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The Smashbox On the Rocks Photo Op palette is now on sale at Ulta for $18 (it was originally $36). I got the bigger palette when it came out and still need to post the review, but I wanted to get the review for this one out before it sells out. The review of the larger palette will follow in a day or two.
The palette is in a hard plastic case unlike the larger palette. This makes it less shock absorbent and one of my shadows was chipped on arrival. The case has holographic jewels on it – it's quite pretty, and has a mirror inside.
It comes with a booklet naming all 12 shadows and with steps for 3 different looks. It also has a plastic overlay naming she shadows on the palette itself which I personally really hate. Note, the palette's a tiny bit messy from the chipped shadow.
This palette contains 12 eyeshadows 0.04 oz. each. Smashbox usually doesn't offer single shadows so to try to calculate value, there's .48 oz. worth of shadow in the whole palette. Their eyeshadow trios are .097 oz for $28. Going by this, this palette is worth roughly $138.55. I don't really feel like I have a $138 worth of eyeshadow in my hand with this palette, though.
The shades around the perimeter are all deep jewel tones, most of them glittery, while the inner 4 shades are lighter shades better for highlighting and blending. Generally I find the glittery shades very powdery and needing quite a bit of building up. The metallic/shimmer shades are smoother and more pigmented. The 4 lighter shades are somewhere in between the other two groups in terms of both smoothness and pigmentation.
On to swatches! I swatched these in the same order listed in the booklet which is left to right, top to bottom.
This set didn't photograph very well, unfortunately.
Blacktop is a black shimmer with a hint of glitter in it. It's powdery and not very pigmented. This is the worst performer in the palette to me.
Coronation is a purple shimmer with micro-glitter. It's also powdery and lacking in pigmentation but builds up better than blacktop does. It's a fairly jewel toned purple but would probably perform better over a good light base to pump up the impact.
Nutmeg is a metallic golden bronze. This is one of the smoothest and most pigmented shadows in the palette. It's also the one that chipped in my palette. It blends pretty well, too. If the whole palette were this quality I'd be happy but unfortunately it's not.
Opus is a matte pale pinky off white. I'm so pale you can't see it very well in these swatches, but it's a nice color if a bit powdery and thin. It builds decently.
Vanilla is a matte pale peachy off white. Again, it's hard to see against my paleness but it's about the same pigmentation and powder level of Opus. Compared, Opus is more pink and Vanilla is more peach, but on the lid someone standing a decent pace away probably couldn't tell the difference too well, at least on someone as fair as me.
Chianti was the color I wanted to love most in the palette. It's supposed to be a wine shimmer with tonal micro-glitter but it's a bit on the brown side for me which is disappointing as I really love wine shadows (even before Pantone named Marsala color of the year and wine got popular all of a sudden). Like Blacktop and Coronation it's powdery and a little thin but unlike them it builds up far better.
Sapphires is probably the second best performer in the group. It's a blue shimmer with micro-glitter. It's a bit powdery still, like the other glittery shades but isn't quite as thin and powdery as they are.
Confectionette is a pale gold metallic shimmer. It's not as smooth and pigmented as Nugmeg and needs to be built up a bit but is still one of the better quality shades in the palette.
Mist is a beautiful pale lavender shimmer. Like the other near white shades it's hard to see on me, but I like it much more than I was expecting to. Still a bit thin on the pigmentation but buildable.
Bourbon is a shimmery brown with micro-glitter. It's decently pigmented compared to the other glittery shades but still a bit of a powdery let down.
Midnight Emerald is a shimmery emerald green that is also one of the better performers. It's not as smooth and pigmented as Nutmeg but is still pretty nice compared to the rest of the palette. It's a better green shimmer than some of my UD green shimmers which are more dark and smokey.
Obsidian is a shimmery black. It doesn't have the micro-glitter that Blacktop has and is the better for it. It's more shimmer, less glitter, and is smoother and a bit more pigmented.
Overall, this palette definitely isn't worth the full price, at least to me, but for the $18 sale price it's a decent buy.


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It's pretty hard to clap when you're holding two wooden spoons, but Parramatta fans had more clap in them than a brothel in the 60s as their club trounced the Warriors for the second year in a row.
They were dangerous everywhere and showed an ability to ad-lib their way to the line, something they didn't have last year. Jarryd Hayne was back to his hop-skipping best, and there was joy in the way they played.
Contrast that with their opponents this week. The problem with having so much silverware is you leave yourself open to rust, and after taking home three trophies in six months it took just one game against the Burgii to knock the Roosters from premiership favouritism.
They didn't break the line, they gave away 12 penalties and were effectively done expending energy in attack by the 38th minute.
They could go a long way to earning favouritism back this weekend, and the best way to rid yourself of rust is to shake it off — although this game won't be as easy as it appeared prior to round one.
Team for Round 2: Anthony Minichiello, Daniel Tupou, Michael Jennings, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, James Maloney, Mitchell Pearce, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Jake Friend, Sam Moa, Boyd Cordner, Mitchell Aubusson, Frank-Paul Nu'uasala. Interchange: (from) Daniel Mortimer, Aidan Guerra, Kane Evans, Remi Casty, Dylan Napa, Siosiua Taukeiaho.
Team Analysis
Sonny Bill Williams has been suspended for three weeks, and has been replaced in the starting line-up by Mitch Aubusson, while Frank-Paul Nu'uasala has again been named to start despite being shifted to the bench prior to the match last Thursday.
Meanwhile, both Kane Evans and Remi Casty look set to make their long-awaited debuts for the club, with both being called up to the top 17. Dylan Napa's erratic game on Thursday sees him shift to the 18th man role, and wing/forward utility Siosiua Taukeiaho named in jersey 19.
The Roosters will have enjoyed nine days off since the debacle last week, and will have needed it after being destroyed up the middle by a physical Souffs squad. Many fans lamented the decision to go with just one prop off the bench heading into that game — although moving FPN back to the bench as a makeshift prop was an attempt to remedy it — and it certainly didn't look good as the Burgii steamrolled the team last week.
Robbo seemingly isn't taking the same chance this week, with both Evans and Casty in the 17 — at this stage, at least.
How they'll play
The Roosters have begun the transition from Mini to RTS, with both splitting time at fullback. And The Nightcrawler repaid the faith somewhat, looking the man most likely to make a bust among a team that couldn't find a hole on a putt-putt course last week.
He ran it the most of any Rooster and made four tackle busts to boot, and in a more open game could find some space around the ruck. If the Eels don't chase their kick with a solid defensive line, Sheck could shred them, like this:
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But that's ad-lib stuff the Roosters cannot depend on if they are to win. They need fallback options and go-to plays, and back-ups to those plays.
They tried bombing it to the wing several times last week but Beau Champion put his body in the way (arguably illegally) on three separate occasions. But the Roosters shouldn't abandon the play, especially with Daniel Tupou having the leaping advantage against the bulk of Vai Toutai.
Toutai is also a little shaky under the bomb, as is Radradra, so expect plenty of bombs from 40 out aimed directly at either of those guys — but its likely the majority will be aimed at Toutai. Last year they used the tactic to great effect on the then-two game rookie, and the Roosters ended up pummelling the Eels 50-0. No doubt he's improved since then, but if the Roosters chase hard and put pressure on him, a mistake could ensue.
The other side could be up for grabs as well, as Semi Radradra showed a habit of coming in off his wing a few times against the Warriors, with Jarryd Hayne playing safety. To wit:
They could play a deep or flat decoy play here to get their man open out wide, but perhaps a little closer to the line to stymie the threat of Hayne holding the winger up. If Sonny Bill were playing, you'd have it on him to throw the cutout to the winger, but with him gone someone like Maloney or even RTS (if he plays fullback) will take the onus.
The Roosters forwards will be keen to atone for a poor showing last week, and with SBW out they'll look to roll it forward through their four-prop rotation and leave it to the little guys to figure out the fancy stuff for a change.
If the Roosters learned anything from last week's league action, it's the benefit of a quick play-the-ball and dummy half running under the new rules. Expect (or maybe hope is the better word) Friend and Morts and the two wingers to do a lot of this on the back of kick returns for easy metres.
It's a big game in particular for Evans. If he does make his debut (he dropped off the bench a few times in 2013 at the last minute) he'll come on and avoid the likes of Fui Fui Moi Moi and Tim Mannah. Roosters fans have been calling for this kid to get a start, and it will be the first glimpse at what he can do.
The Roosters lacked forward punch and stamina last game, so if Evans can maintain the semi-roll that Moa and JWH started last week before coming off, it will go a long way to him cementing a regular berth.
But it's two years worth of hype, and pressure. Here's hoping he lives up to even half of what many Roosters fans expect of him.
Parramatta Eels
Team for Round 2: Jarryd Hayne, Semi Radradra, Will Hopoate, Willie Tonga, Vai Toutai, Corey Norman, Luke Kelly, Tim Mannah, Kaysa Pritchard, Fui Fui Moi Moi, Ben Smith, Manu Ma'u, Kenny Edwards. Interchange: (from) Joseph Paulo, Peni Terepo, Darcy Lussick, Kelepi Tanginoa, David Gower, Mitchell Allgood.
Team Analysis
Nathan Peats has been suspended for an offseason off-field incident, and has been replaced at hooker by the wonderfully-named Kaysa Pritchard. His name always reminds me of those old Kaiser Stuhl boxed wine ads for some reason. But apart from that enforced change, the Eels return the same line-up that flogged the Warriors on Sunday.
They looked sharp across the pitch and attacked both edges, with those huge wingers they have in Toutai and Nines-turned-13s sensation Radradra both scoring hat-tricks.
Radradra, in particular, was superb. He chases every bomb, gets physical in the middle and knows also how to stay deep on the attacking play out wide. He's attacking the Roosters' notorious relative weak right-side defence in this one.
How they'll play
Well, they attacked the fringes almost exclusively against the Warriors, so you'd expect much of the same in this one after the Roosters allowed three tries and several more line breaks on the fringes, from the centres out.
Radradra was unstoppable in this one, and could shred the defence out on the right. He's massive, incredibly strong at speed and can fend off easily while stepping. He had three tries and a try assist against the Warriors with two line breaks and 150 metres off 18 possessions. Quite a workload for a winger.
In addition, all his try-scoring involvement came about with at least a tackle bust or two or an ability to drive through the defence. He seemed unstoppable last week.
He combined well with a sweeping Jarryd Hayne on the right-side attack, and Shaun Kenny-Dowall and Mini/RTS will need to be on high alert. A flat defence rather than the up and in approach with the centre (SKD) rushing in early won't work in this one.
SKD was caught in no man's land a couple of times last week, and the temptation will be there to revisit where he was caught to try and nullify an off-the-cuff sweep attack from Hayne and/or Norman.
This is just one example (SKD is the second-widest Rooster, and furthest up in the line, on the outside of Chris McQueen who makes a break):
He needs to not do that against a team that is seemingly impossible to prepare for.
The Parramatta forwards, while bigger across the board than last year, are largely not that skilled, hence the attack on the fringes.
A lot of people questioned the selection of Luke Kelly at halfback, but with two off-the-cuff playmakers in the squad already in Hayne and Corey Norman, they needed that steady Robson-like hand.
The Roosters will target him in defence, but in attack he has a nifty kick to the wings and behind the line that needs to be watched by whoever is playing fullback at the time.
But they will miss Nathan Peats, big time. He's a very good dummy-half runner and underrated service man who competes on every play.
The Eels looked re-energised with a new coach, several new faces and the play of some unknowns who provided the energy you'd expect from someone making their debut — Manu Ma'u in particular was excellent and gave them the hard edge they lacked all of last year.
Their forwards are certainly more intimidating than the lightweight squad they ran out in 2013, and the match-up in the middle is no longer the one-way contest it was. Replacing Matthew Ryan with a former gangster will do that for you.
The Roosters, contrastingly, looked out of breath and like a squad that hadn't learned the new rules which significantly sped up the game, and by the first half break they looked positively fucked.
They lacked spark and imagination in attack, and failed to administer any Plan B whatsoever.
I have to take the Roosters though. It's the defending premiers versus the defending wooden spooners, and the bounceback effect after a loss should mean the Roosters — in particular JWH — look to atone for their worst performance in 12 months.
I wouldn't bet on anything more than 1-12 though, and in fact I shan't be placing a bet on this one at all. But going on recent history, and taking round one out of the equation, the Roosters simply have too much skill and cohesion in the squad to allow a repeat effort of the last round.
Man of the Match will be James Maloney. He'll be the man most likely to throw cutouts to his wingers, and should set up a couple of tries at least.
Well, maybe not. But here's hoping.


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Thing of the Day
Cleaning up Friday with Alunah, Herzog, Epitonic, Sodom, Sassy Kraimspri and a bit of Magma
February 4th 2011
Of The Day today is, well, let's call it clean up Friday -
we've got a few parish notices kicking around and if we don't stick
them up today then we never will...
ALUNAH are playing a free gig at at the Unicorn in Camden this Saturday February 5th - they are joined by Bastard Of The Skies and The Death Trucks… For those of you who missed the Organ album review in December last year, here's a taste of it….
are "hard-edged superfuzzed riffed-up psychedelic stoner rock. Find it
all there waiting, not a cloud in the sky, with plenty or warning, a
Sabbath riff walks by (followed by another and another…), this is a
good good thing, you can never have too many Sabbath style riffs
walking by when a band does it this well.... St. Vitus dancers and
Orange Goblin botherers, laced with Paganish psychedelicish occultish
lyrics, with sacrificial morning dances for Dionysus, with Laguna
sunrises, scarlet women, wings of snow, she can fly over mountains –
for it is a 'she' delivering those riffs, as one of the two guitarists,
as well as leading things with her powerfully confident vocal lines.
'She' is Sophie Willet and she fronts a twin guitar driven four
piece who
throw out some classic retro flavoured hard rock..."
The full Organ review is here - www.organart.com/organthing019
More :
ALUNAH - www.myspace.com/alunatheband
BASTARD OF THE SKIES - www.myspace.com/bastardoftheskies
THE DEATH TRUCKS - www.myspace.com/thedeathtrucks
Been meaning to mention the return of one of favourite sites from the last century for some time now, and HERZOG give us more than good reason to do it today…they're MP3 download of the day on the born-again Epitonic.com site is a delightful piece of "90s-aesthetic slacker rock", (so say Epitonic) from a band who got a healthy amount of attention here at Organ back in the day. The band in question are Herzog and the tracks is from an album originally released on Transparent Records (and not to be confused with Herzoga, a completely different band, with an A on the end, who we released a single for a few years back).
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This Sunday's Organ Recommends: "Mighty old school proper real deal angel-ripping thrash metal from the legend that is Sodom… Wooooooooaaaggghhhhhh" Oh, you do know we're recommending gigs most days of the week over at LondonGigs don't you? And we're busy on the radio, so no Sodom for us. The things we forego just so we can feed the airwaves….
THING NUMBER 4 - almost last but by no means least….
SASSY KRAIMSPRI hits London and Birmingham this February….
Been meaning to say something about the no-messing punk rock 'n roll of Ms SASSY KRAIMSPRI for some time. Sassy leads a band who kick out some serious punk pop ear food. We're not talking musical revolutions or things you've never heard before here but hey, sometimes all you need on a grey Friday in February is some righteous no-messing high energy in your face kicking out of the muthaflippin' jams. So we're talking glammy scummy dirty street punk rock 'n rock, we're talking Runaways, Nashville Pussy, we're talking L7, Ramones, you get the picture, you know what we're talking here, you love no-messing in your face larger than life punk rock'n roll don't you? Yeah, of course you do, go put another dime in that jukebox, grab some bubblegum, crank the damn thing up and rock the flip out.
You've got Sassy, you've got guitarist,
co-writer and Australian punk legend Dicky Downfall - from Sydney band
Smash 'n' Grab - seems Sassy smashed and grabbed him via some kind of
illegal activity in a local graveyard that sealed their fate and
brought them to England via Norway, New York, a tour of China and who
knows where (these people get around the globe!). Seems they came to
England to get down to making album number two - in Kettering of all
places (with one Russ Russell, producer man with a studio is said
salubrious town – man with an ear, he'll get their sound nailed down in
studio form if anyone can, one of those no messing producers who knows
how to get it nailed down properly rather than one of those so called
wizards who squeeze the living breathing life out of everything that
ever gets near a studio). So we've been meaning to mention the larger
that life thing that is Ms Sassy Kraimspri and her band, and now we
have… And we do it today because, they bring their self-labelled
"Scumbag punk" to London and Birmingham next week. The dates are just
down there, meanwhile you can go poke around their website and find
some downloads, you'll find the kind of songs you want to take home to
meet the family and share some Sunday tea, we particularly recommend
Pussy Magnet…
11/02/11 = The Fiddlers Elbow, London,
12/02/11 - Scruffy Murphys, Birmingham as part of something called Twitter Fest, alongside the mighty OAF and lots more - find out more about all that from
And to close Things for Friday, and set you up for the
weekend, some epic prog flavoured face pulling and one of the finest
bands ever. This dates from 1977, but they're still going strong....


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After decades of building one of Canada's largest cannabis empires, Jodie Emery and her legendary husband Marc are being forced by law to remove themselves entirely from their company.
Recently, in a massive police enforcement across the country, Cannabis Culture stores were raided and its employees arrested. At the top of the food chain during this questionable move by authorities lay the most famous marijuana activists in the great white north, Marc and Jodie. The two were taken into custody at Toronto's Pearson International Airport just before attempting to fly to Spannabis in Barcelona.
As part of their bail conditions, the founders are required to cut ties completely by this Friday, with a brand that is synonymous with their name, image, and essence. A brand which, moving forward, will need to stand on its own two legs as its beating heart is forcibly removed.
"I am so grateful to be back where the nature and the forest in the mountains can soothe my soul, after that concrete jungle," Jodie said yesterday in an interview with the Vancouver Sun. She added that being "stripped of everything I have and everything I've done is degrading and upsetting."
Regardless of the seemingly miserable situation Jodie and her husband have been forced into, in true Emery fashion, she has vowed to continue her push forward to ensure cannabis activists have a seat at the table when it comes time for adult-use cannabis across Canada.
"I will fight this, I will not stop being an activist. You know, I was too busy with work to be an activist, and now, well, take away the business, and you've made a monster out of me."
Emery now begins the task of removing her name from bank accounts, ending her directorship of the company and handing over day-to-day operations to longtime employees.
Jodie has been Director of the company since Marc removed himself right before his 2010 extradition to the United States, where he served a four-year jail sentence. That jail term was a result of his mail-order seed business in which he sold products to various U.S. customers.
Although Cannabis Culture started as a head shop and magazine, it developed into a vapour lounge, a political movement, and most recently a string of storefront dispensaries in major Canadian cities. These dispensaries openly scoffed at the law by allowing anybody 19 or older to buy cannabis, without a medical prescription.
Both Marc and Jodie are scheduled to be in court in Toronto on April 21, and are facing various charges including drug trafficking. Their departure from Cannabis Culture is an unfortunate piece of history for the marijuana community across Canada, but even though our most famous activists are being separated from the brand they created, there is no doubt that this is not the end for either of them.
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Once Liam and Beatrice had gotten out of Emily's car and went inside, they sat on the sofa and talked about the night. "I noticed that bạn kept staring at her, Liam," Beatrice stated. "I couldn't help it, Beatrice! I thought she looked quite lovely," Liam replied, "You have to admit that bạn like her too, Beatrice." "I do," Beatrice admited, "She reminds me of someone, but I'm just not sure yet." "Aurora," Liam answered. "Of course," Beatrice whispered, "How could I not realize?"
Throught the night, Beatrice had been extremely happy around Emily when she was talking to her. She...
Liam and Beatrice had managed to get dressed, brush their hair, and eat breakfast in 7 minutes, and with 3 phút left for the plane to arrive, they thought they were doing pretty great.
"You certainly know how to dress, Liam!" Beatrice cried, "You're wearing black jeans, a purple long sleeved button-up shirt, and a black tie!" "Well, bạn dress very formal, too," Liam replied, "You're wearing a green crew-neck sweater and jeans." "But bạn look way thêm formal than me! And bạn even managed to keep it clean through our breakfast rush, too!" Beatrice cried. "That's true. I think...
On the night the 29th of November was becoming the 30th, Liam had a dream. A dream that he soon realized had actually happened 7 years ago.
He was in a trailer, looking out the open window, his brown hair blowing in the wind, his hazel eyes shining as he looked at the stars and the moon. He heard a girl call his name. Hearing this, he turned around to see a girl with long brown hair sitting on a sofa, her hazel eyes glowing just like his.
He smiled, and sat down tiếp theo to her. "You're so cheerful tonight, Emily, do bạn know that?" he told her. She smiled as she replied,...
Liam looked at the notebook, and hesitantly picked it up. Although it was very thick and worn down, it was very light, as if only nghề viết văn was inside. He was about to open it, when he suddenly heard Beatrice cry, "Liam! Look who's on the news!"
Liam walked downstairs to see who it was, and was extremely surprised. "Emily? Why's she on the news?" he asked, sitting down tiếp theo to Beatrice on the sofa, his eyes immediately glued on the screen. "They're saying that she starred in a new movie recently," Beatrice replied. "What's it called?" he asked. "Suckerpunch. It looks pretty cool. It...
Once they had put away everything, Liam and Beatrice sat on his bed. They were silent for a few minutes, thinking about what had just happened. Liam was still thinking about Beatirce's notebook, when he saw the large pile of pictures he had been looking at before Beatrice came inside. He picked up the pile, and asked, "Would bạn like to look at some pictures?" Beatrice smiled at him, and replied, "I would tình yêu to!"
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"Liam, someone's at the door!" a woman cried. "I'll get it, Mom!" Liam called back from his room. He had been looking through old pictures that he had, and had found a picture of him with his old band, Saint Levi, when his mother called.
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It was early January of 2004. The night sky was perfect, for the full moon and stars were shining clearly. There was a clear area of pure green grass, and a park bench was cái tát, đánh đập, smack in the middle of the field. There were two people sitting on the bench that night. There was a boy in a blue crew-neck sweater and tan pants, and a girl in a long, black, lacy dress. These two people were Liam Aiken and Emily Browning.
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Clif Bar & Company sent three large boxes of Luna Fiber bars to my sorority house for us to try, so of course I had to try one! They sent over their Strawberry Peanut Butter flavor. The tops of the bars are dusted with sugar, giving them a nice crunch and a pretty, homemade appearance. They are soft and filled with a thin layer of strawberry puree. The strawberry flavor is there, but it's not overwhelming. I couldn't taste much of a peanut butter flavor in these bars. I love peanut butter, and I was expecting loved more of it. There were a few peanut butter chips in my bar, but they didn't add much in terms of flavor or texture.
As for nutritional value, these bars are stellar. They are full of fiber… including insoluble fiber. That's like the gold standard of fiber. They're also fortified with vitamins, including calcium, iron, and folic acid. Luna bars market to women, and these are vitamins that women especially need.
All in all, Luna Fiber bars are a good choice as a quick snack. I'm not sure I would buy this flavor because of its lack of peanut buttery-ness, but I'd like to try the other flavors: the bars also come in Chocolate Raspberry and Vanilla Blueberry. Thanks, Clif Bar & Company!
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Cigarette Factory in Bulgaria's Plovdiv Closes Down
Several hundreds persons will remain unemployed after the Bulgartabac cigarette factory is closed down in a week. (Sofia Photo Agency)
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The cigarette factory in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv is going to work until May 12, when its employees are supposed to be dismissed according to the notifications they have received.
The factory is currently working at full capacity in order to meet a large order for the internal market and to produce the planned smaller quantities of cigarettes for exports, plovdiv24.com reported.
The workers of the cigarette factory have accepted the decision to close it down after dramatic negotiations in which each of them was promised to receive 1,8 gross monthly salaries for each year they have worker at the plant.
The company management has not notified the employees yet whether the factory was going to be privatized quickly by selling its assets on the stock market, which was the idea two months ago.
At the beginning of 2008, the Governing Board of Bulgaria's tobacco monopoly Bulgartabac decided to close down two of its four factories - the ones in the cities of Plovdiv and Stara Zagora.


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Instead of putting a sundial in your garden . . .
Why not put a garden in your sundial?
My Laser Trigon will project the lines and curves of a sundial onto any surface including highly irregular surfaces. I intend to assemble a group of interesting objects and project a sundial onto them. I am hoping the result will be a fascinating and unpredictable garden of objects, some bearing hour lines, some numerals, some both, many neither. As the sun defines the day, its shadow will wend its way among them, anointing those it chooses with the power to tell time.
The first step was to make a working model.
I needed to get a feel for the relationship between the position of the gnomon and the west-facing board fence. The model consists of two planar dials, a horizontal dial joined to a direct west. These surfaces will not be as obvious in the finished dial, as the lines and curves will be located on the objects lying within the dial. The time shown on the model is a little before three.
Next I installed the gnomon, which is made of fencing tubes and hardware. I temporarily located hour and half hour indications by marking piles of whatever I could find at the appropriate local solar time. The timing for this was done with The Dialist's Companion, a computer program written by Fred Sawyer and myself recently published by the North American Sundial Society.
A few of the found objects I have found to date (along with much pre-existing trash) are shown within the dial. The time shown is a little before four-thirty.
I will be updating this page as the dial is built, so please come back and watch the progress.
This page was originally constructed August 31, 1996
October 23, 1996. I have to rethink this dial. If you take a look at the full size photograph, I think you will agree that the scale of the found objects is too small for the size of the gnomon and the overall area contained in the garden.
I am going to have to find larger objects, or settle for a design that includes less shadow receiving surface. Stay tuned.


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Next: Manipulating SXML structure, Previous: Functional XML parser, Up: Library modules - Utilities [Contents][Index]
sxml.sxpath - SXML Query Language
SXPath is a query language for SXML, an instance of XML Information set (Infoset) in the form of s-expressions.
It is originally written by Oleg Kiselyov, and improved by Dmitry Lizorkin and Kirill Lisovsky. This module also incorporates various procedures written for SXPath by Dmitry Lizorkin and Kirill Lisovsky.
Current version is based on sxpathlib.scm,v 3.915, sxpath.scm,v 1.1, and sxpath-ext.scm,v 1.911.
This manual is mostly derived from the comments in the original source files.
The module consists of three layers.
|• SXPath basic converters and applicators:
|• SXPath query language:
|• SXPath extension:
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A converter is a function
type Converter = Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset
A converter can also play a role of a predicate: in that case, if a
converter, applied to a node or a nodeset, yields a non-empty
nodeset, the converter-predicate is deemed satisfied. Throughout
this file a nil nodeset is equivalent to
#f in denoting a failure.
#t if given object is a nodeset.
{sxml.sxpath} If x is a nodeset - returns it as is, otherwise wrap it in a list.
{sxml.sxpath} Predicate which returns #t if obj is SXML element, otherwise returns #f.
The function
ntype-names?? takes a list of acceptable node names as a
criterion and returns a function, which, when applied to a node,
will return
#t if the node name is present in criterion list
#f otherwise.
ntype-names?? :: ListOfNames -> Node -> Boolean
The function
ntype?? takes a type criterion and returns
a function, which, when applied to a node, will tell if the node satisfies
the test.
ntype?? :: Crit -> Node -> Boolean
The criterion crit is one of the following symbols:
tests if the Node has the right name (id)
tests if the Node is an attributes-list.
tests if the Node is an Element.
tests if the Node is a text node.
tests if the Node is a data node (text, number, boolean, etc., but not pair).
tests if the Node is a
PI node.
tests if the Node is a
COMMENT node.
tests if the Node is a
ENTITY node.
#t for any type of Node.
This function takes a namespace-id, and returns a predicate
Node -> Boolean, which is
for nodes with this very namespace-id.
ns-id is a string.
(ntype-namespace-id?? #f) will be
for nodes with non-qualified names.
This function takes a predicate and returns it inverted .
That is if the given predicate yields
#f or '
() the inverted one
yields the given node (
#t) and vice versa.
{sxml.sxpath} Curried equivalence converter-predicates, i.e.
((node-eq? a) b) ≡ (eq? a b) ((node-equal? a) b) ≡ (equal? a b)
node-pos:: N -> Nodeset -> Nodeset, or node-pos:: N -> Converter
Select the N'th element of a Nodeset and return as a singular Nodeset;
Return an empty nodeset if the Nth element does not exist.
((node-pos 1) Nodeset) selects the node at the head of the Nodeset,
if exists;
((node-pos 2) Nodeset) selects the Node after that, if
N can also be a negative number: in that case the node is picked from
the tail of the list.
((node-pos -1) Nodeset) selects the last node of a non-empty nodeset;
((node-pos -2) Nodeset) selects the last but one node, if exists.
filter:: Converter -> Converter
A filter applicator, which introduces a filtering context. The argument
converter is considered a predicate, with either
or nil result meaning failure.
take-until:: Converter -> Converter, or take-until:: Pred -> Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset
Given a converter-predicate and a nodeset, apply the predicate to
each element of the nodeset, until the predicate yields anything but
#f or nil. Return the elements of the input nodeset that have
been processed
till that moment (that is, which fail the predicate).
take-until is a variation of the filter above:
take-until passes
elements of an ordered input set till (but not including) the first
element that satisfies the predicate.
The nodeset returned by
((take-until (not pred)) nset) is a subset –
to be more precise, a prefix – of the nodeset returned by
((filter pred) nset).
take-after:: Converter -> Converter, or take-after:: Pred -> Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset
Given a converter-predicate and a nodeset, apply the predicate to
each element of the nodeset, until the predicate yields anything but
#f or
nil. Return the elements of the input nodeset that have not been processed:
that is, return the elements of the input nodeset that follow the first
element that satisfied the predicate.
take-after along with
partition an input nodeset into three
parts: the first element that satisfies a predicate, all preceding
elements and all following elements.
{sxml.sxpath} Apply proc to each element of lst and return the list of results. If proc returns a nodeset, splice it into the result.
From another point of view,
map-union is a function Converter->Converter,
which places an argument-converter in a joining context.
node-reverse :: Converter, or node-reverse:: Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset
Reverses the order of nodes in the nodeset. This basic converter is needed to implement a reverse document order (see the XPath Recommendation).
node-trace:: String -> Converter
(node-trace title) is an identity converter. In addition it prints out
a node or nodeset it is applied to, prefixed with the 'title'.
This converter is very useful for debugging.
What follow are Converter combinators, higher-order functions that transmogrify a converter or glue a sequence of converters into a single, non-trivial converter. The goal is to arrive at converters that correspond to XPath location paths.
From a different point of view, a combinator is a fixed, named pattern of applying converters. Given below is a complete set of such patterns that together implement XPath location path specification. As it turns out, all these combinators can be built from a small number of basic blocks: regular functional composition, map-union and filter applicators, and the nodeset union.
select-kids:: Pred -> Node -> Nodeset
Given a Node, return an (ordered) subset its children that satisfy the Pred (a converter, actually).
select-kids:: Pred -> Nodeset -> Nodeset
The same as above, but select among children of all the nodes in the Nodeset.
node-self:: Pred -> Node -> Nodeset, or node-self:: Converter -> Converter
Similar to select-kids but apply to the Node itself rather than to its children. The resulting Nodeset will contain either one component, or will be empty (if the Node failed the Pred).
node-join:: [LocPath] -> Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset, or node-join:: [Converter] -> Converter
join the sequence of location steps or paths as described in the title comments above.
node-reduce:: [LocPath] -> Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset, or node-reduce:: [Converter] -> Converter
A regular functional composition of converters.
From a different point of view,
((apply node-reduce converters) nodeset)
is equivalent to
(foldl apply nodeset converters)
i.e., folding, or reducing, a list of converters with the nodeset
as a seed.
node-or:: [Converter] -> Converter
This combinator applies all converters to a given node and
produces the union of their results.
This combinator corresponds to a union, '
|' operation for XPath
location paths.
node-closure:: Converter -> Converter
Select all descendants of a node that satisfy a converter-predicate.
This combinator is similar to
select-kids but applies to
grand... children as well.
This combinator implements the "
descendant::" XPath axis.
Conceptually, this combinator can be expressed as
(define (node-closure f) (node-or (select-kids f) (node-reduce (select-kids (ntype?? '*)) (node-closure f))))
This definition, as written, looks somewhat like a fixpoint, and it
will run forever. It is obvious however that sooner or later
(select-kids (ntype?? '*)) will return an empty nodeset. At
this point further iterations will no longer affect the result and
can be stopped.
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{sxml.sxpath} Evaluates an abbreviated SXPath
sxpath:: AbbrPath -> Converter, or sxpath:: AbbrPath -> Node|Nodeset -> Nodeset
AbbrPath is a list. It is translated to the full SXPath according to the following rewriting rules:
(sxpath '()) -> (node-join) (sxpath '(path-component ...)) -> (node-join (sxpath1 path-component) (sxpath '(...))) (sxpath1 '//) -> (node-or (node-self (ntype?? '*any*)) (node-closure (ntype?? '*any*))) (sxpath1 '(equal? x)) -> (select-kids (node-equal? x)) (sxpath1 '(eq? x)) -> (select-kids (node-eq? x)) (sxpath1 '(or@ ...)) -> (select-kids (ntype-names?? (cdr '(or@ ...)))) (sxpath1 '(not@ ...)) -> (select-kids (sxml:invert (ntype-names?? (cdr '(not@ ...))))) (sxpath1 '(ns-id:* x)) -> (select-kids (ntype-namespace-id?? x)) (sxpath1 ?symbol) -> (select-kids (ntype?? ?symbol)) (sxpath1 ?string) -> (txpath ?string) (sxpath1 procedure) -> procedure (sxpath1 '(?symbol ...)) -> (sxpath1 '((?symbol) ...)) (sxpath1 '(path reducer ...)) -> (node-reduce (sxpath path) (sxpathr reducer) ...) (sxpathr number) -> (node-pos number) (sxpathr path-filter) -> (filter (sxpath path-filter))
Note that the above table is abstract rules to show how it works,
and not the running code examples. The nonterminals sxpath1
and sxpathr don't exist as APIs. The term txpath is an
internal function that interprets XPath query given as a string.
In the code, a string passed to
sxpath is interpreted
as a XPath query.
;; select all <book> elements whose style attribute value is equal to ;; the <bookstore> element's speciality attribute value. (sxpath "//book[/bookstore/@specialty=@style]")
Some wrapper functions around
sxpath always returns a list, which is
#t in Scheme.
if-sxpath returns
#f instead of empty list.
Returns first node found, if any.
Otherwise returns
{sxml.sxpath} Returns first node found, if any. Otherwise returns empty list.
Built an index as a list of
(ID_value . element) pairs for given
node. lpaths are location paths for attributes of type ID.
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SXML counterparts to W3C XPath Core Functions Library.
The counterpart to XPath
string function (section 4.2 XPath Rec.)
Converts a given object to a string.
The counterpart to XPath
boolean function (section 4.3 XPath Rec.)
Converts its argument to a boolean.
The counterpart to XPath
number function (section 4.4 XPath Rec.)
Converts its argument to a number
string->number conversion is not IEEE 754 round-to-nearest.
{sxml.sxpath} Returns a string value for a given node in accordance to XPath Rec. 5.1 - 5.7
{sxml.sxpath} According to XPath specification 2.3, this test is true for any XPath node. For SXML auxiliary lists and lists of attributes has to be excluded.
{sxml.sxpath} Returns the list of attributes for a given SXML node. Empty list is returned if the given node is not an element, or if it has no list of attributes
Select SXML element by its unique IDs. (XPath Rec. 4.1)
Returns a converter that takes object,
which is a nodeset or a datatype which can be converted to a string by means
of a '
string' function.
id-index is
( (id-value . element) (id-value . element) ... ).
This index is used for selection of an element by its unique ID.
Comparators for XPath objects:
A helper for XPath equality operations:
= ,
bool-op, number-op and
'string-op are comparison operations for
a pair of booleans, numbers and strings respectively.
Counterparts of XPath equality operations:
= ,
using default equality tests.
Creates a relational operation (
< ,
> ,
<= ,
>= )
for two XPath objects.
op is comparison procedure:
< ,
> ,
<= or
XPath axises. An order in resulting nodeset is preserved.
{sxml.sxpath} Attribute axis.
Child axis.
This function is similar to '
select-kids', but it returns an empty
child-list for PI, Comment and Entity nodes.
{sxml.sxpath} Parent axis.
Given a predicate, it returns a function
RootNode -> Converter
which yields a
node -> parent
converter then applied to a rootnode.
Thus, such a converter may be constructed using
((sxml:parent test-pred) rootnode)
and returns a parent of a node it is applied to.
If applied to a nodeset, it returns the
list of parents of nodes in the nodeset. The rootnode does not have
to be the root node of the whole SXML tree – it may be a root node
of a branch of interest.
parent:: axis can be used with any SXML node.
{sxml.sxpath} Ancestor axis
{sxml.sxpath} Ancestor-or-self axis
{sxml.sxpath} Descendant axis
{sxml.sxpath} Descendant-or-self axis
{sxml.sxpath} Following axis
{sxml.sxpath} Following-sibling axis
{sxml.sxpath} Namespace axis
{sxml.sxpath} Preceding axis
{sxml.sxpath} Preceding-sibling axis
Popular shortcuts:
((sxml:child sxml:node?) nodeset)
((select-kids sxml:element?) nodeset)
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I was inspired to start building my own travel trailer (since I already own a full size truck by this message:
"Hi Erin and Everybody,
1) Before you consider adding flooring, I suggest you check the insulation. You'll probably need more. A lot more.
Why? A lot of folks -- me included -- describe the various amusing products of the Recreational Vehicle industry as 'cheap and disposable'.
Here is my experience: On-and-off over thirty years, I delivered RVs of all sorts and perceived values from builders-to-dealers and dealers-to-shows. In my short sweet life, I discovered RV manufacturers tend to construct to the lowest bidder, designing with the cheapest materials and cheapest labor. And quite often, they fail to achieve even these hilariously-miserable standards.
Early on, I realized there is no way I could feel safe full-timing in a store-bought RV, so I build my rigs from commercial-duty trucks and trailers. These platforms are professionally-engineered from the get-go to travel millions of trouble-free miles.
In Oregon, we have a name for these converted commercial-duty conversions: house-trucks.
For more information on this ever-growing phenomena of house-trucks, check out the hundreds of photos on the website of my Oregon guitar playing buddy Mr. Sharky: http://www.mrsharkey.com/
2) Erin asks about re-covering the sub-floor. Before you decide on one type of flooring (Bamboo?), check over at a big hardware/lumber store such as Home Depot. Each box is designed to cover only about 22 square feet, and yet, each box of Bamboo flooring is about as much as I can lift with two hands and a thigh.
How do I know? I installed gorgeous toasted Bamboo tongue-and-groove in my house-truck Rhino 8. With a GVWR of 26,000+ pounds, Rhino 8 has boo-koo carrying capacity to spare, and the extra few hundred pounds is non-noticeable.
But, transferring the individual boxes from the shopping cart to inside The Rig was a major bear.
But, it sure looks sharp. Impresses the ladies to beat the band.
And, following through with my Japanese theme, I laid slate tile at the entry, with a short bench so I can remove my shoes and store them under it.
3) In a 3/4-ton Chevy van conversion, carrying capacity can approach maximum with just a few gallons of water and some can goods.
How do I know? Back in the early 80s, I had a 4x4 Chevy 1-ton conversion. I loaded it with SCUBA gear and a couple kayaks and camping gear for trips to Baja, then took it across the scale at a moving-and-storage company.
The darn thing weighed right at max for a 1-ton, and acceleration was glacial. How slow? One Sunday morning, trudging at full-throttle on the way up the hill to church, we were passed -- on the right! the scoundrels! -- by a herd of hung-over ants on their way to terrorize us in our place of worship. Fortunately, as the hooligans hooted and brodied around us, they created a massive dust cloud to hide our shame-filled faces, so until now, nobody knew the truth of the matter (I trust you will be decent and reverential to us in this most sensitive 'sharing').
And with all that weight, our 1-ton's fuel mileage plummeted. How does 6 (six) MPG sound? With a smallish fuel tank, range dropped to less than a couple hundred miles. Just driving around town, I filled the tank one day... then needed to re-fill a couple days later!
Sadly, in a wildly-optimistic attempt to extend the van's dismal range, the RV manufacturer added a 9-gallon second fuel tank. Unfortunately, the filler for the second tank was in the rear wheel-well, so it accumulated grunge at an appalling rate. Filling the aux tank required chiseling away petrified slime and who-knows-what yuck from the cap area.
The seller swore up-and-down his fuel mileage was "...about 15MPG or so...", but my experience significantly differed from his testimony.
I owned the rodent a total of 4 (four) days, then dumped it off at the seller's bank to let them fight it out. And that was the last I heard of it.
Here's another example: My buddy full-timed in a 1-ton dually wide-body van conversion. She wore out tires and she wore out brakes, and the darn thing handled like a dyspeptic vulture with an UTI.
She was Mormon (could still be, as far as I know), and carried her recommended years' inventory of necessities. The poor dear was mortified about starvation, and defending her hoard against roving hordes of the shambling undead or somesuch.
So, we took her rig across the scales, using an elaborate -- and totally dorky-looking -- series of maneuvers... we weighed each axle, then weighed each side, then weighed each axle end.
And this initiated the investigation into the reasons for her many problems -- we discovered her coach batteries were forward on the driver side, the propane and water tanks were forward on the driver side. And her starting batteries were up front on the driver side.
Just for the fun of it, we weighed the rig with her in her decomposed-and-collapsed driver seat -- and the left front tire carried DOUBLE its rating.
Wendy (that was her name, 'Wendy'), well, she was a large woman, so this might've contributed to the poor dear's issues.
So, I suggest you weigh it and be safe.
Besides, could an insurance investigator deny a claim based on 'unsafe operation of an unsafe vehicle'?
3) Carpet anyplace any time is a disease factory. Stains and dust and fungus and molds and decomposition and the perfect place for bugs to hang out. I suggest you go with an easily-washable mat.
viktor -- Cottage Grove, Oregon
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Looking to get noticed this Valentine's Day? Or do you simply feel like prettying yourself up? Either way, dressing up your nails is a fun way to let your fashion imagination run wild. From colors to shapes to stickers and paints, the possibilities are endless. We've found some great nail inspiration to celebrate on this lovely holiday.
Muah! This nail idea is genius. We only wish we thought of it first! (via Pinterest)
These pretty pastels with gold studs remind us of the little candy hearts that we share with friends on Valentine's Day. (via Ameba)
Brighten anyone's day with neon pink and metallic tones. (via Pinterest)
As our girl Madonna would say, express yourself! This design involves acrylic paint in addition to nail polish. (via MaGaDollieLife)
Who says you have to wear pink on Valentine's Day? Rock a darker look with this striking polish. (via Nailside)
If you do want to stick with the classics, patterns in pink are sure to please. (via Pinterest)
Love pretty nails, but too impatient to sit down and carefully paint them? Check out these nail stickers to get a glam look fast. (via Wacky Laki)
Hearts will flutter over these delicate decals. (via Pinterest)
How will you polish your nails for Valentine's Day? Leave a comment or picture of your favorite design!


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I truly enjoyed this view of Leicester from Kathryn's blog.
It was a cold, dull and damp day in Leicester last Friday but I was determined it wouldn't spoil the afternoon. A friend had come to stay for the weekend and I was going to show her around Leicester. I've never been hugely fond of the city, feeling a far greater affinity with the south of the country, but, on Friday, I saw it through someone else's eyes for the first time and realised that it's a far more interesting and friendly place than I ever gave it credit for.
We went to the cathedral first. Now I've written about the cathedral before: about what it means to me and why I think it is fit for Richard III, but things have changed. The way I feel about it hasn't changed and nothing has changed that would be perceptible to the casual visitor, but it has changed. It's stepped…
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Creating a One-line in EasyPower
If this is easy as it appears I've been wasting a lot of time with SKM. It appears you do a lot of sizing but my concern is selecting the cable used in a project and the X/R ratios inadvertently defaults to your data base. These guys, as you well know, are the determining factor in S.C. calculations. I normally use the manufacturers' data sheets for generators. Then calculated the three X/R ratios by hand.
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Online Grant System Account Registration Form
In order to access the Division of Library Development's Online Grant System, you must have a NYS Directory Service account. If you do not have a NYS Directory Service account, then complete the form below to register for an account. The Online Grant System contains applications for Conservation/Preservation, Adult Literacy, Family Literacy, and Public Library Construction grant programs.
If you already have a NYS Directory Service account, proceed to the Online Grant System.
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Encountering God's Presence through New Life
Encountering God's Presence through New Life/Renewal
"In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Diggory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it…
"Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could possibly count. They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars. They didn't come out gently one by one, as they do on a summer evening. One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out – single stars constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world… The new starts and the new voices began at exactly the same time…
"Far away, and down near the horizon, the sky began to turn gray. A light wind, very fresh, began to stir. The sky, in that place, grew slowly and steadily paler. You could see shapes of hills, standing up dark against it. All the time the Voice went on singing."
-The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. (2 Corinthians 5: 17)
Ways to encounter God through New Life/Renewal
- Enjoy some new spiritual reading
- Read (or re-read your favorite) book of the Bible
- Do a prayer walk as the weather gets nicer
- Learn and practice contemplative prayer
- Join a community garden & donate the produce to a food pantry that accepts fresh produce
- Join a meal train to bring meals to a new mom
- Offer to babysit for a young family
- Mend a broken relationship with a friend or loved one
- Clean out your house and donate the goods to the poor
- Read the Creation story in Genesis as a family
- Start a new family prayer routine
- Pick a bad habit to eliminate from your life
- Attend daily Mass once a week
Resources and practical suggestions for encountering God through New Life/Renewal
- Learn more about Baptism through Ascension Press videos: https://youtu.be/jsrJM4MgDFM
- Suggestions for spiritual reading
- New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
- The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis
- Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
- God and His Image by Dominique Barthelemy, O.P.
- Meditation and Contemplation by Timothy M. Gallagher, OMV
- Listening for God: Spiritual Directives for Searching Christians by Ben Campbell Johnson
- The Cloud of Unknowing author unknown
- Download https://catholicapps.com/laudate/ to your phone and use it to read the daily readings or to pray the liturgy of the hours


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- HDR content requires that the system be configured with a fully HDR-ready content chain, including: graphics card, monitor/TV, graphics driver and application. Video content must be graded in HDR and viewed with an HDR-ready player. Windowed mode content requires operating system support.
- Statement of "future-proof" refers to support of current and upcoming technology standards including 14nm FinFET process technology, DirectX®12 and Vulkan™ API support, new I/O technology including DDR4, USB 2.1 Gen 2, and NVMe, and experiences such as VR. "Future-proof" statement is not meant to serve as a warranty or indicate that users will never have to upgrade their graphics technology again. Support of current and upcoming technology standards described above has the potential to reduce frequency of CPU upgrades for some users.
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The 26-year-old "Shape of You" singer-songwriter made made this revelation recently.
"The next record that I'm making is not a pop album. I feel like it's dangerous to have a career that goes bigger and bigger, because at some point it's gonna drop. If the next album does, like, 2 or 1 [million], or 500,000, it's not a failure because I've made an album where I'm not trying to get there. No one's going to be like, 'that's a flop,'" he explained.
"The label hate that. The label really f–king hate that. They want a big pop album again but I think that s–t's dangerous."


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SoHo Penthouse
Positioned in Lower Manhattan's bustling cultural district, the renovation of the SoHo Penthouse focused on shaping an environment free of clutter. Employing a minimal material palate, the design team at BSDB used bold lines and silhouettes to engage movement in the space.
The bent Corian vanity, the room's focal centerpiece, was fashioned around an Italian made Boffi washbasin and an LED backlit wall panel. The elegant lines forming the vanity remain consistent throughout the space as crisp tile work and glass partitions intersect, unifying the room with a minimal and deliberate application of materials and fixtures.


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Bamboo, like true wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures.[17]
In its natural form, bamboo as a construction material is traditionally associated with the cultures of South Asia, East Asia and the South Pacific, to some extent in Central and South America, and by extension in the aesthetic of Tiki culture
Several institutes, businesses, and universities are researching the use of bamboo as an ecological construction material. In the United States and France, it is possible to get houses made entirely of bamboo,[citation needed] which are earthquake- and cyclone-resistant and internationally certified. In Bali, Indonesia, an international K-12 school, the Green School, is constructed entirely of bamboo, for its beauty and advantages as a sustainable resource. There are three ISO standards for bamboo as a construction material.
The above house, designed by Ibuku, is part of a community of gorgeous homes built entirely from bamboo in Bali. Construction on the village began in 2010, and it continues to grow with the addition three more fantastic homes this year (and they're available to rent!). Constructed with locally-sourced materials and traditional building techniques, the Green Village fits in perfectly with the surrounding natural landscape of Bali's sacred Ayung River.
A bamboo Bali treehouse for that magnificent feel.
Above is not a house but the Green School in Bali – a very different learning environment.
To see more Gold Coast inspired passive bamboo architecture see Gold Coast Bamboo Architecture.
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Chubby Happiness
Back here at Chubby Balls we've set ourselves a plan... to spread The Chubby Love back into people's lives. Life is all about those special moments with family and friends and what better way to share those beautiful moments than with a cup full of chubby happiness.
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Mirage/TNT Custom Trailers : Trailer Manufacturers : About
Mirage Trailers and TNT specialize in custom trailers. We have been one of the USA's leading trailer manufacturers for over a decade.
Here at Mirage Trailers we measure our value and success through our employee's well being, as well as our customer's satisfaction. Without both, we would cease to exist.
Our goal is to manufacture a quality line of enclosed trailers and utility trailers for distribution throughout the United States and Canada; while maintaining a high level of excellence in service and quality, a knowledgeable sales staff, and a production staff capable of handling virtually any custom order.
Company History
Mirage Trailers was founded in 2003 in Nampa, Idaho, under the name Mirage Enterprises, Inc.. Since then Mirage has expanded its manufacturing and distribution capability, emerging as one of the finest trailer manufacturers in the entire US. Mirage has diversified into several different brands, and now is a leading manufacturer of enclosed trailers, towable RVs, and utility trailers. Recently, Mirage has introduced new models in several trailer categories to remain competitive in an ever-changing market.
Manufacturing Process
- Customer Feedback Infused into Design Concepts
- Prototype is Drafted
- Prototype is Manufactured
- Trailer is Rigorously Tested for Functionality and Durability.
- Trailer is Sent to Dealerships for Distribution
- Customer Feedback Infused into Design Concepts
By following these guidelines, we are able to deliver one of the most advanced products on the market today.
Mirage Trailers Corporate HQ (Nampa, Idaho) Houses:
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2005-2007 > Shlomi Community Center > Herev Le'et Village, Emek Hefer > built 850 sqm > Plot 2000 sqm, flat space
At the center of this pastoral Moshav seat for many years a beautiful blend tower and hangar, used for storing agricultural produce, both neglected and untouched. Following major donation of a rooted family from the place, we planned a re-use of this two objects, and transformed them as an active center and multi-purpose communal zone contain permanently youth movement, activities for the elderly population, historical archive and library, museum for agricultural equipment, open terrace for events and ceremonies, observation balcony and courtyards for informal activities, depending on the types of users and different times of the day.
With generous Cooperation by the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites, our team made a precise documentation of all existing buildings, and decided how to preserve them, while casting all the new programmatic content.
Main front tower treated conservatively, and at his top widened vertical openings emphasize the relatively extraordinary height of the Moshav skyline, while back retaining structure was partially destroyed, after testing and developing numerous alternatives within the overall outline plan.
The chosen solution advocates a series of mass liquidation, in which volumes are measured differently from one another, derived from the diverse characteristics activity of the compound.
The typical section of the Great Hall is inspired by the performance of poultry and dairy farms, bright and airy through the creation of broken roof structured configuration, and continued in horizontal spans along youth court perimeter, performing an outer attendance higher shell and a low internal and rural one.
Long peripheral reinforce concrete sledding connects both historical and new addition buildings, while drain the runoff from the roofs sloping for re-use and irrigation peripheral areas.
Old water reservoirs and ammunition bunker hidden at a mound of soil will be made accessible and transformed to a public space that embraces the re-new built layout, terraces and surfaces with merging with the wings of complex volumes can be used for a wide range of independent activities, regardless of the building different uses.
Finishing materials were chosen as a gesture and characteristics the Moshav Sense of Place, and include zinc tin roofs covering, visible concrete walls, wood surfaces, silicate bricks, steel frames and roughened stucco.
Design team: Sharon, Oren, Nitzan Hirsch - Carmi >> Interior Design in collaboration with Estee Wolf >> Master plan: Architect Ilan Eisen


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Hello Lovelies!
This is such great news! And another victory, but I see this as more of a victory for our children. I remember when I was in the Brownies and then Girl Scouts, my mom was a participant in a lot of what my troops did. I think children of LGBT parents should have the same rights as children of straight parents. They shouldn't be punished for being born to the "wrong" parents.
NEW YORK (AP) — The executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America has unanimously approved a resolution that would end the organization's blanket ban on gay adult leaders and let individual scout units set their own policy on the long-divisive issue.In a statement Monday, the BSA said the resolution was approved by the 17-member executive committee on Friday, and would become official policy if ratified by the organization's 80-member National Executive Board at a meeting on July 27.


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Lorna's Lace Shawl and WIP List
I just finished the first panel of Lorna's Lace Shawl (the pattern comes free attached to the hank of yarn). I bought this yarn at Alamitos Bay Yarn Co. a few weeks ago, and I'm slowly tackling this project. It's literally as thin as crochet thread, and I'm surprised that I can do this - BUT I must say in all sincerity that this is EASY stuff - the entire pattern consists of casting on, knitting, turning (not wrap and turn; just turn!), yarn over, and bind off... if you can do those things, along with moving a marker, I am confident you can do this pattern. I did make a spreadsheet for this pattern because you follow the pattern so many times for each panel - I find that if I make a checklist or matrix to check off with each box, it's a lot easier for me to keep track of my rows, etc. I don't have an easy time remembering what row I'm on - I literally must check a box after the completion of each row.
I also have been working on a baby sweater for someone special - it's not quite finished yet - but it's turning out very cute! I did my "make 1" stitches a little differently than I think I was supposed to for the collar, and it made tiny holes across the top and bottom of it, but I like the holes, so I kept it. They look neat to me (kind of like eyelets!) - I will talk with my knitting gals to find out how I should have made my "make 1" so that next time I will know what I did wrong!
The Phoenix sweater is moving along slowly - I have found that I love to start projects, but finishing them gets difficult. I would rather cast something else on than complete something even if it's near completion! I'm trying to think of what's on my needles right now... let's see:
- scrap scarf that I started forever ago - maybe 50% complete - this will probably never be worn - I thought it'd be a good idea but I don't like the way it looks but it just looks silly. I should just finish it and bind off and be done with it - so it's at least not on my list any more!
- "circle" intarsia/fair isle scarf - maybe 10% complete (kind of complex for me) This one will take a while! - I need to pack it all together so that all the yarn and pattern are in one place.
- baby sweater that I just talked about - need to do the button band and sew the arms on and it'll be complete (hooray a finished project soon!)
- "Phoenix" sweater - 5% done - I am about 6 or 7" up the back - there's a long way to go
- "Mystery" sweater (a present) the back is done, one side, and I think one arm... maybe both arms - I need to work on this one - there's quite a bit of finishing to do on it (including sending it out to get a zipper put in)
- my "First" sweater - the green one I am doing in Snuggly DK - back is done, the front is almost done - I just have to knit from where the zipper starts up to the collar - maybe an hour of knitting to do on the front. I bought some colors of yarn to do a fair isle or intarsia band on the one arm for some interest - it's SUCH a boring sweater - and with all its mistakes, I will want to wear it... so I need to come up with something. This one could be done in a few weeks if I'd just work on it -
- Lace Shawl - (the reason for my post this morning) - it's 1/6 complete -
- Test sock - that first one that I started to try to figure out how to make a sock - it might just get frogged... socks are not hard but they take a LOT of time- I will make at least one pair in my life but maybe not right now! :)
Of course, I want to cast on my Quiviuk hat, and another 2 or 3 sweaters are itching to get started... I need to focus on finishing some of these pieces - the reason I don't get stuff "done" is because I'm spreading my precious knitting time across too many projects! Right now, I'm working on the lace shawl, the baby sweater AND the Phoenix sweater... so my stitches are spread out.
The other comment I want to make is I am trying to find a book or form or computer program (mac preferably) to keep track of my knitting projects. If anyone knows of a good form or program, email me or post a comment - I want to try to record when I made my projects, for whom, and have a place to remember the yarns, patterns, etc. - in 50 years I might want to look back and see what I was doing. The blog helps keep track of some of it, but I would prefer a different format.
Thanks for any information or ideas you might have :)