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Current Dancers

Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance, is a New York City based b-girl, dancer and choreographer. As artistic director of Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD) she has presented work at the Apollo Theater, FiraTarrega, Jacob’s Pillow, New York Live Arts, Summerstage, and the Yard, among others. Ephrat has received numerous awards to support her work including a Kevin Spacey Artist of Choice Award, a Mondo Cane! commission from Dixon Place, a Creative Development Residency from Jacob's Pillow and an Extended Life Residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her first evening length work, A Single Ride, received two Bessie nominations in 2012 for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer and Outstanding Sound Design by Marty Beller. Ephrat has worked and collaborated with Doug Elkins, Rennie Harris, Bil Irwin, David Parsons, Gus Solomons Jr and Buddha Stretch, among others. She is on faculty at Wesleyan University and Broadway Dance Center and is a founding member of the all-female house dance collective, MAWU. Ephrat earned her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University in Italian and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she researched the vernacular jazz dance roots of contemporary street and club dances. For more information please visit

Christopher Broughton, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Chris began dancing at the age of 11 and has never looked back. Under the instruction of Paul and Arlene Kennedy at Universal Dance, he became a member of The Kennedy Tap Company, receiving the national NAACP ACT-SO Award twice. He now travels worldwide both as a soloist and with Jason Samuels Smith’s A.C.G.I., Rasta Thomas’ Tap Stars, and Dorrance Dance. Performances include New York City Center’s Cotton Club Parade; Juba! Master’s of Tap & Percussive Dance at the Kennedy Center; and Broadway’s Tony & Astaire award-winning production After Midnight.

Elizabeth Burke (Rehearsal Director/Dancer) is a Chapel Hill, North Carolina native who spent 11 years under the direction of her mentor, Gene Medler, in the acclaimed North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. Burke has been with Dorrance Dance since its inception in 2010. She pursues her own choreographic work, teaches and performs as a soloist on occasion. She is an alumna of the School at Jacob's Pillow and Marymount Manhattan College (BA Political Science, BA Communication Arts, magna cum laude).

Warren Craft is a New York City tap dancer who has trained in ballet with both the American Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet. He has been a member of Brenda Bufalino’s New American Tap Dance Orchestra, Max Pollak’s RumbaTap, and Dorrance Dance. He moves with "bizarre physicality," and "unconventional eloquence." (The New York Times)

Karida Griffith is from Portland, Oregon! Stage: Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel, Radio City Rockettes, Black and Blue (Henry LeTang & Dianne Walker), NY City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, Sinatra (Des MacAnuff & Casey Nicholaw), Spoleto Festival USA, CTFD Gala (Randy Skinner), CREATIONS (Producer), NYC Tap Festival, Jacob’s Pillow. Television: Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Tony Awards, The Today Show. Companies: Dorrance Dance, Cotton Club Sophisticated Ladies, Barbara Duffy & Co, and the Children’s Theatre Company (Board of Directors). Karida loves teaching students of all ages, and is currently on the Tap Faculty at Broadway Dance Center. (

Carson Murphy has had the fortune to travel the world tap dancing and working with incredible artists.  Recent performances include dancing with Dorrance Dance at the acclaimed Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, with the Hip Tap Project in France throughout fall 2013, ‘The Buster Brown Celebration’ with Michela Marino-Lerman at Swing 46 in NYC, ‘Focal Point’ with SoundMovement dance company at the Alvin Aliley Theater in NYC, with Sarah Petronio at the Soul to Sole Tap Festival in Austin, Texas, at  Jacob’s Pillow, the Dancespace series at St. Mark’s Church and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project as a member of Michelle Dorrance’s “Dorrance Dance”, as well as dancing with the phenomenal Sarah Petronio, Leela Petronio and Nicholas Young in Sarah’s “Jazz in Motion”, in Les Ulis, France.
Carson has also performed with and for – Ted Levy, Leela Petronio’s Hip Tap Project, Max Pollak’s “Rumba Tap”, Barbara Duffy and Company, Katherine Kramer, Mable Lee, Michela Marino-Lerman,  Nicholas Young’s SoundMovement, Chloe Arnold’s “Syncopated Ladies”, Tap City, Josh Hilberman, Sarah Savelli, Ayodele Casel, was a part of the original recreation of Harold Cromer’s “Opus One”, toured the U.S. with Broadway’s “42nd Street”, has been seen dancing on Times Square’s JumboTron and has been featured in Dance Spirit Magazine.
Carson is endlessly inspired by these artists and many more, and is eternally grateful to spend her life teaching and dancing.  Carson is the owner and Director of Sound Movement Pilates and Gyrotonic ® in Larchmont, New York.

Claudia Rahardjanoto, born and raised in Berlin, Germany, started dancing professionally at the age of nine at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Named one of “25 To Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2010 and featured on the cover of Dance Teacher Magazine in 2011, Claudia has danced with and learned from Andreas Dänel, Sven Göttlicher, Dianne Walker, Ted Levy, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Michelle Dorrance, Derick K. Grant, Brenda Bufalino, Roxane Butterfly, Andrew Nemr, Barbara Duffy, Jane Goldberg, Jared Grimes, Max Pollak, Michael Minery, the late Harold ‘Stumpy’ Cromer, and the legendary Mable Lee, amongst others. She is grateful to be able to share her passion and love for tap dance through her performances and teaching worldwide.

Leonardo Sandoval has established a reputation in the tap world and beyond for his musicality, and for adding his own Brazilian flavor to tap. Leo co-founded the Cia Carioca de Sapateado in Rio de Janeiro, bringing tap to a wider audience in Brazil. Since moving to New York in 2013, he has performed with Dorrance Dance, as a solo artist, and presented work as a choreographer at venues across the US and abroad.

Byron Tittle has been dancing since the age of 7 in his hometown of New York. Starting with tap and ballet, he soon grew to enjoy the different genres and aesthetics in the entire realm of dance. He began tap dancing with David Rider and then with the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Tap City Youth Ensemble. There, he met Michelle Dorrance and continually took her master classes and workshops. He joined the company in 2014 and has been consistently involved since then. Commercially, he has danced for Janet Jackson and Nicki Minaj but feels most fulfilled on stage with Dorrance Dance.

Matthew “Megawatt” West started dancing at 16 on his church’s dance team in Queens, New York, and with the company On Point Choreography, with whom he learned challenging choreography and mastered different styles within hip hop dance. He has competed in several Bboy competitions, and strives to impart knowledge and wisdom on the next generation of dancers: he has taught at Coney Island’s Shining Angels Studio and at after school programs in Queens. Mega is an avid listener of House music and a dedicated student of House dance, training with the NYC crew MAWU, Conrad Rochester, and James "Cricket" Colter.

Gabe Winns Ortiz, 27, was born and raised in San Diego, CA. He started dancing at the age of 11, and his love for the art form has continued to grow ever since. He has toured worldwide with the critically acclaimed stage show Tap Kids, and since moving to New York City he has worked with various companies, including RumbaTap, Dorrance Dance and Swing FX. He also directs his own group called the Students of Sound, and teaches at the American Tap Dance Foundation. Television credits include America’s Most Talented Kids (2002), America’s Got Talent (2011), and FakeOff (2014).

Nicholas Van Young (Co-Creator ETM: Double Down) is a dancer, musician, choreographer, and a 2014 Bessie Award recipient. He began his professional career at age 16 under Acia Gray and Deidre Strand with Tapestry Dance Company in Austin, TX, eventually rising to principal dancer and resident choreographer. Since moving to New York, he has performed with Manhattan Tap, RumbaTap, Dorrance Dance, “Beat the Donkey,” has toured as a drummer for Darwin Deez, and spent almost a decade performing with STOMP, where he performed the lead role and acted as rehearsal director. Nicholas tours both nationally and internationally teaching and performing at various Tap Festivals, and founded Sound Movement dance company and IFTRA, Institute for The Rhythmic Arts. He is thrilled to have found a home with Dorrance Dance, co-creating and developing ETM: Double Down, and the Guggenheim Rotunda Project, both collaborative efforts with Michelle Dorrance.

Guest Artists

Derick K. Grant (Co-Choreographer/Creator/Soloist, The Blues Project) is a performer, choreographer, director who has an established career that spans over three decades. Under the direction of Tony Award winner, George C. Wolfe, he was an original company member and Dance Captain for Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk at both The Public Theater and on Broadway and starred in the role of ‘da beat for the first National Tour. Mr. Grant created the critically acclaimed show Imagine Tap!; his choreography has been featured on Fox’s hit series So You Think You Can Dance; and he has performed and recorded with Grammy Award winner Dan Zanes. Mr. Grant was the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Upcoming Young Artist and The Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Featured Actor, two Los Angeles Ovation Awards for choreography and Best Ensemble Performance in Noise/Funk, and was most recently recognized for Best Choreography for Imagine Tap!. He is currently a corporate Tap spokesperson for SoDanca and continues to transform and inspire dance communities around the world.

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Co-Choreographer/Creator/Soloist, The Blues Project) is known for setting high standards in the world of Tap Dance. Tap coach to the king of pop Michael Jackson over the course of 11 years, she received a Bessie Award for her featured performance in Jason Samuels Smith & Company at the Joyce, and an Astaire Award for Best Female Performer for her featured performance in Broadway’s After Midnight. She is currently on the board as the Tap Advisor for Dance Magazine and was the official Tap Spokesperson for Capezio being featured in their international advertising campaign. Performances include Tony award winning productions on Broadway such as After MidnightBlack and Blue and Bring In Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk; International Tour of Bring in Da’Noise, Bring in Da’Funk (dance captain/principal dancer/understudy to the lead role)national tour of Wild Woman Blues; and Debbie Allen’s SAMMY (the life and times of Sammy Davis Jr.). She most recently performed as a special guest at NJPAC with Grammy Recording Artist and fellow After Midnight star Fantasia.  Mrs. Sumbry-Edwards was also nominated for Best Actress for the starring role in “The Rise and Fall of Miss Thang” (Lavender House Films) that toured film festivals nationwide. Other notable film credits include “TAP” with Gregory Hines; Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” (Assistant Choreographer/actress); and “The Rodgers and Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty”. Mrs. Sumbry-Edwards’ choreography has been featured in national and international stages as well as in Michael Jackson’s music video “You Rock My World”; and in weekly shows at the world famous Cotton Club in Harlem.

Donovan Dorrance (Music Director, Piano, Myelination Composer) hails from Chapel Hill, NC where he studied piano, guitar, drums, and voice before attending The University of North Carolina for a B.A. in Philosophy. In 2014, Donovan moved to Brooklyn to assist his sister’s company and pursue his passion for music. In addition to composing music with Gregory Richardson for Dorrance Dance, Donovan composes music for film and theatre, collaborating with students from NYU and Columbia.

Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely (The Blues Project band) was founded in 1996. The band has performed at numerous concerts, Festivals and events including Central Park Summerstage NYC, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Clearwater Great Hudson Revival, Afro-punk, and many, many more. The current touring band for Dorrance Dance's The Blues Project includes Fred Cash, Juliette Jones, Shirazette Tinnin, and Adam Widoff. For more information, visit

Aaron Marcellus (Vocals, Myelination Composer), singer, vocal coach, writer, musician, dancer, and actor from Atlanta started in Gospel music and has performed around the world. He has recorded albums and was voted top 24 on American Idol in 2011. After a world tour, Aaron was featured in a Chapstick commercial, NBC’s “Next Caller” and was a cast member of STOMP. Marcellus also hosts a Burlesque show at Duane Park. Most importantly, he founded both Surrender To Love, LLC, a foundation that supports arts programs and seeks to feed the hungry and Adventure Voice, a training program offering vocal classes for groups and individuals.

Gregory Richardson (Bass, Myelination Composer) was born in Tucson, AZ and learned Rhythm and Blues at an early age from a family of musicians where everyone could play at least a little piano and everyone was expected to sing. As a member of the band Darwin Deez, Gregory has performed at many of the world's largest music festivals. In recent years, he’s found a second home with the New York City tap dance community, composing for and/or performing in several Dorrance Dance works, including Myelination, which was commissioned by the Fall for Dance Festival and premiered at New York City Center.

Toshi Reagon (The Blues Project Composer & Music Director) has been described as “a talented, versatile singer, composer, producer and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana— from folk to funk, from blues to rock” by critic/blogger Eva Yaa Asantewaa of InfiniteBody. “She masters each of these genres with vocal strategies that easily spiral and swoop from the expressively sinuous to the hard-charging, a combination of warmth and mischief.” While her expansive career has landed her comfortably in residence at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, and Madison Square Garden, you can just as easily find Reagon turning out a music festival, intimate venue, or local club. Her dance and theater collaborations include work with Urban Bush Women, Jane Comfort and Company, LAVA, and two operas with her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon and Robert Wilson. Reagon has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFTA) award for Music Composition and The Black Lily Music and Film Festival award for Outstanding Performance. She is a National Women’s History Month Honoree and is the 2010 recipient of OutMusic’s Heritage Award. In 2011 she received a Stonewall Honors Award with her partner J. Bob Alotta. Toshi founded the festival Word*Rock*& Sword: A FESTIVAL Celebration of Women’s Lives.(

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Yoga Nidra with Pam Godbois

Cost: 25.00 before Febuary 5th after 30.00. Space is limited sign up today! To reserve your spot and submit payment email

Combine the benefits of the breath, flowing asana and aroma therapy in the form of essential oils with the relaxation of Yoga Nidra and you have a class designed to open and soothe the body and soul.

This class begins with the use of oils and sequences through a Vinyasa style flow (movement with breath) that grows from a gentle flow and builds on itself through the use of Moon salutations, standing and seated poses to open the physical body, and work out the kinks of the day. Once the body is ready, the mind will calm and open.  Coming into a supported and comfortable position the practice finishes with a Yoga Nidra Practice, a guided relaxation, to relax and heal the bodies systems.

Benefits of Practice:Yoga Nidra induces the relaxation response, your body's healing state where revitalization and regeneration occur. Your body knows exactly what to do to attain--and maintain--perfect health and equilibrium, but you need to turn on the healing switch. Yoga Nidra is that healing switch that brings us effortlessly, compassionately, and rapidly out of the fight-or-flight state and into the healing state. This is a gentle and restorative style practice, all levels are welcome and no yoga experience is necessary.

Pam Godbois, RYT 200, came to yoga in 2000 while in graduate school for Social Work after years of chronic back pain. She noticed that her back pain was decreasing and she had found a new home on the mat. Yoga has brought a sense of peace and calm to her body and mind and allowed her to gain perspective on life. As a result, Pam is skilled at encouraging her students to let go of expectations and see what happens.

Pam began teaching Pilates Mat classes in 2007 and has experience offering beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of practice. Pilates led her to the completion of her 200 hour yoga training in Vinyasa with Lynne Beiger and Ame Wren at Back Bay Yoga in Boston. Pam has also completed Yin Yoga training with Josh Summers, Prenatal Yoga training with Bec Conant and is certified to teach children through ChildLight Yoga.

Her goal in teaching is to provide a fun, supportive and safe environment for individuals to grow their practice both on and off the mat. As a teacher, Pam believes in letting go of competition and judgment and accepting who we are today. You will find her group classes and private sessions infused with introspection, reflection and humor to accomplish this. Pam simply loves to teach, whether handstand or butterfly, her passion for sharing the principles and asana of yoga with shine through.

Earlier Event: January 23
David Vendetti Rest & Rejuvenate

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Summer Sounds: Shop Singers

  • Downtown Walla Walla 23 E Main St Walla Walla, WA, 99362 United States (map)

Summer Sounds on the Plaza

Join us in the heart of downtown Walla Walla at First and Main for live music all throughout the summer.  Enjoy a different band every Friday and Saturday — the perfect excuse to join us night after night!  Browne Family Vineyards and Plumb Cellars will have their patios open and wine flowing.  We hope to see you there! The event is presented by The Downtown Walla Walla Foundation.

Questions?  Please contact the Downtown Walla Walla Foundation at 509-529-8755.

Earlier Event: June 23
Presto the Magician
Later Event: June 30
Summer Sounds: Iron Horse


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Skin Grafting

Skin grafting is surgery to cover and repair wounds with a skin graft. A skin graft is a portion of healthy skin that is taken from another area of your body called the donor site. Substitute skin grafts may also be used. These grafts may be artificial or they may come from another person or animal, such as a pig. Substitute skin grafts may be used only as temporary covers when large areas of the skin are damaged. They are replaced with your own skin over time.

The week before your surgery:

  • Write down the correct date, time, and location of your surgery.
  • Arrange for a family member or friend to drive you home after your surgery. Do not drive yourself home.
  • Ask your healthcare provider if you need to stop using aspirin or any other prescribed or over-the-counter medicine before your procedure or surgery.
  • You may need to have blood tests, electrocardiogram (ECG), chest x-ray, and other tests. Ask your healthcare provider for more information about these tests that you may need. Write down the date, time, and location of each test.
  • Your healthcare provider may also need to prepare the wound and donor sites before the surgery. He may need to clean the wound site by removing dead tissue. He may ask you to keep the wound free from germs until your surgery.

The night before your surgery:

  • You may be given medicine to help you sleep.
  • Ask healthcare providers about directions for eating and drinking.

The day of your surgery:

  • Ask your healthcare provider before you take any medicine on the day of your surgery. Bring all the medicines you are taking, including the pill bottles, with you to the hospital.
  • Do not wear tight-fitting clothes on the day of your procedure or surgery.
  • An anesthesiologist may talk to you before your surgery. He may give you medicine called anesthesia to make you sleepy before your procedure or surgery. Anesthesia is given to control pain during surgery. Tell him if you or anyone in your family has had a problem with anesthesia in the past.
  • You or a close family member will be asked to sign a legal document called a consent form. It gives healthcare providers permission to do the procedure or surgery. It also explains the problems that may happen, and your choices. Make sure all your questions are answered before you sign this form.

What will happen:

The pattern of the wound will be drawn over the skin of the donor site with a surgical marking pen. If the skin graft will come from your body, the graft will be taken from the donor site with a surgical knife. A full-thickness graft will be trimmed to match the wound. A split-thickness graft may need to be meshed (cut and stretched) to fit the wound. Once the graft is fitted and placed over the wound, stitches will be used to attach it in place. The donor site will also be closed. Bandages will be placed over the graft and donor sites.

After surgery:

You are taken to a room where your heart and breathing will be monitored. Do not get out of bed until your healthcare provider says it is okay. Bandages will cover the incision wounds to help prevent infection. You may be able to go home after some time passes. If you had general anesthetic, an adult will need to drive you home. Your driver or someone else should stay with you for 24 hours. If you cannot go home, you will be taken to a hospital room.

  • You cannot make it to your appointment on time.
  • You have a fever.
  • You have a skin infection or an infected wound near the area where the surgery will be done.
  • You have questions or concerns about your surgery.

Seek Care Immediately if

  • You have pain, bleeding, or a foul-smelling discharge from your wound.

  • The grafted skin may die, and you may need another graft. The grafted skin may not look or feel the way you expected. The skin may contract (shrink) or change color. Scars may form on the graft and donor sites. You may bleed more than expected or get an infection. Bleeding or infection under the graft may slow or prevent wound healing. You could have trouble breathing or get blood clots.
  • You may have continued pain or swelling after the surgery. Certain diseases or conditions may slow the healing process. Some examples are diabetes, blood vessel problems, and liver, kidney, lung, or heart conditions. Poor nutrition or a weak immune system may also cause problems with healing.

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9 Ways to Survive Sales Downturns

By Alexander Hiam

The goal of marketing is steady growth, but rarely do things happen according to that ideal. Although you never really know the extent of a sales crisis until it happens, you can know how to handle it. The trick is to make rapid changes to preserve your business and nurture anything that continues to experience at least some demand. Here are some tactics you can use to help you navigate the rough waters of a sales downturn:

  • Minimize costs. As soon as you suspect a downturn in your sales, stop agreeing to fixed-cost contracts and see what you can do to renegotiate any existing ones. (In dire situations, simply notify in writing that you’ll have to break the contract.) Then switch to marketing methods that align costs with actual results. Rescaling your marketing budget (and every other budget) promptly is the only way to right-size for survival in a downturn.

  • Broaden your customer base. Having diversity of customers spreads risk and helps keep your growth steadier and more predictable. A business-to-business marketer who sells solely to one industry is vulnerable to that industry’s cycles. Similarly, a business that specializes in one region or type of customer is more vulnerable than a business that spreads the risk across two or three markets. Broaden your scope to increase the diversity of your customer portfolio (just don’t stretch yourself so you’re trying to sell to customers you don’t know anything about).

  • Diversify your product line. Don’t just rely on one bestselling product to carry the weight of your product line (and by extension your company). As soon as you realize that a particular product is succeeding, start investing in the next crop of products to avoid the risk of putting all your eggs in one basket.

  • Approach huge contracts with caution. Securing a big contract to supply products to a giant buyer may seem like you’ve finally “made it,” but tread carefully. Don’t commit to any single contract that would make up more than a quarter of your sales. You can easily be forced out of business, thanks to the price-cutting or supplier-switching behavior of large buyers. Also, keep the investment and cost side of that contract in a separate accounting silo from the rest of your operations so your more profitable lines of business don’t end up subsidizing the contract accidentally.

  • Minimize inventories and supplies. Big inventories — no matter how good the purchase price — expose you to big risks. If you can’t sell your entire inventory in the next few months, you’re probably buying too far in advance. Demand may fall, and then you’re stuck holding a lot of product. Take the more prudent approach and focus on keeping inventories at a modest level and building good supplier relationships so you can restock quickly in response to changing demand. Also, take a look in your supply closets and everywhere for money tied up needlessly. You may be able to negotiate volume discounts with suppliers and have them hold the inventory items you need so weekly or daily pickups can take the place of on-site (and on-your-books) storage.

  • Maximize product turnover. Rapid sales are the secret to high profits in marketing. If you have certain items that sell frequently, focus on marketing those and build your business on the back of their success. If other items rarely sell, weed them out of your product line. Continue adjusting your product offerings — and your pricing, distribution, and promotion — with the goal of increasing the frequency of orders or sales. Keep working toward more frequent sales and faster turnover so your business can be healthy enough to survive the occasional sales downturn.

    Web-based promotions are a great tool for liquidating inventory that has been sitting around for a month or more. Give out appealing deals and discounts just to turn that inventory and then be more cautious about restocking until you’re sure of which items will turn over again quickly and reliably.

  • Replace employees with contractors. Why have a huge payroll when you can farm out the work to subcontractors and suppliers? Converting fixed in-house labor and equipment costs to variable outside costs is the secret to being lean and mean and ready to survive bad times (or grow rapidly when times are good and opportunity presents itself). So take a hard look at your entire operation — not just your marketing — and sub out any functions you possibly can. Also, make sure your contracts are flexible based on your needs and volumes. It’s nice to have long-term employees who you can rely on, and who rely on you, but remember that your first obligation is to keep the doors open, and too many long-term people on payroll often leads to catastrophic failure and widespread layoffs, which is even worse than subcontracting some of the work out or mixing temporary with full-time employees.

  • Eliminate loss centers. Every business has loss centers — product lines, customers, or activities that don’t make a profit. To eliminate loss centers in your marketing program, take a look at the costs and yields of each marketing activity you engage in. Perhaps you support a sales force because that’s traditional in your industry, but, in fact, more of your business now comes from your website. Web orders are far less expensive to generate (that is, they’re more profitable), so consider cutting the sales force back to a bare minimum (or replacing them with independent reps) and boost your web-related spending, which is more variable and therefore easier to adjust to shifting demand.

  • Switch to lower-cost marketing methods. Many marketers rely on just a handful of techniques every year, repeating the basic formula without major modifications. If you’re following last year’s plan, stop and consider whether you can refocus your marketing program by replacing its most-expensive elements. There are always alternative ways of getting your message out, so it pays to experiment until you find less-expensive approaches that are just as effective.


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Benefits of Using an E-Mail Marketing Provider on Your Website

By John Arnold, Michael Becker, Marty Dickinson, Ian Lurie, Elizabeth Marsten

E-Mail Marking Providers (EMPs) allow you to accomplish much more with your e-mail marketing than you otherwise could on your own. Some EMPs even provide various levels of outsourcing for higher prices if you don’t want to do your own e-mail marketing. Here are a few examples of the kinds of benefits that EMPs provide:

  • Give your business a professional look. EMPs can help you create great-looking e-mail communications without programming knowledge. Most EMPs provide templates with consumer-friendly layouts to accommodate any type of message.

    Some EMPs provide template-creation wizards that allow you to control all your own design elements for a low cost, and some EMPs either include professional services to help you with semicustom designs or allow you to completely outsource and customize your template designs. Here are some of the templates that EMPs usually provide:

    • Newsletters

    • Promotions

    • Announcements

    • Press releases

    • Event invitations

    • Greeting cards

    • Business letters

  • Keep your marketing legal. EMPs are required to incorporate current e-mail laws for customers to easily comply. Reputable EMPs take compliance a step further than the basic legal requirements and adhere to more professional standards that reflect consumer preferences. Examples of professional standards include the following:

    • Safe one-click unsubscribe links

    • Privacy statements

    • Physical address added to e-mails

    • Sending from a verified e-mail address

  • Help you with logistics and reporting. EMPs can help you manage the data and feedback associated with executing your e-mail strategy. Here are some examples of ways that EMPs can help you manage your information:

    • Storage and retrieval of subscriber information

    • Reports on deliverability

    • Automated handling of subscribe and unsubscribe requests

    • Tracking information on blocked and bounced e-mails

  • Help with content: EMPs want you to be successful because if your e-mail messages are effective, you’ll likely reward your EMP by being a loyal customer. Many EMPs have resources available that can help you develop your content and use best practices. Examples include

    • Online communities

    • Webinars

    • Tutorials

    • Classroom-style training

    • Consultation

  • Teach you best practices. EMPs can give you valuable information on consumer preferences that would be too expensive or impossible for you to obtain on your own.

    EMPs send a lot of e-mails on behalf of their customers, and they’re good at staying up to date on consumer preferences and professional standards. Some EMPs are willing to share their knowledge to make your e-mails more effective. Some things you might find out include

    • Best times and days to send

    • How to improve your open rates

    • How to avoid spam complaints

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By Martin Yan

Part of Chinese Cooking For Dummies Cheat Sheet

In Chinese cooking (or any other cuisine), you can usually use the kitchen tools you already have. But some Chinese recipes do call for specialized tools, such as a claypot casserole. Other items, like a rice cooker or wok just make cooking easier. If you don’t already have some of the utensils in this list, head to the cooking supply store — which is always a fun trip!

  • A wok that you’ve seasoned

  • A sharp chef’s knife

  • A cutting board that you keep clean

  • A small spice grinder

  • A steamer

  • A strainer

  • Spatulas and ladles

  • A claypot casserole

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Correcting Color Cast with Photoshop Variations

Photoshop can provide magical transformations to images, making them unrecognizable from the original, but sometimes what you really want is simply to make an image look the same as the original — only better. Perhaps the colors are a little too warm, or the shadows a bit inky. Whatever’s wrong with the image, the last thing you want is to change it so much that it looks like it’s been processed more than a freeze-dried floral arrangement. You’d be happy to have everyone admire your image without a clue that you’d made major corrections in Photoshop.

Photoshop’s Variations feature is a variation (so to speak) on the professional photographer’s ring around (a set of color prints, each made with slightly different color balance) or test strip (a single print of an image made so that each section is shown using a different color balance). Both tools let you view several renditions of an image and choose the best one visually by comparing them. You might want to use Variations when you’re unsure about exactly how the color is biased, and would like to compare several versions of an image to see exactly what the color cast is.

Although not as sophisticated as some color correction techniques, the Variations feature has the advantage of being quick and simple, and it doesn’t require a lot of training to use.

Following are the components of the Variations dialog box:

  • In the upper-left corner is a pair of images — the original image and the image as it will appear when the corrections are applied.
  • Below these thumbnails is a set of six variations on the original image, each with a fixed amount of correction applied using (clockwise from upper-left) green, yellow, red, magenta, blue, and cyan. In the center of this ring is the current version of the image.
  • At the right edge of the dialog box is a stack of three thumbnails showing a lighter version of the image (at top), the current version (in the middle), and a darker rendition (at bottom).
  • In the upper-right corner of the dialog box is a control area that includes radio buttons that let you choose shadows, midtones, or highlights for your correction, as well as saturation. Beneath the buttons is a slider that controls whether your correction will be subtle (Fine) or dramatic (Coarse).
  • Four buttons also let you save the corrections you’ve made for use with the same or another photo, load settings you’ve already stored, apply the current corrections (by clicking OK), or forget about the whole thing (by clicking Cancel).


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Broadway Malyan-led team wins international masterplan for new district in Chengdu

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Global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan has won an international competition to design the ‘Chengdu Creative Centre’ – the first phase of a landmark new urban district in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province and a major city in Western China.

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The new high-tech business park and mixed use Centre will form the high-profile gateway to the new district which will be named Tianfu New Town.

Drawing inspiration from the local surroundings, the masterplan will create an integrated web of office, retail and green public spaces focused around a statement 110m central tower.

The development will set the tone for the future growth of Tianfu New Town and create a new benchmark for sustainable development in the region by halving current energy consumption standards.

Jeremy Salmon, Shanghai-based Main Board Director at Broadway Malyan, said: “This international competition win is testament to our growing reputation in China for delivering schemes that have a real sense of place and establish successful and sustainable centres in growing cities.

“Our expert design team will now work in close partnership with the wider project team to realise the client’s vision and demonstrate that well-designed urban development in China can create sustainable and environmentally-conscious places.”

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Broadway Malyan worked in partnership with Shanghai-based designers the East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI) and environmental engineers Cundall to beat five international teams in the competition, which was commissioned by the Chengdu Tiantou Real Estate Development Company Limited.

The team’s close partnership and clear design vision were key factors in the competition win and these are now set to benefit the delivery of the masterplan as the project moves forward.

China’s state council has designated Chengdu as the country’s western centre of logistics, commerce, finance, science and technology, as well as a hub of transportation and communication. It is also an important base for manufacturing and agriculture.

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A previous survey by the World Bank on global investment environments also identified Chengdu as a benchmark city for investment in inland China.

Distinguished by its global reach with 16 studios across world centres, unrivalled diversity with 500+ design experts and distinctive client focus with over 75% income from repeat business, Broadway Malyan creates world-class and fully-integrated cities, places and buildings to unlock lasting value and deliver a ‘return on design’.

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“Persian Palm sex toys don’t have to be hidden but can be part of the decor.”

The Italian company Persian Palm specialises in ceramic toys that are created by hand, which is rather unusual given the level of sophistication industrial mass production has reached these days. But the philosophy of Persian Palm emphasises the personal touch, and the market seems to agree, as could be seen from Persian Palm’s highly successful debut at eroFame 2016. EAN wanted to know which new projects the up-and-coming company from Tuscany has been working on since October, so we interviewed one of the two founders of Persian Palm, Eva Cincar.

EAN first introduced its readers to Persian Palm ceramic toys in September of 2016. I know you were at last year’s eroFame, but what else have you been up to in the meantime? What are the latest developments at Persian Palm?
Eva: After eroFame, we participated at a few fairs in Italy, however, they were not specific fairs for the adult industry; one was a fair for women’s handcraft and another for environmentally sustainable products. Both were very interesting for us, because it was the first time that we presented our brand to Italian customers.

Our products were even displayed at Arte Fiera in Bologna, and also at the design fair in Milan, which was a very satisfying experience for us. We also finished our new website, so now Persian Palm can also be found online. We started a collaboration with different retailers in Italy, Europe, and even in the USA, with different shops that are focussing on artisan and design items.

Eva Cincar
Eva Cincar is one of the founders of Persian Palm

Your ceramic toys are created by hand, which is a rarity in today’s market. How did the international adult industry respond to your products at last year’s eroFame?
Last year at eroFame, we were one of the few producers who offered something different: handmade, artistic sex toys. The visitors of eroFame were very excited, and most everybody whi visited our stand had a reaction like: “Wow! This is really different! Finally, a sex toy that should not be hidden, but can be in plain sight “….exactly what we wanted to hear! Because our goal is to produce something that can be shown without shame, an artistic ornament that also happens to be a perfectly functional sex toy.

Were you approached primarily by retailers, or did you also get in touch with distributors?
Mostly, we are working with retailers, erotic boutiques, and shops that are selling designer items. Obviously, if we can find a distributor who appreciates and understands products such as ours, we would be ready to enter into a collaboration.

Which new products have been added to your product line throughout the past months?
We have introduced some new decorations, but soon, there will also be a new line of Persian Palm sex toys; it will be a baseline collection, a bit simpler, but still in line with the philosophy that we will do not abandon! An artistic product, handmade, a bit simplified in its decorations and packaging, all in order to offer the best Persian Palm sex toys at a lower price.

Would you mind explaining the advantages of using ceramic for sex toys? Why is this material so well-suited for creating dildos, etc.?
So, let’s start from beginning: Ceramic is a material that has been used by humans in everyday life since the dawn of civilization; indeed, its discovery in the neolithic age was the beginning of civilisation as we know it today. This material has been used, with the same intensity, for 12.000 years!

Ceramic is well-suited for creating sex toys because it is a hard material and given the right shape, it helps stimulate the desired points. It is a very safe material; if it falls down, it will not break, unlike sex toys made of glass. It can be warmed up or cooled down for different sensations. The enamels and colours used in the decoration are completely safe for use – as a matter of fact, they are the same used for plates and mugs from which we eat and drink. Enamels make our sex toys completely non-porous, so they are easy to clean.

Basically, it is no different than cleaning your dishes! It is enough to just wash and dry them. Persian Palm sex toys are designed to be both, beautiful decorations that you don’t have to hide, and at the same time perfectly functional sex toy. Last but not least, there is the possibility to personalise the toys. We are able to produce sex toys with customised decorations, a possibility that only ceramic and maybe a handful of other materials allow; we can decorate our toy the way a customer wants, with images, colours, or lettering, and more and more people have been asking for these decorations. They want a truly personal item, and that item happens to be a sex toy!

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An example of how Persian Palm sex toys can be customised to meet customer requests

There is a tangible trend in the adult industry as more and more consumers demand sustainability, resource protection, and eco-friendly production. Are your products in line with this trend?
Absolutely yes. To produce a Persian Palm sex toy, we only use clay, water, fire, and completely safe colours, without heavy metals. Even the current packaging is a box made of recycled cardboard.
The whole production is done in Tuscany, our suppliers are craftsmen and not the big industries. We are happy to involve those artisans who have been doing their job with passion for many years, using their hands and not just machines.

Do you think that hand-made products in general will benefit from this trend? Could this be something like a counter-movement to this world of industrial mass production?
Handmade products surely help the sustainability trend, but I don’t think it’s a counter-movement, it’s just one segment of the whole adult industry. The handmade product is a more personal product than a vibrator made in an industrial way.

Even if the customer buys a Persian Palm sex toy that has a standard, non-custom decoration, this customer still gets a product that is unique, because it is handmade, and it is a product on which artisans worked for hours; a product which reflects its creator’s personal touch, and we can always tell them apart by these little, unique subtleties. It is a much more personal relationship with the customer. When it comes to mass production, it is very likely that no hand ever touched the toy. That is the fundamental difference.

But again, there are two different things. Our competitor is not and will never be the mass manufacturer. We have two roads going in the same direction, but they are and will always be two different roads.

Other than the materials, what else sets your products apart from the competition?
First of all, we the don’t consider the other sex toys producers as competition but more as a resource, because we are on the same path, and surely together we can have more strength to foster our market segment. What sets us apart from other sex toys producers is, first and foremost, that our toys are art objects. Then, there is the fact that we can offer sex toys with individual decorations, and there are not many other materials that allow for this kind of personalisation. Persian Palm sex toys don’t have to be hidden but can be part of the decor.

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The Persian Palm team do not consider hand-made toys a counter-movement to mass production, but rather one of several options within the industry

How are your products positioned in the market? Would you say they’re in the luxury segment? A niche segment maybe?
Our product is a bit of both. It is a luxury product because it is an art object – because we use precious materials for decorations and especially because to produce them, we use the most valuable resource we have, time. But at the same time, it is a niche product because it is not a sex toy for everyone. It is for the consumer who doesn’t look just for a simple sex toy. It is for the consumer who, apart from looking for a functional sex toy, also appreciates the art, the tradition, the history, and the necessary time that went into the creation of this toy.

And who buys your products? Who is the target audience for Persian Palm toys?
Our end-customer, like I told before, is the person who can appreciate the artistic value of our products. Usually, Persian Palm sex toys are not the first sex toy they purchase, but the next step in their evolution of using sex toys.

If we are talking about retailers that carry Persian Palm, we usually work with erotic boutiques which sell specialised pleasure objects, and not just objects from mass production. In the last few months, we have seen an increasing interest in Persian Palm products from retailers who are focussing on general design and art items, not even necessarily sex toys.

What are your plans for the rest of the year?
Our main plan is developing the new line of Persian Palm sex toys I mentioned before, and at the moment, we are working on that. Then, we hope to return to eroFame, a fair that helped us a lot to start our adventure in the world of adult industry.


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Whew-wee…we’ve covered a lot so far and if you’re just jumping in now, then be sure to check out part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of my 9-part interview series with P90X creator, Tony Horton.

Today we’re going to switch gears a little bit and see what advice Tony has for us in terms of diet and  nutrition.

Craig Ballantyne:    Yeah.  It’s such a simple thing that can be so powerful.  And I’m sure that you guys have seen it, like you said, thousands and thousands and thousands of times – amazing stories of people literally cutting their body weight in half.

Tony Horton: You know Dallas Carter lost 160 pounds.  This girl, Julianne, lost 110 pounds. They – in both their stories; junk-food

they didn’t count a calorie;

they just stopped eating junk.

And they stopped eating huge meals.

And they stopped eating before they went to bed.

And the problem with most people is that they have a food addiction, and they’re not willing to admit it.  They have a serious food – they’re addicted to the crap ingredients that is in most food.  And it’s hard to get off.  It’s maybe not as hard as getting off of cigarettes, but it’s really hard.  You know what I mean?

So I tell folks, I say, “Find fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats, and find the spices that make those things taste good.  And find the restaurants that will make the food the way you want it.” I can go into any restaurant, anywhere, and ask for exactly what I want.  I mean, it’s not – I’m not gonna say I’m gonna get the thin crust, whole grain pizza covered in vegetables with no cheese, but I’ll get something close.  I’ll get something close.

And I always tell the waiter – like, people say, “Well, what do you do when you go out?  What do you do when you travel?”  I say, “Put a cooler in the car, plug it in, and then put – you know, PLAN ahead.”  Nutritionists – just like their workouts.

If you wanna have success with your workouts, you have to have a PLAN.  Same thing with food.

You have to have a – if you’re going on a trip and you’re gonna be in a car, and you didn’t pack the – and the night before and put it in your cooler in the car the next morning, then you have not made your PLAN and you have set yourself up for FAILURE.

You’re gonna be starving, and there’s gonna be Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald’s, and Burger King, and Pizza Hut along the way, and you’re gonna make a mistake.  You know?  There are certain rules to success.  I call it the “cycle of success.”

There are certain things that have to be done every day, for you to succeed, for your day to be great.

I’m 51 years old, and ten minutes ago, I was eight, playing catch in my front yard.  I’m 51.  How’d that happen?  The trip is short.  You’d better get your act together.  You know what I mean?  Are you gonna go out like a lot of people, the last 20 years of your life?  And it’s an ugly picture, filled with lack of movement, lots of depression, and too many pills.

Craig Ballantyne:    Those are powerful, powerful points there.  And Tony, you know, seeing you on Facebook and just listening to the last five minutes of conversation there, you’re a true motivator and a very inspirational person.

Now, what is it that – what are some of the things that you have seen in your personal training with clients that has helped people stay motivated?  Obviously just simply knowing to PLAN, planning ahead, keeping it as simple as possible.  What else has really been very successful in helping people that you’ve trained in person and through P90X to stay motivated and stick with the program?

Tony Horton: You know what I learned a long time ago is that – there’s a great article in Time magazine that came out, I don’t know, about five or six years ago.  It was the ten most important trends of the millennium.  And number nine was called “Infotainment.”  And I’m kind of hardwired for that.  I mean, that’s just kind of who I am.  I mean, I was an actor and a comic, and I also loved fitness.

So I could take really dull, hard to swallow stuff and make it more palatable for people through little – like, a lot of my expressions, “Do your best and forget the rest,” “You’re only good at things you do often,” “Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and healthy fats,” you know, “the cycle of success,” “communication,” you know, “meditation” – these are all things that I – that are short and easy to remember and keep you on track.

I mean, I know you have a lot of trainers out there, but the thing is, a lot of trainers and nutritionists and everything – they treat this rocket-sciencestuff like rocket science.

Well, the stuff is hard to swallow as it is; and then we’re gonna make it dry and boring on top of that?  Oh, my God.  You know?  The reason why P90X is successful is because Carl Daikeler, the CEO, and Jon Congdon, our president, said, “Horton, go do your thing.  We’ll tone you down if you get too crazy,” you know?

So I was able to just – I mean, I go on QVC and I just act like a clown.  I mean, I just – you know, why make this stuff – it’s – push-ups are hard.  Pull-ups are hard.  Squats are hard.  Cardio sucks.  You know?

I mean, if we’re gonna make it really important _____ giving all the statistics and the range of motion and the Krebs cycle – shut up.  If your client wants that, and if that’s important, great.  If they wanna count calories, then you’re better to show them how.  But other than that, you’d better get a sense of humor.  Get a sense of humor about it, man.  And give people a break.

A guy – I have a friend of mine; she’s brilliant.  Brilliant.  She does Gyrotonics and Pilates.  But she starts working with me, and she doesn’t cut me a break.  She asks me to do things that I physically can’t do, and she looks at me like I’m crazy.

“You’re a trainer.”  I said, “I’ve never done this move before in my life.  I have a learning curve, thank you very much, so I’d like you to be more patient and have a better sense of humor and show me a modified version.”  And if you’re supposed to be so good – those – you’ve got degrees up the ying yang, but you can’t show me those three things?  So that’s important, I think.

Craig Ballantyne:    That’s awesome stuff.  I mean, aside from just being really interesting and motivational to the people that are listening for the fat loss purpose, the trainers – I hope you really paid attention to what Tony just said there.

It was CAREER-CHANGING advice for you.

If you can be entertaining and break things down into very simple concepts from the very – from slightly complex stuff that nutrition and exercise can be, you will help a lot more people.  And Tony – with 18,000-plus fans on Facebook, on your Facebook fan page, you are certainly helping a lot of people.

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A New Home for Oaktown Jazz Workshops

Khalil Shaheed and company set up shop in Jack London Square.

There is certainly no shortage of shuttered storefronts in Oakland, but as of July 1, the city will be able to boast one less boarded-up building and one more desperately needed community arts center. The former Tony Roma's restaurant, the spacious spot at 55 Washington in Jack London Square has been granted by the Port of Oakland to local jazz trumpeter Khalil Shaheed to house Oaktown Jazz Workshops (OJW), the musical education project he has helmed for the past seventeen years. Both Port Director Omar Benjamin and Mayor Jean Quan strongly encouraged the move.

Now with a permanent place of residence, OJW can expand into summer programming and performances as well as practice sessions without the interruptions typical of after-school hours at the Dimond Recreation Center or Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. Shaheed will also be able to safely store the jazz library, pianos, bass amps, and countless other instruments and equipment OJW has acquired over the years. The building has tentatively been titled Nadine's. The performance stage remains under construction.

Until now, the public centers have sufficed but have tended to limit OJW'S meetings to twice weekly. Anywhere from two to twenty young musicians come to practice with Shaheed in the evenings, jamming and studying, practicing and even recording (the group's third album is in the works for this summer). Kids usually come to OJW after they have begun learning an instrument in school and are ready for a more intensive way to practice and improve.

"We know it's important to nurture passionate young musicians," Shaheed said, "and I think that practicing with full-time musicians makes it real for them." Among the list of full-timers are OJW director of education and stand-up bassist Ravi Abcarian and drummer Jack Dorsey. "The workshops make learning very accessible and jazz definitely helps to keep learning playful, too."

Whatever the workshops do, it is obviously working. So says Oakland City Councilwoman and long-time OJW supporter Desley Brooks. "When you see Khalil's students perform, it's not as though you're watching a bunch of young people at a recital — you're watching professionals," Brooks said. "Not everyone is a performer, but Oaktown gives kids real confidence and presence so that they can play with anyone and really pursue their passion."

What's good for the kids may be good for Oakland. Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, eager to create a safe, fun environment downtown, pointed out how convenient it will be for students to hop on the free B shuttle on Broadway to get to Jack London Square. And if that doesn't lure them, there's always the Ben & Jerry's next door.

At a recent OJW session, thirteen-year-old flautist Maureen Sides explained how the four years that she has been studying with Shaheed and Abcarian are the reason she can understand music theory and jazz music as a whole. Now she regularly listens to KCSM 91.1 and eagerly accompanied her parents to a jazz festival last month. "The workshops help so much because there are lots of older kids around and everyone is teaching each other." Sides said. "If I don't get something right away I feel really comfortable asking for help."

When students head home from OJW, they have practice exercises and jazz reports. Both Shaheed and Abcarian emphasize the importance of jazz history for their students. "We ask them for written reports that they share with the group," Abcarian explained, "and they come back excited. They seem to like it, which is weird!"

Sides said she also gets to meet and play with Oaktown alumni like Ambrose Akinmusire and Kaz George from time to time, which is a bonus. Akinmusire, who released an album on New York's Blue Note label this year, plans to teach and be involved in the development department of OJW when he returns to Oakland.

In light of all the effort put into OJW, Khalil is overjoyed about the new building. "Seventeen years!" he joked. "It's about time!" He also said that it was "just the right time for such a generous gesture from the city to the arts community, considering the current political and economic climate of cutbacks and all that."

Shaheed has been living and breathing jazz music since the Sixties, playing and performing with legends like Buddy Miles and Taj Mahal. His career and his cucumber-cool disposition blur the line between work and play just as much as the workshops do for his students.

To blur that line even further, there's an additional perk to accompany the new location — after-hours jam sessions. Kids just want a place to play. It's as simple as that.

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Usually made of stainless steel, bird spikes can also be found in polycarbonate form. Bird spikes made out of plastic can be less visible than stainless steel if appearance is a concern. Of course, stainless steel bird spikes withstand all sorts of weather, while plastic materials may degrade faster.

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It’s hard to imagine it now but at one point in time according to R&B legend, Freddie Jackson; he was predicted to only have fifteen minutes of fame. Jackson has since gone on to prove his detractors wrong after creating hits for almost three decades ever since his debut in 1985. During HARLEMWEEK’s “A Great Day in Harlem” at U.S. Grant Memorial National Park, Jackson exclusively shared details about his plans to celebrate 30 years in the music business including a possible return to the label where he got his start, Capitol Records.

“I’m telling you this first—I think I will go back to the record label that signed me from the beginning, Capitol Records—to the people who have my catalog,” he revealed. To celebrate his achievements, the Harlemite plans to release a double CD of greatest hits, standards and six new songs, which may include a few duets. Plus he has a cookbook in the works entitled, “Freddie Jackson’s 30 Days to Romance,” full of recipes inspired by his songs. Surpassing his naysayers’ predictions, Jackson is reveling in his success. “I’ll be 55 this year living my life like it’s golden and not letting the bureaucracy of the industry taint me.”

Another R&B veteran that isn’t letting the music business get the best of her is Alyson Williams. Williams was on hand to perform a tribute to legendary radio pioneer, Hal Jackson. After reminiscing about how she got her start in Hal Jackson’s Talented Teens International program she announced her brand new concert series, “Divapalooza.” The concept includes R&B divas of the 1980’s and 1990’s touring together to raise the roof off venues with their vocal power. The tour kicks off August 25th in Flint, Michigan with Williams, Meli’sa Morgan, Miki Howard, Klymaxx and Evelyn “Champagne” King. The project along with plans for a book and reality show demonstrates Williams’ focus on entrepreneurship. “God is changing things in my life and making it possible for me to do what I gotta do. I am concentrating on what I have to do as a business woman,” she says.

Williams went on to give a great performance, which got this year’s four-part, “A Great Day in Harlem” off on the right start. Other events includes the annual International Cultural Showcase; the inspirational New York Gospel Caravan with an international choral salute to Sylvia Woods; the international “Fashion Fusion” fashion showcase and local Harlem Arts Alliance vendors.

The focus was on art, love and community at the 2nd annual House of Spoof Collective Exhibition at THE POINT’s Brickhouse Gallery. This year the collective continued to pay homage to artist, community leader and my brother, Glenn “Spoof” Wright who was tragically murdered in 2009. Exhibiting artist and member of the collective, Alberto Inamgua explained the groups’ commitment to honoring Wright’s legacy. “The future vision is to keep having free shows to give people the chance they don’t normally get to be in a gallery,” he says. “Glenn didn’t judge and he was filled with love and that’s what we try to keep going.”

Sometimes you can find yourself going so fast that you miss out on something. Such was almost the case for those passing by ImageNation’s new Raw Space pop-up art gallery. The building site located at 2031 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. will soon be a cinema house but for now artists such as Tara Mhella are utilizing it to display their works. Mhella creates abstract monotypes inspired by her Southern roots and utilizing found material in the exhibition “Blown Away.” While interacting with the community in Harlem she’s identified a need to educate young viewers on how to process visual art. “It’s great to bring arts into the community but we have to talk to younger generation about what it is like to see art.” Mhella plans to do her part by conducting art classes in Harlem and East New York.

Finally, Lisa Cooper owner of Elisa Contemporary Art believes that emerging artists must also be educated, especially when it comes to creating an identity. For those that are struggling to find their artistic identity and do multiple styles, she advises them to market separate bodies of work. “Maybe tailor your artist statement for each of those bodies of work because if an artist shows 20 different styles that says you haven’t really found your true voice.”

From the voice of a visual artist to that of Freddie Jackson, longevity is about knowing who you are and owning it.

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Michael Sam

On Saturday August 30th, Michael Sam was released by the St. Louis Rams, the team that drafted him in the 7th of 2014 NFL draft.  By all accounts, the emerging LGBT-icon showed up like every other aspiring NFL player — a professional trying to make the team.

Though his dream of making it onto the Rams or another team has been deferred–at least for now– the impact that Michael Sam has had on our country and understanding the relationship between LGBT athletes and sports has just begun.

In September of 2012, I took over as the executive director of the You Can Play Project (YCP), an organization dedicated to ending discrimination, sexism and homophobia in sports through the creation of curriculum, programming, trainings and conversations focused on inclusion and diversity. Since 2012, I’ve been privileged to work closely with the NFL on various projects and initiatives including speaking at the NFL owner’s meeting. One of the primary goals of YCP is to debunk stereotypical and fictitious beliefs about LGBT athletes.

For so long there were a myriad of beliefs about gay athletes and professional sports. Some believed there are no gay players in the NFL. Others expressed sexist attitudes about gay men, likening them to women. Many leaned on the idea that straight identified players would be uncomfortable playing with openly gay teammates.  And the most commonly used argument is that having an openly gay player would distract a team.

Before the St. Louis Rams drafted Michael Sam, the conversations I was having were still seen through a skeptical lens.  Then, the Texas native emerged as this beautiful embodiment of all the messages others and myself have been championing about LGBT athletes; he was talented, confident and a gentleman by all accounts.

Michael Sam arrived with one goal – making an NFL roster. He wasn’t here to be an LGBT activist. Intentionally, he tried to pivot all conversations around his sexuality toward his passion: football.  He understood that his immediate LGBT celebrity status wasn’t going to enhance his chances of making an NFL team and like other aspiring NFL players, he dedicated himself to making the team.

Yet, his mere existence has smashed to pieces the dominant myths about LGBT athletes.  After announcing his sexuality to his Missouri Tigers family, the team excelled and won the South East Conference (SEC) Eastern division championship.  Along the way, Sam won the SEC Defensive Player of the Year award.

After being drafted in the 7th round, Sam kissed his partner on network television for the entire world to see. With one gesture, he eternally connected the LGBT community with the hyper-masculine sport of football. Many always associated hegemonic masculinity in its purest form with this sport. And we all witnessed masculinity being redefined by a football player who is also gay.

While going through organized team activities (OTAs), training camp practices and pre-season games Michael Sam displayed the type of focus and dedication that coaches desire from their players and effectively silenced the conversation that he or other openly gay players would be a distraction.

Though many, included myself, dreamed of watching Michael Sam chase down Cam Newton or sack Colin Kapernick, the significance of this man shouldn’t be lost, even if he never dons an NFL uniform.

Whether a St. Louis Ram or Missouri Tiger, Michael Sam unapologetically showed up in the world as himself and disturbed the stereotypical beliefs about LGBT athletes that so many held onto be true.

It’s going to take everyone to ensure the world respects and embraces LGBT individuals.  Some may exist as vocal leaders. Others as silent eradicators of homophobia and sexism. Regardless of how we show up, we all have a role to play in expanding consciousness and showing the world how to love.

Michael Sam showed up in the world and created a seismic shift in the ways we talk about the relationship between LGBT athletes and sports. Coaches and players like Jeff Fisher and Chris Long are seen as LGBT advocates, along with so many others.  Yet we need more individuals to spark louder conversations around the needs of lesbian, bisexual and transgender athletes where the shifts are happening at a seemingly sluggish pace.  And we must start to have more nuanced conversations around the ways that sexism and misogyny inform our understandings of homophobia and masculinity.

Creating the space for gay athletes like Michael Sam, Jason Collins or Derrick Gordon to thrive in sports is wonderful yet they all exhibit a stereotypical and “acceptable” brand of masculinity. I want all individuals regardless of gender expression and presentation to feel protected and embraced into a sports world that only says, “if you can play – you can play."

Wade A. Davis II is a former NFL-player and Executive Director of the You Can Play Project. Follow him on Twitter: @wade_davis28

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The natural hair business is booming. Our daily hair dish is saturated with talks of kink-smoothing gels, curl-fluffing crèmes and frizz-blasting serums. You’re practically a social leper if you haven’t been to a naturals meet-up group and will automatically receive a vicious side-eye if you dare utter ‘What’s Miss Jessie’s?’ Yes, having natural hair gives you access into the slightly exclusionary world of finger-styling, two-strand twisting, coiling and blow outs. But what about locs?

Seems like our bonded sistas don’t get as much shine because of the style supposedly lacks versatility. With a movement fascinated solely with kinks, curls and waves, locs don’t necessarily give Black women the texture and pattern pass needed to thrive as a natural gal. Requiring less maintenance and stricter ingredients has also given popular prodict lines an easy out to exclude the needs of loc’d women.

Personally, I dig locs. But I’ll admit the thought of trading in my ten-years of curldom for a fixed look is out of the question. Just last week, I swooped, twisted, blew out and coiled my hair on a whim. These days, rocking a natural is centered around being a style chameleon.

Celebs have also done their part in making textured tresses all the rage. Tracee Ellis Ross, Chrisette Michele, Corrine Bailey Rae and Solange are natural royalty in the blogosphere. Though Ledisi's look is essence of the loc’d goddesses, she rarely get as much praise or cutesy “how-to” articles. Starlets most famous for their lovely loc'd tresses like Erykah Badu, Indie Arie, and Goapele chucked the deuces to the style, did this become a sign of a fading trend?

Locs are gorgeous and I highly doubt they’d ever get dumped in a retro category like thick 90’s braids, but are they simply not versatile enough for today's new natural?

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This month, the Eco Kids are on the TOP of the world – the Tibetan plateau!

Up in the dizzying heights, where oxygen is scarce and punishing cold is matched by intense, burning sun, they meet the Himalayan jumping spider (the highest living animal in the world!), the legendary snow leopard, the beastly looking (yet awfully helpful) wild yak and the incredibly rare blue bear. Just how did they learn to survive at such heights?

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On the face of it a 1-0 defeat at Elland Road, a place where Norwich City have won just once in the last 23 years, isn’t the end of the world.

Actually, Saturday’s loss against play-off chasing Leeds wasn’t a bad performance at all.

It was however another toothless display magnified by the fact that it marks a run of nine league games with only one win.

Leeds suffered a similar sticky patch recently and in a nine-week period in the autumn lost six games out of seven. It happens in this league and their surge towards the play-off places since getting themselves out of a rut is proof of how quickly things can change with a run of momentum.

The hope was that City’s momentum would have kick-started with the win against Sheffield Wednesday but in Yorkshire it was the same old story in front of goal. Enough chances created to at least come away with a point, but none taken.

Daniel Farke explained afterwards that the team had changed from zonal to man-marking to thwart the danger from goalscorer Pontus Jansson at set-pieces. Yet it only took one of those for the defence to switch off momentarily, allowing him to angle an acute header into the net to inflict maximum damage.

That highlights the enormity of the pressure City’s lack of goals is heaping onto the back four in particular. Matches in this league are won and lost on such fine margins and Norwich are badly missing a cutting edge after a slide down the table that has piled pressure on the man in the dugout.

Talking of fine margins, eight weeks have passed since that closely fought 1-0 win at Portman Road. Bar the second half against Wednesday, Norwich haven’t been able to recapture that run of form that ended with them getting one over on their old rivals and a place in the top six.

Since then, City have lost six of their nine games and won five points, a downward spiral that has seen them slip to 16th in the table. Ipswich meanwhile have moved from 11th up to 7th, winning half of their 10 games and scoring 17 goals in the process.

Ahead of that derby two months ago many on this side of the border thought the outcome might hinge on the fitness of Nelson Oliveira. As it happened, he didn’t feature and Norwich still won.

Now it may not be the done thing to compare ourselves to our East Anglian rivals, but in Town’s good run of form strikers Martyn Waghorn and Joe Garner have both netted three times each. In contrast, Oliveira has scored once, and that was a penalty. Cameron Jerome on the other hand has barely featured.

That match in October proved there was little between the two sides, and indeed defensively Norwich have conceded 14 goals while Ipswich have let in 15 in that time. What their front players do have though is a killer instinct in front of goal, something which at the moment Norwich’s strikers just do not seem to possess.

It was James Maddison who was guilty of blazing over one of the best chances that fell to him at the weekend, but City can’t rely on a 21-year-old midfielder to dig them out of a hole every time they need a goal.

Coming off the bench, Wes Hoolahan has so often provided the spark to make things happen but at 35 his magic is diminishing. Oliveira simply has to be scoring more goals, whether that is down to the way the midfield feed into him or his own movement Farke has to change something to make him, if not the team without him, more effective.

Norwich are now rooted exactly halfway between the top six and the relegation places, separated from both by 10 points. With festive fixtures against sides all in the bottom half of the table in Brentford, Birmingham, Burton and Millwall the way things go from here, and perhaps Farke’s Carrow Road career, may largely depend on what happens in the next pivotal fortnight.

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