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COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) When Sue Fletcher was helping her husband arrange his grandmothers funeral, she was astonished at the caskets cost more than $3,000. Then, when her mother-in-law found the same casket online for $1,000, Fletcher got mad.
Sometimes, theres a 600-percent markup, she said. I know that there are caskets made in China for $400 or $500 that are sold here for thousands.
So, last April, she and her husband and sons started the Colorado Casket Co.
The company office and showroom inhabit an east Colorado Springs building that also serves self-storage warehouse units, which is pragmatic. What is a casket but the final self-storage unit?
When it comes time to plan a funeral, Most people dont realize they can bring in an outside casket, Fletcher said.
Thats because, as independent funeral consultant Randy Larson observed, Death is a topic that people dont like to research. He established his business four years ago, after spending seven years working for Service Corporation International, North Americas largest provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services.
Do a little research, and youll learn that funerals can be expensive about half the cost of the average American wedding, which experts say was about $27,000 in 2011. And just like weddings, the death-planning details add up embalming, cremation, makeup, dressing, viewing charges, headstone, music, chapel service, graveside service, limousines, flowers and so on.
But the biggest single purchase is a casket.
I just dont understand spending $7,000 to $10,000 on something that goes into the ground, Fletcher said. A caskets true life, when you purchase it, is 48 hours. Thats the viewing, the service and the burial. Then it goes in the ground.
Most people who buy a casket dont think in those terms. Fewer people are investing in what the funeral industry terms pre-need planning buying a casket and cemetery plot, and making funeral arrangements well ahead of the day they die.
The baby boomers are not doing pre-need, said John Horan, director of Horan and McConaty, the Denver-based funeral and cremation service business.
Overall, baby boomers, as a group, dont really seek out this discussion until they have to, Horan said. The boomers really represent the first generation in humankind where a death in the inner circle has become uncommon. This is the first time in history so many people have been able to live into their 50s and not experience the death of a parent, a spouse, a sibling or a child.
Consequently, when a death does occur, the result is what Larson calls emotional overspending. Even after an anticipated death the death of someone in hospice, for example survivors go into a kind of shock, he said.
Once death occurs, its really tough to do research, because it adds another step in there that most people dont want to do, Larson said.
When a family is making decisions for a loved one, one place where theyll err is on overspending. If Mom or Grandfather hasnt chosen a casket, the family feels awkward about picking the least-expensive casket. It seems shallow to bicker over price and quality.
Options to customize caskets by adding guardian-angel panels and corner decorations also add to the expense.
Caskets now being made with corners that offer a variety of ways to customize with a religious or mountain scene, or fish, or golf clubs, he said.
There are caskets being made with a drawer that allows family members to put keepsakes and notes to leave with the deceased.
The least-expensive caskets start at just under $500, but add-ons can drive up the cost quickly. A grieving family might deem the extra expense worthwhile, though, finding a measure of comfort in thinking of the guardian angel keeping company with a caskets occupant.
More important than the casket, in Horans view, is the service.
From my perspective, someone does not need to spend a lot of money on a casket, Horan said. The important thing is a service. The opportunity that the casket offers is the chance to have the deceased present, to give people an opportunity to connect what the mind knows with what the heart and gut struggle to believe. I saw it this morning at a Catholic church. The priest said something to the effect of, by bringing your family members body here, you are honoring not just the life of that person, but also the vessel that contained that person.


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Q: Who's the one who influenced you a lot regarding acting?
Park Yoochun sunbae and Kim Junsu sunbae? (Laughs) Kidding, the one who really influence me a lot is Ji Sung Hyung. He gave me a lot of help during my first Korean drama. Every time I encounter new dramas, he'll tell me "When you have decided to take up new dramas, remember to show the script to me" and he'll check it out. In order to provide me good recommendations and advice, hyung put in a lot of effort.
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- Use of an automobile
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- Money for, or guarantee of, bail or bond
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- Payment for work not performed
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan, July 12 (UPI) -- The International Energy Agency said at a conference in Kazakhstan it recognizes the important role of the Caspian region in global energy markets.
IEA Deputy Executive Director Richard Jones met with regional delegates in the Kazakh capital to discuss energy technology and the best practices in the renewable energy field.
Delegates included representatives from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Azerbaijan is emerging as a regional oil and natural gas powerhouse. Members of the European Union are looking at Azerbaijan's natural gas, specifically, as a way to break the Russian grip on the regional energy sector.
Jones, in a statement, said the IEA "acknowledges the increasing role of the Caspian region ... in the global energy markets and stands ready to share its energy policy experience with countries in the region."
Clashes between security forces and demonstrators followed oil strikes in Kazakhstan in December. At least 15 people were killed.
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VisionFund Uganda has been supporting clients since 1997. Since then, we have grown to serve 42,700 active borrowers and impact 168,800 children and 60,400 jobs.
World Vision originally began its microfinance and
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was then founded in 2003 to manage its network of affiliated microfinance
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The Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU) has for a number of years supported VisionFund Uganda and over fifty MFI's, including SACCOs (Savings and Credit Co-operatives), with capacity building in Social Performance Management. This involves training of the SPM (Social Performance Management) focal person, training of all MFI staff and helping us with SPM constant monitoring. VisionFund Uganda emerged the best MFI for outstanding performance in implementing SPM among all AMFIU members for 2014/2015, and was given a Gold Award.
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"I greatly thank God for the embedded education brought to us by VisionFund Uganda for we have been enlightened on many ways of using our loans well. Whenever I see my Loan Officer coming home I just say one word Embedded Education has come" Said Agnes very happily.
Agnes explained to us that she benefited mostly from two lessons; Use your loan for the intended purpose and Borrow only what you can afford to repay. Other group members also managed to attend all the four sessions and also have stories to tell.
"Iam so grateful that now am an education champion in my village for I can advise all my friends by trying to emphasize the contents from the embedded education and I don't regret joining VisionFund Uganda since am now a changed and better person" Said Agnes.
"After accessing the training in Embedded Education, I have managed to invest my loan money for the intended purpose and my business has managed to grow to where it is now. From the little savings made, I have also started another business dealing in agricultural inputs and also kept my children in school because I no longer have school fees challenges. I also pay my loan on time and I stopped taking things for granted regarding my loan and i now have a good record with VisionFund Uganda" Said Agnes.
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Next to steering, brakes are probably the most crucial part of any vehicle. We've harped on how important it is to keep up on brake maintenance before, so here's more info about how brakes work.
Nothing like a little disco music and a mustachioed private who looks like he wishes he'd stayed in school to get your point across. Did you hear him sigh before he starts his Jeep? That's the sign of a man who's asking himself, "Why, why did I believe my recruiter?!"
Anyway, be glad that he got suckered into signing on the dotted line, because now you can learn something about brakes that perhaps you didn't know before. If you don't work on them everyday, it's a good review. As they say in the video, "The safe operation of a vehicle and somebody's neck — even your own — could be at stake." This poor bastard probably thought he'd be staring goats to death with Jedi Warriors.
See part two here. Also related: How An Automatic Transmission Works
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OCEAN CITY — After being
called out for not doing his proverbial homework last week when he sought to
reduce staff pay, Councilman Joe Hall blamed his emotions for getting the best
of him, but he made sure not to take the controversial motion back.
What may have been
mistaken for an apology to some was actually Hall's claim that he had done the
calculations concerning the savings that would be accrued by the town before
making the most controversial pitch of this year's budget hearings — his
motion for a 2.5-percent reduction in pay for all employees of the town of
Ocean City. The council voted down his proposal.
Last Wednesday, Hall was
accused of "arbitrarily" choosing 5 percent as a number to cut employee
salaries by this year, in order to trim another penny off the tax rate, before
settling on 2.5-percent cut in his actual motion.
His colleagues, most
notably Council President Joe Mitrecic, exchanged verbal jabs with Hall and
pointed out that he had not made the calculations to support his motion that
would essentially affect all of the 500-plus Ocean City employees.
Mitrecic called Hall's
motion "ridiculous" and calculated the savings to the town on the spot, as Hall
seemed to be uncertain at times to what the amount would be in regards to
either a 5 percent cut (about $1.3 million in savings) or a 2.5 percent cut
(about 535,000 in savings), fumbling over numbers and changing his motion
several times.
On Monday night, however,
Hall took the opportunity to explain his reasoning and convince his naysayers
and whoever else was listening that he didn't make such a controversial motion
without a lot of thought and research.
"I want to reassure
everyone that I knew that a [5-percent cut] would have saved us over a penny on
the tax rate, and that I was very much aware of what I was doing," said Hall.
"It was a very emotional issue and a very hard motion to make, so if it
appeared that I hadn't done my homework, I apologize if it came off that way,
but it did only because it was such an emotional issue."
Hall said later in the
week that the motion, which was thwarted by the council 5-2, with only Hall and
Councilwoman Margaret Pillas in favor of the 2.5 percent pay reduction for
employees, was the toughest motion that he's ever made in his years on the
"Without a doubt it was
the hardest one that I've ever made, but I don't take it back," said Hall. "I
still believe that it is absolutely the right motion to move the town of Ocean
City forward towards a sustainable future."
Mayor Rick Meehan points
out that the argument over whether or not the employees of the town of Ocean
City have in Hall's words, "felt the pain that the community is feeling" is
quite true and was substantial enough to not warrant the further pay cuts that
Hall pitched last week.
"If you look at the fact
that our employees have had no step or COLA increases for the last two years,
that accounts for over $2 million in payroll savings, and that accounts for
almost a 12-percent reduction in what their salaries would have been
otherwise," Meehan said. "We've already asked a great deal from our employees
and we've already adjusted the payscale."
Obviously, Hall's main
objective was to lower the property tax rate even further than what the council
is one vote away from setting in stone after Monday's vote, which was 39.5
cents per $100 assessed valuation.
Hall also contested the
merits of not having any money allotted to capital improvement projects for the
next year.
Coupled with the town's
budgetary tabling of capital projects was the recent announcement by the State
Highway Administration that it was out of funds for roadway projects for the
foreseeable future after having to be tens of millions over budget after an unusually
cold and snowy winter in the state.
As a result, it made
sense when Councilman Lloyd Martin motioned that the council would take any
additional savings, once the council finds the 100,000 it needs to technically
achieve the 39.5 cents tax rate, and put it straight to address capital
projects in the town.
When Hall was elected
back onto the council in 2008 after a six-year absence, his first motion was to
table all capital projects in the resort. Now, he says it's time to get them
higher on the city's priority list.
"Yes, I voted to table
them all, but that doesn't mean I wanted them there forever," said Hall. "We
could've found additional money in the 5-percent cut of employee pay and maybe
put only half into the tax rate, which would have gotten it down to 39 cents,
and then put the rest into capital projects. Right now, we have nothing in
there for fixing even a pothole."
Meehan says that
Martin's motion was the "responsible" one to make, and a strategy that he
supports, noting that the town's streets and canal dredging should be top
"Last year, we took
$500,000 from the retiree health insurance benefits to get the tax rate to
39.5, and we vowed to pay that back with the first money we found and we were
able to do that," said Meehan. "This year, I think that we will find more
savings and be able to address some of our infrastructure concerns as well."
As expected, there are
some in the town's hierarchy that were none too happy with Hall's controversial
motion, and he says that although no one has confronted him face to face he's
felt the ice-cold stares.
"I sense that it's
there, but no one has said anything to me other than that they understood why I
made the motion, even though they didn't really agree with it," said Hall.


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Sauber's plan for 2013 was pretty simple when it come to the question of the C32: They wanted to give good old evolution a go in order to make the new car score more than last season, when the team racked up four podium finishes and the sixth place in the championship.
Power still comes from Ferrari, but the new silver-on-gray livery and the arrow-shaped nose makes the car stand out even more than any amount of Rosso Scuderia paint could. According to team boss Monisha Kaltenborn, they focused on getting rid of the weak parts while making the good ones even better with the C32. Shocking news.
The real question remains whether ex-Force India star Nico Hülkenberg and previous Lotus
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The 2017 Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year Competition, brought to you by Land Rover and Canon, opened for entries on 1 December 2016.
The grand title winner of the year's competition will walk away with a Big Cat Photo Safari for two, provided by At Close Quarters with flights by Airlink, as well as a Canon EOS 700D with a double lens kit. Runner up prizes include a two night safari for two at Klaserie Sands River Camp or Hideaways' Elephant's Eye while each category finalist will enjoy a case of wine provided by Rhino Tears. The most popular entries on Facebook and Instagram will enjoy prizes sponsored by iSimangaliso and Thule.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:
-- Private equity firms Carlyle and BC Partners to acquire U.S. industrial pumps maker Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial which is owned by United Technologies Corp (approved Oct. 10)
-- U.S. consumer products maker Procter & Gamble and Israeli drugmaker Teva to set up a joint venture (notified Oct. 9/deadline Nov. 15)
-- Swedish packaging companies Kinnevik and Billerud
to merge (notified Oct. 5/deadline Nov. 13)
EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES None FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE OCT 12
-- U.S. technology distributor Ingram Micro Inc to acquire rival BrightPoint Inc (notified Sept. 7/deadline Oct. 12)
-- Austrian engineer Andritz to purchase German peer Schuler (notified Sept. 10/deadline Oct. 15)
OCT 22 -- OAO VTB Bank and Corporate Commercial Bank
to acquire Bulgarian mobile operator Bulgarian Telecommunications Co (BTC) (notified Sept. 17/deadline Oct. 22/simplified)
-- French agricultural products producer Vivescia to acquire miller Atrixo (notified Sept. 19/deadline Oct. 24/simplified)
-- U.S. fund Brookfield Infrastructure to buy a stake in Spanish toll road operator Abertis as part of a joint deal to acquire a stake in OHL's highway assets in Brazil (notified Sept. 21/deadline Oct. 26/simplified)
-- Belgian insurer Ageas to acquire the British non-life insurance busienss of French peer Groupama (notified Sept. 24/deadline Oct. 29/simplified)
OCT 30 -- Investment firm Carlyle Group LP to buy Dupont's
car paint business (notified Sept. 25/deadline Oct. 30/simplified)
-- Private equity firm Triton to purchase European Directories (notified Sept. 25/deadline Oct. 30/simplified)
-- Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice to acquire a majority stake in the decorative surfaces unit owned by Illinois Tool Works Inc (notified Sept. 25/deadline Oct. 30/simplified)
-- German car parts supplier Continental AG to cooperate with South Korean SK Innovation in lithium-ion battery technology for electric cars (notified Sept. 26/deadline Oct. 31/simplified)
-- Private equity firm Sun Capital Partners to acquire British drinks maker Rexam's cosmetics, toiletries and household care business (notified Sept. 27/deadline Nov. 5)
-- Commodities trader Glencore to acquire miner Xstrata (notified Oct. 2/deadline Nov. 8)
NOV 9 -- Hungarian oil and gas company MOL and JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production , which is majority-owned by Kazakh state oil and gas company JSC National Company KazMunaiGas to set up an oil and gas joint venture (notified Oct. 3/deadline Nov. 9/simplified) NOV 12
-- General Electric and consulting and outsourcing group Accenture to acquire indirect joint control of a newly set up U.S. joint venture (notified Oct. 4/deadline Nov. 12/simplified)
-- Swiss insurer Helvetia Insurance to acquire French insurer Groupama's French shipping insurance portfolio (notified Oct. 4/deadline Nov. 12)
-- Japanese conglomerate Toyota Tsusho Corp to acquire distributor CFAO (notified Oct. 5/deadline Nov. 13/simplified)
-- Private equity firms First Reserve Management and SK Capital Partners to acquire indirect joint control of petrochemical product maker TPC (notified Oct. 8/deadline Nov. 14/simplified)
NOV 16 -- Finnish group Outokumpu to acquire German group ThyssenKrupp's Inoxum stainless steel unit (notified April 10/deadline extended for the third time to Nov. 16 from Oct. 24 after Outokumpu offered commitments) NOV 30
-- Hong Kong's Hutchison 3G, which is part of Hutchison Whampoa , to acquire telecoms operator Orange Austria from France Telecom (notified May 7/deadline extended for the third time to Nov. 30 from Nov. 27 to allow a market test of Hutchison 3G's concessions)
JAN 15 -- U.S. mail delivery company United Parcel Service Inc
to acquire Dutch peer TNT Express (notified June 15/deadline extended for the fourth time to Jan. 15 from Dec. 20 after the European Commission asked for more time)
-- Ryanair to acquire Aer Lingus (notified July 24/deadline extended for the second time to Feb. 6 from Jan. 14)
The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 working days to 35 working days, to consider either a company's proposed remedies or an EU member state's request to handle the case.
Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90 additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working days.
Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces the clearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without giving any reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified as non-simplified -- that is, ordinary first-stage reviews -- until they are approved.
(Editing by Foo Yun Chee)
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Late rock icon Kurt Cobain's daughter has bought her first home after inheriting a huge chunk of her father's fortune last year.
Frances Bean Cobain was handed 37 percent of the Nirvana star's estate when she turned 18 in August last year, and has decided to use her money to invest in property.
The teen, who is estranged from her mother Courtney Love, has bought a $1.8 million home in West Hollywood. The two-story property sits in a quiet neighborhood a few minutes away from Sunset Strip, and boasts four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
The purchase comes just weeks after Nirvana's iconic "Nevermind" album marked its 20th anniversary last month. Frances Bean was close to turning 2 when her father committed suicide in 1994.
She has lived with her grandmother, Wendy O'Connor, since a bust-up with Love in 2009.


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Kate Walsh Gossip
Kate Walsh gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Kate Walsh, Billionaire Boyfriend
Kate Walsh was photographed at the launch for a perfume called Billionaire Boyfriend. Captions referred to it as "her" perfume, but I thought, "No that can't be right, you are reading it wrong. She must just be at the party or the doing the adverts." So I kept digging. Oh I was wrong. Full Story
Replacing KatE with Kate
Rumour has it, Victoria Beckham has had enough of Katie Holmes, unhappy with the fact that her protégé has now become more posh. UK tabloids are also reporting that Tom has chilled to his wife's friendship with Mrs Beckham, supposedly because Victoria is a bad "thin" influence, subversively pressuring Katie to lose too much weight. Full Story
Hawaiian Thanksgiving
Newlywed Kate Walsh and husband spent the holiday in Hawaii frolicking in the water. Having met her in person, twice, I can tell you she is even lovelier in person – more engaging, with more sparkle, and sexier, less harsh in the face, and the longest craziest legs. And Kate's like George Clooney in a way – fame found her late so really isn't a f&ck up. Full Story


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Ever since its creation in 1755, Vacheron Constantin's special vocation has been to produce custom-built watches, with its master watchmakers lavishing countless hours on determining the exact appearance of a model and on choosing its functions and its components. Extreme complexity or a poetic expression of time, guilloché or enameled dial, Roman or Arabic numerals, seconds in the center or perpetual calendar – anything is possible and no pains are spared to give a watch the character that will forever reflect the wishes of its owner.
Collectors of Vacheron Constantin watches are perfectly aware of this. Thus in the 1860s Tsar Alexander II and the Tsarina ordered a sumptuous timepiece for their son, the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. At the start of the 20th century Sir Bhupindra Singh, the Maharajah of Patiala, was one of the illustrious patrons of special watch orders. Both the well-known New York banker Henry Graves Jr. and his compatriot, the famous early 20th-century automobile manufacturer James Ward Packard, were also proud owners of unique timepieces created by Vacheron Constantin.
Today Vacheron Constantin's "Atelier Cabinotiers Special Order" service perpetuates this tradition based on the free exchange of ideas and creativity.
Vacheron Constantin's "Atelier Cabinotiers Special Order" service revives the spirit of 18th-century Geneva. At this period prestigious dignitaries from the various European courts came to order directly from the "Cabinotiers", the watchmaking craftsman who had made the city's reputation. To take advantage for as long as possible of the best midday light, these craftsmen preferred to locate their workshops on the top floors of the buildings. These workshops, often cramped and sometimes located in attics directly beneath the roof, illuminated by numerous windows, built a solid reputation for the quality of their work. They soon came to be called "cabinets", and their occupants were known as "Cabinotiers."
Today the Atelier Cabinotiers brings together professional watchmakers who combine the highest standards of excellence with a spirit of dedication. Together they strive to turn the wildest dreams into technical reality. Vacheron Constantin's designers and Research and Development department make their contribution, before specially assigned teams take over the responsibility for the development and pursuit of the projects concerned. A special company representative assures permanent contact between the latter and the purchaser.
Added to this team, there are the extraordinary artistic skills of the master guillocheurs, enamellers, engravers and gem-setters, who are among the few remaining craftsmen to still master these traditional arts, proudly continuing age-old traditions.
From the hands of these artists come timepieces that are unique examples of their kind throughout the world, representing the pinnacle of Fine Watchmaking, and which will one day take their rightful place, as all the creations of the Manufacture have done before them since 1755, in the heritage and archives of Vacheron Constantin.
* Philosophia is the name given by the owner
This special order, named Philosophia* by its owner, is in itself a paradox. It combines brilliantly the concepts of Fine Watchmaking and approximate time. The original idea was based on the postulate that mankind does not need to constantly know the exact time to the nearest minute.
The Philosophia* conveys all of these things at once. Based on a model from the Patrimony collection, it has only one hand in the center, the hour hand, with a 24-hour display. If however the owner wants a more precise idea of the time at any given moment, he simply activates the on-off slide of the Philosophia*'s minute repeater.
Another sophisticated touch in the Philosophia*: is an opening in the dial at 6 o'clock that allows us to admire a tourbillon making a complete rotation once every 60 seconds. The commissioner of the piece, who also likes astronomy, asked for a custom-built precision moon-phase indicator. On the back of the watch, the power-reserve indicator bears a small plaque stamped with the intertwined constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Nearby, engraved in the 18-carat pink gold of the custom-built case, the identifying phrase "Les Cabinotiers" and the Atelier Cabinotiers coat of arms attest to the exceptional origin of this timepiece, which is also stamped with the prestigious Geneva Seal.
No fewer than 522 parts of the hand-wound mechanical movement make the Philosophia* tick. Thanks to its spirit, its aesthetic appearance and its exclusive mechanism it is a unique model that is an extreme example of a custom-built timepiece.
* Vladimir is the name given by the owner
Of Slavonic origin, this first name is derived from the ancient term Volodimir, which literally means "domination by peace" or "peace to all". This superlative watch is quite simply one of the most complicated timepieces in the world. That is what its owner wanted, and Vacheron Constantin's Atelier Cabinotiers gathered the resources to meet this extremely ambitious challenge.
The hand-wound mechanical movement of this unique Vladimir* watch drives no fewer than 17 complications. This exceptional movement, stamped with the prestigious Geneva Seal, has some 891 components, all hand-finished and hand-decorated in our workshops.
In order to meet the challenge that it had been set and to create this extremely complex and unique timepiece, the "Atelier Cabinotiers Special Order" service called on more than 20 experts and craftsmen. It is both a technical and aesthetic triumph that took four years to develop. It was a Herculean effort for a watch that is sure to join the legendary ranks of exceptional watchmaking.
The role of the "Atelier Cabinotiers Special Order" department is to perpetuate the unique expertise of our master watchmakers, who work in the great Genevan tradition of the Cabinotiers watch workshops. The Atelier Cabinotiers offers our clients a highly exclusive service: that of producing unique timepieces, entirely custom-made and created on an individual commission basis.
Our custom-made watches are surrounded by secrecy and confidentiality. Often embodying a dream or passion, they are an expression of aspiration, legendary because they are spoken of more often than they are actually seen.
No collections of catalogues here, only a listening ear. It all starts with a narrative: the client's private story. A history fan might ask for the reproduction of a painting by one of the great masters in grand feu enamel on the dial; an aspiring Romeo might want his piece to chime once a year on his Juliet's birthday; or a grand complications enthusiast might dream of owning a ground-breaking mechanical masterpiece.
All requests, from the most simple to the most ambitious, are meticulously examined by an ethical committee set up specifically to ensure that only projects that correspond perfectly with the values and traditions of Vacheron Constantin are approved; allowing the realization of a dream for the future owner.


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Ice cream by Ian, creations by Lori
He's Ian Carandang, 31-year old modern-day sorbetero. (It's actually pronounced "EYE-yan," but with his permission, I call him "EE-yan." (Old pronunciation habits die hard.) It was Ian's seemingly innocent purchase of a pint of Ben & Jerry's at Duty Free Philippines five years ago that launched his life's mission: better, bigger ice cream. "I had heard of Ben & Jerry's before, but had never had the chance to try them until then. I was blown away by the names, the flavors, and the sheer sense of FUN that the ice cream was imbued with." He talks animatedly with lots of hand movements. When you meet Ian, it's easy to understand why the concept of "fun" in food is so attractive to him. The guy is loud and large, with an even larger sense of humor. I can't stop laughing when I'm with him.
mmmmelting Mango-Sans Rival, but you can see how sizable the chunks are
I once had a craving for his ice cream so compelling that I rearranged my weekend schedule just so that I could have it. Since then, I keep quarts of said ice cream stashed in my freezer. (Not a good idea when trying to keep temptation at bay). Believe you me, this man is changing the world one pint at a time.
The no-limits limitation when it came to Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors appealed to the artist in Ian. Before ice cream, he was actually a member of a band called Silent Sanctuary. A relatively successful band, they released an album that was available at Tower Records and even recorded a live performance for MTV Philippines. How's that for big, hey?
banana on banana: Banana Bonanza is the scoop on the left
It was when Duty Free stopped selling Ben & Jerry's that Ian was spurred to action. If he couldn't buy Ben & Jerry's, then he would do the next best thing: make his own. Armed with nothing but the Ben & Jerry's ice cream recipe book and an old-fashioned churner from a US-based aunt, Ian proceeded to create his own version of the Chunky Monkey® (banana ice cream with walnuts and fudge chunks). "It was very icy. And crusty," Ian laughs at the recollection. "I've come a long way since then."
ice cream sandwiches made with Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough ice cream
And how. His version of Chunky Monkey® which he's renamed Banana Bonanza is hale and hearty with lots of chopped walnuts, fudge bits, and sufficient banana flavor. Ian specializes in ice cream that's big on taste, and he doesn't skimp on the good stuff, especially the chunks. His bestselling Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough has gobs of dough as big as pebbles. Truly, this is ice cream that's only for people who appreciate big, bold flavors and larger-than-life textures. Those whose preferences in ice cream veer towards the more delicate (dare I say "˜plain?') should stay away. However, for those who like the chunk more than the ice cream, here's your holy grail. This is Ben & Jerry's cranked up a few notches.
4 flavors in this waffle cone, but only 3 are visible
Other flavors in the family include the Choc-Nut Chunk; Toblerone® Cheesecake with whorls of graham cracker; Mango Sans Rival, slivers of the golden fruit frolicking with cashew nuts and a wafer base (I love this one); Peanut Butter Cookie Dough which has a chocolate base; and speaking of chocolate, Ian makes a phenomenal I'm-a-gonna-smack-you-silly chocolate ice cream that he's christened Chocoholics Anonymous: a deep midnight brown custard base with the texture of thick silk. It slithers down the hatch like chocolate syrup except that its extreme richness is goaded on by surges of chocolate nuggets and lashes of chocolate fudge. It's a taste experience in gooey, creamy, crunchy, CHOCOLATE. You need courage to take on this mother flavor.
White Chocolate Macadamia is my FAVORITE, so it gets its own bowl
When it comes to ice cream, I thought that my heart beat for one and only one flavor alone: chocolate chip cookie dough. I must admit however, that I've met another flavor that has my heart under lock and key: Ian's White Chocolate Macadamia. White chocolate ice cream snuggles with the Rolls Royce of all nuts, the macadamia. The interplay (foreplay? Woohoo!) of the nuts' buttery richness canoodling with the white chocolate ice cream makes me believe that I'm eating a cold crème Brulee. One taste craves the next, entrenching itself in my taste memory. This is ice cream that I eat and abandon myself completely to.
root beer float aka "Brown Cow." When was the last time you had one of these?
Are these ice cream flavors the product of an overactive imagination? Ian chuckles. "I get my ideas from basically everywhere "" cake shops, candy stores, magazines, and food anime like Yakitate Japan. I try to absorb everything because I never know when a neat idea might fall into place.
Or not.
Every ice cream maker has chilly disappointments that he relegates to the dessert hall of shame. "I was most disappointed with Sweet Potato (kamote) ice cream." Ian recounts. "Personally, I felt it was a tasty flavor but it might have been too unfamiliar to people. It taught me that if I'm making something new, I have to give the customer something familiar to latch onto. Additionally, my Haw Flakes ice cream "˜Haw Delightful!' wins the award for most inquiries and fewest actual purchases." We guffaw at the thought.
This modern day ice cream man has big dreams for himself and the ice cream business, Sebastian's, that he's set up with a few business partners. Goals include a scooping station in every mall, and establishing a standard of excellence while remaining 100% Filipino. (Rock on Ian!). "Creatively however, I want to create that one unique across-the-board flavor like Cookies & Cream or Choc-Nut. If in the future I saw a flavor I invented being copied by Magnolia or some-such, I'd consider it the greatest of compliments."
"We love Tito Ian's ice cream!" Boo and her cousin, Josh.
Ian's ice cream is characterized by enthralling complexity, gutsy tastes, and unusual combinations. Move over, Ben and Jerry's. Your successor is here.
Sebastian's Ice Cream is available at:
Hotstix Barbecue
1595 Quezon Ave.
Quezon City
413-8359 / 924-0815
Sebastian's Ice Cream Studio
Alabang Town Center
Cinema Level
Single scoop P75, double P130
- Greenbelt 3, Makati
- Metrowalk, Ortigas
- Alabang Town Center
All P85/scoop
Shepherd's Staff Bookshop
Mall of Asia
North Parking Bldg.
Single scoop P65, double P130
Olio Steak and Seafood Restaurant
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September 28, 2011
By: Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol Bureau
Source: Times Union
ALBANY -- Imagine a computer that can make a billion calculations every billionth of a second, or a new process that will allow companies to produce twice the number of microchips at a time.
This is the next wave of nanotechnology, and with $4.8 billion of public and private investments announced Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the research and development required to make it reality will happen across upstate New York.
"This is a really, really big deal," Cuomo said at a gathering of his regional economic councils.
Much of the money will flow through the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, including $300 million for a new 250,000-square-foot facility called NanoFab West or NanoFab X already rising along Washington Avenue Extension.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and New York Power Authority will contribute a collective $100 million in energy subsidies for the venture. Unlike other deals, the companies involved will get no direct subsidies.
That building will house a new coalition of five companies called Global 450, comprised of Intel, IBM, Samsung, Global Foundries and TSMC. The effort will develop the next wave of chip-manufacturing on 450-millimeter wafers. These discs require heavier machines and have different needs for water and gases, but a single wafer contains twice as many chips as the 300-millimeter wafers currently being manufactured around the world, including on new fabs to be operated by GlobalFoundries in Malta.
Research on the transition will take place at the NanoCollege, as well as its satellite facilities in Canandaigua and SUNY IT in Utica, which will add 450 and 300 jobs respectively. The NanoCollege will see 800 new jobs, and 1,500 additional jobs related to the construction of the new building, according to Cuomo's office.
Concurrently, IBM committed to spend $3.6 billion on research spread through its labs at the NanoCollege as well as its own facilities in Yorktown Heights, East Fishkill and Poughkeepsie. The new investments should employ a total of 950 new people on what John Kelly, director of IBM Research, called the company's "home court."
Kelly explained that the company and other partners would research how to make components of computer chips smaller. Computers run using a series of binary switches; in early days, vacuum tubes the size of baseball bats were used. The more switches you have, the more power for your computer. Of course, vacuum tubes gave way to transistors and then to embedded circuitry.
Now, IBM is focusing on individual components that will be either 22 or 14 nanometers in size, where even a stray atom can affect performance. That's one under a millionth of an inch, and allows you to pack a lot of switches on one chip.
"This is really all about computing systems that IBM and others can construct using these advanced technologies," Kelly said. "And more important than the power than these systems is what these computers will do. ... They will help doctors diagnose advance diseases and help pharmaceutical companies discover new drugs."
Both new technologies will make computers cheaper and more energy-efficient.
CNSE President Alain Kaloyeros estimated the new NanoFab X facility would contain between $2 billion and $2.5 billion in sophisticated tools by the end of 2013. The first tools are slated to move into the new facility by September 2012; it will be completed in the first quarter of 2013, Kaloyeros said.
"This announcement continues to position CNSE to be the world leader in innovations in computer chips," he said.
A major coup was snagging Intel, which has a minimal footprint in New York. Kaloyeros said the NanoCollege has spoken for nine years to Intel about relocating major elements of its research operations to Albany, but they have always been content with fewer than two dozen employees working through ISMI, an international chip research consortium.
Now, Intel will increase its footprint by "hundreds" of workers, according to Brian Kzanich, its senior vice president for manufacturing and supply chain, as it transitions to 450-millimeter wafers.
"You need the economic power of the whole industry making this conversion, so we need to move in some level of unison," he said. "We looked across the world -- this was a unique opportunity: ... It had the workforce, had the clean room, had the government support, was a relatively neutral and centrally located location for all of us to do this work."
Serious talks about the consortium began last year, before Cuomo was elected. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver looped in the candidate around October, Silver said, and Cuomo has been a full partner along with Kaloyeros.
"We created the center of the universe for nanotechnology right here in Albany. Companies are coming in, and now they're flocking here," Silver said. "They are bringing their researchers here now. ... It's just a win-win."
A state official said the governor wooed one of Intel's top researchers over dinner at the Executive Mansion upon taking office in January, and Cuomo personally attended meetings with the involved businesses.
The result was a perfectly timed dose of optimism from the governor. He has focused the last six months of his administration on economic development, and announced the deal to an auditorium filled with members of 10 regional economic development councils from around the state. They've been tasked with creating strategic plans that will compete for a slice of $200 million.
"This is the state to invest in, this is the state to buy a home in ... this is the state to start a family, this is the state to start a life," Cuomo said. "Don't get on a plane and leave this state to think you're going to find a better future anywhere else. Because you're not."
Funding sources
Breakdown of $400 million in public financing for nanocollege project:
$250 million borrowed by Empire State Development Corp. (requires vote of ESDC board)
$100 million from New York Power Authority in Recharge New York affordable power program and from New York State Energy Research Development Authority ($100 million is subject to votes of the NYPA and NYSERDA boards)
$50 million from the Assembly capital projects fund (subject to approval of Assembly leadership)


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The Feb. 19 meeting of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library end a Topeka woman's nine years of work on the issue. Kim Borchers said in Tuesday's Topeka Capital-Journal that she's tired of the fight but is anxious to see the outcome of her latest effort.
Borchers and Kansans for Common Sense Policy late last year told the library that they believe the books are harmful to minors under Kansas law. They targeted "Sex for Busy People,'' "The Lesbian Kama Sutra,'' "The Joy of Sex'' and "The Joy of Gay Sex.''
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