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Jessica, 28 Jun 2006 @ 11:01pm
Bad precidentIf this is true, then anyone could start a fake company in france that buys anoymous adwords for another fake company snd sue google every day. There is no way they sould be held resposible for the posting, they can not check every ad. The person who placed the ad should be taken to court, not google.
Jessica, 28 Jun 2006 @ 11:41pm
More comingFrom what I can gather is facing alot of lawsuits accoorss the globe for violating one thing or another. I wonder just how much it will cost them in the end a couple million or billions? ANd if they lost this one than you know more countries will be right behind.
Shohat, 28 Jun 2006 @ 11:45pm
Makes SenceCourts are supposed to protect the public from counterfeit Louis Vuitton products . Just like google forbids people from advertising the sell of slaves or child porn , or kidneys , they should have a decent procedure for removing other illegal (and counterfeit Louis Vuitton products are illegal) material .
JM, 29 Jun 2006 @ 10:58am
Re: Makes SenceThis makes no sense at all people.
I'm going to put a bumper sticker on your car when you aren't looking offering illegal drugs at the corner pay phone. Then, when the government sues you for advertising illicit drugs I'll laugh.
It's up to Google to TRY and remove inappropriate advertisements and material from there site but they should not be held legally liable for the illicit acts of another.
Perhaps Google should have legal grounds to go after those who posted the content if they don't get any real justice from the ignorance of humanity.
Mike, 29 Jun 2006 @ 12:33am
Off course not!Google had time to remove the ads after a warning from Louis Vuitton but they just did not do that.
JJ, 29 Jun 2006 @ 3:52am
Rule Number 1:You're forgetting the number one rule of lawsuits: it doesn't matter who's right or who's wrong, you always go after the one with the most money.
Jack Sombra, 29 Jun 2006 @ 4:02am
Not as clear cut as some would make outGoogle cannot disavow all knowledge and control of advertisments on addwords. If some add "breaks the rules" and google are informed and don't pull it they should be held 100% liable
TV channels/Radio/Newspaper or any other form of media would do the same or face the same consequences so why should google get a free pass? If they are providing a service they cannot manage properly then they need to stop providing it
Just me, 29 Jun 2006 @ 6:16am
ResponsibilityInteresting case, I wonder if the rules of advertising will be upheld here.
Also, since the fact Google did not drop the adds from their network, they should be held liable for the legal costs at the least.
firemeg, 29 Jun 2006 @ 7:16am
Google has to end this now...If Google gives in to this sort of thing, it will go the way of eBay. eBay caved into these suits and it impacted all sellers on the site. They should have stood strong and firm and maintained that the site was merely a venue and maybe went so far as to help with prosecution of the offenders. Instead they settled and now anything like this that happens results in a lawsuit that affects everyone that sells on the site, not just the criminals. (Actually nothing at all happens to the criminals).
ROOGLE, 29 Jun 2006 @ 7:24am
God Love the FrenchThank the french for another A+ Job. Let's all give it up for the frogs. très stupide
Raekwon, 29 Jun 2006 @ 7:28am
Dee Dee DeeGoogle is a World- Wide company, it is rediculous to assume that they are able to police the hundreds of millions of users that use thier service every day. Perhaps they dropped the ball on getting to this complaint in a timely manner, but this still is a flagrant law suit. Vuitton, I guess, needs more money for an extra pool boy and his diamond studded thong. I think I'm going to sue Microsoft for 50 billion because someone stole my CD Key.
JoJo the Monkey boy, 29 Jun 2006 @ 7:32am
ProfitBoth eBay and Google profit when a counterfeit item is sold, be it an ad for a counterfeit product or the product itself. Since they are making money off these, they should be held at least 50% responsible. Google has a lot of foresight; they should have known this would happen especially after what happened to eBay. My guess is they did know it but the cost analysis said they shouldn't do any thing about it. If they make $100 million on ads for counterfeit items and they pay out $50 million to cover lawsuits, they still made $50 million. Sounds like a good plan to me.
Michael, 29 Jun 2006 @ 8:00am
fine printI havent read all of the posts, but from what I gather, Loui Vutton is suing Google for placing an add for fake Loui Vutton bags on the Loui Vutton website. If thats correct, surley Google has a contract with Loui Vutton for the adds on the Loui Vutton website, does that say anything about the content of the adds, if not, too bad Loui Vutton.
To me, it seems that Loui Vutton is the one that doesnt understand how Google adds work, not the french court, OF COURSE its going to put adds that have to do with the content of their site. Granted, I dont know anything about the french system, but none of the blame should fall on google...
Or the maker of the add for that matter, unless they used something copyrighted (in which case they should be sued no matter where the add appeared) then Loui Vutton has no business suing anybody for anything.
Furthermore, WHAT IS A LUXURY COMPANY DOING WITH GOOGLE ADDS ON THEIR SITE?!?!?!?!?!?! You wouldnt find google adds on BMW's website, or sony's website, how un-professional. Then again, french wemon dont shave their legs...
Adam, 29 Jun 2006 @ 8:05am
What is really happening.I think that people here are mistaking what probably happend here. Google probably didn't even get a formal complaint before they were taken to court. In this sea of lawsuits they are suffering from Vuitton probably just did a little search of google and found his counterfits and immediatly called the lawers in. I doubt that google, as large of a corp that they are, would ignore a formal complaint from someone that was standing on solid ground.
Wolfger, 29 Jun 2006 @ 11:27amDoes selling a fake Louis Voutton violate the law?
If Yes, pursue the seller.
If No, stop all pursuit.
Suing a search engine for correctly placing an ad containing the words "Louis Voutton" when somebody does a search for same: stupid.
To those who blame Google for not removing the ads: Google is not part of the legal system. If the seller is doing something illegal, it is up to the courts, not Google, to decide.
Anonymous Bastard, 29 Jun 2006 @ 11:56am
Sorry, have to say itWhen are the french not confused about anything?
It seems that every week the French government or individual is suing one thing or another. Its like they can't stand that something isn't working they way they want it to work.
It seems to come from the culture of entitlement (and the strive to preserve a mono-culture) that the French people have, that its there way, or no way at all. If it can't work the way France wants it to work, ban it, sue it, or change it.
It might be off topic here, but I am getting tired of hearing about the French Courts.
That's why I call my chips Freedom Fries. Its the freedom from whining and complaining about everything non-French is what I hope for.
Mike Mixer, 29 Jun 2006 @ 12:34pm
French lawyersNow I canwalk the streets of Paris without worrying about some gauche spitting on me because the french use american law now. It was only a matter of time before lawyers in these supposedly refined and adult european coutries started seeing how much their american counterparts are making and would want to join the circus. Yup, Americans are the bane of the earth ,but the lawyers that run the country have a good thing going so let's be just like them.
Now instead of continental manners you get "let's do lunch". America is ruining the world.
Lay person, 29 Jun 2006 @ 1:12pm
MoneyLook this has nothing to do with wrong or right.
This is simply about the money. Google is big and vulnerable.
They have lots of money, let's see if we can get some of it.
The attorneys should be blamed as much as the counterfeiters.
France sucks anyway so there's no point in trying to figure out their courts.
Who would sue a newspaper for posting classifieds listing stolen property? It's clear that the stolen property issue is between the cops and the seller of those items.
This is clearly nothing about anything but money, so please people lets quit chasing the red herrings.
Good guy, 29 Jun 2006 @ 1:31pm
France is a thiefFrance is the biggest thief of all the countries!
French fries = fried potatoes
French toast = egged bread
French bread = Italian bread (only longer and narrower)
I can go on but it seems to me the French take the most mundane items, if they like it, put the word French in front of it and voila (crap that's a French word)...O.K. how about presto! It's suddenly French!
France is arrogant and really they have nothing to be arrogant about. Historically, they lost nearly all their major wars. They often needed help from others in times of crises, then they never appreciate what's done and claim that it's the power of France and the French people for their perserverence and persistence.
Bullshit! It's about time the world sees France for what they are two-faced hypocrites.
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A group photograph of the first Swiss-India Workhop that marked the beginning of IH-CAP project (Jawaharlal Nehru University - JNU - New Delhi, April 2, 2013)
IH-CAP stands for "India-Himalaya Capacity-building Program" and is funded by the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC), the principal agency of the Swiss Confederation that funds and runs cooperative projects in developing countries.
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Barton Watch Bands
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A novel numerical framework for simulation of multiscale spatio-temporally non-linear systems in additive manufacturing processes.
Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph. D.
Industrial Engineering
Committee Chair
Stucker, Brent E.
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Starr, Thomas L.
Committee Member
Starr, Thomas L.
Committee Member
Biles, William E.
Committee Member
DePuy, Gail W.
Committee Member
Pal, Deepankar
Manufacturing processes; Production management; Business logistics--Management
New computationally efficient numerical techniques have been formulated for multi-scale analysis in order to bridge mesoscopic and macroscopic scales of thermal and mechanical responses of a material. These numerical techniques will reduce computational efforts required to simulate metal based Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. Considering the availability of physics based constitutive models for response at mesoscopic scales, these techniques will help in the evaluation of the thermal response and mechanical properties during layer-by-layer processing in AM. Two classes of numerical techniques have been explored. The first class of numerical techniques has been developed for evaluating the periodic spatiotemporal thermal response involving multiple time and spatial scales at the continuum level. The second class of numerical techniques is targeted at modeling multi-scale multi-energy dissipative phenomena during the solid state Ultrasonic Consolidation process. This includes bridging the mesoscopic response of a crystal plasticity finite element framework at inter- and intragranular scales and a point at the macroscopic scale. This response has been used to develop an energy dissipative constitutive model for a multi-surface interface at the macroscopic scale. An adaptive dynamic meshing strategy as a part of first class of numerical techniques has been developed which reduces computational cost by efficient node element renumbering and assembly of stiffness matrices. This strategy has been able to reduce the computational cost for solving thermal simulation of Selective Laser Melting process by ~100 times. This method is not limited to SLM processes and can be extended to any other fusion based additive manufacturing process and more generally to any moving energy source finite element problem. Novel FEM based beam theories have been formulated which are more general in nature compared to traditional beam theories for solid deformation. These theories have been the first to simulate thermal problems similar to a solid beam analysis approach. These are more general in nature and are capable of simulating general cross-section beams with an ability to match results for complete three dimensional analysis. In addition to this, a traditional Cholesky decomposition algorithm has been modified to reduce the computational cost of solving simultaneous equations involved in FEM simulations. Solid state processes have been simulated with crystal plasticity based nonlinear finite element algorithms. This algorithm has been further sped up by introduction of an interfacial contact constitutive model formulation. This framework has been supported by a novel methodology to solve contact problems without additional computational overhead to incorporate constraint equations averting the usage of penalty springs.
Recommended Citation
Patil, Nachiket, "A novel numerical framework for simulation of multiscale spatio-temporally non-linear systems in additive manufacturing processes." (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1099.


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Chris Rochelle, our staff photographer, hot sauce lover, and vintage cookbook aficionado, bought this handwritten book at a local flea market. It is marked as written by Lydia Cassady in 1889.
It brings up more questions than it answers. For example: What is saleratus? Why does Etta's fruit cake get marked as "good" while other recipes don't? How is one supposed to cook the jumblee? But the thing is pretty cool to page through, so Chris took some photos of the pages.
Some of the recipes as written:
Ginger Snaps
One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup butter, one-half cup warm water, two tablespoonfuls ginger, one tablespoonful (even) saleratus; roll thin, bake quick
Etta's Fruit Cake (Good)
1 cup butter, 1 cup of coffee, milk, or brandy, 1 cup black sugar, 1 cup molasses, 3 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda, spices, nutmeg. 1 ½ lb. raisins, ½ lb. currants, ¼ lb citron, pinch of salt.
One cup sugar, a scant cup of butter, two eggs, one tablespoonful (even) soda, dissolved in a good tablespoonful of milk, nearly 3 cups flour. Spice or flavor to taste.


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A. Lubrication system
In the splash lubricating system, oil is splashed up from the oil pan or oil trays in the lower part of the crankcase. The oil is thrown upward as droplets or fine mist and provides adequate lubrication to valve mechanisms, piston pins, cylinder walls, and piston rings. In the combination splash and pressure feed lubricating system, an oil pump takes oil from the oil pan and forces it through holes drilled in the engine block and crankshaft. This oil thereby reaches the various bearings that support rotating shafts and the different moving parts in the engine. It covers the surfaces of the moving parts in the engine. It covers the surfaces of the moving parts to prevent metal- to- metal contact and undue water of the parts. In this system, cylinder walls are lubricated by splashing oil thrown off from the connecting-rod bearing. The lubricating oil circulating through the engine to all moving parts requiring lubrication performs When the Lubrication system is breakdown, it will cause serious accident, one should always check.
B. Cooling system
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Rachel Alexandra is snug in her summer barn at the Spa"s Oklahoma Training Track. Now that she's here — she shipped up to the Saratoga from Belmont Park Sunday morning — everyone wants to know where she'll be running and who she'll be running against.
There is more than one appealing matchup for the filly, who has won all six of her starts this year, including the whopping 19 1/4 length score in the Mother Goose at Belmont Park against two overmatched rivals on Saturday.
How about seeing her run against the boys again, something she did successfully in the Preakness Stakes last month? That would be fun. The connections of Mine That Bird, the Kentucky Derby winner, and Summer Bird, the Belmont winner, have the Midsummer Derby on their radar. Rachel has already beaten boys once; does she have to do it again?
She might have to pad her resume a little more to get that Horse of the Year trophy, especially since owner Jess Jackson is adamant that won't run her in any Breeders' Cup race on Santa Anita's fake track in November.
It doesn't make much sense for Rachel to keep beating up on the 3-year-old fillies. In her last two starts against her own class, she has won by a combined 39 1/2 lengths.
"Yeah," assistant trainer Scott Blasi said after getting Rachel settled at the Spa, "she has kind of dominated that division."
Here's a race that will get the blood pumping. Rachel against the best older filly in the land, Zenyatta. Zenyatta, based on the West Coast, stretched her career unbeaten streak to 11 Saturday when she won the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park. Her owner, Jerry Moss, has said he would not be opposed to running his star on the East Coast.
Zenyatta vs. Rachel at Saratoga. In either the $300,000 Go for Wand at 1 1/8 miles on Aug. 2 or the $400,000 Personal Ensign at 1 1/4 miles on Aug. 30. Or both. To make it even more appealing to Moss, the New York Racing Association could up the ante by changing the purse structure and hiking the price tags of those two races.
It's something Charlie Hayward, the President and CEO of NYRA is thinking about although he has not had any direct contact with Moss, co-founder of A&M Records (Zenyatta is named after the third album of The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta).
"NYRA generally does not sweeten pots or provide incentives but this could be a situation that might warrant that consideration," Hayward said Sunday in an e-mail.
Interesting. Zenyatta vs. Rachel at the Spa would be special. Zenyatta vs. the boys again at the Spa would be special to. Thoughts?


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The National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP) is a UNDP-UNEP programme, financed by the LDCF.
The NAP-GSP is assisting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to advance National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). NAPs will bring greater focus and coordination to country-led efforts in disaster management and disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation. The NAP will add to the strategic suite of other sectoral plans and policies for countries that help to guide internal development resourcing mechanisms as well as those provided by donors. The programme was launched on 14 June 2013 following its CEO approval by the GEF on 29 May 2013. As of November 2013, partner agencies to GSP include UNDP, UNEP, WHO, FAO, IFAD, UNITAR, GEF, UNFCCC, GWP, GIZ , PROVIA, and UNISDR.


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United Kingdom travel guide
About United Kingdom
Few places cram in as much scenery, history and culture as the United Kingdom. It's a busy, eccentric and unique destination; a land of daft humour, tea-and-cake clichés and a thousand and one different personalities; a land where thrusting cities like London, Glasgow and Manchester share map space with the peaks of Snowdonia and the colossal slopes of the Highlands.
Four component nations make up the UK, and the end result is as many-layered as that fact would suggest. Its arts scene continues to be one of the most creative and successful in the world, its passions still run high on everything from politics to sport and its overall character is as modern as it is multicultural. Even the food's good these days.
London remains the natural focal point. Its skyline, mixing medieval turrets with soaring steel, is a good marker for the place as a whole. From its markets to its museums, its pubs to its palaces, it's a bona fide world city packed with diversity. But you don't have to look far to find other great urban centres – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all home to richly engaging cities full of heritage, music and nightlife. Some, like Bath and Edinburgh, offer postcard-perfect medieval skylines. Others, like Belfast and Liverpool, are handsome in places but just as notable for their indelible personalities.
As a country, of course, the UK's urban centres are just one part of its allure. Britain is often extremely beautiful. Seaside towns, national parks and honey-stoned villages still fill the guidebooks, and the scenic pull of areas like the Cornish coast, Giant's Causeway and the Lake District is as strong as it's ever been. Once you factor in the endless cultural associations that Britain throws up – from Henry VIII to Hogwarts, The Beatles to Braveheart, male voice choirs to Monty Python – it stands as a country very much its own.
Key facts
242,514 sq km (93,635 sq miles).
65,111,143 (UN estimate 2016).
266.4 per sq km.
Constitutional monarchy.
HM Queen Elizabeth II since 1952.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson since 2019.
Travel Advice
Most visits to the UK are trouble-free but you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate international terrorist attacks, which could be against civilian targets, including places frequented by foreigners.
This advice is correct at time of publishing. As the situation can change rapidly, visitors are advised to contact the following organisations for the latest travel advice:
US Department of State
Website: http://travel.state.gov/travel
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in your home country.
Baggage Rules
Inbound flights to the UK from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia are subject to additional hand luggage restrictions, imposed from 7am on Saturday 25 March 2017. All phones, tablets or laptops are banned from carry-on luggage and must be placed in hold luggage if they are larger than:
● 16cm in length.
● 9.3cm in width .
● 1.5cm in depth (thickness).
The UK Foreign Office advises travellers contact their airline before travelling to find out if they will allow specific electronic devices or electrical items on the flight.
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here -- he seems to have a good grasp of what's being talked about, as usual -- and the original article in, of all places, Variety is here. Both are well worth your time. There's one point on "instancing" that Ciaran Laval understands a lot better than I do, and I think you should read what he has to say about it.
It seems clear that the Lindens will be tinkering with the economic structure of the new virtual world: "Land in Second Life is quite expensive," said [Ebbe] Altberg. Trade, on the other hand, is barely regulated. Linden Lab now wants to lower real estate taxes and increase sales taxes, he explained, to make it easier for people to pitch a tent in its virtual world." I'm not sure of all the ramifications of this, but it seems as though the days of the land baron will be coming to an end; creation of things like clothing and hair will possibly be focused in the hands of fewer designers since the economics will make it more difficult to sell one's work.
They're going into beta now; 1.0 could launch by the end of 2016. I think it's finally time to start looking into buying myself an Oculus Rift headset and getting ready to make a change.
And the bad news? Buried in the last paragraph. "Altberg said that Linden Lab isn't pre-populating the world with ready-made experiences or things ported over from Second Life. Instead, it's betting on its users to start shaping their world. 'It's gonna start from the beginning," he said."
So -- I think I just cut my virtual clothing budget in half, if not more, and I'll be putting that money in a mayonnaise jar towards an Oculus Rift headset. Why bother buying virtual items you will only use for a little while? Take it from me, this is the loudest bell you've heard yet that signals the "end" of Second Life (although I suspect they may continue to support it, or even give away its code to anyone who wants to maintain the servers; it's still economically viable).
I'm excited. A little bit sad at hearing the first ring of the death knell for Second Life as it currently exists, but actually looking forward to what's coming down the pike.
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
146: Griefer alert (don't get mad, get even)
|This is what griefers used to do. These days they're not
as imaginative, just vulgar.
I have chat logs, but I will be saving them for people whom I'm trying to convince to ban these nitwits. I left immediately and sent a notecard to the owner of Men Only Monthly, Missy (missqwerty.pevensey) -- who, I am delighted to say, got back to me immediately and banned all four of them within 30 minutes. Well done, Missy. That's the kind of customer service that makes friends and long-term customers. I'm sad to say that Missy said it's the third time this week she's had this issue with different griefers.
But I'm going to suggest to anyone in the entire Gay Archipelago and beyond that these are not people you want to have around when your real customers like me are trying to enjoy themselves and spend money. I'm going to break my own rule and mention another resident in something other than favourable terms; ban these assholes ASAP from everything over which you have the power. Here's the names:
- ciɑƦđα Ʀαȼ (jae30rae)
- ツღ Narbow ღ シ (narisa24601)
- B.Breezy (dodgemystds)
- SKY (skyylarrain)
Sunday, 19 July 2015
145: Hair Fair 2015, the Rusty way
|A&A: Hercules (not from Hair Fair)
Now, in the last few days,
|Damselfly: Park (Tuxedo)
But you know, it's never occurred to me to "affiliate" myself with a designer. Sure, it means you get free stuff; I gave up looking for free stuff in Second Life a
|Sage: Andre (Crow)
|Phoenix: Jaden
So that brings me to Hair Fair. I went
|Exile: Future Outcasts
I did this shoot by calling up the internal search engine and typing in "barber shop"; the first result was
|Uw:St: Robin
From the top: Park, from Damselfly, is a nice short haircut. A little bit high in the front but that tends to suit me, since I have a large head (slider at 85) and usually bump up the hair size at least 15% when I can. I'd wear this one with a business suit.
|Bade: Micha
Jaden, from Phoenix, is a nice-
|Tableau Vivant: Last Train Home
Future Outcasts, from Exile, is an excellent long-hair look. I think Exile do a good job with long hair and I like
|Analog Dog: Sassafras
Next is the Robin hair from Uw:St, which I think is a company I used to know as UncleWeb. (If I'm wrong, comment please.) There's something
|The hairbase underlying these cuts
The Micha hair from Bade -- I didn't seem to get a good picture of this one, but I'm not sure I'll be wearing it much anyway. The little topknot at the back is the way I brush my hair back at the gym in real life to keep it out of the way, but that's not something I do a hell of a lot in SL. I bought it because it reminded me of my real hair; I forgot in Second Life I'm not restricted to my real hair. (Remember that I'm grabbing this hair and crashing constantly, so my decisions are made quickly.)
Last Train Home from Tableau Vivant: there's something odd about this hair on the short side of the part, and when I sized it up enough to fit my enormous head LOL, it just didn't seem correctly proportioned. Frankly this is just a hair for someone who's av is bringing off a much younger look than mine; it's good hair, just doesn't suit me like I thought it might.
Finally, the Sassafras hair from Analog Dog was stepping out a little bit for me -- this is female hair. But I've wanted a nice long curly "Italian" mop for quite some time and not found anything quite to my taste; I sized it up and it fits fine. If you look closely you can see a flag sticking out of my head; that's because this is a demo hair. I couldn't get back into Hair Fair to go and get the actual hair, but I intend to: I may not wear this hair all that often but I'm sure I'll find a use for it. Again, like all long hair, this one tends to weave through the body a bit, but it has a nice bouncy, springy quality to it that tends to draw the eye away from the problems.
Finally, I wanted to show you that there was a pretty standard hairbase underneath all these cuts. I suspect there might be a hair designer reading this and thinking, "Oh, SURE he didn't like the hair, he didn't use the custom base I included!" Okay, if you did, I apologize. But that's why I included this shot; designers, this is how people actually use your hair. They don't have time to carefully switch hairbases if they're doing a quick change ... Unless there's something totally wrong, I'll just try to make it work with the base I'm wearing. Sorry to burst your bubble.
I do feel sorry for the fashion bloggers who are having all the problems with designers. But, you know, if you pay for the stuff you talk about, you can say what you like -- no need to be vicious, of course, just do a consumer report that's going to do a favour for the next person who might be about to, say, wander through Hair Fair. And if any designers object to what I've said here, they can comfort themselves with the fact that I paid retail. I actually left out a couple of pieces I picked up as gifts from Hair Fair; I didn't like them and won't be wearing them, but it seems a bit churlish to complain about a gift, so I've merely omitted them.
Hair Fair is running for a week or two longer -- everyone in SL wears hair, it's fun to look around and see what the latest styles are like, and a lot of the proceeds go to a charitable good cause. Check it out.
Saturday, 18 July 2015
144: Second Life Sex On// (HBO)
Really, HBO Canada, I'm very disappointed with you. Both segments were almost exactly the same (as were segments on online femdom, polyamory, and female/male sex wrestling). No insight, no attempt to say anything at all about what drives these ideas and where they come from. I can tell you the content of each brief segment quite easily: "Sex exists in this context, and this is what it looks like. And here's another picture of it. And here's a BUNCH of pictures of it. Let's see how much of it we can show you without transgressing the Broadcast Standards Code, while the voice-over talks about the fact that these things happen without relating to the images."
So the Oculus Rift segment showed semi-pornographic images of people having sex that you can see if you wear the headset, and the Second Life segment showed semi-pornographic images of people having sex that you can see if you have a Second Life account. In fact, the whole thing was pretty clearly designed to show images of sexual activity on HBO Canada. Just about the only thing you cannot show these days, apparently, is an erect human penis.
In the segment on Oculus Rift, I learned you can show a vagina, cunnilingus, lesbianism, strap-ons, fellatio with the actual penis carefully concealed, female masturbation, and more breasts than the chicken section of the meat counter at the supermarket. And in the segment on Second Life, more of the same, except apparently you can show non-human or virtual penises, including some av standing in front of a three-metre penis sculpture worshiping it, and a purple werewolf with two penises. And you can show two male avs having sex, which perish forbid you should show in the Oculus Rift segment. Plenty of pseudo-lesbians with long fingernails, but no males.
The SL segment was guided by an av named Alycia Blaylock, who has been in SL since 2009 and has apparently never upgraded her av since that point. In fact the whole segment looks like it was shot around 2009, judging by the ghastly sculpty hair. There was even the standard noob av in a striped shirt at a party at one point holding a video camera. Alycia is aware that there is sex in SL and says so -- she has no insight into it, merely that it happens and sometimes involves her. I realize that Alycia is not responsible for what the producers decided to do, but if I had contributed to that segment, I'd retire from SL and come back as an alt. So if you know her, ask her what she was thinking.
One av announces that, gasp, he's chubby in RL but not in SL. Ooh, I had an insight moment there. The most interesting bit was where some large-breasted av was dancing at a party and saying, "Yeah, he's my husband in SL and my husband in RL, and we swing in both worlds, and ..." And then her RL toddler broke in on the voice channel and asked for something and she said, "Not now, honey." Yeah, not now, honey. Mommy's making a fool of herself on national television.
Anyway. I could continue to be crabby, but the point is, SL and Oculus Rift just got assraped again by some producer who wanted to show images of sexual activity on TV without going down the FCC/wardrobe malfunction/huge fines path. Ugh. Avoid this, seriously consider giving up HBO (well, okay, no, I'm a GoT junkie) and if a producer from Matador Productions asks you to participate in a video shoot, run.
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
143: My 5th rezday party at RED
Folks, I had a wonderful time. Thanks very much. VERY much. You filled a gift box with L$2850 for me and I split it between RED and Second Pride -- L$2450 each. Hey, I'm elderly, I can make mistakes in math ... and as I always say, if you don't support the institutions you like in Second Life, they go away.
There were a couple of people who messaged because they couldn't make
Thanks to my darling Alex Thaub and, in no particular order, Marly Moon [marlymoon], Nikolai Warden, Cayson Triellis, Cygnus Neox [cygnus.jun], Uz Bigbear [uzme.evermore], Kerrdan, my
Good music, good friends, and a good time was had by all!
Thursday, 2 July 2015
142: Do our RL friends think SL is all about the sexytimes?
This is something I've thought about; it makes me more reluctant to talk about SL to my friends and family, because I suspect they may perceive it as sleazy and, pretty much, something they don't want to know about. Apparently that was my issue but not theirs. You should read the article, though, which marshals a lot of scientific evidence in a useful and sensible way. (Well done Canary Beck!) If and when you ever have an argument about this, you'll want to have this kind of evidence on hand to crush the opponents.
Read the article here. I swiped the picture of Canary Beck from her blog to show you that she's also really, really skilled at creating a great-looking av.
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Tonight I went and took some pictures at Woodbury Falls; I got the idea from a listing in the Destination Guide. Very cool build and I had...


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KWCH – October 31, 2016
A 31-year-old man was killed Saturday in a motorcycle wreck in the 3000 block of S. Rock Road, near Kellogg and Rock.
Wichita police say the motorcyclist was heading north on Rock Road when a driver traveling west on Peachtree Lane turned in front of him. They say the man was transported to the hospital where he died.
Police say it appears the motorcyclist was not wearing a helmet. His name has not been released.
The crash is Wichita's eighth fatal motorcycle crash of they year, police say.
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BlueShift:dclegg:BlueShift: I was having problems with my cap being blown after a couple of weeks. I managed to trace the cause though - it was because about thirteen years ago, we had a baby boy.
Ain't that the truth! We were easily fitting within our 60GB cap. Then our kids (14 and 11) discovered the joys of streaming YouTube on their iPods. We now sit at around 70-80GB. Thankfully our datacap was recently doubled to 120GB, which should see us right for the near future.
We were just starting to regularly blow out our 20GB cap when they doubled it up to 40GB. That worked for about 2 months, then consumption rose to meet the new ceiling.
Arghck, why does NZ persist with this archaic data limit structure! As a ex-pat Brit I was used to flat rate all you can eat. But as a non heavy use adult couple we had survived quite fine on 20G P/M.....until now. Damn it Apple, what are you up too....


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Summer '13 saw a memorable reunion of the New Left (NL) activists of Indiana University (IU) from the '60s and early '70s. Those were the days when they took on the war in Vietnam and other pressing issues of social justice.
They arrived back on the campus for the reunion from all parts of the country. Quite a number had not broken bread or lifted a glass together in at least a quarter of a century, while many had neither met nor even spoken for over 50 years. Most were now people of age, in their late 60s or early 70s.
The organizers of the gathering came up with a good way to break the ice and get everyone re-acquainted – a 'Town Hall' meeting held in a small auditorium the first morning. Reminiscent of Edgar Lee Masters' long narrative poem, Spoon River Anthology (1915), the result of the IU session was a fascinating compilation of mini-biographies of the activists' lives at the university and beyond.
The crucial difference was that while Masters' characters were all "sleeping on the hill," that is, in the graveyard of the fictional town of Spoon River, the New Left people were alive and well in Bloomington, their old college town. For openers, each one was asked to rise and give a name and a brief ID. Then a couple of dozen of the 60 or so people there were randomly invited one by one to go to the front of the room and bear witness to their long lives on the left – the affiliation of their youth to which they had maintained fidelity over the years.
Taken together their 'testimonies' comprise a remarkably diverse chronicle of life on the left in America since the '60s. This post is the first of a series of the self-portraits sketched that morning that we'll be posting on the blog in the coming months. The first three profiles are of a woman co-founder of the IU New Left; then a man who followed in her footsteps as a campus leader; and finally, a slightly younger speaker whose father, an IU professor, had been a local activist at an earlier critical time in Bloomington.
In their subsequent adult lives, the three became respectively a professional song-writer/musician, a locomotive engineer, and a criminal defense investigator, but all had kept faith with their past. With brief headnotes as background only where needed, the first three stories as recorded and transcribed follow.
Leading off that morning was Nell Levin, the former Bernella Satterfield, a 'red diaper baby'* originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She was somewhat modest about her interesting background. Nell and David Satterfield first met in North Beach in California, then again in Greenwich Village where they hung out with Bob Dylan before his rise to fame. At IU, Nell and David not only played Country and Bluegrass together – Nell on the fiddle, David on the guitar – but during spring '65 when the US escalated the war in Vietnam, they also became co-founders of the campus SDS chapter or the Students for a Democratic Society.
Nell described the '64 group that became the vanguard of SDS as "'outsider' types – we were beatniks, grad students, often older than the typical undergrad, and some of us were from other parts of the country or the world … we were the weirdoes, the bohemian fringe, the vanguard."** Brother Jeff Sharlet, back from the war in Vietnam, joined SDS not long after. He was the only ex-Vietnam GI in the group.
The Satterfields lived with their child Cordelia not far from campus, and their living room became the venue for political discussions and early SDS meetings. In her own voice, Nell picks up the story from there:
I got involved with SDS in the early days, probably about 1964 and I was active til the Weathermen*** takeover, and I said, "I didn't sign up for this." I started writing songs in Los Angeles (LA) and someone said you have to go to Nashville. I had already been to Nashville in '78 playing with a band there, the 'Buffalo Gals', and I knew a lot of people there. I had left Bloomington in 1982-83 and went to LA for six years, that's when I started writing songs. That's when I ended up going back to Nashville.
When I got to Tennessee, I said, 'Wow' there's a lot of problems in Tennessee. You know – it's the South, education was very low. The main thing was, I went to the grocery store and they had a sales tax on food – I came from California where there's no such thing – the most regressive possible tax. I ended up working for a group called 'Tennessians for Fair Taxation' for four years. I ran that organization, and then I was talking to different people and they were saying "We need a statewide progressive coalition."
So in 2001 me and a group of people founded an organization called 'Tennessee Alliance for Progress' – TAP. I've been running that organization for the last 12 years and it's been an interesting road trying to get the progressive agenda passed in that red state. Unfortunately, it's gone from bad to worse now that Republicans control all three branches of government, including the Tennessee legislature.
Nell Levin, 2011
For the first time since Reconstruction, they control everything in Tennessee. In the 2003 election they got a lot of Tea Party people elected so we can't get anything passed presently. (Question from the floor: Do you still have the food tax?) We still do, yes. We had a huge demonstration in 2002-03 when we came within three votes of getting an income tax passed. We had riots in the streets, it was incredible what we went through over that in Nashville, the state capital. By three votes we failed.
We still have tax on food although it's been lowered a little bit. We still have no income tax, but we have the food tax. We always get voted one of the most regressive tax states in the US.
We got discouraged by the 2010 election so we said, "Ok, we're going local." So now we're working in East Nashville, my neighborhood and a majority Black neighborhood. We started doing work on environmentalism, tying that to jobs. That's been our focus for the last three years inspired by the work of Van Jones [an attorney and nationally known environmentalist]. He's endorsed our work on his web site. We're very proud to be endorsed by Van Jones.
So that's what I've been doing for the last 12 years running TAP. It's been a roller coaster, hard to get money in the South for progressive causes. We don't have a lot of the foundations you have in other parts of the country. Anyway that's basically what I'm doing.
Along with her activism, Nell continues her long music career. Backup on a Grammy-nominated CD in 2000, she and her husband Michael recently formed the 'Shelby Bottom String Band'. Their first CD is East Nashville Rag.
Ike Nahem, now an Amtrak locomotive engineer operating out of New York, arrived at Indiana University in the late '60s; he was in the second wave, so to speak, of New Left activists. His reunion 'testimony' below at the Town Hall was fairly complete and requires little further introduction. Ike covered his activism from the IU years through his current continuing involvement on the left:
I was in Bloomington 1969-73, the best years of my life until I met my wife of course. So great to see people here who were my friends and comrades from those years. We were so active – I mean it was the height of the Vietnam War – it was an amazing time.
Ike Nahem and his wife
When you think about it, a school that was 2% Black … elected a member of the Black Panther Party as student body president in an election where thousands and thousands of students voted. Where we gathered in Dunn Meadow this morning, we filled that place after the Kent State and Jackson State killings [spring 1970]. Protestors were way out into the streets.
It was an incredible time, and we had a really serious mass movement on this campus, one of the best in the country, and it was also one of the best organized and led. In Bloomington, we had very little of what we called 'ultra-leftism' and violence and stuff like that.
We were appealing to people and mobilizing them. I remember a lot of us hard core activists in those primitive 'old tech' days would be on a mimeo machine stenciling out things on a leaflet, and spending hours putting something together that we could do in 10 seconds today. We were churning out leaflets and getting ink all over ourselves and going out to demonstrations.
Fifty people would come, 100 people would come, and then one day Nixon invaded Cambodia [April 30,'70], and the same fraternities, some of them who would scream and yell at us, poured out that day. We ended up having like 10,000 people marching down into Dunn Meadow, so those were the times and they were great times.
Anti-Vietnam War rally, Dunn Meadow, Indiana University, 1969
They marked me for the rest of my life, and today I'm still involved in the struggle. I'm an Amtrak locomotive engineer, I drive high-speed trains from New York to Washington, and I'm involved in the union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a division of the Teamsters. I don't have the energy I had back then, but I'm still very active politically.
The main issue I'm involved with is solidarity with Cuba. We're trying to stop the US economic and political war against Cuba, and free the 'Cuban 5' [in prison in the US]. I've also been involved in the Anti-Apartheid struggle. I helped publish some books of Nelson Mandela who I had the honor of meeting as well as Fidel Castro.
It's great to see everybody after all these years. Those Bloomington years were amazing and it's great to see so many people who are fighting the good fight!
Ike Nahem is currently the coordinator of Cuba Solidarity New York and a founder of the July 26 Coalition in support of the Cuban Revolution.
The last of the three activists presented here, Nora Liell was younger than most of the veterans of the New Left's Town Hall, having been a student at Bloomington High School when most of them were at the university. But even in high school, Nora and her classmates were involved in the Vietnam antiwar movement, in particular opposing the draft.
Like Nell Levin, Nora was a 'red diaper baby', but she was also a so-called 'faculty brat' as well – her father was John Liell, a distinguished sociologist at IU who had instilled in his children a sense of social conscience.
A specialist on race and poverty, Professor Liell, a well-published scholar, chose not to confine himself just to academic pursuits. He founded the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and served as first president of the Bloomington chapter of the ACLU. In the late '60s, President Johnson appointed him to an executive position in the 'War on Poverty'.
Nora assumed that many of the IU alums at the Town Hall probably knew her father from student days since both he and his wife were prominent local activists. Proud of her father, she drew special attention to one particular action she knew everyone in the room could relate to.
Bloomington, nestled in southern Indiana, had been a town of 'soft' segregation well into the '50s. Nora's father had "helped organize the sit-in for African Americans to be able to drink at Nick's," the most popular student bar then and now – still there just off campus.
Nick's, Bloomington, Indiana
Following in her parents' footsteps, Nora became a community activist and a volunteer in local Bloomington politics. She later became a criminal defense investigator in the Office of the Indiana State Public Defender in Indianapolis, the state capital.
These have been but three of the many personal testimonies heard that morning at Indiana University during summer '13. In their accounts of their student activism and subsequent lives, Nell, Ike, and Nora presented not only their personal journeys from New Left days, but a view of activism in for progressive causes in America in the course of the decades since those heady times. As Ike Nahem put it, the struggle goes on.
* The phrase 'red diaper baby' usually signifies a child born of at least one parent associated with the American Communist Party, although more loosely as one born of radical parents of the Old Left. It's difficult to know whether a self-described person means the term narrowly or broadly.
***At the final SDS convention held in June '69, the organization split into two factions. The Weathermen faction subsequently went underground and engaged in violence.


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"When you start over these wide plains, let no one leave dependent on his best friend for anything; for if you do, you will certainly, have a blow-out before you get far."
— John Shivley, 1846
Events & Stories:
The Cayuse War – Revenge for the Measles
Crime and Punishment on the Overland Trails
Danger and Hardship on the Oregon Trail
Disease and Death on the Overland Trails
A Ghost Story on the Oregon Trail
Ezra Meeker – Oregon Trail Pioneer
Oregon-California Trail Timeline
Sager Orphans on the Oregon Trail
Eye Witness Accounts:
Crossing the Great Plains in Ox-Wagons
Benjamin Bonneville – Exploring & Defending the American West
Ephraim Brown – Murdered on the Oregon Trail
Jim Bridger – Quintessential Guide of the Rocky Mountains
Corps of Discovery – The Lewis & Clark Expedition
George Donner – Leading the Infamous Donner Party
John C. Fremont – The Pathfinder
Hall Jackson Kelley – Promoting the Oregon Trail
Dr. Marcus Whitman – Missionary to the Cayuse
Oregon Trail Historic Sites:
Landmarks Along the Oregon Trail
Independence, Missouri – Queen City of the Trails
Minor Park/Red Bridge Crossing – Kansas City, Missouri
Alcove Spring – Blue Rapids, Kansas
Rock Creek Station, Nebraska
Fort McPherson, Nebraska
Fort Kearny – Kearney, Nebraska
California Hill/Upper Crossing, Nebraska
Oregon Trail Through the Platte River Valley, Nebraska
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Oregon-California Trail Across Wyoming
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Register Cliff, Guernsey, Wyoming
Guernsey Ruts (Deep Rut Hill) – Guernsey, Wyoming
South Pass – Gateway to the West, Wyoming
South Pass City, Wyoming
Soda Springs Complex – Soda Springs, Idaho
Fort Hall, Idaho
Three Island Crossing – Glenns Ferry, Idaho
Oregon Trail Interpretive Center – Baker City, Oregon
The Oregon Trail became one of the key migration routes that pioneers crossed on their way to the vast west. Spanning over half the continent the trail proceeded over 2,170 miles west through territories that would later become Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon. The long journey through endless plains, rolling hills, and mountain passes, began in Independence, Missouri and ended at the Columbia River in Oregon.
The route of the Oregon Trail began to be scouted as early as 1823 by fur traders and explorers. By the 1830s, it was used regularly by mountain men, traders, missionaries, and military expeditions.
At the same time, small groups of individuals and the occasional family attempted to follow the trail, with some succeeding in arriving at Fort Vancouver, Washington.
On May 16, 1842, the first organized wagon train on the Oregon Trail set out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with more than 100 pioneers. On May 22, 1843, what is known as the Great Migration, with up to a 1,000 settlers, livestock and more, in a massive wagon train, departed to follow the same route from Independence Missouri, arriving in the Willamette Valley. Hundreds of thousands more would follow, especially after gold was discovered in California in 1849.
While the first few parties organized and departed from Elm Grove, Missouri, the Oregon Trail's generally designated starting point was Independence or Westport, Missouri. The trail ended at Oregon City, Oregon, which was the proposed capital of the Oregon Territory at the time. However, many settlers branched off or grew exhausted short of this goal and settled at convenient or promising locations along the way.
At many places along the trail, alternate routes called "cutoffs" were established, either to shorten the trail or to get around difficult terrain. The Lander and Sublette cutoffs provided shorter routes through the mountains than the main route, bypassing Fort Bridger, Wyoming. In later years, the Salt Lake cutoff provided a route to Salt Lake City.


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Born in 1907, but you wouldn't guess that when you see the Steam Locomotive No. 8. Hanomag built it in the last century.
Painted in green, black, red and gold, it is a majestic locomotive that is full of surprises for all the big and small engine drivers who have always dreamed of standing in the cab of a small-gauge steam locomotive.
There you can really let off steam. Press the speed control, listen to the steam engine work and hear the bell chime. And when you close your eyes and listen to the driving noises, you'll feel transported back to the times when the steam locomotive with internal operating number 8 was on duty in Georgsmarienhütte together with its sister locomotives.


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ONE of the real pleasures of dining in New York over the last few years has been keeping tabs on Michael Psilakis, whose path to success hasn't been conventional and whose goal — a quest, really — isn't ordinary. And one of the real pleasures of his newest restaurant, Anthos, is its affirmation of how far he's come and how fast he's done it.
Mr. Psilakis (pronounced see-LAH-kees) didn't go to culinary school or do the requisite apprenticeship in a kitchen run by David Bouley or Jean-Georges Vongerichten. He more or less taught himself to cook in a relatively unknown restaurant on Long Island, where he still lives.
When he dived into Manhattan, it was a headlong plunge. In a half-underground Upper West Side space that hadn't been kind to other restaurants, he unveiled a tasting menu of organ meat, an à la carte menu of retooled Greek dishes and the beginnings of his grand plan: to win Greek cuisine as much respect as any other. He asked diners to trust an unknown chef more than they might a celebrated one, and he gave his restaurant an apt name: Onera, Greek for dreams.
That was three short years ago, and much has happened since. He entered into a partnership with the restaurateur Donatella Arpaia, another creative, gutsy striver, and together they opened Dona, which combined haute Greek with haute Italian and Spanish, on the East Side.
Together they watched it close, despite its acclaim, when it lost its lease. Mr. Psilakis responded with a frenzy of activity. He remade Onera into Kefi, striking a casual tone better suited to its neighborhood.Continue reading the main story
And with Ms. Arpaia he opened Anthos, the restaurant you might get if you triangulated between Onera and Dona. It has the former's resoundingly Greek soul. It has the latter's fussy tics and more sophisticated wine list, with sommeliers who can guide you through the impressive advances of Greek winemaking.
It's better than its predecessors, although it doesn't come together quite smoothly or sharply enough to loft Mr. Psilakis and Ms. Arpaia to the level they clearly aspire to and will almost certainly reach.
Much of the cooking is inspired, and much of it is excellent. Mr. Psilakis takes familiar Greek ingredients and flavors and puts them through unfamiliar paces, the results wedding the rustic and the elegant in keenly enjoyable ways.
I think of his skordalia soup, named for the garlicky Greek potato purée. At Anthos the potato is present and accounted for, but it's thinned and lightened with Greek yogurt. The resulting liquid is poured tableside into a shallow bowl that harbors a painstaking arrangement of skordalia interlopers: a long, sliced caper berry; an oval of diced beet; several crispy, batter-encased orbs of cod; and stacked petals of cod confit with an amazing tenderness and a generous sprinkling of dill. Currents of dill run more forcefully through dishes at Anthos than at other restaurants, joining yogurt and citrus as key players and flavors.
They brighten the taste of the soup, while the diced beet brightens its color, dispersing into gorgeous ruby swirls and wisps. It's a painterly dish, but no more so than one of the other most memorable appetizers, a triptych of an oyster topped with radish and pink peppercorn; sweet shrimp covered in crumbled feta, tomato and basil; and strands of crab meat beneath a sea urchin tzatziki and pearls of trout roe. That crab composition is a glittering orange dream, with some of the sweetest and briniest notes the sea can offer.
Of special note among the other appetizers is an intense hilopita, or Greek pasta, that has a salty, earthy sauce of manouri cheese, black truffle, snails and rabbit. Anthos also presents a five-item variety pack, if you will, of Mr. Psilakis's answer to crudo, including — my favorite — yellowtail placed over an artichoke purée and crowned with crisped grape leaves.
The variety pack, like the soup's dual treatments of cod, speaks to Mr. Psilakis's pronounced tendency for doing dishes in multiple parts, an inclination that can feel generous, affected and quizzical, sometimes all at once.
It works very well in a pork entree of tiny rack chops, pork belly and cabbage stuffed with braised pork shoulder and rice, all of these elements united by a lemony, eggy, surprisingly light avgolemono sauce. It makes less obvious sense in an entree of grilled swordfish flanked by octopus and medallions of a lamb and pork sausage, but no matter: the contrast between the swordfish's crisp outside and moist inside is all the logic the dish needs.
This fondness for intricacy is echoed in the arresting desserts by the pastry chef, Bill Corbett. Out comes a long transparent pipe with five indentations for yogurt mousse topped with spoon fruits made of such ingredients as lemon (one indentation) and olive (another). Out comes baklava interpreted three ways, only one of them instantly recognizable.
On all levels, Anthos works hard to please. There are deft little considerations and extras everywhere: the faintly tangy, intoxicatingly creamy goat's milk butter that's provided, along with regular butter, for the bread; a slew of canapés at a dinner's start; the bowl of lightly pickled vegetables that comes, in addition to fries, with the terrific lamb burger at lunch.
And the sommeliers aren't the only servers who know their stuff. While many haute French restaurants struggle to find servers who can talk about the menu nimbly and authoritatively, Anthos has fielded a sizable team of them. Their polish is a hallmark of an Arpaia production.
But the script they've been given — extended musings on the provenances of ingredients and the nature of Mr. Psilakis's "flavor profile" — communicates a self-consciousness that only a few of the dishes are transcendent enough to justify.
And it's a self-consciousness at odds with the drab rectangular room, which has none of Dona's sly exuberance. Washed-out pictures of cherry blossoms hang on off-white walls; brown chairs sit on a slate floor. Anthos has a seriously depressed air about it.
It has other problems as well. Pauses between courses are too long, and not everything that arrives is worth the wait. Apart from the swordfish and a shellfish stew that's like a spicier bouillabaisse with a more diverse population of shellfish (razor clams, whelks), the seafood entrees proved disappointing, with the fish having to fight somewhat to float above the overly busy company it kept. Turbot, for example, was weighed down by puréed eggplant, onions glazed with vin cotto and pickled fig.
Even so, the ratio of hits to misses is better at Anthos than at Dona, where the menu's sprawl worked against it. If the setting were cheerier and the kitchen's efforts just a little more selective and straightforward, Mr. Psilakis and Ms. Arpaia would have a restaurant that represented not just the blossom but the full flower of his dream. The quest continues, or at least I hope it does.
36 West 52nd Street; (212) 582-6900.
ATMOSPHERE A dull rectangular room with a mirrored back wall, a dearth of color and white-draped tables provides a somewhat solemn theater for vibrant Greek cooking.
SOUND LEVEL Moderate.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Raw seafood meze; oyster, crab and shrimp combination; egg noodles with rabbit and snails; skordalia soup; lamb burger; swordfish; spicy shellfish stew; baby pork chops with pork belly; baklava trio; yogurt tasting; sesame ice cream with caramel; rose and white chocolate crema.
WINE LIST Extensive and varied in geography and price, with an unusually strong Greek selection.
PRICE RANGE Appetizers, $12 to $18. Entrees, $20 to $46. Desserts, $9 to $12. Three-course lunch prix fixe, $28. Seven-course dinner tasting menu, $85.
HOURS Lunch from noon to 2:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. Dinner from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday.
RESERVATIONS Call at least a week ahead for prime times.
CREDIT CARDS All major cards.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Entrance and dining room at street level; accessible restroom.
WHAT THE STARS MEAN Ratings range from zero to four stars and reflect the reviewer's reaction to food, ambience and service, with price taken into consideration. Menu listings and prices are subject to change.Continue reading the main story


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A 'Special' is an unlicensed medicine that has been made especially to suit your needs. Your doctor will tell you if they have prescribed you or your child a Special and they will also tell you why. You may have been prescribed a Special for a number of different reasons; however it will be because there is no licensed alternative that is suitable to help treat you. It may be that you're allergic to the medicine, that the medicine you need is currently unavailable or maybe you have difficulty swallowing tablets.
Unlicensed medicines are made up of well-known medicinal ingredients that can, sometimes, just be mixed in a different way or provided as liquid instead of a tablet.
How Specials are made
The doctor who has prescribed your medicine will write on a prescription what needs to be in the medicine for your treatment. In most cases the pharmacist will order your medicine from a 'Specials manufacturer' who will hold a Specials Licence. Manufacturers who hold a licence have proved that the products they produce are safe and made to a high quality as a pharmaceutical medicine.
How to take your Special
Your doctor and pharmacist will do their utmost to ensure you get your medicine as speedily as possible, however because it has to be ordered and sometimes made especially for you, you may have to collect it the following day.
Your medicine will have been prescribed to you by a doctor and usually prepared by a Specials manufacturer. In order for the medicine to be effective you must follow the instructions accompanying it, including when and how often you should take it.
As with any medicine, licensed or unlicensed, there are occasionally side effects. If you have any serious side effects or reactions, it is important that you contact your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible. They have a duty of care to you and will need to know this information to help care for you.
The code of ethics says that the patient is the first concern to a doctor or pharmacist, so they need to be sure that the quality, safety and effectiveness is top notch before they pass it on to you.
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If you have any questions regarding your medication then always discuss these with your doctor or pharmacist who will be happy to help.
Crushing tablets
Many people have difficulty swallowing tablets and capsules, but you should be very cautious before attempting to dissolve tablets in water by crushing or splitting them. This is because the effect of the drugs can be changed in the process of opening a tablet. There are different ways this can happen, for example:
- They may not fully dissolve in the water in which case you don't get the full dose.
- The capsule may be a slow release formula, designed to gradually dissolve inside your body over several hours – taking the whole dose in one 'hit' could be dangerous.
- The ingredients inside the tablet or capsule could irritate your skin or stomach.
- Some drugs are de-activated by acids in your stomach and need the protection of the capsule
- Also, some drugs have a very unpleasant taste when not in a tablet form
Splitting tablets to obtain a smaller dose is also not recommended. This is because the drug (active ingredient) is not always evenly distributed within the tablet so you may get more, or less, than you need with every dose.
Unless it says so on the label, you shouldn't crush, split or open tablets and capsules without first CHECKING WITH YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST.
If you are unable to swallow your tablets, or you need a smaller dose then your doctor may be able to prescribe a different medicine that is already licensed. If not, they may prescribe a Special for you, which will be a liquid version specially formulated for you.
Frequently asked questions
Medicines and licenses
What is a licensed medicine?
A licensed medicine is a medical product prescribed by doctors to patients, which holds an MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) approved marketing authorisation.
In order to get a licence, the medicine that has been discovered, must be successfully tested via clinical trials. These trials will be carried out on people with the aim of ensuring that the medicine is safe, effective and to discover what side effects the medicine may cause. About one fifth of medicines that are tested on clinical trials are successful.
Once the clinical trials have proved successful, then the MHRA can issue a marketing authorisation for that medicine and it can go on the market. The effects of the medicine will be continuously monitored for safety.
Why do medicines need to be licensed?
Having a marketing authorisation means that the medicine has passed all the safety checks, which will have included a clinical trial on humans. In order for a marketing authorisation to be issued, the trials must have concluded that the product is of a high standard, will effectively treat the ailment it was designed for and also that the risks and side effects are at a minimum. In short, licensing medication helps to protect patients from adverse side effects.
Who licenses medicines?
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are in control of the issue of a marketing authorisation. The MHRA are a government controlled organisation founded in 2003 and are responsible for making sure that medicine and medical devices work effectively and are safe to all users.
When is a Special be prescribed?
Specials need to be prescribed when a patient needs treatment for an illness that no licensed medicine can treat, or if a Special formulation of an existing licensed medicine needs to be made. For example, if someone has suffered a stroke and has lost the ability to swallow, then they may need a medicine that is only licensed in the form of a tablet. In this case, a Special will be made changing this tablet into a liquid. There are many different reasons and types of Special and so the medicine is always made up to meet the exact needs of an individual patient.
Is it safe to take Specials?
Specials manufacturers in the UK must hold a 'Specials Manufacturing Licence' which is issued by the MHRA. Risks to patients are minimal, as in most cases, the prescribers are experts in the use of Specials. Risks can be reduced further by selecting a reliable manufacturer and supplier, ensuring that the quality and safety of Specials does not differ from a licensed medicine. Specials are manufactured to a very high standard in premises regulated to pharmaceutical standard and regularly checked by MHRA inspectors. Read more about our Quality Processes.
What do I do with a Special prescription?
You can take it to your pharmacy and hand it in, like any other prescription. The pharmacist will probably need to order the Special from a Specials Manufacturer, which will usually take about 24 hours.
How do I take a Special?
Your pharmacist will provide written instructions telling you exactly how to take the Special and for how long. Always follow this information. If you're not sure, it is important to ask your pharmacist or doctor.
SAFETY. If you are unsure about a medicine, or experience any side effects, you should contact your doctor or pharmacist immediately for advice. More information about medicines safety and reporting can be found here


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Well unless you haven't hit the shops in say, oh 6 months, (is it just me or do they wheel out the 'next' season clothes earlier and earlier each year?!), you'll be well aware that Spring/Summer fashion really is in full swing. I always find that as the end of a season is over – adios Winter- it is a fabulous idea to do your closet cleanout to make room for all the beautiful new season threads that you want to get your hands on!
If you still find that you have not done your 'post winter' cleanout – don't despair - there is no time like the present to get on with it. I thought that I would share a few of my tips for a top closet cleanout...
If you haven't done a declutter of your wardrobe for quite some time (or at all!), set aside some time in your diary where you can focus on the task at hand without the interruption of the phone – kids – husband – dog – whatever it is that distracts you!
I find that it is best to do a little cleanout after each season has passed as you can see what you did and did not wear for the season. Chances are that if you spent an entire season without wearing an item in your closet, that you won't wear it again with that season rolls around again – get rid of it!
One of my lovely readers suggests holding on to it for a set period of time (in a box or basket) and if you haven't reached for it in a set period of time, be gone with it!!
One of my lovely readers suggests holding on to it for a set period of time (in a box or basket) and if you haven't reached for it in a set period of time, be gone with it!!
If you find that your closet is bursting at the seams, consider 'archiving' your out of season clothes. That way you won't be wasting time wading through racks of jumpers in summer trying to find something to wear when it is 36 degrees outside.
After that season has passed, you are unlikely to need your clothes until the season approaches again in 9 or so month's time. That is right – you really won't need 12 shoestring dresses in the thick of Winter – trust me!
After that season has passed, you are unlikely to need your clothes until the season approaches again in 9 or so month's time. That is right – you really won't need 12 shoestring dresses in the thick of Winter – trust me!
Vacuum packed bags, archive boxes, or under-bed storage tubs are brilliant for this. Clearly label the box eg. Summer, so that you know what to get out when the new season approaches.
|Source: Howards Storage World
By keeping only current season items in your wardrobe you will not only save space, but time in the morning by being presented by only the options suitable for the season.
Handy hint to Melbournians – remember to keep at least a few cardis and jackets at arms length because you know Melbourne – 40 degrees one day and 11 the next – I am not kidding!!
What to keep? What to toss?
Ask yourself - Does the garment fit? Does it make me feel amazing? Have I worn this in the last few months? Is it damaged and not likely to be repaired? Do I have anything to go with it?
It can be so difficult to get rid of items that have 'historical' value to you, that is you cannot dare to part with 'said dress' because you wore it 12 years ago when you met the love of your life. You really don't need to treat your closet like a 'museum' of clothing of past eras.
Same goes for the wedding dress that can almost take up half a closet on its own.
|This really is me in my wedding dress which is packed away!
If you truly must hang on to it, consider vacuum packing this and storing it in the garage or shed or under your bed. That is where I store my wedding gown pictured above from my big day in 2008.
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Do you have 10 pairs of black pants or maybe 40 pairs of jeans?! Sound familiar? You really don't need to have 100 items of the same thing, pick the best and throw out the rest!
I must admit that I am guilty of this one at times. I will often see a dress that I think will be perfect for a ball or a wedding. But the truth is my lifestyle is not about attending fabulous parties or nightclubs every weekend like it may have once been pre-baby.
If you are holding on to items in your closet for a lifestyle that you wish you had rather than the lifestyle you actually have - then get rid of it!
Being on one wage or being on a budget can be a strain on your clothing allowance. But what better way to raise money for new season clothes than by selling those un-wanted garments?!
Ebay is absolutely fabulous for this, however if you are cleaning out 'post season', then I suggest boxing up items and waiting until that season rolls around again before you list your clothes on ebay. That way your clothes will fetch a 'prettier penny' selling in season, rather than out of season.
If there are items that are damaged, or just not worth selling – do a good deed and donate to your local charity store.
|Some of my recent ebay sales ready to post!
One of the the best pieces of advice that I received from the Style Workshop I attended last month(if you missed my review on this, you can read about it here) was to fill your wardrobe with clothes you love and that make you look and feel fabulous and nothing less. Great advice for everyone!
|Why look and feel less than fabulous when there is fashion like this around?! Source: Review Australia
Sorting your closet can be highly emotional and difficult for so many of us. Why not enlist the help of a family member or friend (with an objective attitude) or seek the advice of a professional? It might make this job a little easier to do.
What is your top tip for a tip top closet? When is the last time you cleaned out your closet? I'll feature some closet 'organising' tips before the Summer season ends!!


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You commune with a spirit of your choice, and it grants your animal companion or familiar a boon.
Prerequisite(s): Animal companion class feature or familiar class feature.
Benefit: At the start of the day, you can choose to commune with a single shaman spirit. (Although a shaman would need an hour of preparation, this takes you no time.) Once during the next 24 hours, you can spend a standard action to grant your animal companion or familiar that shaman spirit's spirit animal ability for 1 minute per level in the class that grants your animal companion or familiar.
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Described as a fatal, hypnotizing raspberry color that makes feminine appeal which cannot be expressed with colors of pink or red alone. 3CE has recently released the new Dangerous Matte Lip Color collection which promises a long lasting, vivid color pay off. Adding to my ever growing 3CE collection thanks to BNTNews, this time round I've received mine in a femme fatale shade: #807 hypnotic.
A powdery, matte finish with really amazing staying power; unlike most matte lips, I especially like how it didn't turn patchy or start drying my lips throughout the day. My lip was left looking powdery matte without accentuating the fine lines – tres chic.
3CE Dangerous Matte Lip Color in #807 HYPNOTIC
However, I would strongly advise for you to always moisturise your lips before applying 3CE Dangerous Matte Lip Color for a way smoother application. The first time I applied it on with dry lips, it was a disaster to even get the product onto my lips not to mention of me having so much difficulty in having glide on smoothly. That being said, the colour was really intense and pigmented (which is something you can always expect from 3CE products), one swipe was more than enough for this creamy colour to be shown. Just always always remember to wear a lip balm prior to application!
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You have mastered the use of oversized weapons.
Prerequisite: Lighten Weapon, BAB +8.
Benefit: Choose a weapon when taking this feat. When using the Lighten Weapon feat, you do not suffer the associated −2 penalty to attack when using that feat with your chosen weapon.
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