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Indianapolis, IN –With the release of the final NCAA Division III Men's Soccer statistics for the 2016 season, The Sage Colleges' team and several players were ranked for their outstanding performances this past fall. The Gators posted a 7-8-5 mark on the season with a 5-5-1 showing in the Skyline Conference after advancing the league tournament's championship match, only to fall in overtime. Rookie Head Coach Keith Simon's team finished nationally ranked 12 team categories for the 2016 campaign.
Sophomore forward River Seybolt (Selden, NY/Longwood), who was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America NCAA Division III Men's All-East Regional Third Team as well as the 2016 Skyline Conference All-Star First Team, earned acclaim for his second season and ranked nationally in seven different categories.
Seybolt, last season's Skyline Rookie of the Year, recorded a team-high 32 points on 15 goals and two assists. In addition to four honor roll mentions, the forward was named the Skyline week eight Co-Player of the Week when he buried his first career hat trick in a must-win 4-1 triumph over St. Joseph's – Long Island. The sophomore ranked nationally in total goals (No. 30, 15), total points (No. 46, 32), points per game average (No. 73, 1.6), game-winning goals (No. 140, 3), shots-on-goal per game (9th, 2.9), and shots per game (28th, 4.65).
Only halfway through his career at Sage, Seybolt has already etched his name in the Gator record book. The forward ranks in first in single-game goals (three vs. St. Joseph's – Long Island, 2016), first in single-season penalty kicks (four, 2016), second in career game-winners (nine), second in career penalty kicks (four), second in single-season goals (15, 2016), second in single-season points (32, 2016), second in single-season game-winners (six, 2015), second in single-game points (six vs. St. Joseph's – Long Island, 2016), third in career goals (24), third in career points (55), seventh in single-game assists (two vs. Mount Saint Vincent, 2015), 8th in career assists (seven) and ninth in single-season assists (five, 2015).
Junior goal keeper Caelen Kohut (Ancram, NY/Hudson), whose 2016 season was cut short with an injury finished the year ranking 182nd in goals against average after playing in 11 games with a 1.33 GAA.


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Press freedom 'under threat' in new Myanmar
Under the military junta that ruled Myanmar for nearly 50 years, the media were tightly controlled.
But after a quasi-civilian government took over in 2011, many curbs were lifted and a rigid censorship regime abolished.
Journalists were among masses of political prisoners released, and media outlets mushroomed to serve a highly literate population that had been starved of independent news.
When the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Laureate kept under house arrest for years because of her democratic activism, won historic elections in 2015, many expected more media freedom would follow.
But journalists and press freedom advocates are alarmed by what they say is an increasingly heavy-handed approach, especially on matters of sensitivity to the military, which retains significant power.
The latest case involves three journalists arrested by the military on 26 June after watching the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), a rebel group, burn drugs in north-eastern Shan State.
Aye Nai, 53, and Pyae Phone Naing, 24, report for the Democratic Voice of Burma broadcaster, while Lawi Weng, 38, works for The Irrawaddy news magazine and website. Both outlets were run by exiles who fled during the junta era to report on abuses in the then pariah state, and who returned home after reforms in 2012.
The trio were handed to police and charged under the colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act for having alleged contact with the TNLA, which the army has recently been clashing with and describes as a "terrorist" group. They could face up to three years in prison, and a close aide of Ms Suu Kyi has defended the charges.
"It's true that they broke the law by going to meet ethnic groups," Win Htein, a former political prisoner, said.
Yet the case has caused uproar because many journalists have met TNLA rebels without facing prosecution, and the group came into direct contact with reporters and officials when it attended peace talks in May in the capital, Naypyitaw.
'Climate of fear'
Lawi Weng is well-respected for his reporting on ethnic armed groups around Myanmar.
His fiancée, Loa Htaw, told Reuters news agency that he was well aware that he could be jailed for reporting on such issues, and criticising both the military and government.
But "he needs to report for the voiceless and the powerless", she said.
Aung Zaw, editor of The Irrawaddy, said his reporter had been planning to investigate reports of abuses by the army and local militias in the area.
He said he had been unlawfully arrested, and that journalists were legally allowed to gather news in conflict zones. "Our work is under threat," he told the BBC.
In an opinion piece, he wrote: "The return of a climate of fear is very disturbing, particularly after the National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the 2015 election.
"I can't help but recall Lawi's optimism on Election Day. No, he was not thinking that he would eventually be locked up under this government".
Facebook posts targeted
The arrests come weeks after two journalists from The Voice newspaper were sued by the military over a satirical article.
Editor Kyaw Min Swe remains in custody and has been charged with defamation under a controversial section of the telecommunications law that human rights groups say is being used to silence criticism of the military and government online.
Activists say at least 71 people have been charged under Section 66(d) since the law came into force in 2013 - the vast majority after Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD took power.
One man was sentenced to six months for posting a poem on Facebook about having a tattoo of former President Thein Sein on his penis.
Aung San Suu Kyi has come under sustained criticism internationally for what many perceive as her failure to speak out about grave human rights abuses allegedly committed by the military against the Muslim minority Rohingya community, and civilians from other ethnic minorities in conflict-affected areas.
The treatment of journalists under her government has also come under scrutiny.
Some Myanmar watchers say that not all the criticism is warranted, however. The military retains significant power throughout the country, and controls the defence, home and border affairs ministries and holds 25% of the seats in Parliament.
As a tenuous democratic transition continues, Ms Suu Kyi's room to manoeuvre is tight and she is choosing her priorities carefully, some argue.
In April, she told the BBC that she was "just a politician" and "no Mother Theresa".
Suu Kyi denies Rohingya ethnic cleansing
Still, with a parliamentary majority the NLD government "has the power to amend or abolish many repressive laws" that are used to target journalists, the Democratic Voice of Burma's editor-in-chief Aye Chan Naing told the BBC.
He adds that the arrest of two of his journalists for doing their "normal job" is "shocking ".
"It's very disappointing the way the government [has reacted] on this case," he says.
"We can understand the way the military is acting but it's really shocking to see [the government], instead of helping and siding with the independent journalists, is kind of giving the green light to the military to go ahead."
But Win Htein, the aide to Ms Suu Kyi, has said that getting a peace deal is a bigger priority than amending the Unlawful Associations Act.
Mratt Kyaw Thu, a senior reporter with the magazine Frontier Myanmar, says he doesn't believe journalists will stop reporting from conflict zones and on ethnic armed groups.
But he does admit that the recent series of cases has sparked fresh debate among reporters about how far they can go in criticising the military.
He says journalists approached Aung San Suu Kyi on 28 June to ask about press freedom in the wake of the arrests, "but she never listens about that".

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Picket fencing can vary in height. If you have several flowers that are tall, such as tulips or black-eyed susans, you might want to use a low picket fence so that the flowers can easily be seen. On the other hand, if you have plants and flowers of varying heights, consider installing a three foot high fence with a gate. Leave the gate partially open so passer-bys can catch a glimpse of your garden. Picket fencing is usually made out of wood that is painted white or vinyl.
If you're looking to have some privacy in your garden area, then consider going with vinyl fencing. These fences ranged from four feet to six feet tall. Each panel consists of six or more posts. Usually you'll have a choice of rounded, squared or pointed post tops. Vinyl fencing holds up well in most kinds of weather. If your garden contains a small pond or a water fountain, then this might be a good option. It will discourage animals and small children from entering the garden.
Trellis fencing is a wonderful garden fencing option if you have plants that spread rapidly. Depending on your budget and your preference, trellis fencing can be made of wrought iron, wood or even durable plastic. Trellis fencing is made from criss-cross material which makes it easy for plants to weave themselves in and out of the openings. At the start of the garden you can place a trellis as a welcoming entrance to the garden. Morning Glories and other flowers will wrap around the trellis.
Depending on the location of your garden, you might only need to fence a portion of it. For example if your garden is between your house and garage, then don't put up fencing by the house or garage, just fence the other two sides. If your garden is out back in an open area, consider giving a unique design to your garden fencing. There's no rule that says you have to fence in a straight line.
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Sorry for my redundancy but I want to be you when I grow up.
September 1, 2013
thinking, what I wear
the self project
After I moved back to Toronto, I lost the habit of shared self-reflection. In London, I had a lot of time to myself and spent a lot of time in the office. Money was tight and I was thinking about my work a lot, and what I was trying to accomplish, and how to overcome so many obstacles. And I was sharing my journey on Final Fashion. Then when I moved back in Toronto, I stopped.
In Canada again, I realized how much I missed my family. I felt so much joy in being a daughter, a sister, an auntie, a grand-daughter, again. I spent as much time with my relatives as I could after two years of being so far away. My cost of living had decreased so I found myself feeling somewhat comfortable, relative to the reduced circumstances I had become used to in London anyway. And early in the year, I met a handsome Canadian carpenter and fell in love. It has been wonderful to indulge in being a girlfriend again after being single for a few years. I felt more whole and content than I had in a long, long while. Being content doesn't provide much content, though. Posts on Final Fashion began to space out, and as the summer wore on I experienced a slow season.
One of the things I love about fashion is its cyclical nature. I've come to recognize the recurring ebbs and flows as my career picks up and languishes in step with the seasons. At the beginning of my career, when I experienced slow times, I used to panic. It felt like my career was a fragile thing, and rejections and empty inboxes made it feel like being a fashion illustrator was attempting a doomed mission. Later, slow times became an opportunity to reflect and reinvent. I would revise my blogging practices and edit my portfolio. I've always found that when you share energy, it comes back to you. Doing things and making things is the best way to get out of a rut. A creative career is all about giving the best you can and trusting that someone out there is going to get it.
This time, I knew why the deceleration was happening. It was my own doing, because I was too absorbed in real life, I had let my online identity slide. Things have changed a lot in the blogging world since I started, and I felt ideological resistance towards the development of two vastly different extremes in the form. I didn't want blogging to be all about status and appearances – being an object of admiration and envy just for being pretty and having nice things. Not that I can afford luxuries. And though I'm comfortable with my appearance, I don't feel compelled to use my own image as a creative outlet. I also didn't want it to be all about confessions – performing a virtual psychological striptease to win sympathy or provoke controversy. There's no sense in using sex or psychodrama in my work – I'm a fashion illustrator, not a diarist. The middle route? That's where I am now, the middle route is obscurity, becoming lost among so many voices. I felt posting paralysis this year – I wasn't sure what I wanted to share anymore. Yet it had become clear that I needed to put more of myself back into my work, somehow.
The other major consideration I was thinking about during the downtime was the wonderful New York Fashion Week I had experienced in February. Attending amazing fashion shows, seeing my sketches in WWD, getting my picture on the New York Times website with the caption, fashion illustrator! I was living the dream, my dream! I knew I had to go back and capitalize on that momentum. What had I learned, and how could I possibly have a better season after such a high note? I realized I have to pack a bigger, better thriving kit than ever.
One thing that I learned last season, is that I am not just an illustrator any more. I am a performer. The act of illustrating is becoming just as important, if not more important, than the illustrations as products. And more and more I was finding myself in front of cameras, doing my work, but also presenting my work in person to people whose recognition matters. I realized that downplaying my own looks, as I had tended to do out of fear or contrariness or idiotic ideology, was a pointless form of denial. Of course how I look and what I wear matter! If fashion had taught me any lessons, it's that you can use your appearance as a form of game theory – that looking good gets you where you want to go. My life is like an adventure – I'm the hero – and I need to dress for the part I want to play.
So instead of redesigning my blog, this time I decided to redesign myself very deliberately so I could put my face back on the blog to best advantage. I decided to take all my good features and just amplify them slightly – so I made my hair blonder, had my eyebrows done professionally, and selected more modern frames for my glasses. I upgraded my makeup routine to help me feel more confident in photographs. I very belatedly opened an Instagram account and started earnestly practicing the art of the self-portrait.
I also wanted to adapt my wardrobe to my work. Last season I had the chance to attend the Oscar de la Renta show, and while it was incredibly exciting just to be there, it threw into stark relief my biggest problem at fashion week – I never know how to dress. Surrounded by a crowd of people with money, taste, and access the the best clothing in the world, I very much felt like a scruffy interloper, and being very pointedly placed behind a pillar so I wouldn't be caught photobombing inside the photographer's frames made it clear that I needed to overcome this problem. It felt at that moment like there was a glass wall between me and the world I was sketching, and yet somehow, I need to walk among the fashion elite. How am I going to do that?
Buying designer clothing isn't an option. However, I know how to sew and I have a studio at my disposal, so I decided I would design my own solution. I made a shirt-dress inspired by artist's smocks. The idea was, I wanted to look as much like a fashion illustrator as possible. Most people have no idea what that looks like, so to a large extent, I get to define it for myself. I thought, why not look like an artist, but a bit more chic? I like the idea of wearing a working uniform – as far as fashion goes, I'm not a natural born peacock, and I love simple, practical clothing. I took my cue from people like Karl Lagerfeld and Bill Cunningham – creating a single signature look that can be repeated, until your image itself becomes a kind of logo. Above is the first prototype. The idea is, it is a versatile garment that can be worn belted or loose, open or closed, as a dress or as a shirt. It has lots of pockets for all my pens and stuff. This is just the first one, but I want to make many more variations in several colours. I like careful cuts and crisp, classic details, and though it was labour intensive, this project felt incredibly satisfying. This is the beginning of something.
I also made a purpose-built portfolio case for live runway sketching. I've decided on my ideal format after much trial and error – 12 x 16. So this bag is meant to hold paper of that size, but the main feature is a plexiglass window on one side that allows me to display my latest and greatest drawing to the world. Plus, the plexi keeps my papers from getting bent or damaged and offers a firm surface for me to draw on if I need it. I should have made this bag ages ago, I can't wait to take it out to the field.
The upside of lean times is that I need them to grow. As an artist, I can't keep a relentless momentum and produce consistent work constantly – sometimes it's time to step back, live a little, take a long view and refocus. I feel more ready for a new season than I ever have before. I'm back in New York for the Spring 2014 shows, and ready to show my best work – and my best self.
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I always thought you were very beautiful Danielle and your new look really suits you, a very chic artist.
And your portfolio case is perfect and SO clever, form and function with the plexiglass, I just might have to copy it. 😉
I really like this post and the idea of creating a work uniform that subtly references your creative background.
and you look great. good luck with everything.
I love the thought you've put into this, and your new look is beautiful.
Thanks Danielle for letting us all into your world! The uniform is perfect – practical and chic, very 21st century Chanel, if Chanel instead of KL was doing it 😉
Welcome back! 😀
Well done Danielle. Great article, beautiful photos.
Fantastic article – honest & thought provoking. Delighted to see you back blogging, Danielle. C P.S. you look wonderful in your selfies – I think you're a natural 🙂
This is fascinating — a very practical solution to working in fashion when you're not independently wealthy. I had a fashion instructor who did something similar, picking a striking, untrendy look and then sticking with it. Please keep us updated on how your uniform evolves over time.
Hi Danielle…I think you have a Nicole Kidman look…not your clothes, but YOU. I'm also a fashion illustrator and operated a sole-proprietorship dressmaking business for over 10 years. I think your background in making clothes is your ticket to establishing your own look. I'm a huge fan of your paper dolls and recently stumbled across a photo of one of the designer's outfit that you added in one of your paper doll collections. I was so excited that I saved the photo. I think if you could find some way to market you paper doll collection possibly creating collections for the designers, it could be a rare commodity and young girls would love to play with them. I think you are one of the best illustrators in the fashion industry and your paper dolls could be a marketing sensation. But, remember, it's the marketing that counts! …continued success, Joyce
PS. Some of my drawings and apparel are posted on my facebook page [photo section].: https://www.facebook.com/#!/VA.ClassAct1
…forgot to say…thanks for posting the new photos. I had only seen your profile photo…nice photo but it really doesn't show a good view of your face. The new ones are very nice too.
Your blog persona is becoming a character in a William Gibson novel. This is a compliment, in case you could not tell.
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You look great, and I love your transparent approach to explaining the reasoning and process behind this new look. I would love to know where you had your eyebrows done!
I really like the idea of a signature look based on a working uniform. Also excellent glasses frames!
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It was great to be sketching at the same event as you last night! Very smart idea on the plexi glass portfolio bag, you are ever the innovator 🙂 Like all your posts, I love how process / thought-revealing this one is especially since it deals with things all freelancers can relate to, namely "the ebb and flow" of things. Always enjoy reading up on your insight!
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This is a great place for up and coming paddlers to learn safe creek boating skills. Follow the signs to Jordan Creek ORV area off of Highway 6 in Oregon. Put in as high as water and comfort levels permit. The standard launch point is where the road leaves the creek though you can carry your boat upstream past a gate if you want more. Always be on guard for wood in the water as this is an area of active logging, heavy rainfall and intense erosion.
There are mile markers along the way. Above mile 6.5 is a rare vein of Granite in an otherwise Basalt canyon. Class V rapids and a very steep gradient above this point. A difficult seal launch into a pool below the granite leads paddlers into a mini gorge with short drops.
A significant ledge with a narrow channel on the left occurs less than 1 mile downstream. It cannot be see from the road, and creates a dangerous pocket hydraulic on the right at medium to high flows. It also bends around a left wall so that people coming downstream cannot really see what happened to the person who just went. This one definitely collects wood and it is tricky to scout and portage. Sometimes there is a 1-2 boat eddy above the ledge on the right. It's very nice to have someone out of their boat on the right here to signal and pull people out of the hole.
A second ledge hole a short distance downstream also causes more than its share of swims. Both ledges are usually run far left, against the rock wall to avoid the holes, but scout or send a probe to be sure. It is possible to launch downstream from both of these ledges however the loggers have blocked some of the access with downed trees as of January 2019.
Next there is a short gorge with several stout III's in a row, then long stretches of Class II water punctuated by an occasional III. Most rapids can be scouted on the drive up. Worth a scout on the way up is the "Bridge Rapid" which is visible from the road and detectable by a bridge right over the rapid. Enter either left or right, try not to get caught in the first hole, then most go right or scramble through the left. In the very next tiny rapid there is a rock that looks like it would be an incredible boof but it is a volcanic boat shredder: you have been warned.
The last mile is a classic. The river drops nearly 100' here and has close to a dozen Class III Rapids. Several long boulder slides and medium sized ledges provide great action for intermediate paddlers. At the first significant drop in this section the river builds from Class II into fast Class III with a large pillow rock in the middle at the bottom--go either way. A fun set of rapids follows with riverwide horizons and straightforward lines. Only at high flows will you find significant holes in there, and they are not in the main lines which are quite clean. This section develops some nice playspots at higher flows. A final 3' ledge drops paddlers onto the most likely swollen Wilson, which is like an ocean after Jordan Creek.
Take out in the first eddy on the ledge after the confluence, or float down past a couple possible playspots to the next bridge over the Wilson where there is a takeout trail on river right downstream from the bridge.
Over 8' this run is pushy.
Under 6' it is scrapy.
The Tillamook Gauge is on the Wilson River, 11.5 miles downstream from the Jordan Creek confluence. A lower flow at Tillamook with rising water will likely show more water in Jordan than a higher reading with falling water. The guidebook says a minimum of 7' is needed for Jordan Creek. However having run it at 6.25 and rising and finding near flood conditions, be sure this is only a generalzation. It has been run as low as 5' and higher than 10'.
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Originally built as a coaching inn in the 15th century, The Lamb sits nearby the Ely Cathedral. A grand building with 37 en suite bedrooms, the hotel blends comfort and tradition, ensuring that guests enjoy their visit and relax while staying in the beautiful city of Ely. The Lamb also offers meeting facilities for up to 20 people, with free Wi-Fi so why not hold a meeting in an historic inn and escape the busy office? We have a small car park, with the entrance located on Market Street. This hotel is dog friendly, allowed in all room types, allowed in some areas of the bar. Last check in is 11pm.


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Stormy Daniels threatened to dump Michael Avenatti if domestic violence allegations against the lawyer prove to be true.
The adult film star called the allegations, which led to Avenatti's arrest, "very troubling," in a statement to New York magazine on Thursday.
"These are serious and obviously very troubling allegations, but right now that is all they are: allegations," Daniels told reporter Olivia Nuzzi. "We should all reserve judgment until the investigation — an investigation Michael has said he welcomes — is complete, and that's what I'm going to do.
"But of course I do not condone violence against women, and if these allegations prove true, I will be seeking new representation," she added.
Avenatti was cuffed by LAPD detectives and charged with felony domestic assault "on suspicion" that he beat up an unidentified woman on Tuesday, cops said.
The lawyer, who gained fame representing Daniels in a defamation lawsuit against President Trump, has denied the allegations.
"I have never struck a woman," Avenatti said after being released late Wednesday.
Police didn't immediately disclose details, but Officer Tony Im, an LAPD spokesman, said the victim has visible injuries.
Daniels' friend and fellow adult film star Alana Evans told the Daily News she fears the allegations against Avenatti could affect her pal and urged her to fire him immediately.
"This is obviously reflecting really bad on him, but I think she's going to get dragged into it as well," Evans said. "She needs to get rid of him."
Evans pointed out that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has dealt with domestic abuse in her past.
Daniels' ex-husband was arrested on domestic violence charges in July 2015 after he shoved her to the floor during a fight at their Texas home, according to a police report. The case ended up being dismissed, but Evans said it left her friend scarred.
"This is all really hard on her," Evans said of the allegations against Avenatti.
Daniels has alleged she had an affair with Trump over a decade ago and has sued to invalidate the confidentiality agreement she signed ahead of the 2016 presidential election. She also sued the President and his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for defamation.
Avenatti, who has publicly floated the idea of a 2020 White House run, offered an alternative explanation for the allegations against him.
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He tweeted Thursday morning that he's "coming for" far-right conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl, insinuating that he was behind his arrest.
"First Mueller and now me," Avenatti tweeted. "When we are fully exonerated I am coming for you Jacob Wohl aka Surefire."
Wohl recently orchestrated an attempt to smear special counsel Robert Mueller, falsely accusing the former FBI director of sexual misconduct, with the help of a shady company called Surefire Intelligence.
"Michael 'She Hit Me First' Avenatti is now blaming ME for the fact that he was arrested for brutally beating a woman — This guy is a SICKO!" Wohl tweeted shortly after Avenatti's post.
Wohl did not respond to a request for comment.


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Fourth season of Heritage Pageants is set on and the delegates from Nepal has been officially selected and crowned as Miss and Mrs Heritage International Nepal 2019.
During a crowning event, the National franchise for the pageant in Nepal, Green Arts Media Private Limited revealed the official delegates from Nepal for the Heritage Pageants 2019.
In the event presented at Hotel Shanker, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Aditi Shrestha was been crowned as Miss Heritage International Nepal 2019 while Durga Bisural was crowned as Mrs Heritage International Nepal 2019.
Heritage Pageants 2019 is been scheduled at the garden city, Singapore from 12th of February to 17th of February 2019, where Miss Heritage International and Mrs Heritage International 2019 would be chosen. Heritage pageants was premiered in 2014 at Kathmandu and organized by E-planet Private Limited, headquarter being based in Kathmandu.
Heritage pageant event is being hosted with the aim of promoting tangible and intangible heritage while conserving the world heritage sites as been listed by UNESCO.
The winners and the participants of the event are supposed to work hand and in hand with the host country in the promotion and preservation activities related to world heritage, art, culture, tourism, environment and peace in the host country and in their respective countries.
Among the newly crowned Heritage queens, Mrs Heritage International Nepal 2019, Durga Bisural has earned the degree of Masters in Sociology and is been involved in various sectors. She is the treasurer for Riwaz foundation and also a vice chairman for Lions club of Kathmandu, Chandragiri.
20 years of age Miss Heritage International 2019, Aditi Shrestha is a BABSW student as Nesfield International College and is a professional make-up artist who runs her own studio named as Allure Make-up studio. Both the delegates would be prepared under the guidance of choreographer Anila Shrestha.


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Nissan and Renault are in talks about merging to create one new company, according to reports by business news agency Bloomberg.
The Japanese and French car makers have been in an alliance since 1999, with Mitsubishi joining in 2016, helping the trio to overtake the Volkswagen Group as the largest car company in the world.
But reports suggest the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is seeking to further boost synergies and create a new, single company that would trade as one stock. Carlos Ghosn, the chairman of the alliance, is said to be pushing for the change.
Both Renault and Nissan declined to comment when contacted by Autocar, with a spokesman from each brand stating that they do not comment on "speculative rumours".
Nevertheless, the brands of the alliance have become increasingly integrated in recent months, as evident from a joint £8.9bn investment in electrification and autonomous driving technology.


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When I received Hydraluron by Indeed Laboratories, I was intrigued. On first glance I liked the simple packaging and I liked its simple no-nonsense ingredients clearly stated on its box.
This is a serum that will boost hydration. Filled with the purest form of hyaluronic acid, the serum is supposed to also give you anti-aging benefits.
Really, I truly liked its packaging... Almost looks like my daily contact lens pack - slim and no-nonsense.
At MUSE by Watsons, they carry 4 of Indeed Laboratories products which are Nanoblur (an anti-aging formula that's supposed to make you look 10 years younger) at RM65, Snoxin (touted to be better than a $500 serum for its effectiveness to combat aging appearance in skin) at RM130, Eysilix (treatment for the eye area) at RM99 and Hydraluron at RM80.
According to Indeed Laboratories, their objective is simple, that is to eliminate all marketing hype and costs from skin treatments while delivering results as cost-effectively as possible. Their products use very high concentrations of the rarest most effective actives from clinical laboratories in Switzerland, Spain, France and the USA.
What I especially liked is their brand positioning:
They BELIEVE IN: next generation peptides, advanced biotech, uncompromised safety, factual science, hype-free communication, practical packaging and honest price points.
They DON'T believe in: antiquated actives, mesmerising aromas, parabens SLS & siblings, high-gloss advertising, golden jars (with a spoon) and ballooned prices.
It took awhile for me to truly have an opinion about this serum. When I first got it, I got a little scared because I always thought hyaluronic acid would be too rich for my skin. But I tried anyway because I was naturally curious about new no-nonsense beauty products ;P
The formulation is a clear gel-like texture which is instantly absorbed into the skin, there's no fragrance and made my skin really matte. It's as if I've used a makeup primer without the oily silicone-y feel.
I used it for about a month, twice a day but didn't quite notice any significant change in my skin's hydration level. I did however notice that my skin is much softer and oil seeds were coming up to the surface of the skin within 1-2 weeks of use and could be extracted very easily. I had many oil seeds that were so stubborn and hard but they all seem to purge almost naturally from the skin and I was made oil seed-free!
Despite all that, I still wasn't sure if it was this serum that made a difference to my skin or a new moisturiser I was using. So, I stopped for a few days and saw that my skin became rough and needed constant exfoliation the way it usually would.
Because of this, I tried using it again but limit the use to only night time just so I could tell a difference in the way it works on my skin. That, made all the difference I needed and I realised that my skin did become softer. My pores were finer and friends did notice how my skin looked more radiant while skin texture improved. Thus, I decided that this is a serum I couldn't live without. It didn't improve hydration in an obvious way - maybe not so much on the skin surface but it probably is helping my skin improve deep down because I did notice how supple skin feels when I wake up the next morning.
During the day, I would use a different serum but if I have an event where I needed to put on makeup say for weddings or even that one live interview on TV that I did a few days back, I would make sure I use Hydraluron as my makeup would last longer and looked better.. Makeup glides on really smoothly and after awhile, the foundation will look so natural on my skin.
After using this for about 3 months, I have now ran out of it, down to the last bit and I know I would want to replenish it. At just RM80 for a 30ml serum, this is a really worthy item, indeed.
I've never been really impressed with any serums before. Yes, I would be happy with some of them but I don't recall ever repurchasing any serums once they run out. Possibly because they are just too expensive to repurchase but it's probably also because I would always have something new to try... perhaps it is also because they'd clog my pores once I would finish the bottle because of the silicone content (I think!). Hydraluron I guess is reasonably priced, works so well on my skin and so I'm making this my staple serum.
The only thing is, this product can only be purchased at MUSE by Watsons, located at Sunway Pyramid.
Have you dropped by MUSE by Watsons yet?


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Yes, we all know that that Apple announced a new iMac and a new MacBook Pro at this year's AppleWorld. There's some *VERY* interesting things going on with these new boxes. First off, it's a step backwards. WHAT!?! The 'old' iMac that has been out for 3 months is a 64-bit processor. The Intel Core Duo's are *NOT*. They are 32-bit processors. Two of them, but still, not a dual 64-bit core. In fact, the Centrino/Pentium M and Core Duo's are based upon Pentium III cores! Wow! Where was this Pentium III speed 4 years ago?
Ok, the above information is interesting, but *NOT* how Apple disappointed me. 10.4.4 is what has disappointed. I have a Mac mini that runs well enough, but I have a huge problem with a couple of devices. I have the M-Audio FW-1814. It's an awesome firewire-based audio converter. I also have the iSight. It is also a firewire device. Well, the Mac Mini only has one firewire port. This presents a problem. There are two ways to connect two firewire devices to one firewire port… either daisychain them, or get a firewire hub. To make a long story short, neither one of these methods workd with my Mac Mini and said devices. One of the updates for 10.4.4 was the audio and firewire drivers. Unfortunately this didn't help the problem. I uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled the drivers, etc… No joy.
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And finally, while I'm bitching about Apple, I'm going to throw one last little barb in… I *LOVE* .NET 2.0!!!! Apple needs a language/libraries like that. I tried working with XCode, but was supremely disappointed. Plus, with the odd direction that Java on the mac is going… (why pull Cocoa support for Java application rendering?) I just wonder if a 'modern' language will integrate into the Mac? *Dave now ducks as the C++ and Mono people throw stones*
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The BEST Episodes of Tenjho Tenge
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Nov 25, 2019
Network: TV Asahi
The plot begins with Souichiro Nagi and his friend Bob Makihara going to their first day of high school at Toudou Academy. They had intended to rule the school by beating up anybody that got in their way, as they had done at their previous schools. They soon learn that Todo is no ordinary high school, but rather a school that was founded to teach and integrate different fighting styles. Its students are skilled in the various arts of combat with some students possessing supernatural abilities, such as pyrokinesis, precognition, and superhuman strength based on the abilities to use their "spirit" or "ki" in Japanese. After an altercation with the Executive Council, Souichiro and Bob join the only surviving club that opposes them, the Juken club. As the storyline develops, both groups find they are becoming increasingly involved in a long enduring conflict that was left unresolved from the Japanese Feudal era by some of the characters' ancestors.
#1 - Doubt
Season 1 - Episode 4
The Juken Club trains during Golden week break, while Tsutomu gets punished for not fulfilling Executive Council orders by another enforcer named Kōji Sagara.
#2 - Exceptionally Talented Person
Season 1 - Episode 11
Mana Kuzunoha reveals Shin Natsume's insanity to Mitsuomi.
#3 - Enforcer
Season 1 - Episode 3
The Knuckle Bombs race to protect Bob's girlfriend Chiaki Kounoike from Tsutomu at the laundromat. After being defeated, they join the Juken Club and Maya Natsume retaliates for her new members.
#4 - Dragon Eye
Season 1 - Episode 8
Mitsuomi confronts Bob and Souichiro and the enforcer Shirō Tagami nearly dies when Aya Natsume's Dragon's Eye activate.
#5 - Memory
Season 1 - Episode 10
Maya reveals the past between her, Mitsuomi, her brother Shin, and his girlfriend Mana Kuzunoha.
#6 - Punishment
Season 1 - Episode 5
The Juken Club goes bowling and gets ambushed by the Executive Council.
#7 - Decision
Season 1 - Episode 22
The Finals to the Tournament come and the Jyuken Club must fight the Anti-Jyuken Special Team made from 5 of the 10 strongest fighters in Toudou. Mitsuomi shows up to help Tawara and Kuzuo, but instead takes out everyone by himself in about 3 minutes. He then learns from Kuzunoha what the consequences of his fight with Shin really are.
#8 - Illusion
Season 1 - Episode 6
The fight between the Juken Club and the Executive Council continues and Mitsuomi Takayanagi, the president of the Executive Council, arrives on the scene.
#9 - Regulation
Season 1 - Episode 9
The battle between Souichiro and Mitsuomi comes to a conclusion.
#10 - Yin and Yang
Season 1 - Episode 15
Mitsuomi overcomes his paralyzing fear. Later, Mitsuomi and Shin race on motorcycles as a farewell party to Team KATANA.
#11 - Spontaneous Explosion
Season 1 - Episode 21
Fu Cheun / Fu Chein took Maya captive in order to force Shin to comply with Master Dougen's demands, but Shin's Dragon Eye activates and the two fight. Kuzunoha runs off to find Mitsuomi to help stop the berserk Shin.
#12 - Curse
Season 1 - Episode 23
2 months have passed and Mitsuomi fights Shin for the presidency of the Enforcers.
#13 - Sacred Area
Season 1 - Episode 1
Souichiro Nagi and his best friend Bob Makihara (a.k.a the Knuckle Bombs) arrive to their new school of Todo Academy with plan of ruling the school by defeating anybody that get in their way just as they have done at their previous schools. They soon learn first that Todo Academy is no ordinary school.
#14 - Defeat
Season 1 - Episode 2
Souichiro tries to deal with his lose in fight and to the fact that their are stronger fighters at Todo then himself. The Knuckle Bombs antics catch the attention of Tsutomu Ryuuzaki of the Executive Council that keep the order in the school and punish the students that do not follow the rules.
#15 - Crushed
Season 1 - Episode 7
Souichiro finishes his fight with the enforcer Sagara while Masataka Takayanagi fights his brother Mitsuomi.
#16 - Diabolic Power
Season 1 - Episode 13
Mitsuomi struggles with a paralyzing fear. Bunshichi finds Shin at the meeting and they begin to fight.
#17 - Darkness
Season 1 - Episode 12
Shin is called to a meeting with Dōgen Takayanagi. Bunshichi Tawara has problems trying to find his friend Shin.
#18 - Commencement
Season 1 - Episode 19
Bunshichi reveals more of the past, starting with how Shin Natsume formed the Juken Club and how Mitsuomi persuaded Maya to join the club.
#19 - Conclusion
Season 1 - Episode 16
Maya finishes her story and the Juken Club return to school. Souichiro and Bob fight Kanakita Ryuusen, while Maya meets with the school principal.
#20 - Cycle
Season 1 - Episode 24
Maya and Mitsuomi try to retrieve Chokutou Reki form Aya but are stopped when Souichiro fights Mitsuomi.
#21 - Real Motive
Season 1 - Episode 17
Maya's expulsion from school, Souichiro and Bob attack the Enforcer's club office.
#22 - Stratagem
Season 1 - Episode 20
The preliminary matches of the tournament get underway, but Master Dougen pays Shin a visit asking him a favor...
#23 - Hellfire
Season 1 - Episode 14
The fight between Bunshichi and Shin reaches its conclusion.
#24 - Resonance
Season 1 - Episode 18
Souichiro and Bob try to find out more of the past from Bunshichi, while Maya and Mitsuomi team up to search for Aya, who has the cursed sword Reiki.


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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Praised be Allah, the Lord of the Universe, peace and blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet Muhammad, his companions, his kin, and his followers until the Date of the Last Judgment.
Islam is the last Message of Allah on the face of the Earth for humankind. Islam is the religion of all Prophets and Messengers of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them, since Adam to Muhammad.
Islam is the humble submission to Allah, complying with His orders and refraining from His prohibitions.
Allah says: (Indeed, the religion, in the sight of Allah, is Islam. And those who were given the Scripture did not differ except after knowledge had come to them – out of jealous animosity between themselves. And whoever disbelieves in the verses of Allah, then indeed, Allah is swift in taking account). 03:19.
Allah further says: (And whoever desires other than Islam as religion – never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the unfortunates). 03:85.
Allah further says: (Our Lord, and make us Muslims in submission to You and from our descendants a Muslim nation in submission to You. And show us our rites and accept our repentance. Indeed, You are the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful). 02:128.
Allah further says: (When his Lord said to him, 'Submit', he said "I have submitted in Islam to the Lord of the worlds! And Abraham instructed his sons to do the same and so did Jacob, saying, 'O my sons, indeed Allah has chosen for you this religion, so do not die except while you are Muslims, or were you witnesses when death approached Jacob, when he said to his sons, 'What will you worship after me?' They said, 'We will worship your God and the God of your fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac – one God. And we are Muslims in submission to Him). 02:131-133.
Abdullah Ibn Ômar, be Allah satisfied with him, reported that the Prophet, Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'Islam is based on five principles. The first of all is for us to testimony that there is no other deity besides Allah, and that Muhammad is His Messenger; the second is the practice of the prayers; the third is the payment of the social tax (zakah); the fourth is the pilgrimage to the House of Allah (in Makka); and the fifth is observing the fast in the month of Ramadan.' (Bukhari and Muslim).
The principles of Islam are:
First: To testimony that there is no other deity worthy of adoration besides Allah, and that Muhammad, Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, is the Messenger of Allah;
Second: To comply with the five daily prayers;
Third: To pay the tax (Zakah);
Fourth: Fasting in the blessed month of Ramadan;
Fifth: Pilgrimage to the House of Allah in the city of Makkah, for those who may do so (physically and financially). Once in life.
The principles of the faith are:
First: The faith in Allah (single God);
Second: The faith in His angels;
Third: The faith in the celestial Books;
Fourth: The faith in the Messengers;
Fifth: The faith in the Date of the Last Judgment;
Sixth: The faith in the predestination, for good and for bad.
Faith is: to believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His Messengers, in the Date of the Last Judgment, and in the predestination, for good and for bad, as well as in all that was informed to us on the knowledge of unknowable things, of the fundamentals of the Religion, of all the distinguished theologians of the past agreed to, fully conforming to the orders of Allah and complying with, obeying and following the Messenger of Allah, Allah's peace and blessings be upon him.
Peace and blessings of Allah be upon the prophet and Messenger of Allah, his kin, his companions, and his followers until the Date of the Resurrection.


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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Art:21 Systems Episode tonight
Art:21 tonight 10:00 PM ET "Systems" with Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum.
Synopsis: Whether through acts of appropriation, repetition, or accumulation, the artists in this episode realize projects both vast in scope and beyond comprehension. (link)
Julie Mehretu's Grey Area for the Deutsche Guggenheim (link)
John Baldessari at Sprueth Magers (link)
Kimsooja's website (link)
Allan McCollum The Shapes Project (link)
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
August Coppola: a great man who devoted his life to teaching
image via the CRC Blog (link)
Dr. August F. Coppola (16 February 1934- 27 October 2009), Dean of Creative Arts at SFSU, professor of comparative literature, creator of the Tactile Dome at the Exploratorium (Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception) in San Francisco, world traveler who celebrated other cultures and peoples. Son of Carmine and Italia Coppola, brother of Francis Coppola and Talia Shire, father of Christopher Coppola, Marc Coppola and Nicolas Cage, grandfather to six; teacher and inspiration to countless students. Farewell Sir.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The Yes Men Fix the World
SurvivaBall! (shown at Warhol Museum 2007) image by 2Things@Once on Flickr (link)
Man Michinaga of Lovers Lane Studios and Second Front (Patrick Lichty) has work in the well-received (Sundance, Berlin) 2009 gadfly activist film The Yes Men Fix the World as animator. The Yes Men are Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno.
"What we do is pass ourselves off as representatives of big corporations we don't like," Mr. Bonanno cheerfully explains at the beginning of the film. "We make fake Web sites, then wait for people to accidentally invite us to conferences."
Read more at NYTimes.com (link)
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009) official trailer
The Yes Men Fix the World (link)
The film on IMDB (link)
SurvivaBall (link)
Yes Men Videos on Babelgum (link)
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Burning Life
Mab has been out sick, or traveling, or sick and traveling, for the past couple of months but did get inworld to juggle fire torches and watch the Burning Man in Burning Life burn down last night.
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Burning Life (link)
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Art:21 Fantasy Episode tonight
Fantasy presents four artists whose works or personal stories transport viewers to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works that seem at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind's eye.
Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century tonight on PBS 10:00 ET Fantasy episode with Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen, and Cao Fei, who identifies herself as the avatar of SL artist China Tracy:
Through a blend of documentary and magical realism, the artist investigates various aspects of role play: costumed youth and their families, workers' dreams come to life at a Siemens light factory, and the simulated romance between avatars. The segment culminates in the artist's ongoing project, "RMB City," an artificial island built in the 3D virtual world of Second Life that resembles a postmodern collage of landmarks, urban over-development, and Chinese landscape painting.
Read more (link)
Cao Fei biography (link)
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Field Trip: How It Is
Tenth commission in The Unilever Series, Miroslaw Balka's new work opens today in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London and runs till 5 April 2010.
How it is, is only complete when you, the viewer, enter.
-- Curator's Introduction (Flash interactive exploration) (link)
The title, How It Is, is taken from Samuel Beckett's novel of the same name and Balka said the piece should be seen as being about everything and nothing. "There is no one single direct inspiration for the piece and the words of the artist are not so important. The work is important. It is good or bad. It works or it does not work."
-- Mark Brown, guardian.co.uk (link)
More information at Tate Modern (link)
Miroslaw Balka bio at White Cube (link)
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video via Alan Sondheim (link)
Last Friday (9 October 2009) was SL Performance Night at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City. Artists/groups included Alan Sondheim with Foofwa d'Imobilité, Lily & Honglei, and Second Front members Patrick Lichty and Scott Kildall. The evening was also occasion to a formal launch party for Second Front's Second DVD of performance works, Avvie Road.
Performing in Second Life (eyebeam.org) (link)
Lily & Honglei (Land of Illusion) (link)
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (link)
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 5 begins tonight on PBS 10:00 ET with the episode Compassion (link)
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Labels: Art21, media media, television
Monday, October 5, 2009
Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace Tower
Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower practice lighting in Reykjavik, Iceland on left, and in SL on right- photos © Yoko Ono official (link)
Yoko Ono will unveil the Imagine Peace Tower in Second Life® Friday, 9 October 2009, soon after the real world lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland on John Lennon's 69th birthday.
Jura Shepherd writes in ROLE magazine:
The tower will replicate, as closely as possible, its real world counterpart which opened on October 9th, 2007 on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland. The terrestrial version is made of fifteen powerful searchlights manipulated with mirrors to form a column of light that is tall enough to not only reach cloud cover, but has been seen to penetrate well beyond it. According to the University of Iceland, the light is so powerful that, if within the column itself, the light would still be visible with the naked eye from space and could be easily detected with instruments from much further away from our planet. The base of the tower is an elegant but austere cylindrical structure made of white stone that is meant to symbolically represent a well, specifically a wishing well. Circling the well are engravings of the phrase "IMAGINE PEACE" written in 24 different world languages.
More at ROLE Magazine (link)
Hamlet Au comments at New World Notes (link)
More photos and descriptions at Yoko Ono's IMAGINE PEACE TOWER Flickr set (link)
Information and schedules at Imagine Peace (link)
Imagine Peace Tower Island (open 9 October) (slurl)
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Friday, October 2, 2009
soror Nishi on Magoo
The Temple of the Prim
Magoo (slurl)
NPIRL Preview 2 October 2009, 12:30 PM SLT
Opening 3 October 2009, 1 PM SLT
From soror Nishi's blog:
The Prim is the Prima Materia of Second Life, everything is made of this "stuff", and like alchemy (often called The Art) we can, through diligence, ritual and devotion turn this humble prim into pure gold. "Everything is made by prim and without prim is nothing made that was made." (more)
The Temple of the Prim, Beta v 1.0
The Prim is totally neutral, even more neutral than matter which has imbued feeling depending on whether it is wood, silver, etc. The Prim ONLY manifests its creator's psyche, nothing else.
It is the blankest of blank canvases.
It is, actually, nothing. Matter is actually an illusion too. Atomic physics teaches us that electrons are energy defined by their general relative positions, there's no 'stuff'. Solid is illusion. (more)
Update: See Bettina Tizzy's report on NPIRL (link)
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That time all four tires and rims got stolen off a tourist's rental car, and we spent the whole weekend working out how to get them back on the road. The schools we're helping to build in South America. The best thing to do when your vehicle slides on ice. The difference in stopping distances between worn and new tires.
At Kal Tire, we've got a lot of stories, and a lot of expertise. And we think it's time to share that with you.
Introducing Kal Tire Times, our very own newspaper! This fall, at Kal Tire locations across Canada, customers will be able to pick up (and take home) their very own copy of our first edition.
Why we created Kal Tire Times
Our team members do so much more than change tires. We help people who are stuck or stranded with flat tires. We raise money for local and national charities. We fix brakes. We share what we know about driving, about the elusive inner-workings of vehicles. We test tires to give drivers data about how tires really perform when push comes to shove. And so much more.
To us, the Kal Tire Times is a way to educate drivers to help make our roads safer and vehicles perform better, a way to celebrate team members going above and beyond. What better way to learn more about your tires, driving and your vehicle than in a newspaper?
What you'll find inside:
We're excited about what we have to share on each and every page, but some of the headlines and sections we want to highlight include:
How safe are worn tires?
Kal's Tire Testing evaluates the performance of new and worn tires. You might be surprised which stops sooner.
Tests show 'no two winter tires equal'
58 new tires across categories and price points were put to the test. Results show impressive differences, even among winter tires.
Whatever the weather: How to drive on ice, snow, sleet or in fog
Renowned professional driver Alan Sidorov shares insider tips for driving in Canada's most scary winter conditions.
When to change your oil: What would Bill Gardiner do?
Beloved automotive TV personality Bill Gardiner tells readers which oil service interval they should actually pay attention to.
- Fun stuff, like a crossword and comics. Have you ever heard the joke that goes: So a tire walks into his shrink's office….? It's pretty good!
- Mission impossible: A true service story about how a Kamloops team member completely wowed a stranded British tourist.
- Kal Tire helps Latin American children play, learn & grow.
Did you know Kal Tire's Mining Tire Group employs 1,800 team members who help serve 150 mine sites across five continents? And that each of those regions does amazing things to support the communities we serve? No? Well, here's a story about how we did some cool projects for children and families in South America in 2016.
It gets better!
- There's a contest. And you could win a ski trip, a set of tires and more!
- We're hiring! Find out if we're looking for someone like you in the Careers section.
- It's free and you can take your copy home from the store.
Of course, if there's a specific topic you want more information on, and it's not in the newspaper or you don't have your copy handy, there's a pretty good chance we've got an article for you in our Resource Centre.


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European Parliament Urged to Act on Nagorno-Karabakh Dam Threat
21 Jun, 2013, 08:00 BST
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Azerbaijan has called on the European Parliament demanding that Armenia carry out essential maintenance on a dilapidated dam in occupied Nagorno-Karabakh that engineers agree is at risk of failure with potentially catastrophic results.
It has also called on the European Parliament to condemn Armenia for arresting 11 people near the Tartar River in May who had been protesting the dam issue. Azerbaijan says the demonstrators have reportedly been illegally detained and beaten by Armenian soldiers.
At the heart of the protesters' concerns - and those of Azerbaijan - is the 125 metre high Soviet-built Sarsang dam, which straddles the Tartar River. It is allegedly long overdue for essential safety checks and maintenance. According to Azerbaijan, "a remote study made by the experts of the Department of Water Affairs and the Suyapi company of Turkey during the spring of 2013 showed that there is a significant risk of spillage and accident".
The study found that in the event of collapse more than 30 villages would be flooded, some more than 45 kilometres away from the base of the dam. Tens of thousands of people live in the areas at risk.
"We call on the Armenian authorities to permit immediate repairs and maintenance to the Sarsang Dam and Reservoir in order to avoid a disaster," the Azerbaijan Association for Civil Society Development said in its plea to the European Parliament.
Of the protest, Azerbaijan said that on May 25 a group of "about 30-40 soldiers attacked and illegally arrested the Azeri citizens". It said they were punched and kicked with one villager burned with a cigarette.
The letter to the European Parliament calls on it to "condemn the arrests and torture perpetrated by the Armenian occupiers against the delegation of Azeri villagers from the Tartar area of Azerbaijan".
Separately, Azerbaijan says an environmental disaster is being perpetrated by Armenia, which refuses to allow dam water to irrigate the regions downstream.
"All experts agree that the grave situation of the flora and fauna of the region, which has been gravely destroyed in the last decade, is traced to the lack of water and the blockage of the dam by Armenian authorities," the letter states.
Armenia has yet to respond to the charges relating to the dam and the recent protest.
SOURCE Azerbaijan Monitor


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No matter how hard Hapstone company tried to bring products on the market, unexpected circumstances caused multiple delays in production. Therefore, Gritomatic and Hapstone came to the tough decision to cancel all active preorders and eliminate preordering at Gritomatic. Breaking the promises is much worse than delays in production. We apologize to all customers.
All upcoming products are still in development, including Hapstone R1 (in the final stage). No product we ever mentioned in social networks, forums and tradeshows, has been canceled. However, all upcoming or out-of-stock Hapstone products are "Done, when it's done".
As the owner of Gritomatic online store I'd like to use this blog to talk with you and share my knowledge and experience in sharpening. English is not my native language, I am sorry for any mistakes and really hope it will not become a barrier between us. I will be happy to receive feedback from your side.


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Microsoft Rumored To Buy Symantec. Why Would It Bother?
Sometimes I hear a rumor that sounds like it's landed from another planet. Today's is Microsoft (MSFT) might buy Symantec (SYMC). Perhaps this is making stocks move and hearts go pit-a-pat, but it sounds like one of the goofiest ideas you could hear.
At first blush -- sure, maybe there's a fit between the company that produces the most widely used PC operating system in the world and a security company. Especially when Microsoft products have the reputation for being the favorite targets of hackers and digital criminals. But let's use a little reason here.
First, Symantec has often received its licks over performance issues. Even though the newest version of the Norton Internet Security product is supposed to be significantly faster than earlier ones, it still isn't at the highest rate of malware detection and it's still not the lightest weight on a CPU.
Second, Microsoft already has its own security products, including Security Essentials and its firewall. I actually use the former ever since finding it was the only of several products I tried to be able to remove a pernicious redirect virus. Not only do the products work, but Microsoft is already giving them away. Clearly it hasn't wanted to enter the pay-or-pray Windows security market. Why start now? And if it's not going to sell products for which it already has counterparts, why buy them in the first place?
Yes, McAfee (MFE) sold -- to Intel(INTC). Maybe a chip company like AMD (AMD) might consider a purchase to offset any apparent leverage that Intel might get. But if you were going to buy a security company for that reason, why not go with one that has even faster technology?
This sounds like another of the period frenzies you see when investors are unhappy with the performance. Or maybe when they're really ticked that Symantec plans to hold a virtual-only annual shareholders meeting, keeping the board out of direct confrontation, and arms' reach. Just think of it as another type of security.
- Twitter Does What It Must, and That Pisses Off the Privacy World
- Intel's McAfee Acquisition: A Semi-Desperate Bid for Competitive Advantage
- Apple and WikiLeaks Show How Vulnerable Companies Are
- Apple iPhone, iPad Security Goes Into the Toilet and Down the Tubesu
- U.S. Infrastructure Is Vulnerable to Cyber Attack, but No One Will Do Anything
- Apple and Google Mobile Security Pits Get Deeper


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MIAMI — The ordinary man settled into his ordinary ritual.
He lay down at the bottom of the empty, cubelike aquarium with his fluffed-up pillow, crawled under his sheet and shut his eyes. But he was roused abruptly by a stream of water, and in less than a minute he was a man whose day had turned topsy-turvy: He floated and twisted, rose and sank, fought and surrendered. Then, just as suddenly, the water level dropped, only to rise and fall again for the next 45 minutes while spectators sat mesmerized.
As scientists and politicians in Paris wrestle with the complexities of battling climate change, here in Miami, an artist, Lars Jan, is inviting people to view it in a way, he said, that makes people "feel climate change in their guts, rather than just understand it."
When Mr. Jan brought his installation, "Holoscenes," to Miami Dade College this week to coincide with the annual Art Basel extravaganza, he knew Miami was the ideal city to spotlight the increasingly delicate dance of climate change, water and everyday life. The ocean, after all, made the city famous.
But today Miami and particularly ritzy Miami Beach across the causeway are more vulnerable to sea level rise than almost any other place in the country, and now the bill has come due. Roads must be raised, water pumps updated, homes built high off the ground, sewage plants safeguarded, and estuaries and the Everglades protected from encroaching saltwater. And no one knows if that will ever be enough.
"I know how exposed Miami is, and Florida," said Mr. Jan, 37, who developed the concept for his installation after seeing the damage wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and stumbling across a particularly vivid photograph of a major flood in Pakistan. "It was classically beautiful, but it depicted a horrific situation. It opened a door that I walked through, and I kept walking."
Mr. Jan, who lives in Los Angeles and is half-Afghan, half-Polish, immersed himself in research on floods and climate change. In time, his visualization of rising seas in mundane situations led him to the human aquarium, where the idea plays out in eight scenes. They depict everyday life jumbled by the rise and fall of water and arrived via video submissions from the public.
Inside the aquarium rising from the middle of a well-trafficked plaza, there is a man tuning a guitar. A woman putting on and taking off an abaya, the overgarment worn by Muslim women. A couple engaged in a duet. There is hose guy — a man in sneakers and jeans who begins to coil and uncoil a garden hose (a frustrating task even on land). The aquarium fills and empties unpredictably, over and over. The hose wafts from his clutch, and as it does he tumbles into fits of pique, resignation, futility and determination. Later, a fruit seller in Indian finery sits in the empty tank with her basket of persimmons. As the water rises, the persimmons float away. Sometimes frantically, sometimes placidly, she gathers them once again.
The project, Mr. Jan said, is as much about the ability to adapt as the ability to fight back. And while it was serendipitous that world leaders gathered this week to discuss climate change, Mr. Jan said he was hoping to reach people in a way that eschewed statistics and scientific treatises.
"The conversation needs to happen on the street," he said.
Pulling off the project took imagination as well: calibrating the hydraulic rise and fall of water; allaying the fears of sponsors who worried about performers drowning (they can breathe at the surface); training performers to hold their breath for extended periods (sometimes more than three minutes); designing costumes that are waterproof yet billowy (the bedtime sheet is actually a shower curtain).
"What's amazing is that in all of these situations you feel yourself adapt," said Geoff Sobelle, 40, the choreographer and performer who coils the hose, describing life in the tank. "There is a sense of surrendering."
For Jannet Dannon-Mairena, 45, watching "Holoscenes" with her three home-schooled children, an element of fear courses through the water scenes. A Miami resident, she joked that she was already building her boat in her backyard, just in case. But she said the scenes also depict a loss of control, which is really where the fear is rooted.
"They are struggling to do all the things they used to but, with all the changes, now they can't," she said. "The water coming up and down, it's like the points in your life when you think, now I have it under control, and you don't."
Roseanne Friedlander, 62, a retired airline employee, could not resist making a political quip as she watched the performance. "It's ironic that with all the water rising around Florida, our governor doesn't want us to mention climate change," she said.
Ms. Friedlander was referring to reports this year from former state environmental protection employees who said that Gov. Rick Scott's administration had unofficially banned the term "climate change." Mr. Scott has said no such policy exists.
Yet, there is no question the topic remains contentious. Climate change, and its proposed solutions, is equally unpopular among Republican presidential candidates, who express skepticism about the science and a reluctance to act in ways they say could hurt the economy.
Watching the man in the tank struggle with the hose, Ms. Friedlander concluded that he was not adapting very well. "You can't fight water," she said.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Everest Re Group, a Bermuda-based reinsurer, revealed Wednesday that its U.S. subsidiary was under investigation for a controversial insurance product.
The company said it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking information about loss-mitigation insurance. Everest Re RE, +0.64% said it would cooperate with the investigation.
Everest Re also disclosed that it had received requests about loss-mitigation insurance, otherwise known as "finite risk" insurance, and responded to inquiries by insurance regulators in Delaware and Georgia.
There is no clear definition of finite reinsurance, but generally it's a blend traditional reinsurance and financing. The products are usually purchased by other insurers looking to protect themselves against the financial risk of future liabilities.
Regulators including New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the SEC are investigating whether companies have used finite reinsurance to manipulate their financial statements.
The disclosure comes after Hartford Financial HIG, +0.16% said Tuesday it was subpoenaed by the Connecticut attorney general. Other insurers including American International Group AIG, +0.23% and Chubb Corp. CB, +0.54% have been contacted in the probe.
Shares of Everest Re moved down 69 cents to finish Wednesday trading at $88.53.


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SANDY, Utah – Just 12 caps into his international career and two games into the Gold Cup, and Chris Wondolowski is already breaking records.
Coming off the back of a hat trick in the United States' Gold Cup opener against Belize on Tuesday, the San Jose Earthquakes star hit a pair of goals of the bench in the USA's 4-1 win over Cuba on Saturday afternoon, in the process breaking the record for goals scored by an American player in a single Gold Cup tournament.
And now that he's started to match his torrid MLS form (66 regular season goals since the start of 2010) on the international level, does Wondolowski feel he's playing the best soccer of his career?
"Yeah, definitely. I think I'm very confident in my play and I think just even getting the goals is so huge," Wondolowski told reporters after the game. "I'm feeling more confident in my passing and in my touch and things like that where it's really helping me, and it's really raising my leveI,"
It's been a marked turn for the 30-year-old who failed to endear himself to the US fanbase with a series of misses at the 2011 Gold Cup and had failed to find the net for the US since his January 2011 international debut, prior to his tally against Guatemala in a tune-up against Guatemala on July 5.
"He's been wonderful," said US head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. "It's a joy to see him every day in training and getting his goals that he was waiting for such a long time for, and now they're coming. It's not only that he has the instinct to be where the ball will be, it's also the runs that he makes to open things up, open up channels for the other guys."
Despite his earlier hat-trick against Belize, though, Wondolowski did not get the start against Cuba, with Klinsmann instead opting to start Herculez Gomez alongside Landon Donovan up top.
"He was obviously disappointed when I told him he was not going to start right away, but I told him, 'You've got to keep your goals for the second half,'" Klinsmann said, smiling.
Wondolowski did just that after replacing Gomez in the 56th minute. Ten minutes later, he found himself on the end of a Kyle Beckerman cross, making a near post run before flicking the ball past Cuba goalkeeper Odelin Molina with the outside of his foot to give the US a two-goal lead and a measure of relief.
- OPTA CHALKBOARD: Check out all of Wondo's touches in win over Cuba
It's the second time in tournament Beckerman has connected with the man who has so often tormented his club team, Real Salt Lake, in Western Conference play, and Beckerman was happy to see Wondolowski score for his team, rather than against it.
"It's real nice, he's something else, man," Beckerman told reporters after the game. "He's quite a goalscorer and when he gets on these runs he can do some serious damage."
Wondolowski added his second five minutes later, cleaning up after some nice work by Edgar Castillo in the area, giving him a US record and time to look forward to a much tougher test when the US take on Costa Rica on Tuesday.


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One of the classic novels in American literature might not have existed had it not been for two people you've never heard of. In 1956, well-to-do couple Michael and Joy Brown gave their friend, an aspiring writing who was working as an airline ticket agent, a year's salary for Christmas so that she could follow her passion. The result? To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee had wanted to write for years, but like so many struggling and aspiring authors, she was too worn out from her day job to focus. The Browns' Christmas present gave her the time and freedom she wanted, so she quit the airline and set pen to pad, reportedly for six to 12 hours a day. The Browns stepped in again after she finished the novel, putting her in touch with the agent who got her published in 1960. As of today, To Kill a Mockingbird has sold 30 million copies in more than 40 languages.
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Taipei, Dec. 4 (CNA) A former U.S. official said Wednesday in Taipei that Taiwan's call for dialogue to address tensions over territorial disputes is welcomed.Speaking at the launch of the non-profit Association of Foreign Relations, former Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg likened Taiwan's call for dialogue over the East China Sea to the U.S. strategy of insisting on agreements to resolve disputes while taking no positions on sovereignty."And that's why the effort here in Taiwan by President Ma (Ying-jeou) to promote dialogue to manage these territorial disputes is so welcome," he said.Ma has proposed an East China Sea Peace Initiative, a call for the shelving of arguments and joint exploration of the area.The philosophy is the reason behind the U.S. advocacy of a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea, another disputed region, and it is also why Washington has opposed China's unilateral declaration of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea, Steinberg said.China's demarcation of the new ADIZ includes the disputed Diaoyutai Islands, which are also claimed by Taiwan and Japan.Although China insists it is committed to peaceful development, Beijing's recent moves have thrown its pledges into doubt, he added.Regional stability will rely on decisions made by leaders in the region, including those representing the U.S., China, Japan and Taiwan, he said.Steinberg, who served in his post as deputy secretary of state from 2009 to 2011 and now heads the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, is in Taipei on a three-day visit which will see him meet with President Ma and other government officials and politicians as well as academics.His visit comes after China's ADIZ announcement drew concerns from neighboring countries, prompting the Ma administration to call for talks between concerned parties to restore regional calm. (By Elaine Hou)ENDITEM/WH
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During those days when I was overweight and I was working to achieve a healthy weight, Often I used to wonder what to eat for lunch which should include balanced nutrition with good carbs, proteins, good fats and green veggies and yet flavorful. As everyone else I always ended up eating the tasteless green salad with the regular dressing. Then one day when I was fed up with the same lunch I decided to cook brown rice without any oil. It looked quite good and was tasty as well. But my next question was what should I eat with brown rice?
After a serious thought of one week I decided to include black beans and by then I had developed a taste for Kale. So instead of using kale for smoothies or salad I thought I would sauté it with garlic. My house was full of the mouthwatering aroma of garlic and the kale looked beautiful.
Since I believe in quick cooking and I try to establish an easy way of cooking most of the time I added black beans to the garlicky kale. This is how Black Beans & Brown Rice with Garlicky Kale was created. This has become one of my favorite lunch whenever I need change of taste or have leftover brown rice and yet I can maintain my healthy weight.
Black Beans & Brown Rice with Garlicky Kale
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Serves 4
Per Serving 416 calories
Fat 11 g
Carbs 66 g
Protein 16 g
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp dried garlic*
- 1 tsp white sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp + ¾ cups scallions
- 2 cups chopped baby kale
- 1 15oz can black beans (rinsed and drained)
- ½ tbsp. crushed pepper
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cups brown rice (cooked)
- 1 tbsp hemp seeds*
Heat oil in a pan, add garlic and sesame seeds, as soon as they start getting brown slow down the flame and add white portion of the green onions/spring onions/scallions.
Sauté for few minutes in the low flame and add kale and sauté again. Then add black beans. Mix well.
Mix in all the spices and sauté again for few minutes. Toss in green portion of the green onions/spring onions/scallions and sauté again.
Add brown rice and mix well so that the rice is fully coated. Cover and cook for 3 minutes or until done.
Take it out in a serving plate and garnish with hemp seeds.
Serve hot, or at room temperature or can be served cold. Can be prepared a day ahead and refrigerated and consumed the next day.
Note: I personally prefer it cold so I always cook this recipe a day ahead and eat it next day for lunch.
Add white portion of the spring onions in the beginning and the green portion at the end for the distinct flavor of the onions.
Hemp seeds add to the nutrition in this recipe.
I personally prefer using dried garlic because when I add it to the oil to give it a distinct aroma and a strong flavor to any dish. Feel free to use fresh chopped garlic.


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The following was taped on Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida.
8/16 Impact Wrestling TV tapings:
* One Night Only: Tyrus def. Trevor Lee.
* Drew Galloway def. Eddie Edwards in the TNA Grand Title tournament.
* Aron Rex def. Eli Drake in the TNA Grand Title tournament.
* TNA X Division Champion DJ Z def. Trevor Lee.
* A segment was taped with The Hardys and Reby Sky arguing with The Decay.
* TNA Knockouts Champion Maria won a squash match. She then had another match with a masked woman that turned out to be Gail Kim. Sienna tried to attack, but Kim fought her off.
* EC3 and Moose def. TNA Champion Lashley and Mike Bennett.
* Billy Corgan announces a Lethal Lockdown match with Lashley and EC3 leading teams. The winning team gets to pick the stipulation for Lashley vs. EC3 at Bound For Glory.
* Xplosion: Jesse Godderz def. Marshe Rockett.
* One Night Only: Gail Kim def. Laurel Vanness.
* One Night Only: Lashley def. Bram.
* One Night Only: Moose def. Eli Drake.
* One Night Only: EC3 def. Matt Hardy.
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Reviewed By Brian B (ROCHESTER, NY) Reviewed for a 2018 Chevy Silverado —10/4/2018 8:22 AM
Nice quality roof rack, not an easy initial install, but once it is installed, it's very easy to un-install and re-install, as i needed a rack that i can take on and off several time a year. I like that it is lockable too. I'll be looking forward to using it on all my outdoor advantures.