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Sometimes beautiful objects disappear from view for a while, and when they re-emerge part of their history has been forgotten. This happened with the Chinese House at Stowe, but it also seems to have happened to an unusual Chinese wallpaper which has just been published in Architectural Digest.
A while ago I spotted this Chinese wallpaper in a post by the Down East Dilettante. It had been painted with garden walls and trellises, which seems to be a rather rare feature. It had been hung in the ballroom of the penthouse of media tycoon Condé Nast, at 1040 Park Avenue, New York, by decorator Elsie de Wolfe in 1924.
The Dilettante also mentioned it in a comment on my post about the Chinese wallpapers at Saltram, which in turn elicited a reply from Jennifer Gracie, director of the eponymous New York family firm which has been supplying furnishings, wallpaper, painted decoration and antiques since 1898. Jennifer told us that Gracie had acquired the paper after Nast's penthouse was sold and dismantled in 1943. And very recently they had supplied sections of it for the New York apartment of interior designer Michael S. Smith and James Costos, which has now been published in the September 2012 issue of Architectural Digest.
Jennifer also sent me an image from Nancy McClelland's 1924 book Historic Wallpapers which showed the wallpaper when it was owned by Ida Weaver, the wife of coal and railroad baron John Heisley Weaver of Merion, Pennsylvania. Various sources indicate that it had come from Beaudesert, the Staffordshire country house of the Paget family, Marquesses of Anglesey. As much of the contents of Beaudesert was sold in 1921, the wallpaper may have then made its way to Mrs Weaver, but it probably wasn't hung, as it turned up very soon afterwards in Condé Nast's penthouse.
Beaudesert had then only recently been comprehensively redecorated by the interior designer Captain Harry Lindsay for the 6th Marquess of Anglesey. Between 1909 and 1912 Lindsay created sumptuously historicist interiors at Beaudesert which included as many as five rooms with Chinese wallpapers. The house was published in Country Life in two articles by Henry Avray Tipping in the issues of 22 and 29 November 1919. But following the First World War the economic outlook for landed families worsened and the Paget family gave up Beaudesert and concentrated on their other country house, Plas Newydd.
There is a tantalising reference in the McClelland book to the wallpaper having been in the attic of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire – presumably unused and in storage – before it came to Beaudesert. So thanks to the Dilettante and to Jennifer Gracie we can now propose the following tentative 'biography' for this wallpaper:
- Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, unused?
- Beaudesert, Staffordshire, hung 1909-12, sold 1921?
- Mrs Ida Irona Weaver, Maroebe, Merion, Pennsylvania, pre-1924?
- Condé Nast's penthouse at 1040 Park Avenue, New York, installed by Elsie de Wolfe by 1924
- Acquired by Gracie after 1943
- Supplied by Gracie for the apartment of Michael S. Smith and James Costos, New York, 2011


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HUMMELO, The Netherlands
ON a cold January afternoon in this tiny village near the German border, the garden designer Piet Oudolf put on a heavy coat and led the way out of the 1850s farmhouse he shares with his wife, Anja, and into his garden. After a few steps he stopped and pointed with pride at a stalk of dead fennel standing in a bed of moribund, wheat-colored joe-pye weed. "Normally, people who garden would have cut this back by now," he said. "The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers."
For Mr. Oudolf, in fact, the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it decomposes. "It's not about life or death," he said, admiring the dark, twisting lines of the fennel. "It's about looking good."
Over three decades, Mr. Oudolf's sometimes unconventional ideas about what looks good have helped make him a star in Europe where his work has inspired an "ecology meets design" gardening movement called New Wave Planting by its followers and have also begun to win him fans and jobs in the United States. He has done the planting design for important new gardens in Millennium Park in Chicago and the Battery in New York, and for the park that will cover the elevated High Line rail bed in Lower Manhattan when it opens in September. These landscapes, like all his projects, embody and advertise his fundamental aesthetic doctrine: that a plant's structure and form are more important than its color.
"He's gotten away from the soft pornography of the flower," said Charles Waldheim, the director of the landscape architecture program at the University of Toronto. "He's interested in the life cycle, how plant material ages over the course of the year," and how it relates to the plants around it. Like a good marriage, his compositions must work well together as its members age.
"Most people think in a formal way: if you put A and B with C, it will look like this but only at a certain moment in time," said James Corner, chairman of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and director of Field Operations, the New York landscape design firm working on the High Line with Mr. Oudolf and the architecture office of Diller Scofidio & Renfro. Mr. Corner said that one reason he asked Mr. Oudolf to do the project's planting design is that the way he selects and composes plants "is thought through not only in terms of summer, but also in terms of winter all 12 months are interesting."
In Mr. Oudolf's own one-acre garden, the dead and dormant plants of midwinter are sculptural but not harsh, poignant but peaceful, standing out against the quiet, almost monochromatic whole in subtle or arresting ways.
Down a path from the house, a round brick planter holds towering Malepartus maiden grass, whose brown, drooping blades bring to mind some Shakespearean ghost. Farther along, through tall, boxy yew hedges with tops trimmed to mimic the sloping landscape's tree line, the garden opens into Mr. Oudolf's "perennial meadow" three circular beds, roughly 26, 39 and 46 feet in diameter, each with a different mixture of perennial plants and ornamental grasses. "Perennials are so dynamic," he said. "They're quick. In one year you can see the whole life cycle."
Mr. Oudolf works a lot with species native to North America, and many of the plants here came from the American prairie. Wandering through the garden beds, where the palette of browns, from light to near-black, brought out the richness of the plants' textures, he pointed out the ethereal silver seed heads of swamp milkweed and the tiny golden beads at the ends of stalks of prairie dropseed, a fine grass. "You see a lot with dead plants," he said. "The shapes and forms, the seed heads in contrast with the grasses. When it freezes it looks even better."
For a moment the sun came out, illuminating the pale grasses, and Mr. Oudolf gasped. He is very attentive to the ways that plants move with the breeze and catch light, and was clearly pleased with the results this afternoon. "If you have beautiful plants, it doesn't mean your garden is beautiful," he said. "Something is complete when everything works together."
As a young man Mr. Oudolf, now 63, worked as a bartender, a wholesale fish handler, a steelworker and a waiter before he took a job at a nursery and fell in love with plants when he was 26. Within two months he had started night school, and four years later he had a degree as a landscape contractor and designer.
"When I started, 35 years ago, everything was focused on the traditional English garden," he said. "It was all flower and color. It was dogmatic deadheading, staking. I got a bit tired of that." He began to mix ornamental grasses into perennial borders, then began searching for more plants that would work in combination with the grasses. He started a design firm in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1976, and his first gardens received press coverage in the early 1980s.
In 1982 he moved to the farmhouse in Hummelo so he could spend more time experimenting with plants. "I felt that I couldn't express myself enough," he said. "I thought, One more big move. We had our two children already, and it took a lot of time to get our heads above water." He and his wife opened a nursery behind the farmhouse. He began hybridizing and closely studying plant behavior and characteristics.
The move, and the experience he gained in his work with plants, paid off: his understanding of plants is generally acknowledged to be unrivaled among designers and has been a key, he said, to his ability to compose a garden where the plants work well together year round (or, as Mr. Oudolf put it, throughout the phases of birth, life and death). "When I hear the name," he said, "I see the plant, and how it grows."
In the garden, he pointed to a thistle that, in the summer, has a spiky blue flower. When the petals fall off they leave a round, perforated seed head; eventually, this, too, falls, baring a drumstick-shaped tip. "It's different," Mr. Oudolf said, touching the drumstick. "But it's still nice."
"He's like a really good chef," Mr. Corner said. "He knows his ingredients in a much deeper way than an amateur. He's a master of the medium."
Mr. Oudolf has named more than 70 new plants one of them, the Dear Anja sage, for his wife and the nursery is still in operation; from April to June and August to October, visitors can buy the plants they see in the garden. But Mr. Oudolf is clearly as much artist as scientist. One of his books, "Designing With Plants" (Timber Press, 1999), includes chapters on "The Sublime" and "Mysticism," along with form, light, color and texture.
"He's literate aesthetically and culturally," Mr. Waldheim said. "In terms of atmospherics, he's playing at a pretty high level. People respond to it, even if they might not be able to articulate what it is they're seeing."
Looking out over his perennial meadow, Mr. Oudolf articulated it this way: "You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes nature, or the longing for nature." Allowing the garden to decompose, he added, meets an emotional need in people.
"You accept death. You don't take the plants out, because they still look good. And brown is also a color."

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Ice Cube and Three Kings director David O Russel are in talks with New Line to create a new movie franchise.
According to deadline.com, the west coast emcee/actor will play a plainclothes detective who isn't afraid to pull the trigger, in what has been described as "thematically a throwback to those 70s revenge films like the Harry Callahan movies that starred Clint Eastwood."
Russel will produce the film with Cube and his Cube Vision partner Matt Alvarez.
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A few years back we made a weather station. Since then we have moved and it is now gone. We are thinking of making a new one and thought it a good idea to review the old weather station first.
First we started out using two Jeenodes a TMP36 temperature sensor and an lcd screen. Jeenodes are basically an Arduino with a radio built in. Here is what the outside node looked like.
Inside we had the second Jeenode and an lcd screen setup that looked like the below.
This setup showed that using the 2 Jeenodes worked and gave us the outside temperature.
Later I updated it by adding an Arduino Yun inside so I could save data and also have a web page. We also added more sensors outside and update the inside screen to the below. We now have time, temperature, barometer, rainfall, windspeed, lux and humidity.
Using an Arduino Yun also allowed us to create a web page as shown below.
We like robots and named it after the movie Chappie.
Outside we had put everything inside our version of a Stevenson Screen.
The weather station worked pretty well and using solar panels definitely extended the life of the battery outside. We always want to know how much it rained last night or yesterday and never could seem to get that quite right.
Have you ever made a weather station?
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Find your rhythm and rhyme. Hear your inner knowing. Let the heartsong be your guide.
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Oil on canvas . 30″ x 24″
by DeAnna L'am
Imagine your girl coming home from school. She feels tired. She is actually crabby, and the sullen look on her face warns you to keep your distance. Throwing her backpack on the floor she runs into her room, not interested in answering any of your questions about her day. Her shoes fly off her feet, one at a time, on her way up the stairs, and land randomly on the floor. Her door is slammed shut, and you are not welcomed inside. You want to ask her about her feelings, to understand what is going on, but the door's message is clear, and you know it will not open for a while…
Imagine, though, that you had a magical key to this closed door…
Imagine softly knocking and whispering to your girl: "Shall I drive you to the Red Tent?"
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Comets sing! The audio recording made when a space probe landed on a comet has gone viral. While the world seems to be falling apart, with ceaseless news reports of wars, heartache and destruction, something else is capturing our attention.
The very songs of life.
And the beautiful thing is — we're listening.
We all have a Song, a unique vibration, a dynamic energy field existing within our physical bodies and rippling out beyond. Though audible sounds may not be detectable by our human ears, there are countless ways we can feel, sense and experience our own and others' Songs — whether we're connecting with another human, with the trees or a mountain, with a river, coyote, comet or star.
Each and every one's Song is unique. Full of aliveness and knowing. Ancient and vast. With particular purposes for existence. Beautiful and loving. Curious and aware.
Remarkable scientific genius was poured into hours and hours of innovative construction of the spacecraft that landed on the comet. Interestingly, the mission was not about finding the song. The song of the comet was an entirely unexpected discovery which has opened doorways into new territory, stretching the mind, awakening the heart about what is and can
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by K. Chavez
I'm bound by your hands.
The ugly parts of my soul
Slowly have unraveled.
You've recreated those memories
With a unique new pattern.
And with your needle,
Wrapped yourself around my heart
And knitted yourself into my life.
Paper collage
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by Trishuwa
I saw a coyote.
He moved so swiftly his body
stretched across the earth and the sky.
I watched him travel and followed.
Coyote laughed with me.
He laughed with the whole universe.
My eyes changed.
They became like the stars, bright and shiny.
I lost the way back to
before I saw Coyote.
I was never to return.
Sometimes I wonder if I should have
marked the trail.
You see I thought that someone would find me.
Take me back to before.
Once in a while someone does comes along,
but the same thing happens to them.
They never return to the before time.
They are the ones with eyes of stars,
laughter that vibrates with the universe,
and bodies that stretch
across the earth and into the sky.
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by Tanya Sheikh
My love affair with fire was born one day to the next, or so it seems.
In a magical woods, just beyond our doorstep we created a place of fire, intending a sacred space that would allow us to transform, be, become and journey into the unknown to be unleashed.
With the trees as silent sentinels, we lit the flame and sent out our prayers. We gifted ourselves to the elements, sitting in silence with that blazing light for hours, what seemed like eternity.
After the last spark extinguished, we left with prayers of gratitude and open-eyed wonder. Back inside our home, I cocooned on the sofa, allowing the experience to find its place. My body started to violently tremble. So much had been gifted and so much received that I knew not who I was — resting in liminal space with the new as yet unborn.
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This piece is made of deer buckskin my partner and I hand-tanned and smoked to make a soft and easy-to-work 'fabric'. It will be fully completed when I wet and twist all the fringes to give it a more old-time feel (this was done originally to let the water drip off the fringes and dry better). The shoulders were joined with
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Home is Where the Heart Is
"It is critical that we feel worthy." — Flora Aube
The Heart is a Portal for Beauty and Light
And the heart is a portal for truth!
Now, I understand the truth and power of this word: critical.
It is absolutely critical that we feel worthy.
I did not feel worthy for many, many, many years.
I was too critical, of myself.
And yet I painted and I showed paintings.
I ping ponged between feeling the best and the worst.
I could not bear to see what I painted for long.
And I destroyed a lot of paintings.
The painting on this postcard is from a small exhibit of my work at Lord Fairfax Community College, some time before 2006.
The name of the exhibit was "Close to Home."
I destroyed the painting, let it go to hold another painting,
because no one "wanted" it.
It is clear for me that I could not own it myself.
The woman standing at her home is me.
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At first there was just one and I could see it only if the light caught its reflection at just the right angle. The appearance of the first was followed by a second and a third. I'm not sure why we call them grey — they're actually anything but grey. In my eyes, they're silver and shiny and more luminous than all the other strands of hair.
I had a dream about these silver strands many moons ago before the first one appeared. I was living in the jungle, near the ocean, and dreamt one balmy night that I had a crown of silver hair. In the dream I wondered why I hadn't noticed it before.
There are only a few now but I see more and more by the day. At first this came as a surprise, even a bit of a shock…it's as though I thought that I alone would be spared the aging process. After my surprise, came a feeling of slight worry and various thoughts about my mortality and how temporary this form really is.
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by Davi Ayla
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I always felt another presence in the room with Granny.
She looked straight through me — her eyes fixed on some invisible thing.
Seventy pounds of pure spirit, I felt her love with the force of ten thousands hammers.
Her snuff-stained apron as holy as a nun's habit.
She wrapped a string around a wart on my finger, mumbled incomprehensible words — then buried the string.
In three days, my wart was gone.
by Wendy Mitchell, Judy Zehr and Scott Lockhart
"What happens when people open their hearts?"…
"They get better."
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
As the Dalai Lama advises, we can spend too much time developing our mind over our heart. Research suggests that it's actually our heart that directs our action and is in charge of our survival. Let's develop the heart.
Doing something heartfelt is easy — take someone to lunch, buy a bunch of flowers for a friend, make a home-cooked meal to share, send a card, offer to do an errand, babysit. When we open our hearts we all feel better.
by Dwora Fried
At first glance, my boxes look like miniature dollhouse rooms but this latest series has a lot of personal meaning for me.
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My heart is devoted to finding the divine in nature and each of us.
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How many of us lie???
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The dictionary meaning of 'Lie' is given as, "a false statement made with deliberate intend to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood." The definition of the word Lie itself gives a negative connotation, but according to Judith Viorst, there are some grounds where telling a lie is
actually considered to be fine and is practiced in daily life. But not all lies are accepted in the society. Lies are categorizes into many namely Social lies, Peace-Keeping Lies and Protective Lies and Trust-Keeping Lies.
For a person to lie has always been seen as a negative character in that individual but after reading Viorst's article "The Truth about Lying," it has increased my perception of how lying has positive sides as well. A lie differs with situation and also to whom we are telling a lie.
We all have lied on one way or the other. For example, To save our friend from not getting hurt we tell white lies, for instance, if a friend
asks us how is his/her new dress then we answer that it's nice and looks good on him/her. Some lies are obvious, when someone asks us how are we, we answer them that we are fine even though we aren't. I remember, last time I was sick and I was admitted in the Health Center for almost a week. I received phone calls from home but I didn't tell them about my situation here. I lied saying that I am fine and I am attending the classes regularly. This lie is not a harmful lie. This lie is better than the truth. If I had told them that I am sick and I have been admitted in the health center for almost a week, my parents will be worried about me. My parents can't come to see me within hours, since they are so far from me; all they can do is get worried about my health, telling a small lie is better than the truth, in situations like this.
On the other hand, lying is not always good. In the beginning we tell a small lie and later to hide that lie we create another lie. Again, to maintain those lies we create chains of lie and in the end it leads to no good consequences. I remember telling my father that I got good marks in one of the class tests. Then he asked me to bring that paper so that he can see it, I told him that the teacher took it back after we had a glance at the paper. But actually, the paper was with me and I had failed in that paper. The day after that, one of my cousins came to my house and my father found out that the paper was given to the students by the teacher. And later in the evening, my dad asked me politely about the papers and I was sincerely creating some more lies and adding more to hide what I had said before. At the end of it all, I got scolding and punishment too, since he knew that I was only lying all the time.
"I am willing to lie. But just as a last resort—the truth's always better" (Viorst 185).


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Hemorrhoids are vascular structures in the anal canal which help with stool control. They become pathological or piles when swollen or inflamed. In their normal state, they act as a cushion which helps in continence to the passage of stools and flatus. They are of Internal and External types.
Internal hemorrhoids usually present with painless rectal bleeding while external hemorrhoids if thrombosed can cause significant pain and swelling in the area of the anus. Many people incorrectly refer to any symptom occurring around the anal-rectal area as "hemorrhoids" and serious causes of the symptoms should be ruled out. While the exact cause of hemorrhoids remains unknown, a number of factors which increase intra-abdominal pressure, in particular constipation, are believed to play a role in their development.
Internal hemorrhoids are those that originate above the dentate line which is approximately 4 cms above the anal verge. They lack pain receptors. They were classified into 4 grades.
- Grade I: No prolapse, just prominent blood vessels.
- Grade II: Prolapse upon bearing down, but spontaneous reduction.
- Grade III: Prolapse upon bearing down requiring manual reduction.
- Grade IV: Prolapse with an inability to be manually reduced.
Initial treatment for mild to moderate disease consists of increasing fiber intake, oral fluids to maintain hydration, NSAIDs to help with the pain, and the rest. A number of minor procedures may be performed if symptoms are severe or do not improve with conservative management. Surgery is reserved for those who fail to improve following these measures. Up to half of people may experience problems with hemorrhoids at some point in their life. The outcomes are usually good.
Haemorrhoids, also known as piles, are swellings that contain enlarged blood vessels that are found inside or around the bottom (the rectum and anus). CMC Mohali specialize in treatment of piles in Mohali.
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Request for Qualifications
Seeking Partner Organizations for Claiborne Corridor Ambassadors Program
Bike Easy is seeking partner organizations to participate in our Claiborne Corridor Ambassador Program, a paid training program for community members to help improve transportation options and streets in their neighborhoods. Developed out of the Foundation for Louisiana's Equity Caucus Transportation Working Group, the program will recruit and train Ambassadors to identify transportation challenges and develop community solutions to promote walking, biking, transit, and livable streets in their neighborhoods. Partner organizations would participate in the Program Steering Group, assist in holding a community forum to discuss the program with community members, and would help to identify, nominate, and support ambassadors from their community networks. Small grants are available for participating organizations. Apply here today!
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the extended July 22, 2015 deadline.
Nearly half the people living, working, and going to school in the Claiborne Corridor do not own a car and rely on walking, biking, and taking public transit. Unfortunately, areas with high concentrations of poverty, like the Claiborne Corridor, also have disproportionate numbers of pedestrian and bike crashes.
The Claiborne Corridor Ambassador Program will work to understand community residents' needs and desires for changes and improvements to their local streets and then amplify their voices through community-driven campaigns that advocate for safe, equitable, and affordable transportation options.
For more information on the Claiborne Corridor Ambassador Program, please visit the Program Overview page and explore Foundation for Louisiana's Equity Caucus.
Partner Organization Role
We are seeking partner organizations to serve on Claiborne Corridor Ambassador Program Steering Group (a part of the Equity Caucus Transportation Working Group), assist with ambassador nomination, and facilitate community engagement in the project. As a partner organization, you would participate in the following ways:
- Participating in the quarterly Steering Group meetings
- Assistance with setting up and providing outreach for Community Listening Sessions – community forums focusing on the project scope
- Nominating potential ambassadors from within your community network
- Supporting Claiborne Corridor Ambassadors and connecting Ambassadors to your organization's community networks when/if necessary
- Providing project feedback for to include in a final "toolkit" about the project
We are seeking organizations located along the Claiborne Corridor and/or serving a constituency in the neighborhood, since the focus on partnership will be community engagement, recruitment, and development. Ambassadors will be selected based on nominations from community partner organizations.
Timeline and Compensation
Beginning in July 2015 and lasting through summer of 2016, the program will take place in two phases, first developing a cohort of Ambassadors in N. Claiborne and then moving to S. Claiborne (see the Program Overview for more detail). Partner organizations will participate during the entire program with the timing for heavier workload periods dependent on which cohort the organization focuses on.
We expect the time commitment from organizations to be approximately 30 hours over the course of the program with short periods of high activity. Organizations are eligible to receive a sub-grant of $775 for coordination and outreach over the course of the project.
To express interest, please fill out our online application form by Wednesday, July 8. You can also download the application and send it by mail to Bike Easy, P.O. Box 19371, New Orleans, LA 70179.
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Japan to Open a Real Life Pokemon Gym
I didn't stutter. A real life Pokémon EXPO Gym is opening on November 19, 2015 in Osaka, Japan. I don't know if I should be geeking out or stressing my concern for today's society. Either way, the expo gym is definitely going to open it's doors next month.
Comicbook.Com reports that, "The center will let fans interact with the pocket monsters in new ways, while also being a learning center for kids, helping to teach problem solving and communication to young fans. But more importantly, you can be digitally inserted into a Pokémon battle, play and endless runner with your body, and learn to fight like your favorite characters from the popular game series."
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Amazon's LOVEFiLM Signs Twentieth Century Fox Content Deal
25 Jun, 2012, 09:00 BST
LONDON, June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon Company, and Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution have today announced a major multi-year content deal giving LOVEFiLM members streaming access to recent and forthcoming movies and TV series.
LOVEFiLM members will have instant, exclusive on-demand access to what is known as the second pay television window of Twentieth Century Fox film content.
The film deal commences with titles theatrically released in the UK in 2011, which will be made available to subscribers to the LOVEFiLM service as early as March 2013.
The deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution will also give LOVEFiLM members access to movies and TV series from the studio's library of much-loved titles, and will add to LOVEFiLM's already extensive TV catalogue. TV titles from Twentieth Century Fox's television library, available from July 2012, will include early seasons of motorcycle drama Sons of Anarchy and all seasons of 24, Prison Break, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
LOVEFiLM members will be able to enjoy these, and a huge range of other titles, on-demand as part of their subscription via the LOVEFiLM Instant service - available on the PC, Mac or via Sony Playstation®3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Apple iPad® and a growing number of Internet-connected TV sets and Blu-ray players.
This is the latest in a long line of content deals announced by LOVEFiLM in the past 12 months, including agreements with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, NBC Universal, Entertainment One, STUDIOCANAL, Disney, ABC, BBC and ITV.
Amazon's LOVEFiLM will continue to rent Twentieth Century Fox titles on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-Ray 3D via its LOVEFiLM By Post service.
Jim Buckle, MD of LOVEFiLM, said: "It feels great to announce another major studio deal for LOVEFiLM. Twentieth Century Fox is one of the world's leading studios, known across the globe for creating fantastic, iconic content. This partnership will give LOVEFiLM members access to the studio's huge range of recent movies and the opportunity to revisit some of the best American TV series produced in recent years."
Gina Brogi, EVP of Worldwide Pay Television and Subscription Video on Demand for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution added: "We are delighted to be partnered with LOVEFiLM on this new window for Fox films in the UK. This film and series agreement enables us to give UK fans yet another avenue to enjoy the great stories and characters they have come to know and love from our studio."
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text: Complete List of Car Manufactures and Their Logos Geek 12 June, 2011 28 Comments Car Logos Wallpaper Here is the complete list of car companies and their logos from around the world. Abadal Abarth Abbott Acura AC Adler Aixam AJS Albion Alfa Romeo Allard Alldays & Onions Alpine Alta Alvis American Motors Corporation (AMC) American Austin American Bantam Amilcar Amphicar Ansaldo Aquila Arden Argyll Ariel Ariès Armstrong Siddeley Auto Romania (ARO) Arrol-Johnston ASA Ascari Aston Martin Auburn Audi Austin-Healy Austin-Morris Autobacs Autobianchi AV Monocar Avanti AWZ Ballot Bandini Baoding Dadi Bayliss-Thomas Bean Bebi Beijing Automobile Works Belsize Bentall Bentley Benz Berkeley Berliet Bianchi Biddle Bignan Biscuter Bitter Bizzarrini Blixt BMC BMW Bond Borgward Brammo Bricklin Bristol Bufori Bugatti Buick Bungartz BYD C.A.C Cadillac Cardi Caterham Ceirano Charron Chenard & Walcker Chery Chevrolet Chrysler Cisitalia Citroen Cizeta-Moroder Clyno Cole Connaught Continental Motors Corbin Corre-La Licorne Crane Simplex Crosley Cross Lander Crossley Dacia Daewoo DAF Daihatsu Darracq Daimler Datsun Dauer DB De Dion-Bouton Delage Delahaye Delaunay-Belleville Delfino Dellow De Lorean Derways DeTomaso Detroit Electric Diatto Dampf-Kraft Wagen (DKW) Dodge Dongfeng Donkervoort Durant Eagle EDAG Edsel (Ford) Eisenacher Motoren Werke (EMW) Elfin Elva Facel Vega Farboud First Automobile Works (FAW) Ferrari Fiat Fioravanti Fisker Flint Force Ford Franklin Frazer Nash Freestream Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych (FSO) Fudi FuldaMobil Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod(GAZ) Geely Geo Georges Irat Giannini Gilbern Gillet Ginetta Glas General Motors (GM) GMC GN GoNOw Gray-Dort Great Wall Gurgel Gutbrod Guy Motors Hafei Hebei Zhongxing (ZXauto) Heinkel Hillman Hindustan Motors Hispano-Suiza Holden Hommell Honda Cars Horch Hotchkiss et Cie Humber Hummer Hupmobile Hyundai Infinti Intermeccanica International Harvester Invicta Isdera Iso Rivolta Isotta-Fraschini Isuzu Itala Izh Jaguar Jawa Jeep Jensen Jiangling (JMC) Joss Jösse Car Jowett Kaiser Kewet Kia Koenigsegg Lada LaFayette Laforza Lagonda Lamborghini Lanchester Lancia Land Rover Laraki Lvivsky Avtomobilny Zavod (LAZ) Lea-Francis Leblanc Lexus Leyland Ligier Lincoln Lister Lloyd Locomoblie Lola Lorraine Dietrich Lotus Lutskiy Avtomobilnyy Zavod (Luaz) Lucien Rosengart Magna Steyr Mahindra Marathon Marcos Marmon Maruti Maserati Mathis Matra Maxwell Maybach Mazda McLaren Mercedes-Benz Mercury Merkur Messerschmitt Métallurgique MG Minerva Mini Mitsubishi Monica Moretti Morgan Morris Mors Mosler Nanqi Napier Nazzaro Nissan Noble Nota Neckarsulmer Fahrradwerke A.G.(NSU) Oldsmobile Oltcit Societa Anonima Officine Meccaniche (OM) Opel Orca Osca Overland Packard Pagani Paige Panhard et Levassor Panoz Panther Peerless Pegaso Perodua Peugeot Pierce Arrow Pininfarina Plymouth Pontiac Porsche Proto Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional (Proton) Qvale Railton Rambler Renault Reo Reva Riley Rinspeed Rolls Royce Rothwell Rover Rumi Russo Baltique Saab Saleen Salmson Saturn Scania Scion Seat Shelby Siata Siddeley-Deasy Simca Singer Sivax Skoda Smart SPA Spectre Spyker Standard Stanga Stanguellini Steyr Stoddard-Dayton Stoewer Studebaker Stutz Subaru Sunbeam Suzuki Talbot Tata Tatra Tesla Motors Think Toyota Trabant Tramontana Triumph Trojan Troller Tucker TVR Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (UAZ) União Metalo-Mecânica (UMM) Unic Vabis Valiant Valmet Vanden Plas Vandenbrink Vauxhall Vector Velie Venturi Vignale Virago Voisin Volkswagen Volvo Wanderer Wartburg Westcott Westfield Wiesmann Willys Wolseley Yugo Zagato Zastava ZAZ Zhejiang Zhonghua Zavod Imeni Likhacheva (ZIL) Zimmer Car logo Complete List Video Comments vipin bansal June 25, 2012 / Reply Good Collection of Logos and Manufacturers Pradeep Katwe February 11, 2013 / Reply Thanks to publish the logos. I have mad passion of Automobiles so i want to know the history & logos of all the Auto ( 2/3/4 wheelers & heavy vehicles) manufacturer in the enter world. Please help me. nanda February 17, 2013 / Reply i wanna know about more details , i mean logo,name,starting year,place. Anne February 18, 2013 / Reply Can you identify this logo for me please Description "C" "A" and a back to front "C" all joined together looks like an egg with an A in the middle. jim February 22, 2013 / Reply saw a car with logo that was an oval with a shallow "v" inside, at a glance thought it was a Mazda but it wasn't can anybody help with the I.D. of model please Khai March 30, 2015 / Reply i think u saw the car logo was Veloster V 🙂 Lynn March 9, 2013 / Reply I love cars and one day I saw an unusual logo and can't kind out what it is anywhere. Perhaps you can help. It sort of resembles the Lexus logo, but looks more like a Hawk head sideways pointing to the right in a circle. This was the only identifier on this car. Thanks. Donna September 14, 2013 / Reply I think I saw one of those yesterday – I was on this site trying to find it. Looked EXTREMELY well built – sleek. No name – no nothing, but I didn't see the front. Only the back and side. carlo March 19, 2013 / Reply tnx for posting,, I'm looking for it,, hope I can save it suresh MBA March 27, 2013 / Reply really super collection . its look like my sebnooms anooj joseph April 4, 2013 / Reply its realy wonderfull to have this much big collection Prem April 15, 2013 / Reply you forgot MAHINDRA shreedhar June 5, 2013 / Reply REALLY GOOD COLLECTION EVEN WEBSITE IS ALSO GOOD WE GET ALL DETAILS ABOUT CARS.. KEEP UPDATING THANK YOU… Allen Keefer December 22, 2013 / Reply Trying to identify a sport car, I believe a two seater, by it's logo; two circles, one inside the other, connected at the bottom by a vertical line. Can anyone help? 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Volunteer for Open Wednesdays
We are looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to help shape our Culture Cafe community programme. You would be required to attend most of the Wednesday morning sessions (we shut for August) to help serve tea and coffee and to use your creativity to help us co-ordinate future activities.
Open Wednesdays run from 11am to 2pm every week. Organised by Union Chapel Church these friendly sessions provide hot drinks and conversation and offer an eclectic mix of activities such as organ sessions and art drop-ins.
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Fostering Design DIScussion
GBBN's Design Issue Series (DIS) is a yearly, inter-office exhibit that digs into different design issues, from digital tools and prefabrication to perception and public space. This year's effort, DIS: Screen Time, explores the presence of the screen: How do screens distort our understanding of space and scale? How do screens shape our perception of our environment? How do screens shape the environment itself?
DIS's aim has always been to deepen the community's connection to design by sharing the thinking and making that go into creating the built world. This year is no exception. We are using GBBN's social media channels (especially, Instagram) to crowdsource content that will use screens to experiment with scale.
How will it work? A submission template was just released that invites anyone who is interested in participating to create a design that occupies a pre-determined, orthogonal (diamond) template. The design can involve anything, from hand-drawn images, photography, to gifs or video content. Submissions, which will be collected until August 16th, will be displayed on GBBN's Instagram feed as well as in a series of projection mapping installations in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville that display the submissions at vastly different scales, ranging from room-sized surfaces to roughly 1'x1.5', 3D cells.
Learn how to participate here.
See previous editions of our Design Issue Series here.
Be sure to keep an eye on our Instagram account for updates.


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The Business of Personal Training eBook
This book is an expanded and updated version of S.P.A.R.T.A.'s first book, Start, Operate, and Grow Your Personal Training Business.
That book was very well received and they have taken it a step further with more thorough updates and larger sections on sales, finance, taxes, and customer service concerning personal training and fitness businesses.
There are additional tools and promotional deals for you contained inside.


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A Jeep's power has always been expressed through its transmission -- by clawing its way over obstacles that only a low-range transfer case could manage.
A Jeep's power has always been expressed through its transmission -- by clawing its way over obstacles that only a low-range transfer case could manage.
The next generation of this grand tourer keeps up the martial-artist-in-a-tux personality
The F-600 returns after 20 years, but it's strictly for commercial customers
Brand snobbery is a thing, apparently, where certain folks like to spend their money on expensive products with 'important' names.
CALGARY — A Sequoia is a really big tree that grows in California. A Sequoia is also Toyota's full-size SUV.
CALGARY—Trucks long ago shed their no-frills roots. They've become luxury vehicles, but with all the hauling utility of their rough and ready forbearers.
Audi's first foray into the electric SUV segment is just the beginning
Since its debut a little over five years ago, the BMW i3 has been a respectable sales performer for the German automaker – at least as far as electric cars go, ranking as the third best-selling all-electric vehicle in history, and the planet's best-selling EV in the premium segment.
Calgarian spends week with sporty sedan and comes away very impressed
Sticking to simple, time-honoured formula has made this model the world's best-selling two-seat convertible
CALGARY, Alberta — Volkswagen's 2019 Jetta should appeal to all demographics. At least, that's what VW's latest TV commercial would have you believe – that's the one where Dad sneaks out in Junior's car and takes his senior friends for a midnight joy ride.


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A mother he thought he'd lost. A father he never knew. An enemy that wants them dead.
"The frantic plot will keep readers on edge."
—Kirkus Reviews
Can Chase Day discover why his family is a target before an unknown enemy destroys him?
At the age of five, Chase Day became an orphan. For thirty-one years, after a rebellious youth, he did his best to build a normal life—first as a Naval Officer and then as a history professor at a boutique Bay Area college. But now all that changes when he finds his mother, whom he thought had died in a fire, dying from a gunshot wound. In her last breath, she urges him to locate and protect the father he never knew. Where has his father been? Why has he never made contact? And, most critically, why does he need protection? In his search for the truth, Chase will learn the meaning of friendship and family and suffer the heart-wrenching pain of betrayal.
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"The frantic plot will keep readers on edge."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Daryl Wood Gerber has proven again to be a gifted storyteller and one to watch in this genre. An absolute must-read!"
—Escape with Dollycas
"...a roller coaster of a ride that had my heart palpitating."
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Tramell Isaac
Planetside 2 players have made thousands selling custom in-game items
Sony Online Entertainment has released a video of Planetside 2's Senior Art Director, Tramell Isaac, interviewing some of the players who create and sell in-game items, and their results have been pretty impressive.
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Planetside 2 engine to power all future SoE MMOs
Sony Online Entertainment is so pleased with the engine built for Planetside 2 – ForegeLight – that it's going to put it to work in future projects, too.
SOE has a five-year plan in place for PlanetSide 2
PlanetSide 2's senior art director Tramell Isaac has said the development team plans to constantly add new items to the game's store on regular basis.


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If you are a startup just gathering requests for access to your beta – or an established company with an existing customer base – you likely understand the importance of maintaining a positive relationship with customers.
Customer service and support requests can come in different forms and involve complicated processes. However, you can get a simple email-based customer service team setup with FogBugz in about 5 minutes.
First things first – set up an account
First, you'll need a FogBugz On Demand account. If you haven't set up an account yet – take 30 seconds and get started now. This will create a free, 7 day, fully functional account where you can begin interacting with customers immediately.
What does FogBugz provide "out of the box"?
- You have a working email address to receive emails. Just send an email to cases@<Your FogBugz URL>.fogbugz.com. (This address comes pre-baked into FogBugz – but you can add your own custom emails easily as well)
- Your trial has two projects created – an Inbox project and a Sample Project. The Inbox project is set to sort inbound emails. That email you sent to your cases@ email address will will appear in this project as a Case.
- You have two initial users set up – one for you and an "Unassigned" Virtual User for the work queue.
Add your customer team
Go to the the Gear icon and scroll down to Users.
Click "Add New User" at the bottom. Your team will generally consist of Normal or Admin users (more details here).
In the image, I am setting up John Smith to be a Normal FogBugz user. If John needed access to Kiln, our integrated Git and Mercurial source code management tool, leave that check box selected.
Add your custom "help" email address
Now that the team has been brought into FogBugz, set up the email address you'd like customers to use to reach out. One example is firstname.lastname@example.com. If you prefer, you can also stick with the preset cases@<your FogBugz URL>.fogbugz.com.
Simply go to the Gear Icon again, and select Mailboxes. (You'll need to know your mail server connection information.)
Once you've added your mail configuration details, FogBugz will check this email account and convert these emails into a FogBugz case. Test this out by sending an email to your help address and watch the magic happen. More about POP3 and IMAP
Next up, more mail settings!
In addition to the basic connection settings needed to allow FogBugz to read in email, there are other settings that you may also want to adjust:
- Reply Automatically
When "Reply Automatically" is set to "On", FogBugz will send an automatic reply to all incoming emails. This lets your customer know their inquiry has been received. You can turn this notice off or update the reply's message content. Make sure to include "Case {case}" in your subject so that replies to the auto reply are automatically linked to the existing case.
- Due
When an email is converted to a case, you can set a due date automatically. This ensures your customers receive timely responses. The default is set to leave the Due field blank but you can easily turn this on and set the value.
- Autosort
Your Inbox project came pre-configured with three default Areas (Undecided, Spam, Not Spam). When an email arrives, FogBugz learns to automatically sort cases into these areas. FogBugz Autosort helps keep the focus on important customer emails.
The Autosort setting is enabled by default.
Time to create your queue!
By default, the FogBugz account creator is the Primary Contact for the initial projects. With the updates we've made above, the account creator will be assigned ALL cases by default for customer emails. To avoid this, you can use the Virtual User as the Primary Contact to create a queue.
Go to the gear icon and select the Users item. Next, edit the Virtual User named "Unassigned". The Virtual User can receive email notifications so you could use a group email alias. Alternatively, you can edit the "Unassigned" user to disable email notifications. Note that if your FogBugz On Demand Account was created before 9/10/2015, you'll need to create a new user:
Now that there is a Virtual User, you can adjust the Project to make the Virtual User the Primary Contact for Project Inbox. To do this, go to the Gear Icon and select Projects. Next edit the "Inbox" project.
You'll notice that the Primary Contact is set to your account (if you created the FogBugz account). Change the Primary Contact field to the Virtual User created ("Up For Grabs" in this example).
Scroll to the bottom of the Project page and select 'OK' to save.
Now give yourself a pat on the back – your Help Desk is ready to go! You've configured your custom email and set up a queue for your team members to pull cases from. When a case arrives, it will be assigned to your Virtual User. Your Help Desk team can begin responding to cases and delighting your customers.


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Mrs. Ryan's 8th Grade Youth Ministry Class Lenten Project
The Stations of the Cross, or Way of the Cross, is a form of devotion commemorating the Passion and death of Christ for the redemption of our sins, and through His resurrection the promise of eternal life.
How to use the Station Cards:
Click each Station to reveal the name of the Station, a Focus Word (to help relate your life to the passion and suffering of Jesus) and a Prayer Petition.
Meditate and Pray on each station.
We suggest you include praying an Our Father, Hail Mary , and Glory Be at the end of each station in recognition of God our Father, Mary, Jesus' mother, and affirming our faith in the Holy Trinity.
Resources: Focus and Petition statements from Jim Merhaut. Way of the Cross for Families, Liguori Publications, 2008.


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If your organization uses or is considering Office 365, there are important legal risks when company data in the cloud intersects with litigation. Your Information Technology Department or vendor might own the nuts and bolts, but the Legal Department is the architect of litigation strategy and budget. Make sure you know how the pieces come together.
Please join Husch Blackwell's eDiscovery team and global legal process outsourcing company DTI for a session outlining the top five questions you need answered if you are responsible for litigation in a current or future Office 365 environment.
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Theater Technician
Bob joined the Theatre and Dance Department staff in 1978 after graduating from San Francisco State University's Theatre Department with a B.A. in technical theatre. He had additional training working several intense summers for The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria and Solvang in central California. Prior to starting at SCU, he worked as a stagehand at Das Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
In his role as theatre technician he works with students teaching them productions skills in the areas of lighting, scenery construction, and sound. He also maintains all of the theatrical equipment for Mayer Theatre & the dance studios.
As a member of I.A.T.S.E. local 134 (the stagehands union), he can be seen occasionally backstage at Shoreline Ampitheatre, the San Jose Arena (SAP Center), Levis Stadium, and the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts working setups for plays and concerts.


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So we're finally there, landed last night just before dusk set in which allowed us a beautiful view over the mouth of the river Rokel and its serpentines… The highlight of the flight from London was an amazing view over the Sahara desert, which looks like parched dry skin, complete with wrinkles and goosebumps and goes on for ever…
A short helicopter flight and a slightly bumpy ride later, we were in our very own little bit of paradise, complete with balcony and a view over the ocean.
So, to sum up…
Suitcases lost: 1
Suitcases found again: 1!
Helicopter flights: 1
Local Star beers under the stars: 3 (or was it 4?)
Cockroaches: 2, well, maybe 3
Cold Showers (in a good way!): 1
Level of excitement and amazement: pretty much off the scale!!
Impressions so far: the place is beautiful, lush and green; to say that it is an 'active' city seems an understatement and the local beer is good. More to come I'm sure…
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The average temperature is 26 °C (78.8 °F) and varies from around 26 °C (78.8 °F) to 36 °C (96.8 °F) during the year.
Not that I'm trying to make anyone jealous…
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It's official, we're leaving in just over two weeks… Still so much to do, pack my things, throw (give?) away half my possessions, do all the jabs, clean the flat 'professionally', say goodbye to all my friends, find a job in Freetown, finish my job in London, etc and yet I just spent two hours reading my brand new guide to Sierra Leone. I now know that young boys often set up roadblocks on the road down the coast and that I can buy wellies in Freetown. Vital information I'd say…
It's strange having your head filled with images of what our new life might be while packing up the old one. It's like struggling to empty our life as we know it, only to have it filled up to the brim with new sounds, new sights, new smells… Let's hope I manage to make up enough space for all the novelty, I think we're going to need it!!


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9 September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day and we'd love to see you wearing your red shoes during the whole month of September.
Red Shoes Rock! is about everyday kiwis stepping out in red shoes to build awareness of FASD during September.
Help spread the word by sharing why you'll be Rocking Red Shoes in September!
We can all play a part, big or small, in preventing FASD. We have the choice to give our children the best start in life, and we can do it today!
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Sorry about the delay in posting. It's been quite a day indeed.
But let me sum up the main speeches:
- Harry Reid…sad little man.
- Ted Strickland is so partisan it hurts. I guess because he's no longer in office and lost to John Kasich still tickles his britches because he's so blindly partisan, it annoys me.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley (MD)….for being a "2016 contender," he sucked.
- Lilly Ledbetter…annoys me.
- Corey Booker…Senate candidate 2014, "Book" it. Haha.
- Mayor Julian Castro….compelling life story and an up-and-comer "Hispanic Obama." But look, he isn't going anywhere really. Big-city mayors in Texas have little appeal outside of their cities (Kirk 2002, White 2010, Leppert 2012). If he runs for Congress and parlays it t the Senate, perfect. If he runs for state rep/senator and parlays it to Governor, even better. He won't be the first Hispanic governor of Texas…in order: (1) George P. Bush; (2) Rafael Anchia; (3) Leticia van de Putte. But he's a great speaker who can deliver a punch with a smile. Rare talent.
- Michelle Obama: fantastic. She makes Barack Obama look really good, but that's what wives do. Great story, really brought people to tears, and inspired many. But enough of the Michelle/Ann 2016 crap. Spouses don't translate well after speeches (read: Elizabeth Dole, 1996 -> failed presidential run in 2000).
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Products reviewed are self-purchased.
I received my Darling Diva order (Honey Dew, Persephone, and Zen Pool) on Saturday, and from the moment I first saw it, I just loved the look of Persephone. It is so pretty, and the color shift is so dramatic. I knew as soon as I could take off the wedding manicure (my brother's wedding), I'd be using Persephone as a manicure. I wanted to add to the drama, so I started off with a thin (and slightly patchy) coat of Orly's High on Hope:
Then I used just one coat of Persephone over the top. Formula was a dream – not thick, and easy to apply a thin coat. This is inside, with flash:
These are inside, no flash. I tried to show the color change:
These are outside, no flash.
Isn't this just so pretty? I'm so glad I took a chance on buying this. You can find Darling Diva on facebook, and on her etsy shop (on vacation mode right now). What's on your nails today?


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It is that time of the day again.. when we talk about coffee. Coffee makes the world go round and your head straight. Deep rich clouds of absolute...
It is that time of the day again.. when we talk about coffee. Coffee makes the world go round and your head straight. Deep rich clouds of absolute awesomeness. You turn the espresso machine on, just press that little button (if you can open your eyes before sipping the magical potion) and go perform your morning tasks in a fashionably slow pace. You put your mascara on and leave some tiny dots of imperfection, hey, it is cool to look messy nowadays, grab that long americano and get going. Just round the corner you pinch the daily newspaper and rush for the bus. This part is optional and applies only if you have no car. I'd leave my americano if I had to do that.
Well, to be fair with you I don't like americano, but you get the idea.
On your way to the office, contemplating the news you have read from your newspaper, or e-read from the e-reader, i-read on the internet, or not read because someone was too loud, you start thinking when you will be having your next cup of bliss that would set the tone for work.
You step into the white, minimalistic office with modern ecclectic upholstered furniture and opt for the beloved corner, the one which proudly contains the coffee machine on a high pedestal. This machine is what gives you power, you cherish it, clean it, nourish it with fine coffee beans, sing songs to it while you are alone and caress it while it prepares your cup of espresso. Well, you step into this heaven of a place, waltzing to the machine or fashionably queueing if you have missed your bus and there is someone already there.
One espresso, expresso, per favore. The day needs to start and you have got to keep moving. You crack the window open and let the fine autumn breeze bring on golden leaves in and the aroma of the mountain where you could be, but are not. You could slowly brew one up there, by the way. Reading a book sprawled on a carpet sewn by mother nature which theatrically ... sh,
Colleague: "Good morning."
You: "Oh, hi."
Let's talk about the coffee again some other time. I've got some emails I should see to.
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Lawn chair with umbrella – Going camping is the passion of many people, and is a great alternative to parties at night that are also very expensive. The best thing about camping is that you can go anywhere; you can travel even to other countries and simply stop where you want to set up your camp. In these moments you have to have everything to enjoy the moment and also the views, and for this, basic pieces that will undoubtedly be one of your favorites are camping chairs. The garden chairs after all are nothing without cushions; these are what give them all their charm and color. Putting the cushions of one design or another, you not only transform the garden chairs into new ones, but also the general vision of the garden changes.
This is why it is very important that you focus well on your choice, choose them with flowers to continue with the color that already brings the garden, white colors that give off purity or colorful to give joy. And of course, feel comfortable! What should a good camping chair have? Lawn chair with umbrella are not simple chairs, they bring with them some special features and amenities that will make you look for the minimum excuse to use them. For starters, the camping chairs are foldable, so they are very easy to carry from one place to another.
On the other hand, they are made of very resistant materials so that you do not have to treat them with delicacy, in a camping the delicate furniture of little value. They have a backrest and a very wide seat so that you feel more comfortable than in a lawn chair with umbrella or armchair, and in the armrests they have some couplings so that you can store your drink there. With all this, you can use them in many activities, from sitting at the table to eat to go fishing, and even take a nap!


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Thanks! I live in an area where 99% of the homes are forced air heat and the ones with boilers usually have a small area with pex. I figure most local HVAC guys work on 1,000 forced air systems and one hot water heat system each season (so they aren't really fans of hot water heat).hot rod said:
....I suspect you have hard water and that is where the problem starts. Glycols also breakdown after time especially in dirty systems, it needs to go. The ph is another indicator of bad fluid.
EG can be recycled at most any auto parts supply, repair shops etc. Diluted enough and it can go down the drain. A tester is the only sure way to know exactly what % solution you actually have.
It would be great if what was in there was just propylene - then I really could do a full flush and refill. I just have to figure out how to do it without wrecking the house...hot rod said:
The air sep can be downstream of the pump, but try to always pump away from the tank connection.
....Yes automotive antifreeze testers will test both PG and EG. Car manufacturers have been switching to the less toxic PG for antifreeze.
Great idea! If the hygrometer and thermometer were accurate enough, you could even calculate the the glycol type(s).Leonard said:
For testing a car coolant of mixed types I once just put a 1/4 inch of it in cup and put it in freezer. My freezer will go down to ~ minus 20 deg if run it ~ 15 hours straight.
I had a thermocouple wire for quick temp test of the liquid


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Strange as it may seem some people don't want the more unusual glyphs to be accessible except through the proper methods. For instance the 'Cyrillic Descender' in 'Kelvinch' which is only ever used as part of a composite.Psymon wrote:Why would anyone even "want" to use unmapped glyphs, though? I mean, if there's thousands of empty mapped slots to plop your glyph in, why not use them, so that everyone can have access to all your characters?
I have mapped it to the Private Use Area but I doubt anyone would ever use it as a standalone character.
I think that having everything mapped gives people more flexibility when composing documents.


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Since early 2013 we introduce the Mamboboxes in our range and already now they are an inseparable part of this. The modern design and the extremely stable and durable Material pleases many of our customers worldwide. The Mambobox is available in many versions. Whether rollforged, fully ground or TIN; whether 19pcs. or 25pcs. equipped, you'll find the right Mambobox for the right price here at Feida. Please take a look on our information sheet on the following page for more information and impressions of our new member in our standard range.
The drill bits are available stock Willich since mid 2012. For the beginning we decided us for three different diameters of 30mm, 65mm and 80mm and offer you for every diameter the right extension with an SDS+ shank. For details about the material quality, available quantities and minimum order please call us or write us via E-Mail. You can find a chart of the article numbers and diameters on the following page.


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Top 10 Jewish Basketball Players.
With the start of Yom Kippur we take a look at the best Jewish basketball players of all-time.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: From Schayes to Stoudemire, Jewish ballers have always been an important part of the game.
Tonight at sundown the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins. This is the holiest day of the year for Jewish people and is marked by a 25-hour fasting period with prayer. People don't usually associate the NBA with Jewish players, but the history of Jewish ballers making a serious impact on the game is very real. It exists today with names like Stoudemire and also runs back to some of the very first basketball leagues ever formed with names like Sedran.
This made us here at HoopsVibe wonder about the best Jewish basketball players ever, so we did a little research and put together our own Top 10 list of Jewish basketball players.
#10 Jordan Farmar: Averaged 7.7 PPG playing for both the Los Angeles Lakers and the New Jersey Nets.
#9 Art Heyman: Made NBA All-Rookie Team 1963.
#8 Danny Schayes: Averaged 13.9 PPG and 8.2 RPG for the Denver Nuggets.
#7 Sam Balter: Member of the 1936 Olympic Basketball Team and was the only Jewish-American to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games.
#6 Larry Brown: Winner of a gold medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
#5 Barney Sedran: Was considered one of the greatest basketball players of the 1910 and 1920s.
#4 Max Friedman: Led the NBA in scoring in 1947 with 1007 points.
#3 Amar'e Stoudemire: Averaged 21 PPG, 8.6 RPG, was the 2002-2003 Rookie of the Year, 6 All-Star teams, and is currently in the middle of a 5-year $100 million dollar contract with the Knicks.
#2 Nat Holman: American sportswriters named him the third greatest player of the first half of the century.
#1 Dolph Schayes: Named to 12 consecutive All-Star games from 1951-1962.
For more info, updates, and dirty filthy NBA gossip follow @HoopsVibe.
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Current Behavior: If you type the letters "dr" into the search box on the watch tab, it finds heroes with the letters "dr", such as Drow Ranger. If you then switch to the Arcade Tab, and type "dr" into the search box on the arcade tab, it finds games that have the letters "dr" in them. If you then switch BACK to the Watch Tab, and type "dr" again into the search box on the Watch Tab, it does NOT find heroes such as Drow Ranger, instead it continues to search for and display results for games in the Arcade, even though you are in fact on the Watch Tab, and you are in fact searching using the search box that is supposed to search for heroes.
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The goal of the OpenGardens blog is to discuss channels to market. And currently the marketplace is very fragmented. I found this article fascinating. It shows how fragmented the marketplace is -and how costly it is to get critical mass.
Sameer Bhatia says:
First the potential
• In China, there are 300 million mobile subscribers; this is expected to grow to 500 million within the next two years;
• Carriers such as Sprint and Vodafone report that mobile games and other data services now account for roughly 10 percent of their annual revenues;
• Industry consulting firm Ovum notes that there are now more than 450 million Java-enabled handsets globally, in addition to the 38 million and 15 million BREW- and Symbian-enabled handsets;
• Mobile-game publishers racked up $1.2 billion in global sales in 2004 and expect an even stronger year in 2005 as more and more consumers discover the tiny gaming consoles already in their pockets.
BUT then the pitfalls ..
When a mobile game is developed, it is made for one or two key handsets. In order to get that game to work on any other cell phone, the game has to be ported – adapted to work – on each and every other handset in the market. As the absolute number and type of handsets in the market grows almost exponentially, one can imagine the large-scale problem that game publishers face. The problem of disparate handset specifications is further compounded by different operating systems and programming languages, the most common of which are J2ME and BREW. The result? An overwhelming problem that renders a mobile game useless until it can work on the vast majority of handsets in the market.
Game porting generally requires developers to adapt to differences in screen resolution, processor speed, memory thresholds, and sound capabilities, all of which can vary wildly from device to device. For publishers, this can not only exponentially increase game development and asset creation time, but can also cause them to miss critical time-to-market windows in a hyper-competitive industry.
As an example, imagine that you are a mid-sized game publisher with 30 games in your portfolio. To make your games available worldwide in five languages and on only 50 devices, you would need to create 7,500 different builds. At $2,500 per build, you would require a budget of nearly $19 million simply to handle porting. Spending the money to get the ports done is normally not an issue for most publishers – a successful game will easily make them money. However, finding the time and resources to develop all of these ports is major problem.
I have heard the same feedback from many developers. Porting increases cost base BIG TIME!. But you need to port to reach a large sector of the market
This, sadly – is why I am not so optimistic about single player games. Granted that some branded games are making money – but most players are not. But very few will admit it!
source: mobenta/Sameer Bhatia
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We love hearing about successful crowdfunding campaigns and we're sharing our favorite ones with you. Check out our features about Das Wafel and Fold Project for more great crowdfunding success stories.
Like many entrepreneurial stories, OLIVERS begins with a product its founder couldn't find in stores. David Wolfe wanted athletic apparel that was also stylish, the kind of clothes 20-to-40-year-old men would want to wear. While J. Crew had an aesthetic Wolfe appreciated, the style and cuts of a contemporary men's brand like that didn't work for athletic apparel. Patagonia, Wolfe's favorite outerwear brand, didn't speak to the urban, athletic consumer either.
So was born the idea for OLIVERS – contemporary men's athletic apparel for the urban, stylish customer, explains Wolfe.
"There are a lot of men's athletic apparel brands out there," he says, "but they all offer similar products and experiences – ones that cater to a 21-year-old more than a 32-year-old."
In April 2013, Wolfe started evaluating his preliminary idea and sketching out a potential path to market. Over the next five months, he connected with people in the San Francisco apparel industry, including designers, pattern-makers, and manufacturers, to map out a go-to-market strategy. "We moved really quickly," he says.
Coming up shorts
By the end of those few months, Wolfe had a product prototype in-hand. Unlike most clothing brands, Wolfe wanted OLIVERS to launch with a single product. Typically, apparel companies launch with a collection, so by featuring only one product – men's shorts – OLIVERS was hoping its focus would help the company and the clothes stand out.
After deciding that shorts would be the jumping off point for the OLIVERS collection, Wolfe got to work designing what had been missing in the marketplace. OLIVERS' shorts were cut with a slimmer fit, made with high-quality water-repellant fabric, and ballistic mesh pocketing, none of which were found in typical athletic shorts.
Market testing through crowdfunding
Wolfe didn't approach banks, venture capitalists, or friends for advising or dollars when launching OLIVERS. He wanted market feedback before going all in. "I liked the idea of testing the concept in the market in a cost-effective manner," he says. "The market could tell us what they thought while also allowing us to sell them" to generate revenue.
In selecting a crowdfunding platform, Wolfe narrowed the list to Kickstarter and Indiegogo and ended up choosing Kickstarter because, "we felt their core customer [20-40-year-old males] would be more receptive to our brand."
The fact that Kickstarter does not hand over the capital raised unless the company meets its goal "was not a big concern," says Wolfe, perhaps because their initial target was only $10,000, and because much of the value of the campaign was in the market feedback.
To boost their odds of success, the OLIVERS team turned to their existing network of friends and family. "We became active on social media, to get our networks excited ahead of time; got other companies to take part in the campaign; and got press from reaching out to the media," explains Wolfe. It worked. OLIVERS exceeded its initial $10,000 in a big way, hitting $271,043 with 3,307 backers during the 30-day campaign.
So would Wolfe do anything differently the next time around? Although he has no regrets about the crowdfunding campaign and would use Kickstarter again, Wolfe says he would pad the delivery date, since the first production run of the shorts took longer than expected due to unexpected demand for the product. "It was a good problem, but a problem nonetheless," explains Wolfe.
In fact, OLIVERS did launch a second campaign on Kickstarter, for a sport boxer, which went very well, raising $55,411 against its $10,000 goal. While Wolfe says OLIVERS does not plan to launch any more Kickstarter campaigns at this time, the lessons learned are helping inform plans to introduce two more products–he won't disclose what they are–by year-end 2015.


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This web page is designed to provide timely information about an emergency situation and also to serve as a resource in the event of an emergency. I encourage you to take a moment to familiarize yourself with the University's safety procedures and the ways UD will communicate important emergency news to you.
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text: Charliezoo 0 Posted January 28, 2009 I found this Quinoderm Cream over the counter at Tesco's pharmacy yesterday and thought I'd give it a try. Its 10% BP and 0.5% Potassium Hydroxyquinoline Sulphate (not familiar with that one! ) I've been on prescription Isotretinoin gel for about 4 weeks now and it hasn't made much difference so far. I applied the Quinoderm last night before bed and woke up with the calmest looking skin I've had in months! The active acne I had is drying up and the red marks left by old spots have faded to pink. I know its very early days but so far so good, its also good under moisturiser and make-up which is a bonus. I'm intending to use this in the morning and continue with the Isotretinoin at night to give it a chance. I looked on the Quinoderm website and they have a face wash and wipes which they didn't have in Tesco's....anyone tried these or have tried the cream? I'd love to know what results other's have had Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Technology plays an important role in the curriculum at St. John Paul II. A school-wide network provides students and staff with filtered access to the Internet. All StJPII students receive comprehensive computer instruction. In First through Fifth Grade, students visit the Elementary Computer Lab weekly and are encouraged to utilize classroom computers. Middle School students apply their knowledge of computer skills across the curriculum as they integrate technical skills into their regular core classes. Each course of study in Middle School integrates a project or research into their curriculum.Technology Highlights
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Answers.com - Encyclopedias and reference galore! A unique search engine that primarily uses only reputable reference sources. The results don't come back as links but rather a nicely formatted page with information (text, audio, pictures) directly on the page. All references are cited in APA or MLA format.
Wikipedia - multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia wiki service. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a web browser.
KidsClick! - created by a group of librarians guiding young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
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