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Update #4 - Add-Ons (Updated Oct 11), Digital Tiers, and DRM
Add-Ons (Updated Oct 11)
Looking to customize your reward tier a bit? Add the following on to your pledge using the Manage Pledge button at the top of the Project Eternity Kickstarter site. When making an add-on you need to manually change the amount of your pledge when using the Manage Pledge button.
You can change your pledge as much as you want during the Kickstarter campaign, you will only be charged after the end of the campaign based upon what is listed as your pledge at that time.
Note: All add-ons require base pledge to be at the $20 tier and above.
Digital Add-Ons (Any Tier $20 and Above)
- Digital Download of Expansion Pack +$20 (included in tiers $165 and above)
- Digital Download of World Almanac +$15 (included in tiers $50 and above)
- Digital Strategy Guide +$7 (included in tiers $80 and above)
- Early Access Beta Key +$25 (included in tiers $110 and above)
- Extra Digital Download of the Game +$25
- Extra Three Digital Downloads of the Game +$60
Physical Add-Ons (Physical Tiers Only, $65, $100, $140, $250 and above)
- Project Eternity Mouse Pad +$15 (included in physical above tiers $140 and above)
- Project Eternity T-Shirt +$25 (included in physical above tiers $100 and above)
- Obsidian T-Shirt +$25
For T-shirt add-ons, we will ask for the size that you want at the end of the Kickstarter campaign in a survey that will be sent to you in e-mail.
As a quick tutorial on how to add add-ons, goto the Project Eternity site on Kickstarter and then hit the Manage Your Pledge button. The reward tier you had already selected will still be selected and the amount will be in the big box at the top. All you need to do is add the dollar amount that covers the add-ons you would like to your pledge and enter the new total number. For instance, if you are at the $35 Pledge level and want to add one Digital Download, you would enter $60 as your total pledge.
After the Kickstarter campaign is over, we will send you a survey that will let you explain how you wanted to additional money pledged should be used.
Update #4
Well you all did it, you helped us get to $1.6M and we now have a Mac version and are adding more story into the world.
We have also been listening and reading your feedback on Kickstarter and have some changes that are happening as soon as this update is posted. One thing we are not updating just yet are the stretch goals but don't worry, those are going to get updated very soon. Oh, and we are putting a schedule together for updates that will include guest stars almost every day – Josh will be talking more about the design tomorrow (Sep 20), our unflappable CTO Chris Jones (architect of the Fallout and Arcanum engines) on Friday (Sep 21), and I think we will be able to squeeze one in from Mr. Tim Cain over the weekend.
So, what are those changes?!?
DRM-Free Option
You asked and we are delivering. In conjunction with GOG, we are going to offer a DRM-free version of the game for our Kickstarter Backers. When the campaign ends, you will be able to choose whether you would like a key from GOG or Steam. For our Mac friends, we are still working on a DRM-free option, since GOG does not currently support the Mac. Oh, and the great guys at GOG are having a special right now on all of the great Infinity Engine games (ends September 21st!) so check that out as well.
New Digital Tiers
We are adding a $50 and an $80 digital tier. The $50 tier will get you the digital version of the game, the soundtrack, the digital version of the Collector's Book, a collection of wallpapers made for multiple resolutions and multiple monitors, high resolution concept art, a high resolution version of the map, and ringtones. For the $80 tier, you will get all of that plus a digital copy of the strategy guide, and a second digital download of the game.
New for our Collector's Edition Box Level ($140)
Lastly we want to announce that we are going to give our backers at the Collector's Edition Box Level ($140) a little extra today and that is Beta access to the game! That's just a little taste of what we will be adding into tiers in the coming days and weeks through stretch goals and the occasional random act.
Join the discussion on Obsidian's forum thread!
Steven Kilpatrick on
I totally missed the follow ups, but let me say that you guys make good points, and it's a breath of fresh air to stumble on an old conversation that was handled with intellect and respect.
Joshua Rodman on
Moreover, if obsidian *chooses* to use the DRM on steam, they are choosing to insult those who decided to give them money up front.
Joshua Rodman on
Steam is not DRM. When it was introduced, one of the goals was DRM, for Valve's own software.
However the use of Steam's DRM for third party software is 100% optional and there are many titles on steam that do not use the steamworks DRM.
Thus at present, Steam is a digital store/channel, that also comes with optional services (eg achievements, chat) that and optional DRM. Steam is not DRM.
Antony Shanks on
Ah, so to add on the Almanac and the expansion I'd bid my tier +$35 and reply to their email?
Patrick Watson on
No if you want the beta key you just add $25 to your current pledge,unless your current pledge includes it already in which case you don't need it..After the kickstarter has finished you will get an email from them asking what the extra $25 was for you then tell them it was for Beta etc and they add it to your stuff.
ReyVagabond on
I realy want the beta key and im currently in the 35 braket, so if i want the beta key, i have to select the 35 braket and have a pledge of 60?
is that so?
Peder Reiff on
Maybe I'm mistaken, but it looks to me like the reward is automatic for putting in the requisite amount above your base pledge, so for being a in a digital-only tier, if you put in $25, you'd get an extra digital download, an expansion pack, digital almanac, digital strategy guide, and early access beta key. If you only put in $20, you'd get everything except the extra download and beta key. Again, I'm might be mistaken in how I'm reading this, and it's really unclear to me whether the additional downloads for the $25 and $65 tier would also include additional downloads of the expansion pack.
Jack Skellington on
Ok I see where you can add more money to your pledge, but for the life of me, I don't see where you actually choose the add-on that you want for that extra money.
Obsidian Entertainment CreatorSuperbackeron
@Antony To add an add-on, you hit the Manage Pledge button and make sure the reward tier you want is still selected. Then you add the amount of the add-ons to the what is in the Pledge Amount manually. So, if you have the $35 Tier selected and want to add the Strategy Guide, you would make sure that $35 is still selected and then enter $42 in the box.
Stephen "Stoibs" DSuperbackeron
We can add $20 for the expansion if we're paypal backers right? Under the Add-on's list on this page http://eternity.obsidian.net/ it only has the strat guide, beta key and three pack listed... :S
Antony Shanks on
How do you indicate which add-ons you wish when adjusting a pledge?
Constance - Chantress of the OO on
I think you should update the "How to do an Add On" to let people know they'll receive the info AFTER the pledge drive so they know THAT is how it all works. I can see I wasn't the only one confused as to how the Add Ons were going to be claimed.
Obsidian Entertainment CreatorSuperbackeron
Hi Jesse - you need to manually update your pledge. Add the total of your add-ons together with your tier and enter that total. Thanks for the support!
Steve Ward on
ok can someone explain to me about the add on's? Here is what i did i was at $35 then i bump that up to $50. So how would i add a ad on? Is it just automated when you bump up your pledge?
Fernando Tucci and Fallon Baxter on
Changed my pledge now +20$ for the expansion. That's a pretty good deal.
Chawanat NakasanSuperbackeron
The surveys, as my experience tells me, are issued after the funding succeeds.
Rafał Gąsiorowski on
Simmilar question here. My base pledge is $35, I've entered $42 to add $7 hintbook. Now I want to add expansion pack, so what I did was keep base pledge at $35 and entered 62$ as total pledge. But where is the survey about the extra money distribution?
James Perez on
It sounds like you can pre-add the digital expansion at a cost of $20 to any pledge between $20-$140, (as $165+ have it included in their rewards). However the Kickstarter pledge page does not show that option. I am currently pledging $80 and would like to add the $20 expansion. How???
Nelson Tavares on
Ditto. We were directed to "update 4" but this is very vague on how to add the add-ons.
Tate McInnes on
As with those above - how do we pledge for the expansion given it's only for a limited time? (If its a "do it after the campaign" assume that's not outside the limited time) Also just confirming it's possible to get the expansion if pledging for a physical tier under $165 (I.e $140, plus the $20 for the expansion).
PizzaDragon on
I've added $20 to my pledge to cover me for the expansion, but I don't see any way to select add ons from my manage my pledge page. Do I just wait until the campaign finishes and then choose to distribute my pledge so that that extra $20 covers my expansion as intended, or is there some way I can lock that in before the end of the campaign?
John Lymberis on
For clarification, if I want the expansion and the early access beta key, I would add $45.00 to the total price?
Rafał Gąsiorowski on
I agree with showler, expansion as an add-on option would be welcomed :)
Obsidian Entertainment CreatorSuperbackeron
@emptybook At the end of the Kickstarer campaign you will receive a survey that will let you go over how you would like your pledge distributed.
emptybook on
I have a few questions regarding add-ons:
How do you know what people have asked for: is there a script set up to recognise tier + $x = extra automatically? Or is it manual, and come April 14, will I need to email and say?
How do you differentiate between the two $25 options? Or do you get both?
If I edit my donation amount, will it still show me as a backer to the tier I picked?
Codipherus on
So I did the $35 reward but pledged $67 for the 35 reward, a beta key and a dig strat guide... how do I specify that?
Adam Wojtowecz on
@Iesha Dover figure out what add-ons you want and simply add their dollar amount to your pledge. Later, you will receive a survey via email that will allow you outline what add-ons you would like.
I just received an email response to my question about this.
Adam Wojtowecz on
In regards to the add-ons, how will you guys know I want an early access beta key as opposed to an additional digital download copy? I didn't see an option to specify my add-on and the add-on "tutorial" doesn't address this possible mix-up. Thanks.
Iesha Dover on
I'm a bit confused about the addon's listed above. The reason is at $25 you are suppose to get a digital download. So if I were to add $25 to that is would be $50 and then I'd get two downloadable copies? of the game? But then at $35 you have listed all the previous rewards plus soundtrak and collector's book. So in you example of adding $25 making the total $60 that person would then get two copies? of the game plus soundtrack and book, right?
James Home on
I will be using GOG. :)
Andrew Jackson on
I love all of your games, and wanted to give to this project the moment I heard about it. Unfortunately, DRM scared me off. I just donated $50 due to the fact I'll be able to get a DRM free version. Thank you for not treating your fans like criminals.
Alexander Sirazh on
What Fionavar wrote: "Really dont see a reason to waste money on translating the game, hopefully it wont be too much. Rather just want more content, since that would benefit everyone and not just the people who cant speak english, which frankly cant be that many. I guess as long as alot isnt wasted on it, its fine."
Nicholas Weber on
Thanks for replying, I had misread the statement as them intending to add something like SecurRom, not that their original intent was to distribute via Steam.
Riggo on
Just wondering why the $80 dollar tier doesn't get the VIP forum badge and special thanks in the credits? It is effectively the $100 tier without the t-shirt, Boxed edition of the game and the shipping costs needed to ship the physical game. It seems to me that the $80 tier is contributing more to the bottom line of the actual game and not towards rewards.


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Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera, killed in a plane crash Sunday, was traveling with her attorney Mario Macias, makeup artist Jacob Yebale, publicist Arturo Rivera (not family-related) and stylist Jorge Sanchez. The pilots were Miguel Perez Soto, 78 years old, and Alejandro Torres.
Their American-registered Learjet 25 disintegrated on impact and left unrecognizable wreckage in the rugged territory in Nuevo León state in northern México.
Upon boarding the plane, Yebale posted on Instagram what turned out to be the last photo of the singer alive.
"We getting Back To Mexico City.....jenni Rivera ,Arturo , Gigi and Me.. Los Amooo!," he wrote in the caption.
Yebale, like Rivera, was no stranger to the spotlight. Throughout his career he worked with several Latino stars in television and the music industry, including Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Eva Longoria, Pitbull and Don Omar, just to name a few. His official website lists him as graduating from Make-up Designory.
And just a few hours before the doomed flight, La Diva's publicist Arturo Rivera tweeted about what would be her last performance, a sold-out show at Arena Monterrey.
The crash happened on the first hours of Sunday, when the group was flying from Monterrey to Toluca, near Mexico City. Rivera was scheduled to tape there an episode of the Mexican version of NBC's "The Voice," where she served as one of the judges.
Jorge Sanchez, the stylist, who also went by "Gigi," described himself as a makeup artist, hairstylist and fashion stylist to television and music stars on Twitter.
A photo ID of the septuagenarian pilot was found at the scene of the accident, along with a mangled California driver's license with Rivera's name and picture. He is listed as originally from Tampico, Tamaulipas in México.
No cause has been given yet for the crash, which scattered wreckage near the town of Iturbide in México's Sierra Madre Oriental.
In 2005, Rivera released a song titled "Cuando Se Muere Una Dama," which translates to "When a Dame Dies," describing how she would like to be remembered:
I was a strong 'guerrillera'
who fought for her children;
remember that in life
your mother did not crack
with her head held high
say goodbye to her with honor
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For fans of the Downton Abbey time period and "of the manor born" style, this is a quirky, fun read. We are invited to a birthday party that has many twists and delightful turns. Some of us are invited - but what to do with the uninvited guests?— From Marilyn
A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones's The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of Jacqueline Winspear, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs mysteries A Lesson in Secrets and Elegy for Eddie, "a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion."
About the Author
Sadie Jones is the author of four novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Small Wars, and the bestselling The Uninvited Guests. She lives in London.
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"A comedy of manners that turns downright surreal…Jones's effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers."
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Module Eliom_content
module Eliom_content : sig..end
This module allows creating valid HTML content, or other XML formats.
XML tree manipulation within Eliom is based on the TyXML library but Eliom is using a custom representation for XML values (see Eliom_content.Xml). Then, Eliom_content redefines the two high level interfaces (Eliom_content.Svg, Eliom_content.Html5) that are provided by TyXML for valid XML tree creation and printing.
- If you want to generate typed HTML, use Eliom_content.Html5,
- If you want to write untyped html, use Eliom_content.Html_text,
- If you want to generate typed svg, use Eliom_content.Svg.
Modules Eliom_content.Html5, Eliom_content.Svg contain two sub-modules: Eliom_content.Html5.F, Eliom_content.Html5.D corresponding to tow different semantics. They also contain a module Eliom_content.Html5.C that allows to inject client-side content into server-side content.
Functional semantics ¶
The F modules provides functions to create elements with functional semantics: they are standard OCaml values.
Use this module:
- if your application does not have a client-side part (server-side generated Web site)
- or if the client-side is not written with Eliom,
- or if you do not need to use this node from the client-side program (no injection %n on this node) and want to avoid the extra attributes added by module D.
If you use a F-node n in an injection (%n), it is considered as any OCaml value, NOT precisely the copy you (possibly) inserted in the page. For example, To_dom.of_element %n will not refer to the element in the page, but create a new DOM node.
DOM semantics ¶
The D module provides functions to create elements with DOM semantics: Firstly, they behave like DOM nodes, e.g. they can only be added once to the DOM tree even when appended several times. Secondly, those values have an identifier, which means they can be referred to on client side (by %variable) or used with the functions in Eliom_content.Html5.To_dom and Eliom_content.Html5.Manip .
In case of doubt, always use D-nodes when you are writing a client-server Eliom app. You can also mix F-nodes and D-nodes.
Client-side value injection ¶
The C modules provides functions to inject client-side elements and attributes into server-side content.
Please read Eliom's manual to learn how to generate HTML.
module Xml : sig..end
Low-level XML manipulation.
module Xml_shared :
Xml_sigs.Twith type 'a W.t = 'a Eliom_shared.React.S.t
and type 'a W.tlist = 'a Eliom_shared.ReactiveData.RList.t
type event_handler = (Dom_html.event Js.t -> unit) Eliom_lib.client_value
type mouse_event_handler =
(Dom_html.mouseEvent Js.t -> unit) Eliom_lib.client_value
type keyboard_event_handler =
(Dom_html.keyboardEvent Js.t -> unit) Eliom_lib.client_value
module Svg : sig..end
Building and pretty-printing valid SVG tree.
module Html5 : sig..end
Building and printing valid HTML5 tree.


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Landmarks make a city. Can you imagine Seattle without the Space Needle or St. Louis without the arch?
Aviation and history buffs in the Silicon Valley are pondering the idea of a landscape without Hangar One, the dirigible hangar that dominates the grounds of Ames Research Center at Moffett Field. The grand old building, which loomed majestically over orchards and then business parks, is facing destruction.
The 198-foot-tall structure was built in 1930 to house the USS Macon airship. Over the years the Army, NASA and the Navy used the mammoth hangar to store all means of aviation conveyances.
The Navy closed Moffett in 1993, but the hangar remained and housed, among other things, the base museum. In 2002 it was determined that the hangar, which was built at a time when the environmental hazards of certain building materials were not known, contained toxic levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). It became off limits. The Moffett Field Historical Society relocated the museum to an adjacent building.
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No matter what happens to the old building — be it recycling or destruction — it is sure to carry a hefty price tag.
I have a personal attachment to the hangar because I grew up near there and some of my earliest memories involve the mammoth building. Dirigibles are part of our family culture. Dad saw the Hindenburg when he was a lad in New Jersey and it left a great impression on him. When we attended air shows at Moffett Field, Dad told us about the great Zeppelins the hangar was built to house. Because of its size Hangar One was often used for displays during the public events. It was at one of these that my father persuaded my mother to take a ride in a balloon that was tethered inside. This was no small thing as she was wearing a skirt, yet managed to get into the basket with all due modesty.
To those of you who have shared your pilot watch stories with me over the years, I regret to inform you that the AOPA Timex I have worn since I joined General Aviation News in 2000 has finally given up the ghost. I wrote about it when I got it and many of you wrote back sharing your own experiences. It is common ground. A large watch — one that is easily seen from at least 25 yards — is how pilots identify each other away from the airport environment, after all.
When the Timex was new, AOPA President Phil Boyer saw it during an interview and remarked he liked to see people wearing the team colors, so to speak. Over the years the casing got cracked, the markings wore off and one of the buttons disappeared. When I saw Boyer in April at Sun "n Fun, he saw the watch again, a little (well, okay, a LOT) worse for wear, and remarked that perhaps it was time for a new one.
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Rock the Kasbah
Made from recycled metal, the fine toolwork in our Moroccan lamps creates a soothing envelope of soft, ambient light. Using methods as ancient as the design, artisans handcraft each unique lamp.
Moroccan wall murals at murals your way
Moroccan-inspired table is covered in hand-embossed brass with patterns of an exotic Arabian tapestry. Cutouts of traditional Middle Eastern arches speak directly to the table's cultural origins. A handy lower shelf translates functionality beautifully. Quite the conversation piece, this one.
this classic Moroccan shape has been enhanced with the beautiful navy velvet, trimmed in brass nailheads.
Morocco found perched atop the African continent - where East meets West - a sun-soaked land that stretches from the Sahara to the Mediterranean
Create a well-traveled look with
modern Moroccan designs
Exotic influences are evident in this warm and inviting modern living room decor. Bright colors, layered textures, sparkling finishes, and curvaceous Moroccan design lines create a rich and worldly look.
Inspired by Moroccan design, this iron pendant glows in antiqued gold tones. Its diamond pattern lends global appeal to transitional interiors.
Handcrafted pendant with rustic diamond shaped antique gold finish leaves are pieced together to form a dome.
Hanging Lamp in Nickel Dangling Bead
When lit, the beads on these Moroccan inspired hanging lamps glow softly, and the hand punched cut outs in the metal create lovely patterns of light and shadow. It's exotic look is tempered with a modern nickel finish to create a unique piece that blends easily with many decors. Maximum recommended wattage is 60, bulb not included. UL approved; simple two way on/off switch; metal construction. A coordinating ceiling plate and all mounting hardware are included.
Moroccan tile Mural wall mural at murals your way
Moroccan wall murals at murals your way
Cast in quality design resin and finished in glossy white for modern sensibilities, this two-foot-high sculptural work of furniture art holds cocktails as easily as it does your favorite greenery. This is also striking in a garden room, covered outdoor space or even a unique nightstand!
Moroccan wall Stencils - variety houzz
Moroccan Mirrors with Doors- variety etsy
Moroccan table lamps
Bohemian Bedding
Round Patchwork Embroidered Ottomans
It's a side table with exotic flair! The Moroccan style table's intricate details will certainly add a dash of spice to your room.
It features a pull-out drawer and lower shelf framed by beautiful Moroccan-style carved elements.
above decor is available from Lamps Plus
I Dream of Jeannie
A spicy decorating scheme encourages a feel that is warm and eclectic. The mix of earth colors complement and enhance the collection of international fabrics and accessories.
Arabian Nights themed bedrooms accented with Moroccan style furnishings, Harem and Bedouin decorative accents help create the perfect Casbah bedroom theme.
Arabian Nights style bedroom decorating ideas
Moroccan interior design
Arabian Nights theme bedrooms
Use ... as a headboard ... room divider ..... corner accent feature
harem style bedrooms with an Arabian nights feel
Moroccan Bedroom Ideas
Purple harem style bedrooms with an Arabian nights feel
Spice up your home with an exotic ethnic-style Moroccan theme
Moroccan Decorating Ideas
Separate a room or decorate your walls with ancient iron work panels and capture the essence of Morocco
Reminiscent of Middle Eastern architecture and grace. Colored in gulf blue, merlot, coral, golden amber, and khaki, the Bliss Living Chanda bedding lends an ounce of mystery with its vague hues. Available in Queen and King sizes, the Bliss Home Chanda duvet set includes a duvet and standard or king shams. In a colorful and decorative design, the Chanda Medallion duvet combines modern hues with traditional motifs made of 100-percent cotton sateen with buttons. A pleasantly oversized medallion encircled by intricate medallion accents in a vivid palette of gulf blue, merlot, coral, and golden amber pops over khaki ground to highlight the contrast of conventional customs and contemporary cosmopolitan lifestyles in Abu Dhabi. Touches of metallic bronze embroidery across the duvet and two heavily embroidered matching shams with zipper closures enhance this luxe look. For versatility, the duvet reverses to interlaced geometrics in vanilla over a coral ground. Complement the Arabian decor with a Queen and King flat sheet trimmed with a hemstitch detail with a neutral cotton sateen complemented with matching pillowcases while the fitted sheet is solid white made of 100-percent cotton available in Queen and King sizes. Use the Lucca Coral European Pillow to furnish the modern aesthetic featuring a coral face and modern half-inch flange to provide a vivid accent, but quickly flipping to solid vanilla, Luccas opposite side offers a more subtle style. Finish the Middle Eastern inspired bedding with available pillows; an Amira Natural square pillow in shimmering angular shapes of gold applique in faux leather and reverses to a solid khaki slubbed linen and a Society boudoir pillow sewn of rare rose gold metallic faux leather featuring a pristine pleating on both sides.
An Egyptian harem-style tent is also a great look
For an Egyptian themed room, you'd definitely need real "artifacts", and paintings to give it the beginnings of an Egyptian look
Scattering sand around is also a great authentic touch, although it may be uncomfortable to lie on, and difficult to clean, perhaps better mixed into the paint and painted on the stone walls.
Get creative and build your own pyramid!
Egyptian themed decor here
Blue Louvre Distressed Mirror
A Moroccan inspired print consisting of heavily stylized dark blue, sky blue and avocado green quatrefoil motifs, boldly pattered across a snowy white ground.
Moroccan wall Stencils - variety houzz
Moroccan-inspired wall pattern "Moroccan Tiles" will make a stunning accent wall in any room! This stencil design is also perfect for backsplashes, curtains, floors and sisal rugs! Moroccan stencils are super trendy and are sure to spice up any decor.
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Arabian Party Decorations and Supplies
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Arabian Metal Lanterns
Two of our Arabian Metal Lanterns will complete your India themed event. Each metal and glass lantern measures 5 ft 1 inch high and has a base measuring 14 inches in diameter. Light up your entrance or walkway with these beautiful black lanterns! Easy assembly.
Arabian Paradise Kit
Transform your Prom, party of special event into an Arabian Paradise!Arabian Paradise Gazebo
A grand entrance to your night of mystery and enchantment, this cardboard and gossamer gazebo is 9' 10" high x 7' 4" wide X 7' 4' deep and printed on all sides. Assembly required.
Arabian Paradise Column
These exotic printed cardboard columns are 9' 10" tall x 1' 8" wide x 1' 8" deep. The structures are decorated on each side and feature a 3-D topper. Easy assembly.
Arabian Metal Lantern
Fill your room with romance and enchantment. This 5' high metal and glass lantern has a 14" diameter base. Assembly time: One person, 10 minutes. Easy assembly. Candle sold separately.
Exotic Metallic Palm Tree
You can't set a true Arabian scene with out suitable foliage. Tree captivating trees constructed of mylar, tubing, fringe, and wire share a common 5" wide x 5" deep wooden base. The tallest tree stands 8' 4" high. Staple gun recommended for assembly (not included).
Genie Bottle Standee
This ornate bottle is fitting of an Arabian night. The 7' 3" high x 2' 4" wide x 1' deep cardboard standee is freestanding and printed on one side only. Easy assembly.
Peacock Standee
This striking bird will beautifully grace your exotic scene. The freestanding, cardboard decoration is 3' 10" high x 4" 8" wide x 1' deep and decorated on one side only. Easy assembly.
World of Enchantment Backdrop
This self-standing card board backdrop measures 8' high x 32' long and is decorated on one side only. Assembly required.
Lighted Moroccan Skyline Silhouette
Complete your decorations with a beautiful Lighted Moroccan Skyline Silhouette. This free-standing Moroccan themed background will transform your event into a romantic getaway. Measures 11' 9" high x 31' 6" wide. String lights included
Fun decorating props available from shindigz party props
Living in Style: Morocco
In the 1960s Morocco was a hot destination for hippies who tripped out on the magic of North Africa. Today, the international jet set meets in Marrakech. The old-world charms of Morocco and a modern lifestyle are perfectly compatible as this stunning volume proves. Featured interiors showcase living areas that seamlessly flow, lush green courtyards, and richly ornamented decor. Despite the eclectic details, the rooms never seem too busy; they exude a peace and warmth that accommodate contemporary design elements as well.
Moroccan style library decorating
Living in Style: Morocco
In the 1960s Morocco was a hot destination for hippies who tripped out on the magic of North Africa. Today, the international jet set meets in Marrakech. The old-world charms of Morocco and a modern lifestyle are perfectly compatible as this stunning volume proves. Featured interiors showcase living areas that seamlessly flow, lush green courtyards, and richly ornamented decor. Despite the eclectic details, the rooms never seem too busy; they exude a peace and warmth that accommodate contemporary design elements as well.
Moroccan design, from the tiled floors to the colored walls, sculpted ceilings, embroidered fabrics, Berber tents, fountains, gardens, and more
In a world filled with beige interiors, Morocco is the perfect antidote: a refuge for addicts of saturated color, a haven for devotees of intricate pattern, a destination for admirers of striking architecture - from the colors, patterns, and textiles to the archways, fountains, gardens, and so much more.
Eager DIYers will love the ideas presented in sidebars and in how-to projects that can be applied to homes anywhere.
Filled with all the richness of Morocco, Marrakesh by Design will transport readers straight to the souks and salons of this exotic city while showing them the multitude of ways to live with the enticing elements of Moroccan design.
In a world filled with beige interiors, Morocco is the perfect antidote: a refuge for addicts of saturated color, a haven for devotees of intricate pattern, a destination for admirers of striking architecture - from the colors, patterns, and textiles to the archways, fountains, gardens, and so much more.
Eager DIYers will love the ideas presented in sidebars and in how-to projects that can be applied to homes anywhere.
Filled with all the richness of Morocco, Marrakesh by Design will transport readers straight to the souks and salons of this exotic city while showing them the multitude of ways to live with the enticing elements of Moroccan design.
A stunning pictorial of architecture and design, Moroccan Style takes us to a hot, dry land bordered on the east and south by the Sahara, on the west by the Atlantic, and on the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Moroccans have created inventive designs, which are seen in rugs, pottery, woodwork, and especially in the famous tilework zillij. The contrast of warm earth tones with the vivid blue of the sea and sky repeats time and again in the interiors and exteriors of the sumptuous villas presented in Moroccan Style.
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Processing of thin wafers becomes more and more important for a variety of different products and applications. Thin wafer handling and processing is performed by temporary bonding to a rigid carrier wafer. The rigid carrier wafer gives mechanical support during wafer thinning and backside processing. After backside processing the thin wafer is debonded from the carrier wafer and attached to a dicing tape on film frame.
EV Group provides production equipment for temporary bonding and debonding since 2001. We have the largest install base and are the clear market share leader. EV Group has more than 20 years experience in wafer bonding. Figure 1 shows the generic process flow for thin wafer processing with temporary bonding to a carrier wafer. The starting point is a device wafer with complete front-end processing on the frontside of the wafer. This device wafer is bonded to a carrier wafer with its frontside in the bond interface. After bonding the first step is back-thinning of the wafer. Usually back-thinning is a multistep process consisting of mechanical back-grinding and subsequent stress relief etching and polishing. After back-thinning the backside of the device wafer can be processed using standard wafer fab equipment. The carrier wafer gives mechanical support and stability and protects the fragile wafer edge of the thin wafer. Finally, when all backside processing is done, the wafer gets debonded, cleaned, and transferred to a film frame or to other output formats.
Temporary bonding and debonding is an enabling technology for wafer-level processing of thin wafers. The main advantages of temporary bonding and debonding using a carrier wafer are:
Compatibility with standard fab equipmentThe bonded wafer stacks literally mimic a standard wafer. The geometry of the bonded stack can be tailored in such a way that the resulting geometry is in accordance with SEMI. This brings the advantage that standard wafer processing equipment can be used without any modification. There is no need for special end-effectors, wafer chucks, cassettes, or pre-aligners. No downtime at all is required to switch between processing of standard thick wafers and temporarily bonded thin wafers.
Compatibility with existing process linesWith the addition of only two pieces of equipment, the temporary bonder and the debonder, a complete process line or even fab becomes able to process thin wafers.
Compatibility with existing processes The mechanical and thermal properties of the bonded wafer stack are very similar to a standard thick wafer. This enables the use of existing wafer processing recipes, which have been proven and qualified for standard wafers.
Compatibility with future process flows The user has the full flexibility to change the processing sequence and the individual process steps for backside processing. After temporary bonding the device wafer is securely protected against mechanical damage. Furthermore, adding process steps or modifying the process flow does not impact the cost of ownership for thin-wafer processing.
Compatibility with product roadmaps For many devices and products, the roadmaps lead to even thinner wafers in the future. With temporary bonding the entire backside processing becomes independent of the wafer thickness. Reducing the wafer thickness does not require any modifications or adjustments to the processing equipment.
There are different reasons for the need to go to thinner wafers.
Enabling technology For some devices a thin die is an enabling technology, e.g., backside illuminated image sensors or stacked chips with high interconnect density. Through-silicon vias (TSVs) usually require thin dies in order to limit the real estate consumption for the TSVs. For a given aspect ratio of the via, a thinner die results in lower area consumption, therefore thin wafer processing enables small pitch and high density TSVs.
Reduced form-factorFor handheld applications such as smartphones the chips have to be smaller and smaller to fit into modern designs. TSVs enable smaller packages but require thin dies in order to keep the TSV aspect ratio in a reasonable and economical range.
Higher performance For many devices a thin die enables higher device performance. The simplest application is cooling from the backside through the bulk of the die. A thinner die allows better heat transfer and cooling performance, which, depending on the device, enables either higher speed or higher currents and voltages. TSVs usually result in higher bandwidth and speed, reduced power consumption and a better signal-to-noise ratio. The manifold of advantages of TSVs has been discussed in greater detail in [1].
Economics Reliable and breakage-free processing of thin wafers allows a significant cost reduction. A lower aspect ratio of the TSVs enables higher speed and throughput of the TSV processing (etching or drilling, passivation, plating or filling, etc.). In many cases it is necessary to process the dies on the backside prior to packaging. In these cases wafer-level processing is very attractive due to the cost advantages of wafer- vs.-die processing and due to the abundance of equipment and field-proven process technology on wafer level.
[1] Banqiu Wu et. al (edt.), 3D IC stacking technology, McGraw Hill 2011
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Zdnet.com recently ran an article called "Crucial Apps for Surviving the Student Summer." While the article targeted younger users, it reviewed some applications that could be of use to many of us. Here are a few of the applications discussed in the article.
* WinFF: This is a Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu Linux application that lets you specify a file to convert, targeted by the device you want to use it on. It has several features I like, namely Batch Conversion, which lets you convert several types of files to one new version at one time and convert video files to audio only, which is useful for YouTube videos. You do not need to download additional files for it to convert most files.
* VirtualBox: This is a well-known free program for both the Mac and the PC to create virtual machines on your computer. A virtual machine sets aside a portion of your computer's memory and hard-drive space to basically make a "computer within a computer." You can run a different operating system or OS in a virtual machine as well as perform other tasks. The article on zdnet.com refers to using VirtualBox to run a copy of the free Ubuntu Linux, probably the simplest version of the Linux operating system around today.
* Bloom: This program is designed to upload photos to Facebook. It runs on several platforms and is apparently much faster and easier to use than the native Facebook photo uploader. Facebook does have occasional problems with its service running slow or hanging up, so any application to make a task simpler is always welcome.
* BeeTagg: This is an app that is a hybrid of the Internet Of Things, bar-code technology and several others. A QR or Quick Response code is a so-called 2D bar code of sorts. When you scan a QR code with a cell phone equipped as a reader, it can set several actions in motion. Beetagg.com has an excellent demonstration video of the QR technology in action, in which a scanned QR code links to a site online displaying information on contemporary dance.
* BitMeter 2: Anyone who uses public Wi-Fi or wireless Internet service will appreciate this app. It measures how much data or bandwidth you use, a great tool for avoiding extra charges for Internet access.
* FilesTube: This is a dedicated search site to find downloadable files such as audio, video and documents. I found it useful but inevitably ran across spam invitations, undesirable content and the like. YouTube remains the best choice for music and video content in general, but FilesTube is worth a look if you have problems finding what you need.
* Instant Messaging Programs: Two IM or instant messaging programs that are both available for various mobile devices are presented in the article. The apps are called NimBuzz and Palringo. They are multiprotocol, meaning they can be used with several instant-messaging services. This feature is handy if you have friends who use different services.
* Farmville for Apple iPhone: Love it or hate it, Farmville is a hugely popular Facebook game. I have found that there are no neutral corners when it comes to online games, as everyone has strong opinions about them, especially on Facebook. The iPhone version adds new features and will probably add to the game's popularity -- good or bad depending on your position, I suppose.


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What Are the Risks and Opportunities of Regional Planning?
Many of the ills facing metropolitan areas, such as traffic congestion, strained public infrastructure, and regional inequality, are caused, in large part, by the negative impacts one community faces because of the decisions of another. For example, as a town far outside the urban core develops more housing, it may create more traffic for communities further in as commuters shuttle through to centers of employment or education. Without effective mechanisms for both horizontal (e.g. city to city) and vertical (e.g. city to nation) coordination of planning and governance, the metropolitan region can face a "tragedy of the commons," where the prosperity and quality of life declines for the region as a whole.
In an effort to support the growth and development of a high-quality metropolitan region, the Boston Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission's (MAPC) MetroFuture regional planning process engaged over 4,000 of the area's residents between 2002 and 2009 and produced a new vision and action plan for the region.
Evan Thomas Paul (MCP '11) looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the effort and concludes that the process can serve as a model for other regions, while cautioning against some of the political, financial, and citizen burnout challenges of the process.
You can learn more about this topic by reading Evan's full thesis "Projections, Politics, and Practice in Regional Planning: A Case Study of MetroFuture."
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Poitjie is such a South Africa tradition, and personally one of my favourit meals to prepare. I love doing a great poitjie, and have been lacking in doing so since we moved into the flat.
A little history on the poitjie…The round potbellied cast iron pot was the perfect cooking utensil to suit the nomadic lifestyle of the black tribes and the Voortrekkers during the 17th and 18th centuries. Potjiekos evolved as a stew, made of venison and vegetables (if the latter were available). The pot with its contents protected by a layer of fat was hooked under the wagon by the Voortrekkers while travelling and unhooked at the next stop to be put on the fire again.
When the wagons stopped at the end of the day and camp was made, game was stewed and sometimes mutton, goat or old oxen when available. As each new animal was shot, it was slaughtered and the meat added to the pot, together with whatever vegetables that could be found. The large bones were added replacing the old ones, to thicken the stew. Surplus meat was preserved by seasoning and drying.
So on my day off, I thought I would do a little poitjie. The first step to a good poitjie is to burn the pot. Wash it thoroughly, then place it back on the fire to get it really hot before cooking again.
The best part about a poitjie is that you can add whatever meat and vegetables you wish to add, and your cooking liquid is all up to you. I used beef with red wine. Another great combo I love is chicken and beer poitjie.
Now what does one serve with a poitjie? Well, traditionally it would be "pap" or dumplings and in many homes it is rice. I also served one of my cannellini bean salads, which was actually very nice. The cannellini bean's meatiness worked really well with the poitjie, and you could even add it directly to the poitjie, however, I rather did a salad.
Cannellini & Beetroot salad
2 cups cannellini beans, leftover night to soak, and boiled until soft
fresh beetroot, boiled until soft
Danish feta
fresh rosemary
balsamic reduction
Add all together, ensure your beetroot is cooled properly before you add to the salad.


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Dear Friends,
In April 2015, Nepal was hit by the devastating earthquake which killed more than 8000 people, injuring more than 21,000. Thousands of people are still homeless and living under tents due to the horrifying destruction of villages and homes.
With the number of tourists declining due to the aftermath of the earthquake; the tourism industry is still largely affected till today.
This year April 2016, my wish to visit Nepal finally came true due to some very special people. And upon experiencing Nepal for myself in person, I was totally blown away by such magnificently beautiful country! Nepal has some of the most beautiful sceneries, amazing food as well as lots of truly wonderful people! Every corner of Nepal brings a pleasant surprise & it is a country of courage, dedication, love & countless splendid wonders.
Having visited various other countries, there is NO OTHER countries that is able to leave a much greater and deeper impression in me other than the Heavenly Nepal…
VISIT NEPAL! And experience the magic of this extraordinary country like no others!
I love you Nepal! And I will see you again real soon!
This special sand art tribute is specially dedicated to my lovely family & friends in Nepal:
Joanne, Noren, Nirmala, Chet, Deven, Kalpana, Norbu, aunt Budi & uncle Krishna. And finally, two of my most precious brothers – Mingma & Dawa!
Thank you Noren for giving the title of "Heavenly Nepal" to this sand art film!
THANK YOU for all your love! I will NEVER forget each & everyone of you! See you soon!
With Metta,
Sand Artist Lawrence Koh (Singapore)
Official Site: https://sanddreamer.wordpress.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SingaporeSandArt
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LawSinger
Blog: http://singaporesandart.blogspot.sg/
About Sand Artist Lawrence Koh:
"I was amazed at your talent and just good you were with your performance. It must have taken many hours of practice." – Emeritus Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong to Sand Artist Lawrence Koh
Lawrence Koh – International sand art virtuoso and multi-disciplinary artist specialized in both the visual art and the performing art. Utilizing an awe-inspiring combination of sand, music and light, Lawrence has created countless stories as a sand artist during his local and international performances as well as prestigious events such as award ceremonies, official launch, grand opening, dinner & dance, festive celebrations, meetings, seminars and anniversary celebrations. Lawrence's performance is often graced by foreign delegates, local VIPs and international guests; while also received positive responses from notable guests such as the Former President of Singapore Mr S.R Nathan, Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Emeritus Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong, Mr Teo Chee Hean, Minister Lee Yi Shyan, Minister Heng Swee Keat, Dr Ng Eng Hen, Mr Lawrence Wong, International Model Sonia Couling, Dr Chan Mei Yoke, MP Low Yen Ling and Film Director Eric Khoo.
Some of Lawrence's notable performances: MSH International Official Thailand Opening, Gourmet Abu Dhabi, Platts Top 250, Monetary Authority of Singapore Inter Central Bank Games, OCBC Regional Seminar, United Engineers 100 Years Anniversary, Shell Groundbreaking Ceremony, National University Health System Charity Gala Dinner at Gardens by the Bay, Lee Ming Wei's Luminous Depths Installation Opening the Peranakan Museum, NTUC U Picnic, People's Association's New Year Countdown, Singapore Turf Club's SIA Cup, BCA Awards, Institute of Mental Health 85th Anniversary, Kajima 25th Anniversary, Zurich Global Life Awards, BCI Asia Awards, Daido (Japan) 110th Anniversary Commendation Ceremony and many more.
Some of Lawrence's previous clients: Mandarin Oriental, KFC, Pizza Hut, Panasonic, Singapore Armed Forces, National Heritage Board, Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, National Arts Council, Lian Beng Group Ltd, 7 Eleven, Abbott, Daikin, Melchers, Singex, National Library Board Singapore, Singapore Expo, Bosch, Ministry of Education, Sentosa, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority, GlaxoSmithKline, National Healthcare Group, Sonangol, Mediacorp.
Being a celebrated artist in Singapore's entertainment and art scene, Lawrence's career spans across theatre productions, cultural fusion performances, short films, corporate videos, television programmes, television commercials, documentaries and live concerts. Lawrence was given the honour to have a special collaboration with the renowned Bhaskar's Arts Academy during their major theatre production "CHAKRA", featuring a captivating fusion of Indian dance, ballet, live Indian orchestra and sand art. The performance was graced by the presence of former president Mr. S.R Nathan and the tickets sold out completely; receiving standing ovation from the audience. Under National Arts Council's request and support, "CHAKRA" was restaged once again at the Toa Payoh Amphitheatre with Lawrence being part of the National Arts Council's "Arts for All" programme. Lawrence's collaboration journey with Bhaskar's Arts Academy also includes "Nalanda" a multi-disciplinary theatre production at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay and "Ramayana" during the Diwali Festival of Lights Performance in Wellington, New Zealand.
Lawrence captivated the audience once again with veteran storyteller Kamini Ramachandran and live fusion musicians (keyboardist Serene, bansuri flutist Ragha and table player Kumaran) during two sold out performances of "Forest Fables" – a multi-disciplinary English theatre production presented by Esplanade Theatres on the Bay. Under the invitation from Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Lawrence performed his very own live concerts with the amazing "Tze N Looking Glass Orchestra" with talented string ensemble from ACS Independent during "Celebrate December 2013". The performance was extremely well-received with full house for all three shows. With great excitement, Lawrence was given the honour to collaborate with the Singapore Philharmonic Winds Orchestra during the sold out concert – "Fun with Music" at the Esplanade Concert Hall as a guest soloist performing Eric Whitacre's "Cloudburst". Amidst his sand art journey, Lawrence and his sand art has received numerous article features and write-ups on Straits Times, Lian He Zao Bao, Business Times, AsiaOne.com, 8 Days Magazine and Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery's "Awaken Magazine".
Lawrence and his sand art were also featured extensively on Singapore's television programmes. He was featured as a guest artist on Mediacorp Okto channel's "Art Bites" and "Arts.Music.Performances"; in which he performed his original sand art with DJ Shawn Fluctuate. Subsequently, Lawrence's sand art also caught the attention of Mediacorp's "Artless Travelled Season 2" – an award winning international documentary about the lesser seen art forms of Asia, with Lawrence and his performances being featured on the show as one of Singapore's unique art forms. Other television involvements of Lawrence includes the McDonald's Wholegrain McMuffin television commercial, Starhub E-City's television commercials as well as Mediacorp Channel 5 and Suria Channel's "Remembering SARS" – a telemovie that featured Lawrence's sand art portraying the stories of Singapore's battle against SARS.
With great privilege, Lawrence's original sand animation tribute film to Singapore was featured on Vasantham Central's Tamil News, Channel NewsAsia's official Facebook page, as well as Channel NewsAsia's "Singapore @ 6" and "Singapore Tonight". On top of that, Lawrence was also invited to be the guest artist on Channel NewsAsia's "AM Live!" and "Artyfacts". He is also honored to be invited to perform on Mediacorp Suria Channel's "Fiesta Muzik" – a prestigious live telecast music concert featuring popular artists from Singapore and Indonesia. Mr Aubeck Kam, Singapore's Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and Dr Basuki Yusuf Iskandar, Indonesia's Secretary-General of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, attended "Fiesta Muzik" as the Guests-of-Honour. "Fiesta Muzik" was broadcasted as a live telecast on Singapore and Indonesia's TV channels with Lawrence's performance receiving excellent responses.
What is Sand Art?
"In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first." – Jason Mraz
Sand animation, also known as sand art, is a term which has two meanings. It is the name given to a style of live performance art and to a type of animation. In the former, an artist creates a series of images using sand, a process which is achieved by applying sand to a surface and then rendering images by drawing lines and figures in the sand with one's hands. A sand animation performer will often use the aid of an overhead projector or lightbox (similar to one used by photographers to view translucent films). In the latter, animators move around sand on a backlighted or frontlighted piece of glass to create each frame for their animated films.
Sand Painting of the World:
Tibet – The Sand Mandala (Tibetan: ???????????, Wylie: dkyil 'khor; Chinese: ???; pinyin: Sha Tánchéng) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. A sand mandala is ritualistically dismantled once it has been completed and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life.
Native American – In the sandpainting of southwestern Native Americans (the most famous of which are the Navajo (known as the Diné)), the Medicine Man (or Hatalii) paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the coloured sands flow through his fingers with control and skill. There are 600 to 1,000 different traditional designs for sandpaintings known to the Navajo. They do not view the paintings as static objects, but as spiritual, living beings to be treated with great respect. More than 30 different sandpaintings may be associated with one ceremony.
Indigenous Australian – Indigenous Australian art has a history which covers more than 30,000 years, and a wide range of native traditions and styles. These have been studied in recent decades and their complexity has gained increased international recognition.[2] Aboriginal Art covers a wide variety of media, including sandpainting, painting on leaves, wood carving, rock carving, sculpture, and ceremonial clothing, as well as artistic embellishments found on weaponry and also tools. Art is one of the key rituals of Aboriginal culture. It was and still is, used to mark territory, record history, and tell stories about "The Dreaming".
Japanese tray pictures – From the 15th century in Japan, Buddhist artists in the times of the shoguns practiced the craft of bonseki by sprinkling dry colored sand and pebbles onto the surface of plain black lacquered trays. They used bird feathers as brushes to form the sandy surface into seascapes and landscapes. These tray pictures were used in religious ceremonies. Japanese esoteric Buddhism was transmitted from East Central Asia after the 8th century, and thus these Japanese Buddhist sandpaintings may share earlier historical roots with the more intricate brightly coloured Buddhist sand mandalas created by Tibetan Buddhist monks.
Table decking – During the 17th and 18th centuries, the royal courts of Europe employed "table deckers", who decorated the side tables at royal banquets having adapted the craft of 'bonseki' from the Japanese. The table deckers sprinkled coloured sands, marble dust, sugars, etc. upon the surface of plain white tablecloths to create unfixed pictures of fruit, flowers, birds and rustic scenery. In between each design spaces were left for fruit bowls and sweetmeat dishes so that the diners could refresh themselves in between the main courses of the feast. These ornate pictures were discarded along with the debris of the feast.
Georgian sandpainting – Sandpainting as a craft was inspired by King George III, who was a skilled watchmaker and craftsman in his own right, and took an interest in the skills demonstrated by royal functionaries, known as Table Deckers, who decorated the white table-cloths at royal banquets with ornate centre-pieces decorated by using coloured sands and sugars as 'paint', and a bird's feather as a 'brush' a craft introduced by a European traveller who had observed the craftsmen at work in Japan.
Victorian sand picture souvenirs – Thousands of sites exist where it is possible to collect natural coloured sands for craftwork, with an enormous range of colours being available around the globe varying with the contents of the mineral charged waters leaching through the sands. But for the tourist the vertical sand cliffs at Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight form the central portion of a visual geological phenomenon (best viewed after a shower of rain) which encapsulates the impressive chalk spires of The Needles and Tennyson Downs. Aspiring sand crafters are now banned from risking their lives climbing the cliffs to collect the 21 coloured sands available in the bay, and to prevent excessive damage to the environment, but the sand kiosks have in the past been there to supply their needs.
Senegal – In the 1860s to 1890s Andrew Clemens a deaf mute born in Dubuque, Iowa, USA became famous for his craft of creating unfixed pictures using multicoloured sands compressed inside glass bottles or ornate chemist jars. The sand was collected from the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi. The subjects of his sand bottles included ornately decorated sentimental verses, sailing ships, plants, animals and portraits.


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Kjerstin Gruys is a UCLA doctoral student in sociology with a keen, feminist's interest in body image. Her dissertation will plumb the relationship between appearance and inequalities in the workplace.
Acutely aware of how our permeating obsession with beauty and thinness instills insecurity in young women, she nevertheless embraces her girly side.
Gruys loves clothes, makeup and shopping.
But in 2011, six months before her wedding at a Woodside, Calif., winery, Gruys, now 30, did the unthinkable. Tired of obsessing over wedding gowns and losing weight, she decided to give up mirrors. For 12 months, she would live without her reflection.
How could a young woman with one foot in the world of wedding prep voluntarily forgo pre-nuptial narcissism? After all, this is just about the only time in a woman's life that the culture not only sanctions such extreme self-focus, but pushes it with a vengeance.
It wasn't easy.
"I'd spent close to a decade pondering this curious relationship between feminism and beauty and my own place within these debates," Gruys wrote in her new memoir, "Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year." But planning the wedding had catalyzed "a fundamental mismatch between my values and my vanity."
Gruys was struggling to come up with answers to seemingly flip but nontrivial questions: "Could I still be a real feminist if I shaved my legs and armpits? How about if I wore a push-up bra? Was I supremely naïve to feel so empowered by a good hair day? And why did I feel so proud — as though I'd somehow 'made it' — when I was interviewed for a book titled 'Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success and Style'?"
Perhaps, she thought, the project would bring her values and vanity into better alignment. "Sometimes," she wrote, "you have to do something extreme and crazy in order to find balance and sanity in the end."
She was smart enough to realize that, on some level, giving up mirrors was itself a form of vanity — "a vain exercise in reducing my vanity," she said over lunch at the Novel Café in Westwood. "On one hand, yes, it is self-centered to spend a year thinking about beauty and vanity and your own role in that, and yet the goal was to figure out if I could give those things up, and what happened is, I realized I could."
With her sociologist's eye, she chronicled her struggles — moving, funny and occasionally cringe-worthy. The practical obstacles were not minor.
To blot out her reflection, Gruys hung sheets over the mirrors in her Westwood condo, averted her gaze when a storefront window beckoned and used the mirrors in her car only for driving.
She pared down her closet, taught herself to apply a bare minimum of makeup and depended on friends and loved ones to tell her if she had broccoli in her teeth.
Makeup vexed her. Her dependence on it, she wrote, was "an unhealthy addiction." Though you would never know it from her lovely complexion, part of that stemmed from a problem with bad skin.
"I'd viewed makeup as a necessity, something I couldn't go without," she wrote. "The idea of not having it on hand made me anxious. Even if I couldn't see it, I believed my makeup helped me look more polished, more feminine and prettier."
She grappled with her feminist ambivalence over her mother-in-law's penchant for plastic surgery — breast implants, "at least one face lift" and Botox injections — until she grasped that this is what made her mother-in-law feel beautiful and whole. Her mother-in-law's unapologetic beauty quest set off a crisis of self-confidence in Gruys, however. At 5-feet-5 and 155 pounds, she fretted she wasn't tall enough or thin enough to pass muster with her mother-in-law. (Her fiancé, now husband, Michael, was supportive and loving throughout the project, she notes.)
A couple of weeks before the Oct. 1 wedding, after seeing a friend's gorgeous fake lashes, Gruys gave in to the urge to buy eyelash extensions at a beauty salon.
After her dissertation advisor reacted in shock the next day, she decided she'd ended up looking "more Tammy Faye than Bambi" and had a meltdown.
Sitting on her couch, sans mirror, she plucked off the lashes one by one, pulling out some of her own in the process.
"I found myself morphing back to my scab-picking, nail-biting 10-year-old self," Gruys wrote. "Sure, I wasn't obsessively counting calories or berating myself for not going to the gym, but compulsive behaviors like this only show up when I'm under a lot of stress and not coping well."
It was, in some ways, an echo of the eating disorder she had developed as a teenager in St. Louis, where she competed in basketball and track and field.
"I was already thin and athletic," said Gruys. "But I started losing weight because I was anxious and depressed, and I found out that not eating calmed my anxiety."
She was never among the coolest kids, she said, and so the compliments on her weight loss from her school's queen bees triggered the desire to keep losing weight. Eventually, psychiatric help and medications helped alleviate her emotional issues, but when she started eating again and began gaining weight, she missed the social approval and began an unhealthy cycle of crash dieting to the point of suffering kidney damage. "They say your biology loads the gun and the culture pulls the trigger," she said.
At 12 months of no mirrors, she threw a "First Look Party." Her mother-in-law's gift: a magnifying mirror.
It came in handy, because soon, said Gruys, she suffered a "vanity relapse."
"After seeing myself, I was so in love with my reflection," she said. "But some of the smaller things I had decided were completely unimportant were important again: whether or not I had clogged pores on my nose or if I had a tiny bit of eyebrow that needed to be tweezed again. I was fascinated by it."
But then life got busy for Gruys, who lives in San Francisco, where her husband works as a biomedical engineer. Vanity receded.
"What I want women to think about is whether their body image would be healthier if they just cared less," she said. "If every little girl in America thought that she was not beautiful and said, 'So what?' I would be thrilled."
"Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year," Kjerstin Gruys; Avery; 320 pp; $26.


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"The 30-minute video, which showed the supposedly high profile MP in compromising positions, is set to rock the Malaysian political arena," The Star said after its reporter was shown the clip at a hotel. The video "had sharp images and the woman appeared to be a fair-skinned foreigner, possibly an East Asian", it said. It was apparently recorded Feb 21.
Journalists were taken to a hotel room individually to view the footage by a group of people led by a man who wanted to be known only as Datuk T. Datuk is a traditional Malaysian title. Datuk T said he wanted the media to watch the footage before sending a copy to the man and his wife.
If the individual in the video was in fact the politician, "then he and his wife must step down from politics", Datuk T said. Datuk T said the accused politician was not "the pious person with high moral values and integrity as portrayed, and therefore is not fit to be a leader".
He said if the two did not quit politics, "I will call on several NGOs to set up an independent panel to investigate and seek professional forensic services to study the authenticity of the recordings". After news of the footage surfaced, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, communications director of the main opposition party PKR, tweeted saying the video was doctored.
Sex scandals have in the past rocked the Malaysian political scene. Anwar Ibrahim, who leads the opposition alliance Pakatan Rakyat and the PKR, is on trial on charge of sodomising a male aide. Former health minister Chua Soi Lek resigned three years ago after a video showed him having sex with a friend.
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BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - The gods did not go up in flames but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle for his 200th birthday at his opera house in Bayreuth came to a near-riotous conclusion.
Radical Berlin theatre director Frank Castorf, who had teased, challenged, mocked and scandalized the audience over the four-opera cycle that featured slinky Rhine Maidens, simulated oral sex and gangster-style characters stood center stage acknowledging the audience's displeasure for some 10 minutes at the end of "Gotterdammerung" ("The Twilight of the Gods").
Castorf, who was born in 1951 in then-communist East Germany and had a reputation in the 1980s and 1990s as one of the bad boys of German theatre, egged the audience on, gesturing to them to boo louder and even suggesting through hand motions that it was the audience, and not him, who were out of their minds.
The scene, which had the audience on its feet booing Castorf and his assembled team of stage and costume designers, was said by veteran operagoers to be unprecedented.
It came to an end when Russian conductor Kirill Petrenko, one of the audience's favorites throughout the six days it has taken to present the four operas, assembled his orchestra behind the closed curtains. While Castorf stood on stage being booed, the curtains were opened to show the musicians, which prompted the audience to switch gears and start applauding again.
Castorf's set designer, Aleksandar Denic, told Reuters: "I like it if there is a response, that is the biggest compliment to me", but perhaps he got more than he'd bargained for.
But Bayreuth has always courted controversy and some of its most famous productions have been ones which got the worst receptions at their premieres.
"A lot of booing, I think it's good for the newspapers," said Gerhard Reissbeck, 49, an artist from Bad Windshein, Germany attending with a friend.
What had been touted as an oil-themed production to update Wagner's 150-year-old cycle originally about the pursuit of gold took the packed audience in the 1,925-seat Bayreuth opera house on a roller coaster ride across the planet, from a motel on Route 66 in Texas to Azerbaijan with a side trip to East Berlin and a conclusion in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
As he has throughout, Castorf used live video shot by cameramen on stage plus unconventional props and settings, including in "Goitterdammerung" a kebab shack behind a chemical factory and a three-wheeled German car from the 1950s, to pour Wagner's old libretto and staging directions into a new mould.
Hagen, the leader of the underworld Gibichung clan that is at war with the gods and the Volsung race of heroes, was played by South Korean bass baritone Attila Jun sporting a Mohawk haircut as a nightclub-style bouncer who stopped in periodically at a voodoo shrine behind a metal gate to spit on images of his enemies.
A gold-lame-attired Brunnhilde, sung vividly by English soprano Catherine Foster, pretty much stole the show in the second act, vowing revenge as the woman scorned after her lover, the hero Siegfried, is stolen away from her with a magic potion.
There was lots of unusual stage business, including a buggy perched at the top of the stairs, looking like a scene from the Chicago crime movie "The Untouchables". But when it was pushed down the stairs it turned out to be loaded with potatoes rather than a baby.
Such overlays on Wagner's stage directions annoyed members of the staid, well-heeled Bayreuth audience, but if nothing else they have provoked reams of comment during the intervals, at breakfasts and dinners around Bayreuth and in the press.
"It was not very convincing," Eddie Vetter, critic for the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, told Reuters at the conclusion.
"It's a very fragmentary production and the direction of the individuals was very poor. There were a lot of very clumsy transitions and I don't like this kind of dialectic approach.
"Also he has no feeling for the music. It goes against the flow."
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Actress Hayden Panettiere has urged fans to learn from her negative tattoo experience and think carefully before getting inked in another language.
The "Nashville" star showed off her body art on "The Graham Norton Show" and revealed that the Italian phrase inked on her back means "Live without regrets" – or it would if it wasn't misspelled.
The blonde actress admits that she wasn't aware of the error until she visited Italy and the mistake was pointed out to her by locals – but she has managed to see the funny side.
She says, "You know what? There may be an extra letter. It's in a different language though. … Just advice: don't ever get a tattoo in a different language and then go to the country where they speak that language. … It's a bad idea.
"It means live without regrets (it's so ironic) and I literally have to live my life by my tattoo."


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Wenger will decide when to leave Arsenal
Arsene Wenger maintains he will only leave Arsenal if he no longer feels up to the job.
Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis has indicated the club are ready to offer the long-serving Frenchman fresh terms before his current deal expires in the summer of 2014.
The Frenchman turns 63 next month, and accepts only he can really be the judge of when to finally call it a day at Emirates Stadium. He said: "I have been at the club long enough to have confidence in the people I work with, but I will assess my own performances and then make a decision, at the moment we are not there."
Wenger, who has transformed the fortunes of the north London outfit since his arrival as a relative unknown in September 1996, added: "Two years is a long time in my job. I just want to do well for the club as long as I can and accept all the rest.
"I have to consider that, at my age, you always have to assess if you have the fitness, the desire, the commitment that this job demands.
"Then of course you have to make your decisions. I hope I will be lucid enough and intelligent enough to assess my performance well.
"I am an Arsenal man. I think I have always shown that. I have to consider if I do well or not.
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