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Recently, I had the good fortune to visit The Heartland Spa and Fitness Resort in Gilman, IL, a destination spa-hotel 90 miles south of Chicago. My 'old' friend, Ilene Weber, flew in from Boston to join me when I mentioned that I had been hearing great recommendations about The Heartland. But we fussy ladies wanted to personally discover if the Spa, a former dairy farm, lived up to its reputation- with its various exercise and fitness classes, spa massages and facials, special events, food, staff and overall ambiance.
I loved the Heartland's approach where everyone is casually dressed. Actually, the staff dresses each of the 32 guests the whole time you are there. Each day, clean shorts, pants, t-shirts and sweat shirts are placed in front of your room or on your bed. I literally packed some make-up (necessary so I wouldn't scare anybody at mealtime), tooth- brush and paste, and changes of underwear. Ok, we admit we took our own hair products, too. We didn't even need those heavy overnight bags if we didn't want to carry them. And I mustn't forget the "Robes" which somehow made us feel comfy and completely at home. I do believe that is the general attitude the Spa accentuates.
From the welcoming reception area, we were escorted to our room – which was beyond fabulous as it was the best of the best rooms! Two beds, chairs, a picture-perfect view of the lake, and a Victorian overall feeling made us feel right at home. There was plenty of room in the updated bathroom to place our meager makeup and toothbrushes, too.
Mealtime is a communal affair. Each guest initially wears a name tag label. Everyone was friendly and we actually met several people whom we plan to meet later on. I like the idea of rotating tables and meeting new people from all walks of life. Some people were retired, some in college, some had busy careers – and I was delighted to see several men enjoying themselves amongst the majority of women. Most people arrived as families or twosomes; some also came solo.
The total calorie count was 1,500 for all three meals and two snacks served daily. Ilene, who's a dedicated eater, actually found she didn't need that extra sweet dessert she often talked about. The food was excellent, colorful with hues of orange/red/green in the vegetables, and creative with herbs that gave exotic flavoring to chicken and salmon dishes, especially.
The Spa areas are a major draw here at The Heartland. What's not to like about a calming massage with mystical music in the background? One massage is included in the 2-night package; the 3-night package comes with a facial and a buff and butter service; the 5-night package includes two 40-minute massages and a Heartland facial. I also opted for another extra - The Heartland's Signature Botanical Bliss, which combined a sea salt body scrub with a Botanical mud wrap. After that I was as clean (and smooth) as a whistle, and I felt like a million dollars.
I found the ambiance at The Heartland Spa comfortable and comforting. This is not a jet-setters spa with multi-billion dollar equipment and fancy, formally dressed men and women. Whether you're a guest for one night or seven, you are surrounded with warmth and acceptance. And what could be better than that… And a big thank you to The Heartland Spa staff who sponsored our spectacular 2-night weekend stay. You did a great job, as we enjoyed ourselves immensely.
This is far enough away from the big city to be relaxing, but not too far to be accessible. It is a wonderful get-away that is renewing and I highly recommend it.
The Heartland Spa & Fitness Resort is at 1237 E 1600 North Rd, Gilman, Illinois 60938. Phone number is 800-545-4853 www.heartlandspa.com
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A sports bike in its purest form. Reduced to the essentials. Agile, fast, suitable for A2 driving licence and extremely sporty. Whether you are on country roads or the racetrack, the Moto3 genes are perceptible in every manoeuvre and convey a pure race feeling. The handling – simply spectacular. The performance – incredible. The power – thrilling.
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When drivers think of luxury car brands, often one of the first automakers to come to mind is BMW-and rightfully so! With an established history of creating automotive masterpieces, consumers can trust that the products from this maker will always exceed expectations. The lineup of 2018 BMW models is no exception. These new BMW vehicles flaunt sophisticated aesthetics and also boast racetrack-inspired prowess, which is why we recommend driving enthusiasts around Meadville, Edinboro, and surrounding areas to check out our collection today at New Motors BMW in Erie, Pennsylvania.!
If you are a first-time BMW driver, then you may want to explore the entry-level 2018 BMW 2 Series. It has the most affordable starting MSRP compared to other counterparts. Not only does it come in both coupe and convertible body styles, but collectively, it has eight trims. Despite being the first of the series, it still achieves outstanding results, such as a 0-60 MPH acceleration rate of just 4.2 seconds with the 335 horsepower 3.0L TwinPower Turbo engine.
Next up is the 2018 BMW 3 Series. Within the compilation, this model is regarded as the "most popular BMW Series of all time." Today, it is one of the few vehicles still offered with Diesel power. Its personal line includes sedan, sports wagon, and gran Turismo style. Combined, that makes for a total of 13 sporty trim levels! Fortunately, no matter which variation you choose, each one is packed with advanced innovations like an iDrive system that gives you absolute control over your experience.
The following is the 2018 BMW 4 Series which builds off the previous tier. There are three alternatives for you to browse: a coupe, a gran coupe, or convertible. Together, there is up to 12 different trims for you to see. Like the former model, it provides topnotch capability because it has qualities like Adaptive M Suspension and Variable Sport Steering that promise greater responsiveness and handling. The outcome is pure exhilaration!
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Tits proved that (sufficiently high rank) spherical buildings arise from an algebraic group and a field, so any building is some $\Delta(G, F)$. He also showed that a building isomorphism $\Delta(G,F)\simeq\Delta(G',F')$ induces a field isomorphism $F\to F'$.
This shows that the field is somehow coded up in the isomorphism type of the building. I'm wondering whether a construction is floating around anywhere that shows how to construct the field from the combinatorics of the building.
To help clarify what I'm after: I've seen a construction of the real field from the incidence structure or geometry of the real projective plane (pick a pair of lines, prove they're bijective, define addition via some more lines and unique intersection points which must exist, etc.). In the end you have parametrized a projective line by matching up points on it with the underlying field. The construction requires a choice of a few points in general position and so is given sort of "up to collineation". I'm under the impression that I should view those results on spherical buildings as generalizations of results in projective geometry, and I'm looking for an analogous construction. That is, a construction of a field in terms of the apartments, relations between them, etc. In the end presumably some collection of objects is parametrized by the underlying field. Or is this not the case?


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Irwin shoots his age, shoots up scoreboard
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – A 66 is an impressive score, especially at a major championship, on a legendary course, and particularly when the player shooting it is a 66-year-old grandfather.
Hale Irwin, a winner of four majors on the PGA Tour and seven more on the Champions Tour, matched his age, shooting a 66 in the third round of the U.S. Senior Open. It marked the he second time he had done it in a competitive round on the Champions Tour, including a 65 at the AT&T.
"Any time you can do that when you're at any age, it's pretty nice to do. I didn't even realize it until I was reminded after we finished the round," Irwin said after finishing up on Saturday. "I was more intent on trying to make that putt at the last hole than anything else."
Returning to Inverness Club has been a nostalgic trip for Irwin, who won one of his two U.S. Open titles here in 1979.
"It was a little reminiscent of 32 years ago and how I played on Saturday of the Open week in '79," he said. "I recall starting poorly and having two really, really good middle rounds. Today was similar to one of those rounds in '79. I hit a lot of really good shots. I played well."
He now stands at 7-under 206 and, as usual, is right in the thick of things.
"I have to shoot this or better probably tomorrow to even have an outside chance," said Irwin, who began this week with rounds of 69 and 71. "I think I just started a little too far back of a lot of guys – and there's really a lot of really good players. Not every one of them is going to go out and shoot 74. So I've got to go out and play exceptionally well tomorrow."
No one will be surprised if he shoots his age again.
THE COMMON MAN: The list of top 20 players at the U.S. Senior Open includes many of the most famous golfers of a generation. Their names are well known by even those who don't follow the game: Mark O'Meara, Mark Calcavecchia, Hale Irwin, Hal Sutton, Bernhard Langer and Nick Price, just to name a few.
And then there was Jeff Roth.
A New Mexico club pro who was a legendary player in his salad days in Michigan, Roth has been the most stunning contender in the 156-player field. After rounds of 68, 72 and 66, he finds himself at 7-under 206, tied for seventh and eight shots back of leader Olin Browne.
He said he was cheered throughout Saturday's third round by a large contingent of family and friends from Flushing, Mich., just over 90 minutes away from Toledo.
Funny, but he was in a similar situation a year ago. He played in the final group in the third round with Langer. But while Langer pulled away to the win, Roth wilted to a 75. He ended up finishing 17th.
"Everybody's got that choking point and I managed it a lot better today," he said. "The interesting thing about it is I really don't feel any pressure, any nervousness, which is great because now I can go out and play right from the get-go instead of working into the round. I'm getting to that point in my career where, even though I haven't won a Champions Tour event, I've kind of been there, done that on my level. So I'm just playing golf."
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Olin Browne didn't start playing golf until he was 19 but got hooked on the game while attending Occidental College in Los Angeles. He was asked if he had any idea that he'd make a living at the game: "Well, that was getting ahead of myself. I thought I could eke out a living on the golf course, and it's been really fun. You know, I gravitated toward it because I knew what I didn't want to do and it was to have a regular gig. I just didn't see myself in that role. I love the challenge of golf, I love how intimidating it is sometimes and how hard it is and how you just keep butting your head against the wall and there's no reward and you look around for some sympathy from other people and you don't get any. But I highly recommend it for anybody that wants to try it because for every failure that you get – and it's 10 to 1 or 50 to 1 or whatever – the successes way outweigh the failures."
TIMES THREE: Tim Jackson, a Tennessee real-estate developer and CPA, has already locked up a three-peat at the U.S. Senior Open.
As the only amateur to make the cut, he locked up the low am title for third year in a row to match the record held by Vinny Giles.
Jackson shot a 2-under 69 in the third round after two rounds of 72 and stands at even-par 213.
"I'm very honored," said Jackson, who played at the University of Tennessee and lives in Germantown, Tenn. "Vinny's obviously one of the all-time greats in all of golf. I have a lot of respect for Vinny and all he's accomplished and I'm honored to have my name beside his. That's awesome."
Jackson has been low am every time he's played in the tournament, finishing tied for 11th two years ago and tied for 32 in 2010.
"When I first played in this event two years ago, I really didn't know what to expect," he said. "When I got here, I saw that my game matched up pretty good with most of the guys as far as my overall game and particularly my short game and my putting, so that gave me some added confidence to compete."
DIVOTS: At the 14th hole, Damon Green, among the leaders all tournament, grabbed a rake and cleaned up after playing partner Jeff Roth hit out of a greenside bunker. Green knows what he's doing: He caddies on the PGA Tour for Zach Johnson. … A total of 21 players returned to the course on Saturday morning to complete their rounds because of the almost-3 hour rain delay early on Friday. The cut was a tournament-record 2-over 144. … There were 39 subpar second rounds, another tournament record. … Hal Sutton had a triple-bogey 7 at the 17th hole in the first round while shooting a 74. Since then, he birdied the hole twice while shooting 67 and 66.


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62nd Annual Meguiar's Autorama Ridler Winner
The Ridler award winner is crowned at the 62nd annual Meguiar's Autorama from the field of the Pirelli Great 8 finalists.
The winner of this year's 62nd Annual Meguiar's Autorama Don Ridler Memorial award is the '64 Buick Riviera belonging to J.F. Launier and built by JF Kustoms. The Riviera was the talk of the show and always had a substantial crowd around it for all-three days. While hot rods can be painted in any color the brighter colors clearly draw more attention and the BASF "taxi cab yellow" was an attention grabber and an eyeball popper!
The name of the car is "Concept Custom" with the express intent of taking this '64 Buick and turning it into something that hasn't been done—a two-seat sports concept custom. Stare at the car long enough and you begin to see the design elements that give this ride a distinct sports car and custom look. In fact, there are definite Corvette touches that cannot be denied when looking at the Rivi. Look at the sides, cowl section, reverse hood scoops and the unmistakable rear window, which is from a '71 Buick boat tail coupe, but clearly influenced from the '64 Corvette Sting Ray. Loads of metalwork took place on this Rivi with handformed fenders, hood, quarters and rear section all sprayed in an eye-catching brilliant yellow paint from BASF paints.
The power comes from a custom built 6.2L LS that pumps out 850 horsepower via twin turbos that are mounted in the trunk area. From here the power is run through a Tremec manual trans on its way back to custom built 9-inch anchored with coilover shocks. Making sure this potent Buick Riviera can stop is a four-corner SSBC disc brakes package, Curtis Speed wheels, and Pirelli rubber. From here a Premier Street Rods provided the one-off chassis.
Inside we can see the custom interior by Lee Baxter Hot Rod Interiors and the tasteful use of custom gauges from the drawing board and craftsman at Classic Instruments. Other interior components include accessories from Clayton Machine, a billet steering wheel and tilt.
Once again, congratulations to J.F. Launier for building this year's Ridler winner and for pushing the design envelop giving all who look something to ponder for the future.


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Jeff Dachowski necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 312 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
We need a logo for our established studio. We are about to open a larger location and want a logo to accompany the move.
Dachowski Photography
We are a high end photography studio that works with people. Wedding, Children, families, commercial etc. We are a husband and wife team. We have never had a logo before. We have only used our name ( DachowskIPhotography) in the dyer font. ( Please notice the captial i at the end of our name as it looks like an ! if you use a lower case i)
Our dilema is developing a logo to use with our existing font. Our clients currently recognize the look, and we want it to be incorporated into our logo so it will compliment what we currently use.
Our website is http://www.DachowskiPhotography.com
- Item 1...Our current tagline is "Let us tell Your story"
- We have been using the hansa font with this. Usually the text was black and the word Your was in red.
- We are fond of styles in the arts and crafts movement. We are open to different color schemes, although our studio colors are warm earth tones. We like graphic lines.
- Item 1...very feminine or cute designs will not fit our look at all. cameras or people with cameras etc.
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I bought some blue felt yesterday to try out as a backdrop for future photoshoots, specifically the one I have on Saturday of a 6-month-old girl. Ava was kind enough to indulge me a bit today, so that I could play, I mean, practice. 😉
I think I need to iron it to get out the wrinkles (you can really see them in the first pic) and find a way to get it to hang tighter on my backdrop stand, but I think it will work out pretty nicely and is a relatively inexpensive backdrop.
I was pleased to discover the light in my livingroom was better than I originally thought, so maybe I could do shoots here at my house after all. We'll see. Oh, and I ran an action on these pics called "colour wow" which I just LOVE. Really makes the colors pop! 🙂
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Apple May Shift to OLED Displays at Last, Says Pixel Expert
But only until its own Micro LED system is ready to replace it.
But only until its own Micro LED system is ready to replace it.
All that coding leads to another way to watch YouTube videos.
Imagine being the idiot who unfurls this.
Screen resolution always marches to the steady pace of pixel-density progress, and LG may have accidentally let slip Apple's next resolution-gratuitous display.
The Bristol Interaction and Graphics group has used ultrasound to render floating 3D shapes in thin air, creating an object that can be seen and felt.
Just how much better is Amazon's Kindle Voyage screen? Well, why not see for yourself in this screen by screen breakdown…
You could use an app, or look out of the window, but where's the fun in that?
The boringly named SD590C is soon to release in the US, ten months after being announced at CES.
You were probably too busy gawking at Cupertino's precious new watch and giant smartphones to notice anything else that happened in the world of technology this week. There's no shame in that.
A Reuters report states that Apple suppliers are "scrambling to get enough screens ready" for the new phone as a last-minute redesign has disrupted production.
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Ralph Gillies, Chrysler's top designer, told Bloomberg this week the next Viper will be inspired by "a naked woman on the beach" and will be "drop-dead beautiful." Fine — just as long as she's still engaging in that burn-your-legs-getting-out-of-bed fetish.
In addition, Chrysler says the new Dodge Viper will be "drop-dead beautiful" and is meant to draw buyers away from Porsche and the Corvette. Wait, did they say Porsche? Really? And they'll call it a Viper?
While production of the sports car ceased in July, the last we'd heard, the automaker's five-year turnaround plan included the possibility of bringing it back in 2012.
Now we're getting a more definitive timeline. The car will be released next year as a 2013 model-year vehicle, Gilles told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress on Thursday in Detroit.
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Lisa Lewis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 263 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
Leading Edge Marketing Solutions
Help us define our future with a leading edge, dynamic, innovative, attention grabbing logo design!
We are a newly launched digital marketing agency. We provide businesses with marketing strategies and methods to differentiate themselves from their competition and dominate their marketplace. We use the latest technologies to give our clients prominent page placement on all significant search engines by providing an optimized website specifically designed for maximum online exposure. We deliver Geo-Targeted pull campaigns, push campaigns, listing in business directories, map & GPS device submission, presence on social networks such as Facebook and others, text message campaigns.
See How We Do It 8-24-10.pdf attached for specifics.
Also, visit http://www.AdzZoo.biz/lems for complete comprehensive overview of these services.
Another one of our focuses is on utilizing dynamic video for marketing, branding and creating a unique presence in our clients marketplace and with their customers. To provide these tools to our clients, we have partnered with one of the leading companies in the industry. To learn more, visit our video marketing products page at http://www.ConnectingMadeEasy.com
We will continue to add new technologies to benefit our clients.
Small to medium sized businesses in all industries. Businesses who understand that the internet has changed the way we do business forever and are moving in the direction of internet and social media marketing.
B2B consultants, agents and advisers who currently work with our ideal target market. We have an affiliate program that allows our strategic partners to earn a recurring revenue referral fee for all business that is referred to us by their organization.
Franchise companies with a base of at least 30 franchise owners. Our program allows each of the franchisees to target their local area and not infringe on another business owners territory.
Any company with annual revenues of $200K to $5M with 3 to 200 employees is usually about the company size we are looking for.
Our buyer demographic includes - males and females - ages 18 to 45 - of all nationalities.
Our new logo should be iconic with a clean, crisp, sharp technology feel to it. Maybe a little edgy.
Logo needs to appeal to a wide demographic audience both genders, ranging anywhere from 18-65 yrs of age, male, female and of any ethnicity or background. The logo should speak to an audience of tech/web savvy individuals and those who are open minded to the new age of technological advancements.
See attached .jpg for a sample of our preliminary website design.
Colors will be a combination of royal blue, green and yellow.
Want crisp, appealing, powerful colors that make the logo stand out and be noticed. Something that leaves an impression and will be recognized as innovative.
Cannot use LEMS as the logo as it is already copy written, but would consider using the letters in the logo in some variation.
Logo should reflect creativity and innovation. We need something that will work on a variety of mediums equally well such as web sites, business cards and logo apparel.
The files we will require are: (subject to change)
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Oklahoma Maps
This entry was originally written by Wendy Bebout Elliott Ph.D., FUGA for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Maps are particularly important in identifying the previous jurisdictions of the two territories that preceded present-day Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma Library's Manuscripts Division (see Oklahoma Archives, Libraries, and Societies) and the Oklahoma State University Library at Stillwater, Oklahoma, maintain excellent collections for the state and its earlier territories. A Guide to Cartographic Records in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1971) indicates availability of General Land Office (GLO) maps, which are particularly helpful for Oklahoma Territory.
County maps may be purchased from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Reproduction Branch, 200 N.E. 21st St., Oklahoma City, OK 73105-3204. Fees are minimal.
Some valuable compilations have been published including these:
- Morris, John Wesley, ed. Boundaries of Oklahoma. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1980. Explains the changing borders within the territory and state.
- . Ghost Towns of Oklahoma. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
- , Charles R. Goins, and Edwin C. McReynolds. The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma. 3d ed. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Historical data and accompanying maps for the various developmental stages of the territory and state.
- Oklahoma Department of Highways. Town and Place Locations. 1975. Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Department of Highways, 1991.
Alphabetically arranged listing showing place-name, county, section, township, and range. Includes towns and cities of today as well as towns that have vanished, names of known landmarks, road junctions, or railroad sidings. Lists over 4,200 places in Oklahoma.
- Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. 1965. 2d ed. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. Alphabetically arranged, it begins with 'A County' and concludes with 'Zybra.'
In addition to online sources for all states (see pages 16-17), various county maps are available on the Internet.


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Happy Tuesday!!
I love Tuesdays because it means you'll find me over on the High Hopes Blog with more of the super cute images from their New January Release called Live, Laugh, Love! Meet "Leo Meets Lana". Leo saw Lana and with one swoop he fell instantly in love with her LOL!
I love this interactive element from MFT that lets your image spin and move around the circle! Leo loves it because he spun around and planted a kiss on Lana's Cheek!!!
My paper is from the Pebbles Be Mine 6x6 collection. I used 2 different border dies to create the heart flowers! A ribbon bow and some Stickles on Lana's bow finished off my card.
This sentiment is "Loved By You" from the new release also.
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Ashdowne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
We offer a service that allows people to make a little extra money at home by filling out surveys online for market research companies. It's mainly designed for stay at home moms, students and retired people. They can make a few hundred dollars extra a month depending on how much they are willing to work. Our service is free.
Moms, students, retired people. Anyone for whom a few hundred dollars extra a month will help out.
I've attached our current logo. It's really pretty bad because I did it myself a few years ago. :) You're going to beat it pretty easily. I just put that provocative title on this contest to get you to read this far.
I normally have very specific goals on something like this, but this time, I'm pretty open. There's a lot of flexibility on this one. Here's what I need:
1. Logo for these words: Survey Money Machine
It should be a horizontally oriented logo to conserve on vertical space. Look at the current one to see what I mean. The page has to have a slim banner vertically.
2. Should be green to keep with the current design of the site as a whole.
3. Can be fun, but not too distracting. I really just need something that looks nicer than the current one and is easier to read. You can see our current logo at http://www.surveymoneymachine.com.
4. We need a simple, text only, easily overlooked logo for the banner of the page. I say "easily overlooked" because I want their eye directed to the main headline as quickly as possible. Right now, our logo is a little hard to read and might be delaying the move of the eye to the headline.
5. If you want to have fun with it, feel free to submit a logo that has some fun action to it (like a money machine or something like that) as well as just a very plain text only logo. We can use the fun one elsewhere on the site. But this part is by no means required.
Thank you for your entry. I look forward to working with you.
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The half-million strong Girlguiding movement has added its voice to a campaign to persuade the Sun newspaper to drop its Page Three topless pin-up.
It has signed a petition urging Sun editor Dominic Mohan "to finally take bare boobs out of The Sun".
Girlguiding UK signed the No More Page Three petition after a poll of members.
"I believe it is wrong for women to be reduced to mere sexual objects in a family newspaper," said guide Katie Wormald, 17, whose idea the vote was.
The online poll of more than 2,000 guides aged between 16 and 25 took place last month. Some 88% said they believed the Sun should end Page Three.
The Guides have now adopted the campaign to end Page Three as official policy.
"Children shouldn't grow up thinking that this is the norm and that it is right. Young girls shouldn't grow up thinking that they will achieve more by being sexually objectified," added Katie.
"Also it is one clear step to reducing the amount of everyday sexism in our society."
Miss Wormald is one of Girlguiding's Advocates, a group of guides who help the movement decide how best to give girls a voice on issues affecting their lives.
In a letter emailed to Mr Mohan on Monday the group writes: "We know that the Sun is a family newspaper.
"Anyone can pick it up and turn to page three and think that it is normal for young women to be treated as objects.
'Iconic' sexism
"We feel that this is just wrong and has to stop.
"As a young woman in UK society, it is impossible to nurture your ambitions if you are constantly told that you are not the same as your male equivalent.
"This is what Page Three does. It is disrespectful and embarrassing."
The letter is signed by Katie and fellow guides Bijal, Lauren, Lucy, Victoria and Amy.
Campaigner Lucy-Anne Holmes, who runs the No More Page Three campaign said: "It's absolutely brilliant that Girlguiding's young members have voted to support our campaign to bring an end to the most iconic piece of sexism in our national press.
"We have heard too many stories of how Page Three negatively impacts on young women and girls, either because of boys' reactions to it or girls' own feelings about their bodies and self-worth caused by being presented with such narrow definitions of beauty on a daily basis."
Before the Guides backed the campaign the petition had attracted just under 90,000 signatures. Their support will give it a significant boost.
A spokeswoman for the Sun said it currently had no plans to comment on the letter. However the paper's owner Rupert Murdoch in February hinted on Twitter that Page Three might be replaced with a "halfway house" of "glamorous fashionistas".
He was responding to a tweet which said: "Seriously, we are all so over page three - it is so last century!"
Murdoch replied: "You maybe [sic] right, don't know but considering."


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Charm for Breakfast: A Diner Tour of the North ShorePosted: April 12th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Agawam Diner, American, Breakfast, Diner, Little Depot Diner | Tags: Breakfast, Diners, North Shore, Pat's Diner, The Capitol Diner, The Four Sisters Owl Diner, The Salem Diner | 1 Comment »
In our latest piece for the Boston Globe North section, we had a fun time focusing on classic diners north of Boston. The article came out yesterday, and you can read it here: Here's The Dish on Diners
During our diner-ing, we ended up with many more photos than will ever be published, and we wanted to share some of them with you. We haven't made it to every diner in every town (yet), but here is a pictorial tour of a handful of fun places to try for your next road trip or weekend breakfast.
The Capitol Diner in Lynn has been serving up specialties since the late 1920s, but we're betting the Mickey-shaped pancakes are a newer addition.
New owners Ross and Alicia Scanlon have made the Little Depot Diner a hit by bringing in new energy and maintaining old favorites.
Lowell's Four Sisters Owl Diner sports a newly renovated entrance and a cheery vintage interior. The Eggs Benedict is amazing.
The summer beach crowd is familiar with Pat's Diner in Salisbury, but it was quiet on a winter afternoon. We enjoyed the unusual pork pie.
Pie is the thing at the Agawam Diner, and they always have an array of beautiful desserts on offer. Crowds convene at all hours for hearty meals and a cup o' joe along with their favorite slice.
And lastly, a special photo of the Salem Diner, which was taken in 2008. This is our favorite shot as it shows the old neon as it was, before the diner suffered damage in a fire. The diner has been renovated, and George and Zoe Elefteriadis serve up great breakfasts, but we do miss the neon.


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Ah, the smell of a newborn baby. There really is nothing like it. I know some parents who crave it and go out of their way to sniff babies whenever they can. I can't say I have ever done anything that crazy, but I do still lovingly remember taking deep whiffs of my own daughters' baby fresh scent when they were younger. It's the perfect mix of clean, and sweet, and innocent all rolled into one. So who would want to mess with that? Apparently, Dolce & Gabbana would.
The fashion team thinks they can make babies smell better, and they have released a new line of perfume that is meant to "enhance" a newborn baby's natural smell.
Earlier this month, the designers posted an Instagram photo of the new product's box on their luxury online magazine, Swide, The image, posted by designer Stefano Gabbana, was accompanied by a caption that read "Stefano Gabbana unveils a Baby fragrance," as well as a comment by Gabbana that said "per I bambini," which translates to "for children."
From the site:
How can babies smell even sweeter than they already do? That familiar smell associated with babies that melts our hearts will only be accentuated by this Dolce&Gabbana fragrance.
The inspiration for the scent was said to be baby's skin, breath and first smile. It will cost about $44 per bottle.
So, let's forget for a moment about the inherent dangers in placing any kind of unnecessary chemicals onto a baby's skin. Although that is such a huge issue that I'm having a hard time trying to understand why anyone would even want to consider doing that. But what's really bothering me is that this guy thinks he can somehow make babies "better" by making them smell the way he wants them to smell.
That is just plain wrong. I don't care how "light" and "crisp" and "airy" his new scent is, there is nothing that can compete with the lovely smell of a newborn baby — the real smell of a newborn baby.
Do you agree, or do you think a baby's scent could be improved with perfume?
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Visual artist from Puerto Rico leading towards ONENESS through his passions and believes. When I see beauty, I see it in all forms, when it comes to visual art presented by an artist who wants to make a difference with it's own language, I find more than the visual state of mind. With Dennis Pomales I find a conscious relationship between my life and his paintings. I describe his art as the magical language we want to speak up to make our lives easier and simply more colorful.
I met Dennis in Puerto Rico 5 years ago. I was inspired enough to produce collective art shows at my apartment in Los Angeles, knowing that artists like myself needed to see their pieces spotlighted on a wall for the first time. I called him to participate in my first collective art exhibit/musical event BIUTIFUL.
To see video click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TG4RCykWMY
After BIUTIFUL, I was very interested in Dennis' work. I invited him for my second art collective JUST LET GO; he couldn't resist but to attach his art near other local artists from LA and already well known names like Glenn Fox, Victor Ross, Samantha Hedstorm, and many other talented minds.
To see video click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1JdpnkohBU
The best feeling as a producer is watching someone's growth, specially through art. Many of this artists were craving for a wide open door for their creative mind to grow big with no limits nor requirements. For this particular reason I trusted all 45 artists in my collectives to be inspired by their own pros and cons.
Over the years they understood the point and importance of showing their pieces and giving life to them in a bigger field.
I attended to his latest exhibit "Ilusiones y Asterismos" at C787 STUDIOS in Miramar Puerto Rico during this Holiday season. I saw growth, evolution and pure connection to his spiritual side like never before. Colorful floor made the attendees believe in a JOYFUL THOUGHT. Even children were invited! He told me the floor took 18 hours of hand painting work before the show, where even his mom helped him paint the floor! This art collective was a total success for Dennis, Heranos Lumiere y Nayarit Maldonado, selling own art to collectors and art lovers in opening night, which is the best & worst feeling for an artist. Letting go part of your life through your passion is a hard wall to brake, but also learning the business side of it is one of the most difficult process to learn when you are an authentic creative mind.
I felt happy when I walked in, the floor made me feel like I was inside of a fun house. One large sculpture by Roberto Cuellar was placed outside for local skaters to slide through with their own style, provoking the art lovers to float in & out the exhibit.
M to D:
- When art was born in Dennis Pomales?
- Cuando comienza el arte visual en tu vida?
D to M:
Art has always been in my life, it was born with me. Since I was a little boy I've drawn and imagined. I loved drawing characters I saw in books. I started taking art seriously in tenth grade thanks to a new art teacher. She would make us experiment with the materials and was able to bring out our personal styles little by little.
El arte siempre ha estado en mi vida, nació conmigo. Desde chiquito he dibujado e imaginado. Me encantaba dibujar personajes que veía en los libros. En décimo grado fue cuando lo empece a tomar en serio gracias a una nueva maestra de arte. Ella nos hacia experimentar con los materiales y poco a poco nos fue sacando nuestro estilo personal.
M to D:
- Describe your work in one sentence.
- Describe tu arte en una oración.
D to M:
Creatures in a magical world that breathe the colors and the vibration of the universe.
Criaturas en un mundo mágico donde se respira color y la vibración del universo.
M to D:
- Any darkness you want to share with us?
- Algun lado oscuro que quieras compartir?
D to M:
The dark side of malice and the ego lives in all of us. Everyday I try to meditate and be conscious of the negative impulses of my being so I can stop them and change them to light and love. Depending on the day, this practice can be really easy or really hard.
El lado oscuro de la maldad y el ego vive en todos nosotros. Todos los días trato de meditar y estar consciente de los impulsos negativos de mi ser para así detenerlos y cambiarlos a luz y amor. Dependiendo del día, esta práctica es bien fácil o bien difícil.
M to D:
- If you were the President of an unknown country, which would be your top 3 rules, why? What makes your own country so special and different?
- Si fueras el Presidente de un pais, caules serian tus 3 reglas principales y por que? Como se diferencia tu pais de todos los demas?
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There would be no economic debt that enslaves citizens into a cycle of work and money. There would be no war or killings for personal benefit, whether from the government, corporations, or individuals. Nature would be respected and taken care of like our Mother and Temple of the creative spirit that lives inside all animals, plants, humans, and other living beings. This country would stand out because of the understanding that when one person succeeds or fails we all succeed and fail. That way the well being of an individual is the well being of the collective, and not just a lucky few. Oh, and the president would try not to sound too pretentious and idealistic.
No habrían deudas económicas que mantengan esclavos a los ciudadanos a un ciclo de trabajo y dinero. No habrían guerras ni matanzas por beneficio personal,ya sea de parte del gobierno, corporaciones, o individuos. Se respetaría y se cuidaría de la naturaleza como nuestra madre y templo del espíritu creativo que vive dentro de todos los animales, plantas, humanos y otros seres vivientes. Este país se destacará por el entendimiento de que cuando una persona pierde o gana, todos perdemos y ganamos. Así el bienestar individual es el bienestar colectivo, y no sólo el de los más afortunados. Ah, y el presidente trataría de no sonar tan idealistico y pretencioso.
M to D:
- Talk about your new visual series.
- Explica tu nueva serie visual.
D to M:
The new series takes the creatures I've been creating in the last couple of years and puts them into context. Now we can see a little bit more how their inner lives are reflected on the exterior, especially their connection with the universe and their spiritual vibrations. Many of these creatures practice different types of magic openly and now they have been captured in the middle of the act.
La serie nueva toma las criaturas que he estado creando en los últimos años y les da contexto. Ahora podemos ver un poco más como su vida interior se refleja en el exterior, específicamente su conexión al universo y sus vibras espirituales. Muchas de estas criaturas practican distintos tipos de magia abiertamente y ahora han sido capturadas en pleno acto.
M to D:
- How you describe your life journey?
- Como describes tu jornada de VIDA.
D to M:
Completely experimental and against the current. My development has been based on opposing the norm, reinventing the monotonous, and questioning spoon-fed information. All with a philosophy of love, mental peace, and spiritual balance. For the good of all peoples, even if many have not understood me or thought I was crazy when doing things differently.
Completamente experimental y en contra de la corriente. Mi desarrollo ha sido a base de oposición a la norma, reinventando lo monótono, y cuestionando la información alimentada a cucharadas. Todo con una filosofía de amor, paz mental, y balance espiritual. Por el bien de todos, aunque muchos no me entiendan y piensen que estoy loco al hacer las cosas de un modo diferente.
M to D:
- Where are you from and where are you going?
- De donde eres y a donde te diriges?
D to M:
Physically I am from a very small tropical paradise called Puerto Rico. Spiritually I am from an infinite universe. I am headed towards the rest of the planet Earth to share and learn from other people with habits and cultures different than mine. I am going towards the maximum potential of the human being. I also hope that one day I get to go to outer space with the stars that created us.
Físicamente soy de un paraíso tropical muy pequeño llamado Puerto Rico. Espiritualmente soy de un universo infinito. Me encamino hacia el resto del planeta Tierra a compartir y aprender de otras personas con culturas y costumbres distintas a las mías. Voy hacia el potencial máximo del ser humano. Espero algún día también ir hacia el espacio y las estrellas que nos crearon.
Check out Dennis Pomales Videos here: http://vimeo.com/minotaurelab/videos
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Now, granted, I am not from 'round here. I was born a poor and upwardly mobile working class "colored" child (says so on my birth certificate!) in August of 1963, in the South, in segregated Portsmouth, Va., in an integrated military hospital that sits to this day along the Elizabeth River. You can see the city of Norfolk on the other side of that river. Until the transcontinental slave trade ended legally in the U.S., Virginia, and Portsmouth in particular, was also an essential part of a triangle of the trade in human misery from West Africa to the Caribbean.
I am from Portsmouth, but I assure you that I never learned these historical facts in any school or from anyone else who lived there anymore than I learned that an early version of the Statue of Liberty, created for the U.S. by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, depicted the lady with broken chains in her left hand and on her feet. As you know, those original plans were altered slightly, giving way to a whitewashed version that avoids any resonance with this nation's unsavory racial past.
My story and this historical example serve as metaphors for my own life as what my partner calls a "generic Southern Negro," an African-American, black, colored, nappy-haired Negro with an essentially triracial regional heritage: West African, Anglo-European and Southeast North American Indian. Black History Month is often a time to reflect on the erasure of people of African descent from our history books. With each erasure that is remembered, a more complete picture forms of who we are as a national collection of cultures.
I'm hoping that understanding the circumstances of my birth, birthplace, education and association with myriad notions of blackness may help you, oh, gentle reader, to understand the delicious and delicate pickle we're in being black in New Mexico. The most amazing thing about writing this article is that I have found I am not alone.
I have wondered more than once why people of African descent, who are so multiethnic, and who managed to survive violence and humiliation with creativity and dignity, are so often vilified, exoticized for profit or rendered invisible entirely. I find out daily just how uncomfortable our society is with the legacy of its colonial past—using genocide, chattel slavery and creating arbitrary borders for economic gain. African-Americans, and other nonwhite peoples, remind us how freedom and justice were once denied because, as in the case of Lady Liberty, racism is not about hatred, not really, but instead about the value we have placed on people based on differences. Of course, it's also about economic necessity. Thus, these differences need not be overcome so much as navigated.
In many ways, the experiences of African-descended folks in New Mexico are akin to those we have anywhere in the United States. Some of the problems we experience here, however, are quite different. At the same time, New Mexico offers most African-Americans something that, often, we cannot find easily elsewhere: space to be creative and also a little bit offbeat, not to mention a place where you can live on half a job without starving.
Uchenna Romaine, a young, up-and-coming filmmaker, grew up here in New Mexico, the son of parents from the same small town in Nigeria. Growing up, most of his friends were Muslim and hailed from the Middle East and the Asian diaspora. He also spent a great deal of time with Chicanos and Native Americans here and, to a lesser degree, with other people of African descent. He found the same experience of a tight but small group of African-Americans that Rita Powdrell found when she moved here to go to UNM in 1964. As a native New Mexican with his experiences, Uchenna has been able to sift through the propaganda about Muslim and Arab people in the news, and his experience speaks clearly to me about the benefits and the possibilities for people of African descent here--the opportunity to commune with people whose families have been here for hundreds or even thousands of years, as well as more recently arrived groups.
The Southwest has unique critical masses of indigenous and Mexican/
Afro-Irish-Lumbi Cherokee filmmaker Nancy Holley Hughes is a new arrival to New Mexico and lives outside Santa Fe. She began studying at Georgian Court College in Boston at 16 and began divinity school at Harvard at 19. She is currently making a film about a black woman of the cloth who loses her faith and comes to New Mexico, where she finds it again. Nancy came to New Mexico for the beauty of it and stayed because of the open physical space here that is giving her the space inside herself to be creative.
Then there's Nandi Hill, of Swedish/
One of those common experiences is having our hair "touched" if we have or wear our hair "nappy." In Albuquerque--and, I hear, in Santa Fe, too--"nappy-headed" people of African descent are confronted regularly with having perfect strangers reach toward us to touch our hair or, worse, that of our young children—often without asking—like we're dolls or other merchandise to be handled. It's unsettling, objectifying and rude, especially for those of us who, like me, are from the South, where, apparently, white folks are raised a little better. We are often too stunned to stop the behavior or say anything that doesn't make the innocent-feeling perpetrators turned victims literally terrified for their lives. Touching someone's head without permission, where I come from, is simply an unspoken taboo—a black critical mass thing, maybe? Not so, here in the Land of Enchantment.
Even if we buy that there is more animosity between blacks and whites in the southern U.S., the simple fact is that the southern region of the country maintains the majority of the U.S. African-American population and, therefore, most U.S. blacks in places of authority--in business, politics, not to mention a host of regular folks teaching, going shopping and just being, well, regular. This phenomenon happened quite naturally, as Booker T. Washington imagined it might, and because of and in spite of segregation.
So white Southerners, ironically, have had the most daily experience of contact with African-Americans of just about any regional group of white folks and not one has ever said to me, "I don't have a culture" or "I don't see color," nor is one of them likely to ask, "Can I touch your hair?"—something I hear regularly from white folks here in New Mexico.
I mention this because the "racial incidents" we experience as folks of African descent in New Mexico are rarely hostile or overt. Instead, the dual legacies of slavery and white supremacy, inextricably bound together, allow us all, as a national collection of cultures--indeed, as stewards of a powerful and invisible dominant culture--to become too comfortable with the white majority's rule of the airways, notions of beauty ("black don't crack"), political offices, colleges and corporations that guide and influence our material lives. So I guess it's no surprise nowadays when folks can turn around and call people of African descent by the name our racist ancestors gave black people to chew on, seemingly without flinching. After all, we're not looking through the lens of the folks it offends most of the time, anyway.
My daughter, Ife, has been asked at school if she was "from the ghetto" because "it would be so cool" if she were. She's also been greeted with, "What's up, my niggah?" Usually these folks are fairly confident in their execution of their social protocol, from listening to their Dead Prez CD or watching BET (Black Entertainment Television). Surely, this is an appropriate public greeting for a young bilingual, African-American dance student who has practiced kung fu since she was 8 years old, can sing "Las Mañanitas" all the way through, and has eaten sugar cane in the Dominican Republic and danced in South Africa. How should my 16-year-old child, who is also an actress and budding director, respond to such a statement from these sheltered white and middle-class children? Should she respond at all?
Anyone who really feels comfy with the N-word should know that this word is directly associated with the humiliation of and violence against people of African descent in this country. Before World War II, anything like a riot in the U.S. was perpetrated by mostly white folks en masse. After the Civil War and the depression that followed, violence against newly freed slaves increased because then there were no plantation owners for whom their lives were valuable as free laborers.
If black people were not always the direct target of riots before the first half of the 20th century, they would become the unsuspecting victims of mass white hysteria in the form of lynchings, burnings, beatings, shootings and general violence in places like New York, Tulsa and Washington, D.C. In other words, historically, when things have gotten rough for the "true citizens" in U.S. democracy, blacks or other local "niggers/ahs" have borne the brunt of the anger of the white, and usually male, violent masses.
The word "nigger/ah" symbolizes, to most black folks, anyway, the legacy of this violence against black people in particular. Sure, people think blackness is cool and want to share in the symbols of blackness 'til it's time to buy a house or car or get pulled over by APD for no apparent reason. Black entertainers have, in using the word in mixed company, given nonblacks permission to think the word has lost its meaning and is merely cool. When the N-word is used casually and with familiarity amongst black folks, it nearly always refers, for better or worse, to someone else with a shared legacy of potential violence perpetrated from outside our communities.
Most black folks I know do not use it at all, including 17-year-old Demetrius Smith, who says it never sits well with him. The N-word has been internalized, marinated and transformed into something that translates from Ebonics to Standard English, roughly, to "one who, like me, might be violently or subtly disparaged for her or his heritage in common daily experience." So why do black people get to use the N-word but white people can't? A new answer: "Look, fool, I don't get to wear swastikas just because I think they're a cool new fad in tattooville."
If the descendants of concentration-
The history of African descendants in this hemisphere is at least 500 years old, some say it's even older in Mexico, though more than 350 years were spent in bondage and another 100 in overwhelming legal, social, scientific, spiritual and economic oppression 'til maybe about 40 years ago. Believing that this much history can be made right in such a short time is a fantasy that keeps many of us believing racism has been overcome. It also leads to whites insulting black folks in public with greetings like, "What's up, my N-word?"
Whether we like it or not, whether we wear suits or "saggin'" (read this word backwards) pants, most people I spoke with noted that blackness included having people judge all black people through them, individually. Ask Barack Obama how it feels to be called "clean and articulate," as if that's some sort of amazing phenomenon. With few black people in the New Mexico media systems or featured in stories of regular folks doing regular things, we tend to be invisible, seen as problematic or, sometimes, during Black History Month, in short articles like this one, as the amazing independent, creative and tough black folks who actually have been part of New Mexico history for at least the 500 years since Estebanico.
There may not be many people of African descent here—just 15,000 or so—but the ones here seem to be, in the words of Rita Powdrell, a Pennsylvania native, both humble and amazing. Stefani Willis, co-founder of Out ch'Yonda Live ArtZ studio and OmniRootz Theatre Company, feels as I do that media coverage of black folks here is interesting because the media does cover events about us. But often black life is rendered invisible or difficult to understand because the lens used to interpret and mediate our lives and art is still largely white and largely misrepresents, misunderstands, misinterprets and mis-navigates.
The fact that this very publication left out all the theater companies and venues populated and attended largely by people of color and other marginalized folks when it printed its original theater guide [Theater News, "Live Without a Net," Aug. 17-23, 2006; Theater News, "Albuquerque Theater Guide: The Sequel!," Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2006] is evidence of a lens that renders things outside the "norm," invisible and other. And we wonder why the black folks are all sitting together at lunch.
Our relationship to the power structure shapes our identity as much as anything else—class, gender, sexuality. Yet, I didn't expect so many people I spoke to for this article to speak to the isolation so many of us have felt here around being the "only"—the only black employee, friend, student, person in the room, the store, the bank, the town in New Mexico where you work. It's harder for people to notice or remark on the fact that often whole art shows, boards of directors, local food co-op meetings, commercials, movies, television shows, news programs, magazines and most of our well-paid offices at our places of business are occupied, quietly and invisibly, by all white people. It's one thing to have this happen in Vermont or Utah, but in New Mexico? Why don't we notice this? We should, because this phenomenon usually means that calls for cultural diversity, in this state and elsewhere, tend to be answered by outreach instead of inreach because not enough people who make the decisions within our organizations, especially our arts organizations, are people of color, especially not black people. Whatever is meant by it, to be called to "color up" a meeting at the last minute looks like tokenism of the highest order.
This, I've come to realize, is why many black folks in this town seem to eschew being the Only and sit at lunch sometimes with other black folks in full view of the rest of the public. We know full well our presence is mystifying, could mean substandard restaurant service and, of course, might invite staring and the desire for hair touching, etc. We take the risk, though, because it helps those feelings of isolation to subside, if only momentarily, even if it's just for a few hours a week. And make no mistake, sometimes we don't want to be disturbed or have our few moments together taken up by folks who come by and try to occupy too much space or look cool for hanging out with us. Is eating together too scary and unacceptable in this Albuquerque brand of white supremacist social order that quietly says "unless it's tokenism, blackness ain't mentionable"?
One way to transform our families, communities, organizations and businesses is to support ourselves, and other black folks, by listening, sharing and embracing our own diversity of black experience. We always have to embrace multiculturalism in a town like this. We like it most of the time--I know I do--but we still need other black folks sometimes, too, creating a black critical mass in a place where one rarely exists. This is why Out ch'Yonda Live ArtZ Space, The Elks Club, Powdrell's Barbeque, local BSUs, African-American Student Services and a new performance company called Repertoire Soul Noir must exist.
Sometimes we're comfy being the Only and sometimes we go out of our way to work together with other black folks here because, ironically, most of us have never been anywhere where so many black artists and entrepreneurs have gathered together to do their thing. It's exhilarating and we can finally define ourselves, for ourselves, through our own lens here in New Mexico.
Albuquerque offers a unique location for black folks, and we'll keep inviting our friends, colleagues and family to live here in the high desert with high recommendations, but this doesn't mean we're here to be toyed with. From what folks tell me, this place feels good—that is, unless we have to walk around with our heads perpetually covered with our hands, our language articulate, our clothes fresh or our tastes expansive enough to hang out with groovy white folks. So, if you get the urge to touch black folks' hair, consider what freedom means to you, to our national culture, and consider how different that might have been if our Lady Liberty were busting her chains in the harbor instead of holding a torch.


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Thanks so much to everyone that linked up last week. There were some proper good ones that made me giggle. My favourite three were a Thomas tangle from Picking Up Toys, a different kind of colouring pad from Mummy Here And There and the eternal struggle to wee in peace from Ready For A Cuppa. These really made me laugh and cheered up my very boring day! Now go and link up, comment lots and don't forget to tag me in on instagram or twitter! See you next week!
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- Firstly. Please add my special badge of my daughter weeping when I said she looked like Pat Butcher.
- The linky requires no words. We've not got the time really have we? But feel free to write a few lines if you wish. I think no words is sometimes even funnier. We can make our own stories up then!
- It will run from Wednesday early morning till Friday late evening. But feel free to link up any old photos from other weeks. One per person.
- I will comment on each one and if you include my twitter handle (follow me here) and #wickedwednesdays I will share your comedy picture.
- Try and comment on as many as you can, let's say two would be a good minimum. But the more you comment on? The more will comment back. FACT.
- If you also hashtag your piccy #wickedwednesday on Instagram (follow me here) I will regram a few favourites each week with your handle and hopefully you will get some new followers.
- That's it! It's just a bit of a giggle really. Enjoy!
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Editor's Note: The following is a Q&A conducted by The Root magazine with Elbert Smith Sr., president of the National African American RVers Association (NAARVA). To read the entire article click here.
The Root: What is the history of NAARVA?
Elbert Smith Sr.: It was formed 20 years ago by Norman Ellis in Ohio. We started hosting annual national rallies in the summer as a way to bring families together. My first rally was in Buena Vista, N.J.
Back then we used to have in the neighborhood of 900 coaches that showed up at the rallies. What was ironic is that we seldom saw one another en route. But when I got to Buena Vista, there were motorhomes and RVs owned by black folk as far as the eye could see. People were of all ages, but when the economy got bad, the crowd got a little older because the young folk couldn't afford to travel as much.
But things seem to be picking up. This year our rally was July 22-29 in Marion, N.C., and we drew about 600 coaches. We are trying to recruit more young people. NAARVA is one of the best-kept secrets in the country.
TR: Are there many African-American RV owners? What's the average age and occupation?
ES: We have about 800 paying members across the nation. We range in age from late 50s to early 60s. We have members of all stripes, including blue-collar workers, lawyers, educators and a Tuskegee Airman. Everyone is welcome.
TR: What is one of your fondest road trips?
ES: I bought a cab-over class C camper in the late 1980s when my son went to Kansas State University. We used to go there a couple of times a year and park in front of the football stadium during the season and stay in it instead of a hotel.
It was great. It was a house on wheels because we had everything in there but the kitchen sink. The kids thought we were big dogs. My son used to walk around with his chest poked out. They didn't see many of us black folks in RVs or campers. I would barbecue a brisket, and my wife would bake cakes.
Because of those times, I unofficially have about 15 kids. They call me Pops. I just saw one of them when I rolled through Atlanta. Anytime any of them are in the city, they will come by the house to holler at us.
TR: What are some pitfalls of traveling by RV?
ES: I'm an avid camper, so you have no complaints from me. All my wife and I have to do is look at each other and say, "let's" and the other says, "go."
We've seen all but four of the states — Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Delaware — but you could never get me to live in an RV full time. I like having a home to come back to after being on the road. I like walking out the door and looking at the grass and turning around and walking back in the house. I like having a place to call home.


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(Some) Comic Shops Are For Everybody
Hooray, I'm finally home after a long tour! One of my favourite things about traveling to lots of different cities is checking out their comic shops, and getting a brief glimpse into another comics community.
As a comic shop employee, seeing the way other shops do it makes me think about what separates welcoming, lady-friendly shops from the creepy, alienating ones. In my experience, it's mostly the staff. A diverse crew of friendly-as-heck and knowledgeable-but-not-pretentious folks really set the tone for a cool comic shop.
Wired recently posted an article called Secret Lives of Comic Store Employees, showing the folks who sling funny books at their works and in their usually comics-laden homes. I was happy to read that most of them take the stance that I do: comics are for everybody.
"There are people who say they don't like comics, and they're wrong. This is more like saying "I don't like music" than "I don't like rock music." Sequential art is infinitely diverse, and this goes for the fans, too, because for every different type of person there is some form of sequential art that will appeal to them, whether they've been exposed to it or not. You can call it the funnies or you can call it a graphic novel, but you like comics. You do."
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Federal Labor's rush to launch the National Disability Insurance Scheme before last year's election contributed to it underestimating the cost of trials by almost $400 million, the Coalition says.
The minister responsible for the scheme, Mitch Fifield, told Parliament on Thursday that trials in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia were likely to cost $392 million more than expected because of ''errors'' in federal-state agreements negotiated by the Gillard government.
''Errors of this sort are far more likely when a political timetable to achieve launch prior to an election is pursued, rather than the more prudent timetable recommended by the Productivity Commission,'' Senator Fifield said.
The Productivity Commission recommended the scheme be launched this year, but Labor opted to launch the scheme in July last year in four locations.
Figures released by Senator Fifield showed the average cost of care and support packages in the second quarter of the scheme, from October to December last year, was $40,466 - about 15 per cent above the budgeted average cost.
This was an improvement on the first three months of the trials, when average package costs were more than 30 per cent higher than the budgeted averages.
Support plans have been completed for just over 2500 people, well short of the target for this stage of 4340.
Jenny Macklin, Labor's spokeswoman for disability reform, said Senator Fifield's claim of a ''political timetable'' was ''completely false''.
''It is extremely disappointing that the Abbott Government is seeking to detract from the significant progress that's been made for people with disability, their families and carers because of the NDIS,'' Ms Macklin said.
''Right now, there are 2586 people with approved care packages. Many thousands of people with disability, carers and families will now be benefiting from the extra care and support. These people and many others have been ignored for too long,'' she said.
Across the four trial locations, 5334 people have requested support, and 4052 have been deemed eligible, while 435 have been deemed ineligible.
On average, scheme participants are waiting 63 days between requesting access and having their plan approved.
Senator Fifield said the Ccoalition was committed to delivering the NDIS in full.
In 2019-20, its first year of full operation, the scheme is expected to support 460,000 people at an annual cost of $22.2 billion.
Dan Harrison is Health and Indigenous Affairs Correspondent for Fairfax Media. He is based in Canberra.


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The PajekNetGraphGenerator was created and developed by the
The PajekNetGraphGenerator was created and developed by the of Biological Safety of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Germany.
Armin A. Weiser, Matthias Filter
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PajekNetGraphGenerator Example ProjectSTEM allows users to create a custom graph using Pajek. [1]) uses a kind of standardized language for describing networks. Some examples might be found here: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/testdata.zip. A subset of this language is interpreted by the PajekNetGraphGenerator to import arbitrary graphs into STEM. The PajekNetGraphGenerator allows creating user-defined graphs for STEM and is based on the Pajek format.
An example project available for download may be found on the STEM website [2]. This is a standard STEM project that you may import into your workspace. It contains a graph generated using the Pajek Graph Generator. It also contains examples of the original Pajek files used to create the graphs found in the project. The files are located in the 'Doc' directory of the project. Also in that directory you can find additional documentation. Read the PajekStem_Format.doc for further information about the modified Pajek format. The PajekNetGraphGenerator is available in the graph creation dialogue of STEM. Please see the page Creating a new Graph for information on using this dialog.
The Archive
The archive contains the STEM project MultiPopulationExample_PajekGraphs, a modification of the STEM project MultiPopulationExample. The modification replaces the graph "3x3.graph" in the MultiPopulationNoVillageExample scenario with the imported graph "CC.graph".
The imported Pajek NETs were created with the simple Excel macro Pajek2STEM.xls. This macro allows the easy modification of Pajek NETs; it is not necessary, but makes things far easier - especially for complex graphs. The macro imports a Pajek NET, allows for modification and adding of additional parameters and exports a Pajek NET that is still compatible with Pajek. The usage of this macro is straightforward. It is generally applicable to all Pajek NETs.
Hint: Pajek allows (x,y,z)-coordinates between 0 and 1 only. STEM rounds coordinates to two decimal places. This might result in strange shapes of the nodes. This behaviour can be avoided if the coordinates are multiplied by a large factor, e.g. by using the Excel macro. Be aware: the resulting file with coordinates larger than 1 cannot be imported into Pajek.
The PajekNetGraphGenerator was created and developed by the Department of Biological Safety of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Germany.
Armin A. Weiser, Matthias Filter Dept. Biological Safety Federal Institute for Risk Assessment 12277 Berlin Germany
The following reserved words are supported in the current Pajek Import implementation:
*Vertices n
- n denotes the number of vertices in the graph.
In STEM nodes are the equivalent of vertices. The keyword "*Vertices n" is the starting point for the section, in which each vertex is described using following format:
vertexnum label x y [z] [shape] [additional optional parameters]
- vertexnum – vertex number (1; 2; 3 : : : n). Successive numbering of vertices/nodes is obligatory.
- label – if label starts with character a..zA..Z or 0..9 first blank determines end of the label (e.g., vertex1), labels consisting of more words must be enclosed in pair of special characters (e.g., "vertex 1"). The definition of a label is obligatory.
- x, y, z – coordinates of vertex. The z coordinate is ignored in STEM. In Pajek the coordinates have values between 0 and 1, for STEM the values are not limited. x and y coordinates are obligatory for STEM.
- shape – shape of object which represents vertex. The following shapes are supported by the PajekNetGraphGenerator: triangle, cross, ellipse, box, diamond. In STEM ellipse is represented as circle and box and diamond both are represented as box. box is the default value.
Additional optional parameters:
- s_size – size of the node. The default size is given by the parameter "Default Area" within the PajekNetGraphGeneratorImpl dialog in STEM. For STEM the size of the node is not limited. Overlaps of nodes are not checked by the importer, they are allowed.
Example: 1 "vertex one" 0.3456 0.1234 0.5 ellipse s_size 0.1
Parameters only valid in STEM (these parameters are ignored by Pajek):
- popid – identifier of a population of the node. This parameter may be used repeatedly.
- popcount – number of individuals living in the node. This parameter may be used repeatedly. The associated popid is the last mentioned one.
Example: 1 "vertex one" 0.3456 0.1234 0.5 ellipse s_size 0.1 popid human popcount 24 popid anopheles popcount 1000
The keyword "*Edges" is the starting point for the edges section. Each edge is described using the following format:
v1 v2 [borderlength] [additional optional parameters]
- v1 – initial vertex number. The definition of v1 is obligatory. v1 has to be defined as node (see above: vertexnum).
- v2 – terminal vertex number. The definition of v2 is obligatory. v2 has to be defined as node (see above: vertexnum).
- borderlength – defines the borderlength for CommonBorderEdges
Additional optional parameters:
Parameters only valid in STEM (these parameters are ignored by Pajek):
- popid – identifier of a population migrating on the edge. This parameter may be used repeatedly. If this parameter and additionally "rateab" or "rateba" is set at least once then a MigrationEdge will be specified in STEM, otherwise a CommonBorderEdge will be defined.
- rateab – fraction of the population in node v1 migrating over the edge to the terminal node v2 in a given time period (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Transportation_Models#Migration_Between_Regions). This parameter may be used repeatedly. The associated popid is the last mentioned one. The default value is 0.
- rateba – fraction of the population in node v2 migrating over the edge to the node v1 in a given time period. This parameter may be used repeatedly. The associated popid is the last mentioned one. The default value is 0.
Example: 1 2 popid human rateab 0.2 rateba 0.1 popid anopheles rateab 0.5 rateba 0.1
The keyword "*Arcs" is interchangeable with "*Edges".
Example files
In the downloadable project, you will find some examples that may be imported into STEM:
- CC.NET_2stem.net
- 1.NET_2stem.net
The filename extension ".net" is not mandatory.


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At 10th and Pennsylvania, I was stopped at a red light. There was a woman in front of me, a guy shoaled me to my left, and there were two cyclists behind me. Before the light turned green, the woman started riding and the two guys behind me started riding. They ran the red light. It was then that the guy who shoaled me, now to my front and left, spoke into his iPhone earbuds "Three cyclists. Green pants. Two guys. All ran red light" or something to that effect. I thought "Wow, the police are running stings on cyclists now. In a kind of elaborate fashion, with ear pieces and stings and coordination." The guy didn't look like a cop. At 9th and Penn, I think he said something to the cyclist who rolled through the light at 10th, but I couldn't hear exactly. I followed along behind him for the next few blocks, because I honestly believed I was about to see some sort of undercover police sting and was waiting for squad car to arrive. But this didn't happen. So at one more red light, the one at 3rd and Penn, I decided to talk to him and found out that it wasn't the police at all. It was a citizen volunteer.
I asked "Are you a police officer?" He said no. I asked if he was working with anyone. He said he was part of the "Ward 1 Bicycle Group." I asked "Which one? WABA?" and he said "there's like 4 of them." I asked (paraphrasing) "so, like what's the deal?" and he told me that he and a bunch of other people (maybe 6 or 7) ride the Pennsylvania Avenue cycle track and report law-breaking by bicyclists. I asked "do you call 311 or 911 or?" and he said that there was a number. I've learned in a subsequent email that this number is 202-727-9099, which I guess is some kind of police line. I asked if he was working with the police directly and he said that sometimes he tries to flag down scofflaws for passing officers. He gave me the impression that there might be a more coordinated effort with the police in the morning hours. He told me that he took video of lawbreakers. I asked if he was working with anyone at DDOT and he said yeah, but didn't have a name or anything. I think he sensed my general question of "why are you doing this?" (which I'm not totally sure if I actually asked) and he told me that he once got a ticket for running a red light and he didn't want bicyclists to run red lights any more. I asked for more info and sent him an email, to which he's now responded. In it he says that there's a new group starting up to enforce bike safety.
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A recent study of 145 data breach claims in 2013 conducted by NetDiligence, a Philadelphia-based cyber risk assessment services company, found that insurance companies paid out $84 million in data-breach- and security-incident-related costs. Mark Greisiger, president of NetDiligence, told CRN that the company works with cyberinsurance companies and hopes its annual study can be used to illuminate the real costs of incidents from an insurer's perspective.
The claims were paid out for legal defense, legal settlements, regulatory fines, forensics costs, credit monitoring and identity theft remediation costs, the study revealed. The bulk of the payouts paid for crisis services, which include forensics, notification, credit monitoring and legal counsel. The smallest payout for crisis services was $2,560, while the largest payout was $11.5 million. The average payout was $737,473.
CRN brought together some of the interesting findings from the report that shed insight into the struggle businesses go through when dealing with data breaches.