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A Second Chance for an Old Road-Sign Font
Goodbye to Clearview, hello (again) to Highway Gothic.
Kriston CappsCityLab
Rick Wilking / Reuters
In a notice posted in the Federal Register on Monday, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration announced a small change that has huge implications for the nation. The agency terminated an order it had issued back in 2004 approving the use of a new font in highway signs. Now those signs are going to change. Again.
By ending its "Interim Approval for Use of Clearview Font for Positive Contrast Legends on Guide Signs," the FHWA reversed its position on Clearview, a font developed to improve highway-sign legibility on the roads. In 2004, the agency embraced Clearview, based on studies that appeared to demonstrate its superiority, especially in nighttime driving tests.
Just 12 years later, the FHWA is changing course: Highway Gothic is the only font for U.S. highways going forward.
The announcement took Donald Meeker by complete surprise. Meeker is one of the designers responsible for the Clearview font (along with James Montalbano). His firm, Meeker and Associates, which specializes in environmental graphic design, tested Clearview with the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State University over the course of the 1990s.
"It's unfortunate. It's a shock. This is a big deal," Meeker says.
Clearview was made to improve upon its predecessor, a 1940s font called Highway Gothic, at a time when an aging Baby Boomer generation meant lots of older drivers on the road. Certain letters appeared to pose visibility problems, especially those with tight interstices (or internal spacing)—namely lowercase e, a, and s. At night, any of these reflective letters might appear to be a lowercase o in the glare of headlights.
By opening up these letterforms, and mixing lowercase and uppercase styles, Clearview aimed to improve how these reflective highway signs read.
Clearview (Meeker and Associates / CityLab)
Highway Gothic (Meeker and Associates / CityLab)
"Helen Keller can tell you from the grave that Clearview looks better," Meeker says.
At the time, the FHWA agreed. In its 2004 approval memo, the agency noted that Clearview boosted highway-sign legibility for drivers traveling at 45 miles per hour by 80 feet of reading distance—or 1.2 seconds of bonus reading time. Another broad study, performed by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University, backed up the results of the Penn State study. Meeker and his colleagues outlined their findings in the Transportation Research Record.
"What all of the research has shown is that there is a lot about users' reactions to different types of fonts on wayfinding (and regulatory and warning) signs that we still don't understand," says Martin Pietrucha, one of the researchers at the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute who worked on the testing and development of Clearview. "Shutting down any future work in this area sets in stone the idea that any improvement in this area is not possible, or that seeking improvements in this area is not worth the effort. I respectfully disagree."
From the start, Clearview was greeted as a civic, social, and design success. Around 30 states have adopted the font, making it arguably the dominant design paradigm on U.S. roads. Print magazine called it one of the 10 typefaces of the decade in 2010. The Clearview typeface family was the first digital font ever acquired by the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. People behind the font spoke about it with swagger.
Was everyone wrong? The FHWA explains its about-face on Clearview by pointing to further research after 2004. The boost in legibility, for example, could be attributed to simply replacing older signs with newer signs.
"After more than a decade of analysis, we learned—among other things—that Clearview actually compromises the legibility of signs in negative-contrast color orientations, such as those with black letters on white or yellow backgrounds like Speed Limit and Warning signs," says Doug Hecox, a FHWA spokesperson, in an email.
In fact, the FHWA stopped granting approval to use Clearview at least two years ago. In an April 2014 letter denying a request from transportation officials in Grays Harbor County, Washington, to begin using Clearview, the director for the FHWA Office of Transportation Operations, Mark Kehrli, listed other reasons for rejecting Clearview.
"The narrower series of the alternative alphabets were not developed for and are not recommended for or conducive to conventional roadway signing, particularly Street Name signs," Kehlri wrote. "Based on these and other reasons, we expect to rescind the Interim Approval in the near future."
This window into the approvals process reveals another problem that may have doomed Clearview: The font was never a mandate, only an alternative. As a result, some places have inconsistent usage; local jurisdictions may be using the font in states that are not. Font forum posters report seeing Clearview in Orange County, while California (which received permission to pursue Clearview) still abides by Highway Gothic.
Local and state governments that have taken up Clearview don't have to remove signs that feature this font. But as these signs are eventually replaced, the new ones that take their place will be throwback Highway Gothic signs.
Officials in Canada and Indonesia have promoted Clearview as a standard. Transport, which was designed for U.K. roads by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, is the most famous example of a systemic transportation font standard. Clearview evolved as an outside recommendation, a best-practices approach from the private sphere, not as a regulatory shift. In the U.S., Meeker says, institutional interest in better standardization is tepid.
"Traffic design is the greatest public manifestation of government on any given day," Meeker says, "and yet it's the most dreadful, tired, unresearched, undesigned part of the public interface with government."
The FHWA has not yet provided any research on Clearview that disproves the early claims about the font's benefits. But there is at least one factor that clearly distinguishes it from Highway Gothic: cost. Jurisdictions that adopt Clearview must purchase a standard license for type, a one-time charge of between $175 (for one font) and $795 (for the full 13-font typeface family) and up, depending on the number of workstations. (Meeker and Associates disclaimed exclusive rights to the "Clearview" copyright.)
The alternative is a design that hasn't changed substantially since the 1960s.
"This is a burr in somebody's saddle," says Meeker, who adds that he's preparing a rebuttal to the news. "They don't understand design."
This post appears courtesy of CityLab.
Kriston Capps is a staff writer for CityLab covering housing, architecture, and politics. He previously worked as a senior editor for Architect magazine.
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Want a cool Christmas Greeting?
COMPUTER NERDS:
Open up your Command Window (Start/Search Bar at the bottom of the Start Tab for Windows), or the Terminal Window on a Mac, then enter one of the following:
For Windows: tracert -h 255 xmas.futile.net
For Macs: traceroute -m255 xmas.futile.net
Average time is about 25 hops to get the Christmas Message
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Mom Calls C-SPAN to Yell At Her Arguing Pundit Sons
Here is a great moment in the history of C-SPAN:
A very Southern mama called into a C-SPAN program to yell at the guests.
Not because she disagrees, but because the guests are brothers, both of them are her sons, and she is sick and tired of their shit.
http://jezebel.com/mom-calls-c-span-to-yell-at-her-arguing-pundit-sons-1671747153
posted by Silent 3 @ Tuesday, December 23, 2014 0 Comments
In memory of Joe Cocker
If you've never seen this YouTube video, it's a real treat.
It's footage of Joe Cocker at Woodstock singing "I get by with a little help from my friends."
However, his enunciation of the lyrics leaves much to be desired, so the creator of this video added misheard lyrics as sung by Joe Cocker, and helpful images to go with them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWxPE8G2c
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(He's singing "I need someone to love" but it doesn't sound like that)
Deck the halls with Nobel physicists
A physics twist on the craft of cutting paper snowflakes.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2014/deck-the-halls-with-nobel-physicists
... and you can download PDF templates
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Cards Against Humanity Is Selling You BS (Literally)
Cards Against Humanity Is Selling You Bullshit (Literally)
What Happened: Cards Against Humanity sold actual boxes of bullcrap for Black Friday. Amazingly, 30,000 people bought them.
Where It Blew Up: Blogs, media think pieces
What Really Happened: Protesting the materialism that is Black Friday for the second year running, the people behind Cards Against Humanity decided that they'd sell crap for the corporate holiday this year, and people bought in. Enough people, it turns out, that the crap sold out in less than two hours. On his blog, CAH co-creator Max Temkin explained the thinking behind the stunt. "I see these pranks as a kind of improv where the public is our scene partner," he wrote. "Together, we create a spectacle that is simultaneously funny and real." The company made 20 cents on each of the 30,000 poop boxes sold (each box cost $6 to the customer); the profits will be donated (appropriately enough) to Heifer International.
The Takeaway: People will apparently buy anything if it's branded properly (the packaging was made by the same company that creates Apple's packaging). Whether or not those who bought the crap were true improv partners remains unclear; this Jezebel post sums up the response of many, we suspect.
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/week-on-the-internet-4/
http://jezebel.com/yes-cards-against-humanity-made-180-000-selling-boxes-1671540094
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Nasa emails spanner to space station
Astronauts on the International Space Station have used their 3-D printer to make a wrench from instructions sent up in an email.
It is the first time hardware has been "emailed" to space.
Mike Chen, founder of Made In Space, the company behind the 3-D printer, said: "We had overheard ISS Commander Barry Wilmore mention over the radio that he needed one, so we designed one in CAD and sent it up to him faster than a rocket ever could have."
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The Motions Of Canoers and Kayakers Revealed With LEDs In Long Exposure Photography
A friend commented:
Really clever, informative & beautiful - a high tech update to Muybridge
http://www.boredpanda.com/kayaking-long-exposure-light-painting-photography-stephen-orlando/
A (very Southern) mama called into a C-SPAN program to yell at the guests.
Two approaches
The Languid Puppy Drools
FW: Your Morning Chuckle
A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden.
"Look at their reserve, their calm," muses the Brit. "They must be British."
"Nonsense," the Frenchman disagrees. "They're naked, and so beautiful. It's obvious they are French."
"No clothes, no shelter," the Russian points out, "they have only an apple to eat, and they're being told this is paradise. Clearly, they are Russian."
Dec 5, 1933: The 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing prohibition, was ratified.
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FW: Holiday Shopping : Do the Math
from a friend of mine
Hey Gang!
Here is a clip from an article I recently received in email. I found it somewhat timely. Thought you might enjoy it too.
If you recently spent some time circling a mall parking lot, looking for a place to park, you may want to consider an approach recommended to CNBC.com by former math teacher Joseph Pagano. "Rather than circle the lot, idle in an aisle where you can see 10 spaces ahead of you on either side (20 total). Given the average holiday shopping trip duration of 77 minutes, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, one of those 20 spots should open up in 3.85 minutes or less of waiting."
Personally, I use the Bell Curve method. If you look at an aerial view of parking near a store or mall entrance a distinct Bell Curve can be seen. Just parking two or three rows away form the central door access point can get you a pretty close space.
"Oh yeah? When Pigs FLY !"
37 Years Ago: Pink Floyd's Giant Inflatable Pig Breaks Free
Whether it was an epic publicity stunt or a genuine mishap remains a topic of debate in some circles. Either way, the cover shoot for 1977′s 'Animals' remains one of Pink Floyd's signature moments.
Artist Lucy Sparrow, co-founder of the art group Hipgnosis, came up with the concept (along with Floyd's Roger Waters) of an inflatable pig floating over Britain's iconic Battersea Power Station. But things didn't go as planned at the December 1976 photo shoot, as the 40-foot balloon broke from its moorings on one of Battersea's southern chimneys, rising directly into the path of planes landing at Heathrow Airport. All flights were grounded, and Sparrow was arrested, even as police helicopters and the Royal Air Force arrived to chase the pig. It eventually fell to the ground miles way in Kent.
At 9:30PM, a man rang up," Sparrow recalled in an interview with Time Out London. "He said, 'Are you the guy looking for a pig? It's scaring my cows to death in my field.' It was front-page news. Pink Floyd couldn't have got better publicity if they tried."
But they still didn't have a cover image. Sparrow and the band returned to Battersea later, this time with a sharpshooter in tow to take out any errant balloons, but the lighting had changed. (Sparrow still marvels over "the most incredible, Turner-esque sky" they had for the first shoot.) He ended up cutting and pasting an image of the pig onto one of his earlier pictures of the power station. "It's actually a completely faked photograph," Sparrow later said.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-inflatable-pig-breaks-free
Text from "Dog"
From a blog (and now a book).
The premise is that a guy's dog can communicate with him via text message.
http://textfromdog.tumblr.com
see attached for examples
Washington Crossing the Delaware - December 2014
Two Chances to Watch George Cross
December 7th & 25th
Each December, thousands gather to watch the reenactment of George Washington's daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the Delaware River. During the event, several hundred reenactors in Continental military dress listen to an inspiring speech by Washington and then row across the river in replica Durham boats.
There are two opportunities to view the reenactment. The first is on Sunday, December 7 when the park will hold a full public dress rehearsal from 10 AM to 4 PM (actual crossing at 1 PM). During the dress rehearsal, troops row across the river in uniform just as they do during the annual Christmas Day Crossing. In addition, special colonial-era activities and demonstrations in the historic village provide families with a full day of fun and learning – a great way to see the reenactment if you can't make it on Christmas Day.
Cost to attend the dress rehearsal is $8 for adults, $4 for children age five to 11, and free for those under five. Proceeds from the dress rehearsal support future programs in the park.
The annual Christmas Day Crossing will take place from Noon to 3 PM on December 25 (actual crossing at 1 PM). The Christmas Day Crossing is free. It is recommended that visitors arrive before 1 PM to ensure a good place along the viewing line.
For all of the information you need about the Crossings, visit www.WashingtonCrossingPark.org.
New and Improved Park Website Launched
The Friends of Washington Crossing Park recently launched a completely redesigned and updated website for the park. The beautiful, user-friendly site can be found at www.WashingtonCrossingPark.org. It features information about the park, tours, events, photos and much more.
Join the Park's Volunteer Corps
There are many volunteer opportunities
available for all ages in Washington Crossing Historic Park. From tending the garden to working the desk in the Visitor Center to
leading tours, there is something for everyone. No set time commitment is required. For more information contact Volunteer Coordinator
Robert Whalen at 215-493-4076 or
RJWhalen@WashingtonCrossingPark.org.
Washington Crossing Historic Park
Box 103, Washington Crossing, PA 18977 • Phone: 215-493-4076
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An unfortunate turn of events
Domestic Bliss: Mother Of Two Takes Darkly Humorous Family Photos
At least one of these definitely NSFW, and each has some disturbing details easy to miss the first time through - but some of them devilishly hilarious
http://www.boredpanda.com/domestic-bliss-family-photography-susan-copich/

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Patient safety is only the beginning of the cybersecurity hazards posed by medical internet-of-things devices. Steve Abrahamson, GE Healthcare's senior director for product cybersecurity, talks to Eleanor Wilson about the risks of legacy products and the need for open collaboration.
Last year, Johnson & Johnson warned patients that its OneTouch Ping insulin pump could be hacked to change the dosage. It seemed to confirm fears that medical internet-of-things (IoT) devices put patient safety at risk.
While there have been no instances of cybercriminals taking advantage of a bug to harm patients, that's not to say that the virtual underworld has forgotten healthcare. It has simply identified the most lucrative marks. Most confirmed healthcare cyberattacks target hospitals and clinics with the intent of getting hold of patients' valuable data and medical records.
Infected with malware that allows them to be remotely controlled, computers and IoT devices become part of botnets that are millions of machines strong. A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack involves all these devices sending a request to a facility's servers at the same time, designed to overload the system and bring management to its knees. Networks infected with ransomware – another type of malware – will lock users out to blackmail them into releasing funds or patient data. Following a successful attack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California in early 2016, hospitals are emerging as primary targets for ransomware. And then there are the social-engineering methods tried and trusted by hackers since the internet began, like spear-phishing, which coaxes confidential information out of a target by sending emails that look like they come from a trusted address.
Patients can be identified even through indirect routes such as their age, gender and location, and a staff member who clicks on a link in a malicious email can be all it takes to infect a network with malware. Some of this can be prevented with basic measures like changing passwords regularly, securing wireless networks and educating users on security hygiene. Ensuring that each staff member and device only has access to the necessary parts of a network protects against attacks from inside an organisation or through compromised user accounts.
Part of this protective strategy also involves making sure routers and IoT devices are up to date with the latest security patches. However, says Steve Abrahamson, GE Healthcare's senior director for product cybersecurity, this is easier said than done. GE Healthcare manufactures IoT medical devices and maintains products from multiple vendors post-market. It provides monitored field service technicians, develops updates for its own software and reviews patches from third-party manufacturers before release.
"You can't really deal with security issues only at the device level," he explains. Healthcare facilities often deal with devices from hundreds of different vendors, including patients who supply their own. The network linking a facility's devices is often just as vulnerable to attack as the devices themselves. GE's security service teams conduct assessments at the network level for healthcare facilities as well as offering network-monitoring software, which doesn't need to be familiar with each device's operating system.
The network linking a facility's devices is often just as vulnerable to attack as the devices themselves.
To compound the issue, security has been an afterthought for many manufacturers in the rush to get into the medical IoT game. It may be a hot topic now, but Abrahamson says it was barely on the radar when he started in the medical device security field six years ago.
"The real issue that we have is lack of implementation of design practices and standards for security within medical devices. There are devices out there that could be ten, 15, 20 years old, for which we're going to have very limited ability to apply technical fixes. It's really hard to patch and update those because they were not designed to be regularly updated," he explains.
When Apple, Microsoft or Google identify a security bug in your smartphone, their engineers can create a patch and push it to all their network-connected users. You get a notification, tap 'OK' and the bug is fixed. This is partly because the ability to update is built into a smartphone's operating system but also because their patches don't need to undergo the extreme QA process required for medical devices in order to ensure patient safety. Although security updates don't require FDA approval, they must go through a stringent internal review process. Often, the patient is then asked to come in and have the patch installed by a qualified technician.
Although larger manufacturers have now taken steps to improve the security of their products, smaller players and start-ups may lack the resources or experience to do the same. The usual IT standards for QA and security can't always be applied to medical devices when patient safety is at stake. Patient safety, in fact, requires so much focus during the development process that cybersecurity may be left by the wayside entirely. Those manufacturers' customers in the healthcare world have also historically prioritised safety, as well as cost-effectiveness. In Abrahamson's view, this state of affairs is on its way out, but the battle will eventually be won by collaboration – not technical know-how.
Abrahamson is a regular speaker at medical device security conferences, encouraging smaller manufacturers to join industry groups so they can benefit from the knowledge of larger players. He aims to share information with not only customers but also other manufacturers.
Manufacturers can be forgiven for being uninformed. The first communication from FDA regarding cybersecurity in medical devices didn't go out until 2013. It was a safety alert that recommended, among other precautions, implementing user ID and password authentication, and backing up data – strategies considered basic in IT, but that had been ignored by much of the medical IoT world.
In January 2017, FDA released the final version of a guidance document regarding the post-market management of medical cybersecurity devices. The gist of it was that manufacturers should be building cybersecurity into their devices from the beginning of the design process, as part of a "structured and comprehensive" security program, and that they should "continuously monitor and address" vulnerabilities once a device was in use. The guidance also recommended that stakeholders "collaborate to leverage available resources and tools to establish a common understanding that assesses risks for identified vulnerabilities".
The guidance was developed in close collaboration with industry groups – a move Abrahamson appreciates. FDA is also waiving some of the standard requirements for recall reporting for manufacturers that participate in an information sharing analysis organisation (ISAO). This, Abrahamson says, is the push that the industry needs.
"[The guidance] really opens the door for manufacturers to be more open in sharing information with their customers," he says. "It establishes the principle that FDA wants manufacturers to share information and addresses the idea that transparency is a means of mitigating risk.
"That's really what we're going to be working on this year: establishing systemic communication mechanisms that would tie customers in to the type of information that we track internally," he continues.
Abrahamson hopes to achieve a return to a risk-based approach to security requirements, rather than the compliance-based strategy currently gaining traction in which, driven by a growing number of standards and regulations, customers write cybersecurity requirements into contracts and apply IT frameworks to medical devices rather than engaging in an ongoing risk-assessment process.
The next generation is going to be advanced analytics and leveraging things that we're learning in our cloud business at the device level.
"A compliance-based approach can dilute true risk management," Abrahamson said at the Medical Device Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation conference in 2016. During the design phase for a new product, his team conducts risk assessment in terms of 'failure modes' like denial of service, unauthorised access or compromised data. They implement the most stringent security controls for high-impact failure modes, such as unauthorised access to a large database of medical records.
Abrahamson believes the next trend to watch will target the network layer. GE is the manufacturer and customer for one of its recent IoT products, the GE Health Cloud, a platform designed to connect with millions of imaging devices and manage the data they generate.
"The next generation is going to be advanced analytics and leveraging things that we're learning in our cloud business at the device level. One of the key features that I think we really can improve is the mechanisms that we are implementing for audit logging, because that's going to give us a lot of additional capability," says Abrahamson.
Audit logging records what happens in an IT system, noting timestamps, user login details, what was accessed, and the source and destination of a request. This can prove invaluable in the wake of an attack and to catch potential threats.
Ultimately, given the absence of patient-targeted malicious activity so far, Abrahamson shares the confidence of many manufacturers that IoT is worth the risk.
"Certainly, it's possible that could happen, which is why we put a lot of protections in our devices. But the benefits at this point are far in excess of the risks. We just have to make sure that the balance is continuing to be far on the side of benefitting the patients," he says.


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Hey, Ho, Let's Sue!
By amy hughes 2007-09-25T15:42:17.267Z
Richie Ramone, who spent four years as drummer for the seminal punk band between 1983 and 1987, has issued legal proceedings over the digital sale of six songs that he wrote for the band, including'Smash You,' 'Somebody Put Something In My Drink,' 'Human Kind,' 'I'm Not Jesus,' 'I Know Better Now' and '(You) Can't Say Something Nice'.
Richie (whose surname is Reinhardt - still got a good ring to it, we reckon) has issued legal papers against not only the estate of late guitarist Johnny Ramone, but the band's management, in addition to digital music operations run by Apple, RealNetworks and Wal-Mart. Reinhardt is seeking nearly $1 million in unpaid roylaties through claims that he didn´t give permission for the songs to be sold via download, and that he hasn't received any royalties for songs already sold. He also wants to put an injunction place to stop the future digital sale of the tracks.
So far, the defendants in the case have declined to comment.
NAMM 2020: Is Korg about to spring a new FM synthesizer on us?
NAMM 2020: Tascam's Model 12 is a multitrack mixer and recorder at a keen price point
NAMM 2020: Nektar's Aura beatmaker and MIDI sequencer looks smarter than your average pad controller
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Strategies of Film Performance and Maya Deren's Ideas on Creating a Dancefilm
Veronika S. KRIVOSHEYA
Independent Researcher
e-mail: violnkey@gmail.com
Abstract: Choreography and cinema are similar in interest in moving bodies with its connections to space and time. In the films referred to in the article, the movement at various levels is the main «performer» and exponent of the idea, and the cinematographic process of these films includes the creation of movement scores for all its participants (media). This means that a frame-by-frame shooting plan is a composition of movement for an actor (a group of actors) and a cameraman (a group of cameramen), including the distance to the camera, the speed and character of movement, the direction and location of light relative to the objects of shooting, taking into account subsequent editing of the footage. Movement is a key element that connects dance and cinema, it allows to identify strategies on creating dancefilm. The practice of combining dance and film has led to the cinematic approach to composition of dance, that is used in contemporary dance theatre. The process of hybridization of the two types of art has generated interest from theorists and practitioners of visual art around the world and served as the formation of a border area of research, which is discussed in the article. The article reflects the analysis of the experience of film director Maya Deren, which she fixed in her texts, as well as theoretical works that consider the artistic concepts of the director in terms of creating films, the main focus of which is directed to the plasticity of body movement as a way of expressing thoughts. The author revealed which theoretical and practical developments of Deren ensured the extensive migration of her ideas into the field of modern interdisciplinary artistic practices, in particular, dancefilm. The strategies for creating a dancefilm, which are described in the article, apply to both the filming process and the editing period. Traces of these strategies are found in the films of Deren's predecessors and in later works, testifying to their versatility and relevance to study. The result of the work is the thesis that the process of creating a film dance should be thought of as an experience of art cooperation and interdisciplinary communication, all stages of which are equally important and require a certain approach, as well as analysis for further development of the methodology.
Key words: body, choreography, camera, cinema, dance, dancefilm, film, filmic performance, movement, Maya Deren, screendance.
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Brannigan, E. (2011). Dancefilm: Сhoreography and the moving image.Oxford University Press.
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Deren, М. (2005). Essential Deren: Collected writings оn film. Mc Pherson.
James, A. (2013).On Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity: Meshes of the Afternoon. The International Journal of Screendance, 3. 38–52.
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Time, Nature, and Humanity
Written by: John L. Brooke
Natural history, human history, and our global future
John L. Brooke, the author of Climate Change and the Course of Global History, explains the reality of climate change and why changing course in the face of environmental disaster is proving a problem.
What is our global future? The science is in, and the prospect is not great. There is a massive consensus among climate scientists that the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide and methane, driven by an accelerating combustion of fossil fuels since the launch of the modern economy in the 1870s, has warmed the oceans and lower atmosphere to the point that global climate systems are changing irrevocably. If there are promising signs that populations growth rates have been tapering off, we have since the 1870s risen from just of over a billion to more seven billion, making devastating demands on the earth system. The 5th IPCC Report and now the 2014 National Climate Assessment describe the scale and reach of these impacts, and sketch the outlines of the mitigations and adaptations that are necessary now to avoid massive financial and human costs in foreseeable and immediate future. The evidence for climate change has been become real and dramatic in the past few years, as drought, wildfire, ferocious storms, melting ice and rising sea levels have begun to manifest the warnings that have been coming from the scientific community for over a quarter century. Facing an uncertain future, a new moral philosophy has emerged, which asks what our collective obligations are to future generations. Yet a majority of Americans refuse to accept the science behind this global challenge.
The evidence for climate change has been become real and dramatic in the past few years, as drought, wildfire, ferocious storms, melting ice and rising sea levels have begun to manifest the warnings that have been coming from the scientific community for over a quarter century.
An American refusal to make climate change a priority should not be all that surprising. The picture is not a pretty one: modern economic growth has for over a century been directly tied to energy production from fossil fuels, and the dumping of waste in the form of emissions into a global "commons." In particular, Americans have been the worst offenders, accounting for well over five times as much carbon emissions per person as the global per capita average since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Mitigation and adaptation will cost money. Self-interest in an era of economic uncertainty accounts for a good measure of American foot-dragging.
But there is also a simple problem of visualization. Nature and humanity occupy the same geography, but on a different cadence. Human history is marked by great events: the voyages of Columbus, the American Revolution, the World Wars, the moon-landing, 9-11. Natural history takes more time: fields grow into forests in decades, evolution has unfolded over hundreds of millions of years, as have the complex interactions of geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere that make up the earth system. In fact, natural history seems so slow that it would appear timeless, a vast background literally standing still as human history churns along. Some might, inspired by ancient texts, even deny that nature has a history: climates cannot change and evolution did not happen. But even if one is neither a creationist nor a climate change denier, the scales of natural history and human history are difficult to reconcile.
The means to such a reconciliation is being sketched in the work of two very different groups of environmental scholars. Since the 1980s, and the first cores drilled in the Greenland ice sheets, climate scientists have developed an amazingly detailed picture of the natural history of the planet. Increasingly sophisticated analyses of ancient rock chemistry, fossil plants, ice cores for continental and mountain glaciers, oceanic and lake sediments, and tree rings have built an amazingly detailed web of information about global patterns of climate change unfolding over millions of years. As these natural archives approach the present they are "legible" down to the level of decades and years. While they are intended to establish a baseline of evidence against which to assess present conditions and future climatic change, they give us for the first time precise information about the environmental conditions which shaped human history in longer and shorter time scales. On the other side, a number of historians have committed themselves to want is variously called "big history," "deep history," or "evolutionary history." While not rejecting the significance of recent history, these deep-time historians have – since William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples was published in 1976 – worked with paleo-anthropologists and prehistoric archaeologists to write a unified world history of humanity. This work focused on the material circumstances of the human condition: the shape, functioning, and health of the human body, food and diet, economy and technology. In the historical profession this work is part of what is being called the "material turn."
Bringing the climate scientists and the deep historians together at the same table is helping to resolve the problem of visualizing the place of humanity in nature, in the complexities of the history of the earth system itself. This new synthesis of science and history allows us to see with increasing clarity the ways in which trajectories in natural history have acted upon proto- human and human societies over the past five million years, and then allow us to see how modern economies are now intervening in those trajectories. With seven billion people pressing against planetary boundaries, and projected to rise to ten billion within a century, we have no margin for error. Understanding the integral relationships between natural histories and human histories is giving us a platform upon which to map our global future.
Check back for a series on climate change and global history by John L. Brooke. Future posts will discuss recent historical work on climate change, population, epidemics, "collapse," genetic change, the long Anthropocene, and the timing of warming in the twentieth century, and sustainable economies.
About the Author: John L. Brooke
John L. Brooke is the author of Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey (2014). He is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University....
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Schwab Signs Data Deals With Envestnet, eMoney, Intuit
By Jeff Berman
Originally published by ThinkAdvisor
Schwab becomes the third major U.S. financial firm to sign a data deal with Envestnet | Yodlee in the past eight months.
Charles Schwab has signed data deals with Envestnet|Yodlee, eMoney and Intuit, a move that Schwab said Thursday "reinforces its commitment to customer data protection."
As part of the deals, all three third-party fintech firms will use Schwab's application programming interface connections, Schwab said: "The use of APIs are a best practice in the industry and take a token-based approach which enables clients to authorize third parties to download requested account information on their behalf in an encrypted form, without storing their usernames and passwords."
Via Schwab's API connection, Intuit, eMoney and Envestnet|Yodlee "will continue to have client-authorized access to account information in a protected environment specifically designed for such information sharing," Schwab said, adding: "In turn, clients will have greater control over and better transparency into what data they share and with whom they share their data."
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Over the past eight months, Envestnet|Yodlee has also signed data access deals with JPMorgan and Citigroup.
The financial data access deal Schwab signed with Envestnet|Yodlee will enable Schwab clients to "safely and more securely connect to and share their financial data for use with the more than 1,200 third-party financial service providers powered by" the Envestnet|Yodlee data aggregation and analytics platform, Envestnet|Yodlee said in its own separate announcement Thursday.
"These new partnerships underscore the continuing need to ensure our clients' valuable financial data is protected," according to Linda Albornoz, senior vice president of Digital Cross-Enterprise Platforms at Charles Schwab.
Since 2012, Schwab, Yodlee and other financial institutions and advisory firms have been in talks to address how to "build a cohesive ecosystem for consumer permission data sharing on top of the existing and highly successful commercial ecosystem," Brian Costello, vice president of data strategy and strategic solutions at Envestnet|Yodlee, told ThinkAdvisor.
"For at least a year, Yodlee and Schwab have been collaborating on what a commercial tie-up [would] look like" for information sharing, he said. It then took "a number of months on hammering out the agreement to make sure that it was a win-win-win-win — for Yodlee, for Schwab, for our clients and for the shared customers," he said. The deal, between the two companies, signed April 6, is a "legal tie-up" and "there is no money changing hands," he added.
With the latest pact, Schwab clients who opt in can expect to experience faster and more reliable access to their personal financial information via the financial services company's API, Envestnet|Yodlee said. Access will be based on client consent and "tokenization."
Client Data Sharing
The application solution means users won't have to enter and store usernames or passwords with any third-party company, Envestnet|Yodlee pointed out. With the agreement signed, teams from both companies plan to "move forward together to seamlessly implement these capabilities into the client experience," according to the firm.
The deals move the financial services industry toward greater API connectivity in the U.S., giving consumers greater connection across their financial accounts, helping to provide the framework for Schwab clients to "more securely and effectively allow access to, and use their personal financial information, with selected services designed to manage their financial wellness," Envestnet|Yodlee said.
"In the U.S., as we sign more of these agreements and migrate to consuming data from each of these [firm's] APIs… once we get the top 12 to 15 banks and advisory firms in the country under similar data sharing agreements, that will represent certainly more than 80% of the data that we have been asked to collect" by customers who opt in, Costello explained. He predicted that will eventually grow to "close to 100%" after adding community financial institutions.
Now that Envestnet has three of the top 15 institutions, "we're in conversations and/or negotiations with tens of institutions right now and … stay tuned — more announcements will be coming," he said.
Schwab investors had some 12.7 million active brokerage accounts, 1.7 million corporate retirement plan participants, 1.4 million banking accounts and $3.5 trillion in client assets as of March 31, it said.
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Bye-Bye Cookie
Reuters reports that Howard "Cookie" Krongard has decided to resign as the State Department's inspector general. The decision comes after a disastrous appearance last month before Rep. Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where Krongard's testimony invited charges of perjury. Krongard, who had allegedly interfered in an arms smuggling investigation targeting Blackwater USA, initially denied that his brother Buzzy Krongard (a former high-ranking CIA official) was a member of that company's advisory board. He later changed his tune after reaching Buzzy by phone during a break in the hearing.
It's unclear why Cookie would have lied. But if by doing so he was trying to protect his brother, the favor went unreturned when reporters reached Buzzy for comment: He explained that he'd told Cookie about his Blackwater affiliation weeks before the hearing. Seeing as Cookie's congressional testimony had been under oath, the revelation may have opened him up to prosecution. So much for brotherly love.
I spoke with several congressional staffers last week, who suggested that both Cookie and Buzzy would be called to appear before Waxman's committee to account for Cookie's bizarre testimony. But now that Cookie has thrown in the towel, it's unclear if the hearing will take place. According to a statement released this afternoon by Waxman's office, "Mr. Krongard's decision removes an enormous distraction from the Inspector General's office and will allow the office to focus on its important oversight responsibilities. The Committee will certainly take this new development into account."
Whatever happens, the lack of affection between the brothers Krongard appears to be indicative of larger family dramas. The Washington Post reported in September that Cookie's son and daughter-in-law, Kenneth and Kristin Krongard, had filed a restraining order to get him to stop sending "unprofessional and highly offensive" emails, in which he threatened that they'd be "put out on the street" if they lost a lawsuit he had brought against them. Cookie filed suit last year, alleging that the couple had defaulted on a $320,000 home loan. Although they paid back the loan in full after the suit's filing, Cookie is pressing his case, demanding interest and other penalties, as well as reimbursement of at least $114,000 in legal fees. Does Krongard feel guilty about suing his son's family? Who can say for sure, but the tone of this August missive points to no. "If you are willing to put your wife and children's future in jeopardy, that's your business," he wrote. What a guy.


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Packers taking it 'day by day' with Aaron Rodgers
Two-time MVP QB will start the practice week in rehab
Evan Siegle, packers.com
GREEN BAY – Packers QB Aaron Rodgers will be rehabbing rather than practicing on Wednesday, and his status is day to day for the Week 2 showdown with the Vikings.
"Obviously there's the hope of playing," Head Coach Mike McCarthy said prior to Wednesday's practice. "He'll be given the whole week to get ready. We'll take it day by day and learn as we go."
Whether or not Rodgers is able to practice at all this week remains to be seen.
"He'll be in the rehab group today," McCarthy said. "He's always responded. He puts a lot of extra time in. We'll see what tomorrow brings."
That leaves the bulk of the practice reps this week to No. 2 QB DeShone Kizer, who had a rough regular-season debut in relief of Rodgers last week.
Kizer came in and played the final nine minutes of the second quarter, turning the ball over twice – once on a strip-sack in the red zone when the Packers would have at least kicked a field goal, and then with a pick-six on a screen pass that went awry.
Kizer's focus in practice this week will be on cleaning up his ball security.
"You can't play quarterback, period, if you can't take care of the football," McCarthy said. "If you look at our history here as far as turnover ratio, the amount of time and energy we put into drilling and taking care of the football, it's been a real strength, and it's a tremendous strength of Aaron Rodgers and how he plays the position. DeShone needs to learn from those two plays."
On the flip side, the Packers' defense did not get a turnover against the Bears until the game's final play, which made the comeback more difficult, yet the defense got the job done without the big momentum swing a turnover can provide.
"It's hard to overcome the turnover ratio. We were minus-2 up until the last play of the game," McCarthy said. "To be minus-2 and win that game, that's not the norm. It points to the ability of our defense to keep us in it and keep points off the board."
Perhaps the biggest negatives defensively were the three roughing-the-passer penalties. McCarthy said the way they were called, it's clearly an emphasis for the officials and the Packers must adjust accordingly.
"We had three. We'll learn from it. Were they close? Yeah they were, two of them. One was totally unnecessary on our part," McCarthy said, referring to the call on Clay Matthews on the first fourth down late in the game. "But three in one game is outrageous. They could have affected the outcome of the game."


Crocus Expo IEC address: Mezhdunarodnaya 16, Krasnogorsk 143401, Krasnogorsk area, Moscow region.
Metro station Myakinino: exit to the exhibition centre pavilions.
By car/taxi: crossing of Moscow City Motor Ring (inner side, 66 km) and Volokolamskoe shosse.


Integrating with Microsoft Office 365, Sage Capture is a mobile app that takes images of invoices, receipts and other documents and uploads them to Microsoft OneDrive.
Excellent for recording receipts and expenses on the road.
As you upload your image you can also enter a related transaction and send it to your Sage 50c Accounts. The transaction then links to the image for future reference.


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The Last Man release date was Friday, January 18, 2019. This was a Limited in theaters release.
In this chilling dystopian thriller, Hayden Christensen plays Kurt, a vet suffering from PTSD who comes home to an unholy, unruly land. The world is bad, no question - but local street prophet Noe (Harvey Keitel) says it'll get even worse when a catastrophic storm strikes. As Kurt heeds Noe's advice and readies for the apocalypse, he meets sultry Jessica, who also begins to believe. Even as the planet falls apart, Kurt finds his life finally coming together.


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Christian Family Movement Records
Identifier: CFM
Scope and Content Correspondence (1946-1969); files on CFM chaplains; correspondence, agenda, and minutes of the national coordinating committee (1949-1969); correspondence, minutes, and research material associated with the publication of the CFM monthly magazine Act, and copies of the magazine itself (1946-1971); newsletters of local CFM federations; programs, reports, financial records, evaluation forms and speeches, including speeches of Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand, from CFM national conventions; a series...
Christman Construction Company Architectural Plans
Identifier: CMN
Scope and Content Seven sets of architectural plans, drawings, and specifications from Notre Dame buildings constructed by the H.G. Christman Company. Buildings include music hall and boiler house (as one set), Stadium, Hesburgh Library (2 sets), Lemonnier Library (now School of Architecture), Chemistry Building (now Riley Hall), and the Computing Center. The set that includes the music hall and boiler house includes handwritten notes by Brother Charles (Harding?) with his signature.
Dates: 1900s
Christopher C. McKinney Letters
Abstract 5 personal letters written between August 1861 and February 1862 by Confederate army lieutenant Christopher C. McKinney, as regimental adjutant, 8th Tennessee infantry.
Christopher Dawson Papers
Identifier: DAW
Scope and Content Chiefly letters to John J. Mulloy with a few typewritten or photocopied manuscripts of essays and lectures by Dawson and a summary of Mulloy's conversations with Dawson in August and September of 1953.
Cicero R. Barker Letter
Scope and Contents A manuscript personal letter written from the defenses of Richmond on 1 December 1864 by Confederate soldier Cicero R. Barker, 8th North Carolina Infantry.
Dates: 1 December 1864
Civil War Collection
Identifier: CIV
Scope and Content Dropfiles containing clippings, offprints, newsletters, and ephemera concerning the Civil War, and specifically the Irish Brigade, the Holy Cross Fathers as chaplains during the war, and the Holy Cross Sisters and other nuns and sisters who served as nurses during the war; also books, many of them published in the nineteenth century, and many with illustrations, concerning the Civil War. Also related photographs and objects.
Clarence Manion Papers
Identifier: MNN
Scope and Content Copy of a letter that Manion, the Dean of Notre Dame's Law School between 1941 and 1952, wrote to Phillip Moore, CSC, recounting his years as professor and Dean (30 January 1969); a list of the titles of and guests on each installment of the Manion Forum radio program, 1954-1979; an alphabetized card index version of the same; notes, obituaries and biographical sketches of Manion; eleven books and articles written or published by Manion; and issues of the ...
Clarence Powell Scrapbook
Identifier: POW
Scope and Content Scrapbook compiled by Clarence and Mabel Powell concerning Notre Dame midshipmen in World War II. The Powells claimed to have hosted 150 midshipmen from Notre Dame at their home in Mishawaka, Indiana. Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photos sent by the midshipmen to the Powells.
Clergy and Religious Printed Material
Identifier: CLR
Scope and Content Clippings, obituaries, memorial cards, ordination cards, invitations, programs, jubilee booklets, biographical sketches, pamphlets, books, issues of periodicals, musical scores, circulars letters, and correspondence; pertaining to lives of Catholic clergy and religious (bishops, priests, nuns, and brothers) most of them from Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Clergy Writings Collection
Identifier: CLW
Scope and Content Writings of Roman Catholic clergy (bishops and priests, secular and religious); including pamphlets, pastoral letters, discourses, newspaper clippings, sermons, speeches, offprints, and anniversary booklets.
Cletus S. Bachofer Papers
Identifier: BAC
Scope and Content Correspondence (1938-1964) with AEC officials, colleagues, and students; grant applications, contracts, reports and other material relating to his experimentation in radiation biology and neuro-physiology for the AEC (1951-1964); personal documents; a scrapbook; and photographs.
Dates: 1931-1964. .
Cleveland Murphy papers
Scope and Contents This collection chiefly consists of correspondence Cleveland Murphy received while serving in the military during the 1950s and 1960s. These include letters received from family, including his mother in Indianapolis, with news of home. He also received letters from his first wife between 1952 and 1953, discussing various personal and family matters, including her father's murder trial. The bulk of correspondence is from women Murphy dated in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to their...
Clifford Brooks Collection
Identifier: BRS
Scope and Content Cards, pamphlets, articles, constitutions, rules, ephemera, and snapshots having to do with the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary in America, with some unrelated holy cards and printed material of general interest; artwork, illustrations, and cards by Mary of the Compassion, OP, along with related documents and printed material; also "Novitiate Regulations" for the Blue Chapel Monastery and a Dowry Book; with the Report of the Second Annual Meeting of Contemplative Nuns held at...
Clifford M. Collins Papers
Identifier: ZEM
Scope and Content Personal letters received by Clifford M. Collins from the University of Notre Dame and a few other correspondents in the 1930s; copies of letters sent by Clifford M. Collins and Ruth Collins, 1930-1935; teaching and military appointments, 1918-1924; and a few clippings.
Clinton County (Ill.) Dept. of the County Clerk Records
Identifier: ZBB
Scope and Content Marriage licenses and notes from local priests requesting marriage licenses, each showing the names, ages, and residences of the persons to be wed; also naturalization papers, tavern petitions, summonses, warrants, depositions, and other court documents.
Commonweal Records
Identifier: CWL
Scope and Content Editorial correspondence (1976-1989), original manuscripts accepted for publication (1967-1984), unused articles (1979-1983), financial records (1926-1978), subscription lists (1979 and 1982-1983), and photographs. Also material on the Charles E. Curran controversy, Synods of Bishops (1984-1989), and editorial correspondence (1938) relating to the journal's controversial stand on the Spanish Civil War, along with copies of speeches and biographical notes (ca. 1930) by Michael...
Conference of Major Superiors of Men Records
Identifier: MSM
Scope and Content Correspondence of CMSM presidents, executive directors, executive comittee, and other committees; memoranda and reports from regional meetings and yearly general assemblies; an evaluation study of CMSM and records of the work of the CMSM Structures Task Force in response to the study; a copy of the book Who are my brothers? (1988) with related drafts, galleys, and correspondence; byproducts of a CMSM video, Brother is a Verb; microfilm of Joseph A. Varacalli's The American Catholic call for...
Conference on the History of Women Religious Records
Identifier: HWR
Scope and Content Records (1988-2010) of the Conference on the History of Women Religious, consisting chiefly of papers delivered at the triennial conferences; also the History of Women Religious News and Notes (1988-2000); and a small quantity of background information and mailing lists.
Congregation of Holy Cross Collection
Identifier: CSC
Scope and Content Collected digital data, photographs and printed material having to do with the priests, brothers, and sisters of Holy Cross.
Congregation of Holy Cross. Indiana Province. Commission on Province Education Records
Identifier: PED
Scope and Content Material on seminary life gathered in 1965 by the Commission on Province Education (COPE), Congregation of Holy Cross, Province of Indiana, including manuals for students at the Maryknoll Seminary in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and rules and records from the Holy Cross and Moreau Seminaries in Notre Dame, Indiana. Also information on seminary life from St. Meinrad Seminary in St. Meinrad, Indiana, the Holy Cross Foreign Mission Seminary in Washington, D.C., Holy Cross College in...
Congregation of Holy Cross Indiana Province Records
Identifier: UIP
Scope and Content Records and papers from the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC); representing the careers of Fr. Edward Sorin 1830-1896; Fr. Alexis Granger 1832-1893; Fr. William Corby 1858-1897; Fr. John A. Zahm 1873-1922; and the provincial administrations of Fr. Andrew Morrissey 1906-1920; Fr. Charles O'Donnell 1920-1926; Fr. George Finnigan 1926-1927; Fr. James Burns 1927-1938; and Fr. Thomas Steiner 1938-1950. Also 1841-1926 records of the Notre Dame CSC Community; 1840-1982 records...
Congregation of Holy Cross. Indiana Province Records
Identifier: CIJ
Scope and Content Lists of members with names and dates of the community's deceased, of members taking the habit, and of members making religious profession; a general census of the University of Notre Dame; minute books from meetings of the Local Council (1842-1925), the Provincial Council, and the annual Provincial Chapter (1857-1945); minute books from other local organizations such as the Council of Brothers, the Council of Trades, the Council of Professors, and the Council of the Prefects of Discipline;...
Congregation of Holy Cross Records
Identifier: SCG
Scope and Content Correspondence, reports, constitutions, directories, publications, documentation of meetings, records of activities and institutions, representing the general adminstration of the congregation as it interacted with its provinces, institutions, and members, and with bishops and the Vatican.
Consortium Perfectae Caritatis Records
Identifier: CPC
Scope and Content Records (1957-1994; bulk 1970-1992) of the Consortium Perfectae Caritatis: consisting of bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, surveys, interviews, articles, clippings, pamphlets, books, programs, liturgies, photographs, and audio tapes; documenting the development of the Consortium, the actions of its administrative board, its general assemblies, and other activities; including material on issues and events of interest to the Consortium (such as religious...
Consultation on Common Texts Records
Identifier: CCT
Scope and Content Records of the Consultation on Common Texts, arranged primarily chronologically according to year, consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes and drafts of the Divine Office, Psalms, Lectionary, and Ecumenical Prayer Services.


Happy Hallowe'en, my friends! I hope your weekend is ghoulishly good!
L called my look "Grim Fandangal", which is a play off Grim Fandango, a PC game I used to have that had a wonderful Mexican Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) design.
I also wore my fluffy Noa Noa underskirt to give the dress more volume on the bottom - I twirled all over the office.
Add a wig and Vizzini looks at me cautiously.
This costume actually worked pretty well to function through a work day - I always have to wear my glasses too, so I have to factor that in.
Wonderful shoes. I walked to and from town in them.
If you're interested in how I did my make-up, which was easily the most elaborate part of my costume, get ready for some giant pictures of my face. I did a test run last night to make sure I could do my complicated make-up, and I took pictures as I went along.
Hey if you're not interested, then run away now - giant pictures of my face!
I didn't really have time for a costume, so aside from pulling stuff out of my regular clothes, I thought I could do a more fun thing and paint my face. I've been watching Face Off, and got all inspired.
I really liked this picture that I found. I had this cool glittery make-up palette that I thought could work, and I bought this two-ended felt/brush eyeliner to make it easier. The eyeliner (Marcelle) was excellent - it was waterproof, so I had no smudging all day, even through lunch. The glitter was horrible.
I started with a clean face and my hair pulled back, and put on a light base of white.
I hated the feel of the white, but I soldiered on.
I used the brush side to start outlining, to get a feel for the balance on my face.
From there, I tried adding glitter to it, and it was the worst, goopiest stuff ever! I had to scrub my face clean and start over.
Then I tried to shade around my eyes with eye shadow.
Start over - bare face with some BB cream and powder, not white stuff, and hell, let's try the thick felt tip, shall we?
Hey-oh! Yes, this is much better. The more you try, the more the more you see what works and what doesn't.
I added some shading with grey eyeshadow.
If one eye works on the test run, no need to waste pen on the second eye. I tried this toothy mouth.
Not quite me - how about a little bow mouth?
Oh, yes, I think we are ready!
My Rimmel BB cream followed by MAC Studio Fix powder for a nice smooth finish. I drew on my face with the felt-tip end, shaded with my MAC dark grey eyeshadow (spider web and jawline), plus a bit of blue from my MAC Toledo special edition blue for the flower on my chin. All reds supplied by a nice matt lip gloss (I forget which one).
A totally fun make-up look in less than half an hour. Thank goodness for the test run!
Woo, it's late and I'm tired. And I still have to do my test-run of my Hallowe'en make-up for tomorrow.
I saved my sailor-girl pin-up dress for today, so that I could wear it to my WW meeting - I like to wear something aspirational.
I loved wearing this Tatyana dress (linking here, 'cause I love). I had loads of compliments on it. Although it's a pin-up styling, and quite body-con, it's not too low-cut and the dark navy blue helps keep it work-safe.
I trashed the crappy belt that came with it and swapped out this obi - I loved how that pulled it away from a more costume-y "sailor" look that this easily could have been. And can we talk about the shoes?
I love these shoes so much! But I'm shocked to see that I haven't worn them in a full year! That's some major oversight right there. They were actually comfy all day, for a walk to/from lunch, and for wearing for a couple of hours at WW. I went to a movie after that, but by then had switched to my runners.
And now, off to make sure I can do my Hallowe'en make-up quickly and efficiently in the morning before work! Always do a "test drive"!
Oh, what a week...I am barely ready for Hallowe'en, not that we're doing much. Some themed things at work on Friday, and a couple of friends over for scary movies on Friday as well.
I haven't even been able to muster up enthusiasm for a costume this year. I'll be appropriately dressed, but I've put very little planning into my Friday Hallowe'en outfit.
Both pieces worn together as a suit? Last time was for my 2012 Hallowe'en costume (I was Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds") here.
I kind of look like a pumpkin, right? Does that count?
I am so happy that this suit fits me properly again! I can't believe it's been 3 years since I wore it together as a suit.
I didn't actually wear the jacket all day - it functioned as my outerwear. It's still not very cold out, although a little rainy...which reminds me that I left my umbrella at work. Arg.
Sweet 80s shoes! These are shockingly comfortable.
Another jewelry piece that I'd forgotten I owned: this necklace. I bought it at Plum at least 10-12 years ago. It came with crochet-covered balls on it, which I removed immediately.
Cool, eh? They were very comfortable to wear and felt very secure. Would you wear these?
Okay, two days down, three to go. I'm finally starting to get caught up on the emails at work - tomorrow, I'll tackle the two giant envelopes of mystery documents/mail that await me.
It felt like a RED day, a really REALLY red day.
I loved wearing this blouse - I was a little leery of it being silk (since I'm sweaty), but it actually breathed wonderfully.
Yikes, this skirt is big on me! I've lost a few pounds again from being sick, and I had to adjust my blouse to not be tucked into my hosiery or the top of my control tops would be showing. Heavens, we can't have that!
Big clompin' red shoes! To go with my big red blouse.
Not like anything could distract from all that red!
I need to get some Hallowe'en into my wardrobe soon! Maybe some orange tomorrow?
Holy smokes, it's so dark in the mornings now! It didn't seem so bad when I was sleeping in till 8 or 9am, but when I get up at my usual time of 6:30am, you really notice how dim it is!
Waited until the last second before I left to get the stair shot.
First day back at work. I was missed (I always am), but it was "head down, get through these emails" for me. I had over 1,700 emails! That's nuts.
Knowing that my day would be crazy, I went with a really simple outfit: dress, tights, belt shoes. Done.
I love these shoes, but they are really scuffed. Let's pretend they're not, okay?
Since I have really small wrists, I love it when I find a piece that doesn't slide around. I enjoyed wearing this, and I love how it looks on.
Well, the obi and the ring are blue.
I hope your Monday was better than mine!
Hello, my friends! Vacation is nearly over, and I can't say I'm excited to go back to work, but eh, it pays the bills and supports my real life, am I right?
Despite being sick (gah) and my ear still blocked up, I've managed the very important job of doing Not Much Of Anything on my time off, aside from hanging out with assorted fun people, shopping and taking many naps. Ah...naps.
Here we are at last Wednesday. I met up with Mom for brunch out and a wee shop in Oak Bay.
I am having such fun delving into my fall/winter wardrobe again! I forgot I had so many of these pieces!
I love this comfy top. It was one of the things I was excited to see again - oh, yeah, I forgot about it!
It was a little grey out, but I didn't wear a jacket.
I was trying on shoes in a store, and someone tried to nab my Hadfields away from me! Back off, sister, those are not for sale!
I got a gift certificate from my Winesday gals for my birthday, so I had to spend it right away. It'd be rude not to, right?
I have missed my ear cuff that went missing last week, so I was thrilled to replace it with two new ones, both locally made. They were $19 and $21.
I also stocked up on some hosiery.
Plaid tights, sparkly ankle socks and some over-the-knee black/burgundy socks. Hurray!
I dragged Mom to a twee consignment store that I don't visit very often (expensive) - she found two gorgeous blouses for less than half what they would cost new.
I found these Dior double-pearl earrings for $28.00.
The big part hangs down on the back of the lobe. They had them in mint, white and pearl.
I liked this marigold yellow colour - it's just a little different, you know?
What a fabulous colour! I love this minty green shade. There's a hidden heel, wrapped in the suede.
And as you can see, they're barely worn. Not bad for $24.00!
I hemmed and hawed over this red dress.
Eventually, I gave in. It is just above the ankle, swooshes beautifully and it has pockets! I'm in!
And never worn! Tags still on.
Regular $178, marked down twice - I paid $40.00 for it on consignment.
I like the textured fabric.
I might sew up the keyhole at the back of the neck. Those shoelaces aren't very classy.
That's a bra strap holder! Gotta love that.
The belt was very shoddy.
Considering that this dress has never been worn, that belt is in rough condition. I tossed it into the giveaway pile immediately. I have way better belts.
On Wednesday, L and I were waiting for our cleaner to show up, but we'd missed a message that she needed to switch days. I was all dressed to go out for dinner anyway, so we headed down to the pub after sorting out the new cleaning time.
I just thrifted this sweater in the summer (always shop off-season!), and I adore the classic cut of it. Merino wool, too!
The skirt is so fun - it's been in my wardrobe for several years, due to its cool "ribbon" texture and uneven hemline.
Outerwear? Outer-there! (that joke never gets old).
Orange and red are awesome together! This is a Danier Leather jacket that I bought on consignment a few years ago.
I don't make much effort on accessories when I'm on vacation. Heh.
L returned to work on Thursday, so I had two lovely "me" days where I slept in and then did whatever the heck I wanted.
I planned to meet up with Elaine after work for a shop and dinner - she'd missed my birthday party, so I wanted to connect with her.
I strolled to town and had a little shop around before meeting her.
Mr. Vizzini was being cuddly - very rare for him.
"If you stay home, I won't eat your shoes."
He loves when we're off - he turns into a total snuggle-boy.
I love these boots - I just want to clomp around in them.
Scarf for warmth under my leather coat.
I found this awesome bow-front silk blouse at the WIN Warehouse store.
Yup, more red! I need to stop buying tie-front blouses now.
However, at only $6.95, how can I resist?
I like that it's sized, vs. a medium.
It's by Levante (never heard of them), so it's probably an old 80s brand, long gone. I will probably machine wash this (as opposed to dry clean, ugh), since many 100% silk items are fine on delicate.
Elaine and I went to Flavour Upstairs, one of my favourite places for vintage clothes. I found an amazing faux fur ocelot coat...that I put back. Do I really need another faux fur coat?
"I am all the fur you need, woman."
I did find the above chartreuse paint-splattered shirt for L for $14.95, though. Not bad.
On Friday, it was sunny, so I made myself leave the house and get a walk in.
It will soon be too cold to wear these thin pants.
I was wearing this sweater when I originally bought these pants, and loved how well the blues matched. I love me some matchy!
I am on the lookout for some good flat black tall boots - I have limited shoes for walking all day.
Another one of my fabulous Danier Leather coats. This one was made in Canada.
I freakin' love these shoes. I still giggle to myself that I only paid $2.00 for them!
I browsed through a few other stores. Didn't see much that I had to have, but I did find a replacement pair of runners for walking to and from work.
Hooray for purple and pink hearts! These are by AirWalk and were $24.00 on consignment.
Vizzini has been very cranky this week (when he's not being lovey).
"I'm pretending this is your shin."
We've brought his post in for the season - it's too cold to have the deck doors open.
"This is outrageous! I need to patrol!"
He's been attacking the curtains, leaping from his post to a nearby chair, and raking our ankles (sometimes with claws, little bugger) when we go by one of his Secret Lairs.
On Saturday morning, L and I went out for our usual brunch.
Um, sure, let's wear all of these things!
L is coordinated in his purple plaid - it's like we planned it!
I didn't really have any reason for wearing any of these items. I'm iffy on the jacket - such a great colour, but the fit is not that good on me.
I love this black wool skirt (I have a vintage half-slip on under it - it's not lined). It has pockets and swirls most deliciously.
The last time I wore these I said that I didn't like them with bare legs. Ha, take that! I had bare legs!
So...that faux fur ocelot coat? I told L about it...I couldn't stop thinking about it! We walked back to Flavour Upstairs after lunch and he bought it for me. Whatta guy!
Yes! Isn't it amazing? It's by Hilary Radley, who is apparently known for her coats. I've never actually seen any coats by her on consignment or in thrift stores, but I have two pairs of her shoes: these green ones and these red ones.
The belt is faux leather, and it's trimmed with it on the pockets and under the collar as well.
Her name is woven into the fabric! You never see that! The interior is fully quilted and so soft.
Seriously, how did I pass this up the first time - it was only $34.99!
As a bonus, the original tags and a spare button were in the pocket. I don't think it was ever worn! These coats sell for about $300 new, so I think this was a good score!
I decided that I must wear All The Ruffles!
I know, so many ruffles! After the theatre, Elaine and I bussed to town and met up with a bunch of friends for drinks and dinner.
My outfit got a lot of comments, both from theatre-goers (the layered necklaces, the boots and the outfit overall) and from my friends, one of whom actually unzipped my corset top to check it out! Hey, stop that!
I really loved this outfit, so this is my entry for "Visible Monday" over at Patti's Not Dead Yet Style. Get yourself over there!
I couldn't resist - I had to christen the "Unsafe Ocelot" coat! Can you tell I'm feeling totally badass in this?
I see a suspicious tail!
This joins the Unsafe Polar Bear and the Unsafe Grizzly (hmm...I haven't featured that one previously) coats in my wardrobe. I'm apt to do rash things when wearing them! Follow me at your peril (or risk it and have fun!).
I felt like a crazy diva in this! Love!
It's a crime that I haven't worn these gorgeous boots more often! I resolve to wear them many more times this fall/winter!
I tried the white disc/crystal necklace with the outfit first, then the pearl necklace...and then I realized how awesome they looked together. Nothing exceeds like excess!
Today is the last chillin' day before I'm back to work tomorrow. I'm dreading it - why can't I be a woman of leisure?