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The internet continues to evolve as IT developers such as Slyce IT continues to find ways to use every bit of smart technology to the limit. A basic tenet of sales marketing is taking advantage of impulse or spur of the moment shopping. Slyce IT, a leading developer of visual search engines, allows users to snap an image of a real life product, a 2D print image or a bar code or coupon, and it will find similar products in the retailers product line. Imagine a woman who loves to shop at Neiman Marcus. She's sees someone else with a stunning handbag. With the snap of the smartphone camera, color, pattern, style, size, shape and any other unique features are analyzed and a sale is made that may otherwise never have happened. Even making a grocery list becomes a matter of snapping a photo of that last tomato before you chop it up in your salad. Curious to see who the manufacturer of a product is. Just snap an image and the visual search technology can in all likelihood find the manufacturer and style of that product.
This will eventually revolutionize the way we shop as Slyce IT continues to roll out add-on products to its original visual search platform line. Just recently they doubled their contract with a toy retailer that instead of leaving shopping carts abandoned with out-of-stock items, it will provide the consumer with similar alternatives, therefore keeping them in the buying process. The software even sends out emails which generate a twenty percent click through rate. There can be a significant recovery in revenue that may otherwise have been lost.
A recent MIT Technology Review article discusses how Pinterest and Shoes.com are experimenting with AI image recognition software. By drawing a box around a product on Pinterest, it will search over an idea of over a billion online products to find a similar item. Some items will even have a buy option, once again taking advantage of the instant gratification that internet retailers can use to boost sales. Shoes.com is testing similar software. With the use of a "visual filter" the software will generate a grid of twelve shoes that fit those parameters. When the consumer selects the item that best suits their tastes, the software will present the closest style matches to the customer. Taking away the old drop down text box to filter a product, will make it easier for customers to actually see what they are looking for.
MIT Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543581/ai-advances-make-it-possible-to-search-shop-with-images/


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About The ambient drones of Bill Baxter
I create long, slow and drifting ambient drones.
I like music I can escape into. I make this music for exactly that purpose. I see each of these albums as a journey. The lack of melody and rhythm seems to let the mind wander more freely.
If you enjoy these ambient drones, please share.
If you wish to contact me, you can do so via billbaxter.bandcamp.com
All of my music is released under a Creative Commons licence. This means you can freely share this music with your friends. You can, for example,
include this music on a YouTube video. You can even remix this music if you so wish, If you do any of these things, however, you must attribute the music to me,
you must not make any money from it (it must be completely non-commercial) and you must share it with the same Creative Commons licence.
You can find more details at creativecommons.org
If you do use my music, please do get in touch so I can share it.
If you wish to use my music in a project in any other way, please get in touch. I am fairly open to interesting ideas.
A note of the different outlets my music is available on:
We submit each album to a number of stores (as well as uploading separately to Bandcamp). Each store then decides whether to accept the album. This means that all albums arte not available in every store. Very long albums are particularly prone to this. We do resubmit albums but if a store doesn't accept an album, there is very little we can do.
Enjoy the music, there is much more on the way!
BB, August 2017


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Oh, how I ADORE lemon. Recipes with lemon are constantly beckoning to me, especially if they're sweet. ☺ Spring is the perfect time to enjoy lemon recipes–the color, taste, smell–it's delightful. These Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes are remarkably and insanely good. Being a frosting girl, I could eat it with a spoon all by itself, it's that good. Not that I would EVER do that. ;)
I love these cupcakes because the lemon flavor is, well, lemon-y! The rich cream cheese frosting melts in your mouth, and the two together are…perfection. Make them for a gathering, special occasion like a baby shower, to give to a friend, or just because!!!
- 1 box lemon cake mix (I'm a Duncan Hines girl!)
- 1 small package lemon instant pudding
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 c. flour
- 1/3 c. oil
- 1 1/2 c. water
- [b]FROSTING:[/b]
- 4 c. powdered sugar
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 c. butter, softened
- 2-3 T. lemon juice
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix cake ingredients for 30 seconds on a low speed, then scrape the sides and mix for another 2 minutes on medium speed. Line cupcake pans with liners, and fill 1/2 full. Bake for 21-24 minutes, or until wooden toothpick inserted into center comes out clean Cool for 10 minutes, then remove to wire racks. Let cool completely before frosting.
- Beat frosting ingredients together with an electric mixer until well blended. Start with 2 T. lemon juice, and add more if necessary. Frost cupcakes and sprinkle with yellow sugar or lemon zest.
I'm so excited to share my favorite Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes along with a fun monthly collaboration starting today with 10 creative blogs. Each month on the 10th, the same 10 blogs will share a project around the same theme, and you can hop to their blogs to see and save their projects after viewing mine. Pin this collage below, and make sure you come back on the 10th each month! SO, SO fun! I can't wait to see what these uber talented ladies come up with, and you're not going to want to miss any of it!
In May, the theme is CITRUS, below are the fabulous shares.
To see each contributors Citrus post up close, join the Blog Hop! {In the event that the direct link to their posts don't work when clicking on the title, click on the blogs main page link just before}. They are numbered according to the links below.
1. Capturing Joy shares Citrus Photography Art Prints for the home
2 .Eighteen25 sharing their Orange Party Punch recipe
3 .Landee See, Landee Do shares a Crusted Lemon Cream Bars recipe
4. Little Miss Momma sharing diy Typography Mantel Art (Using Lemons)
5. Lolly Jane shares a diy Chevron Citrus Wreath tutorial
6.Or So She Says shares a recipe for Lemon Ricotta Gems
7. Simply Kierste has a recipe for Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcakes
8. Six Sisters Stuff sharing a Creamy Lemon Bars recipe
9. Thirty Handmade Days shares When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemon Cookies! Printable and recipe
10. Your Homebased Mom shares a Lemon Cream Cake Recipe
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Is Brexit an Opportunity to Sort Out Social Care?
Author: Bob Rhodes
Don't Incorporate Existing EC Procurement Regulations
Public procurement agencies, when challenged to explain the apparent contradictions and counter-productivity of their contracting and commissioning practices in social care, have over the years evaded the possibility of positive change by asserting that their hands are tied by European public procurement legislation.
Spurious as this defence appears to many practitioners, it is now clearly the case that the UK government has the opportunity to introduce its own public procurement regulations to give full force to its stated commitment to:
- ensure choice, self-determination and facilitating support to citizens
- and to nurture connected and reciprocal communities ('Big Society').
Just in case you believe that this is fanciful, have a look at the stated goals of the DH inspired Think Local, Act Personal initiative (TLAP, 2017):
- Co-producing solutions with people and families
- Personal budgets working for all
- Helping providers and the workforce deliver personalisation
- Information to help people take control
- Communities supporting each other
- Sustainable social care
A first step would be to not incorporate the existing EU legislation into law – in relation to human services – as part of the proposed, oddly titled, transitional 'Great Repeal' legislation.
Why we should fundamentally change direction
From a generous stand point we might conclude that Margaret Thatchers' 1980's government – in common with all administrations, pre-occupied with controlling expenditure– were possessed of fundamental beliefs that 'the market' constitutes the best way to 'transact' all human affairs, including health and social services, and that private business provided the optimum model for the efficient implementation of this perception. Less forgivingly we might also conclude that they were also motivated by the lucrative possibilities attendant upon the privatisation or pseudo-voluntarisation of public services.
Suffice it to say that this ideology, triumphing repeatedly over the evidence, has not only survived but strengthened over the last three decades having been progressively reinforced by all succeeding governments. The consequence has been one of converting citizens into increasingly deskilled and dependent consumers, while community cohesion has been eroded by a plethora of influences.
By 1995 Professor John McKnight was observing (McKnight, 1995):
"We have reached the apogee of the modern serviced society when the professionals (and the government?) can say to the citizen…
- We are the solution to your problem
- We know what problem you have
- You can't understand the problem or the solution
- Only we can decide whether the solution has dealt with your problem"
Hence, the logical consequence of this institutional 'hegemony' has been that procurers or commissioners have created new meanings for the stated principles that tend to introduce government policies in health and social care (NB. we no longer talk about social services) so that, for instance:
'personal budgets working for all' means 'direct payments interpreted as support worker hours (funded appallingly)'
'coproducing solutions with people and families' equates to 'eventually getting around to assessing to see whether needs are desperate enough to justify paying for something off a menu of task oriented services that we have already, at least in theory, organised.'
While it is reasonable to concede that most public authorities during the 1980's, in comparison with their profits and dividends motivated business contemporaries, were not paragons of administrative and fiduciary excellence, that cannot excuse the government's – and that has to include the Civil Service's, seemingly wilful failure to understand the fundamental nature of social services and its relationship to the wider society and the citizens, families, neighbourhoods and communities served. This is all the more surprising, indeed disgraceful, given that early in that decade (1982) the Barclay Committee had reported and described achievable aspirations for optimum social services practice and performance, which may be summarized as needing to be attentive to:
- Holistic approaches and coproduction
- Devolved responsibility for decisions about resources to local level with real accountability to families and communities
- Promoting self-direction and self-help – personalisation
- A strong focus on neighbourhoods
- Supporting family and neighbourly care – (we might say) "keeping people strong"
- Community work, engaging with the strengths and talents in the neighbourhood and nurturing local voluntary organisations and associations – "helping communities be strong and resourceful"
- Undertaking local social care planning on an inclusive basis
- Balancing casework and community work
- Coordinating access to mainstream and specialist services as necessary, and advocating for their availability when required
These criteria, ironically, have informed the repeated attempts to ameliorate the pernicious effects of the marketization and commoditization of social care ever since the mangled implementation of 'Griffiths'.
Sir Roy Griffiths, ex-boss of Sainsbury's, having introduced the 'purchaser-provider split' to the NHS, was asked to look at social care. He understandably responded to the brief from a managerial and entrepreneurial perspective and did not appreciate that such a construct should be utterly alien to the practice of, social work – an activity based in inter-relationships, voluntarism and a degree of altruism. His oft-quoted remark that, "community care is a poor relation; everybody's distant relative but nobody's baby" (Griffiths 1988), of course, from his standpoint, referred to the lack of clarity regarding roles and responsibilities between governmental institutions.
Sir Roy, the ultimate managerialist and organisation guru, did not live long enough to appreciate the real irony in this insight. It is of course that true community care is primarily the business of every citizen, with government in support in enabling and facilitating, supplementary and complementary roles.
Inter alia, Griffiths recommended that local authorities should hold the budget for care services across the community (i.e. hold the budget for both residential and community care) as well as managing and assessing what services were required. Local authorities could then purchase appropriate care packages from a range of providers. It was thought that if local authorities were responsible for the budget, they would make a more realistic assessment as to whether someone needed residential care or community care – and that quickly became the core activity replacing the previous emphasis upon working with people to utilise a panoply of possible solutions to their circumstances. Before long, Norman Warner, Social Services Director in Kent, probably unwittingly began the demolition of relationship-based Social Work, introducing de-professionalised Care Managers to, in reality, administer a process of needs-based assessments and, for those found needful enough, service/placement brokerage.
In later years Bob Holman, one of the great practitioner luminaries of the Barclay Committee, was to observe:
"One of the great failings of social services departments was that they let community social work go."
At this point the Social Services institutions, increasingly placed under the control of accountants and general managers, lost touch with reality and increasingly fell prey to serving their own fast evolving systems, procedures and, largely budgetary, priorities.
The understanding that had been lost related, and continues to be fundamental, to the inherent nature of social care and support and the most effective and efficient relationship that can possibly be forged between citizens (and their many relationships and associations) and the State (and its various institutions). Social Workers, and parallel community staff in Health, Housing and other disciplines, of the pre-Griffiths era knew full well that their work was focused upon assisting people in need to own and address their situations in the contexts of their families, friends, neighbours and communities. They understood, as Al Etmanski later put it, that the role of services is "supplementary and complementary" and that most of the care and resources we all depend upon and value most are beyond the diktat of public institutions and their professionals. In short, they implicitly understood that their role is based in problem solving relationships – in listening to understand, in advice and facilitation, in influencing, and coordination with the facility to pull in specialist help or services where these are truly relevant. These are hardly activities that a 'Fordian' politician can command and control, let alone value and comprehend.
As for 'Joe Public', most of us will both need care or be carers at times in our lives and masses of both evidence and common experience tell us that we manage best when we enjoy the support of family, friends and neighbours and the expansive social capital that derives from these relationships. Folk don't manage anything like as well when disconnected, isolated and socially impoverished. The social work espoused in the Barclay recommendations addresses the necessity to address this head on in both preventative and 'therapeutic' ways. Griffiths sees this as peripheral, as we might adduce have politicians and their advisors ever since, and in doing so:
- devalues and fails to make use of the huge potential resources brought into play when citizens and communities are enabled and nurtured by skilled and knowledgeable community social work practice,
- stimulates ever growing demand for funded services – linked to a very explicit marketing message that misleads when it asserts that services are the optimum response to social care needs and you (the customer) have the right to expect the optimum solution to be available to you at your point of need,
- sets the scene for the establishment of systematized rationing,
- and the ultimate betrayal of political truth and integrity when, behind a shield of laudable principles – choice, self-direction, person centred, co-production, localism, and inclusion being just some of the goodies put on show – top down, finance-led, systems-constrained and frequently cynical 'no-production' are generally practiced in the names of the false gods of 'economy of scale' and 'value for money'.
- and, as Professor John Seddon and colleagues have repeatedly evidenced, the economic and organisational consequences of the Griffith's 'reforms' have been massive 'failure demand'– and a production-line, 'Fordian' approach to managerialism that has given rise to a functionalisation which is inimical to effective social work – which is a dynamic art form grounded in relationships and grass-roots co-production.
Above all, it is very apparent that the 'reforms' of the late 80's onwards have been primarily directed at 'saving' money and focused upon costs. To deliver true efficiency and effectiveness the system should be focused upon value. Dressing up 'markets' as value is both cynical and disingenuous. All the evidence that anyone ought to need can found in Richard Davis' Responsibility and Public Services (Davis, 2016).
Sir Roy Griffiths came from retail business and was inevitably passionate about growing his customer base and nurturing customer loyalty (which we might rename as dependency?) with the object of continuously increasing demand. It should be no surprise that, as a consequence of the fervent interpretation of his recommendations, Social Care is in crisis. We need to go back to Barclay as a basis upon which leaders and practitioners who have known nothing other than the marketization and commodification of social care can begin to conceptualise alternatives.
As mentioned earlier, we have been doing just that throughout the three decades while our leaders could not confront the possibility that something implicit to Thatcherism was a burgeoning disaster and blatantly placed ideology above evidence.
Here are just a sample of the many Barclay 'compliant' programmes that have been championed over the years:
- Think Local Act Personal
- Putting People First
- Local Area Coordination
- Self Direction, Personal Budgets, In Control
- Person Centred Approaches
- Valuing People
- Coproduction
- Community Building
- Community-Based Work
- Strengths-Based Practice
- Circles or PLAN
- Social Enterprise
Our problem however has resided in the impossibility of bolting a succession of powerful strengths-based practice solutions onto the broken needs and deficits focused social care market construct.
What can we do to put the heart (and impact) back into how we care for each other?
- Promote a societal understanding that citizens, families, relatives, friends, neighbours and communities are the primary providers of care
- Recognise that the roles of governments and their institutions/services/professionals are primarily supplementary and complementary
- And that the most important generic professional service provided by the State is the provision of help to citizens and families in the planning and organisation of support arrangements and
The fundamental societal role of citizens who aspire to political leadership is to develop, evolve and consult over a vision of a good society and, having described and adopted their purpose, to seek to bring it about. In the context of creating or evolving a society (of inter-connecting communities and neighbourhoods) where community care is highly prized this, of course, implies creating societal conditions which reinforce and reward communality, hospitality, social responsibility, self-reliance, resourcefulness and interdependency.
We can make a start by designing support arrangements that are:
- Local by default
- Help people to help themselves
- Focus on purpose, not outcomes
- Manage value, not cost
We must locate finances to be managed in the context of ALL the, often abundant, social capital resources implicit to dynamic and connected communities at the local, operational level. We must urgently develop an intensive programme of re-training for both leaders and front-line staff in Community Services to enable them to become experts in helping and problem-solving instead of resource rationing/control.
It is time to abolish Social Care commissioning and strengthen strategic operational management with an emphasis on the coproduction of communities and not solely services. We must end the culture of managerialism and functionalisation in human services. Targets and pre-determined KPI's have no place in arrangements designed to assist citizens to be the captains of their own lives. They simply tell an organisation whether or not it is serving its priorities and these rarely correspond to those of the individuals, families and communities that institutions aspire to serve and are frequently oxymoronic. This means ensuring that senior leadership resides in the hands of proven community practitioners who continue to spend time in the work.
And, crucially, we must introduce funding regulations that support and enable creative, responsive and highly devolved community social work practice, and encourage and reward tailored innovation amongst providers of essential specialist services. A good start can be made by excluding those provisions in EC commercial, contracting law that are presently employed as an impediment to or justification for not 'doing the right thing' from 'The Great Repeal Bill' and immediately getting to grips with abolishing the Griffiths Reforms, the Social Care Market, and their pernicious consequences.
TLAP (2017) www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk
McKnight J (1995) The Careless Society – Community and its Counterfeits. Basic Books.
Davis R (2016) Responsibility and Public Services. Triarchy Press.
The publisher is the Centre for Welfare Reform.
Is Brexit an Opportunity to Sort Out Social Care? © Bob Rhodes 2017.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher except for the quotation of brief passages in reviews.


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Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management (FEEM) and Riga Business School (RBS) of Riga Technical University (RTU) have been highly valued in Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking, for the first time ranking in the 4 palms league that represents Top business schools with significant international influence in business and management education. Overall ranking consists of five palms leagues. Until now, RTU was in the 3 palms league.
RTU received the acknowledgement of being awarded 4 palms in the 9th Eduniversal World Convention which was held at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, from 28 November to 1 December and which was attended by RTU rector academician Leonīds Ribickis, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Inga Lapiņa and Director of the Quality Management and Record Management Department of RTU Juris Iljins.
RTU FEEM and RBS are ranked high – in the 4 palms league, which includes 200 business schools with excellent evaluation and significant international influence, moving one league up compared with last year's rating and affirming the progress of RTU strategic priority execution.
The most influential among the business schools in Eduniversal 5 palms league are Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.
The 9th Eduniversal convention focussed on issues of internationalization of higher education and innovation in business and management education. L. Ribickis participated in the panel discussion "The Internationalisation of Education: The Export of Education and its Value of National and Regional Economies". During the discussion, RTU rector shared his experience in building a modern, internationally recognized and competitive university, by attracting foreign students, by constantly raising international awareness of the quality of studies and research results, focusing on internationalisation as the RTU strategic priority, as well as mentioning the challenges that the university faces in the process of international cooperation.
Eduniversal is a ranking and rating business by the French rating agency and consulting company SMBG. It is an organization that specializes in higher education and vocational orientation. Every year, it assesses 1,000 best universities and business schools of more than 150 countries; it also assesses Master programs on a global scale, including 4,000 Master and MBA programs with specialization in 30 different fields. Part of the overall assessment consists of Deans vote representing 1000 best universities and business schools in 154 countries.
Eduniversal aims to create a list of the world's best higher education institutions in order to help students to choose the most appropriate world universities and business schools on the basis of recommendations from recognized educational experts. Besides that, Eduniversal promotes international mobility of students and academic staff.
Ranking includes the best higher education institutions participating in the implementation of business and management education, of different reputation and level of ambition in nine geographical regions of the world (Far East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia, Eurasia and Middle East, Latin America, Oceania, Western Europe and North America).
More information about the ranking – http://www.eduniversal-ranking.com


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How Microsoft can complicate our life: SharePoint webpart crashes after System Update
This is a good good morning. We start our application and this morning we receive this error into the File Picker.
We are working on a custom field, so first of all we start to:
- Debug a lot: result KO
- clean our site collection with all customization: result KO
- IISReset: result KO
- Restart server: result KO
During the first step, our log says:
"Name=Request (GET:http://test.virtualsp.com:80/_layouts/AssetPortalBrowser.aspx?&AssetUrl=/...."
"Error while executing web part: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.Load(MethodInfo executeMethod, Byte[] queryData, Type[] earlyBoundTypes)
at Microsoft.Xslt.STransform.GetCompiledTransform()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.BaseXsltListWebPart.LoadXslCompiledTransform( WSSXmlUrlResolver someXmlResolver)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPart.GetXslCompiledTransform()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.DataFormWebPart.PrepareAndPerformTransform(Boolean bDeferExecuteTransform)"
The next step was to start to ask help to Google and we found some indication regard an System Update: the KB2844286 cause this error (released on 11th July 2013). To resolve the problem, they suggest to uninstall the update: From the Control Panel and Installed Updated into the Microsoft Services. After that, if you have a virtual machine, I suggest you to restart the machine, otherwise you can restart SharePoint services and IISReset.


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Kislingbury E-Mail Database
The village email database is an important tool which is used to help communicate important matters to villagers.
It is managed by a group of 3 volunteers who ensure that it operates impartially and in the best interests of the Village.
It is independent of the Parish Council, a way to distribute Community Help messages, give early notification about problems, e.g. Road Maintenance Closures, Improved Security through receiving NHW messages, and a greater awareness of Village-wide Activities. We Promise you that:
The messages that are sent are only those that are appropriate, and before they are sent they are screened to make sure that they fit to the criteria above.
When you sign up you will receive a first email explaining everything, and asking you to confirm your email address by simply replying to the message.
You will be able to unsubscribe at any time if you decide that you do not wish to receive any more messages.
There are currently 215 people registered on the Village E-Mail Database.
For more information on the Village E-mail Database, please call Tim Ward on 07855 388751.
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Glowing Pansy and Daydream Blossom are my favourites from the batch of limited editions released at the end of 2013. This post offers a review of the Glowing Pansy.
As pretty as the flowers are, they didn't automatically remind me of a pansy. But when I looked at pansy images, there is indeed one similar …..
Despite its name, this bead does not glow in the same way that 'Inner Glow' and 'Blizzard' glow. The warm amber / rich honey coloured glass does however have a radiance to it.
The cool colours of the pansy provide a contrast, but in a gentle and subtle way.
I have yet to decide which beads to wear it with. However I am thinking along the lines of creams, golds and browns. I think it would look particularly stunning on a bracelet with Ambers, however I have not indulged in Amber beads myself so I was unable to try it out. Matching it with the beads in my collection, those that are too 'busy' or 'bright' detract from the Glowing Pansy. However when put on its own or alongside neutral beads, the Glowing Pansy really stands out.
In the picture below, you can see Glowing Pansy on its own on the Trollbeads bangle. I think a Yellow Prism either side would set it off beautifully!
In this side on view, you can really see the lovely amber tone to the bead ….
How would you wear this bead??


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Our policy lasts 30 days for an exchange 14 days for a refund. If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can't offer you a refund or exchange.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.
Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.
Additional non-returnable items: * Gift cards * Downloadable software products
To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase.
Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer.
Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund. If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days.
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Unless Damaged These Items Will Not Be Refunded
personalised items and custom-made items, eg curtains
unwrapped CDs, DVDs and computer software
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You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of return shipping will be deducted from your refund.
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You can ask us to repeat or fix the service if it's not carried out with reasonable care and skill, or get some money back if it is deemed unfit for purpose.


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False Nails
I have awful nails & am now thinking about getting false nails. Have NEVER had anything like this done!!! I'm being quoted £40 for a Full Set of Acrylic Nails - French & Natural. Is this good? Exspensive? Best thing to get? Will it last? Will it feel weird? Will they last for two week honeymoon?
No idea love but ....
I'm going for natural nails but having nice manicure before hand. Used to have nasty nails but they're ok now.
Had false nails once and hated them - but they weren't done very well.
BOO again!0
Boo to you too!!! How werid to be talking on here, hey!!! Do you know, Penguin... I'm getting SOOOOOOOOOOO stressed about the whole beauty side of things!!! I guess cuz it's the thing I'm not safe with and used to!!!
I've got people down my ear (future mum-in-law & H2B's sis-in-law!) saying things like "you just 'have' to get yourse;f pampered"... "look like a lady properly"!!!... "make the most of this one-time occasion"... "you don't want minging nails to ruin a close up photo do you"
I know what you mean - I don't do hair and make up stuff either. It's all a bit girly for me! Hope nobody takes offence at that - it's just that I wasn't brought up around make up etc so I just don't know. I sometimes wear it going out but I'm so bad at applying it that I look worse. And Martin says I don't need it - he likes me natural.
I grew my hair to get married and can't wait to have it short again - I've said I'll take his hair clippers on honeymoon and shave it all off. I loved having bright pink spiky hair!
Booked a hair trial for next week but as for make up think I'll do the debenhams trial thing and get my bridesmaids or Aunt to do it on the day.
Want to look like me but a bit nicer if you know what I mean.
See you tomorrow?!0
Well, I've booked myself in for a hair trial next week and a make-up trial the week after, so... wish me luck!!! Hate, absolutely HATE things like this!!! Oh well... for one day only! Then get to chill after it!!!
See you tomorrow!!!
Did you have to book a make-up trial at places like debenhams? - I had assumed you could walk in off the street...!
In that case I'd better get that sorted too...0
Nah... they do it unbooked & for free(!)... but I'm going with the beautician from the spa at my venue. Cuz it's on a sunday there's not many beauticians open, so it's really, really good that this one is - and it's at my venue! but it's only £20 so thought may aswell... cuz i could do it myself (as in get a free one at deb's, watch what they're doing, tehn buy it all and do it myself) but can be pampered ont eh mornign of and not have to splash out on make-up i know i wont wear!
..plan Batman!0
helenwiles Posts: 215i asked about false nails too cos i want to have nice nails on the day but dont want them to look too strange. spoke to the beautician who said silk nails are kinder to your own nails but may only last 1-2 weeks or acylic nails which last a lot longer but wreck your nails. think i may go for the silk ones cos only really want them for the day and im not supposed to have long nails for work so will have to take them off anway once off honeymoon xx0
lauramarshall1 Posts: 58are the silk ones around the same price as the acrylic ones do you know. I've booked to have acrylic done but have heard about the silk once since so thinking they'd probably be better.0


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We asked Molly Harper, author of the delightfully off-kilter Half Moon Hollow paranormal romance series, to write us a post about romance. Naturally, the person who wrote books like NICE GIRLS DON'T HAVE FANGS and FANGS FOR THE MEMORIES thought instantly of vampires–and she had a lot to say on the subject. Take it away, Molly!
So what I realized while compiling this was, there aren't a lot of couples in vampire movies that I like. I'm a weird shipper. I want to pair off people who are never going to get together. Or the people who I like together get eaten by the vampires. (Farewell, Eben from 30 Days of Night.) So here are the couples that meet my high standards:
Pike and Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie) – Yes, that was "Pike" and not "Spike" because this is a vampire MOVIES list, not TV shows. I loved Luke Perry's turn as the sarcastic voice of reason in Joss Whedon's first volley into the vampire world. ("You're floating! Get away from me!") He was the perfect practical counterbalance to Buffy's heroic need to charge in to situations with nothing more than her keen fashion sense. Also, high school freshman Molly Harper harbored a secret crush on Luke Perry, which I didn't want to admit to because EVERYBODY loved 90210 and I was just stubborn enough not to want to like it, too.
Dracula and Mary (Dracula 2000) – I don't care that he was evil and killed her dad and her friends and… basically everybody she knew. They had some heat in those hallucinogenic love scenes. And they seemed to be the only reasonably intelligent people in this movie. Also, Gerard Butler. In a long black coat. I rest my case.
Mina and Jonathan (Dead and Loving It) – Yes, it's a parody and maybe shouldn't be on this list. But parody Mina and Jonathan with the wackiness and the projectile blood to the face, they still showed more chemistry than Keanu and Winona. And they made me laugh, intentionally, as opposed to the inadvertent giggles I got from Keanu Reeves' wooden British accent.
Hannibal King and Danica Talos (Blade: Trinity) – Even though they clearly had some relationship problems, like Danica turning Hannibal into her unwilling blood-bag for years, and siccing a possessed Pomeranian on him. I wanted those two crazy kids to make it. Their barbs and quips were too fantastic to fade in ex-nothingness. Imagine the wedding vows they could write to each other.
Max and Lucy (The Lost Boys) – I think Max's plans to turn Lucy and her sons into part of his evil blood-sucking family would turned out just fine if she'd just let him explain himself. I mean, come on, she's a single mom whose teenage son takes bubble baths while singing froggy songs. She didn't have a lot of options.
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I have a very small collection of blue birds.
Since it is so rare that a new one is added, I thought I would use some Creative Paperclay ®
to create my own addition.
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paper towel
mod podge
sponge brush
paint brush
acrylic paint
additional decorations
1. First, I balled up some paper towels for the body of my bird.
Then I formed Creative Paperclay ® around it into the shape of a bird.
2. Let dry. Remember this takes some time. I tend to cover it loosely with plastic for a day or so.
Then I take it off so it can dry completely. This helps cut back on cracking and breaks.
3. Then, sand your piece.
4. Next I seal it with Gesso. I like having a seal before I decorate my pieces.
5. Using acrylic paints, I mixed a pretty blue color up. When you are mixing your own color, make more than enough to cover your piece in case you need touch ups and second coats.
6. Use Mod Podge to seal your design. Again, feel free to apply a couple of coats.
7. Don't stop there. Why not add accent baubles or frilly designs in paint pen?
I was thinking about doing that. But I loved the simple shape...and so I stopped.
This is my new favorite part of my Blue Bird Collection.
Though, I now want to make a few more and over embellish them!
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The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light-years.
This object was the first planetary nebula to be discovered; by Charles Messier in 1764. At its brightness of visual magnitude 7.5 and its diameter of about 8 arcminutes, it is easily visible in binoculars, and a popular observing target in amateur telescopes.
The Dumbbell Nebula appears to be shaped like an prolate spheroid and is viewed from our perspective along the plane of its equator. In 1992, Moreno-Corral et al. computed that its rate of expansion in the plane of the sky was no more than 2.3" per century. From this, an upper limit to the age of 14,600 yr may be determined. In 1970, Bohuski, Smith, and Weedman found an expansion velocity of 31 km/s. Given its semi-minor axis radius of 1.01 ly, this implies that the kinematic age of the nebula is some 9,800 years.
Like many nearby planetary nebulae, the Dumbbell contains knots. Its central region is marked by a pattern of dark and bright cusped knots and their associated dark tails (see picture). The knots vary in appearance from symmetric objects with tails to rather irregular tail-less objects. Similarly to the Helix Nebula and the Eskimo Nebula, the heads of the knots have bright cusps which are local photoionization fronts.
The central star, a white dwarf, is estimated to have a radius which is 6998550000000000000♠0.055±0.02 R☉ which gives it a size larger than any other known white dwarf. The central star mass was estimated in 1999 by Napiwotzki to be 6999560000000000000♠0.56±0.01 M☉.


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Sounding the Shofar
The Baal Shem Tov explained the effect of the shofar through the following mashal: A king once decided to send his only son to a faraway land to broaden his experience. The prince set out from the royal palace loaded with gold and silver, but he frittered it all away on the journey and arrived there penniless. The local people, who had never heard of his father the king, laughed off his claims. Was this a prince? Impossible! Unable to bear the suffering any longer, the son decided to make the long trek homeward.
He finally arrived in his homeland, but he had been away for so long that he had even forgotten the local language. The poor tattered fellow tried motioning to the people around him that he was the son of their mighty king, but they mocked him and beat him.
Arriving at the palace gates, the son tried again but was ignored. In utter despair, he cried aloud so that his father would hear him. The king recognized his son's voice, his love was aroused for him, and he came out to welcome him home.
Similarly, the King, Hashem, sends a neshamah down to this world to benefit by observing the Torah and fulfilling its mitzvos. However, when hankering after pleasures, the neshamah may lose all its wealth and arrive at a place where his relationship with his Father, Hashem, is unknown.
Moreover, the neshamah forgets how things were Above. In the long galus, it even forgets its own "language." In desperation, it cries out by sounding the shofar, expressing regret for the past and determination for the future. This simple cry arouses Hashem's mercy: He shows His love for His only son, forgives him, and welcomes him back home.
(Keser Shem Tov, Hosafos 394)
The King's Debt
Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev would tell the following mashal: A king once lost his way in the forest, until he met a man who directed him out of the forest and back to his palace. He rewarded the stranger richly and appointed him a senior minister. Years later, that minister acted rebelliously and was sentenced to death, but the king granted him one last wish. The minister asked that both he and the king put on the clothing they had worn long ago, when he had rescued the king from the forest. This reminded the king of his indebtedness to this man and he revoked the death sentence.
Similarly, we willingly accepted the Torah from the King, Hashem, when all the other nations refused the offer. But since that time, like the minister, we have been rebellious by doing aveiros, and are therefore fearful on Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgment. So we sound the shofar to remind Hashem of mattan Torah, when we accepted the Torah and made Hashem our king, and we express our renewed eagerness to crown Him once again. This zchus stands by us: Hashem forgives our aveiros and inscribes us immediately for a good life.
(Hemchech V'kacha 5637, ch. 70)
The Main Thing Is the Cry
Before Rosh Hashanah 5640 (1879), the Rebbe Maharash requested his meshareis to relay the following to the chassidim: "It is written that sounding the shofar is like the cry, 'Father, Father!' The main thing there is the cry."
That Rosh Hashanah, the entire village wept with remorse.
(Sefer Hasichos 5704, p. 4)
The Greatest Effect of All
The Baal Shem Tov would usually be present for tekias shofar together with his talmidim. One year he requested one of them, the tzaddik Reb Yaakov Yosef of Polonnoye, to take his place there, while the Baal Shem Tov himself sounded the shofar with the simple folk and the children.
Those unsophisticated people cried out to Hashem, "Father in Heaven, have rachmanus!" And that had the greatest effect of all.
(Sefer Hasichos 5705, p. 6)


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I am spending a lot of time on the Vendee Globe Web site. I think it's one of the best race sites ever. It's well-designed, easy to navigate and full of short, well-written info about the race and the racers. It's got photos, videos, a virtual race tracker and of course the latest virtual race game. Yes you too can get the feel of what it's like to blast through the Southern Oceans at 15 kts in a 50kt gale. Riiiiggggght!
I started subscribing to he news feed by adding it to my iGoogle which I use as my home page. Every time I open up my browser, the latest news is right there. A lot of the sailing news feeds are a bit boring or read like they have written by a PR hack. With the Vendee Globe feed you get short, pithy updates from the racers. They really give you a sense of what's happening in the race and what the racers are facing. Here's one from today from Dominique Wavre on Temenos.


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Thats the way to talk to a treat a man that thinks everything is more about books than life.
He deserves to be taught who is the mistress, who has the power.
Only one look of a real Dom and he wanted to leave as a first choice…. but he stayed!
The Femdom Student And Her Submissive Professor (1)
This story is that of a rebirth, a descent to Hell to know Heaven. May these words make your imagination run wild. May they excite you, whether you are a Femdom Mistress or a sub. Live the life or fantasize about it….you choose.
The Beginning of My Journey Into Submission
Two months had gone by since I started teaching an Investigative journalism class at the university. During this time, I was trying to remove any stereotypes students had about our profession that most people believed about journalists. I graduated from the school of journalism here too and was a happy college student who enjoyed the leisure events Syracuse had to offer. I was in charge of teaching two classes, three hours each and had 30 students per class. The majority of the students dreamed of becoming the next Megyn Kelly. Some would never become good journalists and others would quit within the first year of their studies. By this time, I had my favorite students. Michelle was my favorite student of all.
She was brunette with tan skin and wasn't the most beautiful girl in class, but she was the one that exuded the most energy. Michelle was also the only one I could not stare at too long before she looked right through me and saw my most shameful secrets. In my opinion, she was absolutely brilliant. She knew how to write and tell captivating stories with her powerful words. Michelle had a sidekick, Jessica. Her roommate from what I know. Redheaded with a body and face like Gianna Michaels, I often masturbated to the thought of them wearing the most sensual outfits like in a Femdom tube in the evening in my hotel room.
The Night That Changed My Life
Most of the time in my fantasies, Michelle and Jessica were dressed in leather and latex like a femdom dominatrix. I fantasized about them making me their submissive professor and sex slave during a very humid face-sitting session. But it was only a dream, and being so close to my 40th birthday, I knew I had no chance of having them in my bed and being able to honor them with my tongue despite my beautiful face and boyish good looks.
After my classes, I went to a coffee shop I use to go to when I was a student at the University. I usually go to read and talk to my family on the phone. This routine lasted until mid-December when one Thursday evening my world turned upside down and I entered a world that I believed was so inaccessible. I had completed 3 hours of rather intense courses regarding the freedom of the press in the US, then had a lengthy discussion with one of the reporters in class."Professor, you can sit with us if you'd like." It was Jessica who had spoken, Michelle merely probing me with the look, as usual, displaying a little smirk. "It looks like you're soaking wet."
My Gaze At The Book Attracted Michelle's Attention
I stuttered a "thank you" and sat down next to Jessica with Michelle looking right at me. I was a confident, charming man. But sitting with them I felt intimidated. The two girls had obviously begun working on the homework I had given them for next week. Michelle's big bag which was placed on the table had course sheets, a pen, and book with a grey cover called "Sessions" which I immediately noticed. The title of the book was in a beautiful red writing above a black leather whip. I had probably stared at the cover of the book a little too long so this time when I looked at Michelle, it was more intense and she had a very peculiar smile.
To hide my feelings, I offered to buy them another round of coffee. I thought of only one thing…the cover of this book protruding out of the her bag with the intriguing title and image of the whip. Did I see it wrong? I was no longer sure of anything. And I dreaded coming back to the table wondering how was I going to conceal my thoughts.
Michelle Makes An Offer Professor Can't Refuse
Jessica came to my rescue involuntarily by having a discussion with me about the industry, asking me questions about internships. Michelle was less talkative, but she was scrutinizing me, and every time I crossed her gaze, she always had the same smile. And that smile said one thing….I know what you saw..I know what you're thinking. Dusk had already fallen even though it was 5pm, and I was thinking about going back to my hotel room, probably to escape Michelle's gaze. But before I opened my mouth, Michelle said, "We live next door, come by and have a drink with us, we can continue this conversation and I would like to show you the progress I made on my homework."
An offer I couldn't refuse, I gladly accepted.They lived a few minutes away in a spacious apartment on the 5th floor of one of the apartment buildings of Copper Beech Commons. A tastefully furnished apartment designed with dark hues, carpets and candles all over the place. "Make yourself comfortable, I'll get something to drink. Jessica was taking control playing hostess while Michelle sat on the couch. Jessica returned quickly with drinks while Michelle said in an authoritative voice, "Light the candles and go change!".
Michelle Wants Me To Sit Closer To Her
I was trying not to show my anxiety but it started to become more apparent. Usually I am very chatty but now I was quiet. Michelle patted the couch beside her, "Come sit here, I will show you the progress I made on my homework." My breathing accelerated when I took a seat next to her. She immediately pressed her thigh against mine while taking her homework out of her bag.
"Read and tell me what you think." I immersed myself in reading her essay, happy to have anything distract me of my secret fantasies. Reading took me a few minutes and I still felt Michelle's thigh pressed against mine, but it didn't seem to bother her. "That is a very good start, but there are paragraphs that should be reworked. This is not enough arguing and your missing the point of the presentation."
Jessica Takes My Breath Away
Michelle's gaze did not conceal her annoyance, and I felt almost uncomfortable. I had been professional, honest, and I was afraid I was a little too hard on her. Jessica returned to the living room and stopped my thoughts completely. She had swapped her jeans and t-shirt for a black latex corset with a black g-string with an open bust and was not wearing a bra. There were pasties on her nipples. She wore stiletto boots and her hair was in a ponytail. I stood there without a voice, fascinated by her beauty, and the eroticism she was releasing.
"I … uh …. Maybe I'll leave you. I have an early class and it's getting late", I said while staring at the sexual goddess who appeared before me. "You should stay, exclaimed Michelle, laying her hand on my thigh. "My little pet made herself beautiful for you."
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I, as well, Would be quite nervous especially amongst two powerful ladies that can see right through me & it would surely scare me as well! As an "old school" type guy it would take me awhile to be comfortable amongst Dominant type ladies. It's been so long for me to ever have been a "real" sub type guy but just the thought of it would definitely arose me to the point of having an automatic climax! I wish so badly to have an experience such as this posted article but it would probably take several weeks of sessions for me to learn how to be appropriate in my conduct in not wanting but more of submitting unto authority etc. I've been so sheltered all of my life that I would most definitely need a good lady femdom teacer in order to get my head straight learning how to be comfortable amongst Dominant type ladies such as the ones discussed above etc. I have fantasized about this type of lifestyle so much all of my life & positively hope & pray that this type of lifestyle comes to fruition some sweet day? Thank you.
Knows how he feels about being tonguetied when facing his dreams of a Femdom couple. If this slave is ever in that position likely would feel the same. Just thinking of how Michele is going to punish him over his critique of Her work is driving this slave crazy. Can't wait for part 2
In my perspective, I love all of Mistress Cindy's essays & compilations to the point of wanting to actually be at her service! I'm the type of guy, not much like regular guys, go for the intelligent type of Dominant ladies, it's just so hard for me to find a Pro Domme to break me in & I was once advised by a "real professional" Goddess that told me not to have online sessions with a Goddess or Mistress but to give in to "real time" service towards a Pro Domina if she accepts you & that in itself would fulfill my sensual desires to the utmost extreme! Lord have mercy how I yearn so much to be a SUB so badly! If anybody could possibly help me find what I'm looking for I would be extremely thankful as all I have now is pitiful loneliness & I can't stand it to the point of sheer lunacy. Thank you for helping me to find that special Dominant intelligent lady to be her true 24/7 live in pet…
I don't know about that response to my query of my last writ because I have somewhat of a dark side &, that being, I have kind of a highly anxious/ anger attitude towards ignorant/ stupid people. But as I mentioned to you awhile back, I, unlike most guys, look for especially intelligent & talented Pro Domina ladies etc. and I know that there are many but I have no idea where to find them? If you could please give me a hint of where I could or where to search in Dallas, TX I would be more than happy for your feedback on this issue. Thank you very much Mistress Cindy.
Thank you very much Mistress Cindy; it's because of you & only you that you have taught me & cached me in to finding my way in to being a submissive man that I am just starting to get "out of my self," so to speak! Just today I was in my landlord's office but she wasn't there & thank God for that because she breaks of $ as her ONLY interest as well as being morbidly obese etc. Any how there was an assistant there, very pretty Hispanic lady of whom helped me out a great deal & she wore nice looking glasses, young and spoke fluent Spanish. Then I began to be very insanely aroused by her to the point where I picked up every staple clip that fell on the floor & asked if there was anything possible that I could do for her but she said "that's okay." Wow, what a gift from the Heavens that was! I even had to run back to my apartment & wash my private parts off very quickly etc. That's just how excited I get & so quickly at that; it's so good to know that I'm still an extremely potent man! Thanks again for your suggestions & I wish tha I could at least see a pic of you so if you decide so, I, like other lady Mistrsses that I know keep that type of business under "lock & key" because I never share ladies that I know of wit anybody else no matter what period. Thank you & please take care/ stay well Mistress…
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Peter Gzowski
A Biography
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Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski's days at the University of Toronto's The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean's in the 1960s and his tremendous success on CBC's Morningside in the 1980s and 1990s, and ending with his stint as a Globe and Mail columnist at the dawn of the 21st century and his death in January 2002.
Gzowski saw eight Canadian Prime Ministers in office, most of whom he interviewed, and witnessed everything from the Quiet Revolution in Qubec to the growth of economic nationalism in Canada's West. From the rise of state medicine to the decline of the patriarchy, Peter was there to comment, to resist, and to participate. Here was a man who was proud to call himself Canadian and who made millions of other Canadians realize that Canada was, in what he claimed was a Canadian expression, not a bad place to live.


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On November 11th, KXNG CROOKED will release his highly anticipated album Good VS Evil through digital retailers. The brand new album features fourteen all new records including the Tech N9ne assisted single Shoot Back (Dear Officer). Among the project's guest spots, fans will be excited to finally hear the long awaited Welcome To Planet X which features an appearance by none other than Eminem. As KXNG CROOKED announced earlier in the year, this is a concept driven project focused on raw and unforgiving content. Fans will not want to miss out on the one as it is set to be one of Crooked's most creative albums to date. Those who are interested in showing support can place their pre-orders now.
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On the fourth day of Gerber Week this writer brings to you, a pretty good utility/camp knife. Did anybody sing that with me? No? I guess it's still too early for Christmas songs, but not too early to think about getting this for someone as a stocking stuffer.
That's right, I'm endorsing a Gerber product. While this review is not exactly glowing with excitement, I was personally expecting a low-quality, overpriced blade that was simply tagged with the Gerber logo. What I got was a fairly sturdy utility knife that will perform a wide variety of tasks around the campsite.
You might notice I have been using the word utility quite a bit. With the size, design, and sheath, it is a jack-of-all-trades kind of knife. It's one that you carry on your belt in case you need it on the trail, but when you set up camp and begin processing wood you grab your ax or a larger blade for batoning. I wouldn't use it for daily carry because of the sheath, which I'll go into detail soon. It wouldn't be great for kitchen tasks because of the grind, although I'd use it for the camp kitchen. This knife is in that weird middle-ground where it can do these tasks, but there are better options out there.
This knife is the premium version of their Gator. The blade is 4 inches long in a drop point configuration. It uses S30V steel, as opposed to 420HC and has a full tang handle. It has a textured rubber grip that is functional and visually appealing. The blade and exposed areas of the tang are polished, which for the role this knife plays is not a hindrance. If it was meant to be a tactical blade then it would not be acceptable. Overall the knife feels great in hand and balances well.
The worst part about the knife is the sheath. It is leather with a plastic insert, which doesn't seem bad in theory, but in practice it falls short. I prefer my knife sheaths (and gun holsters) to clip on and off. This one just has a leather belt loop that needs to be put on when you put your belt on. The little leather snap gets in the way of reholstering the blade. I'm not a fan of them in the first place. The sheath flops around on my leg when walking due to how high the belt loop goes up the handle. Overall kydex sheaths are just a better option.
One of the first things I do when I get a fixed blade is try it out in the kitchen. My favorite kitchen test is to dice an onion. This test shows how good at slicing the knife is, as well as seeing if it can handle finer tasks. The Gator accomplished this task, but it definitely is not Michelin star worthy due to it not being a full flat grind. Like I said before, I think this would be great in a camp kitchen. (Didn't have any kitchen test pictures because I got a new phone and misplaced my old one).
Before I get into the outdoors testing, I should say that I'm not the greatest outdoorsman. I know bits and pieces here and there but most of my knife use is cutting boxes with my EDC. Also with my increase in hours at work I was only able to take the Gator out once. With that being said, I think I still am still able to accurately assess the blade in this role.
I started off by hacking at a quarter-sized branch from a dead tree. The weight of this knife isn't too conducive to for chopping, but the branch was small enough that it went through with no trouble. I then chopped off the mini branches coming off the sides to smooth it out. I even tried my hand at a fuzzy stick and did OK. (I didn't start a fire with it though). Then I decided to make a spear out of the branch, and again the Gator did well. Overall with these small tasks well with no noticeable wear on the blade, except for a touch of tree sap. I even stabbed a stump a few times to try and bend the tip, but it is quite resilient.
While it is good with the small chores, it's downfall is when it is needed to do something bigger. I believe that an outdoor knife should be able to baton, and the company should back up its product (I'm looking at you, Cold Steel). The grind profile on the Gator is not the best for batoning. Full flat grinds work the best because they serve as a wedge and help split the wood as you go. Even if it was FFG it would not be good for anything more than kindling-sized sticks because of the length of the blade. In a survival situation I'm sure one would be able to make it work, but it is definitely not well suited for the bigger branches.
In an EDC role it performs OK. For me a 4″ blade is at the upper end of comfortable. In the cardboard tests I did at work it broke down boxes well, even without touching up the edge between the outdoors test and the cardboard test. I sliced the boxes down the folds because I didn't want to be a complete jerk to the next person that took the trash out and have a bunch of tiny pieces of cardboard flying around. Because of the sheath I would not carry it around town, and definitely not work. When cutting the cardboard, sometimes the blade would slip down to the belly, which did not seem to be as sharp as the rest of the knife. Maybe they had a new guy that didn't sharpen curves well at the factory. Also sometimes the blade would slip from the folded part. When this happened the blade would not cut well and actually tear the cardboard. Besides the edge issues, the knife felt great in hand and is definitely comfortable.
I do have some tests that I wanted to do that I just did not have time to do. One of which is batoning large limbs. I explained above why I don't think it would do good, but all I was able to baton was some kindling-size sticks, maybe a half-inch thick. Another test I would like to do is skin an animal. I'm not a hunter so I don't know much about skinning, but I think that the large belly on this knife would do pretty well. Finally I did not get to sharpen the knife, which I like to do before concluding the review. I have sharpened S30V before and it is not as bad as some people make it out to be. It takes a bit longer than 8Cr13MoV and AUS-8, but it is not as bad as other steels I have come across. The grinds are also even, so it shouldn't be tough to get the sharpening angles correct. I will most likely do an update post in the future addressing these tests.
- Blade steel: CPM-S30V steel
- Handle material: glass-filled nylon w/ rubber overmold
- Blade length: 4.0˝ (10.2 cm)
- Overall length: 9.0˝ (22.9 cm)
- Knife weight: 8.0 oz (249 g)
- Overall weight: 10.4 oz (295 g)
- Country of Manufacture: USA
As I have said before, this knife is able to perform tasks, but it does not really excel at much. This is not a bad knife, I just am having trouble finding uses for it. I have other knives that accomplish certain tasks better than this knife. Like I said in the introduction, this knife is a good knife for when you're hiking into an area (if you don't mind it bouncing on your leg).
The overall construction of the knife feels very solid. There is a wiggle in the bolster that is hard to notice unless you try to find it. I did not notice it wiggle at all during testing. The edge as it came from the factory was good, and as I said the only hang up was on the belly. This is the first good knife I've seen come from Gerber in a long time, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Construction: 4/5
I don't think this knife would fall apart, but the wiggle in the bolster is still present and brings it down a notch
Sheath: 2/5
One star because it's a sheath. One star for not falling apart.
Performance: 4/5
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Overall: 3.5/5
I still have trouble finding a role for this knife. If you find one, I'm sure it will serve you well.
*Gerber provided the knife for this review with no stipulations on its use or return.
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SUGIARTO, YULIS ARI (2008) ANALISIS KEPUASAN ANGGOTA ATAS KUALITAS PELAYANAN JASA PADA UNIT SIMPAN PINJAM KOPERASI "NGANTANG". Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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This research uses survey research method, it was caused used questioner as tools to compile data.the research title is"the analisis of satisfaction the member toward service quality at loan storeunit cooperation"ngantang". The objective this research was to know how far satis faction the member toward service quality at loan store unit cooperation "ngantang".ngantang sub district malang regency.the population .the population in this research is the member of loan store unit cooperation ngantang with amount of research sample 100 responder.the analisys technique used is costumer satisfaction index. Responder respond toward service quality especially about tangibles variable or direct evidence,where member who where very satisfied 30 responders, satisfied 20 responders and who was not satisfied 50 responders. About reliability variable the mainstay able to be know that member of cooperation who was very satisfied 28 responders satisfied 19 responders and 53 member was not satisfied.the satisfaction level of cooperation member about responsiveenes ,where it can be explained that 29 responder feel very satisfaction 24 responders feel satisfied and 47 respondes fell not satisfied toward service given in this case about responsiveenes variable respon of the cooperation member toward of assurance variable able to be know that 24 member feel very satisfied, 22member feel very satisfied, 54 member feel not satisfied.thatresult can proof most member feel not satisfied toward scurity quarantee and ansering question around cooperation, kindness and respecfuul of employment also composure officer to service the member. Respond of cooperation member about empathy variable able to be know 29 member feel very satisfied 20member feel satisfied and 51 member feel not satisfied toward service of emphaty variable attention. Some suggestion cooperation "ngantang".was expected able to improve system and procedure of serfice was given to the costumer, it was conducted in effort to give quarantee toward costumer about given service.the decision was conducted because so far many member feel not satisfied toward service quality given.on controlling quality had given.was expected given managemen cooperate was expected to provide suggest box toward service given,by that step cooperaton able to conduct ontrol toward quality would be given to the costumer.
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Same as the Panther and Panther II. Play midline sniper (not camping sniper). Have patience and be mobile.
Premium tank for under 8.000 of gold
Started by Gold Error 404, Oct 08 2016 04:38 PMT28 Concept Su-122-44
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#21 Posted 09 October 2016 - 10:36 AM
#22 Posted 09 October 2016 - 10:45 AM
My picks would be the E-25 or STA-2.
#23 Posted 09 October 2016 - 01:27 PM
#24 Posted 09 October 2016 - 01:38 PM
The 122-44 is highly recommended, but does not meet your PMM criteria. I'm suprised the E-25 is not on you're list of considerations.
#25 Posted 09 October 2016 - 02:01 PM
Also consider what nations you want to play. Seeing as you already have a German and an American tier 8 premium, the SU-122-44 may be your best option.
#26 Posted 09 October 2016 - 02:16 PM
Thanatos-VI, on 09 October 2016 - 02:27 PM, said:
Does the STA-2 have PMM on console?
We still don't have the buffed version that PC has.
Yes, the STA-2 only sees up to Tier 9.
#27 Posted 09 October 2016 - 02:20 PM
If you want to make credits more than anything else, any of the tier VIII premium mediums are a good choice, with my recommendation being the Super Pershing. If you want a very powerful tank that still makes a good amount of credits, get the T28 HTC. It easily excels in most matchups and on most maps while still being able to earn a solid amount of credits.
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#28 Posted 09 October 2016 - 02:47 PM
#29 Posted 11 October 2016 - 03:06 PM
Got a few prems and I found that the E25 is the equivalent of a sneaky ninja where as the 44 is more of a smash yer face in samurai if makes any sense to you. Both have nice DPM find I can get out of trouble a lot easier with the E25 due to the speed and with the 44 I recommend having the team spot for you but don't expect every shot to land true but when your top tier and you do hit someone oh baby big grins. Panther 88 stay away from if you don't like snipers but that tank certainly made me up my game, super Pershing slow medium with nice armour but again I use as a sniper which works for me and others use it differently. To sum up E25 for spotting and assisted damage the 44 for getting stuck in with the big boys. Recommend staying away from the concept as they get caught out real quick by lights and mediums from what I've seen, very team reliant TD.
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Rating: Disliked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
This book had potential. After my surprising enjoyment of the first book, the summary of the second prompted me to pick it up. It didn't take long before I started wishing I hadn't.
It's really the main character who ruined most of the book, the author/unbelievable events killed off the rest of my enjoyment.
The first book opened with a teenage girl, Cora, riding in a car driven by her brother. Snowy road, mountain pass... Chapter two started with her waking up somewhere else. A grasslands. Walk an hour in one direction, she found the ocean. Turn around and walk in the other direction, she found a snowy mountain. Other direction, desert. Etc. She (and I) assumed that she was dead, that she had died on that snowy road.
Then she meets another kid, a boy. Love Interes-- I mean Lucky. Lucky is the most boring, bland, unint--*yawn* The two of them explore, find a small handful of other teenagers. Then an alien shows up. Eight feet tall, black eyes, skin made of what looks like metal, and "beautiful". He tells them that sorry, but Earth was destroyed. His race are caretakers of "lesser" species and he's set this small group up here. They've made it the most Earth-like as possible, will feed them three times a day, and they can earn toys/games/candy by doing puzzles. He outright tells them the puzzles are there to challenge them, to give them something to do, so they won't get bored.
While the Earth being destroyed is bad, isn't that the best possible outcome a person could hope for?
Nope. Cora is a bitch endlessly. She's the worst teenager you could imagine. The alien caretaker, Cassian, loved Cora as well, setting up the most interesting of love triangles.
In book two we learn how much Cassian is really doing for the humans: There's a very small part of his race who think humans should be an equal species, not a lesser one, and they're working against their own people to make that happen. Cassian is one of the leaders of that movement. He tells her outright all of his plans. He lays out for her how he is going to get humans elevated. He tells her exactly what he needs her to do, what will happen each step of the way, and why things are important. And yet this idiot teenager decides that he is the enemy. Yes, he did lie to her once when he first met her, but he explained to her why he did it and why he had to do it.
I swear to god, I hated Cora so much. While white-bread bland, Lucky was a good kid, and loves her. Cassian is a great adult, an interesting alien, and for lord knows what reason, loved the brat as well.
On top of me frowning endlessly each time Cora showed up (a problem, as she's the main character), this book had unbelievable thing after unbelievable thing starting to happen, and eventually it got to be too much. I stopped reading at the 62% point.
I am slightly curious about how part of the trilogy will end. I know that Cora will succeed in the tests Cassian is helping her with and save humanity/elevate them to an equal species, but I am curious as to how the love triangle will resolve.
I suspect Cora will end up with Lucky, Cassian losing his life to help save the humans. But it could go the other way... So what do you think, readers? Which way will the author conclude the love triangle in the as yet unpublished third book?
How will the love triangle end?
Cassian will die, leaving Cora to pair up with Lucky
Lucky will die, leaving Cora to pair up with Cassian
Both will die, neither will die, or some other thing
Unfortunately, as I won't be reading the third book, I'll likely never know for sure.


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