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How to capture perfect skin tones in your portraits
How to capture natural skin tones in your portrait photos
Recording natural skin tones is one of the most challenging aspects of portrait photography. Jade Keshia Gordon offers five tips for success.
Capturing natural, accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging aspects of portrait photography. Unusual lighting and strange colour casts can leave your portrait-sitter with sickly looking skin that can take an age to put right in post-production. But while we can't all afford to have a make-up artist on stand-by, there are a number of ways that you can get fresh, clean tones straight from your EOS camera and reduce the amount of retouching you need to do.
Here, award-winning fashion and beauty photographer Jade Keshia Gordon offers five simple tips for capturing perfect skin tones. She explains how she approaches black, white and mixed-race skin differently, and how she sets up her EOS camera for consistent results.
Follow Jade's advice, and you'll be capturing perfect skin tones in no time!
1. Avoid harsh, direct light
Shooting in natural light is a great way of illuminating your subjects and ensures their skin tone is true to life. Taken on a Canon EOS R6 with a Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/640 sec, f/1.4 and ISO320. © Jade Keshia Gordon
Harsh, direct light can cause unflattering shadows – an overcast day and gentle lighting from the side will ensure that shadows are softer and work for you, helping define the shape of the face and features. Taken on a Canon EOS R6 with a Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/1000 sec, f/1.2 and ISO320. © Jade Keshia Gordon
Softer light is generally more flattering. Shooting outdoors on a bright but overcast day will give a diffuse illumination that suits all types of skin tone. On clear sunny days, where the light is unfiltered and harsh, it's often better to find some light shade so you can avoid shadows and hotspots on faces.
"When it comes to skin tone, the first thing you have to think about is your lighting," confirms Jade. "If it's hitting your subject face-on and they have lighter skin, they could end up looking washed out. So you need to be prepared to reduce the exposure, or alternatively switch the subject around so that the light is coming from behind them.
"When I'm working in a studio, I like to have a two-light set-up, with one light behind the subject, illuminating the backdrop, and then a beauty dish at the front, slightly off-centre from the model in order to light up their face."
2. Expose different skin tones correctly
Don't use a one-size-fits-all approach for different skin tones in portraits – choose the best lighting, exposure and white balance for different tones. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with a Canon EF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM lens at 1/125 sec, f/4.5 and ISO50. © Jade Keshia Gordon
Jade says the most important thing to bear in mind is your exposure setting – make sure lighter skin tones are not overexposed. © Jade Keshia Gordon
Jade regularly shoots models with different skin tones, and adopts a different approach for each.
"It's important to avoid over exposing white skin when you're shooting a portrait," she explains. "You want to make sure that you can see the textures and any freckles or make-up. If the highlights are burned out, it can be hard or impossible to bring them back."
"With black skin tone, you need plenty of light," continues Jade. "Black absorbs light, so you need to make sure you have enough light to highlight the features. It's a thin line, though, as too much will overexpose the skin and wash the features out.
"I tend to find that backlighting works well for mixed-race skin tones, whether it's a studio light or the sun. It brings a nice light around the sides of the face, and you can use a reflector to bounce some of that light back onto the face."
3. Use the Portrait Picture Style
This photo was shot using Portrait Picture Style, making the colours slightly warmer. Taken on a Canon EOS R6 with a Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/640 sec, f/1.4 and ISO320. © Jade Keshia Gordon
This photo was shot using the Standard Picture Style, so the colours are a little flatter, but more true to life. Taken on a Canon EOS R6 with a Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/640 sec, f/1.4 and ISO320. © Jade Keshia Gordon
Choosing one of the preset Picture Style options in-camera takes care of a whole array of settings for you – each Picture Style offers a different blend of sharpness, contrast, saturation and colour tone, and they can have markedly different effects on skin tone in a portrait. As you might expect, the Portrait Picture Style is optimised for shots that include people, with the sharpness moderately reduced and the brightness slightly increased to give softer-looking skin.
"Here, I prefer the Portrait setting, as the one I shot using the Standard Picture Style felt a bit flat," says Jade. "Portrait gently enhances any red undertone in the image. So it brought out the best in the model's pink top, and because she is black, that red boost helped to lift her skin tone without making her too orangey red."
If you find the default Portrait Picture Style produces skin tones that are a little too reddish or yellowish under the lighting conditions, use the Colour Tone slider in the Picture Style menu to correct this.
4. Manually set the white balance
This image was taken using the Daylight white balance setting, rendering true to life colours. Taken on a Canon EOS R6 with a Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/640 sec, f/1.2 and ISO320. © Jade Keshia Gordon
This image was shot using the Shade white balance setting, making all the colours in the portrait warmer (more orange). Taken on a Canon EOS R6 with a Canon RF 85mm F1.2L USM lens at 1/640 sec, f/1.4 and ISO320. © Jade Keshia Gordon
For consistent skin colours, choose a white balance preset that matches the lighting conditions, or create your own using the Custom White Balance option in the camera's main menu. As long as the lighting doesn't change, you'll get the same results from shot to shot.
If you leave the white balance set to Auto, the camera will adjust the colour temperature to remove colour casts. This can produce skin tones that are too 'warm' (orange) or too 'cool' (blue). If you shoot RAW you can change the white balance later in editing, but setting it correctly in-camera gives you a more accurate preview.
"In these examples, you can see the effect that using a different white balance has on the model's skin tone," explains Jade. "I prefer the results using the Daylight setting here, as it doesn't wash her out and it doesn't make her overly orange-toned. It just lifts the colours slightly and is closer to what I saw with my eyes at the time."
5. Shoot RAW
Shooting RAW means the camera saves all the tonal and colour detail captured by the sensor, giving you more freedom when you process the image. © Jade Keshia Gordon
If you do shoot JPEG or HEIF, then you need to get the settings right in-camera before you shoot. This includes the colour space, which determines the range of colour that can be displayed in a photo. You can set this in your camera's main menu.
Jade always shoots RAW, and recommends doing so even if you are new to portrait photography, as this makes it easier to fine-tune the skin tone later. RAW files hold more picture information than JPEGs or HEIF files, and you can freely adjust picture parameters such as white balance, colour characteristics and sharpness using RAW processing and editing software such as Canon Digital Photo Professional without affecting the original image data.
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World economy showed an important development after 9/11. With the transition of neoliberal economy programs, employment around the world had increased until 2008 global financial crisis. Because of the devastation effects of the crisis, the increase in the employment level stopped and reached a record level in some countries after 2008. Current appropriate economic policies are not enough because there are some factors which arise jobless growth. For instance, globalization, labor cost, tax burden, substitution between technology and labor, capital -intensive markets and so on create jobless growth, particularly in developing countries. In other words, economic policies are not enough to solve unemployment problem. In addition to these policies, contemporary and qualitative approaches should be used. One of these approaches is meritocracy. In terms of employment phenomenon, meritocracy is a notion that creates efficiency and justice in an economy. One of the examples which creates jobless growth is globalization. Globalization has adverse effects as well as positive effects. One of the examples is a substitution between technology and labor. If there is much automation in a company, less labor is employed. And this hampers to notice talented persons who create more efficiencies than technology can do. In addition, because these talented persons are unemployed due to technology substitution, some structural conflicts can arise. Although the reasons of jobless growth are based on economic reasons, the most efficient solution is to establish a meritocratic system. By using this system, the output will become more qualified than that of now because in that case the people in the system will become more qualified. In this study, the significance of meritocracy in eradication jobless growth will be emphasized and some examples related to developing countries will be given, and from this perspective some proposals will be presented to figure jobless growth problem out by creating a meritocratic system.
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Biffy Clyro share storming new track 'Weird Leisure'
It's the latest preview of the imminent 'A Celebration Of Endings'
By Will Richards
Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro. CREDIT: Gus Stewart/Redferns
Biffy Clyro have shared another new preview of their upcoming album – hear 'Weird Leisure' below.
The track is the latest teaser ahead of the release of 'A Celebration Of Endings' on August 14.
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The band's frontman Simon Neil recently discussed 'Weird Leisure', which follows the release of previous album tracks 'Instant History' and 'Tiny Indoor Fireworks', in a recent NME cover feature.
"That's a song about one of my oldest friends," Neil explained. "He just chose the wrong path and got himself into a really tricky situation where his world closed in. He'd want help and you'd try to help, but then a week later you're back to square one.
"Fortunately he's in a good place now and on his way out of the darkness. I love this guy so much, but – fucking hell – he's put me through some shit." Listen to the new track below.
To mark the release of 'A Celebration Of Endings', Biffy are set to play a special livestreamed show from an unnamed iconic Glasgow venue on August 15.
"They won't be confined just to the stage, as with no audience in the room, they will take full creative advantage of the extra space they'll have within the venue," a statement announcing the show reads.
The livestreamed show comes as the band recently postponed all their planned 2020 tour dates due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The tour dates, which included shows in the UK, Ireland, Europe and Australia, were set to run between September 2020 and January 2021. New dates are expected to be announced soon.

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M'Vila is expected to sign for the struggling Premier League outfit sometime this week, and Redknapp has said that the 22-year-old should be viewing this as a chance to show the bigger clubs what he can do. "I told him that he would come here and be a good player, and if he does well, if we stay up, in 18 months he could get a move to Manchester United, or Arsenal, or Chelsea, if that is what he is looking for," Redknapp said.
"In the meantime, he could come here and we put him on the stage and show what he can do. If we can build a team then hopefully he will stay with us. If not he will put himself on the stage for bigger things."
M'Vila is coming from French side Rennes, who are currently sixth in Ligue 1. The France international has been with Rennes for four seasons, establishing himself at just 18 as a regular member of the midfield. He has won 22 caps for France, although he could have earned more had he not received a lengthy ban from the French team for an unauthorised night out.
Redknapp however believes he has secured one of the most exciting young prospects in Europe, saying: "He's had a few problems off the field but he is only young. If he behaves himself and plays for us as he is able to then he will be a great asset."
QPR currently find themselves rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table, five points adrift of safety, although their form has improved under Redknapp, who has lost just four league games since he took over from Mark Hughes. They are also through to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup after beating West Brom in their Third Round replay on Tuesday.
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When the editor of TechCentral promised to cover extensively the recently published national integrated ICT policy white paper – and provide analysis of it – we were excited. In the past two weeks, that excitement has turned
Gov't right not to sell Telkom: Cwele
By Staff Reporter 6 June 2016
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has defended government's decision not to sell its stake in Telkom, saying it has been vindicated by the strong performance of the company's share price in the past few
The inversion layer choking SA telecoms
By Roger Hislop 25 August 2015
Anyone who flies into Johannesburg in the early mornings during winter will be familiar with the atmospheric inversion layer, where air near the ground is cooled by the unheated swimming pools of the struggling middle classes. The cool air traps pollutants beneath warmer layers
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Q: global helper is overriding local context in meteor handlebars template Update: The bug logged in the selected answer has been fixed by the meteor devs
In my meteor app I have some coffescript making a global helper:
Handlebars.registerHelper "title",->
    Session.get("title")

and a piece of template:
{{#each edited}}

{{this.title}}

{{/each}}

this.title is being overridden by the global helper rather than using the this.title context. (I know because if I remove the global helper it works great)
If I add the following:
Handlebars.registerHelper "debug", ->
    console.log this
    console.log this.title

to the template like this:
{{#each edited}}

{{this.title}}{{debug}}

{{/each}}

this.title prints to the console correctly, but is not inserted into the template
Any idea why this is happening or how to make the "this.title" be from the local context

A: Looks like a bug to me, since https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Handlebars#expressions-with-dots says:

Paths starting with this always refer to properties of the current data context and not to helpers.

I submitted an issue for it: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/1143

A: I read something about this on the handlebarsjs.com website today. Give this a try:

Handlebars also allows for name conflict resolution between helpers
  and data fields via a this reference: {{./name}} or {{this/name}}
  or {{this.name}} Any of the above would cause the name field on
  the current context to be used rather than a helper of the same name.

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Limón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈliˈmon]), commonly known as Puerto Limón, is a district, the capital city and main hub of Limón province, as well as of the Limón canton in Costa Rica. It is the seventh largest city in Costa Rica, with a population of over 55,000, and is home of the Afro-Costa Rican community. Part of the community traces its roots to Italian, Jamaican and Chinese laborers who worked on a late nineteenth-century railroad project that connected San José to Puerto Limón. Until 1948, the Costa Rican government did not recognize Afro-Caribbean people as citizens and restricted their movement outside Limón province. As a result of this "travel ban", this Afro-Caribbean population became firmly established in the region, which influenced decisions not to move even after it was legally permitted. Nowadays, there is a significant outflow of Limón natives who move to the country's Central Valley in search for better employment and education. The Afro-Caribbean community speaks Spanish and Limonese Creole, a creole of English.
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Borneo and the Philippines - November 8th - December 10th, 2016
The Ancient Malaysian Tradition of the Beer Mile
As we passed the early morning hours before our final flight to Kuching, we began, in our sleep-deprived stupor, to speculate for the first time on how we might actually spend our time in Borneo. Having done zero research for the trip beyond checking for reliable internet, I envisioned a vast untamed jungle, peopled by indigenous tribes in traditional villages, peacefully coexisting with orangutans and pangolins, with the occasional modern city thrown in. Neither of us expected a thriving trail-ultra culture, and so we were surprised when we brought up the Facebook event feed and found a jungle adventure race advertised for the following weekend.
The event page informed us that the deadline to sign up was the day of our arrival, and that we could only do so by contacting some random person or organizational entity located somewhere in Kuching. Since it was a Sunday and we had no phone and no way to get anywhere, we decided we would ignore this deadline and rely on the vast influence that would no doubt be conferred on us by virtue of our skin color. Neither of us was in particularly stellar shape, but based on our own unsubstantiated prejudices, we guessed that adventure races were not part of the Malaysian culture, and we would have no trouble dominating the competition and taking home the prize money. Did we recall at the time that the grand tradition of the Hash House Harriers was born on the jungle trails of peninsular Malaysia? Who knows.
As luck would have it, we met an accomplished American ultra-marathoner at a couchsurfing gathering. Eliza immediately hopped aboard our half-baked racing plan and prepared an intense training regimen for the upcoming days. There were multiple jungle hikes involved, but the piece de resistance was an evening beer mile two days before the race.
Eliza felt no need to substantiate her claimed record beer mile time of 7 minutes even, so she volunteered to be the photographer for a race between Brett and me and a random Dutch couchsurfer. Malaysia is an Islamic country and, while beer is available at grocery stores and 7-11s, it is usually prohibitively expensive. The best place to find large quantities of cheap, light beer is a Chinese restaurant, and so we went to one of our favorites to buy 12 cans of Chang at the bargain price of 4 ringgit each. We went to the track and ceremoniously lined up the cans along the starting line. The track administrator tried to kick us out at 5:30 so he could close up and go home, but we explained that we had extremely important business that could only be completed then and there, and negotiated ten minutes more.
Eliza was apparently far superior to us in chugging beers, or running fast, or rapidly releasing gas without accidentally vomiting -- or she lied. My 1.5-minute splits and 15-second beer splits left me 30 seconds short of her record. The race was far less miserable than one might expect, and I vowed to make it a regular part of my training back home, and maybe someday beat Eliza's made-up time. With a pleasant buzz, we all went to watch the sunset, and then to a traditional restaurant with bamboo chicken, and then the others continued their night at the bar while I returned to the hostel to put in an 8-hour day at my east coast job.
Leeches, Jungle Vines, and Cranberry Sauce
We had made many powerful allies in the world of Kuching couchsurfing, and one of them was Trevor, an accomplished Sarawakian trail runner. We were confident that he would have no trouble getting us entered into the race and arranging a carpool to get us to the starting line at a remote mountain resort 1.5 hours south of town. But a day or two before the run, he informed us that he wouldn't be able to help; we suspected that he was fearful of having us as competition.
So the day of the race we did something else, and waited impatiently for news of the results. Trevor came in 9th, but the winning time was 2:11 for the 15km course. I think, at the time, 14 minutes/mile seemed a bit slow, and the news renewed our confidence that we could take home the prize purse. We decided we would go on the morning of Thanksgiving and run the trails on our own. We still had no idea who we would convince to drive us there. We talked about renting motorbikes.
Uber had just entered the Kuching market and was dumping money into incentives to get more drivers and riders in the system. The city is fairly unfriendly to pedestrians and we soon began ordering rides to go everywhere, and the price would typically fall somewhere in the zero to two dollar range. We had our doubts that we could convince someone to drive us 90 minutes out of town, but we typed the resort's address into the app, and within minutes, an immaculately clean, late model sedan pulled up, and the driver expressed no qualms about driving to the other side of the state for a $10 fare. We soon found out that our driver had never driven into the mountains and was skeptical that his car could make it up the last steep incline, but we assured him that it would.
We were dropped off at the gate, where we inquired about the starting point for the race. The guard informed us that the course was only open to guided hikes, but we were welcome to go up to the clubhouse, order drinks, and stare wistfully into the jungle. We said that this sounded like a swell idea and began walking in that direction, but shortly made a beeline for the trees and found the stretch of deep mud that formed the final slog to the finish line. The start was on the other side of the complex and so we opted to do the course backwards rather than risk further exposure to potentially uncooperative employees.
The terrain was immediately difficult and we grappled up steep muddy slopes using thick vines and root systems. Exposed metal ladders, 20 meters in length, ran up the cliffs, but the rungs were extremely slippery and only the junctions with the rails were of any real use. And then there were the leeches. They were silent and fast and invincible. They would grab onto the sole of your shoe and be crushed against rocks a hundred times before slowly moving up and finding a patch of skin. They would crawl deep into your sock or far up your pant leg. Many would make the long journey from ground to groin. Others would drop from the trees and find purchase on our scalps and necks and faces. We never wanted to stop to pull them off because we knew that doing so would only allow more to catch us. We felt our life slowly draining away, into the bulbous black bellies of a hundred tiny assailants.
The trail repeatedly crossed into the Indonesian state of Kalimantan, but there were no border guards. We had been told by several, likely very racist, Malaysians that this neighboring territory was full of dangerous tribespeople, who were ready to rob, murder, and possibly eat any hapless traveler that might wander through their villages. Fortunately, there was a formidable precipice that kept the savage hordes from overrunning the resort.
Despite the course's wild feel, we were never more than a few hundred feet from the luxury golf course that made up the bulk of the complex. Because of the thickness of the jungle, you could do most of the race oblivious to this fact, but I took a wrong turn and stumbled out into civilization. It took me nearly an hour of running on sidewalks and across putting greens to find the trail once more, and by then I had fallen well behind Brett.
It began to rain and the path became far more treacherous. Downhill stretches turned to uncontrolled slides, which left me covered in mud and leeches. One such slide was coupled with a vine that hung in the middle of the trail and latched onto my nostril and forehead with spikes that held with a tenacity that threatened to rip my face apart. I couldn't confirm till hours later that my nose was largely still intact.
Eventually I reached a rushing river with a faint trail that marked a slippery rock hop through class 3 rapids. I scrambled around at length, but concluded that it was almost certainly impassable. I had to retrace my steps to the last bail point. Around 6, I exited the jungle and crossed the complex to where Brett had been waiting with the security guard for the last hour. The guard laughed at me and seemed to have no hard feelings for our blatant disregard of his earlier instructions. We had just missed the last bus, so we began the 6-mile hike to the main road. After about 30 minutes, a resort employee picked us up in his truck and drove us most of the way back to Kuching, where he dropped us on a dark stretch of highway. Uber didn't seem to be working, so we called up a couchsurfing friend and got a ride back to our hotel. Earlier that day, another friend, Dee, had guilt-tripped everyone she knew into going out for a Thanksgiving dinner for the two of us, since we were no doubt homesick on this, the most hallowed of American holidays. We barely made it in time.
Costs (US$1=4.26 MYR, 1.43 BND, 49.72 PHP)
Roundtrip flight from SF to Bangkok on China Southern: $345
One-way flight to KL on AirAsia: $40
Roundtrip flight to Kuching from KL on Malaysian: $55
Bowl of laksa: 6 MYR
Hotel room in Kuching for 2 people with bathroom: 40 MYR
Veggie buffet with rice: 6 MYR
Beer: 4 MYR
Coconut milkshake: 5 MYR
Uber 30 minutes across Kuching: 12 MYR
Uber 90 minutes outside of Kuching: 42 MYR
National park admission fee: 20 MYR
Rice and veggies in BSB: 3 BND
Double room in BSB: 30 BND
Ferry from Lantau to KK: 39 MYR
Hostel bed in Manila: 300 PHP
Rice and veggies in Manila: 35 PHP
14hr bus ride to Sagada: 720 PHP


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Senate to PNoy: Back off
To meddle in Binay quiz 'a dangerous precedent'
posted November 13, 2014 at 12:01 am by Joel E. Zurbano and Sara Susanne Fabunan
SENATE President Franklin Drilon rejected on Wednesday the call of President Benigno Aquino III to wrap up the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee probe on Vice President Jejomar Binay quickly so that lawmakers could focus on pending bills.
"We cannot stop it by ourselves because the committee needs to vote if they have enough evidence," Drilon said.
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"Every senator has a right to scrutinize any issue before the committee. Here, the committee is saying that there are other buildings that they need to look into. That is within the rights and powers of the committee," Drilon added.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, chairman of the subcommittee, said Aquino should keep his hands off the Senate investigation against Binay because it would set a dangerous precedent and be seen as interference with a co-equal branch of government.
He said Aquino should ask the Justice Department instead to hasten its probe.
President Aquino said while on an official mission to Beijing that he wished the Senate investigation on Binay would conclude soon so legislators could focus on pressing issues.
The President said that while he respects the Senate as a co-equal branch of government, legislators also have obligations to the people, aside from conducting such investigations.
The President noted that a number of bills are pending before the Congress, among them the fiscal rationalization bill, the military pension system, the Build-Operate-Transfer Law, the supplemental budget, and the Bangsamoro Basic Law.
He said he wished that Congress would focus on these legislative matters, considering that he has fewer than 600 days in office before he steps down in 2016.
Binay is being investigated by the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee for allegedly benefiting from the overpriced construction of the Makati City Hall Building II.
Pimentel said his subcommittee, which has held 11 hearings so far, had met many obstacles that kept it from completing its work.
"We have also encountered unfriendly and uncooperative behavior from those being investigated. These are the people causing the perceived delay. Makati officials have boycotted the hearings. Imagine LGU officials defying the Senate? Should we allow this to happen at all, much more continue?" he said.
The Office of the Ombudsman and the Justice Department are conducting parallel investigations into the allegations of corruption against the vice president.
Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who has led the attacks on Binay, said there is no time frame as to when the investigation may end.
"We will not do this until the election period. What we are saying is we can't afford to tackle all the evidence in just one hearing," he said.
Trillanes said the sub-committee will present more witnesses and evidence supporting questionable transactions in Makati City, where Binay had served as mayor.
Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano, on the other hand, said that while senators wanted to terminate the hearings soonest, it was Binay who has refused to cooperate with them by not attending the Senate hearings.
Pimentel, Trillanes and Cayetano were all senatorial candidates who won under the Team Pnoy, a coalition party of the Aquino administration during the May 2013 mid-term elections.
From the Palace, deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said there was nothing wrong in the President conveying a message from Binay to Drilon.
In a daily press briefing, Valte also said there was no request from the President himself to stop the Blue Ribbon subcommittee inquiry.
"Is there anything in the Constitution that says the two leaders cannot speak? Nor is there anything in the Constitution that specifically says that they cannot discuss matters involving other public officials," Valte said in a news briefing on Wednesday.
"The President said yes to relaying the message and he did... a message was conveyed, let's draw the distinction between pressure, asking them to do something and merely being a conduit to relay a message," Valte said.
During his interview from China, Aquino said he respects the Senate as a co-equal branch, she said.
Valte declined to comment on the President's remarks about the "piecemeal" investigation by the Senate.
"I am in no position to react as you requested. My principal has spoken," Valte said in a text message.
Drilon earlier revealed that Aquino called him to relay Binay's request, but he denied that the President was asking for a favor and exerting pressure.
Valte also said hat there were no factions in Mr. Aquino's Cabinet, saying that all members are part of the official family.
"You know they all work for the President. I'm really reluctant to answer questions on that, they all work for the President," Valte said.
In an interview in China, Mr. Aquino said called on the Blue Ribbon Committee to present all the evidence against Binay instead of in doing so piecemeal so as not to disrupt legislative work.
He said the probe was taking time away from pending bills in the Senate such as the 2015 budget, the Bangsamoro Basic Law, and the Fiscal Incentive Rationalization bill.
The Senate is investigating allegations that Binay and members of his family accepted bribes and kickbacks when they were mayors.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda also said the President never ordered the Senate to end its investigation.
"We wish to correct the report that the President wanted the Senate investigation on VP Binay stopped. For the record, the president relayed to the Senate President the request of the Vice President," he said.
Lacierda also said that even before relaying the request to Drilon, Mr. Aquino already informed Binay that the senators cannot be dictated upon.
The interim president of Binay's United Nationalist Alliance slammed Drilon's pronouncement that the Senate would continue its probe.
Navotas Rep. Tobias Tiangco said that the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee hearings—11 so far-- were made possible by the tolerance of Drilon and Senator Teofista Guingona III, the chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee.
"The Senate hearing was obviously in aid of destruction," Tiangco said, saying that the senators leading the investigation merely wanted to damage the Vice President, who is leading in opinion polls for the 2016 presidential elections.
Tiangco said the investigations would lead nowhere and had to stop.
Joey Salgado, chief of the Vice President's media affairs office, said Aquino's statement from China should be seen as a reminder that the rights of individuals should always be respected, and that courts are the proper venue to determine the guilt or innocence of an individual.
He said that the senators conducting the alleged corruption charges against Binay do not care much for the presumption of innocence has been evident from the start.
"These inquisitors are blinded by their prejudgment and consumed by their obsession to malign Vice President Binay that we seriously doubt if they would heed the words of the President," he said.
"We also doubt if the senators would feel any shame that the President had to remind them that there is much legislative work to be done, especially the approval of the 2015 budget. The fact that they have scheduled another hearing on Nov. 17, the first day of budget deliberations at the Senate, shows where their priorities lie." With Vito Barcelo


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WAFFLES: Hey Boss! What are you getting me for Christmas?
KATIE: I don't know, Waffles. What could you possibly WANT for Christmas? You've got ALL the toys, ALL the feathers and ALL the treats. You've got ALL the pillows and blankets and chairs. What's left???
WAFFLES: How about just a little... um ... a little ...tap-tap??? Just a little one. You know, a really teeny tiny one.
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The "double tap" does it efurry time. MOL!
It's all about the ears! Hey guys, peace on earth and goodwill to all cats?
Looks more like whap-whap-whap to me!
Uh oh - that looks more like a rat a tat tat!
It looks like a whap-whap!!!
That tap-tap might turn into a full-on smackdown!
Well Waffles, looks like Katie gave you just what you asked for - the old tapparoooooo!
That looks more like a whappy paw than a tappy paw. MOL.
Uh oh! Waffles you may have asked for more than you really want!
Be careful what you wish for Waffles!!!!
haha! great post, and I loved the pics and the "tap tap" LOL (hugz) from your Husky Pals!
Katie, what's with the white spot on your back? You're not—gasp—going "gray" are you?? You can make up by giving W2 some whaps, er taps he won't forget. I gotta admit Waffles has brought out a charming side of your personality.
Was that "tap-tap" a prelude to a wrasslin' match?
Get him, Katie! - Crepes.
be careful what you wish for Waffles!
Ivy says: go get him Katie!!
You give him a tap tap alright Katie.
hmmm...are you two gonna need boxing gloves for Christmas?
There's your Tap Tap naughty Waffles!!
I think Katie's New Year Resolution will be not to let you get away from having everything and giving you harder Tap Tap!
Well he did ask for it!
Katie he says he wanted some. LOL.
That was quite a tap-tap!
Love those Tippy taps! So cute.


Tracings is an annual Student e-Journal brought out by the Post-graduate Department of English, KAHM Unity Women's College, Manjeri, Kerala. The Department has always extended the scope of language and literature learning to wider realms of activities that provide ample opportunities for the entire student community. Tracings is yet another milestone in the history of English Department that would open up research possibilities and offer a room to ponder into the quest already began and queries of novelty that surpass time and boundaries so as to enable the student community to grab and know the virtue of original research output. The journal provides an opportunity to the post graduate students of Humanities around the globe to represent their scholarly views on a research platform by publishing articles. Popular culture is often blended and correlated with literature in the global arena. The current issue of Tracings made vast and unexplored domains of the area known to the budding research community.


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Marcopolo will supply 240 new buses to Chile
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Marcopolo, in partnership with Mercedes-Benz, will supply 240 new buses to Metbus and STP operators as of May, members of the urban public transport system in the city of Santiago, Red Mobilidad, which also includes Redbus, Express, Vule and Subus companies. All units are of the Torino Low Entry Articulated model, with MBB 0500 UA Euro 6 chassis and reinforce the leadership that the brand has in the Chilean transport system.
For José Luis Moraes Goes, Marcopolo's Executive Manager of International Business, the supply expands the company's presence in one of the most structured mobility systems in the world and contributes to the improvement of Santiago's public transport system. "Since the end of 2018, around 800 units alone have been sent to Chile. The total fleet of the system has 6,600 cars, 1,600 of which have Marcopolo frames", the executive highlights.
With 18,600mm in length, capacity for 152 passengers and low floor, the vehicles have a Valeo CC640 air conditioning system, USB ports, a separate new version of the driver´s cab, to ensure even more safety during operation, sealed windows and Upholstered City model seats, providing more comfort for users.
To guarantee total accessibility, the buses have an access ramp to the hall and the most modern electronic equipment available, such as communication and audio and video systems, GPS setup, internal video monitor set up in the passenger hall and speakers.
Torino Low Entry Articulated vehicles incorporate Euro 6 technology, the most advanced for reducing pollutant emissions in diesel engines, with 66% less Particulate Matter and 80% less NOx than current vehicles in operation.


"It is humbling to see so many truly gifted actors join 'The Dark Crystal' universe," said Lisa Henson.
The prequel to Jim Henson's beloved fantasy flick "The Dark Crystal" will feature a cast of famous voices, including those of Mark Hamill, Simon Pegg, Harvey Fierstein and Keegan-Michael Key, Netflix said Monday.
The company, which announced last year that it was creating a 10-episode series based on the 1982 film's world of Gelflings, Skeksis and Mystics, said in a news release the actors will match the series' "stunning visual world."
"It is humbling to see so many truly gifted actors join 'The Dark Crystal'universe by adding their voices to 'Age of Resistance,'" as the series is known, added Lisa Henson, CEO of the Jim Henson Company, and eldest daughter of the late puppeteer.
The series will use puppetry alongside "cutting edge visual effects" while following three of the diminutive Gelflings as they fight to save their planet Thra from the Skeksis, Netflix said.
Taron Egerton of "Kingsman," Nathalie Emmanuel of "Game of Thrones" and Anya Taylor-Joy of "The Witch" will voice the Gelflings, while Hamill, Michael Key, Fierstein and Pegg will voice the Skekis and wizard-like Mystics.
The series, which will be released next year, will also feature Helena Bonham Carter, Andy Samberg and Eddie Izzard, among others.


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Q: Is the amount of RAM used in dot-net projects more than other projects? Is the amount of RAM used in .net-Core projects more than other projects

A: Based on your "other projects" its different.
 But based on msdn docs u have to use . net core instead of .net framework when:
 1. You have cross-platform needs.
 2. You are targeting microservices.
 3. You are using Docker containers.
 4. ((You need high-performance and scalable systems.))
 5. You need side-by-side .NET versions per application.
So .net core uses less resourcers comparing with .net framwork


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Die Kirche Wusseken ist ein Kirchengebäude im Ortsteil Wusseken der Gemeinde Sarnow im Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald. Sie gehört zur Propstei Pasewalk im Pommerschen Evangelischen Kirchenkreis der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Norddeutschland.

Geschichte
Der Bau einer den Heiligen Georg und Adalbert geweihten Kirche und die Begründung einer Parochie in Wusseken wurde 1243 durch eine Schenkung von drei Hufen Land an das Kloster Stolpe gefördert, die von Herzog Barnim I. urkundlich bestätigt wurde. Heinrich von Schwerin auf Wusseken verzichtete 1296 zugunsten des Klosters Stolpe auf das Kirchenpatronat. 1514 war die Kirche dem heiligen Georg, der Maria und dem Rosenkranz geweiht. Später wurde sie nur noch als Marienkirche bezeichnet.

Während des Zweiten Nordischen Krieges wurde die Kirche stark beschädigt, 1659 stürzte der damals 75 Meter hohe Kirchturm ein. Die Pfarrstelle war ab 1660 nicht mehr besetzt. Zunächst von Putzar aus mitversorgt, kam die Gemeinde zum Boldekower Kirchspiel.

1738 erhielt Wusseken wieder einen eigenen Pfarrer. Der Besitzer des Gutes Wusseken, der Generalfeldmarschall Kurt Christoph von Schwerin, ließ die Kirche 1742 für 8000 Taler im barocken Stil neu ausbauen und erweitern.

Bei einem Brand wurden 1968 die barocke Ausstattung der Kirche und der westliche Fachwerkturm zerstört.

Gebäude
Die Kirche ist ein teilweise verputzter Feldsteinbau auf einem geräumigen rechteckigen Grundriss. Der älteste Teil, der kreuzrippengewölbte Ostteil mit zwei Maskenköpfen in der Ostwand und dem zugesetzten Südportal, wird auf die Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts datiert. Beim Umbau 1742 erhielt die Kirche gequaderte Ecklisenen, hohe Korbbogenfenster und ein stichbogiges Südportal. Die Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts von Hugo Lemcke beschriebene achteckige Laterne und der schindelgedeckte Helm des Fachwerkturms wurden nach dem Brand 1968 durch ein einfaches Zeltdach ersetzt. Aus dem gleichen Grund ist die Kirche heute innen flach gedeckt.

Gruft
Unter dem Ostteil der Kirche befindet sich eine 1742 errichtete dreischiffige Gruft der Familie von Schwerin. In ihr wurden Kurt Christoph von Schwerin und seine beiden Ehefrauen in einfachen Metallsärgen mit wenigen Rokokoornamenten beigesetzt. Insgesamt befanden sich 21 Särge in der Gruft. Eine mumifizierte Leiche wurde mehrmals von Pathologen untersucht. 1907 öffneten Kadetten der Kriegsschule Anklam den Sarg des Generalfeldmarschalls. Berichten über eine angebliche Plünderung seines Sarges und den einer seiner Frauen nach 1945 durch Soldaten der Roten Armee stehen Aussagen von Wussekener Einwohnern gegenüber, wonach die Gruft in den 1950er Jahren noch unversehrt wirkte.

Nach dem Brand von 1968 wurde mehrfach in die stark beschädigte Kirche eingebrochen, Särge und Skelette wurden zerstört, Ausstattungsstücke gestohlen. Mit Genehmigung des Generalkonservators der DDR wurden die Reste im westlichen Teil des Friedhofs ohne Grabstein beigesetzt. Angehörige der Familie von Schwerin stifteten nach der Wende eine Gedenktafel, die an einem Findling aus der Wussekener Kiesgrube befestigt wurde.

Literatur
 Institut für Denkmalpflege (Hrsg.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR. Bezirk Neubrandenburg. Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin 1982, S. 77.
 Hugo Lemcke: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Regierungsbezirks Stettin. Heft 2: Der Kreis Anklam. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1899, S. 257–259.

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Kirchengebäude in Europa
Kirchengebäude im Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald
Kirchengebäude der Propstei Pasewalk
Kirchengebäude der Kirchenprovinz Pommern
Marienkirche
Feldsteinkirche
Baudenkmal in Sarnow
Erbaut im 13. Jahrhundert
Schwerin (mecklenburgisch-pommersches Adelsgeschlecht)

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Simplyhealth paves the way to sustainable success
Health needs are changing and in 2014 Simplyhealth carried out a major strategy review that examined every aspect of the business to establish how best to serve customers now and in the future. Simplyhealth's latest Report and Accounts reflect on the successes of 2014 and look forward to how they will help set the foundations for a sustainable future.
Simplyhealth delivered a strong financial performance in 2014, generating a profit before tax of £9.7 million and retaining a profit of £6.4 million. The Group's success meant that it was able to donate £1.4 million to health related charitable organisations, which has touched the lives of over two million people.
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Everything you wanted to know about showhouses but were afraid to ask
magazine | Feb 2, 2022 |
By Haley Chouinard
Dreaming of designing a showhouse space? Seasoned participants explain why it can be a big-time investment with even bigger rewards.
The showhouse is perhaps the closest that interior design gets to a theatrical production, with polished, larger-than-life final results that belie the chaotic behind-the-scenes realities unfolding just before the curtain rises. Any designer who has participated in one will tell you that they were steaming draperies and arranging accessories right up until the doors opened and that there were moments when they truly thought their space wouldn't come together. "It always comes down to the last second, when the photographer arrives, the house isn't ready on time, and your furniture hasn't shown up," says Portland, Oregon–based designer Max Humphrey of his showhouse experiences. "I've gotten better at anticipating that—you just count on it being a nightmare."
Despite the tumult, most designers say that the results are well worth the weeks of frenzied work, often resulting in career-defining spaces that would never come out of a project for a private client. With showhouses on the cusp (we hope) of returning in full swing to their pre-pandemic splendor, BOH spoke with designers across the country about the ins and outs of the experience: the reasons to say yes, the realities of working with a house full of designers, the importance of finding vendors and tradespeople who can bring a design to life, the very real financial and time commitments—and what you ultimately get out of it.
Bandman's space at the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in 2017. Peter Medilek
Dina Bandman crafted a colorful bathroom for the showcase in 2020. Peter Medilek
Left: Bandman's space at the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in 2017. Peter Medilek | Right: Dina Bandman crafted a colorful bathroom for the showcase in 2020. Peter Medilek
The Motivation
While the answer may seem obvious to some, questioning why to participate in a showhouse is certainly reasonable. The commitment means time away from your firm and clients, a plethora of sunk costs, favors called in from every vendor and tradesperson on your contact list—on top of seemingly impossible deadlines. So, what makes it all worthwhile?
The first incentive, according to most veteran showhouse participants, is the chance to stretch creatively and indulge in ideas a client might never get on board with. Caleb Anderson of the New York–based design firm Drake/Anderson recalls that when he and his partner, Jamie Drake, participated in the 2018 Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Manhattan, they chose to embroider the fabric for their room's upholstered walls with delicate beading. "It was gorgeous and unique, but it involved a lot of craftsmanship, and I'm not sure we could have convinced a client to let us do that in a private home on such a scale," he says. "But since we did it at Kips Bay, and have photos that show how special it looked, we've used the same concept on headboards and other pieces for several clients. A showhouse room is a great space for experimentation that can translate into your work with clients."
For Nashville, Tennessee–based designer Sarah Bartholomew, who designed a room at Kips Bay's New York edition in 2019, participating in the showhouse offered an opportunity to highlight a different side of her aesthetic sensibilities. "The selection of my work that had been published up until that point had been really colorful, and I felt that I was getting known for a particular look, when that was actually just one aspect of what I can do," she says. "In my Kips Bay room, there was a sense of serenity that wasn't present in my published work. It was a chance to build my brand and showcase [my range]."
Tiffany Cobb created an atmospheric lounge for the 2020 Junior League of Detroit Designers' Show House.Jeff Garland
Tiffany Cobb of Atlanta-based Tiffany René Interior Design had similar motivations when she started doing showhouses in 2018. "Sometimes when you're trying to present your style and aesthetic to the world, client limitations impact that," she says. "When you do a showhouse, you can show your vision without compromises."
Brand-building is another major reason that designers are willing to endure the headaches that come with showhouse work. Bay Area designer Dina Bandman participated in the San Francisco Decorator Showcase every year from 2016 to 2020, and has found such rich returns—in client leads and publicity—that she now incorporates the cost into her firm's annual marketing budget.
Showhouse participation was also a powerful brand driver for Anderson, who in 2014 took on rooms at both the Lenox Hill Hospital Designer Showhouse of New York and Holiday House NYC just one year after he left a role as an associate at Drake's firm to found his own. Those solo projects led to coverage from Hamptons Cottages & Gardens and House Beautiful, the latter of which then tapped him for its Next Wave series spotlighting up-and-coming designers. All of the recognition was a precursor to his rejoining forces with Drake in 2016—this time as co-principal. "I always tell people who are just starting out that showhouses are a great way to get yourself out there," he says. "It gives you the chance to showcase the type of work you actually want to be known for, which can then lead to landing clients who can help take you where you want to go. It also gets you on the radar of editors, and that notoriety [in the media] helps you get clients too." A showhouse's quick turnaround also had an upside for Anderson: His rooms were instantaneous portfolio builders that helped him attract new work, unlike client projects that can take far longer to photograph and share.
Designers looking to make a name for themselves in new regions often find that taking on a showhouse in a different city can expand their reach. Cobb has done two iterations of the Junior League of Detroit showhouse, and ended up signing new clients in Michigan after each. "I got a lot of business out of those, and it helped solidify my brand in the Detroit area," she says. "People called me immediately and wanted to hire me."
That said, the strategy doesn't yield instant results for every designer, and your mileage may vary based on location, market and showhouse. Bandman, for instance, decided to do Kips Bay's Dallas edition in 2020 in hopes of tapping into the lucrative and plentiful design clientele in Texas. Though she loved how her room turned out and enjoyed networking with the other designers, the experience didn't yield the bounty of Lone Star State leads she had hoped for. "I got plenty of other value out of participating, but the ROI in terms of creating new business was definitely stronger from local showhouses," she says, though she admits COVID may have been a contributing factor. "I wouldn't say I regret it, but business-wise, I don't know that it was my best decision."
While there are plenty of business reasons to say yes to a showhouse, there are also more indulgent factors. To be invited or chosen is flattering. It's also a stamp of approval from people in the industry who not only recognize your talent but want to see more of what you can do—a clear signal that you've arrived. In short, sometimes it can be hard to say no.
In her room for The Kaleidoscope Project, Shawna Underwood used a floral wallcovering to nod to the home's history, then layered more modern, geometric elements for an of-the-moment touch.Frank Frances
Getting on the Roster
Knowing you'd like to do a showhouse is one thing, but having the chance to do one is another matter entirely, as the selection process varies significantly from event to event. Those run by magazines—like House Beautiful's Whole Home Concept House, the Southern Living Idea House, or the Real Simple Home—feature designers handpicked by the editorial teams, who often lean toward those whose work they have already published. In the case of Whole Home 2021, House Beautiful pulled from designers who had been featured in the magazine's Next Wave column. Similarly, Bartholomew was tapped as the sole designer for the 2021 Idea House after having a project published in Southern Living two years earlier. For other showhouses, you have to apply for the opportunity to participate. Bandman says that the San Francisco Decorator Showcase allows designers to tour the selected house and then pitch concepts for two rooms, while for Kips Bay, you submit portfolio selections for consideration.
The application process was a surprise to New York–based designer Alexandra Pappas of Pappas Miron, who took part in the 2019 Kips Bay New York showhouse. "My partner, Tatyana Miron Ahlers, and I grew up together in Connecticut and our mothers would bring us to Kips Bay every year, so it always had a place of prestige for us," she says. "We were working with a publicist a few years ago, and she told us that we should apply to Kips Bay. We hadn't even known that was an option! We put together a portfolio and letter and sent it in." Soon, they had a room assignment, and the countdown to opening day had begun.
No matter how you get involved, once you've agreed to take part, it's already crunch time. Showhouses have notoriously short turnaround times, and even a concept house, which is typically built from the ground up, doesn't offer much more leeway. Most designers cite a timeline of about three months from being selected to unveiling their final space.
"Timelines are usually far too short across the board, but just how short becomes a big factor in whether we'll do a showhouse or not," says Jessica Geller of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey–based firm Toledo Geller. "We had to pass on participating in Kips Bay Palm Beach last year because we were experiencing so many delays with our existing projects and didn't feel the timeline was realistic—they approached us in January 2021, and we had to be finished in April. You have to call in every favor to your vendors to make it work."
Alexandra Pappas and Tatyana Miron Ahlers paired aqua plaster and cork floors with a statement-making stone sink at the 2019 Kips Bay showhouse in New York.
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Because most showhouses take place in existing homes, not all the available rooms are created equal: Designers could get a grand dining room, a diminutive powder room or anything in between, not to mention unsightly features like ductwork that may need to be disguised. (For her Kips Bay space, Bartholomew added a fluted wall treatment to create an ethereal atmosphere—and also to hide the entrance to a bathroom with broken pipes.) Historically, organizers have taken a few different approaches to doling out rooms, including having designers pitch concepts for specific spaces, letting them make requests, employing lottery systems, or simply assigning areas.
For the two showhouses in Detroit, Cobb intentionally requested smaller spaces—a hallway one year and a sitting room the next—as a way to make a splash without overcommitting her time or money. "I wanted to be mindful of my investment, because while a showhouse gives you a lot of opportunities, it's also very expensive," she says. "I knew that doing a smaller space was better for me from a financial perspective."
When designers are assigned a room sight unseen, it can be a roll of the dice. For her first showhouse, Washington, D.C.–based Shawna Underwood inherited a room after another designer dropped out of The Kaleidoscope Project, the showhouse turned boutique hotel that opened last May in Lenox, Massachusetts. "It was very small, with lots of design challenges," she says. "The ceiling was slanted, and there were bulkheads and an old wall-unit air conditioner. Due to distance and the pandemic, I was only able to go visit once to take measurements and photos before I started designing, so I was nervous, but I took what I was given and made the best of it."
Once spaces are assigned, it's a mad dash to decide on your concept and put in requests to sponsors and outside vendors to donate or loan product. Pappas says that after her firm was selected for Kips Bay, all the designers were brought in for a meeting where the sponsors and board members let them know what they were in for. "That was on a Wednesday, and we were told that we needed to have requests in to sponsors for any loaned product by Friday," she recalls.
Although the time frame might sound stressful, picking product swiftly has its advantages in a showhouse context. At Kips Bay Dallas, Bandman discovered that she and another designer requested the same wallpaper from a sponsor. Because she had asked first, Bandman was able to use the print and the other designer had to figure out a backup. "We didn't realize it until we were installing and she saw that we were using it," she says. "At that point, we had become friendly and were able to laugh about it."
Most showhouses don't approve individual room designs, but general oversight from the event organizers is common. For The Kaleidoscope Project, the event committee asked designers to choose from three color palettes. The San Francisco Decorator Showcase requests that designers pitch concepts before they're selected to participate, baking in a measure of creative approval from the jump.
When designing the owner's suite for the 2021 House Beautiful Whole Home, Geller says that in addition to keying in the magazine's staff on design direction, her firm took guidance from the builder. "There was a paint color we wanted to use, and the builder felt it would clash with the color choices for the hallway leading to our suite," she explains. "We trusted his instinct, as he was very design savvy—and the one who ultimately had to sell the house when the event was over. There was a more conscious effort to create a cohesive look throughout the house than in most showhouses."
When working on the Southern Living Idea House, Bartholomew approached the design with the magazine's readers in mind. "It was about capturing a lifestyle that's warm, hospitable and approachable," she says. "While you aren't limited, per se, it was an opportunity to design for a more mass audience, versus something like Kips Bay, which has a more sophisticated point of view."
In 2019's Kips Bay Decorator Show House in New York, Sarah Bartholomew used a fluted wall treatment to hide the space's structural imperfections.Patrick Cline
The financial commitment of a showhouse can be substantial, especially if it's taking place in a city where you aren't based (or don't have experience working). With few exceptions, the event organizers don't give designers cash to deck out their rooms; instead, they're expected to use loaned or donated product from sponsors and fill any gaps on their own. There also aren't any spending guidelines, leaving first-time participants to wonder how much they should be investing in their space. In addition to the furnishings expenses, there are travel costs, plus the price of finishing touches like flowers and accessories.
"Back in the day, magazine-affiliated showhouses would give you a budget to work with, but that's not the case anymore," says Humphrey, who participated in concept houses for both House Beautiful and Real Simple in 2020. "Now, it comes down to what you want to spend and are willing to invest in the room. I'm not in a position to go $50,000 out of pocket to do one room, but other people are. It's up to you to get creative, call in favors from vendors and source from your existing inventory. Even if you're using something you have in stock, you have to pay shipping costs [for out-of-town showhouses], so you're always going out of pocket in some sense."
Outside of a showhouse's sponsors, it's no easy feat to find vendors willing to loan product. "Some brands are anxious to donate and want the publicity, while other brands either don't need it or aren't in a position to give free products," says Bandman. "As the designer, you don't want to spend a lot, but you want it to look as good as possible. That's always a struggle between the two."
To bring their visions to life, designers must also rely on speedy turnarounds from subcontractors. Concept houses give participants a slight advantage over typical showhouses in that certain details can be built to their specifications—they can choose a paint color or have a wallpaper hung without having to bring in (and pay) an additional tradesperson. But typically, they are on their own to find craftspeople and subcontractors, another task made all the more difficult if they're working in an unfamiliar city. When Bandman was doing Kips Bay in Dallas, for example, the showhouse's nearly two dozen designers were all using the same recommended wallpaper installer, making scheduling difficult. (She ultimately got creative and found an alternative referral.)
At the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in 2018, Caleb Anderson and Jamie Drake upholstered the walls of their room with a handbeaded textile for a glittering, high-impact effect.Kent Johnson
At Kips Bay New York, Pappas was able to save money by finding tradespeople willing to donate their time for the charity event. (The publicity was another carrot.) But her firm also encountered costs they had never considered, like insuring loaned pieces from galleries or paying movers for the installation— and even a security deposit to Kips Bay (which they ultimately got back). "There's also the time that you're spending away from your business," she says. "It's not just until the house opens; once it does, you're spending full days there promoting your room, and that adds up. The extent of the time commitment was unanticipated on our part. It's a worthwhile investment, and we were proud of what we did, but we couldn't do it every year."
Another unexpected cost? Having to uninstall and deconstruct your room once the event is finished. "The contractor had to come back in and return it to the white box it was when we had arrived months before," says Pappas. "It's such a shame. You create this beautiful project and it's there for six to eight weeks, then gutted. It's an ephemeral experience, for sure."
One way that savvy designers have recouped showhouse costs is to resell the pieces they paid for out of pocket. Bandman puts items on her Chairish page; Cobb created QR codes for each of the available items in her Detroit showhouse room and added a dedicated e-commerce section to her firm's site so visitors could shop during the tour. A desk that Pappas used in Kips Bay went straight from the showhouse to a client's apartment, and Cobb and Geller have each had the fortuitous experience of their rooms being bought outright by the new owner of the house, allowing them to leave the spaces fully intact (and recoup their costs). "To recover some of what you spent is a great cherry on top," says Cobb.
While COVID triggered the postponement or cancellation of many events, it also spawned a new genre: the virtual showhouse. Organizations like the Black Interior Designers Network and the Black Artists + Designers Guild, and brands like Seasonal Living and 1stDibs, launched fully digital homes that captured all the thought, detail and extravagance of a physical showhouse through a combination of photorealistic renderings and augmented reality technology. Though designers involved in virtual showhouses didn't have to deal with the stress of finding a tile installer or waiting for furniture to arrive, the process presented its own difficulties. For New York–based designer Marie Burgos, it was sometimes a challenge to work with artists and graphic designers to get the 3D rendering of her bedroom for BADG's Obsidian Virtual Concept House just as she had envisioned it. "It's a lot of specification to provide," she says. "I still look at the room and it's not 100 percent how I wanted it. Despite that, it's still pretty magical that you can walk through the room virtually and zoom in on the finishes. This was the first virtual showhouse any of us were involved in, and I think the process will be easier for the next one."
Cobb, who participated in the first edition of BIDN's The Iconic Home in 2020, says going digital "is a different experience, but not necessarily an easier one." While it's less expensive and there's far less back-and-forth with vendors about logistics, the work is just as detail-oriented on a short timeline. "You still have to do all the design work and source real product, so it's just as detailed and time-intensive on the design side," she says.
The Takeaways
No matter the headaches and stress, most designers ultimately walk away from a showhouse, whether it's their first or their fifth, feeling that it's all worth it. "It's like a mini Coachella for designers, and you get access to people you may never have crossed paths with otherwise," says Humphrey. "I met some of my best industry friends doing showhouses—people that live in different cities [and] have totally different aesthetics and approaches to their businesses. You go through this intense, wonderful experience together and then you're friends for life. That's been one of the most important benefits to me."
Underwood agrees: "If you asked me right after I was finished with a showhouse, I probably would have been like, 'I'm never doing this again!' But it's kind of like birthing a baby—horrible when you're doing it, but then you can't wait to have another."
Homepage image: For the primary bedroom of House Beautiful's Whole Home concept house in 2021, Virginia Toledo and Jessica Gellar put their own spin on the modern farmhouse aesthetic. | Stephen Kent Johnson


Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., organized her first justice action the day Melissa, a sight-impaired girl, joined her first-grade class and was unable to join the kickball games that were the highlight of every recess. Cleveland ordered her schoolmates to line up against a wall until they figured out a game everyone could play. "I just took over recess," she said.
With an upbeat humor—"You don't learn this in seminary"—that slid seamlessly into passionate seriousness—"Reconciliation is a buzzword, but it's the work of the cross"—the social psychologist, public theologian, author and professor showed a standing-room only audience of more than 200 community residents and Fresno Pacific University students, faculty and staff that action isn't everything in Christian peacemaking.
"Spirituality & Racial Reconciliation," a community forum from 10:00-11:00 a.m.
"Pathways for a Healed and Healing Church: Reaching Across the Racial Divide," a meeting with church leaders from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
"The Church's Mission: Faith, Justice and Reconciliation," a missiology forum from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
All events were in Butler Church, 4884 E. Butler Ave., Fresno, adjacent to the main FPU campus. An associate professor of the practice of organizational studies at Duke University's Divinity School and the author of Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep us Apart, Cleveland has also been on the faculty at Wheaton College and Bethel College (Minnesota). The Believers Church Lecture Series explores the relevance of the Believers Church tradition in contemporary Christian life, and is supported by an endowment established by the late Dr. Herbert and Jessica Penner of Bakersfield, CA.
Though motivated by fairness, Cleveland's elementary-school activism was not attached to her deep spiritual upbringing as a fifth-generation preacher's kid on both sides of the family, a family that fasted on Sunday. "Two separate worlds. Two separate friend groups. Two separate everything," she said.
Though young Christena didn't have her doctorate or lawyers on her contact list as a first grader, neither did she ask Melissa if being part of social change was what she wanted to do on her first day in a new school. "I wasn't interested. I just felt the pain and I wanted to get rid of the pain," she said.


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