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Champneys Tring
- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in lobby, and free parking
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- 91 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool
- 2 outdoor tennis courts
- Terrace
- Daily housekeeping
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- Rex Cinema (4 mi / 6.5 km)
- Ashridge Golf Club (6.1 mi / 9.7 km)
- Chesham and Leyhill Golf Club (6.8 mi / 10.9 km)
- Chartridge Park Golf Club (7.1 mi / 11.4 km)
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- This hotel has 91 rooms
- Check-in time starts at 5 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
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- Children (16 years old and younger) not allowed
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free self parking
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- Free buffet breakfast
- Restaurant
- Indoor pool
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis courts 2
- Full-service spa
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Champneys Tring has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, sports massages, and Thai massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, and reflexology.
DiningOnsite venue - This restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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An examination of the books owned by noblewomen from the Valois courts reveals how significantly they contributed to the cultural and spiritual character of the period. They were responsible for commissioning a vast number of manuscripts, some of which were aesthetically equal to the books made for the dukes and kings. In fact, certain manuscripts now considered the most lavish and important from this period belonged to women. These women often married into noble families from regions far from their native lands. When they arrived at their new homes, they brought their own customs, knowledge of artistic styles, and aesthetic sensibilities, which affected book production in western Europe. Appendices 1-7 show the complexity of relationships between nobles from Burgundy, France, Spain and England for eleven generations, and include all of the individuals discussed in this dissertation. These charts reveal the matrilineal connections between generations and include many women who do not appear on ancestral charts in other studies of the late medieval nobility in northern Europe. As demonstrated in the charts, marriages could result in the solidification of certain regions within a generation, causing genealogical ramifications in subsequent generations. This ancestral web shows the mobility of women in western Europe in the late Middle Ages, resulting in their desire to preserve some of their childhood traditions through commissions of devotional manuscripts. This interactive nature of manuscripts and the multiple ways in which they were used by women of the Valois courts is central to this study. I adhere to the idea that devotional manuscripts used by these women must be studied within the context for which they were made and in which they were used. At first glance, devotional manuscripts appear to be just that, books of prayers. On further examination, it is clear that they were multifunctional and could express issues that applied to many aspects of a noblewoman's life. This dissertation considers book collections of late medieval noblewomen and the ways in which they used their private devotional manuscripts as vehicles for self-definition, in order to preserve the devotional and cultural traditions of their families.
This dissertation analyzes Greco-Roman mythological subjects as a thematic subset of French Neoclassical painting between 1780 and 1825. This style and time period are better known for moralizing and heroic subjects from Roman history and Napoleonic conquest, while amorous and fantastical mythic subjects have remained marginalized. By highlighting this thematic subset, however, my dissertation emphasizes the complementarities between mythological subjects and the more widely studied themes of virtuous action within French Neoclassical painting in particular, as well as continuities with traditions and new directions in French painting more generally. I contextualize paintings by Jacques-Louis David, Anne-Louis Girodet, Antoine-Jean Gros, Pierre Gu érin, and Jean-Baptiste Regnault, as well as the commissioning and purchasing practices of the Director of King's Buildings, the comte d' Angiviller, within contemporaneous art theory, criticism, and mythography to illuminate thematic trends and cultural contexts for the reception of mythic painting. From these sources, I propose new interpretations of paintings depicting the Deucalion flood, Orpheus, Aurora, Morpheus, Ariadne, and Mars, as well as the poet Sappho. My dissertation is divided into thematic chapters analyzing myth as a cultural constant for exhibition, Ovid's illustrated Metamorphoses, otherworldly perfection in superhuman narratives and bodies, myth's embodiment of creative inspiration, and myth as a forum for legacy formation. French Neoclassical painters' utilization of fanciful narratives from Greek mythology demonstrates continued interest in Rococo subjects as well as the broadening of thematic considerations that would be paramount among Romantics. My dissertation, by considering Neoclassicizing mythologies as a group constituting a trend, demonstrates that such paintings are not isolated anomalies, but rather integrated threads in the art historical fabric, bound to what came before as well as to what would follow. This consideration of mythological paintings as a poetic subset of Neoclassicism promotes a more organic view of French painting; by presenting them as hybrids, at once Rococo (in their ambiguity and eroticism), Neoclassical (in their style and antique characters), and Romantic (in their focus on passions and creative processes of the human mind), my dissertation identifies continuities within French narrative painting from the eighteenth into the nineteenth centuries.
Up to now, the early decades of nineteenth-century photography have been narrated in terms of "great" individual achievements and have tended to characterize the histories of photography in England and France as separate but parallel chronological paths. Equally, scholars have usually split their object of study between two opposite disciplines: that of science and that of art. I propose instead a lateral approach that considers the ways in which both photography and individual photographers interconnected within an expanded network of international cultural forces, primarily commerce, technology, science, and art. I aim to do this through a close study of the career of Antoine-François-Jean Claudet (1797-1867), a French-born photographer operating a daguerreotype portrait studio in London from the early 1840s to the late 1860s. As a commercial photographer interested in improving the technical as well as aesthetic possibilities of photography, as a prolific writer on the medium, and as a Frenchman living in England constantly in communication with photographers and scientists on both sides of the English Channel, Claudet intersected with these cultural forces more directly than many of his contemporaries. By examining his pursuits laterally, across the multiple communities that they traversed in his time, this study will argue that a career like Claudet's is integral to any substantial understanding of the photographic medium's first decades, while also making a vital addition to how the history of photography is usually figured, one which acknowledges connection and collaboration as key to understanding more accurately the period of photography's invention and early development. In order to account for Claudet's connective role as a photographic figure, I will look at the early decades of photographic history as a network of dialogues in the midst of an expanded web of inseparable cultural forces. Writing Claudet's career as dialogue allows for a re-picturing of photography's development as a process of successes and failures, knowns and unknowns, that produced a range of cross-disciplinary conversations. If we consider these correspondences as the latent images of photographic history, this approach is itself a photographic one. It exposes and then "develops out" these latent conversations.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Eliel Saarinen, Richard Neutra, and Frank Lloyd Wright each designed plans for real and imagined American cities. Saarinen's Chicago and Detroit plans of 1923-1924, Neutra's Rush City Reformed of 1926, and Wright's Broadacre City of 1935 are stylistically unique but all contain a similar fascination with hypothetical transportation networks and high-speed expansion that reflect a common relationship to the development of urban planning as a discrete field in Berlin and Vienna around 1910. This dissertation will highlight several features of turn-of-the-century Central European planning that played an outsize role in the development of these visionary responses to machine-age American urbanism, including suburban extension and infrastructure projects, municipal planning exhibitions, and a model of metropolitan expansion propagated by Otto Wagner. It will also root Saarinen's, Neutra's, and Wright's plans in their immediate context of interwar Chicago and Los Angeles, where the effects of the car and associated changes to the cityscape provided a rich backdrop for futuristic design. Finally, the dissertation will examine what these urban plans reveal about the perceptions of the new American car culture among modern architects.
Around the mid seventeenth century paintings of individual angels became popular in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain (essentially present-day Mexico and Central America) and the viceroyalty of Peru (originally most of South America excluding Brazil). However, the names and representations of individual angels found across the Spanish Empire do not correspond to the few narratives that appear in the Bible, which only mentions the angels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael by name. Some of these series of paintings include angels labeled as Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Uriel, who are mentioned in Jewish texts such as the Talmud and the Cabala, as well as other texts written around the first century but considered apocryphal or non-canonical by the Catholic Church, such as the Book of Enoch. Although these images were relatively popular in Spain and Mexico, their representation was far more abundant in South America. This project investigates the multiple theological sources of angel veneration in the early modern period in Italy and Spain. Tracing these literary sources illustrates how the Jesuits, supporters of the angelic cult, found inspiration in mystic Jewish tradition for their religious ideas, around the same time that Jews were being exiled or convicted across the Spanish Empire. This investigation also documents and compares the variants of angelic representation in Spain and the Americas. Pointing out their commonalities and differences demonstrates the creativity of the artistic circles of each viceroyalty in developing particular styles and trends based on the exposure to similar European sources but adapting them to different local tastes and necessities. As other scholars have suggested, the existence of many series of paintings of apocryphal angels in the Americas attests to Catholicism's use of these images as a cross-cultural tool to evangelize the Indians in the Spanish dominions by making connections between Christianity and indigenous religious belief. I suggest that these symbols, originally belonging to the conquerors, gradually became symbols of hispanicized American societies, and in Peru, of the hispanicized Indian nobility. The angels as protectors of territories also embodied an early form of local pride, which would later evolve into national pride and eventually lead to independence from Spain. Through this dissertation, I add a more complex reading of these paintings that goes beyond the scope of the arts of resistance and the amalgamation of Judaic, Christian, and indigenous religious elements. This study thus reveals a much more complex and layered syncretic product that reflects the adoption and re-adaptation of these symbols by Spanish-American colonial society.
This dissertation examines the critical role that the College Art Association (CAA) played in the early development of art history and studio art education as academic disciplines in U.S. colleges and universities. Although CAA initiated a variety of projects after its inception in 1911, this study focuses on the association's journals, specifically the Bulletin of the College Art Association, The Art Bulletin, Parnassus, and College Art Journal. Serving as journals of record for art and/or art history, these publications functioned not only to provide an ongoing exchange of ideas related to the visual arts in higher education, but also to validate authorities and scholars, particularly art historians, and their academic institutions. As a result, certain individuals and schools became prominent in the visual arts. My study therefore addresses not only the histories of art history and studio art, but also the relationship between CAA and its supporting institutions. Another issue in my dissertation is the rapport between CAA's two main constituents: the art historians and the artist-teachers. While they united to form CAA in 1911 to promote the visual arts in colleges and universities, the relationship between the two disciplines was often uneasy. Although CAA was established primarily by artist-teachers, the organization was taken over in the mid-1920s by art historians who controlled the journals. By the early 1940s the conflict erupted to such an extent that the art historians tried to sever ties, albeit unsuccessfully, with the artists. CAA was also affected by economics and politics of the 1930s. During the Great Depression the association struggled financially and adopted questionable policies to maintain publication of its primary journal, The Art Bulletin. With the influx of European émigrés, many CAA members also wanted the association to assume a more nationalist identity. In many respects my dissertation demonstrates that CAA was a changing social organization whose identity was at times unstable from the 1910s through World War II, as it was affected by internal conflicts and larger sociopolitical issues.
Organized chronologically in four chapters, this dissertation provides a broad-based account of the cultural transfers between Paris and Vienna at a time of increased artistic mobility. Focusing on the period between the 1873 World Exposition in Vienna and the 1937 Exposition of Austrian Art in Paris, the study seeks to elucidate what specific works of art were transferred from one cultural region into the other, and how they were appropriated within different regimes of value. While Paris managed to establish itself as the capital of the modern art market with exports on a large scale, Vienna faced tremendous difficulties in its attempt to become a major player in the European art world. How the cultural optimism before the Vienna World Exposition turned into a deep and sustained economic depression is examined in chapter one. Consequently, a number of Austrian artists decided to seek their fortune in Paris where the powerful art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer managed some of their careers. Chapter two shows how the grandes machines, theatrically presented and toured internationally by dealers, became the target of criticism. While the Vienna Secession intensified contacts to French artists, dealers, and collectors, intimate displays and clear narratives were able to disguise the commercial character of its shows. The role of Carl Moll for the importation of French modernism is considered in chapter three. Not only did he serve as director of the Galerie Miethke but was also instrumental in the foundation of a museum of modern art in Vienna. The study closes with a discussion of the impressive Exposition of Austrian Art at the Jeu de Paume which is exemplary for the French government's active foreign cultural politics after World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. A powerful gallery-system, able to implement and sustain Austrian art on foreign markets, never developed in Vienna where private patronage and artists associations continued to play a much more significant role.
This dissertation explores how early modern Russian identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian identity. Muscovite princes, seeking to rebuild Moscow's cityscape in a grander style, imported a large community of architects, engineers, stonemasons, and statesmen from Lombardy, the Veneto, and Rome. At least six architects, and an unknown number of masons, from Italy worked in Muscovy during these years, and their presence indelibly changed the face of Russian architecture and culture. The Muscovite princes sought to recreate the cityscape of Moscow as a symbol of the power gained when Ivan III freed his people from Mongol control and began consolidating Russian lands into an emerging, unified state. Furthermore, with the collapse of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, Muscovy declared itself capital of Orthodox Christendom, casting its authority across the Russian lands. Accordingly on the ascent, Muscovy actively sought to define its emerging sense of national identity in a new architectural language; it deliberately looked to the traditions of Medieval and Renaissance Italy to assist in this process. The resulting hybrid architecture was a combination of the revered architectural traditions of medieval Kiev and Novgorod with the Western Renaissance, all overlaid with a fervent Byzantine theological persuasion. Thus, Muscovy's use of foreign architects is emphatically not indicative of a deference to a "superior" West or of a desire to become or appear Western, as some older scholarship implies. Instead, it reveals the ingenuity of a culture on the verge of statehood, one that seems to have understood that artistic forms could be transferred and "repurposed."
The full extent of the long-lasting presence of the Italian Renaissance in colonial Lima has never been explored. This dissertation asserts that the Italian impact on painting in colonial Lima was connected to the authority of Rome, the center of the Catholic Church, and the artistic prestige of Italy in the culture of the sixteenth century. The Italian influence will be made evident through a survey of the careers of three Italian painters, Bernardo Bitti (1548-1610), Mateo Pérez de Alesio (1547-1616), and Angelino Medoro (1567-1631), who traveled to Lima in the end of the sixteenth century and went on to become the city's most successful and influential artists. Connections between the New World and Italy are to be expected owing to the reliance on Italian models in Spain itself throughout the sixteenth century. However, profound Italian influence is unique to the viceroyalty of Peru, and, it is particularly concentrated in Lima in comparison to Latin America as a whole. Through detailed examinations of the extant paintings of Bitti, Alesio, and Medoro, as well as documents of their destroyed work, a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of their styles and their contributions is offered here. Their impact is further evident in the work of students and followers. A number of South American artists of the following generation continued to draw on Italianate forms: for example, Gregorio Gamarra trained with Bitti and perpetuated that artist's distinctive elegant Mannerism. Italian influences were continued, with artists such Francisco Bejarano, an apprentice to Alesio, and Luis de Riano, who worked with Medoro. Numerous scholars have noted the prominence of Italianate forms and styles in South America, but they generally mention it as an aside or examine only isolated aspects of that influence. This scholarship includes the beginning of a map and timeline of Italian painters working in Peru, but it is by no means comprehensive and lacks any in-depth analysis of works of art. This dissertation is an in-depth consideration of the oeuvres of these Italian transplants as well as an assessment of the meaning and consequences of their presence in colonial Peru.
This dissertation reconstructs key moments in the history of video-based art in France from the late 1960s to the present day, focusing on the changing relationship between the viewer and the screen, as tested by artists using television, video and the projected image. This study examines the relationship between art and politics by considering how cultural policy along with socio-economical and techno-political frameworks have affected the concept of an ideal viewer. I argue that in France, from the late 1960s to today, the idea of spectatorship changes from a politicized subject who receives a clear message to an autonomous participant invited to interact with the screen as interface, in increasingly apolitical projects. Little known in France and rarely addressed in Anglophone scholarship, the history of French video-based art, and of its politics of spectatorship, constitutes an alternative narrative that departs from the dominant Anglo-American model, and suggests a different understanding of what constitutes a socio-politically informed art practice. Accordingly, this research reconsiders the little-known beginnings of video in France in the late 1960s and 1970s, examining the work produced by militant feminist collectives such as Video Out and Les Insoumuses, and the development of a sociological approach to video, focusing on Fred Forest. It then explains a shift that occurred in the late 1970s and 1980s, when video lost its socio-political edge and was guided by formal concerns, here represented by Robert Cahen and Thierry Kuntzel. This change accompanies the institutionalization of video as Video Art, which was inspired theoretically by semiology and postmodernism, and formally by the medium-based orientation of early US video. Finally, I turn to recent works from the 1990s to today: Matthieu Laurette and three artists associated with Relational Aesthetics (Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno). I argue that the criticism of Relational Aesthetics by Anglo-American scholars and critics rightly points out the lack of explicit socio-political engagement in these practices, but overlooks the specificities of the French context and the critical dimension of these works that aimed to make the spectator conscious of his or her position as viewer in relation to spectacle.


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E.L.F. Studio Cool Bronzer
65 reviews
81% would repurchase
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INGREDIENTSMica, Talk, Magnesium Myristate, Zinc Stearate, Titanium Dioxide, Octyldodecanol, Dimethicone, Silica, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Boron Nitride. MAY CONTAIN: Iron Oxides (CI 77491 CI 77492 CI 77499), D&C Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), FD&C Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Red No.40 Lake (CI 16035).
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Grey
Great red-based bronzer. Doesn't make me look orange!! Which is exactly what I was looking for. So affordable. Love how you can use the colours separately too for contouring, blush, highlight etc and then swirl all together and it gives a nice deep bronze. Great for using over my neck and decolletage as well because you only need a tiny amount, you do have to use a very light hand with this or it could be very VERY dark and overkill for fairer skin types. Nothing will beat my NARS Laguna - but this is so awesome for the price.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
This truly is a wonderful product. Everything about this bronzer is perfect. I have tried many bronzers from top brands like chanel and nars and this one out performs them all and for $3 dollars you can not go wrong. I use the darkest shade to contour my cheek bones. Then I use the large e.l.f complexion brush(another amazing e.l.f product) and blend all shades all over my face. What I love most about this bronzer is how Matte it is. No shimmer just perfect color. You can use the white shade for your T-zone to highlight and it even goes on nicely as an eyeshadow. I use the light brown shade to contour my nose for a perfect flawless look.
I use it thoughout the day and it takes away the shine. I finish it off with Chanel's poudre douce in 40 lilas for a silky bronzing look. This is definetly an everyday product.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
This is the best bronzer/blush I have ever found for fair skin (I am very fair and yellow undertoned). This is a red based bronze with no orange and the best thing is I can use this is a full face palette - the darker brown on the eyes, the bronzer to blend out with some eyeliner and mascara is the perfect daytime eye on me, the white as a brow bone/cheek bone highlight, the bronze and the white swirled together makes the perfect contour on me and then the pale rosy peach pink blush on the cheeks. I love that the deep brown and pink blush in this is identical to the blush/bronzer duo in 'turks and caicos' except they are matte and don't have the horrible golden glitter that that one had. I am very impressed by this product and it will be come a go-to for me I just know I should buy a back-up now!
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Well hallelujah, I've FINALLY found a great contour powder for my pale skin *squeal!!*
For reference, I'm almost 31y/o with fair and mostly neutral (slightly warm) undertones (around N/NC10-13ish ATM) My skin is also oily and acne/clog-prone. I have brown hair & eyes and my "season" I *think* is considered a Clear Winter.
I've always felt like contouring can really add something special to a full face of makeup, but never could find my *perfect* one. Before finding this $3 ELF gem I'd previously been using L'Oreal True Match pressed powder in C7/Nut Brown (which I never would have thought to purchase on my own but saw several youtubers using it successfully) - and while that worked ok, it was a *tad* too dark for me so therefore required a lot of blending into my pale skin.
Everything else I tried either didn't look right (too warm, too cool) OR, broke me out. (NYX Taupe, Chanel Notorious, & NYC Sunny are a few of these examples)
Not long ago I was placing a drugstore.com order and needed to add something for $2 and some change to get free shipping. I placed this bronzer in my cart (on a total whim without reading reviews!) for $3, got it home and it's perfection. I think I've used it everyday since lol
I typically use a large/fluffy blush brush for applying contour powders or bronzers but this specific one I've been applying a little differently, using ELF's Studio Blush Brush. It's not big and fluffy like you'd expect a blush brush to be, it's actually a little thin and tapered(but very soft!).
So I've been lightly swirling that brush through the middle of this powder (making sure to catch all 4 shades) dab it on to the areas of my face that I want to contour, then go back with a kabuki brush and blend those "dabbed" areas out (if that makes sense? lol ;D) -It works like a charm!
As you can see in the photos others have posted above, this bronzer is one that contains 4 shades that are all completely, 100% matte. (not easy to find in a drugstore bronzer) There's a stark white, a medium rosy pink, a light bronzer shade (almost like a light brown) and a darker bronzer shade (like a med-dark brown).
The packaging is sleek (as all ELF Studio products are) - In the medium size black compact similar to NARS.
I really can not think of anything wrong with this bronzer. The price is right, the colors are pigmented yet not too pigmented or difficult to work with, it does not break out my finicky skin, and provides that "sculpted" look that I've been craving :)
The only person I wouldn't recommend this to would be someone looking for a bronzer that is going to "brighten" up their complexion. I don't have this issue as I'm a highlighter freak with oily skin-I'm always lookin "glowy" (lol ;D) But some others do want their bronzer to give a "glow" or "sunkissed look". Since this is matte, it will not give that kind of finish. I'd recommend the Golden or Warm bronzers from the ELF, NYC Coney Island Glow, or Physicians Formula Happy Booster Bronzers as these are my favorite NON-matte, inexpensive bronzers :)
I know a GREAT many of us struggle to find that perfect contour shade that can double as a bronzer and if you're someone out there who's still struggling to find it ya gotta give this a try, for $3 it's awesome. I do highly recommend and would certainly repurchase. 5 lippies well deserved ELF :)
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Although this is a bronzer, I love using it as an eyeshadow. The colors area really matte which is great for contouring since it would look more natural than using a shimmery one.
Pigmented so be careful, start with a small amount only and buildup
It would take a long time to hit pan
You get a blush and a highlighter so really nice
Very, very cheap
Nice packaging, like NARS
Staying power is REALLY GOOD. I have oily skin but this doesn't come off or melt down. Also, it's not chalky on the face
The mirror of mine is loose. It's just taped using a double sided tape. How "nice" is that! :(
The blush has a brownish tone to it, so if you like a "fresh" pink blush, don't use it
You have to be very careful in applying this and buildup the color as you go. It would look muddy if you're not careful
If you're looking for a cheap contour powder, this one is really good. But as I said, always be careful when using it and buildup the color. Don't apply too much right away. It's blendable, but looks muddy when you apply too much at once.
I'm not sure if I would buy it again. Pricewise and considering how long it would take to empty a pan, it's a great buy. But I'm someone who is always on the look to try new products so maybe I won't buy it again. But it's definitely something I would recommend.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Overall: Good for contouring and correcting foundation that is too light for you.
I was looking for a product to contour my cheeks and jawline and this is perfect! Have to blend it really well so it does not look like a bruise, but it is pigmented and if you wear foundation it blends well. Love that it is matte, no shimmer in it so it is best for contouring. I love the fact that it has 4 colours, as this means you can pick which shades to pick up on your brush depending on how tanned your face is or how much your tan has faded. For example I do not mix the white and pink when my tan is really dark but I mix in the white when my skin is lighter. I mix in the pink when I want to look more rosy than edgy.
It is so cheap and good and has lasted me more more than a year. I bought both the Cool and Warm and honestly have not touched the Warm one.
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Q.U.B.E. begins without preface: you're suddenly face-down on a white platform, in a white room, wearing a pair of awesome black-and-white gloves. That's it. There isn't a story to Q.U.B.E. aside from what's filled in by the vast recesses of your own imagination. Personally, this means that upon finishing a puzzle, I hear a disembodied, robotic female voice chastise me for being dumb, slow and/or fat. Again, we're not going to psychoanalyze anyone here (that said, Portal comparisons are inevitable, and completely fair.)
The puzzles in Q.U.B.E. start out simple, allowing you to figure out the controls and strategy entirely on your own -- a mechanic I thoroughly enjoy -- and get progressively more difficult. The tests are satisfying, so much so that at one point I involuntarily yelled, "I'm a [Expletive deleted - Ed.] genius." I was, however, driven to search the Internet for a solution just once, only to discover that I'd known what to do the entire time. Suffice it to say that patience is a must in many of Q.U.B.E.'s later puzzles.
Q.U.B.E. has three distinct tones within the same testing environment: an initial white, sterile section; a crushingly dark, glowing-block area; and a dilapidated-laboratory run. Over the course of the campaign, simple blocks and spheres evolve into laser beams and magnet-controlled cubes -- the last of which I found more annoying than fun -- but it's an innovative form of gameplay nonetheless. Eventually, a choose-your-own method of cube placement offers more control and, at times, more of a challenge.
The giddy joy of solving a puzzle never gets old, although something about Q.U.B.E. made me question the nature of my joy. When I first rolled that neon green sphere into the correct-colored pools of light to unlock the next level, I felt as if I could wag my tail in delight and Master Pavlov would hand me a treat. That's the nature of Q.U.B.E. -- the tools are so basic that if you take a second to think about what you're really doing, you may feel a tad silly for enjoying a room of blocks so much. But this is coming from someone who still plays with Legos and reads Harry Potter religiously, so the point may simply be don't think about what you're doing, and just enjoy your time.
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Overall, Q.U.B.E. isn't on par with Portal 2, but it offers a delightful on-screen Rubik's Cube to puzzle-lovers and perfectionists everywhere -- maybe just don't tell anyone you played with blocks all day.
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My father wouldn't let me mail order the Sea-Monkeys, but one time during a road trip, we stopped at a gas station/rshort order cafe/gift shop and I saw one of the "deluxe" kits. Seeing that the thing actually existed, my father allowed the purchase. It came with the "Ocean View" aquarium with the custom "night viewing" lamp. That turned out to be pretty cool in its own kitchy way. The "aquarium" was a cleverly molded single piece container that held maybe 12 ounces. Six convex "lenses" were molded into the clear material that would magnify whatever was caught in the fields of view. The bottom was shaped like a shallow volcano and kinda' dipped at the other end. (Originally, the undeside was painted to make the "sea bottom" opaque. Newer versions of the "tank" appear to be separate pieces, a "tank" and a "base" that are glued together. But in the 70s, it was single piece construction and, to me, a superior design.) The "lamp" was a firm fitting cover with a compartment for 2 AA batteries and an incandescent lamp and a switch. (I wonder if they've switched to a solid state LED now?)
The booklet was the coolest part. Printed in an insanely small font, I think it took me nearly an hour to read it cover to cover. Of course, it gave you the basics for priming the water, a packet that neutralized the harsh chemicals and introduce the proper salt balance. A second that contained the "suspended animation" eggs, a third that sealed the food and a fourth that contained "vitamins" and other nutritional additives. Anyway, the booklet actually discussed the "monkeys" from a legit scientific view, giving their Latin name and providing details about their method of "suspended animation", allowing the eggs to survive years if properly dry.
Of course, the critters themselves were NOTHING like the anthromorphized illustrations. That didn't bother me as much as their miniscule size! No wonder the "tank" had lenses; you needed them just to catch a glimpse at the wee buggers. Plus, they were so ghostly pale. That was one of the purposes of the food "additive". It supposedly introduced something that would, when used properly, turn their shells slightly pink.
I think I kept mine alive for nearly half a year. But we went on a trip during the warmer months and too much water evaporated, consentrating the salt levels too much. According to the booklet, if I were to let all the water evaporate, I could then add fresh water and new "monkies" could have hatched, provided the first generation laid eggs. I don't think mine answered the "call of nature" since I didn't see what appeared to be eggs when I let the "tank" dry out.
I see the guy who marketed "sea monkeys" went on to package a new "instant pet", Triops, a critter similar in form to a horseshoe crab, small but several times larger than the "sea monkeys" and possessing a natural colorization that allows one to see the crustaceans without a bloody microscope. They grow to be the size of your thumbnail.
I'm sure most kids felt conned by "sea monkeys", but I found them fascinating. I kept the "tank" for years after they died.
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text: ECE- Monographs, Research and Papers http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10159 2015-11-29T12:53:09Z Two-Hop Interference Channels Impact of Linear Time-Varying Schemes http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31515 Two-Hop Interference Channels Impact of Linear Time-Varying Schemes Issa, Ibrahim; Fong, Silas L.; Avestimehr, Salman We consider the two-hop interference channel (IC) with constant channel coefficients, which consists of two source-destination pairs, separated by two relays. We analyze the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) of such network when relays are restricted to perform scalar amplify-forward (AF) operations, with possibly time-varying coefficients. We show that, somewhat surprisingly, by providing the flexibility of choosing time-varying AF coefficients at the relays, it is possible to achieve 4/3 sum-DoF. We also develop a novel outerbound that matches our achievability, hence characterizing the sum-DoF of two-hop interference channels with time-varying AF relaying strategies. 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM STUDIES OF EQUATORIAL SCINTILLATIONS http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10161 GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM STUDIES OF EQUATORIAL SCINTILLATIONS Theodore, Beach The Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites provide an extensive array of beacon signals for probing the ionosphere. Studies of ionospheric propagation at the GPS L band frequencies (1.2 and 1.6 Hz) are of great interest for proposed communications satellite systems as well as for GPS itself. This dissertation describes the development and use of a specialized GPS receiver which measures signal strength at a high data rate (50 samples per second). The instrument monitors amplitude scintillations and the present application studies scintillations produced by propagation through equatorial ionospheric irregularities, particularly equatorial spread F. Several observations of GPS scintillations from stations near the geomagnetic equator (primarily Ancon, Peru) during equinox seasons are presented. Studies performed include drift measurements by correlation between spaced receivers and multiple instrument studies encompassing GPS scintillations, 50 MHz radar observations (at the Jicamarca Observatory) and 630 nm airglow images (from Arequipa, Peru). Observations of possible diffraction patterns generated by sharply defined differences in ionospheric electron density are also presented. Modeling suggests that the conditions required to obtain such patterns are gradients with widths of ~16 meters and a change in E or F-region total electron content (TEC) of about 1x10^16 electrons per m2, narrower and steeper than previous VHF observations of similar patterns imply. Finally, comparisons between TEC fluctuations, as measured by a dual-frequency GPS receiver, and GPS amplitude scintillations are made for collocated receivers at Ancon. Such comparisons are important because of the availability of global networks of GPS receivers which can be used to study TEC fluctuations at low sample rates (typically 30 seconds per sample). Several researchers currently conduct irregularity studies using the low rate TEC data from these networks, but the relationship between low-frequency TEC fluctuations and L band has not been investigated. This study concludes that, for the same line of sight, TEC fluctuations and scintillations are often related, and that relationship is explored here using a simple, one-dimensional phase screen model. 2008-03-12T15:31:44Z


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20 College Basketball Players on Santa's Naughty List
20 College Basketball Players on Santa's Naughty List
Well we have survived the Mayan Apocalypse. This is a good thing for two specific reasons, we are alive and we now get to be greedy little toy mongrels come Christmas morning. Christmas, from what I have been told, is more about giving rather than receiving. What a drag, I don't know about you but I much prefer getting gifts than giving them to others.
But it really doesn't matter what you prefer doing on Christmas if you're on the "Naughty" side of Santa's infamous list. Whether you be a thief, liar, mass murderer, or just a general bad person, chances are you are only going to receive coal in your stocking. Santa knows no forgiveness, if you have been bad all year, a few moments of goodness won't make up for months of evil-doing. However, like my father used to tell me, "I'm bold because coal is more expensive than your toys." So I guess there is a bright side to being a boldy-pants.
There is something else you need to know about Santa Claus. He really likes college basketball and looks after its players very closely. He judges them by not only what kind of person they are but how they act on and off the court. Scoring 20 points a game might make you "nice" but if you're a ball hog it will certainly land you on the naughty list.
Recently Santa mailed me his list of "20 Nice Players" and just now he sent me an e-mail of his "20 Naughty College Basketball Players". Being that he said I could share them with the public(me and Santa are tight son, tight!), I figured I wouldn't edit any of his spiel and give you direct insight into the mind of the most popular man who ever sported a creepy beard.
I'll tell you one thing I learned about the fat man after reading his naughty list, he's a bitter and angry fellow...
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Jabari Parker
Okay, so the kid isn't technically a college basketball player yet. But that didn't stop Jabari Parker from getting his own show so he can broadcast to the world where he was going to play college hoops. In the North Pole, the only thing more naughty than being bold is making sure all the attention is on yourself.
Mason Plumlee
Talk about a guy using his university to the most extreme benefit. Does anyone actually believe that Mason Plumlee is going to be a very good NBA player? I know I don't, but thanks to playing for the Duke Blue Devils, everyone and their mother "knows" he is a lottery pick. He made you all into liars, and for that, he gets put on the naughty list.
Doug McDermott
They can't be a Cinderella story if they've been ranked all year. Doug McDermott leads the Creighton Bluejays in scoring, so he's one of the main reasons for their early success and high-ranking. Way to take the fun out of March, McDermott. I hope you like coal.
Anthony Drmic
I like vowels, I have plenty of them in my name. However, Anthony Drmic only has one of them in his surname. Call me bitter, but a lack of vowels will always land you on the naughty list. This isn't Wheel of Fortune.
Jeff Withey
Jeff Withey is a fine college hoops player. My biggest issue with him is that he blocks 5.4 shots per game. Nobody likes rejection Mr. Withey. So far that you make it to the naughty list.
Peyton Siva
You would think that being the main man during Christmas time that I would love hype. Nope, not me, I hate it. Peyton Siva is the definition of evil hype. After having a good conference tournament everyone wanted to make this guy important. So far this season he is averaging 12 points and 6 boards a game, not exactly living up to the hype. But thanks to said hype, experts are letting you know it's all the little things that don't show in the box-score that make in invaluable. Naughty Peyton!
Jack Cooley
That hype that I talked about earlier, I really hate it. I hate it even more when I don't buy into to it and it pans out. Jack Cooley has not only lived up to expectations but has exceeded them. So unlucky for you Cooley, Santa is mean-spirited and is putting you on the naughty list for making me feel like an idiot.
D'Angelo Harrison
Want to know why I wear red and white? It's the colors of my favorite college hoops team. D'Angelo Harrison isn't on the naughty list for anything he has done but for what he is going to do in the future, declare for the NBA Draft.
Leonard Washington
The Wyoming Cowboys are on track to be nationally ranked very soon. Leonard Washington is likely their best player. None of this looks natural, so for that, naughty list!
Steven Adams
Steven Adams came in with a ton of hype and has lived up to exactly none of it. With the death of 7 footers in the NBA already there, it makes it extra sad that they can't even stay alive in college hoops. For making me miss the days of mediocre college big men, Adams goes on the naughty list.
Brandon Paul
I hate you Brandon Paul. You have somehow made the nation think your team is good while they are not. Come March, and an early exit I bet, people will be calling you a disappointment. Not me, I know better and that's why you're getting coal now. Liar!
Tim Frazier
Tim Frazier, I thought you were going to lead your team to the NCAA Tournament this year. Now thanks to a ruptured Achilles your team stinks. Way to make the conference as predictable as ever.
Joe Jackson
Sure, he is a very talented basketball player but all Joe Jackson did was dupe me into thinking a member of the Jackson 5 had a child who played college hoops. ABC is easy as 1, 2, coal in your stocking!
Vincent Council
I remember telling all my elf helpers that Vincent Council was the real deal and his team would fall apart in his absence. Well they are 8-2 and he has only played in a few games. Nobody makes Santa look like a dope, nobody!
Damyean Dotson
Damyean Dotson might be one of the most overlooked freshmen in the country. The kid can flat-out play. The problem here is that I like watching him play, which in turn, makes me have to look at the abomination of a court in Oregon. Coal for everyone!
Jordan Loveridge
Is it Lover-idge or Love-ridge? Jordan Loveridge is a diaper dandy no doubt. But I haven't seen him play nor heard his name spoken aloud, I've only read of him. So when I'm reading I'm always wondering if he loves ridge(which would put him on the naughty list) or a lover of idges(still naughty). So for the confusion he has cost me, Loveridge goes on the naughty list.
Kyle Anderson
Why don't you score more Mr. Kyle Anderson? I had high hopes for this freshmen duo of excitement. But no, you have to go and be a "team" player while becoming a solid overall role-player. For becoming third fiddle you have been put on my naughty list!
Toarlyn Fitzpatrick
Nobody seems to be able to call you by your first name on a consistent basis. While that isn't really your fault, I've had a ton of letters written to me by broadcasters saying all they want for Christmas is the ability to regularly pronounce your name. I'm a gift giver not a miracle worker, naughty list!
Julius Mays
You're a senior who plays a lot of time on a historically freshmen laden team. Way to take the mythological feel out of John Calipari teams.
Glenn Robinson III
I mistakenly believed in your father and now you're going to pay for his sins. Sorry kid, hope you have a coal furnace.
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November 25, 2015
No App For Gratitude
Today I am repeating my Thanksgiving post which I have run for several years.
Thanksgiving is my kind of holiday.
It doesn't require gods or miracles or tragedies or victories or angels or kings or winners or losers or flags or gifts.
All you need is some pumpkin pie, a big-ass flat screen, and a comfortable sofa to drool on.
Oh, and a little gratitude.
Gratitude, by the way, is a commodity in very short supply. Regrettably, we seem to have mountains of expectation but not much in the way of appreciation. It's a socially transmitted disease.
So this Thanksgiving let's put aside harsh judgments for a day or two. Thank a fireman. Give a bum a buck. Kiss an in-law.
I don't like Puritans of any stripe. But I like the idea of them having the Indians over for dinner. I know the detente didn't last too long, but any day you're eating sweet potatoes instead of shooting off muskets is a good day.
Be grateful that you have shoes. Be thankful that your cat is healthy. Compliment someone's posture.
If you can't do any of that stuff, then at least give thanks that you won't be dining with Whoopi Goldberg or Donald Trump (OMG, who knew?) That alone should be enough.
Finally, do yourself a favor -- quit whining. That's my job.
And have a Happy Thanksgiving.
November 23, 2015
The Two Faces Of Facebook
We're almost 10 years into the era of social media and I think it's time we took a step back and had a fresh look.
The fact that social media is a huge cultural phenomenon is very interesting. But it is only relevant to marketers insofar as it affects our ability to influence consumer purchasing behavior or the building of brands.
It's also time to be precise about what we mean when we say "social media." Our first chore is to separate "social media" from "social media marketing." As the great Mark Ritson points out, and as I have written, we are not sociologists, we are marketers .
We know that social media has been a huge worldwide phenomenon. But how about social media marketing? How effective has it been for the purpose of advancing product sales and building brands?
This is a critical distinction and has been at the root of tremendous misunderstanding and incalculable misuse of marketing dollars.
When the idea of social media first was introduced, it seemed impossible that it wouldn't have massive value in marketing. The logic went something like this: People are going to use social media to talk with each other. They are interested in brands. They will surely have conversations with and about brands. The web will allow them to share their enthusiasms with others who will, likewise, pass these conversations on and potentially create a huge amplification in which a few comments can morph into literally tens of thousands of impressions.
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg put it in 2007,
"The next 100 years are going to be different for advertisers starting today... For the last 100 years media has been pushed out to people, but now marketers are going to be a part of the conversation."Of course, the attraction to marketers was instantaneous and powerful -- who doesn't want to create tens of thousands of positive impressions without spending a cent on media? In fact, many proclaimed the advent of social media to be the death knell of traditional advertising.
Understandably, marketers quickly adopted social media marketing as a fundamental component of their marketing activities.
Just as every now and then a relief pitcher hits a home run, inexorably a few brands did some things with social media that became big commercial successes. These successes became legendary and were offered up at every conference, in every magazine, and at every new business pitch as evidence of the remarkable power of social media.
As time went on, however, it became clear that the philosophical foundation of social media marketing was flawed. People were enthusiastic about engaging with their friends on social media by sharing personal experiences, political opinions, silly videos, photos of children, pets, and meals. But they seemed to demonstrate little to no interest in talking with or about brands — except sometimes to gripe about mistreatment.
But we became really good at ignoring the evidence of our own eyes.
A look at any Facebook page or Twitter feed would have quickly convinced any dispassionate observer that people were not broadly sharing their enthusiasms for brands. In fact, people were overwhelmingly not voicing enthusiasms for brands at all. And on the rare occasions when they did, their comments did not get shared and go viral, but quickly trickled away.
Additionally, pages that brands built on Facebook and feeds they created on Twitter drew initial interest as novelties, but soon became moribund as consumers found them to be bland and self-serving. Today, about 7 in 10,000 of a major brand's followers will engage with a Facebook post. The number for Twitter is about 3 in 10,000.
Becoming a publicly held company, and needing ways to make money for its shareholders, Facebook saw what was happening and quickly changed its tune.
To their credit, Facebook pulled one of the most amazing bait-and-switch jobs in the history of business. Notwithstanding Zuckerberg's earlier proclamations, they realized they were in the traditional advertising sales business. They dropped the fancy talk about "sharing" and "engagement" and quickly reverted to "reach" and "TRPs" — the decades-old language of traditional advertising.
Facebook's business is no longer about providing a forum for conversations about brands. It is now believed that about 1% of a brand's followers receive the brand's posts organically. As Forrester Research vice-president Nate Elliott has said...
"Any marketers who believe they're having a conversation on Facebook are delusional"Remarkably, there are still marketers and agencies who believe — or, in the case of some agencies, pretend to believe — that spending ad dollars on Facebook is "social media."
It is no such thing. It is traditional paid advertising. But, as always, the social media lobby is nothing if not cunning. Every time their spurious claims are exposed they redefine "social media" to fit the facts. So we now have "social ads" -- a complete contradiction in terms. The thing that was supposed to replace ads is now ads.
Social media is an amazing worldwide phenomenon. But social media marketing — and the promise of free lunch through conversations and sharing — has turned out to be a fantasy.
Facebook's remarkable success as a platform for traditional paid advertising is the face of the fantasy.
November 19, 2015
Demographic Cleansing Of Ad Industry
A milestone in marketing stupidity has been reached.
According to a September report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor, a majority of consumer spending (51%) is now done by people over 50.
These people are the target for 10% of marketing activity.
On the other hand, marketers spend five times as much money marketing to millennials, the moronic obsession of every marketer on the planet, than any other group.
How can such obvious stupidity exist? The answer is in the unapologetic malpractice and bigotry of the marketing and advertising industries.
There is almost no one over 50 left in the advertising business. They have been the target of demographic cleansing -- and eliminated from agencies.
The result is a generation of advertising people with enormous self-regard and no hint as to the true nature of "the consumer" they are all so sure they know everything about.
The ugly truth is that the marketing and advertising industries hate older people. We like the excitement of youth, not the boredom of middle age and the frailties of old age. And so we have concocted all kinds of bullshit for ignoring them.
I have previously detailed the ignorance of these spurious pretexts for prejudice. But the one that incontrovertibly defines the stupidity of our industry is this one: the canard that older people want to be like young people. Older people want to be youthful, but they do not want to be like young people.
Nonetheless, if you need an example of the navel gazing of marketers there's this: millennials, who buy about 12% of new cars, are featured in about 99.9% of new car ads.
Even if it were true (which it emphatically is NOT) that older people want to be like young people, why in the world would you TARGET the advertising at young people when they buy almost none of the cars?
There is no logic to the advertising industry's disregard for people over 50.
It is marketing by selfie-stick - narcissism disguised as strategy.
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WASHINGTON -- When I was a young Marine, we were encouraged to read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" as a primer on conflict. Our mentors were officers and senior noncommissioned officers who had served in World War II, Korea and the early days of the conflict in Indochina. These were serious men for whom the profession of arms was no trivial matter. They taught us that Sun Tzu's tome, from the sixth century B.C., was relevant to the fight we were headed for in Vietnam and would serve us well in the future. According to Sun Tzu, "The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Therefore, it is a subject that must be seriously studied." The most recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize appears to have ignored this sage advice.
Prior to President Barack Obama's departing for Oslo this week, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked whether Mr. Obama would be "accepting the Nobel Peace Prize as a war president."
Gibbs' stunning response, uttered with a straight face: "Exactly."
Unfortunately, we are at war. But there is scant evidence in Mr. Obama's words, actions and schedule that he is a "war president."
On Dec. 10, our "war president" flew to Norway to accept a surreal Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" and his "work" to build a "world free of nuclear weapons." In accepting the award, Mr. Obama eloquently apologized for America's past failures -- going back to Woodrow Wilson -- and credited himself with "banning torture" and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. In a brief "presser" afterward, he once again took pains to emphasize his arbitrary and unprecedented July 2011 withdrawal schedule for the troops he just ordered to combat.
If the war is important to Mr. Obama, why did it take 10 months to decide that there is a need for 30,000 additional troops to fight in Afghanistan? If those who fight the war are important, why was there no rebuke for Chris Matthews, the left-wing commentator who described Eisenhower Hall at West Point as "the enemy camp"? And if building public and political support for the fight against radical Islam in Afghanistan and Pakistan is crucial, why not deliver the address before a joint session of Congress?
Oliver North is a nationally syndicated columnist, the host of War Stories on the Fox News Channel, the author of the new novel Heroes Proved and the co-founder of Freedom Alliance, an organization that provides college scholarships to the children of U.S. military personnel killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty. Join Oliver North in Israel by going to www.olivernorthisrael.com.
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