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Del Mar Custom Home Remodel
Newly purchased home this couple immediately knew they wanted to demo the entire home and give it their personal touch. Downsizing from 5000 sq ft home in Carlsbad they choose this signle story home in Del Mar with ocean views. They were one of the easiest clients to work with because they knew what they wanted in a clean modern style and they needed to move quickly so they could move into their new home.
Beautiful modern cabinetry , good quality construction and a quick lead time was essential in this project. They opted for the finest in appliances with the kitchen featuring Subzero Wolf refrigeration and cooking. This stainless steel floating shelves and luxurious 3" thick white marble. The home features Bellmont Cabinetry throughout paired with the perfect design elements and features brought to life through designs by Signature Designs Kitchen Bath.
Signature Designs Kitchen Bath showroom proudly displays the very popular Bellmont Cabinets. Bellmont Cabinet Company – Bellmont cabinetry offers the same designer styling and good construction at a great value and fast lead times. A true frameless product-cabinets with a conscience. Their line offers Contemporary and Traditional options, high gloss finishes, textured laminates and exotic wood veneers, with a complete range of door styles and finish options. The Bellmont Cabinet Co. is a family owned company in Washington state, producing cabinets to rigorous, eco-conscious standards.
Bonnie Bagley Catlin of Signature Designs Kitchen Bath is extremely knowledgeable. With countless years of industry experience, a passion for the industry and a strong commitment she is ready to serve their clients with true professionalism, a willingness to go the extra mile and customer service that is second to none. To find out more about this project or to work with a leading Kitchen Bath Interior Designer give us a call at 619-733-6540.


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Ricardo O'Nascimento (POPKALAB) will share his vision on the intersection between fashion and technology in Paris together with other pioneers in this area. Drop by if you are around!
Atelier néerlandais and CLICKNL | Next Fashion present
A forum for fashion, innovation and insight. We'll explore the potentials of advanced materials, wearable technologies and future manufacturing, while considering surveillance and privacy issues, the implications for health and well-being and how wearables will radically change our bodies and our lives.
The seminar will be moderated by Bradley Quinn.
The programme
10.30 Registration
11.00 Opening and Welcome
11.10 Beyond Wearables | Bradley Quinn
11.40 Think Tank | Making Wearable Tech
With Pauline van Dongen, Valérie Lamontagne, Elisabeth de Senneville, Anouk Wipprecht
12.30 Lunch bites and chats
13:20 Pitch | New wearables in fashion film competition
Intro by Diane Pernet, founder A Shaded View on Fashion Films (ASVOFF), Pitch for ASVOFF 9 by Curator Alex Murray-Leslie
13.30 Think Tank | Thoughts on Merging Fashion and Technology
With Florence Bost, Luca Marchetti, Lianne Toussaint, Alice Gras
15.15 Think Tank | Challenging Production Technology
With Marina Toeters, Martijn van Strien, Oscar Tomico, Karin Vlug, Pauline Guesné
16.30 Afternoon Tea
17.00 Think Tank | Fashion Futures & Multimedia
With Pierre-François Lelouët, Jacob Kok, Ricardo O'Nascimento
18.00 Wrap it up
18.30 Drinks and Dinner
This event takes place in close collaboration with the the first edition of WEAREABLE at Gaité Lyrique from Tuesday 9th to Sunday, February 14th 2016 organized by Showroomprivé and in partnership with the Gaité Lyrique.The event will celebrate innovation in the fashion industry through an award ceremony, talks, workshops and an exhibition on the theme of avant-garde projects.
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The weather for is very hot when we arrived Busan although it is almost end of summer. Luckily second day on-wards it started to rain and it chase away the heat. After lunch at Uam-dong, Alyong (my brother in law) drive us to Geumryeonsan to chill out. Geumryeonsan is located at nam-gu and it is famous spot for Busan night view. We drive up to Geumryeonsan, decided to drop by the highest coffee shop in Busan~ 구름고개 찻집 Cloud Hill Cafe for a cup of coffee and beautiful Busan view.
We park our car at the open area next to the telecommunication tower. Look for the signage with Olleh Telecommunication Tower and Cloud Hill Cafe at the road side with a split road which go up to a slope, there you will be able to see the tele-communication tower and Cloud Hill Cafe entrance with white color gate.
Cloud Hill Cafe is located on a slope on top of the peak of the mountain. Therefore it has a most beautiful Busan City view from 360 degree angle! I was so amazed with the scenic view from the carpark till we reach the cafe outdoor terrace.
The pathway to the cafe will display a different feel on a different season. On Spring the flower will be blossom beautifully, on Fall the trees might turn yellow and red, while on Winter the plants might be dry up and looks bold.
We arrived Cloud Hill Cafe and it's outdoor terrace. Love the large windows of the cafe that made from wooden house.
We first walk to the outdoor terrace for the magnificent Busan city view.
Busan metropolitan city view with Gwangan Daegyo and Haeundae from cloud hill cafe.
It's beautiful isn't it? I will return for the night view if there is a chance.
You just need to buy a drink in order to enjoy the beautiful view at Cloud Hill Cafe. So, we order iced cappuccino, iced coffee and ice latte. Beside coffee, they also have tea, herbal tea, fresh fruit juice, cordial drinks and toast. Price range from 5000 won to 8000 won. The weather is cloudy and not hot plus a little windy so we can enjoy it with the view at the terrace.
We @ Cloud Hill Cafe
Husband & his brother @ Cloud Hill Cafe
My baby niece Sueng Ji sleeping soundly in her daddy's arm. She probably tired of travelling with us everywhere but so far she is a happy baby and not fussy!
Down the slope there is an orchard with beautiful landscape belongs to Cloud hill where we can pay a visit. The entrance to the orchard also write down Cloud Hill Cafe and it is located before the slope to the telecommunication tower and night view observation deck.
Vintage rose fabric sofa that arrange in face to face position beside the window. All seats has it's own window view and private space for chit-chat and drinks.
A perfect place for afternoon coffee. I don't mind to visit here often if I live in Busan.
Seungji woke up from her nap and seems like she likes her 큰아빠 (eldest uncle) very much. The rain doesn't seems will stop in a short while. We left with umbrella under the rain after waited half and hour as we have a dinner appointment with parents in law - celebrating my father in law's birthday!
No bus is running up to the peak to Geumryeonsan, however you can hire a taxi to go up here or hike up from nearest station - Read Visitkorea page for more info. You won't be alone hiking up as many locals spotted walking up to the peak while we on our way up.


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Mike Licona, associate professor of theology at Houston Baptist University, and Marty Dupree, with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, discuss how one can present an "airtight" argument for the resurrection. They chatted Feb. 25, during a Q&A session, at the 2013 State Evangelism Conference at Pleasant Garden Baptist Church. See photo gallery.


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MSNBC is trying its best to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear or is it putting lipstick on a pig (enough of the porcine analogies, please!) In its handling of the Brian Williams situation. Williams, you will recall was the high-flying anchor of NBC Nightly News until he was exposed as a fabulist—making up nose stretchers about dodging Taliban gunfire in Iraq, and other stories about feats of journalistic derring-do that turned out to have not happened. Williams was suspended by NBC News for six months and eventually fired. He then was taken in at NBC's 24 hour cable channel MSNBC to cover breaking news. More recently they have built a late night newscast around Williams titled the 11th Hour. This is a big comedown for a Peabody award winner who was reportedly earning $10 Million a year anchoring the NBC Nightly News. In his heyday Williams was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and was a frequent guest of late night comedy and talk shows. Although he reportedly took a substantial pay cut for his new gig, Williams is still getting Millions for anchoring a newscast that draws about 3 percent of the audience of his previous job. With the proliferation of 24 hour news channels virtually nobody in the US stays up to 11pm.
Perpetually the also-ran in all-news channel ratings MSNBC seems to be trying to make a bid for success, hoping perhaps to take advantage of the strained relations between CNN and Fox news with Donald Trump. They have grabbed lawyer-commentator Greta Van Sustern from Fox, and more importantly it appears the morning crew—Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are getting special access to the Donald. Long before the presidential race Donald Trump was a frequent guest on Morning Joe. Throughout the campaign there was criticism that Trump was allowed to phone in for interviews where other political interviewees had to show up at the studio. Scarborough was granted an exclusive background briefing with the President and some of his senior staff on January 29th. It appears this special access will continue (until Scarborough says something that Trump doesn't like) and as a result I have reverted back to watching MSNBC. I had tuned them out because I got sick of Joe always talking over people, but if he's getting the inside skinny I will have to put up with Scarborough's idiosyncrasies. Meanwhile CNN, always seen as the more neutral of the all-news channels continues its downward spiral into partisanship. The instructions to its hosts seems to be to argue and harangue with their guests from the new administration constantly interrupting them and the entire result is unseemly and unwatchable.
The changing of the guard in the White House seems to have triggered a similar phenomenon in the cable news universe.


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(A nod to Stefan Cooke whose Bibliography was the source for a lot of this material)
'Alongside The Fall, almost every other band in the world seems absurdly trivial'.(Melody Maker 1980)
'In a constant flowing stream of creativity, through each consecutive fad fantasy and fashion The Fall have always strived to go against the grain to design music purely of their own making. Fall music, music that demands to be heard pumping through every chamber of the heart possessed with a spirit that is impossible to hold back'.(Sounds 1980)
'Write to your local MP now; hit him or her with three non-negotiable demands: Scrap the Channel Tunnel! Pay The Nurses!, and please, Force The BBC to Playlist The Bloody Fall!'.(NME 1988)
'The Fall will never play Wembley Stadium, will never appear on the same bill as the Eagles and will never be awarded medals by the Queen, even though theysell a healthy number of discs around the world.They just aren't mainstream. Listen carefully to any of their albums though and, if you don't run screaming from the room, you'll be addicted for life. Welcome to the Wonderful and Frightening World ofThe Fall.'(The Rough Guide To Rock)
'Fifteen Rounds in and yet to falter, Mark Smith is a seasoned pugilist, a self-proclaimed street-fighting champion wheezing into his whiskey in backstreet bars but returning time after time with the hard punches.'(NME 1991)
'The Fall are one of God's little hobbies. In his spare time; at weekends, holidays and during breaks, heglues a couple more awkward corners, a few opinions, a few more un-hip wrinkles onto the box marked "Mark E. Smith". Then he boots him out on tour and shouts requests from the back of the hall.
Mark E. Smith is old, and he is wise, and he is grumpy. He is also a genius. it's handy to have one around'.(Melody Maker 1992)
'If such praise seems over-blown for a band still largely unknown to the general public, it does bearwitness to The Fall's enduring influence on pop's alternative sector. Started in 1977 by Smith(then 18) and a bunch of younger friends in Manchester, they never comfortably fitted the mould of punk and have continued to escape categorisation ever since'.(The Observer 1993)
'On stage he often gives the impression that he'd rather be down the pub, but tonight-perhaps soothed by the sound of his own voice on the between-song backing tapes-he seems almost happy to be here. One hand hooked gently around the outside of his trouser pocket, he leads the band through most of their excellent current album 'the Infotainment Scan', and returns for four encores. the sound like the stage is a well organised clutter, Ska and disco elements are cleverly welded onto a sound garage-rock chassis. "I do not like your tone", he mithers memorably at someone, possibly himself, "it has ephemeral whinging aspects" but there's a few miles left yet in this beautifully customised ego-vehicle'.(Independent on Sunday 1993)
'Mark Smith is a cynical, bitter critic of English Society. He's also a rude and sarcastic man...I disliked him intensely...'(RAM Magazine, Australia)
'He's a surprisingly charming bloke in conversation, a hilarious ranconteur who tends to look past yourleft ear when he's talking. When he hits upon a particularly savage idea he doubles up and wheezes with laughter, grabbing onto your elbow for support. It's hard not to wheeze with him. You get some cigs in, even though you've given up'.(Select 1993)
'Mark E. Smith is an odd person. Extremely odd. Very shifty. Very clever. The afternoon he meets me in London it looks like he's just cut himself shaving.Six or eight times. It's difficult to look directly at him. He reeks of beer. He's chain-smoking. He looks more like a dock worker than a former dockworker who's been an iconoclastic rock icon for 16 years. Several conspiracies seem to be transpiring around him at any given moment. But not to worry. The Fall foreman is perpetually in control'.(SPIN 1993)
'At times, Mike Leigh's Naked could be a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Mark E. Smith. It's the way David Thewlis' character picks on strangers, corners them and then bludgeons them into complete confusion with a stream of skewed logic, unscrewed madness, acidic invective, prophet without honour preaching and nasty Manc sneering. Repellent but compelling'.(Melody Maker 1993)
'The Fall's intelligence addresses, scours and liberates us all'(Wire 1997)
'It may have been acknowledged that The Fall began indie, but they also began Acid House. In fact they began modern music.'(The Times 1997)
'Mark E Smith must be knackered. For 21 years, the maverick, mouthy singer has been flying in the face of fashion, following a musical path all of his own and fighting with anyone brave enough to take him on. Throw in the fact that, as frontman ofThe Fall, he has written and released over 30 albums and his stamina should impress even the harshest critics'.(Dazed and Confused 1998)
'For twenty years he and his group have stood outside the mainstream of popular music, sustained by inovation, genius and a stern command of the protestant work ethic. They have been everything from amphetamine rockabillies to mithering techno-futurists-their one constant has been their leader. Easy to impersonate but impossible to emulate, his style is hugely influential...'(Part of Eddie Izzard's speech before presenting Mark E Smith with the Godlike Genius award for Unique Services to Music).
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text: Thanks to advances in technology and genetics research, we can now decode DNA sequences, understand the genetic origins of disease, discover the evolutionary history of species, and develop technologies to engineer new biological solutions to societal problems. While our understanding of the genetic codes of life allows us to do amazing things, the study of genomics also raises questions about the how scientific information is used. Read these articles and interviews to hear directly from biologists who are engaged in this cutting-edge science, so that you can make your own informed decisions.


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Giving to Alpha Chapter
Donations to the Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu can be made through the iSchool at Illinois donation page.
The Beta Phi Mu Award Support Fund
The Beta Phi Mu Award Support Fund is an endowment administered by the University of Illinois Foundation to support the Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, including the Anne M. Boyd Award and the Kathryn Luther and William T Henderson Award. It may also be used for annual project support for the School of Information Sciences, such as supporting travel for students or costs of Alternative Spring Break, with amount, use, and timing determined by the dean of the School of Information Sciences or a designee.


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On July 4, at the CERN laboratory in Geneva - home of the massive particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider - two groups of physicists announced the discovery of an elementary particle, the Higgs boson. Widely known as "the God particle," the Higgs is important, on the most basic level, for giving other subatomic particles mass.
On July 4, at the CERN laboratory in Geneva � home of the massive particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider � two groups of physicists announced the discovery of an elementary particle, the Higgs boson. Widely known as �the God particle,� the Higgs is important, on the most basic level, for giving other subatomic particles mass.
�The Higgs particle arises from a field pervading space, known as the Higgs field,� explains Sean Carroll in The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World. �Everything in the known universe, as it travels through space, moves through the Higgs field; it�s always there lurking invisibly in the background.�
As to why this matters, the California Institute of Technology physicist points out that � Without the Higgs, electrons and quarks would be massless, just like photons, the particles of light. They would move at the speed of light themselves, and it would be impossible to form atoms and molecules, much less life as we know it.� �Without it,� he adds, �the world would be an utterly different place.�
The Particle at the End of the Universe is a scientific detective story, the saga of the search for the Higgs. It is driven by a fundamental, yet elusive, mystery: What is the nature of the universe? That, Carroll thinks, is both a matter of philosophy and curiosity, going back to Aristotle on the one hand and, on the other, to our ongoing fascination with how reality works.
�Passion for science,� he writes late in the book, �derives from an aesthetic sensibility, not a practical one. We discover something new about the world, and that lets us better appreciate its beauty.�
This is a key idea because it suggests a way of thinking about theoretical physics � even for the non-scientifically minded � as the search for �an elegant mechanism .?.?. like being able to read poetry in the original language, instead of being stuck with mediocre translation.�
Carroll gives a lot of context: facts and figures, yes, but also passion, characters and history. He introduces physicists such as Peter Higgs, from whom the Higgs boson gets its name, as well as others who did groundbreaking work in the early 1960s positing the existence of such a particle.
At the same time, Carroll grounds his book in the personal, using his childhood interest in dinosaurs to frame what he calls �the quest for awesome � that literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time.�
For Carroll, the point is to open subatomic physics to an audience that might be daunted otherwise.
Yet Carroll�s status as a physicist gives The Particle at the End of the Universe its necessary heft.


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The latest producer-turned-frontman poised to take over the charts seemingly out of nowhere is Route 94; a Rinse FM-signed wonderkid who has shot through the ranks after receiving praise from Radio 1's Annie Mac as well as D'n'B DJs Skream and Benga. What's more, his mysterious alias actually holds meaning: it's the US highway that links Chicago - the home of house music - and Detroit, the birthplace of techno.
Naturally, what will almost certainly be his breakthrough hit 'My Love' lands somewhere in the middle on the deep house pH spectrum, its heady piano thuds and gauzy electro glow offset by the radio friendly vocals of Jess Glynne, who featured on Clean Bandit's recent chart topper 'Rather Be'. And while you'd think the latter's recent success would have satisfied the public's appetite for chart-friendly house, we suspect its reign is far from over yet.
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Chapter 58
It had been almost an entire week and I had not heard from Henry. Sandy told me he hasn't been seen around the school. The more I thought about it I began to feel really guilty about what happened. I honestly got scared. When I confided in Mom, I was hoping she would be supportive. Instead, she overreacted, and her fears seeped into my heart. I know Mom means well, but I wasn't looking for a lecture. Still, I can't blame her for all that happened. In the end, it was up to me.
"Mia, do you think it is wise to start a relationship?"
I swear at times I wanted to just scream at her. She was a loving mom, but I would love for her to stop worrying. In any case, I was glad that both my parents and Keyla and Courtney would be here soon.
I was happy to see them again, but I did not want to talk about Henry. After he sent them the video of my dance at the Radio City Music Hall, they became more and more excited about my upcoming performance.
When Dad asked about Henry I tell him he's busy with his paintings. He was sorry he was not able to meet him since he wanted to share some of his family tree having ties to England.
"Well, it is a shame, Mia; I really was hoping to meet him."
"I know, Dad," I sighed.
Somehow, I suspect my dad knows something else is going on.
The main reason is because my mother never asked about Henry.
On the other hand, Keyla was super excited about being a part of The New York Dance Academy when the new semester begins.
"Oh, I am so psyched, Mia," she tells me.
I nodded. "I know you are. I'm happy for you, too."
Sandy was the best with my parents. Even with her busy schedule, she took the time to meet up with us at Dreams, and my parents and Keyla and Courtney had the best time getting to know her.
"I'm so happy to finally meet you all."
"Oh, Sandy, you are such a dear," said my mom. Sandy beamed. "Thank you."
"Yes, Sandy, we can see why Mia loves you so much," said Keyla.
"I agree," Courtney chimed in.
"Sandy, we are so glad you are such a wonderful friend to Mia," said my dad.
It was nice to have the time with Sandy, my friends, and parents but still the only thing on my mind is Henry. The guilt of how I acted is eating me up. I am trying to smile but it's hard. I wish I could go back and do it over.
My mother got up for some water and saw me sitting in the dark. "Mia, honey, is something wrong?"
"No, Mom. I'm fine."
She frowned and placed her hand on her hip. "Mia, I am your mother. I know you are not fine."
"I don't want to argue now, Mom." "Mia, please tell me what is the matter."
I hang my head. "I messed things up with Henry." "What do you mean?"
"I panicked, and I hurt him!"
She shook her head. "Mia, you can't blame yourself!" "Then who, Mom?"
"Honey, you have been through so much, and you know that!" "Mom, I know Leo's loss has been hard, but I was actually slowly
moving on!"
"Okay, Mia. Sit, please."
Just then, Dad came into the room. "Hey, what's going on?" "Sorry, Daddy," I cried.
He looked at my mother. "Mary, what is going on here?" "Mia began seeing Henry."
He nodded slowly. "Okay."
She shook her head. "Dan, what do you mean okay?" "I'm happy for her."
"Daddy, I got scared."
"Mia, it's okay, honey." He put his arms around me.
"Mia, I am sorry. I should have been more understanding," cried my mother.
My mother's anguish broke my resolve.
"No, Mom. It isn't your fault," I stated, trying to speak through my tears.
Once I cried myself all out, I knew the guilt I was feeling. I just did not know how to fix it.
If only there was a way. My parents advised me to talk to Henry and to lay it all out on the
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Winters Cabin Landscape and Interiors
The landscape and interior design for this modern cabin with panoramic views of the Vaca Mountains, nut orchards, ancient oaks and grasslands of the Sacramento Valley, is an exercise in beauty and restraint. We created a fire resistant and drought tolerant landscape that would echo what is inherently beautiful about this particular part of Yolo County. Succulents, rushes and grasses provide year round color and interest without high water demands, and gravel, natural stone and corten steel feel contemporary yet just rustic enough to harmonize with the surrounding terrain. Inside, we designed a new guest room and bath that bring the warm greys of oak bark, and the golden tones of the grassland inside with custom cabinetry, tile work, textiles and furniture design.
Burbank Ranch Vineyard and Winery
Burbank Ranch Vineyard and Winery is an 83-acre farm in Templeton California, not far from Paso Robles. The Ranch includes vineyards, a public tasting room, a private residence, and an agricultural manager's residence. The main residence is encircled with ribbons of Nassella tenuissima and Pennisetum spathiolatum, blurring fore, middle and background and connecting intimate garden spaces with the surrounding hills. Evergreen shrubs including dwarf olives, yucca and lavender mimic the oaks dotting the creek bottoms, and connect visitors of this spectacular winery to the larger landscape of rolling hills and the Santa Lucia Mountains.
Ocean Beach Residence
Our family garden for active clients in San Francisco's Cliff House and Vista Del Mar neighborhood features grasses, trees, stone and custom woodwork that bring to mind a day at the beach. A new deck, benches, pathways and built-in cedar tub provide the perfect spots to check the surf, take in the foggy coastline, and warm up after a day in the water. A simple outdoor shower is tucked into a privacy screen of bamboo, and jewel toned succulents provide color and texture to the space.
Orinda Hills Residence
Our Orinda project features simple materials that complement a lovingly renovated Modern Agrarian style hilltop home for a busy family. Our custom designed shade structure was inspired by the clients' awning detail, and the olive trees, succulents, sages and grasses that surround the pool area and entry courtyard create an elegant, dry garden.
Hayes Valley Courtyard
Third Nature Studio transformed a muddy, shady backyard behind a stunning Hayes Valley Victorian home into a stylish child friendly space with a large ipe deck, custom wrap around trellis and gate, and board formed concrete planter. Hedges of bamboo and podocarpus line the expansive deck and trellis area to create a rich, varied green on green plant palette that requires minimal maintenance and frames a central, flexible space.
Liberty Hill Residence
There is no reason that budget, space or being a renter should prevent anyone from creating a little garden to love. On this roof deck in San Francisco's Liberty Hill neighborhood, we worked with the client's existing planters to reestablish a living, vibrant, low maintenance garden.
Los Altos Garden
A lush, colorful Los Altos garden with blue and bronze accents, a blanket of emerald green drought tolerant ground cover, succulents, grasses, pavers and golden rock mulch.
Mid-Century Ranch
This mid-century ranch style house in the Maywood Park neighborhood of Portland was updated with modular block wall planters, gravel paths, concrete pavers, new fences and gates all in time for the residents' summer wedding.
Montclair Entry Courtyard
We reworked the dropdown main entryway to this midcentury house with a gorgeous contemporary concrete stair, ipe deck, custom metal mesh screen and built in bench. A planting palette of luminous, sculptural grey-green plants transform this formerly overlooked space into a show-stopping courtyard.


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Blender Foundation 3D v2.78 (x86/x64) (Portable)
Blender Foundation 3D v2.78 (x86/x64) (Portable) | 217 Mb
Blender Foundation 3D is the open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.
Work on Windows 10 is POSSIBLE, BUT NOT GUARANTEED!
Blender is the latest release from the Blender Foundation. Blender is an open-source application that allows you to create a wide range of 2D and 3D models. It encloses professional modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing tools.
Expert-oriented GUI, yet comprehensive documentation
Blender is more oriented towards advanced users, and the seemingly complex user interface is proof of that. Fortunately, this software comes with a well-structured user manual and tutorials.
Plus, because Blender is open-source, there is a vast online community that can help you get familiarized with it. If you are a curious amateur interested in 3D graphic editing, you can easily lose yourself in the documentation.
Tools to take advantage of at your fingertips
One of the most important aspects of Blender is the fact that it lets you view all the tools and features, without making you drag anything around. As a result, you can add modifiers (e.g. array, boolean, edge split, mask, mirror, multi-resolution, lattice, mesh deform, smooth, wave, collision, explode, smoke), render an image, undo and redo your actions, take a screenshot or screencast.
Additionally, you can customize themes in the settings menu or by modifying the script in Python, yet also use the grease pencil, UV unwrapping, texture painting, vertex paint, halos, shading, physics, a game logic editor, rigging (armatures, skinning, posing), world and ambient effects, and many more.
Performance and conclusion
We were not able to find any errors or bugs in this program; however, we were able to tell that it uses a high amount of CPU and system memory, which is normal when you consider its level of complexity.
To sum up, if you want to get a first-hand look at a professional 3D graphic editor, give Blender a shot. Power users, with vast knowledge of graphic editing, are certainly at an advantage. If you are interested in bypassing the installation process, you should know a portable edition is available, called Blender Portable.
• Revolutionary non-overlapping and non-blocking UI delivers unsurpassed workflow
• Flexible and fully configurable window layout with as many screen setups as you prefer
• Undo support on all levels
• Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support
• Any window space can be easily switched to any window type (curve editor, NLA, 3D view etc)
• Built-in text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts
• Graphical user interface for Python scripts
• Custom themes
• Consistent interface across all platforms
• Fast skeleton creation mode
• Interactive 3D paint for vertex weighting
• Fast envelope based skinning
• Automatic Skinning that really works (heat equilibrium based)
• Mirror editing (bone creation and weight painting)
• Double Quaternions reduce shrinking and other bone deformation errors
• Volume deformer uses a mesh cage to deform complex meshes with great results
• Bone layers and colored groups for better rig organization
• B-spline interpolated bones; forget about elbow twists
• Constraint stack for IK solver setup and other constraints
• PyConstraints; if you need something not yet implemented code it in python with real time feed back, no compiling needed
• Armature (skeleton) deformation with forward/inverse kinematics with pole target support
• Auto IK allows posing FK chains easily
• Non-linear animation editor for mixing individual actions created in Action editor
• Automated walkcycles along paths
• Animated constraint system
• Vertex key framing for morphing, with controlling sliders
• Edit and create new blendshapes from existing targets
• Character animation pose editor
• 'Ipo' system integrates both motion curve and traditional key-frame editing
• Audio playback, mixing and editing support for sound synchronisation
• Timeline offers fast acces to many playback functions, autokey, help markers
• Python scripting access for custom and procedural animation effects
• Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping methods
• Interactive transform of UV maps by vertex pinning
• Proportional falloff editing of UV maps for smooth transformations
• Seam based unwrapping
• Cube, Cylinder, Sphere, View projections
• Catmull-Clark subdivition of UVs for less distortion
• Minimize stretch tool allows to reduce area distortion
• Multiple UV layers
• Particle system can be atached to any mesh object. Control methods include weight painting, textures, curve guides, wind and vortex effects. Particles can be deflected by moving geometry
• Hair strands can be created by a static particle system, supporting all particle control methods
• Fluid simulator with fully animated inflow, outflow, obstacle and fluid objects. Gravity and viscosity settings can also be animated. Supports vector blur and is integrated with the particle system
• Realtime soft body solver integrated in mesh, lattice, curve and text objects. Supports collision detection and particle field effects like Wind or Vortex, soft bodys can also be baked for faster playback/rendering
• Game engine rigid body physics can be easily baked into animation curves
• Very fast inbuilt raytracer
• Oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels
• Tile-based and fully threaded
• Render layers and passes
• Render baking to UV maps and object to object baking (full render, ambient occlusion, normals, textures)
• Render engine tightly integrated with the node compositor
• Halo, lens flares and fog effects
• Vector motion-blur post-process effect (using node compositor)
• Realistic defocus (DOF) post-process effect (using node compositor)
• Edge rendering for toon shading
• Interactive preview rendering panel in any 3d view
• Ambient Occlusion
• Radiosity solver
• Integral support for the Yafray render engine
• Export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman (RIB), Povray, Virtualight, lux render, Indigo, V-Ray
• Compositor tightly integrated and aligned with the rendering pipeline
• MultiLayer OpenEXR files allow to store and reuse raw renderlayer and passes data
• Complete list of composite node filters, convertors, color and vector operators and mixers including Chroma Key, Blur, RGB Curves, Z Combine, Color Ramp, Gamma Correct
• Preview panel to define the portion of interest. A composite then only happens on this part
• Threaded and memory efficient (up to 8 processors)
• Near realtime sequencer can edit hours of video
• Waveform and U/V scatter plots
• Open and write many audio & video file formats using ffmpeg
• Can render using frameserver-support directly into foreign applications
• Supports float images as well as regular 8 bits images
• Curves tool allows you to create a mapping from the float range to a displayable result (for HDR images)
Fix #34357: Image editor scope and clip editor track preview did not resize properly with different DPI settings. (r54760)
Fix #33466: Alt+MouseWheel changes frame as well as buttons (r54929)
Fix UI/DPI: user preferences window size now takes into account DPI, otherwise the buttons don't fit properly. (r54945)
Fix soft shadow at top edge incorrectly drawn (r54954)
Fix #34418: Screencast could be started twice (r54961)
Fix #34509: Panel color were not updated from old files properly (r54996)
Allow trackpad and magic mouse swipes to control brush size for circle select. (r55027)
Fix (regression) #34391: Window position not saving correctly for next start-up (r54879)
Fix #34390: quicktime video codec menu showing blank (r54942)
Fix #34378: GLSL materials using multiple UV layers fail in editmode (r54783)
Fix #34347: View3D Mini-Axis drawing in error with overlay (r54789)
Fix #34426: Manipulator handles drawn incorrectly by depth (r54923)
Fix glitch rotating the camera in camera mode drawing helper-line in random locations (r54928)
Fix zoom for graph-editor (and other editors) (r54910)
Fix #34439: Strip modifier – Mask multiply failure (r54901)
Fix #34453: Added RGBA|RGB channels toggle to sequencer preview (r54904)
Fix sequencer crash when pasteing strips after creating new file (r54935)
Fix #34356: Inputs list in file output doesn't appear properly. (r54754)
Fix #34359: Crash when using image output node (r54746)
Fix #34474: "Record Composite" image op segfaults in compositor code (r54948)
Fix #34461: Inconsistent behavior of "Color Mix Node" and "Alpha Over Node" (r54960)
Fix #34507: Adding reroute node into invalid links would crash the compositor (r55047)
Fix memory leak when loading multilayer EXR as movie clip (r54934)
Fix for incorrect subpixel precision of marker when using track offset (r55028)
Fix #34351: Displacement map Bake margin does not work (r54748)
Fix #34436: Node editor delete texture crash (r54908)
Fix #34493: Image Sequence texture didn't allow "Offset" with fcurves. (r55012)
Fix #34475: Weird noise bug with Texture nodes (r55021)
Fix for texture preview render with show alpha enabled (r55026)
Fix image transparency backwards compatibility. Now the texture datablock has a 'Use Alpha' option again. (r55022)
Render (Cycles):
Fix #34421: viewport render stuck with no objects in the scene. (r54885)
Fix #34480: hair render in dupligroup did hide the emitter properly in some cases. (r54959)
Fix #34358: Shrinkwrap modifier project along normal did not work correctly (r54793)
Fix #34369: applying screw modifier turns object to black (r55004)
Fix #34384: Border select in UV Image window crashed (r54816)
Fix for weight paint using values over 1.0 when blending (r54833)
Fix for regression in 'object.shape_key_transfer' operator since BMesh merge (r54834)
Fix #34415: Edge slide results in segmentation fault on certain mesh (r54875)
Fix #34455: Origin to Center of Mass is missing in menu Object > Transform (r54891)
Fix selecting linked faces (r54920 r54921)
Fix #34366: mesh.select_mode operator could not be configure the use_extend and use_expand properly. (r54944)
fix #34486: Selection of bones in armature edit mode only toggles between two bones (r54969)
Fix #34534: Copy/Paste objects hangs (r55051)
Fix (regression) #34438: Solidify crease error (r54882)
Fix missing select menu for weight, vertex, texture paint modes. (r54883)
Fix joining meshes could loose crease/bevel weights (r54899)
Fix (regression) #34449: Edge toggline bevel failed (r54900)
Fix #34370: Collapse-Edges crash in dyntopo (r54827)
Fix #34431: Crash when dyntopo enabled and using view plane mode (r54971)
Fix #34473: Blender Crashes on toggling modes, dynatopo sculpt/object mode. (r55007)
Game Engine:
Fix projection clipping (r54733)
Fix #34349: Character walkDirection ADD mode -#INF error. (r54738)
Fix #18967: Enable alpha buffer (useful for TV broadcasting). (r54745)
Fix #34353: Ray cast on Triangle mesh bounded Rigid Body Object crashes (r54757)
Fix #34219: Webcam support under Linux in Standalone broken (r54764)
Fix #34330: Action Actuator "caching" the previous ran actions (r54766 r54767 r54769)
Fix error using actions with multiple scenes (r54767)
Fix object color channels can now be animated separately without zeroing out the other channels (r54772)
Fix error using uninitialized variables for rendering (r54776 r54781)
Fix #34377: Game-Engine – Multi UV mesh's materials not backwards compatible (r54780)
Fix Game-Engine crashing when on material conversions (r54837)
Fix #34440: Motion blur (2d filter) not working in osx (r54912)
Fix #34428 #20856 #20281: converting multi-uv layers. (r54972)
Fix #34523: 2D-Filter produces render error (r55010)
Fix #34517: 2D-Filter causes mouselook script drifting effect (r55011)
Rigid Body:
Fix motion paths calculation being incorrect for rigid bodies (r54799)
Allow rigidbody collision groups to be animated (r54818)
Fix #34410: Planes with Rigid Body always keep distance to colliding objects (r54855)
Fix #34420: Rigid objects not resetting original properly after running a simulation. (r54862)
Fix inconsistency with world rebuilding with the start frame (r54990)
Text Editor:
Fix Fix text editor bug: ctrl+F is not configurable (r54878)
Fix #54907: freeze when turning on syntax highlight (r54907)
Fix crash when overwriting ascii character with multibyte character (r54917)
Fix Python console bug: "autocomplete" doesn't advance cursor properly when completion includes UTF8 characters r54824)
Fix #34423: foreach_get crash for any non existant attribute (r54865 r54866)
Fix #34372: mesh.verts.foreach_set not working with normals (r54943)
Fix for python exception getting the ID from an operator button (r54835)
Fix freeing all bakes in particle mode (r54822)
Fix file with packed images crashes on load (r54790)
Fix image alpha version patch with library linked files (r54794)
Fix #34427: Collada export crash with armature (r54856)
Fix X3D import error loading UV's (r4325)
Fix X3D import for images (r4327)
Rigify fixes (r4321 r4334 r4335)
System Requirements
Minimum (basic usage) hardware
32-bit dual core 2Ghz CPU with SSE2 support.
24 bits 1280?768 display
Mouse or trackpad
OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics with 512 MB RAM
Recommended hardware
64-bit quad core CPU
Full HD display with 24 bit color
Three button mouse
OpenGL 3.2 compatible graphics with 2 GB RAM
Optimal (production-grade) hardware
64-bit eight core CPU
Two full HD displays with 24 bit color
Three button mouse and graphics tablet
Dual OpenGL 3.2 compatible graphics cards with 4 GB RAM
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The Event Guys Launches Comprehensive Guide to Event Technology
The Event Guys is pleased to announce the launch of the EventTechGuide - a comprehensive digital guide to meeting and event technology AND the meeting industry's first review site for technology providers.
"After working through the process of searching for and vetting providers for our clients," shared Eric Kingstad, CEO of The Event Guys, "we sensed the frustration that planners must feel due to the reality that there is 1) a vast and growing number of choices available for each different type of technology (at last count we see over 125 registration platforms and over 150 mobile event apps) and 2) no easy way to tell the good from the bad. There are many companies that are just coming into market that have spectacular products, and many that have gained no traction after several years. Creating a review site makes sense and we hope it will help planners in their decision making process as they'll be able to read reviews about experiences from actual users."
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Senkyo 2
The filmmaker reconnects with candidate Yamauchi in 2011, as Japan copes with the trauma of the Fukushima disaster. Revolted by the Liberal Democrat government's response, Yamauchi decides to run as an independent advocating denuclearization. Capturing the absurdity of local politics while a national tragedy plays out, Soda latches onto a sociopolitical microcosm to create a profound meditation on contemporary Japan, with its rampant apathy and troubling democratic deficits. (ACO)
Presented in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, la Chaire René Malo, the Concordia University's Studio Arts Department Visiting Artist's Speaker's Series Conversations in Contemporary Art and the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema - Concordia University
Campaign 2
- Country : Japan, United States
- Year : 2013
- V.O : Japanese
- Subtitles : English
- Duration : 149 MIN
- Cinematography : Kazuhiro Soda
- Editing : Kazuhiro Soda
- Production : Kazuhiro Soda
- Sound Design : Kazuhiro Soda
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From the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to the constellations of Grand Central Station, cities across the world are dotted with richly decorated ceilings. And yet, many of us opt for a simple coat of bright white when painting our own ceiling. We've gathered six beautiful ideas to help you reclaim and transform your fifth wall…. read more


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Today's Wall Street Journal has an article, "Running Underground: To Sharpen Nike's Edge, CEO Taps 'Influencers,'" about Nike's new emphasis on popular culture to shape its brand.
As is usual when a brand gets ruined, the CEO, Mark Parker, is answering to Wall Street--he has promised a 50% increase in revenue by 2011--and therefore needs to turn to "fickle, style-conscious consumers" rather than the performance oriented athletes around which the company has built its brand.
The article says Nike "hasn't lost its traditional focus on pure sports"--it is acquiring British soccer brand Umbro PLC--but needs to "broaden and deepen its appeal--even among non-athletic types."
The CEO says things like "How do you keep an edge, a crispness, a relevance?"
As a result, Nike has worked with characters like Los Angeles tattoo artist "Mister Cartoon," who has designed six lines of limited edition shoes for the company. It has also collaborated with New York graffiti artist Lenny Futura, industrial designer Marc Newson, and Brazilian muralists Os Gemeos.
The idea is to create "an insider's buzz that widens out as it is discovered by consumers closer to the mainstream."
Will it work?
I don't think so. This seems to me like an approach that is close to the CEO's heart--says the Journal, "the CEO is drawn as naturally to art and culture as he is to sport"--but not close at all to the brand.
There are a few lessons here:
1. The CEO must be the brand champion, but the danger is that he or she will substitute personal preference or "gut instinct" for sound brand-based marketing research into how best to lead the brand forward. Nike's CEO likes popular culture, so he is leading the company in that direction. Big mistake.
2. When companies start answering to Wall Street, in the drive for profit, they can tend to lose the features that made their brand distinctive in the first place. I don't have an answer for this one but it is a real problem.
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Kids Education
Taking notes is very important in the learning process.
Our culture of learning in college has not provided enough space for
teaching learning skills to students. And they don't know yet
a lot about note taking, and or notes skills. Do notes that are linear, neat
and if typed can be a dictate immediately is a good record? On what media
Should lecture notes be made? Whether in notebooks, paper binders, opaque paper, small notes,
or directly recorded electronically on a laptop? Is the optimal method of recording lectures in
class and record the literature?
When reading non-fiction and article books, sometimes we are interested in something
and therefore we need to keep that in mind. Some of us usually
will immediately take a highlighter, or pencil and start crossing or writing notes on
the book page in question. What a pity if the book we scribble is
is an expensive book or a rare book.
Therefore, there are several reasons for this
take notes as follows:
1. because you need information or ideas
2. because you love scribbling on the book
3. because if you have to look back on the concept that you think is important in the book
it will be difficult
Mark andrew (2006), explains some of the benefits of notes, namely:
1. to see the reading structure
2. to quote interesting, useful things or something that is needed
3. to remember
4. to search again sometime later
5. to help concentration and understand what is read
The main material that needs to be recorded includes:
1. key elements: central ideas, big issues, important information
2. the author's goals and assumptions about certain things
3. useful details and facts such as statistics and diagrams
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Written by Ayaka
Born and raised in Hakodate. I drive around Sapporo often too. I love fashion, sweets, and beautiful scenery. I work at a hotel in Hakodate.
Yoichi is one of the most known whiskys from Nikka Whisky. This rich flavoured whisky is distilled in Yoichi, Hokkaido. This article documents a recent visit to Yoichi Distillery. Get to know a bit of its history and so on before you enter the distillery!
Nikka Whisky is one of two major Japanese whisky companies. It was founded by Masataka Taketsuru, who distilled the first Japanese whisky in 1934. Nikka Whisky has led the Japanese whisky scene ever since. If you are interested in the history of Japanese whisky, please see this article.
Whisky by Nikka is called "Taketsuru," which is named after the founder and "Yoichi," which is named after the place where the distillery is located. They have a great reputation not only in Japan, but abroad as well. Especially since Taketsuru won the World Whiskies Awards (WWA) 7 times as luxury pure malt whisky.
Yoichi is located on the east end of Hokkaido, which is about an hour train ride from Sapporo Station or 30 minutes from Otaru Station. I bet you'll want to taste some whisky there, so I strongly recommend taking a train, not driving there. Japan is VERY strict when it comes to DUIs.
You think tasting some good whisky is outside your budget? No worries! They offer free samples here!
Mr. Taketsuru studied whisky distilling techniques in Scotland for a long time and found the climate in Yoichi was close to Scotland after returning back to Japan.
It is a very refreshing atomosphere!
The distillery is very large and includes a museum, a still house, a sampling space, a gift shop, etc.
These panels explain the history of how whisky spread to the world.
And tools for distilling and explanations how.
In the museum, there is a sampling booth available (unfortunately sampling in this museum is not free).
They offer rare aged Taketsuru/Yoichi. It must be worth money!
Mr. Taketsuru studied in Scotland and met his soulmate Roberta "Rita." You see their life together through his diaries and their belongings.
Nippon Hoso Kyokai aka NHK (Japanese State Channel) broadcast a TV show about their story in 2014 that skyrocketed in popularity. How difficult it must have been for Rita to leave Scotland, her family, and her friends, and marry him and live in Japan. Rita's bravery to jump into Japanese society at that time, the strong support she received, and Mr. Taketsuru's passion for making whisky moved people.
Here you see the first whisky Mr. Taketsuru distilled.
With coal-fired distillation, it's hard to keep and manage temperature, but Nikka Whisky strictly keeps the original method Mr. Taketsuru learned in Scotland. Yoichi Distillery is the only distillery using modern methods. This effort makes their whisky very flavorful and gives it a strong taste.
Pot stills are lined up.
Whisky is waiting for you in the sampling area!
You can taste some whiskies for free here (2 kinds per person per glass).
Their choices of seasonal recommendations are available.
There is a gift shop available for souvenirs!
Yoichi Distillery won the best factory tour on TripAdvisor in 2014, which tells you this is worth the visit...isn't it?
Enjoy good whisky and learn about the guy who dreamed big to make great Japanese whisky and made it true after countless failure and hardships here in Yoichi Distillery!
Born and raised in Hakodate. I drive around Sapporo often too. I love fashion, sweets, and beautiful scenery. I work at a hotel in Hakodate.


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Citation Information: Acta Periodica Duellatorum. Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 53–101, ISSN (Online) 2064-0404, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/apd-2016-0003, May 2016
Johann Georg Pasch was a very prolific author who published a large number of books during the third quarter of the seventeenth century. Some of these included physical exercises with a long staff and presented by Pasch himself as coming from France. Among all the known editions, four different versions can be isolated; this offers the possibility to study the filiation of the edition process. This study is combined with a textual criticism of the material, beginning with a comprehensive biography from the author and finishing with the questioning of the French origin.


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Some people make the decision to live in a small space because it fits their lifestyle and helps them save money. For others, small space living wasn't their intention but became a reality due to major life changes, like a job change or a growing family. Whether you're there by choice or by circumstance, making your small space work for you is important. In this post, we provide simple tips and ideas on how to live in small spaces.
Get Rid of Stuff
When you have less space to work with, you're likely going to have to live with less stuff. Donating clothes, getting rid of sentimental clutter, and throwing away broken items that you still haven't fixed are a few great places to start. To downsize your belongings to match your smaller living space, check out our tips on how to declutter your home.
Double Up With Bunk Beds
Living in small spaces with kids presents challenges of its own. One of the common issues is that there aren't enough bedrooms for everyone so the kids need to share. One simple way to save space in a shared room is to use bunk beds!
Go With a Closet Nursery
If you live in a small apartment or home with a baby, it's possible that a designated room for the nursery won't be an option. One possible alternative is a closet nursery! The picture below also has the bonus idea of ditching the changing table and simply using a changing pad on top of the dresser. Check out the following post for more small nursery tips and ideas.
Embrace Small Furniture
Large furniture in small spaces will leave your home feeling cluttered. By investing in small furniture, including space-saving kitchen tables, desks, and more, you will maximize your space and can still enjoy the furniture that makes home feel like home.
Expand Your Space With a Large Mirror
A classic design trick to make a small space look and feel larger is to utilize a large mirror. Whether in the living room, bedroom, or anywhere else in your home, you're going to want to incorporate this simple yet remarkable hack.
Organize Your Storage Spaces
When living in a small space, getting absolutely the most out of your storage spaces is essential. Invest in storage containers like bins and baskets to get your valuable square footage organized! Not only will you better utilize the space, but it will make finding what you need easier as well!
Utilize Exposed-Leg Furniture
Similar to decorating with a large mirror, exposed-leg furniture creates the perception of more space in your home. Exposed-leg furniture, such as a couch or an ottoman, creates visual space under the furniture, making the room feel larger.
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Maximize Vertical Space
Similar to exposed-leg furniture, furniture that sits low to the ground opens up vertical space. This is an excellent way to make a small room feel larger.
Maximize Corners
One of the secrets to living in small spaces is to maximize the corners of rooms. By placing furniture like tables or desks in the corners and doubling up with shelving as both a decorative and storage hack, you allow the rest of the room to feel more open.
Create a Corner Closet
Speaking of maximizing corners, if you don't have enough closet space in your bedroom for your clothes, shoes, and accessories, just add a corner closet!
Who Even Needs A Closet?
Having an exposed closet is another great option for small-space bedrooms. Whether a room doesn't have a closet or you need more room, this design idea provides more storage space while also making a bold statement.
Utilize a Hideaway Desk
This small space living idea allows for you to enjoy a dedicated desk space when you need it while giving you the ability to hide it when you don't. Hideaway desks are popular, but hideaway beds and other furniture are also available and provide the same benefits!
Have a Coffee & Liquor Bar
Cabinet space in the kitchen is so valuable in a small apartment or home. But you still have to make space for the things you love! This simple coffee and liquor bar provides an aesthetically pleasing space to store coffee, mugs, alcohol, and barware.
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Paint Your Walls Light Colors
While darker colors create a cozy feeling, light colors reflect light and make rooms feel larger. To create that balance of roomy and cozy enough, paint walls light colors, have lighter floors, and have darker furniture.
Get Creative With Kitchen Storage
Overcoming the limited cabinet and drawer space of a small kitchen takes some creativity. This DIY kitchen organizer provides some much needed space for spices and canned goods and takes advantage of space that usually goes unused. If you have a gap between your refrigerator and wall or counter, strongly consider this creative idea. See more kitchen organization ideas.
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Wall Shelving Is a Must
Whether as a kitchen storage solution for your dishes as shown below or utilized in your living room, bedroom, or bathroom, wall shelves provide both valuable storage space and home decoration idea, especially in small homes.
Don't Expect Perfection
You'll drive yourself crazy trying to keep a small apartment completely clean and organized at all times. It's okay for your small space to get a little messy now and again!
Get Out of the House!
Getting out of your apartment or house is always a good idea, but if you're living in a small space, it's even more important. You can do everything imaginable to maximize the space you live in, but there's so much to do and explore outside of the home. One of the biggest reasons people choose small space living is to be near incredible amenities. Get out and enjoy them!
Keep Experimenting & Be Creative
Keep trying new things to maximize your space! And don't be afraid to try something unconventional. The use of the small landing space in this picture is a perfect example of using a space that most wouldn't think of!
There you have it! A complete list of tips and ideas to make small space living work for you. Though living in a small home or apartment might come with some challenges, it also allows you to be creative and bold and allows you to live larger in other parts of your life!
Still need more space in your home after all of these small space tips and hacks? Extra Space Storage has storage facilities across the nation that provide everything from small locker-sized storage units to large drive-up access units. Find an Extra Space Storage facility near you now!


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I Don't Own Sponge, But If I Did Own A Sponge…
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Love this! Great idea, love a novelty toiletry x
Very cute- it totally puts me in the mood for summer. Really fancy an ice lolly now!
This is cute!
Now I know what to get for my daughter who is always after and ice lolly. It's cute.
Ahhh I seen this today whilst on the hunt for my favourite microwave mash haha they seem to have acquired a big range of revamped toiletries, including hello kitty!! 🙂 xxx
I know it's odd, but I have a bit of a sponge obsession. You know how people nest when they're pregnant and clean their house? I mostly cleaned myself – and collected sponges. And got upset when Mr threw any away. The fondness for sponges still lingers! And I will have this. 🙂 xxx
That is so adorable! Love the vivid colors :3 !!
Too cute!
very cute sponge !!! xoxo eli http://elinelpaesedellemeraviglie.blogspot.it/
who wont like to own such a cute sponge! 🙂


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Get the latest information about Savings Institute Bank & Trust and the work we're doing in the communities we're proud to serve.
Willimantic, Connecticut — July 31, 2013. SI Financial Group, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ Global Market: SIFI), the holding company of Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company (the "Bank"), reported a net loss of $60,000, or $0.01 basic and diluted loss per share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 versus net income of $670,000, or $0.07 basic and diluted earnings per share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. The Company reported a net loss of $137,000, or $0.01 basic and diluted loss per share, for the six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to net income of $1.1 million, or $0.11 basic and diluted earnings per share, for the six months ended June 30, 2012.
Lower net income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 was primarily the result of costs associated with the pending acquisition of Newport Bancorp, Inc. totaling $209,000 and $893,000 (pre-tax), respectively. Excluding the aforementioned costs, the Company would have reported net income of $151,000, or $0.02 basic and diluted earnings per share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2013 and $653,000, or $0.07 basic and diluted earnings per share, for the six months ended June 30, 2013.(1) The Company anticipates the merger will close in the third quarter of 2013, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Net interest income decreased $267,000 to $6.2 million and $592,000, to $12.6 million, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2012. Lower net interest income was due to lower rates on securities and loans, offset by a lower cost of funds versus the comparable periods in 2012.
The provision for loan losses decreased $377,000 and $726,000 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively, primarily due to a decrease in nonperforming loans and in loans outstanding. At June 30, 2013, nonperforming loans totaled $9.0 million, compared to $11.5 million at June 30, 2012, primarily due to decreases in nonperforming commercial mortgage loans of $1.7 million, residential mortgage loans of $340,000 and consumer loans of $312,000. Net loan charge-offs were $376,000 and $570,000 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively, consisting primarily of commercial and residential mortgage loan charge-offs. Net loan charge-offs were $166,000 and $242,000 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively.
Noninterest income was $2.1 million and $2.3 million for the quarters ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, and $4.5 million and $5.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Wealth management fees decreased $56,000 during the second quarter of 2013 due to a reduction in trust fees and declined $866,000 for the first half of 2013, compared to the same period in 2012, primarily due to the sale of SI Trust Servicing in April 2012. The Company recognized an increase in fair value of $278,000 and $374,000 on certain derivative instruments, offset by a decrease in gains on the sale of available for sale securities of $257,000 and $571,000 during the second quarter and first half of 2013, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2012. Mortgage banking fees declined $127,000 for the second quarter of 2013 as a result of lower gains realized on residential mortgage loan sales versus an increase of $173,000 in mortgage banking fees for the first half of 2013 due to a higher volume of residential mortgage loan sales. Offsetting these decreases in noninterest income for 2013 was a gain of $201,000 on the sale of $3.0 million in commercial business loans held for investment. For the comparable quarter in 2012, noninterest income included a gain of $349,000 resulting from death benefit proceeds from a bank-owned life insurance policy, offset by a termination charge of $212,000 (pre-tax) related to the sale of SI Trust Servicing. For the comparable six months of 2012, noninterest income included an aggregate loss of $698,000 (pre-tax) on the sale of SI Trust Servicing, offset by an investment gain of $355,000 from one of the Bank's small business investment company limited partnerships.
Noninterest expenses increased $652,000 and $883,000 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2012. Pre-tax merger costs contributed to the increase in outside professional services. Increases in salaries and benefits of $105,000 and $275,000 were attributable to higher benefit costs related to equity-based incentive plan compensation and health insurance. Costs associated with foreclosure activities increased $136,000 and $103,000 during the second quarter and first half of 2013, respectively. Offsetting these increases in noninterest expenses were decreases in marketing expenses and occupancy expenses related to lower costs associated with utilities, depreciation of premises and equipment and building maintenance.
Total assets decreased $4.4 million, or 0.5%, to $948.8 million at June 30, 2013 from $953.3 million at December 31, 2012, principally due to decreases of $14.7 million in net loan receivables and $4.5 million in loans held for sale, offset by an increase of $14.4 million in available for sale securities. Securities increased with the purchase of primarily mortgage-backed securities and government-sponsored enterprise securities. Mortgage loans and consumer loans declined $18.2 million and $2.3 million, respectively, offset by an increase of $5.5 million in commercial business loans during the first six months of 2013. Total loan originations decreased $19.5 million during the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, mainly due to declines of $26.7 million in mortgage loan originations, offset by an increase of $6.2 million in commercial business loan originations.
Total liabilities decreased $2.8 million, or 0.3%, to $824.7 million at June 30, 2013 compared to $827.5 million at December 31, 2012. Borrowings decreased $5.0 million from $106.3 million at December 31, 2012 to $101.3 million at June 30, 2013, resulting from net repayments of Federal Home Loan Bank advances. Deposits increased $3.2 million, or 0.5%, which included increases in NOW and money market accounts of $14.2 million, savings accounts of $2.9 million and noninterest-bearing deposits of $636,000, offset by a decrease in certificates of deposit of $14.6 million. Deposit growth remained strong due to marketing and promotional initiatives and competitively-priced deposit products.
Total shareholders' equity decreased $1.6 million from $125.8 million at December 31, 2012 to $124.2 million at June 30, 2013. The decrease in shareholders' equity was attributable to a decline in unrealized gains on available for sale securities aggregating $1.6 million (net of taxes), dividends of $573,000 and a net loss of $137,000, offset by the amortization of equity plan awards of $667,000 and an unrealized gain of $72,000 on an interest-rate swap derivative. At June 30, 2013, the Bank's regulatory capital exceeded the amounts required for it to be considered "well-capitalized" under applicable regulatory capital guidelines.
"Results for the second quarter, while negatively impacted by the costs associated with the pending merger with Newport Bancorp, Inc. and ongoing margin compression, reflected continued improvement in asset quality with a decrease of almost 20% in nonperforming assets to under $10.0 million. We progress through the third quarter with great anticipation toward the merger with Newport and expanded opportunities as a result of our entrance into the Rhode Island market," commented Rheo A. Brouillard, President and Chief Executive Officer.
SI Financial Group, Inc. is the holding company for Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company. Established in 1842, Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company is a community-oriented financial institution headquartered in Willimantic, Connecticut. Through its twenty branch locations, the Bank offers a full-range of financial services to individuals, businesses and municipalities within its market area.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We believe that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with information useful in understanding our financial performance, our performance trends and financial position. Specifically, we provide measures based on what we believe are our operating earnings on a consistent basis and exclude non-core operating items which affect the GAAP reporting of results of operations. We, as well as securities analysts, investors and other interested parties, use these measures to compare peer company operating performance. We believe that our presentation and discussion, together with the accompanying reconciliations, provide a complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business and allows investors to view performance in a manner similar to management. These non-GAAP measures should not be considered a substitute for GAAP basis measures and results, and we strongly encourage investors to review our consolidated financial statements in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure. Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, it may not be possible to compare these financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names.
(1) The table below presents a reconciliation of earnings to shareholders, excluding the tax-affected transaction costs related to the pending acquisition of Newport Bancorp, Inc. for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013.
(2) Includes the impact of dilutive stock options resulting from non-GAAP net income presented above.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains "forward-looking statements" that are based on assumptions and may describe future plans, strategies and expectations of the Company. These forward-looking statements are generally identified by the use of the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," "estimate," "project" or similar expressions. The Company's ability to predict results or the actual effect of future plans or strategies is inherently uncertain. Factors that could have a material adverse effect on the operations of the Company and its subsidiaries include, but are not limited to, changes in market interest rates, regional and national economic conditions, legislative and regulatory changes, monetary and fiscal policies of the United States government, including policies of the United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, the quality and composition of the loan or investment portfolios, demand for loan products, deposit flows, competition, demand for financial services in the Company's market area, changes in the real estate market values in the Company's market area and changes in relevant accounting principles and guidelines. For discussion of these and other risks that may cause actual results to differ from expectations, refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, including the section entitled "Risk Factors," and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q on file with the SEC. These risks and uncertainties should be considered in evaluating any forward-looking statements and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Except as required by applicable law or regulation, the Company does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to release publicly the result of any revisions that may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of the statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.
SELECTED OPERATING DATA – Concluded:
(1) Ratios for the three and six months have been annualized.
(2) Represents noninterest expenses divided by the sum of net interest and noninterest income, less any realized gains or losses on the sale of securities and other-than-temporary impairment on securities.
(3) Total loans exclude deferred fees and costs.
(4) Nonperforming assets consist of nonperforming loans and other real estate owned.
(5) Tangible book value per share equals book value per share less the effect of intangible assets, which consisted of goodwill and other intangibles of $3.5 million at June 30, 2013 and 2012.
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Google wants to foster JOMO
Christina Crook
Did you hear the news? Google wants to foster JOMO—the joy of missing out - in its users.
At its recent annual developer conference, the company announced several new features designed to help people monitor and manage the time they spend on their devices. The goal: Enable users to understand their habits, control the demands technology places on their attention, and focus on what matters.
"Helping people with their digital well-being is more important to us than ever," said vice president of product management Sameer Samat. "People tell us a lot of the time they spend on their phones is really useful. But some of it they wish they'd spent on other things." - WIRED magazine
The JOMO movement is growing.
Just this morning, a colleague wrote: "There's something there that people are connecting with, and even as marketers in the digital space, the notion of disconnecting to make a more meaningful existence resonates with us."


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Infographic: iPad Owners Willing to Break a Bone to Save Device
The iPad rocketed to success when Apple launched its first-generation tablet in 2010. Succeeding generations have proven just as popular with users, if not moreso. But how far would iPad owners be willing to protect their beloved device?
It turns out that 16 percent of more than 1,300 iPad owners polled would be willing to "break a bone" to save their tablet, according to a survey conducted in August by online and mobile presentation company Brainshark.
Less than three years old, Apple's iPad has already garnered millions of fans, about a third of whom (32 percent) would rather get a root canal than drop their tablet.
Other kinds of pain and setbacks that iPad fanatics would endure to protect their device: Getting into a minor car crash (40 percent), breaking their nose (16 percent), or getting fired from their job (10 percent).
"No one doubts the device's popularity, but what's really eye-opening about these statistics is just how inextricable the iPad has become from users' everyday lives," Brainshark's chief marketing officer Andy Zimmerman said in a statement.
The iPad is no longer just for technophiles. The tablet currently supplements 92 percent of owners' laptops, while more than half are expecting to make it their primary computing device within the next two years, Brainshark said. Additionally, it has replaced books, TVs, still and video cameras, GPS, and MP3 players for many users, who prefer the mobile device and its all-in-one capabilities.
Nor are the devices simply for business use anymore. Brainshark calculated that users take their iPads almost everywhere, including 60 percent of people who surf the Web while on the toilet, or the 21 percent who relax in the tub with it. One in four people have even bumped into someone while walking and reading their iPad.
The majority of owners (92 percent) take it on vacation and on planes (73 percent). It's got presence on the job, as well 47 percent of those polled said they bring theirs to client meetings.
The most appealing features of the iPad, according to Brainshark's survey, are its portability, fast boot-time, apps, and accessibility. Others use it as a sort of pacifier for their kids, and some describe the device as a "piece of art."
Maybe it is those same people who admitted that they would rather lose their wedding ring, credit card, driver's license, or wallet than misplace their iPad.
For more on what iPad users would be willing to do to protect their technology, check out Brainshark's chart below.
Also, see PCMag's review of the New Apple iPad.
For more from Stephanie, follow her on Twitter @smlotPCMag.


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Bingo, A Meat Raffle And Letterpress
If you aren't sure what a "meat raffle" is you should really look it up to fully understand the heritage of this design. It's good to see a fine establishment carry on this noble tradition. Our friends at Fame created this cuss-worthy design for an invitation to party in their brand new office. Sam Soulek did the design and pattern work reminiscent of vintage beer ephemera.
The two oversize cards are printed with metallic gold ink and an orange pms on 60pt blotter board, both front and back. This fantastically pulpy and coaster-like stock gives the artwork a unique texture in addition to the letterpress impression. The cards fit together and mail in a French Paper Brown Speckltone A10 size envelope, also printed with the same gold ink. Note how the envelope design wraps from the face of the envelope and covers the flap on the back side. Since we fold open the pre-converted envelopes to print them, we are able to print the face and the flap at the same time. This invite is hot off the presses and is hitting mailboxes this week.
Such a pulpy stock material is not without problems. The blotter board stock is a wood fiber stock with very little sizing during the papermaking process. That makes printing on this sheet a bit like running a shedding rabbit through the letterpress. With such a raw surface, the fibers from the stock surface build up on the ink rollers like bunches of hair. That means extra wash ups during the run to keep the ink clean and free of hickies on the artwork. This stock also sucks up the ink, so you need good heavy ink density going down, which makes it a balancing act to keep the small type from filling in on the coarse surface. The paper formation produces a very mottled and salty looking texture in the ink coverage. But we think it's a unique and vintage look that matches this design perfectly.


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Do you want to help improve the lives of those less fortunate than yourself? Life Before Work and Life Projects are working together to build homes in Nicaragua for those living in extreme poverty and we need your help!
Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America, with two thirds of the population struggling to survive on little more than US$1 a day.
You can make a HUGE difference for a family in need.
First hand account of how the funds will directly help those in need from Life Projects Director Karli Hedlund:
"I have seen this difference with my own eyes. I went to Nicaragua last year to help build homes for those in need. This experience affected me more than I ever thought it would, or could. During my time there I was surrounded by some of the most generous, kind, and loving people that I have ever met. Yet, they were living in such poverty. Their homes were no bigger than my bedroom. The floors were made of dirt, the roofs couldn't keep the rain out, and the windows and doors could barely close.
Things like this make you reevaluate what is important in life and make you realize how lucky you really are.
When we presented the family their new home, they were filled with excitement and gratitude. It was the first time in my life that I felt like I truly made an impact. With your donations we can continue to make these impacts."
Every penny you donate will go towards this cause and we will provide you with pictures and the stories of those whom you have helped as we go! Thank you so much for your donations!
We will provide you with pictures and the stories of those whom you have helped! Thank you so much for your donations! Lets get building!


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I attended Alt Summit last week: my first blogging and design conference! My goals were simple: connect and be inspired. I enjoy a great community of online and instagram friends, but I desired meeting fellow design-minded, entrepreneurial friends in person.
I was encouraged from noon to night with the conversations and the conference sessions. I met online friends in person (hi friends!) including Jeran of Oleander and Palm, Mariah of Oh, What Love Studios, and Amy of Amy Hackworth Writes. And made great new friends including my roommates Conni of Art in the Find and Courtney of Courtney Khail Watercolors.
Now I am going to try and summarize what I see for the future of Tag & Tibby.. [ps] written on a red-eye overnight flight from Salt Lake back to Atlanta and hopefully coherent!!
Work smart.
I left the conference challenged and encouraged in my strategy for Tag&Tibby. Pass out business cards without hesitation. Introduce myself to local businesses and magazines. Partner with other bloggers and collectively pitch ourselves to a large brand. Host a giveaway with fellow bloggers. Know the brand's elevator pitch.
Ask for help.
Martha (yes! Martha Stewart. I so admire her tenacity and entrepreneurial spirit!) spoke on this topic. It is impossible to do everything and do it well. I consider caring for my family my primary role. And I also have a passion for this site. This is a way for me to use my design background with passion and work from home with a flexible schedule.
The titles "stay at home" and "work outside the home" frustrate me. Moms love their families. What that looks like in each family will be different. We all work whether we are paid or unpaid.
Plans for the fall.
We close on our new house in early July (horray!) This fall I want to share about making the new home our own with approachable design solutions. The challenge this time is creating a vintage-modern space in a 1990s-style traditional home. Our decisions will continue to be budget friendly. I will pursue thrift stores, update with paint, and create simple diy projects.
For the Etsy shop: I enjoy working with my loyal buyers and the selling community. Because it is simply not possible to accomplish everything in a week, I plan is to simplify the shop and list 10-15 curated vintage pieces per month.
I hope that as Tag&Tibby grows, this blog will continue to be a casual place to visit. I like chatting about my family, design trends, paint colors, and how all of it looks in daily life.
Did you go to Alt? What was your favorite takeaway? What would you like to see for Tag&Tibby this fall? I would love ideas!!


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For a baseball player, I imagine that there are few things worse than losing a game on a getaway day. With a long road trip (and travel) looming, a notch in the loss column is the last thing you want to deal with. After all,. You don't want to spend a 3,000 mile plane ride thinking about how, if you only made that one play or knocked in those two base runners, then the outcome would have been different.
Obviously, that feeling is even worse at the tail end of a sweep to your division rivals, who came into the season with expectations of being the punching bag of the league.
Thankfully, the Phillies avoided any such feelings on Sunday afternoon, when they dropped the Mets to salvage the series before heading out on a ten game road trip on the west coast.
They did so on the strength of a brilliant Cole Hamels start, who allowed two earned runs while striking out ten in seven innings. He was also given some rare (but late) run support, thanks to a two-run seventh inning, when Ty Wigginton tied it with a sac fly, followed by a go-ahead double from Laynce Nix.
And while losing a series to the Mets isn't anyone's idea of a good time, I insist that, hey, it's not so bad, especially in April.
The Phillies are, if I may borrow something from Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green, who we thought they were. They are going to pitch better than most, and they are going to scrape by with whatever offense they can come up with on any given day. And even though that formula sounds horrifying, it's the way it's going to be, at least for a little while.
It would be nice if the Phillies could put up five or six runs a game, but it's no longer 2007, and they'll need to cobble together a bunch of singles and hope that the other team makes a mistake while needing their starters to allow less than three runs per game. A tall order, but this is the hand that they've been dealt.
In light of that, there were a few things that happened this series that I'd like to note:
Freddy Galvis is fun to watch. Since the Pittsburgh series, nary has a game gone by in which Galvis has not had a hit, and in that span, the 22-year-old has a pair of doubles, a homer, five RBIs and a line of .353/.353/.647. Sure, it's not going to last, but it's exciting to see a youngster like Galvis contribute on offense, while also playing tremendous defense.
Cliff Lee got his one bad start out of the way. His start on Friday night (7 IP, 4 ER) wasn't anything pretty to look at, but it's safe to say that that is the exception, not the rule. If his 2012 is anything like his 2011, then we should expect him to now allow a run until sometime in June.
Cole Hamels needs to get paid. The youngest Ace showed exactly why Ruben Amaro needs to hand him a contract on Sunday, when he stifled the Mets over seven innings en route to his first win of the season. Sure, he allowed a homer in the first inning (it wasn't a bad pitch), but he kept his composure and proceeded to own the Mets the rest of the way.
With their first long road-trip looming, a win was just what the Phillies needed. Now, if only they could start bunching them together.


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LG Optimus 2X is the world's first dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor phone. The Dual- core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor running at its core and its performance is snappy. If you expect lighting fast responses to your input, this full fill your dream. The Optimus 2X also comes in handy for playing HD games or HD videos and the video player comes with DivX/XviD support. There are more games optimized for Tegra 2 processor available Android Market. It has a 4.0-inch IPS LCD display that makes the viewing experience a delight, the display used in this same as iPhone 4. As far as interface goes, built-in accelerometer, gyro-touch sensitive controls and multi-touch support makes phone's usability easy. The 8.0-megapixel camera along with LED flash offers a decent picture quality and able to record 1080p full HD video recording. There are lots of performances enhancing features in the camera like face detection, smile shot, and beauty shot and geo-tagging. Front facing 1.3 MP camera for video call.
Tech Specification:
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
4.0" IPS-LCD capacitive touch screen (800x480 pixels)
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate UI
Multi-touch input method
Touch-sensitive controls
Gyroscope sensor
Gorilla Glass display
Primary: 8megapixel camera (3264 x2448 pixels), LED flash
- face detection and smile detection, touch focus
- Geo-tagging, image stabilization
Video recording: Yes, 1080p@24fps, 720p@30fps
Secondary: yes, 1.3MP
Dimension: 123.9 x 63.2 x 10.9 mm
Weight: 139 g
Phone memory: 8 GB storage, 512 MB RAM
Memory card: microSD, up to 32GB,
OS: Android OS, v2.2 (upgradable to v2.3)
CPU: Dual-core 1.0GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset
Audio jack: 3.5 mm audio jack
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
USB: Yes, micro USB v2.0
Wi-Fi: yes, 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot,
GPRS: yes, Class 12
EDGE: yes, Class 12
3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
FM radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
Java: yes, MIDP emulator
- Digital compass
- SNS integration
- TV-ouT
- Adobe Flash 10.1 support
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration