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2019 Toyota Hilux TRD Review and Release Date – Toyota's uncontrollably successful Hilux TRD, Australia's most beautiful providing vehicle in 2019, has the graphics muscle to go up against the Ranger Wildtrak. Right after the accomplishment of the previous era's TRD (Toyota Racing Advancement) unit, Toyota has returned for an additional round with the new period Toyota Hilux TRD.
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2019 Toyota Hilux TRD Exterior
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The same 2.4-liter engine (snared to either a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic) remains as the sole powerplant choice which can develop up to 150hp and 400Nm, although Toyota was quick to quash rumors that the larger 2.8 liter engine – available in all other Toyota Hilux TRD markets outside of Europe – would be coming to the UK.
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Dallas-based Blockdot had multiple projects recognized at the 2011 Best App Ever Awards — including a first-place prize for its "Buzzhole Corporate Bingo" app.
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Wasabi Sudoku (Best Education Game)
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Assessment of Ecosystem service provision in a dry tropical forest environment. Using the full Landsat archive to determine trade-off processes in south-central Angola (2017)
Dry tropical forests are facing massive conversion and degradation processes and they are the most endangered forest type worldwide. One of the largest dry forest types are Miombo forests that stretch across the Southern African subcontinent and the proportionally largest part of this type can be found in Angola. The study site of this thesis is located in south-central Angola. The country still suffers from the consequences of the 27 years of civil war (1975-2002) that provides a unique socio-economic setting. The natural characteristics are a representative cross section which proved ideal to study underlying drivers as well as current and retrospective land use change dynamics. The major land change dynamic of the study area is the conversion of Miombo forests to cultivation areas as well as modification of forest areas, i.e. degradation, due to the extraction of natural resources. With future predictions of population growth, climate change and large scale investments, land pressure is expected to further increase. To fully understand the impacts of these dynamics, both, conversion and modification of forest areas were assessed. By using the conceptual framework of ecosystem services, the predominant trade-off between food and timber in the study area was analyzed, including retrospective dynamics and impacts. This approach accounts for products that contribute directly or indirectly to human well-being. For this purpose, data from the Landsat archive since 1989 until 2013 was applied in different study area adapted approaches. The objectives of these approaches were (I) to detect underlying drivers and their temporal and spatial extent of impact, (II) to describe modification and conversion processes that reach from times of armed conflicts over the ceasefire and the post-war period and (III) to provide an assessment of drivers and impacts in a comparative setting. It could be shown that major underlying drivers for the conversion processes are resettlement dynamics as well as the location and quality of streets and settlements. Furthermore, forests that are selectively used for resource extraction have a higher chance of being converted to a field. Drivers of forest degradation are on one hand also strongly connected to settlement and infrastructural structures. But also to a large extent to fire dynamics that occur mostly in more remote and presumably undisturbed forest areas. The loss of woody biomass as well as its slow recovery after the abandonment of fields could be quantified and stands in large contrast to the amount of potentially cultivated food that is necessarily needed. The results of the thesis support the fundamental understanding of drivers and impacts in the study area and can thus contribute to a sustainable resource management.
Generation of Higher Level Earth Observation Satellite Products for Regional Environmental Monitoring (2017)
Earth observation (EO) is a prerequisite for sustainable land use management, and the open-data Landsat mission is at the forefront of this development. However, increasing data volumes have led to a "digital-divide", and consequently, it is key to develop methods that account for the most data-intensive processing steps, then used for the generation and provision of analysis-ready, standardized, higher-level (Level 2 and Level 3) baseline products for enhanced uptake in environmental monitoring systems. Accordingly, the overarching research task of this dissertation was to develop such a framework with a special emphasis on the yet under-researched drylands of Southern Africa. A fully automatic and memory-resident radiometric preprocessing streamline (Level 2) was implemented. The method was applied to the complete Angolan, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Botswanan, and Namibian Landsat record, amounting 58,731 images with a total data volume of nearly 15 TB. Cloud/shadow detection capabilities were improved for drylands. An integrated correction of atmospheric, topographic and bidirectional effects was implemented, based on radiative theory with corrections for multiple scatterings, and adjacency effects, as well as including a multilayered toolset for estimating aerosol optical depth over persistent dark targets or by falling back on a spatio-temporal climatology. Topographic and bidirectional effects were reduced with a semi-empirical C-correction and a global set of correction parameters, respectively. Gridding and reprojection were already included to facilitate easy and efficient further processing. The selection of phenologically similar observations is a key monitoring requirement for multi-temporal analyses, and hence, the generation of Level 3 products that realize phenological normalization on the pixel-level was pursued. As a prerequisite, coarse resolution Land Surface Phenology (LSP) was derived in a first step, then spatially refined by fusing it with a small number of Level 2 images. For this purpose, a novel data fusion technique was developed, wherein a focal filter based approach employs multi-scale and source prediction proxies. Phenologically normalized composites (Level 3) were generated by coupling the target day (i.e. the main compositing criterion) to the input LSP. The approach was demonstrated by generating peak, end and minimum of season composites, and by comparing these with static composites (fixed target day). It was shown that the phenological normalization accounts for terrain- and land cover class-induced LSP differences, and the use of Level 2 inputs enables a wide range of monitoring options, among them the detection of within state processes like forest degradation. In summary, the developed preprocessing framework is capable of generating several analysis-ready baseline EO satellite products. These datasets can be used for regional case studies, but may also be directly integrated into more operational monitoring systems " e.g. in support of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) incentive. In reference to IEEE copyrighted material which is used with permission in this thesis, the IEEE does not endorse any of Trier University's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. If interested in reprinting/republishing IEEE copyrighted material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution, please go to http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/rights_link.html to learn how to obtain a License from RightsLink.


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Interactive Webinar from NAEA
The National Art Education Association is providing an interactive webinar on Wednesday, August 29, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. called Art for Healing in Difficult Situations. This webinar is FREE for NAEA members and $49 for non-members.
A growing number of children are experiencing traumatic life events during their childhood. How can we, as arts educators, help?
Visual arts can provide an outlet for children to express their feelings, communicate their needs, and reach out for support. Join us for this timely webinar as three art educators share their teaching experiences, strategies, and art projects for helping children alleviate stress and heal.
The presenters include:
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QCRI aims to boost Qatar's knowledge economy
Qatar Computing Research Institute head discusses aims and programs
The new Qatar Computing Research Institute, which opened its doors in October, took part in the Qatar Foundation's first annual Research Forum in Doha this week, to discuss research programs and initiatives undertaken by national stakeholders, universities, international partners and multinational companies.
Dr Ahmed Elmagarmid, executive director of the institute spoke to ITP.net about the aims of the Institute and the research projects it is currently working on.
According to Elmagarmid, the Institute is a part of the Qatar Foundation's mission to transform society from depending on carbon to a more knowledge-based economy, centred on three pillars of education, community and service research.
"The Qatar Computing Research Institute is tasked with three missions: one is to look at and evaluate and come up with a global national strategy for computing research, two is to do in-house research - this is not research which is contracted or funded, no, we want to actually grow a research culture here locally and do the research here - the third mission is to do outreach; outreach through education, training of graduate students, training of contractual students and things of that nature," Elmagarmid told ITP.net.
Elmagarmid is very clear on the vision for the Institute and emphasises that he wants to do research that can aid society.
"We are interested in doing research but not mathematical, not basic research, we are interested in doing research that has a potential of impacting society, of doing technology transfer to industry," he said.
The Institute has two broad areas of research, core computing and computational thinking, or computer-enabled scientific discovery.
In core computing the Institute is interested in Arabic language technologies, cloud computing and in data analytics.
The computational thinking section of their research is focused on applications that are important to the region.
"We are interested in things that are relevant to Qatar such as, bio-informatics, because there is a huge investment here in health care, in the biomedical sector," said Elmagarmid.
The institute is also interested in high performance computing and is working with scientists and engineers to develop model simulations looking at and analysing data intensive applications.
The last area the institute is involved in is infrastructure development, which cradles the basic computing research, the core computing research and the applied areas.
"We see a role that we play in developing advanced computing infrastructure for the science and engineering communities in the world, not only in Qatar, not only in the region, but in the world," said Elmagarmid.
The Institute is working towards developing an infrastructure that will aid scientists across disciplines in their research work. Elmagarmid says the current computational infrastructures for research are woefully inadequate.
"I see the existing computer infrastructure made available to scientists and engineers today to be awfully insufficient. The reason is, we require our scientists, our engineers, even social scientists to be computer-savvy before they can read the results of their research. We would like to develop a computing infrastructure that makes it easy for a chemist to pay attention to the chemistry and a biologist to pay attention to the biology and a social scientist to pay attention to sociology and not become computer experts. We want to develop computing infrastructure that hides the complexities of the infrastructure and only provides the layers that are needed for them to do their work," added Elmagarmid.
He says the development of these types of hub technologies will make it easy for scientists to run their research, do their experiments and run their simulations through a simple interface.
Upcoming projects
The Qatar Computing Research Institute is currently working on two major areas; developing Arabic language technologies on the web, and cloud computing.
In terms of the Arabic language development, the institute is developing the tools and components of search engines which can be used in conjunction with the international search engines that are already in place.
"I don't see ourselves starting today to develop a brand new, brand name search engine in Arabic. We would like to write things, for example, doing word search, doing image search and make those available for Arabic users on top of existing search engines so we can get the attention of Google and Bing who will say 'oh, ok this is useful, we want to adapt it'. We want to become part of a food chain for these big search engines," said Elmagarmid.
The Institute has already hired some people who are expert in Arabic language information retrieval and natural language processing, such as morphological analysis.
Elmagarmid also has plans to address the problem of a lack of Arabic content on the web.
"Everybody that works in Arabic knows that content is not as it should be. If you compare the amount of content to the amount of internet penetration in the Arab world to the number of potential users, you can se that there is a huge potential for growth," he said.
In January, Elmagarmid will be convening a group of top-level experts in Arabic technologies from around the globe from both industry and education and hailing from such enterprises as Google, Yahoo! and educational institutions such as Colombia University, to discuss the problems of the Arabic language on the web.
"It is a small hand-picked group of not more than 15 to 20 people and we are going to have a serious discussion as to why we have such problems with the Arabic language, why isn't there more progress being made? We are not just going to be asking philosophical questions, we will be asking technical questions, specifically; what should we be emphasising in the institute to make an impact in the Arabic language?" he added.
The second project the Institute is currently working on is in cloud computing:
"The reason we honed down on cloud computing is because it is an area that is up-and-coming, that is very important to people from the green, environmental world, and also to people that are looking at this as a way to cut costs," said Elmagarmid.
The Institute has made some strategic hires in this area and has technologists working on problems such as disaster recovery as well as further developing the operating system environment for cloud and developing services on the cloud.


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published in the Pacific Tribune July 24th What's Natural? California Dreaming and Erosion "Crises" California's spectacular coastline attracts tourists from around the world. Headlands of granite or basalt resist erosion, defiantly jutting out into the sea. Pocket beaches form where focused wave energy bites into softer sandstones and uncemented stream sediments. Relentless waves undermine and steepen cliffs bordering 70% of California's shoreline. Over hundreds and thousands of years, natural erosion sculpted our awe-inspiring undulating coast. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder - likewise the magnitude of a "coastal crisis". The Los Angeles Times recently published 'California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim'. They inaccurately painted natural erosion as a recent crisis due to CO2induced climate change. However, California's erosion "crisis" must be understood within a greater timeframe. Since the end of the last ice age, sea level has risen 400 feet. Over 18,000 years, San Francisco's regional coastline marched 25 miles inland, advancing 7 feet a year - more than twice California's average. My beautiful home town of Pacifica was featured in that Times' article because it lost several homes unfortunately built on loosely cemented sand and graveldeposited 100,000 years ago when sea level was 20 feet higher. Although the ocean's landward march has slowed over the past 5000 years, northern Pacifica's fragile coastline still retreated by over 7 feet per year between 1929 and 1943. Despite a warming world, the average rate of cliff retreat then markedly declined since 1943.
The ill-fated Ocean Shore Railway, initiated in 1905, foreshadowed California's erosion problems. To give tourists awesome views, tracks were laid on a ledge dug into steep coastal cliffs. But landslides were common, and costly repairs forced the railway to close. Today, only 25% of the railway ledge built by 1928 still exists. Undeterred, designers of California'sscenic Pacific Coast Highway hoped to give automobile travelers similar breath-taking views. Again, landslides were common. Only 38% of the highway constructed by 1956 still remains. Geologists tell us such landslides constantly altered California's modern coastline for hundreds of years. There are few straight lines in nature. Our coastlines undulate. Likewise, our climate oscillates, and coasts erode episodically. Between 1976 and 1999 (the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation), California experienced more frequent El Niños. Over 70% of California's 20thcentury disappearing coastline eroded during El Niñoevents. El Niñosbring more storms and more destructive waves. El Niños bring more rains that saturate soils and promote landslides. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation then switched to its cool phase. It brought more La Niñas and more drought, but fewer winter storms and less erosion. In 1949, also a time of less erosion, Pacifica's government believed homes setback 65 feet from the edge of a bluff would be safe. They never suspected a single El Niñoevent would move the cliff edge 30 feet landward 50 years later. There are some who see human structures as a blight on California's natural coastline. In response to natural erosion, they suggest we abandon the coast. They argue California's only choice is "managed retreat" versus "unmanaged retreat". Although well engineered seawalls can protect homes and businesses, some environmentalists called seawalls a coastal "crisis". California's Coastal Commission recently pledged seawalls will "only be permitted if absolutely necessary". But the Commission's policy only fosters a mishmash of emergency fixes. Randomly armored properties deflect destructive waves downstream, accelerating erosion in a neighbor's unprotected property. Coastal cities must construct well-engineered sea walls, without any gaps. Because sea walls prevent erosion, the Commission ill-advisedly fears local beaches will be lost if denied locally eroded sand. The Times parroted that belief writing, 'for every constructed seawall, a beach is sacrificed'. But is that true? San Francisco's O'Shaughnessy sea wall built in 1929 prevents erosion of the fragile sand dunes supporting Golden Gate Park. Yet SF's north ocean beach continues to grow. Without a seawall, San Francisco's south ocean beach rapidly eroded, and threatened infrastructure now requires a sea wall. Sources of beach sand fluctuate, and simplistic sea wall analyses are very misleading. Sand is stored and transported to beaches in many ways. Streams and rivers supply the most sand needed to nourish a beach, but mining SF bay's sand has deprived nearby coastal beaches. Furthermore, ocean oscillations shift winds and the direction of currents that transport sand. Beaches grow for decades then suddenly shrink. Although some argue our beaches face a rising sea level "crisis", archaeologist determined that despite more rapidly rising sea levels 5000 years ago, many California beaches grew when supplied with adequate sand. Lastly, it's interesting to note scientists suggested Pacific islands also face an erosion crisis due to rising sea levels. But the latest scientific surveys determined 43% of those islands remained stable while land extent of another 43% has grown. Only 14% of the islands lost land. So, I fear exaggerated crises only erode our trust in science. Jim Steele is director emeritus of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, SFSUand authored Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism Contact: email@example.com
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Officials have a plan to finish widening Brays Bayou - three floods too late.
(Thumbs up) It took almost two months, but for the first time since Harvey, water is completely out of the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs. May it stay that way forever.
(Thumbs up)Just as the Christmas retail season seems to arrive too early each year, so does the Christmas free speech lawsuit season. A federal judge in Austin ruled this week that Gov. Greg Abbott was wrong in 2015 when he removed a mock nativity scene from the Capitol. Abbott was acting in his role as chairman of the State Preservation Board. That's the same group that refuses to order removal of an inaccurate plaque honoring the Confederacy in the same building.
( Thumbs up) For those of you not following Ted Cruz's Twitter feed (we only do it because it's in the job description), the junior senator may have confessed to committing a series of unsolved murders in the Bay Area in the '60s and '70s. One little hitch: Much of the killing happened before Cruz was born. A few years back, Rice graduate Tim Faust started selling t-shirts labeling Cruz as the Zodiac Killer to raise money for a non-profit (we're only the messenger here). Cruz, who often tries and fails to demonstrate a sense of levity, attempted to play along. This week @tedcruz Tweeted the Zodiac cypher, a coded letter sent to California police in the midst of the crimes. At a time when politicians are trying to be funny and comedians are becoming political, we think people should stick to their jobs. (Of course, we'd grandfather Al Franken).
(Thumbs down) Our hypocritical elected official of the week lives - surprise - in Austin. Gov. Greg Abbott should look in the mirror before beating his chest over Harvey recovery spending. When members of Congress passed a $36.5 billion emergency funding package, Abbott called them "spineless." He wanted additional federal money. That's not wrong, but there's a rub. More than anything, residents of Texas' Gulf Coast need Abbott to call a special session of the Legislature to create new flood control districts, to fund infrastructure and to work on coastal protection. He's afraid that a special session will be used against him by his nemesis, Dan Patrick, so any major state effort must wait two hurricane seasons. That's a lack of leadership, and it's disrespectful to those of us in the flood plain.
(Thumbs twiddled) Most experts agree that if Project Brays - a bayou improvement plan conceived after Tropical Storm Alison in 2001 - had been finished on time in 2014, thousands of homeowners would have been spared soaked sheetrock, warping floors and attacks of mold from Harvey. Government, though, failed them and failed to fund the project in a timely manner. Three years and three floods too late, public officials were patting themselves on the back for coming up with a finance scheme to finish widening Brays Bayou and elevating bridges that cross it. So, what will it take to get the project done? Consider this financial stream. The state water board sends millions in cash to the county flood control district via the city of Houston. Once finished, the feds will reimburse the county, the county pays the city and the city pays the state. There is a better way. Government should tax us fairly and quickly use the money to protect citizens.
(Thumbs twiddled) Hint to those involved in commissioning a statue of Texans owner Bob McNair, which will be sited on taxpayer-owned property near the Astrodome: No one remembers - or cares - what John Mecom or Gus Wortham looked like (more on that in few seconds). A mini-controversy is brewing over the idea of a bronze McNair when the city doesn't have statues of, say, Barbara Jordan. Commissioner Rodney Ellis, skeptical of why sports team owners deserve this kind public recognition, called for a statue "policy" and "transparency." He's getting pushed back like linemen did by Earl Campbell. Now there's a Houston footballer who deserves a statue. Instead of a chisled McNair what about a fountain that has his name? Over decades, we've remembered Mecom and Wortham by their water features, not bad public art. And, besides, if you build a monument to McNair, the Billion Dollar Rockets Man will want something bigger.


text: Feels like I was just talking about getting stuff in the mail, heh. A couple of days ago I won my first ever Ebay bidding war! Let's skip over the part where no one else was bidding on what I bid on – the important thing to remember is that I won and I was quite nervous about the whole process, never having done so before. But, I went ahead and did it anyways (I know I am *so* gusty) and ended up receiving a lovely skirt in the mail today. *pats self on the back*


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Continuing The Neo-Liberalism Discussion
Badd Bob of Planned Obsolescence has built on my discussion about Neo-Liberalism with a thought-provoking post that asks some fascinating long term questions about where US hegemony could lead. Badd Bob puts China at the top of his list of adversarial states, but he questions how forceful the US can be in establishing and directing its power without generating blow-back. There's still plenty of work to be done in shaping the concept. Discussion open.
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when it does, it must strike hard, quickly and very effectively, and get the hell out of dodge just as fast
By my understanding, this makes you a devotee of the Powell Doctrine. I suppose that's a step in the right direction.
Again, I flinch when I see stuff like "running the show." I feel this is where the distinction between neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism blurs. We've got have at least the illusion of multilateralism, otherwise we remain the prototype (within the Arab world) of the infidel occupier.
Now I am not unconvinced that we can soften up some of the Iraqis and make them complacent, willing advocates of our Imperial goals. Witness Pakistan. But even there, you have the hardcore followers in the FATA and Swat Valley who would love to ride into Islamabad and seize power. This same scenario seems likely among Iraqi insurgents, motivated by Saudi (and other) support networks.
sometimes peace is war
Oh no! Orwell just rolled over in his grave.
Hmm…so for you, neo-lib is principled and not pragmatic. I would have thought the opposite, that neo-liberalism's ultimate goal would be an overall reduction in violence by state and non-state actors. Also, like you mention, neo-lib hopes to stabilize national security, which seems like pragmatic realpolitik to me.
So then, what is the principle exactly? That democracy is good for everyone? That two democracies have never gone to war with one another?
I'm actually still having a hard time locking down the definition of neo-liberalism. I understand the diplomacy, soft power angle, backed by the "big stick," an unspoken threat of violence. You say:
under the Neo-Cons, we talked loudly and carried a stick that frankly got smaller and smaller the deeper we fell into the morass of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Reading this, it sounds like neo-liberalism is potentially more brutal in its violence (i.e. a bigger stick).
I think we agree that the US must have a role in, for lack of a better term, policing the regions of the globe that are hotbeds of violence. I can only hope that a neo-liberal agenda would contain a modicum of multilateral cooperation among nations, and not the relative unilateralism of the Bush administration.
Regarding blowback–is it a matter of how much is too much? In other words, is a small amount of blowback tolerable within neoliberalism, if only as a cost of doing business?


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Let's take a "quick" look at the 80 video games that I've recently added to my collection! In this video there's titles for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 1, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Dreamcast, and the Commodore Amiga! Apart from all that, It's a Pixel THING YouTube channel is celebrating its 2nd anniversary! Happy birthday, also, to all of you guys for making this possible! Enjoy!
Video Game Pickups #8 - 80 Games! - It's a Pixel THING - Ep.#91


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A lovely, like-new wedding dress...
More stuffed toys than a child could love...
A beautiful blue bathing suit ensemble
And some in-line skates that actually fit my oversized feet. Not that I bought any of these things -- I just took pictures for "Do I need it."
As for garage sales... our best story is that my daughter, who always wanted an accordion, played one at a garage sale and walked away with a look of longing on her face when I told her I didn't have seventy-five dollars. The fellow ended up giving it to her for nothing! When we looked for one like it online, we discovered that they sell for over a thousand dollars... If you want to send me stories of great garage sale/thrift shop successes, I'd love to hear them.
The point is that not everything needs to be bought brand new. Let's face it -- fueling consumerism isn't the best pastime for people if we want to live simply and save some of the earth's resources for our children and grandchildren and everyone else. That's why I prefer to opt for retail sales resistance by buying good quality used items (if necessary) whenever possible.
It just feels right.
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Just give me the "Powder" scent please. I tried a couple of the new scents and they are just too floral and overpowering!
I really enjoyed this deodorant, but the smell was a bit much for me after a while. I eventually moved on to another "Secret" product, which worked just as well as this one.
this has been my favorite deodorant for about 5 year now, i never get tired of it. The smell is great and it works all day!
I tried this a couple years back just for a change and have been hooked ever since. I love the scent and the fact that it doesn't irritate my skin. I even got my mother hooked on it.
I usually go for more floral scents, but my daughter picked this up for me by mistake. I really didn't think I was going to like it, but once I put it on I really liked it! I have tried pretty much every antiperspirant out there, and Secret is the only one that really works for me. I love that they come out with new scents from time to time, because I enjoy trying new things. Great product!
I always use secret, I love the product the scent was nice but I would still buy the powder fresh scent
I was not a fan of this smell, especially for my under arms, the deodorant worked fine though, just as any other Secret deodorant.
I have always liked the Secret brand of deodorant. This is slightly different however since the scent is more of a perfume or fine fragrance rather than the "usual" deodorant scent.
I love their deodorants as usual:O) Great coverage and scent. What a fun unexpected surprise in the mail:O)
I am a big fan of Secret in general, so it's no surprise that I really like this product. The scent is strong enough to smell good, but not over powering like some. Keeps me dry all day as well and that's the main benefit.
I like Secret deodorant overall, and was excited to try the product. I love that it goes on clear, that is super important to me. It also does a pretty good job of keeping me dry all day. I wasn't sure I'd like the smell since I don't usually like sweet smelling scents for deodorant (other than baby powder scent) but this one wasn't as strong as I anticipated it would be. I still prefer the baby powder scent the most of all, but I will definitely keep using this one as well.


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Developing a health ecosystem
Do Something Different is a central partner in a major €5.6m EU Horizon 2020/Taiwan Government funded project.
The Do Change project is developing a health ecosystem for integrated disease management of citizens with high blood pressure and patients with ischemic heart disease or heart failure.
Do Something Different's behaviour change methods will be integrated with wearable and portable tools used to monitor food and fluid intake, and clinical parameters.
Transforming care homes
Dutch Care Home provider, Evean used Do Something Different as the starting point for transforming its care culture.
The approach was based on research that suggests that a participatory client who thinks about their own care and plays an active role in decision-making is more likely to be cognitively engaged.
Carers were encouraged to make the resident the expert, asking for their advice about their own care. Or seeking their opinion on a news topic.
Mike Dorst, the Consultant driving the project at Evean explained:
"We want our staff and volunteers to approach every resident as an individual with different needs, rather than with the idea that there's a list of things that need to happen."
Step by the step, the programme encouraged a new approach from staff, which had a huge effect on residents and kick-started the desired culture change through action.
Other projects have included:
- Self-management of diabetes
- Healthy weight
- Safeguarding for vulnerable families
- Young adults resilience and wellbeing
- Smoking cessation
- Happiness
- Managing stress
- Healthy habits
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Alina Aliluykina by David Bellemere
There is very little not to like about Los Angeles-based Alina Aliluykina – not just a model, but also an actress and a talented pianist and singer. The 21-year-old is fast becoming one of fashion's most intriguing muses. Alina is now the apple of David Bellemere's eye, with a recent shoot for nude fashion magazine Treats! … Continue reading
Cisco by David Bellemere
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Bregje Heinen – Victoria's Latest Secret
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KATE: The Kate Moss Book
KATE: The Kate Moss Book is a highly personal retrospective of Britain's biggest global star's career, tracing her evolution from "new girl with potential" to one of the most iconic models of all time. The book – which yes… is predominantly pictorial-based – has been created by none other than Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with … Continue reading
Guy Aroch Photography
New York-based photographer Guy Aroch moved from Israel to the U.S. in 1990 to become a professional photographer and it wasn't long before he realised his dream. In 1993, Guy graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York (where he now teaches) and soon saw some of the world's biggest brands and fashion … Continue reading
Chloe Nørgaard – Model Rainbow Warrior
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Marloes Horst
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Edwin Tse – Photography
New York-based photographer Edwin Tse, originally from Toronto, Canada is a fashion editorial and portrait snapper who primarily shoots his subjects in natural light. Tse mirrors this use of lighting in his selection of beautiful female models, all striking but with little to no make-up, letting the face do the talking. It also helps that … Continue reading
Camille Rowe by Terry Richardson
In the latest from portrait snapper to the L.A. stars, Terry Richardson once again shoots one his regular female models, Camille Rowe in his studio. The French beauty from Paris was recently shot by Richardson for his Happy Socks campaign and once again, the model slash actress bares her soul and a bit more to the … Continue reading
Nancy Reyes – Photography
Chicago-based photographer, Nancy Reyes, may still be young in years, 19 to be exact, but the Columbia College student's natural, grainy, highly sexualised imagery of girls shows that she has some talent. Reyes' work focuses on the distinct polar opposites of innocence and eroticism, portraying her subjects in intimate surroundings, either her apartment or the … Continue reading
Camille Rowe for Terry Richardson
Butterfly collecting just got a lot cooler, it is one the favourite hobbies of fashion's current belle du jour, French model Camille Rowe-Pourcheresse. Camille Rowe on her comp card, it seems long surnames are not good for models, has been shot by photographer, Terry Richardson. Rowe seems to be one of the cult snapper's current … Continue reading
Fashion's New Muse – Arizona Muse
Fashion has a new muse, Arizona Muse has single-handily made Frida Kahlo-esque eyebrows fashionable again in the same vein that Natalia Vodianova did when she burst onto the scene in 2004. The American model from Arizona has literally bagged every cover and campaign going since she reinvented herself as a short-haired brunette in September 2010. … Continue reading
Pirelli Calendar 2012
The photographer of the moment and one of the "super Marios" of fashion snappers, Mario Sorrenti has shot this year's fashion-porn calendar, the much sought after 2012 Pirelli Calendar. The calendar that is anything but the stuff you see in a car garage workshop, these are some of the best names in modelling shooting for … Continue reading
Daisy Lowe in Playboy
Daisy Lowe has matured from the shy, young, grungy daughter of ex-Primrose Hell set Pearl Lowe and Bush singer Gavin Rossdale, into a sexy, sultry, model slash fashion designer. Now the 22-year-old has posed nude in an eight page spread for Playboy Magazine's September issue. Following her split from musician Will Cameron a few years … Continue reading
Candice Swanepoel, not an easy name to say but easy on the eye
Candice Swanepoel is a South African model who is most famous for being one of those modern day amazonian goddess who take to the stage as a Victoria's Secret underwear model. The 22 year old made headlines for showing up looking pretty stick-thin at a recent shoot for Victoria's Secret, but as I'm sure you … Continue reading
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, a model Transformed
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Eva Herzigová, from Wonderbra to no bra
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Adriana Lima sizzling in new Victoria's Secret shoot
There isn't much that Adriana Lima does wrong when in front of a camera, here the Brazilian supermodel from Salvador is back doing what she does best, not wearing much. Lima is the sultry, sexy, sleep with two guys at once type model that oozes sex appeal and has now been a Victoria's Secret 'Angel' … Continue reading


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March 12 2015
13 TV character deaths that we never got over. Answers.com lists 13 television character deaths that fans never got over. Two of them are from Whedon shows.
They can add Joyce. Does Wash count even though he died in a movie and not on the show? Anyway, that's the one I really will never get over.
I couldn't go throgh the list. The page took too long to load, needed many clicks and had an anoying music.
There were several. Jenny Calendar, Joyce, Anya, Cassie....I'm sure I've missed a few. Each were heartbreaking.
Of the characters on the list, Tara and Fred were the only ones I recognized. Yeah, I don't watch a lot of TV, but when I do I pick the best I know of. Hence, Whedon shows are on the list.
Well I'm going to have to take y'all's word for it because I couldn't even click through. Hate that site.
That site is awfull. Remembers me Worldofoddballs and his Star Trek lists made to you click forever.
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