I was raised on stories I didn't believe, but wanted to. Fairy tales and family histories that changed with every retelling. Through empty roads and conversations around kitchen tables, I learned that every moment is both a discovery and a loss. The facts of our lives become history, until we have only pieces of memory woven into a personal mythology.
My grandmother, Tutu, had a stroke last February, at the age of 92. Four months later she told me that she could no longer laugh or cry, but that she still had a universe of thoughts inside her mind. For this woman of passion and chaos, a house was never enough space for all of her paper sculptures, her pianos and violins, her inventions and ideas. Now she sits in a chair in her daughter's house, surrounded by beige walls, her mind filled with emotions and desires she struggles to express.
When I was a child her life existed for me as a series of unbelievable tales: training as a concert violinist in New York and drawing maps during WWII. Building a house in southern California out of barn doors and stained glass windows. Intentionally burning toast every morning. Befriending movie stars and opera singers and getting married four times to three husbands, but raising five daughters on her own.
At 30 I realized the stories were real. Without knowing it, I spent three years retracing many of my grandmother's dreams – from New York City to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Adventure is her legacy.
These images, captured during my travels to San Miguel, are part family album, memoir, poem, and prayer. In the high desert, all of our masks and facades are scoured away in the wind and the dust, washed clean in the afternoon rain. The land here is made of light. It is sunbaked stone and agave plants and women emerging from their old lives like butterflies into the sharp sunlight.
This is a map of my search for my family's history and my own home. The photographs show the expansion of a life, of becoming part of a world vaster and more fantastic than the books that fed my childhood dreams. But pause and reverse, see the images backwards, and they tell the story of a life that now turns inward, contained within four walls. And the universe of her mind. My world is now the one expanding, while Tutu's becomes ever more still.
I am fascinated by the people we become when we travel, whether it is a day trip to the beach or nine months in Mexico. There is freedom in discovering who we are in a new place. I started reading myths and fairy tales about as soon as I could sound out the words. The goddesses were my favorite (no surprise there), and the heroines who changed their fates, but there was one that I just couldn't understand at age eight or twelve or even twenty-six. I tried and tried and I couldn't understand why Persephone would eat the pomegranate seeds. The daughter of a goddess had to know she was changing her fate, either that or she was the dumbest character ever written.
And then I lived. I grew up and I got married and got divorced. I traveled, moving first to the desert and then to New York City. I turned thirty-plus and one night, I understood. We all go to hell. Sometimes we choose the journey, more often we are pulled into the darkness kicking and screaming. And then. We emerge one day, changed. Broken, patched together, and, if we're lucky and a little bit wise, stronger and more awake than we were before.
Persephone didn't naively eat a handful of seeds. She wasn't forced or coerced into staying, however violent her original transformation. The young girl became a queen in the darkness.
In the sunlight she dances, and as the leaves turn, she hears the whispers begin again and she walks into the earth, steadily. Maybe she follows the bread crumbs, or maybe she has learned to see in the darkness.
After yesterday's post and a few recent conversations, I decided to elaborate further on this subject. I notice patterns. Serendipity? More than mere coincidence, though it is fair to note that once you begin looking for something, you find it everywhere. In letting go of one identity, or, perhaps, the need for a clearly defined and quantified self, I have found the conversation, the search for definition coming up in many conversation throughout the last year.
We all wear masks - the question is whether you will allow me to see behind yours. Or, more importantly, whether you know you wear one in the first place. I forgot, for awhile. For years it fit so tightly, so smoothly, that it became a mark of honor. Ingrained. I counted the mask as an accomplishment - look how quickly and quietly I can become...anyone. When I looked in the mirror I saw skin, but on camera the mask was inescapable. Staring back at myself, I knew all I had given up. All I had become. Through dedication and loyalty, hope and expectation. Through fear and love. Once I finally saw her, I was more terrified than any hero faced with the snake-crowned Medusa. I was already stone. It took 4000 miles, two months of sunlight, humor, patience, and whole lot of pop music to finally crack the marble mask.
The the question of identity - a quest for understanding and acceptance of ourselves at the best moments, and by society when we feel less sure and strong. We all take up armor and accessories. The clothing we wear to hide or reveal, the books we read, the hair, shoes, house, job, car (or conscious lack thereof), the food, even the company we keep. Is our very outlook an accessory? Do we feel what we think we should? If told we are happy, would we be convinced? When told we are depressed, we rarely argue.
I fall a little in love with everyone I photograph because we share the act of seeing and being seen, revealing aspects of both artist and subject, and finally of the viewer.
Pause. Look. What do you see?
Walking down the streets on a coffee break, picking up lunch, running errands - I was constantly aware of the perceptions of others. Perhaps it was because I was always looking, watching, studying how people looked at one another, at themselves, how their features changed based on light, weather, the day of the week. In the beginning I always carried a camera. I stood out then, but not because I was hidden behind a lens. My identity, the face I showed the world, was all steel-toed boots, gender-bending suits, florescent feather boas. I hid by standing out - by becoming a character. And I sought to fit in through the same means. When you're a weird kid, people rarely question what you are doing or why. (And you assume they wouldn't understand, anyway.) It was a world of observation. Closed, except to the androgynous-neohippie-intellectual-artist-types. It was the summer before my first year in college.
Later I sought to blend in. I put on suits of a different kind, with heels and handbags, slowly expanding a wardrobe of prized Goodwill finds to include the fashionable and infinitely more corporate-America-appropriate Banana Republic sales racks. Ten years and three careers later, I gave away three dozen pairs of heels and traded boxes full of tailored slacks for skinny jeans and tank tops. I went back to digging through tables piled high with used clothes, delighting in "the find," now measured in pesos rather than quarters.
With every transition I have discovered something of myself. Each time I put on a costume, became someone or something, I put together puzzle pieces of an identity. I like to think that I am now fluid. The heels of Manhattan give way to the sandals of San Miguel. No longer is it about appearance or the perception of others - it is the practicality of cobblestone streets, the joy of clothing I can dance in. And I am still never without a camera, whether film, phone, or digital. I still frame the world and through these images I have learned to see. This daily act of looking and recording, combined with years of costumes both on and off stage, continue to fuel my ongoing fascination with identity and the selves we show to the world. Each time someone steps in front of the lens, they are puzzles. I look to see how the pieces fit together.
I keep a list of potential blog topics, ideas I feel are noteworthy and potentially interesting content. This ever-changing record of my thoughts is kept in a physical notebook, one I started on a recent plane ride at the beginning of the year. However, though I feel a strong need to make lists in my daily life (to attempt to find order in the chaos) I am finding that so far each post this year is coming out of conversations I have during the week. As I sit down on Sunday morning and decide what to write, there is always a clear theme from the previous week - a topic that came up in many contexts and often through a variety of mediums. Call it kismet, Baader-Meinhof, say, perhaps, that I am ready to see a certain theme, that I am open to a new definition. Whatever the source, conversations this week are all about identity - choosing, shaping, letting go, and owning who we are.
We all wear masks at one point or another. The question is whether you will allow me to see behind yours. And, more importantly, if you know you wear one in the first place. For a long time I denied it. For years this sculpted mask of mine fit so tightly, almost smoothly, that it became a mark of honor. Ingrained to the point that I forgot to notice the seams. For years I counted the mask as an accomplishment - look how quickly and quietly I can become...anyone. When I looked in the mirror I saw skin, but on camera the mask was inescapable. Staring back at myself, I saw all I had given up. All I had become. Through dedication and loyalty, hope and expectation. Fear and love. Once I finally saw her, I was more terrified than any hero faced with the snake-crowned Medusa. I was already stone. It took 4000 miles, three mountain ranges, and two months of sunlight to finally crack the marble mask. Not to mention a whole lot of humor, patience, and pop music.
In the last weeks, I have thought a lot about where these masks come from and when they are useful tools versus survival mechanisms, or even means of escape. I remembered moving to a new city, the first time I did such a thing, when I was 18. I started college and began the corporate ladder climb, the mask and costume changing with each new rung.
I remembered walking through downtown Portland at various times - on a coffee break, picking up lunch, running errands and how I was constantly aware of the perceptions of others. In some ways it is an occupational hazard - I was always looking, watching, studying how people looked at one another, at themselves, how their features changed based on light, weather, the day of the week.
In the beginning, as with any new transition, I always carried a camera. I stood out then, but not because I was hidden behind a lens. My identity, the face I showed the world, was all steel-toed boots, gender-bending suits, florescent feather boas. I hid by standing out, becoming a character, and I sought to fit in through the same means. When you're a weird kid, people rarely question what you are doing or why. My world was one of observation. Closed, except to the androgynous-neohippie-intellectual-artist-types who recognized a reflection of themselves. This was the summer before my first year in college.
Later I sought to blend in. I put on suits of a different kind, with heels and handbags, slowly expanding a wardrobe of prized Goodwill finds to include the fashionable and infinitely more appropriate Banana Republic sales racks. I sought to bolster my confidence with the previously-scorned prep of J Crew and, later, the trendily bohemian textures of Anthropology. Looking to belong in corporate America, I discovered retail therapy. Ten years and three careers later, I gave away three dozen pairs of heels and traded boxes full of suits for skinny jeans and fitted t-shirts. I went back to digging through tables piled high with used clothes, delighting in "the find," now measured in pesos rather than quarters.
With every transition I have discovered something of myself. Each time I put on a costume, became someone or something, I lost and gained puzzle pieces of an identity. Now I am fluid. The heels of Manhattan give way to the sandal of San Miguel. No longer is it about appearance or the perception of others. I dress based on the practicality of cobblestone streets, the joy of clothing I can dance in. My armor fits in three suitcases, with room to spare for cooking utensils, books, mementos of travels, cameras and lenses, and the laptop that accompanies me everywhere. I still frame the world. Everywhere I see light, movement, color, patterns, lines. But I have stopped separating myself from it. Everyday I find ways to myself to the world. It is an infinite revealing. It is real. I see myself and reveal myself without judgement, without a need for proof or validation. Over years and miles, I remembered the woman behind the mask and I found that she was there all along - watching, waiting, growing, becoming strong.
As you go into this new week I encourage you to own your identity and own your creativity - soon enough they will become one.
"Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew..." Thus begins Jack Gilbert's poem, rich in metaphor and description and memory. It is one of my favorites. Recently I was asked about another line in the poem and whether I agree that, "anything worth doing is worth doing badly." The simple answer is that I do, but the answer is not really simple at all.
In the last year I have learned that anything worth doing is worth doing without fear of failing or, put another way, doing it "badly." We need to have the experience and, no matter the outcome, we will be better for the doing. Still, sometimes it looks like we have a very long way to fall indeed. There is no way around it, though the outcome of the landing remains uncertain.
Personally I was only able to overcome the fear of failing, of falling, by losing everything and redefining what failing means.
So much of our framework for success comes from external sources - family, society, career - and there comes a point when we reach the precipice and choose to stay on the ground, the safe option perhaps, or leap off of the cliff and take responsibility for our own definitions and actions. As a child I always heard I had such "potential." That word - potential - became a goal to attain. At the same time it was an unattainable, amorphous measure of success that always felt like it was something in the future, something I was striving for but never quite reaching. By the time I saw that my safety net had become a noose, I had created a persona that was so much a part of my identity that I didn't know who I was without the definitions of career and marriage and home. In order to fly I had to recreate myself. I had to define what I wanted, just for myself, and I had to learn to take care of myself instead of someone else, which made me really look at my choices and desires. Working on a portrait project last year I began asking women what they would do if they weren't afraid and I realized that day by day I was making decisions as if I weren't afraid, even if I was.
It was the hardest and best year of my life.
In the second month of this new year, the question of identity and definitions has come back again in a few contexts and I am revisiting how I see myself and how I interact with the world. I know that I define myself by my actions - how I live my life, what I create, how I connect with my community and with the world, what I leave behind in each experience, and why I see the way that I do. I fall and I fly, I do things well and badly, and I live my story with passion and integrity every day.
So, I will ask again: What would you do if you weren't afraid of failing?
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist. Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her and the huge sky on the other side of that. Listened to her while we ate lunch. How can they say the marriage failed? Like the people who came back from Provence (when it was Provence) and said it was pretty but the food was greasy. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
I cannot count the number of moments, hours, years I have spent looking. Observing. Searching. Recording, framing, remembering. And yet I think only now have I truly begun to see. Some things come into focus slowly. Others I see with precision and clarity, cutting to the heart. Each moment seen through a unique lens. Each moment is seen.
I notice patterns. Serendipity? More than mere coincidence, though it is fair to note that once you begin looking for something, you find it everywhere. In letting go of one identity, or, perhaps, the need for a clearly defined and quantified self, I have found the conversation, this search for definition, coming up in every conversation over the past week.
We all wear masks - the question is whether you will allow me to see behind yours. Or, more importantly, whether you know you wear one in the first place. I forgot, for awhile. For years it fit so tightly, so smoothly, that it became a mark of honor. Ingrained. I counted the mask as an accomplishment - look how quickly and quietly I can become...anyone. When I looked in the mirror I saw skin, but on camera the mask was inescapable. Staring back at myself, I knew all I had given up. All I had become. Through dedication and loyalty, hope and expectation. Fear and love. Once I finally saw her, I was more terrified than any hero faced with the snake-crowned Medusa. I was already stone. It took 4000 miles, two months of sunlight, humor, patience, and whole lot of pop music to finally crack the marble mask.


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Chartered accountants felicitate State Minister of Finance Cabraal
Identify him as mentor, beacon of professionalism in State and corporate governance
"We have already identified people's problems," says Cabraal
New State Minister for Finance to launch a Sinhala version of his book soon
As a prequel to the launch of his book about the bond scam cover-up in Sinhalese, State Minister for Finance, Capital Market and State Enterprise Reform Ajith Nivard Cabraal in a recent wide-ranging interview gave his views on the tasks at hand for the new Government in handling the economy and the current situation in the country. He was speaking to a delegation, including the President and Fellows of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, who expressed their support for him, a fellow Chartered accountant, in his future endeavours in the legislative body. Cabraal was also President of ICA and the South Asian Federation of Accountants. Cabraal said that the SLPP was a party that had already identified the people's pressing needs and issues and were not 'suppliers of jokes and tall stories' as the past "so-called Yahapalana" regime was. He said that the Yahapalana period could now be seen as an asset for the new Government's project, because the people had given value to what he and the Government of the day did for a "Suba Anagathayak" — prosperous future — prior to 2015, by contrasting that time with what the failed Yahapalana did. Cabraal in the context of the book launch in particular stated that the JVP or many of the others who were slandering him on the pre-2015 bond issues in the Central Bank (CBSL) and other matters concerning his time at the helm of the bank were unable to meet him and ask him any real questions based on the allegations they made. He said that he had always been in the country and had gone nowhere into hiding, but still found that those who point their fingers were unable to come up with even one credible allegation that he was unable to answer to or disprove. On the contrary, he said the people who come up to him at various forums and meetings were telling him that they now had a better appreciation of what the Central Bank did in his tenure during the Suba Anagathayak regime, in contrast to what the Central Bank was up to in the tenure of the "disastrous Yahapalanaya Government". "The people tell me that the rupee was doing better, that the interest rates were much more positive to economic growth, etc., than in the Yahapalana interregnum," he said. A Sinhala translation of the book 'The Bond Scam Cover Up — the Mother of all Cover Ups' will be launched soon. Among other things, the book exposes how the so-called forensic audit was commissioned by the perpetrators of the scam as yet another 'investigation' that was aimed at exonerating the same perpetrators of the scam. Moreover, the so-called forensic audit set back the Sri Lankan taxpayer by a staggering Rs. 1500 million. Certain Assistant Governors of the CBSL aligned to the former Premier assisted in the task of trying to obfuscate the issue and attempted to lay blame for imagined failures of the CBSL on former Governor Cabraal. Almost all members of the former Monetary Board are compromised and may in some way be involved with the cover up of the bond scam, by acts such as commissioning the so-called forensic audit, the author writes. Cabraal has some choice words for the so-called Bond Commission as well, and states that its members denigrated officers of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, when they had in fact been whistleblowers who protested vehemently and wrote copious reports, all in a vain attempt to ensure that the bond scam did not take place, or was covered-up. Minister Cabraal in no uncertain terms explains why all actors who were part of the scam should be brought to book, and not just those of Perpetual Treasuries. He also stated unequivocally that monies embezzled should be recovered. Cabraal is a Past President of CA Sri Lanka and South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) and has been an active member of the Confederation of Asia Pacific Accountants (CAPA), International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and The Organization of Professional Accountants Sri Lanka (OPA). He was the pioneer in all corporate governance initiatives in Sri Lanka and State sector initiatives too. CA Sri Lanka is the leading body of professional accountants in Sri Lanka, a member of SAFA, CAPA and IFAC. In its capacity as the national professional accountancy organisation, CA Sri Lanka continuously focuses on enhancing the professional skills of its members, and ensuring that they continue to play a significant role in partnering businesses and the State sector. The organisation thereby contributes to the success of the profession as well as the public, private and State sectors, and strengthens the national economy of Sri Lanka.
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The 5 classic cars that inspired 'Ford v. Ferrari' are now on view at the Petersen Automotive MuseumRobb Report
Next week, moviegoers across the country will finally get to see Ford's legendary victory over Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966 brought to the silver screen in "Ford v. Ferrari." But if the eagerly anticipated movie isn't enough for you, you can see the cars that inspired the film in person at the Petersen Automotive Museum. In the lead up to the movies' release, the Los Angeles museum is displaying five cars essential to the true-life story behind the movie. Each of the beautiful cars played a pivotal role in the long-running rivalry that culminated in Ford's famous 1-2-3 victory at Le Mans that year. (Image: Petersen Automotive Museum) READ MORE
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Aste Bolaffi is auctioning off small and large treasures of Italian automotive designClassic Driver
At its upcoming auction on Nov. 15 in Turin, Aste Bolaffi will not only offer three dozen automotive design classics but also 60 collectables from the archives of major Italian design studios, such as Bertone, Pininfarina and Zagato. It's no secret that we have a weakness for Italian design culture. Most of all, the artful creations that were created in the post-war decades by such independent design studios as Bertone, Carrozzeria Touring, Ghia, Pininfarina and Zagato, which continue to excite us still to this day. The joy our editorial department feels when we receive Aste Bolaffi's catalogues filled with unique collector's items is immeasurable. (Image: Classic Driver) READ MORE
1938 Mercedes Benz 540K wins Best of Show at Hilton Head ConcoursClassicCars.com
A spectacular dark-blue 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K cabriolet was judged Best of Show of the 2019 Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance & Motoring Festival, held Sunday at the Port Royal Golf Club on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Jepson Jr. of Savannah, Georgia, the Mercedes was deemed most elegant among about 500 vehicles on display for the 18th annual edition of the Hilton Head concours, which culminates an array of automotive events that include vintage racing in Savannah. READ MORE
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Formula 1 gets radical new rules for 2021, plus a budget capArs Technica
On Nov. 3 at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth Formula 1 world championship. Unquestionably one of the sport's greats, he wowed fans even during his debut with McLaren in 2007, winning his first title for that team the following year. The rest of his titles have come at the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG, and all since 2014. The year 2014 happens to be when F1's last big rule change happened, ushering in the current era of complicated and expensive turbocharged hybrid V6es. But starting in 2021, that will change thanks to a new set of technical rules and more equitable sharing of the proceeds among the teams. READ MORE
The ultimate 2019 SEMA photo galleryAutomobile Magazine
The 2019 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show is in full swing and we are back in Las Vegas, Nevada for this year's even bigger show. Check out a really big photo gallery of the cars, stars, and plenty of WTFs from the convention center floor and even from outside in the parking lots. The specialty products trade event is jam packed with the most outrageous rides from Chevrolet, Ford, Mopar, and hundreds of tuners from around the world. See the latest from the Ringbrothers, S550 Electric Mustang, Hennessey Resurrection, an LS-Swapped Huracán, and a whole lot more in the gallery below. (Image: Automobile Magazine) READ MORE
Race cars as artwork: Phoenix Art Museum launches landmark exhibitClassicCars.com
Legendary race cars were made for speed, but many were beautiful enough to be considered art works even when standing still, form following function in the most aesthetic of ways. Thus, the Phoenix Art Museum's new exhibit, Legends of Speed, that brings a group of significant racing machines into its main gallery for a unique show that blends motorsport heritage with the purposeful splendor of things built to go fast. READ MORE
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At the 2018 SEMA Show, Chevrolet not only unveiled its latest and 50th anniversary COPO Camaro, but also an eCOPO version, the "e" standing for the drag racing machine's electric powerplant. Fast forward a year and Chevrolet is back at the 2019 SEMA Show with another electric-powered vehicle. This one doesn't have 700 horsepower for drag racing, but not only is it a classic vehicle, its powertrain forecasts the company's eagerness to offer a plug-and-play, connect-and-cruise crate-engine style program to electrify any vehicle. READ MORE
Why it's time to reconsider the Aston Martin DB7 ZagatoClassic Driver
Collecting cars is a bit like collecting wine — you're never quite sure if a bottle that's been in the cellar for five, 10 or 20 years will turn out to be a delicious revelation or a sour surprise. If we'd have coughed up close to £100,000 for an Aston Martin DB7 back in the early-2000s, we'd now likely be ruing the day we ever set foot in the showroom. However, if we'd have forked out the extra £60,000 for the exotic Zagato-bodied version, of which 99 examples were hand-built at Bloxham, it would be a different story altogether. READ MORE
The open-top Lamborghini Gallardo concept of your dreams is for saleRoad & Track
The Lamborghini Concept S, based on the Gallardo, was introduced as a non-running one-off at the Geneva Motor Show in 2005. Interest from potential buyers led the automaker to green-light the car for a limited production run of 100 units, but the costs ended up being too great, and the project was cancelled. There's only one running example, and it's coming up for auction this month. READ MORE
Why Roger Penske buying IndyCar is such a big dealJalopnik
When the news broke on Nov. 4 that both IndyCar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway would be bought by racing team owner Roger Penske, everyone knew it was big. Sure, sports teams get sold to families all the time — but not whole sports, and not a family that doesn't already run one of the biggest teams in the sport. There's a ton of nuance about why this whole deal is really important. READ MORE


Here at Traveling Salseros, we love to review travel packs. We are obsessed with one bag travel. However, not every trip will be a good candidate for this. Sometimes you will want or have to take a suitcase or larger duffel and if that is the case then you will want to also take a smaller backpack with you to hold your stuff as you go about your daily adventures while you are on your trip. There are many great options for day packs from so many different companies, but we tried to narrow this list to our absolute favorites to provide you with what we think are bags that have a perfect mix of space, organization, style, and durability to accompany you on any trip where a travel bag alone just won't do. Check out the list below.


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FILE -- Felicity Huffman, center, departs federal court with her brother Moore Huffman Jr., left, May 13, 2019, in Boston, where she pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.
BOSTON - Felicity Huffman and her lawyers pleaded Friday for probation, community service and a fine instead of jail time for her role in the college admissions scandal, buoyed by letters of support from her famous husband, William H. Macy, and her "Desperate Housewives" co-star Eva Longoria.
Huffman, in a three-page letter filed Friday with the federal court in Boston that is handling the sweeping bribery scheme, said she has "a deep and abiding shame" for her actions.
She said she has found motherhood to be "bewildering" and had turned to the scheme in the hopes of giving her oldest daughter a chance to pursue her dream of acting.
Huffman said in the letter that her daughter has a diagnosed learning disability and struggles with math.
"In my desperation to be a good mother, I talked myself into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot," Huffman wrote to U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani. "I see the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair. I have broken the law, deceived the educational community, betrayed my daughter, and failed my family."
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, meanwhile, argues that Huffman should spend 30 days in jail because she knew the scheme was wrong and participated anyway.
"Her efforts weren't driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity," his office wrote in its filing Friday. "Millions of parents send their kids to college every year. All of them care as much she does about their children's fortunes. But they don't buy fake SAT scores and joke about it ('Ruh Ro!') along the way."
Huffman used the Scooby-Doo catchphrase in an email after her daughter's high school tried to make her take the exam with its own proctor instead of one preferred by the consultant she was paying.
Huffman's filing also included more than two dozen letters of support, among them pleas from Macy and Longoria.
Macy, who wasn't charged in the scheme, said in his own letter to the judge that their family has struggled since his wife's arrest.
Huffman has rarely left the house and hasn't received an audition or job offer since her arrest six months ago, he said.
Their oldest daughter is taking a gap year and not attending college for now, Macy said. And the family, which also includes a younger daughter in high school, is also seeing a therapist together.
"Felicity's only interest now is figuring out how to make amends," Macy wrote, "and help her daughters heal and move on."
Longoria, in her two-page statement, recalls Huffman had a "gentle character" and "kind heart" while the two starred in "Housewives."
"When I began the TV show, I was very new to the business and industry as a whole. Felicity was the first one to take me under her wing," she wrote. "I know I would not have survived those years if it wasn't for the friendship of Felicity."
Longoria also wrote: "She always leads with her heart and has always put others first."
Huffman is among 51 people charged in a scheme in which prosecutors say wealthy parents paid an admissions consultant to bribe coaches and test administrators to help their children get into prestigious colleges.
She pleaded guilty in May to fraud charges for paying $15,000 to have a proctor correct her daughter's SAT exam answers. She is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 13.
The amount she paid is among the smaller bribes alleged in the scheme. Fellow actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, for example, are charged with paying $500,000 for their two daughters to get into college. Unlike Huffman, they are fighting the charges.
Huffman's lawyers are arguing for one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine. They say in their filing that fraud cases involving standardized tests "almost always" result in probation and that incarceration is "exceptionally rare."
They also argue that a sentence including 250 hours of community service would be significantly more than judges typically hand down.
Huffman's lawyers say the 56-year-old Emmy Award-winning actress proposes completing those service hours with organizations that work with at-risk youth in the Los Angeles area, where she lives.
The U.S. attorney's office also seeks a year of probation after jail and a $20,000 fine.
It argues that a one-month jail sentence recognizes that Huffman quickly accepted responsibility after being arrested and charged. Under federal sentencing guidelines, prosecutors could have sought up to six months' incarceration.
Felicity Huffman Pleads Guilty in College Admissions Scheme
"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty Monday in the college admissions bribery scheme, the biggest name to do so in a scandal that has exposed the lengths to which some wealthy parents will go to get their children into top universities.The Emmy-winning actress, 56, could face prison time after she admitted to participating in the nationwide scam, in which authorities say parents bribed coaches, rigged entrance exams or both to game the admissions…
Felicity Huffman Arrives at Boston Court to Face College Admissions Cheating Charges
Felicity Huffman arrived Wednesday at the federal court in Boston, where she and fellow actress Lori Loughlin will appear to face charges tied to what prosecutors call the largest college admissions scam uncovered in U.S. history.Camera crews crowded the courthouse in anticipation of the arrival of the stars and 13 other wealthy parents accused of engaging in schemes that involved cheating on college exams and paying $25 million in bribes to buy their children spots at well…
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I finally participated in a sketch challenge, only to realize that I totally missed the deadline. :) Oh, well. I still LOVE my card I made. I was so excited to be able to come up with a fun Easter card even though I had pretty much no Easter stamp sets. What do you think? Isn't this bunny adorable?!
I made this card with my son in mind and had fun pulling papers, stamps, and punches to create an easy yet super fun Easter bunny card. I had seen different cards out there using the Nursery Suite specialty designer paper for Easter because it has a couple patterns with bunnies on them. Let me tell you, that was one of those smacks to the forehead kind of moments! I was so fixated on this paper being "baby" paper that I didn't even think about how it is so fabulous for so many other projects. Just you watch, I'll be pulling it out a lot more in the future.
Then I saw this punch art bunny on Jan Tink's blog and knew I just HAD to make one myself! So, I combined the paper, this bunny, and the Stamping 411 sketch from last week to make it. So fun!
The bunny is made by punching 3 small ovals (one for the feet and two for the ears), one 1-1/4" circle for the body, one 1" circle for the head, and one small flower punch from the Punch Pack for the tail.
The ribbon is just a piece of Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon (have I told you how much the seam binding ribbon rocks?) that I folded in half and then knotted.
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I really like the subtle changes you made from the blog sample you listed above. The larger head is so cute. I also like how the blue card stock pulls out the blue in the designer paper. Well done, Jennifer!
Love your punch bunny…it looks soooooocute on the card!!!


John Lewis was laid to rest Friday in a peaceful cemetery off Grove Street, just inches from the mother he loved dearly.
Lewis, 69, was known to us Watervillians as the Cross Man, because we'd see him every day about town, waving his cross and blessing everyone and everything in his path.
He once told me he spreads love because there's so much hate in this country.
"People should love one another," he said.
That was in 2007 when I walked a few miles with Lewis in the dead of winter, snow pelting us in the face and a cold wind blowing against our backs.
I was chilled to the bone, but Lewis wasn't. He marched through the streets day and night, summer and winter, through all kinds of weather.
It was his mission to spread love, he said, and he had a lot of it to give.
So when he died in his bed Tuesday, in his meticulously neat apartment on Western Avenue, I figured his work must have been done.
"He passed in his sleep, the way he wanted it," said his friend, Dan McNulty, at his graveside.
McNulty, Lewis' friend of 25 years, and Steve Nadeau, funeral director of Veilleux Funeral Home, led the short, simple service.
"He loved life and he looked to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with all who would listen," McNulty said.
Lewis, he said, is now at peace.
About 60 people turned out for the service, arriving in cars, on foot and even on bicycles. Sister Kathryn Kelm, affectionately known as Sister Kay Kay, pedaled her bicycle on the dirt roads that meander through St. Francis Cemetery, parked it and met everyone with a smile.
It was hot and humid for the sunny 1 p.m. ceremony. At first, it was quiet, with only McNulty and his wife, Denise; Nadeau; Lewis' sister, Marie Menendez of Pittsfield; and his brother, Robert Lewis of Connecticut standing by the grave. Mike Hebert, facilities manager for Corpus Christi Parish, also was there.
Then more people came, seemingly out nowhere and wearing street clothes. They gathered by the large white stone bearing the name Arthur Castonguay, who according to Hebert, was Lewis' grandfather. Castonguay was the first soldier from Waterville killed in combat during World War I and for whom Castonguay Square in downtown Waterville is named.
Lewis' plain wooden coffin, draped with lovely pink, red and white flowers, lay before the stone.
Hebert told me later that Lewis would be buried just a couple of inches from his mother, a detail I found particularly comforting.
Lewis told me lots of personal stories when I met him in 2007, about how he was slow as a child, had a hard time in school, quit in the tenth grade and had difficulty understanding things.
For 10 years, he took care of his mother who had become very ill, he said. He was overcome with fear that she would die, and when she did, in 2002 at 81, Lewis was devastated.
"I've never got over it. I dream about her every night. She was good to me. At the end, I fell apart. I wouldn't let go of my mama," he said.
Lewis at the time also was mourning the death of his beloved parrot, Peppi, whose ashes he kept on a stool by his Christmas tree. The bird had been his companion for 45 years until it died in 2005.
Lewis loved deeply and he loved well. He even loved those who threw rocks at him and taunted him as he walked the streets.
"You could be the most awful person in the world and he would still bless you. He was an angel, here on earth," she said.
Becky Emery, 62, of Waterville, remembered working with Lewis some 30 years ago at the former Cascade Woolen Mill in Oakland. When she became very sick once, he walked miles to visit her.
"He walked all the way down in a snowstorm and brought me flowers and chocolates, and I had my brother drive him home," she said.
After I wrote a story about Lewis a few days before Christmas in 2007, he visited me at the newspaper and brought me a Christmas card.
And for every Christmas thereafter, like clockwork, he'd deliver another.
He was a kind, generous and loving man, one who will not soon be forgotten.
Godspeed, my friend, John. And bless you.


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Their prayers may have been answered.
The writers strike was high on the agenda at the fourth annual National Media Prayer Breakfast on Friday, when Christian industryites gathered at the Beverly Hilton to pray for wisdom, guidance and moral clarity for Hollywood.
The WGA and AMPTP's joint announcement that they would resume talks Nov. 26 came later that evening.
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I'm using Houzez theme which provides multiple cool features for real estate. My question is, how can I import the listings that I have from the external database to the WordPress database so I can be able to use the features of Houzez theme on the data from the external database?

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Axle AI Management Team Posts 3-minute Power Pitch Video
Interview with Expert Dojo also posted as Republic.co crowdfunding campaign enters final day with $275k already raised.
Boston, MA – USA | September 27, 2021 –[Press Release Wire]– Video management software vendor axle.ai has just posted a short pitch video for its Republic Reg. CF equity crowdfunding raise which ends at midnight Pacific Time today. Axle's previous equity crowdfunding round, in 2020, was oversubscribed, and the current round may be approaching a similar outcome – $277,000 (more than 11x the original goal of $25,000) out of a possible $428,000 in this round is already committed. The 3-minute pitch video featuring axle ai's management team can be viewed at https://tinyurl.com/axlein3minutes , and the Republic campaign page is at https://republic.co/axle-ai .
In addition, an in-depth 30 minute interview with axle.ai CEO Sam Bogoch and Brian Mac Mahon of Expert Dojo, an investor in the company, was just published at https://powerpitch.wistia.com/medias/r0r6m7irhj
The equity crowdfunding campaign highlights axle ai 2021, the company's browser-based remote media search software. The software includes a browser front end allowing multiple users to tag, catalog and search their media files, as well as a range of AI-driven options for automatically cataloging and discovering specific visual and audio attributes within those files. For instance, audio tracks can be automatically transcribed, with the resulting transcript immediately searchable in the timeline; likewise, axle ai provides face recognition with integrated training for new faces over time. The modular nature of the system supports additional plug-ins for object and logo recognition, and identification of sports highlights.
The software can be used to create distributed team workflows for storage pools that would otherwise be siloed and hard to search. To date, axle ai has more than 700 customers worldwide, including high-profile names such as the NY Yankees, Madison Square Garden, the LA Clippers, PWC, Elevation Church, Paramount and Warner Bros. A recent profile of an axle customer, reality TV production house Pie Town (producers of HGTV's House Hunting and Flip or Flop shows), can be viewed at youtu.be/H1xkcQ0YJO8 .
One key for axle ai in the last two years has been its software's ability to enable remote work by video production teams. Often, video collaboration has relied on manual transfer of files between sites, often using portable hard drives and Fedex. Having a browser-based solution gives media teams much more flexibility in managing and staffing their projects to a quick outcome, and the ability to use AI-driven engines to search and reuse the content makes it much more valuable and relevant for modern marketing purposes, especially via social media.
Given the vast amounts of video – often many terabytes – that can be accumulated by a video team in even a single shoot, this system allows rapid search and management of those files over time. The software also includes a range of plug-in panels for Adobe's Creative Cloud application suite software, which allow creative team members on any Mac or Windows laptop to directly search, access, and download media files wherever they are located. In addition, the company offers a no-code workflow automation tool, Connectr, as well as a freemium speech transcription tool, Ascribe. These are complementary to its core media management software and together provide a complete solution for axle ai's customers.
This month, axle ai announced that it had completed acquisition of Noscos, an AI/ML startup focusing on face recognition and logo recognition applications. This further enhances axle ai's technology stack while bringing new management strength to its engineering team in Eastern Europe.
Another major announcement by the company was securing its largest deal ever – a $365,000 deployment at a major Asia-Pacific region broadcaster. Combined with other significant new customers as well as the new partnership with Seagate, this puts the company on track for a record year, with sales roughly double its 2020 tally.
Sam Bogoch, CEO of axle ai, said "We've been delighted by the response to this Republic raise. What's behind it is a broad sense that video and remote work are huge opportunities."
About axle ai, Inc.:
Axle ai (http://www.axle.ai) – We make media smarter. Axle ai is the recognized leader in developing radically simple media management software. Its solutions have helped over 700 organizations improve the way they create, share and store digital video content with media management solutions that are easy to install, use and afford. axle's radically simple media management uniquely addresses a burgeoning need and has caught on rapidly among video professionals in post-production, education, broadcast, corporate, sports, house of worship, non-profit, advertising-marketing, and government organizations worldwide. Axle ai, Inc. is a privately held company; its founders have extensive industry experience in media asset management for creative applications. Investors include Stadia Ventures, Jason Calacanis's LAUNCH accelerator and Quake Capital.
Learn more at http://www.axle.ai and https://republic.co/axle-ai .
There is a worldwide explosion of video content. The market intelligence firm IDC has estimated that the sum of data generated globally by 2025 is set to accelerate exponentially to 175 zettabytes. A growing, double-digit percentage of this storage is used to house media files. Meanwhile, approximately 400,000 video teams worldwide are responsible for capturing, editing, and managing this content, but much of it becomes difficult to leverage soon after capture; in a report commissioned by axle ai's partner Seagate, IDC estimates that more than two-thirds of data stored is not readily searchable or available for access after initial use.
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Q: Infinite current draw for BLDC/Synchronous AC motor I have recently created a motor that runs off of outlet power, single phase 120 V AC. My stator is taken from a universal motor from a vacuum cleaner and has two windings on either side, wired to form opposite polarities at every cycle of the AC sine wave. My rotor sits inside the stator and is made of a LEGO body with 4 neodymium magnets arranged in a N, N, S, S configuration each 90 degrees apart from each other. This allows the rotor to rotate either clockwise and counterclockwise depending on the orientation of the permanent magnets and the initial position of the sine wave when it is plugged in. When I plug it into a surge protector, I can only run the motor for around 1-2 seconds at no load before the breaker switch pops. It is worth mentioning that the universal motor from which I took the stator from originally had a brush DC type rotor inside complete with a commutator, brushes, and its own set of 16 windings. Current was being used by both the stator and rotor, but when I replaced the original rotor with my permanent magnet design all the current was being directed only to the stator, which I feel like is what is causing the massive current spike as the current is not being used by multiple components anymore. In the vacuum cleaner I'm pretty sure the current was used by different components such as valves before it got sent to the motor. Is there a way I can design a circuit to limit the current draw from the surge protector? Perhaps I can create a transformer to drop the current, or create a soft start but I do not know how. Maybe I can wire lightbulbs in parallel to act as resistors and drop the current before it gets sent to the motor. My theory is that by adding more resistive components the motor can only receive a limited amount of current and cannot "pull" more current from the power source because of the resistors in the way. However the more components I add the more current is needed for them to operate, so the effect might cancel out. What is the most efficient way?

A: You need to first study basic circuit theory more carefully. You also need to understand more about motors.
The rotor of the motor connected in series with the stator is what controlled the current as the motor was used originally. The rotor had resistance, but more importantly, the rotor generated a voltage called "back electromotive force (EMF). that opposed the current.
120 volts is way too much voltage to apply to just the stator. You could connect resistance in series to reduce the current, but that will generate quite a bit of heat and waste energy. It would be better reduce the voltage with a transformer. You need an AC ammeter to measure the current with whatever you can find to connect in series temporarily. You could start with incandescent lightbulbs, but just one will probably limit the current too much. You probably need several lightbulbs connected in a parallel group with the group connected in series with the motor.
Also, with your 4-pole rotor, only two poles will be effectively engaged with the two-pole stator.
If I wanted to do something like this, I would use the stator of a shaded-pole fan motor with a 2-pole rotor. A stator like that would not need anything to reduce the current.


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The Rise of Officer Casey è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 sceneggiato e diretto da Arthur Hotaling.

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Distribuito dalla General Film Company, il film - un cortometraggio della lunghezza di 180 metri - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche USA il 24 febbraio 1914. Nelle proiezioni, veniva programmato con il sistema dello split reel, accorpato in un'unica bobina con un altro cortometraggio prodotto dalla Lubin, la commedia The Lost Child.

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Apple Music spotlights Marcus Harvey
05/06/2020Written by ByteSites
Apple Music's New Artist Spotlight for June is Marcus Harvey (real name Lawrence Ofentse Harvey Mashiloane) a Gauteng-based singer, rapper and producer.
"This is a beautiful moment in my life, right now and I am inspired to always strive for nothing but the best, when it comes to my music," he beamed. "Being the Apple Music New Artist Spotlight recipient for June, a month that recognises and appreciates the visibility and influence of South Africa's youth, means getting the global recognition which will hopefully open beautiful opportunities for myself."
Marcus' debut album I Am Marcus Harvey, released through Tales Of The Cool Music, an indie record label which he co-owns, peaked at #3 on the Apple Music Alternative Top Charts. Reflecting the trials and tribulations of adolescence, Marcus' album traverses love and loss with a strong sense of identity at its core.
Born in Alexandra in Gauteng, Marcus' career began during his teenage years under the moniker Hipnautik, where he made waves in his township courtesy of a few impressive open mic sessions. This ultimately led to the formation of, and his signing to Tales Of The Cool Music.
Marcus released his debut R&B-infused single, "Mosadi" featuring KAEB, in late 2019 which caught the attention of local media and listeners. He followed that in early 2020 with "Find Your Love" featuring Zimkitha.
Marcus credits his mother, who raised him and his siblings as a single parent, and the music that she listened to as one of the elements that shaped his sound – from the Afro-pop hits of Brenda Fassie, to the gospel anthems of Winnie Mashaba.
As Apple Music's New Artist Spotlight for June, Marcus Harvey is ready to step into the spotlight with an alternative body of work that sets him apart from his contemporaries.
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KERRY South TD Michael Healy-Rae had an unusual request for the Taoiseach last night in the Dáil, eventually getting him to agree to be interviewed on Radio Kerry.
During the Order of Business on Tuesday evening, Healy-Rae said to Enda Kenny that he was the only Taoiseach to have refused to go on Radio Kerry at any stage since he was elected Taoiseach four and a half years ago.
After a lively exchange between Healy-Rae and the Ceann Comhairle, the Taoiseach agreed to go on Radio Kerry's 'Kerry Today' programme.
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach is in a unique position in that he is the only party leader who has refused to go on Radio Kerry to debate current issues.
An Ceann Comhairle: Hold on one second.
An Ceann Comhairle: I can tell the Deputy that it is not an issue for the Order of Business.
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: No, it concerns the Government's policy on openness and transparency. I have a question for the Taoiseach. Jerry O'Sullivan has been looking for him to go on Radio Kerry for a long time.
An Ceann Comhairle: The Deputy can table a question or go and talk to him, but he may not raise the issue on the Order of Business.
An Ceann Comhairle: No, I am sorry, the Deputy is totally out of order.
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry, but I am not.
An Ceann Comhairle: The Deputy is totally out of order.
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: I am not.
An Ceann Comhairle: Will the Deputy, please, resume his seat?
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: This relates to Government policy on openness and transparency.
An Ceann Comhairle: I do not care what Government policy states; I am dealing with the Order of Business.
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: —-to talk about current issues, in the way the other party leaders have done.
The Taoiseach: I would be delighted to do so.
Deputy Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach.
An Ceann Comhairle: Please, do not respond.


Its amazing how many things apply across all industries and even nicer when an expert in one of those industries agrees with me! In Chapter 8, "Confronting the Yeah-Buts", the authors referenced three types of Yeah-Buts that can undermine Strategic Conversations: office politics, near-term-ism and the karaoke curse. What are Yeah-Buts? Its a term coined by innovation strategy pioneer Larry Keeley used to describe thoughts like "Yeah, sure this all sounds good, BUT, here's why that would never work in my organization …." It relates to the challenges of resistance to change in an organization that would lead to Moments of Impact.
He refers to "karaoke skills" as ones "where someone's confidence exceeds their competence." He continues "driving is a classic karaoke skill because survey's show that the vast majority of people rate themselves as above average drivers. By contrast, there are a few things that are definitely not karaoke skills: brain surgery, nuclear physics, gymnastics, Chinese calligraphy and firefighting. If you rarely or never do these things, you wouldn't kid yourself that you're good at them. Strategic conversations tend to surface a number of karaoke skills including presenting, group facilitation, collaboration and strategic thinking" Chris closes by saying "Like any serious skill, these skills take time to master and you can quickly determine a blackbelt when you see them in action". Just because you choose to do something, the choice alone won't make you a black belt.
I would add to that list, storytelling and effective video production. Why is it that people think that buying a camera, or phone that has a camera is akin to becoming a talented producer/director of quality content? Whether staff or on contract, why is it assumed that just about anyone is qualified to handle the companies content marketing and content production activities? If you said cost, I would agree. It doesn't make sense. And it is proven day in and day out by the crap that's uploaded to YouTube, the net effect of which is not a positive business result but a torpedoing of a brand.
It brings to mind the concept of a supposed overnight success. With most accused of such success saying it as the longest, darkest night you could imagine, usually spanning more a decade.
I am reminded of a real life example, Casey Neistat. I saw this award winner speak at a conference about the now famous "Make it count" video that Nike paid him to do in 2012. At the start of the video, he belittles the artistry of the craft with a text super reading "Instead of making their movie, I spent the entire budget traveling around the world with my friend Max". Casey showed the video at the conference and spoke about his adventure, sharing that he had no formal education, not even high school, and was confident that with a positive attitude, an idea and a camera, anyone could do what he did. Afterwards, he answered some questions. One young lady indicated that she was just getting started and, understanding the impact of quality on first impressions, was concerned that she could not afford professionals. Casey said "no problem. You don't actually need professionals. Do you have a phone with an HD camera? Perfect! That's all you need." Talent and craft be damned I guess. What he neglected to share was the fact the he had been grinding out films since 2001!! Not quite the overnight success that he made it seem and terribly misleading to his audience.
He's not the only one with similar thoughts. Is it any wonder why the storytelling craft has been oversimplified and why most marketing goes down in flames? I would argue that Casey's talent is the exception, not the rule, and dare anyone to debate me on it. There's a lot more to telling a great story than having a camera in your phone.
I know of more than one company that has fallen victim to the KARAOKE CURSE because a decision was made based on oversimplification and price. The end result went in the garbage, not onto YouTube. And some companies have even done it wrong TWICE! It makes about as much sense as me telling you I could do your job as well as you do just because I decided to.
With budgets growing tighter everyday, and the downside of content that reflects badly on the brand given the importance of first impressions, does the choice of production partner not become even more mission-critical so that the funds invested aren't wasted? Just asking.


La programadora Discovery Networks realizó un cambio de nombre y logotipo en dos señales que se emiten en toda América Latina y lanzó un nuevo canal en Brasil. TLC HD pasó a llamarse Discovery World, Discovery HD Theater ahora es Discovery Theater HD y en territorio brasileño se verá un nuevo TLC HD en simulcast. Los cambios se llevaron adelante el último 16 de marzo.
"En lo que se refiere a Discovery World y Discovery Theater HD, se trata de una evolución de estas marcas que hemos tenido al aire desde 2009, para darles una identidad visual que sea mucho más representativa de su oferta, pero los canales siguen manteniendo el mismo posicionamiento y línea de programación", le explicó a NexTV Latam Vera Buzanello, Vicepresidente Ejecutiva de Distribución de Discovery Networks Latin America y Estados Unidos Hispano. Discovery World HD inicia con una distribución de 6,5 millones de suscriptores y Discovery Theater HD con 8 millones.
"En cuando a TLC HD, esto obedece a nuestro objetivo de seguir aumentando nuestra presencia en HD en la región ya que consideramos que es la tendencia natural de la industria", continuó. La nueva señal en simulcast (misma programación que la versión SD) sería lanzada más adelante en el resto de Latinoamérica.Discovery Communications Networks has rebranded two of its channels distributed in Latin America and launched a new channel in Brazil. With these changes, TLC HD becomes Discovery World, and Discovery HD Theater becomes Discovery Theater HD. In Brazil, the new channel will be an HD simulcast of TLC. All changes took place on March the 16th.
"Discovery World and Discovery Theater HD are an evolution of these two brands that has been airing since 2009, in order to offer them a visual identity much more representative of their offer, but keeping the same positioning and programming line", said to NexTV Latam Vera Buzanello, Executive Vice-president of Distribution for Discovery Networks Latin America and Hispanic US. Discovery World HD begins with a distribution of 6.5 million subscribers and Discovery Theater HD with 8 million.
"With TLC HD our goal is to increase our HD presence in the region, since we consider that this is the natural direction of the industry", she continued. The new simulcast network (same programming for its SD version) will be lunched at a later stage to the rest of Latin America.


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Guyana Youth try to "Move The World"
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, 9 March 2006 (BWNS)
With an empty Coke bottle for a pint of rum and a white plastic chair the only other prop, the skit performed by five young men and women during a recent meeting of the Future Club here told a story that is unfortunately all too familiar in this vibrant South American country.
A husband drinks too much and beats his wife, shouting and swearing at her for failing to have dinner ready on time. Crying and inconsolably depressed after many such episodes, she decides to take her own life.
However, as performed before an audience of several dozen other young people from every section of this gritty coastal capital one recent day, the young woman's friends intervene, pleading with her not to take her life.
And so the heroine, played by 16-year-old Rayana Jaundoo, triumphantly throws the poison aside. "I have learned I don't care what other people do and what other people say," she says, breaking character and addressing the audience directly. "I can live a positive life."
Although a little overplayed, it is a happy ending, just the sort encouraged by the young facilitators of an innovative and highly successful youth leadership training program here, known as Youth Can Move the World (YCMTW), which often uses skits, songs and other types of media to drive home its message.
The program focuses on the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, HIV/AIDS, and domestic violence. Since its founding in 1997, YCMTW has offered more than 7,000 Guyanese young people strategies aimed at helping them cope with and avoid such problems.
Its success at reaching youth on the margins has been widely recognized, not only by other youth-oriented NGOs but also by the government-run national university, which has given support to YCMTW.
Much of its funding has come from international development agencies and, most recently, researchers at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland have launched a three-year study on the project's methods and accomplishments.
"The project in Guyana is quite innovative," said Roy McConkey, a professor in the health promotion group at the Institute of Nursing Research at the University of Ulster, who is heading up the study. "They manage to do a remarkable amount of work with very little resources."
Established by the Varqa Foundation, a Baha'i-inspired non-governmental organization based here, YCMTW also emphasizes in its training the importance of — and the possibilities for — personal and community transformation. To do that, the project uses a program of spiritual and moral education produced by the Ruhi Institute of Colombia, which draws quite directly on the Baha'i writings for its motive power.
"From the very beginning of the project, we saw that the only way that genuine change could come about was through community and personal transformation," said Brian O'Toole, director of YCMTW and chairman of the Varqa Foundation. "We saw that these Baha'i materials were successful around the world."
Observers say the emphasis on spirituality is an important part of the program.
"The approach of integrating spiritual values, including positive community values, makes it a program with a difference," said Samuel A. Small, director of the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education at the University of Guyana, which provides end-of-training certification to YCMTW graduates.
"In the [other] youth programs that I know of and have participated in, spiritual values are never part of the core of the curriculum, and personally I believe that because of the tremendous problems that are being brought upon young people today, every effort should be made to help them to see that spiritual values are not taught separately in churches, mosques, temples and so on, but that they are really part and parcel of our every day life skills," said Mr. Small.
The social problems addressed by the project are by no means unique to Guyana — but they are nevertheless serious concerns in this beautiful tropical country situated on the southern edge of the Caribbean basin.
After Haiti, Guyana has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the Caribbean, which is the world's second-most afflicted region after Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization. AIDS has become the leading cause of death for people aged 25-44 in Guyana, according to the WHO.
Domestic violence, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse are also major problems here.
The program, which has received funding from UNICEF, the European Union, and the InterAmerican Development Bank among other agencies, seeks to fight these problems mainly by educating young people about the risks associated with each behavior.
The facilitators' manual, for example, discusses the short and long term effects of alcohol, ranging from poor judgment and lowered inhibitions to cirrhosis of the liver and dependency. It explains clearly how HIV/AIDS is transmitted and discusses a range of protective measures, from less risky types of sex to condom use to abstinence.
The curriculum also promotes the development of social action — such as the protection of the environment — and positive moral values. The section on domestic violence, for example, explains ways in which qualities like honesty, compromise, and forgiveness can improve a relationship.
Spiritual ideas, such as the Golden Rule, are also emphasized, underpinned by quotations from the major world religions.
"It comes out of a Baha'i framework, but we have enriched it with spiritual insights from Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism," said Dr. O'Toole, who came to Guyana with his wife, Pamela, 27 years ago from the United Kingdom.
The incorporation of religious quotations has resonated particularly well in Guyana, said Dr. O'Toole, owing to the distinctive religious diversity of Guyanese society, which is about 50 percent Christian, 35 percent Hindu, and 10 percent Muslim. The remaining five percent belong to other religions, including the Baha'i Faith.
Young people who have participated in YCMTW training say the discussion of spirituality is an important part of the program.
Susan Coocharan, 17, said the program's balance between practical education and the holy writings of various religions has given her new tools to avoid risky behaviors.
"I used to think that guys were the only thing in life that matters," said Ms. Coocharan, a Christian from Essequibo in the western part of the country, who participated in an intensive two-month YCMTW training program in July and August 2005. "But when I came to this program it helped me to develop spiritual qualities and it made me see that guys are not the only thing in life."
Dhanpaul Jairam, 31, has been involved in YCMTW since March 2005, when he received training to become a facilitator. A Hindu, he has since established a YCMTW subgroup in his home village of Bath Settlement in the Berbice region of Guyana, where he has reached out to young people from every religious background.
At first, he said, the Hindus didn't want to mix with the others. "But I talked about all of the religions," said Mr. Jairam, who works as a radio telephone operator for the Guyana Sugar Corporation. "I do have a Bible and a Qur'an. And Hindu writings."
Because of the emphasis on all religions, Mr. Jairam said, young people of all backgrounds were willing to participate. "That is why I think YCMTW is doing a great job of encouraging youth of all walks of life to make of themselves somebody," said Mr. Jairam.
Another key feature of the project is its use of youth, themselves, as agents of change. By encouraging young volunteers to establish YCMTW groups in their own villages and neighborhoods, it has grown organically as young people themselves involve their friends and acquaintances.
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jamin, 19, started a 17-member YCMTW group in his village in the remote North Rupunui Region after attending the intensive training program last summer.
"I was very much interested, because some of the topics mentioned were dealing with alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and such," said Mr. Benjamin, who is himself of Native American — or "Amerindian" background — as are most of the other 500 residents of his village. "And I knew that those problems were kind of arising, and I was facing it in my community as a whole."
Prof. McConkey of the University of Ulster said using young people themselves to deliver health promotion messages is one of the key innovations of the project.
"In affluent countries like the United States and Great Britain, we rely on professional educators, who may well have a special training or special expertise," said Prof. McConkey. "But they may lack a relationship with young people. Hence we sometimes wonder why our health promotion messages don't come through.
"The model that they are using, in which local groups are built up, in which [young] people in those groups have knowledge about each other and their own behaviors," said Prof. McConkey. "I think in that setting people are more likely to be open about what they actually do."
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Since its launch in 2011, The Lean Startup has been one of the most talked about books in business circles. And, no concept in that book has caused fiercer debate than the "Minimum Viable Product" (MVP).
It's a polarizing concept. Detractors feel it encourages the release of crappy, uninspired products. Proponents point out the time and money that it can save.
At Payable, we're fans of the approach, but we try not to get dogmatic about it.
We're perfectionists at heart. But, left unchecked, that inclination could torpedo our business. For any startup, it's a race against time and burn rate to find a viable business model.
That's why the MVP approach has been so helpful for us. It forces us to fight our natural tendencies and ask, "how can we learn faster?" Instead of building a polished feature for a month, we try to figure out what can be done in a day or, at most, a week.
But, doing something "fast" and doing something "well" are often at odds.
What follows is the framework that we use at Payable to reconcile our need to learn quickly with our desire to make awesome products.
• What does the team need to learn?
• What will our users see?
• What will the team need to believe the results?
What does the team need to learn?
It sounds obvious, but this step is often ignored. Teams often start from a point of building a "lightweight version" of whatever it was they were going to build anyway. But, that doesn't necessarily tell your business anything useful.
The focus should be on what you need to learn in order to make a decision.
That's the whole point. It's not just about "trying stuff" or "running tests." You need to learn critical information about your business, make a decision, and move on to the next problem.
1) What's the riskiest assumption that currently exists in our business model?
We used this technique over the summer in the midst of Y-Combinator.
It goes against the way invoicing is traditionally handled. But, if it's true, paints a path for us to dramatically speed up the time it takes our users to get paid. And, that's a significant business opportunity.
*If you're playing it by the book, you should always test your riskiest assumption followed by the next riskiest assumption and so on. But, that assumes you're an accurate judge of risk. If the team keeps coming back to a topic passionately, it usually means there is some unstated belief. Ask "why?" to uncover it and get it out on the table for discussion.
What will your users see?
This question is the key to reconciling MVP with building something awesome. In short, if your users will see or interact with it — build it. If they don't — fake it.
Jess Lee over at Polyvore calls this "Fake Door Testing." She used the technique early on to test out whether shoppers would buy outfits assembled by their community of users. They created real ads, pages, and user interfaces for shopping and purchase. But, behind the scenes, it was the Polyvore team creating the outfits, stuffing boxes, and shipping them.
We used a similar line of thinking to determine what we needed to build (and just as importantly, what we didn't) to test whether our user's customers would pay quickly from their mobile devices.
We faked the invoice creation and sending because neither our user or their customer needs to see them.
We automatically created an invoice whenever one of our users entered hours in Payable. An email alert saying "Mat worked 4 hours for Wally West" would go out to our whole team and we'd scramble to manually plop that data into a responsive HTML template. We'd then email a link to that web page to the customer. Boom. Invoice.
The original invoice email testWe built the money movement aspects because our users interacted with it. Also, it was people's real money on the line. That's not something to be trifled with. Lastly, Stripe makes this a task measured in days, not weeks. So, we're still keeping true to our need for speed.
What will the team need to believe the results?
This is a subtle point I've noticed from years of doing MVPs at Intuit and Payable. If the goal is to make a decision, then that decision needs to stick. But, I've seen plenty of teams (especially mine) discount the results because of how many corners were cut ("Oh, that was such a crappy experience, no wonder nobody signed up.").
If that happens, then your team is just going through the motions. No decision was really made. Nothing was really learned. A little bit of product was built that will probably be discarded. That's wasted time. And wasted time is your business's arch-nemesis.
So, ask your team if what you're planning to build (and fake) is "good enough." Will they believe the results when they come in?
That's ok. The point is to move faster and make decisions. If you're doing better on both those fronts, that's progress.
In our case, that invoice we "faked" with an HTML template still had some nice animations on it. We didn't need to build those. But, it made the test feel more "real." It couldn't be so easily discounted.
And, it was a major improvement from our previous feature that was a "don't release it until it's ready" monthlong boondoggle. Progress.
When our test was complete, we had our results. There was no excuse to discount them.
It turns out some people didn't get paid. Some had customers who still cut them a paper check outside our online payment system.
But, others got paid in less than an hour. In the end, the average time to payment was just 4 days. And, the most common outcome was same-day payment — exactly what we were hoping for.
We had the data we needed to pursue this direction and build it for real.
If your product team is like ours, there's a mix of different frameworks and theories running through your heads at any moment about how you should build a product or business. It's tough to keep it all straight.
You have your team where it's at today and where you'd like it to be. For us, we're trying to learn faster while still making a product we're proud to call ours. This approach has helped us get closer to where we need to be.