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September Featured Geocacher of the Month Nominees – Add Your Comments
The September featured nominees have been described as kind, patient, adventurous, and addicted. Groundspeak Lackeys selected these three nominees because of what they've said and done to inspire and encourage members of their community to get out and geocache.
Now it's your turn to help select one of them as the Featured Geocacher of the Month for September.
Write a comment at the bottom of this blog about which of these geocachers you feel should be crowned.
Last month, Wendy, a.k.a. whbaisden was honored with the title of August Featured Geocacher of the Month. Whbaisden was recognized for putting together the Hatfield and McCoy GeoTrail Kickoff Event that took place on September 1, 2012. She has also been a strong advocate for her community since she started geocaching in 2010.
Here are your nominees for the September Featured Geocacher of the Month. Some testimonials have been edited for length.
SpongeBob CachePants
The August Featured Geocacher of the Month, whbaisden, writes, "So much of what makes me a geocacher comes from Stuart, a.k.a. SpongeBob CachePants and his comment when we met two years ago. I had only a few finds compared to his 2,500 and he teased me that my finds were 'not bad for a girl.' That statement inspired me to change my entire life and become the crazy geocacher I am today. He has encouraged the people around him to be creative. His hides make you think. He has respect for the game and a name among the community that makes people want to be near him. His Gatti Land(ing) cache is my very favorite of the 6,800 I have found since his comment. Mostly, however, his work on the Hatfield McCoy GeoTrail can not be unnoticed. He wrote every cache page and co-designed every aspect of the Geocoin, the website and the series. Without him and his contributions HMGT [Hatfield McCoy GeoTrail] would not exist. I'd have to say, SpongeBob isn't bad….for a boy."
Nominated by tallgirl84, Daniel, a.k.a. frisbee'r "is a geocaching legend! In addition to finding almost 20,000 caches, he is a great competitor in FTF's and 5/5's. Even though he lives well over an hour away from my hometown, he still managed to beat myself and five other dedicated geocachers on a 5/5 kayak/canoe cache by a few hours. And he went solo! Frisbee'r is also very fast to respond to a call for help with finding caches he's already found, without simply giving away the answers. Along with those wonderful characteristics, frisbee'r is also beyond excellent company! Despite his bad knees, he hiked up and down multiple steep and long logging roads for the Qwest series in Aberdeen, WA. This is after having done another series involving more hill climbing earlier that morning, and not once did the man complain. In fact – the other geocachers in our group and I took turns hanging back and having our own great mini-conversations with him. He is an awesome cacher and in my mind the poster-boy of what a 'real' geocacher is – excitable, kind, patient, adventurous and addicted!"
Nominated by Steelers Chic, Emily, a.k.a. emilierene "loves the sport of geocaching and is not selfish. She enjoys helping anyone who is interested in getting started. She has gotten us involved by encouraging us in the beginning to just ride along and 'see what's out there.' Emily plans her vacations around geocaching and her weekends are all about the sport. She has saved and saved, and recently, she was able to purchase her new kayak so she can get geocaches on the water and on the islands. She is a vital part of the geocaching community in Coos Bay, Oregon. The caches she places are well thought out and draw you to places you might not go to if there wasn't a cache there."
Comment below to tell us who you think should be the featured September Geocacher of the Month. A panel of Lackeys will use your comments to help decide which geocacher is awarded the honor. Each featured Geocacher of the Month will receive an exclusive special edition featured Geocacher of the Month Geocoin, along with a Geocacher of the Month hat, a Geocacher of the Month profile icon, and a certificate acknowledging their contributions signed by two of the founders of Geocaching.com. We will be accepting comments for September's award through Monday, September 24th.
Those whose nominees were not recognized here are encouraged to submit their nominations again next month. If you know an outstanding geocacher you would like to nominate to be a featured Geocacher of the Month, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Every nomination must meet the following requirements:
Please include your name, the name of your nominee, their username, at least one picture of the nominee and a description (500 or fewer words) explaining why he or she deserves to be the Geocacher of the Month. Please inform your nominee that you've submitted them for the award. Nominations for the October Geocacher of the Month must be received by Sunday, October 7th.
Once we have received all of the nominations, we will choose the top candidates and post them on the blog. You will then get a chance to champion your favorite. Our goal is to involve the entire geocaching community in this process so we might learn from each other.


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by Jake Appleman/@JakeAppleman
So I've had this piece, in various incarnations, forever. And by forever, I mean two years. Literally. I've been tweaking this for two years. But I've never posted it. Mostly because poking fun of Stephon Marbury under the SLAM banner is kind of like walking into the Vatican and dropping a deuce in a Pope hat. Yet, somewhere between some insomnia and a stunningly normal end-of-October sight–college-aged girls moving through Manhattan in herds…herds dressed like a sluts–I remembered that you can do anything on Halloween. Without further ado…
What, you thought the most anticipated opening week in NBA history would belong to the multiple superstars that changed teams and the memory of the most exciting 7-game finals since the 80s?
We should have seen this coming. When the man parlayed his summer '09 Ustream marathon extravaganza into a free mixtape, we should have guessed the next logical step. After all, building hype is what Starbury does best.
Taking something infamous–screaming "THEY TRIED TO PUT ME IN A BOX!" repeatedly–and flipping it by blasting it behind the guitar riff from Alice In Chains' "Man In a Box"? Spellbinding. Coating your throat with a thin layer of strawberry Vaseline and annihilating your naysayers in rhyme over an Ice Cube "No Vaseline" sample? Gross, but unmistakably fantastic. And that's the worst thing you can say about the "Love Is Love" mixtape: "gross, but unmistakably fantastic."
So here it is, his album dropping at the end of the Halloween weekend David Stern has been looking forward to since three superstars from the '03 draft class changed the game by signing shorter contract extensions.
Basketball may be back in New York (relatively), but nobody cares because we got an advance copy of Starbury's debut album, They Tried to Put Me in a Jukebox.
Here's the review, track by track.
Steph sings about the pressures to make it to the NBA after the repeated failures of his talented brothers. It's a heartfelt song that makes you want to like him.
Where I'm From:
This is Steph's ode to Coney Island. You kind of get the feeling that he's out of touch with his old neighborhood these days, but his soulful delivery helps convey the importance of home.
Choice lyric: "Never bored on the boardwalk, the ball's bouncing / problems in my neighborhood abounding and astounding / my words rhyme factorial like Clyde Frazier's announcing"
KG Money:
This is terrible. It's Steph crooning about how he should have gotten a contract similar to then-teammate Kevin Garnett, which just isn't true.
Choice lyric: "You said you loved 'Sota / but you wouldn't even buy me a soda"
Carry the Swamp:
It's easy to feel bad for Steph as he discusses his trials and tribulations playing in New Jersey. His arrogant defiance is the NBA's precursor to Kanye West, except without the consistent winning.
Choice lyric: "I'd rather play hockey with Samake than try to mesh with Esch / you serious, Vladamir Stepania?…the Feick outta here"
Rising Sun:
Steph claims that the '02-03 Suns should have won a championship. If pressed for comment, one would assume that former Suns, Steve Nash and Jason Kidd, passed.
Steph reminisces about coming home to play in New York. It's nice at first-Penny Hardaway mentions always tug at the heartstrings-but again falls victim to Steph's propensity to blame others.
Choice lyric: "Tim Thomas talking fugazi smack / Can I have Keith Van Horn back?"
Not My Fault '06-07:
Steph asserts that the '06-07 Knicks' inability to make the playoffs wasn't his fault (mostly true)-but, in doing so, castigates his teammates.
Choice lyric: "Back in NYC, I'm the hostess with the mostest / too bad Jerome James is the mostest with the Hostess"
What up, Cuz? What up, thug? What up, gangsta?:
Steph addresses issues within his family, including a rumored feud involving his cousin, Sebastian Telfair of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the controversial YouTube video Telfair's half-brother, Jamel Thomas, put up–and has since removed. Family beef, even between divas, can seem unnecessary sometimes. This is one of those times.
Choice lyric: "No you look Fabolous, really. Where's the chain? / Jamel, I'm coming to Italy, don't ever change"
Change Clothes:
A promotional track for his fledgling clothing line. Cheaply made.
Choice lyric: "The haters used to call my dribbles 'carries' / Now I outfit them for $29.99 at Steve & Barry's!"
"We Got Zach Randolph! We Got Zach Randolph!" (skit):
The enthusiasm is unwarranted.
I'm Mike'd up:
Steph recounts his infamous interview with Bruce Beck. Solid entertainment value due primarily to the fact that he sampled the entire interview in the background.
Phone Call (skit):
Steph interrupts the track to take a phone call. It's mostly unintelligible.
My Better Half:
Steph references something derogatory he said about his wife to Bruce Beck and sets the human race back a good 15 to 20 years in the process.
Intern in the Back of a Truck:
Here Steph sets the human race back even further. He hasn't been born yet.
Isiah 3:16:
Steph lists, in his dulcet baritone, everything he knows about Isiah Thomas. It's hard not to suddenly feel sorry for Steph again, and that's the essence of Starbury: just when you think you've quit him, he wraps you back in like basketball's answer to the psychotic supermodel girlfriend.
Tattoo on my Head:
Like sandals with socks, indefensibly bad.
Say A Little Prayer For You:
Steph sings an a capella biblical passage to all the heathens that have covered him throughout his career; ignorant, but surprisingly well performed.
You Can't Buy My Soul Out:
Steph badly mangles various themes that shouldn't go together (money, spirituality, survival at the workplace). It's like he took the absolute worst of 50 Cent, put it in a bottle, cross-pollinated it with the worst of R. Kelly, and then didn't try.
Boston Me Party:
Steph rambles on and on about finally getting to play for a winner. The song fits with the rest of the album because it adds another layer to an already rich tapestry of bizarre lyrical fabric.
Choice lyric: "Trying to take down the Magic / Just run the offense, rabbit / No more Starbury, you're Goran Dragic" (Bonus points for the mispronunciation of Dragic's last name.)
Steph enlightens the masses, spitting fiery bars about his dominance in the China Basketball League.
Choice lyrics: "We looking to repeat / crowd looks like Canal Street" and "In Chinatown, people call me Mister / but it ain't no movie, so my mother ain't my sister"
Guess Who's Back:
Steph celebrates his official return to the public sphere with a track that simultaneously epitomizes his grating persona and incoherent brilliance. He's like a fully liberated Weezy, except his cough syrup is life.
It's an unsatisfying end to an uneven album. The talent and desire are evident throughout, but the will to make use of everything available-to make it the best it can be-is definitely not.
At least it's entertaining.
Jake Appleman is a Senior Writer for SLAM Magazine and a contributor to NBA.com. Stephon Marbury was his favorite player in 1999. Read more at JakeAppleman.com

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[Verse: Big KRIT]
(Do you believe) they could call you the greatest
So you pay your bills but you barely made it
(Do you believe) that it's all on your shoulders
And everything would seem clear if you stayed sober
(Do you believe) that your heart is really in it
When you know most these folks ain't impressed with your vision
(Do you believe) that this pep talk
Will keep you in top form when so many fell off
(Do you believe) that the world feels your pain
It's kill or be killed, can you keep what you claimed
(Do you believe) that you really can sustain
This lifestyle, Sky Miles, ballin' in the chains
(Do you believe) that these niggas really fuck with you
When you hit rock bottom, look how many stuck with you
(Do you believe) that the devil's all around
If he knocking at your door, have strength to turn him down
(Do you believe) they can barely hear the real shit
In a world of fantasies, can you be a realist
(Do you believe) that the governments concealing
Their true intentions, apprehending those that won't be pillaged
(Do you believe) that doin' right will make you richer
And just because you paid these White folks still won't call you nigga
(Do you believe) that you can sacrifice it all
When the ball's in your court and your time has been called
(Do you believe) that God will forgive you
For those times that you didn't let Him steer you
For those times that you up and lost faith
Cause you swore He couldn't hear you and nothing ever changed
(Do you believe) that screamin' out His name
When you lost your best friend is what really helped the pain
(Do you believe) that you never loved fame
And you wouldn't miss a dime if you lost it all today
Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
K.R.I.T. asks a number of difficult questions. They are directed at himself for the most part, but most of them are applicable to the majority of his listeners.


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Pessulus is a lockdown editor for GNOME, written in python. It enables
administrators to set mandatory settings in GConf. The users can not change
these settings. Use of pessulus can be useful on computers that are open to
use by everyone, e.g. in an internet cafe.
WWW: http://www.gnome.org/~vuntz/pessulus/
There is no configure plist information for this port.
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: pessulus
PKGNAME: pessulus
There is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
===> The following configuration options are available for pessulus-2.30.4_3:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Number of commits found: 36
Remove: abandonware, depends on non existing USE_GNOME components
Approved by: gnome (kwm)
- Convert ports of sysutils/ to new USES=python
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
to GCC 4.8.3.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Support stage
- Remove manual creation and removal of share/applications, as it's now in the
mtree (categories starting with [st])
Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery)
Fix NO_STAGE attribution
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- Convert USE_GETTEXT to USES (part 3)
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
- update png to 1.5.10
- Add LDFLAGS to CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV (as it was done with LDFLAGS)
- Fix all ports that add {CPP,LD}FLAGS to *_ENV to modify flags instead
Submitted by: myself
Exp-runs by: pav
Approved by: pav
Chase after net/openldap24-server update.
Reminded by: miwi
Presenting GNOME 2.32.1 for FreeBSD. The offical release notes for this
release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/
This will be the last release of the GNOME 2.x series, mainly a bugfix and
bridge release to the first release of the GNOME 3.x series.
This release features commits by avl, marcus, mezz and myself.
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to thank the following contributors and
testers for there help with this release:
Zane C.B. <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Olaf Seibert <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Presenting GNOME 2.30.2. for FreeBSD.
Bounce PORTREVISION for gettext-related ports. Have fun, ya'll.
Presenting GNOME 2.30.1 for FreeBSD. The offical release notes for this
release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ .
This release brings initial PackageKit support, Upower (replaces power
management part of hal), cuse4bsd integration with HAL and cheese, and a
faster Evolution.
Sadly GNOME 2.30.x will be the last release with FreeBSD 6.X support. This
will also be the last of the 2.x releases. The next release will be the
highly-anticipated GNOME 3.0 which will bring with it a new UI experience.
Currently, there are a few bugs with GNOME 2.30 that may be of note for our
users. Be sure to consult the UPGRADING note or the 2.30 upgrade FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq230.html for specific upgrading
instructions, and the up-to-date list of known issues.
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
- update to jpeg-8
Presenting GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD. The official release notes for this
release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ .
Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0
due in about a year.
On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release. Major thanks
goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release.
In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft
Exchange integration. Avl made sure that the new gobject introspection
repository ports were nicely compartmentalized so that large dependencies
aren't brought in wholesale.
But, every GNOME team member (ahze, avl, bland, kwm, mezz, and myself)
contributed to this release.
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
Update to 2.26.2.
Presenting GNOME 2.26.1 for FreeBSD.
Approved by: portmgr (marcus)
Presenting GNOME 2.26 for FreeBSD. See
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/ for a list of what's new.
On the FreeBSD front, we introduced a port of libxul 1.9 as an alternative
for Firefox 2.0 as a Gecko provider. Almost all of the Gecko consumers
can make use of this provider by setting:
The GNOME 2.26 port was done by ahze, kwm, marcus, and mezz with
contributions by Joseph S. Atkinson, Peter Wemm, Eric L. Chen,
Martin Matuska, Craig Butler, and Pawel Worach.
- Use GNOME macro instead of ${MASTER_SITE_GNOME}, remove
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR when possible.
PR: ports/125243
Submitted by: pgollucci
Reworked by: myself
Tested on: pointyhat exp-run (pav)
Add a missing dependency on pygnomedesktop.
Reported by: QA Tinderbox
Presenting GNOME 2.24 for FreeBSD.
See http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/ for the general
release notes. On the FreeBSD front, this release introduces Fuse support
in HAL, adds multi-CPU support to libgtop, WebKit updates, and fixes some
long-standing seahorse and gnome-keyring bugs. The documentation updates
to the website are forthcoming.
This release features commits by adamw, ahze, kwm, mezz, and myself. It would
not have been possible without are contributors and testers:
Alexander Loginov
Craig Butler [1]
Dmitry Marakasov [6]
Eric L. Chen
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Remove unneeded dependency from gtk12/gtk20 [1]
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX
- Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB
- Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+
Thanks to all Helpers:
Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav
Tested on: pointyhat
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to annunce the release of GNOME 2.22.0 for
FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.22 release notes can be found at
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/ . On the FreeBSD front,
this release features an updated hal port with support for video4linux
devices, DRM (Direct Rendering), and better support of removable media. Work
is also underway to tie webkit more closely into GNOME. As part of the
GNOME 2.22 upgrade, GStreamer received a rather large upgrade as well.
Be sure to consult UPDATING on the proper steps to upgrade all of your
GNOME ports.
This release would not have been possible without the contributions and
testing efforts of the following people:
Pawel Worach
Peter Ulrich Kruppa
J. W. Ballantine
Yasuda Keisuke
Andriy Gapon
Presenting GNOME 2.20.1 and all related works for FreeBSD. The official
GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ . Beyond that, this update
includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze).
The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME
hierarchy. We are now using the more standard DATADIR of ${PREFIX}/share
rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and
hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD. This will mean some
user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for
more details.
This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been
possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his persistence
to make it happen successfully. Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
Update to 2.16.2
Presenting GNOME 2.16.1 for FreeBSD. This release represents a massive
amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE. This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed. The bulk of the move was carried
out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily. We would also like to send a
shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
until we got something that was solid.
Back to GNOME 2.16. This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
to FreeBSD. The standard release notes can be read at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ . But on top of what you will read there,
- Update to 0.9.3
Update to 0.9.2.
- Remove python dirs if empty
Reported by: kris via pointyhat
Presenting GNOME 2.14.1 for FreeBSD! Checkout
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/ for the official release notes, and a list
of all the gooides in this new release. In particular, GNOME 2.14 focused
on performance, and they did not miss the mark. There's some new eye candy,
but most of the big things are waiting until GNOME 2.16. On the FreeBSD
side, we tried to clean up all the crashers we could. In particular, we
really improved GNOME's 64-bit support.
The good news is that this release does not bring any big shared library
version bumps, so you can almost do a simple portupgrade to get to 2.14.
There are a few minor gotchas that will be documented in UPDATING shortly.
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like th thank the following users for their
patches, feedback, and sometimes incessant complaing about crashes (you
know who you are).
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, iXsystems, and RootBSD
16 vulnerabilities affecting 137 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
All vulnerabilities
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Hey guys, just wanted to let you know about a free online class I found about medieval magic in Spain. It's available on Coursera FOR FREE (you can pay $49 if you want the certificate, but taking the class is free). It's run by the University of Barcelona. Now, it did start a couple of days ago and the first unit is due on Sunday, but I wanted to check it out before recommending it to see if it was good info presented well, and I'm pleased to say that it is indeed aggressively non-judgemental and deliciously academic. The videos all have bibliographies at the end.
(Also, if you like Spanish accents, you won't be bored.)
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Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn
When you try to see the world beyond your front door"
*Banner and sig by Geministar*AM currently accepting reading requests (because why not?)
Ghosted by Eternal Night!:irish: Shamrocked by Annorah!
That sounds amazing, thank you for sharing!
There is a logical reason for the things I do,I just haven't figured it out yet.


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Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Under the sun series: Still Irreplaceable
Have I already run out of ideas and content to feature a nail polish previously blogged about? Fear not, I have a backlog of posts as long the channel tunnel. Today, I would like to share you a old favourite nail polish of mine, in a different light, as part of my 'under the sun' series. If you are new to the series, you can read about it here. If you can't be bothered leaving this page, it is essentially about giving great nail polishes the love they deserve and giving them a better chance to shine: a chance to see them under the best light ever created by nature: glorious natural sunlight. Essence irreplaceable is a big favourite of mine and I still like it just as much as the first day.
Oddly enough, I have not been wearing it much at all as a manicure but it has been without a doubt *the* nail I have been wearing the most on my toes this season. In fact, apart from a glittery black nail polish worn for about a week, it's pretty much all that I have wearing this summer on my toes. Don't panic, there will no toes on show (I am very much aware that showing toes and feet is very controversial on internet) instead, have a look at this irreplaceable manicure.
I can't stress enough how easy this polish is to apply and wear. Nail polish experts will notice right away that my application is not the neatest and that it looks like I've applied the polish 3 miles away from the edges. But in the grand scheme of things, and in real life, it really doesn't matter. That's the way I wear it. The truth is that Essence irreplaceable is a very forgiving shade due to its subtle colour. On my toes, it will last 1 week before losing its sparkle. After a week, it will start to wear out beautifully, a bit like an antique gold vase.
If you're lucky to have a friend who lives in a country which sells bargainous high street wonder Essence products, this is definitely a shade you would like to get your hands (and toes) on. I need a gallon of this stuff and it will be a sad day when I will have run out of my second and last bottle. The closest polish to irreplaceable I own and which is available in the UK is this little sexy number from Marks and Spencers.
12 comments:
- Valens said...
It's not my genre of nail polish but the golden sparkle has conquered me ahaha
It reminds me of sands!
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It's been discontinued :( I found a bottle at a car boot sale a while ago & snapped it up! Such a pretty colour, I love how the gold shimmer comes through in the sun x
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Saints Row 4 Trailer: Trolling with DLC
Just in time for the launch of some game that happens to be in the same vein as Saints Row 4, Volition has released new downloadable content to keep you interested.
Two DLC packs are now available for Saints Row 4 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The GATV pack, which shares a few letters the competition, is actually available for free today on Steam. The Wild West pack will be $2.99 for all three platforms, while the GATV pack will be $2.99 on both the PS3 and 360.
The GATV pack includes an outfit based on Johnny Gat, as well as a .50 caliber rifle and a combat knife launcher. You'll also get an Aisha costume in the pack as a bonus. The Wild West pack features two new costumes, one of which looks like it was taken out of Eastwood's wardrobe on 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,' and a dress any showgirl would be proud to have worn in the 1880s. You'll also get the Western Revolver and the Western Shotgun.
There's still no date on the season pass DLC for Saints Row 4, but these accoutrements should keep you busy while you wait.


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The fallacy of the "consumerization of IT" is that easy-to-use smartphones and consumer-oriented apps such as Dropbox make IT organizations less important. The reality is that consumerization is IT's ticket to continued relevance.
Make that IT's only ticket.
We've moved into Consumerization 2.0. The 1.0 version was: "See you, IT chumps. I got my iPhone, Dropbox, and Google Docs, and I'm out of here."
Consumerization 2.0 sets a higher standard: "Hey, IT, can we build a zippy app for my smartphone so I can grab customer data to do my job better? Is six weeks enough time?"
It used to be that in-house IT merely had to be functional -- employees had no choice but to use it. Now employees expect beautiful design and speedy delivery. And they expect to be able to use consumer apps -- or at least their enterprise cousins -- when they make sense. "It's survival mode now for IT," says Derek Roos, CEO and founder of Mendix, a Boston-based startup that promises to build, integrate, and deploy applications for customers in days or weeks rather than months or years. "If CIOs don't step up now, they won't be in charge five years from now."
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Consumerization 2.0 is just getting underway. Just 30 percent of the companies in our 2013 InformationWeek 500 ranking cite widespread use of enterprise mobile apps by employees; another 30 percent say they're in limited use. Only 26 percent have an employee app store.
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Tech can't sit in the truck Dish Network went mobile about five years ago when it rolled out ruggedized Windows laptops to thousands of the field technicians who install or repair Dish's satellite TV service at customers' homes. But that laptop was an eight-pound brick that techs had to carry along with all their other gear. "It solved some problems for us, but it's also a device that stayed in the truck a lot," says CIO Mike McClaskey.
In January 2012, McClaskey and his colleague Erik Carlson, the executive VP in charge of the field tech team, walked the International CES show floor together. When they saw the five-inch phone/tablet hybrids on display, McClaskey says, "a light went on."
Out went the ruggedized laptops, along with the push-to-talk phones and the GPS routing devices issued to every field tech. In came five-inch Samsung Galaxy Note phablets, in a rollout to 15,000 field technicians that took just six weeks. Dish estimates it's saving several million dollars this year from that three-for-one hardware swap.
More important, the gear is getting used. That's partly because of the handy, consumery hardware -- the Note is lightweight, fits in a cargo pants pocket or belt pouch, and is simple to use.


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This new tower has been installed recently to help disguise a cord cover that goes up to the tracks new perimeter lights. Same style construction as the other towers primarily dowell rods and styrene. Back to the lights though, my friend/neighbor spent many hours with me helping me put up the light fixtures around the circuit installing dimmers and the like. The lights actually are pretty cool for night racing in that they have a set of blue leds in the center that remain on even when dimmed which gives a cool night look to the track. Thanks Smitty!
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Race Control Comm Tower
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Can't wait to see this professional design!!I am a Formula One fan for more than ten years and have not seen such a beautiful circuit model.
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