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So here we are, entering a new phase in life; my girl's discovering and exploring the world of cosmetics and skin care. I can remember when I was her age, my girlfriends and I would pour over issues of "Teen" magazine (do they still print that?!) and check out all the latest in fashion, beauty and makeup. So fun! And I want that for her, not the magazines and makeup per se, but the excitement of growing up and becoming a woman. Those first pair of high heels, that new sophisticated hair cut, and yeah okay, some new products for her makeup bag. --As much as I would like to tell her "Just say no to makeup! You're beautiful just the way you are! (It's the truth, after-all). -- I just know, that's not gonna fly.
Here are some stats:
- Only about 10% of the 10,000 chemicals commonly found in personal care products have safety data
- 20% of personal-care products contain at least one chemical linked to cancer
- The European Union has spent the past two decades banning or restricting more than 1,300 ingredients in skin care and cosmetics, the US has only banned 11
- The US has NOT passed a federal law to regulate the ingredients used in personal care products since 1938
So, where I do begin? Those are hard statistics to swallow. But I gotta press on because I don't want my girl-- or any girl-- to be exposed to toxic chemicals. The cute package with the strawberry smelling lip liner that caught her eye is chalk full of them.
Indeed, a recent report by the Environmental Working Group claimed that "adolescent girls' bodies are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products." In fact, they detected 16 potentially toxic chemicals — phthalates, triclosan, parabens, and musks in blood and urine samples of teenage girls. Studies link these chemicals to potential health effects including cancer and hormone disruption.
To make matters worse, the report warned that "teens may be particularly sensitive to exposures to hormone-disrupting chemicals, given the complex role they play during puberty – precisely when girls typically experiment with an increasing number and variety of body care products. When we surveyed them, our teen study participants reported using an average of 17 personal care products each day, 40 percent more than an adult woman."
So what's the good news? Where's the fun in all that??
EWG advises: "Teens can easily make safer choices by reducing the number of body care products they use, viewing marketing claims with skepticism, always checking the ingredients for toxics (a good lifelong habit!), and following EWG guidelines to select safer products."
Fun right? Not really. But, here's the thing--- there ARE "awesome" skin care products and cosmetics out there for teens and adults alike. I know first hand of course because I work for one of the best skin care companies in the industry. Not only do Honey Girl Organics products work great-- they smell "way" better than fake strawberry (Eden agrees!), they look cool enough to show off to your bff, and-- best of all, they're actually good for your skin! What a concept!
So, yes, Eden and I will be headed out here soon for some back-to-school shopping. And needless to say, we'll pass on the big cosmetic counters at the major department stores. She's already picked out the HGO Facial Toner to clear skin and set make up. I"ll treat her to the The HGO Facial Cleanser and Make Up Remover too-- It's the perfect combination, gentle on the skin but extremely effective at removing sticky mascara and eye liner. We'll get a couple HGO Lip Balm Sticks to tuck in her makeup bag as well. I love the fact that if ingested, (hard not to when it's on your lips!) it's perfectly harmless. I have a few other cruelty-free and non-toxic cosmetic companies that I'll introduce her to for eye makeup and blush.
As far as the new clothes and shoes, we'll do a little "window" shopping" at the Armani and Prada boutiques in downtown Waikiki, and then hit the sales rack at "forever 21." I think she'll be fine with that, as long as I promise her a trip to the ice cream store afterwards. Oh, ahem, I mean "gelato" shop. That's a little more Edens' speed these days. And that's just fine by me :) In fact, in that case I'll just throw caution to the wind and let her get whatever her teenage heart desires, and that goes for her middle-age mama too!


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We meet this family again in my forthcoming booklet - Felsham village life in 1840 no. 2: The farm labourer and his family - in a section where I explore the employment of local women and children in agriculture. This is an extract:
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Samuel 2: 7, 8)
In 1840 William Osborn and his wife Susan were about 30 years of age and had three children: Nero, aged 10, Christiana aged 8 and Eliza aged 4. By 1844, another daughter was to be born, called Susannah. They lived in The Street, probably in a house that was demolished later to make room for the new school. During the 1840s the family would have depended heavily on the money that the wife and growing children could contribute to the household income.
William probably earned about 9 shillings [45p] a week. Most of that would have been spent on buying bread and potatoes. Rent and fuel [coal and wood] would have been about 2 shillings a week. Other items of weekly expenditure would have included tea, sugar, soap, thread, candles, salt, butter and cheese. These items would have cost about three shillings to purchase from the local grocer on Upper Green. How they found money to pay for shoes and clothing is anybody's guess! Would they have been dependent on charity? On the good offices of the clergyman's wife?
As the paltry income of the main bread-winner would have been insufficient to make ends meet, the earnings of the wife and children would have been vital. So, what employment opportunities were available for women and children in Felsham at this time?
December and January were very difficult months in which to find casual labour but during the rest of the year there would have been a succession of possible jobs. The most common jobs involved clearing land, planting crops, hay-making and harvesting. After the harvest, gleaning was a job traditionally carried out by women and children. Some of the gleanings may have been used to feed the family chickens as well as providing supplementary grain to be ground into bread-making flour.
|Harvesting by hand [detail] by Myles Birket Foster
Susan, the wife, could have earned from 6d to 10d a day doing field work when it was available. During hay-making and harvest time her daily earnings could reach the princely sum of 1/6d. Good money could also be made, if she was prepared to walk down the Rattlesden valley towards Stowmarket where she could find work in the thriving hop-growing industry. This provided important employment for labourers and their families during both growing and harvesting but also in ancillary occupations such as sack manufacture. With Bradfield Woods and Thorpe Woods in close proximity to Felsham, Susan may also have been able to find work in various woodland trades such as broom making and basket making.
Susan would also have been on the look out for jobs that she could do if she was confined to the house with babies and infants. Looking after other labourer's children, laundry work, caring for the sick, providing mid-wife services and even laying out bodies would have been possibilities. The relatively large allotment would also have been demanding on time and energy. The daughters, Christiana, Eliza and Susannah would have played an important role in helping their mother with her jobs, and then, after the age of 9 or 10, gaining casual work on the local farms.
Newspapers of the time frequently commented on the "loose morals" of young unmarried women doing field work. There were hints of prostitution and it was said that working in the fields contributed to the bastardy lists. An examination of the Baptisms Registers for Felsham between 1835 and 1842 provides some corroboration for this. During this period twelve children were baptised with the mothers described as "spinsters". These 12 children, "born out of wedlock", comprised 10% of the total number of births in the village.
Nero, Susan's son, may well have earned up to 2 shilling a week swinging a rattle and scaring birds off the crops; a rather lonely job which would have taken him to some of the most distant fields in the parish. Boys like Nero would have worked from to 12 hours a day depending on the work and the season.
|Idealized and sentimentalized image of bird-scaring boy
If he received any sort of schooling, it would have been haphazard and intermittent. There was a schoolmaster living in the village in 1841 but there is no indication of how many children attended his classes or whether Nero and his sisters were among them. Certainly, once Nero had started earning, he would have been absent from school for long periods, particularly in the summer. It is quite possible that none of the Osborn children attended school. The cost of education, at this time, could well have been beyond the reach of many labouring families.
At the end of a hard working day, the Osborn family would have sat down to a well-earned, if frugal meal, at about 6 or 7 in the evening. Bread would have been the most important part of the meal, closely followed by potatoes and onions. Meat would have been a very occasional luxury. Cheese, green vegetables, butter and flour dumplings would have appeared on a regular basis. Drinks consisted of tea, milk and less frequently beer. William in hungry times may have been tempted, like many of his contemporaries, to filch a turnip from the farmer's field or seize a pheasant or rabbit from the woods belonging to a local landowner. However, if his allotment was productive these sorts of temptations would have receded as the decade progressed.
All the time, the labouring families of Felsham would have been aware of their lowly status, and of the harsh penalties that faced them if the strict property rules were infringed. They would also have been aware of the fate that awaited them if they failed to be frugal and balance their meagre weekly budget. The Stow Union Workhouse beckoned the improvident and those that had fallen on hard times! At the end of the day though, the Osborn family may well have taken comfort from the biblical beatitudes about the poor being blessed, or from passages like that from Samuel that began this account.
Sources of information:
- David Dymond: "Suffolk in the 1840s: The employment of women and children in agriculture", Old Series - Volume 3 Issue 2 (Suffolk Local History Council, 2003)
- John Glyde: "Suffolk in the 19th century", SIMPKIN MARSHALL & CO, c1860
- K Handford: "The agricultural labourer in 19th century England", Grosvenor House Publishing, 2011
- D Pocock: "Some former hop-growing centres", The Agricultural History Review [pdf file at www.bahs.org.uk/13n1a2.pdf]
- A.S.: " Felsham in 1851", Felsham History Club
Please note: the first booklet and CD in the series FELSHAM VILLAGE LIFE IN 1840, which includes some of the main documentary evidence for this time, will be on sale in the village shop during June.

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Mark Papermaster, whose departure from IBM for Apple led to some high profile legal wrangling, has now left Apple -- chronologically following the antennagate saga, though no direct correlation has been reported. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the New York Times:
[Papermaster] is leaving the company and Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of Macintosh hardware engineering, is assuming his responsibilities. [...] Mr. Mansfield already oversees several technologies that are part of the iPhone, including the A4 chip, the retina display and touch screens,
Before being removed from Apple.com, Papermaster's bio read as follows.
Mark Papermaster is Apple's senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering. He leads the iPod and iPhone engineering teams, and reports directly to Apple's CEO.
Papermaster has 25 years of product and technology experience, and was previously a vice president at IBM responsible for blade development including x86, POWER, storage blades, chassis, network electronics and associated ecosystem. He started his career in application-specific IC development circuit design at IBM's Microelectronics Division, and had technical and management assignments in quality, CAD tool applications, and microprocessors.
While Papermaster was notably absent from Apple's recent iPhone 4 press conference, his replacement was up on stage with Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, Mansfield was front and center.
Update: According to Daring Fireball's source, Papermaster was fired following antennagate:
Inside Apple, he's "the guy responsible for the antenna" — that's a quote from a source back on July 23. (Another quote from the same source: "Apparently the antenna guys used to have a big chip on their shoulder. No more.")


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One of those blessings we rarely think about. Life is so fragile, it's a real miracle.
That's what Squidward said to a little kid who lost a penny playing in the Skill Crane machine ^^
Do you think of the feet you walk on & the eyes you see through? Do you forget about the air you're breathing sometimes?
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This is for people who are accused or insulted & react violently, instead of showing the best in them & prove their aggressors are wrong.
Inspired by a quote from The Deen Show: Through education, we're building tolerance.
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Guiness Bread
I love Guinness, and had some left over after making my Guinness mustard. After a quick search on the internet, I found an interesting Guinness quick bread to make.
Bread making doesn't get much easier then the recipe I came up with. Here it is:
3 cups minus 2 tablespoons AP Flour
1 1/4 tablespoons baking powder
3/4 cup evaporated cane sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vietnamese cinnamon
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
12 oz Guinness Stout
Mix your flour through cinnamon in a bowl. Add guiness mix about half way. Add cranberries and walnuts fold into batter mixing till incorporated, but taking care not to overmix. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or till a skewer inserted in the bread comes out clean.
This bread is great. It's nice to eat on it's own, with some butter. It's also nice to toast and top with some cheese. Next time I make it I will bake it in tiny loaf pans. Once baked and fully cooled I'll slice the bread and dry it out in the oven creating little melba toasts. Then I'll use it as an appetizer with some blue cheese, hopefully my favorite Point Reyes Blue.
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Here's the roster of the first expedition from the Furthest House of Ahaziel:
Moab the Malefactor - a rather dodgy dwarf and organizer of the party
Anak the Nephilim - a diabolic-looking elf
Nehi the Orange - a magic-user escaping persecution among the Nephites, where sorcery is illegal
Goliath the Lesser - a warrior with the proportional strength of his namesake, too bad he's only 5 feet tall
Hearing rumors of a ruined city along the shores of an inland sea to the north somewhere near a waterfall, the party set off in that direction from the Furthest House. They returned four days later, delighted and rather surprised to be alive. The wizard Nehi sports a strange double-line scar on the palm of his left hand, but other than that they seem intact. They spent most of their time hacking their way through tall prairie grasses, but they did find the shores of a large body of fresh water. You ever try hacking through prairie grass with a dwarf and a shrimpy fighter? Half the party is invisible for much of the day.
Here's the updated map:
The northernmost "ruined city" icon is actually a small village of maybe iron age technology that has been partially burned down and completely abandoned, unless you count the numerous spiders as inhabitants. This place does not seem to be the city of the rumors, as it is only a village and no waterfall was found nearby.
The tree two hexes south of that is a rather large, old walnut tree. Not particularly exciting but there's a small stream of refreshing water nearby and it's on high enough ground to make a good landmark. The crossed sabres icon is what the party presumes to be an old battlefield, as it's full of bones. They didn't get too close to that.
The tower is an ancient structure constructed out of megalithic blocks joined without benefit of mortar. In it the party encountered lethal vines, some sort of undead wielding a magic dagger and a big scary snake. The latter did its level best to bite Moab right in his little dwarfy face. And the party nearly encountered some sort of gigantic bird of prey that alighted (alit?) upon the top of the tower. Later they found a full grown bull elk up there, picked clean of much of its meat.
Treasures brought back included 2 jaguar pelts and three jaguar skulls (earned the hard way, the third pelt was left behind because they hacked up that jaguar badly before it died), an enormous rack of antlers, five red and green feathers each 3' long, a crude copper bracelet with pale greenish-blue stones and a rather nice non-magical longsword with a silver-chased hilt done up with a fairly tasteful skull motif where the cross-guard meets the blade. If anyone wants the later it's available for 200sp (that's 200gp if you come from a game with a gold standard).
All in all, I thought it was a pretty good start to the campaign. Nobody struck it rich, but four first level characters got through four days of unforgiving wilderness trekking. That's pretty impressive. I'm still getting the hang of the differences between the Lamentations of the Flame Princess rules and BX D&D, but hopefully I'll get better at that.
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As runners, especially trail runners, we must ensure our body is well prepared to negotiate with the wavy terrain, whether dry, muddy, wet or slippery.
Twisted ankles are very common and can put you off training. Indeed if you do your mileage off road your ankles – joints, muscles, tendons – will adapt and get stronger eventually. But what if you twist or sprain your ankle before they get strong enough?
I have to say I very seldom twist my ankles and I don't remember ever spraining my ankles. The odd twist happens in obstacle course races where I run over tractor tires prints on dry ground or running through rivers over big, slippery rocks. And even then I recover fast.
Thus today I'd like to share with you how we, at The Merisoiu Technique Institute, train and condition our bodies, specifically ankles in this case, to be prepared for the unexpected on the trails.
1. Ride the terrain
Too often I see runners forcing themselves "into" the terrain instead of allowing the terrain to take them where it wants and then making small adjustments to keep moving in the desired direction.
Stop fighting the terrain, move with it, flow with it rather than going against it.
2. Strengthen your ankles
The topic of this article. There are countless methods and exercises that help you to strengthen your ankles. Right now I will share with you a few simple ankle strengthening exercises which you can do not only as part of your scheduled training but anytime you wait in line, for a bus or brush your teeth.
a. Balance on one leg. That's it, just stand on one leg. Please be aware of your surroundings so that if you lose your balance you don't fall and injure yourself, have enough free space around you.
b. Balance with variations – The Clock. This means something like our very well known exercise The Clock in the video below. It's excellent for ankle strength but also for strengthening stability muscles in the knees and hips and stabilising the hip joint, when done correctly. Here is a video with coaching tips.
Again please be aware of your surroundings so that if you lose your balance you don't fall and injure yourself, have enough free space around you.
c. Balance with variations – 360 Degrees. Another slow movement balance exercise is the 350 Degrees. Again this will also strengthen stability muscles within other joints as well as the ankles.
d. Walk on tip toes. Classic but effective.
e. Walk barefoot on uneven terrain.
You should have guessed this was coming! Walking barefoot will activate dormant muscles in your feet and ankles which, in regular shoes, are so well supported they don't do much work so they weaken. Take your shoes and socks off, go out in the garden, walk around and balance observing how your foot and ankles muscles move and twitch, they're working out.
Any exercise you choose do them regularly to get results. You don't need to spend hours doing this. It's most effective when you do a little everyday over a long period of time. Balancing while brushing their teeth seems to be my clients' favourite, just take care not to fall and injure yourself.
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Revenue for 2QFY15 jumped 38% to RM139.49 million from RM101.25 million a year ago.
On segmental basis, the group's property development division continued to be the major revenue contributor, the bulk of it contributed by projects in the Klang Valley (45%), Johor (33%), Perak (20%) and Negri Sembilan (2%).
For the six months ended Sept 30, 2014 (1HFY15), Hua Yang's net profit doubled to RM49.92 million from RM24.65 million in the same period last year, on higher revenue which surged 52% to RM275.96 million from RM181.74 million in 1HFY14.
As at Sept 30, 2014, Hua Yang's total unbilled sales stood at RM717.86 million.
It also has 543 acres (219.74ha) of undeveloped land-bank, with a total estimated gross development value of RM3.5 billion.
Looking ahead, Hua Yang anticipates further population growth in the northern region and hence, its recent acquisition of four parcels of land worth RM25 million in Ipoh, Perak.
The group also launched three new phases – Ceria 2, D'ecolake, and Lavender 2 – in Bandar Universiti Seri Iskandar in Perak.
In the Klang Valley, Hua Yang launched the final development phase at One South, Zeta Residence. The entire One South project has an estimated total GDV of RM1 billion, which is expected to be completed in 2017.


text: Illinois celebrates its Bicentennial in 2018. The Illinois Bicentennial Coordinating Committee of Springfield seeks to work with a diverse and inclusive group of community partners to celebrate the Bicentennial in 2018. Through coordination, Springfield can provide bicentennial activities that allow a discussion of our area's complex history to serve as the entry point for a vision of our community 100 years from now. When our shared past serves as a gateway for our brightest possible future, history becomes a continuing narrative. Our present story is history's next chapter.


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The Black Cat WAS now located at 100 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BG, in the former home of Ethos Cafe; though, as we lost our defence against B&NES' possession order on the morning of Thursday the 15th, we probably won't be here for long! We have a lovely shop front, though other space is limited, housing the Bath FreeShop, the infoshop, notice board, free tea and coffee, and the Really Radical Lending Library - more info on this to appear soon. We are open every day 11am-7pm, and if you're in the area, we'd love to meet you (particularly if you're interested enough to volunteer some time). We also have a bit of a wishlist at the moment, as furnishings and material goods are sparse:
arm chair
large sauce pans
gas cylinder
portable electric oven
books for Lending Library
corkboard notice boards
shelving - free standing or units
DVD projector (ha ha)
If you can provide any of this, it will be gladly received, and we'll sure our appreciation in our own special ways!
Also, if you have any ideas for classes, workshops, events, or know of anyone that can make use of our space, please don't hesitate to get in touch!


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Red Kettle Stolen From Twin Falls Salvation Army
Twin Falls, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KSVT-TV ) - The red donation kettle for the Salvation Army is missing.
According to Nicki Kroese, someone took the kettle sometime this Monday Morning. The Salvation Army spokesperson said there would have been less than a hundred dollars inside. It is there year around in case people want to donate their loose change, Kroese said.
The incident has been turned over to the police department. If anyone has information about the kettle, you are asked to call authorities.


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Monday, February 10, 2014
Valentine's Day Challenge and Blog Hop
Now, if you came here from Exploring Cricut, then you are on the right track. If you just stopped by, I'm so glad you did and since I'm the first stop of the hop, we would so love for you to join us.
I have a friend that has a sweet little girl that I always send a card to for whatever holiday it is. This is the Valentine Card that I am sending her this year.
She likes Elmo, so I used the Elmo & Friends Holiday cartridge and cut this Elmo from page 22 at 3.5 inches. I think he is just darling. I popped him up on 1 thickness of foam tape. I added some jewels in the top corner and one on the inside. The sentiment on the front is from an Inkadinkado wooden stamp from my stash. The inside sentiment is from the 'Be My Valentine' stamp set from Mary-Cardz TV Stamps. I cut extra hearts to put on the inside. A really CAS card to make.
I hope ya'll like my card!!!
Now, the next stop on the hop is my wonderfully talented DT Sister Donna. I just know you are going to love her creation!!!
Now, I can't let this hop go by without offering some blog candy. Check out what I'm offering. All I ask is that you please have a U.S. address. Sorry. And please leave just one comment. I will let random.org pick the winner on Saturday night and will post on Sunday.
Okay, so I totally failed to get a picture on here of the goodies I'm giving as blog candy. So I'll just let it go as, you will like what you get! :)
We hope you plan on joining our challenge. Make sure you use a Cricut cut from any Cartridge and use at least one jewel. Looking forward to seeing what you create for Valentine's Day!!!
Here is a list of the Blog Hop Stops. If you get lost, just head back this way and find the right direction.
Sharon ~You are here
Donna ~ Next Stop
Rae Ann
Michelle N
Michelle S
14 comments:
- craftymom205 said...
Cute card.
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- February 10, 2014 at 6:15 AM
- Rhonda Emery said...
this is just too adorable.hugs
- February 10, 2014 at 6:23 AM
- Diane Kielman said...
Such a cute card! Love it Sharon.
- February 10, 2014 at 8:10 AM
Love the Elmo. Thanks for sharing your talent.
- February 10, 2014 at 8:14 AM
- Ana C said...
Super cute card !!!
- February 10, 2014 at 8:23 AM
- Stephanie said...
Sharon this is adorable. Elmo is so lovable.
- February 10, 2014 at 8:27 AM
- DebR said...
Your card is adorable...just so cute!
Great job.
- February 10, 2014 at 10:22 AM
- Faith Wallace said...
So adorable. I just love Valentine's Day cards for kids. Elmo look fantastic.
- February 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM
- Crystal said...
Cute! I love Elmo and need to get a sesame steer cartridge now that there are little ones back in the family! Great niece, great nephew & another great nephew on the way!
- February 10, 2014 at 11:49 AM
- Liz O. said...
What a sweet card Sharon!!! Elmo is one of our all time fave's TFS and for your always kind comments!
Have a wonderful day!!
- February 10, 2014 at 12:18 PM
- Annette said...
What a super cute card! Elmo always brings a smile!!
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- February 10, 2014 at 1:54 PM
- Michelle N. said...
This is so darn cute-I love Sesame Street characters! TFS
- February 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM
- Sheila H said...
Your Elmo is darling!
- February 11, 2014 at 8:23 PM
- Scrapper69 said...
Awwweee.... Sharon... That is darling! Elmo is always so cute.... but when you add some hearts and a cute sentiment he becomes wayyy toooo CUTE! :o)
- February 13, 2014 at 9:06 PM


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CAPILLARY ACTION is an avant-rock group lead by Jonathan Pfeffer. They will soon release a new album, entitled Capsized. In anticipation of this new offering by the band, Jonathan and I had an email interview. Here's how it went:
1) Assume we don't know much about Capillary Action (a fair assumption, I'd say, no?). Could you give us a brief introduction to the band (who you are, your sound and influences?
Capillary Action is a musical ensemble that has existed in various forms since about 2005. I (Jon) write all the music and lead the group, which features a revolving cast of tremendously talented musicians from all over the map. Right now we've settled into an all-acoustic quintet: myself on lead vocals and nylon-string guitar, Mike Harrist (Boston) on double bass, Julian Chin (Chicago) on accordion, John DeHaven (Madison) on trumpet, and Colin Hacklander (Minneapolis) on drums. I would describe the sound of the new album as dense, obsessive, emotionally mangled all-acoustic avant-pop. With a hint of lime. In the past we've definitely attracted more than our fair share of socially awkward young men with tucked-in black t-shirts that usually have some sort of HTML inside joke emblazoned on the front. We're hoping to expand our market share with this upcoming release, hence this interview.
2) You're a first-generation born American. How strong a ties do you have to your parental roots? Has it influenced your music at all? Has music been prominent in your childhood; if so what kind?
I have strong ties to the Argentinean side of the family, most of which has since left and scattered about as a result of that country's steady economic collapse of the last twenty years. If my status as a first generation American has influenced my work at all is that it's made me more aware of the world at large and my place in it. How very Paul Simon of me. For the record, my Spanish sucks and I'm deeply ashamed. Music was somewhat prominent in my childhood—mom was into a mix of romantic, tango, folk, and Beatles— but I wouldn't describe it as integral by any means.
CAPILLARY ACTION - Methheads & Mormons from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.
3) Tell us a bit about your musical background; When did you first start having a fascination with music; where and what did you learn; and when did you decide it was a wise move to waste your time being a musician and having your own band? what are your influences and favourites in music?
My earliest musical revelations were usually in the context of advertisements, video games, movies, or other non-musical media. The Butthole Surfers lent "Who Was In My Room Last Night?" to a 1993 Nintendo commercial and I remember being totally overwhelmed and exhilarated every time I would catch the ad. I heard the intro to Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" in conjunction with a Satanic sequence in Earthworm Jim, the video game, at 7 and was legitimately terrified. I think I was a pretty sensitive kid. I scared easily and would cry if rattled hard enough. I remember being haunted for years by this police sketch of a neighborhood rapist.
Two of the first records I remember owning were "Voodoo Lounge" by the Rolling Stones and the Batman Forever soundtrack. I really liked whatever they played on Q102, the local Philly mainstream pop station. At the time, it was Boyz-II-Men, Naughty by Nature, Coolio, Mariah Carey, Montel Jordan, Ini Kamoze, LL Cool J. I think I appreciated that music because it made me feel older and cooler...like I played Varsity basketball, had a girlfriend and gelled hair.
I stumbled upon a Slayer video on "Beavis & Butthead" when I was about 8 and the aggression immediately resonated with me in a way Salt N' Pepa simply couldn't compete with. It completely obliterated me. I ended up with a copy of Green Day's "Dookie," which became my gateway to so-called "alternative rock." I subscribed to Columbia House around the same and remember distinctly ordering the three records in the catalog with the coolest covers: Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Blood Sugar Sex Magik," Spacehog's "Resident Alien," and Silverchair's "Frogstomp."
I heard the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana during the pivotal summer of 1996 and slowly but surely my tastes began to mature. If I had been drinking Carlo Rossi and Box Wine before, maybe now I had graduated to a really cheap Chilean Cabernet. Not that I know anything about wine— I actually called my friend to find out what to write. I was also really, really psyched about hip-hop, particularly Nas, the Fugees, Busta Rhymes, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
I started playing guitar at the age of 11 after two ill-fated attempts at cello and saxophone. I took lessons on and off for about a year but preferred to just figure it all out on my own. I was actually writing songs before I even got a guitar. It was pretty clear immediately that playing guitar and writing songs were exactly what I should be doing with my life. I briefly flirted with classic rock but Zeppelin, Floyd, the Doors, and the like never got my goat for whatever reason. I was into rap-metal in middle school because the only alternative in my mind was the middling Matchbox 20/Third-Eye Blind/Guster matrix and only well-adjusted popular kids with burgeoning sex lives were into that sort of stuff.
I became curious about so-called "indie rock" around the beginning of high school but most of what I checked out left me pretty cold. It felt (and still feels) like those bands weren't trying hard enough to impress me. Or that it's music for a select group of people who were in on a joke that's not funny to anyone outside of the elite circle.
A friend hipped me to a more melodic/accessible variety of extreme punk and metal and I grew to love bands like Converge, Cave In, Refused, and early Dillinger Escape Plan. I was also on a relatively heavy emo and proto-emo kick around this time—Sunny Day Real Estate, Piebald, Weezer, Get Up Kids, At the Drive-In, Braid. I discovered Joan of Arc and the Kinsella brothers' work around this time. I think the lessons I learned from this period were that any music I made needed to connect with people on a heart-level. My first "indie rock" show was Owls, Denali, and Fin Fang Foom at the First Unitarian Church in 2002.
I started working in record stores around the age of 15 and the older guys hipped me to post-punk bands like Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads, Television, Public Image Limited right before the revival of ought-two thrust anyone into the limelight who set a contrived yelp and an Andy Gill guitar lick to a disco beat. I was able to borrow stacks and stacks of records home from the store to check out but I would say my real education came from early P2P clients like Kazaa, Audiogalaxy, and Limewire. The manager of one store got me interested in jazz, particularly Monk and Coltrane. My introduction to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto around this time engendered a life-long fascination with Brazilian music.
I briefly became interested in the "math-rock" zeitgeist (Don Caballero, the Fucking Champs, Hella) because, as a pubescent boy whose voice hadn't changed, it was a revelation that these bands could rock so hard without vocals. I was certain that it was my entry into music so I quickly abandoned my 4-chord emo stylings and started noodling around into the wee hours with pull-offs and two-handed tapping. I desperately tried to start a band with my one high school friend but that didn't pan out, so I kept at the solo 4-track demos.
I went off to college when I was 16 and began checking out 20th century classical music, European improv, mostly so I could know who the hell everyone was talking about when they mentioned Stockhausen and Peter Brotzmann. I appreciated improv but it didn't move me—I'm not an improviser by nature. I gravitated toward Varese, Ives, Bartok, Webern. I think I was excited by the brute force, the density, the emotional whirlwind of all those jams. I didn't care so much for the quiefy, farty, more purely timbral stuff.
My freshman year of college, I revisited Shudder to Think's "Pony Express Record," a record I'd checked out in high school because the store I worked in had about 90 used copies, and this second time my mind was truly, completely, totally blown. It was the first time I'd heard a band combine everything I loved about music up until that point into dense, ugly, strangely erotic 4-minute pop-rock nuggets. Once I heard "Pony Express Record," it became slightly clearer where I wanted to belong on the musical totem pole.
4) What was the reaction to So Embarrassing? Did it affect how you approached this album?
The reaction was tremendous! We played a free show at the South Street Seaport to celebrate the record's release and nearly 10,000 people showed up. The cops had to surround the venue, fights were breaking out, women were throwing their undergarments on stage. I guess if I learned anything from the So Embarrassing rollercoaster ride was that we needed to get back to basics. I needed to remember why I was in this racket in the first place, aside from the fame, girls, cars, financial security, stock options, medical benefits, and unconditional adoration from my legions of fans.
5) How is Capsized different from So Embarrassing? What does the name mean?
I think "Capsized" expands and improves on the aesthetic I established with "So Embarrassing" about sixty-fold. I spent an inordinate amount of time analyzing what bogged down the last record but also what about it worked. The catchy bits are catchier, the aggressive sections are more aggressive, the lovely stuff lovelier, etc.
The "Capsized" title is intended as to be both a cute reference to the 'Cap' in 'Capillary Action,' as well as a simple one-word summary of my year-long depression and writer's block. The title itself came to me after this well-publicized "Ride the Ducks" accident that happened about a mile from my house last summer in which two Hungarian tourists drowned.
6) The members of Capillary Action are spread out in the US. How do you come together and write music? How did the recording of Capsized worked?
I write all the music, then once all the music's finished, I put out an APB for musicians on every Craigslist and perverted Yahoo message board west of Pittsburgh. I screen all the applicants, then use a complicated algorithm not unlike the one used on The Love Calculator to determine the best four candidates. The five of us then get together a few weeks before a tour and learn the tunes.
The band, along with my dear friend Robert Cheek, built a studio from scratch at a remote cabin in Minocqua, Wisconsin. We spent two weeks, 16 hours a day, tracking and nearly went insane in the process. Except for Dan, who knocked out all the drum tracks in an hour and then spent the rest of his time making "iDoses" on Logic.
7) The music on Capsized is quite eclectic, frenzied and disjointed; it goes from a relatively calm section to a completely insane and dissonant part. Is everything ok with you? Seriously, though, how do you write this sort of seemingly chaotic music? At times it sounds like you record a basic tune and then superimpose various tracks on top and see if they fit (which they do).
I think a more apt question is what IS okay with everyone else? The beauty of music is that it's a totally subjective experience; what might seem chaotic, frenzied, and disjointed to you feels like a truthful extension of themes that can't be summarized with major/minor chords and 4/4 time. I don't know about other people's lives but mine has tended to be kind of complicated and I don't mean that in a self-aggrandizing way. My feelings and experiences generally don't neatly fit into a grid so if I long for my art to be a truly personal expression, the music can't fit into a grid either. I generally end up writing about intense experiences and feelings because I've come to terms with the fact that most of my friends would describe me as a pretty intense person. For better or worse, the songs come out the way they do because I try my best to stay true to the themes and original intents behind them. It's never been my intention to write dynamic music for the sheer thrill of seeing how far the pendulum can swing in either direction. I'm simply trying to take these abstract feelings and render them as expressively and creatively as I can.
8) In Capsized, you have a guest string section on some songs. How was that experience for you?
Wonderful! Anna, Janet, Josh, and Jake were some of the finest musicians I've ever worked with.
9) Some questions about the album's lyrics (I have a habit of not understanding lyrics, so forgive me if I butcher the meaning of your songs) :
9A) In Sweepstakes you seem to talk about keep on going, while knowing you're going nowhere, or at least no where you want to; you mention getting deeper into something and things not going according to plan (if I understood correctly): "I bit off way more than I bargained for. I feel less and less. I'll come to my senses. A shark will drown if it stops swimming. I can't stop, I can't start. Let me find something and stick with it". Is it something from your personal experience?
Yes, "Sweepstakes" comes from the abject horror of putting an extraordinary amount of work into something for years and years without ever seeing any tangible results. The germ for this song originated with a quote from my dear friend Etan, who jokingly remarked to me at the LA stop of a particularly long tour that, much like a shark, I had to keep touring or I would die. I wrote the music, Bon Jovi-style, backstage at the Sinister Noise Club in Rome in the midst of our first European tour, which arrived at the tail-end of a nearly 8-month tour. The song is about the never-ending doubts that come along with trying to "live the dream." I felt guilty for being emotionally, physically, and psychologically exhausted in the midst of a tour I understand most musicians will never, ever get a chance to mount. It was and still is an interesting position to be in. Like every other song I've written, the lyrics become painfully self-explanatory when you have the back-story. Musically, I wanted to write a song in an upbeat, major key that had an impending undercurrent of dread.
CAPILLARY ACTION - Sweepstakes from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.
9B) In Stocks In Short Supply, you seem to assume a predatory role, or at least someone very intended on getting what he wants (from someone else, perhaps). Who are you aiming and what?
"Stocks" is about the parallel I saw between multinational corporations like Vivendi who buy up the natural resources of impoverished countries in order to sell them back to residents at inflated prices and a somewhat close family friend with a sketchy past whose M.O. over the years has been to usurp people's identities in order to pass them off as her own. I wanted to inhabit the mindset of someone who was willingly, consciously preying on someone weak, so I decided to write the song from the perspective of both the corporation and the family friend.
9C) Unnecessary Surgery read like a disturbing tale of enmity (again, I'm probably way off). You talk about a war between Logic and Perjury and you wanting to plead a case. What case might that be? Also, When weapons are drawn, is it really too late?
"Surgery" is about those idiotic, petty arguments people in relationships often find themselves tangled up in. You know, those arguments that usually start off with, "why did you put the empty carton of OJ in the trash instead of the recycling bin?" and end up with malicious pot-shots directed at one another's sexual prowess. "Surgery" was my attempt to analyze, based very obviously on personal experience, how two people who love each other so much can become tangled in this kind of downward spiral and, in turn, become so far removed from the core of why they're together in the first place.
The "case" in this song refers to an argument one party makes in his/her own defense that the other party immediately discards because they've already made up his/her mind. Hence, "logic" (e.g. the rationale behind the mistake, however misguided) vs. "perjury" (e.g. using wild, unwieldy emotion as the basis for an argument as opposed to concrete facts). It's a real War of the Roses-type number.
10) Are all your lyrics written from personal experience or from others? What are some of the lyrics on this album that are closest to your heart and which were the hardest to write?
All of my lyrics come from personal experience and, as cliché as it might sound, are all equally close to my heart. I generally agonize over every aspect of my songs but the lyrics to "Life of Luxury," in particular, gave me the most trouble. Lyrically speaking, "Tenderloin" was one of the easiest to write but the most difficult to sing. It's such a raw, unadorned lyric that I genuinely feel embarrassed to talk about it.
11) What type of audience do you aim at with this album, if at all? Do you think only "avant-heads" will like this? Will "regular-prog" fans find anything appealing here, in your opinion? Will you be supporting this release with a tour?
Nope, I wasn't aiming for a particular audience; I mostly made this record so I wouldn't have to sniff women's shoes at department stores or go base-jumping to get my kicks. Although I will say one of my goals was to balance out some of the more "masculine" tendencies of my previous work with more "feminine" ones. Very abstract. There are times where I think we've alienated everyone with this record—it's too poppy for the avant-heads, too weird for the indie-poppers, too John Popper for the Paul Ankas—and other times where I think, "what's not to like?" I think "regular-prog" fans will probably think we're being obtuse and "dissonant" just to fuck with them. But maybe they'll hear all our fancy schmancy "metric modulations" and begrudgingly respect us?
12) What's on your playlist these days (if you've time, that is)? Do you follow current musical scenes or do you not care much for it? Are there any bands/musicians you think would be great to co-operate with?
For the last two months, I've been listening obsessively to this local Philadelphia songwriter Scott Churchman's second album, which can be streamed at his Bandcamp. He's got a style all his own but I liken him to the perfect cross between Scott Walker, Bill Callahan, and Phil Elverum. Totally, completely annihilating. I told Scott two weeks ago that his record has ruined my ability to enjoy all other music. Buy Scott's damn record for $1 so he can eat a Cliff bar today.
"Sign O' the Times" by Prince has been in heavy rotation lately. "The Ice Man Cometh" by Jerry Butler. I've been listening to a bunch of Scriabin, Webern, Arto Lindsay's 80s band Ambitious Lovers. Alex Lukashevsky's last record, "Prints of Darkness," which makes me weep, swoon, and groan with envy. "Telephone Line" by ELO is pretty much on constant repeat.
I try my best to stay on top of who's hot and who's on their way up (and down) the ladder in most scenes. It's all about the avant-rock gossip. Eric Slick and I jokingly talked about commissioning a calendar dedicated to avant-rock heartthrobs, Teen Beat-style. Maybe a nice, softly lit shot of Toby Driver chillin' with a glass of wine, nude on a bearskin rug?
I would love to collaborate with Annie Clark from St. Vincent, Merrill from Tune-Yards, Bill Callahan, Mica from Micachu and the Shapes, Todd Solondz, or Kate Bush.
13) Since I am coping with this question myself, I'll ask you: Why do what you do? It's hard work and for the most part unappreciated or just unnoticed and many may even dislike what you do. Why go on? I know you wrote about this issue (Gambit for instance).
Why not?
14) How was touring? What was the crowd's reaction? What was your favourite show? What was the worst?
Touring is a constant test of your own limitations; a direct challenge to your psyche for having to co-exist with the same people for months on end, dealing with often daily changes in language, culture, and customs, and knowing in the back of your mind that at any point you might get screwed over by negligent or malevolent promoters/bands/airlines/rental car companies; to your physique for eating shitty food and sleeping on floors night after night; to your emotional well-being for allowing complete strangers to take part in your deepest, darkest secrets and experiences via 4-minute avant-rock songs. It's one colossal, perpetual adrenaline rush followed always by a slow, painful withdrawal. The only solution I've found to this withdrawal ("post-tour depression" is real, folks) is to keep touring.
The crowd's reaction is always uniformly positive. Except for those times when it's not.
Wow, my favorite show out of our entire 450-show history? I don't think I could choose a real favorite but the one I keep coming back to was our last show in Orlando at the Backbooth. Beyond the fact that the crowd was really psyched on us, my friend Matt put so much love and care into this show, even going as far as to change the décor of the venue. Plus, we got to go to Disney World for free the next day (see "The Castle is Real" from our new record).
Worst? Usually the so-called "worst" shows are so bad they become legendary and over the years eventually grow in reputation to become more memorable than some of our legitimately good shows. We should schedule a separate interview for me to go through all the tremendously awful shows we've played over the years but the one that generally comes to mind is the Werehouse in Winston-Salem back in Jan '06 when a drunk, shirtless asshole threw full cans of beer at us as he bellowed "FAGGOTS!" The kicker was that he really, really enjoyed our music and ended up getting naked afterwards to show his devotion.
15) This is going to be an obsolete question soon, but... What do you think about digital-only releases? Do you like to have a physical copy of an album, or you don't care and settle for having a high-quality (or just decent) digital format and listen on a portable player?
If the American marketplace would take its head out of its ass and take digital-only releases seriously, maybe I wouldn't have just spent a year trying to find the perfect cover, 4 months trying to procure the rights to it, another 3 months of my life working on the layout, and over $3,000 to get it pressed onto obsolete compact discs. Personally, I'm into the digital download deal; I'm on the road so much that it doesn't make sense for me to carry around twelve CD binders. Plus, I prefer not to create any more waste or accumulate any more material possessions. That said, you guys should TOTALLY buy "Capsized" on COMPACT DISC. If only so you can use the CD as a coaster and look at the pretty pictures.
16) Anything to add?
Thank you so much, Assaf, for the interview. If you live on Earth, we're most definitely coming to your city, town, province, or burg between now and the end of 2011. Check capact.com for details. I should also note that all five of us are single and, as the age-old adage goes, looking to mingle.
Follow the band on Tumblr, Facebook and Myspace.
Stream Capillary Action music on Bandcamp.


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Kyrie Irving scored 29 points to lead the Cavaliers past Washington 92-84 in the season opener at the Q. Irving wasn't the only Cav to have a big night. Anderson Varejao grabbed 23 rebounds to go with nine points and nine assists. Dion Waiters put in 17 in his NBA debut. Waiters had a better night than the player selected two picks in front of him- Bradley Beal. Beal had an eight point night for the Wizards.
Cleveland built a 14 point lead in the second half only to see it evaporate. Janerro Pargo's three pointer with 8:11 left to play in the game put the Wizards up 76-74. But Irving and company would come back.
The Cavs went on a 20-8 run to put the game away. Tristan Thompson had three dunks down the stretch to finish with a double-double (12 points, 10 rebounds) to help finish off the Wizards.
The Cavs start the season 1-0, they host Chicago on Friday night at 7:30.
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« In Which We Press Our Nose To The Window »
Different Winters
by KARA VANDERBIJL
Earlier in the year I had lived in a desert, right on the hem of that great impersonal thing they call Los Angeles. This taught me nothing, save that you should never live in a place solely for the weather. I spent long afternoons enclosed in stucco condos willing the mercury to drop below the seventy-five degree mark. It never did. Everything they say about Los Angeles is true, even when they're lying.
As it turned out I did not live there for the weather, but left because of it. If youth is a never-ending summer then I wished to grow up quickly, to leave behind that blissful ignorance which forgets coats and umbrellas and boots and continually pads around in rubber flipflops. Or perhaps, as Saul Bellow says, the continental United States tipped over on its side one day and everything not screwed on tightly enough dropped into Southern California. We won't know until the Golden State breaks off into the Pacific or until marijuana is legalized there.
Going west used to be the American dream, but people don't go west to get to California anymore. Most of them run north or fly east, which I did to leave it. I do not wonder at the fact that so many people dream of living in Los Angeles. From my time in New York City I do not wonder that people dream of living there either. A pleasant sort of superiority abides with those who choose to live on the bookends of any territory, believing as they do that they represent what they enclose. What I remember most were gags of people in dark sunglasses with crisp newspapers and smart little European briefcases. These people I also saw in L.A., except there you only find crowds at Disneyland and individually wrapped in expensive vehicles on the 405. I have not seen the like of them since I left.
It was July when I discovered what they call the humid continental climate, a place far from the moderating influence of the ocean. Honestly, if Los Angeles is the far-flung wrist of the nation (neatly slit by the San Andreas fault), then Chicago is its stable pulse. Yet the Windy City may also be la belle dame sans merci — living with her, like living with a moody woman, creates tension in those of us who are too young to have seen someone live up to our expectations. She will make good on her promises; it may just take a few difficult winters.
But I came to her in the summer, and I first loved her for her revolving doors and broad avenues. In August the city smelled — not unpleasantly, more like air that has been contained too long — and I wore out my shoes trying to get to the tall buildings I saw in the distance. What this city does not have in meteorological charm she makes up for with shining jewels of buildings. Sitting on the Brown Line train at night for a quick trip around the Loop is much like reading a fortune cookie: you don't believe in its power, yet you secretly hope that it is yours.
Quite simply, a woman likes to feel small now and then, as if she were her favorite compact and could fit into any pocket or purse. Chicago gathered me into the hollow between her great steel fingers and I fell conveniently into trains and buses. Even the shortest buildings made my six feet seem like a minute detail, and I knew that I would make them mine, having never felt more like a woman (a human) than when I was able to do what all humans live to do — look up.
I tried to appear blasé, as if taking a cab from O'Hare to Bucktown was something I did every day. But I had never been in a cab before and the driver probably noticed the signs: the fact that he had to tell me it was OK to climb into the back seat, the fact that I was unsure whether or not I was allowed to open my window, or the fact that I was slow in giving him directions. When we stood in the middle of the street and he pulled my suitcase out of the trunk, I crushed several dollar bills into his palm in exchange for his silence. He was the first person I met in Chicago and we sat friendly and happy a hand's breadth apart, separated by a greasy plastic window. I did not know it at the time but this would describe many of my subsequent interactions with the city.
Early on, I studied maps with a feverish kind of diligence and acquired a primordial grasp of the city. Romantically, I latched onto impractical details like the date of the incorporation of the city and the history of deep-dish pizza. I was very green and very gauche and when I finally did catch a bus, I fed three dollars into the machine and made the lady laugh.
"Is this your first time?"
I nodded, foreign and clumsy. She spoke abruptly, but not unkindly.
"I can't give you change. Next time bring the exact amount."
The bus crawled along Lake Shore Drive, a long stretch of road between the lake and the city that I have now seen sparse and gray in the winter and blooming with flowers in the summer. People in the bus bent over books, chatted on the phone, closed their eyes. I pressed my nose to the window eagerly and wondered if it would ever become old shoe to see the city spread out, sunlight winking in glass windows, green lights promising adventures.
I soon grew to prefer the train. Since big cities are basically people stacked on top of people stacked on top of other people — a fact I often dismiss — it became important to claim ownership of what I could. Thirty miles outside of town I would find acres of cheap land for pennies, but like the other three million people I share this city with I could not think of anything more valuable than a seat on the 'L' in the morning, or perhaps a square foot of space next to the door. Having your own step on an escalator at the Clark/Lake station anytime between Monday and Friday would be an unspeakable luxury, one eclipsed only by that of not being touched at all in your transfer between trains. There is nothing that I would not give for the remote possibility of such wealth.
Not long afterwards, during a period when my wallet sat particularly thin in my pocket, I watched a man count out seven dollars from the cash drawer and hand it through the window with sympathetic, cordial professionalism. Right across the street train tracks rose on spindly wooden legs and I crossed on a red in exhilaration. Something must be said about holding everything you have in your hands, imagining for a wild second what would happen if a huge gust of wind took it from you. It is strangely liberating when your train ticket is worth more to you than anything else you own.
Midwesterners are a strange breed of Americans, or so I've been told; I do not believe I have seen any. Chicago quite literally serves as an oasis to the vast flat territory that lies beyond her limits, cleverly using the lake to lure people away from the harsh reality that they are, in fact, completely landlocked. Standing at the tip of Navy Pier looking out, you forget that you are not at the very edge of the world until you breathe deeply and — there is no salty air, only the dank odor of lake water.
A woman that I have seen performing on the train platform several times now can tap dance, whistle, play the guitar, and play her violin all at the same time. She is dressed like a tiny Asian man and always has a vase full of dead silk flowers nearby. Between songs she collects the dollar bills and crosses herself with them, touching them to her lips. "Gracias," she says to those who stop and watch, to those who give her money.
Chicago, easily extroverted in the summertime, spills out onto humid stoops with beer and the beanbag game, an almost tribal ritual that I still have not fully grasped. Throughout July and August we would walk to the park in the evenings and leave only when it was too dark to see the children's mosquito-bitten legs pumping up and down on the swings. Two blocks away, a few polyphonic bars of "La Cucaracha" beckoned from an ice cream truck painted rather garishly with figures of happy children playing with Minnie and Mickey Mouse. A kind man named Juan drove this truck, barely spoke English, and was generous with dollar soft-serve and brightly colored candy sprinkles. In those soft evenings everybody murmured in quiet contentment, but then it was still too early on for me to understand why I should appreciate the summer. We ate sparingly during the day, if only to gorge ourselves on fresh vegetables from the garden we had plotted between several brick two-flats. By the time summer was drawing to a close the humidity had repaired my skin from the harsh dryness of desert living, and my hair was shiny and thick from sunshine and platefuls of green beans.
In the months that followed, I would look back on those days and try to remember their truth in light of Tom Skilling's hearty "It's 20 degrees outside, but it feels like -4" and the somber necessity of a cashmere scarf. Really, it is no windier in Chicago than anywhere else in the continental United States, but this is only if you stand perfectly still in the middle of Lincoln Park. In tunnels and between buildings the wind never stops. You learn to pull your collar up around your ears and you learn to live without carrying an umbrella. You learn that the worst reason to stay somewhere is because you like the weather.
Kara VanderBijl is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in Chicago. She last wrote in these pages about Harry Potter. She tumbls here.
New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.
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Conan weighs in on Bush Lie-brary
"President Bush is putting together his presidential library and apparently the library is going to cost $500 million, which will work out to $100 million a book." -- Conan O'Brien.
Inside Higher Ed has a long piece looking at various sides of the issue, including suggestions by Methodist ministers that if the GWB presidential library ends up on this campus, the school should remove the word "Methodist" from its name.
Maybe they can revert to a longtime nickname: Southern Millionaires University.


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Cooking time:15-20 minutes
Cost of the item:1.99USD / 20oz can
Ripe Pineapple :1/4 portion cut into small cubes( I used the canned one)
Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp
Salt : to taste
Green chili: 4 nos
water: 1/2 cup
Grated coconut: 1/4 cup
Mustard seed: 1/2 tbs
Curd : 1/2 cup
Mustard seed: 1tsp
Oil : 2 tsp
Red hcili : 1 no
Curry leaves: 1 spring
Step 1 : Cook the pineapple chunks along with green chili, salt, turmeric powder and 1/2 cup of water.
Step 2 : Make a very nice paste of coconut and Mustard seeds..
Step3 : Add the above mix into the cooked pineapple..Stir well...Cook for 5 minutes in meduim heat..Let it cool down for sometime.
Step4 : Mix curd into the cooked pineapple coconut mix.Mix well.
Step5 : Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seed,once it started spluttering add the red chili and curry leaves...
Step6 : Pour this into the pachadi..
Pineapple pachadi is ready to serve.
Points to ponder
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- If you are using the whole pineapple first cut them into slices and make meduim size cubes...
- Do not use raw pineapple..
- Do not Overcook the pineapple


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Scientific Programming
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 29-40
PGHPF – An Optimizing High Performance Fortran Compiler for Distributed Memory Machines
The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI), 9150 SW Pioneer Court, Suite H, Wilsonville, OR 97070, USA
Received 26 May 1995; Accepted 26 January 1996
Copyright © 1997 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
High Performance Fortran (HPF) is the first widely supported, efficient, and portable parallel programming language for shared and distributed memory systems. HPF is realized through a set of directive-based extensions to Fortran 90. It enables application developers and Fortran end-users to write compact, portable, and efficient software that will compile and execute on workstations, shared memory servers, clusters, traditional supercomputers, or massively parallel processors. This article describes a production-quality HPF compiler for a set of parallel machines. Compilation techniques such as data and computation distribution, communication generation, run-time support, and optimization issues are elaborated as the basis for an HPF compiler implementation on distributed memory machines. The performance of this compiler on benchmark programs demonstrates that high efficiency can be achieved executing HPF code on parallel architectures.


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Last Wednesday at 10 pm I loaded up 30 paintings and headed down to Buena Vista, VA for SVU's education conference. Thursday night I arrived and hung all the paintings before going to a delightful presenters dinner at the Knights. Friday I got to enjoy a wonderful collection of talk s and delicious food and a fabulous performance of man of La Mancha and stayed up late talking to my great friend Liz. Friday brought more delicious food and workshops and socializing. I spoke Saturday afternoon about my paintings. If you want to listen to my talk you can hear it here. All I can say is it was wonderful. I loved meeting so many people there, as well as seeing old friends. I had a wonderful response to the pieces. While most people would come up and ask why no heads, one woman's first comment was "thank you for not painting the heads because it makes it so it could be me" (I was so excited and said – yes you got it!!), she later told me that seeing them gave her a feeling almost like narnia- she wanted to step inside and relive things gone by. Another man told me how one of piece really began to stand out to him and couldn't look it without tearing up remembering times with his mother. It was so interesting to hear the reactions and connections of people of many different ages. I can't believe the feeling of accomplishment and relief I felt finally completing the series and showing them.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
SVU show
4 comments:
- ellen said...
I wish I could have been there. How cool to see all those paintings together!
- Ginger Johnson said...
I love love love these paintings! Congratulations on such a fantastic accomplishment!
- Lis said...
They are beautiful les! I am way proud of you!! :)
- Audra said...
I found you via Gabrielle Blair over at Design Mom. I could not click over fast enough to see the rest of your work.
I am not being silly when I say that I literally cried when I looked through your Mothering series. If I were wealthy I would buy each one. The Welcome Home was what did me in initially. So perfect and so perfectly my aesthetic and captured just how I feel about being a working (we are all working) outside the home mama; I instantly loved it. My son is almost two and these all just really spoke to me at that basic mom level. All the mundane things you do for/with your kids you captured so beautifully.
I called my husband to tell him to add your stuff to the top of "gifts for my lovely wife."
This is now a dissertation length comment to say that I love your work. LOVE IT!


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This year sees the return to motorcycle travel after a few years break looking after the newest additions to our family. We've not been planning this extensively but more intensively as the time frame for the opportunity to go traveling again by motorcycle only really came to head a few weeks ago when I floated the idea to my wife, Arja. At that stage we were about to book in flights to go on our annual family holiday, as most families do over summer when another thought, a second thought came to mind. Other people may have just dismissed it as absurd or too expensive or selfish. But I know that it would meet with neither a cold reception nor be rejected off the cuff. Instead we sat down looked at a map and then started to research the idea of traveling to the arctic over several weekends, returning to work during the week and continuing the following weekend. And so came about the concept of the time poor traveler only traveling over the weekends and working as usual during the week.
Further research and several days later we had a loose itinerary that would make the most of overnight travel by train and ferry and make the important connections by plane to get me back down to Switzerland ready for work on Monday morning. I'd just have to figure out how to iron my shirts on the road.
Now all that remains is to put the plan into action.
I have to say that this trip is something that I've been looking forward to since we first made it to Norway in 2009. At that stage our ambition to ride all the way to Nordkap was cut short by the onset of very cold weather and ice. We instead turned around and headed to Switzerland. Now this new era of motorcycling hearlds a new opportunity, traveling in stages and combining the traveling with family holidays, essentially getting feeding our travel bug piece-meal.


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Choosing technology, development, integration, hosting, testing, security and maintenance.
Technology strategy for services
Choosing your technology and approach.
Software development processes
Configuration, version control, pre-production environments, dependencies.
Building your service: the frontend
Device and browser requirements, progressive enhancement, HTTPS.
Testing your service
Quality assurance, performance testing, vulnerability and penetration testing, exploratory testing.
Managing a live service
Uptime, availability, monitoring.
Integrating with external software and data
Open standards, moving away from legacy systems, using APIs.
Hosting your service
Suppliers and domain names.
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Security, the cloud, fraud, cookies, user logins and sending email.


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DescriptionOne windy day, there was an explosion at a nuclear power station, causing heavy doses of radiation to be poured over many people. One of these people was a coal miner named Chelnov. When he survived the deadly accident, he was possessed with abnormal powers. Having realized this, he decided to act in the cause of justice. He is determined to escape the Eastern Bloc country he called home and run and jump across the world to finish in the US.
What distinguishes Chelnov: Atomic Runner from other platform games is its use of forced scrolling. This occurs when the screen moves continuously from left to right, forcing players to negotiate the game's many obstacles and enemies without controlling Chelnov's speed of progress. Enemies attack from left, right, above, and below, and Chelnov can switch the direction he's facing to attack enemies that are behind him. Some enemies in the game carry different types of weapons and power-ups, and when they are shot at, the power-ups drop to the ground and can be picked up.
While the level design and enemy placement is identical in the later released Genesis (and subsequently Wii) version, the graphics have been significantly changed: now each level is based on a ancient human civilization and the enemies (including bosses) are replaced. Also all references to atomic explosions have been removed from the background story. Now Chernov is the son of a scientist. The evil Deathtarians, who claim to be the original population of the Earth and want to control this planet, murdered his father and abducted his sister. Chelnov takes a special suit made by his father, which give him super-human powers and make him an "Atomic Runner". The Deathtarians caught and imprisoned him, but he broke out of the prison and is now on the run...
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- "Video Game: Anthology - Vol. 2: Atomic Runner - Chelnov" -- Sharp X68000 title
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- "チェルノブ" -- Japanese spelling
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|Douge2's entourage waits for him after the tourney.
This guy should be here more often. Faldo just doesn't mean playing at NPP, but winning the tourney. This man can play!
Faldo adds to his untouchable record of 2nd place finishes, to go with his untouchable record of final table and cashing bubble finishes.
The tables were a little uneven, as we had three sit-outs for a while and it soon turned to just one. Wingsfancurt never did make it to the NPP room. But living in Las Vegas, sometimes things happen.
On to the action:
5 min: Sanster89 (18th) with (TT) sees SpartanFlash (AdJd) hit his flush!
9 min: KingBing420 (17th) sees her two pair get run down by Rjmech's full house!
10 min: ThePunk75 (16th) Missed it playing my hand.
16 min: Theedouble*d (15th) sees his (JJ) pair run into SpartanFlash's (AA)! Ouch!
25 min: A short-stacked (SS) Tomservo2 (14th) with (KQ) lose a coin flip to Suetman123's (TT).
32 min: A short-stacked (SS) Derf-63 (13th) runs into Mikeniks-Faldo's (AA).
33 min: LittleRedElf (12th) with two pair is out-kicked by Douge2 with the same two pair.
41 min: K9isadog (11th) with two pair runs into Rjmech's flush.
48 min: A SS Tigercub8189 (10th) Missed as the table closed.
49 min: A SS Pre01 (9th) Missed it answering a phone! Where are the Faldo secretaries!
52 min: Suetman123 (8th) has a straight that loses to Lump2's flush.
55 min: Wingsfancurt (7th) blinds out.
1st break:
Lump2 7285
Mikeniks-Faldo 6710
SpartanFlash 4715
Douge2 3650
Absea98 2865
Rjmech 1775
69 min: Absea98 (6th) with (AK) loses a coin flip to Lunp2 with (77).
78 min: Rjmech (5th) hits his flush, but SpartanFlash has a higher one! Ouch!
83 min: Lump2 (4th) sees his pair of Queens run into Mikeniks-Faldo's (AA).
With deep stacks, a long session ensues.
116 min: A SS SpartanFlash (3rd) goes with (K6), but Mikeniks-Faldo has (A9).
2nd break:
Douge2 16300
Mikeniks-Faldo 10700
126 min: Mikeniks-Faldo (2nd) moves in with (99) and is called by Douge2 with (Ah Th) and Faldo loses the coin flip as his full house is out-pipped by Douge2's.
Congratulations to Douge2 on his 7th NPP victory!
1st – Douge2
2nd – Mikeniks-Faldo
3rd – SpartanFlash
4th – Lump2
5th – Rjmech
6th – Absea98
7th – Wingsfancurt
8th – Suetman123
9th – Pre01
10th – Tigercub8189
11th – K9isadog
12th – LittleRedElf
13th – Derf-63
14th – Tomservo2
15th – Theedouble*d
16th – ThePunk75
17th - KingBing420
18th – Sanster89
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A few weeks ago, a prominent Dutch psychologist was fired on the spot. A charismatic personality, his quirky press releases had the media hanging on his lips. His latest experiments had shown that meat-eaters are more selfish and antisocial than vegetarians. People who eat that steak are compensating for their insecurity and loneliness, he argued.
The golden boy of social psychology, as it turned out, had cooked up the results.
Let's, for now, forget that the same media that rushed to publicize his findings without bating a critical eyelid, now couldn't nail him to the cross fast enough. Media hypocrisy is an appealing topic in its own right, but that's not what I want to talk about.
It's about something else. Comments about this scientific fraud, be it in the news, editorials, talk shows, or social media, frequently reverted to the proverbial publish-or-perish catchphrase: the pressure put on university staff to publish work constantly to reel in sponsors, get government grants, impress peers, and (thus) sustain a career in academia.
What astonished me during this tsunami of media coverage was that the publish-or-perish slogan was questioned not once. It was completely taken for granted.
While there is no excuse whatsoever for falsifying or concocting data, however high the publication pressure, this lack of reflection on the publish-or-perish model begs many, many questions.
Do we have our priorities straight in our institutions of higher education? What kind of institutions are we propagating, when we judge university faculty by the number of papers they have published, their citation index, and their media appeal? Serious and complex problems face the world and future generations. What better serves students – our future problem solvers: universities that cherish publishing machines or exceptional educators?
Has the publish-or-perish model in our universities led us astray? Do we need a paradigm shift? Might an Educate-or-Perish model be what puts us back on track?


text: Here's my quandary: I have two iPhones and an iPad all with AT&T service. The newest iOs revision will allow my iPhone 4 to be a mobile hotspot for an iPad, If I read the announcements correctly. Soooooo, If I pick up a new iPad2 in the wifi and 3G Verizon version, will I be able to use an AT&T iPhone4 as a mobile hotspot for the iPad2 but still be able to use it's native Verizon 3G when I wish? Decisions, decisions, decisions


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London, 15 July, 2011 – News Corporation today announced the appointment of Tom Mockridge to the role of Chief Executive Officer of News International. Mr Mockridge will assume responsibility for his new role with immediate effect following the resignation of Rebekah Brooks.
Mr Mockridge joins News International from Sky Italia where he has been Chief Executive Officer since launch in 2003. He was also Chief Executive European Television of News Corporation, overseeing News Corporation's television operations in Europe, outside of the UK.
Laura Cioli, Chief Operating Officer, and Domenico Labianca, Chief Finance Officer, will assume Mr Mockridge's responsibilities on an interim basis, reporting to James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International, News Corporation. Prior to joining Sky Italia, Mr Mockridge was Chief Executive of the publicly-listed New Zealand company, Independent Newspapers, and Chairman of Sky New Zealand. He previously held various roles at Star Group Limited and spent three years as Chief Executive Officer of Foxtel, News Corporation's Australian pay TV joint venture. Mr Mockridge joined News Corporation in January 1991, working for Ken Cowley, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Australian newspaper company News Limited. Before that, he was a spokesperson in the Australian government. He started his career as a newspaper journalist in New Zealand.
Mr Mockridge is also a non-executive director of BSkyB and a member of the Supervisory Board of Sky Deutschland. James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International, News Corporation, said: "Tom is an outstanding executive with unrivalled experience across our journalism and television businesses. He has proven himself to be a very effective operator in his time at Sky Italia. Under his leadership, Sky has grown to become one of the world's most successful pay TV businesses, reaching close to 5 million homes and launching channels like TG24 which has set a new standard for independent journalism in Italy. "I believe that Tom is the best person to move the company forward to a brighter future."
The former News Of The World editor told News International staffers in an email that she has become "a focal point of the debate" over the integrity of Rupert Murdoch's news operations and that is "now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past." But the resignation suggests that Murdoch feels seriously threatened. His company is being investigated by UK police, Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron, and now in the U.S. by the FBI. Earlier, Murdoch stood by Brooks even after he closed NOTW, abandoned his effort to buy BSkyB, and Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband publicly called on her to leave. Many people questioned why Brooks kept her job last week while hundreds of NOTW employees lost theirs. Brooks had been editor in 2002 when the paper tampered with voice mail messages of murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler, leading her parents to believe she might still be alive. Brooks is being replaced by an executive with no connection to Murdoch's newspapers and the scandal: Sky Italia CEO Tom Mockridge. Here's the News International announcement:


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Date of issue: 1 January 1999
Description of the book "Rogue Squadron":They are sleek, swift, and deadly. The are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars! Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best -- the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and PDF dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . .
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In the beginning, Heal the Bay consisted of only a handful of volunteers and no paid staff. Today there's a volunteer membership of more than 25,000 and 40 Heal the Bay employees. While still integrally involved in pressuring government for water quality improvements, Heal the Bay has expanded its focus to include numerous educational programs and research efforts.
Some of Heal the Bay's accomplishments include the Beach Report CardTM, which includes an analysis of water quality and public health risks at 494 beaches from Oregon to Mexico each week. Heal the Bay also coordinates Los Angeles County Coastal Cleanup Day sites, annually picking up tens of thousands of pounds of trash and recyclables - keeping trash from entering waterways and injuring people and marine life. Since 2003, Heal the Bay has managed the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, which provides visitors with a hands-on opportunity to interact with marine life. And programs like the Heal the Bay Speakers Bureau and the multi-aquaria, elementary school program "Key to the Sea" help educate Californians about the difference one person can make in protecting the environment.
In the past 23 years, Heal the Bay has made substantial progress in protecting California's aquatic habitats, but there is still a lot of work to be done. That is why Heal the Bay continues to strive to make California coastal waters safe and healthy for people and marine life by continually improving its educational programs, advocating for protective legislative measures and encouraging people to take an active role in environmental protection.
Mission: Heal the Bay is a nonprofit, environmental organization dedicated to making Southern California coastal waters and watersheds, including the Santa Monica Bay, safe, healthy, and clean.
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After supper, the pediatrics floor settles down, and families turn their thoughts to tomorrow. There is too much time to think and anticipate, and anxieties can run high. Children feel captive, victims of the procedures that they must endure.
Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe has brought smiles and delight to children at Boston-area hospitals since 1997. Inspired by famous doctor/clown Patch Adams, the troupe has made more than 25,000 bedside visits in the last nine years. The clowns provide more than entertainment, they give hospitalized children choices to help to relieve anxiety and support healing.
Helping children and their families cope effectively with the trauma of disability, illness and hospitalization is a major challenge for members of any health care team. The efforts of health care practitioners are appropriately focused on understanding and ultimately altering the pathophysiology of a childâ s illness. There is significant pressure to complete the tasks associated with treatment in as rapid and efficient a manner as possible. One of the casualties of this focus is time spent helping the child and family alter their focus from the depressing, disempowering aspects of disease and disability. Even a practitioner with unlimited time, concern and skill may still not be able to connect with the child and family emotionally, because s/he remains the practitioner in their eyes. â Clown Roundsâ benefit the whole hospital community. The troupe brings joy, laughter, song and silliness into a place where they are not the norm.
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This is a guest contribution by Nick Rojas
In 2015, more people used mobile devices than desktop computers to check their emails. In fact, 53% of emails were opened on mobile devices, and this number has probably increased over the last two years. Why? People tend to use desktop computers while at work, but the U.S. workforce is going mobile. More people are beginning to work remotely from home or a co-working space, which means they rely on either their laptops, tablets, or smartphones to keep them connected.
What does this mean for marketers? If you're creating an email marketing campaign, it's crucial that you consider how the email will look and how effective it will be on mobile devices.
Here are some tips to help you master the art of mobile-friendly email marketing campaigns:
Three Lines That Matter
Every word of copy that you write for an email marketing campaign matters. But according to Entrepreneur, there are three lines of copy that matter the most: the "from" field, subject line, and first line of the email. The "from" field should contain the name of a real person unless the campaign is for a recognizable brand. For the subject line, keep it short and sweet. Research has shown that mobile users respond well to subject lines that are between six to ten words and personalized with their first names. Finally, make sure the first line of your email is intriguing and leaves recipients wanting more. If they're looking at your email on their smartphone, they will see the first line of text in the preview before they even click on the email. Give them a reason to click to see more by making this first line strong.
Call to Actions
What action do you want the recipients to take after reading your email? Whether you want people to sign up for an event, buy something, or read a new blog article, it's important to clearly state your intentions. Be sure to move the call to action to the top of the email so readers can quickly see what you are asking them to do. To ensure that mobile users can click on the CTA, it's recommended that you make the button at least 44 x 44 pixels.
Readable Text
There's nothing more frustrating than having to zoom in on an email so you can read the microscopic text. Don't punish your readers for wanting to see what you have to say—make it easy for them to read your copy. It's best to use 16-point font for the copy in the body of your email, and 22-point font for headers.
Small Images
You may think it's more effective to use large images that grab the reader's attention, but that's not necessarily true. Mobile device users want to quickly scan an email to see if they are interested, and if the email fails to load within a few seconds, they may delete it out of frustration. What would cause an email to load slowly? Large images. If you're only adding one image to the email, it's fine to use a slightly larger one. But, if you're adding 5-10 images in one email, make sure that each of them is under 2 kb.
Follow these tips and you will be able to reach the large majority of people who use their mobile devices to check emails from friends, family members, and brands!
Nick Rojas wears many hats — business consultant, serial entrepreneur, business and technology journalist. For the past 20 years, this self-taught marketing strategy has worked with small to medium sized businesses offering his personal brand of expertise. His latest adventure includes working with Brilliance.


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