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Up W/Chris Hayes : MSNBCW : March 2, 2013 5:00am-7:00am PST
the shelby county, alabama wasn't exactly an enlightenment. since the city of elyria -- >> assuming i accept your premise, and there's some question about that, that some portions of the south have changed your county pretty much hasn't. >> well -- >> in the period we're talking about it has many more discriminating -- 240 discriminatory voting laws that were blocked by section 5 objections. and why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of this law to start with? that moment in oral arguments reminded me of a moment on our show last week when we were discussing and debating the voting rights act. bishop harry jones are interjected to respond to horace cooper to argued that section 5 of the voting rights act was outdated to say is this. >> in alabama, run for office and see if he can win. and i think so that one of the things that we'd have to also look at the fact is that, section 5 has been -- the one thing that has leveled the playing field. >> for the supreme court heard arguments in shelby v. holder. deshawn lewis spoke on the st
the shelby county, alabama wasn't exactly an enlightenment. since the city of elyria -- >> assuming i accept your premise, and there's some question about that, that some portions of the south have changed your county pretty much hasn't. >> well -- >> in the period we're talking about it has many more discriminating -- 240 discriminatory voting laws that were blocked by section 5 objections. and why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused...
scalia's premise. here with the lawyer representing shelby county, justice sotomayor directly challenging the comment. >> do you think the right to vote is a racial entitlement in section 5? >> no, the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote and -- >> i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement? >> well, congress -- >> you think there was no basis to find that -- >> may i say congress was reacting in 1964 to a problem of race discrimination which it thought was prevalent in certain jurisdictions. so to that extent as the intervenor said, yes, it was intended to protect those who had been discriminated against. if i might say, i think that -- >> do you think that racial discrimination in voting has ended? that there is none anywhere? >> i think the world is not perfect. >> julie, was she speaking to him or was she speaking to justice scalia? what was going on? where was she looking when she said that? >> i think often the justices, and in this case likely too, they are talking to each other as much as they're t
scalia's premise. here with the lawyer representing shelby county, justice sotomayor directly challenging the comment. >> do you think the right to vote is a racial entitlement in section 5? >> no, the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote and -- >> i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement? >> well, congress -- >> you think there was no basis to find that -- >> may i say congress was...
Hardball Weekend : MSNBCW : March 3, 2013 4:00am-4:30am PST
sotomayor and elena kagan, gave some of the strongest pushbacks, with the lawyer representing shelby county, sotomayor directly challenges the racial entitlement comment. >> do you think that the right to vote is a racial entitlement in section 5? >> no. the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote. >> i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement. >> well, congress -- >> you think there was no basis. >> congress was reacting in 1964 to a problem of race incrimination, which it thought was prevalent in certain jurisdictions, so to that extent, yes, it was intended to protect those who had been discriminated against. if i might say, i think that. >> do you think racial discrimination in voting has ended? there is none anywhere? >> i think the world is not perfect. >> julie, was she speaking to him or speaking to justice scalia? where was she looking? >> you think often the justices and in this cases likely too, the justices are talking as much to each other as they are to the litigant. >> using him -- >> as a prop. that'
sotomayor and elena kagan, gave some of the strongest pushbacks, with the lawyer representing shelby county, sotomayor directly challenges the racial entitlement comment. >> do you think that the right to vote is a racial entitlement in section 5? >> no. the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote. >> i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement. >> well, congress -- >> you think there was no...
The Last Word : MSNBCW : March 1, 2013 7:00pm-8:00pm PST
what she is basically saying, if in fact, you -- >> shelby county brought this suit. >> shelby county, the plaintiff from alabama brought this suit saying if in fact you don't discriminate against minorities, explain these numerous, more than 200 instances, where the justice department has used section five to disqualify whole areas of the election which you opposed. >> so this is to move other justices, to show that this is not a hypothetical issue, to there are real injustices going on. a key player here, chief justice john roberts. >> do you know which states has the worst ratio of white to african voter turn out? >> i do not. >> massachusetts. >> do you know what has the best? where african-american turnout actually exceeds white turnout? mississippi, which state has the greatest disparity? massachusetts. >> i do not -- >> third, is mississippi, where again, the african-american registration rate is higher than the white registration rate. >> so that is pointed. >> right, a little bit of gotcha here. he is bringing the point that for every community that is covered that has
what she is basically saying, if in fact, you -- >> shelby county brought this suit. >> shelby county, the plaintiff from alabama brought this suit saying if in fact you don't discriminate against minorities, explain these numerous, more than 200 instances, where the justice department has used section five to disqualify whole areas of the election which you opposed. >> so this is to move other justices, to show that this is not a hypothetical issue, to there are real...
The Cycle : MSNBCW : March 1, 2013 12:00pm-1:00pm PST
, shelby redistricted to keep the one black official they had out of office. we have continuing attempts across the south and other regions to discriminate in election law via voter i.d., and redistricting and moving to a world and an america of a majority of black, brown and asian people. i feel very clearly that we still need the voting rights act. do you think that we still need the voting rights act? >> the short answer is we still need it. the longer answer is that congress needs to roll up its sleeves and get the hands dirty because a lot of the issue with the section 5 of the voting rights act is that folks feel that the criteria which determines what districts are covered or not covered are outdated. the last time those were updated was about 12, 13 years ago, and section 4 is what would determine that. in 2009, justice roberts pointed a finger and strongly recommended that congress update those criteria. surprise, surprise. they haven't. so in terms of do we still need the protections? yes. but i do think there is room to determine where can we tweak to update those cri
, shelby redistricted to keep the one black official they had out of office. we have continuing attempts across the south and other regions to discriminate in election law via voter i.d., and redistricting and moving to a world and an america of a majority of black, brown and asian people. i feel very clearly that we still need the voting rights act. do you think that we still need the voting rights act? >> the short answer is we still need it. the longer answer is that congress needs to...
The Daily Rundown : MSNBCW : March 6, 2013 6:00am-7:00am PST
, some very obvious. mccain. some are a little bit surprising, perhaps. jeff sessions or rick shelby. but still, these are the place to start when you're wondering, we're pretty confident 12 of the people that will show up were all on the list of 18. meanwhile, the political fallout continues. white house visitors who call the white house phone line are going greeted by this message. >> due to staffing reductions, rewe get to inform you white house tours will be canceled. >> now, the white house says it's canceling the tours because the secret service officers normally assigned to the tours will be reassigned to other posts to reduce other costs and potential furloughs by the agency. secret service in total has to cut $84 million. the white house admits this was a decision made with the secret service. john boehner last night sent out this letter, while i'm disappointed the white house has cut public tours, i'm please to public tours of the state capitol will continue, attempting to dig a knife, saying the possibility of sequestration has been underway for some time. let's be honest.
, some very obvious. mccain. some are a little bit surprising, perhaps. jeff sessions or rick shelby. but still, these are the place to start when you're wondering, we're pretty confident 12 of the people that will show up were all on the list of 18. meanwhile, the political fallout continues. white house visitors who call the white house phone line are going greeted by this message. >> due to staffing reductions, rewe get to inform you white house tours will be canceled. >> now,...
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : March 1, 2013 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
covered by section 5. and shelby county, alabama, in particular, which is the place where which the challenge originates, as justice sotomayor at oral argument suggested is the personification of a jurisdiction that is rightfully covered by the voting rights act. >> ryan p. haygood, thank you for helping us understand and respond to. this i really appreciate your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. thank you so much. >>> by the time we have a director of the bureau, tobacco and firearms and explosives, the atf, that person's range of problems may also include printers. hold on. that's coming. how did i know? well, i didn't really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood tests. showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number -- not just me. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% (testosterone gel). the #1 prescribed topical testosterone replacement therapy, increases te
covered by section 5. and shelby county, alabama, in particular, which is the place where which the challenge originates, as justice sotomayor at oral argument suggested is the personification of a jurisdiction that is rightfully covered by the voting rights act. >> ryan p. haygood, thank you for helping us understand and respond to. this i really appreciate your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. thank you so much. >>> by the time we have a director of the bureau,...
NOW With Alex Wagner : MSNBCW : March 1, 2013 9:00am-10:00am PST
heavily focused on the issue of equality. this week the court heard arguments in shelby versus holder, a challenge to the 1965 voting rights act. the irony was hard to miss. as president obama and congressional leaders stood underneath the capitol dome, the court's five conservative justices appeared ready to strike down part of the civil rights. noting the court's conservative wing suggested that the modern south had outgrown its troubled past and that the legal burdens on the nine states were no longer justified. justice scalia attributed reauthorization of the law. whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes. racial entitlement or perhaps simply ensuring that all americans, regardless of race, have the right to vote. a right that, according to the brennan center for justice, was in jeopardy for more than 5 million americans as states inattended to path a rath of voter i.d. laws and restrictions. many of which were struck down by the court thanks in no small part to the voting rights act. here to discu
heavily focused on the issue of equality. this week the court heard arguments in shelby versus holder, a challenge to the 1965 voting rights act. the irony was hard to miss. as president obama and congressional leaders stood underneath the capitol dome, the court's five conservative justices appeared ready to strike down part of the civil rights. noting the court's conservative wing suggested that the modern south had outgrown its troubled past and that the legal burdens on the nine states...
shelby, what happens in 2008 in texas, voter i.d. -- the restriction of early voting, redistricting, all these ways of trying to restrict the franchise of people of color. even the senate voting for it 98-0. when do they vote for anything 98-0. and still we look like we're at a moment when it's in jeopardy. we'll be optimistic but you can read the tea leaves as well as any of us, it's going to be difficult. what does it say about the court and/or america that this is in jeopardy when we can very easily make a case that we still need it? >> it says we're asking the wrong questions. essentially we should be trying to figure out in light of all that you just described how we can bring more people into the democracy. how we can make or democracy more inclusive and make sure that all voters have their say. instead, we're focusing on trying to make away the measure that have been most effective at expanding our democracy. america tries to be an example in the world for democracy. and the idea that in the face of consistent challenges we're thinking about taking down protections seems to b
shelby, what happens in 2008 in texas, voter i.d. -- the restriction of early voting, redistricting, all these ways of trying to restrict the franchise of people of color. even the senate voting for it 98-0. when do they vote for anything 98-0. and still we look like we're at a moment when it's in jeopardy. we'll be optimistic but you can read the tea leaves as well as any of us, it's going to be difficult. what does it say about the court and/or america that this is in jeopardy when we can...
The Ed Show : MSNBCW : March 1, 2013 12:00am-1:00am PST
, in the words of john lewis, who said, "we are not going back." the court took the shelby case because in fact, ed, there were a number of laws that blocked a citizen's right to vote. that's why this case is before the supreme court. and that's why section 5 has been used to create an opportunity for voting. >> that speaks volumes of just what's out there across america, about how people want to attack the voting rights. despite the federal law. and run it the way they want to run it in their own back yard. the voting rights act has been reauthorized four times on four different occasions by -- we can only term it as overwhelming margins. i mean, are you hearing republican lawmakers standing up for it now that it's under attack? >> well, i am -- i know that we worked very closely with chairman sensenbrenner in the 2006 reauthorization with some 15,000 pages. i know that -- >> the point i'm making here, congresswoman, is that i don't see any republican stepping up saying, you know, we've done this before, 98 votes in the senate, a bunch of votes over in the house. they're not tr
, in the words of john lewis, who said, "we are not going back." the court took the shelby case because in fact, ed, there were a number of laws that blocked a citizen's right to vote. that's why this case is before the supreme court. and that's why section 5 has been used to create an opportunity for voting. >> that speaks volumes of just what's out there across america, about how people want to attack the voting rights. despite the federal law. and run it the way they want to...
Martin Bashir : MSNBCW : March 1, 2013 1:00pm-2:00pm PST
areas including shelby in 2008 redistricted to make sure the one black elected official they had was not re-elected. so we have these shenanigans happening all the time and protecting them is an entitlement? so you're giving us the right to vote as if we are the takers in this game of makers and takers, which that whole language is completely racist and this idea that white people work hard and then they give their money to lazy black people. >> of course. jimmy, you have a very interesting new piece coming out on our website. you say and i'm quoting your piece, justice scalia's comments from the bench of racial entitlement were code to white americans. now, i'm not asking you that you become a traitor to your own race, jimmy, but would you mind unlocking this code for toure and myself and perhaps for the benefit of our audience? >> let's be clear, if the argument from wednesday were in 1963, i wouldn't be at all shocked or surprised. this is 2013. when i was a kid growing up in south carolina and i was, you know, a gay kid growing up in south carolina, i would hear code words, s
areas including shelby in 2008 redistricted to make sure the one black elected official they had was not re-elected. so we have these shenanigans happening all the time and protecting them is an entitlement? so you're giving us the right to vote as if we are the takers in this game of makers and takers, which that whole language is completely racist and this idea that white people work hard and then they give their money to lazy black people. >> of course. jimmy, you have a very...
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : March 2, 2013 3:00am-4:00am PST
1990s alone. alabama is the epitome of a state that should be covered by section 5. and shelby county, alabama, in particular, which is the place where which the challenge originates, as justice sotomayor at oral argument suggested is the personification of a jurisdiction that is rightfully covered by the voting rights act. >> ryan p. haygood, thank you for helping us understand and respond to. this i really appreciate your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. thank you so much. >>> by the time we have a director of the bureau, tobacco and firearms and explosives, the atf, that person's range of problems may also include printers. hold on. that's coming. it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you are looking for to live a more natural life. in a convenient two bar pack. this is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. and you'll dump your old broom. but don't worry, he'll find someone else. ♪ who's that lady? ♪ who's that lady? ♪ sexy lady ♪ who's that lady? [ female announcer ] swiffer sweeper's electrostatic dry cloths attract and lock dirt, dust, and
1990s alone. alabama is the epitome of a state that should be covered by section 5. and shelby county, alabama, in particular, which is the place where which the challenge originates, as justice sotomayor at oral argument suggested is the personification of a jurisdiction that is rightfully covered by the voting rights act. >> ryan p. haygood, thank you for helping us understand and respond to. this i really appreciate your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. thank you so much....
Caught on Camera : MSNBCW : March 16, 2013 3:00pm-4:00pm PDT
. mother of two wendy cobb is on her way to work in shelby, north carolina. >> i was a couple hours late going into work so traffic was lighter than usual. >> despite the light traffic, she is blocked by two trucks ahead of her playing a dangerous game. >> one would speed up and the other would slow down. they wouldn't let the other get over. >> the struck in the right lane isn't letting the other truck over. cobb takes out her iphone and goes to record the logo of the truck on the right to report the dangerous behavior to the company. the other truck has no logo. cobb's own action taking out her phone and filming the scene isn't exactly safe either. but she feels confident she's in control. >> i had the camera here and aimed toward the truck in the right hand lane. but i was still watching the road in front of me. all i intended to do was get the logo on the video. i got more than i bargained for. >> then cobb sees a two by four that had been jutting into the road from the medium come flying at her. >> i saw the first truck, i saw the front wheels and back wheels hit it and the tra
. mother of two wendy cobb is on her way to work in shelby, north carolina. >> i was a couple hours late going into work so traffic was lighter than usual. >> despite the light traffic, she is blocked by two trucks ahead of her playing a dangerous game. >> one would speed up and the other would slow down. they wouldn't let the other get over. >> the struck in the right lane isn't letting the other truck over. cobb takes out her iphone and goes to record the logo of the...
Weekends With Alex Witt : MSNBCW : March 3, 2013 9:00am-11:00am PST
. shelby county, the county in alabama that's responsible for bringing this to the supreme court, has not had that good behavior for a decade. so the law is written such that we can bring other people under federal supervision and we can release people from federal supervision as long as they act in good faith when it comes to the most important right in this state, in this nation, which is the right to vote. >> goldie, at tend of the day the root of this case is really asking the court to decide if there is still racial discrimination in this country. are you comfortable with that power being in their hands, goldie? >> you know, i think that i agree with one of our former congressman from rhode island when he said that this really is a legislative question. this house decided in 1965 -- in 1964 that this was to be, you know, a precertification or preclearance law. and that we really haven't gotten beyond that. i don't know that this is something that the supreme court ought to be truly taking up. i'm not sure that i'm clear on that. but what i am clear on is that racial discriminatio
. shelby county, the county in alabama that's responsible for bringing this to the supreme court, has not had that good behavior for a decade. so the law is written such that we can bring other people under federal supervision and we can release people from federal supervision as long as they act in good faith when it comes to the most important right in this state, in this nation, which is the right to vote. >> goldie, at tend of the day the root of this case is really asking the court...
Melissa Harris-Perry : MSNBCW : March 3, 2013 7:00am-9:00am PST
covering the shelby versus holder case with the voting rights act and states with a history of racial discrimination, they have to pre-clear any federal election laws with the federal government and same with the countries with a history violence and destruction. bp should have to clear every single decision, i don't care if it's moving a port-a-potty from one side of the bridge to the other. they need say is this going to be okay? will it cause harm, and if they can prove up front that it will not cause harm, then maybe we'll consider it, but, you know, it can't just be this thing where they have like a blank slate to just do whatever they want, and then after the fact they go and try to pay for it. >> and i think we also are going to have to collectively more risk averse on this. i do think there's ways in which our focus on recycling makes us think we don't have to change consumption and tar sand oils makes us feel we don't have to make the cars smaller. if we don't to, that's fine. we're running into the face of the future generations. we're creating an environmental debt. thanks
covering the shelby versus holder case with the voting rights act and states with a history of racial discrimination, they have to pre-clear any federal election laws with the federal government and same with the countries with a history violence and destruction. bp should have to clear every single decision, i don't care if it's moving a port-a-potty from one side of the bridge to the other. they need say is this going to be okay? will it cause harm, and if they can prove up front that it...
between shelby county's lawyer and justices kagan and scalia. >> you said the problem has been solved. but who gets to make that jimt really? is it you, is it the court or is it congress? >> it's certainly not me. >> that's a good answer. i was hoping you'd say that. >> but i think the question is congress can examine it, congress makes a record. it is up to the court to determine whether the problem indeed has been solved and whether the new problem -- >> well, that's a big new power that your giving us that we have the power now to decide whether racial discrimination has been solved? >> makes a point there. who has the power to decide when racial discrimination has been solved? >> we have a process. the bottom line is that congress does. congress makes this law, it reauthorizes this law. it goes through a very intensive process, much more intensive than the court could possibly go through of hearings that can go on for days. think about it, these arguments run for an hour, right? and they went through 15,000 pages of testimony. they found that racial discrimination is still a real
between shelby county's lawyer and justices kagan and scalia. >> you said the problem has been solved. but who gets to make that jimt really? is it you, is it the court or is it congress? >> it's certainly not me. >> that's a good answer. i was hoping you'd say that. >> but i think the question is congress can examine it, congress makes a record. it is up to the court to determine whether the problem indeed has been solved and whether the new problem -- >> well,...


Over the next few months, The Edge of Chaos is embarking on a collaborative venture with the international students at UAB; the enterprise kicked off in Edge of Chaos style at the Smolian House on October 31. The Edge of Chaos sponsored the weekly luncheon, which takes place on Fridays for international students, and Director of Innovation David Hooks, dressed as the Devil in Street Clothes, and Program Administrator Laura Coulter, as Alice in Wonderland, attended. Those who made the effort to dress in costume were rewarded by a green mug sporting a logo for The Edge of Chaos. Even some little ones showed up in costume!


Getting into any college is challenging. Applying to most professional schools of art and design is even more challenging because it requires something most other colleges do not, a portfolio. At Otis College of Art and Design we look at the four P's; Passion, Preparation, Portfolio, and Potential before making an admissions decision.
Are you passionate about making art? Do you have the dedication necessary to spend long hours in the studio creating your art work? Are you passionate enough about art to be willing to challenge yourself everyday?
If you answered yes to these questions then you probably have enough passion to enter art school.
How do we determine your passion?
We determine it by reading your personal statement (essay) about why you want to study art and design. We look to see what kinds of steps you have taken to make art while in high school or community college. That is, if your school didn't offer any art courses or very few did you take private instruction, sign up for summer programs or make work on your own?
We also look at what your teachers say about you and your passion to be an artist or designer.
Finally your portfolio (discussed below) is also a window through which we can look at your desire to make art. Passion can also be determined in part by a personal interview. Most colleges of art and design encourage campus visits as a way for you to learn more about the college and for the college to learn more about you.
To determine your preparation we look at your grades not only in art courses but also in your other college preparatory curriculum.
Surprised? You should know that by attending and graduating from a school of art you will earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. The courses that put the "B" in BFA are English, math, science, social studies and humanities.
Art school students take as many liberal arts courses as most other college students. That is why we need to determine not only your level of preparation as an artist, we must also determine your preparation in academic subjects.
How do we determine preparation? We look at your transcripts. What kind of courses did you take and what kind of grades did you earn? What did you score on the SAT or ACT (yes most art and design schools require at least one of these tests), what kind of art courses did you take? Again we will also get some idea of your preparation through your portfolio, which brings us to the next "P".
Each college of art and design's admission staff have their own ideas of what they want to see in a portfolio. However, most are trying to determine each student's strengths, individual growth and interests. The portfolio you submit should reflect your best examples in observational drawing, color composition and concept. At Otis we want a minimum of twelve(12) and a maximum of twenty (20) pieces.
At least half your pieces should be drawn from observation.Observational drawing is any type of work drawn from looking at a three-dimensional object or reference (i.e. still life, human figure,landscape). If for example you were drawing a self portrait you would need to draw yourself using a mirror. All work must be original, not from photos, other drawings or solely from your imagination.
The other half of the portfolio should demonstrate your particular strengths and interests. This portion of the portfolio is not limited to drawing or observational work. In fact, risk taking, concept and experimentation are highly encouraged. You should submit your best work regardless of your intended major area of interest. These may include works in a variety of media, including but not limited to: photography, video,painting, sculpture, ceramics, digital and traditional animation,illustration and graphic design.
The best way to submit your portfolio is by sending slides of your artwork in an 8 ½" x 11" transparent sheet. The slides should be accompanied by an inventory list giving the size, medium and date of completion of each piece. At Otis and other colleges of art and design you may submit original art (not framed or matted) only if you do so in person.
The Admissions Committee made up of faculty and admissions counselors,carefully reviews your work. Generally the Committee is not as interested about how polished your work appears as much as they are interested in the final "P", potential.
Do all students who are admitted to art and design schools have all the skills they need to succeed? No, that's why they are going to a professional school of art so that they can build the skills they already possess and learn the new skills that are necessary to be a successful artist or designer in the 21st century. That is why we look for potential.
All the other "P's", passion, preparation and portfolio help art school admissions committees determine who should be admitted.
If for some reason you are not admitted the first time you apply, most colleges will make suggestions on how you can improve your application for consideration for the following year. Also, most art colleges will review a portfolio before a student submits it for admission and make suggestions as to how you might strengthen your portfolio. Many successful art school alums did not have particularly strong portfolios. They were admitted based upon their passion, preparation and potential.
The futurists tell us that the communicators of the next century will be visual artists and designers. Time magazine recently suggested that we had entered into a design economy.
With the prominence of the web and with businesses and industries such as music, cinema, television, advertising, marketing, toys, print media, computer software all using more artists and designers this is a great time to go to a professional school of art and design.
If you have the passion for art, if you have prepared well by taking college prep courses, if you have developed your portfolio and if you feel you have the potential to be successful, you should apply to a college of art and design now!


Artwork Panel: 33.6cm x 33.6cm ≈ 13¼" x 13¼"
Silk/Brocade: 41.5cm x 93.1cm ≈ 16¼" x 36¾"
This wall scroll literally says "Happiness" or "Joy".
Reason for discount: This scroll hung in my old gallery as a sample for a while. It was rolled up and forgotten about. I just unrolled it, and it's in good shape except for a minor chip in one of the knobs. This is the 禧 version of the happiness character, you will often see this written in the 喜 form.


There's still two ways to view progress and that's via the Nike website and the Nike Fuelband app. It's still iOS only so there's still no Android love and will only work with iPhone 4S and above or a 5th generation iPod Touch running on iOS 6.01 later.
Setting up is near identical to the first generation Fuelband where there's now more flexibility for setting the daily Fuel point goal. You can also get an idea of what similar aged users opt for if you think you are setting the bar too low.
The biggest change is that the Fuelband SE has Bluetooth 4.0, so data can be synced automatically with the app in real-time instead of having to sync manually or holding the button down. The Bluetooth standard is designed to deal with collecting information more frequently without adversely affecting the battery life.
Venturing inside the app there's a drop down menu with Fuelband battery life, daily goal and notifications at the top. Below you can see your Nike profile, current day's activity, along with Sessions, Trophies, Friends and Groups. Progress is presented in a series of graphs and progress power gauges to see data from days, weeks or even months. By turning the phone into landscape view there's additional data displayed on percentage of your daily goal hit, hours won and intense minutes.
Social integration is big part of what the app is about with the ability to share progress over Facebook, Twitter and Path. If you don't want to bombard news feeds with your physical endeavours that's where the new Groups feature comes into play. Here you can choose to share information with select groups of people like friends and co-workers instead.
All the information is very digestible and the trophies for hitting milestones is a great way to feel like you are really making progress. It can be difficult to identify which information is the most valuable and that could be made more clear. It's also worth noting that you can't input food data either, something Fitbit does a really good job of and would be nice to see in a later update.
Nike says it has improved the algorithims used to track activity and stop users from simply moving their wrist up in the air while sitting on the sofa eating a burger to add more Fuel points. The Fuelband SE will be able to recognize more intensive activities and score you more Fuel points.
It's unclear how Nike has managed to do this, but it's clear that you can still wave around your hand for a few seconds and add 10 or so Fuel points. Cheating the system is still possible and that's invariably something Nike is going to continually need to address.
For activities like walking and running the new Sessions mode caters for it well. Putting it up against the Nike Running app Fuel Points collected were consistent and calories burned more or less matched what was recorded on our TomTom Runner GPS sports watch.
In the gym it's something of more frustrating experience. Riding on a stationary exercise bike will not work in the Sessions mode and we didn't have better luck with a weights session. Again this all about applying Nike's own metric system to an activity it can not actually accurately record.
Having the addition of a heart rate sensor and altimeter could give a more detailed picture and compensate for the Fuelband's inability to track activities like cycling. Until then, there's going to be some discrepancies about the accuracy of the Fuel points applied to other activities.
Ask anyone who owns the first generation Nike Fuelband and they will probably tell you that the most disappointing thing about about it was the battery life. At best, it lasted close to two days despite the promises to stay charged for four days.
The Fuelband SE once again includes two lithium polymer batteries with the aim of getting you through four days of Fuel point-collecting. You can still charge it via the built-in USB, although it's recommended it's done via the supplied USB charging adaptor.
Things have definitely improved in this department as we managed 6-7 days without requiring a charging top-up. It doesn't match the staying power of the Fitbit trackers or Jawbone Up, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
Should I buy the Nike Fuelband SE?
If you are serious into running, spend most of the time cycling and already hit the gym four or five times a week, the Nike Fuelband SE is not really aimed at you. Fitness trackers are for people trying to get fit in smaller, more gradual steps. While the Fuelband SE does a very good job of it, it's expensive at £129.
And the competition is fierce, A device like the Withings Pulse can be bought for less than £100 and can do the same job with added features that the SE cannot currently offer like a built-in heart rate monitor. The Fitbit Flex and soon to be released Fitbit Force can track steps climbed to get richer, more valuable data. You burn more calories going up stairs and measuring heart rate gives you a clearer idea of hard you have actually worked.
If you own an iPhone 5S you could download the Nike Move app that supports the new M7 co-processor and collects similar data to the Fuelband. Some of the new features like Sessions, Win the Hour and sleep tracking are good ideas but not perfectly executed. Being waterproof is not a deal breaker, though it would be nice to have seen it added. The exclusion of Android is a continual disappointment as well.
It's still the nicest looking of the fitness tracking bunch and that is going to be a big selling point for Nike. If you already own the first generation Nike Fuelband, the biggest advantages is really going to be the Bluetooth 4.0 syncing and battery life. A firmware update actually adds the improved algorithims so you are not missing out on that. Other than that, we'd say hold off for the third generation Nike Fuelband.
The Nike Fuelband SE is still by far the best looking fitness tracker but its rivals like Fitbit and Withings are catching up and we hope for more when the next generation Fuelband lands.


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18-year-old Nigerian model, Mayowa Nicholas becomes the new face of Calvin Klein Nigerian Int'l Model Victor Ndigwe, throws major jab at Haters Who Mock "This Skinny Boy"
Victor Ndigwe, Mayowa Nicholas, Toyin Oyeneye and 3 other Nigerian fashion models taking the world by storm
July 30, 2017 by ★STARS★™★
These six young Nigerian models have worked with some of the biggest names in world fashion already and are primed to
If academic qualifications were awarded for modelling success, then these guys would be well on their way to earning Masters degrees, judging by how far they've gotten so quickly in their young careers.
Here are the six Nigerian models set to take the fashion world by storm.
Myever Akinleye
The teenager has worked with some of the biggest names in Nigerian fashion
This 16-year-old model has worked with some of the biggest names in the Nigerian fashion industry, from Bridget Awosika to Mai Atafo, Maki Oh, Lanre Da Silva, Tiffany Amber, Ejiro Amos Tafiri, Andrea Iyamah and Deola Sagoe. She was also part of the 1702 London campaign.
Toyin Oyeneye
Toyin on the cover of GQ Style
From GQ to Adidas, Toyin has worked in high places and is heading higher
Toyin has not only worked with some of the biggest names in fashion; from Adidas to Ackermans, he has also been on the cover of GQ Style magazine!
She has worked with top designers like Prada, Dolce and Gabbana, Versace and more
The 18-year-old is a past winner of the Aquafina Elite Model Look competition
One of the winners of the Aquafina Elite Model Look competition in 2014, Mayowa has joined the league of the most sought after models on the runways of Paris and Milan.
The 18-year-old has worked with top designers like Dolce and Gabbana, Versace, Prada, Moschino, and more.
Betty Adewole
21-year-old, London-based Betty, left a promising career as an athlete to try her hands at modelling, and she's killin' it. She has worked with Tom Ford, Prada, Alexander McQueenand most recently, Beyonce, on the Ivy Park collection.
Adeola Ariyo
Adeola has featured in a number of high profile fashion magazines
She is also an Elizabeth Arden ambassador
The first-ever African ambassador for Elizabeth Arden, Adeola Ariyo has been modelling since 13 and has since been in almost every major fashion magazine from Cosmopolitan, to Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour and more.
In 2011, she was chosen as the only black model to feature in Sports Illustrated SA.
Victor Ndigwe
The 20-year-old has walked runways in Paris and Milan
He is another past winner of the Aquafina Elite Model Look competition
He is the face of Missoni
Victor hasw worked with Hermes, D&G, Balmain, among other big names in fashion
Also a winner of Aquafina Elite Model Look competition in 2014, Victor has made a name for himself as the first Nigerian male model to walk the runways of Paris and Milan.
The 20-year-old has worked with Ermenegildo Zegna, Dolce and Gabbana, Fendi, Versace, Hermes, Kenzo, and Balmain. He is currently the face of Missoni.
This Saturday, October 1st, 2016, at Oriental Hotel in Lagos, 20 aspiring models will also get the chance to become internationally recognised supermodels like Victor and Mayowa, at the Aquafina Elite Model Look 2016 competition.
18-year-old Nigerian model, Mayowa Nicholas becomes the new face of Calvin Klein
Nigerian Int'l Model Victor Ndigwe, throws major jab at Haters Who Mock "This Skinny Boy"

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We Were Searching for a Reason: An Interview with Claire Cameron
The Millions Interview
Christine Fischer Guy March 19, 2014 | 12 books mentioned 1 9 min read
"Canadian writers as a whole do not trust Nature. They are always suspecting some dirty trick." – Margaret Atwood, Survival
Susanna Moodie's 1852 Roughing it in the Bush was less an emigrant's guide than a cautionary tale, and much early Canadian literature wrestled with the realities of that experience. Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen, 1966) finally freed Canadian writers from writing about the pioneer life and the implacable menace of the wilderness, but our anxiety about it never really went away (Elle, Solomon Gursky Was Here, The Orenda, and Indian Horse, to name a few). The land continues to demand our respect and attention.
The Bear, set in the early 1990s, rehearses that anxiety in a visceral way. Five-year-old Anna and her two-year-old brother Alex (Stick), survive a bear attack that kills their parents and then face the wilds of Algonquin Park on their own. "I need you to get your brother off the island," her mortally injured mother whispers, when Anna and Stick emerge from the safety of the cooler. "It's not safe." With these words, Claire Cameron reminds us how tenuous is our mastery of the natural world.
I interviewed Cameron on a morning in early March. It was still too cold for a canoe trip, so we walked through the curated wilderness of High Park in Toronto instead. There was still snow on the ground but the cold snap had finally lifted and the birds were singing.
The Millions: In her study of Canadian literature, Survival, Margaret Atwood wrote that in the books she read as a child, "The main thing was to avoid dying, and only by a mixture of cunning, experience, and narrow escapes could the animal — or the human relying on its own resources — manage that." Five-year-old Anna narrates your novel, and part of the tension in The Bear is the reader's awareness of the killing indifference of the Canadian wilderness: we know the kids are not all right.
Claire Cameron: The real start was in the voice. It started to whisper to me. My son was five years old at the time and nattering incessantly. At five there's that moment when their vocabulary catches up with their inner life. In the background was my ongoing interest in bears. I've spent a lot of time in the wilderness. I started to write with that voice and the wilderness stuff wrapped itself around that voice. A bear came to mind. I'm so well acquainted with the attack that happened in 1991 in Algonquin Park, where I'd worked as a camp counselor the year before and the year after it happened. It was a couple who were experienced campers and it was around Thanksgiving. As far as bears go, that timing is crucial. No one else was there to witness it, but in reconstructing the scene they think it was a predatory attack, and they think the bear attacked the woman first. There are signs that the man put up a fight. It was a young male bear, which is another important point. Young males get kicked out by their mums and they don't have their own territory. They are the ones that are more experimental and willing to take a chance.
What took me years to come to terms with was that the couple didn't do anything wrong, and the bear was just being a bear. The summer after, I and a lot of people who worked at the camp were searching for a reason, we were hoping that the campers had done something wrong, that the campers had done something to bring this on to themselves. There wasn't much detail available. It wasn't until years later that I came to terms with the idea that they'd done nothing wrong. It was quite chilling.
TM: You say the bear was just being a bear, but bears don't attack people often.
CC: No. Some people call it a rogue bear, and I use that language sometimes, just to communicate that it's very unusual for a black bear to do that. But there are biologists who say that if a bear, especially this young male bear, has made a successful kill of a young moose calf, that a human isn't such a leap. It's not a matter of them having taste for human flesh. It's that it's October and they need to hibernate and they need calories. A lone male is going to be struggling.
TM: When Anna and Stick reach the mainland and eat some of the "dangle berries" they forage, my mind went to the recent news about the neurotoxins in the wild yam seeds that Chris McCandless (Into the Wild) ate. If an adult, equipped with guides to edible plants, couldn't figure out what might kill him, how could children be safe? Putting your characters directly in harm's way meant simply letting them run out of food.
CC: Because I've taught Outward Bound courses, which were 30 day stretches in the wilderness with young kids who didn't have much experience, I'm acutely aware of the boundaries, which are first and foremost hydration. And adults can really only go for three days. A lot of people worry about food but that's just a distraction.
I love the wilderness for all sorts of reasons but my fundamental reason for being out there is what you learn about the people you're with, especially when they come under stress. That section I was very much playing with those things, seeing how they'd react and what they'd do. What their priorities would be. A child is often stomach-led. I had this instinct that they would be wanting to put something in their mouth.
TM: Did you think of them getting hold of something poisonous?
CC: My son and I go hiking enough and one of the things we're always talking about is, "Doesn't that look tempting to eat? But you don't eat that." He can drone on about how he shouldn't eat things. It's one of my hobby horses. My intention was that her mother had been similarly on Anna about that kind of thing. I did feel that to be realistic and not fall into a heap, Anna needed some kind of prior structure.
TM: Earle Birney coined the term "bushed" in his iconic poem by that name to describe the way the wilderness does a number on our mental health. As the weather turned and the bush became something he knew he might not survive, Richard Wagamese's young Ojibway character (in Indian Horse) put it this way: "The land around us was like a great being hunched in the darkness." You give fresh meaning to being bushed when Anna imagines the darkness as a flesh-eating monster. Were you consciously working from that literary tradition? It's hard to imagine in an urban park, but have you ever been bushed yourself?
CC: I've been bushed lots. I was working more from an experiential tradition than a literary one, probably, though I'm very attracted to all of those writers. I've done a lot of time outdoors. Some of the most interesting times, in retrospect, are when you get bushed, up against the edge. It reminds you of your place in the world, how small and insignificant you are. We love to put sentiment on nature, we love to give it human emotions, but it's really about realizing your place, and how precarious your place is.
TM: Nick Cutter (aka Craig Davidson, the worst-kept secret in Canadian literature) recently published a horror novel about young people in the wilderness, The Troop. In an interview about it, he said, "I think for the boys in my book, they keep going because, simple as it seems, it's impossible for them to believe that they won't survive." This childlike trust that the universe is benign is very much a thematic concern in The Bear, too. It makes it possible for Anna to endure.
CC: I loved The Troop for that point, that the young mind is flexible and can snap back. I feel like we had that observation in common. I picked up on that in conversations with my son, when I noticed he'd be so sad about something that he'd feel that his life was over and it was all ruined and then in the next minute be laughing hysterically. I was amazed at watching that, noticing how much protection there was in that, to be able to switch and be in a moment like that. I think it is a survival tactic.
TM: Writing from the perspective of a five-year-old also means childish self-absorption. She laughs at her brother's nakedness, notices the way her skin turns white from so much water, and worries about being in trouble with her parents. Meanwhile, she's lost in the wilderness. Does her tunnel vision protect her from the larger terror an adult with greater knowledge of the world would feel?
CC: I think it does. That ability to be in the moment helps you keep relaxed. In a survival situation, being relaxed is one of the key things. I think it stops her from overloading with stress, which an adult might do. It's a survival mechanism of its own.
TM: You've said that you were very much aware of Lord of the Flies while you were writing this book, and that you were consciously writing against it. Tell me more about that.
CC: I reread it sometime in the year before I started writing. When I've been working leading wilderness courses, there's been a longstanding joke when things start to break down, everyone says, "Oh, Lord of the Flies!" So I reread it. I'd known it wasn't exactly a kind take on human nature, but having two boys I was really struck by how it gave them no benefit of the doubt. It was quite a mean take on human nature. I saw so much kindness in my boys that I got angry that I'd let Lord of the Flies define so much. Why is that the reference point? That really frustrated me. So I started writing against that.
TM: So you said you were listening to your son's voice, and yet you drew the character as a girl.
CC: The book was originally two boys. I was listening to my son's voice and the character was a boy, and I had a much longer section when they were grown up and returning to the island at first. I was really struggling with that and my agent said, Well, maybe it's a girl. I went into a three-day snit. Absolutely not! It was so foundational that I was writing against Lord of the Flies. I calmed down and I read through, and the older character was going on about popsicles and Band-Aids. I realized that she and I shared a lot of interests. I started to leave Lord of the Flies behind. Maybe that was a reason for starting, but why would that matter to the reader? I knew I'd write about a strong little girl really well.
TM: In your review of The Troop for The Globe and Mail you wrote about how the female character is always the one being eaten, and how that irritates you. Was that part of that character decision as well?
CC: It became a big part of that. Especially in wilderness and survival writing, there's been, similar to horror, a damsel in distress role for women. My grandmother's sister was a climber in the 1950s who was in the Kootenays (south-east British Columbia), a back-country skier, and I don't see her story. There were quite a few Victorian rock-climbers, they went in skirts, but it's not really established in the wilderness writing canon. I think there's a lot of opportunity there. I was so glad that Craig Davidson didn't have anyone skinny dipping at the beginning!
TM: Releasing children to their own recognizance is a common fairy tale trope. When she was small, I'd hear my daughter announce "we were orphans" during imaginary play. Like in fairy tales, that was always the start of everything: get the parents out of the way so something interesting can happen. There are clear narrative constraints when you limit yourself to the perspective of a five-year-old, but I think there are freedoms, too. Did you ever attempt this story from the adult perspective?
CC: I didn't, because it started with the voice. One of the first times I've thought clearly about this was when Mark Medley interviewed me for the National Post and he said, You have all these tools but you've chosen to throw them to the side and essentially tie one hand behind your back. Why would you do that? And I had no way to answer. I didn't sit down and think, I'm going to write from the child's perspective, I thought, I'm going to use this voice. In my first few drafts I had many more signposts for the reader, days of the week, some articles, a section from the rescuer's perspective. I was not confident in my ability to pull it off. As I got more into the voice and attuned to what I was doing, I started to strip that back and the last step was taking it all out. I thought, Ok, I think I can stand up. I had to be brave.
It was incredibly freeing. I stopped worrying so much while I was writing, and I stopped using that analytical part of my brain and I let it go back to this instinctual brain. When I was writing Anna's voice I let myself write fast and I didn't read back. I just let it rip.
TM: Your bear is very different from Marian Engel's bear, but both animals seem to stand in for our relationship with the natural world. We understand it as benevolent as well as destructive; we love it and we fear it. Has the writing of this novel changed your relationship with wilderness?
CC: The review in People magazine said something like, "This could do for camping what Jaws did for beaches." I thought, Oh, good lord! I actually loved the novel Jaws and I'd been reading about how Peter Benchley has such great regret about what he did to great white sharks. They weren't understood when he wrote that, and the novel portrays them as killing machines. If you read the blurb about my book, and you don't actually read the book, there is potential for harm. It's made me realize the extent of my conflict. Of course when I go outdoors I'm very conscious of them and I'm scared of them in a way, but all of my experiences say that I don't need to be. I think that part of writing this book was trying to reconcile those two things.
Christine Fischer Guy 's debut novel, The Umbrella Mender (Wolsak & Wynn, September 2014), is set just south of James Bay in Moose Factory, Ontario. She is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Eighteen Bridges, The Globe and Mail, and Ryeberg.com. Follow her @cfischerguy or read more at christinefischerguy.com.
Telling Toni Morrison's Story: The Millions Interviews Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Maher June 26, 2019 | 12 books mentioned 4 min read
The Pieces I Am presents Toni as the person that I know. Audiences will see her as the brilliant, strong woman she is. They will love her more than ever.
John Maher | 12 books mentioned 4 min read
Books as Objects The Millions Interview
Melissa Klug and the Permanence Matters Initiative
Emily St. John Mandel May 31, 2010 | 12 books mentioned 14 9 min read
"I truly believe that we are at a critical crossroads in publishing. As the attention, bandwidth and energy of publishing turns to e-books, we are concerned that what is currently a trend toward lesser quality print versions of books will then become a landslide."
Emily St. John Mandel | 12 books mentioned 14 9 min read
Maybe It Was Worth It: The Millions Interviews Alexander Chee
Claire Cameron February 1, 2016 | 12 books mentioned 4 10 min read
Not Just a Riddle to Be Solved: The Millions Interviews Ann Beattie
Alex Dueben October 7, 2015 | 12 books mentioned 2 6 min read
Ann Beattie has been writing short stories for more than 40 years. For some readers, she remains associated with the Baby Boomer generation and specifically the 1970s when she first started publishing. But her style and approach have changed over the years, and even if she's not as associated with the zeitgeist as she once was, her output in the 21st century — which includes both new and selected volumes of short stories, novels, novellas — demonstrates that she has not slowed down, nor has she abandoned new ideas and approaches.
Beattie's new book The State We're In: Maine Stories is a collection of loosely linked short stories about people living in the state, some more permanently than others. We spoke back and forth over e-mail while she was on the road about linked short stories, Maine, and ending a story.
The Millions: Where did the idea for the book start?
Ann Beattie: I never have ideas. I don't plan or plot. My husband was in Europe on vacation with his brother, and I decided to sit down and start writing and see what happened. The month before, I'd written [the short stories] "Road Movie" in rough draft, and "Missed Calls" in more-or-less final form, so maybe I was also slightly in a Maine state of mind…but if I remember correctly, when I wrote "The Fledgling," I was just seeing what I could write in the first hour after I sat down. Then I remembered how much fun it can be to write.
TM: Why do you find Maine an interesting fictional space?
AB: I suppose I might feel so much an outsider, or simply so negative about a place that it wouldn't be something I'd want to visit in fiction, but Maine is like any other place to me. I wasn't at all trying to define anything about the state. Since I've lived here for about 25 years part of the year, of course some things were right there at my fingertips. Had I found the fledgling in the recycling bin in Virginia, I would have set the story there, I guess.
TM: There are a lot of people who will read this book who have never been to Maine and only know the state through Stephen King, Richard Russo, Carolyn Chute, and Murder, She Wrote. Were you thinking of this and playing with that knowledge or expectation?
AB: Yes, would be the short answer. I hear conversations all around me, I know both people who live here 12 months a year and tourists, and the state also gets tons of publicity, so I think I have many perspectives on how people think of Maine. While I do think vaguely of my audience when I write (though I hope it's never a predictable audience; I really write for myself and a very few other people, initially), I write whatever I'm inclined to write, because a writer shouldn't outguess or in any way condescend to her audience.
TM: What made this a story collection as opposed to a Robert Altman-esque novel with many central characters–or a Beattie-esque novel like Falling in Place, say?
AB: Good question. But I've already written Falling in Place, so wouldn't want to use that exact structure again. Also, at first the stories seemed more unrelated than they turned out to be. In many cases, I fought the impulse to have more cross-overs or walk-ons, or scenes in which this character meets that character (which would have been easy). I didn't get to the character I think of as most central, Jocelyn, until I had about half the stories in what became the book. Then her story got longer and longer. If the whole thing had been a seesaw, Jocelyn would have easily tipped the balance and sent the other characters up into the air to dangle. That would have been counter-productive, so I didn't restrain myself from writing so much about her in first-draft, but afterwards — inspired by my husband's helpful thoughts (hi, honey!), I realized it might work well to divide the material and intersperse her ongoing story with other stories that were not inconclusive, but best understood in terms of their stand-alone connotations as separate stories. Is that clear enough? What I mean is, her story was too big to stand alone and not interrupt the book, but I hoped that the little stories orbiting her would work two ways: that hers would comment ultimately on them, and that they would add some perspective, etc. to hers.
TM: Why did you resist having characters appear in other stories. I ask because I suppose that's an obvious option when writing stories set in the same place. Even in a book like this, do you want each story to stand completely on its own?
AB: One way to answer the question would be that the reason I resist writing related short stories has to do with my writing method, which is not to pre-plan a story. If I knew characters were hovering in the wings that should be incorporated, I'd worry that it would determine, too much, what story I wrote next. That doesn't seem to me enough of an answer. I'm quite aware that things reappear in my stories, such as Patsy Cline songs. I deliberately take something — some object — and see if it looks different, or works differently, from story to story. Like everyone else, I also take the chair in the living room and see if I like it better in the bedroom. That doesn't exactly answer the question, either. With the disclaimer that there are books of stories in which the characters reappear that I like very much, I tend to be moved by stories in which the writer begins and — I guess — in some sense concludes lives. It's a little like watching someone dance under a strobe light. How you capture what it looks like is the initial difficulty (even sunlight is really no less of a problem), but if you represent the dancer, even if she's moving through differently colored lights, or waving her arms more than before, then it's the dance you're watching, not the dancer. I suppose the argument could be made that that would be just fine. Or the joke: Ah, Beattie's next collection will be linked stories. I doubt it.
TM: I know that you live there part time, but does Maine feel like home to you?
AB: No. The house in Maine feels more or less like home, but then I go out.
TM: Does that make it easier or harder to write about a place?
AB: I honestly don't know. I think, in general, it helps me to feel comfortable enough in a place, but not too comfortable.
TM: Do you write and discard — or at least not publish — a lot of stories?
AB: I'd say 30 or 40 percent are discarded entirely.
TM: How long did The State We're In/em> take to write and how does that compare to other collections?
AB: Not so long. It's one summer's stories, though that says nothing about how they were ordered or what time I took discarding individual stories and making revisions.
TM: How do your stories typically start? Did it change in any way for the stories in this collection?
AB: It did change with this book. I didn't set out to write a book, just to see if I could write some rather short stories that I hoped would be on some level pretty direct (such as the ones that involve conversations, like "The Stroke" or "Silent Prayer"). It took me a while to realize how much almost all of them were stories about how people tell stories — whether epistolary ("Missed Calls"), or mostly gossip, or with people trying to write stories but living them instead ("Duff's Done Enough"). If you look at the book as a collection of women's voices — different women, telling stories — that would seem right to me. That strikes me as more of a common denominator than the state of Maine. As for the first part of the question — almost everything I write starts with a visual image, even if its position gets rearranged later.
TM: Do you write stories with an ending in mind?
AB: Never.
TM: So how do you know when you've reached the end of a story? Because so many of them don't conclude per se.
AB: To me, using a different way of thinking (a different part of my brain, no doubt), I've begun to sense, as a story stretches out, where it is going and what small things are operative (motifs, etc.). I try to allow myself messy rough drafts, but that's different from having good instincts and eventually guessing, as I write, where a story is headed (though the specifics surprise me all the time). How do I know when I've reached the end? When there's a critical mass I could explain, but since any good story is never just a riddle to be solved, nothing would make me articulate that, except in the vaguest sense, to myself — functioning as writer first, but thereafter as reader.
TM: In your Paris Review interview you said that when you started writing, there wasn't another short-story writer you wanted to emulate. Do you see writers now who have followed what you've been doing?
AB: No comment. But not unrelated: writers are in dialogue with other writers. Sometimes they're mimics, rather than originators — right?
Alex Dueben | 12 books mentioned 2 6 min read
Musing says:
"Putting your characters directly in harm's way meant simply letting them run out of food." — True. And it's part of what makes CC's writing here so perfectly authentic. It's hard to imagine writing little kid characters and then giving them nothing to eat, making them witness horror, leaving them stranded out in the woods… And yet she does it, without being overly sentimental or macabre about it, all while narrating it in the voice of the 5-year-old. Really a tremendous undertaking and accomplishment.
(Related: "Reading – and Writing – Through Fear" – http://parnassusmusing.net/2014/03/06/reading-what-you-fear/)
You Have to Invent Yourself: An Interview with Jaron Lanier
Hannah Gersen June 11, 2018 | 12 books mentioned 11 min read
It's a moral imperative to at least state what everybody should do even though it's so hard. Then we'll gradually muddle our way toward something better.
Hannah Gersen | 12 books mentioned 11 min read
Building Buzz and Finding Readers: A Conversation with My Publicists
Edan Lepucki September 3, 2014 | 12 books mentioned 2 8 min read
That's part of the publicist's job -- to help communicate how each writer's story and book is unique.
Edan Lepucki | 12 books mentioned 2 8 min read
A Narrow Vantage: The Millions Interviews Mona Simpson
Claire Luchette April 17, 2014 | 12 books mentioned 7 min read
Cut the Sentimentality: The Millions Interviews Polly Rosenwaike
Sarah Layden April 25, 2019 | 12 books mentioned 8 min read
There are a lot of secrets in these stories, and secrets play an important role in fiction generally. Everyone knows fiction writers are liars, right?
Sarah Layden | 12 books mentioned 8 min read


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Presumptive Democratic nominee John F. Kerry on Friday collected the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, a police union that backed President Bush in the 2000 election. [link]
Certain CF military intelligence officers told the ICRC that in their estimate between 70% and 90% of the persons deprived of their liberty in Iraq had been arrested by mistake. [link]
I expect them to be treated, the POWs, I expect to be treated humanely, just like we're treating the prisoners that we have captured humanely. If not, the people who mistreat the prisoners will be treated as war criminals. -George W. Bush, 3/23/2003 [link]
A journalist, speaking to voters with incredulity: "Up until now, people were looking for bold leadership, honesty, a vision for the future. And yet they're all talking policy. Is that where the Democratic nominee is going to go, rather than focusing on attributes, they re going to focus on policy?" [link]
The AP released a story which characterized a speech Donald Rumsfeld made as an 'apology' for the torture of Iraqi prisoners. The Defense Department quickly demanded a retraction: Rumsfeld had simply said the torture was unacceptable, and not apologized. [link]
Thu May 06, 2004 23:40 EDT
Press passes will be available for bloggers at the 2004 Democratic national convention. [link]
Bill Ward waited an hour to see Bush speak. Ward said he was asked if he supported Bush in 2000. "I said I didn't vote for him then and I won't vote for him now," Ward said. "They asked some girl to escort me out and I told them I don't need to be escorted out. I'm a veteran of World War II." [link]
Tue May 04, 2004 17:17 EDT
A federal drug agent shot himself in the leg during a gun safety presentation to children and his bosses are investigating..."Everyone was pretty shaken up," Farmer said. "But the point of gun safety hit home." [link]
The tactics of conquest are the only ones that will work, but are unacceptable to us and conterproductive to our long-term goal of engaging Muslims. The conclusion is obvious to anyone willing to accept hard facts: conventional military force is simply not the right weapon for the war on terror. [link]
Sun May 02, 2004 18:18 EDT
President Bush has taken to accusing critics of his Iraq policy of racism: "There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern." Not the same as "ours," you say? [link]
Fri Apr 30, 2004 14:49 EDT
E-mail marketing experts estimate that there are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to write the word 'Viagra' in an e-mail subject. [link]
Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act. nuff said. [link]
Thu Apr 29, 2004 19:14 EDT
NPR's lawyers believe that the FCC's new "zero tolerance" rule prevents use of the word "suck." And the cable companies rub their hands together with glee. Great example of how Republicans can scratch the backs of the religious right -and- big business, while still letting decency standards slip. [link]
I won't hazard a guess about why we're spending twice as much on "nuclear activities" as we were ten years ago and are now talking about using them not to "deter" enemies but to "defeat" them. But it seems very odd. Scarier than Strangelove, really. [link]
Wed Apr 28, 2004 18:22 EDT
I love this image so much. A Bush supporter who's trying to look like he's jabbed out his own eyes with American flags. I think they should use it in an ad. [link]
Mon Apr 26, 2004 03:22 EDT
The staggering dicketry of Bobby Flay. [link]
Is there any GOP issue that isn't related to terrorism? Looks like no: "President Bush has worked to say let's work to value life, let's reduce the number of abortions...and, really, the fundamental issue between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life." - adviser Karen Hughes [link]
Sun Apr 25, 2004 22:33 EDT
These guys pretend to honor military virtues and then spend their airtime trashing a guy who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and was genuinely heroic under fire while he was there. They should be ashamed of themselves. [link]
The HIV clinic where I work doesn't accept patients who have health insurance. We're in service for people who have no other options--not Medicaid, not Medicare, not anything. So imagine my surprise when someone came into my office today who has a full-time job. She works 40 hours a week at WalMart. [link]
Military records. "Intelligent, mature and rich in educational background and experience, Ens Kerry is one of the finest young officers I have ever met and without question one of the most promising." vs "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of report." [link]
A leading anti-corruption group claims as much as 90 percent of U.S. money spent in Iraq is being lost to corruption. [link]
Tue Apr 20, 2004 21:07 EDT
Down to two hots a day. [link]
On "The Swan:" I'm convinced Hitler didn't die in 1945, but is working as a Fox programming executive. Only an SS officer could feel comfortable with a show where breaking down humans, encouraging their insecurities, and then carving them up like a turkey is the primary attraction. [link]
Although he likes to talk about how he's a born-again Christian, the President seems to have his own ideas about theology. In a speech yesterday, Bush declared that Iraqi insurgents "have no soul." In the past, he has said the same of the terrorists involved in the Bali bombing, and Osama bin Laden. [link]
"The end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks [preparing for war in Iraq]. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved." [link]
Unabrdiged quote from a joint Bush-Blair press conference today. Q: (Egyptian President) Hosni Mubarak is saying the new U.S. policy on the West Bank could escalate violence. How do you respond to his concerns? BUSH: Yes, I think this is a fantastic opportunity. [link]
Rush Limbaugh asserted on Wednesday that if John Kerry wins the Presidency, the Clintons will assassinate him in order to ensure that Hillary can run in 2008. [link]
To our families in Baghdad: Do not leave your homes and do not go to school, universities, offices...from April 15 2004 to April 23 2004, since your brothers the Mujahadieen...will transfer the resistance fire to Baghdad...to free you from the darkness of the occupier, and so you have been warned. [link]
This site watches every new post to every single LiveJournal, strips out just the image links, and collects them all here. Totally new set of images every 30 seconds or so. [link]
The Atkins diet craze has sparked a dramatic increase in the rate of cattle-rustling. [link]
Wal-Mart and Kmart are about to begin selling a pair of RCA-branded DVD players that automatically block out potentially offensive language, sexual content and graphic violence from select pre-recorded DVDs. [link]
Condoleezza Rice is guilty of perjury. [link]
The Russian Parliament voted last week to make public demonstrations illegal. [link]
Two thirds of companies operating in US paid no taxes from 1996 to 2000. Interesting to note that the government ran the biggest surplus in history during those years, though. Then again, we're running the biggest deficit in history now -- which of these facts does the tax thing explain, I wonder? [link]
Richard Paey, a 45-year-old father of three who sits in a wheelchair, debilitated by multiple sclerosis and chronic pain from botched back surgery, is now facing a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence for forging painkiller prescriptions. Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, has not yet been charged... [link]
The Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn: 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. [link]
Optimists International can now claim Baghdad, Iraq as the home of its most recently organized chapter. Founded in 1919 with chapters in 28 countries, Optimists is a service organization best known for "bringing out the best in kids." -- From a CPA press release, April 1, 2004 [link]
George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001. Blair told Bush he should not get distracted from the war on terror's initial goal--dealing with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. [link]
The fighting erupted when five trucks of US soldiers and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps tried to enter the [al-Showla] district and were attacked by Sadr supporters...Coming under fire, the ICDC, a paramilitary force trained by the Americans, turned on the US soldiers and started to shoot at them. [link]
The Bush administration argued before the Supreme Court last week in favor of a Nevada law under which anyone can be arrested for refusing to identify themselves to a police officer. Papers, please? [link]
Fri Apr 02, 2004 14:35 EST
Texans Jacqueline Mercado and Johnny Fernandez have regained custody of their children. Last fall, CPS took custody after Mercado had a roll of film developed with a photo of their 1-year-old son breastfeeding. They were arrested for "sexual performance of a child." This is not an April Fools' joke. [link]
Thu Apr 01, 2004 23:13 EST
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the 9/11 commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. [link]
We've all seen the photos of a mob of Iraqi men and boys defiling the burnt corpses of murdered Americans. Billmon has a great piece reminding us that hateful mob violence is not just for Muslims, nor is it a sign of an unredeemable society. Those who want to nuke Fallujah should read this instead. [link]
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OneDrive for Business – how to know what others are doing to your documents?
ODB allows you to keep your documents securely on internet.
You share the document only if required.
Alerts inform you when someone else changes a shared document.
ODB is like My Documents on the internet. You store your files there and share it with people. But how will you know as to who can edit what?
Many companies are still using older versions of Office. They often ask me why they should move to Office 2013. There are many new features in Office 2013. However, among the most important (and often overlooked) benefits is integration with Sharepoint. Therefore, this article is dedicated to features related to SharePoint, Office 365 and OneDrive usage.
As a marketing professional, you need to work with multiple agencies – Direct Marketing, Lead generation, Event management, Advertising, Social Media, PR and so on. You are typically managing multiple brands, campaigns and complex set of KPIs.
Do you really handle all this using email? Is it not chaotic? Don't you get lost in the confusing deluge of conversations, artworks, revisions, interactions, pending decisions?
If yes, here is a better way… read on to find out.
Even if you are not a marketing professional you will find this article useful if you need iterative interaction with external parties.
This is a new feature introduced recently. You can send a mail to that address and it will appear in your OneNote on all devices. Nice and easy. Here is how you do it.
This is a concise guide to using OneDrive for Business (ODB). Using it on browser and synching it is easy. What is NOT easy is to actually use it. It often so happens that we install it and never use it.
Here are the best practices for using it in such a way that it provides benefits without becoming a hindrance.
With the launch of Office for iPad, this question has surfaced again. In this article, you will understand what OneDrive is, what is the difference between the two confusing names and which one to use when.
The short answer is – personal data is stored using OneDrive – a hard disk on internet – for free. You get 7 GB of space. You can buy more. For corporate documents, you need something more sturdy, secure, accountable, auditable and reliable. That is called OneDrive for Business. It is not free. You get it as a subscription – on a per user per month basis. The subscription service is called Office 365. The cost varies depending upon the components you subscribe to.


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The new Triumph Speed Twin is the newest member of Triumph's Bonneville family, one that's inspired by the Thruxton and Thruxton R cafe racers but brings a whole lot more practicality to the table without sacrificing the fun element. The bike has taken three years to fruition and the results are rather impressive, something we found out during the first ride review in Mallorca, Spain. Here's a detailed image gallery for you to take a closer look at the India-bound Speed Twin.
Triumph chose the minimalist approach at the rear, with a short fender and tiny LED lights accentuating the fat rear tyre and the twin, megaphone exhausts.
The Speed Twin is 10kg lighter than the Thruxton and 7kg lighter than the Thruxton R. This was achieved by using aluminium to form the cradle area of the frame, using magnesium covers and lightweight clutch assembly in the engine and lightweight alloy wheel and brake assembly.
In keeping with the retro design, Triumph ditched the idea of a TFT screen and stuck to a good old analouge-digital instrument cluster. It;s quite detailed and legible, when on the move.
Monza style fuel filler cap is reminiscent of yesteryear motorcycles. The lid flips open to expose the lockable fuel cap.


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Cynical Clowns and Fearful Bores
September 27, 2021 September 29, 2021 sebjig
Two classic subpersonalities that sabotage or attempt to sabotage spiritual progress in spiritual communities are associated with the Addict and Victim archetypes on The Wheel of Babylon. The first, usually manifesting in an addictive personality, is the Cynical Clown, who uses humour to undercut and undermine. This is the joker in the pack, the court jester, whose purported aim is to puncture any signs of puffed-up ego or inflated narcissism.
William Shakespeare makes great use of this archetype, from Feste the fool in Twelfth Night to Falstaff in Henry IV. It seems that he was particularly sensitive to arrogance and hypocrisy and delighted in using his comic characters to pull pretentious Divas from their self-made pedestals. Which is a fine and wondrous thing. The world will always be in need of good satire.
However, although everyone should have a fool to keep their Diva ego in check (as did the medieval kings of England) he should, like Feste, be "wise enough to play the fool". He should know when to jest, and when to keep silent; and he should be able to tell the difference between a Sir Andrew Aguecheek and a Count Orsino.
Spiritual circles are rife with more or less thinly disguised spiritual narcissists in serious need of a Cynical Clown to bring them down a peg or two. However, the cynicism can get out of hand, finding more and more targets, eventually undermining the whole enterprise. Sometimes, in the case of true cynics, this is the conscious or unconscious intention from the start, but more often than not it is a gradual development, a kind of deformación profesional. Truly bitter, resentful cynics, like envious Iago and inexplicable Judas (Satan entered into him), are not just naughty Addicts, but treacherous Demons.
Why the Cynical Clown should be associated with the Addict is an interesting question. It probably has something to do with the displacement and projection of hedonic motivations (usually some variation of sex, drugs and rock and roll) onto others as a defense mechanism. "Ah yes, I see what you're up to! (nudge nudge, wink wink)". It simultaneously acts in two directions: exposing the hypocrisy of the holier than thou in order to prevent hidden bad behaviour, but also encouraging open bad behaviour (such as lewdness and drunkenness). Sir Toby Belch is a good example.
Another, more common, frequenter of spiritual circles are the Fearful Bores. They also has a destabilising effect, but in a diametrically opposed way – instead of witty, cutting jokes, they engage in rambling, confessional anecdotes. Instead of encouraging everyone to be silly, they encourage everyone to be serious, seizing any opportunity to turn a social situation into an earnest group therapy session.
It's not hard to see how this subpersonality is associated with the Victim. There is, of course, the comfort of receiving understanding and sympathy, and there is also the added comfort of giving it, once you've succeeded in drawing out somebody else's confession of victimhood. There is a peculiar bonding that takes place, particularly among women (in my experience – sorry!) over shared trouble, misfortune and mistreatment, a kind of solidarity of the oppressed.
Men do it too of course. But they tend to intellectualise more, spinning out their misery in seemingly endless trains of thought and levels of analysis. Of course it is vitally important that people feel able to talk openly and freely and feel comfortable enough to share their emotional and psychological difficulties and insights in a safe and welcoming environment. However, as with the Cynical Clown, it can get out of hand and end up derailing the spiritual progress of the community as a whole.
Why are silent retreats so powerful? Because they forcibly put a muzzle on the Divas, Demons, Victims, Addicts, Muppets and Muggles. And they muzzle the Cynical Clowns and Fearful Bores. Thus they clear a space for something else to emerge, something mysterious, something miraculous.
There will always be Victims and Addicts in spiritual circles. It's what drives them to seek help. There will always be Divas, especially among the spiritual leaders. There will occasionally be a Demon or two. And there will always be Muggles and Muppets. What ultimately causes the Cynical Clown and Fearful Bore subpersonalities to raise their heads, however, is the underlying nihilistic belief that this is all there is, that we are inescapably stuck on The Wheel of Babylon, and that to pretend otherwise is a lie. Ye of little faith!
Sometimes we need to have a laugh and take the piss. Sometimes we need to unburden ourselves in a heart to heart. But if a spiritual community is to thrive, we need, as much as humanly possible, to keep our Cynical Clowns and Fearful Bores in check and keep the faith.
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Hello people! I am new to this board and to toki pona. I was working on some song lyrics and toki pona might work to repeat the short chorus at some point. Since I don't really know toki pona yet, I would like a second opinion on what I came up with.
Note that I tried to maintain the triple rhyme; hence also the perhaps unnecessary but hopefully okay 'pali' at the end.
Second question: within the context of the song this unknown (to most listeners) language would be presented as a 'global tongue'. Does that make sense to tokiponists? I read that toki pona does not really have ambitions of being a worldwide language... still, it's certainly transnational.
open la kama pona tawa toki pona!
kin la ni li pona mute li toki pona pona. nimi 'ike pali' li pona mute. taso ken la sina wile kepeken nimi 'lawa' lon nimi 'sewi'. ken la ala.
tp is not meant to be an IAL, certainly, but is meant to be available to speaker of any language (maybe a dozen so far, but mainly English). So "transnational" (or "translingual") is good.
We have many Esperantists here and a few other conlangs as well. I can only claim (on weak grounds) to know Loglan and Lojban and they are notoriously bad at rhymes, beyond the most rudimentary (same last vowel, say). In any case, I am not up to this challenge.
mi pona tan nimi sina.
I'll continue in English for now... slowly exploring the tp lessons.
No worries about skipping the bonus question, it was a long shot! Lojban got me curious a while ago but I doubt 'lawa mi' is up to it.
The up and down words are a mixed bag. 'sewi' is literally the part above, so what what counts depends a lot on where you are: it could be just upstairs, or the attic or the roof, or everything on up from the to of the house (for example). 'lawa' is pretty clearly the top of some object, with 'pini' being the very apex. There is a similar problem at the bottom: is 'anpa' just downstairs or is it the basement or even the ground beneath all the way down? And where is 'noka'? floor?, basement?, support?
Context, we are always told, will decide (and it even does sometimes).
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mi lukin e ma. ni li pona tawa mi. I'm watching the countryside. This is good to me.
Well, in my line "lukin kama li ike pali [seeing the becoming is too complex to do]" I'm not using 'e' but I do seem to be (wrongly?) using a subclause. Or am I? 'lukin' here is kind of an infinitive, verb and noun at once...? What if in the quoted example they had just used 'lukin ma' ('countryside-watching') rather than 'lukin e ma'?
Incidentally, the proposed solution 'mi lukin e ma. ni li pona tawa mi.' seems awkward. I may not be presently looking at the countryside, but still want to make the general claim. Is there no better way? And actually, whence the no-subclause rule? Could subclauses cause confusion? Or is it more a minimalist philosophy choice?
Finally, when I wrote 'mi pona tan nimi sina' in my last post, I meant to express I was happy with your post, not you name. Would 'mi pona tan nimi mute sina' have been better?
The autostart autocorrect. Overtime I go to a new site, the supposedly turned off autocorrect comes back on. So, 'napa' is actually 'anpa. Hope that helps.
'Yes, no subclause is a minimalist thing. The grammar is amazingly more simple if you don't have subclauses (actually, *subordinate* subclauses, like relative clauses or indirect discours). They roughy double the size of the grammar, because everything in a main clause also turns up in a subordinate clause but different in various unsystematic ways (we could skip some of those difference but then you would get lost as to whether you were in a main clause or a subclause). But we have another approach (or, rather, several) to deal with the situations where subclauses are indicated. One is a careful use of 'ni' to hook two apparently independent sentences together: 'jan li kama tawa moku. jan ni li awen lon tempo run.' "The man who came to dinner stayed a month." Another uses 'ni:' to introduce an indirect discourse: 'mi piling e ni: sina taso' "I think that you are alone". This provides a solution for your problem case, since what comes after the 'ni:' is flagged as not being asserted separately. So 'ni li pona tawa mi: mi lukin e ma' (note that the colon doesn't have to come immediately after the 'ni'). Then, as you note, there is nominalization, turning a sentence "I look at the land" 'mi lukin e ma' into a noun phrase 'lukin ma (mi)'. The same prices (incorporation) the makes noun phrases out of sentences, can make adjective phrases out of predicates, giving , for example, 'jan pi alasa waso lete' "a man who hunts birds in the winter" (or, from earlier, 'jan pi kama moku li awen Lon tempo mun').
I read your remark as intended. If you really thought I might be confused about "words" and "name", you could have used 'toki', "message" instead of 'nimi'.
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pona! mi sona. toki suli sina li pona tawa mi.
tenpo suno ni o pona tawa sina!