <s> is always a Symbol. Generally, Mathematica at its hart is a rule-based engine, not a functional language. Functional layer sits already on top of it. So comparisons with Scheme or Lisp may be misleading. In particular, if you study Mathematica evaluation loop, you will see that the recursive part will be similar to Lisp (that expressions are evaluated before subexpressions normally), but the part related to rule application is not found in Lisp.You may want to check out some simple account explaining these things about Mathematica, perhaps some parts of the virtual book or documentation related to evaluation of expressions. I also dwelt somewhat on this in my book, www.mathprogramming-intro.org/ Regarding Manipulate, this behavior is related to scoping (Manipulate is a scoping construct and you relationship between <s> and <h> was originally defined outside of the scope of Manipulate). Hope this helps. Regards, Leonid On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Sam Takoy <sam.takoy at yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks to all who responded! > > May I belabor this point a little. I understand how to make Manipulate > work and I understand functions. (I am a product of Scheme from with > Mathematica seems to have borrowed a few ideas.) > > My question is much more formal: What are the building blocks of > Mathematica, the formal language. When you say > > s = x+h > > what is s? > > Is it an "expression"? Does s represent x+h wherever it appears > (assuming x and h are unassigned at the time of s=x+h)? Apparently not > always: yes in s/.h->5, but not in Manipulate. > > So here, then is my "model" of Mathematica: > In s = x+h, s is an "Expression" > In s[x_, h_]:=x+h, s is a "Function" > > Manipulate expects a "Function" so that answers my question. > > Then what is > > s[h_] := x + h? Is it an "Expression" or a "Function" of h with a > parameter x? > > Would then Manipulate[Plot[s[h], {x, 0, 1}, PlotRange -> {0, 1}], {h, 0, > 1}] work? (The answer is yes.) So apparently, Plot is happy with an > "Expression", but Manipulate wants a "Function"? Why? > > Also, in Manipulate[Plot[x+h, {x, 0, 1}, PlotRange -> {0, 1}], {h, 0, > 1}], x+h is no longer an "Expression", but is once again a "Function", > because of the context? Even though it's inside Plot which is happy with > an "Expression"? > > A personal note: I guess I'm a little frustrated that after a few months > of working with Mathematica, I still have to try things before I know > whether they'll work or not. I'm used to having a clear picture of the > grammar of the language that I'm working with, but I'm struggling here. > > > On 7/21/2010 7:14 AM, dr DanW wrote: > > I ran into this problem yesterday. I don't know exactly why it > > happens, I think it has something to do with the way Manipulate > > localizes variables. To solve it, I use a trick I found that lets me > > take an expression built up of global symbols and localize the > > symbols. Your trivial example: > > > > s = x + h > > > > Make a function out of it. The Evaluate[] is necessary to evaluate s, > > which replaces it with x+h > > > > sfnc = Function[{x, h}, Evaluate[s]] > > > > Now the Manipulate[] works fine > > > > Manipulate[Plot[sfnc[x, h], {x, 0, h}], {h, 0.1, 1}] > > > > I find myself using this trick a lot. > > > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > > >


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julierizzo had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit41 ontwerpen ingezonden door15 freelance designers.
Official Website of the international For Sale By Owner Magazine Publishers. Emphasis should be placed on educational information and local expertise, not homes for sale.
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Graphics: NOT what we currently have (too dated, no "educational" feel). Get creative! Wide open! Let's see what you got! Think real estate, think education, think knowledge about the subject! Think cool!
We are looking for a new, fresh logo for the For Sale By Owner Network to better visually signify what we do. The mission of the network is to provide both buyers and sellers with accurate information, knowledge, resources and educational assistance when buying or selling real estate without a real estate agent (For Sale By Owner). We need a logo that visually incorporates and communicates our mission!
Logo COPY can be: FSBO Network or For Sale by Owner Network or FSBOnetwork.com or FSBOnetwork.org
Concept: Striving for an educational even academic feel, or look in the new logo.as educating buyers and sellers is what we are all about!
Please be advised that this is a FAST contest, we are seeking clever, story-telling, eye-catching entries, and a winner will be announced soon! However, multiple members will be reviewing and feedback will be made upon me getting feedback from our members, then Ill post ASAP!
Bekijk hoe een ontwerpwedstrijd werkt of leer meer over logo ontwerpdiensten.


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Red Brain inc. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Red Brain
We are a small start up company with a passion for developing mobile device software. We are a spin off of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln out of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. We target our applications to the iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad, Google Android, and Palm WebOS. Our current portfolio of software includes mobile games, educational comic viewers, and mobile software for consumption of web services / data feeds.
Our target audience is consumers of mobile devices. We provide a range of applications that would appeal to various age groups, although are corporate brand could generally be thought to target 20 - 40 year olds.
We are looking for a clean and creative design. We would like to see the limited use of bold color against more reserved tones. We are thinking something with a modern feel - but be creative, we defer to the experts when it comes these sorts of things.
We require that the winner provide us with the logo as an Adobe Illustrator file.
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Rich Hil has announced the dates for his upcoming tour with Dom Kennedy, kicking off tonight in Dallas, Texas.
Additionally, the Warner Bros. rapper has revealed that his upcoming EP Support Your Local Drug Dealer, due in May. The rapper enlists The Weeknd for the project, as well as Kennedy, who appears on the cut "It Aint Really Nuthin."
Check the tour dates below.
THU 3/22: Dallas, TX – Trees
SAT 3/24: Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
SUN 3/25: Atlanta, GA – The Loft
TUE 3/27: Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
THU 3/29: New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
FRI 3/30: Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage
SUN 4/1: Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
TUE 4/3: Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
WED 4/4: Chicago, IL @ Reggies
THU 4/5: Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
FRI 4/6: Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
SAT 4/7: Minneapolis, MN @ Fineline
WED 4/11: Denver, CO @ The Bluebird
THU 4/12: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
SAT 4/14: Seattle, WA @ Showbox Market
SUN 4/15: Portland, OR @ Peter's Room
MON 4/16: San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
TUE 4/17: San Jose, CA @ Avalon
WED 4/18: Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory
THU 4/19: Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
FRI 4/20: San Diego, CA @ Porter's Pub
SAT 4/21: Tempe, AZ @ Club Red
[March 22]
UPDATE: Ricky Hil, formerly known as Rich Hil, has released his debut album SYLDD via Noisey. Stream the full LP below.
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BSO names Andris Nelsons music director, succeeding James Levine
The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Thursday that it has chosen Andris Nelsons to be the 15th music director in its 132-year history — giving the BSO its youngest conductor in a century.
The long-awaited move came more than two years after James Levine last took the podium in Boston, a tenure marked by great artistic renewal before health problems forced the aging maestro to resign.
In Nelsons, the BSO is getting a conductor who, at 34, is half Levine's age, eager to make his mark, and already focused on turning Boston into his professional home base.
"I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston,'' he said. "I always feel that music is food for our souls, and [Bostonians] will be hungry.''
The contract will allow Nelsons to serve as a principal guest conductor elsewhere, but makes specific mention that his primary artistic home will be Boston. This is a notable difference from Levine's tenure; his loyalties were split between the Metropolitan Opera and the BSO.
Mark Volpe, the BSO's managing director, said it was important the orchestra have a new leader, and he believes Nelsons will inspire both the players and the public.
"People respond to personalities,'' Volpe said. "You want a great musical force, you want somebody who is incredibly well trained, but let's not kid ourselves. People respond to personalities. Watch a video of him conducting. It's visceral, it's exciting.''
Nelsons has conducted around the world and has been music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra since 2008. He spoke Thursday by phone from Amsterdam, where he is conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
News of his hiring broke Thursday morning when BSO board chairman Ted Kelly gathered the players to announce the choice just before a Boston Pops rehearsal. The news drew applause from the players.
The selection itself was closely guarded, with even Nelsons told not to tell anybody until after the orchestra had been informed. The BSO sent Levine a letter telling him of the news, out of courtesy, a few minutes later.
The orchestra's search committee recommended the hiring of Nelsons in late April, but the conductor's busy schedule delayed contract negotiations until this past weekend in London. Thursday morning, BSO trustees unanimously approved the contract, which will see Nelsons leading 12 weeks of programs during the BSO season as well as leading concerts at Tanglewood, the orchestra's summer home.
The five-year contract is set to begin during the 2014-2015 season. BSO officials would not release financial terms.
Volpe noted that, at 34, Nelsons is in a different position than Levine, now 69, was when he was hired. By the time Levine stepped down, his health issues, injuries sustained from falls and a condition related to Parkinson's disease, had forced him to cancel often. When Levine did conduct, he did so from a chair.
"You're getting somebody with enormous upside who has an enormous future in front of him and it'll be wonderful to be part of that future,'' Volpe said.
Nelsons made his BSO debut in 2011, leading the orchestra in Mahler's "Symphony No. 9'' at Carnegie Hall. This summer, he will conduct at Tanglewood, leading the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a performance of Verdi's monumental "Requiem'' on July 27. His wife, Kristine Opolais, will be the soprano soloist.
During his first season as music director, Nelsons will lead eight to 10 weeks of programs in Symphony Hall. That's the last year he will serve as music director in Birmingham. In future years, he will lead 12 weeks of programs.
Nelsons is known for his wide-ranging repertoire. In Thursday's phone interview, he ticked off a list of classical composers he loves to conduct, including Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, Mahler, Bruckner, Bartok, and Tchaikovsky.
Asked about his favorite contemporary composers, Nelsons named British-born Mark-Anthony Turnage, Finland's Magnus Lindberg, and Australian composer Brett Dean.
"I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer,'' Nelsons said. "I'm looking forward to doing a variety. It's important for me that it's a combination of great historical pieces with sometimes contemporary pieces.''
Though Nelsons and Levine both speak of their passion for music, the differences, off the podium, are considerable. Levine listened to little other than classical music, rarely was spotted outside Symphony Hall — save for post-concert dinners — and spent most of his time with his brother, Tom.
Nelsons is not ashamed to profess his admiration for Michael Jackson and Sting, talks eagerly of attending a Boston Bruins game, and said he's prone to watching "Friends'' and "Frasier'' reruns in his downtime.
He and Opolais, who recently made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera, have a daughter, Adriana, 17 months old. In an interview, Nelsons did not rule out purchasing a home in the Boston area. (They live now in Riga, the capital of Latvia.) With Opolais singing regularly at the Met and Nelsons in Boston, they'll be establishing a musical center on the East Coast.
"The two most important things is one the music in my life and the family,'' he said. "It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.''
On Thursday, a pair of BSO players who were on the selection committee discussed Nelsons. They pointed to both his approach on the podium and his clear desire to build a relationship with the BSO and the city.
Violinist Malcolm Lowe, the BSO's concertmaster, said that Nelsons's collaborative approach came through earlier this year when he came to Symphony Hall to lead a series of concerts that included Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 5.'' He praised the way Nelsons structured a section of the piece, allowing room for principal horn Jamie Sommerville's solo.
"It's a feeling I got on stage where you feel totally supported, totally free — not to play any old way, there's a structure there still — but there's no fear in it, which is so critical and really great,'' Lowe said. "He just laid down this beautiful carpet for Jamie to come in and play this beautiful solo. It was perfect that way.''
Sommerville, another member of the search committee, said he considered the challenges brought on by the Levine tenure during the process.
"I think it's fair to say that we, as an institution, wanted someone who would bring a lot of vitality, physical vitality to the position, and someone who we could really feel was going to really take on the role of being a Bostonian,'' he said. "To really be here.''
The BSO's search has been closely guarded and the orchestra's management has never confirmed the list of finalists, though attention has largely centered on Vladimir Jurowski, Stephane Deneve, and Daniele Gatti.
Nelsons has always had a strong connection to music. His father is a cellist, his mother is the founder of an early music group in Latvia, and his stepfather took him to his first opera. It was Wagner, a composer he loves to present. In October, as music director designate, Nelsons will conduct Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll'' in Symphony Hall.
While that love of concert opera is something he shares with Levine, Nelsons' management approach in Boston is likely to differ. He spoke Thursday of being closely involved in auditions for new musical posts. Levine almost never attended those.
"It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra,'' he said. "I will absolutely be involved as much as I can.''
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STANFORD, CA -- The case for low-carbohydrate diets is gaining weight after a recent comparison of four popular diets published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
More than 300 pre-menopausal, non-diabetic, overweight women were randomly assigned to follow either the Atkins, Zone, LEARN (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships and Nutrition) or Ornish diet. Researchers chose the four diets to represent the full spectrum of low- to high-carbohydrate diets. Of the more than 300 women in the study, those randomly assigned to follow the Atkins diet for a year not only lost more weight than the other participants, but they also experienced the most benefits in terms of cholesterol and blood pressure. However, the Atkins group also gained back more weight in the second half of the study than those in the three other groups. Women in the Atkins group lost an average of almost 13 pounds after six months, but ended the one-year period with a final overall average loss of 10 pounds.
The Atkins diet, popularized by the 2001 republication of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, represents the lowest carbohydrate diet. The Zone diet, also low-carbohydrate, focuses on a 40:30:30 ratio of carbohydrates to protein to fat, a balance said to minimize fat storage and hunger. The LEARN diet follows national guidelines reflected in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food pyramid—low in fat and high in carbohydrates. The Ornish diet, based on bestseller Eat More, Weigh Less by Dean Ornish, is high in carbohydrates and low in fat.
"Many health professionals, including us, have either dismissed the value of very-low-carbohydrate diets for weight loss or been very skeptical of them," says lead researcher Christopher Gardner, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. "But it seems to be a viable alternative for dieters."
Study participants in all four groups attended weekly diet classes for the first eight weeks of the study and each received a book outlining the specific diet to which they were assigned. For the remaining 10 months of the study, the women's weight and metabolism were regularly checked, and random phone calls monitored what they were eating.
The $2 million study mimicked real-world conditions, Gardner says. Women in the study had to prepare or buy all their own meals, and not everyone followed the diets exactly as the books laid out, just as in real life.
At the end of a year, the 77 women assigned to the Atkins group lost an average of 10.4 pounds. Those assigned to LEARN lost 5.7 pounds, the Ornish followers lost 4.8 pounds and women on the Zone lost 3.5 pounds, on average. In all four groups, however, some participants lost up to 30 pounds.
After 12 months, women following the Atkins diet, relative to at least one of the other groups, had larger decreases in body mass index, triglycerides and blood pressure. Their good increased more than the women on the other diets.
Gardner has several ideas for why the Atkins diet had the overall best results. The first is the simplicity of the diet. "It's a very simple message," he says. "Get rid of all refined carbohydrates to lose weight." This message directly targets a major concern with the American diet right now—the increasing consumption of refined sugars in many forms, such as high-fructose corn syrup.
Beyond pinpointing this high sugar intake, the Atkins diet does the best at encouraging people to drink more water, he says. And when people replace sweetened beverages with water, they don't generally eat more food; they simply consume fewer calories over the course of the day.
The third theory Gardner offered as to why the Atkins diet was more successful is that it is not just a low-carbohydrate diet, but also a higher protein diet. "Protein is more satiating than carbohydrates or fats, which may have helped those in the Atkins group to eat less without feeling hungry," he says.
Though critics of low-carbohydrate diets say that such diets can lead to health problems, none of the factors measured in this study was worse for the Atkins group. However, potential long-term health problems that could not have been identified in a 12-month study may exist, Gardner says. Also, several basic vitamins and minerals can be difficult to get in adequate amounts from a very-low-carbohydrate diet.
More research is needed, Gardner says. He hopes to use the large data set generated in this study to investigate why different diets might work better for different people.
"We're trying to see if we can learn more about the factors that predict success and failure with weight loss," he says.


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Apple stores were picketed by protesters today unhappy about the way the Cupertino, Calif. company's suppliers have been treating Chinese factory workers.
"I'm a big fan of Apple products, but I can no longer ethically support products that harm the people that make them," Shelby Knox, an organizing director with Change.org at the Grand Central Station Apple store protest in New York, told CNN. "When people join together, we can hold companies accountable."
According to CNN, the protests were an offshoot of an online petition drive started two weeks ago at Change.org that subsequently received 200,000 signatures. We also wrote of another group, SumOfUs.org, that also drew attention to the conditions at factories in Apple's supply chain and garnered around 57,000 signatures.
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This information is for the following models:
IMPORTANT: This file is only for use with the models identified. Not all models are sold in all countries.
About this download
Benefits and improvements from the latest update
- Amazon Alexa is now supported Note:
In order to use Amazon Alexa with WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2 headphones, you must use "Sony | Headphones Connect" Ver. 4.0.0 or later.
Previous Benefits and Improvements
- Optimises the headphones for Google Assistant
- Other function improvements IMPORTANT:
Installing this firmware will only make your headphones compatible with the Google Assistant.
The Google Assistant itself will be activated by Google over the course of 2018. Activation may vary depending on your country.
Google and Android are trademarks of Google LLC.
System Requirements
- An Android device (V5.0 or later) or an iOS device (iOS 10.0 or later)
- An active Internet connection
- The latest version of the "Sony | Headphones Connect " application must be installed.
- The headphones must be connected to your Android or iOS device
File Info
File Name
- Firmware update 4.1.1 for WI-1000X / WH-1000XM2
File Version
- Version 4.1.1
Release Date
- 17-01-2019
Check the firmware version
If the firmware of your WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2 is version "4.1.1" or above, you do not need to perform the update.
If you're not sure, it's easy to check which version of firmware you have:
- Launch the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application.
- Connect your WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2 to the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application.
- Tap the three dots (menu button) in the upper right corner.
- Select the Version of your device shown in the Menu. This item is shown only when the device is connected.
- Confirm the WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2 firmware version.
Important notice
DO NOT "Charge the battery" or "Power off" while downloading/transferring data or updating, otherwise the headphones may become unusable.
DO NOT perform the update in a location where the Wi-Fi signal is inconsistent, such as:
- on a train/in a place where Wi-Fi signals become congested
- near a microwave, cordless phone or any other devices that use the 2.4 GHz band frequency radio waves
Make sure both devices (Android/iOS device and WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2) are fully charged.
Disconnect all other Bluetooth devices such as wearable devices or smart watches from your Android/iOS device before starting the update.
Before you upgrade
- After updating, the firmware cannot be reverted to an earlier version.
- For WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2, the update process will take approximately 26 minutes (Android devices) or 15 minutes (iOS devices) to complete. (The file size is about 3.3 MB)
- Depending on the radio wave environment and your Android/iOS device, it may take longer to complete.
Download & Install
- Download data from the server to the iOS device or the Android device.
- Transfer data from the iOS device or the Android device to the headphones.
- Execute update with the headphones.
Step 1: Install the update
- Launch the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application.
- Connect your WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2 to the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application.
- If you have never connected to the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application before, follow the instructions on the screen to connect the headphones to your Android device.
- If you have connected to the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application before, select your headphones.
When the message [Bluetooth Pairing Request] is displayed, press "Pair". The update will resume. (Only for iOS devices.)
Do not charge the battery or turn off your headphones while downloading updates, transferring data or updating, otherwise the headphones may become unusable.
If a disconnection message is displayed, wait until it automatically reconnects.
If the screen is not displayed, check whether the version has been upgraded in the following step.
Step 2: Check the update was successful
After the update, confirm that the new version has been installed successfully by following the steps in the [Check the firmware version] section.
If the firmware version shown is "4.1.1", the upgrade was successful.
Questions & Answers
An update error message appears.
- Press "OK".
- Restart (turn the power off then on) the WI-1000X/WH-1000XM2.
- After that, restart "Sony | Headphones Connect" and update again
Even though the update failed during the process, check the firmware version. If the Version is shown as 4.1.1, the firmware update was successful. If not, try the firmware update again. You can check the Version from the setting in the "Sony | Headphones Connect" application. To find out how to check the version, go to the "Check the firmware version" on this page.


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Lettuce Rejoice! A Garden Grows in the Food Desert
In the Atlanta neighborhood surrounding Benjamin Mays High School, it's easier to get kidney dialysis than buy a peach.
The nearest bona fide grocery store is miles away. Obesity is epidemic, and school kids breakfast on junk food and soda pop.
Nevertheless, when teacher Geri Nix and her students at Benjamin Mays were casting about for a Michigan Tech High School Enterprise project, growing healthy food did not immediately spring to mind. Neither did competing in the world's biggest science fair. Nix wasn't even a science teacher: she taught technology classes and had an interest in art and architecture. "We thought of making art out of junk and selling it," she recalls. "But that didn't have much science."
Then the team stumbled upon the concept of skyscraper farming: converting entire buildings to agriculture.
"We considered the neighborhood where our school is located," Nix says. "We have little access to fresh foods and vegetables. And we thought about not having outdoor space; many people live in apartments."
That's when they decided to build a farm of their own, inside the high school, in a classroom that was serendipitously surrounded by windows on three sides. (That turned out to be a very good thing, Nix says. "Grow lights are expensive.")
First, the team investigated hydroponics, in which plants are grown in water enriched with chemical nutrients. They also studied aquaponics. Simply put, plants are grown in a fish tank, with the fish providing the fertilizer. "Fish are ammonia-making machines," Nix explains. "They pee a lot."
They found an aquarium and added goldfish. "Then we germinated sweet basil seeds and floated them like a raft on the aquarium," she said. Amazingly, they turned into healthy green plants.
Eventually, the team constructed five units, one hydroponic and four aquaponic. "Our classroom looked like a greenhouse."
What did they grow? "Several different kinds of lettuce, tomatoes, sweet basil, watermelon, squash, sunflowers, spinach, cucumbers, peppers and pole beans," says Nix. "A lot of pole beans."
The students learned quickly that the aquaponic systems had the hydroponics beat. They required no chemical fertilizers, just fish food for the fish. And they had the potential for a second income stream. In addition to peddling vegetables, you could sell fish if you were to replace goldfish with, say, tilapia, or even the goldfish's fancy cousin, koi.
That said, aquaponics wasn't easy. "There was more science than you could imagine," Nix remembers. "The kids had to learn chemistry, the nitrogen cycle, test for pH . . . There's a small window where the chemistry is just right: then the plants are thriving, and the fish are thriving. You have to have that balance perfectly, like in nature."
Meanwhile, the team investigated their neighborhood's tattered food web.
"We are living in a food desert in our community," Nix says. "We have to go several miles to get to a grocery store." People who don't have cars have to take a cab or push a shopping cart.
Fast food and convenience stores are everywhere, fresh food is absent. "When there's less access to fresh, healthy and nutritious foods, there seems to be an abundance of medical issues and obesity. We are starting to see an increase in dialysis clinics in our neighborhoods," Nix says. "A lot of our kids start their day with Cheetos and Hot Fries and soda. Over 50 percent of the people in food deserts are at high risk for diabetes, hypertension, and kidney failure."
In a society that doesn't eat its vegetables, she says, "we're like the canaries in the mine."
Even if supermarkets were to sprout on every block, the students' locally grown food has additional advantages. It's fresher, tastes better and takes far less energy to produce and bring to market, Nix says. Furthermore, big corporate farms create their own brand of rural blight. Agriculture is responsible for 90 percent of the nation's water use, and over 80 percent of that water is wasted, she says. "The runoff is full of chemicals."
The Enterprise team hadn't thought of entering science fairs, since they weren't a science project, strictly speaking. But, with some encouragement, they did, and won the city-wide Atlanta science fair, which qualified them for the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, held May 8-13 in Los Angeles. Sponsored by the Society for Science and the Public, it's the world's largest pre-college science competition.
It was a little overwhelming for the students from Benjamin Mays High School. "Other teams had projects on cancer and DNA, and we had several found fish tanks, including an old bookshelf wrapped in plastic," Nix says, "But our kids had worked hard. They knew their project inside and out." Sophomore Quantavious Yorel Griggs, 16, and Moroccan exchange student Nouhayla Houssaini, 17, told the judges what they had learned, including how aquaponics outperformed hydroponics and how the food industry had failed their community.
Their exhibit, titled "Alternative Methods of Optimizing Food Production in 'Red-Lined' and Urban Food Deserts Using Aquaponics and Hydroponics vs. Conventional Growing Methods," took a $500 fourth place prize in the fair's environmental category.
"To do so well was just phenomenal," said Nix.
So, what's next? Nix is retiring, and while she'll probably do some teaching, she isn't sure what will happen to their project. "But for now, our school has a greenhouse, and aquaponics and hydroponics will be part of our environmental science curriculum."
By the most important measure, the Benjamin May High School Enterprise is already a success. "The overarching goal of High School Enterprise is to encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math," said Doug Oppliger, who coordinates the National Science Foundation program at Michigan Tech and recruits high schools to participate. And both Griggs and Houssaini are interested in becoming scientists. "It's also made them think in terms of enterprise: marketing, making money, producing a product," says Nix.
The students gave their vegetables away, but there's no reason they couldn't embark on a profit-making venture. Inner city neighborhoods are ripe for such an enterprise, she believes. "Years ago, people came around in a truck, and people bought their vegetables," she says. "It's back to the future. The things we did in the past, we'll have to do again."
But we might do those things differently. With help from some goldfish, a handful of high school students have already made a garden bloom in the desert.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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