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The Mesa de la Unidad Democratica (MUD) has called on Venezuelans to take part in a planton tomorrow in every city in the country starting at 6:00 AM and lasting 12 hours. The word planton roughly translates to "not moving", and tomorrow's protest activity will involve demonstrators congregating on the major road arteries of their cities and staying in place until the evening.
The activity was announced by National Assembly deputy Freddy Guevara through his Twitter account earlier today as a show of defiance against Maduro's Constituent Assembly, a process through which he seeks to create a new national constitution. Guevara said:
Tomorrow [there will be] a big resistance planton on the nation's roads lasting 12 hours. Everyone [must stand against] Maduro's Constituent Assembly.
Speaking on the Venezuelan people's resolve to continue the anti-regime protests—now in their 65th consecutive day–Guevara said:
No one surrenders here. Without our democratic street protests we're making it clear to the dictatorship that THIS FRAUD WILL NOT STAND!
In Caracas, the MUD is asking that demonstrators congregate in 15 points across the city. The full list of rally points is here.
CNE Sets Constituent Assembly Election for July 30
The Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) announced earlier today that Venezuelans will head to the polls on July 30 to elect the representatives for Maduro's Constituent Assembly. The elected representatives will then be tasked with creating a new national constitution, a move regime critics warn will allow Maduro to create a custom-made document that will cement his dictatorship in Venezuela.
Lucena said that she was "surprised" by what she considered to be the high number of Venezuelans who registered as candidates for the process. That number, Lucena said, is 55,314. From that figure, 540 will be elected as Constituent Assembly members.
Maduro announced the Constituent Assembly process on May 1.
Today's announcement from the CNE provides ammunition to regime critics who argue that the organization works only for the benefit of the regime and actively stands in the way of the interests of Venezuelans.
While the Constituent Assembly election will take place less than three months after Maduro announced the measure, the CNE outright cancelled a recall referendum against Maduro last year after seven months of Kafkaesque games with voters during which the body placed, changed, and re-placed stringent and unnecessary requirements on the opposition to move the process along.
Man Dies From Injuries Sustained in Protest on April 20
The Public Ministry announced today that 22 year old Orlando Figueroa died this morning from injuries sustained during a protest in Altamira, Caracas on May 20. Figueroa becomes the 67th person killed during the protests that began on April 1.
Figueroa was lynched by protesters during the unrest in the city that day. Regime sources claim that Figueroa was severely burned, beaten and stabbed by protesters. While the circumstances that led to Figueroa's lynching are not clear, opposition crowds will sometimes attack individuals that they believe are undercover security agents.
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Science of Getting Rich
I couldn't resist creating another brief video JUST to hopefully get your creative juices flowing. THIS video features an excerpt from Chapter 1 of "The Science of Getting Rich," an amazing book in the Public Domain.
Little-Known Public Domain Secrets
It's no surprise that there are a number of marketing folks who talk about Public Domain content. I don't have the exclusive on the topic…expert or not. Of course, most give their primary focus to books…and rightly so…but books are just one branch in a massive tree of content possibilities. Other "branches" include images, magazines, patents, movies, audios…the list goes on and on. But in today's post, I'm going to lead you to another branch that very few marketers, if any, are talking about with regard to the Public Domain. I've hinted at a few of the "leaves" of this branch in the past…today I'm going to focus your attention on a few more.
Our discussion for this post and posts to come draws from a curious paragraph found in Copyright Circular 40 on Works of the Visual Arts. It's no secret that I LOVE the visual arts in all its forms, but today we'll look at them with a spin…NOT considering content that was once copyrighted but is now in the Public Domain, but rather, content that was NEVER copyrighted (and never will be). It's content you use everyday and likely never considered it for product creation. And that's the exact reason why I'm mentioning it now.
The paragraph I referenced earlier from Circular 40 reads as follows:
Copyright protection for an original work of authorship does not extend to the following:
- Ideas, concepts, discoveries, principles
- Formulas, processes, systems, methods, procedures
- Words or short phrases, such as names, titles, and slogans
- Familiar symbols or designs
- Mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring
Now I am not planning to focus on all these "non-copyrightable" options in this post…I just want to spurn you to think about just ONE bit of content differently today. We'll get to others in future posts. As a matter of fact, I've already written a post previously about IDEAS which you really should read HERE.Today, however, I want to take a look at the last option: Mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring.
One of the reasons I wanted to look at this type of Public Domain content is because it's the exact type of content that I discussed briefly in my previous article on Aeropostale. Defining this content is rather easy because you are "using" it right now…letters, numbers, ornaments and colors! Now, about now, you might be thinking, "Okay Tony…book content I can see for products, even images and magazines…but letters? Like A or T or Z?
Yeah! Letters! Letters and symbols are the basis for all our written (and in some cases visual) communication. They represent specific concepts to us regardless of our language or worldview. And so, while the letters, "Z", "P", "A" and "I" may seem to offer no possible relevance to us for product creation, the word, "PIZZA" instantly conjures memories of images, tastes, smells and experiences…at least it does for me. More than that though, you and I have the legal right to use that word, pizza, or the letters that make it up, to create ANY type of product we choose…as evidenced by the yellow-stripped shirt I'm wearing right now with "A87″ embroidered on the pocket (yes, I bought it at Aeropostale)! To you and me, "A87″ means very little if anything, but to Aeropostale, it means a multi-million dollar business and brand!
Here is another question to consider…what does "STOP" mean to you? And in how many ways have you seen those letters in that configuration used in products of all types? What about the color "red" as it's used with a stop sign? The color "red" carries meaning to it…think about it…you don't see "green" stop signs! Why? It sends the wrong message…and that message is conveyed with a color and four letters.
Let me offer one more example (I could provide thousands) in the form of another question…when you see the numbers 0, 1 and 9, they don't mean too much right? But what about 9/11/01? Every American knows what THAT number combination stands for…and those numbers in that combination has generated tens of millions of dollars! How about this set of numbers: 12-25? Merry Christmas! I hope you are beginning to get my drift.
You know what this means, right? A very common symbol online…a smiley face…that has been worth millions in one form or another!
It's likely that you have not consciously considered what possible products could be created with the combination of letters, numbers, symbols and colors. My hope is that this post will challenge you to consider new possibilities in your quest for best-selling products. Think outside the box and brainstorm how a letter or two might be able to transform your business!
Native Americans in the Public Domain
One of my favorite local powwows happens today, the Lawilowan American Indian Festival, and I'm excited to see friends, vendors and dancers whom I haven't seen in a while. Of course, I'm also excited to see my girls dance again. So in honor of the powwow, I thought I'd share some great sources for "Native American" related content from the Public Domain. There is some great content out there…hope you enjoy!
The first place we'll begin is at Google Books…the growing source for all kinds of fun things in the Public Domain. The BEST way to find Native American-related resources on Google Books is by using focused keywords…for example, not "Native American" but "Cherokee" or "Dakota tribal."
Another favorite source for Native American-related images is the Beineke Rare Books & Manuscripts Digital Library at Yale. Here you can find a LOT of great images…many in high resolution…including photographs, fine art and illustrations.
The Internet Sacred Text Archive is a terrific source for information on tribal stories, religious ceremonies and much more. This is definitely on of my favorite sites!
Of course, this post would be incomplete without mentioning Edward Curtis resources at the Library of Congress. You can view those resources HERE and HERE.
To wrap up this post, I'd like to share a quick video of my girls dancing at this powwow three years ago. Enjoy!
Shapeshifting Public Domain Content
Stories of shapeshifting exist in every culture and take on many forms of transformation…from Zeus in Greek Mythology to the recent Twilight series where members of the Quileute tribe shapeshift into wolves. Even in our childhood stories we see the Beast transform into a Prince in "Beauty and the Beast"…and let's not forget the infamous Frog looking for that special kiss. But what do these "myths" of shapeshifting have to do with Public Domain content? Plenty!
Content from the Public Domain…whether it exists in the form of a book, a magazine, a photograph or something else…was already established, proven if you will, in that form. The books were already published and read by thousands or tens of thousands of people…the same with magazines. But because that book or magazine is now in the Public Domain, we can legally use its content for anything we choose without any type of royalty or legal recourse. And there are a LOT of ways that we can adapt, or shapeshift, that content.
As an example, take a look at the text found HERE. It's an article I scanned from a 1950's Popular Photography magazine in the Public Domain. It's a great article, and certainly relevant still today. Now, in its original form, it was a magazine article. How can we shapeshift that content into new forms? Here are some thoughts…
- A Blog Post
- An Article on Article Sites
- Break-up for an Autoresponder Series
- A Free Report
- Record an Audio Version for a Podcast
- Turn into a Powerpoint Slide Video
- Read Live on a Video Camera
- Discuss on BlogTalkRadio
- Include in an E-Zine
- Use as a Chapter of an E-Book or Print book
- Create a Squidoo Lens from It
- Re-Publish in a New Print Magazine
And so, as you can see from the dozen samples above, it's pretty easy to shapeshift just about ANY text content from the Public Domain into a new form…whether free or as a money-making product. The same is true for images. Take the image of Sitting Bull shown below, for instance. On the left is the original image from the Public Domain. On the right is a new image I created in Photoshop from the original.
Now, with this new image (or even with the old one quite honestly), I could shapeshift it into…
- A T-Shirt Design
- A Poster
- A Skateboard Design
- A Blanket or Tapestry
- A Mousepad
- A Coffee Mug
- Any of the Other Products on CafePress or Zazzle
- A Postage Stamp Design
- An Illustration for an Article
- A Fine Art Canvas Framed Print
I think you get the picture (no pun intended). And the best part is that I can create nearly endless variations of new art based on that one original photograph from the Public Domain. Shapeshifting at its best!
So, hopefully, this post has inspired you to consider doing a little shapeshifting of your own. The possibilities are are waiting for your own innovation and creativity. And like it says in my blog header graphic:
Proven Content + Creative Innovation = Successful, NEW Products!
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Late Night…in the Public Domain
The Jimmie Kimmel show created a rather inventive documentary in the style of Ken Burns (National Parks: America's Best Idea) recounting the drama between NBC, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. The documentary is a perfect example of how you can use Public Domain content to create innovative projects (and products). Enjoy!
PDX-TV Episode 2: Videos from Public Domain Content
In this episode, I share a cool strategy for using niche content from Public Domain magazines to create live action videos.
PDX-TV Episode 1: New Video Series
Here is the first video of a new series I'll be producing in 2010 on using Public Domain content to build your online (and offline) business. Hope you enjoy it! It also features my sexy new PDX opening!
Crazy About Puzzles
I like puzzles…always have. Not the jigsaw puzzles where you have a bunch of tiny pieces that, once assembled, reveal an image of some sort. No…I like wire puzzles and cast puzzles…3D puzzles, usually made from metal that challenge you to figure out how to take them apart, and then put them back together again…kind of like Humpty Dumpty, except without the mess. There is something about working with those puzzles that just make me happy…they help me think spatially, boost my creativity and challenge me to think outside the box. Finding puzzles that really challenge me, however, seems to be more of a challenge than the puzzles themselves. Most level 6 puzzles (the most difficult) usually take me less than 15 minutes to disassemble and re-assemble again. Here are a few of the cast puzzles I played with over the Holidays (these are from Hanayama).
After solving the puzzles above, I was reading the accompanying literature when the following sentence caught my attention:
"At the end of the 19th century, Britain experienced a huge puzzle craze. I managed to pick up a number of the puzzles famous during that period in flea markets, despite their rarity."
Now, I don't know what that sentence says to your brain, but to mine it said, "Public Domain" loud and clear! And so I was off and running to research old puzzles. Seeing how they were crafted metal objects, my first thought was to look for patents. After all, designs of physical objects would be covered by patent rather than copyright. While it took me a while to find what I was looking for (you would think "puzzle" would be a good keyword to start with…it wasn't), I did eventually begin to uncover the goodies. A few examples are included below.
One of the cool advantages, of course, to finding these puzzle patents is that they describe how to solve the puzzle! Not that I would cheat…takes all the fun out of solving them…but good to know, nonetheless. Also, because most patents before 1995 are now in the Public Domain (the average patent term is 14 years and cannot be renewed as-is), you can use the information in them to create your own versions of the puzzles, if you chose to do so. That's why you see so many variants of the Rubik's Cube now…the original patent has expired, providing the opportunity for others to create something similar or better! Gotta love free enterprise!
Essentially, that's what Hanayama did after finding the old British puzzles…he recreated them with a touch of his own creativity to re-introduce the puzzles to a new generation of puzzle lovers. And, after all…isn't THAT what the Public Domain is all about?! You BET!
At Sea With the Public Domain
I recently took my first cruise…8 days in the Caribbean aboard the Carnival Miracle. I was a VIP as a part of my good friend, Jim Edwards', JimBoat Cruise. We had a blast! While this was meant to be part vacation and part workshop (I taught on the Public Domain as a content source for membership sites), I really wasn't planning to give much thought to the Public Domain, other than for my presentation. Fate had other plans. What I would soon discover once I stepped onto the Carnival Miracle was that the entire design of the ship's interior was based on or made use of design elements and characters from the Public Domain. I later discovered that the man responsible for this clever use of the Public Domain was Joe Farcus, ship architect and creator of Carnival Miracle's interior design.
Mr. Farcus, who is obviously a huge fan of history and all forms of entertainment, hit upon one of the perfect solutions offered by using Public Domain-based content…zero royalties combined with the draw of nostalgia…an interior designer's dream! Inspired by characters from novels, songs, poems, myths, movies, plays, and much more, Mr. Farcus designed Carnival Miracle's many public rooms and spaces so that the ship reveals herself like a novel, with surprising plot twists and small details that add up to a masterpiece. This "novel" look includes some of my favorite uses of the Public Domain on-ship: 18 original paintings of legendary fictional characters, including the Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe and Captain Ahab, which were created by Italian artist Augusto Vignali.
As you can imagine, I spent most of my time on-ship with a smile on my face, marveling at the images and characters that surrounded us…from Alice and the White Rabbit in the Mad Hatter's Lounge to massive murals of Mary Cassatt paintings in one of the open areas. I was in my glory. Even my favorite character, Sherlock Holmes, was present and accounted for.
I think what excited me the most about this grand discovery was that Carnival's draw from the Public Domain once again emphasized my point that ANYTHING is possible with Public Domain content. It's proven, its supply is nearly limitless, and covers nearly any genre and media type. So as we head into the new year of 2010, you can count on my ongoing challenge to your creative juices…to encourage you into seriously incorporating the proven content of the Public Domain into your business. And I am convinced that even more compelling uses of the Public Domain will emerge in this New Year…perhaps even by you!
Jesus, Santa and Sherlock…Oh My!
You might have already figured this out about me, but in case you haven't yet…here is a big revelation…I'm weird in a good, but sometimes obsessive kind of way…grin. It's Christmas Day and I'm sitting in the Living Room relaxing waiting for Susan's children to arrive. Susan is in the kitchen making a yummy squash and cranberry pie, music is playing in the background, life is good. I was sitting here thinking about the great time we had last night with my family and girls and, BAM, this statement pops into my head, "Jesus is in the Public Domain!" That's all I needed to hear…my curious mind hit the ground running.
"That's right…he is…Jesus IS in the Public Domain…funny…never thought about it before." I guess it's a good thing too…without the Public Domain, Christmas just wouldn't be the same. You figure, Jesus, Mary and all the Bible crew are in the Public Domain…if they weren't you would have to pay royalties to someone to use them in your stories, decorations and more…whew…good thing no one figured out how to capitalize on that one. But actually, I guess they did because any of us, or ALL of us, have the right to create products using Jesus as the central theme…solely because he is indeed in the Public Domain.
And let's not forget Santa Claus…good 'ole St. Nick! He's in the Public Domain too! So is Jack Frost, snowmen and toy soldiers! So I guess you could say that the Public Domain is responsible for the commercialization of Christmas…thank God! (who is also in the Public Domain, BTW).
So why am I writing about this…on Christmas of all days? To make a point. The Public Domain is FULL of characters you can use to create all types of products and derivative works, and certain segments of corporate America (and other countries) "get it"…do you? Today marks the release of a new movie I really want to see…" Sherlock Holmes." His character is in the Public Domain so Hollywood (or anyone else) can do whatever they want with him.
As a matter of fact, speaking of Hollywood, there are a number of new movies coming out (or already out) using characters from the Public Domain…A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland…even New Moon (vampires and werewolfs are in the Public Domain). Even the cruise I recently took demonstrated the reach of the Public Domain…the entire ship (Carnival Miracle) was decorated with Public Domain characters and images (watch for a separate post on that).
As I sat thinking about popular characters that are in the Public Domain, I began a list and soon realized that there were a LOT of characters out there. Here are a few of the gang I wrote down:
- Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the whole Bible full of characters…and let's not forget Buddha…he's in the Public Domain too!
- Scary Creatures and monsters like vampires, werewolfs, zombies, dragons, mummies and witches (and more).
- Mythological characters like Zeus, Pegasus, Medusa and Hercules.
- And then there are aliens (little green men and grays), robots, pirates and genies.
- Oh and let's not forget many of the nursery rhyme characters, characters from oral traditions (like White Buffalo Woman from the Lakota).
- And the list goes on and on. It's likely you are thinking of tons more characters even now.
These Public Domain characters originate from a wide variety of sources…I've already alluded to some of them…religious writings, oral traditions, books and stories, movies and radio shows, comic books, paintings and illustrations, patents and more. And of course, when it comes to creating derivative works using characters…well…the sky is the limit, from movies and books to t-shirt designs and toys…and any and all variations thereof!
So when you are brainstorming your next products…think about characters from the Public Domain. How can you use THEM to help build your business? They are a goldmine just waiting for you to grab your share of the booty. I guess the bigger question is, will you?
Happy Holidays!

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The objective of this project is to provide a detailed view of the interactions between the human Staufen protein, which contains multiple double-stranded RNA binding domains, and its Staufen-mediated decay (SMD) RNA target. The Maquat lab has discovered that Staufen regulates the abundance of several mRNAs by binding to their 3'untranslated regions at a site called the Staufen binding site (SBS). mRNA decay is elicited in a way that depends on the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) factor Upfl. The best characterized SBS is within the 3'UTR of the ARF1 mRNA, where this region can replace the 3'end of a reporter mRNA and causes its degradation in vivo in a Staufen-and Upf1-dependent manner. There are hundreds of targets for Staufen binding identified by: 1) microarray experiments based on RNAs associated with immunopurified Staufen;2) RT-PCR analysis of RNA co-immunopurifed with Staufen;and 3) recent unpublished data (CLIP) describing the exact RNA sequences that are cross-linked with Immunopurified Staufen. While mutational studies of the ARF1 SBS have been performed to determine some of the secondary structure requirements for Staufen binding, no sequence commonality between the various Staufen targets has been found, suggesting that recognition of the RNA is based on its secondary or tertiary structure.
The specific aims are as follows: 1) determine the structure of ARF1 SBS RNA by using selective 2'hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) and RNase probing experiments, where the data can be incorporated into the RNAstructure program (developed at the University of Rochester) to deduce an experimentally supported secondary structure, and then combining this data with small angle X- ray scattering (SAXS) data to determine the overall three-dimensional shape, and 2) determine the regions of interaction between Staufen and ARF1 SBS RNA by directed hydroxyl radical footprinting and RNase footprlnting assays as well as obtaining an atomic description of the Staufen-ARF1 SBS RNA complex using X-ray crystallography. This proposal is in line with the mission of the Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics of NIGMS in that it is aimed at understanding the structures of both protein and RNA and the complex of the two to elucidate a common theme of RNA recognition that is responsible for RNA metabolism and differentiation in human cells. Relevance: Proper functioning of a human cell requires controlling mRNA abundance during growth and differentiation. In order to further understand SMD, the structure of the canonical ARF1 SBS RNA target must be understood, as well as its specific interaction with Staufen
|Gleghorn, Michael L; Gong, Chenguang; Kielkopf, Clara L et al. (2013) Staufen1 dimerizes through a conserved motif and a degenerate dsRNA-binding domain to promote mRNA decay. Nat Struct Mol Biol 20:515-24
|Park, Eonyoung; Gleghorn, Michael L; Maquat, Lynne E (2013) Staufen2 functions in Staufen1-mediated mRNA decay by binding to itself and its paralog and promoting UPF1 helicase but not ATPase activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:405-12


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Help Wanted
Retail Manager/ Merchandise Manager needed for adorable shop-in-shop located in Silver Lake. Join a growing and motivated business that tailors to activities and fitness for children and adults. Looking for an experienced Retail Merchandiser or Shop Manager (apparel, food, gift items) to manage the business within a business; hire and train team, oversee inventory, spearhead sales and marketing of the shop. The ideal candidate will have creative merchandising skills to showcase product and brainstorm sales promotions. This little dynamic retail store is located within an amazing 40,000 square foot gym, activity and fitness destination in the Echo Park area.
Role Requirements:
- Manage activities of the shop; accountable for all incoming and outgoing items, product orders, sales, promotions, marketing
- Creatively and effectively merchandise apparel, all items (gifts, snacks, games, coffee & juice) product, assist with in-store layout, product placement, best use of display and square footage
- Grow sales; brainstorm and collaborate with owners to create promotions that parallel and capitalize on in-house activities, functions, seasons and weather.
- Order regular product and anticipate seasonal needs, foresee inventory gaps and ensure pre-orders for all promotions
- Inventory management; diligently track and price (or label) product, product movement, check expiration dates on snack and drink items, enter or scan all received items, identify needs for new and different product.
- Vendor negotiations, vendor in-put/delivery set up, and vendor relations
- Marketing; generate new and effective ways to market product during business hours offline and online, within store and around the floor
- Social media; may assist with social media and community advertising and posts to draw attention to the shop
- Hire and select new store team members; train with inventory pricing, cashier, service and sales.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Normally requires a Bachelor's degree (or Associates degree) in Merchandising & Design, Marketing, Business, or similar.
- Required: Must have experience in Retail and or Merchandising experience 3-5 years, additionally 1+ year(s) as a supervisor or manager. Some kids wear or kids items ideal, but not required.
- Ability to hire, motivate and train a team, manage others, coordinate shifts and scheduling
- Strong interpersonal skills with sales and customer-service mind-set
- Experience working around clients of all ages; toddlers through adults
- Experience building client relations and increasing monthly sales in a retail environment
- Entrepreneur mentality and desire to continuously improve and grow a small retail business
This is an amazing opportunity for the right person. May allow flex schedule weekdays/ some weekends. Full time: approximately 30 – 35 hours per week, health benefits, parking, perks.
TO APPLY send resume to Lisa at email: "firstname.lastname@example.com" Please include "Retail Store Manager" in the subject line.
Talent Suede offers smart career choices for candidates, all levels in Apparel, Retail, Digital and Corporate industries. For more information and hot jobs log onto www.talentsuede.com.


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I have been having an increasing amount of problems with my first generation iPhone recently. The phone has always worked flawlessly with no lockups, no dropped calls, or other problems. Over the last few months, things have changed drastically with the usability of my phone.
Calls that come into the device often lock it up when I try to slide the answer bar. The phone will simply hang and continue to ring and vibrate without answering the call. The only way to get out of that is to hit the send to voicemail button on the phone. I also have begun to have significant issues with the phone not delivering voice mail.
I would be going about my day and I would get a voice mail beep notification and when I went to the voice mail wondering why the phone hadn't rang, the voice mail would often be for a day or more prior. All other functions of the phone worked without any issue, leaving me wondering if my beloved iPhone was going bad or if it was a network issue.
Yesterday I finally got around to installing the most recent iPhone software on my device. After the update was applied, I also had a notification that new carrier settings were available for my area. A carrier settings update is something that I had never been offered after a software update.
I downloaded the carrier update not thinking much about it; honestly, I am not sure what it updated. However, after applying the updates I noticed that the lockups that used to happen with high frequency (roughly every few calls received) did not happen once all day long. I don't have a home phone line and use my iPhone for all my personal and work calls meaning I get lots of calls. It appears that the problem I was having with my phone was related to the network or the firmware version and the updates may have fixed the issues.
It's certainly too early to tell if the updates are a permanent fix, but I am certainly hopeful. I have also noticed that after the updates were applied my iPhone shows five full bars of connectivity in all areas of my home. Prior to the update two or three bars was all I could hope for inside or out. Has anyone else out there noticed the sort of problems on their iPhone that I mentioned and seen them go away with a carrier settings update or software update?


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Transport Museum and Collection map
Welcome to the Interactive Automotive, Aviation and Motorcycle museum map of Arkansas (AR), USA.
Please select a marker on the map, a pop up will display the Museum or collection located there, and a link for more details. Click on a cluster to zoom in on that section.
Or directly select the type of museum you wish to visit, by using the drop down menu below.
Arkansas museums in alphabetical order
- The Museum of Automobiles, Morrilton ( Cars )
Arkansas museums ordered by City
- Morrilton, The Museum of Automobiles ( Cars )


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Mr. Movie
Seattle screenwriter to address CBC filmmaker forum
PASCO — Amateur filmmakers and those interested in the unique business of filmmaking should check out the Filmmaker's Forum on Monday, Sept. 28 at Columbia Basin College.
The session starts at 6:30 p.m. at the ASB Congress Room in the HUB on the CBC campus. It's free to the public.
You'll be seeing an independent film shot in Seattle and released in 2005. Police Beat was screened at Sundance Film Festivalwhere CBC Filmmaker's Forum head Matt Mathesius caught it.
I'm green with envy. Mathesius gets to do Sundance and I don't. Other than Cannes, it's the movie event of the year. Anyway, Mathesius loved the movie and invited screenwriter Charles Mudede to attend the screening and field audience questions at the end of the film.
When he's not writing screenplays, Mudede is an associate editor for the Seattle weekly, The Stranger.
His film follows a rookie African immigrant bicycle cop for a week. The guy is struggling with a relationship, and his thoughts are dubbed over scenes of the types of incidents and crimes a bicycle cop deals with on a daily basis. They are taken from actual Seattle police blotter reports that Mudede wrote for The Stranger.
The cops stream-of-consciousness conversations with himself and his frustration with his girlfriend leaving to go camping with another man work. They work well enough for me to recommend the movie — especially when it's free.
Where I struggle with Police Beat is the incidents investigated by the officer. While I understand what Mudede and director Robinson Devor are trying to do, they tend to ramble on and make much of the film incoherent.
If you read this or a plot summary before seeing Police Beat, the police blotter incidents make more sense . However, they still distract from what is very good about their film — and that is their main character and his struggle.
Police Beat is worth checking out. Having talked many times with screenwriters, I always find it fascinating to dig into their minds, find out the motivation behind the screenplay and whether what they wrote and what was actually filmed are the same.


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I have been reading a lot of nonsense about the effects of the Fed's policy of quantitative easing (QE2). Here is my e-mail response to a friend who asked me about this:
I think Bernanke did exactly the right thing when he pushed the Fed into QE2. Moreover, at least so far, QE2 is a success. How do I know? First, the dollar index is going down (and I think it has a good shot at 65 - but when QE stops the dollar will rally, and rally big time). Second, the yield on the US 10 year is going up while the tips spreads are pretty much unchanged. This shows the bond market is expecting more economic growth, not more inflation. Third, the US stock market is going up, also reflecting expectations of higher growth.
QE works by inflating asset prices (stocks, commodities, real estate and other real assets) which rise initially because investors re-balance their portfolios after they sell assets to the Fed. But rising asset prices encourage their production (real investment) and also make people more optimistic about the future (more bullish "animal spirits" to borrow Keynes' phrase). These last two effects boost economic growth if there is slack in the economy as there is now.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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Last week was our week off, so I went home to visit family and friends. It felt good to be home and I was able to talk to them about what I had experienced thus far this summer during my internship. I also enjoyed spending time with my family on Independence Day. However, I was not too reluctant when I had to leave to come back to Kentucky because I was ready to start working again. I arrived back at the Center for Ohio River Research and Education on Sunday afternoon and spent the rest of my day unpacking and preparing for the upcoming week.
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Late goals to Dimitri Petratos and new recruit Patricio Rodriguez have helped the Newcastle Jets to a 2-0 win over a 10-man Central Coast Mariners in an absorbing F3 Derby on Tuesday night.
Just when it seemed like an absorbing local derby would end goalless, Petratos and Rodriguez scored in the last eight minutes to seal the result for the home side at McDonald Jones Stadium.
The Mariners arguably had the better of the chances throughout but lost momentum when Josh Rose was sent off 18 minutes from the end.
The win sees the Jets keep the pressure on league-leaders Sydney FC, while the Mariners remain eighth having scored just one goal in their last six matches.
GREAT EARLY CHANCE: Connor Pain found space on the left to cross to an unmarked Blake Powell but the Mariners striker volleyed over from close range when he really should have scored.
THRILLING STUFF: It was end-to-end action in the first 30 minutes with both sides going at each other, without finding the polish in the final third.
WASTEFUL APPIAH: Mariners winger Kwabena Appiah was sent clear and while it was a tricky angle, fired a shot wide when one-on-one with Glen Moss on the half hour mark.
DOUBLE INJURY BLOW: As a storm hit McDonald Jones Stadium, first Wout Brama and then Connor Pain were both forced off with hamstring injuries within four minutes of each other late in the first half for the Mariners.
HALF-TIME: 0-0. No goals but plenty of endeavour from both sides.
SUPER SAVE: Within two minutes of the restart, Appiah got to the byline and fired it into the middle but Powell was denied by a superb reflex save by Jets gloveman Moss.
JETS' NEW MAN INTRODUCED: Just 10 minutes after the break and Ernie Merrick gave Jets fans a look at new signing Patricio Rodriguez.
RED CARD: The Mariners were forced to play the last 18 minutes with 10 men after Josh Rose picked up a second yellow for a foul on Joey Champness.
GOAL! Great Jets' move ends with Dimitri Petratos finding the net with eight minutes left.
MARINERS DENIED: Powell was released into the box and closed in on goal, only to shoot straight at an advancing Moss.
GOAL! Rodriguez caps his Jets debut with the sealer in stoppage-time.
Petratos: Jets 82' 1-0
Steven Ugarkovic drove into the box and his cutback was missed by Joey Champness but founds it's way to Petratos just inside the box and he swept a shot low into the corner of the net.
Rodriguez: Jets 90+2' 2-0
The Argentine swept on a loose pass from Jacob Melling to race clear on goal and finish coolly pasta stranded Ben Kennedy.


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When deputies pulled Raymond over they detected the odor of liquor and noticed her eyes were red and glassy. Before performing a field sobriety test the Florida woman explained the officers "needed to understand that she is big-chested" and "she is not going to balance well".
Not surprisingly passing the field sobriety tests proved to be tough for her. Upon failing to walk in a straight line Raymond began to dance. When she was asked if she would like to try again the woman told the Sheriff's deputy she wouldn't be able to because of her "big boobies." Upon failing to stand on one leg, Raymond attempted to take her clothes off to show the deputy her breasts and prove her claims.
Deputies later found a glass in the back of Raymond's Toyota Camry that they believed contained alcohol. Despite her unique explanation, Maureen Raymond was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and having an open container of alcohol. It's unknown exactly how drunk Raymond was because she failed to provide a valid breath sample after her arrest.
Her breasts are not believed to be at fault.
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[Much of what makes Oaxaca so attractive to visitors – and the more affluent Mexicans – would not have happened without the generosity of wealthy artists and culture mavens, whose donations have helped restore many colonial buildings and fill them with art, classrooms, performance spaces, and other social amenities. Some of the donations also aid the less affluent, such as Rodolfo Morales' computer classroom in Ocotlán, where local kids get a crack at learning new skills. Here's a little tongue-in-cheek tale…]
Last week, the Harp Foundation, the charitable arm of billionaire banking mogul Alfredo Harp, announced the purchase of the Posada San Pablo, an ex-convent in the heart of the city, that had over the years seen various uses (the latest as a top-dollar hotel); as well as an adjoining building. When completed, the project will house a museum dedicated to the textiles of the world.
Some wags have implied that the whole business is just a scam to keep from having to pay taxes on an otherwise taxable gift to his wife, who is a textile maven and will be the Director. This seems to me to be unlikely, since she is so wealthy in her own right that she could have bought it for herself if she wanted it that badly.
[Speaking of textiles, this Maya girl, vending chicklets among the tables of the Oaxaca sidewalk cafés, is always dressed in her indigenous finery. Unlike many, she will not take your money unless you take a pack of gum]
A few days later, millionaire artist Francisco Toledo laid the cornerstone for a new School of Art at the state university, a privilege for which he paid a cool 4 million pesos. Having outlived Rodolfo, and Oaxaca's other great (and long dead) artist / philanthropist Rufino Tamayo, his second place in the most-donations column seems assured, but he has a long way to go if he wants to be numero uno. Let's face it, billionaires just have more money to spend than do millionaires.
What, one wonders, will be next? Will Harp buy the Guggenheim, dismantle it brick by brick, and reassemble it somewhere around Plaza del Valle? Will Toledo contract the entire faculty of the Rhode Island School of Art and Design to staff his new school? Ah, the suspense of it all…
[We went on a little journey (as you will see below), and followed our usual fascination with Zócalos. The masthead photo and this one were taken in Córdoba, Veracruz. The following photo was taken in Cardel, Veracruz.]
And the winner – once again – is abstentionism:
With 60% of the voters staying home, the PRIwon 2/3 of the mayoral races in the state of Oaxaca on Sunday, including Oaxaca city. Almost all the rest went to the PRD. Some key cities changed hands; most did not. Low voter turnout always favors incumbent parties.
However you look at it, the fourth-place finish for the PRD's Lenin Lopez was a crushing defeat, the first time in recent memory that they came in behind the PAN in a municipal election in Oaxaca. Some APPO and teacher leadership had broken with the PRD early in the election process, leading to speculation that, since the PRD did so poorly, the APPO may still be a strong political force.
Of course there will be protracted grumbling, probably backed with legal challenges, by the losers – much of it reasonable under the circumstances:
*Our universally reviled governor was taped at a PRI meeting, saying that any government employee who votes for an opposition candidate would have good reason for fearing for his or her job. Interference by elected officials in political campaigns not their own is a serious felony under Mexican law.
*The head of one state government department was taped telling his workers that it was their duty to help pass out the building materials, small appliances, money, and other "gifts" that the Party had stockpiled. Vote buying is illegal.
*A group of dissident priests issued a denunciation of the "clergy that is for sale", revealing that a PRI operative recently retired from the Interior Secretariat and one of Ulises' closest pals, had laid large gobs of greenbacks on the Pastoral Association who then passed out a pamphlet to the churches. The pamphlet, thinly disguised election propaganda, accused all the other major parties of various sins: the PRD as "immoral" for its support of women's choice and gay marriage; Convergencia as a bunch of godless closet communists; etc. The separation of Church and State is one of the cornerstones of the Mexican constitution.
Still, it seems pretty clear that, even allowing for the usual election shenanigans and the APPO / teacher "punishment vote", the biggest vote getter was "none of the above".
[We stayed in the hotel with the red awnings, which among other things boasted one of the two oldest elevators (1904) in Mexico. Either it was scrupulously maintained, or the original Swiss manufacturers built it to last. The Zócalo in Veracruz is all concrete and stone, so the strolling vendors and minstrels come to the sidewalk cafés on the eastern border of the square.]
Our trip, you might say, was for the birds:
[Diana wrote this. I asked her to. This part of the story really belongs to her: most of the time, I was sulking in the hotel room in Cardel, availing myself of the dehumidifying properties of air conditioning, while she was cavorting with the birders, protected by an awning on the roof from the punishing sunshine.]
After four months without leaving the Central Valley of Oaxaca, Stan and I decided it was time for a change of scenery. A few months earlier we had heard and read about the "River of Raptors, a flyway in the sky in the state of Veracruz where millions of birds of prey head for Central and South America in the fall of every year. The peak time is normally late in September and early in October. A town north west of the city of Veracruz, named Cardel, is strategically located to see the "river" and that was where we were going to discover and learn more about this large migration of birds. This area is strategic because raptors don't migrate over water and the narrow channel of land between the Sierra Madre mountains and the Gulf of Mexico is their only southward route before they can spread out again to go to their winter destinations. After checking for information on the computer and quizzing a few 'birder' friends hoping to learn more about this extraordinary natural phenomenon, we left on the bus for a couple of days in Veracruz en route to Cardel.
We enjoyed Veracruz, walking on the Malecón, strolling through the Zocalo and downtown streets, stopping for a cool drink in the famous Gran Café de la Parroguia, and eating fish Veracruzana (a great combination of tomatoes, olives, capers, onions, and spices), which is to Veracruz what mole is to Oaxaca. It was a dish we revisited a few times during our trip. We sat on benches in the park and listened to the strolling musicians passing the sidewalk restaurants in the Portales – a row of arches and hotels. For the two mornings we were there it rained. This concerned us because if it continued it would inhibit the flights of the birds over Cardel.
The buses leave frequently for Cardel from the main bus station, and arrive conveniently near the Zócalo and the Bienvenidas hotel – the highest building in the town, with a rooftop that is used as one of the two designated observation places to study and watch the raptor migration. A non-governmental, non-profit organization, Pronatura, dedicated to conservation, research, and education, provides the logistics for information, tours; and trains bird counters. There is a Pronatura poster that describes Cardel as (translated) .."the region for the major traffic of migratory raptors in the world."
Pronatura keeps records for each species – the number flying each day – and averages for the years since 1994 when the official counting began. Of more than 20 different species, there are four species that are the principal raptors. They are the Broad-winged Hawk, the Turkey Vulture, Swainson's Hawk, and the Mississippi Kite. Their yearly averages in that order are 1,724,842; 1,707,521; 731,260; and 139,455. That's a lot of birds!! They may come from as far away as Canada and cover 6 to 7,000 miles, to end up in the pampas of Argentina. It takes 2 months to complete their migration, covering an estimated 120 miles per day. It is thought that they roost in forests or dense vegetation areas or for the Kites and Turkey Vultures in open agricultural areas. They are good for the farmers, eating mice, snakes, and insects that infest the growing crops.
[There are bird watchers (left), and bird counters (above). Sometimes they are one and the same, sometimes not.]
We talked to some of the Pronatura workers, all dedicated folks. They could not, however, guarantee that in the short amount of time we had budgeted for, we would be able to get a good impression of the size and numbers of birds in flight.
That varies from day to day depending on the climatic flight conditions. When there is rain or if there is low pressure, there might be no flights at all. It is not just the geographical fact of the "egg-timer" effect of the narrow passage through this part of North America, but the tropical temperatures and clear skies needed in the coastal plain of Veracruz to develop the thermal currents to carry them to the heights so they can spread their wings and tails and soar southward from thermal to thermal.
I should answer the big question of what we saw in the three days (or parts of days) that we sat and observed on the rooftop. The answer is disappointing, but true – not much. Wrong weather, bad timing, weak binoculars. The counters saw more than we did through their strong telescopes but I got the flavor of the migration and learned new things. I don't know if I'd do it again, but I'm glad I did it this once.
*Opened, "Candelas Ceramicas de Mau", at Juarez 505. Owner Sharon Hancock, a transplanted Tejano, sells pottery from Atzompa, filled with colored aromatic soy-wax candles. She ships anywhere, and will custom blend color, style, scent, and pottery piece. Check out the gallery on her website .
*Coming up on October 27, the annual Library art auction at the Painters' Museum. Since the 27th is the first concert of the two-night Lila Downs benefit for the Casa Mujer's scholarship programs, those who plan to attend the auction should buy their concert tickets for the 28th .
EPR? Which EPR?
You have probably heard that some PEMEX facilities, mostly transmission pipes, were blown up during the last month or so. According to the "official" reports, this resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for the plants that relied on getting a steady supply of power. The group responsible for the damage is said to be the People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Popular Revolucionario; EPR).
According to government handouts, the EPR is currently a family affair, run out of Mexico City, with maybe 100 adherents spread throughout the country: what is left of the decade-old clandestine revolutionary cadre that first rose up in the mountains of Guerrero and Oaxaca, after numerous arrests and deaths, and squabbles over doctrine and tactics.
If true, the attacks – coordinated to occur simultaneously in wide-spread locations, some of which were being kept under observation by the Army at the time – bespeak a sophisticated and well-equipped organization. Some analysts have expressed doubts that such a group – small, clandestine, sophisticated, and anti-government exists. Add to that, the government's attribution of almost a hundred kidnappings, and credulity is stretched.
Even if the "EPR" of today is the culprit, what is their motive? The infrastructure strikes were, according to an announcement attributed to the group, to force the government to produce, alive, two of their brethren thought to be in government hands (which the government continues to deny). Hardly a "revolutionary" manifesto.
One analyst has posited that they are actually an arm of one of the narcotics trafficking cartels. He thinks that their job is to undermine the State to make it easier to continue the narcotraffic without interference. Problem with that theory is that the narcotraficantes already have subverted the State, with money, lots and lots of money.
Another theory is that the EPR is an excuse for increasing the repression in the name of national security; that the EPR are just a bunch of "plumbers" operating at the behest of the President in order to justify further erosion of civil rights.
Whatever the EPR really is, it has so far scrupulously avoided killing any civilians, and has not bombed any tourist facilities. "Terrorism" sells newspapers. Unless you intend to hang out in a PEMEX facility or catch a few rays in front of a police outpost when the drive-by shooters pass by, the EPR is of no danger to you.
[This sculpture is in a park in Veracruz, right next to the Pemex Museum. Apparently, it's proximity to "the enemy" has not inspired the EPR to harm it…]
Some traveling lessons:
It hardly ever fails: if we book our flights way in advance to assure specific times and dates, and as a hedge against the ever-rising price of air travel, there will be a terrific sale offered a few days before we are due to take off. If we wait, no sale materializes and the price has risen by 50%.
Sometimes we get lucky. We didn't book in Veracruz, and when we got there the downtown hotels were all offering "promotions". We got a room in the Imperial, right on the Zócalo, at a reduced rate (450p for a rack price of 735). If we had booked in advance, at the rack price (they won't tell you over the internet, I promise) it is unlikely we would have gotten a cash refund. We did book in Cardel, because we were worried that some tour might come in and wipe out all the rooms in the Bienvenidas, but Cardel is inexpensive to begin with. That's one nice thing about Cardel: the prices don't go up during the "raptor season".
In the "off season", which it definitely was in Veracruz, the harbor tours don't run, and the "trolley ride" buses only run on weekends; and Sunday closings are more frequent in the tourist zone. If you're going to "see the sights", keep that in mind, along with the fact that in may places, tourist sites may be closed on either Monday or Tuesday, high or low season.
In every ADO bus station we used, most PEMEX stations along the turnpikes, and in other unlikely venues, there was an Italian Coffee Company franchise. ITC is the Starbucks of Mexico. There are also "convenience stores" where the sandwiches are really expensive and generally suck. One of the phenomena I observed was that where the station is off on the outskirts of town, as it was in Cordoba and Veracruz, there are no handy taquerias or torta stands, so if you think you're going to be hungry later you might want to take a snack with you before you leave for the depot.
If you have a tight schedule (transferring buses, catching a plane) you might want to ask at the ticket counter or travel agency exactly where your bus originates. We caught a bus from Cordoba to Oaxaca, for instance, that came not from Veracruz (as we, reasonably, assumed) but from the border at Matamoros. It was over an hour late getting to Cordoba. It turned out that it's ALWAYS at least an hour, and usually an hour and a half late, but that information is not discoverable when you are buying your ticket from a machine in a corner of a shipping office in downtown Cordoba (as we did), or over the internet.


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Fashion Fetishes & Body Ideals
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It is undeniable that, in the past, China's patriarchal society objectified and exploited women. Whether it was being forced to endure the brutal footbinding process during the imperial years, or facing limited access to the public sphere during the Republic era, females were restricted to and defined by their physical potentialities - child-bearing, beauty, and home-making - rather than their individual thoughts, rights, and beliefs. In this essay, I argue that despite the numerous changes China's undergone since its age of dynasties, the patriarchal mindset of those periods still endures. My approach: Trace the unrealistic body standards impressed upon Chinese women from past to present. An accompanying presentation (snapshots below) narrates my findings in an "exhibition" format, with each chapter of historical analysis opening with a list of objects I'd display if I were to host a museum event for my project.
Fashion / Retail Arts / Culture
Consumer Goods / Lifestyle
Essay Writing Historical Research
Thesis Development Powerpoint
Washington University in St. Louis
Material Culture in Modern China - Final Project - Fall 2010
Beauty ideals for Asian women are very different from those for Western ones. Some are polar opposites - just consider America's obsession with tanning, versus China's black market for toxic skin bleaching products. But the overall Eastern sentiment places Caucasian features (i.e. double-lidded eyes and a refined nose bridge) on a pedestal.
Social Gaps and a Dead American Dream: Tyler Durden's Lessons to the Common Man
A close reading of a cultural text (Fight Club, the film). In this paper, I offer a critique on modern consumerism by exploring the identity crises and avenues of alleviation sought by the film's characters. Are class hierarchy and an unequal income distribution the chief reasons behind the sense of social disillusionment felt by so many people? If so, how can the issue be solved? Are mass destruction and vandalism the only effective communicative channels between the rich and the poor? Doesn't the American Dream teach that hard work will always eventually reap rewards? Why do many not live to see such gains, then? Could we have been fed falsified versions of an unobtainable goal... a "dead" American Dream?
Consumer Goods / Lifestyle
Essay Writing Film Analysis
Thesis Development InDesign
Personal Essay
Winter 2009
Camo Immortal
The Legacy of the Print as a Fashion Innovation
Today, the words "innovation" and "technology" often go hand in hand. But can we understand a fashion trend - the camouflage print - as just as ground-breaking? In this dossier, the pattern's cultural significance is defined from a historical standpoint - in short, my goal is to tell camo's story. Included, then, is a rich cast of characters (its early adopters, its reinventors, etc.) - and plotline (how both its meaning and use have transformed over time).
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For artists and fashion designers, the camouflage print provides a wealth of inventive inspiration, helping them create provoking and unexpected designs. But fashion itself is a social process - what we see on both catwalks and sidewalks alike are results of active interplays between culture, politics, commerce, etc. - in essence, people. The print as a fashion innovation, then, is also the outcome of constant information exchanges between various social systems, both within the fashion world, and between fashion and other subcultural structures. Indeed, outside of the fashion industry, various other groups have planted their stakes in camo culture: scientists, psychologists, artists, militaries, students, musicians, celebrities (to name just a few).
The Diffusion of Innovations
Sociologist Everett Rogers describes the Diffusion of Innovation as "…the process in which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system." Much of this dossier's analysis is based on the remarkable concepts and ideas from his book. For instance, he notes that innovations can fall into one of three categories (ideas, practices, or objects). Thus, what makes the print so spectacular is that although its physicality appropriates it to fit more into the latter genre, it is still ultimately a manifestation of an innovative idea - specifically, the one fomented by early scientists, artists, and armies to take the concept of perceptual game play from the natural world and adopt it for their own purposes.
Fashion / Retail Arts / Culture
Consumer Goods / Lifestyle
Essay Writing Historical Research
Thesis Development InDesign
Parsons the New School for Design
Innovation - Final Project - Spring 2014
Although the dossier was written and compiled by me, its accompanying Legacy Map was the result of team effort. The map's main goals: (a) illuminate how the print's reinventive ability is a key driver behind its rapid rate of diffusion; (b) portray how an innovation influences and is influenced by the outer world; and (c) engagingly recount the historical narrative of the print to viewers. To illustrate how the innovation operates within our whole social system, the map was created via a "treble-line" approach, with the timeline of our main scope of interest (the print's evolution in the fashion industry) sandwiched between two "sub" chronologies (its transformations in the military world and general culture). We felt that this would be the best way to capture the important relationships within and between timelines.
Writing Across Media
The output of professional writers certainly is eclectic: local, national, and global newspaper stories; special-interest magazines; corporate copy (newsletters, firm brochures, annual reports, etc.); PR (press releases, email campaigns, Tweets and #hashtags…) This course, a comprehensive beginner's workshop available to all undergraduates, thus covered all different styles of writing, left topic choice up to students, and asked us to give feedback on the work of our peers. The only requirement? Experimentation - the main goal was to help each of us find our unique voice through the written word. This portfolio contains the 8 short writing assignments from the semester: (1) A short article on myself; (2) An Op-Ed; (3) An objective piece; (4) An interview / profile; (5) A review; (6) A press release; (7) A script for broadcast TV / radio; and (8) A story pitch to an editor.
Journalism / Media Content
Fashion / Retail Arts / Culture
See Above List of Assignments
Parsons the New School for Design
Writing Across Media - Semester Portfolio - Fall 2014
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
The Aesthetics of Spectacle & The Body Politics in Fashion
A quick glance at the history of the visual and performance arts easily reveals how shock has evolved from mere technique to an agent of change. However, what grants fashion designer Alexander McQueen particular uniqueness as a shock artist is his medium of avant-garde expression: clothes.But perhaps the more important canvas of McQueen was not fabric nor cloth, but the female body. By analyzing his most notable runway shows, I seek to demonstrate how five themes of shock art can be grouped under one: the woman as the site of experimentation.
Arts / Culture
Fashion / Retail
Essay Writing Historical Research
Thesis Development Powerpoint
Parsons the New School for Design
A Brief History of Shock - Final Project - Fall 2013
From the Records of Dr. Wong Quo
Ethnographic Profile
Shanghai, 2006. China's most populated city and the world's largest container port has transformed remarkably in just a few years. And these changes haven't left its inhabitants unaffected - in terms of livelihood, surroundings... identities. Evidence of Shanghai shedding traditional Chinese values can be seen in the clothes people are wearing, the Western films they're watching... and the appearance of numerous homosexual bars popping up along the streets. This transcript of a fictional interview between a man questioning his sexuality and a psychiatrist is based on historic fact.
Arts / Culture
Consumer Goods / Lifestyle
Historical Research
Washington University in St. Louis
Contemporary Chinese Culture & Society - Ethnographic Profile - Spring 2010
Dear Daniel:
I Wrote This For You
For the last 20 years, Narativ has been helping people and organizations become better storytellers and listeners. So when its CEO, Jerome Deroy, came to speak to my Portfolio Strategies class, we took his assignment seriously: "Use The Method to tell a personal story of your choosing." We were also given the option to include some visuals in our piece. My story: Heartbreak. My visuals: Color - each diary entry is accompanied by a simple swatch that reflects the palette from the memory. My inspiration: A similar assignment for a previous course. Results: Selected to present the piece to the class.
Public Speaking
Communication Design
Essay Writing
Parsons the New School for Design
Portfolio Strategies - Narativ Storytelling Assignment - Fall 2014
Other Projects
Since childhood, I've always had the need to channel myself through creative expression, and writing easily became a favorite go-to outlet. I just love how merely stringing a few words together can produce various outputs: essays (for any class), branding content, stories, commentary.., And how a writer's style must change with her intended audience: professors, consumers, self... Please click on the project's image to read its full description and see it in its entirety.


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'Til Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick
Despite containing a rather licentious deflowering of an unmarried woman, 'Til Death Do Us Part is far more concerned with smouldering glances and pent up lust than any release, and as such is a very gentle novel in terms of sexual scenes.
Now that I've got that off of my chest, I'm going to move on to talk about why this novel was ultimately entirely enrapturing. For starters, the male protagonist was physically disfigured, and suffered a great deal as a result of this. I know I've just mentioned that I'm talking about positives now, but I assure you I haven't taken some kind of sadistic pleasure in Trent's pain. Rather, I felt this was aspect of the novel was incredibly important as most novels dealing with this time period focus on a woman's physical disfigurement and her therefore 'unsuitability' for marriage instead of a man's. Calista's ability to see past Trent's scars to the kind of man he is inside is truly touching and, I believe, empowering and inspirational for those who suffer from a similar condition.
Indeed, the love between Calista and Trent is very engaging. They begin as an unlikely pair, with him suggesting that her introductions service is an unsafe thing for his sister Eudora to involve herself in, and Calista throwing him out of her home. Yet, when Calista finds herself the unwilling target of some dangerous and terrifying attention, the pair team up to suss out what's going on. The one major disappointment in their love story? The cultural anachronisms placed on the couple's sexual liaisons. Despite living in an age in which propriety is key, and both individuals being upstanding middle class citizens, Calista allows Trent to deflower her on the floor of a library without so much of a whimper of doubt. This, combined with how abrupt the moments leading up to their steamy encounter are, made the whole scene truly disappointing.
Trust appears to be the most important theme of the novel, and the sheer variety of ways in which it is expressed makes 'Til Death Do Us Part very intriguing. The most prevalent of these is trust in one's partner; Nestor was an untrustworthy beau, and as such remains a malicious figure throughout, whilst Calista's entire introductions service is based on ensuring that only trustworthy potential partners may attend her salons. Indeed, it is the trust that Calista and Trent have for one another after they work together to fend off an attacker that really draws them to each other.
Another aspect of the of the plot which I found truly entrancing was the cultural and historical explanation of 'memento mori'. If, like me, you're a little bit in love with learning about all aspects of Victorian life, then the level of detail Amanda Quick goes to in the novel to describe these death gifts is rather alluring. From an explanation of why coffin safety bells are necessary, to the exploration of keepsakes people kept of their loved ones as they sickened and neared death, Quick gives readers an incredibly detailed oversight of a way in which some people dealt with death at this time.
All in all, if you're looking for something that sees characters get hot and steamy under the sheets, this is not the one for you. Despite containing a rather licentious deflowering of an unmarried woman, 'Til Death Do Us Part is far more concerned with smouldering glances and pent up lust than any release, and as such is a very gentle novel in terms of sexual scenes. However, if you fancy something truly romantic with a bit of a historical context thrown into the mix, then this book has got your back.
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Helpful Tips: How to Have Fun and Get Healthier
The current statistics are alarming: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the overweight/obesity rate in children today is triple that of just a generation ago. One in 3 children in the United States is now overweight and at increased risk for serious medical problems like diabetes and heart disease.
Although the child obesity crisis is a complex problem, Let's Move!an initiative launched by First Lady Michelle Obama in 2010is helping parents and caregivers, teachers and school administrators, community and faith leaders, organizations and private companies to work together to find simple solutions.
There are some simple steps parents can take to improve their children's health. Here, we focus on ways to get your child away from the television, computer or video game, and up and movingfor at least one hour every day.
- Make sure your child gets enough sleep every day. Several studies have linked inadequate sleep to unhealthy weightin children and adults. In fact, one study indicated that obesity risk in kids who don't get enough sleep is more than 4 times higher than for kids who get the recommended amount of sleep most nights of the week.
- Limit media time to no more than 1 or 2 hours a day total. On average, children and adolescents in the United States now spend about 7 1/2 hours every day using entertainment media such as television, video games, computers and cell phones. Turn off the TV during mealtimes and don't put a television or computer in your child's room.
- Visit Let's Move! for helpful ways to get your family started on the right path towards a healthier lifestyle. Children need at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every day. But, it doesn't have to be all at onceit all adds up!
- Make your plantogether. Let's Move! provides some great online tools you can explore with your kids. Involve your whole family in deciding Where to Go and What to Do during school vacations. Set your goals, draft a schedule and make physical activity part of your family's routine.
- Don't forget to eat right. Save time and money this summer and have more of both for doing things you enjoy. Get your children involved in planning (and cooking!) meals and grocery shopping and you'll be pleasantly surprised how easy it can be to make healthy changes.


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Happy weekend!!! We are in the midst of some crummy weather here, which sure has made the weekend feel gloomy. This weekend has been busy (all with fun things though), and unfortunately is flying by! I am savoring every second that I possibly can.
Although it's been rainy, the flowers are in full swing over here. I'm currently obsessed with taking pictures of the spring sights 😉
We got our race pictures back from the half marathon last Sunday. That's always one of the things I look forward to the most! I ended up buying them because I thought there were some good ones:)
Our wedding plans are finally starting to feel like they're coming together! We had our catering tasting and final tour of our venue after its renovations. We officially have double digits left – LESS THAN 100 DAYS!!
Sunrises! Despite the cloudiness lately, I have seen some awesome sunrises on my way to work! I always take these pictures while driving so they're not the best, but they put a smile on my face.
One of my favorite Easter treats is always my mom's deviled eggs. I always assumed they were hard to make, but I finally learned this past Easter and successfully made my first batch! The paprika got away from me so they're not the prettiest, but hey, they work;)
13 days down of working out before work! I still have a while to go before I get my 21 in:)
My fiance's sister graduated from my alma mater yesterday! Although we graduated over 2 years ago, it's still weird going back and standing up as alumni. It's a great day to be a bronco!
Today I am off to a baby shower for one of my friends and then we head to our wedding mock up to check out our decorations! I hope your day goes by slowly in the best way.
Happy Sunday 🙂


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Clark will take over the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the Crown corporation tasked with selling legal pot once it becomes legal this summer.
Toronto-based legal clinic says it has seen an uptick in complaints from recently terminated employees at T&T Supermarket.
Police say they received a call around 1 a.m. about the fire at a small business on Fleury Street near the corner of Hamel Avenue.
You may call him a dreamer, but Thunder Bay, Ont. architect John Stephenson wants people to start thinking about creative ways to make the city more vibrant.


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Death Notices
Evelyn MATTHEWS
Saturday April 21, 2018
MATTHEWS, Evelyn Airth (nee Biggs) – passed away at the St. Mary's Hospital, Kitchener on Saturday, April 21st, 2018 in her 89th year. Beloved wife of the late Norman Matthews (2017). Loving mother of the late David Matthews (2016), Susan Matthews, Robert Matthews, Jill Egan and proud grandmother to six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Evelyn graduated from Kingston General Hospital as a registered nurse in 1951 and finished her career working as an airline stewardess with Trans Canada Airlines. Friends are invited to share their memories of Evelyn with her family at the JASON SMITH FUNERAL CHAPEL, 689 Norfolk St. North Simcoe for visitation on Friday, April 27th, 2018 from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. A memorial service will follow in the chapel at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Ron Mullin officiating. Private family interment of ashes: Oakwood Cemetery, Simcoe. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to donate in memory of Evelyn are asked to consider the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Personal online condolences at www.smithfuneralchapel.com (519) 426-0199
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High School Summer Assignments
Sussex Academy provides students from grades 6 through 12 with meaningful summer work in order to continue and further one's education despite the longer break. Please locate the required summer work from the list below. Click on each of the links to open the assignment. Math assignments are course-specific and not listed by grade. If you are enrolled in a specific math course, please find that course and complete the work. If you do not see your course, then there is no assigned summer mathematics work to do.
Should you have specific questions about any assignment, feel free to email the teacher. While responses may be delayed due to vacations, etc., every attempt will be made to contact you in a timely manner.
Math Courses
Foundations of College Algebra
Honors Courses
Honors Spanish 3/4/IB SL 1 (all 3 have the same assignment)


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Deaths from breast cancer within island fall to record low
THE number of women in the island dying from breast cancer is continuing to fall.
Eleven women in Guernsey succumbed to the disease in 2007 and in the UK it has been revealed that the death rate has fallen to a record low.
Two years ago, 11,900 women died in the UK from the disease, the lowest number since records began in 1971.
Although the Guernsey figure for last year has not yet been released, it is expected to be even lower then the previous one.
Rising rates of diagnosis and better care and screening are just some of the factors that have been said to contribute to the fall.
Consultant radiologist Louise Gaunt said Guernsey's adjusted death rate from breast cancer was comparable to the UK and has been falling over the same period of time.
One area where we are ahead of the UK is that over 50% of all breast cancers were detected through screening in 2006 and 2007,' she said.
This is probably because we screen every two years rather than every three years, while our upper-age limit is higher than in the UK as we screen routinely to the age of 75 years.' Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK with 45,500 women being diagnosed every year with the disease.
Guernsey's lead nurse for cancer and palliative care services, Karen Leach, said: Ongoing research to improve treatment for breast cancer, as well as heightened awareness and earlier detection through screening, have all contributed to improved survival rates.'
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Great Wave Flume (GWK)
In 1996 the Coastal Research Centre (FZK) as a 'common central facility of the Leibniz University of Hannover and the Technical University of Braunschweig' was established in the context of greater coordination of coastal research and to encourage interdisciplinary, national and international cooperation.
The Large Wave Flume (GWK) is the world's largest publicly accessible research facility of its kind. It went into operation 1983. Through the cooperation of the four following partner institutions the best use of this research facility is guaranteed. The cooperation although strengthen competitiveness, along with a substantial improvement of conditions for the training of young scientists in hydraulic engineering and coastal engineering.
The overall objective of the investigations in the Great Wave Flume (GWK) are large-scale physical model tests, the scientific investigation of hydrodynamic, morph dynamic and ecological processes at the coast and in the coastal zone, including its effects on hydraulic engineering structures.
Partner institutes of FZK
- Franzius-Institute for Hydraulic, Estuarine and Coastal Engineering (LUH)
- Institute for Geotechnical Engineering (LUH)
- Leichtweiß Institute of Hydraulic Engineering (TU-BS)
- Institute of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnival Engineering (TU-BS)
Technical details of GWK
The Great Wave Flume (GWK) is a covered hutch-design. With dimensions of approximately 310 meters of usable length, a width of 5 m and a depth of 7 m, GWK is currently the largest free accessible wave tank in the world.
With the hydraulically driven machine shaft (900 kW) with a maximum stroke of ± 2.10 m regular waves and waves in deep and shallow water conditions can be simulated. Regular waves can be generated with wave heights up to 2.0m; wave spectra with significant wave heights up to approximately 1.30 m.
Further information on the FZK and GWK and can be found on the website.