Word: transformation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Council cannot transform itself into an effective and productive organization, Gusmorino and Lee should urge the council to leave the group. The money saved would give them the opportunity to cut back on council waste and provide more money for students and council initiatives at the same time. Student groups need an increased termbill, but in its absence, the council's money must not be wasted. It should be spent in a way that benefits the entire student body, not only the ones who are privileged to attend an unproductive conference on the council...
...knitting parties. Renee, who also attracts a crowd when she pulls out her just-like-the-fairy-tale spinning wheel, creates couture, hand-dyed yarn. Her knits are available in cotton to cashmere and include handmade sweaters, skirts, dresses, hats, scarves and quirky but useful knit accessories (cuffs that transform into a scarf for $95). Yarn, patterns and knitting supplies are also available. Stitch by stitch, row by row, the French-born, Brooklyn-bred designer has woven a renewed interest in knitting. Her love of texture, flair for structure and ease with knitting needles has gained a following that...
Wild's still omnipotent fingers transform the instrument into a source of marvels. He can electrify audiences with an impossibly demonic performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, move them with an achingly tender account of a Sonetto del Petrarca by the composer or do both with the Manichean Sonata in B Minor...
...this dysfunction the video illustrates what makes comedy: the suffering and tragedy of comedians and their ability to transform their personal struggles and awkwardness into laughter. In one scene, Tim sits huddled in a booth at a bar with a few comics, testing new material and firing jokes back and forth at each other. They appear like a group of loners, neither fawned over by women nor paid any particular attention by anyone, just poking fun at themselves, their condition and the situations they encounter. It is there, in those moments, that Gilman uncovers the essence of humor, that...
Connectivity promises to transform a way of life that could be mistaken for timeless. Warana's project is providing farmers with access to essential information. The network keeps detailed records of all transactions with local sugar and milk cooperatives; it lists prices of farm produce in the region's agricultural markets (to help farmers decide what to plant or where to sell their produce); and it offers a daily weather forecast...