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Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Unknown Pleasures Collection for Fall 2014
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Unknown Pleasures Collection for Fall 2014
From the innovators behind the cult-favorite liquid lipstick Lip Tar, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics unleashes a range of shades and textures that explores the boundaries between light and shadow. 'Unknown Pleasures' is OCC's Fall/Winter Colour Collection that not only brings together six all-new Lip Tar shades to Sephora, but will be the first to introduce six limited-edition Nail Lacquer shades to participating stores!
The 'Unknown Pleasures' collection captures seasonal trend as created by OCC on the runways of New York Fashion Week, with shades that made their original debut at the Fall/Winter 2014 Collections. 'Unknown Pleasures' offers a range of colours that promise to tease and tempt the senses, with chic neutrals like 'Lament' and 'Covet', to ultra-modern vamp shades like the Matte and Metallic duo of deep purples, 'Pagan' and 'Technopagan'. In addition to the six all-new Lip Tar Mattes and Metallics and coordinating Nail Lacquer shades, 'Unknown Pleasures' delivers online-exclusive offerings as well: two new Cosmetic Colour Pencil shades!
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OCC Hedonist, Off World, Nomad Stained Glosses
For summer, OCC has six new shades of Stained Gloss ($18.00 for 0.33 fl. oz.) now available. All are permanent except for Dune, which is limited edition. The Stained Gloss formula is supposed to be "highly pigmented with a translucent finish." I feel like if you loved the concept and delivery of the original shades released–that "stained glass" effect that had rich color payoff but that layer of translucency and high gloss finish–these will disappoint. They're more like lightly glossed Lip Tars; the finish differs quite a bit compared to other Stained Glosses I've tried, unfortunately.Read Full Review


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On November 4, 1966, the city of Florence was inundated by the waters of the Arno River. Beyond the human and economic cost, the flood destroyed or damaged hundreds of works from the Western world's greatest collections of art and sent shock waves around the world. Thousands came and millions were raised to help with the rescue and restoration efforts.
Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists carrying their baby wade through the flooded city witnessing the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris, the swamped Uffizi Gallery, and, in libraries, one billion pages of books soaked in mire and oil. A Life magazine photographer arrives by helicopter to capture the drama amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo. A British student spends a month scraping mud and mold from masterworks as infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs erupts around him.
Combining a thousand-year historical scope with intimate detail, Dark Water is a chronicle of natural disaster and human genius and their lasting effects on one of the world's most beloved cities.
"The Arno River flood that deluged Florence, Italy, in 1966 — killing 33 people and damaging 14,000 works of art and countless books and antiques — frames this meditation on the relationship between art and life. Clark (River of the West) embarks first on a leisurely history of Florence's intertwined experience of great floods and great art, through the perceptions of Dante, Leonardo, E.M. Forster and other writers and artists. The world's rapt concern for Florence's cultural treasures contrasts sharply with its neglect of the city's inhabitants, Clark argues, offering his impressionistic account of the 1966 disaster as seen through the eyes of artists, photographers, volunteer 'mud angels' who swarmed the city to help rescue its waterlogged art and Communist militants who organized relief for poor neighborhoods. He then follows the decades-long and rancorously debated restoration projects, especially the controversial rehabilitation of Cimabue's 13th-century Crucifix, seeing in them a metaphor for artistic beauty as an endless work-in-progress. Clark's study is sometimes unfocused, but by building up layers of atmospheric chiaroscuro — the drying city, he notes, lay 'lacquered in tints of warm earth and azzuro sky... like pigments just brushed on and still moist' — he achieves an evocative portrait of Florence as its own greatest masterpiece." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
In 1968, when I was 19, I hitchhiked from Aix-en-Provence to Florence, where I spent three days gawking at art in museums, libraries and churches. Today, I've forgotten most of the paintings I saw, but I vividly remember the inscriptions and thick red lines etched high on walls throughout the city: "Il IV Novembre 1966/ L'Acqua Dell'Arno/ Arrivo a Quest' Altezza" ("On November 4, 1966 the waters of... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) the Arno reached this height.") That height, as Robert Clark notes in "Dark Water," his account of the 1966 flood, might be as much as 15 or 20 feet above street level. On that November night 42 years ago, the Arno river overflowed its banks and inundated much of Florence, leaving more than 30 people dead, drowning millions of books and manuscripts and damaging or destroying thousands of paintings. Though terrible and heartbreaking, the flood's consequences might have been even worse were it not for the efforts of a motley crew of art experts, painting and book conservators, wealthy philanthropists and ordinary people, not least the almost legendary "mud angels." These "angeli del fango" were the young people, most of them in their teens and early 20s, who flocked to the city to help save its heritage. Today in the art world to have worked as a "mud angel" carries the kind of glory that even the fanciest graduate degree is powerless to bestow. Robert Clark opens his book with a succinct, though sometimes overheated, history of Florence and its love-hate relationship with the Arno. Did you know that Tuscany's capital has been flooded scores of times, indeed with almost predictable regularity? Once these inundations were thought to be righteous punishment for the city's myriad vices: "Florentines were known for their excessive interest in the exquisiteness of their clothes and cooking, their outsized civic and personal pride," Clark explains, "but Florence stood out most of all for avarice and envy: lust for the florin, particularly someone else's florins, together with their house, their furnishings, their good fortune, their beauty (and that of their spouses, children, and lovers), and their talent." Florentine Leonardo da Vinci, we are reminded, was obsessed with sketching deluges, roiling waves and torrential waters. We learn that it was Giorgio Vasari, now honored as the father of art history, who decided that Cimabue's great "Crucifix," installed high above the altar at Santa Croce, should be replaced with a ciborio, a kind of tabernacle. As a result, the large panel painting was moved to the church's refectory, where it would remain for 400 years until November 5, 1966, when horrified priests and scholars waded through dirty, oily waters covered with its flaking paint. Within a few days Cimabue's masterpiece was to become the most famous victim of the Arno Flood and the focus of the most intense, if sometimes wayward, restoration efforts. Clark builds to his dramatic action slowly. He describes the gradual discovery of Florence as a "city of masterpieces," where poets might reside (Shelley, the Brownings), critics learn their trade (Ruskin, Berenson) and novelists observe their gauche compatriots on tour (Henry James, E.M. Forster). He reminds us that during World War II the departing Germans blew up all the Arno's bridges, except one: The art-loving Fuhrer insisted against all military logic that the Ponte Vecchio be spared. We also learn that as the American army advanced toward the river, Lt. Frederick Hartt was desperately trying to discover and protect the caves and villas where the treasures of the Uffizi museum had been hidden. Clark's tour of Florentine history even mentions the distinctly minor expatriate writer Dorothy Lees. Why? Because her illegitimate son by the stage designer Gordon Craig (himself the illegitimate son of the actress Ellen Terry) grew up to be David Lees, the celebrated Life magazine photographer who recorded the flood's widespread devastation. Not until page 131 does Clark actually begin his gripping account of the disaster. On the evening of November 3, Piero Bargellini, the mayor of Florence, attended a banquet to honor the American Chamber of Commerce at which a documentary on the Mississippi River was shown. Bargellini then jested: "Don't imagine I was fazed by your movie. Florence has never been afraid of competition: if it keeps raining like this, tomorrow morning the Arno will beat your Mississippi." Within a few hours this would no longer be a joke. First a worker at the Anconella pumping station called a newspaper's night desk to report that everything was under water. His body was later found "embedded in mud inside a hydraulic tunnel." Then 70 thoroughbred horses, locked in their stables at the city park, "drowned, thrashing and screaming." By morning much of the city was cut off from the rest of the world. But just before the lines went down, the sister of moviemaker Franco Zeffirelli called her brother with the dire news. By dawn Zeffirelli was in a helicopter with a film crew heading for his home town. A day later La Nazione, using printing presses in Bologna, headlined its front page: "Florence Invaded by Water: The City Transformed into a Lake: The Greatest Tragedy in Seven Centuries." Clark's stories of the flood are the stuff of thrilling documentaries. Trapped in the Museum of the History of Science, its director "escaped across the rooftops to the Uffizi carrying Galileo's telescope." One disabled woman, wheelchair-bound and unreachable because of the anti-theft bars on the windows of her ground-floor apartment, was actually hoisted into the air by neighboring priests using a sheet threaded through the grille. But the floodwaters kept rising and rising, so that — in a macabre scene — the woman eventually drowned while suspended in her wheelchair high above the floor. "By the end of the day of November 5," Clark writes, "most of the city's museums and churches were either still inaccessible or uninspected, but some 14,000 movable artworks would prove to be damaged or destroyed, sixteen miles of shelved documents and records in the State Archives had gone underwater; three to four million books and manuscripts had been flooded, including 1.3 million volumes at the Biblioteca Nazionale and its catalog of eight million cards; the rare book and literary collections of the Vieusseux Library on the Palazzo Strozzi had been completely inundated, with book covers and pages stuck to the ceiling; and unknown millions of dollars' worth of antiques and objects from Florence's antiquarian shops were destroyed, swept away, looted, or otherwise missing." It was also on November 5 that Ugo Procacci, the superintendent of Florence's monuments and art works, made his way to the Santa Croce refectory, home of Cimabue's "Crucifix." The painting was more than just severely damaged: "perhaps three quarters of the image was gone, either stripped down to the gesso or the canvas beneath it," including half of the face and most of the right side of Christ's body. Procacci's lieutenant, Umberto Baldini — a highly controversial figure — directed the removal of the painting and soon emerged as the chief force behind the international restoration efforts. Which were extraordinary. In Philadelphia, a tearful Frederick Hartt, who had become a professor and America's leading authority on Italian Renaissance painting, told his art classes about the disaster. The next day he flew to Florence. From all over Europe and America, young people — the mud angels — began to make their way to the city. One graduate student at London's Courtauld Institute "left the night of the flood, but not before going to his family's farm to round up all the pumps and hoses he could lay his hands on. Driving day and night across the continent in a Land Rover, he was at the doors of the Uffizi twenty-four hours later." Before long, the care of the waterlogged books was given over to a group of mainly English book binders and scientists, under the direction of Peter Waters (who spent much of his later career as the much-loved chief of conservation at the Library of Congress). Waters' colleagues included not only the eccentric conservators Christopher Clarkson and Anthony Cains, but also the nearly larger-than-life Joe Nkrumah, a chemist and restorer who stayed in Florence for seven years before finally going home to become director of the National Museum of Ghana. But paintings, not books, remain at the heart of Clark's story, and none more so than the Cimabue "Crucifix." Here, Clark almost coyly approaches the bloody crossroads where the care of priceless art intersects with money, ambition and sex. The middle-aged Baldini coveted power, but he also had an eye for beauty, and didn't fail to notice the young and talented paintings conservator Ornella Casazza. Soon the pair were lovers (and eventually, after their divorces, husband and wife), and she was given the task of restoring the Cimabue. Her work, especially the method adopted to fill in the painting's losses, has been both praised and disparaged. When Clark interviewed Casazza (Baldini was dead), she was in her early 60s, and the smitten writer tells us that the conservator was "beautiful; in fact, she was sexy. I would have done whatever she asked." He admits that Baldini might have eased Casazza's path, but "he did what anyone might do when seized by overwhelming bellezza." You can see that the American writer has imbibed the real Italian spirit. Nonetheless, Clark occasionally segues into strange, almost mystical passages about art and transcendence — note that odd use of "redemption" in his subtitle — though these lapses hardly matter given the compelling story he tells. Of course, since Hurricane Katrina, we Americans know all too well the shock and sorrow of a beautiful city suddenly overwhelmed by merciless waters. Michael Dirda's email address is mdirda(at symbol)gmail.com. Reviewed by Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"A miraculous book, a passionate inquiry into the spirit that sustains the beauty of art and its more vexing sibling, religion. Dark Water is a mystery story and a memoir, set in a city of incomparable riches and dark fascinations. Clark's masterwork of quest literature deftly combines investigative journalism, meticulous history, and, best of all, a cast of indelible characters whose lives move through Florence and its floods with novelistic power and suspense." Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter
"Lovers of Florence/Firenze will fall into Dark Water headfirst. This is an engrossing, layered, and intelligent voyage into the history of artists' relationships to the capricious river Arno. Robert Clark deepens our knowledge of this most poetic of cities, with an unstinting and loving examination of the politics and love brought to bear on the flood of 1966 and the ongoing reverberations that persist. A formidable accomplishment." Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
"A wonderfully intimate evocation both of the geniuses that created Florence's masterpieces and the teams of art experts and 'mud angels' who rescued them. Anyone visiting Florence after reading Dark Water will find the city all the more precious and miraculous." Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's Dome
This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the citys treasures against the historic background of Florences glorious art.
On November 4, 1966, Florence, one of the worlds most historic cities and the repository of perhaps its greatest art, was struck by a monumental calamity. A low-pressure system had been stalled over Italy for six weeks and on the previous day it had begun to rain again. Nineteen inches fell in twenty-four hours, more than half of the annual total. By two oclock in the morning twenty-thousand cubic feet of water per second was moving towards Florence. Soon manhole covers in Santa Croce were exploding into the air as jets of water began shooting out of the now overwhelmed sewer system. Cellars, vaults, and strong-rooms were filling with water. Night watchmen on the Ponte Vecchio alerted the bridges jewelers and goldsmiths to come quickly to rescue their wares. By then the water was moving at forty miles per hour at a height of twenty-four feet. At 7:26 a.m. all of Florences electric civic clocks came to a stop. The Piazza Santa Croce was under twenty-two feet of water. Beneath the surface, twelve feet of mud, sewage, debris, and oil sludge were starting to ooze and settle into the cellars and crypts and room after room above them. Six-hundred-thousand tons of it would smother, clot, and encrust the city.
Dark Water brings the flood and its aftermath to life through the voices of witnesses past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city carrying their baby in order to witness its devastated beauty: the Ponte Vecchio buried in debris and Ghibertis panels from the doors of the Florence Baptistery, lying heaped in yard-deep mud; the swamped Uffizi Gallery; and, in the city libraries, one billion pages of Renaissance and antique books, soaked in mire. A Life magazine photographer, stowing away on an army helicopter, arrives to capture a drama that, he felt, "could only be told by Dante" amid the flooded tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo in Giotto and Vasaris Santa Croce. A British student, one of thousands of "mud angels" who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mud and mold from Cimabues magnificent and neglected Crocifisso as intrigues and infighting among international art experts and connoisseurs swirl around him. And during the fortieth anniversary commemorations of 2006 the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, and how beauty seems to somehow save the world even in the face of overwhelming disaster.
About the Author
Robert Clark is the author of the novels In the Deep Midwinter, Mr. White's Confession, and Love Among the Ruins as well as the nonfiction books My Grandfather's House, River of the West, and The Solace of Food: A Life of James Beard.
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How do you protect your pills/vitamins - in a lightweight/low-bulk fashion that also maximizes the shelf life of the pill?How long is the shelf life of a vitamin or a prescription pill, anyway? (Does it matter if it's in pill or capsule form?)I've always just used ziplocks...but something tells me that will only work on very short trips. (I suspect the ziplock really does not protect the pills from moisture.)??
Edited by mariposa on 04/04/2010 16:38:48 MDT.
All pills are different for shelf life.I have some that are only good for three months once they've been exposed to air.I wouldn't be afraid of a Ziplock bag. I wouldn't be afraid of the standard pill bottle either. If you are concerned, put one inside the other.I've seen some hikers portion out a whole day's collection of pills and use a Seal-A-Meal to seal them into their own airtight compartment. That seems excessive to me.--B.G.--
I use Nalgene's polyethylene screw-top containers. They're both water- and air-proof. They come in all sizes, so you can use different ones for different trip lengths. You just need to remember which pills to take in the morning, and which at night. Or, you could take an "AM" bottle and a "PM" bottle. Heck, some of those bottles are so small that you could use a different one for each med. At home, I store my meds and vitamins in 2 oz. bottles, which hold over a month's worth of vitamin-sized pills.My pharma buddy thinks most pills will have an effective shelf life of about a year, providing you keep them away from the demons of heat, moisture, and direct sunlight.(edited for shelf life comment)
Edited by Zia-Grill-Guy on 04/04/2010 12:42:13 MDT.
Every pill has different temperature and humidity responses, which affect shelf life. For Prescriptions, there is a "use by date" printed on the pill container. For OTC, there is one printed on the box. Most last a year. This is also a conservative estimate, meant to protect consumers at the fringes. I use a small BPL pill organizer I got from someone on here and it works well and is super lightweight. Wouldn't hold horsepills, and just use it for advil, stomach, and altitude medication if needed. If you put this in a stuff sack inside your dry sack inside your pack, it shouldn't get wet.
I use a cheap pill reminder box and carry it in a ziploc bag.
"cheap pill reminder box"But aren't those for OLD people?? :)
"How do you protect your pills/vitamins - in a lightweight/low-bulk fashion that also maximizes the shelf life of the pill?"For hard pills I use a very small Zip Loc baggie; for gelatin capsules I use a screw top pill vial, the ones sold here on BPL.How long is the shelf life of a vitamin or a prescription pill, anyway? (Does it matter if it's in pill or capsule form?)The expiration date for OTC, as mentioned is stamped on the package. Pharmacists routinely specify an expiration date of 1 year from date of filling Rx. However, I have had several docs tell me that most last at least 2 years and, if you really want to save money, ask the pharmacist at the time of filling to tell you the expiration date on the bulk container he's filling your Rx from. Example: I use Celebrex occasionally and it is a fairly pricey drug. The last 2 times I have asked the pharmacist, the actual expiration date has been more than 2 years out from filling date. Big savings given I only use perhaps 1/3 of the Rx in a year.If you are really concerned about moisture, consider putting a dessicant packet in with your pills.I've always just used ziplocks...but something tells me that will only work on very short trips. (I suspect the ziplock really does not protect the pills from moisture.)
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Yes Ben, they are fer old people....and people who are scatter brained. Lol!As soon as I got one I haven't forgotten a pill since.
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Indonesian mining firm to raise $250M to fund ferronickel plant expansion
Publication Date : 27-03-2014
State-owned PT Aneka Tambang (Antam), a diversified mining and metals company in Indonesia, is mulling over plans to obtain up to US$250 million in fresh funds this year to finance its Pomalaa ferronickel plant expansion in Southeast Sulawesi, which is expected to boost the company's nickel output by nearly 40 per cent.
The $573-million expansion project, which is being developed gradually in eight stages, was 33 per cent complete at the end of last year. Antam expects to fully commence all operations in Pomalaa in the second quarter of 2015 and to increase output to between 27,000 and 30,000 tonnes of nickel in ferronickel (TNi). It currently produces 18,000-20,000 TNi in the plant, according to the company's annual report.
The publicly listed company was deliberating to raise source the funds through either the issuance of bonds, rights shares offering or seeking bank loans, Antam finance director Djaja Tambunan said on Wednesday.
"We need funds ranging from $200 million to $250 million for the project. The most feasible option is to get the funding from bank loans, most possibly from local banks," Djaja said, reasoning that the company's stock prices and debt ratings have not been performing well enough to raise funds from the market.
Antam, however, has proposed to the State-Owned Enterprises Ministry to offer rights shares, as it keeps options open and continues to weigh on other possibilities to source the funds required for the expansion project, according to him.
"If our stock prices are not supportive, however, we might have to drop the option," Djaja added.
Antam's shares closed at 1,145 rupiah on Wednesday, unchanged from the previous day. The stock has slumped by about 18 per cent in the past one year, worse than the broader benchmark Jakarta Composite Index's (JCI) 2.35-per cent drop. It has gained 5.04 per cent so far this year, but still underperforming JCI's 10.6 per cent increase.
Djaja said that ratings agencies' consideration to downgrade the company's credit rating might undermine the company's plan to raise funds from the bond market.
International rating agencies Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's Rating Services reportedly said in January that they were reviewing Antam for a possible credit rating downgrade over potential losses due to the government's ban on mineral ore exports.
If the Indonesian government implements a blanket ban that lasts the full year, S&P forecast Antam's ratio of debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) to worsen to more than 10 times.
On Jan. 12, the Indonesian government put into force a full ban on raw mineral ore exports as stipulated by the 2009 Mining Law. The law requires miners to build domestic processing facilities in a bid to add value to the country's downstream industry.
Antam president director Tato Miraza said that the regulation might result in $350 million-$400 million in potential losses for the company this year, increasing the possibility of a ratings downgrade, as about 35 per cent of company's revenue in the last two years came from nickel sales.
"We have, however, prepared strategies to mitigate the potential loss by tightening efficiency in conducting projects, investments and operation. We are also looking to diverse sales to coal and alumina and boosting our gold sales," he said.
"We hope our alumina project in Tayan [West Kalimantan] starts producing 130,000 tons to 160,000 tons of alumina five to six months after construction concludes next month."
Late in October, Antam, with its Japanese partner, Showa Denko K.K., officially commenced operations at its Tayan chemical-grade alumina (CGA) plant, worth $490 million in investment. The plant will produce 300,000 tons of alumina per year with 200 types of products, of which about 200,000 tonnes will be exported to Japan and the remaining 100,000 tonnes will be sold in the domestic market and other markets outside Japan.
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A very good show that shows sisterhood.Please bring it back! I love this show as much as I love Friends and 24
A totally great show! Very funny , very cute , so great I laugh so hard from the pilot episode until the end of season 3. Please please pretty please bring it back! I would like to see Faith's relationship with the Gooch or Jay's relationship with Hope and Faith. And also the battle between Charlie and Faith continues.... This show is so great , so wonderfully made and I dare to say that this show is funnier than FRIENDS or Seinfeld. Please bring it back. Hope and Faith is the best show ever made by a person. I love this show forever and ever and ever. Even Hayley and Justin are as funny as crazy.moreless
Hope and Faith was a great show about two sisters and their lives together. The two, Faith and Hope, were perfectly portrayed with Faith being the wild, spoiled former soap star and Hope being the conservative one.
Hope and Faith was a great show about two sisters and their lives together. The two, Faith and Hope, were perfectly portrayed with Faith being the wild, spoiled former soap star and Hope being the conservative one. Faith usually got Hope in some kind of trouble with her antics. Hope's husband, Charley, tried his best to keep out of the situations, but usually got dragged into them. Faith lived with them because she didn't have the soap opera show anymore and needed some money and a place to stay. After all the trouble, though. it always came down to the two sisters taking good care of each other. Great show!moreless
When Faith's career as an actress in Hollywood doesn't work out she is forced to move in with her sister Hope. Faith is having a hard time getting used to the fact that her everyday life isn't as glamorous as it used to be.
I like the series but i'm not really a fan. I mean, sometimes the jokes crack me up but otherwise the show is just so predictable and boring. It feels like every single episode is the same and nothing really changes. The characters don't seem to grow and move on in their lives in any way throughout the seasons and you can't really tell while watching an episode if it's from season 1 or season 4. Every single episode revolves around the same. Faith screwing up and Hope having to help her out of her trouble. Though i really love Charlie's spiteful comments about Faith's childish behaviour and there are a few episodes that are really funny with many hilarious moments but that isn't enough. If i'm bored and "Hope & Faith" is on tv then i'm definitely going to watch it but otherwise...no.moreless
This is an excellent show, that I just recently discovered, and now I can't stop watching it! It's about a mother Hope, who has a husband Charlie, and three kids, Sydney, Haley, and Justin. Hope's celebrity sister, Faith, has to live with her after she is killed off of her show, much to the dismay of Charlie. On the other hand, the kids love her, especially Sydney. Hope loves her sister, but Faith's schemes might cause Hope to strangle her. I like all the characters, although I'd perfer that Sydney was always played by Nicole Paggi. She was much more suited for the role. This show is funny, Hope and Faith are very similar to Lucy and Ethel. I wish they didn't cancel this show, but atleast it had 3 great seasons!moreless
Wonderful writing. Superb direction. Exquisite acting. This show has everything you could need in comedy
"HOPE & FAITH," in my opinion, is an absolute ABC classic! I haven't seen every episode, but I still enjoy it. There are many episodes that I enjoyed. One of them was where Hope (Kelly Ripa) got busted with Charlie (Ted McGinley). If you want to know why, you'll have to have seen it for yourself. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that everyone always gave a good performance, the production design was spectacular, the costumes were well-designed, and the writing was always very strong. In conclusion, even though new episodes can currently be seen, I strongly recommend you catch it just in case it goes off the air for good.moreless
Hope Lived A Perfect Life In Ohio With Her Husband,Charlie,3 Children, Sydney,Hayley And Justin But All That Changed Now That Faith Is Here.
God, This Show Was Just So Funny! Every Episode Just Gets Better And Better,As Well As Funnier, But I Just LOVE The Relationship Between Hope And Faith, It's Just So Hilarious! One Minute, They Are Getting Along And The Next Minute They're Fighting! Absolutely Great Show, Especially When Charlie And 'The Gooch' Mess Around, It's Just Funny! You Can't Say It's Not Funny, 'Coz It Just Is! I Love Hope And Faith, And I Just Hope The Producers And Directors Keep Churning Out Top Classics Like These! I Love This Show, It's Great And It Gives You Something To Laugh About As Well.moreless
I have to watch it every day. Such an addicting show.
Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford are the dynamic duo of sitcoms. Their role in Hope in Faith makes the show a classic. It has such a unique plot. The only problem I have with the show is with all the dirty jokes. But I guess that's expected and accepted for sitcoms. And the jokes are sometimes funny. The show is just so refreshing and stress relieving for me in the afternoon after a long day at school and track practice. I can sit down in my chair, watch Hope and Faith, and let my mind relax. It was such a great show. I wish that they hadn't cancelled it. But I'm glad for the re-runs on WE.moreless
Non stop laughs!
It's so disapointing how undersppreciated Hope & Faith is. It was literally non stop laughs, no matter what the episode was actually about. It should have lasted longer and needs to be brought back. I dont even think they had enough time to do an end episode as they just sort of disapeared. At least there are reruns on now.
I love this show, it is just so totally fabulous. It's on abc1 all the time and its totally addicting! The characters are fabulous and Hope and Faith are so different from each other, there is loads of characters - Charlie, Sydney, Hayley, The Gooch, etc etc.There are really intresting and really believable story lines . The specials are absoulely fab as well, there was a wife swap one where Hope swapped with a bossy new yorker and it was one of the best episodes ever. My favourite episode though , os the fashion show one. So basically its a really great show and it was really sad to see it end!!moreless
Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford in a sitcom together. WOW, Kelly Ripa can do it all. Soaps, Talk Shows and Sitcoms. An awesome sitcom that sadly didn't have a very long TV life, it deserved more seasons thatn just the three that it received. An instant classic!
A washed up soap star living with her sister. There's a great storyline. The writers of the show did a great job with the storylines in the show. The cast fit together. They took a risky move by changing a main cast member after the first season and it worked for them. Each episode made me want more and more. The cancellation came as a surprise. Kelly Ripa did an amazing job as Faith Fairfield as did Faith Ford as Hope Shinowski. This show had some amazing potential to go down in history as one of the greatest sitcoms to come from ABC, unfortunately it ended just 3 short years after it's premiere. No one knows, TV does some strange things and we may see Hope and Faith once again, apart from reruns.moreless


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Rejoice, Cowboys fans, over your Bedlam blowout to start the Big 12 Tournament.
Get giddy, too, over Nebraska's stunning upset of Missouri.
That opening day combination at the Sprint Center may have created a subtle shift in the NCAA Tournament bracket that carries seismic implications.
Checking out Joe Lunardi's updated (as of late Wednesday night) bracketology, OSU moved from a No. 8 to a No. 7 seed in his bracket projection, joining the Tigers as a 7.
It's the same at Sporting News Today, where Mike DeCourcy also shifted the Cowboys up a notch.
The Cowboys have been fit as a notch below Mizzou based on a lower finish in the conference regular season and a head-to-head loss. But the Pokes and Tigers have altered their images of late, punctuated Wednesday.
Better yet for the Cowboys, they can solify themselves as a bracket riser tonight against Kansas State, a team they've already beaten. And it comes with little risk, as a loss in an upset role at a neutral site wouldn't be all that harmful.
Why all the issue over one spot in the bracket?
Here's why: The first round pits 8 vs. 9 seeds in tossup games, leading into a second-round matchup with a No. 1. A 7 not only gets a lower-seeded first round foe in a 10, the next round leads to a 2, which this season is drastically different.
Consider Lunardi's bracket.
The 8-9 matchups: UNLV-Wake Forst, Louisville-UTEP, Cal-Clemson and Northern Iowa-Florida State.
The No. 10 seeds: St. Mary's, Old Dominion, Cornell, Marquette.
Who would you rather play?
And the next step is the difference in the No. 1 quartet of Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse and Duke, and, the No. 2s of West Virginia, Kansas State, Ohio State and Purdue.
Again, taking your pick, it's easy.
OSU-Kansas State: Three Keys:
1. Keep stroking. When the Cowboys are popping from the perimeter, they're capable of beating anybody in the Big 12. The three likely teams standing between them and the tournament title — K-State, Baylor and Kansas — will attest. After Wednesday night, Keiton Page's confidence must be soaring. Obi Muonelo's strut is always in force. And James Anderson, after a quiet night against OU, figures to go off.
2. Stand Tall. The Wildcats are long and active, ranking fourth in the Big 12 in rebounding and second in offensive boards. They can kill a team with second chances. It's vital that the Cowboys body up. And they'll need the guards to help. The emergence of Matt Pilgrim should help.
3. Let It Fly. As mentioned above, the Cowboys have little to lose from this point forward, while the Wildcats are trying to reverse a two-game losing streak and confirm their own status as a No. 2 national seed that could land them in Oklahoma City for a regional. The Pokes say they're having fun. Let the fun continue.


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Have you ever wanted to send that special someone a marriage proposal, cute note, or congratulations in an entire new way and make it work within your world of single serve coffee and espresso? TextSpresso will make this happen. TextSpresso is an espresso machine that prints messages onto your coffee. Created by cloud texting company Zipwhip, the device consists of a Jura Impressa Xs90 espresso machine, with built-in texting capabilities and a Canon printer that uses edible ink.
On our travels this past weekend in Providence, RI we came across a pretty amazing little product called the Ecotop. Made in Rhode Island, the Ecotop is enables you to turn your favorite coffee mug into a travel mug. Also by using the Ecotop on an existing mug you can reduce spills and keep your coffee warmer.
Our Canadian correspondent SH recently reported that more and more pods are starting to make an appearance in specialty shops across Canada after the introduction of the original SunCafe pod brewer a year or 2 ago and one of the brands which quickly started popping up was Kienna.
They're a Canadian coffee roasting company based out of Calgary and since it's known that pod brewers aren't as common throughout Canada as they are in USA, the company decided to create their own pod adapter for machines which WERE widely available across Canada... Keurig K-Cup brewers. Dubbed the Kienna Kup, this adapter allows you to use any 8 gram pod (and MAYBE some 10 gram pods) with any Keurig K-Cup brewer. It should be noted that 12 gram pods & ESE espresso pods are NOT compatible with this adapter.
This portable cupholder can attach to any desk, table, or shelf. You can use it to store your drink or small objects. We personally prefer the drink option, and could see this being a pretty amazing accessory at several locations around our house and office. It's also nice that the Drinklip actually holds the cup. How many times have you spilled coffee at work because you've knocked over your coffee cup? We can count at least a dozen times.
A new coffee stirring weapon filled with sugar called Saya is about to hit Japan. Saya is the word for scabbard in Japanese, and the blade is bound with edible rice paper glue that dissolves into the coffee instantly in your coffee cup. The edible rice paper can also be filled with brown sugar or white sugar. Edible rice paper is a staple in Japan for lots of things that need to dissolve into your soup - etc.
If you own a single serve coffee brewer that uses Keurig K-Cups, and you want to use coffee pods with your brewer the Cafejo My Pod-Cup adaptor is for you. You can use and brewer any single cup coffee pod in any Keurig Home Brewer with Cafejo My Pod-Cup Coffee Pod Adaptor for Keurig Brewers.
The MySoloPad automatically dispenses up to 42 K-Cups, and is designed to save space because just about any single serve coffee maker can conveniently be placed on top. The elegant slim pad design allows it to be put in tight corner placements, and you can even hang it on a pantry door.
Ekojava is a single serve coffee packet meant to be used with your refillable filter for Keurig. The Ekobrew Cup, Refillable K-Cup For Keurig K-Cup Brewers is made by the same company that makes Ekojava, and other options for a reusable K-Cup also include the My K-Cup, Solofill, and the EZ Cup.
Each packet contains 10 grams of 100% Specialty Grade Arabica coffee, ground to the perfect size to work with a reusable K-Cup filter. There are 6 different blends of Ekojava currently available.
We've seen a lot of very cool iPhone apps in the past year, but nothing as cool as an app that puts single serve coffee in your pictures. Percolator creates different colored coffee like drops and "percs" up pretty amazing retouched pictures. You control detail with new Grind options, including an auto-contrast and color adjustment option.
This under the cabinet K-Cup holder requires no tools, hardware or drilling required for installation, and comes in two configurations. The Elite fits ANY cabinet> XL fits corner or deep cabinets. It hides underneath your cabinets with a high strength adhesive designed & recommended by 3M. The under cabinet K-Cup holder has room for 24 K-Cups, and swings down for easy access, and then swings up and out of the way for unseen for storage. We think of it as the Superhero of K-Cup holders.
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Caron Compactor Company
based in Escalon, CALIFORNIA (USA)
Caron Compactor was founded in the late 1960`s when founder Fred Caron developed a self-propelled steel-wheeled soil and landfill compactor which was later sold to Rexworks—the predecessor of Terex. From soil to landfills, Mr. Caron brought his knowledge of the dynamics of compaction to the solid waste disposal industry. Caron Compactor is recognized throughout the world ...
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ABG Geosynthetics offers an extensive range of geocomposite drainage & gas venting layers, geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids, retaining walls, erosion control products and asphalt reinforcement grids. ABG specialises in providing environmental protection systems involving landfill lining and containment, surface water drainage, gas dispersal, membrane protection, ...
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ABCOV Companies
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based in Tokyo, JAPAN
Japan Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Co., LTD. is in demand, although fluorescent lamps contain mercury,in Japan today used fluorescent light bulbs are simply disposed of in landfills because there are only a small number of recycling companies that can recycle fluorescent lamps. But the demand for fluorescent lamp recycling is expected to increase. Our company aims to make ...
Waste Control International
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The Sajas Group is a Finnish family-owned brush production corporation. Sajakorpi Oy, established in 1945, produces and sells replacement brushes for sweeping machines and equipment. In turn, the group's parent company, Suomen Tekniset Harjat Oy, produces and sells industrial brush solutions and special brushes. Sajakorpi AS in Estonia and Saja GmbH and Saja Export UG in ...
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Mr. Christian G. Windfuhr, Chief Executive Officer of Grand City Hotels (with over 110 hotels) is an internationally seasoned hotelier with experience in Europe, USA, South Africa, Middle East, and Asia / Pacific.
Following some 12 years with Holiday Inn International in Middle East and Asia/Pacific, where ultimately he held the position of Vice President Operations & Development, he was appointed in 1990 to the Board of Directors of TUI, the largest European tour operator, heading up their hotel activities consisting of 5 independently operating resort hotel and club companies with 44,000 rooms.
1995 – 2000, as President and CEO of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, he achieved the financial turnaround of the company, drove international expansion, re-structured the company into a public (listed) company under Swiss law, and created shareholder value by working out a strategic partnership with Kingdom Holding (HRH Prince Alwaleed) and JP Morgan, which included the selling of 40 % shares of the hotel company to these partners. This transaction prepared Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts for accelerated growth in future.
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1995 Buick Riviera • 160,503 miles
When the engine is first started I suspect the noise I hear is a leak from the exhaust manifold. However after a short while the noise is silent.
See if you have any loose or broken bolts holding the manifold on also look for black carbon showing signs off exhaust going around the manifold. Thats where I would start.
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No spray but look for smoke when you start it to narrow down the leak.
You can get someone to close off the exhaust out the back with a rag for a minute to force the leak as well.
You can get someone to close off the exhaust out the back with a rag for a minute to force the leak as well.
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With the spray your thinking of looking for a vaccuum leqk not exhaust leak.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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The North Gwinnett girls golf team didn't win a state championship on Monday, but one could very well be in the team's future in the next three seasons.With three freshman making up their lineup, the Bulldogs finished tied for fifth Monday in the Class AAAAA state tournament on Jekyll Island's Indian Mound Course, shooting a 166 score that was 16 strokes behind champion Glynn Academy but just six strokes off the number posted by runner-up Harrison. "We're going to do better and better every year, and hopefully we'll win one," said Louisa Yang, who led North Gwinnett with a 1-over-par 73 that earned her runner-up honors in the individual tournament. Also in the girls tournament, Parkview finished eighth with a 187 and Brookwood finished 10th with a 193. In the boys tournament on Jekyll Island's Oleander Course, Parkview finished the 36-hole event with a 649 score that left them in 11th place. Grayson shot 680 and finished 13th. For the North Gwinnett girls, Yang's score was just two strokes off the 71 carded by individual medalist Katelyn Stanier from East Coweta. Yang had nines of 39 and 34 to finish at 1-over and tie Valdosta's Dori Carter for second place. "It was fun," Yang said. "I just tried my best out there. I hit some bad shots, but I was able to recover." The Bulldogs also counted a 93 by freshman Alicia Poole. "We were really hoping to place higher, but with three freshman, we can't be disappointed," said North Gwinnett coach John Payne. "Now, we know what this experience is like, and hopefully we'll have this opportunity again next year." The Parkview boys, which won its fourth straight Region 8-AAAAA title this season, was hoping for a better finish as a team after coming in third last season with a 592. But the Panthers settled for a 329 on the first 18 holes, leaving them 37 strokes behind Glynn Academy, which won its second straight state championship and 12th overall with a 579 score that included rounds of 292 and 287. Parkview did perform better over the closing 18, though, finishing with a 320 in the afternoon round. "It was a tough day for us, but I was proud of the way the guys came back in the afternoon," said Parkview coach Steve Richardson. "A lot of teams want to get to the state tournament every year, and we've been to four in a row now. I'm proud of our guys. We still had a great season." Michael Saari led the Panthers with 148 score that was seven strokes behind Glynn Academy's Chris Johnson, who was low medalist in the boys tournament with a 3-under 141 total. Saari had rounds of 73-75. "He really played great for us in the second half of the season," Richardson said. "Michael's a solid player and a great kid." For the Grayson boys, Adam Burkenpas led with a 167 that included rounds of 81-86. Also in the girls tournament, Christine Graham shot an 88 to lead Brookwood, and Jenna Peatross led Parkview with a 93.
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A Riverhead ambulance en route to Stony Brook University Hospital was struck by an SUV in Riverhead Thursday night at the intersection of Middle Road and Northville Turnpike, town police said in a press release. (more…)
A Riverhead ambulance en route to Stony Brook University Hospital was struck by an SUV in Riverhead Thursday night at the intersection of Middle Road and Northville Turnpike, town police said in a press release. (more…)
An 80-year-old woman who was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a crash that sent two cars careening down a hill in Calverton last Thursday has died of her injuries, Riverhead Town police said.
Roberta Ekberg of Calverton was in a westbound Honda CRV driven by 79-year-old Alfred Ekberg when Mr. Ekberg attempted to make a left turn off Sound Avenue and collided with an eastbound Audi driven by Jeannette Kuzma, 58, of Shoreham, police said. (more…)
An unlicensed Baiting Hollow man was arrested Saturday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian in Shirley Thursday, Suffolk County police said. (more…)
Two men were hospitalized Friday evening following a two-vehicle crash on Sound Avenue in Baiting Hollow, Riverhead Town police said. (more…)
A motorcyclist was airlifted to Stony Brook University Medical Center after he was injured in a two-motorcycle crash in Riverhead Sunday, Riverhead Town police said.
A woman was arrested Monday morning after crashing into a truck on Main Road in Jamesport while allegedly driving under the influence of drugs, Riverhead Town police said.
Highway patrol officer Dennis Cavanagh said the woman, who was not yet named by police, was heading east in a tan Oldsmobile about 11:15 a.m. when she veered into the westbound lane, crashing into a Asplundh Services utility truck in front of the Jamesport Country Store.
The woman was taken by Riverhead Ambulance Corps volunteers to Peconic Bay Medical Center for chest injures from an airbag, Officer Cavanagh said.
The truck's driver was not injured.
Westbound traffic was stopped for a short time following the crash, Jamesport Fire Department officials said.
Four men were arrested on drunken driving charges overnight, including three who allegedly crashed their vehicles while drunk, town police said. (more…)
An unidentified Riverhead woman was the driver involved in a fatal pedestrian accident in Holtsville on the Long Island Expressway Tuesday night, Suffolk County police said in a press release.
Ryan Marshall, 24, of Coram was driving a 2005 Honda CRV eastbound on the LIE when his vehicle ran out of gas between exits 62 and 63, police said.
He was walking across the eastbound lanes when he was struck by a 2006 Ford minivan heading east in the HOV lane at about 7:50 p.m., officials said.
"It appears that [Mr. Marshall] may have been trying to cross the expressway to get to a Suffolk County Highway Patrol officer that was stopped on the expressway's center median," police said in a statement.
Mr. Marshall was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner, police said.
Police described the driver of the Ford as a 55-year-old woman who works for DSS. She was not injured and remained at the scene after the accident, officials said. No other details about the driver were immediately available.
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San Carlos suspect reportedly stayed in home for three days with bodies of her slain husband and daughter
A 55-year-old San Carlos woman was arrested Saturday, suspected of shooting to death her husband and 14-year-old daughter, possibly on Wednesday, then staying home with the bodies for three days.
Regina Renee Johnson was being held without bail in county jail. San Diego police did not release the names of the victims, although family members identified the man as 56-year-old Reuben Johnson and the girl as 14-year-old Aaliyah Johnson.
Family members said they were shocked by Saturday's events.
"It's like we can't wake up from this nightmare," said Reuben Johnson's sister, Debra Spinner, 54, who lives in Altamonte Springs, Fla. "There are so many questions. Why, why would you do this to Aaliyah? She was a child."
A motive for the shooting was not known.
Reuben Johnson served in the Navy for 20 years, retiring in 2009 as a chief petty officer. He was currently working as a security guard, Spinner said.
She said he has three adult children, a son who lives in Atlanta and two daughters in Virginia.
Aaliyah, his youngest daughter, was a cheerleader and also worked as a child model who was once featured in a circular for a department store, she said.
Police said the family of three had rented a second-floor condominium at the Lomas del Cerro complex on Navajo Road, near Jackson Drive, for more than a year.
"It's our belief that the victims were killed sometime Wednesday morning and the suspect remained in the (home) the entire time," homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney said.
Rooney said investigators learned Regina Johnson had called a relative in another state and "happened to mention" that her husband and daughter were dead. That relative called local law officers, who in turn called San Diego police.
Officers went to the condo about 1:35 a.m. They telephoned the residence and talked to Johnson, Rooney said.
"She was initially reluctant to come outside," Rooney said, adding that the woman did come out after a few minutes' persuasion.
Officers found the victims on an upper floor of the unit.
"We were told by a relative that she was unemployed, we don't know how recently, and was in the financial services industry," he said. He said the woman had been laid off from her job.
There were no previous calls to law enforcement reporting fights or domestic violence at the home, he said.
Spinner said that she and her brother shared a special bond. Separated from her biological family at a young age, Spinner reunited with them when she was 28. Reuben Johnson was the first to make contact, she said.
Ever since, Spinner said, the two talked all the time and never argued. She frequently visited him in San Diego when he was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz.
"He was the first one to take me to Tijuana," Spinner said with a laugh. "I'll never forget that."
Spinner said that her son, Daniel Spinner, joined the Navy to follow in his uncle's footsteps, and was also stationed aboard the Nimitz.
"Reuben was my son's role model," she said.
Aaliyah, she said, was the perfect niece: polite and sweet, the type that would call to express her gratitude, as opposed to sending an impersonal text message.
"She was a beautiful girl, inside and out," Spinner said.
A resident who lives on the same floor as the unit where the shootings occurred said she had heard no disturbances there. She and other neighbors described the family as quiet, keeping to themselves.
"The man would always dress in Packers clothes — he was a big Green Bay fan," said Ann Case. "He was a really cool guy, really nice. I'm so blown away. It's crazy."
Case said she didn't know the wife much, but sometimes saw her going to or from work.
"I know she kept regular business hours," Case said. "Sometimes their daughter would be locked out and she'd sit in the hallway, doing her homework. She sometimes was in a cheerleading uniform."