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Widely regarded as one of the world's foremost architectural glass artists. From studios in Israel and England, Jeremy has produced a vast array of public and private glass art and sculpture in high-end residences, the lobbies of commercial properties, educational institutions,religious buildings and museums - throughout Europe, North America and Israel. Projects include commissions in the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem, the British Museum, the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Trump Towers in Florida and the Israel Supreme court. His most notable work is the series of nine monumental glass sculptures created for the 'Generations Center' by the Western Wall in the Old city of Jerusalem.
He is currently working on a number of projects one being the central work of art for the lobby of the new Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem and a stained glass project at the ancient site of Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. Ranging in style from modern to classical and in form from abstract to functional, his repertoire encompasses over 30 different techniques such as stacked, sculpted, stained, molded, sand carved and painted glass. The scale varies from tabletop to monumental. Jeremy infuses his art with an intimate spiritual energy, drawing upon natural and projected light to bring forth glass objects and sculptures known for their boldness and breadth of expression.
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Greek battleships have encircled Kastellorizo, the island at the centre of a territorial dispute with Turkey, and several uninhabited islets to shield Greek territory against Turkish attempts to survey for hydrocarbons, according to Greek media. Source Ahval
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that he had asked the prefect to take legal action. Jérémie Bréaud the LR mayor of Bron, a town in the metropolis of Lyon (Rhône), is targeted by death threats. "We're going to behead you , " was tagged in Chassieu, a neighboring town, with the identity of the chosen one. "Fuck la mumu" , we can also read, in reference to the municipal police. The whole thing is accompanied by insults. Source Actu17
A man was arrested with a drone and two blocks of explosives but also detonators, near Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), during a customs check. He now sleeps in prison. What intentions did this man have? Aged 22, this inhabitant of the metropolitan area of Montpellier (Hérault) was arrested on October 7 during a customs check at the Gye tollgate, on the A31 motorway, near Nancy, reports Midi Libre. Source Actu17


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(VIDEO:) Snake crawling on windshield is Internet hit
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Collierville couple's You Tube video of a snake crawling onto the windshield of their van at highway speed is getting clicks on the Internet.
"Snake on Car" was posted July 17 and more than 26,000 people have viewed the confused reptile slithering out from under the hood and crawling across the windshield and the driver side mirror before falling off.
Tony Fisher told WMC-TV the snake came straight up from the left side of the hood.
Rachel Fisher was driving on a Shelby County boulevard when it happened last week.
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MONUMENT, Colo.—Hundreds of people are still holding out hope that a Colorado boy missing for two months will be found.
A benefit dinner was held in Monument on Thursday for 13-year-old Dylan Redwine, who has been missing since Nov. 19 after arriving at his father's home in southwestern Colorado for a court-ordered visit.
According to KKTV-TV ( http://tinyurl.com/b2a6yps) the money raised will be used to continue the search.
Dylan was living with his mother, Elaine Redwine, and his 21-year-old brother Cody in Colorado Springs when he traveled to Vallecito (vy-uh-SEE'-toh) to visit his father on Nov. 18.
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Allthough only in life size "The Little Mermaid" is the most famous sculpture of Copenhagen. It was made by Edvard Erichsen on request by the brewer Carl Jacobsen (Carlsberg). He was very infatueted by the balletdanser Ellen Price, who played the part as the little mermaid in the ballet of the same name. Ellen Price didn't want to show herself naked, though, so the artist used his wife as model. The statue have had it's place at the harbour of Copenhagen since 1912. Like in the fairy tl by H.C. Andersen she sits on her rock and dreaming about the lost childhood in the ocean.


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Love Them Madly blogger Jodie has two sons, and they have have limited screen and video game time — "especially this time of year." She writes: "We love Fruit Ninja, but bringing the game to life was a fun way to get my kids to put down the iPhone for some good outdoor summer fun."
On her blog, she offers instructions for setting up a "live" version of Fruit Ninja using water balloons and a toy sword:
As [my son] envisioned, we tried taking turns tossing the balloons in the air, for the other to try to pierce in the air. Our plastic sword did not have the desired impact on airborne balloons, so we hung the balloons from white plastic chain-link strung between two columns. This part of the set-up took the most patience.
Once we hung a few balloons, each Ninja had sixty seconds to knock down as many "fruits" as possible. This part was fast and fun!
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The Vampire Diaries Review: Burning BridgesMatt Richenthal at .
The Vampire Diaries asked its viewers to accept a lot in "Break on Through," not all of which flowed very naturally.
Let's start with the return of Sage. It wasn't exactly organic. First: how did she know Finn was freed from his casket?
Granted, she's 900 years old and clearly possesses certain powers that far exceeds those of the young (not even 160-year old!) Salvatores. But it becomes a dangerous line, a pretty severe writing crutch, when she can simply do and see anything she wants.
Second: Why did she and Damon suspect Rebekah was up to something? We've barely seen this Original since she and Klaus discovered the White Oak Tree secret in "All My Children." Was she really acting different? Was there any indication Damon should be suspicious?
Third: Finn? Really, Sage?!? This is the Original we know the least amount, making it difficult to really get invested in anything surrounding him or the fiery red-headed mentor of Damon's. It simply seemed random all around that Sage showed up... schemed to deceive Damon... and based all her machinations on love for another character we scarcely know.
Nothing involving Sage worked for me this week, which is saying a lot considering her presence resulted in a near threesome.
The storyline didn't serve Rebekah well, either. The Vampire Diaries has done a tremendous job creating depth to this (gorgeous!) character, but she came across as more pathetic than vulnerable here. I know, I know: it's Damon Salvatore. What woman would not jump at the chance to jump back into his bed? But she was really so willing despite the rivalry that clearly existed between her and Sage? With Sage right there? Looking on mischievously?!?
Can we give Rebekah some credit please? (SPOILER ALERT: At least she'll get her revenge next week.)
Elsewhere: There wasn't really a lot of movement on the Alaric front. Yes, we now know for sure he's one "accidental serial killer," as Damon so tactfully put it. And, yes, that counsel member hit list is sort of scary. But we're still left pretty much where we were a week ago: with Alaric as a murderer; wondering how the ring will affect Jeremy; and appreciative that Matt Davis is getting a shot in the spotlight.
The final line of the episode was even indicative of how the show has been treading water a bit recently: Let's go kill some Originals. We're on board with that battle, Damon. Trust me, I'm excited to see where this all goes. But wasn't that also the mission many weeks ago? Where have we really gone since then? And, honestly, why do they even want to kill the Originals anymore? They aren't even in Mystic Falls, for the most part, and haven't really done much in awhile.
Let's hope the concluding set of season three episodes stop spinning and start moving forward with the momentum that made us all embrace TVD from the outset.
What were the highlights of an overall mediocre installment? A number of nice character moments and exchanges. We had Bonnie embracing Elena; Caroline doing her best to convince Abby to stay, by invoking the memory of her father; Elena shedding quiet tears on the phone with Jeremy (great work in this scene by Nina Dobrev); and, best of all, Stefan realizing that he could overcome his blood lust, thanks to Elena.
You're gonna be okay, she told Meredith. But I somehow doubt the fallen doctor was the only person for whom this message was intended.
What did you think of the episode? Were you intrigued or bored by the appearance of Sage? Do you blame Rebekah for bedding Damon again? Do you care that Bonnie's mom left again? And where can we find Own it. Live it. Love it. bumper stickers?
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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So, you've gone to great pains to fully research your Christmas decorations, and now you have a kick-ass light set-up adorning your house. But how much is it all costing you?
Electricity doesn't come free, after all—which is why Rob Cockerham armed himself with a power meter and worked out exactly how much his neighborhood was spending on electricity charges for its Christmas lights. Here's a rundown of how much you're spending per hour. Calculations assume that electricity costs 12¢ per kilowatt hour.
A Small Tree
Around 15 watts = 0.2¢ per hour.
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An Insane House Like This
Up to $686 per hour (but much less if you use LEDs).
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Maurice Barrow hit 9 of 13 from the field and led Fairfield with a career-high 21 points as the Stags avenged a loss to Canisius earlier this year and extended their winning streak to six with a 66-45 win in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action Thursday night.
Fairfield (10-5, 2-1) fell to the Griffins (9-5, 2-1) 67-55 on Dec. 7 but have won every game since. The Stags have also won their last five road games.
The loss snapped Canisius' six-game home winning streak.
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England has a long and distinguished history in everything from technology to the arts. It's easy for visitors to enjoy these achievements, especially in celebrated cities like Manchester, Bristol and, of course, London. Few people visit England without visiting its enigmatic capital. Inspiring icons like the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, along with some of the world's best museums, should be on everyone's itinerary. But the cosmopolitan streets and famous sights of London give way to quaint villages and green, rolling hills in the provincial counties of middle England, then into rugged mountain landscapes as you travel further north into the Pennines and the Lake District.
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Two of the UK's biggest bus groups, First and Arriva, in partnership with the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK (CPT) have today launched a new, state of the art Next [Bus] Stop Announcement Smartphone app, which could revolutionise bus travel for blind and visually impaired passengers.
Launched at Leeds United's Elland Road stadium, the BUSFORUS branded app, which has been created and developed specifically for blind and visually impaired bus passengers, provides users with real-time audio and visual alert notifications, direct to the handset. It means passengers will know exactly where they are on a journey and at which stop to get off.


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Christianity on the retreat in the Middle East
From Jewish Ideas Daily:
A few years ago I was in the West Bank with a Christian missionary who worked among Jews and Muslims. The Jewish converts came to his home for Sunday services that were held in both English and Hebrew. But to gather with Arab converts he had to meet them secretly on the outskirts of their town lest his mere presence put their lives in jeopardy.
"My brother became a Christian at the same time as I did," one Palestinian told me. "But neither of us knew of the other's conversion for many years. It would have been too dangerous, until the missionary was certain of our conviction."
We were sitting in a clearing in the brush that was one of the converts' meeting places. I imagined that Jesus and his disciples must have prayed in places like this, maybe even here. An Israeli Defense Forces patrol passing on the nearby road stopped to see what was going on. The missionary explained to the officer in charge, who nodded and went on his way.
"My brother and I converted because we knew we needed love in our lives," the Palestinian continued. "I think that Jesus is going to bless the Palestinian people by spreading his gospel of love here."
Perhaps someday, but for now the Christians of the Middle East are facing danger. Both recent converts and ancient congregations—the Assyrians in Iraq, the Copts in Egypt, Lebanon's Maronite Catholics, and more, long antedating Islam—are under fire. The land where Christianity began is being cleansed of Jesus' followers. It is possible that we will soon see an event without precedent: the end of a living Christian witness in this region after more than 2,000 years.
So why now? And how did Christians manage to thrive here in the past?
"We survived, but not the way we wanted to," says Habib Efram, president of the Syriac League of Lebanon, which represents some 60,000 Syriac Christians. Efram often visits the much larger Syriac Christian community in Iraq, which is under siege. "Some were forced to leave the country, and there have been massacres," Efram tells me on the phone from Beirut.
"The Christians have always been under attack," explains Lebanese political analyst Elie Fawaz. "Our numbers used to be much higher throughout the Middle East. We were here centuries before the Muslims, so there used to be many more Christians, until the raids and conversions to Islam."
In Mt. Lebanon, the country's Christian heartland, there's a valley called Wadi Qadisha where the Maronites held off the Mamluk sultans in the 13th century. It was partly geography that ensured the survival of Lebanon's Christian community. The Mediterranean coast provided access to European powers—the Vatican and France—that have long seen themselves as the protectors of Lebanon's Christians; and the high mountain passes afforded a vantage point that turned hostile incursions into suicide missions as the Christians picked off intruders one by one. It is no coincidence that Hezbollah has bought and expropriated property in Lebanon's mountains. There the party can survey not only its Israeli enemy, but its local Christian foes as well, whom Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies have targeted in a series of assassinations over the last six years.
"The Maronites are politicized," says Fawaz. "You cannot compare them to Iraqi Christians." That is, Lebanon's Christians are under attack from rivals who wish to take their power, while Iraq's and Egypt's besieged Christian sects are powerless to defend themselves against superior numbers, and no one is willing or able to protect them.
Even rhetorical defenses of the Christians are cautious. Pope Benedict, like popes before him, chooses his words carefully when addressing the situation of Middle Eastern Christians, lest they be made to pay for perceived slights. Arab nationalists and Sunni Islamists assume that any discussion of regional minorities—whether Christians, Jews, or even Shia—by outsiders is coded language for a project to colonize the Middle East on behalf of the great powers. To be sure, the French did come to the aid of the Maronites in Lebanon in 1860 to end the war between them, the Druze, and their Ottoman overlords. And after the First World War, France held the mandate for Lebanon and rewarded what was then a Christian majority with a constitution that gave most of the power to the Maronites.
Lebanon's civil war from 1975 to 1990 was largely a product of shifting demographics and a changing political culture. While the Christian community fought to preserve the state's territorial integrity and avoid war with Israel, the country's increasingly numerous Sunnis wanted to attach themselves to the great Arab cause—Palestine—and open the border with Israel to the Palestinian resistance. After the war, the Taif Agreement of 1989 gave more political say to the Sunnis and Shia. It made official what everyone knew: Lebanon's Christians had lost.
"We don't want foreign support," says Habib Efram, by which he means a Western military adventure on behalf of the Christians. "We don't want the West thinking of Christians as puppets of the West, using us for their agenda. We are from the Middle East and belong here."
What they want, he says, is something like a Marshall Plan for Middle East Christians—"Some money to build schools and other programs." "The United States," he continues, "can also ensure that Christian minorities are fairly represented in their parliaments. The Copts make up 10 percent of Egypt's population, and yet there are only 2 or 3 elected Coptic representatives and another few named by the government. The Copts should have at least 40 seats out of the 500-seat parliament. In Iraq, even with only 3 percent of the population the Christians should have 14 members of parliament." Instead, they have only 2.
It is a fantasy of U.S. omnipotence familiar in the region. It would take U.S. troops, of course, to ensure the safety of U.S.-backed programs; nor could a more robust representation of Christians in weak Arab assemblies—even if the United States had a way of bringing it about—prevent the murder of Christians by mobs or terrorists. Efram's hazy plan seems the wishful thinking of a minority under fire with nowhere to turn.
Efram attributes the rise in anti-Christian violence to the virulent strain of radical Islam that began with the Muslim Brotherhood and now comes in both Sunni and Shia variants. Arab security services fight Islamist groups when it suits regime interests—and it is dangerous for regimes to be perceived as siding with Christians against the Muslim majority. Thus, every day brings a fresh outrage against Egypt's Copts, while the Cairo government's notoriously active, and vicious, security services sit idly by. In Iraq, some Christians even long for the reign of Saddam Hussein and his Christian deputy, Tariq Aziz, who protected them.
That notion of "protection" has a particular history. Since the Arab conquests beginning in the mid-seventh century, Christians and Jews under Muslim rule were recognized as "people of the book." In theory, they were protected minorities, or dhimmi. But they could not enjoy equality with the Muslim, typically Sunni, majority, and the lot of dhimmis varied with the disposition of the rulers. That Saddam, for instance, "protected" Christians to some degree did not ensure that his sons would have done the same.
And as for the glory days of Middle Eastern coexistence that supposedly preceded the rise of the present extremists, the Ottomans' slaughter of the Armenians and other Christians belies it. As long as believers are without legal rights guaranteed by governments willing and able to enforce them, the Christian presence in the region will be in peril.


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Aquatic algae can sense an unexpectedly wide range of color, allowing them to sense and adapt to changing light conditions in lakes and oceans. The study by researchers at UC Davis was published earlier this year in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Phytochromes are the eyes of a plant, allowing it to detect changes in the color, intensity, and quality of light so that the plant can react and adapt. "They control all aspects of a plant's life," said Professor Clark Lagarias, senior author on the study. Typically about 20 percent of a plant's genes are regulated by phytochromes, he said. Phytochromes use bilin pigments that are structurally related to chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to harvest light and use it to turn carbon dioxide and water into food.
Lagarias' laboratory in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC Davis studies these phytochromes and their properties. Phytochromes from land plants, Lagarias said, respond to red light -- plants absorb red and reflect green light, which is why they look green. Red light does not penetrate far into water, and some marine and shore-dwelling algae lack phytochrome genes. But others do not, so Lagarias and colleagues looked at the properties of phytochromes from a variety of algae. They found that phytochromes from algae, unlike those of land plants, are able to perceive light across the visible spectrum -- blue, green, yellow, orange, red and far-red.
This broad spectral coverage likely helps algae make use of whatever light they can in the ocean, Lagarias said -- whether adjusting their light-harvesting chemistry for changing conditions, or rising and sinking in the water column as light levels at the surface change. Because different colors of light penetrate to different depths in water, algae face challenges in light harvesting that land plants do not. This work from the Lagarias lab shows one way that algae can rise to the occasion.
Phytochromes themselves have a long evolutionary history and likely arose from the interaction between oxygen and bilins, pigment molecules closely tied to chlorophyll and the oxygen-carrying heme pigment in hemoglobin, Lagarias said. The ancestral form appears to be sensitive to red light, similar to phytochromes of modern land plants. But between the origin and today, phytochromes went through a stage of massive diversity when they could detect a much wider range of wavelengths.
"It's a molecule that has been there and back again," Lagarias said.
The discoveries help researchers better understand the role of light and response to light in shaping ecology, as well as a model for how living cells react to light. They could also help in breeding of aquatic crops that could take advantage of different light conditions.
Coauthors on the paper are: at UC Davis, Nathan Rockwell, Deqiang Duanmu, and Shelley Martin; Alexandra Worden and Charles Bachy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Dana Price and Debashish Bhattacharya, Rutgers University. The work was supported by multiple agencies including the NIH, NSF, US Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, the Packard Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.


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The Role Of 'Perceived Value' In Music Is Small And Fading Fast
from the music-aint-gucci deptanothercultland points us to a post over at Digital Music News (obnoxiously entitled "Want More People to Care About Your Music? Then Charge for It…") which, though massively overstated and oversimplified, actually gets at a point I've been thinking about for a while now. The basic premise is that the power of "perceived value" can make charging for music a better proposition than giving it away for free, based largely on a comment from an indie artist:
The music industry isn't the best at studying pricing (that's for sure), but there's evidence that price tags actually increase overall interest and demand for your music - whether that results in a paid transaction or not. Here's a comment from a seriously DIY artist in the trenches, Steady Fingers, who experienced something unexpected."But it's funny that even when I used to give away [my music] for free, there wasn't much traffic nor many downloads, almost nothing. Then we decided that we should put it up for sale so that we might be able to recoup some of the money spent on making the music videos (when it's your brother making the videos, I still consider it DIY.) Anyway, as soon as people saw that the music was up for sale, the website and other related social media gizmos received much more attention. Also, people began looking for ways to download it for free, which isn't always a bad sign."Welcome to the strange world of 'perceived value,' a murky science that enables all sorts of obscene markups - whether at Starbucks, Gucci, or the Apple Store. But the basic idea is this: the simple presence of an elevated price tag - or a price tag at all - is often enough to convince someone that this product has worth.
There is actually some truth to this idea, but only under specific circumstances and with a whole lot of caveats. Perceived value is a real thing, and it can be pretty powerful—but there are significant limitations on how it can be applied to an infinite good like digital content. A good (non-musical) example is self-published Kindle novels: for an author just starting out, it's actually probably a good idea to charge $0.99 instead of making it free, because of the way Amazon separates the lists of free and paid books. Of course, as authors like Joe Konrath have discovered, books at $0.99 make a lot more money than books at $2.99—so the limitations of perceived value come into force quite quickly. In app stores, paid apps may once have held some clout over free ones—but now many of the top grossing apps are free and ad-supported, and the perceived value of a price tag to download has all but disappeared.
And it's disappearing everywhere, as the lines between professional and amateur get weaker all across the media spectrum. I buy a lot of $5 and $10 albums on Bandcamp, and I also download a lot more free ones—and I can't really remember which is which. For indie music, price is a poor indicator of quality. Besides, pretty much all music can be streamed first in a "try before you buy" fashion now, so any perceived value is quickly supplanted by an actual evaluation of the product. Just as with books in the Kindle store, there may be certain venues in which adding a price tag offers some advantage, but that can only go so far and it could always disappear in an instant.
Beyond that, and perhaps most importantly, there is nothing that says you can't charge for your music and also give it away for free. Or, at the very least, charge for it but accept (or better yet embrace) piracy. When payment becomes optional for fans and prospective fans, then they see it as an affirmative choice to support the artist, and many will make that choice. Dan Bull sold enough copies of his Sharing is Caring single to hit the pop charts, and a lot of the attention came not from the fact that he was charging money, but from the fact that he was also giving it away for free (as he does with all of his music). By offering an option to buy and an option to download for free, you get the best of both worlds: the power of perceived value in those few cases where it counts, and the attention of the growing number of people who don't view content that way anymore.
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Marching right along with my 30 questions to celebrate my 30th birthday.
#9/30 -- from Accidentally Me
You have just won a contest...it is a trip, but you don't know what it is. Deep down, you are hoping that it is:
a) A sort of smallish, local trip for you and three others. Say it is a couple of nights in a nice hotel, some spa services and a really nice meal.
b) A super-elaborate trip, but only for you, that includes a week at an incredibly posh Caribbean resort and all sorts of fun activities.
I'm going to go with A.
A week entirely by myself – even if I'm doing all sorts of fun activities – might be a little bit too long. I don't mind traveling by myself (a significant portion of my trip to Switzerland last year was spent solo) and I'm okay with being alone and if I won a fabulous vacation just for me I wouldn't complain. But I would be a little afraid that I would be mighty sick of myself after a whole week.
But I would mostly hope for A because A is more than enough and I'd have some really great company, too. Plus, the prize would go not only to me but to my lucky guests. You all know how much extra joy I get out of doing nice things for other people. I wouldn't hesitate to exchange a couple of days and a bit of glamour to bring along a few people I love.
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Sequins anyone? xo poni*
Project in the works, sshhhh….
Probably my favorite purchase ever.
Just another day in the bebe corp. offices…
Hunger Games Star in my clothes!
Actor Stephanie Leigh Schlund(starring in the new Hunger Games movie) wearing my denim jumpsuit in a shoot for Beauty Entertainment Mag! #letsdoitbig in #2014 #designer
My DENIM LAUNCH for 2b by bebe!!
Diary post of a designer.
It's been a LONG, long time. I've been busy.
Being a fashion designer is like taking a breathe, a long single ever lasting breathe each day and filling it will everything that you need to exist. Not just air, but everything that you can dream, everything that you can create… and do create. The problem is that in order to exist in this world as a designer you have to create outside of the lines to be fulfilled and inside the lines to create a name, to pay your bills, and to build a resume. The outside and the inside fight one another.
I've been getting a lot of questions about ONIKAI lately, what am I doing, what are my next projects, when am I showing for fashion week, where's my line etc. Designing in the corprate world takes more than 100% effort, because when you fight to be good, you push to win, and in turn ONIKAI has been put on pause. Not a stop or a slow diving non existence LOL but just a pause. You have to climb to the top before you can sky dive and I have things I need to accomplish before I find THE way that I want to approach ONIKAI. However, I am still selling tees, doing custom design and many other things on the side, remaining the creative designer that I will always be. Just wanted to keep everyone updated. Thank you for the continued support & love, keep a look out for more updates. Things are moving and changing, and sooner than later they will be shaking. XOXO Poni*
Don't you wish you had millions of dollars…
I'm obsessed with this dress!
Nina Dobrev took on the black-and-white trend in a Naeem Khan gown that featured the two-toned bold print and a sexy open-back detail. A little obsessed with both this dress and her. WANT> in my closet. today.
This time around everyone really brought their A game! Good job, good job. I mean to be honest I never really understand when they don't get it right… they have people dressing them… hello!? My favorite though was definitely Jennifer Lawrence's Dior Couture dress and backwards diamond necklace. Even if the dress caused her to fall… still worth it. xo


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The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is a symbol that appears every year at this time. To me, it has always indicated not just a reward, but also the journey to get there. Think of this set then as a journey toward Irish music. The Celtic people of Ireland had a journey of their own before they landed in Ireland. For many, famine and religious and political strife have meant that the journey did not end there, and so it is that the Irish people, as well as their music and traditions, are to be found in the United States and Australia, among other places. Wherever the Irish have gone, their music has influenced and inspired those around them. So it is that most of the music in this post is by artists who have never lived in Ireland, and many have no Irish blood either. But the ancestry of the music is indisputable.
West of Eden: On She Goes
West of Eden is a Swedish band. The Nordic folk music that I have heard has some resemblance to Celtic music, although I'm sure a connoisseur of either genre would be horrified to hear me say so. But the Celts did pass through this part of the world before landing in the British Isles. Safe Crossing is a collection of sea songs, and it is inspired work throughout. Only On She Goes really has that Celtic lilt, but the entire album has one wonderful example of folk-based sea song after another. The album was inspired by John Fowles' book Shipwreck, and it has led the band to their finest work yet. On She Goes is an original song, and, even though I am a man, the lyric makes me smile. Having never met Jenny Shaub, I am confident of my ability to stay out of the junkyard of her memory.
Emish: South Australia
Emish hails from New York State. They work the same British Isles folk-rock territory that was pioneered by Fairport Convention, but Emish does it with a strong Irish accent, and with a punchy rock edge that seems to come more easily to Americans than to the British. Their songs are sometimes more on the acoustic side, and sometimes all out rockers. South Australia is a traditional tune, and Emish finds that sweet spot right in the middle stylistically. The song also shows off the wonderful vocal harmonies that are an important and beautiful part of their sound.
Cady Finlayson: Ms Billye's Waltz
And then there are those artists who seek to master the traditional forms, even though the are not "native speakers", as it were. Cady Finlayson has more recently taken her grounding in Irish folk in some pretty wild directions. But Harp and Shamrock is a set from 2004, and here Finlayson is still doing her apprenticeship. Finlayson is a fiddler from New York City, but she has both traveled extensively in Ireland, and sought out the best Irish players she could find in the United States. The results show that she chose the right musical path. Finlayson navigates the speedy runs of the jigs and reels in this set beautifully and expressively. But she really shines on slow airs like Ms Biilye's Waltz. Here, her fiddle has an almost human voice, and her "singing" is as emotionally rewarding as any human voice could be. No words are needed.
Joe Ross, Janet Naylor, and Friends: Planxty Irwin/ Sheebeg Sheemore
Joe Ross is usually a bluegrass musician, and a fine one. But he can step out and play Celtic music, or jazz-influenced folk. I'm not sure what else he's capable of, but I will let you know when I find out. Ross has made exactly one album of Celtic music, with harper Janet Naylor. Ross himself wrote about this earlier this week on Star Maker Machine. Naylor only made this one album, as far as I can tell, in 1998. The musical territory here is quite similar to what Cady Finlayson is working with, but the results are quite different. The songs on The Harper's Reverie are presented as chamber music. The instrument that sounds so unusual on Planxty Irwin/ Sheebeg Sheemore is a bassoon. The music is well played, to be sure, but what this approach really emphasizes is the beauty of the compositions. I doubt that Turlough O'Carolan ever imagined these arrangements of his music, but I think he would have approved.
Altan: An Ghealog
And now we arrive in Ireland at last. Ireland is known, among other things, for its seemingly inexhaustible supply of amazing folk sopranos. That said, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh is certainly one of the best. The Poison Glen, Altan's new album, is a mix of instrumental pieces and songs. This is the traditional way of making an album of Irish music. The instrumentals here are very fine, but I live for the songs. Most are in Gaelic, but Ni Mhaonaigh's voice communicates clearly in any language. Altan has been part of the Irish music scene for many years. Some groups have changed their sound, adding a wash of synthesizers, and creating sonic wall paper, while giving Irish music a bad name. The Poison Glen is not strictly traditional, but this music far more grounded in tradition than some of its more flighty cousins. Altan adds wonderful vocal harmonies. The full instrumentation is not listed, but if any electronics are used, they are applied with great subtlety. The songs and instrumentals are a mix of traditional and newer material. The fact that some of the new songs were composed in Gaelic tells you all you need to know about Altan's desire to keep a connection to tradition while moving that tradition forward.


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Franklin Burr Tillstrom (October 13, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois - December 6, 1985 in Palm Springs, California) was a puppeteer and the creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Tillstrom was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bert and Alice Burr Tillstrom. He attended Senn High School in Chicago and later the University of Chicago. While still a freshman, he was offered a job setting up a marionette theater with the WPA-Chicago Parks District Theatre and took it. He turned his attention to puppetry in the early 1930s and created Kukla in 1936. Kukla remained nameless until the Russian ballerina Tamara Toumanova referred to him as kukla, the Russian term for doll. Other famous puppets from the group included Ollie or Oliver J. Dragon, Beulah Witch, and Fletcher Rabbit. In 1939, he was invited to present his Kuklapolitan Players at the New York World's Fair. The following year, RCA sent him to Bermuda to perform on the first ship-to-shore broadcast.
From 1947 through 1957, Tillstrom was involved with the Kukla, Fran and Ollie show which starred his puppets and Fran Allison. It is widely regarded as being the first children's show to appeal to both children and adults, and counted Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Tallulah Bankhead, Adlai Stevenson and James Thurber among its many adult fans.


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Ava's not the biggest fan of Barbie -- she moves from one interest to the next with the faintest of breezes -- but she does have several Barbie branded items. One of these is this large coloring and activity book. In it, Barbie goes to the art museum and here, you'll see, they ask for the child to draw what Barbie sees at the museum.
Ava drew an interesting Egyptian themed painting on the wall, and an equally interesting "modern" sculpture over to the left.
Let's take a closer look at the painting, shall we?
Dig the "Walk Like An Egyptian" poses there. Also dig the details on the sarcophagus. (Yes, I said 'sarcophagus'.)
A closer look at Ava's 'modern' sculpture over on the left of the page.
Getting even closer, we see some sort of creature (?) projecting up on the wall "Never Ever Again." Okay. I'll just leave it at that.
Is it a spiderweb? A lens of some sort? I dunno, but I like it. It says: "The Light Begins."
I like how my daughter's mind works when it comes to her version of what a museum is about -- a little bit of history with the Egyptian elements, and a little bit of art with the abstract sculpture. About the other items on the sculpture -- What could they be? Video projection? Talk balloons? Maybe, maybe not. I'm at a loss with that one.
But if there's anything that I've gleaned from looking at Ava's drawings and artwork throughout the years is that it's best not to ask. Just let the art speak for itself.


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Hillary Clinton called Monica Lewinsky a 'narcissistic loony toon'
Washington: A previously unpublished cache of papers has revealed that Hillary Clinton viewed Monica Lewinsky, the intern with whom her husband had an affair while president, as a "narcissistic loony toon".
The papers are part of the notes and archives of the political science professor Diane Blair, a close friend of Mrs Clinton's, that have been held by the University of Arkansas since Professor Blair's death in 2000.
Though open to the public since 2010 they have become the focus of media attention since being accessed and reported upon by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon, which published stories about them on Sunday night in the United States.
According to its analysis the documents - which include correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons from the mid-1970s - paint "a portrait of a ruthless First Lady" who was a "loyal friend, devoted mother, and a cut-throat strategist who relished revenge against her adversaries".
Mrs Clinton is favoured to become the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and Republican foes have already begun their political opposition to such a run.
The Washington Free Beacon quotes a research paper from the archive written by senior Clinton aides in 1992 as warning that "what voters find slick in Bill Clinton, they find ruthless in Hillary".
The archive also shows that Mrs Clinton supported a government-funded health care system, a position that apparently contradicts her public position since.
The collection of papers shows how Mrs Clinton supported her husband through the Lewinsky scandal.
"[Hillary] is not trying to excuse [Bill Clinton]; it was a huge personal lapse. And she is not taking responsibility for it," Blair wrote of a conversation with Mrs Clinton.
"But, she does say this to put his actions in context. Ever since he took office they've been going thru personal tragedy ([the death of] Vince [Foster], her dad, his mom) and immediately all the ugly forces started making up hateful things about them, pounding on them."
Professor Blair adds in her notes: "It was a lapse, but she says to his credit he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a "narcissistic loony toon"; but it was beyond control. And, HRC insists, no matter what people say, it was gross inappropriate behaviour but it was consensual (not a power relationship) and was not sex within any real meaning (standup, liedown, oral, etc.) of the term. As an aside, they got a letter from a psychologist who does family therapy and sexual infidelity problems: most men with fidelity problems raised by two women and felt conflicted between them, he'd read about Bill's bio; grandmother despised Virginia, tried to get custody of Bill; Bill adored by his mother but she left him, etc etc."
She goes on to note that Mrs Clinton is "in it for long haul. Party because she's stubborn; partly her upbringing; partly her pride - but, mostly because she knows who she is and what her values and priorities are and she's straight with those - she really is okay."
Other documents show how the Clinton camp prepared memos on President Clinton's infidelity as far back as 1992.
Professor Blair wrote that days after President Clinton's impeachment in 1998 Mrs Clinton called her in good spirits.
"[Hillary] sounded very up, almost jolly," wrote Blair. "Told me how she and Bill and Chelsea had been to church, to a Chinese restaurant, to a Shakespeare play, greeted everywhere with wild applause and cheers - this, she said is what drives their adversaries totally nuts, that they don't bend, do not appear to be suffering."
Time magazine, which has also had access to some of the papers since the original news report, writes that they "represent a collection of thoughtful reflections and evolving positions on Clinton's part, rather than a smoking gun of anything damning, or even surprising.
"But they do offer a colourful look into the thoughts of the former first lady."
Its analysis highlights Mrs Clinton's significant role in her husband's presidency from its earliest days and her frustration at the slow pace of decision making in Washington and in the White House.
At times Mrs Clinton despaired "that nobody in WH tough and mean enough" and that Congress was "a bunch of whiners; no courage".
Nick O'Malley is National Environment and Climate Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is also a senior writer and a former US correspondent.


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Maya's bread helps Rivanna's water
Maya, the restaurant that replaced famed Southern Culture on West Main, braved the Hook's first restaurant review [Maya: Subtleties make all the difference], and shared its recipes with us [KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL- Christian Kelly, Maya], is embarking on another adventure this month– the Bread & Water Project.
It's an initiative of the Rivanna Conservation Society, and Maya has agreed to be its first guinea pig. So, does that mean we'll be eating bread and water when we go to Maya? Hardly.
If you decide to dine at Maya this month, not only can you enjoy their many specialties, like chef Christian Kelly's chicken and dumplings, but you'll also be helping to maintain the health and beauty of "Mr. Jefferson's river," the Rivanna River and its watershed. That's because 10 percent of your bill on Wednesday nights during the month of June will go to the Society.
According to the Society's Tanner Council, credit for the project really goes to Castiglione, who has already shown his support for good causes by running a similar "dinner/donation" for a breast cancer awareness program.
"His concern for the Rivanna is what really gave this project its wings," says Council. "He's an avid paddler and lives right on the Rivanna."
"I'm a huge fan of the Rivanna, we kayak the run from Riverview Park to Shadwell on a regular basis," says owner Peter Castiglione. "We've done this kind of thing for cancer before and thought we would give it a shot. Hopefully, the Society can use this as a model and do it with other restaurants."
Council says the Society is in the process of screening other restaurants for participation in the Bread & Water Project, so if anyone is interested he suggested you give him a call at 977-4837.


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(CNN) - When I first heard I'd be interviewing the author of "The End of Men ... And The Rise of Women" I wanted to decline. I had no desire to do a premature obituary on my gender. But the women who run CNN's guest bookings department prevailed. And I am glad they did.
Because if you listen to this CNN Radio interview with Hanna Rosin, you will learn that what she has found is not the end of men as a species, but a certain decline among a big section of us that we are fully capable of reversing, provided we acknowledge the problem which she has documented in her book.
Hanna Rosin is certainly not rooting against us men. She has a husband, after all. And she has a son, as do I and many of you. And she is using the insights from her book to help frame her approach to parenting so that her boy thrives.
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educated,sensitive men are more part of the life cycle while the testosterone warrior male has lost its ability to be able to mannipulate the planet and push away all that is of peace and control what ever is smaller where do men have to go, right where they have wound up... we need to educate and put these men in groups that allow them to be nurtured in this our new work force... please help
I need to remind myself to say a little prayer for the aging American feminazis and their poor lap-dog husbands when I go to the Caribbean every Christmas to party with the hotties in San Juan on New Year's, or get myself oiled by a young new amiguita on a beach in the Dominican Republic, or sit in a hot tub in Otrabanda with a couple of dushi cheks wearing Santa hats, sharing a bottle of Blue Curazao *snicker*.
Men are defective girls to be corrected or exterminated.
"End of Men?" Disappointed to encounter so much gloating and smug behavior from women at the troubles men have encountered.
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Where's the coffee?
Posted by TheShot on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Add Milk, Consumer Trends
Back in the 1980s, Wendy's fast food restaurants sponsored a highly successful advertising campaign featuring a diminutive elderly Jewish woman (Clara Peller, she quickly became a cultural icon from these spots). When presented with the hamburgers of Wendy's competitors, she famously asked, "Where's the beef?!"
These days, it seems like we need a similar campaign for the coffee content in most cappuccinos and lattes. Because whenever I buy milked-based espresso drinks in this country, my reaction is almost always, "Where's the coffee?"
To understand why this is the case, you first need to understand that milk is the new coffee flavoring. Back in the 1990s — when the coffee business was lamenting a decades-old decline in coffee consumption combined with a dearth of new, young coffee drinkers to replace the aging ones — the industry introduced coffees with spray-on chemical flavorings. This desperation move hoped to entice young, flavor-variety-seeking consumers to put down their Diet Cokes and, for the first time in their lives, consider coffee as an alternative. Hence the era of "hazelnut French vanilla creme" coffee was born to appeal to the millions who simply did not like coffee. ("It's, like, not even coffee.")
The flavored coffee fad lasted only a few years. But following closely in its wake was the popular rise of Starbucks and the proliferation of milk-based espresso drinks. By "cutting" the coffee, these drinks also offered something to consumers that the flavored coffees did not: appeal to the insatiable American appetite for 44-oz Super Big Gulp®-sized beverages. (Americans may love their caffeine — but not that much caffeine. At least at once.) Ironically, the story of specialty coffee's booming success in America is really the story of the dairy industry's revival. Our coffee houses have literally become milk bars.
The rise of coffee-flavored milk
Milk has become flavored coffee's new flavor of choice. But given the volumes of each involved, it's actually the other way around: we are a nation of coffee-flavored milk drinkers. And it shows in what passes for a typical cappuccino or latte. There is so much milk, our typical cappuccino would be considered a caffè latte in Italy; I often find myself ordering caffè macchiatos to get something close to a legitimate cappuccino. (And a legitimate macchiato is almost unheard of without playing backseat driver to the barista.) Newly introduced mutants like Gibraltars are typically interpreted just as variations on how much milk you want to wallow in.
Compare the photos below. The first is a photo of a medium cappuccino recently purchased at a downtown Peet's Coffee, served, by design, in a Peet's 16 oz. mug. Now contrast with the second photo of a regulation Intelligentsia 4.75 oz. cappuccino cup, which meets the Italian standards for a single cappuccino. (Note the foreground penny and quarter for comparisons.) Poured inside the Intelligentsia cup is a double shot of espresso (about 2 oz.) — twice the amount of espresso designed for the cup and the amount contained within the Peet's mug — and yet there's still plenty of room for milk. Even if you double the regulation cappuccino size to about 10 oz., what's with the Olympic-sized pool that Peet's is serving as a medium cappuccino?
Unless I'm planning on a "to go" cup for scalding reckless bike messengers who cut off pedestrians in crosswalks, I don't understand why my medium cappuccino has to be such a gargantuan soup of steamed milk.
"Quality shot up in the Nineties, but the American market has commercialised it," he says. "It would be difficult to sell a small 6oz cappuccino, the traditional Italian size, for much more money, so to make a viable business out of it, they started to make the drinks bigger. And how do you do that without overdosing everyone on caffeine? You add more and more milk."
So we entered the Alice in Wonderland age where the smallest latte you can buy in Starbucks is the "tall". "What should be a silky textured, sensual drink has become a 32oz big gulp suited to the movie theatres of middle America," says Torz scornfully.
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i totally agree with you.
i tried to leave my latte cup from starbucks in a car.
the next day i checked the colour and smell of the cup.
i just smelt the milk and the colour is light brown (mostly because of the milk) i never tasted any espresso in my latte and cappincino.
the latte and cappincino i buy these days is differnet. i even can smell the espresso next day in my emptied cup.
all i can say is most people don't like the bitter taste.
whenever they drink coffee, they pour out 1/4 of the cup and add milk or cream into it. coffee is no longer a coffee anymore.


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Guide on Minature Golf
"Whenever any barrier stands between you and the full rights and dignity of citizenship, we must work to remove it, in the name of simple decency and justice. The promise of the ADA...has enabled people with disabilities to enjoy much greater access to a wide range of affordable travel, recreational opportunities and life-enriching services."
President George W. Bush, New Freedom Initiative, February 1, 2001
The recreation facility guidelines described in this guide focus on newly designed or newly constructed and altered miniature golf courses, adventure-style courses, and other putting courses. Other provisions contained in ADAAG address elements commonly found at a miniature golf course facility, such as accessible vehicle parking spaces, exterior accessible routes, and toilet and bathing facilities. ADAAG addresses only the built environment (structures and grounds). The guidelines do not address operational issues. Questions regarding operational issues should be directed to the Department of Justice, 1-800-514-0301 or 1-800-514-0383 (TTY).
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At least 50 percent of the holes on a miniature golf course must be accessible—if possible, operators should make all holes accessible. Accessible holes must be consecutive, to offer a more socially integrated experience. If only the minimum number of holes are accessible, it is recommended that designers select holes that will offer golfers who use wheelchairs or other mobility devices a playing experience that is as equivalent as possible to the experience of golfers without disabilities. An exception permits courses to have one break in the sequence of accessible holes, if the last hole in the sequence is the last hole on the course. The route in which a golfer with a disability must travel may not require travel back through any holes, even if the route is adjacent to the hole and not on the hole itself.
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