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Jones had a 22-year career as a writer and journalist in Hollywood and was married to Chuck Jones, the animation director of "Looney Tunes" fame, when they moved to Corona del Mar in 1981. Chuck Jones died in 2002.
In recent years, Marian Jones pursued her love of photography, working in color and black and white. "Shoreline Vision" focuses on the seashore, which she says is her "greatest fascination."
"It changes with every tide," she said in a statement, "and yet is the most ancient and abiding source of life."
The exhibit will be on display through October at the Central Library at 1000 Avocado Ave. For more information, call (949) 717-3870.
Parents stopping by Harbor View Elementary School last week, turning in registration forms before the Sept. 7 start of classes, received memos reminding them of district policies regarding parent volunteers.
"We have been out of compliance," the memo said, adding a frowning emoticon.
This year, school officials said, the rules will be strictly enforced, including the requirement that volunteers show proof that they passed a tuberculosis test if they plan to work in the classroom or as field trip chaperones.
Officials with the Newport-Mesa Unified School District are not making a special effort this year, said spokeswoman Laura Boss; rather, she said, officials try every year to encourage schools to make sure their volunteers are following the rules outlined in a September 2008 letter.
That letter states, in part, "The Tuberculosis skin testing for all school classroom volunteers. All volunteers in schools shall be required to have on file with the school, a certificate showing that within the last four years such person has been examined and has been found to be free of communicable tuberculosis."
A volunteer is anyone who works in a classroom once a month or more. Test results will be kept in confidential files in school offices, the letter states.
The TB skin test involves a jab in the forearm that medical staff will re-check for symptoms after 48 to 72 hours, which means if parents plan to volunteer next week on school campuses, they need to get to a doctor's office or clinic soon.
Harbor View Principal Charlene Metoyer said she's been working with teachers and staff to ensure that parents without proper badges are sent to the office this school year, and if they have not complied with the volunteer requirements, they will not be permitted to stay.
"We want to keep our kids safe," she said.
Some volunteers who work with children unsupervised, or who will go on overnight field trips, will be more intensely screened, including having a fingerprint check and screening by the Department of Justice.
After standing outside of a business center in China for six-months, a 27-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture of American pop culture icon Marilyn Monroe was dropped off at Guigang dump site this week, but no one knows why.
The nine-ton statue depicts the actress in her famous "wind-blown skirt" pose from the film The Seven Year Itch. According to NBC, the statue was made by "several Chinese artists over two years," but as Hyperallergic points out, it does bear a striking resemblance to another sculpture titled Forever Marilyn, created in 2011 by Seward Johnson and currently on display at his retrospective in Hamilton, New Jersey.
It is unclear why the replica was made, why it was trashed, or what will happen to it next, but we wouldn't mind scooping it up and installing it outside of the Complex office if no one else will take it.
Shell won almost half of the offshore blocks awarded, especially in the Perdido Foldbelt region near the Texas-Mexico border and Shell's existing developments on the USA side of the Gulf.
"Whale builds on Shell's successful, almost 40-year history in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is particularly special in that it offers a combination of materiality, scope and proximity to existing infrastructure", said Shell's Marc Gerrits, executive vice president of exploration.
The company revealed that now a sidetrack well is being drilled to further evaluate the Ballymore discovery and to start chalking out development options. The Whale discovery "shows how, through exploration, we are sustaining a strong pipeline of discoveries and future projects to sustain this deepwater growth".
Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron is the operator of the Ballymore prospect with a stake of 60%.
Shell was the biggest victor in the bidding round, in which 10 blocks drew no bids.
According to Chevron, Ballymore consolidates its position in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico with the new oil discovery located about 4.8kms from the company's Blind Faith platform.
Drilling operations for the Whale well were completed in June 2017 to a depth of approximately 22,948-feet (measured depth).
The company said it expected global deepwater production to exceed 900,000 boe per day by 2020, from already established areas.
A sidetrack well is now ongoing to confirm the upside potential.
Royal Dutch Shell's Perdido deep water platform is set to begin oil production in early 2010. It also demonstrates all the interest of Total's GoM farm-in agreement with Chevron, where we acquired a 40% interest in Ballymore. The prospect lies in 2,000 m of water and 120 km off Louisiana on four blocks in the Norphlet formation, including Block MC 607 where the discovery was made.
The new reserve is Total's largest discovery in the area.
It's not unusual to decorate the outside of your home for the holidays, but one Nampa man got a little inspiration after Halloween and decided to add a little twist this year.
Alongside the traditional Christmas lights, lawn snowmen and ornaments, Stan Robison created "Gutterman" - a life-size mannequin dressed in winter attire, seemingly hanging on to the gutters for dear life after a mishap hanging Christmas lights. It's a new feature that's definitely catching the attention of his neighbors.
"It's a really funny prank and I wish more people had a sense of humor like they do," their next door neighbor Tony Earll said.
Gutterman is even motion-activated, so as soon as a car turns the corner onto their dead-end street, the mannequin starts struggling.
The neighbors have enjoyed watching drivers halt in front of the home, and leap to the rescue.
"We'll be playing with my little sister in the front room and just watch a car park and open their door and then realize its not a real person," Earll said.
"I did a double take and pumped my brakes and I was like, 'Oh my gosh someone is hanging off over there I've got to go help him!'" one neighbor explained.
At the very least, it's proven to be a good way for the Robinsons to get to know the neighbors, and Stan's mission to lighten up the mood around the holidays is successful so far, even adding a little stress relief to the delivery man.
"The UPS man stopped across the street and got out of his truck and started running up, and I was in the front room and saw him and came out and said, 'hi', and he was laughing and said, 'you got me!'" Stan said.
I love a good burger, but I wouldn’t want to waste the calories on fast food burgers. I prefer independent, standalone spots. Places that use gourmet cheese, potato flour bread, a secret sauce or even lamb meat instead of beef. What makes these places stand out is the fact that their produce is fresh and the meat is soft and grilled well. The cool branding doesn’t hurt either.
My number one, undisputed burger spot for the best, juiciest, simplest, yet most unique burger in town is Meat Me There. If you were to mention this place to your friends, most of them wouldn't know about it. Their burger patty is made with lamb meat, rather than beef, which actually works to its advantage, because it’s super succulent and juicy. They also have a very unique white bread bun, sprinkled with black sesame. Their cheese fries are served with melted gruyere cheese, rather than that plastic stuff that comes out of a pump. It’s the perfect burger and also my favourite one.
When I was in college, I used to always put an onion ring in my cheese burger, Moylo’s signature burger comes with a large Cajun tempura onion ring inside, which made me so happy. Moylo’s specialises in gourmet home-made burgers, fresh ingredients and the soft potato bread is their unique selling point.
The patty is made with 100 per cent wagyu beef, American cheese and a super special sauce and of course a giant onion ring. The venues are small but comfortable and super trendy with wooden details and exposed light bulbs. Have their Moylo’s Burger with a side of parmesan truffle fries.
She Burger started out only taking deliveries via WhatsApp, so you had to be in the know, to enjoy one of their amazing meals. The understated burger delivery service became so popular with its fans that they finally opened an outlet at Dar Al Wasl mall. The delicious burger is the brainchild of Emirati entrepreneur Shaikha Eissa. What’s unique about her burgers, is that she adds shredded potatoes within them, so they make for an interesting flavour and a nice crunchy texture.
If we are being honest, not every burger on the Parker's menu is the greates, but there is one that I go back for time and time again. Their Truffle Burger. It's made with Truffle infused Wagyu striploins, truffle ranch, white cheddar and crispy onions. I get that it's kind of heavy, but this has got to be one of my favourite burgers in Dubai. Try it and you'll see what I mean.
One of the beauties of Bareburger is that the ingredients are mostly all organic, so you can really taste the difference in quality. I have to say though, that their stand out menu item is their vegan burger. I know it may seem a bit strange for people who eat meat to want to try a vegan burger, but it honestly completely changed my view of eating vegan 'meat'. Their vegan burger is called the Beyond Burger, and it's made out of 100 per cent vegan ingredients like beetroot, potato as well as other vegetables, there even some vegan cheese on it! And honestly... I am not even exaggerating, it tastes just like the real thing.
Although this brand is slightly more mainstream, and mostly only located within malls, there is something completely comforting about biting into a burger at Shake Shack. The soft and pillowy bun and the sort of jagged edge burger and that melted cheese gives it a little bit of a messy and homemade feel. The only drawback about Shake Shack is the size of the burger. When something is so good, I tend to always crave more than just one.
Although it doesn’t top the list, I have a little soft spot for CaliBurger. Maybe it’s the surfy laid back vibes that draw me to this place, but they honestly do make a mean Cali double cheese burger. My friend who loves a spicy flavour says their Cali on Fire is fantastic and always a go to. Their French fries used to be those old school thick cut fries that kind of dried out after you left it out for too long, but thieve recently stepped up their game with the introduction of skinny fries that get a little greasy over time: Something I think is very important when devouring burgers.
I love anything that allows you to customise. Blaze is originally a Bahraini homegrown brand that makes these juicy, cheesy burgers in an old school nostaligia kind of way. The ingredients are all are fresh They are insta-famous for the 6Abooga Burger, but I honestly recommend just having a build-your-own exactly the way you like it.
I know it’s another mainstream mall spot, but you cannot deny that their burgers really scratch that burger craving itch. The burger itself isn’t made with those modern potato buns or gourmet cheese. But it’s massive, really filling and cooked well. They also have a tendency to fill the entire brown bag with French fries and you get free unlimited peanuts!
Burger Pit is a quintessentially classic American burger place, located at Dubai’s Last Exit. The venue draws its inspiration from the retro 1950s, but combines an old-fashioned concept with the fast paced life in Dubai. This gourmet food truck’s motto is simple — good quality food, done well. Classic beef burgers are paired perfectly with fries and the classic all-American shakes are there to wash it all down.
The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall and the Kotel HaMa'aravi or Kotel in Hebrew, is the section of the western supporting wall of the Temple Mount, and is considered the sole remnant of the Second Temple following its destruction in 70 C.E.
Located in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Western Wall, built around 19 BCE by Herod the Great, has become the most sacred spot in the Jewish religion. It was returned to Jewish control during the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israeli troops captured the Old City from Jordan. A large plaza in front of the wall where Jews and visitors could congregate and pray was immediately paved.
Over the decades the wall has been visited by millions of tourists and pilgrims and is often on the itinerary of foreign heads of state who visit Israel. One of the customary traditions for visitors to the Western Wall is to place a small written prayer into one of the cracks in the Wall. It is also where many new IDF conscripts pledge their allegiance to the army and to Israel.
The Western Wall's religious and historic importance to the Jewish people combined with its extreme proximity to Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount, primarily the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, has been the trigger for many outbreaks of violence since 1967.
Opinion You Wanted the ultra-Orthodox to Serve in the Army?
"Cosmo wanna go up! Cosmo don't bite, OK? Cosmo don't poop on floor, OK? Cosmo go up! Please? Cosmo wanna be a good bird."
Cosmo is, in her words, "back in cage." She wants out. She'll promise anything to get me to open her cage door.
I open the door, and she pops out. Cosmo is a "good bird," from my perspective, while she perches on top of her cage. She is "good" for about two minutes. Then she climbs off the cage and heads for the telephone cord (the third one I've installed in the last six weeks).
I grab her. She bites me, not hard but deliberately.
Then she looks up and says, "That hurt? Cosmo bad bird. Go back in cage."
I'm not sure that Cosmo ever wants to be a good bird. Cosmo is an African grey parrot.
And she's not bothered a bit when I scold her, when I tell her she's a "bad bird."
To Cosmo, being a good bird means trying to please me. It means being subordinate to me, obeying my wishes, following my rules. It means not being independent. It means not following her natural inclinations. Why should she want to be a good bird?
Subordination to a human is unnatural for Cosmo, or for any animal with the wild still in her.
Here's a big difference between wild animals and domesticated animals - between birds and dogs, for instance. Parrots are still wild animals, though tamable as individuals. Dogs are domesticated animals, produced by artificial selection. Subordination to humans is natural for dogs, or rather for most dogs.
If I say, "Good dog!" to Mary, an American Eskimo dog whose talent I've yet to discover, she wags her tail. She delights in my approval. If I say, "Bad dog!" she hides under the bed. She's ashamed.
We tend to call individuals "good" or "bad" according to how obedient they are to our rules. We say they're "good" if they do what we ask of them, "bad" if they don't. We expect them to try to be good.
But some don't care. Can you imagine telling a squirrel "Bad squirrel" and motivating him to get off our bird feeder? Or telling a hawk "Bad hawk" and shaming her into releasing the cute little chipmunk she was planning to take to her nestlings for dinner? Or telling a bear "Bad grizzly!" and embarrassing him into releasing you and your gun?
Unless we're shouting at the top of our lungs, we're unlikely to influence these wild animals by a reprimand. They are doing what comes naturally to them. Why would they limit their freedom to please us humans?
I doubt that pleasing a foreign power comes naturally to anybody - other than our dearly beloved dogs.
I've mentioned before how often Cosmo says "No" to my requests, suggestions and invitations. In fact, she'll ask "Betty Jean wanna kiss?" and when I'm just about to put my lips to her beak, she'll say, "No," back away and laugh. She decides when to kiss, not I, though she sometimes chooses to grant my request for a kiss. After all, I'm her significant other, her friend, her caregiver. We're bonded.
Nonetheless, Cosmo is often a "good bird" not because I ask her, but because she wants to. And I do almost all she asks of me because I want to.
Cosmo must see an advantage for herself in our togetherness. That is probably the only reason she sometimes, if rarely, obeys.
Cosmo has very admirably made a fine life for herself confined in my house with my dogs and me. She has figured out how to have fun in an environment that her wild grandparents in Africa could not have imagined and would not have survived.
As her human, I control her time in the cage, but I don't control her spirit.
• Betty Jean Craige is professor emerita of comparative literature at the University of Georgia and the author of many books. Her email is bettyjean@cosmotalks.com.
Marketers took to social media in droves in 2015 to reach the coveted millennial generation, but the wave of interest made it harder to stand out from the pack. These 11 social media success stories are buzzworthy examples of campaigns that effectively achieved their goals and bolstered brands.
Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest are still the go-to social media channels for the majority of digital marketers, but in the past year or two, many brands turned to younger social networks to experiment with edgy, funny and, some say, more interesting campaigns. Companies such as GoPro, Nordstrom and Spotify made big impressions on Instagram, while some unlikely names — Hillary Clinton and Taco Bell, for example — gained followers on popular "disappearing video" service Snapchat.
We asked social media experts to weigh in on their favorite social marketing posts or campaigns from the past year. The following examples — including a skateboarding feline— show what's possible when brands use Instagram, Vine, Periscope, or Snapchat to creatively engage their audiences.
Adventure camera maker GoPro had a marketing hit earlier this year with its Instagram video of a skateboarding cat from Australia.
"Content that captures cute animals engaged in human activity is a surefire way to generate social buzz," says Lux Narayan, CEO of social media intelligence platform Unmetric. "In this case, the authentic nature of a consumer-generated video, coupled with the Web's obsession with cats aloofly doing funny things, was the perfect recipe for a viral video." The video earned the highest engagement score on Unmetric's platform of all GoPro's 2015 Instagram posts (as of Sept. 23), according to Narayan. The sidewalk surfing cat also received more than 250,000 "likes" on Instagram.
Travel site Expedia ran an Instagram campaign that offered a chance to win a trip to South America, and it also earned a high engagement score (999) on Unmetric's platform, according to Narayan. "Pictures of exotic travel destinations do well because they stir up our innate sense of adventure and excitement of exploring new places," Narayan says. "Contests generally drive high engagement on social, and here, layering on a chance to win a trip by commenting, contributed to this post's success." An associated photo of Rio de Janeiro at night, for example, had 499 likes and 463 comments on Instagram as of late September.
Ecommerce vendor TOMS Shoes launched in 2006 with the goal of donating one pair of shoes to needy children for every pair sold. In May 2015, TOMS took its philanthropic efforts to Instagram. Whenever someone posted an Instagram photo of their bare feet using the hashtag #withoutshoes, TOMS donated a pair of shoes.
The campaign "really demonstrated the company's commitment to its cause," says Lily Croll, senior social strategist, Wire Stone. TOMS also "cleverly piggybacked on a common Instagram trend, where users post photos of themselves looking down … at their bare feet." The campaign, which resulted in the donation of 296,243 pairs of shoes, shows the importance of "putting your money where your mouth is" and "not overthinking" your social media efforts, according to Croll.
specific demographic on a platform they're using the most," says Elizabeth Ninivaggi, social media manager, Main Path Marketing.
Taco Bell creatively launched new menu items and contests by uploading "snaps" to its Snapchat story feed, which has over 200,000 followers. Taco Bell uses Snapchat for everything from "short-form video stories from the MTV Movie Awards red carpet" to "fun quizzes like 'What Taco Bell Menu Item Are You?,'" according to Digiday. The company also earned kudos for its "playful, funny and interactive" Valentine's Day campaign.
Lowe's six-second DIY Vine videos, aptly named "Fix in Six" (#lowesfixinsix), have been a hit since shortly after the Twitter-owned Vine video platform launched in January 2013. (Several social media experts cited the campaign as a favorite.) Thanks to the continuing series, Lowe's has 33,000 Vine followers and more than 44 million "loops," or views.
"Lowes does a great job capturing the spirit of Vine in its videos," says Jenn Deering Davis, cofounder and editor in chief, Union Metrics. "They're cute, concise and just the right amount of fun."
"While Vine appeals to a younger demographic, Lowe's was able to position its brand to lure a younger audience they may not have reached before," thanks to its innovative videos, according to Main Path Marketing's Ninivaggi.
"Our biggest sale of the year deserves a really big @instagram post!," wrote upscale retailer Nordstrom last summer. The company created a 13,398-square-foot art installation on the roof of its Seattle flagship store, which included a 25-foot-long dress, according to AdWeek. And the related video post indeed turned out to be "big," with more than 16,000 likes.
"Nordstrom hit all the right marks" with the 15-second Instagram video, according to Selina Petosa, chief creative strategist, Rational Interaction. The video "starts off as cool" but turns "pretty mind-blowing at the end, when you realize that Nordstrom converted the top of its building to announce the annual sale, demonstrating the size and scope of the sale and building buzz among shoppers." In other words, she says, Nordstrom wasn't afraid to go big, and the effort paid off.
For the 2015 Golden Globes, beauty brand L'Oreal Paris set up "an elaborate digital hub" in a New York studio, complete with models and "eight style influencers," according to AdWeek. The team shot video clips to recreate makeup looks inspired by celebrities as they walked the red carpet. And the clips were then transformed into animated GIFs that the team shared on its Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter feeds, along with an ecommerce link to "shop the looks."
The GIFs were "beautiful, high-quality moving images, perfect for Tumblr and Instagram's audiences," says Deering Davis of Union Metrics. L'Oreal's efforts were an example of brands that "aren't afraid to experiment" on newer social channels, offering fresh content "unlike anything the audience has seen before."
Spotify recently launched an online tool that scans its users' music histories and informs them if they were early listeners of artists who later became mainstream. The company took to Instagram to promote the new tool, using the hashtag #foundthemfirst.
The campaign was successful because Spotify "didn't overthink it," according to Trisha Antonsen, editor in chief of on-demand alcohol delivery service Drizly. "Spotify is about connecting fans to the music and giving consumers a behind-the-scenes look into that world," Antonsen says. "They leveraged the platform perfectly and I'm excited to see how they continue to evolve their strategy." Spotify's campaign also highlights the company's timely decision (and ability) to put its user data to use for marketing.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) isn't generally known for its social media prowess, but the company's #bendtherules Vine videos, designed to showcase the HP Pavilion x360 convertible laptop, was among the best social media campaigns of the year, according to Nathan Engels, senior engagement strategist at Northlich. "HP was smart," he says. "Instead of just buying social ads, they worked with paid social influencers on Vine. They let people like Marcus Johns, Robby Ayala and others have the product to raise awareness about it" in a funny campaign that was "absolutely fantastic."
One HP Vine video in particular, featuring Ayala (one of the most-followed "Viners") trying to bend a competitor's laptop with comic results, earned nearly 250,000 likes and more than 7,000 comments.
Critics sometimes call Hillary Clinton chilly, calculating and too controlled, but the Clinton campaign took steps to overcome these negative perceptions using Snapchat this summer, according to Andy White, director of social business strategy, Sprout Social. And it worked, he says. "Hillary's Snapchat stories succeed brilliantly because they humanize her character and her brand better than 100 stump speeches ever could," White says.
Given the Democratic presidential contender's history, Clinton unsurprisingly stirred up controversy on Snapchat when she joked about how snaps, unlike email, disappear on their own.
In June 2015, Burberry used Periscope to live stream a menswear fashion show and Snapchat to provide ephemeral photo updates. The efforts received the best digital engagement the iconic British fashion brand had ever experienced. A month later, Burberry live streamed video and photos of its Los Angeles fashion show over Snapchat and Periscope, and created "record customer engagement" of over 100 million impressions, the company said.
Burberry "hit the sweet spot" between finding fans at their most engaged (at live events) and marrying engagement with the "live exclusivity of streaming apps," according to Samara Anderson, retail strategist, redpepper.