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Sales of luxury goods and services online remain at very low levels
According to Precepta research firm, online sales of luxury brands in 2009 represented only 3% of the total sales, the estimate for 2010 being at 3,8% in 2010 and 4,7% in 2011. The figures apply to a worlwide luxury market of EUR 7 billion.
The research also highlights the importance of online sales considering the lowering offline sales due to the international crisis. The main reason behind this slow process is the fear of luxury brands not to diminish the reputation of their brands and encourage sales of counterfeited goods.
Today, "one of two luxury brands do not have an online offering" explains Delphine Ancel, the author of the research. The situation is different from sector to sector, the most developed being fashion (couture, pret a porter, leather goods and shoes) as well as cosmetics & fragrances. Ms Ancel also adds that one in 5 brands is sold online through third parties, the biggest winners being those with new collection offerings.


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Heller McAlpin
"Fathers seem to start as gods and end as myths and in between whatever human form they take can be calamitous for their sons," observes Philip Topping, the dubious narrator of David Gilbert's extraordinary, if somewhat problematic, novel "& Sons."
Opening with the funeral of Philip's father and ending with another memorial later that month, Gilbert's ambitious, overstuffed second novel explores relationships between fathers and sons, authors and their work, idols and devotees, villains and victims, teachers and students, heroes and antiheroes, and our younger and older selves. Gilbert writes trenchantly of the lasting reverberations of our youthful impulses and insecurities: "It can seem like adolescence opens a small hole in which the rest of our lives drain."
At the novel's heart is a famous, reclusive New York novelist named A.N. Dyer who made his name 50 years earlier with a Pulitzer Prize winner called "Ampersand" - hence the ampersand in Gilbert's title - about a sinister prep school prank gone badly awry. When we meet Andrew Dyer, he's a gout-afflicted lion in winter, 79 years old and struggling to eulogize his oldest friend, Charles Topping - father of the book's narrator and possibly a model for the hapless victim in Dyer's disturbing, "Lord of the Flies"-like first novel.
The old author's consuming concern is with what will become of his youngest son after his death. Seventeen-year-old Andy was the product of a marriage-ending indiscretion, and Dyer has tried to be a better father to him than he was to his two older boys. In an attempt to reunite his family, he summons his long-estranged offspring to his Fifth Avenue duplex.
Richard is a 45-year-old ex-drug addict who's forged a stable life for himself as a drug counselor, fledgling screenwriter, husband and father in Anaheim. Jamie, a 43-year-old peripatetic documentary filmmaker, has made a career filming disturbing events around the world.
Recalling filmmaker Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan" and playwright A.R. Gurney Jr.'s "The Dining Room," "& Sons" captures the jaded, entitled world of wealthy Upper East Side WASPs. Gilbert is especially attuned to the sweet-and-sour cocktail of adolescent horniness, precocious sophistication and cynical bravado that characterizes rich city kids, and the risible culture of literary and film celebrity.
"& Sons" shows off Gilbert's inventiveness at every turn. There's not just a novel within this novel, but another writer's entire oeuvre, evoked with quotes and summaries, including Dyer's iconic "Ampersand." This is fed to us in tantalizingly creepy bits as the old man feverishly tries to reconstruct the missing original manuscript - with telling revisions - that he burned in a fit of pique years ago.
Equally vivid is Jamie's latest haunting film project, "12:01 p.m.," which chronicles the day-by-day deterioration of his long-married high school girlfriend in the weeks leading up to her death from cancer and the six months that follow it. The handwritten letters between Dyer and his friend Charlie Topping that precede each of the book's eight sections - and document a lopsided devotion - provide yet another angle on the story.
Line for line, Gilbert's novel contains a bonanza of rich images. A city awash in construction, limousines and strollers "seemed to be pushing up a new set of teeth." At Charlie's funeral, his daughter's family sit in the second pew, "jammed together, the six of them sour yet insistent, like the richest people flying coach."
A mother lode of narrative wealth, to be sure - but it is undercut by an issue that has felled many a novel: point of view. Topping's disappointed and disappointing son, Philip, is a problematic narrator who paints himself as a loser and pathetic hanger-on, a writer manque who's both enamored and resentful of the Dyers.
He's painfully aware of being less interesting than the characters he's writing about - and he's right. "Where am I? Do you even care?" he asks at one point. "Or am I blocking your view?" He bears some resemblance to the underachieving, passive protagonist of Gilbert's first novel, "The Normals."
Philip is unreliable, but inconsistently so, which results in narrative muddle. Sometimes he's a witness, but often he's not - substituting conjectures or fabrications for reportage. We're told that 12 years have elapsed since the events related. Evidence that things have picked up for Philip in the interim - beyond the existence of this self-deprecating narrative - would have strengthened "& Sons."
As a boy headed to boarding school at Exeter, Philip was assured by his mother that she did love his distant, probably closeted father, and added: "The secret is you have to adjust your expectations, Philip. Don't get trapped in other people's opinions and how they view things. You are in charge of your own happiness, even in high school." Wise words. But what did Philip make of them? "How do we survive being so loved once?" he says.
Heller McAlpin reviews books regularly for NPR.org, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Bjork. Composer of New Lakota National Anthem?
The Lakota Nation have announced that all treaties with the US are null and void and that they will establish their own country over 5 former Midwestern states. Bjork has a new song called Declare Independence. Both items were linked to on Metafilter within the last 24 hours. LINK LINK. Dare we declare coincidence?


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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Toesday with Minnie
Do you see what me an my pawsies have today?
It does look like a pawsome cat toy, doesn't it? I mean, who wouldn't want to whap around a Lab head?
Sadly, it is not. This a 'tenna topper mom has on her work truck. She likes to show off she likes Labs. Whatever. Anywho, last week while she was driving about, she had to go through some low tree branches. She said that as soon as she saw the truck antenna twang, she knew 'tenna Labby was a goner.
Sure enough. Well, she couldn't exactly stop and go looking for him, and she was bummed about losing him; so when she got home, she went on line and ordered another.
The very next day, as she was putting something in the bed of her truck, guess who she found there too...
Yup! 'tenna Labby had been rolling around back there the whole time.
But do you see now, mom also got a leash for him so hopefully he can't get lost again.
hee hee!
Hope everybuddy is having a great Toesday!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Bird's eye view...
of the birds!
I like to sit at the very tippy top of this tree that is by our big screen TV window.
Sometimes the birds will be flying around right outside.
It's like I'm up close and pawsonal with the them, you know?
The outdoor patio light is just right there too, and sometimes the birdies will perch on it.
ooh! I think one is there now...
awww, he's gone now.
Bye, bye, birdie!
hee hee!
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Toesday with Minnie
It has been awhile but here are me an my pawsies...
just hangin out in some evening sunbeams.
When mom got home from work today she found this guy on the front porch.
The lizard was moving a bit slow and sat on mom's hand for quite awhile - long enough for mom to fumble for her phone, enter the pass code to unlock it, and then take this pic-sher! She thought he looked a bit injured, maybe from a neighborhood kitty.
We don't think that is fair! I mean, if we can't get outside to get the lizards in our yard, no-kitty should!
Oh, and if you're wonderin if mom brought it inside for us to, um, take care of and nurse back to health, she didn't. Instead she put him in a safe spot on a ledge on our porch.
Mom wasn't sure if he was gonna end up surviving but she checked on him a bit ago and he was gone. Hopefully he will be ok.
Have a great Toesday, everybuddy!
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Learning the ropes
Yeah, it's me again...Hollie!
oooh! Comfy!
I don't know if you've noticed but I get more house time now.
Smidgen, Minnie, and I do ok.
You may also have noticed by these pic-shers that I'm learning the ropes and fitting in all right.
Okay...I'm gonna get back to my Easy Sunday now...
Have a good one, everybuddy!
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Snack Pie-icide
This was the scene that greeted mom as she came through the front door yesterday...
Mom had left the bag on top of the box you see in the back ground. She completely forgot about the little snack pie inside.
Yes, that would actually be a chocolate pie.
Not to worry - nobuddy is the worse for wear.
Pulling up the files, we have our possible suspects:
Mischievous Minnie: Trouble is her middle name, not to mention her "priors".
Or maybe...
Sly Smidge: not usually the one to instigate.
And even this guy had opportunity:
Wonderful Wriggley: really, could this Lab do anything wrong?
Mom may never really know.
Though that phrase came up once again..."it's coming out of your dinner"...
Why do you look at me especially when you say that?
Monday, June 9, 2014
What's this?
What's this about Meezer Colors Monday?
I don't get to post very often any more and here is a day that was made for me and I almost missed it!
Now mom calls all of us mutts but it is clear that I have some Siamese in my background. One day when we were at the v-e-t, the receptionist person called me a Lynx Point - that is a tabby cat with the color points, also called a Tabby Point Siamese.
My body color has darkened over the years.
This is what I looked like as a kitten:
Even though I don't say much here on the blog, I do like to talk a lot.
ahem...I seem to be at a loss for words now...
er...have a great week, everybuddy!
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Easy Sunday
with Wriggley.
I'm finally getting to enjoy this Easy Sunday.
This was my birthday weekend. It all started on Friday. I turned thirteen (!!!)
I'm a teenager! Do you believe it?
On my walk with mom on Friday night, we saw this cute little black and white striped kitty cat. Ok...maybe I didn't actually see it...mom and I were playing a bit of fetch and as I was bringing the ball back to her, the little fella crossed ahead of mom but behind me. I just remember mom hastily putting my leash back on and our game coming to an end...
On Saturday morning, I took mom on our usual long walk around the fields by our house. I always take along one of my bumpers for some play time too. At one point on our walk, mom had dropped my bumper as we were walking (she does that a lot) and sent me back to get it. It was a long ways away and when I had gone out about a couple hundred feet and still didn't see it, I stopped and looked back to mom for help. She told me to wait and as she was walking towards me, a bunny broke cover in the field to my left, maybe as close as twenty feet. All this time I'd been dragging a long line but mom was not holding on to it. Mom made a quick move to get ahold of the line. Me? Well, I looked at the rabbit. Then I looked at mom. But I didn't move. I scored a lot of treats for that!
Well, she did tell me to wait, after all.
A bit later on Saturday, I had to have a bath. Then mom packed my lunch box for an overnight stay at camp. It would seem that our town was
having it's annual Pioneer Day celebrations complete with fireworks celebrating my birthday weekend with fireworks. I wish they would've asked cause I don't really like fireworks. Instead, though, mom booked the Luxury Pampered Pet Plus arranged a super deluxe adventure package for me at camp, complete with a lot of fun activities. Mom told everybuddy there that it was my birthday and they gave me a lot of special attention.
When I got home today, mom had pupcakes for me!
mmm...red velvet pupcakes with yogurt frosting!
It sure is good to be home now and relaxing...'cept mom isn't sitting still and I have to follow her around and make sure she doesn't leave me again.
Uh oh, she's up again...I gotta go...
Hope everybuddy had a fun weekend too!
Friday, June 6, 2014
What's on?
Mom has been doing a good job keeping
up with our TV payments our bird feeders filled up so we have some pretty good programs to watch on the big screen TV window.
Of course we have the usual Finch and Sparrow programs. But we've even had some special shows with Brown Headed Cow Birds, Brewer's Blackbirds, and even Red Wing Blackbirds!
We do get some crazy programs though.
Like this one...
"Galloping Gastropods"
It's really pretty boring, what with the action being so slow an all...
We can also watch "My Neighbor the Pigeon" from Hollie's room...
And if that isn't enough, this is the time of year for a new season on the Lizard Channel to start!
But check out this pawsome show we caught this morning...
Do you see what I'm watching?
"My Favorite Mousie"
Hee hee!
Have a great weekend everybuddy!
Monday, June 2, 2014
Easy Sunday on Monday
Mom was gone for a few days last week on a work trip.
Wriggley was packed off to camp and us kitties were left home in charge of the house.
Would you believe that when mom leaves like this and sends Wriggley to camp, she goes and closes up
his crate my super deluxe condo lounge?!?
Well, mom and Wriggley returned home Caturday afternoon.
Just in time for Easy Sunday, as you've proly noticed.
Have a great week, everybuddy!
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My children love chicken and it is a must dish everyday. For Hari Raya yesterday, I created a new recipe in attempt to have something special for the children. Not only my children who enjoyed it but my hubby too.
Here is the recipe & I hope you will find it special too:
By: Roz@HomeKreation
Chicken parts
2 cloves Garlic* (*pounded)
1 tsp ground Black Pepper
2 tbsp Rice Flour
2 tbsp Plain Flour
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Ready made Kentucky Flour ( if you don't have this, just use plain flour + 1 tsp curry powder & a pinch of salt)
Pandan/Screwpine Leaves
Sharp tooth picks
1. Rub chicken with ginger, garlic, black pepper & salt.
Wrap each piece of chicken with half piece of Pandan leaf & secure with a tooth pick.
Marinate for an hour or more.
2. Mix rice flour, plain flour, turmeric powder & a pinch of salt with water to form a runny batter.
Dip the wrapped chicken piece with the batter.
Roll on Kentucky flour.
Deep fry unttil golden.
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Go, Carol, go!
Carol Burnett has filed a $2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming her cleaning woman character was portrayed on the animated series Family Guy. The episode shows her Charwoman character as a porno-shop maid. Full story and a video clip of the offending scene at The Smoking Gun.


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MONTEREY, Calif.
Students working in conjunction with the Naval Postgraduate School, at the U.S. Partnership for Peace Training Education Center, recently presented a computer driven "peace gaming model" at the annual International Association of Peace Training Centers Conference in Helsinki.
The theme of this year's conference was, "Effective Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: Challenges for the Training Community." Senior international military officers, diplomats and non-government organization representatives attended the conference.
German Army Capt. Danny Heerlein of Wiedersbach, Germany, and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matt Powers of Philadelphia presented the Abyei Peace Gaming Model on behalf of their development team. The model is a tool that developers hope will improve the capabilities of civilian, military and nonprofit agencies to respond to mass atrocities. Kofi Anan International Peace Keeping Center representative, German Army Col. Leo Hirschmann, and NATO Allied Command Transformation representative, German Army Col. Josef Taubeneder, expressed interest in the model, as did other conference attendees.
The model was built in response to a request from U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Klaahsen of the U.S. Marine Corps' Combat Developments Command in Quantico, Va. Klaahsen approached NPS' operations research department looking for a "wargame" to explore mass atrocity prevention and response options. "Usually we focus on kinetic operations, army vs. army, but the work we are doing with NPS is helping us to plan for mass atrocities," said Klaahsen. "We are trying to teach our planners to successfully conduct conflict resolution and peacekeeping operations." Klaahsen hopes that the Abyei model will help planners to examine complicated regional problems through unfamiliar lenses. "It forces planners to become players (through the lens of different actors) and sparks conversation," said Klaahsen.
It is these conversations that senior lecturer Dr. Jeffrey Appleget, a retired U.S. Army colonel of Colchester, Vt., believe will ultimately lead to more successful peacekeeping operations. "This model will allow planners to approach the peace keeping process, in the same manner that military planners prepare for combat operations," said Appleget. The model was developed in Appleget's war gaming class at NPS. He teaches his students to understand the war-gaming process and then works with them to develop models in response to his sponsors planning needs. "Think of the game Risk on a much larger scale and with much greater complexity," said Appleget. But unlike the game of Risk, the Abyei models deal with real people facing unthinkable violence and hardship. If successful, it will help planners to understand the myriad factors that lead to conflict so that they can be addressed by government, military and nonprofit organizations around the world. "We are looking at the human element, we are not trying to predict behavior, but we are helping planners to see the possible impact of their decisions and to begin to understand what second and third order effects might occur," said Appleget.


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Modern Society
Areas of interest in the modern political, legal, economic, and technological worlds, where such items bear directly on the living history community
SCAdian Christmas Tree in South Dakota
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-11-27 09:02
The Shire of Coldedernhale was recently asked to decorate a Christmas tree at the state capital in Pierre, South Dakota. The display is part of an annual Christmas tradition at the capital.
American President Greeted by Mongol Horde
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-11-22 15:57
During a recent trip to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, President Bush was greeted by Mongol warriors in full armor.
British Youth Attend "Knight School"
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-11-22 08:05
British police are now giving youngsters a lesson in medieval virtues at "knight school." The kids learn how chivalry can be applied to modern life.
Pennsylvania to Legalize Atlatl Deer Hunting
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-11-20 14:54
The State Game Commission of Pennsylvania is drafting regulations to allow hunters to use atlatls, wooden spear throwers first utilized by early man.
Industrial Size Duct Tape
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-11-20 11:01
Tyco Plastics has announced the production of "Nashua Big Fix," an extra-wide roll of duct tape big enough to patch even the largest armor.
The Few, the Proud, the Medievalists!
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2005-11-18 11:48
Pfc. Samuel D. White of the Marine Corps took a step back in time recently when he interviewed Lord Wolfgan (Staff Sgt. Brian Neldner) at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training in New River, North Carolina. His story appears on the website for the Marine Corps.
Asterix Takes on the U.S.
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2005-11-17 07:44
Feisty comic strip hero Asterix has been making fools of the Romans for years. Now he has a new focus: the Bush Administration.
Pennsic XXXV War Chirurgeon Comments on EMS Changes
Submitted by Justin on Wed, 2005-11-16 13:11
Viscountess Kaellyn mac Dermott, Chirurgeon in Charge for Pennsic War XXXV, offers her personal comments on the change in EMS providers for Pennsic this coming year.
EMS Coverage Secured for Pennsic War XXXV
Submitted by Justin on Tue, 2005-11-15 14:49
Mayor Brise Sanguin has confirmed that another ambulance company has signed on to replace Portersville EMS for on-site paramedic services at Pennsic 35.
Grimms Rentals and Portersville EMS to leave Pennsic War
Submitted by Calvert on Tue, 2005-11-15 09:30
Brise Sanguin, Pennsic XXXV Mayor, has confirmed rumors that two long-standing providers of services to Pennsic War will not be returning this year. Lord Calvert from the Pennsic Independent has the story straight from the Mayor.
Borgia Family Topic of New Film
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-11-13 14:05
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Farrell have been signed to star in a new theatrical film set in 15th century Rome which covers the internal struggles of Italy's Borgia family.
Walking Roman Scotland
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-11-13 11:08
The current online issue of Walkwise, Scotland's walking magazine, features a list of walking excursions that explore Roman sites in Scotland.
Avenging Unicorn Action Figure
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2005-11-12 08:50
Archie McPhee is at it again! This time it's an Avenging Unicorn complete with "four interchangeable horns" for skewering your favorite irritant.
Village of Sundkøbing Re-Creates Medieval Danish Life
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-11-08 08:20
The Medieval Centre in Denmark re-creates life in the 14th century village of Sundkøbing, complete with trebuchet and artillery demonstrations, a market and craftsmen.
Scholarships Available for Icelandic Study
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-11-06 18:13
The Leifur Eiríksson Foundation is offering scholarships to scholars from the United States interested in doing graduate-level research at universities in Iceland.
Which D&D Character are You? v2.10
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2005-10-29 13:55
An updated version of the old chestnut that uses a quiz to deterine which Dungeons and Dragons™ character you would be.
Be on the Lookout for Stolen Armor
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2005-10-27 13:57
Lord Alexander Kegan MacAngus of the Shire of Smyth Kepe in Gleann Abhann reports that his armor was stolen the weekend of October 22-23, 2005 from the area of Fort Smith, Arkansas.
SCA Trailer Stolen in An Tir
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-10-18 10:39
Kaðlin in Stórráða has reported that a trailer belonging to HL Kolfinna and Sir Torfin containing much SCA gear was stolen from their home in Portland, Oregon October 14, 2005.
Fall 2005 SCA Board of Directors Meeting
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2005-10-17 14:12
The Barony of Delftwood is proud to host the Fall 2005 SCA Board of Directors Meeting on October 22, 2005. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM.
Viking Longboats for Sale
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2005-10-15 08:15
You, too, can go a-Viking! DirectBoats.com is selling replica Viking longboats. "Great for theme parks and rental operations." And, they're on sale!
Midrealm welcomes third-generation SCAdian baby
Submitted by Justin on Wed, 2005-09-28 18:42
In the Marche of Gwyntarian, in the Barony of Brendoken,
SCAdian wedding takes loving couple, guests back in time
Submitted by Justin on Mon, 2005-09-26 17:00
Lady Anne de Chevebois and Sir Geoffrey Fitzgalen, who have been in the SCA for over ten years, joined in medieval matrimony last weekend in the Shire of Anglespur, East Kingdom.
Cows in Shining Armor
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2005-09-24 20:23
Chick-Fil-A™, a North American fast-food chain, has produced a promotional calendar with scenes depicting cows in historical—and heroic—poses.
Historic Maps Stolen from British Library
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2005-09-23 20:52
Three 16th and 17th century maps have recently been stolen from bound volumes in the British Library. The theft is just the latest in a rash of crimes targeting libraries and museums.
Arrrr Matey, Today is Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day!
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2005-09-19 08:48
Want to be like Jack Sparrow? Wear an eyepatch? Go around saying "Arrrrr" a lot? Then today is YOUR day! Happy National Talk Like a Pirate Day!
"Shutterbugs" email list offers venue for living history photographers
Submitted by Justin on Fri, 2005-09-16 09:51
If you are a professional photographer, or a serious amateur, or if you are a beginner with an interest in learning more, you may want to sign up for SCAtoday.net's new "Shutterbugs" email list.
DC Textile Museum Library Online
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2005-09-14 16:10
Elaine Koogler reports that many rare texts dealing with textiles from the collection of the D.C. Textile Museum are now available online.
FEMA Seeking Historic Preservation Specialists
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2005-09-14 08:44
Caroline Tharpe Weiss reports that FEMA is interested in hiring a few individuals to work in historic preservation in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
SCA-Elders: Discussion List for SCAdians Over 40
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2005-09-13 13:40
A new discussion list has formed to help SCA members deal with issues facing those over the age of forty.
"SCA_Adopt" Created to Aid with Adoption Issues
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2005-09-11 14:11
Sveva Lucciola reports that a new discussion group has been created to help SCA members deal with adoption issues.
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It's true, it just isn't about stuff. Having stuff, buying stuff, making stuff, and so on.
I mean, sure, we all have stuff. Some more than others. The places we live are full of our things and those things do have meaning but still, they are only objects. And any meaning they have is from what we put on them ourselves. Take away the object and we still have that meaning.
I have always struggled with my desire to make and my aversion to stuff (which is complicated in and of itself, since by nature I'm inspired by design and interiors…which means I'm inspired by stuff. Things are never just plain black and white!). I have never wanted to make things that have no meaning – that just sit on your shelf and collect dust. So that was why knitting was appealing to me. Finally, a craft where the output was something really useful (most of the time).
But still, I struggle.
I thought if I pared down what I make, that nagging feeling would go away. Or that if I did custom work, something would be different because my customer was telling me what he or she needed. And then I thought if I just made what my own heart desired, maybe that would fill whatever this hole was that I kept feeling.
Nothing worked. Then, yesterday, I had an epiphany.
I love to encourage people. I love listening for what's not being said, and thinking how can I best help them (if they need it…sometimes all someone needs is to just talk). I try to speak love as often as I can (and I don't always succeed, so thank goodness for grace), and I've dreamed of putting that into my knitting but I have never really thought hard and long about what that would look like.
Until yesterday, when I had that epiphany, and I realized the reason I half-heartedly promote my shop, half-heartedly knit what I plan to knit, is because I can't promote consumption for the sake of consumption. I just can't. It has to be functional, it has to be meaningful and, ideally, it has to be encouraging or uplifting in some way.
Do you remember my plan that I wrote about a few months ago? Yeah, I'm tossing that out the window. It was a good plan, but it isn't quite right for me. I've never been one to do things traditionally, so forcing myself into a production schedule that came to feel unnatural and pushy was a bad move.
I can hear that voice in the back of my mind. It says, "Here she goes again. Stopping and starting. Never knowing if she is coming or going. One day, she's all in in. And the next she isn't. Unpredictable. Incapable of consistency."
It's true, I do change my mind a lot. But I'm cutting myself some slack because the reason things change is I am still learning how this is all going to look – this blog and this shop. Two things are constant – I love writing and I love knitting. The way I engage in those two things is what changes from time to time.
So yes, it's time for a change again. The change is focusing on encouragement. I've realized that the momentum I had at the start of the year with Making Things Happen has fizzled to a certain extent, but the one thing that's stuck with me is this emphasis I put on serving, simplicity and committing myself to something bigger than my little life. I honestly think that's where my dissatisfaction is coming from – why just the act of making something to sell isn't enough for me anymore.
Anyway. What does all of this mean? It means that what I make will be organized by how a person lives their life. And people live their lives in cycles. There are tiny cycles, when you wake up in the morning to when you go to sleep at night. There are medium cycles, that go week-to-week, like your job schedule or your school work. And then there are the big cycles. These are marked by a life event, where you're either pushed to the bottom or you skyrocket to the top, just before things settle into a new normal. These are the moments where babies are born, where a job promotion happens, or where you find yourself in difficult circumstances. These are the moments when you want comfort – either to help you make it through, or to ground you through the highs of celebration. This is where I want to knit from.
It seems incomprehensible. How to combine a tangible object with an intangible feeling? But we do this every day. We see an object that sparks something and we begin to weave a story around the object that makes it fit into our lives.
I want to create objects that fit into your life, that tell your story and that bring you encouragement in just the way you need it.
The obvious way to do this is to accept custom work again, which I will gladly do but this time around the structure is going to be a little different. I don't want to knit a knock-off project that you saw on Pinterest for $5.00, because there is no meaning in that. Come to me for that special blanket you've dreamed about, that reminds you of quiet evenings spent with your mother. Or a baby hat knit from the softest cotton for your best friend's newborn. For information about custom work, you can send me an email (amanda [at] charminglymodern.com) and we'll talk.
Apart from custom work, I'm spending time thinking about these events that mark the bigger life cycles and what we need when those happen. And from there, I will get to the business of knitting for encouragement. With each finished object, or commissioned object, you purchase from me you'll also get an encouragement card. These are meant to be special surprises, from me to you, as a way to tell you "thank you" not only for connecting with something I've made, but for being who you are.
Because I'm still going to be making stuff. This change is a paradigm shift. It's a different outlook, a different motivator. I'm not motivated by filling your house with things you don't need. I'm motivated by helping you find that one object that fits into your story and shares a little bit about what makes you so unique. The mindset behind the knitting is what's making all the difference in this new scenario. This is a matter of lining up my head and my heart.
Does this sound like a plan to you? It sounds like a plan to me. Here's how I know it has sticking power – I feel a quiet assurance. In the past, my ideas bring on quick, hurried excitement and I blow them up in my imagination to epic proportions that they can't ever live up to. This time, there's none of that. I don't know where this will go, or how long it will last, but I'm okay with that because I never get tired of stories and I never get tired of listening.


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I am going crazy trying to figure out how to do something, and I can´t find any real directions on how to do it..
I have added the theme "Matala" to my (soon to be) blog, and I want to change the backround like it says that you can do here:
"When you add a custom background image or color, the main content area and right-hand sidebar will turn white, transforming Matala into a blank canvas that awaits your creations".
Does anyone know where it says how to do it?
The blog I need help with is vafann.wordpress.com.


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Captains magic number is down to one after 3-2 win
The Captains won their sixth straight series with a 3-2 win over Lansing on Tuesday Night. The Captains finished the season with a 7-7 record against the Lansing Lugnuts. Lake County now has a Magic Number of 1 to clinch a playoff spot.
Lake County scored two runs in the top of the second inning. The Captains used four hits, including RBI singles from Grant Fink and Claudio Bautista. The score after two innings was 2-0 Captains. The Captains tacked on a run in the top of the fifth inning, with a runner on third base and one out, Mike Papi hit a sacrifice fly to center field and the score was 3-0.
Lansing scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. Chaz Frank and David Harris singled to begin the inning. Rowdy Tellez singled a run home and the scond run scored on a fielder's choice. The score was 3-2 Captains after eight innings.
LHP Luis Lugo (9-9) was the starting pitcher for Lake County. Lugo earned the win after pitching five shitout innings and allowing five hits, two walks and he fanned four. The Captains used three pitchers in relief. The save went to Robbie Aviles his first on the season.
RHP Jeremy Gabryszwski (6-6) started the game for the Lugnuts and took the loss. Gabryszwski pitched six innings and allowed six hits, three earned runs, two walks and seven strikeouts. The Lugnuts used two relief pitchers to finish off the ballgame.
Lake County will stay on the road for a six game road trip. On Wednesday the Captains will open a three-game series with the Great Lakes Loons. The Captains will start RHP Mitch Brown (7-8, 3.39) and the Great Lakes will counter with RHP Scott Barlow (6-6, 4.41). First Pitch will be at 7:05 PM from Dow Diamond in Midland, Michigan.


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The RP-SDUB 64 GB SDXC memory cards are also equipped with the "Proof 6" feature (water-, shock-, magnet-, static, X-ray-, temperature-proof) to withstand severe conditions. Panasonic SD memory cards are safe because they have a built-in fuse. It prevents overheating or ignition of the card.
Panasonic's SD memory cards include our unique Super Intelligent Controller to provide longer life and greater reliability. It keeps your important data safe under a wide range of usage conditions and potential accident situations.
As the number of rewrites increases, the length of time that data is saved decreases. This kind of use calls for Panasonic's SD cards with MLC flash memory. Compared with TLC (Triple-Layer Cell) flash memory, MLC flash memory can be rewritten up to 10 times as much. That means they last 10 times as long.
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question in the problem. I guess it's the last sentence, but I still have no clue to
solve it. Hope someone can gives help.
Suppose is a bounded region. Let be a (two way infinite) line that intersects . Assume that is an interval . Choosing an orientation for , we can define and to be subregions of lying strictly to the left or right of L, with a disjoint union. If a nd are simply connected, then is simply connected.


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Fight debate starts early this season
Updated 10:34 pm, Friday, October 4, 2013
As quickly as the first gloves dropped in the NHL season, the debate about whether to ban fighting began.
We're not hearing anything new, and it's hard to judge whether today's undercurrent is strong enough to trigger change. Ultimately and quite simply, money will decide the issue - whether the league can make more with fighting in the game or more by removing it.
Meanwhile, the league added a rule this year mandating that players wear a helmet or risk a two-minute penalty for removing the lid before fighting. Any player who enters the league now is also required to wear a face shield - a rule the players' association agreed to - so draw your own conclusion about where all this is headed.
Yet, leaving his helmet on didn't prevent Montreal enforcer George Parros from being knocked out when he hit the ice face first Tuesday. Nothing like the scary visual of Parros getting carted off on a stretcher on Opening Night.
"Looking at that a number of times, it's strange because it seems he even had a chance to turn his head a bit and let the helmet absorb it," Edmonton Oilers scout Dave Semenko said. "That could happen to two players wrestling on the top line. Or one guy trips over another and has a freak accident."
Semenko knows something about fighting. He was one of the most feared enforcers in the NHL from 1979 to '88, commonly referred to as Wayne Gretzky's bodyguard. Semenko was credited with 61 regular-season scraps by HockeyFights.com during his nine NHL seasons.
And he definitely has an opinion on fighting.
"To ban fighting might allow an uglier element to creep in," Semenko said. "A lot of guys could become a lot braver, or a lot dirtier without repercussions. They're going to get away with fooling the officials. Who knows what that will lead to? It's something I'm totally against."
Semenko, who played without a helmet, like most during his era, said this kind of talk always spikes when fighting becomes the focus, and he's right.
"How do you reverse it and say fighting is good, which no one really wants to say," Semenko asked. "Until it's gone, no one can determine how the game is going to go."
Good news, bad news: The fact that every team will visit each city at least once this season is great for the fans - the New York Rangers come to San Jose on Tuesday for the first time since 2010-11 - but the added travel comes at a price for the Sharks. In fact, no other team will log as many air travel miles as San Jose's 57,612 this season.
Ex-Shark Ryane Clowe noticed the difference after getting dealt to the Rangers late last season and now skating for the New Jersey Devils.
"Out West, you're flying into nice cities with hot weather, but you don't get back until late (2:30 a.m.)," Clowe said. "But here, you are in and out, you're home and in your own bed most of the time. I think San Jose has the toughest schedule in the NHL this year."
The Sharks' angle: Nathan MacKinnon was the first player drafted in June, and it didn't take Colorado's super-teen long to make an impact. His two assists Wednesday during the Avalanche's season-opening win made MacKinnon (18 years and 31 days old) the youngest NHL player to record two or more points in a game in 71 years. MacKinnon is the youngest player to skate for the Colorado/Quebec franchise since Owen Nolan in 1990, beating the ex-Shark by 204 days.
NHL's frequent fliers this season
1. Sharks 57,612 miles
2. Coyotes 52,633 miles
3. Avalanche 49,007 miles
4. Flames 48,970 miles
5. Ducks 48,568 miles
Less frequent fliers
1. Rangers 29,839 miles
2. Islanders 29,933 miles
3. Devils 33,151 miles
4. Sabres 34,812 miles
5. Senators 34,850 miles
Ross McKeon is a freelance writer.


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What Motivates You?Good, bad, wrong, right?
I wondered why. I asked myself that question, and I realized I wasn't really sure. I used to think it was all about interpersonal relationships, dominance, and recognition. Or, at least that's what I wanted to believe. But no not really. Then I thought, ok maybe I just happen to like the action itself. Maybe I get pleasure from behaving as I do. Hmm.. it just wasn't enough to be motivation for me. I just don't think that far ahead. The promise of pleasure isn't enough for me to trouble myself to do something. I do things when I know I have to. When I know it would make life substantially terrible to not finish. But I just can't seem to figure out anything that consistently explains when or why I act when I don't have to. I don't really do it often, but when I do it's generally to understand something or for no real reason that I can identify.
So I'm just wondering. Does anyone else know... What motivates you?
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Anger. sounds like anger is what motivates you.
financial gain, causing emotional damage, they can be motivators, where there is certainty, you know it's going to benefit you. everything else gets done, just cos it need's to be done.


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Don't miss this week's episode of "New York Now" on WMHT. Highlights include:
- WMHT's Matt Ryan visits Niagara Falls, a hard-pressed Western New York community seeking economic prosperity to match the natural beauty next door.
- Yours truly gets a preview of major improvements to the Capitol's Hall of Governors. See a clip below.
- Nick Reisman of YNN and Bill Hammond of the Daily News to discuss state election results and the acquittal of William Boyland at the Reporters Roundtable.
"New York Now" airs at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday on WMHT. Check your local listings for air times around the state.


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I've been using RSS since before we had aggregators, since before we used it to keep up with blogs and other social sites. I was using RSS to syndicate content from other sites on to my own back in the day, and now this post from Ken Varnum points me to an article that is talking about the death of RSS. Adam Turner writes:
RSS is one of the universal open standards which underpins the web. Clicking on that little orange icon lets you easily subscribe to updates from a vast range of websites and services — regardless of your technological allegiance. Your RSS reader then notifies you when new content is published. You'll either get the entire article or just the intro and link to the original webpage, depending on what the publisher wants to provide.
In this age of format wars, corporate takeovers, legal battles and patent trolling, RSS is one of few great standards we can all rely on. Which could be exactly why the control freaks of the internet want to kill it.
Ken adds:
While I regret the change in philosophy that has led popular social networking sites from making it harder for the content on the site to be used in other venues, I suppose I understand it. I imagine the Twitters and Facebooks of the world are thinking something along the lines of this: "If we can prevent that scourge of openness, RSS, from liberating individual user's content, we can sell more ads or control more interactions." In a commercial sense, that's plausible, even if not wholly reflecting reality.
I can see where both authors are coming from, but being an advocate for openness and for collaboration, I'm pretty annoyed. Why not slap ads in our RSS feeds if it's a matter of making money? Why make it so hard for me to get all the information I want in one place? If I have to go out to several places to get information, I'm going to be less informed because I'll never be able to follow as much as I do now.
My husband and I were just talking about IFTTT (which I mentioned earlier this week) and how we can't use it to post our blog content to Google+ automatically – in fact there is no way to post content automatically to Google+ (that I know of) and he asked a good question – how are they ever going to compete as a social network if they don't offer the same services the other sites do … but maybe what's going to happen is that the other sites are going to follow in Google's footsteps and make it harder and harder to share content automatically.
Social networks, RSS feeds and automated posting services have made it so that we can all share and absorb so much more than we were ever able to before – why take that technology away from us?


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Online mentoring or online tutoring takes many forms, everything from one youth matched with one mentor, to a group of students in one classroom matched with a group of mentors from one company for a specific curriculum-based activity. It can be a program of just a few weeks or one that lasts an entire school year. It may mean an online volunteer sending one or two e-mails a week, or spending several hours a week reviewing a student's project for class. It can be school-based and curriculum-focused, or conducted through a nonprofit organization that serves young people.
Below is an index of selected organizations and online mentoring/teletutoring projects and materials, as well as general mentoring resources, that we feel could be helpful to an organization exploring the idea of online mentoring or teletutoring.
"The International Telementor Program (ITP) facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide, and is recognized as the leader in the field of academic based mentoring. Since 1995 over 15,000 students throughout nine countries have received support, encouragement, and professional guidance. ITP serves students in K-12 and home school environments as well as college and university settings." (STEM)
Peer Centered
An ongoing online forum for and about writing tutoring, produced by Salt Lake City Community College. Primarily conducted in real time "chat" programs. Includes transcripts of previous online gatherings, links to Web resources and online discussion groups about writing tutoring and writing centers in general, and links to other means to contact writing center people and tutors.
"YES, YOU CAN: A Guide for Establishing Mentoring Programs to Prepare Youth for College"
Offers practical information that employers, college students, senior citizens, community-based organizations, & others can use to create & run mentoring programs. The guide supports 3 Department initiatives: "America Counts", which aims to help all students master the fundamentals of algebra & geometry by the 8th grade; "GEAR UP", which is designed to encourage more young people to have high expectations, stay in school, study hard, & go to college; and "Think College", which provides information on educational opportunities beyond high school for learners of all ages.
National Mentoring Partnership
An advocate for the expansion of mentoring, and an outstanding resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide. Its Web site includes an online diagnostic to help organizations identify areas for improvement in mentor programs, a list of products and technical experts to help with mentoring programs, a list of mentoring programs across the U.S., and links to a variety of evaluation studies and mentoring advice.
Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing
This was a three-year project of EDC/Center for Children & Technology and was funded by the National Science Foundation, Directorate of Education and Human Resources. This project has been discontinued, but the Web site is still up and includes extensive online resources for both mentors and teachers.


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Saint Ann's using a town house to lure a new headmaster
From N.Y. Times by Diane Cardwell:
The buyer was looking for a town house in Brooklyn. It needed living space for a family of five and entertaining space for crowds in the dozens. It had to be within walking distance of Pierrepont Street ruling out Park Slope but outside of Brooklyn Heights, with its higher price tags.
There was not much fitting those requirements on the market at the time, but the search ended in the summer of 2010 in Cobble Hill at 229 Baltic Street, whose original listing, at $4.2 million, was once featured as House of the Day on Brownstoner.com. After a price cut to $3.995 million, the house went for $3.8 million.
It was a sale much like many others in that desirable enclave, except for one thing: the buyer was a school, Saint Anns, which had decided to purchase a residence as part of the lure for a new headmaster, Vincent Tompkins, who was then the deputy provost at Brown University.
Many of the elite schools that provide housing bought it years ago, when real estate was not nearly so expensive. So the Saint Anns search was a major undertaking, with the board of trustees contributing generously to the purchase, said Peter Darrow, president of the board.
Buying the house not only solved the problem of where Mr. Tompkins, who has three children, would live, but also made the school more competitive with its peers in attracting heads of school, and gave it a place for formal and informal gatherings for faculty members, alumni, parents and students.
We werent just looking for a kind of social space; we were looking for an added dimension that would make his tenure as head of school more successful, Mr. Darrow said. The thought that he could have a place that was his place, in terms of where he lived, and he could entertain faculty, give seminars, we just thought that would enhance his leadership.
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What does ROBUST mean?
Definitions for ROBUSTroʊˈbʌst, ˈroʊ bʌst
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word ROBUST.
Princeton's WordNet
sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction
"a robust body"; "a robust perennial"
full-bodied, racy, rich, robust(adj)
marked by richness and fullness of flavor
"a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"
strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity
"the experiment yielded robust results"; "a robust faith"
rough and crude
"a robust tale"
Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
He was a robust man of six feet four.
Violent; rough; rude.
Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
Origin: From robustus, from robur, robus.
Webster Dictionary
evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health
violent; rough; rude
requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
rō-bust′, adj. of great strength or vigour: requiring strength: rude, rough.—adj. Robust′ious (Milt.), violent, rough.—adv. Robust′iously.—n. Robust′iousness.—adv. Robust′ly.—n. Robust′ness. [Fr.,—L. robustus—robur, oak.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail. Compare smart, oppose brittle.
Anagrams for ROBUST »
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ROBUST in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ROBUST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Sample Sentences & Example Usage
I advocated for a more robust policy.
Nordea Bank economist Holger Sandte:
German growth remains robust, the recovery continues.
Now our bilateral relationship is more robust than ever.
The findings with child abuse were stronger and more robust.
It does point to the fact that domestic demand continues to be robust.
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Translations for ROBUST
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- قويArabic
- robustGerman
- ρωμαλέοςGreek
- robustoSpanish
- تنومندPersian
- vahva, jykevä, vankka, rotevaFinnish
- robusteFrench
- làidirScottish Gaelic
- חסון, איתןHebrew
- मजबूतHindi
- 堅牢なJapanese
- ruarangiMāori
- degelijk, robuustDutch
- czerstwy, rozrosły, silny, krzepki, wysportowanyPolish
- robustoPortuguese
- vânjos, puternic, robust, robustăRomanian
- крепкий, здоровыйRussian
- robústenSlovene
- robustSwedish
- güçlüTurkish
- 强大的Chinese
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Listen, people rant and speculate about the workings of Cupertino until their blue. When all is said and done, none of that matters without Apple having a healthy balance sheet. Today, Apple announced some very interesting numbers in their Q3 report.
Macs are the highest selling computer on the market in Q3. Period. They sold 12% more than last year. 12% doesn't mean anything until you know what 12% means in a real number. So Q3-2005 Apple shipped 1,182,000 Macs. Last year, Q3 marked the highest recorded earnings in Apple history. So while 12% isn't a big number, put in perspective over a year it is (That's 145k more systems). Oh, and this is the second highest quarter bested only by the previous year. My suspicion is that we'll revisit this writing in a year and see what effects 10.5 has, Pro apps and more Universalness, and a complete Intel lineup.
And yada yada yada about the iPod and the Stores. We know they are doing good. The trifecta is the Mac, but if you're still interested in the rest there are several news reports abound. If you're a serious investor, I wouldn't rely on them. Get the real filing here.
So to the people at Apple, good job. Keep the ESPP going, and for you non-stock-owning-apple-fans carpe diem!


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Currently, I'm modifying the TrustedClasspath so my modified sun.io
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Is there someway to get rid of MS JVM's ByteToChar<> classes all
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the makers of Aamir Khan-starrer film 'PK' to file their response on novelist Kapil Isapuri's plea that accused them of plagiarism.
The Rajkumar Hirani-directed film, which raises questions about religion and people's blind faith in godmen, was released in December 2014. It was co-produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Hirani.
Justice Najmi Waziri sought response from Hirani, Chopra and scriptwriter Abhijat Joshi by September 1.
Isapuri has alleged that certain portions from his Hindi novel 'Farishta', published in 2013, were "stolen and copied" and used in the film.
He also sought punitive damages of Rs.1 crore from the filmmakers along with credit for his work.
However, counsel appearing for filmmakers contended that as per the custom and practice of Hindi film industry, the script of the movie was first registered with the Writers Association in Mumbai on July 29, 2010.
Earlier, the title of 'PK' was 'Ghar Jaana Hai', told the counsel, adding that later five revised versions of the script were submitted with the association and final version of the script was registered in 2012 having title 'PK'.
On the other hand, advocate Jyotika Kalra alleged that the makers of the film as well as scriptwriter Joshi stole characters, ideas and sequences from the novel 'Farishta'.
Kalra argued that the first manuscript of the novel was submitted to a publication house in October 2009 and the novel was first came into public domain in 2013.


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Sandpiper Guest Cottages offers a choice of 8 en-suite, comfortable self-catering cottages.
There are 8 cottages at Sandpiper Guest Cottages. Every cottage has a lounge, open-plan kitchen, dining area and outdoor patio and a a large indoor fireplace to braai (barbecue) South African style or just to sit around at night and drink a toast to this paradise of peace.
Interiors at this Garden Route accommodation are Yellowwood and Oregon Pine furniture, red clay tile floors and comfortable bedding. All cottages are as fully equipped as your own home, with CD players, mini-bars, microwaves, laundry facilities, hairdryers, television etc.
Sea Mist is the Honeymoon cottage. It has one bedroom with 3 inter-leading bathroom areas downstairs, a second loft bedroom and extra bathroom upstairs as well as a deck.
The Voorhuis includes 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with a small loft upstairs and a cosy patio.
Strandloper Cottage includes 4 Bedrooms, 4 Bathrooms and an upper deck. It sleeps 10 people. A fabulous feature is the pizza oven on the patio.
Gone Fishing has a farm style design with modern decor. It has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. 3 of the bedrooms and 2 bathrooms are downstairs and there is 1 bedroom with en-suite bathroom upstairs.
This cottage has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and an upper tan deck. There are 2 bedrooms en suite downstairs and a loft bedroom come playroom with shower upstairs.
As the name suggests, this rustic elegant cottage is located on the beach so you can enjoy amazing sea views and the sound of the waves. There are 3 bedrooms downstairs and 1 large bedroom suite and lounge upstairs
This lovely log cabin is raised on stilts and has 2 bedrooms.


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The stationery world is a vast one, folks. Every couple of months, 1canoe2 travels to NYC to attend various trade shows that attract buyers from all over the world. You've most likely seen pictures from these shows on Carrie's Instagram or on the 1canoe2 Facebook page, but we thought we'd give you a brief overview of our latest trip so you can see what these shows are all about!
This past week, 6 gals from the 1canoe2 crew were in NYC for the National Stationery Show (NSS). Shop owners from all over the world attend NSS so they may order products to sell in their stores. They walk through aisles and aisles of booths, picking and choosing from today's best stationery lines.
So here's how it works. The first order of business once getting to NYC is setting up our booth. We spend two full days painting the walls, screwing in shelving and arranging products. It is a lot of work. A lot. But the finished booth is always well worth it.
And the finished booth…drum roll, please…
Ta daaa! (Click the photo for a larger view). We decorate the booth a little differently each year, and this year we chose to go with big, bold and beautiful flower cut outs that Carrie painted. In an attempt to bring part of our studio to the booth, we set up a work desk right in the middle of the booth that mimics Carrie's actual work space complete with color palettes, pens, brushes and a plastic Shakespeare's cup.
Once the booth is done, it's basically a mini store-front for buyers to browse our products. The show lasts 3.5 days and it's a constant whirlwind of taking orders! Those orders are sent to our wonderful shipping folks back at the barn, where products are immediately shipped to their new homes. We have products in everything from giant stores, like Anthropologie, to the brilliant little shops, like Shindig Paperie.
In addition to showing off a new booth design each time, these shows are where we debut our new products! This year we rolled out 16 new cards, 3 new calendar designs and 9 art prints (all of which are now on our website). NSS also marked the first public appearance for our brand new planners! We were quietly taking bets on which of the three designs would generate the most excitement. You can check out all three planner designs here…can you guess which one did the best?
So that's it! When the show is over, we tear everything down, pack it up in a giant crate and wait until the next show where we will do it all again. To check out more photos from the show, including thousands of other beautiful booths and products, search #NSS2015 on Instagram!
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Newspaper article The Journal (Newcastle, England)
When Carlisle Was the North's Capital
Article excerpt
Byline: By Tony Henderson Environment Editor
Detailed evidence of everyday life from the time when Carlisle dominated the North has been revealed by a dig which unearthed 100,000 items.
So many artefacts ( some dating back to Roman times ( have been uncovered it will take archaeologists at Durham University among others almost three years to assess what they have in detail.
The results of initial analysis of the finds by a range of experts were unveiled at a three-day conference attended by 130 delegates in Carlisle.
The leader of Carlisle City Council Mike Mitchelson said: "We heard just how momentous Carlisle was as a Roman town."
The excavation was carried out at Castle Green in Carlisle, where waterlogging ensured items had been well preserved, including remains of the first two Roman wooden forts at Carlisle, then known as Luguvalium.
"We found around 550 Roman coins, many of them early coins, and they came out of the ground still shining," said John Zant, director of excavations with Oxford Archaeology North.
Such was the state of preservation that experts in tree-ring methods of dating wood can fix the time of felling of the trees to build the fort to the winter of AD72-73.
This was occupied for around 30 years and was also refurbished for the arrival of a 500-strong elite cavalry regiment of Gauls. …


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Death and the American Civil War
Every American high school student has probably heard the statistics: more soldiers died in the Civil War than in all other U.S. wars combined, and more Americans died in one day at Antietam than have died in the entire Iraq War. Historian and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust focuses entirely on the causes and consequences of this unimaginable loss of life in her new book on the war and its aftermath. Exploring the impact of such great mortality on everything from religion and ideas of the afterlife to death rituals and the role of the state in citizens' personal affairs, Faust crafts a narrative of the war perpendicular to the timeline on the wall of America's history classrooms. In so doing, she renders intelligible many of the deep feelings about the war that Americans profess but can never quite explain.
Knopf. 368 pages. $27.95. ISBN: 037540404X
NY Times Book Review
"[Faust] overlooks nothing—from the unsettling enthusiasm some men showed for killing to the near-universal struggle for an answer to the question posed by the Confederate poet Sidney Lanier: 'How does God have the heart to allow it?'" Geoffrey C. Ward
Providence Journal
"The familiar—Walt Whitman, Clara Barton, Ambrose Bierce—share the stage with the forgotten, whose voices Faust captured in her wide-ranging research. This Republic of Suffering is comprehensive, compassionate, and highly recommended." Mark Dunkelman
Rocky Mountain News
"So much has been written about the Civil War that it's a surprise to find a subject that hasn't been exhausted. This Republic of Suffering makes you think about the Civil War in a completely different way." Dan Danbom
Christian Science Monitor
"[Faust] makes a convincing case that since the heartbreak of the Civil War the US has never been the same. … But more poignantly, Faust argues, the Civil War raised questions about individual worth that we have yet to answer today." Marjorie Kehe
Houston Chronicle
"This is an important book, one a nation at war should be aware of. Faust demonstrates how so much death impacts religion, philosophy and the national character, and can alter a civilization." Clay Reynolds
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"In This Republic of Suffering, [Faust] not only has illuminated a neglected aspect of the great conflict with signature erudition, insight and grace, but in the process she has put to rest Walt Whitman's famous lament that the 'real war will never get in the books.'" Michael J. Bonafeld
Critical Summary
Those who fret over the state of American universities will embrace this history by Drew Gilpin Faust. Academics appreciate how Faust explains so many social and cultural changes by recentering the story of the war on its massive toll in lives: the estimated 2 percent who died, or 620,000, would be equivalent to 6 million today. She also breaks new ground by reexamining the relationship of the war to modern institutions like the welfare state. Yet Faust constructs This Republic of Suffering in a way that will appeal to every reader—from the Civil War buff to the casual nonfiction reader. Some critics were a little queasy about the book's level of detail, both in describing death and the lives of its victims. But as more than one reviewer pointed out, for a nation at war, such writing and such reading are a duty.


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Bishop William T. Manning declared "I am in deepest sympathy with the aims and ideals of this work. I recall the Cathedral meeting of St. John because of the intense gratification and thankfulness I felt after that meeting. Since then I have received many most touching letters from all parts of the United States and Europe. At this time the plans for the installation in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine of the Menorah presented by Adolph S. Ochs, are being made, and for the first time in the history of Christian cathedrals the light from a Menorah will be shed within its portals. We are living in an age of human fellowship. The treatment of our fellows fifty years ago on the humane basis of today would have been impossible."
Father Edward F. Leonard pointed to the interest of Cardinal Hayes and the Catholic clergy. "In this we should have common sense, a streak of good humor so that we may be enabled to combat real danger which is ignorance."
Dr. Krass said that "if priests, ministers and rabbis would exchange pulpits not for missionary purposes and preach the gospel of tolerance, the understanding of each community would be brought home the better."
Declaring that the efforts toward better understanding had his heartiest approval, Will Hays said: "My earliest youth was spent in association with Jewish children. As an infant I was nursed by a Jewish woman, I know the Jew, I appreciate his character, and in the creation of American ideals we have drawn greatly from Jewish sources and inspirations. I know that we can only succeed if we understand each other. Religious tolerance is the principal tenet of my religion. I regard religion as the one essential industry in this world."
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'Are You Experiencing Drought? Simply Hire DK7!'
Bidvest Wits left winger Daine Klate has a lot to smile about today, not only because his current club secured their first ABSA Premiership title... the 32-year-old now has six league honours to his name, as well as eight other pieces of silverware.
The supporters have sent through their messages for Klate as they show their gratitude to the player.
"Well done to Hunt and his troops, they deserve it. Klate is a legend!" – DopeZN
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"Daine is an amazing player and role model to look up to. Thanks once again, jersey number 7 'Matatazela'." – Qobi3
"He doesn't just enter inside the field of play and walk, he works very hard. What he wants, he gets. In the MTN 8 against Downs, he made sure he scored, even yesterday he made sure he sealed the game. Daine Klate is exactly what we want to see as fans." – LeCowhlohlo
"There are no words in any language on the globe that can describe this man. What a player, what an athlete, what a professional - a very humble human being. I am so proud to have at one time called you a Pirates player and who served us with distinction. #SirDK7 #SALUTE." – gudinuf
"Eastern Cape should be proud of this ambassador. This guy has been doing nothing but great things, you will never see him on the wrong side of the law, he hardly argues with referees, he is the most dedicated, disciplined and hard-working player in the PSL. Hail King 'Matatazela'. Even if DK7 joins Chippa United when he is 36 years old just to retire at home, he will still win his last but first league title for Chippa United, SSU and Wits are good examples of DK7's success story. Are you experiencing drought? Simply hire DK7. You want a league title? Hire Klate. Matatazela can solve all your problems within a season." – Zax5-Bucs
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Quick Facts
The stock Mustang rear suspension has four links that must simultaneously carry engine or brake torque and lateral cornering loads to the tires, and because of the compromises involved they do a poor job at both. This leads to inconsistent traction and poor controllability when driven in a spirited manner or harder. To remedy this, Griggs Racing recommends the use of a Panhard bar to help laterally locate the rear end. The design incorporates a rear axle alignment provision.
Also know as a "track bar" The Panhard Bar is the next best thing to a Watts Link, yet more suitable to daily drivers as it incorporates a noise canceling bushing to reduce noise from rear end gears. Roll center height is designed for street use with wet pavement in mind. We have designed our Panhard Bar to an optimum length as is convenient to installation with OEM and aftermarket style exhaust systems that follow the stock path while maintaining a roll center height conducive to good street performance so. (A longer bar is not better like some of our competitors will try and have you believe as a longer bar increases time for the car to "take a set" in the corner, and requires lower mounting, lowering the roll center below optimum).
The stock Mustang rear suspension has four links that control tire location and torque-control and because of the compromises involved they do a poor job at both. This leads to inconsistent traction. To fix this, Griggs Racing recommends the use of a Panhard bar to help latterly locate the rear end, and the design also incorporates provisions for accurate rear axle alignment. Exhaust systems that follow the stock path will work with this Panhard bar, please contact us if you have questions or need specific recommendations please contact us at (707) 939-2240. This is a proven design used on thousands of cars.
A characteristic of a the Panhard bar is a difference in cornering balance between left and right turns, especially in quick succession such as through a slalom or esses. If this is a priority of use, a GR40 Watts link is a better choice.
If you wish to read more about how a Panhard Bar fits into a complete suspension system please read the following:
"Been There, Done It All" October 2004, 5.0 Mustang and Super Fords (12.4 MB pdf )
The GR40 Suspension System
"Extreme Winner" May 2005, 5.0 Mustang and Super Fords (2.47 MB pdf)


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Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile will invest $1.75 billion to build a new plant in China and create a new brand for the country.
As part of the investment, the 50:50 joint venture will also build an engine plant and a research and development center. The manufacturing plant is to be ready in 2014 but JLR didn't say which models will be built there.
"China is now our biggest market, " Ralf Speth, chief executive officer of Jaguar Land Rover, said at a press briefing yesterday. "The Chinese economy has grown at a phenomenal rate in recent years and by any western standard, and I'm convinced that it is set to continue to grow at an astounding rate into the future."
Jaguar Land Rover is the fourth automaker after Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz to locate production in China, the biggest vehicle market in the world. The Chinese government allows overseas automakers to enter the country only if they work with local companies to manufacture domestically and avoid the country's 25% import duty.
During the second quarter JLR's profit increased 77% to $487 million, with China sales led by the Evoque, which helped the company make up for the loss in Europe. Back in May, JLR announced it will invest 2 billion pounds to introduce 40 new or upgraded model in the following 5 years.


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Parental Involvement Links
Reimagining Parental Engagement
12 Things Parents Know About and Expect from Schools
10 Tips for better Parent-Teacher Conferences
9 Questions to Start a Parent-Teacher Partnership
PTA Parental Involvement Home Page Excellent resource with numerous links.
Staying Involved with Middle School and High School Students
California Parent Center homepage Excellent resource with numerous links.
Ever wonder what teachers think about parents? Here is a rare glimpse into what teachers feel about parents.
Sports can be a significant part of young adult's life. In this handbook Sports Done Right, Core Principles are suggested for successful outcomes for children and parents.
Guide to Building a Community School
Education World Parental Involvement Curriculum Guide
Including Every Parent An introduction to a book for teachers.
National Coalition for Parental Involvement
Parental Resources
Keeping your child safe is the number one parental concern. The Safe Side is a great resource for parents.
Alamedans for Arts in the Schools
Here is a site designed to help children aged 11-15 explore career options as they enter middle school. Exploring Careers for Middle Schoolers
Pick a college that cares if your child graduates is the topic of this Washington Post article.
For parents or students are interested in finding a community college with specific programs or based on success criteria there is a web site that can help:Community Colleges.
Here is some advice on writing essays for the SAT in this Washington Post article.
Free detailed information on thousands of US colleges, universities, and post-secondary trade schools. School info includes admission requirements, degrees & majors, contact info, test scores, student diversity, religious affiliations, athletics, tuition expenses can be accessed via EdRef College Search Directory.
East Bay Coast Guard Spouses Club
For Families with Children with Special Needs
Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic provides textbooks and other books
Parenting of Children with Special Needs
Internet Resources for Special Children
California Dept of Education - English Language Learners
What is the value of self esteem in an educational setting? This Scientific American article contends that too much emphasis is placed on the importance of self esteem.
Here a some Frequently Asked Questions about Giftedness of your child. as well the "Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted".
Here is a discussion on homework.


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Interdisciplinary Training
Two forms of support are available for pre- and post-doctoral trainees who wish to pursue dual-mentor research training: 1) NIH training grant, and 2) Center-funded. The purpose of this funding is to provide support for training that is truly interdisciplinary in nature; the two mentors must provide distinct, complementary areas of expertise, i.e., by studying basic molecular and cellular mechanisms in combination with epidemiological analyses, or by participating in clinical research studies while studying behavioral or environmental factors that influence therapeutic outcomes. Trainee research projects typically transcend the traditional boundaries separating the molecular and cellular, clinical, epidemiologic and social cancer sciences.
These funding opportunities require that the overall research project be broadly related to cancer. Studies of molecular and cellular mechanisms, detection and diagnosis, risk and behavioral factors that influence cancer incidence, development and assessment of treatment strategies, and studies of cancer outcomes are all appropriate. If the training program is focused on studies of infectious agents, the relevance of the proposed studies to the incidence of cancers that are associated with that agent must be clear.
We are not currently accepting applications. Please check back in late summer 2018.
Funded by Fred Hutch, two positions are available to Fred Hutch pre- and/or post-doctoral trainees who are interested in interdisciplinary training in cancer research. Trainees participate in all the program activities of the training grant and are subject to the same application process. Appointments are usually 12 months in length, and trainees must competitively reapply for further years of funding.
Please send inquiries via email to:
Anissa Barker Training Grant Administrator, or
Barry Stoddard Program Director


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A reader wrote to me the other day with a simple request. She suggested that I incorporate some of my paintings into the blog sometimes, "… and talk about the inspiration, method, series etc." She added, "I would love it. Especially, of course, of your horse abstracts. Just an idea in case you ever have writer's block…"
And, oh my, what her idea has unleashed! I wrote about my initial thoughts in the previous post, Is There More to Tell?, in which I came to the conclusion that there is, indeed, a real story to tell–about where I was as an artist BEFORE I came to Truchas and AFTER Truchas. It is a story of fences and horses and grasses and how they changed me. In fact the place has had a profound affect on both my work and, of course, on me. I've often said this land is powerful, that I'm not being allowed to live on it passively, that it requires something of me. And it does.
Since coming here I have been stripped down to the barest of essentials, living "skinless" for a time, as I came to call it (see previous post How Do We Grow?). My old ways of being have been shattered and I've been asked to pick up the pieces, to put myself back together again in new ways (see previous post Puzzling Myself Back Together Again). That's definitely an on-going work in progress to be sure. I have dwelt deep within my own interior (see previous post What Is Important in Life?), making friends there, and have been guided to stand still and listen, to see (see previous post What do Artists Know?). I feel quite certain none of this would have happened had I stayed in Utah (see previous post The Long Goodbye), although I do believe the move to Utah from Seattle was critical. In fact I've often thought I was opened by Utah so I could be healed in New Mexico. This land is actively helping me do that.
So I've been digging through all my old photo files looking for pictures to illustrate this story. And a remarkable thing has happened. For some time now, I'd say for at least a year and a half, probably more, I have been seriously doubting myself as a painter. I figure some of you out there can relate to that, right? In fact I've had a tendency to look back on a very successful abstract show I had in Utah as my kind of personal gold standard, one I was no longer able to achieve. In my mind's eye that show was beautiful. The work shined. And I feared that, perhaps, my best work was behind me.
Since coming to New Mexico, color has steadily worked its way out of my paintings and, again, I was fearful. Was I getting lazy or had I forgotten how to use color? Despite what I've told myself about the light of New Mexico washing the color out of my work, about being inspired, instead, by all the contrast that light creates, in the dark times I have had doubts. I felt somehow WRONG about my increasingly black, white and gray paintings. I've watched jewel-tone paintings sell like crazy while mine, all too often, sat in the gallery. I've worried that my work wasn't trendy. Why wasn't my work PRETTY for God's sake?
But as I looked back through the old files, finding photos I'd forgotten about entirely, this remarkable thing I mentioned above happened: I discovered that I no longer even LIKE most of the paintings from that successful Utah show. They, in fact, helped me see the merit in my current work. Offering a glimpse of my own journey, the one that has taken me from there to here, they seem to also be inspiring a hint of the future–those pieces that are not yet painted, but that I see more clearly now, having visited my past.
In the next unknown number of posts, because I believe my artist's journey just might inform some of yours, I will tell you all the story of how my work went from this:
… to this:
And yes, dear Sue, I will tell you all about the Horse abstracts.
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Ignorant is right term concerning the these tractors Tom. I was one one them, until recently but have been enlightened. Luckily there are few others in our area so we have gone from none to three in just a few months without spending much money. Now we will move on to attachments for them and begin to spend money,,,.
Ignorance is easily overcome just by spending some seat time on a properly maintained Case or Ingersoll GT while performing various tasks around your property. The more you use it, the more you come to appreciate it.
Currently, that ignorance serves those of us who are familiar with the breed because it helps keep the prices of attachments and tractors down well below true market value.
Glad to hear that you are enjoying your triplets.
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Canada beats North Korea, advances to quarter-finals in women's U20 soccer
Canada's players celebrate Valerie Sanderson's (19) game tying goal as Finland's Emilia Iskanius during second half action in 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup action in Toronto on August 8, 2014. (Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Bill Beacon, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:06PM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:37PM EDT
MONTREAL -- Janine Beckie scored in the 65th minute and Canada held on the defeat North Korea 1-0 on Tuesday night and book a spot in the quarter-finals of the FIFA women's under-20 World Cup.
Canada and North Korea both finished group stage play with two wins and a loss, but Canada finished second in Group A based on goal differential and will play Group B winner Germany in a quarter-final in Edmonton on Saturday night. North Korea will face the United States in Toronto.
Local product Amandine Pierre-Louis got a big ovation from the 13,031 spectators at Olympic Stadium when she went on as a substitute in the second half and got a bigger one when she initiated the only goal.
Pierre-Louis slid a pass from the left flank to Nichelle Prince, who relayed the ball across the goal to an unguarded Beckie, who pushed it into the open side.
Beckie scored a second goal in as many games after getting one in a 3-2 win in over Finland. Canada had lost its tournament opener 1-0 to Ghana.
A scoreless first half saw North Korea control most of the play but there were good chances at both ends.
Only 10 minutes in, Kim Mi Gyong shot over the bar from close range, but Kailen Sheridan's best save was in the 17th when after a clever buildup, Ri Kyong Hyong got in alone on the left side and blasted the bal from point blank range.
Eight minutes later, North Korea had another chance on the left that Choe Un Hwa chipped just wide of the mark.
Coach Andrew Olivieri's side picked up the pace near the end of the half and nearly cashed in on an Emma Fletcher cross into the box.
Then Ashley Lawrence placed a near-perfect high ball to the front of the net, but Beckie's header was kept out by a diving save from goalkeeper Kim Chol Ok.
The boisterous crowd screamed for a foul when Prince was take down in the area by Ri Un Yong, but no whistle came and the North Korean defence got back in time as Prince tried to feed Valerie Sanderson.
A surprise from North Korean coach Hwang Yong Bong was to have scoring star Ri Un Sim start on the bench. She went in two minutes into the second half.


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1. No spring break for consumer confidence
With spring thwarted in many areas by unexpected snow, it's past time to lift a dour mood that descended on much of the nation after the holidays. Yet recent measures of Americans' attitudes have been far from encouraging. Confidence in February, as measured by The Conference Board, sank to 75, a level not seen in about five years. Chicago economist Robert Dederick said Tuesday's March survey will show little or no improvement. "Consumers are laying low, taking a wait-and-see attitude, because the job market has weakened," said Dederick, of RGD Economics. On the upside, he said, "the Federal Reserve has tossed out everything but the kitchen sink to keep the economy moving."


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Give Now
Why does our body sniff rather than smell things?
Female lemurs on contraceptives smell different to potential mates than ones that are not.
Why are snake's tongues shaped the way they are?
Sometimes it seems like snakes have a sixth sense. You may call their "sixth sense" the vomeronasal system.
New research suggests that burning a candle may be toxic.
Researchers have found that odors can affect dreams.
Anosmia, the term for the lack of a sense of smell, affects over two million Americans. Learn more on this Moment of Science.
To sniff and to smell, they are basically the same thing right? Actually, sniffing and smelling are two different phases of the smelling process.
In 1595, each rose likely did smell as sweet as the next, but now, fans of the mantra "stop and smell the roses" won't find much to smell.
It sounds fanciful, but Wonka's gum flavored as food is far from impossible if you have the help of a skilled flavorist.