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Ways to beat rubella bogey
While concerns arise whether there will be a rubella outbreak in Hong Kong, one may suspect whether our vaccination policy can ever eradicate rubella. It is known that rubella is worldwide in distribution.
Even though symptoms of rubella are few in children (as many as 20 to 50 per cent of the cases may occur without an evident rash), it does, however, bring significant congenital defects in offspring of women who are infected by rubella during pregnancy.
Since 1977, R M Anderson and R M May have done extensive collaboration on studies of population dynamics of infectious disease.
In their comprehensive work of 1991, they used mathematical models to predict the impact of vaccination. Their predictions are found to be in excellent agreement with observed data. Of course mathematical models would not be useful if they were not grounded on a clear understanding of the epidemiological data and public health problems.
However, if the basic dynamics of the system are not fully understood, then even years of practical experience and loads of data can never guarantee a sensible answer.
Anderson and May compared the consequences of different vaccination policies. Their numerical studies suggest that levels of herd immunity of around 85-88 per cent should be sufficient to eradicate rubella, and such levels of herd immunity can be attained by 90 per cent coverage in vaccination of children between the ages of 15 months and two years.
This critical level has been exceeded in the United States, where vaccination is essential for all children before they enter pre-school kindergarten but after the age of 15 months, to guard against maternal-antibody protection. Hence rubella seems well on the way to eradication.
In late 1988, a two-stage policy combining vaccination to girls, and only girls, between the ages of 10 and 15 years with immunisation of pre-school children with a combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was begun in Britain. Calculations by Anderson and May led us to conclude that rubella could be eradicated within 40 years or so if 80-85 per cent of children were to be vaccinated at age two years in addition to maintaining 85 per cent coverage in vaccination of girls between the ages of 10 and 15.
In 1990 Hong Kong adopted a programme of immunisation similar to Britain's, and since last year, not only girls, but all Primary Six students have been given a second rubella vaccine. The average coverage rate for most vaccines has been high (above 90 per cent as reported in 1988 and 1989). However, the social and environmental factors within our community may affect the impact of vaccination. In view of our crowded environment, the force of infection would be higher when compared to Britain.
Moreover, with the large number of young immigrants in recent years, it is difficult to be certain whether the critical levels can be maintained. Vaccination of new immigrants has never been required here.
Until there are policies which demand all young immigrants who have no record of rubella immunisation to be vaccinated, and encourage the vaccination of susceptible female immigrants of reproductive age, it will still be a long way before we can eradicate rubella in Hong Kong.
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One of my more sadistic stories.
Miss Mandy pushed open the frail screen door and let it bang against the side of the house, chipping paint and, as intended, catching Dewey's strayed attention. He had been watching a mealworm beetle, small and black, meander its way across his thumb onto a tiny blade of grass, and not listening--and even yet, he barely lifted his head in acknowledgement of her appearance.
She heaved her large dark frame over the doorstep and clip-clopped her way down the three short steps with all the grace and delicacy of a lame elephant, and pulled Dewey up by the scruff of his scrawny neck, as was her habit. "Come inside," Miss Mandy dragged him to his feet, leaving the beetle flailing on its back in the dirt. "Your Mama's a-callin'."
"Aw, but..." Dewey let himself be placed, rather haphazardly, on the edge of the bottem stair, and gave up as he felt his small stomach growling with anticipation. "Aw-right, but you don't gotta make me. I kin go."
Miss Mandy brushed him off with the front of her long white apron and jostled him dissaprovingly with her elbow. "Dirty boy," she sniffed, shoving him ahead of her into the house. "Wash yer hands. Ain't gonna be on my shoulders if that baby gits as filthy as you is."
Dewey remembered his Mama's promise as Mandy had hustled him into the yard that morning, and he stood up a little straighter. "Oh!" he cried, "Oh Miss Mandy, is it a baby, really? A brother? For me, like Mama said?"
She shoved the washcloth at him. "Sister," she muttered shortly, "An' as pink and round as a melon. Ain't never seen one like it, in all my years. You was paler, but this one don't holler half as much as you did. Almost eerie, how silent she is, for a new littlun."
Dewey paid no attention to his nurse's ramblings as he scrubbed his face and hurried into the bedroom where Mama lay, tucked under a large brown quilt. She was holding a little bundle in her arms, and upon closer inspection, Dewey saw that it was indeed the promised baby, with fingers like little carrot seeds, and a yellow cornsilk fuzz sprouting over her smooth head. Mama's hair, dark and thick, was plastered across her pale face, and she looked tired, but also, Dewey thought, almost proud--and he struggled to climb into her lap, failed because it was already taken by the baby and so many pillows, and finally settled for having his back rubbed and letting his Mama's soft voice waft across him like a blanket.
"Your sister, Dewey," she murmured sleepily, holding out the bundle. "Look how beautiful--come see. We'll call her Angel, won't we? And won't you try to guard her like a big brother?"
Smiling to herself, Miss Mandy tiptoed to the bedroom door, shut it gently, and slipped away.


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Beauty Cake
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An extremely tasty recipe from friend and ex-neighbour Sandra Cottle. Sandra is not sure where her mother got the recipe from for this Belgian biscuit flavoured cake. It is at its best freshly baked and served warm.
250g butter {cubed and at room temperature)
270g (1 + 1/2 cups) raw sugar
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
280g (2 cups) flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp cinnamon
200g (1/2 cup + 3 tbsp) raspberry jam
icing sugar
· Preheat oven to 170°C
· Grease a 22cm round cake tin with additional butter or baking spray and line base with baking paper.
· Into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk place butter and sugar. Whisk till light and creamy.
· Add eggs one at a time and beat till well combined.
· Sift flour, baking powder, mixed spice and cinnamon together and add to butter mixture. Stir till well combined. The batter will appear heavy and stiff.
· Spoon half the mixture into prepared tin and spread out evenly to cover the base. The easiest way to achieve this is to cover your hand in plastic wrap and using that hand evenly spread the batter to cover base.
· Spread jam evenly over batter base leaving a 1cm gap around sides. Top with remaining cake batter and smooth out to cover the jam filling. You like to use my raspberry jam or you can make your own with this raspberry jam recipe.
· Place into preheated oven and bake for 35-40 minutes or till cake is golden brown, crisp on the top but a little gooey in the centre.
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According to a press release, Dulux Malaysia last year unveiled AkzoNobel's Colour of the Year for 2015, which was identified as 'Copper Orange'. The appointment of Copper Orange as AkzoNobel's Colour of the Year 2015 was established by a group of global designers and colour experts involved in the research for ColourFuturesTM – an annual global study of colour to identify the major colour trends that will influence interior design in the New Year. By tying these trends together to the central idea of "Everyday+ Finding the wonderful in the normal", five global colour trends were presented for 2015, namely: "Big nature + small me", "Layer + layer", "Unseen spaces", "Him + Her" and "Friendly Barter +".
"After many years of searching, connecting and discovering our potential, we want 2015 to focus on bringing out the Everyday+ by finding the wonderful in the normal. All of us at AkzoNobel believe that life should be painted with the vibrancy of colour, wherein every day becomes a potential to make meaningful memories. By exploring under-utilised spaces, as well as our relationship with each other and our environment, we are learning to look at the world around us in new and unique ways," said Jeremy Rowe, Managing Director of AkzoNobel Decorative Paints, South East & South Asia, Middle East.
In support of Dulux's continuous effort to encourage "Let's Colour", Master Kenny Hoo, Feng Shui ambassador for Dulux Malaysia, shared inspirational Feng Shui tips, as well as his strong knowledge on the use of colours to enhance personal Feng Shui. "The colour orange represents the Earth element – the most auspicious element of 2015. Using suitable colour combinations can achieve good Feng Shui functional effects. For instance, painting Copper Orange in combination with Green in the Southwest sector can trigger lots of positive Qi that brings plenty of celebratory events in 2015, such as job upgrades, greater health, marriage and baby luck. Painting Blue colour in the North sector can bring forth greater wealth luck," said Master Kenny Hoo.


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The Department of Environmental Management and the Department of Health (HEALTH) are advising people in the area of Birch Road in Smithfield that an owned pet cat that succumbed while exhibiting signs of rabies has been confirmed positive for rabies. The cat is described as an eight year-old female orange-gray calico or tiger cat. Anyone who may have had contact with this cat should contact HEALTH for evaluation at the following numbers: 222-2577 weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 272-5952 if calling after hours or over the weekend.
If you have a domestic animal that may have had contact with this cat, you should contact Smithfield Animal Control at 233-1055 so that an animal control officer can evaluate.
According to RI State Veterinarian Scott Marshall, DVM of DEM's Division of Agriculture, this particular rabies case is unusual for the state in that it occurred in an owned/pet cat that was allowed to go outdoors. There is no verifiable proof that this cat has ever been vaccinated against rabies. As a result of this cat contracting rabies, there have been at least 20 possible human exposures and at least one other household pet (a dog) that has been exposed. Eleven individuals have been treated with rabies vaccine so far, and additional assessments are in progress. All dogs, cats, and ferrets are required by State Law to have current vaccination against rabies. Vaccination of pet animals prevents them from contracting rabies and therefore prevents people from becoming exposed to rabies from their pets. HEALTH and DEM make the following recommendations:
- Make sure your dogs, cats, and ferrets are properly vaccinated against rabies. It is the law.
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- Secure all trash so that animals will not be attracted to it.
- Do not feed animals outdoors as this feeding will attract other animals. This is especially dangerous when feeding large numbers of free-roaming cats.
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Lemony Almond-Feta Green Beans Recipe
- 1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 small onion, halved and sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
- In a large saucepan, bring 4 cups water to a boil. Add green beans; cook, uncovered, 4-5 minutes or until beans turn bright green. Remove beans and immediately drop into ice water. Drain and pat dry.
- In a large skillet, heat butter over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir 6-8 minutes or until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer.
- Add green beans and almonds; cook and stir 3-4 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender. Sprinkle with lemon peel, lemon juice, salt and pepper; toss to combine. Top with cheese. Yield: 6 servings.
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"Super!!! If you like Feta, you will love this!"
"I will make this again. We loved the flavor! Better than just plain green beans."
"Thought this was good. Had to add a little more salt but overall I would make again. I think it would be yummy to try adding some halved grape tomatoes next time."
"This recipe just didn't work for us, maybe I cooked the beans too long? But the feta didn't seem to go with it and no one really enjoyed these flavors together."
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"Please have more recipes like this. I cannot make many TOH recipes because they contain dairy products that are hard to substitute. Would like to see more recipes easy for lactose intolerant people to use--adding suitable substitutes after recipes would be very helpful, especially for things like condensed milk, sour cream, cream cheese, etc. FYI, feta cheese is always okay. I look forward to using this recipe."
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"I am already giving this five stars before even trying out the recipe - simply because it's the first recipe I have received from Taste of Home in my email in box in AGES that couldn't be renamed "Heart Attack on a Plate." This green bean recipe looks appetizing, fresh, healthy and perfect for a hot summer night. THANK YOU for sending me something I can eat, enjoy and feel good about! Can't wait to try it out. Maybe tonight!"


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At home
We declared Declutter Day. Tired of being overwhelmed with clobber, our aim was to rid the house of junk. It cost nothing, gave us a virtuous feeling and, importantly, freed space for a new generation of clutter at Christmas. We used three big bags — marked junk, charity and recycle — and one box, marked sentimental stuff , for items we were hesitant about throwing out.
Working as one, the family was single-minded and methodical, like a team of soldier ants. No nook or cranny escaped scrutiny — the car and garage were included. All four containers were quickly filled and ejected from the house. Even the sentimental stuff , such as toys the children had grown out of, was binned after we had kept the box, unopened, for two weeks. By then we'd forgotten what was in there.
Our blitz unearthed random stashes of loose change that amounted to several quid. As a reward for our efforts, we spent it on favourite edible treats. But not on things we would bring back into the house!
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Out and about
Brace yourself for some woolly-gloved winter gardening; National Tree Week heralds the tree-planting season with more than 2,000 arboreal activities across Britain from Wednesday. Trees provide shelter, oxygen and wildlife habitats, but numbers are dwindling. Events promoting replanting and conservation include a weekend of tree mythology, chainsaw carving, puppet shows and native species cultivation at Goltho wood, Wragby, Lincolnshire, and a chance to plant and take home a seed from Hatfield forest, Essex, one of Britain's last ancient woodlands. Successful sapling nurturers are invited back to the forest in 2010 to plant them.
But why not grow a tree in your garden or allotment? Choose carefully — do you really want a 30ft eucalyptus in a 20ft backyard? — and get the whole family involved. Remember to soak the roots well beforehand and dig a generous hole. One person can hold the trunk while the others cover the roots with soil. With patience your specimen should soon be attracting birds and other wildlife, and providing shade, eye-catching foliage, food (if you've gone for a fruiting variety) and perhaps even somewhere for the kids to hone their climbing skills.
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• National Tree Week runs from November 26 to December 7, treecouncil.org.uk
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Homographs, homonyms, homophones: the prefix homo- means "same". A homograph is a word that is spelled the same as another word, but may be pronounced differently and have a different meaning. For example, to row (argue) and to row (a boat). A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another, but which may be spelled differently, and have a different meaning. Thus, buy/by/bye, and sore/soar/saw. A homonym is a word that is pronounced and spelled the same way as another word but has a different meaning. For example, please be present when I open the present. Even textbooks sometimes get these definitions wrong. Collect homophones, homonyms and homographs and see if you can make sentences using them. Can you make a sentence that uses the words "paw", "poor', "pore" and "pour"? Or write a sentence containing as many uses of the word "bow" as possible.
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Glasgow on Ice, which opens today, is the essential Christmas experience for all the family. Skate around the Scott monument, under the Christmas lights and in the shadow of the City Chambers. Afterwards take in the helter-skelter and the varied programme on The Big Stage.
• Nov 22 to Jan 11 2009, George Square, Glasgow, winterfestglasgow.com/glasgow_on_ice
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Jam JK Rowling's seven books into a 70-minute performance? Yes, the ludicrously silly show Potted Potter is back — and, sadly, it's for the last time. So if you haven't yet joined in a game of extremely quick Quidditch during this whirlwind parody, then now's your chance.
• Potted Potter, Trafalgar Studio 2, Whitehall, London. December 1 until January 3, 2009, pottedpotter.com, box office: 0870 060 6632, theambassadors.com/trafalgarstudios


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Okay...what would you say? (POSSIBLE LANGUAGE WITHIN COMMENTS)
I have posted this before but it is still a trip to me. You go into the kitchen in the middle of the night to get a glass of water and this is what you see. What would your first reaction be?
I think I should put a language warning on this post...LOL
The awkward moment when you realize that it was not your husband tickling your fancy! ROFLOL
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I think I should put a language warning on this post...LOL
Hysterical unintelligble screaming consisting of swear words
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When the spiceworks software find MS office on a PC, it does not display the Office product code. How can config software to retrieve the MS office product codes? Thanks.
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Are you still having problems getting the Office product code? If yes, have you updated to the 3.5 release? I would suggest updating to the 3.5 release if you have not. If you are still having problems I will suggest other ways to troubleshoot
I'm sorry you haven't gotten a response from Spiceworks sooner. I would like to work with you on this issue if you still need help.
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I'll try upgrading to 3.5 and let you know the results. thanks.


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She's staring at me. Her ruler slaps her hand happily. I never heard the question, but I don't have the motivation to ask what it was.
I look at the worksheet in front of me. The teacher is still watching me. I think I am supposed to have this filled out by now. My pencil is in my pocket. I could get it out. I don't see the point of it, though.
I sit frozen in my seat until she gives up on me and moves onto another student, one who is surely smarter than I am. She calls on a popular, brilliant girl named Mary. Mary loves to answer every question. An A on something can make her whole day. Mary has something I don't: motivation. She also has a reason to keep living.
A sudden idea strikes me. I'll never get rid of this feeling. I'm sure of that. There are too many things weighing down on me now. There is only one way out of this endless spiral of sadness and self-hatred that I seem to be stuck in. I make a mental note to myself to find something long and sharp.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Friends and family of motorcycle crash victim Jeff Morrill raised money Wednesday to help his family.
All Jacksonville Area Mellow Mushrooms donated 10 percent of any check for people dining who mentioned they were there to help the Morrill family.
Action News caught up with some of Morrill's friends and church members during lunch who say they just want to do anything to support Jeff's wife and their four children. The fundraiser lasts until 2 a.m. Thursday morning at any of the three area Mellow Mushroom locations.
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Backpacking with Mood Lighting
Hanoi, Vietnam
The lighting of your shoestring-budget room killing the mood? Spruce up the place with a little something from your backpack.
One of the top items on my growing list of Ways not to make a Hotel a Home are fluorescent lights, and "energy saving" bulbs. I hate these things passionately.
Fluorescent lights are by far and away the most common form of lighting in use by hotels and guesthouses the world over. I cringe every time I'm bathed in the ugly light they saturate a room with. It reminds me of being in a office. "Cancer lights," I call them.
Those little bulbs that give off the same wavelength of unattractive light also give me headaches. Businesses (and consumers in general) are paying several times the amount for a bulb that will inevitably last just as long and consume nearly as much power as their incandescent counterparts (because people use them incorrectly—they should be turned off very infrequently for it to make much of a difference).
The last thing anyone wants to do is illuminate a room with these lights—especially if you want to get a little love in while on the road (talk about a mood breaker). Why do you think everyone leaves a nightclub when they turn on the lights? Because the music stops and everyone get real ugly, real fast.
The solution to a room saturated in high-frequency fluorescent light is to either cover the bulb, or not use it altogether. For nearly two years of travel I've been a yellow sarong to help disguise or diffuse this type of light source. I wrap, tape, or tie the feather-weight, semi-opaque towel around the bulb to give the room a more pleasant feeling—albeit a very yellow one.
Another solution I've tried is carrying around candles. A few months ago I purchased several small boxes of tea lights in Laos, and used them to illuminate the rooms Tatiana and I shared throughout our time in the Philippines, and Indonesia. Candles are relatively light and inexpensive, can be found anywhere in the world, and give off a relaxing light that everyone loves.
I know that my buddy Andy carries around a bulb and a socketed device that clamps onto things, so that he can read better after dusk. Carrying around a full-sized light bulb in your backpack is not for everyone, though.
My new favorite piece of fluorescent light reprieve comes from an item Tatiana bought in a Bangkok market, for her bedroom in Peru. Not seeing any reason to wait until Lima to use the thing, I strung up the item, plugged it in, and killed the cancer light. Wow—beautiful.
The light source is simple: 2.5 Meters of off-white Christmas lights, inside a silky, cream-colored nylon sleeve, with a little loop at each end. The plug allows multiple strands to be connected, should there be a need. Tatiana bought just the one (with a few replacement bulbs) for 180 baht (US$5.75), and it's more than enough to light up the room (with soft, candle-like light).
The sleeve and string of lights weigh practically nothing, pack down flat, and need only an outlet to work. I really wish I'd bought one for myself, because I'd honestly carry a strand around in my pack with me. The difference it can make in atmosphere (and happiness) far outweigh the cost of carrying it.
November 1st, 2007
I agree that the light given off by the average business and el-cheapo fluorescent bulbs is pretty foul, but you're living in the stone age if you think that there are no other choices. As one example, look at this page for compact fluorescent bulbs that give full spectrum light (or other types).
For lifetime of bulbs and the eternal question of "Is it better to leave the lights on instead of turning them on and off?" see a myth busters episode for the details. Short answer: Incandescent - always. Fluorescent - unless you will be using the light again within 20 seconds (per bulb), turn it off.
The cost analysis of compact fluorescent bulbs is also well proven. A simple spreadsheet is…
$0.15 energy cost / kWh
$0.000155 energy cost / Wh
$0.50 cost of incandescent bulb
$5.50 cost of compact fluorescent lamp (Neolite 5000K Full Spectrum)
$5.00 difference in cost
75 W incandenscent bulb
20 W CFL (Neolite 5000K Full Spectrum)
-55 W difference
$0.01 savings per hour of use
588 hours of used required to pay for itself
4 hours average used per day
147 days of use required to pay for itself
rates from Origin Energy (Australia)
prices from buy lighting and converted to AUD with google
Variations in the price of energy or bulb makes a difference, but in the end the CFL will still pay for itself and you don't have to give up a nice light colour.
November 14th, 2007
It should be noted that these lights don't work properly with 110 volt outlets (like those found in the USA, for example) — a big disappointment for those who have purchased Bangkok lights as gifts…
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I like this idea very much.
Its also a great product idea. "The Pocket Travel Mood Light Companion", made out of light but sturdy material.
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Adobe Portfolio brings customizable personal websites to Creative Cloud
Adobe has introduced Adobe Portfolio, a website creation platform similar to Squarespace. Part of Creative Cloud, Adobe Portfolio is offered under three subscription tiers and aims to provide creatives and professionals with a simple way to showcase their work online.
The Adobe Portfolio service offers pre-made layouts, as well as customization options for website elements like the header, logo, navigation, background and footer. The designs are responsive, able to scale for various screen sizes and there's an option for a personalized website URL. Features include galleries for showcasing content, password-protected pages and website analytics. Subscribers can also integrate a Behance account with Portfolio for seamless content syncing.
Adobe Portfolio is available to individuals under three Creative Cloud pricing tiers: $9.99 USD/month with included access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC, $19.99 USD/month with access to 20GB of cloud storage and one desktop app and $49.99 USD/month with access to all Adobe creative apps.
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I am really excited to try this newly created Adobe portfolio website . This website would be beneficial for professionals to showcase their work with an ease . I have recently gone through some attractive portfolio website designs at http://www.bbexmarketing.com/portfolio.html which are superior in designs .
Interesting concept on paper, but too limited in my opinion!
500px has a pretty killer setup with the ability to tag your photos that you are uploading anyway to the site so they will auto-update on your site once uploaded. Template-y still but I think it looks quite nice personally.
I would give a sample that isn't my own, but I have no idea who else is using it or not, so...
I'm sorry but the Adobe Portfolio sites are rubbish basic template poop. How you can even use a comparison to a service like squarespace is beyond me.
I previewed all their templates in their example sites, some of which have fixed images pretending to be interesting layouts (the cars).... they don't offer5% of what you can do with a more professional hosting service.
This junk doesn't even offer what you can get with a free wordpress template and cheap'o hosting.
Just another half-assed adobe attempt in a market flooded with better alternatives, a market they should stay away from because they clearly don't have the expertise.
I fully agree with our here. I'm using smugmug, and what I can see it is far better than what adobe is giving us here.
Nice idea, but not interested in
How well does Portfolio handle video files?
I can't see a mention of space limits anywhere. How many GB's does this include? Unlimited image hosting?
I believe I read that the max image size is 8 GB, and you get 20 GB of cloud storage with your Creative Cloud subscription, if that helps.
Sorry I will not visit your site. Name is too long.
Because cut and paste is so horribly difficult for you.
No. Wrong reason. You = wrong again.
You = Clueless
No still the wrong reason. You= Still wrong.
What's wrong with hosting your own wordpress site?
Its simple to install, easy to maintain and costs next to nothing.
ME and my friend are giving up on wordpress.
WordPress needs heavy maintenance, every theme can be like learning a new CMS, it's just ridiculous now.
8 bucks a month, squarespace is WAY easier, and the themes look great.
Every year I would have a bad wordpress crash that would require serious work ti fin the bugs...could be the theme, incompatibility with updated wp install, plugin...just screw it.
If it offers an alternative to Flickr, great. Flickr is buggy (displays incorrect photo titles when browsing using the Android app), has a terrible UX and lacks many useful options for selling one's work. Hopefully this will!
Interesting, but I doubt that Adobe as an old-school tech company is prepared to offer the same awesome level of customer service that Squarespace does. In fact Adobe doesn't seem to offer ANY customer service, they rely on a bunch of sanctimonious volunteers in their forums who specialize in snide comments and victim blaming.
The pricing is totally unclear, and they did the same thing with their stock photo service. If CC apps are free with a $50 a month web subscription, then it would follow that the web subscription is free with a $50 a month CC subscription. So where is it? When I check the CC app, there is nothing about Adobe Portfolio.
Is it really accurate for this to be compared to Squarespace? I thought Squarespace was full service and highly customizable (as in you can rearrange the layouts themselves), with integrated blogging, ecommerce, specialized content blocks, etc.
As far as I can tell, Adobe Portfolio doesn't have much or any layout control, and doesn't do much more than show your work.
I'm not saying that's bad, 90% of photographers probably don't need more than that. Adobe Portfolio is probably perfect for them. Maybe it's more of a commentary on how so many photographers pay so much money to Squarespace and use so little of it?
It just seems like the real competitors to Squarespace are Zenfolio and Smugmug. I don't think Adobe Portfolio's feature list comes close to those three.
Exactly. It is not a portfolio site, it is basic template rubbish. I used Zenfolio for years, it is 99% better than what Adobe are offering...meaning Adobe are offering 1% of the features, customisations and functionality of Zenfolio, and I can say that with 3 years of using them and heavily customising my site with their back-end.
It really isn't clear if this will be included with the $9.95 CC subscription, or in addition to it.
If it is included, then it just makes CC a better deal. If it isn't, then it is pretty expensive unless you really need the program.
It looks to me like Portfolio is included with all CC plans:
Mark, that is correct. I already subscribe to the $10 photography CC plan and when I go to the page to see Portfolio pricing, it lets me know as a CC subscriber, it's already included.
The problem with Adobe is that you will never know at what moment in time they are going to split the subscription into eg. 'Photoshop CC - Premium', 'Photoshop CC - Standard', 'Photoshop CC - Base'.
Adobe is like a drugs dealer - They first make you an addict to then somewhere in the future raise the prise, or split the subscription model.
I don't trust Adobe either, and will never subscribe to software, but I think you do still have the ability to quit if they screw around too much. Or just don't subscribe. I didn't. But for the first time, I can see some real value being added.
This is actually pretty brilliant marketing.
Adobe has made CC a "better deal" and people who like and use this feature will not be likely to quit if there is ever a modest price hike for the package.
It is easy to "quit" using an image editor. You just move on to some other program. But once you have built a website you have a lot of work invested. It just isn't that easy to migrate it somewhere else. And that somewhere else will charge you something too, for hosting your site.
Adding this feature to CC just makes customer retention much higher.
Built up a website? What with this rubbish? Anything you "build" with this will be re-doable in any other solution inside of a day. It is that basic.
CS6 is chugging along....no monthly payment required :) :)
For any new cameras. there's the unfortunate dng converter
Not impressed with this - very limited for photographers with many images inn their portfolio...
If one already subscribes to the photographer's option of CC LR and PS for $9.99 will they "have access" to Portfolio?
What does "included access" to CC LR and CC PS mean?
Yes, Portfolio is a straight replacement for the Behance web site you could already have set up. I to have the CC & LR subscription and got in early with the initial trial of Portfolio.
My initial attempt with portfolio is at www.davidrosser.uk as you see you can attach a personal address to an Adobe Potyfolio site.
Just checked out your website and gear list. Very nice easy to view website and some lovely photos. I esp like the Avebury Stones, and Stonehenge. And tips re Stonehenge visits. Thanks.
The service will be available until Adobe decides they have a better idea. Then it will disappear.
The service has been available for quite some time, I`m not sure why its new news.
I don't think this service has been available in its current form before. Adobe bought the Behance portfolios, but those were different, and apparently being migrated to this new Adobe Portfolio. I am not sure about this part but I believe Adobe Portfolio is fully responsive design where the old one was not, as one example.
No I can remember checking this out towards the end of last year, sometime back in early December.
The version you saw "back in early December" was the beta. Google turned up the press releases about the announcement in October when they said it would be available around the "end of the year." That's what this is.
WT21 said, "The service will be available until Adobe decides they have a better idea. Then it will disappear."
True, if nobody uses it. However, if enough people use it, it'll remain available and be enhanced. Standard Operating Procedure for all evil corporate entities.
Ah I see now, I`d been looking at the Prosite (a few months ago) the two do look very similar.
Looks like this will be replacing the Adobe Prosite.
Not a fan of Adobe's subscription model, but I gotta hand it to them — this is a genuinely useful addition, and a clever way to get people to subscribe.
That's what I was thinking as well. Subscription to Squarespace, Portfoliobox, etc. is around 10$/€ a month, so this option may actually be quite compelling (if I don't miss something).
Sounds not bad at all, but I'm sure others will soon show me what's evil about it.
Nothing. Some will consider it too limited but for posting your portfolio with HDPP support, ease of uploading and maintaining, TypeKit font integration this thing is really nice. I started building mine couple of weeks ago - it's a no brainer for anyone with the subscription.
Thanks for the helpful, non-cynical answer... ;-)
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Amina Mama has held the position of Chair in Gender Studies at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa since January 1999. She provides intellectual and strategic leadership to the African Gender Institute, where she also served as Director (1999-2002). She initiated and currently convenes the "Gender and Transformation" graduate programme in gender studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. Additional responsibilities include institutional development, fund-raising and international outreach, including the direction of the African Gender Institute's continental outreach programme, "Strengthening Gender Studies for Africa's Transformation," an intellectual capacity-development and information technology development programme. Major outputs of this programme include the initiation of the first continental gender studies journal, Feminist Africa, in 2002, the establishment of a continental gender studies website, www.gwsafrica.org, and the initiation of a scholarly network of teachers and researchers working with gender in African universities.
Prior to her appointment by the University of Cape Town, Amina Mama held positions at international academic institutions in the Netherlands (The Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag) and Britain (The Development and Project Planning Centre at the University of Bradford, and the University of London). She was appointed as a Visiting Associate Member at St Anthony's College, Oxford, for 3 months in 1998, and at Wellesley College for 6 months in 2002, and has undertaken consultancy activities in the Caribbean, and in East, Southern and West Africa, on behalf of various scholarly and development organizations. She has been appointed as the Prins Claus Chair in Development and Equity for 2004.
She has authored and edited number of books, including Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995) which was recently listed as one of Africa's 100 Best Books in the twentieth century, Engendering African Social Sciences (co-edited and pub by CODESRIA 1997), and The Hidden Struggle: Statutory and Voluntary Sector Responses to Violence Against Black Women in the Home (Whiting and Birch 1996).
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(2002, ed.) "Feminist Africa," Intellectual Politics>, University of Cape Town: African Gender Institute, Issue No. 1.
(2001) "Challenging Subjects: Gender, Power and Identity in African Contexts," Nordic Africa Institute Monograph (repub. in South African Journal of Sociology, Issue 5, No. 2: 63-73).
(2001) "Violence Against Black Women in the Home" in J. Hanmer and D. Wigglesworth (eds) Home Truths About Domestic Violence, Routledge, London/NY.
(2000) "Feminism and the State in Africa: Towards an Analysis of the National Machinery for Women, National Machinery," Series No.1, TWN-Africa, Accra.
(2000) "Women's Studies in Subsaharan Africa" in Kramerae, C. & Spender, D. (eds) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, Routledge, London/NY.
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It is too early to say that trans fat causes diabetes, but a new study shows that women who consume more trans fat have a higher risk of the disease.
Cholesterol-rich foods were also linked to a higher risk, while polyunsaturated fats (which are found largely in vegetable and fish oils) seem to protect against diabetes.
Do remember that there are some types of essential fatty acids that are proving to be very beneficial to your health, particularly called omega-3.
One possible explanation:
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Replace trans fats (found largely in stick margarine, shortening, fried foods and sweet baked goods) with unsaturated fats (from fish, vegetable and olive oils, salad dressings, and nuts). See also: Margarine Madness and-or Choosing Which Oil to Use for more information. If this is difficult, consider an Omega fish oil supplement - the health benefits are tremendous.
Swapping trans fat for saturated fat would make no sense since both raise LDL ("bad") cholesterol.
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Don't Wait (Downtown)
Lyrically, this is the best pop track going. Swedish-American singer Mapei released Don't Wait in America last year but it's only hitting UK shelves this week, so it's a good time to acquaint yourself. She sings beautifully simple words such as "let's laugh and cry until we die" that sting the ventricles like an open-heart acupuncture session. The beat is slow, a rusty steam train pushing through a river of hot tar, which adds to the last-words-on-your-deathbed feel of the track.
La Roux
Uptight Downtown (Polydor)
Cockerel-bonced high-pitch aficionado La Roux has returned, but this time it's less sexually experimental robots and more smooth, jazzy funk (with robots). The quick, successive stabs still remain, though now they're horns and not synths. Her voice is not as brain-burstingly high as before, but it's still very high, giving the song a child-chorus vibe reminiscent of Justice's DANCE. The trouble is, it's not quite enough of a departure to be particularly notable or engaging. It's not unbearable but it doesn't really hit the dopamine receptors either.
Manic Street Preachers
Walk Me To The Bridge (Columbia)
I have a theory about Manic Street Preachers. I believe their prolonged popularity is due to dewy-eyed music journalists in their mid-to-late-30s clinging on to one of the more emotive facets of their teen years, iconising musicians who don't warrant it. Why is it totally #emotional when Richey E cuts his arm, but when some Dashboard Confessional fan does it it's lame? Anyway, Walk Me To The Bridge has a weird wizard-cock-rock feel to it, like Gandalf's entrance music in a Lord Of The Rings/Miami Vice crossover.
Chains (Bridge Nine Records/Venn)
Gallows were notorious in the mid-00s for causing a scene at every show: Frank Carter inking himself onstage, getting fat metalheads chucked out for aggressive moshing, etc. Carter has since left, however, and been replaced by Wade MacNeil, formerly of other noisy tattooed lads Alexisonfire. This transatlantic transplant has only served to turn a screechy UK punk band into another chugging metalcore sweatfest, as Chains demonstrates: the same old riffs, same old lyrics, same old guff. Gallows were always shit, but at least they had a bit of edge.
Jason Mraz
Love Someone (Atlantic)
If you've ever wondered who listens to barely-there wet crooner Jason Mraz, just go on Google Earth, click on America and pick a random spot right in the middle of nowhere. See that small city? That's Jason Mraz's fans. He makes music for people who are only capable of three emotions. Love Someone is more of the same acoustic guitars and lyrics inspired by and featuring in a season finale of Grey's Anatomy or some other schmaltzy garbage. Boring tripe for the boring types.


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BEIJING - China asked the U.S. on Thursday to release data on the missile hit on an ailing spy satellite, while the Communist Party's newspaper blasted what it called Washington's callous attitude toward the weaponization of space.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States is determined to be open about the U.S. operation and told reporters during a visit to Hawaii that "we are prepared to share whatever appropriately we can."
Earlier Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Beijing was asking the U.S. to "provide to the international community necessary information and relevant data in a timely and prompt way."
The overseas edition of People's Daily excoriated Washington for opposing a recent Russian-Chinese proposal on demilitarizing space.
"One cannot but worry for the future of space when a great nation with such a massive advantage in space military technology categorically refuses a measure to prevent the militarization of space," the paper said.
Washington has rejected the Russian-Chinese proposal for a global ban on space arms because it would prohibit an American missile interceptor system in the Czech Republic and Poland, while exempting Chinese and Russian ground-based missiles that can fire into space.
China's official Xinhua News Agency on Thursday reported the satellite's destruction by a missile without comment. A Defense Ministry spokesman, who identified himself only by his surname, Ji, said no statement on the issue would be forthcoming.
China's objections signal its skepticism over whether the satellite hit was truly necessary and its unease over apparent U.S. mastery of a key military technology that Beijing is also pursuing. They also appear aimed at turning the tables on U.S. criticism of Beijing's own shootdown of a defunct Chinese satellite last year.
"The concern is whether the U.S. version of the story is true: Whether that satellite is indeed failing and out of control and if this kind of missile shooting is the best way to remove the threat," said Shen Dingli, an America watcher at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Or, he said, the reasons could be a pretext for an anti-satellite weapons test.
Unlike Beijing, which gave no notice before using a missile to pulverize a disabled weather satellite in January 2007, Washington discussed its plans at length and insisted it was not a test.
Subsequent requests by U.S. officials for more information were ignored and none of Beijing's recent statements mentioned China's own satellite shootdown.
China's anti-satellite test was also criticized for being more dangerous. The targeted satellite was located about 500 miles above the Earth and the resulting debris threatened communication satellites and other orbiting space vehicles. Foreign space experts and governments labeled China a space litterbug.
Still, the distinction between the two actions may be lost for many, said Denny Roy, an expert on the Chinese military at the East-West Center in Honolulu.
"What the Americans (have done) greatly undercuts the condemnation heaped on China last year," Roy said. While the circumstances are different, that is "a fine point that is easily overlooked," he said.
Beyond propaganda, the potential tie-in to missile defense is a source of real worry to China. Beijing sees those plans as a way of integrating the U.S. defense with regional partners such as Japan, while reducing the threat that China's growing arsenal of medium-range missiles poses to Taiwan, the self-governing U.S. ally that China claims as its own territory.
While some in the Pentagon may believe it is wise to put China on notice about U.S. capabilities, it could serve to further embolden Beijing, said Theresa Hitchens of the Center for Defense Information, a security policy group in Washington.
"This may give the hard-liners in the PLA (People's Liberation Army) what they need to prevail," she said.
Although no country has ever tried to shoot down another nation's satellite, David E. Mosher, a senior policy analyst at the Rand Corp. think tank, said it could be an effective military tactic.
Mosher said satellites are now widely used for communications, missile launch detection and intelligence gathering, and the U.S. has an advantage in such technology.
"The country that has the most to lose if space becomes militarized is the U.S.," he said. "We rely on satellites so heavily, both militarily and commercially ... We don't want to go down that route."


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Thursday, 31 July 2014
Summer Holiday - Packing Essentials
The Bearable Lightness of Packing
It's almost time to put down the pen, strip out of the three-piece pinstripe suit, and slip into something more suited to a Mediterranean summer.
Packing shall be light of clothes and reading. I intend to read a little, but not enough to hurt me; most of the time shall be spent ice cream and lotus-eating. The new translation of Leopardi's Zibaldone [Amazon] can wait until Autumn, the reflective season.
Carefully Placed into the Globe-Trotter
Sunspel Polo and Orlebar Brown Trunks
Sunspel Polo and Chuc's Trunks
Sunspel Polo and Orlebar Brown Trunks
Sunspel Polo and Chuc's Trunks
Note that this colour of Riviera Polo is unavailable at present. I'm tapping the side of my nose as to how it came into my possession.
John Smedley Polo and Chuc's Trunks
Sunspel Polo, Anderson's Belt and Brooks Brothers Trousers
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
The Perfect Beach Towel - Travelteq
Lie Back and Think of England
Don't look any further for the perfect towel to slip into your beach tote for a day at the beach. Travelteq say that they tried to create the best towel in the world, and I believe they've accomplished it.
The Travel Towel is made from Irish linen, and is available in various contrast colours in perfect pastel shades. It's a generous 2 x 1.45 metres. The width matters here. You can stake a claim to a decent-sized pitch on the beach, and lay out all your things without them rolling into the sand.
The towel is light. It's made in good old Amsterdam, where Travelteq are based. It has pockets for storing things. It can be used for picnics. I mean I could go on, but I'll just stay quiet and let you buy the bally thing.
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Oliver Peoples - Flip-Up Sun Shades
The Optician Always Wins
I feel I have to curse my optician once more. He knows the Ripley-style spectacles from Oliver Peoples I wear (Sheldrake), so it's quite the coincidence that he just happened to have in stock some flip-on sun shade lenses for that particular style the next time I visited.
As soon as I saw the shades, my hand went into a kind of trance and levitated the wallet out of my pocket without my being conscious of it.
Since the acquisition they've been an absolute boon, I have to say. In lightweight polycarbonate, the shades are easy to attach, with wire clasps that slip onto the frame at the top and bottom. These have a brown tint to suit the frames, but there may be other tints.
It is great fun to play with the pop-up mechanism. They can pop right up to the vertical or you can cantilever them down to stay at various other angles till they're flat to the lenses of the glasses. The shades, as with the glasses, are made in Japan.
Monday, 28 July 2014
Summer Book Club - Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
The English Rambo
Welcome to The Tweed Pig Summer Book Club. The idea is simple: We all take the same book on our hols, give it a read and then pop our thoughts on it down below. If we have any.
Nothing too taxing. We are on holiday after all. This year we'll be reading Rogue Male [Amazon], written by British novelist Geoffrey Household. If the synopsis is anything to go by, I think we're going to enjoy it. Written in 1939, it tells the story of an English hunter stalking a European dictator. Cripes! He is caught, but manages to escape. Will he make it home? We'll have to read it to find out.
Quite an influential book, Rogue Male inspired the writer of First Blood, Michael Jayston, who introduced the Rambo character to popular culture.
So perhaps we should imagine an unflappable English-style Rambo, with received pronunciation and worsted suits. The type who enjoys devilled kidneys, the Times crossword and few words at the breakfast table — someone in the Richard Francis Burton mould.
Watch the Film Instead
Intimidated by the thought of having to turn pages on your holiday? I understand. Not to worry. Here's the film version starring Harold Pinter, Alastair Sim and Peter O' Toole:
Free film version
If that link doesn't work, try here.
You can pretend you read it and still add a comment below. How are we to know?
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The Limey - English Freshness
The Summer of Lime
Who doesn't want to smell like a Limey on holiday? I know I do. And it's quite simple. Just load up on the following lime-themed products and pop them in your suitcase.
Wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Bronnley - Lime and Bergamot Soap
Penhaligon's - Extract of Limes Eau de Toilette
Truefitt & Hill - West Indian Limes Shaving Cream
Trumpers - Lime Skin Food
Crabtree & Evelyn - West India Lime Body Wash
Floris - Limes Eau de Toilette
I like what 130-year-old Bronnley has done with its new packaging (top) — as fresh as the delightful soap.
Monday, 21 July 2014
Sounds of Summer
Once off this overcrowded rock — Did you know that England has over four times the population density of Spain? Ever likely we queue for everything. We don't have a choice. — and somewhere along the sunny end of the continent, within stone-skimming distance of the Mediterranean, you'll hopefully find the space, quietude and climate to help uncoil that tense neck of yours. It's summer holiday time, gents.
As a consequence, you'll be looking for jolly foot-tappers to listen to as you pack ice into a highball glass for that breakfast gin and tonic — you don't do that at home. — mentally planning your permanent exile.
Herewith, jolly foot-tappers; all tested in appropriately languid summer situations.
You can add them to the ones from last year.
Kisses - Funny Heartbeat
Kisses are an LA band. Funny Heartbeat was produced by our very own Pete Wiggs of Saint Etienne fame. Good show, Pete. Kisses provide our top photo due to the splendid parrot.
Alexander Dexter-Jones - Phantastic Phone Call
Alexander is not the son of Clash legend Mick Jones, as my initial assumption led me to believe, based on vocal delivery alone. He's actually the son of Mick Jones of the band Foreigner — a native of Somerton, Somerset, ancient capital of Wessex. 'Foreigner Mick' will be proud, I'm sure. Perhaps 'Clash Mick' will be too.
Madredeus - Haja O Que Houver
Something of an indicator as to where old Tweedy is heading this summer, Portugal's Madredeus have quite a following in Latin-Europe and Latin-America; not so much in the Anglosphere. Let's change that.
Haja O Que Houver is one of their more summery numbers.
Antologia [Amazon] is an excellent introduction to this Fado-inspired band.
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Day at the Seaside
Last year's Day at the Seaside was extraordinarily popular, so this summer we've hired a coach again. We're travelling in a beautiful Bedford Vega.
When we get there, we can sit on the pier and eat cockles, and flick through my copies of Tweed Magazin.
I've saved the back seat of the coach for us. If it's anything like last year, I thought it wise.
Edward Gucewicz - Buffalo Horn Sunglasses (Made in the UK)
Oliver Spencer - Cotton Jacquard Shorts
Alfie Douglas - Leather & Copper Belt (Made in the UK)
Sunspel - Riviera Polo
Drake's - Animal Print Scarf
Quoddy - Boat Moc
Brady Bags - Beach Bag (Made in the UK)
Ibberson - Off Shore Knife with 'cockle spike' (Made in the UK)
Parsons - Pickled Cockles (Fished in the UK)
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Very English Sounds of Summer - Virginia Astley
From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
I'm rather looking forward to boiled eggs and toast soldiers for breakfast this morning. It's a fine, bright day, so I might just throw on my house coat and breakfast outside in the grounds of Tweed Towers.
The perfect musical accompaniment for eating boiled eggs outdoors at this time of year would have to be From Gardens Where We Feel Secure by English songwriter and musician Virginia Astley.
The album, From Gardens Where We Feel Secure [Amazon] was recorded in 1983. It's a mostly instrumental evocation of a hot summer's day from morning to dusk, capturing, almost hesitantly, and certainly dreamily, the gentle sounds of an idyllic English summer.
The last re-release of the album was in 2005 on the Rough Trade label. If it's deleted again, you may have to take the Japanese import option; they cherish this album, as should we.
Monday, 14 July 2014
Shuron USA Sunglasses
When you think about classic brands of sunglasses, you will likely first think of Ray-Ban and Persol. What about Shuron? Shuron has been making eyewear since 1865.
Shuron's frames are still made in the U.S.A. from their base in Greenville, South Carolina. (I visited Charleston in South Carolina one time. A charming place with some excellent pubs. I didn't see anyone dancing the Charleston, unfortunately. I must go back some time.)
Shuron began making its famous 'browline' sunglasses in 1947. The first browline frame— where the top of the frame is thicker and of plastic and a metal frame holds the lens below — was the Ronsir; and, as it's still available, it's safe to say that it's a classic.
The browline model you see here is the Ronsir Escapades in tortoise.
If Alain Delon didn't wear a pair in Plein Soleil — and I'm picturing him in a pair — he could easily have done so, and they would have suited him so well.
Shuron created their MacArthur sunglasses (top) for the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. The 58 model has a 12K gold frame and mother of pearl browbar. A fabulous pair of sunglasses. I want.
Saturday, 12 July 2014
Tweed - The Magazine
Britischer Tradition
When it comes to holiday reading, you probably don't need to look further than the big three: Fleming, Christie and Wodehouse. You can add a dash of Highsmith to the mix. But why not read some Tweed this summer too? What do I mean? Do I have tweed on the brain? Yes and no; I'm actually talking about Tweed Magazin, my favourite German-language magazine dedicated to all that is civilised and chap-like.
Ein Gutes Buch
Tweed is loaded with articles of interest to any Anglophile gentleman. You'll find pieces on style, travel, tweedy living, tweedy people, classic motor cars, watches, John Nettles, cigars.
I spotted an article on our good friends at the Chelsea Farmer's Club. You'll also find intelligence on German cities, the gen on shops and whatnot.
You might also come across an interesting character named 'Troddle', seen here enjoying a drop of 'Neslon's blood'. He seems a decent sort, though I'm not sure I would have worn black shoes with those trousers.
The Bernhard Roetzel
Bernhard Roetzel, a Berlin-based writer, contributes to the magazine. Roetzel is famous for writing on British style. His book Gentleman. A Timeless Guide to Fashion [Amazon] is an excellent guide to classic men's style. British Tradition and Interior Design [Amazon] is also worthy of space on your bookshelf.
If you like The Tweed Pig, you're sure to enjoy Tweed Magazin. It makes for a fine holiday read.
Tweed on the beach, who would have thought it?
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
British Fox Khakee Trousers
They keep doing it. The Merchant Fox must be reading our collective mind (which we're developing, I can assure you). They've made available the ultimate khakee trousers we're all seeking; and not only that, they've released a cloth with the right feel and colour we'd like to match as a sporting blazer.
I've always spelled it 'khaki'. Following The Merchant Fox's lead, I herewith desist. But there are numerous spellings:
Khakee Trousers
The colour of the trousers here is the traditional British khakee (or 'military drab') colour, which is darker than the colour generally associated with khakee trousers. The Merchant Fox do a lighter version too.
Kahkee serge was adopted by the British army in the 19th century; the drab chosen as the 'best colour for invisibility' when replacing the 'glorious British Scarlet' in conflict.
The cotton cloth is yarn-dyed and made by a British military manufacturer in Lancashire. Looking up close, and weighing in at nearly 8 ounces, the cloth seems as robust as you could possibly want in civvy street.
The blazer to go with your new khakee trousers will be constructed of Fox Brothers' Lightweight Bright Navy Flannel, an 8/9 ounces cloth; it's lighter than the Classic Navy Fox Flannel, which weighs in at 13/14 ounces.
The example shown in the photograph at the top is constructed by Attolini, the Neopolitan tailor involved with one of our favourite films, The Great Beauty.
Monday, 7 July 2014
Cad & the Dandy - A Passion for Tailoring
A Passion for Tailoring
In this interview, James Sleater of Cad and the Dandy explains how it is a passion for English tailoring that ultimately drives the business.
Sit the Course
If you haven't done so, you must sit the Suit Buying Course that Cad & the Dandy put together for us.
As you can see from the video clip, these chaps mean business.
Lesson #1
Lesson #2
Lesson #3
Get the Suit
Now 'suitably' knowledgeable, you can walk right in to 13, Savile Row (where you'll find Cad & the Dandy on the first floor) and have yourself measured for a thornproof two-piece.
John Baker (top), Savile Row 'ace face' at Cad and the Dandy, might be there to greet you.
Friday, 4 July 2014
Independence Day in a Hamilton Shirt
Oda of Canterbury
Might I extend a firm, manly handshake across the Atlantic today as our readers in the colonies celebrate independence from their benevolent mother country. Over here in the UK we can celebrate the feast day of Oda of Canterbury (958). Everyone's a winner.
On this day, might we suggest wearing a shirt with an impeccable American pedigree?
Hamilton Shirts of Houston
Hamilton Shirts have been in the shirt biz since 1883. The company is still family-run and based in Houston, Texas, to provide us with the provenance and heritage we seek. Hamilton make bespoke and ready-to-wear shirts.
You would certainly want a blue Oxford shirt (above). Hand cut and sewn in the USA, the shirt is made from Italian cotton and has mother of pearl buttons. Built to last many 4ths of July.
Billed as 'America's finest dress shirt', I'm liking the Pink Bengal Stripe with cutaway collar (below). I'm sure if I squeezed hard enough I could explain why pink is an appropriate colour for Independence Day, but my teapot and plate of biscuits are beckoning.
I raise a hot cup of lapsang souchong and point it in a westerly direction. From all at The Tweed Pig, wishing you a pleasant Independence Day.
Corn Cob Pipe Like MacArthur
The 'Mincing Rascal' Celebrates
We're celebrating the 4th of July (and pandering outrageously to our American readers). And what better way than with a corn cob pipe like the one used by General MacArthur? Wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses, and clenching a corn cob pipe steadfastly in his resolute jaw, surely MacArthur — in the photograph above — embodies (in some vague way) all that we hold dear about the USA.
The Missouri Meerschaum Company produced MacArthur's pipes, and still make them in the US today.
The straight stem version (below) is unfiltered and has a natural bowl. Fill one with some Virginia brightleaf and start embodying.


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Welcome to the Future
Neo Angeles, an uninspired moniker for a festering megalopolis reanimated from the bones of the City of Angels. I don't remember the specifics of my old life, but a few hundred years in the deep freeze will do that to you. I have a feeling I used to be a cop, but chances are just as good that I was just another cubical-farm burnout sung to sleep too many times by a six-pack and Law & Order reruns.
It's funny, the things I do remember. The names of TV shows, lyrics from pop songs, my favorite brand of now extinct chips. My name? There's a blank. My old address? Another. Loved ones, relatives? The body and face of a beautiful woman I dream of and wake pawing my pillow, my body twisted in the sheets...might be my last girlfriend, my sister, or mother. The ambiguity used to make me sick, the not knowing, the blankness, the empty spaces where my life used to be. I've learned to embrace it, oddly enough. Then again, the drugs I take tend to subvert the REM cycle flood of orphaned memories, so maybe "embrace" isn't quite the word.
All I know about it is what they told me; part of the tunnel in which cryobanks 103-107 were housed collapsed in the earthquakes that followed A-Day. We were shielded from the nuclear fallout, but many of our support systems failed, as did the beacon that would someday alert those above ground of our presence. By the time they thawed me out, I was already centuries overdue. I wasn't greeted by much fanfare— just a technician in a grubby coverall and a hardhat with a light on it telling me, in his deadpan, I'm-only-doing-my-job monotone, "Welcome to the future."
When the first survivors came out of the 'banks long before us, there were parades in their honor, support groups set up to make sure they would make the transition comfortably, government commissions established to offer them jobs as historians and advisers. They were treated like something sacred, come up from the ground after so long, offering hope to the denizens of this overcrowded travesty of a city. They were walking monuments to the errors of the past, reminders of how important it was that we never repeat them.
Me, I was sat down at a table in a slate gray room and handed a stack of paperwork. Name, former address, former occupation, education, skills. All long empty lines, and destined to remain so. I was given a government allowance, a fresh set of clothes and an address. That was the extent of my welcome. A man from the past immigrates to the future, and is shuffled off to the ghetto.
The more things change, the more they stay the same?


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Our talented Game animation student, Olov Johansson, shares his thoughts on his time here as well as his animation journey. Read his write up below & watch his action packed reel.
Still being new to animation I never had the chance to talk to other animators before getting into iAnimate. It has been a great way to get to know people with a common interest and to be in an environment where people talk about animation with sincerity and intensity. It is really valuable and inspiring to have instructors that are invested and enthusiastic about animation and each students work.
Blog Tag: action, Games, reel, students
I just finished the Creature Animation Workshop 1 with Johnny Spinelli and wanted to let you know how much fun I had with the course! Johnny was an amazing instructor and I learned a lot from his lectures/reviews and he was also kind enough to give us a tour of ILM Vancouver, which was super inspiring. : )
I wasn't sure what to expect before taking the class, but it really surpassed all my expectations. It's super motivating to be surrounded by people who are so passionate about animation and it's given me a real fresh perspective on a lot animation techniques.
I'm looking forward to taking some more iAnimate classes in the future and chatting with you guys soon!
Thanks again!Henry Truong
Blog Tag: Creature, members, students
Feature Alumni, Sebastian Kalemba, was picked up by CDProjekt Red about 8 months ago and was able to make a big contribution to the highly anticipated Witcher 3 game. He's now currently lead of CDProjekt Red next big release 'Cyberpunk 2077' and the expansion packs.
Blog Tag: alumni, Feature, students, Witcher 3
iA: Why did you decide to enroll into iAnimate?Back in 2010 I was out of work and struggling to break into the animation industry. I attended CTN-X thinking that I might somehow land a job. It turned out everyone who reviewed my reel thought I needed more training. I was pretty disheartened after hearing that, as I had already spent a year going to a school in Vancouver, BC, had worked a 3D job for almost 3 years, and I didn't have the time or money to attend a brick and mortar school again. That's when I stumbled across iAnimate's booth, and met Jason Ryan in person. He told me about the school and the fact that I could take a break between workshops if I needed, and he seemed so genuine that I was sold. I first started out with the feature programs, then after a year's break decided to pursue gaming animation. I completed the gaming program in August, 2014.
Blog Tag: alumni, Feature, Games, students
When I heard a few years ago that Jason Ryan was about to start iAnimate, I was instantly excited about the idea and wanted to be part of the first group of students. I had taken online classes before, but I felt I needed to refine my skill set. You can imagine that I was really excited about the iAnimate concept to prepare animators for feature productions by working closely together with top notch feature animation instructors and mimic a production environment during the classes. I was blown away by the quality of the classes and the knowledge of the mentors during the one-on-one weekly reviews. It's a very special feeling when you can discuss your work directly with your mentor in person when you are at the other side of the ocean.
Also the rigs that iAnimate provides are top quality fast rigs that are a joy to work with. They have so much appeal that I felt at times that we were spoiled a bit with these new toys that were given to us every workshop.
Blog Tag: alumni, Feature, instructors, students, Vault
iAnimate feature student, Simon Taylor, recently finished up a wonderful & cute short animated film titled 'Taking Pictures'. We wanted to know a bit more about him and the project. Watch the short, a 'making of', as well as a quick interview with Simon. Be sure to leave him some feedback on his shorts' Vimeo page.
iA: Please tell us little about yourself?My name is Simon and I've lived in London for 4 years. I've worked at a few different studios as an animator, mostly on pre-school shows such as Sarah & Duck and Tree Fu Tom, as well as some feature work on John Carter and some commercials. In my free time, I like making both live action and animated films and dabble in photography and the occasional magic trick.
Blog Tag: Feature, Member Spotlight, members, short film, Simon Taylor
A very big congratulations to iAnimate student, Kevin Nguyen, on his recent employment at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Good luck there & we look forward to seeing your name in the credits!
Blog Tag: career, Feature, job, Kevin Nguygen, Member Spotlight, members, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Don Thurakichprempri recently landed a job at Treyarch and now working on the new Call of Duty. This is what he had to say about his time here at iAnimate.
Having taken online classes before, when I heard about iAnimate and saw the work that the students were putting out. The quality was outstanding and I was sold once I saw the large variety of teachers that I could pick from. I chose to do the Games Animation Workshop because I wanted to strengthen my knowledge of body mechanics and it was definitely the right choice. David Lam and Ric Arroyo were absolutely fantastic instructors who both had a plethora of animation knowledge. They treated the course as if we were in a studio and gave feedback accordingly. This set up a certain standard for shots to be finished and polished on time just as it would be expected of animators in a professional setting and I feel like that truly benefits any student who is serious about working in the industry. Overall, it was an amazing experience and I feel like I improved drastically. I would recommend iAnimate to any animator who is looking to up their game and is willing to put in the effort to better their skill set!
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In the Heart of Literary London
Published: September 11, 1988
(Page 2 of 4)
Brushing her hair back over an ear, Maggie said quietly, ''Your childhood was rather a muddle.'' ''Yes, a muddle,'' he said. Michael's face looks as if he usually wears spectacles that he at some point took off, and he is wondering where he put them. ''It may have been Venice,'' he said, ''that wet place I woke up in.''
''I'm very surprised,'' I said. ''I thought you'd both feel you felt entirely at home in London. You know so much about it.''
''No, no,'' Maggie said. She had planned the day. She suggested we go to Camden Lock to see if her son Joe had found a stall in the market where he'd gone earlier to sell clothes, made of Balinese batik, that he and his girlfriend manufactured. Joe is from a former marriage to an actor, as is Maggie's daughter Rebecca. (Another son from that marriage, Adam, is working for his Ph.D. in political theory at Oxford.) Michael drove. We couldn't find a place to park, and so went up and down the narrow streets of Camden Town. All the while, I asked Michael about his background, which fascinated me, I said, because I spent all my childhood fantasizing about being a foreigner, far away from home.
Maggie said: ''I understand that. My mother tried to be reassuring, but she wasn't, about my longing to get away. She'd say, 'When you're at Cambridge, you'll meet people and go to parties.' That was no help. It only meant I had to get into Cambridge. She'd say, 'When you're older, you'll travel.' Really, that is no help to a child dreaming of distant places. I had to grow up before I could go up to London, and growing up seemed an immense amount of trouble.''
But, Michael said, he, too, knew the feeling that life is everywhere except where you are. Though he spent all his childhood wanting a home, he kept wishing he were far away from wherever he was. ''I ran away once,'' he said, ''and then I ran back.''
W E FINALLY parked on a yellow line, which on Saturday you're not supposed to do until 1:30. I felt that Michael was hesitant about doing something until Maggie said it would be all right.
She wasn't sure that Joe had found a stall. (They're got on a first-come, first-take basis.) We crossed over the narrow top of a lock on the Camden Canal into a market of many small stalls crowded along passageways, stalls selling totemlike wood carvings of faces, handmade jewelry, espadrilles, clocks fabricated from old 78-rpm records.
I sensed that Maggie was anxious that Joe hadn't got his stall. At the end of a passage she turned to Michael and said, with what seemed a brave attempt to calmly accept her son's not finding a stall and her own disappointment for him, ''I don't think he's here.'' She looked around. ''No, he's not here.'' She pressed her lips together. ''Have you looked everywhere?'' Michael asked.
I sensed he was saying: You're always too quick to think everything's lost.
We went along another passage. Taking my arm to stop me, Maggie said, ''There he is.'' He was turned the other way, but she looked at him and smiled.
Joe didn't notice us approach his stall, piled up and hung with bright, beautiful shorts, calf-length trousers, jackets made from material he had bought in Bali. He was tanned from a recent trip there. When he looked round at us, he smiled at his mother.
As we wandered about the market, I compared it to street markets I knew in the 1960's and 70's, and I wondered if it was just because we were in the 80's that I felt this market didn't have the sense of political adventure that hand-crafted objects and multicolored clothes expressed in the past, but seemed concerned foremost with the business of making money. Looking at Michael and Maggie ahead of me, I thought of them, too, as people whose values had been formed a generation back -values they continued to insist on, but which seemed less likely to be realized now than before.
For example, the recycling of rubbish was an important cause to us, but I felt it hadn't been continued by younger people. I was reminded of this when, going back to the car, Maggie stopped at a cemented yard full of huge metal containers. ''This is an important place,'' she said. ''It's a dump that really does recycle rubbish.'' The Borough of Camden, in which we were, is known for keeping up what were once considered radical values. Maggie said to Michael, ''I should have brought my old washing machine.''
''Yes,'' Michael said, and I imagined him thinking of the trouble of getting the washing machine to the dump. I wondered if he was interested in recycling because he thought he should be. There was no question of Maggie's spontaneous interest.
''Most of the paper I used in getting 'The Oxford Companion to Literature' together came here,'' she said.
Michael laughed. ''To be recycled into still more paper for notes, proofs, books.''
Michael and Maggie are both people of high social principle, but, in what I'd come to learn is an English manner, principles that are hardly ever talked about, and treated lightly when they are, but which they would never hesitate to put into action when it came to it. Michael has worked hard for the rights of writers. In the 1970's and 80's, he has been chairman of the Society of Authors and president of English PEN, has served on the Arts Council, campaigned for the institution of Public Lending Rights, whereby writers get from the Government a few pence on every book borrowed from a public library, and supported the feminist publishing house Virago when it was being founded.
In the car, we talked about the children, now in their 20's and themselves capable of having children, of our generation of mothers and fathers.