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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Acquires 'Gemini' Chaise with Stratasys 3D Printed Acoustic Skin
The purchase follows a series of Stratasys 3D printed art piece acquisitions by landmark museums, including MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, Science Museum London, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and MAK Vienna
MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stratasys, Ltd. (Nasdaq:SSYS), the 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company, has announced that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has acquired the much-acclaimed 'Gemini' chaise designed by Prof. Neri Oxman for its permanent collection (watch video). The purchase of Gemini, designed in collaboration with Professor W. Craig Carter with the 3D printed skin by Stratasys, is the most recent in a series of 3D printed art accessions by prestigious museums across the USA and Europe, which also include MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, Science Museum London, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and MAK Vienna.
Gemini is a semi-enclosed, stimulation-free environment designed to enhance vocal vibrations, which are thought to be healing, throughout the body. A biologically-inspired 3D printed skin lines the beautiful wooden chassis. The skin's texture is an intricate design of tiny knobs, which provide comfort while maximizing sound absorption. The combination of a CNC milled wooden shell and the 3D printed lining creates an ideal acoustic setting for a single individual.
'Gemini' acoustic chaise by Prof. Neri Oxman in collaboration with Prof. W. Craig Carter and STRATASYS, purchased by SFMOMA. Inner lining produced in 44 composite materials using Stratasys' unique color, multi-material 3D printing technology. Photography by Michel Figuet
As the first project unveiled using Stratasys' unique Connex3 triple-jetting technology, the 3D printed 'skin' that lines Gemini was created in myriad colors and materials. Combining three base materials – Stratasys' rubber-like TangoPlus, rigid VeroYellow and VeroMagenta – the acoustic chaise included 44 different materials properties in varying shades of yellows and oranges with differing transparencies and rigidities, all produced simultaneously in a single 3D print. Surfaces that are more curved than others were assigned more elastic properties, thereby increasing sound absorption. The materials, shapes and surfaces of the 3D printed 'skin' enable a unique vibrational acoustic effect for a quiet, calming environment (read more about the World Premiere of Neri Oxman's Gemini Acoustic Chaise at Le Laboratoire, Paris on the Stratasys blog).
"No other manufacturing technology is able to provide such a variety of material properties in a single process. This makes Stratasys color, multi-material 3D printing technology very compelling for artists," says Naomi Kaempfer, Creative Director Art Fashion Design at Stratasys. "And that's just one influencing factor in the recent growth we are seeing in museums advocating 3D printed artwork. We believe that the technology has substantial cultural impact and expect it to have a significant influence on buying habits and manufacturing industries. As museums strive for public engagement with art, this progressive technology provides an important cultural reference, which should be celebrated."
'Anthozoa: Cape & Skirt' by Prof. Neri Oxman in collaboration with Iris Van Herpen and STRATASYS was produced using Stratasys' multi-material 3D printing technology and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Photo: Business Wire)
Prof. Neri Oxman also explored the concept of varying material properties in a collaborative project with fashion designer Iris Van Herpen, along with Professor W. Craig Carter, Keren Oxman and Stratasys. Anthozoa: Cape & Skirt, which creates movement and texture through the use of Stratasys hard and soft 3D printed materials, debuted at Van Herpen's show "Voltage" at Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013 and now resides within the permanent collection at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see video: 3D Printed Dress on the Catwalk at Paris Fashion Week and read more on Stratasys blog). The work will be on view this spring in the exhibition #techstyle (March 6–July 10, 2016).
MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, Science Museum London and MAK Vienna have similarly incorporated Stratasys 3D printed designs from Prof. Neri Oxman into their permanent collections in 2014, this time from the Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not Yet collection, also produced in collaboration with Professor W. Craig Carter and Stratasys (watch video: 18 Prototypes of the Human Body – a look at Neri Oxman's stunning 3D printed works).
According to Kaempfer, the trend for museums adopting 3D printed design affirms the longevity of 3D printing as an artistic medium and reflects a wider movement of artists celebrating the unique capabilities made possible with this technology.
"3D printing is at the very cusp of innovation, and Stratasys leads the way with new developments of its technology and a wealth of diverse materials. As such it provides an expression of novelty and a source of wonderment for many artists," Kaempfer concludes.
About Stratasys Ltd.
For more than 25 years, Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) has been a defining force and dominant player in 3D printing and additive manufacturing – shaping the way things are made. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel, the company empowers customers across a broad range of vertical markets by enabling new paradigms for design and manufacturing. The company's solutions provide customers with unmatched design freedom and manufacturing flexibility – reducing time-to-market and lowering development costs, while improving designs and communications. Stratasys subsidiaries include MakerBot and Solidscape and the Stratasys ecosystem includes 3D printers producing prototypes and parts; a wide range of 3D printing materials; parts on-demand via Stratasys Direct Manufacturing; strategic consulting and professional services; and Thingiverse/GrabCAD communities with 5+ million free design components, printable files. With 3,000 employees and 800 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents, Stratasys has received more than 30 technology and leadership awards. Visit us online at: www.stratasys.com or http://blog.stratasys.com.
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Anatomy of manipulation: The jailhouse tapes when women became victims
Angela Marie MacDougall
Over the objection of prisoners' groups and defense lawyers and already routine in some New York State and federal prisons, New York City changed policy in 2007 to permit the recording of prisoners telephone calls at the city jail. "Fly on the wall" accounts of emotional manipulation and threats by men cooling their heels for violence against women were documented in jail house recordings and reported in The New York Times February 2011. Chilling in detail for the first time, the larger public got a glimpse of what women and their children deal with when surviving male violence in an intimate relationship.
Going one step further Meet Me on the Hill Where We Used to Park: Interpersonal Process Associated with Victim Recantations is a U.S. study which for the first time recorded jailhouse telephone conversations between men charged with, (what they call) felony domestic violence and their woman victims to reveal why sometimes women decide not to follow through on charges.
Researchers listened to telephone conversations between 17 accused men abusers in a Washington state detention facility and their women victims, all of whom decided to withdraw their accusations of abuse. According to the study, the couples were aware they were being recorded through an automated message at the beginning of each call. The analysis of the conversations confirmed what we have been seeing in our work at Battered Women's Support Services that the men abusers are not necessarily threatening more violence rather are using a more nuanced and sophisticated appeals designed to:
-minimize their actions,
-deny the experience of the woman,
-create doubt of her account and recollection of her experience,
-blame her for his actions,
-ultimately gain the sympathy of the woman thus
-turning the focus away from any harm done to her to the sense of harm he feels is being done to him by being in jail/involved in the criminal legal system.
Adapted from the abstract, after analyzing the calls, the researchers identified a five-step process that went from the women victims vigorously defending themselves in the phone calls to agreeing to a plan to recant their testimony against the accused abuser:
Typically, in the first and second conversations there is a heated argument between the couple, revolving around the event leading to the abuse charge. In these early conversations, the woman is strong, and resists the accused perpetrator's account of what happens. The phone calls show how the woman starts out with a sense of determination and is eager to advocate for herself, but gradually that erodes as the phone calls continue.
The male abusers utilizes classic emotional power and control tactics minimizing the abuse, denies that it happened at all and if it did it wasn't that serious and if it happened it was her fault. In one couple, where the woman suffered strangulation and a severe bite to the face, the accused male perpetrator repeatedly reminded the woman that he was being charged with "felony assault," while asking whether she thought he deserved the felony charge, eventually wearing her down where she agreed that he didn't deserve a felony charge.
Within the second stage the male perpetrator appeals to her sympathy describes how he is suffering, depressed, and misses her and the children. This is often effective where she begins to provide empathic responses attempting to comfort and soothe him.
In one case, the accused perpetrator threatened suicide and said in a phone call to the woman victim, "Nobody loves me though, right?" At that point, the woman's tone changed dramatically, and she sounded concerned that he might actually try to hurt himself and from then on, the woman promised to help him get out of jail.
In the third stage, after the accused abuser has gained the sympathy of the woman, the couple bonds over their love for each other and positions themselves against others who "don't understand them."
The fourth stage involves the perpetrator asking the woman to recant her accusations against him and the woman complying.
Finally, in the fifth stage, the couple constructs the recantation plan and develops their stories.
My daughter Leona, who represents the larger public, not necessarily privy to first-hand survivor accounts, read the abstract and had this perspective, "We all know they (abusive men) are manipulative, it is good that this research shows in great detail exactly how they do it."
It appears that the study was not written for larger public, like Leona, and seems to have been written for criminal legal system personnel and victim advocates. Though identified as a target audience for the recommendations, feminist and feminist ending violence activists consulted for this blog were underwhelmed by the study and irritated by it's premise that women and women's advocates don't already know this. The overwhelming sentiment from advocates consulted for this blog, identified the challenge of working with the system where over forty years of survivor based expert information is seemingly disregarded until an academic study "reveals" it.
"The fact that perpetrators use emotional manipulation, minimization, mothers' guilt feelings re: children or the abuser's welfare…this is exactly what we share with them(women). The article is disturbing, not because of some revelatory study, but because it suggests some women's advocates and some academics 'still don't get' the dynamics of woman abuse despite 40 years of experts – survivors themselves and feminist frontline workers – explaining it to them. This also implies that we 'haven't' been telling (women) this, which is shocking and astounding to me." said "S" from Ontario
Alison Brewin, gender consultant and former executive director, West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund shared these thoughts, "…but does this research surprise you at all? Anyone who understands women's lives understands the complexities of loyalty, love and the profound pressure to keep a family together…our society is designed to support women keeping their men and fathers of their children in the nuclear family unit and it usually results in women doing a whole lot of 'compromising' including keeping an abusive and violent spouse in the home for the social and economic 'benefits' that entails."
Curiously, the study characterizes the actions of the perpetrators as "witness tampering", and the U.S. has witness tampering laws. Canada doesn't have "witness tampering" laws per se, however Section 139 of the Criminal Code is close. Contemplating these manipulative actions of perpetrators as obstructing the legal proceedings could benefit from more legal analysis. As a legal strategy for crown prosecutors, this may have benefit and a measure of balance for women who are forced to navigate a violent abusive partner and a criminal legal system that needs it's witnesses. I have never heard of a case where a perpetrator was further charged under this section for manipulating women victims to recant. I have, however, seen and heard numerous instances where women victims are punished by the criminal legal system for failing to participate in the criminal legal proceedings as witnesses to their own assault. At Battered Women's Support Services, we have often heard criminal legal system personnel refer to women victims as "reluctant" witnesses and how problematic that is for them and for the criminal legal system. Marjaneh Aghamohseni, Battered Women's Support Services Victim Service Worker said, "Some abused women recant out of fears/terror/distress since they are afraid of further violence by him. Based on women's experiences with the police, they know that the accused will be released on conditions after arrest. If there is a protection order in place, it gets complicated if he pretends that he wants to see his child. Police tend to be on his side. But we know that this is another tactic from the abuser to continue his abusive behaviours."
When it comes to violence against women in intimate relationships, through our work at Battered Women's Support Services we have identified at least three areas that the criminal legal system can't navigate…well:
Women who self-defend (here's what we have written on women arrests, resources we have written for women and advocates and stay tuned, there is more to come)
Women who "recant"
Survivor-based and/or feminist anti violence activist knowledge and experience
"E" from Vancouver had these thoughts, "Really when you think about it, the recant issue is something that has been going on for a very long time. Though women who have been charged with assault (in the numbers we are seeing these days) is comparatively new, in both of these situations the feminist anti violence activists knowledge isn't acknowledged, foremost, in these discussions even though we would have seen these things long before the system."
"S" from Ontario further added, "If this study provides 'proof' of what survivors, feminists, advocates and countless authors have been saying all along about male violence against women, well I can only ask why four decades of women's voices wasn't proof enough?"
Annie Zhang, Battered Women's Support Services Legal Advocate shared this regarding the women who self-defend and the women who recant, "The issues in both categories, in my opinion, demonstrate the shortcomings of the criminal justice system not only in providing protection toward battered women, but in achieving its own ends of convicting the guilty while protecting the innocent."
When Women Became Victims Series:
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Массімо Де Сольда (,  5 квітня 1966, Бриндізі) — італійський футболіст, що грав на позиції півзахисника. По завершенні ігрової кар'єри — тренер.

Виступав, зокрема, за «Беневенто».

Ігрова кар'єра
Народився 5 квітня 1966 року в місті Бриндізі. Вихованець футбольної школи клубу «Мілан».

У дорослому футболі дебютував 1985 року виступами на умовах оренди за «П'яченцу», в якій провів один сезон, взявши участь у 6 матчах чемпіонату.

1986 року уклав контракт з «Комо», за команду якого 1 лютого 1987 року дебютував у Серії A. Шість ігор того сезону, проведені за «Комо», згодом виявилися єдиними для Де Сольди у найвищому італійському дивізіоні.

1987 року він перейшов до друголігової «Падови», після чого встиг змінити більше десяти команд, утім здебільшого з нижчих італійських ліг. За кар'єру взяв участь лише у шести матчах Серії A (за «Комо») та 50 іграх Серії B.

Кар'єра тренера
Протягом 2009–2010 років був асистентом головного тренера команди «Бриндізі» з рідного міста.

Посилання

Італійські футболісти
Італійські футбольні тренери
Футболісти «П'яченци»
Футболісти «Комо»
Футболісти «Падови»
Футболісти «Таранто»
Футболісти «Катандзаро»
Футболісти «Беневенто»
Футболісти «Потенци»
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Can't See Me
I waited there for you
Take you back in time
You're in suspension, hey I caught you
You cannot hide, it's all inside, easy
She knows you can't see me
Yes Mr Miser, Mr, Mr Mystery she's saying to me
Saying he can't see ya, he can't free ya
He can't be ya
He just wanna be ya
He needs a dealer
As a healer
I I I've seen that expression on your face
I I I I could have sent you to that place
Expression can't see me
Yes, I'm reminded of those days
Take you back in time, it's all inside
Here comes the reason to my rhyme
The man used to fly, he used to fly easy
But now you can't see me
I know mine, mine know me
I can sail upon your sea
I can sail upon your sea so easy
I know you can't see me
Brown / Mounfield
Released 1998:
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Mix) / Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) / Can't See Me (Harvey Mix) (Polydor, Promo cassette)
Can't See Me (Polydor, Promo video)
Released June 1998:
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) / Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) / Can't See Me (Harvey's Invisible Mix) (Polydor, CAN'T SEE 1, Promo CD)
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) / Can't See Me (Harvey's Invisible Mix) / Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) / Can't See Me (Album Version) (Polydor, CAN'T SEE 2, Promo 12")
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) / Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) / Can't See Me (Harvey's Invisible Mix) / Can't See Me (Harvey's Instrumental Mix) / Under The Paving Stones: The Beach (Gabriel's 13th Dream Remix) (Polydor, 567 093-1, 12")
Released 8th June 1998:
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) / Can't See Me (Harvey's Invisible Mix) / Come Again (Part 2) / My Star (CD-ROM Video) (Polydor, 044 045-2, CD1)
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) / Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) / Under The Paving Stones: The Beach (Gabriel's 13th Dream Mix) / Corpses (CD-ROM Video) (Polydor, 044 047-2, CD2)
Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) / Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) (Polydor, 567 092-7, 7")
UK chart position:
Unfinished Monkey Business (4.55)
Remixes / B-Side Tracks: 1. Can't See Me (Harvey's Invisible Mix) / 2. Can't See Me (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) / 3. Lions (With Denise) / 4. Under The Paving Stones: The Beach (Gabriel's 13th Dream Remix) / 5. Jesus On The Move (Polydor, POCP 7357, Japanese CD, released 12th January 1998)
And when I'm out, I see you walking
Why don't your eyes see me
Led Zeppelin, That's the Way
I'm no joke on the funk fool, you can't see me
King Tee, You Can't See Me
King Monkey's acclimatisation in the Can't See Me video. "It's down to him (Squire) to phone me, isn't it ? When the Roses split up it was sink or swim. I ended up doing the butterfly backwards." (Ian Brown speaking to the Mail On Sunday, 21st May 2006)
The standout track on Unfinished Monkey Business, on which Ian finally picks up the gauntlet thrown down by the Roses on Fool's Gold. The guitar solo which kicks in after three minutes is played by Brown on the same pink Stratocaster that Squire had used in The Stone Roses. Brown's guitar piece is very creditable, but one can only imagine the heights the song could have reached with some guitar licks from Squire thrown over the top à la Fool's Gold. Brown also plays bass guitar, with Mani providing melody lead bass. The bass and drums here have roots in a Breaking Into Heaven demo (sans guitar) from 1993. The bassline is very close to Gang Starr's 'Just To Get A Rep', from their 1991 LP, 'Step In the Arena' (which DJ Premier sampled from E.V.A. by Jean-Jacques Perrey). While Reni is credited as playing drums, it is instead actually a breakbeat sampled by Mani:
"It came from Mani sitting down with his portastudio and coming up with a bassline, but we only found out last week that Reni doesn't actually play on it - it's a breakbeat Mani sampled. I thought it was a sample Reni took from the studio that Mani played to, but it was actually a breakbeat.
"I've got a big pillowcase of tapes at home of Roses live shows and rehearsals and stuff, and I was just going through them one day and I found this bassline and remembered it. So I phoned him up, said, 'Can I put some lyrics over this for my record ?' and he said, 'Course you can'."
(Ian Brown, Making Music interview, June 1998)
A visitor to this site informs me that this track relates to one occasion when Brown saw Squire in a village in Hale, not long after the split of the band. According to this story, Brown motioned towards Squire, but the latter continued to read his newspaper:
Brown also caught a glimpse of Squire on Good Friday, 1997, as he revealed to Uncut magazine in February 1998: "He was in his Range Rover and I saw him. To me, he looked like someone was on the floor with a gun at his head."
The lyric, 'I know mine, mine know me' is formed from (John 10: 14), 'The Good Shepherd and His Sheep':
"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me - just as the Father knows me and I know the Father - and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life - only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."
The Jews who heard these words were again divided. Many of them said, "He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him ?"
But others said, "These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind ?"
(John 10: 14 - 21)
The intimation here, is that Squire is the 'black sheep' of the (Stone Roses) family.
Can't See Me cover artwork.
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Emeriti Faculty
Anthropologists in Other Departments
Fraser D. Neiman
Ph.D. Yale 1990
Archaeology Lab, Monticello
Professional Homepage Monticello Archaeology
My current research focuses on the archaeology of the slave societies that evolved in the Chesapeake and Caribbean in the early-modern era. In addition to teaching in the anthropology and architectural history departments at UVA, I am director of archaeology at Monticello, where my department is in the midst of several long-term research projects. Among them is the Monticello Plantation Archaeological Survey, a multidisciplinary initiative designed to reveal trajectories of change in settlement and land use on Thomas Jefferson's Albemarle County plantation, along with their ecological, economic, and social causes and consequences.
Monticello's archaeology department is also home to the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS), a collaborative venture that uses the web to facilitate sharing and comparative analysis of fine-grained archaeological data from sites occupied by enslaved Africans and their descendents in North America and the Caribbean. My Caribbean research is a collaboration with DAACS colleagues, and focuses differences in plantation organization and market participation by slaves on Jamaica and Nevis.
Evolutionary perspectives on learning, cognition, and behavior provide the theoretical inspiration for much of my empirical work. Topics of particular interest include style, markets, consumption, and cooperation. I'm also interested in quantitative techniques, particularly multivariate and spatial data analysis.
My course syllabi and some recent papers are available on my personal home page: http://people.virginia.edu/~fn9r/
Colonial North America and the Caribbean, vernacular architecture, archaeological theory, quantitative techniques, GIS, digital research archives.
Forthcoming - Measuring Time, Population, And Residential Mobility From The Surface At San Marcos Pueblo, North Central New Mexico. American Antiquity. (With Ann F. Ramenofsky and Christopher D. Peirce).
2011 - Measuring Time, Population, And Residential Mobility From The Surface At San Marcos Pueblo, North Central New Mexico. American Antiquity. (With Ann F. Ramenofsky and Christopher D. Peirce).
2008 - The Lost World of Monticello: An Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Anthropological Research 64 (2):161-193.
2007 - Frequency Seriation, Correspondence Analysis, and Woodland-Period Ceramic Assemblage Variation in the Deep South. Southeastern Archaeology 26 (1):47-72.
2007 - Inheritance and Adaptation: Archaeological and Architectural Perspective on the 17th Century Chesapeake. William and Mary Quarterly 64 (3):451-520. (With James Whittenburg, Carter Hudgins, Willie Graham, and Carl Lounsbury).
2000 - Coincidence or Causal Connection? The Relationship Between Thomas Jefferson's Visits to Monticello and Sally Hemings's Conceptions. William and Mary Quarterly 56 (1):198-210.
1997 - Conspicuous Consumption as Wasteful Social Advertising: A Darwinian Perspective on Spatial Patterns in Classic Maya Terminal Monument Dates. In Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory in Archaeological Explanation. G. Clarke and M. Barton, eds. Pp. 267-290. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association.
1995 - Stylistic Variation in Evolutionary Perspective: Inferences from Decorative Diversity and Inter-Assemblage Distance. American Antiquity 60 (1):1-37.
1993 - Temporal Patterning in House Plans from the 17th-Century Chesapeake. In The Archaeology of Seventeenth-Century Virginia. T. Reinhart and D. Pogue, eds. Pp. 251-284.
Sonia Alconini
David A. Harrison III Professor of American Archaeology
Ira Bashkow
Goldsmith Family NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2018-2021: Associate Professor
Frederick H. Damon
Eve Danziger
Professor and Chair; Affiliated Faculty: Linguistics Program; Cognitive Science Program
Lise Dobrin
Associate Professor & Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics
Gertrude Fraser
Professor & Director of Global Development Studies Program
James Igoe
Kasey Jernigan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Studies
Adria LaViolette
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Daniel Lefkowitz
George Mentore
Rachel Most
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs & Professor
China Scherz
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
John Shepherd
Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions
Director & Curator, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
Sylvia Tidey
Patricia Wattenmaker
Kath Weston
Jarrett Zigon
William & Linda Porterfield Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Anthropology


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Congress could be one step closer to undoing a U.S. Forest Service decision to end old growth logging in the Tongass National Forest.
On Monday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski added the measure to a Senate Interior and Environment appropriations bill.
Last year, the forest service included new directives to its Tongass plan. Timber industry groups and conservationists thought the decision was final. It called for the forest service to transition away from cutting old growth trees.
But in October, the Government Accountability Office decided the forest service plan was subject to congressional review.
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Beetles: Destructive Pests!!
Beetles are the largest group of insects belonging to the order 'Coleoptera' which means 'sheathed wings'. They can be found nearly in all climates and latitudes except in extreme environment as those in the polar region. About 40% of all insect species are beetles while most of them are undiscovered.
The majority of beetles feed on a variety of plants. They may feed on leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and roots. Any part of the plant is food to them. They also feed on stored crops and grains. These pest attack on furniture and items made of wood. Hence they are considered as pests causing damage to our plants in fields, yards, gardens, storage areas etc.
The most destructive species of beetles are:
Carpet Beetles: feeds on plant matter with high proteins.
Drugstore Beetles: feeds on stored grains, seeds, flour, spices, books, leather, and drugs.
Grain Beetles: feeds on grains, cereal, seeds, dried fruit, and food with higher oil content.
Ground Beetles: certain ground beetle species feeds on seeds and pollen of plants.
Plaster Beetles: sometimes feeds on stored food products.
Powder Post Beetles: feeds on starch, sugar, and protein from sapwood, prefers wood with high moisture content.
Spider Beetles: feeds on almonds, beans, cereals, chocolate powders, cornmeal, dates, dried fruits, mushrooms, dried soups, flour, ginger, corn, nutmeg, older woods, rye bread, seeds, etc.
Warehouse Beetles: feeds on nectars and pollens and also cereals, seeds, cornmeal, dried pet food, spices, pasta noodles, cookies, candy, and milk powder.
Wood Infesting Beetles: feeds on wood-containing moisture and sugar.
Mountain Pine Beetles: feeds on mature or weakened lodgepole pine.
Let us look at the below evidence that shows how beetles are destroying our plants and trees:
Beetle spreads worry among Ventura County farmers
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, vcstar.com, 15 January 2016, California, US
Known as the polyphagous shot hole borer, the pest is a beetle that targets at least 38 types of trees, including avocados. It carries a fungus that interrupts the transportation of water and nutrients within the trees, leading to branch dieback and ultimately death.
The conservancy manages about 2,300 acres of land that is home to tens of thousands of oak trees.
Rick Bisaccia, stewardship director and lands manager for the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, said "Live oaks are probably the most predominant trees on our land," he said. "If all of a sudden the oaks were to die and disappear out of there it would be a real, tragic loss."
N.Y. Wants Help Fighting Southern Pine Beetle
By Kevin Lessmiller, 7 January 2016, Courthouse News Service, New York, US
(CN) – New York's natural resources division said Thursday that it is taking bids for timber harvesters to help combat an invasive species of beetles.
Tree-cutting operations began as part of the response plan, resulting in nearly 2,500 infested trees being chopped down, according to the agency. However, its efforts have not been enough. DEC says there are still forested areas threatened by the southern pine beetle.
"By thinning a portion of this forest, which represents one of DEC's largest land holdings in the Pine Barrens region, we are potentially saving thousands of trees from this invasive insect," Seggos said in a statement.
The southern pine beetle is native to southern areas of the United States, but the species has spread north and west. It attacks all types of pine trees, and about 1,000 acres of pine forests in New Jersey have been destroyed by the beetle each year since 2001, according to DEC.
Tel Aviv fears invasive beetle infestation that causes trees to collapse
22 December 2015, The Jerusalem Post, Tel Aviv, Israel
Due to heightening fears that the ongoing spread of red palm weevil infestations will lead to spontaneous tree collapses around the city, the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality is demanding that private homeowners take certain measures to handle infected palms on their property.
The municipality announced that if property owners fail to treat their trees within 14 days, they will be subject to a NIS 730 fine. About 270,940 trees of all types grow in Tel Aviv, of which about 160,940 are found in public spaces, according to city data. Stressing the importance of urban plant growth to residential quality of life, as well as the millions of shekels invested in their preservation, the city urged residents to be proactive and protect the palm trees from the red palm weevil's clutches.
Pine bark beetles infest trees on the Palos Verdes Peninsula
By Priscella Vega, 19 December 2015, Daily Breeze, California, US
Rolling Hills Estates in Peninsula removed more pine trees than any other species compared to past years, according to Andy Clark, community services director. The city held a special Parks and Activities meeting last week to address recent attacks on trees and hear Dudikoff's concerns of bark beetles spreading to his area.
In Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills, infected trees haven't been a major concern. Residents typically remove infected trees to prevent beetles from spreading while Rancho Palos Verdes residents are concerned about dead trees falling over.
Oro-Medonte battles beetle
By Frank Matys, 18 December, 2015, Ontario, Canada
Oro-Medonte is tackling an infestation of emerald ash borer, a bug responsible for the devastation of millions of trees in Ontario.
However, targeting an area of the township populated with ash trees will not halt the beetle's march through the municipality, an official says.
"It certainly will spread," said Jerry Ball, director of transportation and environmental services.
"Once a tree dies, you stand the risk of it blowing down across a road or taking out hydro lines or falling down on private property, maybe on a house or whatever," Ball said.
Let us look at the statistics that shows the increasing beetle infestation:
The U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service
The annual aerial forest health survey in Colorado, 2015
A spruce beetle outbreak was detected on 485,000 acres in 2014, compared to 398,000 acres across the state in 2013. The epidemic expanded to 253,000 new acres, as compared to 216,000 new acres in 2013. The spruce beetle epidemic is expanding most rapidly in southwestern Colorado's forests, and the total area affected by this beetle since 1996 has increased to almost 1.4 million acres statewide.
Approximately 3.4 million acres in Colorado have been affected by mountain pine beetle since the first signs of the outbreak in 1996.
The British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations
Sustainable Forest Management, Facts and Statistics 2013
Since 2002, an unprecedented infestation of mountain pine beetle in British Columbia has significantly threatened Alberta's pine forests. The British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations projected that 57% of the province's merchantable pine forests could be killed by 2016.
Below image shows increasing mountain pine beetle infestation in Canada, US region in the year 2013:
Farmers' knowledge and perceptions of blister beetles, Hycleus spp. (Coleoptera: Meloidae), as pest herbivores of Desmodium legumes in western Kenya
International Journal of Pest Management, 2012
The highest number of farmers reported blister beetles as pests of desmodium (63%) and beans (58%), followed by sweet potato (51%).
Insecticides and pesticides are designed to kill pests. Because of their mode of action is not specific to one species, they often kill or harm organisms other than pests, including humans. Also the majority beetle species are directly important to the environment. For example, several beetle species are predators on other harmful pests; others are decomposers of organic matter. Here is the evidence that shows adverse effect of pesticides:
New evidence of damage caused to bees by pesticide use, researchers claim
By wmnpbowern, January 05, 2016, Western Morning News, England
Scientists at Sussex University claim new research shows the impact on bees of neonicotinoid pesticides is even greater than originally feared.
The researchers, at Sussex University, say they have discovered that bees are exposed to a chemical cocktail when feeding on wildflowers growing next to neonicotinoid-treated crops in UK cropland.
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Posted on January 28, 2016 April 23, 2018 Author ChaitanyaJoshi
Threat of yellow crazy ants
Yellow crazy ants fit the stereotype of a rapacious marauding invader. The yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) is a species of ant, introduced accidentally to northern Australia and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, which has wreaked ecological damage in both locations. It is colloquially called "crazy" because of its erratic movements when disturbed, with its long legs and antennae making it one of the largest invasive ant species in the world. This is a "tramp ant", a species that easily becomes established and dominant in a new habitat due to traits such as aggression toward other ant species, little aggression toward members of its own species, efficient recruitment, and large colony size. It is on a list of "One Hundred of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species" formulated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It has invaded ecosystems from Hawaii to Seychelles, and formed supercolonies on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
The yellow crazy ants are widespread across the tropics, and populations are especially dense in the Pacific region. The yellow crazy ant's natural habitat is not known, but it has been speculated that the species originated in West Africa. It has been introduced into a wide range of tropical and subtropical environments including Caribbean islands, some Indian Ocean islands and some Pacific islands. The species has been known to occupy agricultural systems such as cinnamon, citrus, coffee and coconut plantations. Because the ant has generalized nesting habits, they are able to disperse via trucks, boats and other forms of human transport.
Yellow crazy ants demonstrate the power of numbers and the benefits of social cooperation. They are able to dominate large areas by forming super-colonies with multiple nests and multiple queens. The largest have up to 300 queens and extend over several hundred hectares. They spread by budding. A mated queen leaves her birth nest with some workers and sets up a new nest nearby. The boundary of a super-colony can advance approximately by 3 meter a day.
Also what is interesting here is that crazy ants have the ability to form multi-queened "super colonies", where rather than fight each other, the offspring of different queens cooperate to form infestations. There can be several thousand ants per square metre of forest floor in these super colonies, but at any one time there are just as many ants foraging in the treetops.
A survey on Christmas Island one of the worst affected regions yielded an average spreading speed of three meters a day, the equivalent of one kilometer a year.
The species is most infamous for causing the ecological "meltdown" of Christmas Island. On Christmas Island, yellow crazy ants have reached densities of more than 2,000 ants per square metre—the highest density of foraging ants ever recorded. The ants have had a dramatic impact on the ecosystem and are linked to population declines in some species of crab, bird and plant. Yellow crazy ant impacts are varied, depending on their density and on the invaded ecosystem.
They like to think of themselves as literally being the "queens of their castles". Crazy ants are highly aggressive to other ants. Only two of 40 ants on Christmas Island are able to coexist with yellow crazy ants. In Hawaii, yellow crazy ants aggressively defend flowers from other nectar-eaters. Their large-scale removal of insects deprives other insect-eaters, such as lizards and birds, of food. Monopolization was noted at a site near Cairns.
They cause a huge amount of damage to the biodiversity as well as to the agriculture in the areas they attack. Yellow crazy ant's farm sap-sucking bugs for their honeydew and protect them from predators. The build-up in bugs and sugar encourages the growth of sooty mould, which can severely compromise tree health and is sometimes fatal.
Yellow crazy ants also cause agricultural damage. They have killed young chickens and pigs. They reduce yields of coffee, coconut and sugarcane crops by nesting at the base of these plants and exposing the roots to disease, and promote sooty mould disease in fruit trees. On one of the Seychelles islands, the abundance of a sap-sucking insect associated with sooty mould on citrus and cinnamon increased up to 100-fold in the presence of yellow crazy ants, and up to 90 percent of leaves were infected.
They are also known to spray formic acid which may cause burning and irritate the skin and eyes of animals and potentially humans.
Let us look at the following news article:
Federal Government gives $2m to fight yellow crazy ants south of Cairns
Liam Parsons
The Cairns Post
November 11, 2013 6:14AM
RURAL MENACE: The Yellow Crazy ant, or Anoplolepsis Gracilipes.
THE war against one of the world's most invasive pests has been given a boost after the Federal Government announced $2 million to fight yellow crazy ants south of Cairns.
The pests are about the size of green ants and spray a substance that irritates the skin and can cause temporary blindness to humans and animals.
Known for their frantic movements when disturbed, yellow crazy ants are entrenched at properties around Edmonton, south of Cairns.
But there are fears the infestation could spread to the neighboring Wet Tropics rainforests, causing severe damage to the World Heritage-listed region and local wildlife.
Wet Tropics Management Authority executive director Andrew Maclean said the ants would disturb fragile ecosystems while threatening young birds and even cassowaries.
"They're quite aggressive," he said.
"We would also be worried about the effect they would have on the invertebrate population, which plays an important part in the ecology."
Mr. Maclean said recent surveys indicated the ants were confined to Edmonton, allowing the authorities to stamp them out before they spread.
"Once they're established in a forest, the prospect of getting rid of them is pretty slim," he said.
"It's important you jump on these populations. We think it's not too late to completely eradicate them."
The money will go towards a five-year eradication program involving baits, research funding and public education and awareness programs.
Kennedy MP Bob Katter welcomed the funding and called for residents to identify and report the ants.
The funding, under the Federal Government's Caring for Our Country grants program, comes 12 months after the State Government and Biosecurity Queensland stopped its eradication program.
Thus we can see that these pests are causing us a lot of grief and control measures are extremely costly.
In 2007, the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) claimed it had undertaken the world's most successful eradication of the exotic invertebrate species, Yellow Crazy Ant, in the Northern Territory of Australia. However, the need for control programs for these ants is a pressing one. We at C-Tech Corporation can provide a solution to this grave problem.
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Weevil damage to crops!
A weevil is any beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily. They are usually small, less than 6 mm in length and herbivorous. There are over 60,000 species in several families, mostly in the family Curculionidae . There are more species in this family than in any other beetle group. Scientists estimate that there are over 1,000 species of Curculionidae in North America. Weevils are generally divided into two major divisions, the Orthoceri or primitive weevils, and the Gonatoceri or true weevils. Weevil species occur in a wide range of colors and body shapes. Many are slender or oval-shaped insects. Depending on the species, weevils range in size from about 3 mm to over 10 mm in length. They are usually dark-colored—brownish to black. Some have scales or shiny hairs covering part of their bodies. The most distinctive feature of weevils is the shape of their head. An adult weevil has an elongated head that forms a snout. The mouth is at the end of the snout. Some weevils have a snout that is as long as the body.
Most of the weevils are destructive to crops and are categorized as agricultural pests. They feed on crops as larvae as well as adults. Most weevils are found in fields, gardens or orchards. They can be very destructive, and their damage is often very expensive. For many years, one of the most destructive weevils was the cotton boll weevil. The black vine weevil, is found in many parts of the United States. It feeds on a variety of plants, including hemlocks and rhododendrons.
A few weevils attack stored grains and seeds. Weevils are often found in dry foods including nuts and seeds, cereal and grain products, such as pancake mix. In the domestic setting, they are most likely to be observed when a bag of flour is opened. Their presence is often indicated by the granules of the infested item sticking together in strings, as if caught in a cobweb. The most common stored product weevils are the rice weevil, the granary weevil, and the cowpea weevil. Sometimes plant-feeding weevils invade homes for shelter from the weather. Occasionally people accidentally bring seed-feeding weevils into the kitchen.
Banana weevil is the most important pest of banana plantations. The banana weevil (C. sordidus) is known from virtually all banana-growing countries of the world, including the New World, Afrotropics, Oriental and Australasian regions. According to a study conducted by cirad banana plots are colonized from already infested neighboring plots or from reservoirs, such as semi-natural wild banana stands. Plot organization within an agricultural landscape thus plays an important role in the spread of weevils, as does the position of the various elements within plots – banana plants, harvest residues, cover crops, pheromone traps, etc. It is its larvae that damage banana plants, by boring galleries in the bulb, which prevent the plant from taking up sufficient nutrients and sometimes cause it to fall.
Substantial losses can result if this pest is not controlled. Although it will attack all parts of banana suckers and established plants, it prefers decaying banana corm material. Spent stems (cut or left standing), residual corms left after the stem has been cut, underground stubs of corm tissue left after de-suckering, uprooted suckers or stems, and any corm tissues that are large enough to dry slowly are good targets for banana root borer attack. Dispersal within a banana field occurs when adult weevils walk from plant to plant or when infested plants containing eggs and larvae are moved. Dispersal between distant fields undoubtedly is caused by the transportation of infested planting material. The injury is caused by grubs (larvae), which tunnel through the corms. Tunnels which are circular in cross section become wider as the grub grows and are filled with dark-colored debris. Extensive feeding damage by grubs results in root destruction, slowed plant growth, reduced fruit production, and, sometimes, toppled plants. The tunneling by the grubs makes the corms susceptible to invasion by secondary decay organisms. Reduced production and growth of suckers occur when parent plants are heavily damaged. Affected sucker plants can be recognized by their dull, yellowish-green withered leaves. Relatively little damage is caused by adults feeding on plant tissues.
The damage caused by the banana weevil is demonstrated by this article published recently in The Hindu:
NATIONAL » TAMIL NADU
NAGERCOIL, September 8, 2013
Updated: September 8, 2013 10:24 IST
Stem borer a nightmare for banana farmers
KOLAPPAN
The entry of banana weevil, a common pest, in tribal areas across the Petchiparai dam has become a cause of concern for both farmers and officials of the horticulture department as these areas had once been totally free from the pest.
'Nenthiran' and red bananas planted in these areas have become its victims. "Commonly known as stem borer, the pest could wreak havoc on banana crop and contribute to drastic decline in banana cultivable area." said Surendran Joseph, Assistant Director, Horticultural Department in Kanyakumari district, who identified the pests during a field visit.
Mr Joseph said when he received complaints of banana stems bending over and collapsing at Thatchamalai during the flowering stage, he was under the impression it could be due to some fungus attack.
"Even last year there was no incidence of this pest. But now I am surprised to find that it is the handiwork of the stem borer," he said. Even though the problem was prevalent in Kanyakumari district, particularly in Vilavancode taluk, the borer could not make a foray into tribal areas all these years.
He felt the weevil, which could reach 10-16mm length with a hard-shelled and curved snout, could have invaded the area along with banana suckers brought from outside for planting.
The damage is caused by the grub (larva of the weevil), which makes tunnels as it feeds on the corm and root stock. The tunnels encourage fungal infection, ultimately reducing it into a black mass of rotten tissues. This hinders root initiation and sap flow to the plants.
"The infection will result in yellowing of leaves and withering; particularly, young suckers show symptoms of wilting. In older plants, growth is retarded. In case of severe infection, plants produce small bunches and are easily blown over by wind," he explained.
Mr Joseph said the pest could be controlled through crop rotation, drip irrigation, selection of healthy planting material and keeping the garden clean from weeds and crop debris. "Uproot the infested plant, chop it into pieces and burn them. Removal of pseudo stem below the ground level," he said, and advised farmers to avoid planting susceptible varieties such as robusta and red banana
He said if the planting material is suspected of being infested, the suckers should be trimmed on all sides so as to eradicate the presence of eggs and grubs.
The above incident strikes a chord close to home. India being a country majorly dominated by agriculture as a source of livelihood, the crops need to be protected from vicious insects like weevils and bedbugs.
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Posted on January 8, 2016 April 23, 2018 Author ChaitanyaJoshi
Bedbugs Nuisance!!
Cimex lectularius is commonly known as 'Bedbug'. Bedbugs feed only on animal's or human's blood. They do not cause any disease but their saliva contains biologically and enzymatically active proteins that may cause a progressive, visibly detectable skin reaction to repeated bites. Scratching on the bites may cause secondary skin infection that can lead to swelling or burning. People may experience insomnia worrying that they will be bitten again. Those who are allergic to bedbugs' bite can suffer difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat, fever, swollen tongue, etc.
Sometimes it takes a few days to notice bedbug's bite that is why they go unnoticed for several days in the infested area. Hence one should look for blood stains, dark and rusty spots of bedbug excrement, fecal spots for the bedbug infestation. They can enter your home through your luggage, clothing, and used furniture. Bedbugs generally hide in places where people rest most of their time like mattress, bed frame, pillows, cushions, couch, box spring, bed skirts, headboard, curtains, tiny cracks, crevices, etc. They can be found everywhere despite the cleanliness. Places like hotels, business offices, military barracks, homeless shelter, college dorms, apartments, complexes, theaters, trains, buses, etc. are commonly have bedbugs.
According to The National Pest Management Association and the University of Kentucky, nearly all U.S. pest professionals have treated bed bugs in the past year
Nearly all (99.6 percent) pest professionals have treated bed bugs in the past year, unchanged from 2013, but higher compared to five, 10 and 15 years ago.
The top three places where pest professionals report finding bed bugs are apartments/condominiums (95 percent) and single-family homes (93 percent) and hotels/motels (75 percent). Past surveys have shown these environments to consistently be the top three where bed bugs have been encountered.
However, bed bugs are also found seemingly everywhere else and in higher numbers, such as nursing homes, college dorms, offices, schools and daycare centers, hospitals, public transportation, and others:
Nursing homes – 58 percent (46 percent in 2013)
Office buildings – 45 percent (36 percent in 2013)
Schools and day care centers – 43 percent (41 percent in 2013)
Hospitals – 36 percent (33 percent in 2013)
Doctor's offices/outpatient facilities – 33 percent (26 percent in 2013)
Transportation (train/bus/taxi) – 29 percent (21 percent in 2013)
Retail stores – 20 percent (15 percent in 2013)
Movie theaters – 16 percent (10 percent in 2013)
In addition to the environments above, pest professionals also report finding bed bugs in some very unusual places, results which illustrate how problematic this pest really is: A prosthetic leg; in a casket with a deceased body; vent above the bathtub; dance club; 911 Call center; and in a tow boat on the Ohio River.
Here are some incidences that show how bedbug infestation is an emerging problem:
SHA's Baltimore HQ battles bedbugs — again
By Rick Massimo, January 1, 2016, Washington's Top News, Washington
WASHINGTON — The Baltimore headquarters of the Maryland State Highway Administration is battling bedbugs for the second time in the past couple of weeks, and the 10th time since 2014.
SHA spokesman Dave Buck tells The Baltimore Sun that each finding of bedbugs is a separate incident, and that the repeated sightings aren't a sign of a single invasion that's been neglected.
Bed bugs biting Robeson residents
December 28th, 2015, The Robesonian, Pennsylvania
Emergency Medical Services and Lumberton police have alerted that the issues they have been having with people and clothing infested with bed bugs. In the case of the ambulances, this results in those units being removed from operation until they have been thoroughly cleaned.
Bed bug infestation causes family to struggle
By John Bush, December 15th, 2015, Ohio
Last winter, Sarah and her family unknowingly moved into a home infested with bed bugs. It wasn't long before she and her two daughters began noticing the blood-sucking insects.
With no help from her landlord and not enough money to pay an exterminator, Sarah began purchasing bed bug spray every week to try to rid her home of the pesky insects. "I tried my hardest to get rid of them, but then one day we ended up tearing out a wall and found them all crawling in this one wall in the house," she said.
To prevent and control bedbug infestation use of pesticides and insecticides is not beneficial because the effect of them stays only for a certain period of time. The toxic chemicals present in them can cause harm to beneficial insects and microorganisms. The evaporated toxic fumes from them are hazardous to human health. They can also degrade the quality of the product they are applied to.
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5 Minutes with… Kaede Matsumoto
By Rathika Sheila • Sep 17th, 2015 in Hanger
Legacy brand Levi's thrives to create the perfect pair of jeans and although it's been a little tricky in the women's department because of all the shapes, sizes, and fits that've to be taken into consideration when considering a design, the brand has finally accomplished its goal. Levi's Fall 2015 Women's Denim Collection sees four classic cuts; the Lot 700, Icons, Levi's Revel, and possibly this region's favourite, Levi's Fits For The Asian Woman. Levi's Brand Style Director Kaede Matsumoto was present at the launch of this new collection and talked us through each fit and explained how the technology behind each pair would enhance the wearer's shape (goodbye nonexistent butt!) amongst other things. We managed to have a private conversation with Kaede to discuss what it was like working with this collection's ambassador, Alicia Keys, and the 101 on denim, obviously.
How did you get involved with Levi's?
My first introduction to Levi's was when I was working and living in NY as a consultant. I was hired to design/style the windows and merchandise the store. Having been brought up in the States where denim is sort of a fabric of our lives, I've grown up knowing what Levi's stood for and its aesthetic. It is a dream to work for a company that has the history that this brand has.
You're the Brand Style Director for Levi's, what sort of responsibilities are you assigned to?
I've held the position of a Global Stylist for almost two years now and especially with the Women's [Line] relaunch, it has been so incredible because I'm able to influence not only the styling but the photography and stylists. I also have to be involved with fashion shows [and] coordinating fashion shoots, but on a day-to-day basis, I work really closely with our Design and Merchandise team — just to make sure we're always on the same page. The campaign images that's being advertised is a direct relationship from working with them. We also have a great in-house creative team, so we all work closely together to bring it all to life.
Do you remember your first pair of Levi's?
My first ever pair of Levi's was when I was eight years old. It was my best friend's big sister's Levi's cutout shorts which I borrowed… but never gave back (laughs).
The shorts were meant to be yours. What's the process of creating the perfect pair of jeans for women?
Fit first, fabrication, authentic finishes and the details for us, and proper research. Take our 501CTs for example, it was created after our design team went out to the market and realised a lot of people were buying vintage 501s and going to tailors to taper it themselves. It's really about listening to what our customers want and that's how we've able to stay relevant after all these years.
You mentioned earlier doing most of the research in the Eureka Innovation Lab, what's the environment like and what does one do at the lab?
The Eureka Innovation Lab is a research and development facility dedicated to prototyping and design ideation. It's an amazing place! It is literally heaven for any denim head and just steps from our global headquarters in San Francisco.
That sounds cool, we'll have to check it out sometime! Is it tough to be a relevant brand whose primary focus is on premium denim jeans when there are brands like Zara, Topshop, and HM that are also producing jeans but for half the price?
We always try to push ourselves to be better. We have the history — 140 years — and the authenticity to back our brand up and I think our goal is to constantly evolve as fashion evolves. The design team is really obsessed with creating the perfect pair of jeans and they're constantly researching different trends in the market while staying true to our brand aesthetic. Fashion is ever-changing, but we're one of few brands that can look to the future while remaining true to our longstanding heritage.
From what we can gather, your research is based on what a variety of women want — no discrimination towards any size of shape — how do you research what product will sell in another country? We ask this because most most fashion brands that branch out to Asia only cater to smaller sized women but the 'plus size' option isn't available in this region.
We spent a full year researching and developing the fit range and travelling the world for insights. From there, we spent another nine months working out the details to create the ultimate women's denim collection. We tested on real women, of all different shapes, ages sizes, ethnicities. The beauty of this collection is that we have a jean for every body. We expect that most women will find a pair of jeans that fits them perfectly.
Where do you see denim in the next 50 years?
Denim is not going anywhere; it's here to stay. We will continue to evolve as the years go on, and we'll always be changing to suit our customers and their needs. We're a lifestyle brand and we really want to improve peoples' lives through our products.
What about fast fashion?
There is a time and place for fast fashion but we are a brand that stands for authenticity and quality. Denim gets better with time, there's nothing fast about that.
What's your favourite accessory to pair with your Levi's jeans?
I'm a shoe gal. I wear jeans and a white t-shirt everyday so the shoe completes the outfit. In my opinion, it's like the icing on the cake.
Except shoes won't make you put on weight like cake will. How many pairs of shoes do you have?
Oh god… I don't know (laughs).
It's alright, we won't put that kind of pressure on you. We notice that the styling behind the campaign shots are simple yet chic, is that what the Levi's girl is?
I think the Levi's girl is cool, effortless — but effortless to me doesn't mean perfect, it just means being authentic to yourself. You can see through the styling that it's easy and effortless, tad sexy, so I think that's the direction that most women go in when it concerns dressing — it's about being confident in your body.
And who better at embodying confidence than Alicia Keys…
I couldn't believe how nice she was — not that I had presumptions that she'd be rude, it's just that she's a superstar! I ended up meeting her kids and her husband – she's just real, a great individual; artiste, wife, mother, philanthropist. She really embodies the Live in Levi's project, so it was a perfect coupling.
What's your favourite JUICE?
I guess I would say my fave juice is the love of my husband and our life together and the passion that I have for this brand and what we are building here. I feel fortunate everyday for the great gifts that I have!
The new Levi's Jeans Collection is available at all Levi's stores and retails at RM179 onwards.
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Ramadan opportunities for mobile marketers as app spending rockets
During the month of Ramadan in 2017 and 2018, shopping apps revenue saw considerable growth rates, while travel apps registered the most consistent growth. According to a new report by AppsFlyer shopping apps saw 76% and 55% revenue growth in pre-Ramadan week respectively over the past two years, and saw a sharp drop in the metric in the following week. Meanwhile, travel as well as social and messaging apps displayed the strongest revenue growth rate.
According to the report, all three countries surveyed saw increases in average installs of apps in both 2017 and 2018. Indonesia, which has seen strong economic growth and rising smartphone penetration, generated an almost 20% year-over-year uplift in app installs for 2018. AppsFlyer said in the report, Ramadan has become an increasingly critical phase for mobile marketers to get right. It added:
The month of observation has spilled over into the digital realm, profoundly impacting the planning of mobile strategies and campaigns to engage and retain users.
Additionally, the mobile attribution and marketing analytics company advised mobile marketers to secure a better understanding of the context and activity for each time in the day, as well as periodic user behaviour unique to this period. This includes app usage habits, the frequency of social shares and aspirational festive purchases to plan when ad spends could potentially be most effective.
Behaviour trends
App purchases peak in the early hours of the morning and during lunch time. Shopping app purchases skyrocket during Ramadan throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. This boost is particularly pronounced from midnight after the last prayer of the day up until 5 to 6 am in the morning.
The hours before the first prayer, in particular, see marked increases of up to 526% in shopping purchases in Indonesia. Also, this activity peaks at 45% higher than pre-Ramadan periods in Indonesia in the hours between 11am to 2pm.
Meanwhile, shopping and casual gaming apps show the best retention rates. Advertisers from casual gaming and shopping apps hold the crown for highest non-organic user retention rates (3.6% and 3.8% respectively) during the Ramadan period, with shopping apps also experiencing high retention rates for organic users (4.1%) at Day 30.
AppsFlyer analysed 220 million app installs and 100 million purchases across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The report closely examines the five distinct periods during a typical Ramadan day and how this affects daily app purchasing habits, identifying key trends in app installs, revenue and retention across verticals to help support app marketers' decisions in planning and executing their campaigns before, during and after this important festivity.
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