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The designer thinks models are just hangers for his clothes, and he'd much rather use artists like Diddy as the clothes hangers.
The designer thinks models are just hangers for his clothes, and he'd much rather use artists like Diddy as the clothes hangers.
That means custom-made pieces by Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Miu Miu, and more! And some gypsy and Japanese influences.
And it looks like the most fabulous animal-printed place on Earth.
Considering the poor singer's ailing health, maybe it's time for fashion companies to give her and customers a break.
The economy is in the bucket (news flash!), so he won't get the kind of dough he wants.
Alexa Chung visits Roberto Cavalli's Florence home and meets his pets, in the new British fashion show we're dying to watch.
The label already makes shoes in a small factory, but with a new deal they'll be able to make so many more glorious pairs. Handbags are also in the works.
Naomi Campbell credits Saint Laurent with putting models of color on the runway. He also gave women the pantsuit.
Roberto Cavalli might sell his company, Sean Avery will attend tonight's CFDA Awards, and Tommy Hilfiger reveals wedding details.
Dell'Acqua replaces the 6267 designers, who went to Ferré last month; Coach plans to open 50 stores in China; and Roberto Cavalli celebrates his new wine.
Kristin Davis explains the magic of a 'Sex and the City' wardrobe fitting, Patricia Field's style icon is Cleopatra, and what Joe Zee ad-libbed on 'Ugly Betty.'
And they hope to use the original TV cast. Also Noémie Lenoir landed the cover of French 'Vogue,' and we figured out who Naomi Campbell was with in Cannes.
Vanessa Paradis will replace Kirsten Dunst as the face of Miu Miu; 'America's Next Top Model' lands another season, as the lead in to the CW's new fashion-assistant reality show; and Jessica Stam explains the whole D.J. thing.
Apparently Cavalli is a family man who understands a woman's need to conceal her "small little treasure."
This week brings the rerelease of the first two books in the Sweet Valley High saga, freshly modernized to appeal (and pander) to kids today — which means that all those fun eighties outfits have been lost in the ether!
If you want to buy Roberto Cavalli's company, you better have around $1.89 billion saved; Next and Elite model agencies get into a catfight; and brunettes marry richer men than blondes.
The cold is sticking around like the dinner-party guest who just won't leave, but we're already looking forward to November, when Comme des Garçons launches a line for H&M. Yeah, we said it.
We've gotten so used to reading about how fabulously fashionable Amy Winehouse is that we haven't taken a moment to really consider the ridiculousness of the whole concept.
Rumors surfaced in London over the weekend that Amy Winehouse is in talks with Roberto Cavalli to receive a lifetime supply of his clothes...
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Empire Parker Posey (who has been teaching an awesome course in Emmy acceptance speeches ---teehee) joins the cast of Grace of Monaco as Nicole Kidman's frenemy lady-in-waiting
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TMZ crew member on The Lone Ranger dies
Wax Word the new Keanu Reeves action epic 47 Ronin is having a nightmarishly expensive post-production phase
Hollywood.com Helen Mirren to reprise her Oscar winning role as The Queen on the stage in a new play
Advocate Scarlett Johansson will scratch at limp Benjamin Walker in Broadway's millionth revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Ciarin Hinds, so ubiquitous right now, will play Big Daddy. Oh the mendacity of it all!
Movie|Line those hoping for a quick stage-to-film transfer of Nina Arianda's star-making Broadway outing in Venus in Fur might be disappointed to learn that the film adaptation is indeed underway... but in French directed by Roman Polanski and starring his wife Emmanuelle Segnier.
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June 10, 2012
Whitman College Tabs Top Hawaii High School Coach for Head Volleyball Job
April 17, 2012
Kip Yoshimura Takes Charge Of Pacific Volleyball Program
April 9, 2012
Head Volleyball Coach at Whitman Resigning
February 14, 2012
Lena Chan Steps Down After Four Years Leading Boxer Volleyball
November 11, 2011
Occidental Edges PLU In NCAA First Round Volleyball
November 11, 2011
Whitworth Falls in Five Sets to Regional Hosts
November 8, 2011
2011 All-NWC Volleyball Team
November 5, 2011
Linfield Edges George Fox in Five
November 5, 2011
Whitman Upsets L&C in Five Sets
November 5, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Slips Past Pacific
November 5, 2011
Puget Sound Sweeps at Willamette
November 4, 2011
Whitworth Sweeps L&C to Win NWC Title
November 4, 2011
PLU Block Shuts Down Linfield
November 4, 2011
George Fox Upsets Puget Sound
November 4, 2011
Pacific Tops Willamette in Four Sets
November 2, 2011
Whitworth Rallies to Clinch Share of NWC Crown
October 29, 2011
Willamette Knocks Off Lewis & Clark
October 29, 2011
Linfield Bounces Back to Beat Pacific
October 29, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Sweeps Past Whitworth
October 29, 2011
Puget Sound Tops Whitman in Four Sets
October 28, 2011
George Fox Wins at Willamette
October 28, 2011
Lewis & Clark Edges Linfield in Five Sets
October 28, 2011
Whitworth Sweeps at Puget Sound
October 28, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Tops Whitman in Four
October 26, 2011
George Fox Surges Past Pacific
October 23, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Nips Lewis & Clark in OT
October 22, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Sweeps George Fox
October 22, 2011
L&C Streaks to Win at Pacific
October 22, 2011
Linfield Edges Whitman in Five Sets
October 22, 2011
Rupe Wins 200th Volleyball Match at Whitworth
October 21, 2011
Lewis & Clark Tops GFU in Five Sets
October 21, 2011
First Place Whitworth Sweeps Linfield
October 21, 2011
Puget Sound Tops Pacific in Home Finale
October 21, 2011
Whitman Tops Willamette in Four Sets
October 19, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Wins at Puget Sound
October 15, 2011
Lewis & Clark Knocks off Pacific Lutheran
October 15, 2011
Puget Sound Beats Linfield in Four Sets
October 15, 2011
Whitworth Wins at Pacific, Stretches NWC Lead
October 15, 2011
Whitman Wins at George Fox
October 14, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Sweeps Past Willamette
October 14, 2011
L&C Sweeps UPS, Earns Second Straight Upset
October 14, 2011
Whitworth Blocks George Fox Upset Bid
October 14, 2011
Pacific Survives Whitman in Five Sets
October 12, 2011
Willamette Rolls Through Linfield
October 8, 2011
Linfield Rallies Back to Win at George Fox
Visiting Linfield stormed back from a 2-0 deficit to snatch a five-set thriller at George Fox before a stunned Homecoming crowd Saturday night.
October 8, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Wins Second-Place Showdown
Pacific Lutheran broke up a logjam for second place in the NWC volleyball standings with a 3-1 win over visiting Pacific on Saturday night.
October 8, 2011
Lewis & Clark Downs Whitman
Lewis & Clark closed out a successful volleyball weekend with a 3-1 win over visiting Whitman on Saturday night.
October 8, 2011
Puget Sound Sweeps By Willamette
Jackie Harvey had 15 kills and hit .538 to lead Puget Sound to a 26-24, 25-18, 25-10 volleyball sweep of visiting Willamette on Saturday.
October 7, 2011
Puget Sound Sweeps George Fox
Jackie Harvey had 11 kills to lead Puget Sound to 25-23, 25-23, 25-20 sweep of George Fox on Friday at Memorial Fieldhouse.
October 7, 2011
Moore Leads Lutes Past Cats
Kelsie Moore led Pacific Lutheran to a 25-17, 25-19, 25-14 Northwest Conference volleyball win over visiting Linfield on Friday night.
October 7, 2011
Pacific Rallies to Win at Willamette
Visiting Pacific claimed the fourth and fifth sets to rally to a 3-2 victory at Willamette in Northwest Conference volleyball action on Friday.
October 7, 2011
Lewis & Clark Upsets #21 Whitworth
Lewis & Clark stunned visiting Whitworth in a three set sweep on Friday night in Northwest Conference volleyball action.
October 5, 2011
Whitworth Wins 10th Straight Volleyball Match
Whitworth survived a potential letdown by bouncing back from an opening set loss to defeat visiting Whitman 19-25, 25-14, 25-17, 25-15 on Wednesday night.
October 1, 2011
Pacific Moves into Second Place Tie
Pacific dominated both the hitting and defensive departments to sweep visiting Linfield 25-21, 25-14, 25-21 Saturday night.
October 1, 2011
Puget Sound Sweeps at Whitman
Double-digit kills from Brynn Blickenstaff and Jackie Harvey powered visiting Puget Sound past Whitman 25-19, 25-12, 25-14 Saturday evening in Sherwood Center.
October 1, 2011
Willamette Wins at Lewis & Clark
Lewis & Clark captured the opening set, but visiting Willamette came from behind to win 3-1 in a Northwest Conference match on Saturday night.
September 30, 2011
Linfield Outlasts Lewis & Clark
Kailana Ritte-Camara spiked 18 kills as Linfield outlasted visiting Lewis and Clark 3-1 in a see-saw Northwest Conference battle Friday night.
September 30, 2011
PLU Wins in Four Sets at Whitman
Whitman won the first game and made PLU nervous late in game four, but the visiting Lutes sidestepped a deciding fifth set with a 3-1 volleyball victory Friday night.
September 30, 2011
Whitworth Sweeps #17 Puget Sound
Whitworth used a .315 team hitting percentage to sweep 17th-ranked Puget Sound in a key NWC volleyball match on Friday night at the Whitworth Fieldhouse.
September 30, 2011
George Fox Out-Hits Willamette
Utilizing a 50-30 advantage in kills, George Fox earned a 3-1 win over visiting Willamette in a Northwest Conference women's volleyball match Friday night.
September 28, 2011
Pacific Tops George Fox in Four Sets
Kelsy Takashima's 18 kills led visiting Pacific (Ore.) to a four-set victory at George Fox in NWC volleyball action on Wednesday night.
September 24, 2011
Lewis & Clark Evens its NWC Record
Lewis & Clark collected a 3-1 Northwest Conference volleyball win over visiting Pacific on Saturday evening to even its conference record at 2-2.
September 24, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Blocks George Fox
Pacific Lutheran completely shut down the George Fox offense en route to a 3-0 sweep of the Bruins Saturday night at the Wheeler Sports Center.
September 24, 2011
Whitworth Volleyball Torches Willamette
Whitworth earned 40 kills and a .392 team attack percentage in a three-set Northwest Conference volleyball sweep at Willamette on Saturday night.
September 23, 2011
Lewis & Clark Edges George Fox
Lewis & Clark earned a hard fought 3-2 win over visiting George Fox on Friday night in the Pioneers' first Northwest Conference contest at home this season.
September 23, 2011
Pacific Upsets #16 Puget Sound
Pacific put together a solid hitting attack to upset No. 16 Puget Sound 25-19, 16-25, 25-16, 25-22 in NWC volleyball action Friday night in front of an energetic crowd at the Stoller Center.
September 23, 2011
Whitworth Wins in Three Sets at Linfield
Visiting Whitworth rode the combined 20 kills of twins Ka'ipo and Kaima Rocha to sweep Linfield 25-20, 25-20, 25-21 Friday night at Ted Wilson Gymnasium.
September 23, 2011
Willamette Rallies to Win in Five Sets
Willamette put nearly its entire lineup to good use on Friday against Whitman, rallying to defeat the Missionaries, 3-2, in Northwest Conference action.
September 21, 2011
Puget Sound Rolls Past Pacific Lutheran
Sixteenth-ranked Puget Sound stormed out of Pacific Lutheran's Olson Auditorium with a 3-0 NWC volleyball sweep of the Lutes on Wednesday night.
September 20, 2011
NWC Volleyball Student-Athlete of the Week for September 12 - 18, 2011
Whitworth's Kaimi Rocha was selected as this week's Volleyball Student-Athlete of the Week.
September 17, 2011
George Fox Blanks Whitman
Lack of success late in sets continued to plague Whitman in a 3-0 NWC volleyball loss (25-14, 25-23, 25-21) to visiting George Fox Saturday evening in Sherwood Center.
September 17, 2011
Pacific Lutheran Rolls to 3-0 Sweep of L&C
Kelsie Moore led Pacific Lutheran past visiting Lewis & Clark 25-22, 25-22, 25-10 in a Northwest Conference volleyball match Saturday night in Olson Auditorium.
September 17, 2011
#16 Puget Sound Shuts Down Linfield
16th-ranked Puget Sound made it a clean sweep with a 25-22, 25-23, 25-19 NWC volleyball win over visiting Linfield on Saturday night.
September 17, 2011
Whitworth Sweeps Past Pacific
Kaimi and Ka'ipo Rocha led Whitworth to a sweep of visiting Pacific in a Northwest Conference volleyball match on Saturday night at the Whitworth Fieldhouse.
September 16, 2011
Whitworth Opens NWC Volleyball Defense With a Win
Whitworth opened defense of its NWC volleyball championship with a 25-21, 25-13, 19-25, 25-17 win over visiting George Fox Friday night, thanks to the efforts of last season's NWC MVP.
September 16, 2011
Puget Sound Sweeps Past Lewis & Clark
Puget Sound swept through visiting Lewis & Clark in its NWC-volleyball opener on Friday night.
September 16, 2011
Pacific Wins in Three at Whitman
With Whitman missing its top two offensive threats, visitng Pacific uncorked plenty of firepower in a 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 volleyball win Friday evening in Sherwood Center.
September 16, 2011
Bremond Powers PLU to a Win over Willamette
Erin Bremond had 11 kills Friday night to lead Pacific Lutheran to a 25-23, 25-21, 25-16 win over visiting Willamette in the Lutes' NWC volleyball opener.
September 14, 2011
Willamette Wins Five-Setter Over Linfield
Willamette outlasted visiting Linfield in a five-set opener to the NWC volleyball schedule on Wednesday night at Cone Field House.
September 10, 2011
PLU Wins Bulldog Volleyball Classic
Samantha North earned MVP honors after leading Pacific Lutheran to a 4-0 record at the Bulldog Classic played Friday and Saturday at Texas Lutheran University.
September 3, 2011
Puget Sound Wins Own VB Invitational
No. 22 Puget Sound made it a clean sweep through the Puget Sound Volleyball Tournament with wins over No. 18 Whitworth and Pacific Lutheran on Saturday.
August 15, 2011
Pirates Picked to Repeat in NWC Volleyball
Led by its 2010 Northwest Conference Player of the Year, Whitworth has been picked to repeat as NWC Champions in the 2011 poll of league volleyball coaches.


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IMshopping is a new "human-assisted" shopping website and Twitter shopping service where knowledgeable shopping guides respond to product questions and provide personalized recommendations for users. Prashant Nedungadi is CEO and founder of IMshopping and previously co-founded the largest third-party tool provider on eBay and led the merger of Andale with Vendio.
IMshopping delivers a mix of recommendation technology and real human assistance, aiming to create a more efficient way to find products online. Twitter users can directly ask questions by messaging @imshopping. The shopping guides in the community and trained experts offer detailed responses within a short period of time. Shoppers can use these responses to instantly make purchases or save to their own folders before making a product decision.
Online shoppers can instantly look for specific products, search IMshopping's database for product questions that have been already answered, or pose their own shopping questions.
"We believe human assistance will create a deeper level of e-commerce satisfaction that doesn't exist on the Internet today," said Nedungadi. "There is a lot of information out there, but very little help when online shoppers need specific answers that will make or break their purchasing decision. At brick and mortar stores, human experts fill such a void, but on the web, it doesn't exist. We developed IMshopping to bring the same level of personalized assistance to online shoppers. Twitter is the ideal medium for having a conversation; Online shoppers have the option to communicate privately with the expert on Twitter, or publicly so others can benefit from the right choices."
The company also announcing it has closed a $4.7 million Series A round of funding from SK Telecom with Min Park and Soo-Hyuk Lee, both SVPs at SK Telecom joining the board.
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SEC action could harm municipal finances
Over the years, state and local officials have learned the hard way that agencies of the federal government have a penchant for proposing new regulations and standards that have a major impact on state and municipal budgets. The usual worry is that the federal government will impose new unfunded mandates, which force communities to divert dollars away from key programs and services, while taxpayers see a larger share of their property tax dollars consumed by federal dictates.
It's easy to develop new mandates, standards or regulations when other people or governmental entities have to pay, especially when the regulations are intended to meet a popular public need or outcome. The problem is that unfunded mandates are almost always extraordinarily unfair and incomplete, because the authors pass the buck on the hardest question of all: where the money will come from.
Most of the federal regulations that impact states and localities are imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and other familiar entities.
There may, however, be a new entry into the too-crowded field of regulators who do not look at the fiscal impact of their actions: the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC is moving forward with new regulations governing money market mutual funds (MMMFs). Clearly, it is important for the SEC to do its job and make sure that MMMFs are safe and strong. But the SEC should not implement any change that would undermine these funds or their ability to continue functioning in a way that benefits government and taxpayers.
For a refresher on MMMFs, the Investment Company Institute provides an overview: "A money market fund is a type of mutual fund that seeks to offer investors a variety of features, including return on principal, liquidity, and a market-based rate of return, all at a reasonable cost. Although the net asset value (NAV) per share of a traditional mutual fund changes daily in response to market factors, money market funds are structured to avoid these changes by seeking to maintain a stable share price, typically $1 per share."
The Investment Company Institute also notes that "investors use money market funds as a 'parking place' for cash between investments because money market fund yields are typically competitive with those of most savings accounts. For institutions of all kinds – businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and financial institutions – money market funds are a preferred vehicle for cash management."
MMMFs are an important part of our governmental finance system in two clear ways.
First, money market mutual funds invest in local and state governments, buying municipal bonds and providing essential capital for important projects that put people to work and build our economy: schools, roads, bridges, fire stations, police stations, public works facilities, water and sewage treatment facilities, city and town halls, parks, recreation facilities, public housing, and much more. According to testimony submitted to Congress last summer by the National League of Cities and many other local government organizations, MMMFs are the largest investor in short-term municipal bonds, holding 56 percent of all outstanding short-term bonds, equaling nearly $352 billion.
Second, local and state governments across the country use MMMFs as an essential part of their cash management practices and policies. The use of money market funds for short-term investments and as a cash management tool is cited as a best practice by the Government Finance Officers Association, because MMMFs are highly liquid, stable, have a reasonable rate of return, and have minimal risk.
MMMFs are already strictly regulated by the SEC, with standards in place that govern the credit quality, liquidity, diversification and maturity of these investments. Because of this, MMMFs are able to maintain a fixed or stable net asset value, generally at $1 a share, making the funds attractive to investors because of the certainty and lack of volatility.
The problem is that the SEC is giving strong consideration to a major structural change in MMMFs that would have a serious negative impact on municipal finances. On its face the change sounds harmless: moving MMMFs from a fixed net asset value (NAV) to a "floating" NAV. The reasons behind such a change are unclear, as MMMFs are already highly regulated, stable and safe.
In the real, practical world, however, this change would fundamentally alter the attractiveness of MMMFs to investors.
As the National League of Cities, International City/County Management Association, GFOA and other have testified, "[c]reating a marketplace where the NAV changes from fixed to floating would make MMMFs far less attractive to investors, thereby limiting the ability of money market funds to purchase municipal securities. Losing this vital investing power could lead to higher debt costs for many state and local governments across the country" as the number of investors in municipal bonds is reduced significantly.
With cities and towns using MMMFs as a core element of their cash management, the NLC points out that moving to a floating NAV would force many, if not all, municipalities to divest a significant part of their investments from MMMFs (because of the increased risk and because MMMFs with floating NAVs could violate investment policies), and this would destabilize what is now an important and stable part of municipal finance strategy. Communities would be pushed to products with greater risk, higher fees, and greater costs for taxpayers.
The bottom line is that the SEC should not fix something that is not broken. Moving from a stable to a floating NAV would decrease available capital for key projects that are essential to local economies, and it would increase borrowing and cash management costs for taxpayers. This may not be a traditional unfunded mandate, but the result would be the same – intrusive regulation by a federal agency without consideration of the negative impact on states, localities, citizens or taxpayers.
The SEC should do its job without imposing new rules that would harm municipal finances.
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Thejus Engineering College, a project of Cheruvathur Foundation was established in the year 2009. The College is affiliated to University of Calicut, approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and sanctioned by Govt. of Kerala. The college has a holistic approach to education. Thejus Engineering College, prepares professional man power for tomorrow. Students AT Thejus Engineering College learn to accept responsibility in making engineering designs, managerial policies of high standard so that the safety, health and welfare of the people will be paid special attention
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After two days of revelations about secret side deals to his contract, Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano said today his only focus was on the upcoming football season and declined to discuss his compensation.
Schiano, who was in New York to announce a television deal that will make the cable sports channel SNY the cable home of Rutgers sports, said the disclosures about his contracts have not been a distraction.
"I don't worry about that stuff. What's important to me is my family and my football team. Thank God both of those groups are doing well," Schiano told reporters after the SNY press conference.
Earlier this week, The Star-Ledger reported that Rutgers had arranged to pay Schiano an additional $250,000 a year in compensation through a vendor, and had an arrangement with Schiano that would allow him to walk away from his contract if the Rutgers Stadium expansion project is not completed by 2009.
Neither change in his contract had ever been publicly disclosed.
Asked about concerns he might have about the expansion project, or the university's current financial situation, Schiano said he has no anxiety. "Collectively the university has a vision that I'm part of," he said.
Schiano deferred all questions to Rutgers athletic director Robert Mulcahy, who was also at the New York press conference.
"Our athletic director has addressed that and he probably will continue to address that. My focus really is the 2008 season," said Schiano, adding that he was a believer in the "chain of command" and that he, like the rest of the university's coaches, agree with the policy that only Mulcahy can discuss contract and compensation details.
Mulcahy declined comment, saying only he will release a statement later today.
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A Comparison of some Hakuhodo J Series Eye Brushes
I have been asked for my opinion on some of the Hakuhodo J Series eye brushes; specifically if there is a good multi-purpose brush that can be used for applying and blending an eyeshadow base/cream eyeshadow as well as undereye concealing.
Here is a picture of a few Hakuhodo brushes I think work for both these purposes, alongside the J142 and its little sister, the J146, which I do not consider suitable for these purposes:
As you can see, the J142 and J146 are much thinner. They are also tapered, and this really makes them more suitable for blending out the very edges of eyeshadow. The other brushes are more suitable for covering the eyelids with product and blending out the edges, and also for undereye concealing.
There is one Hakuhodo brush that is a similar shape to these 2 brushes, which could be used for applying colour all over the lids, blending out the edges, and applying undereye concealer. (I personally wouldn't use it for undereye concealer, but I know some people like this type of brush for that purpose.) This is the J5533. It is the same size as the J142, but it it less pointed and more fluffy. I once queried the difference between the 5533 and the 142 with Hakuhodo, and they said that the 142 is better for blending out edges, while the 5533 can be used for all over colour as well. I would agree with this, although the difference is very slight, and it is only because I have so many brushes that I am so selective about which brush I use for which purpose.
I can't find my J5533, so here is a comparison of the S142 and the G5533. These are exactly the same as their J Series counterparts, but with blue squirrel hair, rather than goat hair:
The J122R is a great multi-purpose brush. It has an angled tip, and if you can work with this shape, it is great for blending out the colour through the socket line. There is a smaller equivalent, the J125R, as well. It is a blend of goat and synthetic hair, and the duo fibre makes it great for softly blending without wiping off the colour you have already applied. I also find that the Hakuhodo goat/synthetic hair blended brushes work really well for applying more textured cream products, such as the Armani Eyes to Kill eyeshadows, or any glittery products. I also use this for undereye concealing, and it is excellent for that. I think that for anyone looking for an eye brush that can multi-task between cream and powder products, and both apply and blend products, this is one of the best I have come across. If you like smaller brushes, go for the J125R, which is its little sister.
Equally good for exactly the same purposes is the J214R. It comes down to personal preference for size and shape. The J214R is bigger and more rounded. It is a duo fibre version of the J214, but more versatile. The 214 is great for blending together a big eye look and also works for undereye concealer. However, the J214 works well with textured products and creates a more airbrushed look when blending undereye concealer.
The J513 is another option. This brush also has a little sister, the J515. I prefer working with larger brushes, but again, this is personal preference. I bought this because I love the shape; it has a very steep angle. It is not a duo fibre brush, but can be used for applying an all-over lid colour, blending, and its sharp angle makes it ideal for fitting into the crevices beneath the eye and blending concealer. You can use side of the brush with the longest hairs to gently blend away edges. I particularly like this brush for contouring down the sides of the nose.
Here is the J122R next to the J513:
Here are some of the brushes again, close up:
I was asked specifically to compare the J214R and the J146, alongside a Mac 217. I have compared them with a J5523, which is really the same size.
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A Scythian Abroad: Superbrothers on Sword & Sworcery's Japanese Remixes
Cover Story: We heard some cool S&S tunes reworked by our favorite composers and we wondered what's up with that.
apybara's Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP grabbed attention (and rave reviews) last year by reinventing the graphical adventure genre for iOS. Its minimalist design and droll sense of humor helped it stand out from countless other competitors on the platform. But what really sold the game was its amazing soundtrack, at once wistful yet epic. For the game's Japanese release, the game's creators have teamed up to push their soundtrack to the next level by collaborating with nearly a dozen big-name Japanese game composers (including Silent Hill's Akira Yamaoka and Castlevania's Michiru Yamane), who have in turn reinterpreted the soundtrack in their own inimitable styles. The results are nothing short of amazing, and Sword & Sworcery co-creators Jim Guthrie and Craig Adams (as well as our friends at 8-4, who localized the game for Japan) have plenty of interesting things to say about the game, its music, and the collaborative nature of localization.
1UP: What was the inspiration for the original music direction in Sword & Sworcery? The soundtrack's ambient/electronic/folk feel isn't really what most people would expect from a game with that sort of 8-bit minimalist look.
JG: I gave Craig an EP's worth of music created on a PS1 using MTV Music Generator back in 2005 when we first met. Craig really dug it and it inspired some more art and conversation that pretty much set the tone of the game, even before we knew there was going to be a game. As things got going, there were a lot of other conversations with Craig & Kris Piotrowski from CAPY about feel and mood, etc. To be perfectly honest, a very large percent of the music has an unknown origin.
CA: Jim Guthrie is the patron saint of Superbrothers -- his PS1 songs perfectly matched the character and ambition of what I've been striving for with my pixels since 2003. When Sword & Sworcery began there was no question that these songs would be the foundation. "Under a Tree" was a song I'd been listening to since 2005; I'd always imagined it as a musical accompaniment to a walk in the woods in the pink twilight before dawn, and this was the song and narrative concept that drove the Sworcery prototype. "Lone Star" and "Dark Flute" share a similar origin story. "Little Furnace" was another PS1 song I'd been listening to for years, trying to imagine the right beautiful, heartbreaking visual treatment... It wasn't until late in the project that this song ended up shaping the final scenes of Sword & Sworcery.
Many of the songs created for S&S are pure Jim G inspiration: "The Ballad of the Space Babies" is one example -- there is simply no reference point. That said, some of the other songs that Jim provided were in answer to specific requests or conversations. We'd talk about a storm-wracked tune like "Doomsdayer's Holiday" by Grails and the result was the song fragment that accompanies the waking of The Gogolithic Mass. We'd talk about an otherwordly, ethereal song like "Ratatat's Shiller" and Jim would dig into his back catalog and offer up a pre-existing gem, now known as "The Cloud." We'd talk about John Carpenter's synth-heavy suspense scores and Jim would produce the pitch-perfect dungeon exploration tune "Doom Sock." Meanwhile Jim's "Unknowable Geometry" is related to the prog-synth songs of Zombi, while "Ode to a Room" specifically references Angelo Badalamente's "The Pink Room" from Twin Peaks.
Whatever their origin, Jim's songs have a character & a soul all their own, and I think that comes across loud & clear in Sword & Sworcery.
1UP: Even though S&S isn't about music, per se, music plays a huge part in the game. It's woven into the play and really helps bring atmosphere to a game whose deliberate minimalism creates almost a blank slate. Can you speak to that?
JG: One of our earliest goals was to make a game that could accurately be described as 'an album you can walk through.' I never really thought of Craig's art as minimal -- or maybe it never felt minimal. I always saw a very rich and complex environment and the music had to be as just as big and textural. Using music that was truly 8-bit would have undermined what we were trying to achieve emotionally. Not to say that you can't pull emotion out of 8-bit sounds, but play the saddest song you've ever heard on a violin and then do an 8-bit cover of that....
CA: As with previous Superbrothers efforts, Sword & Sworcery was always going to have a deeply musical soul. The full project title, including the EP suffix, was there from the start, and in the initial design docs the worlds & stages were conceived of as songs.
Of course, S&S isn't a 'music videogame' according to the current definition, in that we're not asking players to tap buttons to create notes or whatever...or maybe it's time to reclaim the term 'music videogame' for experiences like Sworcery, where music is the primary expressive voice? Certainly the art & narrative & mechanics were conceived of with the express purpose of providing a context and a space in which to be impacted by the songs.
With regards to the 'deliberate minimalism' thing -- the visual style is abstracted to a point (e.g.: there's no way to discern The Scythian's facial expression) and so the songs, sounds & story context work in concert with the player's imagination to fill in any blanks. That said, I would argue that there's no shortage of detail in the world and characters, so I'm going to push back a bit on the 'blank state' label. :)
1UP: To drill down even further, the game itself is framed as an extended play record, which is pretty esoteric! EPs weren't very common even when I first started nerding out on music as a kid, and that was 25 years ago. In the words of the Scythian, what's up with that?
JG: We came up with that idea I mentioned before -- of 'an album you can walk through' -- pretty early on, and that informed a certain language we used for rest of the development. I suppose using the 'EP' tag in the title was a way to impose a predetermined length on the game experience. Traditionally EPs are shorter than albums but I guess the actual album is a little longer than that...
CA: We had the project name & logo 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' nailed down super early in the project. The original concept was that it would be a highly replayable 37 minutes, from start to finish -- 37 minutes being the maximum length of an EP. By including 'EP' in the title we aimed to do two things: One, indicate that the videogame was primarily about music, and two, set expectations that this would be a small, self-contained experience. We also kind-of knew that them kids today don't necessarily know what an EP is, but we didn't worry too much about that -- as much as Sword & Sworcery is a 21st century creation, its roots are in the 20th century. As the project evolved it got bigger & bigger, partly because we couldn't find a way to elegantly solve the 'highly replayable 37 minutes of play' design conundrum, and partly because, after our first public showing at GDC 2010, we were met with a significant amount of excitement and anticipation, and we didn't want to under-deliver. By the time the project had grown to its current size it was too late to bother with a name change.
1UP: So let's talk a bit about the game's Japanese release. How much of Sword & Sworcery did you change for the localized version?
8-4: In terms of the basic game content, not a lot, really -- just little things here and there. A few adjustments were necessary in getting the text and voices into Japanese, of course -- cultural in-jokes, references, other bits of humor and that sort of thing -- but we always aimed to get across the same idea or feeling as the original. A favorite that sticks out is the original title for the game that's mentioned in the credits, "Poopsock," in English -- which alludes to hardcore players like MMO fans who might poop in a sock rather than leaving their computer to go to the bathroom -- the term in Japanese is "pet bottler", referring to peeing in the little plastic bottles most drinks use here in Japan. Hey, you learn something new every day!
We did come up with an entirely new name and logo, but even that was only done to try and naturally convey everything that the original English name does -- which is actually quite a lot, if you think about it. It's like, a very intentionally typical adventure-y game name, with just a hint of the playful and silly attitude (in the "sworcery" spelling), and then a big emphasis on the audio aspect with that 'EP' tag. Oh, and it has to shorten down to a contracted version that's easy to say or tweet. And is also memorable. And doesn't sound like anything else. So, yeah -- that's probably why it took us almost two months to come up with the final name! But what we ended up with is pretty awesome, if we do say so ourselves (and which you'll just have to take our word on! How convenient!)
One little new thing we did add, was Suda 51 (who voiced Logfella) had a couple extra voiced lines he ad-libbed that we all really liked, where he went on and on about the 'bloodsports arena' thing from the original game. So if you keep talking to him in the Japanese version, you get a couple new, extra lines there.
And I guess another minor bonus change would be where we added links to pictures on the game's website when people tweeted certain lines from within the game. We loved the whole Twitter-integration-thing of the original, and thought it'd be cool if people who had no idea what the game was had some kind-of different, fun way of more easily discovering just what the hell it was their friends were tweeting about. So now, in the Japanese version, sometimes a link to one of 84 different screenshots on the website is automatically added when you tweet a line from the game. We've even had some people trying to find them all, which was never really the goal, but is pretty cool to see people turn it into a little mini-game of sorts.
1UP: This is probably more a question for 8-4, but how did you maintain Sword & Sworcery's distinct first-person-plural narration for Japanese, which doesn't really parse that way? Were there any other unusual challenges in the localization process?
8-4: The localization was definitely tougher than usual -- mostly because the overall tone of the game...it's really unique, as you know. It's like this mix of ye olde epic-speak and really casual modern-day slang that's charming and works great in English, but how do you do that in another language? So we spent a lot of time explaining the 'feeling' that lines evoked, and the style in general -- the mix of funny-but-serious but not-taking-itself-too-seriously but kind-of-a-little-seriously, I guess? Those were some long, weird, spacey conversations -- but actually a lot of fun.
Also, I mentioned before all the little cultural in-jokes and references to other games, movies, that sort of stuff, in the script -- we went through all the text before we had the translator see it, and marked everything we could find with explanations, included links to YouTube or wikipedia just in case, that sort of stuff -- just to make sure it would either come across as-is, or get changed into a good equivalent.
We'd also never done our own Japanese voice recording, so that was new. Like I was saying, Suda 51 agreed to do the voice of Logfella, which we were all totally excited about and was really super-cool of him -- he just did it because he's a fan of the game and what it represents and everything. So he came in to our little office, and we set up the mics we use for our podcast, and we'd basically play the original line for him first and give him the feel of what was being said ("here you are just trying to make awkward small talk", et cetera), and then let him go. And he just nailed it, every time. He'd done some voices for the "Sdatcher" Snatcher audio play recently, and other little things here and there, and he's just naturally really comfortable with this sort of thing, I think -- kind of a showman.
Beyond that, we were thinking for awhile about who would be good to voice the Archetype, who only really speaks in the trailers, but has key lines and kind-of sets the tone for the whole game, when finally somebody said, "How about our accountant?" He's this funny, interesting guy, with a really smooth, authoritative voice that still sounded fun -- it ended up working out great. Plus it turns out that the English Archetype voice wasn't a pro either -- it's Clive Holden, this filmmaker/new media artist friend of Craig's, so that ended up matching up nicely.
1UP: The Japanese release's remixed/remade tunes are a big enough deal to catch the attention of American gamers for whom Sword & Sworcery is last year's news and who will never play the Japanese version. What was the genesis of that collaboration?
8-4: That's a big part of it -- we wanted to have something that all Sworcery fans could get excited about, both the new Japanese players who would just be playing it for the first time, and also all the fans in the West who were really into the musical aspect.
Another big goal was to try and let the Japanese audience know that this was a 'big deal,' and that it should be taken seriously -- I mean, it's a smaller game, but it's being treated with all the respect and care it deserved in coming to Japan. Like, so they'd know this was not some quickie localization job like you see in Japan sometimes, where they do a crappy job or only translate the manual or whatever. This was going to be a proper appeal to the Japanese market -- a full, quality localization, including a new logo, full voice work, and even a Japanese spin on some of the music, which is such a big aspect of the game. We took our time planning this all out and got some great, well-known artists to pitch in, and hopefully that message comes across.
And really, aside from all the business reasons, we're huge, huge fans of the original soundtrack and also of all the remix artists. Speaking totally selfishly, mixing them up was like a chocolate-peanut butter cream-dream we had a perfect excuse to make come true.
1UP: How did the composer collaboration play out? Did you seek out specific Japanese musicians and go to them? If so, what were your criteria?
8-4: We basically called or emailed and just asked -- all the artists were people we've worked with, or friends, or friends-of-friends. As for criteria, we tried to think "Who are the best artists we know or can get in touch with, that people would really care about either in Japan or the West or -- ideally -- both," and we went after them. I have to say we were really surprised -- happily surprised -- how receptive the artists all were to join in, pretty much all of them. I think there was only one or two we couldn't get, and even those were because of scheduling reasons. I mean, this is a very teeny-tiny-scale project in terms of what these people have worked on, and certainly our budget was small enough that it was not a big money-maker for them, at all. So everyone who contributed basically did it as a favor -- sometimes as a favor to 8-4 because we'd helped them before, and sometimes just a favor for this cool little game that they wanted to see do well in Japan.
1UP: What sort of direction did you give your collaborators? Did you have specific ideas in mind, or did you simply let them come up with their own interpretations?
8-4: We tried to give them as much freedom as possible. We worked with Jim (Guthrie) and Craig (Adams) to come up with a list of 10 or so songs that would be the best candidates for remixing, and then, as we recruited artists, we basically would just let them pick whichever song they had the strongest reaction to. There were a couple situations where people picked the same song, or the artists actually asked for more direction in terms of style, where we could point to previous songs or games of theirs and say "maybe something in this vein?", but for the most part we thought it would turn out best if we just sat back and let them do their thing. When we got the first rough versions of all the tracks, we knew it was going to work out -- it seemed like all the artists just inherently "got it." After that, all we had were a couple specific suggestions about really minor things, like maybe a bit shorter on this track, maybe this sound effect is a little too loud in the mix on that one -- if the artist agreed they changed it, if not we just left it as-is.
1UP: Did any of the composers play the game before creating their renditions, or did most of them find it sufficient to base their work on the music alone?
[8-4] It was different from artist to artist. We sent everyone a bunch of information about the game -- YouTube links, a summary of the story and what the project was going for, that sort of stuff -- plus the full original album, so all of them could react to the artwork, the music, and the overall style. A few of them had actually already played the game, which was a cool surprise. Baiyon, for example, immediately had ideas for his track that incorporated some really obscure stuff that only a hardcore Sworcery fan would even know about.
1UP: Did any of the results surprise you? If so, how?
JG: Yes and no. I asked that the artists try and leave a nugget of the original tune in their remixes, but I also really wanted them to do whatever they felt. I think they were all very successful in doing just that.
8-4: Knowing all the artists' work already, we had an idea going in of what to expect, but a couple of the tracks surprised us more than others. In particular, Yamane-san's take on Unknowable Geometry was really moving and epic; we had asked her to give it a little bit of classic Castlevania flavor, and she totally knocked it out of the park with a track that's full of emotion and adventure. It kind of feels like a four-minute dramatic reinterpretation of the entire game. :) Also, Yamaoka-san's track was great because it feels so different in tone from everything else â?? you have all these upbeat melodic, electronic tracks, and then Yamaoka comes in with this dark, kickass, head-banging guitar-fueled take on Bones McCoy that just totally rocks. It felt like the perfect way to close out the album.
1UP: I know it's not cool to ask a father to name which child he loves most, but... which of the collaborative pieces is your favorite, and why?
JG: It changes everyday but I keep going back to "The Prettiest Weed" by Decassegui Hip. It references the original but maintains it's own pace and edge that isn't at all present in the original.
CA: I love a lot of these songs quite a bit. Baiyon's "Just Walking remix" of Jim's "Lone Star" strikes a chord with me, partly because "Lone Star" was one of the original song fragments that helped shape the Sword & Sworcery concept -- it was the iconic 'going on an adventure' tune -- but also because Baiyon's remix finds a great 'walking in the woods' groove and stays there for a good long time. I'd agree with Jim that "The Prettiest Weed" by Decassegui Hip totally kicks ass. If I had to pick just one, however, it'd be Decassegui Hip's "The Maelstrom." Many of the songs on this record seem to represent an artist working in his/her preferred style, comfortably riffing on Jim's songs, but "The Maelstrom" connects with something much deeper for me. To me the heart of the Sword & Sworcery project is a blending of sound, art & concept on an atomic level...and Decassegui's Maelstrom captures the quiet dreamlike moments in the rain, wandering in a lost forest, struggling to understand.
Interestingly, the day I arrived in Tokyo we met 8-4 for supper and Hiroko asked this same question about favorite songs -- we found we preferred this same song for the exact same reasons!
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Lol.Posted: Oct 26, 2012 12:00AM PST by SamsBridal.com
Thanks for that.
Wow, Michiru Yamane is getting around with Western IPs these daysPosted: Jun 27, 2012 12:00AM PST by ThatCoreyIsASpy!
I knew she had a hand with the Skullgirls sound track and nailed it right out the park with Vincent Diamante. Now I'm interesting into listening the Japanese and the Western of S&S...and should probably try the game too.
Great article Jeremy.


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—To determine the ability of patients to complete successfully basic reading and numeracy tasks required to function adequately in the health care setting.
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There was no big scoreboard, and cheers from the few dozen spectators standing on the balcony above the court were just as loud for Loyalsock winning matches as they were for Scranton Prep.
So Loyalsock's No. 2 doubles team of Anna Criswell and Sammie Via had no idea which of their teammates had won what in Tuesday's first round PIAA Class AA girls team tennis match at the West Branch Tennis Club. But they soon realized the entire afternoon, and the fate of the team's postseason, was coming down to them as they were the only ones still playing.
All four of the other simultaneous matches had ended, and protocol generally dictates these elimination events stop once the decisive third team point is scored.
So Criswell and Via just kept playing and rallied to defeat Annie Tressler and Kathleen Comerford 0-6, 6-4, 6-3 to lift Loyalsock to a 3-2 victory and into Friday's PIAA quarterfinals at the Hershey Racquet Club.
Via's baseline forehand dropped for the final point, one game after Scranton Prep broke serve, as she collapsed in front of the net embracing Criswell.
District 4 champion Loyalsock (19-0) did not lose a set en route to a perfect regular season, but they said the tight competition Tuesday against the District 2 champion team was more fun than those dominating wins.
"During the game, it's awful and you want it to be over," said Via. "But when it is, and you've got that win, it's really good."
It looked for much of the afternoon the No. 2 doubles match might not even finish, not after Scranton Prep's Kendra Coker dropped Loyalsock's Pam Niditch 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 singles in a meeting of reigning district singles champs and Emily Johnson beat Kim Levy 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3 singles.
But District 4 runner-up Emily Niditch held off Grace Reilly 7-5, 6-3 at No. 2 singles and Ashleigh Bair and Anna Newcomer won 6-4, 6-2 over Annie Tressler and Kathleen Comerford at No. 1 doubles.
And just in case Criswell and Via were too focused on their match to know, or couldn't make out the blue and green score flaps hanging off each net, coach Rick Zimmerman reminded them after the second set that as seniors this was their moment.
"Obviously at the start things didn't look good, but the key was No. 1 doubles and Emily always gives you a chance for a point," said Zimmerman.
Criswell thought nerves were behind the slow start, but eventually calmed down as one point started leading to another.
"This is the best team we've played all season," said Criswell. "We've had a lot of experience at No. 2 doubles, but after the first set we lost, we were like, 'We're here, let's go.'"
Tuesday's win not only created the Lancers' third PIAA quarterfinal appearance in the last five years, it meant they fulfilled every goal of an unbeaten season, league title, district title, and an appearance in Hershey.
And while the Lancers' haven't scored a team point in those previous Hershey appearance, they hope to do that and more when they play Quaker Valley Friday at 12:30.
"This has been an unbelievable dream-like year, and today's win caps it off," said Zimmerman.
At Hershey, District 3 champion Wyomissing eliminated District 4 runner-up Hughesville, 4-0.
Loyalsock 3, Scranton Prep 2
1. Kendra Coker, S, def. Pam Niditch 6-1, 6-0; 2. Emily Niditch, L, def. Grace Reilly 7-5 6-3; 3. Emily Johnson, S, def. Kim Levy 6-2, 6-2
1. Ashleigh Bair/Anna Newcomer, L, def. Annie Tressler/Kathleen Comerford 6-4, 6-2; 2. Anna Criswell/Sammie Via, L ,def. Emilia Jakubek 6-0, 6-4, 6-3
Records: Loyalsock 19-0, Scranton Prep 16-1.
Wyomissing 4, Hughesville 0
1. Audrey Ann Blakely, W, def. Kelsey McCabe 6-0, 6-0; 2. Greta Koch, W, led Kaylora Thompson 6-2, 4-1 DNF; 3. Caroline Patillo, W, def. Courtney McCowan 6-0, 6-1
1. Maria Trifoi/Allison White, W, def. Kierra Croucher/Ansley Galicic 6-0, 6-0; 2. Carmen Heinly/Hayley Green, W, def. Olivia Gorg/Anna Trevouledes 6-1, 6-2.


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- The wording you choose will of course depend on what kind of party you're are having but most party invitations will include the following basic information:
An introduction (optional): This could be a short phrase or a few words (example: You're Invited!)
Description of Event (example: a birthday party for Jane)
Date and Time
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
7:00 pm
Italian Restaurant
123 Main Street
Atlanta, Georgia
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
6:00 pm
The Johannes residence
123 Main Street
Atlanta, Georgia
Rsvp to Julia at 404-123-4567
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Friday, October 10, 2014
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100 Peachtree Street
Downtown Atlanta
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This three-rink facility is the home of the Chicago Steel hockey
team. The Chicago Blackhawks also hold open practices here.
Climbing wall, aquatic center, 1 mile walking trail, gymnasium and
concessions are available. There is also a baseball stadium,
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