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Dachshunds Lovers
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth II. Photo by Terry O'Neill, 1992
English composer Benjamin Britten and "Clytie".
In this photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh, Britten is shown holding a dachshund and looking towards the score from his opera Gloriana (1953) which was written for the coronation of Elizabeth II. According to Karsh "the dog demanded to become part of the picture".
Yousuf Karsh and "Jacques"
John F. Kennedy, Lem Billings and Dunker, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 1937
Lee Radziwill and Andy Warhol with his dog, Archie. Photo by Ron Galella, Montauk, 1973
Andy Warhol and Archie
Christa Päffgen a.k.a. Nico. Photo: Mark Shaw for Life Magazine
Adele and "Louie", named after Louis Armstrong
Cole Porter
Vincente Minelli and Katharine Hepburn playing with George Cukor's pet
Juliette Gréco. Photo by Robert Doisneau
Jacques Cousteau, his wife and "Scaphandrier"
David Hockney with Stanley and Boodgie
Pablo Picasso and Lump. Photographer David Douglas Duncan published a book of Picasso's pictures along his pet, which was titled A Dachshund's Odyssey
The gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd at Great Dixter House, a 450-acre estate restored by Edwin Lutyens. Awarded in 1979 the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest horticultural accolade, Lloyd was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times.
Within the Wall Garden of Great Dixter is a terrace, with a pebble mosaic of Christopher Lloyd's two beloved dachshunds, Dahlia and Canna. The stones for Canna's eye and nose were acquired from Derek Jarman's rock-garden, at Prospect Cottage, in Dungeness.
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The Same Rediscovery of Individual Soul's
"The influence was that originality of taking the materials from your own existence rather than taking on hand-me-down poetic materials, speech units, rhythmic units and trying to adapt your life to them – you articulate your rhythm, your own rhythms. The concept of that led, in the 'forties, to Abstract Expressionist painting and (Willem) de Kooning and (Franz) Kline, it led, in music, to Ornette Colman and all, and uh.. who was a teacher there? – the guy who died two [actually, four] years ago – John Coltrane. It was the same rediscovery of individual soul's impulse that led into Coltrane."
In Partisan Review, in 1971, (speaking of William Carlos Williams)
Patti Smith photographed by Danny Clinch, 2000
To watch a documentary short chronicling the influence John Coltrane has had on other musicians, please take a gander at The Genealogy of Style's Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Genealogy-of-Style/597542157001228?ref=hl
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Caterpillar Changes
It was a poster for Caterpillar Changes. Printed in red on yellow paper. Typographically designed in the shape of a butterfly with psychedelic-style lettering
Barbara Rubin (1945-1980) was a filmmaker who was highly active in the New York avant-garde cinema scene in the early to mid 1960s. Her 1963 film Christmas on Earth has become a cult classic and important document. She was heavily involved with Jonas Mekas and his Filmmakers' Cooperative and was a key figure in counter-cultural circles: she introduced The Velvet Underground to Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg.
Gordon Balls' intimate recollection of a fascinating time in American history allows a vicarious experience for those unwilling or unable (due to age) to participate.
In 1967 Rubin mounted a two-week multimedia production entitled Caterpillar Changes, one of the first showings of films in a fragmented installation setting. In his memoir '66 Frames Gordon Ball discusses the production and the poster they created: "among filmmakers lending their work were Harry Smith, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, D.A. Pennebaker, Jack Smith, John Cavanaugh, Stan Vanderbeek, Robert Breer, and Bobbie Neuwirth; among the musicians scheduled to perform were Gato Barbieri, the Free Spirits, Angus MacLise, and the Velvet Underground.
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The Most Amusing Package
Sticky Fingers cover. Front and back cover
When The Rolling Stones were recording material for their ninth studio album in the early days of the 1970s, the anticipation and expectations must have been daunting. The 60s had come to a definitive close for the band at the December 1969 Altamont Free Concert, where a member of the Hell's Angels (hired by the Stones as security) knifed a fan to death as the band played on. Five months prior, guitarist Brian Jones had overdosed and was found dead in his swimming pool at the age of 27.
Sticky Fingers was to be their first record of the new decade, their first without Jones, and the first for their newly formed label, Rolling Stones Records. The Beatles had just disbanded, leaving the group no serious rival. The band was presumably eager to maintain their bad-boy status, but at the same time distance themselves from the darker side of their image and move towards a more commercially viable controversy: sex.
Inside cover (LP format)
Knowing that the design of the album had to reflect this, and finally in control of their own marketing after leaving Decca records, Mick Jagger visited the Royal College of Art in London to find a design student to hire. He attended the degree show of John Pasche, and hired him to create a new logo for the group. The resulting lips and tongue logo, based on Jagger's large pout, was intended as "a protest symbol and [to] have an anti-authority feel to it really, so that it would work well with them being the bad boys of rock and roll," Pasche recently told MTV. This being the early days of rock band branding, the iconic logo never appeared on the cover of an album. It did, however, appear on t-shirts, mugs, key chains, buttons, belts and countless other promotional items, including recent urinals at the Rolling Stones Fan Museum in Germany.
The title "Sticky Fingers" was originally a working title for the second Mott the Hoople record. When the band decided on Mad Shadows instead, the Stones took the title, with the blessing of record producer Guy Stephens.
The cover graphic went through a number of possibilities, including having the band dressed in Victorian boating attire. Designer Craig Braun suggested releasing the album in a clear plastic jacket with heat-sensitive liquid crystals inside — "so you could make your own little Joshua Light Show". Another rejected idea was a mammoth foldout cover of Jagger's castle in the south of France (where the band had relocated to avoid paying taxes).
Theatrical poster
Then Jagger recalled that Andy Warhol had remarked to him at a party in 1969 that he thought it would be amusing to have an album cover feature a real zipper. There are differing accounts regarding the initial idea. Some credit songwriter Bob Goldstein, claiming that he proposed the idea for the cover of the soundtrack to Warhol's 1968 film Lonesome Cowboys. Goldstein wrote the title track, which is sometimes credited as being the very first 'disco' arrangement, and an entire LP was conceived, but never completed. Singer and Factory Superstar Ultra Violet has suggested that the idea was Warhol's and was intended for the film's promotional poster.
The Velvet Underground and Nico. Front cover
The Stones agreed that the image of a pair of jeans and zipper would allow the band to retain their 'outrageous' aura, but shift things away from the violent and "satanic" imagery, or what Braun called "the evil thing".
Warhol is credited with cover concept and photography, though some suggest Billy Name might've been behind the camera. Many assumed the cover model was Jagger, which he later denied:
Rolling Stone Magazine: There's underwear on the back. Is that you?
Mick Jagger: No. It's one of Andy's… protégés is the polite word we used to use, I think.
Andy Warhol, Man's Lower Torso, Clothed, 1971
Among the possible candidates, Jed Johnson, Warhol's lover at the time, denied it was his likeness, although his twin brother Jay was considered a possibility. But according to Warholstars site user, Stylissmo:
"Jay Johnson famously has only one testicle, Jed wasn't built like that… Corey Tippin was well known for his endowment… and was also known – along with his friend, the illustrator Antonio Lopez, for 'showing basket' – a real 70's kind of gay display that involved bulging crotches in tight jeans. Attendees at the Sticky Fingers release party mention that of the aforementioned possible models for the cover – only Corey Tippin was at the party. At any rate all this has been told to me in various pieces by Jay Johnson, Corey Tippin, Jane Forth, Paul Caranicas (director of Antonio's estate) and other characters who are still friends and living in and around New York." Also known as Corey Grant, Tippin was the make-up artist for Andy Warhol's L'Amour (1973) and Jay Johnson's best friend.
Warhol with Jay and Jed Johnson
Warhol and Corey Tippin
Factory Superstar Ultra Violet believes that dancer Eric Emerson "who used to walk around the Factory half-naked" is the cover model.
Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, Richard Avedon, New York, October 30, 1969. From left to right: Eric Emerson, actor; Jay Johnson, actor; Tom Hempertz, actor; Gerard Malanga, poet
Art writer and early editor of Warhol's Interview magazine, Glenn O'Brien's has also been named as possible model. He recalls:
"I remember Andy shooting me in my underwear at the Interview office for the Sticky Fingers cover. He paid me a hundred bucks. Fred Hughes kept saying, "Can't you make it any bigger."" In an introduction to an interview O'Brien conducted with Joe Dallesandro for the magazine a few years ago he wrote:
"I always felt a connection to Joe. We were two Warhol scenesters who liked girls. Also, he filled the jeans on the outside of The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album, while I filled the briefs inside—our secret connection."
Without a definitive account of who the front cover model was, Joe Dallesandro seems the most likely. Dallesandro met Andy Warhol and director Paul Morrissey in 1967 while they were shooting Four Stars, and they cast him in the film on the spot. Dallesandro also appeared in Flesh (1968), Lonesome Cowboys (1968), Trash (1970), Heat (1972), Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula (both 1974) also directed by Morrissey. Flesh achieved some mainstream crossover success and Dallesandro became one of the most popular of the Warhol stars.
He explained to biographer Michael Ferguson, "It was just out of a collection of junk photos that Andy pulled from. He didn't pull t out for the design or anything, it was just the first one he got that he felt was the right shape to fit what he wanted to use for the fly."
Joe Dallesandro photographed by Warhol
The inner underwear photograph was a matter of necessity; designer Craig Braun realized there had to be an extra layer of cardboard to protect the record from the scratching of the zipper. Regardless of this, during shipment the zipper ended up pressing into the album stacked on top of it, invariably damaging the song Sister Morphine. Atlantic Records, whose subsidiary Atco Records were distributing the disk in the US, threatened to sue Braun for all the damage. After getting "very depressed and very high," he came up with the solution to pull the zipper down before the record was shipped. This way it would only damage the inner label, and not cause any song to skip.
The solution saved Sister Morphine, but not in Spain, where Francisco Franco's government deemed the song offensive and insisted it be removed from the disk. A Chuck Berry song Let it Rock, originally a b-side from the Brown Sugar single, replaced it. The drug references in the song were not the only concern for the Spanish censors, they also found the cover "too sexually explicit" so it was replaced with the "can of fingers" graphic, severed body parts being more socially acceptable than a man in pants. Many American department stores also found the cover inappropriate and initially refused to stock the disk.
Alternate cover (Spanish version)
For others, the problem with the packaging was not enough package: Wolfgang Fritz Haug, a now-retired professor of philosophy, took issue with the lack of payoff. In his book 1986 book Commodity Aesthetics (Chapter 3: "THE PENIS ENTERS THE COMMODITY ARENA") he writes:
"whoever buys the record, purchases with it a copy of a young man's fly, the package identified by the graphic trick which stresses the penis and stylizes the promised content. It is a reversal of the tale of the Emperor's new clothes: the tale of the buyer's new bodies. They buy only packages which seem more than they are…..the buyer acquires the possibility of opening the package, and the zip and finds… nothing."
These criticisms notwithstanding, the graphic is now considered one of the best album covers of all time. A Rolling Stone Magazine readers poll in 2011 voted it the 6th best album cover of all time. Warhol appeared twice in the top ten, the other being the tenth pic for his Velvet Underground and Nico cover. The recording itself made the #63 slot of another Rolling Stones Greatest Albums of All Time list and in 2003 the design was named by VH-1 as the best album cover of all time.
Jagger called the cover "the most original, sexy and amusing package that I have ever been involved with"
Andy Warhol was paid 15 000 pounds remuneration, which (using a crude conversion of currency and inflation) would amount to approximately $126,000 CDN today. The figure seems on the high side for album cover design, but he was apparently dissatisfied. Warhol biographer David Bourdon writes "In April the album sold a half-million copies, and Warhol liked to think that his cover contributed greatly to the success. 'You know', he later complained, 'that became a number one album and I only got a little money for that'." With the Stones being one of the biggest bands in the world at the time, and the record including the hit songs Wild Horses and Brown Sugar, it is doubtful that Warhol's cover disproportionately contributed to the financial success of the record. His equally acclaimed peelable banana cover for The Velvet Underground and Nico did not propel that record to any financial success – it spent only a few weeks on the Billboard charts, peaking at #171. It's influence would not be felt for years to come, leading Brian Eno to quip "The Velvet Underground's first album only sold a few thousand copies, but everyone who bought one formed a band." Warhol also complained about not receiving compensation for his production and cover graphic for that disk ("I never got a penny for that first Velvet's album").
The promotional photograph may have inadvertently invented what would later become the Sleeveface internet meme, with fans posing with album covers obscuring parts of their body.
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A Wonderfully Relaxed Brief
I'm really pleased you can do the art-work for our new hits album. Here are 2 boxes of material which you can use, and the record.
In my short sweet experience, the more complicated the format of the album, e.g. more complex than just pages or fold-out, the more fucked-up the reproduction and agonising the delays. But, having said that, I leave it in your capable hands to do what ever you want………..and please write back saying how much money you would like.
Doubtless a Mr. Al Steckler will contact you in New York, with any further information. He will probably look nervous and say "Hurry up" but take little notice.
One is still the singer and creative powerhouse behind one of the most successful band on the globe; the other was the world's greatest pop artist. Neither could be expected to receive unbidden instruction and so in his letter, dated 21 April 1969, Mick Jagger leaves the question of the band's cover design in Andy Warhol's "capable hands."
The conversational tone, trust in a fellow artist's talents, and blasé attitude towards fees all mark Jagger out as a canny operator. In truth, some modesty was justified; Warhol had worked on numerous cover images for the likes of Blue Note Records while employed as a commercial artist, before going onto produce his more famous Peel Slowly and See cover image for The Velvet Underground's 1967 début.
What is perhaps more intriguing is that Warhol did not go onto design the band's "new hits" album, as Mick suggests; the cover image for that LP, Through the Past, Darkly, released in September 1969, was a simple group shot, taken by Californian photographer Ethan Russell.
However, Warhol, did maintain his relationship with the band, and went onto design the image for their following studio album, 1971's Sticky Fingers. This cover, of a well-endowed man's crotch in tight jeans, featured a working zip and belt buckle in early pressings, and is now regarded as one of modern music's more striking pieces of graphic art.
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"Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the whip, now plead for me
Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him
Fanny Pistor (in furs, with whip) and Sacher-Masoch
On 9 December 1869, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months, with the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible, especially when she was in a cruel mood. Sacher-Masoch took the alias of "Gregor", a stereotypical male servant's name, and assumed a disguise as the servant of the Baroness. The two traveled by train to Italy. As in Venus in Furs, he traveled in the third-class compartment, while she had a seat in first-class, arriving in Venice (Florence, in the novel), where they were not known, and would not arouse suspicion.
The Titian painting Venus with a Mirror (1555), from which Severin gets the idea of "Venus in furs"
Sacher-Masoch is the great-great-uncle to the British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull on the side of her mother, the Viennese Baroness Eva Erisso
The novel Venus in Furs was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was also part of Love, the first volume of the series. It was published in 1870
The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man.
This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, who is so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he asks to be her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not understand or accede to the request, but after humouring Severin a bit she finds the advantages of the method to be interesting and enthusiastically embraces the idea, although at the same time she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so.
Severin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Severin and Wanda travel to Florence. Along the way, Severin takes the generic Russian servant's name of "Gregor" and the role of Wanda's servant. In Florence, Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him.
The relationship arrives at a crisis when Wanda herself meets a man to whom she would like to submit, a Byronic hero known as Alexis Papadopolis. At the end of the book, Severin, humiliated by Wanda's new lover, loses the desire to submit. He says of Wanda:
That woman, as nature has created her, and man at present is educating her, is man's enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he and is his equal in education and work.
The book inspired Venus in Fur, a 2010 play set in the modern day by David Ives, which had its Off-Broadway premiere at the Classic Stage Company in New York City starring Nina Arianda and Wes Bentley. In February 2012, a new Broadway production of this play premiered at the Lyceum Theatre starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy. In late 2012, Roman Polanski directed a film adaptation of the play starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric.
Still from Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
The name of Catherine Deneuve's character, Séverine, is a femininization of the name of the male protagonist of Baron von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Severin. As the literary origin of the term masochism, Sacher-Masoch, along with his 1870 novel, no doubt presented an irresistible reference point for Joseph Kessel, the author of the 1928 novel Belle de Jour, on which the film is based.
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Perfectly Satisfactory
"Hunky Dory gave me a fabulous groundswell. I guess it provided me, for the first time in my life, with an actual audience – I mean, people actually coming up to me and saying, 'Good album, good songs.' That hadn't happened to me before. It was like, 'Ah, I'm getting it, I'm finding my feet. I'm starting to communicate what I want to do. Now: what is it I want to do?' There was always a double whammy there."
Hunky Dory is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1971. It was his first release through RCA, which would be his label for the next decade. Hunky Dory has been described by Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine as having "a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class." The slang hunky dory (of uncertain origin), would mean perfectly satisfactory, about as well as one could wish or expect; fine…
The style of the album cover was influenced by a Marlene Dietrich photo book that Bowie brought with him to the photo session, which was taken by Brian Ward. Terry Pastor achieved the silk-screen printing appearance in the manner of Andy Warhol, using an airbrush. However, the album's sleeve would bear the credit "Produced by Ken Scott (assisted by the actor)". The "actor" was Bowie himself, whose "pet conceit", in the words of NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray, was "to think of himself as an actor". George Underwood was also involved in the creative process of the album cover design.
The opening track, Changes, focused on the compulsive nature of artistic reinvention ("Strange fascination, fascinating me/Changes are taking the pace I'm going through") and distancing oneself from the rock mainstream ("Look out, you rock 'n' rollers"). However, the composer also took time to pay tribute to his influences with the tracks Song for Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground inspired Queen Bitch.
Following the hard rock of Bowie's previous album The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of Space Oddity, with light fare such as Kooks (dedicated to his young son, known to the world as Zowie Bowie but legally named Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones) and the cover "Fill Your Heart" sitting alongside heavier material like the occult-tinged Quicksand and the semi-autobiographical The Bewlay Brothers. Between the two extremes was Oh! You Pretty Things, whose pop tune hid lyrics, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche, predicting the imminent replacement of modern man by "the Homo Superior", and which has been cited as a direct precursor to Starman from Bowie's next album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
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Fifteen Songs for Drella
Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of the Velvet Underground, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol Superstar Ondine, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol's crowd. The song cycle focuses on Warhol's interpersonal relations and experiences, with songs falling roughly into three categories: Warhol's first-person perspective (which makes up the vast majority of the album), third-person narratives chronicling events and affairs, and first-person commentaries on Warhol by Reed and Cale themselves. The songs on the album are, to some extent, in chronological order.
Lou Reed and John Cale spoke to one another for the first time in years at Warhol's memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on April 1, 1987. The painter Julian Schnabel suggested they write a memorial piece for Andy. On January 7 and 8, 1989, Cale and Reed performed an almost completed Songs for Drella at The Church of St. Anne's in Brooklyn. Still, as Cale was wrapping up Words for the Dying, and Reed had finished and was touring with his New York album, the project took another year to complete. The first full version (notably with the inclusion of A Dream in one performance) was played on November 29–30, and December 2–3 at the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. On December 4–5, 1989, a live performance—without an audience—was filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Ed Lachman, and released on VHS and laser disc formats. Over the following two months, Reed and Cale proceeded to record the material for the album, which was released in 1990 by Sire Records.
The album was the pair's first full collaborative record since 1968's White Light/White Heat, and by the end of recording Cale vowed never to work with Reed again due to personal differences, hence plans to support the album with a tour were shelved. Nevertheless, Songs for Drella would prove to be the prelude to a Velvet Underground reunion: after playing a Drella selection on June 15, 1990, at a Warhol/Velvet Underground exhibition at the Cartier Foundation in Jouy-en-Josas, Reed and Cale were joined onstage by Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker for a rendition of the Velvet Underground song Heroin, which eventually led to the first and last Velvet Underground reunion, which took place in 1993 (after which Cale and Reed, again, vowed never to work with one another again).
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Charles R. Smith Jr.
Hop on the bike with Bessie Stringfield, the motorcycle queen of Miami, in this powerful picture book from Coretta Scott King medalist Charles R. Smith, Jr. and debut picture book illustrator Charlot Kristensen.
The folks they lined up to meet the Motorcycle Queen, seated sidesattle on her motorbike machine.
In 1929, 18-year-old Bessie Stringfield hopped on her motorcycle and headed out on an adventure, an unusual choice for a young Black woman at the time. Paying her way by winning motorcycle races, she criss-crossed the country through small towns, big cities, and wide open spaces.
But not everyone was happy to see Bessie's brown face peeking out from underneath her helmet. And more than once, Bessie found herself making some quick exits on the back of her bike to escape Jim Crow. A trailblazer in the world of women's racing and motorcycling, Bessie Stringfield was a figure who will inspire all children to pursue their dreams.
From the first line, award-winning author Charles R. Smith Jr.'s poetry evokes emotion, excitement, fear, and wonder in equal measures. Charlot Kristensen portrays Bessie and the American landscape with vivid imagery that is sure to capture the attention of young readers.
A much-needed story about a Black woman who paved the way for future generations, for fans of The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson and My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña.
Charles R. Smith Jr.:
Charles R. Smith Jr. is an award-winning author, photographer, and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration (2010) for his photographs accompanying the Langston Hughes poem, My People and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award (2008) for his biography on Muhammed Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory. Many of his books have also garnered reluctant reader awards, proving that kids that don't like to read do like to read his books. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York. You can find him at charlesrsmithjr.com.
Charlot Kristensen is a Dublin based illustrator, designer, and book author. As a Black artist she often depicts underrepresented characters in empowering ways to help change their narratives. Some of her most renowned clients include HuffPost, Google, Scholastic, Penguin Random House, and the New York Times. You can find her at charlotk.myportfolio.com.
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Imprint Orchard Books
Publication Date Sep 20, 2022
Extent 40.0 Pages
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The Gettysburg Bullets won their second straight Division III title last spring, and, while graduating a significant portion of their offense, still brings Steph Colson (50 goals) and Liza Barr (46) to this year's campaign. Colson and Courtney Patterson combined for nearly 200 draw controls last year, which means that their offense won't be starved for possessions.
A year ago, the Bullets vanquished Middlebury, which returns all but two of their top scorers. The Panthers are doing to have to find someone on the draw circle to replace the endeavor of Hollis Perticone, who had 150 draw controls a year ago. The key, however, is the goal circle. Middlebury replaced sophomore Julia Keith with junior Kate Furber deep into the NCAA Tournament, and so it will be interesting to see who head coach Kate Livesay goes with this season.
A team which has always been in the mix is the College of New Jersey. But this team could make a deep, deep run in the tournament in an attempt to win its first national lacrosse title in 13 years. The Lions' top four point-scorers — Olivia Cleale, Kathleen Jaeger, Alexandra Fitzpatrick, and Allie Gorman — return for the Lions. Miranda Chrone will return for her senior season in the goal cage.
If there is a team that could become the danger team, it's Salisbury. The Gulls are young after having so many senior-laden teams the last decade, and their leading returning scorer, Emma Skoglund, has one career start. The defense for Salisbury is strong, between defenders Anna Wehland, Martha Hutzell, Carrie Hessen and Kendall Bannan. If they can congeal and bring confidence to goalie Skye Graham, watch out.
Another team to keep an eye out for are the York Spartans. Meghan Fox (57 goals) and Regan Cook (40) return, as well as top assister Devin Hursey (32). Nicole Clauter led the team in draw controls a year ago, and she is a defensive menace, helping the Spartans to hold opponents to about 7 1/2 goals a game.


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Vanessa Alfaro is a Bolivian designer, entrepreneur, model and actress based in Los Angeles, California. Alfaro is the president and CEO of Sonne Global Inc., a company dedicated to design, creation, brand licensing, marketing and publicity. Alfaro created the first and only women's ready-to-wear line for FIFA during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. She has been the only designer to work with FIFA for a woman's line using official logos of the World Cup.

Alfaro has worked in fashion design, product licensing, and marketing.

Alfaro began modeling in Bolivia at 17 years old. She had an active career as an editorial and runway model, and was also crowned with various beauty pageant titles including "Most Photogenic" and "The most beautiful between models."

At 19 years old, Alfaro created Sonne Imagen & Production in Cochabamba, Bolivia while she was still a Commercial Engineering student at The Catholic University in Bolivia. She graduated with honors and went on to earn a Masters in Finance. She also specialized in graphic and fashion design. When Alfaro was 24 years old she married and moved to the United States. Once in the U.S., she continued as a designer, model, actress and singer.

Career
Alfaro appeared in numerous roles in music videos, TV and movies including Usher's music video "Hey Daddy" and on Nickelodeon's ICarly with actor Jack Black.

At the end of 2013, Alfaro created the first and only women's clothing line licensed by FIFA for the 2014 World Cup.

Alfaro is the CEO and founder of Vanessa Alfaro Bridal & Couture. The fashion house designs and produces couture and bridal collections.
In addition she started the fashion brand CHIVANE.

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WGM/IM Alisa Maric, the famous chess player and former finalist of the World Championship Challenger Match, assumed the post of the Minister of Youth and Sport in the new Serbian government that sworn in today.
Maric is one of the two members of the new cabinet that are not affiliated with any party. She was proposed for this position by the new Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, an avid chess player and former Belgrade youth champion.
Alisa Maric is a sport hero of Serbia and former Yugoslavia. In the impressive list of her achievements on the chess board, the most important was the shared 1st place in the Candidate's tournament Borzhomi 1990, together with Xie Jun.
The final challenger match between Alisa and Xie Jun was played in Belgrade and Beijing 1991. Xie Jun won 4,5:2,5, got challenge ticket and than took World champion title by winning against the famous Maia Chiburdanidze.
Alisa Maric has Ph.D in Economics and she worked as Marketing professor at Megatrend University before being appointed Minister.
She was a member of Presidential Board of Serbian Olympic Committee.
Her twin sister Mirjana Maric is also a Woman Grandmaster.


Use these iPad tips and tricks to do more with your iPad Air, iPad mini and every other iPad running iOS 10 or higher.
Whether you just bought an iPad, or you've had one for years, these useful iPad tips and tricks will show you new ways to do more with your iPad. Most of these are already built-in to your iPad, but a few will require buying an iPad accessory, iPad apps or signing up for a service.
If you want to get to know how to use the iPad like a pro with useful shortcuts that will have you typing faster, being more productive and enjoying your iPad more, this is what you need to know.
The essential iPad tips and tricks to do more with your iPad.
All of these iPad tips and tricks work on all the iPad models Apple sells now, even going far back as the iPad 2. However, you'll need to be on the latest version of the iPad software for all of these to work, which many users are on.
If you want to jump to a specific section you can click on the shortcuts below.
Keep reading to learn how to get the most out of your iPad.
Watch the video playlist below to see many of these iPad tips and tricks in action.
These iPad tips and tricks will help you setup your new iPad. Forget reading through the iPad user manual, you'll find everything you need to know right here.
Set the iPad to show how much battery life is left with a percentage indicator so you know if you have enough power to head out the door or watch another movie. Go to Settings -> General -> Usage -> Battery Percentage -> On.
If you want to switch apps, or go to the home screen without hitting the home button, you can use gestures. This lets you pinch in with five fingers from in any app to go to the home screen or swipe with four fingers from left or right to switch between open apps. You can also do a four finger swipe up for multitasking. Turn this on by going to Settings -> General -> Multitasking Gestures -> On.
You can use Control Center to quickly change many settings like WiFi, Do Not Disturb, Bluetooth and orientation lock. This also lets you launch the calendar, camera and control music. Swipe up from the bottom of any screen, including the lock screen, to change these settings.
If you don't want to connect your iPhone to your computer to sync it every time, you can set it up to sync wirelessly to your computer. Plug in and open iTunes -> Click on iPad in the Upper Right -> Click on Sync with this iPad over Wi-Fi and then click Apply. When you are connected to WiFi, and if your computer is awake and your iPad is plugged into power, the iPad will sync.
You can change the iPad wallpaper to your own photo, or one you find online, to make your iPad easy to identify and personalized. If you have a photo on your iPad go to Photos -> Find the photo you want -> Tap the small box with an arrow pointing up -> Choose Use as Wallpaper -> Choose Lock Screen, Home Screen or Both if you want it to zoom.
If you take your iPad out, or just need to keep it secure at home, you should set up a passcode. This is a four digit number that keeps unwanted users from accessing your iPad's apps and your information. Go to Settings -> Passcode -> Turn Passcode On -> and Enter Passcode twice. If asked you can use it as your iCloud Keychain security code or keep the one you created during that setup.
Leaving auto brightness on is a good way to keep the iPad battery lasting longer, but if you need to make the screen brighter you can change this with a slider. Pull up the Control Center (swipe from bottom of screen) and move the slider on the right all the way to the right for full brightness, or all the way down for a darker screen that is easier on your eyes.
If the text on the iPad is too small to read easily you can use Accessibility features to make iPad text bigger in most apps. Open Settings -> General -> Text Size -> Drag the slider to make iPad text bigger.
Use these iPad tips and tricks to setup the iPad and connect to your Mac and iPhone.
If you want to sync Notes, Reminders and more with your iPhone, Mac and iCloud.com you need to log in to iCloud on the iPad and on your other devices. On the iPad go to Settings -> iCloud -> Login with your Apple ID and password. Make sure Calendars, Reminders, Safari, Notes and more are checked.
You can change what you see in the Notification Center so that it better fits your needs. Go to Settings -> Notification Center. On this screen you can customize what is shown in the today view and if you can use them from the lock screen. You can also choose the order for notifications to show up by tapping Edit in the upper right and dragging the apps up or down.
iPad battery life is already pretty good, at 10 hours, but if you need to keep the iPad going longer you can use these iPad battery life tips to keep the iPad going longer. It essentially comes down to controlling brightness, limiting sync and a few other small tips.
When you set up the iPad you should turn on Find my iPad. If you aren't sure it's on, go to Settings -> iCloud -> Find My iPad -> On. This will allow you to use a computer or iPhone to track the iPad's location when it connects to the Internet. You can also use this to sound an alert on the iPad in case you lose it around the house. There is an option in the Find my iPad app that will let you erase a stolen iPad to keep your data safe.
You can choose to backup the iPad to iCloud or to your local computer. If you have enough storage use the iCloud backup option, as it will backup anytime your iPad is connected to WiFi and power. You can go to Settings -> iCloud -> Storage & Backup -> iCloud Backup -> On. This is a good option, but not perfect for some users that need more than 5GB of storage and who don't want to pay Apple for more storage.
If you prefer, you can plug-in to the computer and open iTunes. Click on iPad in the upper right and then in the small collection of options click on Backup Now.
Watch the video playlist below to see many of these iPad tips and tricks geared for new users.
After you get the iPad set up and ready to use, there is still a lot to learn. We'll run through nearly 20 iPad tips and tricks for new users. Instead of reading through 100 pages of the iPad manual, you can breeze through these tricks that will show you how to use your iPad better and make getting around common iPad activities much easier.
If you want to quickly go back to the top of a webpage, email, Facebook page or any other app on the iPad, don't bother scrolling up. Instead just tap where the clock is and the page will automatically jump to the very top of any app.
If you need to turn settings on and off regularly you can use Siri to do it. Just hold your home button for a second or two and then say, "Siri Turn WiFi off" or "Turn Bluetooth on." There are a variety of iPad settings you can control with your voice.
When you need to switch between apps on the iPad you can pull up the multitasking menu with a double tap of the home button or a four finger swipe up from the middle of the screen. This shows your recently used apps. Slide left or right to see more apps and tap on one to open it.
After you double tap the home button and see your recently used apps you can close an app. This is a good way to fix an app that is acting strange, without the need to restart your iPad completely. Swipe up from the app card to close one app. You can also swipe up on multiple apps to close more than one app at a time.
Apple doesn't offer an easy to use Kids Mode like some other tablets, but there is a way to lock a user to a single app and restrict access to parts of the screen. You can follow the iPad Kids Mode instructions to lock your kid to one app, and to turn off touch on parts of the screen that would let them tap ads or switch to different movies that they shouldn't be watching.
The iPad includes Spotlight, an easy tool that can search the entire iPad from your email and contacts to apps, music and more. On the home screen place your finger on the center of the screen and pull down. This brings up a small search box and the keyboard. Start typing and the iPad will instantly show results that match.
Turn these on and see if they make using the iPad easier for you.
These iPad Tips and Tricks for new users will help you use the iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, iPad Air and iPad mini models.
If you want to share your screen with someone, you can't offer a live view, but you can take an iPad screenshot by pressing the home and power button at the same time. This will save whatever is on your screen to your Photo app. From there you can share it on Facebook, by email or as a message.
The Messages app on the iPad allows users to send a free text message to any iPhone or iPad user. This is like a text, but it is called an iMessage. Right now you can only send this to other Apple devices. The iPad knows if another user has an iPhone, iPad or Mac. You can carry on a conversation on iMessage that syncs between an iPhone, iPad and Mac.
If you need to make the iPad stop playing music or audio from a movie you can hold the volume down button and it will quickly mute the iPad. You can also make the switch above the volume button act as a silence switch to mute notifications by going to Settings -> General -> Use Side Switch To: Mute.
The iPad features Do Not Disturb mode which allows users to silence notifications and alerts so that they are not an interruption. If the screen is on you will still see notifications, but you can make sure the iPad doesn't sound a notification even when the screen is on. Turn Do Not Disturb on by pulling up the Control Center (by swiping up from the bottom of the screen) and tapping the moon.
To change settings, go to Settings -> Do Not Disturb -> Scheduled and make it turn on and off at specific times. You can also allow repeated calls and other handy options.
Control Center lets users control Do Not Disturb and Airplane mode.
If you fly you will need to turn on Airplane mode, which will turn off the communication part of the iPad. You can manually turn on WiFi later to connect to in flight WiFi if it is available. Pull up the Control Center (by swiping up from the bottom of the screen) and tap on the airplane.
This is also a good way to prevent notifications from interrupting a movie or book you downloaded.
If you download an app and delete it by accident, you can easily re-download it. The fastest way to do this is to search for the app in the app store and tap on the small cloud with an arrow icon to download it. You can also open the App Store, tap on the updates option at the bottom right and then on purchases to look at all your apps, free and paid.
You will probably need to open a PDF on the iPad at some point. Just tap on the link to do this from your email or any other app. If you need to save it to the iPad for access later, you will need to open the PDF in Safari, or an app like Dropbox, and click on Open in iBooks to save it locally. Check out this iPad PDF guide for more details.
If you own a WiFi-only iPad, but you need to get online from almost anywhere, you can connect your iPad to an Android or iPhone on many carriers and share the internet connection. You need to make sure you have a hotspot feature on your plan first. Shared data plans include this on most carriers, and if not you can add a hotspot feature while you travel and turn it off later without changing your contract.
The guides above show you how to use the personal hotspot on popular devices.
If the iPad keeps switching the screen from portrait to orientation while you are trying to read, game or watch a movie, you can lock the orientation. You can go into Settings -> General and make the switch on the side of the iPad do this or you can swipe up to open the Control Center and tap on the lock with a circular arrow icon.
It is pretty easy to connect iCloud to your iPad, but using your Google Calendar is a still something that you can do. This is great if you also use an Android phone or just really love using Gmail and Google Calendar integration.
Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Add Account -> Tap on Gmail. From here you need to enter your name, email and password. On the next screen make sure the 'Calendars' option is checked.
If you want to share your iCloud calendar with friends and family you can easily do that so you have your iPhones, iPads and Macs all in sync.
Open the Calendar app -> Tap on Calendars at the bottom -> Tap on the i to the left of the iCloud calendar you want to share -> Tap Add Person and enter an email address.
If you are using the iPad and it freezes up, and will not let you use the home button to leave an app or to do anything, you need to reset the iPad. If you were typing an email you may lose that message, but this does not erase your iPad. Hold the power and home button for about 10 seconds to reset a frozen iPad.
Watch the video playlist below to see many of these iPad tips and tricks that will help you type faster on the iPad.
Using the iPad keyboard is as simple as tapping on a letter, but there are several iPad keyboard tips and tricks that will help you type faster, more efficiently and use an external keyboard when you need to type for more than a few minutes. We'll also show you an easier way to type when you are standing or holding the iPad with two hands.
If you are standing or holding the iPad while you type, it can be difficult to reach the letters you need to press. You can tap and hold the keyboard icon in bottom right to undock or split the keyboard. If you tap, hold and drag up you'll undock and split the keyboard, moving it to the middle of the screen and separating it for faster thumb typing. You can also choose to undock only, if you need to move the full size keyboard up the screen.
If you need to type even faster than these iPad keyboard tips and tricks let you, grab a Bluetooth keyboard.
For long typing sessions nothing beats a good iPad Bluetooth keyboard. If you own a Bluetooth keyboard for your Mac or Windows computer you can use it with the iPad as well. Go to Settings -> Bluetooth -> Tap on the Device to add it as a keyboard for your iPad. Here are more details on the setup process.
The links above show popular iPad Bluetooth keyboard cases that offer protection, a stand and long battery life.
If you need to say the same thing over and over in messages or emails you can set up shortcuts to turn an abbreviation into a full phrase or sentence. It's perfect for your email address, physical address, phone number and common responses. Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Add New Shortcut. After you enter the phrase and the shortcut you can type the shortcut in any text field. Hit space and it should enter the full text.
Instead of tapping on the .?123 and then tapping on the number or punctuation you need, you can tap, hold and slide to character you need. This is faster than the tap and hunt method, and once you teach yourself to do this you will be able to type faster on the iPad.
If you want to add emoticons or emoji on iPad devices, you can go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Keyboards -> Add New Keyboard -> Emoji. This will allow you to tap on a small globe icon on the keyboard and see a range of Emoji characters that you can type into almost any text field.
If you want to enter an apostrophe without using the punctuation keys, you can tap and hold on the ! and slide up to access an apostrophe. Perfect for those times that autocorrect doesn't know you need one.
Check out these iPad tips for the keyboard.
If you need to select text to copy, or to write on top of, you can tap and hold on one word. The iPad will select that word and then you can drag the small lines with dots to the right and left to select the text you need. If you select a single word you can copy or define it with a dictionary lookup. You can also copy a line or block of text to use in another app or field.
Getting the iPad cursor right where you need it is tough if you are just tapping and hoping. If you tap and hold it will show you a small magnifying glass and allow you to drag across the text until the cursor is where you need it.
Instead of hitting the shift key for every capital letter you need to type on the iPad, you can use caps lock. To turn on caps lock on the iPad double tap the shift key. When you are done, tap the shift key again and you'll go back to lowercase.
If you are driving yourself, and others around you, crazy with keyboard sounds every time you type something on the iPad you can turn off the constant clicking noises without silencing your iPad. Go to Settings -> Sounds -> Keyboard Clicks -> Off. Silent typing can now begin.
When you need to end a sentence and start a new one you don't need to tap on the period and then on the space bar. A double tap on the space bar should automatically enter a period and a space. If it doesn't go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> "." Shortcut -> On.
If you need to enter the .com or similar part of a web address you can save yourself from typing it by pressing and holding the '.' on the keyboard. This will open a list of .com, .net, .org, .edu and .us addresses. For .com just let go, for the others slide over to the word and then let go.
If you enter text that you don't want in that text box you can shake the iPad to delete the text. This can delete a lot of text, so don't use it in a long email or document. It's better for status updates and messages. After you shake it will ask if you want to undo typing, so you don't need to worry about accidental shakes wiping a document clean.
If the keyboard is in the way when you are trying to fill a form on the iPad, or use an app or webpage, you can tap on the small keyboard icon in the lower right to hide the keyboard from the screen. Tap on any text box to bring it back.
Watch the video playlist below to see iPad tips and tricks for Safari.
Safari is how most users browse the web on the iPad, and this collection of iPad web browsing tips will walk you through using Safari smarter on the iPad.
If you want to go to a website frequently you can add it to your iPad home screen, just like an app. This will not save a local copy to your iPad, but it does make opening your favorite website easier. Go to the website you want to save -> Tap on the small box with an arrow at the top of the screen -> Tap on Add to Home Screen in the lower part of options. Enter the name for the website and tap on Add.
When you are in Safari on the iPad you can swipe from the left side of the screen to the right and go back one screen. This is on by default, so you can just swipe with one finger and it will take you back one page.
If you use iCloud Keychain you can sync passwords between Safari on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. This is a nice way to use strong passwords, and avoid typing in a 14 character password all the time. Go to Settings -> iCloud -> iCloud KeyChain On. You may need to verify your account through a notification on your other devices. Once this is set up you will get notifications about saving your password when you are in Safari. To see what is stored and what all you can do go to Settings > Safari -> Passwords & Autofill. This can also let you save a credit card to be entered into online shopping. Make sure you use a passcode on your iPad with this feature enabled.
Use iCloud and iCloud Keychain to sync passwords across Mac, iPad and iPhone.
You may need to use a VPN to bypass blackout restrictions in a streaming service or to connect to a work network. Whatever the reason you can go to Settings -> General -> VPN and then enter the information provided by a VPN service to get connected. The second part of this article walks through the rest of the setup.
If you use Safari to browse the web you can open up tabs from your Mac or iPhone while using your iPad. Open Safari and then tap on the cloud to the right of the address bar. This will show tabs open on your iPhone, Mac or other iPads on your account. Tap on any of these pages to load a copy on your iPad. The same icon lets you pick up on your iPad tabs on other devices.
If you use Twitter and link your account to the iPad you can easily find links shared by people you follow. This is a nice way of avoiding all the conversations and simply diving in to see the links people are sharing. In Safari tap on the bookmarks icon to the right of the address bar. Then tap on the '@' symbol to the right of that section. Here you will see tweets containing links and can load them in Safari with a tap.
Use these iPad Tips and tricks to master web surfing in Safari on the iPad.
Instead of tapping on the @ symbol you can use the Bookmarks icon to access your favorites from the iPad, iPhone and Mac as well as quickly access your Reading List. When you see a link you want to read later you can add it to the Reading List from any of your devices. When you scroll all the way to the bottom of something on your reading list you can keep scrolling through to the next item.
If you need to go into private mode on the iPad you can hide your activity from the iPad history and from other users on your iPad. This can be to hide a website you enjoy but don't want to share, or even to hide your browsing for someone's birthday gift. In Safari tap on the '+' in the upper right. Then tap on Private in the lower left corner. Make sure you close this tab when you are done.
The iPad searches with Google by default, but you can change it to Bing or Yahoo if you prefer to use either of those search engines. Go to Settings -> Safari -> Search Engine -> pick your search engine.
If you want to block adult websites on the iPad, and other questionable sites, you can do this in the settings. This will work for every user of the iPad, even when the iPad is connected to another network. Go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> Enter passcode. Don't use the same passcode you use to unlock the iPad. Scroll down and tap on Websites and choose Limit Adult content. If you want to restrict things further you can limit users to specific webpages only.
If you land on a long webpage and need to search it for a specific word you can tap on the address bar and type the word you want to search the page for. Instead of tapping on the search options, scroll to the bottom and it will show you that word On This Page. Tap on Find "word" and you can then use arrows to scroll back and forth between the search results on the page.
Watch the video playlist below to see iPad tips and tricks to take better photos.
The iPad isn't the best camera you'll carry if you also own an iPhone or another smartphone, but if you want to use it to take photos here are some tips and tricks you can use. Just make sure you don't block someone's view with the big display when you hold it up to take a picture. This will also help you get all of your photos on the iPad, even the ones you take on your iPhone or Android.
If the iPad is sitting on a table and you need to take a photo without touching the iPad's screen, you can press the volume up button on a pair of Apple headphones. This also works on some Bluetooth headphones as a wireless shutter.
If you take a lot of photos on the iPhone, make sure Photo Stream is turned on and the photos will show up on your iPad after you take them on the iPhone. Go to Settings -> iCloud -> Photo Stream -> On to make this work on your iPhone and iPad. After it is set up you can go to Photos and tap on Albums and then on My Photo Stream.
You can make a slideshow of any photo album on your iPad. Open Photos and then tap on the album you want to use. Tap on Slideshow at the top of the screen. Choose a transition and music, then tap Start Slideshow. This will keep the iPad cycling through photos until it gets to the end of that album. If you pair it with a nice stand you have a handy photo frame to put up when you don't need the iPad in your hand.
You can use HDR mode to take better looking photos on the iPad. This will take several photos at different exposures and then combine them into one photo that offers a better range of light. In the camera app tap on HDR On to turn the feature on. This won't magically make your photos look like a masterpiece, but it is a handy way to take better looking iPad photos.
Take a better looking photo with the iPad.
If you want to save a photo from the web to send in a text message, or post to Facebook, you can tap and hold on the image in Safari. After a second or two an option will appear to let you Save Image or Copy. If you just want to paste it into a message you can copy, but if you want to post it or keep it for a background tap on Save Image.
When you are taking a photo you can tap on the screen to set the focus point and exposure. This will help you focus on the person or object you want and pick the lighting you need for a good photo. If you tap and hold on a spot the box will expand three times and then lock the exposure and focus in one spot so it won't change as you move the camera around. Tap anywhere else to unlock the exposure and focus.
If you buy the Lightning to USB adapter or Lightning to SD Card adapter for new iPads you can connect a camera or an SD card to the device. From there you can see your photos on the bigger display, import them, edit with iPad apps, share on Facebook and Twitter or more. This is an easy way to bring your photos and videos from a camera to the iPad without a computer in the mix. For the iPad 2 and iPad 3, Apple sells an iPad Camera Connection kit with both included.
The iPad is a great companion for watching movies, listening to music and playing games. Here are a collection of great iPad tips and tricks for optimizing your downtime.
Apple headphones, and others, come with volume and a button allow users to control music and movies. You can always move the volume up and down, but that's not all. When listening to music, press the middle button to play or pause a song. You can double tap it to skip tracks. While watching a movie you can use these controls to pause and play as well. This works in dedicated movie apps like Netflix and many others.
If you want to use your iPad to watch movies, and more, on a bigger screen, you can buy a Lighting to HDMI adapter that lets you plug in to an HDMI cable and then into a monitor, projector or HDTV. This is handy if you are traveling and want to use a hotel HDTV to watch Netflix, or if you just need to watch a movie on a spare TV at home.
If you don't want to use a wired connection you can use AirPlay to mirror the iPad's screen, or video content, to an Apple TV with no wires. You need an Apple TV connected to WiFi and an HDTV. Once the iPad is on the same WiFi network you can hit the small Box with an arrow icon that is normally in the bottom right of your iPad and choose Apple TV from the selection. That's how you do it for a movie or video. If you want to show the entire iPad screen you can swipe up from the bottom of the screen top, open Control Center and then tap on AirPlay and Apple TV.
If you want to see captions while you are watching movies you can go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Subtitles & Captioning -> Closed Captions + SDH -> On. This turns captions on in movies from iTunes and in apps that can detect this setting. Turning this on also enabled captions in Netflix in our test.
If you own an Apple TV you can download the Remote iPad app and use the iPad as a giant touchscreen remote control. It will only control your Apple TV, but it makes typing in any passwords or searching for programs way easier than using an old-fashioned remote. Just download the Remote app, open it and you can control it instantly.
This is a better way to rent movies on the iPad.
If you don't want to use iTunes to rent movies on the iPad you can also use Google Play and Amazon Videos. Both of these services offer a 48 hour rental for most movies, a full day longer than Apple gives users. There are also often sales on these stores that can help you save a few bucks here and there.
Download the apps above and sign in to your Amazon or Google account. You'll need to rent the video in Safari or on your computer browser, but after you pay for it, the video will show up. Play Movies only offers streaming, but Amazon will let you download a rental to watch offline.
You can change the Equalizer on the iPhone to make your music sound better, or at least sound how you want it to. Go to Settings -> Music => EQ and then you can pick a setting that you like.
You can watch YouTube videos in your browser, but they will look a lot better in the YouTube app, and you can also upload videos to YouTube.
Download the YouTube iPad app and you can sign in to see your YouTube channels, rentals that stream from YouTube, popular YouTube videos and more.
Download the free YouTube Capture app to take videos on the iPad and upload them to your YouTube channel with streamlined titles, tags and uploading.
An iPad is a pain to carry around while you listen to music and you may not want to use a speaker to go wireless. Instead, a good pair of Bluetooth headphones allow you to walk around the house or yard without wires or carrying the iPad with you. When you turn Bluetooth headphones on for the first time they will attempt to pair. Go to Settings -> Bluetooth and tap on the name of the headphones to connect them.
If you want to read magazines on the iPad, Apple makes it easy with the NewsStand and many apps that allow you to register your paper magazine subscription and download a digital version to take with you.
If you want to use the Newsstand to subscribe to magazines on the iPad you need to open the App Store -> Tap on Newsstand at the top of the screen and then on a category or the main screen to see magazines. Most offer a sample subscription so you can see if you like reading magazines on the iPad before you buy.
If you need a specific magazine you can search the app store for that name, and if it is a popular magazine it may have its own app.
If you pay for Cable TV you can probably watch live TV on your iPad and iPad mini. You'll need to know the login information for your cable or satellite company and you'll also need to download one of these Live TV iPad Apps. After you download the app, login and look for the live TV option. Some may include restrictions to only watch at home, but others will allow you to watch from anywhere.
If you already own a lot of movies on DVD, and want to be able to watch them on your iPad, you will need to convert the DVD to an iPad playable file. You will need a DVD drive on your computer, a few cheap or free apps and storage space.
Follow this guide to save a DVD to your Mac and then convert it to one you can play on your iPad. After you rip a DVD to your hard drive you can import it to iTunes and transfer it to your iPad to watch later.
iBooks is a popular place to buy ebooks for the iPad, but if you may leave the iPad at some time, or need to also sync your books to your Windows computer, Android or other device, you can use the Kindle App to read ebooks you buy in the browser from Amazon.
Download Kindle for iPad and then go to your browser to buy books. Any purchases can show up in the device and you can add a book to your wishlist from the Kindle app, but you cannot buy from inside the Kindle iPad app.
Learn how to use Siri better and to take control of iPad apps.
Apps make the iPad great. Here are seven ways to organize your apps, do more with popular iPad apps and use Siri on your iPad.
If you want to open an app on the iPad you can use Siri to do this without searching all over for the app. Just hold down the home button for about two seconds and then say, "Open App Name" to quickly open an app you already have installed. Unfortunately, you can't use Siri inside apps like Spotify or Netflix, but at least you can open the app.
If you use Apple Maps to get around, and normally use walking directions, you can make the device give you those by default. Go to Settings -> Maps -> Preferred Directions – Walking. After this, you'll get directions for walking instead of driving.
If you want to take a map offline to use when you aren't on WiFi you'll need to download the Google Maps app for the iPad. Zoom to get the city or neighborhood you want to save to the iPad and then tap on the search bar. Type in OK Maps. You'll see an option to Save the offline map in the upper left and then an option to name it. After you do this, you'll have maps available when you are not connected to WiFi. The map is only saved for 30 days, and sadly does not include the option to search for places while offline. You can refer to it, but directions are not incredibly useful. Here's more on using offline maps.
Hold the home button to activate Siri and say "I need directions" and say the street address or a place. Siri will search for the place and then open it up in Apple Maps with route options available. Tap Start to get going.
If you frequently download apps, music and books on your iPhone or Mac, you can tell the iPad to automatically download them so that you don't need to wait when you are ready to use the app on your iPad later. Go to Settings -> iTunes & App Store -> Automatic Downloads -> choose the items you want to automatically download.
Apple offers a collection of office style apps, but if you use the iPad for work you'll want to download the Office for iPad apps to work on documents that co-workers and clients share. here is a review of Office for iPad to help you understand what it can do.
You need an Office 365 subscription, which retails for $99, but you can order a code on Amazon for $72 if you want to save and can wait for the delivery.
The iPad dock comes with four apps on it, just like the iPhone. But you can add two more apps to it. Tap and hold on an app until they all start to wiggle. While holding, drag the app to the dock and let go. You can use this method to move other apps to the dock and to remove an item from the dock. You can also add a folder of icons to the dock.
The iPad is a great way to communicate with your friends, family and even you boss or co-workers. Here are seven tips to use the iPad for productivity and communication.
If you want to use the iPad as a phone, you can do pretty much that if you are calling an iPad, iPhone or Mac. You can make a FaceTime Audio call which uses WiFi or LTE to call someone using the FaceTime app, without the hassle of video.
Open the FaceTime app, find a contact you want to call with FaceTime Audio. Tap on the contact and then on the small phone next to FaceTime. You can also do this from inside messages or anywhere you see the contact info for most users.
If you routinely FaceTime with a contact you can add them to your Favorites. This will make it easy to find them, and allow FaceTime calls to come through while the iPad is in Do Not Disturb, if you choose.
Open the FaceTime app -> Tap on Favorites -> tap the '+' at the top of the screen ->Tap on a contact -> Choose FaceTime Audio or FaceTime for the option. Once the person is added you can call them faster from the Favorites menu.
If you want to get notifications for email from specific users, but not for every email you can add a Mail VIP. Open the Mail App -> Go to Mailboxes on the left side of the screen -> Tap on the 'i' to the right of VIP. Tap on Add VIP and pick the contacts you want alerts for.
After you add your Mail VIPs, tap on the VIP alerts and the app will transfer you to Notification Settings. Tap on Mail and then VIP. Pick the sounds, and types of alerts and you are good to go.
Check out these iPad tips to FaceTime and email like a pro.
If you want to check your email on the iPad you will need to add an account. It is easy to add your personal account.
Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars – > Add Account -> Tap on the account you want to add.
From there it is as simple as entering your username and password for most email addresses. If you need to connect your work email that is using Exchange you will need to ask IT for instructions. Sometimes this requires a stronger password on the iPad.
Skip the "Sent from my iPad" signature and add your name, title and contact info instead. To change the email signature in Mail on the iPad go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then Tap on Signature and enter a new signature.
You can make one for all accounts or create a different one for each of your email accounts.
If you want to call someone with a Mac, iPhone or iPad you can use the built-in FaceTime app to do that. Open FaceTime, tap on a Contact and tap on the camera icon next to FaceTime.
If they have an Android device or a Windows computer, and use Gmail, you can download Hangouts for the iPad. This free app lets you make video calls to other Gmail users for free. Just tap on their name and then on the camera icon to start a Hangout video call.
If you want to see more of your email in a preview you can change the settings to show up to five lines. Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Preview -> Choose up to five lines of text for preview. This will show fewer messages on-screen at a time, but more info on each message so you can decide if it is important without opening it.
In addition to everything we've already shown you, here are several bonus iPad tips and tricks that will help you enjoy your iPad even more.
Use AirDrop to wirelessly share a file from iPad to iPhone or another iPad.
You can wirelessly share files from your iPad to the iPhone, or from iPhone to iPad, using AirDrop. When two devices are near each other you will see an option to share via AirDrop. This is normally available for photos and webpages, but you'll also see it from the small share box in other places.
Tap on a photo you want to share in the Photos app -> Tap share in the lower left -> You should see an icon under Airdrop if there is a compatible device nearby. Tap on the user to share. This only works with the iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad mini and iPad mini Retina, as well as with the iPod touch 5th gen, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
If you have your twitter and Facebook accounts connected to the iPad you can hold the home button and say "post to Facebook" or "Post to Twitter." Siri will then ask what you want to say, and you can dictate the message you want to share.
There are seven types of iPad hearing aids that are designed to work with the iPhone and iPad. If you own one of these brands you can pair them to the iPad like a Bluetooth headphone and then control the volume for each ear. You can even set the device in front of someone for a live listen feature that helps you hear what someone is saying. Check out more about the Made for iPhone and iPad hearing aids.
This iPad tip turns the iPad into a second display for your Mac or Windows notebook or desktop.
If you want to add a second monitor to your Mac or PC you can download Air Display 2, a $10 app that turns the iPad into a second display.
After you download the app for the iPad, you need to run a program on your Mac or PC that will connect the two devices and you can then use the iPad as a wireless monitor for your Mac or PC. Avatron includes more details on setup and any troubleshooting, but in our experience it is pretty easy to use.
If you want to share to Facebook or twitter from the iPad you should connect the accounts to your iPad. This is essential to sharing photos from the photos app and asking Siri to update your social network statuses.
Go to Settings -> Twitter or Settings -> Facebook and login with your email or username and password.
This is a good idea to do, even if you use another app like Tweetbot for Twitter, as it simplifies sharing photos and web pages.
if you want to charge the iPad faster you should turn on airplane mode. This will help it charge slightly faster than it will with all radios running. You won't notice a dramatic change in speed, but if you are pressed for time it will help. You should also make sure you charge it with the adapter that it came with, not just any USB adapter, since Apple provides one that can supply more energy than a typical USB charger.
If you install the Find My Friends app you can use the iPad to track down your fiends and family members, as long as they give you permission to track them. Download the Find My Friends App and log in with iCloud. Tap on Add -> Friends -> enter names, email addresses or phone numbers. They need to use an iPhone or iPad and they will need to grant you permission.
After you have permission you can look at the map to see where people are, or you can ask Siri, "Where is my wife?" for a faster lookup.
If you need more storage to carry your movies and photos with you on the iPad you can buy a wireless hard drive that connects to the iPad and streams your movies, iTunes rentals and photos to the iPad even when you are driving down the highway. You can go with an option like MobileLite or pick up a LaCie Fuel to really add the storage you want to the iPad.
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I have an IPad air 2, and I would like to know how to take pictures or save pictures in one album without it going into three places at the same time such as camera roll, photo streaming, and screenshots. I would like to take a screenshot and have it be in the Screenshots album only. Or to take a picture with the camera and have it go into the camera roll only what can I do? Any help would be appreciated thank you!
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Ropes & Gray Litigation Team Wins Dismissal with Prejudice...
Ropes & Gray Litigation Team Wins Dismissal with Prejudice for Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins
March 26, 2014 Practices: Business & Commercial Litigation, Litigation, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
A Ropes & Gray litigation team representing Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers won the dismissal with prejudice of a widely-publicized lawsuit brought by Think Computer Corporation against 11 venture capital firms and 14 of their leading Internet portfolio companies, including Facebook, Airbnb, and Dwolla and their investors. The suit alleged that, in violation of state and federal money transmission laws, these Internet companies hold and transmit funds on behalf of third parties without a license, and that a certain group of these companies' investors willfully ignored the violations.
The Ropes & Gray motion to dismiss argued that there were insufficient allegations upon which to infer that any of the defendants had violated state and federal money transmission laws, that the plaintiff had not suffered a competitive injury, and that the federal court did not have subject matter jurisdiction over the claims, which were principally predicated on state law.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the case against all defendants without leave to amend, adopting the arguments advanced in the Ropes & Gray brief. The court was persuaded that the plaintiff had not alleged a cognizable injury and that there was no federal jurisdiction over the state law portions of the complaint.
The Ropes & Gray team included business and litigation partner Rocky Tsai (San Francisco).
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Nicklas Lars Carlsson (* 13. November 1979 in Stockholm) ist ein ehemaliger schwedischer Fußballspieler. Der Innenverteidiger bestritt seine Karriere in Schweden und Dänemark. Sein Vater Lars Carlsson spielte ebenfalls in der Allsvenskan.

Werdegang
Nicklas Carlsson begann mit dem Fußballspielen 1985 beim für seine Jugendarbeit bekannten Stockholmer Klub IF Brommapojkarna, den er jedoch nach einem Umzug nach Delsbo kurze Zeit später verlassen musste. Nachdem er beim örtlichen Delsbo IF mit dem Spielen fortgefahren war, kehrte er später in die Nachwuchsabteilung von IF Brommapojkarna zurück. Hier durchlief er die weiteren Jugendmannschaften und rückte 1998 in den Kader der ersten Mannschaft auf. Mit der Mannschaft verpasste er 1999 aufgrund der Einführung der eingleisigen Superettan den Klassenerhalt auf dem zweithöchsten Spielniveau. Hatte er mit der Mannschaft im folgenden Jahr erst in der Aufstiegsrunde gegen Gefle IF den Wiederaufstieg verpasst, kehrte er 2001 mit ihr in die zweite Liga zurück. Als Stammspieler trug er in 29 Partien in der Zweitliga-Spielzeit 2002 zum Klassenerhalt des Klubs bei. Nach einer weiteren Halbserie in Schweden hatte er das Interesse des dänischen Klubs Aarhus GF geweckt.

Im Sommer 2003 verließ Carlsson sein Heimatland und heuerte in der dänischen Superliga an. An der Seite von Peter Graulund, Morten Petersen, Jeffrey Aubynn und Søren Pedersen war er über weite Strecken der Spielzeit Stammkraft und verhalf dem in den Abstiegskampf geratenen Klub – im Saisonverlauf ersetzte daher Carlssons Landsmann Sören Åkeby den Dänen Poul Hansen als Trainer – zum Klassenerhalt. Unter Åkeby, der die Mannschaft mit den Schweden Martin Ulander und Tobias Grahn verstärkt hatte, war er auch in der ersten Hälfte der Spielzeit 2004/05 weitestgehend Stammspieler.

Dennoch entschied Carlsson sich ein halbes Jahr vor Ablaufen seines Kontraktes zur Rückkehr nach Schweden und schloss sich dem Erstliga-Absteiger AIK an. An der Seite von Mannschaftskapitän Daniel Tjernström, Mats Rubarth, Kristian Haynes und Daniel Örlund stieg er mit der von Rikard Norling trainierten Mannschaft direkt wieder auf, mit sieben Saisontoren war er entscheidend am Erfolg beteiligt. Auch in der ersten Liga war er über weite Strecken Stammspieler und verhalf dem Aufsteiger in der Erstliga-Spielzeit 2006 zur Vizemeisterschaft hinter IF Elfsborg. Nachdem er auch zu Beginn der folgenden Spielzeit Teil der Stammformation war, entschied sich der Klub dennoch im Sommer seinen zum Jahresende auslaufenden Vertrag nicht zu verlängern und setzte auf Nils-Eric Johansson und Daniel Arnefjord als Innenverteidiger-Duo. Bis zum Saisonende kam er daher nur noch sporadisch zum Einsatz.

War lange über seinen neuen Klub spekuliert worden, unterschrieb Carlsson nach Saisonende Ende Oktober einen Drei-Jahres-Kontrakt beim amtierenden Meister IFK Göteborg. Im April 2008 verletzte er sich kurz nach Saisonbeginn an der Schulter und fiel lange aus. Nach seiner Rückkehr war er in der Spielzeit 2009 Ergänzungsspieler und kam zu sechs Spieleinsätzen als Einwechselspieler. Im Juli verletzte er sich erneut. Nach einem Kreuzbandriss fiel er abermals längerfristig aus. Erst in seinem dritten Jahr konnte er dauerhaft mit der Mannschaft trainieren und etablierte sich in der zweiten Hälfte der Spielzeit 2010 als Stammspieler neben Adam Johansson, Stefan Selakovic und Tobias Hysén. Dennoch verabschiedete er sich nach Auslaufen seines Vertrages vom Klub und kehrte im Dezember 2010 zu IF Brommapojkarna zurück. Beim Zweitligisten beendete er nach zwei Spielzeiten in der Superettan Ende 2012 seine aktive Laufbahn.

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Lenovo-Motorola is India's fourth largest smartphone brand
Against 6.5% market share in April-June 2015, the combine has gained 3% to finish the July-September quarter at 9.5%, according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) report.
December 05, 2015, 18:05 IST
KOLKATA: The Lenovo group, comprising Lenovo and Motorola brands, has overtaken Lava to climb to the fourth spot in the extremely competitive smartphone market in India. Against 6.5% market share in April-June 2015, the combine has gained 3% to finish the July-September quarter at 9.5%, according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) report.
Speaking to TOI, Lenovo group director (smartphones) Sudhin Mathur said the company had registered strong sales in the festive period that could propel them to one rung higher. "We want to be in the top three and are very close to achieving that," he said.
While Samsung is the industry leader in volume terms, Micromax is second and Intex third. The Lenovo-Moto combine has overtaken Lava to grab the fourth position. In value terms, Lenovo is number three, ahead of Intex. Samsung and Micromax again occupy the top-two spot.
"From value point of view, we have 11% market share. One of the reasons why we have grown so significantly is because of our dual brand strategy. Both are attracting different kinds of customers and in different platforms. While Lenovo sells offline and online, Moto is exclusively online. In the online space, we are the number one company," he said.
Mathur also pointed out that the company's conscious decision to stay ahead of the technology curve had also helped clock the numbers. "The changing landscape towards 4G has fuelled demand for 4G handsets. Customers are looking at future safe devices. All our devices barring one are 4G," he said.
To further boost sales, Lenovo has begun converting its PC and laptop outlets to smart connected device stores where Lenovo smartphones will also be sold.
To meet the service requirements, the company has begun opening Lenovo-Motorola exclusive service centres. Till date, the company has opened 52 centres across 42 cities and has targeted 100 by March 2016 across 75 cities that will cover 75% of the smartphone market.
"In major cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, we will have 6-7 exclusive service centres. These will be in addition to the 350-odd multi-brand service centres all over the country," the official added.


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Session I ~ Hacking the Classroom: A Roundtable of Lightning Talks
By Sweetland DRC on June 11, 2012 2012 C&W Reviews
Review by Crystal VanKooten
Virginia Kuhn, University of Southern California
Jim Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Liz Losh, University of California, San Diego
Vicki Callahan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mary Hocks, Georgia State University
Aimee Knight, St. Joseph's University
Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan
Craig Dietrich, University of Southern California
Viola Lasmana, University of Southern California
Jentery Sayers (moderator), University of Victoria
I sit in Tompkins 129 early Sunday morning, typing rapidly, sweating because it's so hot in the room and we're packed in like sardines. The panelists pop up and down, setting off five-minute firecrackers in my brain. In short, decisive bursts, they're attempting to hack into my laptop, my classroom, my pedagogy. What follows represents the hacking that went on that day, peppered with my own questions and comments for the presenters sent via Twitter.
Images created by Crystal VanKooten at http://atom.smasher.org/error/ and are © Atom Smasher, Creative Commons BY SA
Crystal VanKooten is a Ph.D. candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan, where she teaches composition courses and researches new media writing. Her dissertation study explores the potential link between audio-visual composing in the first-year writing classroom and the development of meta-awareness about composition.
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