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The Life Balance Lessons of Mary Poppins
I admit that I'm obsessed with balance. My house is filled with balance art, numerous pieces gracing many of the walls. I have an extensive collection of balance knickknacks, journals and whatnots. My balance jewelry includes earrings, necklaces, brackets and pins; multiple variations of each to boot. Being a CPA, balance is a numbers concept ingrained in my being, although life balance not numbers balance has become my true focus. By no means did the balance lessons overshadow the staging, the outstanding performances or Mary Poppins, not only flying across the stage but the space above my head, eighth row center. The balance lessons just seemed to have jumped out at me, resonating in a way that demanded attention. Maybe it was the fact that I'd spent most of the day writing my article "30 Days in the Life of a Balanced CPA after April 15th". My mind was already pretty focused on balance. I was having 30 days of fun, a truly balanced life after a season of work, work and more work. Going to see Mary Poppins was just one more event in my 30 days of post April 15th fun. I hadn't really considered seeing this production until my friend Bev asked if I would join her. She grew up in Manchester, England where Mary Poppins was most assuredly an icon in her childhood. She was so excited that the musical was coming to town. Always one to enjoy a good musical, I happily obliged.
I didn't remember Mary Poppins as series of books. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard were published in 1934, with sequels following in 1935, 1943, and 1952. Maybe I didn't know because I wasn't even born! By the time bracelet knock off alhambra van cleef that additional stories were published in 1975, 1982 and 1988, I was well beyond my childhood years. Reading Mary Poppins would not have been on my agenda.
What I remember is Mary Poppins, the movie. Julie Andrews was Mary and Dick Van Dyke played Bert. I haven't seen the movie probably since I was a child, more years ago than I'd care to count. I was 10 when the movie was first released in 1964. My childhood memories were without question about the magic and mystery of Mary Poppins.
If I've even thought about Mary Poppins since, it probably would have been a reference to the song "Lets' Go Fly a Kite". I have a faint recollection of flying a kite with my nieces and nephews many years ago. I would clearly have indulged the temptation to sing the song for them for it surely would have sparked some giggles and laughter. For as many videos or DVDs that I've watched with the kids countless times over the last 20 years, I don't remember Mary Poppins being one of them. Now Little Mermaid, that one I remember clearly seeing over and over and over!
The movie was an adaptation of the books, the musical, first opening in London in 2004 and then in New York in November 2006 was an adaptation of both. An in the interim, I aged from a 10 year old girl to an almost 55 year old women.
So seeing Mary Poppins now I've lived a live. No longer a doe eyed girl looking to play, I'm a mature adult who is still looking to play. Hmmm, isn't that interesting. The difference now is that my adult life is a complex mix of work and play and friends and family, juggling everything at once. Life at 55 is not life at 10. And so, as an adult I could watch Mary Poppins and filter the same things that I saw as a child through totally different eyes.
This time I saw beyond the magic that Mary Poppins brought to the lives of Jane and Michael Banks. Bert, Mary Poppins friend is a happy go lucky kind of guy. He appears satisfied with his life as a chimney sweep. Bert's biggest ambition seems to be taking his relationship with Mary to another level. But Mary made it quite clear that she was content to be "just friends". Mary's independent spirit was ever present. She was the magical nanny who literally swept into the Banks' household to bring some much needed fun, harmony and a sense of cohesiveness to the family, things that were sorely lacking in their lives.
It was George and Winifred Bank's journeys, together and separately that decidedly tapped into my balance radar. Mrs. Winifred Banks, wife of George, is portrayed differently in the books, the movie and the stage production. In the musical, she's a former actress who is under constant pressure from her husband to become part of his social structure. Winifred is lonely in every role in her life. The nanny handles the kids, the cook takes care of the meals and the butler is there to tend to the rest of the household matters. Not a life that most people can relate to, especially in today's economic climate. Winifred doesn't seem to have any friends, or at least friends that George approves of. As for her marriage, it seems to have lost its luster. George comes home from work and seems to immediately retreat to his study, ignoring both Winifred and the children. The children crave their father's attention but he's blind to the yearning in their voices and in their eyes.
George Bank's moment of humanity comes at work. George works at the Bank in the City of London. He makes a loan decision that put one borrower's integrity and purpose ahead of another sleazy mover and shaker who is out to make a quick buck. Ask any business owner the last time that their bank generously loaned them money on the promise of a good idea and I suspect you'd hear a hearty laugh. George's superiors are van cleef fake bracelets furious with his decision as the shyster's business has taken off exponentially. George cost them profits, his future at the bank is in jeopardy. He's put on leave awaiting a decision from the all male board of directors. During this leave time, George Banks is a lonely pathetic mess, still shutting out his family. He feels sorry for himself and drinks to absolve his woes. Of course it is also during this time that with the help of Mary Poppins he finally sees the error of his ways in respect to his family. George realizes that his family is more important than his job. He may lose his job but he needs his family. And they need him. He finally communicates with his wife, telling her that he knows that he needs to make time for her. Together they need rediscover the good times that they shared when they first met. And of course, he finally makes time to fly a kite with his son Michael, something he's promised to do seemingly forever. As it turns out, the fast buck deal exploded as a fraud, crippling the banks that did commit loan capital. By choosing not to originally make that loan, George has by default, saved the bank. Better yet, the entrepreneur that George did extend the loan to not only repaid it in full but created new employment for the community. George's job is not only safe, he gets a promotion. All is right with the Banks family once again. So right, that Mary Poppins can fly away and help another family that needs her. In Mary Poppins there was a happy ending.
But the truth of the matter is that in real life, everything does not have a happy ending. We don't usually have a Mary Poppins that comes into our lives to help with our children and the rest of our lives. We may not realize that family comes first before it is too late. We may ignore our children, knowingly or unknowingly. We may not have friends to lean on, someone to talk to or someone to help us through our crises. And in today's economic climate, money to pay our mortgages, money to keep our families afloat might just be the overriding center of our existence. Why does it seem that it takes a tragedy before a life lesson is learned? How many times does an illness occur, the warning signs of stress conveniently ignored before we learn to change our lives? If I have to even ask the question, the answer is obvious. I know of friends who in the midst of a prolonged layoff have used their time off to explore new career options, seek new ways to grow. But often this is the exception rather than the rule. Here's a story originally written in 1934 where the life issues of today were copy van cleef and arpels diamond bracelet the same. Have we not learned lessons from one generation to the next in how to better live a life? Or have we all been too busy chasing a dollar, raising our children, growing a business to step back and take stock in what matters.
I went to Mary Poppins for an evening of fun and frolic, a good time with my good friend Bev. I got my money's worth and so much more. As an adult I could enjoy Mary Poppins for all the fun that it was and is and still cull the life lessons from it in a meaningful way. I could recognize that I've made the decisions in my business and personal life that came to George and Winifred later rather than sooner. I don't leave every play with the same sense of life balance lessons. But for whatever reason, on this day at this time at this play, I did. And recognizing those lessons added to the enjoyment in a way that I could not have anticipated. It was a simple reminder that no matter how different our lives are in many ways they are all the same, from one generation to the next.
I admit that I'm obsessed with balance. My house is filled with balance art, numerous pieces gracing many of the walls. I have an extensive collection of balance knickknacks, journals and whatnots. My balance jewelry includes earrings, necklaces, brackets and pins; multiple variations of each to boot. Being a CPA, balance is a numbers concept ingrained in my being, although life balance not numbers balance has become my true focus. By no means did the balance lessons overshadow the staging, the outstanding performances or Mary Poppins, not only flying across the stage but the space above my head, eighth row center. The balance lessons just seemed to have jumped out at me, resonating in a way that demanded attention. Maybe it was the fact that I'd spent most of the day writing my article "30 Days in the Life of a Balanced CPA after April 15th". My mind was already pretty focused on balance. I was having 30 days of fun, a truly balanced life after a season of work, work and more work. Going to see Mary Poppins was just one more event in my 30 days of post April 15th fun. I hadn't really considered seeing this production until my friend Bev asked if I would join her. She grew up in Manchester, England where Mary Poppins was most assuredly an icon in her childhood. She was so excited that the musical was coming to town. Always one to enjoy a good musical, I happily obliged.
I didn't remember Mary Poppins as series of books. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard were published in 1934, with sequels following in 1935, 1943, and 1952. Maybe I didn't know because I wasn't even born! By the time bracelet knock off alhambra van cleef that additional stories were published in 1975, 1982 and 1988, I was well beyond my childhood years. Reading Mary Poppins would not have been on my agenda.
What I remember is Mary Poppins, the movie. Julie Andrews was Mary and Dick Van Dyke played Bert. I haven't seen the movie probably since I was a child, more years ago than I'd care to count. I was 10 when the movie was first released in 1964. My childhood memories were without question about the magic and mystery of Mary Poppins.
If I've even thought about Mary Poppins since, it probably would have been a reference to the song "Lets' Go Fly a Kite". I have a faint recollection of flying a kite with my nieces and nephews many years ago. I would clearly have indulged the temptation to sing the song for them for it surely would have sparked some giggles and laughter. For as many videos or DVDs that I've watched with the kids countless times over the last 20 years, I don't remember Mary Poppins being one of them. Now Little Mermaid, that one I remember clearly seeing over and over and over!
The movie was an adaptation of the books, the musical, first opening in London in 2004 and then in New York in November 2006 was an adaptation of both. An in the interim, I aged from a 10 year old girl to an almost 55 year old women.
So seeing Mary Poppins now I've lived a live. No longer a doe eyed girl looking to play, I'm a mature adult who is still looking to play. Hmmm, isn't that interesting. The difference now is that my adult life is a complex mix of work and play and friends and family, juggling everything at once. Life at 55 is not life at 10. And so, as an adult I could watch Mary Poppins and filter the same things that I saw as a child through totally different eyes.
This time I saw beyond the magic that Mary Poppins brought to the lives of Jane and Michael Banks. Bert, Mary Poppins friend is a happy go lucky kind of guy. He appears satisfied with his life as a chimney sweep. Bert's biggest ambition seems to be taking his relationship with Mary to another level. But Mary made it quite clear that she was content to be "just friends". Mary's independent spirit was ever present. She was the magical nanny who literally swept into the Banks' household to bring some much needed fun, harmony and a sense of cohesiveness to the family, things that were sorely lacking in their lives.
It was George and Winifred Bank's journeys, together and separately that decidedly tapped into my balance radar. Mrs. Winifred Banks, wife of George, is portrayed differently in the books, the movie and the stage production. In the musical, she's a former actress who is under constant pressure from her husband to become part of his social structure. Winifred is lonely in every role in her life. The nanny handles the kids, the cook takes care of the meals and the butler is there to tend to the rest of the household matters. Not a life that most people can relate to, especially in today's economic climate. Winifred doesn't seem to have any friends, or at least friends that George approves of. As for her marriage, it seems to have lost its luster. George comes home from work and seems to immediately retreat to his study, ignoring both Winifred and the children. The children crave their father's attention but he's blind to the yearning in their voices and in their eyes.
George Bank's moment of humanity comes at work. George works at the Bank in the City of London. He makes a loan decision that put one borrower's integrity and purpose ahead of another sleazy mover and shaker who is out to make a quick buck. Ask any business owner the last time that their bank generously loaned them money on the promise of a good idea and I suspect you'd hear a hearty laugh. George's superiors are van cleef fake bracelets furious with his decision as the shyster's business has taken off exponentially. George cost them profits, his future at the bank is in jeopardy. He's put on leave awaiting a decision from the all male board of directors. During this leave time, George Banks is a lonely pathetic mess, still shutting out his family. He feels sorry for himself and drinks to absolve his woes. Of course it is also during this time that with the help of Mary Poppins he finally sees the error of his ways in respect to his family. George realizes that his family is more important than his job. He may lose his job but he needs his family. And they need him. He finally communicates with his wife, telling her that he knows that he needs to make time for her. Together they need rediscover the good times that they shared when they first met. And of course, he finally makes time to fly a kite with his son Michael, something he's promised to do seemingly forever. As it turns out, the fast buck deal exploded as a fraud, crippling the banks that did commit loan capital. By choosing not to originally make that loan, George has by default, saved the bank. Better yet, the entrepreneur that George did extend the loan to not only repaid it in full but created new employment for the community. George's job is not only safe, he gets a promotion. All is right with the Banks family once again. So right, that Mary Poppins can fly away and help another family that needs her. In Mary Poppins there was a happy ending.
But the truth of the matter is that in real life, everything does not have a happy ending. We don't usually have a Mary Poppins that comes into our lives to help with our children and the rest of our lives. We may not realize that family comes first before it is too late. We may ignore our children, knowingly or unknowingly. We may not have friends to lean on, someone to talk to or someone to help us through our crises. And in today's economic climate, money to pay our mortgages, money to keep our families afloat might just be the overriding center of our existence. Why does it seem that it takes a tragedy before a life lesson is learned? How many times does an illness occur, the warning signs of stress conveniently ignored before we learn to change our lives? If I have to even ask the question, the answer is obvious. I know of friends who in the midst of a prolonged layoff have used their time off to explore new career options, seek new ways to grow. But often this is the exception rather than the rule. Here's a story originally written in 1934 where the life issues of today were copy van cleef and arpels diamond bracelet the same. Have we not learned lessons from one generation to the next in how to better live a life? Or have we all been too busy chasing a dollar, raising our children, growing a business to step back and take stock in what matters.
I went to Mary Poppins for an evening of fun and frolic, a good time with my good friend Bev. I got my money's worth and so much more. As an adult I could enjoy Mary Poppins for all the fun that it was and is and still cull the life lessons from it in a meaningful way. I could recognize that I've made the decisions in my business and personal life that came to George and Winifred later rather than sooner. I don't leave every play with the same sense of life balance lessons. But for whatever reason, on this day at this time at this play, I did. And recognizing those lessons added to the enjoyment in a way that I could not have anticipated. It was a simple reminder that no matter how different our lives are in many ways they are all the same, from one generation to the next.
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Listen to the optimists and the great recession sounds like a great opportunity. This is the time for the creative class to brand itself! A day job, they say, is so 20th century as quaint and outdated as tail fins and manual sewing machines.
Thanks to laptops, cheap Internet connections and structural changes in the world economy, we're living in a world of "free agents" "soloists" who are "self branding" and empowered to live flexible and self determining lives full of meaning. We are all citizens of Freelance Nation heirs not to the old school stodgy, gray flannel suit Organization Man but to the coonskin capped pioneers and rugged, self made types who built this country.
Some are losing their houses. Others are copy van cleef bracelet green watching marriages go up in smoke or falling into heavy drinking. Still others are couch jumping for months or years at a time. Or they're veering close to bankruptcy because of the risk of living without medical insurance. Call it the new creative destruction.
Daniel Pink, a former Clinton White House hand, wrote the witty and engaging Bible of the freelance life, Agent Nation. "Today," he wrote in 2002, in a book still cited approvingly by followers, "in good times and bad, at the peak of the boom or the trough of the bust the dice are loaded in favor of the individual. That's why I feel good about the future a future in which more people can assert their independence and guide their economic and personal destiny."
It might be rough at times, Pink concedes. But a wide range of people "will be able to throw off conformity, escape subservience, and live out their true potential." (Much of the rhetoric of this movement resembles the books from the '70s that told Americans that marriage or monogamy was for squares and that they should enter the free spirited world of swinging.)
But life on the ground shows that the free agent life isn't always so exhilarating especially as incomes have fallen by roughly 10 percent since the recession began.
I know who a graphic designer has had to take a pay cut of at least 40 percent over the last 10 years, saysSuzanneRush, a former print designer for Warner Bros. who now freelances for movie studios and magazines around Los Angeles. true across the board motion graphics people as well as print people, staffers as well as freelancers.
In fact, many free agents see themselves not as freewheeling soloists but as permatemps and content serfs.
The free agent reality
Matthew Wake had paid his dues. Post college, he'd worked as short order cook, waited tables, worked construction and clerked in record stores. While he was living in New Orleans, playing guitar in bands, a girlfriend suggested he might try something less financially risky than piling into a van to play small clubs across the South: music journalism.
Wake didn't walk right into a staff job he wrote copy for a bank, freelanced for papers for free, sold ads and sat through three hour town planning meetings, all ways to break in. The paper was owned by Gannett a famously profit driven company. "Every quarter was like a the 13th horror film," he recalls. "'Am I gonna be the guy that Freddie gets?'"
One day in June, he and his colleagues were called into a room and told the paper was eliminating its arts and entertainment staff: The weekly would recycle copy from other papers in the chain. It was one of about 20,000 layoffs at Gannett under former CEO Craig Dubow, who retired last month due to medical issues and left the company with a $37.1 million golden parachute.
"First," Wake says of his life post job, went through my savings the way Jane's Addiction goes through bass players. I hit up tons and tons of publications local, regional, national. What I've observed is that as times get tough, freelance is the first thing they cut." And publications are shrinking. "Spin just went bimonthly. The Rolling Stone I get copy van cleef turquoise bracelet in the mail is about as thin as a brochure. There will be more rats fighting for that same piece of cheese."
Unpleasant as working for Gannett could be, Wake lived in a three bedroom house, buying CDs or heading to bars when he wanted to. Now, he's moved back to his hometown Huntsville, Ala. and has taken a room in the house he grew up in, now owned by his attorney brother. He writes for pay when he can, and lives off what he makes taking care of his 91 year old grandmother. "It gives me something to do so I don't have to go back to waiting tables," he says. "I just turned 40."
It hard not to feel like he's going backward. When Wake had a job, he was able to make some forays into collecting art. "Now I have the same Stones poster I had in college Do I go into PR? Marketing? I go from interviewing Slash to writing copy for a Denny's menu? It's gonna be a weird world for a while."
collapse of culture the Internet cheerleader books as well as the websites of motivational branding coaches who urge creative types to stop working for the Man and seize their destiny turn on rousing tales of the new economy. "There are a few success stories," he says, "that create a false sense of hope." Because Radiohead can offer its record for free, he points out, doesn't mean that bands below the superstar level can. (Similarly, the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs uncorked various rants about the value of mavericks and how you can get it if you try hard enough. Which makes everyone who struggles in a post boom, post bubble economy a loser. Or, as Herman Cain says, people who aren't trying hard enough.)
Today's gig economy is tough even for people accustomed to success. Dana Gioia is one of the leading and for a while, most controversial critics of American literature. He served as a vice president at General Foods, and later as director of the National Endowment for the Arts. "When I quit my job in 1991, I had some tough years," he says. "I reviewed books, I did gigs for the BBC, I gave lectures. When a big piece appeared, people would to invite me to give a speech. If you were willing to take a risk and float between gigs, you could make a living."
Like Gioia or not his criticism has made him enemies in academia and elsewhere no one can say he's lacking in drive or entrepreneurial energy. But in between the '90s and now, a lot has changed. "Electronic entertainment has taken over people's lives," he says. "You see it with lower rates of reading, with people not going to performances it's all down. People not going means it's harder for the artists to make a living; it's very difficult for a jazz musician, for instance, to become well known enough to get gigs. And political support for the arts is down."
For Gioia himself, it's made being a freelance man of letters like his heroes from mid century much tougher. "I don't think that's possible anymore," he says, as writing becomes unpaid volunteer work. "There are fewer gigs." The number of papers with real book or ideas sections is down substantially; serious magazines are half the size they used to be. I quit my job this year, I don think I could have made it as a literary freelancer. The problem isn the decline of the economy, though that doesn help. The problem is the collapse of culture. Stone sculpture of busty women and music, made originally on animal bones, are likely even older; the late scholar Denis Dutton argued in his book Art Instinct van cleef and arpels fake bracelets that creativity was hard wired into the human race during the process of evolution.
So, some of us will always do this. Modern life has allowed specialization that Stone Age man did not enjoy, but it's never been easy to survive as an artist. A few especially those with copious subsidies from parents will strike gold and inspire the next generation to take a chance.
What's changing is the ability for people to make a middle class living in creative fields. Many are forced to go freelance because they are losing their jobs: A new report shows that even well after the official end of the recession, slashed state budgets are making things tougher in the performing arts, with a 16 percent drop in performing arts jobs since last year. That's easily the difference between a viable project and something you just can't afford to do without an inheritance.
And as the New York Times recently observed, the freelance musician has gone the way of the Southern Democrat.
was a good living. But the New York freelance musician a bright thread in the fabric of the city is dying out, wrote Daniel J. Wakin. an age of sampling, digitization and outsourcing, New York's soundtrack and advertising jingle recording industry has essentially collapsed. Broadway jobs are in decline. Dance companies rely increasingly on recorded music. And many freelance orchestras, among the last steady deals, are cutting back on their seasons, sometimes to nothingness. is all coming very soon after a surging discussion about how casual, "no collar" creative class, laptop toting "knowledge workers," self determining "free agents," and so on, would be redefining and reviving American life. Richard Florida vaunted creative class was supposed to be pumping its mojo into American cities. "Rent," he says, "is the basis of everything. For any artist or creator who wants to live with that dynamism of dense urban spaces, he can be saddled with rents so high that they take up 50 percent or more of his income. It's impossible to do things outside the marketplace because you're constantly working to pay rent."
Listen to the optimists and the great recession sounds like a great opportunity. This is the time for the creative class to brand itself! A day job, they say, is so 20th century as quaint and outdated as tail fins and manual sewing machines.
Thanks to laptops, cheap Internet connections and structural changes in the world economy, we're living in a world of "free agents" "soloists" who are "self branding" and empowered to live flexible and self determining lives full of meaning. We are all citizens of Freelance Nation heirs not to the old school stodgy, gray flannel suit Organization Man but to the coonskin capped pioneers and rugged, self made types who built this country.
Some are losing their houses. Others are copy van cleef bracelet green watching marriages go up in smoke or falling into heavy drinking. Still others are couch jumping for months or years at a time. Or they're veering close to bankruptcy because of the risk of living without medical insurance. Call it the new creative destruction.
Daniel Pink, a former Clinton White House hand, wrote the witty and engaging Bible of the freelance life, Agent Nation. "Today," he wrote in 2002, in a book still cited approvingly by followers, "in good times and bad, at the peak of the boom or the trough of the bust the dice are loaded in favor of the individual. That's why I feel good about the future a future in which more people can assert their independence and guide their economic and personal destiny."
It might be rough at times, Pink concedes. But a wide range of people "will be able to throw off conformity, escape subservience, and live out their true potential." (Much of the rhetoric of this movement resembles the books from the '70s that told Americans that marriage or monogamy was for squares and that they should enter the free spirited world of swinging.)
But life on the ground shows that the free agent life isn't always so exhilarating especially as incomes have fallen by roughly 10 percent since the recession began.
I know who a graphic designer has had to take a pay cut of at least 40 percent over the last 10 years, saysSuzanneRush, a former print designer for Warner Bros. who now freelances for movie studios and magazines around Los Angeles. true across the board motion graphics people as well as print people, staffers as well as freelancers.
In fact, many free agents see themselves not as freewheeling soloists but as permatemps and content serfs.
The free agent reality
Matthew Wake had paid his dues. Post college, he'd worked as short order cook, waited tables, worked construction and clerked in record stores. While he was living in New Orleans, playing guitar in bands, a girlfriend suggested he might try something less financially risky than piling into a van to play small clubs across the South: music journalism.
Wake didn't walk right into a staff job he wrote copy for a bank, freelanced for papers for free, sold ads and sat through three hour town planning meetings, all ways to break in. The paper was owned by Gannett a famously profit driven company. "Every quarter was like a the 13th horror film," he recalls. "'Am I gonna be the guy that Freddie gets?'"
One day in June, he and his colleagues were called into a room and told the paper was eliminating its arts and entertainment staff: The weekly would recycle copy from other papers in the chain. It was one of about 20,000 layoffs at Gannett under former CEO Craig Dubow, who retired last month due to medical issues and left the company with a $37.1 million golden parachute.
"First," Wake says of his life post job, went through my savings the way Jane's Addiction goes through bass players. I hit up tons and tons of publications local, regional, national. What I've observed is that as times get tough, freelance is the first thing they cut." And publications are shrinking. "Spin just went bimonthly. The Rolling Stone I get copy van cleef turquoise bracelet in the mail is about as thin as a brochure. There will be more rats fighting for that same piece of cheese."
Unpleasant as working for Gannett could be, Wake lived in a three bedroom house, buying CDs or heading to bars when he wanted to. Now, he's moved back to his hometown Huntsville, Ala. and has taken a room in the house he grew up in, now owned by his attorney brother. He writes for pay when he can, and lives off what he makes taking care of his 91 year old grandmother. "It gives me something to do so I don't have to go back to waiting tables," he says. "I just turned 40."
It hard not to feel like he's going backward. When Wake had a job, he was able to make some forays into collecting art. "Now I have the same Stones poster I had in college Do I go into PR? Marketing? I go from interviewing Slash to writing copy for a Denny's menu? It's gonna be a weird world for a while."
collapse of culture the Internet cheerleader books as well as the websites of motivational branding coaches who urge creative types to stop working for the Man and seize their destiny turn on rousing tales of the new economy. "There are a few success stories," he says, "that create a false sense of hope." Because Radiohead can offer its record for free, he points out, doesn't mean that bands below the superstar level can. (Similarly, the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs uncorked various rants about the value of mavericks and how you can get it if you try hard enough. Which makes everyone who struggles in a post boom, post bubble economy a loser. Or, as Herman Cain says, people who aren't trying hard enough.)
Today's gig economy is tough even for people accustomed to success. Dana Gioia is one of the leading and for a while, most controversial critics of American literature. He served as a vice president at General Foods, and later as director of the National Endowment for the Arts. "When I quit my job in 1991, I had some tough years," he says. "I reviewed books, I did gigs for the BBC, I gave lectures. When a big piece appeared, people would to invite me to give a speech. If you were willing to take a risk and float between gigs, you could make a living."
Like Gioia or not his criticism has made him enemies in academia and elsewhere no one can say he's lacking in drive or entrepreneurial energy. But in between the '90s and now, a lot has changed. "Electronic entertainment has taken over people's lives," he says. "You see it with lower rates of reading, with people not going to performances it's all down. People not going means it's harder for the artists to make a living; it's very difficult for a jazz musician, for instance, to become well known enough to get gigs. And political support for the arts is down."
For Gioia himself, it's made being a freelance man of letters like his heroes from mid century much tougher. "I don't think that's possible anymore," he says, as writing becomes unpaid volunteer work. "There are fewer gigs." The number of papers with real book or ideas sections is down substantially; serious magazines are half the size they used to be. I quit my job this year, I don think I could have made it as a literary freelancer. The problem isn the decline of the economy, though that doesn help. The problem is the collapse of culture. Stone sculpture of busty women and music, made originally on animal bones, are likely even older; the late scholar Denis Dutton argued in his book Art Instinct van cleef and arpels fake bracelets that creativity was hard wired into the human race during the process of evolution.
So, some of us will always do this. Modern life has allowed specialization that Stone Age man did not enjoy, but it's never been easy to survive as an artist. A few especially those with copious subsidies from parents will strike gold and inspire the next generation to take a chance.
What's changing is the ability for people to make a middle class living in creative fields. Many are forced to go freelance because they are losing their jobs: A new report shows that even well after the official end of the recession, slashed state budgets are making things tougher in the performing arts, with a 16 percent drop in performing arts jobs since last year. That's easily the difference between a viable project and something you just can't afford to do without an inheritance.
And as the New York Times recently observed, the freelance musician has gone the way of the Southern Democrat.
was a good living. But the New York freelance musician a bright thread in the fabric of the city is dying out, wrote Daniel J. Wakin. an age of sampling, digitization and outsourcing, New York's soundtrack and advertising jingle recording industry has essentially collapsed. Broadway jobs are in decline. Dance companies rely increasingly on recorded music. And many freelance orchestras, among the last steady deals, are cutting back on their seasons, sometimes to nothingness. is all coming very soon after a surging discussion about how casual, "no collar" creative class, laptop toting "knowledge workers," self determining "free agents," and so on, would be redefining and reviving American life. Richard Florida vaunted creative class was supposed to be pumping its mojo into American cities. "Rent," he says, "is the basis of everything. For any artist or creator who wants to live with that dynamism of dense urban spaces, he can be saddled with rents so high that they take up 50 percent or more of his income. It's impossible to do things outside the marketplace because you're constantly working to pay rent."
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Playmaker Wesley Sneijder is relishing being back in the international fold and helping the Netherlands take fake van cleef pink necklace another step towards World Cup qualification when they host Estonia on Friday.
Photos: Still easy for England despite defensive problem
Sneijder has missed the last four matches through injury and a lack of match fitness but wants to make up for lost time after regaining club form with Galatasaray after being frozen out at Inter Milan over a contract dispute.
The Dutch top Group D with four wins from four, three points ahead of Hungary and Romania who they welcome to Amsterdam on Tuesday.
"It was logical that I did not play for the national team for months as I did not play a match for four months," Sneijder told reporters.
"So it was not strange I was not present just like it isn't strange that I am present now. They should not write me off, I'm not 39."
The Dutch have been going along nicely without Sneijder, drawing with Germany and Italy in friendlies since they crushed Romania 4 1 in Bucharest in October.
Against Italy last month, coach Louis van Gaal fielded one of the youngest ever Dutch teams with an average age of 22 although Adam Maher, impressive in the 1 1 draw with the Italians has made way for Sneijder's return.
"Against Italy and Germany we showed what we are capable off against the bigger teams in the world and this creates expectations," Van Gaal told reporters.
"Now we have to show it against Estonia and Romania."
Van Gaal has warned Dutch fans that Estonia's poor form just one win from their four games and one goal scored did not mean they would be pushovers.
"They are a strong team that chases every ball and always will get a imitation van cleef mini necklace chance to score," he said.
Estonia have a defensive headache with Taavi Rahn ruled out by injury while there are doubts over the fitness of Dmitri Kruglov.
Former captain Raio Piiroja and forward Sergei Zenjov have returned from injury to join the squad.
Coach Tarmo Ruutli said the Dutch held few surprises for his team. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or vca copy necklace similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
Playmaker Wesley Sneijder is relishing being back in the international fold and helping the Netherlands take fake van cleef pink necklace another step towards World Cup qualification when they host Estonia on Friday.
Photos: Still easy for England despite defensive problem
Sneijder has missed the last four matches through injury and a lack of match fitness but wants to make up for lost time after regaining club form with Galatasaray after being frozen out at Inter Milan over a contract dispute.
The Dutch top Group D with four wins from four, three points ahead of Hungary and Romania who they welcome to Amsterdam on Tuesday.
"It was logical that I did not play for the national team for months as I did not play a match for four months," Sneijder told reporters.
"So it was not strange I was not present just like it isn't strange that I am present now. They should not write me off, I'm not 39."
The Dutch have been going along nicely without Sneijder, drawing with Germany and Italy in friendlies since they crushed Romania 4 1 in Bucharest in October.
Against Italy last month, coach Louis van Gaal fielded one of the youngest ever Dutch teams with an average age of 22 although Adam Maher, impressive in the 1 1 draw with the Italians has made way for Sneijder's return.
"Against Italy and Germany we showed what we are capable off against the bigger teams in the world and this creates expectations," Van Gaal told reporters.
"Now we have to show it against Estonia and Romania."
Van Gaal has warned Dutch fans that Estonia's poor form just one win from their four games and one goal scored did not mean they would be pushovers.
"They are a strong team that chases every ball and always will get a imitation van cleef mini necklace chance to score," he said.
Estonia have a defensive headache with Taavi Rahn ruled out by injury while there are doubts over the fitness of Dmitri Kruglov.
Former captain Raio Piiroja and forward Sergei Zenjov have returned from injury to join the squad.
Coach Tarmo Ruutli said the Dutch held few surprises for his team. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or vca copy necklace similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
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Olivier Giroud now has 13 goals from 18 shots on targetArsenal returned to the top four with a handsome victory at Swansea City, consigning Paul Clement to a demoralising defeat in his first Premier League game replica butterfly van cleef necklace in charge of the hosts.
Having initially been frustrated by their opponents, the Gunners led at half time thanks to Olivier Giroud's powerful, close range finish.
Alex Iwobi's strike looped in via a big deflection off Jack Cork to double their advantage, and Kyle Naughton scored a second Swansea own goal when he turned another Iwobi shot into his own net.
Alexis Sanchez completed the rout to lift Arsenal up to third in the table, while Hull's win over imitation van cleef mini alhambra necklace Bournemouth means Swansea return to the bottom of the table.
Despite some encouraging signs early in the game, this was a stark reminder to former Bayern Munich assistant manager Clement of the enormous task he faces to steer the Swans to safety.
By contrast, the ruthless nature of Arsenal's display particularly in an extremely one sided second half will surely give Arsene Wenger renewed hope of mounting a serious title challenge.
Wenger tips Swansea to stay upRelive Arsenal's thrashing of SwanseaReaction from all of Saturday's Premier League matchesArsenal ease their away day bluesThe Gunners' bid for a first title since 2004 had stuttered lately, largely due to an away record of one point from their past three Premier League matches on the road.
Although they started slowly against the high pressing Swans, the visitors settled thanks to a goal from an increasingly reliable source.
Giroud started this game with 12 goals from his past 17 shots on target, and the France striker was clinical with his first effort on this occasion, seizing on Mesut Ozil's blocked header and firing the ball into the roof of the net from six yards.
Arsenal took control from that point and a period of concerted pressure early in the second half saw the floodgates open.
There was an element of luck about the second and third goals, but they were no more than the Gunners deserved for their dominance of possession and inventive use of it around the Swansea penalty area.
The irrepressible Sanchez finally got in on the act after 73 minutes, volleying in from close range to score his 21st goal in 32 Premier League appearances.
Clement's tall orderThere was a certain symmetry to Clement's first league game in charge, coming as it did against an Arsenal side who had beaten Swansea 3 2 at the start of his predecessor copy van cleef pink necklace Bob Bradley's short tenure.
One of Clement's priorities is to improve the Swans' defence the most porous in the top flight and the way his players shackled Arsenal early on with their high pressing was encouraging.
But after falling behind, the home side simply collapsed.
They were slack in their marking and slow to react to the Gunners' movement, summed up by the space in which Sanchez found himself in the Swansea box when he scored the fourth.
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Olivier Giroud now has 13 goals from 18 shots on targetArsenal returned to the top four with a handsome victory at Swansea City, consigning Paul Clement to a demoralising defeat in his first Premier League game replica butterfly van cleef necklace in charge of the hosts.
Having initially been frustrated by their opponents, the Gunners led at half time thanks to Olivier Giroud's powerful, close range finish.
Alex Iwobi's strike looped in via a big deflection off Jack Cork to double their advantage, and Kyle Naughton scored a second Swansea own goal when he turned another Iwobi shot into his own net.
Alexis Sanchez completed the rout to lift Arsenal up to third in the table, while Hull's win over imitation van cleef mini alhambra necklace Bournemouth means Swansea return to the bottom of the table.
Despite some encouraging signs early in the game, this was a stark reminder to former Bayern Munich assistant manager Clement of the enormous task he faces to steer the Swans to safety.
By contrast, the ruthless nature of Arsenal's display particularly in an extremely one sided second half will surely give Arsene Wenger renewed hope of mounting a serious title challenge.
Wenger tips Swansea to stay upRelive Arsenal's thrashing of SwanseaReaction from all of Saturday's Premier League matchesArsenal ease their away day bluesThe Gunners' bid for a first title since 2004 had stuttered lately, largely due to an away record of one point from their past three Premier League matches on the road.
Although they started slowly against the high pressing Swans, the visitors settled thanks to a goal from an increasingly reliable source.
Giroud started this game with 12 goals from his past 17 shots on target, and the France striker was clinical with his first effort on this occasion, seizing on Mesut Ozil's blocked header and firing the ball into the roof of the net from six yards.
Arsenal took control from that point and a period of concerted pressure early in the second half saw the floodgates open.
There was an element of luck about the second and third goals, but they were no more than the Gunners deserved for their dominance of possession and inventive use of it around the Swansea penalty area.
The irrepressible Sanchez finally got in on the act after 73 minutes, volleying in from close range to score his 21st goal in 32 Premier League appearances.
Clement's tall orderThere was a certain symmetry to Clement's first league game in charge, coming as it did against an Arsenal side who had beaten Swansea 3 2 at the start of his predecessor copy van cleef pink necklace Bob Bradley's short tenure.
One of Clement's priorities is to improve the Swans' defence the most porous in the top flight and the way his players shackled Arsenal early on with their high pressing was encouraging.
But after falling behind, the home side simply collapsed.
They were slack in their marking and slow to react to the Gunners' movement, summed up by the space in which Sanchez found himself in the Swansea box when he scored the fourth.
Softball talent Jasmine Davis's turn in the spotlight
Throughout her athletic endeavours, Jasmine Davis has always strived to be her own person.
That is not the simplest of tasks when you carry that particular last name in the Greater Victoria area.
The younger sister to Terrell and Marcus Davis football stars who helped Mount Douglas to three Subway Bowl triple A championships and then a Vanier Cup crown at UBC last year is setting out on her own post secondary career this summer.
The 17 year old Grade 12 student at Lambrick Park's Collegiate Prep Academy will play softball in late August for the University of Jamestown Jimmies in North Dakota, 160 kilometres from the state capital, Bismarck.
"I'm excited. It should fake van cleef fleurette necklace be a really good experience," said the outgoing centre fielder, who carries the Davis characteristics of speed and determination that all three kids picked up from their dad, Alton, a former Victoria Shamrocks star and Mann Cup winner, and his wife, Kerri.
Jasmine, who began playing softball at arpels van cleef necklace replica age six in Central Saanich and for the past two years has represented the Victoria Devils, admits she looks forward to getting out of those shadows and further establishing her own identity.
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"No, really, I'm proud of them, both, and they're doing really well, but I'm happy that I can now go and do my own thing.
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Jasmine has had little trouble doing that, be it in softball, soccer or even track and field.
After four years of learning in the Lambrick Park program, she is more than ready to move on to the next level.
"Everything that Jasmine has accomplished has come from her own hard work," said academy instructor Mike Chewpoy, who is quick to highlight her abilities.
"Speed, agility and strength are the stronger parts of her game, again, some of it inherited, but she continues to maintain and improve on her abilities.
"Her workouts I challenge some people to follow her around in the weight room and when it comes to some of her agility and speed tests, I don't think they can keep up, to be honest," Chewpoy said.
"And she's going to a very good school. We've had a couple of alumni go through Jamestown and we're happy she's going there and keeping that tradition going. You have to be a special type of athlete to go to a program like that."
Jasmine gave full credit to the likes of Chewpoy and particularly academy director Rocky Vitale, for helping her reach the next level. "All the coaches in the academy have helped me a lot, especially Rocky and Chewp. They've made a huge impact," Jasmine said, adding all her minor softball coaches into the mix.
And her parents have been there all the way.
"They're really excited for me," Jasmine said. "Obviously they'll be upset because I am the last one to go, but they're super excited and supportive."
GRID IRON NOTES: Terrell Davis (who successfully moved to defence to play linebacker) and kicker Quinn van Gylswyk had a pro day on Wednesday with NFL and CFL scouts on hand to watch and evaluate them through workouts at UBC. The two, along with RB Marcus Davis, were instrumental in the T Birds' Vanier Cup championship season in 2015.
Throughout her athletic endeavours, Jasmine Davis has always strived to be her own person.
That is not the simplest of tasks when you carry that particular last name in the Greater Victoria area.
The younger sister to Terrell and Marcus Davis football stars who helped Mount Douglas to three Subway Bowl triple A championships and then a Vanier Cup crown at UBC last year is setting out on her own post secondary career this summer.
The 17 year old Grade 12 student at Lambrick Park's Collegiate Prep Academy will play softball in late August for the University of Jamestown Jimmies in North Dakota, 160 kilometres from the state capital, Bismarck.
"I'm excited. It should fake van cleef fleurette necklace be a really good experience," said the outgoing centre fielder, who carries the Davis characteristics of speed and determination that all three kids picked up from their dad, Alton, a former Victoria Shamrocks star and Mann Cup winner, and his wife, Kerri.
Jasmine, who began playing softball at arpels van cleef necklace replica age six in Central Saanich and for the past two years has represented the Victoria Devils, admits she looks forward to getting out of those shadows and further establishing her own identity.
"Being here, everywhere I go it's about my brothers, always. It's usually, 'Oh, you're so and so's sister.' I'm like: 'Yeah,' but sometimes I want to say no, just so I alhambra style necklace imitation don't have to talk to them," she said with a laugh.
"No, really, I'm proud of them, both, and they're doing really well, but I'm happy that I can now go and do my own thing.
"Don't get me wrong, they've encouraged me and just watching them work out and do what they have to do to get better, makes me want to apply myself as well."
Jasmine has had little trouble doing that, be it in softball, soccer or even track and field.
After four years of learning in the Lambrick Park program, she is more than ready to move on to the next level.
"Everything that Jasmine has accomplished has come from her own hard work," said academy instructor Mike Chewpoy, who is quick to highlight her abilities.
"Speed, agility and strength are the stronger parts of her game, again, some of it inherited, but she continues to maintain and improve on her abilities.
"Her workouts I challenge some people to follow her around in the weight room and when it comes to some of her agility and speed tests, I don't think they can keep up, to be honest," Chewpoy said.
"And she's going to a very good school. We've had a couple of alumni go through Jamestown and we're happy she's going there and keeping that tradition going. You have to be a special type of athlete to go to a program like that."
Jasmine gave full credit to the likes of Chewpoy and particularly academy director Rocky Vitale, for helping her reach the next level. "All the coaches in the academy have helped me a lot, especially Rocky and Chewp. They've made a huge impact," Jasmine said, adding all her minor softball coaches into the mix.
And her parents have been there all the way.
"They're really excited for me," Jasmine said. "Obviously they'll be upset because I am the last one to go, but they're super excited and supportive."
GRID IRON NOTES: Terrell Davis (who successfully moved to defence to play linebacker) and kicker Quinn van Gylswyk had a pro day on Wednesday with NFL and CFL scouts on hand to watch and evaluate them through workouts at UBC. The two, along with RB Marcus Davis, were instrumental in the T Birds' Vanier Cup championship season in 2015.
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Tara VanDerveer worthy of Indiana legacy
Conseco Fieldhouse stands as a tribute to Indiana basketball, perhaps the finest of all brands. The step aside for the women's Final Four over the next three days in an arena that, despite its modernized layout, has the feel and intimacy of a traditional gymnasium.
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She got a look at Indiana's women's team at a tournament in 1972, noticing a group of players who had chemistry and an enviable team spirit. She immediately transferred there and became a three year starter at guard, graduating in 1975.
This was before collegiate women's basketball had any type of a national identity, and to say the least, her team was buried under the avalanche of publicity surrounding Knight and such players as Quinn Buckner and Scott May. "We went to the women's Final Four my sophomore year," she said. "We thought that was pretty great, but when we lost in the semifinals, there was a tiny little story in the IU newspaper with the headline, 'Women Lose Again.' "
By her junior year, VanDerveer had become obsessed with the brilliance of Knight's coaching technique. He was a maniac, absolutely, but sharp basketball minds didn't dwell on the tantrums and theatrics. Just as the great became fascinated with Knight's work (with the 1969 Army team), launching a lifetime friendship, VanDerveer viewed Knight strictly as a strategist. She found herself watching his practices daily, without fail, crafting mental notes along the way.
"That was the style I liked," she said. "I was just absorbing it. I knew that someday I wanted to be like that."
Knight, among other things, was all about preparation and there isn't a coach in the country, man or woman, who studies the opposition more intently than VanDerveer. It's no surprise to her that Texas A center is a massive force inside, that guard moves so effectively without the ball, or that the other guard, Sydney Colson, has a knack for acceleration and just blowing past people to the hoop.
"A great backcourt," VanDerveer said. "I've been following them all year long."
VanDerveer recently learned that her coach at Indiana, ("We call her Bumble"), will be in attendance tonight. "I also got an e mail from an old classmate who sent a picture of our team from back then. That's when it hit me, that it's really come full circle, coming back to Indiana like this. It's very exciting copy van cleef fleurette necklace to be back."
There's another team photo to consider, existing only in the mind. Stretch the imagination and there's Wooden, Bird, Knight, the , all the greats of Indiana basketball. Tara VanDerveer doesn't merely belong in that photo. Put her right near the center.
Good news in 3s INDIANAPOLIS Stanford's Tara VanDerveer, Connecticut's and Miami's are co recipients of ' coach of the year award.
It's the first time that an AP honor has been shared in any college sport.
Auriemma has won the award seven times, including three of the past four seasons. It's the first AP honor for VanDerveer and Meier.
"It's hard for me to believe that this is the first one because there's been some unbelievable accomplishments by Stanford and the consistency they've enjoyed over the years," Auriemma said. "If this is her first, this is long overdue."
Conseco Fieldhouse stands as a tribute to Indiana basketball, perhaps the finest of all brands. The step aside for the women's Final Four over the next three days in an arena that, despite its modernized layout, has the feel and intimacy of a traditional gymnasium.
We use the term loosely VanDerveer is an upstate New Yorker who has coached Stanford for 25 seasons but the clover necklace imitation van cleef essence of her coaching genius was formulated as a student at in the mid '70s. If she is elected to the on Monday, as expected, Indiana will claim her as one of its own, joining a list that matches any other state's in the country.
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She got a look at Indiana's women's team at a tournament in 1972, noticing a group of players who had chemistry and an enviable team spirit. She immediately transferred there and became a three year starter at guard, graduating in 1975.
This was before collegiate women's basketball had any type of a national identity, and to say the least, her team was buried under the avalanche of publicity surrounding Knight and such players as Quinn Buckner and Scott May. "We went to the women's Final Four my sophomore year," she said. "We thought that was pretty great, but when we lost in the semifinals, there was a tiny little story in the IU newspaper with the headline, 'Women Lose Again.' "
By her junior year, VanDerveer had become obsessed with the brilliance of Knight's coaching technique. He was a maniac, absolutely, but sharp basketball minds didn't dwell on the tantrums and theatrics. Just as the great became fascinated with Knight's work (with the 1969 Army team), launching a lifetime friendship, VanDerveer viewed Knight strictly as a strategist. She found herself watching his practices daily, without fail, crafting mental notes along the way.
"That was the style I liked," she said. "I was just absorbing it. I knew that someday I wanted to be like that."
Knight, among other things, was all about preparation and there isn't a coach in the country, man or woman, who studies the opposition more intently than VanDerveer. It's no surprise to her that Texas A center is a massive force inside, that guard moves so effectively without the ball, or that the other guard, Sydney Colson, has a knack for acceleration and just blowing past people to the hoop.
"A great backcourt," VanDerveer said. "I've been following them all year long."
VanDerveer recently learned that her coach at Indiana, ("We call her Bumble"), will be in attendance tonight. "I also got an e mail from an old classmate who sent a picture of our team from back then. That's when it hit me, that it's really come full circle, coming back to Indiana like this. It's very exciting copy van cleef fleurette necklace to be back."
There's another team photo to consider, existing only in the mind. Stretch the imagination and there's Wooden, Bird, Knight, the , all the greats of Indiana basketball. Tara VanDerveer doesn't merely belong in that photo. Put her right near the center.
Good news in 3s INDIANAPOLIS Stanford's Tara VanDerveer, Connecticut's and Miami's are co recipients of ' coach of the year award.
It's the first time that an AP honor has been shared in any college sport.
Auriemma has won the award seven times, including three of the past four seasons. It's the first AP honor for VanDerveer and Meier.
"It's hard for me to believe that this is the first one because there's been some unbelievable accomplishments by Stanford and the consistency they've enjoyed over the years," Auriemma said. "If this is her first, this is long overdue."
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Come utilizzare il manuale
Scaricare il Manuale e fornire copie agli studenti per studiare e praticare. Due capitoli per studente).
Nel giorno della sfida, tutti i membri del team collaboreranno per fornire le risposte alle domande, che sono classificate per capitolo. I partecipanti passati hanno diviso il Manuale in modo che ogni membro del team sia responsabile di 2 3 capitoli.
Ogni capitolo (tranne la matematica) avrà delle mani sull'attività. Incoraggiate gli studenti a praticare queste sfide. La sfida progettuale del giorno dell'evento non sarà una di queste attività, ma praticando queste attività aiuterà gli studenti a lavorare sulla loro capacità di comunicazione, creatività e collaborazione.
Gli studenti possono anche testare la loro comprensione e conoscenza utilizzando i quiz online, che saranno resi disponibili a metà febbraio.
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Lorraine Schwartz
Il modello Hilary Rhoda, che attualmente è il volto di Estee Lauder, ha scintillato in un abito di champagne da Jacques Fath accoppiato con sandali 'Verity' strappati di Jimmy Choo. Ha trasportato una frizione Italiana VBH in grafite di pitone spazzolato.
Orecchini, braccialetti e anelli da Erickson Beamon. Ha in stile Mary Alice Stephenson.
Kate Walsh indossava un abito Hugo Boss con scarpe Brian Atwood. La sua frizione era il 'Kara' di Jimmy Choo e gioielli da Broken English. Ha stile di Lia Davis.
La regina Latifah indossava un abito da Georges Chakra con Jimmy Choos. Ha portato una frizione di Daniel Swarovski ei suoi diamanti erano di Lorraine Schwartz. Era stilata da Timothy Snell. I suoi capelli sono stati stilati da Iasia Meerryiweather e il suo trucco è stato da Sam Fine. La regina Latifah è un spokesmodel per i cosmetici Cover Girl.
Mary J. Blige indossava un abito Roberto Cavalli con scarpe Louboutin. Ha portato una borsa di Cole Haan. I suoi gioielli erano di Lorraine Schwartz.
Angelina Jolie sembrava stupefacente in un abito nudo da Versace Ateliers, con accessori Versace. L'abito era chiffon rosa di tè con motivo drappeggiato sopra il bustier. Gioielli è Lorraine Schwartz. Ha portato una Ferragamo frizione di seta Ferragamo da Ferragamo. Stilato da Jen Rade. Brad Pitt si è attaccato con Tom Ford, indossando una tuta da sera con cinghie di sera.
Diane Kruger indossava un chiffon di seta avorio con dettagli ricamati d'argento da Marchesa. Ha portato una frizione Roger Vivier e indossava gioielli di Chanel Couture.
Robin Wright indossava un abito di seta bianco Narciso Rodriguez. Le sue scarpe erano sandali di 'Seduce' di Jimmy Choo. La sua frizione era un argento in argento satinato composto da Sergio Rossi. I gioielli erano di Cartier e lavora con lo stilista Cher Coulter per la festa.
Dita von Teese indossava un abito Christian Dior Haute Couture con borsa e scarpe Louboutin. I suoi orecchini e gli anelli erano di De Grisogono. Dita non lavora con uno stilista per il tappeto rosso.
Michelle Yeoh indossava un altro abito Roberto Cavalli alla prima. (Spero che stia godendo un sacco di 3 champagne pranzo sullo yacht!) Le sue scarpe erano Versace. Il suo orologio è di Audemars Piguet. Michelle è stilata da CK Makeup è stata da Delphine di L 'Oreal e capelli da Terry Millet di L' Oreal.
Shu Qi indossava anche Roberto Cavalli.
La parola glamazon viene in mente vedendo Sharon mostrare le sue gambe in questo abito di Balmain dalla collezione F09. Il suo orologio è dalla collezione Dior Horlogerie. Sharon lavora con lo stilista Kristi Brooks.
Asia Argento indossava questo sexy abito rosso e nero di Armani Prive.
BJ Novak (nella foto alla parte posteriore) indossava Moschino Uomo.
1. TRUST. 2. Erika Christensen al GenArt Fresh Faces della festa di moda, Los Angeles3. Sara Ramirez alla Susan G. Komen Disegni per la cura di Cure, Los Angeles4. Emma Roberts alla festa di apertura di Denim Habit, NYC5. Kerry Washington al Susan G. Komen per la Cure Benefit6. Nikki Reed alla premiata Breaking Dawm, Rome7. Nikki Reed alla photocall di Breaking Dawn, Rome8. Ashley Green all'evento di Twilight fan, Stockholm9. Debby Ryan alla Variety: Potere della giovinezza, Los Angeles 10. Taylor Swift al lancio del profumo Wonderstruck, Los Angeles
Il modello Hilary Rhoda, che attualmente è il volto di Estee Lauder, ha scintillato in un abito di champagne da Jacques Fath accoppiato con sandali 'Verity' strappati di Jimmy Choo. Ha trasportato una frizione Italiana VBH in grafite di pitone spazzolato.
Orecchini, braccialetti e anelli da Erickson Beamon. Ha in stile Mary Alice Stephenson.
Kate Walsh indossava un abito Hugo Boss con scarpe Brian Atwood. La sua frizione era il 'Kara' di Jimmy Choo e gioielli da Broken English. Ha stile di Lia Davis.
La regina Latifah indossava un abito da Georges Chakra con Jimmy Choos. Ha portato una frizione di Daniel Swarovski ei suoi diamanti erano di Lorraine Schwartz. Era stilata da Timothy Snell. I suoi capelli sono stati stilati da Iasia Meerryiweather e il suo trucco è stato da Sam Fine. La regina Latifah è un spokesmodel per i cosmetici Cover Girl.
Mary J. Blige indossava un abito Roberto Cavalli con scarpe Louboutin. Ha portato una borsa di Cole Haan. I suoi gioielli erano di Lorraine Schwartz.
Angelina Jolie sembrava stupefacente in un abito nudo da Versace Ateliers, con accessori Versace. L'abito era chiffon rosa di tè con motivo drappeggiato sopra il bustier. Gioielli è Lorraine Schwartz. Ha portato una Ferragamo frizione di seta Ferragamo da Ferragamo. Stilato da Jen Rade. Brad Pitt si è attaccato con Tom Ford, indossando una tuta da sera con cinghie di sera.
Diane Kruger indossava un chiffon di seta avorio con dettagli ricamati d'argento da Marchesa. Ha portato una frizione Roger Vivier e indossava gioielli di Chanel Couture.
Robin Wright indossava un abito di seta bianco Narciso Rodriguez. Le sue scarpe erano sandali di 'Seduce' di Jimmy Choo. La sua frizione era un argento in argento satinato composto da Sergio Rossi. I gioielli erano di Cartier e lavora con lo stilista Cher Coulter per la festa.
Dita von Teese indossava un abito Christian Dior Haute Couture con borsa e scarpe Louboutin. I suoi orecchini e gli anelli erano di De Grisogono. Dita non lavora con uno stilista per il tappeto rosso.
Michelle Yeoh indossava un altro abito Roberto Cavalli alla prima. (Spero che stia godendo un sacco di 3 champagne pranzo sullo yacht!) Le sue scarpe erano Versace. Il suo orologio è di Audemars Piguet. Michelle è stilata da CK Makeup è stata da Delphine di L 'Oreal e capelli da Terry Millet di L' Oreal.
Shu Qi indossava anche Roberto Cavalli.
La parola glamazon viene in mente vedendo Sharon mostrare le sue gambe in questo abito di Balmain dalla collezione F09. Il suo orologio è dalla collezione Dior Horlogerie. Sharon lavora con lo stilista Kristi Brooks.
Asia Argento indossava questo sexy abito rosso e nero di Armani Prive.
BJ Novak (nella foto alla parte posteriore) indossava Moschino Uomo.
1. TRUST. 2. Erika Christensen al GenArt Fresh Faces della festa di moda, Los Angeles3. Sara Ramirez alla Susan G. Komen Disegni per la cura di Cure, Los Angeles4. Emma Roberts alla festa di apertura di Denim Habit, NYC5. Kerry Washington al Susan G. Komen per la Cure Benefit6. Nikki Reed alla premiata Breaking Dawm, Rome7. Nikki Reed alla photocall di Breaking Dawn, Rome8. Ashley Green all'evento di Twilight fan, Stockholm9. Debby Ryan alla Variety: Potere della giovinezza, Los Angeles 10. Taylor Swift al lancio del profumo Wonderstruck, Los Angeles
Come avere una vita familiare armoniosa
Avere una vita familiare armoniosa è un obiettivo che la maggior parte delle persone aspirano e sono disposte a fare sacrifici. Durante i periodi di stress e difficoltà, le case diventano molto importanti per creare un senso di benessere. Cerchiamo le nostre case a fornire sollievo e riposare in modo che possiamo allontanare le tensioni del mondo esterno. Tuttavia, la creazione di una casa calmante non è facile come sembra, bensì richiede una grande determinazione e un duro lavoro da parte di tutti i detenuti. Tenere le finestre e le tende aperte in modo da vedere spazi aperti, dipingere le pareti con colori di terra calmanti (Marroni, gialli e verdi) mette paesaggi su pareti che offrono prospettive e profondità.
Essere tolleranti verso i vostri cari; Ti metti molto di più dai tuoi amici e colleghi.
Mantenere i canali di comunicazione chiari. I problemi delle famiglie nascono soprattutto a causa della mancanza di comunicazione.
Dare ai tuoi familiari il beneficio del dubbio e dell'udienza del paziente. La pazienza ti servirà bene nella maggior parte dei casi.
Mantenere viva la memoria. Non dimenticare come e perché sei innamorato e le qualità che ti hanno attirato al tuo partner in primo luogo. Queste qualità sono ancora lì, basta aprire gli occhi e vederli.
Fai il tuo lavoro domestico; Pulizia dopo un pasto, aspirazione del tappeto o anche facendo una parte della parte del tuo partner del lavoro va un lungo cammino per mantenere viva le relazioni.
Prendete brevi vacanze insieme, se non potete permettervi di più del fine settimana, fai quello; Anche un pomeriggio fuori, giocare agitando con il vostro partner vale la pena più lavoro in seguito.
Non andare a dormire senza fare una pausa dopo la lotta. Andando a letto con problemi irrisolti significa una notte stressante e una giornata impazzita.
Avere una vita familiare armoniosa è un obiettivo che la maggior parte delle persone aspirano e sono disposte a fare sacrifici. Durante i periodi di stress e difficoltà, le case diventano molto importanti per creare un senso di benessere. Cerchiamo le nostre case a fornire sollievo e riposare in modo che possiamo allontanare le tensioni del mondo esterno. Tuttavia, la creazione di una casa calmante non è facile come sembra, bensì richiede una grande determinazione e un duro lavoro da parte di tutti i detenuti. Tenere le finestre e le tende aperte in modo da vedere spazi aperti, dipingere le pareti con colori di terra calmanti (Marroni, gialli e verdi) mette paesaggi su pareti che offrono prospettive e profondità.
Essere tolleranti verso i vostri cari; Ti metti molto di più dai tuoi amici e colleghi.
Mantenere i canali di comunicazione chiari. I problemi delle famiglie nascono soprattutto a causa della mancanza di comunicazione.
Dare ai tuoi familiari il beneficio del dubbio e dell'udienza del paziente. La pazienza ti servirà bene nella maggior parte dei casi.
Mantenere viva la memoria. Non dimenticare come e perché sei innamorato e le qualità che ti hanno attirato al tuo partner in primo luogo. Queste qualità sono ancora lì, basta aprire gli occhi e vederli.
Fai il tuo lavoro domestico; Pulizia dopo un pasto, aspirazione del tappeto o anche facendo una parte della parte del tuo partner del lavoro va un lungo cammino per mantenere viva le relazioni.
Prendete brevi vacanze insieme, se non potete permettervi di più del fine settimana, fai quello; Anche un pomeriggio fuori, giocare agitando con il vostro partner vale la pena più lavoro in seguito.
Non andare a dormire senza fare una pausa dopo la lotta. Andando a letto con problemi irrisolti significa una notte stressante e una giornata impazzita.