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Dancing with the Stars Season 15, Week 4 – Who's Dancing What…and When??
So, this is the week that DWTS copies SYTYCD (why copy a fading show??) and does it with crappy music. Why?? And I also lament that the most creative choreographer on the show got stuck with something he's done before and doesn't seem that fond of. :::sigh::: So, he'll get crazy, put some gymnastics in it, Gilles will whine it's not fair and drink a bottle of booze (no glass, no class). He will then imply that all Shawn and Apolo have to look forward to is a Pepsi commercial while he's an ACTOR. Hehehe…but he got Bollywood. 😀
Gilles and Slumdog Millionaire. That's like…totally original. Only not at all. Not only that, but already done (badly) as Kyle and Lacey's Argentine Tango. Of course, as a Bollywood number we'll probably get something like Slumdog Millionaire. It's probably too much to ask to get the Jason and Caitlin version from SYTYCD.
Kelly dancing to Fix You by Cold Play? Like I said, SYTYCD…pretty sure that it will be hard to beat Allison Holker doing a Travis Wall number. Of course, Allison is a professional dancer…which is exactly why it's a bad idea to pick THIS song.
I went ahead an added Mark and Bristol's song too, since dude tweeted a video of him and Bristol "dancing" to it. Unfortunately, she'll probably do okay with this piece of cake song.
ETA1: Kirstie's song is Slllllooooowwww….she should be able to do well. I'm sure "they" hope she does, those manipulating…. 😀 Strictly Come Dancing has done Charleston before, even found a Charleston montage from that show. And LOL to the Korean school doing a Christmas Charleston. Heh.
ETA2: Another cop out song. Not only has it been used on the show before by Joey and Kym for their Cha Cha, but it was used in the Vegas show that Sabrina was a part of.
ETA3: Geez. It's apparent to Courtney and myself that they picked the songs so as to not complicate it further for the pros who got foreign dance styles. But surely they could have done better with the Mambo?? But Melissa certainly got lucky. If it weren't for the fact that I would lay money on them having the song paired with the dance well before dances were picked for couples, I'd start to get suspicious.
ETA4: Someone had to bring in FOUR outside choreographers for help with her dance. And it wasn't Karina. 🙂 Dang, Apolo hit the jackpot this week, provided that Karina can hip hop as well as she does everything else.
ETA5: Depending on how they set the show up, they've either put Emmitt and Cheryl at the top of the hour…or buried them. Curious to see which. 🙂
ETA6: TPTB are showing family favoritism once again – Kelly has been in the last few dances all but ONCE. Sabrina is the opposite, which isn't good. I guess we'll see if Kelly lives up to the hype. I like her, and her partnership with Val, but she certainly didn't deserve top of the leaderboard last week. Will they keep protecting her – at Sabrina's expense?? Or Shawn's? At least they finally got Apolo towards the end. He's been stuck in the middle for three weeks.
ETA7: Hmmm…I find Gilles running order interesting, when looking at all four weeks. Not sure what to make of it. I want to say it's cuz he's a douchbag. 😀 I hope that Bristol and Shawn are in the right spots, since going second is, historically, the worst spot. Maybe we can get rid of her? Nah…bad feeling we're going to lose someone really good while she sticks one more week.
ETA8: All kinds of changes. Apparently, Derek got their song changed (don't ask me why I believe Derek did it) and I jumped the guy on Apolo being 8th – he's 7th and Derek/Shawn are 8th. There's a long story that has to do with someone telling me Melissa's order wrong, followed by Karina saying they were dancing "close to the end". Melissa's order lead me to Apolo's order. When I fixed the Melissa error, it didn't occur to me that "close to the end" for Karina would be 7th. :::sigh::: A number, Karina, I need a number. 🙂
Kirstie/Maks – The Charleston (Song "42nd St." from the musical 42nd St.)
Dancing 1st
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Bristol/Mark – Rock n' Roll (Song: "At the Hop" by Danny & the Juniors)
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Sabrina/Louis – Disco (Song: "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees)
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Emmett/Cheryl – Bolero (Song: "Better in Time" by Leona Lewis)
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Gilles/Peta – Bollywood (Song: "Jai Ho" by A.R. Rahman)
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Melissa/Tony – Jitterbug (Song: "This Cat's On a Hot Tin Roof" by Brian Setzer Orchestra)
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Apolo/Karina – Hip Hop (Song: "Poison" by Bel Biv DeVoe)
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Shawn/Derek – Mambo (Song:
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Kelly/Val – Contemporary (Song: "Fix You" by Coldplay)
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ETA1a: Cheese preview!! 🙂


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Dr. Laura Jana and Dr. Jennifer Shu are co-authors of a new, updated edition of "Food Fights" — a real world guide to meeting the nutritional challenges of parenthood. The two pediatrician moms have cultivated a laid-back approach to instill healthy eating habits, without turning the dinner table into a battlefield.
Jana, mother of three, is also the owner of an Omaha child care center. She found time to talk to us about "Food Fights," published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and hitting bookstores in March.
Q. One parent of a toddler lamented, "Fruit is easy, vegetables are impossible." How important is it to eat both?
A. Good nutrition should be ranked right up there with car seats and immunizations. That said, kids don't need a big heaping serving of vegetables on their plate. ... We break it down to one teaspoon for every year of age. And while it's a good idea to expose kids to as wide a range of foods as possible, we adults don't like all vegetables … and kids don't have to, either.
Q. So how do you get them to try foods they automatically assume are "yucky"?
A. We know it takes 10 to 15 exposures for kids to like a new food. But usually, if the kids make a face and spit it out, parents just don't introduce it again. No one likes rejection.
Q. So if your child refuses to eat something, how do you keep from turning this into a high-stakes battle?
A. Just take the food away, say "That's OK." and try again another time. … If kids see you have this huge emotional investment in whether or not they eat broccoli, mealtime will become very stressful for everyone. So, that's why we say first, "Never let them see you sweat."
Q. Is there anything crucial about the color green?
A. We know green veggies are good — but it's also good to eat red and orange. So, again, don't make too big a deal of the color "green" … otherwise you're going to get push-back. A better approach in the produce aisle: Say, "Hey, this beet looks cool, let's take it home and Google beets and find a recipe." Now, you have something nutritious, challenging and a family activity. Success is also about the subtle use of words and painting (certain foods) in a positive light. I know it sounds Pollyanna-ish, but it actually works.
Q. So, knowing how you feel about not getting overly invested, I'm guessing you're against bribery?
A. If you say "You have to eat this" … or "If you eat X, then you can have Y," the message you're implicitly sending is "This is not going to be good."
Q. One mom says her 2-year-old will only eat meat when served in chili. How important is it to push him to eat other types of meat in other forms?
A. It might be the texture that's bothering him … some kids can't handle swallowing meat. But if you're worried that he's missing protein and iron, I'd try to find similar foods to make sure he's getting enough protein and iron. So maybe you want to try ground turkey? Or put ground beef in soups. Again, just keep trying the exposures.
Q. The same 2-year-old has very little interest in food. … If offered a choice between reading a book or having breakfast, he will always go for the activity. But he loves snacks in the car, so she dutifully packs cashews and dried fruit in a little pack for him. Do the snacks undermine his appetite at meal time?
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A. Kudos to this mom for paying attention to healthy snacks. We know that the amount of calories — 34 percent — consumed today during snacks is significantly more than it was a decade ago, so we need to pay attention. But while there's nothing inherently wrong with eating on the go, I don't like the idea of 2-year-old eating nuts in the car because of a choking hazard. As for being too busy to come to the table, that defines 2- and 3-year-olds. They'll eat when they're hungry.
Q. Your kids are in the 6th, 8th and 9th grades. Any weird eating habits in your household?
A. I have a meat and potatoes child … and now that he's old enough, he can go up to the gas station and get Big Gulps and Doritos. I tell him "You're killing me." It's our job to teach them healthy habits, but you can't hold their hands their entire life. You want to teach them to live in the real world. Still, it's difficult to step back. … All you can do is keep plugging away … because I think they really do hear you."

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Off-Road Community Loses Legend Mark A Smith
The Father of Modern Four-Wheeling
The off-road community is with a heavy heart today as we have lost one of the greatest legends in the off-road world. Mark A. Smith who is known as "the father of modern four-wheeling", passed away this morning at the age of 87.
Smith was the Founder of Jeep Jamboree USA as well as Mark A. Smith Off-Roading, Inc.
He was born in 1926 in Globe, Arizona, Smith grew up as the son of a mining engineer in eastern Nevada. While serving in the Marine Corps during World War II, Smith first drove a Jeep, the vehicle he would be associated with throughout his life.
In 1951, Smith settled in Georgetown, California. Looking for a way to boost local tourism, Smith and a group of local boosters devised the Jeepers Jamboree, a demanding off-road excursion traversing an ancient footpath soon to be known the world over as the Rubicon Trail. In time, the event grew into the largest and best-known off-road event in the country. In 1982, Smith took the Jamboree concept nationwide, founding Jeep Jamboree USA, which offers over 30 annual off-road trips across the country exclusively for Jeep owners.
In 1979, Smith organized and led the Expedicion de las Americas, a 120-day, 20,000 mile off-road journey from the southernmost tip of South America at Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, above the Arctic Circle. This historic trip featured a traverse of the virtually impassable Darien Gap, a 103-mile stretch of dense, hostile jungle, which took 30 days to cross. The Expedicion team was the first non-military group to complete a vehicular crossing of the Gap.
He also organized and headed the 1987 Camel Trophy event, considered to be the world's most demanding off-road adventure, in Madagascar.
Smith's long official association with Jeep vehicles began in 1954, when the Willys Corporation, then the manufacturer of Jeeps, began their sponsorship of the Jeepers Jamboree. The affiliation with the Jeep brand continued in to the present, with Smith helping to develop the off-road capabilities of Jeep vehicles for over 60 years. The four wheel drive test facility at the Chrysler Proving Grounds, as well as test facilities for law enforcement agencies, tire manufacturers and the Severe Off-Road Track at Quantico Marine Corps Base and over 250 other off-road demonstration and training courses were designed and built by Smith.
In 1980, Smith was inducted into the Off Road Motorsports Hall of Fame. In 1986, his accomplishments were recognized by the United Four Wheel Drive Association, which named him "Four Wheeler of the Decade", and in 1989, Smith was inducted as a member of the Explorer's Club of New York.
Smith was also active in the civic life of the Sierra Foothills region of California, serving as Sherriff of Eldorado County and spearheading the planning and construction of the Georgetown and Lake Tahoe airports.
Smith is survived by Irene, his wife of 63 years, and his children Robert, Patti, Greg, and Jill, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Update: Many of you have been asking about the memorial services for Jeep Jamboree founder, Mark A. Smith. The "celebration of life" service will be held on Sunday, August 31 at 10:00 AM at the address listed below. The ceremony will be open to the public.
Henningson Lotus Park
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Saucy chicken & vegetables
Cook your chicken so it's moist with a crispy skin and serve with mixed greens and a creamy tarragon sauce
Nutrition and extra info
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- kcal386
- fat16g
- saturates6g
- carbs23g
- sugars0g
- fibre3g
- protein38g
- salt1.5g
- 2 chicken breasts, skin on
- 1 tbsp olive oil
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- 200g new potato, thinly sliced
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- 500ml chicken stock
- 200g pack of mixed spring vegetables (broccoli, peas, broad beans and sliced courgette)
- 2 tbsp crème fraîche
- handful tarragon leaves, roughly chopped
A popular and versatile herb, tarragon has an intense flavour that's a unique mix of sweet…
Fry the chicken in the oil in a wide pan for 5 mins on each side. Throw in the potatoes and stir to coat. Pour over the chicken stock, cover and simmer for 10 mins until the potatoes are almost cooked through.
Remove the lid and turn the heat to high. Boil the stock down until it just coats the bottom of the pan. Scatter the vegetables into the pan, cover again and cook the veg for about 3 mins.
Stir in the crème fraîche to make a creamy sauce, season with pepper and salt, if you want, then add the tarragon. Serve straight from the pan.
Recipe Tip
Making it tangyFor a mustardy sauce, stir 1 tbsp of wholegrain mustard in with the crème fraîche. Use 1tbsp of dried tarragon instead of fresh.
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If you want to use a slow cooker...Brown the chicken, skin-side down in a frying pan for 5 mins. Turn the chicken over then throw in the potatoes and stir to coat. Spread the potatoes along the bottom of the slow cooker, sit the chicken on top, pour over 250ml stock then cover and cook on High for an hour and a half. Remove the chicken and stir in the veg. Put the chicken back on top and cook for another hour until cooked through. Stir in the crème frâiche according to step 3 and serve.


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"As the story follows their adventures, some comic, some pathetic, each character finds a different London….[al-Shaykh's] novel is funny and beautifully written. She has a perfect ear for dialogue and tone." —Sunday Telegraph
"For all its deceptive lightness of touch, the novel teems with ideas: memory and exile, language, desire and identity, and the search for order in the chaos of a metropolis. It is also very funny. London…allows Shaykh to exercise her trenchant, at times ribald, wit." —Literary Review
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — R&B singer Mary J. Blige will headline this year's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.
Billed as one of the nation's largest annual events celebrating black music and culture, the festival is slated for July 2 through 4.
The full lineup has not been released, but as in the past, musical acts will perform at the Louisiana Superdome and motivational seminars will be held during the day at the Morial Convention Center.
Besides headliners like Blige, the festival showcases New Orleans acts. In the past, those acts have included New Orleans' queen of soul Irma Thomas, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield.
Blige has performed at Essence eight times. This year she is expected to perform songs from her latest studio album, "Stronger with Each Tear."
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Last Saturday during coverage of the Champions League Final, BBH released our first 3D advert for Audi. Guest author Davud Karbasssioun, BBH Head of Film explains why this was the right technology for the right brand.
Over the last two years you would have had to be holed up on Pandora not to know that 3D was making a serious comeback. Some experts insist that film's transition to 3D is as pivotal as the adoption of sound or the move to full colour. I'm not sure it really is that 'black and white'…
More recently 3D has been used as a gimmick to add novelty to films rather than enhance their storytelling power, which hasn't done the 3D brand any favours. Cynics would argue 3D is Hollywood's answer to piracy, their way of ensuring bums on seats in an age of free sharing and piracy.
Either way the platform is here for all advertisers to embrace. Channels are desperately trying to get everyone to watch everything in 3D and all the electronics brands are falling over themselves to convince us that those brand new HD LCD's we'd just invested in needed to be replaced with new 3D TVs.
But if brands are going to embrace 3D they must learn from the mistakes Hollywood is making and do it by respecting the technology. To me, Audi's recent 2 ½ minute Le Mans film is a good example.
(The video above requires red/blue 3d glasses – for other options including plain old 2d, click on the 3D options button)
The ad features Audi Le Mans driver Allan McNish describing what it takes to win the legendary Le Mans 24-hour race. BBH Creative Directors Kevin Stark & Nick Kidney conceived the concept for the film after viewing a presentation by the charismatic McNish, describing the intensity, precision & endurance required to succeed in the race. From that moment on the brief was to dramatise that experience of the race as best they could using Allan's own improvised narrative.
3D was never in the brief, in fact the guys specifically wanted to use 2D hand drawn art to give the film a simple, personal charm that matched the drivers personality. The idea of shooting Allan and making the film in 3D came later with Passion Pictures when it was clear that viewing the film though a stereoscopic lens would only further enhance the viewer's engagement. Using both the Sky 3D broadcast of the Champions League final and the launch of the final Harry Potter installment in 3D are the perfect events to share it.
Anything that increases the creative spectrum is a great thing. 3D, if used appropriately and well, enhances the story. 3D, used badly, is terrible. Unfortunately, Hollywood is so desperate to generate hype to sell tickets that there is inevitably going to be overwhelming pressure from movie studios to push 3D in the hope that this will rescue the basic shortcoming of the film itself. That is the fundamental problem right now.
Wim Wenders' film Pina is for me a rare example of 3D used beautifully. Here the 3D technology is used to open up a stage to give the Pina Bausch Dance Group the space to perform on, The results are as effective as they are beautiful (not sure it will challenge Hangover 2 at the Box office though).
Like Pina this Audi film is a rare example of helping dramatise an experience for the viewer that wouldn't be as full an experience as in simple 2D. To me that's how 3D technology should be used and how it will be most respected by the viewers, a win-win for brands.
Essentially the way I see it Audi are simply taking advantage of the 3D technology, or in German 'Vorsprung durch 3D Technik.'


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This study examines the relationship between the magnetic mesostructure with the microstructure of low carbon steel tungsten inert gas welds. Optical microscopy revealed variation in the microstructure of the parent material, in the heat affected and fusion zones, correlating with distinctive changes in the local magnetic stray fields measured with high spatial resolution giant magneto resistance sensors. In the vicinity of the heat affected zone high residual stresses were found using neutron diffraction. Notably, the gradients of von Mises stress and triaxial magnetic stray field modulus follow the same tendency transverse to the weld. In contrast, micro-X-ray fluorescence characterization indicated that local changes in element composition had no independent effect on magnetic stray fields.
Residual stress characterization of steel TIG welds by neutron diffraction and by residual magnetic stray field mappings (2017)
The residual stress distribution of tungsten inert gas welded S235JRC+C plates was determined by means of neutron diffraction(ND). Large longitudinal residual stresses with maxima around 600 MPa were found. With these results as reference, the evaluation of residual stress with high spatial resolution GMR (giant magneto resistance) sensors was discussed. The experiments performed indicate a correlation between changes in residual stresses (ND) and the normal component of local residual magnetic stray fields (GMR). Spatial variations in the magnetic field strength perpendicular to the welds are in the order of the magnetic field of the earth.


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1954 Ford F-100 - The Hills' Effie
When Wake Forest, North Carolina, native Steve Hill came upon this '54 Ford F-100 about a dozen years ago, his first impression was, "How the heck did somebody get this poor truck so messed up?" Like the saying about too many cooks spoiling the stew, the '54 clearly needed a new chef.
With a few customs already under his belt, Steve had a new inspiration behind this build. You see, Steve's son, Tyler, was always following his dad out to the garage. As a result of this early connection to the '54, Steve figured the truck could serve as an apprenticeship of sorts-a way for him to pass on values and knowledge to his son. This sat well with Steve's wife, Kim, as long as it didn't involve any grocery money, so Steve and his young son started an MDK account for funds. That's "mama don't know," for the uninitiated.
Starting with a frame boxed in the front for strength by Allan Bonner Custom Frames in Raleigh, North Carolina, and fitted with a custom crossmember, Steve utilized the front power steering box and suspension from a '72 Nova and attached a pair of GM 11-inch front rotors and calipers for enhanced stopping power. The rearend was a Ford 9-inch with 3:73 gears that was deemed usable after close inspection. The rear is now suspended by a four-link system of unknown origins riding on a pair of Carrera coilover shocks. Rear braking is courtesy of a fresh set of stock drums, with the truck rolling on Goodyear Eagle tires mounted on timeless five-spoke American Racing Torq-Thrust II wheels all around.
After a couple of years of laying this groundwork, Steve was caught up in keeping his business in the black, and the truck took a back seat to more pressing issues. But during that time, Steve let Tyler play a little hooky from school so they could attend the F-100 Super Nationals for four years straight, gleaning ideas and all the while adding to their MDK account and Tyler's interest.
When the pair got back to work after their four-year hiatus, a '93 five-liter H.O. Mustang motor had found its way onto the frame. The powerplant came topped with a Vortech supercharger and EFI. Spent gasses exit through a set of Hedman Hedders and are kept quiet enough to keep Johnny Law happy thanks to a pair of Borla Turbo mufflers. Linking the motor to the 9-inch differential is a '93 Ford AOD tranny with a Gennie shifter and a frame-mounted cooler.
The bodywork was handed over to Steve's friends at The Local Hot Rod Shop located in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Johnny and Billy from The Shop filled the seams, installed a smooth firewall, trimmed the side exhaust cutouts, and frenched the antenna mount, one of the ideas Steve and Tyler admired from their trips to the Super Nats. They found the rear cat's eye lighting at a local show and deemed it unique enough to fit the bill, and a pair of stock blinkers snagged from a Harley-Davidson turned custom found their way onto the truck as turn signals. Since then, it seems Tyler has caught the two-wheeled custom bug as well. Covering the fresh five-liter motor is a stock hood that's been given a subtle forward slant for a more aggressive look.
For the bed floor, Steve and Tyler opted for a wood kit from Dan Carpenter, then color-matched it to the body. The rear of the stepside bed features a smoothed tailgate with hidden latches, plus a custom roll pan below. Inside the cab, the stock dashboard was smoothed, and a billet dash cluster was packed with classic analog VDO gauges combined with Dakota Digital gauges, plus a Rainbow Products A/C unit for creature comfort. With the bodywork completed, the '54 was turned over to Steve's friend Bill McDonald in Wilson, North Carolina, where Bill shot the pickup in Estate Green Dupont paint.
While the paint was being color-sanded, final details like the brake lines and Ron Francis wiring harness were installed by Steve and Tyler. The interior is Tyler's own blend of old and new. He tore the covers off a pair of Mercury Sable seats reupholstered in his choice of mahogany and brown distressed leather by Todd McCloud. The 54's stereo consists of an Alpine tuner with a Rockford Fosgate amp and speakers.
As Tyler's mom tells it, "Many lessons were learned by the young builder. Values like setting goals, persistence, patience, and self-discipline were well worth the hours and dollars the pair have devoted. Through the years of the '54 and other projects, Steve has had the chance to teach Tyler things a person can't learn in school," including managing that all-important MDK fund.


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After looking at the website and reading your story, I have come to the conclusion that that school has some serious Mcdojoism.
One funny aspect about their website is that they don't offer any info on the art they teach but they sell a crapload of products. They even sell XMA STUFF! XMA! Not to mention the patches and belts.....
I'd keep looking for a different school. BTW can u find out what kind of kung fu do they teach? If they don't tell you exactly what kind, then run far away and never return.
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Garden City, Idaho: Hart's Martial Arts Center - Is this a McDojo?Here's their website. http://www.hartsmartialarts.com/
I visteded their school the other day but they were closed. I looked in the windows and there was a huge table selling things and trying to sell things. It was full of century martial arts brochures. Stuff like that. There site says they teach kung fu, taichi and pagua. I'm mostly concerned about how they just say kung fu and not the actual style. Most legit. schools say their styles.
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As Ventura Era Begins, Hector Santiago is a Most Interesting Piece of the South Side Puzzle
Just because I haven't posted lately, it doesn't mean I'm not eagerly awaiting the 2012 season. And it makes it more fun when the so-called experts, who frankly don't have much more insight than those of us fans that follow the game closely, predict doomsday for our Sox.
Things seem to be coming together with a week to go before the opener against the defending A.L. champion Rangers. The remaining roster spots are in the bullpen and on the bench.
It looks like the pen will shape up with Matt Thornton, Jesse Crain, Will Ohman, Addison Reed and Hector Santiago with two of the following five fighting it out for the two remaining spots: Eric Stults, Brian Bruney, Nate Jones, Zack Stewart and Dylan Axelrod. The specific roles, including the annointment of the closer, are yet to be determined. The most interesting candidates are the rookie Reed, who closed for Stephen Strasburg at San Diego State, and Santiago, a New Jersey native who has impressed everyone in Glendale with an effective screwball.
If nothing unusual happens, Eduardo Escobar has won the last spot among position players. He's had a good enough spring and displayed enough infield versatility to prompt the Sox to send the likes of Dan Johnson, Dallas McPherson, Jim Gallagher and Jordan Danks back to minor league camp.
It's so hard to know what this team is going to be. For now, let's sit back, relax and watch the Robin Ventura era begin.


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The Mustang Shop Of Arizona Makes It Easy To Align Your '65-'70 Mustang While Also Improving Handling
Although the most popular Mustang generation has always been the stunning original, the '65-'66 models have never been the easiest to service and maintain. In 1964, the Mustang had a long way to go in terms of engineering refinements.
One example is the Mustang's Falcon-based front suspension, a rather crude coilover, upper arm design that has been long despised by front-end alignment specialists. Adjusting caster and camber requires installation and removal of shims between the upper control arm and shock tower. Adding shims moves the arm out (positive camber), while subtracting them moves the arm in (negative camber). Adjusting camber involves moving the entire arm in or out to achieve positive or negative camber. Caster is adjusted by adding or removing shims to move the upper ball joint fore or aft to achieve positive or negative caster.
After servicing vintage Mustangs for many years, the Mustang Shop of Arizona spent six years developing their fully articulating lower control arm and strut rod kit for '65-'70 Mustangs. In addition to making front-end alignment easier, the system also improves handling. The result is easy to install and will outlast your Mustang's original lower control arm and strut rod. Once installed, no one knows it's there but you.


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Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c. 1740, oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
They gave me an impossible task
play with the racket
they said.
Even though my hair was grey
I was young at heart
bouncing around
the little town
in my tennis shoes
avoiding the spiders
grinding dust.
The courts lit at night
under the stars
when things cooled down
it didn't seem
as if any time passed
there hitting the ball
back and forth.
I can't say I got better
only more open
to the passing shots
some I hit
many were missed.
Oohs and ahhs
deep inside me.
The "walk the cow" part, so familiar. Nice, about the ring. The forest attracts the most. Jumping into the arms of X. Been there, done that. They crossed at the last moment, like his name, gets me to thinking about that flame.
Not very Chardin... but still:
Walking the Cow: Daniel Johnston (from Hi, How Are You? 1983): Silent Snow, Secret Snow Version
K. McCarty: Rocketship (from Dead Dog's Eyeball, 1994)
The Girl With The Racket Tattoo
Knew what to do.
On her mind, murder
Calculations of the riot
She kept this all
Under her hat
Her little cap.
A racket
Just about as good
As a pearl earring
Although not
As small.
How still she is, holding that raquet, looking ahead (or inward?) toward what might be.
light coming into fog against invisible
top of ridge, bird slanting to the left
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
each next thing, which does
not 'flow' or 'change'
object next to silent, more
so, how to hear sound
silver of sunlight reflected in channel,
fog on horizon to the left of the point
When I saw the shuttlecock, Nancy from Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier" came into my head:
"Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society--much. I am that absurd figure, an American millionaire, who has bought one of the ancient haunts of English peace. I sit here, in Edward's gun-room, all day and all day in a house that is absolutely quiet. No one visits me, for I visit no one. No one is interested in me, for I have no interests. In twenty minutes or so I shall walk down to the village, beneath my own oaks, alongside my own clumps of gorse, to get the American mail. My tenants, the village boys and the tradesmen will touch their hats to me. So life peters out. I shall return to dine and Nancy will sit opposite
me with the old nurse standing behind her. Enigmatic, silent, utterly well-behaved as far as her knife and fork go, Nancy will stare in front of her with the blue eyes that have over them strained, stretched brows. Once, or perhaps twice, during the meal her knife and fork will be suspended in mid-air as if she were trying to think of something that she had forgotten. Then she will say that she believes in an Omnipotent Deity or she will utter the one word "shuttle-cocks", perhaps. It is
very extraordinary to see the perfect flush of health on her cheeks, to see the lustre of her coiled black hair, the poise of the head upon the neck, the grace of the white hands--and to think that it all means nothing--that it is a picture without a meaning. Yes, it is queer. "
The girl in the Chardin picture stands in that moment, racket in hand, where Everything is Possible is the writing in the mind. Nothing is yet played out, promises yet to go rotten.
The poem is full of boy and girl energy. The ghost of Jonson's boy may be somewhere here.
P.S. Is it a key or are those scissors hanging from the blue ribbon?
I stared into the flame.
It was a living fire.
I liked the warmth
snowy parts
Of a hellish season.
Flowers and all
The work
Had to be a challenge.
I called to him
To that boy
His exuberance
Thanks for the link to the Daniel Johnston track, TC. Beautiful. I was wondering where the phrase "walking the cow" came from.
Ah, for the lost memory of Youthful Sports!
This might be of interest too:
Walking the Cow: Daniel Johnston: from Hi, How Are You? (1983)
"that flame / Of truth which burns at the heart of the ark / Of the covenant of being you."
This line, there is a lump in my throat ... very fine.
As to the appurtenances and accessories of the young lady's costume, we have been lost for some hours in a sea of closed robes, hoop petticoats, false rumps and long aprons.
The fashion marvels of the epoch encompass several mysteries.
From the Universal Spectator, five years after Chardin made his painting, we learn that the French styles had already crossed the water.
"The enormous abomination of the Hoop Petticoat... a girl of seventeen taking up the whole side of a street with her hollow standing petticoat", & c.
Those lines, and in fact the whole drift and gist of what's happening here, came out of several decades of exposure, once upon a time, long ago, to the Planet of The Young...
(My Mr. Chips Experience.)
Hello, Mr. Chips
You save my life
Day after day
When all is said
My mind
My life
Soap opera
During the night
Remember the fallen
List their names
Deeds ideas
To make them real
An antidote
magical comb
golden horse
their well-creased
folds fantastic
despite rubble
many treasures
Seemingly buried
Seemingly forgotten
come to life light
Tom Clark, you know all the cool stuff.
Thanks, Tom.
BTW, you might do all of these things so poignantly set down in your poem or you might not, but reading this poem--now that does count for a lot.


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One of the criticisms levelled at Adobe Flash Player has been its lack of compatibility with 64-bit browsers. Fire up Internet Explorer 64-bit, for example, and you'll be unable to access YouTube content, or indeed any other Flash-based content – until now.
This preview version of Adobe Flash Player – codenamed "Square" – introduces a dedicated 64-bit plugin for Mac, Windows and Linux users to sit alongside the existing 32-bit version (also available as a preview version). Because it's still in beta you may encounter glitches and problems with it, although the core functionality should work okay. You should also notice some performance improvements – the 64-bit version makes less use of your computer's processor and aims to take advantage of hardware graphics acceleration where it can (available in Mac OS X and IE9 Beta for Windows users).
After downloading the installer file, make sure you remove any existing Flash Player installations first. Once done, close your browser and install the software. Note that this preview version has no automatic update facility – you'll need to manually check yourself.
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2 Year International Certification Training starting in 2018
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"Bella Tunic" kaftan dress in Watercolor Splash pattern
Note From Designer: I feel a woman's summer wardrobe is incomplete without a tunic dress. I like making variations on erstwhile designs; here I have made some on the basic tunic concept by giving it round neckline and bell sleeves. I call it Bella Tunic. This is a simple-sweet tunic dress that you can use as a cover-up to go out on the beach, to go out to eat or to just stroll around in. I used Watercolor Splash fabric in Beige to go with the cheerful feel of this dress.
Style: Simple Tunic Dress Kaftan with bell-sleeves.
Material: 100% mulmul cotton (fine quality and extremely soft, gets softer with every wash)
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The fateful day has finally arrive, the day that some have dreaded and some have waited for. The departure of Amy and Rory Williams (though they will always be Ponds to me) has been hinted at all season and it is no secret that in the fifth episode of Season 7, titled The Angels Take Manhattan, marks the end of Rory and Amy's time with the Doctor (Matt Smith). Not only does this episode contain Amy and Rory's departure, it also features the return of River Song (Alex Kingston) and one of the Doctor's most infamous villainous races, the Weeping Angels.
The entire episode is set in Manhattan, though not all of it is set during the same time period. The episode begins with what seems to be yet another random vacation for the Doctor and the Ponds as they lounge around the park reading, drinking coffee and enjoying each other's company. The episode begins when Rory goes to get more coffee and he ends up in 1938 rather than 2012 where he started. With the help of River Song, the Doctor and Amy make their way back in time to find that New York City has been taken over by the Weeping Angels.
Quick side note on the Weeping Angels in case any readers aren't familiar. The Weeping Angels are stuck in time, incapable of movement if anybody is looking at them. Super fast and deadly hunters, the Angels are free to move as long as nobody is looking at them. They have two main forms of attacks. The first is a physical attack and the second is the ability to send a person back in time with just a touch. In this episode, the Angels are slightly different than when we are first introduced to them, back in the days when David Tennant was the Doctor. In this episode, the Angels' movement is not quite as free as normal. In previous episodes simply blinking puts you in danger from the Angels attacks but now it seems that only darkness and actually looking away from them allows them to move. Though this change made the Angels a little less intense, the episode made up for it with the plot.
When a person is displaced in time, specifically when the Angels displace somebody in time, a tremendous amount of energy is released and the Angels feed off of that energy. After taking over every statue in Manhattan, the Angels have created their own energy farm. The Angels have found a way to displace people to a certain location, a location where they will be trapped forever until they die of old age with the Angels feeding off of them as they age. Now the Angels have their sights set on Rory. If the Angels touch Rory again, he will be sent back to the Farm they created to age alone forever and never see his wife again. After seeing his aged body expire, the only way to escape his seemingly inevitable fate is to create a time paradox, erasing everything that the Angels did to him. Even if he does manage to create the paradox, Rory will have to spend his entire life running, running away from the Weeping Angels dead set to capture him forever.
Now comes the part of this post where those that haven't seen the episode may want to stop reading because I am going to talk about Amy and Rory's tragic exit from the show. As is tradition with companion departures, and I'm thinking of Rose Tyler and Donna Noble in particular, Amy and Rory leaving left me absolutely devastated. Rather than simply running for the rest of his life, Rory decides that if he ended his life, making it so that he died twice on the same day, the paradox would be created and the building, therefore his death, would have never happened. Not able to let Rory risk his life alone, Amy decides to end her life with him, reasoning that the paradox will save both of them. They create the paradox and everything works as they planned with the Doctor, River, Amy and Rory all showing up alive and together. Just when everything seemed to be safe, a rogue angel that wasn't destroyed the paradox touches Rory, sending him away where the Doctor can never see him again. Unable to live with out him, Amy gets touched by the same Angel, creating a fixed point in time where the Doctor can never see his two Companions again.
Heartbreaking and tragic, I once again had the displeasure of feeling defeated after an episode of Doctor Who, though it was the best episode of the season so far. With some outstanding performances and a plot that once again proved the brilliance of Doctor Who writers, this episode may be my favorite Matt Smith episode to date. Though it was sad to see Amy and Rory go, the episode gave Amy a real chance to definitively prove her devotion to Rory rather than the Doctor. She chose to spend her life with Rory forever, never being able to see the Doctor again. I was getting tired of Amy Pond but it was still terrible to see her go. The Doctor has lost more Companions and didn't even get a chance to really say goodbye to them. Though he will be devastated, the Doctor will continue to do what the Doctor does best, saving the universe. He will find another companion, of that I am sure. We have to wait until Christmas for the Doctor's return but when he does, the Doctor will be as amazing as ever.


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House of Kolor - Classic Life
Founded In 1956 By Jon Kosmoski
Since man first walked the earth, he has felt the need to customize his surroundings with the use of vibrant colors. The history of custom paint can be traced to prehistoric times when French cavemen (they didn't know they were French yet, because France didn't exist) invented the spray gun and spat the translucent juices of plants and berries onto the walls of the Lascaux caves from a straw producing Stone Age candies and pearls exemplified in over 2,000 paintings. Although the candies were actually quite good, the attempts to replicate a pearlescent luster left a lot to be desired. After the Stone Age and Paleolithic times came the Dark Ages and as one can imagine not a lot of custom paint innovation evolved during this era. As mankind emerged from the Dark Ages into different periods of art history that we don't have room to discuss here came the renaissance, and the quest for the perfect media to accurately reproduce the vivacious colors custom painters sought to ply their trade resumed with a vengeance. Tempera paint in use since ancient Egypt was vastly improved by renaissance painters with the addition of egg yolk to serve as a binding agent to promote adhesion, suspend pigments, and add depth to the color. Oil paints were invented in the 12th century by Northern European renaissance painters in search of a more resilient media that could be stored and then blended into an area at a later date. The oil added a depth and gloss to the paint that wasn't maximized until Flemish masters in the 15th to 17th century perfected the paint manufacturing process, and the methods for how it was applied.
In the 20th century the search to further the evolution of custom paint manufacturing and application methods jumped by leaps and bounds in the mid '50s (DuPont introduced acrylic lacquer in 1956) when car and bike custom painters delved into the realm of candies, pearls, and flakes. In much the same way renaissance painters had to mix and formulate their own paint to achieve the effect they were after, custom painters in the 1950s had to as well. Against the popular conception that all things custom were born in Southern California, it was 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when a young hot rodder named Jon Kosmoski took his 1940 Chevy to the "best shop in town" for a paintjob. This wasn't just any '40 Chevy, Jon had done a considerable amount of work to the car, including installing a '56 Chevy 265-inch Powerpack engine with a '36 Buick tranny and Olds rearend. Jon was so unimpressed with the results that it inspired him to become a custom painter, and invent his own brand of custom paint in his parent's basement. Nothing had changed much since renaissance times when making the color was only half the battle because building durability into the paint was an issue of equal importance. It's not remembered how long it was before neighbors complained about the lacquer smell emitted from the Kosmoski family's basement, but it's a historical fact Jon's paint gained regional recognition toot sweet as the right stuff to use if a painter wanted superior results. Jon was going to great lengths to develop a system that started at the bare metal and didn't stop until there was a heavy coat of wet-looking clear to enhance the magical hues in between. As news of House of Kolor spread across the land, distribution expanded and the company grew. At the core and key to this expansion was Jon Kosmoski rolling into any town with a reputable paint store and a clientele of painters who wanted to advance to the world of custom painting. Jon held HOK clinics where right in the middle of an impromptu classroom set up in a host's shop he would grab a gun full of HOK paint and teach by example. In one night, Jon taught guys things that took many years for custom painters to learn on their own. Back in the day, no custom painter would share the secrets of the trade with other painters, but Jon believed in his products and knew the road to success was by teaching other painters. It's only been in recent years the major automotive paint manufacturers (DuPont, BASF, PPG, to name a few) have entered into the custom finish arena. In 1997, Jon sold House of Kolor to Valspar, a 200-year-old coating company also based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jon stayed on as a consultant and to this day remains the face of House of Kolor.


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It's no secret that Californians have been resistant to raising taxes.
True, recent public opinion surveys show a greater willingness to support temporary taxes this November, although much time remains between now and then.
But in general, the state's voters have not wanted to part with more money for government spending.
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News from around the country and around the globe
The answer may lie in part with the perceptions of Californians about the tax dollars spent by state government, perceptions that are largely out of touch with reality. But out of touch or not, those values become the foundations from which the voters determine their opinions about tax policy.
The data are compelling. A statewide survey released by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California a few weeks ago found that 47 percent of the respondents believe that prisons and corrections receive the greatest amount of spending in the state budget, whereas only 16 percent think that K-12 public education gets the greatest amount.
These perceptions couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, K-12 public education collects the largest chunk of state dollars, about 41 percent in the current budget. Even at that, California's public education spending now ranks 48th in the nation on a per capita basis. Meanwhile, prisons and corrections receive about 10 percent of the budget, and much of that because of dictates established by the federal courts.
Suddenly, there's an explanation for the public's resistance to more taxes. Why would anyone want to spend more money on prisoners, who are not exactly held in the highest esteem?
But there is hope for the temporary tax advocates. The same PPIC survey found that 72 percent of the voters were willing to support higher taxes for public education, compared with only 13 percent who would support more taxes for prisons and corrections.
All this suggests that the supporters of Governor Brown's November temporary tax proposal have some work ahead.
If people believe that these new funds will go mostly to prisons, they will not be very likely to go along. If, however, they see the funds directed to public education, there will be a greater likelihood of passage.
The question remains, will the voters square perceptions with reality?


text: I grew up playing hockey in SW Ontario ... until my family decided to move to Bradenton, Florida. My last game in Ridgetown I scored 7 goals and 1 assist in a 14-1 Ridgetown win over Glencoe. I got 2nd Star in the game because my LWer had 1 goal and 7 assists. Apparently the minor hockey association was in the mood to reward the set-up guys as my LWer got the No.1 star. That was probably my best hockey moment. Unfortunately, Bradenton and Florida at the time didn't have any rinks, so I got into soccer and football. A few years later the Lightning came to town, so I dropped my childhood favorite, the Nordiques (always a fan of the Stastnys, Goulet, etc), for the Lightning. I got into following prospects after the 1998 draft when I started listening to Rimouski games over the internet, swearing up and down that Brad Richards would be a high-impact NHLer despite his lack of speed and size. I remember CBC television scolded me for requesting a tape of the Barrie-Rimouski Memorial Cup Final. "We don't do that."


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India's Clean Revolution analyzes the low carbon development path India must take, for a share of the USD 2.2 trillion global clean technology market. The report argues that by prioritizing bold low carbon policies and investing in clean energy now, India is creating a better, more secure, and more prosperous future for its more than one billion people.
- India's share of the USD 2.2 trillion* market for low carbon goods and services in 2020 could be as much as USD 135 billion**, creating 10.5 million green jobs, and is likely to grow faster than any other country, according to HSBC research
- India is making more progress than US on energy efficiency, and this market is expected to treble to INR 351,000 crore (USD 77 billion) in the next ten years**
- India is now fifth in the world in terms of wind energy production**
- Bold low carbon policies will increase India's energy independence and help provide access to energy to those who still lack it
- Low cost labor and a highly skilled manufacturing base will make India a major hub for clean technologies
- The rate of increase of India's private investment in clean energy will be 736% over the next ten years - three times that of US or China***
The information brought together in India's Clean Revolution shows that enormous potential exists for generating new income and jobs by developing domestic renewable energy resources and clean technologies that improve the efficiency of key sectors, such as transport and industry – saving energy and money.
* N Robins, C Singh, R Clover, Z Knight and J Magness, 'Sizing the Climate Economy', HSBC Global Research, September 2010
** C Singh, N Robins, R Patel, 'Sizing India's Climate Economy', HSBC Global Research, January 2011
*** The Pew Centre, 'Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity', 2010


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It seems almost perverse, but news of the possible return of "Reading Rainbow" came in tweet.
"You heard it here first... Reading Rainbow 2.0 is in th(e) works! Stay tuned for more info. But, you don't have to...," the show's host, LeVar Burton, posted on Twitter Friday.
Even in 140 characters or less (114 to be exact), the possible revival of the program dedicated to getting kids to read books is welcome news.
The show, which was produced for PBS from 1983 to 2006, celebrated literature with readings by authors and celebrities, book reviews by children, and interviews conducted by the gentle and reassuring Burton.
Word of the possible return of "Rainbow" came as Pittsburgh bestowed its latest honor on a local hero, the late Fred Rogers, another gentle, reassuring children's TV presence who is much missed. Rogers was immortalized in a wax statue unveiled Saturday on what would have been his 82nd birthday.
As The New York Times noted, repeats of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" are no longer shown daily on PBS, though episodes can be found online. Repeats of "Reading Rainbow" stopped airing last year.
It's not clear from Burton's tweet, of course, exactly where a new "Rainbow" might emerge or what form it will take. But his "2.0" shorthand and his use of the Internet to deliver the news seem to indicate the show won't simply be a retread of the original.
The media world has traveled light years since the debut of "Rainbow" more than a quarter-century ago. Technology has placed new demands on children's time and attention. It's unclear how the April 3rd release of the iPad will impact the publishing industry, but there's little doubt children born in the digital age are seeking a more interactive experience from literature.
Any "Rainbow" reboot, at a minimum, should have a strong online tie-in to complement the show. As "Harry Potter" proved, kids love reading a good story told well – and the Potter offshoots in multiple media show there are additional ways to keep youngsters engaged beyond the printed page.
Like Rogers before him, Burton is an ideal bridge between generations. The first crop of "Reading Rainbow" viewers are in their 30s, many of them, no doubt, with young children and fond memories of the Emmy-winning show.
The program's impact on the pop culture is clear, judging from enduring popularity of its theme song ("Take a look, it's in a book – Reading Rainbow!"), and a recent series of parody videos of the book-reviews-by-children segment running on Funny-or-Die.com. Then there's Burton himself, who has been part of our TV lives since starring as Kunta Kinte starring in the landmark TV mini-series "Roots" in 1977, and later as Geordi La Forge on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in the late 1980s and early 1990.
But it's "Reading Rainbow" that placed Burton into young hearts and minds, and the show is where he's exerted his greatest influence. Let's hope his tweet is a new chapter in a never-ending story.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Swanndri's direct to consumer strategy required the support of eStar's eCommerce expertise and functionality
We went to eStar looking for help in implementing our direct to consumer strategy. They came back with a great offer, access to their design team, and eCommerce functionality to support our strategy.
Angela Lee - Head of eCommerce and Social Swanndri
The Challenge – Swanndri building direct to consumer relationships:
Swanndri was constructing a digital strategy with a purpose to build direct connectivity to Swanndri customers. Swanndri knew building direct connections with new and existing customers was a way to enhance its appreciation of what customers want and need from their brand. This connection would also allow Swanndri to better service their customers in the future and improve their support to the global network of retailers selling Swanndri apparel.
The strategic plan was a big one and had many moving parts. The first challenge was to find an eCommerce technology that would support these new initiatives.
The Solution
When Swanndri presented the strategy, the eStar team immediately understood what Swanndri was trying to achieve.
eStar's experiences with large apparel retailers plus their knowledge of how to translate the Swanndri strategy across the eStar eCommerce technology made Swanndri's decision to partner-up an easy one.
The project management team were extremely professional and guided us throughout the project on next steps and what to expect
Angela Lee - Head of eCommerce and Social Swanndri
The Results
eStar's eCommerce experience, mature design skills, and eCommerce functionality helped Swanndri get closer to their customers.
The project was on time, on budget, and to Swanndri's high expectations.
After the first six months of the new Swanndri site going live, the business impacts of what Swanndri and eStar worked together on became very clear (these numbers are compared against the same period from the previous year):
- Consumer engagement grew by 107%
- Transactions grew by 135%
- Online revenue grew by 160%
- Mobile revenue grew by 2,000%
- Mobile conversion rates grew by 200%
As a result of eStar's design team understanding the strategy, the brand story, and how to leverage the eStar eCommerce technology, they were able to infuse functionality throughout the site to enhance consumer-buying behaviour and help Swanndri dramatically improve usability and the user experience. Key reasons for the amazing results.
eStar's design team perfectly reflected our brand story
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Flying colors: How airline liveries reflect a changing industry
By Ayesha Durgahee, CNN • Updated 28th March 2013
The designs painted on planes help distinguish one airline from another, using colors that promote and represent the brands.
But with frequent mergers and acquisitions in the industry over recent years, traffic in and out of paint shops has increased to keep planes updated with new airline identities.
The latest to emerge from a respray, covering the remnants of bankruptcy, is American Airlines.
US Airways and American Airlines will form the largest airline in the world by passenger numbers, worth an estimated $11 billion. The new company will retain the American Airlines name, but it will have up to 73 aircraft repainted by the end of this year to reflect its new branding.
The former look of its planes features a silver, bare-metal finish with a red, white and blue stripe running along the body, its iconic logo of an eagle and double A adorning the tailfins. The new design covers the planes in silver paint and puts stripes on the tail.
"It brings American into the Apple age with its nice reflective coating," says Sudeep Ghai, a strategist with Athena Aviation, and airline management consulting firm.
Ayesha Durgahee looks at how powerful marketing behind airline liveries reflects changes within the aviation industry.
CNN's Richard Quest speaks with Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu as he prepares to launch budget airline, Air Canada rouge.
"I think where there are challenges are perhaps some of the brand mark elements that have been left behind, which have been around for 40 years," Ghai says, referring to the airline's logo, which has been radically changed.
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee reports on how Gulf carriers are increasingly joining airline alliances.
In recent years, the six major U.S. carriers have consolidated into three. Northwest Airlines was completely absorbed when it merged with Delta in 2008. Two years later, Continental merged with United.
With each merger, airlines must choose carefully which parts of brands to hold onto. In the case of Continental and United, the newly formed company kept Continental's distinctive logo of a yellow globe.
"They did a very sensible thing, actually. They retained the United name -- the more recognized name worldwide -- with the Continental logo," says Willie Walsh, the CEO of International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways. "And I think that was meant to bring the Continental people into the business. There's a sense of inclusiveness, which I think was a smart move."
There are instances of companies getting the rebranding wrong, Walsh says, like the unpopular tailfin designs on British Airways planes in the late 1990s. "But out of that came something fantastic: the Chatham flag, the livery that we have on our aircraft today," he says.
Acquisitions and the new coats of paint that often follow have been cropping up across Europe, too. After IAG bought the airline British Midland International from Lufthansa last year, dozens of BMI's planes needed to be repainted to reflect its new branding, a process that used around 750 liters of spray paint per plane.
Meanwhile, Lufthansa is getting ready to relaunch Germanwings, a low-cost airline that it acquired in 2009. Part of the preparations involves repainting the fleet in the new Germanwings livery, which incorporates colors that signify Lufthansa's ownership.
"We decided we needed a fresh approach. And what you see in our new livery is Lufthansa's yellow colors and our raspberry colors," says Thomas Winkelmann, the CEO of Germanwings.
And passengers can expect more fresh paint jobs ahead, as the flailing airline industry continues to see mergers as a way to strengthen businesses.
"It happens on a slow-drip basis," Walsh said, "but I think we'll see more consolidation, and I think the industry recognizes that it is a positive development."
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Harold Stiver is a partner in a financial services company who lives with his wife Elaine in Paris, Ontario. He has two daughters and one grandson who he spoils relentlessly.
He has long had a fascination with the natural world and has traveled widely exploring and photographing it. You can see more of his images at http://www.singularvideo.com.
He is the author of a series of eBook Guides for Photographers and Explorers covering subjects like Waterfalls, Old Mills and Covered Bridges. They are available at Smashworks and other popular distributors.


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As I look forward to my son entering his teens very soon, I've been thinking a lot about teenagers and sensory issues. Years ago, when I was first thinking about writing a practical guide for parents of kids with sensory processing disorder, I knew I wanted to cover teenagers and their sensory challenges. I knew of teens with SPD and I recognized that there was nothing out there in books or on the internet to help parents. I'm very proud to say that my coauthor, Lindsey Biel, OTR/L, and I were really at the forefront of talking about sensory issues in teens in our book.
I'm repeating here my most recent Sensory Smart News because I know how eager moms and dads, and professionals who work with teens with SPD, are to get info aimed at this particular group of kids. So here it goes:
Teens with sensory processing disorder have special challenges because of the stage of development they're in and the fact that until now, their sensory issues may have gone unaddressed. In the award-winning book Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, you'll find an entire chapter devoted to teens as well as many practical tips for older kids. If you are unfamiliar with the special challenges of teens with sensory issues, here they are—followed by practical strategies for addressing those challenges.
1. Finding the right OT can be challenging. Few occupational therapists are trained or experienced in working with teenagers who have sensory processing disorder. Play-based SI therapy may seem silly and embarrassing to teens.
2. Poor self-esteem. Teenagers who have had sensory issues for years will have learned at least some accommodations to get around them and are less likely to experience the extreme behaviors and responses they did when they were younger. However, years of feeling different and not knowing why, and noticing that they have never been quite as mature and self-controlled as their peers, take their toll. Teens with sensory processing issues usually struggle with self-esteem. They need a lot of encouragement to admit they have sensory issues and need some help.
3. Need for independence. Teenagers need to have their independence respected, so being told, "You need to do X, Y, and Z to manage your sensory issues" usually doesn't go over very well!
4. Desire to fit in. Even teenagers who don't feel the need to have a lot of friends or be conformist want to have some friends they feel they fit in with. Sensory challenges can embarrass them and may make them feel isolated, and different in a negative way.
5. Changing hormones. Teenagers have ever-changing hormones that can exacerbate sensory issues by making them more sensitive to input than they were in the past. The normal changes of adolescence can also make them more moody and emotionally sensitive.
6. New expectations. People are less likely to see your teen as a young, immature person with a hidden disability and more likely to see him or her as a young adult whose behavior is willful.
What's a parent, teacher, or therapist to do?
1. Modify traditional SI therapy techniques to be more teen friendly. As a substitute for playing with a tray of shaving cream or finger-paints, encourage the teen to cook, garden, do art or arts and crafts, and engage in other activities that challenge his tactile issues. Work with a sensory-smart occupational therapist who is willing to alter her approach to helping your teenage son or daughter to reduce any embarrassment or defensiveness.
2. Talk about sensory issues positively. Reassure your teenager that sensory issues are simply a difference in brain wiring that can have advantages but that can also be controlled and addressed to make life a little easier. See Raising a Sensory Smart Child for specific advice on helping teenagers overcome their defensiveness about having sensory processing disorder and how to talk to them about the "little tricks" you and the OT can teach them to "make their lives easier."
3. Offer accommodations and sensory diet ideas for him or her to choose from. Present accommodations and activities to teenagers and let them decide which they would like to use. Honor and respect their choices and encourage them to engage in problem solving with you. If they don't want to be seen doing a brushing protocol for tactile issues, can they do it discreetly in the bathroom at school? If all the kids are wearing loose clothes and they prefer them tight, can the teen wear tight clothing, such as bicycle shorts, underneath looser clothes that seem more stylish?
4. Help him to feel okay as he is and find a group of peers he's comfortable with. Practical solutions for grooming, picky eating, and dressing, and encouraging talks about the upside of being different, can help your teen with sensory issues feel more comfortable among his peers. However, he may also feel better about himself if he expands his group of friends. Encourage your teen to develop hobbies and engage in new activities from individualized sports that don't require high levels of skill and competitiveness to enjoy them to groups that engage in the arts, community service, spiritual growth, etc. Extracurricular activities can help kids find their "tribe" and feel the power to make a difference in the world as well.
5. Accept that your child may be more emotionally sensitive at this stage. Be alert to signs of increased anxiety and depression and consult a medical health professional with any concerns you have. Remember, addressing sensory issues will reduce overall anxiety that can lead to mild or moderate depression (when you feel you can't manage your discomfort, over time, you can develop depression). Don't forget some of the most effective treatments for mild or moderate anxiety and depression include physical exercise, time spent outdoors, meditation, and breathing exercises. Mindfulness practices from yoga and tai chi to tai kwan do and karate can help, too.
6. Focus on self-awareness and accountability for self-regulating. It's very difficult to get others to accept poor self-regulation in a teen, even if you educate them on hidden disabilities. Therefore, the sooner you collaborate with your teen in creating a workable sensory diet that prevents negative behaviors, the better. It will be easier for your teen to develop better self-regulation if she is trained in using specific self-calming and self-alerting techniques that she knows work for her. Hold her accountable for using her alerting music and gum, taking time out to sit in a quiet space and do breathing exercises or use a brushing protocol, etc. Have her participate in creating a sensory diet tailored to her needs to keep her sensory needs met and to prevent fight-or-flight behaviors. Let her experience the natural consequences if she refuses to use her calming, focusing, alerting techniques.
Above all, never forget that kids with sensory issues need a "just right" challenge, a balance of accommodations to make them more comfortable and challenges that take them out of their comfort zone. Sensory diet activities for teenagers help them to develop a higher tolerance for situations and activities they'll encounter in life, and over time, retrain their brains to process sensory information more typically. Be creative and encouraging in setting up a sensory diet for a teenager, and always be collaborative to respect the teen's need for independence.
Finally, if you're a parent frustrated by trying to get your teenager's sensory issues under control, consider joining an in-person or online support group, such as the ones on yahoogroups.com, or creating one. Knowing that you aren't alone, and having practical and emotional support from other parents going through the same experiences with their teen, can help you enormously at this stage of your child's development.
Know the symptoms of depression in teens: See the information on the Mayo Clinic website. Information on Generalized Anxiety Disorder, which often begins in adolescence, can be found at WebMD.
Find more quick information on teens and sensory issues at www.SensorySmartParent.com and in the award-winning book Raising a Sensory Smart Child.


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Herman Cain's Libya interview befuddlement won him a turn as a late night punching bag Wednesday.
"When asked about Libya, [Cain] said, 'Hey, I've never touched a woman there! Never,'" Jay Leno joked.
"I think he's getting a little desperate," he continued. "Halfway through the interview about Libya, he said, 'Hey, don't you have any questions about sexual harassment? You know, another woman has come forward!'"
U.S. & World
David Letterman devoted his Top Ten to the same interview — or rather, to those seconds when Cain seemed to be searching for his position on how President Obama had handled Libya.
Number 10 on Letterman's list of "Thoughts that Went through Herman Cain's Mind at this Moment": "Libya? I remember a Lydia, but I don't remember a Libya." Number six: "Uh... 9-9-9?" Number two: "These things are a lot funnier when they happen to Rick Perry. And number one: "Well, it's been fun, see you in 2016!"


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RC Baron Race is a side mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The side mission is started when entering a Top Fun van on top of a multistory parking lot next to the North Point Mall in Vice Point. The objective of the mission is to race with your RC Baron against three other RC Barons and be in first place. You can quit the mission by self-destructing your RC Baron. The rewards for completing this is $100 and a step closer to 100%.
There are many obstacles along the way that can knock down your plane. After passing the first checkpoint, ascend high enough so you can clear the trees and streetlamps. As the next checkpoint becomes close, descend rapidly while aiming for the checkpoint. Ascend quickly after passing it and repeat.
Your RC Baron is 30% faster than others, but the others planes have better acceleration.


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The type of data I'm hoping to collect is a little specific, and unfortunately I'm under NDA and the data is a core part of the business plan so I'm not at liberty to post it online. I've come up with a similar example, so please bare with me and pay no attention to the flaws of this hypothetical service.
Say I make an online "school finder" service, where the user enters their address and the service finds and scrapes the tuition cost of all schools within say a 100km distance from that address. The service would display the list of schools sorted by price, and the user would select the school they are going to attend based on that information. They would also specify any other contributing factors, such as the aesthetics of the campus and the reputation of the school (things like this would be selected from a drop-down menu or something, a small set of non-personally-identifiable options). The school finder would passively collect this data (as opposed to actively seeking out every school everywhere and scraping the qualities of it from their public web page) and use it to both provide better search results, and also display a map centered on the user's region, representing that data somehow. It would point out, based on past usage, the most desired schools based on a number of factors (say, cheapest and most desired would be green, most desired for other reasons would be yellow, and seldom selected schools would be red).
Most of the data is just passively collected and is otherwise publicly available, but some of it (the reason the school was picked) is somewhat personal, as well as the user's home address being personal information. The only publicly visible data would be the "rating" of each school, based on a selected region. The only saved data would be the rating and cost of each school, as well as the postal code (or city, whatever) associated with that rating.
The service has no user accounts, so it's not feasible to ask every user to agree to a privacy policy for every request. Is it legal/ethical to collect and release this set of information without explicit consent?


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Will West and Michele Roy
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Twisted Strings is an acoustic duo, playing old and new tunes with traditional Celtic roots. Michele Roy has been playing fiddle tunes since the late 80s and has worked with various Contra Dance bands including Catharsis, Walker Street, and The Growling Old Girls. She first met Will in 2003, and they reconnected in 2009 to form Twisted Strings. Will West has played a variety of genres over the years. Since the forming of Twisted Strings, Will and Michele have focused on Irish and American tunes. Michele and Will bring their playing experiences together to create a powerful and creative musical duo, with fresh interpretations.


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Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook
Author: Kam Y. Lau
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Format / Quality: PDF&MP3
Size: 85 MB
Communication can be the difference between a holiday and an experience. This phrasebook will help you get into, and out of, most conceivable situations while meeting people along the way. Whether gauging the changes in Hong Kong or trekking through southern China, dare to go to beyond the nod and smile.
*Pronunciation supplied throughout
*Understand what you're eating
*Know when and how to haggle for that bargain
*Explains the subtleties of Cantonese pronunciation and grammar
*Two-way dictionary
00 - Lonely Planet - Cantonese Phrasebook.pdf
01 - Special Basics.mp3
02 - At The Hotel.mp3
03 - Still at the Hotel.mp3
04 - More Hotel Words.mp3
05 - Shopping Time.mp3
06 - Recreation Time.mp3
07 - Eating and Drinking.mp3
08 - More Eating and Drinking.mp3
09 - Travel Time.mp3
10 - Travel Onward.mp3
11 - Useful Phrases.mp3
12 - More Useful Phrases.mp3
13 - Useful Words.mp3
14 - More Useful Words.mp3
15 - Additional Useful Words.mp3
16 - Things in General.mp3
17 - Low Numbers.mp3
18 - Higher Numbers.mp3
Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners
Tutorial Cantonese
Author: Gregory James, Keith S. T. Tong
Pages: 250
Format: pdf + mp3
Size: 77 Mb
Language: English
Colloquial Cantonese is easy-to-use and specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use. The course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Cantonese. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
* interactive - lots of dialogues and exercises for regular practice
* clear - concise grammar notes
* practical - useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
* complete - including answer key and special reference section
Teach Yourself Cantonese Complete Course
Author: Hugh Baker, Pui-Kei Ho
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication date: 2006
Format: pdf + mp3
Size :32 Mb
From Cantonese to Thai, Gaelic to Modern Persian, learning the languages of the world is attainable for any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on thievery latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
* Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
* Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
* Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
* Practical vocabulary
* Regular and irregular verb tables
* Plenty of practice exercises and answers
* Bilingual glossary
The new editions also feature:
* Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
* Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
* Website suggestions to take language study further
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VIDEO DOWNLOAD - Terry Funk Shoot Interview 2003
'The Hardcore Legend' Terry Funk sat down for his third Shoot Interview to cover a number of topics. Funk is open and honest as always in getting us up-to-date with his views and his career. You'll hear all about Funk's recent matches and the inside scoop on recent promotions he's worked in. Funk has a lot of interesting views to give on the current day wrestling industry. Funk is not just revered as one of the greatest wrestlers ever, but he is respected for having one of the best wrestling minds ever. When Funk gives his thoughts and opinions, there is always something to be learned. Here are just some of the subjects Funk talked about:
-Talks about why he hasn't retired
-How he physically feels
-Thoughts on the 4 way match last year against Abby, Dusty, & Sullivan
-Were there egos involved in the match with guys not wanting to put somebody else over
-How those guys have changed throughout the years
-Talks about the rumor that WWE was trying to get him to appear on Raw a few months back when the honored Mick Foley
-Would he ever go back to WWE
-Would he want to wrestle Foley again
-Thoughts on the current WWE product
-Talks about the McMahons being all over the TV
-Does he think Vince has lost touch with what the fans want to see
-Opinion on doing the brand extention and splitting the rosters
-Memories of wrestling Shane Douglas for XPW in Philly
-Why he never wrestled again for XPW
-Did XPW have any idea what they were doing
-Talks about the XPW locker room
-Thoughts on Shane's booking
-Thoughts on Rob Black
-Why he hasn't appeared for NWA TNA and will he ever go there
-Thoughts on their product
-Thoughts on doing a weekly PPV
-Opinion on whether they can survive
-Thoughts on wrestling for MLW
-Talks about some of his MLW matches including the barbed wire match against Steve Corino
-Thoughts on how Corino has developed over the years
-Thoughts on MLW trying to copy ECW
-Working with Jerry Lawler again
-Talks about WWE pulling Lawler from the War Games show
-Is there any interest in going back to Japan
-Have any japanese promotions contacted him
-Thoughts on Inoki bringing more of a shootfighting style to New Japan
-Thoughts on how All Japan has changed over the years
-His feelings on the rumors that All Japan could go out of business
-Talks about the possibility over having one more match with Mick Foley
-Thoughts on working for 3PW
-Memories of wrestling Sabu again
-Current thoughts on Paul Heyman
-Thoughts on his match against C.M. Punk
-Talks about his favorite promoter to work for over the years
-Talks about his favorite territory to work for
-Are they any promotions that can change the business like ECW did
-What would a regional promotion have to do to be successful
-What he sees as the biggest mistake young wrestlers make today
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This course will introduce you to the world of business and help prepare you for the future. Skills acquired in this
Course are designed for all students-regardless of future endeavors. Introduction to business is a course that has been designed to acquaint students with the major activities associated with a business. Throughout the semester, our class will explore a variety of facets the world of business world has to offer including, but not limited to…forms of business ownership, ethics, decision-making, and business from a global perspective. In addition, students will participate in a variety of hands-on projects and business simulations.
Earn college credit for this course! This course aligns with the curriculum offered at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Upon successful completion of this course, students have the opportunity to receive a transcript from MCTC for their coursework and earn free college credit!


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As of 2:19 PM (CST) today, my Surname folder contains 10,432 files, 552 folders, 5.14 GB… Wow!, that's a lot of genealogical images collected over the years!
10,432 files and probably 95% or greater are images: original digital photos, scanned photos and documents and images downloaded from the Internet. Lots of census pages. Lots of census pages!
Most of the census pages are at their original sizes or only slightly smaller. Shrink 'em down too much and they're not readable. Some (many!) are almost unreadable at full size!
Why, oh why, weren't census takers of old required to pass a handwriting exam?
Anyway, I have everything backed up (Of course! Doesn't everyone?) on an external hard drive, a USB drive and now my new iPod Touch. Even a few CD's. All are spread out in different locations, so I feel like my data is about as safe as it's ever gonna be.
But what I really want is to have a location online, easy for me to manage and easy for anyone who is interested to be able to view and download anything that might be pertinent to their own family history researchings. Pretty much, I am willing to share any genealogical data that I have gathered. What's the point of keeping it all locked up and inaccessible?
As I have my own website and self-hosted WordPress blog, I am able to set up a part of that site for images, which I did using the open-source Zenphoto program (actually the nice guys at my hosting company set it up). Zenphoto works well enough, but I was just never totally pleased with it. Then a couple of weeks ago the Zenphoto folks announced that they would no longer provide free support for their product and shut down the Users Forum. That was enough to convince me to look for another solution.
In the past I have used Flickr, but again wasn't really happy with it. And I have also used Google's Picasa on my hard drive and Picasa Web Albums to display my images. Then I tried Zenphoto.
What to do now? Stop being so finicky would be a good start!
Ok, so I'm back to Picasa Web Albums. 1 GB free storage, upgradeable to 20 GB for $5/yr. Considering that I only have a little over 5 GB of images on my hard drive, I can't think of anything much cheaper than that!
I have created a link from my website to my Picasa Web Albums page and am in the process of uploading 14,432 image files to it. I'll never be bored again!


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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.Leonardo da Vinci
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Man arrested for having sex with a horse: "I was trying to make the horse have a baby."
He added, "I was thinking it would have a horseman baby. I ain't going to lie, I blew a nut in the horse. I then got off the bucket and put my clothes back on and left. I promise that I have not been back over to the horse since that time."


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have (one's) day in court(redirected from having your day in court)
have (one's) day in court
To have the opportunity to voice one's complaints or explain one's actions. This phrase does not have to refer to an actual court appearance. You'll have your day in court, but for now, let your sister tell her side of the story. I'm glad I'm finally able to have my day in court and can refute those slanderous claims.
day in court, have one's
Have an opportunity to be heard, as in By asking Rob for an explanation the professor showed he was willing to let him have his day in court . This expression transfers the idea of a hearing in a court of law to more general use.
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The Young and the Restless reached 1,000 consecutive weeks as the #1 rated daytime drama series against regular scheduled programming, according to Nielsen ratings for the week ending February 29, 2008. The streak began more than 19 years ago in December, 1988.
The Young and the Restless will celebrate 35 years on the air on March 26, 2008. Y&R's 35th anniversary storyline revolves around Restless Style Magazine, a print and Web-based magazine run by Nick and Phyllis Newman (Joshua Morrow and Michelle Stafford) and Jack and Sharon Abbott (Peter Bergman and Sharon Case). In the March 26 episode, a launch party is thrown by the magazine during which surprises occur, former favorites return and old rivalries are renewed. Fan favorite Michael Damian, who played Danny Romalotti from 1981-1990, 1993-1998 and 2002-2004, returns for several episodes, and actors Eileen Davidson and Lesli Kay cross over from sister show The Bold and the Beautiful as their characters attend the Restless Style party. Tatyana Ali appears as Roxanne, Patty Weaver appears as Gina Roma and Entertainment Tonight Correspondent Thea Andrews appears as herself.


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About Equid System
Equid System Ltd. has great successes in breeding, as well as in show, with its own or home-bred horses. Of course Wh Justice is the most famous stallion of the stud. His show victories are numerous and the fame of the "Champion Maker" is known worldwide. We are also proud of many of our offspring, winners of national and international shows.


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TDI Episode 43: Inside MSN Money and The Facebook Factor
Special Guest: Chris Jolley, MSN Money Senior Manager. $180 prize giveaway. MSN Money and discussion of where they are going. Andrew begins with a discussion of the Microsoft and YAHOO! deal and the real reasons for the move. Then we go in depth into the MSN Money site and what it has to offer.


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