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Marrow returns to Blackburn
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The midfielder, who left Ewood Park for Palace during 2011's January transfer window, returns north for an undisclosed fee.
The transfer reunites Marrow with Gary Bowyer, who has graduated from reserve-team boss to manager in the 23-year-old's absence.
"Alex is someone I know well from back in the youth and Reserve team days here," Bowyer told the club website.
"He's another player who I feel didn't fulfil his potential here. He was hungry to come back here and make his mark, which he was unable to do the first time round. That hunger and desire is what we need."
Marrow, who did not make a first-team appearance during his first spell at Blackburn, featured just four times for Palace during their promotion-winning season.
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MLC baseball season ends with loss to NWC
DULUTH – The Martin Luther College baseball team saw its season end with a 5-2 loss to Northwestern in an elimination game at the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference postseason tournament Saturday afternoon.
The Knights were playing their fourth game in less than 48 hours, and were forced to start Joe Janke on just one day of rest. He pitched admirably, giving the Knights five strong innings and allowing only one run on six hits and one walk before exiting with MLC trailing 1-0.
Matt Olson came in relief in the sixth inning after starting yesterday's early game against CSS. He allowed one run in the sixth, but pitched a scoreless seventh to keep the Knights in the game at 2-0.
MLC would get on the board in the top of the eighth, with Brad Essig reaching base on a single and scoring later in the inning on a single by Dillon Rannow. The Knights put runners at second and third base with one out in the inning, but NWC pitcher Zach Markwith struck out the next two batters to end the threat and keep the Eagles ahead 2-1.
The Knights threatened in the final inning, loading the bases with one out thanks to singles by Jake Ziel and William Jensen before Dorn was hit by a pitch. Essig drove Ziel home with a fielder's choice to cut the deficit to 5-2 with two outs and two runners still on base, but Markwith got James Hemmelman to ground out to first base for the final out to end the game.
Janke took the loss, dropping his record to 4-2 on the season.
MLC fished with seven hits in the game compared to nine for NWC. Essig and Ziel each finished with one hit and one run.
The Knights finished the season 14-12 with the loss, having reached the postseason tournament for the first time as a program since 2008.


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I love Jasmine tea and Rose tea, and I've been wondering what this other floral tea is like. I've seen osmanthus oolong and osmanthus pouchong (like a green or very light oolong) from various companies.
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Rally for the record books
HOUGHTON – A return to Rally America's national championship was big enough, but this weekend's Lake Superior Performance Rally has even more to offer: High drama.
The roads of Houghton and Baraga County will decide a duel for the championship between a pair of former LSPR winners in David Higgins and Ken Block.
Each driver must finish (not always a given at a rally once known as 'Press On Regardless'). If either wins LSPR, they'll win the national championship, which for Block would require a tiebreaker he would earn in his favor.
"When you're a small boy, you dream about going into the last round of the championship battling for the win. That's exactly what we've got this weekend and I'm looking forward to it," Higgins said Wednesday in a media teleconference.
Higgins' co-driver is Craig Drew of Bristol, England, while Block's is Alex Gelsomino, an Italian now living in Los Angeles.
LSPR, now in its 19th edition, is back on the national schedule after three years as a regional event.
Entries have surged from 35 in 2012 to 56 this time and include not only Higgins and Block, but defending champs Henry and Cynthia Krolikowski from downstate Wyandotte, 2011 champs Adam Yeoman (Hancock) and Jordan Schulze (Lake Linden) of local team FY Racing and several other local entries.
Higgins, a British driver born on the Isle of Man and now living in Wales, won two of the first three races to take a commanding lead in the standings, but has watched Block, now of Park City, Utah, storm back to win the last three rounds.
They're separated by only five points under the LSPR system, which includes dropping the worst result of the season.
"Finding that edge of speed and safety is going to be paramount, and to find it quickly," Block said.
The federal government shutdown ended too late for Rally America officials to prepare portions of the Ottawa National Forest scheduled for today's stages, so the event will take place using Saturday's stages on both days, which will shorten the overall mileage.
Yeoman and Schulze enter this weekend's finale in seventh place in the national standings, though after a run of three 'did not finishes' got back on the board with a fourth at the Ojibwe Forests Rally in Minnesota in late August.
Mason Moyle of Houghton has an outside chance at the Super Production title after a season in which he finished second in class three times in just his second season running Super Production. However, he'd need leader David Sterckx of Los Angeles to DNF.
The event begins today with a Parc Expose at 12:30 p.m. at Country Inn and Suites in Houghton before beginning with a pair of afternoon stages at the Moyle Sand and Gravel pit on Green Acres Road in Portage Township.
From there, action will shift to Baraga County for the remainder, which includes six stages, several at night. An 8:30 a.m. parc expose begins Saturday's action on Front and Broad streets in L'Anse, culminating in a victory celebration Saturday night back in Houghton.
Block expressed concern that the roads could develop damaging ruts, seeing as many of the stages will now be run twice in both directions.
"It's going to be much more of a sprint. It's definitely going to be a tight one, I think," Block said.
But for Higgins, who cruised to last year's championship by a wide margin, the thrill of a championship chase raises the skills of the entire field.
"When you're battling for 10 seconds, it makes you drive harder, and the harder you drive, the more reward you get from it," Higgins said.
Weather conditions are expected to be sketchy all weekend, but that's just part of what rally has to offer, Higgins said.
"That's what makes rally what it is, and I'm looking forward to whatever is thrown at us," he said.


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Villard, Oswald Garrison
Oswald Garrison Villard 1872-1949
American journalist, biographer, and nonfiction writer.
As owner of the Nation and its editor for 14 years, Villard built the magazine into a leading liberal publication. He was an outspoken pacifist and continually emphasized the importance of individual freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press.
Biographical Information
Villard was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1872, during one of his parents' extended stays there. Both liberalism and journalism were a part of his heritage. His father, Henry Villard, was a German immigrant who purchased the New York Evening Post and its weekly supplement, the Nation, in 1881. His mother, Helen Frances Garrison, was the daughter of liberal journalist and abolition leader William Lloyd Garrison. After earning a B.A. from Harvard University in 1893, Villard began writing for the Nation. He completed an M.A., also from Harvard, in 1897, and became an editorial writer for the Post. Villard inherited both publications upon his father's death in 1900 and served as editor of the Post until 1918. That year, he sold the Post but retained the Nation and became its editor, holding that position until 1932, when he turned control over to a board of editors. He stayed on as a contributing editor until 1940, when he resigned over the magazine's increasingly militaristic views. During his time as editor of the Nation Villard found many reasons to remind readers of the importance of freedom of expression. The Espionage Act of 1917 and later the Sedition Act of 1918, prompted by the United States' entry into World War I, limited protests against the war effort. Conscientious objectors were poorly tolerated by both the government and the American public, and Villard, due to his German descent and outspoken pacifism, became suspect. One of Villard's most memorable battles began with an editorial, published in the September 14, 1918 issue of the Nation, which criticized American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers, whom the government had assigned to report on labor conditions in Europe. The Postmaster General, under his authority through the Espionage Act, refused to mail the issue of the Nation; Villard successfully appealed to members of the presidential cabinet, and the ban was lifted by order of the President four days later. Villard continued to espouse pacifism throughout his life, but his views became increasingly unpopular with World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor. He died on October 1, 1949.
Major Works
In addition to his articles written for the New York Evening Post and the Nation, Villard published a large number of books of nonfiction, including notable works of historical biography. These include John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After (1910), a portrait of the anti-slavery agitator, and William Lloyd Garrison (1918), about his abolistionist grandfather. Villard also wrote several works on journalism, including Some Newspapers and Newspapermen (1923) and The Disappearing Daily (1944). The Fighting Years: Memoirs of a Liberal Editor (1939), Villard's memoir, chronicles his life as a pacifist, liberal, and journalist.
Critical Reception
Critics praised John Brown as a balanced appraisal of the subject's life and career. "We have here a book, and the only book, in which the unquestioned facts of John Brown's career are completed exhibited," William MacDonald wrote in a review in the Nation, labeling the work "a solid achievement in the field of historical scholarship." Some Newspapers and Newspapermen was praised for its comprehensive insight into the world of journalism, but some found the later Disappearing Daily to be derivative. Writing for the American Sociological Review, F. Howard Forsyth asserted, "This book is frankly a rewrite of his previous volume." Villard's autobiographical Fighting Years encouraged new discussion of liberalism and its impact on America during the twentieth century; its title, Freda Kirchwey observed in the Nation, "is an accurate summing up of his public career."
Principal Works
The Early History of Wall Street (nonfiction) 1897
William Henry Baldwin: A Life of Civic Endeavor (biography) 1905
Self-Criticism North and South (nonfiction) 1906
John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (biography) 1910
The Objects of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (nonfiction) 1912
Some Weaknesses of Modern Journalism (nonfiction) 1914
Germany Embattled: An American Interpretation (nonfiction) 1915
The United States and Its Foreign Born Citizens (nonfiction) 1915
The Duty of the Press in War Time (nonfiction) 1917
Will the Real Germany Awake? (nonfiction) 1917
Universal Military Training: Our Latest Cure-All (nonfiction) 1918
William Lloyd Garrison (biography) 1918
Some Newspapers and Newspapermen (nonfiction) 1923
Russia from a Car Window (nonfiction) 1929
The Press Today (nonfiction) 1930
Henry Villard: A True Fairy Tale (biography) 1931
The German Phoenix: The Story of the Republic (nonfiction) 1933
Our Military Chaos: The Truth about Defense (nonfiction) 1939
The Fighting Years: Memoirs of a Liberal Editor (memoir) 1939
Inside Germany; With an Epilogue: England at War (nonfiction) 1940
Disarmament in the Post War World (nonfiction) 1942
The Disappearing Daily: Chapters in American Newspaper Evolution (nonfiction) 1944
Free Trade, Free World (nonfiction) 1947
How America Is Being Militarized (nonfiction) 1947
How Stands Our Press? (nonfiction) 1947
Oswald Garrison Villard, The Dilemmas of the Absolute Pacifist in Two World Wars [edited by Anthony Gronowicz] (nonfiction) 1983
H. Addington Bruce (review date 15 October 1910)
SOURCE: Bruce, H. Addington. "John Brown of Osawatomie." New York Times Book Review 15, no. 42 (15 October 1910): 567.
[In the following review, Bruce praises Villard's biography of John Brown as a thorough and conscientious, if controversial, work.]
Mr. Villard's John Brown is a capital example of the thorough, the conscientious and the candidly critical in historical writing. It may well be described as the first really adequate biography of a man who, whatever one may think of the chief acts of his life, has won a conspicuous place among American immortals. In its preparation no available source of information seems to have been neglected. Original documents, contemporary letters and living witnesses have been examined in all parts of the country. Materials never before utilized have been drawn upon, and use has been made of others whose existence has hitherto been unknown. There is a constant citation of authorities, the note references running far into the hundreds, together with an excellent bibliography. The result is a work that not only meets the demands of the modern scientific school but is of a high literary quality. Perhaps the criticism should be made that there is an obvious tendency to go too minutely into detail, but in view of the importance of the subject this fault may readily be condoned.
Like all other students who have given the matter thoughtful consideration, Mr. Villard is hard put to it to account for John Brown's militant and uncompromising hatred for slavery. He sees clearly enough that Brown's autobiographical statement describing incidents of slavery which he observed in boyhood, is quite futile as an explanatory hypothesis. Why should one who so hated the profession of arms, Mr. Villard pertinently inquires, be the first to take up arms in order to free the slave from his chains? What was there in the humdrum life of an Ohio farmer to cause him to espouse the rôle of a border chieftain in the middle of the nineteenth century? The answer apparently is to be sought in Brown's innate love of freedom, his strenuousness and his proneness to violence. The theory, however, that he was insane, and that his bloody doings in Kansas and Virginia were the frenzied work of a monomaniac, finds no favor with Mr. Villard. Says he, emphatically:
If it could be reasonably declared that he was partially or wholly deranged, it would be easy to explain away those of his acts which at times baffle an interpreter of this remarkable personality—the Pottawatomie murders, for instance. But this cannot be done. Gov. Wise was correct in his estimate of John Brown's mentality; the final proof is the extraordinary series of letters written by him in jail after his doom was pronounced. No lunatic ever penned such elevated and highminded, and such consistent epistles. If to be devoted to one idea, or to a single cause, is to be a monomaniac, then the world owes much of its progress toward individual and racial freedom to lunacy of this variety. If John Brown was insane on the subject of slavery, so were Lucretia Mott and Lydia Maria Child, while Garrison and Phillips and Horace Greeley should never have been allowed to go at large. That their methods of advancing their joint cause differed from John Brown's violent ones, in no wise argues that he...
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William MacDonald (review date 20 October 1910)
SOURCE: MacDonald, William. Review of John Brown, by Oswald Garrison Villard. Nation 91, no. 2364 (20 October 1910): 357-59.
[In the following review, MacDonald considers Villard's John Brown to be an important achievement in historical biography.]
Of all the men who have held, for some brief space of time, the eye of the American people, none has evoked more diverse estimates of his character, motives, or achievements, or stirred more deeply or lastingly the fountains of enthusiastic praise and bitter hate, than John Brown of Osawatomie. The student of American history finds him acclaimed, on the one hand, as the saviour of Kansas, the chief agent in...
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Robert Morss Lovett (review date 21 November 1923)
SOURCE: Lovett, Robert Morss. "Personality and the Press." Nation 117, no. 3046 (21 November 1923): 584-85.
[In the following review, Lovett examines Villard's Some Newspapers and Newspapermen.]
There has been in the last few years a notable increase in the number of books dealing with public opinion in its formation and expression. Obviously this is a result of the war, in which we had the experience of finding ourselves moving under the impulse of mass currents in a direction quite opposite to that prescribed by our national character and tradition, and to a destination which we could never, as individuals, have desired or chosen. We have become curious as to the...
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M. J. Bonn (review date 10 May 1933)
SOURCE: Bonn, M. J. "Why the Republic Fell." New Republic 74, no. 962 (10 May 1933): 370-71.
[In the following review, Bonn praises The German Phoenix but finds some shortcomings in Villard's analysis.]
The German Phoenix is a generous appreciation of the difficulties under which the German Republic rose, and the achievements standing to its name. It comes at a time when the Phoenix is undergoing a thorough transfiguration which has changed its outer aspect completely. The future alone can show what of the structure erected in the years 1918-19 will survive the violent transformation it is subjected to at present.
Mr. Villard gives a...
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Max Lerner (review date 26 April 1939)
SOURCE: Lerner, Max. "The Liberalism of O. G. Villard." New Republic 98, no. 1273 (26 April 1939): 342-44.
[In the following review, Lerner finds that The Fighting Years provides more insight into Villard's milieu than his personality.]
Mr. Villard's book of memoirs [The Fighting Years], compact of militancy, indignation and an underlying sense of failure, lights up a whole period in the history of American liberalism. It does not to the same degree delineate a personality. There is little in it of the interior writing that has marked the creative tradition in modern autobiography, from Rousseau to Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens. The category it...
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Lewis S. Gannett (essay date 1940)
SOURCE: Gannett, Lewis S. "Villard's Nation." In One Hundred Years of "The Nation": A Cenntenial Anthology, edited by Henry M. Christman, pp. 35-40. New York: Macmillan, 1940.
[In the following essay, Gannett examines the social and political impact of The Nation under Villard's editorship.]
I doubt that there was ever another such journalistic heaven as was The Nation in the early post-war years. I came back from France that autumn of 1919 with one ambition in all the world: to land a job on Villard's Nation. I knew what I wanted, and was blissful when I got it: half-time at first, and small pay.
Those were rousing...
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F. Howard Forsyth (review date April 1945)
SOURCE: Forsyth, F. Howard. Review of The Disappearing Daily, by Oswald Garrison Villard. American Sociological Review 10, no. 2 (April 1945): 324-25.
[In the following review, Forsyth finds many shortcomings in Villard's The Disappearing Daily.]
This book [The Disappearing Daily] by a life-long journalist and supporter of liberal causes is better described by the subtitle as "chapters in American newspaper evolution." It is in much of its total a series of essays about the chief newspapers and their owners in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington and St. Louis. The selection of cities and of papers is not presented as logical or statistically...
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Helen MacGill Hughes (review date July 1945)
SOURCE: Hughes, Helen MacGill. Review of The Disappearing Daily, by Oswald Garrison Villard. American Journal of Sociology 51, no. 1 (July 1945): 79.
[In the following review, Hughes finds The Disappearing Daily to be an interesting and readable account of the demise of the daily newspaper in America.]
Because of his long and honorable newspaper career, Mr. Villard should be given a respectful hearing whenever he feels moved to speak of the press. He could write the history of half-a-century of American journalism in terms of personal memoirs. This [The Disappearing Daily] volume continues the study begun with the publication of Some Newspapers...
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Freda Kirchwey (essay date 8 October 1949)
SOURCE: Kirchwey, Freda. "Oswald Garrison Villard." Nation 169, no. 15 (8 October 1949): 340.
[In the following essay, Kirchwey provides a brief history and assessment of Villard's influence on journalism.]
Applied to Oswald Garrison Villard, the word "liberal" never carried a connotation of mildness or indecision. Instead it called up the image of a crusading reformer, animated by strong convictions and fierce indignations, moving in to battle against the many varieties of social and political sin with which his time was so heavily afflicted. He titled his autobiography Fighting Years, and it was an accurate summing up of his public career. His...
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Lewis Gannett (essay date 22 July 1950)
SOURCE: Gannett, Lewis. "Villard and His Nation." Nation 171, no. 4 (22 July 1950): 79-82.
[In the following essay, Gannett discusses the place of Villard and The Nation in journalistic history.]
Oswald Garrison Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents: the high-principled idealism of his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, and the high-principled realism of his railroad-building father, Henry Villard. He never understood the contradictions within the characters of both those stalwart Americans, or in himself. But it was those contradictions which made Villard the great editor that he was, and...
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Stephan A. Thernstrom (essay date winter 1960)
SOURCE: Thernstrom, Stephan A. "Oswald Garrison Villard and the Politics of Pacifism." Harvard Library Bulletin 14, no. 1 (winter 1960): 126-52.
[In the following essay, Thernstrom discusses Villard's pacifist beliefs and the effect they had on his editorship of The Nation.]
'History, if honest history continues to be written, will have one question to ask of our generation,' Archibald MacLeish wrote in the Nation in May of 1940. Why, he wondered, had America's intellectuals failed to rise to the challenge of Fascism with 'the arms of scholarship and writing? It is a question the historians will ask with interest—the gentle, detached, not altogether...
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D. Joy Humes (essay date 1960)
SOURCE: Humes, D. Joy. "A Liberal's Concern for Individual Freedoms." In Oswald Garrison Villard, Liberal of the 1920's, pp. 33-75. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1960.
[In the following essay, Humes discusses Villard's commitment to freedom of speech and press in his life and career.]
The core of liberalism, historically, has been liberty or freedom. It was in the hope of achieving freedom that political democracies were born. The objective was a form of government best suited to guarantee to the individual maximum freedom from arbitrary and unlimited authority. Self-government seemed to offer the best solution.
Long considered a basic...
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Charles Angoff (essay date summer 1963)
Angoff, Charles. "Oswald Garrison Villard and The Nation: A Memoir. Antioch Review 23, no. 2 (summer 1963): 232-40.
[In the following essay, Angoff relates his own personal experiences with Oswald Garrison Villard, both positive and negative.]
I was editor of the Nation for less than a year, only about eight months, in 1935, and was unhappy there. That is twenty-eight years ago, and whatever personal ill-feeling I may have had, I believe, has disappeared. I was unhappy largely because I was disappointed. I had for years had a large respect, nay, an awe of that magazine and its editors. In Harvard, it, along with the New Republic, was my...
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Michael Wreszin (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: Wreszin, Michael. "Introduction" and "Respectable Reform." In Oswald Garrison Villard: Pacifist at War, pp. 3-6; 25-37. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965.
[In the following essays, Wreszin provides a brief overview and assessment of Villard's career and discusses the reform issues Villard advocated in The Nation.]
In 1877 Henry Villard, returning to America from a business and pleasure trip abroad, moved into the new and fashionable Westmoreland Apartments at the corner of Seventeenth Street and Fifth Avenue just across from Union Square. The building, fitted out with one of the first private elevators in the city, was young Oswald Garrison...
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Anthony Gronowicz (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Gronowicz, Anthony. Introduction to Oswald Garrison Villard: The Dilemmas of the Absolute Pacifist in Two World Wars, edited by Anthony Gronowicz, pp. vii-xxi. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1983.
[In the following essay, Gronowicz details how Villard used the pages of his newspapers to advance his own fundamental goals, especially that of pacificism.]
Oswald Garrison Villard was owner and editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation during the first half of the twentieth century. His career as a pacifist paralleled the buildup of the American military from a minor auxiliary of the state to the "military-industrial...
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Grant looks good again. He's shown some moves to get some extra yards and of course, he's shown the decisiveness that made him so good a few years back.
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Optimism, stability grows in wood market
State of the Industry 2012,
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Optimism, stability grows in wood market
A gradual return of the builder market and renewed consumer confidence resulted in an increase in hardwood sales this year, according to industry executives. A sense of optimism, however, is tempered by concern about price increases forced by rising raw material and transportation costs.
Other factors that impacted the market this year were the International Trade Commission's (ITC) ruling in October of 2011 that put rates on engineered wood from China and, in turn, resulted an increase in U.S. manufacturing.
Neal Hochstein, sales manager at Classic Carpet One in Shelby Township, Mich., a suburb outside of Detroit, said, "Business is gradually getting stronger because the economy is a little bit better and consumer confidence is growing, there's pent up demand. We're seeing a little more traffic into the store, the downside is the traffic is inconsistent and sales do fluctuate," he said.
According to Catalina Research's 2012 3Q update, wood flooring manufacturer dollar sales were estimated to have increased 5.6 percent in the first nine months of this year while square foot sales were estimated to have increased by 6.6 percent for the same period.
Consumer preferences trending towards hardwood looks and improved price competitiveness are leading to growth in both value and volume sales, according to Catalina Research's Quarterly Update.
Dan Natkin, director of wood and laminate business at Mannington, said that growth in the builder segment is a positive sign for the recovering housing industry. "We see the builders at the early stages of coming back because it's a function of people delaying purchases for long enough. Value oriented price points still dominate and we see resurgence of traditional finishes and basic oaks and hickories, and away from exotics," he said.
Philip Key, vice president of sales and marketing at CFS, agreed, and said that consumers have opted to invest in their current home versus purchasing a new one. The company's double digit growth — a growth rate it has sustained for the last four years in a row — can be attributed to a consumer demand for a unique product.
Don Finkell, CEO of Anderson Hardwood, added that for three years, the housing industry bounced along the bottom but he now hears from his customers and vendors that they see a gradual rebound in housing. But, he said, while consumer confidence is rising, the "fiscal cliff" remains an uncertain factor on the economy.
"We're seeing the jobless rate come down and people are seeing that we're emerging from the recession even though there seems to be a fair amount of concern over the fiscal cliff as the year comes to an end," said Finkell.
2012 can also be characterized by increasing domestic supply and patriotism, said Neil Poland, president of Mullican flooring.
"I will remember 2012 as the start of the Made in U.S.A wood flooring movement. We have seen a significant increase in the demand for these products by consumers, builders, retail dealers and flooring distributors. It is my opinion that the American consumer generally wants to purchase wood flooring manufactured from domestic wood species, due to our nation's healthy reforestation practices and the fact that a Made in U.S.A. purchase is good for American jobs and our economy," said Poland. For Mullican, 2012 was an especially strong year — the company successfully started up an engineered floor manufacturing operation and relocated a pre-finishing facility to a new site in Johnson City, Tenn.
On the retail level, the industry is experiencing a softer recovery, according to Drew Hash, vice president of product category for hard surfaces, Shaw Floors. He said retail will continue to be challenged by an escalation of raw material prices.
Hochstein of Classic Carpet One said he believes that one factor strengthening the hardwood market is a growing consumer preference towards hard surface products over soft surface.
"I think consumers view hardwood as more natural and green. And, the price gap between hardwood, especially domestic wood, and soft surface is closing. Pressure has been easing on domestic hardwood prices and we're even seeing some species drop in cost," he said.
Poland of Mullican said that growth is being seen across the board, and is not relegated to one area of the country. "Moderate growth is being achieved in parts of the Midwest and Southeast in cities that did not expand rapidly from 2003 to 2006. These areas did not experience dramatic downturns in the real estate market in 2008 and 2009. The Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area continues to grow due to the tremendous increase in government jobs and expenditures."
Additionally, growth in the commericial segment has brought about many new and interesting projects, a positive sign for the hardwood market, according to Luc Robitaille, vice president of marketing at Boa-Franc.
Areas of challenge
While industry executives said there are many improving markets throughout the country, even in cities that had not experienced much growth in the past few years, there are still areas of concern.
According to Mannington's Natkin, the biggest challenge to the hardwood industry remains the West Coast of the country. He explained that while the market is beginning to come back, the West Coast is still dominated by low priced imports, despite the ITC case on engineered hardwood products coming into the country. However, he added, the Southeast, Mid-west and Southwest markets, which are traditionally engineered markets, are now showing early signs of recovery.
Although the industry saw housing starts begin to pick up, the replacement and remodel segment is somewhat flat or negative, explained Milton Goodwin, vice president of product management-hardwood at Armstrong. However, he added, there is pent up demand that should bring business.
"All in all, we saw a little bit of an increase year over year in the housing market driven by the builder market. Nowhere where we want it to be, but we'll take it," said Goodwin. "Our approach is to offer value, performance and a design story. We estimate we will finish the year better than market."
Wade Bondrowski, director of sales, USA, Mercier said that despite growth in hardwood numbers, the industry is not out of the woods just yet.
"I truly believe things are getting better but they're not great. The consumer is getting back into retail and the housing market is growing but not growing well enough for the industry," said Bondrowski.
Domestics vs. Imports
Domestic manufacturing got a boost in 2012 when several manufacturers moved what was once produced overseas to onshore production. It is a shift that industry executives said will continue. Still, imported goods remain a significant piece of the hardwood market.
According to Catalina Research, over 2011 and into the first half of 2012, imports continued to rise. However, in 2011, the rapid increase of imports slowed somewhat. In the first half of 2012, Catalina reported that imports increased 21.5 percent.
Finkell of Anderson said that Chinese goods continue to put downward price pressure on the industry.
"I'm hearing different stories from different people, and I'm hearing that the wood flooring business is still difficult and solid is still difficult from a profit standpoint. I think China continues to get more and more share of the engineered business but I do feel like there's a general increase in people who are gaining, including both Chinese and domestic suppliers," he said.
Goodwin added that there are signs pointing to growth in domestic manufacturing. "A lot of lumber is shipped out of U.S. into China to be reworked. This will give an advantage to U.S. manufactures on the solid side and on veneer prices that are shipped into the U.S. It should give a boost to U.S. manufacturing."
Price increases
Rising lumber prices continue to challenge the hardwood industry and resulted in price increases from several suppliers in the third quarter this year. According to Catalina Research, lumber prices are estimated to have increased by 4.9 percent during the third quarter of 2012.
Armstrong was among the first companies to announce a price increase on solid and engineered hardwood products that will go into effect in December and January.
"The price increases are driven 100 percent by raw material and lumber inflation. If product comes from China that includes shipping costs and if it comes from the U.S. that includes truck costs. Unfortunately, we had to include some of that increase along to our customers, all of our major competitors followed so we're all in the same boat," said Goodwin.
Poland added, "The challenge in the second half of 2012 and looking ahead to 2013 is definitely the escalation in lumber prices, which have increased more than 20 percent over the past 90 days. Unfortunately, there is now a mild shortfall of supply due to a decline in the number of sawmills, logging contractors and other lumber infrastructure companies."
Bondrowski of Mercier said that for many hardwood companies, a price increase isn't necessarily negative for companies that tend to play in the upper-end. "We were already priced higher than others so hopefully this will level the playing field," said Bondrowski.
Bamboo growth
For bamboo, 2012 brought the introduction of more strand woven visuals — such as rustic and distressed wood looks — to the bamboo market, a departure from the more traditional strand woven looks previously seen, explained Key of CFS.
David Keegan, COO of Bamboo Hardwoods said the key event shaping the bamboo market is the consumer's changing perception of bamboo. Consumers are continually appreciating the material for its durability and performance characteristics, he said, adding that he is beginning to see bamboo spec'd more for multi-family projects and for other commercial applications.
Jamann Stepp, vice president of sales and marketing at Home Legend, said that bamboo, in fact, has been able to gain market share this year. "For Home Legend, the bamboo category has performed excellent in 2012. Also, the numbers I have from Catalina Research show bamboo sales and volume gaining market share over the last several years. Bamboo has made great strides with product launches and innovative technology, especially within strand woven category. But there still exist a challenge of converting specific regions of the country to the mindset that bamboo is a viable go to flooring option, that is comparable to hardwood," said Stepp.
Key said that consumers are likewise becoming more familiar with cork flooring and beginning to specify it.
Added Keegan of Bamboo Hardwoods, "I would say that sales have been about the same for the overall alternative hardwood industry, the economy didn't bump up like we had hoped it would. So we didn't lose ground but we didn't gain ground, and considering the economy that's a victory as far as I'm concerned."


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I reckon that he's not kinda "guitar hero" or virtuose as Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton or David Gilmour but he ever played with much feeling and putting the chords on the right lines... don't know if you're understanding me... His guitar solos on "Something" and more recently on "Free As A Bird" ever move me too much!!! His slide guitar riffs are much peculiar and got his own style.
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Comparison of effectiveness and safety between granules and decoction of Chinese herbal medicine: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials
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The clinical use of Chinese herbal medicine granules is gradually increasing. However, there is still no systematic review comparing the effectiveness and safety of granules with the more traditional method of herbal decoctions.
A literature search was conducted using China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI), Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP), China Biomedical Database web (CBM), Wanfang Database, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library until March 10, 2011. Clinical controlled trials (CCTs) including randomized trials (RCTs) comparing the effectiveness and safety between Chinese herbal medicine granules and decoction were included. Two authors conducted the literature searches, and extracted data independently. The assessment of methodological quality of RCTs was based on the risk of bias from the Cochrane Handbook, and the main outcome data of trials were analyzed by using RevMan 5.0 software. Risk ratio (RR) or mean difference (MD) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) were used as effect measure.
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As a student in Compassion's Leadership Development Program (LDP), Karim understood the weight of poverty and the release of hope. He and a group of students had found themselves in this tiny village in Uganda as part of a service project. While the Leadership Development Program affords students a chance to attend university, it also focuses on developing students into leaders who can change their communities, their countries, and the world.
A woman with a face weathered beyond her years sat on the dusty floor of her dark home, her blind eyes staring at nothing. Her hair was brittle and matted, her clothes hanging off her thin frame. Her four children played in the dirt, their bodies ravaged by malnutrition. Everything in the home was covered in grime. The latrine next to the house was collapsing in on itself.
As a child who had grown up in poverty, Karim Sensalire was not often surprised by the despair he saw in his home country of Uganda. But the hopelessness of this blind woman, Mariam, and her family was more profound than he was used to. In her children he saw the devastation that could have been his own life. This realization made the hope he found through Compassion all the more powerful.
Karim and his friends had spent the day searching for a service project when they were told about Mariam, a widow in the community who had lost her sight several years earlier.
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Winter 2002
Volume 6 Number 2
There are times when events make editorial decisions. The winter 2002 issue of inSpire was planned around the theme of spirituality and the life of the Spirit in Christian community long before September 11. To address the theme, we planned articles by Seminary professors Diogenes Allen and Paul Rorem on aspects of spirituality; a story on the labyrinth project of PTS alumna Lauren Artress at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco; a story introducing Kristin Saldine, the Seminary's new minister of the chapel; and a reprint of Martin Luther King Jr.'s eulogy for PTS alum and martyr James Reeb, illustrating how seeking justice can be a powerful avenue for spiritual witness.
Then four American passenger planes became weapons of terror on September 11, and a nation was changed.
So to what now seems a providentially chosen issue on spirituality, we quickly added features on how the campus community reacted as an academic year like no other began, and how 19 alums intimately affected by the tragedies responded.
To include these features, we decided to omit the regular Outstanding in the Field section, acknowledging that the many pastors and chaplains who responded to the needs of congregations and individuals across the nation and the world after the events of September 11 are all outstanding witnesses to the Christian gospel of the love of God in Jesus Christ.
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Skip to comments.Obama Says Right to Life Coalition Is Lying About His Record
Posted on 08/17/2008 4:38:04 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
This was a horrible mistake. The Messiah called the Right to Life Coalition liars-- even though their allegations that Obama did not support born-alive legislation are well documented. The NRLC even found an Associated Press article to back them up.
Recently published documents by Jill Stanek prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an IL state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion:
Here is a copy of the committee roll call vote:
The right hand column shows the roll call by which Obama and his Democratic colleagues killed the amended bill - the bill was virtually identical to the federal law that Obama, starting in 2004, claimed he would have supported if he'd had the opportunity. (Jill Stanek and NLRC)
Obama said "the Right to Life Coalition was lying" in an interview after his appearance at the Faith Forum last night.
Christian Broadcasting reported:
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.blogspot.com ...
Where liberals are concerned we don't have to lie. They are pro-abortion. They look at abortion as a part of the liberation of women. Obama may not look at it specifically that way but he certainly is as rabid in his support for the most extreme pro-abortion positions.
Its above his pay grade to tell the truth
"Where liberals are concerned we dont have to lie. They are pro-abortion."
One liberal lady justified her pro-abortion stance. She said there were already too many people in the world anyway.
what the heck is wrong with Obama? it's like he's accusing everyone left and right of doing something to him... that's not the kind of person we want in the most powerful seat in the world.
IMO, this is the first time in BHO's life that he's actually had to face work and reality. Sorry, but he's a spoiled brat whose worst hardship is being half-black...and that really shouldn't be one.
Abortion is the death-worshipping Left's holy sacrament. It all hinges on the belief that a superior class of elites gets to decide who lives and who dies.
History shows us all too clearly what happens when these monsters acquire control of the apparatus of the State.
History also shows us what the only possible response is to those who think that they have the right to dictate the terms of existence to the rest of us.
Obama's story just doesn't hold water. Mistakes are , I'm sure, sometimes made in recording the votes of committees.
But it defies logic to think that Mr. Obama , a hardline liberal whose district had one of the most radical electorates in Illinois, would have bucked his party on this vote.
Then certainly she wouldn't mind me taking her out, right? I mean there are too many people...
I think you are right. He had no idea he would actually have to do stuff. He would just float all the way to the WH on his skin tone. He has never known anything else, so why would he think this would be different?
It is political suicide to openly call a large group of concerned Americans bald face liars when the facts are on the side of the large group! This is not good for Barry; on national TV, calling Americans such as this concerned about infants liars. Not good at all.
He's not used to not floating through life and showing his true colors as a whiner.
Affirmative action product - all he's ever had to do is show up.
Things change.
I think there is some truth to that. However, I would phrase his problem as "not having faced adversity." (He can play the race card all day long, but, in fact, his skin color has helped him more than hurt him.) You can tell he does not deal well with adversity because he gets petulantly defensive and obstinate when he is criticized. I would not be surprised to witness a public temper tantrum or breakdown by Obama by November. I think he'll eventually crack under the pressure--hopefully in public.
Yeah, not only was he a history maker at the Harvard Law Review by being the first Black President (which is a little false as there was a previous black editor, just not called "President"), he was also the only to not have actually written anything for it.
"One liberal lady justified her pro-abortion stance. She said there were already too many people in the world anyway."
Then liberals should do the right thing and commit mass suicide.
"Because a baby is not a criminal."
But that's precisely WHY liberals are pro-abortion and anti-death penalty. Babies are disposable to libs, but hardened criminals are just misunderstood people who had a tough life, and thus they need our sympathy and financial assistance.
He must have another modified version of the truth.
This I've got to hear.
Perhaps she should leave.
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Barack Obama Slams John McCain For Opposing Abortion, Activist Judges
Catholics and Obama
COMMENTARY: Quandry for Catholics At Election Time
The Latest Refinement (Obama on Abortion)
CNN Runs Biased News Story Covering Up Barack Obamas Pro-Abortion Record
Jill Stanek: Obama's biggest lie about supporting infanticide
The Battle for Catholic Voters
New Report Indicates Voters Most Interested in Barack Obamas Position on Abortion
Deal Hudson: Obama and Infanticide?
Ad asks Obama: If fatherhood begins at conception, when does life begin?
Embryonic stem-cell research immoral, unnecessary, bishops say
Catholics should not vote for Obama
Catholic Caucus: It is a sin to vote/support Obama/DNC [abortion]
More Catholics leaning towards Democrats, poll reports (really not Catholics)
The Catholic-Obama Problem (Pope Benedict XVI instructs Catholics about pro-abortion candidates)
Obama's Abortion Bombshell: Unrestricted Abortion....
NARAL Catholics Line Up for Obama
Editorial: Disagreeing with Doug Kmiec One More Time
State-Funded Embryo Research "Makes Taxpayers Complicit in Killing", say Bishops
McCain Meets Privately with Fr. Pavone - Says Constitutional Right to Life Applies to Unborn
Faithful Citizenship: Catholic Vote is very sought after
Has Obama dissolved his Catholic advisory council?
Commentary: Faithful Citizenship and the Formed Conscience
Catholic League: Where's Obama's 'Catholic Advisory Council'? [Not to be found!]
Right-wing Christians beginning to lean left (Misleading headline)
Catholics Debate Obama Vote
US Bishops Urge Voters to Give Priority to Life [Ecumenical]
Corralling the Catholic vote: Political necessity or pipe dream?
DOUG KMIEC: Catholic Reasons for Hope in the General Election
EDITORIAL: Why This Catholic Dreads the Campaign
The Catholic-Obama Problem (Pope Benedict XVI instructs Catholics about pro-abortion candidates)
Thoughts On Roman Catholics For Obama
How Obama's Catholics Will Dodge the Infanticide Question
Catholic Pro-Life Leader Feuds With Barack Obama's "Catholic" Backers
McCain and the Pope: McCain cannot win in November without the Catholic vote (Reagan re-visited?)
Catholics Cannot Vote for Pols Who Support Abortion, Except for Morally Grave Reasons: KY Bishops
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HPBExpo - Hearth Trends Release
HPBExpo 2010 Hearth Trends Release
Clean, Versatile and Eco-Conscious Fireplaces and Stoves Heat up the Market
The 30th Annual HPBExpo in Orlando Showcases Trends, New Products
ORLANDO, Fla. (March 11, 2010) - Fireplace and stove manufacturers across North America and Europe are coming together to reveal their innovative and stylish products that meet the need for efficient, clean heat. The hottest trends and designs are showcased at this year's Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association's (HPBA's) HPBExpo in Orlando from March 11-13.
"Today's consumers want the latest fireplaces and stoves to help them save money on their home heating, create a welcoming ambiance and also be mindful of their environmental impact," said Jack Goldman, HPBA president. "Our member manufacturers have answered the call for quality, convenience and efficiency and we're proud to show them off at our 30th annual HPBExpo."
This year, a variety of clean-burning wood and pellet stoves and fireplace inserts qualify for consumers to earn a $1,500 federal tax credit for adding a 75 percent efficient biomass-burning stove to their homes. The HPBExpo will display a number of these models that were designed to encourage energy-conscious purchases.
2010 Technology and Product Trends
- Green Heat: Manufacturers continue to explore new technologies and fuels to reduce the environmental impact of hearth products while increasing product efficiency. This year marks the HPBExpo's inaugural "Green Pavillion" - an area set up to showcase energy-saving products and educate show attendees on what qualifies as a certified green product.
- Alternative Fuels: From fireplaces fueled by ethanol gels to hearth products that are great for no-burn days, fireplaces, stoves, inserts and outdoor hydronic heaters are being designed to meet and exceed strict government emissions standards. Wood, wood pellets, corn and cherry pits are just a few of the other biomass fuel options that continue to gain in popularity.
- Pieces of Art: Adding or upgrading a fireplace can significantly contribute to the coziness and beauty of a home's design - indoors and out. This year, manufacturers are showcasing fireplaces with swirling flames, ironwood-sculpted faux wood logs for gas fireplaces, electric fireplaces where the flames dance to music and outdoor-fire pits that double as water features.
- Glass Is Hot: Manufacturers are switching out faux logs and rocks for glass fire beds in their latest versions of gas fireplaces. Options for outdoor appliances also include patio flames with colored glass options.
- Convenience Is Key: The newest products on display have consumer convenience in mind and include stoves that can be used as freestanding units or inserts, fireplaces that hang anywhere and extinguishable outdoor wood-burning fireplaces.
2009 Industry Shipment Statistics
The hearth industry is a $5 billion a year industry. In 2009:
- Nearly 1.2 million hearth products were shipped across the United States
- Gas-burning products continued to represent the largest number of products shipped at 635,820.
- Cordwood and electric appliance shipments also remained strong in 2009 at 235,647 and 245,800 units shipped, respectively.
- While pellet appliances only accounted for 4 percent of the shipments in 2009 (46,124), the numbers are still up significantly from where they were a decade ago, and the biomass tax credit will be an incentive to consumers to consider this option in 2010.
Additional industry statistics can be found at www.hpba.org/statistics.
Additional information about the $1,500 consumer federal tax credit for 75 percent efficient biomass-burning wood or pellet stoves or fireplace inserts may be found at www.hpba.org/taxcredit.
About Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association (HPBA)
The Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association based in Arlington, VA, is the North American industry association for manufacturers, retailers, distributors, representatives, service firms and allied associates for all types of hearth, barbecue and patio appliances, fuels and accessories. The association provides professional member services and industry support in education, statistics, government relations, marketing, advertising and consumer education. There are more than 2,500 members in the HPBA. For more information, please visit www.hpba.org.
About HPBExpo
The Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Expo is North America's largest indoor-outdoor living show featuring more than 450 exhibitors who display and demonstrate hearth products, pools and spas, casual furniture, barbecues and accessory products. Each year the show attracts more than 11,000 participants including specialty retailers, installing distributors, HVAC contractors, and LP and hardware dealers. HPBExpo is recognized by Tradeshow Week as one of the 200 largest trade shows in the United States. For more information, please visit www.hpbexpo.org.


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The very first X Factor auditions have kicked off this afternoon (16th June) in Manchester!
Throngs of fans gathered at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Old Trafford where intimate auditions are taking place in front of the four judges.
Shortly after 1.30pm, the returning Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole, new judge Mel B and the ever-present Louis Walsh pulled up in separate cars and were met with huge cheers when they hit the red carpet.
Dermot O'Leary, who's hosting the show for an eighth consecutive year, and brand new Xtra Factor presenter Sarah Jane Crawford also lit up the arrivals.
Check out photos right here:
Last night, Simon Cowell Tweeted: "Just arrived in Manchester. We start X Factor auditions tomorrow. Gulp"
If the hopefuls are successful today, they'll progress to the next round at undisclosed arena venues around the country.
The auditions come a day after 2012 contestant Ella Henderson, who finished in sixth spot, stormed to number one with her debut single 'Ghost'.
The track was penned by hitmaker Ryan Tedder who has worked with Adele, Beyoncé, Ellie Goulding, One Direction, Jennifer Lopez, Leona Lewis and many more.
The X Factor hits television screens this August.


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Topic: Can Apache and Nginx co-exist peacefully?
I'm using a Host Gator VPS which has apache installed by default on port 80 for cPanel. However, I want to use Nginx to serve my rails app. If Nginx runs on a port other than 80, is it possible to route traffic from specific domains to Nginx without being redirected through Apache first? What kind of performance hit would result from routing the request through Apache to Nginx? Would it make sense to do the opposite and give Nginx port 80 since the rails app is the primary use of the box?
Thanks in advance!
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Satara is located in the western region of Maharashtra, near the union of the two great rivers Krishna and Venna. The historic city of Satara is located amidst the beauty and grandeur of nature, so if you plan to travel towards the city then set yourselves for the most mesmerizing experience of your life. Located in the central region of the state, Satara can be easily reached by the means of road, rail and air. Satara bus services cover the entire state with busses plying at frequent Satara bus timings. Satara to Pune and Satara to Mumbai routes face the busiest traffic all around the year.


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-Channeled through Wes Annac-
Every one of you is a Divine channel for the energies of the higher realms to come through, and we've always wished for you dear souls to know this.
We've always wished for you to understand that you come from brimming higher dimensions, wherein the difficulty you experience on the Earth simply cannot exist.
We've worked with so very much of ourselves to help your collective to see the Light and to help every one of you find the individual awakenings that will spark your collective ascension and help every soul on your world find the realms of full consciousness, and we've remained in your skies helping to mitigate and neutralize the pollution manifested and fed.
We can only do so much in the avenue of cleansing humanity's manifested pollution. In the time ahead when the collective vibrations allow for our presence to be made known on your world in a blatant and widespread manner, we'll be passing the torch to humanity and teaching you how to utilize the technologies we've been utilizing, to completely heal your world altogether. Continue reading


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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Jennifer Hudson Celebrity Makeup Tutorial
Time for another celebrity makeup tutorial. Jennifer Hudson is one of my fav actresses/singers. She's such a beauty and multi-talented. I loved her look for the Grammys and found a similar picture from another award show that I loved.
The focus on the look is the platinum colored eyes and glowy skin. This is definitely a very glamorous yet wearable look. I've been trying to do more tutorials which I think would appeal to everyone out there.
Check out my tutorial!
This look is also guy friendly. I wore this to a friend's bday dinner and even got compliments from one of my former guy co-workers. He was like wow your makeup looks really good, lol. Good stuff!
Here's What I Used (All MAC unless otherwise stated):
Live and dye lipglass
Siss lipstick
Stripdown lip pencil
Blond msf
Fun and games blush
Shadester contour powder
Msf natural in med dark
Mineralized satinfinish foundation
Strobe cream
Bobbi brown corrector in dark peach
L'oreal double extend mascara
Texture e/s
Pure white chromaline
Llama e/s
Black e/s from Dangerzone trio
Platinum pigment
Bobbi brown gel liner
The final look!
Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
Atlanta Makeup Artist
16 comments:
- Tigress or Tame? said...
Love this look. I never wear fake lashes cause my man hates them. (I have only wore them once in my life!)I used the double extend mascara (I like how it works, hate how it feels)with two coats and my man took his fingers and tried to pull my lashes off cause he thought they were fake!(I know sounds crazy but it was funny) So this stuff really does EXTEND!! I just wish the finished texture was a little softer.
- February 19, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- A. Rose said...
Ooo. I'm gonna keep this in mind for my bday look. Thanks!! :)
- February 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- Couture Carrie said...
So fabulous! Love the eyes, gorgeous RR!
- February 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- dominican enigma said...
ldred7love the look! you look fab as always. Hey what happened to the couch in the back. lol
- February 19, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- Mets GirLL said...
I love, love, love this look on you-the eyes and the skin are perfect! I don't know how it would look on my ghostly pale self though lol.
- February 19, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- izumi said...
very cute :) do you think it would look as stunning on monolids?
- February 19, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Girl with Curl said...
Love it, of course.
- February 19, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Brandi said...
You always do great looks!! When is website going to be up and running?
- February 19, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- JENSMAKEUPBAG said...
hey renren! love this look very much. i really like that lip color on you. about your hello kitty glitter liner. thanks for the technique!
- February 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- Askmewhats said...
I've watched this last night! I LOVE IT!!!
- February 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- Aubrey said...
that looks amazing!!! :)
- February 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- EbeautyBlog said...
It looks exactly like Hudson's version. Very nice.
- February 19, 2009 at 11:32 PM
- FuN and MakeUp said...
veryy nice! i love ur lipssssssss soo Juicy!!
- February 20, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Marietta said...
It looks exactly like the pic!I love it!!
- February 20, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- Wes said...
I like it!! a LOT!!!
- February 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Stephie said...
i absolutely love your makeup. but i must say, your skin looks to die for! so glowy! i'm jealous :)
- February 24, 2009 at 12:20 PM


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Less than a month into the New Year and the e-retailer and marketplace announces plans for three additional U.S. fulfillment centers.
Mobile is moving on up
Is mobile becoming (gasp) a priority for some retailers?
It's a question e-retailers have struggled with for more than a decade as they launched web sites, and now mobile merchants are finding they must confront it as well: Build or buy your mobile presence?
That dilemma rose to the top of my mind again this week while writing about two competitors in the travel space who had both announced mobile advancements on the same day—Priceline.com with its Android app, and Orbitz.com with an m-commerce site as well as iPhone and Android apps.
It's our policy to ask each company whether they developed mobile apps or sites in-house or used an outside vendor.
What struck me with both companies' responses was their stress on in-house mobile expertise. For example, while Orbitz was honest that its mobile site and apps were developed using both in-house and outside expertise, it would not name the vendor and stressed it was soon bringing all mobile development in-house.
"Moving forward, we intend to manage the bulk of our mobile development in-house," the Orbitz spokesman said. "We're choosing not to name our outside partners at this time, especially since we intend to manage this internally from here out."
Priceline.com on the other hand not only told me it created its new app in-house but was sure to mention the app was created by Priceline's "dedicated mobile development staff."
That got me thinking. Could it be mobile is becoming too important to farm out? Is mobile becoming (gasp) a priority for some retailers—such a priority that merchants are fearful to outsource, afraid they'll be left in a lurch down the line if they don't cultivate their own in-house expertise?
Then, (I think it was a sign) the same day as I wrote the travel story, I received an e-mail from an executive at a major hotel chain. His title: director, mobile & emerging channels. I'm seeing more of this. 1-800-Flowers.com has Kevin Ranford, vice president of online marketing, mobile and social media. EBay's got Steve Yankovich as vice president of mobile and platform business solutions. Amazon calls Sam Hall its director of Amazon Mobile.
Now, I realize I'm naming only the big guns here. Of course 1-800-Flowers is going to take mobile seriously when for the first quarter of its fiscal 2011 ended Sept. 26, m-commerce sales topped $1 million, a 9,900% increase over Q1 2010 sales. And eBay did $600 million in mobile sales last year and is on track for $1.5 billion this year. I also realize a small retailer with a slim staff may not have the resources, time or money to pay a mobile executive or create a soup-to-nuts, whiz-bang mobile presence. In fact, for small players that want try and compete with the behemoths, speedy time to market may be No. 1 on their mobile must-have list. They just want something out there.
Still, I can't deny the hints. Mobile is getting a bigger emphasis within the big players. It seems as though the C-suite is finally listening—dedicating in-house resources tied directly to mobile. I believe eventually small players will begin to follow suit.


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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Lately I've been thinking I should post an explanation, or rather a breakdown, of my books according to genre and relation, or interrelation, i.e., series.
Right off the bat you should know I'm not 'branded', as in I don't write in one specific genre. Which is not a good thing for an author, or so I've been told. Branded authors sell better.
Not being branded is fine for me. It's like this, when you are as ADD-ish as I am, easily bored and have an interest in all kinds of literature… I mean, what else am I supposed to do? I like my stories to come in all shapes and sizes so I write Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Paranormal Romance and SFR or Science Fiction Romance- all with some overlap. And I throw in a few short stories, some of which have nothing at all to do with Romance.
I plan to expand into plain old Science Fiction/Fantasy and Lit Fic. Because that's where I began. All things eventually return to their roots, at least that's what I believe.
(Oh, by the way – my dad is doing much better. He's turned a corner. Thank you god, gods, fates, doctors… everyone. I'm feeling optimistic for the first time in a month, and more important, so is he.)
1. Contemporary Romance:
Beauty and the Feast – which is also a bit of a Romantic Comedy and definitely erotic.
Pushing Her Boundaries – another Contemp that is weighted pretty heavily toward erotica.
Come Back to Me – which overlaps into the category of Romantic Suspense in addition to Women's Fiction and Coming of Age.
Anytime Darlin' – another Contemporary which also fits into the category of Romantic Suspense.
My Everything – ditto! Contemp and Romantic Suspense with a Special Forces theme.
2. Paranormal Romance: A progression of the dead, ghosts and heavenly hosts~ all three can also be considered Contemporary Romance and works of Romantic Suspense.
Incorporeal, Book One, The Soul Series.
In the Flesh, Book Two, The Soul Series.
Stay, Book Three, The Soul Series.
The Soul Series Special Edition – contains all three of the above books.
3. Science Fiction/Fantasy Romance (SFR):
Captured – Writing this book was fun. Tops my list of writing experiences. I will eventually revisit the world of Mari and Ekkatt.
One Four All – my foray into the world of Menage – had to make it sci fi in order to stop giggling.
Daughters of Perserphone, Book One, Exile.
Daughters of Persephone, Book Two, Return.
Coming soon -
Daughters of Persephone, Book Three, Reborn.
Daughters of Persephone, Book Four, The Red Demon.
I'll probably release an anthology containing all four books as well. The Daughters series began as a self-challenge and ended as a very satisfying Space Opera.
Oh yes, almost forgot – I have a book of poetry out:
Poems of Love and Hate. I'm a big fan of poetry.
4. Shorties:
Is It Spicy? (Non-Romance)
So there you have it. Can't wait to get to the next book – Kerosene!