Anne Bouey

Still having them? That's unsettling. =( - The Other Yvonne

I hope and pray no one was hurt and that you're ok! - Halil

Looks like it died with a smile on its face, though. - Spidra Webster

#LOLSpidra - t-ra: sentimental gorgon

I was like "HOLY HELL!!!1!1!" until I realised the portrait photos are landscape here :) - Johnny

Apart from that person spamming your feed, that petition has hardly any signups, only 156 but they need 100,000! I doubt its success - Halil

how was it?!?! :D - holly #ravingfangirl

that looks nice - sandra hall

She looks beautiful and so happy! - Tamara J. B.

They were just walking on air! - Anne Bouey

Dominics smile might last a good 10 years straight - Steve C, Team Marina

<3 - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Jessie and Dominic got married this afternoon in Dallas! - Anne Bouey

Thank you everyone for all the best wishes on our wedding! Dominic and I really enjoyed the ceremony and look forward to sharing a long and happy life together. Beginning, of course, with the immigration paperwork. - Jessie

:D - رامین

Mmm, bunnehs love red wine. :) - Steven Perez

"Urbanism and nature do not always get along well, but when they do, the collaboration may create something really special and unique." - Anne Bouey

I wonder how they got access to an empty medical facility? Must be a sound stage... ;-) - Spidra Webster

"When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become.  Thousands of shares throughout the world later, the appeal of Rosetti's work is clear. Much like the street art phenomenon Stop Telling Women To Smile, Rossetti's empowering images are the kind you want to post on every street corner, as both a reminder and affirmation of women's bodily autonomy.  "It has always bothered me, the world's attempts to control women's bodies, behavior and identities," Rossetti told Mic via email. "It's a kind of oppression so deeply entangled in our culture that most people don't even see it's there, and how cruel it can be." Rossetti's illustrations touch upon an impressive range of intersectional topics, including LGBTQ identity, body image, ageism, racism, sexism and ableism. Some characters are based on the experiences of friends or her own life, while others draw inspiration from the stories many women have shared across the Internet.  "I see those situations I portray every day," she wrote. "I lived some of them myself." Despite quickly garnering thousands of enthusiastic comments and shares on Facebook, the project started as something personal — so personal, in fact, that Rossetti is still figuring out what to call it. For now, the images reside in albums simply titled "WOMEN in english!" or "Mujeres en español!" which is fitting: Rossetti's illustrations encompass a vast set of experiences that together create a powerful picture of both women's identity and oppression. One of the most interesting aspects of the project is the way it has struck such a global chord. Rossetti originally wrote the text of the illustrations in Portuguese, and then worked with an Australian woman to translate them to English. A group of Israeli feminists also took it upon themselves to create versions of the illustrations in Hebrew. Now, more people have reached out to Rossetti through Facebook and offered to translate her work into even more languages. Next on the docket? Spanish, Russian, German and Lithuanian. It's an inspiring show of global solidarity, but the message of Rossetti's art is clear in any language. Above all, her images celebrate being true to oneself, respecting others and questioning what society tells us is acceptable or beautiful. "I can't change the world by myself," Rossetti said. "But I'd love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another."" - Anne Bouey

"We have become a nation of germo-phobes. We have hand sanitizers in grocery stores, schools, shopping malls - and especially in hospitals and doctor's offices. In many hospitals, paper towels and special trash bins even are put next to exit doors so people don't have to touch the handles. But with all of these precautions in place, and while surgeons scrub diligently before they enter the operating room, you might not realize that it's actually your doctor or nurse who could make you sick. The handshake is a universal social custom, far more common even than saying hello. But when doctors, nurses, medical residents and hospital staff greet patients (and each other) with handshakes, they may be spreading disease. For years, doctors and nurses have understood that hands transmit disease. That's why hospitals and doctor's offices around the world have developed strict hand-washing policies (and, more recently, hand-gel sanitizer policies). Don't get us wrong; these programs are extremely important, and need to be expanded. The problem is that doctors and nurses follow these policies less than half the time (and patients and visitors don't do much better). In addition, those alcohol-based hand sanitizers do not work against all germs. Some doctors and nurses (and patients) already understand this problem. But those who try to avoid shaking hands, in an effort to avoid spreading disease, risk being considered rude or disrespectful. Most people just don't want to risk upsetting their doctors (or their patients). As our research group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA suggested in a recent (and controversial) article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, banning the handshake in hospitals and doctor's offices would probably decrease the spread of disease. We recognize that enacting such a ban would require a large-scale effort to educate the public about why the handshake should not be practiced in hospitals and doctor's offices - places that, by their very nature, crowd together vulnerable patients and dangerous germs." - Anne Bouey

In the Far East, the traditional way is to bow or salute with folded hands (http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en... and http://www.topchinatravel.com/china-g...). No spreading of germs there. - imabonehead

"San Francisco's residential architecture gets reduced to easy stereotypes: Victorian frills at one extreme, storybook stucco at the other. Then you navigate the streets and hills and realize how simplistic such shorthand can be. Here's an alternate view of the domestic terrain - five buildings with the same individualist spirit that you encounter in the city's residents. Nothing you'll see on a postcard, but a quintet of idiosyncratic landmarks that caught my eye when I encountered them, and have remained vivid in the memory ever since...La Casa de los Pechos de la Cholla, 30 Mountain Spring Road You figure there must be a story behind a Spanish Moroccan mirage like this, and you're right. This was the lifetime work of Edward Moffitt, who bought four parcels on a then-unpaved slope of Twin Peaks in 1921. He and his wife built a cabin and the road, but his ambitions grew after he purchased the remnants of an abandoned city incinerator - more than 50,000 charred red bricks. He died in 1963, remembered as "a newspaperman, artist, furniture maker, machinist and builder." But that's not all: the deep broad arches housed a workshop where Moffitt, among other things, built a racetrack for rats." - Anne Bouey

It was such a great place that we kept it in the family a few more years. One of my brothers moved in when we left. Then when he bought his first house in SF, Jack's sister moved in. - Anne Bouey

"On the website for No Means No Worldwide, a rape-prevention nonprofit agency started by a San Francisco couple in Kenya, is a page of testimonial videos from girls who have experienced a verbal or physical attack. Rachael - like all of the others, a teenage girl who lives near Nairobi - described the time a man tried to lure her into his home. She yelled "No!" in front of a crowd of people, and he left her alone. Caroline used a self-defense skill called the "groin grab" to fend off a boy from her school who assaulted her. "I grabbed his groins and yelled, 'No!' " Caroline said. "I took my sweater, opened the door and ran out of the house, leaving him in pain." And there's Valentine, who recalled a time when she was 12 or 13 and a neighbor asked if she'd ever been told she was beautiful, then grabbed her breasts. She yelled at him too, told him to leave her alone, and the man walked away. Now, Valentine said into the camera, chin up and a small smile on her face, "he sees me on one side of the street, he crosses to the other side." The girls and hundreds of others like them have participated in a rape-prevention workshop created by Jake Sinclair and Lee Paiva, a San Francisco doctor and his artist wife who have been working in Kenya for 14 years. Their program is working, and that's not just according to the dozen or so testimonials online, the couple said. Two studies out of Stanford - one published in April this year, one the year before - have found that girls who have gone through the couples' classes experience fewer sexual assaults after the workshops. More telling, perhaps: More than half of the girls report using some tool they learned from the classes to protect themselves, from kicking a man in the groin to yelling at someone to stop. "It's great to see the girls just find their voice, to find the power to say 'no,' " Sinclair said. "It's so enlightening. You can see it in their eyes, that something's changed."" - Anne Bouey

"Rape is an international epidemic, with global rates ranging widely, depending on the source, from 10 to 50 percent of women who are victims. In recent years, the problem has attracted extensive attention - from international outcry against high-profile rapes in India to increasing criticism of how college campus sexual assaults are handled in the United States. Rape puts women, and men, at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, plus developing mental health problems like depression and anxiety. Sexual assault can isolate victims from their families and friends and have lasting effects that prevent them from going to school or getting jobs. As such, rape is a global public health concern, but discussions about how to stop it are muddled at best, and no one approach is universally embraced. Sinclair and Paiva don't expect their workshops to be the one answer. But at a time when there seems to be a lot of outrage about rape but little on-the-ground action to stop it, they hope their small efforts will find a wider audience - throughout Africa and other parts of the developing world, and even in the United States, Paiva said. The couple first went to Africa in 2000 to help children who had been orphaned and left homeless due to the AIDS epidemic. Sinclair, a pediatrician with clinics around the Bay Area, had started a program to help homeless kids in the United States and wanted to do the same in Africa. But he and his wife quickly realized that their U.S.-based tactics wouldn't work overseas, beginning a long lesson in working within local frameworks. Eventually, instead of providing aid directly to the orphans, they created a microloan program to help grandparents and other extended relatives who were taking them in." - Anne Bouey

"As they built their loan program they developed relationships with families and aid workers in Nairobi, where they were basing their work. One day in 2006, Paiva was walking through a slum neighborhood with a grandmother when the conversation became alarming. "She just kept pointing out places or people who had been sexually assaulted," Paiva said. "She was telling me, 'That's a rape baby, that girl was raped by so and so, this was the place where a grandmother's body was found murdered and raped.' It was just unbelievable." Paiva, who had experienced sexual violence herself, resolved to get involved. She'd taken a women's self-defense and empowerment class in the Bay Area in the 1990s, and decided to use that as her foundation. Over the next few years, and using their own money, she and her husband designed a program to teach girls verbal and physical self-defense techniques along with lessons in topics like consent and body autonomy. The program is now part of No Means No Worldwide. The workshops are now in dozens of schools and Sinclair and Paiva have developed classes for both genders, ages 12 to 20. Classes are taught entirely by local instructors who have undergone extensive training. The program costs about $450,000 a year, and is still covered by Sinclair and Paiva, although they're seeking outside funding. The couple spends several months at a time in Kenya overseeing the work there, returning to San Francisco to make money and develop strategies for expanding their nonprofit. The classes are held over six weeks, in two-hour sessions once a week. The girls and young women begin with lessons that define sexual assault and self-defense, then they learn techniques for using verbal and physical defenses to fend off an attack. The boys and young men learn to recognize an assault and how they can intervene to help. "For the girls, we teach assertiveness, setting up boundaries, awareness and intuition," Paiva said. "There's a lot of feminism in there. It's almost like we are countering the intense socialization of girls. And we are doing the same things now with young men." - Anne Bouey

"The Stanford study that was published this year looked at the program in four Nairobi slum neighborhoods. It compared 1,978 girls in 31 schools who participated in the workshop to 428 girls in a control group who did not take the classes. Before the classes began, about 18 percent of girls in both groups said they had been sexually assaulted in the previous year. For the study, sexual assault was defined as penetration of the vagina, mouth or anus with a penis or other object. The study found that in the 10 months after the workshops ended, girls in the control group reported the same number of sexual assaults as in the previous 10 months. But among the girls who had taken the classes, the rate of sexual assaults fell by about a third. The study also found that 52 percent of girls who took the workshops used something they'd learned in the class to protect themselves from an assault. And 65 percent said they'd used those skills to stop someone harassing them. "At this point, we've collected some good data that show this intervention is working," said Clea Sarnquist, lead author of the study and a senior research scholar in pediatrics at Stanford. "A lot of these girls are using voice and verbal skills first," Sarnquist said. "That's one of the key things, is teaching the girls that they have the right to protect themselves - that they have domain over their own bodies, and they have the right to speak up for their own self interest." The program isn't without some potential for controversy. One concern is that it may put too much emphasis on the girls to stop rape, instead of tackling the source of the problem - the boys and men who are responsible for sexual assaults. There is also the issue of victim-blaming - that by instructing girls to defend themselves, the trainers are implying that those who don't fight, physically or verbally, have done something wrong. Paiva said that's not the message they're giving their students. And, she said, sexual assault is so endemic, so deeply embedded in so many cultures worldwide, that it's going to take efforts by both men and women - boys and girls - to stop it. "I'm not holding my breath for a men's-led movement to even begin to make a dent in the global rape epidemic," Paiva said. "It needs to be a men's issue, it really does. But I'm really adamant, don't leave girls and women out." - Anne Bouey

"The harp seal named Paro has white fur, blinking eyes and wagging flippers. For a medical device, it is awfully snuggly. No mere stuffed animal, Paro is a $6,000 interactive robot designed to soothe and comfort those who stroke its fuzzy head. Just don't try to make Paro swim. This summer at the Sunny View Retirement Community in Cupertino, nurses are running a pilot program to test whether Paro can be used as a therapeutic tool, instead of medication, to improve socializing and reduce anxiety among the center's elderly. Several residents have Alzheimer's, dementia and other forms of cognitive decline. One recent morning, Dorothy "Joc" Hartley, 88, sat withdrawn in a chair, her body still and head down. But when Paro was placed in her arms, she began stroking it and smiling. "You're so beautiful," she murmured. The seal looked up at her. "Mewww!" Paro isn't hard to adore. It wiggles and squeaks. It squeals angrily when held upside-down, and shakes its head when its whiskers are touched. What makes this liveliness possible are two 32-bit CPUs and sensors that recognize touch, light, sound, temperature and position. Paro draws its energy not from fish, but a battery charger." - Anne Bouey

"Invented by the Japanese company AIST and first sold in Japan in 2005, Paro arrived in the United States in late 2009. To the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the cuddly creature is a biofeedback device and a class II medical device, the same category that spans powered wheelchairs and some pregnancy tests. About 500 Paros have been sold in the U.S., and up to 4,000 worldwide, said Christine Hsu, manager for Paro Robots in Illinois. Renting a Paro costs $200 a month, buying one costs $6,000, and insurance does not cover it. But to JoAnn Gilbert, Sunny View's director of health services, the two Paros on loan at the home so far demonstrate that they deserve to be covered by insurance or Medicare, just as medication or physical therapy would be. "If every time you go someplace it seems unusual to you, it brings on fear. That's what brings on abnormal behaviors," she said. "We use Paro for social interaction, stress reduction, anxiety reduction. We use it to combat self-isolation, to give them something to engage with." Some studies back up Gilbert's observation. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study in two nursing homes found that Paro provoked curiosity, conversation and acts of affection among residents. Other geriatric experts question the ethics of letting the elderly rely on a robot for emotional support. So far, Paro is fitting in better at Sunny View than the last robotic pet: an interactive toy dog, Biscuit, made by Hasbro. Biscuit broke when a resident, unaccustomed to the sight of a dog on a table, swept it to the ground in one fell swoop. As Gilbert explained it, "There's a lot of fear of dogs, but nobody is afraid of a seal. That's one of the reasons (the inventor) picked a seal." "Plus," she added, "he's cute." - Anne Bouey

great idea, my mom would have loved this towards the end - maʀtha

"Once in while, the CNN Travel braintrust blows it -- make that all the time if you happen to be @cnnalwaysblowsit47. Such was the case last year when we published our updated list of the greatest travel songs ever recorded. Sure, we included a few unassailable classics about life on the travel trail. Even @cnnisamoron231 couldn't rage against our inclusion of Willie Nelson's all-time sing-a-long "On the Road Again." But we have to admit, once in a while, @iloathecnn and @cnntroll99 have valid points to make. How exactly did we miss such obvious wanderlust ditties as the Allman Brothers Bands' "Ramblin' Man" and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee"? These and more than 150 other musical oversights (as suggested by readers) marred what we naively assumed was a list sure to get readers humming tunes and tapping their toes -- not calling for our jobs and swinging their air guitars like Game of Thrones truncheons. Good thing defenders of never-faltering good taste and intellectual omniscience (thank you, @cnnyoushouldbeashamed) are around the make sure no misstep goes un-roasted." - Anne Bouey

Born to be wild. - Back to just Joe

:) - Stephen Mack

"Want the ultimate senior prank? Good luck topping what students at a Santa Barbara high school did. Apparently the mariachi band showed up at 7:30 a.m. and it lasted all school day. Seriously though, we're laughing hard. Seniors: 1, Principal John Becchio: 0." - Anne Bouey

Nice! Mariachis are expensive, man. Haha! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

"Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep. Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information. In other words, it’s not just what we write that matters — but how. “When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated,” said Stanislas Dehaene, a psychologist at the Collège de France in Paris. “There is a core recognition of the gesture in the written word, a sort of recognition by mental simulation in your brain. “And it seems that this circuit is contributing in unique ways we didn’t realize,” he continued. “Learning is made easier.”" - Anne Bouey

Betsey, that was Rachel Jeantel during the Zimmerman trial. Cursive hasn't been taught in schools for so long. Since she's an immigrant, she may have missed that part of education depending on what age she arrived here. - Anika

"Luka is a 12-year-old boy who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, a disease that causes the body to get weaker over time. His everyday activities are limited because of his lack of physical movement, but he is able to use his fingers which allows him to operate his electric wheelchair as well as slowly draw in his notebook, where his imagination has no limits. After meeting this boy and learning about what he has always wanted to do, photographer Matej Peljhan now helps him live those dreams by creating images that give Luka the feeling of being able to do the things he can’t. Using layered colored sheets and everyday household items, the photos are shot from above and capture Luka’s fun personality as he explores his imaginary world." - Anne Bouey

"These photographers may have never known the significance of the pictures they took and that millions would be marveling at them in the future. From thousands of images, I chose these to give us a rare and fascinating look at how different (and similar) life used to be." - Anne Bouey

Those elevator garages are still around in Newark, NJ. - April Russo (FForever!)

That was fantastic. - Rodfather

Quite a voice! - Anne Bouey

Wait, during Lent? - Technodad

"Nicolas Cage. Oscar winner. Razzie nominee. Internet meme. He has achieved a special kind of cultural status - there will even be an event called the "Nicolas Cage Art Show and Musical Shennanigans" (sic) April 12 at the Balancoire in San Francisco, featuring artists' interpretations of the man, the legend ("It has come to my attention," Cage tells The Chronicle, chuckling. "I'm going to try to remain mysterious about it."). The always-busy actor's work in David Gordon Green's new, Southern Gothic "Joe" is among his most settled and centered in years, putting lie to the Andy Samberg "Big Bang Theory"-style impressions of him as nothing but a wild man. During a more-than-30-year career, he has put together some daring performances in many excellent films. Still, it's no secret that not every outing has been a gem. Cage has 24 movies that have scored lower than 40 percent on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. That's bad. That's nearly half his oeuvre. But he has been nominated for or won Oscars, Independent Spirits, BAFTAs and many other honors, and the average domestic gross for his 54 features is a very healthy $67 million, when adjusted for ticket-price inflation." - Anne Bouey

not that Cage is in the same league, but even Sir Larry Olivier made some real turkeys. - Big Joe Silenced

"We all know that movies are inaccurate - to time, to science, to logic, to history. We also know that sometimes it matters, and sometimes it doesn't, but we disagree there. The line between what matters and what doesn't is not only different for everybody, but it also varies within every person. For example, if you're an expert on something, small errors will leap out at you that you might otherwise not notice, or ignore. In October, the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson made some Twitter comments about the movie "Gravity" that were repeated everywhere. Some of what Tyson called "Mysteries of Gravity" were the kind of things that only an astrophysicist would care about: "Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east, yet all satellite debris portrayed east to west." Other mysteries were just funny: "Why (Sandra) Bullock's hair, in otherwise convincing zero G(ravity) scenes, did not float freely on her head." Obviously, that mystery isn't a real mystery to anyone, including Tyson. A Hollywood leading lady cannot have a bad hair day, not in the Wild West, not in a concentration camp, not even in outer space. But one of Tyson's tweets was especially arresting because it went to the heart of the movie, touching on the most haunting and dramatic moment of the entire story. (In fact, if you haven't seen the movie yet, skip the next two paragraphs, because they contain a key spoiler.) Tyson writes, "When (George) Clooney releases Bullock's tether, he drifts away. In zero-G, a single tug brings them together." Should have known Of course. We should have known that. What's more, Bullock's character should have known that. The only explanation for her not knowing is that she wanted to be the star of the movie, and she couldn't do that with Clooney floating around getting all the best lines. Obviously, given the trajectory of "Gravity," we know why Clooney had to go, but it does cast that painful moment in a strange other light. Scientifically (if not dramaturgically), that did not have to happen." - Anne Bouey

"Movies need not be slaves to truth or to accuracy - at least not until they make claims to truth or accuracy. Fiction is great, not in spite of itself, but because it's fictional, because it's untethered. The only caution I'd add is that sometimes accuracy can imply an opportunity worth considering: What would have happened had Bullock given Clooney a little tug? What might have happened if the butler were allowed to really like Nancy Reagan? We'll never know." - Anne Bouey

"A photographer seeking to document the next generation of Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia discovered a 13-year-old girl who has taken to the male-dominated tradition. Photographer Asher Svidensky made a four-month trek through western Mongolia, mostly on horseback, and found Han Gohadok and his daughter, Ashol Pan, who had expressed a desire to take up the full-time profession that is centuries old. Good thing, too, since the ancient pastime is said to be a dying part of Mongolian culture, as young men are leaving their families and the hunting duties behind. As a result, more girls are becoming eagle hunters to replace their brothers, according to the Mail Online. Gohadok told the Mail Online that his eldest son was to become the eagle hunter of the family but was drafted into the army. That’s when Ashol Pan stepped forward. Eagle hunter Ashol Pan of Mongolia holds her golden eagle, giving perspective on the size of the bird. Photo by Asher Svidensky/Caters News Agency, used by permission Eagle hunters use golden eagles to hunt foxes during the winter months when the gold-colored foxes stand out against the snow. They also hunt hares. Typically, the training of young men begins at age 13, when they are strong enough to carry a full-grown eagle on their arm. The training is rigorous, as the master and its eagle develop a long-term and trusting relationship that is all consuming. The Kazakh custom is for the eagle hunter to ride a horse while hunting. Svidensky was looking for something different when he set out to document eagle hunters in Mongolia. “I decided to focus myself—stop looking for a portrait of a centuries-old image of a Kazakh eagle hunter and instead represent the future of this ancient Mongolian tradition,” Svidensky told the Mail Online. Ashol Pan represents the future. She is one of an estimated 250 eagle hunters in western Mongolia. In his photos, Svidensky depicts the evident joy Ashol Pan has in her new role, one her father never would have forced upon her unless she had asked. And she did." - Anne Bouey

射雕(女)英雄傳! Legend of the (Female) Condor Heroes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Jessie

Heh, Mark. - Stephen Mack