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Giambattista Valli's Giamba spring/summer 2017 ready-to-wear collection was full of whimsy at Milan Fashion Week. The flouncy designs were clearly meant to be fun and light, though the youthful appearance of some of them was mixed with completely sheer materials. The designs are lovely and charismatic, different and unexpected. The difference with this line is that not only is it unexpected and different, but also beautiful and wearable. They styling included printed flats, anklets, glittery calf-high boots and ballet flats.
Fringed dresses and tops were a nice textural element that was unexpected and beautiful. The western touches found in the tops and collars were smoothly integrated against the printed pieces in different shades of rose and black and white. The floating layers of the sheer fabric adorned with ruffles and lace and trim were riveting to say the least, a compelling argument for the juxtaposition of textured versus smooth and printed versus plain.
The line was meant to be sexy with a clearly faux sense of innocence. The cartoon rosettes of a textured sheer dress perfectly matched the trim on the sleeves and collar of a bomber jacket that featured a greenish gold leopard-esque print.
The entire show was built around the Giambasttista Valli girl, his ideal customer, the Valli girl. The very obvious imaginative factor allowed the appearance of the show to be magnetic, riveting and youthful thanks to the cuts of the dresses and silhouettes of the combinations.
The desert scenes depicted on certain outfits were interesting and though the sequin appliques were unexpected they were not an unwelcomed addition. The black and white floral dress also has textured poufy sleeves for a great 'sorta princess' vibe but nothing beats the floor-length maxi.
Leopard print slip-on shoes work well with the pattern on the floor-length textured material with high collar and lined bib with ruffle cap sleeves. A silver and black desert printed bomber goes on top of a light pink embellished maxi dress and glittery slip-on shoes. The Giamba spring 2017 collection that was shown in Milan was inexcusably flirty and feminine and is already creating buzz.
A soft pink dress with voluminous sleeves and great pleating was also high necked with a bib detail, but the length of the skirt matched up with the end of the sleeves. The design is a great touch in showing that the Giamba spring/summer 2017 collection is about fun styling that does not take anything too seriously.
The leggings with a leopard face covers the pelvis in a contrasting color from the print, which has a gradient to it, going from bright yellow at the waist but goes down to a dark yellow, nearly black. The feline aesthetic was vibrant throughout the entire show.
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At the beginning of this month, I was to be found in Blaengarw Workmen's Hall painting a 8m x 3m mural for Creation Development Trust. The theme of the mural was "a walk down memory lane" and I had been in communication with the team in Blaengarw finding out about their local area and some of its history. Contributions to the mural also came from local school children and their families.
I sketched out various characters from this research and placed them onto a larger sketch for the mural, which I then projected onto the wall and spent day 1 (of 4) getting in the main background colours.
With only four days to complete the whole mural I asked Creation Trust if they had any volunteers to come and help paint with me, so over the following days there were some wonderful people who put in the hours filling in sections of the mural, along to the delightful sounds of Radio 2.
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I'd been re-watching some Andy Skinner videos on You Tube over Christmas along with his latest Hochanda shows, and wanted to try the Triple Thick glaze and interference paint technique.
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djsunyc wrote:which track do you feel is a better concert starter:
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well wrong never did open a show yet,but in chains was painfull and aptiut was way better.
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An excerpt from my book, It's Always the Heart….
An exhausted, yet anxious, forty-five-year-old Jim walked into the exam room after several sleepless nights and an endless stream of twelve-hour workdays. Like the everyday stresses and strains in his life, his symptoms were not really new. In fact, as I would find out later in the exam, they had been steadily building for quite some time—perhaps even years. He did not really know where to start, so he began erratically telling me fragmented bits of information about an overwhelming number of complaints. He nervously answered yes to nearly every question I asked about the symptoms he had been experiencing. It was little wonder that chest pain, pressure, tightness, shortness of breath, and palpitations seemed to rule Jim's life. His day was filled with chasing after the ever-elusive, unobtainable approval of others, when in reality, his focus should have been centered upon pleasing God.
Harvard Health believes that about a quarter of people with cardiovascular disease have some kind of anxiety problem and, in some cases, the anxiety seems to make the heart condition worse. As the association between anxiety and heart disease has not been fully studied, Dr. Una McCann from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine believes the connection is strong. "It's my view and my personal clinical experience that anxiety disorders can play a major role in heart disease," says Dr. McCann.
According to the Mayo Clinic, many people think anxiety is restricted to your mind, but your physical health is affected as well. Anxiety can cause abnormal heart rhythms, higher blood pressure, faster blood clotting, and lead to higher levels of insulin and cholesterol. Whatever it may cause, the answer is to address it spiritually in order to be healed physically.
If you struggle with anxiety, it's important to keep things in perspective by reminding yourself that God really is in control. Isaiah 41:10 says, "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." When you feel anxious, stop what you're doing, take a deep breath, and remind yourself that He is control and will help you through. Rely on Him. Lean on Him. Trust Him.
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What was a surprise was how great it was to meet Bill and have the opportunity to hang out and walk the grounds. I can only imagine what it was like for Bill after 10 years.
The closest way to describe the experience for me was to compare it to an adopted child meeting their birth parent for the first time. All the gaps in history were filled in and the mysteries solved.
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Though I've owned Rocky Dale Gardens since 2004, last week felt like the passing of the torch. Bill bought this property with Holly because of the beautiful stone outcrop on the very west end of the property. I did too and ironically we're in the process of exposing that beautiful wall. This is the stone we each bought that happened to come with a house.
The Central Garden
For those of you who we haven't seen recently, here is a glimpse of what we've been up to. After years of observing and pondering, I decided to open up the gardens and create a central lawn. The hazelnuts came out and the beds were pushed back. We've been focused on this center the last two years and will move into the outer horseshoe ring that will take visitors through the conifer dell, the arbor and then along the ledges and the pond. It's a life's work and you get to watch!
Friends with a garden in common
Bill got over the his initial shock of the changes at Rocky Dale and we had a nice chance to get to know one another. We share a passion for this place and when he left, I felt excited about what I'm doing, and Bill said he was really glad that they sold the place to me. He knows it's a labor of love- and hopefully it gets a lot of love for a long time.
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Truth will out some day. But in general it is the lie that endures for long. Truth is naked, straightforward. It will have no smirking, subterfuge or compromise. See lies adorned in silk and jewels. It is smooth, ingratiating and deceptive. The many, all too many, are dazzled by the pomp and self-importance of lies and follow gladly, unaware of the grinning face beneath the fancy mask.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the most elemental force in human life, sex, should still be degraded and denied.
The two institutions that have for centuries tried to subdue sex, to drive it out by the most fiendish methods, have been the church and morality—the traducers of all that is fine and wholesome in life. But the more the church and morality have attempted to subdue sex, burn it out from the needs of man, the more consumingly and devastatingly sex asserted itself.
It is comparatively of recent years that the truth about sex has broken through the network of falsehood, delusion and snare that have so long haunted man's mind.
And all [leaders and pioneers in the field of sex psychology] prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that phobias, terrors, neuroses and their mental derangement all have the same sexual origin. More than this, our simplest actions are entirely dependent upon our sexual impulses. The dissimulation imposed by long moral restraint prevented us from recognizing this fundamental truth. But since it is impossible to resist sucg a powerful natural force with impunity, most people were becoming more or less insane: some were completely so, some expressed their sexual aspirations by transitory phobias or monstrous dreams; others, in order to free themselves from them passed almost their whole existence in a waking dream, indifferent to ordinary life. Finally, those who were strongest satisfied their propensities by the aid of a calculating hypocrisy which enabled them to conceal them from the eye of the crowd.
The growing accumulation of Freudian research, the ever-widening consequences of the application of the original doctrines, supply explanations of many problems which used to puzzle us, and often enable us to find material proof of the theory of the unity of energy: we thus see that dream, sleep, normal state of consciousness and psychoses form an integral part of human personality, which reacts by one or other of these manifestations to an external influence, according to the actual phase in the evolution of this force. We note that among these forces acting upon us, the most important, if not the only one, which we can almost always find under the most varied disguises, is the sex impulse:
We have to admit that we cannot deny an actual fact, even if we do not like it, and it is therefore indispensible to recognize this much-maligned sex impulse as the great psychological motive force of humanity.
The late Prof. Dorsey, in "Why We Behave Like Human Beings," pointed out that psychology has diagnosed the "impurity complex" and shows us what is back of the blatant prude who advertises his or her "purity." It has also shown that purity of the ignorant when purchased at a price of a stifled natural curiosity is not safe and sane. Prof. Dorsey went on to say that, on the other hand, the study of biology has begun to break down this impurity complex and the unholy, unnatural doctrine begun by early Christian monks that the sex impulse is man's sign of degradation and the source of his most devilish energy. Nature knows better.
Sex is a primary biological function of all life above the lowest. Its characters and qualities have an ancient lineage. Its impulse is as real as is the force which makes the tides to ebb and flow. It has profoundly influenced structure and behavior. It is a fundamental element of all higher life, its external characters a neat advertising dodge of nature by which she sells her wares and thereby insures her family.
To sex we owe more than poetry; we owe the song of birds, all vocal music and the voice itself, the plumage that comes to supreme glory in the bird of paradise, the mane of the lion, the blush of the maiden, the beard of man, and all higher forms of life in plant and animal worlds. It is woven into every fabric of human life and lays its fingers on every custom. To the debit side of the sex account we must charge many silly stupidities and some of the foulest injustices which go to make the thing we call human culture the amazing and variegated mosaic that it is.
We are more enlightened than we were, but we have not yet reached the stage where the mere mention of sex will not provoke someone to respond with a reproach or an insult. Whole blocks on Main Street assume that "sex knowledge" is of questionable propriety, or, at best, to be kept dark in "doctor books;" or regard it as the banal possession of the frankly shameless. As a result, most pseudo-scientific "sex" literature slops over into the emotions and lets facts alone, or presents facts under disguises. Much of it has no biological background or anything of the laws of life which govern man no less than every living thing. It is fear (sometimes called "reverence") that makes us "let sex alone." It is mock modesty and foolish shame, masquerading under the name "decency," that compels museums to clothe marble fauns and cover Joves and bronze Cupids with plaster-of-Paris fig leaves, often awry or nicked at the corner. Much mawkishness abroad on the question of sex.
Man is "high," animals are "low"—without minds and or course can have no "souls." We have. Ours is a "divine" parentage. Hence art, from phidian sculpture to sophomoric poem, tends to the greater glory of man: men and women more like goddesses; gods and goddesses glorified men and women.
And so it came about that the commonest thing in nature next to keeping alive became invested with the sanctity of heaven. Love [missing page?]
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All the modern writers on sex have proven that the old notion of sex as beginning with puberty is false. The sex impulse like all our impulses begins at birth and ends with death. Though in opposition to other animals, man cannot interpret his sexual appetites by action before the end of a respectable number of years (a wonderful cause of nervous disorders from which animals faithful to the periodic returns of sexual excitement are free), it nonetheless seems as though there was an awakening of sexuality in him from the earliest days of his life; for Freud and school, sexual ideas come into being the time the child is given the breast.
It seems it is not alone the sensation of the satisfaction of appetite which impels the new-born child to seize the breast of his mother or nurse. In this little shapeless ball, in whom the whole range of sensations has not yet come into being, a special, anticipatory imagination causes the pleasure of satisfied appetites to be already complicated by a more specialized enjoyment.
And late it will be from the earliest years that the child's imagination is turned towards sexual images. Isolated from the world, knowing as yet nothing but family life, already possessed of desires which nature will not allow him to satisfy till a distant future the child will turn his sexual imagination towards the nearest objects, the only ones which he can have in sight. There will be in early infancy an imaginative crisis which will often have a distant reaction upon the sentimental life of the adult.
Psychologists ask us to note:
That the sexual development of the child may take place in three ways:
(1) Appearance of the first phenomena at the very time of birth;
(2) Crisis in later infancy, from four to seven years old, with inversion of normal sentiments, incest, etc;
(3) Crisis of puberty, from about ten to fourteen years of age, followed by a return of the sensations to normal channels.
These psychological manifestations are, no doubt, closely connected with modifications of the internal secretion organs, and, in particular, with sexual development, which is only one department of these glandular activities.
Formerly all these manifestations were met with dense ignorance and stupidity. Over and over again, mothers have whipped and still whip their hapless children when they see the least manifestation of sex. Or they terrorize them and put the stigma of depravity on their children. I could cite hundreds of examples from my own experience as a trained nurse.
Society demands that the young adult man and woman (especially woman) shall repress the sex-impulse for a number of years—often for the whole of their life. The thwarting of such an instinctive urge cannot be achieved in the normal person without interference with health—all sorts of mental and physical disorders may result; and often the impulse, too strong to be thwarted, finds an outlet in some infantile and perverse channel.
In point of truth, many wives dare not give themselves to the uttermost for fear that their husbands would find them too aggressive, lacking in the right kind of femininity. Most men are brought up to believe that woman must be taken and not give herself gladly and joyously in love and passion.
That also prevents the more sensitive of the male species to give themselves freely—they are afraid to outrage and shock the sensibilities and innocence of their wives. You would be surprised how frequent wives do feel shocked and outraged.
Laura, the wife of the captain in Strindberg's "Father," gives us the key to the thoughts and feelings of a great many women. She tells her husband, When I first came into your life I was like a second mother to you. I loved you like my child. But when the nature of your feelings changed and you appeared as my lover, I blushed and your embrace was joy that was followed by remorseful conscience as if my blood were ashamed." That is the tragedy of many women.
What is commonly called incompatibility of temperaments is nearly always the direct result of lack of sexual harmony—the dissatisfaction and friction which arises when the chemical nature of sex in the man and wife fail to blend harmoniously.
Take frigidity in some women largely due to the deadening effect of the sex taboo. Such women cannot even if they try desperately respond to the sex urge in the man. In fact, the very thought of the sexual embrace to such women is torture. Even if the man lacks refinement and imposes his needs on his wife, he will find satisfaction. In the end he seeks gratification elsewhere. Sex is more powerful than all decisions. The man will grow indifferent and in the end insist on divorce, or if he can afford it provide for another ménage for his mistress.
Both the Jewish and Christian religion have imposed the notion of the function of sex as only permissible for the act of procreation. That they may be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth, Jehovah permitted the Jews to have many wives. The Christian religion while not permitting many wives and imposing sexual gratification only to bring children into the world is yet perfectly aware of the fact that whether inside or out of marriage sex is being expressed without much regard to procreation. But while religionists and purists cling to their fetish that sex must not be "indulged" in as they term the perfectly natural expression modern biologists and psychologists have torn the veil from all the nonsense pertaining to sex. Whole libraries have been filled with works that treat the subject with understanding and depth and show that there has been an inadequate realization of the tremendous energy back of the sex instinct on the one hand, and, on the other hand, of the biological provisions for the release of this energy along channels not specifically sexual. It is probably absolutely correct to speak of the sex instinct as the creative instinct, and it is equally true that any outlet which offers the emotional satisfaction that comes from creative endeavor has the capability of neutralizing the needs back of the creative craving.
The import of this viewpoint must be fully realized by parents and by their children, for the children reflect them not merely through inheritance, but also by the assimilating of their ideas and ideals. Both must understand and learn to utilize the essentials for developing and satisfying the emotional cravings arising from the sex instinct. It is in this relation that the release of energy long recreational and occupational lines yields the most satisfactory results.
However, the creative spirit is not an antidote to the sex instinct, but a part of its forceful expression. It acts in a conservative manner and utilizes the instinct for forms of satisfaction that are not merely protective in character, but lead on to its greater development, its broadening and deepening in its impress upon innate character and powers of self-direction and control. The non-sexual release of energy sometimes suffices to offset the fundamental needs that lie back of the sexual craving and, in fact, to transmute them into self-satisfying and useful forms of expression.
The man who expressed this thought profoundly and poetically was Friedrich Nietzsche. In "Morality as Anti-Naturalness" he writes: "all passions have a time when they are fatal only, when, with the weight of their folly, they drag their victim down; and they have a later, a very much later, period, when they wed with spirit, when they are ' spiritualized.'" Formerly, people waged war against passion itself, on account of the folly involved in it. They conspired for its annihilation. The most notable formula for that view stands in the New Testament, in the sermon on the mount, where, let us say in passing, things are not at all regarded from an elevated point of view. For example, it is there said with application to sexuality, "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out." Fortunately, no Christian acts according to this precept. To annihilate passions and desires merely in order to obviate their folly and its unpleasant results appears to us at present as an acute form of folly. The church fights against passion with excision in every sense, its practice, its "cure," its castrations, it never asks, "how to spiritualize, beautify, and deify a desire?"—it has, at all times, laid the emphasis of discipline upon extermination (of sensuality, of pride, and ambition.)—but to attack the passions at the root means to attack life itself at the root: the praxis of the church is inimical to life………
This truism is already recognized by the thinking. But one phase has remained, namely, that sex though a potent factor must not be held in leash by the unmarried.
Fortunately this prejudice too is being demolished. A recent symposium on "the element of sex in the life of the unmarried adult" gives clear and astounding facts of this subject. To quote only a few given by Dr. Ira Wile in his contribution:
"The unmarried possess the potentials of the married group to which they are definitely related by interest and participation in all the phases of life that affect the well-beings of the married group. Their sex life, in its various forms, is vital to social welfare, just as it is significant for their own personal growth and development." …
"Admittedly, to study this phase of sex is to ex- plore one of the uncharted areas of our civilization in which the residua of barbaric ignorance and fear still retard progress. Over its depths appears an uninviting, miasmatic haze of doubt and uncertainty. Few organ- ized explorations have been made of this state of unmar- riage. Hence this effort to make a survey of the field from various angles represents an effort to chart facts, to trace causal influences, to determine the validity and worth of current views, and to establish data and hypotheses which may be of service in interpreting our age." …
"For more than two thousand years the official gratification of procreative urges has been relegated to the socially recognized state of marriage. The assumption of society has been that its authorita- tive prohibition of the biologic mating urge would postpone its utilization until such a time as the requisite civil or religious rite gave sanction to its usage. If society expected external regulations to subjugate physi- ologic urges and psychologic impulses, have these regu- lations been effective? Do those living in unmarriage live in chastity and celibacy? If not, wherein and how do their sexual behaviors differ from those exhibited by fellow beings similar in all else except for living in marriage?"
Sexual activity is not an isolated act—it is a general experience motivating and affecting personality. Out of the total personal reaction emerges ideas of romance and beauty, exaltation and peacefulness, devotion and slavish idealization; or, a sense of sacrifice, tumult, humiliation, shame, anxiety, a desire for self-punishment, or a self-accepted weakness, failure and inadequacy.
To interpret the sex life of the unmarried one must recognize that there are two functions of sex:
One, the biologic, which procreation as a goal—involving some intellectual but more emotional processes in the interest of race preservations.
The other function consists of the promotion of social growth through human relationships. This involves the play function and erotic activity, without or without a procreative goal. There are two bases for the energy of the sexual drive—one, conscious, directed, guided, subjected to ethical controls; the other, unconscious, instinctual, impulsive, reacting to stimuli, but not subject to reason.
Numerous studies have disclosed that the unmarried like the married, have varied sex experiences. Dr. Klatt found that 18 percent of women had some active form of experience under 18 years. Among Dr. Hamilton's selected professional group, 59 percent of the men and 47 percent of the women had had coitus before marriage, and 20 percent of the males and 16 percent of the females, before 21 years of age. Katherine B. Davis, studying the sex life of 1,200 unmarried college women, reported 61 percent admitting masturbation, of whom 57 percent began before age 15 years.
Sex feelings and desire were experienced with some periodicity in 70 percent of the group reporting on this. The unmarried, no less than the married, reported various forms of sexual phenomena. It is interesting to note that homosexual relations were reported more frequently for the unmarried group. This is significant even though, socially, homosexuality is regarded as more dangerous among men that among women. Much homosexuality among males ceases with confidence in heterosexual potency, as confirmed in mating followed by marriage. […]
Lesbianism is common and its prevalence is important though it does not always involve remaining single. The single group regretted the lack of children more than the lack of husbands. Approximately 38.7 percent believed intercourse necessary for complete mental and physical health. Approximately 20 percent justified sexual intercourse before marriage for men and for women.
Dr. Wile asks, "Are the large numbers of adult single undergraduates and graduates of colleges endowed with less sexual drive than high school graduates? Do matured adolescents lose their primary instinctive urges when they become adult? Is higher education purchased at the cost of sexual contraction? This is absurd and contrary to all facts. Sexual activity in one of its many phases exists— whether in active erotic play, auto-erotic, homosexual or heterosexual practice, or as an esthetic or vocational sublimation. Its nature and intensity are subject to personal choice, judgment, standards, and ideals which are regulative but not destructive—temporarily prohibitive rather than permanently inhibitive.
"If one assumes that sexual life is and must be limited by social sanction to those living in wedlock, then what do those living in unmarriage do or what may they do? The question is not what can they do, as this is identical for both groups. The actual legal existence of prenuptial guarantees attests the fact of widespread sexual activity among the unmarried"
Economic inadequacy does not stamp out heterosexual urges any more than the enactment of a punitive law can destroy homosexual impulses. Factually, society recognizes the sexual demands, if not the sexual needs, of the unmarried group in its attitudes toward, and its regulation of, prostitution, homosexual haunts and taxi dance halls.
In other words the unmarried are either driven to artificial methods of sex expression or they will follow the dominant urge in natural relationships. In point of fact they have done with taboos imposed on them for so long, especially since they have come to know of contracepts to prevent bringing undesired children into this wonderful world of ours—a subject I hope to speak about before I leave your city.
Unmarried adults are approaching sex as a fact rather than a theory. They are accepting their sexual organization frankly as an instrument for personal growth and emotional completion with social stabilization, rather than hypocritically as a function designed by divine plan only for the procreation of pure beings whose excuse for living was that they might die in purity to attain happiness in a world to come.
They appreciate that sex is the source of life, but believe that a sexless life is a mockery after biologic maturation, because it is contrary to nature, since sex is also an expression of psychological factors that socialize individuals and lead them to forsake unmarriage for a marriage in harmony with the laws and customs of their age.
All erotic play is genetically related to courtship, but courtship is subject to social control. Hence, the sex life of the normal young unmarried adult, whatever it may be, is preparation for the perfection of mating the promotion of personal happiness and adjustment in some form of marriage, whether free and unconventional common-law or according to civil or religious rite.
Because I so completely agree with this viewpoint and because I know the disastrous and tragic result of the Puritan idea of sex, I find it imperative to call your attention to the need of treating the sex question frankly and without the subterfuge usually employed when referring to the subject. With the greatest and freest spirits and poet Walt Whitman I say, "Where sex is missing everything is missing." Let us get rid of the mock modesty so prevalent on the surface of polite society. Let us liberate sex from falsehood and degradation and let us realize that sex is a dominant factor for health and harmony in life and in art.


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Maine home sales jumped 23.17 percent in July compared to the same period in 2010, Maine Real Estate Information System Inc. said Friday.
According to the group's numbers, 994 single-family, existing homes were sold last month, compared to 807 in July 2010. The median sales price also edged up year-over-year, from $172,500 last year to $177,500 this year.
The Maine numbers also reflected a slight increase from June. In June, the group reported overall single-family home sales of 985, at a median sales price of $172,600.
"Buyers have been cautious in these fragile economic times, but the new statistics show buyers and sellers are indeed coming together. Buyers responded to good values, while sellers have priced to the market better," said Realtor Mike LePage of RE/MAX Heritage in Yarmouth, president of the Maine Association of Realtors, in a Friday release. "Historically low interest rates make depressed home prices even more affordable. Home ownership, including second homes, is not only a financial investment, but a quality of life investment."
Kim Swan, president of The Swan Agency Sotheby's International Realty, with offices in Bar Harbor, Blue Hill and Northeast Harbor, told the Bangor Daily News that she's seeing a lot of activity in the market. The under-$250,000 market is hot, she said, and her agency is experiencing multiple offers on listings.
"There are eight properties pending right now in Bar Harbor and four of them are under $250,000," Swan said. "Three are between $300,000 and $500,000 and one is $2 million-plus. That really tells the story of the market in a nutshell."
Angelia Levesque, president of the Bangor Board of Realtors, said that interest rates are low now, helping to drive the market.
"I had a buyer lock in at 4.25 percent for a 30-year-fixed [mortgage] — that's just phenomenal," she told the BDN.
Through August and September, Levesque said, the market is traditionally heavy with people who have been vacationing and are looking for second-homes on lakes or on the ocean. And there are normally a number of families trying to get into homes before school starts, she added.
Nationally, existing home sales dropped in July from June, but jumped up from a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors. Month-over-month, sales dropped 3.5 percent from 4.84 million in June to 4.67 million in July, the group said Thursday.
But those July numbers reflected a 21 percent increase over the same period a year ago. The July 2010 numbers were a "cyclical low, immediately following the expiration of the home buyer tax credit, the group noted."
"Affordability conditions this year have been the most favorable on record dating back to 1970, but many buyers are being held back because banks are offering financing to only the most highly qualified borrowers, ignoring a large share of otherwise creditworthy buyers," said Lawrence Yun, the national group's chief economist. "Those potential buyers represent the difference between an uneven recovery and a much more robust housing market that could stimulate additional economic activity and create jobs."
Regionally, existing-home sales in the Northeast rose 2.7 percent to an annual level of 750,000 in July and are 19.0 percent above July 2010. The median price in the Northeast was $245,600, down 6.8 percent from a year ago.
The group said that contract failures held steady in July at 16 percent. Contract failures are home sale cancellations generally caused by declined mortgage applications or failures in loan underwriting from appraised values coming in below the negotiated price. And 9 percent of Realtors reported a contract was delayed in the past three months due to low appraisals, and another 13 percent said a contract was renegotiated to a lower sales price because an appraisal was below the initially agreed price between buyer and seller, the group said.


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While visiting Phillip Island in February, make sure you check out the San Remo Channel Challenge.
This is a racing event that includes a 500 metre swim across the channel between San Remo and Phillip Island. Hundreds of participants head to this small township to compete in this race year after year.
San Remo Channel Challenge 2020 Dates Swim Entry, Phillip Island
For those who are coming to the event as spectators, there is so much for you to enjoy. San Remo comes to life with children's rides, market stands, food vendors, golf challenge, a fashion parade, live music and so much more! You don't have to be a participant to enjoy this event, so come on down to San Remo and enjoy the summer atmosphere at this fun event.
Road closures will occur as follows: The Phillip Island Bridge will be one way in each direction while the race is on between 12. 30pm and 1.30pm. Marine Parade will be closed between Bergin Grove and Woolamai Grove from 9.00am until 5.00pm. Bergin Grove will be closed between Mary Grove and Marine Parade from 12.45pm until 1.30pm.
The San Remo Channel Challenge is a major fundraiser for the Woolamai Beach SLSC and all proceeds go to supporting the volunteer patrols at Woolamai Beach and Smiths Beach in the summer months as well as the Jet Ski Rescue Service.


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Should I sext?
Fader and I spoke about the role of sexting in relationships. Here's an excerpt:
Dr. Mattu says he's come to believe that the politics of the nude photo line up pretty perfectly with the politics of consent. "When we think about consent, he explains, "it's two people actually having a discussion and saying, 'Hey, I'm wondering if this is something you're comfortable with, if this is something you'd want to do.' If both people in the relationship do actually consent to sharing these types of photos or videos with each other, it can actually really strengthen the satisfaction the person has in the relationship."
Dr. Mattu has a point: as we live an increasing amount of our lives online, it's inevitable that we'll have some of the same difficult conversations we have when we're lying in bed together via text. As Mattu sees it, trouble arises when we use the distance of digital communication as an excuse to avoid having those discussions completely — presenting only the most carefully curated versions of ourselves to each other, blindly hoping we'll end up on the same page. In other words, depending on the way we use them, nudes can be just as much of a way of exposing ourselves to other people as a way of preventing them from truly seeing us.


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Episode 043: The Deepest Waters Make The Least Noise
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Eliminating exhaustion
Day 5
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Thank you for joining me for Searching for Serenity's 7-day video tutorial series, Eliminating Exhaustion.
I can't believe we are on day 5 already! As you will have herd in yesterday's video, for the rest of this week we are focusing on the emotional issues of exhaustion.
You might wonder why emotional and you've signed up for practical hints and tips but this is why. Searching for Serenity was founded by me following my own issues of exhaustion and burnout. There's s something that I know about every woman that comes to this community.
Tell me how many of these are correct for you:
You are incredibly ambitious;
You are a professional woman;
You have trained a long time to do what you do;
You want to have an impact in this world;
You want to do good for other people;
You are surrounded by friends , family and loved ones that you care for and likely you put yourself last;
You struggle with the concept of caring for yourself and think that there is always more for you to be doing; there is always more on the list, could have done, could be doing, that you want to do for other people, before yourself.
Burnout arises when you put more in to the front end and do not get the rewards you were seeking. Many women come to Searching for Serenity after struggling for a long time with exhaustion because you keep ploughing more resources in to what you are doing without seeing any positive outcomes or benefits. And when you do so benefits, you simply move on to the next thing.
This is a behavioural issue and why we are focusing on this for nearly half the week. I have given you some very structured tools to support your brain, to deal with your physical energy; but I can give you every recipe planner out there, every shopping list, every sleeping tablet, every way of supporting your body but if your mind is not on board you are still going to feel exhausted.
This is something that so many women struggle with.
You may have even found yourself ill or taking time off work, and yet, before you have even gotten back to work you find yourself back in this position of exhaustion, overwhelm and struggling. This is what we are going to address this week; the behavioural issues that you will find in exhaustion. If you make changes, even slight changes, you will see huge rewards.
What we are focusing on today is the first part of behavioural changes.
We are using a common exercise that many coaches will implement to show you what you can be, do and have.
I am flipping this around though. If I know anything about it's that you are constantly run ragged with everything you need to be, do have and all the pressures n you.
Start with a piece of paper and pen, or the notebook you have been using through this week, and start listing out everything that you need to do.
It's a to do list, but this does beyond a simple to do list. This goes beyond work and is about you. What is in your brain as something you need to do, to fix, things you should do better. Focus on the emotional side; are there friends that you haven't seen for a long time and have been meaning to arrange dinner with, does your daughter need to go to certain classes, does your other half need looking after in some way or the things you need to do around the house.
What are the thoughts that keep going through your head or have been going through your head for a while.
Perhaps you feel that there is more that you can or should be doing, or something you have been putting off doing for a while now.
So, today I want you to start listing all those out and I would suggest that you pause the video or audio here, and go do them.
Come back to me when they are done.
Now that you have made your list, I want you to start looking through the items you have written.
For each item you read, focus on how you feel. How many of the items on the list are positive things? Book a holiday, learn a new language. How many of them are looking after you; booking the spa day you have been meaning to do for ages.
If I know you, I imagine that the vast majority of your list will be administrative or to-do tasks that aren't going to bring you joy or happiness.
The first thing to remember when eliminating exhaustion is that you got to this position because you were chasing certain goals. You wanted to be the best of whatever you wanted to be, and you wanted to be the thinnest, or prettiest, or have the best family - whatever it might be, all of these things that you think you need to do and to do them all at once - it's just not the way or the meaning of life.
The secrets for a happy life are not ticking things off your to-do list and the longer you spend chasing things that actually don't mean that much to you, the more exhausted you will feel.
What we are going to do - and I am not judging because I have done this myself - but we are going to consider every item on that list and cross out every single thing that is essentially meaningless to you - the headings that you think you 'should' do but have no emotional attachment to.
This is about going back to basics and getting to the things that really are going to bring you joy.
If on that list you have had certain things that you have been putting off for a very long time but think you should still do, ask yourself why you have them on your to do list still, if you're not getting them done. If you really wanted it, wouldn't you already be chasing it?
Out of all he things that you can do in the world there are so many things that might never happen and we are crossing off the list all the things that you 'should' do or ought to do.
This is an exercise in beating overwhelm and an exercise in rediscovering what is truly important to you. Finally, it is an exercise in meeting go of the 'good girl'.
The good girl is the person inside each of us who does 'the right thing'. For example, you've been invited for dinner at a friend's house. You feel exhausted and unwell, you don't really want to go out, you know that you're allergic to their cat, but you still go anyway and have a bad night and come out in hives.
Why do we do these things to ourselves? It's because we think we should do, it's because it's the right thing to do and don't good people do things that they don't want to do? That's great when you have unlimited energy and resources.
But right now, we are eliminating exhaustion and something has to go (because what you've been doing so far hasn't worked) and so we are going to get rid of all the shit that you don't want to do, all the shit that makes you feel, well, shit about yourself.
This might seem tricky because you feel that you are a good person who has to do the right thing but remember: if you are a good person and you want to make a difference in this world, you have to nurture yourself first.
Furthermore, how many things are on your list are obligations that no one else is putting on you but you?
No one wants you to come around to their house for dinner and have a bad night; they want to see you when you will be happy.
So, for a moment I want you to step back from running on a constant treadmill and feeling exhausted and that you have to do everything and consider instead what is going to bring you the most happiness, the most joy and what will really improve your life. If it doesn't bring you that joy or happiness or bring that feeling of excitedness in the pit of your stomach, you're going to strike it from this list. Put it on a second list ended 'things to do on a rainy day when I'm bored and there's nothing better to do'.
Now, you might listen to this and think 'that's great for you, I can't afford to do that' or ' I don't want to do that' or I don't want to be a bad person'. Reconsider in that case, what else is going to give. If you're not going to focus first on these things that bring you happiness, what else is going to give in your life to give you enough energy and enough room to do all the things that you've required of yourself?
It is a tough lesson today but this gets easier.
Today is an exercise in rediscovering what is important to you and we will build on this over the next couple of days.
Let me know how you get on with this one; reach out in the Facebook group and let me know what you are striking from the list and what it is that really brings you joy and excited you to focus on when you see it on the to-do list. What do you want to achieve and what are you going to let go in order to do that.
It has never been more important to reinstate your self-care routine if you have let that one fall by the way side. This is a tricky lesson and you need the extra support so make sure that you sped your 15-20 minutes minimum looking after yourself and get an early night. This is all about nourishing your mind and soul and sometimes it takes difficult work to get that done.
In the meantime, have an amazing day, I would love to hear from you and how you are getting on.
I will be back in your inbox tomorrow, in the meantime take care of yourself


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In this post I'm going to show you how to take your block lettering styles and add a fun 3D effect to them using the Extrude Tool in Illustrator.
I love this effect because it's a quick way to add a realistic 3D look to your letters yet still keep the hand lettering feel to them. Also, 3D effects are fun but can quickly go awry if you do it on paper. (At least this is my experience.)
Because this is done with hand lettering instead of using a blocky font, you get a softer, squishy feel to the letters that feels fun and personalized.
This post uses a lot of similar techniques in previous hand lettering tutorials, so if I gloss over a technique or a step, I will try to point you in the right direction.
Step 1: Draw and Scan In Your Work
Go ahead and draw and ink your work using a black pen on plain white paper. The process is hardly pretty at this stage, and because this is going straight into the computer, you can afford to make several attempts at a letter and worry about arranging it in Photoshop or Illustrator later.
In Photoshop, adjust the levels of your work so it's clean black on white. You can learn more about this process in Step 2 of this tutorial here.
Then, go ahead and drag individual letters into Illustrator and then arrange your composition.
Step 2: Convert your Drawings to Vector Using Image Trace in Illustrator
Use the Image Trace tool to convert your letterforms into vector shapes (more details in Step 4 of this tutorial).
Expand appearance on the letters, ungroup them, and then delete the extra pieces. For this particular style I recommend saving the "fill" inside the letters because you're later going to unite the "stroke" to the "fill" so it's one piece.
Step 3: Colorize, Unite, and Smooth Your Letters
Next, choose a color palette. I love to go to Design Seeds for this.
Drop in your chosen color palette into Illustrator so you can easily grab the color with the eyedropper tool.
To apply the color, choose the letter and its fill with the select tool, then choose the Eyedropper tool (keyboard shortcut I) and click on the color you want to change the color to.
Keep going until you're finished.
You may now see that the fill looks slightly separated from the "stroke". We can fix this by combining the two pieces by using the Unite tool in Pathfinder (go to Window → Pathfinder and choose the Unite option in the panel).
Now the shapes are united, so you have one letter.
Next, you want to smooth out your letters so that there are cleaner lines and less anchor points. You can do this with your mouse or with a Wacom tablet (here are time-saving tips on how to set up your Wacom tablet and Illustrator for this type of work.)
You'll see why the smooth process is so important in the next step where we go to use the 3D tool.
Step 4: Apply the 3D Text Effect in Illustrator
Now's the fun part: playing with the 3D text effect!
Open up the panel in Illustrator by going to Effect → 3D → Extrude & Bevel. Here are the settings I ended up using on this particular piece, but have fun here and make it your own. (Click the More Options button in the bottom of the panel to view all of the options shown below.) You can read more about this panel here.
As you're doing this, make sure to have your letters selected and also have the Preview checkbox checked so you can see the changes being made live.
Close the panel to see your effect.
Then click away to see it applied!
Now you can do whatever you want with the text.
Important note: if you're going to bring this artwork into Photoshop, I recommend sizing it to the correct size in Illustrator and then Exporting it to a PNG (or else you'll get some funky results if you copy and paste directly from Illustrator to Photoshop).
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If there are any things you'd like to learn how to do in Photoshop or Illustrator, comment below.
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Fashion week in London, New York, Milan, and Paris may have ended, but the importance of flowers and floral art is given its due in NY Times and Financial Times. Perhaps designers have the same thirst for spring like us gardeners. NASA publishes an image that underscores the impermanence of galaxies, even our own. On the conservation front, we have the alarm of declining crop diversity and an invasive flatworm that feeds on snails and earth-dwelling arthropods. Enjoy the spring coming around the corner, despite the ides of March being next week!
Designers nurture penchant for petals @FT
Getty Images makes 35 million images free in flight against copyright infringement @BritishJournal of Photography
NASA Image shows spiral galaxy being torn @NatureWorldNews
Mulleins: majestic accents for dry gardens @StCatherinesStandard
Escargot could follow the dodo, scientists warn @Telegraph
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Vendetta - The Gangster Card Game
Vendetta – New York Style is a "family" card game for 2 to 6 players. Each player is a mob boss trying to take over the top spot in New York City.
Vendetta - The Gangster Card Game
Vendetta – New York Style is a "family" card game for 2 to 6 players. Each player is a mob boss trying to take over the top spot in New York City.
Hey! Look who's here! Sit down, sit down! I gotta say a few things before they bring out the pasta. Have you ate here before? I know the owner. We go way back. Anyway, you're a boss now, so there's some things you gotta know or you're gonna get yourself whacked. As you might have heard, the old man in charge of New York is, ah, gone. Ya know what I mean? So you, me, and our associates have gotta sort out who moves up the ladder. To move up, you gotta make a reputation so the other bosses fall in line. They ain't gonna follow nobody who hasn't gotten his hands dirty. Ah, wait a second, here comes the Spaghet…
…So, like I was sayin, you gotta smack around a few guys, earn their respect, and you'll come out on top. Otherwise, well, it was nice knowing ya! Hey, pass the meatballs already. I'm starving over here! Vendetta – New York Style is a card game for 2 to 6 players. Each player is a mob boss trying to take over the top spot in New York City. Vendetta is a low complexity "family" game. You can complete a game in 45-60 minutes, and the tone is very light and very socially interactive.
By taking control of different places and wise guys in the "Neighborhood", you'll build up your power. By Whacking (destroying) the opposing places and people, you'll weaken your opponents. If you're good enough, you'll be able to Whack one of their Bosses and win the game.
Here's the cool part of the game...
The cornerstone to the game is the "Vendetta" mechanic. If I take control of the local Delicatessen, I gain its income and card drawing ability. If you then come and Whack (destroy) the Deli, you weaken me.
But wait! - There's more!
When you Whack my Deli, you must give me some of your Vendetta counters. The specific number is noted on the Deli card. If I attack your places in the future, I can spend your Vendetta counters to pump up my attack.
So, the more you Whack a player, the more bonuses they have in the future to Whack you back.
This does 2 cool things.
First, you get the "Grudge" and "Now it's personal" aspect of mob warfare.
Second, even if a player gets Whacked hard, he still has the resources to make a comeback. This means that until a player wins, everyone has a shot (pun intended) at winning.
The design came together very fast, and the artist, Jerry, is doing a great job of capturing the light feel we're going for.
110 Full Color Cards with very cool artwork
1 Full Color Counter Sheet
2 Custom Engraved Vendetta "Whack" Dice
Target Audience
This game is perfect for both casual and hardcore gamers. This is also a great game to introduce your non-gaming friends and "family" to. Anyone who has seen the Godfather or Soprano's will instantly relate to the game.
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Dance ribbons are so fun to use in kids yoga classes. You can buy dance ribbons on sticks online, but sometimes it is hard to hold the stick and do yoga poses at the same time. So, I prefer to make my own (or have the kids make them themselves) using rubber bracelets.
Rainbow ribbons and tuille are tied onto a bracelet, and then kids can put them on their wrists for a hands-free dance ribbon experience. Any yoga pose is fun with these dance ribbons, but they are especially fun for painting rainbows and freeze dancing.
Don't skip using the tulle ribbon. The tulle gives the ribbons more "body" and helps the ribbon stay in the air longer, instead of just hanging down. As you paint in the air, the tulle and ribbons float behind your hand so you really do feel like you are painting the air.
Check out the bottom of the page for a downloadable The End of the Rainbow Lesson Plan Package that uses these Rainbow Ribbons.
Rainbow Ribbons for Kids Yoga
-Rainbow Ribbon, or an assortment of different colored ribbon (a good way to use up ribbon scraps)
-Tulle Ribbon - This ribbon helps keep the ribbons floating in the air. Find it in the wedding section of a craft store.
-Rubber Bracelets (like Stretch Magic Silkies Bracelets or Jelly Bracelets) or have kids bring in their own bracelets
1. Measure and Cut Ribbon and Tulle
Decide the length of the ribbons and tulle you want for the prop, and then double that measurement. For the dance ribbon in the picture, 4 feet of ribbon was used to make a 2 foot dancing ribbon. Try making the ribbons the arm's length of the child for dancing, so two arm's lengths for cutting.
2. Tie Ribbons and Tulle to Bracelet
Tie the ribbons and tulle to the bracelet. (I like using the Lark's Head Knot.)
Tie them closely together on the bracelet or tie both pieces on at the same time like in the picture above.
3. Do some yoga or dance with it!
Now slip the bracelet on your wrist and paint some rainbows!
P.S. My neighbors officially think I am crazy after watching me take pictures of myself dancing with Rainbow Ribbons in the street!
We've created an entire lesson plan that uses these Rainbow Ribbons! You can download The End of the Rainbow Lesson Plan Package, which includes "The End of the Rainbow" relaxation story from Imaginations 2. It includes rainbow poses, games, a "recipe" for making a rainbow, and time-extender activities.
This lesson plan is all you need for a fun, rainbow-themed kids yoga class. Perfect year-round or in March for St. Patrick's Day. Class is based on Rainbow Ribbon props, and includes instructions for assembly.
Lesson Plan Package includes:
Part 1: Rainbow-themed Lesson Plan
Full lesson plan with poses, props, suggested music, and verbal cues.
Part 2: Relaxation Story- The End of the Rainbow
A rainbow-themed relaxation story from Imaginations 2: Relaxation Stories and Guided Imagery.
Part 3: Time Extenders
Some classes are longer than others, so these are some extra ideas to help you keep time filled.
Part 4: Lesson Plan at-a-Glance
An outline of the entire lesson. It is a convenient, at-a-glance list to use while teaching.
After checking out, you will receive an email with a link to download your PDF Lesson Plan Package. The link is good for 24 hours.


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Argyle ISD is an exemplary school district whose high school was awarded the silver ranking by US News and World Report in Best High Schools nationwide. With a 15:1 student-teacher ratio, Argyle ISD serves just under 1,800 students from grades PreK through 12. In addition to offering a large athletics program, which competes in District 10-3A, Argyle ISD is a proud participant in the Texas University Interscholastic League (UIL) and are proud recipients of the "Lone Star Cup" award for excellence in academics, athletic and music for the third year in a row and fifth time overall. The reigning Conference 3A marching band state champions also captured football and academic state championships are are state runners-up in girls basketball, boys golf, and baseball.
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} The Fed's open-mouth policy Policymakers want banks to do what they can't By Dr. Irwin Kellner, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: !(UPDATEDEN){(MODDATE)})} Kellner columns
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- There?s more than meets the eye to the Federal Reserve?s warning this week to member banks to maintain their lending discipline. The warning came just as its key Federal Open Market Committee was meeting to decide the future course of interest rates.
The Fed?s rationale for issuing this statement was that today?s economic good times will not last forever and unless they shore up their lending standards, the banks might be vulnerable, should the economic winds turn against them.
This seems fairly obvious. Banks don?t deliberately make bad loans; they turn bad due to unforeseen events. At any rate, the banks? business loan portfolios are by and large in good shape nowadays.
Consumer debt
If there was a problem, it was in the consumer area. A few years ago people were clearly in over their heads in debt, especially on credit cards. Delinquencies were mounting, and the banks ultimately had to write off large chunks of their loans to consumers.
This is now under control, yet the Fed appears to be worried about the kinds of loans banks are making, whether they are priced in accordance with their perceived risk and the extent to which the banks are assuming that the good times will continue.
This is fine as far as it goes. The Fed is a good regulator, and good regulators should always be on the lookout for potential problems.
The interesting thing is that it comes at a time when the Fed is also concerned about the potential for inflationary pressures to build in the U.S. economy due to tight labor markets. Recall that in March, the Fed?s Open Market Committee shifted away from neutrality in favor of a bias toward raising interest rates.
Way to go!
Given the problems in Asia and their impact on the manufacturing sector of the economy, the Fed decided not to raise rates at this week?s meeting. Good decision! Had it hiked rates, the movie theaters would not have been the only place where you could see Armageddon; you would have seen it in the stock and bond markets as well!
And maybe at the Fed; factory payrolls shrank by 29,000 in June, sending the jobless rate up to 4.5 percent. Whether it was due to the Asian crisis, the General Motors strike, or excess inventories built up earlier this year, the economy suddenly doesn?t seem quite as bubbly as it did a month or two ago. (See related story.)
Then there are the upcoming elections. The entire House and one-third of the Senate face the voters this November and the Fed usually tries to keep the economy on an even keel, so it doesn?t become the politicians? whipping boy.
That?s why the Fed is using its open-mouth policy. It wants to make sure inflationary pressures remain under control, but it can?t use its open-market policy and raise rates at this time. Telling the banks to cool it when it comes to lending might accomplish this objective without much downside risk.


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We've done it again Pretty Birds. With Milan fashion week having sadly come to an end, we here at ATPB can't help but reminisce on some of the truly inspirational street moments captured by Tamu this season. But don't worry! In the event you're getting a sever case of fashion envy from these street style starlets we've rounded up some of the best ways to steal their style. Just in time for you to snatch up these looks for your own fall wardrobe.
Caroline Issa
Printed Suits
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This statement suit is not for the weak of fashion heart. Bold patterns and whimsical prints are the perfect way to get noticed. Pair with either a solid or striped tee for a more relaxed, effortless feel that will carry you through the work day and into the night beyond.
Irene Kim
Skinny Sunnies
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These retro sunglasses were all the rage this show circuit. From Gucci's whimsical beauties to Stella McCartney's Matrix inspired creations, these micro mini sunnies prove that in this case thin is very much in.
Gala Gonzalez
Corduroy Cool
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This cool weather staple is back Pretty Birds. With 70s silhouettes and rich jewel tone hues, corduroy reigned supreme on the streets of Milan. Pair with a killer boot and a baker boy hat for a look that screams retro chic realness.
Chiara Totire
Lux in Leather
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Continuing with all the right Matrix vibes this season, futuristic leather was hitting the streets of Milan in a big way. Sleek lines and cutting edge silhouettes create a badass look that will surely be the thing needed to rescue your wardrobe from the usual 9 to 5 drudgery, Neo would be so proud.
Sara Battaglia
Statement Bucket Bags
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Perhaps one of our favorite styles of bags, unconventional bucket bags are coming back and they aren't going to be quiet about it. Not since the glory days of Alexander Wang's studded buckets has this humdrum handbag seen such a marjor revamp of style. From Pierre Hardy graphic number to the gorgeous cherry red bag brand new from Mateo, these bags are serious #goals. Also can we just say that Stauds creation is getting nothing but net in this style game.
Jan Michael Quammie
Autumnal Hats
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We've chatted before about my desire to up my hat game here on the site but this season Milan proved to be a bevy of inspiration when it came to the Autumnal hat front. From berets to baker boys and everything in between this trend proves that for a complete style look you have to start at the top.
All street style images by Tamu McPherson