Oakley Crosslink Switch eyeglasses have a lightweight, durable aluminum chassis with rugged O Matter® temples. This frame delivers the ultimate in adaptability with interchangeable lenses.
Semi-rimless frame with an aluminum frame front a and O Matter® temples - a patented lightweight synthetic from the Oakley labs; Made to be impact and stress resistant, guaranteed to stay comfortable all day.
Come in an Oakley Crosslink protective carrying case with a cleaning cloth.
I have never had a frame fit better! THRILLED!
I love these glasses. I just wish the nose piece was black and had a little texture to it so it would not slip. I had to add some Silicone Anti-slip Adhesive Eyeglasses Spectacles Sticks to help with that.
A very stylistic piece of work. Those around me were amazed at the way the lenses can be taken out of the frame. Very cool!!!
I purchased the Oakley Crosslink Switch glasses because of the bold styling, I loved the thick arms and thin frame around the lenses. As a person with a relatively large head, I always need to buy glasses with Spring hinges on the arms, but when I bought these I had completely forgot about that and didn't realize it until I received the glasses and noticed they didn't have them while I looked them over before putting them on for the first time. I'm so glad I forgot about making sure these had Spring hinges, because I may not have bought them otherwise. These glasses feel amazing! Half the time I forget I'm wearing them because they're so comfortable to wear and have large enough lenses so that my vision isn't obstructed toward the bottom, this is also achieved by the fact they have a nice, thin metal frame going around the lenses. The nose piece is very comfortable and doesn't dig in at all, making wearing these glasses, all day, enjoyable. If I ever need to buy another pair of glasses, I'll definitely be buying these again! After having about 8 different pairs of glasses over the years, I'm happy to say that I've finally found the holy grail! If you value quality construction and a superior product, I highly recommend buying these glasses.
There was some delay when my order came but I'm glad that it finally arrived in good condition. The external box came pretty smashed up but I'm happy that the glasses inside were safe. This pair of glasses comes with two switchable lens frames, which means you could have prescriptive normal lens in one frame, and dark sunglasses in another frame. Switching the frame takes only about five seconds so it's pretty convenient. I'm happy with my purchase and I think the design is worth the money that I paid for it.


Isn't her lisp adorable? She'll outgrow it, right?
A "lisp" refers to a person's inability to correctly pronounce /s/ and /z/ sounds because of the incorrect placement of the tongue in the speaker's mouth. The tongue may be sticking out between the front teeth producing a sound like "th" such as "thoup" instead of "soup", or the sides of the tongue may not be high enough or tense enough in the mouth resulting in a slushy sound. Poor placement of the tongue results in these sound distortions and thus, articulation errors.
What are the types of lisps?
There are two different types of lisps.
The interdental (frontal) lisp is the most common and refers to when the tongue sticks out between the front teeth. This error affects the pronunciation of /s/ and /z/ making them sound like a "th".
A lateral lisp occurs when air escapes out the sides of the mouth. A lateral tongue often sounds slushy because you can hear a mix of air and saliva. People often think of "Sylvester the Cat" or "Daffy Duck" when hearing a lateral lisp.
The above image, with teeth together, shows the correct placement of the tongue staying just behind the front teeth, when creating the "s" sound (no lisp).
In most cases, a lisp is not developmental in nature, but rather a deviation in tongue placement at rest or during speech (and swallowing). What that means is that the majority of children who are lisping when they start to speak do not grow out of it. This is not an absolute rule. There are always exceptions. Indeed, research has documented cases in which children have outgrown a lisp without requiring therapy; however, we are reporting general trends. Generally speaking, if your child is lisping at a young age, they will likely continue to lisp unless they receive therapy or correction for tongue placement.
For most other articulation sounds, a speech-language pathologist will wait for maturation to occur before targeting a sound too early. We want to give the child the chance to develop the sound on their own as they get older and their oral motor muscles become stronger and more dexterous. For example, a 2 year old may use the front of their tongue to say "cookie" – which sounds like "tootie" instead. This is developmentally normal. However, typically by the age of 3, the majority of children are now able to use the back of their tongue and can say "cookie" correctly. We follow the normative data when deciding how long to wait before treating different sound errors.
A lisp is an exception to this rule. The younger we can correct a lisp, the less ingrained that motor pattern is for that child. Older habits are harder to break. Therefore, the younger the child is starting therapy, the easier it is to correct a lisp.
Always model correct pronunciation in your own speech. Get down to his or her eye level so that he or she can see what your mouth is doing when you make the sound. If you are noticing that there is no change in your child's pronunciation, if there is increased frustration, or your child is difficult to understand when communicating, a registered Speech-Language Pathologist can provide the help your child needs to correct his/her lisp.
The great news is that a lisp is a relatively easy articulation error to fix given the visual nature of the error pattern. Your child will be able to "see" the difference between correct production and his/her error. The more feedback the better and easier it is to fix! We can also provide you with a home program which will equip you to practice with your child between our sessions and speed progress dramatically. The quicker a lisp is fixed, the happier everyone is – your child included!
I'm an adult… is it too late to fix my lisp?
No! It is never too late to work on remediating a sound deviation such as a lisp. Although a lisp is considered a relatively minor speech error, many adults feel that a lisp negatively impacts their professional or social life. This in turn can contribute to a decrease in confidence around social communication. Typically the results in therapy are even quicker than that of a child since an adult's motivation level for improvement is so high. With the help of a speech-language pathologist, an adult can make his/her lisp a thing of the past.


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What were the original font settings?
What were the original font settings? I'd rather not reset everything to its defaults if I don't have to.
Do you mean that you have changed the options in chrome://settings/fonts and you want to change back?
Seems there is no simple solution.
This is part of my "User Data\Default\Preferences".
It should be like this after editing.
Sorry to drop out straight after asking the question! I'm back now.
(02-13-2019, 03:51 PM)CentBrowser Wrote: Do you mean that you have changed the options in chrome://settings/fonts and you want to change back?
Yes, that seems to be what I changed! I went through the menu on the Settings page, but yes that's where it took me.
Your solution would require backing up *before* I made any changes, too late this time.
(02-13-2019, 03:52 PM)CentBrowser Wrote: This is part of my "User Data\Default\Preferences".
Looks like this is what I needed, the font size at least. I also chose Calibri as "standard font" and for sans-serif, which i'm almost certain wasn't the default. With luck changing the size back will do the trick (though you show the default as 17, and mine is set to 16 which isn't a big difference). Thanks though.
I just went into settings with the Alt-S shortcut, I don't usually tinker with things at the code level.
I never changed anything fonts-wise and I have it all at size 16 and the font types go like this (in order, while on chrome://settings/fonts): Time New Roman, Times New Roman, Arial, Consolas.
(02-19-2019, 11:56 PM)Yani84 Wrote: I never changed anything fonts-wise and I have it all at size 16 and the font types go like this (in order, while on chrome://settings/fonts): Time New Roman, Times New Roman, Arial, Consolas.
Thanks @Yani84, that's exactly what I need.


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Каменский спиртоводочный комбинат () — предприятие в городе Каменка Каменского района Черкасской области Украины.

История
Предприятие возникло в 1820 году как винокуренный завод помещика В. Л. Давыдова, на котором работали 16 местных крестьян.

1918 - 1991
В январе 1918 года в Каменке была установлена Советская власть и промышленные предприятия были национализированы. В дальнейшем, во время гражданской войны завод пострадал, поскольку Каменка оказалась в зоне боевых действий.

В марте 1919 года в Каменке прошли выборы в Совет рабочих и крестьянских депутатов, решением которого на сахарном заводе был создан фабрично-заводской комитет, который установил рабочий контроль над производством и ввёл 8-часовой рабочий день.

В марте 1920 года в Каменку был перенесён административный центр Чигиринского уезда, в мае здесь прошёл первый субботник, а 6-7 ноября 1920 года - партийная конференция (на которой рассматривались вопросы восстановления экономики), это ускорило восстановление завода.

На рубеже 1924 - 1925 гг. спиртзавод вновь начал работать на полную мощность.

В ходе боевых действий Великой Отечественной войны и немецкой оккупации (5 августа 1941 - 10 января 1944) спиртзавод серьёзно пострадал, при отступлении немецких войск немцы взорвали предприятие (были разрушены заводская котельная, машинное отделение, аппаратное отделение и дымовая труба), но уже в 1944 году началось его восстановление.

20 ноября 1946 года завод возобновил производство спирта, а уже в 1947 году произвёл сверх плана 73 тыс. декалитров.

В дальнейшем, во время семилетки и восьмой пятилетки завод был расширен и реконструирован.

В 1967 году был построен заводской клуб.

В целом, в советское время спиртовой завод входил в число крупнейших предприятий города.

После 1991
После провозглашения независимости Украины завод перешёл в ведение государственного комитета пищевой промышленности Украины.

В марте 1995 года Верховная Рада Украины внесла спиртзавод в перечень предприятий, приватизация которых запрещена в связи с их общегосударственным значением.

После создания в июне 1996 года государственного концерна спиртовой и ликёро-водочной промышленности «Укрспирт», завод был передан в ведение концерна «Укрспирт».

В январе 2000 года Кабинет министров Украины разрешил Каменскому спиртоводочному комбинату производство компонентов для моторного топлива, в июле 2000 года была утверждена государственная программа «Этанол», предусматривавшая расширения использования этилового спирта в качестве энергоносителя, вместе с другими государственными спиртзаводами комбинат был включён в перечень исполнителей этой программы.

В июле 2010 года государственный концерн «Укрспирт» был преобразован в государственное предприятие «Укрспирт», комбинат остался в ведении ГП «Укрспирт».

Современное состояние
Предприятие производит этиловый спирт для пищевой промышленности, технический спирт и водку.

Примечания

Предприятия Черкасской области
Предприятия спиртовой промышленности Российской империи
Предприятия спиртовой промышленности СССР
Предприятия пищевой промышленности Украины
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TL & the Holy Know-Nothings
"…but that sure will be expensive."
"Emmanuel" by TK & the Holy Know-Nothings | I am writing about this song at half past two in the morning. I slept for an hour, woke up, and two hours later, just cannot sleep. Is it the trip to Clark? Is it me pondering whether I'm actually dying sooner than I thought? This is the second time I am listening to "Emmanuel", the debut single from new band TK & the Holy Know-Nothings – what frontman Taylor Kingman describes as an attempt to front a "loose, groove-heavy bar band". Well, I could be holding a glass of whiskey right about now. Maybe I should, just to fall asleep, just to avoid all these thoughts of death. But, yes, this is loose, and also dark, or it's the time of the day that's making me think that way. Their debut album Arguably OK drops on 24 May. [NB] (Have things I should hear? Drop me a line here.)
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Cielo Pordomingo
"You tore apart my insides."
"Hush" by Cielo Pordomingo | Like nothing happened, right? Let's get on with it. We've written about Cielo Pordomingo three years ago; the Argentinian electronica artist has an interesting approach with sound, a push and pull that plays with opposites to make a united yet dissonant feel. Next month (25 April to be exact) she'll be releasing her fourth album, Moirai, and the first single off it, "Hush", is, well, here. It's the same approach that led us to write about her the first time, only now I'm really attracted to that violin thing, how it flits through and make me feel a little more on edge than I should be. ("The song presents a reality that no longer holds," the press release says. Yes, yes, yes.) Also, yes, I've feel a bit on edge lately, but somehow I'm still enjoying this even if I really should feel aggravated. [NB] (Have things I should hear? Drop me a line here.)
"Just say anything to me."
"Say Anything" by Mobs | I may have made some sort of accidental theme for these last two posts: something a bit grounded in the 80s (okay, this one is very much grounded in the 80s) and some sort of call-and-response thing going, too. Meet Mobs, a band from Melbourne who started as an acoustic duo and has transitioned into this, something really glittery and somewhat glammy. But you can still hear the softness in their music, judging from how atmospheric "Say Anything", from their recently released EP Bad Love, is. It floats like most of the more memorable 80s stuff do: ethereal, and then the percussion comes crashing and you're a bit grounded again. Float, sink, float, sink. Just the way it's supposed to be. [NB] (Have things I should hear? Drop me a line here.)
Heavy Rapids
"You know nothing!"
"Infected Nightmares (Frankenstein)" by Heavy Rapids | Okay, let's get loud now. A nice change of pace, if anything. Glasgow punk band Heavy Rapids have been getting a fair bit of attention lately, off the back of their first single "Going Down". Now there's a new one out, and it follows the same format somewhat – under three minutes, and, well, straightforward punk. But "Infected Nightmares (Frankenstein)" somehow feels just a little more exciting, because despite the expectations you aren't quite sure where it will go. And it does go somewhere else at some point. Also, I think I ought to mention the band's unlikely origins from vocalist Dillon Squire assuming Primal Scream's Screamadelica was a metal record. That story I found a bit amusing. But, hey, the explorations in that album, I see it here. [NB] (Have things I should hear? Drop me a line here.)
Shy Shy Shy
"We got nothing in common."
"Neon" by Shy Shy Shy | It's always nice to hear back from Shy Shy Shy, and as they've been busy, we've been hearing from them a lot. They're back with a new EP, Gloss, some songs from which you've probably already heard, especially if you've been watching the TV series Doggystyle. (I think some people I know have.) But leading that EP is a new song, "Neon", which sees a different dimension to the group's polished electropop sound. This one is filled with, uh, more swagger. It's like a beast inside has awakened, but not fully, which means some grumbling. All I'm saying is, it's an interesting new step for the Danish duo. [NB] (Have things I should hear? Drop me a line here.)


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McKINNON LOOKS AHEAD TO CRUCIAL ALLOA CLASH
The Bairns welcome Alloa Athletic to The Falkirk Stadium tomorrow afternoon for a crucial match in the battle to avoid the drop.
Falkirk approach the match having only lost once in the last 12, while Alloa are coming off the back of a 1-0 win over league leaders Ross County last weekend.
Bairns boss, Ray McKinnon met the press at The Falkirk Stadium earlier this afternoon to preview the clash and here's what he had to say…
On tomorrow's match…
"It's a big game, we're at home and in good form, we've said that since the start of the year so it's a game we're going into with confidence and a game we're going into to win. We approach every game in that way, it is what it is and it'll be two teams fighting it out. The bottom six in the league are all playing each other this week so it's a big weekend for everyone in the Championship."
On the last two matches…
"It's been easy to take positives from Tuesday's performance, it wasn't at the time, but on reflection we've been away from home for the last two weeks, we were up to Inverness and got a good point up there and then we were down to Queen of the South and won a good point – we have to look at it that way. It just feels worse because of the circumstances surrounding Tuesday's game. As I have said before we can't focus on anyone else, we just need to keep looking at what we're doing. We've done that since the start of the year and had one defeat in 12 and four in our last 20 in the league, we've got a good squad, they're going well and as you've seen this year there can be some crazy moments and results in this league."
On this week's key messages…
"We're trying to reinforce to the players that we are a good side, as good as anyone in this league when we are at our absolute best and we need to be at our best between now and the end of the season. To give the players credit, they have been magnificent since the turn of the year. This group we have got now have been great, to go one defeat in 12 and only against the league leaders is impressive. We just need to go and work as hard as possible now."
On the approach for tomorrow's match…
"I just try to look at each game and work out how to win the game. We have an idea of how we want to play tomorrow to win the game and hopefully we can execute it. Alloa are a good side, they make it difficult for every team they play and they haven't been turned over by anyone. Davis Keillor Dunn is the only player missing through suspension, everyone else is fit and ready to go."
On the Falkirk fans…
"We just hope that everyone comes along and enjoys the game tomorrow, the Falkirk fans have been brilliant. The numbers they have been turning out in has been so impressive. Hopefully the same happens again tomorrow. I saw that we had the 12th highest attendance in Scotland and that's impressive. They've been great, the traveling support we had at Inverness and Dumfries has been magnificent and the players have responded. It's going to be a tough ride out for everyone, but if we keep performing and working hard we'll give ourselves every chance."


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Inside the VSCPA/Virginia Business Economic Expectations Survey
The VSCPA partnered with Virginia Business magazine on the 2015 Economic Expectations Survey (PDF) featuring the insights of Virginia CPAs on a range of issues including the economic recovery; outlook for the Virginia and national economies; the Affordable Care Act; the Virginia business climate; foreign investment; corporate taxation and access to business capital. Analysis of the survey results appears as the feature story in the November 2014 issue of Virginia Business and as part of a roundtable panel discussion moderated by the magazine featuring VSCPA members Charlie Equi, CPA, Greg Lawson, CPA, Ryan Losi, CPA, and Colette Wilson, CPA.
Virginia CPAs are split at 50 percent about whether the United States is in a sustainable economic recovery, with 34.21 percent believing that the recovery will take more than four more years, according to the results of the survey (PDF).
Respondents named "infrastructure" as the most pressing issue in Virginia. "Health care costs" followed closely behind. These results were the two most pressing issues identified in the 2014 survey as well. 54.75 percent of respondents believe that the employer mandate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a major effect on the economy with 74.07 percent believing the ACA is hurting the economy overall. 48.21 percent of respondents think that the ACA should be repealed while 51.79 percent believe it should be reformed.
Respondents rated the overall business climate in Virginia as compared to that of neighboring states, with 81.64 percent feeling "excellent" or "good" about the economic outlook relative to neighboring states, down from 85 percent from the 2014 Outlook Survey.
Regional differences are also evident. For example, 50 percent of respondents in southwest Virginia think that the economic recovery will take more than four more years, compared with 34.21 percent statewide, 31.71 percent in Central Virginia, 9.52 percent in Southeast Virginia, and 34.09 percent in Northern Virginia. CPAs from southwest Virginia were overall "pessimistic" or "somewhat pessimistic" about the state of the national economy vs. the "balanced" or "somewhat optimistic" result statewide. Eighty-four percent of Northern Virginia CPAs believed that partisanship at the federal and state level is preventing government from addressing urgent needs that have an impact on business.
CPAs render opinions based on sets of rules and objective criteria, providing clients, companies, government and the public with the information they need to make important decisions. As financial experts, they are trained to be objective and impartial — important qualities when deliberating the state of the economy and business.
The survey was sent to 9,598 members of the VSCPA in August 2014, yielding a 3.2 percent response rate. 49 percent of the respondents work in public accounting, with the other half working in business and industry and other sectors. 45.32 percent represented businesses with more than 50 employees; 46 percent represented businesses with between two and 49 employees; and 7.9 percent represented sole proprietorships.


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Peggy Nelson
Vice President, Mission Assurance and Chief Engineer
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Peggy Nelson is vice president for Mission Assurance and Chief Engineer of Northrop Grumman Space Technology. In this position, she is the lead executive for mission assurance, quality systems, engineering capabilities and university alliances across Space Technology.
Previously, Ms. Nelson was vice president and project manager, Prometheus 1. She was responsible for leading a growing team of engineers and scientists to support a new contract as co-designer of the Prometheus 1 spacecraft with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was appointed program manager in July of 2003 and headed the capture team that successfully won the recent down-select, from three contractors to one. She provided a wealth of leadership and program management experience to the team.
Ms. Nelson joined TRW, now Northrop Grumman, in 1983 and has served as manager of several programs including the Data Communication Project/Wide Band Project and the Battlefield Combat Identification System. Prior to that, she held a number of increasingly responsible engineering positions.
In the community, The Los Angeles YWCA honored Ms. Nelson with its Phenomenal Woman Award in 2003 in recognition of her knowledge, experience, influence and leadership in the workplace.
Ms. Nelson earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles and a master's degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Northridge. She has also completed the Executive School of Management Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ms. Nelson and her family reside in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defense company headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. Northrop Grumman provides technologically advanced, innovative products, services and solutions in systems integration, defense electronics, information technology, advanced aircraft, shipbuilding and space technology. With more than 125,000 employees, and operations in all 50 states and 25 countries, Northrop Grumman serves U.S. and international military, government and commercial customers.


Sustainable NI has created a Social Value Toolkit to help councils and public sector organisations in Northern Ireland embed social value principles into their procurement approaches, ahead of any future legislation in this area.
Social Value is a process whereby organisations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life basis. It does this by generating benefits not only to the organisation, but also to society and the economy, and the environment.
It is widely acknowledged that taking a social value approach to procurement and commissioning can contribute positively to the delivery of greater equality and social inclusion, as well as broader sustainability goals. This toolkit provides practical advice and suggestions on how social value outcomes can be integrated into public procurement approaches.
The toolkit was developed by Sustainable NI, with input from Social Enterprise NI.


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Intelligence History
Corona Between the Sun and the Earth
The Geostrategic Context
The 1950s had been uncertain and dangerous times. In 1953, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb; in the summer of 1957 they successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile; and in the fall of that year they launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. US policy makers were uneasy about what they were seeing and hearing from the Soviets about their military and space successes. There even were those who suggested that the Soviets might drop bombs on the US from space (Studeman, 1995). But the US Intelligence Community had very little hard evidence of the true Soviet military capabilities. "In the absence of reliable information about the nature of the Soviet threat, we had no choice but to build up our own forces" (Deutch 1995). The USSR--with its satellite countries--had become a disciplined, closed society that was suspicious and demonstrated a penchant for controlling the flow of information. At the same time there was growing US public concern over the potential Soviet threat, especially from nuclear weapons. The Soviets had a formidable security service that proved difficult for Western intelligence to penetrate (Helms, 1983). Reconnaissance attempts with high-flying balloons and aircraft only could provide the US with limited useful information. Corona would change all of that with its burst of images. "[T]he intelligence explosion of the century was on, a relentless stream of detailed data which turned analytical work on these so-called 'denied areas' from famine to feast:" (Helms, 1983).
The objective of the Corona program was to use a space platform to acquire photographic intelligence to help satisfy the requirement for what was viewed as much-needed information. Its engineering was based on theoretical concepts that were yet to be demonstrated and used a technology that was based on neither confident data nor proven hardware. Questions that we take for granted today had yet to be answered: If you successfully launched a camera into orbit, would it work? If you took pictures from a satellite, could they see through the Earth's atmosphere? Could you launch, control, and recover a spacecraft?
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Living in a medieval castle in the south of France might sound like something out of a fairytale, but it's not an uncommon situation on international housesitting websites.
The only catch? Apart from the $129 fee to join a website like TrustedHousesitters, you could spend the summer as king or queen of your own chateau with no accommodation costs. The annual fee covers unlimited stays.
Global network TrustedHousesitters lists homeowners (and their pets) who are looking for trusted caretakers while they are away.
Members apply to housesit the home of theirs dreams, which can range from medieval French chateaus to Irish castles that look like they're straight out of Game of Thrones.
This historic castle has featured in many TV shows.
In fact, the owner of this Grade 1 listed castle in Northern Ireland – which actually featured in Game of Thrones – is currently looking for a housesitter. Sign up and you could be moving in.
Gardeners are welcome at this French chateau.
Elsewhere on TrustedHousesitters, an idyllic post-Renaissance chateau in France is listed. The property comes with its own dog and includes a small woodland area, swimming pool, barns, greenhouse, lawn areas, and a two-bedroom farmhouse.
This castle in Casorzo features a modern external lift addition.
And then there are the homeowners of this unique Italian castle who are looking for people to housesit and look after their two elderly dogs.
For more information, go to TrustedHousesitters.


A 'delighted' police officer from Slough was named 'Officer of The Year' at the national British Association for Women Policing awards on Tuesday in Manchester.
The award was recognises officers for her self improvement, performance on the job, leadership, community service, efforts to help other officers develop themselves and protecting the vulnerable.
Winner DCI Nikki Pearce, who was promoted to inspector in 2013, was nominated for the award by Thames Valley Police's Women's Network, a support group who offer support and opportunities for female police officers and staff.
At the ceremony, DCI Pearce said: "I am absolutely delighted, honoured and humbled to have won this award.
The married mother-of-two joined the Thames Valley Police in 2004 and has always served in the Slough Local Policing Area (LPA).
Slough LPA commander Supt Gavin Wong, said: "I'm very proud that Nikki has been recognised nationally and is the recipient of this year's award.
Nikki also received the Diversity Champion of The Year award at the Thames Valley Police Community Policing Awards last year and won the TVP Women's Network Chairs award in March this year for her policing leadership.
The award ceremony took place at the Worsley Park Marriott Hotel and County Club, Manchester.


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Mafia Bidness is the debut studio album by American Los Angeles-based hip hop quartet Shoreline Mafia. It was released on July 31, 2020 via Atlantic Records. Production was handled by twelve record producers, including Ron-Ron The Producer, Bruce24k, ACETHEFACE and Helluva. It features guest appearances from 03 Greedo, 1takejay, AFN Peso, Drakeo the Ruler, Duke Deuce, Future, GT, Kodak Black, Lil Yachty, Mike Sherm, Nfant, Q Da Fool, Wiz Khalifa, YG and Z Money.

Release and promotion
In early April 2020, Shoreline Mafia founding member Fenix "Fenix Flexin" Rypinski announced that he would be leaving the group after the release of this album.

The album was promoted by five singles: "Gangstas & Sippas", "Ride Out", "Change Ya Life", "Perc Popper" and "How We Do It". The music video for the album's fifth single was directed by John Rawl and released on July 29, 2020, with the song being released five days earlier on July 24.

Deluxe version of the album was released on November 30, 2020 and it includes eight new tracks.

Track listing

Charts

References

2020 debut albums
Atlantic Records albums
Hip hop albums by American artists


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by Lou on March 30, 2012
The government's planned prosecution of Utah banker John Campos hit a road block of sorts, when US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered prosecutors to explain in writing why they let former Utah banker John Campos plead guilty to a misdemeanor instead of a felony, and avoid a trial scheduled for April 9. When Judge Kaplan blocked the guilty plea, he said he needed to know why the government was walking away from the case.
This was to have been the only scheduled trial resulting from charges brought against a dozen individuals in poker's Black Friday raids that shuttered the operations of PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker and UB in the United States. Half of those charged remain fugitives, while the others have pleaded to charges.
"You're basically walking away from the prosecution?" Kaplan asked, questioning the severity of the outcome after Campos admitted that the bank where he served as vice chairman of its board of directors and a part owner processed $200 million in gambling proceeds between late 2009 and last year.
The judge said he'll decide whether to accept the plea at a June 27 sentencing.
Campos' deal is an acknowledgement of trial risks, admitted Assistant U.S. Attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown. Campos had received legal opinions suggesting that it might not be illegal to process money for Internet gambling companies.
"There would be a risk that a jury on that basis could have a problem," Devlin-Brown said.
Campos admitted as part of his plea that SunFirst Bank processed gambling proceeds, and that PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker promised to invest $10 million in his bank. Through his lawyer, Campos stated that he did not believe the investment was in return for the processing of gambling proceeds.
Assistant US Attorney Andrew Goldstein said the stipulated sentencing range of up to six months in prison was about what Campos would face if he pleaded guilty to a felony, and that the government succeeded in banning the 57-year-old Campos from future jobs with banking institutions.
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How did 19th-century American black writers construct race, class and gender? Through a focus on Civil-War related fiction of one African American woman writer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, this paper broadly addresses black writers' treatment of these phenomena and their enduring strains in American culture. It was found that not only does Harper emphasize race, class and gender in the fiction studied; but societal norms embedded in these phenomena seem to be the reasons for the fiction read, especially race. Indeed, she portrayed racism, "classism," and sexism as roots of great harm to individuals and to society. Harper was atypical, and images in her writing, not surprisingly, generally depart from dominant norms. The research is not generalizable, of course, but it implies avenues worthy of further study.


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Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences
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81 Conference paper
10 Research report not released to public
7 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
3 Edited book
3 Policy/Procedures/Guidelines
2 Chapter in textbook/reference book
2 Masters Thesis
1 Creative Works - Recorded or Rendered works
1 Honours Thesis
2nd to 4th digit ratio (2D: 4D) and eating psychopathology in an unselected sample of women
Quinton, S., Caswell, N. & Manning, J. T., 2004, In: Appetite. 43, 1, p. 117-117 1 p.
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Academic achievement performance of university students with disability: Exploring the influence of non-academic factors
Dryer, M., Henning, M. A., Tyson, G. & Shaw, R., 2016, In: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education. 63, 4, p. 419-430 11 p.
Academic self-efficacy in a twenty-first-century Australian university: strategies for first-generation students
Metcalf, D. A. & Wiener, K. K. K., Jun 2018, In: Higher Education Research and Development. 37, 7, p. 1472-1488 17 p.
A case for using ability-based emotional intelligence measures in the selection of trainee psychologists
Omoregbee, I., Morrison, B. W. & Morrison, N. M. V., 13 Jan 2016, In: Business Perspectives and Research. 4, 1, p. 1-14 14 p.
Accepting, active and in control: Older women's experiences of ageing with peripheral arterial disease
Bassett, K., Gullifer, J. & Varcoe, R. L., Dec 2019, In: Ageing and Society. 39, 12, p. 2605-2630 26 p.
A comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of a day patient program for eating disorders
Winten, L., Quinton, S., Abraham, S., Russell, J. & Luscombe, G., Nov 2014, In: Journal of Eating Disorders. 2, suppl1, p. 024-024 1 p.
A comprehensive noise survey of the S-70A-9 Black Hawk helicopter
King, R., Saliba, A. & Brock, J. R., 1999, In: Aerospace medicine and human performance. 70, 2, p. 107-116 10 p.
A critique of prospect theory and framing with particular reference to consumer decisions
Rossiter, J. R., Sep 2019, In: Journal of Consumer Behaviour: an international research review. 18, 5, p. 399-405 7 p.
Evaluation Studies
A cross-cultural study of wine consumers with respect to health benefits of wine
Yoo, Y., Saliba, A., MacDonald, J., Prenzler, P. & Ryan, D., 01 Jun 2013, In: Food Quality and Preference. 28, 2, p. 531-538 8 p.
cross cultural studies
Action research intervention with young people: a city council's response
Bradley, B. & Selby, J., 2003, In: Australasian Psychiatry. 11, 3, p. S122-S126
Adaptive flood mobilities in Bangladesh
Ingham, V., Islam, M. R. & Hicks, J., 2019, In: Mobilities. 14, 2, p. 158-172 15 p.
gender role
cultural tradition
Adolescent survivors after suicide: Australian young people's bereavement narratives
Bartik, W., Maple, M., Edwards, H. & Kiernan, M., 2013, In: Crisis. 34, 3, p. 211-217 7 p.
Adopting a participatory methodology and post-structural epistemology: Reflections on a research project with young people
Watson, L. & Fox, R., 08 Nov 2018, In: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 28, 6, p. 471-482 12 p.
Age, gender, and reasons for living among Australian adults
McLaren, S., 01 Dec 2011, In: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 41, 6, p. 650-660 11 p.
Ageing in corrective services: From the perspective of prison chaplains
Shaw, R., Stevens, B., Paget, J. & Snoyman, P., 2019, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 26, 1, p. 97-109 13 p.
correctional institution
Age-Related Change in Visual, Spatial, and Verbal Memory
Shaw, R., Helmes, E. & Mitchell, D., 2006, In: Australasian Journal on Ageing. 25, 1, p. 14-19 6 p.
Age-related changes in the kinematics of curved drawing movements: Relationships between tangential velocity and the radius of curvature.
Saling, L. & Phillips, J. G., 2002, In: Experimental Aging Research. 28, 2, p. 215-229 15 p.
Power Law
Power (Psychology)
Age-related slowing of movement as basal ganglia dysfunction.
Saling, L. & Phillips, J. G., 2008, In: European Review of Aging and Physical Activity. 5, 2, p. 69-77 9 p.
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Basal Ganglia
Theoretical Models
A high-stakes partnership? Responsibility, interdependency, and vulnerability in elite equestrian sport
Hogg, R. & Hodgins, G., 2016, In: QM i P Bulletin. 22, p. 19-31 13 p.
Alexithymia, ambivalence over emotional expression, and eating attitudes
Quinton, S. & Wagner, H. L., 2005, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 38, 5, p. 1163-1173 11 p.
Affective Symptoms
Allies cartoon humor in Second World War II: A comparison of "Willie and Joe" and "Bluey and Curley".
Moran, C., 2004, In: International Journal of Comic Art. 6, 2, p. 431-444 14 p.
A longitudinal study using latent curve models of groups with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, 15 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 350, 109040.
Memory and Learning Tests
Alte Menschen als Identifizierungszeugen: Eine evidenzbasierte Zusammenfassung neuerer Befunde
Sporer, S. & Martschuk, N., 2013, In: Praxis der Rechtspsychologie, Themenschwerpunkt Aussage und Zeugenpsychologie. 23, 1, p. 87-108 22 p.
Howard Barker
Ambivalent attitudes about teaching children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Anderson, D. L., Watt, S. E. & Shanley, D. C., Oct 2017, In: Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 22, 4, p. 332-349 18 p.
A metacognitive model of the feeling of agency over bodily actions
Carruthers, G., 2016, In: Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 2, 3, p. 210-221 12 p.
A metacognitive model of the sense of agency over thoughts
Carruthers, G., 2012, In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 17, 4, p. 291-314 24 p.
A Model for Increasing Indigenous Participation in Psychology Degrees
Harris, J., Hill, B. & Kiernan, M., Sep 2012, In: Australian Psychologist. 47, 3, p. 128-136 9 p.
Catchment Area (Health)
A model of supervision in mental health for general practitioners
Hodgins, G., Judd, F., Kyrios, M., Murray, G., Cope, A. & Sasse, C., 2005, In: Australasian Psychiatry. 13, 2, p. 185-189 5 p.
A model of the synchronic self
Carruthers, G., 2007, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 16, 2, p. 533-550 18 p.
A multi-dimensional model of the origins of attitude certainty: Teachers' attitudes toward attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Anderson, D. L., Watt, S. E. & Shanley, D. C., 2014, In: Social Psychology of Education. 17, 1, p. 19-50 32 p.
teacher attitude
Analysis of print news media framing of ketamine treatment in the United States and Canada from 2000 to 2015
Zhang, M. W. B., Hong, Y. X., Husain, S. F., Harris, K. M. & Ho, R. C. M., 03 Mar 2017, In: PLoS One. 12, 3, p. 1-13 13 p., e0173202.
Analysis of variance for identifying temporal drivers of liking
Carr, B. T. & Lesniauskas, R. O., Jan 2016, In: Food Quality and Preference. 47, 1, p. 97-100 4 p.
sensometrics
An approach to synchronicity: From synchrony to synchronization
Bradley, B., 2001, In: Subjectivity: international journal of critical psychology. 1, 2, p. 119-144 26 p.
An evaluation of the 'Think First' program
Burgoyne, K. & Tyson, G., Apr 2013, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 46, 1, p. 88-100 13 p.
Internal-External Control
social problem
A New Viewpoint on the Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Human Faces
Burke, D. & Sulikowski, D., 2010, In: Evolutionary Psychology. 8, 4, p. 573-585 13 p.
Sex Characteristics
An examination of the experiences of young people who care for a family member experiencing physical or mental health problems in Australia
Watson, L. & Fox, R., 2014, In: Australian Community Psychologist: The official journal of the APS College Of Community Psychologists. 26, 2, p. 22-37 16 p.
An integrated approach to general practice mental health training: The importance of context
Hodgins, G., Judd, F., Davis, J. & Fahey, A., Feb 2007, In: Australasian Psychiatry. 15, 1, p. 52-57 6 p.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Disaster Management, Incorporating Economics and Social Psychology
Ingham, V., Hicks, J., Islam, M., Manock, I. & Sappey, R., Dec 2012, In: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. 6, 5, p. 93-106 14 p.
An investigation of accuracy and bias in cross-cultural lie detection
Castillo, P., Tyson, G. & Mallard, D., May 2014, In: Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice. 10, 1, p. 66-82 17 p.
Lie Detection
An opportunity to be heard: Family experiences of coronial investigations into missing people and views on best practice
Dartnall, S., Goodman-Delahunty, J. & Gullifer, J., 12 Nov 2019, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 10, p. 1-17 17 p., 2322.
Coroners and Medical Examiners
Applying Strengths Model principles to build a rural community-based mental health support service and achieve recovery outcomes
Dunstan, D. & Anderson, D. L., 01 Feb 2018, In: Rural and Remote Health. 18, 1, p. 1-12 12 p., 3708.
Rural Population
rural community
A preliminary analysis of a competence assessment tool for postgraduate training programmes in clinical and forensic psychology
Humphreys, L., Crino, R., Wilson, I. & Hannan, T., 2015, In: Clinical Psychologist. 21, 3, p. 165-173 9 p.
Mental Competency
A problem for Wegner and colleagues' model of the sense of agency
Carruthers, G., 2010, In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 9, 3, p. 341-357 17 p.
A psychological pathway from insomnia to depression among older adults
Sadler, P., McLaren, S. & Jenkins, M., 01 Aug 2013, In: International Psychogeriatrics. 25, 8, p. 1375-1383 9 p.
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
A queer-theoretical approach to community health psychology
Nic Giolla Easpaig, B. R., Fryer, D. M., Linn, S. E. & Humphrey, R. H., 2014, In: Journal of Health Psychology. 19, 1, p. 117-125 9 p.
Sexual and Gender Minorities
Are actors really real in reality TV? The changing face of performativity in reality television
Gater, D. & MacDonald, J., 2015, In: Fusion Journal. 7, p. 1-13 13 p.
A review of pathogenic weight-control behaviour among athletes: A cause for concern?
Cockerill, I. M. & Quinton, S. J., 1999, In: Journal of the Institute of Higher Education. 33, 1, p. 13-15 3 p.
behavior control
A review of prevalence studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder by latitude and solar irradiance impact
Syed, S., Moore, K. A. & March, E., Nov 2017, In: Medical Hypotheses. 109, p. 19-24 6 p.
Ultraviolet Rays
Are we, like sheep, going astray: is costly signaling (or any other mechanism) necessary to explain the belief-as-benefit effect?
Schuurmans-Stekhoven, J., 2017, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 7, 3, p. 258-262 5 p.
Are we asking the right questions? Why we should have a decolonization discourse based on conscientisation rather than Indigenising the curriculum
Darlaston-Jones, D., Herbert, H., Ryan, K., Darlaston-Jones, W., Harris, J. & Dudgeon, P., 2014, In: Canadian Journal of Native Education. 37, 1, p. 86-104 19 p.


No, that isn't Marilyn Monroe, but she is giving her a run for her money.
Ariel Winter just posted a photo of herself to Instagram rocking a blonde wig and red lipstick -- but it's what she's wearing (or not wearing, rather) that people are noticing.
Winter sent out the photo, in which she's only wearing a black bodysuit, a sheer skirt and heels, to her followers.
We can ponder what the secret shoot is about, but we recently learned that the 18-year-old "Modern Family" star is single.
We just have one question: who is she???


Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki the 60 year old Iraqi Prime Minister and Secretary general of the Shite Islamic Dawa Party has been returned for a second term in office following eight months of political deadlock between al-Maliki and major rival the Sunni backed Iraqiya coalition. The new government will comprise a power sharing arrangement where the Sunni bloc will fill the Speakers role and the Kurds with its incumbent for the ceremonial position as President. The agreement should help dampen the violent sectarian divisions that exist in Iraq as minority Sunni extremists seek to destabilize the government and fill the power vacuum that has existed due to the protracted post election negotiations.


Each of us in this life, sooner or later, will get to know how strong the feeling of love is! Perhaps you will see that I am still too young for such high topics, but I will say that I am also mature enough to understand what I want from life. I do not have too high demands on my future man and it is very difficult for me now to imagine how he will be. I just want him to see in me all the best qualities and fall in love with me. By the way about the qualities. I am really a delicate, kind, sympathetic and energetic girl with a good sense of humor.
Trust and respect are all in a relationship. I will do everything to make my future man the happiest in the world. I want to meet a man who is reliable, strong in spirit, with a big and kind heart. I need to feel safe next to him and know that I can rely on him at any time.


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Émile Frédéric Paul Perdrizet (Montbéliard, -Nancy, ) est un archéologue, helléniste et médiéviste français.

Biographie
Reçu premier à l'École normale supérieure en 1890 où il a, entre autres, pour professeur Gaston Boissier et Maxime Collignon, il obtient l'agrégation de lettres en 1893, puis il est reçu avec Pierre Jouguet à l'École française d'Athènes en octobre de la même année.

De 1894 à 1899 et, en 1901, il fouille à Delphes où il expose l'importance de la préhistoire sur le site. Parcourant la Macédoine, la Turquie, l'Asie Mineure, Chypre, la Syrie et la Petite Arménie, il est envoyé à Chypre en 1896 reprendre le projet, confié d'abord à Charles Fossey, d'une fouille à Larnaca.

En , il revient en France où il est nommé maître de conférences de langue et de littérature grecques à Nancy. Il y épouse Lucile, la seconde des quatre filles d'Émile Gallé et Henriette Gallé. Il fonde à la faculté des lettres de Nancy l'Institut d'archéologie classique autour d'un musée de moulages antiques qui est malheureusement détruit par un bombardement allemand le . Après avoir soutenu des thèses d'histoire de l'art du Moyen Âge à la Sorbonne en 1908, il obtient la création l'année suivante d'une chaire d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, mais continue parallèlement d'enseigner la littérature grecque.

Théophile Homolle le rappelle à Athènes pour un an en 1900. Il parcourt alors la Thrace et la Macédoine et publie sur le sujet de nombreux articles dans le Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Obtenant par ses travaux une renommée internationale, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff lui offre la responsabilité du volume consacré aux inscriptions de Macédoine pour le Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. Malheureusement, les démêlés politiques et sa santé ne lui permettent pas de mener à bien ce projet.

En 1904, Philippe Berger le charge pour le Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum d'une mission à Saïda visant à élucider les fausses inscriptions ramenées à tort au temple d'Eshmoun.

Parti en Égypte en 1909, il participe au Congrès du Caire et se lance dans l'étude de l'hellénisme égyptien.

Engagé volontaire, comme simple soldat, au  d'infanterie territoriale, à Toul, lorsqu'éclate la Première Guerre mondiale, il est muté, en , au Bureau d'étude de la presse étrangère, où il passe le reste de la guerre à rédiger le bulletin de la presse grecque. Il est ensuite nommé, au , à la chaire d'archéologie à Strasbourg où il rejoint son ancien élève Albert Grenier.

À la demande de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, sur la recommandation de Théophile Homolle, il est chargé des fouilles d'Antioche en 1924 : il mène deux missions en Syrie qu'il fait découvrir successivement à  Henri Seyrig et Daniel Schlumberger. Il explore avec eux la région en aval de Karkemish et visite les sites de Tell Amar et Arslan Tash. Malgré les encouragements de René Dussaud et le soutien financier de l'Académie, il renonce à les fouiller.

De 1933 à 1936, il est conseiller de son élève Sami Gabra sur le chantier de fouilles de la nécropole d'Hermopolis Magna, en Égypte.

Correspondant de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis 1923, il y est élu en 1934.

Travaux
 Fouilles de Delphes, V, Bronzes, vases, antiquités diverses, 1905-1908
 La Galerie Campana et les musées français, avec René Jean, 1907 (lire en ligne)
 L'art symbolique du Moyen Âge à propos des verrières de l'église St-Étienne à Mulhouse, 1907 ((lire en ligne)

 Les Bronzes grecs d'Égypte de la collection Fouquet, 1911
 Les Graphites grecs du Memnonion d'Abydos, avec G. Lefebvre, 1919
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Articles connexes
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An Australian heatwave is on its way to New Zealand, set to bring hot nights to the North Island.
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"If we do get to 40degC, it will be the first time that NSW has seen a 40 degree temperature in September," BoM duty forecaster Mohammed Nabi told the ABC.
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Bushfires are an increased threat. The NSW Rural Fire Service is expected to place total fire bans in some areas as the heat kicks in.
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After All This Time, Barbie Still Draws Some Feminists' Ire
Tiny Shoulders tackles a culture war going back decades.
Glenn Garvin | 4.21.2018 10:00 AM
'Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie'
Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie. Hulu. Available Friday, April 27.
At the rate millennials discover previously unknown anatomical flashpoints like thigh gaps and sideboobs, you may well wonder if the tiny shoulders in the title of Andrea Blaugrund Nevins' new Hulu documentary on the Barbie doll are some new aspirational physical phenomenon for today's on-fleek sista.
But actually, it's drawn from a comment by Mattel Inc.'s publicity chief, Michelle Chidoni, after another round of discordant arguments with feminist critics of her company's billion-dollar doll.
"Feminism, and how a girl sees herself, and self-esteem for girls, to put all that on the tiny shoulders of an 11-and-a-half-inch doll, is quite a burden," says the exhausted Chidoni.
It's a burden explored at delightful and occasionally poignant length in Tiny Shoulders. Nominally an inside look at Mattel's 2016 roll-out of several new chubby dolls (or, as the Mattel corporate-speak dictionary had it, "curvy"), Tiny Shoulders is really a history of Barbie and her feminist tormentors. And it turns out those tiny shoulders conceal some real muscle.
Tiny Shoulders emphatically makes the point that Barbie was not devised by a cabal of male misogynists but a pioneering female toy-company executive named Ruth Handler who had detested her years as a housewife ("Oh, shit, it was awful!" she exclaims in a clip from an old interview) and was puzzled that all the dolls in the late-1950s toy marketplace were babies, as if little girls were interested in nothing but their future reproductive function.
Handler's daughter and friends, she had noted, preferred to play with paper-doll adult figures, spinning little fantasies about grown-up life as they tried different dresses on the cut-outs. Why not create a three-dimensional version of those paper dolls, complete with (ka-ching!) lines of clothing and accessories?
Mattel's male executives were uniformly horrified by the idea of a doll with breasts, and the engineers said all those tiny fingers and toes would be impossible. (They weren't entirely crazy; when the company began manufacturing Barbie, new machinery had to be invested to mold her feet.)
But when Handler discovered Bild Lilli, a bosomy, foot-tall novelty doll sold in German tobacco shops, mostly to men ("I'm not quite sure what they do with her," one Mattel executive says, skittishly), Handler had her model. Mattel trimmed her bust size and de-beautified her a bit—Handler didn't want her looks to intimidate her 8-year-old customers—and by 1959, she was in stores.
Barbie brought in $351,000 the first year, a pretty healthy sum for Mattel, then a mom-and-pop toy company. Within a decade, Barbie sales had ballooned to $500 million a year, and would eventually soar over $1 billion annually. Gloria Steinem, in a Tiny Shoulders interview, scornfully declares that "I am so grateful I didn't grow up with Barbie. Barbie is everything we didn't want to be, and were told to be." Which raises the question: "Who's this we?"
In fact, little girls loved Barbie. Tiny Shoulders shows the giant stacks of scrapbooks holding letters and photos sent in by little girls anxious to share their Barbie adventures, many with inscriptions like "To my best pal, Barbie." They made it clear that the doll was being played with exactly as Handler had predicted, as an agent of their fantasies of the future.
And that future was not, mostly, lolling around the pool at Barbie's Dream House while Ken went off to work each day. As early as 1963, Career Girl Barbie came dressed in a tweed suit, topped with a woolen cloche, the famous decolletage nowhere in sight. Miss Astronaut Barbie beat Sally Ride to space by 18 years. Nurse Barbie came along that same year, and by 1973 she had finished med school and become Surgeon Barbie. Barbie ran for president in 1991, when Hillary Clinton was still just an ex-first-lady of Arkansas, and had the good sense not to call anybody deplorable.
"Barbie became things real women hadn't become," says Amy Richards, co-author of the Gen X feminist Manifesta and one of the surprise character witnesses for Barbie in Tiny Shoulders. "She kind of cracked the world open for a lot of these little girls who were seeing their moms, educated women, stuck at home."
(Admittedly, there have been occasional missteps. My favorite, not covered in Tiny Shoulders, was Black Canary Barbie, supposedly modeled after a comic-book character. But a lot of people thought her fishnet hose and black motorcycle jacket made her look more like Dominatrix Barbie.)
Sometime after her 50th birthday, though, Barbie's sales went into a decline, slipping down to around $900 million. The company not only lost faith in its own product but bought into the whole Barbie-as-body-shaming theory, even ignoring its own focus-group testing. One of the most amusing moments in Tiny Shoulders is Mattel executives watching little girls play with some prototype plus-size Barbies. The bosses' faces fall when one of the kids declares in a sternly disapproving voice: "These are fat!"
The company pushed ahead anyway, and in 2016 introduced several "curvy" Barbies while keeping Classic Barbie around. The single flaw in Tiny Shoulders is that Nevins accepts the word of Barbie's marketing propagandists that the new dolls were a success, based on the fact that they got a gazillion clicks on social media. In the real world of actual money, sales had an uptick in 2016—possibly due to the novelty value of the new dolls, possibly to the marketing whirlwind the company had mounted—but resumed their decline the next year. Size 16 Barbie is not going to save the brand (though, to be fair, Barbie's continued $900 million-plus annual sales are not exactly a fiscal Titanic.)
What's responsible for the decline of Barbie remains a mystery. Maybe women's options have broadened to the point that little girls no longer need to play fantasy games about their futures. Maybe the popularity of digital games means they no longer stick with dolls as long, trimming the sales of Barbie Glam Getaway Houses and Barbie Glam Convertibles.
The feminists interviewed for Tiny Shoulders have their own ideas about this. "I would like to see an actual Fat Barbie," says Roxane Gay, the plus-size author of The Bad Feminist, without apparent irony. Steinem, meanwhile, thinks all those Barbie career options are bad. "The idea that you're strengthening your daughter by saying, 'You can be anything,' really ends up making her feel guilty if she can't," Steinem declares. So, maybe a Bipolar Apocalypse Barbie, programmed with phrases like, "Glass ceiling!" and "Rape culture!" and, of course, "I'm going to go put my head in my Official Accessory Barbie Gas Oven!"
NEXT: Your Right to Eat Foie Gras
Glenn Garvin is a contributing editor at Reason. A former Miami Herald foreign correspondent, columnist, and TV critic, he is the author of Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras and (with Ana Rodriguez) Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison.
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April.21.2018 at 10:10 am
one of the kids declares in a sternly disapproving voice: "These are fat!"
Pack that little fat-shamer off to a reeducation camp.
NYC2AZ
April.21.2018 at 2:15 pm
Another one that South Park got right.
yeviwam
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Elias Fakaname
I favor 50 foot billboards at each entrance to town that say "No Fat Chicks".
Hackmaschine Mutter
Barbie was & is a toy of imagination. She opened my mind to design & composition of fabrics. For my teen daughters, she provided a revenue stream, as they sold off my collection. My granddaughter has Minecraft.
April.22.2018 at 8:53 am
Too many of todays kids largely aspire to nothing of resale value, where they live and play in a digital world that is somebody elses intellectual property. I hope parents out there will be careful: kids need their tactile toys too.
CharlotteHaze
Absolutely! I despised baby dolls but loved Barbie. We'd make futuristic Patti Labelle-style outfits for her out of aluminum foil, build furniture out of trash, write Barbie plays for the dolls to "perform". It was a blast.
Doggone that evolution! Men should learn not to favor women with narrow waists and broad hips!
And huge gravity defying succulent tits.
C. S. P. Schofield
The feminist scolds are the same lineage that Saki wrote about in 'The Toys of Peace'; they seriously expect children to play with a model of a municipal waste treatment plant and dolls of good little government drones.
BlueStarDragon
This article brings me back to my late 70's childhood with the dolls I played with. See what is not mention in this article was how little girls use to wave Barbie dolls like weapons at boys. Then they came out with a doll for boys that was cool call G.I Joe ! (In truth their where two dolls the other was Evel Knievel stunt cycle doll also cool) 🙂
We finally had doll to fight back with without getting into fight with the girls. He came with lots of accessories including sniper rifles,2 different machine guns, pistols, repelling gear, combat jeep, c-4 explosives, garrote ext.
We would also add to his arsenal Black Cats fire works and Snaps ( Snaps was made out of tissue paper, gunpowder and nitro glycerin. Came in boxes of 100 for a dollar if I remember right, Great for throwing at ants and Barbie & Ken dolls ). Any way it came so common for boys to have G.I Joe kill Barbie & Ken that SNL made a comedy routine about back in the 70's. G.I Joe days came to and end, when the anti war left protest about the dolls and got them discontinued. By the way their was a G.I Jane doll that was popular with boys as well.
Don't forget Jay J. Armes
Forgot all about him LOL 🙂
creech
April.21.2018 at 12:14 pm
And yet you didn't massacre your school mates? So, is the current generation's problem "too easy access to guns" or has something else changed to make school violence with something other than a fist more acceptable?
You make a good point their, During the 70's and even before gun miniatures would have advertisement for buying 22 rifles for your children at Christmas.
TangoDelta
Well, Sen. Feinstein has been saying for years that all the cool kids used "assault weapons" and didn't resort to fisticuffs. Perhaps it was more like 'only an idiot wouldn't use an "assault weapon"' but I can't recall her exact wording.
El Oso
Maybe they should make a lesbian Barbie, along with her girlfriend Butch and the rest of the LGBT crowd…
Here is something similar………
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oFoEJKiRvX8
Battlin' lesbians!
I love the breadth of the squirrel factor we all enjoy at Reason. With variety like this, most other sites just seem monochromatic.
BestUsedCarSales
was Black Canary Barbie, supposedly modeled after a comic-book character.
No supposedly required. It's absolutely a DC superhero.
there have been occasional missteps. My favorite, not covered in Tiny Shoulders, was Black Canary Barbie
My favorite was "Math is HARD!"
Eidde
"unlike Ken"
…is the sort of tasteless joke a real crude yokel would tell.
DamnDirtyApe
That was Malibu Stacy…
"Trolling feminists is easy and fun!"
/Anti-Feminist Troll Barbie
Longtobefree
Not so much fun any more; it is all too easy.
Texasmotiv
Modeled after Lauren Southern?
"After All This Time, Barbie Still Draws Some Feminists' Ire"
But what doesn't amirite?!?!?
Aloysious
Haven't you heard? The penis is evil.
David Emami
Indeed. Zardoz has spoken.
…when the company began manufacturing Barbie, new machinery had to be invested to mold her feet.
Should that read, "had to invest in new machinery" or "invented"?
^^ This guy gets it.
MarkLastname
Spelling is hard
LordOfLotion
Falling sales are not the only problem here. Over the years, Mattel has made some bad business decisions, including falling victim to a phishing scam in 2016 that almost cost them $3 million. Quality has gotten more abysmal with each passing year. They tried to keep the dolls at a certain price point instead of keeping quality up and gradually adjusting prices with inflation. They have not kept up with tech, and when they did, it freaked people out. They've started catering to every SJW cause that comes along like it's going to solve all their problems.
But the core of the issue is that no one loves Barbie any more. People got caught up in the NRFB collector mentality of keeping the dolls in boxes instead of letting the kids play with her and making fond memories of her. So the kids grew up resenting the dolls instead. Now they want to buy their kids things they enjoyed?and Barbie isn't one of them. Barbie is a bath tub play toy for toddlers now, not a toy for sophisticated kids with iPads. I think they're past the point of no return. But if they aren't, she won't do it by being a model for My 600lb Life. Barbie will only survive by doing what she does best: Making people love her.
BigT
My granddaughter has a trunk full of a dozen Barbies ( her mother's) and plays with them for hours, acting out future life events.
Gaear Grimsrud
My 5 year old granddaughter is also a fan and got me to watch the Barbie cartoon show with her which is actually pretty funny.
My 5 year old loves her Barbies. And she loves the Barbie cartoons. They are pretty bad by today's standards. But they are a million times better than the crap that my generation loved growing up: Super Friends, Land of the Lost, Hong Kong Phoey… it was all crap.
Her 8 year old sister never had the slightest interest in a Barbie and to my knowledge has never once joined her little sister to play dolls. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
This Sanaa crap got started the. Oment we stopped beating hippies with nightsticks whenever they started bitching about something. That face them the idea that their ideas had validity and that they should have a say in things,
None of which is true, beating the shit out of a dirty hippie is ALWAYS the right call.
"'You can be anything,' really ends up making her feel guilty if she can't," Steinem declares"
But little boys can be astronauts, or ballplayers, or superheroes, and thats ok to push.
Get f'd Steinem.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
There is no way Gloria Steinem actually said that. It must be fake news. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Next thing you'll tell me is that she defended a 47 year old president's right to take advantage of a 22 year old intern.
Why don't boys have body issues with G.I. Joe, He Man, etc?
Earth Skeptic
Cuz they don't have penises.
Weiner!
Isn't that Stoopid Weiner still in jail? I wonder if he has body issues.
Because we assume anyone who is prettier or with better abs is just some fag……….which they are.
I remember my sister and I used to play Trailer Trash Barbie. Ken was a deadbeat, whom we just left on the couch watching TV, When Barbie was pregnant, she'd go about her day with half a plastic Easter egg shoved up her dress. When she wasn't pregnant, she wore a bikini top and shorts. Fun times.
Little (girl) children want (skinny) Barbies, but we should not listen to them, because they are children.
Little children want a gun-free hazardless world, and we should listen to them, because they are children.
John's broseph
"The company not only lost faith in its own product but bought into the whole Barbie-as-body-shaming theory…"
I think some companies have a real issue with their executives being disconnected from the rest of society, and thus relying on social media as a proxy of it.
This is a similar situation to Delta going out of it's way to reject the NRA. The C suite of Delta probably only associate with people who find guns disgusting, and rely on Twitter to fill in the rest. There's no doubt in my mind that these companies think they're making good business decisions, but the blindspots are huge.
That does it. I'm getting an NRA hat for flying… just to piss off the pinheads running Delta into the ground. Can I expect to get extra screening from the TSA goons? Probably. Anyone clearly identifying themselves as a regular [non-muslim] American gets abused just to prove they aren't "profiling". Funny how that works… my profile should serve as an instant trigger for miswired PC minds trying to wash themselves of their inappropriate guilt.
LarryA
I think Mattel is trying to please Those Who Cannot Be Pleased.
Wonder what would happen if they blew off the SJWs and came out with Concealed Carry Barbie and IDPA Champion Barbie?
After all the heads explode, follow up with Big Game Hunter Barbie and Prepper Barbie.
Most companies that have begun the perpetual virtue signaling apology crap have lost sight of who spends money on their products. Feminists generally aren't going to buy a Barbie for their kids, fat Barbie or otherwise.
They'll buy Rosie O'Donnell Barbie!
How about Protester Barbie for outside the Barbie Convention?
Gender-confused Barbie?
Most feminists don't have any money, because of their worthless women's studies degrees, amd the overall dearth of professorships to teach said worthless degree. Chicks need to focus on being hotter, giving better head, and being good at cooking my dinner and cleaning up after me.
John C. Randolph
Remember when McDonald's made the best fries in the world? Then, they replaced the beef lard with vegetable oil to suck up to the whiners, and it's been downhill ever since.
-jcr
It is sad. I was in Singapore a little over ten years ago, and the McDonalds I visited was using all the old recipes, including… frying the apple pie. I enjoyed it [the big mac was actually delicious], and was sad to return home to the carboard menu that always has me asking… wtf?
G.I Jane came with her own set of machine guns and sniper rifle does that count.
Mattel has likely experienced a similar mirage McDonalds did in Berkely years back: a group of leftist crusaders pretending to campaign for something, when they have all intentions of never being a customer under any circumstances in the first place.
Business schools really need to start teaching their MBA's about spotting/dealing with false front campaigns, and the dangers of todays bots. It used to be that moving a company by means of disinformation required a small group of letter writers meet/agree on key language components, and then crank out a hundred or so letters each. Today, the mirage is ten times bigger. A dozen people can look like 5,000 in a matter of hours, and CEO's who aren't steeled for that ahead of time put their company at risk with their ignorance. That stands athwart much so called "sensitivity training" but so what? Broaden the toolbox or get bowled over.
I would buy those.
Wolf Larsen
I seem to recall some sort of bionic man knock-off in the 70s with one bionic leg.
We would imagine him running in circles really, really fast.
Ornithorhynchus
That was Mike Power, Atomic Man. Part of the GI Joe line when they were trying to de-emphasize the military aspects and make Joe more of a Doc Savage-type adventurer.
Then they cancelled the whole line and replaced it with a science-fictiony 'Super Joe' for a few years.
Then the '80s came and they brought back GI Joe as a military set, but with much smaller figures.
Imagine his DI:
"Left, Left, Left, Left…"
As long as it's not a *Klaus* Barbie doll, it should be OK.
Or a Claus Von B?low doll. Complete with pill bottles, 30 year old scotch, and insulin injection kit.
OT. Ocala, FL, school shooting.
FFS. An unarmed female teacher detains a gunman until the resource officer comes and arrests him. The officer's COLLEAGUES hail him as a hero.
"Deputy James "Jimmy" Long of the Marion County Sheriff's Office was hailed a hero by his colleagues . . . "
"The 56-year-old then began to speak with Bouche, who was allegedly holding his hands up in surrender. McManis-Panasuk claimed that Bouche said he wanted to be arrested and that he is "mentally ill." When McManis-Panasuk asked if he had shot a gun, he replied yes. When she asked where the gun was fired, Bouche allegedly told her that he "shot a door.""
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018…..-hero.html
"School Mass Shooting in Florida; film at 11"
The officer was the hero, not the unnamed female teacher who detained the perp. Business as usual I see.
"EU Reiterates Demand for U.S. Tariffs Waiver as Clock Ticks Down"
"A top European Union official reiterated the bloc's demand for a permanent exemption from the U.S.'s steel and aluminum tariffs, as a temporary reprieve is set to expire on May 1 and fears mount that escalating trade tensions could threaten the global economy."
https://www.sfgate.com/business/
article/EU-Reiterates-Demand-for
-U-S-Tariffs-Waiver-as-12853949.php
Ken Shultz, on these pages, is making the claim that Trump is using the tariffs as bargaining chips in negotiations regarding other issues. I'm skeptical.
But if Trump uses this to DEMAND that the Euros pay for their own damn defense, I will be convinced.
Hey, it's Saturday night, right?
"Kaepernick accepts rights award, decries 'lawful lynching'"
"AMSTERDAM ? Amnesty International gave former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice that launched a sports movement and might have cost him his job.
Onetime 49ers teammate Eric Reid presented Kaepernick with the award during the ceremony."
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/
article/Kaepernick-accepts-rights
-award-decries-12854258.php
You might think AI would have learned after the fiasco regarding Obo and the award the Danes should be embarrassed about.
But no, and then they get a dim-bulb claiming he's been "lynched" for being an NFL QB impersonator.
Get lost, Kaep. You suck as a player, so you'd have to bring something to the table other than whinging on company time.
Echospinner
Yeah. My inner libertarian says do whatever the hell you want but the whole thing got out of hand. It didn't help the game out and it is not like the ratings are booming.
To continue the rant..why play the national anthem in the first place which should be America the Beautiful anyway. Ray Charles was right it is a better song.
Plus I agree he sucks anyway.
Oh I forgot
Daylight savings time. Stupidest thing ever.
Also can we just go full metric? I work in metric and still live in the old system when I drive. One generation and it is over. The kids will have a much easier time of it next gen.
Prefer a total lack of jingoism; WIH does a football game have to do with the national anthem or anything of the sort.
Get your asses out there, and play the game.
Pretty sure that Brady could kneel whenever he wanted, and wouldn't be unemployed.
He needed 10 seconds in the pocket (Hey, linemen!), receivers to come back to the exact point he threw it *this time*, running backs to make up for the defense knowledge that there was no way he was throwing it on this down.
Kaep's skills were such that he made everyone around him seem to play worse.
It isn't jingoism. It's patriotism to our constitutional republic, which was born in blood, not pace. It also honors all the folks who had to bleed p, suffer and die to make it happen and help us survive as a nation. It's is not and never has been about showing subservience to the federal government, or any current leader.
I find that the pieple who have a hard time understanding never served, and don't understand the value of doing so. They think the military is full of stupid yokels whose sole purpose is whatever foreign afventurre people around here are irked about. They really don't get it.
gormadoc
It was written by a socialist as a way to instill nationalism in students. It was supposed to recall the patriotic fervor of the Union during the civil war. It was made law by Congress in 1942 along with other modern flag-treatment practices. It's definitely jingoism.
Nothing about the pledge is intended to honor the military, past or present. Only the nation.
And, like it or not, pledging allegiance to the Republic is subservience.
colorblindkid
It absolutely is a better song, but it has "God" in it, so it will never ever be the official anthem. Even God Bless America is a better anthem song.
I don't know about that. Jimmy Hendrix never did "America the beautiful" to my knowledge.
And here I was getting ready to order a Dinotrux toy for my grandson. Might confuse him into thinking he will grow up to be a mechanical Stegosaurus. Bad for his self esteem. Who could possibly grow up into something that awesome cool?
Plus it smashes things with its barbed tail. Toxic masculinity right there.
And the show is sexist. There are only two girl dinotrux and they are obviously in a subordinate role.
Yeesh these people need to get a life.
Hey now, when I was 6 years old, I identified as a T-Rex but my dinosaurphobic parents just laughed off my proclaimations as I mauled my plastic brontosaurus. That rejection of my true inner self scarred me for life.
I currently identify as a mixed gallifeyan/kryptonian. As far as I'm concerned, the government owes me a TARDIS, a cycle of 12 regenerations, and yellow sun fueled superhuman powers. Because it's my choice, goddammit.
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Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)
Short version: Gloria Steinem and fellow feminists think having something that approaches perfection as an example is bad, because ….. Poor examples build esteem?
If you are the ugliest person in the room you are still ugly even if you think you aren't. I am often amazed at the number of folks that have no idea of their unattractive appearance. I'm no looker, but maybe playing with my G.I. Joes set a bar.
It dawned on my several years back why all the females in video games had wide hips and big breasts (and why all the males were built). It's a matter of scale. Properly proportioned humans look silly as video game caricatures. A properly proportioned female looks flat. A properly proportioned male looks like dweeb. As the uncanny valley is approached, the exaggerations are reduced.
Same thing with Barbie. The body features are exaggerated because the doll is so small.
Liberty Lover
What about Ken and Skipper? Do they draw feminist ire?
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Bill's Quality Electric, LLC shares electrical safety and shock prevention tips with a special focus on the kitchen and how to avoid electrical hazards.
When it comes to making breakfast on a school morning, we can often find ourselves in a hurry when we're pressed for time before the bus arrives or before leaving to get in line to drop the kiddos off.
But electrical safety in the kitchen is of paramount importance, especially when using electrical appliances such as the toaster or microwave.
Be sure the kids know not to remove toast using a metal piece of cutlery. If something gets stuck, unplug it first! Metal on electrical parts inside can create electrical shock.
When you use the microwave, be sure to only use items that can be contained without electrical issues.
Teaching your kids how to use appliances correctly, especially on those school mornings when they might be in a hurry, can help prevent accidents, and even death by electrical shock.
Plus it gives you the opportunity to connect before the school day begins.
Bill's Quality Electric, LLC wish you an electrically safe day and encourages you to Stay Electrically Safe and Smart!
Bill's Quality Electric, LLC shares electrical safety, shock and fire prevention tips with a special focus on the kitchen and how to keep cooking safe for you and your children. Tips include the importance of GFCI protection, small appliance safety, the importance of smoke alarms when cooking, and other tips to help prevent fires and electrical shock. When you instill safety in the kitchen with your kids, it can help build an awareness they can take with them into your kitchen or anyone else's. Stay Electrically Safe and Smart when cooking!
Special Thanks to SouthEastSun.com and to Electrical Safety Foundation International for the article, Twenty Ways to Cook Up Some Safety at Home.
Electrical Safety: Don't Get Burned!
Bill's Quality Electric, LLC shares electrical safety and burn prevention tips with a special focus on proper usage of things that can cause burns when used incorrectly or unsafely. Tips include proper maintenance of electrical cords, the importance of smoke alarms plus burn care if an accident occurs. Taking action to prevent burns whether electrically based or otherwise can help reduce if not eliminate injury. Awareness is key to maintaining a safe home. Stay Electrically Safe and Smart to help prevent burns!
Special Thanks to Newswise.com, to Loyola University Health System, Loyola Medicine, and Anthony Baldea, MC, Director of Loyola's Burn Center for the article, Loyola Medicine Burn Center Offers Safety Tips for Burn Awareness Week.


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Antoine's Restaurant
713 Saint Louis Street, New Orleans, LA
DEST 03-02-2015
Delicious Destinations
Antoine's is the oldest family-run restaurant in the United States and has been serving up authentic NOLA dishes from the start — none of which are more famous than oysters Rockefeller, which was invented in Antoine's kitchen in 1899.
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DRINK 11-02-2010
Drinking Made Easy
Unlike many grand restaurants, which have only one central dining room, the century-and-a-half-old Antoine's has 15 dining rooms, each of them with their own unique history and charm. Serving up some recipes for some classic cocktails like the Sazerac (a simple 19thcentury drink and possibly America's oldest cocktail), they are known for combining their two loves: alcohol and caffeine, with the Cafe Brulot.
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NORES 02-04-2008
Tony sampled the Oysters Rockefeller, a dish invented at Antoineâ??s, which is the oldest operating restaurant in the United States.
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Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans, LA is an iconic dining experience that has been around since 1840. It has been featured on a variety of TV shows such as Delicious Destinations, Drinking Made Easy, and No Reservations. Antoine's is renowned for its classic Creole dishes and has earned a reputation as one of the best restaurants in the city.