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25 mai 2014
A pottery painted vessel, hu, and a pottery 'Cocoon' jar, Neolithic Period and Han Dynasty
A pottery painted vessel, hu, and a pottery 'Cocoon' jar, Neolithic Period and Han Dynasty. Photo Sotheby's
the largest vessel surmounted by a short circular neck, flanked with a pair of small circular handles, the upper half decorated in a brown glaze with geometric patterns; the 'cocoon'-shaped jar supported on a high splayed foot, set with a neck rising to an everted rim, the pottery of a smooth texture and burnished to a reddish-beige colour; the largest vessel 40 cm., 15 3/4 in. Estimation 20,000 — 30,000 HKD
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03 octobre 2013
"MING: Emperors, artists and Merchants in Ancient China" @ De Nieuwe Kerk
Portrait of He Bin. Paper, 16th century © Nanjing Museum/Nomad Exhibitions
AMSTERDAM - From 5 October 2013 to 2 February 2014, De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam will present Ming: Emperors, Artists and Merchants in Ancient China. This exhibition tells the story of China's Ming dynasty (1368–1644). In collaboration with the Nanjing Museum, one of China's leading museums, De Nieuwe Kerk will host an exclusive collection of original Ming artefacts, complemented by classic delftware from the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and a series of... [Lire la suite]
21 septembre 2012
A sancai-glazed pottery figure of a camel. Tang dynasty
A sancai-glazed pottery figure of a camel. Tang dynasty. Photo Sotheby's
well-modeled with long legs, standing foursquare on a rectangular base, its head animatedly thrown back, mouth agape, decorated with freely applied amber glaze over a cream base, the saddle cloth and pleated hem articulated in green. Height 23 3/4 in., 60.5 cm. Estimation: 20,000 - 30,000 USD. Unsold
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's New York, 2nd June 1993, lot 270.
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of... [Lire la suite]
29 avril 2012
A Miniature Hoi An Pottery Treasure Box. Viet Nam, ca 1450 AD
A Miniature Hoi An Pottery Treasure Box. Viet Nam, ca 1450 AD. Photo Antiquities-Saleroom
The smallest artifact we've seen from the famous Hoi An wreckage!Quite miniature pottery box and lid decorated in blue floral pattern over white base. Each shows minor effects of exposure to 500 years of sea water. 7/8"H x 1-3/8" D. Lot 101. Estimate $150 - $250
Provenance: Ex-private TX collection.
Antiquities-Saleroom. 9:00 AM PT - May 12th, 2012.
25 avril 2012
A safavid blue and white pottery tulip vase, Persia, 17th century
A safavid blue and white pottery tulip vase, Persia, 17th century. Photo Sotheby's
of baluster form with a central everted mouth surrounded by five small subsidiary spouts, all mounted with metal covers and engraved with figures inside roundels and alternating floral stems, the body decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with black outlines, featuring a river landscape with bushy rocks, clouds, ducks and birds, scrolling arabesque designs to neck and foot, the reverse of base with pseudo-Chinese... [Lire la suite]
19 août 2011
Twelve glazed pottery jars. Vietnam, late 15th/early 16th century
A group of six glazed pottery jars. Vietnam, late 15th/early 16th century. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields
Each from the Hoi An hoard, consisting of three slender ovoid storage jars with brown oxide glaze and applied with four lug handles; two small olive-glazed jars, one with lug handles; and one small globular jar covered in a brown glaze (most with damage); 10 1/8in (25.8cm) height of largest. Estimate: US$800 - 1,200
A group of six glazed pottery jars. Vietnam, late 15th/early 16th century. Photo: Courtesy of... [Lire la suite]
28 mars 2011
A white-glazed pottery ewer. Tang dynasty
A white-glazed pottery ewer. Tang dynasty. photo Sotheby's
the bulbous body rising to a trumpet neck, the rounded shoulders with a tapering cylindrical spout opposite a three-stranded strap handle terminating in a stylized lion's head biting the rim of the neck, the overall ivory glaze finely crackled; height 10 1/4 in., 26 cm. Estimate 2,000—3,000 USD. Lot Sold 5,000 USD
PROVENANCE: Sotheby & Co., London, 14th November 1972, lot 270.
Sotheby's. Informing the Eye of the Collector: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from... [Lire la suite]
28 mars 2011
A large straw-glazed pottery amphora. Sui-Early Tang dynasty.
A large straw-glazed pottery amphora. Sui-Early Tang dynasty. photo Sotheby's
the tall ovoid body surmounted by a waisted neck rising to a cupped mouth, flanked by a pair of dragons biting the rim, their bodies coiled around the neck, their lower legs and tails resting on the shoulders, covered overall in a straw-colored glaze; height 21 1/4 in., 54 cm. Estimate 8,000—12,000 USD. Lot Sold 13,750 USD
Sotheby's. Informing the Eye of the Collector: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from J.T. Tai & Co. 22 Mar 11. New York... [Lire la suite]
31 octobre 2010
A sancai-glazed pottery bowl, China, Tang dynasty
A sancai-glazed pottery bowl, China, Tang dynasty. photo courtesy Nagel
D. 9,9 cm. Minor wear to glaze, very slightly chipped - Estimate 2 500 €
Property from an Austrian private collection
Nagel Auktionen. Asian Art. November 4th 2010 www.auction.de
25 octobre 2010
Pair of Chinese 19th century glazed pottery figures of an aristocratic couple and their attendents
A wonderful pair of Chinese 19th century glazed pottery figures of an aristocratic couple and their attendents, with charming painted silk parasols. photo courtesy of Kentshire @ The 29th San Francisco Fall Antiques Show www.kentshire.com


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I'm a pretty superstitious person, so I wasn't surprised to see him sweep up the salt and throw it over his shoulder before he went back to handing out dishes. And at Coco's, the gesture seemed particularly appropriate. This place, which just reopened after having been closed for nearly five months, has had some recent bad luck.
Coco's opened on the first level of Bal Harbour Shops in 1978. Eighteen years later the landlord suddenly refused to renew the restaurant's lease. Instead, proprietor Lori Migicovsky (daughter of the founding owners, David and Tootsie Migicovsky) was offered a new space on the second floor. The mall's ownership had two things in mind: a more upscale restaurant tenant on the first floor, and a lure for shoppers on the upper level. Not at all eager to move away from her client base, Migicovsky grudgingly took the deal. Coco's now comprises 30 indoor seats in a modern bar/dining room and 100 outdoor seats, shaped like seashells, on the upper promenade (a slightly crowded arrangement, as our waiter might attest). Meanwhile the Mediterranean-theme Giulio's opened the day after Christmas on the ground floor.
It's too early to tell whether the mall's gambit will pay off in the long run, but both places were half full (or half empty, depending on how you look at such things) on the Friday evening I visited. Regarding the upstairs/downstairs pricing strategy, though, I couldn't help but wonder why the fuss on the mall's part. Coco's may cook down-home Continental fare -- meat loaf, pastas and pizzas, an assortment of grilled chicken and veal dishes -- but no way is this place cheap. Entrees range up to $28; I dropped as much dough here as I did on a recent foray to Mark's Place. But the output, sadly, was nowhere near as stimulating.
Though the location may have changed, the menu remains exactly the same as before the move. In fact, it's a pretty good bet that the list of (fried, fried, and more fried) appetizers hasn't been altered since the Seventies. Usually I'm delighted when a restaurant features so much deep-sizzled stuff, because it obligates me to order some. But this rationalization works only when the result is worth the health hazard. In the case of Coco's "great zucchini stix," it wasn't. The julienned squash was mushy inside its limp batter crust, which retained more oil than it did heat, and the honey-mustard dip seemed sports-bar standard, uninspiring. Ditto for the potato skins, so overdone that the potato portion had long been cooked away, leaving only a brittle shell. For a dollar extra, diners may request cheese or bacon bits as enhancements. We went for both, but asked that only half the order be augmented (we were charged the full two bucks anyway). The cheese was Velveeta-like, the bacon unremarkable; the main effect was to provide visual cover for the burned-out spud shells. At least it was a distraction.
Cheese was in no short supply atop a bowl of French-Canadian onion soup. Though the concentrated broth tasted to me of beef-flavored bouillon cubes, salty and grainy, the soup was stocked generously with soft, almost caramelized onions. A slice of resilient French bread bumping up against the lid of mild, crisp-edged cheese boosted the broth considerably.
Five "gourmet" pizzas continued the cheesy theme, in either entree or "taster" sizes. The taster version was an individual-size pie cut into quarters, ideal for a starter if everyone wants just one wedge. The Napolitana was scattered with tomato sauce, mozzarella, sliced mushrooms, and a satisfying amount of somewhat tame pepperoni. The crust was unusually crisp, not only at the edges but almost all the way to the center; we dismantled a slice and found grill marks on both sides of the dough, as if the crust had been made ahead of time, then assembled and rebaked when needed. In fact, the grill marks come from the oven racks "when the dough is being defrosted," says Migicovsky.
One entree description contained a superlative I couldn't resist. "Just like Mom used to make! America's favorite with the greatest mashed potatoes and gravy ever!" read the caption under the meat loaf. If I were to compare Coco's indigestive bricks to the moist meat loaf masterpieces we ate when I was a kid, my mother would disown me. And the three sculpted flourishes of mashed potatoes, which looked as if they'd been squeezed from a pastry bag, were nicely seasoned and lumpless, but they were also rubbery from having sat too long before being brought to the table. The gravy was tangy and bright, more like barbecue sauce, and could have used some toning down.

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Free Nik Software's Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard! [Limited time offer]
Posted By Ashraf On December 1, 2011 @ 5:41 PM In Freebies | 23 Comments
The following is a description of Nik Software's Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard, as per the developer:
Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 is a collection of digital filters that are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and to produce professional level results. The filter set includes traditional and stylizing filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily. Furthermore, the software incorporates patented U Point technology to provide the ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections.
Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 has been significantly updated to provide photo enthusiasts and professional photographers alike with the most powerful yet easy to use, set of photographic filters ever created. DSLR owners will revel in the wide range of quick and easy fixes to dramatically improve their photos with just a few clicks of the mouse. Professional wedding, nature, commercial and portrait photographers will appreciate the speed of workflow and advanced features designed to support uniquely creative styles and deliver class-leading power.
The Complete Edition provides 52 filters [Standard Edition has 15 filters] that can be combined to produce an extensive range of effects including high quality retouching, color correction and endless creative enhancements to your photographs. The result is nothing less than the most complete, most useful, collection of photographic filters you can add to your toolkit.
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The filters in Color Efex Pro 3.0 range from creative enhancements and special effects to re-touching tools and conventional film emulation filter effects. Click Here to see a complete list of filters with descriptions and before/after samples.
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The Award-winning U Point technology gives you ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections, and makes it easy to selectively add, modify and remove a filter effect using convenient sliders. Additionally, some of the latest filters in Color Efex Pro 3.0 provide unique functionality based entirely on the U Point technology.
Resizable Interface
The extensively reworked interface in version 3.0 is the result of both deep study into the look and feel that professional photographers expect in modern applications and requests from Nik Software users. The completely resizable interface lets you easily accommodate large monitor configurations, preview before and after results, and quickly access the entire range of unique tools to match your workflow. In addition, it is color-neutral with a medium-gray background and it groups major controls close together for greater efficiency, letting you achieve excellent results in less time.
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Unique among photographic filter software on the market today, the Color Efex Pro 3.0 Selective Tool allows you to quickly and easily brush any filter effect into your image. Layers and masks are created automatically, so you are free to create and experiment unfettered. Color Efex Pro 3.0 makes this access more convenient by giving you the choice of selectively applying the filter in the Filter Interface. This lets you launch the Color Efex Pro 3.0 interface from either the Selective Tool or the Filters menu.
Update: Please note this particular freebie is of the standalone version of Color Efex Pro 3.0. It does not require Photoshop to run.
Despite the awkward naming convention of having a "Standard" edition of a "Pro" software, Color Efex Pro 3.0 is an interesting soft. To put it simply, it is a software aimed for people who need photo manipulation capabilities. The idea is to use Color Efex Pro 3.0's filters to modify/enhance your image as you see fit. (The Standard version comes with 15 filters: Brilliance/Warmth, Burnt Sienna, Color Stylizer, Contrast Only, Detail Stylizer, Graduated Filters, Ink, Old Photo, Pastel, Polarization, Remove Color Cast, Saturation Stylizer, Skylight Filter, Solarization, and Sunshine.)
As I am sure most regular dotTechies know, I am not a right-brained man at all. However, using my left-brained analysis skills, to me it looks like Color Efex Pro 3.0 is a good software – because of how easily it allows users to modify images – in its complete form which has 52 filters; the 15 filters in the Standard edition, while useful in select cases, are not very awe inspiring. Combine that with the fact that Color Efex Pro 3.0 is at least two years old (Color Efex Pro 4.0 is the latest version) and I come up with the conclusion of Nik Software's Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard being a so-so offering.
But, hey, who am I to judge? I am a geek with no appreciation for the arts. If you feel in touch with your inner photographer, feel free to grab this and make up your own mind. Worse that can happen is you waste an hour of your time; best that can happen is you end up dropping a couple Benjamins on Color Efex Pro 4.0 Complete.
Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard is being offered by German magazine CHIP.de [2]. According to the broken German I translated by myself using Google Translate, this freebie is available until December 5, 2011. Presumably that means December 5, 2011 11:59 PM German time. Oh and don't worry — the promotion may be German but the program is in English (with the option of being in German, if you are into that kind of thing).
To get Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard, follow these simple directions:
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You do not have to go far from the center of downtown New Orleans to find some of the best fishing in the world. Thanks to the shifting banks of the Mississippi, Southern Louisiana is an angler's paradise.
The area is a natural delta filled with rich silt that feeds a great variety of wildlife including oysters, crawfish, soft-shell crabs, hard-shell crabs, shrimp, yellow fin tuna, flounder, catfish, and red fish. The best fishing in the world is found in the region of the Plaquemine Parish, a fishing community of about 25,000 people that is located about 35 miles south of downtown New Orleans. Nearly 14 percent of the wetlands in the United States are located in this small area. This is the place to go if you want to rent a chartered boat, or plan your own excursion into the backwaters of Louisiana. However, the more inexperienced angler may opt to book a trip with a guide, and the city of New Orleans offers the services of two professional competitive sports anglers to help you navigate the tributaries and branches of Louisiana's backwaters.
If you have access to a car, book a one-day or two-day overnight fishing trip with Papa's Joe's Wetlands Service. After driving south 35 miles to one of two of Papa Joe's marinas, one of his experienced professional sports anglers will take you to a secret fishing hole teeming with catch. He will also provide you with equipment, fishing tackle and pack your haul for you to take back to New Orleans. A one-day fishing trip cost $150.00 per one person and $250.00 for two and this company can accommodate groups of up to fifty people if you book well in advance.
If you do not have a car and know absolutely nothing about fishing, Flatlander's Hooksetters will not only pick you up at your hotel but also provide you with gear and set you up with an experienced, professional angler who will give you angling lessons or just show you the best places to fish--whatever you require! A one-day fishing trip cost $150.00 per person or $250.00 a day for two people and if you do not catch any thing at all, Flatlander's will refund your money!
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Washing machines without any doubt are an important of our daily life. Even if these gadgets do not work for a single day it could create lot of problems all around. However, choosing the right type of washing machine is often a big challenge. Essentially there are two types of washing machines, front loading and top loading. Let us try and find out the various reasons why there is always more sense to buy a reputed washerhq.com front load washer when compared to top loading machines. However, this in no way is an attempt to drag down the top loading machines which have their own number of loyal customers.
There is no doubt that washers that are front loading are more efficient as far as water usage is concerned. There are many such machines that use only 13 gallons of water which is much less when compared to the top loading machines which consume around 35 gallons of water. Further these front loading machines consume much less energy and hence as customers you will be saving less by way of power consumption. But there are some who might complain about the longer wash times that these machines take, and the higher amount of vibrating noise that they make and other such problems. There are also having been complaints about clothes coming out wet.
However all the above are only slight problems which can be handled provided you know how to handle your front load washer probably. Here are a few useful tips that can go a long way in helping proper performance of these machines. When you find that the clothes are wet just by adjusting the out of balance loads it would be possible to overcome this problem. Restricting the quantity of fabrics that are washed could go a long way in solving this problem. This is because when you overload the machine with large number of fabrics, it could put a strain on the wash basket down below which is located near the drain pump. This could result in water remaining in the basket during spin leading to this problem.
Long wash times that are often associated with these front loading machines happen again because of wrong selection of fabrics. It is always better to choose the same type of fabrics when you have no option but to load the machine fully. This will certainly help in overcoming this problem. Also using the right quantity of detergent is important for ensuring the right wash. This is applicable both for front load and top load washer. It is advisable to go in for liquid detergents that do not foam too much. Foaming is just a superfluous quality of a washing machine and it hardly has anything good about it.
Hence, the onus lies on the customers to find out the main reason why these front loading machines are not performing as per their capabilities. Making some small adjustments here and there can certainly go a long way in making these machines one of the best gadgets that you can have in your homes.


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In 2008, Starbucks' returning CEO Howard Schultz revived the company by eliminating the company's side businesses – such as music CDs, books and gifts – and focusing on the company's core competency – high-priced, quality coffee. HP, on the other hand, has lost strength in its core competency – desktops and laptops – which have become such unprofitable liabilities that Leo Apotheker attempted to divest of both during his short, stormy reign. Whitman told investors that like Starbucks, HP would need approximately five years to turn around. "Usually these kinds of turnarounds take anywhere between four or five years," stated Whitman. "There's nothing fancy about these turnarounds. This is not advanced business, this is 101." Whitman was widely criticized for this statement. Many analysts believe that this is indicative of Whitman's belief that HP needs to get back to the basics, as Starbucks did, to start growing again. Analysts and investors, though, have a different theory. 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"Essentially, I grew up in a circus family," he says. His father was a firefighter. At public demonstrations, he was always the guy who jumped from a rooftop into the safety net. His mother was adventurous, too. Gadget has a photo of her water-skiing, on a disc, backwards – while eight months pregnant with him. "She says it helped her balance," he says.
12:00 noon: The combustion engine is gone. A four-inch pin sticks out of the transmission shaft. Gadget and his crew are behind schedule because when taking out the old engine, they spilled a half-cup of antifreeze. They had to clean it up with absorbent pads and cat litter. It took 90 minutes.
Now they're trying to get the electric motor to mesh with the transmission pin. It won't cooperate. "It looks like they made the pin a little longer in this particular model," says Gadget.
2:15 p.m.: Gadget takes a hacksaw and begins cutting the half-inch-diameter pin. It's maddeningly slow. "I've got a power blade that could buzz this off in 10 seconds," he says.
Gadget has performed about a dozen conversions to date. In his shop, he can convert a car in four to five days. He charges about $20,000 a conversion. Batteries are included, which, at $6,000 to $7,000 a set, are considerably more than your average AA purchase, even at Costco. Twenty grand may seem like a big outlay, but just a couple of booths away is a fully electric minivan built by AC Propulsion that is priced at nearly $60,000. One aisle over is a sporty car called the Electrum Spyder, also for $60,000.
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By the end of the day, Gadget is far behind schedule. Worse, tomorrow he will not have any of his crew to help him.
Sunday, 11:30 a.m.: Gadget has finally solved the pin problem. Here's what remains to be done: install the batteries and his "box" – the brains of the assemblage – and wire everything together.


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Reinventing The Department Store
In the fight for consumer dollars, department stores have lost significant ground to monobrand stores, specialty retailers and e-commerce players. Can they regain their relevance?
In the fight for consumer dollars, department stores have lost significant ground to monobrand stores, specialty retailers and e-commerce players. Can they regain their relevance?
From Australia's wild west coast to the Canadian hinterland, new wealth from oil and gas is helping to turn remote cities into fashion-hungry hubs.
Luxury shoppers in Canada, for years ignored by upscale American chains, are finally getting some respect. Nordstrom Inc., the largest U.S. luxury department-store chain, plans to open six Canadian stores this year through 2017.
Sneakers and other menswear-inspired footwear are having a major moment. Does this mean women are hanging up their heels?
Victoria's Secret Channels Mad Men Into Hottest Limited (BusinessWeek) "Limited Brands Inc. Victoria's Secret is thriving using a marketing strategy that seems more Mad Men-era than from the age of Twitter. While other big brand retailers try to hone their social- media skills, the intimate-apparel chain is creating excitement with a network TV holiday fashion show featuring young women wearing Swarovski crystal-decorated
Tamara Mellon's Next Step (NY Times) "Last November, when Tamara Mellon suddenly left Jimmy Choo, the shoe company she helped build into a global juggernaut, taking with her a reported payout of roughly $135 million, she did so without much explanation. The only thing close to an official statement was a message, sent out to her roughly 12,000 followers on Twitter, thanking them for their support and signing off with,
Mickey Drexler: King of Casual Chic (WSJ) "With a sobriquet like "Merchant Prince," you might expect J.Crew Chief Executive and Chairman Millard (Mickey) Drexler to have a biography that extends to at least four pages. Instead, it is precisely four short paragraphs." East European fashion labels aim for the world stage (Reuters) "Around emerging Europe, where garment assembly for Western brands has
Anatomy of a maison (AFR) "In the Medieval age, the sight of a towering spire signalled a city of splendour. Today, it is cathedrals of retailing that indicate metropolitan status in the global pecking order. The December 3 opening, not of another Louis Vuitton store – there are already 460 of those worldwide – but of a much grander Louis Vuitton 'Maison' (of which there are just 13) proves Sydney must be a very smart town
For Holt's, luxury regains its proper place (Globe and Mail) "The full-price model is part of Mr. Derbyshire's five-year business plan to strengthen Holt's results following a period of stagnation caused by the economic slump… His efforts seem to be paying off: Privately held Holt's enjoyed a record profit in 2010 – double that of its next best year, 2006." Tommy Hilfiger Changes his Stripes (WSJ)
Asian-Americans Climb Fashion Industry Ladder (NY Times) "It was the first time that all three prizes given by the [CFDA] were awarded to designers who are Asian-American. That same night, the fashion council announced three scholarships, each for $25,000, won by student designers of Asian heritage." Fashion brands are turning to the lucrative homewares market (Independent) "The trendy Swedish denim company Acne
Jimmy Choo takes steps to possible IPO (FT) "The private equity owner of Jimmy Choo plans to appoint investment banks to advise on strategic options for the maker of stilettos for the stars, including a possible initial public offering valuing the company at about £500m." Affluent, Generous Young Women Lead Recovery (Marketing Daily) "When it comes to power-shopping our way toward economic recovery, a new report from American Express says well-heeled young women are leading the charge." Should luxury brands use twitter? (Luxury Society) "Luxury is an intricate web of emotions... can it be captured in 140 characters (and that too with a shortened link of some sort if the company is trying to drive some traffic to a specific…
Changes at the top for Holts (Globe and Mail) "Upscale fashion retailer Holt Renfrew & Co. has replaced its president Caryn Lerner with company insider Mark Derbyshire, making the leadership change just as it is gearing up for a more prosperous economic environment." Neiman Marcus key sales figure climbs in December (Business Week) "Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Inc. said Thursday that sales at its namesake
Holt Renfrew owner rumoured to be eyeing Barneys New York (National Post) "Barneys, an 86-year-old luxury retailer which has famously catered to a broad and often eclectic range of needs of high-end consumers, would fit well within Mr. Weston's portfolio and extend his buying power for his other luxury goods chains, including Holts, Selfridges in Britain and Brown Thomas in Ireland, analysts say." When cheap is


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5 Ingredients: Sweet Potato Chips With Black Olive Tapenade
by Dana Angelo White in 5-Ingredient Recipes, October 21, 2010Just in time for Halloween parties, we're cooking up this black-and-orange appetizer that's easy, tasty and festive. Best of all: there are only 5 ingredients.
Sweet Potato Chips With Olive Tapenade
Makes 40-50 appetizers
2 medium sweet potatoes, unpeeled
1/4 cup olive oil, divided
1 cup pitted black olives
3 scallions
1/4 cup oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, drained (4-6 pieces)
Nonstick cooking spray
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Sweet Potato
This root veggie is bursting with flavor, color and nutrients like fiber, beta-carotene, vitamin C and lycopene. Turning them into baked chips is virtually effortless, and the chips have less fat and sodium than the bagged (and fried) version.
Olive Oil
This heart-healthy ingredient does double duty. A light drizzle gives the chips crunch and it helps bring the flavors of the tapenade together. If you have a nice bottle of more flavorful extra-virgin oil in your kitchen, this is a good time to use it.
Black Olives
Olives are a pleasing combination of tender, plump and salty. We used a combination of pungent kalamatas along with mellow and sturdy canned black olives. Look for high-quality olives in cans or jars or check out the olive bar at your local gourmet shop or grocery store.
Scallions add freshness, color and a hint of onion flavor to the tapanade. If you can get them fresh at the farmers' market, you'll taste the difference. Reserve a piece of one and finely chop for a garnish.
Sundried Tomatoes
Add a touch of natural sweetness with chewy sun-dried tomatoes. Buy them packed in oil or try marinating your own.
Preheat oven to 400-degrees F and spray two large baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray. Thinly slice* sweet potatoes and lay out pieces in a single layer on the sheets. Using a silicone brush, coat each slice of sweet potato with olive oil (you'll use about 1 tablespoon). Season with salt and pepper and bake for 10-12 minutes per side or until golden (keep an eye on them to prevent burning). Remove from oven and set aside to cool.
To prepare the tapenade, place olives, scallions, sundried tomatoes and remaining oil in a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and pulse until well combined, but still slightly chunky. Top each piece of sweet potato with tapenade and serve.
*Tip – use a hand-held mandoline to make easy, even slices.
Nutrition Info (per piece):
Calories: 23 calories
Total Fat: 1 gram
Saturated Fat: 0 grams
Total Carbohydrate: 2 grams
Protein: 0.2 grams
Sodium: 30 milligrams
Cholesterol: 0 milligrams
Fiber: 0.25 gram
TELL US: What's your favorite healthy Halloween appetizer?
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »
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The Lusk Legacy Foundation was founded shortly after the untimely death of Pro Rider Jeremy Lusk. This tragedy brought to light the need for improved rider safety at all FMX events around the world, and the need to support the riders and their families in times of need.
For more about Jeremy, check out the Lusk Legacy Foundation .
The Lusk Legacy Foundation is dedicated to improving overall safety in the sport of freestyle motocross at both the professional and recreational levels by protecting the livelihoods of the riders and their families.
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Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born.
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Also, because we're a hardcore band with a melodic side we also gained the fans that go to the Warped Tour, you know those kids who wear the skater gear and shit, power to those kids.. (Laughs) I just knew that by serving a little bit of time on both of those tours would be totally beneficial and we're very excited to do it." The 5-piece underground band paid their dues within the Long Island, NY punk scene since they were young teens. Although they couldn't play any instruments when they first began they knew one thing for sure- It makes more sense to stand out like a sore thumb then to bend with the pack. Their theory was right and their unique brand of hardcore- punk was completely different then anything else that was going onat the time and as a result they were snatched up by Indy label Roadrunner Records. The now legendary Ross Robinson, (the guys responsible for Korn & Limb Bizkit) heard their demo and knew that Glassjaw was something special. He envisioned them as "The new post-millennial destroyers of Adidas rock," yes the music he helped create, Robinson now wanted to destroy and he knew that Glassjaw were the right cats for the job. "Ross is a legend," gleams the 23 year-old vocalist. "He is the greatest producer in rock history, I'll easily put Ross Robinson, who is one of my closest friends, he is a member of my family and a member in the band, I'll put him right next to George Martin who produced the Beatles records." Ross brings not only the best, but the worst out in me and that is what is needed to create a record that spans the spectrum of human emotion. A lot of bands will do a pop record and it's run of the mill, straight down the middle pop record and it sounds like this one plateau Uni- dimensional entity. It has no real emotion and the thing with us is that we do bare emotion from all the way to the left to all the way to the right of the spectrum. In order to sound that way we actually have to be exhibiting that in the studio and Ross gets us everywhere from happy to pissed to the most rabid and angry." Robinson earned such enourmous priase because of his uncanny ability to draw out deep inbedded emotions from the band and project it into their music. His knack for getting the best out of the band became a staple of the final product and by 2000 they released their debut, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Science" and Glassjaw's raw, intense emotional outlet would create a major buzz throughout Hardcore punk circles. Fans from all over the place quickly became believers in Glassjaw's music and would soon build a cult-like following. Things could have gone even further says Palumbo, if Roadrunner would have added them to more national tours. "We never toured half as much as we wanted to, I just wish we got to tour more in support of that last record," he said, "It's just a shame that we never had the opportunity to really get out there and tour." Although they were signed and had released their first record Palumbo and the boys still were not satisfied and felt wronged and cheated by their label. "We were on Roadrunner for a couple of years and Roadrunner was a joke, a fuckin' joke of a label. They are a miserable fuckin' cooperation that does not bend for their bands, does not give their bands anything and they're just terrible businessmen. They are a giant joke of a label. They had 2 cash cows, Slipknot and Nickelback, and every other project they had rode backseat to those bands and then the second that the new Slipknot record came out and didn't go quadruple Platinum in the first few hours it was released they fuckin' turned their backs on Slipknot. That label just wants instant gratification where it sells its units and that's a joke. You can't run a major corporation with that as your business strategy." This year, Glassjaw had finally left Roadrunner Records after 3 years of feeling slighted and unappreciated. They found a new home with the folks over at Warner Brothers Records and took the giant leap from an Indy to a major. "It's 2 totally different worlds," says the Glassjaw front man, "I, myself am not usually friendly towards major labels, I'm not really an advocate of underground bands with a sub-level mentality signing to majors, but if you find someplace that you feel at home then do it.. If you find a label where you can call home and not compromise any of your art or compromise any of your integrity and never have to give in to any 'Big-Label-Bullshit' then take advantage of it and do it. We managed to find a spot where we call home right now.. Warner Brothers feels like fuckin' home to us." Their Warner Brothers debut, "Worship and Tribute" is a unique post hardcore hybrid with a tight original sound that is expected to bridge the gap between all genres of hard rock music. Their sound is blunt and in-your-face, yet at times, soothing and calm; imagine Fugazi meets Elvis Costello or Bowe meets The Deftones. Their influences are many and this record is a statement to pay tribute to all of those they worshiped throughout their lives. "You are only a sum of all of your influences and that's what we are," Palumbo says. "Look, I think that we're original and I think that what we're doing is different and that's something I always knew we had on our side, but no matter how original you are you're still just a sum of your influences." Glassjaw falls under a new breed of bands that pay homage to the traditional old-school NYHC (New York Hard Core) and punk as well as nu-metal and emocore. Thier music is a roller coaster ride of emotions and rhythms that will have you dizzy mid way through the record. Although "Worship and Tribute" carries an Indy aesthetic songs like "Pink Roses," "Ape Dos Mil," "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss" and "Must've Run All Day" are much more complex and sophisticated than "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Science." This record sets aside negativity tackling more positive subject matter and certainly logs their growth as if in a journal. "We've grown tremendously since that first record," Palumbo explains, "It's not like we did that first record when we were 30 and now we're 35.. We did that first record when I was 19 when we started writing it and I'm 23 now. It's like, imagine 4 years of your life gone by and it wasn't just any 4 random years, this was the 4 years where you get shaped who I am as a human being and I became an adult." "The last record was like, 'everything is bad, everything is bad. 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Posted By Ashraf On December 20, 2011 @ 9:03 PM In Android,General Tech,Mobile Mania,Windows Phone | 1 Comment
In what can be considered another indirect blow [2] to Android, today a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled Motorola Mobility has violated a Microsoft patent (U.S. Patent No. 6,370,566) that deals with "generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device".
While the patent in question definitely appears to be more significant than the one HTC violated [2], this particular ruling is only the first step in the whole process. In other words, this ruling is not final (read: no bans on any Motorola devices, yet) and it will be reviewed by the full trade commission before it is enforced.
Also worth mentioning is while Motorola was found to violate '566, it was found Motorola did not violate six other patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,758,352, U.S. Patent No. 6,826,762, U.S. Patent No. 6,909,910, U.S. Patent No. 7,644,376, U.S. Patent No. 5,664,133, and U.S. Patent No. 6,578,054. Plus Motorola and Microsoft are locked in a war of over 50 patents disputes in USA and Germany. So Microsoft may have won a skirmish, but the battle – and war – is far from over.
Since this ruling is not final I doubt Motorola will issue any official statement. However, one thing is clear: The sharks are aiming for the 'droid jugular. This particular ruling affects Google more directly than other anti-Android rulings because it literally hits Google's wallet (no pun intended): Google is in the process of purchasing Motorola Mobility, remember?
Feel free to discuss in the comments [3] below.
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The intended meaning of the term civil religion often varies according to whether one is a sociologist of religion or a professional political commentator. The following discussion includes both perspectives followed by a brief history of the concept.
Within the contexts of the monotheistic, prophetic, revealed faiths, civil religion can be problematic from a theological perspective. Being identified with a political culture and a leadership hierarchy of an existing society, civil religion's priestly role, can interfere with the prophetic mission of a religious faith. This has been the challenge religion faces upon entering the public sphere throughout all ages and cultures. At times of national crisis civil religion commonly renews itself by becoming a platform for rebuking the sins of a people or its institutions, and by calling on citizens to be true to the nation's deeper values.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau coined the term in chapter 8, book 4 of The Social Contract (1762), to describe what he regarded as the moral and spiritual foundation essential for any modern society. For Rousseau, civil religion was intended simply as a form of social cement, helping to unify the state by providing it with sacred authority. In his book, Rousseau outlines the simple dogmas of the civil religion:
Italian Historian Emilio Gentile has studied the roots and development of the concept and proposed a division of two types of religions of politics: a civil religion and a Political religion.[5]
In the sociology of religion, civil religion is the folk religion of a nation or a political culture.
Civil religion stands somewhat above folk religion in its social and political status, since by definition it suffuses an entire society, or at least a segment of a society; and is often practiced by leaders within that society. On the other hand, it is somewhat less than an establishment of religion, since established churches have official clergy and a relatively fixed and formal relationship with the government that establishes them. Civil religion is usually practiced by political leaders who are laypeople and whose leadership is not specifically spiritual.
Such civil religion encompasses such things as:
and similar religious or quasi-religious practices.
Professional commentators on political and social matters writing in newspapers and magazines sometimes use the term civil religion or civic religion to refer to ritual expressions of patriotism of a sort practiced in all countries, not always including religion in the conventional sense of the word.
Although "God" is not mentioned in the Constitution of the United States of America, mention is specifically made of "Nature's God" in the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence. [6]
Among such practices are the following:
These two conceptions (sociological and political) of civil religion substantially overlap. In Britain, where church and state are constitutionally joined, the monarch's coronation is an elaborate religious rite celebrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In France, secular ceremonies are separated from religious observances to a greater degree than in most countries. In the United States of America, a president being inaugurated is told by the Constitution to choose between saying "I do solemnly swear..." (customarily followed by "so help me God", although those words are not Constitutionally required) and saying "I do solemnly affirm..." (in which latter case no mention of God would be expected).
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Practically all the ancient and prehistoric reigns suffused politics with religion. Often the leaders, such as the Pharaoh or the Chinese Emperor were considered manifestations of a Divinity. Tribal world-view was often Pantheistic, the tribe being an extension of its surrounding nature and the leaders having roles and symbols derived from the animal hierarchy and significant natural phenomena (such as storm).
The religion of the Athenian polis was a secular polytheism focused on the Olympian Gods and was celebrated in the civic festivals. Religion was a matter of state and the Athenian Ecclesia deliberated on matters of religion. Atheism and the introduction of foreign gods were forbidden in Athens and punishable by death. Socrates was charged, tried, found guilty and condemned to death by drinking hemlock by the Athenian ecclesia. The charge was that he worshipped gods other than those sanctioned by the polis.
Rome also had a civil religion, whose first Emperor Augustus officially attempted to revive the dutiful practice of Classical paganism. Greek and Roman religion were essentially local in character; the Roman Empire attempted to unite its disparate territories by inculcating an ideal of Roman piety, and by a syncretistic identifying of the gods of conquered territories with the Greek and Roman pantheon. In this campaign, Augustus erected monuments such as the Ara Pacis, the Altar of Peace, showing the Emperor and his family worshiping the gods. He also encouraged the publication of works such as Virgil's Æneid, which depicted "pious Æneas", the legendary ancestor of Rome, as a role model for Roman religiosity. Roman historians such as Livy told tales of early Romans as morally improving stories of military prowess and civic virtue. The Roman civil religion later became centered on the person of the Emperor through the imperial cult, the worship of the genius of the Emperor.[7]
The phrase "civil religion" was first discussed extensively by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his 1762 treatise The Social Contract (although this is a translation since Rousseau wrote in French). As typically interpreted, Rousseau defined "civil religion" as a group of religious beliefs he believed to be universal, and which he believed governments had a right to uphold and maintain: belief in a deity; belief in an afterlife in which virtue is rewarded and vice punished; and belief in religious tolerance. Beyond that, Rousseau affirmed that individuals' religious opinions should be beyond the reach of governments.
In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars such as Robert N. Bellah and Martin E. Marty studied civil religion as a cultural phenomenon, attempting to identify the actual tenets of civil religion in the United States of America, or to study civil religion as a phenomenon of cultural anthropology. Within this American context, Marty wrote that Americans approved of "religion in general" without being particularly concerned about the content of that faith, and attempted to distinguish "priestly" and "prophetic" roles within the practice of American civil religion, which he preferred to call the public theology.[8] In "Civil Religion in America," a 1967 essay, Bellah wrote that civil religion in its priestly sense is "an institutionalized collection of sacred beliefs about the American nation." Bellah describes the prophetic role of civil religion as challenging "national self-worship" and calling for "the subordination of the nation to ethical principles that transcend it in terms of which it should be judged."[9] Bellah identified the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement as three decisive historical events that impacted the content and imagery of civil religion in the United States.
The application of the concept of civil religion to the United States was in large part the work of sociologist Robert Bellah. He identified an elaborate system of practices and beliefs arising from America's unique historic experience and religiosity. Civil Religion in the U.S. was originally Protestant but brought in Catholics and Jews after World War II. Having no association with any religious sect, Civil religion was been used in the 1960s to justify civil rights legislation. Americans ever since the colonial era talk of their obligation both collective and individual to carry out God's will on earth. George Washington was a sort of high priest, and the documents of the Founding Fathers have been treated as almost sacred texts. With the Civil War, says Bellah, came a new theme of death, sacrifice and rebirth, as expressed through Memorial Day rituals. Unlike France, the American civil religion was never anticlerical or militantly secular.[10]
The United States of America, while originally developing out of a group of British colonies, was settled in part by religious dissenters from the established Church of England, who desired a civil society founded on a different religious vision. Other religious traditions were strongly represented in areas eventually incorporated into the US (such as former Spanish, French, and Russian colonies and Mexican territory), through significant immigration of diverse populations, and the continual presence of indigenous Native American groups. Consequently, there has never been a national church in the United States and individual state churches have not existed in the United States since the early nineteenth century. Religious denominations compete with one another for allegiance in the public sphere. Secularism and agnosticism are also publicly legitimated and widespread. These facts have made public displays of religious piety by political leaders important to a large sector of the population; lacking an established church, they may seek public assurance of those leaders' religious beliefs or general sense of moral conviction.
This assertive civil religion of the United States is an occasional cause of political friction between the U.S. and its allies in Europe, where (the literally religious form of) civil religion is less extreme. In the United States, civil religion is often invoked under the name of "Judeo-Christian tradition", a phrase originally intended to be maximally inclusive of the several monotheisms practiced in the United States, assuming that these faiths all worship the same God and share the same values. This assumption tends to dilute the essence of both Judaism and Christianity; recognition of this fact, and the increasing religious diversity of the United States, make this phrase less heard now than it once was, though it is far from extinct. Some scholars have argued that the American flag can be seen as a main totem of a national cult.[11] Arguing against mob violence and lynching, Abraham Lincoln declared in his 1838 Lyceum speech that the Constitution and the laws of the United States ought to become the 'political religion' of each American.[12]
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