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2016 Book Challenges
Hello everyone! I've decided to participate in a few book challenges this year. I've really thought about it and I know I will complete these challenges.
I really love listening to books on audio. I find that the narrators bring the story to life and I can listen to the book when I'm usually not able to; for example, driving, walking, on my breaks and doing chores. I'm really excited to participate in this challenge.
Challenge Details
- Runs January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016. You can join at anytime.
- The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2016 than you did in 2015.
- Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.)
- ANY genres count.
- Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
- You do not have to be a book blogger to participate; you can track your progress on Goodreads, Shelfari, Facebook, LibraryThing, etc.
- If you're a blogger grab the button and do a quick post about the challenge to help spread the word. If you're not a blogger you can help by posting on Facebook or Tweeting about the challenge.
- Newbie (I'll give it a try) 1-5
- Weekend Warrior (I'm getting the hang of this) 5-10
- Stenographer (can listen while multi-tasking) 10-15
- Socially Awkward (Don't talk to me) 15-20
- Binge Listener (Why read when someone can do it for you) 20-30
- My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
- Marathoner (Look Ma No Hands) 50+
I would like to reach the level of the Stenographer. I have a lot of books in my wish list at Audible so I know I will definitely achieve the level and maybe, (hopefully) surpass it.
Books Listened to...
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I have so many book on my physical and virtual bookshelves that I would like to eventually read. I'm hoping to read approx. 10 or more books for this challenge.
Challenge Guidelines:
- The challenged will run from January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016. The sign up link below will remain open until November 30, 2016 at 12:00pm.
- Anyone can enter! You don't have to be a blogger, just as long as you review the book you've read. You can review on your book on your blog, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, etc.
- Any genre, length, or format of book counts as long as it is a book that's been sitting on your self for some time. Short stories and novellas do count! The only stipulations that the book must have been released in 2015 or earlier. No 2016 ARCs or 2016 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed.
- On the last Monday of every other month (see schedule below), we will post a wrap-up for the previous two months. These posts will be done by one our bloggers and will contain new linky for you to add your own wrap-up posts or reviews.
- You don't have to follow Bookish to join the challenge, but you do have to follow us to be entered in the giveaways.
- Use #2016TBRPile to keep in contact with fellow challenge participants, to encourage each other on, and make new friends!
How many books are you planning to read for this challenge?
1-10 A Firm Handshake
11-20 A Friendly Hug
21-30 First Kiss
31-40 Sweet Summer Fling
41-50 Could This Be Love?
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1936 registered envelope to Sweden bearing a 1d, 2d and Silver Jubilee 3d tied by PORT MORESBY 24 MAR 36 datestamps. A Stora Tuna 8.5.36. arrival c.d.s. is on the back of the cover.
Reference: K3173
|1932 Papua
1932 registered envelope to the U.S.A. franked with a 6d cancelled PORT MORESBY 14 DE 32. On the back are Brisbane 4 JA, Boston JAN 31 and Naugatuok FEB 1 33 transit and arrival cancels.
Reference: G2744
|1938 Papua
1938 air letter to England franked with a 1/- and a 6d cancelled PORT MORESBY 5 AU 38. A Townsville 6 AU transit c.d.s. is on the back.
Reference: K2390
1916 envelope to Victoria, Australia, bearing a 1d tied by the scarce KULUMADAU 13 NOV 16 datestamp. Backflap missing, but this does not detract. Fine.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: Chirrut Imwe 1:6 Scale Figure Deluxe Version
"Take hold of this moment…The Force is strong."
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"Take hold of this moment…The Force is strong."
One of the most exciting new characters introduced in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is Chirrut Îmwe, a blind warrior monk from Jedha played by Hong Kong actor and martial artist Donnie Yen.
Chirrut believes all living things are connected through the Force, and his profound spirituality makes him a formidable warrior crucial to the Rebels' desperate attempt to steal the plans of the Empire's devastating super-weapon – the Death Star.
This extremely life-like collectible sixth scale collectible figure of Chirrut Îmwe from Sideshow and Hot Toys features a newly developed head sculpt, a meticulously tailored costume, detailed weapons and accessories including a staff and a crossbow, and a specially designed figure stand with movie logo.
This Deluxe Version will exclusively include a diorama figure base with a Stormtrooper helmet and a special package design inspired by traditional Asian art!
The Chirrut Îmwe Sixth Scale Collectible Figure specially features:
- An authentic and detailed likeness of Donnie Yen as Chirrut Îmwe in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Movie-accurate facial expression with detailed skin texture.
- Approximately 29 cm tall.
- Body with over 30 points of articulation.
- Nine (9) pieces of interchangeable hands including:
- One (1) pair of fists.
- One (1) pair of open hands.
- One (1) pair of hands for holding staff.
- One (1) pair of hands for holding crossbow.
- One (1) left hand for fighting gestures.
Each head sculpt is specially hand-painted Costume: - One dark blue robe with folded cape on the back. - One red tunic. - One white bandolier. - One gauntlet on the left wrist. - One pair of black pants. - One pair of black boots.
Weapons: - One staff with mechanical parts. - One articulated crossbow that can be slung over the shoulder.
Deluxe Version Exclusive Features: - One specially designed diorama figure base - One Stormtrooper helmet (not wearable on figure). - Specially crafted package design inspired by traditional Asian art.
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Trim the silver skin and icky fatty parts from your flap meat, then cut into 3- or 4-ounce chunks, or whatever size you like. Place in a container with a tight-fitting lid; don't forget to leave extra space for the marinade.
In a large bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, molasses, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, black pepper and garlic. Add the stout; be careful, it will foam a bit. There is really no need to add salt--the soy and Worcestershire are plenty salty.
Pour the marinade over the beef tips and stir gently to evenly coat. (If you don't use all the marinade, it will keep, refrigerated, in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.)
Refrigerate the meat for 8 hours or overnight; it will keep for up to 4 or 5 days. Cook as desired.
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The XNA Framework Content Pipeline tries to use incremental rebuilds wherever possible. This means if you add a hundred content files, build your project, change just one of those files, then build again, only that specific file needs to be rebuilt.
In a perfect world this would work 100% of the time, but in reality we sometimes rebuild more content than is strictly necessary. Most often this happens if you make a change to a custom processor assembly. The pipeline does not keep track of which assemblies were involved in building which pieces of content, so if any custom assembly changes, all content will be rebuilt. Unwanted rebuilds may also occur when changing project settings, if you have circular project references, or if the Content Pipeline cache file is somehow getting deleted.
If you think your content is rebuilding more often than it should, you can find out why by turning up the MSBuild output verbosity. If you rebuild-all with the Skinned Model sample, the Visual Studio output pane will normally show something like:
Building dude.fbx -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\dude.xnb Building head.tga -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\head_0.xnb Building SkinnedModel.fx -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\SkinnedModel_0.xnb Building jacket.tga -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\jacket_0.xnb Building pants.tga -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\pants_0.xnb Building upBodyC.tga -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\upBodyC_0.xnb
Open the Tools / Options menu in Visual Studio. If you are using C# Express, make sure the Show all settings box is checked. Expand Projects and Solutions, select the Build and Run node, and change the MSBuild project build output verbosity setting from Minimal to Normal.
Now when we rebuild-all, the output pane shows:
Target CoreCompile: Building dude.fbx -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\dude.xnb Rebuilding because asset is new Importing dude.fbx with Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.FbxImporter Serializing obj\x86\Debug\dude_0.xml Processing dude.fbx with SkinnedModelPipeline.SkinnedModelProcessor Compiling SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\dude.xnb (etc)
If we make a change to SkinningData.cs, which changes the custom pipeline assembly, the next build will show:
Target CoreCompile: Rebuilding all content because pipeline assembly SkinnedModelPipeline.dll has changed Building dude.fbx -> SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\dude.xnb Importing dude.fbx with Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.FbxImporter Serializing obj\x86\Debug\dude_0.xml Processing dude.fbx with SkinnedModelPipeline.SkinnedModelProcessor Compiling SkinningSample\bin\x86\Debug\Content\dude.xnb (etc)
If you find that content keeps rebuilding because assemblies are changing, consider splitting these assembles to separate game logic (which tends to change often) from content data types (which change less often). If your content project can avoid referencing your game logic assembly, it will no longer need to rebuild each time that code changes.


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Join Ian Robinson for an in-depth discussion in this video Using the Record button, part of Motion 5 Essential Training.
Be aware, I am warning you now, using the Record button in Motion can be addicting, and it's sometimes actually a little dangerous. I know it sounds ridiculous, but if you don't pay attention what you're doing, you could end up with keyframes all over the place and one heck of a strange animation on your hands. So when you go to actually use the Record button in Motion, first thing I want you to do is determine whether you are a Final Cut editor or a Motion designer. The reason I'm saying that in Motion the A key is mapped to your Record button, and sometimes as a Final Cut editor, that can be a little bit annoying because A will bring up your Selection tool.
In Motion, A brings the Record button up. Now I'm going to go ahead and leave that set up that way, but if you're a Final Cut editor, you can change the keyboard settings. Just go back to that video in the Getting Started chapter and you'll see how to change those settings, but for now, let's move on. I pressed A to turn on my automatic keyframing, so that's how I remember it: A for the automatic keyframing. Now if you go to the Inspector, you can animate any of the properties that are currently populating that screen, and the only way to get properties is to actually select something.
So I'm going to press F5 and select this large circle. Now I want you to notice that all the different parameters that I can keyframe currently are colored red. That's letting me know that anytime I adjust any one of these parameters, a keyframe is automatically going to be added. So if I want to scale up this circle over time, if I press A, it'll turn on automatic keyframing, and now I can just adjust the overall scale by double-clicking on the value and just type zero, and notice I've automatically set my first keyframe.
Now, I'll just move my playhead forwards, okay, 34 frames. Just move it down the Timeline; the frame doesn't necessarily matter right now. I'm going to go and add a second keyframe here, and let's do 120, and I'll move the playhead down just a little bit more and change that 100. The reason I added three keyframes, I want this circle to pop onto the scene and to accentuate that move, I went ahead and added three keyframes so it kind of popped pass the value that we want and then ended on a value.
Now to see the actual values of the keyframes over time, again press F6 to open up your Timing panel and Command+8 to open up your Keyframe Editor. To reframe the keyframes, just double- click the magnifying glass here, and you'll see here are my last two keyframes, and again the first keyframe is just kind of a half keyframe, so you're just going have to trust me that it's actually there. If you want to see keyframes in the Timeline, you can actually turn that on just by clicking this button up here.
So here, now I can see really quickly that I have three keyframes. You're thinking to yourself, wow, you know the automatic keyframe button, pretty cool. Yeah, it's great when you remember that it's on, but if I just left this on and continued working throughout the project, anytime I changed any other parameter on any other object, I would create a keyframe. So let's say I just, I don't know, moved this sphere just to see you know what it look like maybe over on this side, and then let's say I grab this yellow sphere here and moved it over there.
Now, one of the nice things I really like about this latest version of Motion is the fact that I can very clearly see that I'm adding keyframes through these large arrow-type pop-ups that happen. These are the different keyframes showing me I have a keyframe at the start, and then I have a second keyframe here. But regardless, I am randomly adding keyframes all over the place, and I don't necessarily want to do that, so I'm just going to press A to turn that off. And if you press the Home button, move your playhead back to the beginning, and if we preview our animation, you can see the large circle popped up, but then I still have this random set of animations that's happened because of leaving the automatic keyframing on.
Now when things like this happen, there is a way to fix it. Obviously, I could Command+Z to undo what I just did, or I could select the individual object and notice that I've positioned keyframes set up here. I could click on this pulldown menu and when that pops up I can just say Reset Parameter, and notice it automatically placed that sphere right back at the default setting of 0, 0, which is the origin of the composition. So I can move this back over here and then do kind of the same thing with this purple circle. Let's go ahead and reset that parameter, and I'll move that back over to this side. There we go.
Now if I want to preview this animation I can go ahead and check it out, and there you can see what's going on. Now one last thing. I'm going to show you a great, fast, and easy way that you can wrangle in control of the Automatic Keyframe button. If you double-click the button, you'll actually get the recording options, and the two things you want to look at are these two options down here. Don't record keyframes during playback, this way you can accidentally add any random keyframes. Even if automatic keyframing is selected, it won't record any keyframes as the project is playing back, and the second one, which is what I find most helpful, is Record keyframes on animated parameters only.
See, what this does is it requires you to actually cognitively add your first keyframe by selecting the parameter, and clicking on it in the Inspector to create your first keyframe. Then any other time you go back to that parameter if the playhead is at a different point in time, it'll add another keyframe. For those of you After Effects artists, this is probably how you're very familiar with working. Once an initial keyframe has been set, you can automatically add keyframes for that parameter, again, based on whether or not the playhead is currently in that position.
Using the Automatic Keyframing button can actually be a very rewarding experience as long as you pay attention to some of the different recording options, so you can kind of wrangle things in.
- Getting started with Motion and setting essential preferences
- Working with layers, groups, and blend modes
- Animating and adjusting behaviors
- Building custom presets to create a slideshow
- Keyframing animation
- Animating type along a path
- Creating credit rolls
- Understanding generators
- Adding reflections
- Controlling and animating cameras
- Creating depth of field in a composition
- Adjusting audio
- Exporting, sharing, and archiving a project
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Cyclist shot with pellet gun; suspect faces charges
A 20-year-old Windsor man faces charges after a woman was shot with a pellet gun while riding her bicycle on Ouellette Avenue near Elliott Street early Monday morning.
Police responded to the call just after midnight and found a 37-year-old woman bleeding from her left leg just above the knee. The woman told police she was riding her bicycle when she felt a sharp pain in her leg.
The woman told police she saw people looking out the window of an apartment and called 911. Her injuries were minor and she did not require medical attention, police said.
Police searched the apartment building, spoke with four people in a unit on the third floor and found a box of pellets on a ledge by the balcony door.
Police arrested a suspect and also seized cocaine, marijuana and a pellet rifle.
The suspect faces charges of assault with a weapon, careless use of a firearm, pointing a firearm and possession of marijuana and cocaine.


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While watching Chinatown for the umpteenth time, Paul wondered if he made a drawing of the moment when Gittes places two watches under the tire of Hillis Mulwray's car tire would film lovers recognize that small moment. To test his hypothesis Paul set out sketching unforgettable film moments and posting them as a series of clues on Drawger to test the market.
Without a client on the docket for the project, Paul continued to draw both obscure and instantly recognizable references to classic films from the golden age of cinema to the blockbusters of today. As with Jazz ABZ, Paul's approach to this project was a belief it would find a home eventually; in the meantime, enjoy the brief.
Over the many months it took Paul to complete his series, a product format remained elusive until Jason Sacher saw the series on Drawger and asked if he could pitch it as a book of film clues to Chronicle Books. Once the rules of the game were established, six line drawings in sequence and no movie stars, the format of the book emerged and the editor Steve Mockus gently guided the project into an elegant gift book called Name That Movie.
During discussions with Chronicle on how to best market the book, Paul expressed interest in taking advantage of the video-trailer many book authors are employing to capture viewer attention on various platforms. Paul's trailer for Name That Movie shows, once again, what artist/authors need to do to be heard above the din.
At the time of writing this blog, we received the exciting news from Chronicle that we sold foreign rights in France, honoring the French films included in Name That Movie.
Paul dedicates his book to all those people alone in the dark, and believe me, with this book, I've spent many nights polishing up on my favorite films before taking the quiz myself, thanks to Netflix!
There are 600 drawings in the book, 100 movies and an index in back with film titles. Paul's brilliant wife, Jill von Hartmann designed the book, and put up with a lot of Sunday afternoons with Paul sitting on the sofa with the remote control and a sketchbook.
Find out more about Name That Movie here on Chronicle's website
See Paul Roger's blog post of the process of creating Name That Movie on Paul's Blog
Buy the illustrated movie quiz book, Name That Movie on Amazon


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The Azden 1201BT Body-Pack Transmitter is designed for use with the 1201 Series receivers. The 1201 Series also offers 188 user selectable, DTV compliant frequencies. A Hirose connection accommodates compatible lavalier microphones. There is a multi-function digital display, and rugged construction ensures reliable use outdoors, on the road, etc. The transmitter is powered via 2-AA alkaline batteries for up to 8-hours.
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The present winter is worth an age if rightly employed, but if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the misfortune.
Tom Paine, Common Sense
This has been an interesting couple of months. Starting with the impromptu occupation of a Vodafone store on Oxford Street on October 27th, the British have shown an appetite for direct action that has surprised most commentators and, perhaps, many of those involved.
The achievements are already profoundly impressive in their own terms. The student demonstrations have far outstripped the events of 1968 in this country in scale and significance. Instead of focusing narrowly on their own interests, the students have shown a consistent concern for the impact of public sector cuts on the wider society. Unfortunately for the population managers in politics and the media, they have experienced firsthand the difference between the procedures of a focus group and the deliberations of a free public. Students are not only challenging fees; they are challenging the future set out for them, a future of chicanery and shopping. Their rejection of politics as usual, and their willingness to reach out to others, have emboldened the trade unions and provided a model for action in the months ahead.
UK Uncut's campaign against tax evasion and avoidance has brought noisy debate to the stillness at the heart of the British political and economic settlement. The media and the political class have largely managed not to discuss Britain's offshore networks for a generation. In making the connections between our over-mighty financial sector and the Coalition's plans to impose cuts the demonstrators at Vodafone and Top Shop have changed that. Because of the willingness of people to take action the unspeakable is at last being said. Capital accumulation in the offshore circuits had become accessible to thought, the first step to reform. The Tax Justice Network will have a constituency with which to work in the months ahead. The great game of our time – to remake the Britain's institutions in the general interest – has begun.
There is no doubt that the Coalition has been shaken by recent events. It has conceded more and more ground on tax collection – more money than expected will be clawed back from secrecy jurisdictions, we are told. The Liberal Democrats have been transformed from partners in government to helpless baggage in Cameron's increasingly snow-bound and fractious expedition. We now hear that one member of the Cabinet thinks that there is 'a kind of Maoist revolution' in local government and the health service. The British are not, for the most part, experts on Chinese communism, but they like the NHS and they aren't that keen on Chairman Mao.
So two overlapping movements have emerged – the students and the protestors against tax avoidance and evasion. They should not trouble themselves too much with calls for moderation. Some commentators are saying that the Coalition will last five years and that we must husband our strength. This is a call to leave things to an unreformed Labour Party – to let Ed Miliband run in 2015 on an Obama-style hope-and-change ticket without disturbing too much the political establishment's commitment to neoliberalism and the triumph of the propertied class. I can already hear the chorus of pretended necessity that will strike up if and when Labour wins an election four and a half years from now. The party workers will wave union flags, the TUC will once again be welcome at Downing Street. But the financial interest will be more secure, the industrial sector further weakened, and public services reduced to a Balkans of private, piecemeal provision.
Similarly, some say that the students are wrong to seek the ouster of their leader, that this will undermine unity and distract from the task in hand. But if students ignore the calls for moderation (which is to say timidity) and unity (which is to say docility) their actions will concentrate the minds of MPs and others. A leadership election will serve us all very well if it helps those in Parliament to appreciate that the careers that mean so much to them will be in danger if they continue on their present course.
Let's not have a would-be MP or pundit running the NUS. Let's have someone who doesn't much want the job but believes that education is a public good. The occupations have provided a forum where many idealistic and well-intentioned people have found a voice and a cause. If the students pick a candidate from their number and make her or him their president that will show that, perhaps, those who hold power in this country a generation from now will have a different character from the assorted chancers, megalomaniacs and occultists who currently pad about in Westminster and Whitehall.
The head of Unite, Len McCluskey, has said that the unions need to join forces with the students to resist the Coalition's wider plans for privatization in the public sector. It would be a mistake for the emerging student movement to focus too narrowly on education at this time. Meetings in January should be seen as a chance for students to meet public sector workers. The unions, too, should make every effort to promote social contacts between their members and those who have been involved in the occupations. It is in public, face-to-face meetings that solidarity becomes a lived experience. Reduce the social distance between students and workers, young and old, the middle class and the working class, and we begin to build a national movement that the few will be unable to divide and conquer.
Together we will be able to discuss future action, and to develop a clear common program. The government is planning to break up and privatize the NHS. Publicise and criticise their plans, certainly. But respond, too, with proposals to introduce a range of 'public options' in banking and to reform the enterprise. Never forget that the financial sector's control of the commanding heights of economic debate lost all credibiilty in 2007-8. There is an alternative, after all, and it is up to us to elaborate it.
The program we develop now will determine the range of political options open to the government that replaces the Coalition. In 1968 the students used to say 'be reasonable, demand the impossible'. Let us take as our watchword 'be irresistible, demand what is entirely possible'. The more that the general public start to think that substantive reform is possible and sensible, the sooner we will win. Resistance is all very well, but it is reactive and can become exhausting. The crisis is not ours, it is theirs. The governing powers have been revealed as intellectual bankrupts. They can do nothing now but try to change the subject with talk of austerity. We, on the other hand, we have it in our power to begin the world over again. (h/t Tom Paine) If in the face of economic crisis Britain chooses social democracy over financial oligarchy, the world will take note.
The trade unions will, I hope, begin publishing more effectively to a general audience – students are only one group who are eager to work with them. But the unions have relied too much on the Labour party to give them a stake in national power. This has caused them to forget the lessons of the 1930s and 1940s. The trade union movement that secured a national transformation in 1945 was also a major shareholder in the largest newspaper in Britain – the Daily Herald. It is more than a bitter irony that that paper now survives as The Sun. Perhaps the unions might consider launching a New Herald? It could be done online, with occasional print specials in pamphlet form, with minimal financial risk. Develop a program of social democratic renewal, make it available to your members, and to the wider population, and you will build support for what may be a fractious few months.
At the moment the major media have been able to muffle the student protests and occupations. Or else they have highlighted the elements that suited their narratives – the occasional outbreaks of violence, say. Influential commentators have told national audiences that the students were being manipulated by sinister anarchists, or that they were selfishly concerned with their own privileges. Attempts to challenge these caricatures have been only partially successful. Most people are not following the UCL Occupation on Twitter, after all. As for the UK Uncut protests, though they were perhaps the most significant instance of civil disobedience in recent British history they barely made a ripple in the BBC's coverage. Fair and balanced debate about the issues facing the country still struggles to find its way into most people's living rooms. We shouldn't underestimate the task ahead. Perhaps the unions can make the distortions and misreadings of the BBC and private media increasingly untenable, if they get back into the publishing business in earnest.
So there is a program to describe, a movement to build. There is, too, perhaps, a point at which we can apply pressure. On May 5th the government is planning a referendum on voting reform. Voting reform is all very well. But, given we will be voting anyway, perhaps we should campaign for another question on the ballot – Do you want a general election in two months' time?
Most Liberal Democrat voters weren't expecting their party to join the Conservatives in Coalition. Perhaps they are broadly happy with this turn of events. If they aren't – and if much of the rest of the country agrees with them – then two months from May 5th will give us a chance to have the national debate that was missing in the last general election. One party or another coalition will emerge with both a Parliamentary majority and a clear mandate and the public will accept their authority to take the steps necessary to secure recovery. July 4th has a pleasing ring to it, too. If we start campaigning in the New Year for an additional question on the ballot then those MPs who want to continue enjoying a career in politics will have time to rethink their support for the Coalition. It also gives us a little more than 6 months to establish an electoral program that recognises the folly of both Thatcherite and Blairite neoliberalism.
If, for some reason, the Coalition refuses to add the question, then there will doubtless be a very lively debate in the summer months about their decision and about the wisdom of their approach to managing the country. As I write I cannot see how they can refuse. They have admitted that they are pursuing policies that they never presented to the electorate. The economic situation is more serious than they realised, they say. So let us have a chance to decide on the course we take in these changed conditions.
Some of the seamier elements on the extreme right and left will perhaps try to involve themselves in the debates ahead – perhaps in partnership with their friends in the state bureaucracy. The police and the intelligence agencies have a long history of interference in, and manipulation of, civil society. Police tactics at last student demonstration seemed to be about trying to provoke a violent response from what was an overwhelmingly peaceful crowd. Perhaps they also wanted to discourage further participation by that non-violent majority by making things uncomfortable, frightening and occasionally dangerous.
At any event if you wanted to spot the police informant at a political meeting in the recent past, chances were that he or she was the one advocating the most radical action. I hope that in future the self-styled forces of law and order will leave matters to their fellow citizens. This is an argument about political economy, about the distribution of risk and reward in society. It is not subversive to support social democracy and socialism and to reject neoliberalism – at this point it is little more than evidence of a capacity for rational thought. For ourselves, we must remain focused on developing a response to the Coalition that will win the support of most people. It is the Heath Minister Andrew Lansley who is pursuiing a Maoist revolution, after all, not us.
So let's describe a different future from the one mapped out by the Coalition. And let's take that description to a national test as soon as we can. To husband strength is to let it fall away, into inaction, or the marshaled futility of filing to Trafalgar Square to hear the familiar voices. We are running now; let the advocates of responsible and long-term resistance to the Coalition keep up if they wish. Neoliberalism is dead and doesn't know it. We are after more than resistance, we are after a response to the crisis that is economically literate and informed by principles of social justice. We are after victory.
(If you want the outline of such a program of reform, you can find it here, by the way. Oh, and happy Christmas.)


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Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Wednesday lashed out at Connecticut's U.S. senators for allying themselves with the movement for repeal of the state income tax.
Speaking at Yale University, Weicker characterized Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman and Christopher J. Dodd as "brave men 500 miles away, who, poll results in hand, were weighing into the debate at this late hour, trying to cover their political buns." Weicker added that Lieberman "was even a part of the administration that helped create this mess," a reference to the fiscal problems Weicker encountered upon taking office.


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New initiative to boost neighbourhood hospitals
It's an effort to save the small neighbourhood hospitals so that people can have access to affordable healthcare.delhi Updated: Apr 22, 2013 02:03 IST
It's an effort to save the small neighbourhood hospitals so that people can have access to affordable healthcare.
Imperia Health Pvt. Ltd., a first of its kind hospitals operations management company, is taking the initiative to upgrade the mid-sized neighbourhood hospitals that are being nearly eaten up by the competition from bigger corporate hospitals.
In a panel discussion organised on Sunday, medical experts talked about the need for saving small hospitals, having a capacity of 50-150 beds.
"Not everyone can afford getting treated at a big private hospital. But this doesn't mean the poor don't have the right to quality healthcare. Our aim is to strengthen these small hospitals, who are not able to cope up quality-wise, so that people have an option," said Ashwajit Singh, chairman and MD, IPE Global, who is a founder of Imperia Health.
To begin with, the company has decided to assist two hospitals — Noida-based Vinayak Hospital and Karnal-based Arpana. "We are not taking away ownership. We will only provide assistance to upgrade them with a better medical team, infrastructure, etc" said Dr Harsh Mahajan, eminent radiologist and a board member of Imperia Health.
The company has experts across departments and can guide in human resource policies to recruit and train staff and structuring finances among other things.
"Heathcare in India is in a transition mode, where neighbourhood physician has been replaced by speciality hospitals. In most cases, people who come to terrtiary care hospitals don't require super-speciality treatment. We need to change that," said Dr Naresh Trehan, eminent cardiac surgeon and founder, Medanta- The Medicity.
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The car I just drove in integrates the core Honda values of clean, safe and fun at a high level in a concept model that expresses what's possible in a near-futurefuel cell vehicle. It was designed to be friendly to both drivers and the people around them, as well as responsible for the environment. It's suggesting a new approach to mobility that creates a more intimate connection between human beings and the automobile.
With this vehicle's 360-degree rotation mode, parallel parking is not a problem, and the joystick enables intuitive steering. The vehicle lights up to signal its operational condition to people around the vehicle. And this vehicle also has an endearing appearance like a pet animal. As you can see, this secure-looking and soft body made of silicon gel material makes people want to touch it. In fact, the name PUYO is part of a Japanese coined word describing the comforting sensation of touching.
What enables this compact car to comfortably seat four adults is the low-floorpackaging made possible by the compact design of the FC Stack, which was already installed in the FCX Concept that is on display over there. The FCX Concept features not only a next-generation power plant, but a whole new level of driving experience together with an innovative design. This is not merely an eco-car. This is a next-generation vehicle with the potential to change the future of automobiles.
We are planning to introduce an all-new hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle based closely on the FCX Concept next month at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and begin deliveries in the U.S. and Japan next year. Please look forward to the official introduction in Japan in 2008.
Honda has always placed the highest priority on its efforts to address environmental challenges, and has proactively pursued environmental initiatives to become the industry leader in this area. Toward this end, we set our theme as"For the endless joy of mobility on our earth" – which includes a number of meanings including "addressing environmental issues together with the fun of mobility," and "passing on the joy of mobility to future generations." We have filled our booth with Honda's proposals to help us achieve the endless joy of mobility on our earth.
In the area of environmental technology, we believe that there are different approaches to comply with different challenges in each region of the world. Especially, related to our products, Honda will pursue every possibility with our own unique ideas and technologies – this includes our effort to improve the efficiency of the fuel cell, which I just introduced, also hybrid, diesel, and gasoline engines, and even the development of energy-creation technologies. With this approach, we will accelerate our CO2 reduction efforts on a global scale. Through this motor show, we want more people to understand the various challenges Honda is undertaking in the development of environmental technology.
Honda's hybrid system features a gasoline engine as the primary power source, supplemented by an electric motor. It's ideal for small cars because of its compact size, and achieves the fun of driving together with high fuel efficiency and cleaner exhaust emissions.
This CR-Z is a model that symbolizes Honda's hybrid technology. While thoroughly pursuing the reduction of weight, CR-Z features a dynamic yet sharp exterior design that makes people want to get in and drive. Through this model Honda demonstrates a new direction for the next-generation hybrid sports car to enable people to enjoy more casual sporty driving.
At last year's Los Angeles Auto Show we introduced the Honda REMIX concept vehicle, an agile, fun-to-drive and easy-to-use two-seat sports car. Then at this year's Geneva Motor Show we presented the Honda Small Hybrid Sports Concept, which achieves the fun of driving together with excellent environmental performance based on our hybrid technologies.
This CR-Z is a concept model developed by further advancing those two design study models. In addition to the dedicated hybrid vehicle we plan to release in 2009, which will be even more affordably priced than the Civic Hybrid, we're striving to bring a vehicle based on this CR-Z to market.
Our work on next-generation diesel engines is also advancing. Inherently more efficient than gasoline engines, diesels will be a key technology in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions. The i-DTEC engine on display here, with emissions as clean as a gasoline engine, is scheduled to be introduced in the U.S. in 2009, and then in Japan.
And of course, we continue our efforts to develop gasoline engine vehicles while achieving the fun of driving together with environmental performance. Last week, we introduced the all-new, second generation Fit. With this full model change, styling and functionality were further enhanced, and the engine was advanced to achieve even more powerful driving performance and outstanding efficiency.
Since it was first introduced in 2001, the Fit has became a global car that supports Honda's automobile business, with worldwide sales topping two million units. Fit has proven to be successful although it has only been on sale for one week, ten thousand units have already been ordered. As a benchmark for the next-generation of small cars, the Fit will continue providing joy to more customers around the world.
In addition to our commitment to address environmental issues through the advancement of various power plants, we are proactively working on the development of technologies that will enable us to create energy itself more efficiently and cleanly. Such environmental technologies are showcased at the Next Energy area of our display.
Among various energy sources, bio-ethanol is currently drawing a lot of attention worldwide. In this area, we have developed technology to produce bio-ethanol from inedible biomass such as rice straw instead of the edible parts of corn and sugarcane feedstock. Moreover, this month, Honda began nationwide sales (in Japan) of our next-generation solar cells which create clean energy.
Difficult challenges are what drive Honda forward. And seeing the smiling faces of our customers who enjoy our products is our ultimate joy. At Honda, we will maintain a high level of initiative and strive to realize our theme, "the endless joy of mobility on our earth." We appreciate your continued interest in Honda.
Please enjoy your visit to the Honda display. Thank you very much.


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Bachelor Pad's Homage to Stand by Me: Pie Eating and Puking
One lovely lady gets sick, and then another, and then another ...
Reality shows often traffic in gross-out stunts, the kind of who-can-last-the-longest-in-a-pit-of-spiders showdowns that test the limits of what humans will endure for a lump sum of cash. The Bachelor, though, generally stays away from such tasks (for who wants to see her future husband screaming like a woman as snakes are draped on his body?), instead having prospective mates do adventure-bonding challenges like tight-rope walking or bungee jumping. But, unfortunately, Bachelor Pad, freed of the love-conquers-all mentality of The Bachelor, veered into Jackass territory on last night's episode. You know how when you hear someone puking, it really makes you feel like barfing too? The Bachelor Pad ladies found this out firsthand, in a setup reminiscent of Stand by Me's famous barf-o-rama scene, only with sports bras and bikinis instead of county-fair attire.
The girls were faced with a pie-eating contest; the winner would get a rose and immunity from elimination. Apparently, the pie already tasted "like when you throw up a little bit in your mouth," so it was inevitable that these pretty little women would have to puke up the pie sooner or later. "I don't like it anymore!" said Tenley, mid-bite. (Is it just us, or is Tenley's mental age regressing before our eyes? Each week she sounds and acts about five years younger than the last. She's at about 12, currently.) And then, yes, the vomiting began. Watch the clip below for the full scene. It's pretty painful, though we give the girls credit for being the daintiest pukers we've ever seen: cough, cough, puke a little, burp! ... Repeat!
And here's the scene from Stand by Me. Watch only if you've got a garbage can nearby.


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"God of Carnage" has 10 more weeks on the boards, with the Broadway play announcing it will shutter June 27.
Production turned into a major hit last season, driven in part by a starry cast that included James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis. The play, which began perfs in February 2009, soon started to pull in the big B.O. numbers more common to musicals, particularly once it scored three 2009 Tonys — top play, actress for Harden and director for Matthew Warchus.
Show took an unusual hiatus toward the end of the summer to give the thesps a break, but returned in September with the original cast intact. Production continued to post sales that approached or sometimes topped $1 million until a replacement cast — including Jimmy Smits, Christine Lahti, Annie Potts and Ken Stott — took over in November, when sales slipped dramatically (although remained relatively healthy compared to other straight plays).
A third cast began in March, with Dylan Baker, Lucy Liu and Janet McTeer joining a returning Daniels, who this time around plays the role portrayed previously by Gandolfini. Since the exit of the original Broadway thesps, sales have never approached the same heights. For the week ending April 18, the show brought in $320,790 and played to houses at 64% of capacity.
National tour of "Carnage" was planned to launch in the fall, but producers said there didn't prove enough regional interest to make the endeavor viable, at least not for the moment.
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As Obama and Congress publicly debate what engraving style to use on the "save the date" card they will send to Syria's President Assad (fully telegraphing our unnecessary military action), Vladimir Putin chuckles.
Bombing Syria was about Obama saving face after the public ultimatum he gave. It's also about Putin; those two preening narcissists do not get along. Ever since the dust-up over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden being given asylum, they have been in a diss-ing match. Their testosterone-fueled tempest culminated last week at the G-20 Summit.
The tension is clear. Obama intentionally arrived 30 minutes late at a dinner Putin hosted at the G-20 Summit. In photo ops, Obama and Putin sit across from each other with uncomfortable smiles and brooding silence.
There was an awkward moment when the G-20 emcee requested a few words from the ruthless ex-Marxist spymaster and calculating assassin; both Putin and Obama rose to speak.
These two leaders do have something in common: They both like to blame problems on others. Putin blamed Snowden being stuck in Russia on Obama for revoking his visa so he could not travel. Putin might eventually release Snowden, but only if he can then hunt him.
The Obama administration let it leak that their like-minded "redistribution of wealth" ideologue Putin has amassed a personal net worth of $69 billion as a result of gaining control of political office. That makes Fidel Castro's $1 billion look paltry. There is no telling how much money these Communist leaders would have if they were not all about "sharing the wealth." A Socialist political figure has not shaken down businesses for that big a piece of their action since Al Gore.
The hypocrisy here is that Putin got his wealth through political office, just like Obama. Neither has created private sector jobs or risked his own money in business. Both men are shake-down artists. Like the Mafia protection business, they take money for not hurting you. Support Obama like the unions do, and you are exempted from Obamacare. Work for him in Washington and he rewards you by not requiring you to participate in Obamacare.
The way Putin gets his money is that, if you do not give him his cut, he will accuse your business of tax evasion and just take it. If you cross Obama and cause him problems like the tea party did, he will send the IRS or Eric Holder after you. Both leaders use the blunt force of big government to get what they want.
Neither man likes free speech when it is used against him. Obama used his power to spy on a Fox News reporter. Last year, a Russian all-woman punk band sang songs critical of Putin. He had his goons arrest them accusing them of "hooliganism." Is that even a thing? I'd think "hooliganism" carries a stiffer sentence than horseplay and tomfoolery, but not as harsh as shenanigans.
Putin gains in popularity as he out-foxes Obama. The result is that Obama has done what no other President has done: make Putin look reasonable by comparison. Both like to ramble on self-righteously, but the ex-KGB Putin is playing chess and our Community Organizer is playing checkers. By Russia getting Syria to place its "chemical weapons under international control," Putin checkmated Obama again.
And just to think, this whole tension began when Obama and Hillary implied that Putin's United Russia Party cheated to manufacture votes to win his election. Obama and Hillary are products of the ballot box-stuffing Chicago political machine; that was actually meant to be compliment.
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Your complimentary communication of the 31st ultimo and the accompanying copy of the resolutions recently passed by the legislature of Tennessee , kindly inviting me to visit that body during its present session, did not reach my hands until yesterday
I beg to assure you that this flat lining expressions of the request of my fellow__ Citizens of Tennessee, Conveyed as it has been through the high and imposing authority of their assembled representatives, has been received by me with feelings of the liveliest gratitude, and I need hardly add that could I do it with propriety, I should at once yield to my inclinations, and hasten to acknowledge to them in person my grateful obligations.
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Be pleased sir, therefore to communicate this information to the legislature, and to assume them on my behalf that shall always retain with the deepest gratitude a recollection of the honor which they have done me in their writing me to visit them
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
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Circular napping is MUCH better than circular reasoning... Humans should learn that.ReplyDelete
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A round nap is better than no nap at all!! Plus you can keep your nose warm in your own tail furs!ReplyDelete
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NEW YORK—Bonhams established a world record price for a Mon Dvaravati bronze sculpture when the circa 8th century Eilenberg Buddha sold Sept. 11, 2012 for $674,500 at a Himalayan, Indian & Southeast Asian art sale.
Eclipsing its previous record by more than three times, the rare Thai sculpture soared past its $250,000 to $350,000 estimate, and an international field of private collectors and institutions vied for it. The winning bidder was institution with a strong holding in important Southeast Asian art.
"The sculpture is a rare and important example of early Thai sculpture that is virtually unknown outside of institutional collections," said Edward Wilkinson, Bonham's specialist and consultant to the Southeast Asian, Indian and Himalayan Art department. "To have such a fine example, with impeccable provenance from the storied Eilenberg Collection, resulted in tremendous competition from around the globe."
Dessa Goddard, head of Asian Art for Bonhams in North America, further noted, "This was a thrilling start to Asian week for Bonhams that will be following by important sales of Classical Chinese Paintings and Fine Japanese Art."
About the Eilenberg Buddha
The treatment of the robe is unusual, in that it does not follow the classic tradition of the 'full cape' that is known to have originated from the Indian Gupta (5th/6th century). Here, the robe is arranged such that it leaves the right shoulder bare, in a style more familiar in the 6th-8th century Sri Lankan Buddhas and earlier Amravati (2nd/3rd century) figures. However, they favored robes delineated with parallel lines of fine pleats and figures with broad shoulders and smaller heads. The Mon Dvaravati style introduced a smooth diaphanous treatment of the robe, almost invisible across the androgynous body, and more balanced proportions of the whole figure. As noted by Jean Boisselier in The Heritage of Thai Sculpture, 1975, p. 73, "The school of Dvaravati may stand alongside the great Buddhist artistic traditions of India, so enduring were its innovations and so persuasive its influence on most of the art of Southeast Asia."
In comparison with the large Mon Dvaravati standing Buddha in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (59.149), they both share the same facial shape, thick head of knotted hair and slender sensuous line of the torso. However, the Eilenberg Buddha has lower, more relaxed shoulders falling from a slender neck that provides a more natural and free-flowing line. Another closely related example is in the National Museum, Bangkok (see Sculpture of Thailand, Theodore Bowie ed., Asian Society, New York, 1972, no.5).
The Eilenberg Buddha is the most important Mon Dvaravati sculpture to have appeared in the market recent years, and it could be argued that it is the finest example of its type still in private hands.
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Christina Aguilera and her son Max were seen picking out some pumpkins at Mr. Bone's Pumpkin patch in Hollywood. Christina debuted some new hot pink extensions for the day out!
Christina wore a pair of distressed JET skinny jeans in Feather with a pink plaid shirt and flats. Usually we see her in a dress and heels, so it's nice to see her in something more casual. It seems as though we haven't seen a lot of celebs out in JET over the past few months though. You can buy JET jeans from SINGER22.com.


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<< Running a Pilot to Check for Memory Errors
Running Scripts to Check for Memory Errors >>
<< Running a Pilot to Check for Memory Errors
Running Scripts to Check for Memory Errors >>
Viewing the Results for Memory Errors
Checking for Memory Errors in Visual Basic and C++ Applications (Windows NT)
e. In the application map, click the Pilot.
f. Restart the Pilot run.
Setting up the AUT before you restart the Pilot run should solve timing problems
during the run.
Viewing the Results of a Pilot Run to Detect Memory Errors
The Best Script
If you run a Pilot to check for memory errors, TestFactory does not calculate code
coverage for the best script. Instead, it optimizes the best script based on UI coverage.
To get a code coverage value for a best script that was generated during memory
checking, clear the Detect memory errors for this session check box on the
General tab, and then run the script from TestFactory.
Defect Scripts
The Defect Found folder for a memory-checking Pilot can include defect scripts that
uncover memory-related defects, as well as defect scripts that uncover other kinds of
defects (AUT crashes, Visual Basic run-time errors, and assertions). To determine
whether a defect script is associated with a memory error or other kind of defect, you
must view its log in the Test Log window of Rational TestManager. For information
about viewing a script log, see
Viewing the Log for a Defect Script
on page 5-17. For
information about the kinds of memory errors uncovered by defect scripts, see the
Using Purify Messages: Message Types
in Rational Purify Help.
If you run a Pilot in an area of the AUT that contains an error unrelated to memory,
the Pilot generates a single defect script for that defect, regardless of how many times
the defect turns up during the run. However, if you run a Pilot in an area of the AUT
that contains a memory error, the Pilot generates a new defect script each time the
error shows up during the run. If this happens, the Pilot results include a Defects
Found folder that contains multiple defect scripts for a single memory error.
Although there is no way to completely avoid generating redundant memory defect
scripts, you can reduce the number of these that a Pilot generates.
If a Pilot generates many defect scripts for a single memory error, do the following:
1. To modify the Pilot stop criteria so that a Pilot run generates fewer defect scripts
(for any kind of defect):
a. Click the Pilot in the application map.
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Christina Aguilera has given birth to a baby girl!
The Voice star and her fiance Matt Rutler have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, this weekend, it has been reported.
Christina, 33, reported gave birth to her second child via a C-section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, according to Us Weekly.
Earlier this year, Us Weekly revealed that Christina and her beau Matt were expecting a little sister for Christina's six-year-old son Max, just a month after they got engaged in January.
In July, Christina attended her baby shower, where Matt was also present.
"It was very romantic with candles everywhere," a source told the magazine. "Christina looked so happy and excited."
Guests were treated to pink champagne to honour the arrival of the little girl, as well as a slice of a graphic cake, which featured a woman in the image of Christina giving birth.
It looks as though Christina was working up to the minute she was set to give birth as she posted a photo of herself in the studio, along with the caption: "Baby girl getting first listen to what mama's been creating in the studio."
The Voice mentor also posed nude for the August edition of V magazine admitting that she was "proud" of her body.
"As a woman, I'm proud to embrace my body through all stages of life, staying fearless and confident in surrendering to the unknowns the future has in store," she told the magazine.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Wheel K3: Glitters from Borghese and Maybelline
(all except numbers 2 and 3 have topcoat in addition to coats noted below)
1. Borghese Scintilla Red (3 coats)
2. Borghese Purple Confetti (2)
3. Borghese Mediterraneo Sea (2)
4. Borghese Nero Magico (2)
5. Borghese unnamed mini (3) [I really wish they'd made this in full size]
6. Borghese unnamed mini (4)
7. Maybelline Express Finish Silver Spells (2) [base has yellowed with age on some of these Maybellines, including this one]
8. Maybelline Express Finish Planet Pluto (2)
9. Maybelline Express Finish Glitter Luminous Moon (2)
10. Maybelline Express Finish Shooting Stars (2)
11. Maybelline Express Finish Glitter Bolt of Blue (2)
12. Maybelline Express Finish Twinkle Twinkle (2)
13. Maybelline Express Finish Glitter Pink Stars (2)
14. Maybelline Express Finish Glitter Twinkle Pink (3)
15. Maybelline Express Finish Far Out Fuchsia (2)
16. Maybelline Express Finish Glitter Red Comet (2)
17. Maybelline Express Finish Clearly in Love (3) [required fishing for the hearts]
18. Maybelline Express Finish Red Hot Hearts (3) [also needed fishing]
19. Maybelline Express Finish Celestial Shimmer (3)
20. Maybelline Express Finish Special Sparkle (4)
Bottles 1 through 6:
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They're all pretty, but from Borghese I especially like Purple Confetti and Mediterraneo Sea.ReplyDelete
What a nice bunch of glitters. 17 & 18 are very cute, ideal for Valentines day. Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
I love looking at glitter this close. Borghese Mediterraneo sea is very beautiful!ReplyDelete
Maybelline Express Finish Celestial Shimmer is so cute!! I'm so cheesy, lol.ReplyDelete
a lot of pretty goodiesReplyDelete
Such pretty glitters!ReplyDelete
#3 and #11 are aweeesome!!!ReplyDelete
Wow! I'm really impressed by how well the Maybelline glitters came out for just two coats. And I'm gonna keep an eye out for the Borghese glitters at Ross, or franken'em because they're long gone from my Rite Aids. Those mini Borghese bottles are creepy, though. Like glass stinkbugs.ReplyDelete
I have had the Maybelline Luminous Moon for such a long time! I haven't used it in so long so it probably needs some thinner. I also like the ones with the hearts in them!ReplyDelete
I just seen some of the Borghese polishes at a local discount place...makes me regret the hefty money I paid for them when they first came out (I think around $14 a bottle!)...nice to see how many older Maybelline polishes there are too...some of them are really cool!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see more of glitter week!
You seriously have the most amazing polishes! Every time I browse through your blog I see a handful of polishes I drool over.ReplyDelete
Ohhh glitters! My eternal love! Borghese ones look beautiful, esp. first 3 shades!ReplyDelete
I love no 2&3! awww...now I want them.ReplyDelete
I think I may need Maybelline Twinkle Twinkle!ReplyDelete
Awesome swatches! I love how you applied the heart glitters! So cute :DReplyDelete
what I don't understand is that we have gamey polishes here in France, but NEVER those ones
Karen, I have a "I love your blog" award for you, I hope you will accept it :) - the "how to's" are here http://mariasnailpolishblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/word-verification-free-i-love-your-blog.htmlReplyDelete
They are all beautiful! How could I pick one! thou I love the heart glitter!ReplyDelete
Thank you for reading and commenting! I greatly appreciate knowing I'm not just talking to myself here. :)


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Paperless Office Software: 14 Web Apps to Harness the Cloud, Boost your Efficiency, and Reclaim your Desk
By: Daryl Bernstein / Monday, July 16, 2012
Those still dreaming of a paperless office can wake up: the explosion of online software and mobile devices into the professional landscape has made that dream possible and practical for the first time. This article will help identify the most common sources of paper cluttering your desk and filling up your filing cabinets, and introduce some of the best paperless office software and tools to head these problems off at the source.
The Magic of Paperless Office SoftwareGoing paperless can drastically reduce your paper and printing budget. You'll also save money on office and storage space, with bulky file cabinets no longer an issue. Delicate records will be cheaper to preserve and easier to access, since electronic documents are easier to search and sort. Going paperless is also good for the environment, reducing landfill waste, overforesting, and use of hazardous chemicals found in many inks. And just about everybody will be grateful to never have to use a printer again.
Analysts and pundits have been predicting the shift to a paperless office for decades—the term was first used in a BusinessWeek article in 1975. Yet, despite its status as the "office of the future" for nearly 40 years, the paperless office is still nowhere near standard in most industries—and the reason is poor implementation. It's easier to focus on replacing the paper you already have rather than the paper you're yet to have, even if that gets you nowhere closer to solving the problem once and for all. Instead of trying to tackle that ponderous mountain of invoices and sticky notes on your desk first, this guide will go in a different direction. Let's start by identifying some common sources of incoming paper, and the best tools to replace each traditional process.
1. Move Document Signing OnlineLegal forms and contracts are some of the final holdouts of the paper world. When it's time to get an agreement, proposal, NDA, or form signed, even the staunchest paperless office aficionado will revert to the old "print, sign, and fax" tradition. RightSignature, however, has the power to turn this convention on its head. Our popular cloud-based software-as-service enables you to create a form or send an existing document to one or many signers, who can apply a legally binding electronic signature online—which looks just like a regular signature. The signed copy is automatically returned and archived, and never once is a printer or fax machine involved.
RightSignature also boasts seamless integration with dozens of other cloud-based paperless office software programs, including many of those mentioned in this article. These integrations are crucial, making digital records significantly more convenient to share and transport than your old paper files. For example, the integration between RightSignature and BambooHR lets you simplify your employee onboarding process and get employment forms filled out and signed online.
2. Digitize Your Notes to SelfPaper's largest advantage is effortless mobility. You can write down a personal memo or to-do list at home, put it in your pocket, and take it with you to work or while running errands. Today, however, we are rarely further away than our pocket or handbag from an internet capable device, and with the right software it's easier than ever to let your notes move with you.
Take Evernote, for example—a cloud-based service that lets you create and edit notes, documents, images and web links and synchronizes automatically to any computer or mobile device you might use. Evernote aims to help its users remember everything, and does so without burying them in sticky notes. And to replace your day planner, consider Google Calendar, our favorite calendar manager, and Tungle, a convenient web application for coordinating meeting times easily.
3. Streamline Financial Record-KeepingAlong with email, this is the area that has the most adoption already. Digital accounting is long since standard, but new solutions have expanded the range of what users can reasonably expect from their financial records software. Xero is accounting software that follows its users, giving full mobile access to records you might have otherwise buried in Quicken or miles of paper records.
Meanwhile, Shoeboxed is a service that lets you digitize and organize your receipts automatically, and will integrate them directly with any other accounting software you might use. QuoteRoller produces professional-looking online proposals without paper hassles. Finally, Harvest and FreshBooks are two excellent tools for businesses or independent contractors for tracking work time, managing billing, and sending invoices.
4. Replace Meeting Materials and Work Together BetterPerhaps the greatest advantage to moving to cloud computing is that it allows multiple users to contribute to the same project at the same time. Those who have used Google Docs to update a massive spreadsheet simultaneously with a few co-workers are familiar with this functionality. Cloud collaboration finds its greatest use in software suites designed for project management and file sharing, like Basecamp or Huddle. When everyone working on a single project is using the same software and sharing the same files digitally, long printed reports become completely unnecessary and, truthfully, start to seem kind of silly.
Of course, none of this removes the need to meet face-to-face or over the phone to make decisions, brainstorm new ideas, or assign tasks to team members. These meetings usually end with a printed copy of the notes sent to every single attendee—unless you use minutes.io to take concise, automatically formatted notes online and send them as soon as the meeting ends.
5. Make a Resolution, and Stick to ItYou may have the best intentions of a paperless office internally—and you may even pull it off—but your contacts outside your business or organization won't know that unless you tell them. However, if you convince others to go paperless, it will help you stay paperless as well. Next time someone wants to hand you a piece of paper—whether it be a contract or a memo, a five hundred-page report or a business card, just remember the magic words: "Could you email that to me instead?"
By now you should be prepared to step into the world of the paperless office. Yes, really. Now that you have the right tools, and the right software, you can choke off the tidal wave of paper that flows to your desk every day. If you're still unsure, many of these programs, like RightSignature, offer free trials, so you can get used to using the software before you have to pay a dime. The paperless office truly is here—are you ready to embrace it?


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"it exudes a sense of disconnection from the world while simultaneously connecting the listener as Louis illustrates moments of confidence, thumping over melodies and mesmerising as he sings about distraught sensibilities."
"Louis... used to beat the drums for Remy Zero and Little Red Rocket, but his forthcoming solo album proves he's as potent as front and center force."
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"I believe in the good of every one of us / and when I think there's something else / I simply try to run too fast."
How to describe someone who would write such a lyric? A jaded optimist? A guarded dreamer? Just who are we talking about here?
Odds are you already have heard Louis Schefano. He was a member of such seminal bands as Remy Zero, Verbena and Little Red Rocket, and played drums with Sarah McLachlan, Bright Eyes, and The Ladybug Transistor. His songs have been covered by The Minders, Maria Taylor, and featured in the award winning film Pretty In the Face. As a performer he has shared bills with Of Montreal, Adam Franklin of Swervedriver and Jonathan Richmond . But that only tells part of the story.
What is most remarkable about Schefano is his work as a singularly gifted singer-songwriter. As Regia, he recorded The Art of Navigation (spinART), a spare power pop masterpiece that was the "most-added" at CMJ the week of its release. All Music Guide raved, "This is one of those albums that gets better with every play, and then follows you around all day like an imaginary friend".
Establishing himself first in the Birmingham, AL music scene, he relocated to Brooklyn, NY, and began to perform under the name Louis, releasing the Freak Show Revenge EP (Superphonic), and a series of brilliant singles.
"I feel confident / that a strait jacket's not / in my future."
Good news, eh? Louis is currently completing work on a full-length recording for release.
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The Sunday riders' section of the South Herts Cyclists met in St Albans at 9.00 a.m. We welcomed new rider Janos to our distinctive brand of wobbling on wheels around the countryside and five minutes later off we set.
Destination Great Missenden: this is quite a stretch for a first break so the route was fairly linear. We made a beeline for Chesham via Nash Mills, Flaunden and Latimer. In Chesham it was a small job of navigating the high street and finding Fullers Hill, a nice road that steadily climbs up and meets Weedon Hill. We passed through Hyde Heath and made our coffee stop in Great Missenden in good time. A short stop, as there was only a handful of us, and we were on our way again.
Now I had a really quick way of getting to lunch, which involved popping out on the Rignall Road and taking the Askett turn off, we also ventured up Longdown Hill, which was pleasantly traffic free. After Askett it was a simple task of going past Longwick and stopping at the second bridge so that we could access the Phoenix Trail and make lovely mincemeat of the rest of the route, it really was very pleasant on the trail and everything was looking nice and fine in the sunshine. Soon we made Towersey and our lunch stop.
It was at lunch after enquiring about my route to Cholesbury that Judy let out a gasp of concern. 'Oh my god! That's a bastard.' she wailed as I explained that we were going to go up The Hale.
We were soon off again, back up the trail and making our way towards Great Kimble and then onto Wendover. It was quite weird but it seemed that the whole route to Wendover and up the Hale was just one great climb, but the views we got were fantastic. Climbing up The Hale was nice and we kept to an even pace. As a note: Judy made it up the Hale first.
We were soon heading towards St Leonards and Buckland Common. It was a welcome break in Cholesbury for teas at the village hall. For our route back home we decided to miss Berko and head for Bovingdon, via Ashley Green.
It was a great ride out enjoyed by all
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Myriam Ladeuze, from Belgium, is a leading teacher of Conscious Body and will be leading two events in Paris this November. Conscious Body uses body symptoms, large and small, as a way to discover hidden, disowned selves that are calling to be expressed. This work brings personal transformation and often heals body symptoms.
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At the present time, Judith Hendin has no new trainings scheduled. Here's why:
Since 1989, Judith Hendin has been teaching Voice Dialogue, Conscious Body, and Trauma Work. Since 2007, she has traveled widely in Europe (43 trainings, 8 conference presentations), and she has taught frequently at major centers in the U.S. (Kripalu, Omega, and the New York Open Center). It is has been a wonderful decade, and now she is taking some time for rest and for administrative re-organization.
Whenever Judith is teaching, she is also learning more and more about the methods she has discovered. So she is also taking time now to write about these new insights, in two areas: (1) how the Conscious Body process brings healing, and (2) how trauma can be addressed with power and subtlety from the perspective of inner selves.
As new events are planned, they will be posted here. If you would like to be on the mailing list to receive announcements of future events, please send an email and simply put "Yes" in the subject line.
Judith Hendin has contributed a chapter in the book, The Voice Dialogue Anthology: Explorations in the Psychology of Selves and the Aware Ego. The chapter is titled, "Conscious Body and the Energy Medicine of Selves." To read this chapter in our Reading Room, click here.
The late Candace Pert, Ph.D., invited Judith Hendin to appear as the first guest of Pert's Institute of New Medicine interview series. Pert, a scientist recognized for her ground-breaking research in the connection of body and mind, wrote the popular book, Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel, and she appeared in the film What the BLEEP Do We Know. Candace Pert served in the Clinical Neuroscience Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She will be remembered fondly.
"Bodies are devised to guide us in consciousness. Follow the energy of pain or illness and you will find characters inside bursting to express — emotions held back for decades, a little child sweetly playing, Aphrodite's sexy hips swaying. All these, and many more, are medicine."


text: Have you ever met a woman that didn't love a good bargain? Neither have we. This is why we believe sample sales are the best. For two days we'll be taking over Dalston Pier just off Kingsland Road. We will come stocked with a variety of styles and sizes. We're bringing sexy samples from the SS14 Acquascapism collection but there will also be treats from the treasure boxes holding AW13 and SS13 shoes. Been lusting after some sandals for ages? Maybe you should get them now! A certain lucite heel will make a sneaky appearance too. Tell your neighbours, bring your friends and come! Prices will be up to 80% off. Some samples will be up for grabs for as little as a tenner but rest assured it will be filled with sweet specials all around. The babes over at Lazy Oaf will be joining us, details for other brands will be confirmed soon. Opening times are 11 to 8 on Friday and 10 to 6 on Saturday. This white space Dalston Pier. Click here to find it on Google Maps. What our last sample sale looked like! The stuff on sale now won't be entirely the same as on the photos it gives an idea of the variety of stock.