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I'm certain you're aware of the environmental plight the world is facing; in particular domestic waste. Let me remind you. According to Cool Australia, each Australian produces 2.25 kg of waste a day. Part of this daily waste includes plastic bags which take between 20 and 1,000 years to break down, sitting in landfill producing greenhouse gases or harm animals through ingestion or suffocation.
And to compound local recycling issues, in July 2017, China decided it would no longer take foreign garbage to recycle.
These are alarming realities of the consumer society of the world we live in today, and I'm sure you'll agree, a more active position to merely swapping out shopping bags at the supermarket needs to be done to address the war on waste.
As it happens, my good friend and inspirational business woman, Anna, has done just that and opened a wholefood store that encourages its customers to BYO their own containers for purchases: no tinned or plastic wrapped foods are available, and only supplies sustainable and biodegradable packaging to her customers.
Anna also stocks spray free or organic fresh fruit and vegetables.
And how to prepare delicious meals using all these beautiful ingredients is where I step in to play my part against the war on waste by way of recipe design. Anna wanted to supply her customers with delicious recipes cards for her range of in-store produce and the weekly vegetables boxes, in alignment with her aim of reducing domestic fresh produce and packaging waste.
You see, as a qualified chef and passionate food photographer, I have hundreds of recipes and photographs on hand. Anna is also a raving fan of my work, so it was only a matter of time before we nutted out the details of a twice-weekly supply of recipes and imagery that met her needs.
I am really excited about this project, no longer a commercial cookery professional, I do like to keep my hand in the catering game and also considered it a strategic business alignment to my health & wellbeing consultancy, Healthy Happy Staff, so it fits perfectly into my business model of doing what you love.
As it was a business decision to work with Anna under the Healthy Happy Staff umbrella, I applied a project management approach to the supply of recipes, and three distinct phases emerged to work within: the range of goods available at Unpacked, my current recipe collection, and the supply of photographs.
To commence, I had to know my audience and the ingredients I would be working with, which were split into 2 sections; fresh and dried.
The fresh component consisted of standard every week staples such as spuds, pumpkin and greens, the veggies a client could bank on and plan their roasts around, and the seasonal produce; Jerusalem Artichokes and broad beans – the weekly surprise that could have one scratching one's head.
The dried foods include flours of all sorts, banana flour, quinoa flour, buckwheat flour, and the dried grains, legumes and pulses such as beluga lentils, borlotti beans and millet.
Being a bull at a gate, I quickly moved onto the second stage – the recipe selection.
The recipe collection required the most from me, an analysis of the recipes that included ingredients that met the Unpacked ethos was needed. The choc chip cookies simply didn't meet the brief and were binned – figuratively of course, even as environmentally aware that I am becoming, I feel there will always be room for choc chip cookies…
The recipe formatting details needed attention, little things like consistency in style – tsp or teaspoon, c for a cup or the full extrapolation? Either or, but I had to be consistent.
To ensure the Unpacked customers knew what I was talking about, I created a recipe testing group. I knew what my scribing was telling me to do, but could others understand it and obtain the same result? Interestingly, when I presented 2 different methods to test for the one recipe, I would receive a 50/50 split from the group to which was better understood – a recipe composer's nightmare!
My job was to elicit an immediate reaction; I wanted Anna's customers to pick up the cards and want to cook up a storm. I wanted them to want next week's recipe and to be excited about the weekly surprise as dinner that night was presented with pride and received with an explorative hunger. If the recipes didn't work or were hard to understand, the whole project would come to a screaming halt.
And lastly, the accompanying recipe imagery; the fun bit for me. Food photography and styling has been a recent passion to emerge, and one I was keen to develop. I had 100's of photos on file; however, with my internal attachment to continual improvement, a lot didn't make the cut with the delete button getting a proper workout.
So the family dinner took on a whole new tangent, Mumma cooking and stylin' up a storm, photographing, with wailing, hungry babes wanting to know what I was doing with their dinner…
Part of the task was to supply recipes and images for what is coming up in season, not what had past, and while the supermarkets may have a year-round supply of apples or hot crossed buns, you won't find them at Unpacked until it's their proper time, seasonal eating is very important to me. An example being the Jerusalem Artichoke Fritter recipe card which is now ready for the first spring harvest, the season is short – yet Anna and I are ready, as are her suppliers who know to supply extra this year because customers will know what to do with these bulbous root vegetables.
Another example of my lead time planning is the gluten, dairy and refined sugar-free steamed chocolate Christmas pudding I developed in 2014. I have been sitting, waiting for the perfect moment to release this stellar recipe.
To have this recipe tested by others and photographed ready to be produced into the A5 recipe card, for release to the Unpacked customers in November, I was in production in August. An upside to having Christmas pudding ready midyear? You guessed it – Six weeks to cure nicely, the pudding was devoured wholeheartedly in late October by my family before the silly season even began.
The perfect storm to this gig was when a recipe and photograph met the brief – little more work was required to collate the recipe and supporting image. Inevitably though, some things don't always go to plan. In my trusty recipe book are pages of handwritten notes and scribing of recipes, with no image of the family and friend approved dish to prove its worth. Or on my camera are images of culinary delights with no attached scribing…the two worlds just didn't collide those days.
Anna is leading the charge on addressing the war on waste, and I am most happy to be a part of her army and be the recipe foot soldier. By supplying the recipes and imagery for the card production, I too feel I am making an impact on the war on waste, one shopping trip at a time.
A smaller, but similar recipe development project had me commissioned to supply recipes for the Hazell Bros Group, nationwide issued, staff winter wise booklet. The booklet was part of their corporate health & wellbeing program, and in particular, the Brown Rice Bircher was a hit with staff.
Get in contact if you're looking for bespoke and engaging ways to interact with your staff and customers, tailoring projects is my speciality.


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Club meets on Monday nights from the end of September through April for approximately 27 weeks. Members are divided up by skill level and teaching is conducted by the club's board members and long time volleyball players from the community. Gym time is dedicated to drills, skills teaching, and some structured "free-play". People get some good exercise during the evening but we don't make anyone run laps around the gym!
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Adjacent to our factory is the Blue Ox RV Park. We welcome you to stay with us for a night, or longer, and enjoy the scenery and hospitality that Northeast Nebraska has to offer.
The RV Park is open to the Community of Pender in addition to Blue Ox customers. The daily rate will be $20.00 (includes tax).
Blue Ox customers will have priority to the cement pads. We will not guarantee cement spaces to guests that do not own Blue Ox products.
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Africa at a Crossroads
Future Prospects for Africa after 50 Years of the Organisation of African Unity/African Union
edited by Shingirirai Savious Mutanga, Thokozani Simelane, Munyaradzi Mujuru
This book is a compilation of selected papers presented during the 8th Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) Young Graduates and Scholars (AYGS) Conference held at the University of Johannesburg in the year 2014. The three-day conference dubbed, Africa at a Crossroads: Future prospects for Africa after 50 years of the Organisation of African Unity/African Union, voiced young graduates and scholars' views on Africa's future and developmental breakthroughs, as well as its challenges and opportunities. While the annual conference is a capacity building platform for young scientists, it provided a platform for participants to engage in critical dialogue about the African realities and possible, plausible and desirable future for the continent. The book thus provides a critical interrogation of the drivers of change in Africa moving forward, especially as the AU was busy churning out new ideas and mapping out a new vision for the next 50 years. Essentially the book provides insights on national systems of innovation, matrices on poverty, climate change and lastly a reflection on Africa's position in global governance.
About the Editors
Shingirirai Savious Mutanga is a Research Specialist in the Science and Technology Programme of the Africa Institute of South Africa.
Dr Thokozani Simelane is a programme leader for Science and Technology at the Africa Institute of South Africa, which has recently been incorporated into the Human Sciences Research Council. He holds a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy Degrees from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. He has recently submitted for examination a Doctor of Technology Thesis in industrial engineering at the Durban University of Technology. He has previously worked as manager (Environmental Management Department) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa. He has published in a number of international scientific journals and recently published two co-edited book volumes: energy transition in Africa and Africa in a global changing environment - perspectives of climate change adaptation and irrigation strategies in Africa. He is a member of the Standing Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights of South Africa. His research interests are on energy, complex system analysis, industrial processes analysis and environmental management. He is the founding member of South Africa's Chapter of System Dynamics Society.
Dr Munyaradzi Mujuru is an accomplished scientist, academic and researcher. He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Limpopo in the Department of Water and Sanitation. His research interests revolve around multi-disciplinary research particularly, environmental management issues, energy technology development, commercialisation of research and global change. His research work has been published in various international journals. He obtained a PhD at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and Masters and Bachelor's degrees at the university of Zimbabwe.


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Auke Lake
Auke Lake is located 10 miles northwest of Juneau, Alaska. The lake outlet, Auke Creek, discharges into Auke Bay. The lake has a surface area of approximately 177 acres and a maximum depth of 113 feet. The headwaters include Lake Creek, Lake Two Creek and unnamed drainages from Goat Hill and Peterson Hill. The Auke Lake watershed drains an area of 2,500 acres. Auke Lake is an anadromous system supporting coho, sockeye, pink and chum salmon, as well as cutthroat and rainbow trout, and Dolly Varden char. The undeveloped areas of the watershed include Sitka spruce and Western hemlock forest intermixed with wetlands, which support a variety of wildlife including water fowl and birds, beavers, river otters, Sitka black-tailed deer, and black bear.
Auke Lake a popular recreational area used for swimming, motorized and non-motorized boating, hiking, running, and biking. The boat launch and parking area, on the lake's southwest corner, is a designated City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ) Recreation Service Park. Auke Lake Trail is a CBJ owned trail that parallels the western edge of the lake, and provides access to floating docks.
Water Quality Summary
There has been concern about the lake's water quality associated with motorized water craft use. This concern prompted water quality studies to evaluate petroleum hydrocarbon associated with lake recreational use. The studies show that days of elevated air temperatures and heaviest motorized use on the lake correlate with the highest levels of petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations.
Recent Actions
In 2013 and 2014, the Juneau Watershed Partnership using an Alaska Clean Water Actions grant conducted water quality sampling and user surveys. The water quality sampling targeted days when a high number of motorized users were present on the lake. The user survey recorded the number of users, types of usage, and location of primary use.
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About Jenn Nkiru
Jenn Nkiru is a British Nigerian filmmaker who received her MFA in film directing from Howard University, thus continuing a long lineage of image makers such as Ernest Dickerson, Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed, and Bradford Young who studied under the mentorship of Haile Gerima. At Howard, she was exposed to the breath of international art cinema as well as the rich and variegated tradition of cinemas of the black diaspora, their distinct experimentation with the politics of form and the careful crafting of a personal artistic voice. Her MFA thesis, the experimental documentary En Vogue, about New York's voguing and ballroom subculture, was shot by Arthur Jafa and Bradford Young, whom she assisted in the production of Dee Rees's Pariah. Nkiru wrote a number of music videos ideas for musicians such as Pharrell, Major Laser, J Cole, and Imagine Dragons and collaborated with Kamasi Washington in "Heaven and Earth" for which she directed the video Hub-Tones as well as promotional clips such as Fists of Fury and Space Travelers Lullaby. In 2017, Nkiru wrote, directed, and produced a short film Rebirth Is Necessary, which won best documentary in the 2018 London Independent Film Festival, the Canal + award at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, the 2018 Voice of a Woman award at Cannes and was a nominee of the 2018 Best Short Film award at Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival. Additionally, the film was screened internationally at the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles (MOCA, LA), at the ICA in London, at the Rotterdam Film Festival in Amsterdam, and introduced the London premiere of Black Panther at the BFI. Nkiru has also curated AFROFREQUENCY, a series of screenings and talks for 4:3, which includes an interview with Janelle Monáe.
Nkiru is best known in popular culture for her work as the second unit director of visuals for The Caters's "Apeshit" video (directed by Ricky Saiz), a production choice that is in line with Beyoncé and Jay-Z's history of employing black women directors (such as Melina Matsoukas and Ava Duvernay) in a white and male-dominated industry.
Across works, Nkiru is invested in integrating the agenda of the most radical work in Black Studies, particularly Black Feminist Thought, with experimental film and music aesthetics. Steeped in a simultaneously Pan-African and Afrofuturist sensibility, the Black Arts Movement and Black Power, as well as the desire to draw from her Nigerian roots, Nkiru's work is also in dialog with the North American Avant-Garde (Maya Deren, in particular) and always firmly grounded in the history of black music –from Sun Ra to Pharoah Sanders, from Sarah Vaughan to Queen Latifah, from Alice Coltrane to Nina Simone. The relationship between visual, sound, and music, as well as movement and tone, are central concerns of her work, which, when possible, is shot in 35mm. She is inspired by Kahlil Joseph, for the way "he showcases black people, black experiences and spirituality in such a visceral way," and finds Moonlight by Barry Jenkins to be indicative of the possibilities of black cinema: "to be black, to be layered, to be indie, to be arthouse, to critique gender and masculinity, particularly black masculinity – and for all this to be universal."
AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF, a film Nkiru co-directed as part of Ummah Chroma which includes Bradford Young, Terrence Nance, Marc Thomas, and Kamasi Washington, just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Her latest work, Black to Techno, commissioned by Gucci and Frieze, reclaims the black origins of electronic music genres in Detroit. It premiered on February 14 at Frieze LA.
Selected Works
Rebirth is Necessary (2017)
En Vogue (2014)
Seed (2012), dir. David B. Godin
Black to Techno (2019)
As Told To G/D Thyself (2019)
Fists of Fury (2018)
Space Travelers Lullaby (2018)
Hub-Tones (2018)
Kong (2018)
Apeshit, Second Unit Director (2018)
Rebirth is Necessary (2017)
Women are Present (2017)
En Vogue (2014)
Black to Techno (2019)
Rebirth is Necessary (2017)
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Pariah (2011), dir. Dee Rees, cinematography by Bradford Young
AFROFREQUENCY with 4:3 (2018)
(Watch here 4:3 Live: An evening with Janelle Monáe & Jenn Nkiru)
Selected Interviews
"Jenn Nkiru." British Council. 2018. http://film.britishcouncil.org/comment/spotlight/2018/jenn-nkiru
Okojie, Irenosen. "Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Interview: Jenn Nkiru." Litro. May 8, 2017. https://www.litro.co.uk/2017/05/litro-162-literary-highlife-interview-jenn-nkiru/
Hanan, Ali. "Director Jenn Nkiru on greenlighting projects, life without a mentor and her love of 35mm." The Drum. April 23, 2018. https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/04/23/director-jenn-nkiru-greenlighting-projects-life-without-mentor-and-her-love-35mm
Nkiru in Conversation with Kamasi Washington
McLean, Matthew. "Jenn Nkiru on 'Black to Techno,' the Fourth Film in Collaboration with Frieze." Gucci Podcast. February 15, 2019. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/gucci-podcast/id1378974511?mt=2&i=1000429938230
Clark-Brown, Tamar. "In Her Visions: Jenn Nkiru." Protein Journal. December 7, 2017. Article PDF.
Little, Harriet Fitch. "Film-Maker Jenn Nkiru's Brain-Bending Vision." Financial Times. February 7, 2019. https://www.ft.com/content/05d2648a-292f-11e9-9222-7024d72222bc#comments
Selected Reviews
Whaley, Natelegé "Meet Jenn Nkiru, Who Helped Direct Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Grandiose Visual for 'Apeshit.'" Mic. June 18, 2018. https://mic.com/articles/189858/meet-jenn-nkiru-who-helped-direct-beyonce-and-jay-zs-grandiose-visual-for-apeshit#.Zm1n8QzIx
Gotrich, Lars. "With Help From Four Tet And 3D, Neneh Cherry Wraps 'Kong' In A Cool And Weary Wisdom." NPR. August 1, 2018. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634301768/with-help-from-four-tet-and-3d-neneh-cherry-wraps-kong-in-a-cool-and-weary-wisdo
Okiti, Tega. "Inner Visions." Sight & Sound, vol. 27, no. 6, (2017): 45–48. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ibh&AN=122874939&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Reed, Ryan. "Kamasi Washington Creates Rhythmic Trance in 'Hub-Tones' Video." Rolling Stone. October 17, 2018. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kamasi-washington-hub-tones-video-739211/
Benor, Dalya. "Meet the Director Behind Gucci's Detroit Techno Documentary." AnOther. March 13, 2019. https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/11590/jenn-nkiru-black-to-techno-gucci-documentary-detroit-music
Metrópolis February 19, 2019 Review of Rebirth is Necessary
Theoretical Contexts
Pan African Futurism
Steinskog Erik. Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Tarik, Latif A. "Travel Notes: Pan Africanism (Re)Visited: From Sankofa to Afrofuturism – Summary of the '2nd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual & Cultural Festival.'" Journal of Pan African Studies 12 (1): 537–59. 2018.
van Veen, tobias c, and Reynaldo Anderson. "Future Movements: Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures—an Introduction." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2018): 5-21.
Gaines. Malik. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible. New York: NYU Press, 2017.
Crawford, Margo Natalie. Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics. University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Marriot, David, ed. "Experimental Poetics," special issue of The Black Scholar, 47 (2017).
Youngquist, Paul. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016.
Cervera, Felipe. "Astroaesthetics: Performance and the Rise of Interplanetary Culture." Theatre Research International 41, no. 3 (2016): 258-75.
Anderson, Reynaldo and Carles E. Jones, eds., Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-blackness Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
Chude-Sokei, Louis. The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
Marks, Laura U. "Monad, Database, Remix: Manners of Unfolding in the Last Angel of History." Black Camera 6, no. 2 (2015): 112-34.
Teague, Jessica E. "Black Sonic Space and the Stereophonic Poetics of Amiri Baraka's It's Nation Time." Sound Studies 1, no. 1 (2015): 22-39.
Terri Francis. "Introduction: The No-Theory Chant of Afrosurrealism." Black Camera 5, no. 1 (2013): 95-112.
Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. Vintage, 2011.
Corbett, John. The Wisdom of Sun-Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets. WhiteWalls; 2006.
Eshun, Kodwo. "Further Considerations of Afrofuturism," CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003): 287–302.
Nelson, Alondra. "Introduction: Future Texts. Social Text 20 no. 2 (71) (2002): 1–15.
Eshun, Kodwo. More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books, 1998.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. Random House, 1983.
See also: Jazz Aesthetic from Larry Clark's Passing Through Bibliography.
See also: Terrence Nance's section from the Holding Place, Taking Flight event research page.
Black Radical Aesthetics
Moten, Fred. Stolen Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Moten, Fred. The Universal Machine. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Moten, Fred. Black and Blur. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Beverly, Michele Prettyman. "No Medicine for Melancholy: Cinema of Loss and Mourning in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter." Black Camera 8, no. 2 (2017): 81-103.
Blue Black. Curated by Glenn Ligon. Pulitzer Art Foundation, Jun 9–Oct 7, 2017.
Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ongiri, Amy Abugo. Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
English, Darby. How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness. Boston: MIT Press, 2007.
Moten, Fred. In the Break the Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Kelley, Robin. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Beacon Press Book, 2002.
O'Dair, Barbara. "Heavenly creatures: the great gospel singers – Sister Rosetta Tharpe." Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. 1st ed., Random House, 1997.
Ellis, Trey. "The New Black Aesthetic." Callaloo, no. 38. (Winter, 1989), pp. 233-243.
Fanon, Frantz. Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays. New York: Grove Press, 1988.
Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
Taylor, Clyde. "New U.S. Black Cinema." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 28, April 1983, pp. 46-48, 41.
Baraka, Amiri. It's Nation Time. Chicago: Third World Press, 1970.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963.
See also: Our research page on The Black Audio Film Collective.
Black Feminist and Queer Thought
"British Council Film: Jenn Nkiru," accessed March 19, 2019, http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/comment/spotlight/2018/jenn-nkiru.
Snorton, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Murray, Derek Conrad. Queering Post-Black Art Artists Transforming African-American Identity after Civil Rights. I.B. Tauris, 2016.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Duke University Press, 2016.
Cox, Aimee Meredith. Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship. Duke University Press, 2015.
Nash, Jennifer. The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography. Duke University Press, 2014.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 2012.
Holland, Sharon Patricia. The Erotic Life of Racism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: NYU Press, 2009.
Tinsley, Omiseke Natasha. "Black Atlantic Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage," GLQ 14 (2-3), 2008.
Keeling, Kara. The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2002.
hooks, bell. Feminism is for everybody: Passionate politics. Pluto Press, 2000.
Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentification: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Oyewumi, Oyeronke. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. The New Press, 1995.
Lorde, Audre. A Burst of Light: Essays. Firebrand Books, 1988.
Spillers, Hortense J. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book." Diacritics 17, no. 2 (1987): 65-81.
High Tesfagiorgis, Frieda. (1987). Afrofemcentrism in the Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Faith Ringgold (a View of Women by Women). Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 4, no. 1: 25-32 (Spring 1987).
Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Hull, Gloria, Patricia Bell, and Barbara Smith. "All the Women Are White and All the Blacks Are Men." But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press, 1982.
hooks, bell. Ain't I a Woman Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press, 1981.
Page compiled with contributions from Corey Couch, Jenny Gunn, Jazmine Hudson and John Roberts.


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(VOA News – April 23, 2014 4:50 AM) U.S. Army paratroopers landed Wednesday in Poland, at the start of military maneuvers aimed at easing anxieties in allied eastern European countries alarmed at Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. The Pentagon said the exercises, slated to last about a month, initially involve about 600 troops, including 150 members of an airborne combat team based in Italy. Additional
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Top Reasons Why Escorts Refuse Credit Card Payments
Most people use credit cards to make payments in numerous places. However, there are certain reasons that prevent escort services from accepting them when making charges. Not all services can be credit card escorts. Credit card escorts are convenient because making payments Is very easy. However, most of the don't like that. Here are the reasons why.
Taxes are always a major issue given the fact that the escort services have proof of income. Credit card payments are especially scrutinized by the tax authorities, and any business operating with credit card payments is examined closely. The authorities always make sure that they make the relevant tax payments. Most escort services want to avoid this scenario, which is why they avoid using credit cards.
Paper trail
Once customers pay through credit cards, the company is left with a paper trail. This is not just a paper trail that documents the income of the escort services. It includes the names, addresses and any contact information of their clients. Any of their spending could be tracked back to the escort service. That escort service business shows up on their credit card statements.
Credit card fees may not appear to be expensive, but when you count all the charges down the line, they can be quite significant. For an escort service to obtain a merchant service, they are required to pay certain fees. Merchant accounts need a down payment after registering, and a monthly maintenance fee.
In addition to that, the credit card transactions will cost certain charges and some accounts require a termination fee as well. Combined, the charges accumulate so much that it might not be a great payment method.
Credit card fraud
Its very easy to lose money over credit card fraud. Online payment methods are hackable and once that happens, payments are siphoned by thieves and leave you penniless. Cash on the other hand is not only solid but stable as well, and hence payments are guaranteed. Escort services stay away from credit cards due to such reasons.
Counterfeit credit cards
Just like you would worry about receiving fake bills, you should be afraid of fake credit cards because they exist. It's possible to duplicate credit cards from real ones and used to buy goods and services. It's very hard to tell a fake credit card from a real one and escort services are afraid of being cheated.
Delayed payments
When dealing with cash, the payments are immediate. On the other hand, credit card payments may take as long as a week before they appear in the bank, which can be an inconvenience.
Zero tips
Most escort services need to be paid prior. With credit cards, the payments are concise, which does not leave room for tips. Unless the clients willingly comes with cash, the escorts get zero tips, which most of them are always looking forward to.
These are some of the reasons why most escort services refuse credit card payments. Some clients my prefer credit card escorts, which is okay. Some escort services do prefer credit card payments.


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The PAP style of cultural shift as announced during National Day Rally is yet another insult to Singaporeans. We now have a clearer picture of what it means. As reported, the PAP is still looking for a 'real solution' #1 to solve income inequality and they also want to extend their style of meritocracy 'through life'#2.
The real solution that Prime Minister Lee proposed is not totally new. His concrete solutions are a repeat calling of skills upgrading and the PAP style of wealth redistribution. This, according to him, can give everyone some chips to play with. He stressed again his cultural shift of obtaining necessary skills (with or without a degree) to succeed.
In order to support the so-called cultural shift, the PAP has to continue to champion the PAP-style of meritocracy. It now becomes a life-long meritocracy. Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam explained it as follows:
"Not a meritocracy that is based on what you have achieved at 18 or 24, but a meritocracy through life, where you are assessed on your performance at every stage of your life, regardless of where you came from or where you started," #2
Is this really a cultural shift? When we became self-ruled in 1959, we have already begun our journey and engaged in the real solution of solving income equality and redistribution. We, of course, base our economic development and social progress on the principle of meritocracy. Our housing, industrial, commercial, infrastructure and financial development, are all real and concrete solutions, aren't there? Are they not founded on a life-long insist ency of meritocracy? If not, how do people in the past with little education (through their hardworking) get rich?
The key question/answer is REAL SOLUTIONS and MERITOCRACY are always there. They have been in Singapore even long before independence. The only difference is a 'changed' PAP. In the past 50 years, the PAP has changed the game play and hence not everyone has chips to play. Some have a lot more and some have nothing. Hence, the income inequality becomes a real problem, a political burden to the PAP. And the meritocracy has returned back to performance, hardworking, hungry to learn rather than scholarships and degrees.
Real cultural shift in name only
Judging from the official banning of the documentary film "To Singapore, with Love", do you really think there is a cultural shift as promoted by PM Lee? What really does he mean when he wants Singaporeans to go beyond paper qualifications? Most likely the cultural shift is just another smoke of the PAP government.
The end result is you have to go to Malaysia to catch the documentary. Alternatively, you may watch the documentary in a controlled environment in the name of academic research. This is the so-called cultural shift of the PAP government. There is no love, there is no alternatives. Has the PAP changed? Yes. there is no real cultural shift but a changed PAP. The PAP changed the game play from 'real solutions' to 'meritocracy'.
Cultural shift can not be a piecemeal, cannot be so selective and no alternatives. We cannot say the European or German apprenticeship (skill based) system is good, then we just take this part of the good practice and transplants it into Singapore system.
We have long past the time that we copies part of the 'good' western practices and can successful transplant it here. We have long past the ear of German-, French-, Japan-Singapore institutes.
Cultural shift is a very complicated process even the British is finding it hard to 'Make Me a German' - a BBC documentary explaining the way of life and work in Germany. A successful apprenticeship needs a caring, loving and supportive society. Do you think the so-called cultural shift of the PAP government can become a real caring and supportive social engineering?


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Beyond Consultations Too – Ensuring women's voices are heard
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences Librarians' Blog on March 29, 2019
GAPS UK and a consortium of key development organisations have just launched a tool to ensure women's voices are heard in consultations about peace and conflict reconstruction in fragile and conflict zones. Its aim is to provide guidelines and a methodology for self assessment of current processes and a framework for future improvement. Also released recently […]
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Women & Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the UN
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences Librarians' Blog on July 3, 2018
A new webguide from UN Archives Geneva combines primary and secondary sources from both the archives and library of the United Nations at Geneva. The guide starts from the League of Nations and goes to the present day and aims to show students what is available by giving a historical overview and links to resources. There is […]
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What is the state of digital diplomacy?
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences Librarians' Blog on June 14, 2017
The second annual Burson-Marsteller's Twiplomacy survey examines how the main social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Periscope and Snapchat.are used by world leaders, diplomats and international organisations. It includes country files with lists of key social media actors, and rankings of the most influential world leaders. Entries for organisations have interesting text on the […]
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Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences Librarians' Blog on August 23, 2013
Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers. Also useful on this AFP e-diplomacy hub Maintained by French news agency Agence France-Presse. Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on […]
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Pea Seeds - Green Arrow HEIRLOOM - OPEN POLLINATED
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Grow Heirloom Peas - Plant Green Arrow Pea Seeds
The Green Arrow Pea is one of the true classic peas preferred by home gardeners in the USA and abroad. This delicious and versatile pea is resistant to most strains of disease that commonly affect pea crops, so therefore is an excellent choice for the no-hassle gardener. The Green Arrow is renowned for its generous yields of typically 10 peas per pod! An excellent pea variety for freezing.
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Paralympians ~ passing through
They've enriched lives, mine anyway, and I'm going to miss them. Here are two female athletes I spotted at Stratford. The station is now named Stratford International and the place is nearly a world away from when we lived down the road there and used to go to Mothercare in the rundown shopping centre. Now it's all Olympic Park and Westfield Shopping Centre. When I strayed momentarily into the latter last week, I pretty much shot straight back out again, so glitzy is the shopping set-up. Still, a railway siding is always a railway siding, no matter how much regeneration goes on. I quite like that.
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Rush Star Guests On New Song Streaming Online
Rush may have retired but that is not keeping guitarist Alex Lifeson from making new music. Alex appears on blues legend John Mayall's new cover of Jeff Healey's "Evil And Here To Stay".
The new track, from Mayall's forthcoming album "Nobody Told ME", has gone online via Classic Rock and features a guitar solo from Lifeson. Mayall had this to say, "Evil and Here to Stay is just one of the star studded songs you'll be playing over and over.
"On this particular track you get to hear some great guitar soloing from special guest Alex Lifeson, who feels right at home with this special groove."
Lifeson adds, "One of the first songs Rush learned to play as a band in front of an audience was Snowy Wood in 1968. So are influences go a long way back with John Mayall.
"When I was asked to do this particular project I was actually quite thrilled by it. Long being an admirer of the many amazing guitar players that have been a part of the Bluesbreakers and to be considered in that esteemed group I was very, very honoured, and it's been a real pleasure."
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Online multiplayer for Hammerwatch is out now on Xbox One! And it launched in Australia at last!
Hammerwatch is a fast paced classic dungeon crawler game that will let you setup a quick play solo or up to 4 players. Its skill unlock based system is perfect for those sofa nights with your friends, snacks, and your XBox One, PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch. The console version gets first enhanced character art, a new control scheme and a new character, the Sorcerer, an ice based spell caster with high mana but low health.
Classical Dungeon Crawl for classical platform environment
Hammerwatch presents 7 characters classes that represents the good old roles of pen and paper dungeon crawlers, the Paladin, shield of their companions, the Wizard, purifying fire DPS, the Ranger, death from distance, the Warlock, electrifying power, the Thief, stealth and mobility, the Priest, the good healer and specially for console first, the Sorcerer, chilling AoE attacks.More magic for the party: The Sorcerer
The 7th class that will come first on console is the Sorcerer. As you know, the Wizard, the Warlock and the Priest are the magicians in Hammerwatch. Can a fourth spellcaster be different enough? Of course yes, even when the Sorcerer uses ranged ice based spells, aoe attacks, and slows down enemies like other classes, you will be able to launch lots of spells due to his high mana pool, but you'll have to be cautious because it has low HP.
As the Sorcerer you can shoot ice shards that bounce between enemies, can also summon a comet to hurt and stun and an ice orb to clear larger areas. The passive frost shield allows to preserve your life.
Don't be fooled by the Sorcerer appearance (you know, hat, tunic and no armor), it's a powerful magician. Chill your enemies to death, have your combos chain big groups and block enemy attacks freezing them to death with your frost shield.New controls for new platforms
As a developer you're always looking for the best product possible, but control schemes are a hard topic, they depend a lot on personal preferences and how you play. Hammerwatch control scheme and online experience for consoles has been redesigned by BlitWorks with the community feedback in mind and the technical aspects of each console present. Now up to three local players will be able to participate in an online game, joining at any point, even mid-game. The new dual sticker mode movement and aiming has been simplified and enhanced. Feeling classic? You can opt in the settings."I don't have time for a RPG", you have with Hammerwatch
An usual problem with RPGs is the amount of time you need to invest in order to play them well. Levels, quest log, experience points, ability trees, sidequests… Hammerwatch approach is different, there are no levels, only abilities and different tiers that you buy as you play with the money you crawl. Setting a play with your friends is as easy as sitting in the sofa, selecting the campaign, modifiers and it's done, just play.
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- 6 original classes +1 new class, with unique features and skills
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Our Marketplace Picks: February 2019
What are our three favourite Marketplace items this month?
They say that time flies when you're having fun. This would indeed explain why the previous month just flew by faster than a zombie jockey on a chicken chased by a fox. We've just had TOO MUCH FUN! You see, last month, 122 new maps were added to the Minecraft Marketplace. Our amazing content creators sure have been busy!
Navigating through all these worlds, texture packs and maps can be challenging. For this reason, we love to borrow the expertise of our esteemed colleagues, the content team, to pick their three favourites Marketplace items from the past month. This isn't only because we love helping you, dear readers, we're also quite fond of putting extra work on people like Matthew "Moesh" Dryden and Oskar Thysell – the beating hearts of the content team.
So what stood out amongst all that February content according to these two?
by Cyclone Designs
Ever dreamed about going on crazy shopping sprees and spending all your emeralds on expensive things that would cripple you financially in real life? Sounds fun! Perhaps you could buy a pet, a car, a couple of bikes, or a small fleet of luxury boats? Cyclone Designs' 'Shopping Time!' caters to your inner shopaholic and lets you decorate a pre-built house with everything emeralds can buy. Or, if you prefer to let your creativity flow freely, build your own in a vacant plot. Spending is the name of the game! Oh wait, the name of the game is actually 'Shopping Time'. My mistake.
For this map, we asked Oskar, the content team's number one gem-hoarder, to go spend every single emerald in his possession. For study purposes, of course.
'Shopping Time!' lets me live out my wildest consumerist dreams in digital form. I can leave my superego behind and shop, shop, shop to my heart's content and not feel an ounce of guilt about having my happiness revolve around material objects. In the city of Mineopolis, the only rule is 'Survive and thrive', which roughly translated into Minecraft-ese is: convert everything to Emeralds, and then buy all the cars, pets and designer purses you can stomach! As former mayor Richie would say, 'Remember to always stay rich'!Oskar
Oh. I thought he said I should "stay poor as a church mouse". Guess I'll just have to start saving emeralds again. You can find 'Shopping Time!' at their very own Marketplace page.
by Gamemode One
Managing your own farm might sound like a trivial task, but Gamemode One's 'Advanced Farming' is just what it says it is: advanced farming at its finest. It's a peaceful and relaxing map that takes you to your very own farm in the countryside, complete with all the necessary equipment you need to become successful in your harvest. You play as a farmer with the goal of making as much as you can with your business.
A variety of machines, vehicles, animals, pets, and vendors are all at your disposal to help immerse you in this farming roleplay. There are also plenty of characters to meet, and surrounding lands to explore, as well as custom sounds and music, so there's no excuse for humming E-I-E-I-O while playing (seriously, if I catch you singing that evil earworm, you're sleeping in the outhouse tonight).
Moesh had the pleasure of trying out the farmer's life.
Hay! I'll plow right through this review quickly. The dill is this: this map is an udder farming masterpiece, barn none! Go from barely surviving wheat to wheat to having entire fields of wheat, carrots and potatoes! You'll forget to carrot all about big city life. There's not mushroom left to continue with these amaizing puns. I found my inner peas with this swheat map.
It's about farming.Moesh
We get it, Moesh is really farming for attention with those puns! We'd reward him with the annual "Most Farm Puns in a Quote Box" award, but we'd prefer to just recommend 'Advanced Farming' instead.
Learn more about this agricultural adventure at their Marketplace page.
by Blockworks
Babylon is a monumental survival spawn from Blockworks that lets you explore all of this ancient city's wonders – both from the ground, and high up in the air. It's full of treasures which you can uncover through some thorough investigations inside the city. But if you prefer to just revel in its beauty, you can grab a hot air balloon and fly above it!
After buying an expensive hot air balloon with his last emeralds, Oskar took to the skies above Babylon, and he's impressed.
I'm a guy that enjoys a nice survival spawn as much as anyone else. For me, elegance goes a long way, and if you match that with a sense of atmosphere, it's a home run. Here we have a great theme, the ancient city of Babylon, with its massive architectural wonders, adorned with colourful foliage that works with the entry point of a survival spawn.
You get the feeling that you're visiting an abandoned civilization's remnants, from where you will construct your home from. The extra mile with the different areas makes it more of a world than just an exhibit – there's a gigantic statue in a garden that covers the living quarters from the view of the city, where there are simple but neat houses scattered around small walkways decorated by miniature trees.
If it sounds like I'm trying to sell you a timeshare of a Minecraft estate, I can only say 'I wish'!Oskar
Well, with that sort of pitch, would you consider helping sell my home? I have a nice little dirt block hut I want sold! Up for exploring some ancient wonders like Oskar? Check out the Marketplace page for more information.
There's tons of content just waiting to be explored. Have a browse of the Minecraft Marketplace to find your new favourite!


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If there is one thing in the world that we all love, it's sun and views!!!
This fantastic property has both and much more
Located high on the northern end of Ironstone Hills is this beautifully positioned Western Red Cedar home, set on a private 4ha (10ac) parcel of land, approx. 30 min to Hobart or 5 min to New Norfolk.
The design of the home is suited to the family, with two spacious living areas, a great kitchen uniting the two, well sized with quality appliances.
There are three queen size bedrooms, all with built-ins; the main bedroom has a well-designed ensuite with double shower and vanity. The family bathroom is fully tiled and has a huge freestanding bath and walk in shower.
To extend the living areas outdoors, there is an impressive deck; around 60m2, which maximises the full magnitude of the view and incorporates the hot tube and BBQ area.
For those who are into adventure, there is approx. 1000m of moto cross track, which sits within the block giving hours of fun and to store those toys or space for extra storage is a large 18m x 8m shed, fully powered with double roller doors.
To complete this package the property has full camera security system, town water, enviro-cycle, water tanks, shipping container and a great lifestyle.


text: Three Wells bed & breakfast, Llandissilio, is located in the heart of Pembrokeshire. Based within the National Park, the Preseli Mountains and the long stretches of beach are only a short drive away. Pembrokeshire is noted for its beautiful rolling countryside and long stretches of idyllic white sands and blue seas. Stumble in any direction from Three Wells, Llandisilio and you will come across beautiful countryside dotted with picturesque villages.


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The Pure Talents Contest, organised by imm cologne, one of the largest tradeshows for interior design worldwide, is one of the most prestigious awards for young product designers. Over the last sixteen years 456 products from 503 international designers have been presented in the annual exhibition during imm cologne. In its seventeenth edition in 2020 again up to 20 designers or designer groups will be invited to Cologne to present their prototypes to the interior design business in the special exhibition of the Pure Talents Contest.
Product categories include: furniture, home accessories, lighting, flooring, wallpaper and textiles, kitchen and kitchen accessories and smart home. The jury will select 20 nominees that will be shown in the exhibition and out of which the first three prizes will be selected in a final Jury on the occasion of imm cologne 2020.
Additionally, an audience prize will be awarded in 2020 for the first time whose winner will be selected by a Social-Media-based public voting.
- Suvi Saloniemi, Chief Curator Design Museum Helsinki
- Giulio Cappellini, Art Director Cappellini, Milan
- Sebastian Herkner, Designer, Offenbach
- Johannes Hünig, Editor at IDEAT Magazine, Hamburg
- Philippe Malouin, Designer, London
- The competition is open to design students and designers that graduated within the last three years (after January 1, 2016).
- Design teams are also invited to participate however each team may only have a maximum of three members and all members of the group must be named during the online registration on the website of imm cologne and have to fulfil the requirements of the competition.
- There are no limitations regarding the age or origin of the designers applying for the competition.
- It is only allowed to enter prototypes for the competition, concepts or rendered models will not be taken into account during the selection process for the exhibition.
- The participation in the Pure Talents Contest is free of charge.
For further details please see the 'conditions of participation' published on the website of imm cologne.
Award and prize money
- All selected designers will receive the label 'PURE TALENTS CONTEST Nominee' which can be used for the own communication purposes.
- The exhibition will be held from January 13 to 19, 2020 during the international tradeshow imm cologne 2020.
- Furthermore, all the designers are invited to Cologne and imm cologne grants an individual financial support for travelling and accommodation of the designers as well as the shipment of the selected products.
- Within the final jury the first three winners of the competition are selected and awarded with a prize money of € 3,000 for the 1st Prize, € 2,000 for the 2nd Prize and € 1,000 for the 3rd Prize. The Audience Prize is endowed with €1,000.
Important Dates
- Closing date for application:12 September 2019
- Nominee selection: Beginning of October 2019
- Notification of the selected designers: Mid of October 2019 by e-mail
- Submission of prototypes for the exhibition: All the young designers nominated will be informed individually.
- Exhibition at imm cologne 2020:13 to 19 January 2020
Contact address for enquiries and submissions:
Beyer Roth Weis GbR
Mrs. Natalie Weis and Mrs. Antonia Roth
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Consumer electronics e-retailer Newegg Inc., No. 22 in the Internet Retailer 2018 Top 1000, has added more FedEx pick-up locations to its network of Hold at FedEx Location service.
Now, Newegg customers have a choice of more than 12,000 FedEx locations in the U.S. for this service, including FedEx office retail stores, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. stores (No. 38) and some The Kroger Co. stores (No. 86) and Albertsons Inc. (No. 178) locations. Many Kroger and Albertsons locations will even extend their operating hours in December to accommodate the busy holiday shopping season.
When a customer is checking out on Newegg.com, she selects to have her order shipped to a FedEx location and choose from an available pick-up location that is convenient for her. The customer will then be notified as soon as her order is ready for pickup.
"Given that 80% of our U.S. customers live within five miles of a FedEx pick-up location, we expect a strong reception to our expanded network of order pick-up locations," says Mitesh Patel, vice president of marketing at Newegg.
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Apple Inc., No. 2 in the Top 1000, said it would invest $1 billion to expand its operations in Austin by constructing a new employee campus in the area, large enough to house 15,000 additional employees. Further facilities will also be established in Culver City, Seattle and San Diego, and existing sites in Pittsburgh and Boulder will be expanded over the next three years. In a statement on its website Thursday, the company said it was also considering other U.S. regions for growth. The company said the second Austin building would cater to a wide range of business disciplines, including R&D, sales, customer support, and engineering.
- Beauty retailer Kopari has appointed Jeremy Lowenstein as chief marketing officer in which he will oversee brand strategy and marketing. Lowenstein joined Kopari after more than 10 years with Coty Inc.-owned Sally Hansen, where he served as vice president of global marketing and product development at the beauty brand. He also worked in the marketing department for Estée Lauder-owned Aveda for about five years.
- Online jewelry retailer Blue Nile Inc. (No. 108) has hired Alexandra Wheeler as chief marketing officer to oversee the brand's marketing and customer experience. She spent more than 10 years with Starbucks in various senior-level roles, most recently as vice president of global digital marketing and Starbucks Rewards marketing. "Alex will focus on creating an integrated and meaningful brand experience for a digital audience while leveraging our industry expertise to serve them," said Jason Goldberger, CEO of Blue Nile.
- Sleep Country Canada Holdings has acquired Canadian mattress brand Endy for $89 million. Rajen Ruparell, Endy's founder and chairman, and Mike Gettis, Endy's founder and CEO, will remain active in the business in their respective roles. "This acquisition will allow Endy to continue to grow rapidly and exceed customer expectations in a rapidly evolving retail climate, while remaining separate," said Ruparell. Sleep Country has 264 stores and 16 distribution centers across Canada.
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A girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man she was forced to marry was just 14 years old at the time, a Melbourne court has heard.
Mohammad Shakir, 34, is accused of having sex with the girl between September 30 and October 1, 2016, following their wedding.
The ceremony was conducted by ex-imam Ibrahim Omerdic, who also faces charges relating to the illegal marriage.
The girl is in a "fragile state" and has "ongoing health issues", prosecutor Ranjani Padmanabhan told Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday.
Shakir appeared at court via video link and was told via an interpreter that the child's mother, stepfather, police and a Department of Health and Human Services representative would give evidence at his committal hearing.
Omerdic, 61, imam of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque, was stood down after his November arrest and later sacked.
In January, the Board of Imams Victoria issued a statement against forced and child marriages, saying they are illegal and all Muslims are required to respect Australian law.
Omerdic is on bail while Shakir remains in custody.
The committal hearing is scheduled for April 18.
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Five days ago I published a post about a Scented Paper Soap Flower Craft. The photo above shows a bouquet that is also made out of soap. Although it seems more complicated, it is actually still quite simple.
Cut and slice the soap of your choice into flower shapes. Then string and decorate these shapes with ready-made flower parts or other ornaments into a beautiful bouquet.
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There is a saying in psychology that "All relationships end. Someone either leaves or dies."
If you are wondering how to get over an unwanted divorce, this may be small, if any, consolation. Especially if you have been deeply invested in the relationship, it may actually sound dismissive.
In a general comparative sense, divorce is similar to death. Both are final losses, whether of people, dreams or both.
If you have been left holding the grenade of an unwanted divorce, you probably have some "yeah, but's" to add to that argument.
"Yeah, but death doesn't mean you still have to see the other person."
"Yeah, but death isn't done 'to' you."
"Yeah, but death doesn't leave you feeling unlovable."
Being left to figure out how to get over an unwanted divorce can also leave you feeling shamed, isolated and rejected. Your emotions will run the gamut of anger, guilt and a willingness to do anything to save your marriage.
What you may not expect is the difference in the empathy and support received in the case of death versus an unwanted divorce.
While you feel the same degree of pain in both losses, your support system can be divided, even somewhat judgmental, when it comes to divorce.
Knowing how to get over an unwanted divorce starts with accepting that the marriage really is ending. Even though it is only natural to feel shell-shocked and to react out of anger or desperation when you learn your spouse wants a divorce.
Crazy as it sounds, you may want nothing to do with him/her again, while prostrating yourself before her/him in a plea to work things out. Heck, you may actually think that death would have been the better option.
The end of your marriage may not be your choice, but how you navigate out of it unequivocally is. So buckle up. Expect some turbulence…and set your sights on a new destination.
Tips on how to get over an unwanted divorce:
- Expect to grieve. The nature of the loss doesn't matter. It's a loss. Your dreams with this person have been yanked out of your heart forever, and the sting is real. Allow yourself to process through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance), but give yourself a time limit. Pretending to be "over it" too soon will only suck you into stuffing your feelings and repeating old scripts. Putting no limits on your grief will keep you stuck in self-pity and isolation.
- Do not expect time to heal all wounds. While it is imperative to embrace the grieving process, expecting to come out the other side with an "all's forgotten" new take on life is unrealistic. Yes, time does extend the grace of healing for many wounds. But some are always going to be there. The gift of time is to diminish their sting so that you can shift your perspective on the pain. One day you will appreciate it as an opportunity to learn and grow.
- Love thyself. Focus on self-love. Of all the expert advice you will receive, none will be as important as this. So let me say it again: Love thyself. Remember that you are worthy of love. Your self-esteem has taken a beating, and you may feel deeply scarred as unworthy and unlovable. But your life going forward has to reflect that you can find true happiness without relying on someone else. You do not need to be "completed" by another person.
- Remember who you were before your marriage. It is easy and natural for spouses to surrender much of their individuality to the joint identity of the marriage. Go back and contemplate who you were before you did that. What did you dream of doing for yourself? For the world? This is a ripe time to foster those interests in an assertive, enthusiastic way. Take classes. Travel. Redecorate. Make bold plans. Honor your individuality.
- Get reacquainted with yourself. In addition to remembering who you were prior to your marriage, nurture your intimacy with who you are today. What makes you happy? Perhaps your marriage helped you to discover new sources of joy. It is a wonderful element of healing to be able to identify those things and bless them as you bravely explore your new life. Not everything has to be thrown out just because it grew out of a marriage that is now over. The important thing here is to respond affirmatively to the calling of your own
- Build a support system. Surround yourself with dependable, compassionate, non-judgmental people to help you through this time. Turn to people (family, friends, a therapist, a divorce coach) who will motivate you to work on yourself, and stand by you as you do.
- Take care of yourself. The magic of this otherwise painful journey is that you now have the fresh opportunity to become your best self. Experiment. Play. Pamper. Be kind to yourself. And remind yourself what it feels like to be loved and cared for…by the person who does that better than anyone…
- Focus on important life goals. When you are navigating how to get over an unwanted divorce, it is natural to get stuck in the belief that there is no long-term future for you. Instead, make the conscious commitment to goals that will benefit you in the long term and not simply provide temporary relief. Consider taking classes, working toward professional advancement, and/or taking up a new exercise program.
- Take your time with new relationships. The more you feel the craving to be connected again, the more you most likely need to focus on yourself. Rebound relationships serve no one, and can just confuse you and set you back. (Although transitional relationships where both parties know that's what the relationship is can be extremely helpful.)Give yourself the time to "come into your own" again. Become your best self so that you have something to offer the next person and clarity when seeking someone new.
Divorce is a gut-wrenching time no matter what leads to it. But when your spouse initiates it, to your surprise and/or disappointment, it sweeps another set of painful emotions into the mix.
If you are experiencing this one-sided decision and don't know how to get over an unwanted divorce, start with the tips above. You will notice that they all have a singular focus: you. And at a time when you can feel incredibly abandoned and rejected, you can experience the cumulative effect of love-in-action by being your own best companion.
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Reuters :: Are crowdfunding statistics the new counterfeiting statistics? Certainly they seem to have become a meme. If you know that crowdfunding is a big deal, it's probably because you read all about it in TechCrunch, in USA Today, or maybe the Economist. More recently, Forbes.
[Felix Salmon:] All of these statistics, you won't be surprised to hear, come from the same place: a May report from Crowdfunding.org and its research arm, Massolution.
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paidContent :: The Economist's CEO thinks news publishing will go all-digital at some point in the near- to mid-term. "Print circulation is at record highs," Andrew Rashbass told the Paley Center's international council in Madrid on Thursday.
[Andrew Rashbass:] We're holding on to it as long as possible – but my view of what's possible is more pessimistic than a lot of other people's …
The Economist trying to find a viable model - Continue to read Robert Andrews, paidcontent.org
Herald Sun :: Fox News chief Roger Ailes offered more than a few words of advice Thursday in a room filled mostly with young journalists, starting with a recommendation that elicited at least a few eye rolls: "I think you ought to change your major." Too many aspiring journalists want to affect politics or are on a mission to "change the world or save the world," the chairman and chief executive officer said, speaking before a few hundred people in UNC's Carroll Hall. The talk was part of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture Series.
Continue to read Melody Guyton Butts, www.heraldsun.com
"I think you ought to change your major," a summary by Julie Moos, www.poynter.org
The Economist has just launched a debate between me and Andrew Keen — and you — on the proposition that society benefits when we share information online." Here is my opening statement; follow the link for Andrew's and the discussion:* * *
We are sharing for good reason—not because we are insane, exhibitionistic, or drunk. We are sharing because, at last, we can, and we find benefit in it. Sharing is a social and generous act: it connects us, it establishes and improves relationships, it builds trust, it disarms strangers and stigmas, it fosters the wisdom of the crowd, it enables collaboration, and it empowers us to find, form and act as publics of our own making.
For individuals, sharing is a choice; that is the essence of privacy. Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, told me that before the net, we had "privacy through obscurity". We had little chance to be public because we had little access to the tools of publicness: the press, the stage, the broadcast tower (their proprietors were last century's 1%). Today, we have the opportunity to create, share and connect, and 845m people choose to do so on Facebook alone. Mr Zuckerberg says he is not changing their nature; he is enabling it.
I shared my prostate cancer—and, thus, my malfunctioning penis—online. Nothing bad came of this, only good: information, support from friends (who could not have known had I not been public) and the opportunity to inspire other men to be tested. Let me emphasise: that was my choice; no one should be forced to publicise their life.
But imagine if we did feel free to share our health data. Think of the correlations and possibly causes and cures we could find. Why don't we? We fear losing insurance (though insurers already demand our data) or jobs (that is a matter of discrimination to handle legislatively).
Most of all, we fear stigma—though in this day and age why should anyone be ashamed of being sick? In the tension between secrecy and openness, these are the kinds of benefits we should be considering, balancing them with the risks as we adapt society's norms to new realities and new opportunities.
Our institutions should share for different reasons. The wise company is opening up to build direct relationships with customers, to inoculate itself against the dreaded viral meme, and even to collaborate on the creation of products (see Local Motors' cars, designed with customers).
Government must learn to share its work and knowledge with its citizens. It must become open by default and secret by necessity (and there are necessary secrets in relation to security, diplomacy, criminal investigations and citizens' privacy). Today, government is instead secret by default and open by force (that of the journalist or the leaker).
If WikiLeaks has taught us nothing else, it is that no secret is safe and that too much government information has been classified as secret (consider the role of leaks in the Tunisian uprising and the subsequent Arab spring).
Openness is proving to be profoundly disruptive. When we share what we pay for goods, we ruin price opacity and retailers' margins. When we share our frustration with government, we can start revolutions. This is why institutions—news, media, corporate, government, academic—often resist the draw of openness and fear its impact. And that is why we are seeing a sudden rise in efforts to regulate our greatest tool of publicness, the net, under the guises of piracy, privacy, security and decency.
Too much of the conversation about sharing today revolves around risks—risks to privacy (which does need protection, and it has many new protectors) and risks to intellectual property (though media companies need to learn that controlling scarcity will become an increasingly difficult business model to execute). We also need to have a discussion about the benefits of sharing and the tools that enable it, so we can protect their potential.
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.]
Don't wait for the white smoke to waft over America's tech consumer Vatican, the Cupertino headquarters of Apple. The electronic elves are too busy shipping Christmas iPads, and figuring stock-option payouts based on 2011-12 sales projections. Those projections, newly minted by eMarketer, call for another 50 million iPads to be sold in the U.S. alone over the next two years, atop the eight million they think will sell by year's end. (Other manufacturers would only sell another 20 million tablets in the U.S. over the same period.)
The white smoke? That would be the signal to news and magazine publishers of how Apple is going to allow access to the tablet kingdom. We've seen lots of debate, quasi-information, and mixed signals out of Apple about how digital subscriptions will work, including who will keep which revenue and who will partake of user data, the new digital gold. Apple execs talk regularly to publishers, under threat of severe NDA. Those discussions and the back and forth of dealing with Apple on how apps must be configured to get approved are described as an exercise in Kremlinology — trying to divine how things are really working and will work, without actually being told.
After talking with numerous people in and around the tablet/apps industry, I think we can divine the 2011 policy and clear away the smoke and mirrors. Simply put, this is what the de facto Apple policy on digital news subscriptions appears to be:
Importantly, numerous news players are acting on the belief that the above will be the policy, given their conversations with Apple. If that seemingly de facto policy becomes formal — with the announcement of the iPad 2? — it will have far-reaching implications. In fact, it gives a rocket boost to the "paid content" (meaning new streams of digital reader revenue) revolution now in front of us. Why? It marks the convergence — maybe the ratification — of three big things happening as we enter 2011. Put them together, and you have the Newsonomics of all-access.
Number one: The tablet. It's a reader's product, and therefore a news publishers' dream. Longer session times. Longer reading forms embraced. A greater willingness among consumers to pay. Print-like advertising experiences — and rates. All of those results, reported privately by the big news companies that are first to market with tablet products and also in a user survey just released by the University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute here, are preliminary. (More on the recent Roger Fidler-led Digital Publishing Alliance conference, at which I spoke, here.)
As the iPad moves from Apple lovers to mass market, those numbers should moderate. Yet the very nature of the tablet is telling us that digital news reading isn't what we thought it was — only a Kibbles 'n Bits, check-in-on-the-briefs-and-scoot reading experience. It looks like a lot of what we thought were huge changes in news reading behavior may have had as much to do with what the nature of a computer (desktop, laptop) reading experience, and not with a change in the nature of humans themselves. We'll see, but meanwhile, it looks like a good fifth of the country will have a tablet by 2014.
Number two: That paid content push. 2010 has been prologue, as The New York Times took the year to lay extensive plans, connecting pivotal technology, and Journalism Online traversed the country (and lately other continents) preaching from the pulpit of the Holy Church of Freemium and the practice of metering. Don't erect a paywall, like News Corp. did in London with the Times; start the meter, track it, and charge accordingly. That's the Financial Times model, and the one The New York Times and Journalism Online cite as a bible, along with learnings from The Wall Street Journal's freemium experience, a pivotal education for JO principal Gordon Crovitz, who served as WSJ publisher. The digital reader revenue payment was born out of abject frustration, as publishers concluded that digital advertising itself would never support the large news enterprises they wanted to maintain. They were tired of unicycling into the future; digital reader revenue restores the "circulation" leg of the business, providing (in the abstract) two strong legs to stand out going forward.
Number three: The arrival — finally, o Lord — of the news-anywhere, multi-platform, multi-device world that we've been envisioning for more than a decade. For more than a decade, it was a print/online world, in the minds of publishers. Now it's a print/online (desktop, laptop), smartphone, tablet — and soon Apple TV for news — world. That changes everything in how product is thought out, created, presented and sold.
Put these three phenomena together — a multi-platform world in which the tablet becomes a prime part of daily news reading, reading that will be partly charged for — and you have the shiny new business model of 2011: all-access. I've written about all-access and exhorted those publishers with high-quality, differentiated news products to embrace it (see The Newsonomics of the fading 80/20 rule, on Time Warner moves). Now, the forces of the times seem to have conspired to bring it forward and make it dominant.
No, there has been no announcement of a warm all-access embrace, but consider:
The big idea? Cement the relationship with those readers who really want your news, delivered by your brand, global, national or local. Say simply: We'll make it easy for you to read the news however, wherever, on whatever you want and offer it at a single bundled price. Expect three basic offers: Everything (Print + all digital forms), Print Only and the Digital Bundle (probably including the odd cousin of the digital group, the e-edition), plus some by-the-device (iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, etc.) pricing. It's certainly not a news-only idea, as Netflix, HBO, and Comcast build out the same model.
It's a tablet-fed, Apple-polished tablet do-over, and for many news publishers, really a do-or-die effort to reassert brand and product value, reassembling a new business model and building what will sooner-than-later be a digital-mainly business. Will they succeed? Some — those with substantial product offerings that are not commoditized — who move the meter dials smartly, picking off the top five percent or so of their mostly digital visitors for payment will. In a twist on the now-legendary Jarvisism: Charge the best. Market ads to the rest. (And don't scare them off with a paywall.) Other legacy publishers have cut too much to make the new math work, and still other newer publishers will find all-access works for them as well.
There are many more twists, turns, issues — many of them requiring technology lacking among many publishers — and obstacles yet to work through, but we'll get to those into the new year. Apple's own role certainly won't be to remove itself from the new equation, but to find numerous ways — iAds anyone? — to harvest value.
For now, consider all-access the model to be tested in 2011.
The Economist has released information on countries that have banned or censored its issues:
Since January 2009 the Economist has been banned or censored in 12 of the 190-odd countries in which it is sold, with news-stand (as opposed to subscription) copies particularly at risk. India, the only democracy on our list, has censored 31 issues and at first glance might look like the worst culprit. However its censorship consists of stamping "Illegal" on maps of Kashmir because it disputes the borders shown. China is more proscriptive. Distributors destroy copies or remove articles that contain contentious political content, and maps of Taiwan are usually blacked out.
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Tony Hirst takes a look at how different news websites are using interactivity to present different possibilities in the UK election. This post is cross-posted from the OUseful.Info blog:
So it seems like the General Election has been a Good Thing for the news media's interactive developer teams… Here's a quick round up of some of the interactives I've found…
First up, the BBC's interactive election seat calculator:
This lets you set the percentage vote polled by each party and it will try to predict the outcome…
The Guardian swingometer lets you play with swing from any two of the three big parties to the third:
The Daily Telegraph swingometer lets you look at swing between any two parties…
The Economist also lets you explore pairwise swings…
The Times doesn't really let you do much at all… and I wonder �" is Ladbrokes in there as product placement?!
Sky doesn't go in for modeling or prediction, it's more of just a constituency browser…
The Sun probably has Tiffany, 23…
From elsewhere, this swingometer from the Charts & numbers �" UK Election 2010 blog lets you model swings between the various parties…
As to what swing is? It's defined in this Parliamentary briefing doc [PDF]
Not sure how long this has been a feature on the Economist's website, but aggregating readers' comments around different topic areas is an interesting way in to a story.
The cloud of terms show the most popular topics from across the site and can be viewed for one-week, two-week or a 30-day period:
Clicking on a term displays all reader comments from across the website relating to that subject, with a link to what article they were left on.
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