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IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 from 1,235 votes
Release: 2015 / Home Fires (UK)
Director: Simon Block
Stars: Brian Fletcher, Clare Calbraith, Ruth Gemmell, Samantha Bond
Synopsis: Watch Home Fires (UK) online free. In Home Fires (UK) Putlocker Full Episodes, The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world. By banding together as the Great Paxford Women's Institute, they help maintain the nation's fabric in its darkest hour, and discover inner resources that will change their lives forever.


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What with trying to cram as many miles as possible in before Prague everything has been very slow of late. Lots of long, slow, low intensity runs which truth be told isn't that much of a change for me. The only time I ever really run 5k/5 mile/10k pace is if I'm running a 5k/5 mile 10k which obviously isn't a very well rounded approach to training or running, and is something I know needs to be amended. With that in mind, and the fact that I could really do with going out and just running hard, I signed up last week to do the Terenure 5 mile.
Both the 5 mile races I've run in the past have been quite frustrating affairs. Last year I ran Emo on Good Friday, expecting to go well considering I was in (for me at least) really good shape just coming up to Hamburg marathon. On a scorching hot day I went off way too quick and from 5k onwards it was just horrendous, leading to a very limp finish and me being really unhappy with it (not taking into account I was in the middle of a very big training week, had ran a 10k PB in the K-Club on the preceding Saturday and followed that up with a 20 mile long run on Sunday). I ran Raheny 5 in January of this year, wasn't in great shape, hadn't great prep, managed to shave nine seconds off my Emo time but really wasn't happy with it because a late pitstop/emergency wee/break because it was getting too hard saw me miss out on sub 35 by 24 seconds.
Terenure I thought should be an ideal place to finally crack the elusive 35 minute mark but also just a chance to run hard, maybe blow off some cobwebs after Prague as despite that being a 'training run' my legs have felt just a little bit feeble since then. So with that I was up nice and early on Saturday morning, official photographer back on board after she missed Prague for 'personal reasons', and heading for Terenure with enough time to drop my car at my brother's, stroll down to Terenure College for number pick up and get a nice long warm up in. I don't know how many times I've gone out for a run and only felt good once I'm 5/6k into it, yet despite that I still generally don't warm up near enough for races, so today I was actually going to do it properly for once.
Which I did. 4k nice and easy around Bushy Park, some strides, stretches, I was finally feeling awake and my legs felt ok so it was time to head down towards the start line. Unusually for such a short race there are pacers so I positioned myself with the 35 minute pacers in sight with the idea of using them as a rough guide but running my own pace. I really didn't want to make the mistake of going off too hard and then be blowing out of my bottom after a couple of miles. Considering the numbers in the race (just under 1200) the start was actually reasonably civilised. Raheny I know has more runners, and also has the added difficulty of starting in a very residential area, but the start of that race felt like chaos with people coming from all angles, up and down off footpaths, dodging parked cars. Here it was just a siren sounding and then off we went, down a nice straight road for a few hundred metres before hanging a left on to Templeogue Road, which felt at least like it was ever so slightly downhill, not to mention perfectly smooth so I decided I'd up the pace a little bit and sit in behind the 35 minute pacers.
We turned left then at Rathdown Motors, the road returning to normal Irish conditions underfoot, wind in our faces and all of a sudden it didn't feel quite so easy. Not long after that it was another left turn, on to Fortfield Road, and I remember thinking "not sure how much longer I can hang on at this pace, really starting to feel it in the legs now" so I looked at my watch and saw a distance covered of 2.64km. A third of the race! That's all I'd done and already I was thinking about just hanging on. Balls. My head dropped a bit at that moment and I had a look around to see if there was anyone right behind me as I thought for a second about stepping off the course, then about slowing down. I didn't think I'd be able to maintain my pace at all and started cursing myself "well of course you can't run at this pace, you never train at this pace, what did you expect, this is stupid, I bloody hate this etc etc etc".
Despite my little whinge session and a slight slowing the 35 minute pacers were still just in front of me, my legs hadn't fallen off and I was still alive so I tried to close the distance to them without using too much of what little energy I had. I edged gradually closer and before I knew it we were back on Templeogue Road and starting the second lap. My 5k split popped up on my watch shortly after showing 21:20, which would actually have been a 5k PB for me if it had been a standalone race. I was momentarily buoyed by this before the worry re-emerged "If you're going at 5k PB pace then you're going too fast for a 5 mile. You've made a balls of this. You're going to completely blow up in the last 3k. No way you'll sustain that". Thankfully we were on the quickest section of the course, the running was a little bit easier and I could trick myself into thinking I still had plenty in the bank, especially as I had caught right up to the 35 minute pacers just as we came up to Rathdown Motors again. Convincing yourself that you can carry on hurting for another fifteen minutes is a lot easier when the hurt has dissipated due to ideal conditions.
Turning that hard left corner really stalled what momentum I had though, which in turn massively dented my confidence. Its true that its easier to run quicker when you have a target just ahead to aim at, but it's also somewhat of a soul destroying experience when that target just keeps inching further and further away. By this stage I was having the full on little devil on one shoulder saying "let them go, just ease off, slow down, do it some other day" and the little angel on the other shoulder saying "come on, keep it going, it's less than ten minutes to go, bit of pain for eight minutes, you can do that, you'll be sickened if you don't break 35". Shortly after that I looked at my watch again to see 6.6km gone, really hoping to see a bigger number than that, which caused another momentary down turn. I honestly felt like stopping at that point, really just wanted it all to be over, but made a little deal with myself to forget about the watch, fix my eyes on the heels of the 35 minute pacers just up the road and try to keep them in sight. If I did that then there was a good chance I could just about squeak under.
I felt like I was slowing down horrendously at this point. My legs were leaden, my stride felt really short but not particularly quick, the only saving grace was that I seemed to be going quicker than most of the people around me at that point. I was hoping and praying for it to end as soon as possible, kept thinking I must be almost there, I could hear the PA so must be almost home, and then I saw a sign saying 400m to go. 400m! 400 bloody metres. For God's sake, who keeps dragging this thing out? Surely it should be over now? Oh for feck's sake. It seemed like an awful long way to go but at least it meant that the end was nigh so I girded my loins, contorted my already twisted features even more and poured out everything I had left.
I'd heard the PA say a while back 34 minutes on the clock but I knew I had a little in the bank as I was quite a few seconds after the gun crossing the line but now she was saying 35 minutes. At last I could see the finish line so one last staggering surge and I was there, coughing, spluttering but across the line, the contents of my stomach just about staying where they were but more importantly a time on my watch that started with 34!
A couple of seconds later when I could actually focus and see it said 34:50 I was absolutely overjoyed. The pain and misery of the last few minutes instantly melted away and was instantly replaced by relief and satisfaction. So this is how you're meant to do it, this is how it feels to be rewarded for your efforts. Prague was an enjoyable experience, and was satisfactory in that I achieved what I set out to, and it was important for me to go out with a plan in mind and stick to it, but there was always the whole 'just a training run' thing at the back of my mind. Today was different in that I was actually going out to test myself, and it's a pretty nice feeling coming out the other side knowing you've passed.
While I'm here, I have to say a few words about the race organisation. That was probably the most well run and efficient race I've taken part in. Number and t-shirt collection took literally a minute, no faffing round at the start line waiting for people, nobody going off course, straight through at the end for post race refreshments (including really tasty coconut water), all centred around the beautiful grounds of Terenure College and all for just €20. That's why I love races organised by running clubs. No nonsense goody bags or unnecessary expense. Really great work by Sportsworld Running Club (and they had the cones in, banners and barricades and all the roads back to normal by the time I was walking back to my brother's).

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We asked a bunch of interesting locals for their 2015 resolutions for Miami. Over January, we're sharing what they said in a few groups. Today: the Miami tech community. It's talked about a lot as a growing industry; what can we do in 2015 to help it succeed?
Ibis Arrastia
Ibis Arrastia is the Miami Chapter Leader of Girl Develop It, a nonprofit with chapters all over the country providing accessible education and mentoring to help girls and women learn software and web development. She's an experienced developer in her own right, too, with more than two decades making technology.
We need a lot more of a community where tech people are helping each other sharpen their skills and develop themselves to a level where Miami can get attention and a lot of work. My goal is that other areas will recognize Miami as having a position in tech, and big corporations will move down here and increase opportunities.
A lot of people are graduating here in tech but then go out to other parts of the state or nation to use those skills. There aren't enough jobs in tech and IT. I see a big discrepancy in salaries in tech in Miami, even with somewhere as close as Boca or Jacksonville. It's something where there's such a low number of jobs, people are willing to negotiate downward in order to get them.
Trying to reach [girls and women] is hard. The people I'd like to reach the most are single moms working multiple jobs trying to make it. If they know that by doing this program they could make more money in 8 hours than they make in a week with their current job, that would make a big change in their lives. We do a lot of communication with different workgroups that help with economic advancement and government agencies locally, churches and things like that that have big ties in the community. But it's hard to reach these people who are so busy to help them make that change.
Brian Breslin
Brian Breslin is the founder and director of Refresh Miami, one of the largest local organizations focused on building the technology and entrepreneurship community. Since their start in 2006, Refresh has organized more than a hundred meetings, workshops and trainings for thousands of local entrepreneurs and technologists.
I'd like to see more people giving back and more mentorship. Veterans sharing their knowledge with the new generation of entrepreneurs. I'd like to see more collaboration going on between local startups and enterprises, up and down the food chain. We need more people breaking ground and doing innovative stuff.
One of the things we're starting this week on a trial basis is connecting some of the young entrepreneurs on the MBAs who are in college programs. They're going to provide mentorship and free consulting work to startups. We're also working on a curriculum to do entrepreneurship bootcamp series so that we can help a lot of these entrepreneurs with the actual business side. A lot of startups fail because of business problems; they fail at simple things they could have avoided.
The community is pretty good at self-filtering. You see these short-lived efforts come and go, but the things that sustain are the ones that are truly in touch with what the community's looking for and needs. I do think there's a lot of horses being put before the carts, so to speak. There seems to be a lot of aspirational talk. We like to believe that we're a stronger community than maybe we are. But the question comes down to, do you fake it until you make it? And/or, if no one talks about what they hope for, the community never gets there. You need a certain amount of hype in order to sustain the reality. Hopefully, we see more dollars matching the hype.
Felecia Hatcher
Felecia Hatcher is an author, social entrepreneur, Chief Popsicle at Feverish Ice Cream and Gourmet Pops, and co-founder of Code Fever, an initiative that trains African American youth in technology and entrepreneurship. She's been named a White House Champion of Change, and she has spearheaded experiential marketing and social media campaigns around the country for top tech companies and brands.
The biggest thing that I'm working on now is the Black Tech Week conference. We're trying to change the traditional stuff that takes place during black history month and do something that is innovative and collaborative and unites. We're wanting to do something that celebrates innovators of color that are doing cool shit here in Miami and all around the world, and we want that here because Miami is so diverse.
From a tech exposure standpoint, there is still a lot of work to be done in Miami. We need to really help the community understand that technology is a part of their lives and they can choose to either be passive about that or really take a part in shaping it. A lot of people are afraid of it. They think it's a different language. We need to get past that. We're trying to get into new communities that have never really been a part of the tech community before. We're launching programs this year in Richmond Heights and in Palm Beach to give them skills and the confidence they need to be a part of technology.
Everyone brags about us being in a knowledge economy but we should be bragging about being in an applied knowledge economy. We're interested in showing people the skills, but also helping them understand how they can monetize those skills and use them to support themselves. Part of this is about culture — showing that technology connects us all and giving people a broader understanding and confidence about how they belong in that community. The communities that we're dealing with are starting from ground zero, so some of it is training, but a lot of this is about confidence and culture.
Collision points are key. The whole diversity issue is a big thing, and it's OK to say that we don't know how to fix this issue, but we're going to be open to new solutions.
Ernie Hsiung
Ernie Hsiung is a developer-designer, founder of Front-End Design Meetup, and founder and former co-captain of Code for Miami. He'll be spending 2015 as a Code for America fellow working to improve government technology in Miami-Dade County, with two other fellows, Mathias Gibson, a public policy researcher who previously managed tech and data projects for the city of San Francisco, and Sophia Dengo, also a developer-designer hybrid who previously built interactive interfaces for CNN.com.
The fellows are going to be working with Miami-Dade County's Regulatory and Economic Resources Department. They handle fun things like permits and zoning and facilitating entrepreneurialism. We have a lot of experience on our team in a lot of different areas, and we're going to work with lots of people in the community from business owners, homeowners, philanthropists, and government officials to try to think about how technology might better serve all these groups.
Miami has one of the strongest rates of entrepreneurialism, and our big goal is to help county government figure out how to make that even more accessible and transparent. For example, in Miami, there is a culture in Miami of picking up a phone and paying a few hundred dollars to have a guy handle permits for you because he knows the right ways to move your project along. That doesn't exist so much in other cities. We want to look at issues like permitting to see if we can help more constituents be a part of this great thing in our culture through technology.
The biggest thing I would like to see in Miami's tech community, in general, are additional developer resources. I think the tech community in Miami has come a long way since I visited for the first time four or five years ago. There's been a lot of movement in the business and entrepreneurial side of things because Miami is such an entrepreneurial city, but nothing reminds you that Miami has a long way to go like spending ten months in San Francisco.
Schools like Wyncode and Ironhack are great, but we still need community-run resources to help people learn and get involved. People see that coding is a great career, but technology is so much more than working for a V.C.-funded startup.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem for V.C., because they won't invest unless they know they have resources to build a strong company, and our developers won't stay bc they're moving to New York or San Francisco to chase big dreams of working for a big, well-funded company. Everyone is focusing on growth on the V.C. level, but I think we also have to level-up from the community side to meet that.
Because Miami's developer community is still nascent, I think we also have a head-start in getting women/minority developers up-and-running and having them help lead the charge toward a more diverse tech community too. That's a big dream, and there aren't a lot of resources. It's a hard problem on a national level, but how amazing would that be if we were the leader? I want to see that in Miami.
Alfonso Martinez
Alfonso Martinez is the Chief Creative Officer at Wynwood startup LiveNinja, which just received Scout Ventures' first South Florida investment. LiveNinja is a leading company in Miami's growing tech scene, and this year they started Waffle Wednesdays, a free event to bring the tech community together over breakfast.
As a company, we're going to try to make 2015 LiveNinja's most successful sales year to date, but we're also going to keep pushing on helping to develop and connect this community.
For the past six months or so, Waffle Wednesday has been what I think is a very successful beta experiment. What I want to do this year is take Waffle Wednesday to the next level. I want less of an agenda and more collaboration, more community, more synergy in our tech community. We just want everybody to come together, and we think that's what happens in that room on Wednesday mornings. We don't need everyone in Miami to have the same goals or outcomes in mind, but we need them to come together and be a community. And if we have to get people together by feeding them waffles, then goddammit, that's what we're going to do.
I feel there's a lot of untapped talent here. There is so much potential in Miami, and I see it every week. We see people who have great ideas or who just launched a company or who have awesome skills, and they're talking to each other. New people meet, products get sold, connections get made, conversations are had, people get hired, and it's amazing to see how these ideas spread from person to person. There is something to be said for providing space for protons and particles to just collide and see what grows out of that. I feel that was something that the tech community was missing, and I want to expand it.
As a company, Waffle Wednesday lets us foster relationships with hundreds of amazing and talented people in Miami. But we love being a Miami company because we see the potential here, and Waffle Wednesday is also an opportunity to show people outside of Miami just what an awesome community it is.
Johanna Mikkola
Johanna Mikkola is cofounder and managing director of Wyncode, a coding school based at LAB Miami, which she cofounded with her husband. She was born in Finland, spent early years in Palm Beach, and most recently moved from Canada to Miami to launch Wyncode, which celebrated its first 50 graduates late last year.
My number one resolution for Miami tech would be to get Miami coding. We've had great traction, 50 graduates, already. But it just scratches the surface. If Miami really jumps on board with the need for this type of tech education, it will continue to drive the community forward. The second one is improved access to coding education. We're an immersive program that is a significant financial and time commitment. We need improved access points; they need to be exposed to [coding] more.
There's a lot of talk that's happening, and that's great and plays an important role in building community. But it's also important that everyone spending time doing that is spending a majority of time with their heads down, working. It's more important than ever that we follow through with all the things everybody is saying they're going to do.
We're excited to be a part of the story and helping people contribute. We need a bigger commitment from some of the big tech companies, to come out and say "Miami tech is awesome." Most people don't know that tech happens in Miami still. We need to continue to work to establish our place in the various tech hubs around the US.


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The return of volatility and all the demons that accompany it hasn't been isolated to stocks. This fear-causing, panic-inducing force has also been hounding bond prices. Because rising interest rates is one of the culprits spooking investors, equities and fixed income have been falling hand-in-hand. The technicals for long-term bond funds like the iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas.Bond (ETF) (NYSEARCA:TLT) have soured significantly this month.
Year-to-date, TLT is down 7%. For the uninitiated, that's a big move for a bond fund. Think of it this way: TLT has a dividend yield of 2.6% so the losses over the last six weeks will take about three years worth of income payments to offset.
Like a millstone around the neck, the specter of higher rates continues to drag bond prices into the depths. With this year's drubbing, TLT is fast approaching four-year lows. The trend across all time frames is now officially descending as confirmed by three oft-watched moving averages: the 200-day, 50-day and 20-day.
Pattern spotters will note TLT formed a six-month head-and-shoulders formation before this year's breakdown. The tell to abandon ship was TLT's break of the $122.40 neckline which completed and confirmed the top.
The next stop for the long-term bond is likely $115 to $116. Since 2015, bulls have staunchly defended this price zone halting numerous breakdown attempts.
While it may eventually fail, the initial test should be good for at least a modest price rebound. On the flipside, rallies in TLT are highly suspect now that the fund is submerged beneath all its moving averages.
Throw it all together and we're in a spot where picking up bearish exposure at higher prices, but bullish exposure at lower prices may not be a bad idea. Fortunately, there's an options strategy that does just that: the iron condor.
One more element that makes selling iron condors attractive is the elevated volatility. All the excitement of late has driven demand for TLT options to the moon. Like stocks, the implied volatility rank for TLT is 100% suggesting option premiums are more expensive than they've been at any time over the past year.
Sell TLT Iron Condors
Sell the March $110/$113 bull put spread and the March $124/$127 bear call for a net credit of 50 cents. Consider it a bet that TLT sits between $113 and $124 a month from now. If it does, you will capture the 50-cent premium which represents a potential 20% return on investment. The initial cost (and max risk) is $2.50.
To minimize the damage you could exit if TLT moves too far out of the profit range such as above $125 or below $112.
As of this writing, Tyler Craig didn't hold positions in any of the aforementioned securities. Want more education on how to trade? Check out his trading blog, Tales of a Technician.


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Products for real men?
Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 12:52 PM
All sorts of companies market their products to "real men," but they seem to have differing opinions over who fits that description.
Dr. Pepper TEN has the action movie actor seen here.
Not everyone loved this campaign, but it's not nearly as distasteful as the figure a Turkish shampoo company is using.
For whatever reason, they thought it would be acceptable to use Adolph Hitler in an ad campaign. Maybe it's because it does kind of sound like he says the words "shampoo" and "Biomen."
Can you imagine what would happen if someone tried this ad in America?
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Most people do not know how many countries make up Britain or which is the world's most spoken language, a national survey has found.
Telegraph (UK)
More than half wrongly believe that English is the most common language, while just over a third (37%) correctly identified it as Mandarin Chinese.
And less than a quarter correctly identified England, Wales and Scotland as being the countries that make up Great Britain.
The poll of 2,000 adults was commissioned by geographic technology company ESRI UK to mark Geography Awareness Week.
It found that a quarter of people would like to be an explorer – although many have trouble identifying where cities such as Leeds and Sheffield are in England.
When asked to rank a list of UK cities, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and Luton, in the order they are located, from north to south, eight in 10 correctly placed Newcastle and Luton.
But only half could only identify Leeds as the second most northerly, while a similar number put Sheffield correctly in third place.
The poll found that just under a quarter of people have visited a local attraction or museum in the last month.
Dr Rita Gardner, director of the Royal Geographical Society, said: "The poll raises some questions about how engaged people are with the many geographical issues in the wider world and about geographical factual knowledge."
She added: "Good geographical knowledge and skills are vital for all of us, as responsible citizens, if we are to fully understand the nature of change in the world's people, places and environments."
Angela Baker, community programmes manager for ESRI (UK), said: "Geography helps us make sense of both our local surroundings but also the world's bigger challenges like climate change, war, energy and poverty. It's remarkable that so many people don't know some simple facts like how many countries make up Great Britain.
"What is encouraging is that explorer came top in people's preferred careers and that map-reading and compass skills beat being able to use a sat-nav."
There are 1.3 billion people in China and Chinese people live world-wide. Here Chinese President Hu Jintao greets members of the Chinese community in Peru upon his arrival at Lima's airport November 19, 2008. REUTERS/Handout/Andina Agency


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Linguist and psychologist Noam Chomsky refers to the phrase 'cellar door' as the most linguistically pleasing in the whole English language. We do wonder if he's heard the phrase 'icy dock'…
We digress. Icy Dock's MB982SPR-2S allows up to two 2.5-inch hard storage drives to be converted to 3.5-inch form factor. Handy for saving space inside smaller cases, keeping your storage bays nice and neat, and especially useful if you want to use two SSDs in a RAID setup.
Inside the MB982SPR-2S, two 2.5-inch drives can be connected simultaneously, the Icy Box itself connecting to the SATA and power connectors.
Using a dial on the back, you can choose from RAID0, RAID1, BIG and Port Multiplier modes in hardware and software modes. And here's where the problems start.
We found setting up any RAID array in hardware mode impossible, as the Icy Dock won't reset properly even with updated firmware. With the third party software that we had to track down ourselves, the process is still riddled with crashes and disappearing drives.
For £56 this should be much easier. Avoid.
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You know there's a "but" coming, so I'll get right to it.
The significance of the use of nuclear weapons lies in the type of destruction and the way the world was changed as a result. I don't in any way want to diminish or minimise the suffering of the people affected, but the loss of life was not statistically significant in comparison to other war time events. Around 70,000* people lost their lives in the bombing of Hiroshima, while the firebombing of Tokyo killed around 87,793 and was described by flight commander Gen. Thomas Power as "the greatest single disaster incurred by any enemy in military history". In the battle of Okinawa around 100,000 Okinawan civilians and 110,071 Japanese soldiers died. Japan's overall death toll during the war was around 2,350,000.
While the atomic bombings are important events that deserve significant memorials and attention from the school curriculum, I'm frustrated by the lack of knowledge about anything else that happened during the war... and that's just speaking domestically, the issue of what Japan did to the rest of the world is a whole other can of worms.
|From Japan's Bureau of Statistics
*Estimates vary wildly and can get very political, but the difference in scale should be clear irrespective of which numbers you believe.


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It's a little mirror with a built in light. It isn't the Les Tai Tai I have long coveted but it is a similar idea I suppose...
I stumbled across this in my newly opened local Poundland (no more travelling 40 odd miles to the nearest one!!). So there is a clue here are as to the price. For 100 of your finest British pennies you too could be the proud owner of this handy little contraption.
As the photos show, it is a double sided mirror (one side more magnifying) with a little light switch and light. It also has a little sucker pad on one side but I find I have mixed success with these. It comes with a non replaceable battery and although in the daylight, the light doesn't seem like much, in a dimmer situation or in darkness it is a powerful enough little thing.
I brought this away on a hen weekend and it was great for using to apply my make up when there was a severe lack of mirror availability but most importantly it was fab in the morning when I woke up early (still covered in the last night's make up, ooops!) and wanted to give my face a good clean. This allowed me to see what I was doing without having to wake everyone up turning on lights/opening curtains/finding a mirror. I also used it when plucking my eyebrows and the light/magnified mirror combination worked a real treat!
I will do another post on my Poundland bargains but this was my favourite – what do you think?
LoubouLush x


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1 bedroom apartment for saleWestgate House, Ealing, W5 Estimated completion Q1 2021
Residents of this one bedroom apartment will benefit from an open-plan kitchen, living and dining area, along with excellent specifications set to include oak plank-style flooring in the principal living areas. The kitchen will feature designer units, finished with a high-gloss and LED underlighting to the wall units for a stylish look. A slimline dishwasher will be just one of the integrated appliances to be included in the kitchen. Meanwhile, the bedroom will include a built-in wardrobe with sliding doors, upholding the contemporary nature of the apartment.
Westgate House in Ealing will contain a selection of contemporary properties, perfect for both first-time buyers and investors. Ranging from Sapphire studio suites, one bedroom Emerald and two bedroom Tiffany apartments to the Highlife Collection which will be comprised of studio, one and two bedroom apartments all dedicated to the top three levels with stylish penthouses to the top two levels. Residents will enjoy a fantastic mix of luxury lifestyle facilities, including access to a gym, sauna and steam room, as well as a communal terrace with an adjoining screening room on the 6th level. The interior-designed reception foyer and residents' lounge will also offer a 24-hour concierge.
- Luxury West London development
- Residents' gym, sauna and steam room
- Communal terrace lounge and screening room
- 24-hour concierge
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Villa Belmonte
In Pregassona, in a very sunny hilly area, with an unobstructed view of the hills, the city and the lake, two villas named Belmonte will rise. The "Villa Belmonte" project consists in the realization of 2 exclusive residences immersed in a private park of 10'000 sqm (of which a part woodland).
Villa Bellmonte, the object for sale, offers 7419 sqm of living space on two floors, further cellar floor of 174 sqm and high standing finishing. To complete the property there is a terrace of 25 smq, a beautiful roof terrace of 227 sqm, a swimming pool, 3700 smq big garden, s indoork parking places and a large hobby room.
The building is divided in the following way:
entrance floor: entrance hall, large living room with dining area and exit to the terrace, kitchen, guest bathroom, studio, fitness room with indoor swimming pool;
1.st floor: 5 large bedrooms each with walk-in closets and en-suite bathrooms;
ground floor: spacious storage/hobby rooms.
Villa Belmonte is ideal for design lovers who look for generous living spaces in harmony with the external environment.


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The all-new PTX travel trailer is a light-weight, versatile travel trailer for the most discriminating of adventure seekers. The rugged construction of PTX is paired with refined amenities that are fit for off-road adventures or a tranquil escape. Despite being engineered to be one of the lightest travel trailers on the market today, the PTX boasts a roomy interior, including full 6'6" interior height. The PTX has entertainment features galore, including a cinema quality soundbar and LED backlit exterior speakers, and even a built in bottle opener and pet leash attachment point located under the LED lit power awning on every floorplan. Get anywhere without giving up anything… PTX.
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Check Out Mafia 3's Explosive Gamescom Trailer
Mafia 2
I've said it before, but the marketing and trailers for Mafia 3 have been so damn stylish that it's hard not to get pulled into the game's seemingly rich and detailed world.
Before now, we've had detailed gameplay walkthroughs and violent tours of the open world we're expected to explore, but the Gamescom trailer for Hangar 13's gangster epic hints at the explosive beginnings to our journey.
Mafia 1
By now I'm sure you'll know that we'll be playing as Lincoln Clay, a black Vietnam veteran who fights against the Italian Mob. Set in New Orleans in 1969, it's a classic mob tale of revenge (with lots of murder).
The newest trailer takes place in 1968, one year before the events of Mafia 3. In it, we see that Clay clearly decided to do business with the wrong people, and we get an idea of why he's so hungry for a taste of revenge.
Check it out below. Once again, Mafia 3 shows off it's stellar soundtrack and flair for direction – the trailer is a classic heist movie right till the end.
Money, guns, fast cars, boat chases, more guns, death, and explosions – Mafia 3 is shaping up to one very special (and very violent) game.
You'll be able to play it when it launches for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on October 7, 2016.
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text: Custom painted Nikon equipment is nothing new - we've already seen white and Bruce Lee versions of the D3, pimpyourcam.com has also done few nice custom D4 and Nikkor lens designs. Alexy Joffre Frangieh (who also did the D3 hail torture video) did something different - he used a military grade "Desert Mirage Lizard" paint for some of his Nikon camera and lenses. He manually airbrushed the gear without disassembling it! Additional images can be found on Alexy's Facebook page (click on images for larger view):


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Our Son-In-Law Joe had a Birthday last week and this is the Gift Card Holder I made for him. Joe is a keen golfer so that was the theme for this years card.
Stamps: Papertrey Ink - On the Links, Simon Says Stamps- Birthday Messages
Card: Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
Ink: Midnight Muse, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Stazon Black, Versamark
Finishing Touches: Green Baker's Twine
Cool Tools: Big Shot, Papertrey Ink - On the Links Dies, Embossing Buddy, White E/Powder, Heat Tool, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Clear Blocks, Sticky Strip, Dble Sided Tape, 2 Way Glue Pen, Dimensional
Thanks for visiting today.


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I'll cut to the chase: Around the 1:50 mark in this video, Ariana Grande launches missiles from her breasts at a robot. That would be enough, but her whole attitude is like "Yawn, just another day on Mars." She even tosses her hair and shakes her head while she does it!
There are serious sci-fi music videos. There are ones with great concepts. There are pretentious ones. And there are the utterly camptastic ones. This belongs in the last category. Plus, it's so clearly a Flash Gordon pastiche that I love it just for the reference. I think Grande defeats Ming the Merciless in it. Double points for the video being in no way related to the song, which is an excellent trope.
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Post #23 – New Family Photo for the Blog
It's time to make a change! From this . . . to this! Curly Cook complained that she didn't like the way our family photo made her face look with googles on, so I changed our family photo for her. What do you think? I personally love the missing teeth and fedora, with GingerSnap's radiant… Read More Post #23 – New Family Photo for the Blog


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About Foley Campus
Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. We hope to give you a quick look of what our campus is all about. If you would like to find out more, we invite you to join us for one of our Sunday services. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly at (251)943-7100 or check us out on Facebook.
Sunday Service:
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Our services are modern in design and uplifting in nature. You'll experience great live worship and an inspiring message filled with God's truth and hope.
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We present biblical principles through creative means that connect to your world.
How to Get Involved
Step 1: Weekend Services
Enjoy our weekend services, with a warm and friendly atmosphere, energetic worship, relevant messages, and a place you can call home. Our services are held every Sunday morning at 10am.
Step 2: Next Steps
Our Next Steps class is designed to help you learn more about Liberty and how to get connected here. This class meets in our Next Steps room at 11:30am on Sundays.
Step 3: Join a Group
Get plugged into one of our small groups so that you can build relationships and get to know others. Groups are great places to grow and mature in the Lord and find lasting friendships. They meet Spring, Summer, and Fall so check out our Groups page for more information
Step 4: Join a Serve Team
A huge part of our culture at Liberty is serving others. We have several serve teams to join that can help you grow as you serve others on Sunday mornings as well as outside of the walls. Check out our Team Liberty page for more information.


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Remittance flows began to grow again last year, but could be hit if oil prices stay low
The amount of remittances coming into the Middle East began to grow again in 2014, after falling the year before, according to the latest data from the World Bank.
The Washington-based organisation says that total inflows of remittances increased by 7.4 per cent in 2014 to $53.8bn, with the strongest growth seen in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon and Egypt.
The amount of money that expatriate workers send back to their home country can be extremely volatile. Since the turn of the century, remittance inflows in the Middle East have grown by as much as 28.2 per cent a year (in 2003) and fallen by as much as 6.4 per cent a year (in 2009).
As a result, there can be no certainty that last years performance will continue this year. Nonetheless, it will have come as welcome news to many of the regions poorer countries.
Egypt inflows
The largest recipient of remittances is Egypt, which benefited from inflows of $19.6bn in 2014, a rise of 10 per cent on the previous years figure of $17.8bn. Saudi Arabia is its biggest source country for these transfers, with almost $7.6bn being sent back by Egyptians working in the kingdom last year. Other Gulf countries such as Kuwait and the UAE are also important source markets for transfers.
The largest recipient of remittances sent from within the region was Egypt, with $16.4bn
Turmoil in some other countries around the region has caused problems for Egyptian workers, however. The main reason for the 7 per cent drop in Egyptian remittances in 2013 was the conflict in Libya, which had been its fourth-largest source of inflows, amounting to more than $2bn in 2012. The following year those transfers all but dried up, with just $95m being sent back.
The figure rose only slightly in 2014 to $104m. Similarly, flows from the West Bank and Gaza to Egypt fell from $535m in 2012 to just $77m in 2013 and only recovered modestly to $85m last year.
As those markets have faded, the Gulf states have become increasingly important. The amount of money being sent back by Egyptians in the GCC has risen from $9.9bn in 2012 to $14.3bn last year, a rise of 44 per cent in the space of just two years. These figures suggest that many Egyptians may have moved from Libya to find work in the Gulf states.
Most of the other large recipients of remittances around the region are in the Levant and North Africa, although Yemen also features strongly.
Lebanon is the second-largest, with $8.9bn last year. Such funds have long been an important element in the countrys financial stability, providing a vital source of deposits for banks and helping to underpin economic activity more generally, even while the political system continues to struggle.
Lebanon is affected very much by political paralysis, says Steffen Dyck, a senior analyst at the US Moodys Investors Service. But Lebanon is benefiting a lot from remittances from the Gulf and from other regions. The liquidity in the [banking] system is relatively high and helps the government to finance itself.
|Top 20 destinations for Mena remittances
|Receiving country
|Value ($m)
|Sri Lanka
|West Bank & Gaza
|Mena=Middle East and North Africa. Source: World Bank
The originators of Lebanese remittances are geographically far more diverse than is the case with Egypt. While Saudi Arabia was the largest source of funds last year, the second-biggest was the US, followed by Australia, Germany, Canada and France.
The situation in Jordan is somewhere in between, with Saudi Arabia again the most important provider of remittances, followed by the UAE and the US. Yemenis, meanwhile, work predominantly in the other Gulf states. Of the $3.5bn in remittances that they sent home to Sanaa and Aden last year, $2.2bn was from Saudi Arabia, $562m from the UAE, $172m from Kuwait and $158m from Qatar.
In contrast, workers from the North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are more likely to head to Europe for work a result of both the historic, colonial ties to these countries and the size of the European market.
For Morocco, the third-largest recipient of remittances in the region, it is France and Spain that are the most important markets. Of the $7bn sent back by expatriate Moroccans last year, more than half of it came from those two countries, with France providing $2.1bn and Spain $1.7bn.
The top five source markets are rounded out by three other European countries: Italy; Belgium; and the Netherlands. Within the Middle East, Moroccos biggest provider of remittances is Israel, which was seventh-largest overall, with $369m last year, followed by Saudi Arabia in 11th place with $51m.
French funds
It is a similar tale for Tunisia, with France, Italy, Germany and Israel the top four markets last year. France is the dominant source, accounting for $1.4bn of the total $2.3bn that Tunisia received in remittances in 2014.
The situation is even more pronounced in the case of Algeria, where France accounts for $1.7bn of the $2bn in remittance inflows to the country. The next largest market was Spain, but that provided just $65m of the total.
The anaemic economic performance of Europe in recent years has contributed to rather slow growth in remittances for these North African countries and there is little sign that the situation will change anytime soon.
The total value of remittances from France, Spain and Italy to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco has risen from $7.5bn in 2010 to $8.3bn in 2014.
While they worry about the economic performance of the major EU markets, countries elsewhere in the region that rely on remittances from the Gulf states have other concerns on their minds.
It is not clear what the full impact of low oil prices will be on the oil-exporting economies, but some GCC governments have been trimming their spending plans, and growth projections have been lowered.
The spending cuts to date have been focused on delaying or cancelling large capital projects, in an effort to keep budget deficits at a manageable level. If that trend continues, it could mean there will be fewer jobs for expatriate workers from countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Yemen.
Limited risk
Much depends on how long the current period of relatively low oil prices lasts and the willingness of Gulf governments to keep on spending. US ratings agency Standard & Poors suggests the remittances coming into Jordan should remain stable for this year at least.
Although 80-90 per cent of the Jordanian diaspora is concentrated in the Gulf states, we see limited risk that remittances will decrease because workers are employed across diverse industries, the agency noted in a ratings report on Jordan published on 24 April.
We also expect remittances to remain stable because public spending in GCC countries, and overall growth, will continue despite lower oil prices. Of course, it is not just other Middle East countries that will be affected if work for expatriates in Saudi Arabia, the UAE or the other Gulf states starts to dry up. The money sent home by workers from Asian countries easily outstrips the amount that goes to other Arab destinations.
The largest recipient country by some distance is India, which last year received $37bn in remittances from its expatriates within the region, almost all of which came from the GCC. Some $12.6bn was sent home by Indians working in the UAE, $10.8bn originated in Saudi Arabia, and $4.7bn in Kuwait.
Among the other major beneficiary countries, Pakistan received a total of $10.6bn, followed by the Philippines with $9bn, Bangladesh with $8.4bn, Indonesia with $4.5bn, Nepal with $4.2bn and Sri Lanka with $3.6bn.
By comparison, among Arab countries the largest recipient of remittances sent from within the region was Egypt, with $16.4bn. Yemeni workers sent home $3.2bn and Jordanians sent back $3.1bn. In all cases, the vast majority of these funds came from the GCC markets.
Economic links
Of course, money does not only flow in one direction. Within the Gulf, there are Qataris in the UAE who send money back to Doha, and Saudi nationals working in Kuwait who do the same for their country. And while some nations are predominantly receivers of remittances, such as those of the Levant, they all also host workers from other countries.
Some $2.9bn in remittances was sent from Jordan last year, for example, with the main destinations being Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza, and Syria. Similarly, some $796m was sent from the Palestinian territories, with the bulk of it going to Qatar, Jordan and Israel.
All this highlights the economic interdependence that exists between the countries of the region. It also means that remittance flows are likely to remain volatile in the future, with poorer countries across the region affected whenever the richer nations suffer a downturn.
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Appeal of California waiting period filed…
SAN FRANCISCO (February 13, 2017) – Today, attorneys for The Calguns Foundation (CGF), Second Amendment Foundation, and two individual plaintiffs filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking en banc (full-court) review of a wrongly-decided opinion that overturned the trial court's judgment that California's Waiting Period Laws violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
CGF Executive Director Brandon Combs, who is also an individual plaintiff in the case, issued the following statement:
In December, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals bizarrely ruled that even a person legally carrying a concealed handgun as he buys another gun at retail needs to be 'cooled off' for another 10 days before exercising his Second Amendment rights and taking possession of a constitutionally-protected firearm.
We believe that the Ninth Circuit's panel opinion was wrong as a matter of law. Not only did the panel incorrectly decide the Second Amendment issues in favor of the State of California, but in doing so it ignored important legal rules that govern the review of a lower court's judgment after a trial.
After undertaking significant discovery, depositions, and a three-day bench trial, Federal District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii issued his Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, which held the State of California's 10-day waiting period laws to be irrational and unconstitutional as applied to three categories of gun purchasers.
As our attorneys noted in the petition they filed for us today, "maintaining the proper standard of review for fact-finding in constitutional litigation is a matter of exceptional importance that is worthy of en banc review."
We hope that the full Ninth Circuit will correct the panel opinion's numerous injustices and affirm the judgment of the trial court. However, we are prepared to take this case to the Supreme Court should that extraordinary action be necessary to restore the fundamental, individual Second Amendment rights of law-abiding people.


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Dec 30, 2015, 8:46:06 AM via Website
Dec 30, 2015 8:46:06 AM via Website
I'm connecting whatsapp web on my Windows 8 but its not getting connected.
I tried all the steps motioned on the website like checking Internet connection, rebooting phone, PC,changing wi-fi, sending messages through phone etc. but nothing is happening.Its not getting connected. It just Retrying retrying and retrying.
This is happening second time earlier it happend with my nokia E5 phone and that time we realized that may be phone memory issue but this time we're using Samsung J5 with 1.5gb RAM. While it works perfectly on my Phone its creating problem on PC and its not even working on another PC also.
Can anyone suggest what should be the reason why its not getting connected on PC through whatsapp web.
Does phone memory plays any role in this or any other reason. Please respond asap.


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Toon Boom Rebrands, Debuts Producer Software
Canada-based software maker Toon Boom Animation has unveiled new branding and a new product: Toon Boom Producer.
Producer is a web-based production tracking and digital asset management tool designed to improve workflow and communication throughout the entire animation pipeline. It's designed for animation studios and production companies working with Storyboard Pro and Harmony.
Toon Boom also has expanded its online educational training portal to better prepare animators for career advancement. With self-paced training and journeys, animators gain hands-on experience that will better prepare them for a studio production environment.


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These are my rejection letters. They represent a lot of closed doors, all the times my hard work and dreams were met with "no."
I heard "you're not good enough" so many times that I wrote a book called Subpars. It went on to be published and re-titled Flashfall. Tomorrow, the sequel to that book releases.
But here's the thing-I STILL get rejected. I'm dealing with it even now.
So what do we dreamers do? Guard our hearts and stop putting ourselves out there? Or can we celebrate the fact that we are making time do what we love? That we are brave souls for sharing our art with the world.
They don't send out letters for that.
So, from one dreamer to another: I see you there, with your heart on your sleeve. This world is fraught with those who will say we are not enough. But I celebrate you and your courage to do what you love-despite those voices.
I'm currently in the midst of Flashtide promo–and the wild hope that the world will hear about my book and care enough to show interest. That is an incredibly tricky place for me to navigate emotionally, I've learned. So, these past few days I've neglected some of those marketing "should dos" for the simple task of putting fresh words to a fresh page.
It seems there are times, no matter how many years I've spent writing, where this feels particularly daunting. Scary, even. But I did it anyway, and I've broken through to the place where it is a joy to write again. For the first time in three years I don't have a deadline driving me. Just the call of this new imaginary world and its inhabitants, and my curiosity to see how it all turns out.
That is the true success of overcoming rejection. My creative joy is still there, past the hurt and doubt, waiting for me to find it, and discover what new adventures lie ahead.
What I have going for me this time, is the success of having done this before. Of knowing that all the closed doors can be used as stepping stones to get where I need to be. It still aches, but there is a lightness to my steps that stems from hope.
These letters were not the end of my writing journey or publishing dreams. Because I didn't give them that power. They don't represent missed opportunities, but rather proof that I'm bravely engaging in creative pursuit–in all its ups and downs.
We learn, we grow. We get better if we just keep going.
So I celebrate you today, my fellow dreamers. Let's pick up our pens and start a fresh page. Let's get excited about this adventure that is ours to take. Let's toss discouragement aside and see with clear eyes what new discoveries await us.
Ever onward, friends.


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Yeah, that hardly sounds thrilling, I know, but it's time. I thought I was very clever with my Glitter Britches tags, getting fiber content and care info and EVERYTHING on one tag, but then I started making things that AREN'T 80% polyester and it all went to hell. Plus, as much as I like my GB tags, the super-cool silver ink they're printed with wears much more than expected, and we can't have that, now can we? So to Google I go.
It's amazing how much there is to think about once you decide you need to buy some tags. Woven or printed? Damask, silk or taffeta? Color? Added rhinestones? Rubber tags are very "in" these days you know. How about die-cut platinum? Thrilling! Embossed leather? But of course!
Then you realize that your tag costs more to produce than the entire garment it's meant to be labeling. Oops.
It's hard to be both a designer and a cheap bastard, let me tell you. I really NEEDED those dupioni silk tags with engraved copper detailing. However, the cheap bastard is hard to shut up, so I went in search of a cheaper alternative. I found an awesome deal on woven damask tags (ooh trés chic!) in and overstocked yarn… basically they were wicked cheap if you got them in red and white. Fine! I went to art school! I can work within parameters! It's a slightly altered and updated version of the GB tag, but laid out to fold in half and be sewn inside, rather than a "clench fold" that goes over a seam with one half on the outside. The magpie logo gets to feature prominently though, which I like. No more fiber content–sorry, laws, I'm broke and use too many different fabrics. And it's still a bit funny, which is imperative. I kind of want to spring for tags with weird, random phrases on them and sew those in too. Because I would REALLY like it if my clothes had secret messages. Like the fortune cookie of the fashion world…
Now I need to go make some clothes to put these babies in.


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In the Urban Forest
POP Concert: RAWSIU
The Urban Forest
Join us in the Urban Forest for a serie of eight free summer concerts in partnership with POP Montréal featuring up-and-coming groups. Come listen to a new one each week at 12:30 p.m. on Victoria Street!
This week's concert
July 13, 2016: RAWSIU
Wasiu never felt like he truly fit in. Born and raised in Montréal, the 24-year-old has endured marginalization in every aspect of his life that has, in effect, enhanced his ability to interpret the universal themes of life, and infuse them into forward-thinking narratives for everyday humans. Within a year of releasing his first song, Wasiu has already officially performed at SXSW, CMW, POP Montreal, MFORMONTREAL, and others. His collaborations definitely help, with the likes of Kaytranada, Da-P of Soulection, High Klassified of Fool's Gold, P On The Boards of the A$APMOB collective, and some others.
With Dear Lola, they form the duo known as RAWSIU— A live hip-hop band version of punk rock.
Complete summer concerts program
July 6, 2016: Nancy Pants
July 20, 2016: Sin and Swoon
July 27, 2016: Maude Audet
August 3, 2016: Saxsyndrum
August 10, 2016: Elena Stoodley
August 17, 2016: Balkan Kafana
August 24, 2016: Nicolet
Location: Victoria Street, between Sherbrooke Street West and President-Kennedy avenue
* Unless otherwise indicated, concerts will be cancelled in case of rain.
Not to be missed!
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-The first day it stared at me proudly with its smooth, perfect petals.-The second day it opened a little further much to my delight and admiration. Each time i passed it i would stop to smell it, and to proclaim the praises of my Creator who had created something this beautiful.
-The third day i was used to it. i noticed it less and less and didn't stop to admire, nor to smell it.
-By the fifth day my perfectly beautiful rose had begun wilting, increasingly losing its appeal.
-And by the sixth day, the once splendid and exquisite rose was reduced to nothing more than a stem with a few dying petals.
This is life, this is beauty...
Beauty will fade, that is a certainty; but knowledge, imaan, and good character- only improves with time.
Think about it then, which is a better investment?
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This is such bullshit. Summer is over; it rained all day. I can't wait for school to start.
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Tinted by the moon fantastic
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Sleepless in Seattle
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Got up. Went to work. Autopilot kind of day. Came home and puttered around the house for a bit, reveling in self-pity. Slept through the afternoon before indulging in my newly discovered favorite activity: sitting on a bench in Slater park with a warm cup of coffee and a good book.
Home again. Waiting.
Went to Alki sometime after 11 with my Knight; the beach was cold but there was no wind.
Sometimes I feel like God and I are playing chicken, waiting to see who is going to look away first…
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Maggiano's is so unbelievably amazing. First off, they serve everything family style and more importantly, they have fabulous gluten free pasta (and even better, a chef/staff that really GET IT!) Gotta love that Rigatoni "D" :) Mmm… food coma… can't wait for lunch tomorrow!


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Blind Mountain (2007)
Now I am a sucker when it comes to true event type movies mostly because they end up being pretty awesome this movie is no exception. Blind Mountain was directed by Yang Li it doesn't include any professional actors with the exception of maybe two and you know what? It works, it fucking works. This adds realism to the story which is great because you really feel pissed off when your watching this bitch. Blind Mountain Is like Taken but in the eyes of the daughter, this woman is tricked into thinking she is going to a village to help out and make some cash on the side as a school project. She arrives at the village with some colleagues of hers, she is given a drink and she passes out waking up about two hours later to find out she has been ditched, confused asks the villagers for help only to find out she had just been sold to one local and is now his wife. This movie makes you feel sympathy for the poor woman as she is kept prisoner in this so-called peaceful village. The whole village is in it and they do everything in their power to keep anyone from escaping. The actor who plays the woman victim does such a good job, you feel her anguish, her despair and her loss of all hope. This is a definite watch I was left kind of angry by the end of this movie and you will see why.


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Carlson Wagonlit Travel acquired mobile travel technology developer WorldMate, which has been making itinerary and mobile-services applications for 12 years. The acquisition will further strengthen the travel management company's mobile suite. Corporate customers will be able to use the technology to aggregate travel information from multiple sources, covering services such as airport parking, restaurant bookings, hotel reservations, ground transportation and airline amenities — all of which travelers may book through the WorldMate app. "Working with the expert in mobile technology puts us in control of our own 'mobile destiny,'" noted CWT president and CEO Douglas Anderson. WorldMate will operate as a subsidiary of CWT and aid in the enhancement of CWT's existing mobile tools as well.
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Death Valley Expanse
The expansive Death Valley is full of colors, open spaces, & beauty amidst the starkness of the desert landscape. It is home to Badwater Basin - the lowest point in the US.
These curious cows represent iconic Wisconsin dairyland and countryside.
Church of La Merced
Beautiful active church in the heart of Antigua, Guatemala
Pier into the Future
Rosarito in Baja Mexico is a nice getaway close to Southern California.
Taco Truck
If you've spent any time in Los Angeles, you know how serious we can be about our tacos and our taco trucks. This is part of the quintessential Angeleno experience.
Burro Time
Half donkey - half horse. These animals know how to work and take goods (including the last mail in the US delivered in this manner) down 8 miles through the Grand Canyon to Supai in the base of the canyon where the Havasupai live and tourists visit for the amazing waterfalls.
SoCal Views
The view of the Pacific Ocean from high on a bluff at sunset in Southern California. West coast, best coast.
Quintessential Portland
If you've been to Portland, crossing over the Willamette River to downtown Portland, you've seen this sign - all at once proud and welcoming.
Telluride Ride
Fresh powder abounds on the Western Slope of the Rockies in Telluride Colorado.
Route 66
Barstow in Southeastern California is happy to let you know you're on the right path if you are venturing to follow the historic US route 66.
LA Highlights
Dodger Stadium and downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) are places not to be missed on a visit to LA. This black and white photo bring them together along with dynamic clouds and a distant plane to remind you how dynamic Los Angeles is.
Moraine Lake - Late Spring
The heat takes time to melt the glacial water in the Great White North of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada. Surrounded by 10 peaks the small but mouth-dropping Moraine Lake is exquisite.
Auckland Skyline at Sunset
Winding down the day in the Southern Hemisphere with a sliver of a moon and mars overlooking downtown Auckland.
Hi-Lo Cafe & Motel
Nothing like the relic signs greeting you on long drives.
Bridles of Adventure
These bridles belong to horses in Rosarito that will show you a heck of a good time, if you'll let them.
Yucca in Angeles National Forest
Driving through the Angeles National Forest in Southern California just a short drive outside of the bustle and hum of Los Angeles will bring you to places of tranquility and beauty, if you take the time and open your eyes.
LA City Hall
City Hall finds a nice backdrop from a night time fountain show.
Muted Skyline
Early morning light with low-lying clouds shrouds DTLA in a muted, ethereal mist of colors.
Urban Cowboys
As the sun falls low in the sky, a horse takes a drink as it heads home after an outing in the Angeles National Forest.
Open Path
This trail invites you to explore, to quicken your heart rate, and to move into the future. Will you accept the invitation?
Grand Canyon Hike
The trek to Havasu Falls is gorgeous with contrasting vivid contrasting colors from cotton woods, to deep red-orange canyon walls to pristine blue skies - all the leading to the turquoise waterfalls and pools of Havasu.
Southern British Columbia Countryside
Driving through Southern British Columbia to the Canadian Rockies from Northern Idaho is an absolute dream! Road trip!
Road to the Great Outdoors
Meandering along the Columbia River Gorge separating the states of Oregon & Washington lies meandering roads to adventure.
Flying through Heaven & Earth
There's something existential and timeless about flying above a blanket of pillowing clouds and basking in the sun rays above.


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Norwich illustrator is inspired by animal antics
PUBLISHED: 09:17 30 May 2012
Her drawings are adorned on everything from fashion and greetings cards to a new book. Emma Harrowing talks to Norfolk illustrator Gemma Correll – otherwise known as 'Pug Girl'.
Two pugs named Mr Norman Pickles and Bella sit by the feet of Norfolk illustrator Gemma Correll as she studiously draws another cat using an ink fine-tip pen.
The scene is reminiscent of the many pug and cat designs the 28-year-old artist has drawn for greetings cards, badges and T-shirts. One has a picture of a pug and a cat underneath a piece of mistletoe, the cat looking at the pug through the corner of his eye and says: "Don't even think about it."
Mr Pickles motions for attention and on being ignored seems to sigh as Gemma draws yet another cat illustration.
"I guess I am known for my pug illustrations now, but I have been drawing cats for as long as I can remember," says Gemma.
"Of course Mr Pickles and Bella are the inspiration for my designs. I fell in love with pugs when I went on holiday to America with my boyfriend. Pugs are popular there and I just fell in love with the breed and started drawing pugs soon after that."
She bought Mr Norman Pickles two years ago and the pampered pooch has become a bit of a celebrity as he features on Gemma's 'Pugs not Drugs' iconic design that was printed on tote bags and is now on T-shirts as well as a greetings card collection called Pickle Parade stocked in national card chain Paperchase.
Six months ago Bella joined the clan and now Gemma is beginning to introduce black pugs into her designs.
"I think pugs will always be my design statement," she says. "The situations I come up with for my drawings come from listening into people's conversations and people watching. I find it easy to be comical when I am drawing – I'm not that funny in real life!"
Gemma is now a full-time illustrator, dividing her time between different projects in the UK, Europe, Canada and America.
When talking about her international success Gemma is modest about being an editorial illustrator for the New York Times and The Guardian, having her designs printed on T-shirts for an American website and for fashion retailer Urban Outfitters, having her illustrations printed on cards for Hallmark and recently a collection for Paperchase.
"I have agents in the UK and America and Canada so a lot of my work is sold overseas," says Gemma. "It's great as I get to travel quite a lot.
"I also create large-scale murals for art exhibitions and projects the most recent was in Berlin where I was given four white walls in a room as a canvas. I was up and down the ladder all day drawing to fill the space in time for the exhibition. It was a little daunting at first and a lot of hard work but it was well worthwhile."
It is quite an achievement for the Norwich University College of the Arts (NUCA) graduate who 'just set up a website and doodled'.
"I graduated in 2006 and set up my own website while I was there," says Gemma. "At that time it was rare for someone to have a website – these days everyone has one!
"I used the website as a place where I put all my drawings of pugs and cats, I even created an online illustrated diary. I looked at it as a personal project so that I had a record of all the drawings I had done. People and companies approached me to do illustrations for their publication after they had seen my work online."
In fact the only time Gemma has actively sent her designs to a company on spec was to American website Threadless while she was still at NUCA.
To Gemma's surprise the website printed T-shirts with one of her designs – an illustration of a non-meat eating dinosaur turning up to a barbeque attended by meat-eaters with the strapline: "Who invited the herbivore?"
"This was the first time I had been paid for doing something that I love," says Gemma. "It was so exciting, especially as I was still at college."
Interest in her designs went quiet after Gemma graduated, so drawing became more of a hobby and she decided to train to become a teaching assistant in a bid to form a successful career.
"When I was working I kept drawing and posting new designs on my website and I also took my designs to fairs such as Clutter City in Norwich. I believe this is how I was eventually noticed," says Gemma.
"All too often I see people wanting to design, but they let their paid jobs get in the way by coming up with excuses that they are too tired after working all day.
"Putting aside some time in the evenings and weekends enabled me to keep doing what I wanted to do – and it paid off in the long run."
One of the many companies to approach Gemma about featuring her designs on a product was publishing house Octopus Books. It wanted to do a book featuring her illustrations. It was the opportunity that she had wished for.
"I have always liked the idea of people posting pictures of what they are wearing each day online, but I don't like having my picture taken so I drew what I was wearing instead," says Gemma. "I had developed a collection of these drawings and so when the publisher approached me about doing a book 'What I Wore Today' was born."
The book is written in a diary-style format, enabling readers to "doodle yourself into a style icon" with space to create your own drawings of what you are wearing on any given day of the year.
"When I was little I made comic books for my friends at school," says Gemma. "I drew my friends, fairies and even my Cabbage Patch dolls in a bid to make my friends laugh. Having actual books with my designs in seems a little strange – but it is great!"
Gemma describes her work as 'childlike' with simple lines and designs that are 'not overworked'. She draws straight onto the page without tracing or drawing a pencil line first and any mistakes, of which she says she makes many, are sometimes incorporated into the design.
It is this organic approach to illustration that has caught the eye of many and looks set to capture the imaginations of many more. Gemma is currently in talks with a publisher about featuring her illustrations in a series of children's books and she hints at the prospect of having her pug designs collated together in a pug cartoon book.
"I'm also designing a collection of booties for a baby fashion collection and I have just designed a new T-shirt which will be sold in America," says Gemma.
For now Gemma is concentrating on promoting her book and hopes to make a guest appearance at The Book Hive in Norwich, where she also plans to run a creative workshop where people can come a draw and get inspiration to be creative.
Never one to solely concentrate on one project at a time, Gemma is also flying to Portland in Oregon, America, in October to do an exhibition and she is currently working on a new range of badges for a client.
As she talks she also mentions that she is flying out to Frankfurt next week for another exhibition.
Bored with the conversation Mr Pickles suddenly springs onto her lap and gives her a cheeky smile. It's a look that will probably be seen on a future Gemma Correll illustration as drawings of pugs become her passion.
She laughs: "Just call me Pug Girl!"
Gemma Correll's book 'What I Wore Today' is published by Spruce £9.99 and is available from Octopus Books www.octopusbooks.co.uk
To see more of Gemma's designs visit her website at www.gemmacorrell.com or click on the photo gallery link at the top right of this page.
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