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Eugene Cernan – The Last Man on the Moon
This is a long book, marketed as an adult read, it is fine for the older teen and best for NASA enthusiasts. Mr. Cernan begins with the Apollo fire in 1967, fills in the backstory of the NASA space program to that point and ends with his return from the moon. It is an excellent companion to the "From the Earth to the Moon" series.
Richard Feynman – Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Nobel Prize Physicist, Richard Feynman was a "curious character". The first book is a collection of stories he told and put in chronological order. Not a true autobiography but close enough for this purpose. My oldest daughter introduced the books to me. You do not have to be a physicist or a science minded person to enjoy the books and be in awe of everything Feynman accomplished. His storytelling is entrancing. He speaks and writes with such common sense and humor. I need to go back and find the exact quote that I often think about. Something like – If a person can't explain a high level concept in layman's terms, then perhaps the person doesn't understand it well enough to explain it. In other words, cut out the buzz words and speak plainly. Feynman attended MIT when he was 17, then went to Princeton, then was recruited to work on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. He served on the faculty at Cornell and Caltech and had many adventures with ups and downs in his life. Towards the end of his life, he was on the team that investigated the shuttle Challenger disaster. What a vibrant character who truly lived life to the fullest. Best for older teens, the books are considered adult. Classic Feynman: All The Adventures of a Curious Character (2006) is a compilation of his stories and includes a CD of his lectures. Born and raised in New York, he has a distinctive accent that adds to the flavor of his talks. In 1996, the movie, Infinity, based on his early career was produced starring Matthew Broderick as Feynman. The timeline seemed jumbled in the movie, but it makes for a good introduction to Richard Feynman.
Jean Fritz – Homesick, My Own Story (Newbery Honor)
Jean Fritz was raised in China during the 1920s and this is a fictionalized autobiography because the author cannot remember the exact details of her childhood. Close enough. Born in China to American missionaries, she lived in China until she was thirteen. She kept a journal during many of those years. This was a time in Chinese history when foreigner's were not treated so well and viewed with distrust. Beautifully told. She grew up to be an award winning author of many biographies.
James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small,All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, Every Living Thing
I suppose not a true autobiography because the names are changed, however the stories are based on his life. Close enough for these purposes that I will put them under autobiography. James Herriot is the pseudonym for James Alfred Wight (Alf). The first book in the autobiographical series was first published in 1972 about a veterinarian practicing in the English countryside. The books were turned into a popular television series in England beginning in 1978, and then the series came to the states and aired on PBS. I devoured all of the shows, and then read the books. For anyone that loves animals and warm, heartfelt stories, these books are perfect. The first in the series tells of his arriving fresh out of veterinary college to practice in the Yorkshire Dales in 1940. Through the span of the books, the author describes not only country vetting and the people of the Dales, but how WWII affected the people. Many public libraries have the series DVDs in their collection. Check them out and read the books. One biography of James Herriot is written by his son, Jim Wight, entitled, The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of my Father.
Homer H. Hickam, Jr. – October Sky
The movie, October Sky, was based on Hickam's book. The book was originally published as Rocket Boys: A Memoir, the title was changed when the movie came out. October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys. Growing up in a small coal mining town, Hickam was caught up in rockets and the space race. He and his friends, with encouragement from a wonderful science teacher, experimented with rocket design and fuels with the determination to better their lives. Hickham did work for NASA beginning in 1981 as an aerospace engineer, a true rocket boy.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston – Farewell to Manzanar: a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After World War II Internment
During World War II, Japanese Americans were ordered from their homes, their businesses, their lives, and sent to internment camps. While the author describes her experiences as a child, she describes the dignified adjustments that the older generations had to make. She also explains the difficult entering back into society after the war was over.
Peg Kehret – Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
I used to read this to each fourth grade class when I was an elementary librarian. I'd stop reading when she was at the height of her illness and leave them hanging. The book got checked out a lot! Of course we know that Kehret lives, she is a prolific author. She went home for lunch and never returned to school. From the hospital to her rehabilitation, the author's story is expertly written. It continues to be a favorite among students.
Helen Keller – The Story of My Life
An intense illness as a toddler left Helen Keller blind and deaf. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, she went to college, became and writer and lecturer. She was a talented writer so that the autobiography of her amazing, accomplished life is an engrossing read.
Adeline Yen Mah – Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
The author's story is perfect for the middle school and high school audience. Her follow-up novel, Falling Leaves is better for high school and adult audiences. The author's mother died giving birth to her so her family considered her bad luck and treated her badly. Her life from age 5 to 14 during the time of World War II is covered. She was born into an affluent family, yet when his father remarried, she and her siblings got very little while her step-brother and step-sister were spoiled. Always a favorite with students.
Gary Paulsen – My Life in Dog's Years, Guts, How Angel Peterson Got His Name
The author of Hatchet details his life in this series of books, all make excellent read alouds. Paulsen is an outdoorsman and adventurer. He survived a difficult childhood and brings a unique authenticity to his books, fiction and autobiography. He chronicles his life by the dog's that he has owned including Cookie that saved his life by pulling him from an ice fishing hole. Guts details his childhood. He often went hungry, unless he killed his own food. How Angel Peterson Got His Name is more about the fun aspects of his childhood and the wild adventures he and his friends had.
Johanna Reis – The Upstairs Room (Newbery Honor)
The author writes of her youth spent in hiding during the Holocaust. She and her sister were hidden by a Gentile farmer and his wife in Holland for many years. She begins the story with her family in Holland and their survival plans as the Germans invade Holland and begin the restrictions on the Jewish people. After her father escapes to Switzerland and her mother is hospitalized, the author and her sister are smuggled into their hiding place where they were to stay for several years.

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Goa is a smallest state by area in India. This is one of the most popular beaches that locals like to go. When they told us it was like their dreamed destination. We finally tried to go and we wanted to see how it was. This is one of many Indian beaches that tourists should go.
Many architectures were built with a combination of different styles or in combination such as Islamic, Indian and Portuguese. The hotel price is various, depending on where you want to stay in Goa Island. If you love shooting and enjoying the sunset, this may be the place for you!
I must say that the weather was pretty hot when we were there even though it was in December. People were really friendly and we were impressed with a lot of things.
To get there, you could either take a plane from New Delhi or from Mumbai.


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Whether it is providing food for grand life-cycle events, corporate dinners, fundraisers, or shiva trays for families in mourning, Catering by Chani offers a wide variety of innovative menus, specifically tailored to your needs. Please take a look as some images from past events. Catering by Chani can work with you to create a customized menu for your special event.


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CHILL Helps Many During First Semester of 2015-16 School Year
There were close to 1,200 referrals to the CHILL program with more than 700 students receiving counseling.
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20,000 Visits to School Nurses During First Semester
During the first semester of the 2015-2016 school year, there were 19,865 total visits to the clinics in our 12 schools!
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Stories Can Save Lives (and Win!)
Young people can submit a 60-sec video showing how they help others stay safe and resilient to win cash prizes! #WatchMePrep
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Restore the Roar: February 20, 2016
The event offers a unique dining experience with proceeds benefiting a new athletic facility, and turf
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Free Health Services Available at School-Based Health Centers
Nurse Practitioners can provide physicals, treatment of illnesses and write prescriptions at the Glenridge and WPHS school-based health centers
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Attend "The 21st Century Family: Learning in a Digital World"
At this event, you will have an opportunity to interact with experts from various OCPS departments (Digital, Curriculum, Multilingual), the Orange County Council of PTA, and more!
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Second Annual Florida PTA Healthy Children Healthy Future Summit
Florida PTA is proud to present the Second Annual Healthy Children, Healthy Future State Summit, November 13th and 14th.
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Make a Difference, Join Your Healthy School Team
Get involved with your child's healthy school team to help create, monitor and enhance school policies that can improve their school's environment.
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Healthy School Teams Focus of 2015 Florida PTA Leadership Convention
On July 17, 2015, state and national school health and wellness leaders came together to address over 800 participants at the 2015 Florida PTA Leadership Convention.
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Sport Champions Cup
'Don't stop at four' - Leinster 3.0 are determined to dominate Europe
Leinster players get the champagne flowing after Saturday's Champions Cup final in Bilbao. Photo: Sportsfile
Ruaidhri O'Connor Twitter
May 14 2018 2:30 AM
The story of Leinster Rugby can be told through the prism of Leo Cullen, yet the lead protagonist prefers the shadow to the limelight.
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When he emerges from the dressing-room beneath the gleaming San Mames Stadium he does so with the same implacability as he does when his team have just won a routine league game against Treviso.
Remi Tales of Racing 92 misses a last-gasp drop-goal attempt. Photo: Getty Images
He was there during the long winter of underachievement and, after his spell with Leicester, he was the leader of Leinster 2.0, the winning machine.
As captain he lifted the old Heineken Cup three times and then when he and his generation retired, he went behind the scenes to do the rebuilding job.
Six years after he raised the old trophy aloft, he looked on as Isa Nacewa, Jordi Murphy and Johnny Sexton did the honours. As a coach he is removed from the battleground, but his fingerprints are all over this victory as Leinster 3.0 came of age.
His place in history was already assured as the only man to captain three winning sides, now he adds the honour of becoming the first man to play for and coach a team to the title.
Beneath his unruffled exterior he is beaming with pride as he assesses a success that will stand the test of time.
"I was overjoyed, really, overjoyed. I was delighted for the players... a sense of relief," he said.
"It was a pretty incredible feeling. It might not seem that when you talk to me now, but at that moment... I have never experienced anything quite like it to be honest. When you are a player it is very different because you are in the mix, you are doing things; it's a very different feeling.
Mentally
"From a coaching point of view it is a bit more mentally challenging, so I'm just delighted for all the people who are involved... ultimately, our fate is decided by the 15 guys on the pitch at any given time and those guys, credit to them, they found a way.
"It wasn't necessarily the way we would have liked to have played, but they found a way to win the game. It was winning pretty ugly, but we said it inside, maybe that's what made it a little bit more sweet in many ways because it was as ugly as it was."
After a raucous run to the final, the showpiece itself was a slug-fest of epic proportions; a series of battles for every possession that culminated in Remi Tales' unconvincing injury-time drop goal drifting wide of the target.
The scenes on the pitch were mirrored in the coaches' box, where the relief of 80 taut minutes was released in a split second.
This is where Leinster feel they belong, but for six long years they were forced to watch on as Toulon and Saracens ruled the roost.
Now they stand alongside Toulouse as the most successful club side in Europe.
Nacewa retires after his fourth title, but Johnny Sexton, Cian Healy and Devin Toner will return to the start line to target a fifth to put them out in front alone.
Over the course of a decade they have become Europe's dominant force and they have no intention of stopping at a quartet of stars on the jersey.
"It seemed like Toulouse were that club that were going to kick on," Cullen said. "You have to keep chipping away, keep trying to get better. I suppose there's a lesson in that too; don't stop at four.
"Toulouse have had their troubles over the years with some of the other threats and competition that has come in - 15 years ago there wasn't a Racing or a Toulon to worry about, La Rochelle have come in this year, Pau, Lyon... the landscape changes.
"You need to keep evolving all the time. Toulouse are a good lesson for us because if you sit still for too long, people will pass you by. We've had to wait so long to get to this stage again. Hopefully it won't be another six years.
"The desire levels are there. We're lucky we've got a great group of coaches, putting a huge amount of work in to make sure it gets better.
"Some great leaders as well. How we go without Isa is going to be a big challenge. He is such a key figure, someone is going to have to step up now because he is an amazing individual.
"I couldn't put into words how special he is in terms of his influence on the group and the club. That's something we need to figure out."
His view is shared within the dressing-room, where the desire to win is very real.
"You have to have a dream and a vision and the plan is to put a lot of stars on the shirt," Healy - now part of an exclusive club of six four-time winners alongside Nacewa, Sexton, Toner, Freddie Michalak and Cedric Heymans - said. "Not four, not five, I want to see Leinster grow and be dominant in Europe for years.
"The crop that are coming through and long after I'm gone, now they'll be holding that and hopefully doing that.
"It's a bit of yin and yang (between the experienced players and the young guns). We've got a team with high expectations, we just kind of have a bit of guidance and then it's also on us to step up to the energy that they're bringing.
"That's class. Like, training is deadly, and then it's pretty fruitful when you get this sort of stuff."
The breakdown in the match-day 23 tells its own story. Only six players had previous experience of a final, the other 17 were winning this trophy for the first time.
Fourteen of those came through the province's academy, having grown up watching them win the European Cup, and for them this was about playing their own part in that tradition.
"This is only the beginning, to be honest with you," Jack Conan said.
"There are so many lads and even though it's unfortunate that the likes of Jordi are leaving, we have Dan (Leavy), James Ryan and all guys like that of a similar age and we have all played together for a few years already.
"This is only the start and it's such an exciting prospect to see what these lads can do in the coming years."
Talking point: Reds alert – this Munster-style triumph will make Leinster even hungrier to nail the double
Four-star heroes enjoy triumphant homecoming
Leinster prove they are team for all seasons
Cullen to shake up team to avoid a domestic crash landing
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Joy Jeter re-wrote the University of New Haven record book during her four-year career. From 1985-1989, the Chargers were 102-22, won four New England Collegiate Conference titles, two NCAA Division II New England Regional Championships, and a National Championship (1987).
Jeter's accomplishments during that time earned her a place in the NCAA record book. She was named NCAA MVP and All-Tournament Team in 1987. She was a three-year Division II Ko-dak All-American (1987-1989). Her statistics appear on several NCAA record sheets: #10 career points (2,299), #5 rebounds (1,486), # 13 rebound average (12.2), #4 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds (2,299 points, 1,486 rebounds).
Jeter's name appears frequently in the UNH record book: #1 points in a year (648), #1 rebounds in a season (429), #7 best field goal percentage (.501), #1 most career points (2,299), # 1 most career rebounds (1,486), #8 career assists (284), #9 career steals (221).


Charlotte Chambray Blue Raglan Peasant Blouse – Pomegranate Inc.
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Sylva, April 25. Greening Up the Mountains Festival. Details: www.greeningupthemountains.com.
Shelby, April 25-26. Foothills Merry-Go-Round Festival. Details: www.cityofshelby.com/govt/dept_parks_rec.
Myrtle Beach, April 22-25. Myrtle Beach International Film Festival. Details: www.myrtlebeachfilmfestival.com.
Walterboro, through April 26. Colleton County Rice Festival. Details: www.ricefestival.org.
Columbia, April 24-26. Sparkleberry Country Fair. Details: www.sparkleberrycountryfair.org.


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The Year's Best Art On The Internet
Some of the best art of the year from/of/for the Internet is some of the best art of the year, period.
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By Marina Galperina 8 minute Read
A random dark net shopping bot, a rabid meme music video collage, concept websites, and a browser-based film–these were some of the best artworks of the year, and they weren't hanging in a Chelsea gallery. Some were born digital. Some where built with shareware platforms or crowdsourced. Many referenced, intensified, and disrupted everyday Internet user experience, while spilling into the "physical."
Maybe the antiquated, catch-all term "net art" should be applied very loosely to this group, unless you'd like to get into a long, footnoted discussion about the latest art lexicon update in the age of (or rather, after) the Internet. This year in particular, the web-enabled stand-out artworks were accessible, obsessive, interdisciplinary and ballsy.
Random Darknet Shopper, !Mediengruppe Bitnik
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Every media outlet talked up "Deep Web" this year, but the technical aspects of anonymized browsers exploring its legally murky depths aren't exactly obvious to the general audience. For a group show at the Kunst Halle St. Gallen gallery in Switzerland, the !Mediengruppe Bitnik art collective capitalized on these inquiries by creating the mysterious "Random Darknet Shopper," a bot that would randomly buy something from the Agora digital marketplace and have it shipped to the gallery.
With its $100 in bitcoin weekly budget, the bot has purchased MDMA pills, black market Nikes, Ukrainian cigarettes and, since Fast Company profiled the project, a "Hungarian passport scan" and "a baseball cap with hidden camera." Ongoing documentation is freely viewable online.
The project raised important questions, such as, "How does the ethical reasoning of capitalism work in an unregulated digital market place, particularly when the consumer is a bot?" "Is that really MDMA?" and "Is this art?"
The Urgency, Extreme Animals
Just over a half hour, The Urgency is a sensory onslaught in form of a music video album "dedicated to all the people who have had their lives wrecked by computers, the Internet or social media." As Extreme Animals, artists Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman deliver a mix of hardcore, experimental electronic noise and metal, while the video splices found footage, YouTube's one-hit-wonders, and cartoonish, hallucinatory animation. Extreme Animals released their latest video on Undervolt & Co, a unique artist-founded experimental video art label, selling reasonably priced downloadable audiovisual artworks.
The Urgency takes place in a neon realm where Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell defends herself as "not a witch" during a 2010 campaign ad, set to a techno Harry Potter theme cover. (And that's quite another thing altogether when performed live with projections, guitar shredding, and shrieking vocals.) Perhaps the overwhelming theme of this particular piece is the sad idea that once you become a thing on the Internet, it will eat try to eat you alive, regurgitating parts of you in loops and bits, in a process that's never quite done, and that leaves neither you nor it fully satisfied.
Ways of Something curated by Lorna Mills
This is much more than a take off of John Berger's seminal 1972 BBC documentary series Ways of Seeing. Ways Of Something is a timely and insane retelling of an outdated art history documentary by keeping the original soundtrack and replacing the visuals with videos made by digital-born and web-based artists from all over the world, one minute at a time. It's a quite serious but very entertaining artwork.
The first two episodes–a Euro-centric "fine art" history and a exploration of the female nude–involved 58 artists contributing webcam performances, edited gaming footage, animated 3-D renderings, and experimental flash films. It premiered at Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn and has since screened internationally. Curated by Lorna Mills for the One Minutes project at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, the resulting film updates art history, subverting and reworking its themes for the less exclusive realm of web-based, technologically enabled art-making. Photoshop jokes help narrate the history of perspective. Sexts and fleshlights mock the male gaze. WikiLeaks "Collateral Murder" footage makes the conversation of reproduction of imagery actually relevant.
"BEFNOED: Performances By Everyone For No One Every Day" by Eva and Franco Mattes
For their latest project, stalwart art provocateurs Eva and Franco Mattes utilized a little-known Internet-based labor platform where anonymized users from around the world perform commissioned tasks on webcam–reminiscent of adult cam services, but much more innocent in nature.
"BEFNOED" specifically focuses on absurdist combinations of very mundane, harmless tasks. The performers were paid to spill candy on their chests while wearing balaclavas, twins stood in doorways, and men saluted from ponds and pools with buckets on their heads. The videos were then distributed through "peripheral" non-U.S. social networks and video hosting services. Eons away from Marina Abramović performing in a London gallery, this is a strange sort of web-enabled instructional performance art project. In assembling a work of art out of the work of thousands of low-paid volunteers, "BEFNOED" also raises questions about labor exploitation in a time of crowdsourcing, rampant freelancing, and precarious work.
"With Those We Love Alive" by Porpentine
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Porpentine's "For Those We Love Alive" is a mostly text-based game, playable online for free, and built with the open-source Twine platform, a story-telling tool that is open to everyone. In a realm that is both dream-like and nightmarish, you are a transgender woman serving an insectoid alien Empress who emerges from an inky black lake with instructions for you to follow. On your read-and-click journey, you search for yourself, for autonomy, for love. You also physically draw on yourself with a marker, off screen. By the end of the game, you have covered your arm with runes and signs and symbols.
This is Porpentine's diary, rooted in trauma, flowering in fantasy. On top of an already large cult following, Porpentine's projects are finally getting long-overdue mainstream attention this year.
"Windows 93" by Jankenpopp & Zombectro
"Windows 93," maintained by Jankenpopp and Zombectro, is a collection of online artworks on a platform mimicking an ancient Windows operating system. There's "Star Wars" in ASCII, glitchy longform animation, an 8-bit Photoshop, and even a shout-out to Olia Lialina's "My Boyfriend Came Back From The War," one of the first (and still best) net art pieces. There are several interactive "applications," some of which involve light coding, "Defrag" which is actually a game of Snake, a Bytebeat album, and a funny "Manifesto" of alert windows like "corgi + open source = acid" and "glitch + php = meta-realism." Click everything, particularly the credits section, and soak it in.
The Villains by Rhett Jones
Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's "La Chinoise" and Marshall McLuhan, The Villains is a timely and twisted film. In 1968, Godard's passionate Parisian political dilettantes attempt to start a Maoist revolutionary cell in their parents' apartment. Rhett Jones' "villains"–prophetically flawed, pre-Occupy Wall Street young Brooklynites–are trying their damnedest to utilize the proliferation of the Internet, new media, and social networks to empower the people. But they weren't exactly sure what they were doing, until the film's jarring end. Here, Godard's jump cuts are replaced with datamosh and a fragmented Stockhausen score. The story is saturated with cutaways to found footage and YouTube videos, providing texture and counterpoint. It's a crazy project, made even more relevant when it was reborn as a "Search Engine Generated Artwork" in 2014.
The new version of the film is rigged with code–part algorithmic, part randomizing–connected to YouTube's APIs. At various points of the film, the code sets off a search for "baby plays with iPad" or "man destroys office" or other related interjections, and randomly selects the videos from the results. These play in variously sized pop-ups, adding even more texture and thematic over-stimulation to the already psychedelic experience, making the film different each time it's played. This version of the film has screened at Videology in three simultaneous projections and is now playable online.
Cunny Poem Vol. 1 by Bunny Rogers
Artist Bunny Rogers had been publishing her poetry online since 2012. Whatever form her art takes–physical installations, Second Life captures, performance, online projects–it has always presented incredibly specific signifiers, all tying together in pristine, interdisciplinary compositions. They are characters culled from the outer ridges of online culture (i.e., the Usul Neopet), or disconcerting tangential elements of tragedies or collective illnesses (young girls' obsessions with the Columbine shooters, children as objects for adults on the Internet).
In her recently released book Cunny Poem Vol. 1, Rogers' poems are published chronologically, delivering an honesty we are trained to suppress as we grow distant from unresolved and reoccurring traumas and pitfalls. Every misspelled feeling is that much more specific. Every symbol is devastating. Every short stanza is a concentrated deliberate burst, hanging in silence. (And all of her poetry is still online, just like, probably, a lot of our own, somewhere.)
"BiteLabs," "McMass," and "Genecoin" by Hello Velocity
In the tradition of The Yes Men's culture jamming, the Hello Velocity group has been responsible for some of this year's most viral "fake" projects. Still, it is possible we will one day eat sausage from cloned celebrity stem-cell meat ("BiteLabs") or encode our DNA into a bitcoin chain ("Genecoin"), or see a religious group try to crowdfund the installation of a fast food chain inside a church to lift attendance ("McMass"). It just didn't really happen. But the media ran with it and a conversation was started, which of course was the point all along.
"Excellences & Perfections" by Amalia Ulman
The year's most existentially terrifying project comes from Amalia Ulman, who assumed several distinct fictional personalities on her Instagram account by following scripts she derived from observing Instagram culture and its "consumerist fantasy lifestyle." She switched between a swag-obsessed "sugar baby" to a rich girl next door type, going as far as to fake detailed preparation for and recovery from a totally fictional breast augmentation.
By following trending topics, presenting herself in easily digestible, fairly vapid, and polished stereotypes and other "shortcuts to popularity," Ulman amassed 65,000 followers on Instagram. Her posts and interactions with "fans" have been preserved by Rhizome's new archiving tool, for generations to come. Yikes.
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What's scheduled to arrive in a "Black/Purple-Red" colorway, this version of the classic basketball sneaker will take on a black nubuck base which accompanies traditional tribal print details in white underneath its cage-like lace system, red "M" tongue branding, a purple-patterned inner lining, signature "55" collar branding, and tonal laces for a complete finish.
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'You Want to Learn About This?'; Republican Lashes Out After Being Asked About Opposing the Violence Against Women Act (WATCH)
Colin KalmbacherOct 6th, 2018, 12:36 pm
Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) was caught on camera lecturing a female reporter after she asked about his "no" vote on the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
Sessions was attending the Family Violence Prevention Council candidate forum in Dallas on Thursday when confronted by KXAS-TV reporter Laura Harris. Harris asked Sessions to explain his vote against the 2013 re-authorization of the VAWA.
Instead, Sessions began by explaining that he wasn't in Congress in 1994 when the original VAWA was passed. Harris said she understood that and reiterated that she was asking about the 2013 re-authorization.
The local NBC anchor then gave him the question again, asking, "So, when you did have the chance to vote for it, did you vote for it or did you not vote?"
To which Sessions replied, "I have–so–the question is: When the United States Senate had their bill, the United States House had its bill, we had differences between those bills, I did vote against one of the provisions."
Harris then moves on. She attempts to explain that Sessions' answer is probably confusing for viewers, but before she gets a chance to finish, Sessions cuts her off and says, "You're confused. You're talking about money versus authorization. The authorization is the philosophy. We do it every five years. It is on the policy. And then each year we fund that request."
Harris then attempts to clarify Sessions' answer. She asks, "So, after December then what happens? It's going to be there, it's going to be funded, it's all good?" Sessions repeats himself, saying, "That is policy. Not money."
After a few moments of silence, Harris tries to clarify again, asking, "When you say policy, what do you mean by that? Because, as you can, there are people in that room who just–" Sessions cuts Harris off again. He says:
You still want to keep running this camera? Or do you want to learn about this?
Sessions then raises his hands and begins to speak with them. He continues to repeat essentially the same lines about the distinction between policy and appropriations, which Harris says she understands completely. The reporter tries one last time to question the congressman, but Sessions cuts off her yet again.
"It's all about policy right now," Sessions explains. "This is the least of all issues. It is a bi-partisan effort. It is about policy."
Democrats assailed Sessions for his tone with Harris and for his apparently evasive answers regarding the "no" vote against VAWA re-authorization in 2013.
In a statement, the Texas Democratic Party's Executive Director Crystal K. Perkins said, "Congressman Pete Sessions wants to blame everyone but himself for his Washington ways and his devastating 2013 vote in opposition to the Violence Against Women Act. And to be clear, the only person who is confused seems to be Congressman Sessions, who can't seem to figure out why he finally has to answer for his terrible record."
Sessions has been under fire for his comments regarding violence against women before. In June of this year, Sessions attracted national attention after he blamed a woman for being shot to death by her husband.
At a local Republican Party event in a conservative area of North Texas, Sessions said:
Dallas County, a few years ago, went through a number of terrible shootings. And I gathered together, they were at the time Republican district judges, and I said 'guys, men, women, we've now had I think four or five shootings.' One of them was from a big-time guy in Highland Park, who went and killed his wife, just gunned her down. And that was because the judge was unfair, and the woman was unfair. And she demanded something, and he was out.
Sessions is running against Democrat and former NFL player Colin Allred.
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