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And yet, we very quickly realised there was just something about the house that was completely and utterly RIGHT for us. I've loved our year here and little by little turning it into something that reflects both W and I. It's no longer just a house. It's now a home. And you know what they say, home is where the heart is. And I will speak for both of us when I say our heart truly is right here. (your bucket, ma'am?)
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The biggest thing we've realised is just how much potential this place has. We recognised it as soon as we stepped in the door.
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Happy Anniversary, House of K&W!ReplyDelete
It's brilliant to see the tremendous progress you have made - you've both made your home beyond lovely and I always look forward to seeing more. Following your journey is so inspiring.
Loving your new tabs, this is such a favourite blog for me. :-)
Happy weekend to you, pretty lady!
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happy anniversary house!ReplyDelete
i've been surprised by how blogging affects my house-keeping/decor life. seeing photos of my rooms influences my choices now and magnifies what i like and dislike.
i LOVE seeing photos of real rooms real people live in so i am all eyes and ears as you continue to share the progress. you're doing a fabulous job BTW and you're right, it'll never be finished cuz we're way too fun for that.
i am going through an apologetic phase with my house. people come over, and i keep saying LISTEN, IT'S STRIPPED DOWN RIGHT NOW AND WON'T ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THIS. i have to clear a room out to see where it's headed.
have a great weekend, swoonbabe.
I can't believe how much you've done in a year!! Seriously. I thought you'd been there waaaaaay longer than that. You've whizzed through loads of rooms - taking down ceilings too!!!ReplyDelete
Wowee, missus, I'm totally in awe! Lucky I like you so much, or I'd be feeling definite pangs of jealousy!
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Pros: Wow, what an upgrade from onboard audio. Been running onboard audio for years, and thought the not great sound was due to my cheap speakers. Even with my low end speaker set, this card made a huge difference in sound quality. And for only $30!
Cons: None.
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Fixed the problem, created another.
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Pros: Fixed my mic static problem on my headphones.
Cons: I think the bracket holes weren't drilled right, won't go down into PCI slot with bracket mounted, had to RMA.
Other Thoughts: I mounted the card without the bracket, fit just fine in PCI slot and put the bracket next to in the mount. The holes are about 1/4 inch higher than the ports are on the card when it is in the slot. I really needed this card to work, now I gotta order somewhere else =(
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Pros: Bought because my motherboards integrated card was causing a lot of static. For the price, I was pleasantly surprised. Worth the money.
Cons: None happily.
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Nice but one little install glitch
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Pros: Very good price, high quality output and nice easy to use and comprehensive control software.
Cons: Nothing serious
Other Thoughts: I got both the PCI and PCI-e versions for different systems, so I could deal with both the same. After installing drivers on Windows 7, I got the Windows startup sound, but then nothing. Turns out that for some reason, the software/drivers had switched to "Front Panel Headphones" output all by its lonesome. Switched that back, and it's been fine. Not really a serious problem, but it had me worried for a little while.
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Pros: Not even the price.
Cons: Drivers are terrible, software is worse, after awhile it caused conflictions galore, when installing drivers had to unseat and reseat to get it to work, and did I say the drivers and software were bad?
Other Thoughts: Wow this was the biggest piece of junk I have ever dealt with. It's just not worth it. Right out of the box it was having trouble being recognized. The drivers would try to install, but it took 10 minutes for the thing to tell me nothing was plugged in, when it was plugged in. I had to unseat then reseat the card and that seemed to fix the problem. The drivers that were available, were incredibly old. The software side of it looks and works like it was created in the late 90's. I went from having lots of easy to use features to almost no features whatsoever. For about 8 months I've been having an issue where, when I started up, I would click once and then the mouse would stop recognizing clicks, I had to ctrl alt del and esc to get it work again. I spent hours trying to figure it out. My usb wireless adapter would sometimes quit on me. Sometimes the computer would hang for a second. Then I bought a new case and forgot to install the sound card. All of a sudden the issues with my mouse and EVERYTHING were gone! I have since drop kicked this card into the trash.
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Envelope Fail: Vogue 2893 by Donna Karan
June 13, 2014 § 7 Comments
When I first started collecting sewing patterns, Naomi was baffled. She couldn't understand my interest when the styling on modern pattern envelopes was bland or worse. This new, occasional series looks at designer patterns that fail to convey the strengths of the original—not as an end in itself, but in the hope of provoking reflection and discussion of the frequent disparity between designer fashion and the licensed versions offered to home sewers.
(You can see an earlier discussion in the comments on my Alber Elbaz post.)
Launching the series is Vogue 2893, a top and skirt pattern by Donna Karan from 2006. The off-the-shoulder, back-laced ensemble is drawn from Karan's Spring/Summer 2005 collection, and was the centrepiece of the Peter Lindbergh advertising campaign starring Erin Wasson.
The look was even chosen to open the Spring 2005 runway presentation. The second photo shows the top's contrast mesh inserts, elasticized shoulders, and decorative zigzag stitching detail:
Now consider the pattern envelope:
The envelope replaces the original's bared shoulders, open back, and slight flare at the hips with a much higher décolletage and tightly laced back. The result is a more covered-up, middle-of-the-road, body-con look that lacks the original's confidence and wit.
What do you think? Did Vogue Patterns assume the original styling wouldn't appeal to their customers?
Anna Sui: Vogue Patterns, Part 2
January 9, 2014 § 2 Comments
This week, the second part of my series on Vogue patterns by Anna Sui. (See Part 1 here.)
5. Anna Sui, Spring/Summer 1999 collection
Sui's Spring 1999 collection was inspired by American sportswear designer Claire McCardell. Nylon dresses invoked McCardell's functionalism, while denim pieces developed the Americana theme. Further New World references ranged from Mexican clothing, Día de los Muertos handicrafts, and Haitian voodoo, to glam rock and Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949). (Browse the full collection at firstVIEW.)
Vogue 2305 is a pattern for two dresses with gathering details. View A is sleeveless, with a raised, drawstring waist and scarf collar; view B has a mock-wrap bodice, off-the-shoulder puffed sleeves, and a midriff cutout above the flared skirt:
Kirsten Owen and Giselle Bündchen modelled the dresses on the runway:
6. Anna Sui, Spring/Summer 2001 collection
One of the main inspirations for the Spring 2001 collection was the Mudd Club, a locus for New York's cultural underground in the late 1970s and early 1980s. An Edo Bertoglio polaroid of Mudd Club co-founder Anya Phillips in her blue, lace-up dress was a reference for some of the pieces. (As well as being an independent fashion designer, Phillips was art director at Fiorucci; see Tim Blanks, "Mudd Quake.") As Andrew Bolton notes, even the collection's less overtly '80s designs reflected Sui's "Mudd Club thrift-shop punk aesthetic." (See the full collection at style.com.)
Vogue 2551 is a pattern for two LBDs for stretch knits. The one-shouldered view A is cut on the bias, with the right skirt front extending into a twisted hip drape; view B has pleats at the right shoulder and a left side slit:
Here are the two dresses on the runway. The one-shouldered jersey dress was modelled by Hannelore Knuts:
These two Edo Bertoglio portraits from the Mudd Club era show Anya Phillips, in her blue dress, and Anna Sui (photos via New York Magazine; the Sui portrait was first published in Vogue Italia):
(More Mudd Club-era photos may be found in Maripolarama [powerHouse Books, 2005], which contains a recollection by Anna Sui.)
7. Anna Sui, Fall/Winter 2001 collection
Sui's inspiration for her Fall 2001 collection was another legendary New York venue: the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio. In reference to Warhol's Factory parties and ideas about celebrity, the runway presentation incorporated a screening of a black-and-white, short film, commissioned from Zoe Cassavetes, of Sui's famous friends attending a cocktail party. Other '60s inspirations included "Baby" Jane Holzer's eclectic wardrobe, the work of Rudi Gernreich, and William Klein's film Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966). (Full collection at style.com.)
Vogue 2640 is a pattern for a jacket and dress with contrast binding, plus a matching scarf:
Vogue 2640's striped jacket and dress ensemble was the spring collection's opening look:
The collection's stripes are a reference to a particularly Op-art scene in Klein's Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?:
8. Anna Sui, Fall/Winter 2003 collection
The concept of art deco skiwear inspired the Fall 2003 collection, which Sui designed during another cold winter (2002-3) when urban skiwear was dominating New York street fashion. In the colours, motifs, and especially the geometric patterns of art deco, as well as the distinctive, tubular 1920s silhouette, the collection chanelled the flapper's modernity, but with a dose of fun fur. (Full collection on style.com.)
Vogue 7950 or 639 is a pattern for five different faux fur pieces: a jacket, vest, hat, mittens, and legwarmers. The jacket is cropped, with elbow-length sleeves, while the vest has an exposed zipper. The hat has a contrast scarf that could be made to match the mittens' contrast palms and cuffs, and the legwarmers have elasticized leg bands:
Here are some detail shots of the hat and legwarmers on the runway:
L'Officiel's collection image shows the '20s ski theme, complete with Anna Sui-branded snowboard (click to enlarge):
Anna Sui's work wears its postmodernity lightly. The designer's myriad references, fantastical narratives, and hybrid concepts mean her collections keep evolving while staying true to a bohemian, thrift-store aesthetic. I'm already planning to make several of these (one of the hazards of research). Which are your favourites?
Free Designer Pattern: J.W.Anderson Top and Skirt
December 25, 2013 § Leave a comment
SHOWstudio's latest Design Download is a free pattern for a top and balloon skirt by J.W.Anderson. Anderson, who is creative director at Loewe as well as for his own label, was just named the BFA's New Establishment Designer for 2013. (For more on Anderson see Susannah Frankel's recent profile for W magazine, "The New Guard: J.W. Anderson.")
As with last year's Design Download, there's an interactive component and also a contest. Those making up the ensemble are invited to submit photos for inclusion in a gallery on the SHOWstudio website, and J.W.Anderson and Nick Knight will choose one version to star in a special fashion film.
The asymmetrical top and skirt are from the current, Fall/Winter 2013 collection, which drew acclaim for its sculptural, experimental pieces in subdued neutrals enlivened by the odd splash of colour and comic-book prints. (See Suzy Menkes, "Maximalist Versus Minimalist"; full collection on style.com.) Here is SHOWstudio's slate leather version on the runway:
The ensemble was also shown in midnight blue and white:
The look also made the fall advertising campaign—twice:
The pattern download comes in a choice of A4 or A1 sheets with a test line for checking the scale.
Download the top and skirt pattern (9 pieces: 4 for top, 5 for skirt)
Size: UK size 6
Recommended fabrics: leather, thick duffle wool, and other fray-resistant fabrics
Tools and notions: 20cm (8″) invisible zipper, hook and eye, seam binding or bondaweb. A rotary cutter is recommended for cutting the unfinished edges.
The deadline for contest submissions is Friday, March 31st, 2014 at midnight GMT. (See the SHOWstudio site for submission details.) Or if you'd rather snag the original, the midnight blue version of the top is on sale at net-a-porter.
Free Designer Pattern: Matthew Williamson Caftan
July 17, 2013 § 3 Comments
Now that summer is truly here, this instalment in my Free Designer Patterns series is devoted to a hot weather essential: a caftan, one that Matthew Williamson shared with the Guardian as part of the Observer's 2009 Designer DIY series.
The caftan is from what was then the current season collection, the Spring/Summer 2009 ready-to-wear. Here is the caftan on the runway:
The spring collection played to Williamson's strengths, with plenty of neon brights and flowing, bohemian prints. Here's the collection image from L'Officiel 1000 modèles (click to enlarge):
Fabric requirements: About 2.5 metres (2.75 yards) of very lightweight fabric such as chiffon or printed georgette (width unspecified)
Caveats: Seam allowances must be added. The pattern has 5 pieces, but consists of 44 separate PDFs.
Read a Pattern Review discussion here, or check out Geneviever's construction notes on BurdaStyle here.
Free Designer Pattern: Stephen Jones Hat
June 17, 2013 § 3 Comments
Royal Ascot begins tomorrow. What better way to celebrate than with a free designer millinery pattern, for a Stephen Jones hat called 'Nice Package'?
The hat pattern Stephen Jones recently shared with SHOWstudio was released in early 2012, on the last day of the Paris couture calendar. An exaggerated beret inspired by his lilac hatboxes, the original hat is lilac moiré with a sparkle-embellished, pink satin bow. Here's a colour photo:
The design was drawn from Stephen Jones' Fall/Winter 2011 collection, Topsy Turvy, which also included a stiletto take on Schiaparelli's shoe hat. Here is a collection image from the milliner's website:
Recommended fabrics: For hat: crisp fabrics with body and a slight stiffness such as faille, taffeta, gazar, or firm velvet. For lining: softer fabrics.
Notions: 0.4 m ( about 16″) of 5 cm (2″) satin ribbon; #5 (2.5cm) petersham ribbon; elastic (optional).
Trimming: 0.65 m (about 26″) of 5 cm (2″) ribbon; small sequins, sugar beads, and diamantés for bow embellishment.
U.K. milliner Sharon Bainbridge has made a version of the SHOWstudio hat; read her process post here.
Free Designer Pattern: John Galliano Jacket
May 9, 2013 § 3 Comments
This week's second punk-inspired pattern puts the 'couture' in Chaos to Couture. (The first punk-inspired pattern was by Junya Watanabe—see my post here.) John Galliano's 'Pirate' jacket is the most challenging of SHOWstudio's Design Downloads, with 63 pattern pieces, all hand-labelled in French. But not to worry: 11 are guide pieces, and most of the French is translated.
Here are side and back views of the jacket:
The 'Pirate' jacket is from John Galliano's Fall/Winter 2001 collection, entitled Techno Romance. Here it is on the runway:
The collection mixed glossy synthetics (techno) with delicate sheers and florals (romance): jaunty double-breasted jackets and long coats worn with sailor trousers, and long skirts and dresses, many with the same romantically skewed, off-the-shoulder, one-sleeved bodices as the SHOWstudio jacket. (See Suzy Menkes, "Techno Romance.") In her short essay to accompany the Design Download, Jane Audas conjures an imaginary history for the SHOWstudio version of the jacket—a story of rebellion in which it was fashioned from the Union Jack, "the flag torn off a captured ship and hijacked as clothing, held together with sail rivets and ties."
Here are the collection images from L'Officiel 1000 modèles (click to enlarge):
Fashion Channel has posted runway video of the collection on YouTube in three parts (jacket at 3:50 of part 2):
Download the 'Pirate' jacket pattern
Fabrics requirements: approx. 3 yards of 60″ fabric and 3 yards of lining; interfacing.
Notions: grosgrain ribbon, D-rings, large metal stud, press studs, 2 buckles, eyelets, snaps, cord, elastic, 53 cm (21″) separating zipper.
See the SHOWstudio submissions gallery here. Carolyn E. Moore made the jacket twice. Weatherpixie has posted process photos of her red, white, and blue version on Flickr.
Free Designer Pattern: Junya Watanabe Dress
May 7, 2013 § 1 Comment
To celebrate this week's opening of PUNK: Chaos to Couture at the Costume Institute in New York, I'll be posting about two free patterns for punk-inspired designs. (Kristen McMenamy called last night's Met gala "a costume party for punk"; see style.com's red carpet coverage here.) First up is an example of Junya Watanabe's "heavy-duty couture": the dress pattern he shared with SHOWstudio.
The Watanabe Design Download was part of SHOWstudio's Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down project, which saw model Liberty Ross being dressed for a live photo shoot by an online audience. The project—whose name refers to the English title of Pedro Almodóvar's Átame, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)—was inspired by pornographic video chats and had the goal of "exploring the idea of control in fashion image-making." As well as images and video, the project also had a discussion component, with interviews and short essays on fashion and pornography, including an Andrea Dworkin excerpt. In its appropriation of pornographic conventions, the SHOWstudio project can be linked to punk fashion and art like that of Throbbing Gristle's Cosey Fanni Tutti (recently seen in Pop Life: Art in a Material World).
The Watanabe design was chosen by Liberty Ross from stylist Jonathan Kaye's draft selection for the June 2005 SHOWstudio event. The dress is from Junya Watanabe's Fall/Winter 2005 women's collection—the coming season at the time of the project. The original dress was made in red mohair plaid with a PVC bodice:
Watanabe also showed a black version of the dress:
These dresses' play with textural contrasts carried through the Fall/Winter 2005 Junya Watanabe women's collection, which paired cotton and textured woolens with synthetics like nylon and PVC. The models wore full-skirted dresses, the skirts sometimes bunched up with ripcords, white shirts with exaggerated collars and ruffles, and coats and jackets made with tweed fused with synthetics. Watanabe referred to the clothes as "hard-core couture." (See Cathy Horyn, "In Paris, Tweed Tangles With Tulle.") Here's the collection image from L'Officiel 1000 modèles (click to enlarge):
Fabric requirements: for skirt, approx. 2 yards of 50″ fabric*
Notions: #10 Vislon zipper, 3mm and 5mm sealing tape
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Industry's First Post-Consumer Recycled Line of Polystyrenes From Styrolution Showcased at the International Plastics Showcase, NPE 2012
Three grades of polystyrene each feature 25 percent PCR content
CHANNAHON, Ill., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The industry's first line of polystyrene products containing post-consumer recycled (PCR) polystyrene will highlight Styrolution America LLC's presence at the upcoming NPE 2012 International Plastics Showcase in Orlando, which runs from April 2-5.
The product line from Styrolution, the leading global styrenics supplier, includes three product grades, each with 25 percent PCR content, which is supplied by NextLife™ - a collaborative manufacturer of sustainable plastic resins for use in a variety of applications.
These grades are FDA-compliant for food contact and designed for injection molding and extrusion applications requiring consistent resin properties. The resins, which process the same as 100 percent virgin polystyrene, target injection molded opaque applications, such as cutlery, housewares, office accessories and appliance components.
The three products in the Styrolution PCR polystyrene line include:
- PCR3125 – for use in injection molding applications, the product is based on a 3100 general purpose polystyrene (GPPS) grade with 25 percent recycled contents;
- PCR5625 – also used in injection molding applications, PCR5625 is based on a 5600 high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) grade with 25 percent recycled content; and
- PCR6225 – for use in extrusion applications, the product is based on a 6200 HIPS grade with 25 percent recycled content.
"This product line proves that polystyrene is absolutely a recyclable product," said Ed Barnes, vice president, Styrolution. "We look forward to demonstrating the value of this sustainable line of products with our customers at NPE 2012, and also look forward to working within our industry to increase the reclamation and reuse of polystyrene materials into eco-friendly end products." To learn more about this product line and other Styrolution offerings, please visit our booth 13005 at NPE2012 or send us an email at email@example.com.
Styrolution is the leading global styrenics supplier with a focus on styrene monomer, polystyrene, copolymers, and ABS. As a joint venture of BASF and INEOS, Styrolution combines the key styrenics assets of two of the biggest chemical companies in the world – with more than 70 years of experience, complementary competencies and portfolios. Styrolution strives to serve the success of its customers by offering them the best possible solution, designed to give them a competitive edge in their markets. The company provides styrenics applications for many everyday products across a broad range of industries, including automotive, electrical/electronics, building and construction, household appliances, toys/sports/leisure, packaging, healthcare and diagnostics. In 2010, pro forma combined sales were at 6.4 billion euros, resulting in an EBITDA before exceptionals of 407 million euros. Styrolution employs about 3,400 people and operates 17 production sites in ten countries. For further information please visit www.styrolution.com
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Glorious FC Bayern Munich are still achieving new records to enhance the history of the 110-year club. The record-winning German champions set a new internal marker by defeating CFR Cluj 4-0 (2-0) away. The fourth victory in the fourth match meant a new starting record in the Champions League. Even before further encounters at AS Rome (November 23) and FC Basle (December 8), the Bavarians have qualified for the round of 16, to be played on February 15-16 and 22-23. They need just one point to secure top place in Group E and gain the advantage of playing the second leg of the next grouping at home at Allianz Arena.
One player has stolen the limelight at Bayern Munich since mid-October: Mario Gomez, who was considered by many a write-off, has regained the label of goalscorer, the position he once held with VfB Stuttgart and which prompted his near 30 million Euros transfer to the Bavarians in the summer of 2009. The 25-year-old had scored 10 goals in eight matches by November 6. He started his scoring spree on October 12, when he was sent on in the 56th minute of the German national team's European qualifier against Kazakhstan in Astana and 20 minutes later scored the goal for the 2-0 victory. This goal, plus a creditable performance, appears to have been the trigger for the centre forward, for in the following Bundesliga matches he achieved a hat-trick with the 3-0 victory over Hannover 96.
Mario Gomez (left) scored 10 goals between October 12 and November 6. Schweinsteiger (centre) and Altintop congratulate him on his hat-trick against Hanover. (Photo: Rauchensteiner/Augenklick)
"Super Mario" Gomez: Ten goals in eight matches
In the Champions League Gomez contributed one goal in the 3-2 win against Cluj at home, then scored another hat-trick during the 4-0 away. In addition "Super Mario", who proved his versatility (4 headers, 3 right shots, 3 left shots = 10 goals), scored during the 4-2 against Freiburg and the 3-3 in Moenchengladbach in the Bundesliga. He only failed to net the ball during the goalless draw away with Hamburger SV and the 2-1 win over Werder Bremen in the DFB Cup. "It is fantastic that we have such a striker", was the praise from coach Louis van Gal. "Scoring goals is the most important fact for a striker", said the Dutchman, adding with a mischievous smile: "That's why strikers get paid most".
However, Gomez also benefited from his colleague Miroslav Klose's injury. Gomez replaced Klose, who suffered a torn muscle fibre in the international match in Astana. Klose was benched for some time, and Gomez took his chance to secure a regular place. As Ivico Olic also joined the large Bayern contingent of injured players (among others Robben, Ribéry, van Bommel), Gomez was suddenly the only true striker with the Bavarians. Had the Swabian with Spanish roots played less well FC Bayern's problems could have escalated. For contrary to their superior appearances in the Champions League, the German title holders are limping behind in the race for the national championship. Though the team remained undefeated in six successive matches with the 3-3 draw in Moenchengladbach, the margin behind top team Borussia Dortmund increased to 12 points after the 11th Bundesliga round. When they conceded two goals within 15 minutes to be 3-2 down after a strong performance and a 2-1 lead at halftime, the players saw their coach from a different perspective.
Van Gaal turned into "van Bang" after the final whistle, with the 59-year-old throwing a tantrum in the locker room. "I was disappointed and upset", van Gaal admitted and asked for understanding for his loud verbal attack. "This should not happen to a top team. Thus the gap between us and the top team in the Bundesliga is getting larger and larger", van Gaal commented. "During the break I praised my players for their fantastic performance. It was the best performance this season. I also warned them that the opponents would come back aggressively".
Together with Bayern President Uli Hoeness, van Gaal had attracted many headlines after the match in Cluj and prior to the encounter in Moenchengladbach. On the previous weekend Hoeness had reproached the coach in a TV discussion on Sky, suggesting he had ignored players from the second ranking for some time and avoided communication with them. These accusations, expressed objectively, triggered extensive media comments. Van Gaal did not hide his disappointment. In Cluj, the coach, the president and Bayern's Executive Board chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, met and cleared the air. Many media reported that a truce was called. In future Hoeness, who has less influence as President than he formerly had as manager, would be better informed by van Gaal.
All want to pull in the same direction in order to fulfil the sporting aims. "We must win all home games in the Bundesliga by halftime, then attack aggressively in the second half", said Bastian Schweinsteiger. The international player, who was repositioned from 6th to the 10th as playmaker by the coach due to the great injury problems, emphasised that the aim remains to celebrate their next title in May 2011. "But it will be anything but easy. Dortmund have already gained a great advantage", said Schweinsteiger. In addition Bayern want to qualify for the DFB Cup quarter-finals from the encounter with VfB Stuttgart away on December 21-22.


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The FIA have confirmed that this year's Abu Dhabi GP will once again be boosted by two DRS zones at the Yas Marina circuit.
The first detection zone will be found 40 metres before Turn Seven and will be activated 390 metres after it, giving drivers a boost down the long back straight.
The second DRS detection zone is 50 meters after Turn Nine while the activation area is on the apex of Turn 10.
As for any changes to the anti-clockwise circuit, motorsport's governing body has announced that higher kerbs have been installed on the apexes of Turns Five, Six, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 19.


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The Voice Review: Great Balls of Fireby Steve Marsi at . Comments
The Voice's final live performances opened last night with a group rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," in somber tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Connecticut.
On a candlelit stage, all the contestants joined Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera in holding name cards of the victims and their ages, leaving not a dry eye in the house.
Then it was down to business, although very little from last night was likely to change the outcome. Cassadee Pope, Terry McDermott and Nicholas David have already distinguished themselves this fall.
We have no way of knowing how close the voting has been since the live shows began, but the three clearly have diverging fan bases and musical styles. It's all going to come down to whose fans vote.
First up last night was Nicholas David with a fiery medley of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and Jimi Hendrix's "Fire." Seriously, that piano may have actually been on fire during that spirited effort.
Saint Nick is always a soulful performer, but he kicked it up a notch this week in the energy department. David also reprised his signature cover of "Lean On Me," bringing the house down once again.
Classic rock singer Terry McDermott, for his final solo effort, selected "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister. Despite a couple of mic snafus at the beginning, he recovered well and was pitch-perfect as always.
Terry also performed "I Want to Know What Love Is" a second time, and rocked out with Blake Shelton on "Dude Looks Like a Lady" (with a shirtless, long-haired Adam Levine on guitar, obviously).
Pop rocker turned country queen Cassadee Pope sang "Cry" by Faith Hill, proving without a doubt that she can hold her own with the best of the genre. She also reprised coach Blake's "Over You."
We also got to witness each contestant spending time at their coach's home with their family, which was a lot of fun. Tonight, expect even more filler (albeit relatively awesome filler) on the finale.
Whose performances were your favorite last night? All season long? Who's got what it takes to win the third season and be named The Voice on Tuesday's results show? Comment and vote below!
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Cassidee is going to win because of the stupid Itunes votes. I'm still hoping for Nicholas to win. The guy just warms my heart everytime he's on stage.
A boring finale with way too much Blake and not enough musical diversity. I missed having Adam and Christina performing with their contestants like prior years. By the lack of detail in the review it seems like the reviewer wasn't that into it either. Out of the three finalists, Nicholas is my favorite. Not a fan of Blake's taste, but I'm guessing that America is. I hope that we get performances by some of the other contestants during the results show.
Anything can happen. I'm pulling and voted for Terry. I think Cee Lo OUTDID Nicholas in their duet last night. I don't think that duet did anything to get Nicholas votes. I still don't think Nicholas is marketable in today's market. Cassadee is everyone's golden child this season. It's already widely speculated that she will win. What a predicament Blake is in being as 2 of them are on his team and one of them has to lose.


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Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to understand and acknowledge your own feelings, empathize with those of other people, and regulate yourself so that you don't act impulsively. With high EQ, you can delay your own personal gratification if to do so will provide longer-term gain. Increasingly, psychological definitions of intelligence are incorporating some component EQ into the more traditionally, academically-based approaches that focus on knowledge you learn in school.
EQ also seems to have important connections to situations that people encounter in the course of their daily lives. A recent study by German Sport University psychologist Sylvain Laborde and colleagues (2014) showed that tennis players with high EQ were better able to control their physiological stress levels in high-stakes games.


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If you stitch a lot of machine quilting projects, you may just find the HandiQuilter II to be a great investment, saving you time and effort.
In fact, with this frame, you can machine quilt very large projects, even king-size bed quilts!
This machine quilting accessory has a simple design that keeps your quilts flat in place, while your sewing machine rides back and forth along a mounted track beneath the Handi Quilter frame. The frame and carriage system mount to an 8 or 10 foot work table.
Lightweight, adjustable poles secure your quilt project with sturdy hook and loop tape. Platforms on which your machine rests, slide along the length of the table, moving your machine instead of your quilt.
The Handiquilter features a dual-carriage assembly. It features one platform that rides along the length of the Handi Quilter on a plastic track mounted to the worktable, and another platform that slides in and out on tracks mounted to the lower platform.
As your sewing machine follows its stitch patterns, the platforms allow the machine to slide through even the most complicated stitch pattern.
Heavy-duty quilters like this accessory because it behaves like a professional long-arm quilting machine, but it costs only a fraction of the price. The Handiquilter actually converts home quilting machines into professional quilting assemblies.
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Earth systems increase in complexity, diversity, and interconnectedness with time, driven by tectonic/solar energy that keeps the systems far from equilibrium. The evolution of Earth systems is facilitated by three evolutionary mechanisms: elaboration, fractionation, and self-organization, that share universality features not found in more familiar equilibrium systems. These features include: 1. evolution to sensitive dependent critical states, 2. avalanches of changes following power law distributions with fractal organization, and 3. dynamic behaviour as strange attractors that often exhibit bi-stable behaviour. We propose a new approach to teaching Earth systems theory, where theoretical underpinnings of evolutionary mechanisms are introduced, followed by explorations of how the mechanisms interact to integrate the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere into a unitary evolutionary system. We incorporate conceptual and computer-based interactive models (included here as educational resources) within our lesson plans that illustrate a hierarchy of principles and experimental outcomes for evolutionary mechanisms. Application of this educational framework requires explicating complex systems mechanisms and their interactions, exploring their applicability to Earth systems, and imbedding them in high school was well as college introductory and upper level Earth Science classrooms to put all Earth systems on an evolutionary theoretical foundation.
All evolutionary systems are complex systems in the technical sense of that term. Biological evolution is a complex system, but, until recently has not been thought of or modelled as a complex system. Likewise, fractionating evolution of petrographic systems using AFM or phase diagrams, or sediment evolution using QFL or Q/FL/Matrix diagrams has been a mainstay of the geosciences. We have been talking about evolution all along, but because we have modelled these as equilibrium systems there has been a conceptual block to thinking of them in any terms other than descent to equilibriumwhich according to the definitions of evolution is not really evolution.
It is the recognition that all evolutionary systems are non-equilibrium systems and evolve to complexity with a whole new, integrated set of properties and behaviors that has the potential to transform our teaching of evolutionary Earth systems to a new paradigm. But, this also requires that we introduce our students to chaos\complex systems principles and models because these systems possess properties that are very different from the equilibrium thinking most of them have been trained in so far.
These papers and web sites provide the rationalle and rubrics for teaching evolutionary systems as chaos/complex systems. We can introduce these ideas in as little as 3 - 5 50 minute classes, depending on how many examples we want to explore. But, with these new concepts students will be able to think about real world systems in ways that will yield more understanding and insight.


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LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2013—Secretary of State John Kerry found himself on the defensive over the July 4th weekend. While Egyptians were fighting for their very lives and freedom, Kerry was spotted on his 76 foot yacht living the high life. The State Department initially denied he was on his yacht, backtracking only when clear evidence surfaced that he was.
On the surface, Kerry's behavior amounts to somewhere between a teaspoon in a kerfuffle and a tempot of hullabaloo. This is America, and Kerry has every right to be wealthy.
As Secretary of State, he has every right to enjoy Independence Day. As a citizen, there is nothing illegal about being a plutocrat. Spending time on 76 foot yachts is what plutocrats do, and the fact that John Forbes Chartwell Wellington Atherton Rufus Choate Kerry earned his money by marrying it became irrelevant once the voters rejected him for the Oval Office.
(As of this writing his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry is recovering in the hospital after suffering a malady. All decent Americans pray for her healthy recovery.)
Yes, Kerry is the same man who parked his yacht in a neighboring state to avoid paying Massachusetts taxes. However, hypocrisy does not apply in this situation. His hobby is his business.
Even the perceived optics do not matter. While it looks like Kerry and President Obama were goofing off while the world around them burned, extra slack has to be given because of the holiday. That charge has been made in the past, but this one time it should be dismissed.
The problem is a fundamentally deeper one. If Kerry was doing nothing illegal or even immoral, why did the State Department feel the need to cover up the truth?
Does the State Department tell the truth about anything?
John Kerry was not responsible for Benghazi. That happened when Hillary Clinton had his job. Yet the pattern was the same. Routine questions went unanswered. The truth was shrouded in obfuscation. Accountability and responsibility never saw the light of day until those misleading the public were actually caught doing so.
Four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens and a pair of Navy SEALs were left to be murdered by radical Islamists. Hillary Clinton, when asked what caused their deaths, exclaimed "What difference at this point does it make?" As for President Obama, nobody knows where he was that night of September 11, 2012.
It is quite possible that Obama and Kerry were aware of what was going on in Egypt. They have cell phones and internet access on presidential motorcades at the golf course and on the Secretary's yacht.
The Obama administration has taken some devastating hits to its credibility, and those hits are often justified. Rather than learn, the self-inflicted wounds keep coming.
John Kerry did nothing wrong by spending his time on his property on government holiday. He could have just said that. Instead, the perception of him engaging in sloth on the same holiday when Joey Chestnut is gorging on 69 hot dogs was too much for the image conscious Kerry to bear. The man often accused of haughtiness cared what people thought on the one occasion where that was unnecessary.
This insecurity is one reason why he lost the 2004 election.
His real problem is not his personal image. The entire department he heads is drowning in accusations of corruption, malfeasance, incompetence, and utter indifference to human life.
Fibbing about simple matters of where and how he vacations only compounds the doubts that many Americans have about him, his boss, and the entire State Department.
Brooklyn born, Long Island raised, and now living in Los Angeles, Eric Golub is a politically conservative columnist, author, public speaker, and satirist. Eric is the author of the book trilogy "Ideological Bigotry, "Ideological Violence," and "Ideological Idiocy.
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The following is an excerpt from "Pierce Hale, Private Eye: The Honeymoon Killer" a short story submitted by 1940s.org and published on Ezine Articles:
It was 7:30 on a Saturday evening as Pierce Hale was escorted to the back of Club Dahlia. Sitting at a table made of mahogany, pouring from a slender green bottle and occasionally leaning back to blow smoke rings, Pierce waited patiently for his dinner date. It was 1945 in Miami's South Beach. Tropical plants adorned the room that was located opposite the large open archways that led to a rooftop ballroom. A blue-white light from the hotel sign across the street faithfully bounced from the wall, cigarette smoke filled the room, and sirens screamed down the streets below. They screamed, but not nearly as often as Pierce had become accustomed to while working as a detective for the Homicide Division of the Boston Police Department.
Police Chief Davin Laport tried unsuccessfully to get him to stay, and it had only been a few months since Pierce retired from his job in Boston, where he had served for twenty untarnished years. He relished the dark nights in a hard city, and he missed the days of chasing down the bad guys without having to fill out all of the paperwork. Tedious endless paperwork. That was a major difference between his job in Boston and becoming the owner of his own investigative agency in downtown Miami, the paperwork never seemed to end. Yes, there were times when he was able to head out into the streets alongside Johnny Batinni, the mid-twenties investigator who worked for him, but mostly he was stuck in the old brick office he was renting on the second floor of a ramshackle building in downtown Miami.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this…it had a very "Sam Spade"-feel to it! Pierce Hale has that same enigmatic and somewhat aloof quality of Spade, a gritty detective who knows his way around every dank back alley and every shady speakeasy in town. The opening scene is charged with intrigue…Hale's familiar corner table in a dimly-lit club, and through the smokey haze emerges a sultry siren, a real femme fatale. It would be enough to make Hale bristle with ice-cold trepidation…except that this dame's an ally. *shivers*
I began reading this and it drew me in…the imagery, the plot…very, very good. I hope we have the pleasure of reading more of the investigations of this gumshoe and his savvy assistant.
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Cambridge SoundWorks Radio CD 745i
The realm of high-end tabletop radios once seemed to be the sole domain of Bose. In the past few years, however, the market has been crowded with competitors including Tivoli Audio, Polk Audio, and Boston Acoustics, not to mention upstarts such as Chestnut Hill Sound. Two of our favorites were from Cambridge SoundWorks--the company's Radio 730 and Radio CD 740 delivered some of the best sound quality we'd heard from a tabletop radio. Since the debut of those two Cambridge models, however, the need for iPod integration has become an even more critical feature for lifestyle-friendly audio products. So the company has added an iPod dock to both models, and updated the model numbers accordingly. Enter the Cambridge SoundWorks Radio 735i ($199) and the Radio CD 745i (which adds CD playback for an additional $50).
Like most of the products in the rarefied tabletop radio world, the Radio CD 745i is pretty straightforward: it's an AM/FM radio and CD player with a dual-alarm clock radio and an outboard iPod dock thrown in to boot. Aside from the iPod dock, the Radio 745i is basically a dead ringer for its predecessor, the Radio CD 740. Like that venerable model, the 745i is available in white or black and measures out at 5x14x10 inches--so make sure your nightstand or bedside table has enough real estate. It tips the scales at a hefty 11 pounds, but we're not complaining--it's a tabletop radio, not a portable you'll be moving from room to room.
Except for the Snooze/Mute button on the otherwise bare topside, all of the Radio CD 745i's controls are located on its front face. A 32-character LCD readout sits above two clusters of eight buttons each, separated by a jog dial that's 1 inch in diameter. The display is linked to a light sensor, so it dims in dark rooms. The jog dial controls volume by default, but clicking the nearby Jog key toggles it to a variety of other functions, including Bass, Treble, and Loudness. The knob offers much more visceral control than a pair of up/down keys, but the rest of the controls aren't nearly as pleasing: the tiny circular buttons are identically sized and shaped, so they're hard to distinguish in low light or when you're groggy--not good for a radio that boasts alarm clock functionality. It's the same problem we had with the more downscale Lasonic MSU-2020--but the 745i's better-known brand doesn't make the poorly arrayed controls any more palatable.
The 745i crams a 2.1-speaker array into its comparatively tiny frame--two front drivers, and a downward-firing woofer for added bass. The speakers are magnetically shielded, so they can be placed near a TV or any other sensitive device with impunity. Using the jog dial, the audio output can be set to Stereo, Mono, or "Wide," which attempts to simulate stereo separation beyond the seven inches or so of space between the front speakers.
The left set of buttons are the radio presets--just depress one of them while on the station of your choice, and it's saved to one of the three "bands" (FM1, FM2, or AM). The right set of buttons offers a choice of source (AM, FM, iPod, CD, or front auxiliary), as well as up/down radio tuning; there's a Seek function for jumping from station to station as well. The Cambridge tuner supports RDS (Radio Data Service), so the readout offers call-letter and song information from stations that support it. (The display can be set to display the text as static or scrolling, or can be turned off altogether.)
Alarm functionality isn't usually notable, but the Cambridge 745i offers some subtle flexibility that's worthy of its luxurious price tag. Each of the two alarms can be set to wake to an alarm tone or to any one of the AM/FM radio presets (but you can't wake to the iPod). But this is one of the few alarm systems we've seen that also lets you lock in the volume setting of each alarm, so it can be as loud or subtle as you like in the morning, regardless of what the volume level was when you turned it off. So, you can have your iPod lull you to sleep with the volume set to 3 (the sleep timer can be set at intervals from 15 to 120 minutes), but be guaranteed to be awakened at a dream-ending 15. Snooze, meanwhile, can be preset to intervals of 5 to 22 minutes, depending on your personal level of morning procrastination. A standard 9-volt battery (inserted on the underside) sustains the clock, the alarm, and the radio presets during power disruptions of as long as 48 hours--we unplugged the 745i for 30 minutes without losing a thing.


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Beautiful record sleeves, great to see them 'rescued' from the vault. Your reference to the NFSA Collection being in it's early stages of development twenty years ago seems a little odd though, as the 'Historical Film and Speaking Record Section' section of the National Library, the precursor to the NFSA and its collections was started over seventy years ago, in 1935.
Old 78 record sleeves
The NFSA gets a lot of collection offers of material from deceased estates. These can be anything from a few old records under the radiogram to a whole room full of treasures in a house that has to be emptied by the weekend or the whole lot goes to the tip. Twenty years ago when the collection was in its early stages of development, staff were rather more generous in bringing in such offers to the NFSA warehouse. Inevitably there would be some things that would not be selected to be formally included in the collection and for one reason or another were overlooked and left untouched for some time.
A few weeks ago we were going through several boxes of what we call 'non-selected' left-overs and found a box of a couple of hundred paper sleeves that once held 10 inch 78 rpm shellac discs. These were sleeves from record companies, distributors and retail shops both here in Australia and overseas. A look through the database showed that there are a few in the collection, but not the variety in this mysterious and anonymous box. A search across the web didn't bring to light much wider interest in these record sleeves, which seem to have become a forgotten artifact in the world of record collecting. The art of the early record sleeve has an allure all of it's own that speaks of simplicity and charm that might not of interest only to the record collectors but to music enthusiasts, historians, designers and those fine purveyors of pretty things.
These sleeves tell their own stories about record labels, distributors and the shops that sold them. We thought it was worthwhile to extract a few of the interesting and intriguing gems from the box and expose them to the wider world.
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MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A man has been charged after telling authorities a woman was missing earlier this week.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has charged Jimmy L. Harrison with filing a false report.
Officers say he filed a missing persons report on Keisha Wallace. They say they believe Harrison knew Wallace was not missing.
He is being held at the Monroe County Jail without set bond at this time.
The search is over for a Monroe County woman has ended safely.
Deputies were worried Keisha Wallace was in danger. She was found in Etowah Thursday; deputies say it was all thanks to tips.
At this time her estranged husband Gary Wallace has not been located. The investigation is ongoing.
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So I always heard from teachers and such at the school I once went to about having to be careful with those interactive white board pens, because they're very expensive and such (seriously, how much do people pay for these things? I see Promethean pens for £12 a piece on one site).
Well, in reality, you'd be shocked to see what's inside them, part of a little project I'm doing involving a standard pen from the guys you all know and...love(?) includes completely taking apart one of the things, so I thought I'd share my findings with you guys, someone's bound to find it interesting. I managed to get hold of a dead pen to experiment with, whether it's still dead when I'm finished with it is left to be discovered, might actually work when I'm done, that'd be pretty nice.
Step 1: Removing that excess plastic tail:
Maybe that's where most of the money is, in the excess plastic that only serves as a bit of comfort and to make the pen look a lot bigger than the innards?
And you find this...
Not much to it, I must say...
Step B: A bit of plastic mutilation later and you find this bit under the other side of the ring, that red button is the barrel, as an FYI. Lots of lovely pink wire coil there, no doubt it's coated in pink stuff to scare people away, or perhaps to make it not move one inch unless you unravel it (and boy do you regret it...)
Under the tape there seemed to be some sort of brown thing, it looked suspiciously like chocolate from my point of view, unfortunately the camera wasn't very good, so it's rather blurry. It wouldn't surprise me if it was chocolate though.
The unravelling...
At this point, I'm starting to regret what I'd done.
Moreso here.
The remains of the shell:
What was left (had to remove the barrel button to get it out of the shell, not that I need that button)
And of course, the mess.
I'll keep you guys posted as I work on this, I decided to take a break from untangling that horrible length of wire without breaking anything (either wire or the contact with the board, I'm not that proficient in soldering...). Hopefully I can get this into a glove, with the coil in the index finger of the glove (without cooking the finger, of course).
But yeah, your highly expensive IWB Pens are essentially a coil of wire in a plastic shell, always nice to know isn't it?
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Interesting All I will say is that pen you've got was discontinued, unfortunately, a long time ago and doesn't seem to work with there latest boards (I have a couple here at home as I love them but don't seem to like newer boards )
Well, where I got them from is still using a fairly old board, not sure how old it is though, but if the new pens are anything like the old ones I could probably just take the little board out of this circuit and replace it with the new one.
The new ones are much fatter pens thus have more room for electronics and goodies inside them (and easier to hold they claimed!)
I doubt they've changed their formula much, they didn't really have much reason to, but for the hover system to work they have to use the electromagnetic technology, so it'll still have the coil either way.
To put it another way, can you unscrew the tail end to expose the electronics?
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They have more technology than smartboard pens. They are just a lump of plastic and expensive for what you get.
The smartboard works in different way. The board has has two thins layers and when those two lays touch then it makes contact and it knows that you have touched the board at that point etc.
Pen is just an aide to helping you use the board.
I got a full set the other week for £10 for all 4 and a board rubber and holder thingy, it pays to shop around the net
well you think £12 is expensive try the ones we needed to replace for Hitachi Cambridge boards Hitachi Cambridge Board Projection Pen (STARPROJ) - dabs.com £105 with discount
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We first highlighted the work of French graphic designer Malika Favre about a year ago and we were, ahem, excited to see her illustrations for Penguin's recent edition of the Kama Sutra this past Valentine's Day. She's pleased to announce her first London solo show, "Hide and Seek," at Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch.
Malika Favre's Hide and Seek tells the story of an intriguing and sophisticated woman travelling from one pattern to the next, hiding from the unsuspecting viewer. The woman sometimes reveals herself to us for a short moment in time, only to run away towards her next mysterious destination.
Fascinated by patterns in everyday life, urban surroundings and architecture, French born Malika Favre has put together Hide and Seek, her first solo show in London. Malika's work is bold and minimalistic, exploring the relationship between positive and negative space.
The viewer fills in the gaps literally and figuratively: "Working within a narrative core, she always likes to play with the viewer's imagination."
The artist notes that "there is such beauty and intrigue in those repetitive concrete balconies, I felt like creating a series of abstract prints based on the architectural patterns that no one really notices." Thus, "the prints on show work together as a series of optical experiments, [which Malika hopes] will make people see the beauty in their everyday surroundings, leaving with a smile and feeling sightly dizzy."
The video (after the jump) is a tantalizing taste of what's to come...
Hide and Seek opens at Kemistry Gallery on September 6, 2012.