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BATON ROUGE – After the success of the inaugural TEDxLSU event in 2013, the popular event will return to LSU on Saturday, March 29, 2014, in the Claude L. Shaver Theatre, located in the LSU Music & Dramatic Arts Building on Dalrymple Drive.
Spearheaded by a group of volunteers from the LSU community, TEDxLSU is an independently organized, not-for-profit event. The 2014 edition of TEDxLSU is based on the theme of enactment, as talks will focus on dynamic social, civic and commercial efforts as well as ideas that inspire positive change for Louisiana and its citizens.
TEDxLSU showcases innovative Louisianans who will each give the "talk of their life" around the power of ideas. Presenters include innovative thinkers, from both the university and the greater Louisiana community, who will discuss their approaches to some of humanity's fundamental concerns. Their creativity stems from linking resource networks, exploring across disciplines, transgressing cultural boundaries, and seeking simple, tangible solutions. This diverse group of thought leaders, maverick thinkers, achievers, entrepreneurs, innovators and humanitarians educate, inspire and stimulate change and evolution with the ultimate goal being inspired action across communities.
"To us, enact includes the promotion and creation of ventures that will help shape the future of our region and state in a positive manner," said Joey Watson, TEDxLSU curator.
Speakers at TEDxLSU 2014 will explore the following questions:
• What are people in our community and region doing today that fosters immediate change?
• What are some effects, as well as ramifications, from the enactment of these social, civic and commercial attempts to change our way of life?
• How can we enact?
• What do we want out city, university and state to be in 2015? In 2020? How do the ideas presented at TEDxLSU 2014 get us there?
As Louisiana's flagship university, LSU and its Communication across the Curriculum program champions this exciting, innovative event focused on "ideas worth spreading."
"Last year, we talked about how our community was changing through the theme 'evolve,'" said Rebecca Burdette, associate director of LSU's Communication across the Curriculum program. "This year, we want to talk about the exciting things that are happening when we 'enact.'"
TEDxLSU organizers are currently securing speakers for the event, and tickets will go sale in February. Partnership opportunities are also available for TEDxLSU 2014 Visit the TEDxLSU website, www.tedxlsu.com for more details. "Like" the TEDxLSU Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/tedxlsu, and follow on Twitter at @TEDXLSU to get the most up-to-date information.
About TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x means it is an independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized – subject to certain rules and regulations.
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, for free, at www.TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, Calif., along with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs; the annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily; the recently launched TED-Ed platform for students and educators; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide; and TEDBooks, short e-books by speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED's stage. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Follow TED on Twitter @TEDTalks or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TED.
Contact Aaron Looney
LSU Media Relations
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This is a post for Teaser Tuesday, which is where I randomly pick a page of the book I'm reading at the moment, and share with all you lovelies two sentences off that page, with no spoilers allowed. This is a weekly event, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. The button is supplied by the lovely Kylee of Babbling of a Bookaholic.
This week I'm reading Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch. It is all about Peter Grant, a police officer in the London MET, and how a murder and subsequent interview with a witness who just happened to be a ghost open his world up to all the secret magical malarky in London. Magic and Men in Uniform, yes please!
p. 213.
The fireball I had already practiced, but when it came to apply Iactus it felt slippery as if, unlike the apples, there was nothing to get a purchase on. When I flung out my arm in the approved dramatic fashion my fireball drifted gently down the length of the firing range, burned a small hole in the target and embedded itself in the sandbags behind.
Has anyone read any books from this series? I'd love to know your thoughts.
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Education Specialist, Instructional Technology (Wayne State University), (2018 pending)
Online Teaching Graduate Certificate (Wayne State University), 2017
College and University Teaching Graduate Certificate (Wayne State University), 2016
M.Ed. in Kinesiology, Exercise and Sport Science (Wayne State University), 2013
M.A. in Education, Sports Administration (Wayne State University), 2001
B.S. in Psychology (Wayne State University), 1999
Ms. Fawne Allossery has worked as an Academic Services Officer (ASO) for Wayne State University in the College of Education, Division of Academic Services since 2006 and was awarded ESS in 2011 and promoted from ASO II to ASO III in 2015. In this position, Ms. Allossery serves as the primary advisor for approximately 450 registered students, majoring in Kinesiology, Health Education, and Secondary Education. She is also the degree auditor for all bachelor's degree students in the College of Education, and recommends teacher candidates to the Michigan Department of Education for their standard teaching certificate. Ms. Allossery is also classified as Part-Time Faculty within the Division of Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Studies. She's taught several upper-division and graduate-level courses within the Health Education, and Exercise and Sport Science programs.
Ms. Allossery assists with a variety of campus-wide initiatives, including but not limited to Scholar's Day and other Honors College events, Commencement, Open Houses, New Student and Transfer Orientations, Counselor Update meetings, and currently serves on numerous College and divisional committees, including Curriculum, Assessment, Academic Staff Promotion and Tenure, Selective Salary, and the Office of Clinical Experiences Advisory Board. Ms. Allossery has previously served on the College's Elections Committee as well as the TeachDETROIT Planning Committee, and the Diversity (Social Justice) Committee, among others. Ms. Allossery also coordinated the Pathways Learning Community for two years, securing over $15,000 in grant funding.
Ms. Allossery is also currently an Adjunct Instructor in the Wellness, Health, and Exercise Science Department at Macomb Community College. Ms. Allossery served as Macomb's Head Women's Basketball Coach and Sports Information Coordinator for six years (2001-07), and the Head Volleyball Coach for two seasons (2003-04).
• Advise Secondary Education students
• Verify degree requirements for bachelor degree students
• Verify requirements for initial teacher certification for undergraduates, Post-Bachelor & combined degree students in the College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Process requests for "degree only" and "major only"
• Update Post-Bachelor major/minor and undergraduate curriculum guides
• Coordinate the Dean's List and Honors Programs
Area Of Expertise
•Academic advising (Community Health, Exercise and Sport Science, Physical Education, Physical Activity Leadership, School Health, Secondary Education)
•Graduation requirements
•Teacher education and certification requirements
•Exercise, health and sport psychology
•Health education
•Human disease
Courses Taught
HE 3500 Human Disease
HE 5522 Health Psychology
HE 5993 Writing Intensive Course in Health Education
KIN 5520 Sport Psychology
KIN 5523 Physical Activity and Exercise Psychology
Community Engagement Activities
- American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
- Michigan Academic Advising Association (MIACADA)
- Michigan College Personnel Association (MCPA)
- Michigan Education Association (MEA)
- National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)
- Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE)
- Society of Health and Physical Educators-Michigan (SHAPE-MI)
- 1999
Finalist, David Henry Award (outstanding achievement by a WSU graduating senior)
- 1994
WSU Presidential Scholarship (1994-1998)
- 1998
David Adamany Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship (1998-1999)
- 2012
Received "W" Award and recognized as a "Woman Who Made A Difference" at WSU Athletics W-Day Brunch
- 2014
Recognized as a "Favorite Professor" at WSU Athletics 14th Annual Academic Recognition Luncheon
- 2015
Recognized as a "Favorite Professor" at WSU Athletics 15th Annual Academic Recognition Luncheon
- 2016
Received "Academic Staff" Award by the College of Education
- Pathways Learning Community Grant, $8200
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Skylight Confessions
Skylight Confessions is one of those books in which not all of the main characters are living, breathing entities. In this case, one of them is the house in which most of the major characters live at some point in the novel's progression. That house, an architectural marvel known locally as the "Glass Slipper," gives new meaning to the old saying about "people who live in glass houses" because those who live there have to adapt to the fact that this house, so largely constructed from glass, allows much of the outside world to intrude on their personal space and privacy. Sadly, no one who lives in the house really seems to enjoy the experience but that is not all the house's fault.
Hoffman's story begins in another house, the one in which seventeen-year-old Arlyn Singer is alone and grieving the very recent death of her father. Arlyn is a romantic girl who earnestly believes in fate and destiny. She has convinced herself that the man of her dreams, if she is has the patience to wait for him, will soon present himself at her front door and that the two of them will live happily together for the rest of their lives. When John Moody, a college student who has lost his way in search of a nearby party, stops to ask directions, Arlyn happily seduces him in the certainty that he is the man for whom she has been waiting.
Arlyn is only partially correct, as it turns out. True, she will live with John Moody for the rest of her life - but she will be dead well before she is thirty, leaving John and her two children on their own. Skylight Confessions is the story of the largely dysfunctional family that Arlyn leaves behind: six-year-old Sam, a difficult child who eventually turns to drugs in order to get him through a life without the mother he adored, a baby girl named Blanca who grows into an angry young woman who resents her father and the woman he married soon after her mother's death, and John Moody, the man Arlyn so confidently married and who has learned to draw comfort from his frequent sightings of her ghost around the house.
Skylight Confessions is filled with characters in addition to the Moody family who have confessions of their own to make. These include Arlyn's old friend, Cynthia, a woman who offers John Moody the comfort of her bed even before Arlyn is dead and buried, and George, the window washer who kept the house walls and roof clean for so many years, a man Arlyn feels more love for at the end than she feels for her husband. All of these characters have problems and, at one time or another, all of them behave badly, making them more memorable than likable in the eyes of the reader.
But even the novel's most consistently noble character, Meredith, the woman who appears from nowhere and accepts a job as mentor to the two Moody children a few years after Arlyn's death, has a confession to make. Like John Moody, she sees Arlyn's ghost and she followed Moody home after first noticing him and the ghost together far from the family home. Meredith bonds with the two children and inserts a note of normalcy into their lives but remains reluctant to admit how and why she first entered their lives.
Mare Winningham offers an accomplished reading of this six-disc audio book, perfectly capturing the emotions of the various characters as she reads their words in the various stages of their lives but, bottom line, Skylight Confessions doesn't have much new to add and the story and characters fall a bit flat, a disappointment to a first-time reader of Alice Hoffman.
Rated at: 3.0
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Sam, try "Seventh Heaven" and "Turtle Moon", which are the best Hoffman has ever written, in my opinion.ReplyDelete
I rarely re-read a book and I have re-read both of these a couple of times.
Thanks for the recommendations, Joann. I was pretty much "underwhelmed" by this one but I'm willing to try another one or two just based on Hoffman's reputation.ReplyDelete
I love her books. Maybe Second Nature would be more to your liking.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the suggestion, Carrie.ReplyDelete
Sam, I agree. I'm in the middle of reading Skylight Confessions and I find it a bit...off-kilter. It's different from my normal taste in novels; however, I read reviews and saw that Hoffman had great things written about her so I thought I'd give it a try. It took me awhile to get on board the "Arlyn Train" which was overwhelmingly emotional and very much like stereotypical high school drama, which is quite a turn off. Dispite my disatisfaction with the main character and her immense desire to live her fate, her impatience was annoying. All of that having been said, I can't put the book down. I'm just hoping, by the end of the book, I'm not stricken with depression...if I don't take a break every 30 pages I feel as if I'm going to get pulled into a life of negative and "woe is me." Maybe the end of the book will be good. Let me know if any of her other books are good so I can continue to read her work.ReplyDelete
Meg, I haven't been able to force myself yet into another Hoffman book but some of the earlier comments do recommend a few of her books that sound pretty good. Hoffman's recent rant (rage) directed at a newspaper book critic gives me such a bad impression of the woman that I doubt I'll be bothering with one of her books, myself, any time soon, though.ReplyDelete


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16 April 2015
How to converge on an idea (in a 48 hour challenge)by Kelly Ryan / No Comments
Earlier, I shared some techniques for having ideas and having good ideas. These were some techniques I worked through with teams at the Innes 48 business start up competition. Here is the next step I worked through with some teams; converging on an idea to progress with.
When teams came to the end of the initial ideation phase, they needed to select an idea from the bunch, to investigate further and flesh out into a business concept.
This is easier said than done. I've been in both mentor and participant roles in 48 hour challenges like this. It can be surprisingly difficult to select a single idea from a bunch of ideas, to […]Read More
3 April 2015
5 techniques for having ideas and having good ideasby Kelly Ryan / No Comments
Divergent mentors teams in the Innes 48 business start-up competition, and this year we were tasked with being the mentor experts on ideation.
I was called on to help teams at various stages of ideation, and their needs generally fell within three categories; generating ideas, generating 'good' ideas, and choosing an idea to progress with. For generating ideas and generating good ideas, I worked through five techniques with the teams. These techniques for ideation are as valuable for more established organisations as they are in start-ups.
Generating ideas
The first challenge for some teams was generating ideas. Our approach to generating ideas is brainstorming. Usually, a brainstorming activity has a well-defined question as the central topic. In the Innes 48 […]Read More
11 February 2015
4 success factors for building capability in human-centred designby Matt Currie / No Comments
Many organisations we come into contact with are interested in developing their in-house capability in design thinking or human-centred design. Sometimes this is the sole focus of their engagement with us. Other times it's a secondary objective attached to a specific product/service innovation project.
Here are some of the key considerations and success factors that I believe an organisation ought to focus on when they have a goal to build internal capability in human-centred design.
1. Define the capability vision
Organisations need to have a clear view on what capability they want to develop and what this will look like within the organisation when fully developed. Fuzzy goals like "we want to be better at understanding customer needs" aren't particularly helpful for organising activities and resources. A better vision […]
27 November 2014
Crossing the threshold; open arms or obstacle course?by Kelly Ryan / No Comments
I never cease to be amazed at how often it is quite difficult to enter a physical place, as a customer, and make that important face to face engagement with an organisation.
This may be a place that is a long-term service provider to you. That you have an appointment with. One which they gladly scheduled for you. Or maybe it's a place that advertised to you, explicitly inviting you to come and check out their wares. Maybe it's somewhere that you decide to visit on a whim, as you were walking past.
So you go to visit this place. You arrive there, at the threshold. And are confronted by a generously laden table of goods right in the entranceway, around which you must carefully manoeuver, along with […]Read More
23 October 2014
How to find out what your customers needby Matt Currie / No Comments
"We have to find out what our customers want!", "We could do a survey…", "Let's just talk to our call centre staff; they'll know."
Surveys and talking to frontline staff all have their value, but for us, the go-to technique for helping our clients find out what their customers really need is ethnography-based research.
What is ethnography-based research? Essentially, it's qualitative research that focuses on understanding how people live their lives, from their perspective. "Oh, you mean walking a mile in your customer's shoes?": yes that's one aspect, it's also looking inside their closet where they keep those shoes, talking to them about what footwear means to them, and observing them while they shop for new shoes.
Why do we take this approach? Because we've found it's the best way […]Read More
8 September 2014
7 tips for better brainstormingby Matt Currie / 2 Comments
In our experience, most people in business are familiar with brainstorming as an idea generation technique. So much so that when we inject brainstorming into our projects it's often met with some level of eye rolling – "Simple old brainstorming! Is that all you've got?"
Despite this familiarity, and maybe because of the scepticism, we find that many brainstorming sessions fail to deliver maximum value if left to their own devices.
To combat this, at Divergent we've got a set of brainstorming rules we adhere to very closely.
1. Always have a well defined question or challenge as your brainstorming topic eg. how might we rid the area of mice? which new customers could we target?
2. Brainstorm with others – make sure everyone contributes ideas (no-one's allowed to […]Read More


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Last friday we attended the "Merry Guinness. Share the Magic this Christmas" celebration at Bull Dog Pub and Cafe, Sri Hartamas.
It was fabulous even there were slightly rain. There were spread of goodies across the long table, can be seen the roasted lamb, truly solid grilled sausages, crisp deep fried chicken wings, mashed potatoes and lovely curry chicken.
There were such a magical Christmas feel at the Bull Dog, upon seeing the people gathered enjoying a great chat over a pint of Guinness can be truly beautiful. Pairing the drinks Guinness with the food that night was an overwhelming experience. I was having mashed potatoes with curry, it was truly amazing feeling. it brought back a lot of fabulous memeories of my abroad experience.
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The annual Jeanne E. Jonas Professional Development Symposium and the Frank W. Masterson Memorial Banquet will be from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday at Marty Kuhl's Highland House on Highland Avenue Extension in the Town of Wallkill.
The annual Jeanne E. Jonas Professional Development Symposium and the Frank W. Masterson Memorial Banquet will be from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday at Marty Kuhl's Highland House on Highland Avenue Extension in the Town of Wallkill.
The banquet was established long before Jonas of Goshen died in 1996 and was honored for her incredible vision and leadership in many facets of the community. Masterson of Newburgh, the dean of the Orange County Legislature, was serving in his 14th term when he died in 1973. He was an incredibly popular and active citizen, and an award was established that year in his honor. This year's recipient is Susan Murray-Tetz, who has been an active and passionate advocate in the youth develpment movement in Orange County for more than 20 years.
In combining the Masterson Banquet with the Jonas Symposium, the Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of New York has chosen to use the occasion to honor state Sen. Thomas Morahan with its Geriatric Mental Health Leadership Award. It will be presented by Michael Friedman, Alliance chairman.
Topics in the symposium and the presenter will be "Mental Health and the Aging Population: Needs and Strategies" with Dr. Michele Koury, medical director at Crystal Run Healthcare, and "A Discussion About Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness," with John Allen, director of the state Office of Mental Health-Bureau of Recipient Affairs.
The cost for the Nov. 1 event is $30. For reservations call the Mental Health Association where Nadia Allen is the executive director. The number is 294-7411, ext. 257.
On today's calendar
Talented and pretty Lea Salonga, who starred as Kim in the world premiere of "Miss Saigon" in London in 1989 and was the first Asian actress to play Eponine on Broadway in "Les Miserables," will be the guest artist in the 7:30 p.m. concert today at Eisenhower Hall at West Point. The award-winning actress also was employed by Disney as the singing voice of Mulan in "Mulan" and Princess Jasmine in "Aladdin. The concert is sponsored by the U.S. Military Academy Band, which will accompany her.
As with all the band's concerts, check the hot line (938-2617) for changes. And because of tight security, allow time for a full vehicle search and have photo identification ready.
The house at 4 Reynolds Road in Monroe will be the setting for Sabbath services that begin at 6:15 p.m. today for Congregation Eitz Chaim. The structure is next to the new shul at the corner of Reynolds Road and Orange Turnpike that is expected to be ready for occupancy within a few weeks. Rabbi Adam Kligfeld recently conducted the final Havdalah at the Jewish Community Center where the congregation has met for years. Although it was an emotional service, the congregation is excited to finally be moving toward its new shul. The Orange County Farmers' Museum on Route 17K in Montgomery is the setting from 7:30-10 p.m. today for its annual haunted hayride. Tickets at the gate are $3.
As the last event of the season, the annual admission-free Harvest Festival will be offered from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday. There will be nonscary hayrides, also free.
The Golden Floridians Senior Citizens will host a holiday craft boutique and sale from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. tomorrow at the Senior Center, Cohen Circle in Florida. Items include crafts, jewelry a bake sale and many used items. A "Tricky Train Drawing and Reception," a unique fundraiser to honor the Port Jervis Centennial, will be hosted by the Tri-States Railway Preservation Society at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Port Java Coffeehouse, 19 Front St., Port Jervis.
It's an unusual exhibit of handcrafted one-of-a-kind wooden railroad cabooses created by 21 local artists and professionals. The work is in the front window of the coffeehouse and can be viewed daily from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily until the reception. Raffle tickets are $1 each, and people do not have to attend the reception to win. For information, call 856-8889.
Among the many Halloween events are two costume parades tomorrow that are certain to attract lots of youngsters.
In Middletown, a revived parade that was started years ago by the Jaycees and is now sponsored by numerous groups, including the Middletown Kiwanis, will step off at noon. Lineup is at 11:30 a.m. on Erie Way at Montgomery Street. Lou Morse at 343-6918 is in charge.
In Walker Valley, the annual Halloween parade will line up at 12:30 p.m. at Weed Road and Route 52 to step off at 1 p.m. The group will walk to the firehouse on Route 52 for refreshments, costume judging, face and pumpkin painting. If it rains, the parade is canceled but the free activities at the firehouse will continue.
During a recent Court of Honor, Alex Angstom, 15, of Boy Scout Troop 172 in New Paltz, received his Eagle Award. Attending the event were other members of his family who are Eagle Scouts, including his father, Michael, who is the troop leader, and his uncle Andrew Angstom. Unable to attend were two other Eagles in the family, Alex's brother, Nat, and his uncle Jon Angstom. The Court of Honor was conducted at the Reformed Church of New Paltz where Alex renovated the Junior Choir Room as part of his Eagle Award project. Congratulations. Kevin Walker is dinner chairman and chief cook for the sold-out Nov. 4 roast beef and Yorkshire pudding dinner at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Walden. Tickets are always sold out, but this is the first time according to Faith Marroon, reservations chairwoman, they've been gone so early! Ariel Heppes through the Middletown Elks has won the state Elks state championship in Oneonta and will advance to the national championships Nov. 4 in Augusta, Maine. She will represent the east central district and the Middletown Elks in the "girls under 14" division. Congratulations. Thomas McCluskey of Middletown is the soccer chairman for the east central district. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County, a nonprofit organization that mentors youths, has lots of friends, said Nancy Kosloski, director for 29 years, who is most appreciative.
For the 14th consecutive year, employees at IBM in Sterling Forest provided 25 backpacks filled with school supplies. Plus the sociology department at West Point donated $1,500 from its Chili Cook Off and Auction to be used for youths in need. Maj. Alex Deraney was the officer-in-charge. Cadets from West Point continue to be part of a mentoring program for the nonprofit, a project that has continued for 29 years.
And, during the annual Orange County United Way's Day of Caring, employees from UPS, who are regular contributors to the nonprofit through the payroll deductible campaign, surprised two deserving teens in the program with complete makeovers to their bedrooms. Nice job!
Barbara Bedell's column appears daily. Call her at 346-3125.


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Audible Audibles Feat. Former UNC Safety Michael Felder
By Brandon Cavanaugh at May 2, 2012 | 7:00 AM | Print
Husker Locker's Brandon Cavanaugh sits down with some of the best and brightest minds in college football as new guests come in left and right to be part of Audible Audibles.
This week, Former North Carolina Safety and Bleacher Report Content Machine Michael Felder kicks back in his VIP chair.
Topics include:
– The effects of Aaron Green's departure
– Fans' reactions to transfers
– Is moving Braylon Heard back behind Burkhead the best move?
– How Nebraska's secondary could be the team's saving grace
– The potential for a slew of decommitments across the country
– Whether or not the playoff being offered actually solves any issues
Follow Michael on Twitter: @InTheBleachers
Follow Brandon on Twitter: @eightlaces
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Re: finepix 2200 driver..please help!!!!
Re: finepix 2200 driver..please help!!!!
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Posted by teedee9 on January 04, 2002 at 15:45:45:
In Reply to: Re: finepix 2200 driver..please help!!!! posted by Matt on December 31, 2001 at 08:24:45:
: I also bought one from Dixon's with Ł120 off, and couldn't read the CD! All the folders were there but no files. Took it back ant they changed it ok, and we checked in the shop that the CD was ok, got it home and still no files - but I'm not the only one with this problem! I booted into Linux and copied them to hard disk then back into Win98 and installed the drivers. The first few pics were ok, but now the PC locks up each time I try to download anything off the camera. But I'm well impressed with the camera. Ł179 for 2.1 Megapixels - it does us ok. I also got a 64MB card for Ł49. ANyone know where I can get a 5v PSU fit it though? Ł29 is a bit steep.
: (I also used to work for Fuji. Hmmm)
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: : hello everyone
: : i am writing on behalf of my despairing family who recently bought a fujifilm finepix 2200 digital camera. the old classic 'it might have been in the box which i threw out' trick seems to have happened. after squeezing the (appalling) fujifilm website i was not able to get my hands on it (their most popular model, nice one guys...)
: : if anyone still has the installation c.d. for pc could they please email me the driver to transmit the images from the camera to the pc as soon as possible as my folks are so keen to get the images off the camera and sent off to relatives.
: : sob sob...
: : thank you for your attention.
: : yours in anticipation,
: : edward
Me too, got the disc and drivers, please contact for help.
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I've been desperately working on a personal sculpture project all summer, have done little school related stuff, and have recently been asked to do quite a bit of "pretty-i-fying" of the school halls. Since I refuse to head over to school any earlier than I must, this doesn't leave much actual teaching-planning time in my pre-planning/teacher-workday week at school.
If you are a first year teacher, you are getting ready to learn (and live) a really un-fun fact: Most of the time you spend in pre-planning will be in meetings. In fact, you should expect little to no time in your classroom preparing for the school year during pre-planning. Most principals send out an email over the summer stating that the school is open for teachers about a week ahead of pre-planning. . . I've come to learn (the hard way) this is a strong suggestion that you get on over to school, and get your classroom ready before pre-planning. So, when I say I will not head back to school "until I must," that means I'll be darkening the doorway about one-two days before pre-planning, and will be getting as much paperwork done prior to that time as possible.
The first fews days of school are always trying to me as an Art teacher. I don't want to go over rules for six hours straight; I want to make Art! So, I long ago left the whole "let's go over the syllabus word-for-word" stuff by the wayside, and jump right in! This year, school starts on a Wednesday, which makes the whole "here is a mini project to begin Art" thing a lot easier. I like for the first project I do every year to be something the students make individually, and that I can hang as one collaborative piece in the main hallway. In the past, we have all made mini 4 in 4 in self portraits in solid colors of the color wheel. We then hang the portraits in color order to make a "rainbow of faces." This is a wonderful first project for elementary students! This allows me to show them how we make Art as a community, and also allows me to get some stuff up on those sad, empty walls ASAP.
This year, I want to do something a little bit deeper, and am using an incredible concept from Susan Bivona over on Art on the Move to make a similar collaborative piece with my students.
|image by Susan Bivona from Art on the Move, seen here: http://art-on-the-move.blogspot.com/2012/10/sowhat-is-art.html
Day 1:
1. Meet students at the door, get their names, and direct them to their numbered, assigned seat
2. Welcome students to begin class
3. Go over how to say my name ("You can call me Ms. Zschaber or Ms. Z.")
4. Show a quick PowerPoint about me (here is me with my dogs! Here is my Art! etc. etc.)
5. Ask students to grab a note-card and pencil from the center of the table.
6. Have the students answer questions about how they feel about art, how they feel about art class, what they hope to do in art class family, dreams, hopes, and activities on the card (I use these later to customize projects that are as relevant, engaging, and interesting to my students as possible).
7. Ask a few brave souls to share their responses.
8. Collect the cards.
9. Hand out the syllabus.
10. Go over the syllabus in a brief manner by showing a funny PowerPoint about class expectations.
11. Go over the rules (again brief).
12. Ask students to get a sheet of paper from the center of their table.
13. Demo to students that they will be tracing their hands and arms.
14. Students are to trace hands and arms, cut out work, and label it with their names.
15. Tell students they will be asked to define "What is Art" this week, and to think about their answer before the next class.
Day 2:
1. Welcome students at the door, remind them of the class expectation to read the board upon entry (this involves getting work from previous day).
2. Visually check who follows directions.
3. Welcome and begin class by reiterating the classroom entry expectations
4. Go over the outline for the class, and demo material dispensation and clean up procedures.
5. Ask students to define Art on the scratch paper at their table (in complete sentences).
6. Ask a few brave souls to share. Show a mini PPT about defining Art. Allow students to discuss.
7 . Give students two minutes to get their materials (which they should've done in step 1, and remind them again of this practice).
8. Demo the next steps in the project (decorate their hands in the color assigned to their table).
9. Demo storage procedures for work that needs to dry.
10. Direct students to the "I'm finished" assignment
11. Allow students to work.
12. Go over clean up procedure.
13. Clean up, have closer, and leave.
Day 3:
1. Welcome students at the door, remind them of the class expectation to read the board upon entry (this involves getting work from previous day).
2. Visually check who follows directions.
3. Make a list on the board of students who follow directions and say THANK-YOU!
4. Welcome and begin class by reiterating the classroom entry expectations
5. Go over the outline for the class, and demo material dispensation and clean up procedures, and hallway procedure for hanging artwork.
6. Give students two minutes to get their materials (which they should've done in step 1, and remind them again of this practice. This is the last day they will be allowed to do this w/o consequence).
7. Demo how to finish up the project (add your "What is Art" definition to your hand).
8. Students add finishing touches to their artwork
9. Finished students work on "I'm Finished" assignment (usually a sketchbook assignment).
10. Clean up, go over procedures for hanging up artwork in the hallway.
11. Have students gather work, and hang work in hallway collectively, (last 10 mins of class).
12. Ask a few brave souls to share their answers and discuss their choices. Have a mini-discussion about What Art Is.
13. Tell students what the project will be for the following week, dismiss from hallway to next class.


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For this exercise, I used the camera in aperture priority with the widest possible aperture. Flash was used to fill the light on the subject's face. Two prime lenses were used, one moderate telephoto – a 60mm macro which was equivalent to 90mm in full frame – and an extreme wide-angle – a 14mm equivalent to 21mm in full frame. I tried to frame the subject in the same way between shoots, but the lighting from the fill flash was slightly different in both pictures. The pictures were taken in a corridor inside my house.
In the 60mm picture, only the front door of the house is visible and there are almost no details of the corridor itself. In the 14mm picture, you can see a lot more of detail of the background, including the corridor walls and a bathroom door to the right. I was expecting a more marked difference in the rendering of the subject from the telephoto lens to the wide-angle, but there are no significant differences in the proportions. The face features in the wide-angle look slightly more prominent, particularly the nose and the forehead, but I am not sure how much this was the consequence of the slightly different pose and lighting. Other than through the background, it is not too obvious to tell the differences between the two shots in terms of focal length.


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Hello! My name is Chris, and I am new round these here parts. Inspired by Steve and Helen's inspired re-telling of TIFFNUH's rise to greatness, Joy's rise to reality tv immortality (well...for Living), and Alisha losing horribly (HA!), I am on board to help them guide you all through this series of BINT MODEL. My Top Model experience is limited. I've seen the last one of the British version, and a few of the American version (my favourite model being the same as most of the rest of the Internet. You know, that one who was cast as kind of a joke, was too old for the show, and didn't really look like a model, but made up for it with her ridiculously OTT and obnoxious personality. You know? Tyra?)
Anyway, despite that, I know nothing about modelling, I last bought myself clothes in about 2004, my knowledge of female proportions is...rusty...LET'S GET TO IT!
Previously on BINT MODEL : BINTS! And...well...not models, but people who could one day pretend to be. Sexy tortoise Elle McPherson and her "sidekicks" (Token Bitchy Queen Julien "Old" McDonald, Token Star-Shagger Grace "Got Dressed In A Blackout...A SEXY BLACKOUT!" Woodward (*star status of Matt Cardle pending*) and Token Straight Bloke Charley "Surname Could Not Be More Ironic If It Were 'Natural-TV-Personality' "Speed) went to London and Glasgow and sifted through a bunch of girls including a bitchy drama student, a poet, some girls Charley Speed was trying to pick up for a quick shag, Bible Brenda and...that was about it. Nobody cared, not even the chair, but we're doing it all again! YAY!
We're reminded what the girls are competing for this year - getting to beat a bitch into 2nd place, a contract with Models1, a 6 page-spread and the cover of Company magazine (you're not actually on the cover. They just give you a copy.), a holiday for 2 in Jamaica, a car, a cosmetics campaign with Revlon, a £50,000 international campaign with Miss Selfridge, and maybe, if you're lucky, your own wikipedia page! How exciting! Fearne Rotton reminds us via voiceover that this year the judges (when Elle can be arsed) have travelled around the country to London, Glasgow, Brimingham, Cardiff, Manchester and "Ireland's capital" (THANKS FEARNE!) Dublin. No idea why, given that about 12 people seem to turn up for each casting they might as well have just done it all in one episode in London. BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE THIS MUCH FUN! ELLE EATS A MARS BAR, CAN YOU IMAGINE?!
Sorry about the spoiler there.
This episode covers The Famous Four Going Mad in Cardiff and Birmingham. I am from near Birmingham. This should be fun. Elle's going to walk round the Bullring in sunglasses and leopard-print. If she doesn't leave pregnant, I'll be very surprised. We're promised tears, talent (?) and Julien shouting "WURR WURR WURR WURR!".
Three episodes. Three episodes of this.
First up, glamorous Cardiff. Fearne tells us that excitement is MOUNTING in the Welsh capital. I hate to think what level it was at before. I've seen people more excited about accidentally catching an episode of Murder She Wrote they'd only seen the last 40 minutes of before. Like...a girl smiles? And says she has a family. EXCITING SCENES!
So exciting that we're already resorting to the excitement of Julien McDonald going kerb-crawling. He marches down the street at midnight with "a local friend" (*eyebrow*) hollering "WE ARE LOOKING FOR HOT YOUNG GIRLS! WHERE-EVER YOU MAY BE...COME OUT!" So many mixed messages in that sentence alone, and you can't even see the leather-daddy outfit Julien's wearing. He peers in the window of a lot of fast-food restaurants at people having their pre-vomit kebab, and they all stare back, vaguely confused. He finds some fat old women and patronises them as only a fashion-queen can. Some drunks recognise him, but they're fugs, so he doesn't care.
Suddenly there's a soundtrack change to "Let Me Blow Your Mind" as Julien approaches a girl who is more model-esque than anyone else he's seen trawling the streets of Cardiff. In that she's blonde. Her name is Hannah Wells, and Julien tells her that she's stunning, and that she has to come to auditions tomorrow. She looks vaguely convinced so Julien grabs her and bellows about how he's FOUND HIS FIRST WELSH GIRL. And you know that's a true statement. He rounds up a couple of bar-tarts and a stripper, grabs a deep-fried Mars Bar, orders another for Elle (hilariously saying "CAN I ORDER A DEEP-FRIED MARS BAR FOR ELLE MCPHERSON?" in doing so which...I'm asking for that on my next night out regardless) [I so need to be there when that happens - Steve][ah, fried Mars Bars...*bagpipe music swells, tear rolls down my cheek - Helen] and then heads off into the night, looking for coc...a hotel.
It's the following morning, and Elle's Angels turn up, with Julien wearing sunglasses (so you know he and his local friend had more fun last night), and Grace in a moss green carpet. As she walks in Grace hisses "I smell coffee!" like Nosferatu sniffs out virgins. Charley does nothing. As ever. They all take their places, as Elle arrives, also wearing sunglasses (I'm guessing this is due to fun not connected with any Julien may have had. You know, actual fun) and says that she's dreading Julien backing whatever girl he's scraped out of the Cardiff gutters right to the end. Eh Elle, he kind of seemed like he just picked the first girl with all her limbs under the age of 25 he happened upon.
She waves hi to Julien, and they kiss like the Mafia. He shows her his deep-fried Mars Bar. She eats it. None of that is a euphemism. It couldn't be. Even Julien McDonald's cock is less gross than a deep-fried Mars Bar. You know, probably. As this happens "Sweet Disposition" by Tender Trap plays, like this is supposed to be kookily inspiring. A MODEL EATS! CALLS ZOOEY DESCHANNEL!
Modelling now (what, so soon?) and we see a bunch of girls getting cut for being midgets, and other girls doing those funny walks that models do. Swish swish swish. First group now, and one girl, Lisa, says that she's looking forward to meeting Julien because he's a Merthyr Boy. How they let that SLUR on air is a mystery to me. Call OFCOM! Anyway, Lisa (looks a bit like Gwen Cooper's Primary School Teacher sister) walks in, says her age, her location, and also that she hates men. Grace looks at her with her best "a child just pooed on Supernanny's Shoes" face in disgust and horror. Oh good, just what this show needed. Feminism. [5'9"+ Sisters are doing it for themselves... - Helen]
So anyway, what's happened is that Lisa (blatantly) got dumped, like a week ago, and is still processing it like a Carrie Bradshaw column written by one of Ablisa. She hates men! But she loves them! But just as friends! But they're such bastards! Apart from her gays! She's just too good for straight men though! But she will talk to them! Grace, like a moron, asks her if she would be alright taking part in a photo-shoot WITH A MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA! Dun dun durrrrn. Lisa doesn't answer and continues jawing about her complex relationship with mens, until Grace asks her why she's better than the other two girls currently awaiting judgment. Lisa says that she is full of character (she won't shut up!), has a split personality (she makes no sense!) and sometimes she comes across as shy! (if it involves shutting up, I'm all for it).
Julien asks her if she thinks she's got a beautiful face. Lisa then wins back all my love in 0 seconds flat by referring to her own face as "workable". Like...it's livable, like having one eye or mild dyspraxia. [It's a fixer-upper. - Steve] And the way she makes it work is...adjusting her hair a bit. LISA TO WIN! THE GIRL WITH THE WORKABLE FACE! She demonstrates her "sweet" (bitchy whilst tilting backwards), "sexy" (bitchy whilst tilting forwards), and "angry" (like Sasha Fierce - Toddler Edition) looks to him, to better state her case. Elle tells her she has good bone structure and a nice-shaped face, whilst looking more like one of the twiglet-aliens from Men In Black than ever, and asks Lisa to do her funny walk for them. Swish swish swish. It's crap.
The other two girls currently in the room do funny walks, and one of them reveals she is called some stupid name that even Victoria Beckham would baulk at, which she's clearly making up on the spot. This apparently is enough to get her put through, and Elle then puts Workable Lisa through for shits and giggles. Eh, I think she's peaked with calling her own face "workable" to be honest. Hope I'm wrong. Elle tries to make out this all because she saw potential in there...it's just that her hair was all wrong and it's not at all because she's a stank bitch. Yeah yeah yeah Elle. Tell it to Tyra.
Brief montage of Grace being rude to various girls now : she mimics one girl's stupid mouse voice, she tells one girl her rubbish hair is the least of her problems, she calls one girl boring, she coins the nickname "Miss Cardigan" for a girl wearing a cardigan [such wit! - Helen], she tells two girls that they aren't going to be models (HOW UNNECESSARY!). Montage ends with Grace flapping her lips like Jackie Wilson and bellowing "GIVE ME THE REAL STUFF!". It's never coming Grace. Unless you mean coke, and lots of it.
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As The Saturdays welcome us back from Fernando Alonso's lip-sync, we're minded of the four girls Julien tossed together at random earlier. One of these girls is called Charlotte. She's the one who's a stripper. A lap-dancing stripper at that. She tells us that she's been dancing in laps for two years now, and it pays the bills, and if she has to do it for the rest of her life then fair enough, but hopefully she can get out of that seedy seedy world of writhing around unnaturally whilst nude for men into the bright clean shiny world of modelling. Writing around unnaturally whilst nude for gay men.
In she walks with Julien's other three girls and Julien asks her if she's always wanted to be a model. She says yes, but she's always feared the rejection. Grace asks why she fears rejection, and Charlotte says it's because she had a troubled childhood, was bullied at school and people laughed at her for wanting to be a model. Elle starts off on an exegesis about how hard it is for women to really get a healthy and realistic image of themselves (WHICH IS WHERE THE MODELLING INDUSTRY COMES IN!), and seriously of all the people to save a young woman from the sex industry on TV this month, these four are by far the least inspirational. At least have John Simm play one of them. Or all of them. I don't care. [As far as I'm concerned, it's Damian Lewis or GTFO. - Steve]
We next cover how Julien found Stripper Charlotte - in a lap-dancing club (with Charlotte going full Dickensian urchin as she explains : "he found me at work so he did, in a lap-dancing class so it was, Mr Julien did ma'am") - and Grace pulls a massive inappropriate Kenneth Williams blowjob-face of shock until Elle yells "THAT'S REALLY COOL!" to stop her saying anything stupid. Elle asks Julien what the fun he was doing in a lap-dancing club with nudey girls in it. When he's a...you know...a gay. Eh, cheap condoms Elle.
Charley and Grace are shocked (shocked I tell you!) that a lap-dancer might not be a massive blowsy Jodie Prenger style tart-with-a-heart, and Stripper Charlotte explains that she has two different personas. Charlotte, and Rosie. Rosie's the one who does lap-dancing, and will end up murdering a john in the back of a Ford Fiesta in 8 months time when he gets a little too fresh. She tells Elle that if she put a pole in front of her, she'd werk it. So Elle gets Charlotte/Rosie to writhe around a bit of tetanus looking scafolding waggling her vagina about whilst Julien pretends this is giving him a boner. [I would say that one can only imagine Charley's face, but I'm not entirely convinced he's not a bit Ken Doll down there - Helen]
Julien's Girls take their leave, and we get this amazing exchange whilst they wait :
Grace : It's amazing that she's got that alter-ego thing, that she can turn into so many pe...
Elle : I'm sorry, she doesn't have an alter-ego, it's all in her head.
Anyway, Charlotte/Rosie gets through, because Julien wants her to (Grace HATES her), and Charlotte/Rosie says that she wants to show people that "dancers" aren't like what people think. They're "normal women-girls". Yes dear.
Montage of girls getting through and not getting through now : two girls do prayer hands of thanks, one girl does awful krumping, one girl touches her nose with her tongue, one girl says she's not a model, one girl strangles herself. Grace snorts like a submerging hippo. Elle decides she's bored of this crap, because she's got kids to look after and wanders off, leaving the sidekicks in charge. Fearne informs us that Elle has a "special night with the children" planned. If by "children" you mean "bottle of kahlua" Fearne, then maybe.
Julien, Grace and Charley all voluntarily eat on camera, to prove they are real, and then get back to judging.
First up is Alex. She tells us that she thinks she's a bit different to everyone else, because she's a bit bigger than they are. She wants to show us all that "big is beautiful". I notice that Elle got herself well out of the room to avoid having to offer an opinion on this whole can of worms. Yeah Elle, just stick to saying that strippers are cool and bitches are funny and would be great if they did something with their hair. Don't strain yourself.
Grace tells the girls that Elle's not there, and so "the lunatics" are running the asylum. She's mad she is. You don't have to be mad to be a BINT-MODEL judge, BUT IT HELPS! And so on. Alex is defensive off the bat grumbling "I'm a plus-sized model in case you hadn't noticed yet". Go home Alex. This is about as far away from owning it as you can get. Julien laughs in her face, and Grace tells her she's not technically speaking a plus-sized model, because she's not big enough. In fact she's not a model at all, she's a NORMAL PERSON EW EW EW GET OUT! Julien tells her that she can't just come in and claim a "Get Out Of Jail Fat" card - why should they bother with her above anybody else?
Alex replies that she's very determined and she can work really hard and she can also get her tits out. The judges then make her get her tits out and do a funny model walk. Mika sings "Big Girls You Are Beautiful And Also Balloons And Also Buffalo And Sometimes When I Look At Pictures Of Jensen Ackles I Feel All Funny BUT I'VE DEFINITELY DONE IT WITH A GIRL! RIGHT IN THE BOOBIES! AH-AH UGLY BETTY DESPERATEHOUSEWIVES SEXINTHECITYLIPSTICKJUNGLE!" or whatever the hell that abomination of a song is called. Everything on Alex bounces up and down as Grace screams "BOUNCY BOUNCY BOUNCY!" at her, and Alex screws up her mouth like Peppermint Patty and hates every second of this.
Next up, Julien asks a girl in the same line-up whether she likes any model in particular, and the poor girl dares to say Giselle, which sets Julien off for absolutely no reason and he starts yelling at her about how she's "NEVER GOING TO BE GISELLE SO WHO THE FUNK DO YOU THINK YOU GET OFF THINKING YOU CAN BE GISELLE? YOU DON'T EVEN LOOK ANYTHING LIKE HER YOU FOUSTY OLD TROUT!" He then makes her get her tits out. Such an odd little man. Such an odd little show. This girl who is not Giselle is called Holly apparently. It's left to Fearne to inform us of this. She is through, Alex is (duh) not.
Alex cries her way out and it makes Leona Lewis wail like a distressed Fallopian Tube.
Two girls get through from the last group of the day. One of them is called Victoria, and she looks a bit like a sexy goblin. The other one...I'm guessing we'll never see again unless she gets a tooth-over. Rejected from this group is (Not That) Tulisa. She's giant, has clown hair, is dressed in denim, and has hoops I could fit my fists through (calm down Julien). Grace tells her she's beautiful and that she should keep trying and keep her chin up and all that, but it's not her this series. Tulisa just cries more, which makes Grace cry more, which makes Grace confused deep inside her carpet, so she decides Tulisa can go through anyway. She decides to dramatise this in the manner of the last 5 minutes of a Richard Curtis movie, sprinting after Tulisa telling her to STOP! THE JUDGES LOVE HER AFTER ALL! Sadly, Alex is still off crying and self-harming somewhere, so this isn't soundtracked by, say up-tempo Northern Soul, but instead with more Leona. WE CAN'T STOP THE LEONA! Stop crying Alex, wherever you are, you're ruining this moment for Tulisa with your neo-soul Snow Patrol covers! Selfish fatty normal person!
And that is the end of Cardiff.
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Fresh from the hell that is the prospect of "Chick Fix", we are in my home... well not town. Region. Home region. Lots of shots of the Bull Ring and the Bull Ring bull and Victoria Square and especially Selfridges, because Selfridges is to Birmingham as Big Ben is to London and The Eiffel Tower is to Paris. And how depressing is that? Our Great Work is a SELFRIDGES [It's better than the old Bull Ring being the mark of Birmingham - Helen]. Anyway stomping right outside Selfridges is Elle, looking like Bet Lynch after a nasty bout of anorexia. This should end well. She opens with "I'm about to go into the Bull Ring, which is a shopping centre", intoning the whole thing like she's David Attenborough and some Brummies are about to start absently trying to pick ticks off her in a charming fashion.
My people greet Elle with utter indifference. I'm so proud. Like, one girl paps her with an iPhone, and some people wave at the camera, but that's about it. Elle stomps around demanding that somebody, anybody, pay attention to her. It's amazing. One girl just stands there shovelling mini-eggs into her mouth as Elle begs her to audition, then walks off with a sneer on her face. Eventually Elle finds her level - 6 year old girls entering a shopping centre talent contest, fellow Australians, and one girl clearly planted by production. HA HA HA.
Birmingham 1, Elle 0. How I wish we had an anthem.
To the LG Arena now (because yes, this show needs an ARENA to hold all 14 potential contestants that have turned up), where lots of girls say they like modelling (handy!) and that there are so many tall, pretty girls here (surprising! I was expecting short fat hairy midgets! THE HEAT IS ON!). We close the pre-action maunderings of cattle. with one Brummie girl saying "if you can't stop thinking about something every day, then you should pursue it". See, I told the judge that regarding Darren Criss, and he didn't listen.
Elle turns up, followed by Grace in glasses with catwoman ears (*face*), and then Julien clutching...what appears to be a Craig David poster. Who would be surprised to hear that Julien is leaving out of his car? I would not be. Grace goes to get ready (oh yes, it gets worse), and Elle sneaks a peak. Grace looks like Elton John threw up candy floss all over Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Is what she looks like.
Speaking of unfortunate looks, Amy is our first girl of note. She's the same shade of white as a bloated corpse's feet, has the face of a girl that was burnt at the stake in the 16th Century for being a witch based on the evidence of facial structure alone, hair that sits on her forehead with all the ease and grace of Bruce Forsythe's, a chin you could rest pints on, and she's chuntering on about her art. She's the most modelesque person I've seen thus far! She's grotesque! I bet she takes great pictures! Why is Julien the only one noticing this? Why am I on Julien's side?
Julien and Elle ponder aloud as to how other human beings react to seeing Amy for the first time. Amy confirms it is either screaming, vomitting, or the full pitchfork treatment. Julien makes her do a funny walk, swish swish swish, and Amy goes full Angry Goth. She's such a star! Just cancel the whole competition right here. Sod off Bible Brenda, we have a winner. All the girls work out, and Elle, Julien and Charley all loathe Amy, because they're all jelus hatahs, but Julien just says "Jade Parfitt" over and over and over again, and guarantees that Amy will be in the Final Three. I wish...
Anyway, Julien goes on and on and on and on and on and even admits that he's older than Grace to pull rank, that's how much he loves Amy. So you best believe he's in love. Eventually his pleading gets Elle's special dispensation, and Amy is through. YAY! Julien tells her to go and google Jade Parfitt. A nation follows.
Montage of crying girls now, soundtracked by Jessie J doing like a man dem suga barrowman dem SUGAH DIRTY SUGAH. Actually it's just one crying girl but she's so boring it feels like a montage. Like every boring crying girl who thinks really wanting it so badly is the same as being interesting or likable purified down to one girl. She's called Rebecca. Anyway, she's followed by, per Fearne, "another Julien-looking model", also called Rebecca. Which is not to say that the model looks like Julien (more's the pity, can you imagine?), but rather she is really pale and skinny and druggy-chic and kind of washed out. Julien raves about her, but Grace whinges that she's got no pizazzle. She wants to find the new Elle, or the new Naomi, you know, a girl who works to 90s standards of beauty with an obnoxious attention-whore personality. Who cares if she's a MODEL? We want a personality! BRING BACK ALISHA! [Let's not and say we did. - Steve]
Julien honks loudly in her face until she shuts up talking nonsense. I don't know if I can recap this show if it's going to make me Team Julien this often, I just can't. Elle tells them both to calm down (as does Charley, but if a Charley talks and nobody's bothering to hear it, did it actually happen?), and she puts through both Model Rebecca and Crying (/Personality) Rebecca. NOTHING SAYS PIZAZZLE LIKE SNOT ON YOUR SLEEVE!
OK, actual montage now, of successful girls. Another Mika song plays (*fast forward*). Through the speed fast-forward I can tell one girl is so obviously better than everyone else in her room they declare her their queen and self-eliminate ; one girl has a name that means something in a language (like "peace of mind" or "tranquillity of bowels" or "pizza" or something) and does kick-boxing, and one girl who looks more like a member of the Sugababes than a model is liked be Grace (SURPRISE!).
More shots of the judges eating now (why? I have never seen a show that included so many unnecessary shots of people eating. I do not need to see these people perform basic bodily functions. Unless it is Charley having a shower obv kthz plz) as they discuss hideous fug-model Amy some more. Julien still loves her, Grace still doesn't, the creature itself is still flumping around looking like Noel Fielding in Planet Of The Apes. [I have nothing further to add now, because this is the exact moment that I completley zoned out - Helen]
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As we finish scribbling our itineraries for our day out at BINT-MODEL LIVE! (9am : whip mayonnaise eggs at Delita, 9:05am Go home), the show plonks us right back into Birmingham.
Before our next group enter, we get a brief preview of them waiting outside the judges room. Basically it's four girls stood in a little huddle as another screams at them and gesticulates and bugs her eyes out and plays with her hair and pulls stupid Atomic Kitten faces and cows them all with her laser-blast shotgun eyes. She is, surprise surprise, reality tv variety Scouse. Her accent is, at least, mild. Her name is Laurie.
She enters, gurning her face off at all the judges, and tells them all she teaches in a school for the deaf. Or at least, they're deaf when she's finished with them. She gets all the lirrle deaf kids to come out their shells, and she's dead bubbly and that. She basically makes deaf school sound like a Butlins at which she is Head Redcoat. Such fun. Julien tells her that she's very beautiful and very vibrant with "tossled hair", but being a catwalk model means looking like a miserable bitch at all times. Can she do this? Laurie tells him that she can. She's very versatile. Like a "Char-melion". Grace snoots "KA-melion" at her, like Julien didn't just full-on say "tossled".
Anyway Laurie can be a rock-chick or a decapitated corpse or a classic moment from Britain's Next Top Model history or whatever other moronic photoshoot concept you want her to embody. They make her do a funny walk, swish swish swish, and the funny walk reminds Grace of Abi Clancy, who is a real "personality" if ever I've seen one, so obviously Laurie is through. PERSONALITY! PIZAZZLE! As she walks out, Julien says that Laurie is the sort of girl that men actually want to have sex with. Well what is she doing going through then Julien? This is a show for models.
Two girls with the same haircut audition. The one that seems like kind of a phony (you know, based on two seconds of air-time) gets through. Charley gets to read this one out, just for something to do, or than sitting there being irrelevant. CHARLEY CAN READ DEAD GOOD MISS.
Another montage now, this time of rejects : one girl looks at the floor whilst she walks, one girl looks like a boy, but, you know, not in a model way , and then things get so bad a whole room of girls gets cut in one go. One girl is not very sexy and can't walk, and then a whole room just breaks into spontaneous voguing for no reason. None of them get through either. Eh, Elle's just angry because she got chewed up and spat out by the Bullring. Don't take it out on the rest of Birmingham just cause you couldn't handle the Bullring Elle. Not their fault you ended up making a little fort in H & M out of tipped-over clothes-racks and cried and cried and cried until they had to call Julien to come and get you to leave.
Finally in this montage of fail, we get Sarah, the winner of something called "People's Choice" from last year's series, which I'm guessing was some sort of online vote to pick a contestant. Apparently, despite this accolade, this girl didn't get into the house then, and she's certainly not going to now, as Grace doubts her Amazon potential. Sarah goes outside and calls Grace a bitch (but says she's still coming back next year, ok Sarah). Grace yells to camera about how the PUBLIC HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A MODEL, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Of course, I bet they're still going to get to decide the winner this year. [We weren't the people who put Alisha in the top three either, GRACE. - Steve]
Next up are the two girls that Elle found in Birmingham earlier. That's right, it's the producer plant, and Little Miss Mini Eggs who has, despite her attitude, actually turned up. That's my girl. Anyway, Production Plant is such a fresh off the street find that she's had a modelling job in-between meeting Elle yesterday and today, where they've screwed up her hair horribly. She still gets through, because she's Elle's baby, as is Little Miss Mini-Eggs.
Finally is Tanya Mikailovic (sorry, complete guess there), [according to someone on Facebook who was also at this audition, it's actually "Hania", but the show got it wrong - Steve] who is a quarter Serbian and on her last shot, at the ripe old age of 23. She has more eye-make up on than My Chemical Romance, Green Day and Taking back Sunday combined. Elle roots out her delightful ethnicity like a piggy hunting for truffles, then asks her what Serbian women look like. What the hElle? You sound like you're touting for a mail-order bride, cut it out. Tanya tells her, in a thick Brummie accent, that Serbian women are all beautiful and tall, with big eyes (*giggle giggle*).
Charley asks her to give him three words that encapsulate Tanya. She replies "God Damned Sexy" (*giggle giggle*). Charley asks which designer she'd like to work for, and she points at Julien and giggles some more. Julien then points out that she's wearing far too much make-up and they can't see her eyes, and suddenly giggly Tanya bolts mentally and starts shaking and panicking and saying she should have toned it down, and that she's taking from the panel the message "less is more". The panel nod and say "yes, less is always more". Grace says this. Grace who is dressed like a CIRCUS GANG-BANG.
Anyway, Tanya gets eliminated along with the rest of her room, thanks to Elle's anti-Brummie rage, but then Elle decides that she's changed her mind, and that if Tanya had gone and taken the make-up off her eyes spontaneously, she would have got through easy. So let's go and make her do it artificially and for the cameras! IN THE SPIRIT OF REALITY TV! Eh whatever Elle, Grace already did it. I know you were off with your booz...your kids at the time, but it still happened. Anyway, Elle runs after Tanya, and tells her to scrub all that crap off her eyes, and then they'll consider her again. Hilariously, Tanya tries to do so, but the muck is caked in that she can't get rid of most of it, and then she comes back in with it all still on all "what can you do?" (*shrug*) and the panel fiddle awkwardly and then let her through anyway, and pretend it was her jumper they had a problem with all along.
Oh yeah and she's got a kid and had 4 hours to live once or something.
I love this show.
Next week : Dublin! Ronan Keating tells Elle where to get all the good crack!


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Sleep/Power Button and Volume Controls won't work after a repair
my ipod needed a new battery, so i took it to the "Fix-a-Phone" in my local shopping mall, after the phone repair "Specialists" replaced the battery, i tested all my buttons, and the Volume Controls as well as the Sleep/Power button were non-responsive, i asked the guy who fixed it about it and he said he couldn't help me because he didn't even go NEAR the buttons, i called a BS on that and now i don't know what tool(s) to fix this iPod P.S. I NEED TO HAVE IT FIXED BY CHRISTMAS 2011, HELP!!!!
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Once again, thank you for your support. All participants will be in my prayers for a blessed Advent journey!!!
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What is How to Change the World?
How to Change the World is a unique hands-on training programme that equips rising engineering talent with the skills to develop creative and technically robust solutions to 21st-century challenges to bring about positive social change.
Each year, STEaPP delivers this two-week programme to engineering and management science students from 11 UCL departments. Watch the video below to find out more. HtCtW is part of UCL's Integrated Engineering Programme.
The 2018 How To Change the World programme for UCL IEP students begins at 10:00am on 29th May 2018, and will run up until the 8th June 2018. Students should check their email regularly throughout Term 3 for the latest information!
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More about the programme
- How is the programme structured?
Teams of students are presented with a broad, open-ended societal challenge, ranging from issues such as supplying energy services to rural African locations, to finding solutions to congested transport systems in urban centres. All challenges are focused on real-world topics and are created in partnership with external experts, from policy, industry and the third sector.
In facilitated workshops, students engage with the social, political, and economic dimensions of the problem and use frameworks that enable them to narrow the scope and produce innovative design concepts, whilst benefiting from feedback and input from external partners.
On the final day, students display their work at an Innovation Showcase and pitch their concepts to a panel of experts.
- Key benefits of scenario-based learning
Throughout their degrees, students are taught the key technical skills they need to be leaders in their field. How to Change the World aims to teach students the skills they need to apply this knowledge to specific real-world problems in a meaningful way through scenario-based learning.
Students work on open-ended problems, considering social and cultural contexts, and the different ways business and governments are motivated to engage with these changes.
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Hello everyone,
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The Australian novel that I've been wanting to get my hands on because it's a modern retelling of Sherlock Holmes (I love Sherlock!) except with teens--Watson is a girl called Rachel Watts and Sherlock is called James Mycroft and they solve a mystery and there's an attraction between them and I needed to get my hands on it because even though I haven't even read it I already ship Mycroft and Watts but it was only available in Australia and ARGH!!!
Yeah, that was me before I realized that I actually had the book in my hands already. Thank you Tundra and Sylvia! And I am even more thankful because I get to be part of the blog tour for Every Breath.
Anywho, sorry for the long introduction. Let's just get to my review of Every Breath.
Publisher: Tundra Books
Pages: 352 pages
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Source of my copy: publisher
Series: Every #1
When James Mycroft drags Rachel Watts off on a night mission to the Melbourne Zoo, the last thing she expects to find is the mutilated body of Homeless Dave, one of Mycroft's numerous eccentric friends. But Mycroft's passion for forensics leads him to realize that something about the scene isn't right--and he wants Watts to help him investigate the murder.
While Watts battles her attraction to bad-boy Mycroft, he's busy getting himself expelled and clashing with the police, becoming murder suspect number one. When Watts and Mycroft unknowingly reveal too much to the cold-blooded killer, they find themselves in the lion's den--literally. A trip to the zoo will never have quite the same meaning to Rachel Watts again...
Okay, there has to be something in the water in the land Down Under because every novel I've read by an Australian young adult author (e.g., Melina Marchetta, Jaclyn Moriarty, Cath Crowley) were fantastic, well-written read. Every Breath was no different. I'm giving it
I knew I was going to love Every Breath and I was right. It's actually one of those books where I love it so much that I have a hard time putting my love for the book into words. So, if this review is wonky and does not really make sense, well, basically I want you to get out there and get your hands on this book because it's friggin' good and you need it in your life.
I love Rachel! She's so relatable and... human. She's one of those characters who are imperfectly perfect. She acted her age--made mistakes and bad decisions along the way (she's teen!) but she learned from them. I really enjoyed watching her character develop and grow and mature throughout the novel. Mycroft, too, was fantastic. I wasn't sure of him at first because I had Cumberbatch's Sherlock (because, honestly, he's not that great of friend) in my head and I was wondering how good of a friend he'll be to Rachel. But he's the best! He was eccentric and self-centered like Cumberbatch's Sherlock but he was never mean or a jerk.
I love Rachel and Mycroft's dialogue. I love the sexual tension between them, which was present right from the very first chapter, when Rachel was cleaning up Mycroft's bloody face--at that scene I was full on shipping the two of them. But most of all I love their friendship. I love that it was already established that they're best friends. If you visit this blog enough, you know that I like my romances and I like them big and all-encompassing. However, in Every Breath it's more a slow burn with lots of fantastic, tangible sexual tension. I was fine with that--my favorite was actually watching their friendship and partnership slowly become more.
I also enjoyed the secondary characters, especially Mai, Gus and Rachel's brother Mike. They added to the story. I also appreciated that Rachel's parents were there and involved in their children's lives.
The mystery really keeps you on your toes. I was right there with Rachel and Mycroft as they investigated and gathered clues and tried to figure things out. We also get some really grisly scenes from the murder but nothing too crazy. The author did a good job keeping up the suspense because the feeling of danger and fear was evident and I was glued to the pages. I was able to work out the mystery before the end of the novel but that's just how I am when reading a whodunit novel. My mind constantly works putting together the clues. However, my figuring out the mystery early did not deter my enjoyment of the novel--I was still too way into the book.
Overall, there's nothing to dislike and everything to love about Every Breath. Fleshed out, realistic characters, a riveting mystery, excellently written and just a totally absorbing read. I cannot gush about it enough. Rereading this review, everything I wrote feels so trite but I really don't have the words--I'm not eloquent enough. Just: YOU NEED TO READ EVERY BREATH. Seriously.
I am so excited for book 2, Every Word. I need it in my life right now. Anyone from Australia can get me a copy? Because I am way too impatient to wait another year for it to release here in the US.
If you guys haven't already, you can
For more info about author Ellie Marney, Every Breath and the rest of the books in the series, you can visit her website and chat with her on Facebook and Twitter.
Happy reading,


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Cloud computing-related business is expected to create a market with a combined value of more than 40 trillion yen by 2020, a study by a government panel showed Monday.
The study by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry panel also forecast that the expansion of cloud computing, which allows software and stored data to be accessed remotely via the Internet, could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 7 percent from 1990 levels as it makes information processing more efficient.
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Hilary Duff & Mike Comrie: We Definitely Want More Kids!
Hilary Duff carries her cutie pie son Luca, 17 months, while leaving Nate 'n Al after grabbing a bite to eat on Saturday (August 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 25-year-old actress was also joined by her hubby Mike Comrie.
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"I don't know, I think we definitely want to have more kids," Hilary recently told E! News. "Maybe I'm a two-kid, three-kid kind of gal. But nothing right now."
10+ pictures inside of Hilary Duff, Mike Comrie, and their son Luca grabbing lunch…


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I believe it deserves to be seen. Pass it on if you do too.
From a fall article about the city of Philadelphia's refusal to run this ad:
When asked whether such a billboard would be appropriate for first-time visitors to the city, [Robert Brooks, director of the NAACP's criminal-justice program] said, "Absolutely."
"We are a country that locks up more people than any other country in the world, and if I was traveling somewhere, I would want to know that when I get there," he said.
The website advertised on the billboard is here. A petition to sign and send to your governor requesting that education become a greater priority than incarceration is here.
Your Thoughts?