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I have been using Vasanti face powder for years (back when they only used to be located in fairview mall)
This is the only powder I have used that really matches my skin tone. As an Indian woman, it is very hard to find makeup that matches up with your skin tone...drugstore brands were always "peachy".
The con is the price...it used by $16 bucks when I first started using it and now its almost $30!
The other con is there is no SPF in the product. I always forget to wear sunscreen so it would be nice to have a SPF version of this product.
If you are using the powder puff that comes along with the powder, then it will go on heavy and look caked on.
The best way to use this product:
Make sure the face is slightly moistured/soft
Use a good quality powder brush...makes a huge difference in application plus allows for more control of the product.
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the really good thing about the powder is that it matches my skin tone...however if youre using it as a setting powder it may feel too heavy. if you use it alone thats fine. I used it as a setting powder but after a couple of weeks i started to break out so i stopped using it.
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I am North Indian with a 'wheatish' complexion with a golden undertone, it is very difficult for me to find foundation, it's either too dark, too light, or looks cakey. I have gone from buying expensive foundations like Estee Lauder, Clinique, Stila to drugstore ones like L'Oreal and Cover Girl. Nothing looked right.
A make up artist used Vasanti Face Base on me for my wedding and it was amazing. I looked flawless from 6am to 2am. It's light weight, easy to carry and long lasting.
I struggle constantly to find the right foundation -- I'm two different shades on my face, I prefer really natural coverage, want application to be easy, and hate powdery chalky finishes. I usually use MAC, but the quest for foundation as taken me everywhere. This works for me. Really works. I use V8 (typically MAC NC44) and for the lighter shade on my face (most of it in the winter), this is absolutely perfect. As the reviewer below notes, the finish is not a typical powder. It settles into an almost creamy finish. I contour the outer edges of my face with Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Deep Dark, and spray with MAC Fix + at the end. The look is exactly what I want -- my skin, but better. The Face Base lasted for a very long time, but due to a tragic leap for freedom off my bathroom counter, it must be replaced. And it will be because I've found nothing else like it.
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This is my HG powder. It gives so much more coverage than any other powder I've ever tried, without it looking like you have a mask on. The texture is best described as like a creamy eyeshadow. You know what texture good quality eyeshadows have? Yeah, it's like that but for your face. Absolutely amazing.
I used a BB Cream or tinted moisturizer, then my concealer, then seal it all in with the Face Base. Absolute perfection,
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I too purchased this at Ulta on clearance for $2.99. I have it in V6 and it is too dark to wear as a foundation, but I use it as a bronzer and that is working just fine. I like it because it goes on as a light coverage and allows me to build up from there. I would not repurchase this at regular price but I will grab it if I see it on clearance again.
So I have the hardest time finding foundation or cover up that actually suits my skin tone but not with this stuff. It matches perfectly and feels light on, I have a darker one as well that I use as a bronzer and for contouring. Does NOT look like your wearing make up, they actually look darker than when you apply so be careful what colour you choose.
I will buy again, and I have:) I like it better than the MAC studio fix as I found that looks too cakey and thick, this can be used with a damp sponge as a foundation or with a big fluffy brush on top of liquid or alone for just a natural look so it's versatile.
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I'm a bit torn on this product.
First, the packaging is great. Its metallic, doesn't feel flimsy, and the mirror is nice and large. The product itself is decently pigmented and finely milled - the photos and descriptions in the Vasanti website are very accurate, by the way, so I wouldn't hesitate buying online if there isn't an Ulta or Shoppers Drug Mart near you,
Anyways, this product is good at mattifying, though I feel like I have to use a lot of product to mattify completely. It also has light-medium coverage at best, which for me is enough. I prefer it better is a mattifying powder, especially on my nose, as opposed to just as foundation.
My only issue is that it can tend to oxidize throughout the day, making my face dirty-orange looking. Its not a lot, but I prefer makeup that doesn't oxidize at all.
For reference, I bought V3 (light-medium skin with neutral undertones), even though I have very yellow undertones, I tested these at the store and V2 is too light, V4 too dark, so I had to get this. Price was $21 CAN, which is a bit too much for me, really.
Overall wouldn't repurchase - I don't like the oxidization, and there are better pressed powders out there (MAC Blot Powder, I'm eyeing you! And only for a few dollars more!)
I am impressed by this powder. I bought it at Ulta for the clearance price of $2.99. It goes on light and matched my skin perfectly. My color is V13. I am going back today to buy the remaining clearance items!!!!


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Has anyone managed to finish this mission on ELITE without dying rather super-quickly ?
Usually something hits me in an instant which evaporates my shields and shrinks my hull to 5-10%. No matter what I tried as Commander or as a Captain now, with mostly blue and some very rare gear equipped, as a Tactical Escort. I'm using Reveres Shield Polarity, Polarized Hull and Jam Sensors over the course of dying. The Combat Log revealed to me my usual dying-course which is: Jem'Hadar Heavy Escort 2000(12000) Torpedo Quantum Salvo III or Galor Class Normal Photon Torpedo does 5000(14000) (it does its hugh number usually without the Salvo III Name near it) |
I can't give you any promises, but try ditching Reverse Shield Polarity for Emergency Power to Shields. Use it when you see the enemy launching his torpedo salvos (and before they hit), if not sooner. (Just make sure it's still up when you get hit with it). Considera dding in Transfer Shield Strength and check how much power you have diverted to shields.
Your problem against the Jem'Hardar or Galor is that their "kill"-power is entirely unaffected by Reverse Shield Polarity, as that only regenerates from energy damage. If you "harden" your ship's shields with powers like EPtS or TSS and higher, your shields will stay up longer and you can use other powers to recover any remaining damage you took over time. There is still the chance that you die from the bleedthrough of the attack - then you need to harden your hull with Polarize Hull, Auxillary to Structural Integrity Field or Attack Pattern Delta as well (or just that, as your shields might actually survive anyway). I think someone mentioned that NPC vessels inflict full torpedo damage to shield, not applying the usal 75 % damage reduction for kinetic damage against the shields. (Player Torpedoes are reduced like that) That would make High Yield Torpedo and similar skills particularly devestating and make "normal" shield resistances more important. |
Thanks for the advice, gonna try these out ;)
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Jul 30, 2013Rising from Ashes is not just about a cycling team; it's a testament to what happens when human beings care for one another.
Narrated in unobtrusive fashion by Forest Whitaker and featuring a jaunty Afropop soundtrack, the film is crisp and economical, with the filmmaker carefully avoiding extraneous melodramatics. They are, after all, hardly necessary in a tale that already contains such inherently powerful drama.
As a filmmaker, [Johnston] doesn't always trust his audience as much as he should, opting for overly insistent music and voice-over and withholding information in key areas. But he knew a good story when he saw one, and we can all be grateful for that.
The sincerity and simplicity of the film, however, lift it somewhat above the ordinary run.
Filmed over six years, "Ashes" is joyous and uplifting, full of spirit, memorable athletes (including Olympian Adrien Niyonshuti) and remarkable achievements, both big and small.
Jul 30, 2013Only a periodic focus on the troubled backstory of the team's coach, American cyclist Jock Boyer, strikes the wrong note, distracting from a far more compelling tale.
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Both Antonoff and Lembke continue to spend an enormous amount of time, energy and money figuring out how to defeat each other once and for all. (Each man now employs a public-relations firm to spin his side of the dispute.) But lately, Lembke seems to have gained the upper hand.
Four months ago, at a meeting at the Pepperpod Restaurant in Hudson, Lembke sat down with about two dozen business associates and still-furious residents of Lochbuie and hatched a plan to swipe Beebe Draw from under Antonoff's control. Then he put the plan into action.
First, and unbeknownst to Antonoff, Lembke purchased the mineral rights to the land underneath Beebe Draw. Next, he sold a small interest in the rights to thirteen associates. Because that group now owns an interest in the land, its members are entitled to vote in the Beebe Draw Water and Sanitation District. On May 11, Lembke's forces filed petitions to boot Antonoff off Beebe Draw's board of directors.
Antonoff fought back hard, taking the recall case all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court. But last month the state's highest court refused to hear his arguments. And so on August 25, the new voting members of Beebe Draw will try to oust Antonoff and his son from the Beebe Draw board.
If they succeed, Lembke says, he intends to dismantle Gary Antonoff's personal government. "I would like for Beebe Draw to pay its debts, wrap up its affairs and go out of business," he says. "Government isn't supposed to run this way--having a private business interest in its operations."
Having exhausted his legal remedies, Antonoff seems reconciled to the recall election. But he isn't happy with Lembke's tactics. "I believe that this is simply a matter of right and wrong," he explains. "What he's doing may be legal. But it's wrong."
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PAI has tracked international commitments to family planning and held governments and donors accountable. Fulfilling the global demand for family planning can significantly reduce the costs of achieving the MDGs, especially those related to poverty, maternal health and education. PAI advocates that donor countries fully fund family planning and reproductive health services to help meet all of the Millenium Development Goals.
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Despite finding massive success with documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling For Columbine, it looks like Michael Moore wants to try his hand at fictional movies for a change.
He has one comedy already under his belt - the 1995 effort Canadian Bacon, which featured both Moore's trademark take on politics (in this case a phony war between Canada and the US) and John Candy's last acting job.
But now, talking to The Detroit News, he's indicated that he's ready to switch back to fiction full time - at least for a while.
"I've been thinking that maybe this will be my last documentary… Or maybe for a while," he says, admitting that he's already been writing a couple of possible ideas.
"I have been working on two screenplays over the last couple of years. One's a comedy, one's a mystery, and I really want to do this."
Given that his films always tend to have a strong narrative anyway (and that Bacon is an under-appreciated comedy), it'll be fun to see what he comes up with.
But don't go thinking he's done with documentaries just yet- his latest, Capitalism: A Love Story, will arrive in cinemas later this year.
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From reading the replies unfortunately there is a us versus them mentality which is not going to go away quickly. A long educational program is required to change the way we as a society think towards sharing the roads. Hopefully the efforts of our world stars, both road and MTB will slowly show to all that each cyclist is part of a family or group of friends and that to lose one's life or be seriously injured would be devastating to that "community". Imagine if you got a call to say that a loved one had been fatality injured due to someones intolerance or impatience.
As a regular cyclist I try to just apply vigilance whilst out to ensure I get to tuck my kids into bed every night. But we all have a responsibility in ensuring rules are obeyed by all parties - it's just going to take a long time for us all to come around to that conclusion.


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It appears Americans have a massive pent-up demand for untraceable guns:
On Wednesday, Cody Wilson's libertarian non-profit Defense Distributed revealed the Ghost Gunner, a $1,200 computer-controlled (CNC) milling machine designed to let anyone make the aluminum body of an AR-15 rifle at home, with no expertise, no regulation, and no serial numbers. Since then, he's sold more than 200 of the foot-cubed CNC mills—175 in the first 24 hours.
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Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong's inflation accelerated in September after moderating from a 15-year high the previous month, as housing rental costs increased in an economy that's teetering on the edge of recession.
Consumer prices rose 5.8 percent from a year earlier, the government said on its website today. That compares with a 5.7 percent increase in August and the median 5.4 percent estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 13 economists. Excluding the impact of temporary government subsidies, the underlying rate was 6.4 percent, up from 6.3 percent the previous month.
Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Oct. 12 that Hong Kong is seeing "enormous inflationary pressure" from rising wages, and announced a public-housing rental waiver to help residents cope with increasing costs. At the same time, the prospect of slower growth in the U.S. and the European debt crisis are hurting the economy by weakening export demand, Financial Secretary John Tsang said on Oct. 16.
"Inflation is showing no meaningful signs of cooling down, as solid wage growth and household spending continue to keep the economy operating close to capacity," Donna Kwok, a Hong Kong- based economist at HSBC Holdings Plc., said before today's report. "As business conditions soften in response to persistent global economic uncertainties, inflationary pressures will likely peak in the coming months."
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Donald Tsang last week reiterated the government's August estimate that the pace of increase in consumer prices will accelerate to 5.4 percent in 2011, the fastest pace since 1997, from 2.38 percent last year.
"Inflation is likely to climb up further in the near term before peaking out, as the lagged effects from earlier surges in international food prices and market rentals continue to filter through," the government said in today's release, adding that the recent slowdown in the increase in global commodities and food costs will help to curb price gains "in the course of time."
Hong Kong must bear the pain of inflation to maintain the dollar peg, which deprives policy makers of an independent monetary policy, because the city may be worse off with the alternatives, John Greenwood, architect of the city's fixed- exchange-rate system, said Oct. 13.
John Tsang announced in his February budget one-off relief measures that include electricity subsidies and waivers of property rates and public housing rents. They distort the headline inflation figures.
Average private housing rentals rose 1 percent last month from August to a record HK$20.60 ($2.65) per square foot, Centaline Property Agency, the city's biggest closely held real estate broker, said Oct. 19, citing a survey of 85 major residential estates.
Morgan Stanley and Daiwa Capital Markets Co. say Hong Kong may have fallen into a recession in the third quarter, after the economy shrank 0.5 percent in the April-to-June period from the previous quarter.
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Yesterday news broke that spinach falafel queen Ana Sortun will open a new restaurant in Somerville— just the latest in a cascade of openings large and small. Ahead, ten reasons we've been supping in Somerville lately. What are your favorite haunts in the Fluff Capital of the World? Let us know if we're missing someplace great. We're hungry.
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Get the scoop on choosing a sound bar for your TV. Sound bars are a great choice for small or difficult spaces, or if you don't want wires running around your room.
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The EMIERT Distinguished Librarian Award and the David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award
EMIERT offers two awards to encourage and recognize multiculturalism in libraries and the library profession. For more information about the awards, including nomination forms, please follow the links:
- The EMIERT Distinguished Librarian Award, recognizes significant accomplishments in library services that are national or international in scope and that include improving, spreading, and promoting multicultural services in libraries. Nominees must have a Master's of Library Science degree from an ALA accredited institution. Nominations are open until January 9th, 2015. Please see the following form for nomination information: EMIERT_DLAward_NominationForm_2014.pdf
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Playable Angry Birds birthday cake
A father has decided to step up to the mantle of being the best dad ever and has created a playable Angry Birds birthday cake. His YouTube description for the video says: It's become a family tradition that I make increasingly ridiculous birthday cakes for my kids each year. So with my little boy Ben turning 6-years-old over the weekend, and appreciating his love of Angry Birds, I thought I'd have a shot a making him a playable Angry Birds birthday cake with working catapult and iced birds as ammunition.
This is one of the best works of art (in the form of a cake) that I've ever seen. It's quite an effort and he has pulled it off quite well, the look on his son's face is enough satisfaction for any creative father! But this one takes the cake (all the pun in the world intended).
The App Store hits Twitter with exclusive deals on the horizon
Twitter and Apple addicts aren't going to have to go far to check out the latest apps for their iOS devices. Apple has started up an official Twitter account for the App Store, and is promising Twitter-exclusive app deals and plenty of featured apps being sent to their followers.
Already rocking nearly 60,000 followers since their first tweet a mere 8 hours ago, it looks like the word is definitely out. Don't get your hopes up about the App Store following you though as they only have official Apple accounts on their follow list. Apple may have started out a little cautious over teaming up with Twitter, but with the official accounts and Ping integration it looks like Apple is now fully diving into the social networking scene.
MacPhun will give the 10 billionth app downloader more loot, with a catch
Unless you live under a rock, you have heard that the Apple App Store is set to hit its 10 billionth download soon. The person who ends up downloading the 10 billionth app will get a seriously nice gift. That gift will be a $10,000 gift card that will keep the user in music and apps for a long time.
The MacPhun company has announced that it will give the person who downloads the 10 billionth app an extra $5,000 iTunes gift card if the 10 billionth app is its own FX Photo Studio. That's a blatant attempt to get folks to download its apps for sure and I would say the chance of that app being the big 10B is scant.
MacPhun did say that it would give the 10 billionth downloader a $1,000 gift card if the app is anything from the photo category. I wonder how long it will be before the magic download is made.
Facebook adds new feature to share private details with apps
I would bet that you use Facebook; most people are on the social network today. If you do use Facebook you need to be aware of a new feature that the site has added for developers that will share more of your private information with marketers and apps if you allow it. The new feature will give access to your mobile phone number and physical address.
On the surface, the new feature seems useful and would allow things like ordering of products online without having to enter your shipping details. The fear for some users is that rouge apps would access the information and then sell it to marketers. That would allow more spam to your real world mailbox and more calls from sales douches to your mobile.
Facebook's Jeff Bowen said, "We are now making a user's address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object. Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new user_address and user_mobile_phone permissions. These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs."
Mirror's Edge is free on the App Store
iOS-based owners worldwide have collectively said 'kgo' to the news of Mirror's Edge being available on the App Store for free right now.
Mirror's Edge is available for the iPhone and iPad free of charge - for a game that is actually quite fun to play with great graphics, even at the original price is was good value for money, but now being free... well!
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Google's next-gen Android Music app leaks out - hints at the 3.0 UI
Want a sneak peak at the new Android Music app from the upcoming 3.0 update? Take a peek below for a nice little video showing off the various features of the player.
Google boasted at Google I/O that their plans for the next-gen Music app is for it to be able to push your web-purchased songs to the device, and allows a user to browse their PC's music library directly from the phone - as if the songs were on the Android device itself. Nifty, eh?
Continue reading 'Google's next-gen Android Music app leaks out - hints at the 3.0 UI' (full post)
Nikon Patent app details lens with both manual and automatic zoom
Over the last few years, the ability to record HD video on a DSLR has gone from non-existent to a very common feature. The video quality DSLR cameras are capable of mean that a lot of video pros are using the cameras to record video. Many of those people are finding that it's hard to make smooth zoom transitions using the manual zoom lenses on most DSLR cameras.
Nikon filed a patent applicant back on June 3 2009 that surfaced last week that outlines a cool new lens that videographers and still shooters will really like for their DSLR cameras. The lens has a method to allow for manual focus and to allow for automatic focus on one lens. The automatic zoom would be used for smoothly zooming in on the subject when making video.
The manual focus option could be used when taking still photos where speed is more important than zooming smoothly. The lens would be controlled manually by twisting the lens like any DSLR user is familiar with and by hitting a button on the back of the camera body for automatic zoom. At this time, there is no word on when the lens will surface for people to purchase.
WikiReader gets update with 33,000 eBooks
I would bet that just about everyone has read a Wikipedia page about one thing or another. There are pages for just about everything you can think of, even if some of those pages are suspect. If you like Wikipedia and want to be able to look at the pages you like without having to be online you can with a little gadget that has been around for a while called the WikiReader.
The WikiReader is a small square handheld device that has a touchscreen. You can type whatever subject you want to know into the device and it will then retrieve the listings about your search without needing a web connection. The device has all the wiki pages stored on its internal memory.
The company behind the WikiReader offers updates every so often that adds new content and changes to existing Wiki content to the device. The latest update also gets the users of the WikiReader access to 33,000 new eBooks. All of the eBooks come to the reader by way of Project Gutenberg and include titles ranging from the Bible to Walden according to Openmoko, the company that makes the WikiReader. You can pick one up right now for about $100.
Mac App Store launching in January - minus Game Center and in-app purchasing?
Rumor has it that the Mac App Store will miss it's December 13 date and will also be released without Game Center support or in-app purchases, no ability to offer demos, trials or betas.
It is supposedly coming in January, which is still within Apple's promised 90 days when they first announced the App Store in October. Not long to find out, but Apple have done this before and eventually the extra upgrades are included after a while.
App Deals of the day
The peeps over at Gizmodo have an Apps Deal of the Day post today with has specials like Angry Birds Seasons for Android users (for FREE!) and Fruit Ninga HD for iPad for $1.19
There are a huge list of games on special (and an even bigger list of free games for iOS) today.


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Expressive writing --writing about ones deepest thoughts and feelingsmay help change the way cancer patients think and feel about their disease. In one of the first studies published in an oncology journal about the benefits of writing therapy, researchers say those who immediately reported changes in thoughts about their illness also reported a better physical quality of life three weeks later.
Previous research suggests expressive writing may enhance physical and psychological well-being, said Nancy P. Morgan, M.A., writing clinician and director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centers Arts and Humanities Program. But most of those studies involved three to five writing sessions that were conducted in a controlled laboratory setting. Here, we found that just one writing session in a busy cancer clinic where the patients are frequently interrupted can still have a positive impact on patients. The study appears in the February issue of The Oncologist.
Morgan and her colleagues conducted their study in the clinic waiting area of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center between July and November 2006. It included a pre-writing survey, twenty minutes of expressive writing, a post-writing survey, and an optional follow-up survey that was completed by telephone 3 weeks later. Seventy-one (71) adult leukemia or lymphoma patients (51 percent male, 49 percent female) attending an appointment with a medical oncologist for treatment or follow-up participated in the study.
All participants completed the pre-survey, while 63 (88 percent) completed the 20-minute expressive writing exercise, responding to prompts including: How has cancer changed you and how do you feel about those changes?
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Van Halen has confirmed details about their hotly anticipated new studio effort and plans for a major North American tour to support the recording. The album will be titled A Different Kind of Truth and, as expected, will hit stores on February 7. The first single will be called "Tattoo" and will be released on Tuesday, the same day a video for the tune will premiere.
The tour will kick off February 18 in Louisville, Kentucky, and is scheduled to wind its way around the U.S. and Canada through a June 26 show in New Orleans. So far, 46 dates have been confirmed. In a bit of a curveball, funk veterans Kool & the Gang will serve as the opening act on select stops on the tour. Tickets for the trek will go on sale starting January 14.
Van Halen celebrated their new album and tour with an intimate show at New York City's Café Wha? on Thursday night. In front of an estimated 250 people, mostly member of the media, the quartet — David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen — delivered a blistering 11-song set made up almost entirely of the rock legends' classic early material. They only performed one new song, titled "She's the Woman." Upon hitting the stage Roth — clad in brown overalls and a flat cap — quipped, "Welcome to Occupy Van Halen, ladies and gentlemen."
Roth interrupted the show throughout to offer up witticisms and reminiscences, at one point remarking, "The last time I stood on a stage this low, I had to have the car back by midnight." The entire band seemed to be having a great time, especially the frontman, who commented more than once that he thought the concert was one of his best ever. Roth also took time to introduce his 92-year-old uncle, Manny Roth, who used to own the venue during the 1960s.
The singer recalled carving his name in the basement club's banister when he was seven years old. "This is a temple, he said. "This is a very special place."
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Sometimes we miss the gods of old. With scandals aplenty, reading up on Greek and Roman mythology feels like flipping through the ancient equivalent of those titillating, yet trashy, rags near the cash register at the supermarket. "Cephalus kills wife by accident." "Tereus tricked into eating own son." The headlines scream out with tragedy soaked in bloody betrayal and irony.
They sure knew how to weave a good tale, but gaming's fascination with toga-clad history and legends are nothing new. From Kid Icarus to Rome: Total War and God of War II, the mythology and even reality of the swords-and-sandals era continues to be a juicy topic for games' tale tellers to take on today. With a wealth of rich characters and stories that runs as deep as the ocean and as long as the Nile, the excess of lore to be found in the mythology of Greece and Rome can make the entire collection of Tolkien look like a particularly small newborn hobbit.
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South African new vehicle sales expanded 1.6 percent in February from a year earlier, the slowest pace since September.
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The State Board of Regents approved 18 changes to the way the state is implementing the controversial Common Core Curriculum Tuesday.One change delays when students would be held accountable to the harder tests, by five years, so that the class of 2022 would be the first students required to pass Common Core aligned exams in order to graduate. Another ends Common Core testing for grades K through 2.
Union officials say the recommendations don't go far enough in ensuring teachers aren't negatively evaluated due to Common Core testing of students. Education officials stress the curriculum itself will still be implemented in schools.
"We're still going to expose the students to the Common Core standards and the curriculum. In some of the new areas in terms of the math and the social studies and science that have yet to migrate over to full Common Core curriculum, we'll take some time to make sure that it's done at a little bit slower pace," said Allen Buyck, District Superintendent for Broome-Tioga BOCES.
"Other than the K-2 testing and the graduation requirements it's business as usual. (Teachers) are still held to the high stakes. So are the students. It's not just the teachers, it's the students as well," said Catherine Farrell, Staff Director for the New York State Union of Teachers.
A proposal that would have allowed teachers to raise the issue of poor Common Core implementation in firing proceedings was set aside until April after Governor Andrew Cuomo offered a harsh criticism of the plan.
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The topic of force and motion involves some quite counter-intuitive ideas. Informal conceptions of force are held by children and adults alike. Force and motion activities provide some rich opportunities for different representational modes: diagrams, graphs and charts, and metaphors to do with human action.
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What Is A Dysfunctional Relationship?
No relationship will be perfect; and how to successfully interact your lover cannot be worked out in advance. Yes, you can learn basic communication techniques, build your self-esteem, and develop patterns for healthy, equal, balanced loving before you get together -- and all of these will make your relationship, when you do find it, much more successful. But, because you are unique, and so is your partner, what works for the two of you must be developed on-the-spot. The only way I know to do this is through experience, communication and negotiation.
If you understand that your relationship, to be successful, must be healthy and satisfying for both you and your partner, you will also understand that codependently putting your partners feelings, needs and wants before your own is as harmful as compulsively putting your wants, needs and feelings before your lover's.
Through focusing on solving issues and problems together, through honest and open communication, you can learn to achieve a balance. That is, you can work together to make sure both of you get your needs and wants met, and you can both care equally about your mutual satisfaction, health and happiness.
Any other definition of love tends to degenerate into dysfunction and codependency, and will become toxic to you and your lover. Finding out if solutions are mutually satisfactory is easy-- you ask each other how it feels and whether it's working. Beginning your relationship with this idea in mind, or renewing an existing relationship on this basis, is much easier and more pleasant than you may believe. I invite you to consciously move your focus from who's at fault to what will fix the problem, and to increase the mutuality and communication in your relationship, and watch whatever dysfunctional interaction you have, whether mild or severe, be significantly reduced. You can do this with relationships at home, with your parents, your children, your siblings, and even with friends and co-workers.
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In the third meeting this season between Kentucky and Florida, the Gators finally found their three-point stroke, going 10-of-20 from behind the arc. But despite Florida's hot shooting and excellent defense throughout the contest, the Wildcats were able to pull out a 74-71 win to advance to the SEC Championship game on Sunday.
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How about Kennen the champion instead of the skin? I'd appreciate it greatly.
has rumble ever been on sale? im still waiting
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To everyone hating this sale: You can't always be pleased. Don't you realize that waiting is at least half the fun? You ever played a game and had all the cheat codes in the beginning and got everything you wanted? I dunno about you but that game must have gotten boring really fast or you need to get a real life hobby. Too much of a good thing can turn out to be a bad thing. Just busy yourself with the champions you have now and just get whatever is on sale now. Sometimes it takes me 6 games just to begin to like a champion. I hated maokai, lee, renekton when I first played them. Too complicated (tried when I was still new to the game) or felt like they weren't that useful or great. Now I think differently. It's not how many champions you own but more like how good you are with the ones you have. Why don't you just play the champions that you are usually bad with? I know how you feel, but you don't have to feel that way if you don't want to. It's really not that bad considering there are many parts of the world that kids can't even enjoy a game like we do.... Hate what's really worth hating, otherwise you're just wasting yourself away. Good day
too bad i own them all
Hey Riot, can we get some real fuçkin IP price reductions?
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can u discount for champion ahri please?
Just bought GALIO with this sale, hated him when he was free, wasn't even in my list of champions that I wanted to get. Glad I got him! Totally fun and that ultimate, wow is it useful. His passive combine with ultimate makes him perfect for taking down both AP and AD carry since you stack magic resist for your passive and your ultimate is great for auto attackers. He farms very well and with Rod of Ages, he rarely ever have mana issues which I thought he would. I can actually spam his spells quite a bit and not have to worry about ever getting blue buff which I hate always relying on! Great champ!
Finally, I've been waiting a jax sale! I just can't get to 1350 IP. It's incredibly hard......
olaf is ftw, i checked yersterday and it said he was on sale but when i went to buy him it was not... does it start on friday?


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I am looking for seeds for residents in a low income housing complex. The complex is located in Saint Paul, MN and they have a community garden. If you live in the Twin Cities and have some spare seeds (only edibles) please let me know. I would like to give them out to the residents at our event on 4/29. Thank you so much and happy gardening! -Sylvia |
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A sure family favorite! Make it the night before and pop into the oven when you wake up. Carbs: 21.2g | Fat: 12.4g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 27.7g | Calories: 308.3
This is one recipe for cauliflower everyone will love! Submitted by TERRYN3 Carbs: 6.2g | Fat: 4.3g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 2.9g | Calories: 68.8
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These are really yummy and much better for you than regular french fries and half the calories. Submitted by OCTOBERBRIDE09 Carbs: 25.2g | Fat: 4.7g | Fiber: 2.2g | Protein: 1.3g | Calories: 143.2
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This roasted zucchini recipe with squash is one of our favorite sides. This recipe is healthy and easy to make. Tastes good hot or cold and reheats well in the microwave. Submitted by BOOKWORM81 Carbs: 5.5g | Fat: 2.4g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 1.3g | Calories: 43.4
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a remake of a full-fat recipe...delicious & low-cal Submitted by MRS-HART Carbs: 25.1g | Fat: 2.1g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 7.8g | Calories: 155
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A great tasting and healthy alternative to fries. Submitted by LIZZS2NDCHANCE Carbs: 18.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 1.1g | Calories: 80.7
We cut the grease and used reduced-fat string cheese to re-create a pub favorite. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 15.1g | Fat: 2.8g | Fiber: 0.6g | Protein: 15.4g | Calories: 145.2
Technically this is a crustless quiche, but the addition of flour makes for a delicious crusty bottom and sides. Submitted by JENNLOVE Carbs: 13.7g | Fat: 4.6g | Fiber: 2.2g | Protein: 10.3g | Calories: 134.1
This colorful low-sodium cholesterol-free vegetable baked dish is prepared without any added fat. Carbs: 8.6g | Fat: 0.2g | Fiber: 2.6g | Protein: 1.8g | Calories: 37.2


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While overall access to contraception and other reproductive health services have increased over the last 20 years, access for low-income women and women of color has dropped.
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2,05,835 applications from March 25 to July 18
The e-district project launched by the Kerala State Information Technology Mission (KSITM) is catching up in the district with the steadily increasing number of online applications.
Since the launch of the service here in March 25, a whopping 2,05,835 online applications have reached various village offices here, which is claimed to be the highest figure achieved by an e-district in Kerala within a short span.
The facility, now offered with the support of 154 Akshaya centres in the district, is operational in 109 village offices in Kozhikode district. Eight more villages will be added to the network within a couple months after giving them the required high-speed internet connectivity and computer facilities.
Along with the speedy clearance of applications, the project is also offering a sustainable income to Akshaya entrepreneurs. As per the official records, the entrepreneurs have generated over Rs.41.16 lakh by processing and forwarding online applications to village offices and the timely delivery of the cleared certificates.
Also, a majority of the entrepreneurs have succeeded in netting additional income, other than the processing fee of Rs.20, by scanning other supporting documents for village offices.
"Till very recently, a majority of the Akshaya centres were surviving with the small revenue they got through the occasional online application processing for various purposes and the Aadhaar enrolment drive. With the introduction of e-district, several applicants are directly depending on the Akshaya centres," says M. Firoz, District Coordinator of Akshaya.
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"Minor complaints are there as the project is new to the district, but, we have initiated all the possible measures to improve the operations," he adds.
With the launch of the e-district project, the dependence of people directly on the service of village offices have come down largely, according to officials in charge of the project.
The conventional paperwork has been replaced with a computerised record management system and digital signatures.
Now, the entire supervision of the project, which was lunched with a government aid of Rs.10 lakh, is entrusted with the District E-Governance Society (DEGS), which includes top officials, including the District Collector and heads of various government departments.


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I obviously have these in green, L/XL. They have been great for all mountain on my Never Summer legacy so far. And by all mountain I mean jibs and groomers since it is still so early in the season. I will write another review when i have riden them more but for now ill tell you what little info i can.
The straps are nice because they bend forwards and backwards, even in the cold, and don't look like they'll come close to breaking.
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The Origins and Rise of Sufi Institutions (Part Two)
The first instance of an independent Sufi institution was the establishment of a Sufi duwayrah (small house or convent) by some followers of an early Sufi master Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd (d. 150 AH/ 767 CE). Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd lived in Basrah where for sometime he accompanied and studied with al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110 AH/ 728 CE). During Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd's time, Basrah enjoyed a reputation as a place where people spoke exaggeratedly about such Sufism oriented concepts as asceticism, worship, love for and fear of God, etc.[1] Basrah is thus regarded as the birthplace of Sufism. Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd himself was known for tenacity in worship and asceticism. He was a great preacher who used to preach in mosques. He traveled a lot and often participated in holy wars (jihad). He narrated that al-Hasan al-Basri had said that every road has a shortcut, and the shortcut on the road leading to Paradise (jannah) is holy war (jihad).[2] This and some other similar Sufi duwayrahs or little houses or convents were the antecedents of true Sufi institutions which started to emerge perhaps less than a century later. They in all probability functioned as unpretentious multi-purpose gathering places and shelters for some Sufis and their followers and novices. They also functioned as shelters and hostels for an emerging phenomenon of traveling and visiting Sufis. Some such lodges or cloisters are reported to have been built next to mosques.[3]
The Origins and Rise of Sufi Institutions (Part One)
In this paper, the origins and rise of Sufi institutions will be discussed. Our discussion will revolve, mainly, around the impact of the mosque institution and the decentralization of its multifaceted roles and functions, which themselves evolved into independent institutions, on the emergence of first independent Sufi institutions, such as duwayrahs, ribats, khanqahs, zawiyahs and tekkes. The main religious, intellectual and social activities in early Sufi institutions will also be discussed.
Read more: The Origins and Rise of Sufi Institutions (Part One)Early Phases of the Evolution of Islamic Architecture (Part Four)
Second Example: the Persian Iwan (Hall) in al-Mada'in or Ctesiphon
The other example where the early Muslims fully availed themselves of, or even shared, an existing architectural legacy that belonged to the non-Muslim local population of a territory newly opened to Islam is as follows. When in the year 637 AC/16 H the Muslims opened to Islam (fath) the Persian capital al-Mada'in, or Ctesiphon, in Iraq, they used without much repugnance its great Iwan (Hall), which was part of a royal White Palace, as their mosque in spite of some paintings and statues decorating it.[1] The paintings and statues, which included men and horses,[2] were done away with much later. According to K.A.C. Creswell, the decorative paintings were still there in 897 AC/284 H.[3] It was in this Iwan-turned-mosque that the first Jumu'ah or Friday Prayer was performed in Iraq.[4] In it, a pulpit or a minbar was erected for delivering sermons (khutbah) during Friday Prayers and for other communication purposes. The Muslims were requested to perform their Friday Prayers in congregation in the Iwan even if they happened to be as far as in the very centers of their villages.[5] Read more: Early Phases of the Evolution of Islamic Architecture (Part Four)
Early Phases of the Evolution of Islamic Architecture (Part Three)
As the first example, we hear of the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus as being one of the most splendid buildings ever built by Muslims, which was built by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid in 705 AC / 87 H. The Mosque was, as Ross Burns describes, "the glittering epicenter of this (Islamic) new civilization, probably the most richly decorated building since the passing of ancient Rome. In the 14 years from the Dome of the Rock to the Umayyad Mosque, the Umayyads developed a series of architectural symbols of great significance and massive proportions, decorated with unparalleled splendor. They were truly imperial gestures marking the transition in a few generations from a people who had few architectural traditions to an empire that dramatically asserted its new order."[1]
However, the original site of the mosque was a big church, the Church of St John the Baptist. When the Muslims opened Damascus to Islam in 635 AC / 14 H, one of their commanders, Khalid b. al-Walid, entered by force from the eastern side of the city through one of its gates reaching as far as the city's center that included a half of the Church of St John the Baptist, while the other commander, Abu 'Ubaydah, as a result of negotiations entered peacefully from the western side of the city and also reached the city's center that included the other half of the Church.[2] Because the Muslims urgently needed -- just like everywhere else -- a principal mosque as their community center, preferably in the center of urban and densely populated Damascus, and because a half of the city and a half of one of its main churches, the Church of St John the Baptist, had to be overcome by force, and because the Christian population in Damascus was set to start decreasing from then onwards and, as a result, the role of Christianity and the people's affiliation with the existing churches to wane – because of all these factors a solution was devised to the effect that the eastern part of the Church of St John the Baptist, which was captured by force, be changed into a mosque, and the other western half, which was part of a capitulation treaty, to remain as a church.
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This two-floor Covent Garden restaurant and bar is now owned by Prescott & Conran - the group behind Boundary, Lutyens and the Albion venues, in Shoreditch and Bankside.
The look remains very much French brasserie but the food menu is now influenced by the United States. Dishes range from macaroni cheese and steak tartare to hot dogs, burgers and steaks cooked on the Josper grill. There are express menus, too.
The global wine list offers 25 red and 25 whites, with around a third available by the glass. Craft beers and ciders also feature, with six options taking in the US, Sweden, Edinburgh, Somerset and France. Classic cocktails are given a twist.
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Les Deux Salons? perfect location in the heart of London?s West End makes it a popular choice for pre and post theatre dining. It sits conveniently near St Martin?s Lane, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Charing Cross and Covent Garden Piazza.
This all day-dining bar and grill in Covent Garden serves prime steaks and burgers grilled in our Josper charcoal oven, alongside the likes of Lemon Sole Meunière and Butter Roasted Cod.
Needless to say our beef takes top billing using both USDA prime and English grass fed cattle from crosses of Black Angus, Charolais and Limousine cross cattle.
Cocktails and drinks are served daily in the bustling and vibrant copper clad bar and lounge, beautifully designed by the renowned Martin Brudnizki Design Studios. The striking reclaimed opaline lights add to the warm and convivial atmosphere in a decor of dark green leather banquettes and mosaic marbled flooring.
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