Ode to Maybe

She looks absolutely gorgeous in her Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen gown!

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matchbookmag:We can’t get enough of Princess Catharine’s Sarah Burton creation! 

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In light of the recent disasters, our hearts are focused on the vibrant and wonderful community in Japan. Your resilience is inspiring, and we hope that recovery will be swift and complete. 少しでも皆さんの力となり、一日でも早く日常の生活が取り戻せる事を願います。

As of today, Japanese is now the newest language available on Tumblr. We’re very grateful for our amazing members in the Japanese community, and we hope you’ll find the new option useful. You can change your language setting on your Preferences page.

To aid the relief and emergency efforts, we’re asking all of our members to contribute to Red Cross International from your Dashboard. Look for the message on the sidebar. Members who donate will unlock the Limited Edition Japanese Tumblr Logo, and Tumblr will match your contributions up to $15,000.

You can also keep up with news from Japan via the #Japan tag page.

日本の皆さま, 頑張ってください。

Love, タンブラー

Beautiful graphic by Rob Dobi

Sounds like a road trip/hippie fest that’s right up my alley!

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Just ‘cause it’s not what it looks like at all.

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Because of my current internship, I was granted the opportunity to attend this year’s New York Press Club journalism conference, which was held on Oct. 9.

The conference addressed several issues that have many journalists today confounded: how to incorporate the rise of new media with the fundamentals of traditional journalism. At the panel discussion, “Becoming Platform Agnostic,” contributors from various platforms spoke about finding and harnessing the strengths of various media to make a story more effective to an audience. Alicia Vitarelli of News 12 New Jersey noted that she often tells viewers to visit the station’s website for more detailed coverage — marrying the soundbites and story packages aired on the show with more interactive and in-depth extras. Sandeep Junnarkar of the CUNY Grad School of Journalism gave pointers on working across different platforms: finding the right medium for each story, avoid covering a story in a vacuum, utilize “complementary depth” (tell little stories using different media that piece together to cover a larger picture), etc.

Vitarelli emphasized how, as a journalist, she is only the vehicle of the story. Though she updates her social networking accounts, she is a representative of her news station, as well as those that helped her construct the story, so she attempts to keep her personal opinions and biases to herself. This evolution of the news, she said, is “moving with the times,” where reporters strive to give a “360 experience of a story” and there is an active exchange of information and ideas between the audience and journalist. Junnarkar focused on the ethical issues that have arisen with citizen journalism: accuracy vs. speed; accountability; objectivity.

As an aspiring reporter in the embryonic stages of a revolutionary period of journalism, this experience brought to my attention how various professionals are reacting and adapting to the changing media landscape. It will be interesting to see how the convoluted gray areas of integrating new and mainstream media will be sorted through — as the Internet has surely opened the field and thrown the ball in anyone’s court.

In the race for Senate, Gillibrand and Schumer were shoe-ins for the senate seats. With the heated governor’s race, Cuomo finished the night with a significant lead against his republican counterpart Paladino. Save for some Congressional tossups throughout the state, last night’s election only fulfilled what the polls had predicted: the status quo party was somewhat punished during the subsequent election.

Though this may come across as discouraging to Democrats across the country, NYT’s political writer Matt Bai says it’s just part of an ongoing cycle. In his article, “Another Election, Another Wave,” Bai asserts the inevitability of the Democrats losing a significant number of seats, “when voters, having had their catharsis, generally feel some buyer’s remorse about the incumbent president’s party.”

And could it really be a surprise when the polls were saying this all along? Anti-incumbency feelings that spread throughout the country were obvious in the numbers. According to a Marist Poll released October 8th, 51% of Republican voters reported high levels of enthusiasm to vote on Election Day, compared with just 28% of Democrats and 32% of Independents. The same poll reported that 74% say that major changes need to be done in Washington.

So with the midterm elections over and just two short years left until the next presidential race, Democrats should take this as a sign to regroup and strategize how to reclaim the country’s confidence and secure their position for the next term.

Happy cows don’t come from California — they’re right here in the Hudson Valley! Support local, buy HVF milk.

Doug Ivester (via kari-shma)

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Please support Jill and me! This is site will culminate a semester’s worth of research, interviews and construction to produce a handy online resource on sustainability and supporting local foods in the Hudson Valley.

A few friends and I went apple picking a couple of weeks ago: the air was crisp and sharp with the new chill of fall, and the sun illuminated the changing leaves. As I was mentally scratching this activity off my senior year bucket list, I realized just then that this was about as close as someone could get from farm to fork. And it was delicious.