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Like many cities in central and Eastern Europe that have a long history of foreign occupation and a more recent history of dramatic transformation and independence, Riga is just getting to know itself. And, more so than most cities in the region, the capital of Latvia is in the midst of an identity-altering boom that gives it the slightly dyspeptic, mildly insane, and highly impressionable mien of a rebellious teen. In the last few years, there have been national furors over a streaker at a soccer game—the country's first such scandal—and the restoration of a monument to Russia's Peter the Great that has been relocated to an office-building parking lot.
In the meantime, dozens of multinational businesses, giddy at low-cost Latvia's acceptance into the European Union in 2004, have opened offices in the city, which is centrally located between the other two Baltic capitals—Tallinn to the north and Vilnius to the south. Cue the tourism industry: European discount airlines have recently made Riga a direct-flight destination. And hotel-iers have responded, putting up more than 30 properties in 2005 and 2006 alone. The resulting influx of foreigners into the capital of the country with the EU's lowest standard of living has left Riga dizzy in the identity-store fitting-room. "The new Prague"; the "hottest real estate market in Eastern Europe"; the latest "depressing sex-tourism destination"—all have been tried on and are waiting at the counter.
"Until recently, Riga was a blank page," said Eriks Stendzenieks, a young Latvian advertising maven who is pitching the government on developing a national image campaign. "Now it's being defined by others."
Though most Latvians have a hard time describing their capital, one thing they rightfully relish is its size. With a population of approximately 800,000, Riga is the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the Baltics, and yet it remains quaint enough that the Russian mobsters who abstained from shooting me said they preferred it to Moscow. The town is flat, fairly compact, and easy to explore at any time of day, so long as it's summer. One night I had a drink on the balcony of my hotel with a local photographer I'd met and his friend, a go-go dancer at a nightclub. We watched the sky streak orange and pink as the sun sank into the nearby Baltic Sea, and talked about where we would go out that night. It was 2 a.m. and I'd already had dinner, but for Rigans the night was literally just beginning. Because of the city's northerly location, Riga enjoys long, pleasant summer days and the rest of the year salutes appallingly dark, unending nights.
We settled on a survey of Old Town's bars and dance clubs, which I was assured could not be said to feature any of Europe's best DJ's. But walking there confirmed two characteristics of the city in which Rigan men take pride: The drivers operate as if they will score points by hitting you, and the women—long hair, Nordic features, skin-tight clothing—are gorgeous and seemingly omnipresent. "Everyone is out now," Karen, the photographer, said, as we dived out of the way of a swerving Lada, "because this is our only chance. When fall comes, we all get depressed again."
Assuming you don't twist an ankle on the cobbled medieval streets, or consume too many shots of Black Balsam—the country's (horrific) signature cordial—it is possible to visit five or six places in a few hours. We made it to three.
Some of them, like Club Essential, feature so many levels and dance floors they could pass muster in Los Angeles or, more to the point, Moscow. Nearly half of Riga's population is Russian, and even without listening to a person speak, differentiating the Russians from the Latvians isn't difficult. It's like watching the Sex Pistols hang with the London Symphony. Later, when we were walking home past the Freedom Monument, just outside Old Town, a red sports car came screaming around the corner, did two tire-squealing circles around the monument, and tore off, with fists pumping out of its windows. "Something tells me they're Russian," Karen (who is Russian) said knowingly.


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12 Days of Winter Veil Giveaway: SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Legendary Edition Mouse {WoW}
Dec 21st 2011 4:25PM Yes, please!
Today in WoW: Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 {WoW}
Aug 2nd 2011 1:08AM I agree. It seems like SW:TOR isn't a game that will support a lot of alts. Which is actually similar to the last Star Wars MMO, where you could only have one character per server.
The Queue: Panda ... nope, not going to do it {WoW}
Jun 6th 2011 12:44PM What factors affect battleground queue times? I've recently been waiting 30+ minutes for queues where the average wait time is listed as 7 minutes. Is it purely player availability? Or are there only a limited number of battlegrounds that can exist at one time?
The Queue: The land of the ice and snow {WoW}
Jun 5th 2011 4:01PM I use i.wow.joystiq.com on my iPod and android phone, and it works just fine. You may want to try clearing the cache, cookies, and history so it knows to load the mobile version.
Scattered Shots: 10 things hunters should get in patch 4.2 {WoW}
May 19th 2011 9:19AM "9. Death bug fix"
Oh thank goodness, I was hoping that would turn out to be a bug!
The lack of wands in Cataclysm {WoW}
Jan 5th 2011 8:04PM "personal preferences aside, if you can use a bow, you can use a gun or a crossbow, so a bow option isn't necessary."
Unless you're a troll, in which case gun or crossbow doesn't utilize your full dps potential.
Breakfast Topic: What's behind your character's name? {WoW}
Jan 5th 2011 11:03AM Awesome. I would have loved to use my vigil name for a character, but it's too long. So for lack of any better ideas, I named my paladin alt Nutiket.
12 Days of Winter Veil Giveaway Day 12: PNY 128GB SSD harddrive {WoW}
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12 Days of Winter Veil Giveaway Day 11: Palit GTX 470 graphics card {WoW}
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12 Days of Winter Veil Giveaway Day 7: SteelSeries Shift Cataclysm gaming keyboard {WoW}
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This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी" (Tukaram: For a bedbug a bed is like a castle. so much climbing up and down!)... George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
G C Lichtenberg: "It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy."
W H Auden: "But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."
Werner Herzog: "We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution."
John Gray: "Unlike Schopenhauer, who lamented the human lot, Leopardi believed that the best response to life is laughter. What fascinated Schopenhauer, along with many later writers, was Leopardi's insistence that illusion is necessary to human happiness."
Art Spiegelman: "You know words in a way are hitting you on the left side of your brain, music and visual arts hit on the right side of the brain, so the idea is to pummel you, to send you from left brain to right brain and back until you're as unbalanced as I am."
विलास सारंग: "संदर्भ कुठलेही असोत, संस्कृत, इंग्रजी, बुद्धिवादी, तांत्रिक, इतिहासाचे, खगोलशास्त्राचे, आधुनिक पदार्थविज्ञानाचे, शिवकालीन व पेशवाईतील बखरीचे, अगणित ज्ञानक्षेत्रांचे, अशा वैविध्यपूर्ण ज्ञानावर लेखन- विशेषत: कवितालेखन- उभं राहत."
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Diwali First Day, Gene Period 3 and Cockroaches
At Miraj, mother always woke us when it was still dark and cold. It felt colder because our house had a tiled roof, I was less fat and there was no constant talk of global warming.
Feasting frenzy soon followed the bath.
I liked that day the best. I still like it because I like getting up early. They say this liking is written in one's DNA, a gene called Period 3. Yes, I agree because my mother too liked it.
In that respect, I am not like a cockroach.
Business Line on September 30, 2007 reported that:
"It's not just people who find it hard to get going in the morning. Cockroaches don't like mornings either, according to US researchers.
A study by biologists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found dramatic variations in a cockroach's learning ability throughout the day. In the morning, the insects couldn't learn a new task, but in the evening, something kicked in…
This study was a surprise from the beginning to the end—the fact that cockroaches could be trained, even though you would not generally say they are a high IQ creature, and the impact that their body clocks had on their ability to learn…"
Roaches are in excellent company of Calvin, my son and my wife!
Happy Diwali!!!
Artist: Bill Watterson Calvin And Hobbes
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Shivaji Would Have Ordered Hacking For Injustice to Lakshmana Kailash, Victim of Tyrannies
"In the early hours of August 31, Lakshmana Kailash K was asleep at his home in Bangalore. He was woken up by eight policemen from Pune who came knocking on his door and waved the Information Technology Act, 2000, in his sleepy, terrified face. Get dressed, he was told, we are taking you to Pune for having defamed Shivaji. Lakshmana protested that he didn't know anyone called Shivaji.
The policemen said that they were talking about Chhatrapati Shivaji and that an insulting picture of him had been uploaded on the Internet networking site, Orkut. The trail had led them to his computer in Bangalore. Turning a deaf ear to his protests, the cops took him to Pune and put him behind bars. Along the way, the 26-year-old Lakshmana, who works with HCL, learned that what he was being arrested for was a case that had triggered riots in Pune in November 2006. Political parties had forcibly closed cybercafes and gone on a rampage over the posting of the illustration which had poked fun at Shivaji.
Lakshmana was released after spending 50 days in jail, three weeks after the cops claimed to have nabbed the "real culprits".
This reminded me of the infamous case of P Rajan, an engineering college student during Indira Gandhi's emergency.
Why does the state do this in the name of Shivaji- one of the most tolerant, sensitive and fair rulers India produced? (Akbar, Ashoka & Krishnadev Raya are luckier. No one still does this in their names!)
In 17th century, Shivaji- enraged at this gross injustice to a common man- would have ordered hacking of arms of erring staff of the ISP who apparently gave wrong IP address to the police.
Meanwhile, Lakshmana Kailash's only consolation can be….
Artist: Charles E.Martin The New Yorker 16 Nov 1957


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Ken Tank (from left); Sean Hensen, president of the Lester Weber Memorial Chapter of the Leathernecks Motorcycle Club; Steve Hartless, assistant manager at Hines VA Hospital's Fisher House; James Gomez, Xavier Gutierrez and Tom McNiel attend the presentation of a $4,000 check to Hartless in 2013 from members of the motorcycle club. | Supplied photo
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Starry Nights Concert: Staff Infection & the South Side Horns — a rock band whose members are faculty, staff and alumni from Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School — will be the featured act in the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District's Starry Nights concert, set for 7 p.m. Thursday at Irwin Park, 18120 Highland Ave., Homewood. Staff Infection's specialty is brass-heavy rock and roll, but concertgoers can expect to hear Motown hits and songs from horn-heavy bands and artists, such as Chicago and Stevie Wonder. The gates open at 6 p.m. for this free show. Games will be available for kids, and food and drink from local vendors will be for sale.
Low Ropes Course: The Orland Park-based Bridge Teen Center is teaming up with Camp Manitoqua for a low-ropes-course event from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Camp Manitoqua & Retreat Center, 8122 W. Sauk Trail, Frankfort. There will be team challenges on the low ropes course. The free event is for teens in seventh through 12th grades. For more information, call (708) 532-0500 or visit www.thebridgeteencenter.org.


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Washington County Clerk's office verified that the USD 224 position 7 vote between Steve Feight and April Fahey remained tied, so a coin flip was done and Feight retained the position. Read More »
Vehicle rollover sends DeWitt man to hospital
On April 25, 2010 at approximately 1836 hours, Beatrice Communications received a report of a one vehicle rollover injury accident. Michael Hinrichs, 21 of DeWitt was traveling northbound on North Blueridge Drive in a 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Hinrichs moved towards the shoulder of the road as he was meeting a southbound vehicle. Hinrichs subsequently lost control of the vehicle. The ... Read More »
$800 worth of tools stolen in Corning, Kansas
$800 worth of tools were taken from a garage at 868 96th Road in Corning, Kansas. Sometime Between March 16th and April 16th an unknown person took sockets, wrenches and a motorcycle battery from the garage. The investigation is ongoing. Read More »
Hanover Fire Department responds to three fires in four days.
The Hanover Fire Department remains busy with grass fires. On Wednesday, April 13th, the Hanover Fire Department responded to Yankee and Spencer Avenue for a fire in the ditch. Also on the 13th the Hanover Fire Department responded to the railroad tracks near the Washington/Marshall County Lines for a fire in the railroad right of way. Finally on Saturday the ... Read More »
Washington County Board Minutes
The Board of Washington County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, March 29, 2010 in the commission room at the Washington County Courthouse. Present: Alison Mueller, 1st District Commissioner, Roger Otott, 2nd District Commissioner; Gene Helms, 3rd District Commissioner, Chairman, Elizabeth Hiltgen, County Attorney, and Lou Kern, County Clerk. Chairman Helms called the meeting to order with prayer. County ... Read More »


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VIDEO: Keeler introduced as Sam Houston's coach Former Delaware head football coach K.C. Keeler was officially introduced to lead the team at fellow-FCS member Sam Houston State Friday. Keeler, who won the 2003 National Title and coached in two more title games in his 11 seasons at Delaware set the same lofty goals for his new program, "We're here to win a national championship. We want to win one sooner than later." The former Delaware linebacker won 86 games at Delaware, and acquires a program that played in the 2011 and 2012 FCS title games. |
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There's this thing called love — and it's a common thread Jennifer Lopez says unifies everything she does, from her music and her family to her business endeavors.
"My heart is what guides my whole life, and attracts me to every project that I do," said Lopez, speaking exclusively with WWD in a lush suite at Manhattan's Lowell Hotel. Clad in a turquoise sleeveless dress and gold jewelry, both from her Kohl's lines, Lopez illustrated her point by mentioning her upcoming album; her gig as a judge on "American Idol"; her decade-long fragrance brand with Coty, among the biggest celebrity labels in history; "¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen," the new Univision reality TV show she's producing with her former husband, Marc Anthony, and Simon Fuller; her apparel and accessories lines at Kohl's Corp. — and the two most important loves of her life, twins Emme and Max, who will turn four on Feb. 22.
Mentioning "¡Q'Viva!: The Chosen," which premiered Saturday, she explained that the reality series involves traveling to 21 countries, including the U.S., and countries in Latin America, looking for the best Latin entertainers. "'¡Q'Viva!' is something that is a passion project, the same way Glow [her first fragrance] and Glowing [her latest scent, due at the beginning of May] are passion projects," she said.
The L word is also her chief inspiration for her upcoming album, her eighth. "It's still about love," said Lopez, deftly avoiding the subject of her reported new boyfriend, 24-year-old dancer Casper Smart. "Maybe I'll call it Love, exclamation point, this time."
Speaking (or not) of Smart, Lopez is quick to acknowledge that the media's constant interruption of and speculation about her personal life can get exhausting. "It's hard sometimes, I'm not going to lie," she said, likening it to living in a fishbowl. "I try to stay away from the media as much as I can," she said with a hearty laugh. When asked if she felt the media picks on her — as with the flack she got in the fall for her Fiat commercial, which was set in the Bronx but shot on a Los Angeles back lot — Lopez turned serious.
"Sometimes. I try not to take it too personally, because I don't think they do it just to me. But as a human being it feels like that. You feel like you're the only one being picked on. But the truth is, they pick on everybody. They really don't discriminate. I try to concentrate on all the great things I have going on in my life."
She does seem amused by the Fiat flack, depicting the Bronx neighborhood Castle Hill, where she grew up. "I hate to break it to you guys, but every movie that you see that's shot in Europe? It's not shot in Europe, it's a back lot in Los Angeles. I've been to my neighborhood a lot. My grandmother only died two years ago, so I was there for holidays. My mom worked there until a year and a half ago. It's ridiculous. People love to talk."
Does she think the media should back off? "Yes, but I'm not going to change that," she said, laughing. "I'd love to think I could change it, with all the love and goodness in my heart, and say, 'Hey, when people are going through this [referring to her split with Anthony], back off.' I think of myself as powerful, but not that powerful. But I'm blessed. That I know. It's been a difficult moment as far as a transition out of a seven-year marriage into not having that anymore, and that's not easy for me. I have my moments, I'm human. But I just get through it like any other person."
What would she do if one of her kids wanted to go into the entertainment field? "Here's what I know about doing what I do — and obviously their dad is the same way. If they're going to do it, there's nothing I can do to stop them — and I'll support them. But just like my mom, I'm going to make them go to school" — Lopez graduated from Preston High School, an all-girls Catholic high school in the Bronx, in 1987, going on to briefly attend Baruch College — "and I'm going to let them make that decision when they're old enough to make that decision. I don't want them to be in the business at a young age. I just don't think they need that burden, that pressure. They should have a normal life — go to school, play, grow up. They should have a family life, as solid a foundation as I can give them. If they want to go off and be artists or singers or dancers or pilots or architects or anything — then they have my full support. My mom couldn't stop me from [getting into this industry], I won't be able to stop them from doing it."
Still, both kids are showing early creative talent. "They are both artistic children, but you never know what avenue that's going to take," said Lopez. "I can hear that Emme can sing. She loves to dance and will sit there for hours watching dance, but you never know what path that's going to take. She could be a choreographer. And I can see that Max is very comfortable in front of a camera."
Lopez has never been particularly afraid to kick open new doors, including the one that she definitively broke in 10 years ago: the celebrity fragrance genre, a category that had largely died in the late Eighties after entries from stars ranging from Cher to Joan Collins failed, leaving Elizabeth Taylor as the only star left standing. When Lopez decided she wanted to do a signature scent, the market was lukewarm on the idea of anyone — even someone with Lopez's star power — doing a celebrity fragrance. Macy's Inc. took the juice and put it on a modest display.
Quickly, the market learned it had a hot seller on its hands, one that rapidly expanded to 2,000 department and specialty stores and made the top five in nearly all of them. Glow racked up first-year retail sales of more than $100 million globally. These days, Lopez's fragrance empire — of which Glowing is the 18th — is a nearly $2 billion retail beauty brand on a cumulative basis.


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It's a hard time to be an artist. Weeklies like The Boston Phoenix are folding, laying off writers, photographers, and editors. Arts funding is the first to be slashed when the economy is weak or when congress can't get their act together.
But instead of lamenting the dearth of jobs for creative types here in the Boston area, Brighton-based Kristen Mallia, a freelance graphic designer who created the logo for the Feed Brookline Drive and whose clients include Paris Creperie, 278 Harvard Street, is taking a, well, creative approach to job creation. Along with client and partner Christina Contardo, she is looking for backers on the grassroots fund-raising site Kickstarter for their new docuseries, LAUNCH. Their tagline: Have plane, need fuel.
LAUNCH is a reality series that follows four independent projects' progress over ten months, giving viewers an inside look at what it takes, soup to nuts, to bring a big idea to fruition. Think Project Runway, but without the rampant product placement and runway competition.
Mallia and Contardo are lining up interviews with both local and national celebrities to be talking heads in the series. Jennifer Glickman, a local interior designer with her own firm and Michael DePaulo, a local fashion designer with his own collection, have already signed on, with other notable names to be released soon.
The idea of a docuseries about launching a small business came to Mallia and Contardo during a typical brainstorming session. "It was around election time [in 2012] when we first started talking about this, about the economic climate and how there aren't any jobs," said Ms. Mallia, 32, by phone. "For creative types it's even harder. We thought, why not follow several projects being launched successfully by proactive citizens as an inspiration for others?"
Ms. Mallia said, "We hadn't seen anything on TV that focuses on regular Bostonians. Now there's Donnie Wahlberg's show Boston's Finest and [the new A&E series] Southie Rules. But it's cool to have something that's serious and about the small business culture here."
If the idea of a series about creating jobs that creates its own jobs sounds a little Meta, there's a reason. Ms. Mallia hopes that the project will generate multiple creative jobs—for DIYers, producers, promoters, musicians, etc. In particular they hope to help groups who have found the job market especially daunting, like veterans and recent college graduates.
Ms. Maliia knows a thing about creating her own opportunities in a tight market. She struggled to make a living as a freelance graphic designer while working at a coffee shop. It's only recently that she's been able to make her business her full-time job.
According to their Kickstarter page, one story thread will revolve around a budding recording artist leading up to their August performance at a music festival at the Lakes Region Casino in Belmont, NH. Scenes will be shot in Boston, NYC, Belmont and Laconia, NH, and Charlton, MA. The goal is to wrap up post-production in December. As for distribution, they have interest from three major networks, but as stated on their Kickstarter page, "It was important to maintain the integrity of the 'everyone can find a place to start' mantra by pursuing an independent launch."
For Ms. Mallia, using Kickstarter to raise funds to make the docuseries is just another facet of people in the community helping each other realize their dreams. "The series is a project that creates jobs in the community, funded by community members," she said.
Kickstarter helped recording artist Amanda Palmer break from her major record label and fund a new album, art book, and tour. They also enabled researchers from the MIT Media Lab to successfully design an "affordable, professional 3D printer."
LAUNCH's goal is to raise $150,000 by April 6th. The minimum contribution is $1. At this writing they had 39 backers.
"It's amazing how when you try to rally support—which is the hardest thing, asking people for money—how $10 here and $10 there gets us one step closer," said Mallia.
If you'd like to donate to fund the production of LAUNCH, go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1378920625/have-plane-need-fuel
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Are there certain plants that remove toxins from the air more than others?
I once read that spider plants were best, then recently read that agaves were the best... I don't have very much space and looking for best bang for the buck. Thanks for any tips! |
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- Posted by jojosplants Az. Z9 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 1, 10 at 10:55
I too have heard spider plants to be the best. An agave wont get enough sun light in the house. It would be hard to keep inside. |
- Posted by dirtslinger2 6 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 1, 10 at 15:17
It may have been Cycad actually, not agave. |
I've heard Sansevierias are very good as well, and tolerant of low light. |
In my plant book there are a list of all different kinds of plants. These are the best of the best it says. Boston ferns, Florist mums, Pygmy date plum, 'Janet Craig' dracaena, Rubber plant, English ivy, weeping fig, Peace lily, Area palm, Corn plant'Kimberley Queen' fern, & Bamboo palm. I hope this list helps a little. |
- Posted by norma_2006 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 11, 10 at 2:00
Sansevieria do have the best reputation to use for this purpose, and take next to no care. Wonderful house plants and many species to choose from. Norma |
I heard spider plants were great for that. (But im not an expert) |
- Posted by urbansuccession (My Page) on Sat, Aug 21, 10 at 2:25
Here's a great list of plants from a study done by NASA... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air-filtering_soil_and_plants But when it comes right down to it, I wouldn't expect one houseplant to make a noticeable difference in air quality. |
Found this link while surfing the web today if anyone is interested. Tina |
Here is a link that might be useful: Air Cleaning Plants
Check out the book How to Grow Fresh Air by B.C. Wolverton |
- Posted by ronalawn82 z9FL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Sep 5, 10 at 6:14
dirtslinger2, here is a site which might help. http://www.zone10.com/nasa-study-house-plants-clean-air.html |
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one of the most impressive games I've seen in a while, too bad it doesn't really work for most.
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I used to love "Whipped Cocoa" but it is long gone.
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After using a cream shadow for several years, I was really frustrated trying to replace it. Clinique's newer versions were way too frosty, and other brands were either too bright or too shiny, or--like Color Tattoo--felt stiff to apply. Tried a couple powders, but the ones I liked were awfully pricey especially since I needed to audition various shades. A woman I work with sells MK, and her makeup looks PERFECT the whole day. She's a sweetheart and I figured there was little to lose, since they're quite inexpensive. Using Jordana's eye primer and a shadow brush, these went on so smoothly that I finally understood how powders could be described as "creamy." They blend beautifully and stay put from 7am til 11pm. The shimmers were a bit "much" for me, but the matte shades are lovely. The packaging is less lovely, so they must assume you're going to put them in a compact, but since they wear so well, I don't need touch ups, so they can stay home. I'm happy not having to pay more for packaging that will only see the inside of a drawer! I like that the name of the shade is plainly visible. The only issue I have is that the pans come out of the little case too easily, but that's easily remedied with a bit of rubber cement or double-sided tape. Hard to go wrong with these!
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MK Mineral Eye Color is my favorite brand of eyeshadow. I was using Alima eyeshadows, which I also like, but they aren't as easy to use as these are. MK offers many colors, and they apply easily and blend like a dream. (love to blend Lavender Fog with Hazelnut to create a unique purpley-brown) They also stay on all day without creasing. I always apply them dry with either an eyeshadow brush or a sponge-tip applicator, and both methods work equally as well. Love 'em!
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I bought every eye shadow that Mary Kay has such as white lily and black pearl! I love these I shadows very smooth an pretty pigmented for the price!! I've used these shadows wet and dry and both ways look beautiful!!
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I said I'd buy again because I've bought a bunch, but usually at a pretty deep discount (like 60% off). I'm annoyed that for over $6, you don't even get a durable case, you know? Is the shadow in there better than $6 drugstore shadows? Well...it's better than maybelline, covergirl, and some revlon. That's my opinion. They aren't really good to work with using brushes etc. However, the colors are classic and you can build them up and it's hard to go wrong. They just look "classy". That said, they aren't really bold or dramatic or loud. This isn't the line for that kind of thing. They definitely have a place in my stash, but my look is sedate, professional, suit-wearing mom of a toddler. You probably wouldn't be jazzed about them at all if you had to pay full price, or like bold looks. Being able to pick your colors for a palette definitely also has some value.
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So over the weekend a friend of mine/consultant came over and I tried some eyeshadows. I did one look (brown smokey eye with some golds and a nude lip) it was for her portfolio we even did before and after pictures. I am blown away!! The colors are super pigmented they are super blendable and lasted all night. I am truley satisfied with this product and would buy again! you ladies should try it =)
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Best Thing Today: Dumbing of Age, Now Sponsored by Pajama Jeans
I don't know why it took me so long to read a David Willis webcomic. There's no particular reason; it's just that some comics inevitably slip through the cracks and the It's Walky family of comics were among them. Dumbing of Age places many of the characters from Roomies/It's Walky/Shortpacked! in a parallel universe, but my unfamiliarity with the original characters hasn't hampered my enjoyment of Dumbing of Age whatsoever. It's such a charming ensemble comic, and I'm kind of in love with Dina. (Ooh! And I can pre-order her shirt! And maybe buy her adorable hat if Willis ever decides to make more!)
After the excitement of the creepy-but-ultimately-empowering-and-heartwarming attempted party rape storyline (yeeeeah, not nearly as awful as it sounds), Willis has slowed things down a bit with Walky's quest for pajama jeans. This has, lo and behold, resulted in contextual ads for pajama jeans. Wait, those are a real thing? Do they actually look like jeans? Do they pill horribly?
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LONDON, Ky. (WKYT) - Levi Bowling has been a licensed official with the Kentucky High School Athletics Association for the past six years. Police say in mid-April, he umpired a South Laurel Middle School game and was given a check for $65.
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Police said they discovered Bowling already had an outstanding warrant in Clay County for failure to appear on another charge of possession of a forged instrument. When he showed up to umpire a game in Jackson County Thursday night, he was arrested. Friday, he was taken back to Clay County. KHSAA officials say he'll be pulled from the officiating schedule as the charges are investigated and police say other schools who have paid him should check their statements. They said Bowling had passed a background check about two years ago.
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WARWICK — The image of a New England coastal village does not readily come to mind for most people zipping through the city's Apponaug center on the multi-lane road that encircles City Hall.
But even though the water is hidden by wide roads and blocks of buildings, Apponaug is indeed a historic waterfront village that once saw sailing ships come and go.
It is the beauty and history of the cove that has drawn a developer to propose a roughly $21-million boutique hotel there off West Shore Road, just east of City Hall.
The five-acre parcel is virtually invisible (except from the water) right now.
It is located on Station Street, a small dirt road that veers off West Shore Road, just after the railroad bridge near City Hall.
Raymond D. D'Abate, executive vice president of the Apponaug Water Development corporation, says his firm is ready to move forward with plans to build a six-story, 127-room hotel on the rim of the cove, overlooking a local marina.
City planning officials say that the property is zoned for light industry and that the project would need a zoning change plus approval from the state Coastal Resources Management Council.
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D'Abate said that because the lot is located in a hollow, the most that would be visible to neighbors would be the top floor or the roof of the hotel.
The hotel would face the cove, he said, and they plan on adding more trees to the natural wooded buffer zone that shields the land to the east. Part of the building would be recessed to create a roof garden, he said, and in keeping with the law, public access to the cove would be maintained along Station Street.
D'Abate noted that when the land was purchased about six years ago, it was a junkyard strewn with abandoned cars, truck trailers, tree trunks, boulders and construction debris.
"We filled 47 [truck] trailers in cleaning up this property," he said.
He said that he and landowner Joseph Pisaturo began discussions with the city several years ago and are taking time and care to come up with a hotel that will compliment the area historically and aesthetically.
They are working with an architect from StudioAD Ltd. of Providence on a design that would include turrets, a weathered-shingled look for the exterior and porches — all in the style of old New England seashore hotels.
"We are not trying to overwhelm the location and we do not want to negatively impact the community," D'Abate said. "We want to be a good neighbor."
To that end, the development group scaled back its original idea for a taller, 187-room hotel that would have had a "footprint" of about 40,000 square feet, to a smaller building with a footprint of about 27,000 square feet.
D'Abate said that they also backed away from an early idea for a modern, brick-and-glass structure.
Noting that they are cognizant of the cove's sensitive ecosystem, D'Abate said that they have also hired a biologist to help plan plantings indigenous to the area and that will provide year-round color.
Mayor Scott Avedisian said that while the project must go through the necessary zoning and permitting process, it has a lot of potential for the city — particularly in light of the fact that Warwick plans on recapturing Apponaug's look as a harbor village after the state completes a planned reconstruction of the busy circulator road there.
"The waterfront has been hidden for so long … but we are working on reclaiming it as a village," he said. "There are a lot of possibilities for Apponaug and the hotel is one of them."
D'Abate said that while the project has evolved in order to make it more compatible with its surroundings, his enthusiasm for the site has not changed since he was dining across the cove at the Crow's Nest restaurant and looked out and saw the empty, rubble-strewn lot.
"I went right to City Hall the next day," he said. "It is a great spot."
"First of all, it's waterfront," he said. "And then you look at the fact that it's in the heart of the city and the center of the state.
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varmint Posts: 6,326It's just poor tweaking of the website. Here's a link to a Canadian newspaper giving first impressions of the 2005 model. It lists all the stuff we are getting here in the US.
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eddieo396 Posts: 2hi i just picked up my honda crv 2005 se in black i love it . i have had a toyota rav 2000 and this autio blows that away. the dealer knew all about the oil change fire problem said the problem was techs not doing oil change properly. picked up the car for only 1200 under sticker i am very happy with price.
varmint Posts: 6,326Yep, I'm sure it was a Canadian vehicle. There are several differences between the trim levels here in the US and Canada. The author's remarks hit on a few of those items.
The article seems to focus on what the reviewer was able to observe, and only that. It isn't even clear that he/she drove the car. Instead it focused a great deal on features, cosmetics, and Honda's market plans (supplied in press material, no doubt). In short, it was not a technical or performance-oriented review. With that understood, it's no surprise that the new AWD and throttle system were not mentioned.
Frankly, it would cost Honda more money to use the old RT4WD system in the Canadian vehicles than it would to use the new one. Why manufacture and install two different designs when you can use one?
That's one of the reasons why Honda cars tend to have high levels of equipment in the base and middle models and not many options. Offering options only complicates the manufacturing process and multiplies the headaches for the guys who do inventory.
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srini1 Posts: 1Does anyone know if the 05 CR-V LX comes with the security alarm (Remote Key etc)? The Honda site seems to show this is as an accessory.
I am looking towards the 05 LX and thinking if I have to pay for this? If it does not come with it, would i be better off installing it afterwards from CircuitCity or somewhere?
I would also be interested in knowing the invoice price. Edmunds does not have this but Yahoo shows it as $18,473.
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05crvse Posts: 3All 2005 come with keyless entry as standard. None comes with alarm. Not even the top of the line CR-V SE, which is the one I got for $800 below invoice. The keyless entry are built into the key for 2005. So, if you get aftermarket alarm, you will have one extra alarm control on your key.
Kirstie_H Posts: 10,920Since this SUV has hit the streets, it's time to join other owners & enthusiasts in the regular Honda CR-V discussion.
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Coterie Theatre artists read from favorite children's books, while young audience members enjoy an opportunity to "jump into the story" – adding their own improvisation. Dramatic Story Times take place one Sunday every month at 2 p.m. throughout the 2014-2015 school year, beginning October 5th, 2014.
February's Selection: Anansi and the Talking Melon retold by Eric A. Kimmel
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Please note that the Library does not open until 10 a.m., but story time attendees will be allowed in early for the 9:30 a.m. program.
Simple text and photographs presents the life of aviator Bessie Coleman.
Join us every Tuesday on the second floor! It's a great time to talk, sing, read, write and play! All ages welcome.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Come join us for lots of great stories, songs, fun learning activities and even a short movie - all geared for three and four-year-olds.
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We provide stories and activities for children 12-24 months of age.
It's never too early to read to your baby! We provide stories and activities for children newborn to 18 months of age.
Children ages 2-5 will enjoy stories, songs, and crafts.