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There is nothing like a Jewish mother's love. She loves so deeply that she wants her daughter's life to be filled with love too—but, he must be Jewish.
I was sitting at work late one Tuesday afternoon and my mother called me, her voice filled with adrenaline. She had just come home from the grocery store, and apparently she tried to pick up a little more than milk and eggs.
My mother had just finished getting her groceries into her car and was amused as she watched a "good-looking" Jewish boy doing a juggling act with his. As he picked up three bags, two would drop to the ground.
A Shabbat candle went off in her head, she recalled to me later. The urge to help him was overwhelming.
She called out, "Fella!"
Miraculously, he knew that he was her intended, and had his bags not been weighing him down, he might have run the other way.
My mother shouted out across the parking lot, "Would you like a ride?"
The poor vulnerable soul replied, "Sure."
She got into the car so that she could pull up to him because he couldn't walk to her car. He put his groceries in the way back of her station wagon, and he sat down next to her.
As she drove him home she explained that she saw his Michigan t-shirt and it reminded her of her three daughters (who went to Big Ten universities) and "she felt bad for him." She talked about her daughters, while scanning and assessing him to figure out his age, asking him questions about what he did, etc. She didn't want to allocate him to the wrong daughter.
She learned that he was in graduate school for journalism at Northwestern University's Medill program and she zeroed in on me. He talked about his studies and she told him I'm a reporter.
She scrambled telling him about my work as they approached his apartment and said, "I should have you meet my daughter!"
He laughed and said, "Right"—as if they were both joking. He got out of the car and got his bags and peeked his head back in the window and said, "Have her come and visit me at Medill." He shook her hand, thanked her and went on his way.
Thankfully, my mother couldn't follow through, as she often has successfully attempted to match my sisters in the past. When I say successfully, I mean she has succeeded in actually giving out our phone numbers to strange "good looking" Jewish boys.
With a mensch whispering in her ear from one shoulder and a yenta shouting at her from the other, the mensch won. She admitted that she didn't want to look like she was doing him a favor just for him to meet her daughter—though that had been her intention.
"I turned out to be a decent person in the end," she laughed. "I preferred he think there is some decency in this world and that I didn't have ulterior motives."
My mother has the warmest heart of anyone I know, and truly wants the best for her daughters. When she finished her story, she was genuinely disappointed in herself that she didn't succeed with this one.
"It was a short ride," she added.
I, however, was horrified and laughing at the same time.
My sisters and I have faced many matchmaker attempts from both of our parents. I know too that I am part of a sisterhood of women whose parents also subtly or not so subtly try to set them up.
In general, secular societal attitudes about women have markedly changed since our parents' era, but some Jewish mothers are still sending a strong message: Why aren't you married yet?
Whether they're kidding or half-kidding or not kidding at all, it puts some of us in an awkward fix.
Some young Jewish women I know are happily entering into matrimony, others aren't ready yet. For example, those who are pursuing multiple degrees or trying to navigate their careers throughout their twenties may not yet have marriage on the brain. Young professionals move for jobs. Ask any journalist, for instance, how many times they have to move cities and markets to move up the media ladder?
That being said, it's sometimes hard to build a nest with someone else when a young woman is still trying to find her own roots.
How do you manage to balance your love lives, your friends, your families and your careers?
Some are able to do it all simultaneously. Others need a little more time.


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This is a Level 4 Information Systems (IS) course that familiarises students with the key concepts, practices and issues in the strategic management of IS. The lectures cover theoretical and practical considerations across a variety of strategic IS management issues, which are further examined and applied in the weekly seminars. The course aims to equip students with the foundational skills needed to meaningfully participate in, or interact with, this aspect of IT management.
The course covers four key themes. It begins with a discussion of the strategic value of IT, including the role of business-IT alignment in realising that value. Second, the course looks at strategic IT decision processes, including planned and emergent strategy-making and governance. Third, the course considers strategy implementation issues, including the role of IT leadership, project management, and sourcing decisions. The course closes with a discussion of the strategic role of IT-enabled innovation and current trends in IT strategy.
We will analyse academic and practitioner papers, cases and examples, and examine strategic IT issues in practice. Our classes will involve discussion of selected readings. Students are also encouraged to draw from and reflect on their own experiences.
Please note that teaching times and locations are subject to change. Students are strongly advised to refer to the Class Timetable website for the most up-to-date teaching times and locations.
The Business School expects that you are familiar with the contents of this course outline and the UNSW and Business School learning expectations, rules, policies and support services as listed below:
Further information is provided in the Assessment and Policies and Support sections.
This course aims to familiarise you with the key concepts, practices and issues in the strategic management of IT and provide you with sufficient practical and theoretical knowledge of the area so that you will be able to meaningfully participate in, or interact with, this aspect of IT management. In addition to providing these domain skills we will also be looking to enhance your communication, presentation, problem solving and critical thinking skills through class work and assignments.
This course will be of benefit to all those students intent on pursuing a career in IS/IT, business consulting or management. The course would also be useful for those who envisage, or perhaps already have, launched their own business ventures.
The Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) are what you should be able to demonstrate by the end of this course, if you participate fully in learning activities and successfully complete the assessment items.
CLOs also contribute to your achievement of the Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs), which are developed across the duration of a program for all coursework students in the Business School. More information on PLOs is available under Policies and Support. PLOs are, in turn, directly linked to UNSW graduate capabilities and the aspiration to develop "globally focussed graduates who are rigorous scholars, capable of leadership and professional practice in an international community".
The following table shows how the CLOs for this course relate to the overall PLOs and indicates where each CLO and PLO is assessed:
1. Explain how IT can assist organisations to meet strategic goals.
Participation, Individual Assignment, Team Assignment, Exam
2. Explain the IT strategy development and decision-making processes.
Participation, Individual Assignment, Exam
3. Explain what is involved in the strategic management of IT, including application portfolio and sourcing decisions, governance and the role of senior IT management.
4. Use models and techniques to analyse an organisation's current state, strategic contribution of IT and opportunities for further improvement and recommend an enhanced IT strategy for that organisation.
Participation, Team Assignment, Exam
5. Discuss the key strategic issues that IT management must be aware of now and in the future.
6. Write and deliver logically and professionally presented business reports.
Individual Assignment, Team Assignment
7. Work effectively and responsibly in a multicultural team environment.
Team Assignment
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The best way to contact your Lecturer is via email or to see them during their consultation times. Please note that only your UNSW email account will be used for formal notices and correspondence regarding the course. All students and staff are expected to use email responsibly and respectfully. Moodle will to be used for all course communication i.e. notices, questions regarding assignments and course content.
If you need to contact the school urgently, call 9385 5320 or email email@example.com.
In this course we take an active learning approach that stresses interactive and problem-centred teaching and learning. Our aim is to create a cooperative learning and teaching environment in which we all are valuable and competent contributors to knowledge creation and sharing. Your prior knowledge and your work experience are highly important and we should all benefit from it. In addition all reading materials – the textbook and articles – are an integral part of the knowledge development process, helping you grasp new knowledge and linking it to your prior knowledge and experience.
We foster this approach through a range of strategies throughout the session. Our seminars will be interactive and you will be expected to actively contribute to the class via your involvement in presentations and discussions. Your contribution to class activities and discussions will reflect your readings and your ability to acquire new concepts and models and connect them to your experience and problems investigated. Our seminars are also designed to improve your communication, problems solving, teamwork and critical thinking skills.
The assessment tasks used in this course have been designed for you to apply your knowledge to practical problems in managing strategic deployment of IS/IT. The assessment tasks reinforce the development of knowledge and skills and their integration with your prior knowledge and experience.
The role of the lecturers in this course is to facilitate knowledge co-creation processes by leading and stimulating the class discussions and activities and will assist you with problems you may encounter through the seminars and consultations.
It is however your responsibility to make a concerted effort in your studies. Being prepared, keeping up to date with readings and tasks are very important for your comprehension, advancement of knowledge and development of new skills. Each week builds on the prior weeks so it is important that you get your study regime organized early. Being prepared enables you to actively participate in the seminar and make most of it.
Our course is broken into four key themes.
The weekly seminars will be interactive and involve class discussion and group work. We will also work through mini-cases from the textbook or other relevant sources. The mini-case workshops will be group-work-based and involve presentations by group and class discussion.
For this teaching model to work, it is imperative that you undertake the readings and any other preparation required prior to class.
In order to pass this course, you must:
You are expected to attempt all assessment requirements in the course.
On going
Individual Assignment
2,500 words
Week 5
5,000 words
Week 10
2 hours
Exam period
You are expected to complete all assessment tasks for your courses in the School of Information Systems and Technology Management. Classes are highly practical and relevant to your assessments, so you are expected to attend at least 80% of all scheduled classes.
Where group assignments are used, team members are expected to work in a harmonious and professional fashion, which includes adequate management of non-performing members. You should inform your tutor as soon as possible if you experience problems within a project team. You may be required to evaluate the contribution of each team member (including yourself) in group work and marks for individual students may be adjusted based on peer assessment.
Your participation in the seminars and forums is encouraged and will be assessed over the length of the course. The mark you receive will reflect the extent to which you have contributed to class discussions and exercises, including your level of preparation.
For this assignment you will work individually on a report of no more than 2,500 words that is due in Week 5 and worth 20% of your overall marks.
Individual Assignment investigates strategic value of IT and will involve research of the academic and professional literature as well as the discussion of real or illustrative examples. Marks will be awarded for the quality of the report as evidenced by the references cited, the quality of the arguments made and conclusions drawn.
Full details of this assessment component and a detailed breakdown of the marking criteria will be made available via the course website.
For this assignment you will work in a team (size still to be determined) on a report of no more than 5,000 words (word limit may vary depending on team size) that is due in Week 10 and worth 25% of your overall marks. The assignment will also incorporate a presentation of findings of your investigation to the class in Week 10 Seminar (all team members to present).
Team Assignment will investigate the strategic implications of a current challenge in IT management. This will involve research of the academic and professional literature as well as the discussion of real or illustrative examples. Marks will be awarded for the quality of the report as evidenced by the references cited, the quality of the arguments made and conclusions drawn. A mandatory confidential peer assessment will be applied to this team assignment.
The final exam will be a 2-hour written paper held in the formal examination period. The examination is closed book, covers all topics in the course, and is worth 40% of your overall assessment.
All exams are conducted in accordance with the UNSW Rules for the Conduct of Examinations and it is the student's responsibility to be familiar with these rules. Information about exams is available from myUNSW.
All assignments are to be formatted as per the assignment specifications (which will be available on the course website).
The assignments are to be submitted via Turnitin available on the course website as per the due date given in the corresponding assignment specification.
Feedback on student performance from formative and summative assessment tasks will be provided to students in a timely manner. Assessment tasks completed within the teaching period of a course, other than a final assessment, will be assessed and students provided with feedback, with or without a provisional result, within 10 working days of submission, under normal circumstances. Feedback on continuous assessment tasks (e.g. laboratory and studio-based, workplace-based, weekly quizzes) will be provided prior to the midpoint of the course.
You can apply for special consideration when illness or other circumstances beyond your control, interfere with your assessment performance (to apply see Special Consideration on the UNSW Current Students page). Special Consideration is primarily intended to provide you with an extra opportunity to demonstrate the level of performance of which you are capable.
Special Consideration applications will be assessed centrally by the Case Review Team within Student Lifecycle. The Case Review team will update the online application with the outcome and add any relevant comments.
Please note the following:
Further information on Business School policy and procedure, as well as supplementary exam dates for the current term, can be found under "Special Consideration" on the Policies and Support page.
The Business School is actively monitoring student learning and quality of the student experience in all its programs. A random selection of completed assessment tasks may be used for quality assurance, such as to determine the extent to which program learning goals are being achieved. The information is required for accreditation purposes, and aggregated findings will be used to inform changes aimed at improving the quality of Business School programs. All material used for such processes will be treated as confidential.
The website for this course is hosted on
UNSW Moodle. The course website will be used to provide access to the weekly seminar slides, study guides, announcements and other materials as required. The website is also used for assignment submissions.
The textbook for the course is:
Peppard, J., and Ward, J. 2016.
The Strategic Management of Information Systems: Building a Digital Strategy (4th Edition), Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-03467-5.
You will need unrestricted access to the textbook throughout the session. You will need to bring the textbook to the seminar each week.
This course will make regular use of additional readings such as journal articles, business reports and the like. These additional readings will be listed in the weekly notes. It is your responsibility to obtain a copy of the readings.
Feedback is regularly sought from students and continual improvements are made based on this feedback. At the end of this course, you will be asked to complete the myExperience survey, which provides a key source of student evaluative feedback. Your input into this quality enhancement process is extremely valuable in assisting us to meet the needs of our students and provide an effective and enriching learning experience. The results of all surveys are carefully considered and do lead to action towards enhancing educational quality.
In this course, we will seek your feedback through end of semester myExperience responses. You are also encouraged and very welcome to provide feedback and suggestions you might have about the course directly to the lecturers at any time throughout the semester.
Strategic Value of IT
Business-IT Alignment
IT Decision Processes
IT Planning
IT Governance
Individual Assignment due
Managing the IT Organisation
IT Services & Sourcing
IT Portfolio Management
Innovating with IT
Course Wrap-up
Team Presentations
Team Assignment due
Information about UNSW Business School protocols, University policies, student responsibilities and education quality and support.
The Business School places knowledge and capabilities at the core of its curriculum via seven Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). These PLOs are systematically embedded and developed across the duration of all coursework programs in the Business School.
PLOs embody the knowledge, skills and capabilities that are taught, practised and assessed within each Business School program. They articulate what you should know and be able to do upon successful completion of your degree.
Upon graduation, you should have a high level of specialised business knowledge and capacity for responsible business thinking, underpinned by ethical professional practice. You should be able to harness, manage and communicate business information effectively and work collaboratively with others. You should be an experienced problem-solver and critical thinker, with a global perspective, cultural competence and the potential for innovative leadership.
All UNSW programs and courses are designed to assess the attainment of program and/or course level learning outcomes, as required by the
UNSW Assessment Design Procedure. It is important that you become familiar with the Business School PLOs, as they constitute the framework which informs and shapes the components and assessments of the courses within your program of study.
PLO 1: Business knowledge
Students will make informed and effective selection and application of knowledge in a discipline or profession, in the contexts of local and global business.
PLO 2: Problem solving
Students will define and address business problems, and propose effective evidence-based solutions, through the application of rigorous analysis and critical thinking.
PLO 3: Business communication
Students will harness, manage and communicate business information effectively using multiple forms of communication across different channels.
PLO 4: Teamwork
Students will interact and collaborate effectively with others to achieve a common business purpose or fulfil a common business project, and reflect critically on the process and the outcomes.
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Students will develop and be committed to responsible business thinking and approaches, which are underpinned by ethical professional practice and sustainability considerations.
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Students will be aware of business systems in the wider world and actively committed to recognise and respect the cultural norms, beliefs and values of others, and will apply this knowledge to interact, communicate and work effectively in diverse environments.
PLO 7: Leadership development
Students will develop the capacity to take initiative, encourage forward thinking and bring about innovation, while effectively influencing others to achieve desired results.
These PLOs relate to undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs. Separate PLOs for honours and postgraduate research programs are included under 'Related Documents'.
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The Business School PLOs also incorporate
UNSW graduate capabilities, a set of generic abilities and skills that all students are expected to achieve by graduation. These capabilities articulate the University's institutional values, as well as future employer expectations.
While our programs are designed to provide coverage of all PLOs and graduate capabilities, they also provide you with a great deal of choice and flexibility. The Business School strongly advises you to choose a range of courses that assist your development against the seven PLOs and four graduate capabilities, and to keep a record of your achievements as part of your portfolio. You can use a portfolio as evidence in employment applications as well as a reference for work or further study. For support with selecting your courses contact the UNSW Business School
Student Centre.
Academic Integrity is honest and responsible scholarship. This form of ethical scholarship is highly valued at UNSW. Terms like Academic Integrity, misconduct, referencing, conventions, plagiarism, academic practices, citations and evidence based learning are all considered basic concepts that successful university students understand. Learning how to communicate original ideas, refer sources, work independently, and report results accurately and honestly are skills that you will be able to carry beyond your studies.
The definition of academic misconduct is broad. It covers practices such as cheating, copying and using another person's work without appropriate acknowledgement. Incidents of academic misconduct may have serious consequences for students.
UNSW regards plagiarism as a form of academic misconduct. UNSW has very strict rules regarding plagiarism. Plagiarism at UNSW is using the words or ideas of others and passing them off as your own. All Schools in the Business School have a Student Ethics Officer who will investigate incidents of plagiarism and may result in a student's name being placed on the Plagiarism and Student Misconduct Registers.
Below are examples of plagiarism including self-plagiarism:
Inappropriate Paraphrasing: Changing a few words and phrases while mostly retaining the original structure and/or progression of ideas of the original, and information without acknowledgement. This also applies in presentations where someone paraphrases another's ideas or words without credit and to piecing together quotes and paraphrases into a new whole, without appropriate referencing.
Collusion: Presenting work as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in collusion with other people. Collusion includes:
Collusion should not be confused with academic collaboration (i.e., shared contribution towards a group task).
Inappropriate Citation: Citing sources which have not been read, without acknowledging the 'secondary' source from which knowledge of them has been obtained.
Self-Plagiarism: 'Self-plagiarism' occurs where an author republishes their own previously written work and presents it as new findings without referencing the earlier work, either in its entirety or partially. Self-plagiarism is also referred to as 'recycling', 'duplication', or 'multiple submissions of research findings' without disclosure. In the student context, self-plagiarism includes re-using parts of, or all of, a body of work that has already been submitted for assessment without proper citation.
To see if you understand plagiarism, do this short quiz: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism-quiz
The University also regards cheating as a form of academic misconduct. Cheating is knowingly submitting the work of others as their own and includes contract cheating (work produced by an external agent or third party that is submitted under the pretences of being a student's original piece of work). Cheating is not acceptable at UNSW.
If you need to revise or clarify any terms associated with academic integrity you should explore the 'Working with Academic Integrity' self-paced lessons available at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/aim.
For UNSW policies, penalties, and information to help you avoid plagiarism see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism as well as the guidelines in the online ELISE tutorials for all new UNSW students: http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/elise. For information on student conduct see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/conduct.
For information on how to acknowledge your sources and reference correctly, see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/referencing. If you are unsure what referencing style to use in this course, you should ask the lecturer in charge.
Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to university policies in relation to class attendance and general conduct and behaviour, including maintaining a safe, respectful environment; and to understand their obligations in relation to workload, assessment and keeping informed.
Information and policies on these topics can be found on the 'Managing your Program' website.
It is expected that you will spend at least
ten to twelve hours per week studying for a course except for Summer Term courses which have a minimum weekly workload of
twenty to twenty four hours. This time should be made up of reading, research, working on exercises and problems, online activities and attending classes. In periods where you need to complete assignments or prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater. Over-commitment has been a cause of failure for many students. You should take the required workload into account when planning how to balance study with employment and other activities.
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New Zealand working holiday makers targeted by Tourism NZ
The New Zealand working holiday market has shown signs of expansion during the recession, which Tourism NZ says makes the New Zealand working holiday a valuable resource for keeping the $20 billion export industry at its competitive levels.
The New Zealand Visa Bureau has noticed a definite climbing trend in the number of New Zealand working holiday visa grants over the past twelve months, and signs are pointing to a continuation of this throughout the recession.
"When comparing the number of New Zealand working holiday visa grants of 2009 with that of last year, a perceptible trend emerges that proves an increasing interest in the New Zealand working holiday," said Amanda Gripske of the New Zealand Visa Bureau.
"While the program has always been a popular option for young travellers, particularly from the UK, conditions during the recession have made it easier for young graduates to take a year off expanding their careers to work and holiday in New Zealand."
George Hickton, chief executive of Tourism NZ, agreed with Ms Gripske's sentiments, saying that New Zealand working holiday makers were more likely to travel during the recession because fewer are tied down to investments and houses and most were finding it difficult to find employment during the crisis. Further, the airfares to New Zealand are the lowest they have ever been and exchange rates for the Kiwi dollar are favourable.
"There is a lack of jobs and people are saying let's go and have a look at the world if they can," he said.
Hickton added, rather than focusing its marketing on encouraging performance from specific countries, Tourism NZ would tap into the New Zealand working holiday market so that New Zealand tourism operators can benefit from the full potential of the program.
"We have identified youth as a sector of the market, rather than country, that is still showing signs of growing and if that is the case we want to make sure we get our fair share."
Traditionally, Tourism NZ has focused on the middle-aged traveller market with dispensable income, a market which during the recession is not performing well.
The new marketing approaches for the New Zealand working holiday market have largely been web-based, making for cheaper, more targeted and more appropriate channels for selling the New Zealand working holiday.
"We will be capitalising on word of mouth - that sector responds well to that," Hickton added.
In the year to March, nearly 200,000 backpackers visited New Zealand, which almost matches the number of visitors from America – New Zealand's third largest tourist market. During this time, New Zealand working holiday makers spent $595 million, and in line with expectations, travelled further into back-end regions rather than sticking to the city centres.
If you are aged between 18 and 30 years, you may be eligible for a New Zealand working holiday visa. The New Zealand working holiday visa allows nationals from specific countries to temporarily work and travel New Zealand for up to 12 months, and gives UK nationals an extra 11 months if they apply for it.
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Grove Hi Tech successfully defend title; Herstelling Raiders end dream as runner-up
Grove Hi Tech successfully defended their STAG / EBFA Senior League title ending the one round league emphatically with an 11-0 demolition of Mocha Champs when the league ended on Sunday last at the Grove Playfield.
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The No. 1 item sold on Amazon.com is getting a refresh from the company. Jeff Bezos took the wraps off the company's new and improved Kindle Fire today. The new$159 model contains a faster processor, longer battery life and double the RAM of last year's model. Amazon promises 40 percent faster performance from the new model. At this price, Amazon undercuts the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet ($179) and the $199 Nexus 7.
"In less than a year, Kindle Fire is 22 percent of tablet sales in the US," Bezos said during the announcement. Units will begin shipping next Friday, September 14th. With the new model, users will continue to enjoy access to Amazon Prime video and e-book content, as well as 50,000 apps in the Amazon Android app store.
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Choosing chillies
I know it's a bit late to be starting chillies but I live in Belgium and fresh chillies sold here are mild, to say the least, and seeds are hard to find so I've been cruising the internet for some which will give me fruity heat without anaesthetising my palette.
Does anyone know these? - Cherry bomb, Garden Salsa, Numex Pinata, Hungarian Hot Wax, Habanero Chocolate. Or have a chilli to recommend? And can anyone tell me where I'll find seed for Kashmiri chilli?
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Found some kashmiri chilli seeds
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I'm trying Hungarian yellow wax for the first time this year, not quite on your list, it's described as fairly hot.
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Car owners everywhere will attest to the irritation caused by necessary auto repairs. You either spend extra money for an auto repair shop to solve the problem, or you use your energy and time to fix it yourself. Both methods can be stressful to use, but you'll have a lot easier time when doing auto repairs once you've read this article.
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Is the entire season in jeopardy? Formula 1 just cancelled Bahrain and Vietnam statin the season will start in May but that seems to be wishful thinking.
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The article explains how Hamilton with be the assumed winner and will accrue the points for these races. Also Ferrari will be penalized and will have negative points and will have to start from the back of the grid for the remainder of the season. Hamilton will also receive Ferraris points.
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Why cram into a tiny plot of turf between high-rises when your city has waterways begging to be used? Over the past few years, a handful of cities have begun taking their parks to the water, creating dreamy floating public spaces—and we're completely on board. From a small lake in Germany to the heart of London, here are six floating parks worth a visit.
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Sitting in the middle of Möhnesee Lake in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (a three-hour drive north of Frankfurt), this floating pavilion was originally built in July 2017 as part of a 24-piece exhibition of sculptures scattered throughout the lake. It's built out of 278 identical pieces of wood, twisted and twined atop a floating platform, and anyone is welcome to sail up and climb onto it.
Trust the design-minded Dutch city of Rotterdam to turn a river cleanup project into one of the most innovative urban parks out there. Debuted just this month, Recycled Park is a 15,000-square-foot platform made entirely of plastic found in the Nieuwe Maas river where it floats. The platform, which has floating gardens, a canal, and a floating forest, was initially designed to provide refuge and nourishment for local wildlife. Of course, the humans seem pretty entertained as well thanks to floating lounge areas and the massive floating tri-domed event pavilion.
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This tiny wooden island named CPH-Ø1 is only 65 square feet, but it's the start of a bigger "Parkipelago" of floating parks being dropped into Copenhagen's waterways. CPH-Ø1—which is open to the public for swimming, BBQ'ing, and even camping—is constantly on the move: Check out #COPENHAGENISLANDS on Instagram to find its latest location. Coming soon: CPH-Ø2, Ø3, and so on—a collection that will include more swimming platforms, a floating sauna, floating gardens, a floating sail-in cafe, and even a few floating mussel farms (yep, because one floating mussel farm isn't enough).
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For the 2018 Bruges Triennial, the "Liquid City" theme has brought a handful of floating installations to the city's canals, turning it into the destination for floating parks this summer. Most of the pieces are interactive and open to the public, including The Floating Island, designed by Korean architecture firm OBBA, which is made up of two curving pathways floating on the Langerei canal. Also worth checking out are the vibrant floating pavilions from Spanish architects Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano (jointly known as Selgascano) on the Coupue canal, and the quaint floating classroom next to Minnewater Park from the architects at Nigerian NLÉ. The triennial is underway until September 16, 2018.
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New York City isn't short on parks, but you can never have too much of a good thing, right? Meet Swale, a project from artist Mary Mattingly that can best be described as a urban farm and forest on a barge. The best part? Swale has an expansive, edible garden from which visitors are welcome to pick herbs, fruits, and vegetables for free. The project's mission is to help the public explore the joys of sustainable living, and so it offers educational programming on the weekends. Launched during the summer of 2017, Swale is currently docked at Governors Island, where it will stay until the end of October.
Right in the heart of London's Merchant Square, the over-2,300-square-foot Floating Pocket Park is a well-manicured slice of greenery with astroturf lawns, a 120-person event space, and, to hit that perfect in-nature-but-still-connected note, free Wi-Fi. The floating park also hosts public events, including free summer concerts every Thursday around sunset (check their website for the full event schedule).


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As Skanska USA's leader, Richard is committed to collaborating with customers and to promoting an ethical, transparent and inclusive culture that allows all employees to do what they do best in service of Skanska's customers, each and every day.
Prior to being appointed President and CEO of Skanska USA, Richard served as the President and CEO of Skanska USA Building. Prior to that role, he served as Chief Operating Officer for the company's Metro New York and New Jersey operations. As COO, he focused on building the company's market position and talent base. Working with his team, the company's New York City revenues more than doubled during his tenure. He played a key role in winning major projects such as the $4 billion redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal B, and led the region in becoming a significant player in the healthcare space. He also oversaw the successful execution of marquee, complex projects, such as the United Nations Headquarters Renovation, the Advanced Science Research Center for the City University of New York, the World Trade Center Transportation HUB and MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, among others.
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Once again, now where do I start, dear love
Dumb struck with the pure luck to find you here
Every morn' I awake from a cavernous night,
Sometimes still pondering the previous plight,
Seems life done changed long time no speak,
Nowadays I often forget the day of the week
Taking it by stride if you know what I mean,
No harm done, no offense taken by me
So let's rap, we'll catch up to par, what's the haps?
Perhaps we're even closer now after all things considered on this side of the planet,
Couldn't pick a better time even if we planned it!
To come clean and candid if I have to
Oh what I wouldn't trade for your laughter
Sweet and sour spice in my poetry pot melting,
Even better than the real thing!
It's like the God in me saw the Devil in you
I wanted to break myself in the worst way when I met you
Who would have thought, conversate by the river, celebrate birth,
Sit and delivered the lines that would prove to be the seeds of trust
Unsigned, yeah but destined to grow with sunshine
Self-assigned task piled on the desk of good works,
Knowing hardship appreciate the best of both worlds!
C'est la vie, as they say L.O.V.E evidently, see every song has a sequel
Never same, everything but the name, all fresh just like back then, how we do everyday
C'est la vie, as they say L.O.V.E eloquently, see dream has a part two
Never same, you got to keep it tight, all fresh just like back then, now hear me out...
Once together, now where do we go, dear divine
I pray that you keep watching over us,
From the heavens where light is the nucleus
To this space filled with darkness and negative matter
Anti-gravity pull is what I would rather feel when I leave this shell eventually
Ties to the mother earth ground me mentally,
Real vibes will keep me alive spiritually
Imagination brings bliss at no cost, when I blink blink I receive at no loss
Victory comes in small packages like a leaf of an olive tree brought back by a dove
From above, then I'm gonna rhyme love,
Well you saw that one coming ever since the beginning of the end
Well anyways, I am not a perfect being, yes I am a man full of sin
It's like the Devil in me saw the God in you,
You epitomize the etymology of enthusiasm!
Look it, up there lies the clouds that form the rain
That came from the ocean that flowed from the river
I'm a believer, firm with the first words, lyrical transceiver of our ancient roots
(Science + Arts) * Faith / # of our Ethnic Race!
Let me mention what I've been thinking
How to save the children, when the ship is sinking
So I'm singing, no lip syncing to slogans,
Political hooligans with tanks, missiles and guns!
Everything is relative when it's all in the family of man,
Understand the time has finally come to realize the great power of 1,
All formulas equalize under the Sun, Amen!
The rhymes will heal 'cause I believe in music,
In times of need I won't be leaving you sick
The beat plus the melody's the recipe,
Your vibe surely brings out the best in me!
The rhymes will heal 'cause I believe in music,
In times of need I won't be leaving you sick
The beat plus the melody's the recipe,
All good souls lost may they rest in peace!
Hiphop worldwide we got to live in peace, like that!
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I am Buffy, a Vermont family photographer. Nothing delights me more than being let in and fully trusted.
I began my career in early childhood education, before embarking down the excitingly scenic route of wedding photography. I was fortunate enough to photograph over 100 weddings across the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe, and to see my work published widely online and in print, in The Knot, Once Wed, Wedding Sparrow, Style Me Pretty, Cottage Hill Magazine, Southern Weddings, and others.
In 2014, I moved from Georgia to Vermont in support of my husband's career, which afforded me the opportunity to take a step back and decide where my path should turn next. Through a personal wellness transformation, I discovered the culmination of my favorite parts of work and life in the healthcare arena and decided to pursue medical education.
Amidst medical school preparations, my roots in the arts and in service have deepened, through the study of darkroom photography techniques and new endeavors in patient care. I strongly believe in the power of art, and it is my honor to create personal artwork for my photography clients, my family and friends, and the patients whom I serve through an integrative arts in medicine volunteer program at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
As your family photographer, my mission is to create a collection of photographs that will become heirlooms. This is your family history and it's important. Trust me.


text: excerpt: Organized labor has generally declined in importance for the past 30 years, but occasionally other economic changes bolster the bargaining power of a particular union, if not the union movement. This appears to be the case at present with at least a segment of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Despite a fragile economic recovery, which jeopardizes the business prospects of all employers, and a number of special factors from higher fuel costs to the need for intensified security particular to package delivery companies, the Teamsters employed at the United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a new contract is not agreed to by July 31. The Teamsters announced Monday that at secret ballot votes taken at membership meetings on May 18 and 19, 93% of the roughly 210,000 UPS Teamsters voted to authorize a strike. And yet the conventional wisdom is that most employees have strong enough memories of the damage done to the their company's market share during a 1997 strike that they won't risk repeating it by taking the threat to the next level. On the one hand, the Teamsters' confrontational actions stand as a bold move, especially at a time when the unemployment rate is still rising and a meandering stock market is underscoring the fragility of the recovery. Clearly, the union feels it can afford to act this way, and yet there is also evidence that some workers are a little unnerved by the prospects of the company losing out to its competitors.


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Enslaved Africans and Creoles in the French colony of Saint-Domingue are said to have gathered at a nighttime meeting at a place called Bois Caïman in what was both political rally and religious ceremony, weeks before the Haitian Revolution in 1791. The slave ceremony is known in Haitian history as a religio-political event and used frequently as a source of inspiration by nationalists, but in the 1990s, neo-evangelicals rewrote the story of the famous ceremony as a ''blood pact with Satan.'' This essay traces the social links and biblical logics that gave rise first to the historical record, and then to the neo-evangelical rewriting of this iconic moment. It argues that the confluence of the bicentennial of the Haitian Revolution with the political contest around President Aristide's policies, the growth of the neo-evangelical Spiritual Mapping movement, and of the Internet, produced a new form of mythmaking, in which neo-evangelicals re-signified key symbols of the event—an oath to a divine force, blood sacrifice, a tree, and group unity—from the mythical grammar of Haitian nationalism to that of neo-evangelical Christianity. In the many ironies of this clash between the political afterlife of a slave uprising with the political afterlife of biblical scripture, Haiti becomes a nation held in captivity, and Satan becomes the colonial power who must be overthrown.
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McAlister, Elizabeth, "From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History" (2012). Division II Faculty Publications. 113.
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My Bizarre Life As A Fitting Model
When you try on a dress and wonder who they fit it on – that's me.
I hunched behind the changing room curtain half naked, trying to squeeze into the seventh pair of skinny jeans.
They were always tight; too narrow even to push an ankle through. My breathing grew labored and I started to sweat. It was like a Zumba workout, wiggling and jiggling to the left and right, tugging and begging the denim to stretch over my thighs.
Every woman has eyeballed a gorgeous piece of clothing and daydreamed about how they'd wear it, only to try it on and watch that fantasy unravel. How could the fit be so off? Who did the designers try this on, anyway?
That would be me.
But here's the secret. It doesn't fit me either.
I tried on everything imaginable in my former life as a fitting model. Culottes, velvet everything, sleeves of incredible size, itchy sequins, pretty but useless coats, way too many off-the-shoulder tops, and wedgie-giving bodysuits, which were awkward AF to try on under public scrutiny.
But the skinny jeans were always the worst.
They were designed extra small, knowing the cheap fabric would stretch in time. Squeezing them on behind the thin guise of the change room curtain as expectant eyes waited outside felt incredibly vulnerable; it wasn't exactly where I'd pictured myself ending up when I dreamed of working for glossy magazines as a young girl.
But I needed a job. The media industry I was trying to get into was proving more difficult to infiltrate as a beginner, and so I searched for alternative entry level positions to tie me over. Then I entertained an idea I'll bet half the women in Western society have mulled over. I like clothes… How about fashion? I had zero qualifications, but there was one ad where that didn't matter. The only requirements were these:
Bust: 68-88cm; 34-34.5in
Waist: 65-67cm; 25.5-26in
Hips: 90-92cm; 35-36in
Height: 166-170cm; 5'4-5'6
I am on the tall and busty side; my measurements seemed close enough.
My title was fitting model, but the job didn't require any posing for photos or cat walking, anything you think of as the job of a model. I was a live mannequin, someone who could fit in a sample size as designers fastidiously pinned fabric and fussed over the final details.
The company was a large fast fashion brand for teenage girls to young women, with three fit models. Supposedly we were all sample size, but our body types couldn't have been more different. How can that be? Right now, if you were to walk into a women's clothing store and browse the available sizes, you could assume that there are only five body types in the world, and that every body within those sizes would be identical. Forget about anyone outside of those bounds, fashion seems to pretend they don't exist.
On a typical day, the fitting models followed a timed schedule. We had samples to sort in between fittings, but mostly we were running between meeting rooms trying on a variety of clothing and describing the fit. The designers wanted to know when a sample was too small or big, the style too frumpy or young, and the material too cheap or itchy. Then they'd ask if I'd buy it or not; always a tricky question, because I had to answer for current trends that I thought were hideous but knew would sell.
I freely offered my opinion, but who knows how often they took it. The designers were under enormous pressure from their managers to copy bestselling styles at a fraction of the price but still maintain high sales. That sounds like a good business idea, but in practice they were stressed and time poor. When I said something was too tight, they responded, "Too much?", as in, is it really that bad?
There was rarely time to change fabric if one was scratchy. or adjust the style if the fit was unflattering. The samples were sometimes already shipped to stores.
The fashion industry has a bad reputation for encouraging thin models. Models' skinniness has not only affected them on occasion, but also millions of girls and women with negative feelings towards their body, that doesn't look like the advertised "ideal". I'd like to believe that there has been progress and such stories are rarer. But I'm not one to say, because I wasn't that type of model.
Nevertheless, I felt the sting of that influence in my employment contract. There was a clause about the size of a fitting model, stating simply that she was expected to remain within the 'size bracket' during employment and that significant weight change could result in termination. It was dry legal speech, but to the point. It made complete sense from an employer's perspective, and I never forgot it.
At the start of the new year, I was fitting a jacket and once again expressing its overall tightness. One of the designers looped her measuring tape around my waist and asked, "Have you gained weight?"
I froze.
I had no idea if I had or hadn't. "Well, it was just Christmas," I joked.
For the rest of the week I worried about the clause in my contract. I wasn't sure how readily the rule was enforced. To be safe, I avoided my manager and prayed no one else would notice.
Over the following months, I had moments when the designers would compliment my body, even expressing jealousy, and then wrap the tape measure around my hips when I couldn't button the trousers. A couple of times when I said a fit was too tight, they called one of the other models and had her try on the same pair of shorts. If they fit her, then the shorts were approved. Why was I hired in the first place if I wasn't quite the right size?
I don't believe the designers meant to offend. On the contrary, I bonded with many of those women as we spent many hours together in my most compromising moments. But their questions about my weight mixed with the extra time looking at my body in the mirror changed me.
My manager never confronted me about my size, but after months of the back and forth feedback, I looked at myself in the mirror differently. At work, I seemed bloated, flabby, and big. At home, I thought I was my normal, slim, healthy size.
I don't know how I managed it, but I grew up, survived my teenage years, and moved on to my twenties with a healthy body image. This is not because my body is flawless. I too have flappy arms despite hours at the gym. I will never have an Insta-perfect tummy, and yes, I too have thighs that very much touch.
For some reason, I don't think about it as much, but I know it plagues many women. I'm not always confident with my body, but I usually have more anxious thoughts about my brain and the flurry of ideas whizzing around in there than my physical imperfections.
It came as a shock to me to have – for the first time ever – conflicting views about my body. I wasn't sure if I was 'too hippy' or 'too busty'. Or was I the exact same size I'd always been? Every weekend I'd forget about it, but then on Monday I was sucking in my gut even when I wasn't fitting. I'd walk around the office hardly breathing, as if convincing everyone I was skinny enough for the job.
I thought being a fitting model would be safe. While thinness in fashion is often campaigned for, so the focus remains on the garment – not bouncing curves that distract the eye – I was working in the functional side of fashion. I was trying to help the average shopper fit into the garment, not sell it in a magazine.
But by the final months of my stint in the industry, I found myself longing to go back to seeing myself clearly. Thankfully, I have.
But just when I think the fashion industry is making progress, there's another story about a model who was fired for supposedly being fat. While I was never told I was "fat" (just "outside the expected measurements"), I benefited from fashion's singular view of body types. You wonder why things don't fit? It's because they were designed to fit one person, but even I couldn't conform to that.
At least now my fitting model days are behind me, I can go home and slide into my jeans with ease and space to spare.
Comment: What are your frustrations about fashion sizing?


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The prison is run by HMPS as part of the North East Region, and is part of the High Security Estate. It is has a capacity of 844 and the #1 governor is Paddy Fox. Built just over 40 years ago on the outskirts of Durham, the prison hold high and standard risk Cat A prisoners and Cat B's.
The original 4 wings A-D each hold 108 prisoners. F wing, added in the 90's holds 88 prisoners, and J wing 120. The Westgate PSPD unit, for prisoners with severe personality disorders can hold up to 65 prisoners and is where the PIPE unit is located. In-patient healthcare can hold up to 13 prisoners.


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10 Autobiographies That Were Totally Bogus
What drives someone to pass off a lie as the truth? This seems to happen all the time in the publishing world, but rather than burn itself out, each successive hoax just reaffirms that another one is just around the corner. At this point, dozens of authors have been found out as liars, men and women who published autobiographies filled with pain, despair and triumphant resilence that turned out to be pure hogwash. Maybe they worried that amateurishly telling a trashy story would relegate them to the remainder bin, so they opted to sell their story as truth. Whatever the authors' reasons, the autobiographies below were made out of whole cloth. Read them if you want, but know that you're in for a fictional journey.
- Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival, Margaret B. Jones: Margaret B. Jones earned loads of sympathy upon the release of her memoir, Love and Consequences, which detailed her experiences growing up as a half-white, half-Native American foster child in Los Angeles. The book told of her social isolation and struggle to fit in, all of which led her to join the Bloods and run afoul of the law in South Central. There's just one catch: none of it was real. Jones's real name is Margaret Seltzer, she's fully white, and she grew up in Sherman Oaks, a nice little suburb of the San Fernando Valley. She also attended Campbell Hall, a private Episcopalian school in North Hollywood, which is about as far from the gang life of South Central L.A. as it sounds. She even scored a nice review from The New York Times before her fraud was uncovered when her own sister called the publisher and told them the truth. Thanksgiving was probably awkward that year.
- Angel on the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, Herman Rosenblat: This one didn't even make it to print before it was discovered to be a fiction. Herman Rosenblat's book revolved around his youth spent in the Buchenwald prison camp in the Holocaust, and how a local girl would pose as a Christian and meet him at the fence to give him food. Her charity kept him alive until the war ended and he was released, and he lost track of the girl until fate brought them together years later on a blind date, at which point they discovered their shared history. It's a textbook tearjerker, and even before the book came out, the film rights had been optioned and the tale had earned the praise of Oprah Winfrey, who never, ever gets caught peddling fake or misleading books, right?. The trouble is it's totally a lie. Rosenblat did survive the Holocaust, but everything else about the story just isn't true. His tale crumbled when Holocaust scholars — of which there are, you know, a few — started doing basic fact-checking and came to the conclusion that there's no way his story could have happened. As a result, the planned February 2009 publication was canceled the December before.
- A Million Little Pieces, James Frey: Perhaps the most infamous author ever to swindle Oprah, James Frey was heralded for his honesty and skill in writing A Million Little Pieces, a harrowing tale of his drug addiction and subsequent attempt to get clean. The book was released in 2003 but didn't gather steam until September 2005, when Oprah selected it as a book club pick for her viewers. In January 2006, The Smoking Gun released a report detailing the way Frey had manufactured his story. In an attempt to save face, Oprah invited Frey back on her show for a public smackdown in which she took him to task for lying to the nation. He did not get a free Pontiac.
- The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, Nasdijj: This 2000 autobiography was the first in a series of memoirs in which Nasdijj wrote about his dysfunctional childhood, Navajo heritage, and the abuse he suffered as a young boy. It was followed by The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping in 2003 and Geronimo's Bones: A Memoir of My Brother and Me in 2004. His stories followed his life as he grew up and eventually adopted a child with fetal alcohol syndrome and another who was HIV-positive. You know where this is going. In January 2006, around the time the Frey story was breaking, L.A. Weekly published a report revealing that Nasdijj was just some guy named Tim Barrus with an ex-wife, a current wife, and a penchant for freelancing as the author of gay S&M fiction. The ensuing Esquire takedown makes for fascinating reading.
- Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, Misha Defonseca: Published in 1997, this fake autobiography dipped again into the Holocaust well, which, along with drug addiction, is one of the most popular sources of inspiration for phony memoir writers. Author Misha Defonseca writes of surviving the Holocaust and then wandering across Europe to find her parents, and at one point she apparently lived with a pack of wolves. In February 2008, after years of skeptics questioning her authenticity, Misha revealed that her real name was Monique de Wael, and that she wasn't Jewish, and in fact her parents were Catholics and had been taken by Nazis for being part of the Belgian Resistance. The book had received its fair share of adoring press when it came out, but that all disappeared when people learned how unbalanced and deceptive de Wael had been.
- Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, Binjamin Wilkomirski: Binjamin Wilkomirski's manufactured life story started catching heat the same time as de Wael's did; he just got caught more quickly. Originally published in 1995, Fragments detailed the author's childhood in the Holocaust as he is shuttled to labor camps and eventually wins liberation, only to spend the rest of his life trying to assemble an accurate portrait of what happened. It only took a few years for the truth to be revealed. The author's name was an identity assumed by Bruno Dosekker, born Bruno Grosjean, who cooked up the whole thing.
- The Autobiography of Howard Hughes, Clifford Irving: Clifford Irving's insane plan to co-author a fake autobiography for Howard Hughes was so shocking it inspired a film about the events 35 years later. Irving, desperate to boost his career, claimed to have co-authored the autobiography of the reclusive billionaire. He got further than he probably expected, but eventually Hughes stepped forward and revealed the hoax before the book went to print. Irving spent 17 months in prison on a fraud conviction, but was able to find the silver lining by writing a book about the whole ordeal. (This would have seemed to be the easier plan all along, but whatever.)
- A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story, Anthony Godby Johnson: Anthony Godby Johnson's autobiography detailed his horrific childhood of sexual abuse and his realization at age 11 that he was HIV-positive. His point person for public contact was Vicki Johnson, his adoptive mother, but investigations into the veracity of the story revealed a major problem: not only was the story not true, there wasn't even an Anthony. No one — agent, editor — had actually seen Anthony, they'd just dealt with Vicki. Keith Olbermann hired a private eye who found that Vicki had invented the story herself. Armistead Maupin, who'd praised the book and lent his name to a critical blurb, was so disillusioned by the experience that he wrote The Night Listener, a novel about a radio host taken in by the manufactured stories of a boy who claims to have AIDS.
- The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter: The Education of Little Tree follows Forrest "Little Tree" Carver, a Cherokee boy in the early 20th century who learns about life from his grandparents. He resists the ways of the Western world and only attends a residential school for a few months before breaking out. The catch: Forrest Carter was the manufactured identity of Asa Earl Carter, a raging white supremacist and Klansman who worked at one point as a speechwriter for George Wallace. Carter's one of two men credited with crafting Wallace's slogan, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Peachy guy. He took on the Forrest mantle when he began his literary career, and though he died in 1979, the word about his fabrications eventually got out.
- Cradle of the Deep, Joan Lowell: Born in 1902, Joan Lowell was an actress in silent films before becoming a reporter in Massachusetts and New York. In 1929, she published Cradle of the Deep, an autobiography in which she recounted growing up at sea with her father, a ship's captain. She wrote of living on the boat until she was 17, adventuring around the globe with the sailors until the ship caught fire one night three miles off the coast of Australia. Lowell wrote that she swam to shore with a family of kittens holding onto her back. (This is probably where most people smelled the lie.) The epic story was, predictably, utter fiction, and debunked not long after it came a best-seller. It's somehow reassuring to know that these kinds of fakes are nothing new. Now if only we'd get better at spotting them.


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The Nissan Hi-Cross Concept is powered by an ultra fuel-efficient, hybrid drivetrain. It's compact, yet surprisingly roomy. And with dramatic and athletic good looks, It's also "Hi" on style. Up front, a V-shaped grille is framed by distinctive, deeply tapered LED headlights. A curved hood, flared fenders, and a bold character line—extending down a high-waisted body—give the Hi-Cross a tall, and muscular stance.
The Hi-Cross comes with huge, aggressive-looking 10-spoke 21" alloy wheels. It's also got eye-catching fog lights that have been seamlessly integrated into the front bumper.
Polished, Front-to-Back
The back of the Hi-Cross is set off by a sculpted hatch, an extended rear roof spoiler, and trapezoid-shaped LED taillights that echo the stylish, front headlight design.
Despite its compact exterior, the Hi-Cross is roomy inside—with three rows of seating for seven. To achieve this, we simply pushed the wheels out further and installed a smaller HEV drivetrain to make more room for people. Then, we designed a vibrant white leather interior and added a one-piece fixed glass ceiling to give the cabin a feeling of openness. Black and white two-tone door panels, and a matching steering wheel complete the modern look.
Comfort and Cargo
The Hi-Cross interior features deep, wide front bucket seats, ample headroom, and 2nd- and 3rd-row benches that fold flat to create tons of versatile cargo space.
Designed to a T
A T-wing shaped dashboard houses a Fine Vision multi-dimensional gauge cluster, and a cool looking, futuristic display panel. The sculpted center console completes the 'T' shape.
Advanced Hybrid Drivetrain
Hi-Cross is powered by a hybrid drivetrain, coupling a 2.0-liter gas engine with an electric motor. Together, they provide the power expected from a larger 2.5-liter engine, and the economy and reduced emissions of a much smaller unit. The fast-charging, compact lithium-ion battery that powers the electric motor makes use of the same battery technology developed for the award-winning Nissan LEAF®.
One Motor, Two Clutch Technology
The concept's hybrid drivetrain adopts Nissan's new 'one motor, two clutch' technology. The first clutch allows the gas engine to be turned off when the Hi-Cross is in electric mode, and the second clutch helps smooth that transition. This advanced system boosts the electric motor's efficiency, and allows braking energy to be recycled back into the power supply.