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Oval shaped pink semi precious stone Rhodochrosite designer cabochon 51 mm by 23 mm and 5 mm thick.
Gorgeous semi precious gemstone pink and white marbled Rhodochrosite from Argentina. Rhodochrosite actually formed in the Incan silver mines after they were abandoned in the thirteenth century. These magnificent pink stalactites are made into beautiful designer cabochons for jewelry.
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United States Naval Academy Chrome Double Rung Neon Clock
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Every game room, garage or man cave could use the addition of an officially licensed neon clock. It has an accent colored neon ring on the exterior and a brilliant white neon ring on the interior of the clock to light up your favorite logo.
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Cream Cheese Carrot Muffins
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 20 min.
Makes1 dozen
- 1 can (15 ounces) sliced carrots, drained
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1-1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon each ground allspice, cloves and nutmeg
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Place carrots in a food processor; cover and process until smooth. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and spices. In a small bowl, whisk the pureed carrots, egg and oil; stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Fill 12 greased muffin cups one-third full. In a small bowl, beat the filling ingredients until smooth. Drop by tablespoonfuls into the center of each muffin. Top with remaining batter.
- Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 muffin: 288 calories, 14g fat (5g saturated fat), 56mg cholesterol, 370mg sodium, 37g carbohydrate (22g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g protein.
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Oct 25, 2019
My son destroyed these! He couldn't stop eating them! I've also made the recipe with sweet potato puree and butternut squash.
Jul 11, 2014
this is tooo dry... only one egg... I through it away... discusting...!!
Dec 2, 2012
We loved these! We also got a layer rather than a center, but they are tasty anyway. Next time, I think I'm going to lightly swirl the filling in rather than just drop it. Thanks for the recipe!
Sep 16, 2011
My family loved these. We got "the layer" but did not care. It's hard to decide if these are breakfast or dessert!
Apr 10, 2011
I have made other muffins w/ cream cheese in the middle & in order to get a "center" of cream cheese instead of a layer, the cream cheese needs to be cold and solid. If the batter is sweet enough, you can just take a melon baller and drop the cold, solid cheese into the middle, without having to soften it and add sugar/egg like this recipe calls for. It will stay in that shape and give you better results.
Apr 8, 2011
I'm wondering if I did something wrong or my ingredients were wonky? Everyone seems to have loved this, but my husband and I found them very heavy. The carrot batter tasted inCREDible, so I figured I'd love them.I found the filled so strange though--it almost seems like some ingredients are missing. If TOH triple tests, or whatever, how does their filling look so perfect? It should have been a filling layer like the rest of us.Part of me wants to make these again to give them another chance cuz I really want them to be amazing, and a part of me says that would be a waste of money to try again. The filling layer was liquid-like, but I had expected it to be thick like icing.
Oct 27, 2010
Tender, moist and delicious! Better cold, IMO.
Apr 23, 2010
my Family loves this recipe and I do not even add the cram cheese. I add raisins insetd.
Nov 13, 2009
These were awesome! As many other readers have mentioned I too had problems with the filling looking more like a layer. I think the next time I will fill a piping bag and squeeze the filling into the center of the batter.
Jul 28, 2009
Cream Cheese Carrot MuffinsI made these using shredded Carrots, with Crushed Pinapple to make 2 cups, so GOOD I also added Raisins!


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BERLIN – A large parcel of farmland on the border of Ocean Pines that languished unsold for years found a new owner last week by auction, bringing in $700,000 despite the lack of utilities at the site.
Developer Palmer Gillis purchased what has been called the Burbage property, just south of the North Gate of Ocean Pines and across from the north Route 589 Shore Stop, on Thursday for less than the assessed value of the land.
The most recent state assessment of the land's value listed the parcel at $919,000, according to state records.
The 21-acre farm property is zoned general business, allowing an enormous variety of potential commercial operations on the land. The parcel borders Ocean Pines on the north, west and south.
The land, described as an important property by auctioneers Marshall Auctions of Salisbury, was sold without a reserve or minimum.
Although roughly 40 people turned out for the auction on a rainy day, to stand on muddy, almost flooded ground under a tent on the side of Route 589, only a few bidders spoke up.
"It's an absolute sale. We're going to sell it to the highest bidder. There is no reserve, folks," said Doug Marshall, auctioneer and founder of Marshall Auctions, as the small crowd awaited the opening bid. "Whoever has their hand in the air last is going to own the property."
According to Marshall, the company did not have a bona fide survey on the land.
"It's a court ordered sale. We're selling it as-is," he said.
The land could be part of the coastal bays critical area, but the company has not looked into that, he pointed out.
Marshall asked for a pie-in-the-sky $4 million bid to start, then threw out reductions to $3 million, then $2 million.
"Two million anyone? I'm just trying to get a bid, trying to make a living," Marshall said.
Bidding finally got underway with an offer of $100,000, then quickly progressed up to $500,000. Offers went up in $25,000 increments from there to $625,000.
Marshall tried to incite further bidding while waiting for the principal bidders to determine if they could or should go further.
Gillis then stepped in with an increase to $700,000.
"I'm $700,000 bid," said Marshall. "If you want to bid, I suggest you get your hands in the air."
No one threw out a higher offer, despite Marshall's patter inviting further bids, at $725,000 or $710,000.
"Seven and a quarter? You're going to wish you had tomorrow," Marshall said.
The other bidders declined to offer more, and Gillis won out.
"We thought it was going to bring a lot more than this," said Marshall. "This is a steal."
The purchase was a gamble for Salisbury-based developer Gillis, who said that he is concerned over sewer service at the site, without which no building may go forward.
There are no public utilities available for the parcel, a factor that has let the property languish unsold even during a previous hot local market for commercial property along the increasingly populated Route 589 corridor. Gillis said it would not likely be developed for three to five years.
"It's going to take a long time," Gillis said.
The last plans made public placed medical offices on the site, but those were tentative at that time.
"We do a lot of medical offices," said Gillis, who has developed many existing medical buildings in the area. "There's a lot of people here that need doctors."


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OCC Bulletin 2009-23| July 20, 2009
Fair Credit Reporting - Accuracy and Integrity of Consumer Report Information and Direct Consumer Dispute Regulations and Guidelines: Final Rules and Guidelines together with Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Federal Branches and Agencies, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel
The attached final rules and guidelines, as well as the related advance notice of proposed rulemaking, which were published in the Federal Register on July 1, 2009, implement section 312 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act).
As required by section 312, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the National Credit Union Administration, and the Federal Trade Commission (agencies) are publishing guidelines regarding the accuracy and integrity of information about consumers for use by entities that furnish such information (furnishers) to credit bureaus and other consumer reporting agencies. Concurrent with publication of final guidelines, the agencies are publishing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to obtain more information to aid in considering possible additions to the guidelines.
The agencies also are publishing final regulations that will require furnishers to establish reasonable policies and procedures for implementing the aforementioned guidelines.
Finally, also as required by section 312, the agencies are publishing a final rule that identifies circumstances under which a furnisher must investigate a dispute concerning the accuracy of information contained in a consumer report, based on the direct request of the consumer.
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A Box of Universe
By Brian Hayes
Watch the cosmos evolve in a cube one billion light-years wide
Watch the cosmos evolve in a cube one billion light-years wide
Isaac Newton's universe was a cozy, tidy place. Gathered around the sun were six planets, a handful of moons and the occasional comet, all moving against a backdrop of stationary stars. Newton provided us with the mathematical tools needed to compute the motions of these bodies. Given initial positions and velocities, we can calculate the forces acting on each object, using Newton's law of universal gravitation. From the forces we can determine accelerations, and then update the positions and velocities for the next round of calculations. This scheme of computation is known as the n -body method. Perhaps Newton himself could have put it to work if he had had suitable computing machinery.
Today we have the computers. On the other hand, our universe is far larger and more intricate than Newton's. Now the solar system is merely a speck in a spiral galaxy of several hundred billion stars. Our galaxy drifts among billions of others, which form clusters and superclusters and a whole hierarchy of structures extending as far as the eye (and the telescope) can see. Those objects are getting farther away all the time because the universe is expanding, and moreover the expansion is accelerating. Strangest of all, the luminous matter of the galaxies—everything we see shining in the night sky—makes up less than one-half of 1 percent of what's out there. Most of the universe is unseen and unidentified stuff known only as "dark matter" and "dark energy."
Given this profound change in the nature and the scale of the known universe, I find it remarkable that computer simulations of cosmic evolution can still rely on n -body algorithms rooted in the principles of Newtonian mechanics. The same techniques that predict planetary motions here at home in the solar system also describe the gravitational process that assembles thousands of galaxies into filaments a hundred million light-years long.
A major new series of cosmological simulations is now beginning to release its findings. The project, known as Bolshoi, is led by Anatoly Klypin of New Mexico State University and Joel Primack of the University of California, Santa Cruz. "Bolshoi" is Russian for "big" or "grand," and the name is apt: This is a large-scale computational project, consuming six million CPU hours and producing a hundred terabytes of data. And yet, when you ponder the vast sweep of space and time being modeled, it seems a marvel that so much universe can be squeezed into such a small box.
Our view of the universe—and of our own place in it—was famously upset by the Copernican revolution of the 16th century. But the past 100 years have seen even more radical upheavals in cosmology.
It began in the 1920s with the recognition that spiral "nebulae" are not dusty pinwheels scattered among the nearby stars; the nebulae, which we now call galaxies, are made of stars, billions of them, and they lie at immense distances. Furthermore, we too inhabit just such a galaxy.
Edwin P. Hubble, examining the spectra of galaxies, found that almost all of them are shifted toward the red end of the spectrum. The redshifts indicate that the galaxies are moving away from us, and Hubble showed that their velocity is proportional to their distance. The whole universe is expanding.
The expansion could be traced backward to a moment of origin, the Big Bang, which meant the universe must have a definite age (now estimated at 13.7 billion years). The clinching evidence for the Big Bang model was the discovery in 1965 of cosmic background radiation—a relic of the early, incandescent universe, now cooled to a temperature of 2.7 kelvins, with peak emission in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
By the 1970s the Big Bang model was firmly established, but nagging problems remained. Looking around us, we see a well-stirred porridge—the same in all directions—and yet the universe is too young to be so thoroughly mixed. There are regions that have never communicated because speed-of-light signals have not yet had time to pass between them. How did these disconnected pieces all come to have the same temperature? Explaining the uniformity called for another dramatic revision in the history of the early universe: a split-second episode of "cosmic inflation" so rapid that a tiny (and therefore nearly uniform) patch of space expanded to become what is now our entire observable universe.
Then there was the mystery of the missing mass. The orbital velocities of stars within a galaxy depend on the total mass of the galaxy and how that mass is distributed. On a larger scale, the motions of galaxies within a cluster also depend on the cluster's mass. Measurements of both kinds of velocities suggested there is more matter out there than meets the eye. Galaxies must be enveloped in huge halos of "dark matter," unseen because it neither emits nor absorbs electromagnetic radiation. The nature of this substance remains uncertain, but it apparently constitutes 80 percent of all the matter in the universe.
A little more than 10 years ago came yet another big surprise. Two groups of astronomers had set out to measure changes in the rate of the cosmic expansion over the history of the universe. Gravitational attraction acts to slow the expansion, and might even cause an eventual reversal and collapse. But the measurements showed that the expansion is actually accelerating: Something is pushing space apart. That something has been given the name "dark energy," and it appears to be the majority constituent of the universe.
All of these ideas are elements of the current consensus view of cosmology called the ΛCDM model. The Greek letter Λ (lambda) is the symbol Einstein chose for his "cosmological constant," which offers one way of understanding the dark-energy phenomenon. CDM stands for cold dark matter. The matter is cold in the sense that it consists of massive particles moving at modest speeds, rather than a high-temperature gas of nearly massless particles.
In the ΛCDM model, almost 73 percent of the substance of the universe is dark energy, and about 23 percent is dark matter. Thus more than 95 percent of the universe is stuff that wasn't even known to exist a mere 30 years ago. Our own substance, called "baryonic" matter after the class of particles that includes the proton and the neutron, makes up 4.6 percent of the total. Most of that is hydrogen gas in the intergalactic medium. The stars in galaxies account for 0.4 percent.
All of these head-spinning changes in our understanding of the cosmos are anchored in scientific knowledge. They may seem like one wild idea after another, but they are supported by data from observations, by physical theory and by simulations that connect theory with observation.
In the past 20 years astronomy has become a data-rich, statistical science. For example, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has catalogued 500 million objects and recorded almost two million spectra. The spectra allow measurements of redshifts and thus of distance along the line of sight. The data yield a three-dimensional map that covers about a third of the sky and goes back in time more than a billion years.
Another ongoing endeavor aims to extract information from the oldest photons in the universe. A satellite called the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has measured tiny spatial variations in the microwave background radiation, giving us a glimpse of the distribution of matter and energy at an early epoch—the initial conditions for the visible universe.
All these data are interpreted in the context of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the interactions of matter, energy, space and time in an expanding universe. Quantum mechanics also has a role, for example in explaining the spectrum of fluctuations in the microwave background. But these theoretical principles are not enough to predict the shapes and sizes and other properties of the structures that emerge as the universe evolves. Computer simulation is the best tool for this purpose. Starting from plausible initial conditions and known physical laws, we can compare the output of the simulation with astronomical data. Along the way, we get to watch a movie of the universe unfolding.
As early as 1941 the Swedish astronomer Erik Holmberg simulated the clustering of galaxies with a remarkable analog computer he made out of light bulbs and photocells. By the early 1960s digital computers were the instrument of choice. Sverre J. Aarseth of the University of Cambridge studied galaxy clusters having 25 to 100 members.
Modern computing machinery allows much larger models. In 2005 Volker Springel of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and 16 colleagues published the results of a landmark simulation called the Millennium Run. It was based on the ΛCDM model; it included more than 10 billion particles of dark matter in a cubical volume more than 2 billion light years on a side; it covered a span of time from 12 million years after the Big Bang up to the present. Unfortunately, some of the parameters that defined the initial conditions were based on early results from the WMAP satellite mission, which were later significantly revised.
The Bolshoi simulation (described in more detail below) is slightly smaller than the Millennium Run but attains higher resolution in measuring positions, masses and forces. It is also based on the updated WMAP parameters.
Even though cosmology is rooted in the general theory of relativity, the simulated universes of Millennium and Bolshoi operate on Newtonian principles. Here gravity is not a warping of space-time; it's a force between particles. How can we get away with this retro vision of physics? Relativistic methods would be crucial if objects were moving near the speed of light, but galaxies travel at a stately few hundred kilometers per second. Newton's equations are perfectly adequate.
Newton solved the two-body problem: Given the positions, velocities and masses of two pointlike particles interacting only with each other, he could describe the particles' trajectories for all times, both past and future. But the three-body problem was beyond the reach of Newton's methods. As for the n-body problem (with n larger than three), he speculated that "to define these motions by exact laws allowing of convenient calculation exceeds, unless I am mistaken, the forces of the entire human intellect."
Newton was not mistaken: For the n-body problem, exact solutions are indeed unthinkable. No mathematical expression defines the positions and velocities of the particles for all time. However, with enough computer power we can have a "marching" solution, which takes the state of the system at one moment and walks forward a short distance along all the trajectories to yield a new state a moment later. The result is an approximation, but if the time steps are short enough, it can be highly accurate.
The inputs to an n-body calculation are the masses of the n particles (which never change) and their spatial coordinates and velocities at some initial time t. Each particle feels a gravitational attraction to every other particle. For particles i and j the magnitude of this force is given by Newton's equation F=Gmimj/r2, where mi and mj are the particle masses and r is the distance between them. (The constant G merely reconciles units of mass and length.) The total force acting on a given particle is the vector sum of all the pairwise forces.
Another Newtonian equation relates force to acceleration: F = ma. Once we know a particle's acceleration, we can assign it a new velocity and then calculate its motion over some brief interval Δ t. This process yields a new set of particle positions and velocities at time t + Δ t, which serve as inputs to the next round of computations.
In cosmological n-body simulations, n can be a number in the billions, which imposes a formidable computational burden. There are n(n–1)/2 pairs of particles requiring a force calculation at each time step. With 109 particles, that's 5×1017 evaluations of the force equation, far beyond the limits of computer capacity, not to mention human patience. Thus the straightforward algorithm described above is not much use in practice.
The key to solving this problem is to lump together groups of nearby particles, summing their contribution to the gravitational field. This coarsening of the system has a small cost in accuracy but a major benefit in speed. Whereas the direct particle-particle method requires on the order of n2 calculations, a hierarchy of lumped masses offers hope of reducing the computation time to nlog n. For the billion-particle case, that's the difference between 1017 evaluations and 1010.
The Bolshoi simulation employed an algorithm called the adaptive refinement tree, devised in the 1990s by Andrey V. Kratsov, now of the University of Chicago, Klypin and Alexei M. Khokhlov of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The procedure starts by dividing the cubical simulation volume into a grid of smaller cubical cells. Each of these level-0 cells can be further divided into eight level-1 cells, each of which can be split into eight level-2 cells, and so on. The splitting process continues until the number of particles in a cell falls below a threshold. The subdivision level can vary across the grid, so that costly high-resolution computations are done only where needed; but adjacent cells are allowed to differ by no more than one level, to avoid sharp discontinuities.
The domain of the Bolshoi simulation is a cube roughly one billion light-years on a side. For comparison, the diameter of the luminous part of a large galaxy might be 100,000 light years, and the diameter of the observable universe is about 90 billion light-years. Thus the simulation volume is large enough to contain millions of galaxies, but it still represents only a tiny fraction of the visible universe.
The level-0 mesh of the adaptive refinement tree has 2563 (or 16.8 million) cells. These cells can be subdivided to a maximum of 10 levels, at which point the side length of the smallest cells is about 4,000 light years.
What happens at the edges of this big box of universe? Rather than create artificial barriers or let particles leak out, the simulation adopts periodic boundary conditions. If a particle leaves the box on one side, it immediately reenters through the opposite side. This policy avoids disruptive edge effects, but it also introduces another hazard: a sort of gravitational narcissism, where an object is attracted to its own image a billion light-years away. The remedy is to impose a long-range cutoff, suppressing gravitational forces beyond about half this distance. A short-range force cutoff is also needed, to prevent spurious strong scattering if two particles happen to come close together.
The Bolshoi cube is populated with 2,0483 (equal to 8,589,934,592) identical particles. This is a great many objects to be managed in a computer program, but on the other hand it is a very coarse partitioning of the substance in the universe. Each particle represents about 200 million solar masses. Because this quantum of mass is so large, there's no point in trying to distinguish between baryonic matter and dark matter. All of the particles in the simulation are dark matter. The primary structures formed as the universe evolves are the dark-matter halos in which galaxies are embedded, but the galaxies themselves are not explicitly represented.
At the start of the run, the eight billion particles are distributed almost uniformly in the cube, with only slight fluctuations in density. This configuration represents the state of the universe post-inflation, in an era not too long after the cosmic background radiation was emitted. The simulation begins when the universe is about 23 million years old and progresses to the present in some 400,000 time steps. Snapshots of intermediate states are saved at intervals of 40 to 80 million years.
The simulation was run on a computer called Pleiades at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. Pleiades is currently ranked seventh in the listings of the top 500 supercomputers worldwide. Bolshoi made use of 13,824 processor cores and 13 terabytes of memory.
When a simulation run ends, the computing is not yet finished. The first stage in analyzing the data is to run a program called a halo finder, which identifies regions of elevated density where particles are bound together by gravitational attraction. Finding density peaks is not difficult, but identifying bound groups of particles is a subtle problem. The particles in a halo move like bees in a swarm, so it's not obvious which particles are members and which are merely passing through.
The first results from the Bolshoi simulation appear in a series of papers by Klypin, Primack and their colleagues. (The first two papers have been published in Astrophysical Journal and are also available as preprints at the Bolshoi web site, http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi.) The data generated by the simulations, including the snapshots, catalogs of halos, and "merger trees" tracing the provenance of halos, are also being made publicly available through a repository called the MultiDark database.
What does the Bolshoi universe look like, and how does it compare with the world we see when we look out the window? Early in the course of the simulation, some five million halos evolved, and the number later grew to 12 million as additional particles clumped together under their own gravitational attraction. But the halos too experience these forces, and so they tend to merge, leaving fewer but larger halos. At the end of the run, there were about 10 million halos left (many of which are classified as "subhalos," existing inside other halos but retaining their identity). Halo sizes range from 1010 solar masses (comparable to a small galaxy) up to 1015 solar masses (equivalent to a large cluster of galaxies).
Statistics on the halos and the larger structures they form suggest opportunities for comparing the simulation with reality. This work is just beginning. An example concerns a survey of satellite galaxies. The Milky Way has two prominent satellites, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds of the Southern Hemisphere. Observational data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey suggest that this situation is somewhat rare; only about 10 percent of galaxies in the mass range of the Milky Way have two such companions. A study of the Bolshoi results by Michael T. Busha and others yields a similar probability. The model and real-world data also agree about the probability of zero satellites or one satellite.
But not every cross-check between model and reality comes out so neatly. Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez and his colleagues have compared a sample of real galaxies with simulated dark-matter halos classified according to rotational velocity, a property that is closely correlated with total mass and luminosity. Over most of the range, the two samples are in accord. But Bolshoi predicts a few too many galaxies at the highest rotational velocities. More worrisome is a larger discrepancy at the other end of the scale: The simulation predicts an overabundance of dwarf galaxies by a factor of almost 10.
For now this conflict remains unresolved. There are several candidate explanations. The cause might turn out to be a problem in the simulation. On the other hand, the observational survey could have some unrecognized selection bias, and the Bolshoi result could be correct. Or the cause might lie at a deeper theoretical level. For example, the difference might be explained if the dark matter pervading the universe is not cold but lukewarm. If this last possibility begins to look promising, then we could be on the cusp of yet another major shift in cosmological thinking.
Four hundred years ago, the idea that the Earth goes around the Sun rather than vice versa was not just a scientific breakthrough but also a cultural bombshell. People were asked to reimagine the world they were living in. Not everyone welcomed the opportunity. Books were burned. In the case of Giordano Bruno, an author was burned.
In the modern world, cosmological revolutions seem to cause hardly a ripple in public consciousness. Inflation, dark matter, dark energy—these ideas also call for a reimagining of the world we live in, but they have provoked very little fuss outside the community of science. It's certainly a relief that no one will be burned at the stake over matters of cosmological doctrine. But are we really more liberal and open-minded, or just not paying attention?
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January's cold temperatures and biting winds can be unkind to your skin, which is why it's important you take extra measures to look after your complexion at this time of year. After all, your skin is your biggest organ, so it makes sense to take care of it!
If, like me, you already have a dry and sensitive complexion, then I suggest you fend off the winter weather with a few of the products below – they'll do a great job of protecting, soothing and nourishing your skin during the winter months.
Body Wash & Lotion
- E45 Silky Radiance Body Lotion. E45 products help soothe dry skin and ailments such as eczema. This light lotion is absorbed quickly and leaves your skin feeling soft and smooth. Available to buy from Boots for £3.99.
- Dove Winter Care Nourishing Body Lotion and Winter Care Cream (Limited Edition). Both these products do a great job of soothing rough and dry skin. I applied the cream to my psoriasis and it actually helped! The lotion costs £3.99, the cream costs £3.29, and both are available to buy from Boots.
- Dove Creme Mousse Body Wash. As the name suggests, this body wash has a thick, foamy texture that feels luxurious when massaged into your skin. Available from Boots for £3.71.
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- Cosmecology Paris Nutri Skin Nourishing Facial Cream. This cream has a nice consistency and contains shea butter, an ingredient which really helps nourish dry skin.
- Equally good is Cosmecology Paris' Hydra Skin Hydrating Face Cream containing aloe vera. Find out more about eco-beauty brand Cosmecology Paris and all its products at cosmecology.com. (Stockist: 0800590094)
- Tara Walker's Dream Radiance Enhancing Creme. A light substance with a firming effect, this creme gives your complexion an instant touch of radiance. It settles well, brightens your skin and makes the surface of your face look matte rather than shiny.I like it's cute pink packaging, too! The creme is available to buy from tarawalkersdream.com for £59 per 50ml.
Lip Balm
- Guinot Baume Levres Confort Lip Balm. Tis the season for chapped lips, so make sure you apply plenty of this lip balm before facing the elements. Based on shea butter, the balm contains avocado extract and is available to buy for £12.15 from guinot.co.uk.
- Blistex' Moisture Max is another nice. pocket-friendly lip balm. It contains deliciously soft melting moisture beads and is available at Boots for only £2.49.
- Murad Soothing Skin Lip and Cuticle Care. This multi-purpose product will make a nifty little addition to your handbag. I like the fact that you can use it on your cuticles too as mine always get chapped and sore at this time of year. I've used the product on my cuticles just twice and they already feel noticeably softer and smoother.
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- LCN Sensitive Guard Hand Cream contains extracts from the prickly pear and vitamins A, E and F, all of which help prevent skin irritations and sooth irritated skin. Available for £8.10 from beautyconcepts.co.uk.
- Natio Meditate Hand Cream is gorgeous! It contains extracts of Aloe, Sweet Almond, Jojoba and Jasmine Attar. Its sumptuous size means it isn't portable, but it'll sit nicely in your showerroom. Available from Tesco for £10.50.


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Newcastle manager Alan Pardew admits his side's lack of points is becoming a growing concern.
Last season the Magpies were the Premier League's surprise package, upsetting the odds to secure fifth in the standings.
However, this season has proved a lot more difficult talk and United sit 14th after last night's 2-1 defeat at Fulham.
"I'm worried in so much as we are not picking up enough points, that is pretty evident," Pardew said.
"Although the performances against Stoke, Wigan and against Fulham have improved, it is a worry we don't have enough points on the board."
Newcastle have now lost five of their previous six league games but could have easily altered that statistic last night.
After Steve Sidwell broke the deadlock, Hatem Ben Arfa's leveller put Newcastle in the ascendancy until Hugo Rodallega headed home what proved to be the winner.
"Second half we had the game by the scruff of the neck really, the goal was a soft goal," Pardew said.
"We gave away a cheap free-kick and then we didn't defend that situation well at all and have come away losing a game we should've got something out of.
"We just didn't defend it well it I'm honest, we are going to have to be better - we can't concede soft goals at this level. To win that game we needed to score three at Fulham and it is really difficult to do that.
"Of course it is very, very disappointing because I believe we have an honest set of players and we work on situations and really for us it is a poor goal, I can't so no more than that really."
Things look far rosier for Martin Jol, whose Fulham side ended a seven-match winless streak on a cold night by the Thames.
"We had that spell (of poor results) that started against Sunderland with the red card and two big injuries for us," the Cottagers boss said.
"That was very disappointing for us and then after that we couldn't play Bryan Ruiz - he was out for four weeks for us.
"I was happy that Dimitar Berbatov, after talking to him, could fill in that role (behind the striker).
"It was vital, he didn't score so that was disappointing, but on the other hand he linked us up and kept the team together - I was very happy with him."


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Selecting bearing size using the static load carrying capacity
Bearing size should be selected on the basis of static load ratings C0 instead of on bearing life when one of the following conditions exist:
- The bearing is stationary and is subjected to continuous or intermittent (shock) loads.
- The bearing makes slow oscillating or alignment movements under load.
- The bearing rotates under load at very low speed (n < 10 r/min) and is only required to have a short life. In other words, the life equation in this case, for a given equivalent load P, would give such a low requisite basic dynamic load rating C, that the bearing selected on a life basis would be seriously overloaded in service.
- The bearing rotates and, in addition to the normal operating loads, has to sustain heavy shock loads.
In all these cases, the permissible load for the bearing is the maximum load the bearing can accommodate without permanent deformation to the rolling elements or raceways. Permanent deformation is typically caused by:
- heavy loads acting on the bearing while it is stationary or oscillating slowly
- heavy shock loads acting on the bearing while it is rotating
Depending on the operating conditions and load, the resulting damage can be flattened areas on the rolling elements or indentations on the raceways. The indentations can be irregularly spaced around the raceway, or may be evenly spaced at positions corresponding to the spacing of the rolling elements.
Permanent deformations usually lead to higher vibration and/or noise levels and increased friction. It is also possible that the internal clearance will increase or the character of the fits may be changed.
The extent to which these changes are detrimental to bearing performance depends on the demands placed on the bearing in a particular application. It is therefore necessary to make sure that permanent deformations do not occur, or only occur to a very limited extent by selecting a bearing with sufficiently high static load carrying capacity, if one of the following demands has to be satisfied:
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Homicide detectives are investigating after a man's body was found dead Friday night behind a laundromat on the Southside.
Around 9:30 p.m., Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded to a call of an injured man at the coin laundry at the corner of Beach and Southside boulevards, near the Malabar Cocktail Lounge. He was pronounced dead.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has not released a lot of details about the case, except that they are treating it as a homicide.
Detectives say the person who dialed 911 to report the crime said the victim had a head injury. Police are trying to track down that caller to ask further questions.
"We are not going into describing the victim's injuries right now. We do want the public to know that we are treating this as a homicide," said JSO Sgt. Michael Paul.
The body had been at the scene no more than an hour before it was discovered according to police.
Paul said there were no suspects at this time.
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Art for the seals — Mangelsen Images of Nature Gallery hosted an event to help fund the seal cam at Children's Pool on April 25. Former county Supervisor Pam Slater-Price presented an award to Mayor Bob Filner for his support of the seals, while county Supervisor Dave Roberts and chairman of the Western Alliance for Nature Lawrence Wan were in attendance. Wan, a wildlife photographer, presented a slide show on marine mammals.


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Ok this has been done several time in the past I know but every so often I think people need a little reminder so as i had some spare time I thought why not.
Now in the past these types of texts have been centered squarly on AO but this one I am going to attempt to make a little broader and try to cover the idea of Netiquette in more depth.
Ok so some of you may well be asking now what is netiquette? Netiquette stands for network etiquette - as hopefully most of you will know etiquette is the term for the ways in which we behave in order to conform to what is regarded as polite and socialable behaviour. So in other words netiquette is the rules for behaving in a polite and sociable way online.
Now netiquette in itself is a fairly large subject one that I don't think needs to be explained in every aspect as many do not relate to the forum enviroment. But if you would like to read more there is a very exstensive write up of it at the netiquette homepage
So how does netiquette apply to Ao and other msg boards? Well many of the rules are much the same as in real life. They are also quite straight forward and are more comon sense than anything else. Some examples:
Shouting : In real life you would not shout your questions at anyone unless seriously angered - nor do we conduct everyday conversations in a rasied voice. Nor do we do this online. Now you may be asking how do i shout thro text? Simple by typing ALL IN CAPS
This is one breach of netiquette I really dislike as it actually seems in my head as if the person is really shouting >_< and should be avoided unless over one or two choice words to highlight key elements.
Lurking : This is an advisable practice. You wouldn't rush into a group of people you didn't know and start talking about the first thing that came into your head in real life so why do it here? Lurking is were you watch msg boards without actually posting. You read posts & get the feel of the place before jumping in and asking questions/posting replies. This helps you to figure out what kind of place it is - what types of questions are asked....what subjects are to be avoided etc.
FAQ's : Can you imagine if a super market clerk got asked over and over how to make a microwave dinner, when the instructions are clearly printed on the side of the box? He/she would get seriously annoyed. Well a msg forum is kinda the same. Most (99%) of forums will have some kind of FAQ (frequently asked questions) these are here so that members just coming to the site don't have to ask the same questions over and over.
Ao takes this one step further with....
Site FAQ
The AO member FAQ
A note to newbies
these are just but a few of the top quality FAQ's and guidelines that will not only help new-commers get a feel for the site but also answer alot of the questions they may have.
Also the is now a section on the main page -
what antionline is
what antionline is not
(if you cant see it you will need to log out as it does not appear when logged in)
all people visiting the site for the first time should ensure they read this so that they know a little bit more about what the site and its members are about.
Flamming : Flamming is basically ridiculing someone else - this can sometimes be a fun practice but more often than not can lead to flame wars where threads lose there original topic and it just spirals down.
This too should be treated the same way as you would address the situation in real life. The vast majority of the time if you have a problem with someone you will not confront them about it in public but usualy in private where you can discuss the issue without everyone else getting involved. This is much the same as in AO and other msg boards...thats what the PM (private msg) button is for.
Also AO has an additional system the AP (anti-points) system - this can be used to show approval or disapproval of a post. Although the ap's given are not private (you can see what each person has recieved for each thread) the reason you give with it is.
Status Jumping : Ok I dunno if this is the proper term for it so will explain what i mean....
New guy arrives at office been with company a week and is already telling you how to do your job. Now the points he makes may be valid but you are still going to feel some resentment. This is usualy caused not by the actual point being made but how it is communicated.
eg: That shouldn't be done that way! You should do it this way.
The words in red are terms that will almsost always get a negative response in real life and online.
A better way to phrase it would be....
Perhaps another way of doing it would be to.....
this is a less aggresive way of addressing the issue. The inclusion of the perhaps shows the person that you have taken on board their way of doing things and instead of dismissing them altogether you are offering another solution.
These same princaples can be applied to msg boards. The senior members have spent alot of time and effort gettin the status they have and many of them...myself included can not help but feel a little resentment towards new-comers who arrive thinking they know better. These kind of reactions tho can easily be avoided by simply phrasing your questions carefully.
Quoting : As you may have seen used Ao (along with a great many msg boards) gives you the option of quoting someone elses post by placing what they said within [.quote] tags.
when used correctly these can really add to a post and highlight the areas that you wish to address but try and be precise when using them. No-one wants to have to scoll thro someones post again that you have quoted only to find a 'I agree' or such msg at the bottom.
When someone is having a discussion with you in real life you don't repeat back to them everything they have said you may however say something like
I know what you mean about xxxxxxx. I think that......
in this way you highlight the element of the conversation you wish to make further comments on without going back over all that was said.
RTFM : Read The F*cking Manual ..... this kind of response usualy comes when someone has asked a stupid question or one that is answered elsewhere. Now the phrasing may not always be the same - infact most of the time on AO it maybe just one word google Now if you dont know what google is its an online search engine....but there are upteen tutorials that go into what google is and how to use it. Such as
Unravling google & Use the power of search engines both by d00dz_Attackin
Google also has its own help seaction : Google help
By looking for the answers yourself you may avoid negative reactions from other members.
Ao also offers a search option....
Forum Search
this allows you to search previous posts to see if your question has already been answered elsewhere....this also applies when posting news etc as someone may have beated you to it.
Ok I've covered some of the basics now am going to move onto mmore AO specific ones...
Antionline no-no's
Ok one of the most talked about topics and one that has caused quite alot of disagreements and annoyance in AO is antipoints......still unsure of what they are?
explination by allenb1963 in Ennis's Antionline member FAQ
xmaddness also had this to say about them in the same postAntiPoints Explained by allenb1963
Q: Once I'm able to assign AntiPoints, how do I do it?
A: Each post has an "Assign Positive or Negative AntiPoints to This Post" link located in the upper left corner of the post which opens an assignment box. AntiPoints of a positive nature should only be assigned to posts that are worthy in that they provide a correct answer to a question, provide useful and relavent information, or make a valid point that you STRONGLY agree with. Negative AntiPoints are used for posts that provide misleading information, request information that can be used for illegal purposes, are derogatory or insulting in nature, or make a point that you STRONGLY disagree with.
As you rise through the ranks of AO and increase your number of AntiPoints, the impact of your assignments increases as well. As that influence grows, so should the sense of responsibility you use to assign those points. Forming alliances in order to enhance your position or defile someone else's AP status is a practice that is frowned upon and dealt with severely when discovered. You are strongly urged to avoid such behaviour.
When you assign points, you will notice an area where you are allowed to put in comments. Please attempt to use this area in a constructive manner and refrain from name calling and profanity. There will be cases where you may receive comments of this nature, but please remember that the bad behaviour of others does not excuse us from acting in a civilized manner.
Ok so you have an idea what they are now? goodWhy do I have a message saying I'm going to be banned?
You have acquired to many negative antipoints and this is your warning. You still have a chance to redeem yourself though. Just stop posting meaningless one-liner messages like "I agree", or "Good post!" and stop asking how to hack stuff.
Ok back to what I was saying ap posts in general are frowned upon. In the past (before you could see who gave you the points, when they were anonamous) there was a spree of posts from people annoyed at recieving negs - these posts only earned them more negs as people had begun to get annoyed at some people constantly bitchin about their ap's
If you do a search for antipoints you recieve 165 results. Ok so some of these threads will be legitamate questions which have not been adressed before - but in my experience 90% of ap posts are answered already in one of the FAQ's
AP Aliances : hopefully these will not be such a problem now that you can actually see who is giving the ap's but in the past this lead to some high profile bannings. An ap aliance is were members band together to give people neg aps or to increase each others status and is highly frowned upon....if you are caught you will be banned. Is it really worth it?
Another major no-no in AO is asking how to hack/crack someone elses system/computer/software etc this includes but is not limited to asking about
- Asking how to hack hotmail
- Asking where to get warez
- Asking about pirated music/games
- Asking about how to crack other people's passwords
- Asking others to hack for you
- Asking about how to use script kiddie tools (eg subseven)
now this does not mean that these topics are completly of limits - sometimes questions about the likes of subseven are legitamite
someone may want to know how subseven (or any other SK tool) works so to better protect themselves for it. But asking something like....
How do you use subseven? will see the thread very quickly neg'd until it is suicidal
where as asking....
How is subseven used to attack a machine is a perfectly valid question
Keep your friends close and your enemies close
it is a well known fact in security communities that in order to protect your system you must know how it would be attacked so asking questions in the above format is acceptable and will prolly recieve a better response.
But there is no way of phrasing How do I hack hotmail to make it acceptable....
Anyone who has been here any length of time has heard them all....
and the list goes on - there are always variations that pop-up but mostly they are of the same format.I think my g/f is cheating on me how can i see her email?
I have forgotten my password and really need to view some emails from work.
Someone has hacked my hotmail account and changed my password how can i hack it to change it back?
One smaller issue in the AO forums is posting threads in the wrong forum...AO has alot of different forums for dealing with different topics
- AntiOnline: How Do I? or What Is?
- Site Suggestions
- Oops! A Bug!
- AntiOnline Newsletter
- Roll Call
- AntiOnline's General Chit Chat
- Tech Humor
- The Tutorials Forum
- Newbie Security Questions
- AntiVirus Discussions
- IDS & Scanner Discussions
- Firewall & Honeypot Discussions
- Microsoft Security Discussions
- *nix Security Discussions
- Mac Security Discussions
- Network Security Discussions
- Computer Forensics
- Web Security
- Cryptography, Steganography, etc.
- Programming Security
- Product / Book Reviews
- Miscellaneous Security Discussions
- Training/Conference Reviews
- Web Development
- Hardware
- AntiOnline Addicts
- Cosmos
- AntiOnline's "Front Page News & Views"
As you can see there are quite a few different forums.....now don't panic if you do by accidently post in the wrong one - it happens and usualy the moderator for that forum will just move it for you to the correct one but what is not tolerated is posting in the wrong one on purpose simply to get your post on the main page. I havn't seen this happen too much yet but in the past when JP stopped the likes of General ChitChat from appearing on the main page some people were psoting things in the complete wrong forum just so it would make the main page. This kind of behaviour is not tolerated and you may find it recieves a very negative response.
One thing you can be assured to be caught out at on AO is plagerism
this is the copying of someone elses work and claiming it as your own - its fine to quote other people or the points they have made but always quote your sources. Even if you have rewritten it yourslef still link to the original. If you can't link to original (if you recieve it in an email say) then say so.
Ok well thats all thats came to mind right away and i think is enough to get started on
I'll just finsh up with some common terms used on AO (and in other places) and in this post.
- AO - Antionline
- Script Kiddie (SK) - A person who thinks they are l337 just because they can use other peoples progs like sub7
- l337 (elite, leet, etc) - Elite...someone who knows their stuff ^_^
- AP's - Antipoints
- Negs - AP's given out to show disaproval with a post
- Pos (greenies) - AP's given out to show approval of a post
- suicidal - the stage a thread reaches when it has recieved so many negs it has closed automaticaly
- ban - when someones nick is no longer allowed to access site. Can be due to recieving too may neg AP's or disregard of AO rules (such as forming aliances)
- nick (s/n, handle) - the name by which a person is known on AO
- avatar (av) - graphic used to represent person, shown below their name on posts
- moderator - member in charge of a certain forum. They ensure that posts are in correct forum or close posts which are crap basically
- lammer - someone who asks 'how to hack hotmail' etc
- kiddie chat (lamer speak, sk talk etc) - the annoying habit of using numbers and symbols instead of letters eg: []\/[]3 50 l337. l00|< 47 []\/[]Y l337 l4|\/||\/|3|2 5[]D34|<
sometimes used by members for comical value ^_^
- newbie (n00b newb) - someone who has just joined (outside of AO can be applied to anyone who is new at something)
Hopefully this will help a few people get to grips with AO and how to get along in it.
I dont want to scare anyone off AO is a great place to learn and a good community as well with alot of helpfull members and a mass of usefull material....
so take a look around, get a feel for it & then come on in pull up a chair but always always always remember the first round is yours


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I previously made my DWTS Season 8 Couples suggestions. Today they made the official announcement of the couples for season 8 of Dancing with the Stars. Check out the pairings below and then go vote for your favorite DWTS star.
Belinda Carlisle is paired with Jonathan Roberts
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2008 Gold Medalist Olympic Gymnast
Lil' Kim is paired with Derek Hough
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Revshare programs are great – there is no denying this – assuming they are legit and sustainable, and all. There is no question that they are the easiest way to earn money on the internet.
To simply join a revshare and and buy your website traffic and do your daily activities to stay qualified to share in profits? Well, to only do this, you would certainly be selling yourself short.
That would be like buying a car that has 5 different gears and deciding that you never wanted to take it out of first gear. Earning-wise, that is about what you'd be doing to yourself. A terrible dis-service. In fact, you'd be totally cutting yourself off from the true power of these programs.
Those that are out there getting referrals to join them in their revshare programs will outearn those that aren't doing it. The referral program is, basically the only reason many people DO join a revshare.
How does referring others increase your income so much? It isn't too hard to understand this. You see – when you make an adpack purchase and you begin to earn profitshare.. those adpacks are dwindling-away. The profits you are earning are eating your adpacks' value.
Lets say, for instance, you buy an adpack for $50 – and this particular rev share program they will pay you back 10% on top of that $50, to total $55. Well, as you begin to earn from the profitshare pool, the money you are earning gets deducted from that $55 that they are paying you back.
Your $50 becomes $55. It is cut and dried. Those "profits" that people like to show-off out of their back offices aren't really a very good indication of what is going on. Onlookers are easily fooled into thinking that those are clean profits earned from the company.
Many new people join because of this, and don't realize until much later that they have been "had". Although they aren't getting "ripped off" or anything like that.. they had a much higher expectation of how the money would be rolling out of the system.
Their sponsor made them think that this could happen, but not being clear enough while the new member was registering. Heck – all the sponsor wants is for you to come in and spend money on ad packs.
Here's why your sponsor wants you to buy ad packs: Your sponsor will earn 10% (in most rev share programs, this is what it is) from each ad pack purchase that you make. Not just your initial ad pack buy, but every subsequent buy you EVER make.
You are tied to them, as their referral. If you come in and buy, say 10 ad packs for $500.. well, your sponsor just earned a CLEAN $50 into their "cash available" balance. This is money that they can use to either buy themselves another ad pack OR they can simply make a withdrawal and put the money into their pocket.
This $50 that they just earned didn't "eat-away" at their ad packs' value like their regular commissions do. This is why, above, I said that it was a CLEAN $50.
When you earn CLEAN referral commissions, you override the default system's "trading $50 for an eventual $55". THIS is where the money is, in a rev share site. Imagine, now.. with your $500 purchase – if you do your daily ad activities you'll eventually earn enough commissions to make a "re-purchase" (with your internal funds), giving you 11 ad packs to earn off of now.
But guess what.. your sponsor just earned another CLEAN $5 from your $50 purchase.
As you continue to build-up your account – your sponsor is doing the same in his or her account. But having you, under them, feeding them this CLEAN money.. puts them into hyper-hyper gear compared to "trading $50 for an eventual $55, over a period of time".
In fact, your sponsor could automatically withdraw the money earned from your purchases, knowing that they are still growing THEIR account. The money coming-up into their account is "gravy money".
In the larger picture, company-wide, there is a profit pool that feeds everybodys' commissions. This profit pool takes a SERIOUS BEAT-DOWN, because there isn't any money put into it until ALL OF THE OTHER commissions get paid-out. And guess where the majority of a rev share's profits go to? Yes, that's correct.. referral commissions.
The profit pool only get what is left-over after everything else is paid. The loin's share of money in these types of programs goes those who are sponsoring and building a team.
Here is why this is: Those that you sponsor are getting their own profits from the pool (and their own referrals, if they have any), and compounding them. As they compound (make their re-purchases) they are creating more direct $5 commissions straight into your account.
So, the more ACTIVITY you have, going-on underneath you, the more of the profits of the company you are "soaking-up'. All of those people who are ONLY BUYING ADPACKS AND DOING NOTHING ELSE.. well, they are at a disadvantage. Big time.
If they came-in with a whole lot of ad packs, they will still be OK, though. Having a ton of ad packs or sponsoring others is the best way to work your revenue sharing programs. To do BOTH of these, is ideal. Not to mention – it is easier to get your referrals to buy more ad packs if they see that you are doing it, too.


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Oops! just realized I forgot to include what this furniture looked like before - here we go!
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I like your blog!...Daniel
Fabulous, and I adore your cockatoo.
Kristy @ 4 the love of WOOD
Beautiful. Bright and inviting. ~~Sherry~~
Oh dearest namesake, I LOVE IT. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. In many ways, it is similar to mine, but I am still looking for a sideboard. My style however, is bent towards the French flea market style, but the archway is exactly the same, my walls however are white. EVERYTHING IS MAGNIFICENT!!! Anita or NITA!
This is absolutely amazing! The colors pop and sizzle and are soothing at the same time. Job well done, you must be so proud :) What are the colors on the walls of your living and dining rooms?
Looks just incredible!! So magazine worthy..give yourself a big pat on the back..perfection!
I love it Nita. Inspired to have the chairs in pretty different fabrics. So fun seeing the ER bird on the sideboard, I had forgotten about that. And I see you have a small bar set up behind the sofa~so mix up some cosmos for us and I will help you celebrate!
I love each and every one of the fabrics you used for the chair seats! Very nice job, Nita! blessings ~ tanna
Job well done Nita! I LOVE how you transformed your dining room!! Martina
Nita, I love the yellow fabric too but all of them are terrific on the white chairs. Again I say the buffet is the STAR of the room. ♥O
Wow Wow Wow!!!!
I LOVE it SO much!
That last photo should be the first one in a magazine spread on your home! Breathtaking!
And now, I've changed my mind about the Roscoe chair. I think you should KEEP it and cover it in the periwinkle fabric that is draped over the back!
:D - Cindi
It is beautiful as I knew it would be. The majolica really "pops" now! You should be so proud of yourself for a job well done. You should definitely keep Roscoe's chair and cover it in dreamy white with several pillows made from your new dining chair fabrics.
Hi Nita,
A perfect bright and charming feminine room! Everytime I look at your rooms, I see something new that I love. I really LOVE the mix of pink and yellow and I love how it flows into the living room with that AWESOME pink couch!
It really does look enchanting!
Have you done a post on painting your DR table and chairs? I'm working up the courage to paint mine....against my husband's wishes! :)
Have a wonderful day!
Sarah xo
Love love love!!
hi nita,
i agree with sarah. everytime i look at the room i see something new. how wonderfully feminine it is. the roses are gorgeous too. i bet you just sit on the gorg pink sofa and stare into the dining room now. that, or you are prob just exhausted from all the hard work! just beautiful.
I love the mix and match fabrics on your chairs! The whole room looks wonderful!
Hi Nita! I'm drooling over your gorgeous dining room. Love the different colored fabrics on your chair seats! Your buffet is gorgeous. I have a similar one but it's still in it's wooden state.
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Nita, I lik all the fabric, but I am partial to the yellow, too. I hope you realize how gorgeous your dining room truly is. Your majolica is *stunning* against the yellow, white, and natural wood on the rack. I think the natural wood is the perfect foil to the elegant majolica. Your dining room really should be in BH&G. Love it!
Have a great weekend!
Ricki Jill
I am IN LOVE with your ceiling in the dining room! Of course the whole room is just to die for, but I am intrigued by the ceiling! Could you tell me what paint you used to get that sheen? Thanks in advance.
I'll email all of you too but thought I'd answer a few questions here.
The furniture was lightly sanded and then painted with two coats of Kilz primer. Then 3 to 4 coats of Martha Stewart Popcorn but the color was too light so I added brown and yellow craft paint till I got the creamy white I wanted. So it's a custom mix. I used to have a Ralph Lauren paint in the perfect shade but don't know what the mix was but this custom mix is almost exactly it. After painting all furniture...I sanded it in spots down to the original wood finish. Then I used Minwax clear waterbased rub on poly on the top of the table and top of the buffet to hopefully keep the finish from scratching.
The paint color on the walls is Devoe Paint "Ivory Lily" in eggshell. It photographs much more yellow than it actually is depending on time of day. The actual color is much like the very first photograph on this post. It's a very light creamy butter yellow...just barely yellow...really cream. But I am thinking of changing it because it photographs so yellow and I don't like the way it looks in many photos. But I have it throughout the house. It's in the living room, dining room, hallway, den, master bath, kitchen and breakfast nook. My house is small and I like the one color going through out the home. Although it looks different in each room depending on light.
The ceiling is painted Devoe Paint "Desert Rose" in Satin. I like that it reflects the lights and shines a little at night. I used Devoe Paint after it was recommended by a painter friend and have to say the quality was excellent.
I have another antique chandelier for this space that needs to go up. The one in this room was suppose to be a temporary one. I just didn't have time to get it up before the home tour. So it is coming soon.
Hurray for Roscoe, and I LOVE it all. Great job, Nita, the lampshades look fabulous!!
Nita!!! How awesome is that room! I think my favorite is the different fabric on the chairs. You, my friend, are my decorating hero!!!
Beautiful it looks so bright and lovely! love the seats. Great work.
Oh how I love your style....perfect.
Hi Nita~
I love your pretty white dining area!! It looks so beautiful! They furniture lightened up made such a difference and how absolutely charming your whole room is! Well done! :)
Hi Nita,
I absolutely love your dining room! Love the white; so elegant! Happy Pink Saturday weekend.
OH NITA! I was not able to see the BEFORE pictures when I visited early this morning! YES!!!! YES!!!! See, I have been painting furniture as well, transforming furniture to have the gray/white tones....oh dearest, how KIND of you to try to email me! I have NO idea why you were not able to access it. Here is my address:
See if that works.
I will send you some pictures of what I have so far! I need a sideboard to paint white/gray and some new dining room chairs LIKE YOURS!!!
I will be working on my blog post all night.....see you this weekend, I hope?
Fondly, Anita
SOOOOoo love that Majolica! It is so hard to find exquisite pieces as yours. Lovely.
Your decor is to adore! You have done an wonderful job in decorating.
Have a sweet PS weekend ~
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I love the pretty dishes with the white hutch! They just pop! Your home is amazing and very inspiring! Happy Pink Saturday!
I loved the idea of doing each chair seat in a different fabric and tying them together with the white paint. That's a fun idea! And I love your majolica in the cabinet, your pink ceiling (oooh!) and your pink sofa (ooooh!). Your house is very cute, and I like the way you've gone with it. Lots of fun!
Happy Pink Saturday to you...
Sheila :-)
Wow, this furniture came out great!! Love the pretty chair cushions too! It all looks so bright and cheery!
What a transformation!!!!
You did such a fantastic job and I love how it lightens and brightens the space --- just in time for spring, right?
I also love the mix of chair fabrics.
S cheerful and uplifting.
Love it all!
your dining room looks absolutely darling. l o v e your majolica, too. so fresh and pretty.
have a lovely weekend.
Well it was worth the wait. Unbelievably beautiful! I have looked at the pictures from top to bottom 3 times! You should be really proud of yourself. That was a HUGE job and it turned out to be a perfect reflection of you and your style. Well done. ~Ann
Hi Nita,
I love it all. I have a sideboard that's close to the design of yours... one of my favorite things in the house.
You always inspire. I stopped by tonight because I'm thinking you've had a fab day!?
Have a great weekend!
Nita you did a beautiful job! I love it all. That sideboard is what I'm looking for now and not finding! Enjoy your room.
What an incredible room. When I saw that buffet my heart went pitty-pat! You did a fantastic restoration job on all of your furniture. You have an amazing sense of style! Have a wonderful weekend. Terri
Nita it looks fabulous! Love that you used a different fabric on each chair. The floral arrangement is beautiful and just "pops" against all that white. Is that a pink ceiling I see? Your pottery looks great and the shelf on the hutch is a great mix of wood and white... love it!
Terrific job on such a gorgeous room! I love LOVE L-O-V-E that awesome sideboard!!! Beautiful table and chairs, love the different colored cushions. And the bridge lamp! Shoot, there isn't anything in there that I don't love!
Happy PS!
Big TX Hugs,
Angelic Accents
Hello! I really love your dining room! it's really special and pretty!
Happy Pink Saturday!
Hugs, PuteriFauziah.
I love the new look. Your dining room is gorgeous!
It's one thing to view a room and love how it is decorated while standing in it, but when it looks fabulous in a photo, you KNOW it's awesome!!! (I say this as I have often photographed a room only to look at the image and think.... "hmmmm, I thought it looked prettier than this...." But OH MY! Seeing your dining room through that arch, it is magnificent!
I love your painted white furniture and all of the COLOR you have incorporated into your charming home, really enjoyed your home tour!!!!
~ Violet
OMGosh I love everything..beautiful and inspiring blog..HPS.
What an amazing transformation! It's just beautiful - I especially love the buffet and lamps. I'm currently in the process of painting a beautiful old sofa table white (It too was brown) and I'm loving it!! This is truly an inspiration - thank you! Happy Pink Saturday to you!
Your dining room looks simply fabulous! The buffet is deelish and I love the way you did the chairs! So fun! Happy Pink Saturday!
Your dining room is absolutely fabulously beautiful!!! I love that furniture in white, the chair seats look great with different fabrics. You are very imaginative and creative in a very nice way. Your living room couch is very sweet, too, with it's pretty pillows on it.
Hugs, Cindy
Your dining room looks great! Excellent job!
HaPpY pInK sAtUrDaY!
WOWEE! Looks like it could be in a magazine. It is so,so beautiful!
What a difference white paint can make. Beautiful job!
Your dining room is stunning. I love that furniture. I never would have thought the old heavy style would look so good painted. You have me thinking now.......where could I put some stuff like that? And I like Roscoes chair there too.
What a super fab room! I love the sideboard makeover. Thanks so much for the FaceBook shout out, too! FYI--I just met with Joe again to work on my tutorial for the cottage chic vent hood over my stove. I can't wait to get that posted!
~Mikey @ Shabby French Cottage
Simply perfect. The last yellow chair is my favorite as well. All your hard work was so worth it!
wow, I love all of the colorful fabrics.
I love all the pops of color. Your room looks like a happy place to be. Thanks for sharing your pictures!
Gorgeous!! love it so much, envious here! :)
Susan @http://tea-diary.blogspot.com
DAHHHHHling! You are a girl after my own heart. I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful room.
It looks great in white, Nita! I love that buffet piece - so detailed and the storage it provides must be wonderful.
Hola, in love with everything here, and well... your entire blog!!!
hugs from Chile
I just love your dining room and I could just move right in. Happy colors! Cozy! Cute!
Ni, Nits, Nits your room is BEYOND and I mean BEYOND gorgeous lady!! I love it!! The pink ceiling is probably what makes it for me! I love the view from the living room. Your home looks like a room from a cottage chic decor book!
Stunning. I love the furniture painted white and the buffet and hutch are so beautiful Everything is done so well. Love it all. Hugs, Marty
I love EVERY single detail of this room makeover. Your fabric choices on the chairs, the brand new life for the buffet, the table, and all the accents.
You have amazing style and I really enjoy all of your rooms and projects.
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OMG, we practically have the same DR set. Urs looks soooooooo good re-done. U did a fantastic job. Come by and see its twin if ya get a chance. Ive finished the chairs and will be working on the table this week........So glad i came by, ur latest follower, Bonnie
Giggles....i just had to stop for a second visit to let u know im working on the table today. Im so excited.......Thanks again for jumpstarting me to get it finished, hopefully it will go faster than the chairs, i agree, they too for-e-ver...........Bonnie
Love, Love, Love all the white with the Fabulous punches of Color.... Simply Beautiful
Thanks for sharing the pink paint color and for linking to my Share the Love party!
Thanks for stopping by and leaving me a link to your sideboard. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! That is 100% the type I was looking for, love all the detail. This one will do for now as it was only $50.00!
Love your blog to bu the way ;)
Hi Nita, Your dining room is gorgeous!! I love the table and sideboard and your majolica is wonderful.
Oh, Nita! It looks absolutely fabulous! What a gorgeous transformation. And aren't you glad you kept your majolica? It really pops now - surrounded by all that white.
I'm so glad you linked to my party. I've missed seeing you on a regular basis. ;) By the way, congrats on your win from Petite Maison.
Liz @ the Brambleberry Cottage
Your dining room is stunning! I love how you chose different fabrics for the chairs ... such great pops of color! The painted pieces look gorgeous. I have a buffet, very similar in style to yours, that I've been "thinking" about painting white and distressing a bit. Do you mind me asking the steps you took to do the buffet, as far as sanding, priming, poly, etc? Thanks! *Becca* (your newest follower)
Nita, you can come over here any time!! xoxo
Your dining room looks fresh and lovely!
Nita, this is beyond fabulous! I am in awe of the beautiful job you did. I don't know where to even start on what is my favorite part. Thank you so much for sharing this with us at Inspiration Friday At The Picket Fence...I am most definitely inspired!
I absolutely adore this project! I am hosting a Springtime Craft and Project linky party today and I would love it if you would particpate.
There is a giveaway involved. :)
What a difference! A big pat on the back for such a great re-do! We absolutely love all of the colors you used - the plates on the wall *sigh* and we love the cockatoo - what a perfect place for him to perch!
Karla & Karrie
I just adore the way your dining room turned out! So beautiful and fresh in all white...love the fabric in each chair, very clever idea and fun. Love the cockatoo, perfect place for her! Terrific project...congrats.
Nice weekend.
Hi Nita~ I just love seeing your gorgeous space all over again! It is absolutely beautiful and I just love the white!!! Thanks so much for sharing this at FNF! :)
GreatJob on the room. I love the pink ceiling. I like the wall color I gravitate toward a more yellow white, too much stark white on everything doesn't appeal to me. It is a very cozy and warm feel. Lovely.
Thanks for stopping by.
~ ~Ahrisha~ ~
You have done a fabulous job on this! I love the brights with the geometric prints and the accessories in the brights mixed with the white dining furniture. It looks magazine ready! It is a unique look that works very well and you pulled it off beautifully! What a great job you did on the furniture too. Just gorgeous! Thanks for showing us the finish! I was looking forward to it. And, thanks for linking it up!
Are you kidding me? This is SO inspiring! I'm your newest follower. I love the 4th photo down the most... that flower arrangement really finishes off the room beautifully. The pink ceiling? WOW - really creative and really beautiful. Stop by and visit my blog anytime :)
That sideboard looks so contemporary and modern now that it's white! And the seat covers are just so perfect done up in different fabrics. :-)
Love the chairs with the gorgeous fabric!!!
Love the chairs with the gorgeous fabric!!!
Your dining room is gorgeous. I love the painted buffet--such new life!
Just beautiful, what a transformation!
Somehow I had missed this post, I had been excited to see when you got the set painted...it sure turned out beautiful! I have been searching for a sideboard like that, but I need to find one pretty cheap that I can paing myself. Yours is really beautiful. Great job!
Love this room! Putting the different fabrics on the chairs was a perfect idea! The bird statue makes the sideboard, thanks for sharing!
Your dining room is so bright and cheerful. The colors and fabrics make me smile. Thanks so much for joining the "room by room" series.
It looks beautifully amazing, Nita! Looks like it should have always been that color!
oh my goodness...everything looks sssooo beautiful! you did a wonderful job! I am sure you are enjoying the bright and sunny feel!
Amazing what some paint can do. I love the colors you used.
Oh, my goodness! I cant believe how wonderful everything turned out! It has been awhile since I have been around reading blogs! I have got to get caught up on yours! SO nice to see your beauty!


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Now that I got that blade out of the way, it's time for me to upload another Dragon Ball Z character in chibi form. So far, I drew chibi Cell, chibi Eminem, and some other figures from pop culture that we know and love. Today I will be teaching you "how to draw chibi Frieza", step by step. As you know Frieza is a very important, and recurring character from the Dragon Ball series that can be watched on NickToons. As you can see the chibi form of Frieza is going to be a whole lot easier to draw than the regular full figured image of him. This is because there is hardly any muscle detailing or definition, the size alone is going to slash a bunch of time off the top if the drawing process, and the body parts are going to be easier to make. I myself had a blast drawing out this chibi version of one of the most popular characters from DBZ. I hope you too have fun learning "how to draw chibi Frieza", and I can almost guarantee that you will have a blast especially if you are a big DBZ nut! Adios people, and have an awesome drawing day!
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In Be Right Back, a brilliant yet creepy episode of the British TV series "Black Mirror", a grieving woman (Martha) loses her husband (Ash) in a car crash. During the funeral, Martha's friend Sarah tells her about a service to help grieving people to recover, creating a virtual Ash to communicate with her from the information available in social networks and Internet.
One day Martha gets a message from Ash, and she realises Sarah has signed her up for the service. Initially, Martha's displeased but, on finding she's pregnant, relents and relishes their conversations. With her comfort-level growing talking with the synthetic Ash, it isn't long before 'he' tells Martha about a 'next level' of communicating – one which is…experimental.
The synthetic flesh version of Ash is almost identical to him and mimics his appearance, personality and gait. Although the story is fiction and unlikely to take place in real life, we leave behind massive amounts of online data as a result of media consumption and social networks. This is information you share consciously and unconsciously and could serve purposes like the one discussed in the Black Mirror episode.
Below an overview of services or APIs that analyze and process your digital footprint and then create a model or make predictions/infer personality traits based out of this unstructured data.
Data Selfie
Data Selfie is a Chrome extension tracks clicks on likes in your Facebook newsfeed, clicks on newsfeed links to external sites, duration spent on different posts and the specifics of those posts your newsfeed, anything you type, and time spent on Facebook overall. It uses IBM Watson for Natural Language Processing and AI algorithms from the University of Cambridge to do some neat predictions.
Personality Insights
Personality Insights from IBM helps you gain insight into how and why people think, act, and feel the way they do. The service applies linguistic analytics and personality theory to infer attributes from a person's unstructured text. This tool can also gauge your personality based on your tweets.
Tone Analyzer
Tone Analyzer (IBM) uses linguistic analysis to detect three types of tones in written text: emotions, social tendencies, and writing style. Tone Analyzer service can be used to understand emotional context of conversations and communications. This insight is to be used to respond in an appropriate manner.
Let me know if you know any similar services, so I can get them added to the list.