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Steve Jobs Shares a Secret for Success: Don't Be Afraid to Ask for Help
in Apple, Business, Entrepreneurship, Life	| April 26th, 2019
In 1994—the year Apple co-founder Steve Jobs filmed an interview with The Silicon Valley Historical Association in which he encouraged people to go for what they want by enlisting others' assistance—there was no social media, no Kickstarter, no GoFundMe, no Patreon… email was just becoming a thing.
Back then, asking for help meant engaging in a face-to-face or voice-to-voice real time interaction, something many people find intimidating.
Not so young Jobs, an electronics nut who related more easily to the adult engineers in his Silicon Valley neighborhood than to kids his own age.
As he recounts above, his desire to build a frequency counter spurred him to cold call Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard), to see if he'd give him some of the necessary parts.
(In light of the recent college admissions scandal, let us recognize the 12-year-old Jobs not only had the gumption to make that call, he also appears to have had no parental assistance looking up Hewlett's number in the Palo Alto White Pages.)
Hewlett agreed to the young go-getter's request for parts. Jobs' chutzpah also earned him a summer job on a Hewlett Packard assembly line, putting screws into frequency counters. ("I was in heaven," Jobs said of this entry level position.)
Perhaps the biggest lesson for those in need of help is to ask boldly.
Ask like it's 1994.
No, ask like it's 1968, and you're a self-starter like Steve Jobs hellbent on procuring those specialty parts to build your frequency counter.
(Let's further pretend that lying around waiting for Mom to order you a DIY frequency counter kit on Amazon is not an option…)
Need an extra push?
Psychologist Adam Grant's bestselling Give and Take makes an effective case for human interaction as the pathway to success, whether you're the kid placing the call, or the big wig with the power to grant the wish.
Social psychologist Heidi Grant's book, Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You, explains how to ask without sniveling, self-aggrandizing, or putting the person on the receiving end in an awkward position.
And that shy violet Amanda Fucking Palmer, author of The Art of Asking and no stranger to the punk rock barter economy, details how her "ninja master-level fan connection" has resulted in her every request being met—from housing and meals to practice pianos and a neti pot hand delivered by an Australian nurse.
Just don't forget to say "please" and, eventually, "thank you."
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The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Check Out Ties, Briefcases & Handbags for Job Interviews
in Business, Entrepreneurship, Libraries, Life	| September 10th, 2018
Once upon a time, pubic libraries' circulating collections were limited to books and other printed materials.
Then audio recordings and movies entered into the mix.
There's a library in Ohio that lets its patrons check out guitars.
And now, New York Public Library cardholders can borrow a necktie, briefcase, or businesslike purse for a one-time, three-week lending period.
The New York Public Library Grow Up program at the Riverside branch is modeled on similar initiatives in Philadelphia and Queens.
The branch is situated across the street from two high schools, and librarian Thaddeus Krupo told Crain's New York Business that the program was launched in response to the high number of students taking advantage of the library's free career resources, such as printed sheets of job interview tips.
Most of the kids from Fiorello H. Laguardia High School Of Music & Art and Performing Arts (aka the "Fame" school), one of New York City's most competitive public schools, can be presumed to have a tie or two in their closets, along with whatever else they're required to wear onstage for their various concerts and performances. They're also being trained in how to present themselves in an audition-type situation.
Such universal assumptions don't necessarily apply to the massive Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex next door. Students there tend to have a rougher time of it than their neighbors across 65th street.
While Laguardia coasts on its reputation, MLK has never really gotten out from under the troubling stories left over from its bad old days. (Its original incarnation was ordered closed in 2005 as part of sweeping citywide educational reforms. These days, the building houses seven smaller schools.)
Hopefully, the library's teen patrons won't seek to complete their professional look by checking out pants and pumps. The Grow Up program isn't set up to provide the full-body coverage offered by likeminded non-profits Dress for Success and Career Gear… though its borrowed bags and ties are cleared to attend prom and graduation.
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Blitzscaling: A Free Stanford Course on Scaling a Startup, Led by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman
in Business, Entrepreneurship, Online Courses	| June 1st, 2017
A quick postscript to yesterday's mention of Reid Hoffman's new podcast, Masters of Scale. Many of the concepts discussed in Masters of Scale expand on a 2015 course taught at Stanford by Hoffman and his colleagues-- John Lilly from Greylock Partners, LinkedIn co-founder Allen Blue, and author Chris Yeh. The course focuses on Blitzscaling--or what Hoffman described in the Harvard Business Review as "the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale." And to help demystify that process, Hoffman invited guest speakers to class to break things down. Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google, Netflix's Reed Hastings on Building a Streaming Empire, Airbnb's Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale--they're among the experts featured in the course.
You can stream the 20 lectures from start to finish above, or find the playlist on Greylock Partner's YouTube channel. You can also find class notes for the course on Medium.
Blitzscaling will be added to our list of Free Online Business Courses, a subset of our collection, 1,500 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.
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in Business, Entrepreneurship	| May 30th, 2017
How do you create and eventually scale a successful business? It's a complicated question. And you can do worse than get answers from Reid Hoffman. He's currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. But you probably know him best as the co-founder of LinkedIn, the professional social network site recently acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion dollars. In his new podcast, Masters of Scale, Hoffman looks at how companies grow from zero users to a gazillion by interviewing fellow Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who have crossed that bridge. Guests include Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg, Netflix's Reed Hastings, and Google's Eric Schmidt, among others.
Even if you work in a business with more modest aspirations, there's some wisdom you can take away from these wide-ranging conversations. Hoffman's conversation with Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky (above) about hand-crafting customer experiences would help you run almost any business. You can find the Masters of Scale podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Entrepreneur.com, Spotify, and Google Play. Also find courses from other seasoned entrepreneurs right below.
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in Business, Entrepreneurship	| August 31st, 2016
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Briefly noted: If you're interested in entrepreneurship and marketing, you've likely encountered Seth Godin and his ever popular blog. Or perhaps you've read some of his bestselling books? But maybe you've never come across this: the "Startup School" where Godin guides 30 entrepreneurs through "how to build and run their dream business." On his blog, Godin wrote back in 2012:
I love startups. Not only do they bring the promise of rapid growth and real change, but everything is up for grabs. Organizations that start with a clean sheet of paper have the difficult task of paying the bills, but they also have the luxury of ignoring yesterday in order to focus exclusively on tomorrow.
Through the years, I've started a bunch of companies and enjoyed brainstorming with the people who have launched companies big and small, from AOL when they only had a dozen employees to some of the very cool organizations that come through the doors of NY Techstars.
Next month, I'm going to be running a small school--a few days for a few dozen startup founders... For those that won't be able to make it, I'll be recording the session and editing it down into something I can share here on the blog for free a few months later.
Below, you can stream those 15 free recordings, each of which runs 18-25 minutes. We've embedded the first segment, "Freelancer or Entrepreneur?." Further down you'll find links to the remaining ones, or you can get them on SoundCloud and iTunes. Godin's "Startup School" will be added to our collection of Free Online Business Courses, where you'll also find the useful YCombinator course, How to Start a Startup.
1) Freelancer or Entrepreneur?
2) Adjusting the Course
3) Creating Scarcity
4) Appealing to Consumers
5) Permission and Trust
6) Raising Money
7) Advertising and Competitors
8) Making Ideas Travel
9) Compromising
10) Tactics
11) Cash Flow
12) The Dip
13) Building The Truth
14) The ShipIt Journal
15) Distinct and Direct
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in Business, e-books, Entrepreneurship	| February 1st, 2016
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For years Marc Andreessen--the entrepreneur best known for launching Mosaic and later Netscape--ran a popular blog called "Pmarca" (apparently short for "Private Marc Andreessen") where he dispensed wisdom on startups, business, investing and beyond. If you've worked in startups, especially in Silicon Valley, you probably followed "Pmarca" fairly religiously.
Like so many others, Andreessen eventually took down his blog and began "tweetstorming" on Twitter--all while serving on the boards of Facebook, eBay, and HP, and running his now influential VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz. Before "Pmarca" could fade completely into oblivion, fans asked Andreessen to preserve the blog for posterity. And that he did. You can now download an archive of "Pmarca" as a free ebook. Available in three formats (ePub, Mobi, and PDF), the archived version can be read in pretty much the blog's original format. Start your downloads here.
in Business, Entrepreneurship, Stanford	| October 2nd, 2014
Peter Thiel has many claims to fame in Silicon Valley. He co-founded PayPal in 1998, before selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. He later launched various hedge funds, and made early investments in Facebook. He's an unabashed libertarian, a proponent of Seasteading and Singularity, a critic of the American university system, and the creator of the annual Thiel Fellowship, which pays promising college-age students to "stop out" of school for two years and launch business ventures instead.
Finally, Thiel is also now the bestselling author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Published in mid-September, the book received a pretty rave review in The Atlantic, where Derek Johnson calls it "a lucid treatise on capitalism and entrepreneurship" and perhaps "the best business book I've read."
The book itself is actually a distillation of thoughts Thiel presented in a course he taught at Stanford in 2012. And it just so happens that the notes from that course -- CS138 Startups -- are freely available online. They come courtesy of Blake Masters, a student in Thiel's class, who later helped the entrepreneur write Zero to One.
Below, you can find the lecture notes for 19 classes, which, when originally published on Masters' site, became pretty popular in the tech community. Links to these lectures will be permanently housed in our collections of Free Online Business Courses and Free Online Computer Science Courses. Other Stanford courses on entrepreneurship can be found here: Start Your Startup with Free Stanford Courses and Lectures.
Lectures Notes: CS138 Startups
Class 1: The Challenge of the Future
Class 2: Party Like it's 1999?
Class 3: Value Systems
Class 4: The Last Mover Advantage
Class 5: The Mechanics of Mafia
Class 6: Thiel's Law
Class 7: Follow The Money
Class 8: The Pitch
Class 9: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Class 10: After Web 2.0
Class 11: Secrets
Class 12: War and Peace
Class 13: You Are Not A Lottery Ticket
Class 14: Seeing Green
Class 15: Back to the Future
Class 16: Decoding Ourselves
Class 17: Deep Thought
Class 18: Founder as Victim, Founder as God
Class 19: Stagnation or Singularity?
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Sprinters: tailor your diet for maximum performance on race day with this sprinters diet from STACK Expert Kait Fortunato.
Done right, a sprinter's race lasts only a few seconds. Sprinting is not an "easy" sport. But the sprinter's diet might be a little different from those of other athletes, because sprinters' bodies use different energy systems during their races.
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Three energy systems produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the body's main source of energy. One of the three is the ATP-PhosphoCreatine (PC) system, which allows an athlete to exert maximal effort for approximately 12 seconds. Activities that use this system include heavy lifting for low repetitions, pitching a baseball and—you guessed it—sprinting.
Sprinters aim to increase muscle mass and power for their explosive event, so protein is clearly important. However, if carbohydrate and fat intake are insufficient, both energy levels and muscle mass will suffer. Remember, carbohydrates and protein work together to build muscle. Sprinters should be concerned with maintaining energy levels during training, ensuring quick recovery time and achieving a high power-to-weight ratio.
Focus on getting 1.2 to 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
Carbohydrate intake should be at 5 grams per kilogram of body weight to maintain glycogen stores during training (although carbohydrate is not the prime source of fuel during the actual race).
Creatine supplementation may increase muscle mass, but weight gain is possible. Research has shown that creatine supplementation for sprinters results in either a slight performance enhancement or no change in sprint velocity. If you're going to use creatine, it might make more sense to do it during your training, not on race day.
If you're hungry, eat a low-fiber/low-fat snack approximately one hour before the event. Examples include low-fat yogurt, a smoothie or a low-fiber protein bar. Don't try anything new on race day, and be sure to run fast!


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Today in Athens, State Secretary Jacques de Watteville and the Greek Minister of State Nikos Pappas resumed the discussions on unresolved tax issues which had been suspended a year ago. Switzerland and Greece wish to strengthen cooperation to combat tax crime. Within this framework, both sides discussed particularly the preparation of the planned automatic exchange of information from 2017/2018.
The revised double taxation agreement between Switzerland and Greece, which allows for the exchange of information upon request in accordance with the latest OECD standard, has been in force since 2012. Moreover, Switzerland and the EU initialled an agreement regarding the automatic exchange of information in tax matters on 19 March 2015. Subject to ratification, this should enter into force in 2017 and would also include Greece. In this way, tax fraud and evasion can be combatted more effectively in the future.
Before the automatic exchange of information enters into force, it would be beneficial if it could be made possible for taxpayers to resolve their issues with the authorities concerning any previously undeclared assets, as several EU countries have already done. Switzerland is prepared to cooperate with Greece in order for a viable solution to be found quickly to ensure taxation and prevent capital outflows to uncooperative financial centres.
Today's constructive and factual discussion made it possible for both sides to get an update and for the dialogue to be strengthened. It was agreed to pursue the talks in the next few weeks.
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What are Eligible and Non-Eligible Dividends?
When it comes to dividends, there are two main types: eligible and non-eligible. Eligible dividends are those that meet specific criteria in the Canadian Income Tax Act (ITA). To the contrary, non-eligible dividends do not meet those criteria. This can be confusing for business owners and investors. Let's take a closer look at what makes a dividend eligible or not.
Eligible Dividends
Eligible dividends are paid by a corporation to its shareholders from its "general rate income pool" (GRIP). To be considered part of the GRIP, earnings must come from business activities in Canada. Usually these dividends are paid by public corporations or private corporations with net income over the $500,000 small business deduction.
For a dividend to be an eligible dividend, the ITA stipulates that the corporation must have paid corporate tax on its profits at the general corporate rate. Therefore, eligible dividends must be paid out of after-tax income from business activities in Canada.
Corporations must make every effort to notify shareholders of an eligible dividend. Because eligible dividends are taxed at a lower rate than non-eligible dividends, this can save shareholders money come tax time.
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On the other hand, non-eligible dividends are not subject to the same rules as eligible dividends. These dividends can be paid by any type of corporation, including foreign companies. They are not required to come from the GRIP. Therefore, if a corporation only has passive income, they must pay non-eligible dividends. This is because passive income is not eligible for the small business deduction. Non-eligible dividends are taxed at a higher rate than eligible dividends.
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Celebrate the meaning of Thanksgiving in your classroom with this puzzle tree craft! Teach students what it means to be thankful, and have them share what they value the most this year. This is a great collaborative art project, and can be hung up on your bulletin board for the season! You can also use this activity for afterschool, and even with senior residents.
Draw the outline of a tree on a piece of brown poster board. You want it large enough so you can fit the puzzle pieces. You can use a template if that helps.
Glue the tree to a background. You can use our Fadeless print roll called Landscape, or you can cut and glue green and blue poster board together for the sky and grass. Then pin it up on your bulletin board.
Add the words "Thankul For…" at the top with the self adhesive letters.
Give each student 1-3 puzzle pieces, depending on the size of your classroom.
The puzzle pieces are the leaves. Have students color the puzzle pieces with fall colors, like yellow, red, and orange. Hint: For darker colors and a more multi-colored tree look, have some of the students color their puzzle pieces twice with the marker.
Have each students write what they are thankful for on their puzzle pieces. They may write things like friends, my bike, or candy.
Choose one student to start. Have him or her glue their pieces onto the tree, and share with the class why they chose each word.
We added a cute owl to the center of the tree. You can extend the activity by having students draw or cut out some animals and put around or in the tree, like birds, squirrels, deer, and more. Have everyone say why they are thankful for animals!
As an alternative to puzzle pieces and for a more natural look, you could also use these wooden leaves!
We'd love to see how your Thanksgiving puzzle tree comes out! Share a photo in the comments below.
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First Look: Knives Out
By Steve Charnock on
One of most crime aficionados' very favourite sub-genres is the whodunit. We just can't get enough of those complicated and complex stores that pit us against the detective, challenging us to solve the puzzle before the professionals.
The queen in this area is, of course, the legendary Agatha Christie. She perfected the style and her work accounts for many small and big screen whodunits down the years – the most recent of which was Sir Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. Soon we'll be able to add another film to the list, the exciting-looking Knives Out from one of Hollywood's most creative and capable directors, Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi).
Described as a 'neo-noir black comedy' and 'a modern take on the whodunit murder mystery', early word is that this star-studded movie looks set to subvert the genre as much as much as embrace it. Whether that makes for an affectionate love letter to the whodunit or more of a satirical lampooning, we'll have to wait and see.
What's the plot of Knives Out?
So what do we know so far? Well, the plot is – as you might imagine – a rather simple and familiar one. A family gathering ends in murder. Everyone there is a suspect and it's up to a pair of detectives to work out who's responsible…
Rian Johnson's full feature debut as a director was Brick, a low key noirish detective story starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, so we know the man behind the project loves this kind of thing. He's mentioned a slew of classic mystery books and films as influences on his new flick, including Death on the Nile, Murder by Death, Something's Afoot, Deathtrap, Gosford Park and The Private Eyes.
Is there a Knives Out film trailer?
Here's the official trailer:
Who's in the cast of Knives Out?
As we can see, looking into the case are a couple of sleuths in the shape of Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc and Lakeith Stanfield as Detective Lieutenant Elliot.
Christopher Plummer plays Harlan Thrombey, the grandfather and patriarch of the family. It's his 85th birthday the relatives have gathered to celebrate, and as a special birthday gift he finds himself bumped off.
Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Harlan's eldest daughter, Linda, and Don Johnson as her husband Richard. Further cast and family members include the likes of Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell.
A quicker way of describing the film might be, 'Cluedo. With Bond and Captain America.' But Knives Out certainly sounds intriguing and the trailer gives the impression that this is all set to be a rather classy affair with a frankly quite incredible cast of players.
So we've got high hopes for Knives Out. It looks like a solid concept with fresh invention and ideas mixed in. Let's hope the critics don't have to get their knives out for it when it's released later this year.
Knives Out will be showing in a cinema near you from 25 November 2019. It looks a cut above, so be sharp and don't miss it.
Steve Charnock
Steve Charnock is a freelance writer who writes news stories, features, articles, reviews and lists. But *always* forgets to write his mum a birthday card.
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Perhaps the most over-hyped film I have ever seen, not helped by Craig's appallingly inconsistent accent; consequently, it is a grating distraction throughout.
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We need to promote a well-informed, calm and balanced debate, and we need to continue working to reform and improve the global trading system, to the benefit of all.
with trade acting as an important driver.
Nevertheless, it is important to acknowledge that trade is not perceived so positively in many constituencies. There are a number of specific concerns which are often raised. They must be heard and responded to if we are to ensure that trade keeps delivering the economic gains of which history shows it is capable.
For example, we must recognize that while the benefits of trade are spread across the economy, the effects of increased competition can hit specific communities hard. We need to put more focus on how governments can mitigate those impacts. We must also rectify the perception that imports make jobs disappear. Actually, the vast majority of jobs are lost because of new technologies and increased productivity. In addition, we need to address the perception that trade only favours the big companies. This is not true, but there's no doubt that trading internationally is normally much more costly and difficult for small enterprises. We need to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to trade – not least as they are huge job creators, accounting for around 90% of the workforce in many countries. In responding to these concerns, we need to promote a well-informed, calm and balanced debate, and we need to continue working to reform and improve the global trading system, to the benefit of all.
A lot has already been achieved on this front. The WTO's members have quietly delivered a run of trade reforms over the last two and a half years, such as the Trade Facilitation Agreement. This was the first multilateral trade agreement since 1995 and it could reduce average trade costs by over 14% globally. WTO members also agreed to abolish export subsidies in agriculture, which was the biggest reform in global agriculture trade for 20 years. And, a group of members have struck a deal to eliminate tariffs on a range of new generation information technology products, worth around 1.3 trillion dollars each year.
These agreements will help to lift trade and economic growth, but clearly there's more to do if we are to get trade moving again for small and large businesses alike, in developed and developing countries alike. That's what we're trying to do at the WTO. Every WTO member agrees that we need to make progress on outstanding issues such as domestic subsidies in agriculture, and improved market access for agricultural produce, industrial goods and services. Some are also keen to discuss a range of other issues, such as facilitating digital trade, promoting investment, and ensuring that the trading system supports MSMEs. In each case, flexibility and creativity will be essential ingredients if progress is to be made.
This is a crucial time in the trade debate. If we work together, there is a huge amount we can do to ensure that trade continues to improve people's lives. If we don't, we risk exacerbating wider economic problems and to the detriment of global growth and development. As ever, the G20 will play a leading role in this debate, and in strengthening global trade for the benefit of all.


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Antonio Lauro (1917 - 1986)
Antonio Lauro was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. His father was a barber who sang and played the guitar, but he died when Antonio was five years old, and the family moved to Caracas. Antonio studied the piano and composition at the Academia de Música y Declamación, where his teachers included the distinguished composer Vicente Emilio Sojo (1877-1974). A 1932 concert by Agustín Barrios, the legendary Paraguayan guitarist and composer, convinced the young Lauro (already an accomplished folk guitarist) to abandon piano and violin and concentrate upon the guitar. From 1933, he studied with Ral Borges (1888-1967), who introduced him to the traditional classical guitar repertory. In the next decade, Borges pupils would also include Rodrigo Riera, José Rafael Cisneros, and Alirio Díaz, who was responsible for exposing Lauro's works to an international audience and introducing them to the likes of Andrés Segovia and John Williams.
Like many South Americans of his generation, Lauro was a fervent cultural nationalist, determined to rescue and celebrate his nation's musical heritage. As a member of the Trio Cantores del Trópico in 1935-43 where he sang bass and played both guitar and cuatro, Lauro toured nearby countries to introduce them to Venezuelan music. Lauro was particularly attracted to the myriad colonial parlour valses created in the previous century by accomplished national composers such as Ramón Delgado Palacios (1867-1902). Unfailingly melodic, alternately wistful and brilliant, and characterized by a distinctive syncopation, such music was precisely the sort of folkloric raw material which the likes of Smetana or Granados had elevated to national art in Europe. A programme of such valses by the distinguished Venezuelan pianist Evencio Castellanos (1914-1984) convinced Lauro that the guitar, too, should have such pieces in its repertory. Among his first efforts in this genre were the pieces later known as Tatiana, Andreina, and Natalia, composed sometime between 1938 and 1940; their popularity inspired still others. In addition to his guitar pieces. Lauro composed dozens of works for orchestra, choir, piano and voice; many of which remain unpublished. He sometimes experimented with modern compositional techniques, but most of his guitar music remains essentially on the Calle real or "main street", an expression used by musicians of Lauro's generation to refer to a straight and direct route, without distracting harmonic detours.
In 1951-2, the military junta of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez imprisoned Lauro for his principled belief in democracy. Lauro later shrugged off the experience, telling his friends that prison was a normal part of life for the Venezuelan man of his generation. He had continued composing even in prison, and after his release immediately returned to performing with a pioneering professional classical guitar trio, the Trio Raúl Borges. In the next decades Lauro's compositions were published, recorded, and performed throughout the world, and his contributions to his nation's musical life were recognized and acknowledged. Lauro was appointed professor of guitar at several distinguished schools including the Juan José Landaeta Conservatory, and was named president of the Venezueland Symphony Orchestra. In spite of his modest insistence that he was a composer rather than a performer, he was persuaded by his friends to embark upon a solo concert tour which began in Venezuela and culminated in a triumphant 1980 performance at London's Wigmore Hall. Shortly before his death in 1986, he was presented with the Premio nacional de música, his country's highest artistic award.
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A recent article released by Business News Daily called for small businesses to focus on the customer experience for 2019 as part of their Small Business Trends and Predictions for 2019 piece. And why not? If you can't win on price or market saturation, why not woo the customer by making them feel like the most important customer you have? You can't do that with technology alone. When push comes to shove, everyone wants a real person helping them with an issue, and you want some answers now when you have a problem. Would you expect anything less for your employees with things as sensitive as HR or Benefits issues? Do you really want to tell them, "there's an app for that," when their coverage is denied?
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By SCN Staff ( Systems Contractor News ) published 2 December 15
Signaling its commitment to the Chicago market, Waveguide Consulting, Inc. recently signed a five-year lease in a 12-story high-rise on the city's west loop. The company established a foothold in Chicago two years ago when it brought Michael Kohlenberger onboard as its senior executive, business development.
Two years ago, CEO Scott Walker explained Waveguide's rationale for investing in the market. "We plan to increase our opportunities in Chicago and throughout the Midwest," said Walker. "We see tremendous potential to develop more business in these markets and believe Mike can be a big help with that."
That strategy has paid off. Already Waveguide has landed three large Chicago-based enterprise clients – Arthur J. Gallagher, William Blair, and Hyatt Hotels. "This new office will give us the space and presence we need to best serve our clients and build our business," said Walker.
Waveguide Principal David Lerette will join Kohlenberger in early 2016. Lerette will serve as director of the Chicago office. Located across from Willis Tower, the new office space will accommodate up to six client-facing consultants who will be supported by Waveguide's more than 60 AV, IT, and acoustics professionals.
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Joseph Maria Olbrich – (1867-1908)
Joseph Maria Olbrich was a leading architect of the Austrian Art Nouveau and one of the founders of the Vienna Secession.
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About his life
Born in Opava, in Austrian Silesia (now part of the Czech Republic), Joseph Maria Olbrich studied architecture at the Wiener Staatsgewerbeschule and afterwards at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Otto Wagner.
Along with Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt, Olbrich was a founding member of the "Viennese Secession" (1897), a group of dissenting artists who split off in protest against the academy art scene as other late 19th-century secessionist artists had already done in Berlin (1892) and Munich (1893).
The Secession Building, 1897, J. M. Olbrich
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About his style
Influenced by the Viennese architect Otto Wagner (1841-1918), Olbrich was also associated with Art Nouveau, known in Austria as Sezessionstil or by its German name of Jugendstil, and was involved in the decorative design which it promoted. But he managed to overcome the weaknesses and limitations of Art Nouveau architecture, combining its fantastic appearance with spatial and distribution functionality.
Thus, like Victor Horta (1861-1947) in Belgium, Hector Guimard (1867-1942) in France, and Antoni Gaudì (1852-1926) in Spain, Olbrich acted as a bridge between 19th century architecture and the advent of full-blooded modernism in the hands of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Walter Gropius (1883-1969) and the Bauhaus design school (1919-33).
Wedding Tower. Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany,1908
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What are his major works?
"House of the Secession" in Vienna (1898-1999). Josef Maria Olbrich designed the building for the Secession exhibitions, which was his first large-scale project. It is notable for its blocky simplicity, but the metal dome is decorated with Art Nouveau floral ornaments.
The Hochzeitsturm (1907; Tower of the Wedding) in Darmstadt, which had rounded toe-shaped roof overhangs reminiscent of Art Nouveau, but also had sashes that marked a distinctly modern trend.
House at Cologne-Marienburg (1908–09) and a department store in Düsseldorf (designed in 1906 and completed after his death).
Olbrich was involved in designing the Viennese Secession periodical, "Ver Sacrum".
Ver Sacrum by Joseph Olbrich. July 1898
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Darmstadt artists' colony
A colony of artists originated in Darmstadt around 1900 with the support of the Grand Duke of Hesse Ernst Ludwig von Hesse. He tried to implement this Crafts Guild idea, which was pursued by Victorians such as Ruskin and Morris, creating a village studio that included studio apartments, a workshop school, and his own residence. The goal of the colony was to contribute to the economic growth of the region through the presence of the most important German-speaking artists, whose work is presented to the public in a series of exhibitions. Olbrich designed six houses here, as well as a central meeting and study hall, which bears witness to the influence of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Ernesto Luigi's house was built in the form of a common atelier following the projects drawn up by Joseph Maria Olbrich. Olbrich had worked as an architect and was the central figure of the artistic cenacle, while Peter Behrens had been involved only as a painter and illustrator.
Wilhelm Deiters House;
The large Glückert house;
The small Glückert house (Rudolf Bosselt's house);
House of Joseph Maria Olbrich;
Ludwig Habich's House;
Hans Christiansen House
House of Ernesto Luigi in Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
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AN OSCAR FOR HOWARD!
I nominate Howard Miyata for an Academy Award: BEST ACTOR IN A PERFORMANCE BY A JAZZ BAND. Here's why:
Rambling around YouTube, I saw a clip posted by Tom Warner (his channel is "tdub1941") of the High Sierra Jazz Band performing at the 17th Annual Glacier Bay Jazz Stampede in Kalispell, Montata, earlier this month. The band is led by reedman Pieter Meijers. Its other members in this clip are Bruce Huddleston, piano; my man Marc Caparone, trumpet; Howard Miyata, trombone / vocal; Charlie Castro, drums; Stan Huddleston, banjo; Earl McKee, sousaphone.
This would have been enticement enough.
But then I saw the clip was of THE YAMA YAMA MAN with Howard Miyata singing. I am very fond of that song for purely sentimental reasons: when I was young, perhaps still in the single digits, Ray Nolan, a friend of my father's used to sing it (in part) and I was enraptured.* Both my father and Ray are gone now, and the sound of this song is one of the many comforting memories of my childhood.
And anything that features Howard Miyata is, as they used to say, just my dish. We've never met, but he has a special place in my heart as "Uncle Howie" to Gordon, Justin, and Brandon Au — one of the true up-and-coming dynasties of jazz. I first saw Howard as part of a High Sierra brass trio playing POTATO HEAD BLUES on cornets with unforgettable accuracy and power.
So be brave and watch this performance:
Even though the Yama Yama Man might be hiding behind the armoire, just tell him that you're a friend of Uncle Howie's and everything will be fine.
P.S. An easy question: just which irreplaceable vocalist and trumpet player, initials L. A., does Howard remind you of? Hilariously from the heart!
*Off the track of jazz: Ray also sang something which was presumably a Civil War song (!) although he must have heard it from his grandfather or father. The singer is presumably a young man going off to fight, and what I remember of the lyrics are, "Good-bye, Ma / Good-bye, Pa / Good-bye, mule with the old hee-haw / I may not know what this war's about / But you bet by gosh that I'll sure find out." Can any reader identify this?
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ABE LINCOLN, SWASHBUCKLER
I have a special fondness for those musicians who never get their share of the limelight — not only Joe Thomas but also Frank Chace, Mike Burgevin, Cliff Leeman, Benny Morton, Shorty Baker, Rod Cless come to mind.
It would be impossible to say who is most underrated or under-recognized, but trombonist Abe Lincoln is certainly a contender for Jazz's Forgotten Man. Although his astonishing playing enlivens many recordings — the late Thirties West Coast sessions that Bing Crosby and Hoagy Carmichael made with small jamming bands (often including Andy Secrest on cornet) and later sessions with the Rampart Street Paraders and Matty Matlock's Paducah Patrol, he's not well known. I first heard him out in the open on a wondrous Bobby Hackett Capitol session, COAST CONCERT or COAST TO COAST, where Abe and Jack Teagarden stood side by side. It wasn't a cutting contest, but Abe's joyous exuberance was more than a match for Big T.
There are exceptions — cornetist Bob Barnard is a heroic one — but many jazz brassmen start their solos low and quiet, and work up to their higher registers for drama. Abe Lincoln reminds me of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., leaping from a balcony, sword drawn. There's no shilly-shallying; Abe starts his solos with a whoop in his highest register and STAYS THERE. He's dazzling.
I'm currently writing the liner notes for a forthcoming CD on the JUMP label (Joe Boughton's cherished enterprise) which will feature a "Rampart Street Paraders" group in performance. The venue was called "Storyville," apparently located in San Francisco in the Sixties. The band? How about Billy Butterfield, Matty Matlock, Stan Wrightsman, Ray Leatherwood, Nick Fatool, and Abe Lincoln. Looking for information in my discographies, I found sketches of Lincoln's associations: the California Ramblers, Ozzie Nelson, Paul Whiteman, Roger Wolfe Kahn, West Coast radio and film work, soundtrack work for Walter Lanz Woody Woodpecker cartoons, even!
Then I did what has become common practice for researchers: I Googled "Abe Lincoln" "jazz" "trombone" — to separate him from that other Abe who split rails and ended the Civil War.
And THIS came up — a whole website devoted to Abe: thorough, accurate, with photographs, articles, a discography, a video clip (!) and a biography:
http://www.abelincolntrombone.com/index.htm
It doesn't make Abram Lincoln (not "Abraham," by the way) a great deal more famous, but I applaud the site and bless the person who created it. Check it out and enjoy Mister Lincoln.
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If you're anything like us, the lack of a new Phoenix record has really started to take its toll, making each album-less month a little more difficult than the last. Thank God, then, that after a three-year absence the Parisian popsters are finally rolling out not one but two new records in 2009.
First off, as previously reported, the band are planning to release their follow-up to 2006's much-loved It's Never Been Like That in May, dubbing the group's fourth album proper Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
The album was recorded last year and features Philippe Zdar of French house outfit Cassius co-producing. Also, it's apparently "fast and intense," with the group's front-man Thomas Mars suggesting to NME that the record captures some of the energetic spirit of the group's 2000 debut, United, with a more guitar-oriented sound.
"This album shares many similarities with United, our first one. I feel like we started this record without any specific goal in mind," explained Mars. "The last record was about our present, this one is about our future."
To hear a brief sample of just what Mars is talking about you can currently check out a snippet of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix over at the band's website.
Now, as for that aforementioned second album, Phoenix have confirmed that they're up next to curate a mixtape for Paris label Kitsune as part of the imprint's Tabloid series. That release has been given the due date of March 23 in the UK, and by the looks of the artists included on the comp, we're in for quite the eclectic mix. Throughout the collection's 18 tracks, Phoenix have included songs by everyone from Kiss to Tangerine Dream to D'Angelo to Urge Overkill to Dirty Projectors to everyone's favourite dead Beach Boy Dennis Wilson.


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David Farmer, Director of Programming, American Institute of Mathematics, Ph.D. in Mathematics, Oklahoma State University.
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Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (Redirected from Win Spencer)
United States naval officer (1888–1950)
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.
Kinsley, Kansas, U.S.
Coronado, California, U.S.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Naval Air Station San Diego
Bessie Wallis Warfield
Mariam J. Maze
Norma Reese Johnson
Lillian Phillips
(after 1941)
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (1920)
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (September 20, 1888 – May 29, 1950) was a pioneering U.S. Navy pilot who served as the first commanding officer of Naval Air Station San Diego. He was the first husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor.
1 Early life and military career
3 Later life
4 In art, screen portrayals, and literature
Early life and military career
Known as Win, he was born in Kinsley, Kansas, son of Earl Winfield Spencer Sr., a socially prominent Chicago stockbroker, and the former Agnes Lucy Hughes of Jersey. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1910 and in 1917 was sent to San Diego with instructions to set up a permanent naval air station, which was to be used for training exercises, and he became its first commanding officer.
Spencer was married five times.[citation needed] Four of his wives were:
Bessie Wallis Warfield (1896–1986), only child of Teackle Wallis Warfield, member of a prominent Maryland family; they married in Baltimore on November 8, 1916. Spencer was alleged to be abusive and an alcoholic. After several separations, the Spencers divorced in December 1927. After a second marriage, to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, and a subsequent divorce, Wallis Spencer married the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and became the Duchess of Windsor.
Mariam J. Maze (1895–1997) the former wife of Albert Cressey Maze (1891–1943). She was the former Miriam Ham, daughter of George and Katie Anastasia (née Eagels) Ham of Portland, Oregon. They married in September 1928 and were divorced in 1936, the same year Spencer was made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy by Benito Mussolini. By this marriage he had one stepson, Robert Claude Maze Sr., Major, USMC (killed in action, 1945). Mariam Spencer married, in 1939, as her third husband, Arthur William Radford, Vice Admiral, USN, future Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Norma Reese Johnson (1891–1944), the widow of Homer Sturtevant Johnson, a Detroit manufacturer who died in 1928, and a daughter of Carl Reese, of Detroit, Michigan. Spencer and Johnson were married in Los Angeles, California, on July 4, 1937. By this marriage he had two stepdaughters: Betty L. Johnson, an actress and songwriter (married Balie Peyton Legare Jr. (1908–1984), a jazz musician, whom she divorced in 1942) and Kathryne Johnson (born circa 1912, married Dell Myron Wade Jr). The Spencers' wedding was a double wedding with Betty and Peyton Legare, whose wedding in February 1937 in Tijuana, Mexico, was not valid under California law and needed to be resolemnized. The couple separated on February 9, 1940, and were divorced later that year in Santa Monica, California. Both parties charged cruelty, and Norma declared that her husband was plagued by what The New York Times's announcement of their acrimonious divorce delicately called "habitual intemperance." Time magazine reported, "During a stormy session of accusations and counteraccusations Navyman Spencer, charged with cruelty and habitual intemperance, testified that his weekly liquor bill was only about $10, that his wife 'drank as much of it as I did.'"
Lillian Phillips (1892–1981), daughter of Robert A. and Ella Burgess Phillips, whom he married October 2, 1941.
Commander Spencer died in Coronado, California. He is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California, with his wife Lillian.
In art, screen portrayals, and literature
He was portrayed by actor Ryan Hayward in W.E., the 2011 British romantic drama film about the love of Wallis and King Edward VIII co-written and directed by Madonna.
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The Mother Goddess of Silk: Leizu weaving her magic. Image courtesy of Fine Art America
Since the beginning of time, silk has been one of the most coveted and elegant fabrics in existence. Admired for its beauty and opulence, silk is also valued for its versatility and durability. Silk has been used to make everything from luxurious couture gowns to military parachutes. Most top tier performing arts costume shops use nothing but silk to make everything from a peasant costume to an over the top confection for the star performer.
As a valuable commodity it made its way along The Silk Road into western sensibilities. Examples of silk have even been discovered on Egyptian mummies and on the preserved bodies of Pompeii.
But the history of silk has some very sacred and mythical origins, where fact and fiction blend to become legend, going back over 5,000 years. And it all began with a woman named Leizu, who is also known as "The Mother Goddess of Silk".
The Altar in Leizu's Temple located in Yichang, China. Honoring the Mother Goddess of Silk. Image courtesy of Barclay Travel Community.
As the legend goes, the Empress Leizu was seated under under a mulberry tree, drinking tea in her garden. Suddenly a cocoon dropped from the tree into her teacup. Leizu observed that the hot water began to soften the cocoon, causing it to dissolve into a long filament cord that she could wrap around her finger. And this was how silk was discovered.
Not satisfied with having discovered silk filament, Leizu is also credited with having invented the silk reel (similar to the spinning wheel) to create thread from the fiber, as well as the loom! This allows the threads to be woven into fabrics. And that my friends, is how legends are made.
So thanks to Leizu's ingenuity, silk became the number one commodity for China. So much so, that it became a closely guarded state secret, traded like valuable currency along the Silk Road. Making its way to all the major capitals of the world where it became a highly sought after status symboled for the influencers of the times. In fact, the Romans called the nation of China "Serica" which translates into "The Land of Silk".
Silk Togas and Stolas were a status symbol in Ancient Rome here worn by the main characters in the 2000 film "Gladiator". The Roman name for China was "Serica" meaning "Land of Silk". Image courtesy of Universal/Dreamworks.
Silk togas were a highly valued status symbol among wealthy romans. An excellent example of this was the silken togas worn by the characters in the 2000 film "Gladiator". Even though the film was wrought with costume anachronisms, the costume designer did get it right when she dressed the characters in sumptuous silks.
But eventually, the art of sericulture (silk farming) made its way out of China as Chinese craftsmen migrated to other parts of the world. Soon other countries like India, Japan and even the Republic of Venice where producing their own versions of silk. Each region adding its own unique characteristic to this luxurious fabric.
Durability & Flexibility
One particular characteristic that made silk such a valuable commodity was its durability. That is because silk is a monofilament fiber. That means that each cocoon will produce only one thread that can go on for yards and yards. When they are wound together to create a cord for weaving it gives silk a great deal of strength. Until the invention of synthetic fabrics, silk had a number of industrial uses for things like surgical sutures and bicycle tires.
But perhaps the most curious industrial use was in the manufacture of parachutes during World War II. This caused a shortage for consumers in particular silk stocking industry since manufacturing had to be diverted away from wearable goods to wartime production. But everyone did their part to pitch in for the war effort and patriotic young women gave up their silk stockings and instead painted lines in the back of their legs to give the appearance of wearing them.
A US Marine Corps manual outlining the uses of silk in combat. Image courtesy of USAF/USMC.
This trend went on until the invention of another monofilament fiber: nylon. So silk stockings became "nylon stockings" and parachutes, well you get the picture. And this event gave birth to yet another phenomena in the fashion food chain: Wedding dresses made from recycled silk parachutes! This trend was particularly popular in Great Britain since the British people had suffered terribly during the war and experienced tremendous shortages as a result. So naturally for a War Bride to have worn a dress with such a provenance was a fashion statement that was much political as it was symbolic.
Versatility is another quality that is attributed to silk. Depending on how the fibers were processed, silk can be made to look like the most humble cloth or the most luxe textile.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Two examples of parachute silk wedding dresses from WWII. Credits: (L) Creative Commons. (R) The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC.
And it's for this reason that performance arts organizations use silk as their fabric of choice when it comes to building their costumes. This is because, say, for example Raw Silk or Tussah Silk can be used to create a simple peasant or workers costume and as another example, Silk Satin could become a stunning evening dress or Silk Velvet can become a sumptuous cloak for royalty. All from that one little boiled larvae!
A precious legacy: Another example of repurposed parachute silk, this time for the entire wedding party! Image courtesy of Tim Collins @timcollins
Again, durability plays a huge factor for silk being the fabric of choice for costume productions.Because of its monofilament structure, self has the ability to absorb dyes very effectively. This is why silks take on such rich vibrant colors and can survive year after year even after undergoing the punishments of a theatrical or film performance. Afterwards the pieces are recycled for the next season or film.
My cleanser of choice: Nowadays most silks are sent to the dry cleaners, however hand washing is the best way to go and Dr Bronner's Pure Castile Soap is my cleanser of choice!
Finally, some of the least known but most important characteristic of silk is its insularity. This means that it keeps the wearer warm when it's cold and cool when it's hot. Its washability is another forgotten property, but yes, under the right conditions silk may be gently washed with a mild soap, such as Dr Bronner's Castile Soap and cool water. Nowadays though, most silk garments are dry cleaned.
My Fabric of Choice
Silk has always been my first fabric of choice when it comes to designing a costume. The fact that it can be processed to look like almost anything makes it an ideal material for costumes. When presented with an idea, if it can be made from silk then that's what I am going to use for the build. I would like to share with you know, some of my past projects utilizing silk so that the reader can truly appreciate this "Goddess of all Fabrics":
"Raw Silk" or "Silk Noil"
Cosplay costume made from Silk Noil. Click on the image for more about this costume.
Can you believe that coat is made of silk? The deep navy fabric is known as "raw silk" or "silk noil" and it derives its name from the silk making process because it comes from the first rendering of the boiling process. A bit like "virgin" olive oil is rendered from the first pressing. Unlike its Italian counterpart though, it is not held in the same value as the subsequent filaments that the cocoon gives up.
This first rendering is generally scooped up and used to make a very rustic and organic fiber that is woven into the above mentioned fabric. Unfortunately since it doesn't yet have the monofilament qualities of regular silk, it can only be woven with a very narrow loom. The usual width of this fabric hardly ever goes past 35" as opposed to the 45" and 60" standard with of most silks.
Since most silks are now produced through mass automation, this extra step of sustainability is no longer deemed practical by the manufacturers. So that initial step of scooping up the first rendering is no longer done and its simply discarded. Making this fabric very difficult to find. According to my suppliers, this type of silk will soon be a thing of the past.
Silk Brocade
Here are two examples of silk brocade upholstery fabric. Prior to the Industrial Revolution of the 19cc, there was no differentiation between garment and home furnishing fabrics.
These two costumes where actually made from silk brocade upholstery fabrics. Upholstery fabric is an excellent choice for making period costumes from the Renaissance to the Baroque.
That is because back then the same material could be used to upholster your furniture or your body. There was no differentiation between one or the other. So using upholstery, in particular if it's silk upholstery, gives the garment a touch of authenticity. The costume on the left is also trimmed with silk lace that has been blended with gold thread. As is her Mop Hat too.
Silk Velvet
With the exception of the shoes and wigs, every fabric in this picture is some variation of silk.
This 18cc costume, with the exception of the wig and shoes, is made completely from silk. The jacket is silk velvet, the pants are silk peau de soie, the vest silk brocade, the chemise silk noil, hosiery mercerized silk, the lace and gold trim-you guessed it- silk. Even the bows on the shoes are made from silk! Such is the variety and versatility of silk.
Silk Faille/Moiré
Black silk and in particular, black silk Moiré, is a very popular staple for Victorian window's weeds.
This is a very unusual finishing for silk called "Silk Faille" of "Silk Moiré". It was very popular in Victorian times and then experienced a brief revival in the 80's but is rarely used today. Hence the lady in the widows weeds made popular by Queen Victoria. This silk starts out in life as a "Faille". The process of creating Faille is achieved by having the spindle on the loom skip over a few threads as it weaves the fabric, giving it a "wide whale" similar to corduroy. In order to create the "moiré" watermark, the fabric is steamed with an acidic component and then pressed with pressed with rib rollers to create that watermark effect. Click on the image to see the web post where you can see the original Victorian upon which this designed was based.
Fantasy costume with cape made from Tussah Silk. Sarong is Silk Noil and cape appliqués are made from silk Dupioni.
Here's another example of a variety of silks used for one costume. The cape is made from Tussah Silk which has its origins in India. It has a heavy hand and wide "slubs" which are irregularities in the weave of the fabric, giving it a rich textured look. Thanks to this weaving process, the fibers can absorb dyes with maximum saturation. The sarong is made from silk noil while the cape appliqués are made from Silk Dupioni. Last but not least, her bodystocking is embroidered with our silk thread.
Luxurious Silk Dupioni fabric saturated with vibrant jewel-toned colors
Silk Dupioni is also referred to as "Thai Silk" because most of its production takes place in Thailand. However, China, India and even Italy manufacture this gorgeous silk. Like the aforementioned Tussah silk, it also is considered a "slubby" fabric however, the weaving is more delicate than Tussah. This also allows it to absorb colors at high saturation as you can see from the rich texture of the costumes. Dupioni works great for renaissance and other period costumes because the organic weaving patterns give the costume a touch of authenticity. Almost as if it had been hand woven on a loom.
Some other interesting details about these costumes: On the left, her cape, her purse and her hat are also made of silk; silk chiffon and silk velvet respectively. On the right: the coat is made from Dupioni, however her skirt is also silk chiffon. The two toned effect is called "sharkskin" weave and its created when two different colored threads are used in the the warp and weft during the weaving process. As the wearer moves the fabric shifts colors in the light. "Sharkskin" weave can also be used with different types of fabric and was very popular thigh mens suits in the 1940's and 50's.
Silk Chiffon
Italian Silk Chiffon that has been enhanced with innovative weaving techniques giving the materials an almost liquid appearance.
Expanding on the silk chiffon theme from the previous post, here are two more examples of silk chiffon being pimped up with unusual weaving effects. These two costumes where made from an Italian silk chiffon that was woven with gold (left side) and silver (right side) threads in a herringbone pattern barely discernible to the human eye. The interesting thing about this fabric is how photogenic it is. It turns into pure liquid on film.
Beautiful bias-cut Silk Charmeuse wedding dress for a lovely bride!
Silk Charmeuse is the "free spirited cousin" of Silk Satin. They are both woven in the same manner however, because the thread count is thinner than Silk Satin the fabric has a delicate weight but still has the high lustrous sheen. That makes it a perfect choice for 1930's style bias cut dresses like the wedding gown in the picture.
"Duchesse" Silk Satin
King of the Mardi Gras Krewe! His Majesty is wearing an elegant uniform made from this special type of Silk Satin.
This is a costume for a Mardi Gras King made from Duchesse Satin. This satin woven silk has a heavy luxurious hand, making it the perfect material for wedding dresses, evening gowns and military style royal costumes like the one above. The military embellishments were specially ordered from England and were of course, also made of silk! Click Here to learn more about the tragic Emperor who served as an inspiration for this costume.
Masks!
Waste not, want not! Here silk scraps have been repurposed to create elegant, one of a kind masks. Click on the image to be directed to the Mask Gallery.
And what do we do with all those leftover scraps of silk? They are used to make Venetian style carnival masks, of course! The scraps are stretched out on the bias over a a canvas that has been lightly coated with craft glue and allowed to dry. Then it is reinforced with milliner's wire and covered with leftover ribbons, beads, jewels etc. Waste not want not! Oh yes and the lilac fabric used as a drape on the left and right pictures is, guess what? You got it! Silk. It's actually a "sand washed" silk , which is as the name implies, a process of washing the silk with a small amount of sand. This gives the fabric a slightly distressed look and a semi-matte finish.
I hope that you enjoyed this literary and visual journey through the world of silk. I'm sure that Leizu would be proud of how far her invention has gone so far. From helping to win a war against Facism to gracing the most upscale runways of Paris. Silk is one of those immortal fabrics that will never cease to fascinate us.
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CHANGE: Democratic Sen. Chris Coons backtracks on Trump campaign-Russia claim.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., on Sunday said he was not aware of any collusion between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials to rig the election despite saying days earlier that there were "transcripts" of such activity.
"I have no hard evidence of collusion," Coons told Fox News host Chris Wallace. "To the extent those comments that you just replayed might in some way be misinterpreted as leading to a hyperventilating attitude here in the Senate about this, I apologize for that."
Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction. Now it's being rowed back because the talk of "transcripts" supports the spying-on-Trump storyline.
Will we ever know? Maybe, if there's a proper investigation into Obama Administration political spying.
Meanwhile, the rumors being floated about Trump are being retracted, and once everyone from Comey to Clapper has denied that he was ever under investigation, future "leaks" will come pre-discredited.


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Битката при Ниш през декември 1877 година е сражение от Втората сръбско-турска война, в резултат на което градът е трайно присъединен към Сърбия.

Значение на Нишката крепост
Основна база на османските войски при нашествието им в Сърбия през 1876, година по-късно Ниш е главното препятствие за настъплението на сърбите по Южна Морава. Градът е опасан с двоен пояс от укрепления – вътрешен със седем бастиона и външен, който включва крепостите Виник и Горица и окопите по рида Габровац с възвишенията Мала и Велика Камара. На тези позиции са разположени 267 оръдия – далеч повече от 100-те, които сърбите успяват да съберат, но без достатъчно пехота.

Докато основните сили се борят с руснаците в Стара планина, в Ниш османското командване съсредоточава само 5000 войници.

Ход на военните действия

Обкръжаване на крепостта
На 3 декември Моравският корпус, командван от полковник Милойко Лешанин, започва настъпление по двата бряга на Южна Морава. Три дни по-късно сърбите влизат в Прокупле. До 13 декември, с овладяването на Лесковац и Куршумлия, те изолират Ниш от запад и юг. След падането на Пирот и София от изток е насочен и Шумадийският корпус начело с генерал Йован Белимаркович. Към 24 декември Ниш е плътно обкръжен от 15-хилядна сръбска войска, която пристъпва към завладяването му.

Боеве за града
Атаката започва на 25 декември в участъка Мала Камара (на Габровац), след като турският комендант Халил Зия паша отхвърля поканата да се предаде. На втория ден от боевете части от Шумадийския корпус завземат Велика Камара, Марково кале и други стратегически пунктове. По същото време (26 декември) обаче турският военачалник Хафъз паша изтласква сърбите от Куршумлия и заплашва в тил обсадителите. Разколебано, сръбското командване приема предложението на Халил паша за преговори и решава да прати част от войските си срещу армията на Хафъз. Преди решението да бъде приведено в изпълнение обаче, на 28 декември генерал Белимаркович нарежда на подчинените си сили да щурмуват Горица. Боят продължава през целия ден и приключва с превземането на укреплението в ранните часове на 29 декември. Това принуждава Халил паша да подпише конвенция за предаване на Ниш.

Резултат
В боевете за града сърбите губят над 900 убити и ранени. Турският гарнизон е разоръжен. Всичките му оръдия и значителните му материални запаси попадат в сръбски ръце. Превземането на Ниш открива на сърбите пътя за настъпление към Косово.

Вижте също
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