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The processing of the fabrics
Our work in the laboratory is based on a long and precise fabric processing that are treated exclusively by hand. So every piece of this workshop requires a 'loving care in' execution, marked in time. The processing of a fabric follows the rhythms of craftsmanship. Here, the time is measure in quality not in quantity. The waiting times depend on the type of processing and request. Each creation is unique.
The Fabric
The fabric is a living component of the work of our shop. Before the arrival of the textile industries, fabrics were woven by hand with handmade frames. To women were given a room in the house for this valuable work. Each woven fabric, consisting of warp and weft, looks like a landscape that must be reorganized and made homogeneous. So even before thinking of printing, the fabrics are manganates. Thanks to the pressure of the rock - driven by the movement of the wheel - the fabric is fulled, softened and smoothed to prepare then to the press. In a second time, the printing is done by hand with the molds of pear wood carved by hand, that we use in our workshop.
The molds and the colors
From 1600 to today in our family museum we have about 2000 molds, exclusive of our printing house. With these molds, you can go back to the habits and customs, styles and personalities and culture that have influenced the independent craftsmen that have passed their work over the centuries. The colors used in the laboratory are natural and minerals. They are dosed expertly in accordance with a secret family recipe that passing from our great-grandfather to us continue to be refined over time. The choice of a color is essential to give the garments a brightness and vividness that is renewed with every wash. In the prints of Romagna, prevails the rust-color, a yellow ocher indelible over time but the blue color is very valuable and much required as well as green and red.
The fabric is printed wetting the molds on the color buffer, which is then placed gently on the fabric, keeping the mold unmoving and hitting it strongly with the bunch. This procedure is repeated until the color has not been fully transferred to the fabric. And so on up to complete the job. Then we pass to fix the paint on the fabric to make it permanent and always brilliant. All our garments can be washed in the washing machine and do not change color. After fixing the fabric is washed and re-passed under the mangano to be ironed again.
We test out new colors continuously, applied with other techniques such as painting on fabric (Fabric painted by LARA) why our fabrics are unique pieces, each time different from each other.


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This bust of Joan of Arc by Maxime Real del Sarte stands in the narthex of the Basilica of Saint Joan of Arc. The church was constructed in honor of the saint, who intervened to save Paris from German forces that were massing outside the gates of the city in September 1914.
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This listing is for 10 x 12mm square silver plated lever back earring trays (5 pairs)
The 12mm square glass domes are also available in my store!
Adhere your image to the glass dome using crystal lacquer.
Once dry put a small amount of E6000 or Crystal Lacquer into the tray and push your dome in!
They make a beautiful addition to a handmade pendant.
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Wedding in Perth of Rita and Chris.
They had their wedding reception at Burswood, which was just beautiful.
Groom's men had a barber shave in the morning. this was a very special part of the wedding day for the boys.
The groom's men all dressed up and ready to go the wedding
Rita (bride) getting ready. Just the final details now and on our way to the wedding ceremony.
You've gotta love the C300 limos in wedding photos. this was shot in King Street, Perth.
Perth Wedding photos of Rita and Chris
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Terrorist attacks and deaths hit record high, report shows
CNN Belief Blog via Creeping Sharia — 10/29/2013
As terrorism increasingly becomes a tactic of warfare, the number of attacks and fatalities soared to a record high in 2012, according to a new report obtained exclusively by CNN.
More than 8,500 terrorist attacks killed nearly 15,500 people last year as violence tore through Africa, Asia and the Middle East, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
That's a 69% rise in attacks and an 89% jump in fatalities from 2011, said START, one of the world's leading terrorism-trackers.
Six of the seven most deadly groups are affiliated with al Qaeda, according to START, and most of the violence was committed in Muslim-majority countries.
The previous record for attacks was set in 2011 with more than 5,000 incidents; for fatalities the previous high was 2007 with more than 12,800 deaths.
This year is expected to outpace even 2012's record high. There were 5,100 attacks in the first six months of 2013, said Gary LaFree, START's director, and the wave of violence shows few signs of ebbing.
In recent weeks, Al-Shabaab, a militant group based in Somalia, attacked a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving 67 dead; suicide bombers killed 81 at a church in Pakistan; and the Taliban took credit for killing two police officers with a car bomb in Afghanistan.
To find and tally attacks like those, START's computers comb through 1.2 million articles from 50,000 media outlets each month with an algorithm to help identify and eliminate redundancies. Its 25-member staff then studies, categorizes and counts each attack.
Sectarian attacks – such as the pitched battles between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan – tend to be disproportionately deadly, said Martha Crenshaw, an expert at Stanford University and a START board member.
"Sadly, it seems to be increasingly acceptable in certain belief systems to kill as many members of the other religious community as possible," she said. "Moral restraints seem to be eroding."
In the 1970s, most attacks were committed with guns and occurred in Western Europe. In the 1980s, Latin America saw the most terrorist acts. Beginning with the 1990s, South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East has seen steadily rising number of attacks, a trend that has accelerated in recent years.
Although terrorism touched 85 countries last year, just three – Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan – suffered more than half of 2012's attacks (55%) and fatalities (62%).
Just eight private U.S. citizens died in attacks outside the United States in 2012, all in Afghanistan, according to the State Department. In the United States, seven people died in 11 terrorist attacks last year, six of them in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
Despite the death of Osama bin Laden and capture of other key al Qaeda leaders, the group has exported its brand of terrorism to other militant Muslims, according to START and other counterterrorism experts.
"We've had success in stopping al Qaeda central," LaFree said. "But we have been unsuccessful in stopping the message." [CS: And always will be as long as it's in the Koran and other Islamic texts]
Afghanistan's Taliban was by far the deadliest group in 2012, when it launched 525 attacks that killed 1,842 people.
The second deadliest group was Nigeria's Boko Haram, a jihadist group that orchestrated 364 attacks last year that killed 1,132 people.
The next most deadly were al Qaeda in Iraq, the Communist Party of India-Maoist, Somalia's Al-Shabaab, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan's branch of the Taliban.
And while most terrorism in 2012 was committed in Muslim-majority countries, LaFree and other experts cautioned against viewing Islam itself as inherently violent. [CS: You can caution against it, but again, examining the actual texts makes clear that it actually is inherently violent]
"Not so long ago, terrorism was centered in Western Europe and Latin America," LaFree said. "It moves. And, unfortunately, it has moved into the Muslim world right now."
Like Benjamin, Rizwan Jaka, a Muslim leader based in Northern Virginia, said that political – not religious – motivations lay behind many acts of terrorism.
"It isn't like they woke up and said 'I'm a Muslim; I'm going to go kill someone in a shopping mall,' " Jaka said. "In their twisted mind, this is political retaliation."
[Except that it in Islam the religious aspect is inextricably linked to the political. This is why Islam commands death for apostasy and blasphemy. All these terrorist attacks spread across such a wide range of nationalities, languages, countries, types of governments, have one thing in common motivating them: Islam.]
Still, American Muslims are working to reduce Sunni-Shiite tensions, said Jaka, a board member of the Islamic Society of North America.
The Fiqh Council of North America, an influential group that issues rulings based on Sharia, or Islamic law, released a fatwa endorsed by dozens of Muslims in 2005 categorically condemning terrorism. [CS: Muslims continually tell us there is no sharia in the U.S...but there are Muslim groups making sharia rulings?]
More recently, the Islamic Society of North America has met with African and Middle Eastern leaders to urge them to protect the rights of religious minorities and discourage terrorism.
In September, Sunni and Shiite leaders meeting in Washington announced an agreement to set aside differences and address the "dire situation of unrest, destruction, genocide and refugees" in many predominantly Muslim countries.
"All Muslims are one nation, even if the schools of thought are diverse," the scholars' declaration said. "Such diversity is a source of intellectual enrichment and should not be the cause of accusations of disbelief, murder, and the desecration of sanctities."
[Comment from Creeping Sharia]: Unfortunately, in the Orwellian world we now find ourselves in, journalists and news organizations are increasingly sympathetic to or rely on terrorist groups and run to terror-linked Muslim groups for comment. Case in point, ISNA. It's a Muslim Brotherhood linked, Saudi-funded Islamic group that lost its status in Canada for funding Hamas and is an unindicted co-conspirator to the largest terror conviction in U.S. history. In a sane world, they would have been prosecuted and disbanded. They still might be. Until then, the terror-linked group is now Barrack Hussein Obama's go to Islamic organization.


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John Appleby, chief economist at The King's Fund, also warned services in some hospitals could seriously deteriorate due to the impact of the economic crisis.
He said it was highly unlikely the NHS budget would be significantly increased in the foreseeable future.
Against this grim financial background managers are being asked to get 5p more value from every £1 they spend, every year, partially to keep up with the increasing demands of an ageing population.
Patients have already experienced the effect of this. For example, nine in 10 trusts have introduced tighter criteria to qualify for a range of procedures deemed to be of 'low clinical value' - including hip and knee replacements, cataract removals and weight-loss surgery.
Doctors and patient groups have argued that these are unfair and will be more expensive in the long run.
But Prof Appleby said the "financial imperative" was so pressing that such restrictions were likely to continue well beyond 2015.
He said: "In terms of disinvesting from comparatively low value treatments, I would expect that to go on, even though it's extremely difficult if it's a case of withdrawing a service."
However, he questioned how much impact limiting access to such procedures actually had on improving the finances of primary care trusts (PCTs), which pay for treatments in hospitals.
And he said the NHS needed to make "a quantum leap" to keep raising productivity year after year, to save a cumulative total of £50 billion by 2020.
Restricting some operations, plus "shaving a bit off the length of stay in hospitals and changing to low energy lightbulbs isn't going to do it".
Politicians had to grasp the nettle and tackle more fundamental questions, he said, such as the fact that there were "too many hospitals in the wrong places".
"The system of care is not as good as it could be if we reorganised it," he said.
Earlier this week, The Daily Telegraph disclosed that South London Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs three hospitals, was on the brink of bankruptcy and could soon be run by a management team appointed by ministers. Exactly what will then happen to it is unclear.
But senior figures say this is not an isolated example, and there are many other hospital trusts in dire financial problems, particularly in outer London and the south east, that could go the same way.
Asked if closures were inevitable, Prof Appleby said: "In a word, yes."
Whole hospitals could close, he said, "or relatively small district general hospitals could attempt to withdraw from providing the full range of services and become more specialist".
In the meantime there was the danger of a poorer and poorer service in underperforming hospitals, he warned.
"I think the worry with that is that there will be certain areas that would start to see deterioration of services to such a degree that the Care Quality Commission has to step in."
The CQC has the power to close down wards or services until the provider meets safety standards, and can even close them down permanently.
Prof Appleby said: "That's really serious: it's patients having to be ferried to other areas.
"If the NHS got to that stage it would be really appalling."
Earlier this month Mike Farrar, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, warned that without "assertive action", "the NHS looks like a supertanker heading for an iceberg".
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "We know the NHS can, and must be, more efficient to meet future challenges. Where the NHS can do things better and save money to reinvest in high quality patient care, it must do so. We have always been absolutely clear that being efficient does not mean cutting services — it means getting the best services to meet patients' needs and the best value for every pound the NHS spends."


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MCK would like to thank Jakarta Free Spirit (JKS) and Wintermar Offshore Marine Group for their continuous support of the Cancer Kiddies.
The annual zoo run was held on Sunday 7 May, 2017. Thanks to JFS and Wintermar, the kiddies and family enjoyed a morning at the zoo. MCK are also extremely grateful to the Conquer Cancer Club students at Jakarta Intercultural School who joined in the fun and helped with making sure no one got lost and everyone had a good time.


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There is so much I want to tell you about the middle way, about evenness, neither embracing nor rejecting. This idea that everything just shape-shifts, and nothing is ever really gained or lost in the sense of how we define gain and loss, out of our profound longing for the security that absolutes appear to give us. It turns out security is an illusion, so we might as well begin making choices aligned with our inner voice and dare to discover the truth of who we really are.
The world never stops sending us messages, if we might only find the courage and clear sight to receive them.
There is so much I want to tell you about wild horses, bows and arrows, primordial warriors, the retracting claws of mountain lions, about locks and pulleys, windmills, Tasmania, the alphabet, Maoris, archaeological discoveries, lost cities beneath overgrown jungles, the jaguar (he who kills with one leap) moving through the world alone except to mate.
It doesn't matter what the song is, or if it's even playing at all: it's always there inside you, dormant yet vibrantly alive with the vastness you contain, the spaciousness around your heart that you often forget is there but then notice again, reminded when you sit quietly and take a long, slow breath.
I want to tell you about the marches of ants and the fiestas of rats, though you already know. The unseen houses of cottontail rabbits born naked and blind, the smoky jungle frog and the violet orchid, the harpy eagle waiting high up in a ceiba tree for eleven hours to snatch his prey, like some avian samurai of the rainforest. The love I have for so many people, and the brokenness I feel at having lost so many. The visions I have of roads that wind through the countryside. I see a rucksack, a hat, a walking stick.
Strange, how there's no money in bending spoons, walking through walls, eating fire, poetry.


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This creature resembles an executioner's hood constructed of blackish-gray leather. Two hollow eye holes are present in its form.
Executioner's Hood CR 2
N Tiny aberration
Init +1; Senses blindsense 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., scent; Perception +8
AC 16, touch 13, flat-footed 15 (+1 Dex, +3 natural, +2 size)
hp 11 (2d8+2)
Fort +1; Ref +1; Will +4
Immune sleep
Weaknesses light sensitivity, vulnerability to alcohol
Speed 10 ft., climb 5 ft.
Melee slam +3 (1d4 plus grab)
Space 2–1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Special Attacks engulf, constrict (1d4), strangle
The executioner's hood clings to the ceiling, waiting for prey to pass under it. When prey passes by, the hood drops and attempts to engulf the victim's head. Slain victims are slowly devoured by the hood.
Str 10, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 3, Wis 13, Cha 10
Base Atk +1; CMB +0 (+4 grapple); CMD 10 (can't be tripped)
Feats Skill Focus (Perception)
Skills Climb +8, Perception +8, Stealth +13
Engulf (Ex)
Though it is a Tiny monster, the hood can drop onto the head of a Medium or smaller creature as a standard action. If the hood's attack succeeds, it can immediately make a grapple check to grab its target and constrict. The hood's crawling tendrils wrap themselves tightly around its victim, seeking entry into the creature's ears, nose, and throat, making it difficult to remove. Any attacks against the hood deal half damage to the hood and its grappled target inside.
Strangle (Ex)
A grappling executioner's hood entirely covers its opponent's head with an airtight grip. A creature that is grappled by the hood cannot speak or cast spells with verbal components and must hold its breath (see suffocation) unless it doesn't speak or breathe through its head.
Vulnerability to Alcohol (Ex)
Strong alcohol harms the hood. Every quart poured on it causes 1 point of damage. Four quarts of alcohol incapacitates it and forces it to release a grappled target.
Environment underground
Organization solitary
Treasure standard
The executioner's hood is a deadly monster, black in color and 1 inch thick, that resembles an actual executioner's hood or a small black bag. It has two eyeholes that can be used to see into or out of the monster (if some unfortunate soul happens actually to pick it up—or worse, put it on). The executioner's hood is sometimes used to guard valuable belongings. It does so unerringly as long as a constant supply of food is available.
Executioner's Hood from the Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Gary Gygax.


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By TAPINTO CRANFORD STAFFDecember 2, 2019
CRANFORD - What happened in Cranford Public Schools in the month of November? The following is Dr. Scott Rubin's November Superintendent's Report.
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An 85-year old woman has held her last yoga class after teaching the meditative therapy for just over 40 years.
Betty Marshall, 85, of Scarcroft, said farewell to her students last Thursday when she taught her last yoga class at the Scarcroft Village Hall.
Ms Marshall who is retired will be using her new found spare time to spend time with her husband and enjoy her hobbies.
She said: "I have a disabled husband and mainly because of him and having other jobs I found it too much to go every single week and I was getting very tired. I got the most wonderful card from my students with some lovely remarks it was really very touching"
Ms Marshall's interest in yoga started when she met an Indian lady who taught her some breathing exercises and about the benefits of the relaxation therapy.
"I trained in Leeds in 1973. I went to night school from 7 until 9 most nights and that was certified by the British Wheel of Yoga, which is our official body."
Ms Marshall also suffers with a degenerative eye condition which has to be treated weekly but has not let her age slow her down over the years.
"From starting I practised with friends until I felt confident teaching people. You do a lot of things over the years, I am now 85 but I can still teach, you don't have to do the postures to teach, I can still do quite a few of the things but if you are a good teacher you can talk people through it."
But Betty says this is not a goodbye to yoga forever.
She said: "I will probably do odd ones now and then just to keep together because we have become good friends over the years and it is in my blood. It teaches people to relax and it's good for any condition. I have taught old people, people whop have suffered a stroke and those who suffer with multiple sclerosis. It benefits the body and the mind and it doesn't belong to any religion but it makes people think deeper."
Betty has relied on word of mouth and students telling their friends to see a growth in the popularity of her classes.
She said: "I love my classes and I believe my students enjoy them as well. We have a little meditation and quite a bit of breathing practice. We have ten minutes of relaxation and of course we improve ourselves phyisically with our postures.
"We have a lot of fun, friendship and better health mentally, physically and emotionally."


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This plug-in for Maya exports the skin cluster weights of your selected mesh to a file, which can then be used to re-create the skinning of the model.
Exporting and importing of skin weights is an important step during the rigging process in case a character needs to be rebuild.
There are many other solutions for this process and they all differ in style and speed, whereas speed is the most important difference, especially with meshes of higher resolution.
transferSkinCluster only stores weights on a vertex id basis which might not be ideal in all cases where meshes vary in resolution. Though in most cases where it's necessary to read and write skin weight data the source and destination model is the same.
Maya versions 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2016.5, 2017, 2018 on OS X, Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit.
Please see the general install guide.
You can use the icons from the download to create shelf buttons for the commands.
icTransferSkinCluster 0 0
Writes the skin cluster of the selected mesh to a file.
icTransferSkinCluster 1 0
Opens a window to let you select the skin cluster weights to import.
If you are interested in using the actual extraction command from the plug-in in your own scripts you can use the following command for help and usage:
transferSkinCluster -h
Select your skinned mesh and execute the export command.
After a successful export the export path is written to the script editor output.
The weight file is stored in the data folder of the current project as a regular text file with a custom extension (.scw).
After executing the import command a window will list all stored skin weights in the data folder of the current project.
Select the data set and click the import button. The weights file contains the name of the bound geometry and the influencing joints, so it is not necessary to select anything.
When selecting a weights file and the node names stored in the file do not match the content of the current scene a second list will show all the unmatched names from the file.
The window will also display various renaming options:
- rename existing nodes in the scene by applying the selected node name from the list to the selected node in the scene
- use a search and replace to rename the file content according to the existing scene nodes; this creates a new weights file with modified names which can then be used for import
- add a prefix or suffix to rename the file content according to the existing scene nodes; this creates a new weights file with modified names which can then be used for import
For more information about the renaming options go to Menu > Help > Rename Help of the import window.
Because different Maya versions handle the order of skin influences differently it is possible that previously saved weights will be applied in reverse order with a different version of Maya.
If you encounter such problems when loading a weights file set the second argument of the command to either 0 or 1, depending on which version the weights were saved with and what the current version of Maya is.
Speed can be an important factor when writing and reading skin data and every tool is different in this aspect.
transferSkinCluster writes the skin weights of 14500 vertices in 1.82 seconds and needs 5.87 seconds to re-apply these.
The next fastest solution I came across wrote the data in 2.67 seconds and read it in 7.86 seconds.
Of course all this depends on the speed of the computer.
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'Rain' Is One of the Best Novels About the Afghanistan War … And I Hate It
Barney Campbell's book hurts to read
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Rain, the new Afghanistan war novel from former British Army soldier Barney Campbell, is brutally honest and unforgiving in its realism. It's one of the best books about the war so far this year.
And I hated it. Rain alternately bored, sickened and angered me — and sometimes all three at once. More than a few times I stopped myself just short of hurling my copy across the room.
I insist you read Rain, too.
Rain is less a novel than a public service announcement about the dangers of stupid wars. And as a PSA, Rain is very, very effective. I've been to Afghanistan. I've seen its horrors with my own two eyes. Still, Campbell's tale deeply disturbed me … and lingered in my mind.
What you must appreciate about Rain is that it could have been a memoir. Well, almost. The book's protagonist Tom Chamberlain is a young university graduate and British Army officer on his first tour of Afghanistan in the later years of that country's grinding war.
Tom is smart, naive, idealistic, a bit damaged. His father had been a soldier, had suffered some secret trauma in Northern Ireland, had never really been the same afterward and had died when Tom was young. In his final tear-splotched letter to his son, Leonard Chamberlain had told Tom he "must join the army."
"Tom Chamberlain was born to fight in Afghanistan," Campbell writes of his fictional proxy.
Likewise, Campbell the author is the son of a British soldier and a graduate of Eton College and Oxford University who joined the Army in 2006 and deployed to Helmand province in 2009.
Rain is fiction inasmuch as Campbell made up the characters' names. But the events the author describes, if not entirely true, at least map closely on Campbell's deployment six years ago. "Rain draws authenticity from Barney's own experiences," Rowland White from Penguin U.K. writes in the foreword of the advance copy that the publisher provided to War Is Boring.
That's evident in the novel's structure, tone and weird detail. No self-respecting novelist writing pure fiction would organize a story the way Campbell lays out Rain.
Where the best truly, ahem, fictional works of fiction rise to a tidy dramatic crescendo, Rain is flat — its plot amounting to little more than the drone of a long, uncomfortable deployment punctuated by the slow, syncopated drumbeat of random, horrific violence and interrupted by depressing flashbacks and visits back home.
In a real novel — one that embraces its own lying nature — the hero wouldn't spend the duration of his first-ever battle lying half-naked beside his Scimitar fighting vehicle, vomiting and shitting himself empty owing to the bad chicken leg he'd eaten back at base.
A real novel would tie up story threads, obligingly give the reader emotional closure. It wouldn't end the way that Rain ends — abruptly, absurdly, awfully.
I recommend Rain the way I recommend physical exercise, visits to the dentist, jury duty and weekly phone calls to your mother. You may not like doing all those things, but good things — important things — aren't always fun.
Read Rain. Suffer through it the way the fictional Tom suffers through aching loneliness, humiliating illness and awkward, bloody battles. Suffer through it the way Campbell surely suffered through the confusing, pointless and all-too-real war his government sent him to fight.
Suffer through Rain like I did.


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Their coffee brand captured their famous flavors, but sales did not fit the brand's expectations. A rebrand of the packaging was needed to evoke the famous white cake box and improve recognition with customers.


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Hello everyone! I am so excited to be starting my weekly ROMANCE SPOTLIGHT today!
Kelly from CHECK...one...two...three has been nice enough to share the story of how she was proposed to.
It's SO STINKIN' CUTE!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and take a minute to go say hi to her over at CHECK...one...two...three!
Take it away Kelly!
6 years ago I was doing radio and it was a Friday. The show was wrapping up and I see Brandon's face at the studio window. He was waving, as soon as the "on air" sign went dark he swung open the door and said "Hey! I am picking you up from work!"
My co-hosts snapped their heads in my direction to see my reaction. I said "huh? why?"
Brandon said that he had the day off and we were gonna go up to Baltimore to the aquarium. I looked at the guys (my co-hosts) and said "oh it's friday I got a ton of things to do ....I have promos, and spots to finish up...I think I have to voice a couple of lines for an endorsement too..." The guys just waved me off and said they'd do it. Hmmmmmm....that was VERY UNLIKE them....
As I climbed into Brandon's truck we made our way down the highway. We stopped at 5 guys burgers and fries (we had never heard of that place before it was pretty new) and off we went. When we got to the Baltimore exit Brandon just kept on driving..."um babe...where are we really going?! you just passed our stop!"
Brandon reached behind my seat and uncovered a suitcase with a drop cloth...MY suitcase.
"I think we should go to the beach this weekend instead....Miami!"
My jaw dropped! Miami!?! And he said yes, "you keep talking about going to the beach and going to Florida - so we are going! Right now...our flight leaves in an hour..."and with that he took the BWI airport exit and off we went!
|brandon was eating so fast, I couldn't understand why then
All of a sudden Brandon started talking:
"Kelly, when I first met you I said that God has more good thoughts about you then there are sands in the seashore," as he did this the moon shown on him as he scooped down and picked up a handful of sand- I saw something twinkling in his palm..."I want to be with you to experience all those good thoughts, and things...I want to be with you forever...." then he got down on one knee and I thought
'ohmygosh....it's happening...this is what THIS feels like....he's proposing!"
"Kelly will you marry me and be my wife forever?!"
I was jumping up and down and yelling YES YES YES! It was like an out of body experience because I was just so stoked.
He picked me up and twirled me around...It was pitch black besides the moon light so I ran to the closest light (a nightclub that was on the beach) and looked at my ring.
|that night we celebrate at a Kareoke bar that was attached to the hotel
We called our families that night and friends. And 6 months later we got married at the exact same spot.
|the day after our engagement
|the day of our wedding
If I knew back then how life would be I would have never guessed it. But that's just like God, all you have to do is say "yes" and He takes care of the rest.
Thanks so much Kelly! Loved it!
See you next Tuesday with another ROMANCE SPOTLIGHT.
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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
Requiem [56:07]
Sheila Armstrong (soprano); Janet Baker (mezzo); Nicolai Gedda (tenor); Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
John Alldis Choir; English Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim
rec. All Saints Church, Tooting, July 1971
Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)
Te Deum [22:54]
Anne Pashley (soprano); Birgit Finnilä (mezzo); Robert Tear (tenor); Don Garrard (bass)
New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus/Daniel Barenboim
rec. All Saints Church, Tooting, January 1969
Confessions first: it was through this recording that I first got to know Mozart's Requiem as a teenager in the 1990s. I loved it then and I still love it now. It's perfectly possible that I come to it now with slightly rose-tinted spectacles, but I doubt it.
Barenboim's vision makes few nods to period practice - he uses an orchestra or modern instruments, albeit on a chamber scale - but he argues an utterly convincing case for the work played like this. He has an impeccable view for architecture - listen to the way the Introitus seems to creep into existence and then build in momentum up until the Kyrie. His perspective on the climaxes is hair-raising: the Dies Irae and Confutatis will, as they say, put hairs on your chest the way I've heard few other recordings do. True, Quam olim Abrahae wallows a little too much, but the gentle tenderness with which he shapes the Hostias makes up for this, and the gleaming clarity of the Sanctus is thrilling.
The quartet of soloists is superb, as much for their heartfelt identification with the text as for the musical sound they make. Sheila Armstrong's sound is heartfelt and mature, if not especially pure, and Janet Baker has a pleading element to her voice that is most winning. Nicolai Gedda was at his peak when this was recorded, and the voice sounds as clear and pingy as anything he has done. True, Fischer-Dieskau is ever-so-slightly over-parted in the Tuba Mirum - the low tessitura doesn't suit him - but even here his identification with the spirit of the text is utterly complete. The movements where they come together as a quartet are superb, the Recordare even more so than that Tuba Mirum.
The singing of the John Alldis Choir has a commitment and urgency to it throughout, even if their attack in the Confutatis could be more energetic. The playing of the ECO is never less than magisterial. They revel in the energy of the sound they are making, and not once did I think that the scale of the playing was wrong. Their muscularity works brilliantly, and they play out of their skins for Barenboim, embracing the neo-Baroque elements of Mozart's score, such as the angular contrapuntalism of the Rex tremendae and the Sanctus. They are helped by a brilliant recording that sounds as good now as ever it did - the re-mastering is from 2008 - allowing the climaxes to blaze while giving space to open up the inner textures. You always retain a special affection for a first recording of a work you know well, but even bearing this in mind, I have never understood why this recording is so often overlooked in surveys of Mozart's Requiem on disc. If you want modern instruments, then I would put it up there with Davis' recent LSO recording, or even Peter Schreier's Dresden disc.
The coupling of Bruckner's Te Deum is much more successful than the rather stodgy Barbirolli Verdi Requiem with which the Mozart was coupled when I first came across it. This was, in fact, Barenboim's very first Bruckner recording, and the sense of fire and scale that would characterise his later readings of the symphonies is already apparent here. The singing and playing is, if anything, even more "together" than it is in the Mozart, and the climaxes are mightily imposing. Even more impressive, however, are the quieter sections, such as the Te ergo quaesumus, which move with an inner spiritual direction that stands in focused contrast to the grand sections on either side.
Simon Thompson
Magisterial. I have never understood why this recording is so often overlooked.
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This week I want you take the anointing of more you can be with you! I can see you surprising everyone around you, I can even see you surprising your enemy. This month and this year I see you rising up. Those who have told you, that you can not be I see you rising up higher in Jesus name. This year has just begun and you are still here. Thank God that He has brought you thus far! As this year may the Lord make you more than you can be. I want you to declare this every day of this year as 2016 your dreams must become a reality! This year you must rise up! And I speak into your life that as you continue to walk with God he will grant you more understanding and wisdom. Begin to declare "Everyday and in every way my business is becoming more than it can ever be, every day and in every way my health is becoming more than it can ever be. Everyday and every way I am becoming More Than I can be! Amen today we are on our corporate fast and also are continuing with the Daniel Fasting. Be encouraged and join with us for these 21 days as I know the benefits and blessings from the Lord will shine upon your life. We are currently on Day 6 but you can still have time to join with so if you have not started make the choice and join with us. Be blessed and see you on Friday for the First Miracle Healing Service of 2016! Healing and restoration is here at TKC London! It's going to be powerful, as I see God stretching His hand into your life and raising you up. (Proverbs 2:6 NIV) THave a blessed day. – Arch Bishop Elect Climate Irungu
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Just as a girl's body changes when she becomes a woman, so a woman's body changes when her childbearing years end. Menopause and aging cause changes in bone strength, muscle and joint strength and flexibility, and overall well-being.
A woman can make a big difference in living her later years with energy and good health by:
Eating well. As a woman grows older she still needs nutritious food to keep her body strong and to fight disease. Her need for certain kinds of food also increases. Because her body makes less estrogen, it helps to eat foods high in plant estrogens, such as soy beans, tofu (bean curd), lentils, and other beans. Since her bones become less dense as she ages, it helps to eat foods high in calcium, a mineral that makes strong bones.
Sometimes older people feel less like eating than they used to. This may be caused by changes in taste and smell, which make eating less pleasurable. Or changes in the body that come from aging can make a person quickly feel full after starting to eat. But this does not mean that older people need less nutritious food. They need encouragement to continue to eat well, and to eat a variety of foods.
Drinking a lot of liquids. As a person ages, the amount of water in the body decreases. Also, some older people drink less to avoid having to pass urine during the night or because they are afraid of leaking urine. All these things can cause dehydration. To prevent this, drink 8 glasses or cups of liquid every day. To avoid getting up at night to pass urine, try not to drink anything for 2 to 3 hours before going to sleep.
Getting regular exercise. Everyday activities, such as walking, playing with grandchildren, going to the market, cooking, and farming can all help keep a woman's muscles and bones strong, and prevent stiff joints. Regular exercise will help maintain weight and prevent heart disease.
Treating illness early. Some people think that getting older means being sick much of the time. But this is not true. If a woman does not feel well, she may have an illness that can be treated, and that has nothing to do with age. She needs treatment as soon as possible.
Try to see a health worker if you feel ill and have been unable to treat the problem yourself.
Staying active. A woman will stay healthier and happier if she is active and productive. Try to take up an activity, join a group, or work on a community project. This may be a good time for a woman to work for better conditions in the community. Here is an example:
Soon many of the women began meeting to talk with Louise. They became aware of how the river also affected their health and their children's health. They decided to put pressure on the district officers to force the factory to keep waste out of the river.
Louise, however, always insisted that rights and responsibilities go together. So she also helped the women realize how their own habits affected other people down the river. For example, when they cleaned their fertilizing machines or washed their clothes in the river, it was harmful for the health of the people downstream. As Louise said, "We must first be responsible ourselves so that we may, in clear conscience, demand our rights."
In 1993, Louise and her women farmers created an organization called Rural Women's Sanitation. Whenever the river is in danger from polluting factories, Louise is able to organize as many as 100 women, who 'pay a visit' to the local authorities, and inform them of the problem. Besides taking care of the river, the group is building latrines and demanding that local governments reclaim public wells that have been taken over by private owners.
Louise has stopped planting trees, but has no regrets. "There were more pressing problems that were part of Kandara soil itself." She tells her fellow women, "God will not come to earth to solve your problems. The government cannot know what your problems are. Only you can make sure they get solved."


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This 2130 was the first one off the assembly line, before the assembly
line was "let loose" to make production units; it was supplied
to the laboratory for tests ensuring compliance with the FCC regulations
that applied to AM/FM tuners at the time. The serial number plate still has
the protective covering plastic.
Being the first 2130, it is also the oldest 2130. It has been well taken care of, but it has also had several owners -- it's not perfect, cosmetically speaking. Look at the image; you can see a few small dings (top left, bottom right.) Reception is within specification, which of course means you can expect very high quality.
This tuner has several issues that make it a good find for a technical type, but probably not what you'd want to collect for immediate integration into your stereo system. Let's be perfectly clear about this; I'm going to describe the unit 100% honestly, then you decide if it is something you are interested in.
When I received this tuner, the AM antenna wires had been broken by some careless handling. I have re-attached them so the proper electrical connections are made, and the AM tuner works very well, but it's a little rough looking back there. A "clean" repair would require a replacement ferrite bar with full length wires, and I don't think you can get those any longer. Many people don't care much about AM, but I'm just trying to explain all the issues.
The FM stereo lamp burned out, and in a fit of experimentation, I replaced the incandescent bulb with a white LED. This worked somewhat, but it was several years ago, and the white LED isn't as anywhere near as bright as the ones you can buy today. You can see the STEREO legend is illuminated in a dark room, but that's about all I'll say for it. A brighter LED (or a replacement incandescent) would be a good idea. Now, this isn't a change to be made by the faint of heart or clumsy of finger; just so you know. Now, with regard to functionality, a dim stereo indicator isn't exactly the end of the world; plus, because this is a 2130, if you leave the Quartz Lock function on, the quartz lock LED will illuminate when you have tuned in a stereo signal, so you have a clear, bright indication in addition to the stereo lamp -- this is normal operation for a 2130.
Electrically speaking, everything works as I mentioned above, but it is my impression that the tuner could use a re-capping, particularly with regard to the high-voltage caps that serve in the power supply for the scope circuitry. You can see some power supply hum in the scope trace, more so when the unit is cold. It gets quite a bit better as it warms up. Again, this makes the tuner more of a tech's find than a collector's unit (unless having #0 trips your trigger, in which case, by all means, bid, and then locate a tech who will do the tuner the justice it deserves... I would, but I just don't have the time, and no one, including me, will pay me the hourly rate I'd charge to strain my old eyes over this.)
Having said all that, the tuner is working in all respects, it just needs some TLC. If you can provide it, or you want it on a shelf as a collectable, well then... here it is.
I will ship by UPS, shipping will be $35.00 flat in addition to the offered price I accept from you. I'll pack it very carefully -- I'm not new to this and I am well aware of the irreplacible nature of serial #0. Even so, this is being sold "as-is" and I make no promises. It'll be working when it is shipped (it's working just fine right now, as I write this); if it's not working when you get it, you'll be talking to the shipping company, not to me.
I have some optional items you can also make an offer for, if you like; I will only sell these with the tuner, so don't be asking me for just these items by themselves -- I'm firm on this:
Payment is to be via paypal. First reasonable offer takes it.
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When she isn't busy tending to her sprawling organic garden, caring for her family's 15 chickens or upholding her title of mom-of-the year to three little ones, you can find our friend Carolyn in the kitchen of her 106-year old farmhouse curating healthy recipes from scratch. She has a knack for whipping up culinary masterpieces and her latest creation, LGF PowerBalls, is no exception. Combining Love Grown Foods' bean-based cereal, Power O's, with dark chocolate and a handful of other lovely ingredients, Carolyn originally developed PowerBalls as a better-for-you treat to serve at her daughter's recent birthday party.
8oz dark chocolate (70 percent cocoa), chopped OR 8 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup coconut oil
3 Tbsp water
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
100% pure orange essential oil (optional but highly recommended!)
5oz Power O's cereal, original (for richer results, use half original, half chocolate Power O's…or just go nuts with 5 oz chocolate Power O's and be glad you did)
Standard sized muffin tins
Cupcake liners
Ice cream scoop
1. Heat chocolate, oil, and 3 Tbsp water in a double boiler, stirring, until just melted. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Add orange oil, if using, to taste (start with two drops). Pour into an 8″ pie plate to cool to room temperature.
2. Pour Power O's into large bowl. Drizzle melted chocolate mixture evenly over cereal; stir to coat evenly.
3. Line muffin tin with cupcake liners. Using ice cream scoop, mound one LGF PowerBall in each liner.
4. Chill in refrigerator until firm. Enjoy!
Makes 18 LGF PowerBalls
*think Rice Krispie Squares meet Popcorn Balls….only better*


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With a history as IT Technician and now working in telecoms, I have been interested and working with computers from the age of 10.
My interest are:
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** the ultimate media center / multimedia experience
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CBAI's Call on Washington
Community bankers descended on Washington, D.C., to urge additional meaningful regulatory relief during the Community Bankers Association of Illinois' 37 th Annual Call on Washington, which was held April 28 – May 1, 2019. Again this year, CBAI's Call on D.C. was held in conjunction with the Independent Community Bankers of America's (ICBA) Capital Summit. More than 1,000 community bankers from across the country brought their message to the nation's capital and told their community bank story to illustrate the need for additional regulatory relief. See Highlights from CBAI's 37th Annual Call on Washington!
Participation in CBAI's lobbying events in Washington are vital to maintaining the survival of a vibrant community banking profession and the franchise value of your community bank. If you have not participated in these events in the past, now is the time to get involved and make a difference!
If you have any questions or comments regarding Call on Washington, please contact David Schroeder or Jessie Schmidt at 800/736-2224.


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The FA Cup away win over Arsenal earns Rovers the accolade.
The League Managers Association five-man Performance of the Week panel, comprising LMA Chairman Howard Wilkinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Joe Royle, Dave Bassett and Barry Fry, were in agreement that this week, the F&C Investments Performance of the Week Award should go to Blackburn Rovers following their excellent 1-0 away win against Arsenal in The FA Cup on Saturday 16 February 2013.
Blackburn manager Michael Appleton will receive a specially engraved crystal football in a presentation to commemorate the award.
Rovers won their first F&C Investments Performance of the Week Award of the season with an impressive win at The Emirates.
Colin Kazim-Richards was the match winner as his late goal stunned Arsenal as Blackburn reached the FA Cup quarter-finals where they will face Millwall next month.
After the match, Appleton was full of praise for his players and hailed Kazim-Richards: "Colin Kazim-Richards has been fantastic for the last five games and has played in a couple of different roles.
"I am delighted he got the reward for all of his work, it was not his greatest of strikes, but I think he was just trying not to welly it into Row Z and got the bit of luck he deserved.
"I had a brief stint at Blackpool when I ended up with a 1-1 draw at Fulham in the last round, then was lucky enough to win at Derby, but this is the icing at the top of the cake."


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A MUM-OF-TWO has admitted she married her vicious boyfriend AFTER he had raped her in front of their baby daughter.
Helena Hayden, 33, stayed with James Upton, 36, for 14 years, keeping his sick abuse a secret until she found the courage to leave him.
In October of last year, Upton was found guilty of three counts of rape and jailed for eight years.
She said: "I grew up on the same estate as James and I'd always fancied him, as did my friends.
"We started dating when I was 17. Five months later James proposed to me on his 21st birthday.
"I was over the moon and felt so grown-up wearing my sparkling engagement ring.
But within weeks, Upton became controlling.
Helena recalled: "He decided when and what we ate for dinner, often refusing to eat the food I cooked."
Head over heels in love, she ignored his behaviour and put on a brave face.
Three months later, Helena discovered she was pregnant.
She said: "We were delighted and I couldn't wait to start my own family. Within weeks of them getting engaged, Helena told how Upton became controlling
In May 2002, Helena gave birth to Jessica*, now 14, who weighed a hefty 8lb 15oz.
But instead of being a doting father, Upton left Helena to do all of the bathing and nappy changes.
And just four days after giving birth, he did the unthinkable.
Helena recalled: "He began pestering me for sex. I was still sore as I'd been given stitches after delivering such a large baby. I was shocked. But he wouldn't take no for an answer and eventually he wore me down."
Over time, Upton's behaviour got worse.
Helena said: "He controlled our income and isolated me from my friends. If I dared leave the house, he bombarded me with texts and accused me of cheating."
"I felt suffocated, James was taking over my life."
In 2003 Upton proved how twisted he really was.
Helena said: "I was tidying while Jessica was playing in her cot, just metres away.
"Suddenly James burst into the room with an evil look in his eyes.
"He pinned me down and raped me on the bed.
"Determined not to scare my daughter, I gritted my teeth and let him get on with it.
"Afterwards, I felt disgusting. James was remorseful but I didn't want him near me. I was shaken and couldn't believe he'd done such a disgusting thing – and in front of his own daughter."
Helena wanted to leave Upton but she was terrified.
In August 2004, she gave birth to the couple's second daughter, Sarah*, now 12.
Just a year later, she married Upton in front of their friends and family.
Helena said: "My mouth was spread into a wide grin for the wedding pictures but my insides were screaming. Marrying James was the last thing I wanted but I was too embarrassed to tell my loved ones what he was really like.
"After the wedding, James continued to belittle me, calling me fat and ugly.
"Emotionally I was battered from the mental and sexual abuse.
"Over the course of our relationship, my own husband forced himself on me several times."
In February 2014, Helena started going to a Slimming World group.
Within eight months, her 5ft 5in frame shrank to just 8st 7lbs after she lost 3st.
But she knew her dramatic weight loss was due to stress.
In October of that year, she was diagnosed with depression after suffering with Upton's abuse for more than a decade.
Two months later – in December 2014 – she found the strength to leave him after she heard rumours that he was messaging other women.
She said: "A lightbulb went off in my head and I realised I was never going to get better if I stayed with him."
But Upton refused to let her go easily and bombarded her with calls and texts begging her to take him back.
Four months later, in April 2015, Helena found the courage to report Upton's horrific actions to the police.
It took seven months for the CPS to build up a case against him but eventually he was arrested.
In October of last year Upton was found guilty of three counts of rape at Nottingham Crown Court.
He was jailed for eight years and given an indefinite restraining order.
Helena said: "I was disgusted that James pleaded not guilty and I was forced to give evidence in front of a jury.
"After everything he'd put me through, he was still trying to control me.
"My girls haven't seen their dad in over two years – he's the one missing out, not them. We're finally moving on with our lives. It took me a long time but now I feel stronger than ever."
*Sarah and Jessica are fake names to protect their identity.
Earlier this month we told how a brave woman recalled her torturous "week of hell" during which her abusive, jealous boyfriend injected her with heroin, raped her and beat her with a belt.


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David Little from Elevate Church in Morton, Illinois brings us this nice design featuring a swirly stage.
They created this design on top of their already swirly painted stage. They started with a bunch of cotton fabric hung from 2 points – adjusted until it looked how they wanted. They used pars with gels to light everything.
They assembled the side walls screens with 2x4s and some of the same white fabric. They used gaff tape to make all the black divider lines.
To create the design on the floor they projected onto it with an LCD projector, then traced, masked, and painted.


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Excursions, restaurants, leisure and enjoyment with our regional specialities...
The chefs in our region will spoil you with their creations. A list of restaurants is available at the Office de Tourisme.
From goat cheese to jams and jellies to acacia honey, our region offers an extensive array of regional products.
Directions to the distributors are available at the Office de Tourisme.
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Now what's next for me? Well, there's always Chicago. For those of you who didn't know, I flew out to Chicago last June to compete on a Food Network show and won the opportunity to take a position in the Windy City (http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/2013/09/chef-wanted-tavernita-update/). So why am I still in New York? While I was in … Continue reading
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Be Careful What You Wish For
It has been said that when you are at the highest expression of yourself, the line between your work and your life will disappear. Nice thought, in theory. It was a gorgeous Sunday here in Brooklyn, and I was hoping to take the day to go out to my old apartment and tie up all … Continue reading


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The festival of the harvest, which we celebrate to thank lord for the sumptuous meals on our tables and prosperity in our families, is celebrated through variety of food recipes, delicacies and decorations. But one other essential feature of the holiday is the gifts exchanging ritual, through which we exchange greetings and well wishes with our loved ones.
There are many gift items that Thanksgiving has explored till present time, but in the last couple of years, the rise in the Thanksgiving gift- baskets, have made many people to present these unique baskets to their families, friends, relatives and neighbors. These baskets may contain many autumnal natural produce like flowers, and fruits or artificial products from chocolates to candies. Depending on your own creativity you can make your own Thanksgiving gift baskets to present your loved ones. Some f the popular ideas fro thee gift baskets are:
- Thanksgiving Gourmet Snack Gift Basket
This exclusive Thanksgiving gift basket comprises of many exotic delicacies of the Fall month. From apple cider, Wisconsin cheddar cheese, grained mustard, summer sausage, gourmet coffee, cocktail rye bread, pastry cookies filled with chocolate cream, to other baked items, this gift basket is a complete symbol of the Thanksgiving spirit.
- Blessed Harvest Autumn Basket
This special Thanksgiving gift basket has all the things that echoes autumnal beauty and charm. From vegetables to the grains and the delicacies prepared by them , everything can be included in this basket. Corn and pumpkin candy corn mix, creamy garden herb and vegetable dip, smoked almonds, wheat crackers, with dried and crafted vegetables items for adornments, this basket is a true idea of Thanksgiving harvest produce.
- Thanksgiving Cookie Gift Tin
This basket is a pure delight of cookies, baked in flour like, chocolate chip cookies, caramel cookies, peanut butter chips, oatmeal raisins and many others. Packed in a tin basket these six pieces of oversized cookies are a complete delight for anyone's taste buds during Thanksgiving.
- Harvest Goodness Cornucopias
This Thanksgiving cornucopia, a horn shaped container is filled with all the harvest fruits and vegetables as Thanksgiving gift. Oranges, apples, comice pears, Farmstead cheddar cheese, assorted dried fruits , roasted and salted pistachios with the shell and chocolate pear, are some of the articles included in this gift basket. There is one more benefit of this gift basket, that even after the food items get finished, the cornucopia can be used as a centerpiece, as a souvenir for some time.
- The Flower Fall Harvest Cornucopia
The beautiful Fall flowers, also make a lovely and jubilant gift basket for your loved ones in this basket. Full of red roses, rust colored Asiatic lilies, and butterscotch chrysanthemums, the cornucopia can also be filled with green furry leaves, pinecones and other autumnal harvests, thereby making it a very eye soothing gift basket.
- Personalized Gift Basket
You can also make a gift basket on your own, full of articles included by you. The articles that you can include in this are cookies baked at home, some decorative autumnal harvest like pine cones, apple cider and lemonade, dried fruits, and you can also include some personalized messages and cards in this basket along with some holiday movie DVDs and Thanksgiving music CDs.
- Homemade Thanksgiving Baskets
In these baskets you can include everything that you have cooked on your own. From your turkey dish to other baked items, this basket will give an impression of a very personalized gift to your loved ones, that you are sharing everything that you made for your own household. You can decorate the basket with autumnal flowers and include small gift items like perfumes and cards in this homemade Thanksgiving basket.
These are some of the gift basket ideas, that you can use to make gifts for your near and dear ones, this Thanksgiving. The speciality of these baskets are that they don't need huge amount of money and efforts from you, just a little creativity and thoughtfulness would do, which is undoubtedly the most important element for gifts.


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Excellent picture. Perfect black levels. Accurate color. Very good 3D effect with both included glasses and clip-on lenses.
Very expensive. Magic Remote can be tricky to use at times.
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The curved LG 55EC9300 proves that OLED technology is the future of HDTVs, even if it's too expensive for most consumers right now.
Last year, I reviewed the LG 55EA9800, a 55-inch curved OLED HDTV. To my utter shock, it managed to produce perfectly dark black, a holy grail of HDTV testing and the only way a screen can have the "infinite contrast ratio" (technically inaccurate, but we'll talk about that later) some manufacturers have claimed in the past. I've been waiting for another OLED HDTV to test to see if this was some mysterious fluke or if the technology really can consistently perform that way. LG has now released the 55EC9300, a redesigned, WebOS-based follow-up model. Well, OLED is now two for two, and the 55EC9300 offers one of the best pictures I've ever tested in the lab. That image quality will cost you $6,999.99, though, so while OLED is now confirmed to be the future of HDTVs, it still isn't feasible for most consumers today.
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The 55EA9800 was no slouch in design, but the 55EC9300 manages to one-up it by replacing its wide, clear acrylic base with a single curved slab of metal. The matte silver-colored metal base is built directly into the screen, with no need for assembly, and while it has a relatively small, oval-shaped footprint, it holds up the HDTV without a hint of wobble. The base sports a glossy metal "OLED" logo, and is given a bit more distinctiveness (which arguably spoils some of its elegance) with a round bump protruding from the bottom of the screen toward the base with LG's own logo.
The screen itself is curved and incredibly thin, measuring less than 0.2 inches along the chrome-framed edges. The display is nearly completely bezel-free, with only a hint of silver peeking out as a millimeter-thick border. It thickens to about two inches at the middle third of the panel to hold all of the electronics necessary to run it. Because the edges are so thin, the EC9300 has to be moved by the base and middle part to avoid risk of damage.
Three HDMI ports and three USB ports sit on the back of the screen, facing left. A fourth HDMI port, an antenna/cable connection, component and composite inputs (3.5mm ports with adapters), an optical audio output, and an Ethernet port face downwards. A combination power button and control stick sits on the lower-right corner of the back of the screen. The ports and control stick are all located inward, on the thicker part of the display that houses the electronics; the side thirds of the screen are nothing but slim, flat OLED panel.
LG remains remarkably consistent with its connected HDTV remote design. The EC9300 uses the same Magic Remote the company's other high-end screens have used for years. It's a curved wand with a prominent navigation pad surrounding a clickable scroll wheel. It has relatively few buttons, with Home, Voice Search, Live TV, Back, and Power buttons surrounding the navigation pad and four color buttons, Volume Up/Down, Channel Up/Down, Input, 3D, and Mute buttons below it. The remote doubles as an air mouse, moving an on-screen pointer with a wave of the hand. The combination of navigation pad and motion controls makes it simple to jump between different menu selections, though it's easy to inadvertently switch between them by moving the remote too much while you're clicking buttons.
LG's newest HDTV interface is powered by WebOS, which has evolved from a mobile device platform (it was originally PalmOS) into a connected television platform. It emphasizes a simple, friendly menu design that integrates different media sources and adapts itself to your viewing habits. We look into the structure and technology of WebOS in depth in our review of the LG 65UB9500, which includes an analysis of how the menus are designed.
WebOS includes access to all of the usual media streaming services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, and YouTube, plus a host of other apps available through LG and a functional Web browser. It even supports Skype video calls with an optional webcam. Like many high-end HDTVs, the 55EC9300 incorporates live television into its interface, either directly through a cable or antenna connection or with a set-top box connected through an HDMI port. It can show what's currently on, suggest programming, and change channels. It doesn't offer a full program guide, but it's a handy feature if you just want to see what's on now.
The HDTV supports passive 3D, and comes with two pairs of glasses and two pairs of clip-on 3D filters you can put over your own glasses. The clip-ons are a nice touch that makes it much easier for glasses wearers to enjoy 3D. I watched IMAX Under the Sea 3D in Blu-ray on the EC9300, and the effect was excellent. The 3D was crisp and showed notable depth, and I noticed no ghosting even when viewing the screen from different angles. This was one of the few cases where the curved screen seemed to make a difference, because the edges bending toward the viewer helped enhance the 3D effect and give the display a more realistic look.